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Final CALL: ICDIM 2019
by ijwa＠dline.info 09 Jul '19

09 Jul '19

Fourteenth International Conference on Digital Information Management (ICDIM 2019) September 24-26, 2019 University of Bedfordshire, Luton, UK (www.icdim.org) Technically co-sponsored by IEEE TEMS Following the successful earlier conferences at Bangalore (2006), Lyon (2007), London (2008), Michigan (2009) , Thunder Bay (2010), Melbourne (2011), Macau (2012), Islamabad (2013), Bangkok (2014) Jeju (2015) Porto (2016), Fukuoka (2017), and Berlin (2018) the Fourteenth event is being organized at Luton in UK in 2019. The International Conference on Digital Information Management is a multidisciplinary conference on digital information management, science and technology. The principal aim of this conference is to bring people in academia, research laboratories and industry together, and offer a collaborative platform to address the emerging issues and solutions in digital information science and technology Digital Information technologies are gaining maturity and rapid momentum in adoption across disciplines. The digital community is producing new ways of using digital information technologies for integrating and making sense out of various data ranging from real/live streams and simulations to analytics data analysis, in support of mining of knowledge. The conference will feature original research and industrial papers on the theory, design, and implementation of digital information systems, as well as demonstrations, tutorials, workshops and industrial presentations. The Fourteenth International Conference on Digital Information Management will be held during August 22-24, 2019 at Irish Computer Society, Dublin, Ireland The topics in ICDIM 2019 include but are not confined to the following areas. Information Technology Management Web Mining including Web Intelligence and Web 3.0 E-Learning, eCommerce, e-Business, and e-Government Edge and Fog Computing Data Analytics Software Engineering Deep Learning Natural Language Processing Smart Learning and Smart Cities Signal Processing Network Services Data Mining and Text Mining Knowledge Graphs, Recommender System, Ontology Computational Linguistics Distributed information systems Information visualization Multimedia and Interactive Multimedia Image Analysis and Image Processing Cloud Computing Computational Intelligence Privacy, Security and Trusted Computing Machine Learning Human-Computer Interaction Internet of Things The modified version of the selected papers will appear in the special issues of the following peer reviewed journals. 1. Journal on Data Semantics 2. Technologies 3. Data Technologies and Applications 4. Webology 5. Journal of Digital Information Management 6. International Journal of Computational Linguistics 7. Journal of Optimization General Chair Pavel Losket, Swansea University, UK Program Chairs Pit Pichappan, Digital Information Research Labs, India Simon Fong, University of Macau, Macau Program Co-Chair Adrian Florea, University of Shibu, Romania Important Dates Full Paper Submission July 15, 2019 Notification of Acceptance/Rejection August 05, 2019 Registration Due September 05, 2019 Camera Ready Due September 05, 2019 Workshops/Tutorials/Demos September 23, 2019 Main conference September 24-26, 2019 SUBMISSIONS AT http://www.icdim.org/submission.html Contact: conference(a)icdim.org -----------------

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CfP: Psychoanalysis, Sexualities and Networked Media
by Jacob Johanssen 09 Jul '19

09 Jul '19

*Psychoanalysis, Culture & Society* *Special Issue: Psychoanalysis, Sexualities and Networked Media* Edited by Jacob Johanssen (St. Mary’s University, jacob.johanssen(a)stmarys.ac.uk*)* *Call for papers* For psychoanalysis, sexuality, how it is both individually thought about and lived and how it is culturally constructed, is key to understanding both the human psyche and social change. Freud believed that the sexual behaviour of an individual, from the earliest stages of development onwards, provided key insights into how they related to others and themselves in life more generally. While Freud stressed that there is no ‘normal’ sexuality and heterosexuality was a myth, his particular theories of female sexuality were nonetheless critiqued by feminist thinkers. Initially for Freud, the symptom itself was a distorted or covered manifestation of sexual activity which related to conflicts. Those ideas were developed by post-Freudian psychoanalysts in numerous ways. It is psychoanalysis that fundamentally contributed to the theorisation and understanding of the role that sexual desires and fantasies play in our (un)conscious forms of relating to ourselves and others. While psychoanalytic schools have come to understand sexuality in different ways, other disciplines such as queer theory, cultural studies and philosophy have grappled with and drawn on those conceptualisations of sexuality. Particular notions that are often taken for granted in every day discourse – perversion, fetishism, voyeurism – were (and are) developed by psychoanalysts. The call for papers for a special issue of Psychoanalysis, Culture and Society takes psychoanalytic theories of sexuality / sexualities and how they were adapted/critiqued by other disciplines as a starting point for analysing contemporary networked media, online spaces and digital phenomena. In the past two decades, the Internet and networked devices have not only transformed societies but also human agency and subjectivity. How we communicate and relate to others has been shaped by our engagement with and immersion in digital media, devices and platforms. Social media in particular can be seen as enablers of unprecedented levels of human communication and cooperation which result in a sense of recognition and security for individuals, at the same time users have become data points which are commodified, surveyed and tracked by companies, governments and other entities. Contemporary online communication is also often marked by strong levels of hatred, aggression and polarisation which are characterised by the symbolic, and sometimes physical, destruction of the other. This proposed special issue of Psychoanalysis, Culture and Society places a specific focus on sexualities in contemporary online spaces. Sexualities have become more flexible and fluid thanks to technology as they are facilitated through hook up apps like Tinder, or Grindr. In reproductive terms, devices connected to the Internet such as fertility and health check apps have also become available. The Internet facilitates an informative and pleasurable engagement with sexualities, be it through online content, or communities around sexual identities for example. Subjects reveal aspects about their sexualities online more than ever before. At the same time, much of mainstream pornography has been critiqued as depicting women as oppressed, sexualised objects aimed to satisfy a male gaze. Clinicians have also noted that pornography can impact young people’s sexual development in harmful ways. Perhaps somewhat related to the widespread engagement with some forms of pornography, women are discussed in certain online spaces (such as forums on Reddit or 4chan) in highly misogynistic terms. Such language is often inspired by right-wing discourse and imagery which has gained increasing visibility online. The #MeToo movement on the other hand has made use of social media for activist purposes in order to resist and expose the widespread sexual assault and harassment conducted by men. It has attracted criticism for some of the methods and narratives deployed which have led to false accusations for example. It is safe to say that the representation of and engagement with sexualities has exploded due to digital technologies. There is scope to interpret such aspects in depth through psychoanalysis in combination with other approaches. Possible topics include but are not limited to: - Psychoanalytic approaches to sexuality - Psychoanalysis and other conceptualisations of sexuality (e.g. Foucauldian, Deleuze-Guattarian, queer theoretical) - Clinical perspectives on sexuality and digital media - Repression and its status today - Pleasures, unpleasures – Eros and the death drive - #MeToo and activism against sexualised violence - The Alt-Right and online misogyny - Online pornography - Livestreaming and camming - Hook-up apps - The Internet of Things (fertility devices, sex toys, sex robots, etc.) - Social media - Games and gaming cultures - Virtual reality and forms of simulation Please send abstracts of no longer than 500 words to Jacob Johanssen ( jacob.johanssen(a)stmarys.ac.uk) by 09 September 2019. Accepted full papers will be due in February 2020. The special issue will be published in December 2020. Article length: 6-8,000 words *About the journal* *Psychoanalysis, Culture and Society* is an international, peer-reviewed journal published by Palgrave (https://www.palgrave.com/gb/journal/41282) It explores the intersection between psychoanalysis and the social world. It is a journal of both clinical and academic relevance which publishes articles examining the roles that psychoanalysis can play in promoting and achieving progressive social change and social justice. Psychoanalysis, Culture & Society benefits a worldwide community of psychoanalytically informed scholars in the social and political sciences, media, cultural and literary studies, as well as clinicians and practitioners who probe the relationship between the social and the psychic. It is the official journal of the Association for the Psychoanalysis of Culture & Society.

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WEBCAST MONDAY: Spouseware and Stalkerware – Where Do We Go From Here? #LogicLoungeNY
by Joly MacFie 09 Jul '19

09 Jul '19

It's not often I give a full week's notice on a livestream, but it's not often we get Eva Galperin in front of the camera (last time was 7 years ago <https://youtu.be/9-E0Ypl_gl0>) ! Eva was recently named one of Fast Company's 100 Most Creative People in Business for 2019 <https://www.fastcompany.com/90345870/most-creative-people-2019-electronic-f…> . As to the topic: there's plenty of concern about government or capitalist surveillance, but what about when it is someone closer to you? [image: livestream] <https://livestream.com/internetsociety/logicloungeny> On *Monday July 15 2019* at *5pm EDT* (21:00 UTC) the *31st International Conference on Computer-Aided Verification <http://i-cav.org/2019/>* (CAV) and the *Vienna Center for Logic and Algorithms at TU Wien <http://www.vcla.at/>* (VCLA) present a talk: *Spouseware and Stalkerware - Where Do We Go From Here? <https://www.eventbrite.com/e/logiclounge-with-eva-galperin-spouseware-and-s…>* at the New School in NYC. Powerful surveillance software aka spyware is widely available on the internet at affordable prices. It is marketed to employers wanting to monitor the movements of their workers, to parents wanting to check electronically on the whereabouts of their children, or even to reveal a partner's infidelity. Where do the tech community, the police, and the policymakers stand on the issue of surveillance for private purposes? How much such usage/marketing is legal? And, lastly, how do you safeguard yourself against an attack? Speaker *Eva Galperin <https://twitter.com/evacide>*, Director of Cybersecurity at Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), will address these questions and more. The event will be webcast live on the *Internet Society Livestream Channel <https://livestream.com/internetsociety/>*. *VIEW ON LIVESTREAM: https://livestream.com/internetsociety/logicloungeny <https://livestream.com/internetsociety/logicloungeny>* *TWITTER: #LogicLoungeNY http://bit.ly/logicloungeny <http://bit.ly/logicloungeny>* *ABOUT LOGIC LOUNGE* The LogicLounge was born at the Vienna Summer of Logic in 2014, which brought together almost 3000 scientists in the fields of logic, philosophy, mathematics, computer science, and artificial intelligence. Since then it has been traveling the world as a regular event at the Conference on Computer Aided Verification (CAV). The LogicLounge series is organized by Vienna Center for Logic and Algorithms at TU Wien, Austria. The recordings of past LogicLounges with Toby Walsh, Dana Scott, and others are available at http://www.vcla.at/logiclounge/ *Permalink*: https://isoc.live/11188/ -- --------------------------------------------------------------- Joly MacFie 218 565 9365 Skype:punkcast ---------------------------------------------------------------

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Look out for the FAT*2020 CfP
by Maya Ganesh 08 Jul '19

08 Jul '19

Hello, The annual Fairness Accountability Transparency (FAT*) conference has a new look: first time in Europe, with a (soon to be announced) new name, and a brand new Social Sciences & Humanities (SSH) track: https://fatconference.org/2020/callforpapers.html Primarily a Computer Science + Law conference, FAT* is now evolving in response to critical scholarship from the Social Sciences and Humanities about the algorithmic shaping of everyday life and social and political institutions; that there needs to be more than just a computational tweak to ensure fairness and manage bias in these socio-technical systems. I am honoured to be part of the SSH track committee this year. The CfP is not formally out yet, but on behalf of the SSH team I am sending out an advance notice for people in this community. Please look out for the CfP in the coming weeks (on Twitter follow @fatconference). Full papers are due August third week, which is not a very long time away. So please start thinking about that half-written paper you have tucked away and that can be finished in time for this call. The SSH track is looking for submissions from STS, History of Science, critical Tech/Media studies, big data + algorithm studies, Philosophy etc. We are hoping to give the reviewers a very hard time choosing between the many brilliant submissions we get to the SSH track!! Best wishes, Maya -- Berlin | UTC + 2 T: @mayameme W: bodyofwork.in Fingerprint: D108 EA05 471F 709B E644 18E6 2A9F A109 16D7 EE98

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Topics on Internet Censorship and Surveillance (TICS) #2: Call for Papers
by Vasilis Ververis 06 Jul '19

06 Jul '19

* Topics on Internet Censorship and Surveillance (TICS) #2: Call for Papers * Online version: https://tics.site/cfp/ The 2nd TICS will focus on AI-assisted information controls. Collocated with the 18th IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence (https://webintelligence2019.com) October 14, 2019, Thessaloniki, Greece. Abstract The ever-increasing demand for online content moderation and user profiling sees the adaptation of web intelligence concepts that were developed in good faith, into a censorship and surveillance apparatus owned by corporations and national agencies. Consequently, users are bound to an Orwellian Internet where mainstream platforms such as search engines, social media, and content providers place the blame for filter bubbles and extensive user behavioral analysis on artificial intelligence. This is alarming, since it is particularly difficult to distinguish between AI bias and deliberate human intervention. TICS aims to explore the technological, socio-economic, and legal means and driving forces behind these issues, and to propose alternative directions for building a semantic and human-centric web that promotes empowerment of individuals to decide on how their identities are or are not constructed and aggregated online. Topics The goal of TICS is to raise awareness around the implications of network interference, by inviting researchers from complementary disciplines to consider the effect of their own domain on online censorship and surveillance. Along those lines, we invite submissions that address the following topics: - Research on technologies and policies that build upon advancements on the field of web intelligence to imply blocking, limitation or distortion of the availability of network services and online content - The application of web intelligence concepts such as behavioral modeling, data mining, and social network analytics to target groups and individuals by law enforcement agencies and private corporations - The implications of algorithmic and AI-assisted user content classification (such as for identification of hatespeech, copyright, or disinformation) - Novel techniques that leverage web intelligence to defend netizens against censorship and surveillance, or privacy enhancements to the existing AI infrastructure to mitigate these threats - Measurement methodologies that detect network interference or content moderation based on crowd knowledge or web analytics - The socio-economic consequences and implementation limitations and fallacies of upload filters and recommendation systems - Business models and amendments to legal frameworks which promote the use of web intelligence in ways that build a pluralistic, private, and human-centric experience without violating user freedoms * Important dates * Paper Submission due: July 19th, 2019 July 10th, 2019 Notification to authors: Aug 15th, 2019 Final, camera ready papers, due: Aug 25th, 2019 Workshop date: Oct 14th, 2019 * Paper Submission * Paper Submission Page: https://wi-lab.com/cyberchair/2019/wi19/scripts/submit.php?subarea=S04&undi… Submitted papers should be limited to a maximum of 8 pages in the standard ACM 2-column format. The ACM Proceedings Manuscript Formatting Guidelines can be found at: https://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template Program Chairs Marios Isaakidis, University College London, marios(a)tics.site Vasilis Ververis, Humboldt University Berlin, vasilis(a)tics.site Gunnar Wolf, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, gwolf(a)tics.site You can contact all of the chairs by addressing your mail to chairs(a)tics.site. Program Committee Apostolos Pyrgelis, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne Bogdan Kulynych, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne Chrystalenni Loizidou, University of Nicosia Gabriele de Seta, Hong Kong Polytechnic University Keith McManamen, Psiphon Inc. Savvas A. Zannettou, Cyprus University of Technology Will Scott, University of Michigan Cheers, ~Vasilis

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CALL FOR PAPERS: Media Representations and Narratives of Masculinities Across Europe
by Inês Amaral 05 Jul '19

05 Jul '19

[With apologizes for cross-posting] Call for papers: Media representations and narratives of masculinities across Europe The journal Social Studies is announcing a call for papers for a monothematic issue with a working title Media representations and narratives of masculinities across Europe. The editors of the issue are Inês Amaral and Sofia José Santos (University of Coimbra). This special issue aims to bring together critical analysis focusing on media representations, discourses, narratives and counter-narratives of what it means to be and behave “like a man” in today’s Europe. It wishes to contribute to a comprehensive reflection on the stereotypes that underlie discourses in the mass media and in the online media, and on how cultural productions co-opt, confront, criticize, renegotiate and seek to promote gender alternatives that challenge gender inequality. This special issue welcomes theoretical and empirical articles that use qualitative, quantitative or mixed methodologies and focus on media representations and narratives of men and masculinities, their relation to policy and legislation, counter-narratives to the stereotyped representations of gender roles, the relation between feminism and masculinities and the fallout of the MeToo movement, social media activism, digital literacy, critical media literacy and other related topics. Papers focusing on research methods with which to address these issues are also welcome. Abstracts should be sent to the journal address (socstud(a)fss.muni.cz) and to the editors (ines.amaral(a)uc.pt and sjs(a)ces.uc.pt) More detailed information is available on request. The deadline for abstract submission is 1st November 2019, full papers are expected by 1st March 2020. About the journal Social studies/Sociální studia (print ISSN 1214-813X, online ISSN 1803-6104) is a fully open-access journal, indexed in SCOPUS and ERIH PLUS. The journal is published since 2004 at the Faculty of Social Studies, Masaryk University, both electronically and in print. Starting in 2015, the journal accepts English-language thematic issues and contributions. Website: https://journals.muni.cz/socialni_studia

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SBP-BRiMS 2019 - Call for Working Papers, Challenge Problems, Doctoral Consortiums
by Hemant Purohit 05 Jul '19

05 Jul '19

Apologies if you receive multiple copies: SBP-BRiMS 2019 2019 International Conference on Social Computing, Behavioral-Cultural Modeling, & Prediction and Behavior Representation in Modeling and Simulation July 9-12, 2019, Lehman Auditorium, George Washington University, Washington DC, US http://sbp-brims.org/ #sbpbrims CALL FOR Contributions : Important Dates: Working Paper <http://sbp-brims.org/doctoral_consortium/> Submission: 17-May-2019 Doctoral Consortium<http://sbp-brims.org/doctoral_consortium/> Submission due: 17-May-2019 Tutorial<http://sbp-brims.org/cft/> Submission: 17-May-2019 Demo<http://sbp-brims.org/2018/demo/> Submission: 17-May-2019 Challenge Response<http://sbp-brims.org/challenge/> Submission: 17-May-2019 SBP-BRiMS is an interdisciplinary computational social science conference focused on both modeling complex socio-technical systems and using computational techniques to reason about and study complex socio-technical systems. The participants in this conference take part in forming the conversation on how computation is shaping the modern world and helping us to better understand and reason about human behavior. Both papers addressing basic research and those addressing applied research are accepted. All methodological approaches are encouraged; however, the vast majority of papers use computer simulation, network analysis or machine learning as the method of choice in addressing human social and behavioral activities. At the conference, these paper presentations are complemented by data science challenge problems, demonstrations of new technologies, and a government funding panel. Submissions are solicited on research issues, methodologies, theories, and applications. Topics of interests include but are not limited to the following: Advances in Sociocultural & Behavioral Process Modeling * Group formation, interaction, and/or evolution * Collective action and governance * Information, belief, technology of disease diffusion * Public opinion representation, identification and modeling * Information diffusion * Psycho-cultural situation awareness * Intelligent agents and avatars/adversarial modeling * Models of reasoning and decision making * Performance prediction, assessment, & skill monitoring/tracking * Intelligent tutoring systems * Cognitive robotics and human-robot interaction * Human behavior issues in model federations * Validation and analysis techniques for social behavioral models Information, Systems, & Network Science * Data mining on social media platforms * Diffusion and other dynamic processes over networks * Inference of network topologies and changes over time or space * Analysis of link formations and link types * Detection of communities and other types of structures in networks * Analysis of high-dimensional networks * Analytics for social and human dynamics Military & Intelligence Applications * Group formation and evolution in the political context * Networks and political influence * Group representation and profiling * Reasoning about terrorist group behaviors and policies towards them * Cyber and attribution * Social Cyber-Security applications * Social simulation for military training * Cyber diplomacy * Computational methods to transform traditional GEOINT and open source data into spatio-temporal information describing events and activities Applications for Health and Well-being * Data science applied to health behavior * Modeling of public health and health care policy and decision making * Modeling of behavioral aspects of infectious disease spread * Modeling of behavioral aspects of prevention and treatment for chronic diseases (e.g., cancer, obesity, asthma) * Intervention design and modeling for behavioral health Example Other Applications of Interest to the Community * Economic applications of behavioral and social prediction * Model federation, integration, verification, or validation * Evolutionary computing and optimization * Education, training, professional development and workforce training in modeling and simulation CHALLENGE PROBLEMS: There will be two data science challenges, one on opioids and one on disinformation. Additional details are posted on the conference website, SBP-BRiMS.org<http://sbp-brims.org/challenge>/challenge. The deadline for submissions this year will be 17-May-2019. IMPORTANT DATES: Working Paper Submission: 17-May-2019 Doctoral Consortium<http://sbp-brims.org/doctoral_consortium/> Submission due: 17-May-2019 Tutorial<http://sbp-brims.org/cft/> Submission: 17-May-2019 Demo<http://sbp-brims.org/2018/demo/> Submission: 17-May-2019 Challenge Response<http://sbp-brims.org/challenge/> Submission: 17-May-2019 Please see conference website http://sbp-brims.org for more information. AWARDS: All papers are qualified for the Best Paper Award. Papers with student first authors will be considered for the Best Student Paper Award. Those receiving these awards will be invited to publish an extended version in a special issue of the journal Computational and Mathematical Organization Theory. Submission of a paper to the conference means that the authors consent to send an extended version to the special issue, should they receive one of the awards. Papers receiving the best paper awards, the best student paper award, winner of the opioid challenge, and winner of the disinformation challenge will then send an extended version of their paper for publication in the best of SBP-BRiMS 2019 special issue. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SBP-BRiMS 2019 July 9-12 | Washington, D.C. www.sbp-brims.org<http://www.sbp-brims.org/> Connect with #sbpbrims on social: Follow us on Twitter: http://twitter.com/sbpbrims Like us on Facebook: http://facebook.com/sbpbrims Follow us on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/sbpbrims/

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3rd Summer School on Internet-based Data Collection and Analysis in Decision Making
by U. Reips 04 Jul '19

04 Jul '19

Dear colleagues: we'd be most thankful if you were to distribute the following announcement of our 3rd Konstanz summer school. Looking forward to seeing you at Lake Constance, Ulf ******* 3rd Summer School on Internet-based Data Collection and Analysis in Decision Making 2019 The Graduate School of Decision Sciences and Department of Psychology, University of Konstanz, invite you to take part in our 3rd Summer School on Internet-based Data Collection and Analysis in Decision Making September 09-13, 2019 @ University of Konstanz Instructors (bios see below): Michael Birnbaum * Chick Judd * Gary McClelland * Ulf-Dietrich Reips Topics: Basic and advanced concepts of Internet-based research Methods of Decision Making Research Mediation & Moderation & Mediated Moderation analysis Experimental design Online tools & standards Visualization Apps Optimal design Theory and model testing Mixed models Analysis of Internet data Avoiding frequently made errors Practical applications Social Media Big Data Epistemology iScience Summer School begins with Registration Monday 9th of September, 11:00 There will be an Early Arrival social gathering on Sunday evening. Cost: 270.- Euro (Early bird), 290.- after July 16, includes lunches and catering during the summer school (partial fee waiver for GSDS and UNIKN Psychology students available) 3 ECTS for those who participate in and pass the optional exam Social Programme in and around Lake Constance. Apply until August 15 (for Early bird fee by July 15) by filling the form at http://iscience.uni-konstanz.de/collaborations/4492-2/ Payment of the fee (270.-/290.- Euro) needs to simultaneously go to: Recipient: Universitaetskasse Konstanz Bank: BW-Bank Konstanz IBAN: DE92 6005 0101 7486 5012 74 BIC: SOLA DE ST Purpose (very important to include in bank transfer!): Summer School Data Collection Please send any inquiries about the summer school to <gsds.summerschool(a)uni-konstanz.de> Instructors: Michael Birnbaum received his PhD from UCLA in 1972. He taught at University of Illinois, Urbana- Champaign from 1974-1986, where he was head of the Division of Quantitative and Industrial/Organizational Psychology, and promoted to Full Professor in 1982. He came to California State University, Fullerton (CSUF) in 1986 on leave from University of Illinois, and made the position here permanent in 1988. He is a founder and current co-director of the Decision Research Center at CSUF. He was named Outstanding Professor for CSUF in 1991-92. He has published more than 140 scientific articles and three books. In the last decade, he has had five grants from the National Science Foundation and one from the American Psychological Association. He served as president of the Society for Mathematical Psychology, 2002-2003, president of the Society for Judgment and Decision Making, 2008-2009, and president of the Society for Computers in Psychology, 2009-2010. Charles "Chick" M. Judd is College Professor of Distinction Emeritus at University of Colorado, Boulder. He received his PhD in 1976 from Columbia University after getting a B.A. from Yale. He then became Assistant Professor, then Associate Professor at Harvard University. In 1981 he became an Associate Professor at University of Colorado, Boulder, where he was promoted to Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience in 1987 and College Professor of Distinction in 2006. He has been a Visiting Professor at Oxford University, the University of California Berkeley, and Stanford University, among others. He served as the editor of both the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology and the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. His research has been devoted to two main areas: social cognition and research methods. In the former area, he has published widely on stereotyping, prejudice, and intergroup relations, particularly looking at causes and consequences of perceived group differences. In the later area, his work has been devoted to issues of mediation, moderation, the analysis of data with dependencies, and mixed models with multiple random factors. Among numerous awards, he received the Thomas Ostrom Award for Lifetime Contributions to Social Cognition Research, 2010 and in 2012 the Jacob Cohen Award from the American Psychological Association. He also was awarded an honorary doctorate from the Catholic University of Louvain in Belgium. Gary McClelland is a Professor emeritus of the University of Colorado, Boulder, received his PhD in 1971 from the University of Michigan, and has been a pioneer in the use of interactive web-based graphics to support understanding of methodological concepts in both scientific journal articles and in educational materials (e.g., Irwin & McClelland, 2003; McClelland, 1997, 2000). Gary's two primary research interests are (1) judgment and decision making and (2) statistical methods. He is a founding member of the Society for Judgment and Decision Making and a founding fellow of the Association for Psychological Science. He and Chick Judd in 2012 jointly won the Jacob Cohen Award for Distinguished Contributions to Teaching and Mentoring by the American Psychological Association, Div. 5. Ulf-Dietrich Reips is a Full Professor at the University of Konstanz. He received his PhD in 1996 from the University of Tübingen. His research focuses on Internet-based research methodologies, the psychology of the Internet, measurement, development, perceptions of inequality, cognition of causality, personality, privacy, Social Media, mobile experience sampling, collective behavior, and Big Data. In 1994, he founded the Web Experimental Psychology Lab, the first laboratory for conducting real experiments on the World Wide Web. Ulf was a founder of the German Society for Online Research, was elected the first non-North American president of the Society for Computers in Psychology and he is the founding editor of the free open access journal International Journal of Internet Science. Ulf and his team (http://iscience.uni-konstanz.de/) develop and provide methods and free Web tools for researchers, teachers, students, and the public. They received numerous awards for their Web applications (available from the iScience Server at (http://iscience.eu/) and methodological work serving the research community.

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2019 Social Informatics Best Paper Awards - Call for Nominations
by Adam Worrall 04 Jul '19

04 Jul '19

The ASIS&T Special Interest Group for Social Informatics <https://asistsigsi.wordpress.com/> (SIG SI) is issuing a *call for nominations* for the 2019 Annual *Social Informatics Best Paper Awards*, with nominations due by *July 10*. Self-nominations are welcome and the nomination process is quite short, as detailed below. Winners are also invited to *present* their work during SIG SI’s Research Symposium <https://asistsigsi.wordpress.com/the-15th-annual-social-informatics-researc…> at ASIS&T 2019 <https://www.asist.org/am19/> in Melbourne. We seek nominations for the following two awards: 1. *Best SI Paper*: For a paper published in a* peer-reviewed journal *on a topic* informed by social informatics* during the *2018 calendar year*. The winning author(s) will receive a *$1,000* (USD) cash award. 2. *Best SI Student Paper*: For a paper published in either a *peer-reviewed journal* or in *peer-reviewed conference proceedings* during the *2018 calendar year*, authored by a *PhD or Master’s student* on a topic *informed by social informatics*. The winning author(s) will receive a $500 (USD) cash award. Winners of both awards will also be invited to present their papers at the Annual *SIG SI Research Symposium* at the 2019 Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T) Annual Meeting in Melbourne, Australia on *Saturday* *October 19*. To nominate a paper for these awards, please send the following to *Adam Worrall (worrall(a)ualberta.ca <worrall(a)ualberta.ca?subject=Social+Informatics+Best+Paper+Awards>)*, SIG SI Awards Coordinator, by *July 10*, 2019, 11:59pm PDT (UTC-7): - A full *reference* of the article being nominated, including the authors, title, and publication venue; also be sure to note any student authors - A brief *explanation* of why you are nominating this article - A digital *copy* of the article (PDF preferred) Award winners will be notified by August 1, 2019, in time for ASIS&T 2019 Annual Meeting early bird registration (ends August 2). Good luck to all who apply! Adam Worrall, Ph.D. Awards Coordinator, ASIS&T SIG SI Assistant Professor, University of Alberta School of Library and Information Studies 5-168 Education North Edmonton, AB T6G 2G5 worrall(a)ualberta.ca (780) 492-0179 http://www.adamworrall.org

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Reminder - CFP on Youth Digital Participation - Deadline for abstracts July 31 2019
by Neta Kligler-Vilenchik 04 Jul '19

04 Jul '19

Volume 8, Issue 2 Title: Youth Digital Participation: Opportunities, Challenges, Contexts, and What?s at Stake Editor(s): Neta Kligler-Vilenchik (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel) and Ioana Literat (Teachers College, Columbia University, USA) Submission of Abstracts: 31 July 2019 Submission of Full Papers: 10 January 2020 Publication of the Issue: May/June 2020 Information: In many ways, young people are trailblazers when it comes to digital participation. They are often the first to adopt new technologies and platforms, to experiment with modes of production and practices of sharing, and?due to the significant role that social relations play in their lives?often spend significant time and energy socializing online (Ito et al., 2009, 2019; Jenkins et al., 2016). Youth digital participation has been explored as an opportunity for areas including learning and professional development (e.g., Ito et al., 2019); self-expression and identity exploration (e.g., Renninger, 2015); social connection (e.g., Weinstein, 2018); as well as for civic and political participation and expression (e.g., Kligler-Vilenchik & Literat, 2018). At the same time, youth digital participation should not be uncritically celebrated: Rather, researchers should be cognizant of the nuances of youth participation and a focus on when, how, why and for what youth digital participation matters (Literat et al., 2018). For this issue, we invite theoretical and empirical (quantitative, qualitative or mixed-methods) papers that delve into youth digital participation from such a nuanced perspective, including papers which explore: - The potentials and opportunities for youth digital participation, including learning, self-expression, social connection, identity formation and more; - Youth civic/political expression and participation, including civic learning, cross-cutting exposure, and political socialization; - How young people?s participatory practices in digital spaces contribute (or not) to youth empowerment and agency; - Youth perspectives on their own digital participation; - Challenges and risks around youth participation; - The digital participation of marginalized youth; - Methodological perspectives and innovative approaches to studying youth digital participation; - Ethical issues related to the study of youth digital participation. These issues can be explored in relation to a variety of digital contexts, including mainstream social media platforms but also online affinity networks, smartphone applications, hybrid online/offline contexts, etc. Authors should be cognizant of strict ethical considerations regarding the use of data pertaining to minors, even when publicly available (see, e.g., Livingstone & Third, 2017; Zimmer & Kinder-Kurlanda, 2017). References: Ito, M., Baumer, S., Bittani, M., Cody, R., Stephenson, B.H., Horst, H.A., . . . Tripp, L. (2009). *Hanging out, messing around, and geeking out: Kids living and learning with new media*. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. Ito, M., Martin, C., Pfister, R.C., Rafalow, M.H., Salen, K., & Wortman, A. (2019). *Affinity online: How connection and shared interest fuel learning*. New York, NY: NYU Press. Jenkins, H., Shresthova, S., Gamber-Thompson, L., Kligler-Vilenchik, N., & Zimmerman, A. (2016). *By any media necessary: The new youth activism*. New York, NY: NYU Press. Kligler-Vilenchik, N., & Literat, I. (2018). Distributed creativity as political expression: Youth responses to the 2016 US presidential election in online affinity networks. *Journal of Communication*, *68*(1), 75-97. Literat, I., Kligler-Vilenchik, N., Brough, M., & Blum-Ross, A. (2018). Analyzing youth digital participation: Aims, actors, contexts and intensities. *The Information Society*, *34*(4),261-273. Livingstone, S., & Third, A. (2017). Children and young people?s rights in the digital age: An emerging agenda. *New Media & Society*, *19*(5), 657-670. Renninger, B. (2015). ?Where I can be myself? where I can speak my mind?: Networked counterpublics in a polymedia environment. *New Media & Society*, *17*(9), 1513-1529. Weinstein, E. (2018). The social media see-saw: Positive and negative influences on adolescents? affective well-being. *New Media & Society*, *20*(10), 3597-3623. Zimmer, M., & Kinder-Kurlanda, K. (Eds.) (2017). *Internet research ethics for the social age: New challenges, cases, and contexts*. New York, NY: Peter Lang. Instructions for Authors: Authors interested in submitting a paper for this issue are asked to consult the journal?s instructions for authors <https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/pages/view/forauthors >. If interested, please send an abstract of 500-600 words by email to the Editorial Office (mac(a)cogitatiopress.com) by 31 July 2019, referencing the thematic issue. Abstracts should include details regarding the paper?s methodological approach and its contributions to our understanding of youth digital participation. Authors will be notified about acceptance by 31 August 2019. The deadline for the submission of full papers will be 31 January 2020. Final papers should be a maximum of 8,000 words. Note that all invited articles will still go through full and anonymous peer review, and that being invited to submit a full article is no guarantee of final publication in the themed issue. Open Access: The journal has an article publication fee to cover its costs and guarantee that the article can be accessed free of charge by any reader, anywhere in the world, regardless of affiliation. We defend that authors should not have to personally pay this fee and advise them to check with their institutions if funds are available to cover open access publication fees. Institutions can also join Cogitatio's Membership Program at a very affordable rate and enable all affiliated authors to publish without incurring any fees. Further information about the journal?s open access charges and institutional members can be found here < https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/about/editorialPolicie… >

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