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UW-Milwaukee School of Information Studies Seeking Assistant Professor in Information Technology
by Michael T Zimmer 24 Nov '14

24 Nov '14

Dear colleagues - The UW-M School of Information Studies, the iSchool at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, is hiring an assistant professor in Information Technology, with a broad range of approaches considered. The official posting is at https://jobs.uwm.edu/postings/21017, and the priority deadline is February 1, 2015. I’ve shared the text below. Please forward as appropriate, and my apologies if you’ve received multiple copies of this solicitation. Thanks, Michael Zimmer -- Michael Zimmer, PhD Associate Professor, School of Information Studies Director, Center for Information Policy Research University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee e: zimmerm(a)uwm.edu w: www.michaelzimmer.org ==== University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee School of Information Studies Information Technology Faculty Position The School of Information Studies (SOIS), the iSchool at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (UWM), invites applications for a full-time tenure-track position in Information Technology at the rank of Assistant Professor. The selected applicant will be expected to maintain an active research agenda in their field of interest, and teach courses in the School’s undergraduate and graduate programs in Information Science and Technology. Ideal candidates will be interested in research and pedagogy in information technology from a variety of possible perspectives, including technical, user-centered, social, historical, or humanistic approaches. Preferred emphases include, but are not limited to: data science, data management, information security, information visualization, user interface & human–computer interaction (HCI), web and mobile development, or science & technology studies/digital humanities. Required Qualifications: • PhD in Information Studies or related discipline by the beginning of the contract term. • Evidence of ability – or potential – for teaching in the School’s undergraduate and/or graduate programs in Information Science and Technology. • Excellent research promise in relevant area. Preferred Qualifications: • Experience or demonstrated ability in the design and delivery of courses in a variety of formats, including onsite and online. • Ability to teach an advanced elective undergraduate or graduate courses in her/his areas of expertise, with preference for: data science, data management, information security, information visualization, user interface & HCI, web and mobile development, or STS/digital humanities The nationally ranked School of Information Studies offers several educational programs: a Bachelor of Science in Information Science and Technology (BSIST); an ALA-accredited Masters of Library and Information Science (MLIS); several coordinated graduate degree programs, including History and Anthropology; transcript-designated concentrations within the MLIS Archival Studies, Digital Libraries, Public Library Leadership, Information Organization, and Information Technology; post-masters Certificates of Advanced Study in Archives and Records Management and Digital Libraries; and a PhD in Information Studies. A new Masters of Science in Information Science and Technology (MSIST) degree is currently under development in partnership with the Department of Computer Science. The School has a strong research faculty, more than 900 students, and state-of-the-art informational technology laboratories. SOIS houses the Center for Information Policy Research, and its faculty organizes three research groups: the Research Group for Information Retrieval, Information Organization Research Group, and the Social Studies of Information Research Group. The School’s research and instructional programs are designed to be a resourceful blend of the University’s mission with the School’s information focus, international scope, and interdisciplinary mindset. Situated in the cultural, commercial, and educational hub of the state, in a pleasant residential neighborhood overlooking Lake Michigan, UWM is a research university committed to academic excellence. It is one of the two doctoral degree-granting institutions in the multi-campus University of Wisconsin system, and has a student enrollment of over 29,000. The School offers a competitive salary for an academic year (9 month) appointment, plus additional compensation for possible summer teaching, and generous fringe benefits. SOIS also provides extensive research support in the form of travel funding, research assistance, and internal research grant programs. First priority will be given to applications received by February 1, 2015. The starting date is August 24, 2015, or negotiable. To apply, candidates must submit a Candidate Profile through the UWM Employment website (https://jobs.uwm.edu/postings/21017) and electronically submit the following: a cover letter of interest that describes the candidate’s fit for the position, research agenda, and teaching experience; a curriculum vitae; names and contact information of three references that can speak to the candidates research and/or teaching excellence. Also, under separate cover by e-mail please arrange for one of the references to send a confidential letter of recommendation to Dr. Michael Zimmer, Chair of the IT Faculty Search and Screen Committee, at zimmerm(a)uwm.edu. For more information, please contact Dr. Michael Zimmer, Chair of the IT Faculty Search and Screen Committee, at zimmerm(a)uwm.edu. For questions regarding submission of your materials, please contact Laura Meyer at Lauram(a)uwm.edu or (414)229-5409. For more information about the School of Information Studies, please visit http://ischool.uwm.edu. UWM is an affirmative action, equal employment opportunity employer. For the UWM Crime Statistics Annual Report and the Campus Security Policy, see http://www.uwm.edu/Dept/OSL/CleryAct/, or call the Office of Student Life, Mellencamp Hall 118 at (414) 229-4632 for a paper copy.

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CALL FOR PAPERS - Leveraging Technology and Data to Promote Social Equity
by THAKUR Dhanaraj 24 Nov '14

24 Nov '14

CALL FOR PAPERS Social Equity Leadership Conference Leveraging Technology and Data to Promote Social Equity Nashville, TN June 3-5, 2015 The National Academy of Public Administration's (NAPA) 14th Annual Social Equity Leadership Conference will be hosted by Tennessee State University’s College of Public Service and Urban Affairs on June 3-5 in Nashville, TN. Established by the Standing Panel on Social Equity at the National Academy of Public Administration (NAPA), the annual Social Equity Leadership Conferences focus on advancing knowledge and understanding of applied and theoretical research towards the promotion of social equity in governance. The Standing Panel on Social Equity in Governance (a committee of NAPA) focuses on issues of fairness, justice, and equity in a variety of public contexts, including, but not limited to: education, policing, welfare, housing, and transportation. Faculty members, researchers, nonprofit and government leaders as well as graduate/undergraduate students are strongly encouraged to participate at the meeting. The theme of the 2015 Annual Meeting is Leveraging Technology and Data to Promote Social Equity. We are asking for abstracts of up to 250 words to be submitted by January 15, 2015. All submissions should be submitted via https://tnstateu.az1.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_etEkdv9vSF4E5hP The conference is interdisciplinary and papers should address the role and use of technology in solving critical public policy issues. These include (but are not limited to): * The Role of Nonprofits in Bridging the Digital Divide * Building Civic Leadership * Data Innovation in the Faith-Based Sector * Social Equity Reporting – The Role of the Media * Big Data and Education Equity * Equity in Healthcare Access and Delivery * Transportation in the Smart City * Better Data for Environmental Justice * Data Driven Communities * Nashville Next – Planning, Data and Social Change * Housing through Data * Political Threats to Equity Planning * Questions of Security and Privacy * Foundations for Justice For more information please contact Planning Committee Chair Dr. Cara Robinson at crobin22(a)tnstate.edu<mailto:crobin22@tnstate.edu>

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DE-CONSTRUCTING THE SMART CITY, REASSEMBLING URBAN LIFE - Call for Abstract
by Maurizio 24 Nov '14

24 Nov '14

Dear All, first, apologies for cross-posting. Second, I point you a session at the forthcoming IAS-STS Conference on the Smart-City narrative and its deconstruction. You can find details at the bottom of this email. Abstracts should include no more than 250 words, comprising detailed contact information, affiliation and specification of the *session* you are referring to. In this case, *SESSION 17: DE-CONSTRUCTING THE SMART CITY, REASSEMBLING URBAN LIFE.* Abstracts should be sent to Michaela Jahrbacher (sts-conf-graz(a)aau.at ) until *January 15**, 2015* as a *DOC/DOCX-file*. More information about the conference: http://www.ifz.tugraz.at/ias/IAS-STS/Upcoming-Activities/Call-for-Abstracts… Thanks for you attention and I hope to see you in Gratz Best M. *---* *SESSION 17: DE-CONSTRUCTING THE SMART CITY, REASSEMBLING URBAN LIFE* *Michela Cozza, Giusi Orabona, Giacomo Poderi, Maurizio Teli*, Department of Information Engineering and Computer Sciences (DISI), University of Trento, Italy Since nearly a decade, the idea of a “Smart City” strongly emerged and rapidly spread in urban planning, political discourse and academia in general. As any successful term, its widespread adoption has attributed it many meanings, almost overlapping with the idea of having digital technologies distributed in the urban environment. On the one hand, such distribution seems to favour the city management related to the transit, traffic and provision of localized services. On the other hand, it could be interpreted as a program of control of the population by the big corporations of the ICT domain (Greenfield 2013). Nevertheless, we are already witnessing tentative appropriations and applications of the “Smart City” ideal into several specific domains which concern urban life: from transportation to welfare services, from active ageing to energy management. As already noted in one of the first and pivotal works on Smart Cities (Hollands, 2008), this concept is usually vaguely defined, biased towards the ICT dimension of urban developments, and often portrayed with enthusiastic, uncritical and entrepreneurial rhetoric. In summary, the concept of “Smart City” hides urban life behind the (often physical) screens of technological efficiency and monitoring social practices. As described, the picture of the “Smart City” is signed by technological determinism, an ideological commitment privileging the private sector, social polarization as an inevitable by-product, missing concerns with class inequality, inclusion and social justice, and the almost clear neo-liberal attempt to incorporate local communities into the entrepreneurial discourse. Such discourse needs to be de-constructed and re-assembled in order to leave space for a more socially aware, distributed effort, that is actually empowering people more than the powerful actor at the political and economic level. Therefore, we welcome contributions that critically examines the concept of a “Smart City” at one or both of the two following levels. At the theoretical level, where the different dimensions and elements of “Smart City” such as ICT, urban planning, societal challenges, are defined, analysed and discussed in relationship to state-of-the-art developments and their respective domains of application (e.g. energy, mobility). At the empirical and practical level, where the actual efforts of designing, implementing and deploying plans for smart cities are critically described, reviewed or assessed. In particular, we welcome contributions able to point at how the “Smart City” can be de-constructed and re-assembled in a more democratic way, supporting urban life instead of neo-liberal narratives. Ultimately, we welcome contributions that look at the “Smart City” from the viewpoints both of the citizens and professionals: reflections that discuss how citizens’ identity and professional practices take part in the construction of the idea of “smartness” are appreciated.

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CFP please post / circulate
by Roderick Coover 23 Nov '14

23 Nov '14

CALL FOR PAPERS,PROPOSALS AND CREATIVE WORK EMERGINGDOCUMENTARY PRACTICES Symposiumand Exhibition Temple University, Friday April 3, 2015 An interdisciplinary one-day symposium andexhibition about how emerging technologies are transforming nonfictionimage-making practices in cinema, art and ethnography. Deadline For Proposals: January 12, 2015. The Department of Film andMedia Arts (FMA) at Temple University is delighted to host a one-day interdisciplinarysymposium on Emerging Documentary Practices. The symposium is particularlyfocused on documentary forms that use interactivity, locativeand mobile technologies in innovative ways to transform the concepts andpractices of documentary cinema and media arts. The symposium welcomesdocumentary practitioners from across fields of social sciences, humanities andarts, from ethnographers to eco-poets. Interweaving choices of content and ofform, a new generation of practitioners is reaching across creative andscholarly disciplines. This symposium embraces this discourse on theoreticaland practical levels. The conversions are presented concurrently with anexhibition of documentary works using interactivity and other innovativepractices. Each session will be launchedwith a 15 minute keynote. Each panelist will have the opportunity to present anelaborated 5 minute "proposition/question/provocation" to the panelto stimulate open conversation. Proposals will be peer reviewed. The symposium is complementedby a multi-kiosk exhibition offering speakers and others opportunities toexhibit works in the curated, peer reviewed show. The kiosks that will beavailable for viewing on the day and throughout the week. Longer papers supportingthe discussions may also be linked, and participants may later be invited forto offer submissions for publication. The symposium is sponsored by TempleUniversity's Department of Film and Media Arts, the Center for Humanities atTemple(CHAT) and Temple Libraries. Primary themes include: · SPATIALPRACTICES e.g. geo-spatial mapping andstorytelling; actual and augmented sites of memory; spatial poetics;infrastructure, industrialization and climate change; actual and imaginarycities. · SOCIALPRACTICES e.g. forging community; bringing diversity and indigenous voices;oral historiesand imagined futures; performing and protesting through social media; usergenerated works. · EMBODIED PERFORMANCE e.g. computer materiality andembodied actions of making, viewing; story-telling through webseries, live feeds and digital happenings; practical implications of usingalternative and interactive software like Korkasow, Mozilla Popcorn, Zeega, orMoviestorm upon how stories are told and image edited; the body as a source ofdata; disembodiment and narrative fracture. PROPOSAL INSTRUCTIONS Proposals for participation, short papers (5 minute "proposition/question/provocation")and the digital exhibition of works on the dedicated kiosks should consist of aproposal statement (max 500 words), aURL if available/relevant, and brief biographic statement (max 150 words). Submissions should be sent inelectronic form to: edocs(a)temple.edu Questions can be directed to FMA Faculty OrganizersRoderick Coover and LeAnn Erickson Conferenceregistration will occur in February. Conference fee is $40 and includes lunch. The fee is waived for Temple students and faculty. __________________ Roderick L. Coover URL: http://www.roderickcoover.com

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CFP Extended: Problematizing Cyber Wars
by Vit Sisler 23 Nov '14

23 Nov '14

Problematizing Cyber Wars Call for Papers CyberOrient: Online Journal of the Virtual Middle East Editor-in-Chief: Daniel Martin Varisco Guest Editor: Helga Tawil-Souri Submission deadline: January 31, 2015 (Full Papers) Aim According to military analysts, since the 1991 Gulf War and even more so since the Hezbollah-Israel 2006 war, we have entered a new phase of warfare, in which kinetic and traditional military power are losing importance to symbolic and media power. Perhaps unsurprisingly given a still-widely held Orientalist view in military circles, many such perspectives revolve around wars and conflicts in the ‘Middle East’ or against ‘Islam’ more broadly – taking place in Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, Israel/Palestine, Syria, but also on cyber networks and mobile phones. While these claims are of course hyperbole, this special issue of CyberOrient invites articles on questions of how we might define wars in a (new) media-age in the region; whether, why, and how (new) media are increasingly sites of warfare; the relationships between ‘virtual’ and ‘real’ battlespaces. Topics could include the significance of targeting (and bombing) telecommunications and media infrastructures; the use of (new) media as outlets for propaganda during wartime; the mediatization of war and the militarization of media; the role of participatory or social media and mobile communications during and in wars; relationships or differences between official, military, alternative, citizen, and grass-roots (new) media uses during war and conflict; the expanding definition of warzones; commemoration and memorialization of war in a digital age; among others. We welcome submissions from across disciplines and methodological approaches that are empirically and critically grounded. About CyberOrient CyberOrient (http://www.cyberorient.net/) is a peer-reviewed journal published by the American Anthropological Association, in collaboration with the Faculty of Arts of Charles University in Prague. The aim of the journal is to provide research and theoretical considerations on the representation of Islam and the Middle East, the very areas that used to be styled as an “Orient”, in cyberspace, as well as the impact of the internet and new media in Muslim and Middle Eastern contexts. Submission Articles should be submitted directly to Helga Tawil-Souri (helga(a)nyu.edu) and Vit Sisler (vit.sisler(a)ff.cuni.cz) Article should be between 6,000 and 8,000 words (including references), and follow the AAA style in referencing and citations. Upon acceptance, articles will be published online with free access in spring 2015. More information can be found here: http://www.cyberorient.net/detail.do?articleId=3682 -- Vit Sisler, Ph.D. Charles University in Prague Faculty of Arts Institute of Information Science and Librarianship New Media Studies http://uisk.jinonice.cuni.cz/sisler/

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CFP: CEPE-IACAP 22-25 June 2015 - University of Delaware
by Mariariosaria Taddeo 23 Nov '14

23 Nov '14

Dear Colleagues, Apologies for cross-posting. Please find below the call for papers of this year CEPE-IACAP Joint Conference CEPE-IACAP 2015 Joint Conference June 22-25 2015 at the University of Delaware Philosophical and ethical enquiries about information technologies, computing, and artificial intelligence have acquired a focal place in the academic and societal debate on the design, development and deployment of technological artefacts. As the issues to be addressed are increasingly complex and interwoven, the need to consider different stakeholders and to endorse both multi- and inter-disciplinary approaches in addressing such problems become more pressing. For this reason, in 2015 INSEIT and IACAP will hold a joint meeting to offer the opportunity to members of both communities to exchange ideas and discuss issues of common interest. The conference will be held on June 22-25 2015 at the University of Delaware and will be hosted by Professor Tom Powers, Department of Philosophy, School of Public Policy and Administration and Delaware Biotechnology Institute, and Director of the Center for Science, Ethics & Public Policy, University of Delaware. This year’s meeting will have a single main track focusing on topics at the core of IACAP and INSEIT member’s interests. Symposia will also be organized and run by members, or member groups, to focus on more specific topics of discussion. We invite submissions of abstract (up to 3000 words) as well as submission of proposals for symposia focusing on ethical and philosophical problems relate to information technologies and computing. A selection of the papers presented during the meeting will be published in a volume of the ‘Synthese Library’ (Springer). The conference theme is open to the following topics: · Artificial Intelligence · Artificial Life · Automated Warfare · Cognitive Science, Computation & Cognition · Computational Modeling in Science and Social Science · Computer-Mediated Communication · Ethical Problems and Societal Impact of Computation and Information · Ethics of Big Data · History of Computing · Information Culture and Society · Metaphysics of Computing · Philosophy of Information · Philosophy of Information Technology · Robotics · Virtual Reality ... and related issues Important dates Papers submission: 2 February 2015 Notification of acceptance: 27 February 2015 Submission full paper for the conference proceedings: 1 August 2015 Symposia submission: 12 January 2014 Notification of acceptance: 2 Fenruary 2015 Submissions should be sent via EasyChair using the following link https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cepeiacap2015 <https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cepeiacap2015> Relevant websites IACAP: http://www.iacap.org <http://www.iacap.org/> INSEIT: http://inseit.net <http://inseit.net/> -- Dr. Mariarosaria Taddeo Research Fellow in Cyber Security and Ethics, PAIS, University of Warwick Research Associate - Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, University of Oxford President, International Association for Computing and Philosophy http://rosariataddeo.net

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CFP: iConference 2015 workshop on Exploring Gender, Race, and Sexuality with Social Media Data
by Oliver Haimson 21 Nov '14

21 Nov '14

*Call for Presenters: iConference 2015 workshop on Exploring Gender, Race, and Sexuality with Social Media Data* *Newport Beach, California, USA. March 24, 2015* Social media data present a powerful opportunity for researchers to explore how they might ask nuanced questions regarding the intersectionality of gender, race, and sexuality. Recent controversies like #Gamergate and the public outcry over research about #BlackTwitter demonstrate the importance of ethical practices and accountability to online communities when conducting social media data analysis. We invite anyone interested in discussing these questions and controversies to join us at this iConference workshop where we will: · Help build a community of researchers working on issues of gender, race, and/or sexuality within the information sciences and related fields. · Create skill-building experiences that enable researchers to collect and analyze social media data to further their own work. · Explore how to analyze social media data ethically and develop practices that respect and engage the sometimes vulnerable and marginalized populations who may have generated the data. · Critically discuss the use of social media data to generate new insights and scholarship. We welcome both new and experienced researchers and encourage participation from a wide range of methodological orientations, including qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methods. *CALL FOR PRESENTERS* Workshop participation is open to all. However, to facilitate the opportunity for a select set of presentations at the workshop, we welcome any interested scholars to submit a position paper, methods paper, or case study. Papers should describe novel and ethical research involving the use of social media data for the exploration of gender, race, and/or sexuality. We particularly welcome submissions from participants dealing with issues of intersectionality. Paper submissions are entirely optional, but if desired should be 2-4 pages in the iConference 2015 format <http://ischools.org/the-iconference/program/author-instructions/#template>. If accepted, authors will be provided with presentation details in advance of the workshop; they will also be invited to share their data for workshop demonstration purposes. We will provide opportunities throughout the workshop for presenters to get feedback on their research from workshop attendees and organizers. Participant papers will be made available on the workshop website <https://iconferencesocialmediadata.wordpress.com/> with author permission. *HOW TO SUBMIT* Email your paper to ohaimson(a)uci.edu by January 16, 2015 at 5pm PST. *TIMELINE* Paper deadline: January 16, 2015 Decision notifications: February 16, 2015 Workshop: March 24, 2015 *ORGANIZERS* Oliver L. Haimson, UC Irvine Amanda Menking, University of Washington Jordan Eschler, University of Washington Ingrid Erickson, Rutgers University Gillian R. Hayes, UC Irvine *CONTACT* Oliver Haimson: ohaimson(a)uci.edu For more information: https://iconferencesocialmediadata.wordpress.com/ <https://iconferencesocialmediadata.wordpress.com/> -- <https://iconferencesocialmediadata.wordpress.com/> <https://iconferencesocialmediadata.wordpress.com/> Oliver L. Haimson PhD Student, Informatics Social & Technological Action Research Group University of California, Irvine <https://iconferencesocialmediadata.wordpress.com/>oliverhaimson.com

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Call: 5th ICTs and Society-Conference: The Internet and Social Media at a Crossroads: Capitalism or Commonism? Perspectives for Critical Political Economy and Critical Theory.
by Christian Fuchs 21 Nov '14

21 Nov '14

5th ICTs and Society-Conference: The Internet and Social Media at a Crossroads: Capitalism or Commonism? Perspectives for Critical Political Economy and Critical Theory. http://icts-and-society.net/events/5th-icts-and-society-conference/ Part of the ISIS Summit Vienna 2015: Information Society at the Crossroads: Response and Responsibility of the Sciences of Information. Vienna University of Technology. Vienna, Austria June 3-7, 2015. The information society has come with the promise to restore information as a commons. The promise has not yet proven true. Instead, we face trends towards the commercialisation and commoditisation of all information; towards the totalisation of surveillance and the extension of the battlefield to civil society through information warfare; towards disinfotainment overflow; towards a collapse of the technological civilisation itself. The Vienna Summit is a multi-conference and is at the same time the 5th ICTs and Society-Conference: The Internet and Social Media at a Crossroads: Capitalism or Commonism? Perspectives for Critical Political Economy and Critical Theory. Given that the information society and the study of information face a world of crisis today and are at a crossroads, also the future of the Internet and social media are in question. The 5th ICTs and Society Conference therefore wants to focus on the questions: What are the main challenges that the Internet and social media are facing in capitalism today? What potentials for an alternative, commonist Internet are there? What are existing hindrances for such an Internet? What is the relationship of power structures, protest movements, societal developments, struggles, radical reforms, etc. to the Internet? How can critical political economy and critical theory best study the Internet and social media today? Presentations and submissions are organised in the form of 23 panel topics (ICT&S1-ICT&S23; please indicate the panel identification number to which you submit in your submisison): * ICT&S1 The Internet and Critical Theory: What does it mean to study the Internet, social media and society today in a critical way? What are Critical Internet Studies, Critical Political Economy and Critical Theories of Social Media? * ICT&S2 The Internet, Karl Marx, and Marxist Theory: How can classical forms of critical theory and critical political economy – e.g. the works of e.g. Karl Marx, the Frankfurt School, Critical Political Economy of the Media and Communication, Critical and Marxist Cultural Studies, Socialist Feminism, Theories of Imperialism, Raymond Williams’ cultural materialism, etc – be used for understanding the Internet and social media today? * ICT&S3 The Internet, Commodities and Capitalism: What is the role of the Internet and social media in the context of the commodity logic in contemporary capitalism? * ICT&S4 The Political Economy of Online Advertising How can we best critically understand, analyse and combat the role of advertising on the Internet and the role of online advertising in capitalism? What are the problems of online advertising culture? How would a world without advertising and an advertising-free Internet look like? * ICT&S5 The Internet and Power: How do power structures, exploitation, domination, class, digital labour, commodification of the communication commons, ideology, and audience/user commodification, and surveillance shape the Internet and social media? What is the relationship of exploitation and domination on the Internet? * ICT&S6 Raymond Williams’ Cultural Materialism and the Internet: How can we use theoretical insights from Raymond Williams’ cultural materialism for critically understanding the Internet and social media today? * ICT&S7 Dallas Smythe and the Internet: How can we use insights from Dallas Smythe’s political economy of communication for critically understanding the Internet and social media today? * ICT&S8 Critical Cultural Studies Today: Stuart Hall, Richard Hoggart and the Internet: What is the legacy of Stuart Hall and Richard Hoggart’s versions of cultural studies for critically understanding the Internet? What kind of cultural studies do we need in the 21st century? And what is in this context the relationship of culture and capitalism and the relationship of critical cultural studies to Marxist theory? * ICT&S9 The Frankfurt School and the Internet: How can insights of various generations of the Frankfurt School be used for critically theorising the Internet? What are commonalities and differences between a Frankfurt School approach and other forms of critical theory for understanding the Internet? * ICT&S10 Marxist Semiotics, Marxist Linguistics, Critical Psychology, Marxism and the Internet: How can Marxist semiotics and Marxist theories of language, information, psychology and communication (e.g. Ferruccio Rossi-Landi, Valentin Voloshinov, Klaus Holzkamp, Georg Klaus, Lev Vygotsky, Aleksei Leontiev, Mikhail Bakhtin, etc.) be used today for critically understanding the Internet? * ICT&S11 The Internet and Global Capitalism: What is the role of the Internet and social media in contemporary global capitalism? What is the role of developing countries, especially Africa, and emerging economies such as China and India in the world of the Internet and social media? * ICT&S12 The Internet and Neoliberalism with Chinese Characteristics: Chinese WWW platforms such as Baidu, Taobao, Qq, Sina, Weibo, etc. are besides Californian platforms the most prominent ones on the web. What is the role of social media in Chinese capitalism? What is the role of the Internet in networked working class struggles in China? * ICT&S13 The Political Economy of Digital Labour: What is digital labour and how do exploitation and surplus-value generation work on the Internet? Which forms of exploitation and class structuration do we find on the Internet, how do they work, what are their commonalities and differences? How does the relation between toil and play change in a digital world? How do classes and class struggles look like in 21st century informational capitalism? * ICT&S14 The Political Economy of the Internet and the Capitalist State Today: How does the relationship of capitalism, state power, and the Internet look like today? What is the role of state surveillance and surveillance ideologies in policing the crisis of capitalism? How does the relationship of the Internet and state power’s various forms of regulation, control, repression, violence and surveillance look like and what is the influence of capitalism on state power and vice versa in the context of the Internet? * ICT&S15 Ideology Critique 2.0: Ideologies of and on the Internet: What are ideologies of and on the Internet, web 2.0, and social media, how do they work, and how can they be deconstructed and criticised? * ICT&S16 Hegel 2.0: Dialectical Philosophy and the Internet: What contradictions, conflicts, ambiguities, and dialectics shape 21st century information society and social media? How can we use Hegel and Marxist interpretations of Hegel for critically understanding Internet dialectics? * ICT&S17 Capitalism and Open Access Publishing: What changes has academic publishing been undergoing in contemporary capitalism? What are the potentials of academic open access publishing for the re-organisation of the publishing world ? What problems do non-commercial open access publishing face in capitalism and capitalist academia? How can these problems be overcome? What are the problems of capitalist forms of open access publishing? What progressive political measures and demands should be made in order to foster non-commercial open access publishing? * ICT&S18 Class Struggles, Social Struggles and the Internet: What is the role of counter-power, resistance, struggles, social movements, civil society, rebellions, uproars, riots, revolutions, and political transformations in 21st century information society and how (if at all) are they connected to social media? What struggles are needed in order to establish a commonist Internet and a 21st century democratic-commonist society? How can we use critical theory for interpreting phenomena such as online leaking, Edward Snowden, WikiLeaks, Wikipedia, federated social networks, Anonymous, hacktivism, Pirate Parties, privacy advocates, the free/libre/open source (FLOSS) movement, the open source, open hardware and open content movement, etc., and what is the relationships of such political expressions to capitalism, anti-capitalism, liberalism, and socialism? * ICT&S19 Critical/Radical Internet Studies, the University and Academia Today: What are the challenges and problems for teaching and conducting research about the Internet a critical and radical perspective? What can be done to overcome existing limits and problems? * ICT&S20 The Internet and the Left: How could a 21st century Left best look like and what is the role of the Internet for such a Left? What is the historical, contemporary, and possible future relationship of Critical Internet Studies and the Left? What is the role of the Internet in left-wing movements? What problems do such movements face in relation to the media, communications, the Internet, and social media? * ICT&S21 Anti-Capitalist Feminism and the Internet Today: What is the role of and relationship of identity politics and anti-capitalism for feminist studies of the Internet today? How can we best study capitalist patriarchy in the context of the Internet and social media? * ICT&S22 The Internet, Right-Wing Extremism and Fascism Today: How do far-right movements and parties use the Internet and social media? How should a left-wing anti-fascist strategy that combats online right-wing extremism look like? * ICT&S23 An Alternative Internet: What is a commonist/communist Internet? What is an alternative Internet? What are alternative social media? How do they relate to the commons and commonism as a 21st century form of communism? Which problems do alternative Internet platforms face? What needs to be done in order to overcome these problems? Online SUBMISSION: http://sciforum.net/conference/isis-summit-vienna-2015/icts http://sciforum.net/conference/isis-summit-vienna-2015/page/instructions Please submit an extended abstract of 750-2000 words: First register and then select the conference “ISIS Summit Vienna 2015” and the conference stream “ICTS 2015” Only one submission per person will be considered Please indicate the number/ID of the panel to which you are submitting at the start of your abstract (ICTSxx). Submissions without panel identifier or that fall outside the topics covered by the 23 panels will not be further considered. Submission deadline: February 27, 2015 Registration Fee: 120 Euros (early bird registration in the ICTs and Society conference stream, registration no later than April 3, 2015)

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Re: [Air-L] Air-L Digest, Vol 124, Issue 18
by David Nieborg 21 Nov '14

21 Nov '14

http://icts-and-society.net/events/5th-icts-and-society-conference/ 2014-11-20 0:00 GMT+01:00 <air-l-request(a)listserv.aoir.org>: > Send Air-L mailing list submissions to > air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > air-l-request(a)listserv.aoir.org > > You can reach the person managing the list at > air-l-owner(a)listserv.aoir.org > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of Air-L digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. #SMSociety15: Social Media & Society Conference - Call for > Submissions (Anatoliy Gruzd) > 2. Vacancy: Linked Data Postdoctoral Researcher, Dublin, > Deadline: Nov 28 at noon GMT (Natalie Harrower) > 3. Assistant Professor of Media Studies - Niagara University > (Doug Tewksbury) > 4. Request for Survey Participation (Theo Plothe) > 5. CeDEM15 - Call for Papers (Caroline Haythornthwaite) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2014 23:25:41 -0400 > From: Anatoliy Gruzd <agruzd(a)gmail.com> > To: air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org > Subject: [Air-L] #SMSociety15: Social Media & Society Conference - > Call for Submissions > Message-ID: <546C0DB5.7050808(a)gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed > > (Apologies for cross-posting) > > ------------------------------------ > 6th Annual International > Social Media & Society Conference > Toronto, Canada > July 27-29, 2015 > http://SocialMediaAndSociety.com/ > ------------------------------------ > Call for Submissions > > Academic research on social media is growing exponentially across > various disciplines including: Communications, Information / Library > Science, Computer Science, Business, Sociology, Education, Psychology, > Health and others. The Web of Science alone indexed nearly 5,000 journal > and conference publications over the last decade. This growing body of > research revealed many interesting factors about social media platforms, > their users, and a glimpse of our society at large. But are we any > closer to understanding the broader implications of social media on our > increasing networked society? > > The 2015 Social Media & Society Conference (#SMSociety15) invites > scholarly and original submissions that build on the previous work and > critically evaluate the role of social media for social and political > change, community engagement, marketing, new forms of governance, > support of individuals and organizations in domains such as business, > information, management, public administration, academia, health, and > journalism (just to mention a few). We are also calling for submissions > that develop and apply novel methods and theories to collect, analyze, > and visualize social media data as well as those that discuss ethical > and privacy implications of using big and small data. We welcome both > quantitative and qualitative work in the broad area of Social Media & > Society that crosses interdisciplinary boundaries and expands our > understanding of the current and future trends in social media. > > Whether you are just starting a new research project or ready to report > on the final results, you will find that #SMSociety15 is a great venue > for you! The 2015 conference invites a wide range of submissions: > - short papers on completed or well-developed projects (Due: March 2, 2015) > - work-in-progress paper abstracts (Due: April 10, 2015), > - panel discussions (Due: March 2, 2015) > - poster presentations (Due: May 1, 2015). > > New to this year, we are also calling for proposals to host: > - half-day workshops (Due: February 2, 2015) on a well-defined area or > technical tutorials that will examine a particular method or tool for > the analysis of social media data in more detail > > PUBLISHING OPPORTUNITIES > All accepted short papers will be published in the Conference > Proceedings by the ACM International Conference Proceeding Series > (ICPS). Authors of accepted top papers will be invited to submit their > full papers to the special issue of the Information, Communication & > Society journal (published by Taylor & Francis). > > BACKGROUND > The Social Media & Society Conference is an annual gathering of leading > social media researchers from around the world. Now, in its 6th year, > the 2015 Conference will be held in Toronto, Canada from July 27 to 29, > 2015. From its inception, the conference has focused on the best > practices for studying the impact and implications of social media on > society. Organized by the Social Media Lab at Ryerson University, the > conference provides attendees an opportunity to exchange ideas, present > their original research, learn about recently completed and > work-in-progress studies, and strengthen connections with their peers. > The 2014 conference hosted over 200 attendees, featured research from > 238 authors across several fields from 21 different countries. > > TOPICS OF INTEREST > Social Media & Small Data > ? Case Studies of Online Communities Formed on Social Media > ? Case Studies of Offline Communities that Rely on Social Media > ? Sampling Issues > ? Value of Small Data > > Social Media & Big Data > ? Visualization of Social Media Data > ? Social Media Data Mining > ? Scalability Issues & Social Media Data > ? Social Media Analytics > ? Ethics of Big Data > > Social Media Impact on Society > ? Private Self/Public Self > ? The Sharing/Attention Economy > ? Virality & Memes > ? Political Mobilization & Engagement > ? Social Media & Health > ? Social Media & Business (Marketing, PR, HR, Risk Management, etc.) > ? Social Media & Academia (Alternative Metrics, Learning Analytics, etc.) > ? Social Media & Public Administration > ? Social Media & the News > > Theories & Methods > ? Qualitative & Quantitative Approaches > ? Opinion Mining & Sentiment Analysis > ? Social Network Analysis > ? Theoretical Models for Studying, Analysing and Understanding Social Media > > Online/Offline Communities > ? Trust & Credibility in Social Media > ? Online Community Detection > ? Influential User Detection > ? Online Identity > > Social Media & Mobile > ? App-ification of the Society > ? Privacy & Security Issues in the Mobile World > ? Apps for the Social Good > ? Networking Apps > > PROGRAM COMMITTEE > The list of the Program Committee members is available at > https://socialmediaandsociety.com/?page_id=1346 > > CONFERENCE ORGANIZING COMMITTEE > Anatoliy Gruzd > Associate Professor, Ted Rogers School of Management > Director, Social Media Lab > Ryerson University, Canada > Twitter: @gruzd > > Barry Wellman > Professor & Director, NetLab > University of Toronto, Canada > Twitter: @barrywellman > > Philip H. Mai > Manager of Academic Communications > Ryerson University, Canada > Twitter: @phmai > > Jenna Jacobson > PhD Candidate, Faculty of Information (iSchool) > University of Toronto, Canada > Twitter: @jacobsonjenna > > > For further inquiries, please contact Dr. Anatoliy Gruzd at > gruzd(a)ryerson.ca > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2014 11:41:00 +0000 > From: Natalie Harrower <N.Harrower(a)ria.ie> > To: "air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org" <air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org> > Subject: [Air-L] Vacancy: Linked Data Postdoctoral Researcher, Dublin, > Deadline: Nov 28 at noon GMT > Message-ID: > <5585E44E50865845A21532E164B566182DBB34FD(a)RIAEXCH01.royal.local> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > Dear AoIR: > > Please circulate! > > Post Title: Linked Data Postdoctoral Researcher > Post Location: Digital Repository of Ireland, Royal Irish Academy, Dublin, > Ireland > Position: Contract Post: full-time for 10 months > Closing Date for applications: Friday 28th November 2014 at 12 noon. > Full job spec: > http://www.ria.ie/About/Human-Resources/Vacancies/Linked-Data-Postdoctoral-… > > _________________ > > Dr. Natalie Harrower | Manager, Education and Outreach | Digital > Repository of Ireland > Royal Irish Academy | 19 Dawson St. Dublin 2 > n.harrower(a)ria.ie | @natalieharrower | @dri_ireland | www.dri.ie > > > The Royal Irish Academy is subject to the Freedom of Information Acts 1997 > & 2003 and is compliant with the provisions of the Data Protection Acts > 1988 & 2003. For further information see our website www.ria.ie > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 3 > Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2014 10:03:52 -0500 > From: Doug Tewksbury <dtewksbury(a)niagara.edu> > To: "air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org" <air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org> > Subject: [Air-L] Assistant Professor of Media Studies - Niagara > University > Message-ID: <D0921B88.15507%dtewksbury(a)niagara.edu> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" > > POSITION ANNOUNCEMENT > > Tenure-Track Assistant Professor of Media Studies > Niagara University > Starting Fall 2015 > > The Department of Communication Studies at Niagara University is seeking a > tenure-track Assistant Professor of Media Studies to begin in fall 2015. > > Responsibilities: Candidates should be able to teach a variety of courses > in both digital journalism and multimedia production, with a focus on how > these media can be used to promote social justice. The teaching load is a > 3/3, with a maximum class size of 35. An active program of research, > potential for scholarly publication, and service to the university, the > profession and the community are expected. The successful candidate is > expected to participate in departmental and university duties, including > student advising and committee work. A Ph.D. in a Communication or Media > Studies discipline is required by the time of appointment. > > About the Department: The Department of Communication Studies at Niagara > University has a curriculum built on principles of social justice and seeks > to instill in its students the important contribution that mass media can > play in bettering the human condition. The program is designed to give > students a strong background in both the liberal arts and professional > approaches with respect to mass media. Niagara University, founded in 1856, > is a private Catholic institution sponsored by the Vincentian community. > The University overlooks the Niagara River on the U.S.-Canada border, just > north of Niagara Falls, NY, and is in close proximity to Buffalo, > Rochester, and Toronto. > > To Apply: > > You may apply online at jobs.niagara.edu, which will require you to > upload (1) a letter of interest, (2) C.V., (3) teaching philosophy (4) > research sample (5) the names and contact information of three references. > Letters of reference will be requested from shortlisted candidates. Review > of applications will begin on January 1st, 2015. > > Please direct any questions regarding this position to Dr. Doug Tewksbury > at dtewksbury(a)niagara.edu<mailto:dtewksbury@niagara.edu> > > Niagara University is an affirmative action/equal opportunity employer. > Individuals identifying with historically marginalized populations are > particularly encouraged to apply. > > > ? > Doug Tewksbury, Ph.D. > > Assistant Professor > Communication Studies Department > Niagara University > PO Box 1922 > Niagara University, NY 14109 > > p: 716.286.8338 > e: dtewksbury(a)niagara.edu<mailto:dtewksbury@niagara.edu> > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 4 > Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2014 15:16:26 -0500 > From: Theo Plothe <tp6316a(a)student.american.edu> > To: Air-L(a)listserv.aoir.org > Subject: [Air-L] Request for Survey Participation > Message-ID: > <CAOzAoFF8e_YYM4YZqTgygZuq6= > qYvSn1dBfDfyvaPBqAHrL8qw(a)mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 > > Hello everyone, > > I am recruiting participants for an online survey as part of my > dissertation. If you play digital games or identify as a gamer, please > participate in a short Qualtrics survey. It'll take 5-10 minutes, it's > anonymous, and your assistance will not only be greatly appreciated, but > will help researchers understand how players experience digital games as a > medium. > > Here is the link to the survey: *http://bit.ly/1qKXOrs* > <http://t.co/Ey9I0Bl40u> > > Thank you so much for your participation! > > *Please feel free to share this survey to any one you feel may be > interested. * > > If you have any questions please email the principal researcher, Theo > Plothe > at tp6316a(a)student.america.edu > > Thank you again! > > -- > Theo Plothe > Ph.D. Candidate > Games Studies, Remix Culture and Sports > American University School of Communication > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 5 > Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2014 14:34:31 -0800 > From: Caroline Haythornthwaite <c.haythorn(a)ubc.ca> > To: "<air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org>" <air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org> > Subject: [Air-L] CeDEM15 - Call for Papers > Message-ID: <AC1B9CC8-7F47-48EC-9F50-57329BEEFF18(a)ubc.ca> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > > > Begin forwarded message: > > > From: Peter Parycek <peter.parycek(a)donau-uni.ac.at> > > > > The deadline for the submissions is nearing quickly (8 December 2014), > so we kindly ask you to disseminate the CeDEM15 CfP in your networks, to > your students (we have a PhD Colloquium and grants for them too), > colleagues, etc. You are welcome to use the text below, forward the whole > CfP or focus on your track in particular (copy & paste from the cfp)! Will > you be submitting a paper? > > > > CeDEM15 Conference for E-Democracy and Open Government 20 - 22 May 2015 > > > > www.donau-uni.ac.at/cedem > > > > The international Conference for e-Democracy and Open Government brings > together e-democracy, e-participation and open government specialists > working in academia, politics, government and business from to critically > analyse the innovations, issues, ideas and challenges in the networked > societies of the digital age. > > > > Tracks at CeDEM15 include: > > *E-Democracy and E-Participation > > *E-Voting > > *Bottom-Up Movements > > *Social and Mobile Media for Public Administration > > *Open Collaborative Government > > *Democracy, Globalization and Migration > > *Connected Smart City > > *Open Data, Transparency and Open Innovation > > *Technology and Architecture > > *Self-governance in Complex Networks > > *Rethinking Information Visualization for the People > > *Freedom and Ethics in Digital Societies > > *Design and Co-creation for E-democracy > > *Citizen's Participation in Democratic Governance Processes through ICT > in Africa > > *Open Access > > > > ..... at CeDEM15 you can also submit papers for the: > > *PhD Colloquium > > *Workshop Proposals > > *Reflections > > *Open Space > > > > .... and we are pleased to offer PhD students bursaries: > > *3 bursaries for the best PhD submissions: a 3-day conference fee waiver > and accommodation at the Kolping Hotel (Krems) for the duration of the > CeDEM15 conference > > *3 bursaries: a 3-day conference fee waiver http://bit.ly/1mqhBPV > > > > Our confirmed keynotes are: > > Alon Peled (Hebew University of Jerusalem, Israel) > > Theresa A. Pardo (University at Albany, USA) > > Marijn Janssen (Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands) > > Shauneen Furlong (University of Toronto and University of Ottawa, Canada) > > > > .... and finally: > > *Co-located with CeDEM15 will be the 4th SharePSI Workshop. Share-PSI > 2.0 is a EU funded project for the exchange of experience and ideas around > implementing open data policies in the public sector. Attendees of CeDEM 15 > will be granted free entrance to the SharePSI public meetings and > presentations. For more information about SharePSI see the projects website > http://www.w3.org/2013/share-psi/ > > > > Important Dates: > > *Deadline for the submission of all papers, workshop proposals, > reflections: 8 December 2014 > > *Notification of acceptance: 9 February 2015 > > *Camera-ready paper submission: 2 March 2015 > > > > > > Looking forward to seeing you there! > > > > Peter > > > > > > ------------------------------ > > Subject: Digest Footer > > _______________________________________________ > The Air-L(a)listserv.aoir.org mailing list > is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org > Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: > http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org > > Join the Association of Internet Researchers: > http://www.aoir.org/ > > ------------------------------ > > End of Air-L Digest, Vol 124, Issue 18 > ************************************** > -- dr. David B. 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IS-EUD 2015 Call for Participation
by Patrick Shih 21 Nov '14

21 Nov '14

[Apologies for cross-postings. Please send to interested colleagues and students] IS-EUD 2015 CALL FOR PARTICIPATION http://www.iseud.net/ ********************************************************************* 5th Symposium on End User Development: My world, my device, my program Madrid, 26-29 May 2015 ********************************************************************* * THEME * In an increasingly connected world, we use computer technology in more and more of our work practices and everyday routines. End users face the challenge of adapting and combining these devices and technologies for their potentially various and differing purposes, and engage in creative, often collaborative, activities to make the infrastructures fit their practice. End-user development has established itself as a research discipline that connects the ergonomics of programming with the users’ needs and abilities to shape the technological infrastructures they live in. The research does not aim at making everybody a programmer, but at allowing everybody to be in control of the technologies they live and work with at a degree of complexity of their choice. This includes improving the concepts and interfaces for programming and configuration as well as supporting end users in their activities to share, delegate and collaborate. The IS-EUD 2015 in Madrid welcomes researchers and practitioners interested in exploring innovative, creative, simpler and more empowered ways of ideating, infrastructuring, configuring, adapting and programming our modern IT infrastructures at home and at work. We look at devices like smartphones, dishwashers, smart TVs, robots, cars, wearable IT, houses and laptops, and we look at practices and milieus like engineering, shopfloor, hackspaces, fab labs, app programming, e-health, e-mobility, e-democracy and energy efficient IT, and aim at improving tools, interfaces, processes and methods that support user-driven innovation. The conference welcomes contributions that − describe new, simple and efficient interfaces for adaptation and programming, − describe new approaches for more flexible software and device architectures, − describe new processes and methods to approach complex scenarios of infrastructuring, − present studies and design implications on challenges and practices of end user development and user creativity. In this edition we aim at opening the conference to the end users with a new category of contributions called the EUD playground where a plethora of interactive activities can be planned, from studios, to hackatons, to whatever format that invites end users to try out technologies devised for them. * SCOPE AND TOPICS * Authors are invited to submit manuscripts of original unpublished work in all areas related to EUD. Long papers may address work on cognitive and design aspects, underlying theories, formal methods, taxonomies, implementation efforts, tool support, and empirical studies. Short papers that present work in progress or demonstrations of tools are also solicited. Specific topics addressed include (but are not limited to) the following ones: − EUD in everyday life − EUD in specific fields of application − Device ecologies to enable EUD activities − EUD methodologies and approaches − End user participation in Co-Design and Co-Production of software − Supporting collaboration in EUD settings − EUD technologies, frameworks and tools − Recommender systems to support EUD − Collaborative Software Development − Cultures of Participation and Meta-design − EUD and Open Source − Web 2.0 and mash-up technologies enabling EUD − Strategies to foster EUD in software development companies − EUD cost-benefit models − EUD and crowdsourcing − EUD for supporting device sustainability − Usability and UX evaluation of EUD systems * LONG AND SHORT PAPERS * We invite two different types of paper submissions: (a) long papers, up to 16 pages, describing original unpublished research; (b) short papers, up to 6 pages, describing original unpublished research, whose results are more preliminary or less validated than for long papers. All submissions will be reviewed by the Program Committee. Accepted papers (both long and short) will appear in the proceedings of IS-EUD 2015, published by Springer as Lecture Notes on Computer Science (LNCS). Short papers will be presented at the conference as poster or live demo in a specific session. Submission The review process is double-blind, thus submissions must be anonymized. Papers must be carefully formatted according to the Springer LNCS format (http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0) Paper title, authors and affiliations, abstract and keywords/topics, must be submitted by December 15, 2014 to aid in reviewer assignments. Authors may submit and update their submission through the EasyChair system (http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iseud2015) until the paper submission deadline. Important dates − Abstract submission: December 15, 2014 − Paper submission: December 22, 2014 − Notification: February 20, 2015 − Camera-ready: March 9, 2015 * WORK-IN-PROGRESS * Work-in-progress (WIP) submissions are intended for presenting preliminary results. The authors of accepted contributions will have the opportunity to display a poster and explain their work to other conference attendees during the conference. Accepted Work-in-progress contributions will be published in a dedicated issue of the “International Reports on Socio-Informatics” series and will be available online at http://irsi.iisi.de. The issue has its own ISSN. Submission Authors may submit and update their contribution (up to 4 pages) through the EasyChair system (http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iseud2015) until the deadline. Important dates − Submission: March 6, 2015 − Notification: March 20, 2015 − Camera-ready: March 27, 2015 * EUD-PLAYGROUND * This year, IS-EUD invites proposal for hands-on sessions to be held in parallel tracks, as part of the main conference program, on the afternoon of Thursday, May 28th, 2015. The “End-Users’ Playground” will be open to the general public, thus offering a unique scenario in which (a) wider categories of the public will create, modify and extend technologies with the tools researchers have developed for their needs and (b) researchers can obtain feedback directly from end users. The Playground aims at inspiring new perspectives on the field of End-User Development. It will be an excellent opportunity for organizers to share their tools with other researchers and to engage the end-users at the same time, in order to broaden the scope of their research practices. A successful Playground activity, therefore, will offer direct hands-on experiences with new and cutting-edge end-user development technologies, both for conference attendees and non-professionals. Playground activities should accommodate a maximum of 20 participants each, with a minimum of 5 participants required to run the activity and they are open to anyone (conference attendees and the general public). Each activity will last a maximum of 4 hours. For each Playground activity, we request a short proposal (up to 4 pages). Accepted proposals will be published in the Conference Proceedings. Organizers are also strongly encouraged to arrange for posterior publications of a Playground activity’s output. Submission guidelines Submit a proposal formatted according according to the Springer LNCS format (http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0) The proposal should be structured accorded to the following: 1. Abstract (150 words maximum) 2. Topics to be covered and their relevance to the EUD community 3. Detailed description of the planned hands-on activity (e.g., how the tool will be introduced to the participants, a scenario of the activity in text or in visual format, a tasks list, a description of the organization of participants in the groups, etc.). You may include diagrams or screenshots if relevant. 4. Objectives and learning goals for the activity 5. Supporting documentation (e.g., project website) 6. References Please add an additional page in which you indicate: 1. Short biographical statement(s) of organizer(s) 2. Cost of material and hardware, if any (per participant, with list of individual items) 3. Logistics requirements: space, equipment, video/audio, specialized tools, etc. 4. Selection criteria and expected number of participants 5. Expected length (up to 4 hours) Submission Organizers may submit and update their proposal through the EasyChair system (http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iseud2015) until the proposal submission deadline. Important dates − Proposal: January 26, 2015 − Notification: February 28, 2015 − Camera-ready: March 9, 2015 * WORKSHOPS * High quality workshops, aligned to the themes of the conference, provide an informal setting where participants have the opportunity to discuss specific topics in an atmosphere that fosters the active exchange of ideas. Submission Workshop proposals (up to 4 pages) must be carefully formatted using the Springer LNCS format (http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0) Workshop organizers may submit and update their workshop proposal through the EasyChair system (http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iseud2015) until the deadline. Important dates − Proposal: January 26, 2015 − Notification: February 9, 2015 − Camera-ready: March 9, 2015 − Workshops date: May 26, 2015 * DOCTORAL CONSORTIUM * The IS-EUD Doctoral Consortium is intended to bring together PhD students working on theory and application of EUD. We particularly encourage students that are somewhere in the middle of their research to submit to this workshop. Submission Applications to the Doctoral Consortium (up to 4 pages) must be carefully formatted the Springer LNCS format (http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0) Authors may submit and update their submission through the EasyChair system (http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iseud2015) until the submission deadline. Important dates − Submission: January 15, 2015 − Notification: February 28, 2015 − Camera-ready: March 9, 2015 * VENUE * The Symposium will take place at Media-Lab Prado and the Leganés Campus of Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. The Workshops and the Doctoral Consortium will be held at the University Campus in Leganés, a city in the south of Madrid connected through public transportation to the city center (see location http://goo.gl/maps/ePQLV) The main track of the conference including the Playground will take place at Media-Lab Prado in Madrid downtown (see location at http://goo.gl/maps/OgFTF) * ORGANIZERS * Conference chairs − Paloma Diaz, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain − Volkmar Pipek, Siegen University, Germany Program chairs (Full Papers) − Carmelo Ardito, University of Bari, Italy − Carlos Jensen, Oregon State University, US Program chairs (Short Papers) − Ignacio Aedo, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain − Alexander Boden, Fraunhofer FIT, Germany EUD-Playground chairs − Andrea Bellucci, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain − Lily Diaz, Aalto University, Finland − Monica Maceli, Drexel University, US Industrial Liaison chairs − Marcos García, MediaLab-Prado, Spain − Alex Jaimes Larrate, Yahoo Labs, US/Spain/India − Boris De Ruyter, Philips Research Europe, The Netherlands Workshop chairs − Daniela Fogli, University of Brescia, Italy − Yvonne Dittrich, IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark Doctoral Consortium chairs − Clarisse de Souza, PUC-Rio, Brazil − Panos Markopoulos, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands − Simone Stumpf, City University London, UK Publicity chairs − Patrick Shih, Pennsylvania State University, US − Teresa Onorati, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain Local arrangement chair − Telmo Zarraonandia, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain * STEERING COMMITTEE * − Margaret Burnett, Oregon State University, US − Maria Francesca Costabile, University of Bari, Italy − Boris De‎ Ruyter, Philips Research Europe, The Netherlands − Yvonne Dittrich, IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark − Gerhard Fischer, University of Colorado, US − Anders Mørch, University of Oslo, Norway − Antonio Piccinno, University of Bari, Italy − Volkmar Pipek, Siegen University, Germany − Mary Beth Rosson, Pennsylvania State University, US − David Redmiles, University of California, US − Gunnar Stevens, Siegen University, Germany − Volker Wulf, Siegen University, Germany For more information, look at http://www.iseud.net/ ________________________________________________________ Dr. Patrick C. Shih College of Information Sciences and Technology The Pennsylvania State University ________________________________________________________

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