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Call for Abstracts - #ScreentimeBU: Fake News, Real Emotion, and The Mediated Self
by Jacob Groshek 13 Apr '17

13 Apr '17

Dear Colleagues, Please consider submitting to our third annual graduate-student run conference at Boston University through the Division of Emerging Media Studies. Details are below -- please spread the word and let me know questions or concerns. #SCREENTIMEBU: Fake News, Real Emotion, and The Mediated Self GRADUATE STUDENT CONFERENCE Deadline for Abstracts May 22, 2017 Conference Date June 22, 2017 9am - 5pm The graduate students of Boston University’s Division of Emerging Media Studies are calling for abstracts for their third annual conference on emerging media. #ScreentimeBU is a graduate conference that provides a platforms for students to showcase their research and to network with peers in emerging media studies. #ScreentimeBU aims to explore the civic, social, and psychological implications of today’s media landscape. This conference is an opportunity to bridge diverse perspectives on the roles of users and technology in new media and to lay the groundwork for future research in the field. Emerging media studies is an inherently interdisciplinary field, and as such we welcome abstracts from a variety of disciplines on a range of topics centered around our conference theme: Fake News, Real Emotion, and The Mediated Self. Suggested topics include, but are not limited to: - Alternative media, and citizen journalism - How emerging technologies change journalism and civic engagement - Online relationships, communities, and social networks - Big data analysis and machine learning - Media effects and changes in digital media consumption - Self-presentation on social media and digital privacy concerns - Video games, virtual reality, and augmented reality The conference is free of charge for both attendees and speakers. For additional information about the conference, please visit http://sites.bu.edu/demsconference/ (website will be updated with additional details in the coming weeks). Deadline for Abstracts: May 22. Please submit abstracts of no more than 300 words to demsconf(a)bu.edu. Include your name and institutional affiliation (department/university), program and year of study, research focus/interests, and contact information (email and phone number) with all submissions. Abstracts will be peer reviewed, and applicants will be notified of their acceptance on a rolling basis no later than May 29. #ScreentimeBU Abstract Team Division of Emerging Media Studies College of Communication Boston University T hanks much, Jacob -- Dr. Jacob Groshek Assistant Professor of Emerging Media Studies Communication Research Center <http://sites.bu.edu/crc/about-crc/> Fellow Hariri Institute <http://www.bu.edu/hic/> Junior Faculty Fellow Boston University jgroshek.org <http://www.jgroshek.org/> Founding Editor, *Journal of Communication and Technology* Boston Civic Media Consortium <http://bostoncivic.media/> Founding Member Previously: Research Fellow, Erasmus Uni <http://www.eshcc.eur.nl/english/research/research_centres/erasmus_research_…> | Full Member, NeSCoR <http://nescor.socsci.uva.nl/>| Visiting Scholar, IAST <http://www.iast.fr/> @jgroshek <https://twitter.com/jgroshek> | google scholar <https://scholar.google.nl/citations?user=G1XXhccAAAAJ&hl=en>

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3 year Lecturer post in Social Media at Maynooth University, Ireland
by Kylie Jarrett 13 Apr '17

13 Apr '17

Maynooth University Media Studies Department (it’s in Ireland) is seeking an excellent academic to join our staff as a Lecturer in Social Media to begin in September 2017, for a period of 3 years. The successful applicant will contribute to our developing degree programme combining studies of broadcast and digital media from both theoretical and practical perspectives and a new MA in critical and creative media, as well as the department’s dynamic research environment. The post involves the teaching of introductory and specialized undergraduate and postgraduate modules in media and cultural studies, postgraduate supervision and administrative duties associated with teaching and other areas of departmental activity. The ideal candidate will hold a PhD in Media Studies or a cognate field, have a record of research and scholarship in the critical analysis of social media and a preferred experience with qualitative research methods. The appointee will be expected to build a strong research profile, that supports the University’s research strategy including affiliating to the Research Institutes, where appropriate and working with colleagues on national and international research. The appointee will be expected to sustain and conduct research, engage in scholarship of quality and substance and generate publications of international standard. More details here: https://www.maynoothuniversity.ie/human-resources/vacancies/lecturerassista… Or contact me – Kylie Jarrett – you can find me. Dr. Kylie Jarrett Department of Media Studies Maynooth University Maynooth Co. Kildare Ireland

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21st European Conference on Advances in Databases and Information Systems (ADBIS 2017): Final Call for Papers
by Announce Announcements 13 Apr '17

13 Apr '17

*** Final Call for Papers *** 21st European Conference on Advances in Databases and Information Systems ADBIS 2017 Hilton Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus 24 - 27 September, 2017 http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=YWlyLUwJCQlhaXItTEBsaXN0c2Vydi… *** Submission Deadline: 28 April 2017 (firm) *** The main objective of the ADBIS series of conferences is to provide a forum for the dissemination of research accomplishments and to promote interaction and collaboration between the database and information system research communities from European countries and the rest of the world. The ADBIS conferences provide an international platform for the presentation of research on database theory, development of advanced DBMS technologies, and their advanced applications. The conference will consist of regular sessions with technical contributions (regular papers, short papers) reviewed and selected by an international program committee, as well as of invited talks and tutorials presented by leading scientists. The official language of the conference will be English. A Doctoral Consortium and different Workshops will be held in line with the main conference. TOPICS We invite original papers describing results that broadly belong to both theory and practice of databases and information systems. The list of specific topics of interest follows, with a note that it is not exhaustive and we welcome novel results addressing topics not included in the list. · Data intensive sciences and databases · Theoretical foundations of databases · Management of large scale data systems · Data models and query languages · Database monitoring and (self-)tuning · Data curation, annotation, and provenance · Data warehousing, OLAP, and ETL tools · Indexing, query processing and optimization · Data mining and knowledge discovery · Big data storage, replication, and consistency · Modeling, mining and querying user generated content · Data quality and data cleansing · Web, XML and semi-structured databases · Sensor databases and mobile data management · Text databases and information retrieval · Probabilistic databases, uncertainty and approximate querying · Temporal and spatial databases · Graph databases · Databases on emerging hardware architectures · Distributed data platforms, including Cloud data systems, key-value stores, and Big Data systems · Information extraction and integration · Streaming data analysis · Scalable data analysis and analytics · Data and information visualization; and user interfaces · Information quality and usability · Information system architectures and networking · Business process modeling and optimization · Data and information flow engineering and management · Context-aware and adaptive information systems · Data and information intensive services · Requirements engineering for databases and information systems · Artificial intelligence in databases and information systems · Data, information, and information systems security · Innovative platforms for data and information handling · Innovative approaches for database and information systems engineering · Novel database and information systems applications PAPER PUBLISHING ADBIS accepted research papers will be published in a Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science volume. Papers must not exceed 14 pages in the LNCS format. For camera-ready papers use Latex or Word style (find here http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=YWlyLUwJCQlhaXItTEBsaXN0c2Vydi…. The program committee may decide to accept a submission as a short paper if it reports interesting results but does not justify publication of a full paper. ADBIS short research papers must not exceed 8 pages. The best paper with students as first authors will receive an award. Best papers of the main conference will be invited for submission in special issues of the ISI-indexed journals Information Systems (http://www.journals.elsevier.com/information-systems/) and Informatica (http://www.informatica.si/) SUBMISSION GUIDELINES · Papers must be written in English. · Papers must contain previously unpublished work and not be submitted concurrently to another conference. · Papers are submitted using an electronic submissions system, as detailed below. · An Author of an accepted paper must register to ADBIS 2017 in order to have the paper published. · Accepted papers must be presented at the conference by one of the authors. · ADBIS papers must be submitted via the EasyChair system: http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=YWlyLUwJCQlhaXItTEBsaXN0c2Vydi… . · Papers must be submitted as a single PDF document · Authors of accepted papers must submit along with the camera-ready version of their paper a copyright form filled (http://www.cyprusconferences.org/adbis2017/files/springerform.pdf) and signed. Please note that only authors employed by the EU (as an institution) tick the relevant box. Authors who simply reside or work in an EU country should not tick this box. IMPORTANT DATES · Full and Short Papers: April 28, 2017 (firm) · Notification of Acceptance: May 25, 2017 · Camera-ready Submission: June 15, 2017 COMMITTEES Steering Committee Chair · Leonid Kalinichenko, Russian Academy of Science, Russia General Chair · George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Program Chairs · Marite Kirikova, Riga Technical University, Latvia · Kjetil Norvag, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway Proceedings Chair · Christos Mettouris, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Workshops Chairs · Johann Gamper, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy · Robert Wrembel, Poznan University of Technology, Poland Doctoral Consortium Chairs · Jerome Darmont, Universite Lyon 2, France · Stefano Rizzi, University of Bologna, Italy

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CeDEM17 Progamme Available & We Hope to See You There!
by Noella Edelmann 13 Apr '17

13 Apr '17

Dear All, (apologies for cross-posting!) The CeDEM17 Conference for E-Democracy and Open Government will be held 17 - 19 May 2017 at the Danube University Krems, Austria and we hope you will join us there! The programme is now available online: http://bit.ly/2ovgiEw Confirmed Keynotes are: Ines Mergel (Department of Politics and Public Administration at the University of Konstanz, DE) Keren Flavell (TownHall App Pty Ltd, US) Dave Karpf (School of Media and Public Affairs, The George Washington University, US) Todd O'Boyle (Next Century Cities, US) If you missed the submission deadline, but would still like to present a paper or organise a workshop at CeDEM17, you can send your suggestion to the CeDEM17 Open Space (held on 19 May 2017): http://bit.ly/2n4CRjs We are looking forward to seeing you at CeDEM17! Best regards Noella Noella Edelmann BA, MSc, MAS Research Fellow Department for E-Governance and Administration Danube University Krems Dr.-Karl-Dorrek-Strasse 30 3500 Krems Austria www.donau-uni.ac.at/egov CeDEM Conference for E-Democracy and Open Government www.donau-uni.ac.at/cedem JeDEM eJournal of eDemocracy and Open Government www.jedem.org Digital Society Lab http://digitalgovernment.wordpress.com/

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CFP: M/C Journal 'depict' Issue
by Axel Bruns 13 Apr '17

13 Apr '17

This may be of interest to some of you: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - 13 Apr. 2017 M/C - Media and Culture http://www.media-culture.org.au/ is calling for contributors to the 'depict' issue of M/C Journal http://journal.media-culture.org.au/ M/C Journal is inviting new contributors. Founded in 1998, M/C is a crossover journal between the popular and the academic, and a blind- and peer-reviewed journal. Our Website at http://journal.media-culture.org.au/ provides open access to all past issues. To find out how and in what format to contribute your work, visit http://journal.media-culture.org.au/index.php/mcjournal/about/submissions. Call for Papers: 'depict' Edited by Marj Kibby Inspired by reflections on John Berger's Ways of Seeing on the occasion of his recent death, the M/C Journal 'depict' issue looks at the other side of the communication event - ways of representing, portraying, illustrating, rendering. While articles could include the depiction of social groupings in the media, it would also cover a wider range of topics such as: * Visual representation of data * Self-representation and branding * Visual depiction and power relations * Pictograms and public communication * Internet memes and other forms of visual rhetoric * Visual communication in social media * Digital images and everyday aesthetics * Professional journalism and amateur news content Prospective contributors should email an abstract of 100-250 words and a brief biography to the issue editors. Abstracts should include the article title and should describe your research question, approach, and argument. Biographies should be about three sentences (maximum 75 words) and should include your institutional affiliation and research interests. Articles should be 3000 words (plus bibliography). All articles will be refereed and must adhere to MLA style (6th edition). Please send any enquiries to depict(a)journal.media-culture.org.au. All articles must be submitted through the M/C Journal site. Article deadline: 16 June 2017 Issue release date: 16 Aug. 2017 M/C Journal was founded (as "M/C - A Journal of Media and Culture") in 1998 as a place of public intellectualism analysing and critiquing the meeting of media and culture. Contributors are directed to past issues of M/C Journal for examples of style and content, and to the submissions page for comprehensive article submission guidelines. M/C Journal articles are blind peer-reviewed. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Further M/C Journal issues scheduled for 2017: 'build': article deadline 26 Feb. 2017, release date 26 Apr. 2017 'caption': article deadline 21 Apr. 2017, release date 21 June 2017 'depict': article deadline 16 June 2017, release date 16 Aug. 2017 'history' article deadline 11 Aug. 2017, release date 11 Oct. 2017 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- M/C - Media and Culture is located at <http://www.media-culture.org.au/>. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- M/C Journal is online at <http://journal.media-culture.org.au/>. All past issues of M/C Journal on various topics are available there. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- end Dr Axel Bruns -- General Editor editor(a)media-culture.org.au M/C - Media and Culture http://www.media-culture.org.au/

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Call for participants for phone/Skype interviews: Study on doxing/private info put online WITHOUT your consent
by K Eckert 12 Apr '17

12 Apr '17

Dear All I am looking for participants for a study on doxxing, please spread my call for participants below widely. Thank you! Stine Call for participants: Has your private information been released online without your permission? We seek people whose private information has been released online without their permission. This private information then can be used for harassing people. This process is also called doxxing. In this study we seek to better understand the experience of being doxxed and its impact on people and online communication. Are you • over 18 years old • and have had private information released online by others without your permission? We will interview you via phone/Skype/Google hang out for about 30-45 minutes. Your name will be confidential and won’t be used in the study. If you are interested in participating or have questions, email: stine.eckert(a)wayne.edu<mailto:stine.eckert@wayne.edu> Dr. Stine Eckert Wayne State University * This study is approved by the IRB of Wayne State University. Stine Eckert, Ph.D. Vice-Chair Feminist Scholarship Division, ICA Assistant Professor Department of Communication 571 Manoogian Hall Wayne State University Detroit, MI 48201 @stineeckert http://stineeckert.com/ https://wikidgrrls.wordpress.com/

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Communities & Technologies 2017, Troyes, France - Doctoral Consortium and Workshops
by Korn, Matthias 12 Apr '17

12 Apr '17

C&T 2017 – Technology for the Common Good 26-30 June 2017, Université de Technologie de Troyes (UTT), France http://comtech.community/ == ABOUT C&T The biennial Communities and Technologies (C&T) conference is the premier international forum for stimulating scholarly debate and disseminating research on the complex connections between communities – both physical and virtual – and information and communication technologies. C&T 2017 welcomes participation from researchers, designers, educators, industry, and students from the many disciplines and perspectives bearing on the interaction between community and technology, including architecture, arts, business, design, economics, education, engineering, ergonomics, informatics, information technology, geography, health, humanities, law, media and communication studies, and social sciences. For the 2017 round of C&T, we welcome contributions that particularly pay attention on technology that can be deployed for the common good. The conference program includes competitively selected, peer-reviewed papers and case studies, as well as pre-conference workshops, a doctoral consortium, and invited keynotes. We look forward to welcoming you to an exciting conference in Troyes! Myriam Lewkowicz, Markus Rohde Conference Chairs chairs(a)comtech.community == IMPORTANT DATES * May 2: Doctoral Consortium applications due * May 30: Workshop papers due (individual deadlines may vary!) * June 26-30: Workshops and conference in Troyes, France == PRE-CONFERENCE PROGRAMME Workshops and Doctoral Consortium will take place at UTT on Monday and Tuesday (26th and 27th of June). Workshops have varying requirements and deadlines for participation. Please check the individual workshop websites below. == Monday, 26th of June, 2017 * Doctoral Consortium * WS 2: Ethics for the ‘Common Good’: Actionable Guidelines for Community-based Design Research * WS 4: Civic Intelligence in an Uncertain and Threatening World * WS 5: Collaborative Economies: From Sharing to Caring * WS 6: Digital Cities 10: Towards a Localised Socio-Technical Understanding of the ‘Real’ Smart City * WS 12: Refugees & HCI Workshop: The Role of HCI in Responding to the Refugee Crisis == Tuesday, 27th of June, 2017 * WS 1: 3D Printing/Digital Fabrication for Education and the Common Good * WS 3: Embracing Diversity with Help of Technology and Participatory Design (EDTPD 2017) * WS 7: Designing Participation for the Digital Fringe * WS 8: Participatory Design, Beyond the Local * WS 9: Solutions for Economics, Environment and Democracy (SEED) * WS 10: Understanding and Supporting Emergent and Temporary Collaboration across and beyond Community and Organizational Boundaries * WS 11: Infrastructuring Smartness and/or Enhancing Communities? A Workshop for Engaging the ‘Smart’ Vision Critically == DOCTORAL CONSORTIUM The Doctoral Consortium is scheduled prior to the main conference programme, on Monday, June 26, 2017. The Doctoral Consortium (DC) offers research students a special forum where they can present, discuss and progress their research plans with peers and established senior researchers. We especially welcome contributions which are related to the overall C&T conference theme, which is devoted to technology that can be deployed for the common good. This encompasses questions and approaches which are concerned with securing healthy and diverse ways of societal development. However, all contributions falling in the scope of the C&T conference are welcome. Research students wishing to attend the doctoral consortium should submit up to 4 pages, using the ACM templates, addressing the following: * Introduction setting up your research area and specific research question(s)/goals(s) (including key related work); * Overall research approach, methodology, and expected contributions; * Work in progress (including findings to date and next steps); * Questions and issues for discussion, and what you hope to gain from attending the DC; * Short bio. Please send proposals directly to the Doctoral Consortium Chairs: dc(a)comtech.community Yvonne Dittrich, Claudia Müller Doctoral Consortium Chairs dc(a)comtech.community == WORKSHOPS Workshops provide a platform to discuss, explore and advance specific research areas of Communities & Technologies with a group of like-minded researchers and practitioners. Each workshop generates ideas that give the C&T community a new, innovative way of thinking about the topic, or ideas that suggest promising directions for future research. Sukeshini A. Grandhi, Lars Rune Christensen Workshop Chairs workshops(a)comtech.community == WS 1: 3D Printing/Digital Fabrication for Education and the Common Good Oliver Stickel, University of Siegen, Germany Konstantin Aal, University of Siegen, Germany Sarah Rüller, University of Siegen, Germany Verena Fuchsberger, University of Salzburg, Austria Victoria Wenzelmann, Global Innovation Gathering, Germany Volkmar Pipek, University of Siegen, Germany Volker Wulf, University of Siegen, Germany Manfred Tscheligi, University of Salzburg, Austria 3D printing has become an area of intense interest in a variety of contexts in research and practice ranging from industry through education, humanitarian to innovation. At the same time, technologies, materials, usages, and appropriation are in constant flux. 3D printing is, however, just one of the many facets of digital fabrication, the digitalization of more and more sectors and increasingly community-based innovation and open/commons-oriented engineering practices. This workshop at C&T 2017 is intended to illustrate and discuss cases, positions, concepts and experiences related to such developments in digital fabrication, especially in 3D printing. Link: http://www.digifab-commongood.fab101.de/ == WS 2: Ethics for the ‘Common Good’: Actionable Guidelines for Community-based Design Research Izak van Zyl, Cape Peninsula University of Technology, South Africa Heike Winschiers-Theophilus, Namibia University of Science and Technology, Namibia Retha de la Harpe, Cape Peninsula University of Technology, South Africa This workshop is themed around the ethics of – potentially disruptive – design research in collaboration with social communities. Disruption may lead to conflict and ‘cultural resistance’ on part of communities, despite the noble intentions of research-practitioners and designers. Ethical design is not a novel concept, but it remains fundamental in the contemporary undertakings of innovative and technology-oriented research. During this workshop, therefore, participants will ideate and develop practical, actionable guidelines for conducting design- and innovation-oriented research with, for and in communities (both virtual and physical). Workshop participants will be invited to consider the philosophical-conceptual questions around ‘ethical, collective design’ in the internet age. Participants will especially be invited to problematise the ethical nature of their practice, and subsequently, to build toward critical, empathetic and more informed practice. The workshop aims to involve design-researchers from various disciplines and who carry out some form of community-based work. Link: https://communityethicsblog.wordpress.com/ == WS 3: Embracing Diversity with Help of Technology and Participatory Design (EDTPD 2017) Barbara Rita Barricelli, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy Ines Di Loreto, Université de Technologie de Troyes, France The use of technology, both new and well established, combined with a participatory approach to design might represent an important way to embrace diversity. With diversity the organizers refer to the variety of human differences, caused either by physical impairment, cognitive impairment, chronic diseases, or the so-called neurodiversity. To design for usability, accessibility and inclusion not only means focusing on user interfaces and ergonomic aspects but also consider factors such as acceptability and appropriation. Bodily, cognitive, and emotional appropriation should be regarded as fundamental to the success of a design process that is truly open to the diversity of users. In such perspective, a participatory approach to design may be of great help in the implementation of usable, accessible, and inclusive technological solutions that put the end users and their needs at the center. Link: http://mips.di.unimi.it/pages/view/embracing-diversity == WS 4: Civic Intelligence in an Uncertain and Threatening World Grazia Concilio, Politecnico di Milano, Italy Anna de Liddo, The Open University, United Kingdom Douglas Schuler, The Evergreen State College, United States of America Justin Smith, Washington State University, United States of America Info and Link: tba == WS 5: Collaborative Economies: From Sharing to Caring Gabriela Avram, University of Limerick, Ireland Jaz Choi, Queensland University of Technology, Australia Stefano De Paoli, Abertay University, Scotland Ann Light, University of Sussex, United Kingdom Peter Lyle, Madeira Interactive Technologies Institute, Portugal Maurizio Teli, Madeira Interactive Technologies Institute, Portugal The technologies of the “sharing economy” are becoming increasingly relevant to both the daily lives of private individuals and researchers. As these tools are embedded in various communities (of interest, place, practice and circumstance) to support new forms of connection, welfare, labour and service, there emerge fundamental questions around the opportunities and perils of creation and use. In response, this workshop brings together perspectives and cases from researchers and practitioners across various disciplines to interrogate how different form of collaborative economy might be imagined and created based on the ethics and logic of care. This workshop will serve as an open and active forum for participants of up to 20 practitioners, designers, and researchers involved in related fields. We welcome all methodological, practical, and speculative approaches to considering the relations between sharing, caring and collaborative economy. Link: https://collaborativeeconomiesworkshop.wordpress.com/ == WS 6: Digital Cities 10: Towards a Localised Socio-Technical Understanding of the ‘Real’ Smart City Nancy Odendaal, University of Cape Town, South Africa Alessandro Aurigi, University of Plymouth, United Kingdom We invite scholars, practitioners and thinkers to look at smart cities from the point of view of the inhabitable, and inhabited place. Appropriation of technology is contextual with the physical and digital city experientially connected. It means understanding the cross-agency of design and socio-cultural context. We invite papers that uncover such cases with in-depth inquiry. We aim to explore the interface between urban design and embodied interaction and revisit the work on community and technology in the age of urban informatics, big data, and the Internet of things. We encourage work that displays conceptual rigor in its inquiry; either through grounded theory and allowing new readings of the ‘smart city’ to emerge or to revisit this phenomenon through critical pieces. We welcome stories from the global South that engage the growing work on southern urbanism through a techno-lens. The aim is to contribute to a textured reading of contemporary urbanism. Link: https://dc10web.wordpress.com/ == WS 7: Designing Participation for the Digital Fringe Hilary Davis, Swinburne University and La Trobe University, Australia Jane Farmer, Swinburne University, Australia Luke Hespanhol, The University of Sydney, Australia Joel Fredericks, The University of Sydney, Australia Glenda Caldwell, Queensland University of Technology, Australia Marius Hoggenmueller, University of Munich, Germany Digital participation is emerging as a key issue for researchers, designers, educators, industry and others as government policy increasingly seeks to include people in decision-making about all aspects of their lives. Yet, that tends to focus predominantly on mainstream communities of highly urbanized settlements, often neglecting segments of society lacking access to resources, digital technology or telecommunications infrastructure. Likewise, people from diverse and marginalised backgrounds, or who are socially excluded, such as people living with disability, the elderly, disadvantaged youth and women, people identifying as LGBTI, refugees and migrants, Indigenous people and others, are particularly vulnerable to digital under-participation, thereby compounding disadvantage. This workshop proposes to identify practical, innovative, and sensitive design solutions to support digital participation for disadvantaged communities in urban and regional environments; foster digital skills within and across communities; investigate the role of proxies in digital inclusion; and discuss design strategies for sustaining digital inclusion in the long run. Link: https://digitalparticipationhci.wordpress.com/designing-participation-for-t… == WS 8: Participatory Design, Beyond the Local Maurizio Teli, Madeira Interactive Technologies Institute, Portugal Panayotis Antoniadis, NetHood, Switzerland Chiara Bassetti, University of Trento, Italy Stefano De Paoli, Abertay University, Scotland Ileana Apostol, NetHood, Switzerland Giovanni Allegretti, University of Coimbra, Portugal Michelangelo Secchi, University of Coimbra, Portugal The workshop aims at stimulating and opening a debate around the capacity of Participatory Design (PD) and other co-design approaches to deliver outcomes and methodologies that can have an impact and value for reuse well beyond the local context in which they were originally developed. Projects such as those in the EU Horizon2020 CAPS program pose new questions to PD and, more generally, to any co-design endeavor. The main concerns probably consist in the scalability of participatory practices and their results. How can PD processes and outcomes scale up and become relevant in different situations, beyond the local? How can PD activities and results impact the supra-national and supra-local level? How the circulation of information and knowledge can reach beyond single, and often localized, communities of participants? Link: http://www.mazizone.eu/2017/03/29/workshop-participatory-design-beyond-the-… == WS 9: Solutions for Economics, Environment and Democracy (SEED) Lance Bennett, University of Washington, United States of America Alan Borning, University of Washington, United States of America Volker Wulf, University of Siegen, Germany Quality of life for growing numbers of people on the planet is threatened by a set of integrated, systemic problems in the economy, environment and democracy. The goal of the SEED project is to form an international network of scholar/activists, advocates, and practitioners who seek to address these problems in a similarly integrated fashion. We are approaching this in two ways: first, by developing an online platform that connects our participants and facilitates sharing and assessing ideas and action experiments operating in local, national and international arenas; and second, by organizing a set of in-person workshops and other meetings of participants. This Communities & Technologies Workshop will be the first of these in-person workshops. Our goals for the workshop are three-fold: first, to help shape the plans for the SEED community; second, to present and discuss innovative proposals and work in this broad area; and third, for a key set of our participants from Europe, North America, and elsewhere to meet in person to help establish and further the connections among us. Link: https://seed.uw.edu/2017workshop/ == WS 10: Understanding and Supporting Emergent and Temporary Collaboration across and beyond Community and Organizational Boundaries Khuloud Abou Amsha, Troyes University of Technology, France Erik Grönvall, IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark Joanna Saad-Sulonen, University of Oulu, Finland Claus Bossen, Aarhus University, Denmark Work has been described as being distributed, cross-organizational and multi-actor dependent, volunteer-based, fleeting, opportunistic, in-between and community-based. Work and collaborative work is indeed something that can be unforeseen by most or all of the involved actors. It can emerge and take place temporarily at the boundaries of established entities, and be independent of existing collaboration protocols. Within CSCW the formation of Publics, Infrastructuring and Knotworking has been used to talk about such open-ended collaborative work. This workshop seeks to bring together researchers and practitioners who are interested in how we study and discuss very open and emergent forms of collaboration, occurring in an improvised, temporary communities of action, at the boundaries of established communities or organizations, to address issues that challenge current organization of work. The aim of the workshop is to open a space for reflection on relevant concepts, through the discussion of concrete examples and case studies. Link: https://www.itu.dk/people/erig/knotws2017 == WS 11: Infrastructuring Smartness and/or Enhancing Communities? A Workshop for Engaging the ‘Smart’ Vision Critically Giacomo Poderi, University of Bergen, Norway Ingrid Foss Ballo, University of Bergen, Norway Michela Cozza, Mälardalen University, Sweden Kjetil Rommetveit, University of Bergen, Norway By tapping into the ongoing process of infrastructuring sensors, trackers, data and monitoring devices that underlies the materialization of imaginaries of a ‘smart’ society, this full-day workshop promotes a critical discussion on the assumptions and implications of such process. The workshop will put at the forefront the interplay between technology and society and will focus on topics such as acceptance, disruption, failures, privacy and ethical aspects, with the intention to go beyond the taken for granted desirability and necessity of ‘smart’ and to de-construct the mainstream rhetorics of unproblematic technological fixes to contemporary challenges. We aim at creating a lively and interdisciplinary discussion during the workshop. Therefore, we invite people interested in engaging critically with the workshop’s theme to submit a position paper (2-4 pages) about their works in progress, case studies, empirical results or theoretical analyses. Link: https://infrastructuringsmartness.wordpress.com/ == WS 12: Refugees & HCI Workshop: The Role of HCI in Responding to the Refugee Crisis Reem Talhouk, Newcastle University, United Kingdom Vasilis Vlachokyriakos, Newcastle University, United Kingdom Aal Konstantin, University of Siegen, Germany Anne Weibert, University of Siegen, Germany Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed, Cornell University, United States of America Karen Fisher, University of Washington, United States of America Volker Wulf, University of Siegen, Germany Over 21 million refugees are residing in camps, journeying through Europe or resettling in new countries. The magnitude of the humanitarian crisis calls for technological innovation in addressing the challenges being faced by refugees and humanitarian aid stakeholders. Both innovation communities and Human Computer Interaction researchers have begun to explore the use of technology in addressing challenges faced by refugee communities. This one-day workshop aims to (1) explore research methods that can be adapted and applied to refugee contexts and to (2) formulate a research agenda for future work. For more details please visit our website. Link: https://openlab.ncl.ac.uk/refugeesandhci/ -- Dr. Matthias Korn e-Science / Computer-Supported Cooperative Research DFG-SFB 1187: Media of Cooperation, University of Siegen Institute for Information Systems, Fak. III, University of Siegen Phone: +49 271 740-2293 Cell: +49 173 7232 198 Office: US-D 102 Mail: matthias.korn(a)uni-siegen.de Twitter: @matsch_o0 Web: http://mkorn.binaervarianz.de/

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Techno-Galactic Software Observatory
by Seda Guerses 12 Apr '17

12 Apr '17

Dear Airs, Please find below a CFP for a hands on workshop that we are organizing in Brussels. Best, s. T H E T E C H N O - G A L A C T I C S O F T W A R E O B S E R V A T O R Y Worksession @ WTC25, Brussels + NAM-IP, Namur Call for Participation / Deadline: 23 April ////////////////////////////////////////////////////// From 7 until 12 June, the Techno-Galactic Software Observatory will explore practices of proximate critique with and of software. This worksession has been called an ’Observatory’ because we are interested in different ways to look at software, and at the implications of how it is currently probed and scrutinized as part of its production. Techno-galactic because we want to extend the observation to include different scales of computation, of software communities and their political economies. With the rise of online services, software use has been increasingly knitted into production, while suggesting that these roles constitute separate realms. This has an effect on the way software is used and produced, and radically alters its operative role in society. The shifts ripple across galaxies, through social structures, working conditions and personal relations, resulting in a profusion of seamless apparatuses that optimize and monetize individual and collective flows of information. The diffusion of software services affects the personal, in the form of intensified identity shaping and self-management. It also affects the public, as more and more libraries, universities and public infrastructures rely on "solutions" provided by private companies. Given how fast these changes resonate and reproduce, there is a growing urgency to engage in a critique of software that goes beyond taking a distance, and that deals with the fact that we are inevitably already entangled. How can we interact, intervene, respond and think with software? What approaches can allow us to recognize the agency of different actors, their ways of functioning and their politics? What methods of observation enable critical inquiry and affirmative discord? Working with theories of software and computation developed in academia and elsewhere, our priority is to ground the Observatory in hands-on exercises and experiments that might have an effect on how software is done. At the Techno-Galactic Software Observatory we will explore methods developed in the context of software production, hacker culture, software studies, computer science research, Free Software communities, privacy activism, and artistic practice to experiment with ways to stay with the trouble of software. During three sessions of two days, we will be collectively inspecting the space-time of computation and probing the universe of hardware-software separations. We will try out various perspectives and methods to look at the larger picture of software as a concept, as a practice, and as a set of paradigms. Worksessions are intensive transdisciplinary moments, organised twice a year by Constant. We aim to provide conditions for participants with different experiences and capabilities to temporarily link their practice and to develop ideas, prototypes and research projects together. We primarily use Free, Libre and Open Source software and material that is available under Open Licenses. This worksession calls for software-curious people of all kinds. Constant has invited 9 participants from different disciplines and backgrounds to prepare the subject. To ask questions about software from different types of engagement will require a heterogeneous group of participants with different levels of expertise, skill and background so we are looking for an additional 16 participants to join. You can apply for one or more blocks of minimum two days [see programme below], depending on your interest and availability. P R A C T I C A L I N F O The Techno-Galactic Software Observatory takes place from Wednesday June 7 until Monday June 12 in Brussels and Namur. Participation is free and Constant provides lunch and hosting for all participants. If you would like to participate (or have questions), please send an e-mail to Martino, Seda and Femke at observatory(a)constantvzw.org <mailto:observatory@constantvzw.org> motivating your interest before 23 April. We will answer by May 1 latest. The Techno-Galactic Software Observatory continues a series of encounters, research and situations such as: - Testing the testbed (2017) http://www.constantvzw.org/site/Testing-the-testbed,2739.html <http://www.constantvzw.org/site/Testing-the-testbed,2739.html> - Clouds are not an option (2017) http://constantvzw.org/site/The-Clouds-are-Not-an-Option.html <http://constantvzw.org/site/The-Clouds-are-Not-an-Option.html> - Machine Research (2016) https://machineresearch.wordpress.com/ <https://machineresearch.wordpress.com/> - Software as a critique (2016) https://wiki.laglab.org/Software_as_a_Critique <https://wiki.laglab.org/Software_as_a_Critique> - The Libre Graphics Research Unit (2011-2013) http://lgru.net/ <http://lgru.net/> P R O G R A M M E Wednesday 7 + Thursday 8 June The first two days of The Techno-Galactic Software Observatory will be developed in collaboration with the NAM-IP in Namur and will take place in the surrounding of their collection of historical ’numerical artefacts’. Viewing software in this long-term context offers the occasion to reflect on the conditions of its appearance, and allows us to take on current-day questions from a genealogical perspective. What is software? How did it appear as a concept, in what industrial and governmental circumstances? What happens to the material conditions of its production (minerals, factory labor, hardware) when it evaporates into a cloud? Friday 9 + Saturday 10 June The second two days will focus on the space-time dimension of IT development. The way computer programs and operating systems are manufactured changed tremendously through time, so its production times and places changed too. From military labs via the mega-corporation cubicles to the open-space freelancer utopia, what ruptures and continuities can be traced? From time-sharing to user-space partitions and containerization, what separations were and are at work? Where and when is software made today? Sunday 11 + Monday 12 June The last two days at the Techno-galactic software observatory will be dedicated to observation and its consequences. The development of software encompasses a series of practices whose evocative names are increasingly familiar: feedback, report, probe, audit, inspect, scan, diagnose, explore ... What are the systems of knowledge and power within which these activities take place, and what other types of observation are possible? As a practical environment for our investigations, we will together set up a walk-in clinic in the basement of the World Trade Center, where users and developers can arrive on Monday with software-questions of all kinds. ////////////////////////////////

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CFP Migration and communication flows: rethinking borders, conflict and identity through the digital, Bilbao 2-3 November 2017
by Leurs, K.H.A. (Koen) 12 Apr '17

12 Apr '17

Dear colleagues, ***This is a kind reminder of our April 16 submission deadline.*** We are looking forward to receive your submissions for the ECREA Diaspora, migration and the media section workshop taking place in Bilbao 2-3 November 2017. We will also have a productive session aimed at young researchers (PhD students and postdocs) to share knowledge, to get feedback about their research and to network for future collaboration. Do not hesitate to get in touch with us if you have any questions. Kindly circulate to anyone who might be interested, Best wishes, Koen Leurs, also on behalf of Irati Agirreazkuenaga, Kevin Smets and Melis Mevsimler ***** CALL FOR PAPERS ECREA Diaspora, migration and the media section University of the Basque Country, Bilbao “MIGRATION AND COMMUNICATION FLOWS: RETHINKING BORDERS, CONFLICT AND IDENTITY THROUGH THE DIGITAL” “We are faced with a crisis of humanity, and the only exit from this crisis is to recognize our growing interdependence as a species and to find new ways to live together in solidarity and cooperation, amidst strangers who may hold opinions and preferences different from our own.” Zygmunt Bauman, Strangers at our door (Polity, 2016) ECREA’s ‘Diaspora, Migration and Media’ and ‘Intercultural and International Communication’ sections will organize a joint conference at the University of Basque Country in Bilbao on 2-3 November 2017 that will focus on how research on migration and communication flows can help rethinking key notions like ‘borders’, ‘conflict’, ‘solidarity’, ‘identity’ and ‘culture’. RATIONALE:   Migration, cultural diversity and the media are increasingly problematized. Europe appears to be crumbling down in the current moment as a result of the Brexit vote, the election of Donald Trump and the so-called ‘European Refugee Crisis’. This is illustrated by hoaxes and fake news messages on these themes that serve as popular clickbait on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. As media outlets seek to address these ‘post-Truth’ conditions, populist, xenophobic, Islamophobic, racist and neo-nationalist rhetoric and sentiments have grown excessively across social media. Meanwhile, the number of internal and external European borders proliferates, and digital data are used for surveillance and migration management. Therefore, mediated encounters with diversity, the humanitarianism-securitization nexus and the role of communication flows urgently deserve further academic exploration to advance understanding of some of the major societal challenges of our time. The continuous re-appropriation of Anas Modamani’s selfie with the German chancellor Angela Merkel on Facebook is an illustrative case in point. He took his selfie in September 2015, when Merkel visited the Berlin shelter where he was then living. Modamani is a Syrian refugee who fled from Darayya. After posting the selfie online, he has repeatedly been falsely linked to terrorism. On the basis of physically resemblance, he was for example wrongly accused to be involved in the bombings in Brussel (March 2016) and the recent attack at a Berlin Christmas market (December 2016), see seehttp://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-38599385. The conference aims to cover a broad range of conflict-related themes such as media production and regulation of information on forced migrants in a ‘post-Truth’ era; fake news; the humanitarianism-securitization nexus, migration management, social and political conflicts related to migrant and diaspora communities, radicalization and online counter-terrorism, hate speech and racism, but also solidarities, activism and protest. Digital technologies and innovations constantly offer new ways to approach these issues, both theoretically and methodologically. The organizers invite papers that explore the complexity of migration and communication flows through conceptual interventions as well as qualitative and quantitative studies. PRELIMINARY PROGRAMME The conference will include: • Keynote lectures by Marie Gillespie and Pedro Oiarzabal.   *Marie Gillespie is Professor of Sociology, The Open University, coordinator of the Mapping Refuge Media Journey project (2016-2018). “The "Mapping Refugee Media Journeys" project investigates the parallel tracks of the physical and digital journeys of Syrian and Iraqi refugees. It documents the media and informational resources that refugees use from the point of departure, during their journeys across different borders and states, and upon arrival (if they reach their desired destination)”. For more information, see http://www.open.ac.uk/ccig/research/projects/mapping-refugee-media-journeys    *Pedro Oiarzabal is an Internet and Basque studies scholar, and a migration and diaspora researcher. His research examines diaspora creation and diaspora interaction with information and communication technologies as well as the meaning of identity in both homeland and diaspora realities, with particular emphasis on the Basque case. • A roundtable to establish bridges of dialogue between academics studying the coverage of migrants and journalists reporting on various conflicts in Europe, addressing methodological and ethical challenges. • A YECREA event dedicated to young scholars (PhD and postdoc level): see below for more information. • A joint panel organized with the ECREA ‘Intercultural and International Communication’ division to broaden the empirical, conceptual and methodological scope of the conference and to explore future collaborations. • An elaborate social programme, including a conference dinner and boat tour, allowing participants to enjoy the city of Bilbao. Call for panel and paper proposals To explore the issue of migration and communication flows in an informal and stimulating atmosphere, we invite participants to submit paper and panel proposals to the 2017 ECREA Diaspora, Migration & Media conference. We particularly welcome proposals on the following topics: • Rethinking the category of the migrant: forced migrants, guest-laborers, postsocialist, postcolonial, expatriates • ‘Bottom-up’ digitally mediated processes, such as transnational and local networking and connectivity, diaspora organizations, identity construction, urban communications • ‘Top down’ digitally mediated processes of migrant management: border control, surveillance & control systems for population movements, migrant detention centres, express flights, arrests at the street, lack of public information • The humanitarianism-securitization nexus, human/communication rights, border management, express flights, street arrests, surveillance and political economy • Migrants, media and language: the impact of migrants on linguistic dynamics (particularly in the context of natively bilingual societies), building resilience for new and local minority media structures • Intersectional analyses of migration and communication flows: how do axes of difference, including race, gender, sexuality, nation, location, generation religion, class together co-constitute subordination and identity • Methodological considerations in media and migration studies, including, but not limited to digital migration studies We encourage scholars whose abstracts have been accepted, to submit full papers by 1 October 2017 in order to compete for the first ECREA Diaspora, Migration & Media Paper Awards. There will be one award for junior scholars and one for senior scholars. TIMELINE: Abstract deadline: April 16, 2017 Notification of acceptance: May 16, 2017 Full-paper submission: October 1, 2017 Registration deadline: October 1, 2017 SUBMISSION GUIDELINES: Please send 200-300 word abstracts by April 16 2017. Please include a short biography (max 100 words) Indicate in your submission whether you are interested:  -in the YECREA event -sessions jointly organized with ICC -being considered for the special issue “Migration and communication flows: rethinking borders, conflict and identity through the digital” Submit your abstract + bio to ecreadmm(a)gmail.com, indicate in your email header [Submission last name + paper title] ORGANIZING TEAM:  Irati Agirreazkuenaga, PhD ECREA Diaspora, Migration and the Media Vice Chair Assistant professor information genres, radio speech & corporate communication Graduate Social Communication Programme, Department of Journalism University of the Basque Country, Bilbao, Spain Koen Leurs, PhD ECREA Diaspora, Migration and the Media Chair Assistant professor gender & postcolonial studies Graduate Gender Programme, Department of Media & Culture Utrecht University, the Netherlands Kevin Smets, PhD ECREA Diaspora, Migration and the Media Vice Chair Assistant professor in media and culture Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium  Postdoctoral fellow, Research Foundation Flanders, University of Antwerp, Belgium Melis Mevsimler, MA ECREA Diaspora, Migration and the Media Young Scholar Representative PhD student Digital Crossings in Europe. Gender, Diaspora and Belonging  Utrecht University, the Netherlands ===== General list info and FAQ: http://comm.umn.edu/~grodman/cultstud.html

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CFP: Learning in Digital and Social Media @ HICSS (due June 15)
by Dan Suthers 12 Apr '17

12 Apr '17

Learning in Digital and Social Media a "mini track" at the Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, (HICSS-51) January 3-6, 2018, Hilton Waikoloa Village, Hawaii Full paper submission deadline: June 15 We solicit papers on how human learning takes place via interactive and social processes enabled or supported by digital and social media (DSM). To leverage the HICSS context, we seek to bridge disciplines and research communities between system sciences and learning sciences, so within this scope a broad range of research questions, learning settings, and theoretical and methodological traditions will be considered. We are flexible about what constitutes 'learning' (e.g., acquisition or co-creation of knowledge or skills, intersubjective meaning-making, legitimate peripheral participation, advancing community knowledge, collective change) and about the nature of the setting (e.g., face-to-face or online; formal or informal - educational, professional or leisure and mixtures thereof; with diverse technological media mediating networked or community social interaction), but learning and the DSM setting should be considered in relation to each other rather than one without regard for the other. Papers should make a theoretical contribution or establish the value of a methodological or design innovation: it is not sufficient to merely document use of a technology in an educational setting or apply a well worn model without new insights. Within these guidelines, the range of topics we consider are broad. We are particularly interested in: * Deepening the theoretical understanding that underlines processes of collaboration through social interaction (small groups, networks, communities, crowds) in relation to technology mediated learning settings. * How the affordances of technological systems influence or are appropriated for learning via social processes, and how design of affordances can leverage these influences. * How the changing digital landscape affects who learners are likely to be and when, where and how they learn, mediated by digital and social media and other technology. * How learning is (or can be designed to be) distributed and coordinated across multiple digital and social media; * Understanding learning in open practices at the nexus of distributed work, socializing, and knowledge sharing. * How 'Learning in the public domain' takes place (for example through Twitter and other forms of social media), and how this changes our perception of learning and learning design. * Learning analytics in digital and social media: how to understand learning via the traces people leave in social media. Methods for analyzing collective phenomena that arise from interaction in social media. HICSS 51 and the "Big Island" The Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, in its 51st year, is one of the longstanding scientific conferences and is highly ranked among information systems conferences. Diverse disciplines unified by a focus on information technologies are woven together in a matrix structure of tracks and themes. By attending HICSS you are not only reaching the audience of your track and mini-track; you also have the opportunity to learn about what is happening in related fields and meet leaders in those fields. Mini-tracks within the Collaboration Systems and Technologies and the Digital and Social Media tracks are particularly relevant. With five of the world's seven climate zones, and a mixture of Hawaiian and immigrant cultures, the "Big Island" of Hawaii offers diverse outdoor activities, good food, and cultural activities. Please see http://www.hicss.org/ for conference, venue and submission information. Papers are due June 15, 2017 Minitrack Co-Chairs: Maarten De Laat (Primary Contact) University of Wollongong mdelaat(a)uow.edu.au Dan Suthers University of Hawaii suthers(a)hawaii.edu

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