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2018 ECREA Preconferece - The “New Silk Road”― Flow and Counterflow of Information between Europe and China? - 31.10.2018 Lugano, Switzerland - China Media Observatory (USI)
by Gianluigi Negro 24 Jan '18

24 Jan '18

Dear AOIR colleagues hope this message finds you well. Sorry for crossposting. I am glad to share with you this call for papers to the 2018 ECREA Preconferece - The ��New Silk Road�� Flow and Counterflow of Information between Europe and China? organized by our China Media Observatory. Best wishes Abstract Submission Deadline: March.31 2018 Conference Description: http://www.chinamediaobs.org/ecrea-preconferece-��new-silk-road��-flow-an… The ��New Silk Road��, or in the Chinese official discourse, the ��Belt & Road initiative�� (formerly called One Belt One Road һ��һ·) was launched in 2013 with a confirmed concrete interest from Beijing to reconnect China with Europe and to establish different levels of cooperation with European partners. It has been widely recognized by the West as the Chinese president Xi Jinping��s global ambition of centralizing China as the leading force for the World Economy and Globalization as well as China��s greater expansion of Soft Power. So far, discussions about the New Silk Road and its relationship with Europe (i.e. European Union) have been mainly conducted in the field of political (Casarini, 2015; var der Putten and all, 2016, Fardella, 2016) and economic (Aoyama, 2016; Chen, 2016, Lin, 2015) studies. Much less attention has been paid from the media and communication perspective, despite the increasing importance of a better mutual understanding between different European and Chinese stakeholders on different levels under the Belt & Road framework. This preconference is designed to fill in this gap by bringing scholars in media, communication and culture studies to join the discussion about the ��New Silk Road�� from Europe and China. On one hand, it recalls to the ancient Silk Road that initiated the first flow of communication and exchange in goods and culture between the Roman and Chinese empires. On the other hand, it opens windows for discussions on the current flow of a mix of acceptance��resistance, cooperation��dispute, and agreement��disagreement related to the New Silk Road between the two continents. If in 120 BCE the flow of information was launched in the West (Europe), at the present stage it starts from the East (China). We believe that this specific topic will contribute to the main theme of ECREA 2018 by providing a contribution to frame Centers (from Europe focus to China focus) and Peripheries. CMO is the ideal institution to host this preconference, it is one of the few research center in Europe to focus its studies on Chinese media system systematically. Moreover, CMO it is part of the Institute of Media and Journalism at USI, Faculty of Communication Sciences, the only faculty in Switzerland to provide an interdisciplinary education, which blends the humanities, the social sciences, economics, and technology. We encourage research submission from (and not limited to) European research centers with a specific interest on Chinese media and also Chinese institutions with a research interest on Europe. We are also open to evaluating studies with interdisciplinary approaches and developed by scholars at their first stage, with a particular reference to the YECREA network. We expect to host a total of 25-30 attendees including scholars and experts interested in the topic. Since 2006 CMO has been active to improve the academic dialogue between Europe and China also at the PH.D. level thanks to its Europe-China Dialogue: Media and Communication Studies Summer School. We plan to publish a special issue based on the best paper presented at the conference on the journal Communication and the Public published both in English and Chinese. We encourage submissions of topics to include (but are not limited to): * Media infrastructure studies along the New Silk Road * News flow and narratives through/among Countries related to the New Silk Road * Media production exchange or co-production between European and Chinese media companies * Digital media markets and the future of the ��Digital Silk Road�� * New media and cyber security cooperation along the New Silk Road * Media governance and Media law across borders Keynote speakers * Yang Guobin (Professor of University of Pennsylvania, co-editor of the journal Communication and the Public ) * Wang Yiwei (Professor of Renmin University, author of the book The Belt and Road: What Will China Offer the World in Its Rise) Key dates * Deadline for abstract (500 words) submission: 31.03.2018 * Notice of acceptance / rejection: 15.04.2018 * Deadline for full paper (8000 words) or extended abstract (1500 words): 01.09.2018 Budget In order to support the costs of the event, we plan to ask * 100 EUR for non-ECREA members * 50 EUR for scholars who will join ECREA main conference * 30 EUR for students. ALL SUBMISSIONS should be uploaded here: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=nrs2018 Organizers: Dr. Zhan Zhang and Dr. Gianluigi Negro China Media Observatory, Institute of Media and Journalism, Univerist�� della Svizzera italiana Contacts: zhan.zhang(a)usi.ch; gianluigi.negro(a)usi.ch Gianluigi Negro Ph.D �C Research Fellow Gianluigi Negro Ph.D �C Post Doc and Research Fellow Universit�� della Svizzera italiana Faculty of Communication Sciences Institute of Media and Journalism China Media Observatory

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[Deadline Extended] CFP: CHI 2018 Workshop on Hacking and Making at Time-bounded Events
by Ei Pa Pa Pe Than 23 Jan '18

23 Jan '18

Apologies if you got multiple copies of this invitation! Interested in time-bounded events like hackathons – come and join our workshop! http://hackathon-workshop-2018.com Submissions are invited for CHI 2018 workshop on “Hacking and Making at Time-bounded Events: Current Trends and Next Steps in Research and Event Design” Important dates: Submission deadline: January 26, 2018 February 2, 2018 (11:59 pm EST) Notification of acceptance: February 22, 2018 Workshop date: April 22, 2018 Workshop location: Montréal, Canada (co-located with CHI 2018, https://chi2018.acm.org) Overview: We are pleased to announce our second workshop on hacking and making at time-bounded events like hackathons, building on the success of our first edition at the 2017 ACM CSCW conference. This one-day workshop will be co-located with CHI 2018, a premier venue for innovations through academic-practitioner interactions, and it will bring together researchers interested in time-bounded events, experienced event organizers, and individuals interested in running their own events in the future. The aims of this workshop are to facilitate sharing hackathon-related experiences among the workshop participants, consolidating existing research, and building and strengthening academic-industry partnerships to enable new research opportunities. Relevant topics include (but are not limited to): * Design variations (e.g., collaboration or competition, learning or community building, etc.) * Short term and longer-term outcomes * Practical support and recommendations for event organizers * Applications beyond traditional software engineering context * Mediated interactions and modality transitions * Theoretical space of “hackathons” Submission details: Your submission should be in a single PDF file between 2-4 pages in total, and include a short overview of each author’s background, their interest in this field, and motivation for participation in the workshop, as well as a description of one or more workshop themes of particular interest to the authors. This may be in a form of summarizing research ideas, recounting an experience with related event, or story drawn from participant’s own research or event. Supplementary materials can also be submitted. All submissions will be peer-reviewed by the workshop organizers. Accepted submissions will be posted and publicly downloadable on the workshop website. Details can be found at http://hackathon-workshop-2018.com. Additional requirements: At least one author of each accepted paper must attend the workshop, and must register for the workshop and one day of the CHI 2018 conference. Organizers: * Ei Pa Pa Pe Than (Primary contact) (Institute for Software Research at Carnegie Mellon University) * James D. Herbsleb and Alexander Nolte (Institute for Software Research at Carnegie Mellon University) * Elizabeth Gerber (Northwestern University) * Brittany Fiore-Gartland (eScience Institute at University of Washington) * Meg Drouhard (University of Washington) * Brad Chapman (Harvard T.H.Chan School of Public Health at Harvard University) * Aurelia Moser (Mozilla Science Lab) * Nancy Wilkins-Diehr (San Diego Supercomputer Center at Science Gateways Community Institute) If you have any questions regarding the workshop, please send us an email at hackathon.workshop2018(a)gmail.com<mailto:hackathon.workshop2018@gmail.com>. Thank you! Best regards, Ei Pa Postdoctoral Researcher Institute for Software Research School of Computer Science Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, PA, USA. https://eipapa.github.io

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New resource: Media and Children Facebook page
by Matthew Lombard 23 Jan '18

23 Jan '18

For anyone interested, I've established a Facebook page to use with the Media and Children courses I teach at Temple University. The page contains news and other items I find over time and use to stimulate interest, illustrate key ideas and trends, and promote discussion. All visitors and constructive contributions are welcome. The url is: https://www.facebook.com/mediaandchildren/ --Matthew PS. This page is similar in design/purpose to the Communication Research Methods Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/CommunicationResearchMethods/ -- Matthew Lombard, Ph.D. Temple University Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA lombard(a)temple.edu http://matthewlombard.com

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Refugee & Forced Migration HCI Research: Help Request
by Amirah Majid 23 Jan '18

23 Jan '18

Dear AOIR Community, We are a group of interdisciplinary HCI researchers focusing on the technology related issues of people experiencing forced migration, such as refugees, asylum seekers, internally displaced, and the undocumented. This year at the ACM International Conference on Supporting Group Work (GROUP) we came together in a workshop called, ‘Refugees & Technology: Determining the Role of HCI Research’, links below. As a result of this workshop we would like to build a curated list of scholarly resources that support generative and ethical research in the area of Forced Migration - HCI studies. We intend to make this list publicly available in order to support this growing research area. We are asking for your help! If you know of HCI-related refugee or forced migration work, or other resources that you think could inform and support this work, could you send us the citation or link? Resources we are looking for include scholarly texts, projects, conferences, or anything else you think could help. Bookmark the workshop website for updates to this community resource! Thank you in advance for your help! Sincerely, Amirah Majid on behalf of the workshop participants. Please send replies to: amirah(a)uw.edu. Links: ACM GROUP Conference, https://group.acm.org/conferences/group18/ Refugees & Technology: Determining the Role of HCI Research Workshop, http://displaced-hci.info/ *___________________* *A. M. Majidأميرة ماجد‬‎* she/her pronouns PhD candidate: multi-cultural computing & refugee informatics Information School, University of Washington Seattle USA https://users.resist.ca/~amirah/

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special issue on Connected migrants published in Popular Communication 16(1)
by Leurs, K.H.A. (Koen) 23 Jan '18

23 Jan '18

Dear all, Apologies for cross-posting. We are happy to announce the publication of the Popular Communication 16(1) special issue on Connected migrants, edited by Koen Leurs & Sandra Ponzanesi Issue description: This special issue features digital migration research as first presented during the Connected Migrants Academy Colloquium and Masterclasses that took place December 14–16, 2016, at the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Taking a cue from Dana Diminescu’s seminal manifesto on “the connected migrant,” this special issue introduces the notions of encapsulation and cosmopolitanism to understand digital migration studies. The pieces here present a nonbinary, integrated notion of an increasingly digitally mediated cosmopolitanism that accommodates differences within but also recognizes Europe’s colonial legacy and the fraught postcolonial present. Of special interest is an essay by the late Zygmunt Bauman, who argues that the messy boundaries of Europe require a renewed vision of cosmopolitan Europe, based on dialogue and aspirations, rather than on Eurocentrism and universal values. In the introductory article, we focus on three overarching discussions informing this special issue: (a) an appreciation of the so-called “refugee crisis” and the articulation of conflicting Europeanisms, (b) an understanding of the relationships between the concepts of cosmopolitanization and encapsulation, and (c) a recognition of the emergence of the interdisciplinary field of digital migration studies. Table of contents: Zygmunt Bauman: Between separation and integration: Strategies of cohabitation in the era of diasporization and Internet (open access)    Koen Leurs & Sandra Ponzanesi: Connected migrants: Encapsulation and cosmopolitanization (open access) Saskia Witteborn: The digital force in forced migration: Imagined affordances and gendered practices Alexander Dhoest: Complicating cosmopolitanism: Ethno-cultural and sexual connections among gay migrants Myria Georgiou: Does the subaltern speak? Migrant voices in digital Europe Roopika Risam: Now you see them: Self-representation and the refugee selfie Sanjay Sharma & Jasbinder Nijjar: The racialized surveillant assemblage: Islam and the fear of terrorism You can find the issue online here: http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/hppc20/16/1?nav=tocList. With kind regards, Koen Leurs & Sandra Ponzanesi --

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Re: [Air-L] Refugee & Forced Migration HCI Research: Help Request
by Renata Aquino Ribeiro 23 Jan '18

23 Jan '18

Hi A session on a similar theme which was fantastic and very well attended was led by @nadiraaraj on Internet Freedom Festival 17 The wiki page also lists great resources https://internetfreedomfestival.org/wiki/index.php/Refugees_in_Transit Best, Renata

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WEBCAST TODAY: Visions of the Internet from Delhi, Wuzhen, Geneva, and Everywhere Else @isocdc
by Joly MacFie 22 Jan '18

22 Jan '18

Those familiar with ISOC-DC events will know that they are not simply panel events, but involve a lot of lively back-and-forth between all involved. How they are going to cover all three of these conferences in the limited time available I've no idea. 4pm! [image: livestream] <https://livestream.com/internetsociety/visions/>On *Monday January 22 2018* at *4pm* ET the *Greater Washington DC Chapter of the Internet Society <http://isoc-dc.org/> *(ISOC-DC) presents* Visions of the Internet from Delhi, Wuzhen, Geneva, and Everywhere Else <https://isoc-dc.org/visions-internet-delhi-wuzhen-geneva-everywhere-else/>* at the *Microsoft Innovation & Policy Center <https://enterprise.microsoft.com/en-us/venue/microsoft-office-innovation-po…> *in Washington DC. The Chapter will review the proceedings of three recent major Internet policy conferences, the *Internet Governance Forum <https://www.intgovforum.org/multilingual/content/igf-2017-geneva-switzerlan…>* in Geneva, the *Global Conference on Cyber Space <https://gccs2017.in/>* (GCCS) in New Delhi, India, and the *World Internet Conference <http://www.wuzhenwic.org/>* in Wuzhen, China. Special guests are *Robert Kahn* – Chairman, CEO, and President of the Corporation for National Research Initiatives, and *Robert L. Strayer*, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Cyber and International Communications and Information Policy, U.S. State Department. The event will webcast live on the* Internet Society Livestream Channel <https://livestream.com/internetsociety/visions>* and the*ISOC-DC YouTube Channel <https://www.youtube.com/ISOCDC>* *What: Visions of the Internet from Delhi, Wuzhen, Geneva, and Everywhere Else <https://isoc-dc.org/visions-internet-delhi-wuzhen-geneva-everywhere-else/>Where: Microsoft Innovation & Policy Center <https://enterprise.microsoft.com/en-us/venue/microsoft-office-innovation-po…> in Washington DCWhen: Monday January 22 2018 4pm-5:30pm EST | 21:00-22:30 UTCProgram: https://bit.ly/2DYv90u <https://bit.ly/2DYv90u>Livestream: https://livestream.com/internetsociety/visions <https://livestream.com/internetsociety/visions>YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/ISOCDC <https://www.youtube.com/ISOCDC>Twitter: @isocdc <https://twitter.com/search?f=tweets&vertical=default&q=isocdc&src=typd>* Comment <http://isoc-ny.org/p2/9849#respond> See all comments <http://isoc-ny.org/p2/9849#comments> *Permalink* http://isoc-ny.org/p2/9849 -- --------------------------------------------------------------- Joly MacFie 218 565 9365 Skype:punkcast -------------------------------------------------------------- -

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Privacy commissioner on employers use of online information ‘Dooced’ case
by Peter Timusk 22 Jan '18

22 Jan '18

In my nonprofit volunteer work I would google finalist candidates for jobs. Apparently no longer allowed. Further to ‘just because it is public online’ does not mean you can make it Data. CBC news article Canadian law http://www.cbc.ca/beta/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/social-media-hirin… Peter Timusk peterotimusk(a)gmail.com I do not speak for my employer or charities or political parties or unions I volunteer with or belong to, unless otherwise noted.

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Facebook Asks - Hard Questions: Social Media and Democracy
by Steven Clift 22 Jan '18

22 Jan '18

See Facebook's new official blog series: http://po.st/facebookhardquestionsdemocracy Discuss: https://www.facebook.com/groups/opengovgroup/permalink/2063068567258062/ Steven Clift - Executive Director, E-Democracy.org clift(a)e-democracy.org - +1 612 234 7072 <(612)%20234-7072> http://twitter.com/democracy Join in: http://facebook.com/groups/opengovgroup Digital engagement for your org via E-Democracy: http://po.st/engageclift

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ICADIWT 2018 Doctoral Consortium
by ijwa＠dline.info 22 Jan '18

22 Jan '18

CALL FOR Phd Research Papers The Ninth International Conference on the Applications of Digital Information and Web Technologies (ICADIWT 2018) June 25-27, 2018 Porto, Portugal http://www.socio.org.uk/icadiwt ICADIWT Doctoral Consortium 2018 ICADIWT 2018 will feature a Doctoral Consortium on June 26, 2018. The main idea is to give the Ph.D. candidates whose submissions have been accepted, an opportunity to discuss their doctoral projects with our Keynote Speakers from the digital and web technologies and the audience. Attendance at the Doctoral Consortium will be based on the Doctoral Consortium PC acceptance of a 6-page long abstract authored by the Ph.D. Candidate. The accepted abstracts will be presented in the ICADIWT 2018 Poster Session and published online together with a full 12 pages long paper that the Ph.D. Candidates will have to submit by (date). The paper will be reviewed by our PC and the Keynote Speakers who will attend the Doctoral Consortium to give the Ph.D. Candidates a feedback about their work. Important dates Abstract submission (up to 6 pages) with a Letter of Support from the Adviser: May 01, 2018 Notification: July 20, 2017 Full paper submission (up to 12 pages): June 01, 2018 Doctoral Consortium Date: June 26, 2018 Instructions for Authors Doctoral Consortium submissions must be emailed to the Doctoral Consortium Chair at diwt(a)dirf.org Submissions must be prepared in PDF format following the layout guidelines for the IOS guidelines Full paper content guidelines The full paper will be the basis for detailed discussions at the Doctoral Consortium. The Ph.D. Candidate’s paper should include the following: •motivation for the research proposed •the background and related work (with key references) to convince about knowledge grounded upon the literature study in the area •description of the proposed research including the research questions to be addressed, the Author’s contribution, the research methodology and the experiments proposed •at least five specific issues to be put forward for discussion. The Advisor should provide a brief description of the research group in which the Ph.D. Candidate has been working and the relevance of that work to the group’s research area. The students' full papers will be published online and electronically in the USB sticks Review All submissions will be reviewed by the Doctoral Consortium Program Committee with respect to overall quality of presentation, the potential for future impact of the proposed PhD research in the field of web and digital technologies and the potential benefits to the Ph.D. Candidate coming from attendance at the Doctoral Consortium. Chair: Yao-Liang Chung National Taiwan Ocean University Taiwan Email: diwt @ dirf.org

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