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CALL FOR NOMINATIONS> The 2016 Social Informatics Best Paper Award
by Rosenbaum, Howard S. 21 Jul '16

21 Jul '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 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 $1,000 cash award at the 2016 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/> For more information about the Rob Kling Center for Social Informatics: 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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22nd ACM International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI 2017): Fourth Call for Papers
by Announce Announcements 21 Jul '16

21 Jul '16

** Fourth Call for Papers *** 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. Why you should submit to ACM IUI: At ACM IUI, we focus on the interaction between machine intelligence and human intelligence. While other conferences focus on one side or the other, we address the complex interaction between the two. We welcome research that explores how to make the interaction between computers and people smarter, which may leverage solutions from data mining, knowledge representation, novel interaction paradigms, and emerging technologies. We strongly encourage submissions that discuss research from both HCI and AI simultaneously, but also welcome works that focus more on one side or the other. The conference brings together people from academia, industry and non-profit organizations and gives its participants the opportunity to present and see cutting-edge IUI work in a focused and interactive setting. It is large enough to be diverse and lively, but small enough to allow for extensive interaction among attendees and easy attendance to the events that the conference offers, ranging from oral paper presentations, poster sessions, workshops, panels and doctoral consortium for graduate students. Submission Full and Short Papers We invite original paper submissions that describe novel user interfaces, applications, interactive and intelligent technologies, empirical studies, or design techniques. IUI 2017 especially encourages submissions on innovative and visionary new concepts or directions for the design of intelligent interfaces. We do not require evaluations with users, but we do expect papers to include an appropriate evaluation for their stated contribution. Accepted papers will appear in the ACM Digital Library and citation indices. A selected set of accepted top quality full papers will be invited to submit their extended versions for publication in an ACM Transactions on Interactive Intelligent Systems (TiiS, http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=YWlyLUwJCQlhaXItTEBsaXN0c2Vydi… special issue titled "Highlights of IUI 2017". Examples of ACM IUI topics of interest include, but are not limited to: · Intelligent visualization tools · User-Adaptive interaction and personalization · Recommender systems · Intelligent wearable, mobile and ubiquitous interfaces · Modeling and prediction of user behavior · Information retrieval and search · Education and learning-related technologies · Social media analysis · Multi-modal interfaces (speech, gestures, eye gaze, face, physiological information etc.) · Natural language and speech processing · Generation of multimodal content · Big Data and analytics · Smart environments and tangible computing · Intelligent assistants for complex tasks · Collaborative interfaces · Persuasive and assistive technologies in IUI · Affective and aesthetic interfaces · Interactive machine learning · Planning and plan recognition for IUI · Knowledge-based approaches to user interface design and generation · Proactive and agent-based user interaction · Example-and demonstration-based interfaces · Evaluations of intelligent user interfaces Submission Guidelines · Full paper (anonymized 10 pages, references do not count toward the page limit) should make substantial, novel, and relevant contribution to the field. · Short paper (anonymized 4 pages, references do not count toward the page limit) is a much more focused and succinct contribution to the field. Short papers are not expected to include a discussion of related work that is as broad and complete as that of full papers. · Anonymization: ACM IUI uses a double-blind review process. All submissions must be appropriately anonymized according to the following guidelines: 1. Author's names and affiliations are not visible anywhere in the paper. 2. Acknowledgements should be anonymized or removed during the review process. 3. Self-citations should be included where necessary, but must use the third person. For example, "... as shown in our previous user study [2] ..." is not allowed, whereas "... as shown in Smith et al. [2] " is acceptable (because in this case the citation [2] will NOT be perceived as self-citation). Failure to follow these guidelines may results in submissions being rejected without review. Submissions should follow the standard SigCHI format available here: http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=YWlyLUwJCQlhaXItTEBsaXN0c2Vydi… . You may use either the Microsoft Word template or the LaTeX template. Accepted full papers will be invited for oral presentation. Accepted short papers will be invited either as oral or poster presentation, depending on the quality of the papers. AUTHORS TAKE NOTE: The official publication date is the date the proceedings are made available in the ACM Digital Library. This date may be up to two weeks prior to the first day of your conference. The official publication date affects the deadline for any patent filings related to published work. (For those rare conferences whose proceedings are published in the ACM Digital Library after the conference is over, the official publication date remains the first day of the conference.) Important Dates · Abstracts: October 9, 2016 · Full and Short Papers: October 14, 2016 · Reviews to Authors: November 21, 2016 · Rebuttals: November 25, 2016 · Notification of Decisions: December 9, 2016 Committees General Chairs · Tsvika Kuflik, University of Haifa, Israel · George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Program Committee Chairs · Fang Chen, NICTA, Australia · Carlos Duarte, University of Lisbon, Portugal · Wai-Tat Fu, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA Posters/Demos Chairs · Andrina Granic, University of Split, Croatia · Denis Parra. PUC, Chile · Jingtaw Wang, University of Pittsburgh, USA Workshops/Tutorials Chairs · Shlomo Berkovsky, CSIRO, Australia · Bart Kninijnburg, Clemson University, USA Student Consortium Chairs · Peter Brusilovsky, University of Pittsburgh, USA · Katrien Verbert, KULeuven, Belgium Student Volunteers Chairs · Christos Mettouris, University of Cyprus, Cyprus · Tobias Grosse-Puppendahl, Microsoft Research, UK · Julia Sheidin, University of Haifa, Israel Sponsorship Chairs · Daniel Sonntag, DFKI, Germany (for Europe) · Feng Tian, Institute of Software Chinese Academy of Sciences, China (for Asia) Treasurer · George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Proceedings Chair · Daniel Afergan, Google, USA Web Master · Marios Christou, Easy Conferences, Cyprus · Kyriakos Georgiades, Easy Conferences, Cyprus

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Call for participants and senior scholar mentors: Early Career Workshop at AoIR 2016
by Andrea Guzman 20 Jul '16

20 Jul '16

We invite early career scholars attending AoIR 2016 to participate in a workshop geared just for them. This half-day preconference (morning) will include: 1. an open session: attendees will discuss issues pertinent to junior scholars 2. a panel session: senior scholars will answer questions and offer advice 3. a small-group session: attendees will break into small groups based on institution type and/or geographic region and work with a senior scholar mentor to address specific needs This workshop is meant for people who have obtained their terminal degree and are in the initial stages of their career as faculty member, researcher, post-doc, etc. We already have a great group of senior scholars serving as mentors for this event from different academic systems, but we have room for a few more volunteers (particularly from Australia, Canada, or Europe). All early-career participants must register for the event as part of the general registration for the conference. There is no additional cost for the workshop. We also are asking participants to email 1 to 3 questions that they would like addressed by a panel of established scholars to Andrea L. Guzman (alguzman(a)niu.edu) AND Jeff Hemsley (jjhemsle(a)syr.edu) Senior scholars who want to volunteer are asked to contact Andrea and Jeff directly. For more information: http://aoir.org/aoir2016/preconference-workshops/#career See you in Berlin! _____ Andrea L. Guzman, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Dept. of Communication Northern Illinois University alguzman(a)niu.edu

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Cyber Hygiene and the Internet of Things: Invitation to participate in a consensus exercise
by John Blythe 20 Jul '16

20 Jul '16

Dear colleagues, If you have expertise in security and Internet of Things, you may be interested in taking part in our latest research project. At the UCL Centre for Behaviour Change, we are currently recruiting experts to contribute to the ‘Cyber Hygiene Project’. The project is part of the multi-disciplinary PETRAS research hub exploring critical issues in privacy, ethics, trust, reliability, acceptability, and security in Internet of Things environments. More information about the project and the hub can be found here (http://www.petrashub.org/) The Internet of Things will bring many benefits for consumers, businesses and government but alongside these benefits will be a heightened risk to threats. Cyber Hygiene refers to the security, privacy and safety behaviours end-users need to engage in to protect themselves in IoT environments. Our goal is to identify intervention strategies and develop guidelines for developers, companies, and end-users on improving Cyber Hygiene. To achieve this goal, we are looking to work with experts to establish consensus on potential IoT threats and mitigating behaviours that end-users should engage in to maintain their Cyber Hygiene. This would provide us with an understanding of the key user behaviours before we identify intervention strategies. Expert consensus studies are particularly useful when there is limited research and clarity around a topic. IoT research is well in its infancy and there is currently a lack of guidance on Cyber Hygiene behaviours. Establishing consensus in this area will be an important first step before establishing behaviour change strategies. Working with us would involve three online questionnaires sent to you between July to October 2016 (approx. 15-20 minutes each time) to obtain your opinions on these issues. In receipt of your time, we will be running a *free bespoke behaviour change and networking event* covering theory and practice related to a topic of interest from recruited IoT and information security experts (ran by our specialists at the UCL centre for behaviour change. If you are interested in participating, we would be grateful if you could complete the brief survey available at the following link ( https://t.co/8neHiQ7hTN) *within two weeks* of receipt of this email, in which you will be asked to confirm your interest in participation and answer some short questions in relation to your field of work and background, and choose your preferences for the behaviour change event. This will help ensure our final sample includes people from a wide range of countries, disciplines and areas of study. *Furthermore, please feel free to share this email with anyone you feel may be interested in taking part. * Best wishes John Blythe on behalf of the Cyber Hygiene team (Jeremy Watson, Carmen Leferve & Susan Michie) *__________________________________________________________________________________________________________* *Dr. John M Blythe* *Research Associate, UCL Centre for Behaviour Change* T: +44 (0)2031087982 <%2B44%20%280%29191%20227%203716> E: *j.blythe(a)ucl.ac.uk <j.blythe(a)ucl.ac.uk>* A: UCL Centre for Behaviour Change 8 Hunter Street, London, WC1N 1BN

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Call for papers on the psychology of cybercrime - Special Issue of the Cyberpsychology, Behavior and Social Networking journal
by Grainne Kirwan 20 Jul '16

20 Jul '16

Dear all, Please see below information about a call for papers on the psychology of cybercrime for the Cyberpsychology, Behavior and Social Networking journal. Please do not hesitate to contact me with any queries. Grainne Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking CALL FOR PAPERS: Special Issue on The Psychology of Cybercrime Guest Editor: Gráinne Kirwan, PhD C.Psychol Dun Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design and Technology, Ireland Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking is organizing a special issue dedicated to the psychological aspects of cybercrime. Submissions considering all types of cybercrime are welcome, and, where relevant, content examining related areas with a focus on cybercrime may also be considered (for example, aspects of security and privacy online). We are seeking high-quality original articles and review articles on the following topics (though other topics will be considered): · Psychological impact of cybercrime on victims, society, law enforcement personnel, and other relevant actors · Psychological profiling of cybercrime offenders · Evaluation of cybercrime reduction techniques · Information security behaviors · Psychological aspects of cybercrime investigation · Punishment options in cybercriminal cases · Moral and ethical aspects of cybercrime · Application of psychological theories of crime to cybercrime The deadline for manuscript submission is November 1, 2016. Please submit your papers online to the web-based manuscript submission and peer-review system http://www.liebertpub.com/forauthors/cyberpsychology-behavior-brand-social-… ? ________________________________ Dr. Gráinne Kirwan CPsychol Lecturer in Psychology Department of Technology and Psychology IADT Kill Avenue, Dun Laoghaire, Co. Dublin, Rep. of Ireland www.grainnekirwan.com<http://www.grainnekirwan.com> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- IADT Disclaimer. This e-mail and any other items transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual to whom they are addressed. If you are not the intended recipient you must not use, disclose, distribute, copy, print or relay on this e-mail. If an addressing or transmission error has misdirected this e-mail, please notify the author by return email or inform Dun Laoghaire Institute of Art | Design | Technology's (IADT) Information Communication Technology Office on 01 2394000 or mailto:support@iadt.ie Any views expressed are those of the author and not necessarily those of IADT. IADT does not guarantee that this e-mail is free from viruses, worms or the like. Please undertake your own checks. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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FW: Job vacancy Administrative Data Service
by Ansgar Koene 20 Jul '16

20 Jul '16

Possibly of interest for recent graduates. Dr. Ansgar Koene Senior Research Fellow: Horizon Policy Impact, CaSMa & UnBias Horizon Digital Economy Research Institute University of Nottingham http://casma.wp.horizon.ac.uk/ http://unbias.wp.horizon.ac.uk/ http://www.horizon.ac.uk/ https://sites.google.com/site/arkoene/ ________________________________ From: UK Data Service News [UKDATASERVICE(a)JISCMAIL.AC.UK] on behalf of Parsons, Rebecca M [rparsons(a)ESSEX.AC.UK] Sent: 20 July 2016 11:41 To: UKDATASERVICE(a)JISCMAIL.AC.UK Subject: Job vacancy Administrative Data Service Job vacancy: User Services Senior Office, UK Data Archive The Administrative Data Service (ADS) is seeking to appoint a User Services Senior Officer to develop and deliver the Data and User Services function of the ADS and provide support for users of the Administrative Data Research Network. The successful candidate will provide front line support for users of the Administrative Data Research Network on queries relating to data acquisition, linking, access, processing and reporting. They will also support applicants to the Network and will be responsible for working with data owners to arrange the provision of data for individual research projects. This will involve negotiating to secure data provision and acting as an advocate for researchers whilst navigating government data access processes. Among other skills and experience the successful candidate will have an undergraduate degree, or equivalent, in a relevant data-using discipline. They will have excellent written and spoken communication, negotiation skills and experience with sensitive data. An appreciation of researchers' data needs and requirements will be essential; experience of supporting data users is also desirable. This post involves access to Government systems, information or data and will be subject to the staff vetting process. Further information can found in the Recruitment Pack. This is a full time, fixed-term position until September 2018. More information on the post can be found here<https://hrorganiser.essex.ac.uk/tlive_webrecruitment/wrd/run/ETREC107GF.ope…>. __________________________ Becky Parsons Senior Communications and Impact Officer Working days: 9.30 – 2.30 Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday __________________________ T +44(0) 1206 872016 E rparsons(a)essex.ac.uk<mailto:rparsons@essex.ac.uk> W ukdataservice.ac.uk __________________________ UK Data Service UK Data Archive University of Essex ___________________________________ Find out more: LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/company/uk-data-service Twitter https://twitter.com/UKDataService Data Impact Blog http://blog.ukdataservice.ac.uk/ __________________________ Legal Disclaimer: Any views expressed by the sender of this message are not necessarily those of the UK Data Service or the UK Data Archive. This email and any files with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual(s) or entity to whom they are addressed. This message and any attachment are intended solely for the addressee and may contain confidential information. If you have received this message in error, please send it back to me, and immediately delete it. Please do not use, copy or disclose the information contained in this message or in any attachment. Any views or opinions expressed by the author of this email do not necessarily reflect the views of the University of Nottingham. This message has been checked for viruses but the contents of an attachment may still contain software viruses which could damage your computer system, you are advised to perform your own checks. Email communications with the University of Nottingham may be monitored as permitted by UK legislation.

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funded PhD in data politics, University of Amsterdam
by Stefania Milan 20 Jul '16

20 Jul '16

++Apologies for cross-posting. Please spread the word!++ The DATACTIVE (data-activism.net) project at the University of Amsterdam is looking for a PhD student to join the team and contribute to conduct research on data politics and grassroots participation. Apply *with a PhD project proposal* by August 26. ++Job description++ The Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis (ASCA) of the Faculty of Humanities is looking for a PhD candidate to join the ERC-funded project 'Data Activism: The Politics of Big Data According to Civil Society' (DATACTIVE), with Dr. Stefania Milan as Principal Investigator. DATACTIVE investigates citizens’ engagement with massive data collection, seeking to understand how activism evolves in the time of datafication. As datafication progressively invades all spheres of contemporary society, citizens grow increasingly aware of the critical role of information as the new fabric of social life. This awareness gives rise to new sociotechnical practices taking a critical approach to ‘big data’ and massive data collection, which fall under the rubric of ‘data activism’. Data activism takes at least two forms: re-active data activism, whereby people increasingly resist the threats to civil rights that derive from corporate privacy intrusion and government surveillance (e.g., by means of technical fixes such as encryption); and pro-active data activism, whereby citizens take advantage of the possibilities for campaigning and social change that data availability provides (e.g., data-based advocacy). The DATACTIVE project explores how activism broadly defined evolves in the age of big data. We take a critical look at, among others, citizen empowerment through data; civil society’s privacy practices; surveillance and internet activism; governance of data flows and internet infrastructure; open data and civic tech networks. You will join an interdisciplinary team working under the leadership of Dr. Stefania Milan (the Principal Investigator; https://stefaniamilan.net <https://stefaniamilan.net/>) and collaboratively examining the emerging dynamics of data activism at the intersection of its social and technological dimensions. We offer a multidisciplinary, interactive and international research environment in a leading department (Communication and Media Studies at the University of Amsterdam currently ranks number 8 in the QS World Rankings). ++Requirements++ The ideal candidate should have: * a demonstrable affinity with one or the combination of the following areas of research: social movements/grassroots activism’s engagement with data, digital technology and citizen participation, datafication and digital citizenship, democratic agency and algorithmic power, social effects of algorithm discrimination, (participatory) governance of data flows; * a Master's, Master of Research, or equivalent degree in one of the following disciplines: sociology, political science, communication sciences, media studies, and neighboring disciplines, preferably with expertise in one of the following fields: social movement studies, digital sociology, sociology of knowledge and/or culture, international relations, governance studies, critical internet studies, critical data studies; * demonstrable expertise in qualitative/ethnographic and/or quantitative research methods; familiarity (or willingness to acquire it) with data processing techniques and digital methods. In addition, he or she should also possess: * a good knowledge of current developments in digital communication technology in the post-Snowden era, and the related socio-technical and policy processes; * a creative mind and an interest to think across disciplines and domains; * strong communication skills, and an interest in building bridges between research, policy and advocacy/activism; * excellent command of English. Familiarity with other languages constitutes an asset; * the ability to work independently as well as in a team, and be responsive to feedback; * the willingness to engage in research collaboration with nongovernmental organizations; * superior organizational skills, including the ability to plan one’s work and meet deadlines. He or she should have an eye for detail, and be available occasionally to work under tight deadlines. Read more and find out how to apply here: http://www.uva.nl/en/about-the-uva/working-at-the-uva/vacancies/item/16-371… <http://www.uva.nl/en/about-the-uva/working-at-the-uva/vacancies/item/16-371…> OR here: www.academictransfer.com/35194 <http://www.academictransfer.com/35194> ---------------------- Stefania Milan, PhD University of Amsterdam || mediastudies.nl || stefaniamilan.net || @annliffey fingerprint: 7606 4526 3D24 20B2 C850 EA42 A497 CB70 04B5 A3B

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Call for Abstracts - Lives of Data Workshop, Sarai-CSDS (Deadline: 15 Sept.)
by Sandeep Mertia 20 Jul '16

20 Jul '16

Apologies for cross-posting. *Call for Abstracts -** ‘Lives of Data’ Workshop, 06-07 January 2017, The Sarai Programme, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS), Delhi. * ‘Data’ has been recently termed as the new oil, new soil, new world currency and the raw material for the new industrial revolution. It has been hypothesised that the era of Big Data will finally see the ‘end of theory <http://www.wired.com/2008/06/pb-theory/>’. This hyperbole has it that the new technologies being developed today can produce truth based on computations of large amounts of machine readable digital data. Beyond such deterministic claims, the ‘Data Revolution’ indeed poses compelling theoretical and methodological challenges in all fields with stakes in knowledge. The present conjuncture, we would argue, is loaded with possibilities for rethinking ‘data-driven knowledge’ through longer histories of classification, enumeration, quantification, techno-scientific practices, and forms of media storage, retrieval, computational analysis and use. Scholarship in the emerging field of data studies has established close connections with science & technology studies (STS), and media and software studies. There is now a growing body of work <http://bds.sagepub.com/> which questions the Big Data hubris and the excesses of the post Web 2.0 digital deluge. ‘Raw Data’, as Geoffrey Bowker and Lisa Gitelman among others have suggested, is an ‘oxymoron’. In the Indian context, concerns about statistics, governance and knowledge, evident in the histories of colonial census, the work of P C Mahalanobis at the Indian Statistical Institute and the Planning Commission, the emergence of scientific computing in the 1950s-60s, government regulation of media, electronics and telecom, provide a vivid background to think about the new technics, materiality and aesthetics of our digital cultures. In times when Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) have passed their initial developmental hype-cycles and mobile phones have somewhat flattened the so-called ‘digital divides’ (while creating many new ones), the fields of information research in India are grappling with socio-technical reconfigurations of a widening scope and scale. The projections and contestations around our much promoted march towards a #DigitalIndia <http://www.digitalindia.gov.in/> with the world’s largest biometric database (#Aadhaar <https://uidai.gov.in/>); a nation-wide digging campaign for broadband connectivity in villages and the building of one hundred #SmartCities <http://smartcities.gov.in/>; and the intense pursuit of the ‘Next Billion’ users by a floating array of large technology companies and startups (#FreeBasics <https://0.freebasics.com/desktop>, #StartupIndia <http://startupindia.gov.in/>); have inundated the space for reflection and critique. The many known and unknown lives and after-lives of data in this ecosystem of flux demand description, interpretation, concepts, and – if the data permits – theory. In the past Sarai has organised workshops on ‘Social & Cultural Lives of Information <http://sarai.net/social-and-cultural-life-of-information-workshop-discussio…>’ and the ‘Lives of Information’ <http://sarai.net/lives-of-information/>, to reflect upon the cultures of information practices and the connections between colonial and post-colonial information infrastructures in South Asia. Continuing our focus on contemporary realities, ICTs and infrastructures, the ‘Lives of Data’ workshop aims to encourage research on pertinent questions concerning ‘data’ – its imaginaries, infrastructures, knowledge politics, and techno-science and media cultures in India and South Asia. The ‘Lives of Data’ workshop hopes to bring together interdisciplinary researchers and practitioners to examine the historical and emergent conditions of data-driven knowledge production and circulation in Indian and South Asian contexts. We are interested in a conversation which dynamically moves back and forth in science, technology and media history and anthropology to reflect upon the many layered abstractions and materialisations of data, information and knowledge. The key questions which the workshop will explore are: – What is data? How is it imagined, collected, archived, developed, scraped, parsed, mined, cleaned, used, interpreted, re-produced, circulated and deleted? – How do we map the relationships between data, infrastructure and knowledge production? – How do we reimagine data and information through longer histories of statistics, bureaucracy, governmentality and development? – What are the stakes involved in analysing the ever increasing volume, velocity, variety and value of data? How do practitioners understand the changing nature of their work with data? – How do we conceptualise the new data publics? Workshop themes include: – Histories of State and Statistics, Classification, Enumeration and Planning – Data Analytics, Data Ontologies, Digital Objects – Digital Humanities, Computational Social Sciences, Cultural Analytics – Cultures of Software Engineering and Design – Data, Memory and Materiality: Archives, Paper/Digital Databases, Warehouses, Data Centres, Server Farms – Thinking through Digital Infrastructures: Hardware, Code, Meta-Data, Formats, Protocols, Programming Languages, Information Architectures, Algorithms, Apps, Interfaces, Platforms, APIs, etc. – Data-Driven Urbanism: Geographies of Mobile Computing, Locative Apps and Social Media, GIS, and Smart Cities – Openness, Transparency and Access to Data/Information/Knowledge. #RTI #OpenData #DNAProfiling #Copyright #Encryption #Privacy – Platforms as Government: Transnational Networks of Intermediaries and the Flows of Data/Capital – ‘SysAdmin <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System_administrator>’ like the State: Bio-Politics, Surveillance, User/Citizen, Governance, Policing and Law. #Aadhaar #ITact #CyberSecurity – ‘Beautiful Data <https://www.dukeupress.edu/beautiful-data>’: Design, Aesthetics, Vision and Visualisation *The Sarai Programme invites submission of abstracts for the ‘Lives of Data’ workshop. Besides academic researchers, we strongly encourage media, design and software practitioners to apply for the workshop. Abstracts should not exceed 300 words, and should be sent to dak(a)sarai.net <dak(a)sarai.net> by 15 September, 2016, with the subject heading ‘Proposal for the Lives of Data Workshop.’ Authors of the selected abstracts will be notified by 01 October, 2016.* *The workshop will be held on 06-07 January, 2017 at Sarai-CSDS, 29 Rajpur Road, Delhi. The Sarai Programme will cover three days of accommodation for outstation participants. In addition, participants from India will be eligible for travel support.* URL: http://sarai.net/call-for-abstracts-lives-of-data-workshop/ <http://sarai.net/call-for-abstracts-lives-of-data-workshop/>*---* Regards, Sandeep Mertia, Research Associate, Sarai-CSDS, Delhi

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Facebook and Twitter user recruitment?
by Galen Panger 20 Jul '16

20 Jul '16

Hi all, for my dissertation I'm recruiting separate samples of Twitter and Facebook users for a multi-part study (see http://facebookstudy.berkeley.edu and http://twitterstudy.berkeley.edu) I'm having some luck with Twitter ads, and with my university's subject pool for Facebook, but am wondering if folks here might have ideas for recruiting more participants to help put me over the top (I'm hoping to end with usable samples of over 300 each). I'm paying about $25 (plus a $500 Apple Gift Card drawing) for a total time of around 90 minutes, with the catch that the second part of the study involves downloading and using an app, which is a step that results in a fair amount of drop-off (despite my follow-up efforts, which only help on the margin). I've tried Mechanical Turk but there's too much drop-off. Craigslist also appears to be taking down anything that's not a face-to-face transaction, and my study is entirely online/Qualtrics/app. Facebook ads haven't worked at all for recruitment for me. Anyway -- if your university subject pool is open to outsiders, or if you have a tip that's worked for you in the past, I'm all ears for any ideas! Sincerely, Galen -- galen.website

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NeMLA 2017 CFP: Click and Read: Computation and Text Analysis in the Post-print Era
by Klobucar, Philip Andrew 19 Jul '16

19 Jul '16

New Session Seeks Papers for NeMLA's 2017 Annual Convention in Baltimore, Maryland (Marriott Waterfront, March 23-26, 2016) *CFP: Click and Read: Computation and Text Analysis in the Post-print Era***Call for Papers**** A significant pedagogical challenge following the recent shift from print to digital-media formats is the need to develop and maintain critical reading strategies for online literary analysis. Because traditional approaches to literature and professional writing were developed to engage different genres of print-based texts, today’s university educators find them pointedly lacking when applied to digital reading environments. This discrepancy appears simultaneously at both a practical and cognitive level. Students reading electronic texts, studies show, are more likely to avoid active note-taking, highlighting key passages or comparing multiple works. As a result, higher levels of comprehension, including remembering crucial premises and text-specific-terminologies, are adversely affected. This panel seeks papers currently and critically engaged with contemporary theories of reading and reading analysis in our current post-print era. Presentations are encouraged to look into how literary theory along with any corresponding methodologies for interpretation and assessment are responding to electronic modes of distribution. Special consideration will be given to papers able to examine the advanced development and use of computer assisted text analysis (CATA) software in the practice and teaching of literary criticism. *Suggested Topics/Areas of Study Include:* - *Digital or screen-based reading practices and their assessment in the Humanities * - *The use of new media technologies, mobile computing, AR and VR and tablet/e-reader devices to develop innovative narratologies and literary theories* - *Current developments in the use of Computer Assisted Text Analysis Tools in the classroom and to cultivate new humanities curricula* - *New reading practices in the digital humanities and the influence of computational reason and coding practices on literary studies* - *Live Coding: Computation and Performance in the classroom* Session Chair Andrew Klobucar (New Jersey Institute of Technology) Abstract/Proposal Submission Guidelines: Please follow NeMLA’s online submission system: Register for your own account on the NeMLA site (http://www.buffalo.edu/nemla/about/members.html) and then submit your paper proposal/abstract at this link: https://www.cfplist.com/nemla/Home/S/16482. The Deadline for Abstract/Proposal Submission is 30 September 2016 Please email klobucar(a)njit.edu directly for more information Andrew Klobucar, Ph.D. Associate Professor and Associate Chair Department of Humanities New Jersey Institute of Technology 332 Cullimore Hall 973.596.5724 klobucar(a)njit.edu

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