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Motivational sentences
by María González Aguado 30 Apr '17

30 Apr '17

Dear list members, I'm working on how people use Instagram to recover from an eating disorder. I'm conducting an ethnography and come continually across motivational sentences with self-care and self-help advice. In fact, there are accounts aimed exclusively at producing and disseminating this type of images. I've looked for literature on this matter, but didn't find anything relevant. Any reference or details about people working or ongoing research projects in this matter will be highly appreciated. I will also really appreciate if you could give me any suggestions of literature or tell me about people and projects on how therapists and recovered patients use social nets to help others recover as an actual job Thank you a lot in advance. Best wishes, Maria -- María González Aguado Research Fellow- Department of Sociology University of Leicester University Road Leicester LE1 7RH, UK

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Masterclass Data & Discrimination Dr Seeta Peña Gangadharan, 9 June 2017, Utrecht University, the Netherlands
by Leurs, K.H.A. (Koen) 29 Apr '17

29 Apr '17

Dear list members, For anyone in/near the Netherlands on June 9L Join us for this urgent Masterclass and guest lecture on Data & Discrimination taught by Dr Seeta Peña Gangadharan we are organizing at Utrecht University in Collaboration with the Research School for Media Studies: Date: 9 June 2017 Time: 10:00-13:00 Venue: Ravensteynzaal (kamer 1.06) op Kromme Nieuwegracht 80), Utrecht Open to: PhD Candidates and RMa Students and interested colleagues Credits: 1 ECTS There will also be a guest lecture between 3.30-5 pm on the same day on the topic of Our data bodies by Dr Seeta Peña Gangadharan Coordination: Dr Karin van Es (UU) & Dr Koen Leurs (UU) Registration<http://www.rmes.nl/events/masterclass-data-discrimination-with-dr-seeta-pen…> Dr Seeta Peña Gangadharan will give a master class at Utrecht University on the critical study of data and discrimination. In this masterclass, participants will explore the challenges and opportunities in studying data-driven discrimination, and question the nature and limits of the critical study of data-driven technologies. The class will begin with a stage-setting conversation led by Dr Gangadharan about the variety of approaches to understanding the discriminatory impact of automated computer systems, including legal, computer scientific, sociological, and STS approaches. Using a set of guided questions, participants will be asked to assess the critical nature of these studies and compare how each conceptualizes power and impotence in or of data-driven systems. In the remaining portion of the master class, participants will work in both small and large groups to assess their own research or research interests on the topic of big data, artificial intelligence, smart technologies, or data-driven systems. The master class will conclude with an overview of the principles and practices of participatory action research that informed the set of questions and activities used in the class. By the end of the class, participants will become comfortable with applying a set of tools and practices that can expand the critical nature of one’s work on data and discrimination. Participants are welcome to submit a 400-word summary of their work in the area of big data, artificial intelligence, smart technologies, and other data-driven systems, which will be distributed to all participants in the masterclass. Please include a sentence or two as to what the unique contribution of your research is. Send your summary to RMeS-fgw(a)uva.nl before 1 June 2017. Summaries will be distributed one week prior to the session. Participants should come having read all summaries and be prepared for a very hands-on and interactive session. BIOGRAPHY In 2015, Dr Seeta Peña Gangadharan was appointed Assistant Professor at the Department of Media and Communications, London School of Economics and Political Science. Her research interests lie at the intersection of communication policy and social justice. Over the past five years, she has developed a body of work focused on issues of privacy, surveillance, data profiling, and historically marginalized communities. Prior to joining the LSE, she served as Senior Research Fellow at New America’s Open Technology Institute, addressing policies and practices related to digital inclusion, privacy, and big data. See: http://www.lse.ac.uk/media@lse/WhosWho/AcademicStaff/Seeta-Gangadharan.aspx Koen Leurs, PhD Assistant professor Gender & Postcolonial Studies | Department of Media and Culture Studies | Utrecht University, the Netherlands | Muntstraat 2a, 3512 EV room 0.05 | T. + 31 30 253 7844| www.koenleurs.net<http://www.koenleurs.net/> Teaching: Coordinator minor Gender studies, minor Postcolonial studies, TCS hoofdrichting Gender and Postcolonial Studies. Research: NWO Veni Postdoc Young Connected Migrants (2016-2019), read the blog here<http://connectedmigrants.sites.uu.nl/>. Network: Chair Diaspora, Migration and the Media Section, European Communication Research and Education Association (ECREA) Recent publications:  -w/ Michael Zimmer. Special issue on Platform values #AOIR2016 Berlin. Information, Communication & Society, 20(6). Introduction available through this open access Download link<http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1369118X.2017.1295464>. -w/ Tamara Shepherd. Datafication and discrimination. In. K. van Es & M. Schaefer (Eds.) The Datafied Society. 2017 Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press. Open access Download link<http://oapen.org/search?identifier=624771>. -Young connected migrants and non-normative European family life. International Journal of E-Politics, 2016, 7(3). Open access Download link<http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/67930/>. -w/ Myria Georgiou Digital makings of the cosmopolitan city. Young people’s urban imaginaries of London. International Journal of Communication, 2016, 10, 3689-3709. Open access Download link<http://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/article/view/4425/1736>. -Questioning Europe in 4D. Digitisation, datafication, discrimination & diversity. InterkulturRuhr. http://interkultur.einskommanull.com/node/184 -Digital Passages. Diaspora, Gender & Youth Cultural Intersections. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2015. Open access Download link<http://www.oapen.org/search?identifier=559550>.

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Re: [Air-L] Motivational sentences
by Jill Walker Rettberg 29 Apr '17

29 Apr '17

This paper about self harm blogs on Tumblr has a discussion of motivational quotes: http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1461444816660783?journalCode=nm… Jill Sent from my phone On 28 Apr 2017, at 18:44, Nazanin Andalibi <andalibi(a)gmail.com<mailto:andalibi@gmail.com>> wrote: Hello, I have published in this area a bit, and here are two papers you may find relevant: http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2998243 http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2820030&CFID=911272784&CFTOKEN=85872329 You may also look into the work of Jessica Pater (lead author on one of the papers I shared above) and Stevie Chancellor. Hope this helps. -- Nazanin Andalibi PhD Candidate, College of Computing and Informatics, Drexel University http://www.nazaninandalibi.net/ On Fri, Apr 28, 2017 at 9:06 AM, María González Aguado < mariagaguado(a)gmail.com<mailto:mariagaguado@gmail.com>> wrote: Dear list members, I'm working on how people use Instagram to recover from an eating disorder. I'm conducting an ethnography and come continually across motivational sentences with self-care and self-help advice. In fact, there are accounts aimed exclusively at producing and disseminating this type of images. I've looked for literature on this matter, but didn't find anything relevant. Any reference or details about people working or ongoing research projects in this matter will be highly appreciated. I will also really appreciate if you could give me any suggestions of literature or tell me about people and projects on how therapists and recovered patients use social nets to help others recover as an actual job Thank you a lot in advance. Best wishes, Maria -- María González Aguado Research Fellow- Department of Sociology University of Leicester University Road Leicester LE1 7RH, UK _______________________________________________ The Air-L(a)listserv.aoir.org<mailto:Air-L@listserv.aoir.org> mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/ listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org<http://air-l-aoir.org> Join the Association of Internet Researchers: http://www.aoir.org/ -- Nazanin Andalibi PhD Candidate, College of Computing and Informatics, Drexel University http://www.nazaninandalibi.net/

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Digital Objects, Digital Subjects: An Interdisciplinary Symposium on Activism, Research & Critique in the Age of Big Data Capitalism - Conference programme published
by Christian Fuchs 28 Apr '17

28 Apr '17

Digital Objects, Digital Subjects: An Interdisciplinary Symposium on Activism, Research & Critique in the Age of Big Data Capitalism The 6th ICTs and Society Conference May 20-21 University of Westminster, London Hosted by the Westminster Institute for Advanced Studies Speakers: Toni Negri, Jodi Dean, David Chandler, Christian Fuchs, Paolo Gerbaudo, Orit Halpern, Kylie Jarrett, Jack Linchuan Qiu, Antoinette Rouvroy, Etienne Turpin Conference programme: http://icts-and-society.net/events/digital-objects-digital-subjects-a-sympo… Presenters at the symposium will engage with questions of the digital in respect to activism, research and critique. The conference will engage with the possibilities, potentials, pitfalls, limits, and ideologies of digital activism. It will reflect on whether computational social science, the digital humanities and ubiquitous datafication enable new research approaches or result in a digital positivism that threatens the independence of critical research and brings about the death of the social sciences and humanities. The conference will explore the futures, places and possibilities of critique in the age of digital subjects and digital objects. The event is free, but advance registration is required (some places are left, but get occupied quickly). To register, please complete the registration form http://icts-and-society.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/Registration-form-Di… and send it to ictsandsociety2017(a)gmail.com Talks: - Toni Negri: The Incorporation of the Digital Machine: A Metaphor? - Jodi Dean: Critique or Collectivity? - David Chandler: Governmentalities of the Digital: Mapping, Sensing and Hacking - Christian Fuchs: Karl Marx in the Age of Big Data Capitalism - Paolo Gerbaudo: The Platform Party: The Transformation of Political Organisation in the Digital Era - Orit Halpern: The Smart Mandate: Ubiquitous Computing, Environment, and “Resilient Hope” - Kylie Jarrett: The Digital Housewife: Labour at the Intersection of Culture and Economy - Jack Linchuan Qiu: Goodbye iSlave: Rethinking Smartphone, Activism, and Chinese Labour - Antoinette Rouvroy: Revitalizing Critique Against the Critical Sirens of Algorithmic Governmentality - Etienne Turpin: The Same River Twice: Torrential Formations of the Anthropocene -- For further infos, sign up to the WIAS newsletter https://www.westminster.ac.uk/newsletter

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by Michelle, AoIR Association Coordinator 28 Apr '17

28 Apr '17

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First CfPs: ACM IUI 2018 (Tokyo, Japan)
by Christoph Trattner 28 Apr '17

28 Apr '17

*** Please forward to anyone who might be interested *** --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Papers: ACM IUI 2018 to be held in Tokyo, Japan, 7th-11th March 2018 http://iui.acm.org/2018/ --------------------------------------------------------------------------- ACM IUI 2018 is the 23rd annual meeting of the intelligent interfaces community and serves as a premier international forum for reporting outstanding research and development on intelligent user interfaces. In 2018, IUI will be held in the Hitotsubashi Hall in central Tokyo Japan from March 7th - 11th and will co-locate with the Japanese IPSJ Interactions conference. ACM IUI is where the Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) community meets the Artificial Intelligence (AI), with contributions from related fields such as psychology, behavioral science, cognitive science, computer graphics, design or the arts. Our focus is to improve the interaction between humans and machines, by leveraging both more traditional HCI approaches, as well as solutions that involve state-of-the art AI techniques such as machine learning, natural language processing, data mining, knowledge representation and reasoning. ACM IUI welcomes contribution from any relevant arena: academia, business, or non-profit organizations. Along with 25 other topics in AI & HCI, this year we especially encourage submissions on explainable intelligent user interfaces for IUI 2018. ** Why you should submit to ACM IUI ** At ACM IUI, we focus on the interaction between machine intelligence and human intelligence. While other conferences focus on one side or the other, we address the complex interaction between the two. We welcome research that explores how to make the interaction between computers and people smarter, which may leverage solutions from data mining, knowledge representation, novel interaction paradigms, and emerging technologies. We strongly encourage submissions that discuss research from both HCI and AI simultaneously, but also welcome works that focus more on one side or the other. The conference brings together people from academia, industry and non-profit organizations and gives its participants the opportunity to present and see cutting-edge IUI work in a focused and interactive setting. It is large enough to be diverse and lively, but small enough to allow for extensive interaction among attendees and easy attendance to the events that the conference offers, ranging from oral paper presentations, poster sessions, workshops, panels and doctoral consortium for graduate students. - IUI topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Affective and aesthetic interfaces - Big Data and analytics - Collaborative interfaces - Education and learning-related technologies - Evaluations of intelligent user interfaces - Explainable intelligent user interfaces. - Health and intelligent health technologies - Information retrieval and search - Intelligent assistants for complex tasks - Intelligent wearable and mobile interfaces - Intelligent ubiquitous user interfaces - Intelligent visualization tools - Interactive machine learning - Knowledge-based approaches to user interface design and generation - Modeling and prediction of user behavior - Multi-modal interfaces (speech, gestures, eye gaze, face, physiological information etc.) - Natural language and speech processing - Persuasive and assistive technologies in IUI - Planning and plan recognition for IUI - Proactive and agent-based user interaction - Recommender systems - Smart environments and tangible computing - Social media analysis - User Modelling for Intelligent Interfaces - User-Adaptive interaction and personalization ** Dates ** 1st Oct, 2017: Abstract deadline (compulsory) 8th Oct, 2017: Papers deadline 7th Dec, 2017: Notification 21st Dec, 2017: Camera ready due 7th Mar, 2018: Conference starts ** Submission - Full and Short Papers ** We invite original paper submissions that describe novel user interfaces, applications, interactive and intelligent technologies, empirical studies, or design techniques. We do not require evaluations with users, but we do expect papers to include an appropriate evaluation for their stated contribution. Accepted papers will appear in the ACM Digital Library and citation indices. A selected set of accepted top quality full papers will be invited to submit their extended versions for publication in an ACM Transactions on Interactive Intelligent Systems (TiiS, http://tiis.acm.org) special issue titled "Highlights of IUI 2018". ** Submission Guidelines ** - Full paper (anonymized 10 pages, references do not count toward the page limit) should make substantial, novel, and relevant contribution to the field. - Short paper (anonymized 4 pages, references do not count toward the page limit) is a much more focused and succinct contribution to the field. Short papers are not expected to include a discussion of related work that is as broad and complete as that of Full papers. - Anonymization: ACM IUI uses a double-blind review process. All submissions must be appropriately anonymized according to the following guidelines: -- Author’s names and affiliations are not visible anywhere in the paper. -- Acknowledgements should be anonymized or removed during the review process. -- Self-citations should be included where necessary, but must use the third person. For example, "... as shown in our previous user study [2] ... " is not allowed, whereas "... as shown in Smith et al. [2] " is acceptable (because in this case the citation [2] will NOT be perceived as self-citation). - Failure to follow these guidelines may result in submissions being rejected without review. - Authors should also be aware of the SIGCHI Policy for Submission and Review at SIGCHI Conferences, see: http://www.sigchi.org/conferences/Conferences%20Policies/chi-review. - Submissions should follow the standard SigCHI format. Use either the Microsoft Word template ( http://www.sigchi.org/publications/chipubform/sigchi-paper-format-2016/view) or the LaTeX template (https://github.com/sigchi) Accepted full papers will be invited for oral presentation. Accepted short papers will be invited either as oral or poster presentation, depending on the nature and quality of the paper. ** AUTHORS TAKE NOTE ** The official publication date is the date the proceedings are made available in the ACM Digital Library. This date may be up to two weeks prior to the first day of your conference. The official publication date affects the deadline for any patent filings related to published work. (For those rare conferences whose proceedings are published in the ACM Digital Library after the conference is over, the official publication date remains the first day of the conference.) ** Chairs - program2018(a)iui.acm.org ** - Margaret M. Burnett, Oregon State University, USA - Mark Billinghurst, University of South Australia - Aaron Quigley, University of St Andrews, UK ** Senior Program Committee ** - Saleema Amershi, Microsoft Research, USA - Elisabeth Andre, Augsburg University, Germany - Joshi Anirudha, IIT Bombay, India - Lora Aroyo, VU University Amsterdam, Netherlands - Peter Brusilovsky, University of Pittsburgh, USA - Andrea Bunt, University of Manitoba, Canada - Marc Cavazza, University of Kent, UK - Cristina Conati, University of British Columbia, Canada - Sakamoto Daisuke, Hokkaido University, Japan - Jill Freyne, CSIRO, Australia - Ido Guy, Yahoo Labs, Israel - Tracy Hammond, Texas A&M University, USA - Giulio Jacucci, Univeristy of Helsinki, Finland - Anthony Jameson, DFKI: German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence, Germany - Per-Ola Kristensson, University of Cambridge, UK - Antonio Kruger, DFKI: German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence, Germany - Tsvi Kuflik, The University of Haifa, Israel - Henry Lieberman, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA - Brian Lim, National University, Singapore - Sugimoto Maki, Keio University, Japan - Hamasaki Masahiro, AIST: The National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Japan - Wendy E. Mackay, INRIA, France - Jeffrey Nichols, Google, USA - Nuria Oliver, Vodafone/Data-Pop Alliance, Spain - Cecile Paris, CSIRO/ICT Centre, Australia - Fabio Paterno, CNR-ISTI, Italy - Barry Smyth, University College Dublin, Ireland - Simone Stumpf, City University London, UK - Nava Tintarev, TU Delft, Amsterdam, Netherlands - Itoh Tkayuki, Ochanomizu University, Japan - Matthew Turk, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA - Nakano Yukiko, Seikei University, Japan -- ------------------------------------------------------- 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 <+43%20650%202402801> Homepage: http://christophtrattner.info -------------------------------------------------------

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The Digital Everyday conference - 6 May at King's College London
by Feldman, Zeena 28 Apr '17

28 Apr '17

Dear friends, The Centre for Digital Culture at King’s College London is hosting its annual conference on Saturday 6th May. This year's theme is The Digital Everyday: Exploration or Alienation? This international conference aims at exploring the digital everyday, understood as the transformation of everyday life practices brought about by digital technology. From how we buy, walk around, get a cab, love, break up, go to bed, meet new people and sexual partners to the way we rate services, turn on the fridge, exercise, eat, use social media and apps, Big Data is reshaping some of the most basic activities in our lives. We will also explore a number of overarching dynamics and trends in the digital world that contribute to these transformations, including: processes of digital individualisation and aggregation; the elisions of spatial and temporal barriers; trends towards quantification and datafication; and the dialectic between control and alienation. We will have keynotes by Judy Wajcman, Susanna Paasonen and Taina Bucher and panels on play, self, labour, love, surveillance and place in the digital world. The draft programme is available at http://www.kcl.ac.uk/artshums/ahri/centres/Digicult/CDC-programme-FINAL.pdf. The conference fee is £15 (£10 for students) and registration is open at http://www.kcl.ac.uk/artshums/ahri/eventrecords/2016-2017/Digicult/The-Digi…. Hope to see you there! Zeena Dr Zeena Feldman Lecturer in Digital Culture Co-Director, BA Digital Culture King’s College London Department of Digital Humanities 26-29 Drury Lane, room 221 London WC2B 5RL +44 (0)20 7484 1421 / zeena.feldman(a)kcl.ac.uk<mailto:zeena.feldman@kcl.ac.uk> http://www.kcl.ac.uk/artshums/depts/ddh/people/academic/feldman.aspx

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5th European Conference on the Engineering of Computer Based Systems (ECBS 2017): Fifth Call for Papers
by Announce Announcements 28 Apr '17

28 Apr '17

*** Fifth Call for Papers *** 5th European Conference on the Engineering of Computer Based Systems ECBS 2017 Lordos 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 *** Extension Deadline: 15 May, 2017 *** 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 proceedings will be published in the International Conference Proceedings Series of ACM and after the conference they will be accessible in the ACM Digital Library. A Best Paper Award will be presented to the best paper presented at the conference, and a Best Student Paper Award will be presented to the best paper written solely or mostly by students. Scope Papers are sought which reflect this intent in fundamental ECBS technologies and application domains including, but not limited to the following topics: · Agile and Lean Approaches and Human Aspects of Software Development · Architectures · Advanced Modularity · Cloud-based Applications · Co-Design · Component-Based System Design · Cyber-Physical Systems · Parallel & Distributed Systems · Parallel Programming Methodologies and Languages · FPGA Systems Design · ECBS Infrastructure (Tools and Environments) · Education and Training · Embedded Real-Time Software Systems · Integration Engineering · Lifecycle Processes and Process Evolution · Model-Based System Development · Modeling and Analysis of Complex Systems · Networked Control Systems · Reengineering & Reuse · Reliability, Safety, Dependability, and Security · Software Engineering · System Assessment, Testing, and Metrics · Verification and Validation Industrial reports of practical solutions, trends, and new system characteristics for ECBS, taking an integrated systems approach, are particularly welcome. They may target application domains such as: Aerospace Systems, Command and Control, Continuous and Discrete Manufacturing, Environmental Systems, Instrumentation and Control Applications, Internet Technology and Applications, Intelligent Highway- Vehicle Systems (IHVS), Medical Systems, High Performance Computing Development Environments and Applications, and Telecommunications. Submission of Papers The conference solicits regular (no more than 10 pages) and short papers (no more than 4 pages). The Program Committee may require an accepted paper to be adapted into a short paper or extended abstract (no more than 2 pages and poster presentation only). All papers must be prepared according to the ACM SIG Proceedings Template format (see the conference web site for further information). The papers must be original contributions not submitted or accepted for publication elsewhere. A submitted contribution should clearly indicate the conference topics it targets. For an accepted contribution to be included in the proceedings, at least one author must register and present the paper at the conference. For further information, see the submission guidelines on the conference web site. The conference proceedings will be published by ACM ICPS and archived in the ACM Digital Library. Important Dates · Submission of Papers: 15 May, 2017 (extended) · Notification of Acceptance: 1 July, 2017 · Camera-ready Submission: 17 July, 2017 · Registration and Payment for Authors: 17 July, 2017 · Early Registration for Non-Authors: 9 August, 2017 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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1st CFP - Crowds at Risk: Exploitation, Creative Destruction, and the Unintended Effects of Crowdsourcing Workshop @ ECSCW 2017
by Karin Hansson 28 Apr '17

28 Apr '17

[Apologies for cross-postings] 1st Call for Papers Crowds at Risk: Exploitation, Creative Destruction, and the Unintended Effects of Crowdsourcing Workshop at the 15th European Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work (ECSCW 2017, August 28 – September 01) Location, Date: Sheffield (UK), August 29 2017 Organizers: Thomas Ludwig (University of Siegen), Karin Hansson (Stockholm University), Tanja Aitamurto (Stanford University), Christoph Kotthaus (University of Siegen), Elizabeth Anne Watkins (Columbia University), Ujwal Gadiraju (Leibniz Universität Hannover), Enric Senabre Hidalgo (Open University of Catalonia) Deadline for Submission: May, 19 2017 Webpage: http://crowdsatrisk.hci-workshop.org/ <http://crowdsatrisk.hci-workshop.org/> Abstract: Crowdsourcing comes with a number of positive promises for organizations: Cost reduction, a 24-hour workforce, and short-term knowledge gathering. On the other hand, this „creative destruction“ undermines labor rights and regulations. Unfair and opaque payment systems and socio-spatial inequalities among crowd workers are some of the pitfalls of crowdsourcing. ICT can lead to exploitation of the crowds and other negative (unintended) effects of crowdsourcing. This workshop examines crowds that are at risk (e.g. children), their characteristics and behaviors and the role of ICT within the crowd work. We welcome researchers from a diversity of disciplines and perspectives to illuminate insights into crowds at risk and trying to shed light on questions about what the destructive forces at work are, how work is changing, and what unregulated areas of “work” are exploited. Topics: – Ethical issues and groups at risk within crowdsourcing – ICT tools and attempts to establish sustainable work cultures online – Empirical studies about crowds at risk – Crowdsourcing contexts vulnerable for exploitation – ICT-driven new forms of labor – Crowd-workers responsible for their own infrastructures – Cybersecurity – Laws and regulating of child work/consumption online – Cases of exploitation of children as crowd workers – The gamification of the lifeworld – Citizen-based crisis management groups at risk – Cases of crowdsourcing as self fulfilment or self-exploitation – Crowd work and ownership in Platform Cooperativism Schedule: May 19: Submission May 19 – June 02: Review Phase June 02: Notification The position paper should be 2-4 pages and follow the ECSCW exploratory papers template. Send submissions and inquiries to the following email address: crowdsatrisk(a)listerv.uni-siegen.de <mailto:crowdsatrisk@listerv.uni-siegen.de>. At least one author of the position paper must attend the workshop. All participants must register for both the workshop and for at least one day of the conference. With best regards, Karin Hansson (on behalf of all organizers). -- ____________________________________ Karin Hansson PhD Dept. of Computer and Systems Sciences Stockholm University Postbox 7003, 164 07 Kista, SWEDEN Visiting address: Borgarfjordsgatan 12, Kista E-mail: khansson(a)dsv.su.se <mailto:khansson@dsv.su.se> people.dsv.su.se/khansson <http://people.dsv.su.se/khansson> ____________________________________

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CfP: Reconsidering Design for Civic Engagement and Participation
by Karin Hansson 28 Apr '17

28 Apr '17

Call for Papers One day Workshop at ECSCW 2017 in Sheffield UK. https://ecscw2017.org.uk/ <https://ecscw2017.org.uk/> August 28th 2017 Reconsidering Design for Civic Engagement and Participation https://reconsideringdesign.wordpress.com/ <https://reconsideringdesign.wordpress.com/> We believe the HCI/CSCW communities need to put more efforts into envisioning new ways of designing for participation; ways that move beyond basic participation toward more manifold forms of inclusion (Le Dantec and Di Salvo, 2013) thereby enabling a means for engaging with power structures and marginalization (Balka, 2006; Beck, 2002; Shapiro, 2005). As such, we cordially invite researchers, designers, activists, technologists and artists that are exploring and/or experimenting with critical design projects, political design, design-for future-use, for and with social movements, alternative ways of living and alternative economies, to envision and generate a comprehensive program of research. The goal of such research program is to investigate emergent design practices that involve both the design of the material, technical artifact and the political movement, social enterprise or grassroots communities committed to enact social change through citizen’s participation. Some of the questions we would like to discuss in this workshop are: What is the designer’s agency in configuring and infrastructuring civic participation and engagement in society? How much should the designer be involved in the process of infrastructuring civic participation? What are the kinds of dilemmas (i.e. technical but most importantly, those associated with designers’ own values, beliefs, ideologies, subjectivities) that emerge when designers develop their practices in order to contribute to citizen’s participation and political action? Designers who are committed to contributing to civic participation; what are they sensitive to? How do designers’ practices and institutions configure and give shape to online tools for civic engagement and participation? How can the impact of civic technology design be sustained over time? This workshop seeks to bring together works that illustrate, analyze and/or critically inquire innovative ways to do design for civic engagement and participation. By innovative ways of doing design, we mean ways that go beyond applying PD methods with the aim to include the user in the development of a computer system or with the goal to reach consensus among the stakeholders inherently involved. We mean ways of doing design that envisage socio-technological interventions that partake in the ongoing constitution of publics or/and communities and put continuously design efforts into infrastructuring present and future civic participation. The workshop will consider the following topics: Research-oriented approaches as well as Design-oriented approaches focused on civic engagement and participation. We will consider both participation that aims to change the whole authority establishment (political hacking) and more narrowly-focused participation that nevertheless aims to change society (social entrepreneurship) and civic participation that focuses on improving specific aspects like voting, energy, sustainability, transport infrastructure, etc. Challenges involved when doing design with the goal of infrastructuring civic participation and specific ways to deal with them in order to contribute to development of resilient participation practices within publics and/or communities. What challenges were observed, in various cases? Research methods for the study of how designer’s role and design practices get entangled in tools developed for civic engagement, participation and political action. Learning processes involved in design practices aimed at civic participation, and in particular how they can be scaffold within designing for infrastructuring civic participation? Empirical or reflective work engaging with self-reflective design practices in HCI and CSCW, digital commons and making publics, the role of political hackers, social activists in configuring and infrastructuring civic participation, participatory policy design, and adversarial design. Important Dates May 26 – Deadline for submissions June 2- Notification of acceptance Submit your position paper ( 2-4 pages following the ECSCW exploratory papers template <https://ecscw2017.org.uk/papers-and-exploratory-papers/> for Workshops available at https://ecscw2017.org.uk/papers-and-exploratory-papers/ <https://ecscw2017.org.uk/papers-and-exploratory-papers/> ). Send your submissions to the following email address: tessy(a)dsv.su.se <mailto:tessy@dsv.su.se> At least one author of the position paper must attend the workshop. All participants must register for both the workshop and for at least one day of the conference.Position papers accepted and presented at the workshop will be published in the workshop proceedings and will be invited to submit to a special issue edited by the workshop’s organizers. Organizers Teresa Cerratto-Pargman <http://teresacerrattopargman.blogs.dsv.su.se/>, Stockholm University, is an associate professor of HCI, she is interested in the relationship between writing, meaning and technology from socio-cultural and critical perspectives of literacy and tool use. She works with a particular focus on design and emergent participatory and collaborative practices in TEL and Sustainable HCI. She is currently studying how civic participation and democracy are being redefined within a network for political innovation in Latin America. Cristian Bogdan <https://www.kth.se/en/csc/2.3721/2.18890/people/bogdan-cristian-1.181460>, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, has explored a few grassroots communities that work for the common good in non-political domains, such as amateur radio, Romanian infrastructure activists, electric car enthusiasts and Swedish energy amateurs. He recently became interested in how such grassroots movements can improve government and policy in the respective areas, and how can they indirectly lead to better democracy and participation. Somya Joshi <http://sustainablelens.org/?p=745>, E-Gov, Stockholm University, is a Senior Lecturer at Stockholm University with expertise in the field of e-participation, e-democracy and e-governance. Her specialisation falls within the applied context of technological innovation, particularly in how it translates into transparency in governance, education, environmental conservation and health services within the developing world. Hanna Hasselqvist <http://www.designfakulteten.kth.se/doktorander/hanna-hasselqvist>, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Hanna’s research interests are in design processes where interactive systems are created as complement to and amplifiers of other initiatives and activities that involve various stakeholders in understanding and forming sustainable practices. In her work she has explored energy and transportation practices, designed support for amateur energy management in Swedish housing cooperatives and conceptualised collaborations for sustainable transportation. Karin Hansson <http://www.su.se/profiles/052karhan-1.187018>, Stockholm University, is a researcher at the Department of Computer & Systems Sciences at Stockholm University and The Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm. Her research focus is participatory processes online and the social production of data. With a background in art and design, she is also interested in artistic and participatory research methods, engaging participants through speculative design and design fiction. Her latest research project “Work a work”, in collaboration with artists and union activists, explores the ongoing transformation of work relations.

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