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New Book for Courses on the Internet and Society
by William Dutton 30 Sep '19

30 Sep '19

Dear Internet Research Colleagues, The 2nd Edition of Society and the Internet (OUP 2019) is available in paperback and electronic editions for courses on the social aspects of the Internet, social media, computational analytics, and more. Information about the book is available online at: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/society-and-the-internet-9780198843… Please check this out if you are considering reading for your Spring courses, or simply have an interest in the many social issues surrounding digital media. From Manuel Castells’ Foreword to Vint Cerf’s concluding chapter, you find a diverse mix of contributions that show how students and faculty can study the social shaping and societal implications of digital media. Thanks for your own work in this field, at an incredible period of time for Internet and new media studies of communication and technology. Sincerely, Bill William H. Dutton 55 Victoria Road Oxford OX2 7QF United Kingdom william.dutton(a)gmail.com Twitter @BiIIDutton (II=two capital ii’s) Phone: +44 (0)1865 423836 Mobile: +44 (0)7757 741670 Blog: https://billdutton.me

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emotion detection machine?
by Charles M. Ess 29 Sep '19

29 Sep '19

Dear colleagues, One of our students is wanting to analyze emotional content in in the comment fields of a major newspaper vis-a-vis specific hot-button issues. She has a good tool (I think) for scrapping the data - but she is stymied over the choice of an emotion analysis tool. She has looked at Senpy (http://senpy.gsi.upm.es/#test) and Twinword <https://www.twinword.com/api/emotion-analysis.php> - the latter seems the most accurate, but it is also expensive. She has recently discovered DepecheMood emotion lexicons (Staiano, J., & Guerini, M. (2014). Depechemood: a lexicon for emotion analysis from crowd-annotated news. arXiv preprint arXiv:1405.1605.) - but this suffers from a lack of clarity in terms of explaining its emotional categories: awe, indifference, sad, amusement , annoyance, joy, fear and anger. For my part, I am entirely clueless. Any suggestions that she might pursue would be greatly appreciated. best, - charles ess -- Professor in Media Studies Department of Media and Communication University of Oslo <http://www.hf.uio.no/imk/english/people/aca/charlees/index.html> Postboks 1093 Blindern 0317 Oslo, Norway c.m.ess(a)media.uio.no

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14th International Conference on Research Challenges in Information Science (RCIS 2020): Third Call for Papers
by Announce Announcements 29 Sep '19

29 Sep '19

*** Third Call for Papers *** 14th International Conference on Research Challenges in Information Science (RCIS 2020) Royal Apollonia Beach Hotel 5*, Limassol, Cyprus May 20-22, 2020, Limassol, Cyprus http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=YWlyLUwJCQlhaXItTEBsaXN0c2Vydi… Abstract submission deadline: January 20, 2020 Paper submission deadline: January 27, 2020 (AoE) (Proceedings to be published by Springer; Special Issue in DKE) SCOPE AND TOPICS RCIS aims to bring together scientists, researchers, engineers and practitioners from a wide range of information science fields and to provide opportunities for knowledge sharing and dissemination. RCIS 2020 will continue paying attention to traditional topics at the conference; in addition, we solicit submissions aligned the special theme of Information Science in the Days of Artificial Intelligence. We understand AI in a broad sense, including machine learning, self-adaptation, logic-based reasoning, automation, agents and multiagent systems, natural language processing, etc. RCIS welcomes submissions from the whole spectrum of the information science field. The list of themes and topics includes, but is not limited to: Information Systems and their Engineering · Requirements Engineering · Software Testing · Information Security and Risk · Method Engineering User-Oriented Approaches · Social Computing and Social Network Analysis · User-Centred Design · Collaborative Computing · Human Factors in Information Systems Data and Information Management · Databases and Information · Information Search and Discovery · Conceptual Modelling and Ontologies Business Process Management · Business Process Engineering and Reengineering · Process Mining · Enterprise Engineering Domain-specific IS Engineering · E-Health, e-Government, e-Commerce, ... · Industry 4.0 · Web-Based Applications and Services · Smart Cities Data Science · Big Data & Business Analytics · Decision Information Systems · Knowledge Management · Knowledge Discovery from Data Information Infrastructures · Cyber-Physical Systems · Web Information Systems · Grid Computing and Cloud Computing · Internet of Things · Pervasive and Mobile Computing Reflective Research and Practice · Research Methodologies in Information Science · Impact of Information on the Enterprise and the Individual · Lifecycle Models · Design Science and Rationale Tutorials, Doctoral Consortium, Posters & Demos will complement the main conference. RCIS STEERING COMMITTEE Saïd Assar; Marco Bajec; Pericles Loucopoulos; Haralambos Moratidis; Selmin Nurcan; Oscar Pastor; Jolita Ralyté; Colette Rolland. SUBMISSION PROCESS Papers shall be formatted according to the Springer LNCS/LNBIP conference proceedings template (for LaTeX and Word): http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=YWlyLUwJCQlhaXItTEBsaXN0c2Vydi… . Papers that have already been accepted or are currently under review for other conferences or journals will not be considered for publication at RCIS 2020. Papers should be in English and must be associated to one of the following categories: Technical solution papers (max 16 pages Springer) present solutions that are novel or significantly improve existing approaches. A technical solution paper must include a preliminary validation of the proposed solution, and results must be stated clearly enough so that it is possible to validate them in follow-up research. Evaluation papers (max 16 pages Springer) evaluate existing problem situations or validate proposed solutions through scientific means, i.e., by empirical studies, experiments, case studies, simulations, mathematical proofs, etc. The research method must be sound and appropriate. Industrial practice and experience papers (max 16 pages Springer) thoroughly present problems or challenges encountered in practice, elaborate on success or failure with existing approaches, or report on industrial practice (e.g., methods and tools). A paper in this category shall provide a clear context, detail the problem or the industrial practice, and explain the lessons learned. Work in progress papers (max 8 pages Springer) present relevant preliminary results across the spectrum of information science. These papers can either present a novel technical solution, or report on a preliminary evaluation of a technique. Please note that the maximum length of the paper includes references, appendices, etc. The submission site is http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=YWlyLUwJCQlhaXItTEBsaXN0c2Vydi… . By submitting a paper, the authors agree that at least one of them will register to the conference and present the paper. The appearance of a paper in the Springer proceedings is dependent on the registration of one author within the early registration deadline on March 31, 2020. SPECIAL ISSUE A selection of the best accepted papers of RCIS'20, chosen by a dedicated committee, will be invited to submit an extended version of the RCIS paper to the Data & Knowledge Engineering (DKE) journal published by Elsevier (https://www.journals.elsevier.com/data-and-knowledge-engineering) The selection of the papers to invite will be based on the review scores and arguments, and the potential for extension. IMPORTANT DATES · Regular paper submission deadline: January 27, 2020 (AoE) · Notification to authors and registration opening: March 15, 2020 · Author registration deadline for all paper types: March 31, 2020 · Camera-ready copy deadline for all paper types: March 31, 2020 · Conference: May 20-22, 2020 CONFERENCE COMMITTEES General Chairs · George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus · Pericles Loucopoulos, Harokopio University of Athens, Greece Organising Chair · Petros Stratis, Easy Conferences LTD., Cyprus Program Chairs · Jelena Zdravkovic, Stockholm University, Sweden · Fabiano Dalpiaz, Utrecht University, Netherlands Doctoral Consortium Chairs · Raian Ali, Bournemouth University, United Kingdom · Sergio España, Utrecht University, Netherlands Tutorial Chairs · Estefania Serral Asensio, KU Leuven, Belgium · Ignacio Panach, University of Valencia, Spain Posters & Demos Chairs · Elena Kornyshova, Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers, France · Marcela Ruiz, Zurich University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland

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Understanding Social Media
by Larissa Hjorth 28 Sep '19

28 Sep '19

Dear AoiRists Looking forward to seeing many of you in Brisvegas next week. I thought some people on the list might be interested in the new edition of SAGE’s Understanding Social Media by Sam Hinton and me. Given the dynamism of the topic, the chapters are all new. Much of the ethnographic fieldwork draws from cross-cultural research in Asia to explore the paradoxes of social media in our everyday lives… and increasingly death and afterlives. In particular, we reflect upon artists interventions into datafication as well as the role of new visualities in museum engagement. I’ll have a few copies with me in Brisvegas if people are interested. For those that are interested, there is a 20% discount at www.footprint.com.au<http://www.footprint.com.au> promo code SAGE20 See you soon and safe travels. Best wishes Larissa -- Distinguished Professor Larissa Hjorth Director, Design & Creative Practice RMIT University GPO Box 2476 Melbourne VIC 3001 Australia (http://dcp-ecp.com) Sign up to the RMIT ECPs at https://tinyurl.com/RMITECP RMIT University acknowledges the people of the Woi wurrung and Boon wurrung language groups of the eastern Kulin Nations on whose unceded lands we conduct the business of the University. RMIT University respectfully acknowledges their Ancestors and Elders, past and present. RMIT also acknowledges the Traditional Custodians and their Ancestors of the lands and waters across Australia where we conduct our business.

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WEBCAST TODAY: AI Sustainable Development Summit 2019 #AISDG
by Joly MacFie 28 Sep '19

28 Sep '19

#AIforgood. It's a thing. ISOC Live posted: "On 28 September 2019 the AI Sustainable Development Summit brings together in thought leaders and practitioners in AI and sustainable development. Participants will explore innovative solutions for the economic, social, and environmental challenges that e" [image: livestream] <https://livestream.com/internetsociety/aisdg>On *28 September 2019* the* AI Sustainable Development Summit <http://www.aisdg.com/>* brings together in thought leaders and practitioners in AI and sustainable development. Participants will explore innovative solutions for the economic, social, and environmental challenges that encompass the 17 Sustainable Development Goals. Delegates include global policy leaders visiting New York City, technologists and businesses leveraging AI for social impact, researchers from leading universities and think tanks, as well as investors funding solutions to the world’s most pressing challenges. This event is part of the Industry Transition Program in the UNGA's *Climate Week NYC <https://www.climateweeknyc.org/>*. *VIEW ON LIVESTREAM: https://livestream.com/internetsociety/aisdg <https://livestream.com/internetsociety/aisdg>* *VIEW ON FACEBOOK: https://priv.sh/ooWNCmL <https://priv.sh/ooWNCmL>* *PROGRAM: http://www.aisdg.com/ <http://www.aisdg.com/>* *TWITTER: #AISDG https://priv.sh/DMUYXCH <https://priv.sh/DMUYXCH>* *Permalink* https://isoc.live/11384/

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Revisiting the Role of Digital Media in Social Movements - Final Call for Abstracts
by David Dueñas Cid 28 Sep '19

28 Sep '19

*Interested in Digital Media and Collective Action? * Just 2 days left (30 September) to submit your presentation to the Session "*Revisiting the Role of Digital Media in Social Movements*" to be held in the IV ISA Forum of Sociology (Porto Alegre, July 2020). *Link: * https://isaconf.confex.com/isaconf/forum2020/webprogrampreliminary/Session1… *Session description:* The advent of digital media has been observed to create opportunities for social movements to thrive in different regions of the world. The growing popularity of mobile technologies and social networking sites, in particular, has allowed activist groups and active citizens to self-mobilize and self-organize without being confined by mainstream media and traditional organizations. However, adopting new media and information technologies in collective or connective action requires citizen activists to operate under different premises and may expose them to police surveillance and internal conflict. The question remains about whether and how digital media empower or constrain the capacity of social movements. This session seeks to revisit the contemporary relationship between digital media and social movements. It solicits submissions to discuss and debate about the role of digital media in recent social movements. In particular, we would like to address the following research questions: What is the role of digital media in the processes of mobilization and collective action? What are the opportunities and challenges of using new media and information technologies for political development and progressive social change? How does digital media adoption promote and/or hinder the advancement of diverse social and political agendas? At the theoretical level, how should we conceptualize the ways in which digital media expand and/or alter our understanding of contemporary social movements? Contributions are welcome from various methodological approaches and geo-political contexts. Session Organizers: *David DUENAS-CID*, Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia and Kozminski University, Poland, david.duenas(a)taltech.ee *Tin-Yuet TING*, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, tyting(a)polyu.edu.hk *Anna DOMARADZKA*, University of Warsaw, Poland, anna.domaradzka(a)uw.edu.pl <https://drive.google.com/u/0/settings/storage?hl=en&utm_medium=web&utm_sour…> <https://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/terms/> <https://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/> <https://www.google.com/gmail/about/policy/>

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Revisiting the Role of Digital Media in Social Movements - Final Call for Abstracts
by David Dueñas Cid 28 Sep '19

28 Sep '19

*Interested in Digital Media and Collective Action? * Just 2 days left (30 September) to submit your presentation to the Session "*Revisiting the Role of Digital Media in Social Movements*" to be held in the IV ISA Forum of Sociology (Porto Alegre, July 2020). *Link: * https://isaconf.confex.com/isaconf/forum2020/webprogrampreliminary/Session1… *Session description:* The advent of digital media has been observed to create opportunities for social movements to thrive in different regions of the world. The growing popularity of mobile technologies and social networking sites, in particular, has allowed activist groups and active citizens to self-mobilize and self-organize without being confined by mainstream media and traditional organizations. However, adopting new media and information technologies in collective or connective action requires citizen activists to operate under different premises and may expose them to police surveillance and internal conflict. The question remains about whether and how digital media empower or constrain the capacity of social movements. This session seeks to revisit the contemporary relationship between digital media and social movements. It solicits submissions to discuss and debate about the role of digital media in recent social movements. In particular, we would like to address the following research questions: What is the role of digital media in the processes of mobilization and collective action? What are the opportunities and challenges of using new media and information technologies for political development and progressive social change? How does digital media adoption promote and/or hinder the advancement of diverse social and political agendas? At the theoretical level, how should we conceptualize the ways in which digital media expand and/or alter our understanding of contemporary social movements? Contributions are welcome from various methodological approaches and geo-political contexts. Session Organizers: *David DUENAS-CID*, Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia and Kozminski University, Poland, david.duenas(a)taltech.ee *Tin-Yuet TING*, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, tyting(a)polyu.edu.hk *Anna DOMARADZKA*, University of Warsaw, Poland, anna.domaradzka(a)uw.edu.pl

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AAG 2020 CFP: Building Platform Urbanism: Data, Design and Property Development
by Scott Rodgers 27 Sep '19

27 Sep '19

Building Platform Urbanism: Data, Design and Property Development Call for Papers Association of American Geographers Conference 2020 Denver, USA, 6-10 April 2020 Organizers Susan Moore (University College London) Scott Rodgers (Birkbeck, University of London) Sponsors Digital Geographies Speciality Group (Others TBC) Outline In recent years digital platforms have become increasingly involved and invested in designing and building urban environments. Some notable examples include Sidewalk Labs’ data-driven redevelopment proposals for Toronto’s eastern bayfront, Facebook’s 1500-resident company town built within its Menlo Park campus, and a number of new landmark office developments, such as Google’s 1000-foot-long ‘landscraper’ under construction in London. This session focuses on what is at stake in these kinds of deliberate interventions in the urban built environment, by and for digital platforms. Geographers and others have already extensively explored how digital platforms have had myriad implications for urban spaces, for example in food logistics (e.g. Deliveroo, UberEats), transportation (e.g. Uber, Lyft), property markets (e.g. Airbnb) or neighborhood politics (e.g. Nextdoor, Facebook). These dynamics between platforms and the urban arguably signal an emergent ‘platform urbanism’ (cf. Barns 2020; Rodgers and Moore, 2018; Stehlin et al., 2020) In this session, we are interested in a less-researched facet of such a platform urbanism: the more intended efforts of digital platform companies, or agents anticipating their interests, to design and/or construct particular built forms and new urban spaces. We will explore the extent to which such built forms and spaces might express the qualities and ideals of digital platforms. And conversely, the ways in which design and development processes have become increasingly tailored to anticipate and support such qualities and ideals. Is there something specific about platforms – as digitally-mediated, data-driven, cloud-based entities – that gives rise to particular designs or built environments? And how do these new urban spaces relate to emergent trends and conditions of possibility within and between the spheres of urban design, planning, real estate, development and governance? Contributions may address these broad questions with reference to a wide range of related phenomena, including for example: workspaces, residential neighborhoods, retail or entertainment districts, arts or cultural venues, data centres, public spaces, leisure facilities and infrastructures, spatial plans, architectural designs, conceptual visualizations, and emergent discourses in relevant design or built environment fields. Pertinent conceptual interventions are also welcome. Expressions of Interest We intend to organize 1-2 paper sessions, depending on quantity and quality of submissions. If you would like to propose a paper presentation, please email an abstract of 250 words to both Susan Moore (susan.moore(a)ucl.ac.uk<mailto:susan.moore@ucl.ac.uk>) and Scott Rodgers (s.rodgers(a)bbk.ac.uk<mailto:s.rodgers@bbk.ac.uk>) by 6 October 2019. References Barns S (2020) Platform Urbanism: Negotiating Platform Ecosystems in Connected Cities. London: Palgrave Macmillan. Rodgers S and Moore S (2018) Platform urbanism: An introduction. Mediapolis: A Journal of Cities and Culture 4(3): Available at: http://www.mediapolisjournal.com/2018/10/platform-urbanism-an-introduction/. Stehlin J, Hodson M, Kasmire J, et al. (eds) (2020) Urban Platforms and the Future City: Transformations in Infrastructure, Governance, Knowledge and Everyday Life. London: Routledge.

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CFP Drone Cultures Symposium @ UNSW, 30 April - 1 May 2020
by Michael Richardson 27 Sep '19

27 Sep '19

Dear colleagues, ***Apologies for cross posting*** I’m very pleased to announce this Call for Papers for Drone Cultures, an interdisciplinary symposium, 30 April – 1 May, at UNSW Sydney, with a keynote from Professor Caren Kaplan (University of California, Davis). CALL FOR PAPERS: DRONE CULTURES | ABSTRACTS DUE: 30 November 2019 Drones swiftly moved from the margins of the military to reshape war and surveillance, but they have also had wide-ranging effects on fields as diverse as wildlife conservation, agriculture, visual art, climate activism, urban policing and television production. Drone vision is rapidly transforming visual culture, generating novel aesthetics, changing how the world is witnessed and enabling new capacities to see, know and control. At the same time, drones themselves have become objects of significance, eliciting anxiety and hope, fear and desire. Unsurprisingly, diverse cultures have sprung up alongside and in response to their proliferating presence and growing accessibility. All this makes it crucial to understand the similarities, differences and complexities of these technologies and their impacts on how we sense, feel, know and act in the world. This two-day symposium brings together academics, artists and researchers to explore drone cultures from multiple perspectives and practices with the aim of generating dialogue across disciplinary boundaries to better understand the diversity of drones and drone cultures. How has drone vision influenced contemporary visual culture? How do practices, aesthetics, techniques and technologies move back and forth between military and non-military contexts? How have artists, writers and filmmakers critiqued, adopted and innovated drone technologies? How have drones changed how power is exercised and experienced? What cultures have sprung up around drones in conservation, activism, amateur photography and other contexts? How are drones and other remote sensing systems shaping and shaped by our desires and imaginaries? What does the proliferation of drones mean for the future of the human? While approaches from across the humanities and social sciences are invited, this symposium also warmly welcomes perspectives from information science, engineering and robotics. We invite proposals for academic papers, creative works and short documentaries. Academic papers can be full length (20 minutes) or provocations (7 minutes). Creative works and documentaries can be presented in panels alongside traditional papers if appropriate (20 minutes) or screened, displayed or performed outside typical panels. Fully formed panels (3 x 20-minute presentations) can also be submitted. • Drone vision and perception • Drones in literature, cinema, theatre, art and elsewhere • Cultures of satellite and other remote sensing technologies • Drones in practice from war to science to activism • Cultures of drone design and development • Drone witnessing • Drone aesthetics • Politics and policy of drones • Drone futures and imaginaries • Drones and the posthuman • Ethics and care in drone design, use and development Please send 200-word individual proposals, or 300-word proposals for complete panels, along with 100-word bios for all presenters, to Michael Richardson at dronecultures(a)gmail.com by November 30, 2019. This symposium is funded by an Australian Research Council Discovery Early Career Researcher Award and hosted by the UNSW School of Arts and Media. More information on the ARC project “Drone Witnessing: Technologies of Perception in War and Culture” can be found at the project website: https://www.dronewitnessing.com/ Drone Cultures acknowledge and pays respect to the Traditional Custodians of the land on which we work and live, particularly the Bedegal, Bidjigal and Gadigal Peoples, and their elders past, present, and emerging. Sovereignty was never ceded, and the struggle for justice continues ----- Dr Michael Richardson Senior Research Fellow (ARC DECRA) School of the Arts & Media University of New South Wales michael.richardson(a)unsw.edu.au https://unsw.academia.edu/MichaelRichardson @richardson_m_a Gestures of Testimony: Torture, Trauma, and Affect in Literature. New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2016. http://bloomsbury.com/9781501315800/ I acknowledge and pay my respects to the Traditional Custodians of the land I work and live on, particularly the Bedegal, Bidjigal and Gadigal Peoples, and their elders past, present, and emerging. Sovereignty was never ceded, and the struggle for justice continues.

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Request for secondary data on voice assistants
by Astvansh, Vivek 26 Sep '19

26 Sep '19

Dear Internet Researchers: My colleague is searching for secondary data on how users interact with voice assistants. If you are aware of any secondary dataset on this topic, please consider responding. Thank you! Vivek Astvansh Assistant Professor of Marketing, Kelley School of Business, Indiana University http://kelleyschool.iu.edu/astvansh

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