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2nd cfp "Regional conflicts and contested spatial identities in the digital sphere" 3-4 November 2017, Erlangen, Germany
by Glasze, Georg 02 Jun '17

02 Jun '17

Second Call for Papers Workshop: Regional conflicts and contested spatial identities in the digital sphere 3-4 November 2017, Erlangen, Germany Organizers: Georg Glasze, Christian Bittner and Elad Segev Social identity often plays a major role in settings of regional conflicts. Hegemonic actors or majority groups promote narratives that justify claims on territory, natural resources or simply political power. Marginalized groups are mobilized through counter narratives of being a community of fate, sharing a common history, destiny and cultural heritage. In these struggles, influence upon and access to communication media constitutes a vital strategic value. These relationships can be witnessed in manifold regional conflicts, be it in Israel/Palestine, in Ukraine, the Kashmir region, Western Sahara, Catalonia, etc. Digital communication technologies have created new opportunities for information flows across borders and social groups of all kinds and scales. Online platforms are employed for participation, empowerment, and emancipation of marginalized groups, providing new actors with the ability to articulate their perspectives and reach a wider audience. Together with social inclusion, there are various patterns of communication exclusion, such as language bubbles, content filters, demographic biases, skill levels, governmental restrictions, or the unequal distribution of net infrastructures. While acknowledging the empowering potential of the internet, new studies emphasize also the (re)production and manifestation of uneven power structures and societal hierarchies through and within the internet. These multifaceted inclusion/exclusion mechanisms can be summarized under the umbrella term of digital divide(s). Within these heterogeneous socio-technological constellations, we want to assess the transformative potential of the internet for contested spatial identities in the settings of regional conflicts. How are conflicting identities negotiated in the digital sphere? To what extend are marginalized voices and perspectives being articulated through digital communication technologies? What strategies do traditional gatekeepers and hegemonic actors pursue to maintain their privileged speaker positions? What is the role of digital divides or state restrictions on digital communication infrastructures? The proposed workshop wants to bring together international scholars from various academic disciplines who are involved in critical research on online-negotiations of spatial identities in the context of regional conflicts. It aspires an assessment and systematization of the various dimensions of collective identity formation in the internet as well as fruitful exchange on methodological aspects of online and offline research in the thematic field. Specific topics through which presentations may interrogate the relationship between regional conflicts, spatial identities and the digital sphere include but are not limited to: · Social media platforms as means for the articulation of spatial identities · Implications of the digital sphere for activism, anti-geopolitics, peace movements and subaltern articulations · Involvements of nation state-actors in digital negotiations of spatial identities · The role of infrastructures for enabling, precluding and surveilling digital communication · Strategies of diaspora communities and the digital formation of spatial identities · Transformations of speaker positions and power relations within identity groups through digital technologies · Exclusion mechanisms such as digital divides or internet restrictions The workshop will take place at the Institute for Geography, University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany, 3.-4. November 2017. Please address abstracts (max. 250 words) along with institutional affiliation and a short bio (max. 150 words) to: sarah.leuders(a)fau.de<mailto:sarah.leuders@fau.de>. Deadline is 30 June 2017.

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Final CfP: Adoption and Acceptance of Interactive Health Technology (25/26 September, 2017)
by Somaya Ben Allouch 02 Jun '17

02 Jun '17

Please share widely. Apologies for cross-posting! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- *Call for Papers* Adoption and Acceptance of eHealth: Beyond the current state-of-the-art A workshop, held in conjunction with INTERACT 2017 in Mumbai, India www.interactehealth.com 25th - 26th September, 2017 Workshop topic: The main approach taken in adoption and acceptance studies of interactive health technologies mainly follows a quantitative approach, often based on theoretical approaches such as the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) or the Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology (UTAUT). Such studies mostly focus on a few, abstract factors, such as ease of use or perceived usefulness presuming a linear process of acceptance, but fail to give an in-depth overview of what exactly speeds up adoption and acceptance within a real-life context, also on the long term. In all, studies that show how different types of users with different needs and expectations make use of these technologies in specific healthcare contexts are crucial to inform the design of new interactive health technologies and their implementation strategies. The objective of this workshop is to discuss where we are today on the adoption and acceptance of interactive health technologies and from this position, define a roadmap to push this field forward. Call for papers: The aim of this one-day workshop is to bring together researchers from both industry and academia to discuss best practices as well as pitfalls of adoption and acceptance of interactive technologies in healthcare and to provide the Interact community with guidelines to inform future developments and implementation of their interactive health systems. We welcome multi-disciplinary contributions from the many disciplines and approaches that intersect with interactive health technologies (e.g. engineering, computer sciences, (interactive) design, sociology, anthropology, psychology, neurosciences, cognitive sciences, communication science, cultural studies, nursing, fine and media arts, and law, etc.). You are welcome to submit a paper on one of the following topics: * Adoption and acceptance studies of interactive health technologies that expand upon TAM and UTAUT * Studies of adoption and acceptance of interactive health technologies that are based on different models than TAM or UTAUT (e.g., the Task-Technology Fit Model) * Qualitative studies of adoption and acceptance of interactive health technologies * Longitudinal studies of adoption and acceptance of interactive health technologies * Studies that focus on a specific factor that affects adoption or acceptance of interactive health technologies (e.g., trust, privacy, control, aesthetics) * Position papers on the topic of adoption and acceptance of interactive health technologies Paper format: We welcome prospective participants to submit extended abstracts (max. 4 pages) covering any relevant topic (related to the problem statement on the homepage) addressing the adoption and acceptance of interactive health technologies. In addition to papers presenting empirical research, we also welcome papers about new theoretical perspectives, new methodological challenges, and design challenges related to interactive health technologies. The manuscripts should use the conference format. Please submit a PDF copy of your manuscript to s.benallouch(a)saxion.nl and l.vanvelsen(a)rrd.nl Workshop organizers: Somaya Ben Allouch, Saxion University of Applied Sciences, The Netherlands Lex van Velsen, Roessingh Research and Development, The Netherlands Timeline June 9, 2017: Submission deadline for workshop papers June 29, 2017: Notification of acceptance into workshops July 31, 2017: Camera ready workshop position papers (INTERACT deadline. This is a hard deadline) September 25 or 26, 2017: INTERACT workshops Please consider the environment and do not print this email unless absolutely necessary. Encourage environmental awareness. 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CfP: extended deadline Workshop Mutual Shaping of Human-Robot Interaction @RO-MAN'17
by Somaya Ben Allouch 02 Jun '17

02 Jun '17

-------------------------------- Call for Papers The Mutual Shaping of Human-Robot Interaction A workshop, held in conjunction with IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (IEEE RO-MAN 2017) in Lisbon, Portugal, workshop day September 1, 2017. www.mutualshapinghri.com ---------------------------------- **Submission Deadline: June 21, 2017** Workshop topic The field of robotics has rapidly advanced over the last decades and shown great promises in different fields. After robots were introduced in industry decades ago, advancements in robotic systems have enabled them to increasingly enter and affect our everyday lives. Nowadays, we see robotic systems being introduced as assistants, team-mates, care-takers, and companions, in diverse contexts such as education, health and eldercare, the home, and in search and rescue. This development has started the discussion on the emotional, ethical and societal consequences of the increasing confrontations and interactions between humans and robots. Studies in human-robot interaction have shown that, when robots enter different contexts of our everyday lives, they can influence and change that particular context beyond its intended use purpose alone. The term mutual shaping explains the detailed process of technological design suggesting that society and technology are not mutually exclusive to one another and, instead, influence and shape each other. Society changes as a direct result of the implementation of technology that has been created based on society’s wants and needs. The mutual shaping of technology and society approach focuses on analyzing how social and cultural factors influence the way technologies are designed, used, and evaluated, as well as how technologies affect our construction of social values and meanings. The decisions made in the design, adoption, use, and evaluation process affect human’s attitudes towards, uses of, and even their conceptualizations of these (socially) interactive systems. Social norms, values and morals are both implicitly and explicitly intertwined with technologies, reinforcing or altering our beliefs and practices. Once a robot has entered a social environment, it will alter the distribution of responsibilities and roles within that environment, including how people act in that situation or use context. Accordingly, studies that show how use practices of robot systems and the social environment mutually shape each other, and what forms this mutual shaping process takes, is crucial for the future development of robots for broad societal use. This knowledge is required to inform the design and acceptance of new and existing robot systems. Call for papers The aim of this workshop is to inform the robotics community and its many stakeholders about lessons learned so far about the mutual shaping of robots and society. We will focus on how social factors affect whether people choose to use robots, and how robot design factors affect the social contexts in which robots are used. We welcome prospective participants to submit extended abstracts (max. 4 pages including references) covering any relevant topic contributing to the discussion on the mutual shaping effect (s) of robots and society. The goal is to discuss a wide variety of contributions from the many disciplines and approaches that intersect with the development and evaluation of robot systems (e.g. Human-Human Interaction, Human-Computer Interaction, Human-Robot Interaction, Human Factors User-Experience, engineering, computer sciences, (interactive) design, sociology, anthropology, psychology, etc.). We invite a diversity of topics from researchers and practitioners from a wide variety of fields who address strategies and lessons learned about mutual shaping of robots and society including, but not limited to: · Human-robot (non)use · Human-Robot interaction · Mutual shaping of robots and society · Evaluation of robot applications and contexts of use · Socially intelligent robotics · Multimodal assessment technologies · Design of robotics systems · Social analysis of robotics · Social cognitive systems The manuscripts should use the conference format. Please submit a PDF copy of your manuscript to s.benallouch(a)saxion.nl and maartje_de_graaf(a)brown.edu . Timeline Extended Submission July 21, 2017: Submission deadline for workshop papers July 10, 2017: Notification of acceptance July 20, 2017: Camera-ready workshop papers deadline July 10, 2017: Workshop program finalized September 1, 2017: Workshop day Workshop organizers Somaya Ben Allouch – Saxion University of Applied Sciences, The Netherlands Maartje de Graaf – Brown University, USA Selma Sabanovic – Indiana University, USA Friederike Eyssel – Bielefeld University, Germany

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cfp - Digital Chinese Diaspora - Panel for CSAA 2017, Wellington NZ
by Haiqing Yu 02 Jun '17

02 Jun '17

CFP—Panel on “Social/Digital Media and New Formations of Chinese Diaspora” Cultural Studies Association of Australasia (CSAA) 2017 conference<http://csaa.asn.au/about/csaa-annual-conference/csaa-annual-conference-2017/> (6-8 December 2017, Massey University, Wellington, New Zealand) Panel convened by: Haiqing Yu (Associate Professor of Chinese media and culture, University of New South Wales Australia), h.yu(a)unsw.edu.au<mailto:h.yu@unsw.edu.au> Wanning Sun (Professor of Chinese media and communication, University of Technology Sydney, Australia), wanning.sun(a)uts.edu.au<mailto:wanning.sun@uts.edu.au> This panel aims to bring together original research papers from a diversified range of disciplines in arts, humanities, and social sciences to examine the role of digital and social media platforms and practices in forging news ways of civic engagement among the highly diversified and stratified Chinese diaspora around the world. Key issues to be discussed include: * What are the newly emerging digital and mobile communication practices among Chinese diasporas and how do they impact on their social and political life in their host countries; * To what extent do these digital practices create new forms of civic engagement and enable Chinese migrant communities to participate in public life in their host city/country; * What are political, social and economic impacts of their flexible place-making practices via digital and mobile platforms among the Chinese diaspora (such as the widespread use of WeChat) on their host countries and societies—both opportunities and challenges? Existing scholarship on Chinese diaspora and diaspora media has focused on how the Chinese diaspora use various media and communication platforms and networks to maintain connections to the “Motherland” and to reconstitute the home abroad. Recent work has traced new developments in diaspora Chinese media, updated the current landscape of diasporic Chinese media and communication (particularly with the proliferation of digital platforms and new modes of communication), and documented the impact of China’s soft power initiatives and “going global” policy. It has also pointed to a new, and seemingly intractable, tension: the emergence of stronger links between new migrants in the diaspora and China in on the one hand, and a continuous desire for a global, postmodern and hybrid Chinese diasporic identity, on the other. This tension is played out in the process of media production, circulation, and consumption, and it manifests itself most acutely through individual digital media practices in the cyberspace and on mobile devices. This panel takes a critical look at Chinese digital diaspora’s embodied and emplaced media and cultural practices mediated via social/digital media, as they negotiate their transcultural, transnational and yet geo-local identity, networks, relationships, and politics. We call for papers that will examine everyday patterns and strategies, sacrifices, and ingenuity of Chinese digital diaspora of various human variables (age, gender, sexuality, class, ethnicity, race, disability, and linguistics), as they live out the cosmopolitan identity and lifestyle through both online and offline encounters with real people. We encourage critical analyses of social inclusion/exclusion and power relations embedded in place-making practices of Chinese digital diaspora and how such digitally mediated place-making practices impact on their citizenship accumulation and sociopolitical life in their host countries and communities. It is our hope that papers in this panel will update our understanding of the Chinese digital diaspora in the era of China’s rise, contribute to the theorization on flexible and digital citizenship, and above all, draw out real and potential implications of these insights on Australian, New Zealand and other host countries’ public life, especially in regard to the national aims of strengthening democracy, building cohesion in a multicultural society, and developing cultural, trade and economic relations with China. Please submit your proposed title, abstract (200 words), and a brief bio (50 words) to A/Prof. Haiqing Yu h.yu(a)unsw.edu.au<mailto:h.yu@unsw.edu.au> by 15 July 2017. Please put “Paper proposal for CSAA panel on digital Chinese diaspora” in the subject line. Acceptance of proposals will be notified by the end of July.

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call for applications for Australian based PhD scholarship on digital government
by Paul Henman 02 Jun '17

02 Jun '17

Dear AoIRers Please pass onto people interested in doing a phd in the following project: Government Web Portals as New Government Actors Government web portals provide the entryway to online government, yet their effectiveness and role in contemporary government is unknown. This study examines the architectures, rationales, effectiveness and power effects of government web portals. The study uses new digital research methods (hyperlink network analysis and web experiments) to comparatively assess 10 hi-tech countries. https://graduate-school.uq.edu.au/project-scholarships (School of Social Science) Paul Paul Henman Associate Professor of Digital Sociology and Social Policy Director of Bachelor of Social Science School of Social Science University of Queensland QLD 4072 T: +61 7 3365 2765 | E: P.Henman(a)uq.edu.au<mailto:P.Henman@uq.edu.au> | W: www.digitalsocialpolicy.com<http://www.digitalsocialpolicy.com/> Selected recent publications: Critical encounters with performance measurement in social and public policy<http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/cpos20/37/6?nav=tocList>, Policy Studies, 37(6) 'When rating systems do not rate: Evaluating ERA's performance', Australia Universities Review, 59(1) 'Models of Disability Support Governance<http://search.informit.com.au/documentSummary;dn=494616352464650;res=IELHSS>: a framework for assessing and reforming social policy', Australian Journal of Social Issues, 50(3) UQ ALLY - Supporting the diversity of sexuality and gender identity at UQ. CRICOS Provider Number: 00025B

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European Data and Computational Journalism Conference, 6th - 7th July, Dublin
by Bahareh Heravi 01 Jun '17

01 Jun '17

*The European Data & Computational Journalism Conference* 6th and 7th July 2017 University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland datajconf.com | @datajconf <http://twitter.com/datajconf> ================================================== Dear All, I am pleased to let you know that the programme for the 1st European Data and Computational Journalism Conference <http://datajconf.com/> is just published and the registration is now open <http://datajconf2017.eventbrite.ie/>. The conference will be help on 6th and 7th July 2017 in Dublin. Day 1 is a single track conference programme, with a very interesting line up of both industry and academic talks. On Day 2 we will have two half day parallel tracks. Track 1 will be a Data Journalism workshop, which includes an intro to Data Journalism, Visual Data Storytelling and an introduction to Programming with R for Journalists. Track 2 in an unconference on Computational and Data Journalism. For more information please visit our programme <http://datajconf.com/#schedule>. Please spread the word and we hope to see many of you in Dublin in July. Best Bahareh and DataJ Conf team -- ---------------------------- Dr. Bahareh R. Heravi Assistant Professor Postgraduate Director School of Information and Communication Studies University College Dublin Bahareh.net | @Bahareh360 What's new: The European Data and Computational Journalism Conference, 6-7 July, Dublin: datajconf.com UCD Data Journalism Professional Certificate Programme: http://bit.ly/ucddatajournalism

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New issue of the Journal of Media Innovations
by Anders Fagerjord 01 Jun '17

01 Jun '17

Dear colleague, You may be interested in the new issue of the Journal of Media Innovations we just published. (And my apologies if you get multiple versions of this e-mail.) https://journals.uio.no/index.php/TJMI/index Theme issue: Fourth International Symposium of Media Innovations Guest editors: Wendy van den Broeck and Iris Jennes An open access publication sponsored by the University of Oslo. Contents: ARTICLES Charles Davis, Emilia Zboralska: Transnational over-the-top media distribution as a business and policy disruptor: The case of Netflix in Canada Reinhard Kunz, Joschka Mütterlein, Vanessa Walton: Organizational Choices and Venturing Modes: An Analysis of Corporate Venture Capital Activities in Legacy Media Sari Virta, Nando Malmelin: Ambidextrous tensions: Dynamics of creative work in the media innovation process PDF Carl-Gustav Lindén: Algorithms for journalism: The future of news work PDF RESEARCH BRIEF Lucy Küng: Reflections on the ascendancy of technology in the media and its implications for organisations and their leaders. PDF BOOK REVEIW Melanie Hellwig reviews Enli, Gunn (2015). Mediated Authenticity. How the Media Constructs Reality. Happy reading, Anders Fagerjord, dr.art. Associate professor in Media and Communication Director, Center for Research on Media Innovations. Department of Media and Communication University of Oslo My latest book, Digital Humanities, is now available from Polity: http://politybooks.com/bookdetail/?isbn=9780745697659

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invitation to a survey regarding pedagogical practices
by Simona Lohan 01 Jun '17

01 Jun '17

Dear all, If you have about 10-15 minutes available, we would highly appreciate your inputs regarding your learning and teaching experiences under the 'machine-in-the-loop' scenarios. The survey link is here: https://www.webropolsurveys.com/S/5A0BF09D0674C21B.par Comments regarding the clarity of the survey questions are also highly welcome, Thank you and best regards Simona Lohan -- Associate Professor, Dr. Tech. Laboratory of Electronics and Comm. Engineering Tampere University of Technology P.O. Box 553, FIN-33101 Tampere http://www.cs.tut.fi/tlt/pos

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Another resource on OpEd writing
by Becky Lentz 31 May '17

31 May '17

I¹ve used this in my teaching with good results in terms of students getting their opeds published: http://theopedproject.org/ Seminars: http://theopedproject.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=61&I temid=76 And the Public Voices Fellowship: http://theopedproject.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=868& Itemid=154 and the University program: http://www.theopedproject.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id= 64&Itemid=77 ---------------------- Becky Lentz, PhD Associate Professor, Communication Studies McGill University Faculty of Arts 853 Sherbrooke Street West 3rd floor Arts Building WEST-265 Montreal, QC, Canada H3A 0G5 Phone 514.398.4995 Fax 514.398.8557 http://www.mcgill.ca/ahcs McGill University is on land which long served as a site of meeting and exchange amongst Indigenous peoples, including the Haudenosaunee and Anishinabeg nations.

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New MSc in Cyberpsychology
by Binder, Jens 31 May '17

31 May '17

MSc in Cyberpsychology Now recruiting for 17-18 start! This may be of interest to a number of list members: The Department of Psychology at Nottingham Trent University is proud to announce the launch of a novel MSc degree in Cyberpsychology. The course is designed to strike a balance between research and employability and is open to graduates from a range of academic disciplines. Find out more at: https://www.ntu.ac.uk/study-and-courses/courses/find-your-course/social-sci… Best wishes, Jens Dr Jens Binder Senior Lecturer in Psychology Department Psychology Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham, UK https://www.ntu.ac.uk/staff-profiles/social-sciences/jens-binder http://www.palgrave.com/gb/series/14636 DISCLAIMER: This email is intended solely for the addressee. It may contain private and confidential information. If you are not the intended addressee, please take no action based on it nor show a copy to anyone. In this case, please reply to this email to highlight the error. Opinions and information in this email that do not relate to the official business of Nottingham Trent University shall be understood as neither given nor endorsed by the University. Nottingham Trent University has taken steps to ensure that this email and any attachments are virus-free, but we do advise that the recipient should check that the email and its attachments are actually virus free. This is in keeping with good computing practice.

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