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AoIR 2016 Doctoral Colloquium
by Ben Light 29 May '16

29 May '16

This is a reminder that applications for the AoIR 2016 doctoral colloquium are open and due on or before 15 June 2016. The colloquium offers PhD students working in Internet research or related fields a one day forum to be convened on 5 October 2016. For many years, this pre-conference event has provided students with the opportunity to spend a concentrated amount of time with senior scholars to share research projects, address methodological and theoretical challenges, and exchange informal advice on juggling the multiple pressures associated with job searching, publishing, and finishing the dissertation. As always we will have excellent mentors in place. Karine Nahon, Susanna Paasonen, Annette Markham, Sharif Mowlabocus and Zizi Papacharrisi are already signed up and we are sure to have some more great people join them. To apply for a place at the consortium, please provide: a) a two-page summary of your research. This should provide a context for the research, describe the methods being used, the progress to date, and primary concerns and issues; b) A brief statement indicating why you want to participate in this doctoral colloquium and what you hope to get out of it. Also note that, in order to increase the diversity of participation in the AoIR conferences, the Association of Internet Researchers makes available conference fee waivers and partial travel stipends ($500) per year. Conference scholarships are made available to participants who have had papers accepted via the peer review process for the main conference, and applications are due on 1 June 2016. If you have any questions, please do get in touch, and please do circulate this message throughout your networks. We look forward to your submissions. Pauline Cheong and Ben Light 2016 Doctoral Colloquium Chairs Email: aoir16dc(a)aoir.org Ben Light Professor of Digital Media Studies / Chief Investigator - DMRC http://staff.qut.edu.au/staff/lightb/ http://eprints.qut.edu.au/view/person/Light,_Ben.html http://www.benlight.me Ph: +617 3138 8280 | Email: ben.light(a)qut.edu.au<mailto:ben.light@qut.edu.au> | Twitter: @doggyb QUT Digital Media Research Centre Creative Industries Faculty | Queensland University of Technology Z1-515 | Musk Ave | Kelvin Grove QLD 4059 | Ph: +617 3138 3889 Website: www.qut.edu.au/research/dmrc<http://www.qut.edu.au/research/dmrc> | Twitter: @qutdmrc | Centre email: dmrc(a)qut.edu.au<mailto:dmrc@qut.edu.au>

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Public job ads dataset
by יוחנן ועקנין 29 May '16

29 May '16

Hi All, I am looking for a public job ads dataset. Any ideas where to start? I will really appreciate any suggestions. Thanks, Yohanan Ouaknine Phd student Department of Information Science Bar Ilan University Israel -- Yohanan Ouaknine <http://www.twitter.com/yohananouaknine> <http://www.linkedin.com/in/yohananouaknine> This e-mail is for the sole use of the intended recipient and contains information that may be privileged and/or confidential. If you are not an intended recipient, please notify the sender by return e-mail and delete this e-mail and any attachments. *P* *Think of the environmental impact before printing this page *

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Fwd: Please send the First Call for Participation for ITAP 2016
by Shiwei Cheng 29 May '16

29 May '16

***************************************************************************** * * ITAP 2016: First CALL FOR PARTICIPATION * Submission Deadlines: * July 20, 2016: Full papers * September 1, 2016: Posters * * ITAP 2016 * International Symposium on Interactive Technology and Ageing Populations * http://itap2016.xrenlab.com/ * * Kochi, Japan * October 20 - 22, 2016 * ***************************************************************************** ITAP 2016 focuses on coordinating efforts and raise awareness on interactive technology for ageing populations. We will invite 100 world class researchers to attend in order to present research findings, discuss their work, foster collaborations and develop underlying methodological frameworks, to drive HCI ﬁeld forward. It is the meeting place for researchers, designers, practitioners, and educators from senior-centred technology and research communities from all around the world. IMPORTANT DATES FULL PAPERS AND POSTERS Deadline for Full Papers: 20 July 2016 (11:59pm JST) Notification to Authors: 20 August 2016 (11:59pm JST) Deadline for Posters: 1 September 2016 (11:59pm JST) Camera-ready deadline: 5 September 2016 (11:59pm JST) Notification of Posters to Authors: 20 September 2016 (11:59pm JST) SUBMISSIONS As organized In-Cooperation with ACM SIGCHI, ITAP will consider submissions related to interactive technology and ageing populations. We encourage submissions on novel and innovative theory, application and interactions. We welcome submissions from all topics in ageing populations research that are relevant to human-computer interaction, including but not limited to the following: - Understanding people: This topic is suitable for papers whose primary contribution is improved understanding of older people or interactional contexts, derived from quantitative or qualitative empirical research. Core contributions typically take the form of insightful findings, evolved theories, models, concepts, or methods, such as games improving well-being of older adults, TV gesture to improve TV watching experience etc. - Specific application areas: This topic will include papers that extend the design and understanding of applications for older adult user group. Example of application areas can be health, home, accessibility, gerontology, sustainability, ICT4D, data visualization, social computing and computer-supported collaborative work, and visual analytics. - Human factors: This topic will focus on papers on practice of designing products, systems, or processes to take proper account of the interaction between interactive systems and the old people who use them. - Input and Interactions: This topic focuses on new interaction techniques, technologies, and devices for input and output. Areas of interest include, but are not limited to: sensing, actuation, unconventional UIs, touch and multi-touch, 3D interaction, augmented/mixed/virtual reality, mobile interaction, novel displays, and devices of different sizes and configurations. - Usability and user experience: This topic is suitable for works that extend the knowledge, practices, methods, components, and tools that make technology more useful, usable, and desirable. It expects significant works on the basis of their demonstrable potential for effective reuse and applicability across a range of application domains or across a range of design, research, and older user communities. Although we are interested in papers on the effects of various theories, technologies, software, or algorithms on ageing population interaction experience, technical contributions without clear indications of the impact on aged people are not within the scope of ITAP. SUBMISSION TYPES We encourage the following research submission types: PAPERS Full Papers are intended to report stable and completed research. Papers will be 4-10 pages and will undergo a peer review process. Submitted full papers should follow the ACM CHI paper. Accepted papers, after presented to the symposium, will be published in ACM Digital Library. The authors of selected oral presentations will be invited to a special issue of the International SCI- or EI- indexed Journal after further revision. Please note that there is no requirement to anonymize paper submissions and at least one author of each accepted paper needs to register for the symposium. We have selected a program committee of experts in human-computer interaction and ageing people to lead the formal review process. Once your paper is submitted, it will undergo a double-blind peer review process. Each paper will be reviewed by three program committee members. If review scores fall below a threshold, the paper will be rejected. Authors of accepted paper will then be recommended to make certain changes before the camera-ready submission and acceptance might be tentative until those changes are included. POSTERS This is a juried submission track that allows attendees to showcase early, relatively speculative or not yet completed work so that others can know what they are doing. Authors are required to submit a 1-page poster paper including author information and a description of the study. Note that: 1. The poster size should be A0 (84.1 x 118.4cm, 33.11 x 46.61 inches). 2. A small desk can be provided on request. 3. There is no AC power supply for poster presenters. Please also note that there is no requirement to anonymize poster submissions and at least one author of each accepted paper needs to register for the symposium. CONFERENCE COMMITTEE General Chairs Antti Oulasvirta, Aalto University Xiangshi Ren, Kochi University of Technology General Co-Chairs Chaklam Silpasuwanchai, Kochi University of Technology Jinglong Wu, Okayama University Sayan Sarcar, Kochi University of Technology Program Chairs Cosmin Munteanu, University of Toronto Mississauga Shengdong Zhao, National University of Singapore Program Co-Chairs Effie Lai-Chong Law, University of Leicester Jussi Jokinen, Aalto University Zhenxin Wang, Kochi University of Technology Publication Chairs Hiroaki Shigemasu, Kochi University of Technology Kavous Salehzadeh Niksirat, Kochi University of Technology Publicity Chairs Hao Xu, Jilin University Xiaojuan Ma, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Shiwei Cheng, Zhejiang University of Technology -- Shiwei Cheng PhD HCI Group, College of Computer Science and Technology ,Zhejiang University of Technology Hangzhou 310023, China

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Yuk Hui On Digital Objects at Birkbeck 17 June
by Joel McKim 27 May '16

27 May '16

Yuk Hui For a Realism of Relations: The Case of Digital Objects 17 June 3pm - 5pm, Birkbeck Cinema The Vasari Research Centre for Art and Technology at Birkbeck is pleased to welcome Yuk Hui on 17 June, 2016. In this talk, Yuk Hui will discuss his recent book On the Existence of Digital Objects, which is an investigation of digital objects in light of the proliferation of computational ontologies, and situates this phenomenon within both the history of philosophy and computation. This central thesis of the book is to develop a theory of relations in order to understand objects and to politicize the existence of digital objects, by drawing from Simondon, Heidegger and Husserl. The talk will be followed by a response from Vasari Research Centre director Joel McKim and a Q&A with the audience. https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/yuk-hui-for-a-realism-of-relations-the-case-… Yuk Hui is currently research associate at the Institute of Culture and Aesthetics of Digital Media of Leuphana University Lüneburg; previous to that, he was postdoctoral researcher at the Institute for Research and Innovation of the Centre Pompidou in Paris. He is editor (with Andreas Broeckmann) of 30 Years after Les Immatériaux: Art, Science and Theory (2015), and author of On the Existence of Digital Objects (prefaced by Bernard Stiegler, University of Minnesota Press, 2016).

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Call For Reviewers + Paper Deadline Reminder: HICSS Mini-Track!
by Nanette Levinson 26 May '16

26 May '16

Call for Reviewers: Social Media: Culture, Identity, and Inclusion Mini-Track at the 50^th^ Anniversary Hawaiii International Conference on Systems Sciences (HICSS 50) Mini-Track Chairs, Shahper Vodanovich � Auckland University of Technology, Nanette S. Levinson � School of International Service, American University, and Amanda Menking � University of Washington invite reviewers for the HICSS 50 inaugural Minitrack on Social Media: Culture, Identity and Inclusion. Reviewers will receive 2-3 papers to review during the late June/July 2016 period. Please email Shapher Vodanovich, Shahper Vodanovich <shahper.vodanovich(a)aut.ac.nz> by June 10 should you be able to serve as a mini-track reviewer and include any research area preferences. (Note that reviewers do not need to attend HICSS 50 to serve as a reviewer; reviewer names will be recognized in the Conference Proceedings. Papers have a maximum of 10 pages plus references and have a double blind review. August 1 is the deadline for reviews. We truly appreciate your role as reviewer.) Below is a brief version of the Mini-Track Call for Papers, with a deadline of June 15: Social media brings diverse groups of people together in productive and, at times, troubling ways. Users from different cultures, genders, and generations have adopted social media in diverse and interesting manners, creating new norms and practices. It is important to examine the various communication and behavioral styles but also to explore the design, impact and influence that digital and social media have within these groups. Possible Topics include: Inter-cultural and Cross-cultural use of Social Media; Gendered Social Media; the construction and circulation of gender, sexuality, race, ethnicity, religion and disability through the use of social media; Governance and Rules in Action; Aging and Social Media; Impact and influence of social media on diversity; Social Media, MOOCS, & Inclusion; Social Media & Implicit Bias; Social Media, Culture & Change/Social Innovation; Social Media & Intersectionality; Designing Social Media for Inclusion; Social Media, Disruptive Innovation, and Capacity-Building For All. Nanette S. Levinson Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs School of International Service American University Washington, DC 20016-8071 www.american.edu/sis/levinson

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registration is open for AoIR 2016!
by Jennifer Stromer-Galley 26 May '16

26 May '16

The AoIR 2016 conference committee is delighted to announce that registration is now open for the Berlin conference, Internet Rules!, October 5-8 at Humboldt University, being hosted by our colleagues at the Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society<http://www.hiig.de/en/> and the Hans Bredow Institute for Media Research<http://www.hans-bredow-institut.de/en>. You can register here<http://members.aoir.org/event-2243123>. Be sure to log in as a member to get member discounts! The Early Bird registration deadline is August 1st. After that the price increases, so take advantage of the discount. Please note: those who have had papers accepted and who do not register by the early bird deadline will be removed from the program. Unlike in past years, there is no dedicated conference hotel. We have identified several hotels<http://aoir.org/aoir2016/hotels/> with varying costs, all of which are quite near Humboldt University. We strongly encourage you to book early, as the weekend before the conference is a national holiday, and Berlin will be especially busy at that time. The conference program <http://aoir.org/aoir2016/program/> features José van Dijck as our keynote speaker. Dr. van Dijck is professor of Comparative Media Studies at the University of Amsterdam and has written extensively on Internet culture. Please note that her lecture kicks off the conference on Wednesday evening, October 5th. We have several preconference workshops<http://aoir.org/aoir2016/preconference-workshops/> as well on October 5th. For doctoral students looking for a chance to get feedback on dissertation ideas and to network with senior scholars in Internet Studies, be sure to apply for the Doctoral Workshop. In an effort to increase the diversity of attendees to the annual conference, AoIR has been growing a fund for travel scholarships. The deadline to apply for a travel scholarship is June 15th, and information about it can be found here<http://aoir.org/reminder-travel-scholarship-applications/>. And, for those of you who register, be generous and make a small contribution to help us sustain (and grow!) this fund. We are excited to see you in Berlin. Your conference committee, Jenny Stromer-Galley, President Cornelius Puschmann, 2016 program chair Christian Katzenbach, 2016 local host Larissa Wunderlich, 2016 local host Axel Bruns, Vice President Kelly Quinn, Treasurer

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EU Study on the impact of marketing through social media, online games and mobile applications on children's behaviour
by Giuseppe Alessandro Veltri 26 May '16

26 May '16

For those of you interested, we have just published the final report of large multi methods, multi country study on the impact of marketing through social media, online games and mobile applications on children's behaviour funded by the European Commission. Below is the abstract and link to the document http://ec.europa.eu/consumers/consumer_evidence/behavioural_research/impact… Abstract The European Online Games, Social Media and Mobile Application sector has grown substantially in recent years and children are exposed to increasingly sophisticated marketing techniques online which are often outside the purview of existing regulatory frameworks. This study aims to provide a better understanding of online marketing to children and to inform effective policy measures for the protection of children as consumers. The study uses a range of information sources, including a systematic literature review, a review of legislation and regulatory framework at EU and Member State level, in-depth analysis of games, focus groups with parents and children, a survey with parents, and behavioural experiments on advergames and in-app purchases. The study finds that online marketing practices have an impact on children, and that children have difficulties recognizing marketing content, in activating defence mechanisms and in taking decisions. The analysis also shows that although parents play an important role in mediating their children’s online behaviour, parents are often not fully aware of the risks their children are exposed to in online environments. The study concludes with policy recommendations focussing on policies to address children as a particularly vulnerable consumer group. Best wishes, Giuseppe ---------------------------------------- Dr Giuseppe A. Veltri Senior Lecturer in Social Psychology of Communication & Program Director of the MA ‘New Media & Society’ Department of Media and Communication, University of Leicester, University Road, Leicester, LE1 7RH, UK Homepage | ResearchGate | Academia.edu t: +44 (0)116 223 1626 e: g.a.veltri(a)le.ac.uk w:https://giuseppe-veltri.squarespace.com/

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It’s not too late to join us for ELD16 and catch these amazing sessions:
by AJ Kelton 26 May '16

26 May '16

It’s not too late to join us for ELD16 and catch these amazing sessions: - Designing the ELD16 Game: A Panel of Students and Faculty <http://eld.montclair.edu/2016/04/23/designing-the-eld16-game-a-panel-of-stu…> - Meet Leah Buechley: An Open Q&A <http://eld.montclair.edu/2016/05/01/meet-leah-buechley-an-open-qa/> - Crowd-sourced Legal Database: Use technology to think like a lawyer <http://eld.montclair.edu/2016/04/24/crowd-sourced-legal-database-use-techno…> - Corpora as Digital Humanities Tools for Learning Foreign Languages <http://eld.montclair.edu/2016/04/24/corpora-as-digital-humanities-tools-for…> - Come Fly With Me: The NMC Horizon Report in 5 minutes or Less <http://eld.montclair.edu/2016/05/05/come-fly-with-me-the-nmc-horizon-projec…> Check out our full schedule <http://eld.montclair.edu/eld16-schedule/> with session descriptions At $149 for a two-day conference, you just can’t beat the value. Register today <http://eld.montclair.edu/registration/> Have questions? No problem, chat LIVE with us from ANY page on the ELD site. You’ll find our Live Chat app in the lower right hand corner. -- ----- AJ Kelton Director of Emerging & Instructional Technology College of Humanities and Social Sciences - Montclair State University Doctoral Candidate, ABD Educational Communication and Technology - New York University ---------- Emerging Learning Design 2016 Conference Chair http://eld.montclair.edu Twitter: @ELDConf <http://twitter.com/ELDConf> Hashtag: #ELD16 ELD Question? LIVE CHAT <http://eld.montclair.edu/> (lower right hand corner) ---------- Journal of Emerging Learning Design Co-Editor-in-Chief http://eldj.montclair.edu ---------- http://www.ajkelton.net Twitter: @aj_kelton <http://twitter.com/aj_kelton>

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Re: [Air-L] Air-L Digest, Vol 142, Issue 29
by Kevin Driscoll 26 May '16

26 May '16

Hi Amanda, Dourish, Paul. “No SQL: The Shifting Materialities of Database Technology : Computational Culture.” Computational Culture 1, no. 4 (November 9, 2014). http://computationalculture.net/article/no-sql-the-shifting-materialities-o… . Driscoll, Kevin. “From Punched Cards to ‘Big Data’: A Social History of Database Populism.” Communication +1, no. 1 (August 29, 2012). http://scholarworks.umass.edu/cpo/vol1/iss1/4. Kevin On Wed, May 25, 2016 at 6:00 PM, <air-l-request(a)listserv.aoir.org> wrote: > Message: 3 > Date: Wed, 25 May 2016 09:53:47 -0400 > From: Amanda Licastro <amanda.licastro(a)gmail.com> > To: air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org > Subject: [Air-L] Database reading list > Message-ID: > < > CAMOm-_uh8EE38A2RuxFEmogoSh5PrBSHFs4buB7PyrfoUOWKSg(a)mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 > > Hello Air Followers, > > I am looking to compile a list of readings on the database. I am > specifically looking for information about how data is collected, > organized, and manipulated in the humanities and social sciences, and even > more specifically in terms of our teaching/assessment materials. Take, for > example: > > Drucker, Johanna. “Database Narratives in Book and Online.” *Journal of > Electronic Publishing* 18.1 (2015): n. pag. Web. > http://quod.lib.umich.edu/j/jep/3336451.0018.113?view=text;rgn=main > > Price, Kenneth M. “Edition, Project, Database, Archive, Thematic Research > Collection: What’s in a Name?” *Digital Humanities Quarterly* 3.3 (2009): > n. pag. Print. > http://digitalhumanities.org:8081/dhq/vol/3/3/000053/000053.html > > I will create a public Zotero group of these materials and invite anyone on > the list who is interested once I collect your suggestions. > > Thank you in advance, > Amanda > > Amanda Licastro, PhD > Assistant Professor of Digital Rhetoric, > Stevenson University in Maryland > http://digitocentrism.commons.gc.cuny.edu/ > @amandalicastro >

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Reminder: Noise&Silence [URBAN/RURAL] Call for Submissions
by Marilou Polymeropoulou 26 May '16

26 May '16

Apologies for cross-posting, this may be of interest to some AOIRites out there. Call for Submissions: NOISE & SILENCE Themed Issue 'URBAN / RURAL', Summer 2016 NOISE & SILENCE is an adventurous publication that brings you fresh and informed pieces on issues facing all kinds of music and sound as conceptualised in today's 21st century society. The project was founded in November 2015 by Oxford University students, and our team has now expanded to include graduates, post-graduates, and early-career researchers across the UK. Our aim is to create a platform that bridges the gap between music lovers and cutting-edge music research. NOISE & SILENCE will relaunch in Summer 2016. We are currently looking for submissions for our new, curated themed editions. The aim of these themed compilations will be to provoke discussions and reactions to nuanced discourses across disciplines. We hope this challenges conventional binaries on popular topics of research through academic and creative responses. Our current theme for summer 2016 is: URBAN / RURAL. We're looking for a variety of submissions - visual, textual, and musical - to create a rich, diverse, and interdisciplinary response to the theme. These include four suggested styles of response: Keynote articles (1500-2000 words), Comment articles (shorter, more creative, blog-style pieces, 600-800 words), Lists (interpreted fluidly as playlists, listicles, photography, artwork, or creative non-fiction) and Music (compositions, in various formats). KEYNOTE ARTICLES (1500-2000 words): We invite submissions of accessible, academic articles. The aim for these articles will be to open up debate, provoke discussion, and inspire conversation and ideas. We're looking for informed, thoroughly researched articles. Contributions should have a clear argument and show a sense of opening up or contributing to a debate. These keynote features will provide considered interpretations of the theme URBAN/RURAL. COMMENT ARTICLES (600-800 words): We also invite submissions of shorter, blog-style pieces. These will be sharp, focused posts on a single specific point in response to the theme, illuminating a particular viewpoint. We encourage the use of multimedia and links to digital resources. LISTS (upper limit 2000 words): We're looking for a diverse range of creative lists, playlists, thought-provoking listicles, creative non-fiction, artwork and photography related to the theme 'URBAN/RURAL'. MUSIC: Send us your SoundCloud compositions, A4 scores (graphic or otherwise); commentaries on your songwriting, music writing, and musicking practices. The deadline for pitching ideas for URBAN / RURAL is 31st May 2016, with final submissions due by 1st July 2016. In your pitch, please include a brief biography or short CV, along with a preference of submission format (i.e. a longer 'Keynote' article, a shorter, blog-style 'Comment' article, or an alternative creative response). NOISE & SILENCE continues to welcome other submissions outside of the reach of the curated themes on a rolling basis. Please submit all queries, pitches and submissions to <mailto:noiseandsilence.magazine@gmail.com> noiseandsilence.magazine(a)gmail.com. The following theme will be: NUMBERS & LETTERS. Dr Marilou Polymeropoulou Research Associate University of Oxford

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