- Air-L - lists.aoir.org

New Publication - Gender and digital usage inequality among adolescents: A comparative study of 39 countries
by Tomasz Drabowicz 11 Mar '14

11 Mar '14

Dear all, I would like to inform you about my paper: "Gender and digital usage inequality among adolescents: A comparative study of 39 countries." It will be published in the May issue of Computers & Education. If your institution does not subscribe to this journal, please drop me a line. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.compedu.2014.01.016 <http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.compedu.2014.01.016> Apologies for cross-posting. Yours faithfully, tom

1 0

CFP: The 2014 International Conference on Adaptive & Intelligent Systems - ICAIS'14 | Bournemouth, UK
by icais 11 Mar '14

11 Mar '14

[Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- * * * CALL FOR PAPERS * * * The 2014 International Conference on Adaptive & Intelligent Systems - ICAIS'14 September 08th - 10th, 2014 Bournemouth, UK http://computing.bournemouth.ac.uk/ICAIS/ icais(a)bournemouth.ac.uk Sponsored by - IEEE Computational Intelligence Society - The International Neural Network Society -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- * * * PLENARY TALKS * * * Prof. Ludmila I Kuncheva, Bangor University, UK (Talk: Feature Extraction for Change Detection) Prof. João Gama, University of Porto Porto, Portugal (Talk: Distributed Data Stream Mining) * * * AIMS OF THE CONFERENCE * * * The ICAIS'14 conference aims at bringing together international researchers, developers and practitioners from different horizons to discuss the latest advances in system learning and adaptation. ICAIS'14 will serve as a space to present the current state of the art but also future research avenues of this thematic. Topics of the conference cover three aspects: Algorithms & theories of adaptation and learning, Adaptation issues in Software & System Engineering, Real- world Applications. ICAIS'14 will feature contributed papers as well as world-renowned guest speakers (see webpage), interactive breakout sessions, and instructional workshops. * * * IMPORTANT DATES * * * - Workshop & Special Session proposal: April 13, 2014 - Full paper submission: June 10, 2014 - Acceptance notification: July 01, 2014 - Final camera ready: July 11, 2014 * * * CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS * * * Proceedings will be published by Springer in Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence Series. * * * SPECIAL ISSUES / BOOK * * * A selected number of accepted and personally presented papers will be considered for possible inclusion in one of the following special issues or book: - Special Issue of Evolving Systems (Springer) on Clustering and Classification in Dynamic Environments. - Special Issue of Neurocomputing (Elsevier) on Neurocompting for Dynamically Changing Systems. - Book in the Series of Studies in Computational Intelligence (Springer). * * * MAIN TOPICS (but not limited to) * * * - Track 1: Self-X Systems o Self-adaptation o Self-organization and behavior emergence o Self-managing o Self-healing o Self-monitoring o Multi-agent systems o Self-X software agents o Self-X robots o Self-organizing sensor networks o Evolving systems - Track 2: Incremental Learning o Online incremental learning o Self-growing neural networks o Adaptive and life-long learning o Plasticity and stability o Forgetting o Unlearning o Novelty detection o Perception and evolution o Drift handling o Adaptation in changing environments - Track 3: Online Processing o Adaptive rule-based systems o Adaptive identification systems o Adaptive decision systems o Adaptive preference learning o Time series prediction o Online and single-pass data mining o Online classification o Online clustering o Online regression o Online feature selection and reduction o Online information routing - Track 4: Dynamic and Evolving Models in Computational Intelligence o (Dynamic) Neural networks architectures o (Dynamic) Evolutionary computation o (Dynamic) Swarm intelligence o (Dynamic) Immune and bacterial systems o Uncertainty and fuzziness modeling for adaptation o Approximate reasoning and adaptation o Chaotic systems - Track 5: Software & System Engineering o Autonomic computing o Organic computing o Evolution o Adaptive software architecture o Software change o Software agents o Engineering of complex systems o Adaptive software engineering processes o Component-based development - Track 6: Applications - Adaptivity and Learning o Smart systems o Ambient / ubiquitous environments o Distributed intelligence o Robotics o Industrial applications o Internet applications o Business applications o Supply chain management o etc. * * * SUBMISSION * * * Papers must be in PDF, not exceeding 10 pages and conforming to Springer-Verlag Lecture Notes guidelines. Author instructions and style files can be downloaded at http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html. Papers must be submitted through the submission system ( http://computing.bournemouth.ac.uk/ICAIS ). Short papers describing novel research visions, work-in-progress or less mature results are also welcome. All submission will be peer-reviewed by at least 3 qualified reviewers. Selection criteria will include: relevance, significance, impact, originality, technical soundness, and quality of presentation. Preference will be given to submissions that take strong or challenging positions on important emergent topics. At least one author have to attend the conference to present the paper. * * * ORGANIZATION COMMITTEE * * * General Chair: - Abdelhamid Bouchachia, Bournemouth University, UK International Advisory Committee: - Nikola Kasabov, Auckland University, New Zealand - Xin Yao, University of Birmingham, UK - Djamel Ziou, University of Sherbrooke, Canada - Plamen Angelov, University of Lancaster, UK - Witold Pedrycz, University of Edmonton, Canada - Janusz Kacprzyk, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland Organization Committee: - Hammadi Nait-Charif, Bournemouth University, UK - Emili Balaguer-Ballester, Bournemouth University, UK - Damien Fay, Bournemouth University, UK - Jane McAlpine, Bournemouth University, UK Publicity Chair: - Markus Prossegger, Carinthia University of Applied Sciences, Austria

1 0

AEJMC Equity & Diversity Award deadline extended to April 8, 2014
by Aikat, Debashis 11 Mar '14

11 Mar '14

The Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC) is seeking nominations (applications and self-nominations are welcome) for the 2014 AEJMC Equity & Diversity Award, which recognizes academic units that are working toward, and have attained demonstrable success in increasing equity and diversity. Read the award call at http://www.aejmc.org/home/2013/10/aejmc-equity-diversity-award/ The application deadline is 5 p.m. Eastern time, April 8, 2014. We extended the AEJMC Equity & Diversity Award submission deadline to April 8, 2014 in response to requests for more time from several schools. We also realize that extreme winter weather has disrupted work schedules in United States regions that are home to our member schools. While we are happy to extend the deadline, early submissions are always welcome. Please address any questions to me, Deb Aikat <da(a)unc.edu>, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Cordially, Deb ************************* Debashis 'Deb' Aikat, Ph. D. Associate Professor School of Journalism and Mass Communication CB # 3365, Carroll Hall 374 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3365 Phone: 919 962 4090 (office) Fax: 919 962 0620 Email: da(a)unc.edu URL: http://www.jomc.unc.edu/faculty-staff-journalism-faculty/aikat-debashis *************************

1 0

CFP - 'Situating Simondon: media and technics'
by Thomas Robert Sutherland 11 Mar '14

11 Mar '14

Call for Papers: ‘Situating Simondon: media and technics’ Platform: Journal of Media and Communication An interdisciplinary journal for early career researchers and graduate students Volume editors: Thomas Sutherland and Scott Wark Abstract submissions due: 1st of May, 2014 Full paper submissions due: 1st of July, 2014 Abetted by a paucity of translations, the work of Gilbert Simondon has remained relatively obscure in the Anglophone world for some time. Simondon is, however, finally – if somewhat belatedly – finding the appreciation amongst English-speaking readers that had eluded him for so long. Although Simondon’s work is probably most recognised today for its influence upon Gilles Deleuze and Bernard Stiegler, its scope is far greater than one might surmise on the basis of such associations. Amongst many other topics, Simondon’s philosophy focuses quite heavily upon questions related to technology, communication, mediation, and information. It is these areas in particular that we hope to explore in this special section of Platform. How might we situate the theories of Simondon within our contemporary media environment? Are they still relevant? Or are they too reliant upon outmoded principles and theoretical models? What lessons, both theoretical and practical, might researchers in the fields of communication and media studies take from Simondon’s philosophy? How might we extend or update his work for the digital, networked society? Platform encourages the submission of theoretical and empirical work engaging with Simondon and his legacy. We are particularly interested in papers that seek to situate Simondon’s work, both historically and within the disciplinary boundaries of media and communications. Potential themes might include, but are not limited to: • Technological determinism in an age of digitization and unprecedented automation. Does Simondon provide us with a useful means for negotiating the question of agency in such an environment, or is he too beholden to the cybernetics and information theory of his time? • Individuation and the associated milieu. Have subsequent media forms and communicative methods altered or halted the processes of individuation of which Simondon speaks? • Media ecology. Some strands of media ecological study stress the dynamism and complexity of media-technical systems. How does Simondon’s understanding of technology challenge or deepen these approaches? • Materiality and hylomorphism. At a time when communication appears increasingly immaterial, how might we understand Simondon’s attempt to escape all hylomorphic conceptions of communication and individuation? Does the notion of immateriality remain trapped within a hylomorphic distinction between form and matter, or is it indicative of a need to reconceptualise the very question of materiality? • Technics and media. How does Simondon’s work fit within the larger field of studies on technics and its history (e.g. Mumford, Leroi-Gourhan, Ellul, Gille, Stiegler, etc.)? Might media and communications as a discipline benefit from a greater emphasis upon the role of technics in engendering media environments both past and present? • The politics of individuation. Stiegler, Lefebvre and Mackenzie, amongst others, use Simondon’s work on transduction and individuation to describe and diagnose politics. How might Simondon help us think politics today? In addition to this special section, we also welcome submissions that more broadly deal with issues relating to the areas of media, technology, and communication in theoretical, methodological, or empirical terms. Please send all enquiries and submissions to platformjmc(a)gmail.com<mailto:platformjmc@gmail.com>. Both abstracts and full papers must be accompanied by a brief curriculum vitae and biographical note. We recommend that prospective authors submit abstracts well before the abstract deadline of the 1st of May, 2014, in order to allow for feedback and suggestions from the editors. All submissions should be from early career researchers (defined as being within a few years of completing their PhD) or current graduate students undertaking their Masters, PhD, or international equivalent. All eligible submissions will be sent for double-blind peer-review. Early submission is highly encouraged as the review process will commence on submission. Note: Please read the submission guidelines<http://journals.culture-communication.unimelb.edu.au/platform/submission.ht…> before submitting work. Submissions received not in house style will not be accepted and authors will be asked resubmit their work with the correct formatting before it is sent for review. Platform: Journal of Media and Communication is a fully refereed, open-access online graduate journal. Founded and published by the School of Culture and Communication at the University of Melbourne (Australia), Platform was launched in November 2008. Platform is refereed by an international board of established and emerging scholars working across diverse fields in media and communication studies, and is edited by graduate students at the University of Melbourne.

1 0

$10k Innovative Broadband Use Evaluation & Research Data Seed Grant RFP
by Joshua Uebelherr 10 Mar '14

10 Mar '14

Dear Colleagues, The Arizona State University (ASU) School of Public Affairs, ASU Center for Policy Informatics, and the University of Iowa are pleased to announce a request for proposals (RFP) for innovative broadband use, evaluation, and research data projects. Three $10,000 NSF seed grants will be awarded to projects that generate innovative data for individuals or organizations on broadband or mobile internet use and new methods for data collection. This data from awardees will be made available on a web-based data portal being constructed for the wider broadband research community. The RFP application deadline is March 21, 2014. Please refer to the following link for additional information: https://spa.asu.edu/news-events/spa_news/innovative-broadband-use-evaluatio… .. Sincerely, Joshua Uebelherr -- Joshua Uebelherr Doctoral student in Public Administration and Policy Graduate Research Associate Center for Policy Informatics cpi.asu.edu/network Arizona State University School of Public Affairs 411 N Central Avenue, Suite 400 Phoenix, AZ 85004-0687 --

1 0

Reminder: Carl J. Couch Internet Research Award 2013
by Mark D. Johns 10 Mar '14

10 Mar '14

CALL FOR AWARD APPLICATIONS Carl J. Couch Internet Research Award 2013 Sponsored by the Carl Couch Center for Social and Internet Research http://www.cccsir.com/ The Carl Couch Center issues an international call for student-authored papers to be considered for Carl J. Couch Internet Research Award. The Couch Center welcomes both theoretical and empirical papers that apply symbolic interactionist approaches to internet studies. According to basic symbolic interactionist premises, what we understand as self, identity, relationship, and cultural formations are constructed dialogically and interactively. While the works of George H. Mead, Georg Simmel, Erving Goffman and other leading symbolic interactionists have been integral to the study of social interaction, Carl Couch was among the first from this tradition to suggest the importance of engaging in the study of mediated interaction. It is critical that symbolic interactionists move boldly forward, beyond Couch's initial suggestion, to study what has become for many a dominant form of communication in their everyday life. Whether we research identities, emotion, memory, family, work, career, presentations of self, deception, love, loss or other areas, the impact of mediated communication is felt by those interacting within it. As internet-related media continue to influence our everyday interactions--not only with other people but also with technologies, devices, algorithms, platform parameters, and so forth--it becomes crucial for symbolic interactionists to attend to the role of these mediating factors in the interaction process. We encourage any paper that uses a symbolic interactionist approach in internet studies. We also encourage papers that explore the interface between deliberate social interaction and structured (or automated) interactions sponsored or enacted by various technological features, exploring not only how identities, relations, and social formations are negotiated through social interactions, but also how these interactions are mediated further through the use or capacities of various technologies. Papers will be evaluated based on the quality of (1) mastery of symbolic interactionist approaches and concepts, (2) originality, (3) organization, (4) presentation, and (5) advancement of knowledge. Those contemplating entering should note that an interactionist approach demands thoughtful analysis, and not mere description, of social interactions. Evaluation will be administered by a Review Committee of four: Mark D. Johns, Luther College, Decorah, Iowa Jennifer Dunn, Texas Tech University, Lubbock Annette Markham, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Camille Johnson-Yale, Lake Forest College, Illinois Competition is open to graduate or undergraduate students of all disciplines. Works that are published or accepted for publication are not eligible for award consideration. Entries should be in English and not exceed 30 pages (approximately 7500 words) in length, including references and appendices. Limit of one entry per student per year. The top paper will receive Couch Award to be presented at the 2014 meeting of the Association of Internet Researchers (aoir.org) in Bangkok, Thailand. The top paper will be awarded a certificate and a cash prize of $300 US and the author will be invited to present their work at a session of the AoIR conference, October 22-25, 2014 in Bangkok. Candidates should send a copy of their paper, with a 100-word abstract, electronically to Mark Johns at mjohns(a)luther.edu Application deadline is May 15, 2014. Notification of award will be sent by June 15. Those with questions or comments about Couch Award application, please contact: Mark D. Johns Communication Studies Luther College, Decorah, Iowa Phone: 563-387-1347 E-mail: mjohns(a)luther.edu

1 0

2014 AoIR Dissertation Award
by Kendall, Lori 10 Mar '14

10 Mar '14

The Association of Internet Researchers calls for submissions for the 2014 AoIR dissertation Award. To be eligible for the 2014 AoIR Dissertation Award, a PhD dissertation in the area of internet research must have been filed in the 2013 calendar year. In addition to winning a cash prize, the individual will also be invited to present their research in a session at Internet Research 15.0 in Bangkok, October 22-25, 2014. Submissions should be sent as PDFs via email to Michael Zimmer, michael.zimmer(a)gmail.com<mailto:michael.zimmer@gmail.com>, by April 15, 2014. (Each submission will be acknowledged. If you do not receive an email acknowledging your submission within a week, please send a follow-up email.) You may send your own dissertation or that of an advisee (with their permission). The winner of the award will be announced in Summer. Please contact Michael with any questions.

1 0

2014 AoIR Book Award
by Kendall, Lori 10 Mar '14

10 Mar '14

We are pleased to announce the fourth annual AoIR award for the best book published in internet research. This award seeks to recognize the best work in our field, and highlight the breadth of work that is done relating to the social and cultural dimensions of networked media. We will accept nominations (self and other) for Best Internet Research-Related Book published during the calendar year of 2013. Edited collections are not eligible; the book must explore a single topic and be authored or co-authored as a single text. The books will be reviewed by three eminent scholars in the field. Copies of nominated books should be sent to the committee members, arriving no later than April 30. For mailing instructions, please contact the chair of the committee, Andrew Herman, at ahermanwlu(a)gmail.com<mailto:ahermanwlu@gmail.com>. The winner of the award will be announced in the summer of 2014. In addition to winning a cash prize, the individual will also be invited to participate at the AoIR conference in Bangkok in October. Please contact Andrew Herman or Lori Kendall (prez(a)aoir.org<mailto:prez@aoir.org>) if you have any questions about this process.

1 0

Going Digital and Digital Tools for Qualitative Research Workshops at Goldsmiths
by David Moats 10 Mar '14

10 Mar '14

**Apologies for Cross-Posting** Two (PhD/ECR) workshops rethinking the relationship between quant-qual in social media research, will be held at Goldsmiths, University of London this May. The first, 'Going Digital', is an introductory workshop on the challenges of locating, scraping and analysing social media data facing both quantitative and qualitative researchers. The session will include presentations by Noortje Marres, Brian Alleyne, Dhiraj Murthy and David Moats and introduce students to several freely available, exploratory web based tools (Digital Methods) through hands-on instruction and small group work. The goal will be for students to approach digital data, and new methods, with open minds but equipped with more critical faculties. *Going Digital * 12 May 2014 10-5PM RHB 250 http://www.gold.ac.uk/calendar/?id=7438 The second event, 'Digital Tools for Qualitative Research' is a more advanced workshop specifically investigating the potential for 'quanti-quali' (Latour and Venturini 2011) methods: which allow for close reading of texts as well as patterns and relationships at the aggregate level. The first day will include presentations by Noorjte Marres, Bernhard Rieder and Tommaso Venturini and will be devoted to discussing the participant's specific research problems and the affordances of existing methods and tools for addressing them. The second day will be devoted to a specific Twitter analysis tool, currently in proto-type, which will be tested and customised in a small group environment with programmers, designers and researchers working collaboratively. *Digital Tools for Qualitative Research* 15-16 May 2014 10-5PM RHB 350 http://www.gold.ac.uk/csisp/events/digitaltools/ email d.moats(a)gold.ac.uk for further info about both events. The deadline for applications to both is 18 April -- ------------------- *David J Moats* Phd Candidate CSISP - Sociology Goldsmiths College http://www.csisponline.net/ www.davidjmoats.com www.thequietus.com UK +44 (0)7787562607 US (0)1-630-328-9741

1 0

Several Openings in New Media, University of Amsterdam
by Bernhard Rieder 10 Mar '14

10 Mar '14

The Mediastudies Department at the University of Amsterdam is currently looking to fill a number of positions in the New Media team and inviting applications for: # a tenure-track assistant professor position ("universitair-docent") http://www.uva.nl/over-de-uva/werken-bij-de-uva/vacatures/item/14-070.html # up to three two-year lecturer positions ("docent") http://www.uva.nl/over-de-uva/werken-bij-de-uva/vacatures/item/14-066.html # a five-year combined PhD/lecturer position ("docent-promovendus") http://www.uva.nl/over-de-uva/werken-bij-de-uva/vacatures/item/14-068.html Candidates are required to master Dutch at the A2 level (reading/grading assignments). However, the department is committed to providing intensive language courses that lead up to a certification for selected candidates without the necessary language proficiency. The application deadline for all positions is March 30, 2014. For general information about working at the UvA, refer to: http://www.uva.nl/en/about-the-uva/working-at-the-uva/ An overview of the Bachelor "Media en Cultuur" (in Dutch): http://studiegids.uva.nl/web/uva/sgs/nl/p/499_20870.html An overview of the Master "New Media and Digital Cultures”: http://studiegids.uva.nl/web/uva/sgs/en/p/741_115565.html -- Bernhard Rieder | Associate Professor | New Media and Digital Culture University of Amsterdam | Turfdraagsterpad 9 | 1012 XT Amsterdam | The Netherlands http://thepoliticsofsystems.net | http://rieder.polsys.net | https://www.digitalmethods.net | @RiederB

1 0