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New Issue of Game Studies out + CFP Special Issue
by Jessica Enevold 04 Aug '17

04 Aug '17

New Issue of Game Studies Journal Includes CFP: Special Issue on ”Queerness & Videogames” Game Studies: The International Journal of Computer Game Research has just published its latest issue (Volume 17, Issue 1, July 2017). All articles are available at www.gamestudies.org/1701<x-webdoc://4689A11E-C9A1-440E-A9A0-1222D7846B38/www.gamestudies.org/1701> Editorial Just Games<http://gamestudies.org/1701/articles/justgames> by Espen Aarseth From the next issue Game Studies actively welcomes articles on games in general, and will not be limited to an empirical focus on digital games. It is time to recognize that the study of games cannot and should not be segregated into digital and non-digital; and that for most of the field, in practice, as well as in theory, this has never been so. Articles Watching People Is Not a Game: Interactive Online Corporeality, Twitch.tv and Videogame Streams<http://gamestudies.org/1701/articles/anderson> by Sky LaRell Anderson This article examines Twitch.tv in order to reveal the design strategies it employs to direct awareness to the presence of players and viewers. Specifically, I describe the elements that direct attention toward humans, persons and personalities outside of games. Glory to Arstotzka: Morality, Rationality, and the Iron Cage of Bureaucracy in Papers, Please<http://gamestudies.org/1701/articles/morrissette> by Jason J. Morrissette This article examines how ludic and thematic elements coalesce in Papers, Please to replicate the monotony of bureaucratic work, trapping players in Weber's iron cage of bureaucracy. Moreover, by offering opportunities to deviate from administrative protocols, the game highlights the inherent tension between morality and bureaucratic rationality. Abstracting Evidence: Documentary Process in the Service of Fictional Gameworlds<http://gamestudies.org/1701/articles/oldenburg> by Aaron Oldenburg This paper looks at a strategy for creating content and gameplay using documentary processes such as interviews and on-location evidence collection for games that abstract that content with varying levels of fictionalization. An Enactive Account of the Autonomy of Videogame Gameplay<http://gamestudies.org/1701/articles/vahlo> by Jukka Vahlo In this paper, the phenomenon of videogame gameplay is analyzed from an enactive view of social cognition. It is asserted that videogame gameplay arises as an autonomous organization in the reciprocal dynamics between at least one social agent and a responsive game. This autonomy is argued as both original and irreducible to its constituents. Call for Papers Call For Papers - Game Studies Special Issue: “Queerness and Video Games: New Critical Perspectives on LGBTQ Issues, Sexuality, Games, and Play”<http://gamestudies.org/1701/articles/cfp_queerness_and_video_games> by Guest Editors - Ruberg & Phillips This special issue of Game Studies seeks to explore new critical perspectives on queerness and video games, building from existing queer game studies work and broadening the current scope of the paradigm by inviting intersectional voices, highlighting underrepresented LGBTQ identities, and exploring the political implications of game studies work. ---------------------------------------- Dr. Jessica Enevold, Managing Editor enevold(a)gamestudies.org<mailto:enevold@gamestudies.org> www.gamestudies.org<http://www.gamestudies.org/>

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CfP International Symposium Digital Politics in Millennial India
by Shriram Venkatraman 03 Aug '17

03 Aug '17

*CfP* *International Symposium* *Digital Politics in Millennial India* *15-17 March 2018* *Deadline for abstracts 15 October 2017* Ludwig Maximilian University (LMU) Munich, Germany Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology, New Delhi (IIIT-Delhi) *Conveners:* Sahana Udupa, Professor, LMU, Germany Aasim Khan, Asst. Professor, IIIT-Delhi Shriram Venkatraman, Asst. Professor, IIIT-Delhi The phenomenal expansion of Internet media in India in the last two decades has enabled new forms of political participation in the public domain, while also facilitating hitherto unimagined ways of consolidating domination and state power. In spite of the limited access and wide social inequities in terms of access and use, online media has been used as a mobilizing tool by Indians engaged across a range of social and political movements. From the recent student led campaigns in campuses across Indian universities to the digitally enabled civic activism against corruption, the rise of online networks has decisively changed the face of public activism and public cultures. As digital natives, India’s millennials are increasingly drawn into online media to mobilize, satirize, and express their interest in political matters. India’s 350 million Internet users constitute the world’s second largest online user base, next only to China. The promise of digital governance has led to a massive state- led agenda for digitization. Digital media cultures have grown by leaps through WhatsApp, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and a variety of new media platforms. Studies on digital media’s political and social ramifications are yet to reflect the magnitude and potential of Internet growth in a vast, fractious and deeply diverse polity such as India. What kinds of political participation are the Internet and mobile media co-creating? How are they enabling new imaginations and articulations of citizenship and belonging, especially for the youth who constitute the most active community in India’s online public domain? What voices are amplified and what are effaced? What tactics are crafted and what affects are inspired? We invite scholars and digital media activists in India and researchers studying the Indian diaspora for an international symposium in Delhi to take up some of these questions. Together, we aim to unpack the Internet media as information sources, rumor machines, affective affinity spaces, vehicles of propaganda, and objects of state policy as they increasingly shape the political present. We are particularly interested in local and regional digital political cultures and public activisms that contest and articulate religious politics. Topics include but are not limited to · Internet enabled protest cultures · Cultures of digital vigilantism · Right-wing nationalism · Dalit media · Queer media · Gender and new media · Trolling and abuse · Urban activism and civic media · Internet regulatory debates · History of regional digital politics · Religious freedom and expression We invite contributions that are based on original empirical research on the Internet enabled media using the perspectives of ethnography, history, cultural studies, digital humanities, policy studies and/or computational data sciences. All contributions must be related to contemporary political participation in India. We especially invite contributions that are based on ground fieldwork and extend the scope of digital politics research to cover the vernacular and non-metropolitan settings. Attendance to the symposium will be fully funded. Organizers will cover international and local travel and accommodation expenses. Please send the extended abstracts of 1200 words with the subject line “*Digital Politics in Millennial India*” on or before 15 October 2017 to onlinerpol(a)ethnologie.lmu.de Shortlisted participants will share the working paper (4000 words) one month prior to the symposium. The conference will contribute to a themed volume on media cultures featuring essays for academic as well as general readership. We encourage authors to use jargon free language. The symposium is jointly hosted by Project ONLINERPOL www.fordigitaldignity.com funded by the European Research Council Starting Grant at LMU, Munich, Germany, and the Department of Social Sciences and Humanities/Center for IT and Society, IIITD https://www.iiitd.ac.in/academics/departments/ssh Thanks, Shriram Venkatraman *http://www.ucl.ac.uk/global-social-media <http://www.ucl.ac.uk/global-social-media>*

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5th European Conference on the Engineering of Computer Based Systems (ECBS 2017): Call for Participation
by Announce Announcements 03 Aug '17

03 Aug '17

*** Call for Participation *** 5th European Conference on the Engineering of Computer Based Systems ECBS 2017 Lordos Beach Hotel, Larnaca, Cyprus 31 August - 1 September, 2017 http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=YWlyLUwJCQlhaXItTEBsaXN0c2Vydi… In Cooperation with ACM SIGAPP, SIGOPS and SIGSOFT *** Early Registration Deadline: 19 August, 2017 *** (collocated with the 8th International Conference on Information Inteligence Systems and Applications, http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=YWlyLUwJCQlhaXItTEBsaXN0c2Vydi… ECBS 2017 is a formal meeting dedicated to formulating and advancing methods, techniques, and tools for engineering of computer-based systems. The conference is devoted to the design, development, deployment, and analysis of the complex systems whose behavior is largely determined or controlled by computers. Such systems are characterized by functional, performance, and reliability requirements that mandate the tight integration of information processing and physical processes. ECBS integrates software, hardware, and communication perspective of system engineering through its many facets that include system modeling, requirements specification, simulation, architectures, safety, security, reliability, human-computer interaction, system integration, verification and validation, high performance/parallel computing, cloud-based technologies, and project management. The conference provides a bridge between industry and academia, blending academic research and industrial development. The 5th edition of the conference will be held in Larnaca, Cyprus. Larnaca is known for its palm-tree seafront, the Church of Saint Lazarus, the Hala Sultan Tekke, the Kamares Aqueduct and its medieval fort. It is built on the ruins of ancient Citium, which was the birthplace of Stoic philosopher Zeno. Larnaca is home to the country's primary airport, Larnaca International Airport. It also has a seaport and a marina. Larnaca is a highly touristic city and close to some of the best beaches of Cyprus in Ayia Napa and Protaras. The conference venue is the well known 4* hotel, Lordos Beach Hotel. The Lordos Beach Hotel is one of the leading 4 star hotels in Cyprus. Standing directly on the sandy beach of the Larnaca Bay it is ideally located yet close to both the Larnaca International Airport and the city centre. Set in its own gardens the Lordos Beach boasts a comfortable and stylish environment with professional service from caring staff. Extensively refurbished during 2002 and 2006, the guest rooms on all floors are equipped with all the facilities a discerning traveller expects and are luxuriously decorated in a natural pastel tones. The program of ECBS 2017 includes a keynote by Avgoustinos Constantinides, the Solutions Director of IBSCY Ltd. on the business value of the Cloud, and research papers. The conference attracted 42 paper submissions from 25 countries from many continents. After rigorous reviewing by at least three members of the Program Committee per paper, 16 full papers, 3 short papers and 3 posters were selected to form the technical program and be included in the conference proceedings to be published by ACM ICPS. Papers cover topics of interest in ECBS in areas of software engineering, parallel and distributed systems, embedded systems and networking. We cordially invite you to attend ECBS 2017 in Larnaca, Cyprus! Organization General Chair · George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Program Chair · Ondrej Rysavy, Brno University of Technology , Czech Republic Program Co-Chair · Valentino Vranic, Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava, Slovakia Steering Committee · Hassan Charaf, ECBS-EERC 2013 General Chair · George Angelos Papadopoulos, General Chair · Miroslav Popovic, ECBS-EERC 2009 General Chair · Ondrej Rysavy, ECBS-EERC 2015 General Chair · Valentino Vranic, ECBS-EERC 2011 General Chair Program Committee http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=YWlyLUwJCQlhaXItTEBsaXN0c2Vydi…

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Capital, State, Empire by Scott Timcke
by Christian Fuchs 02 Aug '17

02 Aug '17

Capital, State, Empire: The New American Way of Digital Warfare Open Access book by Scott Timcke Part of the Critical, Digital and Social Media Studies series edited by Christian Fuchs University of Westminster Press Free download, affordable paperback: http://www.uwestminsterpress.co.uk/site/books/10.16997/book6/ The United States presents the greatest source of global geo-political violence and instability. Guided by the radical political economy tradition, this book offers an analysis of the USA’s historical impulse to weaponize communication technologies. Scott Timcke explores the foundations of this impulse and how the militarization of digital society creates structural injustices and social inequalities. He analyses how new digital communication technologies support American paramountcy and conditions for worldwide capital accumulation. Identifying selected features of contemporary American society, Capital, State, Empire undertakes a materialist critique of this digital society and of the New American Way of War. At the same time it demonstrates how the American security state represses activists—such as Black Lives Matter—who resist this emerging security leviathan. The book also critiques the digital positivism behind the algorithmic regulation used to control labour and further diminish prospects for human flourishing for the ‘99%’. Capital, State, Empire contributes to a broader understanding of the dynamics of global capitalism and political power in the early 21st century.

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CfP: Living in the Internet of Things
by Leonie Tanczer 02 Aug '17

02 Aug '17

Dear AoIR/AoIR-Grad list members, The Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET), the PETRAS IoT Research Hub & IoTUK will host an inaugural "Living in the Internet of Things" event - two days incorporating conference, exhibition, workshops, seminars and demonstrations. This inaugural conference will focuses on cybersecurity of the Internet of Things and is distinctively concerned with a range of socio-technical issues: the scope includes privacy, ethics, trust, reliability, acceptability, and security for the Internet of Things. Thus, the event programme will incorporate technical and non-technical paper presentations. *Key dates* Abstract submission deadline: 10 November 2017 Author notification: 8 December 2017 Full paper submission deadline (+ licence to publish): 15 January 2018 Conference: 28 - 29 March 2018 @ IET London, Savoy Place For more information, see the official conference website: http://events.theiet.org/petras/ I hope to see some of you in London next year! With best wishes, Leonie _______________________________ Dr Leonie Maria Tanczer Research Associate | Department of Science, Technology, Engineering and Public Policy | University College London Twitter: @leotanczt | Website: http://www.leonietanczer.net/ Key Fingerprint: 9F21 A6A6 913E 1393 1BC6 73DA EBEF 07A4 F61F 79DA Recently Published: Tanczer, L., McConville, R., & Maynard, P. (2016). Censorship and Surveillance in the Digital Age: The Technological Challenges for Academics. Journal of Global Security Studies, 1(4), 346-355.

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Call for Chapters: Security and Privacy Management, Techniques, and Protocols
by Yassine MALEH 02 Aug '17

02 Aug '17

Introduction Information security and privacy issues have evolved at a rapid pace in the past two decades. Technology has gone through tremendous changes in terms of security, access techniques, protocols and standards, bandwidth usage and also the wide range of applications in all domains. Advances made as well as complexity have increased due to the introduction of different access technologies and tools, available services and models, and many other aspects of this evolution. Yet, this progress is accompanied by more vulnerabilities, higher risks, increasing threats and sophisticated attacks. Due to the ubiquitous and pervasive nature of newly developed systems, there are new concerns and issues in information security and privacy related to financial confidentiality, Privacy Litigation, Electronic health and social networks. Organizations and users need to understand the data and systems protection mechanisms thoroughly. Comprehensive knowledge of information security management, Technics and protocols are required not only for researchers and practitioners but also for policy makers, system managers, owners, and administrators. The forthcoming book on security and privacy management, techniques, and protocols will address significant issues in the field. Topics covered include Security & Network Management, Access control, Anonymity, Audit and & Authentication and authorization financial privacy, unauthorized access to networks and information, Security and privacy in electronic communications, Security Models & protocols, Security and privacy in new trends technologies (IoT, Cloud, Big Data), Hacking, cyber-terrorism, and intrusion detection, and much more.Call for Chapters Proposals Submission Deadline: August 30, 2017 Full Chapters Due: September 30, 2017 Submission Date: September 30, 2017 Chapter Proposal If you would like a potential author to review the call for chapters for your book and submit a chapter proposal for review, you may send him or her the following link: http://www.igi-global.com/publish/call-for-papers/call-details/2884 When an author submits a proposal, you will receive an e-mail containing a link to the proposal. View our Sample Invitation Letter <https://www.igi-global.com/publish/contributor-resources/samples/personaliz…> for help getting started with sending your requests. Direct Link If it is not necessary to have an author submit a proposal, you may have him or her use the following link to submit a chapter: http://www.igi-global.com/submission/submit-chapter/?projectid=d53cd075-843… -- Yassine Maleh, *PhD* IEEE Member, IAENG Member *IT Security Manager* The National Port Agency Casablanca, Morocco *ResearchGate:* *https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Maleh_Yassine <https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Maleh_Yassine>* *Linkedin: **https://www.linkedin.com/in/malehyassine <https://www.linkedin.com/in/malehyassine>* *Telephone: *+212 608 867 568

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Research assistant (digital society and culture)
by Adi Kuntsman 02 Aug '17

02 Aug '17

Part time post for 9 months, most suitable for a PhD student in final stages or a recent post-docPlease spread the wordResearch Assistant (Digital Society and Culture) at Manchester Metropolitan University | | | | | | | | | | | Research Assistant (Digital Society and Culture) at Manchester Metropolitan... View details for this Research Assistant (Digital Society and Culture) job vacancy at Manchester Metropolitan Un... | | | | --- Dr. Adi Kuntsman Senior Lecturer, Dept of Languages, Information and Communications Manchester Metropolitan University All Saints Campus, Geoffrey Manton 437 Manchester M15 6LL Tel: ++44-(0)-161-2476165 https://sites.google.com/site/adikuntsman/New book out now: SelfieCitizenship http://www.palgrave.com/de/book/9783319452692

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iPhone Telephone Interview Recording App
by Lois Scheidt 02 Aug '17

02 Aug '17

Greetings, I'm looking for iPhone telephone interview recorder app recommendations. I've done some research but it looks like the best apps all require that the calls be routed through the company servers which creates an ethics issue. What tools are you using that record and allow for the export of the recording? Thanks Lois Scheidt -- Lois Ann Scheidt Indiana University, Bloomington IN USA

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ASIS&T '17, SIG IEP Workshop Call for Participation
by A.J. Million 01 Aug '17

01 Aug '17

*Call for Participation*: The New Information State: How Information Ethics and Policy Affects Everyone, sponsored by SIG-IEP, ASIS&T Annual Meeting, Crystal City, Virginia *Date*: October 28, 2017 *Abstract*: In today’s milieu of fake news, misinformation, and generalized distrust of institutions, information ethics and policy affects everyone, across different information science research areas. In this workshop, we will analyze these changes to the informational state and discuss how we can address them through three themes: *pedagogy for information ethics and policy*, *engagement with policymakers*, and *information ethics and policy across information science*. Workshop participants are encouraged to participate in a variety of ways and will leave the workshop with tangible products that can be used in research and teaching. *Contributions*: For the workshop, we seek several different types of contributions: - Panel: A panel should incorporate two of the themes (see below, under workshop organization) and each panel is encouraged to include at least one person outside academia. Panels should be explicit about which themes are addressed and include a brief biography of each contributor. - Paper: A paper should address one of the themes (see below) in detail, tying it back to the broader discussion of the changed information state. Papers should be 3500-5000 words. - Speaker: We seek volunteers to synthesize these themes (see below) and address potential big-picture implications of these trends. Those interested in being a featured speaker should submit a c.v. and a brief essay (under 5000 words) on these themes. *The deadline for all contributions is 8/18*. Contributions should be emailed to Shannon Oltmann at shannon.oltmann(a)uky.edu. Contact Shannon Oltmann with any questions. Read the full workshop proposal here <https://www.asist.org/SIG/SIGIEP/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/Workshop-CFP.pdf> . -- *A.J. Million, Ph.D.* Media Center Director, Drury University Review my professional portfolio: *www.amillion.us <http://www.amillion.us>*

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30 days of online access to 'Studying Digital Media Audiences'
by Craig Hight 01 Aug '17

01 Aug '17

Apologies for cross-posting To celebrate the recent publication of Studying Digital Media Audiences: Perspectives from Australasia<http://www.tandfebooks.com/isbn/9781315402062>, edited by Craig Hight and Ramaswami Harindranath, publisher Taylor and Francis are providing 30 days of free access to an online version of the book. Please use this link for free online access to the book: http://rdcu.be/tPiD (Sorry, no downloading or printing but feel free to explore the content)

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