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Fwd: ICTD2016 - Call for Participation
by Heather Horst 29 Mar '16

29 Mar '16

[Please forward to relevant groups. Apologies for cross-posting.] Registration <http://ictd2016.info/registration> is now open for the Eighth International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development (ICTD2016), June 3-6: http://ictd2016.info/registration. ICTD2016 features an exciting program with 26 Papers presented in plenary sessions, 36 Notes presented as posters, 32 interactive Open Sessions, and two incredible keynotes: Deepak Mishra is co-director of the World Bank's 2016 World Development Report: Digital Dividends; and Tererai Trent is the Drexel University global health professor featured in "Half the Sky" who began her adult life as a rural Zimbabwean mother of three with no formal education. The conference schedule is available at http://ictd2016.info/schedule/. Recommendations for accommodations, with discounted rates are available at http://ictd2016.info/accommodations/. Book early, as the rooms being held will be released in late April / early May. Early registration <http://ictd2016.info/registration> will close on April 30, so register early! Note also that standard registration will end on May 30, several days before the conference; on-site registration is extremely expensive, so we encourage you to register in advance. If you have any problems or questions, please send an email to ictd2016info(a)umich.edu. See you in Ann Arbor! Kentaro Toyama ICTD2016 General Chair University of Michigan School of Information http://ictd2016.info

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WEBCAST TUE-FRI: South School on Internet Governance 2016 #SSIGOAS
by Joly MacFie 29 Mar '16

29 Mar '16

We are most of the way through day one, but there's plenty to go. Vint's opening keynote is superb. joly posted: "From Tuesday March 29 to Friday April 1 2016 the Eighth South School on Internet Governance (SSIG) will be held at the Organization of American States (OAS) Headquarters in Washington, DC. The main objective of the South School on Internet Governance is t" [image: SSIG 2016]From *Tuesday March 29 to Friday April 1 2016* the *Eighth South School on Internet Governance <http://www.gobernanzainternet.org/> *(SSIG) will be held at the Organization of American States (OAS) Headquarters in Washington, DC. The main objective of the South School on Internet Governance is to train new leaders of opinion in all aspects related with Internet Governance, from a global perspective and with focus on the Latin America and Caribbean Region. The program trains university and postgraduate students from the region and from the rest of the world in understanding the complexity related with Internet Governance and its importance in the future of the Internet. Speakers include *Vint Cerf*, *Veni Markovski*, *Raquel Gatto*, *Larry Strickling*, *John Curran*, *Bill Drake*, and *Danny Sepulveda*. The entire event will be *webcast <http://www.gobernanzainternet.org/>* in both English and Spanish. The English version will be relayed and archived on the *Internet Society Livestream Channel <https://livestream.com/internetsociety/ssigoas>*. *What: Eighth South School on Internet Governance <http://www.gobernanzainternet.org/> (SSIG)* * Where: Organization of American States (OAS) HQ,Washington, DC* * When: Tuesday March 29 to Friday April 1 2016* * Agenda: http://www.gobernanzainternet.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/SSIG_schedule.… <http://www.gobernanzainternet.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/SSIG_schedule.…>* * Webcast: http://livestre.am/5l2tN <http://livestre.am/5l2tN> (English relay / archive)* * http://original.livestream.com/oasspanish2 <http://original.livestream.com/oasspanish2> (spanish)* * Twitter: #SSIGOAS https://twitter.com/hashtag/SSIGOAS <https://twitter.com/hashtag/SSIGOAS>* Comment <http://isoc-ny.org/p2/8390#respond> See all comments <http://isoc-ny.org/p2/8390#comments> *Permalink* http://isoc-ny.org/p2/8390 -- --------------------------------------------------------------- Joly MacFie 218 565 9365 Skype:punkcast -------------------------------------------------------------- -

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Call for Abstracts: Boston University, Dept. of Emerging Media Studies
by Bonnie Dickson 29 Mar '16

29 Mar '16

Hi Everyone, The graduate students at Boston University's Department of Emerging Media are pleased to announce our second annual #Screentime conference <http://sites.bu.edu/demsconference/> on Emerging Media. We're calling for abstracts across multiple fields. Information is below. Please pass along to any interested parties. Cheers, *CALL FOR ABSTRACTS* *#SCREENTIME: Technological Affordances and Constraints in Mediated Life* *GRADUATE STUDENT CONFERENCE* *Deadline for Abstracts* May 1, 2016 *Conference Date* June 23, 2016 Boston University College of Communication 9am - 5pm The graduate students of Boston University’s Division of Emerging Media Studies are calling for abstracts for their second annual Conference on Emerging Media. <http://sites.bu.edu/demsconference/> #Screentime aims to explore the social, emotional, and civic implications of today’s media landscape. Social forces and technological elements are driving changes in this developing field of study. This conference is an opportunity to bridge diverse perspectives on the roles of users and technology in new media, and will lay the groundwork for future research. Emerging Media Studies is an inherently interdisciplinary field, and as such we welcome abstracts from a variety of perspectives and disciplines on a range of topics, including but not limited to: - Civility, sub-cultures, and online discourse - Uses and effects of mobile communication technologies - Digital distribution and industry disruption - Data mining of social networks - Emerging technologies’ effects on users - Video games and virtual worlds - Digital communication and public health The conference is free of charge to both presenters and attendees. This conference is aimed at graduate students to showcase their research, and as an opportunity to network with peers. *Deadline for Abstracts: *May 1, 2016. Please submit abstracts of no more than 300 words. Papers will be peer reviewed. To submit, please send an e-mail of your abstract to demsconf(a)bu.edu. Include your name and institutional affiliation (department/university), program and year of study, research focus/interests, and contact information (email and phone number) with all submissions. Applicants will be notified of their acceptance on a rolling basis no later than June 1, 2016. For additional information, visit, http://sites.bu.edu/demsconference/. -- *Division of Emerging Media Studies* Boston University, College of Communication Twitter: @DEMSatBU <https://twitter.com/DEMSatBU> Website: #Screentime <http://sites.bu.edu/demsconference/> -- *Bonnie Dickson*Division of Emerging Media Studies BU College of Communication cell: 209-915-4695 e-mail: bkd(a)bu.edu *“Anything worth doing, is worth doing right.” H.S. Thompson*

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CfP - conference: Fomenting political Violence - Centre for Psychoanalytic Studies, Essex University, 9-10 Sept. 2016
by Steffen Krueger 29 Mar '16

29 Mar '16

Dear colleagues, here a Call for Papers that I hope will be of interest to many of you! *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 15, 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). 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. *Booking your place at the conference: * *http://www.essex.ac.uk/online_shop/cps/events.aspx* <http://www.essex.ac.uk/online_shop/cps/events.aspx> *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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An open invitation to Inauguration Lectures by Annette Markham & Peter Lauritsen
by Annette Markham 29 Mar '16

29 Mar '16

Dear Colleagues, If you're around Aarhus, Denmark on April 7th, we extend an open invitation to the inagural lectures of Annette Markham and Peter Lauritsen, marking our appointments as Professors MSO at Aarhus University's Department of Information Studies. Our short talks will be followed by a celebration reception: Thursday 7, April, 2016 14.00-16.00 Peter Bogh Andersen Auditorium Nygaard Building (5335), Finlandsgade 21, 8100 AARHUS N A celebration reception will begin around 16:00 in the open area outside the auditorium. http://cc.au.dk/fileadmin/dac/Forskning/Invitation-Tiltraedelsesforelaesnin… *Annette Markham: * *Future Making: A case for ethnographic research as ethical intervention* Why train people to become ethnographers of their own digital lived experience? Why shift from the question of ’What is going on here?’ to a future ori-ented speculative research that asks ’What might we become’? This talk addresses the ethical value and methodological challenges of shifting one’s purpose from description to intervention in an era that conti-nues to intertwine human experience with Internet technologies. (40 minute lecture will be given in English) *Peter Lauritsen:* *Overvågning efter 1984: totalitarisme, velfærd og en empirisk overvågningsforskning* Det er billedet af Big Brother, som holder øje med os fra toppen af samfundspyramiden, der har domi-neret overvågningsdebatten og til en vis grad også forskningen i de sidste mange år. Men billedet er begrænsende. Overvågning gennemtrænger vores hverdagsliv, og er således også knyttet til omsorg og underholdning – og det er et helt fundamentalt kendetegn ved vores velfærdssamfund. At få disse aspekter til at træde frem kræver imidlertid en forsk-ning, som ikke på forhånd har bestemt sig til, hvad overvågning er og hvilke konsekvenser den har. Der er med andre ord brug for en stærk analytisk og må-ske endda eksperimentel overvågningsforskning. (40 minute lecture will be given in Danish) Best Regards, and hope to see some of you Danish colleagues there, annette

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Fw: ICT 2016: request to PC members for call dissemination
by A. MARTURANO 29 Mar '16

29 Mar '16

Apologies for cross-postings. Please send to interested colleagues and students CALL FOR PAPERS ICT 2016 - Deadline for submissions (2nd call): 15 April 2016 -- 9th International Conference on ICT, Society and Human Beings 2016 Funchal, Madeira, Portugal, 1 - 3 July 2016 (http://www.ict-conf.org/) Part of the Multi Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems (MCCSIS 2016) Funchal, Madeira, Portugal, 1 - 4 July 2016 (http://www.mccsis.org) * Keynote Speaker (confirmed): Professor emerita Gunilla Bradley, Informatics, School of ICT, Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Stockholm, Sweden * Conference Scope The effects of ICT on human beings as well as the interaction between ICT, individuals, and society are all within the focus of this conference. Both analyses of interactions and effects are important. Changes in behaviour, perspectives, values, competencies, human and psychological aspects and feelings are all of interest. Reflections on past, present, and future challenges - especially planning to handle the future - are encouraged. The conference pays attention to societal changes, global and more local organisational and institutional changes, changes in values and in lifestyles, as well as individual cognitive effects and changes, motivational and emotional changes. It also appeals to solution-building in terms of desirable goals and actions for reaching a Good Information Society. In general all types of research strategies are encouraged, and especially cross-disciplinary and multi-disciplinary studies. Case studies, broader empirical field studies, theoretical analyses, cross-cultural studies, scenarios, ethnographic studies, epistemological analyses may all be presented. For more details please check http://www.ict-conf.org/call-for-papers . * Paper Submission This is a blind peer-reviewed conference. Authors are invited to submit their papers in English through the conference submission system by April 15, 2016. Submissions must be original and should not have been published previously. * Important Dates: - Submission Deadline (2nd call): 15 April 2016 - Notification to Authors (2nd call): 13 May 2016 - Final Camera-Ready Submission and Early Registration (2nd call): Until 6 June2016 - Late Registration (2nd call): After 6 June 2016 * Paper Publication The papers will be published in book and electronic format with ISBN, will be made available through the Digital Library available at http://www.iadisportal.org/digital-library/showsearch. The conference proceedings will be submitted for indexation by IET's INSPEC, Elsevier, EI Compendex, Scopus, Thomson Reuters Web of Science, EBSCO and other important indexing services. The best papers will be selected for publishing as extended versions in the IADIS International Journal on WWW/Internet (ISSN: 1645-7641) and also in journals from INDERSCIENCE Publishers. * Conference Contact: E-mail: secretariat(a)ict-conf.org Web site: http://www.ict-conf.org/ * Organized by: International Association for Development of the Information Society * Registered participants in the ICT, Society and Human Beings conference may attend the other conferences part of MCCSIS 2016 free of charge.

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Digital Sociology workshop: 3 days left for bursasy application
by Adi Kuntsman 29 Mar '16

29 Mar '16

Data, Society and the Self: Digital Sociology in Theory and Practice | | | Data, Society and the Self: Digital Sociology in Theory and Practice | | | A two day day postgrad workshop on digital sociology in theory and practice, in Manchester UK. We have some funidng available to cover registration fees. Details in the link --- Dr. Adi KuntsmanDepartment of Languages, Information and CommunicationsManchester Metropolitan UniversityAll Saints Campus, Geoffrey Manton 437 Manchester M15 6LLTel: ++44-(0)-161-2476165 https://sites.google.com/site/adikuntsman/ Term time office hours: Mon 1-2pm, Fri11.30-12.30am. Other times available by appointment a.kuntsman[(a)]mmu.ac.uk New books: Digital Militarism: Israel's Occupationin the Social Media Age (with Rebecca L. Stein, Stanford U Press)Queer Necropolitics (with Jin Haritaworn and Silvia Possoco, Routledge), now available in paperback

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Re: [Air-L] Air-L Digest, Vol 140, Issue 27
by ralf.friedrich＠gepros.com 28 Mar '16

28 Mar '16

Sehr geehrte Damen und Herren, bis zum 10. April 2016 befinde ich mich im Ausland. Meine E-Mails werden in dieser Zeit nicht weitergeleitet und nur unregelmäßig gelesen. In dringenden Fällen wenden Sie sich bitte an meine Assistentin, Sandra Müller (Mail: sandra.mueller(a)gepros.com, Mobil: +49 151 46641253). Vielen Dank für Ihr Verständnis! Schöne Grüße, Ralf Friedrich ________________________________________ Dear Sir or Madam, Thank you for your message. I am currently out of the office and will be back on 10 April. Your e-mail will not be forwarded. I will answer it when I am back. For urgent matters please contact Sandra Müller (Mail: sandra.mueller(a)gepros.com, Mobile: +49 151 46641253). Thank you for your understanding. Sincerely yours, Ralf Friedrich

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CFP, Games & Gaming, HICSS
by Nathaniel Poor 28 Mar '16

28 Mar '16

Hello AoIRists: The Games and Gaming minitrack at the Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS) is looking for submissions broadly related to digital games and sociality. Qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methods papers are welcome, ranging from interviews to big data analyses, or more broadly theoretical papers looking at digital gaming practices in general. Types of games studied may include mobile, social, free to play, AAA, MMOGs, PC, console, multiplayer, and indie games. As part of the Digital and Social Media track, papers should contain a social dimension in the analysis, examining, for example, sociability, social practices, communities (in-game, out-game, across multiple spaces or time), use of social affordances, or some other social dimension. Possible topics include: Social affordances of games. Network analysis of groups and communities in games. Social practice (in-game, out-game, both). Player communities. Fans and fan communities. Community management. Toxicity online. Multiplayer games. Cooperative and competitive play. eSports. Fantasy sports leagues. Multigenerational play. Intercultural play. Streaming gameplay (e.g., Twitch). Game curation via sites like Steam. Games & Gaming minitrack: http://www.hicss.org/#!games-and-gaming/cdx2 <http://www.hicss.org/#!games-and-gaming/cdx2> Digital and Social Media track: http://www.hicss.org/#!track3/c1xcj <http://www.hicss.org/#!track3/c1xcj> HICSS general CFP and author instructions: http://www.hicss.org/#!authors/ccjp <http://www.hicss.org/#!authors/ccjp> Submission dates: Submission site opens: April 1 Submission site closed: June 15 Conference details: January 4-7, 2017 Hilton Waikoloa Village, on the Big Island Also, it’s the 50th anniversary, so it should be even better than usual! Hope to see you in Hawaii! Minitrack co-chairs: Nat Poor and Mia Consalvo --------------------------- Nathaniel Poor, PhD http://github.com/natpoor http://natpoor.blogspot.com http://sites.google.com/site/natpoor/

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JCAL special issue on "Learning analytics in massively multi-user virtual environments and courses" - Articles available online
by Lee, Mark 28 Mar '16

28 Mar '16

Dear colleagues, You might like to know that the special issue of Journal of Computer Assisted Learning (JCAL) on "Learning analytics in massively multi-user virtual environments and courses" is currently slated for publication shortly as Vol. 32, Issue 3 of the journal. In the meantime, the articles comprising the issue are available online through Wiley’s Early View initiative. If you are affiliated with a higher education institution with a subscription that includes JCAL, you should be able to access the content via your institution’s library; for your convenience, DOI links to each of the articles are included below. EDITORIAL Learning analytics in massively multi-user virtual environments and courses M.J.W. Lee, P.A. Kirschner and L. Kester http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jcal.12139 SPECIAL ISSUE ARTICLES A MOOC based on blended pedagogy S. Rayyan, C. Fredericks, K.F. Colvin, A. Liu, R. Teodorescu, A. Barrantes, A. Pawl, D.T. Seaton and D.E. Pritchard http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jcal.12126 Understanding MOOC students: motivations and behaviours indicative of MOOC completion B.K. Pursel, L. Zhang, K.W. Jablokow, G.W. Choi and D. Velegol http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jcal.12131 The role of students' motivation and participation in predicting performance in a MOOC P.G. de Barba, G.E. Kennedy and M.D. Ainley http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jcal.12130 Who are the top contributors in a MOOC? Relating participants' performance and contributions C. Alario-Hoyos, P. J. Muñoz-Merino, M. Pérez-Sanagustín, C. Delgado Kloos and H. A. Parada G. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jcal.12127 Connecting performance to social structure and pedagogy as a pathway to scaling learning analytics in MOOCs: an exploratory study S.P. Goggins, K.D. Galyen and J.M. Laffey http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jcal.12129 (This link is not yet active as the article is undergoing some corrections.) Towards general models of effective science inquiry in virtual performance assessments R.S. Baker, J. Clarke-Midura and J. Ocumpaugh http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jcal.12128 CLOSING COMMENTARY/EPILOGUE The MOOC and learning analytics innovation cycle (MOLAC): a reflective summary of ongoing research and its challenges H. Drachsler and M. Kalz http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jcal.12135 Kind regards, Mark J.W. Lee, Paul A. Kirschner and Liesbeth Kester Editors

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