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Call for Papers (Publisher: Springer Nature): International Conferences on Internet Computing, Internet of Things, etc., U.S.A., July 27-30, 2020, Paper Submission Deadline: March 24, 2020
by Ashu M. G. Solo 05 Feb '20

05 Feb '20

CALL FOR PAPERS Paper Submission Deadline: March 24, 2020 Publisher: SPRINGER NATURE July 27-30, 2020, Luxor (MGM), Las Vegas, USA SAM 2020: 19th International Conference on Security & Management http://sam.udmercy.edu/sam20/ ICWN 2020: 19th International Conference on Wireless Networks https://americancse.org/events/csce2020/conferences/icwn20 ICOMP 2020: 21st International Conference on Internet Computing & IoT https://americancse.org/events/csce2020/conferences/icomp20 ESCS 2020: 18th International Conference on Cyber-physical Systems https://americancse.org/events/csce2020/conferences/escs20 ALL ACCEPTED PAPERS WILL BE PUBLISHED BY Publisher: Springer Nature - Book Series: Transactions on Computational Science & Computational Intelligence https://www.springer.com/series/11769 Book Title: Advances in Security, Networks, and Internet of Things Indexation: Subject to Springer science indexation which includes: online Springer Link (link.springer.com/) Scopus (www.info.scopus.com) SCI Compendex, EI Compendex (www.ei.org) EMBASE, Web of Science, Inspec, ACM digital library, Google Scholar, EBSCO, and others. In order to leverage synergy between various CS & CE fields, the program committees of SAM, ICWN, ICOMP, ESCS conferences have their 2020 events held at one venue (same location and dates). This joint research event is composed of a number of tracks (joint-conferences, tutorials, sessions, workshops, poster and panel discussions); all will be held simultaneously, same location and dates: July 27-30, 2020. For the complete list of joint conferences, refer to: https://www.americancse.org/events/csce2020 KEYNOTE LECTURES AND TUTORIALS: There will be between 10 and 15 Keynote lectures and Invited Talks; speakers include world-renowned scientists and educators. Featured Keynote Speakers in recent years have included: - Prof. David A. Patterson (pioneer, architecture, UC Berkeley) - Prof. Ian Foster (known as Father of Grid Computing; U. of Chicago & ANL) - Prof. John Koza (known as Father of Genetic Programming; Stanford U.) - Prof. Barry Vercoe (Founding member of MIT Media Lab, MIT) - Dr. K. Eric Drexler (known as Father of Nanotechnology) - Dr. Jose L. Munoz (NSF Program Director and CTO of NSF Office of Cyber-infrastructure) - Prof. Michael J. Flynn (Stanford U.; known for Flynn's taxonomy) - Dr. Firouz Naderi (former Head of NASA Mars Exploration Program; former Administrator and/or Director of Jet Propulsion Lab, CalTech/NASA; NASA's JPL Solar System Exploration - Prof. Ruzena Bajcsy (pioneer, VR, UC Berkeley) - Prof. Viktor K. Prasanna (pioneer, U. of Southern California) - Prof. David Lorge Parnas (pioneer of software engineering) - Prof. Eugene H. Spafford (Executive Director, CERIAS and Professor, Purdue University) - Prof. Haym Hirsh (Dean, Cornell University & former NSF admin) - Prof. Alfred Inselberg (Tel Aviv U, Israel; Senior Fellow, San Diego Supercomputing Center; Inventor of the multidimensional system of Parallel Coordinates and author of textbook) - Prof. H. J. Siegel (Abell Endowed Chair Distinguished Professor of ECE and Professor of CS; Director, CSU Information Science and Technology Center (ISTeC), Colorado State University, Colorado, USA) - Prof. Amit Sheth (LexisNexis Eminent Scholar; Founder/Executive Director, Ohio Center of Excellence in Knowledge-enabled Computing (Kno.e.sis)) - Prof. John H. Holland (known as Father of Genetic Algorithms; U. of Michigan) - Prof. Lotfi A. Zadeh (Father of Fuzzy Logic, UC Berkeley) - Dr. Leonid I. Perlovsky (Harvard University and CEO LP Information Tech) - Dr. James A. Crowder (Chief Engineer, Raytheon Intelligence) - Prof. Diego Galar (Director & Pro-Vice-Chancellor, Lulea University of Technology, Sweden) - and over 200 other distinguished speakers. The Congress is among the top five largest international annual gathering of researchers in computer science, computer engineering and applied computing. We anticipate to have attendees from about 75 countries and territories. To get a feeling about the conferences' atmosphere, see some delegates photos available at (over 2,000 photos): https://photos.ucmss.com/ https://americancse.org/photo-gallery/index-html INTRODUCTION: We anticipate having between 1,000 and 2,000 participants in the Congress. The congress includes 20 major tracks ( https://www.americancse.org/events/csce2020 ) composed of: 122 technical, research, and panel sessions as well as a number of keynote lectures and tutorials; all will be held simultaneously, same location and dates: July 27-30, 2020. Last year, the Congress had attracted speakers/authors and participants affiliated with over 158 different universities (including many from the top 50 ranked institutions), major IT corporations (including: Microsoft, Google, Apple, SAP, Facebook, Oracle, Amazon, Yahoo, Samsung, IBM, Ebay, GE, Siemens, Philips, Ericsson, BAE Systems, Hitachi, NTT, Twitter, Uber Technologies, ...), major corporations (including: Exxon Mobil, Johnson & Johnson, JPMorgan Chase, PetroChina, GlaxoSmithKline, HSBC, Airbus, Boeing, Hyundai, Goldman Sachs, Deutsche Bank, ...), government research agencies (NSF, NIH, DoE, US Air Force, NSA National Security Agency, Central Intelligence Agency, ...), US national laboratories (including, NASA National Aeronautics and Space Administration, ANL Argonne National Lab, Sandia National Lab, ORNL Oak Ridge National Lab, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, Lawrence Livermore National Lab, Los Alamos National Lab, Pacific Northwest National Lab, ...), and a number of Venture Capitalists as well as distinguished speakers discussing Intellectual Property issues. Last year, 54% of attendees were from academia, 25% from industry; 20% from government and funding agencies; and 1% unknown. About half of the attendees were from outside USA; from 69 nations. See the web link below for a small subset of publications based on papers accepted in the CSCE proceedings: many of these books and journal special issues have already received the top 25% downloads in their respective fields and/or identified as "Highly Accessed" by publishers and/or science citation index trackers. https://americancse.org/events/csce2020/books-journal-special-issues See the link below for some information on citation record: https://americancse.org/events/csce2020/publication SUBMISSION OF PAPERS: https://american-cse.org/ Good News: Due to the high quality of published papers in the proceedings of CSCE in recent years, this year (2020) ALL accepted papers will be published by Springer Nature. Thanks to the authors for submitting their quality research work to the congress for years. Publisher: Springer Nature - Book Series: Transactions on Computational Science & Computational Intelligence Indexation: Subject to Springer science indexation which includes: online Springer Link (link.springer.com/) Scopus (www.info.scopus.com) SCI Compendex, EI Compendex (www.ei.org) EMBASE, Web of Science, Inspec, ACM digital library, Google Scholar, EBSCO, and others. Prospective authors are invited to submit their papers by uploading them to the evaluation web site at: https://american-cse.org/ Submissions must be uploaded by the due date (see IMPORTANT DATES) and must be in either MS doc or pdf formats (maximum of 10 pages for Regular Research Papers; maximum of 6 pages for Short Research Papers; and maximum of 3 pages for Extended Abstract/Poster Papers - the number of pages includes all figures, tables, and references). ALL REASONABLE TYPESETTING FORMATS ARE ACCEPTABLE (many authors use Springer's one-column style format for their submissions or IEEE style format: later, the authors of accepted papers will be asked to follow a particular typesetting format to prepare their final papers for publication). Papers must not have been previously published or currently submitted for publication elsewhere. The first page of the paper should include the followings: - Title of the paper - Name, affiliation, postal address, and email address of each author (identify the name of the Contact Author) - Abstract (between 100 and 120 words) - A maximum of 5 topical keywords that would best represent the work described in the paper - Write the type of the submission as "Regular Research Paper", "Short Research Paper", or "Extended Abstract/Poster Paper". - The actual text of the paper can start from the first page (space permitting). Submissions are to be uploaded to the submission/evaluation web site portal at https://american-cse.org/ Type of Submissions/Papers: - Full/Regular Research Papers (maximum of 10 pages): Regular Research Papers should provide detail original research contributions. They must report new research results that represent a contribution to the field; sufficient details and support for the results and conclusions should also be provided. The work presented in regular papers are expected to be at a stage of maturity that with some additional work can be published as journal papers. - Short Research Papers (maximum of 6 pages): Short Research Papers report on ongoing research projects. They should provide overall research methodologies with some results. The work presented in short papers are expected to be at a stage of maturity that with some additional work can be published as regular papers. - Extended Abstract/Poster Papers (maximum of 3 pages): Poster papers report on ongoing research projects that are still in their infancy (i.e., at very early stages). Such papers tend to provide research methodologies without yet concrete results. Each paper will be peer-reviewed by two experts in the field for originality, significance, clarity, impact, and soundness. In cases of contradictory recommendations, a member of the conference program committee would be charged to make the final decision (accept/reject); often, this would involve seeking help from additional referees. Papers whose authors include a member of the conference program committee will be evaluated using the double-blinded review process. (Essay/philosophical papers will not be refereed but may be considered for discussion/panels). PROPOSAL FOR ORGANIZING WORKSHOPS/SESSIONS: Each conference ( https://americancse.org/events/csce2020/conferences ) is composed of a number of tracks. A track can be a session, a workshop, or a symposium. A session will have at least 6 papers; a workshop at least 12 papers; and a symposium at least 18 papers. Track chairs will be responsible for all aspects of their tracks, including: soliciting papers, reviewing, selecting, ... The names of track chairs will appear as Associate Editors in the conference proceedings and they will be presented achievement awards at appropriate professional levels during the Award Ceremony on site at the congress. Track chairs who attract a sufficient number of solid papers can propose to edit books with a major publisher based on the extended versions of the papers accepted in their tracks (the congress will facilitate and help such track chairs to get the publisher's approval: such as Springer, Elsevier, ...). Proposals to organize tracks (sessions, workshops, or symposiums) should include the following information: name and address (+ email) of proposer, his/her biography, title of track, a 100-word description of the topic of the track, the name of the conference the track is submitted for consideration and a short description on how the track will be advertised (in most cases, track proposers solicit papers from colleagues and researchers whose work is known to the track proposer). E-mail your track proposal to cs(a)american-cse.org . We would like to receive the track proposals as soon as possible (see IMPORTANT DATES). CAREER, JOB, & EDUCATION FAIR: https://americancse.org/events/csce2020/career_job_fair The CSCE 2020 Congress plans to host a one-day Career, Job, & Education Fair on July 28, 2020. This annual strategic event provides the congress attendees and participants with opportunities to connect with employers and educators and learn more about career options. Corporations and Universities can also exhibit their products, services, and degree programs during the event. Interested parties should contact cs(a)american-cse.org . IMPORTANT DATES: As Soon As Possible: Track/Session/Workshop/Symposium Proposals March 24, 2020: Submission of papers: https://american-cse.org/ - Full/Regular Research Papers (maximum of 10 pages); - Short Research Papers (maximum of 6 pages); - Abstract/Poster Papers (maximum of 3 pages) April 09, 2020: Notification of acceptance (+/- two days) May 05, 2020: Final papers + Copyright + Registration July 27-30, 2020: SAM 2020: 19th International Conference on Security & Management + ICWN 2020: 19th International Conference on Wireless Networks + ICOMP 2020: 21st International Conference on Internet Computing & IoT + ESCS 2020: 18th International Conference on Cyber- physical Systems https://www.americancse.org/events/csce2020 CONTACT: Questions and inquiries should be sent to: Conference Secretariat: cs(a)american-cse.org

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Pre-Histories and Futures of Machine Vision Symposium 28 Feb
by Joel McKim 05 Feb '20

05 Feb '20

V&A Pre-histories and Futures of Machine Vision Symposium Friday, 28 February 2020, 10.30 – 17.00 Hochhauser Auditorium, V&A Museum, South Kensington, London, UK How do machines see? From autonomous vehicles to deep fakes, machine vision is changing contemporary life. Join curators, artists and scholars to discuss the impact of computer vision and AI technologies on the past, present and future of art and design. The symposium will explore early moments in the development of computer art, from the mid-1960s onwards, viewing these first experiments in transforming number-crunching computers into image generating machines as a kind of pre-history of machine vision. It will also bring together contemporary artists, designers and curators considering the aesthetic and political implications of contemporary computer vision and machine learning technologies. Their creative and critical projects are shaping our understanding of these technologies, while highlighting the social and ethical concerns they raise. Home to the UK’s most important historic computer art collections and a museum undertaking ground-breaking explorations of contemporary digital culture and design, the V&A is an ideal place to hold this discussion. Speakers include: digital scholars Zabet Patterson (Stony Brook) and Joel McKim (Birkbeck), V&A curators Douglas Dodds and Natalie Kane, and contemporary artists and designers Anna Ridler, Tobias Revell and Alan Warburton. Register at: https://www.vam.ac.uk/event/15jOPmEm/pre-histories-and-futures-of-machine-v…

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Special Issue of Exchanges Journal Published: Cannibalism
by Johnson, Gareth 05 Feb '20

05 Feb '20

Dear all, Delighted to announce the release of the first special issue of the Exchanges interdisciplinary journal has just been published. Dealing with literary and filmic depictions, interpretations and symbolism of the consumption of 'forbidden fruit', it represents a key output of the 'Bites Here and There' conference hosted at Warwick in late 2018. All articles are accessible at: https://exchanges.warwick.ac.uk/issue/view/27 Forthcoming special issues in the next 18 months will be published on themes including Cli-Fi, nerd culture and loneliness as well as the student experience within the artistic disciplines. Details of which can be found through our various social media channels [1] . With thanks Gareth [1] https://exchanges.warwick.ac.uk/information/readers --- Dr Gareth (Gaz) J Johnson Managing Editor-in-Chief, Exchanges Journal Room C0.10, Institute of Advanced Study, Zeeman Building, University of Warwick https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fac/ias/ T: 024 765 7443 (extn 74423) E: gareth.johnson(a)warwick.ac.uk<mailto:gareth.johnson@warwick.ac.uk> B: https://blogs.warwick.ac.uk/exchangesias/ Tw:@ExchangesIAS<https://twitter.com/ExchangesIAS>

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UMAP 2020 - [Final Reminder] Call for Papers
by Oghenemaro Anuyah 05 Feb '20

05 Feb '20

============================ Call for Papers - ACM UMAP 2020 28th ACM International Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization Theme: "Responsible Personalization" Genoa (Italy) July 14-17, 2020 Website: https://www.um.org/umap2020/ ============================ Papers due: February 7, 2020 ============================ BACKGROUND AND SCOPE: ============================ ACM UMAP – User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization – is the premier international conference for researchers and practitioners working on systems that adapt to individual users or to groups of users, and that collect, represent, and model user information. ACM UMAP is sponsored by ACM SIGCHI and SIGWEB, and organized with User Modeling Inc. as the core Steering Committee, extended with past years’ chairs. The proceedings are published by ACM and will be part of the ACM Digital Library. ACM UMAP covers a wide variety of research areas where personalization and adaptation may be applied. This includes a number of domains in which researchers are engendering significant innovations based on advances in user modeling and adaptation, recommender systems, adaptive educational systems, intelligent user interfaces, e-commerce, advertising, digital humanities, social networks, personalized health, entertainment, and many more. We welcome submissions related to user modeling, personalization and adaptation in any area; the conference web site provides a detailed (but not proscriptive) list of topics and sub-topics of importance to the conference. As the theme for UMAP 2020 is “Responsible Personalization,” submissions in all areas that emphasize ethical dimensions of personalized systems are welcome. CONFERENCE TOPICS: ============================ For details, see the conference website (https://www.um.org/umap2020/) * Personalized Recommender Systems * Adaptive Hypermedia and the Semantic Web * Intelligent User Interfaces * Personalized Social Web * Technology-Enhanced Adaptive Learning * Privacy, Fairness, and Transparency * Personalized Health * User Modeling and Personalization Applications * Theory, Opinion, Reflection SUBMISSION AND REVIEW PROCESS ============================ Papers will be submitted through EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=acmumap2020 Long (8 pages + references) and Short (4 pages + references) papers in ACM style. Original research papers addressing the theory and/or practice of UMAP, and papers showcasing innovative use of UMAP and exploring the benefits and challenges of applying UMAP technology in real-life applications and contexts are welcome. Long papers should present original reports of substantive new research techniques, findings, and applications of UMAP. They should place the work within the field and clearly indicate its innovative aspects. Research procedures and technical methods should be presented in sufficient detail to ensure scrutiny and reproducibility. Results should be clearly communicated and implications of the contributions/findings for UMAP and beyond should be explicitly discussed. Short papers should present original and highly promising research or applications. Merit will be assessed in terms of originality and importance rather than maturity, extensive technical validation, and user studies. *Papers will be reviewed single-blind and do not need to be anonymized before submission.* Separation of long and short papers will be strictly enforced so papers will not compete across categories, but only within each category. Papers that receive high scores and are considered promising by reviewers, but didn’t make the acceptance cut may be revised and resubmitted as posters. Papers must be formatted using the ACM SIG Standard (SIGCONF) proceedings template: https://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template. All accepted papers will be published by ACM and will be available via the ACM Digital Library. To be included in the Proceedings, at least one author of each accepted paper must register for the conference and present the paper there. Student registration fee is allowed to students who present a student paper. IMPORTANT DATES ============================ Full paper: February 7, 2020 Notification: March 27, 2020 Camera-ready: May 3, 2020 Note: The submissions times are 11:59pm AoE time (Anywhere on Earth) ORGANIZERS ============================ General chairs Tsvi Kuflik, The University of Haifa Ilaria Torre, University of Genoa Program chairs Robin Burke, University of Colorado, Boulder Cristina Gena, University of Turin RELATED EVENTS ============================ Separate calls will be sent for Workshops and Tutorials, Doctoral Consortium, Posters, and Late Breaking Results, as these have different deadlines and submission requirements. Regards, Oghenemaro Anuyah Graduate Research Assistant Dept. of Computer Science, Boise State University ACM UMAP Conference 2020 - *Co-publicity Chair* oghenemaroanuyah(a)u.boisestate.edu

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AIR Conference
by Seungahn Nah 05 Feb '20

05 Feb '20

Dear Colleagues: I am happy to announce the upcoming conference. Hope you find it interesting. On behalf of co-organizers: Seungahn Nah at U of Oregon Patric Spence at UCF Jungseock Joo at UCLA All the best, SEUNGAHN ********************************************* *SEUNGAHN NAH, Ph.D.* Professor of Journalism and Media Studies and Sociology (Affiliated) School of Journalism & Communication University of Oregon journalism.uoregon.edu snah(a)uoregon.edu || 541-346-2101 (office) ********************************************* 2020 Artificial Intelligence Research (AIR) Conference Communicating AI: Theory, Research, and Practice Young Research Library (11360 Conference Room) UCLA February 7, 2020 *Program* *Opening Remark * 08:50 – 09:00 am Seungahn Nah (University of Oregon) *Keynote Speech* 09:00 – 10:00 am *Pursuing a win-win ecosystem of news media and internet portals: The case of Korean news media and NAVER in South Korea * *Bong-Seok Yoo (*NAVER) *Communicating Artificial Intelligence Session 1 *10:15 – 11:30 am *Chair: Dave Markowitz* (University of Oregon) *Defining Artificial Intelligence within the Context of Human-Machine Communication* *Andrea Guzman* (Northern Illinois University) *Building an Intelligent Tutor: Lessons from natural intelligence* *Francis Steen *(UCLA) *Event Data from Images* *Zachary C. Steinert-Threlkeld* (UCLA) *Low-Quality News Exposure and Impact via Facebook in the 2016 Election* *Tim Groeling* (UCLA) *Communicating Artificial Intelligence Session 2* 11:45 am – 1:00 pm *Chair: Patric Spence* (University of Central Florida) *Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Work: Communicating Authority with New Religious Agents* *Pauline Cheong* (Arizona State University) *Human Subjects Research in the Age of Social Robots* *Steven** Jones* (University of Illinois, Chicago) *From CASA to MASA: Implications of Cues in Human-Robot Interaction and Human-Phone Interaction* *Kun Xu* (University of Florida) *Do social actors equal social actors in crisis communication? * *Patric Spence* (University of Central Florida) *Communicating Artificial Intelligence Session 3* 2:00 – 3:15 pm *Chair: Jungseock Joo* (UCLA) *BaitWatcher: A lightweight web interface for the detection of incongruent news headlines* *Kunwoo Park* (UCLA) *Tensor Decomposition for Topic Modeling in AI* *Jeehwan Choi* (University of Oregon) Machine Learning to Enable Next-Generation Web Safety *Srijan Kumar* (Georgia Institute of Technology) *Measuring Gender and Racial Biases in Computer Vision Models and Datasets* *Jungseock Joo* (UCLA) *Communicating Artificial Intelligence Session 4* 3:35 – 4:50 pm *Chair: Seungahn Nah *(University of Oregon) *Taming the unpredictability of cultural markets with social influence* *Andres Abeliuk* (University of Southern California) *Modeling attitudes towards artificial intelligence and facial recognition technologies in everyday life: the results of a national survey* *James Katz* (Boston University) *Predicting AI-News Credibility: Communicative or Social Capital or Both? * *Seungahn Nah* (University of Oregon) <seungahn.nah(a)uky.edu>

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Tenure-track position Diasporic Media, Communication Studies, York University
by ganaele 04 Feb '20

04 Feb '20

Dear Colleagues, Please see our job ad for TT position in Diasporic Media in the Department of Communication Studies at York University. Best, Ganaele Langlois Associate Professor Communication Studies York University *Position Information* *Position Rank:* Full Time Professorial Stream - Assistant Professor *Discipline/Field:* Diasporic Media *Home Faculty:* Liberal Arts & Professional Studies *Home Department/Area/Division: *Communication Studies *Affiliation/Union:* YUFA *Position Start Date:* July 1, 2020 Department of Communication Studies, Liberal Arts & Professional Studies The Department of Communication Studies invites applications for a professorial stream tenure-track appointment in Diasporic Media at the Assistant Professor level, to commence July 1, 2020. Salary will be commensurate with qualifications and experience. All York University positions are subject to budgetary approval. A PhD in Communication Studies or cognate fields is required. Candidates must show excellence or promise of excellence in teaching, scholarly research and publication and service. Applicants should have an ongoing program of research and specialize in one or more of the following areas: immigrant, migrant and/or refugee experience; forced movement of populations; global, translocal and/or local diasporic media practices and/or communities; community activism; decolonial and anti-racist approaches; and/or multicultural media policy. Candidates with a social justice and equity approach are preferred. The successful candidate must be suitable for prompt appointment to the Faculty of Graduate Studies. The position will involve graduate teaching and supervision, as well as undergraduate teaching. Pedagogical innovation in high priority areas such as experiential education and technology enhanced learning is preferred. York University has a policy on Accommodation in Employment for Persons with Disabilities <http://secretariat-policies.info.yorku.ca/policies/accommodation-in-employm…>and is committed to working towards a barrier-free workplace and to expanding the accessibility of the workplace to persons with disabilities. Candidates who require accommodation during the selection process are invited to contact the Chair of the Search Committee at comnsrch(a)yorku.ca. York University is an Affirmative Action (AA) employer and strongly values diversity, including gender and sexual diversity, within its community. The AA Program, which applies to women, members of visible minorities (racialized groups), Aboriginal (Indigenous) people and persons with disabilities, can be found at http://acadjobs.info.yorku.ca/ or by calling the AA line at 416.736.5713. Applicants wishing to self-identify as part of York University's Affirmative Action Program can do so by downloading, completing and submitting the form found at: http://acadjobs.info.yorku.ca/affirmative-action/self-identification-form/. All qualified candidates are encouraged to apply; however, Canadian citizens, Permanent Residents and Indigenous peoples in Canada will be given priority. No application will be considered without a completed mandatory Work Status Declaration form which can be found at http://acadjobs.info.yorku.ca/affirmative-action/work-authorization-form. Applicants should submit their application package, including a signed letter of application, an up-to-date curriculum vitae, a statement of research and teaching interests, teaching evaluations and three confidential letters of reference, through the online application system at apply.laps.yorku.ca beginning on Friday, January 17, 2020. Applicants may direct questions to Professor Anne MacLennan, Chair of the Department of Communication Studies, Liberal Arts & Professional Studies, York University, 4700 Keele Street, Toronto, Ontario M3J 1P3, comnsrch(a)yorku.ca. The deadline for receipt of completed applications is February 14, 2020. *Posting End Date:* February 14, 2020 -- Ganaele Langlois Associate Professor Department of Communication Studies York University

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New Book: Global Social Media Design—Bridging Differences Across Cultures
by Huatong Sun 04 Feb '20

04 Feb '20

Dear colleagues, I’m happy to announce that my new book with Oxford University Press is recently released: Global Social Media Design Bridging Differences Across Cultures https://global.oup.com/academic/product/global-social-media-design-97801908… Social media users fracture into tribes, but social media ecosystems are globally interconnected technically, socially, culturally, and economically. At the crossroads, Sun presents theory, method, and case studies to uncover the global interconnectedness of social media design and to bridge differences. She articulates a critical design framework with design tools to redress asymmetrical relations in everyday practice, and provides three cross-cultural social media design and use cases: Facebook Japan, Weibo, and global competition of WhatsApp, WeChat, LINE, and KakaoTalk. She calls to reshape the crossroads into a design square where differences are nourished as resources, where diverse discourses interact for innovation, and where alternative epistemes thrive. - Presents a practice-theoretic design framework to approach cultural differences from the Global South vantage - Uncovers the global interconnectedness of social media design and reorients universal design standards - Provides three provocative accounts of non-Western social media design and use on a global cultural circuit - Offer innovative design tools of sensitizing concepts and sensitizing relations to redress asymmetrical relations in everyday practice I hope it's of interest to some of you. Happy to provide a sample chapter. Please don’t hesitate to reach out—I have benefited so much from this listserv! Save 30% with promo code *ASPROMP8 *on http://oup.com/academic Sincerely, Huatong ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Huatong (Hannah) Sun, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Digital Media & Global Design School of Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences Global Innovation and Design Lab University of Washington Tacoma http://faculty.washington.edu/htsun/ OUP Author: Global Social Media Design <https://global.oup.com/academic/product/global-social-media-design-97801908…> (2020) & Cross-Cultural Technology Design <https://global.oup.com/academic/product/cross-cultural-technology-design-97…> (2012)

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Borders, bordering and sovereignty in cyberspace [final CfP RGS-IBG 2020, deadline 5th Feb]
by Morris,CJ (pgr) 04 Feb '20

04 Feb '20

Dear all, please find the final CfP for our panel, we've had more than a dozen great submissions already from case studies worldwide, explored through the lenses of geography, criminology, governance, cyber war, activism and linguistics. The deadline is tomorrow night 🤓 Borders, bordering and sovereignty in cyberspace *Call for Papers for RGS-IBG Annual Conference, London, 1-4 September 2020* Sponsored by: Digital Geography Research Group (DGRG) Session organisers: Dr Chenchen Zhang (QUB) and Carwyn Morris (London School of Economics) National borders continue to operate in the digital space despite predictions otherwise. Scholars have argued that the global communication space and the nation state are both oppositional and co-constituting forces in internet governance. Cyberborders are produced through, for instance, regulatory systems, jurisdictional assertions, censorship regimes, and discourses of cyber sovereignty and cyber security. While governments draw on concepts of sovereignty and national security to assert control over a virtual space that seems essentially borderless, civil society actors have also sought to put forward ideas of digital sovereignty along the lines of freedom and self-determination. This session aims to address theoretical and empirical questions regarding processes of (de)bordering and (de)territorialization in cyberspace. How are the concepts of sovereignty, territory, and borders reproduced and transformed in the context of the digital? What are the emerging patterns of power and contestation with regard to the control over data and information flows? We especially welcome contributions that engage with critical perspectives on the concepts of sovereignty, territory, and borders such as those focused on performance, discourse/practice, and governmentality. Papers might explore the following themes: * The production of digital territories and borders through legal, technological, and other means * Firewalls, censorship regimes, internet disruptions * The territorialization of services, infrastructure and populations * Concepts and discourses of cyber, digital, and data sovereignty * The geopolitics of data and internet control * Cyberborders and data protection law * How borders and practices of territorialization in cyberspace are contested * The impact of territorialization and bordering on populations * Conceptual and theoretical contributions * Contributions beyond methodological nationalism We encourage panellists to present in a creative method, not limited to a formal paper presentation. The session will consist of 4-5 papers, a strictly enforced 15 mins each to enable time for question and answers. Guidelines will be provided for accepted panellists. Whilst we would love to see you in London, we support Skype presentations and pre-recorded video presentations, as long as the presenter can engage in the Q&A. Please email prospective abstracts (max 250 words) or any queries to Chenchen (Chenchen.Zhang(a)qub.ac.uk) and Carwyn (c.j.morris(a)lse.ac.uk) by midnight Wednesday February 5th, 2020. We look forward to seeing your abstracts! Best wishes, Chenchen and Carwyn 😊 Carwyn Morris PhD Candidate in Human Geography and Urban Studies Department of Geography and Environment London School of Economics Tweeting @carwyn<https://twitter.com/carwyn>

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CFP SpecialIssue on Shame, Shaming, and Online ImageSharing
by AMPARO LASEN DIAZ 04 Feb '20

04 Feb '20

We would be grateful if you could help us to disseminate this CFP, many thanks in advance *Special Issue **on Shame, Shaming, and Online Image Sharing to be published by First Monday* Editors: Gaby David, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris 3 and Amparo Lasen, Universidad Complutense of Madrid. *Call for papers * We are preparing a special issue for the open-access journal First Monday on the topic of shame and shaming around the practices of sharing images online. Vernacular mobile images are the visual intersection of everyday life and popular culture, taken, viewed on and/or shared from mobile devices. They are the building blocks of our visual co-construction of reality. But, what can the experiences of shame and shaming related to practices of sharing more or less intimate vernacular mobile images indicate about our digitally connected societies and about contemporary subjectivities? Shame is an ordinary affect, a key emotion regarding sociability and social orderings, as it is elicited by the fear of disconnection from our actual social bonds or the ones we aspire to be part of. It is a mode of affecting and being affected that shapes and mobilises ordinary experiences and relationships, and it is narrowly linked to social orderings and social structuration and exclusion processes. Shame points to how norms are fixed, maintained and challenged, to what is appropriate and what is not, who is appropriate and who isn’t. Shaming others, a common online practice is also a way of reinforcing these same social orderings and senses. In this issue, we would like to explore how shame, shaming, and embarrassment are involved in the production of disquiets, vulnerabilities and exclusions in mediated intimacies and gender choreographies sustained and deployed through the convergence of camera phones, social networks, and mobile apps. Contemporary online visual practices are haunted by shame. As our mobile visual performances and exposure make us run the risk of becoming inappropriate and make our becoming risky when we are already deemed as inappropriate. We aim at analysing concepts such as visibility, public and private, the digital modulation of presence and of intimacy, shame and share, and its relations to normativity, surveillance, and sousveillance. In times of data mining and Artificial Intelligence, reflections on the epistemology of coupled values such as ‘sharing and shaming’ must be on the research agenda. An awareness and analysis of the sharing-shaming duo surely contribute to the understanding of digital practices and habits. In theoretical, methodological and ethical approaches, this special issue does not seek to describe the benefits, motivations and/or risks on why banal everyday life mobile vernacular images should remain private and/or public but interrogate both the situations behind these vernacular mobile imagery sharing when shame is elicited, as well as when individual or collective shaming initiatives arise in response to such images. Personal and/or collective decisions to share private content or be ashamed of doing so, have multiple and complex and interrelated correlations. We encourage contributions from diverse fields that may include (but are not limited to) visual sociology, digital ethnography, fine art, gender studies, internet studies, mobile studies, cultural studies, pop culture, and game/play studies. We are also considering the publication of another journal special issue on this same topic in an academic Spanish or Latin-American journal, if some of you are interested in contributing with a paper written in Spanish, please contact us. *Keywords: digital images, share, shame, shaming, ethics.* *Topics of interest may include, but are not limited to, the following:* ● Share and shame: Theories, concepts, and methods ● Histories of particular Internet shame-share stories ● Analysis of the implications of shame share histories for international and global discussions of Internet histories, forms, and futures. ● Case studies of shame, sharing and online visual practices ● Co-evolution of sharing, shaming and Internet technology ● Gender performances and choreographies related to shame and online shaming ● Race, shame and online shaming ● Mediated sexualities ● Historiographies of cyber shame, cyberslutting, online bullying, racism, sexism. ● Mobile Internet, mobile apps, share and shame ● Digital cultures, memes, humour, and irony ● Shame, values and online social imaginaries ● Internet celebrity, shame, and share ● Shamelessness ● Porn, share, and shame *References* Ahmed, S. (2004). *The Cultural Politics of Emotion*. Edinburgh University Press. (Ch. 5). Belk, R. (2010). Sharing. *Journal of Consumer Research*, Vol. 36, No. 5, pp. 715-734 Published by: Oxford University Press Stable. https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~jhm/Readings/612649.pdf John, N. (2102). Sharing and Web 2.0: The emergence of a keyword, *New Media & Society* 15(2), 167-182, https://nicholasjohn.huji.ac.il/sites/default/files/nicholasjohn/files/shar… Lasén, A. (2004). Affective technologies: emotions and mobile phones. *Receiver,* Vol. 11. https://robertoigarza.files.wordpress.com/2009/07/art-affective-technologie… Martin, C., & von Pape, T. (2012) (Eds.). *Images in mobile communication: New content, new uses, new persp*ectives. Wiesbaden: VS-Verl. Probyn, E. (2005) *Blush. Faces of Shame*. Minneapolis, University of Minnesota Press. Scheff, T. (2014) The ubiquity of hidden shame in Modernity. Cultural Sociology, vol. 8(2), 129-141. Stewart, K. (2007) *Ordinary Affects*. Duke University Press. If you are interested in contributing to this special issue, please send an abstract (300 words) by 4 March 2020. Abstracts should be sent to one of the two editors, Amparo Lasen (alasen(a)ucm.es) Gaby David ( championnet4(a)yahoo.fr) Please, do contact us if you have any inquiries or need further information. Invitations to a possible contribution will be sent by 15 March 2020 Full final papers deadline 1 September 2020 All the best [image: https://www.ucm.es/logo/ucm.png] Amparo Lasén Dpto Sociología Aplicada UCM @Amparo www.sociologiaordinaria.com http://ucm.academia.edu/AmparoLasén La información contenida en este correo es CONFIDENCIAL, de uso exclusivo del destinatario/a arriba mencionado. 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Call for book reviewers for Mobile Media & Communication (SAGE journal)
by Becky Pham 04 Feb '20

04 Feb '20

Dear all, Join the pool of book reviewers at our journal Mobile Media & Communication (http://journals.sagepub.com/home/mmc <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__journals.sagepub.com_ho…>)! A substantial number of exciting titles relating to mobile media have been published in the last couple of years, waiting to be critically examined by scholars such as yourselves. Send us an email with your brief 50-word biography, areas of research expertise and interest, contact details and affiliated institution to Editorial Assistant, Becky Pham (she/her) at becky.pham(a)usc.edu. We particularly welcome PhD candidates. We look forward to hearing from you. Thank you.

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