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IFIP 8.5 eGov/ePart 2016 - General eParticipation track
by Panagiotis Panagiotopoulos 20 Nov '15

20 Nov '15

*** 15th IFIP International Conference on eGovernment (IFIP EGOV 2016) and 8th IFIP International Conference on eParticipation (IFIP ePart 2016) *** 5 - 8 September 2016, Guimarães, Portugal www.egov-conference.org, www.epart-conference.org General eParticipation Track - Call for Papers The General eParticipation track will take place within the dual 15th IFIP Electronic Government (EGOV) and the 8th Electronic Participation (ePart) Conference 2016. The dual conference will be hosted by the United Nations University Operating Unit on Policy-Driven Electronic Governance (UNU-EGOV, http://egov.unu.edu/) and the University of Minho (http://www.uminho.pt/en) The IFIP EGOV and IFIP ePart conferences together attract around 150 participants per year. Participants registering for one conference can also attend the other conference for no extra charge. The General eParticipation track aims to present the best of recent developments in the multidisciplinary field of electronic Participation (eParticipation), covering a wide range of technical, political and social areas. The papers will present new and innovative developments in this expanding discipline. Scope The scope of the General eParticipation track covers the whole range of research in eParticipation. Its principal aim is to review advances in research in both social and technological scientific domains, seeking to demonstrate new theories, concepts, methods and styles of eParticipation with the support of innovative ICT. The General eParticipation track will focus on, but is not limited to, the following topics: * Foundations of eParticipation research including theories, methods, models and approaches; * The role of social and mobile media and Web 2.0 in eParticipation; * Transparency and open access for eParticipation; * Design and co-creation of participatory public services; bottom-up initiatives; * Privacy, security and ethical considerations in eParticipation; * Advances in eParticipation Domains: Online deliberation and discourse, participatory budgeting, eConsultation, ePolling, and eLegislation, eElectioneering, eCampaigning and eVoting; * Advances in participatory policy making using policy modelling, simulation, impact assessment and visualisation methods and tools; * eParticipation and big data; * The role of eParticipation in national and global crisis situations; * Comparative analyses of eParticipation practices; * Impact assessment and public value considerations of eParticipation on real world decision making; * Digital literacy and its consequences for eParticipation; * eParticipation projects: design, implementation, evaluation, quality and impact Submission Guidelines The General eParticipation track (as all tracks in the conferences) allows for four distinct types of submissions: * Research papers (max 12 pages, published in LCNS Springer); * Ongoing research and innovative projects papers (max 8 pages, published by IOS Press); * Workshops and panels on pertinent issues (2 pages, published by IOS Press); * Poster proposals (2 pages, published by IOS Press); * PhD colloquium submissions (8 pages, published by IOS Press). Completed research papers: papers in this category deal with completed research. They should have both relevance and a strong focus on scientific rigour and may be a maximum of 12 pages. Papers in this track will be peer reviewed for rigour, relevance, originality and clarity of presentation. Abstracts or incomplete papers will not be accepted. On-going research papers: these papers describe novel concepts, works-in-progress, or other ideas and issues that are not currently suitable for a completed research paper. They may be a maximum of 8 pages. Papers in this section will also be peer reviewed, but the emphasis is on relevance more than scientific rigour. Workshops and panels: proposals for workshops and panels (2 pages) should include rationale, objectives, expected outcomes and approach to audience participation. Posters proposals (2 pages) will not be blind reviewed. Authors of accepted submissions are expected to bring their posters which will be displayed to the conference audience. PhD Colloquium: prior to the conference (Sunday, Sep. 4, 2016), a PhD student colloquium will be held providing an international forum for doctoral students under the guidance of senior scholars for presenting their work, networking opportunities and cross-disciplinary inspiration. Papers of accepted submissions will be included in the proceedings. The General eParticipation track papers must contain original material not previously published or currently submitted elsewhere. Paper submissions should be anonymous and follow the relevant templates. Submissions must be made through the conference's management system. Proceedings All accepted completed research papers will be published by Springer Verlag (LNCS). Accepted submissions in all other categories will be published by IOS Press. After the conference, both volumes will be submitted to Thompson Reuters for evaluation in order to be indexed in Web of Science Conference Proceedings. Important Dates March 15, 2016: Submission of papers April 15, 2016: Submission of workshop/panel/poster/PhD colloquium contributions April 30, 2016: Notification of acceptance/rejection decisions for papers May 15, 2016: Notification of acceptance for workshops/panels/posters/PhD colloquium contributions May 31, 2016: Camera-ready papers of accepted completed research/ongoing research/workshop/panel/ poster/PhD colloquium contributions Track chairs Efthimios Tambouris, University of Macedonia, Greece Panos Panagiotopoulos, Queen Mary University of London, UK Øystein Sæbø, University of Agder, Norway Program Committee Please check the conference website for an updated list. ----------------------------- Dr Panos Panagiotopoulos Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Information Management School of Business and Management Queen Mary University of London http://www.busman.qmul.ac.uk/staff/panagiotopoulosp.html @DrPanPan

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3 postdoc openings at the Chinese U of Hong Kong
by Jack Qiu 20 Nov '15

20 Nov '15

FYI and please help us spread the word. The deadline is coming up pretty soon. Thanks! http://www2.per.cuhk.edu.hk/en-GB/?option=com_jvadm&id=15/374%28737%29/3&It… POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWS DEPARTMENT/UNIT School of Journalism and Communication REFERENCE NUMBER 15/374(737)/3 CLOSING DATE December 1, 2015 POST SPECIFICATION The School of Journalism and Communication at the Chinese University of Hong Kong is hiring three full-time Postdoctoral Fellows in the following areas: (A) youth studies; (B) digital labor in comparative perspectives; and (C) media events in Chinese cyberspace. Applicants should have (i) a PhD degree in a related Social Science or Humanities discipline with track records in research; and (ii) good command of English and Chinese (for Postdoctoral Fellows A and C). Postdoctoral Fellow B does not have to know Chinese, but competence in another Asian language will be a plus. For all the three Postdoctoral Fellows, skills in applying digital methods to media production and/or reception analyses will be an additional merit. Postdoctoral Fellow A will assist Professor Anthony Fung in spearheading interdisciplinary projects for the Faculty of Social Science's focal research area, youth studies, using survey, quantitative and qualitative analysis. Postdoctoral Fellow B will work with Professor Jack Qiu and Professor Anthony Fung in studying the structures and dynamics of digital labor (including creative labor) at both organizational and institutional levels, especially in Southeast Asia and East Asia, using interviews, secondary data analysis, and online and offline field research. Postdoctoral Fellow C will work with Professor Jack Qiu and Professor Joseph Chan in conducting comparative analysis of Internet-facilitated media events in different Chinese societies and across time, using qualitative methods, case studies, online ethnography and archival research. Job duties for the three Research Fellows include (a) research design, data collection and analysis, writing up of grant proposals and publications, and the dissemination of project findings; (b) management of research team involving other colleagues and assistants; and (c) coordination of workshops, seminars and conferences. Specific tasks will be specified by the project supervisors (i.e. Professor Fung, Professor Qiu and Professor Chan). Appointment will be made on contract basis for eighteen months commencing January 2016 or as soon as possible thereafter. SALARY AND FRINGE BENEFITS Salary will be highly competitive, commensurate with qualifications and experience. The University offers a comprehensive fringe benefit package, including medical care. Further information about the University and the general terms of service is available on our homepage at http://www.per.cuhk.edu.hk. APPLICATION PROCEDURE Application forms are obtainable (a) at http://www.per.cuhk.edu.hk; or (b) in person/by mail with a stamped, self-addressed envelope from the Personnel Office, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, Hong Kong. Completed forms, together with copies of qualification documents, should reach the School of Journalism and Communication, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, Hong Kong by the closing date. Please quote the reference number and mark 'Application - Confidential' on cover. The Personal Information Collection Statement will be provided upon request.

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Introducing the inaugural projects and fellows of the Center for Technology, Society & Policy
by Galen Panger 19 Nov '15

19 Nov '15

We're extremely pleased to announce <https://ctsp.berkeley.edu/introducing-ctsp-inaugural-collaborative-projects…> the inaugural class of 11 collaborative projects <https://ctsp.berkeley.edu/projects> and 28 fellows <https://ctsp.berkeley.edu/people> of Berkeley's new Center for Technology, Society & Policy. If you get a chance, take a look at these stellar projects and fellows, and if you're in the Bay Area on Thursday, December 3rd (5:30-7p in South Hall <http://www.ischool.berkeley.edu/about/visitorinfo>), we hope you'll come out to our happy hour, where you can have a beer or some wine and mingle with the fellows. Here's a tweet <https://twitter.com/CTSPBerkeley/status/667413962363826176> to retweet about our announcement if the mood strikes. Sincerely, Galen Panger & Nick Doty, CTSP Co-Directors -- galen(a)ischool.berkeley.edu galen.website / @gpanger <https://twitter.com/gpanger>

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C. Fuchs: Reading Marx in the Information Age: A Media and Communication Studies Perspective on Capital Volume 1.
by Christian Fuchs 18 Nov '15

18 Nov '15

Fuchs, Christian. 2016. Reading Marx in the Information Age: A Media and Communication Studies Perspective on Capital Volume 1. New York: Routledge. ISBN 9781138948563 (paperback), ISBN 9781138948556 (hardback). 416 pages. Book page: http://fuchs.uti.at/books/reading-marx-in-the-information-age-a-media-and-c… Critical media theorist Christian Fuchs provides a thorough, chapter-by-chapter introduction to Capital Volume 1 that assists readers in making sense of Karl Marx’s most important and groundbreaking work in the information age, exploring Marx’s key concepts through the lens of media and communication studies via contemporary phenomena like the Internet, digital labour, social media, the media industries, and digital class struggles. Through a range of international, current-day examples, Fuchs emphasises the continued importance of Marx and his work in a time when transnational media companies like Amazon, Google, and Facebook play an increasingly important role in global capitalism. Discussion questions and exercises at the end of each chapter help readers to further apply Marx’s work to a modern-day context. The book is especially suited as accompanying literature for existing reading groups, new reading groups and individual readers of Marx’s “Capital”. It provides a general introduction for each chapter as well as connections to media and communications topics. The chapters can be read all together in combination with Marx’s book, but are also written in a way that they can be used in modules and reading groups as companions to single chapters in Marx’s “Capital”. At the end of each chapter, there are multiple exercises that allow readers a practical understanding of Marx. Sample chapters: Introduction: http://fuchs.uti.at/wp-content/uploads/introduction.pdf Appendix 2: Knowledge, Technology, and the General Intellect in the Grundrisse and its Fragment on Machines: http://fuchs.uti.at/wp-content/uploads/Grundrisse.pdf Review copies: Email review.copy(a)taylorandfrancis.com with: The title of the book you’d like to review. Information on the publication in which the review will appear. Your contact information. Call for contributions to two panels about media and communications at the conference “Marx 2016”: http://www.triple-c.at/index.php/tripleC/announcement/view/26

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CFP: Streams of Consciousness: Data, Cognition and Intelligent Devices
by nathaniel tkacz 18 Nov '15

18 Nov '15

STREAMS OF CONSCIOUSNESS: DATA, COGNITION AND INTELLIGENT DEVICES 21st and 22nd of April, 2016 Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies The University of Warwick Call for Presentations: “What’s on your mind?” This is the question to which every Facebook status update now responds. Millions of users sharing their thoughts in one giant performance of what Clay Shirky once called “cognitive surplus”. Contemporary media platforms aren’t simply a stage for this cognitive performance. They are more like directors, staging scenes, tweaking scripts, working to get the best or fully “optimized” performance. As Katherine Hayles has pointed out, media theory has long taken for granted that we think “through, with and alongside media”. Pen and paper, the abacus, and modern calculators are obvious cases in point, but the list quickly expands and with it longstanding conceptions of the Cartesian mind dissolve away. Within the cognitive sciences, cognition is now routinely described as embodied, extended, and distributed. They too recognize that cognition takes place beyond the brain, in between people, between people and things, and combinations thereof. The varieties of specifically human thought, from decision-making to reasoning and interpretation, are now considered one part of a broader cognitive spectrum shared with other animals, systems, and intelligent devices. Today, the technology we mostly think through, with and alongside are computers. We routinely rely on intelligent devices for any number of operations, but this is no straightforward “augmentation”. Our cognitive capacities are equally instrumentalized, plugged into larger cognitive operations from which we have little autonomy. Our cognitive weaknesses are exploited and manipulated by techniques drawn from behavioural economics and psychology. If Vannevar Bush once pondered how we would think in the future, he received a partial response in Steve Krug’s best selling book on web usability: *Don’t Make Me Think!* Streams of Consciousness aims to explore cognition, broadly conceived, in an age of intelligent devices. We aim to critically interrogate our contemporary infatuation with specific cognitive qualities – such as “smartness” and “intelligence” – while seeking to genuinely understand the specific forms of cognition that are privileged in our current technological milieu. We are especially interested in devices that mediate access to otherwise imperceptible forms of data (too big, too fast), so it can be acted upon in routine or novel ways. Topics of the conference include but are not limited to: - data and cognition - decision-making technologies - algorithms, AI and machine learning - visualization, perception - sense and sensation - business intelligence and data exploration - signal intelligence and drones - smart and dumb things - choice and decision architecture - behavioural economics and design - technologies of nudging - interfaces - bodies, data, and (wearable) devices - optimization - web and data analytics (including A/B and multivariate testing) Confirmed Speakers: LOUISE AMOORE, JAMES ASH, DAVID BERRY, WILLIAM DAVIES, MICHAEL DIETER, STEVE FULLER, JENNIFER GABRYS, ANTOINETTE ROUVROY, NATASHA SCHÜLL, NICK SRNICEK, NIGEL THRIFT, MICHAEL WHEELER. Please submit individual abstracts of no longer than 300 words. Panel proposals are also welcome and should also be 300 words. Panel proposals should also include indvidual abstracts. The deadline for submissions is Friday the 18th of December and submissions should be made tocimconf(a)warwick.ac.uk. Accepted submissions will be notified by 20th of January 2016. Streams of Consciousness is organised by Nathaniel Tkacz and Ana Gross. The event is supported by the Economic and Social Research Council. ----------------------- 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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CFP for ICA Post-Conference on Communicating with Machines - Due Date 12/15/2015
by Andrea Guzman 17 Nov '15

17 Nov '15

This CFP for a post-conference regarding Human-Machine Communication convened in conjunction with the International Communication Association's Conference in Fukuoka, Japan, in June 2016, may be of interest to some of you. Please distribute to your networks. You can direct any questions to me. "Communicating with Machines: The Rising Power of Digital Interlocutors in Our Lives" Overview: Digital interlocutors are increasingly standing in for humans in communication contexts. This post-conference focuses on the power of artificial entities fostered in and through Human-Machine Communication (HMC), which encompasses Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), and Human-Agent Interaction (HAI). We invite scholars to discuss their work regarding the individual, cultural, and philosophical implications of interactions with machines (including hardware and software). We seek to raise awareness of and further develop HMC research and the scholarly community surrounding it. Sponsors: University of Illinois at Chicago, Department of Communication Northern Illinois University, Department of Communication Communication and Social Robotics Lab – Western Michigan University School of Communication and the University of Kentucky College of Communication & Information, School of Information Science Chairs: Andrea L. Guzman, Northern Illinois University David J. Gunkel, Northern Illinois University, Steve Jones, University of Illinois at Chicago Autumn Edwards, Western Michigan University Chad Edwards, Western Michigan University Patric Spence, University of Kentucky Contact: Andrea L. Guzman, alguzman(a)niu.edu Date: Tuesday, June 14, 2016 Time: 8:30 a.m. – 4 p.m. Location: Hilton Fukuoka Sea Hawk (Conference Hotel) Cost: Faculty, $75; Student, $50; Lunch and snacks included. Submissions should take the form of papers (750 – 1,000 words excluding references) that provide an overview of what the scholar would present at the post-conference in relation to HMC. Submissions are due by Dec. 15, 2015 to Andrea L. Guzman, alguzman(a)niu.edu. Notification of acceptance: Feb. 1, 2016 Participant Acknowledgment: Accepted participants will be listed along with the titles of their presentations in both the ICA Conference and the HMC Post-Conference programs. Post-Conference Focus: As artificial intelligence (AI), robotics, and ICTs continue to develop and merge, we are increasingly interacting with digital interlocutors such as voice-based agents, robots, and social bots. We also are sending and receiving messages to and from wearable devices. We directly interact with the technologies surrounding us, and digital entities have been and continue to stand in for humans in everyday communication contexts. The recent surge of digital interlocutors into quotidian routines has been accompanied with questions – voiced by leading scientists as well as the average person – regarding the ramifications of these technologies and our interactions with them. In concert with the conference theme of "Communicating with Power," our post-conference focuses on the growing power of artificial entities in our lives fostered in and through Human-Machine Communication (HMC) and the power that we have as communication researchers to bring new insight into life and communication in a robotic culture. We invite scholars from a variety of epistemological and methodological backgrounds to discuss their work related to HMC, which includes Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), and Human-Agent Interaction (HAI), in this full-day post-conference. We will focus on the individual, cultural, and philosophical implications of the various ways in which we interact with machines. Possible topic areas for participant presentations include, but are not limited to: • communicative practices between humans and digital interlocutors • the integration of artificial entities into private and professional spaces • the incorporation of AI into journalism and other media industries • cultural discourse surrounding digital and robotic interlocutors • relationship dynamics between humans and machines • reinterpretations and representations of humans as digital entities • intercultural aspects of HMC. Post-conference format: Our goal is to provide a space for participants to present their research and engage in conversation with one another. We have adopted a two-tiered format in which some scholars will be invited to deliver a paper presentation while others will be invited to take part in a poster session. More details are forthcoming. CFP Link: http://www.icahdq.org/conf/2016/machinesCFP.asp _____ Andrea L. Guzman, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Dept. of Communication Northern Illinois University alguzman(a)niu.edu

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CfP: CSCW 2016 Workshop: Developing a Research Agenda for Human-Centered Data Science
by Cecilia Aragon 17 Nov '15

17 Nov '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 ofdata, 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-centereddata 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 todata 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 forhuman 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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CfP: CSCW workshop: Toward a typology of participation in crowdsourcing
by Tanja Aitamurto 17 Nov '15

17 Nov '15

Dear AoIR colleagues and friends, If you are fascinated by geekying about crowdsourcing, you might want to consider this. We are arranging a workshop at CSCW in San Francisco in February for developing a typology of participation in crowdsourcing. Papers are due December 7th. Please let us know if you have questions, and we hope to see you in San Francisco! *Call for papers* CSCW2016 workshop, February 28 *Toward a typology of participation in crowd work* Deadline for paper submissions December 7 http://ttpcw.blogs.dsv.su.se/ The development of technologies and practices of broad public participation are changing the notion of the public. As the use of participatory and social media has become widespread in society and enabled a more collaborative information production, the potential for a transformation of production relations through crowd-based activities affect many aspects of life. There are new potentials for transformative developments in government, work life, science, and emergency response. However, these new platforms for participation have not solved many of the pre-crowd problems regarding participation, such as lack of representativeness and flawed deliberative processes. Therefore it is important and relevant to look at the power relations within crowd production and to examine how different tools handle participatory processes in the crowd. This workshop examines different types of participatory process, in crowd work such as crowdsourced policymaking, crisis management, citizen science and paid crowd work, among other, focusing on relations and power dynamics within and beyond the crowds. We welcome researchers from a diversity of disciplines and perspectives to formulate a typology of participation in crowd work. *Typologies of participation* In the wider field of participation, in areas like participatory planning, design or participatory research, the power relations in the participatory setting are seen as central for the outcome of the participation. However, we haven’t seen a more structured overview of typologies of participation indicating levels of power and agency in the context of crowdwork. For this workshop, we therefore invite participants to look more closely at different types of participation within crowdwork, and at different levels of interaction. Possible sites of analysis could be the interaction between crowd workers, the participation in the work by different stakeholders, the potentially privileged levels of interaction with the data, or tensions in the agency of the crowdworkers in relation to the task. What types of ontologies exist in different types of crowdsourcing contexts, and how do these ontologies reflect one or more epistemologies? How is this expressed in the relations between the crowd and the sourcer, or in how different interfaces and tools support different roles and different modes of crowd participation? What are the relations between different attitudes towards knowledge and the social relations in the crowdsourcing process? What are the implications for power relations between different modes of participation? If we learn more about how participation in crowd work can be described in terms of power and relations, we might get a better understanding of how participation can be articulated, how different tools for crowd participation can be developed, and how the different perspectives and stakes in crowd work might be harmonized, or at least clarified. *Suggested subthemes and topics * Controlling economic structures in crowd work • Controlling levels of; access; transparency, secrecy, closeness, connectedness, alienation • Relation between crowd work control dynamics and power relationships outside the technology framework. • Differentiations in entry and exit points to the platform Intersecting belief systems in crowd work • Norms about crowds, collaboration and democracy • Balance between exclusive groups and democratic publics • Stakeholders’ different cultural assumptions • Tensions between individual scoring systems and collective sharing processes Community support in crowd work • Communication needs within the crowd • Available avenues of communication to support community • Apprenticeship models • Relations between the crowd and the “sourcers” • Navigating intersecting communities in crowd setting • Relations between different types of stakeholders in the crowd setting Going from crowd to public • Publics as performative states; co-constitution an interdependence • Ethics and power relations in crowd sourced research • The power relations between the designer/inventor and the crowd • Quantified selves, data sources or co-researchers *Workshop activities* This one-day workshop will explore the topics in mini presentations and brainstorming sessions. The objective with the workshop is to develop a typology of participation in crowd work based on an overview of the field. Furthermore, selected contributions from the workshop will be considered for a special issue in a HCI journal. *Submission * Participants are selected based on their submitted position-papers. The maximum length of a paper is 2,000 words. Deadline for submissions is *December 07.* Send submissions and inquiries to: crowdtypologies(a)gmail.com *Organization* The workshop builds on four earlier successful workshops: Back to the Future of Organizational Work: Crowdsourcing Digital Work Marketplaces, Structures for Knowledge Co-creation between Organizations and the Public hosted at ACM CSCW 2014, The Morphing Organization – Rethinking Groupwork Systems in the Era of Crowdwork hosted at ACM GROUP 2014, and Examining the Essence of the Crowds: Motivations, Roles and Identities at ECSCW 2015. (2) This workshop is organized by: Karin Hansson PhD, the Department of Computer & Systems Sciences at Stockholm University. Michael Muller, PhD, the Cognitive User Experience group of IBM Research, Cambridge MA USA Tanja Aitamurto, PhD, Deputy Director of the Brown Institute for Media Innovation at the School of Engineering at Stanford University. Ann Light, Professor of Design and Creative Technology at the University of Sussex and leader of the Creative Technology Group. Athanasios Mazarakis, PhD, Web Science at Kiel University. Neha Gupta, PhD student at the School of Computer Science, University of Nottingham, UK. Thomas Ludwig, Ph.D. student at the Institute for Information Systems at the University of Siegen, Germany. Dr. Tanja Aitamurto Deputy Director Brown Fellow, postdoctoral The Brown Institute for Media Innovation <http://brown.stanford.edu/> School of Engineering Stanford www.tanjaaitamurto.com <http://brokenfence.flavors.me/> ~ examining collective intelligence in journalism, governance and design ~

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Oxford Internet Institute Summer Doctoral Programme 2016
by Victoria Nash 17 Nov '15

17 Nov '15

Dear all, It's my very great pleasure to announce that the application process is now open for SDP 2016. This will take place in Oxford from the 4th-15th July, and as usual will be designed to help late-stage PhD students improve their dissertations whilst immersing them in two weeks of intense multi-disciplinary seminars, classes and debate. And there will be punting... For more information go to our SDP pages at: http://sdp.oii.ox.ac.uk/ or feel free to contact us personally. All best wishes, Vicki PS If any fabulous potential tutors are likely to be passing through the UK then, please do also get in touch. Dr Victoria Nash Deputy Director Policy & Research Fellow Oxford Internet Institute University of Oxford http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/ Tel: 0044 1865 287231 Tw: VickiNashOII

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A new e-learning course – Why We Post - The Anthropology of Social Media
by Shriram Venkatraman 17 Nov '15

17 Nov '15

*A new e-learning course – Why We Post - The Anthropology of Social Media* A new MOOC – (free e-learning course), called Why We Post - The Anthropology of Social Media is now available for registration. The course will start on 29th February 2016. The course is available in eight languages. English version is on the FutureLearn platform, (a branch of the Open University) at https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/anthropology-social-media/1 Registration for the Chinese, Hindi, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, Tamil and Turkish versions at https://extendstore.ucl.ac.uk/catalog?pagename=why-we-post These versions are not time bound and can be followed at any time and duration from Feb 29th 2016. This five week course is taught by the nine anthropologists whose ethnographic research it is based on. *Week One*: What is social media - Polymedia and Scalable Sociality. The focus upon content rather than platforms. The 9 fieldsites. The practical uses of this research. Main fieldsite – village England *Week Two* – The shift to visual images in communication. Memes as the moral police of the internet. The significance for illiteracy. The diversity of the selfie. Main fieldsites - south Italy, Trinidad. *Week Three* – The impact on politics and gender. Why public social media is more conservative than offline life. The transformation of gender relations in Hindu and Muslim societies. Main fieldsites - south India and southeast Turkey *Week Four* –What we learn from The Chinese platforms. The impact of social media more generally on privacy, on education and on commerce. Main fieldsites – Industrial China, Rural China *Week Five* – The relation between online equality and offline inequality. When social media may not express identity or individuality. Seeing the normative. How the world changed social media. Main fieldsites – northeast Brazil and north Chile. Thanks, Shriram Venkatraman *http://www.ucl.ac.uk/global-social-media <http://www.ucl.ac.uk/global-social-media>*

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