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WEBCAST TODAY: Global Cybersecurity in 2017
by Joly MacFie 14 Dec '16

14 Dec '16

Just about to start. They like to do stuff early in DC! Global cybersecurity is an increasingly popular topic, but the CSM have brought together some unique voices for this one. Streaming by our own Paul Brigner. joly posted: "Today, Wednesday December 14 2016 at 8am ET the Christians Science Monitor Passcode will present Global Cybersecurity in 2017 in Washington DC. A panel will explore the best ideas for how nations can effectively work together to improve cybersecurity, hea" [image: Passcode] <http://www.csmpasscode.com/>Today, *Wednesday December 14 2016* at *8am ET* the *Christians Science Monitor Passcode <http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Passcode>* will present *Global Cybersecurity in 2017 <http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Passcode/2016/1213/Watch-Global-cybersecurit…>* in Washington DC. A panel will explore the best ideas for how nations can effectively work together to improve cybersecurity, hear about emerging threats that demand the world's attention, and discover the latest approaches for outsmarting criminal hackers. Speakers: *Dr. David Brumley*, Director, CyLab, Carnegie Mellon University; *John Nicholson*, First Secretary, Cyber Policy, British Embassy; *Robert G. Sheldon*, Director for Emerging Threats, BENS; *Cris Thomas*, Strategist, Tenable Network Security. Moderator: *Sara Sorcher*, Deputy Editor, Passcode. The session will be webcast live on the* CSM YouTube Channel <https://youtu.be/cpvVyJj_RPU>.* *What: Global Cybersecurity in 2017 <http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Passcode/2016/1213/Watch-Global-cybersecurit…> Where: Washington, DC When: Wednesday, December 14, 2016 8:00 - 9:30 a.m. (13:00-14:30 UTC) Webcast: https://youtu.be/cpvVyJj_RP <https://youtu.be/cpvVyJj_RP> Twitter: https://twitter.com/hashtag/CSMGlobalSecurity <https://twitter.com/hashtag/CSMGlobalSecurity>* Comment <http://isoc-ny.org/p2/8866#respond> See all comments <http://isoc-ny.org/p2/8866#comments> *Permalink* http://isoc-ny.org/p2/8866 -- --------------------------------------------------------------- Joly MacFie 218 565 9365 Skype:punkcast -------------------------------------------------------------- -

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CFP: InfoSocial Grad Conference @ Northwestern
by William Marler 14 Dec '16

14 Dec '16

Call for Papers InfoSocial 2017 A graduate student conference hosted by the twin programs of Media, Technology, and Society (MTS) and Technology and Social Behavior (TSB) at Northwestern University. Date: April 7-8, 2017 Location: Northwestern University, Evanston, IL Submission Deadline: February 1, 2017 The Information Age was getting hype before most graduate students today were born. The idea of the Network Society is approaching the U.S. drinking age. And the Digital Era? As old as Rick Astley. To break new ground and continue to explore how people interact through and with technology, we need novel ideas, updated methods, and a disregard for disciplinary conventions and boundaries. Enter InfoSocial. InfoSocial is a student-run conference dedicated to showcasing interdisciplinary graduate student research on the role of technology in contemporary society. In 2017, the conference aims to bring scholars from diverse disciplines together to showcase new, innovative approaches to key questions, and highlight opportunities for cross-disciplinary collaborations that explore the (now old) argument that human society has forever been changed by technology. This is your call. We are looking for papers authored by graduate students (submitted as extended abstracts) that are theoretically engaging, methodologically sound, and socially relevant, as well as timely. We are disciplinary agnostics, seeking submissions from within and across fields like communication and media studies, information science, computer science, science and technology studies, human-computer interaction, sociology, psychology, political science, and anthropology. New and mixed methodologies will excite us, including approaches that blend established methods with new, innovative tools. Here are only some of the topics we hope to include: - Human-computer interaction - Online behavior & cyberpsychology - Privacy, surveillance & encryption - Social media & big data - Youth, family & the media - Social impact, policy & regulation of technology - Digital cultures, online communities & gaming - Digital inequality, skills & social capital - Information and communication technologies for development - Communication, technology, and politics - Transformation of the mass media in the digital era Submissions: To submit to InfoSocial 2017, please prepare an anonymized extended abstract of no more than 1,000 words (excluding references) that explains your paper, any unique methodological approaches you use, and how it pushes the boundaries of our knowledge about how people interact through and/or with technology. Please format your abstract in either APA or ACM SIGCHI style. Submit your abstract no later than February 1, 2017 at https://infosocial.soc.northwestern.edu/submit/. Dates and Information: Extended abstract submission deadline: February 1 Acceptance notification date: February 20 Conference Dates: Friday and Saturday, April 7-8, 2017 Location: Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois Conference URL: https://infosocial.soc.northwestern.edu/ Note: There will be no fee to attend or participate in the conference. Some meals will be provided, and interested attendees may request to be housed with Northwestern students. While we can make no guarantees, we will do our best to accommodate requests. Code of Conduct and Anti-Harassment Policy: InfoSocial is dedicated to a harassment-free conference experience for everyone. Our code of conduct and anti-harassment policy can be found at: https://infosocial.soc.northwestern.edu/code-of-conduct/

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Associate professor in Communication and IT, University of Copenhagen
by Stine Lomborg 14 Dec '16

14 Dec '16

*apologies for cross-posting* We are hiring an associate professor in Communication and IT at the University of Copenhagen. Associate professorship in Communication and IT The Department of Media, Cognition and Communication, Faculty of Humanities, University of Copenhagen, Denmark, invites applications for an associate professorship in Communication and IT to be filled by 1 August 2017 or as soon as possible thereafter. The candidate should have a clear research profile as well as strong teaching qualifications within Communication and IT. Research and teaching in Communication and IT at the Department of Media, Cognition and Communication is interdisciplinary, encompassing a range of humanistic and social-scientific approaches to theoretical and empirical studies of the intersection between human communication and digital media. Applicants with experience in a variety of empirical research methods and with interdisciplinary collaboration will be preferred. Documented research experience on the relationship between digital media and their uses in specific cultural or institutional contexts will be considered an advantage. Application deadline: 30 January 2017 See more and apply here: http://jobportal.ku.dk/videnskabelige-stillinger/?show=877332 Stine Stine Lomborg Associate Professor, PhD Dept. of Media, Cognition, and Communication Section for Film, Media and Communication University of Copenhagen Karen Blixensvej 4 DK-2300 Copenhagen S DIR: +45 35 32 81 05 email: slomborg(a)hum.ku.dk<mailto:slomborg@hum.ku.dk> www.mef.ku.dk<http://www.mef.ku.dk> *************************** New publication: Lomborg, S. & Frandsen K. (2015): Self-tracking as communication. Information, Communication & Society, vol. 19(7). pp. 1015-1027.

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Government website harvesting
by Joy McNally 13 Dec '16

13 Dec '16

I was wondering if someone has created a running list of who is harvesting government websites ahead of the US government transition next month. There have been a few articles published in the past couple of days focusing on individual efforts, but it seems a lot of groups might be overlapping what they are archiving. Here's a good article discussing a few of the efforts: Scientists are frantically copying U.S. climate data, fearing it might vanish under Trump https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2016/12/13/scient… Thanks for any leads! (And apologies if it's off-topic) Joy McNally Brandow Research Support Coordinator Union of Concerned Scientists | Cambridge MA T: +1 617 301-8048 | E: jmcnally(a)ucsusua.org<mailto:jmcnally@ucsusua.org>

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new book: Private Power, Online Information Flows and EU Law
by Angela Daly 13 Dec '16

13 Dec '16

I am delighted to announce that my book, Private Power, Online Information Flows and EU Law: Mind the Gap has just been published by Hart: http://www.bloomsbury.com/au/private-power-online- information-flows-and-eu-law-9781509900657/ (20% discount when using code 'CV7' at checkout - www.hartpub.co.uk) *Description* This monograph examines how European Union law and regulation address concentrations of private economic power which impede free information flows on the Internet to the detriment of Internet users' autonomy. In particular, competition law, sector specific regulation (if it exists), data protection and human rights law are considered and assessed to the extent they can tackle such concentrations of power for the benefit of users. Using a series of illustrative case studies, of Internet provision (including the net neutrality debate), search, mobile devices and app stores, and the cloud, the work demonstrates the gaps that currently exist in EU law and regulation. It is argued that these gaps exist due, in part, to current overarching trends guiding the regulation of economic power, namely neoliberalism, by which only the situation of market failure can invite ex ante rules, buoyed by the lobbying of regulators and legislators by those in possession of such economic power to achieve outcomes which favour their businesses. Given this systemic, and extra-legal, nature of the reasons as to why the gaps exist, solutions from outside the system are proposed at the end of each case study. *Endorsement* 'This is a richly textured, critically argued work, shedding new light on case studies in information law which require critical thinking. It is both an interesting series of case studies (notably cloud computing, app stores and search) that displays original and deeply researched scholarship and a framework for critiquing neoliberal competition policy from a prosumerist and citizen-oriented perspective.' - Professor Chris Marsden, University of Sussex *Events* I will be giving seminars and talks about the book during January: 9/1/2017 - Power and Identity conference, Graduate Programme on Global Society, University of Tokyo (Japan) 24/1/2017 - Tilburg Institute for Law, Technology and Society seminar, University of Tilburg (NL) 26/1/2017 - Digital Rights and Enforcement panel, Computers, Privacy and Data Protection Conference, Brussels (Belgium) 31/1/2017 - official book launch and evening reception (reply to me if you are interested in attending), London (UK)

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Onteaiken 22 - “Global Labor”: transformations, sensibilities and social conflicts
by Martin Eynard 12 Dec '16

12 Dec '16

Dear AoIR / Air-L members, Greetings from Córdoba, Argentina. It´s a pleasure to share with you our latest edition of the "Boletin ONTEAIKEN", that includes articles around the topics of global labour, transformations, sensibilities and social conflicts, written in collaboration with many members of this community. Please see below and share. Thank you. Best regards, Martin Eynard (PhD) CIECS (CONICET, UNC) *ONTEAIKEN N° 22* *“Global Labor”: transformations, sensibilities and social conflicts* The numerous researches that explain and qualify the transformations of the *“world of work” *over the last twenty years cannot ignore the *"global/ local"* component running through these phenomena. The numerous researches that explain and qualify the transformations of the “world of work” over the last twenty years cannot ignore the "global/ local" component running through these phenomena. Behind this finding we could recognize at least the following relevant features linked to the complexity announced in the emergence of this "metamorphosis": *a-* Firstly, that the understanding of the diverse and complex "global / local" realities of labor require efforts that strain the fragmentation of disciplinary approaches; *b-* In addition, the understanding of the problems associated with the realities of the bodies-that-work (Lisdero) requires linking the transformations of/in the global/local labor world, with the deep metamorphosis of the conditions that shape the subject’s everyday life. *c-* This insight should not leave aside the debate on the implications that the different modes of accumulation cause on inclusion/exclusion/marginalit y and the forms of spoliation of the various and heterogeneous masses of workers. *d-* Finally, it is also important the way in which the global production networks develop concurrently in relation with a sets emergency/latency conflicts that in turn are connected, again, with the aforementioned transformation of the daily lives of thousands of subjects with the current processes of social re-structuring. Such conflicts demand to be understood from a perspective that goes beyond the false antinomy micro-macro that reconfigures dimensions such as space/time or work/leisure/non work, in order to promote a look that re-binds an (undetermined) global logic of the social. Based on the above, and precisely highlighting some of the dimensions that from our perspective are relevant, the new number of Onteaiken aims to bring together a series of articles that problematize the connections between local realities experienced by workers in the framework of global processes. *We invite you to explore Onteaiken 22 (in Spanish)* VISIT OUR WEBSITE <http://estudiosociologicos.dyd.es/newslink/275635/25.html> *ONTEAIKEN *(ISSN 1852-3854) es una iniciativa del "Programa de Estudios sobre Acción Colectiva y Conflicto Social" <http://estudiosociologicos.dyd.es/newslink/275635/13.html> <http://estudiosociologicos.dyd.es/newslink/275635/14.html>

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Call for Abstracts: Visual Comm Young Scholars ICA Preconference
by Samantha Close 12 Dec '16

12 Dec '16

Hi folks, If you're a young scholar studying visual communication in any of its forms, please consider submitting to the Visual Communication Studies ICA Preconference. The deadline is Jan. 1. We're asking for abstracts, not full papers, and works-in-progress as well as non-traditional research formats are encouraged. More details here: http://www.icahdq.org/conf/2017/pc-visual.pdf Contact me if you have any questions! Many thanks, Samantha

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Apply Now: Civic Media, Art & Practice MA at Emerson
by Eric Gordon 12 Dec '16

12 Dec '16

Dear Friends and Colleagues, I'm writing to share that the Engagement Lab at Emerson College <http://engagementgamelab.us6.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8cb16e3042072f11…> is now accepting applications for the second cohort in our Master of Arts degree program Civic Media, Art & Practice (CMAP) <http://engagementgamelab.us6.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=8cb16e3042072f1…> for fall 2017. We’re seeking interdisciplinary minded students and recent graduates who are scholars, entrepreneurs, socially engaged artists, civic leaders, and creative technologists to apply. We would love your help reaching anyone who is looking to refine their skills and position themselves more strongly in the field of civic media. [image: Introducing Civic Media, Art & Practice] <http://engagementgamelab.us6.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8cb16e3042072f11…> *Check out a short video about CMAP* The core experience and outcomes of the 12-month CMAP program are centered around thesis projects. These creative works highlight the relationship of media, art, and practice and explore a wide range of approaches to the art & design of civic media, including participatory digital campaigns, mobile apps, public art installations, interactive curriculums, and virtual platforms. These projects bring to life the theories and practices that CMAP students explore in coursework throughout the year. At the Engagement Lab, we practice engaged research -- research with direct application to people’s lives and livelihoods. As such, CMAP students produce their scaled projects in partnerships with external organizations that we help to cultivate and support. This past year, our first cohort worked with organizations ranging from the Mayor’s Office of New Urban Mechanics to UNDP Egypt to the Boston Public Library, and many more. You can learn more about CMAP here <http://engagementgamelab.us6.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=8cb16e3042072f1…>, and more about the work we do at the Engagement Lab at Emerson College here <http://engagementgamelab.us6.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8cb16e3042072f11…> . Consideration of applications will begin on *February 1st, 2017*. All applications will be accepted on a rolling basis until July 14th. If you know someone who would be interested in CMAP, please share this email, send me their info, and ask them to reach out to me at paul(a)elab.emerson.edu for more information or to schedule a meeting. -- *Eric Gordon Ph.D.* Associate Professor, Visual and Media Arts Director, Engagement Lab Emerson College http://elab.emerson.edu Faculty Associate, Berkman Center for Internet and Society Harvard University

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Reminder: CfP: “Media Policy and Digitalization” workshop
by Aske Kammer 12 Dec '16

12 Dec '16

*** Reminder; sorry for cross-posting *** CfP: “Media Policy and Digitalization” workshop at NOPSA 2017 Odense (DK), August 8-11, 2017 The workshop will constitute The 2nd European Symposium on Media Policy. Description: Media policy constitutes a neglected sub-field of political sciences and has, traditionally, been relegated to the realms of media and communication studies. However, since it concerns the structures that support and regulate democracy, freedom of expression, and public participation, and since it is of increasing interest to policy-makers on both national and super-national levels, it is an area that could also be of interest for the political-science community. This workshop proposes an occasion for starting such a conversation and fertilizing the ground for increased integration of media policy in the political sciences. Issues of media policy have become pertinent in recent years as technological and social development reconfigures the object of this policy area. So, the workshop will focus particularly on the challenges that digitalization poses to media policy and the questions that it raises. These challenges include – but are not limited to – (1) how traditional media markets such as broadcasters and the press increasingly converge on digital media, challenging the regulatory frameworks and subsidy systems put in place by policy-makers; (2) how digital intermediaries such as Google and Facebook are central actors in citizens’ media use but transgress the tools of the same policy-makers; and (3) the extent to which one can even distinguish between “media policy” and other policy areas such as cultural policy, policies of infrastructure (telecommunications), and trade/business policy. Workshop format: We emphasize the workshop format of the event, expecting all authors with accepted abstract to submit full papers before the workshop (see timeline below) and act as designated opponents on other authors’ papers (i.e., reading the paper in advance and prepare comments). At the workshop, we will have 45-60 minutes for each paper: 20 minutes for presentation, 10 minutes for comments from the opponent, and 15-30 minutes for general discussion. This format should allow for time to work in-depth with the paper contributions. The workshop will accept a maximum of 15 papers, and we hope to be able to publish the best of them as a special issue. Timeline: January 15, 2017: Deadline for paper proposals. Proposals should have the form of extended abstracts (750 words) and be sent directly to workshop chair Aske Kammer (aska(a)itu.dk) March 15, 2017: Notification of acceptance May 15, 2017: Deadline for Early Bird registration July 15, 2017: Deadline for submission of full papers (send to workshop chair Aske Kammer, aska(a)itu.dk) August 8-11, 2017: Conference Workshop leadership: - Chair: Aske Kammer (The IT University of Copenhagen, aska(a)itu.dk<mailto:aska@itu.dk>) - Vice-chair: Vilde Schanke Sundet (Lillehammer University College, Vilde.Schanke.Sundet(a)hil.no<mailto:Vilde.Schanke.Sundet@hil.no>) Venue: The workshop will be part of the Nordic Political Science Association’s (NoPSA) XVIII Political Science Congress, which will be held at the Department of Political Science and Public Management at the University of Southern Denmark on August 8-11, 2017. For more information, please visit http://www.sdu.dk/NOPSA2017. --- Aske Kammer Adjunkt, ph.d. // Assistant Professor, PhD Digital Society and Communication section The IT University of Copenhagen Formand for SMiD (Sammenslutningen for Medieforskere i Danmark) // Chair of the Association of Media Researchers in Denmark Web: www.AskeKammer.dk<http://www.askekammer.dk/> Twitter: @AskeKammer Nye publikationer // Recent publications: “A welfare perspective on Nordic media subsidies”, Journal of Media Business Studies, 13(3), 140-152.. “Post-Industrial Cultural Criticism: The everyday amateur expert and the online cultural public sphere”, Journalism Practice, 9(6), 872-889. “The free-to-fee transition: audiences’ attitudes toward paying for online news”, with Morten Boeck, Jakob Vikær Hansen, and Lars Juul Hadberg Hauschildt, Journal of Media Business Studies 12(1), 107-120.

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[CfP] ACM WWW'17 Workshop on Modeling Social Media (MSM'2017)
by Christoph Trattner 12 Dec '16

12 Dec '16

** 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 (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 tohttps://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 Norvag, 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 authorsâ€™ 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 -- ------------------------------------------------------- Dipl.-Ing. Dr.techn. Christoph Trattner BSc Know-Center Research Center for Big Data Analytics & Data Driven Business Graz University of Technology, Austria E-mail: ctrattner(a)know-center.at Tel: +43 650 2402801 Homepage: http://christophtrattner.info ------------------------------------------------------- New book: Mining, Modeling, and Recommending 'Things' in Social Media* by M. Atzmueller, A. Chin, C. Scholz, C. Trattner (eds.) http://link.springer.com/978-3-319-14723-9 -------------------------------------------------------

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