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10th IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing Technology and Science (CloudCom 2018): Third Call for Contributions
by Announce Announcements 27 Apr '18

27 Apr '18

**** Third CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS **** (Papers, Tutorial/Workshop Proposals, Posters, Demos, PhD cons) The 10th IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing Technology and Science (CloudCom 2018) Hilton Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus, 10-13 December, 2018 http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=YWlyLUwJCQlhaXItTEBsaXN0c2Vydi… CloudCom is the premier conference on Cloud Computing worldwide, attracting researchers, developers, users, students and practitioners from the fields of big data, systems architecture, services research, virtualization, security and privacy, high performance computing, always with an emphasis on how to build cloud computing platforms with real impact. The conference is co-sponsored by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), is steered by the Cloud Computing Association, and draws on the excellence of its world-class Program Committee and its participants. CloudCom 2018 will be held in Nicosia, Cyprus between 10-13 December, 2018. TOPICS OF INTEREST Topics of interest of CloudCom 2018 are grouped into four tracks: · Architecture, Storage and Virtualization · Cloud Services and Applications · Security, Privacy and Trust · Edge Computing and Distributed Cloud The (non-exhaustive) list of topics for each track is as follows: Track 1: Architecture, Storage and Virtualization Chairs: Luiz F. Bittencourt, University of Campinas (UNICAMP), Brazil, Ivona Brandic, TU-Wien, Austria · Intercloud architecture models · Virtual Machines (VMs), containers, unikernels and microservices · Cloud services delivery models, campus integration & ìlast mileî issues · Virtualization technology and enablers (network virtualization, software-defined networking) · Networking technologies · Cloud system design with FPGAs, GPUs, APUs · Storage & file systems · Scalability & performance · Resource provisioning, monitoring, management & maintenance · Operational, economic & business models · Green data centers · Computational resources, storage & network virtualization · Resource monitoring · Virtual desktops · Resilience, fault tolerance, disaster recovery · Modeling & performance evaluation · Disaster recovery · Energy efficiency Track 2: Cloud Services and Applications Chairs: Laura Ricci, University of Pisa, Italy, Beniamino Di Martino, Seconda Universitaí di Napoli, Italy · XaaS (everything as a service including IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS) · Cloud services models & frameworks · Service deployment and orchestration in the Cloud · Cloud service management · Cloud workflow management · Cloud services reference models & standardization · Cloud-powered services design · Cloud elasticity · Machine learning and systems interactions · Data management applications & services · Service for computing-intensive applications · Mining and analytics · Data-provisioning services · Cloud programming models, benchmarks, and tools · Cloud-based services & protocols · Fault-tolerance & availability of cloud services and applications · Application development and debugging tools · Business models & economics of cloud services Track 3: Security, Privacy and Trust Chairs: Martin Gilje Jaatun, University of Stavanger, Norway, Barbara Carminati, Insubria, Italy · Accountability & audit · Authentication & authorization · Cloud integrity · Blockchain Cloud services · Cryptography in the Cloud · Hypervisor security · Identity management & security as a service · Prevention of data loss or leakage · Secure, interoperable identity management · Trust & credential management · Trust models for cloud services · Usable security Risk management in cloud computing environments · Privacy policy framework for clouds · Privacy-preserving data mining for clouds · Information sharing and data protection in the cloud · Cryptographic protocols against internal attacks in clouds · Privacy protection in cloud platforms · Energy/cost/efficiency of security in clouds Track 4: Edge Computing and Distributed Cloud Chairs: Antonio Fernandez Anta, IMDEA, Spain, Sarunas Girdzijauskas, KTH, Sweden · Cloudlet-enabled applications · Distributed Cloud Infrastructure · Foundations and principles of distributed cloud computing · Architectural models, prototype implementations and applications · Cloud brokers and coordination across multiple resource managers · Interoperability and mobility · Software infrastructure for cloudlets · Dynamic resource, service and context management on edge computing · Fog Computing · IoT cloud architectures & models · Cloud-based context-aware IoT · Economics and pricing · Experience with and performance evaluation of existing deployments and measurements (public, private, hybrid, federated environments) PAPER SUBMISSION GUIDELINES Submitted papers must not substantially overlap papers that have been published or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal or a conference with proceedings. Authors must submit their papers by the deadline indicated below, using the EasyChair submission system: http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=YWlyLUwJCQlhaXItTEBsaXN0c2Vydi… . Only PDF files will be accepted. Manuscripts need to be prepared according to the IEEE CS format (https://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.ht…) All regular paper submissions should be written in English with a maximum paper length of 8 pages. All submitted papers will be reviewed by at least three experts. Accepted papers must be presented at the conference. At least one author of each accepted paper must register to the conference, by the early date indicated by the organizers, and present the paper. The conference proceedings of CloudCom 2018 will be published by IEEE Conference Publishing Service with ISBN and ISSN, and submitted to IEEE Xplore and indexing services such as Ei Compendex. Distinguished papers will be recommended for fast-track publication in the IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing or invited to be included within a number of special issues in prestigious international journals. CALL FOR TUTORIAL AND WORKSHOP PROPOSALS IEEE CloudCom 2018 is soliciting proposals for full-day / half-day workshops and Tutorials to be held in conjunction with IEEE CloudCom 2018. For more information on the tutorials and workshops and for the complete Call for Tutorial and Workshop Proposals, please see the conference website. CALL FOR POSTERS, DEMOS & SHORT PAPERS (Late-breaking Results) Authors are invited to submit their research work as a poster, demo or short paper (late-breaking results) to the CloudCom 2018 conference. For the complete Call for Call for Posters, Demos & Short Papers (Late-breaking Results) please see the conference website. CALL FOR PH.D. CONSORTIUM A Ph.D. consortium will be held in conjunction with IEEE CloudCom 2018 in Nicosia, Cyprus. For the complete Call for Ph.D. consortium, please see the conference website. IMPORTANT DATES · Workshop Proposals Due: 30 April 2018 · Tutorial Proposals Due: 30 June 2018 · Regular Papers Due: 15 June 2018 · Ph.D. Consortium Papers Due: 31 August 2018 · Short Papers, Posters and Demos Due: 31 August 2018 · Notification of Paper Acceptance: 14 September 2018 · Camera Ready: 08 October 2018 · Author Registration: 15 October 2018 ORGANIZING COMMITTEE GENERAL CHAIR · George Angelos Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus PROGRAM CHAIRS · George Pallis, University of Cyprus, Cyprus · Sebastien Varrette, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg PROGRAM TRACK CHAIRS · Antonio Fernandez Anta, IMDEA, Spain · Luiz F. Bittencourt, University of Campinas (UNICAMP), Brazil · Ivona Brandic, TU-Wien, Austria · Barbara Carminati, Insubria, Italy · Martin Gilje Jaatun, University of Stavanger, Norway · Sarunas Girdzijauskas, KTH, Sweden · Beniamino Di Martino, Seconda Universitaí di Napoli, Italy · Laura Ricci, University of Pisa, Italy WORKSHOPS & TUTORIALS CO-CHAIRS · Domenico Talia, University of Calabria, Italy · Dimitrios Tsoumakos, Ionian University, Greece PH.D. COMSORTIUM CHAIR · Achilleas Achilleos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus SHORT PAPERS, POSTERS & DEMO CHAIR · Ioannis Konstantinou, NTUA, Greece PUBLICITY CHAIR · Achilleas Achilleos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus

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INTECH 2018
by ijwa＠dline.info 27 Apr '18

27 Apr '18

CALL FOR PAPERS Eighth International Conference on Innovative Computing Technology (INTECH 2018) Luton, UK August 15-17, 2018 www.dirf.org/intech Technically Co-sponsored by IEEE, UK & RI (IEEE Xplore Indexing) CALL FOR PAPERS The First International Conference on Innovative Computing Technology (INTECH 2011) was held at Sao Carlos in Brazil followed by the Second International Conference on Innovative Computing Technology (INTECH 2012) at Casablanca in Morocco. The INTECH 2013 and INTECH 2014 were organized at London and Luton, UK respectively. The INTECH 2015 was organized by the Atlantic Research Centre for Information and Communication Technologies of the University of Vigo, Spain. The INTECH 2016 was at Dublin, Ireland followed by the INTECH 2017 at Luton, UK. The INTECH 2018 will be held at London, and it offers the opportunity for institutes, research centers, engineers, scientists and industrial companies to share their latest investigations, researches, developments and ideas in area of Innovative Computing Technology, which covers huge topics. The INTECH intends to address various innovative computing techniques involving various applications. This forum will address a large number of themes and issues. The conference will feature original research and industrial papers on the theory, design and implementation of computing technologies, as well as demonstrations, tutorials, workshops and industrial presentations. This conference (INTECH 2018) will include presentations of contributed papers by invited keynote speakers. Conference papers will include innovative computing paradigms in the following topics: Network and Information Security Innovative Computing Systems and Applications in S & T domains such as – Algorithms Applied Information Systems Artificial Intelligence and Decision Support Systems Broadcasting Technology Cloud Computing Computational Intelligence Data and Network mining Data Stream Processing in Mobile/Sensor Networks Database Systems Digital Image/Video Processing E-Learning, e-Commerce, e-Business and e-Government Electronics Environmental modeling and precision agriculture Fault Classification and Pattern Recognition Green Computing Grid computing Human-Computer Interaction Intelligent Condition Monitoring Mobile network and systems Multimedia and Interactive Multimedia Payment Systems Peer-to-peer social networks Precision Farming Web Farming Signal Processing Soft Computing: Fuzzy and Neural Network Systems, optimization algorithms Software Engineering Intelligent Farming: Web farming, Web irrigation Ubiquitous Computing User Interfaces, Visualization and Modeling Virtual Reality Visualization Web services WWW Applications and Technologies XML and other Extensible Languages The INTECH proceedings will also be indexed by dblp. All the papers will be reviewed and the accepted papers in the conference will be submitted to IEEE Xplore for indexing and will be indexed in many global databases.In addition, all the accepted papers (for Journals) will be published in the following special issues journals after substantial revision and modification. Journal of Digital Information Management (JDIM) Computers Journal of Engineering and Applied Sciences Computer Languages, Systems and Structures Studies in Informatics and Control International Journal of Computers Communications & Control International Journal of Information Management International Journal of Communication Systems General Chairs Ezendu Ariwa, University of Bedfordshire, UK Saju Mohanan, Oman College of Higher Technology, Oman Ramiro Sámano Robles, Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto, Portugal Program Chairs Jack Fernando Bravo-Torres, Universidad Politécnica Salesiana, Ecuador Francesco Piccialli, University of Naples “Federico II”, Italy Anabela Mesquita, Instituto Superior de Contabilidade e Administraç?o do Porto, Portugal Jolanta Pietraszko Opole University, Poland Workshop Chairs Francisca Oladipo, Federal University Lokoja, Nigeria Paula Peres, Instituto Superior de Contabilidade e Administraç?o do Porto, Portugal Rui Bertuzi, Instituto Superior de Contabilidade e Administraç?o do Porto, Portugal Submissions at- http://dirf.org/intech/paper-submission/ IMPORTANT DATES Submission of papers: June 01, 2018 Notification of Acceptance/Rejection: July 01, 2018 Camera Ready: August 01, 2018 Registration: August 01, 2018 Conference: August 15-17, 2018 Contact: intech @ dirf.org OR intech @ socio.org.uk ------------------------------------

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_book chapters: THE SERIOUS STORYTELLING HANDBOOK - 30th June 2018 || data storytelling || storytelling outside entertainment || hci || health || eductation || games || eLearning || multimedia
by Artur Lugmayr 27 Apr '18

27 Apr '18

===================================================================== ===================================================================== ===================================================================== Call for Book Chapters Proposals THE SERIOUS STORYTELLING HANDBOOK Storytelling outside the Entertainment Context to Engage, Enlighten, and Explain in Serious Games, Data Storytelling, User-Experience, AI, Health, eLearning, Science, Digital Media, and Business/Management The handbook is transdisciplinary and should address technology, human, storytelling, and business issues in the fields of entertainment computation, human-computer-interaction, media technology and design, information systems research, multimedia, data science, digital games, eLearning, eHealth, and digital media scholars. Artur Lugmayr, Helmut Hlavacs, and Calkin Suero Montero (Eds.) Published by Chapman&Hall/CRC Taylor&Francis Group The book will be the pilot book for the new Series on Emerging Media Technology and User-Experience Computation, published by Chapman&Hall/ CRC Taylor&Francis Group. UPCOMING DEADLINE: June 30th 2018 - Expression of Interest and/or Final Chapters CONTACT: artur.lugmayr(a)artur-lugmayr.com BOOK WEBSITE http://www.artur-lugmayr.com/crc-emu-series/serious-storytelling/ SUBMISSION SYSTEM http://www.ambientmediaassociation.org/Submissions/2017Story/ NEWSLETTER http://www.ambientmediaassociation.org/phplist/?p=subscribe ===================================================================== ===================================================================== ===================================================================== “Storytelling outside the context of entertainment, where the narration progresses as a sequence of patterns impressive in quality, relates to a serious context, and is a matter of thoughtful process.” Serious storytelling - a First Definition and Review A. Lugmayr, E. Sutinen, J. Suhonen, C. Sedano, H. Hlavacs, C. Montero Multimedia Tools and Applications 76(14),pp. 15707-15733, 2016 In human culture, storytelling has a long tradition. The reasons why stories have been told are manifold: to entertain, to transfer knowledge between generations, to keep cultural heritage, or to warn others of dangers. With the emergence of the digitalization of media many new possibilities to tell stories emerged in serious and non-entertainment contexts. A very simple example is the idea of serious gaming - thus digital games without primarily an entertainment purpose. Within this handbook, we generalize the approach of serious games, on other genres of digital storytelling, and call for handbook typical contributions which introduce „serious storytelling: storytelling with a purpose beyond entertainment“ as new approach. We seek for handbook alike contributions, reviews of existing application areas, established theories and methods, fundamental concepts, ground breaking research results in a transdisciplinary approach. The handbook shall range across domains, and illustrate storytelling outside an entertainment context in e.g. data science, artificial intelligence, well-being and health, medicine, psychology, education, ethical problem solving, eLeadership, and business/management, robotics, storytelling in deep learning and big data, qualitative journalism, serious games, storytelling in simulations, HCI research and storytelling, VR/AR training, user-experience studies, and online communication. If you want to learn more about the idea of serious storytelling, please consult the journal article that has been introducing this new idea: A. Lugmayr, E. Sutinen, J. Suhonen, C. Sedano, H. Hlavacs, C. Montero, Serious storytelling - a First Definition and Review, Multimedia Tools and Applications 76(14),pp. 15707-15733, 2016. THEMES AND TOPICS ===================================================================== The handbook is suited for people with interest in entertainment computation, human-computer-interaction, media technology and design, information systems research, multimedia, data science, digital games, eLearning, eHealth, new media scholars, and visualisation. • Storytelling in/for data science, AI, Big Data, and deep learning • Storytelling in HCI and User-Experience research • Human-Computer-Interaction supporting serious storytelling • Animation, graphics, 3D, VR, and AR storytelling • Serious storytelling in business, leadership, and law • Education and serious storytelling • Digital forensics and storytelling • Storytelling and social media • Anthropological perspectives of serious storytelling • Storytelling as part of the innovation process • Medicine, wellness, and therapy and storytelling • Storytelling in science, and scientific PR and publishing • Automated generation of stories • New computational paradigms (e.g. quantum computing) in storytelling • Narrative form, structure, and expression • Media technology, multimedia, and entertainment computation • Theories, methods, frameworks, and concepts • Your idea? CONTRIBUTIONS ===================================================================== We seek for full research papers, literature surveys, technical solutions, surveys of the field, theory of storytelling, essays, state of the art descriptions, best practices in real life projects, and point of views and critique of the topic. As it's a handbook, contributions not essentially need to be new, we also seek for proofed concepts, methods, existing projects, and ideas that contribute to a handbook type of book. We would like to focus on shaping a NOVEL research direction, and define Digital Serious Storytelling as a new research pathway. Therefore, we are seeking for establishing theory. As we would like to have a tightly controlled editing process, we will mix authors of different contributions as well as we will step into the chapter authoring processes as it is required to get a red line through the book. We would not like to have an edited book consisting of a set of loosely connected chapters. We want to create a reference book, which will have impact, and act as teaching reference. SUBMISSION DEADLINES ===================================================================== • June 30th 2018: Expression of Interest and Intend to Submit a Chapter (or Final Chapters) • July 30th 2018: Invitation of a Selected set of Expression of Interests as Final Full Chapter • Sept. 30th 2018: Final Full Chapters (also authors who did not submit an expression of interest can contribute) • Nov. 30th 2018: Review Results to Authors after (Double Blinded Review) • Jan., 15th 2019: Final Chapters Due SUBMISSION GUIDELINES ===================================================================== Please format your submission according the guidelines in: https://www.crcpress.com/assets/images/crc/T%26F%20Text%20Preparation%20Ins… (Microsoft Word) or https://www.crcpress.com/assets/images/crc/T%26F%20Text%20Preparation%20Ins… (LaTeX) Expressions of interests should contain title, author information, short one sentence pitch of the proposed chapter, perspective of the chapter (technical, business, computer science, HCI, new media, data science....), author short bios, author pictures, 1500 word description of the contribution, own research publication contributing the final book chapters, and list of references to be considered for the final contribution. Authors are encouraging to submit final chapters as their expression of interest, and these efforts will be rewarded and help us to decide upon the final accepted chapters. However, we also fully consider thoroughly written expression of interests, which are contributing directly to the book, and will invite a selected set of high quality contributions to submit a final full chapter. Authors who did not submit an expression of interest, are encouraged to submit a final chapter at the final chapter due date. We only accept submissions through the submission system. If you have multiple files (e.g. word document, pdf, and multiple figures) to submit, please upload ALL THE FILLES AS A .ZIP ARCHIEVE to the submission system. The submission system can be found on: http://www.ambientmediaassociation.org/Submissions/2017Story/ ABOUT THE SERIES ===================================================================== The book will be published as part of a new series. The Chapman & Hall/CRC Emerging Media and User-Experience Computation Series presents cross-disciplinary research, case studies, and insights into media technology, media business, and media design. The series will cover many topics of interest, including, but not limited to: advancements in media technology, animation, media design, music, robotics, video, content production, information systems, content systems, interactive media, visual effects, asset management, design approaches, user-experience, quality of experience, simulation, serious games, digital games, augmented reality, and virtual reality. The series is cross-disciplinary, and seeks contributions from computer science, media design, human-computer- interaction, psychology, (mass)-communication, information systems, and business viewpoints. If you are considering a separate book proposal for the series, please do not hesitate to contact the series editor and consult the series website on http://emu.artur-lugmayr.com. The book will be the pilot book for the new Series on Emerging Media Technology and User-Experience Computation, published by Chapman&Hall/ CRC Taylor&Francis Group. If you would like to contribute to the series with an own book chapter proposal, please consult the series website: http://emu.artur-lugmayr.com.

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Work-in-Progress/Poster CFP: IEEE CyberSciTech 2018, Aug. 12-15, Athens, Greece
by Kevin I-Kai Wang 27 Apr '18

27 Apr '18

?[Our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP] --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The 3rd IEEE Cyber Science and Technology Congress (CyberSciTech 2018) http://cyber-science.org/2018/ Athens, Greece, 12-15 August 2018 IEEE CyberSciTech 2018 will be held in August 12-15, 2018 in Athens, Greece, co-located with IEEE DASC 2018, IEEE DataCom 2018 and IEEE PICom 2018. IEEE CyberSciTech 2018 welcomes submissions of posters, Work-in-Progress (WiP) papers describing on-going research progress. We welcome submissions within the scope of the main conference, with topics including (but not limited to): Cyberspace & Cyber Security - Cyberspace Structure, Property & Ecology - SDN, 5G and Advanced Networks - Cloud, Fog, Edge & Green Computing - Big Data Science, Technology & Service - Cyber Security & Sustainable Ecosystem - Cyber Crime, Forensics, Warfare & Defense - Blockchain & Distributed Ledger Tech (DLT) Cyber Physical Computing & Systems - Cyber-Physical System & Interface - Embedded System and Software - Autonomous Robots & Vehicles - Internet of Things (IoT) - Smart Objects, Systems & Environments - Virtual, Augmented & Mixed Reality - Wearable/Implantable Computing Cyber Social Computing & Networks - Social Networking & Computing - Computational Social Science - Cyber Culture & Relations - Crowd Sourcing, Sensing & Cooperation - Cyber Education, Economics, Politics - Cyber Privacy, Trust & Ethics - Cyber Social Right, Policy & Laws Cyber Intelligence, Life & Mind - Cyber/Digital/Artificial Brain and AI - Cyber Life and Human Centric Computing - Cyborg & Human/Brain Machine Interface - Cyber Medicine, Healthcare & Psychology - Activity/Behavior/Mind Recognition - Affective/Emotional/Mental Computing - Personal Big Data & Personality Computing IMPORTANT DATES -------------------------- WiP/Poster Paper Due: May 15, 2018 Authors Notification: ?June 5, 2018 Camera-ready Submission: June 19, 2018 SPECIAL ISSUES -------------------------- http://cyber-science.org/2018/si.html World Wide Web Journal, Topic: "Smart Computing and Cyber Technology for Cyberization" Information Systems Frontiers, Topic: "Mitigating Cyber Threats and Defense in Data Intensive Smart Cities" Information Fusion, Topic: "Data Fusion in Heterogeneous Networks" IEEE Access, Topic: "Towards Service-Centric Internet of Things (IoT): From Modeling to Practice" Computers & Electrical Engineering, Topic: "Advanced Techniques and Emerging Trends in Cyber-Social Computing" Information Sciences, "Safety and Security for Ubiquitous Computing and Communications" WORKSHOP & SPECIAL SESSIONS -------------------------- http://cyber-science.org/2018/workshops-special-sessions.html The 3rd International Workshop on Emerging Dependable Computing System Technologies and Applications The 1st International Workshop on Healthcare with Intelligent Sensing, System, and Data Special Session on Cyber Social Computing and Cyber-Enabled Applications Special Session on Computing and Applications for Cyber Internet of Things Special Session on CyBerSciTech Smart and Sustainable IT SUBMISSION GUIDELINES ---------------------------------- Authors are invited to submit their original work that has not previously been submitted or published in any other venue. Work-in-Progress (WiP), workshop/special session, poster papers all need to be in IEEE CS format and via EDAS https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=24490. A WiP, workshop, or special session paper should be between 4-6 pages and a poster paper should be between 2-4 pages. All accepted papers in the Work-in-Progress and poster tracks will be published in an IEEE Computer Society proceedings (EI indexed). Extended versions of selected excellent papers will be considered for publication in special issues of prestige journals (SCI/EI indexed).

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"Facebook's data changes will hamper research and oversight, academics warn"
by Michael T Zimmer 27 Apr '18

27 Apr '18

ICYMI, numerous internet researchers — lead by AoIR president Axel Bruns — recently published an op-ed warning that Facebook’s recent changes that restrict access to data via APIs threaten to hamper research and oversight of the social network (and likely won't do much to protect user privacy). Read the op-ed at Internet Policy Review: https://policyreview.info/articles/news/facebook-shuts-gate-after-horse-has… And related coverage at The Guardian: https://policyreview.info/articles/news/facebook-shuts-gate-after-horse-has… Thanks, Axel, for leading this charge! Michael Zimmer -- Michael Zimmer, PhD Associate Professor, School of Information Studies Director, Center for Information Policy Research University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee e: zimmerm(a)uwm.edu<mailto:zimmerm@uwm.edu> t: @michaelzimmer w: www.michaelzimmer.org<http://www.michaelzimmer.org>

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WEBCAST FRI/SAT: Theorizing the Web #TtW18
by Joly MacFie 27 Apr '18

27 Apr '18

This is our 3rd year streaming this unique event, which brings radical sociologic analysis to Internet affairs. [image: livestream] <http://bit.ly/ttw18live>On *Friday/Saturday April 27-28 2018* the 8th annual *Theorizing the Web* <http://theorizingtheweb.org/ttw18/> conference will take place at the Museum of the Moving Image in NYC. Theorizing the Web is an inter- and non-disciplinary annual conference that brings together scholars, journalists, artists, activists, and technology practitioners to think conceptually and critically about the interrelationships between the Web and society. We deeply value public engagement, and consider insights from academics, non-academics, and non-“tech theorists” alike to be equally valuable. Both days of programming will feature invited speakers as well as presentations from competitively selected open-submission system. Selected papers advance clear theoretical arguments; represent a diverse range of perspectives; embrace accessibility by demystifying jargon rather than using it as a crutch; and, importantly, appeal to concerns of power, social (in)equality, and justice. The event comprises three afternoon tracks, plus plenary evening keynote sessions. The entire event will we *webcast live <http://bit.ly/ttw18live>*. *What: Theorizing the Web 2018 <http://theorizingtheweb.org/ttw18/>Where: Museum of the Moving Image, NYCWhen: Friday/Saturday April 27-28 2018 Noon-9pm EDT | 16:00-01:00 UTCSchedule: http://theorizingtheweb.org/ny/ttw18/program/ <http://theorizingtheweb.org/ny/ttw18/program/>Webcast: http://bit.ly/ttw18live <http://bit.ly/ttw18live>Twitter: #TtW18 http://bit.ly/ttw18tweets <http://bit.ly/ttw18tweets>Facebook: #TtW18 https://facebook.com/hashtag/TtW18 <https://facebook.com/hashtag/TtW18>* Comment <http://isoc-ny.org/p2/10172#respond> See all comments <http://isoc-ny.org/p2/10172#comments> *Permalink* http://isoc-ny.org/p2/10172 -- --------------------------------------------------------------- Joly MacFie 218 565 9365 Skype:punkcast -------------------------------------------------------------- -

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Social Media as ethnographic source (algorithms, publicness, ethics, etc.)
by Daniel Kunzelmann 27 Apr '18

27 Apr '18

Dear community, I'm writing on a chapter about *using social media as an ethnographic source*. I'm trying *to understand such media from a social/cultural anthropological point of view*. It's mainly questions about methodology, epistemology, operationalization, ethics, etc. Before I come to my questions let me give you some context. Concretely, when I talk about social media, in my research I am refering to Facebook. For me, using social media (in my case Facebook) as a source means more than "just" analyzing content that people in my field keep sharing (symbols, discourses, etc.). Foremost, social media usage is practice, it is a "doing". By this I mean someone, a person (or a bot), is typing something, sharing something, commenting on something, etc. And this someone has relations within a group, he/she has a history and a context (as does his/her group). These relations, history and contexts have to be considered when analyzing social media usage. Then, this whole social media practice is also embedded into an algorithmic network as I would call it. So the person is not only interacting with other individuals, but also with an algorithm that delivers the networks content to him/her resp. that delivers his/her content to the network. When doing (ethnographic) research in any field where social media is used (again, in my case Facebook), I think we need to keep this social-technological context in mind. Now, here come the questions / doubts... 1.) Do you know of any *("ethnographic-driven") overviews on how to use social media**(activity) as empirical material?* Any text that gives a summary about the diverse approaches a qualitative researcher might use when dealing with social media (usage) in his/her field? Such overviews might come from social/cultural anthropology, but I'm also open to other qualitative (sub-)disciplines. 2.) A first specific problem I then have is about how to deal with *privacy/publicness issues and their ethics* (privacy settings of social media, etc.). Any literature about this would be highly appreciated. My stance would be: * that a "public" post is a public post meaning I can and will use its content like any other public source (of course there are always exceptions). * a "friend's only" post, in contrast, I would treat the same way I would treat any information that I have gathered during participant observation, which means I would apply the same ethical standards (let people know I do research, anonymization when using material, in some circumstances official consent agreements, etc.) * and a "private" message is a private message. When I want to use its content I will have to always specifically ask the person who sent me the message. Just to be clear: of course you may challenge me on "my" stance (maybe using some literature to back your arguments) :) I'm very happy to being convinced otherwise! "My" stance seems kind of a trade-off between ethics and usability... 3.) Any ideas on *how to integrate, **from a (practical) point of view, the whole algorithmic aspect*? * "(Practically)" in parenthesis because I'm interest in literature that actually tells me how to qualitatively research "algorithmic networks" like Facebook. The question is how to research or take into account the algorithms or algorithmic effects/aspects that seem mostly invisible when researchers and users use social media. But since I'm very desperate about *finding such **"practical" approaches* ("first you need to do this, then...")... * I would also be happy to find literature that at least reflects on the problems that algorithms produce for a researcher. I give you one example on such problems: a lot of my colleagues use their social media accounts to "get" material from other users or to have a look who shares what ("person xy just shared event z"). They use social media as some sort of empirical quarry. Dig, and dig, and dig... However, every individual sees different things on their screens when e.g. using Facebook: 10 interfaces = 10 realities. Not that I believe in purely "objective" and "neutral" research, but with social media and algorithms the methodological claim to e.g. use a methodology that might be reproduced by other researchers in order to then be able to get the same results, such a claim is just impossible to hold up when dealing with "algorithmic networks". *Any literature that reflects on such epistemological and/or methodological problems when dealing with algorithmic social media networks would be highly appreciated!* 4.) *How is one to deal with the **information / ethnograhic overload**social media produce? *As you be might familiar: every link leads to another link and so on and so forth. The empirical material that I am able to "discover" is (metaphorically) killing me, and it is (literally) killing my software (MAXQDA, etc.). Any text about how to deal with this? My stance: first, I have to consider (and reflect on) that my field has to deal with the same kind of problems with this never-ending social media material that I have. This will already tell me something about my field. And second, loosely refering to A-N-T, I would consider that I, being the researcher, am the one who will open and close the black boxes I want to understand. It would be something like an "I-am-my-field" kind of approach if you know what I mean. This means that I decide if a link (to a video or a newspaper article) is still part of my field. I will open such connections until the point where I stop. Such a stance, of course, cannot be arbitrary, but refers to "older" methodological concepts like "saturation" or "relevance" (with regards to ones research question, etc.). I don't know if ANTish researchers have any literature about this sort of operationalization ("the link as a black box", etc.). And of course, I also welcome different approaches on how to, methodologically, deal with this big social media mess maybe refering to such "older" methodological concepts like "saturation" or "relevance" that I have just mentioned. 5.) Last but not least, any literature on researchers that treat *"social media as an archive"* meaning they *apply a historical approach to social media's methodologies*? I know I wrote that social media is a practice. But researching social media also seems to have kind of parallel to doing research in an archive (with algorithms, admins, etc. being the gatekeepers, etc.). We might also consider its content as "congealed practice". I think one might find a fruitful approach applying historical methods and/or reflecting on them when dealing with social media as an ethnographic source. Maybe someone has already done it :) If you can't think of anyone any brief and good texts about doing (ethnographic) research in an archive in general? Since I haven't done this kind of research until now. As I've done it before I will collect all your answers here so everyone may find a (complete) literature list: https://danielderkunzelmann.piratenpad.de/socialmediaethnography. Feel free to also put your stuff directly in there, and of course, check it once in a while :) Any names, literature, keyword, etc... Feel also free to only address 1 or 2 questions, or even to add more questions. I will try to copy and other questions (and possible answers) to the "pad" too. As always, thanks a lot for all your ideas. I'm already excited to hear what you suggest! all the best from Munich (Germany), Daniel https://unibas.academia.edu/DanielKunzelmann

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Literature Review - App Store Mining
by Myles, David 27 Apr '18

27 Apr '18

Hi everyone! I’m currently conducting a literature review on app store mining. I was wondering if any of you could recommend papers that use app store data (app product info and metadata, users’ reviews and ratings, app rankings). So far, I’ve identified quite a few papers from computer science that develop extracting tools and perform sentiment analysis (among others). I’m now searching for papers that look at this data from a social, communicational, or STS perspective (for example: what can users’ app reviews tell us about social norms of use?). Thanks for your help, David PhD Candidate, Université de Montréal Postdoctoral fellow, Digital Media Research Centre (QUT)

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Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in Professional Communication
by Jean Burgess 26 Apr '18

26 Apr '18

Dear AoIR colleagues The School of Communication at Queensland University of Technology is advertising for an ongoing (tenured) Lecturer or Senior Lecturer (equivalent to Assistant or Associate Professor) in Professional Communication. The person would also have an affiliation to the QUT Digital Media Research Centre. We'd love to see applications from members of the AoIR community! For a full position description and HR info go to: https://tinyurl.com/y9euds8t Jean

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Reminder: CFP Mediating Change Conference deadline May 25
by Jacqueline Vickery 26 Apr '18

26 Apr '18

MEDIATING CHANGE CONFERENCE Date: November 1 & 2, 2018 Where: University of North Texas https://www.mediatingchangeconference.com/ Reminder: deadline to submit is May 25. 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 Thanks, Dr. Jacqueline Ryan Vickery Assistant Professor Department of Media Arts University of North Texas jacqueline.vickery(a)unt.edu

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