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job posting - research manager- gender and digital rights (Web Foundation)
by Dhanaraj Thakur 10 Jun '19

10 Jun '19

Hi all, Apologies for cross-posting. Please see details about a new opening in my research team at the Web Foundation. Feel free to share with potential candidates and your networks. https://webfoundation.org/about/jobs/ We’re looking for an experienced Research Manager to work across our research program, with a specific focus on digital rights and gender. This role, sitting in a multidisciplinary and multicultural team, will lead and support the development of world-class research products for targeted policy and general audiences, drawing on a range of approaches including feminist and qualitative research methods. Research is core to the Web Foundation’s advocacy strategy and your work will help to drive policy change to advance our vision of an open web as a public good and a basic right for everyone, everywhere. To apply, please read the full job description and send your CV and a cover letter to jobs(a)webfoundation.org, including ‘Research Manager’ in the subject line. Applications are open until June 21. thanks, Dhanaraj

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PhD Scholarship in researching China's social media (The University of Hong Kong)
by kwfu 10 Jun '19

10 Jun '19

Funded PhD studentship available at The University of Hong Kong Submission deadline: August 31, 2019 Start date (the latest): January 1, 2020 Online application: https://www.gradsch.hku.hk/gradsch/notices/2nd-clearing-round-application-d… The basic level of scholarship is HK$16,660 (US$2,117) per month. More details: https://www.gradsch.hku.hk/gradsch/ Background: Recent years have witnessed China's rapid development and its evolution as a global power. Applying the World Bank's measure of purchasing power parity to evaluate GDP, China is now the largest global economy on the planet. It has become one of the most important participants in the global financial system as well as in international affairs, for example by initiating the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank and the Belt and Road initiative. China's enormous "sharp power" in manipulating other countries and international organizations has recently stirred a new wave of global attention. While China's influence has become global, an understanding of various approaches used by Chinese governments to interact with the country's news media, online media, and public discourse is urgently needed. Such understanding will inform the global community on how to engage with this new global power. With the rapid development of digital technologies and smartphone, China's "we-media", for example Weibo, WeChat, Youku, and Douyin, has become an emerging citizen media technology in China, nurturing a networked space where individuals, non-state media organizations, and even state media are technically and financially enabled to engage with a mass audience. Despite a vigorously regulated Internet, the emerging media has profoundly shaped the landscape of Chinese journalism as well as public discourse. It has generated substantial social impact, for example, empowering online activism on one hand, e.g. #metoo campaign and vaccine scandal in 2018, while extending the reach of propaganda and surveillance on the other hand, i.e. social credit system. The proposed research seeks to investigate China's state-society relation through the lens of the "we-media". We will particularly scrutinize the growth of news media WeChat public accounts. Deploying a mixed method approach in a combination of computational text analysis, machine learning techniques, and qualitative methodology, we aim to describe, characterize, and investigate the nature of we-media in China. Great opportunity for those who are interested in using Weiboscope and Wechatscope data for academic research. Weiboscope: https://weiboscope.jmsc.hku.hk<https://weiboscope.jmsc.hku.hk/> WeChatscope: https://wechatscope.jmsc.hku.hk Enquiry: King-wa Fu Journalism and Media Studies Centre The University of Hong Kong Email: kwfu(a)hku.hk<mailto:kwfu@hku.hk>

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PhD Colloquium, E-Vote-ID 2019
by Peter ROENNE 10 Jun '19

10 Jun '19

[Apologies for cross and multiple postings] ------------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS PhD Colloquium, 1 October 2019, E-Vote-ID 2019 (Submission Date: 28 June 2019) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- WWW: https://www.e-vote-id.org/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/EVoteID/ Twitter: @evotingcc Hashtag: #EVoteID2019 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- PhD Colloquium The colloquium continues the tradition of PhD workshops on e-voting. Since 2006 the PhD seminars have focused on various aspects of e-voting including technical aspects, legal challenges, identity management, verifiability of the vote, etc. The workshops took place in various locations in Austria, Catalonia/Spain, Denmark, Estonia, Germany, Luxembourg, and Switzerland. The goal of the colloquium is to foster understanding and collaboration between PhD students from various disciplines working on e-voting. To this end, the program allows plenty of space for discussion and initiating collaboration based on presentations by attendees. What makes this colloquium special is that it is truly interdisciplinary: The target audience is - PhD students directly in the field of e-voting (computer scientists, mathematicians, logicians, usability, governance, legal experts, public administration, political science, social scientists, cryptographers, anthropologists, etc.) - PhD students in related areas, where privacy, authentication, integrity and trust play a role, and for whom e-voting constitutes an interesting application domain - Master students in e-voting and related areas are welcome to participate. Proposals for presentations will be considered if possible Each interested participant should submit his/her research proposal (or alternatively ideas for papers, open problems, or other issues where feedback from colleagues would be helpful etc.) of some two pages length using the conference platform: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=evoteid2019 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Key Dates for Submissions Deadline for PhD Colloquium submissions: 28 June 2019 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Venue The conference will be held in the beautiful Renaissance castle of Hofen at Lochau/Bregenz on the shores of Lake Constance in Austria. The PhD Colloquium will take place on 1 October 2019 and will be followed by the E-Vote-ID conference. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- E-Vote-ID conference: This is the fourth time one of the leading international events for e-voting experts from all over the world has convened, and the 15th anniversary of the first e-voting conference taking place in Bregenz (Austria). The conference will take place in October 2019, and one of its major objectives will be to provide a forum for interdisciplinary and open discussion of all issues relating to electronic voting. The first 3 times the conference was held, visitors numbered a total of more than 300 participants, discussing 95 presentations. On the occasion of the 15th anniversary, papers focusing on a review of conference archives will be especially welcome. The aim of the conference is to bring e-voting specialists working in academia, politics, government and industry together, in order to discuss various aspects of all forms of electronic voting (including, but not limited to, polling stations, kiosks, ballot scanners and remote voting by electronic means) in the four following tracks below, and in a PhD colloquium: Track on Security, Usability and Technical Issues Chairs: Cortier, Véronique (CNRS, France), Beckert, Bernhard (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany), Küsters, Ralf (University of Stuttgart, Germany) Design, analysis, formal modeling or researching and implementation of: - Electronic voting protocols and systems; - Voter identification and authentication; - Ballot secrecy, receipt-freeness and coercion resistance; - Election verification including end-to-end verifiability and risk-limiting audits; - Requirements; - Evaluation and certification, including international security standards, e.g. Common Criteria or ITSEC; - Human aspects of security mechanisms in electronic voting and in particular of verifiability mechanisms; or - Any other security and HCI (human-computer) issues relevant for electronic voting. Track on Administrative, Legal, Political and Social Issues Chairs: Serdült, Uwe (Ritsumeikan University, Japan / University of Zurich, Switzerland), Duenas-Cid, David (Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia / Kozminski University, Poland) - Discussion of legal, political and social issues of implementing electronic voting, ideally employing case study methodology; - Analysing the interrelationship with, and the effects of electronic voting on democratic institutions and processes; - Assessing the cultural impact of electronic voting on institutions, behaviours and attitudes in the Digital Era; - Discussing the administrative, legal, political and social risks of electronic voting; - How to draft pieces of electronic voting legislation; - Public administrations and the implementation of electronic voting; - Understandability, transparency, and trust issues in electronic voting; - Data Protection concerns; - Public interests vs. PPP (public private partnerships). Track on Elections and Practical Experiences Chairs: Helbach, Jörg (Rheinische Fachhochschule Köln, Germany) - Reviewing developments in the area of applied electronic voting; - Reporting on experiences with electronic voting or the preparation thereof (including reports on development and implementation, case law, court verdicts, legislative steps, public and political debates, election outcomes, etc.); Contributions to this area will be published in TUT press proceedings only. These experience-based and practical reports need not contain original research, but must be accurate, complete and, where applicable, evidence-based accounts of the technology or system used. Submissions will be judged on the quality of review and level of analysis, and the applicability of the results to other democracies. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Format of the Conference The format of the conference is a three-day meeting beginning on Wednesday. On Tuesday, one day before the formal conference, we will hold the PhD colloquium and a poster & demo session for e-voting systems. No parallel sessions will be held, and sufficient space will be given for informal communication. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Programme Committee General Chairs Krimmer, Robert (Tallinn University of Technology, Ragnar Nurkse Department, Estonia) Volkamer, Melanie (Karlsruher Institut für Technologie, Germany) PhD Colloquium Koenig, Reto (University of Applied Science Berne, Switzerland) Driza Maurer, Ardita (Zentrum für Demokratie Aarau ZDA / University of Zurich, Switzerland) Outreach Chairs Rønne, Peter (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg) Krivonosova, Iuliia (Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia)

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Funded PhD Studentship at Loughborough
by Andrew Chadwick 10 Jun '19

10 Jun '19

Dear AoIR list subscribers, We have a further PhD studentship available here at Loughborough. Details here: https://www.lboro.ac.uk/research/online-civic-culture-centre/news-events/ar… This is the latest wave of funded positions as part of a new interdisciplinary centre we’ve set up, the Online Civic Culture Centre (O3C). If you have talented students who are seeking funding for their doctoral research I’d be grateful if you would alert them to this message. Also, do of course feel free to distribute it more widely. (This position is also formally advertised on jobs.ac.uk and findaphd.com.) For this studentship we invite applicants who wish to do a PhD in any area of research related to O3C’s research priorities. Applicants can read more about O3C on the website here: https://www.lboro.ac.uk/research/online-civic-culture-centre Any informal enquiries may be directed to me. **Deadline: July 3, 2019.** Many thanks, Andy ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Professor Andrew Chadwick, Communication and Media, Loughborough University, Loughborough, Leicestershire, United Kingdom. andrewchadwick.com

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Online discourse on Political views
by NORDIANA BINTI AHMAD KHARMAN SHAH 10 Jun '19

10 Jun '19

Dear Scholars, Anyone could share or refer me to studies/books that’s related to online discourse on Political/election in SNS e.g. Facebook, Twitter. Appreciate your help. Thanks! Best Nordiana -- " PENAFIAN: E-mel ini dan apa-apa fail yang dikepilkan bersamanya ("Mesej") adalah ditujukan hanya untuk kegunaan penerima(-penerima) yang termaklum di atas dan mungkin mengandungi maklumat sulit. Anda dengan ini dimaklumkan bahawa mengambil apa jua tindakan bersandarkan kepada, membuat penilaian, mengulang hantar, menghebah, mengedar, mencetak, atau menyalin Mesej ini atau sebahagian daripadanya oleh sesiapa selain daripada penerima(-penerima) yang termaklum di atas adalah dilarang. Jika anda telah menerima Mesej ini kerana kesilapan, anda mesti menghapuskan Mesej ini dengan segera dan memaklumkan kepada penghantar Mesej ini menerusi balasan e-mel. Pendapat-pendapat, rumusan-rumusan, dan sebarang maklumat lain di dalam Mesej ini yang tidak berkait dengan urusan rasmi Universiti Malaya adalah difahami sebagai bukan dikeluar atau diperakui oleh mana-mana pihak yang disebut. DISCLAIMER: This e-mail and any files transmitted with it ("Message") is intended only for the use of the recipient(s) named above and may contain confidential information. You are hereby notified that the taking of any action in reliance upon, or any review, retransmission, dissemination, distribution, printing or copying of this Message or any part thereof by anyone other than the intended recipient(s) is strictly prohibited. If you have received this Message in error, you should delete this Message immediately and advise the sender by return e-mail. Opinions, conclusions and other information in this Message that do not relate to the official business of University of Malaya shall be understood as neither given nor endorsed by any of the forementioned. "

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WEBCAST TODAY: Blockchain for Social Impact Conference 2019 #BSIC19 @ethereum4impact
by Joly MacFie 10 Jun '19

10 Jun '19

Notwithstanding Vint Cerf's scepticism <https://twitter.com/vgcerf/status/1019987651301081089>, blockchain continues to grow, and some efforts appear to cresting the slope of enlightenment <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hype_cycle>. The BSIC group of beneficent application proponents now have a powerful corporate ally in the form of Microsoft. [image: livestream] <https://isoc.live/bsic2019>On *June 10-11 2019* the annual *Blockchain for Social Impact Coalition Conference * <https://conference.blockchainforsocialimpact.com/>(BSIC19) will bne held at the *Microsoft Tech Center* in *NYC*. BSIC19 brings together government officials, leading NGOs, charities, think tanks, impact investors, technologists, and innovators to strategize about and develop blockchain-based solutions to pressing global challenges in the following areas: identity management, refugee resettlement, supply chain, energy, financial inclusion, human rights, democracy, and voting. Both tracks of Day 1 of the 2019 Conference will be webcast live on the the* Internet Society Livestream Channels <https://isoc.live/bsic2019>* LIVESTREAM: https://isoc.live/bsic2019 *SCHEDULE: https://conference.blockchainforsocialimpact.com/schedule-2019/ <https://conference.blockchainforsocialimpact.com/schedule-2019/>* *TWITTER: #BSIC19 @ethereum4impact http://bit.ly/2KBENeB <http://bit.ly/2KBENeB>* *ABOUT BSIC:* The Blockchain for Social Impact Coalition (BSIC) is a 501(c)(6) not-for-profit organization that incubates, develops, and collaborates on blockchain products and solutions that can address social and environmental challenges across the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals. *https://blockchainforsocialimpact.com/* <https://blockchainforsocialimpact.com/> - -- --------------------------------------------------------------- Joly MacFie 218 565 9365 Skype:punkcast -------------------------------------------------------------- -

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CFP Histories of Internet Studies: Status and Perspectives
by Smiljana Antonijevic 09 Jun '19

09 Jun '19

*Call for Papers* *Special Issue Sociologija (4/2019)"Histories of Internet Studies: Status and Perspectives”* *Guest co-editors: Smiljana Antonijević and Dalibor Petrović* *Sociologija**,* a peer-reviewed journal of the Sociological Association of Serbia and Montenegro and the Institute for Sociological Research, University of Belgrade, invites submissions for a special issue on Histories of Internet Studies: Status and Perspectives. The editors are particularly interested in submissions focused on national, regional, and other geographically specific histories of the global network. This year marks twentieth anniversary since journal *Sociologija *published its first article focused on social aspects of internet use. We find this anniversary a good opportunity to reflect on some of the social changes that have occurred over the past twenty years, largely as a result of integrating ICTs into various aspects of our lives. Equally important are the transformations that affected the internet itself, changing it in the ways that in retrospect might seem more or less predictable, but which twenty years ago belonged to an uncharted future. As a result of these transformations, certain topics that constituted analytical locus of early internet studies are either fading into obscurity or becoming interpreted in different ways, while new areas of inquiry are gaining prominence. For instance, virtual communities, which Howard Rheingold so inspiringly described in the early 1990s, are predominantly seen today through the lens of social networks as the form of sociality that preoccupies internet researchers. Similarly, twenty years ago, when internet users carefully hid their identities behind nicknames and when “on the internet, no one knew you were a dog,” it was difficult to imagine a sea-change in online behavior, with users voluntarily rushing to share their most intimate information and thoughts with acquaintances and strangers alike under their own true names. Online anonymity has been chased into the dark web, while various new forms of surveillance capitalism have imposed publicity and public performance as “the new normal.” The internet thus became a goldmine of data utilized by various parties, from political campaigners to scholars, concurrently feeding algorithms that—without explicit and direct feedback from users—determine which information they will see and in which order, who will be hired and who fired, and so on. These are only some manifestations of real virtuality, as Manuel Castells prophetically called the blending of real and virtual life into an inseparable totality. Such transformations, brought about or enhanced through the use of ICTs over the past twenty years, are the topic of this special issue, from the micro to the macro level, and from intimate and personal relationships to commerce and socio-political systems. We invite conceptual, methodological, and empirical papers (6,000-8,000 words), as well as shorter position papers (3,000 words) focusing on topics that include, but are not limited to: · Histories of internet studies: key topics and transformations · Visions of the internet in the next twenty years · Social media and mediatization of society · Patterns of online sociality · Family, youth, and the internet · Online activism · Information warfare and online extremism · Internet and transformation of labor · Culture(s) of the internet · Surveillance capitalism · Artificial intelligence, machine learning, and algoritmization of society · Body and identity in the age of virtuality · Internet as a scholarly resource, from ethnography to big data · Migration, Diaspora, and the internet · Digital archives and sites of memory *Submission guidelines* Submit a title and a 300-word abstract to Smiljana Antonijevic ( smiljana(a)id.iit.edu) and Dalibor Petrovic (dalibor.petrovic(a)f.bg.ac.rs) by July 1, 2019. After this first round of review, authors will be invited to submit full papers by September 30, 2019. Submissions, written in Serbian or English, should be original works not previously published nor undergoing review for publication in another journal at the time of submission. All articles submitted will be subject to double-blind peer-review. *Important dates* Abstract submission: July 1, 2019 Notification to authors: July 20, 2019 Full text submission: September 30, 2019 Review results returned: October 20, 2019 Revised text submission: November 15, 2019 Online publication: December 2019 *About the journal* *Sociologija *is a peer-reviewed journal that publishes theoretical, empirical and methodological papers in the fields of sociology, social psychology, and social anthropology. It is published by the Sociological Association of Serbia and Montenegro and the Institute for Sociological Research of the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade. The journal is published quarterly since 1959. Papers are published in Serbian, English or other international language after independent and anonymous peer review process. Editor in-chief: Slobodan Cvejić, University of Belgrade, Serbia Advisory board: Maurice Blanc, Universite de Nancy II, France; Xavier Bougarel, Centre national de la recherché scientifique, Paris, France; Nina Kaspersen, University of Lancaster, United Kingdom; Gyorgy Lengyel, Corvinus University of Budapest, Hungary; Stef Jansen, University of Manchester, United Kingdom; Srna Mandić, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia; Ratko R. Božović, Univerzitet Crne Gore, Nikšić, Montenegro; Marija Bogdanović, University of Belgrade, Serbia; Ksenija Petovar, University of Belgrade, Serbia; Božo Milošević, University of Novi Sad, Serbia

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Call for Paper
by Hakikur Rahman 08 Jun '19

08 Jun '19

Please send your research papers on ICT and Human Development to the following Journal: www.igi-global.com/IJICTHD International Journal of ICT and Human Development.

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3rd CfP ACM 2019 RecSys Workshop on Recommendation in Complex Scenarios (ComplexRec 2019)
by Toine Bogers 08 Jun '19

08 Jun '19

2nd Workshop on Recommendation in Complex Scenarios (ComplexRec 2019) Co-located with RecSys 2019, Copenhagen, Denmark September 16-20, 2019 Website: http://complexrec2019.aau.dk/ *** Important dates *** Paper submission deadline: July 1, 2019 Notification of acceptance: July 25, 2019 Camera-ready deadline: August 19, 2019 ComplexRec 2019 Workshop: September 20, 2019 *** Description & Objectives *** Over the past decade, recommendation algorithms for ratings prediction and item ranking have steadily matured. However, these state-of-the-art algorithms are typically applied in relatively straightforward scenarios. In reality, recommendation is often a more complex problem: it is usually just a single step in the user’s more complex background need. These background needs can often place a variety of constraints on which recommendations are interesting to the user and when they are appropriate. Users may want combinations of multiple items, or recommendations on the sequence of consumption. Moreover, different users may want different information about items, so beyond ranking the system needs to decide which information best to display to each user. However, relatively little research has been done on these complex recommendation scenarios. The ComplexRec 2019 workshop aims to address this by providing an interactive venue for discussing approaches to recommendation in complex scenarios that have no simple one-size-fits-all solution. We are especially interested in papers that have a clear focus on complex user needs and tasks and the consequences for modelling the recommendation process, designing practical recommender systems and their evaluation in the covered domain(s). It is the follow-up to the successful ComplexRec workshops at RecSys 2017 and 2018. *** Topics of interest *** We invite original contributions about recommendation in complex scenarios. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following: * Task-based recommendation — Approaches that take the user’s background tasks and needs into account when generating recommendations * Interactive recommendation — Techniques for successfully capturing, weighting, and integrating continuous user feedback into recommender systems, both in situations of sparse and rich user interaction * Feature-driven recommendation — Techniques for eliciting, capturing and integrating rich information about user preferences for specific product features * Constraint-based recommendation — Approaches that successfully combine state-of-the-art recommendation algorithms with complex knowledge-based or constraint-based optimization * Query-driven recommendation — Techniques for eliciting and incorporating rich information about the user’s recommendation need (e.g., need for accessibility, engagement, socio-cultural values, familiarity, etc.) in addition to the standard user preference information * Context-aware recommendation — Methods for the extraction and integration of complex contextual signals for recommendation * Complex data sources — Approaches to dealing with complex data sources and how to infer user preferences from these sources * Evaluation & validation — Approaches to the evaluation and validation of recommendation in complex scenarios *** Submissions *** We encourage authors to submit short papers and position papers of 4-6 pages in length dedicated to any aspect of recommendation in complex scenarios. Accepted submissions will then be invited for short presentations. Evaluation criteria for acceptance will include novelty, diversity, significance for theory/practice, quality of presentation, and the potential for sparking interesting discussion at the workshop. All submitted papers will be reviewed by the Program Committee. At least one author of each accepted paper must attend the workshop. All submissions should be in English and should not have been published or submitted for publication elsewhere. Papers should be formatted in the ACM Proceedings Style and submitted via EasyChair (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=complexrec2019) Submissions will be published in the workshop proceedings. *** Organizers *** Toine Bogers (toine(a)hum.aau.dk<mailto:toine@hum.aau.dk>), Aalborg University Copenhagen, Denmark Marijn Koolen (marijn.koolen(a)di.huc.knaw.nl<mailto:marijn.koolen@di.huc.knaw.nl>), Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Netherlands Bamshad Mobasher (mobasher(a)cs.depaul.edu<mailto:mobasher@cs.depaul.edu>), DePaul University, USA Alexander Tuzhilin (atuzhili(a)stern.nyu.edu<mailto:atuzhili@stern.nyu.edu>), New York University, USA Workshop website: http://complexrec2019.aau.dk/ For further questions, please contact a member of the organizing committee.

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Discount Princeton University Press
by Adrienne Shaw 07 Jun '19

07 Jun '19

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