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AI, gender and health and social care - MA and PhD Studentship at University of Brighton
by Aristea Fotopoulou 12 Oct '18

12 Oct '18

ALGORITHMIC GENDER BIAS IN HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE 1+3 STUDENTSHIP (MASTERS AND PHD) Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE 2018 South Coast Doctoral Training Partnership Applications are invited for an interdisciplinary four-year PhD studentship at the research Centre for Digital Media Cultures and the Centre for Applied Data Analytics at the University of Brighton. We invite candidates with a social sciences or computer sciences background, or both. The successful candidate will join an internationally recognised team of researchers to investigate the ways in which algorithmic gender bias occurs, and understand how it can be mitigated against, in the specific context of Health and Social Care (H&SC) provision. You will a) map algorithm-based systems currently in use by H&SC providers, b) develop methods that identify gender bias within AI systems, and c) examine ways in which bias can be removed. This PhD studentship will provide an outstanding training in social research methods and computer science data analytics, to produce insights into algorithmic bias, and to develop thorough understanding of the social, economic, cultural, ethical and governance aspects of Artificial Intelligence for future societies. The successful candidate will be supervised by Prof Flis Henwood (School of Applied Social Sciences), Dr Aristea Fotopoulou (School of Media), and Prof Anya Belz (School of Computing, Engineering and Mathematics). The University of Brighton has internationally recognised strengths in AI research in social science, arts and humanities and computer science contexts, spanning research fields such as data analytics, natural language processing, human-computer interaction and systems security, computer graphics, dialogue and narrative generation, and novel user experiences including Augmented/ Virtual/Mixed Reality. The student will be formally located in the School of Applied Social Sciences but have access to outstanding cross-disciplinary research environments through participation in both the Digital Media Cultures and Applied Data Analytics research centres, enabling them to develop the necessary skills and competences in social framing of technologies, computational technologies, economic imperatives, cultural effects, ethics and governance of Artificial Intelligence for future societies. Eligibiliy We fund students who will undertake Masters + PhD programmes (1+3 funding) and stand-alone PhD programmes (+3 funding). For the Masters + PhD route, you are expected to have a good honours degree at first or upper second-class level, from a UK academic higher education institution or international equivalent, in a relevant social sciences discipline (e.g., anthropology, geography, media and cultural studies, politics, psychology, science and technology studies, sociology) or in computer science, data science, mathematics, or statistics. For the stand-alone PhD programme (+3 PhD award) you would have achieved a level of research training that would allow them to proceed directly to PhD. This is usually through the attainment of a previous masters qualification in the social sciences with a Distinction grade. For more information about how to apply please see: https://www.brighton.ac.uk/research-and-enterprise/postgraduate-research-de grees/funding-opportunities-and-studentships/2018-algorithmic-gender-bias-i n-health-and-social-care.aspx Deadline for applications: Sunday 4 November 2018, 11.59pm Best wishes Aristea ----------------------------- Dr Aristea Fotopoulou Principal Lecturer in Media and Communication Course Leader MA Digital Media, Culture and Society School of Media University of Brighton Watts Building, Lewes Road Brighton BN2 4GJ A.Fotopoulou(a)brighton.ac.uk |@aristeaf Research blog: www.Loopingthreads.com | Webpage http://arts.brighton.ac.uk/staff/aristea-fotopoulou New book: "Feminist Activism and Digital Networks: Between empowerment and vulnerability". Palgrave Macmillan. Order: http://www.palgrave.com/gb/book/9781137504708 New book chapter: From networked to quantified self: Self-tracking and the moral economy of data sharing in https://www.routledge.com/A-Networked-Self-and-Platforms-Stories-Connection s/Papacharissi/p/book/9781138722682 ___________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned by MessageLabs' Email Security System on behalf of the University of Brighton. For more information see: https://staff.brighton.ac.uk/is/computing/Pages/Email/spam.aspx

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air.discovertext.com - free software for 3 months - happy AOIR 2018 from texifter
by Shulman, Stu 12 Oct '18

12 Oct '18

In honor of AOIR 2018, Texifter has created a sponsorship for all AOIR list members. If you visit https://air.discovertext.com/Home/LicenseCode and use the code AOIR2018, you will be made the Administrator of your own group account on DiscoverText. The accounts get set up for 3 months, with 2 enterprise seats, and 20 professional seats, as well as 100,000 units of storage on a gratis basis. Please note: this code is only good until midnight Oct. 15th. Support Articles: https://texifter.zendesk.com/hc/en-us DT FAQs: https://texifter.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/sections/200153475-DiscoverText-FAQ Scholarly Mentions: https://discovertext.com/publications/ DiscoverText Explained: https://vimeo.com/274453845 DiscoverText Explained (Arabic): https://vimeo.com/278342020 DiscoverText Explained (French): https://vimeo.com/275834878 DiscoverText Explained (Spanish): https://vimeo.com/275595481 @DiscoverText: https://twitter.com/discovertext Capterra User Reviews: https://www.capterra.com/p/151927/DiscoverText/#reviews PAT Reviews: https://www.predictiveanalyticstoday.com/discovertext/ For those at the meeting, enjoy Montreal. For everyone already, or soon to be, on the #1 ranked web-based, collaborative text analytics platform on earth: welcome! DiscoverText is a research tool, for advanced Boolean search, metadata filtering, human coding, reporting inter-rater reliability, clustering, duplicate detection, n-grams, annotation validation, CoderRank, and machine-learning. It was built by academics for academics to support multi-disciplinary, multi-lingual, analysis of text. We are fully confident that IBM Watson may have Bob Dylan locked down, but we have the tools and methods to make your research and your classroom better. Most text analytics software packages work well with English text and a handful of other languages; however, many of these tools fail when analyzing non-Latin, multilingual texts, such as Arabic, which appears correctly only in a right-to-left format. Further, many software solutions have additional problems tokenizing text when it is an ideograph-based language (e.g. Chinese or Korean). Texifter’s software, DiscoverText, is unique in that it is capable of effective operations on multilingual texts and the coding platform builds effective custom machine classifiers on the fly and at scale for these corpora. We continue our practice developed over 9 years of doing free workshops, free webinars, and free 1-1 trainings on the web to help you succeed. Thanks, ~Stu -- Dr. Stuart W. Shulman Founder and CEO, Texifter Cell: 413-992-8513 LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/stuartwshulman

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Smart Storytelling Day (15th November) & 8th International Mobile Innovation Screening (16th November)
by Max Schleser 12 Oct '18

12 Oct '18

Smart Storytelling Day (15th November) & 8th International Mobile Innovation Screening (16th November) Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne Tickets via: http://minamobile.eventbrite.com/ The symposium will explore novel forms and new formats of documentary and non-fiction screen productions relating to community engagement and creative transformations. It will include recent developments in the creative industries embracing: - Changing Creative Ecologies – Industry panel with Ajax McKerral & Eamon Wyss (Hoopy), Lester Francois (VR arts doc series KINETIC/Rone), Michael Beets (The Unknown Patient) and Diego Trazzi (Unity). - Storytelling in interactive AV, AR and VR - Mobile Story Making - Smart Stories embracing AI, robots and VR Smart Storytelling leverages these contemporary developments in Screen Production, Digital Media and the Creative Arts. Symposium program and presenter bios via https://www.swinburne.edu.au/events/departments/research/2018/11/mina20 18-towards-a-theory--practice-of-smart-storytelling.php Since 2011 the Mobile Innovation Network and Association celebrates mobile, pocket and smartphone filmmaking. The annual screening provides an overview of the trends and directions in the international smartphone filmmaking community. MINA’s screening focuses on experimental screen productions, moving-image arts, documentary and innovative approaches to smartphone filmmaking. In its 8th edition we present 14 international smartphone and pocket films, 8 smartphone films in the New Voices category, a panel discussion & a mobile cinematic VR showcase. Screening program, information about panel speakers, mobile cinematic VR showcase and screening trailer online: www.mina.pro/screenings Contact: @MINAmobile | Max(a)mina.pro | https://www.facebook.com/MobileInnovationNetwork/

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Competition: Ethics in Computer Science, with up to $3.5 Million in Prizes
by Richard Forno 11 Oct '18

11 Oct '18

FYI..... https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2018/10/10/announcing-a-competition-for-ethic… The Responsible Computer Science Challenge — by Omidyar Network, Mozilla, Schmidt Futures, and Craig Newmark Philanthropies — calls on professors to integrate ethics into undergraduate computer science courses < - > Through the Responsible Computer Science Challenge, Omidyar Network, Mozilla, Schmidt Futures, and Craig Newmark Philanthropies are supporting the conceptualization, development, and piloting of curricula that integrate ethics with computer science. Our hope is that this coursework will not only be implemented, but also scaled to colleges and universities across the country — and beyond. Between December 2018 and July 2020, we will award up to $3.5 million in prizes to promising proposals. The challenge is open to both individual professors or collaborative teams consisting of professors, graduate students, and teaching assistants. We’re seeking educators who are passionate about teaching not only computer science, but how it can be deployed in a responsible, positive way. The challenge consists of two stages: In Stage 1, we will seek concepts for deeply integrating ethics into existing undergraduate computer science courses, either through syllabi changes (e.g. including a reading or exercise on ethics in each class meeting) or teaching methodology adjustments (e.g. pulling teaching assistants from ethics departments). Stage 1 winners will receive up to $150,000 each to develop and pilot their ideas. Winners will be announced in April 2019. In Stage 2, we will support the spread and scale of the most promising approaches developed in Stage 1. Stage 2 winners will receive up to $200,000 each and will be announced in summer 2020. Projects will be judged by an external review committee of academics, tech industry leaders, and others, who will use evaluation criteria developed jointly by Omidyar Network and Mozilla. Judges include Bobby Schnabel, professor of computer science at the University of Colorado Boulder and former president of ACM; Maria Klawe, president of Harvey Mudd College; Joshua Cohen, Marta Sutton Weeks Professor of Ethics in Society at Stanford University; Brenda Darden Wilkerson, president and CEO of the Anita Borg Institute; and others. We are accepting Initial Funding Concepts for Stage 1 now through December 13, 2018. < - > https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2018/10/10/announcing-a-competition-for-ethic… --- Dr. Richard Forno Senior Lecturer, CSEE Director, Graduate Cybersecurity Program Assistant Director, UMBC Center for Cybersecurity UMBC Veterans Faculty Fellow

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Reminder: Narratives of HIV event in November
by Jaime García Iglesias 10 Oct '18

10 Oct '18

Just a quick reminder to register for FREE for the LHIVES: Narratives of HIV event in November 9, 4-7pm in Manchester city centre. Tickets are running out fast. Snacks and drinks will be provided! Register at https://www.bugchasingproject.org/lhives This will discuss the role of stigma and diversity in people's experiences of HIV through a multidisciplinary approach combining media studies, psychology, philosophy, sociology and nursing. The event will launch with a workshop run by the George House Trust, where an expert in HIV and a person living with HIV will talk about their experiences and answer questions from the public. Then, we will have a roundtable with the following speakers: - Rusi Jaspal (Professor of Psychology and Sexual Health, De Montfort University), - Brian Heaphy (Professor of Sociology, University of Manchester), - Jamie Hakim (Lecturer in Media Studies, East Anglia University), - Phil Hutchinson (Lecturer in Philosophy, Manchester Metropolitan University) and - Michelle Croston (Nursing, Manchester Metropolitan University). After the roundtable, there will be an exhibition of photographs taken as part of Angelia Cabeza's research for there PhD at the University of Manchester. Free refreshments and cakes will be available. Where? Friends' Meeting House (6 Mount St, Manchester M2 5NS) When? Friday November 9, 2018, 4-7pm. (Event funded by the ESRC and Department of Sociology at The University of meManchester). For any questions, email jaime.garciaiglesias(a)manchester.ac.uk -- *Jaime Garcia-Iglesias* The University of Manchester Twitter <https://outlook.manchester.ac.uk/owa/redir.aspx?C=A_gZOKKCeUAotWHc_1i3ExusP…> ¦ Academia <https://outlook.manchester.ac.uk/owa/redir.aspx?C=Rgjwhvh-Nj7EqjH53AkxYFG26…> ¦ UoM <https://outlook.manchester.ac.uk/owa/redir.aspx?C=KcbFOtK5fr0gpIFVMAiLCtgC_…>

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Got ethics?
by Charles M. Ess 09 Oct '18

09 Oct '18

Of course you do. In addition: if you have internet research ethics on your mind, on behalf of my co-chairs and the AoIR Ethics Working Group, you are warmly invited to our open discussion of the DRAFT overview/introduction to IRE 3.0: Thursday, 11/Oct/2018 2:00pm - 3:30pm Sheraton - Salon 4 The document in its current state represents some two years of work by many hands, including organizers and participants at the ethics-related sessions at AoIR in 2016 and 2017, as well as subsequent conferences and workshops organized in Aarhus, Denmark, and Oslo, Norway. We are especially grateful to Anna Jobin and aline franzke for their extensive work on setting up our Slack space, the beginnings of a Zotero repository of documents, and substantive contributions to the structure and content of many of these documents. The opening summary is appended below to give you an initial sense of how the overview /introduction is shaping up, along with affiliated documents. We will make the document available in electronic format at the beginning of the session, accompanied by a brief introduction and overview from the co-chairs. The idea is to solicit your further critical comments and suggestions for improving the document over the coming year, with a view towards final submission at the AoIR 2019 meeting. We know the conference schedule is packed full of compellingly interesting panels and presentations - but we hope many of you will be able to find the time and energy to attend the session on Thursday. As with our previous ethics documents, this work depends centrally on your individual and collective wisdom and experience for its further development. Safe travels and see you there, - charles ess, Co-Chair, AoIR IRE 3.0 Ethics Working Group; Anja Bechman (Aarhus), Co-Chair, aline shakti franzke (University of Duisburg-Essen), Co-Chair Michael Zimmer (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee), Co-Chair Anne Hove Henriksen (Aarhus), Research Assistant and Administrator The AoIR IRE 3.0 Ethics Working Group, including: David J. Brake, Ane Kathrine Gammelby, Nele Heise, Annette Markham, Katrin Tildenberg, and Paul J. Reilly. == Summary This document introduces Internet Research Ethics (IRE) 3.0. We begin with a review of the AoIR ethical approaches and guidelines that we now designate as IRE 1.0 (Ess and the AoIR ethics working committee, 2002) and IRE 2.0 (Markham and Buchanan 2012; Ess, 2017): while driven by on-going changes and developments in the technological, legal, and ethical contexts that shape internet research, IRE 1.0 and 2.0 ground a basic ethical approach that continues as foundational for IRE 3.0. IRE 3.0 is then illustrated by way of two emerging elements – namely, greater attention to stages of research and what has become a standard problem of informed consent in Big Data research approaches. We then list and more briefly discuss the primary additional ethical challenges in IRE 3.0 as identified by the AoIR Ethics Working Group (EWG). We offer a general structure for ethical analysis, designed to help identify the ethically-relevant issues and questions, along with additional suggestions for how to begin to analyze and address these challenges in more detail. We aim to take up and exemplify this general structure as guiding more extensive analyses of specific modules in IRE 3.0, to be developed by teams made up of EWG members. Our first module on Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning is being developed by Anja Bechmann and Bendert Zevenbergen. A second module on Corporate Data is being developed. These specific modules will be included in a second series of documents, to be made available as they are ready as well as modified in light of subsequent developments. In these ways, we aim to produce “living documents,” i.e., documents that remain open to expansion and revision as ongoing technological developments demand. == -- Professor in Media Studies Department of Media and Communication University of Oslo <http://www.hf.uio.no/imk/english/people/aca/charlees/index.html> Postboks 1093 Blindern 0317 Oslo, Norway c.m.ess(a)media.uio.no

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Funded PhD student opportunities at the School of Information Sciences at Illinois (online info session on Oct 10)
by Diesner, Jana 09 Oct '18

09 Oct '18

We invite applications from highly motivated students from all backgrounds to join our world-renowned research and scholarship program at the School of Information Sciences, the iSchool at Illinois. Our PhD program in Library and Information Science is the oldest existing LIS doctoral program in the U.S. with over 240 graduates. Recent graduates from our PhD program have become faculty members at institutions such as the University of Michigan, University of Washington, University of Maryland, and UCLA, professionals at Baidu and Google, and academic library professionals at the Library of Congress, Princeton University, and the University of Chicago. We guarantee up to four years of funding in the form of research, teaching, and service assistantships, including tuition waivers and stipends. We also offer travel support for our PhD students. Students receive one-on-one mentorship from faculty with a global reputation for excellence in scholarship and high impact science. The School's flexible program ensures that each student is provided with the intellectual guidance and experiences necessary to prepare them for vibrant research careers in a wide range of academic, business, and government settings. We highly value interdisciplinary work at our school. Our faculty and students conduct exciting research on a broad range of topics: * Community informatics * Data curation * Data science * Digital archives and libraries * Digital humanities * Health and bioinformatics * History of information * Human-centered data science, Computational social science * Human-computer interaction, User experience, Computer supported cooperative work * Information access * Information literacy * Information policy, privacy, security, and ethics * Information retrieval * Information visualization * Informetrics * Libraries and librarianship * Machine learning * Natural language processing, Text mining, Text analysis * Network science * Organization of knowledge and information * Scientific data and knowledge practices * Youth services and digital youth For more on our vision see http://ischool.illinois.edu/research/vision For more about our faculty visit http://ischool.illinois.edu/people/faculty APPLICATION To apply, go to https://ischool.illinois.edu/degrees-programs/phd-library-and-information-s… This page also contains detailed information about the application process and the link for submitting your application. Application deadline is Saturday, December 01, 2018, at 11:00 p.m., Central Time. We especially encourage domestic students from historically and statistically underrepresented minority groups to apply. MORE INFORMATION AND ONLINE INFORMATION SESSION For additional information about our PhD program, see http://ischool.illinois.edu/academics/degrees/phd or contact ischool-phd(a)illinois.edu<mailto:ischool-phd@illinois.edu> On Wednesday, October 10, 2018, from 8:00-9:00 a.m. Central Time, we will host an online information session about our PhD degree in Library and Information Science. During the session, the program director, iSchool faculty, staff and a current PhD student will answer questions and provide information about our PhD program. Login instructions are below. ONLINE: http://go.ischool.illinois.edu/phd_info_session, please type your name and click "Join Session". Blackboard Collaborate Instructions: http://help.blackboard.com/Collaborate/Ultra/Participant/Get_Started/Naviga… If you have questions or problems with regard to participation, please contact our Help Desk: help(a)support.ischool.illinois.edu<mailto:help@support.ischool.illinois.edu>, +1-217-244-4903 or +1-800-377-1892. For additional information about the online information session: https://ischool.illinois.edu/news-events/events/2018/09/26/virtual-informat… For questions, please contact Dr. Jana Diesner, PhD Program Director, at jdiesner(a)illinois.edu<mailto:jdiesner@illinois.edu> Jana Diesner, PhD Associate Professor PhD Program Director School of Information Sciences University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Email: jdiesner(a)illinois.edu

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Shenzhen forum-communication innovation, new media, digital journalism
by Rolien Hoyng 09 Oct '18

09 Oct '18

I hope this forum, which includes three separate tracks, is of interest to some of you! Rolien Hoyng ----- *THE SHENZHEN FORUM 2019* COMMUNICATION INNOVATION, NEW MEDIA, AND DIGITAL JOURNALISM Shenzhen, China, June 26 –28, 2019 Co-sponsored by the Shenzhen University (SZU) of China and the National Communication Association (NCA) THE SHENZHEN FORUM WILL BRING TOGETHER SCHOLARS AND MEDIA PRACTITIONERS from around the world to engage in conversations about cutting-edge communication-based issues. The Forum will include three “tracks”: TRACK 1: EXPERIMENTS IN COMMUNICATION INNOVATION, led by Dr. Rolien Hoyng, Chinese University of Hong Kong, rolienhoyng(a)cuhk.edu.hk (the NCA representative), and Dr. Chen Changfeng, Tsinghua University, fengchen5266(a)163.com (the SZU representative) Despite critiques of the ongoing glorification of “innovation” within multiple corporate spheres, scholars remain committed to both studying and practicing inventiveness, newness, and difference. This track accordingly reﬂects on how different communicative habits emerge from within processes of technological standardization, global integration, and digital innovation. It looks across the front-end experiences of users and the back-end infrastructures of digital and global communication to prompt participants to consider the dilemmas and opportunities of innovation and inventiveness. On the one hand, the globalization of infrastructures and platforms seems contingent on their ability to accommodate different practices and uses, even while doing so within increasingly standardized settings. On the other hand, new technological applications may not simply partake in ongoing processes of globalization, but also can change where globalization is headed. This track will ask: Does “innovation” support or compromise existing corporate control and statecraft? Does it fuel targeted struggles for social justice in the age of globalization? Or, does “innovation” call forth new communicative possibilities that transcend our understanding? This track will pursue these questions by inviting scholars to share specific case studies of communication “innovation” in practice. TRACK 2: INTERSECTIONS IN NEW MEDIA AND HEALTH COMMUNICATION, led by Dr. Yuqiong Zhou, Shenzhen University, yuqiongzhou(a)126.com (the SZU representative), and Dr. Amy Hasinoff, CU Denver, amy.hasinoff(a)ucdenver.edu (the NCA representative) Traditional health communication scholarship has focused on face-to-face interactions, yet the proliferation of new media technologies means that many patients now speak with their doctor or nurse-practitioner via online messaging platforms, while many health care seekers resort to online systems for information and advice. At the same time, public communication about family health, dieting, gender and sexuality, and aging is now widely practiced via new media platforms, few of which are refereed for accuracy, and many of which are little more than marketing scams. Thus, while there has never before been so much information available to users regarding their health, there has also never been so much disinformation waiting to send users into tailspins of bad advice, risky behavior, and financial ruin. In addition, in both China and America, questions of new media and health communication hinge on access to the internet, meaning these issues touch upon class, wealth, and debates about how “public” the internet really is. In short, health communication and new media are now interlaced in empowering, alarming, and confusing ways. This track will enable participants to study the interweaving of new media and health communication via specific case studies drawn from American, Chinese, and other international contexts. TRACK 3: THE DIGITAL JOURNALISM CHALLENGE, led by Dr. Qingwen Dong, University of the Pacific, qdong(a)pacific.edu (the NCA representative) and Xiaojin Gu, Shenzhen University, gxj(a)szu.edu.cn (the SZU representative) A digital revolution is transforming how we think about journalism. “Legacy” outlets such as the New York Times and People’s Daily face challenges from a vast array of websites and emerging new media platforms. Some of these new outlets offer exciting opportunities for producing “citizen journalism” or “backpack journalism,” thus furthering the cause of social justice. Yet many of them have become the purveyors of lies, conspiracy theories, and calls for violence, meaning the world of journalism is fracturing. For example, in America, the “news” is now produced not only by credible journalists but also by propagandists at Fox, neo-Nazis at the Daily Stormer, and a reality-challenged tweeter from the White House. In China, the “news” is now produced not only by the Party’s many outlets, but by separatists in Xinjiang and radicals in Tibet. In India, Myanmar, and Iran, digital outlets have called for riots and stoked ethnic and religious violence. Many observers are therefore calling ours a “post-truth” age. Indeed, all around the world, we are facing a crisis in journalism that is underwritten by a crisis in notions of evidence, trust, and credibility—with the whole process being driven by revolutions in digital media production and distribution. This track will pursue the causes and consequences of this digital revolution in journalism, and will feature case studies of both negative and positive examples. SCHEDULE OF EVENTS NCA participants will arrive in Shenzhen on the evening of Wednesday, June 25. On Thursday, June 26, we will lead a morning excursion to the international headquarters of TenCent, one of the largest media companies in the world, where participants will interact with China’s new social media leaders. That afternoon, NCA will lead a pre-Forum workshop to discuss best practices in international communication, offering participants an opportunity to engage in open conversation regarding the complicated terrain of academic and political life in contemporary China. The Shenzhen Forum will then hold sessions all day on Friday, June 27, and Saturday, June 28, concluding Saturday evening with an NCA-hosted reception. Participants will depart from Shenzhen on Sunday, June 29. In an act of great generosity, SZU will cover hotel accommodations for the nights of June 25, 26, 27, and 28, as well as all conference registration fees. To support the travel needs of NCA-member graduate students and early-career faculty members, NCA will award 10 $1,000 travel grants to selected individuals. APPLICATION INFORMATION We invite submissions that address any of the “tracks” cited above. Applicants should submit a project proposal of roughly 1,000 words. Submissions can be made in English or Chinese and should indicate the submitter’s home institution. Submissions should be in Microsoft Word or Adobe.pdf format. The deadline for all submissions is February 1, 2019. Applicants will be contacted with results by March 1, 2019. Please note that we assume all applicants are making good-will submissions and will, if accepted, attend the Forum. Submitters should send their materials to the appropriate “track leader” listed above (with all English language submissions going to the NCA representative for that track and all Chinese language submissions going to the SZU representative for that track). RESULTING PUBLICATIONS Following the model used to publish Imagining China: Rhetorics of Nationalism in the Age of Globalization (Michigan State University Press, 2017), the track leaders will edit two volumes, with one in English (NCA in charge) and another in Chinese (SZU in charge). These are not conference proceedings, but academic books wherein each chapter is an expanded version of the original conference presentation. The track leaders will solicit chapters from the conference presenters and will handle all subsequent book-publishing tasks working in conjunction with the series editor, Stephen J. Hartnett. Rolien Hoyng Assistant Professor, School of Journalism and Communication Director MA Program in Global Communication The Chinese University of Hong Kong Sha Tin, New Territories Hong Kong SAR

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Possible ICA Panel on Alt-Right Discourses online
by Pratiksha Menon 09 Oct '18

09 Oct '18

Hi All, I'm looking to complete a discussion panel for ICA focusing on alt-right discourses online, especially if you are from outside of US academia and/or your work focuses on the alt-right from a non-US perspective . We are looking to submit in the Popular Communication Division. Please mail me at pratixa(a)umich.edu with an abstract/general description of your paper if you are interested or know someone who would be interested. Thank you!

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Call for papers : ICDEc_ International Conference on Digital Economy 2019
by meriam belkhir 08 Oct '18

08 Oct '18

Apologies for cross_posting. Please forward widely. ---------------------------- ICDEc 2019 - CALL FOR PAPERS ---------------------------- The fourth annual International Conference on Digital Economy (ICDEc) will take place from April 25th to 27th, 2019 in the International University of Beirut, Lebanon. The ICDEc conference is an opportunity to bring together researchers and experts in emerging technologies from both public and private sectors to discuss issues related to the development, implementation, use, and management of emerging technologies and the move to the digital economy. The conference is an occasion to link researchers from computer science, business computing and information system areas to business fields such as marketing, finance, human resources, management etc. It is an opportunity to explore ideas, exchange thoughts and implement research projects between this diversity of fields with a focus on application contexts like e-commerce, e-business, e-health, e-learning, etc. Accepted and presented papers will be included in the conference proceedings and submitted for inclusion in the Springer LNBIP series. ------------- GENERAL CHAIR ------------- Farid Abdallah, International University Of Beirut, Lebanon ------------ PC CO-CHAIRS ------------ Sehl Mellouli, Université Laval, Canada Deny Belisle, Université de Sherbrooke, Canada ------ TRACKS ------ Submissions can consist of theoretical or applied research in a large range of tracks and topics including, but not limited to: EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES - Web Intelligence Technologies - Big Data and Data Science - Knowledge Discovery and Management - Intelligent Agent Systems - Web Security - Uncertainty Managament BUSINESS INNOVATION - Digital transformation processes in the private and public sectors - E-Governance - E-Commerce - Digital Marketing - E-Finance - E-Learning and Cloud Education - E-Health - The balance of Trade and Big Data - Utilizing Big Data in Sustainable Development ---------- SUBMISSION ---------- - Full papers (Up to 14 pages) - Short papers (Up to 6 pages) - Demo/case study papers (Up to 6 pages) - Posters (with extended abstract) --------------- IMPORTANT DATES --------------- Deadline of paper submission: December 22nd, 2018 Notification of acceptance and reviewing report: January 21st, 2019 Deadline of final version submission: February 10th, 2019 Deadline for early birds registration: March 15th, 2019 Deadline for late registration: April 3rd, 2019 Conference date: April 15th-18th, 2019 For more information, please visit https://www.aten.tn/ICDEc2019/ -- *Meriam Belkhir * *Assistant professor of Marketing, University of Sfax, Tunisia * *) * [image: Mailtrack] <https://mailtrack.io?utm_source=gmail&utm_medium=signature&utm_campaign=sig…> Sender notified by Mailtrack <https://mailtrack.io?utm_source=gmail&utm_medium=signature&utm_campaign=sig…> 08/10/18 à 21:14:55

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