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Best Practices for Conducting Risky Research & Protecting Yourself from Online Harassment
by Alice E. Marwick 18 Oct '16

18 Oct '16

Dear all, I'm delighted to announce that Lindsay Blackwell, Katherine Lo and I have finished a guide for researchers who wish to investigate topics that may leave them open to online harassment or other networked forms of abuse. http://datasociety.net/output/best-practices-for-conducting-risky-research/ We've put together recommendations for institutions, supervisors, and researchers-- especially junior researchers. This is academic-focused, but we've included lots of cybersecurity guidelines and links to other resources. Please let us know if you find this helpful, and send any suggestions to riskyresearch(a)datasociety.net. Best Alice -- Alice E. Marwick, PhD Fellow, Data & Society Assistant Professor, Department of Communication University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (as of 2017) amarwick(a)gmail.com http://www.tiara.org <http://www.tiara.org>

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New PhD Program in Technology and Humanities at Illinois Tech
by Libby Hemphill 18 Oct '16

18 Oct '16

I’m looking for PhD students interested in studying how citizens use social media to bring about social change in their communities to join the Collaboration and Social Media Lab <http://casmlab.org> at Illinois Tech. We’re currently studying hyperlocal social networks, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and related social media platforms in order to understand social media's role in civic engagement and to reduce cyberbullying. We use interviews, participatory design, machine learning, and natural language processing in our research. Students in the lab will enroll in the PhD program in Technology and Humanities <http://humansciences.iit.edu/humanities/programs/graduate-programs/phd-tech…>. More about the program is below, and you can learn more about our social media and civic engagement project on the lab’s website <http://www.casmlab.org/research/>. This project is supported by the National Science Foundation <http://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1525662&HistoricalAwards=fa…> and includes at least one year of full tuition and stipend support for qualified students. ------ Applications for the PhD Program in Technology and Humanities at the Illinois Institute of Technology are now being accepted! The application deadline for Fall 2017 is January 31, 2017. Applicants interested in research in any of the following areas are encouraged to apply: - Civic impacts of social media - Digital design and production - Ethics and technology - Games and gaming - Gender and sexuality in technology - History of technology - Participatory culture and social media - Rhetoric of technology - Science, technology, and society The program is educating a new type of scholar - someone who will contribute creative and critical work and advance the understanding of the relationships between people and technologies. All students take courses in the Humanities Department’s core areas of communication, information, and media studies, history, linguistics, and philosophy and work closely with faculty in multiple disciplines. To learn more about our department, visit http://humansciences.iit.edu/humanities. Most students receive tuition support and stipends through teaching and research assistantships. Interested students should contact faculty <http://humansciences.iit.edu/humanities/faculty> they are interested in working with and visit the Graduate College admissions site <http://admissions.iit.edu/graduate/apply?_ga=1.51920431.703649370.1445540042> . ----- Please circulate widely, and let me know if you have students who may be interested. Thanks, Libby -- Libby Hemphill Assistant Professor of Communication and Information Studies Illinois Institute of Technology http://www.libbyh.com http://www.casmlab.org

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CPDP2017 Call for Papers - deadline extended until October 22nd
by Imge Ozcan 17 Oct '16

17 Oct '16

CfP Computers, Privacy and Data Protection 2017 - The Age of Intelligent Machines http://www.cpdpconferences.org/callforpapers.html CPDP is an annual three-day conference devoted to privacy and data protection. The 10th edition of CPDP will be held on 25-27 January 2017 in Brussels. Whilst a number of speakers are specifically invited by the conference, several slots remain open to application through an annual call for papers. The CPDP2017 Call for Papers is addressed to all researchers who wish to present their papers at the next Computers, Privacy and Data Protection conference. The call is split into two different tracks. The first is dedicated to experienced researchers, while the second welcomes PhD students and junior researchers. Contributions are welcome from all disciplines with perspectives on the themes of the conference. The dual-track structure of the CPDP 2017 Call for Papers aims to meet the increasing interest of researchers - from all levels and from multiple disciplines - in CPDP and their expectations in terms of academic feedback and exchange. Please submit your contribution through the EasyChair conference system by following this link: https://easychair.org/account/signin.cgi?key=39741672.tc6QibMd0JZ3njVe RELEVANT FIELDS AND TOPICS The CPDP Scientific Committee invites papers in the fields of law, social sciences, philosophy and computer sciences (as well as other relevant fields). Multidisciplinary papers are particularly welcome. In particular, this call aims to reach researchers whose works relate to new technologies, privacy and data protection. Selected researchers will have the valuable opportunity to present their papers in the conference academic sessions. The main theme highlighted this year is Artificial Intelligence, but we welcome any original topics related to the general themes of the conference and especially encourage technology-focused and interdisciplinary submissions. For more information about the topics presented at previous editions of CPDP, please visit http://www.cpdpconferences.org/archive.html In case of doubt regarding the suitability of a contribution for the conference, please contact Lorenzo Dalla Corte (lorenzo.dallacorte(a)cpdpconferences.org <mailto:lorenzo.dallacorte@cpdpconferences.org> ). CPDP2017 KEY DATES Extended deadline for submissions: Saturday 22 Oct. 2016 Notification to authors: Friday 2 Dec. 2016 Papers accepted for presentation at the conference will go through a second round of reviews for inclusion in the conference book (see below). The deadline for submissions to the second round of reviews is: Monday 6 March 2017. SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS Authors responding to this Call for Papers are asked to submit a full paper via a dedicated webpage on the EasyChair system, together with a short abstract and up to 5 keywords. Authors should select the track for which they are applying in EasyChair: either CPDP 2017 Experienced Researchers or CPDP 2017 Junior Researchers. Papers should be between 6000 and 8000 words in length and follow the CPDP layout rules based on the Springer template which is available here (zip file to download): http://www.cpdpconferences.org/Resources/splnproc1110.zip The text of the paper should not include the name of the author(s) and all self-references should be deleted. Submissions not meeting these criteria risk rejection without consideration of quality. Contributions and identifying information should be submitted through the EasyChair conference system following this link: https://easychair.org/account/signin.cgi?key=39741827.Ufkihm1uEzFTFQDx Papers will be selected on the basis of their quality. All submitted papers will be peer reviewed by members of the CPDP 2017 Scientific Committee (and other independent reviewers where necessary) and will be commented upon by distinguished scholars. Authors of accepted papers must guarantee that their papers will be presented at the conference: at least one author of each accepted paper is required to register for the conference and to present the paper. Accepted papers will be considered for publication in the conference book published by Springer. Selected authors will receive free entrance for the duration of the conference. Funding for travel expenses may be available for PhD Candidates who cannot cover their own costs. If you require funding, please get in touch. For further details on the conference structure and its main topic areas, interested researchers are invited to visit the www.cpdpconferences.org <http://www.cpdpconferences.org> or to contact info(a)cpdpconferences.org <mailto:info@cpdpconferences.org> CONFERENCE BOOK Eight books based on papers presented at previous CPDP conferences have already been published, and a 9th edition is currently in production: 1. Gutwirth, S., Y. Poullet, P. De Hert, C. de Terwangne, and S. Nouwt, eds. Reinventing Data Protection? Dordrecht: Springer, 2009. (www.springer.com <http://www.springer.com/law/international/book/978-1-4020-9497-2> ) 2. Gutwirth, S., Y. Poullet, and P. De Hert, eds. Data Protection in a Profiled World. Dordrecht: Springer, 2010. (www.springer.com <http://www.springer.com/law/international/book/978-90-481-8864-2> ) 3. Gutwirth, S., Y. Poullet, P. De Hert and R. Leenes eds. Computers, Privacy and Data Protection: an Element of Choice. Dordrecht: Springer, 2011. (www.springer.com <http://www.springer.com/law/international/book/978-94-007-0640-8> ) 4. Gutwirth, S., R. Leenes, P. De Hert and Y. Poullet, European Data Protection: In Good Health? Dordrecht: Springer, 2012. (www.springer.com <http://www.springer.com/law/international/book/978-94-007-2902-5> ) 5. Gutwirth, S., R. Leenes, P. De Hert and Y. Poullet, European Data Protection:Coming of Age, Dordrecht: Springer, 2012. (www.springer.com <http://www.springer.com/law/international/book/978-94-007-5184-2> ) 6. Gutwirth, S., R. Leenes and P. De Hert, Reloading Data Protection: Multidisciplinary Insights and Contemporary Challenges. Dordrecht: Springer, 2014. (www.springer.com <http://www.springer.com/law/international/book/978-94-007-7539-8> ) 7. Gutwirth, S., R. Leenes and P. De Hert, Reforming Data Protection: The Global Perspective. Dordrecht: Springer, 2015. (www.springer.com <http://www.springer.com/us/book/9789401793841> ) 8. Gutwirth, S., Leenes R., P. De Hert and Y. Poullet, Data protection on the Move. Dordrecht: Springer (www.springer.com <https://www.springer.com/us/book/9789401773751> ) 9. Gutwirth, S., Leenes R., P. De Hert and R. Van Brakel, Computers, Privacy and Data Protection: Invisibilities & Infrastructures. Dordrecht: Springer, 2017. (forthcoming) Specific guidelines on the publication of the CPDP 2017 book have been adopted. Please visit: http://www.cpdpconferences.org/information.html BEYOND THE CPDP 2017 CALL FOR PAPERS CPDP would like to create a platform where all people passionate about privacy and data-protection can meet. If you are a social, political or computer scientist, activist, policy maker, lawyer, ICT expert or passionate person interested in being a speaker or getting involved in next year's conference, please notify the conference secretariat at the following address: info(a)cpdpconferences.org <mailto:info@cpdpconferences.org> We look forward to receiving your submissions and to welcoming you in Brussels in January 2017! Best regards, The CPDP 2017 Programme Committee

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2 Jobs at SeattleU
by Paul, Christopher 16 Oct '16

16 Oct '16

AoIRers, We're hiring for a tenure-track line in Strategic Communication (https://jobs.seattleu.edu/postings/19557) and for a Director of Forensics (https://jobs.seattleu.edu/postings/19560) and it'd be lovely to get an internet researcher into either or both of those roles. If you have any questions, please feel free to get in touch. -chris Dr. Christopher Paul Associate Professor and Chair Department of Communication Seattle University paulc(a)seattleu.edu<mailto:paulc@seattleu.edu>

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22nd ACM International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI 2017): Last Call for Tutorial Proposals
by Announce Announcements 15 Oct '16

15 Oct '16

*** Last Call for Tutorial Proposals *** 22nd ACM International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces IUI 2017 St. Raphael Resort, Limassol, Cyprus March 13-16, 2017 http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=YWlyLUwJCQlhaXItTEBsaXN0c2Vydi… Overview ACM IUI 2017 is the 22nd annual meeting of the intelligent interfaces community and serves as a premier international forum for reporting outstanding research and development on intelligent user interfaces. The 22nd edition of the conference will be held in Limassol, Cyprus. Limassol (or Lemesos) is a multicultural bustling town, flanked by two ancient cities, Amathus and Kourion, and guarded by the Amathusian Aphrodite and Appolo Hylates. It is a town of great visual diversity and contrast from spectacular seafront views, historic places like the mediaeval Castle, and Byzantine churches. Along the 17 km long sandy beaches, two Marinas, world renowned 5 star hotels, and a most exciting dining, shopping, nightlife and yachting scene create a year-round vibrant lifestyle well beyond the expectations of a Mediterranean island. ACM IUI is where the Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) community meets the Artificial Intelligence (AI), with contributions from related fields such as psychology, behavioral science, cognitive science, computer graphics, design or the arts. Our focus is to improve the interaction between humans and machines, by leveraging both more traditional HCI approaches, as well as solutions that involve state-of-the art AI techniques such as machine learning, natural language processing, data mining, knowledge representation and reasoning. ACM IUI welcomes contribution from any relevant arena: academia, business, or non-profit organizations. IUI 2017 is pleased to invite tutorial proposals. Tutorials offer the community an opportunity to learn about the state-of-the-art concepts and techniques and allow the presenters to share their expertise. We invite proposals from active researchers and experienced presenters. Ideally, a tutorial will cover the state-of-the-art research and development in a specific area strongly related to IUI. Tutorials on interdisciplinary areas, novel or fast growing directions, and significant practical applications are also encouraged. Each accepted tutorial will receive one free IUI 2017 registration. Submission Guidelines The proposals should be PDF documents not exceeding 3 pages, submitted by e-mail to the tutorial chairs at: tutorial2017(a)iui.acm.org. We encourage prospective presenters to contact the tutorial chairs in advance and discuss their tutorial ideas. Each tutorial proposal should provide the following information: · Name and title: Your name, the tutorial title and the expected length of your tutorial (up to half a day). · Description of tutorial topic and goal: Detailed outline of the tutorial, along with descriptions of the objectives, its relevance to IUI, benefits to the attendees, and course materials/handouts (links to online materials encouraged). · Organizers: Name, email address, and affiliation of each presenter. Note that each listed presenter must register for the conference and be present at the tutorial. · Target audience and prerequisites: Target audience level (introductory, intermediate, advanced) and prerequisite knowledge or skills. · Experience: Tutors' short bios and their expertise related to the tutorial, including history of previously given tutorials. · Equipment and software requirement: please list any that will be needed. Important Dates · Tutorial Proposals: October 21, 2016 · Decisions Sent: November 21, 2016 Tutorials Co-Chairs · Shlomo Berkovsky, CSIRO, Australia · Bart Kninijnburg, Clemson University, USA

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Deadline extended: CFP Philosophy & Technology SI on Ethical Risk Assessment in Biomedical Big Data - Deadline October 31, 2016
by Brent Mittelstadt 14 Oct '16

14 Oct '16

Dear colleagues, Apologies for any cross posting. The deadline has been extended for Philosophy and Technology’s special issue on Ethical Risk Assessment in Biomedical Big Data. New deadline for submissions: October 31, 2016 Call for Papers for Philosophy and Technology’s special issue on Ethical Risk Assessment in Biomedical Big Data GUEST EDITOR Brent Mittelstadt, Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford INTRODUCTION In biomedical research, the analysis of large datasets (Big Data) has become a major driver of innovation and success. ‘Biomedical Big Data’ (BBD) describes the complex and new set of technologically-driven phenomena focusing on analysis of aggregated datasets to improve medical knowledge, public health, clinical care and commercial health and well-being devices and services. Machine learning and algorithmic categorisation can increasingly make sense of the seemingly endless data emerging from sensors, wearable devices, clinical observations, clinical trials, social and online platforms which provide insight into the behaviours and physiology of individuals. BBD is expected to provide new ways of understanding health and well-being at the level of the individual and society, for example by predicting behaviours, monitoring diseases and outbreaks, and providing risk stratification for individual patients. Epidemiology, infectious disease research, and genomics and genetics are already deeply affected. However, the collection, storage and analysis of BBD potentially raises serious ethical problems which may threaten the huge opportunities it offers. To avoid foreseeable problems and react quickly to emergent issues, the planning and deployment of BBD must include proactive ethical risk assessment. To contribute to this critical step, this special issue of Philosophy and Technology aims to map new, under-researched but important issues, concepts and cases that should be considered in proactive ethical assessment of emerging BBD platforms and services. TOPICS We request the submission of research articles addressing topics including: • Theories and concepts critical to the ethical assessment of biomedical Big Data in particular • Required modifications to informed consent in response to the scale and complexity of BBD • Alternatives to informed consent for BBD governance • Group-level protections, harms and benefits • Ethical principles for governance of BBD platforms • Applicability of traditional medical research ethics principles to BBD • Privacy, de-identification and research subject rights to data access • Ownership of intellectual property generated from BBD • Uses of BBD for empowerment or improvement of patient experiences • Implications of data-intensive clinical experiences for the doctor-patient relationship • Implications of the crossover between personal health devices and BBD research, e.g. Apple HealthKit • Impact of the European General Data Protection Regulation on both biomedical research and personal health/wellness services • Policy recommendations and requirements for poorly regulated BBD practices • Empirical studies/cases of existing Big Data practices that demonstrate critical ethical issues, concepts and solutions TIMETABLE • October 31, 2016: Deadline for paper submissions • December 16, 2016: Deadline for reviews • January 31, 2017: Deadline revised papers • 2017: Publication of the special issue SUBMISSION DETAILS To submit a paper for this special issue, authors should go to the journal’s Editorial Manager http://www.editorialmanager.com/phte/ The journal’s submission guidelines and instructions for authors can be found here<http://www.springer.com/philosophy/epistemology+and+philosophy+of+science/j…>. Articles should be written in English and not exceed 10,000 words. The author (or a corresponding author for each submission in case of co- authored papers) must register into EM. The author must then select the special article type: "Special Issue on Ethical Risk Assessment in Biomedical Big Data” from the selection provided in the submission process. All submissions are subject to double-blind peer review. Submissions will be assessed according to the following procedure: New Submission => Journal Editorial Office => Guest Editor(s) => Reviewers => Reviewers’ Recommendations => Guest Editor(s)’ Recommendation => Editor-in-Chief’s Final Decision => Author Notification of the Decision. External link: http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/news/?id=1504 CONTACT For any further information please contact: Brent Mittelstadt brent.mittelstadt(a)oii.ox.ac.uk<mailto:brent.mittelstadt@oii.ox.ac.uk> Kind regards, Dr. Brent Mittelstadt Postdoctoral Research Fellow University of Oxford Oxford Internet Institute 1 St. Giles, OX1 3JS 01865 287221 brent.mittelstadt(a)oii.ox.ac.uk<mailto:brent.mittelstadt@oii.ox.ac.uk> http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/people/?id=365

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21st European Conference on Advances in Databases and Information Systems (ADBIS 2017): First Call for Doctoral Consortium
by Announce Announcements 14 Oct '16

14 Oct '16

*** First Call for Doctoral Consortium *** 21st European Conference on Advances in Databases and Information Systems Hilton Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus 24 - 27 September, 2017 http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=YWlyLUwJCQlhaXItTEBsaXN0c2Vydi… The internationally recognized ADBIS conference already for 21 years is gathering researchers and practitioners around topics related to databases, data processing, and information systems, in general. The conference is run in Europe but attracts researchers from all over the world. The 21st ADBIS conference will be held in Nicosia, Cyprus. The conference is accompanied by satellite events, including doctoral consortia and workshops. DOCTORAL CONSORTIUM The Doctoral Consortium (DC) is a forum where PhD students can present their research ideas, confront them with the scientific community, receive feedback from mentors, and tie cooperation bounds. Students will receive inspiration from their peers and will have a chance to discuss their research objectives with senior members of the community in the context of an established international conference. The DC session will take place on September 24, in parallel with the workshop sessions. Each participant will present her/his work, followed by a discussion with senior researchers. ELIGIBILITY We seek PhD students who have either determined the direction of their thesis research (probably with some preliminary results already published), but who still have substantial work to complete, or PhD student participants who are in the early stages of their dissertation year. It is not required to have a paper accepted for the main conference in order to participate in the DC. SUBMISSIONS To apply to the DC, please submit a single-authored paper (which will appear in the proceedings of DC), accompanied by a short email from the thesis advisor stating support for your participation in the DC, describing the current status of the thesis research, and giving your expected date of graduation. The papers for DC should be at most 12 pages in Springer format (formatting instructions can be obtained via http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=YWlyLUwJCQlhaXItTEBsaXN0c2Vydi… and describe the state of the whole PhD project, rather than a specific completed result. The paper should outline the objectives, the problem, state of the art, results obtained so far, and what is still to be done in the frame of the PhD project. If an author prefers to present a completed research result, the paper should be submitted to the main conference or one of accompanying workshops. A paper submitted to the DC may not be under review for any other conference or journal during the time it is being considered for the DC. Submissions should be made electronically in PDF format at CMT: http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=YWlyLUwJCQlhaXItTEBsaXN0c2Vydi…. In case of multiple files, please submit a single compressed file (zip or rar). After logging into CMT, please choose the "ADBIS 2017 Doctoral Consortium" track. REVIEW PROCESS Each paper submitted to the DC will be reviewed by at least two members of the DC program committee and will be judged based on originality, technical merit, presentation quality, and relevance. The authors of successful submissions must take into account the reviewers' comments during the preparation of the final version and describe the changes in a separate document to be submitted together with the final camera-ready version. The program committee reserves the right to reject a paper if the final version does not meet the requirements above. Applications not adhering to the provided guidelines (including page limits) will not be considered. The authors of accepted papers must register to the conference, attend the DC and present their work. PROCEEDINGS The DC papers will be published by Springer, together with the ADBIS workshops proceedings, in the Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing series. IMPORTANT DATES · Submission: May 19, 2017 · Acceptance/Rejection Notification: June 30, 2017 · Camera-ready Submission: July 14, 2017 · Doctoral Consortium: September 24, 2017 COMMITTEES Steering Committee Chair · Leonid Kalinichenko, Russian Academy of Science, Russia General Chair · George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Program Chairs · Marite Kirikova, Riga Technical University, Latvia · Kjetil Norvag, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway Proceedings Chair · Christos Mettouris, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Workshops Chairs · Johann Gamper, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy · Robert Wrembel, Poznan University of Technology, Poland Doctoral Consortium Chairs · Jerome Darmont, Universite Lyon 2, France · Stefano Rizzi, University of Bologna, Italy

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New book: Digital Advertising 2nd ed
by Andrew McStay 14 Oct '16

14 Oct '16

It seems the first edition of Digital Advertising did well, so the nice people at Palgrave-MacMillan asked me to do a 2nd edition. Little did I realise this was going to be a complete overhaul, re-write and what essentially is a totally new book. So here it is, in e-version, paper and hardback: https://he.palgrave.com/page/detail/Digital-Advertising/?K=9781137494344 TABLE OF CONTENTS * Chapter 1: Digital: The Capacity to do Things They Never Could Before * Chapter 2: The History and Business of Digital Advertising * Chapter 3: How it Works: Standard Digital Media * Chapter 4: How it Works: Non-Standard Digital Media * Chapter 5: Creativity * Chapter 6: Beyond Interruption: Attention, Authenticity and Being Native * Chapter 7: Media Hacking * Chapter 8: Adblocking and Fraud: Threats to Advertising * Chapter 9: Advertising to Children: Regulations and Ethics for Digital Media * Chapter 10: Ad-tech: Analytics, Big Data, Profiling and Identity * Chapter 11: Empathic Media: Emotiveillance and the Future of Out of Home Advertising * Chapter 12: Privacy: The Case of Mobile Apps for Android * Chapter 13: Conclusions: Reconciling Art and Science in Advertising BLURB In order to comprehend modern media, we need to understand how advertising works. Digital Advertising provides an assessment of contemporary and emergent advertising techniques that drive the world's largest media companies. The second edition has been fully updated to account for the re-shaped advertising industry and transformed media landscape since the publication of the first edition, taking on topics including the creative uses of technology, novel modes of storytelling, adblocking, the pre-eminence of analytics and big data, privacy, growing interest in data about emotional life, and alarm about the role of artificial intelligence and automation in advertising. Incorporating an increased number of case studies and analyses of campaigns, this timely and engaging text is an essential resource for students, academics and anyone interested in advertising and media. ENDORSEMENTS McStay's updated study presents the most complete, revealing and accessible overview of digital advertising and its insatiable expansion. Robert Crawford, Associate Professor of Public Communication, University of Technology Sydney, Australia. A comprehensive and practical text that provides conceptual understanding and a wealth of case material to illustrate a number of important topics that are germane to this dynamic and quickly moving field. John Desmond, Honorary Reader in Management, University of St Andrews, UK Andrew McStay Reader in Advertising and Digital Media Director of Media and Persuasive Communication Network (MPC) School of Creative Studies and Media Bangor University New book: Digital Advertising, 2nd ed<https://www.amazon.co.uk/Digital-Advertising-Andrew-McStay/dp/1137494344/re…> Other books and papers: here<https://bangor.academia.edu/AndrewMcStay> T. +44 (0)1248 382740 Tw. @digi-ad<https://twitter.com/digi_ad> Rhif Elusen Gofrestredig 1141565 - Registered Charity No. 1141565 Gall y neges e-bost hon, ac unrhyw atodiadau a anfonwyd gyda hi, gynnwys deunydd cyfrinachol ac wedi eu bwriadu i'w defnyddio'n unig gan y sawl y cawsant eu cyfeirio ato (atynt). Os ydych wedi derbyn y neges e-bost hon trwy gamgymeriad, rhowch wybod i'r anfonwr ar unwaith a dilewch y neges. Os na fwriadwyd anfon y neges atoch chi, rhaid i chi beidio a defnyddio, cadw neu ddatgelu unrhyw wybodaeth a gynhwysir ynddi. Mae unrhyw farn neu safbwynt yn eiddo i'r sawl a'i hanfonodd yn unig ac nid yw o anghenraid yn cynrychioli barn Prifysgol Bangor. Nid yw Prifysgol Bangor yn gwarantu bod y neges e-bost hon neu unrhyw atodiadau yn rhydd rhag firysau neu 100% yn ddiogel. Oni bai fod hyn wedi ei ddatgan yn uniongyrchol yn nhestun yr e-bost, nid bwriad y neges e-bost hon yw ffurfio contract rhwymol - mae rhestr o lofnodwyr awdurdodedig ar gael o Swyddfa Cyllid Prifysgol Bangor. This email and any attachments may contain confidential material and is solely for the use of the intended recipient(s). If you have received this email in error, please notify the sender immediately and delete this email. If you are not the intended recipient(s), you must not use, retain or disclose any information contained in this email. Any views or opinions are solely those of the sender and do not necessarily represent those of Bangor University. Bangor University does not guarantee that this email or any attachments are free from viruses or 100% secure. Unless expressly stated in the body of the text of the email, this email is not intended to form a binding contract - a list of authorised signatories is available from the Bangor University Finance Office.

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Reminder: CFP - Writing in a Digital Age due 10/17
by Les Hutchinson 13 Oct '16

13 Oct '16

Hi all, A reminder that our web text collection on topics surrounding surveillance, privacy, and writing infrastructures is accepting proposals until 10/17. We are very interested in inter/cross-disciplinary book chapters that focus on identity, communities, and cultures. If interested, please go to this link: https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B0NLr285sb3uSzFmWkp5blBoMVE A sample of what we're interested in include: * how community members respond to local to national events where acts of sur- and sous-veillance occur to protect the interests of those in authority and those of the citizenry, e.g., Ferguson, Flint, and online. * ways surveillance impact culture(s) and influence daily habits and/or lives as it connects to digital rhetoric and writing, e.g., algorithmic discrimination, fitness trackers, Internet of Things objects, social media habits, intellectual property. * how digital rhetoric and writing scholars/educators or communicators inform public and private industries to make reforms to surveillance practices. * how writing educators, WPAs, and administrators address ways surveillance and privacy impact student & faculty composing acts and student identity formation. <mailto:digitalwriting@protonmail.com>Again, the deadline for 500-word proposals of webtexts is October 17, 2016. We will notify authors on December 19, 2016 and drafts for chapters are due April 17, 2017. Please send any queries or submissions to: digitalwritingatprotonmaildotcom / digitalwriting(a)protonmail.com Sincerely, Estee Beck, PhD Assistant Professor of Professional & Technical Writing/Digital Humanities Department of English The University of Texas at Arlington estee.beck(a)uta.edu Les Hutchinson Doctoral Student Department of Writing, Rhetoric, and American Cultures Michigan State University 434 Farm Lane Rm 237 East Lansing, MI 48824 Twitter: @techairos

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Virtual community building and maintenance in the social media age
by David Brake 13 Oct '16

13 Oct '16

Dear colleagues, I will be teaching a course next semester on virtual community building and management, blending theory and practice. A few years ago, I felt pretty confident that I could put together a reading list of books on virtual community management and be comfortable it would cover what is needed. But that was before social media. Now (depending on the purpose of a virtual community itself) I might not even recommend a website-based virtual community at all – for all of the vexed issues of platform ownership, a Facebook group or even Twitter hashtag might be a better solution for some groups. Are you aware of any good books and articles (preferably academic but not necessarily) which bring virtual community advice up-to-date to take into consideration managing virtual communities spread across multiple platforms, some of which a virtual community manager has no direct control over? The books I am currently considering teaching from are: Kim, A. J. (2000). Community building on the Web. Berkeley, CA: Peachpit Press. Powazek, D. M. (2002). Design for community: the art of connecting real people in virtual places. Indianapolis, Ind.: New Riders. O'Keefe, P. (2008). Managing online forums: everything you need to know to create and run successful community discussion boards. New York: AMACOM. Bacon, J. (2012). The art of community: Building the new age of participation (2nd ed.). Sebastopol, CA: O'Reilly Media, Inc. Retrieved from http://www.artofcommunityonline.org/ <http://www.artofcommunityonline.org/> Kraut, R. E., Resnick, P., & Kiesler, S. (2012). Building successful online communities evidence-based social design. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press. I am also considering: Howard, T.W. (2010). Design to thrive: Creating social networks and online communities that last. Burlington, MA: Morgan Kaufmann He talks about social networks vs online communities but seems to suggest they are mutually exclusive while I would say you can layer an online community on top of a social network or use the latter to bring people into the former. Anyway, I am keen either to find a book that properly takes the new social media options into account when talking about virtual community or at least a book or article that gestures towards the existing conventional wisdom and suggests what the new social media can add. I will happily feed back to the list or interested people the curated list that results... Any ideas? Regards, David -- Dr David Brake, Researcher and Educator http://davidbrake.org/, @drbrake Author of "Sharing Our Lives Online: Risks and Exposure in Social Media” https://www.facebook.com/sharingourlivesonline <https://www.facebook.com/sharingourlivesonline>

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