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by minerva gail hawkins 08 Feb '17

08 Feb '17

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Tenure-track Assistant / Tenured Associate Professor – Information Sci and Tech - George Mason University
by Hemant Purohit 08 Feb '17

08 Feb '17

Dear all, Kindly check this interesting faculty opening at George Mason University. ===== The George Mason University Department of Information Sciences and Technology, within the Volgenau School of Engineering (VSE), invites applications for a tenure-track or tenured faculty position at the rank of Assistant or Associate Professor beginning Fall 2017. George Mason University has a strong institutional commitment to the achievement of excellence and diversity among its faculty and staff, and strongly encourages candidates to apply who will enrich Mason’s academic and culturally inclusive environment. While applicants in all areas of information sciences and technology will be considered, the department is particularly interested in candidates in data analytics, and its engineering and information technology aspects. Exceptionally strong senior candidates may also be considered, and must have an established record of excellence in research and teaching. Such candidates will be eligible for appointment as tenured Associate Professor. The position will be housed in the department of Information Sciences and Technology. The department has over 20 full-time faculty members and in addition to B.S. and M.S. programs in Information Technology, the department also participates in an interdisciplinary B.S. in Cyber Security Engineering, M.S. in Data Analytics Engineering, and Ph.D. in Information Technology (concentration in IST) offered by the VSE. For more information on the department, visit our website: http://ist.gmu.edu/. Read more: https://jobs.gmu.edu/postings/39849 ====== Best, Hemant -- Hemant Purohit, Ph.D. Asst. Professor of Information Sciences & Technology, George Mason University Office: 5348 Nguyen Engineering Building | http://ist.gmu.edu/~hpurohit<http://ist.gmu.edu/~hpurohit/> http://lnkdin.me/p/purohithemant | http://twitter.com/hemant_pt

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Archive of recommended readings/films?
by David Abernathy 08 Feb '17

08 Feb '17

Hello all, I have seen several threads on this list suggesting excellent articles, books, and films on various aspects of digital culture. Are these archived anywhere? I am pulling together a course on digital geographies and would love to go back over the many recommendations from this group. Thanks for any guidance, David Abernathy, PhD Dept. of Global Studies Warren Wilson College

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Any examples of journalists using Artificial Intelligence (AI) as an editorial tool?
by Yujung Nam 08 Feb '17

08 Feb '17

Hi, I am looking for any examples of journalists using AI as an editorial tool. Does anybody have some knowledge or examples of a journalistic use of AI in the field? Any information would be greatly appreciated. Yujung -- Yujung Nam, Ph.D Assistant Professor The Edward R. Murrow College of Communication Washington State University PO Box 642530 Pullman, WA 99164-2530 Office. 509-335-5793 Email.y.nam(a)wsu.edu

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CFP: Special Issue of New Media & Society
by Aziz Douai 07 Feb '17

07 Feb '17

*Call for Papers* *Special Issue of New Media & Society:* *Media, Identity, and Online Communities in a Changing Arab World**[1]* Co-edited by Aziz Douai, Eid Mohamed, and Adel Iskandar *Objective and Significance* This special issue will examine the role of new media in the construction of online communities in the Arab world. It is important to understand how user-generated content empowers these new publics and the novel communities established by user comments on social media and news websites. Specifically, there is a need to research these online communities and their perceptions of the role of user-generated content to contribute to politics, and potentially engage other citizens in the public debate. For these reasons, this special issue seeks to answer the following questions: What characterizes these online users’ communities? What are their motivations? How do they perceive the role of news websites’ commenting functions in promoting political engagement? The editors welcome contributions that are theoretically informed and empirically rigorous, employing qualitative and/or quantitative research methods. *Proposed Topics:* Articles could develop a subject in connection to any of the following suggested themes: - Theorization of the Online Arab Public Sphere - User-generated Content and Participatory Cultures - New Media and Social Movement Theory in the Context of the Arab Uprisings - Arab Spring and the Mobilizing Potential of New Media - Media Convergence and Citizen Journalism after the “Arab Spring” - The Political-Cultural Division in the Public Sphere - Network Cultural Production in the Digital age - Digital Divide and Participation in the Public Sphere - New Media and the Construction of New Arab Identities - Regulation Policies and Standardization Processes, and Their Impact on Institutional and Individual Uses of Technology Please note that these themes are suggestions only and the guest editors welcome inquiries on a wide variety of theoretical contributions in the fields of new media and the public sphere, presentation of ongoing research and empirical studies along with any of the abovementioned themes. *Submission:* Proposals should include the author's name and affiliation, title, an abstract of 250-300 words, and 3 to 5 keywords, and should be sent to the e-mail address tiproject(a)dohainstitute.edu.qa no later than March 25th 2017. Selected submissions will be due 30 September 2017 and will be submitted directly to the submission site for *New Media and Society*: https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/nms where they will undergo peer review following the usual procedures of *New Media & Society*. Note therefore that invitation to submit a full article does not therefore guarantee acceptance into the special issue. The special issue will be published in early 2018. *Tentative Timeline:* - Abstract Submission Deadline: *March 25, 2016* - Proposal Selection Notification: *April 15, 2017* - Initial Article Submission Deadline: *September 30, 2017* *[1]* This special issue is part of a larger research project led by Dr. Eid Mohamed and funded by Qatar National Research Fund, NPRP program titled “Transcultural Identities: Solidaristic Action and Contemporary Arab Social Movements.”

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Some of the Confirmed Speakers and Registrations at the mobileGov World Summit 2017
by emre＠mgovernment.net 07 Feb '17

07 Feb '17

Dear Colleagues, We are pleased to present you with some of the so far confirmed public sector and private sector speakers at the mobileGov World Summit 2017 and Global mobileGov Awards 2017. http://www.m4life.org/conferences/mgovsummit2016/members/tamara-hogler/ We are still soliciting entries or nominations for the Global mobileGov Awards 2017. Please show interest at the www.m4life.org Registrations are open and discounts available for the members of mGCI, public Sector/NPO and NGOs at the http://www.m4life.org/conferences/mgovsummit2016/registration/ Best wishes, -- Emre Simsek Researcher MobileGov UK http://www.mgovernment.net/ emre(a)mgovernment.org

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CFP: DiGRA 2017 Workshop: “Gaming the Systems: Towards a More Inclusive DiGRA"
by Adrienne Shaw 07 Feb '17

07 Feb '17

Please share widely *DiGRA 2017 Workshop: “Gaming the Systems: Towards a More Inclusive DiGRA”* What would it mean for Game Studies to be diverse, and what role can DiGRA play in achieving this? Does the term ‘diversity’ deserve critical scrutiny in its own right? In light of corporate initiatives such as Intel’s recent and highly substantial investment in creating an inclusive workforce, ‘diversity’ can legitimately claim to be one of the most impactful terms that has ever been developed in league with humanities and social sciences thinking. On the other hand, diversity can be seen as a code word for the most comfortable way in which difference appears to contemporary power structures - and hence subject to academic critique. Intel’s recent and widely publicized investment in making their own workforce more inclusive and diverse[i], as well as increasing diversity in games and the tech industry broadly, demonstrates that conversations about representation are finally making headway in corporate sectors. At the same time, we might question if these business-minded approaches to diversity are really invested in the more critical types of change diversity is discussed in relation to in academic conversations. Moreover, as the industries we are interested in begin to take seriously questions of their own diversity, we too must take stock of who is represented in the wide field that is game studies. What can we do to make our field more inclusive and represent a wider array of perspectives? Might it even be possible that we could use such efforts in turn to offer a model for the industries we study as they launch efforts to increase diversity? As scholars, perhaps the response to this situation is quite predictable: more research is needed. This DiGRA workshop will pose the question of what a diverse game studies would look like in both theoretical and practical registers: partly by gathering theoretical papers and partly by providing a venue for voicing and testing ideas that can be represented as precedents to DiGRA and other game studies conferences. The workshop will balance the question of what other fields have done to encourage diversity with the question of what scholars of play can bring to thinking about what academic diversity means in the first place. This will be a half day workshop on *July 2, 2017, *organized as follows: *Format and Activities* 12:00-12:30 Opening and Introductions 12:30-13:00 Designing Diversity Guidelines 13:00-15:00 Paper presentation – six papers, 15 minutes each and 5 minutes of question time. 15:00-15:30 Break and Play Time 15:30-17:00 Co-facilitated Discussion *Location* PAR-Arts West North Wing-256 (Collaborative Learning Room) The University of Melbourne Parkville 3000. *Call for Proposals* We welcome proposals for papers that investigate questions such as, but not limited to: · What have conferences, fields of study and the game industry done to encourage diverse participation? Can and should DiGRA take a proactive role in fostering game studies diversity? · To what degree is diversity a useful concept? What political work does it do and can it do in our field? How does it link with concepts of representation, attention and competition, and to what level are such concepts already part of the logic of the academy? · What potentials do academics interested in play bring to broadening or questioning the idea of diversity? · How diverse is the history of game studies as both theory and pedagogy and to whom does this matter? · What is the relation of academic game studies to videogame business and industry across various regional and national contexts, and to what degree does this affect diversity? · Middleware is often cited as increasing access to game development, but how diverse are the resources, assets and legal structures of such tools? What role does the academy play in this area and how could it be expanded? · Who is best positioned to speak on regional issues including funding and representation, and what power dynamics are at play in the centrality of the Anglophone academy to DiGRA? · Is DiGRA creating a safe space for diverse voices, and what are best practices models for how DiGRA should do this internally, and pressure platforms externally? What are the practical issues and how can they be met? Please send your extended abstract (1500-3000 words) to *Sian Beavers *( digradiversityworkshop(a)gmail.com) by *March 6, 2017* at 17:00 CET (9:00 PST). Please note this is an open paper format and you are *not *required to use the DiGRA template for extended abstracts. Accepted papers will be included in a Diversity Special Issue of ToDiGRA, published in 2018, where full papers will be subject to an additional round of peer-review prior to publication. Notifications of acceptance will be sent to participants on April 3, 2017. Full papers (8000 words including references) are due September 15, 2017 for peer review. Camera ready papers for ToDigra publication on November 17, 2017. Please note participation in the workshop is open to all DiGRA participants, regardless of acceptance to the workshop. If you plan to attend the workshop as a participant (not a presenter), please register by June 15, 2017 by sending an email to *Darshana Jayemanne* at ( digradiversityworkshop(a)gmail.com) ------------------------------ [i] http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/233716/Intel_to_invest_300_million_in_te… -- Adrienne Shaw Assistant Professor Temple University Department of Media Studies and Production School of Media and Communication 2020 N. 13th St. Annenberg Hall, room 203A Philadelphia, PA 19122 telephone: 215-204-6201 fax: 215-214-5402 smc.temple.edu/msp www.adrienneshaw.com Office Hours: Tuesday 11am-2pm Email Hours: M-F 12-2pm Author of: Gaming at the Edge: Sexuality and Gender at the Margins of Gamer Culture, University of Minnesota Press, 2014 ( http://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/gaming-at-the-edge) Founder of the LGBTQ Game Archive: https://lgbtqgamearchive.com/

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May Moscow conference "Internet Beyond Numbers"
by Polina Kolozaridi 07 Feb '17

07 Feb '17

Hi colleagues, we are glad to introduce our May Moscow conference "Internet Beyond Numbers", it will be on 23-24 of May. This year conference is dedicated to qualitative methods and Internet history. Conference website: http://internetbeyond.net/en/ Key questions - The history of the internet: the development of the networks, local cases of technology adoption - The alternative networks, intranet, Fidonet as well as local small networks - Anthropological and ethnographic studies of the internet: how to prove or refute the quantitative rates - Critical understanding of working with quantitative data: ethical and methodological problems - Mixed methods using digital tools We welcome participants to submit proposals on these topics and arrange an English-speaking session. The deadline is March, 31. Our mail:* info(a)internetbeyond.net <info(a)internetbeyond.net>. *The application should be written in Russian or English and include: title, five keywords, annotation (approximately 300-500 words), information about the author: full name, position / year of study, the name of the organisation/university. Please do not hesitate to ask me about any details, Polina

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Hotels and Submission Deadlines for #AoIR2017
by Michelle, AoIR Association Coordinator 07 Feb '17

07 Feb '17

We have several hotels in Tartu that are offering #AoIR2017 attendees reduced room rates. Make sure you reserve early - space at these rates is limited. https://aoir.org/aoir2017/hotel-information/ Please be aware of the upcoming *submission deadlines:* 1 MARCH 2017 Submissions due for PAPERS, PANELS, ROUNDTABLES and FISHBOWLS, EXPERIMENTAL SESSIONS, and PRE-CONFERENCE WORKSHOPS 1 APRIL 2017 Nominations for Nancy Baym Book award and Best Dissertation Award due 20 MAY 2017 Applications due for conference travel SCHOLARSHIPS and for DOCTORAL COLLOQUIUM 1 AUGUST 2017 Early Bird Registration Deadline for all presenters 30 SEPTEMBER 2017 Deadline for uploading accepted, non-blind, final version of paper and panel submissions Submission information is available here: https://aoir.org/aoir2017/subinfo2017/ Regards, Michelle AoIR Association Coordinator

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[Reminder] Deadline for Workshop Proposals for WebSci 17 - Fri. 2/10
by Marie Joan Kristine Gloria 07 Feb '17

07 Feb '17

Dear AOIR community, For those interested, workshop proposals for WebSci 17 are due this Friday, 2/10. See below for more details. Best, Kristine *CfP Workshops at WebSci17* *Key notes:* - February 10, 2017 - Workshop proposal submissions - February 24, 2017 - Notification of workshop acceptance - Proposals should be submitted in pdf format via email to websci17ws(a)googlegroups.com. We call for discussion around the ways in which the Web as a platform, as well as Web Science, can help address global challenges. To this end we invite workshop proposals for the 2017 edition of the ACM WebSci conference, on topics such as, but not limited to: - The Web and geography - The mobile revolution and Web Science - Web Science and social good - Digital inequalities on the Web - The Internet in recent Middle-Eastern history - Accessibility, affordability and awareness in poorly connected areas - Crime on the Web and security - Hoaxes and fake news on the Web We encourage proposals on the above topics, and likewise welcome submissions on already-established areas of focus for ACM WebSci such as: - Social machines, collective intelligence, and collaborative production - The architecture and philosophy of the Web - Health and well-being online - Humanities, arts, and culture on the Web - Web Science and the Internet of Things - Web economics, social entrepreneurship, and innovation - Analysis of online social and information networks, social media analyses Workshops can have a mixture of panel presentations and invited speakers, but presentations should reflect the diversity of approaches that characterise the multidisciplinary nature of Web Science. Workshop submission Workshop proposals should contain the following information: - Title summarising the tutorial goals or workshop theme - Name and affiliations of the organizers - Details of the organising/program committee, including names and institutional affiliations and whether they have accepted to participate - Max two-page description about the relevance, motivation and goals of the workshop, as well as pointers to past editions, if any - Schedule of sessions, panels, and talks, including if it is a half- or full-day workshop - Names of potential invited speakers with an indication of whether they have accepted the preliminary invitation - Selection criteria for papers to be presented if the workshop invites submissions It is the prerogative of organisers to decide whether to have an open call for participants and papers, or arrange panels by invitation only. Proposals should include as many details as possible about sessions, speakers, and talks: they will be evaluated by their coherence and ability to address the stated goals. It is the responsibility of the organisers to advertise their event, and constitute a program committee to review and select papers and manage the review process if they wish to include paper presentations in their workshop. If successful, we advise proposals to have a website describing the event (within three weeks of acceptance). Workshop websites will be linked to from the main conference site. Proposals should be submitted in pdf format via email to websci17ws(a)googlegroups.com. Publication of workshop submissions Submissions to the proposed workshops may be included in the WebSci proceedings, or workshop organizers may choose to not publish their submissions. If the workshop proceedings are to be included in the conference proceedings then the camera-ready deadline (see below) must be adhered too. Submissions must follow the formatting guidelines of conference papers. Workshop proposal review The Web Science program chairs will review each submission and select those with the highest scores on originality, timeliness and relevance of the proposed topic, its interdisciplinarity, rigour of the review process, coherence with the conference aims, and potential to attract a large audience. Workshop chairs Fabrizio Silvestri, Facebook UK - London (fsilvestri(a)fb.com) and Matthew Weber, Rutgers University - NJ USA (matthew.weber(a)rutgers.edu) Important dates February 10, 2017 - Workshop proposal submissions February 24, 2017 - Notification of workshop acceptance March 17, 2017 - Workshop website due March - April 2017 - Workshop paper submission and notification deadlines (if applicable, details left to workshop organizers) June 11, 2017 - Camera-ready workshop papers due June 25, 2017 - Workshop date -- Kristine Gloria, Ph.D. @gloriakt gVoice: (562) 448-2697 Skype: gloriakt1

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