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Re: [Air-L] Elsevier and peer review
by Andrew Herman 29 Dec '16

29 Dec '16

Hi Zach Again, you are absolutely correct. And I think that "growing pains" is the right metaphor for describing what is going on in OA publishing at the moment. In Canada, for example, the principal government agencies that fund academic research now demand that any publications that emerge from publicly funded research MUST be published in OA journals. This sounds great on the face of it, but many OA publishers are seeing this an opportunity to squeeze grant recipients and their institutions for as much as they can get away with. At York University, the faculty spent what the university allocated for OA fees for the entire 2016-2017 fiscal year in just one month. Just yesterday, my wife received an invoice for $3000 to publish an article in an cutting edge anthropology journal, expecting either her university or her grants to pay for it. Moreover, at no point in the review, revision or copy edit process was it ever mentioned that such an invoice was to be expected. That is not right. Andrew ________________________________ From: Zachary McDowell <zachary.mcdowell(a)umass.edu> Sent: Thursday, December 29, 2016 8:16 AM To: Andrew Herman Cc: air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org Subject: Re: [Air-L] Elsevier and peer review Agreed. However, these publishers are often the same publishers who previously did not have an OA option and are now trying to find a way to maintain their profitability. Much of this pay-to-publish "gold" OA is being driven by our publish-or-perish (but only in top tier journals) model, as newer, "platinum" (completely free) OA, journals often are not given the credibility they deserve. Additionally, due to recent OA mandates by Princeton, Yale, and MIT (who followed most of Europe in this regard), as well as US Federal Government funding sources (under development), there has emerged a market for that can demand OA fees to be paid by the institution (and many have a fund for this, due to the "Serial Crisis" in research libraries), so many journals have shifted to that model where the market will bear it. This is a two-headed beast here - it is not just an issue of OA fees, but that fees are charged by journals who demand that fee, often owned by larger conglomerates. There are many of us running platinum (read: completely free for everyone) OA journals (link to mine in signature) for free (albeit with minimum institutional support for hosting). I see this as part of a growing pain for academia - how to reconfigure our notions of value on publishing platforms towards avenues that support our ability to retain copyright and distribute freely. Or, what is the cost that we are willing to pay for access and can "free" journals be just as credible if they aren't part of a major corporation? As for repositories ("green" OA), there are many credible ones, but self-archiving systems will always potentially have this issue. One of the things I wrote to SSRN is that their hosting of that article destroys their credibility, so they should not only take it down but also post a disclaimer about the previously hosted article (so that those who link to it can see). best Zach -------------------- Zachary J. McDowell, PhD University of Massachusetts Amherst Postdoctoral Fellow, National Center for Digital Government Research Fellow, Wiki Education Foundation Editor, communication +1<http://communicationplusone.org> www.zachmcdowell.com<http://www.zachmcdowell.com> On Thu, Dec 29, 2016 at 7:46 AM, Andrew Herman <aherman(a)wlu.ca<mailto:aherman@wlu.ca>> wrote: But there are emerging problems with OA in terms of its political economy that we need to be attentive to, viz., OA publishers charging outrageous fees to authors to publish articles. ________________________________ From: Zachary McDowell <zachary.mcdowell(a)umass.edu<mailto:zachary.mcdowell@umass.edu>> Sent: Thursday, December 29, 2016 7:43 AM To: Andrew Herman Cc: Sharon Greenfield; air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org<mailto:air-l@listserv.aoir.org> Subject: Re: [Air-L] Elsevier and peer review Andrew and Sharon, This indeed seems to be a frightening issue, but I would be remiss to mention that this level of "open access" is merely a (badly managed) repository, and anyone with remedial research skills would recognize this paper as one without credibility. I do hope we don't lump them in with "the problems of open access publishing" because there are multiple types of OA, and this "article" is essentially a blog post that got past Elsevier's censors (if they actually have any). Lumping these practices in with OA, or even "problems with OA" is like lumping in fake news sites with OA as well - its just not helpful for the discourse about OA. As for the article itself, the red flags are all over the abstract, let alone the writing (this wouldn't be passable in an undergraduate seminar for the writing alone, let alone the terrible research methods). The issue here seems to be that Elsevier's repository rules are incredibly lax. From their FAQ under "Is my paper eligible for inclusion and public display in SSRN's eLibrary": "A paper must be part of the world-wide scholarly discourse covered by one or more of SSRN's subject area networks to be eligible for inclusion and public display in SSRN's eLibrary. Every submitted paper is reviewed by SSRN staff to ensure that the paper is a part of the scholarly discourse in its subject area. SSRN does not provide peer review for papers in the eLibrary." They might not do "peer review" but they do say that the articles need to be "part of scholarly discourse" and there is ample evidence to suggest this pile of garbage does not fit the bill. I will be offering "feedback" (to the right of the article) asking for it to be taken down, as well as through their contact information. If anyone knows of more of these, similar feedback should be given (maybe shaming them into doing their job, if not there should be something publicly written about this). This is indeed very dangerous as I've already found blogosphere references to the article. This should be relatively easy enough to combat. Lets just not throw this in with OA, as OA has quite a lot to offer all of us (particularly OA journals with proper peer review). best Zach -------------------- Zachary J. McDowell, PhD University of Massachusetts Amherst Postdoctoral Fellow, National Center for Digital Government Research Fellow, Wiki Education Foundation Managing Editor, communication +1 www.zachmcdowell.com<http://www.zachmcdowell.com><http://www.zachmcdowell.com> On Thu, Dec 29, 2016 at 6:38 AM, Andrew Herman <aherman(a)wlu.ca<mailto:aherman@wlu.ca><mailto:aherman@wlu.ca<mailto:aherman@wlu.ca>>> wrote: Sharon Thanks for the bring this to the attention of the list. This is an area of great concern and certainly is an aspect of the Gramscian war of position against the racist "alt-right" what she should be engaged in. This also points to one of the problems of open access publishing that we are now beinning to encounter. Is anybody doing research on this facet of the tactics of the right? Andrew ________________________________________ From: Air-L <air-l-bounces(a)listserv.aoir.org<mailto:air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org><mailto:air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org<mailto:air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org>>> on behalf of Sharon Greenfield <sharon.greenfield(a)rmit.edu.au<mailto:sharon.greenfield@rmit.edu.au><mailto:sharon.greenfield@rmit.edu.au<mailto:sharon.greenfield@rmit.edu.au>>> Sent: Wednesday, December 28, 2016 11:09 PM To: air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org<mailto:air-l@listserv.aoir.org><mailto:air-l@listserv.aoir.org<mailto:air-l@listserv.aoir.org>> Subject: [Air-L] Elsevier and peer review The other day I was told by someone not in academia that there are regularly planted independently written 'articles' (quotes mine) to places like the Social Science Research Network (SSRN) https://www.ssrn.com so as to give a 'credible source' for right wing racist media pundits and those who follow them. Thoughts on this process? SSRN is an arm of Elsevier. As apparent by below planted 'article' (quotes again mine) and the multitude of scientific errors, there is no peer review. Does this 'open access' of research journals from Elsevier dilute any credibility they have? Would love to chat with someone at Elsevier about this. I do understand what a tough place the publishing industry is in right now. I was pointed to below link which is being used to back up quotes like "97% of women with children by black male partners get ZERO financial help from their partner." : https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2625893 Ninety Two Percent: Examining the Birth Trends, Family Structure, Economic Standing, Paternal Relationships, and Emotional Stability of Biracial Children with African American Fathers Tiffany N. Calloway <https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=2418846> Independent June 2, 2015 *Abstract: * This study examines the birth trends, family structure, economic standing, paternal relationships, and emotional stability of biracial children with African American fathers. For study implementation quantitative research methods were used. Questions were asked through a questionnaire that was administered to 1000 women spanning the united States that were equally ranging from 3 different racial groups; Caucasian, Asian, and Hispanic. Participants were recruited through the internet, radio, and news. This study finds that 92% of biracial children with African American fathers are born out of wedlock and 82% end up on government assistance. The results of this study make it very clear that biracial children with African American fathers are fatherless on a scale much larger than the public may realize. *Number of Pages in PDF File:* 12 *Keywords:* Biracial, out of wedlock, fatherless, black fathers, interracial -------------------------- *Sharon Greenfield* PhD Researcher School of Media and Communication RMIT University, Australia *I and RMIT acknowledge the Wurundjeri people as the traditional owners of **the land * *on which the University stands and respectfully recognise Elders past and present.* _______________________________________________ The Air-L(a)listserv.aoir.org<mailto:Air-L@listserv.aoir.org><mailto:Air-L@listserv.aoir.org<mailto:Air-L@listserv.aoir.org>> mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org Join the Association of Internet Researchers: http://www.aoir.org/ _______________________________________________ The Air-L(a)listserv.aoir.org<mailto:Air-L@listserv.aoir.org><mailto:Air-L@listserv.aoir.org<mailto:Air-L@listserv.aoir.org>> mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org Join the Association of Internet Researchers: http://www.aoir.org/ _______________________________________________ The Air-L(a)listserv.aoir.org<mailto:Air-L@listserv.aoir.org> mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org Join the Association of Internet Researchers: http://www.aoir.org/

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Re: [Air-L] Elsevier and peer review
by Andrew Herman 29 Dec '16

29 Dec '16

But there are emerging problems with OA in terms of its political economy that we need to be attentive to, viz., OA publishers charging outrageous fees to authors to publish articles. ________________________________ From: Zachary McDowell <zachary.mcdowell(a)umass.edu> Sent: Thursday, December 29, 2016 7:43 AM To: Andrew Herman Cc: Sharon Greenfield; air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org Subject: Re: [Air-L] Elsevier and peer review Andrew and Sharon, This indeed seems to be a frightening issue, but I would be remiss to mention that this level of "open access" is merely a (badly managed) repository, and anyone with remedial research skills would recognize this paper as one without credibility. I do hope we don't lump them in with "the problems of open access publishing" because there are multiple types of OA, and this "article" is essentially a blog post that got past Elsevier's censors (if they actually have any). Lumping these practices in with OA, or even "problems with OA" is like lumping in fake news sites with OA as well - its just not helpful for the discourse about OA. As for the article itself, the red flags are all over the abstract, let alone the writing (this wouldn't be passable in an undergraduate seminar for the writing alone, let alone the terrible research methods). The issue here seems to be that Elsevier's repository rules are incredibly lax. From their FAQ under "Is my paper eligible for inclusion and public display in SSRN's eLibrary": "A paper must be part of the world-wide scholarly discourse covered by one or more of SSRN's subject area networks to be eligible for inclusion and public display in SSRN's eLibrary. Every submitted paper is reviewed by SSRN staff to ensure that the paper is a part of the scholarly discourse in its subject area. SSRN does not provide peer review for papers in the eLibrary." They might not do "peer review" but they do say that the articles need to be "part of scholarly discourse" and there is ample evidence to suggest this pile of garbage does not fit the bill. I will be offering "feedback" (to the right of the article) asking for it to be taken down, as well as through their contact information. If anyone knows of more of these, similar feedback should be given (maybe shaming them into doing their job, if not there should be something publicly written about this). This is indeed very dangerous as I've already found blogosphere references to the article. This should be relatively easy enough to combat. Lets just not throw this in with OA, as OA has quite a lot to offer all of us (particularly OA journals with proper peer review). best Zach -------------------- Zachary J. McDowell, PhD University of Massachusetts Amherst Postdoctoral Fellow, National Center for Digital Government Research Fellow, Wiki Education Foundation Managing Editor, communication +1 www.zachmcdowell.com<http://www.zachmcdowell.com> On Thu, Dec 29, 2016 at 6:38 AM, Andrew Herman <aherman(a)wlu.ca<mailto:aherman@wlu.ca>> wrote: Sharon Thanks for the bring this to the attention of the list. This is an area of great concern and certainly is an aspect of the Gramscian war of position against the racist "alt-right" what she should be engaged in. This also points to one of the problems of open access publishing that we are now beinning to encounter. Is anybody doing research on this facet of the tactics of the right? Andrew ________________________________________ From: Air-L <air-l-bounces(a)listserv.aoir.org<mailto:air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org>> on behalf of Sharon Greenfield <sharon.greenfield(a)rmit.edu.au<mailto:sharon.greenfield@rmit.edu.au>> Sent: Wednesday, December 28, 2016 11:09 PM To: air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org<mailto:air-l@listserv.aoir.org> Subject: [Air-L] Elsevier and peer review The other day I was told by someone not in academia that there are regularly planted independently written 'articles' (quotes mine) to places like the Social Science Research Network (SSRN) https://www.ssrn.com so as to give a 'credible source' for right wing racist media pundits and those who follow them. Thoughts on this process? SSRN is an arm of Elsevier. As apparent by below planted 'article' (quotes again mine) and the multitude of scientific errors, there is no peer review. Does this 'open access' of research journals from Elsevier dilute any credibility they have? Would love to chat with someone at Elsevier about this. I do understand what a tough place the publishing industry is in right now. I was pointed to below link which is being used to back up quotes like "97% of women with children by black male partners get ZERO financial help from their partner." : https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2625893 Ninety Two Percent: Examining the Birth Trends, Family Structure, Economic Standing, Paternal Relationships, and Emotional Stability of Biracial Children with African American Fathers Tiffany N. Calloway <https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=2418846> Independent June 2, 2015 *Abstract: * This study examines the birth trends, family structure, economic standing, paternal relationships, and emotional stability of biracial children with African American fathers. For study implementation quantitative research methods were used. Questions were asked through a questionnaire that was administered to 1000 women spanning the united States that were equally ranging from 3 different racial groups; Caucasian, Asian, and Hispanic. Participants were recruited through the internet, radio, and news. This study finds that 92% of biracial children with African American fathers are born out of wedlock and 82% end up on government assistance. The results of this study make it very clear that biracial children with African American fathers are fatherless on a scale much larger than the public may realize. *Number of Pages in PDF File:* 12 *Keywords:* Biracial, out of wedlock, fatherless, black fathers, interracial -------------------------- *Sharon Greenfield* PhD Researcher School of Media and Communication RMIT University, Australia *I and RMIT acknowledge the Wurundjeri people as the traditional owners of **the land * *on which the University stands and respectfully recognise Elders past and present.* _______________________________________________ The Air-L(a)listserv.aoir.org<mailto:Air-L@listserv.aoir.org> mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org Join the Association of Internet Researchers: http://www.aoir.org/ _______________________________________________ The Air-L(a)listserv.aoir.org<mailto:Air-L@listserv.aoir.org> mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org Join the Association of Internet Researchers: http://www.aoir.org/

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Re: [Air-L] Elsevier and peer review
by Andrew Herman 29 Dec '16

29 Dec '16

You are absolutely right, Zachary. ________________________________ From: Zachary McDowell <zachary.mcdowell(a)umass.edu> Sent: Thursday, December 29, 2016 7:43 AM To: Andrew Herman Cc: Sharon Greenfield; air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org Subject: Re: [Air-L] Elsevier and peer review Andrew and Sharon, This indeed seems to be a frightening issue, but I would be remiss to mention that this level of "open access" is merely a (badly managed) repository, and anyone with remedial research skills would recognize this paper as one without credibility. I do hope we don't lump them in with "the problems of open access publishing" because there are multiple types of OA, and this "article" is essentially a blog post that got past Elsevier's censors (if they actually have any). Lumping these practices in with OA, or even "problems with OA" is like lumping in fake news sites with OA as well - its just not helpful for the discourse about OA. As for the article itself, the red flags are all over the abstract, let alone the writing (this wouldn't be passable in an undergraduate seminar for the writing alone, let alone the terrible research methods). The issue here seems to be that Elsevier's repository rules are incredibly lax. From their FAQ under "Is my paper eligible for inclusion and public display in SSRN's eLibrary": "A paper must be part of the world-wide scholarly discourse covered by one or more of SSRN's subject area networks to be eligible for inclusion and public display in SSRN's eLibrary. Every submitted paper is reviewed by SSRN staff to ensure that the paper is a part of the scholarly discourse in its subject area. SSRN does not provide peer review for papers in the eLibrary." They might not do "peer review" but they do say that the articles need to be "part of scholarly discourse" and there is ample evidence to suggest this pile of garbage does not fit the bill. I will be offering "feedback" (to the right of the article) asking for it to be taken down, as well as through their contact information. If anyone knows of more of these, similar feedback should be given (maybe shaming them into doing their job, if not there should be something publicly written about this). This is indeed very dangerous as I've already found blogosphere references to the article. This should be relatively easy enough to combat. Lets just not throw this in with OA, as OA has quite a lot to offer all of us (particularly OA journals with proper peer review). best Zach -------------------- Zachary J. McDowell, PhD University of Massachusetts Amherst Postdoctoral Fellow, National Center for Digital Government Research Fellow, Wiki Education Foundation Managing Editor, communication +1 www.zachmcdowell.com<http://www.zachmcdowell.com> On Thu, Dec 29, 2016 at 6:38 AM, Andrew Herman <aherman(a)wlu.ca<mailto:aherman@wlu.ca>> wrote: Sharon Thanks for the bring this to the attention of the list. This is an area of great concern and certainly is an aspect of the Gramscian war of position against the racist "alt-right" what she should be engaged in. This also points to one of the problems of open access publishing that we are now beinning to encounter. Is anybody doing research on this facet of the tactics of the right? Andrew ________________________________________ From: Air-L <air-l-bounces(a)listserv.aoir.org<mailto:air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org>> on behalf of Sharon Greenfield <sharon.greenfield(a)rmit.edu.au<mailto:sharon.greenfield@rmit.edu.au>> Sent: Wednesday, December 28, 2016 11:09 PM To: air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org<mailto:air-l@listserv.aoir.org> Subject: [Air-L] Elsevier and peer review The other day I was told by someone not in academia that there are regularly planted independently written 'articles' (quotes mine) to places like the Social Science Research Network (SSRN) https://www.ssrn.com so as to give a 'credible source' for right wing racist media pundits and those who follow them. Thoughts on this process? SSRN is an arm of Elsevier. As apparent by below planted 'article' (quotes again mine) and the multitude of scientific errors, there is no peer review. Does this 'open access' of research journals from Elsevier dilute any credibility they have? Would love to chat with someone at Elsevier about this. I do understand what a tough place the publishing industry is in right now. I was pointed to below link which is being used to back up quotes like "97% of women with children by black male partners get ZERO financial help from their partner." : https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2625893 Ninety Two Percent: Examining the Birth Trends, Family Structure, Economic Standing, Paternal Relationships, and Emotional Stability of Biracial Children with African American Fathers Tiffany N. Calloway <https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=2418846> Independent June 2, 2015 *Abstract: * This study examines the birth trends, family structure, economic standing, paternal relationships, and emotional stability of biracial children with African American fathers. For study implementation quantitative research methods were used. Questions were asked through a questionnaire that was administered to 1000 women spanning the united States that were equally ranging from 3 different racial groups; Caucasian, Asian, and Hispanic. Participants were recruited through the internet, radio, and news. This study finds that 92% of biracial children with African American fathers are born out of wedlock and 82% end up on government assistance. The results of this study make it very clear that biracial children with African American fathers are fatherless on a scale much larger than the public may realize. *Number of Pages in PDF File:* 12 *Keywords:* Biracial, out of wedlock, fatherless, black fathers, interracial -------------------------- *Sharon Greenfield* PhD Researcher School of Media and Communication RMIT University, Australia *I and RMIT acknowledge the Wurundjeri people as the traditional owners of **the land * *on which the University stands and respectfully recognise Elders past and present.* _______________________________________________ The Air-L(a)listserv.aoir.org<mailto:Air-L@listserv.aoir.org> mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org Join the Association of Internet Researchers: http://www.aoir.org/ _______________________________________________ The Air-L(a)listserv.aoir.org<mailto:Air-L@listserv.aoir.org> mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org Join the Association of Internet Researchers: http://www.aoir.org/

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New York Review of Books Foundation: a debate about Artificial Intelligence between John Searle and Luciano Floridi - YouTube video
by Luciano Floridi 28 Dec '16

28 Dec '16

Perhaps this may be of interest to some members of the list? The New York Review of Books Foundation recently organised two lectures on Artificial Intelligence by John Searle and myself and a debate between the two of us with Q&A on the same topic. The video is available on YouTube channel here: https://www.youtube.com/user/floridi/videos <https://www.youtube.com/user/floridi/videos> Best wishes, Luciano ____________________________________________ 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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Fake News Detection: A Twitter Data Challenge for Students
by Shulman, Stu 28 Dec '16

28 Dec '16

DiscoverText is sponsoring a student data challenge on “fake” news detection using a corpus of 20 million “Trump” Tweets collected between April and August 2016. The Challenge – Build a model of fake news on Twitter – Submit the model using a short video (=<60 seconds) Requirements – Teams must use our dataset and online collaborative tools, which we will provide for free. – Data export is prohibited. – The model must focus on the nature and scope of fake news itself, not external analyses of it. – Qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methods models are all welcome. – Collaborative teams must include 2 or 3 students at any educational institution. – Faculty supervisors may join one or more teams. – Entry Deadline is March 1, 2017: Links to videos presenting the model in 60 seconds or less on YouTube must be Tweeted with the hashtag #fakenewsdetection. Prizes 1st Prize: $100 for each student. 2nd Prize: $50 for each student. 3rd Prize: $25 for each student. Every team that submits a video will retain an academic DiscoverText license for the remainder of 2017. Background There are many ways to explore the metadata, Tweet text data, images, news links (both fake and real), to test and refine student hunches about the scope and nature of fake news disseminated on Twitter. Our goal is to share these models with academic research community and to support a variety of methodologies for human or automated fake news detection. Start Here – Have each member of the team sign up for a free trial DiscoverText account. – http://discovertext.com/start-a-free-trial/ – Send an email to info(a)discovertext.com with your team name and a list of team member names and emails. – Identify a student team leader who can manage the project and serve as a point of contact. Training – Schedule a web meeting to go over some of the e-discovery, human coding, and machine-learning techniques. – Review the DiscoverText help guides and FAQs: https://texifter.zendesk.com/hc/en-us – Check out some use cases and methods in previous scholarly mentions of DiscoverText: http://discovertext.com/publications/ For more information, contact us at info(a)discovertext.com. -- Dr. Stuart W. Shulman Founder and CEO, Texifter LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/stuartwshulman

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2nd [CfP] WWW'17 Workshop on Modeling Social Media (MSM'2017)
by Christoph Trattner 28 Dec '16

28 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 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 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 -- ------------------------------------------------------- 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 <+43%20650%202402801> 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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Call for Contributions: Social Media and Demographic Research, ICWSM'17 Workshop
by Ingmar Weber 28 Dec '16

28 Dec '16

Social Media and Demographic Research: Applications and Implications Montreal, Canada, 15 May 2017 Call for contributions: This Research Workshop, sponsored by the IUSSP Scientific Panel on Big Data and Population Processes, is a side event at the 11th International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM-17, http://icwsm.org/2017/) taking place in Montreal, Canada, 16-18 May 2017. Organizers: Emilio Zagheni, Ingmar Weber, Tom Le Grand Deadline for submissions: 16 March 2017 Direct access to the workshop website: https://sites.google.com/site/smdrworkshop/ The IUSSP Panel on Big Data and Population Processes (http://iussp.org/en/panel/big-data-and-population-processes) invites contributions from colleagues interested in Computational Demography. The Panel encourages submissions from researchers who wish to present their work, as well as the attendance of scholars interested in broadening their exposure to the topic. Demography has been a data-driven discipline since its birth. Data collection and the development of formal methods have sustained most of the major advances in our understanding of population processes. The global spread of Social Media has generated new opportunities for demographic research, as individuals leave an increasing quantity of traces online that can be aggregated and mined for population research. At the same time, the use of Social Media and Internet are affecting people's daily activities as well as life planning, with implications for demographic behavior. There are clear benefits inherent in connecting demography and data science. As ever more complex population-level data become available, demography can offer rigorously-developed concepts, measures and methods to those involved in the 'big social data' revolution. As social media services become a major source of social scientific data, the interaction with data science holds great potential to advance demographic research as well. Despite the great potential involved in these interactions, there is unfortunately very limited communication between population researchers and data scientists. This workshop is intended to favor communication and exchange between the two communities and would revolve around the main theme of applications and implications of social media for demographic research. Topics that are relevant for the workshop include, but are not limited to: * Population research with social media data * Demographic features of online communities or services * Sentiment analysis associated to demographic events like immigration * Implications of social media and Internet for demographic behavior * Nowcasting fertility, mortality or migration with online data * Understanding population health with social media data * Methods for extracting information from non-representative samples * Applications of demographic methods to online populations Submissions: Participants who would like to present must submit an extended abstract (2-4 pages) or a full paper via EasyChair (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=smdr17) by March 16, 2017 (see https://sites.google.com/site/smdrworkshop/important-dates) The submissions will be evaluated by the Organizing Committee on the basis of quality and fit to the workshop theme. Accepted abstracts and papers will be presented as short presentations, lightning talks or posters. Participants who are interested in attending but do not submit a research paper or a position paper should submit a paragraph explaining why they are interested in participating, what they would gain from participation, and how they can contribute to the workshop. There will be no formal Proceedings for the abstracts and papers submitted. However, authors of high quality submissions will be invited to submit their papers to a special issue on Social Media and Demographic Research of the open access journal Demographic Research (http://www.demographic-research.org/) one of the top journals in the field. The issue would include a selection of peer-reviewed papers presented at workshops organized in collaboration with the IUSSP Panel on Big Data and Population Processes (http://iussp.org/en/panel/big-data-and-population-processes) For questions about the workshop, please email the organizers at smdrworkshop2017(a)googlegroups.com. CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This email and any attachments transmitted with it are confidential and intended for the use of individual or entity to which it is addressed. If you have received this email in error, please delete it immediately and inform the sender. Unless you are the intended recipient, you may not use, disclose, copy or distribute this email or any attachments included. The contents of this email, including any attachments, may be subjected to copyright law. In such cases, the contents may not be copied, adapted, distributed or transmitted without the consent of the copyright owner.

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Fake News Story Sets Off Israel-Pakistan Twitter Feud
by Yosem Companys 27 Dec '16

27 Dec '16

A fake news story has touched off a tense Twitter confrontation between nuclear power Pakistan and Israel, widely believed to have a nuclear arsenal of its own, in an episode that underlines the potentially harmful impact of such stories in sensitive global affairs https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/dec/26/fake-news-story-prompts-pakis…

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CyberSA2017
by Xavier Bellekens 27 Dec '16

27 Dec '16

Dear All, *Apologies for any cross-posting* The conference might be of interest to some of you. — CyberSA2017 Call for Papers June 19-20, 2017, London, UK IEEE is the Technical Co-Sponsor (TCS) of the International Conference on Cyber Situational Awareness, Data Analytics and Assessment (CyberSA 2017<https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cybersa2017>), an international refereed conference dedicated to the advancement of the principles, methods and applications of situation awareness on Cyber Systems, Business Information Systems (BIS), Computer Network Defence (CND), Critical National Infrastructures (CNI), Cyber Physical Systems (CPS) and Internet of Things (IoTs). The aim of the CyberSA 2017 is to encourage participation and promotion of collaborative scientific, industrial and academic inter-workings among individual researchers, practitioners, members of existing associations, academia, standardisation bodies, and including government departments and agencies. The purpose is to build bridges between academia and industry, and to encourage interplay of different cultures. CyberSA 2017 invites researchers and industry practitioners to submit papers that encompass principles, analysis, design, methods and applications. All submitted papers are independently peer-reviewed. The conference proceedings will be submitted for consideration for publishing and listing on the following bibliographic indexes: IEEE Computer Society Digital Library, IEEE Xplore Digital Library, DBLP Computer Science, Scopus, CiteSeerX, Computer Science Index, EI Compendex, Academic Search Complete, CiteULike, Google Scholar & Microsoft Academic Search. The organisers will accept registration of up to 5 IEEE UK&I Student and YP Members at 75% discounted rate, and will offer up to 20% registration discounts for all IEEE, BCS, IET & IISP members. Details CyberSA 2017 is co-located with other conferences as part of Cyber Science 2017<http://www.c-mric.org/cs2017>. * Posters will be presented during the conference. * Industry track is available for discussing and publishing pilot and proof of concepts. * Work in Progress track is available for preliminary work. * Research Ideas track is available for ideas in early stages assessment. * PhD Seminar track is available for discussing and publishing early PhD thesis research Submission Deadline Deadline for all paper submissions, that is, both full papers and extended abstracts for Poster, WIP, PoC, Research Idea and PhD Seminar presentations is 14th January 2017. All Industry track, Work in Progress track, Research Ideas track and PhD Seminar track will be published in the conference proceedings. Interested participants, please submit your proposal using the online submission system hosted by Easychair Conference Portal<https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cybersa2017> or via http://www.c-mric.org/index.php/csa-2017 Topics of Interest Original papers are invited on recent advances in Cyber Situation Awareness, Data Analytics and Assessment. The topics in CyberSA 2017 include but not limited to: Situation Awareness in Emerging Areas * Situation Awareness in Software Defined Networks * Security Monitoring, Scale of Things and Limits to Monitoring * Block Chain Technology in Security * IoT Detection and Software Driven Applications Security * Situation Awareness in Mobile Computing * Standardisation of Cyber Situation Awareness * Search, Triage, Examination and Forensics in Cloud Computing * Cyber SA in Chaotic Computing * Cyber SA in Large Scale IDS Deployments Situation Awareness Assessments * Assessment models and methodologies for Cyber SA * Cyber Situation Awareness Evaluation Recommendation * Cyber SA Maturity Models and Frameworks * Cyber SA for Social Networks Collaborative Defense Approach * Situation Assessment & Decision Making * Defense Strategy for the Enhancement of Situation Awareness * Situation Assessment, Resolution and Decision Loop * Individual vs. Team SA * Group and Team SA Network Situation Awareness * Cyber Attack Scenarios * Situation-Aware and Context-Aware Network Applications * CERTs and CSIRTs * Security Event and Information Management * Application Security, Audits and Penetration Testing Human Factor Cognitive * Workload * Perception * Stress * Knowledge * Training and Expertise * Risk Assessment and Decision Making * Forecasting and Prediction * Operator SA & Team SA Situation Awareness in Military Operations * Military Doctrinal in Situation Awareness * C4ISR (Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance) * Computer Network Operations * Computer Network Defense * Mission Awareness, Command and Control Cyber Situation Analytics * Attack Graphs * Advanced Security Incident Analysis * Sensor Correlation and Cross-Correlation * Implementing Situation Awareness Systems * Information Security Metrics and Measurements Cyber Situation Awareness Frameworks * Proactive Defense Strategies * Instance-Based Learning * Adaptive Neural Logic * Human-Assisted Decision Control * Human in the Loop * Automated Self-Responder Situation Awareness Applications * Situation Awareness in C4ISR * Situation Awareness in Cyber Command and Control Centres * Situation Awareness in Intrusion Defense * Situation Awareness in Cyber Physical Systems (CPS) * Situation Awareness for Internet of Things (IoTs), Enterprise Internet of Things (EIoTs) * Open Source Applications — Dr Xavier Bellekens Lecturer in Computer Security & Privacy Division of Computing and Mathematics University of Abertay, Kydd Building Bell Street, Dundee DD1 1HG Scotland, UK Tel : +44 (0) 1382 30 8482 Mobile: +44 (0) 7548 71 7049 email : x.bellekens(a)abertay.ac.uk<mailto:x.bellekens@abertay.ac.uk> The University of Abertay is a charitable body, registered in Scotland number SC016040 This email and any attachements may be confidential and are intended solely for the use of the intended recipient. If you are not the intended recipient, you must take no action based on the email or its attachements, nor must you copy them to anyone. Please contact the sender if you believe you have received this email in error. [Image: Abertay University] The UK's first national centre for excellence in computer games education Follow us: Web Site<http://www.abertay.ac.uk> | Facebook<https://www.facebook.com/AbertayUni> | Twitter<https://twitter.com/AbertayUni> | LinkedIn<https://www.linkedin.com/edu/school?id=12685> [Image: Race Equality Charter Bronze Award] Abertay University is an operating name of the University of Abertay Dundee, a charity registered in Scotland, No. SC016040. Any views or opinions expressed in this email and any attachments are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Abertay University. This email and any attachments may be confidential and are intended solely for the use of the intended recipient. 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2017 Denver CFP: Where is the Journalist in Social Media?
by Ngoma Evelyn Moghalu 24 Dec '16

24 Dec '16

Centre for Ecological, Social, and Informatics Cognitive Research (ESI.CORE) Inaugural International Conference Moving Forward: Where is the Journalist in Social Media? SpringHill Suites Downtown Denver Metropolitan State University of Denver Denver, Colorado USA June 23-24, 2017 Call for Papers: In the current political climate, the constructions of celebrity leaders and popular forms of mediated truths, especially with the recent "fake" internet news, have raised questions about journalism. Tabloid and other forms of popular journalism use narrative devices of gossip, rumor and scandals while many news media have abandoned facts and intelligent analysis in favor of spectacular outrage and incivility, both situations acting as testaments to the lack of informed opinions. Although scholars and journalists work together during news reporting, investigations/documentaries, and on other issues that are covered by news media, scholars are often confined to academic research and disconnected from the realities faced by journalists. Can citizen journalists and journalism scholars help move forward with progressive research and practice? What are the qualifications and definitions of a `journalist?' Is this someone who is employed professionally - or someone who has received an academic certification (degree) to be qualified? Or can anyone today be a journalist? Citizen participation has been seen as essential in the democratic processes of production, distribution, and reception of news. Online participatory media such as blogs, comments and videos offer a democratic platform for the expression of alternative ideas that may otherwise be filtered by traditional journalism. Yet, citizen journalists need critical media literacy that is often lost in the lure of visibility. How can journalism scholars creatively and critically engage citizen journalists in the dissemination of their research, informed opinions and cultural productions? The Centre for Ecological, Social, and Informatics Cognitive Research (ESI.CORE), in association with sponsors Centre for Media and Celebrity Studies (CMCS) and WaterHill Publishing, invites academics, journalists, publicists, producers and guests to attend, speak and collaborate at the inaugural international conference Moving Forward: Where is the Journalist in Social Media? Join us in Denver, Colorado where the conference will uniquely combine vibrant roundtable and media workshop panels in a collaborative network. The format of the conference aims at being open and inclusive ranging from interdisciplinary academic scholars to practitioners involved in all areas of print, broadcast and online journalism. Working papers and media productions will be considered for the conference. Extended versions of selected best papers will be published in an edited book. Registration includes: Your printed package for the complete conference, professional development workshops, coffee / tea breaks, access to evening receptions, complimentary evening drinks, consideration for publication. Submission guidelines: * 250-word abstract or workshop / roundtable proposal * Include a title, your name, e-mail address, and affiliation if applicable * Submit to conference Chair Dr William Huddy at email address: [1]submit(a)esi.core.org * Deadline for abstract submission: February 15, 2017 * Notification of acceptance: March 15, 2017 * Early bird registration deadline: April 30, 2017 * Full registration deadline: May 30, 2017 * Conference reception and presentations: June 23-24, 2017 Topics include but are not limited to: * Communication * Media * Journalism * Photojournalism * Television and Radio * Social Media * Informed Opinions * Infomercials * Advertisement * Publicity and Promotion * News * Interviews * Audience * Race * Gender * Environment and species * Class * Fiction * Genre * Biography * Theory and Methods * Ethics and Morality * Cognition * Media Literacy * Education and Advocacy * International Relations * Business and Community Partnerships Conference Web Page: [2]www.esicore.org/events/denver2017.html Conference Twitter @esicore #MF2017 Committee Members: Josh Nathan and Ngoma Evelyn Moghalu Conference Chair: Dr William Huddy Dr. William Huddy earned his Ph.D. in Communication Studies from the University of Denver (2012). Prior to academia, Huddy worked as a journalist and anchored television newscasts in Colorado Springs, Colorado, El Paso, Texas, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and Fort Myers, Florida. He's a Past-President (2007) of the Rocky Mountain Communication Association, and an active member of the National Communication Association since 2001. He teaches Political and Campaign Communication, Communication Research and Theory Building, Interpersonal Communication and Public Speaking at Metropolitan State University of Denver (since 2013), with a research focus on student engagement and communication activism. His most recent publication came from the Sept. 2-3, 2015 Center for Media and Celebrity Studies Conference presentation of his paper, "Corporate Colonization and the Myth of Authentic Journalism." -- Ngoma Evelyn Moghalu PhD Student, Texas A&M University (Sociology) MA and BA, Howard University (Mass Media & Communication Studies / Political Science) Member, Centre for Media and Celebrity Studies (CMCS) Event Organizer, Centre for Ecological, Social Informatics and Cognitive Research (ESI.CORE) URL: [3]www.esicore.org | Twitter [4]@esicore References 1. mailto:submit@esi.core.org 2. http://www.esicore.org/events/denver2017.html 3. http://www.esicore.org/ 4. http://www.twitter.com/esicore

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