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New book - 'An Introduction to Cyberpsychology'
by Grainne Kirwan 31 Mar '16

31 Mar '16

Dear all, You might be interested in a new textbook on cyberpsychology, published by Routledge, and entitled 'An Introduction to Cyberpsychology'. This text is designed to provide a student-oriented introduction to this field, to encourage students to critically evaluate the psychology of online interactions, and to develop appropriate research methodologies to complete their own work in this field. It is available at https://www.routledge.com/products/9781138823792 and the first chapter can be viewed as a free sample. Instructors can also request e-inspection copies from the Routledge site. I hope that it can help with your teaching. Grainne _______________________ Dr. Grainne Kirwan Lecturer in Psychology Institute of Art, Design and Technology Dun Laoghaire Co Dublin Ireland www.iadt.ie

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Applications now open for DH2016 Expert Workshop: Beyond The Basics: What Next For Crowdsourcing?
by Mia 31 Mar '16

31 Mar '16

DH2016 Expert Workshop: Beyond The Basics: What Next For Crowdsourcing? Applications are now open for an expert workshop to be held in Kraków, Poland, on 12 July 2016, 9:30am - 4:00pm, as part of the Digital Humanities 2016 conference (http://dh2016.adho.org/) We welcome applications from all, but please note that we will aim balance expertise, disciplinary backgrounds, experience with different types of projects, and institutional and project affiliations when finalising our list of participants. This workshop is not suitable for beginners. Participants should have some practical knowledge of running crowdsourcing projects or expertise in human computation, machine learning or other relevant topics. You can apply to attend at https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1l05Rba3EqMyy-X4UVmU9z7hQ-jlK2x2kLGvNtJfgtg… Beyond The Basics: What Next For Crowdsourcing? Crowdsourcing - asking the public to help with inherently rewarding tasks that contribute to a shared, significant goal or research interest related to cultural heritage collections or knowledge - is reasonably well established in the humanities and cultural heritage sector. The success of projects such as Transcribe Bentham, Old Weather and the Smithsonian Transcription Center in processing content and engaging participants, and the subsequent development of crowdsourcing platforms that make launching a project easier, have increased interest in this area. While emerging best practices have been documented in a growing body of scholarship, including a recent report from the Crowd Consortium for Libraries and Archives symposium, this workshop looks to the next 5 - 10 years of crowdsourcing in the humanities, the sciences and in cultural heritage. The workshop will gather international experts and senior project staff to document the lessons to be learnt from projects to date and to discuss issues we expect to be important in the future. Topics for discussion will be grouped by participants in an unconference-style opening session in which topics are proposed and voted on by participants. They are likely to include the following: Public humanities, education and audiences: The use of crowdsourcing in formal education Designing research questions that encourage participation and create space for informal education, the social production of knowledge and collaborative problem solving The intersection of crowdsourcing, public humanities and engagement with cultural heritage and academic goals Resolving tensions between encouraging participants to follow opportunities for informal learning and skills development, and focusing on project productivity Organisational and project management issues: Collaborative partnerships/funding to develop community platform(s) based on open source software The state of focused research into interface design, engagement methods, and end-user impact studies Design tensions between techniques that can improve the productivity of projects (such as handwritten text recognition and algorithmic classification) and optimising the user experience Workflows for crowdsourced data and the ingestion of crowdsourced data into collections management systems Challenges to institutional and expert authority The compromises, pros and cons involved in specifying and selecting crowdsourcing software and platforms The impact of crowdsourcing on organisational structures and resources Inter-institutional cooperation or competition for crowdsourcing participants Future challenges: The integration of machine learning and other computational techniques with human computation Lessons to be learnt from the long histories of grassroots and community history projects Sharing lessons learnt and planning peer outreach to ensure that academics and cultural heritage professionals can benefit from collective best practice The ethics of new and emerging forms of crowdsourcing The timetable will include a brief round of introductions, a shared agenda-setting exercise, four or so discussion sessions, and a final session for closing remarks and to agree next steps. The discussion and emergent guidelines documented during the workshop would help future projects benefit from the collective experiences of participants. Outcomes from the workshop might include a whitepaper and/or the further development of or support for a peer network for humanities crowdsourcing. The workshop is organised by Mia Ridge (British Library), Meghan Ferriter (Smithsonian Transcription Centre), Christy Henshaw (Wellcome Library) and Ben Brumfield (FromThePage). For more information, please contact Ben @benwbrum We anticipate accepting 30 participants. You can apply to attend at https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1l05Rba3EqMyy-X4UVmU9z7hQ-jlK2x2kLGvNtJfgtg… On notification of acceptance, participants should register via the DH2016 website. Best regards, Mia Digital Curator, British Library http://openobjects.org.uk @mia_out

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Re: [Air-L] female gendered AIs and chat bots
by Winifred Poster 31 Mar '16

31 Mar '16

Hi Caroline, Did you see this article in today’s Atlantic: "Why Do So Many Digital Assistants Have Feminine Names?" http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2016/03/why-do-so-many-digita… I also have a chapter discussing the gendering (and nationalizing) of AI and bots, “The Virtual Receptionist with a Human Touch: Opposing Pressures of Digital Automation and Outsourcing in Interactive Service” in my forthcoming book with Marion Crain and Miriam Cherry, Invisible Labor. http://www.ucpress.edu/book.php?isbn=9780520286405 Winnie _______________________________________ Dr. Winifred R. Poster International Studies/International Affairs Program Washington University, St. Louis Campus Box 1085 One Brookings Drive St. Louis, MO 63130 www.winifredposter.com wposter(a)wustl.edu (backup: wrposter(a)gmail.com) Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2016 09:07:40 -0700 From: Caroline Sinders <csinders(a)gmail.com> To: air-l(a)aoir.org Subject: [Air-L] female gendered AIs and chat bots Message-ID: <CAH3YMhv3fbURSDeQdH6P6q6WGpnNMNkpY2VtjxRgmVUeNHtC8w(a)mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 hi all! i'm looking for any papers and studies on how users respond to female gendered AI and bots. it doesn't have to be task oriented AI (aka helpers) but even things that are more whimsical and narrative based, like games or entertainment. thanks! caroline -- Caroline Sinders interaction designer, researcher, artist caroline-sinders.squarespace.com 713-203-0116

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Call for Papers: Hacking and Making: Meanings, Practices, Spaces
by Richterich Annika (LK) 31 Mar '16

31 Mar '16

Dear All, Please consider submitting to our call for papers on 'Hacking and Making: Meanings, Practices, Spaces': http://digicults.org/callforpapers/hacking-and-making/ Call for papers for the fourth issue of the Digital Culture & Society journal Please also feel free to share the call within your networks. The deadline for initial abstracts is Monday, 16th May 2016. We look forward to receiving your submissions! Thanks and best wishes, Annika Richterich and Karin Wenz -- Maastricht University Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences The Netherlands ?

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Reminder special collection of Social Media + Society on Forced migration and digital connectivity in(to) Europe
by Leurs, K.H.A. (Koen) 31 Mar '16

31 Mar '16

Dear colleagues, Apologies for cross-posting, this is a kind reminder there are 2 weeks left to submit an abstract for a guest-edited special collection of Social Media + Society on Forced migration and digital connectivity in(to) Europe. With best regards, Koen Leurs & Kevin Smets ****** *Call for papers: Forced migration and digital connectivity in(to) Europe, * * Special collection of /Social Media + Society/, edited by Koen Leurs and Kevin Smets* *//* While it is increasingly observable that forced migration and digital connectivity are intertwined, there is a need for more in-depth, critical research into this topic, especially in the context of Europe. With this special collection of /Social Media + Society/, a high standing, peer reviewed, open-access journal published by Sage, we seek to bring together cutting-edge research on forced migration in(to) Europe and the way in which digital technologies and digital connectivity and in particular social media play a role in the lives of forced migrants. The collection aims not only to present empirical evidence for discussions about forced migration and digital connectivity, but also to offer new theoretical insights on the issue. Approaching forced migration as a complex societal, political and cultural phenomenon, we seek to consider different aspects of digital connectivity, such as the use of social media by migrants, activists and trolls, issues of affectivity, representation, materiality, mobility, solidarity, political economy and the communication industry, as well questions related to gender, race, sexuality, nation, class, geography and religion; identity; diaspora; media literacy; policy; legislation and human rights. The label forced migrants includes here asylum seekers, refugees, forced migrants, stranded migrants, left-behind children and child migrants as well internally displaced populations amongst others. We welcome scholars from the (digital) humanities and (computational) social sciences. Theoretical perspectives may include but are not limited to communication, media and cultural studies, HCI, postcolonial, feminist, critical race and intersectional approaches, critical ICT4D, and political economy. Empirical perspectives may include but are not limited to (virtual) ethnography, big data, digital methods, fieldwork, action-research, creative methods, mixed-methods, and survey-research. *//* Contributions may address the following topics: * connected migrants in Europe * social media use in refugee camps and asylum seeker centres * forced migration and selfie citizenship * solidarity * transnational communication and affectivity * information scarcity * encapsulation & cosmopolitanization * differences and similarities different migrant groups (class, gender, race, age, generation, location) * digital migrant identities, self-representations and alternative migrant cartographies * migrant recruitment and radicalization online * digital deportability and algorithmic sorting * surveillance and tracking * migrant networked learning * migrant acculturation online * trolling, extremism and anti-migration protest online * political economy of migrant connectivity * digital communication rights * rethinking communication rights in Fortress Europe * securitization versus human rights: recentering European policy and legislation * ethical considerations and methodological reflections * digital diasporas * postcolonial digital humanities *//* Please send a 1-page (ca. 500 words) abstract outlining the main objectives of your paper as well as its empirical/theoretical contributions to the topic of forced migration and digital connectivity to both k.h.a.leurs(a)uu.nl<mailto:k.h.a.leurs@uu.nl> <mailto:k.h.a.leurs@uu.nl> and kevin.smets(a)uantwerpen.be<mailto:kevin.smets@uantwerpen.be> <mailto:kevin.smets@uantwerpen.be> by 15 April 2016. Decisions by the editors to solicit full papers will be made in May 2016. The deadline for submitting full papers (8000 words all inclusive) is 7 December 2016. The contributions will be published as a Special Collection of the online, open-access, peer-reviewed journal /Social Media + Society/, published by Sage and edited by Prof. Zizi Papacharissi (http://sms.sagepub.com<http://sms.sagepub.com/> <http://sms.sagepub.com/><http://sms.sagepub.com/%3E <http://sms.sagepub.com/%3E%3Chttp://sms.sagepub.com/%3E>> <http://sms.sagepub.com/%3E%3Chttp://sms.sagepub.com/%3E%3E> <http://sms.sagepub.com/%3E%3Chttp://sms.sagepub.com/%3E%3E%3E>). Please contact the guest editors if you have any questions about this call for papers. Informal inquiries about possible topics, themes and proposals are also welcomed. The guest editors welcome contributions by established scholars as well as early career researchers. *The special collection is developed in tandem with two events:* 1) the symposium “Connected migrants: encapsulation or cosmopolitanism?” (http://www.knaw.nl/connected-migrants) taking place in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, from 14-16 December 2016. The symposium is financed by the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. 2) two panels on “Forced migration and digital connectivity in(to) Europe”, to be submitted to the Association of Internet Research annual conference, to be held in Berlin, Germany from 5-8 October, 2016. *Key dates* -15 April 2016: 1-page abstract + 150 word bio -May 2016: invitations for full papers after selection by guest editors -7 December 2016: first version of full papers (8000 words all inclusive) -Late 2017: anticipated publication date *Rationale* Daily, Europeans witness Syrian asylum seekers arriving on the beaches of Greek and Southern-Italian islands. TV news footage shows how freshly arrived migrants use smartphones to take selfies or use Skype to happily announce their safe arrival on European soil to loved ones elsewhere. In response, prejudicial discourses about migrants have centered on smartphones; for example, anti-immigrant politicians and various social media memes frame refugees who own ‘luxury’ smartphones as less deserving of asylum. Forced migrants, who are digitally connected, embody Europe’s Janus-faced character in an age when advanced technologies are celebrated for increasing communication speed and economic prosperity. As a result of different conflicts worldwide, forced migration has become a major challenge for Europe. The enormous death toll of migrants at Europe’s borders, the reintroduction of border controls within the Schengen Area, and the violence and hostility towards refugees and asylum seekers in several European countries published across various social media platforms all attest to the way in which the current influx of forced migrants is overturning European society and political structures. At the same time mainstream media have devoted significant attention to the situation of refugees along their migration routes in(to) Europe. Interestingly, these instances often included digital technologies as central anchoring points in the lives of refugees. Detailed reports were made of refugees using smartphones, keeping in touch with their relatives, or documenting their journey through social media. Other accounts, albeit less frequently, focused on the ways in which governments seek to deal with forced migration via digital technologies, for instance by making use of GPS tracking in smartphones, or by setting up online deterrence campaigns to discourage refugees to migrant to specific countries. *About the guest-editors* Koen Leurs is Assistant Professor in Gender and Postcolonial studies at the Graduate Gender Program, Department of Media and Culture Studies at Utrecht University, the Netherlands. He obtained his PhD in 2012. He is a feminist internet researcher interested in multiculturalism, race, migration, diaspora and youth culture using mixed methods and ethnography. He has just completed a 2 year EU funded Marie Curie research project titled /Urban Politics of London Youth Analyzed Digitally/, at the London School of Economics and Political Science, UK. From February 2016 onwards he will work on a 3-year Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research funded research project ‘Young connected migrants. Comparing digital practices of young asylum seekers and expatriates in the Netherlands’. See www.koenleurs.net <http://www.koenleurs.net/>. Kevin Smets is assistant professor in Communication Studies at the Free University of Brussels, and a postdoctoral fellow of the Research Foundation Flanders. He obtained his PhD in Film Studies and Visual Culture at the University of Antwerp in 2013. He has published widely on diasporic media cultures, particularly film cultures, in peer-reviewed journals and edited volumes.

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Re: [Air-L] female gendered AIs and chat bots
by Caroline Sinders 31 Mar '16

31 Mar '16

thank you! On Wed, Mar 30, 2016 at 12:34 PM, Todd O'Neill <Todd.O'Neill(a)mtsu.edu> wrote: > And on a VERY side note: the woman who voiced the F-16 warning voice just > retired from Boeing. Story on NPR a week or so ago. > > Cheers! > > Todd O'Neill > Assistant Professor, New Media > Electronic Media Communication Department > College of Media and Entertainment > Middle Tennessee State University > todd.oneill(a)mtsu.edu > LinkedIn: toddoneill | FaceBook: OneillTodd | Twitter: mtsunewmedia > > > On Mar 30, 2016, at 2:20 PM, Fred Fuchs <fred(a)firesabre.com> wrote: > > > > On 3/30/2016 11:07 AM, Caroline Sinders wrote: > >> hi all! > >> > >> i'm looking for any papers and studies on how users respond to female > >> gendered AI and bots. it doesn't have to be task oriented AI (aka > helpers) > >> but even things that are more whimsical and narrative based, like games > or > >> entertainment. > >> > >> thanks! > >> caroline > >> > > > > This isn't directly on point, but it shows UI/UX in real world > applications. > > > > "Early human factors research in aircraft and other domains indicated > that female voices were more authoritative to male pilots and crew members > and were more likely to get their attention. " > > > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitching_Betty > > > > > http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2168713/Fighter-pilots-nagging-Nora… > > > > How will this all change though as more women become military pilots? > > > > fred > > _______________________________________________ > > 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/ > > -- Caroline Sinders interaction designer, researcher, artist caroline-sinders.squarespace.com 713-203-0116

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Re: [Air-L] female gendered AIs and chat bots
by Andrea Guzman 30 Mar '16

30 Mar '16

Hello Caroline and others, I have several works that may be of use to you as well as other suggestions. My chapter "Making AI Safe for Humans: A Conversation with Siri" in Robert Gehl and Maria Bakardjieva's forthcoming book, Socialbots: Digital Media and the Automation of Sociality, argues that Siri's gender is a key component in establishing the communicative face of a faceless program. My dissertation "Imagining the Voice in the Machine: The Ontology of Digital Social Agents" focused on people's conceptualizations of Siri, Google Voice Search and other voice-based, AI technologies, and gender was an integral aspect of people's interpretations of these agents. There is an extensive body of research regarding both voice-based chatbots as well as embodied chatbots in the HCI literature. Lucy Suchman's "Human-Machine Reconfigurations" addresses the gendered design of chatbots as well as the gendered nature of technology and AI. Chun's (2012) "Programmed Visions" focuses on software, including its gendered aspects. Regarding voice-based technologies more generally, you may want to start with Nass and Brave's "Wired for Speech" that discusses people's reactions to programs with female voices. If you or anyone else would like more information or copies of my work, you are welcome to contact me directly. Good luck, Andrea _____ Andrea L. Guzman, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Dept. of Communication Northern Illinois University alguzman(a)niu.edu ________________________________________ Message: 2 Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2016 09:07:40 -0700 From: Caroline Sinders <csinders(a)gmail.com> To: air-l(a)aoir.org Subject: [Air-L] female gendered AIs and chat bots Message-ID: <CAH3YMhv3fbURSDeQdH6P6q6WGpnNMNkpY2VtjxRgmVUeNHtC8w(a)mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 hi all! i'm looking for any papers and studies on how users respond to female gendered AI and bots. it doesn't have to be task oriented AI (aka helpers) but even things that are more whimsical and narrative based, like games or entertainment. thanks! caroline -- Caroline Sinders interaction designer, researcher, artist caroline-sinders.squarespace.com 713-203-0116

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female gendered AIs and chat bots
by Caroline Sinders 30 Mar '16

30 Mar '16

hi all! i'm looking for any papers and studies on how users respond to female gendered AI and bots. it doesn't have to be task oriented AI (aka helpers) but even things that are more whimsical and narrative based, like games or entertainment. thanks! caroline -- Caroline Sinders interaction designer, researcher, artist caroline-sinders.squarespace.com 713-203-0116

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Job: Research Assistant in Data Ethics - Alan Turing Institute - London
by Luciano Floridi 30 Mar '16

30 Mar '16

Dear Colleague, at the Alan Turing Institute (the UK Institute for Data Science) we are currently advertising a Research Assistant in Data Ethics. More information here: https://turing.ac.uk/jobs/research-assistant-in-data-ethics/ I would very much appreciate if you could circulate this job advertisement to any relevant person. Please note the closing date for this role is Sunday 17th April, with a proposed interview date of Wednesday 27th April 2016. Should you have any queries regarding the vacancy please do not hesitate to contact: Paige Wheeler HR & Recruitment The Alan Turing Institute 96 Euston Road London NW1 2DB Tel: +44 (0)20 7412 7374 Email: pwheeler(a)turing.ac.uk www.turing.ac.uk Best regards, Luciano Floridi _______________________________________________________ www.oii.ox.ac.uk/people/floridi/ <http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/people/floridi/> | www.philosophyofinformation.net <http://www.philosophyofinformation.net/> Professor of Philosophy and Ethics of Information Director of Research Oxford Internet Institute University of Oxford EA Mrs. Karen Mead karen.mead(a)oii.ox.ac.uk <mailto:karen.mead@oii.ox.ac.uk> https://twitter.com/Floridi <https://twitter.com/Floridi> Tel: +44 (0) 1865 287202 1 St Giles, Oxford, OX1 3JS, UK

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WEBCAST WEDS – FRI – RightsCon Silicon Valley 2016
by Joly MacFie 30 Mar '16

30 Mar '16

Following this online may be a little hit and miss. Each session goes out on a separate YouTube url, so you may need to scout around. There are 3 - maybe 4 - webcast tracks, Hub, Bridge, Cottage, Lab. Each track's Sli.do link will show up in its YouTube description so click through for that. Note that it is being tweeted live at https://twitter.com/internetsociety joly posted: "From today Wednesday March 30 2016 - Friday April 1 2016 AccessNow presents RightsCon Silicon Valley 2016 in San Francisco CA. RightsCon is three days of sessions tackling some of today’s most challenging business and policy issues: freedom of expression," [image: RightsCon]From today *Wednesday March 30 2016 - Friday April 1 2016 AccessNow <https://www.accessnow.org/>* presents *RightsCon Silicon Valley 2016 <https://www.rightscon.org/>* in San Francisco CA. RightsCon is three days of sessions tackling some of today’s most challenging business and policy issues: freedom of expression, online harassment and countering violent extremism, privacy and digital security, encryption, network discrimination and connectivity, human rights, trade and business, transparency reporting, digital inclusion, internet governance, and more. Speakers include *Bertrand De La Chappelle*, *Rebecca Mackinnon*, *Bruce Schneier*, *Michael Nelson*, *Ed Snowden*, *Wendy Seltzer*, and ISOC Trustee *Walid Al-Saqaf*. The event will be webcast live on 3 tracks via *AccessNow's YouTube <https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC1WRUFROqjer720gqXiF91w>*. Remote participation is available via *SLIDO <http://slido.com>* *What: RightsCon Silicon Valley 2016 <https://www.rightscon.org/>* * Where: San Francisco CA* * When: Wednesday March 30 2016 - Friday April 1 2016* * Program: http://rightscon.sched.org/ <https://www.rightscon.org/#livestream>* * Webcast: https://www.rightscon.org/#livestream <https://www.rightscon.org/#livestream>* * Twitter: https://twitter.com/hashtag/RightsCon <https://twitter.com/hashtag/RightsCon>* * Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/RightsCon <https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/RightsCon>* Comment <http://isoc-ny.org/p2/8393#respond> See all comments <http://isoc-ny.org/p2/8393#comments> *Permalink* http://isoc-ny.org/p2/8393 -- --------------------------------------------------------------- Joly MacFie 218 565 9365 Skype:punkcast -------------------------------------------------------------- -

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