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software for recording search results?
by Charles M. Ess 20 Feb '18

20 Feb '18

Dear AoIR-ists, A Master's student is comparing search results on ca. 120 key search terms in two different national locations. The student is building on a considerable body of often quite sophisticated analyses along these lines - but by people with access to programmers and/or who can build the code they want / need themselves. What the student wants to do is simply record the first, e.g., 10 or 20 hits in response to a given key search term. Beyond taking screen shots and pushing the results into a spreadsheet for (relatively simple) analysis - does anyone have recommendations for available software that might be more directly helpful with this sort of data collection and recording? Will look forward to any advice and suggestions you can offer - many thanks in advance, - charles -- 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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CfP - Digital Economy: Ubercapitalism or Post-Capitalism? Conference, London, 11 May 2018
by Gerbaudo, Paolo 20 Feb '18

20 Feb '18

Dear Colleagues, I am delighted to announce the CfP for the Digital Economy conference to be hosted by the Centre for Digital Culture in London on 11 May 2018. The purpose of the conference is to explore the consequences of digital technology for the economy and politics and whether we are heading towards an even more exploitative capitalism or towards a more just economic system. Abstract below Submit your abstract via Easychair https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=digitalcapitalism201 Deadline: 7 March 2018 Hope to see many of you there! Best Regards, Paolo <https://easychair.org/cfp/topic.cgi?tid=677470;a=17555146> The Digital Economy: Ubercapitalism or Post-Capitalism? King's College London, 11 May 2018 This international conference aims at exploring the digital economy, understood as the new forms of production, work, consumption, distribution, and finance ushered in by the diffusion of digital technology. From the way we work, to the way we consume and pay for products and services, to the rise of new platforms for consumption and collaboration, the economic field is being revolutionised by digital media. Yet, the jury is still out on whether these changes point to an even more exploitative or rather towards an alternative and fairer economic model. The conference will explore these processes of transformation of the economy and their relationship with culture and society focusing on a number of specific phenomena that have been the object of intense debate in recent years and questioning the suitability of future trends and innovations: automation and its positive and negative repercussions on working conditions; crypto-currencies and whether they are freeing us from state control or reproducing neoliberal dynamics; universal basic income as a possible new form of welfare befitting the transformation of the economy in a digital era; the rise of digital giants such as Google, Apple, Facebook and Amazon and the consequences of their oligopolistic position in the market; the new models of value formation connected to data mining and analytics; and many more. We invite participants from various disciplines and streams of research including media studies, sociology, economics, consumer research, management, information and computer science. Together, we will address a set of recurring questions. How, for example, is digital technology restructuring the economy? Are crypto-currencies really alternative to established financial regimes or are they rather at the very forefront of new forms of financial speculation? How do managerial practices evolve with the aid of digital resources? How do transformations in the mobile environment correlate to changes in the field of logistics? What are the features of the new forms of precarisation/casualisation of work that are described as “gig economy”? How does digital technology serve to enforce new forms of surveillance and measurement in the workplace? Can technological advancement promote alternative economic models as implied by references to terms such as “big data socialism” or “luxury communism”? Can digital media serve the construction of new forms of workers’ representation and trade-unionism? The conference will comprise two plenary sessions and 4 breakout panels, and will host internationally acclaimed scholars as keynote speakers. The conference will take place on Friday, 11 May 2018. Abstract of 250 words are due by 7 March 2018. Submission lin: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=digitalcapitalism201 Abstracts should be 250 words maximum, and include the author(s) name and position, and a short title. Acceptance notices will be given on 20 March 2018 Dr Paolo Gerbaudo, Senior Lecturer in Digital Culture and Society, Department of Digital Humanities Director of the Centre for Digital Culture King's College London, Room S3.10, Strand Building, 3rd Floor, Strand London WC2, England Phone: +44 (0)20 78481576

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2nd CfP: CHIIR 2018 Workshop on Barriers to Interactive IR Resources Re-use
by Toine Bogers 19 Feb '18

19 Feb '18

Second Call for Participation: BIIRRR 2018 ************************************************************************* CHIIR 2018 Workshop on Barriers to Interactive IR Resources Re-use Thursday, March 15 2018, 9:00-17:00 http://biirrr2018.aau.dk ************************************************************************* The goal of the BIIRRR 2018 workshop is to serve as a starting point for a community-driven effort to design and implement a platform for the collection, organization, maintenance, and sharing of resources for interactive information retrieval (IIR) experimentation. Examples include search tasks, experimental protocols, questionnaire designs, reporting standards, evaluation procedures, data collections, and the search interaction data produced in such experiments. While the idea of collecting such resources in a central location is perhaps not a new one, the effort required in designing, implementing, and maintaining such a platform can only be borne by the community as a collective effort. Please join us in a full-day workshop to brainstorm about the shape this iRepository should take. If you yourself have conducted interactive IR experiments, we would love to hear about your experiences too! Please fill out our survey at http://bit.ly/BIIRRR-survey, it shouldn’t take more than 10 minutes of your time! The result of the survey will help us prepare the workshop and get an overview of the current state of re-use of IIR resources. One of the goals of the workshop is to produce a set of requirements and activities in order to develop an iRepository, which the organizers commit to publishing as a short report right after the workshop. After this immediate follow-up, we then plan further documented dissemination of the workshop outcomes but also envisage a more extensive activity, such as a Dagstuhl-style seminar, which will provide the time to discuss the requirements and solutions in more detail. ************************************************************************* Tentative program: -Introduction of workshop purpose, goals and planned activities -2 keynotes: ---Nils Pharo, Oslo Metropolitan University: The importance and challenges for standardization in IIR Evaluation - Basis for an iRepository ---Luanne Freund, University of British Columbia: Previous experiences at IIR evaluation campaigns: INEX, TREC, CLEF, RepAST -2 break-out sessions: ---Viewpoints on standardization: which components of IIR experiments could be re-used? ---Requirements for IIR reuse: how can documentation and archiving be standardized? ************************************************************************* BIIRRR 2018 Workshop homepage: http://toinebogers.com/biirrr2018 Registration for BIIRR 2018 Workshop: http://sigir.org/chiir2018 Contact the organizers: biirrr(a)googlegroups.com

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Call for Abstracts, Panels, Special Sessions, Tutorials: mobileGovWS 2018
by Ibrahim Kushchu 19 Feb '18

19 Feb '18

mobileGov World Summit and Global mobileGov Awards 2018 Brighton UK during 14-15 June 2018, @Hilton Metropole. www.m4life.org This year’s main theme of mobileGovWS2018 is mindfulGovernments: how public sector IT and service delivery to citizens are influenced by the mobile and artificial Intelligence technologies. As is the tradition, we do not just ‘organise’ a conference but we establish connections among like-minded professionals and organisations to create ‘value’ in making technology to best serve the nations and the needs of the citizens. The organisation is seeking highly qualified speakers and experts to give talks and tutorials and propose panels or special sessions to be part of the next mobileGovWS2018 as well nominations for the Global mobileGov Awards. Ways to participate mobileGov World Summit and Global mobileGov Awards 2018: - Exhibit and make a demo of your solutions: The summit is very much practice oriented and is soliciting demos and exhibitions. - Become a speaker: send us max 2 pages of abstract of your prosed talk (abstracts will be published in the conference proceedings) - Propose panels, special sessions or tutorials. Global mobileGov Awards 2018.: - industry, NPO or Government, you are requested to nominate yourself, your company or organisations. - "Academic Category" for outstanding academic contributions and research is also open. Please visit http://www.m4life.org/Summit/contact/ and show interest. General topics include, but not limited to - mobileGovernment, mobileDevelopment, mobileSociety, - IOT and Artificial Intelligence as well as - good old fashioned eGovernment, smart cities and smart government - big data, open government, - mobileApps, service and Content delivery - mobileID, participation, privacy and security Publication: All abstracts / talk summaries and accepted award descriptions will be published by mLife Publications. For other specific topics and coverage please review the draft program at the conference site and please share conference flyer and videos among your colleagues at http://www.m4life.org/Summit/videos/ Looking forward to meeting you at the next mobileGovWS in beautiful Brighton, UK ====== Ibrahim KUSHCHU, MBA, MSC., PHD Founding Director, mobileGov UK http://mgovernment.net/ <http://www.mgovernment.org/> ik(a)mgovernment.net +44 7740143135 <07740%20143135> - Visit mLife Conferences http://www.m4life.org *mobileGov World Summit and Global mobileGov Awards 2018* This year’s main theme of mobileGovWS2018 is mindfulGovernments: how public sector IT and service delivery to citizens are influenced by the mobile and artificial Intelligence technologies. As is the tradition, we do not just ‘organise’ a conference but we establish connections among like-minded professionals and organisations to create ‘value’ in making technology to best serve the nations and the needs of the citizens. *The Agenda* - Mindful Governments : The main theme of this year’s mGovWS - How artificial intelligence and machine learning may help to create mindful service delivery to citizens? Find out more and learn about new approaches to intelligence in the public sector domain. - mGov Summit aims to be the largest gathering of the mGovernment professionals in The World so far. - Mobile Industry, Public Sector, NGOs, and Researchers to discuss and share achievements and challenges of the - High level public sector delegations from best performing countries to share their experiences and lessons learned in implementing mobile government. - Exhibitions and showcases of mobile government services, mobile apps, devices, content, and other solutions by public and private sector organizations, NGOs and academia. - 2nd Global mGov Awards will be presented to best public sector implementation, industry solution, mobile app or mobile service as academic researchers. *Global mGov Awards* Global Mobile Government Awards is a worldwide contest aiming to promote advances in the field, and share knowledge on recent developments. Innovative best practices and research in the field of Mobile Government are invited. *Exhibitions* - An opportunity to set your presence at a leading and one of the most respected conference on mobile technologies as used by the public sector. - You will interact with professionals from public and private sectors, mobile industry value chain and researchers. - This is a prime event to promote your organization to a focused audience and demonstrate your solutions and applications in the field of mobileGovernment. *Who attends?* This summit is a unique meeting hub for renown experts and organisations of the mGovernment practice, delegates, around 250, are: - Public sector -high-level decision makers, policy makers and other professionals such as developers or implementers of mobile technologies. - Private Sector Industry members from, for example, mobile telco`s, infrastructure, hardware, content, applications and service providers to the public sector. - NPOs: Civil Society Organization and Innovative Researchers *Previous events, sponsors and supporters: * - 2005 Euro mGOV 2005 – European Conference Mobile Government, Brighton UK - 2006 Euro mGOV 2006 – Barcelona, Spain - 2008 – 2013 mLIfe Conferences– Euro mGOV, mDevelopment and mSociety Conferences, Brighton UK - 2017 mobileGov World Summit & Global mobileGov Awards, Brighton, UK The organisation is seeking highly qualified speakers and experts to give talks and tutorials and propose panels or special sessions to be part of the next mobileGovWS2018 as well nominations for the Global mobileGov Awards.

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WEBCAST TODAY: EURALO GDPR Webinar
by Joly MacFie 19 Feb '18

19 Feb '18

This webinar is underway, and it is recommended that you join the Adobe Connect to participate,ask questions, chat etc, but the webcasts will be there as a record for those that need to catch up. It might be exaggerating to say the approaching GDPR deadline has ICANN (amongst others) in turmoil, but a lot of people who maintain databases, which obviously includes WHOIS operators, are going to have to rethink their methods. <https://livestream.com/internetsociety/netneutrality18/edit> [image: livestream] <https://livestream.com/internetsociety/euralogdpr>Today *Monday February 19 2018* at *2pm ET* (19:00 UTC) the *European At-Large Regional Organization <https://atlarge.icann.org/ralos/euralo>*(EURALO) of ICANN will present a *Webinar <https://community.icann.org/x/nhS8B>* on the *General Data Protection Regulation <https://www.eugdpr.org/>* (GDPR), due to come in force on 25 May 2018. This webinar will offer the opportunity to increase the understanding of practical *implementation* of GDPR from a Registrar, a Registry and a Registrant perspective. Speakers: *Pierre Bonis* – AFNIC: *Athina Fragkouli* – RIPE: *Michele Neylon* – Blacknight Solutions; *Thomas Rickert* – Rickert.net. Moderator: *Olivier Crépin-Leblond* (ISOC England). Remote participation is available via *Adobe Connect <https://participate.icann.org/euralo/>*. *Real Time Text <https://www.streamtext.net/player?event=ICANN>* is available. The event will be simulcast on the *Internet Society Livestream Channel* <https://livestream.com/internetsociety/euralogdpr/s>. (with open captions) *View on Livestream*: https://livestream.com/internetsociety/euralogdpr *View on Facebook*: https://www.facebook.com/isocny/videos/10156884256603538/ *View on Twitter*: https://twitter.com/isocny/status/965662357992095745 *Twitter*: #euralo + #gdpr http://bit.ly/euralogdpr Comment <http://isoc-ny.org/p2/9918#respond> See all comments <http://isoc-ny.org/p2/9918#comments> *Permalink* *http://isoc-ny.org/p2/9918 <http://isoc-ny.org/p2/9918>* -- --------------------------------------------------------------- Joly MacFie 218 565 9365 Skype:punkcast -------------------------------------------------------------- -

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CFP: PRESENCE 2018 submission deadline extended to March 1
by Matthew Lombard 19 Feb '18

19 Feb '18

CALL FOR PAPERS PRESENCE 2018 18th conference of the International Society for Presence Research (ISPR) Prague, Czech Republic May 21-22, 2018 (optional demonstrations and guided sightseeing events May 20) https://ispr.info/call-presence-2018 Conference theme: Challenges ---> Submission deadline (extended): MARCH 1, 2018 <--- OVERVIEW Telepresence, often shortened to presence, is a state or perception in which we overlook or misconstrue the role of technology and feel present in the environments and/or connected to the people or things we experience via technology. It´s increasingly relevant to a wide range of media experiences and application areas. Following a series of 17 successful Presence conference events (http://ispr.info/presence-conferences/previous-conferences/) PRESENCE 2018 will retain the single-track format and enjoyable social environment of previous conferences while featuring an expanded variety of paper and poster sessions, panel discussions, keynote presentations, hands-on demonstrations of presence applications/services/projects, and informal discussion, networking and fun. Members of both academic and industry communities are welcome. At the end of the first day, all attendees are invited to a social dinner; we also hope you´ll join us for all or part of a day of demonstration visits and guided sightseeing on May 20 (the day before the conference). The registration cost is $140, with a discounted student cost of $100. The fee includes lunches on both days, coffee and snacks during breaks, and the social dinner. BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES The term presence has many formal and informal meanings but is used by a growing interdisciplinary scholarly community to refer to experiences in which technology is overlooked or misconstrued in some way during a mediated experience. Long a focus of those who study virtual reality and environments, it´s increasingly relevant to a wide range of media experiences. For example, presence occurs when we get "lost" in the world of a novel, TV show, movie, video game or theme park ride; we´re convinced by the realism of paintings or graphic designs; we treat our cars, computers or other machines as if they have personalities of their own, and we feel like we´re "with" a person we talk to on the phone or in a video conference. The presence research community has been working to identify causes, characteristics and consequences of diverse presence experiences. The consequences identified so far - including arousal/relaxation, empathy, enjoyment, persuasion and more - make clear the importance and power of presence to improve communication across a wide variety of contexts and applications of interest to scholars and those who create media technologies and content. Presence as a concept and set of phenomena is related to the work being done in nearly every field and business sector from art to zoology, with particularly direct applications in business, education, entertainment and health. The 4000+ posts in ISPR Presence News (http://ispr.info/posts) and thousands more on its predecessor, the presence-l listserv (listserv.temple.edu/archives/presence-l.html) along with the Presence Bibliography on the ISPR website (http://ispr.info) illustrate the breadth of presence applications, and the breadth, depth and value of presence scholarship. The objectives of the conference are to deepen and update the knowledge of those already familiar with presence and introduce new scholars and practitioners to the centrality, pervasiveness, and value of presence phenomena, theory and research. The overarching goal is to help integrate and increase collaborative scholarship on presence. SUBMISSIONS Topics We seek original, high quality papers and demonstrations that contribute to our collective understanding of presence phenomena and applications in any/every aspect of life. Topics of interest include (but are absolutely not limited to): * Presence theory * Measures of presence * Presence and emotion * Presence and education * Presence and social interaction * Gender and Presence * Neuroscience approaches to Presence * Presence in gaming and entertainment * Philosophical perspectives on presence * Ethics of presence * Presence technologies and applications (e.g. in business, arts, medicine and therapy) * The future of presence research Theme: Challenges Researchers, scholars, technology designers and users, and citizens all face challenges related to presence. We invite submission in all of the categories below that identify, consider and ideally propose solutions to the challenges people in any or all of these groups face now or will face in the future. Data-based projects, concept and theory building work as well as personal (first person) reflections are encouraged. FULL DETAILS Please see the full call for papers at: https://ispr.info/call-presence-2018 -- Matthew Lombard, Ph.D. Temple University Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA lombard(a)temple.edu http://matthewlombard.com

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Montreal roundtable ideas
by Holly Kruse 19 Feb '18

19 Feb '18

I'm considering proposing a roundtable for AoIR in Montreal. because there are a couple of things that I would enjoy hearing smart people (and me, I suppose) discuss. The two possibilities I'm considering are, 1) histories of gendering and racing online (and/or proto-online) technologies, and 2) how discourses of mostly non-squee, mostly non-cat animals function online. If anyone would be interested in either of these, please email me at holly.kruse(a)gmail.com. Holly

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Seeking a short introduction text on technological determinism vs. SCOT
by Carmel Vaisman 19 Feb '18

19 Feb '18

Dear fellows, I have been struggling with the task of finding a simple short text for undergraduates that introduces the approaches of technological determinism (including utopia and dystopia) versus social construction of technology. Since the theoretical terrain has since been enriched with actor network theories and post phenomenology and so forth, it has become very hard to find a text that doesn't complicate this basic framework which fits a sophomore introductory level course. Any ideas? Thanks in advance, Carmel Vaisman, PhD. The Multidisciplinary Program in the Humanities The Cohn Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Ideas Tel Aviv University http://www.absolutecarmel.com Twitter: @carmelva

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Book announcement: Archaeologies of Touch: Interfacing with Haptics from Electricity to Computing
by Parisi, David P 19 Feb '18

19 Feb '18

(apologies for cross-posting) Hello everyone, I'm very pleased to announce the publication of my book Archaeologies of Touch: Interfacing with Haptics from Electricity to Computing (University of Minnesota Press, 2018). I hope that it will be of interest to members of this list-its release follows closely on the heels of the New Media & Society issue that Mark Paterson, Jason Archer, and I coedited on Haptic Media Studies (link in signature). The book sets the stage for the growing incorporation of haptics into new computer interfaces by providing a historical framework for their emergence and development, beginning way back with early experiments on electricity in the 1740s, continuing into nineteenth century psychophysics research and twentieth century cybernetics, then concluding with a discussion of haptics in touchscreens and virtual reality. It intersects with conversations about human-machine communication, sensory substitution, mobile communication, virtual reality, and technologies of perception. ---- ARCHAEOLOGIES OF TOUCH: Interfacing with Haptics from Electricity to Computing David Parisi offers the first full history of new computing technologies known as haptic interfaces-which use electricity, vibration, and force feedback to stimulate the sense of touch-showing how the efforts of scientists and engineers over the past 300 years have gradually remade and redefined our sense of touch. Archaeologies of Touch offers a timely and provocative engagement with the long history of touch technology that helps us confront and question the power relations underpinning the project of giving touch its own set of technical media. For more information, please visit the book's webpage: https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/archaeologies-of-touch<https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.upress…>, or feel free to contact me (use code MN82600 for 30% off). Thanks very much for your time, and hope to see/meet some of you in Montreal! David David Parisi, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Emerging Media Department of Communication College of Charleston E-mail: parisid(a)cofc.edu<mailto:parisid@cofc.edu> Bio: http://communication.cofc.edu/about/faculty-staff-listing/parisi-david.php Book: Archaeologies of Touch: Interfacing with Haptics from Electricity to Computing<http://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/archaeologies-of-touch> (University of Minnesota, 2018) Journal: issue: Haptic Media Studies<http://journals.sagepub.com/toc/nmsa/19/10>, New Media & Society (2017) Twitter: @Dave_Parisi<https://twitter.com/Dave_Parisi>

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#AoIR2017 Roundtable Summary: Artificial Intelligence & the Good Society
by Michael T Zimmer 19 Feb '18

19 Feb '18

Colleagues, I’m excited to share that the summary of our #AoIR2017 roundtable discussion on "Artificial Intelligence & the Good Society” has been published in Philosophy & Technology. Special thanks to Corinne Cath, Stine Lomborg, and Ben Zevenbergen for such a stimulating discussion! Link: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13347-018-0304-8 Accessible file: https://link.springer.com/epdf/10.1007/s13347-018-0304-8?author_access_toke…<https://link.springer.com/epdf/10.1007/s13347-018-0304-8?author_access_toke…> -- 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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