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Reminder: Call for Applications: ZeMKI Visiting Research Fellowship
by Leif Kramp 08 Jun '17

08 Jun '17

Visiting Research Fellowship at ZeMKI, University of Bremen, Germany Position: ZeMKI Visiting Research Fellow Media, Communication and Information Institution: ZeMKI, Centre for Media, Communication and Information Research, University of Bremen Duration: 1 month (between September and December 2017) Salary: 3,000 euro + 1,500 euro budget for direct costs Contract: Fee contract Application deadline: June 30, 2017 The ZeMKI, Centre for Media, Communication and Information Research, University of Bremen, offers a thriving interdisciplinary research environment in the areas of media, communication and information. Involved disciplines include communication and media studies, computer science, cultural studies, educational science, studies in religion, and history. Starting in mid-2017, the ZeMKI invites applications from excellent researchers in the field of media, communication, and information. As a ZeMKI Visiting Research Fellow, the selected candidate will gain insights into the versatile research activities at the interdisciplinary centre with over 60 members. Applicants should demonstrate experience and a strong interest in the collaborative research which is embraced at the ZeMKI in various ways and contexts. The selected candidate is expected to contribute to these research activities in the area of media change and transforming communications in the form of a research paper submitted to the peer-reviewed “Communicative Figurations” working paper series as well as a lecture in the ZeMKI Research Seminar. Applicants must have obtained a PhD or other doctoral degree in a relevant discipline by the application date. We offer a lump sum allowance of 3,000 euro plus up to 1,500 euro for research-related expenses. To apply for this fellowship, please send your application documents via e-mail to andreas.hepp(a)uni-bremen.de <mailto:andreas.hepp@uni-bremen.de>. The closing date for receipt of applications is June 30, 2017 (23.59 CET). We are unfortunately unable to accept any late applications. Visit us online at http://www.zemki.uni-bremen.de/en/start.html <http://www.zemki.uni-bremen.de/en/start.html> The annual ZeMKI Research Report is available at http://www.zemki.uni-bremen.de/en/research/zemki-research-report.html <http://www.zemki.uni-bremen.de/en/research/zemki-research-report.html>

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WEBCAST THU/FRI: @Columbia_Biz 6th Annual #Fintech, DFS & Payments Summit #dfsny17
by Joly MacFie 08 Jun '17

08 Jun '17

We streamed this last year <https://livestream.com/internetsociety/citiblockchain> too. If you thought that was choc-a-bloc with fintech awesomeness, you ain't seen nothing. This year there are over 70 speakers! And all top caliber, as one would expect at NYC's leading Business School. There are other conferences (that we will not name, and with no livestream) that have way less substance yet cost $1000s to attend. Don't miss. [image: livestream] <https://livestream.com/internetsociety/DFSNY17>Today *Thursday/Friday June 8-9 2017 *the *Columbia Institute for Tele-Information <http://www.citicolumbia.org/> *presents *6th Annual Fintech, DFS & Payments Summit <http://summit.dfsobservatory.com/>* at *Columbia University, NYC*. This year's event - extended to two days- looks at disruptive effects & implementation of emerging & mobile payments, digital financial services, blockchain & cryptocurrencies in developing & developed worlds. A diverse speaker line-up represents the cream of academia, financial institutions, law enforcement, NGDs, government, activists, investors, and innovators. The event will be webcast live via the *Internet Society livestream channel* <https://livestream.com/internetsociety/DFSNY17> . *What: Columbia's 6th Annual Fintech, DFS & Payments Summit <http://summit.dfsobservatory.com/>* *Where: Columbia University* *When: Thursday/Friday June 8-9 2017 8:45am-5:30pm EDT | 12:45-21:30 UTC* *Agenda: http://summit.dfsobservatory.com/agenda/ <http://summit.dfsobservatory.com/agenda/>* *Speakers: http://summit.dfsobservatory.com/speakers/ <http://summit.dfsobservatory.com/speakers/>* *Webcast: https://livestream.com/internetsociety/DFSNY17 <https://livestream.com/internetsociety/DFSNY17>* *Twitter: #dfsny17 <https://twitter.com/hashtag/dfsny17>* Comment <http://isoc-ny.org/p2/9225#respond> See all comments <http://isoc-ny.org/p2/9225#comments> *Permalink* http://isoc-ny.org/p2/9225 -- --------------------------------------------------------------- Joly MacFie 218 565 9365 Skype:punkcast -------------------------------------------------------------- -

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Yuk Hui Interview - Technology in China and the West
by Alfred BOWN (ENG) 07 Jun '17

07 Jun '17

Dear all, Delighted to share today's *HKRB *Interview with Yuk Hui, covering a range of topics that the Air-L list would be interested in: https://hkrbooks.com/2017/06/08/hkrb-interviews-yuk-hui/ Yuk discusses a whole range of topics relevant to us, arguing among other things that 'modernisation is a synchronisation, a synchronisation of rhythms through machines, a synchronisation of thinking through translation.' Please check it out. Further, we are open to suggestions of other technology researchers who would like to see their books reviewed in Hong Kong, researchers who would like to write for us (essays or reviews) or even be interviewed by us. All the best, Alfie Bown Co-editor, *Hong Kong Review of Books <http://www.hkrbooks.com>* -- ********************************************************************************** *Hang Seng Management College is incorporated in Hong Kong with limited liability by guarantee.* This e-mail may be confidential and legally privileged. If you are not the addressee you may not copy, forward, disclose or use any part of it. If you have received this message in error, please delete it and notify the sender by return e-mail. Thank you! Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail. **********************************************************************************

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Journal of Peer Production #10: Peer production and work
by george dafermos 07 Jun '17

07 Jun '17

[Apologies for multiple posts] We are delighted to announce the release of Journal of Peer Production #10: "Peer production and work" http://peerproduction.net/issues/issue-10-peer-production-and-work/ Issue editors: Mathieu O’Neil (University of Canberra) and Stefano Zacchiroli (University Paris Diderot and Inria) The increasing production of value by entities which are not compensated for their labour means the ranks of unemployed people keep growing. We often confuse being ‘unemployed’ with being ‘unworked’, but what it really means is that we are ‘unwaged’. There is a lot of work to be done, but for that to happen it needs to be separated from employment. Where does peer production fit in? The passionate labour and abjuration of exclusive property rights over the goods they produce of participants in peer projects occur at the expense of less fortunate others, who do not have the disposable income, cultural capital, or family support to engage in unpaid labour. On the other hand, we should avoid an overly ‘capitalocentric’ view of the economy. New forms of solidarity can be imagined. An increasingly large free public goods and services sector could well cohabit in a plural economy with employment in cooperatives, paid independent work, and the wage-earning of the commercial sector. The peer-reviewed articles in this tenth issue of the Journal of Peer Production explore such emerging assemblages through case studies of an online encyclopedia, a herbarium, a scientific project, mathematical schoolbooks, and ‘maker’ activities. The Editorial Section addresses the interplay of capital and commons in firms and peer projects. It argues that it is time for the Journal of Peer Production to move beyond an exclusive focus on DIY institutions, in order to research and develop the culture and regulations and which can grow the commons. EDITORIAL SECTION Making Lovework: Editorial Notes Mathieu O’Neil, Stefano Zacchiroli >From the Commons to Capital: Red Hat, Inc. and the Business of Free Software Benjamin J. Birkinbine Preliminary Report on the Influence of Capital in an Ethical-Modular Project: Quantitative data from the Debian Survey Mathieu O’Neil, Stefano Zacchiroli, Molly de Blanc, Mahin Raissi Now, the Commons Journal of Peer Production PEER REVIEWED PAPERS Producing a Knowledge Commons: Tensions Between Paid Work and Peer Production in a Public Institution Lorna Heaton, Patricia Dias da Silva Crowdsourcing Citizen Science: Exploring the Tensions Between Paid Professionals and Users Jamie Woodcock, Anita Greenhill, Kate Holmes, Gary Graham, Joe Cox, Eun Young Oh, Karen Masters Makers as a New Work Condition Between Self-employment and Community Peer-production. Insights from a survey on Makers in Italy. Massimo Menichinelli, Massimo Bianchini, Alessandra Carosi, Stefano Maffei Communal Work and Professional Involvement: the Balance of Open Source Projects Clement Bert-Erboul A Critical Political Economic Framework for Peer Production’s Relation to Capitalism Arwid Lund [html] VARIA Common sense: An Examination of Three Los Angeles Community WiFi Projects that Privileged Public Funding over Commons-based Infrastructure Management Gwen Shaffer “Think Global, Print Local”: A Case study of a Commons-based Publishing and Distribution Model Vasilis Kostakis, Stacco Troncoso, Ann Marie Utratel =-=-=

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The Berkman Klein Center is hiring!
by Griffin Boyce 07 Jun '17

07 Jun '17

Hi all, Berkman is hiring for a web applications developer and a junior web applications dev, as well as two openings for project coordinators. If you know someone who would be a great fit, please pass this along to them! It's also public / okay to post to lists. =) Dev openings: https://cyber.harvard.edu/getinvolved/jobs Web App Dev description: The Berkman Klein Center seeks an enthusiastic web applications developer with strong people skills. The successful candidate will develop web-based applications from the database to the UI. The position will also provide project management support for some application development projects and mentor (in an advisory and support role) junior developers. Position expected to interface directly with clients, working with them to refine vision and scope of projects. The developer will need to keep current with tools and technologies of open source software development and database architecture and will release much of their work under FOSS licenses. Working with great in-house talent, position is ideal for someone who learns enjoys tinkering/solving a range of dynamic technology problems and is comfortable in a fun, dynamic and fast-moving environment. Candidate should have good customer service and communication skills; be adept at working with both non-technical and technical people; able to take initiative and follow through with minimal supervision; be patient, curious, and perseverant; be flexible and be able to prioritize and to manage multiple needs; works well as part of a team and independently. Reports to the Developer Team Lead. As with all Berkman Klein Center positions, this is a term appointment funded through June 30, 2018; with strong potential for continuation based on funding and institutional need. BS in computer science, engineering, or equivalent combination of education and experience. 4+ years of web application development experience including 2+ years work experience with Ruby and/or PHP and/or Python using MVC development frameworks (eg, ROR, Symfony, Django). Full life cycle development experience (technical design through implementation) required. Experience with agile, BDD and TDD software development methods are highly desirable. Skills in Object-Oriented Design, Application Architecture and Web Technologies (HTML, JavaScript, AJAX, JSON, XML, CSS); skills in JS toolkits (jQuery, EXTJs, OpenLayers, etc.); Experience with RDBMS (MySQL, PostgreSQL) and noSQL DBs (couchDB, mongoDB); Strong command of web standards and best practices; Experience with web services (RESTful Rails, Apache, Tomcat, Nginx) and open source applications (MediaWiki, Wordpress, Drupal, BrowserCMS, etc). Familiarity with Perl and/or shell scripting, with Linux (Debian, Ubuntu, CentOS) administration, Linux security best practices and implementation, virtualization (XEN, QEMU/KVM), source control (SVN, GIT) is a huge plus; excellent communication and technical skills; demonstrated ability to take appropriate initiative and drive the development process; demonstrated project planning and time management skills; ability to work independently, assume leadership roles and work as part of a team. Code samples will be required. Junior Dev description: The Berkman Klein Center seeks an enthusiastic web applications developer with strong people skills. The successful candidate will develop web-based full stack applications from the database to the UI. The developer will need to keep current with tools and technologies of open source software development and database architecture and will release much of their work under FOSS licenses. Working with great in-house talent, position is ideal for someone who learns enjoys tinkering/solving a range of dynamic technology problems and is comfortable in a fun, dynamic and fast-moving environment. Candidate should have good communication skills; be adept at working with both non-technical and technical people; able to take initiative and follow through with minimal supervision; be patient, curious, and perseverant; be flexible and be able to prioritize and to manage multiple needs; works well as part of a team and independently. Reports to the Developer Team Lead. As with all Berkman Center positions, this is a term appointment funded through June 30, 2018; with strong potential for continuation based on funding and institutional need. BS in computer science, engineering, or equivalent combination of education and experience. 2+ years of web application development experience including 1+ years work experience with Ruby and/or PHP and/or Python using MVC development frameworks (eg, ROR, Symfony, Django). Full life cycle development experience (technical design through implementation) required. Experience with agile, BDD and TDD software development methods are highly desirable. Skills in Object-Oriented Design, Application Architecture and Web Technologies (HTML, JavaScript, AJAX, JSON, XML, CSS); skills in JS toolkits (jQuery, EXTJs, OpenLayers, etc.); Experience with RDBMS (MySQL, PostgreSQL) and noSQL DBs (couchDB, mongoDB); Strong command of web standards and best practices; Experience with web services (RESTful Rails, Apache, Tomcat, Nginx) and open source applications (MediaWiki, Wordpress, Drupal, BrowserCMS, etc). Familiarity with Perl and/or shell scripting, with Linux (Debian, Ubuntu, CentOS) administration, Linux security best practices and implementation, virtualization (XEN, QEMU/KVM), source control (SVN, GIT) is a huge plus; excellent communication and technical skills; demonstrated ability to take appropriate initiative, drive forward the development process and work as part of a team. Code samples will be required. Project Coordinator openings: https://sjobs.brassring.com/tgwebhost/jobdetails.aspx?SID=%5epCjdFyOykkW3ZN… Description: The Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University seeks a project coordinator to perform diverse activities associated with our work on artificial intelligence, autonomous systems, and related technologies (with a particular focus on community engagement and education / translational research). They will join the Berkman Klein Center’s world-class community of scholars and digital architects, and work in close collaboration with Berkman Klein faculty, staff, and fellows to advance a range of interdisciplinary, cutting-edge research related to the study and development of Internet & Society. Working alongside the Center’s growing team of project managers and project coordinators, the project coordinator will be tasked with: integrating the efforts of multiple team members, including editing written materials to establish common voice; coordinating research activities; communicating with external partners; monitoring overall timelines and outputs including project and grant deliverables, events, and grant reports; and doing research and writing, including outputs such as blog posts, grant proposals, memos, newsletters, and reports. Additionally, the coordinator will interface with the administrative and communications teams on relevant aspects of the projects; help to organize events; maintain online project management tools; and oversee web presence. The project coordinator will help to guide the work of interns and research assistants. Based on the fast-paced and changing needs of the Center, the project coordinator may be called upon for other tasks at short notice. Occasional evening and weekend work will be required. Travel opportunities may arise. The right candidate will thrive in a committed, collaborative, and tight-knit community that encourages creativity, supports deep inquiry, values novel approaches to solving problems, strives for transparency, continually builds upon best-practices and lessons learned, and supports its community members’ independent and collective goals. Commitment to Diversity: The work and well-being of the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University are strengthened profoundly by the diversity of our network and our differences in background, culture, experience, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, and much more. We are an equal opportunity employer and actively seek and welcome applications from all applicants, including people of color, women, the LGBTQIA community, and persons with disabilities, as well as applications from researchers and practitioners from across the spectrum of disciplines and methods.

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Job opportunity: UCLA PULSE Fellowship in Artificial Intelligence, Law, and Policy
by Griffin Boyce 07 Jun '17

07 Jun '17

Hi all, Spotted this job opportunity and just wanted to pass it along! =) -------- Original Message -------- From: Alexandra Wood <awood(a)cyber.law.harvard.edu> Dear all, UCLA School of Law’s Program on Understanding Law, Science, and Evidence (PULSE) is seeking applications for a Fellowship in Artificial Intelligence, Law, and Policy for the academic years 2017-2019. More details and a link to the job posting are enclosed below. Best regards, Alex # # # PULSE FELLOWSHIP IN ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, LAW, AND POLICY UCLA School of Law’s Program on Understanding Law, Science, and Evidence, or PULSE, is now accepting applications for the PULSE Fellowship in Artificial Intelligence, Law, and Policy for the academic years 2017-2019. This fellowship is a full-time, two-year faculty position beginning in the fall of 2017. The position primarily involves sustained research and writing on the social, economic, and legal implications of artificial intelligence and machine learning. The position will also involve teaching and assisting with PULSE projects, such as conferences and workshops. Progress in artificial intelligence and machine learning has advanced rapidly in recent years, and additional advances may proceed at an accelerating pace. Large recent progress in automated translation, face and voice recognition, anticipating criminal sentencing consequences, and automated radiological diagnosis are just a few among many salient examples. Similar technologies will alter many aspects of human life, yielding societal disruption and a need for governance. Rather than focusing on colorful fictional treatments or relatively immediate consequences, the PULSE fellow will engage in careful, critical advance thinking about large-scale potential impacts. The fellow will evaluate methods for assessment and prediction, as well as legal, economic, institutional, regulatory, and other forms of preparation and response. The fellow’s research will culminate in the authorship of papers suitable for publication in law journals or other respected legal, scholarly, and policy outlets. Throughout, the fellow will work in collaboration with Professor of Law Edward A. Parson and PULSE Co-Director Richard M. Re, among other UCLA faculty. PULSE explores the complex connections between law, evidence, science, and technology. PULSE engages in cutting-edge and interdisciplinary research and programming to examine how basic “facts” about our world, provided through science and credited as evidence, influence venues of law and policy making. PULSE is co-directed by UCLA School of Law Dean Jennifer L. Mnookin and Assistant Professor of Law Richard M. Re. Candidates for the PULSE fellowship should possess a J.D. or other advanced degree, a strong academic record, excellent analytical and writing skills, and demonstrated interest or background in the fields of law and science, artificial intelligence, or social risk assessment. Candidates with previous academic, research, or professional experience in artificial intelligence, machine learning, computer science, or related fields of science and technology are especially encouraged to apply. The salary is anticipated to be approximately $90,000 per year plus a competitive benefits package. UCLA School of Law has a special interest in enriching its intellectual environment through further diversifying the range of perspectives represented within the faculty. Applicants should apply online at https://recruit.apo.ucla.edu/apply/JPF02981. Please submit a letter discussing your qualifications, scholarly and professional aims, and the interests you would wish to pursue while holding the fellowship; a resume; a transcript of studies in law school or graduate school; a writing sample of no more than ten pages; and contact information for three references. To ensure full consideration, applications should be received by Monday, June 12, 2017 but will be considered thereafter until the position is filled. Visit our website at http://www.law.ucla.edu/pulse for more information about our program. The University of California is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, age or protected veteran status. For the complete University of California nondiscrimination and affirmative action policy see: UC Nondiscrimination & Affirmative Action Policy (http://policy.ucop.edu/doc/4000376/NondiscrimAffirmAct)

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"Giving Voice" Interview on Culture Digitally
by Meryl Alper 07 Jun '17

07 Jun '17

Hi all, I wanted to share a wide-ranging interview that Dan Greene <http://dmgreene.net/> (Microsoft Research) conducted with me about my book *Giving Voice* <https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/giving-voice> (MIT Press, 2017) for the *Culture Digitally *blog. We covered a lot of ground, with the book as a jumping off point, from questions of scale and ethnographic methods, to what disability can tell us about Trump's claims to be our "voice." http://culturedigitally.org/2017/06/author-interview-meryl-alper-on-giving-… Interested in any and all feedback! Best, Meryl -- *Meryl Alper* Assistant Professor Department of Communication Studies Northeastern University Holmes 217 m.alper(a)northeastern.edu merylalper.com Author, *Giving Voice: Mobile Communication, Disability, and Inequality* (MIT Press <https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/giving-voice>, Amazon <https://www.amazon.com/Giving-Voice-Communication-Disability-Inequality/dp/…> )

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Fwd: [PMO Network] TICTeC@Taipei: Only 10 days left to submit a session proposal
by Steven Clift 07 Jun '17

07 Jun '17

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: "Steven Clift" <clift(a)e-democracy.org> Date: Jun 7, 2017 10:44 AM Subject: Fwd: [PMO Network] TICTeC@Taipei: Only 10 days left to submit a session proposal To: "newswire" <newswire(a)groups.dowire.org>, "liberationtech" < liberationtech(a)mailman.stanford.edu> Cc: "Steven Clift" <slc(a)publicus.net>, "Gemma Humphrys" < gemma.mysociety(a)gmail.com> > > From: "Gemma Humphrys" <gemma(a)mysociety.org> > Date: Jun 7, 2017 8:38 AM > Subject: [PMO Network] TICTeC@Taipei: Only 10 days left to submit a > session proposal > To: <OGP(a)dgroups.org>, <pmo-network(a)googlegroups.com>, "Foianet" < > foianet(a)foiadvocates.info>, <open-government(a)lists.okfn.org> > Cc: > > Hello everyone, > > Further to my email back in May, this is a reminder that mySociety will be > hosting a special edition of our Impacts of Civic Technology Conference > (TICTeC) in Taipei on 11th - 13th September 2017. It's a really unique > opportunity to showcase to the wider IT industry what civic tech is, what > its impacts are and how research is carried out to evaluate this. > > If you'd like to present at the conference, you have until next Friday > 16th June to submit a session proposal > <https://docs.google.com/a/mysociety.org/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScpVHtZvyTaCsVmkNt…>. > We'd love to hear from individuals/organisations who run civic tech > projects and have seen some real-world impacts from these, and > individuals/organisations who have researched the impacts of civic tech. > > Applications for travel grants are also open until 16th June, so if you > need financial support to attend please submit your travel grant > application > <https://docs.google.com/a/mysociety.org/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSf6Oq63xSQkDOCrMbY…> > now. > > Registration for TICTeC@Taipei is also now open, so get your earlybird > tickets now <http://civictechfest.org/> before they sell out. > Registration includes entrance to the full WCIT conference program, as well > as to all Civic Tech Fest <http://civictechfest.org/> events. > > If you have any questions about the event, please don't hesitate to > contact me. > > All the best, > Gemma. > > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Gemma Humphrys <gemma(a)mysociety.org> > Date: 9 May 2017 at 11:51 > Subject: TICTeC@Taipei: Apply to present now! Deadline: 16th June 2017 > To: OGP(a)dgroups.org, open-government(a)lists.okfn.org, > sunlight-international(a)googlegroups.com, pmo-network(a)googlegroups.com, > ftm_network(a)googlegroups.com, Foianet <foianet(a)foiadvocates.info>, > money-politics-transparency(a)googlegroups.com > > > ***Sorry for cross-posting*** > > Dear all, > > Following on from the success of our 3rd Impacts of Civic Technology > Conference (TICTeC <http://tictec.mysociety.org/>) in Florence last > month, we're delighted to announce that we'll be hosting an additional > TICTeC event this year; this time in Taipei. > > TICTeC@Taipei <https://www.mysociety.org/2017/04/25/tictec-taiwan/> will > be part of the Open Culture Foundation <http://ocf.tw/en/>’s week-long Civic > Tech Fest <http://civictechfest.org/>, an official side event of the World > Congress on Information Technology (WCIT) <http://www.wcit2017.org/> 2017. > > TICTeC@Taipei will be held on 11th and 12th September 2017. > > Come and join us to discuss the impacts of civic technology on citizens > and governments around the world; to be part of the first Civic Tech Fest, > and to participate in the WCIT. > > The *Call for Papers/Presentations* is now open; so if you'd like to > present at TICTeC@Taipei please submit a session proposal > <https://docs.google.com/a/mysociety.org/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScpVHtZvyTaCsVmkNt…> by > *16th June 2017*. > > Applications for travel grants are now also open, so if you need financial > support to attend please submit your application > <https://docs.google.com/a/mysociety.org/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSf6Oq63xSQkDOCrMbY…> > before 16th June 2017. > > Registration is also now open, so get your tickets now > <http://civictechfest.org/>. Registration includes entrance to the full > WCIT conference program <http://wcit2017.org/>, as well as to all Civic > Tech Fest events. > > The WCIT will feature panels on Open Government and Civic Tech, so this is > a really unique opportunity to showcase open government and civic tech > initiatives to the wider IT industry. > > We hope to see you there! > > If you have any questions, don't hesitate to ask. > > All the best, > Gemma. > > > > -- > > Gemma Humphrys > > *Events Manager /** Alaveteli Partnerships Manager * > > mySociety | mysociety.org <http://www.mysociety.org/> > > > > -- > > Gemma Humphrys > > *Events Manager /** Alaveteli Partnerships Manager * > > mySociety | mysociety.org <http://www.mysociety.org/> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "PMO Network" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to pmo-network+unsubscribe(a)googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to pmo-network(a)googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/pmo-network. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > >

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New Book: The Citizen Marketer
by Joel Penney 07 Jun '17

07 Jun '17

Dear AoIR colleagues, I’d like to let you know about my new book that’s out this week from the Oxford Studies in Digital Politics series, edited by Andrew Chadwick. I hope some of you will find it interesting and relevant to your work. “The Citizen Marketer: Promoting Political Opinion in the Social Media Age” Joel Penney Oxford University Press Description >From hashtag activism to the flood of political memes, grassroots circulation of opinion online is changing the landscape of political communication. By exploring how everyday people promote messages to persuade their peers and shape the public mind, Joel Penney offers a new framework for understanding the phenomenon of viral political communication: the citizen marketer. The discussion is grounded in testimony of citizens who have changed their profile pictures to protest symbols, tweeted links to articles about select issues, or displayed anything from slogan T-shirts to viral videos that promote favored politicians. In contrast to the “slacktivism” critique often leveled at these media-centered forms of activism, Penney argues that they enable citizens to take on the role of viral political marketers as they participate in the networked spread of ideas. Furthermore, Penney examines the risks that these practices pose for increasing polarization and partisanship, the trivialization of issues, and manipulation by political elites. Like the citizen consumer, the citizen marketer is guided by the logics of marketing practice, but, rather than being passive, actively circulates persuasive media to advance political interests. Citizens view their participation in such activities not only in terms of how it may shape or influence outcomes, but as a statement of their own identity. As the book argues, these practices signal an important shift in how political participation is conceptualized and performed in advanced capitalist democratic societies, as they casually inject political ideas into the everyday spaces and places of popular culture. While marketing is considered a dirty word in certain critical circles -- particularly among segments of the left that have identified neoliberal market logics and consumer capitalist structures as a major focus of political struggle -- some of these very critics have determined that the most effective way to push back against the forces of neoliberal capitalism is to co-opt its own marketing and advertising techniques to spread counter-hegemonic ideas to the public. Accordingly, this book argues that the citizen marketer approach to political action is much broader than any one ideological constituency or bloc. Rather, it is a means of promoting a wide range of political ideas, including those that are broadly critical of elite uses of marketing in consumer capitalist societies. The book includes an extensive historical treatment of citizen-level political promotion in modern democratic societies, connecting contemporary digital practices to both the 19th century tradition of mass political spectacle as well as more informal, culturally-situated forms of political expression that emerge from postwar countercultures. Table of Contents Chapter 1: The Citizen Marketer Approach to Political Action Chapter 2: The Historical Lineage of the Citizen Marketer Chapter 3: Self-Labeled and Visible Identities Chapter 4: Political Fans and Cheerleaders Chapter 5: News Spreaders and Agenda-Setters Chapter 6: Towards a Critical Literacy of the Citizen Marketer Approach “This is a must-read book for anyone looking to understand the ways that citizens are taking up the marketing of political candidates and causes in the social media era.” - Daniel Kreiss, Author of *Prototype Politics: Technology-Intensive Campaigning and the Data of Democracy * “*The Citizen Marketer* helps us dig into real campaigns and real campaigners whose work sometimes proceeds in the spirit of democracy, and sometimes degrades democracy. Understanding modern political communication means getting to know the varied forms of computational propaganda that we all produce and consume.” - Philip Howard, Author of *Pax Technica: How the Internet of Things May Set Us Free or Lock Us Up* “Joel Penney provides a compelling, nuanced, and rich exploration of how marketing logic and civic self-expression are morphing and combining in the digital age. It is an essential book for all interested in politics, marketing, and public life.” -David Karpf, Author of *The MoveOn Effect and Analytic Activism* About the Author Joel Penney is an Associate Professor at the School of Communication and Media at Montclair State University. He received his PhD in 2011 from the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania. www.citizenmarketer.org

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CfP: Int. Workshop on Health Recommender Systems co-located with ACM RecSys 2017
by Christoph Trattner 07 Jun '17

07 Jun '17

** Please forward to anyone who might be interested ** -------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS International Workshop on Health Recommender Systems, to be held in Como (Italy) co-located with ACM RECSYS 2017 (https://recsys.acm.org/) Website: http://healthrecsys.ur.de -------------------------------------------------------------------- Important Dates: ================ ** June, 22nd, 2017 Paper submission deadline ** June, 13th, 2017 Notification to authors ** July, 27th, 2017, Camera-Ready Version ** August, 27th-31st, 2017, HRS Workshop, RecSys conference Workshop Organizers: ==================== David Elsweiler (University of Regensburg, Germany) Santiago Hors-Fraile (University of Seville, Maastricht University) Bernd Ludwig (University of Regensburg, Germany) Alan Said (University of Skoevde, Sweden) Hanna Schaefer (TU Muenchen, Germany) Christoph Trattner (MODUL University Vienna, Austria) Helma Torkamaan (University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany) Andre Calero Valdez (RWTH Aachen University, Germany) Objectives & Topics: ==================== Health is at the center of our everyday lives. During the 1st Health Recommender Systems workshop we elaborated a great variety of fields in which recommender systems can improve our awareness, understanding and behavior regarding our own health. At the same time these application areas bring new challenges into the recommender community. Recommendations that influence the health status of a patient, need to be either liable or accompanied by domain experts. To make the recommender liable, complex domain specific user models need to be created, which on the other hand creates privacy issues. While trust into a recommendation needs to be explicitly earned by transparency, explanations and empowerment, other systems might want to persuade users into beneficial actions that would not be willingly chosen otherwise. The variety of those challenges also results from the number and diversity of stakeholders involved in health systems. Taking the patient perspective, simple interaction and safety against harmful recommendations might be the prior concern. For clinicians and experts, on the other hand, what matters is precise and accurate content. Finally, health care providers, insurance companies, and clinics are interested in success rates, study results, and financial benefits of the new systems. In this workshop, we want to go deeper into the discussions started last year and establish a roadmap of possible research topics in Health Recommender Systems. Our aim is to enhance the results of the first workshop in the following areas: ** Elaborate discussion topics of the first workshop ** Strengthen the community of researchers working on Health in RecSys ** Attract scientists from other domains to RecSys (e.g. health, psychology, ...) ** Find cross-domain collaboration projects and funding targets ** Establish shared infrastructure (datasets and tools) We invite submissions that may include the following topics, but are not limited to: ** Algorithms for HRS ** Domain Knowledge Representation ** Regulations and Standards ** Behavioral Change ** Medical evaluation techniques ** User Profiling ** Pervasive Systems ** Personalization ** Persuasion ** Social Motivation ** Gamification ** Empowerment ** Trust ** Explanations ** Nudging ** Patient Needs/Satisfaction ** User Interaction Design ** Expert-in-the-Loop ** Privacy ** Ethics The goal of this workshop is to share and discuss research and projects that reach beyond classic recommender techniques and discuss health domain related challenges of recommender systems. Submissions: ============ We solicit short research papers (4 pages) and short position papers (2 pages), both in the ACM conference paper style. Participants can decide between a research focused submission, resulting in a workshop presentation, and a project focused submission, resulting in a workshop poster. Papers should be submitted in EasyChair to the submission page. ** Submission category research: innovative research ideas, preliminary results or system prototypes ** Submission category project: funded research projects, industry and research collaborations or health-care and research collaborations Submission guidelines: ====================== All submitted papers must: ** Be written in English; ** Contain author names, affiliations, and email addresses; ** Be formatted according to the ACM SIG Proceedings Template with a font size no smaller than 9pt; ** Be in PDF (make sure that the PDF can be viewed on any platform), and formatted for US Letter size; Link or demo in attachment are preferred in both cases. All papers will be peer-reviewed, must not be under review in any other conference, workshop or journal (at the time of submission), and must contain novel contributions. Accepted papers will be published according to the ACM RECSYS 2017 WS publication rules. Please use the workshop's EasyChair submission page for submitting your paper. Location: ========= RecSys 2017 will be hosted in Como, Italy, at the Teatro Sociale di Como from August 27-31, 2017. Please visit the RecSys 2017 website for more information about this location: https://recsys.acm.org/recsys17/location/ Contact: ======== If you have questions regarding the workshop, do not hesitate to contact the workshop chairs. David Elsweiler - david.elsweiler(a)ur.de Santiago Hors-Fraile - sanhorfra(a)gmail.com Bernd Ludwig - bernd.ludwg(a)ur.de Alan Said - alansaid(a)acm.org Hanna Schaefer - hanna.schaefer(a)tum.de Helma Torkamaan - h.torkamaan(a)acm.org Christoph Trattner - trattner.christoph(a)gmail.com Andre Calero Valdez - calero-valdez(a)comm.rwthaachen.de -- ------------------------------------------------------- Dipl.-Ing. Dr.techn. Christoph Trattner BSc Assistant Professor MODUL University Vienna Department of New Media Technology E-mail: christoph.trattner(a)modul.ac.at Tel: +43 650 2402801 Homepage: http://christophtrattner.info -------------------------------------------------------

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