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Call for Papers: Capitalism, Social Science and the Platform University
by Mark Carrigan 14 Jul '18

14 Jul '18

*Capitalism, Social Science and the Platform University**December 13th-14th, Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge* In recent discussions of capitalism, the notion of the ‘platform’ has come to play a prominent role in conceptualising our present circumstances and imagining our potential futures. There are criticisms which can be raised of the platform-as-metaphor, however we believe it provides a useful hook through which to make sense of how socio-technical innovations may be leading to a new phase of capitalist accumulation. To talk of ‘platform capitalism’ in this sense does not exclude consideration of parallel notions such as digital capitalism, data capitalism and surveillance capitalism but rather seeks to frame these considerations through a focus upon the platform as a novel assemblage. While research into social media and the sharing economy is relatively advanced, the increasing centrality of platforms to the operation of the university remains understudied and undertheorised. Our conference seeks to rectify this, raising the possibility of the ‘platform university’ as a provocation to stimulate discussion concerning platforms, the commercial and academic science they depend upon and contribute to reshaping, as well as their implications for the future of the university. We see the university as a case study for inquiry into platforms, but also as a horizon of change within which the social sciences seek to address these processes. We invite papers which address the full range of questions posed by these considerations, including topics such as: - *The ontology of platforms* - *The epistemology of platforms* - *Methodological challenges in studying platforms* - *The transformation of the social sciences* - *The politics and political economy of platforms* - *Platforms as evaluative infrastructures* - *Platform education and the platform university * There will be a keynote by Ben Williamson <https://www.stir.ac.uk/people/18084> on *The expanding data infrastructure of higher education: public-private policy networks and platform plug-ins*. We welcome abstracts of 500 words or less by July 31st 2018, sent to mac228(a)cam.ac.uk. Please include a brief biographical note, as well as three key words to categorise your submission. We also plan to publish a select set of papers as a special issue or edited book and are in conversation with journal editors and publishers. We hope to have limited travel and accommodation funding available for unfunded PhD students and post-docs but cannot confirm this at present.

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CfP w/ extended deadline: ComplexRec 2018 (2nd Workshop on Recommendation in Complex Scenarios)
by Toine Bogers 13 Jul '18

13 Jul '18

Due to several requests we have extended the original workshop deadline for: ======================================================== FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS 2nd Workshop on Recommendation in Complex Scenarios (ComplexRec 2018) http://complexrec2018.aau.dk Co-located with RecSys 2018, Vancouver, Canada October 7, 2018 ======================================================== --------------- Important dates --------------- * Paper submission deadline: July 20, 2018 at midnight (NEW DEADLINE) * Notification of acceptance: August 13, 2018 * Camera-ready deadline: August 27, 2018 * ComplexRec 2018 Workshop: October 7, 2018 ------------------------ Description & Objectives ------------------------ Over the past decade, recommendation algorithms for ratings prediction and item ranking have steadily matured. However, these state-of-the-art algorithms are typically applied in relatively straightforward scenarios. In reality, recommendation is often a more complex problem: it is usually just a single step in the user's more complex background need. These background needs can often place a variety of constraints on which recommendations are interesting to the user and when they are appropriate. However, relatively little research has been done on these complex recommendation scenarios. The ComplexRec 2018 workshop aims to address this by providing an interactive venue for discussing approaches to recommendation in complex scenarios that have no simple one-size-fits-all solution. It is the follow-up to the successful first ComplexRec workshop at RecSys 2017. ------------------ Topics of interest ------------------ We invite original contributions about recommendation in complex scenarios. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following: * Task-based recommendation -- Approaches that take the user's background tasks and needs into account when generating recommendations * Feature-driven recommendation -- Techniques for eliciting, capturing and integrating rich information about user preferences for specific product features * Constraint-based recommendation -- Approaches that successfully combine state-of-the-art recommendation algorithms with complex knowledge-based or constraint-based optimization * Query-driven recommendation -- Techniques for eliciting and incorporating rich information about the user's recommendation need (e.g., need for accessibility, engagement, socio-cultural values, familiarity, etc.) in addition to the standard user preference information * Interactive recommendation -- Techniques for successfully capturing, weighting, and integrating continuous user feedback into recommender systems, both in situations of sparse and rich user interaction * Context-aware recommendation -- Methods for the extraction and integration of complex contextual signals for recommendation * Complex data sources -- Approaches to dealing with complex data sources and how to infer user preferences from these sources * Evaluation & validation -- Approaches to the evaluation and validation of recommendation in complex scenarios ----------- Submissions ----------- We encourage authors to submit short papers and position papers of 2-4 pages in length dedicated to any aspect of recommendation in complex scenarios. Accepted submissions will then be invited for short 10-minute presentations with equal time for discussion. Evaluation criteria for acceptance will include novelty, diversity, significance for theory/practice, quality of presentation, and the potential for sparking interesting discussion at the workshop. All submitted papers will be reviewed by the Program Committee. At least one author of each accepted paper must attend the workshop. All submissions should be in English and should not have been published or submitted for publication elsewhere. Papers should be formatted in the ACM Proceedings Style (https://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template) and submitted via EasyChair (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=complexrec2018) Submissions will be published in the workshop proceedings. ---------- Organizers ---------- * Toine Bogers (toine(a)hum.aau.dk) Aalborg University Copenhagen, Denmark * Marijn Koolen (marijn.koolen(a)di.huc.knaw.nl) KNAW Humanities Cluster, the Netherlands * Bamshad Mobasher (mobasher(a)cs.depaul.edu) DePaul University, USA * Casper Petersen (cap(a)sampension.dk) Sampension, Denmark * Alan Said (alansaid(a)acm.org) University of Skövde, Sweden For further questions, please contact a member of the organizing committee.

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Re: [Air-L] Including screennames with tweets
by André Brock 13 Jul '18

13 Jul '18

Many of the suggestions I’ve read are...ok, but all of them miss a critical consideration IMO. That is, Twitter screennames are NOT the same as Twitter userids. Screennames can be (and are often) changed, while userid is the actual address to which tweets are delivered. IN some cases, the screennames is an additional Twitter-enabled paratext providing context for the tweet itself! Thus, by anonymizing screennames, you’re glossing the tweet AND the user, placing your interpretation over that of the twitter user. While this may seem like a pedantic difference, it’s of crucial importance for my own work on Black Twitter and Black discursive identity; i find it hard to believe that screenname creativity/invention isn’t important for others studying underrepresented groups on the service. Moreover, the earlier point about attribution is important as well; Black twitter users (among others) are becoming increasingly protective about their perceived ownership of the content they generate online. IF y’all are simply talking ‘bout anonymizing USERID, then i don’t have a problem. While i agree mostly with Theo that Twitter is a public space - and moreover, that the Twitter users i study are agonizingly aware of how public their tweets are - i also exercise judgement when analyzing tweets of a sensitive nature. I have and will continue to ask those Twitter users publishing sensitive content whether i can use their material in my publicly funded, published research with no compensation. In several cases, users have agreed because they feel the subject matter is important, but in many more they have declined. I know that IRB/ethics training is insufficient to determine ‘sensitivity’, but i also have the guidance of many of you excellent academics to rely upon as well. TTFN, A. André Brock Associate Professor of Black Digital Studies Department of Literature, Media, and Communication Georgia Institute of Technology Research Repository: https://umich.academia.edu/AndréBrock E: andre.brock(a)gmail.com Twitter: @docdre I'd love to connect. Here's my calendar link (https://calendly.com/andre-brock) to make finding time easy. > > On Jul 13, 2018 at 12:07 PM, <Air-L-Request (mailto:air-l-request@listserv.aoir.org)> wrote: > > > > Send Air-L mailing list submissions to > air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > air-l-request(a)listserv.aoir.org > > You can reach the person managing the list at > air-l-owner(a)listserv.aoir.org > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of Air-L digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Re: Including screennames with tweets (Proferes, Nicholas) > 2. Re: For those attending ISA World Congress of Sociology > (MC Cambre) > 3. Re: Including screennames with tweets (Tarleton L. Gillespie) > 4. Re: Including screennames with tweets (Theo Plothe) > 5. Re: Including screennames with tweets (Casey Lynn Fiesler) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2018 15:17:22 +0000 > From: "Proferes, Nicholas" <nproferes(a)uky.edu> > To: Judith Rosenbaum-Andre <judith.rosenbaumandre(a)maine.edu>, > "daniel.thomas--airl(a)cl.cam.ac.uk" <daniel.thomas--airl(a)cl.cam.ac.uk> > Cc: "air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org" <air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org> > Subject: Re: [Air-L] Including screennames with tweets > Message-ID: > <BN7PR03MB346028E9E27D7811093820A5A3580(a)BN7PR03MB3460.namprd03.prod.outlook.com> > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" > > Hi all, > > > Casey Fiesler and I recently published an article on Twitter users? perceptions of the use of tweets in research (http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/2056305118763366) > > > One of our findings from the study was that when we asked, "How would you feel if a Tweet of yours was used in a research study and your Tweet was quoted in a published research paper, attributed to your Twitter handle?" only about ~24% of respondents indicated that they would be comfortable with this. > > > There's obviously a lot of situations in which including Twitter handles is appropriate (quoting public figures seems like a pretty clear cut case), but I do think it might be worth taking user expectations into consideration in that contextual decision, particularly if you are working with populations subject to harassment/bullying. > > > Cheers, > > Nick > > ________________________________ > From: Air-L <air-l-bounces(a)listserv.aoir.org> on behalf of Judith Rosenbaum-Andre <judith.rosenbaumandre(a)maine.edu> > Sent: Friday, July 13, 2018 6:45:06 AM > To: daniel.thomas--airl(a)cl.cam.ac.uk > Cc: air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org > Subject: Re: [Air-L] Including screennames with tweets > > I just recently published a book on Twitter, race, and gender, and my > publisher was very insistent I did use people's Twitter handles. For > clarification, I used all publicly available tweets. I went back and forth > on it myself a few times (and still every once in a while wake up in the > middle of the night thinking, "did I do the right thing?!"), but ended up > agreeing with them. Their argument, per Twitter's ToS, was that people's > tweets should be treated as you would an in-text citation (e.g., "Hayes > said"), as they are their thoughts and ideas, expressed in a public forum, > and thus they have earned the right to be credited for them (almost on a > par with copyright). Because I used public tweets anyone could and can > still find the tweets even if I hadn't listed the screen name, which > renders the argument that we need to protect their identity somewhat moot. > In my book, I discuss some pretty awful statements though, and I did make > sure to not choose tweets as examples that could really get people into > trouble with their employer, for instance, and would instead use more > innocuous tweets to illustrate my point. This kind of research, because I > use public tweets, falls outside of our IRB's scope, as they consider it > public information on a par with analyzing media content and thus > non-human-subjects research. > I don't know if this helps at all - I think it's a tough issue to deal > with, and both decisions, like you said, have their pros and cons. > > On Fri, Jul 13, 2018 at 4:27 AM Daniel Thomas < > daniel.thomas--airl(a)cl.cam.ac.uk> wrote: > > > Dear Becky, > > > > My understanding, though I haven't been involved in Twitter research > > myself, is that academics in the US have mostly decided it is fine to > > include screennames and that academics in the UK have mostly decided it > > is not OK to include screennames. I think that Twitter ToS require the > > sceennames to be included and allow publication as long as the full > > tweet is published (including sceenname). However, publishing without > > the sceenname is not permitted (this is second hand information so I may > > be wrong). The other issue is that even if sceennames are not included > > then it is easy to find the author from the content of the tweet and so > > the authors are still trivially deanonymised. Minor tweaks to > > punctuation/wording are apparently also insufficient as Twitter's search > > function will still normally find the original tweet. > > Depending on the research method you are using it may be possible to > > write your own synthesised example tweets that are representative of the > > kind of things people say. However, I know that for some methods/fields > > that is not possible. > > > > I think it is a question where you will want your Research Ethics > > Board/IRB to sign off on your answer. > > > > Helena Webb <helena.webb(a)cs.ox.ac.uk> from the University of Oxford > > might be a good person to talk to about this because she uses a similar > > Twitter example in her research ethics case studies at the workshops she > > runs. She did research that she was not able to publish because she ran > > into this problem and was not able to find a solution that protected the > > tweeters and was publishable. > > > > Daniel > > > > On 13/07/18 07:23, Hayes, Rebecca M wrote: > > > Dear All, > > > Can you please weigh in on the decision to include or not include > > screennames > > > when we cite tweets in a book? The book is on new media and crime, > > > and we are using tweets in a few places as examples of some different > > discussions. > > > > > > We are back and forth on whether we should include the screennames and > > at others or disclude them. The arguments we have seen thus far, are to > > include them because it was made public and we are citing someones words. > > The other argument is to disclude them > > > as the person did not consent to have it printed in that way persay, and > > the screenname attached in our book could be used to find and harass the > > person. What are your thoughts? > > > > > > Thank you, > > > Becky > > > _______________________________________________ > > > The Air-L(a)listserv.aoir.org mailing list > > > is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Faoir.org&am… > > > Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: > > https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Flistserv.ao… > > > > > > Join the Association of Internet Researchers: > > > https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.aoir.or… > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > The Air-L(a)listserv.aoir.org mailing list > > is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Faoir.org&am… > > Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: > > https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Flistserv.ao… > > > > Join the Association of Internet Researchers: > > https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.aoir.or… > > > > > -- > Judith E. Rosenbaum, PhD > Assistant Professor > Department of Communication and Journalism > University of Maine > 414 Dunn Hall > Orono, ME 04469 > > https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=www.juditherosenbaum.com… > @JudithRBaum > _______________________________________________ > The Air-L(a)listserv.aoir.org mailing list > is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Faoir.org&am… > Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Flistserv.ao… > > Join the Association of Internet Researchers: > https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.aoir.or… > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2018 11:24:09 -0400 > From: MC Cambre <mcambre(a)ualberta.ca> > To: David Due?as Cid <david.duenas(a)gmail.com> > Cc: air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org > Subject: Re: [Air-L] For those attending ISA World Congress of > Sociology > Message-ID: > <CALyQN4oDCMk4aH1Da=pDf9bhxV8O8+FE-CA8vJn68ZX4-CjXFw(a)mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" > > Dear David and others who will be at the ISA, > > There is certainly, as you observed a great deal of cross-fertilization > between different sociological research areas and the focus on the > internet. The internal process, I believe is that you start out as a > thematic group, and after time you become a working group, and then meeting > certain requirements for numbers (I guess) you apply to become a research > committee. > > The conference will host over 5000 delegates and the abstract book alone is > over 1000 pages, so I tend to stay within Visual Sociology, which often > includes a great deal of internet research. Feel free to reach out and > connect in Toronto. > > Kindly, > carolina cambre > > On Fri, Jul 13, 2018 at 9:13 AM, David Due?as Cid <david.duenas(a)gmail.com> > wrote: > > > Dear AOIRs, > > > > I don't know if this is the place where to debate this issue, if not, just > > tell me and I will find another way of doing so. > > > > Next week will take place the ISA World Congress of Sociology in Toronto, > > where I plan to take part with, I guess, many other members of this list of > > distribution. > > > > As it usually happens in big/generalistic conferences, checking the program > > to find interesting presentations focused on internet and society > > represents a big effort of patience. Commonly, internet scholars are widely > > distributed in different Research Comittees, showing the diversity of our > > researh topics and making difficult the connection between us. An > > interesting congress schedule, as a result, means a complicated set of > > overlapped presentations amongst which one needs to blind-decide what to > > see and what to discard. > > > > There, my debate/question/almost-proposition: *Does anybody feels like > > trying to discuss something for next ISA conferences in order to gather > > "Internet Sociology" scholars/contents? * > > > > I am not aware of the internal processes of ISA, I do not know if it is > > possible to create a new "Reserch Comittee" on this topic, or, even, if it > > would be convenient. Or if, simply, we could think on different way of > > organizing the information regarding this topic on ISA Conferences (having > > some sort of inter-group label to identify the topic). Even that, I think > > that it might be an interesting debate. > > > > If there is some people interested, maybe we could: > > > > *1) Use this mail as a discussion thread* > > *2) Find a moment/place to meet in Toronto next week and talk face-to-face > > about it.* > > > > Best regards, > > > > David Duenas-Cid > > > > _______________________________ > > > > > > > > > > *Dr. David Due?as-Cid *Researcher > > > > > > > > *Tallinn University of Technology* > > > > > > *Ragnar Nurkse Department of Innovation and Governance *Akadeemia tee 3 > > > > EE-12618 Tallinn > > _______________________________________________ > > 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/ > > > > > -- > -- > > > > > > > *Dr. Carolina Cambre PhD Assistant Professor Concordia University, > Montr?alhttps://concordia.academia.edu/mariacarolinacambre > <https://concordia.academia.edu/mariacarolinacambre>https://www.concordia.ca/artsci/education/faculty.html?fpid=carolina-cambre > <https://www.concordia.ca/artsci/education/faculty.html?fpid=carolina-cambre>* > <http://www.bloomsbury.com/us/the-semiotics-of-che-guevara-9781472505293/> > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 3 > Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2018 15:27:12 +0000 > From: "Tarleton L. Gillespie" <tlg28(a)cornell.edu> > To: "Proferes, Nicholas" <nproferes(a)uky.edu>, Judith Rosenbaum-Andre > <judith.rosenbaumandre(a)maine.edu>, "daniel.thomas--airl(a)cl.cam.ac.uk" > <daniel.thomas--airl(a)cl.cam.ac.uk> > Cc: "air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org" <air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org> > Subject: Re: [Air-L] Including screennames with tweets > Message-ID: <65C8A412-3302-4E8C-9711-24F963C34B91(a)cornell.edu> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > > Out of curiosity, I scanned through Twitter's ToS and related policies; I didn't see anything indicating how they want a tweet to be cited. Maybe it did in earlier versions, or I just missed it. But even so, it's not clear how Twitter's ToS has any standing or relevance to what a researcher does, as they're not the person contracting with Twitter in that contract. We could take their advice in to account, but I think Nick and Casey's point is the right one. What's the added value to the research of including the person's Twitter handle in the publication, such that it overcomes the possible discomfort and possible harm it could bring? It's surprising to me how often adding the handle / the name of the speaker / the interviewee really doesn't add to the analysis -- that we may be doing it more because it's what journalists do, or because we want to perform that it?s a legit tweet, or out of habit. Our instinct should not be how much can I publish based on what rights I think people ha > ve given up, but how far can I go to protect people and still make the cogent analysis the discussion requires. > > Tarleton > > > > > > > > ?On 7/13/18, 11:17 AM, "Air-L on behalf of Proferes, Nicholas" <air-l-bounces(a)listserv.aoir.org on behalf of nproferes(a)uky.edu> wrote: > > Hi all, > > > Casey Fiesler and I recently published an article on Twitter users? perceptions of the use of tweets in research (http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/2056305118763366) > > > One of our findings from the study was that when we asked, "How would you feel if a Tweet of yours was used in a research study and your Tweet was quoted in a published research paper, attributed to your Twitter handle?" only about ~24% of respondents indicated that they would be comfortable with this. > > > There's obviously a lot of situations in which including Twitter handles is appropriate (quoting public figures seems like a pretty clear cut case), but I do think it might be worth taking user expectations into consideration in that contextual decision, particularly if you are working with populations subject to harassment/bullying. > > > Cheers, > > Nick > > ________________________________ > From: Air-L <air-l-bounces(a)listserv.aoir.org> on behalf of Judith Rosenbaum-Andre <judith.rosenbaumandre(a)maine.edu> > Sent: Friday, July 13, 2018 6:45:06 AM > To: daniel.thomas--airl(a)cl.cam.ac.uk > Cc: air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org > Subject: Re: [Air-L] Including screennames with tweets > > I just recently published a book on Twitter, race, and gender, and my > publisher was very insistent I did use people's Twitter handles. For > clarification, I used all publicly available tweets. I went back and forth > on it myself a few times (and still every once in a while wake up in the > middle of the night thinking, "did I do the right thing?!"), but ended up > agreeing with them. Their argument, per Twitter's ToS, was that people's > tweets should be treated as you would an in-text citation (e.g., "Hayes > said"), as they are their thoughts and ideas, expressed in a public forum, > and thus they have earned the right to be credited for them (almost on a > par with copyright). Because I used public tweets anyone could and can > still find the tweets even if I hadn't listed the screen name, which > renders the argument that we need to protect their identity somewhat moot. > In my book, I discuss some pretty awful statements though, and I did make > sure to not choose tweets as examples that could really get people into > trouble with their employer, for instance, and would instead use more > innocuous tweets to illustrate my point. This kind of research, because I > use public tweets, falls outside of our IRB's scope, as they consider it > public information on a par with analyzing media content and thus > non-human-subjects research. > I don't know if this helps at all - I think it's a tough issue to deal > with, and both decisions, like you said, have their pros and cons. > > On Fri, Jul 13, 2018 at 4:27 AM Daniel Thomas < > daniel.thomas--airl(a)cl.cam.ac.uk> wrote: > > > Dear Becky, > > > > My understanding, though I haven't been involved in Twitter research > > myself, is that academics in the US have mostly decided it is fine to > > include screennames and that academics in the UK have mostly decided it > > is not OK to include screennames. I think that Twitter ToS require the > > sceennames to be included and allow publication as long as the full > > tweet is published (including sceenname). However, publishing without > > the sceenname is not permitted (this is second hand information so I may > > be wrong). The other issue is that even if sceennames are not included > > then it is easy to find the author from the content of the tweet and so > > the authors are still trivially deanonymised. Minor tweaks to > > punctuation/wording are apparently also insufficient as Twitter's search > > function will still normally find the original tweet. > > Depending on the research method you are using it may be possible to > > write your own synthesised example tweets that are representative of the > > kind of things people say. However, I know that for some methods/fields > > that is not possible. > > > > I think it is a question where you will want your Research Ethics > > Board/IRB to sign off on your answer. > > > > Helena Webb <helena.webb(a)cs.ox.ac.uk> from the University of Oxford > > might be a good person to talk to about this because she uses a similar > > Twitter example in her research ethics case studies at the workshops she > > runs. She did research that she was not able to publish because she ran > > into this problem and was not able to find a solution that protected the > > tweeters and was publishable. > > > > Daniel > > > > On 13/07/18 07:23, Hayes, Rebecca M wrote: > > > Dear All, > > > Can you please weigh in on the decision to include or not include > > screennames > > > when we cite tweets in a book? The book is on new media and crime, > > > and we are using tweets in a few places as examples of some different > > discussions. > > > > > > We are back and forth on whether we should include the screennames and > > at others or disclude them. The arguments we have seen thus far, are to > > include them because it was made public and we are citing someones words. > > The other argument is to disclude them > > > as the person did not consent to have it printed in that way persay, and > > the screenname attached in our book could be used to find and harass the > > person. What are your thoughts? > > > > > > Thank you, > > > Becky > > > _______________________________________________ > > > The Air-L(a)listserv.aoir.org mailing list > > > is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Faoir.org&am… > > > Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: > > https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Flistserv.ao… > > > > > > Join the Association of Internet Researchers: > > > https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.aoir.or… > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > The Air-L(a)listserv.aoir.org mailing list > > is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Faoir.org&am… > > Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: > > https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Flistserv.ao… > > > > Join the Association of Internet Researchers: > > https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.aoir.or… > > > > > -- > Judith E. Rosenbaum, PhD > Assistant Professor > Department of Communication and Journalism > University of Maine > 414 Dunn Hall > Orono, ME 04469 > > https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=www.juditherosenbaum.com… > @JudithRBaum > _______________________________________________ > The Air-L(a)listserv.aoir.org mailing list > is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Faoir.org&am… > Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Flistserv.ao… > > Join the Association of Internet Researchers: > https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.aoir.or… > _______________________________________________ > 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/ > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 4 > Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2018 10:41:45 -0500 > From: Theo Plothe <tp6316a(a)student.american.edu> > To: air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org > Subject: Re: [Air-L] Including screennames with tweets > Message-ID: > <CAOzAoFF31=XZ_s7zEMgAPNYuhAnikmwkAHrLqFVEMv=XA8-XsQ(a)mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" > > Twitter is a public forum in the public sphere. There is no expectation of > anonymity on speech in that regard. Having published a few pieces on > Twitter including a book chapter just a few weeks ago, I have never failed > to publish the screennames on the se accounts. The only reason not to > include tweets is if the tweets are from a protected account, which is of > course is not part of the public timeline. > > Best, > Theo > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 5 > Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2018 16:07:54 +0000 > From: Casey Lynn Fiesler <Casey.Fiesler(a)Colorado.EDU> > To: "Tarleton L. Gillespie" <tlg28(a)cornell.edu> > Cc: "Proferes, Nicholas" <nproferes(a)uky.edu>, Judith Rosenbaum-Andre > <judith.rosenbaumandre(a)maine.edu>, "daniel.thomas--airl(a)cl.cam.ac.uk" > <daniel.thomas--airl(a)cl.cam.ac.uk>, "air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org" > <air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org> > Subject: Re: [Air-L] Including screennames with tweets > Message-ID: <628BDFC1-7A7E-4051-BAB7-0176F161C595(a)colorado.edu> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > > Nick already mentioned out recent research about this, but I?ll just chime in and add a few thoughts: > > It hasn?t come up at all what the subject matter of the papers/books are. I think that this is really relevant to an ethical analysis of this situation, because it goes to potential harm. There?s a big difference between ?here is a tweet from someone talking about what they had for breakfast? and ?here is a tweet from someone showing signs of a mental illness? or ?here is a tweet from a political dissident who might be in physical danger?. Whether or not online content is PUBLIC is an important contextual factor (because of course if it?s not public, that?s a problem), but in my opinion should not be the only thing relevant for this decision. > > Though it?s also worth pointing out that if the tweet is something that could actually lead to harm, the issue isn?t publishing the handle or not - because public tweets can be easily searched. In that case, it might be better not to quote a tweet verbatim, or to use composites. > > As Tarleton says, the issue is whether a certain use is required to describe the work, which goes to a cost/benefit analysis. If it?s a tweet about breakfast that should be a different analysis than a tweet about a health condition. For the latter, you might want a more compelling reason for why the tweet needs to be there. > > The account name issue is even more tricky because depending on the context, it is possible there could be harm by not giving someone CREDIT for their content. But unless that kind of thing is likely - given what Nick and I found, unless there?s a reason that a handle has explanatory value it seems to just add another layer of potential discomfort for the unknowing research participants. > > That said, there are different norms in different communities about this kind of thing. What I?d like most to see is ethical analyses beyond ?is it public or not? and for those analyses to be surfaced in the writing. So regardless of decisions, explaining them as part of methods would be great! > > Casey > > > On Jul 13, 2018, at 9:27 AM, Tarleton L. Gillespie <tlg28(a)cornell.edu> wrote: > > > > Out of curiosity, I scanned through Twitter's ToS and related policies; I didn't see anything indicating how they want a tweet to be cited. Maybe it did in earlier versions, or I just missed it. But even so, it's not clear how Twitter's ToS has any standing or relevance to what a researcher does, as they're not the person contracting with Twitter in that contract. We could take their advice in to account, but I think Nick and Casey's point is the right one. What's the added value to the research of including the person's Twitter handle in the publication, such that it overcomes the possible discomfort and possible harm it could bring? It's surprising to me how often adding the handle / the name of the speaker / the interviewee really doesn't add to the analysis -- that we may be doing it more because it's what journalists do, or because we want to perform that it?s a legit tweet, or out of habit. Our instinct should not be how much can I publish based on what rights I think people > have given up, but how far can I go to protect people and still make the cogent analysis the discussion requires. > > > > Tarleton > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ?On 7/13/18, 11:17 AM, "Air-L on behalf of Proferes, Nicholas" <air-l-bounces(a)listserv.aoir.org on behalf of nproferes(a)uky.edu> wrote: > > > > Hi all, > > > > > > Casey Fiesler and I recently published an article on Twitter users? perceptions of the use of tweets in research (http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/2056305118763366) > > > > > > One of our findings from the study was that when we asked, "How would you feel if a Tweet of yours was used in a research study and your Tweet was quoted in a published research paper, attributed to your Twitter handle?" only about ~24% of respondents indicated that they would be comfortable with this. > > > > > > There's obviously a lot of situations in which including Twitter handles is appropriate (quoting public figures seems like a pretty clear cut case), but I do think it might be worth taking user expectations into consideration in that contextual decision, particularly if you are working with populations subject to harassment/bullying. > > > > > > Cheers, > > > > Nick > > > > ________________________________ > > From: Air-L <air-l-bounces(a)listserv.aoir.org> on behalf of Judith Rosenbaum-Andre <judith.rosenbaumandre(a)maine.edu> > > Sent: Friday, July 13, 2018 6:45:06 AM > > To: daniel.thomas--airl(a)cl.cam.ac.uk > > Cc: air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org > > Subject: Re: [Air-L] Including screennames with tweets > > > > I just recently published a book on Twitter, race, and gender, and my > > publisher was very insistent I did use people's Twitter handles. For > > clarification, I used all publicly available tweets. I went back and forth > > on it myself a few times (and still every once in a while wake up in the > > middle of the night thinking, "did I do the right thing?!"), but ended up > > agreeing with them. Their argument, per Twitter's ToS, was that people's > > tweets should be treated as you would an in-text citation (e.g., "Hayes > > said"), as they are their thoughts and ideas, expressed in a public forum, > > and thus they have earned the right to be credited for them (almost on a > > par with copyright). Because I used public tweets anyone could and can > > still find the tweets even if I hadn't listed the screen name, which > > renders the argument that we need to protect their identity somewhat moot. > > In my book, I discuss some pretty awful statements though, and I did make > > sure to not choose tweets as examples that could really get people into > > trouble with their employer, for instance, and would instead use more > > innocuous tweets to illustrate my point. This kind of research, because I > > use public tweets, falls outside of our IRB's scope, as they consider it > > public information on a par with analyzing media content and thus > > non-human-subjects research. > > I don't know if this helps at all - I think it's a tough issue to deal > > with, and both decisions, like you said, have their pros and cons. > > > > On Fri, Jul 13, 2018 at 4:27 AM Daniel Thomas < > > daniel.thomas--airl(a)cl.cam.ac.uk> wrote: > > > >> Dear Becky, > >> > >> My understanding, though I haven't been involved in Twitter research > >> myself, is that academics in the US have mostly decided it is fine to > >> include screennames and that academics in the UK have mostly decided it > >> is not OK to include screennames. I think that Twitter ToS require the > >> sceennames to be included and allow publication as long as the full > >> tweet is published (including sceenname). However, publishing without > >> the sceenname is not permitted (this is second hand information so I may > >> be wrong). The other issue is that even if sceennames are not included > >> then it is easy to find the author from the content of the tweet and so > >> the authors are still trivially deanonymised. Minor tweaks to > >> punctuation/wording are apparently also insufficient as Twitter's search > >> function will still normally find the original tweet. > >> Depending on the research method you are using it may be possible to > >> write your own synthesised example tweets that are representative of the > >> kind of things people say. However, I know that for some methods/fields > >> that is not possible. > >> > >> I think it is a question where you will want your Research Ethics > >> Board/IRB to sign off on your answer. > >> > >> Helena Webb <helena.webb(a)cs.ox.ac.uk> from the University of Oxford > >> might be a good person to talk to about this because she uses a similar > >> Twitter example in her research ethics case studies at the workshops she > >> runs. She did research that she was not able to publish because she ran > >> into this problem and was not able to find a solution that protected the > >> tweeters and was publishable. > >> > >> Daniel > >> > >> On 13/07/18 07:23, Hayes, Rebecca M wrote: > >>> Dear All, > >>> Can you please weigh in on the decision to include or not include > >> screennames > >>> when we cite tweets in a book? The book is on new media and crime, > >>> and we are using tweets in a few places as examples of some different > >> discussions. > >>> > >>> We are back and forth on whether we should include the screennames and > >> at others or disclude them. The arguments we have seen thus far, are to > >> include them because it was made public and we are citing someones words. > >> The other argument is to disclude them > >>> as the person did not consent to have it printed in that way persay, and > >> the screenname attached in our book could be used to find and harass the > >> person. What are your thoughts? > >>> > >>> Thank you, > >>> Becky > >>> _______________________________________________ > >>> The Air-L(a)listserv.aoir.org mailing list > >>> is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Faoir.org&am… > >>> Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: > >> https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Flistserv.ao… > >>> > >>> Join the Association of Internet Researchers: > >>> https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.aoir.or… > >>> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> The Air-L(a)listserv.aoir.org mailing list > >> is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Faoir.org&am… > >> Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: > >> https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Flistserv.ao… > >> > >> Join the Association of Internet Researchers: > >> https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.aoir.or… > >> > > > > > > -- > > Judith E. 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Re: [Air-L] Including screennames with tweets
by Theo Plothe 13 Jul '18

13 Jul '18

Twitter is a public forum in the public sphere. There is no expectation of anonymity on speech in that regard. Having published a few pieces on Twitter including a book chapter just a few weeks ago, I have never failed to publish the screennames on the se accounts. The only reason not to include tweets is if the tweets are from a protected account, which is of course is not part of the public timeline. Best, Theo

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Let's talk about robots, AI, socialbots, and algorithms at AoIR 2018
by Andrea Guzman 13 Jul '18

13 Jul '18

Hello everyone, For your consideration. Please also circulate through you networks. At this year's AoIR conference, there will be a half-day preconference regarding people's interactions with social technologies and the personal, social, and cultural implications thereof: "The Medium as Message and Messenger: Human-Machine Communication in the Next-Generation Internet." The workshop will begin with lightening talks from workshop organizers discussing key questions in their area of expertise. Workshop participants will then break into small groups to discuss research in shared areas of interest. Finally, the entire group will come together to discuss how to best move research in this area forward as social technologies continue to develop. This is a great networking opportunity and will serve as an excellent orientation for researchers interested in moving into this area, including graduate students. There is no call for papers. Interested participants can register for the workshop as part of their conference registration, but SPACE IS LIMITED, so early registration is encouraged. This workshop is being sponsored by Aarhus University, European Commission H2020, Next Generation Internet, University of Illinois at Chicago, the Communication and Social Robotics Lab/Western Michigan University, Northern Illinois University. More information: https://aoir.org/aoir2018/preconfwrkshop/#MM <https://aoir.org/aoir2018/preconfwrkshop/#MM>Also, there is a Human-Machine Communication email list that anyone is welcome to join. It is very low-traffic, and used mainly for CFPs. https://listserv.temple.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A0=HMC-SCHOLARS <https://listserv.temple.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A0=HMC-SCHOLARS>Best wishes, Andrea ______ Andrea L. Guzman, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Dept. of Communication Northern Illinois University alguzman(a)niu.edu Read an advance copy of "What is Human-Machine Communication, Anyway?" https://bit.ly/2LKcpVf, the introduction to Human-Machine Communication: Rethinking Communication, Technology, & Ourselves forthcoming from Peter Lang.

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WORKSHOPS AT INSCI'2018 - consider submitting!
by Бодрунова Светлана С ергеевна 13 Jul '18

13 Jul '18

Dear colleagues, Please consider submitting to workshops organized in conjunction with INSCI’2018 in St.Petersburg, Russia, on October 26, 2018. A volume of joint post-proceedings for the workshops will be published by Springer International Publishing. The book series for our proceedings is Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS). For submission instructions, see insci2018.org/workshops The early-bird participation fee without publication is 40 euro (regular – 60 euro), with publication – 100 euro (regular – 120 euro). This includes participation in the INSCI two-day conference and the workshop session. (1) Detecting Social Problems in Online Content: An Interdisciplinary Workshop Organizers: Olessia Koltsova, National Research University - Higher School of Economics, Svetlana Bodrunova, St.Petersburg State University The workshop is dedicated to discussing the newest approaches to detecting a broad range of social issues in online content, from inequalities expressed in texts (hate speech, prejudice, divisive / uncivil messages, political bias and racism etc.), to social polarization based on user views and sentiment, to detection of harmful behavior (dark personality traits, behavioral disorders, decease denialism, stigmatization of social groups etc.). With proliferation of social media, such content is increasingly impactful, while its detection at scale presents a huge methodological challenge. The workshop participants will share their research experience by reflecting both on advantages and limitations of new automated and mixed research methods of text analysis they have used for processing user-generated content. Submission instructions: Please submit your position papers (2 to 4 pages, to be published on the workshop webpage) and papers based on empirical studies (6 to 12 pages, to be published in the post-proceedings) by September 25, 2018. Camera-ready papers due: November 10, 2018. (2) CONVERSATIONS 2018: An International Workshop on Chatbot Research and Design Organizers: Asbjørn Følstad (SINTEF, Norway) Symeon Papadopoulos (Centre for Research and Technology Hellas, Greece) Ole-Christoffer Granmo (University of Agder, Norway) Effie L.-C. Law (University of Leicester, UK) Ewa Luger (University of Edinburgh, UK) Petter Bae Brandtzæg (SINTEF, Norway) WORKSHOP MOTIVATION: Chatbots enable users to interact with digital services in natural language, through text or voice dialogue. To realize the potential of chatbots in areas such as customer support, health and fitness, education, information services, research is needed in a number of interconnected fields. This workshop contributes to this endeavour by providing a cross-disciplinary arena of knowledge exchanges for researchers interested in chatbots and conversational user interfaces. KEY CHALLENGES The participants of the previous edition of this workshop, CONVERSATIONS 2017, identified four clusters of research challenges: (1) democratizing chatbots, (2) chatbot user experience, (3) context aware chatbots, and (4) natural language capabilities. We encourage contributions for this year's edition of the workshop to address the research challenges of one or more of these clusters. WORKSHOP WEBPAGE: https://conversations2018.wordpress.com/ Submission instructions: Please submit your position papers (3 to 6 pages, Springer LNCS format, to be published on the workshop webpage) or full papers presenting empirical studies or theoretical advances (6 to 12 pages, Springer LNCS format, to be published in the post-proceedings) by September 1, 2018. (3) The Future of Decentralized Governance: A Workshop on Encryption, Blockchains, and Personal Data Organizer: Harry Halpin, INRIA (France) Currently, there is a generalized crisis in governance as traditional governance encounters the Internet. On the Internet, there has been revelations of US mass surveillance and massive abuse of personal data. The traditional governance bodies of the Internet from the ITU to W3C seem hard-pressed by Silicon Valley companies, which has lead to widespread disillusionment. At the same time, the European Union's General Data Protection Directive is attempting to enforce European rights, but purely through legal rather than technical means. Yet there have been new technologies based on encryption, such as blockchain technologies, that claim to be able to revolutionize governance. But, at the same time, there are numerous perils, such as the rise of opaque AI decision-making systems and consolidation of power in the hands of a few technologists, rather than a rapid democratization of technology. Given these technical and political developments, new and improved models that take into account citizen involvement and improve meaningful participation need to be developed, along with fundamental Internet rights that can both be adopted by national governments, supra-national bodies, corporations, and cities. These principles will likely have to do with the guarantee of privacy, data protection, and other fundamental rights that are especially impacted by the Internet. This workshop will discuss the issues of decentralization, self-sovereignty, and net rights. In particular, this session will explore the understanding of the current national and international governance processes (both strengths and weaknesses, with a particular focus on the case of Russia) and new decentralized participatory practices based on crowdsourcing and citizen involvement. Confirmed participants: - Ksenia Ermoshina (CNRS): Sociology of the Russian Internet - Moxie Marlinspike (Signal): Inventor of end-to-end encryption app Signal - Ben Laurie (DeepMind): AI and security expert - Yuk Hui (Leuphana University): Philosophy of technology - Primavera Di Fillippi (CNRS): Blockchain and the Law The workshop welcomes submissions of short abstracts (up to 300 words). Several invited talk, an invited panel, and an open discussion are planned for this workshop. INSCI program committee also encourages submissions of short papers (5 to 8 pages) and full papers (9 to 12 pages) dedicated to the workshop themes by September 25, 2018. Camera-ready papers will be due November 10, 2018. (4) Internet as an issue: an international workshop on government and media narratives Organizers: Polina Kolozaridi, Leonid Yuldashev, Center for Insternet and Society, Moscow, Russia There are plenty of stereotypes about Internet in Russia. The state is usually observed as an enemy of Internet development; society and media are often determined in an occasional way. We try to explore the variety of approaches, systematise and clarify how Internet becomes an issue for regulation and discussion, what we know about it and who is constructing it. Basing on several approaches, we will try to analyse both structures and content of policies and other discourses connected with those. Using social imaginaries studies (Flichy 2004; Mansell 2013) we are analysing how policies, media and knowledge about the internet changed depending on actors and time. We also consider the structure of policy-makers and stakeholders. We stay on mild social constructivist positions encompassing knowledge and discourses as well as trying to understand the infrastructure. The panel will consist of case studies and more broad approaches, so we encourage participation of all scholars who deal with each of them. The workshop welcomes submissions of short abstracts (up to 300 words). Several invited talk, an invited panel, and an open discussion are planned for this workshop. INSCI program committee also encourages submissions of short papers (5 to 8 pages) and full papers (9 to 12 pages) dedicated to the workshop themes by September 25, 2018. Camera-ready papers will be due November 10, 2018. -- Svetlana S. Bodrunova, Prof., D.Polit.Sci. Head, Center for International Media Research School of Journalism and Mass Communications, St.Petersburg State University +7 921 933 02 14 spasibo-tebe(a)yandex.ru

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Re: [Air-L] Including screennames with tweets (Hayes, Rebecca M) Air-L Digest, Vol 168, Issue 13
by Andrea Guzman 13 Jul '18

13 Jul '18

Hi Becky and all, In my forthcoming edited volume, I had two authors use tweets from individuals within their papers. One author, from the U.S., initially had the Twitter handles included and was using the tweets as examples of reaction to a technology, while the other author, from the EU, had the Twitter handles excluded and had slightly changed some aspects of the tweets for privacy in their analysis of the tweets as part of their research. And so, I had two authors using the tweets for different purposes from different countries. I ended up deciding that Twitter handles should be excluded for the following reasons: 1. Consistency 2. Information relevance: The handles were not necessary information to understand the tweet in the context it was being used. 3. The content: These were reactions to technology, not tweets in which someone was announcing a cure for cancer for which they would want credit. They also are, by now, a few years old, so some people may not even remember their tweet. In other words, there seemed little harm to people's "authorship." 4. Privacy: Yes, I know that people can find original authors from tweets with handles removed, but, as a general rule, I default to providing people with a level of privacy. Good luck! ______ Andrea L. Guzman, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Dept. of Communication Northern Illinois University alguzman(a)niu.edu Read an advance copy of "What is Human-Machine Communication, Anyway?" https://bit.ly/2LKcpVf, the introduction to Human-Machine Communication: Rethinking Communication, Technology, & Ourselves forthcoming from Peter Lang. ________________________________ From: Air-L <air-l-bounces(a)listserv.aoir.org> on behalf of air-l-request(a)listserv.aoir.org <air-l-request(a)listserv.aoir.org> Sent: Friday, July 13, 2018 7:28 AM To: air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org Subject: Air-L Digest, Vol 168, Issue 13 Send Air-L mailing list submissions to air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to air-l-request(a)listserv.aoir.org You can reach the person managing the list at air-l-owner(a)listserv.aoir.org When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of Air-L digest..." Today's Topics: 1. Health RecSys workshop co-located with ACM RecSys 2018: Extended Deadline (July 30th, 2018) (Christoph Trattner) 2. Last call for PhD scholarships on Data Justice and Living with Pervasive Media Technologies (Heather Ford) 3. Including screennames with tweets (Hayes, Rebecca M) 4. Emotional AI: The Rise of Empathic Media (new book and free content) (Andrew McStay) 5. Re: Including screennames with tweets (Hammelburg, Esther) 6. Re: Including screennames with tweets (Daniel Thomas) 7. FGCT 2018 (ijwa(a)dline.info) 8. Re: Including screennames with tweets (Judith Rosenbaum-Andre) 9. Methodologies for critical analysis of UX (Roberto de Roock) 10. CfP GIG-ARTS 2019: "Europe as a Global Player in Internet Governance" 16-17 May 2019, Salerno (Mauro SANTANIELLO) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2018 23:40:17 +0200 From: Christoph Trattner <trattner.christoph(a)gmail.com> To: socnet(a)lists.ufl.edu, CHI-ANNOUNCEMENTS(a)listserv.acm.org, SIGWEB-MEMBERS(a)listserv.acm.org, cscw-all(a)jiscmail.ac.uk, ah(a)listserver.tue.nl, um(a)di.unito.it, Air-L(a)listserv.aoir.org, sigir(a)acm.org Subject: [Air-L] Health RecSys workshop co-located with ACM RecSys 2018: Extended Deadline (July 30th, 2018) Message-ID: <CAOkihE+JE05btRA2tk5iMe69qhoGXv7oTA1q8MnPrUkC2RXcKw(a)mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" ** Please forward to anyone who might be interested ** *Apologies for multiple postings* -------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS International Workshop on Health Recommender Systems, *Deadline (EXTENDED) July 30th, 2018* to be held in Vancouver (Canada) co-located with ACM RECSYS 2018 (https://recsys.acm.org/) Website: https://healthrecsys.github.io/2018 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Important Dates: ================ ** July 30th, 2018, Paper submission deadline (EXTENDED) ** August 13th, 2018, Author notification ** August 27th, 2018, Camera-ready version deadline ** October 6th, 2018, HRS Workshop ** 2nd-7th October 2018 RecSys conference Workshop Organizers: ==================== David Elsweiler (University of Regensburg, Germany) Bernd Ludwig (University of Regensburg, Germany) Alan Said (University of Skoevde, Sweden) Hanna Schaefer (TU Muenchen, Germany) Christoph Trattner (University of Bergen, Norway) Helma Torkamaan (University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany) Objectives & Topics: ==================== Information systems are becoming more and more intertwined with systems and approaches developed with the purpose of keeping us healthy and increasing our general wellbeing. In the two previous workshops on Health Recommender Systems (HRS), we elaborated a great variety of fields in which recommender systems can improve our awareness, understanding and behavior regarding our own, and the general public's health. At the same time, these application areas bring new challenges into the recommender community. Recommendations that influence the health status of a patient need to be liable, today, they often involve a human in the loop to make sure the recommendations are sound. To make the recommender liable, complex domain-specific user models need to be created, which creates privacy issues. While trust in a recommendation needs to be explicitly earned by e.g. transparency, explanations and empowerment, other systems might want to persuade users into beneficial actions that would not be willingly chosen otherwise. The variety of those challenges also results from the number and diversity of stakeholders involved in health systems. Taking the patient's perspective, simple interaction and safety against harmful recommendations might be the prioritized concern. For clinicians and experts, on the other hand, what matters is precise and accurate content. Finally, health care providers, insurance providers, and clinics are interested in other aspects, e.g. success rates, study results, and financial benefits of the new systems. This workshop goes deeper into the discussions started at the two prior workshops and works towards the further development of the research topics in Health Recommender Systems. Our aim is to enhance the results of the last two workshops in the following areas: ** Elaborate discussion topics of the previous workshops on health promotion, health care as well as methods ** Strengthen the community of researchers working on Health in RecSys ** Attract representatives from e.g. health, psychology, medicine, nutrition, fitness ** Find cross-domain collaboration projects and funding targets ** Exchange and share infrastructure (datasets and tools) We invite submissions that may include the following topics but are not limited to: ** Algorithms and Recommendation Strategies ** Domain Knowledge Representation ** Regulations and Standards ** Medical Evaluation Techniques ** User Profiling ** Pervasive Systems ** Personalization ** Behavioral Interventions ** Persuasion/Nudging/Behavioral Change ** Gamification and Serious Games ** Adherence ** Empowerment ** Trust ** Explanations ** Patient Needs/ Satisfaction ** User Interaction Design ** Human/ Expert-in-the-Loop ** Privacy The goal of this workshop is to share and discuss research and projects that reach beyond classic recommender techniques and discuss health domain related challenges of recommender systems. Submissions: ============ We solicit research papers (up to 6 pages) and short position papers (2 pages), both in the ACM conference paper style. Participants can decide between a research focused submission, resulting in a workshop presentation, and a project focused submission, resulting in a workshop poster. A selection of best papers will be presented in a flash talk. Further papers will be presented in the form of a poster. Papers should be submitted in EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=healthrecsys18 ** Submission category research: innovative research ideas, preliminary results or system prototypes ** Submission category project: funded research projects, industry and research collaborations or health-care and research collaborations Submission guidelines: ====================== All submitted papers must: ** Be written in English; ** Contain author names, affiliations, and email addresses; ** Be formatted according to the ACM SIG Proceedings Template with a font size no smaller than 9pt; ** Be in PDF (make sure that the PDF can be viewed on any platform), and formatted for US Letter size; Link or demo in attachment are preferred in both cases. All papers will be peer-reviewed, must not be under review in any other conference, workshop or journal (at the time of submission), and must contain novel contributions. Accepted papers will be published according to the ACM RECSYS 2018 WS publication rules. Please use the workshop's EasyChair submission page for submitting your Paper. A Few Remarks ============= ** The title of the paper, authors, and the author order cannot be changed after the acceptance ** Major changes to the text of the reviewed and accepted papers are not permitted after the review ** At least one of the authors should participate in the workshop, register in the RecSys conference, and personally present the paper in the workshop. Location: ========= RecSys 2018 will be hosted in Vancouver, Canada, at Parq Vancouver from October 2-7, 2018. Please visit the RecSys 2018 website for more information about this location: https://recsys.acm.org/recsys18/location/ Contact: ======== If you have questions regarding the workshop, do not hesitate to contact the workshop chairs: healthrecsys(a)gmail.com -- ------------------------------------------------------- Dipl.-Ing. Dr.techn. Christoph Trattner BSc Associate Professor University of Bergen Department of Information Science and Media Studies Fosswinckelsgt. 6, 5007 Bergen, Norway E-mail: christoph.trattner(a)uib.no Tel: +43 650 2402801 Homepage: http://christophtrattner.info ------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2018 02:57:50 +0000 From: Heather Ford <heather.ford(a)unsw.edu.au> To: aoir list <air-l(a)aoir.org> Subject: [Air-L] Last call for PhD scholarships on Data Justice and Living with Pervasive Media Technologies Message-ID: <6309C03C-110D-4205-99B0-EA4E7351A3D9(a)unsw.edu.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Last week to apply for four very generous and well-supported PhD scholarships at the University of New South Wales (Sydney) on the themes of ?Living with Pervasive Media Technologies from Drones to Smart Homes? and ?Data Justice: Technology, policy and community impact?. Please contact me directly if you have any questions. Expressions of Interest are due before 20 July, 2017 from the following link: https://www.2025.unsw.edu.au/apply. I would be really grateful if you could share with potential students. Many thanks! Best, Heather. ---------------------- Dr Heather Ford Senior Lecturer School of the Arts and Media University of New South Wales (UNSW) hblog.org<http://www.hblog.org> | @hfordsa<https://twitter.com/hfordsa> University of New South Wales (Sydney, Australia) Scientia PhD scholarships for 2019 Living with Pervasive Media Technologies from Drones to Smart Homes https://www.2025.unsw.edu.au/apply/scientia-phd-scholarships/living-pervasi… Digital assistants, smart devices, drones and other autonomous and artificial intelligence technologies are rapidly changing work, culture, cities and even the intimate spaces of the home. They are 21st century media forms: recording, representing and acting, often in real-time. This project investigates the impact of living with autonomous and intelligent media technologies. It explores the changing situation of media and communication studies in this expanded field. How do these media technologies refigure relations between people and the world? What policy challenges do they present? How do they include and exclude marginalized peoples? How are they transforming media and communications themselves? (Supervisory team: Michael Richardson, Andrew Murphie, Heather Ford) Data Justice: Technology, policy and community impact https://www.2025.unsw.edu.au/apply/scientia-phd-scholarships/data-justice-t… With growing concerns that data mining, ubiquitous surveillance and automated decision making can unfairly disadvantage already marginalised groups, this research aims to identify policy areas where injustices are caused by data- or algorithm-driven decisions, examine the assumptions underlying these technologies, document the lived experiences of those who are affected, and explore innovative ways to prevent such injustices. Innovative qualitative and digital methods will be used to identify connections across community, policy and technology perspectives on ?big data?. The project is expected to deepen social engagement with disadvantaged communities, and strengthen global impact in promoting social justice in a datafied world. (Supervisory team: Tanja Dreher, Heather Ford, Janet Chan) ------------------------------ Message: 3 Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2018 06:23:14 +0000 From: "Hayes, Rebecca M" <hayes2r(a)cmich.edu> To: "air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org" <air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org> Subject: [Air-L] Including screennames with tweets Message-ID: <SN6PR05MB4462E2224990BA14AC9B90EDEA580(a)SN6PR05MB4462.namprd05.prod.outlook.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Dear All, Can you please weigh in on the decision to include or not include screennames when we cite tweets in a book? The book is on new media and crime, and we are using tweets in a few places as examples of some different discussions. We are back and forth on whether we should include the screennames and at others or disclude them. The arguments we have seen thus far, are to include them because it was made public and we are citing someones words. The other argument is to disclude them as the person did not consent to have it printed in that way persay, and the screenname attached in our book could be used to find and harass the person. What are your thoughts? Thank you, Becky ------------------------------ Message: 4 Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2018 08:01:11 +0000 From: Andrew McStay <mcstay(a)bangor.ac.uk> To: "air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org" <air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org> Subject: [Air-L] Emotional AI: The Rise of Empathic Media (new book and free content) Message-ID: <AM6PR03MB38297C0B649FED662C1BBE50E0580(a)AM6PR03MB3829.eurprd03.prod.outlook.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Colleagues, I?d like to introduce my new book Emotional AI: The Rise of Empathic Media, now out in paper and hardback with Sage. Inspection copies here<https://uk.sagepub.com/en-gb/eur/emotional-ai/book251642#preview> and sample chapter here<https://uk.sagepub.com/sites/default/files/upm-binaries/93789_Sample_chapte…>. Nice things people said: Empathic media and technologies will shape future societies. This is a great book to jump-start your knowledge so you can have an educated opinion on how that future will look. Gawain Morrison Sensum ________________________________ This thought-provoking, lucid, empirically rich book shows how technologies become sensitive to human emotions ? and why we should care. Compulsory reading for students, researchers, technology developers and policy makers with feelings. Bert-Jaap Koops Tilburg University ________________________________ The entangling of digital media with human affect is one of the most transformative technological developments of our age. This book confirms Andrew McStay as one of the most insightful and empirically engaged scholars exploring this phenomenon. Will Davies Goldsmiths, University of London TABLE OF CONTENTS Chapter 1 Introducing Empathic Media Chapter 2 Situating Empathy Chapter 3 Group Sentimentality Chapter 4 Spectrum of Emotions: Gaming the Body Chapter 5 Leaky Emotions: The Case of Facial Coding Chapter 6 Priming Voice-Based AI: I Hear You Chapter 7 Affective Witnessing: VR 2.0 Chapter 8 Advertising, Retail and Creativity: Capturing theFl?neur Chapter 9 Personal Technologies That Feel: Towards a Novel Form of Intimacy Chapter 10 Empathic Cities Chapter 11 Politics of Feeling Machines: Debating De-Identification and Dignity Chapter 12 Conclusion: Dignity, Ethics, Norms, Policies and Practices And, if you?ve got this far, you?re probably interested in the topic, so here?s the project website (EmotionalAI.org<https://emotionalai.org/>) that has lots of free content<https://emotionalai.org/publications/> and a recommended reading list<https://emotionalai.org/ongoing-academic-reading-list/>. If you?re working in this area and you?re not listed, email me a link and I?ll post details. Andrew McStay Professor of Digital Life Director of Media and Persuasive Communication Network (MPC) School of Music and Media Bangor University 2018 book: Emotional AI: The Rise of Empathic Media<https://uk.sagepub.com/en-gb/eur/emotional-ai/book251642> Project site and reports: EmotionalAI.org<http://emotionalai.org/> Other books, bits and papers: here<https://bangor.academia.edu/AndrewMcStay> T. +44 (0)1248 382740 Tw. @digi-ad<https://twitter.com/digi_ad> Mae croeso i chi gysylltu gyda'r Brifysgol yn Gymraeg neu Saesneg You are welcome to contact the University in Welsh or English Rhif Elusen Gofrestredig 1141565 - Registered Charity No. 1141565 Gall y neges e-bost hon, ac unrhyw atodiadau a anfonwyd gyda hi, gynnwys deunydd cyfrinachol ac wedi eu bwriadu i'w defnyddio'n unig gan y sawl y cawsant eu cyfeirio ato (atynt). 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Unless expressly stated in the body of the text of the email, this email is not intended to form a binding contract - a list of authorised signatories is available from the Bangor University Finance Office. ------------------------------ Message: 5 Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2018 08:20:18 +0000 From: "Hammelburg, Esther" <e.e.hammelburg(a)hva.nl> To: "Hayes, Rebecca M" <hayes2r(a)cmich.edu>, "air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org" <air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org> Subject: Re: [Air-L] Including screennames with tweets Message-ID: <990D37E2-4A1F-4891-8A4B-8DF68654F20A(a)hva.nl> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Dear Becky, I would exclude them for the reasons that you mention and because it doesn't provide meaningful information to your text (I gather). I would add a note explaining your choice and mentioning that a register of screen names is held by the author. Another possibility is to ask the people involved, but that might be a lot of work.. Best, Esther ?Op 13-07-18 08:24 heeft Air-L namens Hayes, Rebecca M <air-l-bounces(a)listserv.aoir.org namens hayes2r(a)cmich.edu> geschreven: Dear All, Can you please weigh in on the decision to include or not include screennames when we cite tweets in a book? The book is on new media and crime, and we are using tweets in a few places as examples of some different discussions. We are back and forth on whether we should include the screennames and at others or disclude them. The arguments we have seen thus far, are to include them because it was made public and we are citing someones words. The other argument is to disclude them as the person did not consent to have it printed in that way persay, and the screenname attached in our book could be used to find and harass the person. What are your thoughts? Thank you, Becky _______________________________________________ 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/ ------------------------------ Message: 6 Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2018 09:27:13 +0100 From: Daniel Thomas <daniel.thomas--airl(a)cl.cam.ac.uk> To: "Hayes, Rebecca M" <hayes2r(a)cmich.edu>, "air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org" <air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org> Subject: Re: [Air-L] Including screennames with tweets Message-ID: <f2b11439-c427-f356-1ab3-af88f68bb976(a)cl.cam.ac.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Dear Becky, My understanding, though I haven't been involved in Twitter research myself, is that academics in the US have mostly decided it is fine to include screennames and that academics in the UK have mostly decided it is not OK to include screennames. I think that Twitter ToS require the sceennames to be included and allow publication as long as the full tweet is published (including sceenname). However, publishing without the sceenname is not permitted (this is second hand information so I may be wrong). The other issue is that even if sceennames are not included then it is easy to find the author from the content of the tweet and so the authors are still trivially deanonymised. Minor tweaks to punctuation/wording are apparently also insufficient as Twitter's search function will still normally find the original tweet. Depending on the research method you are using it may be possible to write your own synthesised example tweets that are representative of the kind of things people say. However, I know that for some methods/fields that is not possible. I think it is a question where you will want your Research Ethics Board/IRB to sign off on your answer. Helena Webb <helena.webb(a)cs.ox.ac.uk> from the University of Oxford might be a good person to talk to about this because she uses a similar Twitter example in her research ethics case studies at the workshops she runs. She did research that she was not able to publish because she ran into this problem and was not able to find a solution that protected the tweeters and was publishable. Daniel On 13/07/18 07:23, Hayes, Rebecca M wrote: > Dear All, > Can you please weigh in on the decision to include or not include screennames > when we cite tweets in a book? The book is on new media and crime, > and we are using tweets in a few places as examples of some different discussions. > > We are back and forth on whether we should include the screennames and at others or disclude them. The arguments we have seen thus far, are to include them because it was made public and we are citing someones words. The other argument is to disclude them > as the person did not consent to have it printed in that way persay, and the screenname attached in our book could be used to find and harass the person. What are your thoughts? > > Thank you, > Becky > _______________________________________________ > 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/ > ------------------------------ Message: 7 Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2018 04:13:25 -0600 From: ijwa(a)dline.info To: air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org Subject: [Air-L] FGCT 2018 Message-ID: <041caf212d00c4b499061daba83db3e8(a)dline.info> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Call For Papers Seventh International Conference on Future Generation Communication Technologies (FGCT 2018) Xi?an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, Suzhou, Jiangsu, China November 19-21, 2018 http://www.socio.org.uk/fgct In the last decade, a number of newer communication technologies have been evolved, which have a significant impact on the technology, as a whole. The impact ranges from incremental applications to dramatical breakthrough in the society. Users rely heavily on broadcast technology, social media, mobile devices, video games and other innovations to enrich the learning and adoption process. The Seventh International Conference on Future Generation Communication Technologies (FGCT 2018) conference is designed for teachers, administrators, practitioners, researchers and scientists in the development arenas. It aims to provide discussions and simulations in the communication technology at the broad level and broadcasting technology and related technologies at the micro level. Through a set of research papers, using innovative and interactive approach, participants can expect to share a set of research that will prepare them to apply new technologies to their work in teaching, research and educational development amid this rapidly evolving landscape. Topics discussed in this platform are not limited to- Emerging cellular and new network architectures for 5G New antenna and RF technology for 5G wireless Modulation algorithms Circuits, software and systems for 5G Convergence of multi-modes, multi-bands, multi-standards and multi- applications in 5G systems Cognitive radio and collaborative transmissions in 5G Computing and processing platform for 5G Programming models and development tools to enable 5G systems Small cells and heterogeneous networks Metrics and Evaluation of 5G systems Standardization of 5G Deployment options such as small cells, eICIC, MIMO and CoMP LTE/WiFi interworking, carrier aggregation, dual connectivity C-RAN, D-RAN, mmWave, Massive MIMO and ultra-low latency Higher protocol layers Latency and traffic scheduling Broadcast technology Future Internet and networking architectures Future mobile communications Mobile Web Technology Mobile TV and multimedia phones Communication Security, Trust, Protocols and Applications Communication Interfaces Communication Modelling Satellite and space communications Communication software Future Generation Communication Networks Communication Network Security Communication Data Grids Collaborative Communication Technology Intelligence for future communication systems Forthcoming optical communication systems Communication Technology for Elearning, Egovernment, Ebusiness Games and games designing Social technology devises, tools and applications Crowdsourcing and Human Computation Human-computer communication Pervasive Computing Grid, crowd sourcing and cloud computing Hypermedia systems Software and technologies for E-communication Intelligent Systems for E-communication Future Cloud for Communication Future warehousing Future communication for healthcare and medical devices applications Future communication for Mechatronic applications All presented papers in the conference will be published in the proceedings of the conference and submitted to the IEEE Xplore Digital Library. The selected papers after extension and modification will be published in many peer reviewed and indexed journals. International Journal of Computational Science and Engineering (Scopus and EI Indexed) Technologies (Scopus/EI) Australian Journal of Telecommunications and the Digital Economy (Scopus/EI) Journal of Digital Information Management Important Dates Submission of Papers: September 25, 2018 Notification of Acceptance: October 20, 2018 Camera Ready: November 10, 2018 Registration: November 10, 2018 Conference Dates: November 19-21, 2018 Programme Committee General Chair Ezendu Ariwa, UK IEEE Chair for TEMS, UK Programme Chairs Yong Yue, Xi?an Jiaotong-Liverpool University (XJTLU), China Adrian FLOREA, Lucian Blaga? University of Sibiu, Romania Programme Co-Chairs Ali Aloa, UK IEEE Secretary for TEMS, UK UK Pavel Loskot, University of Swansea, UK Submissions at-http://www.socio.org.uk/fgct/paper-submission/ contact: fgct(a)socio.org.uk --------------------------------- ------------------------------ Message: 8 Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2018 06:45:06 -0400 From: Judith Rosenbaum-Andre <judith.rosenbaumandre(a)maine.edu> To: daniel.thomas--airl(a)cl.cam.ac.uk Cc: hayes2r(a)cmich.edu, air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org Subject: Re: [Air-L] Including screennames with tweets Message-ID: <CAGurmzMsEekT8bE+17fu2v3pP2vDmzYhwKX7PauV0hPv2x3-HA(a)mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" I just recently published a book on Twitter, race, and gender, and my publisher was very insistent I did use people's Twitter handles. For clarification, I used all publicly available tweets. I went back and forth on it myself a few times (and still every once in a while wake up in the middle of the night thinking, "did I do the right thing?!"), but ended up agreeing with them. Their argument, per Twitter's ToS, was that people's tweets should be treated as you would an in-text citation (e.g., "Hayes said"), as they are their thoughts and ideas, expressed in a public forum, and thus they have earned the right to be credited for them (almost on a par with copyright). Because I used public tweets anyone could and can still find the tweets even if I hadn't listed the screen name, which renders the argument that we need to protect their identity somewhat moot. In my book, I discuss some pretty awful statements though, and I did make sure to not choose tweets as examples that could really get people into trouble with their employer, for instance, and would instead use more innocuous tweets to illustrate my point. This kind of research, because I use public tweets, falls outside of our IRB's scope, as they consider it public information on a par with analyzing media content and thus non-human-subjects research. I don't know if this helps at all - I think it's a tough issue to deal with, and both decisions, like you said, have their pros and cons. On Fri, Jul 13, 2018 at 4:27 AM Daniel Thomas < daniel.thomas--airl(a)cl.cam.ac.uk> wrote: > Dear Becky, > > My understanding, though I haven't been involved in Twitter research > myself, is that academics in the US have mostly decided it is fine to > include screennames and that academics in the UK have mostly decided it > is not OK to include screennames. I think that Twitter ToS require the > sceennames to be included and allow publication as long as the full > tweet is published (including sceenname). However, publishing without > the sceenname is not permitted (this is second hand information so I may > be wrong). The other issue is that even if sceennames are not included > then it is easy to find the author from the content of the tweet and so > the authors are still trivially deanonymised. Minor tweaks to > punctuation/wording are apparently also insufficient as Twitter's search > function will still normally find the original tweet. > Depending on the research method you are using it may be possible to > write your own synthesised example tweets that are representative of the > kind of things people say. However, I know that for some methods/fields > that is not possible. > > I think it is a question where you will want your Research Ethics > Board/IRB to sign off on your answer. > > Helena Webb <helena.webb(a)cs.ox.ac.uk> from the University of Oxford > might be a good person to talk to about this because she uses a similar > Twitter example in her research ethics case studies at the workshops she > runs. She did research that she was not able to publish because she ran > into this problem and was not able to find a solution that protected the > tweeters and was publishable. > > Daniel > > On 13/07/18 07:23, Hayes, Rebecca M wrote: > > Dear All, > > Can you please weigh in on the decision to include or not include > screennames > > when we cite tweets in a book? The book is on new media and crime, > > and we are using tweets in a few places as examples of some different > discussions. > > > > We are back and forth on whether we should include the screennames and > at others or disclude them. The arguments we have seen thus far, are to > include them because it was made public and we are citing someones words. > The other argument is to disclude them > > as the person did not consent to have it printed in that way persay, and > the screenname attached in our book could be used to find and harass the > person. What are your thoughts? > > > > Thank you, > > Becky > > _______________________________________________ > > 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/ > > > _______________________________________________ > 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/ > -- Judith E. Rosenbaum, PhD Assistant Professor Department of Communication and Journalism University of Maine 414 Dunn Hall Orono, ME 04469 www.juditherosenbaum.com/<http://www.juditherosenbaum.com/> @JudithRBaum ------------------------------ Message: 9 Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2018 19:53:02 +0800 From: Roberto de Roock <roberto.deroock(a)gmail.com> To: Air-L(a)listserv.aoir.org Subject: [Air-L] Methodologies for critical analysis of UX Message-ID: <CAPy3B-=_Wh+zJxL=sWKcVqTHrhyb9hd7uSRet1+m3WBRjetDRg(a)mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Dear colleagues, I have a number of studies analysing digital artefacts, including websites and video games; some of my research looks at students' ongoing engagement with software, while in ongoing projects I analyse websites (more as discourse analysis). The emphasis of my work is on unfolding experiences and interactions with the designs; my interest is especially the "politics" embedded in said designs, including semiotic elements but also the overall "user experience" but not in the way a UX researcher would approach. Something like what Bogost (2007) described as procedural rhetoric, ?the art of persuasion through rule-based representations and interactions, rather than the spoken word, writing, images, or moving pictures? and ?the art of using processes persuasively? or how James Gee's (2014) unified discourse analysis seeks to analyze software itself (well, his focus is games) as a "communication form". I draw on ethnography, discourse analysis, multimodality, and video analysis (and workplace studies more generally)...but these all are generally coming from a linguistic-biased perspective, or (in the case of video analysis) are not flexible enough to work with different kinds of data. I often cite Bogost and Gee, but both of their work is focused on games, which are particular and distinct from, say, a workforce development website - the latter is "persuasive" and seek to "shape" the user in particular ways, just not rule-based ones in the same way games do. Anyway, since many of you come from other fields, I'm curious about any relevant methodologies that might function flexibly to analyse software and websites from a kind of procedural, critical UX perspective. Hope this question makes sense! Cheers, Roberto Dr Roberto de Roock | Research Faculty | LCW@OER | National Institute of Education NIE5-B3-48, 1 Nanyang Walk, Singapore 637616 Tel: (65) 8709 4453 GMT+8h | Fax: (65) 6515 1992 | Email: r.deroock(a)nie.edu.sg Web: www.nie.edu.sg<http://www.nie.edu.sg> | www.deRoock.net<http://www.deRoock.net> | https://nanyang.academia.edu/RobertodeRoock ------------------------------ Message: 10 Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2018 14:28:32 +0200 From: Mauro SANTANIELLO <msantaniello(a)unisa.it> To: air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org Subject: [Air-L] CfP GIG-ARTS 2019: "Europe as a Global Player in Internet Governance" 16-17 May 2019, Salerno Message-ID: <CAPD8HxLRXMbZbb4mcaX7Syb6PAkOOB7dw3pWRRGU7fggazSb6Q(a)mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Dear colleagues, Please find hereafter the CFP for the GIG-ARTS 2019 conference. We hope to welcome you in Salerno! ========== *GIG-ARTS 2019 ? The Third European Multidisciplinary Conference on Global Internet Governance Actors, Regulations, Transactions and Strategies* *16-17 May 2019, SalernoEurope as a Global Player in Internet Governance* *Organised by:*The Internet & Communication Policy Centre / Department of Political, Social and Communication Sciences / Universit? degli Studi di Salerno *Co-Sponsored By:*The ECPR Standing Group on Internet and Politics, The Global Internet Governance Academic Network (GigaNet), the IAMCR Communication Policy and Technology Section, The ICA Communication Law and Policy Division *Call for Abstracts - Deadline: 29 October 2018* Although to varying degrees of autonomy, awareness, and effectiveness over time and issues, European institutions have been engaged in internet governance and policy-making since at least two decades. Both the European Union and Europe as a region have generally played a crucial role in shaping the governance of the internet, at the global, regional and national levels. >From a geopolitical perspective, the EU has been one of the early actors advocating for the internationalisation of the DNS system and, more generally, for the enhancement of the multi-stakeholder governance model. >From a normative point of view, EU institutions as well as Member States have deeply affected highly sensitive internet-related issues, such as privacy and data protection, digital market competition, consumers' rights, copyright, e-commerce, content regulation, the right to be forgotten, etc. On the institutional level, some of the most interesting cases of recent constituent policies have emerged from the European Union, leading to the establishment of new agencies such as the European Network and Information Security Agency (ENISA) and the European Data Protection Board (EDPB). Beyond the EU, some European intergovernmental organisations, such as the Council of Europe (CoE), have developed structured initiatives to uphold human rights, democracy and the rule of law on internet governance issues. Further, a number of European initiatives, such as the European Dialogue on internet Governance (EuroDIG) and the Global internet Policy Observatory (GIPO), have facilitated the transfer of ideas, knowledge, policies and institutional arrangements towards other countries and geographic areas. Finally, European NGOs as well as some European internet companies are currently advancing alternative visions and values about the internet and its governance, enriching the set of internet governance approaches as well as available design options. The third edition of the European Multidisciplinary Conference on Global Internet Governance Actors, Regulations, Transactions and Strategies (GIG-ARTS 2019), will be held exactly twenty years after the entry into force of the Amsterdam Treaty and ten years after the Lisbon Treaty, which are milestones in the history of the European integration process, preparing the EU for enlargement and further deepening of competences, and reinforcing the centrality of democratic principles and the protection of fundamental rights as the Union's foundation. After having addressed ?Global Internet Governance as a Diplomacy Issue? at its first edition held in Paris in 2017, and "Inequalities in Internet Governance" at the second edition held in Cardiff in 2018, the 2019 GIG-ARTS conference will explore the role of Europe in the global governance of the internet. In particular, the conference will focus on challenges and opportunities, as well as strengths and weaknesses, of European approaches to internet governance and policy-making. In addition to general internet Governance issues and topics, submissions are particularly welcome on the following themes: - European institutions and Member States in internet governance; - The European approach to the multistakeholder governance model; - The role of the European External Action Service in the Global Internet Governance ecosystem; - Internet governance in the European Neighbourhood Policy; - The EU cybersecurity policy; - Extraterritorial effects of European internet policies; - Internet-related geopolitical challenges for Europe; - The EU and internet-related policy transfer; - EU internet policies in a comparative perspective; - Human rights, democracy and the rule of law in European internet policy and instruments; - Privacy and data protection after the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR); - Global online platforms and EU general policies (labour, taxation, transport,..); - EU strategies and policies on new technologies (AI, robots, blockchains,..); - European good governance values and internet governance; - The Digital Single Market and international trade; - The EU and the management of critical internet resources; - Populist movements and the European internet policy-making; - EU values, European internet companies, and internet design. *Submission Information and Publication Opportunities*Authors are invited to submit their extended abstracts (no longer than 500 words), describing their research question(s), theoretical framework, approach and methodology, expected findings or empirical outcome. Submitted abstracts will be evaluated through a peer-review process. Abstracts and authors? information should be submitted through the Easychair conference management system at: *https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=gigarts2019 <https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=gigarts2019>*Authors of selected submissions will have the opportunity to submit their full manuscript for publication. *Key dates*Deadline for abstract submissions: 29 October 2018 Notification to authors: 10 December 2018 Programme publication: 21 January 2019 Conference dates: 16 & 17 May 2019 *GIG-ARTS 2019 Committees * *General Chairs *Francesco Amoretti and Mauro Santaniello Internet & Communication Policy Centre, Department of Political, Social and Communication Sciences, University of Salerno, Italy *Scientific Program Committee (TBC)*- Andrea Calderaro (Cardiff University, United Kingdom) - George Christou (University of Warwick, United Kingdom) - William J. Drake (University of Zurich, Switzerland) - Nanette S. Levinson (American University Washington DC, USA) - Robin Mansell (London School of Economics, United Kingdom) - Meryem Marzouki (CNRS and Sorbonne Universit?, France) - Teresa Numerico (Universit? di Roma 3, Italy) - Claudia Padovani (Universit? degli Studi di Padova, Italy) - Lorenzo Pupillo (Centre for European Policy Studies, Belgium) - Katharine Sarikakis (University of Vienna, Austria) - Yves Schemeil (Sciences Po Grenoble, France) - Jamal Shahin (VUB, Belgium & University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands) - Michele Sorice (LUISS University, Italy) - Joris van Hoboken (VUB, Belgium & University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands) *Organizing Committee at University of Salerno*Maria Carmela Catone, Virgilio D'Antonio, Paolo Diana, Domenico Fracchiolla, Stefania Leone, Michele Nino, Nicola Palladino, Diana Salzano *Venue*The conference will be held at the University of Salerno, on the campus of Fisciano. *Conference Registration and Fees* Registration fees are 100? for regular participants and 50? for students showing proof of status. The conference fees include a participant kit as well as coffee breaks and meals. *GIG-ARTS 2019 Communication Details* - Website: events.gig-arts.eu | http://www.internetpolicyresearch.eu - Email for information: events(a)gig-arts.eu - Submissions: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=gigarts2019 - Twitter: @GigArtsEU - Hashtag: #GIGARTS19 - Mailing list for updates: http://tinyurl.com/yc7rvxm4 ======== Mauro Santaniello Internet & Communication Policy Centre Department of Political, Social and Communication Sciences Universit? degli Studi di Salerno Via Giovanni Paolo II, 132 84084 Fisciano (SA) - Italy E. msantaniello(a)unisa.it W. http://docenti.unisa.it/mauro.santaniello M. +393345217528 Skype: internetpolicy T. twitter.com/webvoodoo ------------------------------ Subject: Digest Footer _______________________________________________ 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/ ------------------------------ End of Air-L Digest, Vol 168, Issue 13 **************************************

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CfP GIG-ARTS 2019: "Europe as a Global Player in Internet Governance" 16-17 May 2019, Salerno
by Mauro SANTANIELLO 13 Jul '18

13 Jul '18

Dear colleagues, Please find hereafter the CFP for the GIG-ARTS 2019 conference. We hope to welcome you in Salerno! ========== *GIG-ARTS 2019 – The Third European Multidisciplinary Conference on Global Internet Governance Actors, Regulations, Transactions and Strategies* *16-17 May 2019, SalernoEurope as a Global Player in Internet Governance* *Organised by:*The Internet & Communication Policy Centre / Department of Political, Social and Communication Sciences / Università degli Studi di Salerno *Co-Sponsored By:*The ECPR Standing Group on Internet and Politics, The Global Internet Governance Academic Network (GigaNet), the IAMCR Communication Policy and Technology Section, The ICA Communication Law and Policy Division *Call for Abstracts - Deadline: 29 October 2018* Although to varying degrees of autonomy, awareness, and effectiveness over time and issues, European institutions have been engaged in internet governance and policy-making since at least two decades. Both the European Union and Europe as a region have generally played a crucial role in shaping the governance of the internet, at the global, regional and national levels. >From a geopolitical perspective, the EU has been one of the early actors advocating for the internationalisation of the DNS system and, more generally, for the enhancement of the multi-stakeholder governance model. >From a normative point of view, EU institutions as well as Member States have deeply affected highly sensitive internet-related issues, such as privacy and data protection, digital market competition, consumers' rights, copyright, e-commerce, content regulation, the right to be forgotten, etc. On the institutional level, some of the most interesting cases of recent constituent policies have emerged from the European Union, leading to the establishment of new agencies such as the European Network and Information Security Agency (ENISA) and the European Data Protection Board (EDPB). Beyond the EU, some European intergovernmental organisations, such as the Council of Europe (CoE), have developed structured initiatives to uphold human rights, democracy and the rule of law on internet governance issues. Further, a number of European initiatives, such as the European Dialogue on internet Governance (EuroDIG) and the Global internet Policy Observatory (GIPO), have facilitated the transfer of ideas, knowledge, policies and institutional arrangements towards other countries and geographic areas. Finally, European NGOs as well as some European internet companies are currently advancing alternative visions and values about the internet and its governance, enriching the set of internet governance approaches as well as available design options. The third edition of the European Multidisciplinary Conference on Global Internet Governance Actors, Regulations, Transactions and Strategies (GIG-ARTS 2019), will be held exactly twenty years after the entry into force of the Amsterdam Treaty and ten years after the Lisbon Treaty, which are milestones in the history of the European integration process, preparing the EU for enlargement and further deepening of competences, and reinforcing the centrality of democratic principles and the protection of fundamental rights as the Union's foundation. After having addressed “Global Internet Governance as a Diplomacy Issue” at its first edition held in Paris in 2017, and "Inequalities in Internet Governance" at the second edition held in Cardiff in 2018, the 2019 GIG-ARTS conference will explore the role of Europe in the global governance of the internet. In particular, the conference will focus on challenges and opportunities, as well as strengths and weaknesses, of European approaches to internet governance and policy-making. In addition to general internet Governance issues and topics, submissions are particularly welcome on the following themes: - European institutions and Member States in internet governance; - The European approach to the multistakeholder governance model; - The role of the European External Action Service in the Global Internet Governance ecosystem; - Internet governance in the European Neighbourhood Policy; - The EU cybersecurity policy; - Extraterritorial effects of European internet policies; - Internet-related geopolitical challenges for Europe; - The EU and internet-related policy transfer; - EU internet policies in a comparative perspective; - Human rights, democracy and the rule of law in European internet policy and instruments; - Privacy and data protection after the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR); - Global online platforms and EU general policies (labour, taxation, transport,..); - EU strategies and policies on new technologies (AI, robots, blockchains,..); - European good governance values and internet governance; - The Digital Single Market and international trade; - The EU and the management of critical internet resources; - Populist movements and the European internet policy-making; - EU values, European internet companies, and internet design. *Submission Information and Publication Opportunities*Authors are invited to submit their extended abstracts (no longer than 500 words), describing their research question(s), theoretical framework, approach and methodology, expected findings or empirical outcome. Submitted abstracts will be evaluated through a peer-review process. Abstracts and authors’ information should be submitted through the Easychair conference management system at: *https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=gigarts2019 <https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=gigarts2019>*Authors of selected submissions will have the opportunity to submit their full manuscript for publication. *Key dates*Deadline for abstract submissions: 29 October 2018 Notification to authors: 10 December 2018 Programme publication: 21 January 2019 Conference dates: 16 & 17 May 2019 *GIG-ARTS 2019 Committees * *General Chairs *Francesco Amoretti and Mauro Santaniello Internet & Communication Policy Centre, Department of Political, Social and Communication Sciences, University of Salerno, Italy *Scientific Program Committee (TBC)*- Andrea Calderaro (Cardiff University, United Kingdom) - George Christou (University of Warwick, United Kingdom) - William J. Drake (University of Zurich, Switzerland) - Nanette S. Levinson (American University Washington DC, USA) - Robin Mansell (London School of Economics, United Kingdom) - Meryem Marzouki (CNRS and Sorbonne Université, France) - Teresa Numerico (Università di Roma 3, Italy) - Claudia Padovani (Università degli Studi di Padova, Italy) - Lorenzo Pupillo (Centre for European Policy Studies, Belgium) - Katharine Sarikakis (University of Vienna, Austria) - Yves Schemeil (Sciences Po Grenoble, France) - Jamal Shahin (VUB, Belgium & University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands) - Michele Sorice (LUISS University, Italy) - Joris van Hoboken (VUB, Belgium & University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands) *Organizing Committee at University of Salerno*Maria Carmela Catone, Virgilio D'Antonio, Paolo Diana, Domenico Fracchiolla, Stefania Leone, Michele Nino, Nicola Palladino, Diana Salzano *Venue*The conference will be held at the University of Salerno, on the campus of Fisciano. *Conference Registration and Fees* Registration fees are 100€ for regular participants and 50€ for students showing proof of status. The conference fees include a participant kit as well as coffee breaks and meals. *GIG-ARTS 2019 Communication Details* - Website: events.gig-arts.eu | http://www.internetpolicyresearch.eu - Email for information: events(a)gig-arts.eu - Submissions: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=gigarts2019 - Twitter: @GigArtsEU - Hashtag: #GIGARTS19 - Mailing list for updates: http://tinyurl.com/yc7rvxm4 ======== Mauro Santaniello Internet & Communication Policy Centre Department of Political, Social and Communication Sciences Università degli Studi di Salerno Via Giovanni Paolo II, 132 84084 Fisciano (SA) - Italy E. msantaniello(a)unisa.it W. http://docenti.unisa.it/mauro.santaniello M. +393345217528 Skype: internetpolicy T. twitter.com/webvoodoo

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Methodologies for critical analysis of UX
by Roberto de Roock 13 Jul '18

13 Jul '18

Dear colleagues, I have a number of studies analysing digital artefacts, including websites and video games; some of my research looks at students' ongoing engagement with software, while in ongoing projects I analyse websites (more as discourse analysis). The emphasis of my work is on unfolding experiences and interactions with the designs; my interest is especially the "politics" embedded in said designs, including semiotic elements but also the overall "user experience" but not in the way a UX researcher would approach. Something like what Bogost (2007) described as procedural rhetoric, “the art of persuasion through rule-based representations and interactions, rather than the spoken word, writing, images, or moving pictures” and “the art of using processes persuasively” or how James Gee's (2014) unified discourse analysis seeks to analyze software itself (well, his focus is games) as a "communication form". I draw on ethnography, discourse analysis, multimodality, and video analysis (and workplace studies more generally)...but these all are generally coming from a linguistic-biased perspective, or (in the case of video analysis) are not flexible enough to work with different kinds of data. I often cite Bogost and Gee, but both of their work is focused on games, which are particular and distinct from, say, a workforce development website - the latter is "persuasive" and seek to "shape" the user in particular ways, just not rule-based ones in the same way games do. Anyway, since many of you come from other fields, I'm curious about any relevant methodologies that might function flexibly to analyse software and websites from a kind of procedural, critical UX perspective. Hope this question makes sense! Cheers, Roberto Dr Roberto de Roock | Research Faculty | LCW@OER | National Institute of Education NIE5-B3-48, 1 Nanyang Walk, Singapore 637616 Tel: (65) 8709 4453 GMT+8h | Fax: (65) 6515 1992 | Email: r.deroock(a)nie.edu.sg Web: www.nie.edu.sg | www.deRoock.net | https://nanyang.academia.edu/RobertodeRoock

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FGCT 2018
by ijwa＠dline.info 13 Jul '18

13 Jul '18

Call For Papers Seventh International Conference on Future Generation Communication Technologies (FGCT 2018) Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, Suzhou, Jiangsu, China November 19-21, 2018 http://www.socio.org.uk/fgct In the last decade, a number of newer communication technologies have been evolved, which have a significant impact on the technology, as a whole. The impact ranges from incremental applications to dramatical breakthrough in the society. Users rely heavily on broadcast technology, social media, mobile devices, video games and other innovations to enrich the learning and adoption process. The Seventh International Conference on Future Generation Communication Technologies (FGCT 2018) conference is designed for teachers, administrators, practitioners, researchers and scientists in the development arenas. It aims to provide discussions and simulations in the communication technology at the broad level and broadcasting technology and related technologies at the micro level. Through a set of research papers, using innovative and interactive approach, participants can expect to share a set of research that will prepare them to apply new technologies to their work in teaching, research and educational development amid this rapidly evolving landscape. Topics discussed in this platform are not limited to- Emerging cellular and new network architectures for 5G New antenna and RF technology for 5G wireless Modulation algorithms Circuits, software and systems for 5G Convergence of multi-modes, multi-bands, multi-standards and multi- applications in 5G systems Cognitive radio and collaborative transmissions in 5G Computing and processing platform for 5G Programming models and development tools to enable 5G systems Small cells and heterogeneous networks Metrics and Evaluation of 5G systems Standardization of 5G Deployment options such as small cells, eICIC, MIMO and CoMP LTE/WiFi interworking, carrier aggregation, dual connectivity C-RAN, D-RAN, mmWave, Massive MIMO and ultra-low latency Higher protocol layers Latency and traffic scheduling Broadcast technology Future Internet and networking architectures Future mobile communications Mobile Web Technology Mobile TV and multimedia phones Communication Security, Trust, Protocols and Applications Communication Interfaces Communication Modelling Satellite and space communications Communication software Future Generation Communication Networks Communication Network Security Communication Data Grids Collaborative Communication Technology Intelligence for future communication systems Forthcoming optical communication systems Communication Technology for Elearning, Egovernment, Ebusiness Games and games designing Social technology devises, tools and applications Crowdsourcing and Human Computation Human-computer communication Pervasive Computing Grid, crowd sourcing and cloud computing Hypermedia systems Software and technologies for E-communication Intelligent Systems for E-communication Future Cloud for Communication Future warehousing Future communication for healthcare and medical devices applications Future communication for Mechatronic applications All presented papers in the conference will be published in the proceedings of the conference and submitted to the IEEE Xplore Digital Library. The selected papers after extension and modification will be published in many peer reviewed and indexed journals. International Journal of Computational Science and Engineering (Scopus and EI Indexed) Technologies (Scopus/EI) Australian Journal of Telecommunications and the Digital Economy (Scopus/EI) Journal of Digital Information Management Important Dates Submission of Papers: September 25, 2018 Notification of Acceptance: October 20, 2018 Camera Ready: November 10, 2018 Registration: November 10, 2018 Conference Dates: November 19-21, 2018 Programme Committee General Chair Ezendu Ariwa, UK IEEE Chair for TEMS, UK Programme Chairs Yong Yue, Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University (XJTLU), China Adrian FLOREA, Lucian Blaga” University of Sibiu, Romania Programme Co-Chairs Ali Aloa, UK IEEE Secretary for TEMS, UK UK Pavel Loskot, University of Swansea, UK Submissions at-http://www.socio.org.uk/fgct/paper-submission/ contact: fgct(a)socio.org.uk ---------------------------------

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