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CfP: ComplexRec 2018 (2nd Workshop on Recommendation in Complex Scenarios)
by Toine Bogers 01 Jun '18

01 Jun '18

======================================================== SECOND 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 16, 2018 * 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 (CEUR-WS). ---------- 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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Need help recruiting subjects for study on Web Design
by T. Zachary Frazier 31 May '18

31 May '18

Hello all, Long time lurker, first time sender. I am writing to ask for help in recruiting subjects for a research project I am working on examining the role that information and knowledge play in the professional design of websites. I am looking to talk with individuals for whom the aesthetic design of websites, page, or apps constitutes 50% or more of their work tasks, or who spend 50% or more of their time managing the aesthetic design work of others on web based projects. Participation consists of an approximately 45 minute interview and sketching activity, and will be conducted via Skype or similar platform. If you have any students who are web designers or who have gone on to work in web design, could you please forward the following link to them: https://goo.gl/forms/n1MrhraV5eD1jcmW2. It goes to an intake form I’ve created to help me manage the study. I’ll follow up directly after they’ve filled it out. If you have any questions regarding the study or my work feel free to reply off list and I will do my best to answer them. Best, T. Zachary Frazier, MLIS Doctoral Candidate College of Information and Communication University of South Carolina PS. If you are an active web designer, I would love to talk with you as well. Best, Zack

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Special issue on 'data activism'
by Stefania Milan 31 May '18

31 May '18

Dear colleagues, we are proud to present to you a special issue on ‘data activism’ of Krisis: Journal for Contemporary Philosophy, edited by myself and Lonneke van der Velden (University of Amsterdam). Our goal was to ‘reverse’ data politics, and the various articles take up the challenge from different disciplinary perspectives. And Krisis is an open-access journal, so the articles are and will remain free to download! Authors include Jonathan Gray, Helen Kenney, Lina Dencik, Stefan Baack, Miren Gutierrez, Leah Horgan and Paul Dourish, plus as many as three book reviews. See the brief description below. The whole issue is accessible from http://krisis.eu <http://krisis.eu/>. ENJOY and SHARE! Best, Stefania === Issue 1/2018: Data activism Digital data increasingly plays a central role in contemporary politics and public life. Citizen voices are increasingly mediated by proprietary social media platforms and are shaped by algorithmic ranking and re-ordering, but data informs how states act, too. This special issue wants to shift the focus of the conversation. Non-governmental organizations, hackers, and activists of all kinds provide a myriad of ‘alternative’ interventions, interpretations, and imaginaries of what data stands for and what can be done with it. Jonathan Gray starts off this special issue by suggesting how data can be involved in providing horizons of intelligibility and organising social and political life. Helen Kennedy's contribution advocates for a focus on emotions and everyday lived experiences with data. Lina Dencik puts forward the notion of ‘surveillance realism’ to explore the pervasiveness of contemporary surveillance and the emergence of alternative imaginaries. Stefan Baack investigates how data are used to facilitate civic engagement. Miren Gutiérrez explores how activists can make use of data infrastructures such as databases, servers, and algorithms. Finally, Leah Horgan and Paul Dourish critically engage with the notion of data activism by looking at everyday data work in a local administration. Further, this issue features an interview with Boris Groys by Thijs Lijster, whose work Über das Neue enjoys its 25th anniversary last year. Lastly, three book reviews illuminate key aspects of datafication. Patricia de Vries reviews Metahavens’ Black Transparency; Niels van Doorn writes on Platform Capitalism by Nick Srnicek and Jan Overwijk comments on The Entrepeneurial Self by Ulrich Bröckling. === Stefania Milan Associate Professor of New Media and Digital Culture, University of Amsterdam | https://stefaniamilan.net Principal Investigator, DATACTIVE (ERC Starting Grant 639379) | https://data-activism.net @annliffey | @data_ctive +31627875425 | +31(0)205252416

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Cfp HICSS52 Knowledge Flows, Transfer, Sharing, and Exchange Minitrack
by Peng, Gang 31 May '18

31 May '18

CALL FOR PAPERS: KNOWLEDGE FLOWS, TRANSFER, SHARING, AND EXCHANGE MINITRACK KNOWLEDGE, INNOVATION, AND ENTREPRENEURIAL SYSTEMS TRACK 52ND HAWAII INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SYSTEM SCIENCES 8-11 January, 2019, Grand Wailea Maui http://hicss.hawaii.edu MiniTrack Chairs: Murray E. Jennex, Gang Peng and Liana Razmerita Knowledge flows occur between individuals, among groups of individuals, community members, and among other entities such as countries, institutions, communities, firms, and networks. This mini-track focuses on examining the nature and role of knowledge flows (e.g. knowledge exchange, knowledge transfer and knowledge sharing) among entities. Technical, managerial, behavioral, organizational, and economic perspectives on knowledge flows will be accepted and presented in this mini-track. Potential topics that this minitrack will address are: · The effects of consumerization of IT (COIT) on knowledge flows · Knowledge sharing, flows, and transfer within the context of Social Media · Design of information and communication systems that facilitate knowledge transfer and sharing. · Role of social computing and social media in knowledge transfer and sharing · Technical challenges and solutions in the development and implementation of systems that facilitate knowledge flows. · Managerial and organizational challenges/solutions in the institutionalization and implementation of processes and activities that facilitate knowledge flows. · Intra- and inter-organizational processes for effective leverage of knowledge through knowledge transfer and sharing. · Enablers and inhibitors of knowledge sharing and knowledge transfer behaviors. · Role of information and communication technologies in managing knowledge flows. · Knowledge reuse in organizations. · Organizational and economic incentive structures for knowledge sharing and use. · Building knowledge capabilities to harness and enable knowledge flows · Knowledge flows (and sharing) within networks and communities · Harnessing knowledge flows for creativity and innovation · Role of IT within communities of practice (CoPs) · Knowledge flows and Internet of Things (IoT) IMPORTANT DATES FOR CALL FOR PAPERS June 15, 2019 Paper Submission DEADLINE August 15, 2019 Acceptance Notifications September 15, 2019 Submission camera-ready paper October 1, 2019 Early Registration fee deadline More info: http://hicss.hawaii.edu HICSS Author Guidelines: http://hicss.hawaii.edu/tracks-and-minitracks/authors/ *Minitrack Co-Chairs:* Murray Jennex* (Primary Contact) San Diego State University mjennex(a)sdsu.edu Gang Peng* California State University Fullerton gpeng(a)fullerton.edu Liana Razmerita Copenhagen Business School, Denmark lra.msc(a)cbs.dk

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Fwd: Hiring for a Social Justice Technologist
by Mike Ananny 31 May '18

31 May '18

Hello, An interesting position with the Anti-Defamation League's Center for Technology and Society. Please contact its director, Brittan Heller, below, directly for more info. -- Mike. *-- MIKE ANANNY* + /NEW BOOK:/ "Networked Press Freedom: Creating Infrastructures for a Public Right to Hear" [Amazon <https://www.amazon.com/Networked-Press-Freedom-Creating-Infrastructures/dp/…> | MIT Press <https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/networked-press-freedom>] + /Associate Professor of Communication & Journalism/ | Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism, University of Southern California + /Faculty Affiliate/ | Science, Technology, and Society, University of Southern California + /Fellow/ | Tow Center for Digital Journalism, Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism mike.ananny.org <http://mike.ananny.org> | ananny(a)usc.edu <mailto:ananny@usc.edu> | @ananny -------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: Hiring for a Social Justice Technologist Date: Tue, 29 May 2018 17:34:15 -0700 From: Brittan Heller <brittan.heller(a)gmail.com> To: ananny(a)gmail.com <ananny(a)gmail.com> Hello -- I'm hiring for a Social Justice Technologist <https://jobs.jobvite.com/adl/job/oxj76fwN> for ADL's Center for Technology and Society. Interested applicants can apply through the hyperlink. _Description: _ This is a senior role for someone with significant technical skill, and the position will be located in SF or Silicon Valley. This position will help lead ADL's effort to fight hate across all technologies, from Facebook to VR to video games, as well as helping bring civil rights into the digital context. In this role, you'll work on topics such as assessing how effective machine learning can be in helping identify and counter hate; making recommendations on how platforms can change to incentivize better online behavior; how governments should evaluate and deploy algorithms; decide what tools may be needed to monitor extremists on platforms like Gab; identify and decide how best to fill gaps in protecting vulnerable populations online; and identifying new and emerging trends in cyberhate and civil rights. We're looking for someone special, so please forward widely and invite any candidates to reach out to me with with questions!** Thanks and I hope all is well! Brittan Heller

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Early bird registration ending soon for the 2018 Connected Learning Summit
by Jamieson Pond 30 May '18

30 May '18

Connected Learning Summit 2018 August 1-3, 2018 | MIT Media Lab, Cambridge, MA Join a gathering of innovators harnessing emerging technology to expand access to participatory, playful, and creative learning. Early bird registration for the 2018 Connected Learning Summit ends Thursday, May 31. Register: http://clsummit.news/CLSregAIR *Special ticket registration pricing for students, K-12 and informal educators. To view the schedule of events for the 2018 CLSummit, visit: http://connectedlearningsummit.org/schedule/ About the Connected Learning Summit With a unique focus on cross-sector connections and progressive and catalytic innovation, the CLSummit brings together leading researchers, educators and developers. The program will feature keynote and plenary sessions by leaders in academics, industry and nonprofit organizations; presentations on innovative learning projects and research; interactive workshops on technology research and design, games and other media; a lively “hall of failure,” featuring honest postmortems on projects, programs and products; smart, fast, performative “ignite” sessions; a community showcase evening event for working papers, tech demos, and ideas; and fireside chats with luminaries across fields. The mission of the CLSummit is to fuel a growing movement of innovators harnessing the power of emerging technology to expand access to participatory, playful, and creative learning. It represents a merger between three community events with this shared vision and values: the Digital Media and Learning Conference, the Games+Learning+Society Conference, and Sandbox Summit. Connect with us on Twitter to receive updates on the CLSummit: @TheCLSummit (https://twitter.com/TheCLSummit) #CLS2018 (https://twitter.com/hashtag/cls2018) Respectfully, Jamieson Pond, Research Community Manager Digital Media & Learning Research Hub University of California, Irvine *Connected Learning Summit 2018* August 1-3, 2018 | MIT Media Lab Registration Now Open http://connectedlearningsummit.org

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ACM RecSys'18: Call for Tutorials (extended to June 4th)
by Yong Zheng 30 May '18

30 May '18

*** Please forward to anyone who might be interested *** --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Papers: ACM RecSys 2018 to be held in Vancouver, Canada, 2nd-7th October 2018 https://recsys.acm.org/recsys18/ --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Tutorials RecSys 2018 is pleased to invite proposals for tutorials to be given in conjunction with the conference. The goal of the tutorials is to provide conference attendees, including early-career researchers and researchers crossing-over from related disciplines, with an opportunity to learn about recommender system concepts and techniques. Tutorials also serve as a venue to share presenters’ expertise with the global community of recommender system researchers and practitioners. Tutorials focus on specific topics including, but not limited to: Introductions to recommender systems or to specific techniques (e.g., deep learning, feature engineering, tensorflow), Evaluation of recommender systems (e.g., system-centric and user-centric evaluation, experimentation), Context-aware (including location-based) recommender systems, Designing user experiences and interactions (e.g., virtual assistants), Ethical and legal aspects of recommender systems (e.g., privacy, fairness, accountability, transparency, and control of bias), Recommender systems facing real-world challenges (e.g., large-scale recommender systems or stream-based recommendation), Building and deploying recommender systems in specific domains (e.g., music, tourism, education, TV/video, jobs, enterprise, health, and/or fashion), Recommender systems supporting decision making, Recommendation for groups, tasks, or situations, including intent-aware recommender systems, Eliciting and learning user preferences, Recommender systems that take users’ emotional state, physical state, personality, trust, level-of-expertise, and/or cognitive readiness into account, Sensors and recommender systems (including mobile recommender systems and wearables), Intersections of recommender systems with other domains (e.g., information retrieval, machine learning, human computer interaction, or databases). This year we are experimenting with tutorials of variable length. You can choose to propose a regular tutorial of around 90 minutes, or suggest a half-day or full-day course. The length of your proposed tutorial should be commensurate with the presented materials and the projected interest of the RecSys community in the tutorial topic. We may work with accepted tutorial presenters to adjust the length of the tutorial. We actively encourage both researchers and industry practitioners to submit tutorial proposals that target different levels of expertise and different interests. We also encourage the submission of hands-on tutorials, for instance through the use of notebooks that combine theoretical concepts with practical exercises. You can get an idea for the interest of the RecSys community in different topics in the following survey carried out in RecSys 2017. You can still vote for the topics you would like to see this year. PROPOSAL FORMAT AND SUBMISSION The tutorial proposal should be a PDF document no more than 2 pages long, submitted by e-mail to tutorials2018(a)recsys.acm.org and organized as follows: Tutorial title. Tutorial length (tutorials are mostly 90 minutes, but we will consider half-day or full-day tutorials). Motivation for proposing this tutorial (why is it important for RecSys). Name, email address, and affiliation of tutorial instructor(s). Each listed presenter must present in person at the conference. Detailed bulleted outline of the tutorial (this point should take the most space). Targeted audience (introductory, intermediate, advanced) and prerequisite knowledge or skills. Importance of the topic for the RecSys community. Teaching experiences and history of prior tutorials by the presenter(s). List of relevant publications by the presenter(s). The following elements are not mandatory for the proposal, but encouraged: A short explanation of relationship of the tutorial proposal to “trends” at past RecSys conferences. A 2-minute video where the presenters introduce themselves and pitch their tutorial. Statement that the materials (slides, readings, and/or code) used/mentioned in the tutorial will be publicly available after the tutorial. Notebooks (e.g. iPython or Jupyter) that will be used during the course, if any. EVALUATION CRITERIA Tutorial proposals will be reviewed according to: ability of the tutorial to contribute to strengthening the foundations of recommender system research, or to broadening the field to look at important new challenges and techniques, experience and skill of the presenter(s), and the value of any materials released with the tutorial for the community. IMPORTANT DATES Tutorial proposal submission deadline: June 4th (extended deadline) Tutorial proposal notification: June 16th, 2018 Camera-ready tutorial summary deadline: August 6th, 2018 Deadlines refer to 23:59 (11:59pm) in the AoE (Anywhere on Earth) time zone. TUTORIAL CHAIRS Bart Knijnenburg, Clemson University, USA Sandra Garcia, Schibsted Media Group, Spain

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Graduate Conference CFP: Imagining Radical Futures, Princeton Oct. 5th
by EB Saldana 30 May '18

30 May '18

Dear AOIR, May be of interest to some in graduate programs - please circulate to anyone who might be interested. Thanks! EB *Imagining Radical Futures: Anthropological Potentialities?* Princeton Anthropology Graduate Conference October 5th, 2018 Princeton University *“The facts, alone, will not save us. Social change requires novel fictions that reimagine and rework* *all that is taken for granted about the current structure of society” (Benjamin 2016)* Anthropology has traditionally practiced restraint to speak only of what we know by virtue of "being there". Anthropologists have embraced the limitations of knowledge while demonstrating the power of attention to the specific and the particular, to contest positivism and moralizing normativity. Increasingly, governments and corporations attempt to mobilize anthropological knowledge about social change, geopolitical events, sustainability and resilience as a predictive tool. Yet productive recognition of indeterminacy that anthropological theory and practice evokes opens doors to the imaginary, the hopeful, the potential, and the dreamed. This conference will explore the potential of non-predictive futures in anthropological thought and the methodological complexities of imagining futures from the present. The binary of “dark anthropology” and “anthropology of the good” (Ortner 2016) belies complexities and tensions in anthropological approaches to social change: anthropology can report, embody, employ, and open toward or against utopian ideals. What are the implications of imaginative fictions for interlocutors, ethnographers, and the discipline? What radical possibilities can anthropology's fundamental questions about difference, relationality, and power open for us as we attempt to engage with futurity? We seek contributions from graduate students in anthropology whose work contributes to understanding imagined futures and extends the anthropological imagination. How can anthropology treat the imaginary as both a heuristic and a space of futurity? What social role can anthropology play in voicing potential futures otherwise? How can ethnographers engage differently with interlocutors’ imagined futures? Potential areas of inquiry include, but are not limited to, the following: - New technologies - Queering Progress - Novel Fictions/Anthrofictions - Nonhuman futures - Creativity and imagination - Climate and environment - Hope at the margins - Aging - Temporality of Markets - Policy Interested applicants should submit an individual abstract (250-300 words) in addition to brief biographies on or before July 1st to antcon(a)princeton.edu. Limited travel funds may be available TBD. *References* Benjamin, Ruha. “Racial Fictions, Biological Facts: Expanding the Sociological Imagination through Speculative Methods,” Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience: Vol 2, no. 2 (2016), 1-28. Ortner, Sherry B. “Dark Anthropology and Its Others: Theory since the Eighties.” HAU : Journal of Ethnographic Theory: Vol 6, no. 1 (2016): 47–73.

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Extended Deadline ISMI18 10 June 2018
by Niamh Ni Bhroin 30 May '18

30 May '18

EXTENDED DEADLINE Sunday 10 June 2018 Dear colleagues, we have received some interest in extending the deadline for submitting abstracts to ISMI18. We write to you therefore to inform you that the deadline is extended until 10 June 2018. Very best wishes, Niamh Call for Papers: The International Symposium on Media Innovations 2018 (ISMI18) Theme: Media Innovations and Good Lives We are pleased to announce that the seventh International Symposium on Media Innovations (ISMI18) will take place in Oslo, Norway on Friday 31st August and Saturday 1st September, 2018. Join us, along with a small group of international academic researchers and industry representatives, to discuss how innovations are developed in, influence, and transform contemporary media. We will discuss innovation and change in media technologies and services, organisational structures and management, and policies. We will also focus on questions relating to media production, journalism, media consumption and use. The theme for ISMI18 is ‘Media Innovations and Good Lives’. During our two-day event we will theorise media innovation and how this may relate, influence, and contribute to, living good lives in contemporary societies. At the same time, we will retain a focus on the presentation and discussion of empirical cases of media innovation in different organisations and contexts. We therefore welcome submissions that relate to the conference theme, such as: Media innovation and good lives; Media innovation and social transformation; Media innovation and ethical design; Media innovation and sustainable futures We also encourage submissions that relate to the broader field of media innovation research. These include, but are not limited to: Product Innovation; Process Innovation; Paradigm Innovation; Position Innovation; Genre Innovation; and, Social Innovation We are delighted to announce that our keynote lectures will be presented by: Professor Ann Light (Professor of Design & Creative Technology – Engineering and Design) at the University of Sussex: http://www.sussex.ac.uk/profiles/29619/publications AND Professor Dr. Homero Gil de Zúñiga (Professor of Media Change and Media Innovation) from the Media Innovation Lab at the Universtiy of Vienna: (http://milab.univie.ac.at/team/homero-gil-de-zuniga/) Deadlines and Dates: 10 June, 2018: Extended abstracts (max 750 words) due June, 2018: Notification of acceptance 30 June, 2018: Provisional Schedule announced 10 August, 2018: Full papers due 17 August 2018: Deadline for registration 24 August, 2018: Final programme announced All submissions will be peer-reviewed. Extended abstracts (750-words max) should be sent to our EMAIL address: symposium(a)mediainnovations.no<mailto:symposium@mediainnovations.no> Additional Information: The programme will consist mainly of academic presentations and debates. Panels discussing topics that are of particular relevance to the industry, and to the theme of the symposium, will also be included. A nominal fee will be charged for registration to the conference. A discount will be available for PhD and Masters students. An award for best paper will be announced during the conference. Selected papers from the symposium will also be published in a special issue of the Journal of Media Innovations (LINK: https://www.journals.uio.no/index.php/TJMI/) The International Symposium on Media Innovations is an annual symposium that is organized by the Centre for Research on Media Innovations at the Department of Media and Communication at the University of Oslo. It has also been held in Tallinn (2017) and Brussels (2013 and 2015). For more information see: http://www.hf.uio.no/imk/english/research/center/media-innovations/events/i… Niamh Ní Bhroin http://www.hf.uio.no/imk/personer/vit/niamhn/index.html Postdoktor Institutt for medier og kommunikasjon Universitetet i Oslo n.n.bhroin(a)media.uio.no<mailto:n.n.bhroin@media.uio.no>

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Public symposium with Richard Rogers, London, Thu 31st May 2018, 5pm
by Gray, Jonathan 30 May '18

30 May '18

Dear all, In case of interest, we have a public symposium with Richard Rogers (Chair in New Media & Digital Culture at the University of Amsterdam and Director of Digital Methods Initiative) at King’s College London on “Repurposing social media for social research? Questions after the fake news debacle” coming up on this Thursday 31st May 2018, 5-6pm. There will be a talk with Richard, followed by questions and discussion with Cornelia Reyes Acosta, Alessandro Gandini and myself. See below and the following link for further details: http://repurposing-social-media.eventbrite.com/ Please feel free to share with friends and colleagues. All the best, Jonathan ## Repurposing social media for social research? Questions after the fake news debacle ## Thu 31 May 2018, 5-6pm ## Safra Lecture Theatre, King's Building, Strand Campus, King's College London ## Register: http://repurposing-social-media.eventbrite.com/ A symposium on the future of research with social media, with a public talk from Professor Richard Rogers, Chair in New Media & Digital Culture at the University of Amsterdam, followed by questions and discussion with Cornelia Reyes Acosta, Alessandro Gandini and Jonathan Gray from the Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London. Social media data as source for empirical studies have recently come under renewed scrutiny, given the widespread deletion of Russian disinformation pages by Facebook as well as the suspension of Alt Right accounts by Twitter. Missing data is one issue, compounded by the fact that the ‘archives’ (CrowdTangle for Facebook and Gnip for Twitter) are also owned by the companies. Previously questions revolved around the extent to which corporate data collected for one purpose (e.g., advertising) could be employed by social science for another (e.g., political engagement). Social media data also could be said to be far from ‘good data’, since the platforms not only change and introduce new data fields (‘reactions’ on Facebook), but also increasingly narrow what’s available to researchers for privacy reasons. How to approach social media data these days? The symposium is an opportunity to debate the future of research with social media. Bio: Richard Rogers holds the Chair in New Media & Digital Culture at the University of Amsterdam. He is Director of the Digital Methods Initiative, dedicated to the study of the ‘natively digital’ and online epistemologies. He is also the Academic Director of the Netherlands National Research School for Media Studies (RMeS). Among other works, Rogers is author of Information Politics on the Web (MIT Press, 2004), awarded the best book of the year by the American Society of Information Science & Technology (ASIS&T), and Digital Methods (MIT Press, 2013) awarded Outstanding Book of the Year from the International Communication Association (ICA). Rogers is a three-time Ford Fellow and has received research grants from the Soros Foundation, Open Society Institute, Mondriaan Foundation, MacArthur Foundation and Gates Foundation. -- Jonathan Gray | jonathangray.org<http://jonathangray.org/> | @jwyg<http://twitter.com/jwyg> Lecturer in Critical Infrastructure Studies Department of Digital Humanities King’s College London

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