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Job openings in data science and HCI
by Jennifer Stromer-Galley 08 Mar '14

08 Mar '14

Syracuse University's School of Information Studies (The iSchool, see http://ischool.syr.edu) is soliciting applications for scholars involved in the broad and evolving spaces of data science/ data analytics and human-computer interaction (HCI) to join its renowned and interdisciplinary faculty. These positions are open rank, and we specifically encourage graduating doctoral students, senior assistant professors, and recently tenured faculty to apply. Located at the center of the picturesque Syracuse University, we seek entrepreneurial colleagues with a passion for innovative scholarship, a desire to work with others on interdisciplinary projects, and enthusiasm for teaching. The iSchool has seven degree programs and an enrollment of 50 doctoral students, 650 masters' students and 650 undergraduates, led by 42 full-time faculty and over 100 part-time faculty. The iSchool is at the cutting edge of scholarship and instruction. The school hosts five research centers and laboratories and faculty with recognized strengths in natural language processing, information retrieval, Internet governance and telecommunications policy, digital literacy, information management, information and network security, new forms of work and organizing, gamification, data science, entrepreneurship, and social media. There are campus-level initiatives on computational linguistics, sustainability, and urban education, along with strategic partnerships with J.P. Morgan Chase, IBM, and others as reflected in a curricular focus on Global Enterprise Technologies. The SU-ADVANCE program provides extensive mentoring services for female faculty in STEM disciplines. The ISchool recently acquired an IBM Netezza box, allowing for complex, fast analysis of large data sets, and SU has large data-storage capabilities and is home of the Qualitative Data Repository. The iSchool seeks colleagues who can deepen and extend our emerging strengths in data science. We see this as a broad area that spans the following: visualization of large data sets and analytic approaches to large and often heterogeneous data sets; developing tools and approaches for scientific collaboration, and for data access and retrieval; computational social science involving large-scale quantitative data, examining large-scale online social configurations; and other possible areas emphasizing large-scale data and its analysis and representation. The iSchool faculty also seeks colleagues who will continue to expand our strengths in Human-Computer Interaction (HCI). Although we encourage applications from any area of HCI, we are particularly interested in candidates with research and teaching experience in the design, building and testing of online systems and environments, mobile applications, and other artifacts, and who are engaging in studies of uses and users in the field or laboratory. The ability to obtain research funding will be considered a competitive advantage in our evaluations, as will evidence of teaching excellence. A record of publishing impactful scholarship is expected. Although rank and years of experience are open, we will consider outstanding ABDs with a strong expectation of a successful dissertation defense by 2015. To be considered, applicants must submit: a cover letter outlining their interests and qualifications (including the rank they are seeking); a current curriculum vitae; short statements describing research and teaching interests and accomplishments; and the names and contact information of at least three references to: www.sujobopps.com<http://www.sujobopps.com> (job #071012). Strong candidates will be contacted for letters of reference and asked to provide research samples and a teaching portfolio or other evidence of teaching experience. Please do not submit these items with the initial application. We will begin screening applicants on 2 April, 2014 and continue accepting applications until the positions are filled, which may extend into the 2014-2015 academic year. Please direct questions to Dr. Jennifer Stromer-Galley, search chair, at jstromer(a)syr.edu<mailto:jstromer@syr.edu> ~Jenny Associate Professor | School of Information Studies Vice President | Association of Internet Researchers Syracuse University 220 Hinds Hall Syracuse, New York 13244 t 315.443.1823 f 315.443.5673 e jstromer(a)syr.edu w www.stromer-galley.com w www.aoir.org ischool.syr.edu

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What do users want from a media website?
by nantonopoulos＠jour.auth.gr 08 Mar '14

08 Mar '14

My name is Antonopoulos Nikos and I am a PHD candidate at the School of Journalism & Mass Communications. Aristotle University invites you to participate in an interesting research concerning the ways in which Internet users can find the information which they are looking for, on a media website. We would appreciate your feedback. Please click here: http://auth.edu.gr/index.php/999647/lang-en Thank you in advance, Yours faithfully, Antonopoulos Nikos - PhD candidate Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece

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15 days left to submit to ACM Hypertext 2014
by Denis Parra 07 Mar '14

07 Mar '14

Apologies for cross-posting. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Hypertext 2014 - 25th ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media 1-4 Sept. 2014, Santiago, Chile http://ht.acm.org/ht2014/ Submissions via EasyChair: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ht14 Regular and short papers: 21 March 2014 Workshop papers, doctoral consortium papers and late-breaking results: 23 May 2014 ---------------------------------------------------------------- The ACM Hypertext conference is a premium venue for high quality peer-reviewed research on hypertext theory, systems and applications. It is concerned with all aspects of modern hypertext research including social media, semantic web, dynamic and computed hypertext and hypermedia as well as narrative systems and applications. The ACM Hypertext 2014 conference will focus on the role of hypertext and hyperlink theory on the web and beyond, as a foundation for approaches and practices in the wider community - ranging from the usage of social media to the semantics of the 'Internet of Things'. We also welcome submissions that focus on the linguistic aspects of hypertextand user experience with linked entities, resources and events. Hypertext 2014 tracks ===================== - Links and Connections between People (chairs: Daniele Quercia, Johan Bollen) - Open Data and the Semantics of Things (chairs: Philippe Cudré-Mauroux, Mathieu d'Aquin) - User Experience and Adaptive Linking (chairs: Rosta Farzan, Vincent Wade) IMPORTANT DATES =============== Full paper submission: 21 March 2014. Workshop papers, doctoral consortium papers and late-breaking results: 23 May 2014. Submission instructions: See http://ht.acm.org/ht2014 ---------------------------------------------------------------- ORGANIZATION General chairs: Leo Ferres, Gustavo Rossi Program chairs: Virgilio de Almeida, Eelco Herder Workshop and tutorial chairs: Federica Cena, Christoph Trattner Poster and demo chairs: Carlos Castillo, Jill Freyne Student chairs: Julita Vassileva, Martin Atzmüller Local and publicity chair: Denis Parra Proceedings chair: Altigran Soares da Silva ---------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks, Denis Parra Assistant Profesor, Department of Computer Science School of Engineering Pontifical Catholic University of Chile +56 (2) 2354.4442 dparra(a)ing.puc.cl

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Fw: TPRC42 Announces Graduate Student Consortium
by Luis Hestres 07 Mar '14

07 Mar '14

FYI, may be of interest to some grad students on this list or those who mentor them. ~Luis - - - - - Luis E. Hestres Ph.D. candidate | School of Communication | American University More about me at luishestres.com (http://luishestres.com/) or LinkedIn (http://www.linkedin.com/in/hestres) | Follow me on Twitter (https://twitter.com/#!/luishestres/) | Visit my SSRN Author page (http://ssrn.com/author=1820222) "Theoretical critiques are like sociopaths: Their aggressive drives are rarely balanced by constructive instincts." -- From "Caught in a Winding, Snarling Vine: The Structural Bias of Political Process Theory" by Jeff Goodwin and James M. Jasper, Sociological Forum 14(1), 1999 Forwarded message: > From: TPRC <info(a)tprc.org> > To: luishestres(a)gmail.com > Date: Friday, March 7, 2014 at 12:24:32 PM > Subject: TPRC42 Announces Graduate Student Consortium > > TPRC42 Announces Graduate Student Consortium > > Is this email not displaying correctly? > View it in your browser (http://us6.campaign-archive2.com/?u=d9832174c964ecbebbfddfa8c&id=61cad4aa46…) > > > > > > > 2014 TPRC | 42nd Research Conference on Communication, Information and Internet Policy > September 12-14, 2014 > George Mason University School of Law, Arlington, Virginia > > TPRC will hold its inaugural Graduate Student Consortium on Friday, September 12, 2014, at the George Mason University Law School, immediately preceding the TPRC42 conference September 12 – 14, 2014 > > > The Consortium aims to provide graduate students at all levels with opportunities for mentoring by academics, industry, and government leaders, as well as the opportunity to network with other graduate students. Consortium participants will gain insights on research topics of interest to them from the various sectors of the TPRC community. > > > The Consortium will be held immediately preceding the TPRC42 Conference. During the three-hour session, students will engage in discussion, receive feedback on their proposed research topic, and interact with fellow graduate students as well as with mentors. Mentors will be leaders from academia, industry, government, and the non-profit sectors, chosen to ensure balance among these multiple perspectives. > > > The Consortium will be highly selective and is open to all persons who are graduate or law students at any level/year during the 2014/2015 school year. Applicants should submit a statement of endorsement from a faculty member at their institution indicating how the student would benefit from participation (the endorsement form will be available for download at the TPRC website). Applications should include this endorsement and a 1500 word (~ 2 pages, single spaced) statement of a research topic, succinctly describing the academic/theoretical, industry, government, and public interest aspects of the problem. The topic can be a new topic, chosen specifically for this context, or an ongoing research area that might benefit from these multiple perspectives. Students may apply for both the Graduate Student Consortium and the Student Paper Competition, although the Consortium selection process will favor those closer to the beginning of their graduate student career. > > > Applications, including the faculty endorsement, must be submitted by April 18, 2014, at http://www.tprc.org (http://tprc.us6.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=d9832174c964ecbebbfddfa8c&id…) Decisions will be communicated by May 30, 2014. Students accepted to the Consortium will receive free conference registration and meals, but will be responsible for their own travel and lodging. > > Call for Papers Announcement > TPRC is soliciting abstracts of papers, proposals for panels, tutorials and demonstrations, and student papers for presentation at the 2014 conference, to be held September 12-14, 2014 at the George Mason University Law School, in Arlington, Virginia. These presentations should report current theoretical or empirical research relevant to communication and information policy.Contributions may be from any disciplinary perspective; the sole criterion is research quality. Topic areas in previous conferences have included competition, antitrust, and other market issues; broadband deployment and adoption; spectrum and wireless application policy; media, old and new; intellectual property, technology, and Internet law; privacy, security, identity and trust; governance and institutions; innovation and entrepreneurship; and distributional outcomes and social goals. Read the complete Call for Papers here (http://tprc.us6.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=d9832174c964ecbebbfddfa8c&id…) Abstract deadline is March 31. our web site, www.tprc.org (http://tprc.us6.list-manage.com/track/click?u=d9832174c964ecbebbfddfa8c&id=…) Submission deadline is March 31. Submissions are also being accepted for our Student Paper Competition and our Graduate Student Consortium. > > Call for Papers Announcement TPRC is soliciting abstracts of papers, proposals for panels, tutorials and demonstrations, and student papers for presentation at the 2014 conference, to be held September 12-14, 2014 at the George Mason University Law School, in Arlington, Virginia. These presentations should report current theoretical or empirical research relevant to communication and information policy.Contributions may be from any disciplinary perspective; the sole criterion is research quality. Topic areas in previous conferences have included competition, antitrust, and other market issues; broadband deployment and adoption; spectrum and wireless application policy; media, old and new; intellectual property, technology, and Internet law; privacy, security, identity and trust; governance and institutions; innovation and entrepreneurship; and distributional outcomes and social goals. Read the complete Call for Papers here (http://tprc.us6.list-manage.com/track/click?u=d9832174c964ecbebbfddfa8c&id=…) Abstract deadline is March 31. > > Thank you to this year's current sponsors: Comcast, U.S. Telecom Association, Verizon, Time Warner Cable, AT&T, Microsoft, Telefonica Internacional USA, Inc., Georgetown University/Communication, Culture & Technology Program , Motorola Mobility, Information Technology & Innovation Foundation, Technology Policy Institute, Michigan State University - The Quello Center for Telecommunications Management and Law, Northwestern University - School of Communication, University of Florida - Public Utility Research Center, University of Florida - Public Policy Research Center, University of Pennsylvania Law School - Center for Technology, Innovation and Competition, University of Colorado - Interdisciplinary Telecom Program, University of Colorado - Silicon Flatirons Center, University of Southern California Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism/International Journal of Communication, George Mason University School of Law > > Interested in joining our sponsors? Contact Syd Verinder at info(a)tprc.org (mailto:info@tprc.org). > > > > > > > > > > follow on Twitter (Twitter Account not yet Authorized) | forward to a friend (http://us6.forward-to-friend.com/forward?u=d9832174c964ecbebbfddfa8c&id=61c…) > > > > Our mailing address is: > TPRC > 4721 Windy Ridge Trail, Schertz, TX > Schertz, TX 78154 > > Add us to your address book (http://tprc.us6.list-manage1.com/vcard?u=d9832174c964ecbebbfddfa8c&id=330ac…) > > > > unsubscribe from this list (http://tprc.us6.list-manage1.com/unsubscribe?u=d9832174c964ecbebbfddfa8c&id…) | update subscription preferences (http://tprc.us6.list-manage.com/profile?u=d9832174c964ecbebbfddfa8c&id=330a…) > > > > > > > > > > > > >

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CfP: Int. Conference on Infrastructures and Cooperation in E-Science and E-Humanities
by Steffen Albrecht 07 Mar '14

07 Mar '14

* apologies for cross-postings * Dear fellow Internet researchers, The International Conference on Infrastructures and Cooperation in E-Science and E-Humanities will be held from June 4-6 2014 in Leipzig, Germany. We invite you to participate and submit your paper addressing current questions and solutions in relation to one of the following thematic fields or other relevant topics: - Invention, design and implementation of information and communication technologies to enable, enhance or empower academic activities (field 1) - Analysis of academic processes, business models, and needs (field 2) - Social and cultural influences and outcomes related to the use of technology in academic activities (field 3) Submissions of full papers with originial work in english language are welcome. All papers will be peer-reviewed, a selection of the best conference papers will be published by Springer. All other papers will be published as open access electronic conference proceedings. A special track of the conference will experiment with the innovative format of a "flipped conference". Here, presentation videos will be shared prior to the conference via an online platform, and the meeting in Leipzig will be used in innovative and productive ways - depending on the ideas of the presenters. All information about the submission process, conference registration, the venue and the conference program as well as the "flipped conference" track can be found at the conference website: http://openaccess.tu-dresden.de/ocs/index.php/ic-escience/iceseh2014 The conference is organized by the eScience Research Network Saxony. Information about the research network can be found at http://www.escience-sachsen.de/?page_id=685. We look forward to seeing you in Leipzig! On behalf of the organizing team, Steffen Albrecht -- Steffen Albrecht Project Coordinator eScience – Research Network Saxony http://www.escience-sachsen.de/?page_id=685 Media Center Technische Universität Dresden http://mz.tu-dresden.de Room 426 Strehlener Straße 22/24 01069 Dresden Germany Tel. +49 351-463-39175 Fax: -463-35605 eMail: steffen_albrecht(a)mailbox.tu-dresden.de

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CFP: Console-ing Passions, Dublin 2015
by Kylie Jarrett 07 Mar '14

07 Mar '14

I'm looking to get lots of internet, game or digital researchers, activists and/or practitioners to this conference, so get writing.* *** *CP 23 Rebooting Feminism* *Console-ing Passions International Conference on Television, Video, Audio, New Media and Feminism* *June 18-20, 2015 Dublin* ** *Deadling for Abstracts: October 1, 2014. Applicants will be notified of acceptance by Jan 31, 2015.**Please submit all proposals to: Console-ingPassions.org * Founded by a group of feminist media scholars and artists in 1989, Console-ing Passions held its first official conference at the University of Iowa in 1992. Since that time, Console-ing Passions has become the leading international scholarly network for feminist research in television, video, audio, and new media. 23 years after the group's founding, we find ourselves in a dramatically different media landscape, as well as a world in which the meanings of feminism, postfeminism, and the intersections of feminism with race, sexuality, and class are hotly contested in the academy, in the popular press, and in contemporary media representations. Console-ing Passions 2015 asks, after decades of postfeminist retrenchment, is feminism due for a reboot? CP23 seeks to bring together papers, panels, screenings, and workshops that investigate both feminism and media studies at a crossroads. We are particularly interested in work that brings together two or more of Console-ing Passions' driving themes: gender, race and ethnicity, nationality, sexuality, and class. The 2015 conference invites pre-constituted panels and workshops, as well as individual papers that consider the breadth of feminist concerns related to television, digital, video, audio, and new media, as well as mobile and gaming technologies. Pre-constituted panels and workshops are especially encouraged. Possible topics include considerations of gender in relation to: *intersectional feminisms *feminism in a "post-racial" moment *"Rebooting Feminism:" what comes after postfeminism? *feminism, the economy & austerity *media production and industries *media audiences and fans *gaming and virtual worlds *masculinities, trans identities, sexualities *sex work and pornography *neoliberalism and gender *transmedia, theories of convergence and their critiques *transnational cultural flows and "Ex-pat TV" *social media and digital domains *feminism and popular music *feminism and the New Europe *spiritual belief and practice and media *feminism and the political right *new feminist icons (Elizabeth Warren, Wendy Davis, Julia Gillard) *campaigns for social justice *stardom and celebrity *affect and emotion studies *age *Pre-Constituted Panel Proposals:*Panel coordinators should submit a 200-word rationale for the panel as whole. For each contributor, please submit a 250-word abstract, a short bio, and contact information. Panels that include a diversity of panelist affiliations and experience levels are strongly encouraged. Panels should include 3-4 papers. *Individual Papers:*Individuals submitting paper proposals should provide an abstract of 250 words, a short bio, and contact information. *Workshop Proposals:*We seek workshop ideas that focus on scholarly issues in the field and matters of professionalization. Topics might include: media activism; mentoring; the job market; digital networking; workplace politics; teaching; tenure and promotion; publishing; etc. Prospective coordinators should submit a 350-word rationale (including some discussion of why the topic lends itself to a workshop format), a short bio, and contact information. For each proposed workshop participant, please submit a title, short bio, and contact information. Workshops are intended to encourage discussion; contributors will deliver a series of brief, informal presentations. Please visit our website Console-ingPassions.org for information about events, schedules, travel information, and more. Please direct all questions about the conference and the submission process to: consoleingpassions2015(a)gmail.com <mailto:consoleingpassions2015@gmail.com> Follow us on twitter: @CPDublin2015 Find us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ConsoleingPassions2015 Check out our amazing city center conference venue, The Marker Hotel: http://www.themarkerhoteldublin.com/ Conference Organizers: Maeve Connolly, Kylie Jarrett, Jorie Lagerwey, Diane Negra, Maria Pramaggiore, Emma Radley, and Stephanie Rains

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CfP: Transdisciplinary Approaches to Urban Computing due 1 June 2014
by Marcus Foth 07 Mar '14

07 Mar '14

Transdisciplinary Approaches to Urban Computing Special Issue of the International Journal of Human-Computer Studies (IJHCS) http://bit.ly/TAUC-CfP edited by Hannu Kukka, University of Oulu Marcus Foth, Queensland University of Technology Sebastian Boring, University of Copenhagen Anind K. Dey, Carnegie Mellon University tauc.editors(a)gmail.com Deadline for submissions: 1st June 2014 DESCRIPTION The research field of urban computing – defined as “the integration of computing, sensing, and actuation technologies into everyday urban settings and lifestyles” [1] – considers the design and use of ubiquitous computing technology in public and shared urban environments. Its impact on cities, buildings, and spaces evokes innumerable kinds of change [2]. Embedded into our everyday lived environments, urban computing technologies have the potential to alter the meaning of physical space, and affect the activities performed in those spaces. In this special issue, we invite contributions to a multi-themed discussion of various aspects that make up the, at times, messy and certainly transdisciplinary field of urban computing and urban informatics. The starting point for the proposed special issue is a call for a more transdisciplinary approach to the design and evaluation of urban computing systems that regards these systems as holistic, organic and evolving constructs comprising three interrelated components: people, place, technology. Following Nicolescu [3], we use the term transdisciplinarity to signify the positioning of urban computing research at once between different disciplines, across these disciplines, and beyond all discipline. The term differs from the related concepts of multidisciplinarity, where a topic is studied by several disciplines that are in service of a base discipline, and interdisciplinarity, where methods from one discipline are transferred to another. Looking at urban computing from a transdisciplinary perspective is useful in that a large methodological and theoretical gap exists in much of the current literature. Often, the epistemological, methodological, theoretical, and practical contributions of relevant fields of study (e.g., computer science, architecture and design, and social sciences) do not connect to form a solid basis for the advancement of cities and city life. Despite the inherent complexity and transdisciplinary nature of urban computing as a subject of study, few such efforts have been undertaken. However, moving the field forward requires explorations of the opportunities and challenges inherent in truly transdisciplinary work by researchers from several interrelated fields of study coming together to design, build, and evaluate urban computing systems. In the proposed special issue we call for contributions from both practical and theoretical points of view discussing the practice and promise of transdisciplinary work in the field of urban computing and urban informatics. Specifically, we hope to elicit contributions from researchers in the various fields closely related to urban computing such as computer science, social sciences (e.g., cultural anthropology), and architecture and urban design. We envision the following contributions: (1) experience reports on transdisciplinary projects in real-life urban settings, reporting results from urban computing studies conducted in a transdisciplinary manner; and (2) theoretical/conceptual discussions on the merits of understanding the topic not only from a technological perspective, taking into consideration the various interrelated disciplines and fields of study. The proposed topic is timely and significant, since more and more explorations are conducted “at large” or "in-the-wild,” i.e. outside traditional research laboratory settings. This move from controlled laboratories to messy real-life environments is far from trivial, and requires an integrated approach that both takes into account and respects the inherent transdisciplinarity that carrying out high quality research in such settings requires. Hence, contributions in the proposed special issue should be of interest to a large and varied audience of researchers and practitioners who either already do research “in-the-wild,” or hope to transition to such work in the future. REFERENCES [1] Kindberg, C., Chalmers, M., Paulos, E. (2007) Guest Editor’s Introduction: Urban Computing. IEEE Pervasive Computing, 6(3), 18-20. [2] Fuller, M. (2013) Foreword. In: Throughout: Art and Culture Emerging with Ubiquitous Computing. MIT Press. [3] Nicolescu, B. (2001) Manifesto of Transdisciplinarity. Translated from French by Karen-Claire Voss. State of New York Press: New York. AIMS AND SCOPE The aim of this Special Issue is to present high quality, original, manuscripts related to the issue of transdisciplinary approaches to the field of urban computing. Manuscripts must be original, but significant expansions and revisions of papers recently presented at conferences and workshops will be considered. Possible topics include but are not limited to: • Experience reports on transdisciplinary projects in real-life urban settings • Reporting results from urban computing studies conducted in a transdisciplinary manner • Theoretical/conceptual discussions on the need for / the advancement of transdisciplinary work We are looking to publish a mix (roughly 50/50) of papers with a theoretical and practical contribution, depending of course on the number and types of submissions we receive. PAPER SUBMISSION Deadline: manuscripts are due 1st June 2014 but early submissions are encouraged. All contributions will be rigorously peer reviewed to the usual exacting standards of the IJHCS journal. Further information, including submission procedures and advice on formatting and preparing your manuscript, can be found at: http://www.journals.elsevier.com/international-journal-of-human-computer-st… Manuscripts are submitted via the Elsevier Editorial System (EES) at: http://ees.elsevier.com/ijhcs/ To discuss a possible contribution, please contact the special issue editors at: tauc.editors(a)gmail.com For more information please visit: http://bit.ly/TAUC-CfP -- Associate Professor Marcus Foth Director, Urban Informatics Research Lab Principal Research Fellow, School of Design Queensland University of Technology 130 Victoria Park Road, Brisbane QLD 4059, Australia m.foth(a)qut.edu.au – @sunday9pm – http://www.urbaninformatics.net/ CRICOS No. 00213J

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Job Opening: Post-doctoral Fellow on "Big Data"
by KW Fu 06 Mar '14

06 Mar '14

Dear all, The Journalism and Media Studies Centre (JMSC) at The University of Hong Kong is inviting applications for a position of Post-doctoral Fellow (PDF). Applicants should hold postgraduate qualifications at PhD level in a field related to Social Sciences, Statistics, Information Science, or Journalism/Media/Communication studies. Applicants should possess a track record of publications in high quality international journals or other appropriate refereed publications and should demonstrate the potential of academic publication in the coming three years. The appointee is required to generate research outputs independently and to prepare research proposal for competitive grant application. Experience in computational social science studies, big data analysis, data visualization, social network analysis, complex systems modeling, agent-based computing would have a definite advantage. Teaching experience in courses related to media and journalism is preferred. The successful candidate will be involved in a research project entitled "A Big Data Approach to Computational Media Studies". Applicants should send a completed application form, together with an up-to-date C.V. to jmsc2(a)hku.hk. Application forms (341/1111) can be obtained at http://www.hku.hk/apptunit/form-ext.doc. Please indicate clearly in the form the post applied for, as well as the field and level (if applicable), and the reference number. Review of applications will start on May 1, 2014 until the post is filled. The University thanks applicants for their interest, but advises that only shortlisted applicants will be notified of the application result. JMSC website: http://jmsc.hku.hk/ <http://jmsc.hku.hk/jmsc-job-openings/> King-wa Fu, PhD Assistant Professor Journalism and Media Studies Centre The University of Hong Kong Room 206, Eliot Hall, Pokfulam Road, Hong Kong Tel: (852) 3917-1643 Fax: (852) 2858-8736 Website: https://sites.google.com/site/fukingwa/

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Re: [Air-L] Reading list on technology and society (with a communication twist)
by riseling 06 Mar '14

06 Mar '14

Dear all, Thanks for all the great suggestions for tech. and society books. There are a lot of "old friends" and "new acquaintances" in the suggestions that have been made. As one would expect from this list, there are a lot of books/articles on IT and comm. Indeed I noted a need for that bias in my original mail. That said, one theme for which I haven't seen the foundational book is steam technology. Is this a hole awaiting to be filled? Thanks. Rich L. <div>-------- Original message --------</div><div>From: Michael Zimmer <zimmerm(a)uwm.edu> </div><div>Date:05/03/2014 22:41 (GMT+01:00) </div><div>To: AoIR mailing list <air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org> </div><div>Subject: Re: [Air-L] Reading list on technology and society (with a communication twist) </div><div> </div>A few more voices to add: Baym, Nancy. "Personal Connections in a Digital Age" Douglas, Susan. "Listening In: Radio And The American Imagination” Gitelman, Lisa. "Always Already New: Media, History, and the Data of Culture” Marvin, Carolyn. "When Old Technologies Were New: Thinking About Electric Communication in the Late Nineteenth Century” Papacharissi, Zizi. "A Private Sphere: Democracy in a Digital Age” Turkle, Sherry. "Life on the Screen: Identity in the Age of the Internet” van Dijck, José. "The Culture of Connectivity: A Critical History of Social Media" -- Michael Zimmer, PhD Assistant Professor, School of Information Studies Director, Center for Information Policy Research University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee e: zimmerm(a)uwm.edu w: www.michaelzimmer.org On Mar 5, 2014, at 11:36 AM, Lee H. Humphreys <lmh13(a)cornell.edu> wrote: > Hi Rich, > > Among the others that have already been mentioned, here are some old favorites: > > Raymond Williams "Television: Technology & Cultural Form" > Josh Meyrowitz "No Sense of Place" > Roger Silverstone "Television and Everyday life" > Jacques Ellul "The Technological Society" > > Of course, there's also Innis' "Bias of Communication" and McLuhan's "Understanding Media", which can be fun to teach as well. > > I'm also a huge fan of Nick Couldry's book "Media, Society, World. > > Cheers, > Lee > > Lee Humphreys, PhD > Assistant Professor > Dept. of Communication > Cornell University > > On Mar 5, 2014, at 2:38 AM, Rich Ling wrote: > >> Dear all, >> >> I am trying to think of a readings list on technology and society. I want >> to have a bit of a bias towards communication, but that it not the only >> technology. I have put together the following list. The two areas that I >> realize I don't have much on is steam technology (is there a book similar >> to Eisenstein for steam?) and transport/automobilism. These are mostly >> books. Key articles are also of interest. >> >> My current list (starting with the older technologies) is as follows: >> >> · The Printing press as a agent of change, Eisenstein >> >> · Shaping the day, Glennie and Thrift >> >> · Latitude, Sobel >> >> · The Victorian internet, Standage >> >> · The Control Revolution, Beniger >> >> · Technics and civilization, Mumford >> >> · Electrifying America: Social meanings of a new technology, David Nye >> >> · When old technologies were new, Marvin >> >> · The social construction of technical systems, Bijker >> >> · America Calling, Fischer >> >> · Crabgrass Frontier, Jackson >> >> · Virtual communities, Rheingold >> >> · The rise of the network society, Castells >> >> · 6 Degrees, Watts >> >> · Taken for grantedness (maybe New Tech, New Ties), Ling >> >> · Configuring the User as Everybody: Oudshoorn, Rommes, Stinestra >> >> · Sociology beyond societies, Urry >> >> · In the Age of the Smart Machine, Zuboff >> >> · Play between worlds, Taylor >> >> · Where the action is, Dourish >> >> -- >> Rich L. >> _______________________________________________ >> 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/ > > _______________________________________________ > 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/ _______________________________________________ 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/

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[2nd Call]: 2014 SOCIAL MEDIA & SOCIETY CONFERENCE (#SMSociety14) - Sep 27-28, 2014, Toronto, Canada
by Anatoliy Gruzd 06 Mar '14

06 Mar '14

*Apologies for cross-posting* Call for Submissions: Papers (extended abstracts), Panels and Posters 2014 SOCIAL MEDIA & SOCIETY CONFERENCE (#SMSociety14) September 27-28, 2014, Toronto, Canada Conference website: http://SocialMediaAndSociety.com/ KEYNOTE: Keith N. Hampton, Rutgers University INDUSTRY KEYNOTE: John Weigelt, National Technology Officer, Microsoft Canada IMPORTANT DATES Paper & Panel Abstracts Due: April 18, 2014 Paper & Panel Notification: May 19, 2014 Poster Abstracts Due: May 23, 2014 Poster Notification: June 13, 2014 Conference Dates: September 27-28, 2014 DESCRIPTION We live in an era of “Big Data”. Petabyte and exabyte-size datasets are becoming increasingly common. Much of the data is coming from social media in the form of user-generated content. What do we do with all of these “social” data and how do we make sense of it all? What are the inherent challenges and issues surrounding working with social media data? How are social media platforms and the data that they generate changing us as individuals, changing our organizations and changing our society? Additionally what are the political, ethical, privacy, and security implications of the wide availability of these data? These are just a few questions that we have for this year’s participants of the 2014 Social Media & Society Conference (#SMSociety14). The Social Media & Society Conference is an annual gathering of leading social media researchers from around the world. Now, in its 5th year, the 2014 Conference will be held in Toronto, Canada from September 27 to 28. From its inception, the conference has focused on the best practices for studying the impact and implications of social media on society. The conference offers an intensive two-day program comprising of paper presentations, panel discussions, and posters covering wide-ranging topics related to social media. Organized by the Social Media Lab at Dalhousie 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. Last year’s conference hosted nearly 200 attendees, featured research from 90+ scholars and practitioners across several fields from over 60 institutions in 15 different countries. SUBMISSION PROCESS We invite you to submit papers (extended abstracts), panel proposals and posters on a variety of topics including (but not limited to!): Social Media & Big Data, Social Media Impact on Society, Theories & Methods, and Online/Offline Communities. Full papers are not required for this conference, only an extended abstract (~500 words, excluding references) on a completed or well-developed project related to the broad theme of “Social Media & Society.” All submissions will be peer-reviewed. If selected, the author(s) will be invited to give a 15-minute oral presentation followed by a 5 min Q&A period at the conference. Author(s) of accepted paper abstracts will also be invited to submit their full papers to the new Big Data & Society Journal published by SAGE. Instructions for authors and more information is available at http://SocialMediaAndSociety.com TOPICS OF INTEREST Social Media & Big Data - Visualization of Social Media Data - Social Media Data Mining - Scalability Issues and Social Media Data - Social Media Analytics Social Media Impact on Society - Private Self/Public Self - The Sharing/Attention Economy - Virality & Memes - Political Mobilization & Engagement - Social Media and Health - Social Media and Business (Marketing, PR, HR, Risk Management, etc.) - Social Media and Academia (Alternative Metrics. Learning Analytics, etc.) - Social Media and Public Administration - Social Media and the News Theories & Methods - Qualitative and Quantitative Approaches - Opinion Mining and Sentiment Analysis - Social Network Analysis - Theoretical Models for Studying, Analysing and Understanding Social Media Online/Offline Communities - Trust and Credibility in Social Media - Online Community Detection - Influential User Detection - Online Identity - Case Studies of Online and/or Offline Communities Formed on Social Media CONFERENCE ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Anatoliy Gruzd, Dalhousie University, Canada Barry Wellman. University of Toronto, Canada Philip Mai, Dalhousie University, Canada Jenna Jacobson, University of Toronto, Canada

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