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Deadline Extension MSM2017 @ WWW2017 - 8th International Workshop on Modeling Social Media
by Christoph Trattner 09 Jan '17

09 Jan '17

** Deadline extended to 15 Jan, 2017 ** ** Please forward to anyone who might be interested ** -------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS 8th International Workshop on Modeling Social Media (MSM'2017) Machine Learning and AI for Modeling and Analyzing Social Media to be held on April 3-7, 2017, Perth, Australia co-located with ACM WWW 2017 http://www.kde.cs.uni-kassel.de/ws/msm2017/ -------------------------------------------------------------- Important Dates: ================ ** Submission Deadline: Jan 7, 2017 Jan 15, 2017 (23:59 Australian Western Standard Time) ** Notification of Acceptance: Jan 31, 2017 ** Camera-Ready Versions Due: Feb 14, 2017 ** Workshop date: April 3-7, 2017 (exact date to be determined) Workshop Organizers: ==================== Martin Atzmueller, University of Kassel, Germany;atzmueller(a)cs.uni-kassel.de Shlomo Berkovsky, CSIRO, Australia; shlomo.berkovsky(a)csiro.au Alvin Chin, BMW Group, USA; alvin.chin(a)bmwna.com Jianxin Li, University of Western Australia, Australia; Jianxin.li(a)uwa.edu. au Christoph Trattner, Know-Center, Austria; trattner.christoph(a)gmail.com In this workshop, we aim to attract researchers from all over the world working on Machine Learning and AI models for social media data analytics and predictive insights. Social networks such as Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn have paved the way for generating huge amount of diverse data in a short period of time. Such social media data require the application of big data analytics to produce meaningful information to both information consumers and data generators. Machine learning and AI techniques are particularly effective in situations where deep and predictive insights need to be uncovered from such social media data sets that are large, diverse and fast changing. We aim to focus on machine learning and AI driven data analytics and predictive modeling on social media and the web. We invite researchers that are interested in going beyond standard analytics approaches and discovering the knowledge/insights hidden in the large and fast-changing social media data. In this context, we would also like to invite researchers in the machine learning, AI, natural language processing, data and web mining community to lend their expertise to help to increase our understanding of the web and social media. We are interested in receiving papers related to the following topics which include but are not limited to: * AI, machine learning and natural language processing for social media, big data and the web * Learning analytics methods or frameworks for social media, big data and the web * Learning activities, applications and interventions * Approaches for social influence learning * Learning methods for social link prediction * Methods for learning social activities and behavioral analytic metrics * Approaches and algorithms for efficient learning * Evaluation of learning analytics frameworks and metrics * Applications of any of the above methods and technologies The goal of this workshop is to study the application of machine learning and AI approaches and algorithms to social media, big data and the web. Submissions: We solicit full research papers (4-6 pages), and short papers (1-4 pages) both in the ACM conference paper style. Papers should be submitted in EasyChair to https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=msm2017 Program Committee: ================== Javier Luis Canovas Izquierdo, IN3 - UOC, Spain Arkaitz Zubiaga, University of Warwick, UK Shaghayegh Sahebi, University of Pittsburgh, USA Sharon Hsiao, Arizona State University, USA Bin Guo, Northwestern Polytechnical University, China Michael Granitzer, University of Passau, Germany Kjetil Nørvåg, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway Mark Kibanov, University of Kassel, Germany Eelco Herder, L3S Research Center, Germany Denis Parra, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, Chile Robin Burke, DePaul University, USA Su Yang, Fudan University, China Geert-Jan Houben, TU Delft, Netherlands Proceedings: ============ Contributions will be included in the Companion volume of the ACM WWW2017 conference, which will be published by ACM and included in the ACM Digital Library. However, to make that happen at least one author of the accepted paper has to register. At the time of submission of the final camera-ready copy, authors will have to indicate the already registered person for that publication. Any paper published by the ACM, IEEE, etc. which can be properly cited constitutes research which must be considered in judging the novelty of a WWW submission, whether the published paper was in a conference, journal, or workshop. Therefore, any paper previously published as part of a WWW workshop must be referenced and suitably extended with new content to qualify as a new submission to the Research Track at the WWW conference. Submission guidelines: ====================== All submitted papers must * be written in English; * contain author names, affiliations, and email addresses; * be formatted according to the ACM SIG Proceedings template (http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates) with a font size no smaller than 9pt; * be in PDF (make sure that the PDF can be viewed on any platform), and formatted for US Letter size; * occupy no more than six pages, including the abstract, references, and appendices. It is the authors’ responsibility to ensure that their submissions adhere strictly to the required format. Submissions that do not comply with the above guidelines may be rejected without review. All submissions must be entered into the reviewing system: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=msm2016 Contact: ======== Martin Atzmueller, University of Kassel, Germany;atzmueller(a)cs.uni-kassel.de Shlomo Berkovsky, CSIRO, Australia; shlomo.berkovsky(a)csiro.au Alvin Chin, BMW Group, USA; alvin.chin(a)bmwna.com Jianxin Li, University of Western Australia, Australia; Jianxin.li(a)uwa.edu. au Christoph Trattner, Know-Center, Austria; trattner.christoph(a)gmail.com Follow us on: ============= Facebook https://www.facebook.com/groups/527164050627185/ Twitter https://twitter.com/msm_workshop

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CFP: ICA Pre-conference "The challenges and promises of participatory policy-making: Communication practices, design considerations and socio-technical processes."
by Tanja Aitamurto 09 Jan '17

09 Jan '17

Hi all, We are organizing a pre-conference at ICA about participatory policy-making. Please see the call below, and let us know if you have any questions. best, Tanja CALL FOR PAPERS: 2017 International Communication Association Preconference *The challenges and promises of participatory policy-making: Communication practices, design considerations and socio-technical processes.* 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: January 18, 2017* *Final manuscripts due: April 24, 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 18 January 2017, with all identifying information removed. All contributions will be blindly peer-reviewed, and acceptance notifications will be sent out before the end of February 2015. 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 January 18 (via EasyChair) - Notifications sent by Feb. 24 - 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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Giving Voice (MIT Press) Introduction Available
by Meryl Alper 09 Jan '17

09 Jan '17

Hi all, Beyond Meryl Streep calling out Trump’s mimicry of reporter Serge Kovaleski at last night’s Golden Globes, we need a nuanced discussion about the policies impacting people with disabilities, infringements upon their communication rights, and the implications for free speech in society writ large. My book *Giving Voice: Mobile Communication, Disability, and Inequality* (MIT Press, 2017) is intended to move that conversation forward, and I’m happy to share that the Introduction is now free online through MIT Press: http://bit.ly/giving_voice_intro If you like what you read, there’s plenty more in the full book, available for pre-order on Amazon: http://bit.ly/giving_voice_amazon Best, Meryl -- *Meryl Alper* Assistant Professor Department of Communication Studies Northeastern University Holmes 217 m.alper(a)northeastern.edu merylalper.com COMING SOON: *Giving Voice: Mobile Communication, Disability, and Inequality*(MIT Press <https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/giving-voice>, Pre-Order on Amazon <https://www.amazon.com/Giving-Voice-Communication-Disability-Inequality/dp/…> )

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21st European Conference on Advances in Databases and Information Systems (ADBIS 2017): Last Call for Workshop Proposals
by Announce Announcements 09 Jan '17

09 Jan '17

*** Last Call for Workshop Proposals *** 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 PhD consortia and workshops. WORKSHOPS Typically, workshops focus on multiple topics related to data storage and processing. This year we would encourage also workshops focusing on practical applications of research in business/industry and on joint projects run by industry and research entitites. The list of workshop topics is not limited to the aforementioned and we encourage representatives of research and business to submit workshop proposals promoting their achievements. SUBMITTING WORKSHOP PROPOSALS Workshop proposals should be emailed to the workshop chairs: · Johann Gamper (Free University of Bozen-Bolzano) gamper(a)inf.unibz.it · Robert Wrembel (Poznan Univ. of Technology) robert.wrembel(a)cs.put.poznan.pl The proposal should include: · a workshop title · estimated length (1 day or 1/2 day) · names, affiliations, and e-mails of PC chairs · short bio of the workshop PC chairs, including previous experience in organizing workshops or conferences (if applicable) · a (tentative) list of PC (if possible) · a workshop main goals · the list of a workshop topics · preliminary CFP · how information about a workshop will be disseminated and how papers will be solicited The organizers of accepted workshops are expected to: · organize the workshop's program committee · disseminate the workshop call for papers · solicit submissions · conduct the reviewing process · prepare the final workshop program The official language of workshops is English. ORGANIZATIONAL SUPPORT Workshops will benefit from the ADBIS 2017 organizational infrastructure and receive support w.r.t. registration, badges, lunches, coffee breaks, and publication of the workshop proceedings. PUBLICATION Workshops papers will be published by Springer in 'Communications in Computer and Information Science'. We plan to invite selected workshop papers for publication in a journal. IMPORTANT DATES · Submission of Workshop Proposals: January 15, 2017 · Workshop acceptance/rejection Notification: January 21, 2017 · Camera-ready Submission of Papers: June 25, 2017 · Workshops held: September 24, 2017 A detailed workshop timeline, i.e., deadlines for submissions, reviews, camera-ready due, are proposed by the workshop PC chairs, in agreement with the ADBIS 2017 workshop chairs. 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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Social Media and Self Branding
by Julie Grinberg 09 Jan '17

09 Jan '17

Please recommend recent critical literature that addresses social media as sites for self promotion/branding. Looking for work that explores social media participation as (socially) compulsory vs personal choice.

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MCETECH 2017 (Ottawa, Canada) Submission Deadline Extended
by Umar Ruhi 09 Jan '17

09 Jan '17

Dear AoIR colleagues, Based on a number of requests to give more time to authors to finalize their conference paper submissions after the holidays, we have extended the deadline for submitting abstracts to Friday, January 13, and for submitting full papers to Friday, January 27. We hope this new deadline will enable you to submit your research work to MCETECH 2017 more easily. For further details and the full CFP, please visit the conference website at http://www.mcetech.org With your contributions, we hope to put together an enriching and exciting program, and we look forward to seeing many of you in Ottawa in May! Best Regards, MCETECH 2017 Program Committee Co-Chairs

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CFP for Special Issue of Computers in Human Behavior regrading Digital Interlocutors
by Andrea Guzman 08 Jan '17

08 Jan '17

Hello all, This CFP for a special issue of Computers in Human Behavior may be of interest: https://www.journals.elsevier.com/computers-in-human-behavior/call-for-pape… "Digital interlocutors: theory and practice of interactions between human and machines" Robots and other machine communicators are emerging in all aspects of everyday life. They are increasingly performing social and workplace roles such as teachers, caregivers, surveillance, decision-makers and personal companionship. They have the ability to improve quality of human life through assistance, enabling, for instance, independent living or providing support in work-intensive, difficult and possibly complex situations. They also can be used as educators and motivators. This special section of Computers in Human Behavior aims to examine the role of communication in human-robot interaction or social robotics. Specifically conceptualized as examining communication between people and digital interlocutors: theory and practice of interactions with digital interlocutors in the form of artificial conversation entities, artificially intelligent software agents, embodied machine communicators (robots) and technologically augmented persons (cyborgs, wearables, enhancements, etc.) with the goal of increasing understanding of the personal, relational, and social implications of communication between humans and machines and the impact of communication on the degree of personalized interaction. The section will also consider how social robots converge and diverge from accepted communicative and behavioral practices. Preference will be given to submissions that focus on communication or education, but any communicative or social aspect of human-robot interaction will be considered. Both qualitative and quantitative methodologies are encouraged. Manuscripts examining the following areas will be welcome - communicative practices between humans and digital interlocutors - the integration of artificial entities into private and professional spaces - the incorporation of AI into education and other industries - cultural discourse surrounding digital and robotic interlocutors - relationship dynamics between humans and machines - reinterpretations and representations of humans as digital entities Before paper submission opens, potential contributors should send the guest editor a title, abstract, short synopsis of the contribution as well as a short CV or Google scholar profile. Paper Submission opens September 1, 2017 Paper Submission due by October 1, 2017 Decision and Feedback after review December 2017 Final Submission February 2018 Anticipated Publication late spring 2018 The final paper should be in accordance with the Journal's Guide for Authors. Guest editor Patric Spence, School of Information Science, University of Kentucky, patric.spence(a)uky.edu _____ Andrea L. Guzman, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Dept. of Communication Northern Illinois University alguzman(a)niu.edu

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Reminder: IVSA 2017 Montreal deadline approaching
by MC Cambre 08 Jan '17

08 Jan '17

Dear all, this is a reminder for the 35th Annual Meeting *of the *International Visual Sociology Association 2017 on: *“Framing, Reframing: Visual Sociology, Goffman and the Everyday.”* *& BEYOND:* We also welcome abstracts that address other topics relating to visual methods, theories, and the visual analysis of society, culture and social relationships, and are not limited to the general themes of the conference. *Where:* Montreal, Canada. (Concordia University, Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in Society and Culture [CISSC]) *When*: June 19 - 22, 2017. *Submission Deadlines: * Jan. 22 2016 Paper/Panel/Film abstracts Feb. 22 2017 Poster & exhibit abstracts *Publication opportunities:* *Visual Studies* (IVSA affiliated), The *Journal of Video Ethnography* and *The Senses and Society* have expressed interest in publishing top papers from the conference. Further venues to be announced. Conference Website: http://www.ivsa2017.com/ *(submission guidelines will be posted here)* Follow our updates here too: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/visualsociology.org/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/_ivsa_/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/VisualScholars *Conference Hashtag: #IVSA2017* CONTACT: IVSAconf2017(a)gmail.com -- -- *Carolina Cambre PhD Assistant Professor Concordia University, Montreal Centre for Global Citizenship Education & Research Fellow Affiliate of Concordia University - Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling http://storytelling.concordia.ca/content/cambre-carolina <http://storytelling.concordia.ca/content/cambre-carolina> Book: http://www.bloomsbury.com/us/the-semiotics-of-che-guevara-9781472505293/ <http://www.bloomsbury.com/us/the-semiotics-of-che-guevara-9781472505293/>* <http://www.bloomsbury.com/us/the-semiotics-of-che-guevara-9781472505293/>

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Call for Nominations: Global mGov Awards
by emre＠mgovernment.net 08 Jan '17

08 Jan '17

Dear Colleagues, - apologies for cross submissions - mLife events is soliciting nominations for the Global mGov awards as part of The 2017 World Summit on mobileGovernment to be held in Brighton UK during 7-9 May. Global mGov Awards is a worldwide contest aiming to promote advances in the field, and track advances in various countries on recent developments. mGov Awards is aiming to celebrate the valuable contributions of leading mGovernment implementations by public sector organisations as well as solutions provided by the industry in order to inspire governments, businesses and citizens. Please nominate your best projects or solutions in mobileGovernment by sending and email to me or conf(a)m4life.org Also at the Summit, key speakers from the public sector will be presenting the recent mobileGovernment achievements and challenges in their country. mLife events invites all eGov/mGov leaders in the EU and across the globe to share best practices and common challenges ahead. For further info on the Agenda, mGov Awards, Speakers and registrations please visit conference site: http://www.m4life.org and show interest. I would be grateful if you could forward this information to those who may be active in mobileGovernment domain and interested in the World Summit on mobileGovernment and the Global mobileGovernment Awards 2017. -- Emre Simsek Researcher MobileGov UK http://www.mgovernment.net/ emre(a)mgovernment.org

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"Ethics in the Age of Information" - Lecture for The Alan Turing Institute
by Luciano Floridi 07 Jan '17

07 Jan '17

Perhaps this may be of interest to some members of the list? "Ethics in the Age of Information - Lecture for The Alan Turing Institute” now freely available on youtube here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HEvyHf7xJa0 <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HEvyHf7xJa0> 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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