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Book Recommendation
by Plothe, Theo 08 May '20

08 May '20

Dear AoIR-Hive Mind, First off, I hope you’re doing well and staying safe. I am teaching an undergraduate special topics course this fall on Social Media PR, where I hope to do a lot of social media analytics. All of these students will be PR majors, but I want to give them a toolbox for real network analysis. It’s a upper level class, but our students have never done anything like this at all. So I’m conscious that there will be a steep learning curve before we get to tools like Gephi or NodeXL. Anyone have any suggestions for a textbook? I haven’t found one yet, and my deadline for course materials passed a few weeks ago. So I’ve sorta run out of time. I will take any and all suggestions! Thank you! Best, Dr. Plothe -- Theo Plothe, PhD Assistant Professor Journalism and Mass Communication Savannah State University On May 7, 2020, at 4:40 PM, air-l-request(a)listserv.aoir.org<mailto:air-l-request@listserv.aoir.org> wrote: Send Air-L mailing list submissions to air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org<mailto:air-l@listserv.aoir.org> To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Flistserv.a… 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. Re: Question: Twitter follower count distribution (Jakob J?nger) 2. CFP "Digital Ethnography" at VANDA-Vienna Anthropology Days (Monika Palmberger) 3. [updated cfp] Histories of Computing in Asia workshop (Christopher Leslie) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Wed, 6 May 2020 22:48:40 +0200 From: Jakob J?nger <jakob.juenger(a)uni-greifswald.de> To: "Vergeer, M.R.M. (Maurice)" <m.vergeer(a)maw.ru.nl>, Aram Sinnreich <aram(a)american.edu>, "air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org" <air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org> Cc: Marie-Luise von Berg <marie-luise.vonberg(a)uni-greifswald.de> Subject: Re: [Air-L] Question: Twitter follower count distribution Message-ID: <397be647-2361-f238-a53c-44521c5dddb3(a)uni-greifswald.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Thanks for the advice, may I follow up on this? My first thought was poisson, too. But poisson distributions (and gaussian) assume the events occur independently, as far as I know. And that should not be true for follower counts because, I guess, there is some kind of (nonlinear) preferential attachment process behind this (e.g. https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnetworksci…) Might be I missed something. Maybe someone knows studies that fit distributions of social media metrics? Am 06.05.2020 um 21:53 schrieb Vergeer, M.R.M. (Maurice): considering the number of followers is a count variable (non-negative discrete numbers), is is either a poisson, negative-binomial, or sero-inflated distribution log-transforming the distribution for further (statistical) analysis is not advised. best Maurice ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Thu, 07 May 2020 11:17:39 +0200 From: Monika Palmberger <monika.palmberger(a)univie.ac.at> To: <air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org> Cc: Philipp Budka <philipp.budka(a)univie.ac.at> Subject: [Air-L] CFP "Digital Ethnography" at VANDA-Vienna Anthropology Days Message-ID: <B0F3865B-1508-4F74-B201-17AB1C07D425(a)univie.ac.at> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Dear All, We are warmly inviting you to submit a paper proposal for our panel ?Digital Ethnography: Revisiting Theoretical Concepts and Methodological Approaches? taking place at VANDA - Vienna Anthropology Days (https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fvanda.uni… , Sept. 28 ? Oct. 1, 2020, University of Vienna, Austria). The deadline for submitting a paper abstract is June 1, 2020. Please find details on the call below. Best wishes, Monika and Philipp Conference Vienna Anthropology Days (VANDA) 2020 Date & Venue 28 September - 1 October, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria Panel Digital Ethnography: Revisiting Theoretical Concepts and Methodological Approaches Organizers Philipp Budka (University of Vienna) Monika Palmberger (University of Vienna) Abstract Ethnographic research has the potential to dig deep into mediated personal relationships as well as into socio-technical relations in an increasingly digitized and digitalized world (e.g., Hjorth et al. 2017; Horst & Miller, 2012; Pink et al., 2016). In order to do so, ethnographers and anthropologists have engaged with a variety of digital and multimodal methods such as online ethnographic fieldwork and participant observation, digital storytelling, mobile and visual media elicitation, digital media biographies, and digital video re-enactments (e.g., Pink et al., 2016). Their research has opened up new knowledge horizons such as the changing emotional, normative or symbolic dimensions of complex social relations and cultural practices entangled with new digital media technologies. This session provides room for critical and ethical reflections on theory and methodology in the field of digital anthropology/ethnography, including, but not limited to, the following questions: Which theoretical concepts are particularly fruitful in the ethnographic and anthropological exploration of digital phenomena? How are such concepts entangled with methodological approaches and challenges, for example by reconsidering issues of collaboration, decolonization, confidentiality or intimacy? How can we do participant observation when communication and interaction are increasingly 'individualized' and veiled due to digital technologies, particularly the smartphone? Which forms of collecting, interpreting and representing empirical data do we aspire for? This session invites presenters to revisit previous discussions and critically reflect upon current relevant debates in anthropology and beyond. Papers may be empirically, methodologically or theoretically driven. Deadline & Submission Please submit your paper abstracts (max. 350 words) online via the conference system the latest by June 1, 2020: https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fvanda.uni… ----------- Dr. Monika Palmberger https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fksa.univi… https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fkuleuven.… recent publications: Relational ambivalence: Exploring the social and discursive dimensions of ambivalence?The case of Turkish aging labor migrants. International Journal of Comparative Sociology, 2019. 2019: Why alternative memory and place-making practices in divided cities matter Space and Polity, 2019. ------------------------------ Message: 3 Date: Thu, 7 May 2020 22:01:05 +0800 From: Christopher Leslie <chrisleslienyc(a)hotmail.com> To: air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org, Sigcis <members(a)sigcis.org> Subject: [Air-L] [updated cfp] Histories of Computing in Asia workshop Message-ID: <DM6PR13MB3609A311CF012E572EAF251EC2A50(a)DM6PR13MB3609.namprd13.prod.outlook.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Dear Colleagues, Even though the future is hard to predict, the consensus of IFIP Working Group 9.7 and the program committee is that we should go ahead with our December workshop. The initial interest in our workshop has been keen, and it seems that now more than ever we should maintain our commitment to international scholarship. Ultimately, I think the decision about the fate of the workshop should be made by the participants, based on the advice of our host. Thus, our program committee will start reviewing draft papers as we previously announced on June 1 and we will hope to have a roster of papers announced by September. At that time, we will confer with all parties involved to decide what is the best and safest way for everyone to proceed. It seems possible that some will be able to attend an in-person meeting, and other will prefer to make remote presentations. If in fact the group wishes to postpone the conference to 2021, we can consider that, too. If you would like to participate in the workshop, but you do not think you will be ready to submit your paper by June 1, please let me know. Additionally, if you have any concerns about the workshop in advance of submitting a draft paper, please reach out. These are trying times, and I appreciate everyone?s patience and support. With that lengthy preamble, I am pasting an abbreviated CFP below. More information, including a form to upload your draft paper, is available at https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fifipwg97.o… Sincerely, Chris Leslie Chair, IFIP Working Group 9.7: History of Computing Lecturer, South China University of Technology Final Call for Papers HISTORIES OF COMPUTING IN ASIA SOUTH CHINA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY GUANGZHOU ? DECEMBER 2020 Draft papers are now being accepted for the next meeting of IFIP?s Working Group 9.7, which we hope will be held from 4 to 8 December 2020. Hosted by the South China University of Technology (SCUT) in Guangzhou, China, our proposed workshop will bring together international and Chinese academic researchers, public historians, and industry professionals who are interested in the history of computing. The ongoing coronavirus pandemic has created many uncertainties. Because our workshop is not scheduled until the end of the year, we have decided to proceed with the review of papers as planned, and we will confer with the authors of accepted papers about their ability to travel in the fall. We hope it will be possible to hold the conference in person, but we recognize that for some participants, this may be impossible or uncomfortable. We will discuss alternative arrangements, such as allowing remote presentations or postponing the workshop, in September with the authors of the accepted papers. THEMES The theme of the workshop is histories of computing in Asia, with a particular emphasis on contextualizing China?s success in computing. The program committee will consider any paper in line with this theme, but we are particularly interested in topics such as: China, Asia, and Beyond. The rapid rise of Chinese computing Internationalism. Frameworks that foster multinational cooperation and innovation Science and Technology Studies. History and philosophy of technology, from east to west Pedagogy. Teaching the history of computing in or about Asia Public History and Imagination. Remembering and presenting histories of computing More details about the CFP, guidelines for papers, and a form to upload your draft paper for consideration is available at: https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fifipwg97.o… <https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fifipwg97.o…> REVIEW PROCESS Academic and amateur historians, computing and informatics professionals, archivists, and museum curators are welcome to submit papers to be considered for this workshop. Following our typical practice, we will ask for full papers for anonymous peer review by a program committee. Accepted papers must be revised according to the comments of the peer reviewers. In order to provide for a lively discussion at the workshop, we will distribute draft papers to participants in advance. After the workshop, authors will have the chance to incorporate feedback from the audience before preparing their final versions. These will be considered for inclusion in the volume of edited, selected papers, which will be published by Springer-Nature in the IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology series. The official language of the workshop and the printed proceedings is English. IMPORTANT DATES 1 May to 1 June 2020: Draft papers accepted for consideration by the Program Committee 1 September 2020: Comments from Program Committee, decisions, and invitations sent to authors 4 November 2020: Collection of papers, revised based on reviewer comments and using Springer template, for distribution to workshop participants 4 December 2020: Participants arrive in Guangzhou, China 13 January 2021: Revised papers due for consideration in proceedings volume, which will be published by Springer Enquires in advance of your submission may be addressed to the conference chair, Christopher Leslie, at <hca2020workshop(a)outlook.com <mailto:hca2020workshop@outlook.com>>. ------------------------------ Subject: Digest Footer _______________________________________________ The Air-L(a)listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Faoir.org%2… Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Flistserv.a… Join the Association of Internet Researchers: https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.aoir.o… ------------------------------ End of Air-L Digest, Vol 190, Issue 8 *************************************

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ONLY one week away - IEEE Globecom 2020 - Social Networks Selected Areas in Communication Track
by Eirini Eleni Tsiropoulou 08 May '20

08 May '20

****Apologies for multiple postings. The 2020 IEEE Global Communications Conference (Globecom) will be held physically in Taipei as scheduled from 7 to 11, December 2020. The organizing team is closely monitoring the development of the COVID-19 situation. In case of travel restrictions that prohibit physical appearance, video presentation will be accepted as an alternative of presentation. Welcome to visit the picturesque city of Taipei in December. CALL FOR PAPERS IEEE Globecom 2020 - Social Networks Selected Areas in Communication Track 7-11 December 2020 Taipei, Taiwan *********************** Important Dates Paper Submission: 15 May 2020 (EXTENDED) Notification: 15 August 2020 Camera Ready: 1 September 2020 *********************** Submission link: https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=27072&track=100637 *********************** Scope and Motivation Social networks, which target the development of social relations among people with common interest through web-based services, have contributed a large portion of Internet traffic nowadays and become dominant forms of social interaction on the Internet. This recent development brings significant research interests on the interplay between mobile communications networks, mobile computing and social networks. Due to its increasing prevalence and interdisciplinary nature, social networks have also attracted research attentions to a number of related technical areas, including blockchain, artificial intelligence, cloud computing, big data analytics, data mining, information security and privacy protection. This track aims to provide a forum that brings together scientists and researchers from academia, industry, and government to present their cutting-edge innovations in all aspects of the field. Papers on practical applications and R&D results from industry and academic/industrial collaborations are encouraged. Topics of interest for the Social Networks Selected Areas in Communication Track include, but are not limited to: * Artificial Intelligence for social networks and applications * Blockchain-based social networks, decentralized social content, and cryptocurrency through social networks * Knowledge discovery with big mobile data analytics and information dissemination and propagation in social networks * New applications of large social network analysis and relational structure of social networks to design advanced wireless communication networks, and interplay with network science areas such as physics and biology * Social network modeling, analysis, measurements, and experiments using big data and data mining for better understanding of social network influence, reputation, recommendation, community structure, and advertisement etc. * Convergence and interplay between social networks and the underlying communications platforms, including characterization of social interactions in mobile communication networks and analysis of social network from communication theory perspective * Influence of social networks on communications networks design and operation as well as subsequent development of new paradigms of future communications networks * Numerical and analytical techniques as a foundation to enable social networks of massive networked (big) data (e.g., belief and message propagation, computational intelligence and machine learning, game and economical analysis, graph theoretical analysis etc.) * Trusted networking, privacy and security, user behaviors and dynamics, and digital right management for big data from social networks * System architecture, protocols, middleware and software engineering, terminal technology, user experience and interface technology, deployment and operations, and standards for social networks * Social networks applications and services to mobile Internet, multimedia networks, mobile-commerce, cyber-physical systems, and their potential social, economic, and cultural impacts ********* Symposium Chair Eirini Eleni Tsiropoulou, University of New Mexico, USA -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Eirini Eleni Tsiropoulou Assistant Professor Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering University of New Mexico Albuquerque, NM, 87131 Office: 326B Tel.: (505)-277-5501 Email: eirini(a)unm.edu<mailto:eirini@unm.edu> Website: PROTON Lab<http://ece-research.unm.edu/tsiropoulou/index.html> PROTON Lab's News: @Tsiropoulou_EE<https://twitter.com/Tsiropoulou_EE>

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[updated cfp] Histories of Computing in Asia workshop
by Christopher Leslie 07 May '20

07 May '20

Dear Colleagues, Even though the future is hard to predict, the consensus of IFIP Working Group 9.7 and the program committee is that we should go ahead with our December workshop. The initial interest in our workshop has been keen, and it seems that now more than ever we should maintain our commitment to international scholarship. Ultimately, I think the decision about the fate of the workshop should be made by the participants, based on the advice of our host. Thus, our program committee will start reviewing draft papers as we previously announced on June 1 and we will hope to have a roster of papers announced by September. At that time, we will confer with all parties involved to decide what is the best and safest way for everyone to proceed. It seems possible that some will be able to attend an in-person meeting, and other will prefer to make remote presentations. If in fact the group wishes to postpone the conference to 2021, we can consider that, too. If you would like to participate in the workshop, but you do not think you will be ready to submit your paper by June 1, please let me know. Additionally, if you have any concerns about the workshop in advance of submitting a draft paper, please reach out. These are trying times, and I appreciate everyone’s patience and support. With that lengthy preamble, I am pasting an abbreviated CFP below. More information, including a form to upload your draft paper, is available at http://ifipwg97.org/ Sincerely, Chris Leslie Chair, IFIP Working Group 9.7: History of Computing Lecturer, South China University of Technology Final Call for Papers HISTORIES OF COMPUTING IN ASIA SOUTH CHINA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY GUANGZHOU • DECEMBER 2020 Draft papers are now being accepted for the next meeting of IFIP’s Working Group 9.7, which we hope will be held from 4 to 8 December 2020. Hosted by the South China University of Technology (SCUT) in Guangzhou, China, our proposed workshop will bring together international and Chinese academic researchers, public historians, and industry professionals who are interested in the history of computing. The ongoing coronavirus pandemic has created many uncertainties. Because our workshop is not scheduled until the end of the year, we have decided to proceed with the review of papers as planned, and we will confer with the authors of accepted papers about their ability to travel in the fall. We hope it will be possible to hold the conference in person, but we recognize that for some participants, this may be impossible or uncomfortable. We will discuss alternative arrangements, such as allowing remote presentations or postponing the workshop, in September with the authors of the accepted papers. THEMES The theme of the workshop is histories of computing in Asia, with a particular emphasis on contextualizing China’s success in computing. The program committee will consider any paper in line with this theme, but we are particularly interested in topics such as: China, Asia, and Beyond. The rapid rise of Chinese computing Internationalism. Frameworks that foster multinational cooperation and innovation Science and Technology Studies. History and philosophy of technology, from east to west Pedagogy. Teaching the history of computing in or about Asia Public History and Imagination. Remembering and presenting histories of computing More details about the CFP, guidelines for papers, and a form to upload your draft paper for consideration is available at: http://ifipwg97.org/workshops/hca2020/ <http://ifipwg97.org/workshops/hca2020/> REVIEW PROCESS Academic and amateur historians, computing and informatics professionals, archivists, and museum curators are welcome to submit papers to be considered for this workshop. Following our typical practice, we will ask for full papers for anonymous peer review by a program committee. Accepted papers must be revised according to the comments of the peer reviewers. In order to provide for a lively discussion at the workshop, we will distribute draft papers to participants in advance. After the workshop, authors will have the chance to incorporate feedback from the audience before preparing their final versions. These will be considered for inclusion in the volume of edited, selected papers, which will be published by Springer-Nature in the IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology series. The official language of the workshop and the printed proceedings is English. IMPORTANT DATES 1 May to 1 June 2020: Draft papers accepted for consideration by the Program Committee 1 September 2020: Comments from Program Committee, decisions, and invitations sent to authors 4 November 2020: Collection of papers, revised based on reviewer comments and using Springer template, for distribution to workshop participants 4 December 2020: Participants arrive in Guangzhou, China 13 January 2021: Revised papers due for consideration in proceedings volume, which will be published by Springer Enquires in advance of your submission may be addressed to the conference chair, Christopher Leslie, at <hca2020workshop(a)outlook.com <mailto:hca2020workshop@outlook.com>>.

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CFP "Digital Ethnography" at VANDA-Vienna Anthropology Days
by Monika Palmberger 07 May '20

07 May '20

Dear All, We are warmly inviting you to submit a paper proposal for our panel “Digital Ethnography: Revisiting Theoretical Concepts and Methodological Approaches” taking place at VANDA - Vienna Anthropology Days (https://vanda.univie.ac.at/ , Sept. 28 – Oct. 1, 2020, University of Vienna, Austria). The deadline for submitting a paper abstract is June 1, 2020. Please find details on the call below. Best wishes, Monika and Philipp Conference Vienna Anthropology Days (VANDA) 2020 Date & Venue 28 September - 1 October, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria Panel Digital Ethnography: Revisiting Theoretical Concepts and Methodological Approaches Organizers Philipp Budka (University of Vienna) Monika Palmberger (University of Vienna) Abstract Ethnographic research has the potential to dig deep into mediated personal relationships as well as into socio-technical relations in an increasingly digitized and digitalized world (e.g., Hjorth et al. 2017; Horst & Miller, 2012; Pink et al., 2016). In order to do so, ethnographers and anthropologists have engaged with a variety of digital and multimodal methods such as online ethnographic fieldwork and participant observation, digital storytelling, mobile and visual media elicitation, digital media biographies, and digital video re-enactments (e.g., Pink et al., 2016). Their research has opened up new knowledge horizons such as the changing emotional, normative or symbolic dimensions of complex social relations and cultural practices entangled with new digital media technologies. This session provides room for critical and ethical reflections on theory and methodology in the field of digital anthropology/ethnography, including, but not limited to, the following questions: Which theoretical concepts are particularly fruitful in the ethnographic and anthropological exploration of digital phenomena? How are such concepts entangled with methodological approaches and challenges, for example by reconsidering issues of collaboration, decolonization, confidentiality or intimacy? How can we do participant observation when communication and interaction are increasingly 'individualized' and veiled due to digital technologies, particularly the smartphone? Which forms of collecting, interpreting and representing empirical data do we aspire for? This session invites presenters to revisit previous discussions and critically reflect upon current relevant debates in anthropology and beyond. Papers may be empirically, methodologically or theoretically driven. Deadline & Submission Please submit your paper abstracts (max. 350 words) online via the conference system the latest by June 1, 2020: https://vanda.univie.ac.at/call-for-papers/ ----------- Dr. Monika Palmberger https://ksa.univie.ac.at/palmberger-monika https://kuleuven.academia.edu/MonikaPalmberger recent publications: Relational ambivalence: Exploring the social and discursive dimensions of ambivalence—The case of Turkish aging labor migrants. International Journal of Comparative Sociology, 2019. 2019: Why alternative memory and place-making practices in divided cities matter Space and Polity, 2019.

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Question: Twitter follower count distribution
by Aram Sinnreich 06 May '20

06 May '20

Hey Fellow AoIRistas, Quick question: Do you know of any top-down measures of the distribution of follower numbers for Twitter accounts? I'm sure the curve overall looks like a standard power law distribution, but I'm interested to know whether there are emergent tiers (e.g. <250; 251-2,500; 2501-10,000; 10,001+) or something along those lines. Thanks! Aram -- *Aram Sinnreich <http://www.sinnreich.com>* Associate Professor Chair, Communication Studies American University <http://www.american.edu/soc/> School of Communication <http://www.american.edu/soc/> Author <http://j.mp/sinnreich>| Musician <http://sinnreich.com/music/> (he/him/his)

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Postdoc opportunity at University of Michigan School of Information on privacy/ethics/emotion recognition
by Nazanin Andalibi 06 May '20

06 May '20

Hi, I have an opening for a postdoc position for an NSF-funded project around ethics/privacy/emotion recognition technologies. This links includes more information about the position and how to apply: https://careers.umich.edu/job_detail/186457/postdoctoral_research_fellow Best, Nazanin Andalibi, Ph.D. Assistant Professor University of Michigan School of Information 3372 North Quad Website: https://www.nazaninandalibi.net/ Pronouns: She/Her *Affiliate faculty:* Digital Studies Institute Center for Social Media Responsibility Center for Ethics, Computing and Society

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Digital Modern Languages Call for Doctoral Research Presentations - Deadline 15 May 2020
by Naomi Wells 06 May '20

06 May '20

Digital Modern Languages Seminar Series: Call for Doctoral Research Presentations The Digital Modern Languages (https://digitalmodernlanguages.wordpress.com/) convenors are planning a series of virtual events to bring together research and teaching in Modern Languages which engages with digital culture, media and technologies. For our first event, we would like to showcase the new and exciting research currently undertaken by PhD students across Modern Languages and related departments. The aim is also to provide a forum for doctoral researchers to present and receive feedback on their work in a supportive environment, particularly at a time when such opportunities may be more limited than in normal circumstances. As a result, we are planning to host a virtual seminar from 3-5pm (GMT) on Wednesday 3 June 2020, including four 15-minute presentations from doctoral researchers, followed by a Q & A session with all presenters. To ensure a supportive virtual environment, the seminar will only be open to those who register in advance and presenters will be able to choose whether they would like their presentation recorded/shared more widely after the event. We will also support presenters in advance to ensure they are comfortable and familiar with the virtual seminar format. If you’re interested in contributing to the seminar, please submit a title and brief abstract of around 150 words (200 max) on your proposed presentation, with your name, institution and year of PhD study/completion. Presenters should be either current or recently completed PhD students (within 1 year of their viva) from a languages or closely related department. In line with the series’ aim, we will adopt an inclusive approach, both thematically and in terms of the languages of specialism of seminar speakers. Areas of potential but not exclusive interest include: digital cultural studies, digital archives and databases, digital ethnography, digital discourse analysis, language teaching and digital technologies, translation technologies and digital/computational approaches to the study of language and text (all with a primary focus on languages other than English). Proposals should be submitted by email by Friday 15 May (midnight GMT) to naomi.wells(a)sas.ac.uk and paul.spence(a)kcl.ac.uk. Please also contact us if you have any questions about contributing to the seminar. If you’re currently supervising digital research in Modern Languages, please also share this opportunity with any of your own PhD students who might be interested in contributing. Dr Naomi Wells Early Career Researcher in Italian and Spanish with Digital Humanities Institute of Modern Languages Research School of Advanced Study | University of London Room 238 | Senate House | Malet Street | London WC1E 7HU | UK Email: naomi.wells(a)sas.ac.uk http://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/ https://digitalmodernlanguages.wordpress.com/

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Webinar: Digital Activism in times of pandemic - Thursday, May 7, 2020
by Gerbaudo, Paolo 06 May '20

06 May '20

Dear Colleagues, You are invited to the webinar organised by the Centre for Digital Culture and the International Sociological Association, Research Committee 47 on digital activism in the pandemic. The event will start tomorrow Thursday 7 May, at 3pm (UK time). If you want to join https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/digital-activism-in-times-of-pandemic-ticket… Details below. Best, Paolo Webinar Digital Activism in times of pandemic Date: Thursday,May 7, 2020 Time: 10a.m. (New York Time), 11a.m. (Brazilian Time), 4p.m. (Central European Summer Time & South Africa Standard Time), 7:30 p.m (Indian Standard Time) Duration: 1:30 h Registration link and access: Each discussant will give a 10-minutes presentation. The audience can ask questions via chat in the Video Conference. If you only want to watch, you can also use the International Sociological Association Research Committee on Social Classes and Social Movements (ISA RC47) Youtube channel, live or afterwards: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCr-0ie11P6GSQEs9KGFGawg About: Digital Activism has been an important trend in contemporary social movements, amid an era marked by rapid technological change. From the 2011 movements of the squares, to the Gilets Jaunes and the 2019 anti-government protests from Chile, to Ecuador and Lebanon have seen the use of new social media tactics, using platforms such as Facebook and Twitter for purposes of organization and mobilization. The 2020 coronavirus crisis makes digital activism even more important. Due to lockdown measures citizens cannot engage in traditional physical forms of protests, such as demonstrations, pickets, sit-ins, etc. However, the need to social action is not diminished, given the need for social solidarity amidst this crisis, and the emergence of new grievances, related to the economic effects of the crisis, which unveiling the enormous injustice at the heart of our societies. Thus, in the last weeks we have witnessed new forms of collective action organised online. This range from collective flashmobs such as #clapforourcarers in the UK and similar ones in other countries, which call citizens to express their solidarity towards doctors and nurses to all sorts of actual protest organised online such as ‘caceroladas’ (banging pots protests) called on social media, to the use of memes and other forms of online propaganda to express dissent at the way governments are managing the crisis. This webinar will bring together activists and social movement scholars around the world, to discuss the new forms of online activism that are developing in this difficult period. It will ask how activists are using the Internet and social media to mobilise against the injustices revealed by the crisis, and how activists are using online organizing tool to cope with the isolation produced by lockdown measures. Participants Paolo Gerbaudo is a sociologist and political theorist and the director of the Centre for Digital culture at King’s College London. He is the Author of Tweets and the Streets: Social Media and Contemporary Activism<https://www.plutobooks.com/9781849648011/tweets-and-the-streets/> (2012), The Mask and the Flag: Populism, Citizenism and Global Protest<https://www.hurstpublishers.com/book/the-mask-and-the-flag/> (2017), and Digital Party: Political Organisation and Online Democracy<https://www.plutobooks.com/9780745335797/the-digital-party/> (2019) Anastasia Kavada is a Reader in Media and Politics at the School of Media and Communication at the University of Westminster. She is Co-Director of the Arts, Communication and Culture Research Community. Her research focuses on the links between digital media, social movements, and social change. Her work has appeared in a variety of edited books and academic journals. Mengying Li has recently completed her PhD at the Department of Digital Humanities, King’s College London. She is currently writing a book on Weibo and WeChat’s involvement in Chinese online activism and is about to join the Journalism School at Shanghai Fudan University as a postdoctoral research fellow. Her research focuses on digital cultures, social media and online activism. Marisa von Bulow is a political scientist and Associate Professor at the University of Brasilia. She is author of Building Transnational Networks (2010), Social movement dynamics: new perspectives on theory and research from Latin America (2015) and Social movements in Chile: organization, trajectories and political consequences. Her recent researches deals with social movements and digital activism Brazil and Chile. Winnie Wong is an activist. She is senior political adviser to the Bernie Sanders 2020 presidential campaign. Dr Paolo Gerbaudo, Senior Lecturer in Digital Culture and Society, Department of Digital Humanities Director of the Centre for Digital Culture King's College London, Room S3.10, Strand Building, 3rd Floor, Strand London WC2, England Phone: +44 (0)20 78481576

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COVID-19 Seminar #3: Prof Ruha Benjamin, Princeton University
by Thao Phan 05 May '20

05 May '20

*COVID-19 Seminar #3: Prof Ruha Benjamin, Princeton University* https://ruha-benjamin-seminar.eventbrite.com.au Please join us for the first seminar in the COVID-19 seminar series, co-hosted by the Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship & Globalisation (ADI) <https://www.deakin.edu.au/adi> and the Science and Society Network (SSN) <https://scienceandsocietynetwork.deakin.edu.au/>.This week's seminar will take the format of 2 x pre-recorded guest lectures followed by live Q&A with the speaker, Professor Ruha Benjamin, Princeton University. *Date/time:* Tuesday 12th May, 10am - 11:30am (Australian Eastern Standard Time, GMT+10) *Pre-recorded guest lectures:* 1. Black Skin, White Masks: Racism, Vulnerability & Refuting Black Pathology (30:48) https://aas.princeton.edu/news/black-skin-white-masks-racism-vulnerability-… 2. Are robots racist? Reimagining the Default Settings of Technology and Society (23:24) https://www.dropbox.com/s/ia5j8ao5ycllyzd/Ruha%20Benjamin%20Guest%20Lecture… *About the speaker:* Ruha Benjamin an Associate Professor of African American Studies at Princeton University, where she studies the social dimensions of science, technology, and medicine. She is the founder of the JUST DATA Lab and the author of two books, People’s Science (Stanford) and Race After Technology (Polity), and editor of Captivating Technology (Duke). She writes, teaches, and speaks widely about the relationship between knowledge and power, race and citizenship, health and justice. *Live Q&A discussion with Professor Benjamin:* Limited tickets are available for those who would like to part of the Zoom discussion (this is to help manage numbers and Zoom interruptions). Register as a 'Zoom participant' on Eventbrite. The Q&A will also be live streamed on YouTube live. Access using the live link: https://youtu.be/zTOBG2RxYTY (Register as a 'YouTube Live participant' on Eventbrite to receive an email reminder for the event). Date/time: Tuesday 12th May, 10am - 11:30am (Australian Eastern Standard Time, GMT+10) To send questions/participate in the YouTube Live chat, you'll need to sign-in using a YouTube account <https://www.businessinsider.com/how-to-comment-on-youtube?r=AU&IR=T>. If you have any questions, please send to ssn-info(a)deakin.edu.au <ssn-info(a)deakin.edu.au> The talk will also be recorded and available on the SSN Youtube Channel <https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCVYFQV_UFX9CLreqpNzanVA>. Did you miss our last seminar? Watch it here! <https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLtH1AbnJ7AFApbhh29fL5kqjNFdD_0eID>

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CFP E-Vote-ID 2020
by Peter ROENNE 05 May '20

05 May '20

*Deadline postponed to June 15, 2020* *Conference going digital* In these challenging COVID-19 times, the question on how to deal with democracy during a pandemic has been raised by several voices. We consider that keeping the conference, albeit in digital format, is not only an academic responsibility, but also responds to the need for an active focus on electronic voting by facilitating high quality debates and responses. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS E-Vote-ID 2020 Fifth International Joint Conference on Electronic Voting 6–9 October 2020 www.e-vote-id.org (Paper Submission Date: 15 June 2020) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- WWW: https://www.e-vote-id.org/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/EVoteID/ Twitter: @evotingcc Hashtag: #EVoteID2020 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- General Chairs: Krimmer, Robert (Tallinn University of Technology, Ragnar Nurkse School, Estonia), Volkamer, Melanie (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany) Outreach Chairs: Rønne, Peter (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg), Krivonosova, Iuliia (Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This is the fifth edition of one of the leading international events for e-voting experts from all over the world. Due to the COVID-19 situation, the conference will this year take a digital format. One of its major objectives is to provide a forum for interdisciplinary and open discussion of all issues relating to electronic voting. In the first 4 editions, up to 121 presentations had been discussed, gathering more than 400 participants. The aim of the conference is to bring together e-voting specialists working in academia, politics, government and industry in order to discuss various aspects of all forms of electronic voting (including, but not limited to, polling stations, kiosks, ballot scanners and remote voting by electronic means) in the four following tracks below and a PhD colloquium: Track on Security, Usability and Technical Issues Chairs: Beckert, Bernhard (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany), Küsters, Ralf (University of Stuttgart, Germany) and Kulyk, Oksana (IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark) Design, analysis, formal modeling or researching and implementation of: - Electronic voting protocols and systems; - Voter identification and authentication; - Ballot secrecy, receipt-freeness and coercion resistance; - Election verification including end-to-end verifiability and risk-limiting audits; - Requirements; - Evaluation and certification, including international security standards, e.g. Common Criteria or ITSEC; - Human aspects of security mechanisms in electronic voting and in particular of verifiability mechanisms; or - Any other security and HCI issues relevant for electronic voting. Track on Administrative, Legal, Political and Social Issues Chairs: Duenas-Cid, David (Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia / Kozminski University, Poland), Solvak, Mihkel (University of Tartu, Estonia) - Discuss legal, political and social issues of electronic voting implementations, ideally employing case study methodology; - Analyze the interrelationship with, and the effects of electronic voting on democratic institutions and processes; - Assess the cultural impact of electronic voting on institutions, behaviours and attitudes of the Digital Era; - Discuss the administrative, legal, political and social risks of electronic voting; - How to draft electronic voting legislations; - Public administrations and the implementation of electronic voting; - Understandability, transparency, and trust issues in electronic voting; - Data protection issues; - Public interests vs. PPP (public private partnerships). Track on Elections and Practical Experiences Chairs: Oliver Spycher (Swiss Federal Chancellery, Switzerland) and Beata Martin-Rozumilowicz (International Foundation for Electoral Systems, USA) - Review developments in the area of applied electronic voting; - Report on experiences with electronic voting or the preparation thereof (including reports on development and implementation, case law, court decisions, legislative steps, public and political debates, election outcomes, etc.); Contributions in this track will be published in TalTech press proceedings only. These experience and practical reports need not contain original research, but must be an accurate, complete and, where applicable, evidence-based account of the technology or system used. Submissions will be judged on quality of review and level of analysis, and the applicability of the results to other democracies. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Track on Posters and E-Voting System Demo Chair: Rønne, Peter (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg) The Poster and Demo session will be replaced with shorter presentations in a format to be determined. Participation is open to all conference participants, but we request a Short Paper (two pages) by 15 September submitted via Easychair describing the system’s requirements and properties, such as: - whether the system is intended for use in controlled (i.e. in polling stations) or uncontrolled environments (i.e. remotely via the Internet or in kiosks); - which types of elections it accommodates; - whether it addresses the needs of voters with disabilities; - what sort of verifiability it provides; - the extent to which it guarantees vote privacy; - whether it has been deployed in a real election; - where to go for more information. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- PhD Colloquium Chairs: Driza Maurer, Ardita (Zentrum für Demokratie Aarau ZDA/ University of Zurich, Switzerland) and Iuliia Krivonosova (Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia) The goal of the colloquium is to foster understanding and collaboration between PhD students from various disciplines working on e-voting. To this end, the program allows plenty of space for discussion and initiating collaboration based on presentations by attendees. Each interested participant should submit his/her research proposal (or alternatively ideas for papers, open problems, or other issues where feedback from colleagues would be helpful etc.) on the shaper of a short paper (two pages length) using the conference platform. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Format of the Conference Unfortunately, we will not be able to meet in person in Bregenz this year, but we will arrange a digital conference. We will take input from upcoming digital conferences to determine the best possible format. The dates will still be 6–9 October 2020. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Paper-based Submissions Paper-based submissions may be in one of two formats - either as a full paper or as an abstract. - Full paper submissions (max 16 pages in LNCS format all in); - Short Paper submissions (max 2 pages in LNCS format all in). All submissions will be subject to double-blind review. Submissions must be anonymous (with no reference to the authors). Submissions are to be made using the EasyChair conference system at https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=evoteid2020, which serves as the online system for the review process. During submission, please select the appropriate track or the PhD colloquium. The track chairs reserve the right to re-assign papers to other tracks in case of better fit based on reviewer feedback and in coordination with other track chairs. LNCS style has to be used (see the Springer guidelines at http://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gui…, including templates for LaTeX and Microsoft Word). If you think that one or more of the programme committee members could have a conflict of interest with your submission, please let the general chairs know at conference-chairs(a)e-vote-id.org. In turn, according settings in the EasyChair system will be set, so that the respective member/s is/are not involved in the review process. Accepted papers will be presented at the digital conference, but the opportunity to present the works at next year’s, hopefully, physical conference will be given. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Key Dates for Submissions Deadline for submitting papers: (Hawaiian time, rigid deadline, no extension) 15 June 2020 – 23:59 Notification of Acceptance: 24 July 2020 Deadline for submission of papers for theTrack on Election and Practical Experiences and the PhD Colloquium: 10 July 2020 Deadline for Camera-ready Paper Submissions: 20 August 2020 Deadline for Poster Submission and Short Papers for E-Voting System Demo Session: 15 September 2020 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Publication The conference proceedings will be available at the time of the conference. Full papers accepted for the tracks on security, usability, and technical issues, respective administrative, legal, political, and social issues will be published in Springer LNCS. All other accepted publications, including full papers in the election experience track, accepted abstracts in any of the tracks, and from the submissions in the PhD colloquium will be published in proceedings with TalTech press. In case your academic host institution requires you to publish your research as open-access only, please contact the conference chairs for further information in which way it is intended to make accepted publications accessible. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Programme Committee General Chairs Krimmer, Robert (Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia) Volkamer, Melanie (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany) Track Chairs Track on Security, Usability, and Technical Issues Beckert, Bernhard (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, DE) Küsters, Ralf (University of Stuttgart, DE) Kulyk, Oksana (IT University of Copenhagen, DK) Track on Administrative, Legal, Political, and Social Issues Duenas-Cid, David (Tallinn University of Technology, EE and Kozminski University, PL) Solvak, Mihkel (University of Tartu, EE) Track on Elections and Practical Experiences Spycher, Oliver (Federal Chancellery, CH) Martin-Rozumilowicz, Beata (IFES, US) PhD Colloquium Driza Maurer, Ardita (Zentrum für Demokratie Aarau ZDA / University of Zurich, Switzerland) Krivonosova, Iuliia (Tallinn University of Technology, EE) Outreach Chairs Rønne, Peter (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg) Krivonosova, Iuliia (Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia) Track on Security, Usability, and Technical Issues Programme Committee Benaloh, Josh (Microsoft Research, US) Bernhard, Matthew (University of Michigan, US) Cortier, Véronique (INRIA-LORIA, FR) Essex, Aleksander (Western University, CA) Gibson, Paul (Telecom SudParis, FR) Giustolisi, Rosario (IT University Copenhagen, DK) Gjosteen, Kristian (NTNU Trondheim, NO) Goré, Rajeev (Australian National University, AU) Grimm, Rüdiger (University of Koblenz, DE) Haenni, Rolf (Bern University of Applied Science, CH) Haines, Thomas (Polyas, DK) Müller, Johannes (University of Luxembourg, LU) Naumann, Stephan (Darmstadt Technical University, DE) Pereira, Olivier (UC Louvain, BE) Rønne, Peter (University of Luxembourg, LU) Ryan, Mark (University of Birmingham, UK) Ryan, Peter Y.A. (University of Luxembourg, LU) Schneider, Steve (University of Surrey, UK) Schoenmakers, Berry (University of Amsterdam, NL) Schürmann, Carsten (IT University Copenhagen, DK) Stark, Philip (University of Berkeley, US) Teague, Vanessa (University of Melbourne, AU) Truderung, Tomasz (Polyas, DE) Wen, Roland (UNSW Sydney, AU) Willemson, Jan (Cybernetica, EE) Track on Administrative, Legal, Political and Social Science Programme Committee Aranyossy, Marta (Corvinus University, HU) Barrat, Jordi (EVOL2 – eVoting Research Lab, ES) Braun Binder, Nadja (University of Zurich, CH) Darnolf, Staffan (IFES, US) Eenma-Dimitrieva, Helena (University of Tartu, EE) Germann, Micha (KU Leuven, BE) Goodman, Nicole (University of Toronto, CA) James, Toby (University of East Anglia, UK) Musiał-Karg, Magdalena (Adam Mickiewicz University, PL) Nemaslaki, András (Budapest University of Technology and Economics, HU) Nurmi, Hannu (University of Turku, FI) Pammett, Jon (University of Carleton, CA) Reniu, Josep Maria (University of Barcelona, ES) Sasvari, Peter (National University of Public Service, HU) Serdült, Uwe (Ritsumeikan University, JP) Soares, Delfina (UNU-EGOV, PT) Vinkel, Priit (National Election Commission, EE) Track on Election and Practical Experience Programme Committee Bismark, David (Votato, SE) Bull, Christian (Telenor, NO) Caarls, Susanne (Independent Expert, NL) Catozzi, Gianpiero (EC-UNDP, BE) Chanussot, Thomas (Independent Expert, FR) Chelleri, Riccardo (Desk Officer - EU Council, BE) Driza Maurer, Ardita (Independent Expert, CH) Egger, Philipp (State Chancellery of St. Gallen, CH) Franklin, Joshua (OutStack, US) Loeber, Leontine (Council of State, NL) Macias, Ryan (Independent Expert, US) McDermott, Ronan (Independent Expert, CH) Misev, Vladimir (Senior Election Advisor - OSCE/ODIHR, PL) Past, Liisa (Chief National Cyber Risk Officer, EE) Petrov, Goran (Independent Expert, MK) Plante, Stephanie (University of Ottawa, CA) Vollan, Kåre (Quality AS, NO) Wolf, Peter (International IDEA, SE) Wenda, Gregor (Federal Ministry of the Interior, AT) Yard, Mike (Independent Expert, US)

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