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Webology: Volume 14, Number 1 & 2, 2017
by Alireza Noruzi 18 Mar '18

18 Mar '18

Dear All, apologies for cross-posting. We are pleased to inform you that Vol. 14, No. 1 & 2 of Webology, an OPEN ACCESS bi-annual journal, is published and available ONLINE now. ======= Webology: Volume 14, Number 2, 2017 ======= TOC: http://www.webology.org/2017/v14n2/toc.html This issue contains: ------------------------- Editorial ------------------------- - Hot Papers in Library and Information Science from the Point of View of Research Methods -- Alireza Noruzi -- Keywords: Hot papers; Library and information science; Research methods -- URL: http://www.webology.org/2017/v14n2/editorial24.pdf ------------------------- Articles ------------------------- - Systematic Literature Review on Opinion Mining of Big Data for Government Intelligence -- Akshi Kumar, & Abhilasha Sharma -- Keywords: Opinion mining; Big data; Digital governance; Systematic literature review -- URL: http://www.webology.org/2017/v14n2/a156.pdf - The Role of Responsive Design in Web Development -- Fernando Almeida, & José Monteiro -- Keywords: Web development; Responsive design; Web designing; User experience -- URL: http://www.webology.org/2017/v14n2/a157.pdf - Highly-alted articles in Library and Information Science -- Mohammadamin Erfanmanesh -- Keywords: Altmetrics; Alternative metrics; Altmetric Explorer; Altmetric score; Social media; Research impact -- URL: http://www.webology.org/2017/v14n2/a158.pdf - Tell Me Why Bob Dylan and the Beatles Song Titles Are Used in Biomedical Literature -- Ger T. Rijkers, Anya Luscombe, & Carla Sloof -- Keywords: Bibliometric analysis; Popular culture; Web of Science; Medline; Citations -- URL: http://www.webology.org/2017/v14n2/a159.pdf - Open Access Health and Medicine Journals - An Informative Study -- Rabiya Mushtaq, Fayaz Ahmad Loan, & Mufazil Ali -- Keywords: Health Science; Medicine; Open access; Open access journals -- URL: http://www.webology.org/2017/v14n2/a160.pdf =======Webology: Volume 14, Number 1, 2017 ======= TOC: http://www.webology.org/2017/v14n1/toc.html This issue contains: ------------------------- Editorial ------------------------- - YouTube in scientific research: A bibliometric analysis -- Alireza Noruzi -- Keywords: YouTube, Social network, Open access, Citation analysis, Scopus -- URL: http://www.webology.org/2017/v14n1/editorial23.pdf ------------------------- Articles ------------------------- Charting the Landscape of Open Access Journals in Library and Information Science -- Emmanuel Edward Te, Frances Owens, Megan Lohnash, Janice Christen-Whitney, & Kristen Radsliff Rebmann -- Keywords: Open access; Scholarly communication; Publishing; Journals; Library and Information Science -- URL: http://www.webology.org/2017/v14n1/a152.pdf - Scientific Publication Behavior versus Information Seeking Behavior: An Infodemiological Study on Stomach Cancer -- Shohreh SeyyedHosseini, Asefeh Asemi, Ahmad Shabani, & Mozafar CheshmehSohrabi -- Keywords: Infodemiology; Health information supply; Health information demand; Health information need -- URL: http://www.webology.org/2017/v14n1/a153.pdf - Designing a Predictive Analytics Solution for Evaluating the Scientific Trends in Information Systems Domain -- Babak Sohrabi, Iman Raeesi Vanani, & Mohsen Baranizade Shineh -- Keywords: Text analytics; Text clustering; Document classification; Natural language processing (NLP), Information systems -- URL: http://www.webology.org/2017/v14n1/a154.pdf - Instruction of Citation Management Tools by Academic Librarians: The Need for Training the Trainers -- Maryam Sarrafzadeh, & Narges Khaleghi -- Keywords: Citation management software; Reference management software; Bibliographic management software; Citation tools; Information literacy instruction; Academic libraries -- URL: http://www.webology.org/2017/v14n1/a155.pdf ------------------------- Call for Papers ------------------------- -- http://www.webology.org/callforpapers.html ================================== Best regards, Alireza Noruzi, Ph.D. -------------------- Editor-in-Chief of Webology: Alireza Noruzi, Ph.D. Website: http://www.webology.org ~ The great aim of Open Access journals is knowledge sharing. ~ ~ Scientific knowledge is the result of the knowledge sharing and exchange of experiences. ~

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

18 Mar '18

**** Second 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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CFP internet beyond global network
by Polina Kolozaridi 17 Mar '18

17 Mar '18

dear all, please consider to submit proposals to the conference Internet Beyond Global Network. Club for internet and society enthusiasts helds an annual conference in May, 29-31 in Russia, Moscow. This year we suggest to have a conversation about internet which becomes less global (or not?) in different perspectives: governance, practices, histories, discourses. Here is the conference website: http://internetbeyond.net/en We invite scholars to submit 300-500-word proposals for a variety of formats: classical an unusual ones (like pecha-kucha and fishbowl discussions). The call will be open until March, 31. If you have any questions, please write me poli.kolozaridi(a)gmail.com Polina

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CFP: Beyond Fake News: The Politics of Disinformation (special issue)
by Deen Freelon 16 Mar '18

16 Mar '18

Hi all, Chris Wells (UW-Madison) and I are coediting a special issue of the journal /Political Communication /focusing on disinformation. The deadline is Oct 1, 2018. The link is http://tiny.cc/polcom-disinfo and the full call is below. Thought there'd be some interest from some of you who I know are working on these issues. Best, /DEEN ************** *Beyond fake news: The politics of disinformation* Special Issue of /Political Communication/ Editors: Deen Freelon & Chris Wells Discussions of “fake news” rose to prominence quickly in academic and journalistic circles following the 2016 US presidential election. Scholars were quick to note the analytical deficiencies of this term, which encompasses a wide range of low-quality and potentially harmful news-like content (Wardle, 2017). The special issue we propose will focus on one such subtype, /disinformation/, whose political implications have become particularly pressing after the election. Although much disinformation is false, this is not its defining characteristic: rather, disinformation intentionally seeks to bring about a desired result using whatever messages are most effective, which can include truth, falsehoods, distortions, and inflammatory opinions. It is a type of propaganda in which the true source is usually kept hidden and the goal is often “to engender public cynicism, uncertainty, apathy, distrust, and paranoia” (Jackson, 2017, n.p.). It should not be confused with /mis/information, wherein sources believe the content to be true. While disinformation has been a standard military tactic for millennia (Weedon, Nuland, & Stamos, 2017), it has become especially relevant in global politics for several reasons. First, the decades-long, worldwide decline in news trust and democratic institutions in general has made publics more open to messages from disingenuous yet ideologically-friendly sources. Second, the maturation of social media as political media has given such sources a highly effective platform to spread their messages cheaply and quickly. President Donald Trump’s embrace of disinformation outlets on Twitter (not to mention his frequent use of the term “fake news”) demonstrates that elites are as susceptible as ordinary citizens. Third, until very recently, social media companies did not take disinformation seriously, which allowed it to thrive with impunity. Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg initially discounted the importance of “fake news” before later affirming it, and the company stated that it failed to identify political ads surreptitiously purchased by the Russian government and targeted at US citizens (Leonnig, Hamburger, & Helderman, 2017). For its part, Twitter for years allowed accounts operated by Kremlin-funded disinformation agents to impersonate legitimate American political actors (O’Brien, 2017). While communication researchers have developed a focus on misinformation in recent years (see e.g. Bode & Vraga, 2015; Nyhan, 2010; Weeks, 2015), the study of disinformation within our field is in its infancy (for a pioneering study, see Marwick & Lewis, 2017). But the developments outlined above suggest the topic deserves much more scholarly attention in contexts around the globe, especially from the field of communication. The circulation of claims intended to sow discord and subvert democratic participation is alarming to the extent that their purveyors may succeed. What is more, the potential effects of disinformation may radiate far beyond those directly exposed to it. The possibility that any unknown participant in a media environment may be a disinformation agent may itself be weaponized: for example, both the left and right have alleged that the other side has used “paid protesters” or “crisis actors” in various contexts, such as the recent high school shooting in Florida. Ultimately, we should study disinformation because it undermines the fundamental assumptions of authentic identity and motivation that make productive political communication possible. And it is likely that disinformation will remain a core component of our political communication system for the foreseeable future. Thus, political communication researchers are especially well-positioned to analyze and explain the political dimensions of disinformation, as researchers in other fields often neglect to address these matters. We seek papers that explore disinformation as a political phenomenon in accordance with the preceding, whether digital or not. Quantitative, qualitative, conceptual, and methodological submissions are all welcome, but all should make a substantial contribution to theory. Possible topics include (but are not limited to): * Disinformation and information automation (e.g., disinformation-spreading bots) * Disinformation in comparative perspective * Disinformation in the hybrid media system and attention economy * Effects and consequences of disinformation * Historical perspectives on disinformation * Individual differences in susceptibility to disinformation * Theorizing disinformation * Typologizing disinformation: Understanding differences between state-sponsored, corporate, domestic, and transnational disinformation All submissions should run between 6000 and 8000 words and follow /Political Communication/’s style guidelines. We will review and publish on the following schedule: * March 2018: Call opens * *October 1, 2018*: Initial submission deadline * November 2018: Reviews returned * 2019: Revision deadline, final decision notifications, and publication References Bode, L., & Vraga, E. K. (2015). In Related News, That Was Wrong: The Correction of Misinformation Through Related Stories Functionality in Social Media. /Journal of Communication/, /65/(4), 619–638. https://doi.org/10.1111/jcom.12166 Jackson, D. (2017, October 17). Issue Brief: Distinguishing Disinformation from Propaganda, Misinformation, and “Fake News” – NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR DEMOCRACY. Retrieved January 20, 2018, from https://www.ned.org/issue-brief-distinguishing-disinformation-from-propagan… Leonnig, C. D., Hamburger, T., & Helderman, R. S. (2017, September 6). Russian firm tied to pro-Kremlin propaganda advertised on Facebook during election. /Washington Post/. Retrieved from https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/facebook-says-it-sold-political-ads… Marwick, A., & Lewis, R. (2017). /Media Manipulation and Disinformation Online/ (pp. 1–104). Data and Society Research Institute. Retrieved from https://datasociety.net/output/media-manipulation-and-disinfo-online/ Nyhan, B. (2010). Why the “Death Panel” Myth Wouldn’t Die: Misinformation in the Health Care Reform Debate. /The Forum/, /8/(1). https://doi.org/10.2202/1540-8884.1354 O’Brien, L. (2017, November 1). Twitter Ignored This Russia-Controlled Account During The Election. Team Trump Did Not. /Huffington Post/. Retrieved from https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/twitter-ignored-this-russia-controlled… Wardle, C. (2017, February 16). Fake news. It’s complicated. Retrieved March 15, 2018, from https://medium.com/1st-draft/fake-news-its-complicated-d0f773766c79 Weedon, J., Nuland, W., & Stamos, A. (2017). /Information Operations and Facebook/ (pp. 1–13). Facebook. Retrieved from https://fbnewsroomus.files.wordpress.com/2017/04/facebook-and-information-o… Weeks, B. E. (2015). Emotions, Partisanship, and Misperceptions: How Anger and Anxiety Moderate the Effect of Partisan Bias on Susceptibility to Political Misinformation. /Journal of Communication/, /65/(4), 699–719. https://doi.org/10.1111/jcom.12164 -- Deen Freelon, Ph.D. Associate Professor School of Media and Journalism, UNC-Chapel Hill http://dfreelon.org | @dfreelon <https://twitter.com/dfreelon> | https://github.com/dfreelon

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CFP: FOCI/USENIX 2018
by jon penney 16 Mar '18

16 Mar '18

Dear colleagues, As a Steering Committee member, I'm very pleased to share this Call for Papers for the 8th USENIX Workshop on Free and Open Communications on the Internet (FOCI ’18), which will take place this summer in Baltimore, MD on August 14th. The deadline is *Thursday, **May 24, 2018,* For more details, the CFP is here: https://www.usenix.org/sites/default/files/foci18_cfp_020718_rev.pdf FOCI is an interdisciplinary workshop co-located with the USENIX Security Symposium that seeks to bring together researchers and practitioners from a variety of fields focused on censorship, surveillance, and other practices that inhibit free and open communications on the internet. FOCI includes a "two track" submissions stream, one for traditional technical papers and another for "law and social science" papers drawing on law, policy, or social science, with more flexible formatting and page limits. Please see the CfP for more details. Best, Jon -- Jonathon W. Penney | jon(a)dal.ca | @jon_penney <https://twitter.com/jon_penney> | +902-494-4231 Assistant Professor, Schulich School of Law, Dalhousie University Research Fellow, Citizen Lab, Munk School of Global Affairs, University of Toronto Research Affiliate, Center for Information Technology Policy, Princeton University Web/SSRN: https://blogs.harvard.edu/jonathon/ PGP Key: 84CA 37F8 74B9 8FFB E008 1A57 DE82 754E 8E26 BC0F

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CFP Place + Research - 10 days left
by Jaime García Iglesias 16 Mar '18

16 Mar '18

Apologies for crossposting. Only 10 more days to go to submit to our Place I Call Research: Localising Sociological Inquiry Conference in June 15, 2018, at the University of Manchester. We welcome submissions for 15 minute papers from doctoral and masters’ students and early-career researchers across multiple disciplines, especially sociology, anthropology, economics, politics, geography, public health, and cultural studies. Some of the conference’s key themes are: - new and old spaces: queer, postcolonial and online contexts - addressing changing political and social contexts in our research - urban/rural dichotomies - place ownership, no-place, and homelessness - how social, cultural, and community challenges affect fieldwork - developing community-specific methodologies and research questions - how theories and knowledges are context-specific, as well as the potential for trans-contextual research Abstract submissions should be between 150 and 300 words and include five keywords. Creative research methodologies are welcomed. Scholars are encouraged to reflect on local engagement in their papers. Please submit using our website placemcr2018.wordpress.com and follow us on twitter @placemcr2018 Email queries at placemcr2018(a)gmail.com

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Ethical practices in scraping data from gay dating apps
by Lik Sam Chan 16 Mar '18

16 Mar '18

Hi all, I am designing a study to explore racism in a gay dating app (Jack'd). I plan to collect self-reported data of the user (freely available to anyone using the app) and types of people the particular user is interested in (available to premium users). I am planning to write a python script to collect samples from several major cities in the world -- therefore, I believe using automated data scraping technique will be more efficient than manually taking screen-shot of the users' profiles. I am aware of the recent controversy about scraping users' profile from Tinder ( https://techcrunch.com/2017/04/28/someone-scraped-40000-tinder-selfies-to-m…) I am also aware that some researchers have used automated scraping techniques in studying Grindr ( https://www.jedbrubaker.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/05/Fitzpatrick-Disclosu…) I am aware that the app prohibits data scraping so I plan to officially contact them for their permission. I am interested in ways in which, after getting permission from the company, I can collect data in an ethical way, including how to protect the privacy of the users. Regards, Sam - - - - - - Lik Sam CHAN, Ph.D. Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism, USC liksamchan.com | @liksamchan

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CFP: ICWSM 2018 Social Media Research Ethics Workshop
by Casey Lynn Fiesler 15 Mar '18

15 Mar '18

Hello all! As the next in a series of sociotechnical research ethics workshops I've helped organize over a number of years, there is a half-day workshop taking place at ICWSM (the international conference on web and social media) at Stanford in June. We are particularly interested in diverse perspectives, and examining the trade-offs of ethical decision-making. We invite even lightweight statements of interest as proposals - we would just love as many voices in the room as possible! Exploring Ethical Trade-offs in Social Media Research Organizers: Casey Fiesler, Stevie Chancellor, Katie Shilton, Jessica Vitak, Michael Zimmer Submissions Deadline: April 5 Notifications By: April 19 Workshop: June 25 in Stanford, CA More information: https://sociotechethics.wordpress.com/icwsm-2018/ Feel free to ping me with any questions! --- Casey Fiesler Assistant Professor, Department of Information Science University of Colorado Boulder www.caseyfiesler.com<http://www.caseyfiesler.com> @cfiesler<http://www.twitter.com/cfiesler>

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Research Centre on Interactive Media, Smart System and Emerging Technologies (RISE): Research Vacancies
by Announce Announcements 15 Mar '18

15 Mar '18

Research Centre on Interactive Media, Smart System and Emerging Technologies (RISE): Research Vacancies (H2020 TEAMING Project) http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=YWlyLUwJCQlhaXItTEBsaXN0c2Vydi… Research Positions: Research Associates No. of Positions: Twenty (20) Positions Category: Employment contract Location: RISE, Nicosia, Cyprus The Research Centre on Interactive Media, Smart System and Emerging Technologies (RISE), announces twenty (20) positions for junior researchers under various Multidisciplinary Research Groups. RISE is a newly founded research centre in Cyprus aiming to become a centre of excellence empowering knowledge and technology transfer in the region. It is a joint venture between the Municipality of Nicosia, the Max Planck Institute for Informatics (Germany), the University College London (UK) and the three public universities of Cyprus - University of Cyprus, Cyprus University of Technology, and Open University of Cyprus. The centre has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme H2020-WIDESPREAD-01-2016-2017 (Teaming Phase 2) under grant agreement No. 739578, as well as from the Cypriot Government, local and international partners and other sponsors. The research focus of RISE is on interactive media and it integrates the Visual Sciences, Human Factors & Design, and Communications & Artificial Intelligence, in a tight synergy that provides a unique interdisciplinary research perspective that emphasizes an "Inspired by Humans, Designed for Humans" philosophy. RISE is designed to act as an integrator of academic research and industrial innovation, towards the sustainable fuelling of the scientific, technological, and economic growth of Cyprus and Europe. For more details please visit: http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=YWlyLUwJCQlhaXItTEBsaXN0c2Vydi…

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CfP HICSS-52 (2019) minitrack: Social Movements, Collective Action and Social Technologies
by Coursaris, Constantinos 15 Mar '18

15 Mar '18

Apologies for cross-posting ****************************************************** CALL FOR PAPERS: 52nd HICSS 2019, Maui, Hawaii January 8-11, 2019 - Maui, Hawaii SOCIAL MOVEMENTS, COLLECTIVE ACTION AND SOCIAL TECHNOLOGIES MINITRACK in the Digital and Social Media Track URL: http://hicss.hawaii.edu/tracks-52/digital-and-social-media/ Submission Deadline: June 15, 2018 | 11:59 pm HST Notification of Acceptance/Rejection: August 17, 2018 ****************************************************** CfP HICSS-52 (2019) minitrack: This minitrack focuses on three main themes: 1) theorizing about information systems through the study of collective action and social movement phenomena, 2) the application of collective action and social movement theory toward understanding technology phenomena, and 3) methodological advances that can help us better understand research topics at the intersection of social movements, collective action and social technologies. Our hope is to engage scholars and practitioners from diverse fields and generate cross-disciplinary dialogue. We welcome submissions from authors conducting empirical and conceptual research along with practitioner reports and case studies. Potential topics include: * The role of digitization in shaping the nature of organization and collaboration * Platform design implications for message / frame diffusion * Why and how collective action dilemmas arise or resolve * Innovation through collective action * Cross-level (e.g., individual to societal) impacts of social technologies * Brand hijacking movements targeting corporate competitors * Implications of cyberactivism and hacktivism * Fake news movements and propaganda diffusion * Effectiveness of hashtag activism or clicktivism * Corporate strategy / involvement in social movements to shape public policy * Botivists (web bots programmed for activism), online petitions, and other tools for digital protest * Viral marketing of ideas and social agendas * Social media capabilities and facilitation of echo chambers * Financing of social agendas through crowdfunding or bitcoin exchanges * Any application of social movement or collective action concepts (e.g., frames and tactics, organization, claim making, etc.) toward understanding of social technology phenomenon (e.g., crowdsourcing, large group collaboration, social media use, etc.) Minitrack Co-Chairs: Amber Young (Primary Contact) University of Massachusetts Amherst ayoung(a)isenberg.umass.edu<mailto:ayoung@isenberg.umass.edu> Jama Summers University of Tennessee, Knoxville jdsummers(a)utk.edu<mailto:jdsummers@utk.edu> Constantinos Coursaris Michigan State University coursari(a)msu.edu<mailto:coursari@msu.edu> My best, Constantinos Dr. Constantinos K. Coursaris Ph.D. Business Administration (Information Systems) M.B.A. e-Business, B. Eng. Aerospace Associate Chairperson, Director of Graduate Studies, and Associate Professor - Department of Media and Information Associate Professor -Department of Advertising and Public Relations Professor by Courtesy, Usability / Accessibility Research & Consulting - Outreach and Engagement 414 Communication Arts and Sciences 404 Wilson Road Michigan State University East Lansing, Michigan, USA, 48824 Tel. 517-353-3122 - Fax. 517-355-1292 http://www.Coursaris.com<http://www.coursaris.com> http://www.twitter.com/DrCoursaris http://www.linkedin.com/in/Coursaris http://mi.msu.edu http://usability.msu.edu Michigan State University Dubai Knowledge Village Block 2B, Suite G23, Dubai, UAE Mobile: 011-971-050-114-7532 http://dubai.msu.edu<http://dubai.msu.edu/> "The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet" - Aristotle

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