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World Social Forum 2016 in Montreal pre-registration now available for a limited period
by Becky Lentz 11 Dec '15

11 Dec '15

Dear AOIR colleagues, During the IAMCR last July in Montreal, several AOIR and IAMCR members met about the forthcoming World Social Forum in Montreal. The Collective has just launched its new website https://fsm2016.org/en/ and is inviting pre-registrations now: https://fsm2016.org/en/participer/sinscrire/. Thematic axes have also been announced: https://fsm2016.org/en/sinformer/axes-thematiques-2016/ Volunteer opportunities are also available and I¹ve been working with the Collective to create internships as well. Many volunteer activities can be done remotely. > Become a Volunteer: https://fsm2016.org/en/simpliquer/devenir-benevole/ > Internships: https://fsm2016.org/en/simpliquer/stages/ Please alert potentially interested networks and colleagues! Best, Becky Lentz, PhD Associate Professor of Communication Studies Department of Art History/Communication Studies McGill University 853 Sherbrooke Street West, Arts Building, W-265 Montreal, QC, Canada H3A 0G5 Phone 514.398.4995 Fax 514.398.8557 Email: becky.lentz(a)mcgill.ca http://www.mcgill.ca/ahcs

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CFP REMINDER AND UPDATE: DATA, COGNITION AND INTELLIGENT DEVICES
by nathaniel tkacz 11 Dec '15

11 Dec '15

STREAMS OF CONSCIOUSNESS: DATA COGNITION AND INTELLIGENT DEVICES April 21-22, 2016 The University of Warwick, CIM Reminder: Abstract Submissions close 18th of December. Full event and submission details here: warwick.ac.uk/streamsofconsciousness Announcement: We are delighted to confirm the provision of up to 5 bursaries for PhD researchers and under-employed ECRs. Each bursary will be for a maximum of £150 pounds. If you wish to apply for a bursary, please indicate in your conference submission and provide a brief rationale. Your rationale should indicate that you do not have access to alternative funding. Speaker Update: We are happy to announce the inclusion of Prof. CAROLINE BASSETT, Dr SATINDER GILL and Dr TONY SAMPSON to the existing featured speakers. See the conference website for the full list. Best, Nate Tkacz ----------------------- Nathaniel Tkacz | Associate Professor - CIM - The University of Warwick Tw: @__nate__ | Current Research: Interrogating the Dashboard: Data, Indicators and Decision-making <http://blogs.cim.warwick.ac.uk/readingdashboards/> Latest Book: Wikipedia and The Politics of Openness <http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/W/bo19085555.html> (University of Chicago Press, 2015) Times Higher Education Book of The Week, 2015

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[Selfie] Digital Preservation of Intangible Cultural Heritage
by Dennis Redeker 11 Dec '15

11 Dec '15

[SELFIE] Together with a couple of friends, I started a project to safeguard culture online. The project is called Island Ark Project. By now our team has grown and we are approaching our first field work in the island country of Palau to test the platform (not yet public) and train locals to use it. We are very excited about it! I would love any feedback, tipps or criticism that you may have! Dennis Below is a longer description of the problem and our proposed solution: (another take on it can be found on medium.com - http://bit.ly/1meywGn) In island states around the world, living culture is under threat. A myriad of factors, including man-made climate change, environmental degradation, extreme weather events, globalization, increased pressure to migrate, small and scattered populations, and lack of resources exacerbate the challenges to cultural continuity. In order to properly address these issues and preserve intangible cultural practices, careful preparation is needed on the part of governments and civil society. In response to these problems, the Island Ark Project team is in the process of developing an online platform for cultural heritage protection. This web platform will function as a repository where cultural practices collected by local islanders can be safeguarded for current islanders and future generations. The digital nature of the platform will enable communities to continue to access information about immaterial heritage even if individual members lose their physical connection to the community. You can read more about Island Ark Project on http://islandarkproject.org. The development of a viable platform in line with the community's expectations requires an in-depth research effort on the ground relying on interviews and focus groups. We are about to start that journey! @island_ark, www.facebook.com/islandarkproject

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Different Games Conference Deadline Extension!
by Brian McKernan 11 Dec '15

11 Dec '15

Given how busy the end of the year can be, we've extended the deadline for paper presentations and workshop submissions for the 2016 Different Games Conference to Tuesday, December 22nd! The 2016 Different Games Conference takes place at NYU's Polytechnic School of Engineering, located in Brooklyn, NY, on Friday April 8 and Saturday April 9. We welcome talk, workshop, and arcade proposals from all members of the games community — whether designers, students, activists, researchers, journalists and others. For more information or to submit to Different Games 2016, please visit our conference website 2016.differentgames.org. If you’d like to view last year’s conference sessions and arcade titles, visit 2015.differentgames.org. For more information about Different Games Collective, please visit differentgames.org. Send questions to DifferentGamesConference(a)gmail.com.

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Access to a purposive sample of crowdfunders
by Natalie Rock 10 Dec '15

10 Dec '15

Hi community I am looking for a purposive sample of crowdfunders that I can access online and direct to a short survey. I expected there to be a Facebook group of some sort but my initial search has been fruitless. Does anyone have any tips? Thanks in advance Dr. Natalie Rock (Sappleton), M.A. (Hons.), MRes, Ph.D, Academic MCIPD Senior Lecturer Room 6.12 Department of Management MMU Business School All Saints Campus, Oxford Road Manchester, M15 6BH Tel: +44 (0)161 247 3903 Office Hours: Mondays and Wednesday 1pm-to-2pm "Before acting on this email or opening any attachments you should read the Manchester Metropolitan University email disclaimer available on its website http://www.mmu.ac.uk/emaildisclaimer "

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3rd CfP (DEADLINE EXTENDED): CSCW 2016 Workshop: Developing a Research Agenda for Human-Centered Data Science
by Cecilia Aragon 10 Dec '15

10 Dec '15

[Our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CfP] Due to multiple requests, we have extended the deadline for position paper submission one week, to December 18. ---------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS/PARTICIPATION: One-day Workshop on *Developing a Research Agenda for Human-Centered Data Science* in conjunction with CSCW 2016 http://cscw.acm.org/2016/ Sunday, February 28th, 2016 San Francisco, CA, USA Workshop Website: https://cscw2016hcds.wordpress.com/ ---------------------------------- Important dates: - EXTENDED DEADLINE: 18th December 2015: Submission of Position Papers - 18th January 2016: Notification of acceptance - 25th January 2016: Camera-ready version - 28th February 2016: Workshop at CSCW 2016 ---------------------------------- TOPIC: The study and analysis of large and complex data sets offer a wealth of insights in a variety of applications. Computational approaches provide researchers access to broad assemblages of data, but the insights extracted may lack the rich detail that qualitative approaches have brought to the understanding of sociotechnical phenomena. How do we preserve the richness associated with traditional qualitative methods while utilizing the power of large data sets? How do we uncover social nuances or consider ethics and values in data use? These and other questions are explored by human-centered data science, an emerging field at the intersection of human-computer interaction (HCI), computer-supported cooperative work (CSCW), human computation, and the statistical and computational techniques of data science. This workshop, the first of its kind at CSCW, seeks to bring together researchers interested inhuman-centered approaches to data science to collaborate, define a research agenda, and form a community. PARTICIPATION: This workshop provides a venue for attendees to discuss a variety of topics in human-centered data science. We welcome researchers interested in exploring how data-driven and qualitative research can be integrated to address complex questions in a diverse range of areas, including but not limited to social computing, urban, health, or crisis informatics, scientific, business, policy, technical, and other fields. Researchers and practitioners working with large data sets (“big data”) and/or qualitative data sets looking to expand their methodological toolbox are invited to participate and share their experiences while learning from the broader community. Topics and themes of interest include, but are not limited to: - Deep ethnographic methods: How do we preserve the richness of traditional qualitative techniques in data science? - Scaling up qualitative data analysis: How do we deal with ever growing qualitative datasets? - Quantitative and behavioral methods: How are quantitative and behavioral methods related to data mining, machine learning, and qualitative methods? - Connecting across levels of analysis: How can we integrate the analysis of personal data with large-scale data? - Ethics and values of data use: What ethical questions should we raise in using large-scale online data? - Privacy of data use: How can we preserve anonymity and privacy within data ecosystems that can easily expose users? - Human-centered algorithm design: How do we design machine learning algorithms tailored for human use and understanding? - Understanding community data: How can we integrate knowledge gained about communities from their aggregate social data as well as their personal experiences? - Health and well-being at micro and macro scales: What understandings can be exposed or occluded by aggregate or granular perspectives on health and well-being? SUBMISSION: Please submit a position paper (from 2 to 4 pages in the CSCW ACM sigCHI EA format – see http://www.sigchi.org/publications/chipubform/sigchi-extended-abstracts-for… 2016/view) by 18th December 2015 to hcds.cscw2016(a)gmail.com The submissions will be reviewed by the organizers with support of other researchers in a dedicated program committee and selected according to their potential to contribute to the workshop topic and to foster discussion. All accepted contributions (notifications will be sent out by 18 January 2016) will be made available on the website to allow participants to prepare for the workshop. The organizers may consider the publication of revised versions of accepted papers as part of a special issue in a CSCW related journal. ORGANIZERS: Cecilia Aragon, University of Washington. CJ Hutto, Georgia Institute of Technology. Yun Huang, Syracuse University. Wanli Xing, University of Missouri. Gina Neff, University of Washington. Jinyoung Kim, University of Maryland, College Park. Andy Echenique, University of California, San Diego and San Diego Supercomputer Center. Joseph Bayer, University of Michigan. Brittany Fiore-Gartland, University of Washington. CONTACT: For more details, check the workshop website: https://cscw2016hcds.wordpress.com/ For any further information on the workshop please contact hcds.cscw2016(a)gmail.com -- Cecilia R. Aragon, Associate Professor Department of Human Centered Design & Engineering, University of Washington Senior Data Science Fellow, eScience Institute 407A Sieg Hall, Box 352315, Seattle, WA 98195 USA http://faculty.washington.edu/aragon

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Video: Platform Cooperativism Conference
by Joly MacFie 10 Dec '15

10 Dec '15

Kylie's book post has inspired me to say that I have completed my preliminary archiving of the Platform Coop Conference in NYC. https://livestream.com/internetsociety/platformcoop I am yet to port it all over to https://archive.org/details/@platform_coop but some are there. j -- --------------------------------------------------------------- Joly MacFie 218 565 9365 Skype:punkcast -------------------------------------------------------------- -

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New book announcement: Feminism, Labour and Digital Media: The Digital Housewife
by Kylie Jarrett 10 Dec '15

10 Dec '15

I am delighted to announce the publication of my new book: Feminism, Labour and Digital Media: The Digital Housewife, available from Routledge. This book argues for using Marxist feminist theories about the role of domestic work in capitalism to explore the nature of digital media’s consumer labour. In particular, it focuses on the debate about whether users are exploited in and alienated by their online activity or if they do indeed experience unalienated, socially meaningful exchanges, challenging this unhelpful binary. It uses the concept of the Digital Housewife to outline the relationship between the work we do online and the unpaid sphere of social reproduction. It demonstrates how feminist perspectives expand our critique of consumer labour in digital media. In doing so, the Digital Housewife returns feminist inquiry from the margins of political economy and places it at the heart of critical digital media analysis. Table of contents: Introduction: From the Mechanical Turk to the Digital Housewife 1. Sexts from Marxists and Other Stories from Digital Media’s Social Factory 2. My Marxist Feminist Dialectic Brings All the Boys to the Yard: A Feminist Critique of the Social Factory 3. Who Says Facebook Friends Are Not Your Real Friends? Alienation and Exploitation in Digital Media 4. Gifts, Commodities and the Economics of Affect 5. I Can Haz False Consciousness? Social Reproduction and Affective Consumer Labour Conclusion: Beyond Consumer Labour My apologies for the shameless self-promotion and the absurd cost of the book. Please email me for more information. Contact details available here: https://www.maynoothuniversity.ie/people/kylie-jarrett Thanks, Dr. Kylie Jarrett Department of Media Studies National University of Ireland Maynooth.

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C&C New Issue
by Rice, Rich 10 Dec '15

10 Dec '15

C&C NEW ISSUE It is my pleasure to announce a new issue of Computers and Composition (Volume 38, Part B), released this month, on global communication. The issue includes articles from Lee-Ann Kastman Breuch, Randall W. Monty, Gustav Verhulsdonck, Diane Martinez, and Adam Strantz. Access it through ScienceDirect at http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/87554615/38/supp/PB or of course wait for the print version through Elsevier. Titles of contributions: - Kirk St.Amant, Rich Rice: "Online writing in global contexts: Rethinking the nature of connections and communication in the age of international online media" (Introduction) - Lee-Ann Kastman Breuch: "Glocalization in website writing: The case of MNsure and imagined/actual audiences" - Randall W. Monty: "Everyday borders of transnational students: Composing place and space with mobile technology, social media, and multimodality" - Gustav Verhulsdonck: "From cultural markers to global mobile: Using interaction design for composing mobile designs in global contexts" - Diane Martinez: "Language, history, politics, and culture in global communication through the Bologna Process documentation" - Adam Strantz: "Wayfinding in Global Contexts—Mapping localized research practices with mobile devices" Guest editors: Kirk St.Amant and Rich Rice General editor: Kris Blair Thanks, Rich --- Dr. Rich Rice http://richrice.com http://wac.colostate.edu/books/PERSPECTIVES.cfm

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CfP 4S/EASST Open Track on Data
by Niccolò Tempini 10 Dec '15

10 Dec '15

2016 4S/EASST Conference in Barcelona (31 Aug. - 3 Sept. 2016). Conference website: http://www.sts2016bcn.org/ Open Track: The Lives and Deaths of Data Convenors: Sabina Leonelli and Brian Rappert, Department of Sociology, Philosophy and Anthropology & Exeter Centre for the Study of the Life Sciences (Egenis), University of Exeter, UK (see also the Exeter Data Studies group: www.datastudies.eu ) Abstract: This track investigates the relational constitution of data: how stages in the life of data articulate to one another and the challenges involved in storing, moving, classifying, manipulating and interpreting them. The session is intended to explore the collectivities emerging through data collection, dissemination, assemblage and analysis. Analysing the ways in which information becomes taken as given things, the manner in which data and their varying contexts of use are co-constituted, and the means by which utility is invested and divested in them provides a platform to explore and challenge the powers attributed to "Big" and "Open" data by governments, lobby groups and institutions around the world. With its long standing attention to the conditions of knowledge production, STS scholarship is well positioned to reflect on the value(s) attributed to data under a variety of different circumstances, how such attribution changes in time, and what this indicates about the properties of the objects being identified and used as 'data' and of the communities involved in such identification and use. Questions to be addressed include: What would it mean to speak of the birth of data? How do they develop, especially when they are used for a variety of purposes by different stakeholders? Do they ever cease to be data, and how can we conceptualize situations in which data are dismissed, forgotten, erased, lost or regarded as obsolete? This session will be organised as a set of individual presentations encompassing several different aspects and areas of data use. Process: The deadline for submitting an abstract is 21 February 2016. If you want to participate in this open track then you will need to select it when you submit your abstract to the 4S/EASST Conference. Instructions for submission of your abstract are available at http://www.sts2016bcn.org/ . If you would like to discuss the relevance of your paper to the open track, then please contact either or both of us: s.leonelli(a)exeter.ac.uk and b.rappert(a)exeter.ac.uk ———————— Dr Niccolò Tempini Research Fellow, Data Science EGENIS, Centre for the Study of the Life Sciences Department of Sociology, Philosophy and Anthropology University of Exeter n.tempini(a)exeter.ac.uk www.tempini.info @tmpncl

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