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[Correction] RE: Sampling strategies for classification tasks
by Sina Furkan Özdemir 29 Apr '20

29 Apr '20

Sorry to spam, I couldn't find literature on sampling strategies for generating training data for classification tasks. I wasn't looking for a training dataset. So any literature recommendation on the possible sampling strategies is much appreciated. Best, Sina >-----Original Message----- >From: Air-L <air-l-bounces(a)listserv.aoir.org> On Behalf Of Sina Furkan >Özdemir >Sent: Wednesday, April 29, 2020 11:08 AM >To: air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org >Subject: [Air-L] Sampling strategies for classification tasks > >Dear all, > >I have been following some 800 Twitter accounts for my Ph.D. dissertation >over the last four months. I have ended up with 400.000 tweets that I need to >categorize by four mutually exclusive categories. > >I looked up some previous works with similar tasks, and it seems that the best >way is to use a combination of word embeddings and recurrent neural >networks with LSTM structure. > >The problem I am having right now is that I couldn't find training data for the >classification. Can anyone recommend me some literature on sampling >strategies for short-text classification tasks? > >Best, >Sina Özdemir >Ph.D. Candidate >NTNU, Trondheim >M.A Comparative and International Studies ETH Zurich & University of Zurich, >Switzerland B.A. Political Science and International Relations Middle East >Technical University, Turkey > >_______________________________________________ >The Air-L(a)listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of >Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe >at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org > >Join the Association of Internet Researchers: >http://www.aoir.org/

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Re: [Air-L] Instagram data scraping
by Esther Hammelburg 29 Apr '20

29 Apr '20

Dear Jeff, You can also have a look at the tools of the Digital Methods Initiative at the University of Amsterdam: https://wiki.digitalmethods.net/Dmi/ToolDatabase Best regards, Esther Hammelburg Lecturer and PhD Candidate www.hva.nl/liveness<http://www.hva.nl/liveness> Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences Op 29-04-2020 10:27 heeft Air-L namens Marie Palmer <air-l-bounces(a)listserv.aoir.org namens Marie.Palmer(a)student.uts.edu.au> geschreven: Dear Jeff, I went to the Digital Media Research Centre summer school at the Queensland University of Technology two years ago and one of the sessions was about scraping data on Instagram. The session was given by Prof. Patrik Wikstrom. May be you can have a look at his work. Regards, Marie Marie Palmer PhD Candidate The University of technology Sydney ________________________________ From: Air-L <air-l-bounces(a)listserv.aoir.org> on behalf of Jeff McCarthy <jeff.mccarthy(a)mmu.ac.uk> Sent: Wednesday, April 29, 2020 6:07 PM To: air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org <air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org> Subject: [Air-L] Instagram data scraping Hi Does anyone have any experience and/or knowledge of ways to scrape Instagram posts? My colleague is looking to gather data on Insta posts from specific user accounts in specific timeframes. It's part of the next phase of her PhD. Many thanks Jeff Jeff McCarthy - Senior Lecturer - Digital Marketing MPhil | MRes (Dist) | PGDipM | BSc (Hons) | F CIM | F IDM | MPA Board Member | DMA North Council | iDEA Lead Manchester Met | Chartered Marketer | CIM & IDM CPD Awards Employability Lead MRT Marketing, Retail and Tourism (room 6.31), Manchester Metropolitan University, Oxford Road, Manchester UK M15 6BH Academic Support Hours: Tue 08:30 - 09:30 & 15:00 - 16:00 t: +44 (0)161 247 6751 e: jeff.mccarthy(a)mmu.ac.uk<mailto:jeff.mccarthy@mmu.ac.uk> t: @RunEatRepeatuk<https://twitter.com/runeatrepeatuk<https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/cPAcCzvkERcR2Gm2iJOWw6?domain=twitter.com>> LinkedIn<http://uk.linkedin.com/in/jeffmccarthyuk<https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/1Tp8CANp2wF9WZ1WSJYK3q?domain=uk.linkedin…>> Staff Profile<http://www.business.mmu.ac.uk/our-staff/modb/profile/index.php?profile_id=9…<https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/3AhXCBNq2xFV4Dl4UnA7y7?domain=business.mm…>> ResearchGate<https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Jeff_Mccarthy3<https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/u9q5CD1v2ztBVoOVC7--OG?domain=researchgat…>> Academia.edu<http://mmu.academia.edu/JeffMcCarthy<https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/MSaiCE8w2ATWDl6DUqvD5-?domain=mmu.academi…>> Personal Blog: RunEatRepeat.co.uk<http://runeatrepeat.co.uk/<https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/BvBsCGv02DcJMBLMsMJsBb?domain=runeatrepea…>> "Before acting on this email or opening any attachments you should read the Manchester Metropolitan University email disclaimer available on its website http://www.mmu.ac.uk/emaildisclaimer<https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/xthCCJyB2Ji8YBQYCDS90E?domain=mmu.ac.uk> " _______________________________________________ The Air-L(a)listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org<https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/u7ODCK1D20tqnDrnC4r3wm?domain=aoir.org> Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org<https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/X-czCL7E2LCP1kY1cJ_s2q?domain=listserv.ao…> Join the Association of Internet Researchers: http://www.aoir.org/<https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/o6JhCMwG2Mt5Z26ZU29fIo?domain=aoir.org> _______________________________________________ The Air-L(a)listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org Join the Association of Internet Researchers: http://www.aoir.org/

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COVID-19 seminar #2: A/Prof Eben Kirksey, Deakin University
by Thao Phan 29 Apr '20

29 Apr '20

*COVID-19 Seminar #2: A/Prof Eben Kirksey, Deakin University* https://eben-kirksey-seminar.eventbrite.com.au <https://eben-kirksey-seminar.eventbrite.com.au> Please join us for the first seminar in the COVID-19 seminar series, co-hosted by the Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship & Globalisation (ADI) <https://www.deakin.edu.au/adi> and the Science and Society Network (SSN) <https://scienceandsocietynetwork.deakin.edu.au/>. *Date/time:* Tuesday 5th May, 10am - 11:30am (Australian Eastern Standard Time, GMT+10) *Title:* The Emergence of COVID19: A Multispecies Story *Abstract:* Origin stories about COVID19 have circulated widely. An exotic animal market, deep in the enigmatic East, spawned a new pandemic virus. Multiple species of bat and little scaly anteaters called pangolins have all been implicated in conventional accounts about the coronavirus outbreak. Outbreak narratives, about the wet animal market in Wuhan, reek of Orientalism. Media pundits, who have struggled to explain the sudden upheaval of the modern world, have reanimated old stereotypes about Asian people and exotic animals. The subjects of these multispecies stories, to reference Edward Said, share “in common an identity best described as lamentably alien.” As medical doctors, virologists and epidemiologists publish new evidence, origin stories about exotic animals are starting to fall apart. *About the speaker:* Eben Kirksey, an associate professor of Anthropology at Deakin University, is currently in residence at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey. He has published two books with Duke University Press: Emergent Ecologies and Freedom in Entangled Worlds. St. Martin’s Press will publish his most recent book, The Mutant Project: Inside the Race to Genetically Modify Humans, later this year. *Watch the seminar:* Seminar will be available to stream on YouTube live. Access using the live link: <https://youtu.be/eJsN8Ym85y4>https://youtu.be/ZC9ES4x72zY Q&A with the speaker to follow. To send questions/participate in the chat, you'll need to sign-in using a YouTube account <https://www.businessinsider.com/how-to-comment-on-youtube?r=AU&IR=T>. The talk will also be recorded and available on the SSN Youtube Channel <https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCVYFQV_UFX9CLreqpNzanVA>. Did you miss the last seminar with Prof Priscilla Wald? Watch it here! <https://youtu.be/mqJXIYpTZpQ>

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VIDEO: Brittany Kaiser from Cambridge Analytica
by Dr. Emma Briant 29 Apr '20

29 Apr '20

Dear Colleagues, I'm sharing a video with you which I thought this list might be interested in - a recent talk on Apr 23, 2020 I organized with Brittany Kaiser <https://www.linkedin.com/in/ACoAAAFqeuQB6g2jNwxbt_8U9GbBudnasGXUS4M>, Former Business Development Director at Cambridge Analytica - one of the whistleblowers who was the central figure from the film The Great Hack on Netflix. At 18 minutes in, Brittany gives a talk for students of my Human Rights Program course 'Propaganda: Dark Arts in a Digital Age' about Cambridge Analytica, data ownership and her recent work. Please start watching from 18 minutes in!! http://emma-briant.co.uk/23rd-april-2020-brittany-kaiser-guest-talk/ Many thanks to you all, Emma -- Dr Emma L Briant Independent Researcher/Author/Analyst Associate Researcher at Human Rights Program Bard College, Annandale on Hudson New York Website: www.emma-briant.co.uk Author of: *Propaganda and Counter-Terrorism: Strategies for Global Change *from Manchester University Press Co-Author of: *Bad News for Refugees* with Prof. Greg Philo and Dr. Pauline Donald from Pluto Press. Follow me on Twitter @emmalbriant

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VIDEO: Ade Rudd on Deception
by Dr. Emma Briant 29 Apr '20

29 Apr '20

Dear Colleagues, As requested by some list members I’m sharing with you a link to Ade Rudd‘s fascinating lecture for my ‘Propaganda: Dark arts in a digital age’ class at Bard College in case you missed it from 16th April 2020: “Clothing Naked Villainy: the Dark Art of Deception” Skip forward to watch as it starts 6 minutes in! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzmvS6-FlYg&feature=emb_title Thank you and good health to all! Emma -- Dr Emma L Briant Independent Researcher/Author/Analyst Associate Researcher at Human Rights Program Bard College, Annandale on Hudson New York Website: www.emma-briant.co.uk Author of: *Propaganda and Counter-Terrorism: Strategies for Global Change *from Manchester University Press Co-Author of: *Bad News for Refugees* with Prof. Greg Philo and Dr. Pauline Donald from Pluto Press. Follow me on Twitter @emmalbriant

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CfP: DataTV 2020 Workshop
by Aisha Villegas 28 Apr '20

28 Apr '20

*Apologies for cross-posting* DataTV2020 2nd International Workshop on Data-driven Personalisation of Television, at the ACM IMX 2020 **Call for Papers** The submission deadline for short and full papers: 8th May, 2020 Notification of Acceptance: 15th May, 2020 Dear all, Following a successful workshop in 2019, this year the DataTV 2020 workshop solicits the latest research and development in all areas of the creation or re-use of supporting data for TV and immersive audiovisual content experiences. The workshop is part of the ACM IMX2020 and will be held online. Topics for the workshop include: - - Extraction and modelling of data about TV and media content (program description, decomposition, semantic representation, categorization, emotion/mood, ratings, and public discussion about it etc.) - - Curation of this data throughout the media value chain including commercial and contractual issues - - Matching of media content data with user profiles for recommendation or personalisation (respecting data privacy and security) - - Tools and services for the composition of personalised TV and immersive audiovisual content experiences, including object based media, making use of TV content data (e.g. creation of video summaries or alternative content versions, recommendation of auxiliary assets for delivery alongside TV content, dynamic insertion or modification of media in streams) - - Cross platform experiences where users interchange or broadcast experiences to users on different platforms, including (for example) - - TV with social media - - TV with VR/AR/MR - - convergence of platforms for delivery and presentation *Call for Papers Two types of submissions: - Full papers with an oral presentation at the workshop: between 7000 and 9000 words in the SIGCHI Proceedings Format, with 150-word abstract describing original research to be presented in the oral session which covers at least one of the workshop topics. - Shor papers presented as a poster or a demo: these are 3500 - 5500 words in the SIGCHI Proceedings Format with 150-word abstract. Papers are to describe works in progress or demos, to be included in the poster and demo session. You can submit your paper on the official website: http://datatv2020.iti.gr/ Best, Aisha -- *Aisha Villegas* Outreach & Communications Coordinator *Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision* *Media Parkboulevard 1, 1217 WE Hilversum * *Postbus 1060, 1200 BB Hilversum | **beeldengeluid.nl <http://www.beeldengeluid.nl/>*

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CFP: Global Media and China Special Issue: Communicating the COVID-19 Pandemic
by Xiao Han 28 Apr '20

28 Apr '20

Call for Papers - Abstracts due 15th June 2020 Communicating the COVID-19 Pandemic - Special Issue of Global Media and China Guest Editor: Lars Willnat, Syracuse University, USA; Zixue Tai, University of Kentucky, USA Notification of Abstracts Acceptance: 20 July, 2020 Submission of Full Papers: 25 October, 2020 The COVID-19 global pandemic has brought profound challenges to the world community with ramifications that extend well beyond public health and individual well-being. But even while the coronavirus is affecting the lives of millions of people around the world, a number of theoretical and practical research questions have emerged in confronting this pandemic. Scholars have begun asking, for example, how to best convey information about the threat of this virus to the public, and what mechanisms might work best for contributing to public preparedness and inducing civilian action in combating the disease. China has been a pivotal player throughout the outbreak of COVID-19, from its handling of the deadly disease when it emerged in Wuhan in December 2019 to its subsequent role in collaborating with global nation-states in combatting the virus. However, COVID-19’s devastating effects in Europe and the United States demonstrate that no nation can fight this virus alone and that clear and rational communication about the mitigation of this global threat is vital. We call for papers that engage in quantitative or qualitative analyses examining the content, controversies, and consequences of this pandemic. Papers might address the topic of COVID-19 from a range of methodological and theoretical perspectives, including (but not limited to) content analyses, experiments, public opinion surveys, comparative studies, big data mining, and social media analyses. We particularly welcome contributions from scholars around the world who have completed studies based on one or more of the following topics or issues: · Communication of COVID-19 as a public health threat (information strategies, psychological issues, lockdown effects) · Journalistic issues related to COVID-19 (fake news, misinformation, disinformation, reporting of medical news, etc.) · Effects of COVID-19 on public opinion · Social media networks as venues and platforms for public debate of COVID-19 · Interplay of traditional mass media and social/emerging media in COVID-19 debate · Stigmatization, racialization/ethnicization, and xenophobia related to COVID-19 · Government-supported media and state control of information about COVID-19 · Media coverage and user narratives on etymology, cure, and spread of COVID-19 · Inter-cultural, cross-national comparative perspectives · The role of nation-states in communicating about COVID-19 · Social and emotional well-being related to COVID-19 · Patterns of news and/or information production and consumption related to COVID-19 · Folklores, rumors, conspiracy theories, alternative medicine · Role of nationalism or populism in mediated COVID-19 debate SUBMISSION GUIDELINES AND REVIEW PROCESS The deadline for submitting abstracts is 15 June, 2020. Abstracts should be not more than 1,000 words in length, detailing the purpose, methods, and main points of research. The abstracts should be submitted to Professor Lars Willnat by email at lwillnat(a)syr.edu <mailto:lwillnat@syr.edu>. Following peer-review, a selection of authors will be invited to submit a full paper in accordance with the journal’s ‘Instructions for Authors.’ Please note acceptance of the abstract does not guarantee publication, given that all papers will be put through the journal’s peer review process. Please refer to the full submission guidelines available at: https://uk.sagepub.com/en- gb/asi/global-media-and-china/journal202494#submission-guidelines Dr HAN Xiao Research Assistant, Social Media Centre, Communication University of China (CUC) Commissioning Editor, Global Media and China http://journals.sagepub.com/home/gch

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CfP: Workshop on Empirical Approaches in Platform Governance Research, HIIG Berlin (June 17)
by Robert Gorwa 27 Apr '20

27 Apr '20

Dear colleagues; please the following event being organized by myself and some colleagues working on platform governance, moderation, and policy at the Humboldt Centre for Internet and Society in Berlin. Call for Abstracts: Workshop on Empirical Approaches in Platform Governance Research, June 17, HIIG Berlin (Virtual) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The theory and practice of how major platforms for user-generated content create rules and technologies that affect billions around the world — and how different governance stakeholders seek to affect those structures — has become the focus of significant public, scholarly, and policy attention. In the past two years, platform companies have become notably, if not incrementally, more transparent about how they govern content, leading to new opportunities — as well as challenges — for researchers looking to understand contemporary content moderation. In this virtual half-day workshop organized by the Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society (HIIG), we are seeking to bring together an interdisciplinary set of researchers that produce empirical work on content moderation and platform governance across a variety of methodological traditions and approaches. We welcome contributions that make use of qualitative methods (e.g. interviews, ethnography, and policy analysis) as well as quantitative, experimental, and other research designs, across a wide variety of related topics (e.g. moderation and labour/outsourcing; government content regulation and policy; corporate rule-making and norm-setting) and issues (e.g. hate speech, disinformation, copyright). Our goal will be to not only highlight the state of the research landscape as it exists at the moment, but to also to identify the major limitations facing researchers from different subfields, sparking collaborations that strive to move beyond those limitations and silos. Due to the limitations imposed by the coronavirus crisis, the workshop will be designed for virtual participation via videoconferencing software. We welcome contributions from researchers located all around the world, and will work to accommodate multiple participant timezones. Details ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- A half-day workshop organized by the HIIG, June 17 2020. The precise format for presentations and panels will be determined depending on the amount of submissions received. [https://www.hiig.de/en/events/workshop-on-empirical-approaches-in-platform-…] Submission information ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Please submit your 250-500 word abstract via the online submission form [https://forms.gle/raVHk4tNGfV1VK1A7] before May 15. - Robert Gorwa Fellow, Alexander von Humboldt Institut für Internet und Gesellschaft, Berlin --------------------------------------------------------------------- Doctoral Candidate, Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Oxford --------------------------------------------------------------------- gorwa.co.uk<http://gorwa.co.uk> | @rgorwa

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Free research software for media diaries and media repertoire sorting
by ZeMKI 27 Apr '20

27 Apr '20

Dear All, In these times of COVID-19 and social distancing, researching media use, media repertories and data practices is not an easy task. The same applies to the teaching of empirical methods in this area. Against this background, we would like to bring to your attention the free media diary (MeTag) and sorting software (MeSort) that we developed as part of a research project some time ago. Using it for scientific research and teaching is totally free of charge. MeTag allows you to set up research projects via our backend system MeTag Analyze, a browser application, and collect media diaries via a smartphone app on your participants’ phones. MeSort is a web app for sorting tasks with interviewees so that you are able to collect information about the media and other devices they use. Both applications are open source and free to use right now. You can find more information on our website www.mesoftware.org <http://www.mesoftware.org/> including detailed documentation and our contact details. Feel free to have a look, use the software and tell us what you think. Best wishes, Andreas Hepp, Alessandro Belli, Uwe Hasebrink, Florian Hohmann, Wiebke Loosen

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Privacy book launch Thursday ... love to 'see' you there
by Sacha Molitorisz 27 Apr '20

27 Apr '20

Dear good persons of the AoIR, Apologies for the shameless self-promotion, but I’ve written a book that may be of interest. It’s called Net Privacy, How we can be free in an age of surveillance, and works from Kantian ethics to relational privacy before prescribing a series of legal and extra-legal solutions that can (I hope) be applied globally. Charles Ess is very kind when he says: … a comprehensive analysis that offers much needed hope for preserving and enhancing privacy, and with it, human dignity and democracy that are otherwise profoundly threatened on numerous fronts, beginning with surveillance capitalism and the Chinese Social Credit System. On the off chance you weren’t scared off by “Kantian”, here are three links, one to an excerpt, and two to the publishers’ pages. https://www.crikey.com.au/2020/04/24/weekend-read-net-privacy-surveillance/ https://www.newsouthbooks.com.au/books/net-privacy/ https://www.mqup.ca/net-privacy-products-9780228002116.php Above all, I’d love to “see” you at the zoom launch this Thursday (April 30) at 5.30pm, Australian Eastern time: https://events.humanitix.com/virtual-book-launch-net-privacy-how-can-we-be-… Also, if you’d like a review copy, let me know, and I’ll see if I can’t shake one out of the publisher’s grasping clutches. Be well! Cheers Sacha UTS CRICOS Provider Code: 00099F DISCLAIMER: This email message and any accompanying attachments may contain confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient, do not read, use, disseminate, distribute or copy this message or attachments. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender immediately and delete this message. Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender, except where the sender expressly, and with authority, states them to be the views of the University of Technology Sydney. Before opening any attachments, please check them for viruses and defects. Think. Green. Do. Please consider the environment before printing this email.

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