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Comparative Approaches to Disinformation Workshop @ Harvard's Berkman & Shorenstein Centers
by Irene Pasquetto 09 Sep '19

09 Sep '19

[please circulate] The Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society and the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy are pleased to host a workshop on Comparative Approaches to Disinformation <https://cyber.harvard.edu/story/2019-09/comparative-approaches-disinformati…> at Harvard University in Cambridge, MA on* October 4, 2019*. This by-invitation workshop will feature scholars from around the world discussing their research on the prevalence, impact, and diffusion of disinformation. The presentations will cover new theoretical and empirical contributions to existing bodies of knowledge in this area, offer comparative perspectives involving multiple countries, explore interdisciplinary approaches, and examine other areas of research such as cross-platform analysis. *REGISTRATION* There are a limited number of spaces available to participants not presenting at the workshop. If you wish to attend the workshop, please register here <https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfQTpQ8FKWkJc8wUVLKOfeqC6xsWIAe5Aq…>. There is no registration fee. --------- Irene V. Pasquetto <https://irenepasquetto.com/>, Ph.D. Chief Editor, Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) Misinformation Review Fellow, Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy Harvard Kennedy School

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Final week reminder: ‘Media Industries 2020: Global Currents and Contradictions’, King’s College London 16-18 April 2020
by McDonald, Paul 08 Sep '19

08 Sep '19

Apologies for cross-posting *Final week reminder: deadline for submissions 16 September 2019* Media Industries 2020: Global Currents and Contradictions 16-18 April 2020 King’s College London media-industries.org Second international Media Industries conference, hosted by the Department of Culture, Media and Creative Industries, King’s College London Following the success of Media Industries: Current Debates and Future Directions (2018) we are pleased to announce the next Media Industries conference will take place in April 2020. Media Industries 2020 (MI2020) maintains an open intellectual agenda, inviting papers, panels or workshops exploring the full breadth of media industries, in contemporary and historical contexts, and from all traditions of media industries scholarship. MI2020 will therefore provide a meeting ground for all forms of media industries research. As a specialized focus, the 2020 conference takes Global Currents and Contradictions as its coordinating theme. In media industries scholarship, repeated attention to a few key territories, frequently but not exclusively located in the Global North, has concentrated but also limited the scope of the field. In choosing the theme Global Currents and Contradictions, we are therefore particularly interested in receiving submissions engaging with industries, contexts and bodies of research that represent, extend or challenge the geographic reach of the field. To headline this theme, a programme of keynote speakers will be announced in due course. PARTNERS A core aim of the Media Industries conference is to bring together scholars researching media industries from across multiple professional associations and their relevant sub-groups or sections. The Department of Culture, Media and Creative Industries at King’s College London is therefore very pleased to be organizing MI2020 in partnership with: · British Association of Film, Television and Screen Studies (BAFTSS) - Screen Industries Special Interest Group · European Communication Research and Education Association (ECREA) - Media Industries and Cultural Production Section · European Media Management Association (EMMA) · European Network for Cinema and Media Studies (NECS) - Screen Industries Work Group · Gesellschaft für Medienwissenschaft (GFM) - AG Medienindustrien · Global Media and China journal · International Association for the Study of Popular Music (IASPM) · International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR) - Media Production Analysis Working Group · International Communication Association (ICA) - Media Industry Studies Interest Group · Media Industries journal · Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS) - Media Industries Scholarly Interest Group · South Asia Communication Association (SACA) HOST COMMITTEE For King’s College London: Sarah Atkinson, Bridget Conor, Virginia Crisp, Sonal Kantaria (conference administrator), Wing-Fai Leung, Paul McDonald (conference chair), Jeanette Steemers and Jaap Verheul ADVISORY COMMITTEE Deb Aikat (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill), Courtney Brannon Donoghue (University of North Texas), Hanne Bruun (Aarhus Universitet), Evan Elkins (Colorado State University), Elizabeth Evans (University of Nottingham), Tom Evens (Universiteit Gent), Franco Fabbri, Anthony Fung (Chinese University of Hong Kong), David Hesmondhalgh (University of Leeds), Catherine Johnson (University of Huddersfield), Derek Johnson (University of Wisconsin-Madison), Ramon Lobato (RMIT University), Skadi Loist (Filmuniversität Babelsberg Konrad Wolf), Amanda Lotz (Queensland University of Technology), Alfred Martin (University of Iowa), Jack Newsinger (University of Nottingham), Sora Park (University of Canberra), Alisa Perren (University of Texas-Austin), Steve Presence (University of the West of England), Roel Puijk (Høgskolen i Innlandet), Willemien Sanders (Universiteit Utrecht), Kevin Sanson (Queensland University of Technology), Andrew Spicer (University of the West of England), Petr Szczepanik (Univerzita Karlova), Harsh Taneja (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Patrick Vonderau (Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg), Anna Zoellner (University of Leeds) REGISTRATION Registration for the conference will go live in mid-November 2019. Fees will be published then and will be tiered according to the delegate’s country of residence using the World Bank’s country classifications by Gross National Income per capita. SUBMISSIONS To submit, see the ‘Submission Instructions’ and accompanying link at https://media-industries.org. Deadline Submissions will be accepted until 16 September 2019 at 23.00hrs British Summer Time (BST) (please note: BST is Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) + 1 hour) Submission Categories Submissions are welcomed in three categories. i. Open Call Papers Format: solo or co-presented research paper lasting no more than 20mins. ii. Pre-constituted Panels Format: 90mins panel of 3 x 20mins OR 4 x 15mins thematically linked solo or co-presented research papers followed by questions. iii. Pre-constituted Workshops Format: 90mins interactive forum led by 4 to 6 x 6mins thematically linked informal presentations. Led by a chair or co-chairs, workshops adopt a roundtable format bringing together 4 to 6 speakers to offer short (up to 6 minute) position statements or interventions designed to trigger discussions around a central theme, issue, or problem. As such, the workshop does not involve the presentation of formal research papers, but rather is designed to create a forum for the speakers and the audience to engage in a shared discussion. The workshop format is flexible and can be adapted to allow the chair or co-chairs to introduce exercises or other activities where appropriate. Delegates can make TWO contributions to the conference but only ONE in any category, i.e. presenting an open call paper and participating in a workshop will be permitted but presenting two open call papers will not be. Chairing a panel or organizing a workshop will NOT count as a contribution. Professor Paul McDonald Professor of Cultural and Creative Industries / Department of Culture, Media and Creative Industries Vice Dean (People and Planning) for Arts / Faculty of Arts and Humanities King’s College London Strand London WC2R 2LR UK (t) +44 (0) 20 7848 1100 (Skype) paulmcdonald100 (WWW) PaulMcDonald<https://www.kcl.ac.uk/people/person.aspx?id=aa77eb9e-202a-45db-8501-c8e9af6…>

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Re: [Air-L] emotion detection machine?
by Maurice Vergeer 07 Sep '19

07 Sep '19

dear Charles and student there an R package called syuzhet which has sentiment lexicons included. Another option is to use the R-package tidytext which includes the NRC-lexicon. The manuals provide some examples on how to use it. The drawback is, you need to have experience with R or learn it. It's not a waste because R can do a lot more than sentiment analysis. These packages and R are for free. see: - https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/syuzhet/vignettes/syuzhet-vignette.… - https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/tidytext/vignettes/tidytext.html hope this helps best Maurice Op do 5 sep. 2019 om 12:53 schreef Charles M. Ess <c.m.ess(a)media.uio.no>: > 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 > _______________________________________________ > 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/ > -- ________________________________________________ Maurice Vergeer To contact me, see http://mauricevergeer.nl/node/5 For yesterday's news in perspective: http://www.echovannl.nl/ To see my publications, see http://mauricevergeer.nl/node/1 PGP public key: https://keys.mailvelope.com/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0xE7BF24D19BE34017 ________________________________________________

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Re: [Air-L] emotion detection machine?
by Andrew McStay 06 Sep '19

06 Sep '19

Lots of issues and questions there, but it's best to avoid generalising about emotional AI/analytics as there are so many forms, e.g. sentiment and multiple form of biometrics. The latter can be read in all sorts of ways too (some clear pseudoscience, but others inferences are more meaningful). I'll desist from spamming the list with books and papers, but check my site<https://emotionalai.org> and do reach out if you have any specific questions 🙂 Andrew McStay Professor of Digital Life Director of Media and Persuasive Communication Network (MPC) School of Music and Media Bangor University 2019 William Evans Fellow, University of Otago, NZ Book: Emotional AI: The Rise of Empathic Media<https://uk.sagepub.com/en-gb/eur/emotional-ai/book251642> Project site and reports: EmotionalAI.org<http://emotionalai.org/> Other books, bits and papers: here<https://bangor.academia.edu/AndrewMcStay> T. +44 (0)1248 382740 Tw. @digi-ad<https://twitter.com/digi_ad> Message: 1 Date: Thu, 5 Sep 2019 21:07:42 +0000 From: Fiona Martin <fiona.martin(a)sydney.edu.au> To: "air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org" <air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org> Subject: Re: [Air-L] emotion detection machine? Message-ID: <1BA31177-457D-40EC-A53E-6D9AC704A107(a)sydney.edu.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Dear Charles, Sally raises some excellent questions about the accuracy of sentiment analysis. It is a blunt tool. The categories used are likely drawn from Plutchik?s classic ?Wheel of Emotions?: Plutchik, Robert. 2003. Emotions and Life: Perspectives from Psychology, Biology, and Evolution. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association Plutchik, Robert and Henry Kellerman eds. 1980. Emotion: Theory, research, and experience, Vol. 1. Theories of Emotion. New York: Academic Press. Kind regards, Fiona DR FIONA MARTIN Senior Lecturer in Convergent and Online Media Department of Media and Communications | School of Letters Arts and Media | Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences THE UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY New book: Sharing News Online <https://www.palgrave.com/gp/book/9783030179052> (Palgrave Macmillan, July 2019) ARC Discovery 2019-2022 Platform Governance: Rethinking internet regulation as media policy <https://research.qut.edu.au/dmrc/projects/platform-governance/> Facebook Content Policy Research on Social Media Platforms award: Regulating Hate Speech in the Asia Pacific Rm S2.20, Lvl 2 John Woolley Building A20 | The University of Sydney | NSW | 2006 T +61 2 9036 5098 | F +61 2 9351 5444 | M +61 428 391 122 E fiona.martin(a)sydney.edu.au <https://webmail.sydney.edu.au/owa/UrlBlockedError.aspx> TW @media_republik W https://sydney.edu.au/arts/media_communications/staff/profiles/fiona.martin… CRICOS 00026A This email plus any attachments to it are confidential. Any unauthorised use is strictly prohibited. If you receive this email in error, please delete it and any attachments. Please think of our environment and only print this e-mail if necessary. ------------------------------ Message: 12 Date: Thu, 5 Sep 2019 13:11:18 -0700 From: "Dr. S.A. Applin" <sally(a)sally.com> To: "Charles M. Ess" <c.m.ess(a)media.uio.no> Cc: air-l <air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org> Subject: Re: [Air-L] emotion detection machine? Message-ID: <FB3066F7-6431-43FB-90F1-A34C24307C59(a)sally.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Dear Charles (and List), I see this as an ethics issue. How reliable are ?emotion analysis? tools? How would outcomes from them be used? As you say, there is a lack of clarity in some in terms of ?explaining emotional categories.? To me, this signals (along with obvious knowledge about the limitations and problems with algorithms), that there is opportunity here to be very, very, very wrong about people?s opinions, and any algorithmically interpreted ?emotional? state. For example, how would one interpret or finesse ?frustration,? vs ?anger?? The written word is contained within a language. Not all commenters will be native speakers to that language, and not all native speakers have the language tools required (even within their own language) to adequately express themselves, even in the best of times. What makes anyone think an algorithm would do better at this than a human trained in qualitative methods and with cultural and media and language knowledge? There is way too much margin of potential error here for this to be automated, or ?useful.? It is much more likely that things will be assumed incorrectly by limited algorithms in the first place. Furthermore, does your student see any problem with this exercise? That their tool analysis might get it very wrong? That the wrong might lead to assumptions or outcomes that are harmful to entities, people, governments? What safeguards are in place for wrong assumptions and outcomes? Kind regards, Sally Sally Applin, Ph.D. .......... Research Fellow HRAF Advanced Research Centres (EU), Canterbury Centre for Social Anthropology and Computing (CSAC) .......... Research Associate Human Relations Area Files (HRAF) Yale University .......... Associate Editor, IEEE Consumer Electronics Magazine Member, IoT Council Executive Board Member: The Edward H. and Rosamond B. Spicer Foundation .......... https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/JR-OCr8DLRtqVW9vtgnIZ0?domain=posr.org https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/5UVtCvl0PoC9NRX6fLIk4l?domain=sally.com I am based in Silicon Valley .......... sally(a)sally.com | 650.339.5236 > On Sep 5, 2019, at 3:52 AM, Charles M. Ess <c.m.ess(a)media.uio.no> wrote: > > 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 (https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/w8BUCXLKZoiQ5WJYtDwmjf?domain=senpy.gsi.u…) and Twinword <https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/BcVhCYWL1vi71w8xiV08Cd?domain=twinword.com> - 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 > <https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/k0fhCZYM2VF640GNFx8ASL?domain=hf.uio.no> > > Postboks 1093 > Blindern 0317 > Oslo, Norway > c.m.ess(a)media.uio.no > _______________________________________________ Mae croeso i chi gysylltu gyda'r Brifysgol yn Gymraeg neu Saesneg You are welcome to contact the University in Welsh or English Rhif Elusen Gofrestredig 1141565 - Registered Charity No. 1141565 Gall y neges e-bost hon, ac unrhyw atodiadau a anfonwyd gyda hi, gynnwys deunydd cyfrinachol ac wedi eu bwriadu i'w defnyddio'n unig gan y sawl y cawsant eu cyfeirio ato (atynt). Os ydych wedi derbyn y neges e-bost hon trwy gamgymeriad, rhowch wybod i'r anfonwr ar unwaith a dilewch y neges. 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JOB: TT Asst Prof of Info, Tech & Public Life - University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
by Alice E. Marwick 06 Sep '19

06 Sep '19

Hi all, My newly funded research center (CITAP) is hiring an Assistant Professor to start next fall. The PIs are myself, Zeynep Tufecki, Deen Freelon and Daniel Kreiss. Hit me up if you have any questions! And please forward! Alice (amarwick(a)unc.edu) University of North Carolina - TT Assistant Professor of Information, Technology, and Public Life https://unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/168556 Position Summary: The Center for Information, Technology, and Public Life (CITAP) at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is searching for an outstanding assistant professor to conduct research and teach in the School of Information and Library Science (SILS). The Center includes principal faculty, postdoctoral researchers, MA, and Ph.D. students from SILS, the School of Media and Journalism, the Department of Communication within the College of Arts and Sciences, and the School of Law. The Center conducts research designed to further our understanding of the contemporary digital media environment and how it shapes our democracy. This is a tenure-track position. Conduct significant research on the structure, organization, or experiences of digital information environments and the impacts of technology on democracy from the disciplinary perspectives of information, communication, law, media studies, or adjacent disciplines. Teach two courses per semester in the School of Information and Library Science. Participate in and contribute to the activities of the School of Information and Library Science and UNC Center for Information, Technology, and Public Life. Advise undergraduates and graduate student theses and dissertations, and carry out appropriate service. Hired candidates with a doctorate can anticipate an initial appointment of Assistant Professor. Hired candidates with a doctorate nearly completed can anticipate an initial appointment of Instructor with Special Provision. Educational Requirements: Ph.D., J.D., or equivalent in information, communication, law, media studies, or adjacent disciplines. Candidates who are very close to completion of their dissertations also will be considered. Evidence of research excellence is required. Applicants with research focused on information environments, platform companies, artificial intelligence and machine learning and society, technological and algorithmic governance, disinformation and media manipulation, polarization and partisanship, civic use of technologies, and information law and policy are strongly preferred. However, other areas of interest and specialization will be considered. Applicants that qualify for this appointment with a nearly completed doctorate should have a lower degree that also matches a qualifying area of study. Because the CITAP is interdisciplinary, we are open to a variety of methodological approaches, although candidates should be comfortable working with social scientists. The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, color, disability, gender, gender expression, gender identity, genetic information, national origin, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, or status as a protected veteran. Deadline: Oct 1, 2019 (deadline is rolling but we will begin evaluating applicants on Oct 1) Contact: Susan Sylvester, Executive Assistant, ssylvest(a)email.unc.edu ------------------------------------------ Alice E. Marwick, PhD (she/her) Assistant Professor, Department of Communication University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill amarwick(a)gmail.com http://www.tiara.org <http://www.tiara.org>

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ACM IUI 2020 - CALL FOR WORKSHOP AND TUTORIAL PROPOSALS - EXTENDED DEADLINE: September 15th
by Oana Inel 06 Sep '19

06 Sep '19

*Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message* ACM IUI 2020 - CALL FOR WORKSHOP AND TUTORIAL PROPOSALS **Deadline Extended to SEPTEMBER 15th** In conjunction with the 25th International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI 2020) Cagliari, Italy March 17, 2020 https://iui.acm.org/2020/ WORKSHOP CO-CHAIRS Casey Dugan, IBM Research Carmen Santoro, CNR-ISTI, HIIS Laboratory Simone Stumpf, City, University of London workshops2020(a)iui.acm.org<mailto:workshops2020@iui.acm.org> CALL FOR PROPOSALS We are pleased to invite proposals for workshops and tutorials to be held in conjunction with the conference. The goal of the workshops is to provide a venue for presenting research on focused topics of interest and an informal forum to discuss research questions and challenges. Tutorials are designed to provide fundamental knowledge and experience on topics related to intelligent user interfaces, and the intersection between Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) and Artificial Intelligence (AI). Note: We encourage you to contact the chairs with your ideas (workshops2020(a)iui.acm.org<mailto:workshops2020@iui.acm.org>), and work together to prepare an exciting proposal. We encourage proposals for a wide range of workshops and tutorials, including but not limited to: - "Mini-conferences" on specialized topics; such workshops may have their own paper submission and review processes. - "Late breaking work" meetings; such workshops usually have a lighter review process (e.g. based on abstracts only). - "Hands-on" workshops around a specific problem or topic that may wish to ask participants to submit a position statement. - "Project centric" workshops that may be closely related to the scope of an existing large scale (e.g. NSF, EU, etc. funded) project. - "Mini-competitions", challenges, or hackathons around selected topics with individual or team participation. - Tutorials on a specific topic relevant to IUI; for example, methods and approaches in HCI and/or AI, specific techniques or algorithms to develop intelligent user interfaces, etc. Workshops and tutorials will be held on the first day of the conference. We invite submissions of proposals for full-day (6 hours) and half-day (3 hours) workshop or tutorial. Proposals will be reviewed and evaluated by the workshop and tutorials chairs. Workshops with few submissions by Friday, 20 December 2019 may be cancelled, shortened, merged with other workshops, or otherwise restructured. The organizers of accepted workshops and tutorials are responsible for producing a call for participation and publicizing it, such as distributing the call to relevant newsgroups and electronic mailing lists, and especially to potential audiences from outside the IUI conference community. Workshop and tutorial organizers will maintain their own website with information about the workshop or tutorial and the IUI 2020 web site will refer to the this website. The workshop organizers will coordinate the paper solicitation, collection, and review process. A workshop and tutorials summary will be included in the ACM Digital Library for IUI 2020, however, there will be no archived published proceedings of workshop papers this year. We strongly encourage workshop organizers to arrange a volume of online proceedings for their workshop papers themselves, for example, by using www.ceur-ws.org<http://www.ceur-ws.org>. PROPOSAL FORMAT Workshop or tutorial proposals should be maximum 2 pages long and follow the formatting instructions at https://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template. Please either use the Word interim template with Libertine fonts downloaded and embedded, or the LaTex sigconf template. The proposals should be organized as follows: - Name and title: A one-word acronym and a full title. Please indicate “(Workshop)” or “(Tutorial)” after the title, as appropriate. - Description of workshop or tutorial topic: This description should discuss the relevance of the suggested topic to IUI and its interest for the IUI2020 audience. Include a brief discussion of why and for which audience the workshop or tutorial is of particular interest. - Previous history: List of previous workshops or tutorials that were held on the topic including the conferences that hosted past workshops or tutorials and the number of participants. - Organizer(s): Names, affiliations, emails, and web pages of the organizer(s). Provide a brief description of the background of the organiser(s). Strong proposals normally include organizers who bring differing perspectives on the topic and are actively connected to the communities of potential participants. Please indicate the primary contact person and the organizers who plan to attend the workshop. Also please provide a list of other workshops or tutorials organized by workshop organizers in the past. - Workshop program committee: Names and affiliation of the members of the (tentative) workshop program committee that will evaluate the workshop submissions. - Participants: A statement saying how many participants you expect and how you plan to invite participants for the workshop or tutorial. If possible, include the names of at least 10 people who have expressed interest to participate in the workshop or tutorial. - Workshop or Tutorial format: A brief description of the format regarding the mix of events or activities, such as paper presentations, invited talks, panels, demonstrations, teaching activities, hands-on practical exercises, general discussion. Please also list here any material you will make available to tutorial participants, e.g. slides, access to hardware/software, handouts, etc. - Planned outcomes of the workshop or tutorials: What are you hoping to achieve by the end of the workshop or tutorials. Please list here any planned publications or other outputs arising workshops, including your plans for making workshop papers available. - Length: Full-day or half-day. Please submit your proposal via https://new.precisionconference.com/ selecting the IUI 2020 Workshops and Tutorials track. IMPORTANT DATES Discuss your topic with the workshop and tutorials chairs: ASAP (workshops2020(a)iui.acm.org<mailto:workshops2020@iui.acm.org>) Proposals due: Sunday, 15 September 2019 (extended deadline) Decisions Sent: Monday, 14 October 2019 ** TENTATIVE dates of the review cycle ** Workshop Submissions:Tuesday, 17 December 2019 Go/No-go Decision on Workshops: Friday, 20 December 2019 Notifications to authors: Tuesday, 14 January 2020 Camera-ready for Workshop/Tutorial summary: Friday, 17 January 2020 Workshops/Tutorials held: Tuesday, 17 March 2020

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Social media research and the GDPR. How to comply?
by Schaefer, M.T. (Mirko) 06 Sep '19

06 Sep '19

Dear list, at Utrecht Data School<https://dataschool.nl/?lang=en> and Datafied Society<https://datafiedsociety.nl/>, we frequently carry out social media analysis. Many colleagues on this list do similar research. I turn to you with questions about the GDPR and how it might affect our research processes. I was wondering how you (EU-based researchers) comply with the GDPR and whether your institutions developed guidelines concerning the conduct of social media research. Are there privacy officers reviewing your proposals, do they use an online tool (and which) for DPIA's, submitting and reviewing the proposals, and what is the understanding and practice of informing data subjects? For example considering the duty to inform data subjects: for our research on topic-communities<http://mtschaefer.net/entry/political-topic-communities-and-their-framing-p…> on Dutch Twitter, we used a sample of one week of Twitter NL. According to the interpretation of the GDPR by some privacy officers, researchers would be now required to inform the 600.000 accounts captured in this sample about the research. They (privacy officer) cite a case from Poland, where a data broker was fined<https://www.bakermckenzie.com/en/insight/publications/2019/03/first-fine-fo…> for not informing their data subjects. I was thinking that the GDPR was exactly meant for this as the data broker used the data for his commercial business without informing the data subjects. But does the GDPR implementation act not provide exceptions here for researchers (journalists and artists)? What would happen if researchers would be indeed required to inform 600.000 users on Twitter about their research project (thinking here mostly about the feasibility and the related costs which would render most research projects too expensive to be carried out without a major grant and significant institutional support; but think also about the possible reactions to researchers if you would investigate topics such as hate speech and you should inform the authors of said hate speech about your research. I hope I am not the only one struggling with this and would be very grateful if you could help me with these questions: - how do you deal with the right to be informed when collecting large data sets? - what kind of assistance to you receive from your institution in legal information, review of project proposals and facilitation of compliance with GDPR requirements? - are there precedents of research projects that have been altered or blocked by privacy officers? - are the interpretations of privacy officers of the GDPR related to research projects widely different? - is there expertise within AoIR on these issues and where researchers can find advice on how to proceed in order to comply with GDPR? Help and input are much appreciated! Best wishes, mirko Mirko Tobias Schäfer | Associate Professor | Project leader Utrecht Data School| Utrecht University | Muntstraat 2a | 3512 EV Utrecht | T: +31-644620751 | M: m.t.schaefer(a)uu.nl<mailto:m.t.schaefer@uu.nl> | W: www.mtschaefer.net<http://www.mtschaefer.net>

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Post-doc position for DATAJUSTICE project
by Lina Dencik 06 Sep '19

06 Sep '19

Dear list members, We are looking to recruit a Research Associate for the DATAJUSTICE project hosted at the Data Justice Lab at Cardiff University, UK. The DATAJUSTICE project explores datafication in relation to social justice, looking at data-centric technologies, practices and experiences in the areas of border control and migration, law enforcement and policing, and low-wage work. As the lead of the policy work package, you will work closely with the Principal Investigator to explore implications of the development, implementation and uses of data systems across these areas for social and economic rights. This post is full-time and fixed term for 30 months (part-time applications will also be considered). Salary: £33,199 - £39,609 per annum (Grade 6) Deadline: Monday 30th of September, 2019. Apply here: Research Associate Post 9087BR<http://krb-sjobs.brassring.com/1033/ASP/TG/cim_jobdetail.asp?partnerid=3001…> For any questions, please do not hesitate to contact me! Best, Lina -- Dr Lina Dencik Reader / Co-Director Data Justice Lab PI Data Justice: Understanding datafication in relation to social justice (DATAJUSTICE) ERC Starting Grant 2018-2023 School of Journalism, Media and Culture, Cardiff University Two Central Square, Central Square, Cardiff CF10 1FS Email: DencikL(a)cardiff.ac.uk<mailto:DencikL@cardiff.ac.uk>, Tel: +44 (0)29 208 75461 Twitter: @LinaDencik Fellow, Center for Media, Data and Society, Central European University

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JoCTEC Issue - "It’s in the Interface: Content, Practice, and Production in the Age of Streaming Television" CFP
by Plothe, Theo 06 Sep '19

06 Sep '19

Dear Colleagues, Please share widely amongst your scholarly networks and fellow colleagues. Feel free to message me directly with any questions. (plothet(a)savannahstate.edu<mailto:plothet@savannahstate.edu>) =-=-=-=-=-=-= Journal of Communication Technology Call for Papers It’s in the Interface: Content, Practice, and Production in the Age of Streaming Television In this issue, we seek to critically rethink media cultures and practices at the intersection of the user and the interface of communication technology. As more communication technology becomes available to more people and the speed of innovation continues to evolve, how we interact with these technologies through their representative interfaces is rife for critical interrogation. For instance, technology often replicates old media, be it in style or mechanic, such as the ability to dog-ear pages on a number of e-readers such as the Kindle or Nook, or the addition of a vinyl record scratching sound when pausing during a mix session on you.dj. Is there something particular comforting in seeing the recognizable? Is this interface more presented for ease of use or more for nostalgia? Or how about haptic media interfaces, with the added dimension of touch for our sensory utilization of the technology. How does our experience with the interface change our interpretation of the technology? Is it even the technology, or do most users see the interface as a separate construction or notion form the product itself? Does the perpetual expansion of new technology and participatory media forms, change the interface between users and shared creative “small media” content? (Hjorth 2014, Pink et. Al, 2016, Richardson 2018)? Investigating these points of intersection, interaction, and immersion are essential to understanding the affordances and constraints of the interface. Interface matters as shown in television second screen adaptions versus remote controls (Cruickshank, et. al, 2007). Ito, Sakata, & Nakanishi (2017) examined how “the amount of information on an interface screen (would) maximize the willingness of young users” to use the interface. Others have looked at how the interface helps in deciding when a patient is discharged from medical care (Jain, 2017). As technology evolves and older forms mature, in both offline and online contexts, the levels of engagement and digital embodiment must adapt to these new dynamics. This issue seeks to capture and explore an important interdisciplinary event across all forms of the user-interface dynamic, from technology, to games, to internet and media studies, or even cultural studies examining the effect of the interface upon the cultural milieu. Topics may include: • Theoretical approaches to interface design and utility • User studies examining interface interactions and adoption • Haptic interfaces and the role of touch in digital media • Sound as materiality in digital interfaces • Critical analyses of the user-interface relationship • Accessibility and universal design of interfaces • Rejection or abstention from some interface design • Generativity in interface design and consumption • Mobility and interface design Guideline for Paper Submission: Submissions should follow the manuscript guidelines for JoCTEC. • Prepare the manuscript using APA (6th ed) citation style, with text of no more than 9,000 words (inclusive of abstract, figures/tables, and references). • Submit the manuscript in Word format with all author-identifying information omitted to allow for blind peer review. • Confirm manuscript is not before another journal for consideration, and that the manuscript has not been previously published, including in a language other than English. The submission deadline is December 1, 2019. Full papers should be emailed to Theo Plothe (plothet at savannahstate.edu<http://savannahstate.edu> <plothet(a)savannahstate.edu<mailto:plothet@savannahstate.edu>>). Authors of accepted manuscripts will be notified of acceptance by February 1, 2020. Please note that acceptance of papers does not ensure final publication as all articles must go through the journal's usual review process. Best, Dr. Plothe -- Theo Plothe, PhD Assistant Professor Journalism and Mass Communication Savannah State University

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Re: [Air-L] emotion detection machine?
by Fiona Martin 05 Sep '19

05 Sep '19

Dear Charles, Sally raises some excellent questions about the accuracy of sentiment analysis. It is a blunt tool. The categories used are likely drawn from Plutchik’s classic ‘Wheel of Emotions’: Plutchik, Robert. 2003. Emotions and Life: Perspectives from Psychology, Biology, and Evolution. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association Plutchik, Robert and Henry Kellerman eds. 1980. Emotion: Theory, research, and experience, Vol. 1. Theories of Emotion. New York: Academic Press. Kind regards, Fiona DR FIONA MARTIN Senior Lecturer in Convergent and Online Media Department of Media and Communications | School of Letters Arts and Media | Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences THE UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY New book: Sharing News Online <https://www.palgrave.com/gp/book/9783030179052> (Palgrave Macmillan, July 2019) ARC Discovery 2019-2022 Platform Governance: Rethinking internet regulation as media policy <https://research.qut.edu.au/dmrc/projects/platform-governance/> Facebook Content Policy Research on Social Media Platforms award: Regulating Hate Speech in the Asia Pacific Rm S2.20, Lvl 2 John Woolley Building A20 | The University of Sydney | NSW | 2006 T +61 2 9036 5098 | F +61 2 9351 5444 | M +61 428 391 122 E fiona.martin(a)sydney.edu.au <https://webmail.sydney.edu.au/owa/UrlBlockedError.aspx> TW @media_republik W https://sydney.edu.au/arts/media_communications/staff/profiles/fiona.martin… CRICOS 00026A This email plus any attachments to it are confidential. Any unauthorised use is strictly prohibited. If you receive this email in error, please delete it and any attachments. Please think of our environment and only print this e-mail if necessary. ------------------------------ Message: 12 Date: Thu, 5 Sep 2019 13:11:18 -0700 From: "Dr. S.A. Applin" <sally(a)sally.com> To: "Charles M. Ess" <c.m.ess(a)media.uio.no> Cc: air-l <air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org> Subject: Re: [Air-L] emotion detection machine? Message-ID: <FB3066F7-6431-43FB-90F1-A34C24307C59(a)sally.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Dear Charles (and List), I see this as an ethics issue. How reliable are ?emotion analysis? tools? How would outcomes from them be used? As you say, there is a lack of clarity in some in terms of ?explaining emotional categories.? To me, this signals (along with obvious knowledge about the limitations and problems with algorithms), that there is opportunity here to be very, very, very wrong about people?s opinions, and any algorithmically interpreted ?emotional? state. For example, how would one interpret or finesse ?frustration,? vs ?anger?? The written word is contained within a language. Not all commenters will be native speakers to that language, and not all native speakers have the language tools required (even within their own language) to adequately express themselves, even in the best of times. What makes anyone think an algorithm would do better at this than a human trained in qualitative methods and with cultural and media and language knowledge? There is way too much margin of potential error here for this to be automated, or ?useful.? It is much more likely that things will be assumed incorrectly by limited algorithms in the first place. Furthermore, does your student see any problem with this exercise? That their tool analysis might get it very wrong? That the wrong might lead to assumptions or outcomes that are harmful to entities, people, governments? What safeguards are in place for wrong assumptions and outcomes? Kind regards, Sally Sally Applin, Ph.D. .......... Research Fellow HRAF Advanced Research Centres (EU), Canterbury Centre for Social Anthropology and Computing (CSAC) .......... Research Associate Human Relations Area Files (HRAF) Yale University .......... Associate Editor, IEEE Consumer Electronics Magazine Member, IoT Council Executive Board Member: The Edward H. and Rosamond B. Spicer Foundation .......... https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/JR-OCr8DLRtqVW9vtgnIZ0?domain=posr.org https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/5UVtCvl0PoC9NRX6fLIk4l?domain=sally.com I am based in Silicon Valley .......... sally(a)sally.com | 650.339.5236 > On Sep 5, 2019, at 3:52 AM, Charles M. Ess <c.m.ess(a)media.uio.no> wrote: > > 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 (https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/w8BUCXLKZoiQ5WJYtDwmjf?domain=senpy.gsi.u…) and Twinword <https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/BcVhCYWL1vi71w8xiV08Cd?domain=twinword.com> - 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 > <https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/k0fhCZYM2VF640GNFx8ASL?domain=hf.uio.no> > > Postboks 1093 > Blindern 0317 > Oslo, Norway > c.m.ess(a)media.uio.no > _______________________________________________ > The Air-L(a)listserv.aoir.org mailing list > is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/hKwPC2xZYvCYlgjwfXb-R_?domain=aoir.org > Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/1llzCVAGXPtJwYvAsGWUTe?domain=listserv.ao… > > Join the Association of Internet Researchers: > https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/YpcFC3Q8Z2FkAOBQfE4-q8?domain=aoir.org > ------------------------------ Subject: Digest Footer _______________________________________________ The Air-L(a)listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/hKwPC2xZYvCYlgjwfXb-R_?domain=aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/1llzCVAGXPtJwYvAsGWUTe?domain=listserv.ao… Join the Association of Internet Researchers: https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/YpcFC3Q8Z2FkAOBQfE4-q8?domain=aoir.org ------------------------------ End of Air-L Digest, Vol 182, Issue 6 *************************************

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