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A discussion about AI between John Searle and Luciano Floridi - hosted by The New York Review of Books Foundation and Fritt Ord
by Luciano Floridi 28 Jan '17

28 Jan '17

Perhaps this may be of interest to members of the list? "On 20–21 October 2016 The New York Review of Books Foundation and Fritt Ord hosted the conference ‘Technology and the Human Future.’ This is the recording of the discussion about AI between John Searle and Luciano Floridi”. The video is now freely available on youtube here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KmEuKkV3Y8c <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KmEuKkV3Y8c> Best wishes, LF ____________________________________________ Luciano Floridi Professor of Philosophy and Ethics of Information Oxford Internet Institute | University of Oxford Faculty Fellow | The Alan Turing Institute, London PA Ms Jessica Antonio | pa.floridi(a)oii.ox.ac.uk <mailto:pa.floridi@oii.ox.ac.uk> 1 St Giles, Oxford, OX1 3JS, UK Tel: +44 (0) 1865 287202 | @Floridi

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CFP for ICA pre-conference: The challenges and promises of participatory policy-making: Communication practices, design considerations and socio-technical processes.
by Tanja Aitamurto 28 Jan '17

28 Jan '17

Hi all, We are organizing a pre-conference at ICA, May 25th, about participatory policy-making, for instance, crowdsourced policy-making. The deadline for extended abstracts is Feb 10th. Please see the call below, and let us know if you have any questions. best, Tanja CALL FOR PAPERS: 2017 International Communication Association Preconference Hosted by: CalIT2, UC San Diego Supported by: CITRIS and the Banatao Institute, UC Berkeley Department of Communication, University of Illinois at Chicago Co-sponsored by: ICA Communication and Technology Division ICA Communication Law and Policy Division Global Internet Governance Academic Network (GigaNet) May 25, 2017 | San Diego, CA Room 5302, Atkinson Hall, UC San Diego *Extended abstracts due: Feb 10th, 2017* * Final manuscripts due: May 1st, 2017 Submit at: **http://tinyurl.com/ica2017policy <http://tinyurl.com/ica2017policy>* Tied to the ICA ’17 conference theme of interventions, this pre-conference asks to unpack how the socio-technical design of online civic engagement in policy-making may “alter and disrupt” democratic processes, practices, and occurrences. As such it explicitly deals with “communication practices that engage with a political event, social phenomena, industrial or socio-cultural practice.” The growth of online tools for civic engagement has ignited the imagination of researchers and practitioners of democratic participation. The internet harbored great promise for cheaper, broader and more inclusive public engagement in politics through self organization, dissemination of information, and transparency. It has also harbored a promise to disrupt the ways government interacts with its citizens through open data, provision of services or engagement of citizens in policy deliberation and crowdsourcing. Interactive, informed, and meaningful civic engagement in government decision-making processes has been viewed as the pinnacle of participatory government efforts. In the US, on his second day in the office, President Obama addressed senior staff and cabinet secretaries, urging them to “find new ways of tapping the knowledge and experience of ordinary Americans.” In Iceland, the government used crowdsourcing in drafting a new constitution. Locally, municipalities experiment with combining both online and offline methods to engage members of the public in participatory budgeting exercises. In the area of internet governance, remote participation has been an important component in efforts to develop effective arrangements for multistakeholder deliberations and decision-making. There is a variety of activities that fit under the broad umbrella of civic engagement or e-participation in policy-making. Those range from purely consultative engagements such as virtual town halls, through policy ideation and crowdsourcing, to binding decision making such as participatory budgeting, rulemaking or the development of internet standards. While significant focus has been placed (in both research and practice) on technological solutions involved in effective online civic engagement in participatory and direct democracy activities, less attention has been paid to the systemic understanding of how these technological solutions interact with the social, political, institutional, and educational arrangements of such engagements and their potential to disrupt and alter traditional democratic practices. This pre-conference focuses on unpacking the black box of online civic engagement for planning and policy-making activities from a systemic perspective. We invite competitive submissions of empirical analysis, case studies, and conceptual work that review the continuum of offline and online participation arrangements through a socio-technical systems lens—an interaction between human participants, institutional arrangements, and affordances of online participatory tools. We envision this workshop as a boundary searching—or boundary expanding—exercise that will tackle three major aspects of research of online civic engagement: (a) conceptual and theoretical work for describing and analyzing the socio-technical nature of online participatory policy-making tools, (b) methodological approaches to studying those phenomena with an emphasis on interdisciplinarity and system design, and (c) cases and datasets that invite and enable systemic analysis of both tools and social, political, institutional, and educational arrangements as they traverse both online and offline environments. Our goal is to engage with scholarship on digital divide, online cooperation, informed participation, psychology, internet governance, and computer mediated communication, in order to inform research on civic engagement that goes beyond the analysis of solely technical aspects of platform design and data mining. Theoretical areas and empirical contexts may include but are not limited to: - Conceptual and empirical work on participatory and crowdsourced policy-making. - Empirical case studies of the use of online ideation and participatory tools in rulemaking, participatory budgeting or internet governance deliberation. - Studies of controversies, successes, and failures in technology-driven participatory civic engagement. - Conceptual and empirical explorations of socio-technical considerations in the design of participatory platforms. - Analysis of interactions between offline and online processes and practices of policy-making. - Unpacking of tensions between expert and citizen knowledge and authority in policy deliberation. - Discussions of contextual factors that influence online civic engagement in policy-making (e.g., digital divide, literacy, motivation, political efficacy). *Submission details* At this time we invite authors to submit extended abstracts (800-1000 words) that describe the main thesis, research goals, and to the extent possible, the methodological background and findings of their paper. All extended abstracts must be uploaded through EasyChair at http://tinyurl.com/ica2017policy by February 10th 2017, with all identifying information removed. All contributions will be blindly peer-reviewed, and acceptance notifications will be sent out by March 10th. Authors of the accepted abstracts will be asked to submit a full original manuscript of approximately 4000 to 8000 words, which has not been published elsewhere, by 1 May 2016. *Pre-conference logistics* The preconference will take place on Thursday, 25 May 2017 in Room 5302, Atkinson Hall, UC San Diego. Presenters are expected to register for the pre-conference, but registration is open to both presenters and non-presenters. At the moment, the registration fees stand at 25 USD. *Timeline* - Extended abstracts due by Feb 10 (via EasyChair) - Notifications sent by March 10 - Full paper drafts due by May 1 *Organizing Committee* - Brandie Nonnecke, PhD, CITRIS and the Banatao Institute, UC Berkeley (Questions or concerns? Please email nonnecke(a)berkeley.edu) - Dmitry Epstein, PhD, University of Illinois at Chicago - Tanja Aitamurto, PhD, Stanford University Dr. Tanja Aitamurto Postdoctoral Scholar Management Science & Engineering Stanford www.tanjaaitamurto.com

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Seeking Organizers for the AoIR Early Career Scholars Workshop
by Jeff Hemsley 27 Jan '17

27 Jan '17

We are seeking 2 to 4 Jr. Faculty or Post Docs to help organize the Early Career Scholars Pre-conference Workshop for AoIR 2017 – Oct 18-21, 2017 in Tartu in 2017. Last year the workshop was a great success and we expect a good turnout this year as well. We need 2 to 4 more people to help us organize the event by promoting to Jr. Scholars, reaching out to Sr. Scholars willing to work with us and help with logistics and other organizational tasks. Please join us if you: 1. Can attend AoIR 2017 in Tartu 2. Are a Jr. Faculty or Post Doc 3. Want to work with some fun people and learn from Sr. Scholars. If you are interested, please send an email to both Jeff Hemsley ( jjhemsle(a)syr.edu) and Andrea L. Guzman (alguzman(a)niu.edu) https://aoir.org/aoir2017/ -- Jeff Hemsley Assistant Professor School of Information Studies Syracuse University Author of 'Going Viral', Polity Press, 2013 Twitter: @JeffHemsley my.ischool.syr.edu/People/jjhemsle www.linkedin.com/in/jeffhemsley

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Deadline extended: Data Power Conference 2017 call for abstracts
by Tracey Lauriault 27 Jan '17

27 Jan '17

*DATA POWER 2017* A two-day, international conference organized by Carleton and Sheffield universities. *Dates*: 22nd & 23rd June 2017 *Venue*: School of Journalism & Communication, Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada *New submission deadline*: ***Friday 3rd February 2017*** *Call for abstracts/panel proposals* Increasingly pervasive in our daily lives, data are constituted through converging technologies and practices such as the internet of things, smart cities, drones and precision agriculture; global finance, credit scoring and data brokerage firms; surveillance, predictive policing and customer relation management systems, to name a few. Data are also generated by and flow through applications, software, platforms, and infrastructures that reshape how we play, work, eat, socialise, see ourselves, and know the world. In an era of data power, data have become agentic, especially when input into black-boxed algorithms and systems whose outputs are used to profile and sort us, influence the political economy, and for purposes for which no consent was given. Is this a 'fait accompli'? To answer this question, the Data Power 2017 conference asks: How can we reclaim some form of data-based power and autonomy, and advance data-based technological citizenship, while living in regimes of data power? Is it possible to regain agency and mobilize data for the common good? To do so, which theories help to interrogate and make sense of the operations of data power? What kind of design frameworks are needed to build and deploy data-based technologies with values and ethics that are equitable and fair? How can big data be mobilized to improve how we live, beyond notions of efficiency and innovation? This conference follows the successful Data Power 2015 Conference held in the UK and creates a space to reflect on these and other critical issues relating to data’s ever more ubiquitous power. To date, the following keynote speakers and commentators on data power have been confirmed: - *Helen Nissenbaum*, New York University, co-author of *Obfuscation: A User’s Guide to Privacy and Protest* with Finn Brunton (2015), and PI of the Values in Design project; - *Paul N.Edwards*, University of Michigan, author of *A Vast Machine: Computer Models, Climate Data, and the Politics of Global Warming * (2010); - *Stefania Milan*, University of Amsterdam, author of *Social Movements and Their Technologies: Wiring Social Change* (2016), and PI of the DATACTIVE project; - *Frank Pasquale*, University of Maryland, author of *The Black Box Society: The Secret Algorithms that Control Money and Information* (2015). Papers and session/panel proposals are invited on the following - and other relevant - topics: - The political economy of data - Data and journalism - Theorizing data - The politics of data visualization - Data labour - The social life of data and data-driven methods - The politics of open and linked data - Data-driven governance, surveillance and control - Data, discrimination and inequality - Social, ethical and legal issues - Data citizens - Data activism, citizen engagement and advocacy - Data, genealogy and power - Data power and violence - Critical cultural and feminist approaches to data - Resistance, agency and appropriation. *Information/details* - Whilst we welcome papers and sessions of all kinds, please note that this conference focuses on critical questions about data’s power and also papers that are critical and/or reflective with regards to the social and cultural consequences of the rise of data's power. - Please submit *250-300 word *paper or panel proposals using the following online submission system: *https://ocs.library.carleton.ca/index.php/datapower/datapower2017 <https://ocs.library.carleton.ca/index.php/datapower/datapower2017>*. - The deadline for paper proposals is ****Friday 3rd February 2017*****.* - The conference fee is $225 (CAD) for all, and $90 (CAD) for students. - The organizing committee will select papers for a special issue on Data Power in the following peer reviewed journals: *The Canadian Journal of Communication* and *Online Information Review*. - Ottawa is Canada’s Capital, and is celebrating its 150th Anniversary in 2017. The City is home to numerous international museums and galleries, and Carleton University is set along the beautiful Rideau River and the Rideau Canal. Best wishes, The Data Power Conference team *Tracey, Helen, Jo, Ganaele, Ysabel *& *Merlyna* *datapower2017(a)gmail.com <datapower2017(a)gmail.com>* Tracey P. Lauriault & Merlyna Lim, Carleton University, Canada Helen Kennedy & Jo Bates, University of Sheffield, UK Ganaele Langlois, York University, Canada Ysabel Gerrard, University of Leeds, UK

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[ABS CFPs] Rethinking Digital Media and Citizenship: Conditions, Contexts, and Consequences
by Seungahn Nah 27 Jan '17

27 Jan '17

American Behavioral Scientist (ABS) Special Issue Call for Papers (CFPs) *Rethinking Digital Media and Citizenship:* *Conditions, Contexts, and Consequences* *Guest Editors: * Seungahn Nah (University of Kentucky) Masahiro Yamamoto (University at Albany, State University of New York) *Description: * A substantial body of scholarship has long tackled how traditional and newly emerging information and communication technologies (ICTs) foster an informed, efficacious, and engaged citizenry. Despite prolific literature on digital media and citizenship, theoretical approaches and conceptual and operational definitions still diverge in different disciplines and schools. What seems particularly missing in the literature is an examination of structural conditions and/or contexts that may facilitate or hinder the role of digital media in civic engagement. Therefore, the goal of this special issue is to call for theoretically and methodologically sound scholarship that examines causes, components, and civic consequences of digital media use. Such an examination presents important practical implications and policy applications. This special issue addresses the following major questions: 1) How can digital media use and civic engagement be conceptualized, operationalized, and theorized across various theoretical perspectives in the convergence and divergence of digital media environment? 2) To what extent do digital media (social and mobile), along with traditional media, influence civic engagement and how such an influence varies across communities of places, interests, practices, and beyond, as well as different ethnic groups and those who hold different socio-economic status? 3) How do social contexts and conditions promote or impede the role of digital media in civic, political, and community life at multiple levels? The special issue editors would welcome submissions addressing the following topics: 1) Theoretical advancement on digital media and civic engagement in offline and online communication environments; 2) Integrated theoretical framework concerning digital media and citizenship; 3) Innovative conceptual and operational definitions (measurements) of digital media across various platforms; 4) Social structural contexts and conditions (e.g., race, class, gender, family, school, organization, neighborhood, etc.) that affect digital media use and its effects on civic engagement; 5) Linkage between online and offline civic engagement from networked community perspectives. *Submission Guidelines: * Submitted manuscripts must be in MS Word (.doc) format with a title page that includes the title of the paper, full names, affiliations, email addresses, telephone numbers, complete addresses, and biographical sketches of all authors. Manuscripts must adhere to the APA (6th ed.) style and should contain between 6,000 and 8,000 words, including a 250-worlds abstract with 5-6 key words, all references, and notes. Manuscripts must contain original material which has not been previously published elsewhere or is not currently under consideration by another journal. All manuscripts should go through a blind, peer-reviewed process so no indicators of authorship should appear in the texts. Manuscripts should be submitted directly via email to seungahn.nah(a)uky.edu *Timeline * · Submission deadline: April 31, 2017 · Editorial decision: June 30, 2017 · Anticipated publication date: January/February 2018 All the best, SEUNGAHN NAH ********************************************** Seungahn Nah, PhD President, Korean American Communication Association (KACA) Associate Professor Community Communication, Dept. of Community & Leadership Development Information Communication Technology, School of Information Science University of Kentucky <seungahn.nah(a)uky.edu>

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CFP: Visualizing (in) the New Media (Switzerland)
by Alice E. Marwick 27 Jan '17

27 Jan '17

I'm passing this along at the behest of my dear friend Crispin Thurlow. Please send inquiries to him (crispin.thurlow(a)ens.unibe.ch) and not me! Thank you! Alice Visualizing (in) the New Media Neuchâtel, Switzerland - 08-10 November 2017 http://www.unine.ch/vinm2017 In November 2017, the Universities of Neuchâtel, Zurich and Bern in Switzerland will host the first international conference to focus specifically on visual communication in/about new media. In this regard, we invite the submission of abstracts for scholarly presentations in any of four overlapping thematic areas. 1. Social interaction Here, we envisage presentations that focus on the communicative uses of visual resources in the context of new media; for example: orthography and typography, graphematic design, the use of emojis (pictograms, emoticons, smilies), and/or the social-interactional uses of video, GIFs and non-moving images. 2. Meta-discourse Here, we envisage presentations that focus on people’s talk or writing about visual practices; for example: journalistic commentary about visual practices in new media (the use of emojis, for instance) or communicators’ discussions about their own or others’ visual practices in new media spaces. 3. Visual ideologies Here, we envisage presentations that focus on the visual depiction of new media in, for example, the context of commercial advertising, print or broadcast news, cinema and television narratives and/or public policy and educational settings. 4. Industrial design Here, we envisage presentations that focus on perspectives related to, for example, the visual-material design of technologies and apps, as well as the look or layout of screen interfaces, especially insofar as they concern the communicative (as opposed to technical) affordances of new media. In selecting presentations, the conference team will privilege those adopting a multimodal approach to visual communication; in other words, studies that focus on visuality but attend to its interaction with other communicative modes – especially linguistic ones. We take a broad and critical approach to labels like “new”, “digital” and “mobile” as they are applied to communication technologies; we are nonetheless principally interested in more current, social, interactive media spaces such as micro-blogging, messaging, forums, gaming, video- and photo-sharing, and social networking. The principal language of the conference will be English; however, the conference team welcome presentations and posters presented in German, French, and Italian (ideally, with slides or handouts offered in English). In such an interdisciplinary field, we also invite presenters to use their preferred style of delivery, whether it’s a read paper, an unscripted slideshow or some combination of the two. Titles, abstracts and basic biographical information should be submitted using our online submission system available here: https://www.conftool.net/vinm2017/ . Abstracts should be between 300 and 500 words and written in the same language as the presentation or poster. If the abstract is in a language other than English, please provide a list of five keywords in English. We ask that you also indicate which of our four thematic areas (above) your paper addresses as well as if it is a presentation or a poster. The deadline for proposals is February 28th 2017 with an anticipated decision date of April 30th 2017. -- Alice E. Marwick, PhD Fellow, Data & Society Assistant Professor, Department of Communication University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (as of 2017) amarwick(a)gmail.com http://www.tiara.org <http://www.tiara.org>

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21st European Conference on Advances in Databases and Information Systems (ADBIS 2017): Third Call for Doctoral Consortium
by Announce Announcements 27 Jan '17

27 Jan '17

*** Third Call for Doctoral Consortium *** 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… The internationally recognized ADBIS conference already for 21 years is gathering researchers and practitioners around topics related to databases, data processing, and information systems, in general. The conference is run in Europe but attracts researchers from all over the world. The 21st ADBIS conference will be held in Nicosia, Cyprus. The conference is accompanied by satellite events, including doctoral consortia and workshops. DOCTORAL CONSORTIUM The Doctoral Consortium (DC) is a forum where PhD students can present their research ideas, confront them with the scientific community, receive feedback from mentors, and tie cooperation bounds. Students will receive inspiration from their peers and will have a chance to discuss their research objectives with senior members of the community in the context of an established international conference. The DC session will take place on September 24, in parallel with the workshop sessions. Each participant will present her/his work, followed by a discussion with senior researchers. ELIGIBILITY We seek PhD students who have either determined the direction of their thesis research (probably with some preliminary results already published), but who still have substantial work to complete, or PhD student participants who are in the early stages of their dissertation year. It is not required to have a paper accepted for the main conference in order to participate in the DC. SUBMISSIONS To apply to the DC, please submit a single-authored paper (which will appear in the proceedings of DC), accompanied by a short email from the thesis advisor stating support for your participation in the DC, describing the current status of the thesis research, and giving your expected date of graduation. The papers for DC should be at most 12 pages in Springer format (formatting instructions can be obtained via http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=YWlyLUwJCQlhaXItTEBsaXN0c2Vydi… and describe the state of the whole PhD project, rather than a specific completed result. The paper should outline the objectives, the problem, state of the art, results obtained so far, and what is still to be done in the frame of the PhD project. If an author prefers to present a completed research result, the paper should be submitted to the main conference or one of accompanying workshops. A paper submitted to the DC may not be under review for any other conference or journal during the time it is being considered for the DC. Submissions should be made electronically in PDF format at CMT: http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=YWlyLUwJCQlhaXItTEBsaXN0c2Vydi…. In case of multiple files, please submit a single compressed file (zip or rar). After logging into CMT, please choose the "ADBIS 2017 Doctoral Consortium" track. REVIEW PROCESS Each paper submitted to the DC will be reviewed by at least two members of the DC program committee and will be judged based on originality, technical merit, presentation quality, and relevance. The authors of successful submissions must take into account the reviewers' comments during the preparation of the final version and describe the changes in a separate document to be submitted together with the final camera-ready version. The program committee reserves the right to reject a paper if the final version does not meet the requirements above. Applications not adhering to the provided guidelines (including page limits) will not be considered. The authors of accepted papers must register to the conference, attend the DC and present their work. PROCEEDINGS The DC papers will be published by Springer, together with the ADBIS workshops proceedings, in the Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing series. IMPORTANT DATES · Submission: May 19, 2017 · Acceptance/Rejection Notification: June 30, 2017 · Camera-ready Submission: July 14, 2017 · Doctoral Consortium: September 24, 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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Re: [Air-L] Textbook Recommendation: Introduction to Digital Media Production
by Julian Hopkins 27 Jan '17

27 Jan '17

> > Thanks Chris, > Thanks Chris, much appreciate it. I'll check those out as it's always possible to just have the chapters anyway. All the best, Julian > > Message: 5 > Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2017 12:53:03 +0000 > From: "Christopher J. Richter" <crichter(a)hollins.edu> > To: Julian Hopkins <julian.hopkins(a)monash.edu> > Cc: "air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org" <air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org> > Subject: Re: [Air-L] Textbook Recommendation: Introduction to Digital > Media Production > Message-ID: <D089D9B2-7304-4394-93C4-41021422BDF0(a)hollins.edu> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > > Hello Julian, > > The chapter on digitization in the 2012 edition of Havens & Lotz' > UNDERSTANDING MEDIA INDUSTRIES does a pretty good job on this topic. Also > has a chapter on globalization (https://global.oup.com/academic/product/ > understanding-media-industries-9780190215323?cc=us&lang=en&#). I haven't > seen the 2016 edition, but assume it is at least as good. Although the 2012 > book as a whole does rely on some theoretical models, they aren't too > challenging conceptually, and the digitization chapter is largely > descriptive. Of course, it might be a bit expensive, if you plan to use > only one or two chapters. > > Chris Richter > Associate Prof. Communication Studies > Hollins University > > Sent from my iPad > > > On Jan 25, 2017, at 3:57 AM, Julian Hopkins <julian.hopkins(a)monash.edu> > wrote: > > > > Dear All, > > > > I am planning two undergraduate classes that will mostly consist of > > practical training on the use of image, sound and video editing software, > > and website creation. > > > > However, there would also be a component that overviews of the role of > > digital media production innovations in changing local and global > industry > > contexts. This part would enable students to learn about how digital > media > > have changed work processes, production choices, professional pathways, > etc > > through a comparison of the analog with the digital industry context. For > > example, how 'cut and paste' once upon a time literally meant cutting out > > paper and pasting them onto a master document. > > > > I have spotted 'Introduction to Media Production' (Kindem & Musgrave > 2009 - > > https://books.google.com.my/books?id=-jgqBgAAQBAJ) which would broadly > > correspond to what I want, but the latest edition is 2009 which is a bit > > dated now unfortunately. > > > > I would much appreciate any advice for other texts. It should ideally be > an > > introductory text that is not too heavy on theory, with an historical > > overview and examples, and could form a background for short answer/short > > essay assignments. > > > > Many thanks for your help, > > > > Julian > > > > --- > > *DR JULIAN HOPKINS* > > Lecturer in Communication > > > > School of Arts & Social Sciences > > Building 2, Level 6, Room 16 (2-6-16) > > Monash University Malaysia > > Jalan Lagoon Selatan > > 47500 Bandar Sunway > > Selangor Darul Ehsan > > Malaysia > > > > T: +60 3 5514 4920 > > E: julian.hopkins(a)monash.edu > > W: sass.monash.edu.my <http://www.sass.monash.edu.my/> > > _______________________________________________ > > The Air-L(a)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 > > > > Join the Association of Internet Researchers: > > http://www.aoir.org/ > >

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Final Call for Workshops: ACM RecSys 2017 (Deadline: Feb. 9th)
by Christoph Trattner 26 Jan '17

26 Jan '17

** Please forward to anyone who might be interested ** -------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL for WORKSHOP PROPOSALS ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys 2017) to be held in Como, Italy, 27th-31th August 2017 https://recsys.acm.org/recsys17/ -------------------------------------------------------------------- RecSys 2017 is pleased to invite proposals for workshops to be held in conjunction with the conference. The goal of the workshops is to provide additional venues for discussing novel ideas as well as recent results of research in progress. In 2017 our goal is to have a balanced workshop program which comprises workshop formats of different types and a combination of emerging and established topics. Different full-day and half-day workshop formats are possible, for example: Novel interactive workshop formats with a correspondingly small number of participants. Such workshop formats might for example target at the exploration of a certain topic during the workshop through a moderated discussion or breakout sessions, resulting in a draft paper or report to be completed and published after the workshop. Particular priority will be given to these formats which require the active involvement of the participants. Traditional mini-conferences on specialized topics; such workshops typically have their own paper submission and review processes. Proposals for continuations of existing workshop series are welcome; a brief statement on the development of the workshop series, e.g., in terms of topics, number of paper submissions and participants or post-workshop publications over the years should be provided. Mini-competitions or challenges around selected topics with individual or team participation are also highly welcome. We encourage you to contact us in advance with workshop ideas; we will work with prospective workshop organizers to help them design successful proposals. In particular for workshop proposals with novel interactive formats we are happy to assist you in further developing and implementing your ideas. We encourage both researchers and industry practitioners to submit proposals. PROPOSAL FORMAT AND SUBMISSION The workshop proposal should be a PDF document no more than 4 pages long, submitted by e-mail to workshops2017(a)recsys.acm.org and organized as follows: - Workshop title - A short description of workshop including the rationale for the workshop and how and why it fits the audience of RecSys. This description should include also the topic, format, and details about what type of submission is requested from prospective attendees. - Name, email address, and affiliation for workshop chair(s) and a brief description of their experience in organizing such events. - Requested duration (half day or full day), and expected number of participants. - Description of workshop activities. Outline how the workshop will be organized and how the time will be spent. In particular, please sketch how you will engage participants to foster more interactivity and engagement during the workshop. For more interactive workshop formats, also outline the process of selecting or inviting the participants. - Description of plans for promoting the workshop and disseminating the results. - History of prior workshops on this topic, if any. IMPORTANT DATES - Workshop proposal submission deadline: February 9th, 2017 - Workshop proposal notification: February 25th, 2017 Example deadlines for mini-conferences (workshop organizers are free to apply their own deadlines) - Call for Papers publication: March 14th, 2017 - Paper submission deadline: June 6th, 2017 - Author notification: June 27th, 2017 - Camera-ready version deadline: July 10th, 2017 - Camera-ready workshop summary deadline: July 7th, 2017 Deadlines refer to 23:59 (11:59pm) in the AoE (Anywhere on Earth) time zone. WORKSHOP CHAIRS - Giovanni Semeraro, University of Bari Aldo Moro, Italy - Marko Tkalčič, Free University of Bolzano, Italy -- ------------------------------------------------------- Dipl.-Ing. Dr.techn. Christoph Trattner BSc Assistant Professor MODUL University Vienna Department of New Media Technology E-mail: christoph.trattner(a)modul.ac.at Tel: +43 650 2402801 Homepage: http://christophtrattner.info -------------------------------------------------------

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Final Call for Papers and Deadline Extension: 17th ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL ‘17)
by Ian Milligan 26 Jan '17

26 Jan '17

We are extending our JCDL Full Paper/Short Paper deadline until 5 February. If you’re planning to take advantage of the extension, please submit an abstract (150 words or less) by the original deadline of 29 January. This will allow us to begin the reviewer bidding process. Papers and other contributions can be submitted through EasyChair at http://2017.jcdl.org/call-for-papers/. For submission details and further information about the conference, please visit our site at http://2017.jcdl.org/. ********************************************************************** Final Call for Papers 17th ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL ‘17) #TOScale #TOAnalyze #TODiscover http://2017.jcdl.org <http://jcdl2017.org/> <http://www.dais.unive.it/IIR2016/> <http://www.dais.unive.it/IIR2016/> June 19-23, 2017 Toronto, Ontario CA Follow us on: <https://www.facebook.com/iir2016> <https://www.facebook.com/iir2016> Twitter: https://twitter.com/jcdl2017 <https://twitter.com/iir_2016> <https://twitter.com/iir_2016> ********************************************************************** IMPORTANT DATES January 15, 2017 - Tutorial and Workshop proposal submissions January 29, 2017 - Full paper and short paper ABSTRACT deadline February 1, 2017 - Notification of acceptance for tutorials and workshops February 5, 2017 - Full paper and short paper PAPER deadline February 12, 2017 - Panel submissions February 12, 2017 - Poster and demonstration submissions March 20, 2017 - Notification of acceptance for full papers, short papers, panels, posters, and demonstrations April 16, 2017 - Doctoral Consortium abstract submissions April 16, 2017 - Final camera-ready deadline for full papers, short papers April 26, 2017 - Final camera-ready deadline for posters, demonstrations, panels May 1, 2017 - Notification of acceptance for Doctoral Consortium June 19, 2017 - Tutorials and Doctoral Consortium June 19 - 23, 2017 - Main Conference June 22 - 23, 2017 - Workshops AIMS The field of digital libraries has undergone dramatic changes as digital collections grow in scale and diversity. These changes call for novel analytical tools and methodologies for making sense of large amounts of heterogeneous data, for deriving diverse kinds of knowledge, and for linking across different collections and research disciplines. Thus the theme of the 2017 conference is #TOScale #TOAnalyze #TODiscover. Digital libraries must improve outreach efforts, engage diverse communities, and provide scholars and users with effective and flexible access to materials which will in turn empower them to make new observations and discoveries. This year, we particularly invite papers, panels, workshops, and tutorials that present new discovery methods for diverse kinds of collections and datasets (e.g., documents, images, sounds, videos), that apply recent technologies in related fields like machine learning and data mining, and that report on innovative digital library applications that engage diverse communities, facilitate user access, and enable discovery and exploration in all domains including science, art, and the humanities. This year, in addition to the research-oriented program, we are organizing a practitioners’ day so experts and practitioners can share their experiences and report on major projects. Practitioner contributions will take the form of posters and demos. Participation is sought from all parts of the world and from the full range of established and emerging disciplines and professions including computer science, information science, web science, data science, digital humanities, librarianship, data management, archival science and practice, museum studies and practice, information technology, medicine, social sciences, education and the humanities. Representatives from academe, government, industry, and others are invited to participate. TOPICS JCDL welcomes submissions from researchers and practitioners interested in all aspects of digital libraries such as: collection discovery and development, hybrid physical/digital collections; knowledge discovery; applications of machine learning and AI; services; digital preservation; system design; scientific data management; infrastructure and service design; implementation; interface design; human-computer interaction; performance evaluation; user research; crowdsourcing and human computation; intellectual property; privacy; electronic publishing; document genres; multimedia; user communities; and associated theoretical topics. Submissions that resonate with JCDL 2017 theme are especially welcome, although we will give equal consideration to all topics in digital libraries. SUBMISSIONS Full papers report on mature work, or efforts that have reached an important milestone, and must not exceed 10 pages. Accepted full papers will typically be presented in 20 minutes with 10 minutes for questions and discussion. Short papers may highlight preliminary results to bring them to the community’s attention. They may also present theories or systems that can be described concisely in the limited space. Short papers must not exceed 4 pages in the conference format. Accepted short papers will typically be presented in 10 minutes with 5 minutes for questions and discussion. Posters permit presentation of late-breaking results in an informal, interactive manner. Demonstrations showcase innovative digital library technologies and applications, allowing you to share your work directly with your colleagues in a high-visibility setting. Proposals for posters or demonstrations should consist of a title, extended abstract, and contact information for the authors, and should not exceed 2 pages in the conference format. Accepted posters and demonstrations will be displayed at the conference. All paper submissions (full/short papers, posters and demos) should use the ACM Proceedings template and are to be submitted in electronic format via the conference's EasyChair submission page [forthcoming-see website for link http://2017.jcdl.org/call-for-papers] All accepted papers will be published by the ACM as conference proceedings and electronic versions will be included in both the ACM and IEEE digital libraries. ------------ ORGANIZING COMMITTEE GENERAL CO-CHAIRS * Robert H. McDonald, Indiana University Bloomington * Nicholas Worby, University of Toronto Libraries PROGRAM CHAIRS * Cathy Marshall, Texas A&M University * Ian Milligan, Department of History, University of Waterloo * Adam Jatowt, School of Informatics, Kyoto University PROGRAM COMMITTEE TREASURER * Leanne Trimble, University of Toronto Libraries DOCTORAL CONSORTIUM CO-CHAIRS * Jiangping Chen, College of Information, University of North Texas * Sampath Jayarathna, California State Polytechnic University PANEL CHAIRS * Martin Klein, Research Library, Los Alamos National Laboratory * Periklis Andritsos, Faculty of Information, University of Toronto WORKSHOP CHAIRS * Michele C. Weigle, Department of Computer Science, Old Dominion University * Xiaozhong Liu, School of Informatics & Computing, Indiana University – Bloomington TUTORIAL CHAIRS * Glen Newton, Agriculture & Agri-Food Canada * Kim Pham, University of Toronto – Scarborough Libraries POSTER & DEMO CHAIRS * Justin Brunelle, MITRE * Emily Maemura, Faculty of Information, University of Toronto PUBLICATIONS CHAIR * Jim Hahn, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Library CONTINUITY ADVISOR * Michael Nelson, Department of Computer Science, Old Dominion University LOCAL ORGANIZATION CHAIRS * Christina Tooulias-Santolin, University of Toronto Libraries PUBLICITY CHAIRS * Jesse Carliner, University of Toronto Libraries * Men-Yin Kan, National University of Singapore * Nattiya Kanhabua, Department of Computer Science, Aalborg University SPONSORSHIP CHAIR * Kyla Everall, University of Toronto Libraries LOCAL ORGANIZERS * University of Toronto Libraries -- *Ian Milligan* Assistant Professor Department of History University of Waterloo 200 University Ave W. Waterloo ON N2L 3G1 Canada http://ianmilligan.ca @ianmilligan1 <https://twitter.com/ianmilligan1>

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