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International Conference on Social Media & Society (#SMSociety, Toronto, Canada; July 19-21, 2019)
by agruzd＠gmail.com 20 May '19

20 May '19

***Invitation to Attend*** The organizing committee of the 10th International Conference on Social Media and Society (#SMSociety) invites you to visit vibrant Toronto on July 19-21, 2019. The 2019 conference will be held at the Ted Rogers School of Management and hosted by the Social Media Lab at Ryerson University. This year's theme is on "Rethinking Privacy and Trust in the Social Media Age". Link: https://socialmediaandsociety.org <https://socialmediaandsociety.org/> The conference offers an intensive 3-day program including 8(!) hands-on workshops, full & work-in-progress papers, panels, and posters featuring the latest in social media research (https://socialmediaandsociety.org/2019-schedule/) Our interdisciplinary community brings researchers from a wide variety of disciplines including Communication, Information Science, Management, Sociology, Education, Journalism, Computer Science, Political Science, Health, and other fields. This year, we are honoured to have a highly distinguished scholars as our keynote speakers: * Tarleton Gillespie is a principal researcher at Microsoft Research New England, and an affiliated associate professor in the Department of Communication and Department of Information Science at Cornell University. His new book, Custodians of the Internet: Platforms, Content Moderation, and the Hidden Decisions that Shape Social Media (Yale University Press) was published in June 2018. * Valerie Steeves is a Full Professor in the Department of Criminology at the University of Ottawa. As the lead researcher of MediaSmarts' Young Canadians in a Wired World research project, she has been tracking young people's use of new media since 2000. She is also the principal investigator of the eQuality Project, a seven-year SSHRC-funded partnership exploring young people's experiences of privacy and equality in networked spaces. We hope you can join us for this exciting event and contribute to this emerging research area! If you have any questions about the conference, please email us at: ask(a)socialmediaandsociety.org <mailto:ask@socialmediaandsociety.org> or visit our website to register https://socialmediaandsociety.org/registration/ --- #SMSociety'19 Organizing Committee https://socialmediaandsociety.org/about/

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Invitation Symposium Artificial Intelligence // Cultural Technique 14 June
by Anne Kaun 20 May '19

20 May '19

Please join us in Stockholm for A symposium on artificial intelligence as cultural technique www.sh.se/ai<http://www.sh.se/ai?fbclid=IwAR34-AKHhZLOuAY86q9w76WFYw-_T-_4ttzPDyrFtC_bpT…> Culture, in a broad sense, is increasingly implicated in processes of automation by computational means. Both professional and amateur cultural producers are testing the waters for the employment of artificial intelligence in new and innovative contexts. The world of music, design, art, filmmaking and literature have all respectively been introduced to the notion of non-human creativity. Simultaneously, computational processes are also increasingly driving cultural consumption and artificial intelligence is used to target and incite audiences to consume individually-tailored cultural products and messages. Technologies that incorporate artificial intelligence are becoming part of everyday life and mainstream culture and are used to automate and optimize aspects of people’s day-to-day existence. Robots and artificial intelligences walk among us and talk to us at home, at work and in public spaces, something which also inspires an increasing cultural engagement with AI in the form of aesthetic remediations, artistic imaginaries and creative fantasies. These and related developments make it increasingly urgent to ask what the consequences of artificial intelligence are for culture, but also how we are engaging with AI through cultural practices. AI has emerged as a cultural technique that poses new questions on how the machinic relates to the human and vica versa: How is culture intermingling with computational processes? How is cultural work and production, cultural consumption and the experience of culture, being affected by artificial intelligence? How do we make sense of AI through cultural and aesthetic practices including not only art and culture, but also social imaginaries and fantasies? These are the driving questions for the symposium Artificial Intelligence // Cultural Technique to be held at Tekniska museet in Stockholm 14 June 2019. Speakers Orit Halpern (Concordia University) Minna Ruckenstein (University of Helsinki) Elena Esposito (University Bielefeld and University Modena-Reggio Emilia) Geoffrey Bowker (University of California, Irvine) Jesper Olsson (Linköping University) Brian Merchant (Motherboard/ Vice magazine) Joanna Zylinska (Goldsmiths) Taina Bucher (University of Copenhagen) Andreas Refsgaard (artist and creative coder, Copenhagen) Markus Krajewski (University of Basel) Registration Participation is free of charge but requires registration until 6 June 2019, https://axacoair.se/go?tzfLb9rp<https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Faxacoair.se%2Fgo%3FtzfLb9rp%26…> Schedule 9.00 – 9.15 Opening 9.15 – 9.45 Orit Halpern (Concordia University) “Planetary Bets” 9.45 – 10.15 Brian Merchant (Motherboard/ Vice magazine) tba 10.15 – 10.45 Geoffrey Bowker (University of California, Irvine) “Ants and AI: Imaginaries of Artificial and Natural Intelligence” 10.45 – 11.00 Q&A 11.00 – 11.15 Coffee 11.15 – 11.45 Joanna Zylinska (Goldsmiths) “Artificially Intelligent Art” 11.45 – 12.15 Andreas Refsgaard (artist and creative coder, Copenhagen) “Playful Machine Learning” 12.15 – 12.30 Q & A 12.30 – 13.30 Lunch 13.30 – 14.00 Markus Krajewski (University of Basel) “Against the Power of Algorithms Closing, Literate Programming, and Source Code Critique” 14.00 – 14.30 Jesper Olsson (Linköping University) tba 14.30 – 14.45 Q&A 14.45 – 15.00 Coffee 15.00 – 15.30 Minna Ruckenstein (University of Helsinki) “Tracing life-effects” 15.30 – 16.00 Elena Esposito (University Bielefeld/ University Modena-Reggio Emilia) “Forgetting Pictures. An excess of images to escape the present” 16.00 – 16.30 Taina Bucher (University of Copenhagen) tba 16.30 – 17.00 Q&A, summary *************************** Anne Kaun Associate Professor Department for Media and Communication Studies School of Culture and Education Director of Studies Baltic and East European Graduate School – BEEGS Programme Director Master’s Programme in Media, Communication and Cultural Analysis +46 (0)8 608 4791 www.annekaun.com<http://www.annekaun.com> SÖDERTÖRN UNIVERSITY | STOCKHOLM När du skickar e-post till Södertörns högskola innebär detta att Södertörns högskola kommer att behandla dina personuppgifter. Du kan läsa mer om hur Södertörns högskola behandlar personuppgifter här<https://www.sh.se/samverka--mot-sodertorn/strategier-ekonomi-och-kvalitet/b…>. E-post skickad till och från Södertörns högskola kan betraktas som allmän och offentlig handling. Sending an e-mail to Södertörn University will result in Södertörn University processing your personal data. More information about how Södertörn University processes personal data is available here<https://www.sh.se/english/sodertorn-university/meet-sodertorn-university/st…>. E-mail correspondence with Södertörn University may be classified as official and public documents.

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Call for Extended Abstracts - Comparative Approaches to Disinformation: Workshop at Harvard University & Special Journal Issues
by Irene Pasquetto 20 May '19

20 May '19

*[sorry for crossposting]* Below is a call for abstracts to a workshop on disinformation to be held at Harvard University on Friday, October 4th, 2019. You can also find the information here <https://cyber.harvard.edu/story/2019-04/comparative-approaches-disinformati…> . A selection of presenters at the workshop will be invited to submit full manuscripts of up to 8,900 words to be considered for publication in a special issue of the *International Journal of Communication. *Workshop participants are also invited to submit short essays up to 3,000 words to the Harvard Shorenstein Center’s new fast-review journal, the *Misinformation Review*. Please share this information widely! *Call for Extended Abstracts* *Comparative Approaches to Disinformation: * *Workshop at Harvard University & Special Journal Issues* >From misleading news stories around the 2018 Brazil elections to a lynching linked to false social media messages in India in 2019, the deluge of digital disinformation is affecting communications in many countries around the world. The situation is particularly concerning in emerging democracies, where availability and affordability of digital communication technologies have facilitated production and distribution of false or misleading digital content among populations with low levels of media and digital literacy. At the same time, we are witnessing false narratives spreading across countries and across platforms often orchestrated by networks of operatives coordinating attacks internationally. While several academic workshops have been organized on the topic of disinformation, little attention has been paid to the examination of disinformation from comparative and international perspectives. The Workshop on Disinformation to be held at Harvard University in Cambridge, MA on October 4, 2019 will feature scholars from around the world discussing their research on the prevalence, impact, and diffusion of disinformation. We invite submissions that make new theoretical or empirical contributions to existing bodies of knowledge in this area. A submission could focus on one country or offer comparative perspectives involving multiple countries. It could also examine other areas of research such as cross-platform analysis and recommendation systems. We welcome different theoretical frameworks and methodological approaches, and encourage interdisciplinary approaches. Potential topics may include, but are not limited to, the following: - What existing or new theoretical frameworks or methodological approaches might help us better analyze evolving information ecosystems increasingly affected by disinformation and misinformation? - How can we empirically identify and track disinformation or measure effects of disinformation campaigns? - What are the key cultural, political, social, or technological characteristics contributing to the generation and spread of disinformation/misinformation? - What are similarities and differences between countries in terms of the production (media manipulation tactics), spread, and impact of disinformation? - What are major challenges in developing countermeasures (e.g., content moderation and freedom of speech)? Those interested in participating in the workshop should submit an extended abstract (between 1,000 and 1,500 words) with brief biographical notes to disinfoworkshop2019(a)cyber.harvard.edu by *May 31, 2019*. Authors will be notified of acceptance of their papers to the workshop by July 1, 2019. Authors of accepted abstracts are expected to present their research at the Workshop at Harvard University on October 4, 2019. A selection of presenters at the Workshop will be invited to submit full manuscripts of up to 8,900 words to be considered for publication in a special issue of the *International Journal of Communication*. The *International Journal of Communication*, listed in leading indexing sources including SSCI, is an interdisciplinary journal offering scholarly analyses and discussions of key communication and related topics. Workshop participants are also invited to submit to the Harvard Shorenstein Center’s new fast-review journal, the *Misinformation Review*. These short essays (up to 3,000 words) should focus on practical implications for understanding and combating disinformation. They will be peer-reviewed and published on the *Misinformation Review* about a month after submission (essays will be submitted and published on a rolling basis). Below are key dates. - Workshop abstract submission deadline: May 31, 2019 ( disinfoworkshop2019(a)cyber.harvard.edu) - Workshop abstract acceptance notice: July 1, 2019 - Workshop at Harvard University: October 4, 2019 - [Optional] Full paper submission deadline (*International Journal of Communication* special issue): February 1, 2020 - [Optional] Essay submission deadline (Harvard Shorenstein *Misinformation Review* journal): Essays will be accepted and published on a rolling basis If you have any questions, please email the workshop organizers and special issue editors: - Hyunjin Seo, University of Kansas (hseo(a)ku.edu) Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society, Harvard University (hseo(a)cyber.harvard.edu) [Workshop/*International Journal of Communication*] - Rob Faris, Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society, Harvard University (rfaris(a)cyber.harvard.edu) [Workshop/*International Journal of Communication*] - Joan Donavan, Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy, Harvard University (joan_donovan(a)hks.harvard.edu) [Workshop/*Misinformation Review*] - Irene Pasquetto, Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy, Harvard University (irene_pasquetto(a)hks.harvard.edu <irene_pasquetto(a)hks.harvard>) [Workshop/*Misinformation Review*]

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"ICTs for Community Development": call for papers (American Behavioral Scientist)
by Francesca Comunello 20 May '19

20 May '19

Special Issue Call for Papers American Behavioral Scientist https://journals.sagepub.com/home/abs The American Behavioral Scientist invites submissions for a special issue on: "ICTs for Community Development: Bridging conceptual, theoretical and methodological boundaries" Guest Editors Mauro Sarrica (Sapienza University, Rome) Francesca Comunello (LUMSA University, Rome) Simone Mulargia (Sapienza University, Rome) Community Informatics (CI) (Denison et al., 2014) and Information and Communication Technology for Development (ICT4D) projects focus on the appropriation of ICTs and the design of information systems to meet the needs of communities. Ten years ago, Donner suggested that projects are often developed “in relative isolation from each other, separated by regions, and by disciplines” (Donner, 2008, p.140). While this situation has improved, a better integration between ICT4D and non-ICT4D models is still necessary in order to better grasp the socio-technical processes ICTs activate at the individual and community level, and beyond. In particular, this special issue will address three main issues connected with CI and ICT4D projects: 1) There is a dearth of middle-range theorization capable of providing broader interpretative frameworks for ICT4D (Sarrica et al., 2017). Indeed, cross-fertilization is needed between CI, ICT4D, and broader theories on ICTs, in order to generate stronger interpretative frameworks. Moreover, theoretical models and method developed in the ‘global north’ and for a ‘general user’ could be refined by their application to marginalised communities and in a variety of cultural contexts. 2) CI and ICT4D projects typically consider “lived-in and situated communities not as passive recipients of technological opportunities, but as actors engaged in the comprehension and ‘doing’ of community problem solving directed to social progress” (Stillman and Linger, 2009, p. 256). However, the role of power in all the different phases of projects often remains in the background. 3) CI and ICT4D projects typically involve a range of researchers and participants reflecting different cultures, theoretical backgrounds and levels of training. These projects depend for their success on the ability to bridge differences. However, the harmonization between theoretical backgrounds, methodologies and practical constrains have heretofore proved problematic. An emic approach to culture characterizes the three critical points outlined above and is at the base of the special issue. Its aim is to foster a thorough reflection of the importance of localized or context-specific issues in the design of research and intervention, with the purpose of improving the effectiveness and sustainability of community informatics and ICT4D projects. Following these suggestions, aim of the special issue is to collect and put into dialogue theoretical, methodological, critical and applied contributions dealing with the variety of ICT uses in community development. Potential topics include the following (contributions that cross several sections are encouraged): 1st Section – Theoretical advancement Papers in this stream will focus on advancing theoretical models in CI & ICT4D. We expect papers which show how CI & ICT4D can challenge current models and further theoretical development in communication research. Issues relevant to this stream include: power in theory and implementation of ICT-based projects (e.g. critical approaches; power and CI projects); long term sustainability of projects (e.g. community ownership); impact, engagement and participation (e.g. engaging policy makers; top-down and bottom-up transformations); challenging power (e.g. advocacy; citizen journalism; social movement). 2nd Section – Methods and Epistemologies Papers in this stream will focus on methodological choices in CI and ICT4D projects, including: methodological issues in ICT4D (e.g. entering the field; reliability and replication problems); innovative and cross-disciplinary methods (e.g. mixed methods approaches; use of social media; cross-disciplinary methodological insights); participation and co-design (e.g. lessons learned from participatory intervention; co-design and user’s experience); cultural diversity and intersectionality. 3rd Section – Lessons from the field Papers in this stream will present evidences from particular cases (e.g. case studies, research-interventions, international cooperation initiatives); examples of community intervention (e.g. working with rural, marginalized and vulnerable communities); group processes and cultural aspects (e.g. ICTs and myths; cultural specificities). Submission Schedule Abstract submission – 30 June You are cordially invited to submit an abstract of no more than 500 words. Notifications of acceptance to prepare a full paper will be made by mid-July. Please email your abstract to: f.comunello(a)lumsa.it The deadline for submissions of full papers is 30 October 2019 Manuscripts must adhere to the APA 6th Edition Style and should contain between 5000 and 6000 words (including abstract and all references, notes, tables, etc.). Manuscript will undergo blind review process. Notification of 1st round of review 20 January 2020 Submission deadline for revised manuscript 16 March 2020 Final decision, end of April 2020 In the event of any questions, please do not hesitate to contact the co-editors. Francesca Comunello f.comunello(a)lumsa.it Simone Mulargia simone.mulargia(a)uniroma1.it Mauro Sarrica mauro.sarrica(a)uniroma1.it References: Denison, T., Sarrica, M., & Stillman, L. (Eds.) (2014). Theories, Practices and Examples for Community and Social Informatics. Melbourne: Monash University Publishing Donner, J. (2008). Research Approaches to Mobile Use in the Developing World: A Review of the Literature. The Information Society, 24(3), 140–159. http://doi.org/10.1080/01972240802019970 Sarrica, M., Denison, T., Stillman, L., Chakraborty, T., & Auvi, P. (2017). “What do others think?” An emic approach to participatory action research in Bangladesh. AI & SOCIETY. http://doi.org/10.1007/s00146-017-0765-9 Stillman, L., & Linger, H. (2009). Community Informatics and Information Systems: can they be better connected?. The Information Society, 25(4), 255-264. -- ___________________________________________ *Il tuo 5 diventa 1000* Fai crescere la tua università Dona il 5 per mille alla Sapienza Codice fiscale: *80209930587* https://www.uniroma1.it/it/pagina/fai-crescere-la-tua-universita-con-il-cin… <https://www.uniroma1.it/it/pagina/fai-crescere-la-tua-universita-con-il-cin…>

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Just published: Generic Top-Level Domains: A Study of Transnational Private Regulation (Edward Elgar 2019)
by Tobias Mahler 20 May '19

20 May '19

Dear colleagues, Apologies for self-promotion and cross-posting. The following book may be of interest to this list: “Generic Top-Level Domains: A Study of Transnational Private Regulation”. It was just published in the series “Elgar Studies in Law and Regulation”. Please find further information below and here: https://www.e-elgar.com/shop/generic-top-level-domains Best regards, Tobias Tobias Mahler Professor, PhD Norwegian Research Center for Computers and Law Department for Private Law Faculty of Law University of Oslo Critical acclaim ‘Tobias Mahler's book Generic Top-Level Domains is a highly important contribution to the newly developing concept of transnational private regulation. The alteration and expansion of the domain name space since 2012 merit the given deep analysis of the globally applicable rules pertaining to an emerging class of legal sources and of the changing property and contract rights notions. The book convincingly also pleads for the implementation of a more elaborated ICANN arbitration system.’ – Rolf H. Weber, University of Zürich, Switzerland 'This study by Tobias Mahler is a sophisticated, highly recommended piece of research. It describes the whole universe of ICANNs theories and their role in establishing new gTLDs. With his broad knowledge and expertise in information law, Tobias Mahler capably defines new problems related to the regulation of gTLDs. Everyone who is interested in Internet governance definitely needs to buy this masterpiece of research.' – Thomas Hoeren, University of Muenster, Germany Publisher’s summary This topical book critically examines the regulatory framework for generic Top-Level Domains (gTLDs) on the Internet. The regulation drawn up by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) applies at a global level, complementing national and international law. These rules form part of a growing body of transnational private regulation. Generic Top-Level Domains offers a clear and engaging analysis of how ICANN has tackled a diverse set of regulatory issues related to the introduction of new gTLDs, such as property rights, competition and consumer protection. Studying recent case law, the book argues for a stronger focus on procedural fairness for future introductions of new gTLDs. It also highlights how ICANN’s contractual framework regulates the registration and use of domain names and argues that ICANN’s regulatory authority ought to be clarified in order to avoid regulatory overreach. Contents: 1. Introduction 2. A Global ‘Private’ Regime Governing the Domain Name System (DNS) 3. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) on a Path Toward a Constitutional System 4. The 2012 Generic Top-level Domain (gTLD) Programme 5. Transnational Private Regulation 6. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers’ (ICANN’s) Regulatory Authority 7. Property Rights in Generic Top-level Domains (gTLDs) 8. Market Regulation 9. The Application Process 10. Expert Determinations and Procedural Fairness 11. ‘Public Interest’ Regulation 12. Regulated Non-use of Domain Names 13. Concluding Remarks

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CFP: Workshop on Challenges and Opportunities in Automated Coding of COntentious Political Events (Cope 2019) @Euro CSS 2019
by ali hürriyetoglu 20 May '19

20 May '19

Apologies for cross-posting ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Papers: Workshop on Challenges and Opportunities in Automated Coding of COntentious Political Events (Cope 2019) @Euro CSS 2019 <http://symposium.computationalsocialscience.eu/2019/> September 2, 2019 at Zürich, Switzerland URL: https://emw.ku.edu.tr/?event=challenges-and-opportunities-in-automated-codi… Data Challenge: https://competitions.codalab.org/competitions/22842 Easychair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cope2019 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Collecting protest and conflict event information from news sources enables historical and comparative studies of social movements in social and political sciences. As the collection of event data covers more countries, longer time periods, and more details and granularity, which are more abound in local sources in comparison to international resources, their utility in social science applications multiplies. Given the excessive time and human effort costs that manual data collection would incur, there is an increasing tendency to rely on machine learning and natural language processing (NLP) methods to develop automated classification and extraction tools that would possibly deal better with the enormous amount and variety of data to be collected. As an interdisciplinary team of researchers (composed of computer scientists, computational linguists and social scientists) of the Emerging Welfare Project (https://emw.ku.edu.tr) we have been working on automated protest information collection for over two years. While building our protest information collection models and designing our methodology, we have encountered many of the well-known challenges of automated event extraction, ranging from the problem of source selection to the concerns about completeness and validity of the data to the issues of generalizability (Wang et al. 2016). This workshop will address these issues and potential methods to tackle them with new methodologies and task designs. The need for collecting protest or conflict data has been satisfied by manual, semi-automatic and automatic approaches. However, the results that have been yielded by these approaches to date are either not at a sufficient quality or they require tremendous effort to replicate on new data. Recent reviews point at major causes for concern in existing protest databases such as insufficient validity and reliability, inconsistencies within and between corpora, and lack of generalizability in terms of methodologies and results. On the one hand, manual or semi-automatic methods require high quality human effort while, on the other hand, text classification and information extraction systems tend not to perform similarly well on corpora from a setting that is different from the one used for training. Aforementioned shortcomings stem mainly from the lack of regard given to the variable nature of contentious politics, which takes slightly different forms in different countries and time periods in line with spatial and temporal variation of sociopolitical phenomena. Those who attempt to tackle this problem usually resort to not fully automated methods, such as using key term-based filtering of sources that attempt to make variability more manageable but sacrifice recall performance, resulting in missing undetermined amount of information from the outset. Also, training models based on a single case or filtered data would yield static tools that are less capable of performing with comparable recall and precision when applied to contexts different from those that are trained on. This is also a significant factor in the validity, reliability and consistency problems facing existing protest databases. This workshop will work to develop solutions for these methodological issues in a collective manner. In general, there is lack of scientific collaboration among academic groups working on event-coding programs (Wang et al 2016 and Lorenzini et al 2016) and the most important objective of this workshop is to fill this gap and connect the researchers. We hope to contribute in the formation of a possible collaborative environment for automated event coding, which has increasingly become target of ever growing scientific interest, budget and efforts. We also aim at editing a special issue out of the workshop to be published in a top computational linguistics or political science journal. CALL FOR PAPERS We invite empirical, theoretical or methodological contributions as extended abstracts (500 words and at most 1 page) in the following topics of interests : - Automated protest event coding projects’ assessment analyses - Completeness and validity of the protest event databases - Source selection problem - Report selection problem - Inconsistent corpora over time - Information Extraction for collecting protest event information - Training Data collection/annotation processes for machine learning - Limits of data preparation, tool development, and automation - Copyright of data used DATA CHALLENGE The workshop will have a session for discussing results of CLEF 2019 Lab ProtestNews (https://emw.ku.edu.tr/clef-protestnews-2019/) (Hürriyetoğlu et al., 2019) and a new edition of this lab. We will accept abstracts that are about submissions to the new version of the lab to be presented in this session. The subscription and submission to the new version of the challenge will be managed on https://competitions.codalab.org/competitions/22842. SUBMISSION GUIDELINES Please submit one page that contain at most 500 words and at most 1 page in PDF format. The submission system can be accessed on https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cope2019. For any other question, feel free to contact us at emw(a)ku.edu.tr Please check the workshop page <https://emw.ku.edu.tr/?event=challenges-and-opportunities-in-automated-codi…> for any update. IMPORTANT DATES Data challenge submission deadline: June 21, 2019 Abstract submission deadline: June 28, 2019 Notification of acceptance: July 12, 2019 Workshop date: September 2, 2019 Registration deadline: August 10, 2019 ORGANIZATION COMMITTEE: Erdem Yörük (Sociology, Koç University and University of Oxford) Ali Hürriyetoğlu (Computational Linguistics, Koç University) Çağrı Yoltar (Anthropology, Koç University) Fırat Durusan (Political Science, Ankara University and Koç University) Osman Mutlu (Computer Science, Koç University) Arda Akdemir (Computer Science, Koç University) Aline Villavicencio (Computer Science, University of Essex) REFERENCES Hürriyetoğlu, A., Yörük, E., Yüret, D., Yoltar, Ç., Gürel, B., Duruşan, F., & Mutlu, O. (2019, April). A Task Set Proposal for Automatic Protest Information Collection Across Multiple Countries. In European Conference on Information Retrieval (pp. 316-323). Springer, Cham. URL: https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-15719-7_42 Lorenzini, J., Makarov, P., Kriesi, H., & Wueest, B. (2016). Towards a Dataset of Automatically Coded Protest Events from English-language Newswire Documents. In Paper presented at the Amsterdam Text Analysis Conference. URL: http://bruno-wueest.ch/assets/files/Lorenzini_etal_2016.pdf Wang, W., Kennedy, R., Lazer, D., & Ramakrishnan, N. (2016). Growing pains for global monitoring of societal events. Science, 353(6307), 1502-1503. URL: http://science.sciencemag.org/content/353/6307/1502

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[PHILOS-L] CfP: Hamburg Interdisciplinary Summer School “Governance Technologies: Privacy, Fairness & Transparency” (16.-19.9.2019)
by Judith Simon 20 May '19

20 May '19

Dear colleagues, we invite applications for the Hamburg Interdisciplinary Summer School “Governance Technologies: Privacy, Fairness & Transparency” (Hamburg, 16.-19.9.2019). This summer school invites young scholars PhD candidates or early-career Post-Doc researchers interested in this interdisciplinary intersection of philosophy, computer science and law. The summer school provides them with the opportunity to connect and engage with outstanding researchers and peers to acquire new insights and get feedback on their current research. The keynote speakers and faculty of the summer school include: Professor Nikolas Guggenberger, Universität Münster (Germany) & Information Society Project (Yale University, USA) Professor Mireille Hildebrandt, Vrije Universiteit Brussels (Belgium) & Radboud University Nijmegen (Netherlands) Professor Bart Jacobs, Radboud University Nijmegen (Netherlands) Professor Niva Elkin-Koren, Haifa University (Israel) & associate faculty at the Berkman Klein Center, Harvard University (USA) Interested participants are requested to apply by submitting an abstract summarizing current research of max. one page (about 500 words). Applicants should send the abstract and a CV to Mattis Jacobs, jacobs(a)informatik.uni-hamburg.de <mailto:jacobs@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>. The abstracts should be submitted no later than June 16. The participation is free of charge. Participants need to cover travel expenses, accommodation, and some meals. We will provide information about accommodation and local information to accepted participants. The summer school is organised by the University of Hamburg (Department of Informatics), the University of Technology Hamburg (Institute for Software Systems), and the Leibniz Institute for Media Research│Hans-Bredow-Institut (HBI) and will take place at the guest house of the Universität Hamburg and the adjacent Leibniz Institute for Media Research│Hans-Bredow-Institute (Rothenbaumchaussee 34/36, D-20148 Hamburg), September 16-19, 2019. Find more information on the summer school at https://igt.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/?p=592 <https://igt.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/?p=592>. Please feel free to share this Call for Participation within your networks. In case of any queries, please contact Mattis Jacobs, jacobs(a)informatik.uni-hamburg.de <mailto:jacobs@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>. With best regards on behalf of the organizing team, Mattis Jacobs & Judith Simon ----------------- Judith Simon Professor for Ethics in Information Technology University of Hamburg Department of Informatics Vogt-Kölln-Str. 30 22527 Hamburg Germany Email: judith.simon(a)informatik.uni-hamburg.de <mailto:judith.simon@informatik.uni-hamburg.de> Web: https://www.inf.uni-hamburg.de/en/inst/ab/eit.html <https://www.inf.uni-hamburg.de/en/inst/ab/eit.html>

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CFP: 2019 CIRN Conference on Action, Research, & Politics
by Colin Rhinesmith 20 May '19

20 May '19

Dear colleagues, There is still time to submit a short abstract to the 16th Annual Community Informatics Research Network (CIRN) Conference. Here are the details: Call for submissions ✨ 16th Annual CIRN Conference Wednesday, Nov 6th - Friday, Nov 8th 2019 Monash University Prato Centre, Prato, Italy For more information please visit conference website <https://sites.google.com/monash.edu/cirn-prato-2019/home/submission>. We welcome submissions that explore the intersection of policy and politics, research and scholarship, and advocacy and action in relation to societal informatics (Archival, Community, and Development Informatics) as well as related fields of academic scholarship. We welcome submissions from faculty, doctoral candidates, master students, researchers, and activists from a wide-range of fields, scholarship, and expertise. This interdisciplinary conference welcomes proposals that explore (but are not limited to) the following questions: the role of research in shaping public policy the role of Community Informatics, Information and Communication Technologies for Development (ICT4D) Informatics, Participatory Information Governance, Recordkeeping Informatics, Community Archives in informing public policy the interplay between information, technology, and human rights the impact of national and international politics on local initiatives (whether stemming from academic or from communities) and vice versa the impact of disruptive technologies on the concepts of community and society the role politics plays in setting research agendas (and what is meant by politics? institutional, hegemonic forces? power inequalities? what about intersectionality?) the influence of research on action and advocacy issues of information sovereignty in a world of proprietary surveillance and datafication the potential of community-centered principles to shape policy in different contexts the intersection of grassroots political organizing on Community Informatics, Information and Communication Technologies for Development (ICT4D) Informatics, Participatory Information Governance, Recordkeeping Informatics, Community Archives What type of proposal can you submit? Submissions can be: peer reviewed / refereed papers non-peer reviewed / non-refereed papers short-papers posters art installations completed works or works in progress Submission guidelines can be found here: https://sites.google.com/monash.edu/cirn-prato-2019/home/submission <https://sites.google.com/monash.edu/cirn-prato-2019/home/submission> — Colin Rhinesmith Assistant Professor School of Library and Information Science College of Organizational, Computational, and Information Sciences Simmons University phone: 617-521-2881 web: http://crhinesmith.com pronouns: he/him/his

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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 20 May '19

20 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>

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Job at Texas Tech: Grant Writing
by Rice, Rich 19 May '19

19 May '19

https://sjobs.brassring.com/TGnewUI/Search/Home/Home?partnerid=25898&siteid… --- Dr. Rich Rice Texas Tech University Director of Technical Communication & Rhetoric http://richrice.com

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