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DiGRA Australia 3rd Annual Conference: Melbourne November 17-18
by Bjorn Nansen 18 Aug '16

18 Aug '16

Hi all, May be of interest to scholars working on games; the CFP for DiGRAA 2016 has been extended until August 26th (apologies for xposting) 2016 DiGRAA National Conference CFP We invite you to contribute to a two-day game studies symposium from November 17th-18th, 2016 to be held at Swinburne University of Technology. The theme for the DiGRAA Symposium 2016 will be ‘Tensions’. Details Games have frequently been sites of conflict, contention, and competition. As both games and gaming culture develop, however, these sites of conflict and their related tensions are shifting across multiple axes. Games themselves are objects of tension in different ways: while conflict is still often used to drive narrative and gameplay, designers continue to experiment with the line between comfort and unease. Conversely, those who play and make games are more diverse than ever before, and the tensions over representation, politics, and demographics continue to dominate public games discourse. The purpose of the 2016 DiGRAA Symposium is to explore the tensions in all aspects of engaging with games. This may include: gameplay, mechanics, game design, or game culture. We organise such an event acknowledging that understanding games is not an exclusively academic endeavour and excellent work is occurring in a wide variety of spaces outside of formal scholarship. Consequently, we encourage non-academic game researchers, critics, designers, developers and artists to attend and contribute to the event. Some suggestions for topics include (but are not limited to): * Representations of race * Gender and sexuality * Sex in games * Conflict as game mechanic * The aesthetics of violence * Death and tension Important Dates Abstract Submission Deadline – Aug 19 Notification of Acceptance – Sept 19 Symposium Date – Nov 17-18 Following on from the success of previous DiGRA Australia events, we fully expect that DiGRA Australia 2016 will remain a single track conference. The Event The conference will run from 13:00 – 17:00 on the 17th November, and from 9:00 – 17:00 on the 18th November at Swinburne University of Technology, Hawthorn campus. An evening social event and exhibition will occur on the 17th on campus. A morning doctoral workshop will run from 9:00 – 12:00 on the 17th, which will require registration prior to the event Submission Format We invite interested authors or makers to submit 400-800 word abstracts (not including references), anonymous for peer review. We will also accept full papers of up to 4,000 words and the same rules apply. Submissions from academics are typically expected to have references to reflect the author’s engagement with existing scholarship. We advise potential authors to review the abstracts accepted for publication at previous DiGRA Australia conferences as a guide to the expected tone and quality. We welcome submissions that explore both in-progress and complete works, but must represent novel (unpublished) scholarship. If the abstract resembles previously published work, we recommend the author explicitly identify the additional contribution of their DiGRAA submission. We recommend that papers articulate the issue or research question to be discussed, the methodological or critical framework used, and indicate the findings or conclusions to be presented and/or the relevance to the wider game studies discipline. Papers can present any kind of research, analysis or commentary, but should be written so that the importance of the work can be understood by reviewers working in different disciplines or using different approaches. Submissions are required to use the DiGRA conference publication format. Accepted abstracts will be uploaded to the DiGRA Digital Library as will accepted full papers. Submission Process Submissions will be made online, via easy chair. Easychair Submission link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=digraa16 Please enter your 400-800 word abstract or full paper in the abstract box in easy chair, as well as uploading it as a formatted attachment. Conference Chairs Ms Laura Crawford (Vice President, DiGRAA Australia/Lecturer Games and Interactivity, Swinburne University of Technology) Dr Daniel Golding (Lecturer at Swinburne University of Technology, Media and Communications) -- Gamesnetwork, discussion list of Digital Games Research Association, www.digra.org<http://www.digra.org> Note: to unsubscribe, send "UNSUBSCRIBE GAMESNETWORK" to LISTSERV(a)UTA.FI<mailto:LISTSERV@UTA.FI> from your subscribed email account. Web interface to subscribe and manage your subscription: https://listserv.uta.fi/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=GAMESNETWORK&A=1 . The list archive is available online at: https://listserv.uta.fi/archives/gamesnetwork.html Dr Bjorn Nansen Lecturer and Undergraduate Coordinator Media and Communications Program The University of Melbourne E165 John Medley building T +61 3 8344 9122 | E nansenb(a)unimelb.edu.au W https://unimelb.academia.edu/bjornnansen

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CALL FOR NOMINATIONS> The 2016 Social Informatics Best Paper Award
by Rosenbaum, Howard S. 18 Aug '16

18 Aug '16

The 2016 Social Informatics Best Paper Award Call for nominations for the 2016 Social Informatics Best Paper Award The Special Interest Group for Social Informatics (SIG-SI) and the Rob Kling Center for Social Informatics (RKCSI) are seeking nominations for an award for the best paper published in a peer reviewed journal on a topic informed by social informatics during the 2015 calendar year. The author or authors will present their paper at the 12th Annual SIG-SI Symposium on Saturday, October 15, 2016 and receive a $1000 cash award at the 2015 Annual Meeting of the Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T) in Copenhagen, Denmark in October, 2016. Nomination letters should be sent to Howard Rosenbaum (hrosenba(a)indiana.edu) or Pnina Fichman (fichman(a)indiana.edu) by August 26, 2016 and must include a full citation, a brief explanation for the nomination, and a copy of the article. Self nominations are acceptable. Winners will be notified by September 9, 2016. For more information about the Special Interest Group for Social Informatics (SIG-SI): http://asistsigsi.wordpress.com<http://asistsigsi.wordpress.com/> For more information about the Rob Kling Center for Social Informatics: http://rkcsi.indiana.edu<http://rkcsi.indiana.edu/> Howard Rosenbaum and Pnina Fichman Department of Information and Library Science School of Informatics and Computing, Indiana University

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Call for Submissions: 3rd Computational Social Science Winter Symposium (#cssws16), Cologne, Nov 30 - Dec 01, 2016
by Weller, Katrin 18 Aug '16

18 Aug '16

============================================================== CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS (POSTERS / SHORT PRESENTATIONS) ============================================================== 3rd COMPUTATIONAL SOCIAL SCIENCE WINTER SYMPOSIUM Cologne, Germany Symposium dates: NOV 30 - DEC 01, 2016 Website: http://www.gesis.org/css-wintersymposium/ Hashtag: #cssws16 ============================================================== ----------------------------------------- CONFIRMED KEYNOTE SPEAKERS ----------------------------------------- We are delighted to announce that the following keynote speakers will be giving a talk at this years' CSS Winter Symposium: Noshir CONTRACTOR (Northwestern University), Tina ELIASSI-RAD (Northeastern University), Krishna GUMMADI (Max Planck Institute for Software Systems), Petter HOLME (Sungkyunkwan University), Helen MARGETTS (University of Oxford) ------------------------------------------ ABOUT THE WINTER SYMPOSIUM ------------------------------------------ The CSS Winter Symposium 2016 will be a two-day event consisting of: * an exciting program featuring a series of invited talks that will provide different perspectives on current advances and limitations of computational social science * an open call for contributed posters and short presentations that will provide opportunities for computational social scientists to present and discuss their own work * plenty of possibilities for interdisciplinary networking including an informal evening event at the famous Cologne Christmas markets ------------------------- IMPORTANT DATES ------------------------- September30 2016: submissions due October 18 2016: notifications November 14 2016: registration deadline Nov 30 - Dec 01 2016: symposium days ------------------------------------------------ SUBMISSIONS FOR POSTERS + SHORT PRESENTATIONS ------------------------------------------------ We invite submissions that describe research results or tools and methods for computational social science. Exemplary topics for submissions include but are not limited to: - Theories and models explaining the dynamics in social systems, networks, communities and teams - Studies of political discourse and spread of opinions, attitudes and information on the web - Studies of cultures and conflicts, segregation, discrimination, prejudice via new kinds of data - Social-/Computational aspects of health, life style, sports and diet - Social-/Computational aspects of human movement, mobility and urban planning - Mixed methods and techniques (e.g. obtrusive/unobtrusive methods) - Methods to deal with biased, selective and incomplete observational data on the Web - Tools that detect and prevent mobbing or depressive behavior online - Tools that support social scientists to capture, store and analyze social data on the Web - Methods for the design and execution of online experiments for the social sciences Other related topics are explicitly welcome. --------------------------- PRESENTATION FORMATS --------------------------- Based on the submitted abstracts, submissions may be accepted as posters and/or short presentations. The standard format will be a poster presentation. As this is a single track conference, only few submissions can be selected for short plenary presentations of approx. 10-15 minutes. --------------------------- SUBMISSION GUIDELINES --------------------------- Submissions should be 1-2 page abstracts (up to approx. 1000 words) summarizing the work to be presented. We encourage researchers to also submit mature work that has already been published and/or submit work-in-progress. Accepted submissions will be non-archival, i.e. there are no proceedings. We may however discuss options for publishing selected submissions after the conference (e.g. as a journal special issue or edited collection). Submissions will mostly be evaluated based on relevance and the potential to stimulate interesting discussions. Authors are kindly requested to submit a PDF file via the easychair submission system for the event: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cssws16 The full call for submissions can also be found at: http://www.gesis.org/css-wintersymposium/call/ ---------------------------- ORGANIZATION AND VENUE ---------------------------- The CSS Winter Symposium will take place at the heart of Cologne, at KOMED Im MediaPark 7. We aim to keep registration costs as low as possible (approx. around 70 EUR). More information will be made available soon. Paper/poster submission is not a requirement for attendance. PLEASE NOTE: Unfortunately we cannot take responsibility for support on visa related issues. ------------ CONTACT ------------ SYMPOSIUM CHAIRS: ----------------- Prof. Dr. Markus Strohmaier GESIS Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences Computational Social Science Department Unter Sachsenhausen 6-8 D-50667 Köln Germany E-mail: markus.strohmaier(a)gesis.org<mailto:markus.strohmaier@gesis.org> Phone: +49 (221) 47694-225 Dr. Katrin Weller GESIS Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences Computational Social Science Department Unter Sachsenhausen 6-8 D-50667 Köln Germany E-mail: katrin.weller(a)gesis.org<mailto:katrin.weller@gesis.org> Phone: +49 (221) 47694-472 LOCAL ORGANIZATION: -------------------- Diana Lindner, M.A. GESIS Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences Computational Social Science Department Unter Sachsenhausen 6-8 D-50667 Köln Germany E-mail: diana.lindner(a)gesis.org<mailto:diana.lindner@gesis.org> Phone: +49 (221) 47694-401

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WEBCAST TODAY: Ghana Internet Governance Forum
by Joly MacFie 18 Aug '16

18 Aug '16

This is just kicking off. Very high quality stream thanks to the IA Consult team! posted: "Today Thursday, 18 August 2016 the 2016 Ghana Internet Governance Forum (IGF) takes place at the the Kofi Annan Centre of Excellence in IT in Accra. This year's event has the the theme Building a StrongMulti-Stakeholder Model for a Sustainable Development" [image: Ghana IGF] <http://ghanaigf.org/>Today *Thursday, 18 August 2016* the *2016 Ghana Internet Governance Forum <http://ghanaigf.org/> *(IGF) takes place at the the Kofi Annan Centre of Excellence in IT in Accra. This year's event has the the theme *Building a StrongMulti-Stakeholder Model for a Sustainable Development of the Internet in Ghana*. The Forum will discuss key issues on Internet governance in Ghana, such as cyber security, affordable access, critical internet infrastructure, data protection and openness, child safety and many other topical issues. Ghana’s position on key issues from the Ghana IGF will be articulated at the *Global IGF <http://www.igf2016.mx/>* which will be held in Guadalajara, Mexico from 6-9 December 2016. The GhanaIGF has two tracks both of which will be webcast live via YouTube, and remote participation will be available via Webex. Ghana is in the WAT time zone, same as UTC, 4 hours ahead of NYC. *What: 2016 Ghana Internet Governance Forum <http://ghanaigf.org/> Where: Kofi Annan Centre of Excellence in IT, Accra When: Thursday, 18 August 2016 9am-5pm WAT/UTC Agenda: http://ghanaigf.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/GHANA-INTERNET-GOVERNANCE-FO… <http://ghanaigf.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/GHANA-INTERNET-GOVERNANCE-FO…> Webcast Room 1: https://youtu.be/CFQrtgaD5js <https://youtu.be/CFQrtgaD5js> Webex Room 1: https://intgovforum.webex.com/intgovforum/onstage/g.php?MTID=e9594cac8c821f… <https://intgovforum.webex.com/intgovforum/onstage/g.php?MTID=e9594cac8c821f…> Webcast Room 2: https://youtu.be/xTbqPMPDPCY <https://youtu.be/xTbqPMPDPCY> Twitter: #ghanaigf https://twitter.com/hashtag/GhanaIGF <https://twitter.com/hashtag/GhanaIGF>* Comment <http://isoc-ny.org/p2/8621#respond> See all comments <http://isoc-ny.org/p2/8621#comments> *Permalink* http://isoc-ny.org/p2/8621 -- --------------------------------------------------------------- Joly MacFie 218 565 9365 Skype:punkcast -------------------------------------------------------------- -

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CfP: Crowd Dynamics: Conflicts, Contradictions, and Cooperation Issues in Crowdsourcing (Int. Journal on CSCW)
by Karin Hansson 18 Aug '16

18 Aug '16

Call for Papers Computer Supported Cooperative Work: The Journal of Collaborative Computing and Work Practices (JCSCW) Special Issue on Crowd Dynamics: Conflicts, Contradictions, and Cooperation Issues in Crowdsourcing Organizing Special Issue Editors Thomas Ludwig (University of Siegen), Karin Hansson (Stockholm University), Tanja Aitamurto (Stanford University), Neha Gupta (University of Nottingham) Deadline for Submissions March, 31 2017 Through this special issue we aim to make contributions towards the emerging and intriguing subject of crowdsourcing and enrich academia’s understanding of individual and collaborative aspects of crowdsourcing. ----------------------------------------------------- Scope of the Special Issue Unfair reputation systems, slow payments, lack of transparency, discrimination, misunderstandings and misinterpretations, lack of access to decision-making or socio-spatial inequalities are only some of the many reasons for conflicts in crowdsourcing. The divisive logic of the system, its related tools and practices as well as the sharing processes in the peer-community creates interesting dynamics and new foci on old conflicts. The development of new types of working relationships has previously been problematized for several reasons. For example, Irani and Silberman (2014) have questioned crowd-worker dynamics from a labor rights perspective, leading to calls for collective action by crowd workers (Salehi et al., 2015). Martin et al’s (2014, 2016) analysis of the online discussion in the community of workers at the Mechanical Turk, shows the tensions between the dividing logic of the system and the information-sharing practices in the community. Gupta et al’s (2014) study of Indian workers shows how lack of control over the work environment affect participants work practices. Other common conflicts are due to rejected work, slow or unfair payments, lack of transparency, or technical problems (Six et al., 2010). In the area of digital democracy, digital differentiation and inequalities within the crowd becomes problematic (Hansson, 2014). Studies of Amazon Mechanical Turk (Fort et al., 2011), Wikipedia (Menking & Erikson, 2015; Ortega et al., 2008), Twitter (Duggan et al., 2015) and crowdsourced policymaking (Aitamurto and Landemore, 2016) indicate a lack of representativeness in terms of age, gender and education. Cultural geographers have also pointed out the hegemonic discourses and socio-spatial relations in the geographic web (Crampton et al., 2013; Soden & Palen, 2014; Shelton, 2014). But crowdsourcing, nowadays, also has an impact on physical “offline” activities, such as conducting voluntary work in crisis management (Ludwig et al., 2015) or making use of the large part of population to contribute to scientific challenges via crowdsourcing, defined as Citizen Science (Irwin, 1995). The physical circumstances and potential conflicts, such as endangering voluntary crowd workers or citizen “scientists” also needs to be considered. However, there is a need of studies of actual work practices in crowd-work settings and a more empirical research on the conflicts and dynamics within the more fluid work and interactive relations in crowd work. There is also a lack of a more structured overview of typologies of participation indicating levels of power and agency in the context of crowd work and crowdsourcing at large. This special issue therefore focuses on research exploring actual reasons, practices, power relations, and dynamics of conflicts within crowdsourcing and crowd work. Sample Topics We invite participants from a diversity of disciplines and perspectives to contribute with insights about types of crowdsourcing in practice, to deepen our understanding of actual work practices and relations in contexts such as crowd work, peer-production and citizen science. Furthermore, we also aim to gather typologies of participation examining and explaining power relations of crowd work.Possible topics include (but are not limited to): Transparency in Crowdsourcing: Empirical studies, design case studies or theoretical work about how to allow crowd workers to understand, configure, personalize, and control applications relating to crowdsourcing. What levels of transparency exist in the implementation of crowdsourcing? What are the clashes of needs that exist between crowd workers and sourcers? What types of conflicts of expectations arise in crowd contexts? What is the role of transparency in resolving or amplifying these conflicts? Tools, processes, services and architectures for supporting the management of conflicts, contradictions, or cooperation issues in crowdsourcing contexts: What are the tools, services and architectural infrastructures for discovering or supporting the actual work of and conflicts in crowdsourcing? What are the characteristics of tools that support conflict management and/or conflict resolution in crowdsourcing? Social and organizational factors influencing conflicts, contradictions, or cooperation issues:Crowdsourcing deals highly with social and organizational aspects. What are the social and organizational aspects that foster conflicts in practice? How is labor and capital distributed? How could social and organizational aspects help overcome inequity and how does technology foster those aspects? What are dynamics of inclusion/exclusion in crowdsourcing, reflecting societal issues of race, gender, identity, and geography? Tensions between “offline” and “online” activities: Crowdsourcing often has an impact on physical activities and vice versa. Therefore the physical circumstances and potential conflicts need to be considered. What problems exist while conducting physical crowd work? What areas of tension exits? How could technology support solving those conflicts? Social computing approaches for crowdsourcing: The emergence and success of crowdsourcing practices may (not) rely on supporting peer networks and on sharing results that allow pooling resources in user communities. What are conflicts or contradictions between crowd members and crowd workers? How does technology help addressing and resolving those conflicts? Research ethics in citizens’ science: When relying on crowdsourcing, crucial ethical questions arise: What kind of work can be sourced to the crowd? What legal, moral and ethical protections are missing or should be in place to support the crowd and the sourcers? What are the ethical questions concerning “child-based crowdsourcing” (e.g. creativity work)? Schedule Submissions due: March, 31 2017 Reviews due: May, 15 2017 Notification to authors: June, 15 2017 Revised version due: July, 15 2017 Special issue published: 2017/2018 Manuscripts are submitted via the online manuscript system at: https://www.editorialmanager.com/cosu/ <https://www.editorialmanager.com/cosu/> Submission type: SI: Crowd Dynamics Further information, including JCSCW submission procedures and advice on formatting and preparing manuscripts, can be found at: http://www.springer.com/computer/journal/10606 <http://www.springer.com/computer/journal/10606> To discuss a possible contribution please contact the special issue editors at crowdsourcingjcscw(a)listserv.uni-siegen.de <mailto:crowdsourcingjcscw@listserv.uni-siegen.de> With best regards, Karin Hansson

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Thematic Session on Saturday at ASA featuring Henry Jenkins
by Earl, Jennifer Suzanne - (jenniferearl) 16 Aug '16

16 Aug '16

Hi folks, I wanted to point out a thematic session that will happen at the ASAs on Saturday at 10:30am. It is a panel on youth and online activism, featuring Henry Jenkins (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Jenkins) among other speakers. Henry Jenkins doesn't usually come to the ASAs, so this is a rare treat; hope you take advantage if you are going to be in Seattle! Here are the details: Sat, August 20, 10:30am to 12:10pm Thematic Session. Digital Natives and Online Politics Panelists: Henry Jenkins, University of Southern California Shelley Boulianne, MacEwan University Jennifer Earl and Thomas Maher, University of Arizona Discussants Hava Rachel Gordon, University of Denver Sarah Gaby, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill *********************************** Jennifer Earl Professor of Sociology & (by courtesy) Government and Public Policy Social Sciences 440 University of Arizona Tucson, AZ 85721-0027 Twitter: @profearl Website: http://jearl.faculty.arizona.edu/ Phone: (520) 621-3296 Fax: (520) 621-9875 ***********************************

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"Digital Methods & Social Develop" Webcast Sunday (August 21st)
by Jack Qiu 16 Aug '16

16 Aug '16

Dear all, The Inaugural CUHK Research Summit "Digital Methods and Social Development" will be held this Sunday (August 21st) at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. If you are in the city or nearby, you're most welcome to join us at Lecture Theatre 2, Esther Lee Building, three minutes walk from University MTR station. If you cannot join us physically, don't worry. You can still watch all talks live broadcast online at http://ow.ly/be1s303h8Cg (this page has more background info about the event). We will also replay it on Twitter (hashtag: #dmsdcu16) This is the schedule (Hong Kong time) on Sunday August 21st: 9:00am-9:20am opening ceremony 9:30am-10:30am Melissa Gregg -- Counterproductivity: A brief history of time management 10:45am-11:45am Richard Rogers -- Otherwise Engaged: From vanity metrics to critical analytics 11:45am-12:45pm Wenhong Chen -- Handle with Care: Digital methods, sociological imagination, and the Chinese Dream 2pm-3pm Michael Best -- Digital Methods and Democratic Development: Acquiring and acting on user generated content during national elections 3pm-4pm Isaac Mao -- Man and Machine, Teaming or Fighting? 4:20pm-5:20pm Panel Discussion: Angela Wu (Moderator), Michael Best, Wenhong Chen, Melissa Gregg, Isaac Mao, Richard Rogers 5:20pm-5:30pm Closing: Richard Rogers, Jack Qiu Stay tuned and hope you're going to join us either way! Cheers, jlq

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Call for nomination for the 2016 Social Informatics Best Student Paper Award
by Fichman, Pnina 16 Aug '16

16 Aug '16

Social Informatics Best Student Paper Award Call for nomination for the 2016 Social Informatics Best Student Paper Award The Special Interest Group for Social Informatics (SIG-SI) and the Rob Kling Center for Social Informatics are seeking nominations for an award for the best paper written by a doctoral student on a topic informed by social informatics. Nominations may include a published paper in a peer reviewed journal during 2015 or a conference paper presented in 2015. The author or authors will present their paper at the 12th Annual SIG-SI Symposium on Saturday, October 15, 2016 and receive a $500 cash award at the 2015 Annual Meeting of the Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T) in Copenhagen, Denmark in October, 2016. Nomination letters should be sent to Howard Rosenbaum (hrosenba(a)indiana.edu <mailto:hrosenba@indiana.edu>) or Pnina Fichman (fichman(a)indiana.edu <mailto:fichman@indiana.edu>) by August 19, 2016 and must include a full citation, a brief explanation for the nomination, and a copy of the article. Self nominations are acceptable. Winners will be notified by September 9, 2016. For more information about the Special Interest Group for Social Informatics (SIG-SI): http://asistsigsi.wordpress.com<http://asistsigsi.wordpress.com/> <http://asistsigsi.wordpress.com<http://asistsigsi.wordpress.com/>> For more information about the Rob Kling Center for Social Informatics: http://rkcsi.indiana.edu<http://rkcsi.indiana.edu/> <http://rkcsi.indiana.edu<http://rkcsi.indiana.edu/>> Pnina Fichman and Howard Rosenbaum Department of Information and Library Science School of Informatics and Computing, Indiana University

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CFP> Enhancing Lives through Information and Technology - A Combined SIG-SI and SIG-USE Full-Day Workshop
by Fichman, Pnina 16 Aug '16

16 Aug '16

Call for Papers and Participation Enhancing Lives through Information and Technology - A Combined SIG-SI and SIG-USE Full-Day Workshop The Social Informatics of Work and Play (SIG-SI): Morning   Information Behavior in Workplaces (SIG-USE): Afternoon ASIS&T Annual Meeting, Copenhagen, Denmark October 15, 2016 Organizers Katriina Byström, Oslo and Akershus University College of Applied Sciences, Katriina.Bystrom(a)hioa.no <mailto:Katriina.Bystrom@hioa.no> Pnina Fichman, Indiana University, Bloomington, fichman(a)indiana.edu <mailto:fichman@indiana.edu> Luanne Freund, University of British Columbia, Luanne.Freund(a)ubc.ca <mailto:Luanne.Freund@ubc.ca> Howard Rosenbaum, Indiana University, Bloomington, hrosenba(a)indiana.edu <mailto:hrosenba@indiana.edu> Join us at ASIS&T in Copenhagen for a full-day pre-conference workshop to explore the ways in which our uses of information and technologies improve our work and social lives. Two vital and dynamic SIGs are joining forces for a workshop that will provide two interesting and complementary perspectives in the conference theme. In the morning session, SIG-SI will bring a perspective that focuses on the social aspects of information and communication technologies (ICT) in work and play across all areas of ASIS&T. In the afternoon session, SIG-USE will focus on information related activities from different research perspectives and explores the significance of information seeking and use on our lives. Submissions may include empirical, critical, conceptual and theoretical papers and posters, as well as richly described practice cases and demonstrations. The combined workshop will allow networking between members of both SIGs during the day. MORNING: THE SOCIAL INFORMATICS OF WORK AND PLAY (SIG SI) Co-sponsored by the Rob Kling Center for Social Informatics This year’s conference theme is “creating knowledge, enhancing lives through information & technology.” This is a particularly apposite theme for SIG-SI, because the social impacts of ICT and the complex relations among people, technologies, and the contexts of ICT design, implementation, and use have long been core concerns of social informatics. The SIG-SI morning session, our 12th annual gathering at ASIS&T annual meetings, will bring a critical perspective that focuses on the social aspects of ICT that cuts across all areas of ASIS&T This year, we are particularly interested in papers that investigate the social informatics of work and play. We define “social” broadly to include critical and historical approaches as well as contemporary social analysis. We also define “technology” broadly to include traditional technologies (e.g., paper, books, etc.), state-of-the-art computer systems, and mobile and pervasive devices. Submissions may include papers and posters that explore the ways in which people’s uses of ICT affect their practices and behaviors while at work, play, and engaged in their social lives. We are particularly interested in work that assumes a critical stance towards the Symposium’s theme, but are also soliciting research on other related social informatics topics. We encourage all scholars interested in social aspects of ICT (broadly defined) to share their research and research in progress by submitting an extended abstract of their work and attending the symposium. Some of the questions we ask include: • What are the impacts of ICT on people’s practices and behaviors while at work, play, and engaged in their social lives? • What are some of the ways our work and play practices shape the design and development of ICT? • What are the ways ICT positively and negatively impact organizations, work, play, and social life? • What kinds of theoretical and methodological frameworks are best suited for studying the mutual shaping of ICT and practices and behaviors while at work and play? The schedule for the morning session of the symposium will involve the presentations of papers, a panel of distinguished scholars, and the best social informatics paper awards for 2015. We expect an engaging discussion with lively interactions with the audience. SIG-SI symposium chairs Pnina Fichman, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, USA Howard Rosenbaum, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, USA Eric Meyer, Oxford Internet Institute, Oxford, UK Adam Worrall, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada AFTERNOON: INFORMATION BEHAVIOUR IN WORKPLACES (SIG-USE) This year’s SIG USE symposium focuses on information issues at work. It acknowledges social, individual and technological perspectives on the roles and flows that information takes as part of physical and digital work. The broad approach relates to the conference theme with a focus on information behavior (IB) or on information practices (IP) in connection to workplaces. Earlier generations were accustomed to stable and localized work; now work activities and contexts have and are radically changing. During their work life, people may experience several career changes, are expected to learn new skills and adapt to new ideas as well as manage the increasingly fluid boundaries between work and leisure. Moreover, much of information and data are internetworked and accessible simultaneously by multiple mobile devices supporting networked communities anyplace, anywhere, anytime. This challenges both the creation and consumption of information used for work – or at work; it also affects how, when and where people work, as well as their productivity, collegiality and innovativeness. Despite, or perhaps due to, the advances in technology, today’s workplaces remain challenged by how to create, discover, share, value and enhance information and knowledge at and for work; and, how to design and manage the systems that support these functions, which are so critical to organizationally effective and individually rewarding work. The issues are many, from the consequences of new devices that are stretching the ways that an organization works, to the efficacy dynamics (stress, motivation, collaboration, productivity, age, etc.) and to the new skills and expertise required to work in such changing and changeable environments. Information is indispensable in many, if not all, workplace activities; as a resource for getting work done as well as for learning, managing change, developing and maintaining processes and creating professional networks. Specific issues to be addressed depend on the interest of the participants and the issues they bring into the workshop. Welcome topics include: • Critical cultural information behavior – how do we infuse our workplaces and practices with diversity and social justice sensibilities? • Collaborative IB; virtual team • Digital workplaces, peopleless offices & officeless people - what happens when the physical workplace dissolves? • Everyday Life Information (in the workplace) • Frameworks for understanding IB/IP in work settings • IB/IP and workplace or information systems design • Organizational behaviour research - what can we learn from this field of research that is relevant to IB/IP? • Organizational information genres • Personal Information Management (in the workplace) • The blurring of lines between personal and professional in digital information use in the workplace • The impact of mobile devices on IB/IP in the workplace • Workplace culture, diversity and inclusion - how these shape and are shaped by information behaviour (IB)/information practices (IP)? • and any other work-related informational topics We aim to an interactive workshop to enable the fullest exchange of ideas amongst attendees. For this reason, we encourage participants to submit; even if participation without a paper/poster is an eligible option. The workshop features a keynote by Professor Hazel Hall (preliminarily confirmed), presentation of selected papers, a joint poster session between the SIGs, and roundtable discussions based on short papers and posters by participants. Documentation: short papers and posters are shared digitally among the participants. Roundtable discussions are documented by a designated person in each group and collated by symposium chairs to a short summary that is made available for the participants afterwards. SIG-USE symposium chairs David Allen, Leeds University, UK Katriina Byström, Oslo and Akershus University College of Applied Sciences, Norway Nicole A. Cooke, The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA Luanne Freund, University of British Columbia, Canada TENTATIVE SCHEDULE SI - opening keynote: 8.30-9.00 Paper presentations: 9.00-10.30 Break 10.30-10.45 Panel: 10.45-11.45 SIG SI paper awards: 11.45-12.15 SI- closing discussion and remarks: 12.15-12.45 USE- opening and opening keynote: 13.45-14.45 Short Paper Session: 14.45-15.45 Break 15.45-16.00 Roundtable discussion based on papers & posters: 16.00-17.30 SIG USE Awards 17.30-17.45 USE - closing remarks: 17.45-18.00 CALL FOR PAPERS AND POSTERS FOR BOTH SIGS Submit a short paper (2000 words) or poster (500 words) by August 19, 2016. SIG-SI: Please send your submission as a PDF file to: hrosenba(a)indiana.edu <mailto:hrosenba@indiana.edu> SIG-USE: Please, send your submission as a PDF-file to: katriina.bystrom(a)hioa.no <mailto:katriina.bystrom@hioa.no> Acceptance announcements made by August 31, 2016 in time for conference early registration (ends Sept 2, 2016). FEES Members – SIG-SI session: $100 - $120 after Sept. 2, 2016 Members – SIG-USE session: $100 - $120 after September September 2, 2016 Members – attending both SIG-SI and SIG-USE sessions: $180 - $200 after Sept. 2, 2016 Non-members - SIG-SI Session: $120 - $140, after September 2, 2016 Non-members - SIG-USE Session: $120 - $140, after September 2, 2016 Non-members – attending both SIG-SI and SIG-USE sessions: $230 - $250 after Sept. 2, 2016 ------------------------ Pnina Fichman Chair, Department of Information and Library Science Director, Rob Kling Center for Social Informatics School of Informatics and Computing, Indiana University, Bloomington http://ella.slis.indiana.edu/~fichman/

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Fwd: Call for Proposals: “Internet Freedom: Present and Future” at the Internet Freedom Festival, March 2017
by Nathalie Marechal 16 Aug '16

16 Aug '16

Hi all, This may be of interest to those on this list who study internet policy, internet governance, human rights, politics online, and more. The IFF is a really great opportunity to step outside the ivory tower and interact with civil society researchers and activists from around the world, *in Spain*. I've attended IFF since its inception in 2015 and would be happy to answer any questions. Cheers, Nathalie *Nathalie Maréchal* Doctoral Candidate, USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism Senior Information Controls Fellow, Ranking Digital Rights Marechal(a)USC.edu | @MarechalUSC | www.nathaliemarechal.net PGP Fingerprint - EB43 3CE8 A759 5419 52C0 2FF1 B721 C0BF 0F43 0663 ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: IFF Research <research(a)internetfreedomfestival.org> Date: Tue, Aug 16, 2016 at 10:00 AM Subject: Call for Proposals: “Internet Freedom: Present and Future” at the Internet Freedom Festival, March 2017 To: Call for Proposals: “Internet Freedom: Present and Future” at the Internet Freedom Festival Where: Internet Freedom Festival, Las Naves, Valencia, Spain When: March 6-10, 2017 Submission deadline: Oct 2, 2016 Since 2015, the Internet Freedom Festival has gathered the community keeping the internet open and uncensored for a week of multidisciplinary collaboration among front-line activists, policy experts, tool developers, digital security trainers, and academic researchers from around the world. This year, the “Internet Freedom: Present and Future” theme will promote exchange and collaboration between the scholarly and practitioner communities. In preparing their submissions, researchers should consider the following provocations: - What should practitioners from the various sectors represented at the Festival know from the scholarly literature? - What is the canon of Internet Freedom literature? In what ways is the canon being contested? - What is the cutting edge of scholarly research in this field? - How can this information best be conveyed to lay audiences? Proposals can structured as solo presentations of original research, critical literature reviews, panel discussions, roundtables, debates, or any other format suitable to sharing scholarly research with Internet Freedom practitioners. Standard formats for the IFF include: - Workshop - Training - Hackathon - Presentation - Panel discussion - Networking event - Off-site session - Other: you can also create your own formats, as long as they fit within the allocated times and spaces. The full submission guidelines are at https://internetfreedomfestival.org/ host-a-session/ <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__internetfreedomfestiva…> Graduate students, early-career academics, and scholars from the Global South are especially encouraged to apply. The Theme How should the future of the Internet Freedom space look? How can we get there from here? The Internet Freedom: Present and Future Theme is dedicated to explore the current state of the Internet Freedom space, its overarching issues, the latest research findings, and the upcoming threats and opportunities. Naturally, sessions that explore the history of Internet Freedom are also relevant. How to Apply Proposals should be submitted through https://internetfreedomfestival.org/ host-a-session/ <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__internetfreedomfestiva…>, selecting the “Internet Freedom: Present and Future” theme. Please refer to the “Research” theme in the session description. Submissions will be evaluated through a peer-review process comprising academics as well as internet freedom practitioners. Questions can be sent to research(a)internetfreedomfestival.org -- The Internet Freedom Festival Team @InternetFF | www.internetfreedomfestival.org <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.internetfreedomfest…>

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