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McLuhan on New Zealand radio
by Paul Levinson 06 Dec '15

06 Dec '15

So I just worked Marshall McLuhan, and his brilliant point in The Mechanical Bride that you can tell the state of the world just by looking at the front-page configuration of a newspaper, into my interview on New Zealand "Breakfast" radio about yesterday's NY Times front page editorial advocating gun control

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social media content in documentary films
by Tori Holmes 06 Dec '15

06 Dec '15

Dear colleagues, Does anyone know of any research (published or in progress) specifically on the inclusion of internet/social media content in documentary films, e.g. footage/screenshots of social network site pages or video sharing platforms relating to the subject matter of the film and the story being told? I would very much welcome any suggestions you might have of work I could read on this topic. Thanks in advance for your help. Best wishes, Tori Dr Tori Holmes Lecturer in Brazilian Studies Department of Spanish & Portuguese School of Modern Languages 9 University Square (Rm 301) Queen's University Belfast Belfast BT7 1NN Northern Ireland Tel: +44 (0)28 9097 3632 Email: t.holmes(a)qub.ac.uk<mailto:t.holmes@qub.ac.uk> Web: http://www.qub.ac.uk/ml

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Charting the Digital: Play, Discourse, Disruption
by Alex Gekker 06 Dec '15

06 Dec '15

Dear list, The following might be relevant for those engaged with data, interfaces and/or platform studies, as well as general research into space and place. Apologies for cross-posting. regards, Alex. ======== (A handy PDF version of the call can be found here <https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/15825733/DisseminationProjectCFP%20Fina…> ) 8-9 October 2016, Venice (Italy) First call for papers Organised by the ERC funded Charting the Digital team: Sybille Lammes (Principal Investigator), Chris Perkins (Senior Research Fellow), Sam Hind (PhD candidate), Alex Gekker (PhD candidate) and Clancy Wilmott (PhD candidate and Research Fellow). ____ Whether a navigation device that adjusts its route-display according to where the driver chooses to go, or a map in a computer game that is co-produced by players’ input, digital mapping has transformed our daily lives and how we engage with and shape our worlds. During this final conference of the ERC project Charting the Digital we will share and discuss what this transformation means. Over the last 4 years the Charting team has interrogated what this shift entails, taking on board new developments in the field as well as novel technological possibilities. This has encompassed the deployment of theoretical and methodological frameworks in order to analyse a broad spectrum of digital mapping applications, platforms and devices - from the use of mobile apps such as Google/Apple Maps, Citymapper, Ingress, TripAdvisor, Waze and many more to revolutionary platforms like Google Earth and OSM and devices from smartphones and watches to fitness trackers. Using an interdisciplinary approach we have examined digital maps in relation to each other, to ‘traditional’ non-digital cartographies and to other media forms concerned with mapping and navigation. In so doing we have expanded concepts of navigational interfaces; play, playfulness and playful mapping; casual politics; cartographic reason and logic; and mapping experimentation, risk and failure. Now it is time to set up the next stage of this inquiry. Through discussion with scholars whose ideas influence, challenge or resonate with our work, we wish to open the question of what digital mapping is, has become, or could become in the future. ____ We are interested in a variety of themes, which include, but are not limited to: Playful cartography - videogames and maps - minimaps, player representation, post-colonialism - location-based games - pervasive games with/out maps - mapping as play, play as mapping: the relations between game maps and physical movement - actions/activities/manoeuvres - situationism and pyscho-geography - cheating Mapping and discourse - systems of thought - interoperable logics - rationalism - authority - transformations - transplantations - abstraction and formalisation - cartographic reason - maps and culture Performative mapping - embodiment - materiality - new technologies - new vocabularies - imaginaries - spatialities - limits to representation - temporality (immediacy, ephemerality, (a)synchronicities) Big data, small data, ‘sweaty’ data in digital mapping practices - empirical/ethical challenges - ‘offline’ to ‘online’ articulation - visualisation: the transformation from data to map (layering, inscription) - cartographic politics of big data - issues of representation/scale - applicability of big data metaphors (‘fumes’, ‘sweat’, stacks etc.) Disruptive cartographies - tactical/strategic/logistic - interrelation between disruption, disobedience, disorientation and dislocation - risk and excess (and play) - cartographies of care - autonomous mapping practices - ‘disruption’ as innovation (critique of) - post-colonial mapping - new epistemologies/ways of mapping/unmapping - hacking, hacker culture and crypto-politics - failure (systemic, glitches, inter-active/haptic, capture/collect, privacy/crypto concerns, as productive/non-binary, entrepreneurial/motivational discourse) Mapping methods - in pedagogy - design and making - conceptual frameworks (situatedness, moments, traces, instantiations, models etc.) - playful mapping as method - interdisciplinarity - mobile methods & fieldwork Future Maps and future mapping - self-driving cars and mapping - predictive maps and crisis maps - embodied, sensory maps/wearable technology - personalised maps - ‘dumb’ phones, un-mapping and non-maps We invite contributions from methodological, theoretical and practical vantage points, and are particularly interested in bringing together a wide range of approaches, from junior and senior researchers, and from diverse disciplinary backgrounds. Please send a proposal of 500 words (including keywords) before 30 January 2016 to: chartingthedigital(a)gmail.com Thank you in advance, The Charting the Digital team ======= Alex Gekker, PhD Candidate (Promovendus), Media and Culture, Utrecht University. Charting the Digital http://www.digitalcartography.eu/ http://alexgekker.com a.gekker(a)uu.nl

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CALL FOR PAPERS - Social Media: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly!
by Yogesh K. Dwivedi 05 Dec '15

05 Dec '15

Dear Colleagues We invite the submission of research papers to the 15th IFIP I3E Conference to be held 13-15th September 2016 in Swansea, UK. The theme of the conference is ‘Social Media: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly!’. Deadline for submission of papers for review is 15th March 2016. Please visit the conference website http://www.swansea.ac.uk/som/i3e2016/ for further information and submission instructions. We welcome any queries regarding the conference and/or submission via email y.k.dwivedi(a)swansea.ac.uk / ykdwivedi(a)gmail.com. Please do let me know if you wish to be involved as a PC member that would involve reviewing just one submission. We look forward to your involvement with and contribution to this conference. Many thanks Kind Regards Yogesh -- Professor Yogesh K. Dwivedi, PhD Professor of Digital and Social Media Head of Management and Systems Section (MaSS) School of Management Room #1, Haldane Building Swansea University, Singleton Park Swansea, SA2 8PP, Wales, UK. TEL (Office): +44 (0) 1792 602340 FAX (Office): +44 (0) 1792 295626 Email: y.k.dwivedi(a)swansea.ac.uk ; ykdwivedi(a)gmail.com Home page:http://www.swansea.ac.uk/staff/som/academic-staff/y.k.dwivedi/ --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Associate Editor - European Journal of Information Systems Associate Editor for Digital Marketing Section - European Journal of Marketing Senior Editor (Europe/Africa/Middle East) - Journal of Electronic Commerce Research

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Call for interest in Panel for AoIR16 (Berlin) on Instagram
by Jakob Svensson 05 Dec '15

05 Dec '15

Instagram - the new(isn) kid on the social media bloc For the AoIR 2016 we, Jakob Svensson (Uppsala University, Sweden) and Uta Russmann (FHWien University of Applied Sciences, Vienna, Austria), are putting together a panel proposal on Instagram and its relevance in today's communication. We are looking for colleagues who have also started to explore Instagram. Please contact us (jakob.svensson(a)im.uu.se; uta.russmann(a)fh-wien.ac.at) if you are interested. Kindly/ Vänligen Jakob Svensson ____________________________________ PhD, Media and Communication Studies Department of Informatics and Media Uppsala University Kyrkogårdsgatan 10 Box 513 751 20 Uppsala Sweden + 46 (0) 18 4711027

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CfP:: 2016 International Conference on Social Media & Society (#SMSociety) - London, UK - July 11-13, 2016
by Anatoliy 05 Dec '15

05 Dec '15

Apologies for cross-postings. ********************************************************* 2016 International Conference on Social Media & Society (#SMSociety) CALL FOR PROPOSALS WHEN: July 11-13, 2016 WHERE: Goldsmiths, University of London, UK SUBMISSION DEADLINES: Dec 23, 2015(extended!): Workshops/Tutorials/Panels Jan 15, 2016: Full & WIP Papers Mar 4, 2016: Poster Abstracts Conference website: http://socialmediaandsociety.org/submit/ Data, data everywhere. With faster computers and cheaper storage, bigger data sets are becoming abundant. Social media is a key source of big data in the form of user and system generated content. What do we do with all of the social data and how do we make sense of it? How does the use of social media platforms and the data that they generate change us, our organizations, and our society? What are the inherent challenges and issues associated with working with social media data? What obligations do we have as social media researchers to protect the privacy of the users? These are just a few questions that will be explored at the 2016 International Conference on Social Media & Society (#SMSociety). Now, in its 7th year, the conference is an interdisciplinary academic conference focusing exclusively on social media research. The conference brings together top researchers and practitioners from academia and industry who are interested in studying and understanding social media impact and implications on society. This year's conference offers an intensive three-day program comprising of workshops, tutorials, paper presentations, panel discussions, and posters covering wide-ranging topics related to social media research. PUBLISHING OPPORTUNITIES: Full papers presented at the conference will be published in the Conference Proceedings by ACM International Conference Proceeding Series (ICPS). All accepted papers (full and WIP) will also be invited to submit their extended papers to Special Issues of Big Data & Society (BD&S) and American Behavioral Scientist (ABS) published by SAGE Publications. TRAVEL FUNDING OPPORTUNITY: 2016 ISRF Early Career Researcher Essay Competition (http://bit.ly/sms16ISRF ) ORGANIZER: Social Media Lab at the Ted Rogers School of Management, Ryerson University, Canada HOSTS & CO-ORGANIZERS: Big Data & Society Journal (BD&S) and the Centre for Creative & Social Technologies (CAST) at Goldsmiths, University of London, UK TOPIC OF INTERESTS: Social Media & Big Data . Data Visualization . Analytics & Data Mining . Scalability Issues . APIs . Data Curation . Virality & Memes . Big and Small Data . Ethics . Privacy, Surveillance, & Security Social Media Impact on Society . Politics . Journalism . Sports . Health . Public Administration . Business (Marketing, PR, HR, Risk Management, etc.) . Sharing Economy / Crowdsourcing . Academia (Alternative Metrics, Learning Analytics, etc.) . Mobile Theories & Methods . Qualitative Approaches . Quantitative Approaches . Opinion Mining & Sentiment Analysis . Social Network Analysis . Theoretical Models Online / Offline Communities . Case Studies of Online or Offline Communities . Trust & Credibility . Online Community Detection . Measuring Influence . Online Identity (Gender, Private Self/Public Self) 2016 #SMSociety Organizing Committee: Anatoliy Gruzd & Philip Mai, Ryerson University, Canada Jenna Jacobson, University of Toronto, Canada Dhiraj Murthy & Evelyn Ruppert, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK 2016 #SMSociety Conference Advisor: Barry Wellman, University of Toronto, Canada

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CFP: Workshop on Web Education: Teaching Digital Literacies
by Marie Joan Kristine Gloria 04 Dec '15

04 Dec '15

Dear AoIR members - For those interested, we will be hosting a Web Education: Teaching Digital Literacies <http://www.web-education-workshop.net/relevance-motivation/>Workshop at the WWW 2016 Conference <http://www2016.ca/> in Montreal, Canada (April 2016). This type of discussion will be the first for this venue as it is traditionally a more technical (e.g. CS-driven) conference. However, we would like to extend the call to a broader community of academics, practitioners, activists, industry, etc., outside of CS. Details below. If you have any questions, please do note hesitate to contact me directly. Many thanks, Kristine -- Kristine Gloria Visiting Researcher at the Internet Policy Research Initiative at MIT-CSAIL Ph.D. Student, Cognitive Science at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute CTSP Fellow - UC Berkeley @gloriakt gVoice: (562) 448-2697 ****CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS *** Download it <http://www.web-education-workshop.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/WEW2016-ca…> and submit your paper or poster proposal before *Jan. 15th 2016.* *Relevance*This workshop is the first Web Education / Digital Literacies workshop to be held at a WWW Conference. The dynamics of Web Education and Digital Literacies are among today’s most important issues surrounding the development of the Web as an efficient, safe and universal information system. Too often Web education is understood as teaching web technologies or development techniques. However, teaching the Web itself in all its various aspects has become essential to our understanding of the role of the Web in every dimension of human activity and developing better understandings of its mechanisms for the user. A wide range of disciplines including sociology, economics, political studies, health and management science have integrated courses and specializations to teach the Web, its nature, its realities, its impact its evolution and its integration into every dimension of human activity. We are keen to encourage a very broad community of participants. Whether you are a professor involved in digital literacy programs or courses, a consultant empowering employees in a company, a student or faculty in an interdisciplinary program or an activist in an NGO teaching the Web to kids, you’re invited to submit your proposals to be presented at the Web Education Workshop. *Objectives* - Reflect on the current state of Web Education and digital literacy teaching initiatives in the world - Identify the variety of practices in Web Education across different countries, contexts and educational systems - Find coherence between different approaches to Web Science education - Identify key objectives for this community of practice and establish a roadmap for future activities

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Reminder: CFP - Archives Unleashed - Dec. 7 Deadline
by Matthew Weber 04 Dec '15

04 Dec '15

http://archivesunleashed.ca <http://archivesunleashed.ca/> Robarts Library, University of Toronto 3-5 March 2016 Travel grants available for graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, and contingent faculty Applications due 4 December 2015 The World Wide Web has a profound impact on how we research and understand the past. The sheer amount of cultural information that is generated and, crucially, preserved every day in electronic form, presents exciting new opportunities for researchers. Much of this information is captured within web archives. Web archives often contain hundreds of billions of web pages, ranging from individual homepages and social media posts, to institutional websites. These archives offer tremendous potential for social scientists and humanists, and the questions research may pose stretch across a multitude of fields. Scholars broaching topics dating back to the mid-1990s will find their projects enhanced by web data. Moreover, scholars hoping to study the evolution of cultural and societal phenomena will find a treasure trove of data in web archives. In short, web archives offer the ability to reconstruct large-scale traces of the relatively recent past. While there has been considerable discussion about web archive tools and datasets, few forums or mechanisms for coordinated, mutually informing development efforts have been created. This hackathon presents an opportunity to collaboratively unleash our web collections, exploring cutting-edge research tools while fostering a broad-based consensus on future directions in web archive analysis. This hackathon will bring together a small group of 20-30 participants to collaboratively develop new open-source tools and approaches to hackathon, and to kick-off collaboratively inspired research projects. Researchers should be comfortable with command line interactions, and knowledge of a scripting language such as Python strongly desired. By bringing together a group of like-minded scholars and programmers, we hope to begin building unified analytic production effort and to continue coalescing this nascent research community. At this event, we hope to converge on a shared vision of future directions in the use of web archives for inquiry in the humanities and social sciences in order to build a community of practice around various web archive analytics platforms and tools. Thanks to the generous support of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, the University of Waterloo, the University of Toronto, Rutgers University, the University of Québec in Outaouais, the Internet Archive, Library and Archives Canada, and Compute Canada, we will cover all meals and refreshments for attendees. We are also providing sample datasets for people to work on during the hackathon, or they are happy to use their own. Included datasets are: – the .gov web archive covering the American government domain; – the Government of Canada web archive from Library and Archives Canada; – the Canadian Political Parties and Political Interest Groups web archive from the University of Toronto. Those interested in participating should send a 250-word expression of interest and a CV to Ian Milligan (i2millig(a)uwaterloo.ca <mailto:i2millig@uwaterloo.ca><mailto:i2millig@uwaterloo.ca <mailto:i2millig@uwaterloo.ca>>) by 7 December 2015. This expression of interest should address the scholarly questions that you will be bringing to the hackathon, and what datasets you might be interested in either working with or bringing to the event. Applicants will be notified by 18 December 2015.

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2nd CfP: CSCW 2016 Workshop: Developing a Research Agenda for Human-Centered Data Science
by Cecilia Aragon 04 Dec '15

04 Dec '15

[Our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CfP] ---------------------------------- 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: - 11th 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…) by 11th 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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FW: CFP "Dislocations and Cultural Conflicts: Migrations, Diaspora, Terrorism, Borders (MDTB)"
by Loreta Georgievska - Jakovleva 04 Dec '15

04 Dec '15

Dear colleagues, I'd like to take this opportunity to pass along the call for papers for the CCCS 2016 Conference "Dislocations and Cultural Conflicts: Migrations, Diaspora, Terrorism, Borders (MDTB)" which will occur in September 2016 in Skopje, Macedonia. Please see the info below Best regards, Prof. Loreta Georgievska - Jakovleva Centre for Culture and Cultural Studies (CCCS) Call for Papers and Panel Proposals Fourth Annual International CCCS Conference 2016: "Dislocations and Cultural Conflicts: Migrations, Diaspora, Terrorism, Borders (MDTB)" September 1-3, 2016, Skopje, Republic of Macedonia Deadline for submitting abstracts: March 15, 2016 Deadline for submitting full papers: December 15, 2016 For additional information please contact organizers on email conference(a)cultcenter.net <mailto:conference@cultcenter.net> or visit conference site http://cultcenter.net/

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