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CPDP2017 Call for Panels
by Imge Ozcan 03 Jun '16

03 Jun '16

Dear all, We are very pleased to announce that the international Computers, Privacy & Data Protection conference is returning with the 10th edition and seeking for cutting edge panel proposals. The 10th anniversary edition of <http://www.cpdpconferences.org/> CPDP will take place in Brussels between 25-27 January 2017. This call for panels is aimed at academic consortia, research projects, think tanks and other research organisations. (Another call, to individuals for academic research papers, will go out in May 2016) We welcome panels in all areas related to technology, privacy and data protection. This year's main theme is Artificial Intelligence so we especially welcome panel proposals that fit this theme. We encourage panels that are well-balanced, multidisciplinary and geographically and gender diverse. More information about rules for panel composition and submission can be found <http://2dsf1.r.a.d.sendibm1.com/k74nc6lav5o7d.html> here. Please note: chosen institutions, organisations or EU research projects will become CPDP 2017 event partners. This implies that the event partner is able to finance all costs of the panel speakers (transport and lodging) in addition to paying a conference contribution of €1200. In return, the event partner's logo will be visibly displayed on the CPDP website and programme brochure. The partner will also have the option of putting a flyer or advertisement in the conference bag. All panelists will get free registration for the three conference days Panel proposals should be submitted through the online form at: http://www.cpdpconferences.org/callforpanels.html Please fill in the form as completely as possible. Key Dates Final panel submission/suggestion: June 15th, 2016 Notification sent to panel proposers: before July 8th 2016 Panel organisation finalised: October 15th 2016 Dates of CPDP 2017: 25th to 27th January, 2017 Contact If you have an innovative idea for the set up of a panel or workshop or have any questions regarding potential panel topics, please contact: Dara Hallinan at <mailto:Dara.Hallinan@isi.fraunhofer.de> Dara.Hallinan(a)isi.fraunhofer.de or Imge Ozcan at <mailto:Imge.Ozcan@vub.ac.be> Imge.Ozcan(a)vub.ac.be. We look forward to receiving your submissions! Best regards, The CPDP 2017 Programme Committee

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academic authority on Facebook
by Danil Mikhailov 03 Jun '16

03 Jun '16

Hi all, I am a newbie member of the list, doing my PhD at Brunel University in the UK. I am looking at how academic expert authority is challenged when experts or expert institutions (like universities or learned societies) try to engage with the wider public online to either educate, explain or "correct" public perception of a given topic. Can anyone recommend papers that deal with Facebook in that context of academics engaging with the public, and looking at what features of Facebook might determine the success or failure of such engagement? That would be much appreciated! I am trying to plug any gaps I might have with respect to recent papers in this area I may have missed. I will be happy to collate all the responses and re-publish them together in case anyone else will find it useful. Many thanks, Danil Mikhailov This message has been scanned for viruses by Websense Hosted Email Security - www.websense.com

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Call for Participation: Collaboration Technologies and Systems (CTS 2016) Doctoral Colloquium
by Pamela Wisniewski 03 Jun '16

03 Jun '16

**New Deadline to Apply: June 24th, 2016** Doctoral students who have not defended their thesis are invited to participate in the Collaboration Technologies and Systems (CTS 2016) Doctoral Colloquium. The 2016 International Conference on Collaboration Technologies and Systems (CTS 2016) will address, explore and exchange information related to the state-of-the-art in collaborative enterprises and systems, their modeling and simulation, design and use, and their impact. The DDC is an opportunity for students to present, discuss, and disseminate their ongoing research in a constructively critical and informal atmosphere. The goal is for students to obtain valuable feedback from conference attendees, particularly senior researchers and experts in their fields. Additionally, the colloquium is meant to facilitate the interaction and collaboration with other peer researchers and future collaborators. For more information: http://cts2016.cisedu.info/1-call-for-papers/call-for-doctoral-colloquium

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Doctoral thesis on the collective identity of the Anonymous movement
by Sylvain Firer-Blaess 03 Jun '16

03 Jun '16

Dear all, I indulge in shameless self-publicisation by sharing my newly-published doctoral thesis, which concerns the collective identity of the Anonymous movement. It is available here https://goo.gl/ZCy6sP and you can get a hard copy if you send me your address. If you are incidentally spending your holidays in Uppsala, Sweden (where else?) on the 26th of August, you can come to my defense as well. I enclose the abstract below for those interested. My best regards, Sylvain Firer-Blaess PhD cand., dept. of Informatics and Media Uppsala university, Sweden sylvain.firer(a)gmail.com Abstract: The present dissertation explores the collective identity of the Anonymous movement. This movement is characterised by the heterogeneity of its activities, from meme-crafting to pranks to activist actions, with a wide range of goals and tactics. Such heterogeneity raises the question as to why such a diverse group of people makes the decision to act under the same name. To answer this question, the concept of collective identity is applied, which describes how participants collectively construct the definition of their group. This dissertation is based on a three-year ethnography. The main findings show that the collective identity of Anonymous rests on five sets of self-defining concepts related to: 1) Anonymous’ counterculture of offense and parrhesia, 2) its personification into two personae (the ‘trickster’ and the ‘hero’) that have differing goals, means, and relationships with the environment, 3) a horizontal organisation and a democratic decision-making process, 4) practices of anonymity and an ethics of self-effacement, and 5) its self-definition as a universal entity, inclusive, and unbounded. The collective identity construction process is marked by tensions due to the incompatibility of some of these concepts, but also due to differences between these collective identity definitions and actual practices. As a consequence, they have to be constantly reaffirmed through social actions and discourses. Not all individuals who reclaim themselves as Anonymous recognise the totality of these collective identity definitions, but they all accept a number of them that are sufficient to legitimate their own belonging to the movement, and most of the time to be recognised by others as such. The different groups constituting Anonymous are therefore symbolically linked through a web of collective identity definitions rather than an encompassing and unified collective identity. This ‘connective identity’ gives the movement a heterogeneous composition while at the same time permitting it to retain a sense of identity that explains the use of a collective name.

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Net Data Directory
by Fernando Bermejo 03 Jun '16

03 Jun '16

Dear all, I thought this might be of interest to people in this list. The Berkman Center just launched the Net Data Directory, a searchable listing of sources offering quantitative information about the Internet: https://netdatadirectory.org/ The announcement: https://cyber.law.harvard.edu/node/99501 It is a work in progress, so any feedback and/or contributions would be much appreciated. Thanks, Fernando Fernando Bermejo Research Director, Media Cloud Faculty Associate, Berkman Center Profesor Asociado, IE University fbermejoa(a)gmail.com Tel: +45 91 98 26 11 Tel: +34 653 216 293 Skype: fernando.bermejo.acosta

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Music Trends
by Tati Tosi 03 Jun '16

03 Jun '16

Dear all, Do you have any good references towards music trends using Spotify or Soundcloud? Thanks a lot, Tatiana Tosi (11) 99965-0082 http://about.me/tatiana_tosi

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Re: [Air-L] Data subjectivity presentation at AoIR 2015
by Aristea Fotopoulou 03 Jun '16

03 Jun '16

Hi Katie, The article is now published here http://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/fAeR8SN2V63QPy5rUc34/full It’s in Health Sociology Review, special issue edited by Deborah Lupton. The title is "Training to self-care: fitness tracking, biopedagogy and the healthy consumer”. I am forwarding to the list for other people who might be interested. I hope it is of use. Best wishes Aristea ————————————————————— Dr Aristea Fotopoulou Lecturer in Media - University of Brighton Watts Media 611, Lewes Road Brighton, BN2 4GJ T: +44 01273 642414 E: A.Fotopoulou(a)brighton.ac.uk Follow me on Twitter: @aristeaf Read my research blog: www.Loopingthreads.com From: <katiedert(a)gmail.com<mailto:katiedert@gmail.com>> on behalf of Katie Derthick <derthick(a)u.washington.edu<mailto:derthick@u.washington.edu>> Date: Saturday, 23 January 2016 18:13 To: Aristea Fotopoulou <A.Fotopoulou(a)brighton.ac.uk<mailto:A.Fotopoulou@brighton.ac.uk>> Subject: Re: [Air-L] Data subjectivity presentation at AoIR 2015 This is wonderful, very helpful. Thank you! I look forward to your papers in the coming months. Yours, Katie -- Katie Derthick PhD Candidate Human Centered Design & Engineering University of Washington derthick(a)uw.edu<mailto:derthick@uw.edu> -- We all experience such loneliness. I feel tremendously lonely myself. We cannot really come up with the ideal occupation that will entertain us completely. There is always some kind of gap where we have to experience a sense of loneliness. I feel that a lot, but I feel joyful, too, just being myself. You cannot expect one-hundred-percent hospitality anywhere at all. That is precisely the meaning of liberation or freedom: freedom from both the loneliness and the hospitality of the world. With that freedom, you begin to find a new strength, a new dimension. You do not have to lean to the right or the left anymore, but you could stand on your own two feet, or one foot, whatever you possess. The ability to do that comes completely out of practice. — Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche, The Profound Treasury of the Ocean of Dharma, Vol. 3 On Sat, Jan 23, 2016 at 2:30 AM, Aristea Fotopoulou <A.Fotopoulou(a)brighton.ac.uk<mailto:A.Fotopoulou@brighton.ac.uk>> wrote: Hi Katie, That’s great. Your work sounds really interesting, I’d love to hear more. As I wrote to Elizabeth, the paper has been accepted in the special issue on self-tracking in Health Sociology Review, edited by Deborah Lupton and will be out soon. I am currently addressing a few reviewer comments and will have the proofs in a couple of weeks. I can send you the updated version then, if that’s OK. You can reference the article as follows, in the meantime: Fotopoulou, A. and O’Riordan, K. (forthcoming) Training to self-care: Fitness tracking, biopedagogy and the healthy consumer, Health Sociology Review. I am also writing a different article about data subjects and the moral economy of data sharing, which you may find useful. I will share this with you at a later stage, when it is ready for circulation. You might also find in helpful the following: Gardner P., and Wray B., (2013) From Lab to Living Room: Transhumanist Imaginaries of Consumer Brain Wave Monitors. Ada: A Journal of Gender, New Media and Technology. 3 And van Dijck, J. (2014) Datafication, dataism and dataveillance: Big Data between scientific paradigm and ideology. Surveillance & Society. 12(2): 197-208. Have you also looked at Evelyn Ruppert’s work? She is the editor of Big Data and Society, and she is writing on data subjectivity too. Of course you probably have everything by Deborah Lupton. I hope this is of help for now. Best wishes Aristea ————————————————————— Dr Aristea Fotopoulou School of Art, Design and Media University of Brighton Watts Media 611, Lewes Road Brighton, BN2 4GJ T: +44 01273 642414<tel:%2B44%2001273%20642414> E: A.Fotopoulou(a)brighton.ac.uk<mailto:A.Fotopoulou@brighton.ac.uk> @aristeaf Loopingthreads.com From: <katiedert(a)gmail.com<mailto:katiedert@gmail.com>> on behalf of Katie Derthick <derthick(a)u.washington.edu<mailto:derthick@u.washington.edu>> Date: Friday, 22 January 2016 14:57 To: Aristea Fotopoulou <A.Fotopoulou(a)brighton.ac.uk<mailto:A.Fotopoulou@brighton.ac.uk>> Subject: Re: [Air-L] Data subjectivity presentation at AoIR 2015 Hi Aristea, Thank you! This is just what I was looking for. Do you have any publications or a bibliography you could share with me? In a portion of my dissertation I'm discussing how technology reifies philosophical views/ontological assumptions/etc and using a few different types of tech as little case studies. I'd like to use tracking apps/persuasive tech a la Fitbit as one of the examples I discuss. What are assumptions about what it means to be a person and what it means to be happy that underly the design of technologies like Fitbit? A couple others have responded to me also interested in the presentation, so if you'd like to respond to the list with your slides and/or other pubs or references, they might like that. (Or, I can share what you share with me, if you prefer.) Thank you! Katie -- Katie Derthick PhD Candidate Human Centered Design & Engineering University of Washington derthick(a)uw.edu<mailto:derthick@uw.edu> -- We all experience such loneliness. I feel tremendously lonely myself. We cannot really come up with the ideal occupation that will entertain us completely. There is always some kind of gap where we have to experience a sense of loneliness. I feel that a lot, but I feel joyful, too, just being myself. You cannot expect one-hundred-percent hospitality anywhere at all. That is precisely the meaning of liberation or freedom: freedom from both the loneliness and the hospitality of the world. With that freedom, you begin to find a new strength, a new dimension. You do not have to lean to the right or the left anymore, but you could stand on your own two feet, or one foot, whatever you possess. The ability to do that comes completely out of practice. — Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche, The Profound Treasury of the Ocean of Dharma, Vol. 3 On Fri, Jan 22, 2016 at 1:35 AM, Aristea Fotopoulou <A.Fotopoulou(a)brighton.ac.uk<mailto:A.Fotopoulou@brighton.ac.uk>> wrote: Hi Katie, Our paper with Kate O¹Riordan examines new forms of self-training and data subjectivities relating to pedagogies of self-care with Fitbit and other wearables. It was presented with the title 'Biosensory experiences and media materiality¹ and the slides of the presentation are here: https://biodigitallives.files.wordpress.com/2015/10/biosensorsaoirkor.pdf If this is the paper you are looking for, do get in touch. Best wishes Aristea ‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹ Dr Aristea Fotopoulou University of Brighton Loopingthreads.com https://brighton.academia.edu/AristeaFotopoulou @aristeaf A.fotopoulou(a)brighton.ac.uk<mailto:A.fotopoulou@brighton.ac.uk> On 21/01/2016 23:15, "Air-L on behalf of Katie Derthick" <air-l-bounces(a)listserv.aoir.org<mailto:air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org> on behalf of derthick(a)u.washington.edu<mailto:derthick@u.washington.edu>> wrote: >Hello all, >I'm trying to find information about a talk I saw at AoIR last year in >Phoenix. I know a woman presented... she might have been from the UK?... >she talked about 'data subjectivity' by way of talking about data >collected >by tracking devices like Fitbits... > >Does someone remember this presentation/person/talk title, and if so, will >you email me the info, please? I'm having trouble accessing the conference >program online. I suppose if you have a copy of that, that would probably >work, too. > >Thanks, >Katie > >-- >Katie Derthick >PhD Candidate >Human Centered Design & Engineering >University of Washington >derthick(a)uw.edu<mailto:derthick@uw.edu> > >-- >We all experience such loneliness. I feel tremendously lonely myself. We >cannot really come up with the ideal occupation that will entertain us >completely. There is always some kind of gap where we have to experience a >sense of loneliness. I feel that a lot, but I feel joyful, too, just being >myself. You cannot expect one-hundred-percent hospitality anywhere at all. >That is precisely the meaning of liberation or freedom: freedom from both >the loneliness and the hospitality of the world. With that freedom, you >begin to find a new strength, a new dimension. You do not have to lean to >the right or the left anymore, but you could stand on your own two feet, >or >one foot, whatever you possess. The ability to do that comes completely >out >of practice. ‹ Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche, The Profound Treasury of the >Ocean >of Dharma, Vol. 3 >_______________________________________________ >The Air-L(a)listserv.aoir.org<mailto:Air-L@listserv.aoir.org> mailing list >is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org >Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: >http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org > >Join the Association of Internet Researchers: >http://www.aoir.org/ > >___________________________________________________________ >This email has been scanned by MessageLabs' Email Security System >on behalf of the University of Brighton. For more information see: >https://staff.brighton.ac.uk/is/computing/Pages/Email/spam.aspx ___________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned by MessageLabs' Email Security System on behalf of the University of Brighton. 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CFP GigaNet Symposium Mexico
by Daniel Oppermann 02 Jun '16

02 Jun '16

Dear all, Just a quick reminder of the approaching abstract deadline for the 2016 GigaNet Symposium in Guadalajara/México (IGF). We hope to receive your proposals until 10 June! Details: http://giga-net.org/page/2016-annual-symposium Thanks a lot! Best, Daniel

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CFP: Philosophy & Technoloy Special Issue on Ethical Risk Assessment in Biomedical Big Data - Deadline October 17, 2016
by Brent Mittelstadt 02 Jun '16

02 Jun '16

Dear colleagues, Please find below a Call for Papers for Philosophy and Technology's special issue on Ethical Risk Assessment in Biomedical Big Data. Deadline for submissions: October 17, 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 17, 2016: Deadline for paper submissions * December 16, 2016: Deadline reviews papers * 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://epic.oii.ox.ac.uk/events/ 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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Re: [Air-L] Twitter mining software
by Alessandro Zonin 01 Jun '16

01 Jun '16

Hi Jenner have a look to www.socioviz.net. Actually you could search 1 week in the past (max 5.000 tweets). A Twitter tracking feature is going to release in next days. https://alessandrozonin.wordpress.com/2015/02/20/socioviz-a-free-social-net… Alessandro 2016-05-30 23:40 GMT+02:00 Alessandro Zonin <alezonin70(a)gmail.com>: > Hi Jenner have a look to www.socioviz.net. Actually you could search 1 > week in the past (max 5.000 tweets). > A Twitter tracking feature is going to release in next days. > > https://alessandrozonin.wordpress.com/2015/02/20/socioviz-a-free-social-net… > > Alessandro > > 2016-05-28 21:49 GMT+02:00 Jenner, Mareike <mareike.jenner(a)anglia.ac.uk>: > >> Hi all, >> I really need to apologise, I'm sure this question has been asked a >> million times already. Does anyone know a good software to collect tweets >> under a certain hashtag. Also, is there a way to order or search old tweets >> (by date and time)? >> >> Thank you very much for any helpful tips. >> >> Best wishes, >> Mareike >> >> >> >> >> Mareike Jenner >> Lecturer in Media Studies >> Anglia Ruskin University >> Department of English & Media >> >> Office: HEL 362 >> Office Hours: Tue: 10.00-11.00, Wed. 12.00-14.00 >> >> Author: American TV Detective Dramas >> >> -- >> Please click here to view our e-mail disclaimer >> http://www.anglia.ac.uk/email-disclaimer >> >> _______________________________________________ >> The Air-L(a)listserv.aoir.org mailing list >> is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org >> Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: >> http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org >> >> Join the Association of Internet Researchers: >> http://www.aoir.org/ > > > > > -- > > Twitter @AlessandroZonin <https://twitter.com/AlessandroZonin> > Blog: Social Network Analysis <https://alessandrozonin.wordpress.com/> > -- Twitter @AlessandroZonin <https://twitter.com/AlessandroZonin> Blog: Social Network Analysis <https://alessandrozonin.wordpress.com/>

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