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[JVWR] Call for Editors: Assembled 2018 a quick turnaround issue
by Tzafnat Shpak 04 Feb '18

04 Feb '18

Call for editors for the Journal of Virtual Worlds Research Call for Editors Assembled 2018 Greetings, Call for Editors Assembled 2018 February 4th 2018 We are looking for a *prime guest editor* (with potentially 1-2 co-editors) to manage the process for 2018. There are 10 candidate manuscripts (out of 20), which will yield 5-6 papers for publication. This is a great opportunity to influence the state of our field, to experience yourself with online publishing procedures, and get the credit on our website. You will: - Coordinate the reviewers of these 10 papers. - Use our publication system -- extensively. (be also versed in Google docs, Skype, and other current tools.) - Be a deadline-targeted & taking-charge person. - Work as a single editor or add one co-editor. - Able to write a short intro including your view/vision/insight on the field. - Get the academic credit as an editor. Please reply by *February 10, 2018*, to info(a)jvwresearch.org <info@jvwresearch?subject=Editor%20for%20Assembled%202016> with an academic CV and a cover letter listing your motivation and publishing/editing experience. *Publication:* April 2018 If you have colleagues who may be interested in becoming an editor or a co-editor, please feel free to forward this call further. Looking forward to hearing from you, *Prof. Yesha Y. Sivan* Editor in Chief JVWR - The Journal of Virtual Worlds Research [image: JVWR Call For Editors Assembled 2018] <https://jvwresearch.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=de4fa2a435382cb1fa67c…> <https://jvwresearch.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=de4fa2a435382cb1fa67c…> <https://jvwresearch.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=de4fa2a435382cb1fa67c…> <https://jvwresearch.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=de4fa2a435382cb1fa67c…> *Copyright © 2018 Journal of Virtual Worlds Research, All rights reserved.*

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Critical Digital and Social Media Studies - Call for Book Proposals, deadline approaching
by Christian Fuchs 02 Feb '18

02 Feb '18

REMINDER - 2018 CALL FOR BOOK PROPOSAL SUBMISSIONS: CRITICAL DIGITAL AND SOCIAL MEDIA STUDIES Submission Deadline: Monday 12 February 2017 23:00 BST by e-mail to Andrew Lockett (University of Westminster Press Manager) at A.Lockett(a)westminster.ac.uk For fullest series details and proposal guidelines see https://uwestminsterpress.blog Critical Digital and Social Media Studies is an established book series edited by Christian Fuchs on behalf of the Westminster Institute for Advanced Studies and published by the University of Westminster Press (UWP). We invite submissions of book proposals that fall into the scope of the series. CALL DETAILS After the publication of five titles in the series we invite submission of book proposals (adhering to the guidelines set out below) as one document with one full chapter for books in the range of 35,000-80,000 words. The books in the series are published online in an open access format available online without payment using a Creative Commons licence (CC-BY-NC-ND) and simultaneously as affordable paperbacks. We are able to publish a number of books in the call without any book processing charges thanks to generous support by the University of Westminster that covers these fees. Potential authors are welcome to contact the series editor outside of the initial time frame of this call for book proposals but should note that priority for funding support for suitable projects will be given to those proposals meeting the deadline. There is a preference for the submission of proposals for books whose writing can be finished and that can be submitted to UWP within the next 6-15 months. In the event of a surplus of strong proposals preference will be given to single-authored book proposals over edited volumes. We welcome submissions of a book outline proposal with (exactly one) sample chapter submitted as one single Word or PDF document. We can only accept suggestions for books written in English. TOPICS Example topics that the book series is interested in include: the political economy of digital and social media; digital and informational capitalism; digital labour; ideology critique in the age of social media; new developments of critical theory in the age of digital and social media; critical studies of advertising and consumer culture online; critical social media research methods; critical digital and social media ethics; working class struggles in the age of social media; the relationship of class, gender and race in the context of digital and social media; the critical analysis of the implications of big data, cloud computing, digital positivism, the Internet of things, predictive online analytics, the sharing economy, location- based data and mobile media, etc.; the role of classical critical theories for studying digital and social media; alternative social media and Internet platforms; the public sphere in the age of digital media; the critical study of the Internet economy; critical perspectives on digital democracy; critical case studies of online prosumption; public service digital and social media; commons-based digital and social media; subjectivity, consciousness, affects, worldviews and moral values in the age of digital and social media; digital art and culture in the context of critical theory; environmental and ecological aspects of digital capitalism and digital consumer culture. PUBLISHED TITLES CRITICAL THEORY OF COMMUNICATION: LUKÁCS, ADORNO, MARCUSE, HONNETH AND HABERMAS IN THE AGE OF THE INTERNET AND SOCIAL MEDIA Christian Fuchs, Westminster Institute for Advanced Studies, University of Westminster https://doi.org/10.16997/book1 KNOWLEDGE IN THE AGE OF DIGITAL CAPITALISM: AN INTRODUCTION TO COGNITIVE MATERIALISM Mariano Zukerfeld (CONICET), Argentina. https://doi.org/10.16997/book3 POLITICIZING DIGITAL SPACE: THEORY, THE INTERNET, AND RENEWING DEMOCRACY Trevor Smith Carleton University Ottowa. https://doi.org/10.16997/book5 CAPITAL, STATE, EMPIRE: THE NEW AMERICAN WAY OF DIGITAL WARFARE Scott Timcke, University of the West Indies, at St Augustine, Trinidad & Tobago. https://doi.org/10.16997/book6 THE SPECTACLE 2.0: READING DEBORD IN THE CONTEXT OF DIGITAL CAPITALISM Edited by Marco Briziarelli, University of New Mexico and Emiliana Armano, the State University of Milan. https://doi.org/10.16997/book11

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British Library PhD Research Placements: Call for Applications
by Mia 02 Feb '18

02 Feb '18

Two placement posts, Exploring our ‘Endangered Archives’ Projects in Africa <https://uk.sitestat.com/bl/subjectsandservices/s?britishlibrary._.media.res…> and Playbills in context: linked open data for historical playbills <https://uk.sitestat.com/bl/subjectsandservices/s?britishlibrary._.media.res…> are based in the Digital Scholarship department and might be particularly suitable for students working in Air-L related fields. Best regards, Mia https://www.bl.uk/news/2018/january/phd-research-placements-2018 A PhD research placement at the British Library provides the chance to experience research in a different environment to that of a university, to engage with a range of research users and audiences, to gain insights into different potential postdoctoral career paths, and to make a tangible contribution to the purposes and programmes of a national library and major cultural organisation. The PhD research placement scheme provides opportunities for PhD students to apply and enhance research, communications and analytical skills and expertise outside of Higher Education as part of their wider research training and professional development. Examples of previous BL PhD research placements and their outcomes <https://uk.sitestat.com/bl/subjectsandservices/s?britishlibrary._.media.res…> . *Current opportunities* A broad range of research placement opportunities have been identified by the Library for 2018-19 (click on the links below to view placement project profiles) - Afrikaans literature <https://uk.sitestat.com/bl/subjectsandservices/s?britishlibrary._.media.res…> - Investigating Anne McLaren’s Notebooks <https://uk.sitestat.com/bl/subjectsandservices/s?britishlibrary._.media.res…> - Art, Poetry and Politics – Contemporary British Artists’ Books <https://uk.sitestat.com/bl/subjectsandservices/s?britishlibrary._.media.res…> - Exploring music archives of 20th-century British composers <https://uk.sitestat.com/bl/subjectsandservices/s?britishlibrary._.media.res…> - Unlocking Charles I’s Vision of Rome <https://uk.sitestat.com/bl/subjectsandservices/s?britishlibrary._.media.res…> - Exploring our ‘Endangered Archives’ Projects in Africa <https://uk.sitestat.com/bl/subjectsandservices/s?britishlibrary._.media.res…> - First World War French posters <https://uk.sitestat.com/bl/subjectsandservices/s?britishlibrary._.media.res…> - Examining the role of internal engagement and communications in the British Library <https://uk.sitestat.com/bl/subjectsandservices/s?britishlibrary._.media.res…> - Visualising a future for Midland Road and Euston Road <https://uk.sitestat.com/bl/subjectsandservices/s?britishlibrary._.media.res…> - North American Migrant Narratives <https://uk.sitestat.com/bl/subjectsandservices/s?britishlibrary._.media.res…> - Playbills in context: linked open data for historical playbills <https://uk.sitestat.com/bl/subjectsandservices/s?britishlibrary._.media.res…> - Policy development with the British Library <https://uk.sitestat.com/bl/subjectsandservices/s?britishlibrary._.media.res…> - Political cartoons in India in the 1930s and 1940s <https://uk.sitestat.com/bl/subjectsandservices/s?britishlibrary._.media.res…> - Virus checking in long-term digital collection management and digital preservation <https://uk.sitestat.com/bl/subjectsandservices/s?britishlibrary._.media.res…> - William Blake at the British Library <https://uk.sitestat.com/bl/subjectsandservices/s?britishlibrary._.media.res…> - Telling the Stories of the Treasures of the British Library <https://uk.sitestat.com/bl/subjectsandservices/s?britishlibrary._.media.res…> *How to apply* Please refer to the application guidelines and email the completed application form and a CV to Research.Development(a)bl.uk Application guidelines (PDF) <https://uk.sitestat.com/bl/subjectsandservices/s?britishlibrary._.media.res…> Application form <https://uk.sitestat.com/bl/subjectsandservices/s?britishlibrary._.media.res…> (Word) Please note that all applications must be approved by the applicant’s PhD supervisor and Graduate Tutor (or equivalent senior academic manager). The application deadline is 4pm on *19 February 2018* *Eligibility* - Open to all PhD students, as long as they have the support of their PhD supervisor and their Graduate Tutor (or equivalent) - International students are eligible if they have the right to study in the UK *Funding* The British Library PhD research placement scheme has been developed in consultation with UK Research Funders, universities and Doctoral Training Partnerships. The research placements offered through the scheme are opportunities for current PhD students to apply and enhance research skills and expertise outside of Higher Education as part of their wider research training and professional development. They are training and development opportunities to be undertaken within this specific context – and are therefore different to the paid internships or other fixed-term posts that the Library may occasionally make available. See the Application Guidelines for further details and background. Please note that – unlike for an internship or a fixed-term post – the British Library is unable to provide stipends or payment to PhD placement students. It is therefore essential that applicants to the placement scheme obtain the support of their PhD supervisor and Graduate Tutor (or someone in an equivalent senior academic management role) in advance and that, as part of their process, they consult their HEI to ascertain what funding is available to support them. After the interview stage, students who have been offered a placement and are not able to cover the costs through funding from their university or other sources may apply to the Library’s PhD Placement Travel Fund to request help to cover day-to-day commuting expenses or one-off relocation travel costs only. Please note that this Fund is limited and the success of an application to it cannot be guaranteed. To support self-funded and part-time students, most placements can be done on a part-time basis, with some remote working also sometimes possible – see the individual projects for details. *Any questions?* Contact Research.Development(a)bl.uk for all queries or to be added to our placement scheme mailing list. -------------------------------------------- http://openobjects.org.uk/ http://twitter.com/mia_out Check out my book! http://bit.ly/CrowdsourcingOurCulturalHeritage P.S. I mostly use this address for list mail and don't check it daily

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Fwd: VB: 4 yr fully-funded PhD position in Information Studies, Lund University, Sweden
by Jutta Haider 02 Feb '18

02 Feb '18

4 year fully-funded PhD position in Information Studies (Library and Information Science) at Lund University, Sweden. We are seeking applications for the position of one doctoral student in Information Studies at the Department of Arts and Cultural Sciences, Lund University, Sweden to start 1st September 2018. The PhD program is located at the Department of Arts and Cultural Sciences at the Faculty of Humanities. The research environment is dynamic and growing with well-established national and international contacts. A Swedish PhD education lasts four years full-time. It is fully funded including wages, social security and entitlement to benefits. Link to position opening https://lu.mynetworkglobal.com/en/what: job/jobID:190100/ Link to further information for applicants: http://www.kultur. lu.se/en/research/forskarutbildning/information-about-vacant-phd-positions- 2018/information-studies-information-for-applicants-to-phd-position/ If you are interested, please contact me for more information: olof.sundin(a)kultur.lu.se Best wishes, Olof .............................. Olof Sundin Professor in Information Studies Department of Arts and Cultural Sciences Lund University, Sweden Tel: +46 46 2220966 <+46%2046%20222%2009%2066> email:olof.sundin@kultur.lu.se Home page: http://www.kultur.lu.se/en/the-department/staff/OlofSundin/ ..............................

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new issue of Javnost + ess(ay) of possible interest
by Charles M. Ess 01 Feb '18

01 Feb '18

Dear AoIRists, As part of a forthcoming special double issue of _Javnost-The Public_, I contributed an essay that is now available online: Democracy and the Internet: A Retrospective doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/13183222.2017.1418820 a free e-print is available to 50 folk: <http://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/SDZdtuqpPUpcgxVGwUZG/full> A million thanks to the million or so colleagues and good friends who have made all of this possible. cheers, - 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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ACM RecSys'18: Call for papers
by Yong Zheng 01 Feb '18

01 Feb '18

*** Please forward to anyone who might be interested *** --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Papers: ACM RecSys 2018 to be held in Vancouver, Canada, 2nd-7th October 2018 https://recsys.acm.org/recsys18/ --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Papers: We are pleased to invite you to contribute to the Twelfth ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys 2018), the premier venue for research and applications of recommendation technologies. The upcoming RecSys conference will be held in Vancouver, Canada on October 3rd 2018. The conference will continue RecSys’ practice of connecting the research and practitioner communities to exchange ideas, frame problems, and share solutions. All accepted papers will be published by ACM. We construe recommender systems broadly, including applications ranging from e-commerce to social networking, and a wide variety of technologies ranging from collaborative filtering to knowledge-based reasoning or deep learning. We welcome new research on recommendation technologies coming from very diverse communities ranging from psychology to mathematics. In particular, we care as much about the underlying algorithms and systems as we care about the human and economic impact of these systems. Topics of interest for RecSys 2018 include (but are not limited to): - Conversational recommender systems - Novel machine learning approaches to recommendation algorithms - Evaluation metrics and studies - Explanations and evidence - Algorithm scalability, performance, and implementations - Innovative/New applications - Voice, VR, and other novel interaction paradigms - Case studies of real-world implementations - Preference elicitation - Privacy and Security - Economic models and consequences of recommender systems - Personalisation - Social recommenders - User modelling Authors will be asked to assign a selection of predefined custom tags to describe their paper in the submission system. Tags can be assigned to indicate algorithms, interfaces, automated or user-centric evaluations, for example. Reviewers will also report their expertise over these tags, and the information will be used in review assignments. PAPER SUBMISSION CATEGORIES LONG PAPERS should report on substantial contributions of lasting value. The maximum length is 8 pages (plus up to 1 page references). Each accepted long paper will be included in the conference proceedings and presented in a plenary session as part of the main conference program. Each accepted long paper will also be allocated a presentation slot in a poster session to encourage discussion and follow up between authors and attendees. We expect the review process to be highly selective: the acceptance rates for full papers in the past three years was slightly over 20%. SHORT PAPERS typically discuss exciting new work that is not yet mature enough for a long paper. In particular, novel but significant proposals will be considered for acceptance to this category despite not having gone through sufficient experimental validation or lacking strong theoretical foundation. Applications of recommender systems to novel areas are especially welcome. The maximum length is 4 pages (plus up to 1 page references). Each accepted short paper will be included in the conference proceedings and presented in a poster session. The poster presentation may include a system demonstration. Selected short papers will be invited as oral presentations. Note that rejected long paper submissions will not be considered as short papers. SIGCHI SUBMITTER AGREEMENT RecSys 2018 is a SIGCHI conference and making a submission to a SIGCHI conference is a serious matter. Submissions require time and effort by SIGCHI volunteers to organise and manage the reviewing process, and, if the submission is accepted, the publication and presentation process. Thus, anyone who submits to RecSys 2018 implicitly confirms the following statements: 1. I confirm that this submission is the work of myself and my co-authors. 2. I confirm that I or my co-authors hold copyright to the content, and have obtained appropriate permissions for any portions of the content that are copyrighted by others. 3. I confirm that any research reported in this submission involving human subjects has gone through the appropriate approval process at my institution. 4. I confirm that if this paper is accepted, I or one of my co-authors will attend the conference. Papers that are not presented at the conference by an author may be removed from the proceedings at the discretion of the program chairs. PAPER FORMAT AND SUBMISSION All submissions and reviews will be handled electronically. RecSys 2018 submissions should be prepared according to the standard double-column ACM SIG proceedings format. Additional information about formatting and style files is available online <http://www.acm.org/publications/article-templates/proceedings-template.html>. Papers must be submitted to PCS2 by 23:59, AoE (Anywhere on Earth) on May 7th, 2018. There will be no extensions to the submission deadline. The peer review process is double-blind (i.e. anonymised). This means that all submissions must not include information identifying the authors or their organisation. Specifically, do not include the authors’ names and affiliations, anonymise citations to your previous work and avoid providing any other information that would allow to identify the authors, such as acknowledgments and funding. Please take note that the official publication date is the date the proceedings are made available in the ACM Digital Library. This date may be up to two weeks prior to the first day of the conference. The official publication date affects the deadline for any patent filings related to published work. IMPORTANT DATES - Abstract submission deadline: April 30th, 2018 - Paper submission deadline: May 7th, 2018 - Author notification: July 9th, 2018 - Camera-ready version deadline: August 6th, 2018 Deadlines refer to 23:59 (11:59pm) in the AoE (Anywhere on Earth) time zone. PROGRAM CHAIRS - Xavier Amatriain, Curai, USA - John O’Donovan, UCSB, USA

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ACM RecSys' 18: Call for Workshop Proposals
by Yong Zheng 01 Feb '18

01 Feb '18

*** Please forward to anyone who might be interested *** -------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL for WORKSHOP PROPOSALS ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys 2018) to be held in Vancouver, Canada, 2nd-7th October, 2018 https://recsys.acm.org/recsys18/ -------------------------------------------------------------------- RecSys 2018 is pleased to invite proposals for workshops to be held in conjunction with the conference. The goal of the workshops is to provide additional venues for discussing novel ideas as well as recent results of research in progress. In 2018 our goal is to have a balanced workshop program which comprises workshop formats of different types and a combination of newly emerging, currently evolving, and historically understudied topics. Different full-day and half-day workshop formats are possible, forexample: ● Workshops with novel interactive workshop formats and a relatively small number of participants. Such workshop formats might for example target at the exploration of a certain topic during the workshop through a moderated discussion or breakout sessions, resulting in a draft paper or report to be completed and published after the workshop. Particular priority will be given to these formats which require the active involvement of the participants. ● Workshops with the traditional workshop format on specialized topics; such workshops typically have their own paper submission and review processes. Proposals for continuations of existing workshop series are welcome, however, please include a brief statement on the necessity for the new edition, including a description of the outcomes of previous years and the expected novelty of this edition. In both cases, a subset of workshop papers selected by workshop chairs will also be allocated a presentation slot in a poster session to encourage discussion and follow up between authors and attendees. We encourage you to contact us by email to workshops2018(a)recsys.acm.org in advance with workshop ideas; we will work with prospective workshop organizers to help them design successful proposals. In particular for workshop proposals with novel interactive formats we are happy to assist you in further developing and implementing your ideas. Please contact us at least three weeks before the deadline. We encourage both researchers and industry practitioners to submit proposals. PROPOSAL FORMAT AND SUBMISSION The workshop proposal should be a PDF document no more than 4 pages long, submitted by e-mail to workshops2018(a)recsys.acm.org and organized as follows: ● Workshop title ● A short description of the workshop including the rationale for the workshop and how and why it fits the audience of RecSys. This description should include also the topic, format, and details about what type of submission is requested from prospective attendees. Please also add an explanation on how the workshop complements, rather than duplicates, the topics of the main conference. ● Name, email address, and affiliation for workshop organizer(s) and a brief description of their experience in organizing such events. ● Requested duration (half day or full day), and expected number of participants. ● Description of workshop activities. Outline how the workshop will be organized and how the time will be spent. In particular, please sketch how you will engage participants to foster more interactivity and engagement during the workshop. For more interactive workshop formats, also outline the process of selecting or inviting the participants. ● Description of plans for promoting the workshop and disseminating the results. ● History of prior workshops on this topic (e.g., including the number of submissions and attendees), if any. EVALUATION CRITERIA ● Ability of the topic to contribute to the continued development of the field of recommender systems. ● Level of complementarity of the topic to the main conference. ● Clear plan for attracting submissions, making the workshop itself productive, and disseminating results. ● Evidence that this plan will be successful. ● Experience of the organizers. IMPORTANT DATES ● Workshop proposal submission deadline: March 5th, 2018 ● Workshop proposal notification: March 26th, 2018 ● Workshop summary camera-ready deadline: August 6th, 2018 ● Workshop dates: October 6th and 7th, 2018 Example deadlines (workshop organizers are free to apply their own deadlines, although we encourage the organizers to follow the suggested deadlines): ● Call for Papers publication: April 9th, 2018 ● Paper submission deadline: July 16th, 2018 ● Reviewer deadline: August 3rd, 2018 ● Author notification: August 13th, 2018 ● Camera-ready version deadline: August 27th, 2018 Deadlines refer to 23:59 (11:59pm) in the AoE (Anywhere on Earth) time zone. WORKSHOP CHAIRS ● Alejandro Bellogín, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain ● Martha Larson, Radboud University, The Netherlands

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Reminder: Emerald Studies in Media and Communications 2018 Call for THREE Volumes: Deadline February 12, 2018
by Emerald Editorial 01 Feb '18

01 Feb '18

*Emerald Studies in Media and Communications* is delighted to update our 2018 call with a special volume commemorating the 30th anniversary of the CITAMS section. The deadline for all three volumes is February 12, 2018. *CITAMS@30* This special anniversary volume commemorates the 30th anniversary of the CITAMS section. Submissions are welcome that explore any topic relevant to the thirty-year section history or the future of the section in years to come. Topics include but are not limited to communication, information technologies, and media sociology. Guest editors are Wenhong Chen and Barry Wellman. *Call for Theorizing the Digital: Social Theory and Digital Culture* We welcome submissions using a wide variety of data and analytic techniques, assuming they are rigorously employed. We also welcome theoretical submissions, assuming they focus squarely on the topic of the volume. Methodological papers will be considered as long as they are grounded in theoretical concerns. The scope of the volume is wide and includes application of classical and contemporary theorists in media contexts. Any topic that engages the volume’s theme is welcome. Potential topics could include: ethics, practices, and politics of “big data”; self, identity, and community; privacy, publicity and surveillance; personal and algorithmic patterns of curation; social network formation, maintenance, and change; news and (dis)information; visual representations; memes and virality; politics; mediated embodiment, etc. Lead editor is Jeremy Schulz with guest editors Gabe Ignatow and Jenny Davis. *Call for Power, Media, and Everyday Life: Expanding the Intersectional* We welcome submissions using a wide variety of data and analytic techniques, assuming they are rigorously employed, and theoretical or methodological submissions, assuming they focus squarely on the topic of the volume. The scope of this volume is wide, as it aims to contribute phenomenological and epistemic knowledge to the growing field of intersectionality. Submissions are welcome on any topics that speak to intersectionality as it relates to media including gender, race/ethnicity, class, sexuality, and ability. In addition, we are also especially interested in papers that expand and broaden the discourse of intersectionality vis-à-vis media to include: Parenthood, Community, Religion, Nationality, Immigration, Language, Political Association, Aging, etc. Lead editor is Apryl Williams with guest editor Ruth Tsuria. *Submission Guidelines: Deadline February 12, 2018 by email to editorial(a)emeraldmediastudies.com <editorial(a)emeraldmediastudies.com>.* Submissions should be approximately 7,000-10,000 in length inclusive of abstract, references, and notes. American or British spelling may be used. While no special formatting is requested at the outset, upon acceptance authors must gain all permissions and format their manuscripts in accordance with the series' guidelines. Submissions may be considered for either volume. All submissions must include 1) title of manuscript, 2) abstract up to 250 words, 3) up to 6 keywords, 4) main text with headings, 5) references, 6) as appropriate to the submission appendices, images, figures, and tables. *For initial submissions, please follow these four steps or the submission may not be considered:* 1) Create two copies of your submission: one in PDF for anonymous review and one in Word with all author information. 2) Use the title of your submission when naming your copies of your submissions in both Word and PDF. 3) Put the title of your submission and the name of the volume you prefer in the subject line of your email. 4) Email both copies of your submission in a single email to editorial@ emeraldmediastudies.com by the deadline. *Anonymized Review Copy in PDF* Title of your submission + Anonymized (example: "Submission Title Anonymized") Remove any author information and affiliations and save doc as PDF *Editorial Copy in Word* Title of your submission + Editorial (example: "Submission Title Editorial") In a Word document, include all elements above, as well as a title page with all author names, emails, and bios of up to 250 words. For more information, see emeraldmediastudies.com. Please address any questions to: editorial(a)emeraldmediastudies.com Best wishes, Emerald Studies in Media and Communication emeraldmediastudies.com editorial(a)emeraldmediastudies.com

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Academic Category Nominations at the Global mobileGov Awards 2018
by Ibrahim Kushchu 01 Feb '18

01 Feb '18

Dear Colleagues I am writing to you regarding Global mobileGov Awards 2018 - this year we have an academic contributions category for reputed researchers whose contribution to any areas of eGovernment and mGovernment has been significant. Could you please nominate anyone you deem appropriate or self-nominate by writing to me directly or to the conf(a)m4life.org? Please see and feel free to forward the Summit info below. Looking forward to your responses, thank you in advance. Best wishes Kushchu ====== Ibrahim KUSHCHU, MBA, MSC., PHD Founding Director, mobileGov UK http://mgovernment.net/ <http://www.mgovernment.org/> ik(a)mgovernment.net +44 7740143135 - 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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[CfP] 50 years in Agenda Setting Research: Conference in July 2018 (U of Colorado Boulder)
by Lei Guo 01 Feb '18

01 Feb '18

50 Years in Agenda Setting Research: Past and Future Perspectives Conference University of Colorado Boulder July 18- 21, 2018 Deadline to submit abstracts: March 1, 2018 More information can be found at: http://www.cvent.com/events/50-years-in-agenda-setting-resea rch-past-and-future-perspectives-conference/event-summary-ad 9c9dbed5fd4abf8ae2bd3c11e15f37.aspx 2018 marks the 50-year anniversary of the hallmark 1968 Chapel Hill study where agenda-setting research as we know it was born. This initial study, a collaboration between Max McCombs and Donald Shaw, has given birth to thousands of subsequent inquiries spanning a wide array of academic disciplines and media contexts. To celebrate agenda setting’s important role in mass communication theory, the College of Media, Communication and Information <http://colorado.edu/cmci> at the University of Colorado Boulder <http://colorado.edu> invites junior and senior scholars alike to attend a three-day conference focused on past, present, and future applications of the theory. Join us as we celebrate the original theorists and trace the development of agenda setting. All scholars conducting contemporary research rooted in agenda setting are encouraged to attend. Areas of interest include, but are not limited to: need for orientation, network agenda setting, agenda building and agendamelding. New media applications of agenda setting, such as studies of fake news and computational propaganda, are also encouraged. Honored guests include the seminal theorists: Dr. Maxwell McCombs, Dr. Donald Shaw and Dr. David Weaver. In addition, the conference will be chronicled by *The Agenda-Setting Journal*, with editor Dr. Salma Ghanem attending. All presenters will be encouraged to complete their work and submit it to a special issue of *The Agenda Setting Journal* dedicated to the conference. Top work from the conference will receive expedited consideration for publication in the journal. The conference will be highlighted by a plenary panel led by McCombs, Shaw, Weaver and Ghanem. The conference will include a refereed paper session. To be considered, authors should submit an extended abstract of no more than 750 words (not including references) detailing the proposed study. Works in progress will be considered, but preference will be given to abstracts with a clear path to completion (e.g., data, clear research questions, initial analyses). Abstracts should include background information on the author(s), including an abbreviated bio that describes research that relates to agenda setting. Please submit your proposal as a PDF to Christopher J. Vargo <christopher.vargo(a)colorado.edu> Christopher.Vargo(a)colorado.edu no later than Monday, March 1, 2018. Drs. McCombs, Shaw and Weaver will review the submitted abstracts. Notification of acceptance will come on March 15.

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