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by P. VIGNESWARA ILAVARASAN 17 May '18

17 May '18

*CALL FOR PAPERS* A Special Issue on Digital Nations - Smart Cities, Innovation & Sustainability Nations are rapidly transforming by leveraging on information and communication technologies (ICTs). The access to information and knowledge across the web enables new innovations and the creation of smart cities. Organisations and governments at all levels initiate ICT-driven programmes to stimulate innovation and address the needs of the key stakeholders. This results in radical changes in the way nations are organized. In "Digital India” the Government of India is implementing a national transformation enabled by ICTs. A major focus in such transformation is the access and provisioning of digital services (including e-government services) across the urban and rural citizens of the country through the Internet. Another such notable initiative is the Smart City projects. Initiatives, like Smart Cities, are likely to play a critical role (hence is a core component of) in urbanisation and such transformation across the nation. Other examples of such regional and national level initiatives are the European Innovation Partnership on Smart Cities and Communities and the Smart Cities plan of Australia. In the era of smart technologies, like Internet of things and big data analytics, these are becoming essential components for creating Smart Cities. These technologies are changing the way organisations leverage on their information assets in the wake of digitisation of products and processes. Sensors embedded in smart devices, like mobile phones and wearables, used by consumers are creating a wealth of data which can be used for social welfare. There has been a huge focus on the emergence of innovative business models, service models and offerings, through which the stakeholder’s value is being maximised. Sustainability of the key assets for any nation, like water resources, energy and green resources, can also be addressed using technology-enabled transformation initiatives. Pollution can be measured, energy markets created and goods can be traced. With the emergence of such innovation and technology-driven transformation, the interests of the different stakeholders needs to be balanced. The different stakeholders are gradually engaging in public life participation using social media platforms. For example, social initiatives like MyGov in India and Australia, REACH in Singapore and Mann ki Baat in India, are enabled through Telephony, Web 2.0 and Mobile Apps, are taking inputs from concerned citizens for actually improving the provisioning of public utilities and services envisioned from the government. Public policymakers need to respond to these changing dynamics of digital nations, for creating an ecosystem which will be sustainable, resilient and addresses the social, economic and digital needs of the society. This special issue of ISF aims to bring together a variety of disciplines for the advancement of knowledge regarding the adoption, use, impact and potential cases to pave the path for Digital Nations. To achieve this goal, literature review, theoretical and empirical papers employing quantitative, qualitative, and/or critical methods are welcomed for consideration. Themes of submission may include but are not limited to the following: - Social media and Web 3.0 for public participation - ICTs for enabling smart cities - Digital and Internet policy for urbanization - Cyber security, privacy and Information risk management - Big data analytics for enabling digital nations - Innovation driven urbanisation - Digital services management - Critical information infrastructure management - Smart supply chain management - Smart logistics and mobility - M2M and M2H intelligence in urbanization - Public policy for supporting digital transformation - Socio-economic and digital inclusion and transformation - Smart ICT adoption studies - Public policy for digital economies - Emerging ICTs like IoT, Blockchains, smart contracts, etc - Innovative models for E-Business and M-Business - Sustainability amidst digitization and urbanization - Open innovation and open data initiatives - Electronic and mobile governance - Management of smart grids, energy, renewables, using ICTs - Service science and cloud computing for digital transformation - Innovative case studies. *Forms of submission* This special issue will consist of 1) the best papers from an open call selected on a competitive basis from the 16th IFIP-I3E; and 2) invited papers that are requested from the editorial members. All submitted papers and invited papers will go through peer review; if an invited paper does not receive a satisfactory review, the paper will not be considered for the special issue. *Submission Instruction* Manuscripts must be submitted in word or latex format to the ISF-Springer online submission system at http://www.editorialmanager.com/isfi/. Paper submissions must conform to the format and submission guidelines of ISF, which is available at http://www.springer.com/business/business+information+systems/journal/10796. Submissions should be approximately up to 32 pages double spaced including references. *About Information Systems Frontiers * Information Systems Frontiers (ISF) is a high-ranking, international scholarly journal designed to bridge the contributing academic disciplines and provide a link between academia and industry. The central objective of ISF is to publish original, well-written, self-contained contributions that elucidate novel research and innovation in IS/IT which advance the field fundamentally and significantly. ISF is Abstracted/Indexed in ABI inform, CompuMath Citation Index, Computer Literature Index, Current Contents/Engineering, Computing and Technology, Information Science & Technology Abstracts (ISTA), Inspec, ISI Alerting Services, ISI Web of Science, Risk Abstracts, Science Citation Index Expanded, SCOPUS, Zentralblatt Math. *Guest Editors * *Prof. Arpan Kumar Kar* Department of Management Studies, IIT Delhi, India Email: arpankar(a)iitd.ac.in / arpan.kumar.kar(a)gmail.com *Prof. Vigneswara Ilavarasan* Department of Management Studies, IIT Delhi. Email: vignes(a)iitd.ac.in *Prof. MP Gupta* Department of Management Studies, IIT Delhi, India Email: mpgupta(a)iitd.ac.in *Prof. Marijn Janssen* Delft University of Technology, Netherlands Email: m.f.w.h.a.janssen(a)tudelft.nl *Prof. Ravi Kothari * Ashoka University, India Email: ravi.kothari(a)gmail.com *Important Dates (revised)* Paper submission deadline 30th May 2018 31st July 2018 Initial review report 30th Aug 2018 31st Oct, 2018 Revised manuscript due 15th Dec 2018 30th Dec, 2018 Second round of review report 30th Jan 2019 15th Feb, 2018 Final acceptance notification 28th Feb 2019 30th Mar, 2018 *About the Guest Editors* *Dr. Arpan Kumar Kar *teaches in the Department of Management Studies in Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India. His research interests are in the domain of e-business, social media, e-governance, data analytics and technology management. He has published over 70 articles in reputed journals and conferences which are available in Elsevier, IEEE, Springer, Taylor & Francis and Emerald. He is Managing Editor of Global Journal of e-Business & Knowledge Management and Associate Editor of Global Journal of Flexible Systems Management. He has earlier worked for Indian Institute of Management Rohtak, IBM Research Laboratory and Cognizant Business Consulting. He has handled multiple major research and consulting projects for private and public organizations under Government of India. He has also received multiple awards and recognitions for his research from reputed organizations like Association of Indian Management Schools, Tata Consultancy Services, Project Management Institute, IIM Rohtak. *Dr. Vigneswara Ilavarasan *is Associate Professor at the Dept. of Management Studies, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi. He researches and teaches about production and consumption of information and communication technologies (ICTs) with a special focus on India. His specific research interests are Information and Communication Technologies & Development (ICTD); Indian IT industry; and Social Media. He is an active contributor to the international journals and conferences of repute. He has been a Visiting Research Fellow at United Nations University - School of Computing and Society (Macau). He is a recipient of the Outstanding Young Faculty Fellowship Award at IIT Delhi and Prof. M.N. Srinivas Memorial Prize of the Indian Sociological Society. He is also a Research Fellow at LIRNEasia, a regional ICT policy and regulation think-tank. He has received large research grants from IDRC (Canada), Govt. of India, Oxford Analytica (UK), IPTS (European Commission) and IdeaCorp (Philippines). *Prof. MP Gupta *is Professor and Head at Management Department, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi; Chairman of Information Systems Area and also Dhananjaya Chair Professor. Known for pioneering works in the area of e-governance, he has been spending significant amount of resources in developing cases, tools and frameworks to promote e-governance research. These included 24 Doctoral thesis, 17 sponsored mega-projects, co-authored / edited 4 books and 200+ research papers. He has been closely following Government of India (GoI) National Plan on E-governance which developed subsequently into an umbrella program of ‘Digital India’. His studies have suitably fed into these programs in general and ‘Cyber Security Policy of India’ in particular. His recent interest lies into exploring some the issues of smart cities. He is also steering an European Union funded (Horizon-2020) project, which deals with the setting up of cluster to cluster partnerships between India and EU for the convergence of Future of Internet & Digital Media (FI-MEDIA). *Prof. Dr. Marijn Janssen *is a full Professor in ICT & Governance and chair of the Information and Communication Technology section of the Technology, Policy and Management Faculty of Delft University of Technology. He is also honorary visiting professor at Brunel University, London, UK since September 2015. His research interests are in the field of orchestration, shared services arrangements, and open and big data and infrastructures. He is co-editor-in-chief of Government Information Quarterly (GIQ), associate editor of International Journal of E-business Research (IJEBR), international Journal of E-Government Research (IJEGR), Decision Support Systems (DSS) and on the editorial board of Information Systems Frontiers (ISF), Transforming Government: People, Process & Policy (TGPPP) and Information Polity (IP), and conference chair of IFIP EGOV series and is chairing mini-tracks at the DG.o, ICEGOV, HICCS and AMCIS conferences. He was ranked as one of the leading e-government researchers in surveys in 2009, 2014 and 2016, and has published over 400 refereed publications. More information: www.tbm.tudelft.nl/marijnj. *Prof. Ravi Kothari* is presently a Professor in the Computer Science Department at Ashoka University. Prior to this, he was with IBM as an IBM Distinguished Engineer and the Chief Scientist of IBM Research - India, and prior to that, an Associate Professor (tenured) and Director of the Artificial Neural Systems Laboratory at the University of Cincinnati, OH (USA). Dr. Kothari has served as an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, Pattern Analysis and Applications (Springer) as well as on the program committees of various conferences. He was an IEEE Distinguished Visitor, a member of the IBM Academy of Technology and the IBM Industry Academy. He was a recipient of the 2008 Gerstner Award (IBM’s highest team award) and is a fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering. Best Regards, Vignesh. http://web.iitd.ac.in/~vignes/ ________________________________ P. VIGNESWARA ILAVARASAN, PhD Associate Professor Dept. of Management Studies Indian Institute of Technology Delhi Hauz Khas, New Delhi 110016 India M:+91 9910230407 (India); O: +91 11 2659 1174 E: vignes(a)iitd.ac.in W:http://web.iitd.ac.in/~vignes/

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Final Reminder: CFP Mediating Change Conference - deadline May 25
by Jacqueline Vickery 16 May '18

16 May '18

*MEDIATING CHANGE CONFERENCE* *Date:* November 1 & 2, 2018 *Where*: University of North Texas *Submission* *Deadline**: May 25, 2018* Full CFP & details on our website: https://www.mediatingchange conference.com/ *Goal* This interdisciplinary conference focuses on the roles of media in creating a more equitable, inclusive, sustainable, and just society. The goal is to bring scholars, media practitioners, educators, and/or activists together in one space so that we can all learn from and about each other’s research, creative projects, tools, and strategies. *Submissions* We are seeking submissions in 3 categories: paper presentations/pre-constituted panels, workshops, and creative exhibitions. See website for submission details. *Scope* Anyone whose work focuses on the intersections of media and justice is invited to apply; we are particularly interested in research, creative projects, pedagogy, and activism with a specific local or regional focus. We are also interested in collaborative and community-based research or creative projects; we encourage workshops and panels that include diverse populations including students, youth, and community leaders. We are conceptualizing both media and justice in the broadest senses of the words. We are open to media forms and practices that include, but are not limited to: - film, TV, podcasts or radio programs, digital and social media, webisodes, advertising and PR campaigns, mediated performances, augmented reality, video games, photography, zines, etc. Because we are interested in changes on multiple levels and in various sectors, we are conceptualizing justice to include issues such as but not limited to: - intersectional social justice (e.g. gender, ethnicity, sexuality, religion, ability), environmental justice, youth justice, criminal justice, immigration justice, media industry practices, representational inclusivity and equity, etc. Please circulate widely and don't hesitate to reach out if you have questions: MediatingChangeConference(a)gmail.com

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WEBCAST TODAY: Content Moderation at Scale (COMO) Summit in Washington DC #comoatscale
by Joly MacFie 16 May '18

16 May '18

As noted below this is a restream of last week's event, so don't bother trying to vote in the interactive segment. This was a really remarkable conference - fascinating to see the top Internet gatekeepers swapping notes. It concludes with Rebecca MacKinnon taking them all to task. [image: livestream] <https://livestream.com/internetsociety/comoatscale> Today, *Monday 14 May 2018* at *10am EDT* the *Internet Society Livestream Channel <https://livestream.com/internetsociety>* will restream the entire *Content Moderation at Scale Summit <http://comoatscale.com/>* that took place on May 7 in Washington DC. This event, the 2nd in a series, brought together content managers from top platforms such as facebook, Twitter, Google, Twitch, Github, and more to discuss their content policies and practices, and included an interactive session where the audience themselves had to make snap decisions on how to handle controversial posts. *View on Livestream: https://livestream.com/internetsociety/comoatscale <https://livestream.com/internetsociety/comoatscale> (auto-captions)* *Agenda: http://comoatscale.com/agenda/ <http://comoatscale.com/agenda/>* *Speakers: http://comoatscale.com/speakers/ <http://comoatscale.com/speakers/>* *Slides: http://comoatscale.com/conference-presentations/ <http://comoatscale.com/conference-presentations/>* *Twitter: #comoatscale http://bit.ly/comoatscale <http://bit.ly/comoatscale>* Comment <http://isoc-ny.org/p2/10224#respond> See all comments <http://isoc-ny.org/p2/10224#comments> *Permalink* *http://isoc-ny.org/p2/10224 <http://isoc-ny.org/p2/10224>* -- --------------------------------------------------------------- Joly MacFie 218 565 9365 Skype:punkcast -------------------------------------------------------------- -

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Call for participation: PDW at Academy of Management on Work in the Age of Intelligent Machines
by Kevin G Crowston 16 May '18

16 May '18

Call for Participation Work in the Age of Intelligent Machines<https://waim.network/node/748> Academy of Management Professional Development Workshop 9:30-12:30 CT 11 August 2018 Swisshotel, Chicago IL Quick links: Position statement submission<https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=waimaom2018> Registration<https://secure.aom.org/PDWReg/logon.asp> (by 9 August 2018) How work will be impacted by rapidly increasing technological capabilities has been a long-standing concern of many researchers from numerous disciplines. However, growing interest in the impacts of automation on work is beginning to compel researchers to form new coalitions across traditional disciplinary boundaries. This professional development workshop (PDW) at the Academy of Management Annual Meeting aims to promote disciplinary convergence among its participants in relation to work in the age of intelligent machines. Convergence is defined by the National Science Foundation as “the deep integration of knowledge, techniques, and expertise from multiple fields to form new and expanded frameworks” (NSF, 2017<https://www.nsf.gov/od/oia/convergence/index.jsp>). Using this idea as an organizing principle, the PDW will introduce participants to the idea that by embracing research from other disciplines, researchers can inform our emergent conceptual foundations and concomitant strategies in relation to the transformation of work via artificial intelligence. Three issues illustrate the implicit interdisciplinarity of work in the age of the intelligent machine. * First, most people spend the majority of their time working, an act that provides them not only with material rewards, but, for many, personal identity, social status and psychological well-being. As a result, designing work in the age of intelligent machines implicates workers on variety of levels, including attitudinal outcomes such as satisfaction or motivation, behavioral outcomes such as performance or turnover, cognitive outcomes such as learning or identity, and well-being outcomes, such as anxiety, stress or burnout. * Second, automation may cause not only shifts in the type of jobs and needed qualifications, but also in their location. For example, knowledge work is normally associated with a a shift from rural to urban jobs, but more automated transportation may extend commutes. It is critical therefore to identify and monitor the differential impact of intelligent machines along a variety of specific facets, such as workforce diversity, regional unemployment variations, or other issues of education, social class and race. * Third, there are important organization-level issues to consider as the core of the organization is automated. How, for example, will career paths shift if a system automates entry-level work? These and a myriad of additional examples point to an urgent need for cooperative integration among disciplines. It is only by this means that a better understanding of the interrelationships among machines, people, tasks, and organizations can be adequately assessed. Goals The PDW will pursue three goals: 1) identifying specific research problems around work and intelligent machines that require an interdisciplinary, convergent approach; 2) discussing how to develop a common language base that can facilitate interdisciplinary collaboration among researchers; and 3) imagining the necessary resources to support convergent research, including information and cyber-infrastructure needs. Participation To participate, please submit a short position statement that expresses your interest in intelligent machines and their impacts on and implications for work. We encourage participation from any disciplinary perspective, including (but not limited to) urban planning, computer science, sociology, information systems, transportation, economics, psychology, law, media studies, engineering, public policy, artificial intelligence—any perspective that can help foster convergent thinking around this increasingly important topic in our society. The following types of position statements are welcome: Track 1: Current Empirical Research: What is happening now? Position statements in this track should report on studies that examine the current state of the art with regard to intelligent machines and work. Track 2: Research questions: What will happen next? Position statements in this track should identify generative research questions and potential study designs. For any particular question, we are especially interested in identifying necessary empirical requirements, including data, site access, etc. What would be needed to answer your question? Statements should be submitted at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=waimaom2018. The deadline to register online<https://secure.aom.org/PDWReg/logon.asp> for the PDW is 9 August 2018. Venue The PDW will be held in conjunction with the Academy of Management Annual Meeting in Chicago, IL. The workshop will begin at 9:30 am CT on Saturday 11 Aug 2018 in the Swisshotel and run to lunch. An optional off-site lunch and meeting will enable participants to continue their discussions. Organizers Kevin Crowston, Syracuse University Mary Beth Watson-Manheim, University of Illinois, Chicago Ingrid Erickson, Syracuse University Jeffrey Nickerson, Stevens Institute of Technology Sponsorship This workshop is part of a series sponsored by the Research Collaboration Network on Work in the Age of Intelligent Machines<http://waim.network/> (NSF IIS-1745463). Contact All questions about submissions or the PDW should be emailed to aom18(a)waim.network Kevin Crowston Associate Dean for Research, Distinguished Professor of Information Science School of Information Studies +1 (315) 443.1676 crowston(a)syr.edu<mailto:crowston@syr.edu> 348 Hinds Hall, Syracuse, NY 13244 crowston.syr.edu <http://crowston.syr.edu/> Syracuse University Most recent publications: Jackson, C. B., Crowston, K., Østerlund, C., & Harandi, M. (2018). Folksonomies to support coordination and coordination of folksonomies. Computer Supported Cooperative Work. doi:10.1007/s10606-018-9327-z Lee, T. Kyoung, Crowston, K., Harandi, M., Østerlund, C., & Miller, G.. (2018). Appealing to different motivations in a message to recruit citizen scientists: results of a field experiment. Journal of Science Communication. doi:10.22323/2.17010202 Crowston, K., & Fagnot, I.. (2018). Stages of motivation for contributing user-generated content: A theory and empirical test. International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, 109, 89-101. doi:10.1016/j.ijhcs.2017.08.005 Check out our new research coordination network on Work in the Age of Intelligent Machine: http://waim.network/

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ICDIM 2018
by ijwa＠dline.info 16 May '18

16 May '18

Thirteenth International Conference on Digital Information Management (ICDIM 2018) September 24-26, 2018 Berlin, Germany http://www.icdim.org Technically Co-sponsored by IEEE Technology and Engineering Management Society Following the successful earlier conferences at Bangalore (2006), Lyon (2007), London (2008), Michigan (2009) , Thunder Bay (2010), Melbourne (2011), Macau (2012), Islamabad (2013), Bangkok (2014) Jeju (2015) Porto (2016) and Fukuoka (2017), the Thirteenth event is being organized at Berlin, Germany in 2018. The International Conference on Digital Information Management is a multidisciplinary conference on digital information management, science and technology. The principal aim of this conference is to bring people in academia, research laboratories and industry together, and offer a collaborative platform to address the emerging issues and solutions in digital information science and technology. Digital Information technologies are gaining maturity and rapid momentum in adoption across disciplines. The digital community is producing new ways of using digital information technologies for integrating and making sense out of various data ranging from real/live streams and simulations to analytics data analysis, in support of mining of knowledge. The conference will feature original research and industrial papers on the theory, design, and implementation of digital information systems, as well as demonstrations, tutorials, workshops and industrial presentations. The Thirteenth International Conference on Digital Information Management will be held during September 24-26, 2018 at Berlin, Germany The topics in ICDIM 2018 include but are not confined to the following areas. Information Retrieval Data Grids, Data and Information Quality Big Data Management Data Warehouses and Data Mining Web Mining including Web Intelligence and Web 3.0 E-Learning, eCommerce, e-Business and e-Government Natural Language Processing XML and other extensible languages Web Metrics and its applications Enterprise Computing Semantic Web, Ontologies and Rules Human-Computer Interaction Artificial Intelligence and Decision Support Systems Knowledge Management Ubiquitous Systems Peer to Peer Data Management Interoperability Mobile Data Management Data Models for Production Systems and Services Data Exchange issues and Supply Chain Data Life Cycle in Products and Processes Case Studies on Data Management, Monitoring and Analysis Security and Access Control Information Content Security Mobile, Ad Hoc and Sensor Network Security Distributed information systems Information visualization Web services Quality of Service Issues Multimedia and Interactive Multimedia Image Analysis and Image Processing Video Search and Video Mining Cloud Computing Intelligence Systems Artificial Intelligence Applications SUBMISSIONS AT http://www.icdim.org/submission.html Co-located Workshops Fourth Workshop on Internet of Everything (IoE 2018) Fourth International Workshop on 'Future Big Data' (FBD 2018) Fourth Workshop on Intelligent Information Systems (IIS 2018) Seventh Workshop on "Advanced Techniques on Data Analytics and Data Visualization" (ATDADV 2018) Sixth International Workshop on Data Science (IWDS 2018) Modified version of the selected papers will appear in the special issues of the following peer reviewed journals. 1. Journal on Data Semantics 2. Technologies 3. Data Technologies and Applications 4. Webology 5. Journal of Digital Information Management 6. International Journal of Computational Linguistics Important Dates Full Paper Submission: July 08, 2018 Notification of Acceptance/Rejection: August 08, 2018 Registration: September 10, 2018 Camera Ready: September 10, 2018 Workshops/Tutorials/Demos: September 13, 2017 Main conference September: 24-26, 2018 SUBMISSIONS AT http://www.icdim.org/submission.html Program Committee General Chair Stefan Covaci, Technische University at Berlin, Germany Thomas Jell, Siemens, Germany Program Chairs Pit Pichappan, Digital Information Research Labs, India & UK Simon Fong, University of Macau, Macau Yao-Liang Chung, National Taiwan Ocean University, Taiwan Co-Chairs Manabu Ohta, Okayama University, Japan Robert Bierwolf, IEEE TEMS, Netherlands Feliz Lustenberger, Espros Photonics Corporation, Switzerland SUBMISSIONS AT http://www.icdim.org/submission.html Contact: conference at icdim.org

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Software or tool for video analysis, forum-scraping
by Nancy Van House 16 May '18

16 May '18

MaxQDA does what you ask.

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[update] deadline approaching for Histories of Computing in Eastern Europe workshop
by Chris Leslie 16 May '18

16 May '18

Please forward among your colleagues and networks … Call for Papers Histories of Computing in Eastern Europe IFIP Working Group 9.7 Part of the 24th IFIP World Congress Poznan University of Technology, Poland 19-21 September 2018 The conference committee has begun to review papers for our history of computing workshop at the next IFIP World Computing Congress, which will be held in Poznan, Poland. Draft papers may be submitted any time before June 15. IFIP’s Working Group 9.7, which is dedicated to international histories of computing, is sponsoring a series of papers on 19-21 September as part of the next IFIP World Congress. Given the World Congress’s location, we are particularly interested in histories that reflect computing and informatics in eastern Europe. Academic historians and lovers of history, computing and informatics professionals, archivists, museum curators, and others are welcome to submit papers. More information about the workshop is available on the working group website (http://ifipwg97.org) As has been the working group's past practice, we request submission of draft papers for consideration. Accepted papers will be revised based on comments from reviewers and be distributed to participants before the workshop to ensure a lively conversation. After the workshop, authors will have the chance to incorporate feedback from the audience before submitting their final papers for consideration in the edited volume of selected papers for the proceedings, which will be published by Springer as a volume in the IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology (IFIP-AICT) series. In order to participate, please submit a draft of your paper via the Springer Online Conference Service. The OCS portal for this workshop is available at https://ocs.springer.com/ocs/home/HCEE2018. Review of draft papers will continue until June 15. Revised versions of accepted papers will be distributed to conference participants on September 1. Enquires in advance of your submission or questions about Springer OCS may be addressed to the chair of the working group, Chris Leslie (chrisleslienyc(a)hotmail.com<mailto:chrisleslienyc@hotmail.com>).

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three positions, Department of Media and Communication, University of Oslo
by Charles M. Ess 16 May '18

16 May '18

Dear AoIRists, Screen Cultures is a teaching-driven research group centered around an international MA program, starting up at the Department in the fall of 2019 (<https://www.hf.uio.no/imk/english/research/researchareas/screen-cultures/>) Three positions are now available for application, including the Associate Professor position which, while affiliated with the Screen Cultures for the first five years, is a permanent position: <https://www.jobbnorge.no/en/available-jobs/job/151862/associate-professor-i…> The project also entails a lecturer and a post-doc position: <https://www.jobbnorge.no/en/available-jobs/job/151860/lecturer-in-media-stu…> <https://www.jobbnorge.no/en/available-jobs/job/151857/post-doctoral-researc…> IMHO, the research project and MA program are most interesting and promising in any number of ways. I am especially enthusiastic as these include a strong focus on developing _critical_ perspectives and approaches. These are much needed, in my view, as both vital counters to tendencies towards techno-optimism and uncritical embrace of corporate-driven agendas, and, more positively, as contributing to rapidly developing frameworks for ICT design that are more squarely focused on human needs and interests for good and sustainable lives of flourishing. Last but not least: I don't think it is possible, even for me, to overstate the quality and fruitfulness of life and work at the Department and in Norway: the possibilities and opportunities for thriving here are simply exceptional. Hence, I cannot endorse these opportunities too strongly. Please pass along to potentially interested candidates. Many thanks in advance, - charles ess -- Professor in Media Studies Department of Media and Communication University of Oslo <http://www.hf.uio.no/imk/english/people/aca/charlees/index.html> Postboks 1093 Blindern 0317 Oslo, Norway c.m.ess(a)media.uio.no

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cases in which data-driven decision-making went awry
by Sheryl Grant 15 May '18

15 May '18

I apologize in advance that this is an imperfectly phrased query. In short, I'm looking for literature about terrible data governance and related issues. Basically, what happens when there are errors in automated data systems, how those errors might have occurred, and what institutions do (or don't) when they discover those errors. Ideally, cases would describe the technical bits as well as the human choices made. Another way to say it is that my colleagues and I are looking for investigations into data-driven decision-making gone awry. I've read Kathy O'Neill's Weapons of Math Destruction, which was excellent, and now I'm looking for more specific cases, if they exist. Thanks, Sheryl Grant

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Data Collection in Reddit
by Xanat Meza 15 May '18

15 May '18

Hello members! In our department, we are planning a study about the expression of phobias in social networks. I would like to know any software recommendations to download: a) Reddit posts and b) Information about Reddit users. If anyone has literature related to Reddit and psychology, we would be grateful too. Regards, Xanat V. Meza Ph.D. candidate - Kansei, Behavioral and Brain SciencesUniversity of Tsukuba M.A. Media and Communication Yeungnam University B.D. Graphic Communication Design Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana

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