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Second CFP: Culture meets Data: Critical approaches. Brighton, UK
by Ryan Burns 02 May '17

02 May '17

Dear AoIR Colleagues I hope you will be interested in this call for papers for "Digital Culture meets Data: Critical Approaches" http://dccecrea.wordpress.com/call-for-papers-2017-conference/ * Call for Papers Digital Culture meets Data: Critical approaches ECREA Digital Culture and Communication Section Conference. 6th –7th November 2017, University of Brighton, UK Abstract deadline: 20 May 2017 Keynote speakers: · Rob Kitchin, Maynooth University, Republic of Ireland · Helen Thornham, University of Leeds, UK Conference theme: Algorithms and big data are today shaping our sociocultural and technical relations and our everyday experiences. Digital culture and communication are inevitably changing as media infrastructures, media practices and social environments become increasingly ‘datafied’. We may think of surveillance, algorithmic profiling and self-tracking for example. Wearable technologies such as fitness trackers allow people to understand the body as a data-producing object. Our use of commonplace media technologies is mediated by data in ways that we do not ask for, nor even necessarily know about or consent to. Data interpellate us. Yet data are obscure and enigmatic. But what does this turn to data mean for our research, scholarship and pedagogic practice? Has the data paradigm arrived as an unquestionable unifying concept for studies of digital culture and digital media, communication, technology? It may be that a shift of focus on algorithms and data is fundamentally disruptive to the ways in which we see our research and disciplines. It may even appear to limit the theoretical and methodological tools through which we increasingly try to understand mediation, the formation of identity, social life, politics and the creative industries. To others, the ‘datalogical turn’ may be plainly repeating the processes of earlier instances of technological innovation. And for some, it may provide an opportunity to frame new theoretical concepts and methodological tools for a whole new set of social, cultural and political phenomena. The ECREA DCC Conference “Digital Culture meets data: Critical approaches” asks the question: what theoretical and empirical perspectives on data and the digital can be used to augment and diversify our research and educational approaches? And how might we challenge data paradigms or aim to show alternative or complementary ways to address digital culture and communication? We invite empirical and theoretical research papers and panels that address themes such as: - Media studies and datafication - Researching media and culture using data methods - Data visualisation, art and design - Data and the role of the imaginary, fantasy and myth - Data cultures and neoliberalism - Data activism and citizen engagement - Data and critical literacy - Data and gender, race, class inequalities - Datafication and the creative industries - Feminist approaches to data - Machine learning and AI - Mobile and locative media - Quantified self and data cultures - Smart cities, data and sustainability - Social bots and the management of sociality The Conference will also host a YECREA Workshop entitled: ‘The ambitious early-career scholar in an age of precarity: questions, challenges, opportunities’ (Chaired by Ysabel Gerrard, University of Leeds). This workshop will facilitate open discussion between academics at various stages in their careers about some of the issues confronting ambitious early-career scholars in an increasingly competitive international job market. Submission details, individual papers: Please submit abstracts of 250-350 words, written in English. Abstracts should contain a clear outline of the argument, the theoretical framework, methodology and results (if applicable), and how this links to the theme and topics of this conference, or to the general concerns of digital culture and communication. Please include 3-5 keywords that describe your work, and a Bio note (max 100 words, stating affiliation). Submission details, panels: We welcome panel submissions, numbering 4 speakers. Please submit abstracts of 250-350 words per paper, plus a 250-350 word rationale for the panel. Individual abstracts should contain a clear outline of the argument, the theoretical framework, methodology and results (if applicable), and how this links to the theme and topics of this conference, or to the general concerns of digital culture and communication. Please include 3-5 keywords that describe each individual abstracts, plus 3-5 keywords that describe the panel, and Bio note for each individual abstract (max 100 words, stating affiliation). All abstracts and rationale should be sent together as a single document by the panel proposer. Details for abstract submission: Please provide abstracts as .PDF, .DOC or .DOCX file types. Abstracts should be emailed to brightondcc(a)gmail.com<mailto:brightondcc@gmail.com>. Deadline for paper and panel submissions is May 20, 2017. Notification of acceptance: June 20th, 2017. You do not need to be an ECREA or DCC section member to apply. For updates, please visit https://dccecrea.wordpress.com For CFP http://dccecrea.wordpress.com/call-for-papers-2017-conference/ Registration fees: Academic Employed full time …….... £65 Academic Employed Part Time …..... £40 Students / Unwaged ………….……… £20 Organising committee: Ryan Burns, Aristea Fotopoulou, Leighton Evans, Ysabel Gerrard, Ana Jorge, Theodore Koulouris, Sander De Ridder, Maria Sourbati. ___________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned by MessageLabs' Email Security System on behalf of the University of Brighton. For more information see: https://staff.brighton.ac.uk/is/computing/Pages/Email/spam.aspx

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Workshop Mutual Shaping of Human-Robot Interaction @RO-MAN'17
by Somaya Ben Allouch 01 May '17

01 May '17

-------------------------------- Call for Papers The Mutual Shaping of Human-Robot Interaction A workshop, held in conjunction with IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (IEEE RO-MAN 2017) in Lisbon, Portugal, August 28-31, 2017. www.mutualshapinghri.com ---------------------------------- **Submission Deadline: June 1, 2017** Workshop topic The field of robotics has rapidly advanced over the last decades and shown great promises in different fields. After robots were introduced in industry decades ago, advancements in robotic systems have enabled them to increasingly enter and affect our everyday lives. Nowadays, we see robotic systems being introduced as assistants, team-mates, care-takers, and companions, in diverse contexts such as education, health and eldercare, the home, and in search and rescue. This development has started the discussion on the emotional, ethical and societal consequences of the increasing confrontations and interactions between humans and robots. Studies in human-robot interaction have shown that, when robots enter different contexts of our everyday lives, they can influence and change that particular context beyond its intended use purpose alone. The term mutual shaping explains the detailed process of technological design suggesting that society and technology are not mutually exclusive to one another and, instead, influence and shape each other. Society changes as a direct result of the implementation of technology that has been created based on society�s wants and needs. The mutual shaping of technology and society approach focuses on analyzing how social and cultural factors influence the way technologies are designed, used, and evaluated, as well as how technologies affect our construction of social values and meanings. The decisions made in the design, adoption, use, and evaluation process affect human�s attitudes towards, uses of, and even their conceptualizations of these (socially) interactive systems. Social norms, values and morals are both implicitly and explicitly intertwined with technologies, reinforcing or altering our beliefs and practices. Once a robot has entered a social environment, it will alter the distribution of responsibilities and roles within that environment, including how people act in that situation or use context. Accordingly, studies that show how use practices of robot systems and the social environment mutually shape each other, and what forms this mutual shaping process takes, is crucial for the future development of robots for broad societal use. This knowledge is required to inform the design and acceptance of new and existing robot systems. Call for papers The aim of this workshop is to inform the robotics community and its many stakeholders about lessons learned so far about the mutual shaping of robots and society. We will focus on how social factors affect whether people choose to use robots, and how robot design factors affect the social contexts in which robots are used. We welcome prospective participants to submit extended abstracts (max. 4 pages including references) covering any relevant topic contributing to the discussion on the mutual shaping effect(s) of robots and society. The goal is to discuss a wide variety of contributions from the many disciplines and approaches that intersect with the development and evaluation of robot systems (e.g. Human-Human Interaction, Human-Computer Interaction, Human-Robot Interaction, Human Factors User-Experience, engineering, computer sciences, (interactive) design, sociology, anthropology, psychology, etc.). We invite a diversity of topics from researchers and practitioners from a wide variety of fields who address strategies and lessons learned about mutual shaping of robots and society including, but not limited to: · Human-robot (non)use · Human-Robot interaction · Mutual shaping of robots and society · Evaluation of robot applications and contexts of use · Socially intelligent robotics · Multimodal assessment technologies · Design of robotics systems · Social analysis of robotics · Social cognitive systems The manuscripts should use the conference format. Please submit a PDF copy of your manuscript to [1]s.benallouch(a)saxion.nl and [2]maartje_de_graaf(a)brown.edu. Timeline June 1, 2017: Submission deadline for workshop papers June 22, 2017: Notification of acceptance July 5, 2017: Camera-ready workshop papers deadline July 10, 2017: Workshop program finalized August 27 or September 1, 2017: Workshop day August 28 � August 31, 2017: Main conference Workshop organizers Somaya Ben Allouch � Saxion University of Applied Sciences, The Netherlands Maartje de Graaf � Brown University, USA Selma Sabanovic � Indiana University, USA Friederike Eyssel � Bielefeld University, Germany __________________________________________________________________ Please consider the environment and do not print this email unless absolutely necessary. Encourage environmental awareness. This message contains information that may be privileged or confidential and is the property of Saxion University of Applied Sciences. It is intended only for the person to whom it is addressed. If you are not the intended recipient, you are not authorized to read, print, retain, copy, disseminate, distribute, or use this message or any part thereof. If you receive this message in error, please notify the sender immediately and delete all copies of this message. __________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________ Please consider the environment and do not print this email unless absolutely necessary. Encourage environmental awareness. This message contains information that may be privileged or confidential and is the property of Saxion University of Applied Sciences. It is intended only for the person to whom it is addressed. If you are not the intended recipient, you are not authorized to read, print, retain, copy, disseminate, distribute, or use this message or any part thereof. If you receive this message in error, please notify the sender immediately and delete all copies of this message. __________________________________________________________________ References 1. mailto:s.benallouch@saxion.nl 2. mailto:maartje_de_graaf@brown.edu

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call for manuscripts: Transdisciplinary Studies
by Jeremy Hunsinger 01 May '17

01 May '17

Transdisciplinary Studies https://www.sensepublishers.com/catalogs/bookseries/ transdisciplinary-studies/ Series Editors: Jeremy Hunsinger, Wilfrid Laurier University and Jason Nolan, Ryerson University Aims and Scope: Transdisciplinary Studies is an internationally oriented book series created to generate new theories and practices to extricate transdisciplinary research from the confining discourses of traditional disciplinarities. Within transdisciplinary domains, this series will publish empirically grounded, theoretically sound work seeking to identify and solve global problems that conventional disciplinary perspectives cannot capture. Transdisciplinary Studies seeks to accentuate those aspects of scholarly research which cut across todays learned disciplines in an effort to define new axiologies and forms of praxis. This series intends to promote a new appreciation for transdisciplinary research to audiences that are seeking ways of understanding complex, global problems that many now realize disciplinary perspectives cannot fully address. Scholars, policy makers, educators and researchers working to address issues in technology studies, public finance, discourse studies, professional ethics, political analysis, learning, ecological systems, modern medicine, and other fields clearly are ready to begin investing in transdisciplinary models of research. It is for those many different audiences in these diverse fields that we hope to reach, not merely with topical research, but also through considering new epistemic and ontological foundations for of transdisciplinary research. —— Currently there are five books in the series: 1. Towards Human Technologies: Biotechnology, New Media and Ethics by Naomi SUnderland, Phil Graham, Peter Isaacs, and Bernerd McKenna 2. Making a Difference: Science, Action and Integrated Environmental Research by Lorrae von Kerkhoff 3. Ontologies for Developing Things: Making Health Care Futures Through technology by Casper Bruun Jensen 4. Putting Knowledge to Work & Letting Information Play by Timothy W. Luke and Jeremy Hunsinger 5. Drawing as Language: Celebrating the Work of Bob Steele by Marni J. Binder & Sylvia Kind We are seeking manuscript proposals that fit our aims and scope. Manuscripts can be submitted at any time to Jeremy Hunsinger, Wilfrid Laurier University at jhuns(a)vt.edu or Jason Nolan, Ryerson University at jnolan(a)ryerson.edu There is a listserv related to the book series for people interested in transdisciplinary studies at: http://lists.tmttlt.com/listinfo.cgi/ transdisciplinarystudies-tmttlt.com

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CFP: Global mobileGov Awards 2017
by Ibrahim Kushchu 01 May '17

01 May '17

mobileGov World Summit and Global mobileGov Awards 2017 7-9 May, 2017 - Brighton UK - www.m4life.org ——————————————————————————— ** Designing the future of eGovernment ** — GLOBAL mobileGOV AWARDS Since Early developments in 2000s governments are now moving from providing mobile applications and services as they emerge to being more strategic in using mobile technologies centrally or locally. This has resulted significant advances in the practice. In order to recognise these achievements, mLife events in collaboration with mobileGov UK, which has for many years helped governments in strategic design and implementations of mobile solutions, launched Global mobileGov Awards. In a week time, at mobileGov World Summit, the leading implementers of the mobile technologies in the public sector for providing services to citizens are receiving their awards and presenting their knowledge and experiences gained in running their projects and achieving results. Internationally, top three the best mobileGov implementers and various other nominees competed to prove their 'excellence in designing the future of eGoverment' using mobile technologies will receive their awards at a ceremony in Brighton UK. For more please visit www.m4life.org — mobileGOV WORLD SUMMIT In addition to the Global Awards, mLife events proud to present, yet another prime gathering of mobile solution providers and the public sector professionals to discuss technology, strategies and policies, implementation and participation models in designing the future of eGovernment. Highlights of the Agenda: — Public Sector Leaders share accumulated knowledge and experience of implementing mobileGovernment strategically: The core of the Summit is a panel of public sector change makers from various governments to present know-how and experience in implementing mobile governments in their respective countries. Some of the other panels and sessions include: • Limits of IoT Intelligence • Smart Mobile Technologies • mobileHealth • mobile and wireless security • mobileEducation and Learning • mobileID • Inclusive mGovernment For more please the conference program: http://www.m4life.org/conferences/mgovsummit2016/program-2/ mLife events, organisers of conferences on mobileGovernment, mobileLife, mobileDevelopment since 2005, invites you to celebrate with winners of the Global mobileGov Awards; participate and contribute to the exchange of knowledge of practice of mobileGovernment via panels, demos and exhibitions. For attending, exhibiting, or sponsorship opportunities and more, please see www.m4life.org and register to the Summit. Best wishes, ====== Ibrahim KUSHCHU, MBA, MSC., PHD Founding Director, mobileGov UK http://mgovernment.net/ ik(a)mgovernment.net +44 7740143135 - Visit mLife Conferences http://www.m4life.org

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elections reminder
by Jennifer Stromer-Galley 01 May '17

01 May '17

Hi everyone, Just a friendly reminder that if you are a dues-paying member of AoIR, voting is under way for the Executive Committee. Members have received emails with information on how to cast their ballots. If you're a member and haven't yet voted. Take a few minutes, search your email for "Vote for the Next AoIR Executive Committee", and follow the directions to vote. It would be an amazing expression of the strength of this community to see a majority of the membership cast their ballots! ~Jenny Jennifer Stromer-Galley | Professor Director, Center for Computational and Data Sciences President, Association of Internet Researchers School of Information Studies 220 Hinds Hall Syracuse, New York 13244 e jstromer(a)syr.edu<mailto:jstromer@syr.edu> My 2016 political social media project: illuminating.ischool.syr.edu<http://illuminating.ischool.syr.edu/>

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Second CFP E-Vote-ID 2017
by Peter ROENNE 30 Apr '17

30 Apr '17

[Apologies for cross and multiple postings] Two weeks until paper deadline. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS E-Vote-ID 2017 Second International Joint Conference on Electronic Voting Bregenz, Austria, 24-27 October 2017 www.e-vote-id.org (Paper Submission Date: 15 May 2017) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- WWW: https://www.e-vote-id.org/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/EVoteID/ Twitter: @evotingcc Hashtag: #EVoteID2017 This conference is one of the leading international events for e-voting experts from all over the world. In 2016 the two previously bi-annually held conferences, EVOTE and VoteID, were merged into the annual E-VOTE-ID conference. The second joint conference will take place in October 2017. One of its major objectives is to provide a forum for interdisciplinary and open discussion of all issues relating to electronic voting. Cumulatively, since 2004 some 1,000 experts from all over the world have attended this conference to discuss electronic voting and related topics. The aim of the conference is to bring together e-voting specialists working in academia, politics, government and industry in order to discuss various aspects of all forms of electronic voting (including, but not limited to, polling stations, kiosks, ballot scanners and remote voting by electronic means) in the three following tracks below and a PhD colloquium: Track on Security, Usability, and Technical Issues Design, analysis, formal modeling or research implementation of: - Electronic voting protocols and systems; - Voter identification and authentication; - Ballot secrecy, receipt-freeness and coercion resistance; - Election verification including end-to-end verifiability and risk limiting audits; - Requirements; - Evaluation and certification, including international security standards, e.g. Common Criteria or ITSEC; - Human aspects of security mechanisms in electronic voting and in particular of verifiability mechanisms; - Or any other security and HCI issues relevant to electronic voting. Track on Administrative, Legal, Political, and Social Issues - Discuss legal, political and social issues of electronic voting implementations, ideally employing case study methodology; - Analyze the interrelationship with, and the effects of electronic voting on democratic institutions and processes; - Assess the cultural impact of electronic voting on institutions, behaviours and attitudes of the Digital Era; - Discuss the administrative, legal, political and social risks of electronic voting; - How to draft electronic voting legislations; - Public administrations and the implementation of electronic voting; - Understandability, transparency, and trust issues in electronic voting; - Data protection issues; - Public interests vs. PPP (public private partnerships). Track on Election and Practical Experiences - Review developments in the area of applied electronic voting; - Report on experiences with electronic voting or the preparation thereof (including project progress reports, case law, court decisions, legislative steps, public and political debates, election outcomes, etc.); Experience reports need not contain original research, but must be an accurate, complete and, where applicable, evidence-based account of the deployment. Submissions will be judged on quality of the system or of the analysis, and the applicability of the results to other democracies. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- PhD Colloquium The colloquium continues the tradition of PhD workshops on e-voting. Since 2006 the PhD seminars have focused on various aspects of e-voting including technical aspects, legal challenges, identity management, verifiability of the vote, etc. The workshops took place in various locations in Austria, Catalonia, Denmark, Estonia, Germany, Luxembourg, and Switzerland. The goal of the colloquium is to foster understanding and collaboration between PhD students from various disciplines working on e-voting. To this end, the program allows plenty of space for discussion and initiating collaboration based on presentations by attendees. What makes this colloquium special is that it is truly interdisciplinary, where PhD students from legal backgrounds are joined by PhD students with computer science and cryptography backgrounds and by social scientists. Master students in e-voting and related areas are also welcome to participate. Each interested participant should submit his/her research proposal (or alternatively ideas for papers, open problems, or other issues where feedback from colleagues would be helpful etc.) of some two pages length using the conference platform. In addition to this proposal, participants are asked to fill out a questionnaire about their PhD project. This questionnaire will be send by email to participants who have submitted their proposal. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Format of the Conference The format of the conference is a three-day meeting. The PhD colloquium takes places on the day before the formal conference begins. No parallel sessions will be held, and sufficient space will be given for informal communication. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Invited Speakers This year we have already confirmed two keynote speakers: David Basin - ETH Zurich Ralf Küsters - University of Stuttgart ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Paper Submission Paper submissions can be in two formats-either as a full paper or an abstract. - Full paper submissions (up to max 16 pages, including abstract, figures, bibliography); - Abstract submissions (2 pages, roughly 1,200 words). All submissions will be subject to double-blind reviews. Submissions must be anonymous (with no reference to the authors). Submissions are to be made using the EasyChair conference system at https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=evoteid2017, which serves as the online system for the review process. During submission, please select the appropriate track or the PhD colloquium. The track chairs reserve the right to re-assign papers to other tracks in case of better fit based on reviewer feedback and in coordination with other track chairs. LNCS style has to be used (see the Springer guidelines at http://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gui…, including templates for LaTeX and Microsoft Word). If you think that one or more of the programme committee members could have a conflict of interest with your submission, please let the general chairs know at conference-chairs(a)e-vote-id.org. In turn, according settings in the EasyChair system will be set, so that the respective member/s is/are not involved in the review process. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Key Dates for Submissions Deadline for submission of papers: (Hawaiian time, hard deadline, no extension) 15 May 2017 23:59 Paper Bidding Deadline: 21 May 2017 Review Deadline: 21 June 2017 End of Programme Committee Discussion: 30 June 2017 Notification of Acceptance: 3 July 2017 Deadline for PhD Colloquium submissions: 7 July 2017 Deadline for Resubmission of Conditionally Accepted Papers (Shep-herding): 21 July 2017 Deadline for Camera-ready Paper Submissions: 4 August 2017 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Publication The conference proceedings will be available at the time of the conference. Full papers accepted for the tracks on security, usability, and technical issues, respective administrative, legal, political, and social issues will be published in Springer LNCS. All other accepted publications, including full papers in the election experience track, accepted abstracts in any of the tracks, and from the submissions in the PhD colloquium will be published in proceedings with TUT press. In case your academic host institution requires you to publish your research as openaccess only, please contact the conference chairs for further information in which way it is intended to make accepted publications accessible. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Venue The conference will be held in the beautiful Renaissance castle of Hofen at Lochau/ Bregenz on the shores of Lake Constance in Austria. On the evening of 24 October a welcome reception for all conference participants will be organized in castle Hofen, where also the conference dinner on 26 October will take place and feature the traditional "cheese road". ------------------------------------------------------------------------- E-Voting System Demonstration Session We also invite demonstrations of electronic voting systems, to be presented in an open session on Tuesday 24 October during the welcome reception. Participation is open to all conference participants, but we request a one-page summary by 30 September to office(a)e-vote-id.org describing the system's requirements and properties, such as: - whether the system is intended for use in controlled (i.e. in polling stations) or uncontrolled environments (i.e. remotely via the Internet or in kiosks); - which types of elections it accommodates; - whether it addresses the needs of voters with disabilities; - what sort of verifiability it provides; - the extent to which it guarantees vote privacy; - whether it has been deployed in a real election; - where to go for more information. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Programme Committee General Chairs Krimmer, Robert (Tallinn University of Technology, Ragnar Nurkse School, Estonia) Volkamer, Melanie (Karlstad University, Sweden & Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany) Track Chairs Track on Security, Usability, and Technical Issues Pereira, Olivier (Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium) Schuermann, Carsten (IT University, Denmark) Track on Administrative, Legal, Political, and Social Issues Braun Binder, Nadja (German Research Institute for Public Administration (Speyer), Germany) Kersting, Norbert (University of Münster, Germany) Track on Election and Practical Experiences Driza Maurer, Ardita (Independent Consultant, Switzerland) Vinkel, Priit (National Electoral Commission, Estonia) PhD Colloquium Kulyk, Oksana (Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany) Weesing-Loeber, Leontine (PhD student at University of East Anglia, Netherlands) Outreach Chair Roenne, Peter (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg) Programme Committee Araujo, Roberto (Universidade Federal do Pará, Brazil) Benaloh, Josh (Microsoft Research, USA) Cortier, Veronique (CNRS, France) Essex, Aleksander (Western University, Canada) Galindo, David (University of Birmingham, UK) Gibson, Paul (Telecom SudParis, France) Gjosteen, Kristian (NTNU Trondheim, Norway) Gore, Rajeev (Australian National University, Australia) Grimm, Rüdiger (University of Koblenz, Germany) Haenni, Rolf (Bern University of Applied Science, Switzerland) Kiayias, Aggelos (University of Athens, Greece) Kuesters, Ralf (University of Stuttgart, Germany) Prandini, Marco (DISI, Universitá di Bologna, Italy) Ryan, Mark (University of Birmingham, United Kingdom) Ryan, Peter Y A (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg) Schneider, Steve (University of Surrey, UK) Schoenmakers, Berry (University Amsterdam, Netherlands) Teague, Vanessa (University of Melbourne, Australia) Wallach, Dan (Rice University, USA) Zagorski, Filip (University of Wroclaw, Poland) Administrative, Legal, Political and Social Science Bannister, Frank (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland) Barrat, Jordi (EVOL2 - eVoting Research Lab, Spain) Dittakavi, Chakrapani (CIPS, India) Goodman, Nicole (University of Toronto, Canada) Gronke, Paul (Reed College, USA) Kalvet, Tarmo (Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia) Kim, Shin Dong (Hallym University, South Korea) Mecinas, Juan Manuel (CIDE, Mexico) Nurmi, Hannu (University of Turku, Finland) Pammett, Jon (University of Carleton, Canada) Pomares, Julia (CIPPEC, Argentina) Reniu, Josep Maria (University of Barcelona, Spain) Serdült, Uwe (ZDA, University of Zurich, Switzerland) Election Experts Bismark, David (Votato, Sweden) Bull, Christian (Telenor, Norway) Caarls, Susanne (Independent Expert, Netherlands) Catozzi, Gianpiero (EC-UNDP, Belgium) Martin, Steven (OSCE/ODIHR, Poland) McDermott, Ronan (Switzerland) Spycher, Oliver (Federal Chancellery, Switzerland) Stein, Robert (Federal Ministry of the Interior, Austria) Vollan, Kåre (Quality AS, Norway) Wolf, Peter (International IDEA, Stockholm) Wenda, Gregor (Federal Ministry of the Interior, Austria)

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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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