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International Conference for Cultural Policy Research (ICCPR) CFP deadline extended to February 5th
by Indrek Ibrus 22 Jan '18

22 Jan '18

Dear AoIR community, The deadline for proposals for the 10th International Conference on Cultural Policy Research (ICCPR) was extended to *February 5th*, 2018. Submission takes place here: http://iccpr2018.tlu.ee/proposal-submission/ <http://iccpr2018.tlu.ee/proposal-submission/> ICCPR 2018 will take place in Tallinn, Estonia August 21-25. The conference will be hosted by Tallinn University. All information about the conference can be found here: http://iccpr2018.tlu.ee/ <http://iccpr2018.tlu.ee/> The theme of ICCPR 2018 is “The Cultural Governance of Global Flows: Past and Future”. The theme refers to the emergence of complex global flows that present contemporary societies with novel challenges and have high relevance for shaping but also understanding cultural policy in the making worldwide. These include forced as well as unforced migrations; new global divisions in cultural labour; cultural tourism; novel forms of content distribution; emergent international networks and platforms enabling cultural exchange; global trade with (big) data on cultural practices; and attempts of reimagining and re-evaluating shared values, to name some. The conference expects to address not only the present situation and future strategies but invites investigations into the archaeologies and histories of contemporary flows and into past ways of addressing related challenges with cultural policies in different regions of the world. It puts a special emphasis on the experiences in Eastern Europe and other transitional societies. Keynotes by: Prof. Jose van Dijck, University of Utrecht, Netherlands Prof. J.P Singh, University of Edinburgh, UK Prof. Joseph Straubhaar, University of Texas, USA Prof. Madina Tlostanova, Linköping University, Sweden CALL FOR PROPOSALS ICCPR 2018 invites participants to present papers from across the entire spectrum of cultural policy studies. This includes, but is not limited to the following: • Cultural policy and globalisation • Cultural policies of migration, identities and acculturation • Cultural policy, religion and secularism • Cultural policy and global governance of networks and platforms • Global governance of cultural content, service and labour flows • Management and global governance of cultural data • Politics of culture and cultural policies in multiple modernities • Cultural policies and global inequalities • Governance of cultural diversity • Cultural sustainability policies • Culture in environmental policy • Intellectuals and cultural policy • Cultural policy and values • Historiographies of cultural policy • Implicit cultural policy • Comparative cultural policy • Arts education policy • Cultural policy and cultural industries • Artist policy • Creativity and the city • Cultural policy and development policy • Cultural policy as welfare policy • Culture and economy • Cultural policy and innovation systems • Cultural policy, cultural diplomacy and international relations PROPOSAL FORMATS Three different formats can be proposed: • single papers • panel proposals • roundtables More information about the CFP on conference website: http://iccpr2018.tlu.ee/call-for-abstracts/ <http://iccpr2018.tlu.ee/call-for-abstracts/> All submissions must be in English and will be peer-reviewed. Proposals should be sent no later than February 5th, 2018 to ICCPR2018(a)tlu.ee <mailto:ICCPR2018@tlu.ee>. --- Professor of media innovation, Baltic Film, Media, Arts and Communication School (BFM), Tallinn University Head at MEDIT (Tallinn University Centre of Excellence in Media Innovation and Digital Culture) Tel: +37256978885 Email: indrek.ibrus(a)tlu.ee

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CfP: Media and networks from below: amateurs, users, and marginal groups - Padua 14-16 June 2018
by Paolo Bory 22 Jan '18

22 Jan '18

CfP: Media and networks from below: amateurs, users, and marginal groups - Padova 24-26 June 18 Call for papers MEDIA AND NETWORKS FROM BELOW: AMATEURS, USERS, AND MARGINAL GROUPS Deadline: 10.02.2018 Track of the 7th STS Italia Conference to be hosted at the University of Padova, Italy, June 14 - 16, 2018, by the Italian Society of Science and Technology Studies, in collaboration with the FISPPA Department and the University of Padova. Networks play an essential role in media development. To counter the semantic and theoretical dominance of the histories of particular technologies and include them in a broader social context, the historian Andrew Russell has recently raised the need for a deeper understanding of the plural histories of networking. Notably, the term network, far from being just confined to digital media, refers to a variety of media and communication technologies in their convergence and interdependencies, such as telegraphy, wireless, radio, telephony, broadcasting, and ITs. Besides the leading role of private companies and national monopolies, various local, national and transnational networks from below participated and are still contributing to the development and the cultural representation of media and communication technologies. Amateurs, activists, hackers, hobbyists are just some examples of how a variety of networks from below have played a key role in shaping the past and present of media. These networks developed in different forms, from ones around particular political institutions to the local clubs in the garages. Different motivations drove them: to share the knowledge and joy of using the technology, to serve the nation by spreading the information, to suggest an alternative way of media governance, etc. Besides technical networks, different forms of social networks contributed to the development, the appropriation and the dissemination of media and communication technologies over time. This track session aims at gathering and putting into dialogue scholars and specialists coming from different experiences and case studies dealing with networks from below. Relevant topics for the track may include, but are in no way limited to: - Networks of amateurs and the emergence of radio, television, and digital media - Countercultural networks: hacker movements, TV, and pirate radio stations - Hobbyists’ networks, politics, and propaganda - Whistleblowing, programmers, and journalistic networks - Case studies on civic networks and advocacy networks - Gaming communities and technological innovations - The geography of networks from below on local, national, and transnational scale Abstracts (written in English or in Italian, max. 300 words all included) should be submitted by February, 10 to the conference email address (7thstsitaliaconf(a)gmail.com) and to the emails of convenors' selected track. Convenors: Paolo, Bory, USI – Università della Svizzera italiana, paolo.bory(a)usi.ch<mailto:paolo.bory@usi.ch> Maria, Rikitianskaia, USI – Università della Svizzera italiana, maria.rikitianskaia(a)usi.ch<mailto:maria.rikitianskaia@usi.ch> The call: https://docs.wixstatic.com/ugd/8486e6_c25e53e71476441c9a906f535073b7e8.pdf The full call of the conference https://www.frombelow-stsitaliaconf.org/call-for-abstracts

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Fwd: NYU Information Law Institute Research Fellowships for 2018-19
by Dan L. Burk 21 Jan '18

21 Jan '18

An opportunity below that may be of interest to some on the list. Cheers, DLB -- Dan L. Burk Chancellor's Professor of Law University of California, Irvine ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 2017-18 Fulbright Cybersecurity Scholar -------- Original Message -------- Please share the announcement below with your networks. Thanks! Kathy Prof. Katherine J. Strandburg Alfred B. Engelberg Professor of Law New York University School of Law 40 Washington Sq So Rm 430K New York, NY 10012 (212) 998-6269 katherine.strandburg(a)nyu.edu NYU INFORMATION LAW INSTITUTE RESEARCH FELLOWSHIPS AVAILABLE FOR 2018-19 The Information Law Institute [1] at NYU is accepting applications for research fellowships to begin in Fall 2018. The initial fellowship term is for one year, with the possibility of renewal for a second year. Applicants should hold a law degree or a Ph.D. in a relevant area, and show interest and promise in conducting research and writing. We will give preference to applicants with demonstrated interest in ILI areas of focus, including privacy, algorithms and automated decision-making, and information/data ethics and politics. Research fellows will devote time to their own research, to collaborative projects, and to planning ILI events. Teaching may be an option, depending on availability and interest. Collaborative projects will be supervised by ILI faculty. Fellows are expected to reside in the New York area, participate in Information Law Institute activities, attend weekly meetings of ILI's multidisciplinary Privacy Research Group [2], and participate in regular Fellows' meetings. They will also have ample opportunity to interact with faculty in the School of Law and other departments at NYU, and to take part in the lively intellectual life of the university and New York City. Applications (by email) and inquiries should be addressed to ILI administrator Nicole Arzt, nicole.arzt(a)nyu.edu, and should include: a CV, copies of 2 relevant publications or writing samples, a transcript of graduate work (unofficial is acceptable), the names and contact information of three references, and a cover letter summarizing the candidate's relevant background and accomplishments and outlining his or her perceived fit with the ILI. We will review applications on a rolling basis until the positions are filled. Further information about the ILI and the Privacy Research Group, can be found at, http://www.law.nyu.edu/centers/ili/index.htm. _** NYU is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer **_ --++**==--++**==--++**==--++**==--++**==--++**==--++**== -- Dan L. Burk Chancellor's Professor of Law University of California, Irvine ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 2017-18 Fulbright Cybersecurity Scholar Links: ------ [1] http://www.law.nyu.edu/centers/ili [2] http://www.law.nyu.edu/centers/ili/privacy_research_group

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research ethics again - students and FB
by Charles M. Ess 19 Jan '18

19 Jan '18

Dear AoIRists, What are your thoughts regarding the following? A research project involves a small number of students, legally minors - and requires that they set up fake FB accounts for the sake of role-playing in an educational context? Of course, fake accounts are a clear violation of the FB ToS. I know we've discussed the ethics of researchers doing this (with mixed results, i.e., some for, some concerned). But I'm curious what folk think / feel about this version of the problem. 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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UBC iSchool - Faculty Position at the rank of Associate or Full Professor
by Freund, Luanne 19 Jan '18

19 Jan '18

Dear colleagues, We are excited to announce an opening at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada for a faculty member at the Associate or Full Professor rank in our iSchool. We are seeking a distinguished scholar with expertise in one or more of the following areas: information policy and ethics; data management and analytics; new media and Internet studies; digital collections; Indigenous information systems and initiatives; cultural heritage informatics/preservation; and scholarly communication. Visit our website for the full advertisement: http://slais.ubc.ca/people/employment-at-slais-the-ischool-ubc/ We will begin reviewing applications February 15, 2018. Luanne Freund Associate Professor and Director SLAIS, the iSchool @ UBC The University of British Columbia Vancouver, Canada Luanne.freund(a)ubc.ca<mailto:Luanne.freund@ubc.ca>

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Reminder: Edited Collection CfP on The Crisis in Digital Democracy
by Michael 19 Jan '18

19 Jan '18

> Hi everyone, > > A reminder that John Jones of Ohio State and I have a call out for our > edited collection on The Crisis in Digital Democracy. We're accepting > 500-word proposals through January, 25th that explore: > > *The effect of online content laws in hindering or promoting > online accountability or abuse > *The spread/growth of clickbait, memes, and “fake news” and the > impact of bots and sock-puppet accounts on distributing such content > *Targeted social media campaigns and advertising > *The role of Internet-era actors like Wikileaks in influencing > public opinion and policy > *The history of media disruptions in elections and how this > history can inform current issues > *The design of networked platforms and software as well as their > role in privileging particular online interactions > *The evolution of social media tastemakers, including activists, > pundits, and entertainers > *The role of anonymity and platform liability restrictions on > civic discourse > *Expressions of government accountability (or lack thereof) in > digital spaces > > We're are particularly interested in papers that frame global events > around 2016 as we move forward and learn from those events. > Feel free to email me with any questions > at mtrice(a)mit.edu > > The full CfP is at: > http://johnmjones.org/2017/11/cfp-after-2016-the-crisis-in-digital-democrac… > > Thank you for your time. > > Best, > > Michael > > -- > Lecturer II in Writing and Communication at MIT > Doctoral Candidate at Texas Tech University > Phone: 806.392.7016 > Twitter: mikertrice > Skype: mrtrice1

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Art and (H)aktivism Project London
by Tim Jordan 19 Jan '18

19 Jan '18

Hopefully of interest to folk. Ugly Duck is an arts company that identifies unused space in London and sets up projects in them. They've just issued a call I've quoted below for projects on Art and (H)Aktivism. Full disclosure: I'm on the curating panel. Tim Jordan http://bit.ly/UDHaktivism The theme for this next season is Art & (H)aktivism. All systems can be hacked. How can we use art and creativity to advocate for social change? How to dismantle invisible walls, symbolic of existing power structures? Creativity can change the way we see the world, culture and ourselves. Art can highlight inequality, fight oppression, and bring people together. Hacking brings about change, teaching us how to sabotage the systems that control us. We are looking for projects that subvert, improve and criticise systems in place. Offering alternatives and putting them into practice. > Any forms and any type of project will be considered < Professor Tim Jordan Head of School of Media, Film and Music University of Sussex 313 Silverstone Building Arts Road Falmer East Sussex BN1 9RG Email: t.r.jordan(a)sussex.ac.uk

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WEBCAST FRIDAY: IEEE Summit on Communications Futures
by Joly MacFie 18 Jan '18

18 Jan '18

H/T to Dr. Ashutosh Dutta for forwarding this info. Great line up of sessions, and a blessed relief to have an event that one doesn't have to get up for at the crack of dawn, or earlier! [image: IEEEE Comsoc Summit]On *Friday January 19 2018* the *IEEE Communications Society <http://www.comsoc.org/>* (ComSoc) hosts the* IEEE Summit on Communications Futures <http://www.ieee-comfutures.org/>*in Honolulu, HI. A group of distinguished professionals will delve deeply into current and forecasted trends and examine the intersection of optical communications, the Internet of Things (IoT), fog computing and networking, cybersecurity, and 5G and beyond. The event will be *webcast live (registration required <https://register.comsoc.org/content/ieee-summit-communications-futures-live…>)*. Honolulu is UTC-10, so 5 hours ahead of NYC. *What: IEEE Summit on Communications Futures 2018 <http://www.ieee-comfutures.org/>Where: Honolulu, HawaiiWhen: Friday January 19 2018 08:45-17:45 HST | 1:45pm-10:45pm ESTProgram: http://www.ieee-comfutures.org/program/ <http://www.ieee-comfutures.org/program/>Webcast: https://register.comsoc.org/content/ieee-summit-communications-futures-live… <https://register.comsoc.org/content/ieee-summit-communications-futures-live…>Twitter: @comsoc http://bit.ly/comsoctweets <http://bit.ly/comsoctweets>* Comment <http://isoc-ny.org/p2/9826#respond> See all comments <http://isoc-ny.org/p2/9826#comments> *Permalink* http://isoc-ny.org/p2/9826 -- --------------------------------------------------------------- Joly MacFie 218 565 9365 Skype:punkcast -------------------------------------------------------------- -

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Call For Participation: CHI 2018 Workshop "Sensemaking in a Senseless World"
by Elizabeth Anne Watkins 18 Jan '18

18 Jan '18

*CHI 2018 Workshop: "Sensemaking in a Senseless World" **- Call For Participation * We are seeking workshop papers on topics in the area of sensemaking for a workshop to be held at CHI 2018 in Montreal, Canada. Making sense of information is central to HCI as people look to understand complex systems, domains and problems. Broadly, we take the topic of sensemaking to mean understanding of how people collect and organize information for analysis and synthesis, and the tools and processes they follow when doing this. Sensemaking, per se, is everywhere in the systems we build and in the domains we study. Whenever people need to function well with data, making sense of the information is often a central task. We are interested in both individual and group sensemaking practices—from how one person figures out a complex data set, up to large, collaborative group sensemaking where teams of people assemble and interpret large, complex, interlocking sets of data. Representative tasks include: the practices of people who deal with sensemaking hand-offs (e.g., in a medical setting) or in analytical areas (e.g., making sense of financial data for forensic purposes); data set interpretation; understanding large collections of documents; etc. In particular, what are the tools, techniques and best practices of people who need to make sense of a large amount of complex information? What issues of scale, complexity and coordination arise that are particular to making sense of a complex world? *Workshop date: *Saturday, April 21, 2018 (Montreal, Canada) at the CHI conference (https://chi2018.acm.org/) *Workshop Goals* The workshop will include research in areas such as: - how do people make sense of complex sets of information? (behavior studies and tool use) • issues of representation creation, evolution and use over time - implicit and explicit aspects of sensemaking - group sensemaking: including different levels of social aggregation, from individual, to group, to large social contexts - both static and evolving problem environments - how sensemaking fits into other knowledge work (information gathering, decision making) - what is sensemaking today? (In particular, what other sensemaking schools of thought are there, and how can we mutually inform each others work?) >From this meeting of the minds, the Sensemaking workshop has several desired outcomes: - First, we will create working relationships between researchers whose work focuses on aspects of sensemaking. While we certainly hope to bring together those working within the HCI community, we would like to try to bring in some researchers from other disciplines as well, including Library & Information Science (LIS) and Organizational Theory and Psychology (e.g., cognitive/problem solving research). - Our second outcome is to enrich our understanding of sensemaking activities. This includes striving for a shared understanding of the different notions of sensemaking, laying out and structuring the space of varieties of sensemaking (e.g., different levels of social aggregation, static vs. dynamic contexts), articulating their commonalities and differences. - Our third goal is to draw from this is a greater understanding of design implications for improved sensemaking tools, systems and designs. There is a clearly emerging demand for tools for verifiability and trustability of facts shared on public media channels. For example, a new generation of tools is emerging to allow journalists to spot inaccurate or fake news by leveraging ML algorithms and visualizations. Can we take advantage of these tools in our everyday sensemaking tasks as well? *Organizers* - Daniel Russell has been working in the area of sensemaking since the early 1990s. His publication of The cost structure of sensemaking in 1993 led to a stream of research in this area. Now a Senior Research Scientist at Google, he primarily studies how people formulate information needs and satisfy them with online research tools and databases. He has run three earlier CHI workshops on sensemaking, one of which led to a special edition publication of the journal Computer-Human Interaction. - Gregorio Covertino is a Sr. UX Manager and UX Researcher at Cloudera. He has been working on collaborative visualizations for sensemaking since 2003 with his PhD work on multi-role emergency management teams. In addition, he has worked on bias and visualizations for intelligence analysis teams at Xerox PARC. At Informatica and Cloudera, his most recent research work has focused on self-service analytics tools for business users, big data tools for data scientists, and log analytics tools. - Niki Kittur is an Associate Professor and Cooper-Siegel Chair in the Human-Computer Interaction Institute at Carnegie Mellon University. His research explores a future that scales sensemaking beyond the limits of a single individual’s mind by: 1) distributing sensemaking among many people and machines; 2) enabling people to build on the sensemaking that others have already done; and 3) seamlessly integrating human and machine cognition to make sense of large information spaces. He is also a co-founder of DataSquid, a startup that supports sensemaking by bringing the power of intuitive touch and physics to data visualization. - Peter Pirolli has been a long-time contributor to the sensemaking literature, establishing his contributions to this area with the seminal book Information Foraging Theory (2007). His research involves a mix of cognitive science, artificial intelligence, and human-computer interaction, with applications in digital health, sensemaking, and information foraging. - Elizabeth Anne Watkins primarily studies news-producing organizations. News organizations combine the technical and complexity issues typical of bureaucratic systems with the creative, autonomous decision-making of journalists. As more industries face changing labor models, shifting to remote workers and building more of their computing needs on third-party platforms, journalists can serve as a critical early-warning population, a canary- in-the-coal-mine look at the management of cybersecurity in the future of work. For us, sensemaking provides a framework to study how journalists who work in these organizations “make sense” of cybersecurity. *To submit a workshop paper: * If you are interested in submitting or attending the workshop, you can find more details on the workshop website: https://sensemakingworkshop2018.com <https://sensemakingchi2018.com/> For inquiries, please email: dmrussell+sensemaking2081(a)gmail.com *Deadlines: * The deadline for submitted workshop papers is March 2, 2018. Notification of acceptance will be March 30, 2018.

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CFP 'Rethinking Affordance' – special issue of Media Theory and symposium (expr. of interest due Jan 29)
by Martin Zeilinger 18 Jan '18

18 Jan '18

— with apologies for cross-posting — Call for Papers: Rethinking Affordance Special Issue (Media Theory) & Symposium (Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart, June 8 - 9 2018) Co-editors and co-organisers: Ashley Scarlett and Martin Zeilinger Abstracts and expressions of interest due by: January 29th, 2018 Responding to the continued and accelerating rise of algorithmic culture, this journal special issue and corresponding symposium will explore critical intersections between creative practice and recent efforts to re-imagine the concept of ‘affordance’ for the digital. Theoretical considerations of ‘affordance’ originate at the intersection of perceptual and cognitive psychology, specifically within the context of J.J. Gibson’s work from the mid-60s onwards. According to Gibson, ‘affordance’ sought to account for the actionable properties of a physical object or environment. An object’s affordances, in other words, describe its phenomenological qualities, projecting potential uses, delimiting possible actions, and signaling perceived functions. While discontinuities between established discourses on ‘affordance’ and its contemporary deployment have been widely identified and problematized (e.g., Evans et. al. 2017; Davis & Chouinard 2017; Samson & Soon 2015; Nagy & Neff 2015), the theoretical parameters of specifically digital affordances remain under-examined. As a result, despite its frequent application within the domains of, for example, HCI, media studies and contemporary design, ‘affordance’ continues to operate within a conceptual framework that largely ignores the specific grounds of contemporary computation, resting instead on the physicality, phenomenological accessibility, and perceived liveliness of objects (e.g., Wells 2002; Morineau et. al. 2009). Importantly, each of these defining characteristics are fundamentally incompatible with what are increasingly referred to as the processual, ‘deep,’ and unperceivable realities of algorithmic systems (Lovink 2014; Parisi 2013; Zielinski 2009). Deploying the concept of affordance without a reexamination of its digital specificity (for example when it comes to interaction design, user experience design, or software development) ultimately means to foreclose opportunities for generative critique, limiting the potential for creative, alternative, subversive, and radically different uses of digital artefacts and processes. In an effort to delineate and address gaps in contemporary criticism, our aim is to re-examine and correspondingly re-theorize the concept of ‘affordance.’ Because ‘affordance’ is often positioned at intersections of design and implementation, we are particularly interested in approaches that bridge or combine theoretical and practice-based concerns. As the history of art reveals, artists’ and designers’ access to emerging digital technologies has always informed their scientific, industrial, commercial and rhetorical development (Patterson 2015; Kane 2014). We therefore invite both media theorists and media practitioners (artists, designers, curators, etc.) to join us in exploring the critical historical and contemporary valences of ‘affordance,’ by proposing and submitting essays, artist position statements, and symposium presentations that engage with the following intersecting areas of inquiry: - Explorations of the historical and contemporary roles artists have played in shaping and delimiting the affordances of emerging digital technologies; - Theorization of the contemporary realization of 'affordance' across and within digital and algorithmic contexts; and - Analyses of how creative practice can inform a critical rethinking of existing philosophies of affordance. Interested parties are encouraged to send a 300-word abstract to rethinking.affordance(a)gmail.com <mailto:rethinking.affordance@gmail.com> by January 29th, 2018. Authors will be notified of acceptance in early February. The Rethinking Affordance symposium is scheduled to take place at Akademie Schloss Solitude from June 8th – 9th (http://www.akademie-solitude.de <http://www.akademie-solitude.de/>). The symposium will serve both as a presentation and workshopping platform. It is scheduled to take place in conjunction with a thematically aligned exhibition and web-residency. Participants will be provided with accommodations for the duration of the symposium. Small travel bursaries intended to partially subsidize participation may also be available. Symposium presenters will be invited to submit their longer research essays (6,000-8,000 words inclusive of notes and references) and/or shorter critical position statements for peer-reviewed inclusion in a corresponding special issue of the journal Media Theory (http://mediatheoryjournal.org/ <http://mediatheoryjournal.org/>). Full papers for peer-review will be due July 15, 2018 with a projected publication date of early 2019. The submission guidelines can be found here: http://mediatheoryjournal.org/editorial-policies/journal-submission-guideli… <http://mediatheoryjournal.org/editorial-policies/journal-submission-guideli…>

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