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CfP JCSCW Special Issue: Materializing Activism (Dec 1 2019)
by Karin Hansson 15 Sep '19

15 Sep '19

Call for proposals Materializing Activism: A CSCW Journal Special Issue Net activism shows how easily available tools allow the organization of social movements to be scaled up and extended globally. These media ecologies enable new forms of power. This special issue gathers research focusing on the collaborative efforts within social movements, looking into the socio-technical systems; the organization of activism; the relations between traditional and social media; and the complex network of systems, information, people, values, theories, histories, ideologies and aesthetics underlying various types of activism. The purpose with the issue is to explore how activism is materialized, enabled, and constrained by human computer interfaces, while also contributing to the development of useful tools. Deadline for the first submissions of extended abstract is December 1, 2019. (Deadline for full papers will be July 2020.) The maximum length of the extended paper is 2,000 words. The papers should follow the JCSCW formatting guidelines. Anonymize the submission and add your name and the submission title in a separate document. Submissions of extended papers and inquiries shall be sent to the following email address: khansson(a)dsv.su.se<mailto:khansson@dsv.su.se> For more information about the special issue and suggested topics visit the web page: https://materializingactivism.blogs.dsv.su.se/cfp-jcscw-special-issue/ For more information about the journal and formatting guidlines: https://www.springer.com/computer/journal/10606

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Two faculty positions at UNC-Chapel Hill’s Hussman School of Journalism and Media
by Aikat, Deb 14 Sep '19

14 Sep '19

The University of North Carolina’s Hussman School of Journalism and Media invites applications for two full-time faculty positions, as listed below: ~~~ Assistant Professor in Digital Advertising to join our dynamic and collaborative faculty in Fall 2020, Read more details at https://unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/168381 ~~~ Assistant / Associate Professor of Journalism Full-time, professional tenure-track, faculty position in journalism with an emphasis on accountability reporting, data literacy, and writing. Read more details at https://unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/169150 Can you please share these job openings with your networks? Thanks. Cordially, DEB AIKAT, Ph. D. Associate Professor Hussman School of Journalism and Media 374 Carroll Hall, CB # 3365 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3365, USA da(a)unc.edu | 919 962 4090 | hussman.unc.edu/directory/faculty/deb-aikat

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WEBCAST SAT/SUN: Fifth Annual Legal Hackers International Summit
by Joly MacFie 14 Sep '19

14 Sep '19

Internet Society Trustee Mike Godwin will be giving a keynote (Sunday 9am ET - 13:00 UTC). For a captioned version of the livestream, check isoc.live twitter <https://twitter.com/ISOC_Live>. ISOC-NY has long had a close relationship with the local (founding) branch of Legal Hackers. Wherever you are in the world you may well find there is a chapter/group near you - see https://legalhackers.org/people/ . ISOC Live posted: "On Saturday/Sunday 14-15 September 2019 the Fifth Annual Legal Hackers International Summit is taking place at Brooklyn Law School. While the Summit is designed primarily for Legal Hackers chapter organizers, there is plenty on the agenda that will intere" [image: YouTube] <https://www.youtube.com/legalhackers/live>On *Saturday/Sunday 14-15 September 2019* the *Fifth Annual Legal Hackers International Summit* <https://legalhackers.org/summit2019/> is taking place at Brooklyn Law School. While the Summit is designed primarily for Legal Hackers chapter organizers, there is plenty on the agenda that will interest the wider global community. The event is being webcast live via *YouTube <https://www.youtube.com/legalhackers/live>*. *Agenda: https://legalhackers.org/summit2019/ <https://legalhackers.org/summit2019/>* *View on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/legalhackers/live <https://www.youtube.com/legalhackers/live>* *Twitter: #legalhack http://bit.ly/2QccvMf <http://bit.ly/2QccvMf>* *Permalink* https://isoc.live/11328/ -- --------------------------------------------------------------- Joly MacFie 218 565 9365 Skype:punkcast -------------------------------------------------------------- -

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thank you to post this position announcement
by Nicolas TURENNE 14 Sep '19

14 Sep '19

Our Data Science group (10 people) at BNU HKBU UIC in China recruits please send requests to Prof XuanYuan ( [ mailto:zhexuanyuan@uic.edu.hk | zhexuanyuan(a)uic.edu.hk ] ) (Working language is English) Professor/Associate Professor/Assistant Professor in Data Science (Ref:DST180901) UIC now invites candidates for this position which is expected to be filled in February 2020: Job Description Candidates with expertise in one or more of the following areas: Database Management Systems, Programming Languages, Machine Learning, Data Mining, Data Processing, Statistics. Job Requirement Candidates should have a PhD or have a Master’s degree with extensive working experience in a related discipline. Successful candidates are expected to be committed to excellence in undergraduate or postgraduate teaching. Preference will be given to candidates who can undertake independent research leading to outstanding outcomes, including publications in high quality international-refereed journals. Benefits Salary commensurate with qualifications and relevant experience. Fringe benefits include housing allowance (applicable to Assistant Professor and above), leave and medical insurance. -- JDMDH Nicolas Turenne Journal of Data Science Group, Division of Science and Technology Data Mining UIC United International College and Digital Beijing Normal University-Hong Kong Baptist University. Humanities Zhuhai Campus, China. Recent publications Turenne N (2018). « The rumour spectrum ». PLoS ONE 13(1): e0189080. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0189080 Dang Q, Turenne N, Valette M (2018) « Using smog-related data of Chinese Sina Weibo to explore correlation between health issues and relevant regions ». In the Proceedings of the 13th International Workshop on Natural Language Processing and Cognitive Science, (NLPCS), Kraków, Poland, 11-12 September 2018. Ermakova L, Bordignon F, Turenne N and Noel M (2018) « Is the Abstract a Mere Teaser? Evaluating Generosity of Article Abstracts in the Environmental Sciences ». Front. Res. Metr. Anal. 3:16. doi: 10.3389/frma.2018.00016 Turenne N., Sokolova D. and Zassoursky I, (2018). « Женщины-исследователи в открытой научной коммуникации » (en français: Les femmes chercheuses dans l'espace ouvert de communication scientifique ou Open Access) In proceedings of Журналистика в 2017 году: творчество, профессия, индустрия" (en français: "Le journalisme en 2017 : innovation, métier, industrie"), 5-7 February 2018, Moscow State University, Russia. Mazoyer B., Turenne N. and Viaud M.L. (2017). « Étude des influences réciproques entre médias sociaux et médias traditionnels », In L. Amsaleg, V. Claveau and X. Tannier. Actes de l’atelier Journalisme Computationnel. France. hal-01643634 Turenne N. (2016) « Analyse de Données Textuelles sous R », ISTE Editions, 318 p., 2016, Collection Sciences cognitives (ISTE), 9781784061074 (ebook). hal-01292349 Turenne N. (2013) « Knowledge Needs and Information Extraction », ISTE-Wiley, 288 pages, 9781118574560 (ebook). doi: 10.1002/9781118574560 Editor of Proceedings Workshop Data Science and Digital humanities (@EGC 2018), Maison des Sciences de l'Homme de Paris Nord. 23 January 2018. https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01691918v1 Workshop Information Extraction for Social Media Analysis, University Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée (UPEM). 11 October 2016. http://ligm.u-pem.fr/index.php?id=28169 --

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Excursions - AoIR2019
by Michael Dezuanni 14 Sep '19

14 Sep '19

Hi everyone, If you are coming to AoIR2019 in Brisbane, don’t forget the local excursions we have on offer: https://aoir.org/aoir2019/excursionsforaoir2019/ Wednesday 2nd: 9.45am: 70-minute Cruise along the Brisbane River to Lone Pine Koala Sanctuary – with AoIR local committee member Michael Dezuanni. Friday 4th: 5.45pm: Kayak Paddle and Prawns on the Brisbane River – with AoIR local committee members Ariadna Matamoros Fernandez and Elija Cassidy. Book directly with the agents provided on the website using the appropriate discount codes, and follow the directions on the website to join us on the day. Looking forward to seeing you in Brisbane! Michael

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Internet of Things/Cyber Security Meet-Up at #AoIR2019
by Leonie Tanczer 13 Sep '19

13 Sep '19

Hi Everyone, Following the call for #AoIR2019 attendees to gather to discuss areas of shared interest, I am wondering if anyone would be keen on meeting on Friday evening (i.e., 4th of October) for an Internet of Things/Cyber Security Birds of a Feather Meet-Up? Feel free to get in touch if this sounds interesting! With best wishes, Leonie ________________________________________________________________ Dr Leonie Maria Tanczer Lecturer in International Security and Emerging Technologies Department of Science, Technology, Engineering and Public Policy University College London Twitter: @leotanczt Website: http://www.leonietanczer.net/ Key Fingerprint: 9F21 A6A6 913E 1393 1BC6 73DA EBEF 07A4 F61F 79DA

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ICADIWT 2019
by ijwa＠dline.info 13 Sep '19

13 Sep '19

CALL FOR PAPERS The Tenth International Conference on the Applications of Digital Information and Web Technologies (ICADIWT 2019) Ramaiah Institute of Management, Bangalore, India December 09-11, 2019 (www.socio.org.uk/icadiwt) The Tenth International Conference on the Applications of Digital Information and Web Technologies (ICADIWT 2019) is a forum for researchers to present the intensive and innovative research, ideas, developments and applications in the areas of Computer Communications, Communication networks, Communication Software Communication Technologies and Applications, and other related themes. This conference (ICADIWT Edition IX) will include presentations of contributed papers and state-of-the-art lectures by invited keynote speakers. Digital Technologies is embeeded in the research activiites of large number of people and it ensures the Ubiquitous reaching of more number of people in the recent years. Research in digital technologies has been carried out in many directions using various resources and tools and on the other side, the application issues are addressed by more volume of researchers not necessarily limited to information and computing technology. Thus the proposed conference series realize its value and potential and manifest the requirements in the form of the international conference. This edition will address the following outlined themes (but not limited to) Internet Communication Internet Technologies Web Applications Digital Libraries Internet Software Data Access and Transmission Digital Communication Software Digital Networks Web Communication Interfaces Adaptive Systems Internet of Things Internet of breath Augmented Reality Databases and applications Web Systems Engineering Design Intelligent Agent systems Semantic Web Studies Adaptive Web applications and personalization Actuators and sensors Robotics and Machine Vision Vibration and noise control Smart cities and structures Control Automation Human-machine interfaces Real-time simulation Digital Technologies for Mechanical and other designs Publication and Indexing The accepted full papers will be published in the IOS series (Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications (FAIA))and submitted for inclusion in many indexes. Accepted full papers will be submitted for indexing to multiple abstract and indexing partners. The papers will be indexed in many databases as given at http://www.frontiersinai.com/?q=indexing Publications will be indexed in the following databases - ACM Digital Library - DBLP - EI Compendex - Google Scholar - SciVerse Scopus - Web of Science; Conference Proceedings Citation Index (CPCI-S) * - Web of Science; Book Citation Index– Science (BKCI-S) - Zentralblatt MATH The accepted papers will be published as a post-conference publication. During the conference, the pre-conference volume will be distributed. The previous ICADIWT proceedings ars indexed in Web of Science Important Dates Submission of papers: October 01, 2019 Notification: November 01, 2019 Camera ready: December 01, 2019 Registration: December 01, 2019 Conference Dates: December 09-11, 2019 Paper Submission at http://www.socio.org.uk/icadiwt/paper-submission/ Contact: icadiwt(a)socio.org.uk or diwt(a)dirf.org ----------------------

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23rd Pan-Hellenic Conference on Informatics (PCI 2019): Last Mile for Paper Submission
by Announce Announcements 13 Sep '19

13 Sep '19

*** LAST MILE FOR PAPER SUBMISSION *** 23rd Pan-Hellenic Conference on Informatics (PCI 2019) University of Nicosia, Nicosia, Cyprus, November 28-30, 2019 http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=YWlyLUwJCQlhaXItTEBsaXN0c2Vydi… *** Submission Deadline: September 17, 2019 *** *** Proceedings to be published by ACM ICPS *** The University of Nicosia, the University of Cyprus, the Open University Cyprus and the Greek Computer Society organize the 23rd Pan-Hellenic Conference on Informatics (PCI 2019) in Nicosia, Cyprus on November 28-30, 2019. PCI 2019 aims to provide an effective channel of communication among researchers, practitioners, decision-makers and entities concerned with the latest research, scientific development and practice on ICT to discuss current, state-of-the-art topics that are of relevance and significance for national competitiveness as well as for sustainable, robust and equitable regional development. Submissions to PCI 2019 might cover, but are not limited, to the following topics: · Algorithms & Data Structures · Artificial Intelligence · Bioinformatics · Bio & Nature Inspired Computing · Blockchain Technologies · Cloud Computing · Communication & Information Systems Security and Privacy · Computational Science · Computer & Communication Networks · CRM & ERP Systems · Databases · Data Mining · Digital Libraries · Digital Systems · Distributed Computing · eCommerce, eBusiness, eHealth · Telecommunication Systems · Wireless & Mobile Computing · Learning Technologies · Graphics, Visualization, Multimedia & Virtual Reality · Grid, Cluster & P2P Computing · Hardware & Architecture · Embedded Systems · Human-Computer Interaction · Image and Video Processing · Information Retrieval · Information Society: Legal and Regulatory Issues · Information Systems · Information Theory · Knowledge Based Systems · Numerical & Scientific Computation · Open Source Software · Operating Systems · Parallel & Distributed Systems · Programming Languages · Signal Processing · Software Engineering PCI 2019 encourages the submission of high quality papers with original content in the following tracks: · Research Paper: full paper (8 pages) describing original and unpublished results of conceptual, empirical, experimental, or theoretical work in all areas of Computer Science. · Research Project Results: extended abstract (2 pages) presenting the results of funded completed or ongoing research projects at national or European level. · Industry: extended abstract (2 pages) presenting novel industrial solutions, success stories, and challenges that are encountered in an industry setting when adopting IT technologies. Templates for submissions can be found at the ACM SIG proceedings website: http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=YWlyLUwJCQlhaXItTEBsaXN0c2Vydi… . Papers should be submitted via EasyChair using the following link: http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=YWlyLUwJCQlhaXItTEBsaXN0c2Vydi… . The submitted research papers and extended abstracts will be peer-reviewed on the basis of technical quality, relevance to scope of PCI, originality, significance, and clarity. Note that submitted papers should have neither been published nor submitted for publication elsewhere. The working language of the conference is English and the papers should be written in that language. As in previous years, the final version of the research papers accepted for presentation at PCI 2019 will be published by ACM in the ICPS Series and will be included in the ACM Digital library. The accepted extended abstracts will be allocated either a demo or poster slot during the conference. At least one author of each accepted paper or abstract is expected to register, attend the conference and present their contribution. Invited Speakers · Professor George Chrysanthou · Professor George Giaglis Important Dates · Paper submission deadline: September 17, 2019 · Notification of paper acceptance/rejection: October 17, 2019 · Submission of camera ready papers: October 24, 2019 · Author registration: October 24, 2019 Organization General Chairs · Yannis Manolopoulos, Open University Cyprus, Cyprus · George Angelos Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus · Athena Stassopoulou, University of Nicosia, Cyprus Program Chairs · Ioanna Dionysiou, University of Nicosia, Cyprus · Ioannis Kyriakides, University of Nicosia, Cyprus · Nicolas Tsapatsoulis, Cyprus University of Technology, Cyprus Local Advisory Committee · Demetris Trihinas (chair, University of Nicosia) · Achilleas Achilleos (Frederick University Cyprus) · Panayiotis Andreou (University of Central Lancashire-Cyprus) · Christodoulos Efstathiades (European University Cyprus) · Angelika Kokkinaki (University of Nicosia) · Ioannis Krikidis (University of Cyprus) · Jahna Otterbacher (Open University Cyprus) · Vicky Papadopoulou (European University Cyprus) · Nearchos Paspallis (University of Central Lancashire-Cyprus) · Michalis Sirivianos (Cyprus University of Technology) · Stavros Stavrou (Open University Cyprus) · Demetris Zeinalipour (University of Cyprus) Proceedings Editor · Harald Gjermundrod (University of Nicosia) Steering Committee · Christos Douligeris (Greek Computer Society) · Nikitas Karanikolas (Greek Computer Society) · Christos Koilias (Greek Computer Society) · Cleo Sgouropoulou (Greek Computer Society) · Ioannis Voyatzis (chair, Greek Computer Society)

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Resources for digital politics/digital communications classes
by Colin Delany 12 Sep '19

12 Sep '19

Hi folks, I sent these around earlier over the summer, when many folks would have been on vacation and might have missed them. If you're looking for resources about digital politics and advocacy, these two pieces look at top-level planning, including overall strategy, data-enabled field organizing, fundraising, digital advertising, social media, etc. Both are out in public for anyone to use: A Sample Digital Plan for a 2020 Political Campaign http://www.epolitics.com/2019/08/15/a-sample-digital-plan-for-a-2020-politi… How To Plan Your Digital Campaign Budget, Logistics & Staffing https://www.campaignsandelections.com/campaign-insider/how-to-plan-your-dig… They're both excerpts from my digital politics guidebook: http://www.epolitics.com/winning Also, if you're looking for digital politics practitioners to Skype into a class discussion, I'm happy to try to connect you with folks here in the States with real experience on the ground (I can also chat with students myself). I hope these are useful! --cpd Colin Delany Epolitics.com -- digital strategy for politics and advocacy http://www.epolitics.com 202-422-4682 cpd(a)epolitics.com @epolitics

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AAG 2020 Call for papers: Digital Work in the Planetary Market
by Mark Graham 12 Sep '19

12 Sep '19

*Call for papers: Digital Work in the Planetary Market <https://geonet.oii.ox.ac.uk/blog/call-for-papers-digital-work-in-the-planet…>* Annual Meeting of the American Association of Geographers <https://www2.aag.org/aagannualmeeting/> Denver, Colorado April 6-10, 2020 Session Organizers: Mark Graham, Fabian Ferrari Work, and the networks that extract value from it, are increasingly embedded into planetary systems. As ever more work is commodified and traded beyond local labour markets, this session seeks to focus on those systems that purport to pay little attention to the locations in which work is done. Workers embedded into digital production networks produce immaterial outputs. Those outputs can be instantly transmitted to anywhere on the planet. This means that, for work that relies on the production and processing of codified rather than tacit knowledge, proximity is no longer needed between workers and the objects and subjects of their work. For many, the fact that Amazon contractors in Romania listened to Alexa conversations or that Facebook commissioned Indian workers to read private messages has been a privacy scandal. Beyond privacy concerns, these cases are exemplary of a planetary network of extracting cognitive human labour that happens in real-time. Those developments reflect reshaped value chains and skill requirements. For example, the increasing complexity of AI supply chains dovetails with an increasing demand for high-quality training data labelled by workers in the Global South. Work can now seemingly be deterritorialised at a planetary scale. The goal of this paper session is to remove some of the opacity of digital work in the planetary market, inviting new theoretical frameworks, methodological approaches, and innovative ways of visualising research findings. Papers in it might address the following questions: - What do the global value chains of trans-national networks of machines and digital workers look like? How do we theorise the ways that they are governed and take form? - What do digital production networks that fuse automated systems and human production do to create value; and, despite their seeming immateriality, how do they use and create economic geographies? - What are the infrastructures that mediate, augment, and extract value from digital work? - How should we understand the relative embedded- and disembedded, material and immaterial, and territorialised and deterritorialised natures of digital production? - How should we theorise the politics of technological artefacts within the rise of planetary networks of computing? - How do we apply infrastructural thinking to holistically studying the actually existing economic geographies of AI design, training and augmentation? In other words, how should we think about the conjunction of innovations in deep learning, natural language processing, computer vision, and autonomous vehicles with the planetary networks of computing and digital production that they rely on to function? - What are the economic geographies of globally-traded digital work? What are the ways in which the materiality of digital work is concealed and who benefits from doing so? - What are the relationships between the increasing commodification and the disembedding of digital work? - What does it mean to work in an international digital production network, what possibilities do workers, in opaque networks of digital production, have to decommodify and improve the conditions under which they work? If you are interested in participating in this paper session, please send a title and 250-word abstract *by Wednesday, October 9th* to Mark Graham ( mark.graham(a)oii.ox.ac.uk) and Fabian Ferrari (fabian.ferrari(a)oii.ox.ac.uk) ------------------------------------------ Mark Graham Professor of Internet Geography Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford @geoplace <http://twitter.com/geoplace> | markgraham.space New publications: Graham, M. (ed). 2019. Digital Economies at Global Margins <https://www.idrc.ca/en/book/digital-economies-global-margins>. Cambridge MA: MIT Press. Graham, M., and Anwar, M. A. 2019. The Global Gig Economy: Towards a Planetary Labour Market? <https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00220388.2018.1554208> First Monday. 24(4). doi.org/10.5210/fm.v24i4.9913. <http://twitter.com/geoplace>

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