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Bellwether lecture - Oxford - March 9 2016 - The power of the crowd: Combining open science, citizen science and the internet to generate reproducible knowledge
by Brent Mittelstadt 03 Mar '16

03 Mar '16

Apologies for any cross posting. A very interesting talk next week by Chris Chambers on his experiences with citizen science at The Guardian. Hosted at the Oxford Internet Institute. The power of the crowd: Combining open science, citizen science and the internet to generate reproducible knowledge Chris Chambers 9 March 2016 @ 14:00 University of Oxford Please register on Eventbrite<http://www.eventbrite.co.uk/preview?eid=21086080033> In this lecture Chris will discuss the opportunities and challenges provided by mass internet-based data collection and how, in combination with open science practices, this approach can help usher in a new era of robust scientific research. He will focus in particular on two of my current projects: an upcoming research platform we are launching later this year in partnership with the Guardian as part of a European Research Council project on eating behaviour, and the use of citizen science to perform a mass consultation of MPs about a new service for supporting evidence-based policy. Both projects utilise open science practices such as study pre-registration and open data archiving, ensuring that findings are transparent, reproducible, and reusable to other researchers and the public. He will also discuss challenges with this approach, including the ethics of consent and unanticipated recruitment of vulnerable groups. About the Speaker Professor of cognitive neuroscience at the School of Psychology and Cardiff University Brain Research Imaging Centre Chris Chambers is a professor of cognitive neuroscience at the School of Psychology and Cardiff University Brain Research Imaging Centre. In addition to his core research focus in human self control, his interests include open science practices, the role of science in the media, and mechanisms for promoting evidence-based public policy. He also co-hosts the Guardian psychology blog, Head Quarters. Venue: Oxford Internet Institute University of Oxford 1 St. Giles Oxford, OX1 3JS Kind regards, Dr. Brent Mittelstadt Research Fellow Oxford Internet Institute University of Oxford 1 St. Giles, OX1 3JS 01865 287221 brent.mittelstadt(a)oii.ox.ac.uk<mailto:brent.mittelstadt@oii.ox.ac.uk> http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/people/?id=365

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call for internet researchers interested in peer-to-peer data sharing
by Zara Rahman 03 Mar '16

03 Mar '16

Hi all, Forwarding this for a colleague who is not on this list, but keen to be connected with internet researchers interested in peer-to-peer data sharing. Please get in touch with him directly (contact details below). Thanks! Zara -- TheDat project <http://dat-data.com/> is looking for partners for an EU grant consortium. The call we are responding to is http://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/portal/desktop/en/opportunities/h…. This specific call closes April 10th. We are a highly technical project that builds decentralized technologies for scientific reproducibility and data governance -- think BitTorrent and Git, but open source, and more secure. We have received two grants from the Sloan and Knight foundation. The project we want to pitch is to build a decentralized, peer to peer data sharing network for public interest datasets to ensure long term access to public funded scientific research data, open government data as well as improve data access speeds and availability. We want to hear from groups interested in this topic and who would consider joining our consortium. For a good consortium we need a research partner, for example, that focuses on Internet and data ethics. If you represent a group that would be interested, please email project lead Max Ogden at max(a)maxogden.com <mailto:max@maxogden.com> to start a discussion. -- Zara Rahman http://zararah.net | Twitter: @zararah

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call has been extended
by Paulus, Trena M 02 Mar '16

02 Mar '16

The call for proposals for MOOD-S has been extended to 1 April 2016: http://hub.salford.ac.uk/mediapsychologyuk/events/mood-s/call-for-papers/ The conference will take place at the University of Salford, UK, 15-16 September, 2016.

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Calling for Volunteers for Baym Book Award and Best Dissertation Committees
by Jennifer Stromer-Galley 02 Mar '16

02 Mar '16

Happy AoIR2016 day-after-submissions-were due day! While you're thinking about our upcoming conference in Berlin, note that we need volunteers to serve on two important award committees: AoIR Best Dissertation Award, and the Nancy Baym Annual Book Award. Volunteers for the dissertation award committee need to have supervised dissertations or served on dissertation committees, and book award committee members need to have authored or co-authored a book. If you are interested in serving, please email me (prez(a)aoir.org<mailto:prez@aoir.org>) by March 10th. NOTE: Award nominations for the Best Dissertation Award and the Baym Book Award are due *May 15th*. Due to human error (me), the date was incorrectly set as March 15th. Cheers, ~Jenny President, Association of Internet Researchers jstromer(a)syr.edu<mailto:jstromer@syr.edu>

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Internet and Web Archives Research Use Survey
by Matthew Weber 02 Mar '16

02 Mar '16

AOIR’ers: Your help with the below survey is much appreciated - we’re looking for anyone who works with archived Web pages or thinks they would in the future. We’ll be closing the survey at the end of the week! Online Survey Recruitment Notice Study Title: Internet and Web Archives Research Use Survey Dear Researchers and Librarians: Do you use Internet and Web archives in your research? Do you plan to in the future? Or are you an archivist or librarian who either collects or plans to collect archived Internet content? This email is seeking participants for a study being conducted by Dr. Matthew Weber, Rutgers University, and Dr. Pamela Graham, Columbia University. We are examining the research use of Internet and Web Archives by scholars and librarians. We are specifically interested in your opinions regarding challenges that exist with regards to using these archives in research, and the types of metadata that you either collect or use (or would in the future). The survey is brief, and should only take 10 – 15 minutes of your time. All responses will be anonymous, although you will have a chance to provide your contact information if you would like to see the results, or if you would be willing to participate in a follow-up interview. All contact information will be kept separate from the results. The survey can be accessed here https://rutgers.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_eu4mY6CbGdDCCK9 <https://rutgers.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_eu4mY6CbGdDCCK9> Please contact matthew.weber(a)rutgers.edu <mailto:matthew.weber@rutgers.edu> if you have any questions. Thanks, Matt and Pamela Matthew S. Weber Assistant Professor School of Communication and Information Rutgers University (ph): 848-932-8718

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WEBCAST TODAY: The Dark Web and Its Secrets - Christopher White
by Joly MacFie 02 Mar '16

02 Mar '16

Just about to start. Hat tip to ISOC-NY's new VP Carolina Coto for the heads up on this one. joly posted: "Today, Wednesday March 2 2016 at 9am EST (14:00 UTC) Columbia Journalism School will present The Dark Web and Its Secrets - a Master Lecture by Dr. Christopher White. Regular search engines only index 4% of the Internet. The rest is a private virtual spac" [image: Columbia Journalism School]Today,* Wednesday March 2 2016* at *9am EST* (14:00 UTC) *Columbia Journalism School <http://www.journalism.columbia.edu/> *will present *The Dark Web and Its Secrets - a Master Lecture by Dr. Christopher White <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNNMM7Ozl44>*. Regular search engines only index 4% of the Internet. The rest is a private virtual space where some people move in complete anonymity to achieve both positive and criminal ends. Dr. Christopher White, creator of the first tool to index those hidden places, will take us to a journey to the dark web and its secrets and the ways in which journalists can use this open source software to investigate crimes. The talk will be streamed live on the *J-School YouTube Channel <https://youtu.be/LNNMM7Ozl44>*. <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNNMM7Ozl44?rel=0> *View on YouTube: https://youtu.be/LNNMM7Ozl44 <https://youtu.be/LNNMM7Ozl44>* * Twitter: #cjsdarkweb <http://twitter.com/hashtag/cjsdarkweb>* Comment <http://isoc-ny.org/p2/8332#respond> See all comments <http://isoc-ny.org/p2/8332#comments> *Permalink* http://isoc-ny.org/p2/8332 -- --------------------------------------------------------------- Joly MacFie 218 565 9365 Skype:punkcast -------------------------------------------------------------- -

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CFP: Special issue of Social Media + Society – Infancy Online
by Tama Leaver 02 Mar '16

02 Mar '16

Dear colleagues, Special Issue of Social Media + Society http://www.sagepub.com/journals/Journal202332 Infancy Online Eds Tama Leaver (Curtin University) and Bjorn Nansen (University of Melbourne) >From the sharing of ultrasound photos on social media onward, the capturing and communicating of babies’ lives online is an increasingly ordinary and common part of everyday digitally mediated life. Online affordances can facilitate the instantaneous sharing and joys of a first smile, first steps and first word spoken to globally distributed networks of family, friends and publics. Equally, from pregnancy tracking apps to baby cameras hidden inside cuddly toys, infants are also subject to an unprecedented intensification of surveillance practices. Reflecting both of these contexts, there is a growing set of questions about the presence, participation and politics of infants in online networks. This special issue seeks to explore these questions in terms of the online spaces in which infants are present; the forms of online participation enabled for and curated on behalf of infants, and the range of political implications raised by infants’ digital data and its traces, for both their present and future lives. Ideally papers will focus on the impact of digital technologies and networked culture on pre-birth, birth and the early years of life, along with related changes and challenges to parenthood and similar domains. Possible areas of focus include, but are by no means limited to: • Social media and infant presence and profiles • Cultural and national specificities of infant media use and presence • Digital media in the everyday lives of young children • The app economy, and capture of infant attention • “Mommy blogs,” and online curation • Identity and impression management • Ethics, persistence and the right to be forgotten • Geographies of infant media use • Infant interfaces and hardware • Cultural responses to parenting, “oversharing”, privacy and surveillance • Erasure of maternal bodies in digitising infancy • Apps and services targeting infants as a consumer market Abstracts of 300 words should be submitted to both Tama Leaver t.leaver(a)curtin.edu.au and Bjorn Nansen nansenb(a)unimelb.edu.au by Friday, 1 April. Where appropriate, please nominate an author for correspondence. On the basis of these short abstracts, invitations to submit full papers (of no more than 8000 words) will then be sent out by 15 April 2016. Full papers will be due by 1 July 2016, and will undergo the usual Social Media + Society review procedure. Please note that an invitation to submit a full paper for review does not guarantee paper acceptance. -- Dr Tama Leaver Senior Lecturer in Internet Studies Faculty of Humanities, MCCA, Curtin University GPO Box U1987 Perth WA Australia 6845 Ph: (+61 8) 9266 1258 Fax: (+61 8) 9266 3166 Email: t.leaver(a)curtin.edu.au Web: www.tamaleaver.net Twitter: @tamaleaver CRICOS Provider Code: 00301J (WA) 02637B (NSW)

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Postgraduate workshop in Digital Sociology, 26-27 May, Manchester, UK
by Adi Kuntsman 02 Mar '16

02 Mar '16

Are you curious about Digital Sociology? Consider, oralready conducting, a postgraduate study on the subject?Want to explore the relations between Data, Society and theSelf? Want to meet digital sociologists?Come and enjoy two days of roundtables, masterclasses, aresearch workshop and a keynote, with experts from Manchester MetropolitanUniversity and further afield. The workshop is aimed at postgraduate students but is open to all. 26-27 May 2016, The Shed, Manchester Metropolitan UniversityOrganised by Tom Brock, Adi Kuntsman and Esperanza Miyake,Digital Transformations Research Network, MMU Keynote: Prof. Patricia Clough, CUNY Speakers:Dr. Tom Brock, Department of Sociology, MMUDr. Mark Carrigan, Centre for Social Ontology, Department ofSociology, Warwick UniversityDr. EJ Gonzales-Polledo, Department of Methodology, LSEDr. Adi Kuntsman, Department of Languages, Information andCommunications, MMUDr. Esperanza Miyake, Department of Languages, Informationand Communications, MMU Funding available for free attendanceFurther details and registration herehttps://sites.google.com/site/digitalsociologyworkshop/home

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DiGRA/FDG First Joint International Conference – Registration Open
by Kathryn Slater 01 Mar '16

01 Mar '16

DiGRA/FDG First Joint International Conference – Registration Open For the first time, the Digital Games Research Association (DiGRA <http://www.digra.org/>) and the Foundations of Digital Games conferences (FDG <http://www.foundationsofdigitalgames.org/>) will join together in an unprecedented gathering of games researchers. Hosted by Abertay University <http://www.abertay.ac.uk/> in Dundee, Scotland, this first joint conference will take place August 1 – 6, 2016. Registration is now open for this landmark exchange of ideas for academics and educators within games research! Visit the conference website <http://digra-fdg2016.org/> to book now! Kathryn Slater Senior Events Producer on behalf of the DiGRA/FDG Local Organising Committee speakeasy mobile: 07900 274548 kathryn.slater(a)speak.co.uk <mailto:jonathan@speak.co.uk> www.speak.co.uk <http://www.speak.co.uk/> Wildwood House, Stanley, Perth, PH1 4PX t: 01738 828524 10 Old Tolbooth Wynd, Calton Road, Edinburgh, EH8 8EQ t: 0131 557 1288 28 St Johns Square, London, EC1M 4DN t: 0207 336 6066

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ACM IUI 2016: Late registration deadline tomorrow (March 2nd)
by Denis Parra 01 Mar '16

01 Mar '16

ACM IUI 2016 late registration deadline is tomorrow, March 2nd. Don't miss it! http://iui.acm.org/2016/attending.html ----------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------- ACM IUI 2016: ACM Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces ------------------------------------------------------------ ----------------------- Sonoma, CA, USA March 7 - 10, 2016 http://iui.acm.org/ The time for this year's IUI conference is fast approaching and a few seats are still open to attend the conference and learn about the latest advances in intelligent user interfaces! We have a fantastic program headlined by 2 keynotes and featuring 49 long and short papers, 21 demos and posters, and the presentation of several recently published papers from TiiS. See the full program here: http://iui.acm.org/2016/program.html Unfortunately, the early registration deadline has passed, but we are now offering one-day registrations for those on a budget! For info on the conference location and how to register, please visit: http://iui.acm.org/2016/attending.html We look forward to seeing you in Sonoma, CA! Jeffrey Nichols, Jalal Mahmud, John O'Donovan General Chairs, IUI 2016 Denis Alejandro Parra Santander Profesor Asistente, DCC Escuela de Ingeniería, PUC Chile +56 (2) 2354-4442 http://web.ing.puc.cl/~dparra/

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