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Final Reminder: Deadline for Global mobileGov Awards
by emre＠mgovernment.net 24 Feb '17

24 Feb '17

Dear Colleagues, Global mGov Awards will be one of the highlights of this year's mobileGov World Summit. Several entries and nominations have been received and are distributed globally including S. America, Europe, and Asia. This is to remind you that the deadline for the initial proposals is the 1st of March, only a few days away. We are soliciting entries of leading mobile services and apps implemented by public sector organisations as well as solutions for the public sector developed by the industry. Awards aim to inspire governments, businesses and citizens and spread successful implementations globally. The call for nominations is still open for the Global mobileGov Awards. Please remember the deadline for preliminary proposals for the Award is 1st of March, and for the full proposals it is 15th of April. We do refer you to the website www.m4life.org/conferences/mgovsummit2016/mgovawards/ for more info on the Awards and show interest, if you are willing to enter or nominate a project / solution for the Award. We are also looking for exhibitors making a showcase and demos of their solutions for the Public Sector. The draft program is ready on the site with pre-conference tutorials and workshops planned. The registrations are open too. We inform intended participants to make registrations and reservations for the accommodation as early as possible due to Brighton Festival, which starts beginning of May. I would be grateful if you could forward this information among your relevant network of professionals and organisations. Best Regards, -- Emre Simsek Researcher MobileGov UK http://www.mgovernment.net/ emre(a)mgovernment.org

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Deadline for Speaking Proposals - mobileGov World Summit
by emre＠mgovernment.net 24 Feb '17

24 Feb '17

Dear Colleagues, The mobileGov World Summit 2017 is only about two months away. The organization is moving forward as planned with contributions from private companies and public sector professionals internationally. This is to remind you that deadline for speaking proposals is 1st of March. You can still send in your proposals for speaking / giving tutorials. We are also looking for exhibitors making a showcase and demos of their solutions for the Public Sector. The draft program is ready on the site with pre-conference tutorials and workshops planned. The registrations are open too. We inform intended participants to make there registrations and reservations for the accommodation as early as possible due to Brighton Festival, which starts beginning of May. To access the info on confirmed speakers, current agenda, programme highlights, registrations, exhibiting and sponsorship opportunities, please refer to conference website: www.m4life.org and show interest. I would be grateful if you could forward this information among your relevant network of professionals and organisations. Best wishes, -- Emre Simsek Researcher MobileGov UK http://www.mgovernment.net/ emre(a)mgovernment.org

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*Corrected link*: STS/Digital Society 12-month postdoc on climate change & social media
by Warren Pearce 24 Feb '17

24 Feb '17

The correct URL is http://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/AXL105/research-associate/ (Thanks to those that pointed out my error!) On 22 February 2017 at 11:40, Warren Pearce <warren.pearce(a)sheffield.ac.uk> wrote: > *Apologies for cross-posting* > > 12-month postdoc position now open working on the “Making Climate Social” > <http://gtr.rcuk.ac.uk/projects?ref=ES/N002016/1> project on social media > climate change communication, within the burgeoning STS and Digital Society > clusters at Sheffield. The postholder will use qual methods, including > ethnography, to investigate the contexts within which social media > communication take place. The Met Office is a partner organisation on the > project. > > The closing date is 21st March. Please forward to suitable candidates > and/or networks, and email me directly with any informal enquiries. > > Best wishes, Warren > > Dr Warren Pearce, > Faculty Fellow (iHuman), > The Department of Sociological Studies, > Faculty of Social Science, > Elmfield, Northumberland Road, > Sheffield, S10 2TU. > > @WarrenPearce > > > -- Dr Warren Pearce <http://www.sheffield.ac.uk/socstudies/staff/staff-profiles/warren-pearce>, Faculty Fellow (iHuman), Room B06b, The Department of Sociological Studies, Faculty of Social Science, Elmfield, Northumberland Road, Sheffield, S10 2TU. @WarrenPearce <https://twitter.com/WarrenPearce>

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Hello to all
by Fardin Alikhah 24 Feb '17

24 Feb '17

Hi All I recently joined the AIR from Iran. Below is my blog address. It could be helpful for those who follow Iran s media environment. Regards, https://sociosat.wordpress.com/ -- ---------------------------------------------------------------- *Fardin Alikhah* Sociology, Ph.D. Assistant Prof. Faculty of Literature and Humanities, Department of Social Sciences University of Guilan Rasht-Iran ------------------------------------------------ Links: -Office homepage http://staff.guilan.ac.ir/alikhah/ -personal Homepages: http://fardinalikhah.blog.ir/ -A Blog about Satellite TVs and new media in Iran http://socio-sat.blog.ir/ -A Blog about Social Impact Assessment http://social-impact.blog.ir/ <http://social-impact.blogfa.com/> -Linked-in Profile http://ir.linkedin.com/pub/fardin-alikhah/37/73a/793 -Telegram Channel Telegram.me/fardinalikhah ............................................................................. *برای اطلاع از آثار و نوشته های اخیر اینجا کلیک <http://fardinalikhah.blog.ir/> کنید.*

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Re: [Air-L] Air-L Digest, Vol 151, Issue 26
by Marcotte, Roxanne 24 Feb '17

24 Feb '17

Dear list members, I have a colleague whose graduate student is writing an MA thesis looking at hashtags and Muslim activism after the January 2015 attacks in Paris. Are there "essential" readings on hashtags and activism he needs to read? Is there anything of substance on hashtags and Muslim activism that also need to be consulted? Many thanks for any leads that I'll pass on. Kind Regards Roxanne Marcotte Université du Québec à Montréal, UQAM “New Muslim Public Spheres in the Digital Age: Identity, Community, Diversity and Authority in Canada” project SSHRC Insight, grant 2013-2019 – http://canadianmuslimsonline.uqam.ca/en

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Ethics in studying reddit postings
by Glass, Grace 23 Feb '17

23 Feb '17

Hello all- I'm designing a study of the self-improvement discourse on reddit, and how it's mediated by gender. User Posts will be central to the study, but I wanted to get your thoughts on how to handle the ethical piece. Conventional informed consent would not be possible due to the anonymity of the usernames/platform. Thoughts? Dr. Grace Glass Dean, School of Arts and Humanities American Public University System American Military University | American Public University 111 West Congress Street, Charles Town, WV 25414 T 304-885-5223 | Cell 703-965-7743 gglass(a)apus.edu| www.apus.edu<http://www.apus.edu/> This message is private and confidential. If you have received it in error, please notify the sender and remove it from your system.

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4S 2017 CfP: STS, Critical Design, and the Critical Digital Humanities
by Malazita, James Wilson 23 Feb '17

23 Feb '17

Call for Papers: STS, Critical Design, and the Critical Digital Humanities Society for Social Studies of Science 2017, Boston, MA Deadline: March 1 Organized by: James Malazita (malazj(a)rpi.edu<mailto:malazj@rpi.edu>), Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute This track aims to bring together scholars working at the intersections of Science and Technology Studies, politically-engaged Design and Making work (including Speculative and Critical Design & Making), and the Critical Digital Humanities, in order to share perspectives on the methods, challenges, and stakes of “doing” STS and the humanities in material and digital form. This track is envisioned as a critical complement to the “Making and Doing” event—while the Making and Doing event affords the ability for scholars to showcase their design work, this track affords space for critically reflecting upon the spaces, ideologies, mediations, and politics embedded within and enacted through the intersections of critical scholarship and materially-engaged design work. Possible paper topics include critical analyses of current and previous critically-engaged design and digital projects (including the presenter’s own); reflections on the institutional, infrastructural, and ideological constraints of doing alternative and materially-engaged scholarship; issues of the power and position of scholars designing and making in academic and non/tangentially-academic spaces; potentials and risks of doing interpretive and critical scholarship via technologically-mediated design work; and future directions for STS and humanities design. We are particularly interested in critical perspectives on design from feminist, postcolonial, and queer standpoints, and in design and DH projects, spaces, and methods that specifically address questions of power, oppression, access, ontology, and materiality. We also extend invitations to “making and doing” scholars engaged in related work in intersecting fields, including Media Studies, Literature & Science, and Design. Abstracts must be submitted through the conference system no later than March 1, 2017. Submission information can be found at http://www.4sonline.org/meeting, Panel #77. Please email James Malazita, the organizer of this panel session, at malazj(a)rpi.edu with questions. Please note that The Society for Social Studies of Science has final say over acceptances and panel organization.

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Ethics in social media research
by Audun G. Løvlie 23 Feb '17

23 Feb '17

Dear all, I'm sending this email in relation to my work with SERISS (www.seriss.eu <http://seriss.eu>), a project aimed at strengthening and harmonising social science research across Europe. The work package my task is part of focuses on ethical and legal issues related to the use of social media data in social scientific research projects *Case studies that link social media data and survey data?* We are interested in cases to use as examples, particularly research projects where social media data has been linked to survey data, and if it exists also where social media data has been linked to administrative data. (Linkage of social media data with interview data is of less interest, as we have sufficient examples of this.) We aim to review ethical and legal issues and challenges that exist, that have been experienced and that may come up when formulating research questions and lines of inquiry, when dealing with social media data.* * Furthermore, if you have any experiences that you can share on the ethical and legal aspects of the use of social media data in social scientific research in general and in particular on linkage as mentioned above, any help would be greatly appreciated. In advance, thank you very much for any insight you may be able to provide. -- Vennlig hilsen | Best wishes Audun G. Løvlie Rådgiver | Adviser Seksjon for personverntjenester | Data Protection Services T: (+47) 55 58 23 07 NSD – Norsk senter for forskningsdata AS | NSD – Norwegian Centre for Research Data Harald Hårfagres gate 29, NO-5007 Bergen T: (+47) 55 58 21 17 postmottak(a)nsd.no <mailto:postmottak@nsd.no> www.nsd.no <http://www.nsd.no>

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9th International Conference on Computational Collective Intelligence (ICCCI 2017): Fifth Call for Special Sessions & Workshops Proposals
by Announce Announcements 23 Feb '17

23 Feb '17

*** Fifth Call for Special Sessions & Workshops Proposals *** 9th International Conference on Computational Collective Intelligence ICCCI 2017 Hilton Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus 27 - 29 September, 2017 http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=YWlyLUwJCQlhaXItTEBsaXN0c2Vydi… *** Firm Deadline: 15th March 2017 *** Computational Collective Intelligence is most often understood as an AI subfield dealing with soft computing methods which enable making group decisions or processing knowledge among autonomous units acting in distributed environments. Web-based systems, social networks and multi-agent systems very often need these tools for working out consistent knowledge states, resolving conflicts and making decisions. ICCCI 2017 is the 9th edition of the conference organized by the University of Cyprus and Wroclaw University of Science and Technology in Poland, in cooperation with the IEEE SMC Technical Committee on Computational Collective Intelligence. The aim of the conference is to provide an internationally respected forum for scientific research in the computer-based methods of collective intelligence and their applications in (but not limited to) such fields as group decision making, consensus computing, knowledge integration, semantic web, social networks and multi-agent systems. Topics of Interest We welcome all submissions in the subjects of CCI related (but not limited) to the following topics: · Agent Theory and Application · Automated Reasoning · Cognitive Modeling of Agent Systems · Collective Intelligence · Collective Processing · Computational Biology · Computer Vision · Computational Intelligence · Computational Security · Consensus Computing · Cooperative Systems and Control · Cybernetics for Informatics · Data Integration · Data Mining for Social Networks · Distributed Intelligence · Evolutionary computing · Fuzzy Systems · Geographic Information Systems · Grey Theory · Group Decision Making · Hybrid Systems · Information Retrieval and Integration · Information Hiding · Intelligent Architectures · Intelligent Applications · Intelligent Buildings · Intelligent Control · Intelligent E-learning/Tutoring · Intelligent Image Processing · Intelligent Networks · Intelligent Transportation Systems · Knowledge Integration · Knowledge Representation · Knowledge-Based Systems · Logic in Intelligence · Machine Learning · Mobile Intelligence · Multicriteria Decision Making · Natural Language Processing · Optimization and Swarm Intelligence · Pattern Recognition · Probabilistic and Uncertain Reasoning · Rough Sets · Semantic Web · Smart Living Technology · Smart Sensor Networks · Soft Computing · Social Networks · Ubiquitous Computing · Web Intelligence and Interaction Call for Special Sessions and Workshops Proposals ICCCI 2017 invites proposals for Special Sessions and Workshops to be held during the conference. They intend to provide researchers in focused areas the opportunity to present and discuss their work, as well as to offer a forum for interaction among a broader community of researchers. A Special Session or Workshop will consist of a group of papers in a sub-discipline of Computational Collective Intelligence related to the main topics of ICCCI 2017. The papers will be required to meet the same standards as ICCCI 2017 papers and will be published in the conference proceedings, in a bound volume by Springer in their Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence series. All the Special Sessions and Workshops will be centralized as tracks in the same conference submission and reviewing system (EasyChair) as the regular papers. Please send the Special Session and Workshop proposals with the following information: · Title & acronym of the special session · Brief profiles of special session organizers · General description of the special session scope · List of topics · Proposed Session Program Committee (to be invited) The format for the Special Session or Workshop proposal should follow the pattern of the template available on the conference web site. The organizers will be responsible for the advertisement and promotion of the Special Sessions or Workshops and the conference including the Special Sessions and Workshops webpage preparation. The management of papers review will be achieved by Special Session and Workshops Committees, using the Conference System (a separate EasyChair track will be provided for each Special Session and Workshop). The organizers are responsible for managing the review process. All the reviews should be submitted through EasyChair. Each paper should obtain at least two reviews. For Special Sessions and Workshops Issues please contact: Bogdan Trawinski Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Poland bogdan.trawinski(a)pwr.edu.pl Important Dates · Special Session & Workshop Proposals: March 15, 2017 (*** firm ***) · Special Session & Workshop Acceptance: March 21, 2017 · Conference Dates: September 27-29, 2017 Organization Honorary Chairs · Costas Christophides, Rector of University of Cyprus, Cyprus · Pierre Lévy, University of Ottawa, Canada · Cezary Madryas, Rector of Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland General Chairs · Ngoc Thanh Nguyen, Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Poland · George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Program Chairs · Costin Badica, University of Craiova, Romania · Piotr J?drzejowicz, Gdynia Maritime University, Poland · Kazumi Nakamatsu, University of Hyogo, Japan Organising Chair · Georgia Kapitsaki, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Special Sessions and Workshops Chairs · Achilleas Achilleos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus · Bogdan Trawinski, Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Poland Doctoral Track Chair · George Pallis, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Publicity Chair · Christos Mettouris , University of Cyprus, Cyprus Local Organising Committee · Marios Komodromos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus · Christos Mettouris, University of Cyprus, Cyprus · Rafa Kern, Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Poland · Marcin Pietranik, Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Poland · Zbigniew Telec, Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Poland Steering Committee · Ngoc Thanh Nguyen (chair), Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Poland · Piotr Jdrzejowicz, Gdynia Maritime University, Poland · Shyi-Ming Chen, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taiwan · Kiem Hoang, University of Information Technology, VNU-HCM, Vietnam · Lakhmi C. Jain, University of South Australia, Australia · Geun-Sik Jo, Inha University, Korea · Janusz Kacprzyk, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland · Ryszard Kowalczyk, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia · Toyoaki Nishida, Kyoto University, Japan · Manuel Núñez, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain

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4S 2017 CfP: Techno-jobs and Capital
by Norma Möllers 23 Feb '17

23 Feb '17

*** apologies for cross-posting*** *Call for papers: Annual meeting of the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S)* Boston, MA, USA, Aug 30-Sep 2 2017* * Submission deadline: March 1, 2017 through the conference system (https://convention2.allacademic.com/one/ssss/4s17/) Feel free to contact us if you consider submitting to our panel. *Panel 126. Techno-Jobs and Capital* Organizers: Winifred Poster, Washington University (wrposter(a)gmail.com) Norma Möllers, Queen’s University (norma.mollers(a)queensu.ca) STS has a long tradition of inquiring about techno-work and providing foundations for studies of locality, partiality, contingency, and agency. Less attention is paid to the connections of techno-jobs to the systems of political economy in which they are embedded. The goal of this track is to encourage explicit discussion of the ways these new jobs are shaped by and sustain capital, and how they relate to broader shifts in the organization of labor and workers. We emphasize how this applies to both elite and subordinate types of techno-labor. It includes high-status jobs like the entrepreneurs and evangelists who market and distribute technical products for firms and nations, software coders who are bound by corporate non-compete contracts, techno-venture firms that are scrutinized for under-employing women, high-tech developers that rely on immigrant labor and the ‘body shopping’ practices of intermediary contracting firms, etc. It also includes a growing sector of middle and low status workers like the data janitors who clean up the internet, senior citizen ‘workampers’ who travel in their RV’s to labor at Amazon.com warehouses, manual workers who dispose of our phones and laptops, etc. We welcome papers that engage issues such as: transnational and post-colonial labor dynamics; techno-venture capitalists; R&D labor; crowdsourcing and micro-labor; outsourcing; sharing economies; creative, media, and game labor; automation; bot labor; algorithmic controls of labor; consumer labor; maintenance, repair, and care; labors of techno-waste and breakdown; racialized, gender, queer, and (dis)abled inequalities of technical labor; and digital strategies within the labor movement.

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