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[JVWR] CfP for Editors Assembled Q3 2016 - Part 2
by Tzafnat Shpak 17 May '16

17 May '16

Call for Editors Assembled 2016 View this email in your browser <http://us2.campaign-archive1.com/?u=de4fa2a435382cb1fa67cb708&id=8d63e0b26a…> Call for Editors Assembled Q3 2016 - Part 2 May 15, 2016 We are looking for a prime *guest editor* (with potentially one co-editor) to manage the process for 2016, Q3. This is a great opportunity to influence the state of our field. Your will: - Coordinate the reviewers of about 5 candidate papers. - Use our publication system -- extensively. (Be versed also with Google docs, Skype, and other current tools.) - Be a deadline-targeted & taking-charge person. - Work as single editor or add one co-editor. - Able to write a short intro including your view/vision/insight on the field. - Get the academic credit as an editor. - Choose / design the cover :-) Please *reply by May 30, 2016* to info(a)jvwresearch.org <info@jvwresearch?subject=Editor%20for%20Assembled%202016> with an academic CV and a cover letter listing your publishing and editing experience. If you have colleagues who may be interested in becoming an editor or a co-editor, please feel free to forward this call further. Looking forward to hearing from you, Prof. Yesha Y. Sivan Editor in Chief JVWR - The Journal of Virtual Worlds Research <http://jvwresearch.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=de4fa2a435382cb1fa67cb…> <http://jvwresearch.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=de4fa2a435382cb1fa67cb…> <http://jvwresearch.us2.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=de4fa2a435382cb1fa67c…> <http://jvwresearch.us2.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=de4fa2a435382cb1fa67c…> <http://jvwresearch.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=de4fa2a435382cb1fa67cb…> *Copyright © 2016 Journal of Virtual Worlds Research, All rights reserved.*

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CFP: Automating the Everyday - a symposium hosted by QUT DMRC
by Jean Burgess 17 May '16

17 May '16

Dear colleagues Please distribute to anyone you think might be interested, and consider submitting something yourselves if you’re going to be around and up for a visit to Queensland just before Crossroads in Cultural Studies in Sydney. Best regards Jean Automating the Everyday A symposium hosted by the QUT Digital Media Research Centre http://qut.edu.au/research/dmrc | @qutdmrc 8-9 December 2016 Brisbane, Queensland, Australia Call for Papers Along with related concepts and trends like artificial intelligence (AI), the algorithmic turn, and big data, automation is central to contemporary discourses of and debates about digital transformation. The entanglement of digital media technologies with material culture, the workplace, and the domestic sphere means our everyday lives are coming into contact with automation as well. But what do we mean when we say ‘automation’ - does it encompass algorithms, sensor networks, artificial intelligence, advanced manufacture, and interoperability? What histories and pre-histories of automation and everyday life might we need to take account of? How are past robotic imaginaries shaping the present—in science and technology and in science fiction alike? Does the current preoccupation with automation signal the endurance of these earlier imaginaries, does it mark a moment of disruption, or does it simply coincide with an industrial pivot on behalf of Silicon Valley toward these areas of innovation, and an accompanying wave of hype? When does the appearance of automation work to elide or obscure various forms of manual, affective and immaterial labour? In this two-day symposium, we invite theoretical and empirical papers that engage with these and other questions, particularly as they intersect with the experience and politics of digital media technologies with everyday life, work and consumption. Themes and topics that might be covered include: - Automation and the home (e.g., the Internet of Things) - Automation and work (e.g., mechanisation vs automation, microtasking, microsurveillance, and time management) - Automation and locative media, wayfinding and transport - Automation and AI in service and consumption, (Siri, customer service chatbots, ‘automated’ checkout, drone deliveries) - Sex, romance and robotics - Automated content curation and communication in digital and social media - Health, fitness and assisted living Submission process and key dates Please submit paper proposals to autoeveryday(a)gmail.com<mailto:autoeveryday@gmail.com> by 30 June 2016. Proposals should include an abstract of 250–400 words along with a brief bio of no more than 100 words. Presenters will be notified of acceptance by 15 July 2016. Draft papers (3000–4000 words) of accepted presentations are to be submitted by 18 November 2016 for sharing and discussion among symposium participants. Following the symposium, presenters will be invited to submit full-length papers to be considered for publication as part of a themed collection. We are approaching major international cultural and media studies journals with a proposal for a special issue on the symposium theme. Organisers Prof. Jean Burgess (QUT Digital Media Research Centre) Dr Peta Mitchell (QUT Digital Media Research Centre) Dr Tim Highfield (QUT Digital Media Research Centre) Professor Jean Burgess http://staff.qut.edu.au/staff/burgesje Ph: +617 3138 8253 | Email: je.burgess(a)qut.edu.au<mailto:je.burgess@qut.edu.au> | Twitter: http://twitter.com/jeanburgess Google Scholar Profile: https://scholar.google.com.au/citations?user=dfpq_bkAAAAJ&hl=en Centre Director | QUT Digital Media Research Centre Creative Industries Faculty | Queensland University of Technology Z1-515 | Musk Ave | Kelvin Grove QLD 4059 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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Research about ICT-Mediated Citizen Engagement
by Cristian Berrio Zapata 17 May '16

17 May '16

Dear colleagues: We are developing a state of the art about ICT-Mediated Citizen Engagement and its relation to promotion of democratic governance and new governance regimes. Although we are working with classics like Pippa Norris, we like to explore also any literature related to this problem in Latin America and hopefully, the case of Columbia in South America. Any ideas? All suggestions will be most welcome. Thanks! -- *Cristian Berrío Zapata*

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Call for Posters: ICITST-2016 || December 5-7, 2016, Barcelona, Spain
by - - 16 May '16

16 May '16

CALL FOR POSTERS! ************************************************************ The 11th International Conference for Internet Technology and Secured Transactions (ICITST-2016) Technical Co-Sponsored by IEEE Spanish Section and IEEE Spanish Computer Chapter Venue: Catalonia Barcelona Plaza Hotel December 5-7, 2016, Barcelona, Spain www.icitst.org ************************************************************ The ICITST-2016 encourages the submission of poster or demo proposals. All the accepted posters and demos will be included in the conference proceedings. Important Dates: * Poster/Demo Proposal Submission: June 15, 2016 * Notification of Poster/Demo Acceptance: June 30, 2016 The topics in ICITST-2016 include but are not confined to the following areas: Internet Applications and Technology: * Internet Architecture * Internet of things * Broadband Access Technologies * Application Agents * Boundary Issues of Internet Security * Database Management * Data Models for Production Systems and Services * Artificial Intelligence and Expert Systems * IPSec Quality of Service * Knowledge Management * Embedded Systems * Defence Systems Ubi/Cloud Computing: * Authentication and Access Control for Data Protection in Ubi/Cloud Computing * Context-Awareness and its Data Mining for UbiCom * Data Grids * Distributed Information Systems * Human-Computer Interface and Interaction for UbiCom * Ubiquitous Systems * USN/RFID Service * Smart Homes and its Business Model for UbiCom Service * Security and its Data Management for UbiCom * Peer to Peer Data Management * New Novel Mechanism and Application for Ubi/Cloud Computing Information Security: * Trust, Privacy and Data Security * Network Security Issues and Protocols * Security Challenges and Content Authoring * Cryptography * Secure Communications * Authentication Techniques * Chaos-based Data Security * MANET Security * Wireless Sensor Network Security * Organization Considerations in Security Policy Formulation and Implementations * Digital Forensics and Crimes * Biometrics * Cyber Security Multimedia and Web Services: * Intelligent Multimedia and its Data Management * Multimedia Information Systems * Multimedia Security * Web Databases * Web Metrics and its Applications * Web Mining including Web Intelligence and Web 3.0. * Web Services * XML and other extensible languages * Semantic Web and Ontology Infonomics and e-Technology: * Infonomics * Information Visualization * Information Management * Information Quality * Technology-Enabled Information * e-Learning * e-Commerce * e-Business * e-Government * e-Society * System Design and Security for e-Services * Synchronizing e-Security Poster submission: You can submit your poster online at http://www.icitst.org/#!paper-submission/l4ghv or email it to posters(a)icitst.org For more details, please contact info(a)icitst.org or visit http://www.icitst.org/#!blank/w0xcx

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Masterclass Radhika Gajjala
by Leurs, K.H.A. (Koen) 16 May '16

16 May '16

Dear all, On 24 May Prof. Radhika Gajjala will give a masterclass at Utrecht University, the Netherlands on 'E-diasporas in big and small “data” space: A postcolonial and feminist perspective'. After the masterclass she will give a public lecture on 'Archives of Subalternity: Questions and Provocations for Digital Humanities'. Kindly forward to students who might be interested in this event. Deadline is flexible and taking credit is not obligatory. Kindly see: http://www.uu.nl/en/events/masterclass-and-public-lecture-by-radhika-gajjal… With kind regards, Koen Leurs

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Hong Kong Review of Books
by Alfie Bown 16 May '16

16 May '16

Dear all, I hope this is the right way to use the listserv. I am writing to share details of a new international book review site and generally extend the invitation to the academic community to contribute to the site. The Hong Kong Review of Books was launched in January and features reviews of international poetry, literary fiction and non-fiction, with a focus on critical theory. We also run an essay series and an interview series. We can provide review copies and token payments to all reviewers and essay writers, so please check out the site and consider getting involved. The website can be found at www.hkrbooks.com, along with all submission guidelines and information. All best, Alfie Dr Alfie Bown Assistant Professor Dept. of English HSMC, Hong Kong Co-Editor of The Hong Kong Review of Books <http://www.hkrbooks.com/> -- ********************************************************************************** *Hang Seng Management College is incorporated in Hong Kong with limited liability by guarantee.* This e-mail may be confidential and legally privileged. If you are not the addressee you may not copy, forward, disclose or use any part of it. If you have received this message in error, please delete it and notify the sender by return e-mail. Thank you! Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail. **********************************************************************************

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CFP: Feminist Media Histories, special issue on "Data"
by Lauren Klein 15 May '16

15 May '16

Please see below for a CFP for a special issue of Feminist Media Histories on “Data," including an option to submit digital projects for peer review. CALL FOR PAPERS Feminist Media Histories: An International Journal Special Issue on “Data” Guest Editors: Miriam Posner (UCLA) and Lauren Klein (Georgia Tech) “Data” has enormous cultural currency in the world today. Most of us understand that corporations are encoding and analyzing our habits, preferences, and behaviors on a massive scale. Personalized music suggestions, predictive policing, and Amazon recommendations are all part of this pervasive data regime. Discussions of this regime, and of data more generally, tend to focus on the present. But the concept of data also has a history, one embedded in a range of cultural, political, and material contexts. Building upon recent feminist scholarship that has drawn our attention to the various ways data shapes twenty first-century life--how data affects our experience of gender, how the effects of gendered data are felt differently across racial lines, and what feminist theory might bring to data and its visualization, to name only a few--this issue seeks to model how feminist histories of data might help us chart a range of unexplored futures. We ask not only how gender and identity can be brought to bear on the concept of data and its emergence, but also how theories and methods associated with feminist scholarship might be employed to illuminate the historical and cultural complexities of data. We seek both scholarly essays and born-digital works on topics including but not limited to: ● Data and media. Is data “media”? If so, what are its features and/or how is it expressed? ● Data and history. How does a renewed attention to certain historical subjects or events enrich our understanding of data, past or present? ● Data and narrative. What are the stories we tell about the history of data, and how can a feminist approach offer an alternative narrative of the concept? ● Data and gender. What are the ways in which gender is, or could be, represented as data? What are the gender effects of its visualization? ● Data and method. How can feminist methods inform a history or critique of data? ● Data as concept. What can the concept of “data” bring to feminist media history? What does the concept of “data” elide? ● Data as politics. How is data complicit in structures of power? How does data become part of how power is practiced, experienced, or expressed? ● Data as agent. How has data-driven decision-making influenced the history of media, particularly as it relates to gender? ● Data in the world. How can an intersectional feminist approach to data allow us to better understand its global impact? Potential contributors should send short proposals of 300-500 words to the guest editors directly (mposner(a)humnet.ucla.edu <mailto:mposner@humnet.ucla.edu> and lauren.klein(a)lmc.gatech.edu <mailto:lauren.klein@lmc.gatech.edu>) by no later than June 30th, 2016. Contributors will be notified by July 15th, 2016, with completed articles/projects due October 1st, 2016. All contributions, including digital projects, will be sent out for peer review shortly thereafter. The issue is scheduled for a Summer 2017 release (Feminist Media Histories 3.3). We welcome proposals for nontraditional digital projects, although Feminist Media Histories itself cannot host these projects. Should a digital project be accepted, we will publish a 500-1000-word author’s statement in the volume, which will include a link to the externally-hosted project. Feminist Media Histories is a peer-reviewed scholarly journal devoted to feminist histories of film, video, audio, and digital technologies across a range of periods and global contexts. Intermedial and transnational in approach, Feminist Media Histories examines the historical role gender has played in varied media technologies, and documents women’s engagement with these media as audiences and users, creators and executives, critics and theorists, technicians and laborers, educators and activists. Feminist Media Histories is published by the University of California Press. More information is available here: http://fmh.ucpress.edu/content/submit <http://fmh.ucpress.edu/content/submit> -- Lauren F. Klein, Ph.D. Assistant Professor School of Literature, Media, and Communication Georgia Institute of Technology Atlanta, GA 30332-0165 lauren.klein(a)lmc.gatech.edu <mailto:lauren.klein@lmc.gatech.edu> -- Lauren F. Klein, Ph.D. Assistant Professor School of Literature, Media, and Communication Georgia Institute of Technology Atlanta, GA 30332-0165 lauren.klein(a)lmc.gatech.edu

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Call for Papers: 2017 BEA Research Symposium "Video Games: A Medium That Demands Your Attention"
by Nicholas Bowman 15 May '16

15 May '16

Looking for a unique outlet for your academic research and writings about video games? I'm pleased to announce that the Broadcast Education Association is hosting a one-day research symposium on the cognitive, emotional, behavioral, and social demands of video games! The event, "Video Games: A Medium that Demands Our Attention" is being held on Sunday, April 23, 2017 in Las Vegas (exact venue TBD), and papers are being accepted now. Manuscripts can be either data-driven or theoretically focused, so long as they: (a) adhere to one of the four main symposium tracks (cognitive, emotional, behavioral, or social) (b) are capped at 4000 words, including abstract and references (manuscripts will be made anonymous for the review process) (c) are submitted (via e-mail to the Symposium Chair) no later than midnight, EST on Thursday, December 1, 2016 There will be cash prizes for the top student papers, and some manuscripts will be invited for further development, to be included in a published volume on video games by Routledge (Taylor & Francis) as part of their "Electronic Media Research Series" (https://www.routledge.com/Electronic-Media-Research-Series/book-series/EMR) Complete Symposium details can be found at http://www.beaweb.org/wp/?page_id=3345. I can also answer any questions that you might have, at Nicholas.Bowman(a)mail.wvu.edu. ~nick Nicholas David Bowman, Ph.D. <http://ndbowman.info/>Associate Professor of Communication Studies; Research Associate, Interaction Lab (#ixlab) West Virginia University Associate Editor Journal of Media Psychology Editor-Elect (Receiving manuscripts as of 1 May 2016) Communication Research Reports Editorial Statement: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/08824096.2016.1174536 Social and Digital Media Director Eastern Communication Association ______________________ Twitter @bowmanspartan Skype ID: nicholasdbowman

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Webinar: New Ethical Challenges in Experimental Political Science
by Michael T Zimmer 15 May '16

15 May '16

Many might be interested in this webinar organized by PRIM&R (Public Responsibility in Medicine and Research), that Elizabeth Buchanan recently brought to my attention: Webinar: New Ethical Challenges in Experimental Political Science June 8, 2016 1:00-2:30pm ET Overview Over the past two decades, political scientists have adopted experimental methods to interact directly with subjects in the United States and globally. This new wave of field experimentation has produced some very public controversies. Researchers have created illegal attack advertisements during political campaigns, exposed subjects to risks of violence through experiments conducted in authoritarian regimes overseas, and even gone so far as to commit crimes to measure police responses. These recent controversies have contributed to distrust among the public and made apparent the need to consider the ethical implications of this experimental work. How can IRBs guide political scientists in conducting ethically sound research while continuing to generate valuable knowledge about the political, economic, and cultural sphere? Full details are here: http://www.primr.org/webinars/june2016/ Michael -- Michael Zimmer, PhD Associate Professor and PhD Program Director, School of Information Studies Director, Center for Information Policy Research University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee e: zimmerm(a)uwm.edu<mailto:zimmerm@uwm.edu> w: www.michaelzimmer.org<http://www.michaelzimmer.org>

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Deadline extended! CfP conference: Fomenting political violence
by Steffen Krueger 15 May '16

15 May '16

Dear colleagues, due to problems with the conference-booking page, we are extending the deadline for the CfP until the end of May (31/05)! With all best wishes, Steffen *Fomenting political violence – Phantasy, Language, Media, Action.* A two-day international conference at the *Centre for Psychoanalytic Studies, University of Essex*, UK, September 9 – 10 2016, in co-operation with *Bournemouth University* and the *University of Oslo* (UiO), Norway. Steffen Krueger, postdoc and lecturer, Dept. of Media and Communication, University of Oslo Karl Figlio, Professor Emeritus, Centre for Psychoanalytic Studies, University of Essex. Barry Richards, Professor of Political Psychology, Bournemouth University. This two-day conference invites researchers from a wide range of disciplines to address the relationship between phantasy, language, media and action. Do language and phantasy feed into one another, especially in the contemporary mediascape, fostering an extremist mentality that foments violent political action? And, if so, how can we understand the relationship between action on the one side, and phantasy and language in their specific forms of mediation on the other? Although it is difficult to establish causal links between, for example, racist slurs and racist violence, we can nevertheless observe how increases in ethnocentric, xenophobic and fundamentalist speech in online forums and on social networking sites go together with increases in right-extremist criminal acts, as is presently the case in Germany. Various traditions of research into prejudice, extremism, violence and the media have taken different routes in conceptualising the links between the above concepts. Discourse analysis, for example, has pointed to the subtle ways in which language use can help make symbolic violence permissible. Social psychology, and especially the social identity tradition, has shown how typical tendencies in group dynamics suggest certain fault lines for larger-scale political behaviour. Media effect studies, in turn, have suggested a string of concepts based on social-psychological work, such as “uses-and-gratifications”, the “spiral of silence”, “agenda setting”, and “frame theory”, which can be instrumental in conceiving how people’s construction of reality, facilitated by media, might lead to widely held dispositions for the legitimation of socio-political action and/or the restraining and containing of such action. Although there is a substantial psychoanalytic literature on prejudice, ethnic and religious hatred, and fundamentalism, there is little on the process of fomenting violence, which moves from phantasy through language into action. With a view to intervening in and advancing the above traditions, the conference invites papers inquiring into how psychoanalysis can help understand the build-up to eruptions of violence. How can conceptions of sociality, relationality, divisiveness, exclusion and affect, developed in various psychoanalytic traditions, shed light on the often invisible ties that link what we do to what we feel, imagine, hear, see, read or say – or to an atmosphere of extremism? Can psychoanalysis contribute to deliberations around policy and practice in relation to freedom of speech, ‘hate speech’ and media regulation, as well as foster a sensitivity to implied prejudice in everyday encounters? The attempt to gain a more rounded, situated and dialectical way to understand these phenomena suggests ‘scenic’ methodology, for which the work of Alfred Lorenzer – a psychoanalytic-social theorist not well known in the English-speaking world – is central. We plan to reserve one session to explore his work, but we invite you imaginatively to address the full range of issues relevant to the topic of the conference. We encourage an open, exploratory manner and look forward to engaging discussions. *Indicative fields of research include*: - Psychodynamics and social dynamics of political violence, and their enmeshment / co-constitution. - Spaces, scopes and fields of action. - Gendered forms / gender dynamics. - Media discourses / media performances. - (Symbolic) interactions. - Internal and external worlds. - Freedom of expression vs blasphemy and prejudice. - -isms, -phobias and psychopathologies. - Methodological and/or theoretical reflections. - Researching across cultures. - Historical studies. - Humiliation and violence. - Violence and purification. - Bystanders and collusion with political violence. - Psychotic realities: Paranoia and delusions of threat. - Hate speech and hate actions. If you would like to offer a paper to the conference, relating to the above fields or to other aspects of the overall conference theme, please send an abstract of 300-400 words to: *cpsfv(a)essex.ac.uk* <cpsfv(a)essex.ac.uk>. *Deadline for abstract submission: May 31, 2016. * (Delegates are informed about the inclusion of their papers within two weeks from the deadline.) Conference fee is £150 (£100 for students and unemployed). *A LIMITED NUMBER OF DISCOUNTED PLACES FOR STUDENTS ARE AVAILABLE.* Affordable accommodation is available on campus. If you have questions regarding the conference or call for papers, please write to: steffen.krueger(a)media.uio.no. *Book your place at the conference here <http://www.essex.ac.uk/online_shop/conference/default.aspx?dept=PA&conferen…>. * *Book your on campus accommodation here: **https://kx.essex.ac.uk/BnB/* <https://kx.essex.ac.uk/BnB/> * Promotional code: CPS2016* -- Steffen Krüger, PhD lecturer and postdoctoral researcher Dept. of Media and Communication University of Oslo Forskningsparken II Gaustadalléen 21 0349 OSLO Norway skype: steff.krueger mob. 0047 4580 6466

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