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WEBCAST TODAY: Making ‘The Future of Work’ Work
by Joly MacFie 02 Jun '19

02 Jun '19

(yes I am simulcasting Christian Sandvig's event - with supplemental AI captions) The University of Michigan has a new outfit - the Center for Ethics, Society,and Computin <https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/%E2%80%8Bhttp://esc.umich.edu/>g (ESC) - not officially launching till late in the year, but already beating the drum.. Follow their twitter <https://twitter.com/MichiganESC>. [image: livestream] <https://livestream.com/internetsociety/platformeconomy> Today *Saturday June 1 2019* at *09:30 EDT* (13:30 UTC) the *University of Michigan School of Information <https://www.si.umich.edu/>* hosts a workshop *Making 'The Future of Work' Work <http://techculturematters.com/events/nsf-workshop-making-the-future-of-work…>* which will explore the potential for tech work inside and outside traditional capitalist structures. The workshop comprises two sessions: 1) *Labor in the Global Platform Economy* and 2) *Algorithms, Scale, Speed, and the Labor of Logistics* both of which examine the role of worker-solidarity in algorithm-ruled workspaces. *LIVESTREAM* *https://player.cloud.wowza.com/hosted/hk5cjpf7/player.html <https://player.cloud.wowza.com/hosted/hk5cjpf7/player.html>* *SIMULCAST* *https://livestream.com/internetsociety/platformeconomy <https://livestream.com/internetsociety/platformeconomy>* *TWITTER @umsi + #futureofwork http://bit.ly/2Xjd8md <http://bit.ly/2Xjd8md>* *SPONSORS* *Center for Ethics, Society,and Computing (ESC) http://esc.umich.edu/ <http://esc.umich.edu/>* *National Science Foundation* *https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1744359 <https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1744359>* *Permalink* https://isoc.live/11091/ -- --------------------------------------------------------------- Joly MacFie 218 565 9365 Skype:punkcast -------------------------------------------------------------- -

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Call for Papers
by Hakikur Rahman 01 Jun '19

01 Jun '19

Description Information and communication technologies are directly influencing the way human beings are engaging themselves in their routine activities. The governance including socio-economic environment needs a catalyst for social change for human development. Currently, technologies are required to play the role of a catalyst to bring this social change for human development. The *International Journal of Information Communication Technologies and Human Development (IJICTHD)* will compile theoretical and empirical works that significantly contribute to the still unexplored field of how ICTs can make a difference in the lives of human beings and contribute to human development. Topics Covered - ICTs and citizen participation - ICTs and commerce - ICTs and culture - ICTs and education - ICTs and ethics - ICTs and gender equality - ICTs and governance - ICTs and health - ICTs and human empowerment - ICTs and human rights - ICTs and international cooperation - ICTs and political development - ICTs and poverty alleviation - ICTs and rural development - ICTs and social change - ICTs and social media - ICTs and social networks - ICTs and socio-economic development - ICTs and the environment - ICTs and urban development - Knowledge for human development - Policy making with regard to ICTs for development Mission and ScopeThe mission of the *International Journal of Information Communication Technologies and Human Development (IJICTHD)* is to bring improvement in governance including the socio-economic political environment of society. IJICTHD identifies potential processes, tools, techniques, and applications for the development of human beings and provides insightful analysis about those factors (also contextual and institutional ones) that affect ICTs for human development initiatives. Proposing strategies to both governance and international cooperation organizations for moving forward, this journal also addresses future challenges.

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Call for Papers -- Distance Education Across Critical Theoretical Landscapes
by Patrick Lowenthal 31 May '19

31 May '19

Call for Papers "Distance Education Across Critical Theoretical Landscapes" The purpose of this special themed issue is to provide a venue for scholars, researchers, instructional designers, and classroom teachers to engage with critical theories and diversity in open, flexible and technology-mediated distance learning environments. To provide the most opportunity for inclusion, we invite submissions that consider a wide variety of technologies, pedagogies, modes and settings (e.g., K-12, higher education, and industry/corporate settings). We encourage submissions that represent the theoretical landscape, and which demonstrate the breadth and depth of theoretical lenses that have been historically underrepresented. This includes, but is not limited to, the following: critical race theory, critical pedagogies, disability studies, feminisms, heutagogy, and LGBTQIA+ studies. Finally, we invite a variety of research paradigms as well as theoretical pieces, meta-analyses, and strategic reviews of the literature. More information: https://t.co/5WZg7UpOUk ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- *PATRICK R. LOWENTHAL, Ph.D.* *Associate Professor & Co-Coordinator of Ed.D in Educational Technology* Department of Educational Technology, Boise State University *http://patricklowenthal.com/cv/curriculumvitae.pdf <http://patricklowenthal.com/cv/curriculumvitae.pdf>*

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CFP: CHANTS 2019 – 14th Workshop on Challenged Networks – co-located with ACM Mobicom 2019 - submission deadline June 14, 2019 - Los Cabos, Mexico
by Eirini Eleni Tsiropoulou 31 May '19

31 May '19

CALL FOR PAPERS The 14th Workshop on Challenged Networks (CHANTS 2019) http://conferences.ece.unm.edu/chants2019/ colocated with ACM Mobicom 2019, the 25th Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking Oct 21-25, Los Cabos, Mexico Scope and Overview Challenged networks comprise those situations where communication is desired, but traditional Internet architectures fail to provide it effectively. Such networks may be characterized by intermittent connectivity, a heterogeneous mix of nodes, frequent nodal churn, and widely varying network conditions. The applications of challenged networks range from time-critical communications such as for disaster relief to delay-tolerant transmission in poorly connected regions or where censorship should be counteracted. However, challenged networking has also found many applications in everyday settings, for which they were not initially conceived, such as opportunistic networking supporting data-centric communications, traffic offloading from cellular networks, mobile cloud/edge computing, opportunistic and participatory sensing as well as challenged IoT. CHANTS builds on the success of the thirteen previous CHANTS workshops and WDTN 2005, and aims to stimulate research on the most novel topics of challenged networking research. This year’s edition encourages submission of theoretical and experimental work (including studies of real deployment), with a primary interest in new directions of challenged networking in concrete application scenarios and demonstrators in areas such as autonomous driving, underwater robots, emergency response operations, underground mining, interplanetary missions, polar research and unmanned aerial vehicles. The workshop seeks original work presented in the form of research papers describing new research approaches and results, as well as demo and poster submissions. Highly disruptive work-in-progress and position papers are also welcome, provided they focus on particularly innovative solutions or applications for challenged networks. All papers shall be forward-looking, describe their relationship to existing work, and shall argue their impact and implications for ongoing or future research. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: ● Delay/disruption-tolerant networks (DTNs), opportunistic communication and computing ● Modeling and analysis of challenged networks and protocols for challenged networks ● Communication systems and networks for underground mining ● Underwater communication systems and networks ● Security/trust/privacy concerns and solutions in challenged networks ● Networking in polar regions ● Millimeter Wave Networking ● Challenged networking techniques for mobile cloud computing and mobile data offloading ● Challenged networking techniques for participatory and opportunistic sensing ● Challenged networking in the Internet of Things and in Cyber-Physical Systems ● Energy-efficient communication in challenged networks ● User behavior modeling and Quality of Service provisioning in challenged networks ● Space-terrestrial networks, lunar networks as well as interplanetary networks ● Information-centric and content-centric networking in challenged networks ● Real-world mobility trace collection, analysis, and modeling for challenged environments ● Network coding in challenged networks ● Real deployment and case studies in various stages of use ● Configuration, management, and monitoring of challenged networks ● Disrupted scenarios for challenged networks (e.g., disaster relief and emergency management) ● User Interfaces and interactive applications optimized for Challenged Networks ● Test and simulation tools for evaluating challenged network systems Program Committee Chairs Suzan Bayhan (TU Berlin, Germany) Eirini Eleni Tsiropoulou (University of New Mexico, USA) Workshop Web Chair Estefanía Coronado (FBK CREATE-NET, Italy) Publicity Chair Gürkan Gür (ZHAW, Switzerland) Jim Plusquellic (University of New Mexico, USA) Steering Board Kevin Almeroth (UC Santa Barbara, USA) Kevin Fall (Carnegie Mellon University, USA) Stephen Farrell (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland) Jörg Ott (TU München, Germany) Andrea Passarella (IIT-CNR, Italy) Important Dates Abstract Registration: June 14th, 2019 Submission Deadline: June 21th, 2019 Acceptance Notification: July 31st, 2019 Camera-ready: August 12th, 2019 Workshop: October 25th, 2019 Paper Format and Submission Instructions General Paper Format Submitted papers must be no longer than 6 pages, and should adhere to the standard ACM conference proceedings format. All submissions must be written in English. Authors must register the abstract 1 week prior to the full paper submission. Demo/Poster Format Demo and poster proposals (to be published as part of the proceedings) must not be longer than 2 pages, for demos plus 1 page description of the precise setup and requirements (the 1-page setup description will not be published in the proceedings). Submission Reviews will be single-blinded. Papers should neither have been published elsewhere nor being currently under review by another conference or journal. Editorial Follow-Ups Extended versions of the selected workshop papers will be considered for possible fast track publication in well-known journals, e.g., Computer Communications (Elsevier) or the ACM GetMobile. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Eirini Eleni Tsiropoulou Assistant Professor Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering University of New Mexico Albuquerque, NM, 87131 Office: 235D Tel.: (505)-277-5501 Email: eirini(a)unm.edu<mailto:eirini@unm.edu> Website: PROTON Lab<http://ece-research.unm.edu/tsiropoulou/index.html> PROTON Lab’s News: @PROTON_Lab<https://twitter.com/PROTON_Lab> ________________________________ To unsubscribe from the TAOS list, click the following link: https://comsoc-listserv.ieee.org/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=TAOS&A=1

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CfP Datafication and the Welfare State
by Lina Dencik 31 May '19

31 May '19

Members of this list might be interested in the below call for papers on Datafication and the Welfare State in the new journal Global Perspectives (https://gp.ucpress.edu/) Best, Lina and Anne Call for papers Special Collection for the Communication and Media Section of Global Perspectives Estimated Timeline 1st July 2019 - 500-word abstracts * Please submit abstracts to Lina Dencik (DencikL(a)cardiff.ac.uk<mailto:DencikL@cardiff.ac.uk>) and Anne Kaun (anne.kaun(a)sh.se<mailto:anne.kaun@sh.se>) 20th of July 2019 - notification of invitation to submit full papers (6000-8000 words) 1st of November 2019 - submission of full papers 1st of April 2020 - review process complete 1st of June 2020 - publication of articles Datafication and the Welfare State The impact of globalization on the welfare state has been a prominent long-standing issue in both scholarly and policy debate. Whilst the advent of digital technologies has been central to this debate, the more recent onus on data and data-driven technologies across business, government and civil society brings with it a particular set of concerns. Data and algorithmic processes are increasingly an integral part of governing populations and used to categorize, profile and score individuals, households and communities, with a view to allocate services, target and identify people, and make decisions about them. In this sense, datafication is part of (re)shaping state-citizen relations, the nature of statecraft and (re)defining state models, particularly in relation to public services and welfare provision. Advancing unevenly and in diverse contexts, this trend is often underpinned by a rationale centred on efficiency, resource-saving and more ‘objective’ decision-making. Yet critical scholarship on datafication has pointed to the ways in which this ‘new public analytics’ paradigm (Yeung 2018) is embedded in a particular set of values, and advances certain epistemological and ontological assumptions that carry substantial social and political significance (e.g. boyd and Crawford 2012, Van Dijck 2014). Moreover, both assumptions and responses to such assumptions have tended to rely on universalist understandings of developments and rights, bypassing nuanced and contextual engagement with the way data systems are developed, implemented and understood across the globe (Arora 2019; Milan & Treré 2019). For this special collection, we therefore invite submissions that engage with the notion of the welfare state from global perspectives, with a particular focus on datafication. We seek contributions that examine the kinds of practices, values and logics that underpin the advancement of datafication and consider how these relate to the practices, values and logics that form the basis of public services and social welfare in the context of globalisation. For example, research has suggested that data analytics advances a society organized around risk management, in which it is assumed that it is possible to predict individual behaviour from the aggregation of data points pertaining to group traits, with the aim to both pre-empt and personalize risk (Amoore 2013, Van Dijck 2014, Andrejevic 2017). In addition, many of the tools being deployed originate in a commercial sphere, perpetuating the presence of multi-national companies in the public sector, often favouring economic values rather than social, relational and personal values (Baym 2013, Redden 2015). These logics can be seen as the continued dismantling of the welfare state, understood in terms of a commitment to universal access, decommodification, and social solidarity. Moreover, the prevalence of data science as developed and practiced by a few dominant global players raise questions about the standardization of governance and statecraft. By fleshing out these issues, the special collection invites contributions that reflect on transformations brought about by data processes in the public sector and across social life, and contextualise these in terms of different value-systems and visions for how society should be organised. References: Andrejevic, M. (2017). To pre-empt a thief. International Journal of Communication, 11(2017), pp. 879-896. Amoore, L. (2013). The Politics of Possibility: Risk and Security Beyond Probability. Durham and London: Duke University Press. Arora, P. (2019). Decolonizing Privacy Studies. Television & New Media, 20(4): 366-378. Baym, N. K. (2013). Data Not Seen: The Uses and Shortcomings of Social Media Metrics. First Monday, 18(10). boyd, d. and Crawford, K. (2012). Critical Questions for Big Data. Information, Communication & Society, 15(5), pp. 662-679. Milan, S. and Treré, E. (2019) Big Data from the South(s): Beyond Data Universalism. Television & New Media, 20(4): 319-335. Redden, J. (2015). Big data as system of knowledge: investigating Canadian governance. In: G. Elmer, G. Langlois and J. Redden, J., eds., Compromised Data: From Social Media to Big Data, London: Bloomsbury. Van Dijck, J. (2014). Datafication, Dataism and Dataveillance: Big Data Between Scientific Paradigm and Ideology.Surveillance & Society, 12(2), pp. 197-208. Yeung, K. (2018) Algorithmic government: Towards a New Public Analytics? Paper presented at ThinkBig, Windsor, 25 June. Practicalities Please submit a 500-word abstract to Lina Dencik (DencikL(a)cardiff.ac.uk<mailto:DencikL@cardiff.ac.uk>) and Anne Kaun (anne.kaun(a)sh.se<mailto:anne.kaun@sh.se>) before 1 July 2019. The special collection will be published as part of the Communication and Media Section of the Global Perspectives journal. Full papers – 6000-8000 words in length – are required by 1 November 2019. About the journal Global Perspectives (GP) is an online-only, peer-reviewed, transdisciplinary journal seeking to advance social science research and debates in a globalizing world, specifically in terms of concepts, theories, methodologies, and evidence bases. Work published in the journal is enriched by invited perspectives, through scholarly annotations, that enhance its global and interdisciplinary implications. GP is devoted to the study of global patterns and developments across a wide range of topics and fields, among them trade and markets, security and sustainability, communication and media, justice and law, governance and regulation, culture and value systems, identities, environmental interfaces, technology-society interfaces, shifting geographies and migration. GP sets out to help overcome national and disciplinary fragmentation and isolation. GP starts from the premise that the world that gave rise to the social sciences in their present form is no more. The national and disciplinary approaches that developed over the last century are increasingly insufficient to capture the complexities of the global realities of a world that has changed significantly in a relatively short period of time. New concepts, approaches and forms of academic discourse may be called for. About the Communication and Media Section of Global Perspectives Section Editor: Payal Arora, Erasmus University Rotterdam The ‘global turn’ in communications, advances in mobile technologies and the rise of digital social networks are changing the world´s media landscapes, creating complex disjunctures between economy, culture, and society at local, national, and transnational levels. The role of traditional mass media - print, radio and television - is changing as well. In many cases, traditional journalism is declining, while that of user-generated content by bloggers, podcasters, and digital activists is gaining currency worldwide, as is the impact of robotics and artificial intelligence on communication systems. Today, researchers find themselves at important junctures in their inquiries that require innovations in concepts, frameworks, methodologies and empirics. Global Perspectives aims to be a forum for scholars from across multiple disciplines and fields, and the Communication and Media Section invites submissions on cutting-edge research on changing media and communication systems globally. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1T1kLi9u3QJC4aYWhjQU0amVDXoXGlC4m9yY7pO1…<https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdocs.goog…> -- Dr Lina Dencik Reader / Co-Director Data Justice Lab PI Data Justice: Understanding datafication in relation to social justice (DATAJUSTICE) ERC Starting Grant 2018-2023 School of Journalism, Media and Culture, Cardiff University Two Central Square, Central Square, Cardiff CF10 1FS Email: DencikL(a)cardiff.ac.uk<mailto:DencikL@cardiff.ac.uk>, Tel: +44 (0)29 208 75461 Twitter: @LinaDencik Fellow, Center for Media, Data and Society, Central European University

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Call for papers: IDIA2020
by nana s 31 May '19

31 May '19

We are pleased to announce the call for papers for the 11th International Development Informatics Association (IDIA2020) conference which will take place on 25 - 27 March 2020 in Macau SAR. IDIA provides a forum for researchers and practitioners to connect and exchange knowledge on issues of Information and Communication Technologies for Development (ICT4D) in, for, or by the Global South, where the definition of ‘Global South’ extends beyond “developing countries” to encompass the socio-political transnational collective of the marginalized around the world. The theme of IDIA2020 is “The more things change …” and it invites a critical exploration of the impacts of both old and new frontier technologies on the global landscape of poverty and sustainable development, and encourages reflection on the changes within ICT4D in response to the many socio-technical developments and challenges. Further details about the conference are available on the conference website at https://www.idia2020.com. We invite researchers, practitioners, policymakers, and stakeholders from around the world interested in issues of technology and sustainable development, to participate in IDIA2020 and to make full paper or workshop submissions by 16th August 2019. Full papers will undergo double blind review by at least three reviewers with the possibility that accepted papers will be published in a Springer Communications in Computer and Information Science (CCIS) volume. Authors of accepted papers will be invited to submit 2-page policy briefs based on their paper. These will be reviewed for possible inclusion in a United Nations University published policy brief volume. Workshop submissions will also undergo a peer-review process. The key dates for the conference are as follows: • Paper submission: 16 August 2019 • Workshop submission: 16 August 2019 • Notification of acceptance:1 November 2019 • Camera-ready accepted papers submission: 13 December 2019 Conference Chairs: Hannah Thinyane (UNU-CS, Macau), Mamello Thinyane (UNU-CS, Macau) Program Chairs: Araba Sey (UNU-CS, Macau), Caroline Khene (RU, South Africa) Please circulate this IDIA2020 call for papers and share it widely within your networks. Kind Regards, araba

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Fwd: LIVE STREAM this Saturday: "Algorithms, Scale, Speed, and the Labor of Logistics" (feat. Alessandro Delfanti, Victoria Hattam, Margaret Jack, Noopur Raval, Silvia Lindtner and Christian Sandvig) 11:15am EDT 6/1
by Christian Sandvig 30 May '19

30 May '19

Here's the second one (out of two). I felt it deserved its own thread as the topic is different. Hope to "see" you there, Christian -- TITLE Algorithms, Scale, Speed, and the Labor of Logistics (a discussion panel) PRESENTERS Alessandro Delfanti (http://delfanti.org/) Victoria Hattam (http://www.gidest.org/victoria-hattam) Margaret Jack (https://www.maggiejack.info/) Noopur Raval (https://noopur.xyz/) DISCUSSANTS Silvia Lindtner (http://www.silvialindtner.com/) Christian Sandvig (http://umich.edu/~csandvig) DATE AND TIME Saturday, June 1, 2019; 11:15am to 12:45pm Eastern Daylight Time (UTC/GMT-4) REMOTE PARTICIPANTS During the day and time of the event, live streaming will be available here: https://player.cloud.wowza.com/hosted/hk5cjpf7/player.html LOCATION Ehrlicher Room, 3100 North Quad, 105 S. State St., Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1285 Directions to this room: http://bit.ly/Ehrlicher (follow path #2) Free and open to the public, no RSVP is required. PANEL DESCRIPTION Digital labor regimes have infiltrated various processes from global logistics and supply chains to mass production and mechanic work. Scale, speed, and acceleration are key to these processes of increasing algorithmic control (simultaneously critiqued and celebrated). What are the cracks, frictions, and gaps in this seemingly all-subsuming finance capitalism? How might we have to re-articulate what counts as solidarity and collective organizing to counter distributed, isolating, and large-scale structures of control? How can we intervene in the persistent techno-optimism that live on in contemporary engineering and design? This live stream is part of the "soft opening" of ESC: The Center for Ethics, Society, and Computing at the University of Michigan. http://esc.umich.edu/ This event is part of the workshop "Making 'The Future of Work' Work," organized by Silvia Lindtner, Cindy Lin, Shaowen Bardzell, Jeffrey Bardzell, and Paul Dourish. http://techculturematters.com/events/nsf-workshop-making-the-future-of-work… See the event announcement on the Web: http://esc.umich.edu/event/making-the-future-of-work-work-labor-in-the-glob… These events are generously supported by the Center for Ethics, Society, and Computing (ESC), the National Science Foundation HTF "Future of Work at the Human Technology Frontier" (Award #1744359), and the School of Information at the University of Michigan.

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Fwd: LIVE STREAM this Saturday: "Labor in the Global Platform Economy" (feat. Nathan Ensmenger, Mary Gray, Lilly Irani, Cara Wallis, Sarah Murray, Lisa Nakamura) 9:30am EDT 6/1
by Christian Sandvig 30 May '19

30 May '19

Dearest AoIR colleagues: Here's an amazing lineup that includes some names you might now. They'll be live streaming this Saturday morning (ET). Where else would you rather be than on this stream? Feel free to forward as appropriate, Christian -- TITLE Labor in the Global Platform Economy (a discussion panel) PRESENTERS Nathan Ensmenger (http://homes.sice.indiana.edu/nensmeng/) Mary Gray (http://www.ghostwork.info/) Lilly Irani (https://quote.ucsd.edu/lirani/) Cara Wallis (https://comm.tamu.edu/cara-wallis/) DISCUSSANTS Sarah Murray (https://lsa.umich.edu/ftvm/people/faculty/sarah-murray.html) Lisa Nakamura (https://lisanakamura.net/) DATE AND TIME Saturday, June 1, 2019; 9:30am to 11:00am Eastern Daylight Time (UTC/GMT-4) REMOTE PARTICIPANTS During the day and time of the event, live streaming will be available here: https://player.cloud.wowza.com/hosted/hk5cjpf7/player.html LOCATION Ehrlicher Room, 3100 North Quad, 105 S. State St., Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1285 Directions to this room: http://bit.ly/Ehrlicher (follow path #2) Free and open to the public, no RSVP is required. PANEL DESCRIPTION >From voice assistance that replicates how care and service professions manage their own emotions to surveillance technologies powered by outsourced, contracted coding work, emotional, gendered, and racialized labor are the sources of “smart” technologies writ large. How does the promise of a better, hopeful “future of work” reproduce or contest exploitative regimes of labor? How does the promise of living the “good life,” of becoming the “smart” self, and individual empowerment prohibit other forms of solidarity? This live stream is part of the "soft opening" of ESC: The Center for Ethics, Society, and Computing at the University of Michigan. http://esc.umich.edu/ This event is part of the workshop "Making 'The Future of Work' Work," organized by Silvia Lindtner, Cindy Lin, Shaowen Bardzell, Jeffrey Bardzell, and Paul Dourish. http://techculturematters.com/events/nsf-workshop-making-the-future-of-work… See the event announcement on the Web: http://esc.umich.edu/event/making-the-future-of-work-work-labor-in-the-glob… These events are generously supported by the Center for Ethics, Society, and Computing (ESC), the National Science Foundation HTF "Future of Work at the Human Technology Frontier" (Award #1744359), and the School of Information at the University of Michigan.

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Register by June 3: Industry & Academia Privacy Symposium June 10 at Bentley University
by Page, Xinru 30 May '19

30 May '19

We're pleased to announce the Industry & Academia Privacy Symposium on Monday, June 10th at Bentley University (greater Boston area) that will feature presentations and panels by leading privacy scholars, as well as practitioner perspectives on key online privacy challenges. The presenters are authors from a book to be released by Springer next year, "Modern Perspectives on Privacy". The event is open to the public and part of a larger joint effort to translate between academic research and practice in industry, and to make digital privacy research accessible. Thanks to sponsorship by BostonCHI<https://nam03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.bosto…>, Bentley's Data Innovation Network<https://nam03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.bentl…>, Advanced Distributed Learning<https://nam03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fadlnet.go…>, registration costs are subsidized (students, non-profits, and those with financial limitations are encouraged to contact us at socialmediacenter(a)bentley.edu<mailto:socialmediacenter@bentley.edu> for a complimentary registration). We also want to acknowledge our partnerships with Future of Privacy Forum<https://nam03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Ffpf.org%2…> and UXPA<https://nam03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fuxpa.org%…> for their role in supporting the event. Topics will include Privacy in Healthcare IT, Internet of Things, Privacy-Enhancing Technologies, Personalization, Cross-Cultural perspective, Vulnerable Populations, Ethics and Policy, and more. See our website for full details and list of authors. Register by June 3: http://www.modern-privacy.org/<https://nam03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.modern…> About some of our sponsors and partners: BostonCHI has been supporting Boston's HCI and UX community for over 35 years with our monthly speaker series. Topics range from responsive design, designing apps for healthcare in the developing world, and privacy in the world of IoT, from speakers such as Jared Spool, Steve Krug, and Ethan Marcotte. Learn more and join us at BostonCHI.org. Bentley Data Innovation Network brings together scholars from Bentley University and our partner organizations to create insights on data-driven innovation. We strive to understand better the ways in which intelligent use of data transforms human activity and the impacts of these changes. Connect with us at www.bentley.edu/networks/data<http://www.bentley.edu/networks/data> The annual User Experience Professionals Association (UXPA) International Conference, in its 28th year, is the premier conference for UX professionals. The unique 3-day experience consists of 64 presentations and 15 courses with renowned speakers. The conference will bring designers, researchers and academics from all over the world together in Scottsdale, AZ. Sessions include UX tools and techniques, emerging innovations, developing your career and everything in-between for all levels of UX professionals. www.uxpa2019.org<http://www.uxpa2019.org> Future of Privacy Forum is a nonprofit organization that serves as a catalyst for privacy leadership and scholarship, advancing principled data practices in support of emerging technologies. FPF brings together industry, academics, consumer advocates, and other thought leaders to explore the challenges posed by technological innovation and develop privacy protections, ethical norms, and workable business practices. FPF helps fill the void in the "space not occupied by law" which exists due to the speed of technology development. https://fpf.org/

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2nd CFP: SPeL 2019 (12th International Workshop on Social and Personal Computing for Web-Supported Learning Communities)
by Elvira Popescu 30 May '19

30 May '19

================================================================== SPeL 2019 12th International Workshop on Social and Personal Computing for Web-Supported Learning Communities http://software.ucv.ro/~epopescu/spel2019 In conjunction with SETE 2019 (4th International Symposium on Emerging Technologies for Education) & ICWL 2019 (18th International Conference on Web-based Learning) http://icwl-sete.org/ 23-25 September 2019 Magdeburg, Germany * Paper submission deadline: June 21, 2019 (preceded by a mandatory abstract submission by June 14) * All accepted workshop papers will be published by Springer in Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series. ================================================================== MOTIVATION =========== The workshop follows the previous SPeL 2008, SPeL 2009, SPeL 2010, SPeL 2011, DULP & SPeL 2012, SPeL 2013, SPeL 2014, SPeL 2015, SPeL 2016, SPeL 2017 and SPeL 2018 workshops, held in conjunction with the SAINT 2008 conference, WI/IAT 2009 conference, DEXA 2010 conference, ICWL 2011 conference, ICALT 2012 conference, ICSTCC 2013 conference, ICWL 2014 conference, ICSLE 2015 conference, ICWL & SETE 2016 conferences, ICWL & SETE 2017 conferences and MIS4TEL 2018 conference respectively. The general topic of the workshop is the social and personal computing for web-supported learning communities. Web-based learning is moving from centralized, institution-based systems to a decentralized and informal creation and sharing of knowledge. Social software (e.g., blogs, wikis, social bookmarking systems, media sharing services, social networks) is increasingly being used for e-learning purposes, helping to create novel learning experiences and knowledge. In the world of pervasive Internet, learners are also evolving: the so-called "digital natives" want to be in constant communication with their peers, they expect an individualized instruction and a personalized learning environment, which automatically adapt to their individual needs. The challenge in this context is to provide intelligent and adaptive support for collaborative learning, taking into consideration the individual differences between learners. This workshop deals with current research on the interplay between collaboration and personalization issues for supporting intelligent learning environments. Its aim is to provide a forum for discussing new trends and initiatives in this area, including research about the planning, development, application, and evaluation of intelligent learning environments, where people can learn together in a personalized way through social interaction with other learners. The workshop is targeted at academic researchers, developers, educationists and practitioners interested in innovative uses of social media and adaptation techniques for the advancement of intelligent learning environments. The proposed field is interdisciplinary and very dynamic, taking into account the recent advent of Web 2.0 and ubiquitous personalization, and it is hoped to attract a large audience. TOPICS OF INTEREST ================== The workshop welcomes submissions covering aspects of collaboration, social interactions, adaptivity and personalization in technology enhanced learning, particularly related to issues about: * Social learning environments * Theory and modeling of social computing in education * Web 2.0 tools for collaborative learning * Personal learning environments * Lifelong learning networks * Virtual spaces for learning communities * Social networks analysis and mining * Computer-supported collaborative learning * Personalized and adaptive learning * Adaptation methods and techniques for groups of learners * Intelligent learner and group modeling * Collaborative filtering and recommendations for learners * Game-based social learning * Personalized mobile learning applications * Cloud-based social learning * Intelligent agent technology for social learning * Metadata, folksonomies and tagging * Semantic web and ontologies for personalized learning * Cognitive, motivational and affective aspects for personalization * Practice and experience sharing PAPER SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION ================================== The workshop papers should be formatted according to the Springer LNCS Authors Guidelines (http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0) The length of the manuscript should not exceed 6 pages for short papers and 10 pages for full papers. Papers should be submitted in PDF format, through the Easychair system: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=spel2019. All accepted workshop papers will be included in SETE 2019 post-conference proceedings, published by Springer in Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series. IMPORTANT DATES =============== Abstract submission: June 14, 2019 Full paper submission: June 21, 2019 Acceptance notification: July 15, 2019 Registration and camera-ready papers: August 5, 2019 Conference dates: September 23-25, 2019 WORKSHOP CHAIRS ================ Elvira Popescu - University of Craiova, Romania Sabine Graf - Athabasca University, Canada Please refer to the workshop website (http://software.ucv.ro/~epopescu/spel2019) for more information and contact us at: popescu_elvira(a)software.ucv.ro or sabineg(a)athabascau.ca for any inquiry.

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