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WEBCAST MONDAY: State of the Net 2017 in Washington DC
by Joly MacFie 22 Jan '17

22 Jan '17

Just packing up my kit to go and stream this. At least DC is not snowed in like last year! All the streams are embedded on http://isoc-ny.org/p2/8924 joly posted: "On Monday January 23 2017 the Internet Education Foundation (IEF) will host the 2017 State of the Net Conference at the Newseum in Washington DC. As the 115th Congress kicks off, attendees include some 300 congressional staff and other policymakers. Spe" [image: Livestream] <https://livestream.com/internetsociety/sotn17>On *Monday January 23 2017* the *Internet Education Foundation <http://neted.org/> *(IEF) will host the *2017 State of the Net Conference* <http://www.stateofthenet.org/sotn-17/> at the *Newseum* in *Washington DC*. As the *115th Congress <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/115th_United_States_Congress>* kicks off, attendees include some 300 congressional staff and other policymakers. Speakers include, from the Internet Society, Trustee *Jason Livingood*, North America Director *Mark Buell*, and Trust & Identity Program Lead *Steve Olshamky.* Other familiar names include *Milton Mueller*, *George Sadowsky*, *Gigi Sohn*, *Andrea Glorioso*, and *Susan Aaronson*. Congress will be represented by, from the House, Representatives *Suzan DelBene* and *Bob Goodlatte *and, from the Senate, Senators *Brian Schatz* and *John Thune*. The entire event will be webcast live on the *Internet Society Livestream Channel <https://livestream.com/internetsociety/sotn17>*. *What: 2017 State of the Net Conference <http://www.stateofthenet.org/sotn-17> Where: Newseum, Washington DC When: Monday January 23 2017 9am-5pm EST | 14:00-22:00 UTC Agenda: http://www.stateofthenet.org/sotn-17/agenda/ <http://www.stateofthenet.org/sotn-17/agenda/> Speakers: https://stateofthenet2017.sched.com/directory/speakers <https://stateofthenet2017.sched.com/directory/speakers> Twitter: #sotn17 <https://twitter.com/search?f=realtime&q=%23sotn15&src=typd>* Webcast *Plenary + Breakout1* - https://livestream.com/internetsociety/sotn17 (9am-5pm) *Breakout 2* - https://livestream.com/internetsociety2/sotn17 (12pm-4:30pm) * Breakout 3* - https://livestream.com/internetsociety3/sotn17/ (12pm-4:30pm) Comment <http://isoc-ny.org/p2/8924#respond> See all comments <http://isoc-ny.org/p2/8924#comments> *Permalink* http://isoc-ny.org/p2/8924 -- --------------------------------------------------------------- Joly MacFie 218 565 9365 Skype:punkcast -------------------------------------------------------------- -

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Submission site for AoIR 2017: Networked Publics now open!
by Andra Siibak 21 Jan '17

21 Jan '17

Dear Colleagues, We are pleased to open submissions for proposals for AoIR 2017: Networked Publics (Tartu, Estonia, 18 - 21 October, 2017). To re-familiarize yourself with the call for proposals and types of submissions solicited, please see here: https://aoir.org/aoir2017/subinfo2017/ [1]. Accepted paper and panel submissions will be included in our open access conference paper archive, Selected Papers of Internet Research (SPIR). SPIR helps us further publicize the work of our members and introduce our research to a wider audience. All submissions must therefore follow our SPIR formatting requirements, which includes a consistent header and style format for the papers that will enable people to easily locate author and title information, identify the papers as part of the AoIR conference. This format is only intended to bring consistency to basic elements (such as typeface and spacing), not to impose any disciplinary constraints. You can download a Word template here: https://aoir.org/aoir2017/aoir2017sub_temp/ [2]. Please note that if you submitted a proposal to the conference through ConfTool last year, you will need to re-register. When submitting, please take the time to read the submission categories and topics carefully. In the interest of diversity and collegiality, each conference participant is limited to presenting one individual paper and one paper in a panel, and to participating in one roundtable. You can be a co-author on additional papers, but you must not be the scheduled presenter of these papers. If you have any questions about the submission process, please email aoir2017(a)aoir.org. We look forward to seeing your proposals. Click below to go to the submission site: https://www.conftool.com/aoir2017 [3]. We look forward to your proposals and to a vibrant and stimulating conference in Tartu! Sincerely, Andra Siibak AoIR2017 conference chair, on behalf of the program committee ---- AoIR2017: Networked Publics http://aoir.org/aoir2017/ [4] Important Deadlines: 1 MARCH 2017 Submissions due for EXTENDED ABSTRACTS, 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 ------------------- Andra Siibak Professor of Media Studies Head of research - Center for the Information Society University of Tartu Links: ------ [1] https://aoir.org/aoir2017/subinfo2017 [2] https://aoir.org/aoir2017/aoir2017sub_temp [3] https://www.conftool.com/aoir2017 [4] http://aoir.org/aoir2017

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Call for Papers: First Workshop on Abusive Language Online
by Zeerak Mustafa Waseem 21 Jan '17

21 Jan '17

ALW1: 1st Workshop on Abusive Language Online ACL 2017 (Vancouver, Canada), August 3rd or 4th, 2017 Submission deadline: April 27th, 2017 Website: https://sites.google.com/site/abusivelanguageworkshop2017/ Contact: abusive.language.workshop(a)gmail.com<mailto:abusive.language.workshop@gmail.com> Overview The last few years have seen a surge in abusive online behavior, with governments, social media platforms, and individuals struggling to cope with the consequences and to produce effective methods to combat it. In many cases, online forums, comment sections, and social media interaction have become sites of bullying, scapegoating, and hate speech. These forms of online aggression not only poison the social climate of the online communities that experience it, but can also provoke physical violence and harm. Addressing abusive language necessitates a multi-disciplinary approach that requires knowledge from several fields, including (but not limited to): media studies, natural language processing (NLP), psychology, sociology, law, gender studies, communications, and critical race theory. NLP, as a field that directly works with computationally analyzing language, is in a unique position to develop automated methods to analyse, detect, and filter abusive language. By working across disciplinary divides, researchers in all these fields can produce a comprehensive approach to abusive language that blends together computational, social and legal methods. In this one-day workshop, we therefore want to bring researchers of various disciplines together to discuss approaches to abusive language. The workshop will include invited speakers and panelists from fields within and outside of NLP, as well as submitted papers from researchers across all areas. In addition, the workshop will host an “unshared task”. Paper Topics We invite long and short papers on any of the following general topics: • Assessment of all current methods of addressing abusive language • The social, personal and cultural effects of abusive language online • Legal ramifications of measures taken against abusive language use • NLP models and methods for abusive language detection • Application of NLP tools to analyze social media content and other large data sets • NLP models for cross-lingual abusive language detection • Best practices for using NLP techniques in watchdog settings • Development of corpora and annotation guidelines Unshared task In order to encourage focused contributions, we direct researchers to consider the following list of data sets an unshared task, where participants can choose from a list of datasets to conduct their experiments. This list includes: • Twitter Data Set [Waseem and Hovy, NAACL 2016] • German Twitter Data Set [Ross et al. NLP4CMC 2016] • Wikipedia Abusive Language Data Set [Wulczyn et al., Preprint available here<https://arxiv.org/abs/1610.08914>] Submission Information We will be using the ACL 2017 Submission Guidelines<http://acl2017.org/calls/papers/>. Authors are invited to submit a full paper of up to 8 pages of content with up to 2 additional pages for references. We also invite short papers of up to 4 pages of content, including 2 additional pages for references. Accepted papers will be given an additional page of content to address reviewer comments. We also invite papers which describe systems are also invited to give a demo of their system. If you would like to present a demo in addition to presenting the paper, please make sure to select either "full paper + demo" or "short paper + demo" under "Submission Category" in the START submission page<https://www.softconf.com/acl2017/alw/>. Previously published papers cannot be accepted. The submissions will be reviewed by the program committee. As reviewing will be blind, please ensure that papers are anonymous. Self-references that reveal the author's identity, e.g., "We previously showed (Smith, 1991) ...", should be avoided. Instead, use citations such as "Smith previously showed (Smith, 1991) ...". We have also included conflict of interest in the submission form. You should mark all potential reviewers who have been authors on the paper, are from the same research group or institution, or who have seen versions of this paper or discussed it with you. We will be using the START conference system to manage submissions. Important Dates Submission due: April 27th Author Notification: May 17th Camera Ready: May 26th Workshop Date: August 3rd or 4th Submission link: https://www.softconf.com/acl2017/alw/ Organizing Committee • Wendy Hui Kyong Chun, Brown University • Dirk Hovy, University of Copenhagen • Joel Tetreault, Grammarly • Zeerak Waseem, University of Copenhagen (Primary contact) Program Committee/Reviewers The following researchers have agreed to serve on the program committee as reviewers. • Swati Agarwal, IIIT Delhi, India • Fiona Barnett, Duke University, USA • Darina Benikova, University of Duisburg-Essen, LTL, Germany • Simone Browne, UT Austin, USA • Anneke Buffone, University of Pennsylvania, USA • Pete Burnap, Cardiff University, United Kingdom • Christina Capodilupo, Teachers College, Columbia University, USA • Guillermo Carbonell, University Duisburg-Essen, Germany • Pedro Cardoso, Synthesio, France • Gabriella Coleman, McGill, Canada • Bart Desmet, LT3, Ghent University, Belgium • Lucas Dixon, Jigsaw, USA • Nemanja Djuric, Uber ATC, USA • Jacob Eisenstein, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA • Hugo Jair Escalante, INAOE, Mexico • Lucie Flekova, UKP Lab, TU Darmstadt, Germany • Matthew Fuller, Goldsmith, UK • Tanton Gibbs, Facebook, USA • Lee Gillam, University of Surrey, United Kingdom • Jen Golbeck, University of Maryland, USA • Erica Greene, New York Times, USA • Kevin Hamilton, University of Illinois, USA • Sora Han, University of California, Irvine, USA • Christopher Homan, Rochester Institute of Technology, USA • Veronique Hoste, Ghent University, Belgium • Ruihong Huang, Texas A&M, USA • Els Lefever, LT3, Ghent University, Belgium • Shuhua Liu, Arcada University of Applied Sciences, Finland • Elizabeth Losh, College of William and Mary, USA • Shervin Malmasi, Harvard Medical School, USA • Fumito Masui, Kitami Institute of Technology, Japan • Yashar Mehdad, Airbnb, USA • Rada Mihalcea, University of Michigan, USA • Mainack Mondal, Max Planck Institute for Software Systems, Germany • Manuel Montes-y-Gómez, INAOE, Mexico • Kevin Munger, NYU, USA • Preslav Nakov, Qatar Computing Research Institute, HBKU, Qatar • Courtney Napoles, Johns Hopkins University, USA • Chikashi Nobata, Apple, USA • Guy De Pauw, CLiPS - University of Antwerp, Belgium • Whitney Phillips, Mercer University, USA • Karolien Poels, University of Antwerp, Belgium • Martin Potthast, Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, Germany • Daniel Preotiuc-Pietro, University of Pennsylvania, USA • Michal Ptaszynski, Kitami Institute of Technology, Japan • Awais Rashid, Lancaster University, United Kingdom • Björn Ross, University Duisburg-Essen, Germany • Paolo Rosso, Universitat Politecnica de Valencia, Spain • Masoud Rouhizadeh, Stony Brook University & University of Pennsylvania, USA • Christina Sauper, Facebook, USA • Molly Sauter, McGill University, Canada • Nishant Shah, Leuphana, ArtEZ University of the Arts, CIS (Bangalore), India • Thamar Solorio, University of Houston, USA • Jeffrey Sorensen, Jigsaw, USA • Dennis Tenen, Columbia University, USA • Jennifer Terry, University of California, Irvine, USA • Achint Thomas, Embibe Indiavidual Inc, India • Nanna Bonde Thylstrup, University of Copenhagen, Denmark • Lyle Ungar, University of Pennsylvania, USA • Anna Vartapetiance, University of Surrey, United Kingdom • Kristin Veel, University of Copenhagen, Denmark • Erik Velldal, University of Oslo, Norway • Ingmar Weber, Qatar Computing Research Institute, Qatar • Jacque Wernimont, Arizona State University, USA • Michael Wojatzki, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany • Lilia Øvrelid, University of Oslo, Norway Related Events • CHI Workshop on Online Harassment<http://social.umd.edu/woh/>: a workshop focused on developing datasets for researching online harassment • Text Analytics for Cyber Security and Online Safety<http://ta-cos.org/>, LREC 2016 • Discourses of Aggression and Violence in Greek Digital Communication<http://icgl13.westminster.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/55/2017/01/icgl13_…>, ICGL13 • Conceptualizing, Creating, & Controlling Constructive and Controversial Comments<http://comp.social.gatech.edu/comments-cscw2017/>: A CSCW Research-athon

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PornResear.ch seeks online curations
by digital＠humaniti.es 20 Jan '17

20 Jan '17

The online community space PornResear.ch is seeking online curations, critical and/or aesthetic, to be hosted on its website (http://pornresear.ch/) Submission details at http://pornresear.ch/curations song lei digital(a)humaniti.es

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DIGITAL EXISTENCE II: Precarious Media Life - Call for contributions
by Amanda Lagerkvist 20 Jan '17

20 Jan '17

Call for contributions “DIGITAL EXISTENCE II: Precarious Media Life” Conference October 30-November 1, 2017, at the Sigtuna Foundation, Sweden Digital media have the power to transform our existence, raising particular questions and vulnerabilities as part of the experience of being human in the digital age. Big data and hyperconnectivity, tracking and trolling, digital life and digital death are only some of the issues that require an existential media analysis that underscores the precarity of human existence. This conference will be devoted to critically mapping the various digital vulnerabilities that face us in our contemporary media age. Confirmed keynote speakers: Wendy Hui Kyong Chun, Brown University, USA Jeremy Stolow, Concordia University, Canada Beverley Skeggs, Goldsmiths College, UK Endnote speaker: Peter-Paul Verbeek, University of Twente, Holland Following on from the conference “Digital Existence: Memory, Meaning, Vulnerability” organised by DIGMEX and the Nordic Network for Media and Religion in October 2015 (et.ims.su.se), which successfully opened up the field of existential media studies, the second Digital Existence conference will specifically focus on the precarity and vulnerability of the digital human condition. Focusing on the keyword vulnerability raises a number of questions that invite fresh answers. For instance: does hyper-connectivity imply a heightened sense of connective presence – through social media, tagging, and sharing selfies – and/or is anxiety and loneliness saturating our mundane being-in-and-with-the-digital-world? How do big data, tracking and mass surveillance affect our sense of ‘existential security’? What is the role of technological affordances for producing cultures of affirmation and shared celebration – as well as cultures of trolling and hate? What existential challenges are involved when our selves are distributed? What kind of human being and types of sociality are normatively forged in digital culture? And what regimes of knowledge, truth and belief are prompted by digital means for measurement, recording and visualization? How are digital tools meaningful (or not) for those exposed to extreme conditions of precarity, such as displaced and refugee populations? How does the internet shape how we are born and celebrate, die and mourn? And if digital technologies mediate transcendence, what are the exposures and values of such forms of technospirituality? Such questions will need to be engaged within a reframing of the digital beyond the prevailing frameworks of social, cultural, political and economic analyses. They invoke existential issues that require an existential media analysis that foregrounds the precarity of human existence (Lagerkvist 2016). This conference will therefore unearth the diverse renditions of vulnerability that face us in digital existence. In Precarious Life, Judith Butler (2004) argues for conceiving of vulnerability as a precondition of being and becoming human – as an ontological given – bound by the fact that we are relational beings, exposed to one another. We are exposed, that is, by virtue of being finite, dependent and limited; and that exposure and vulnerability are what constitutes us as moral beings. The utterance of vulnerability, she holds, will enact its very acknowledgement, and such a performance will bring about something important: “Vulnerability takes on another meaning at the moment it is recognized and recognition wields the power to reconstitute vulnerability“ (2004: 43). This conference takes this acknowledgement as its point of departure: naming vulnerability as part of the preconditions for being human in the digital age, may similarly forge a fresh and timely perspective on our precarious media life. Our very being is one of limits and incompleteness. Human communication itself is limited (cf. Pinchevski 2005). The boundedness by limits also applies to the limitations (and vulnerabilities) of technologies themselves, due to breaches of and glitches within the systems. Digital existence is constituted both of and within limits. In Karl Jasper’s philosophy the limit-situation of crisis, loss or guilt (Jaspers 1932) in itself constitutes a space that also brings forth or enables new possibilities; these are today entangled with the digital. The conference will therefore also seek to highlight the enabling aspects of limitation and vulnerability. While concurring with a cautious universalist position, conceiving of vulnerability and suffering as transformative existential experiences that create a “tenuous ‘we’ of us all” (Butler, 2004: 20), the conference will simultaneously stress the diverging, unevenly distributed, locally specific, and often culturally-variable dimensions of our digital vulnerability. Thus, our inescapable existential uncertainty is amplified both by the technological culture and socio-political order (Bauman 2007). And aspects of digital media expose us differently in different national and cultural settings across the world, and with different racialized and gendered implications (Citron 2014, Chun & Friedland 2015). Hence, in conversation with existential philosophy, the interrogation of the ways in which our media societies and technologies position us as vulnerable, may furthermore harness broader debates on vulnerability, frailty and debility in feminism, crip theory, posthumanism, sociology, postcolonial theory etc. We are looking for contributions in the shape of position papers that highlight various thematic aspects of digital vulnerability, relating for instance to birth, death, presence, memory, trauma, selfhood, agency, sociality, ethics, religiosity, exile, trolling, hate, surveillance, virality, automation, mental illness, debility or the precariousness of technologies themselves. Conference format The conference will adopt an exploratory workshop format with the aim of creating new trajectories of thought. This is by deliberately veering away from conventional paper presentations followed by a discussion toward a more open-ended but at the same time intellectually intensive framework. The success of the conference will therefore depend on participants’ commitment, which will involve a fair amount of in advance preparation. First, each participant is required to submit beforehand a concise position or ‘provocation’ paper consisting of 1000 words, or 2 pages. These position papers will be used as a starting point for opening the discussion, and need not include polished statements or comprehensive conclusions/arguments but should present ideas or cases in relation to the overarching theme. All participants will be expected to read all positions papers, which will be made available electronically well before the conference. Participants are also expected to come well prepared with comments and feedback. A chair will be assigned for each session, and those selected for the job will be contacted with specific instructions. Each session will begin by a short recap of relevant position papers, followed by invited responses by 2-3 discussants, continuing with an open discussion. The overall idea is to build on previous reading and preparation by participants in order to advance in our thinking on the conference themes as far as possible. During Day II of the conference there will be a walk-and-talk session where participants will be encouraged to step outside and walk in groups through the magnificent Sigtuna area while continuing the conversation. These walking-and-talking discussion groups will then reconvene to a full plenum discussion. Later that day there will be a screening or performance in relation to the theme of digital vulnerability. On the final day there will be a writing session. The conference will end with a final plenary with keynote speakers and respondents, and an assigned discussant who will be asked to also round up the conference in a brief endnote. This will be followed by an open discussion with a focus on how to move further within DIGMEX in terms of conferences, workshops, publications and research collaborations. Important dates Deadline for abstracts of 200 words, bio and contact details: March 15, 2017 (Send them to katerina.linden(a)ims.su.se) Notification of acceptance: April 15, 2017 Deadline for confirmation of attendance: April 30, 2017 Deadline for submitting position papers: August 20, 2017 Practical information The Sigtuna Foundation is a beautiful venue, located in medieval Sigtuna. only 15 minutes from Stockholm’s main airport (Arlanda). http://www.sigtunastiftelsen.se/?lang=en No fee will be charged for this event, and lodging and food for attendees presenting a position paper will be covered by the conference budget. There is an option to participate without presenting and this would imply covering the expenses by other means. Presenters will cover their own trips to Sigtuna! A limited number of master students may receive a scholarship covering their travels. The organising committee consists of Amanda Lagerkvist (Head of programme), Katerina Linden (Conference co-ordinator), Michael Westerlund, Timothy Hutchings, Amit Pinchevski, Charles Ess, Mia Lövheim, Anna Reading and Tony Walter. Funding The conference is organised by DIGMEX, a network within the research programme EXISTENTIAL TERRAINS: Memory and Meaning in Cultures of Connectivity (2014-2018) and funded by Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation, the Marcus and Amalia Wallenberg Foundation and Stockholm University, in collaboration with Sigtunastiftelsen. The programme is headed by Amanda Lagerkvist, PhD. Associate Professor, Wallenberg Academy Fellow in The Department of Media Studies at Stockholm University. Questions about the research programme may be directed to Amanda Lagerkvist: amanda.lagerkvist(a)ims.su.se<mailto:amanda.lagerkvist@ims.su.se>

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Frankfurt School Critical Theory - Donald Trump, authoritarian capitalism/populism & Twitter
by Christian Fuchs 20 Jan '17

20 Jan '17

Read how Donald Trump is prototypical for a new form of authoritarian capitalism. What is authoritarian capitalism? How does Trump practice authoritarian capitalism? These questions are discussed in C. Fuchs' new study "Donald Trump: A Critical Theory-Perspective on Authoritarian Capitalism" that uses critical theory for the analysis of Trump: http://www.triple-c.at/index.php/tripleC/article/view/835 What does Trump's Twitter use tell us about how politics works in authoritarian capitalism? The following piece analyses how Twitter's me-centredness is the ideal tool for Trump's narcissistic and authoritarian politics: http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/christian-fuchs1/how-the-frankfurt-school-_… Critical theory is urgently needed today... The journal tripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique will throughout 2017 operate the special section "Critical Theory Interventions on Authoritarianism and Right-Wing Extremist Ideology in Contemporary Capitalism" and invites submission of interventionist contributions to this section - Submission details: http://www.triple-c.at/index.php/tripleC/about/submissions#onlineSubmissions Please make sure to use the template and to apply the guidelines http://www.triple-c.at/index.php/tripleC/abou/submissions#authorGuidelines

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[SAVE THE DATE] Milan 1 Feb 2017. Introduction to Social Network Analysis workshop - Italy, Milan
by Alessandro Zonin 20 Jan '17

20 Jan '17

Hi all, for which of you are based in Italy (Milan) the next 1 February will take place an introductory seminar dedicated to Online Social Network Analysis. If you are interested additional details and only for Air-L list members 10€ discount code here: https://snamilano1feb2017.eventbrite.com?discount=aoir All partecipants will receive and annual membership license to www.socioviz.net Regards -- Twitter @AlessandroZonin <https://twitter.com/AlessandroZonin> Blog: Social Network Analysis <https://alessandrozonin.wordpress.com/>

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CFP Doctoral Consortium of the Communication and Technology Division of the ICA
by M.L. Antheunis 20 Jan '17

20 Jan '17

CALL FOR STUDENT PROPOSALS 8th Annual Doctoral Consortium of the Communication and Technology Division co-sponsored by the Mobile Communication Interest Group of the International Communication Association (ICA) Thursday, 25 May 2017 | San Diego Public Library, San Diego, USA Description The consortium will bring together PhD candidates conducting research on various types of communication technologies and mobile communication to give them the opportunity to present and discuss their research in a constructive and international atmosphere. The objectives of the event are to provide feedback and advice to participating PhD candidates on their in-progress research thesis. Moreover, the Doctoral Consortium will provide the opportunity to meet experts as well as fellow PhD candidates from different backgrounds working on related topics. During the consortium, students and faculty will be organized into small groups, determined by the thematic nature of the research. In each group, students will present their work, and receive feedback from their fellow students and faculty participants, all of whom will have read the proposals in advance of the Doctoral Consortium. Each proposal will receive detailed feedback from three faculty participants. There will be two poster sessions to allow participants from other groups to learn about and comment on the research of the PhD candidates. In addition to the presentation and critique of proposals, there will be discussion of issues related to making the transition from graduate student to faculty member. The topics will include positioning one’s work for the job market, strategies for publication, the interviewing process and other aspects of faculty job searches. Anticipating a time when participants will have an academic position, the discussion will include issues like managing workload and working relationships, finding a work/life balance, and ways of being a successful academic. Submission Process Applicants must be advanced to candidacy, and have their dissertation proposal topic previously approved by their committee. Ideally, students will be in the early stages of their dissertation, where feedback would be helpful in refining and advancing their work. To apply, students must submit a proposal describing their research. Submissions must be related to one of the working areas of the Communication and Technology Division (CAT) or the Mobile Communication Interest Group (MCIG) of the International Communication Association (ICA). A description of the respective research areas can be found in the last section of this call. Proposals must identify a significant problem (or problems) in a relevant field of research, briefly outline current knowledge of the problem domain, and clearly formulate a research question, or specify hypotheses to be tested. Proposals should outline the research approach, methods, and any results obtained so far. Submissions should be between 3000 and 4000 words (excluding references and appendices), and must include name and affiliation of the PhD candidate. Applications need to be accompanied by a short letter of recommendation from the advisor or member of the dissertation committee stating how the PhD candidate can benefit from participation in the Doctoral Consortium. The proposal and letter of recommendation must be submitted as one PDF document and sent as an attachment in an email to Benjamin Detenber at tdetenber(a)ntu.edu.sg<mailto:tdetenber@ntu.edu.sg>. The deadline for submission is 1 February 2017. Submitted proposals will be reviewed by the members of the program committee based on significance of research, specificity of research topic and/or questions, clarity of writing and degree to which student can benefit from expert guidance and feedback. To help ensure the consortium best meets the needs of its members, limited financial assistance is made possible by the CAT Division and the MCIG. Please note in your application if you would like to be considered for financial support to cover your costs for participation in the Doctoral Consortium (this support would cover only the $75 participation fee and not travel to the conference). About the Communication and Technology Division The CAT Division is concerned with the role played by Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) in the process of communication. It is committed to enhancing theory and methodology pertaining to adoption, usage, effects, and policy of ICTs. Areas of research include human-computer interaction, computer-mediated communication, mobile communication, and other technologically mediated social interaction and networking in all contexts (interpersonal, group, organizational, societal/cultural) and at all levels of analyses. CAT invites papers that make an innovative and original contribution to our understanding of ICTs, with the primary focus on communication aspects of particular technological characteristics. About the Mobile Communication Interest Group The MCIG focuses on the phenomenon of mobility in communication – thus being placed on the intersection of mobility, technology, and culture in human communication. While including a wide array of perspectives and approaches in communication scholarship from historical perspectives to studies on future media innovations, from ethnographic to quantitative empirical approaches, from journalism studies to media effects research the common ground of the Interest Group is state of the art theorizing on mobile communication as well as the discussion of adequate methodology to do so. Registration Participation is only by invitation. Once a proposal is accepted, students can register through the ICA website. Cost for participation is US$75 per person. Program Committee (faculty mentors) Benjamin H. Detenber, Nanyang Technological U, Singapore (Program Director) Marjolijn L. Antheunis, U of Tilburg, Netherlands Jesse Fox, Ohio State U, USA Lidwien van de Wijngaert, Radboud University, Netherlands Veronika Karnowski, Ludwig-Maximilians U, Germany Roselyn Lee-Won, Ohio State U, USA Richard S. Ling, Nanyang Technological U, Singapore Katy Pearce, U of Washington, USA Jack L. Qiu, Chinese U, Hong Kong Shyam S. Sundar, Pennsylvania State U, USA Joseph B. Walther, Nanyang Technological U, Singapore Mike Yao, U of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA Dr. Marjolijn Antheunis Associate Professor Social Aspects of New Media Department Communication and Information Science University of Tilburg Warandelaan 2 P.O. Box 90153 5000 LE Tilburg m.l.antheunis(a)uvt.nl<mailto:m.l.antheunis@uvt.nl> 0031-13-466-2971

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5th European Conference on the Engineering of Computer Based Systems (ECBS 2017): Second Call for Papers
by Announce Announcements 20 Jan '17

20 Jan '17

*** Second Call for Papers *** 5th European Conference on the Engineering of Computer Based Systems ECBS 2017 Lordos Hotel, Larnaca, Cyprus 31 August - 1 September, 2017 http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=YWlyLUwJCQlhaXItTEBsaXN0c2Vydi… In Cooperation with ACM SIGAPP, SIGOPS and SIGSOFT ECBS 2017 is a formal meeting dedicated to formulating and advancing methods, techniques, and tools for engineering of computer-based systems. The conference is devoted to the design, development, deployment, and analysis of the complex systems whose behavior is largely determined or controlled by computers. Such systems are characterized by functional, performance, and reliability requirements that mandate the tight integration of information processing and physical processes. ECBS integrates software, hardware, and communication perspective of system engineering through its many facets that include system modeling, requirements specification, simulation, architectures, safety, security, reliability, human-computer interaction, system integration, verification and validation, high performance/parallel computing, cloud-based technologies, and project management. The conference provides a bridge between industry and academia, blending academic research and industrial development. The proceedings will be published in the International Conference Proceedings Series of ACM and after the conference they will be accessible in the ACM Digital Library. A Best Paper Award will be presented to the best paper presented at the conference, and a Best Student Paper Award will be presented to the best paper written solely or mostly by students. Scope Papers are sought which reflect this intent in fundamental ECBS technologies and application domains including, but not limited to the following topics: · Agile and Lean Approaches and Human Aspects of Software Development · Architectures · Advanced Modularity · Cloud-based Applications · Co-Design · Component-Based System Design · Cyber-Physical Systems · Parallel & Distributed Systems · Parallel Programming Methodologies and Languages · FPGA Systems Design · ECBS Infrastructure (Tools and Environments) · Education and Training · Embedded Real-Time Software Systems · Integration Engineering · Lifecycle Processes and Process Evolution · Model-Based System Development · Modeling and Analysis of Complex Systems · Networked Control Systems · Reengineering & Reuse · Reliability, Safety, Dependability, and Security · Software Engineering · System Assessment, Testing, and Metrics · Verification and Validation Industrial reports of practical solutions, trends, and new system characteristics for ECBS, taking an integrated systems approach, are particularly welcome. They may target application domains such as: Aerospace Systems, Command and Control, Continuous and Discrete Manufacturing, Environmental Systems, Instrumentation and Control Applications, Internet Technology and Applications, Intelligent Highway- Vehicle Systems (IHVS), Medical Systems, High Performance Computing Development Environments and Applications, and Telecommunications. Submission of Papers The conference solicits regular (no more than 10 pages) and short papers (no more than 4 pages). The Program Committee may require an accepted paper to be adapted into a short paper or extended abstract (no more than 2 pages and poster presentation only). All papers must be prepared according to the ACM SIG Proceedings Template format (see the conference web site for further information). The papers must be original contributions not submitted or accepted for publication elsewhere. A submitted contribution should clearly indicate the conference topics it targets. For an accepted contribution to be included in the proceedings, at least one author must register and present the paper at the conference. For further information, see the submission guidelines on the conference web site. Important Dates · Submission of Papers: 1 May, 2017 · Notification of Acceptance: 1 July, 2017 · Camera-ready Submission: 17 July, 2017 · Registration and Payment for Authors: 17 July, 2017 · Early Registration for Non-Authors: 9 August, 2017 Organization General Chair · George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Program Chair · Ondrej Rysavy, Brno University of Technology , Czech Republic Program Co-Chair · Valentino Vranic, Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava, Slovakia Steering Committee · Hassan Charaf, ECBS-EERC 2013 General Chair · George Angelos Papadopoulos, General Chair · Miroslav Popovic, ECBS-EERC 2009 General Chair · Ondrej Rysavy, ECBS-EERC 2015 General Chair · Valentino Vranic, ECBS-EERC 2011 General Chair Program Committee http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=YWlyLUwJCQlhaXItTEBsaXN0c2Vydi…

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Innovative Methods in Media and Communication
by Sebastian Kubitschko 20 Jan '17

20 Jan '17

We are very pleased to announce the publication of Innovative Methods in Media and Communication Research (Palgrave Macmillan 2016). The book engages with the need to rethink established methods to research acute changes in the media environment. The book gathers chapters dedicated to the multifacetedness and liveliness of emerging methods while embedding them in the rich history of interdisciplinary empirical research. Innovation here is a call for widening and rethinking research methods to stimulate a sophisticated debate on and exploration of contemporary methodological approaches for scholars at various levels of academic life. Accompanied by introductory sections of prominent scholars (Saskia Sassen, Noortje Marres, Sarah Pink and Lev Manovich), the majority of empirical studies gathered in this volume are accomplished through early-career scholars who strive to advance cutting-edge and in parts even provocative approaches for the study of media and communication. We truly hope that the book will a valuable resource for doing research as well as for assisting teaching by providing a methods book that draws together a diverse and eclectic range of material that is presented in accessible and stimulating form. Endorsed by Jean Burgess, Jack Qiu and Helen Kennedy, Innovative Methods in Media and Communication Research is available as softcover and eBook at https://www.palgrave.com/gb/book/9783319406992 <https://www.palgrave.com/gb/book/9783319406992> or https://www.springer.com/de/book/9783319406992 <https://www.springer.com/de/book/9783319406992> (and all online/offline bookstores). Best wishes - Sebastian and Anne P.S. This is what the table of contents looks like Foreword by Nick Couldry 1 Sebastian Kubitschko and Anne Kaun: An introduction to innovative methods in media and communication research Part I: Materiality (introduced by Saskia Sassen) 2 Jess Baines: Engaging (past) participants: the case of radicalprintshops.org <http://radicalprintshops.org/> 3 Erin Despard: A materialist media ecological approach to studying urban media in/of place 4 Segah Sak: Socio-Spatial approaches for media and communication research Part II: Technology (introduced by Noortje Marres) 5 Taina Bucher: Neither black nor box: Ways of knowing algorithms 6 Pablo R. Velasco: Sketching Bitcoin: Empirical research of digital affordances 7 Richard Huskey: Beyond blobology: Using psychophysiological interaction analyses to investigate the neural basis of human communication phenomena 8 Alberto Frigo: As we should think? Lifelogging as a re-emerging method Part III: Experience (introduced by Sarah Pink) 9 Emily LaDue: Visual ethnography and the city: On the dead ends of reflexivity and gentrification 10 Paola Sartoretto: Exploring inclusive ethnography as a methodology to account for multiple experiences 11 Neha Kumar: Interviewing against odds Part IV: Visualization (introduced by Lev Manovich) 12 Jonathan Gray, Liliana Bounegru, Stefania Milan and Paolo Ciuccarelli: Ways of seeing data: Towards a critical literacy for data visualizations as research objects and research devices 13 Luca Simeone and Paolo Patelli: Urban Sensing: potential and limitations of social network analysis and data visualization as research methods in urban studies 14 Nicolas Baya-Laffite and Jean-Philippe Cointet: Mapping topics in international climate negotiations: a computer-assisted semantic network approach 15 Katharina Lobinger: ‘Creative’ and participatory visual approaches in audience research Sebastian Kubitschko and Anne Kaun: Innovative methods in media and communication research: An outlook

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