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Creation of the Center for Internet and Society (CIS) of the CNRS, Paris, France
by Francesca Musiani 03 Apr '19

03 Apr '19

Dear colleagues, We are delighted to officially announce the creation of the Center for Internet and Society (CIS) of the CNRS. CNRS is the Centre national de la recherche scientifique, or the French National Center for Scientific Research. It is a publicly funded research organisation, under the authority of the French Ministry of Research. The CNRS is the largest governmental research organisation in France and the largest fundamental science agency in Europe. Research at CNRS covers all the major fields of scientific research, and is organised into 10 research institutes. At the intersection of disciplines such as sociology, law, history, economics, political science, media and communication sciences, computer and engineering sciences, the CIS intends to build critical research and expertise, able to enlighten the major technical controversies and the definition of contemporary policies related to digital technology, to the internet, and more broadly to informatics. The research themes of the CIS are: - History of computing, uses, preservation, creativity; - Information, digital commons, citizen science; - Infrastructure, AI, platforms; - Data science; - State, citizenship, surveillance, profiling, censorship, propaganda, fake news. CIS now has a website, http://cis.cnrs.fr <https://webmail.cnrs.fr/owa/redir.aspx?C=ZYzyKIwPLYcnF7YK-GFVZBaWPzf3QEepcP…>, where you can find more details about its activities. We also have a Twitter account, @cis_cnrs, which will soon be active! We are also working on the construction of a CNRS research network (GDR) on the same themes, which aims to federate, with a flexible but structured system, francophone and France-based researchers on these issues. Since its inception, CIS is included in several research networks such as GigaNet <https://www.giga-net.org/ <https://webmail.cnrs.fr/owa/redir.aspx?C=KU1V6q-dN3euzrfB_kQf-zgMl49lieNKOF…>> (Global Internet Governance Academic Network) or RESAW <https://resaw.eu/ <https://webmail.cnrs.fr/owa/redir.aspx?C=_0zvygyR9g-lV-_hWPfg6Ox9YGXf7h1xQj…>> (Research Infrastructure for the Study of Archived Web Materials), and of course, the NoC <https://networkofcenters.net/ <https://webmail.cnrs.fr/owa/redir.aspx?C=8gsd5WHuiMKTM7n9c_cuYxMk0NWXGURJSH…>> (Global Network of the Internet and Society Research Centers) and its European Hub. Kind regards and see you soon, we hope, The CIS direction team, Mélanie Dulong de Rosnay Francesca Musiani Céline Vaslin -- Francesca Musiani, Ph.D. Chargée de recherche | Associate Research Professor, CNRS <http://www.cnrs.fr> Directrice adjointe | Deputy Director, Centre for Internet and Society <http://cis.cnrs.fr> [CIS], UPR 2000 Chercheuse associée | Associate Researcher, i3-CSI <http://www.csi.ensmp.fr/>, MINES ParisTech Global Fellow, Internet Governance Lab <https://internetgovernancelab.org>, American University I'm involved in: CPT <http://iamcr.org/s-wg/section/cp-t>-IAMCR | @PolicyR <http://policyreview.info/> | ISOC Franc <https://www.isoc.fr>e <https://www.isoc.fr> | CSA Lab <https://www.csa.fr/Informer/CSA-lab/Fonctionnement> | RESET <https://journals.openedition.org/reset/> On the Web <http://www.iscc.cnrs.fr/spip.php?article1960> | On Twitter <https://twitter.com/franmusiani>

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MediArXiv open archive officially launches!
by Jefferson Pooley 03 Apr '19

03 Apr '19

We are thrilled to announce that MediArXiv—the free, nonprofit, scholar-led digital archive for media, film and communication studies—is officially launching this week. MediArXiv is an open platform, hosted by the Center for Open Science, for media, film, and communication scholars to upload working papers, pre-prints, accepted manuscripts (post-prints), and published manuscripts. The service accepts articles, books, and book chapters, and we plan to support multimedia submissions in the future: https://mediarxiv.org FAQs are available on our companion site: https://mediarxiv.com/faqs/ MediArXiv joins the growing movement started by the math/physics/computer science-oriented http://arXiv.org over 25 years ago, as one of the first full-fledged “preprint” servers conceived for humanities and social science scholars. Our aim is to promote open scholarship across media, film, and communication studies around the world. In addition to accepting and moderating submissions, we plan to advocate for policy changes at the major media, film, & communication studies professional societies around the world—to push for open-access friendly policies, in particular, for the journals that these associations sponsor. We are launching with a 17-member Steering Committee of scholars and open access advocates from around the world. The Committee includes members from five continents, every rank (including graduate students), and along gender and other lines of equity. We support submissions in English, Spanish, Chinese, French, Portugeuse, German, Dutch, Finnish, and Turkish: https://mediarxiv.com MediArXiv was initiated by the nonprofit Open Access in Media Studies: https://oamediastudies.com/ As a free, nonprofit, community-led digital archive, MediArXiv is fully committed to the Fair Open Access principles: https://www.fairopenaccess.org/ The Center for Open Science (our hosting partner) press release: https://cos.io/about/news/center-open-science-mediarxiv-and-bodoarxiv-launc… Please consider submitting your manuscripts to MediArXiv, and thank you for your support. The MediArXiv Steering Committee * Jeff Pooley, Associate Professor of Media & Communication, Muhlenberg College (USA) [Coordinator] * Jeroen Sondervan, open access expert & and co-founder of Open Access in Media Studies. Affiliated with Utrecht University (Netherlands) [Coordinator] * Sarah-Mai Dang, Postdoctoral Researcher at the Institute of Media Studies, Philipps University Marburg (Germany) * Lai-Tze Fan, Assistant Professor of Rhetoric and Digital Media, University of Waterloo (Canada) * Catherine Grant, Professor of Digital Media and Screen Studies, Birkbeck, University of London (UK) * Jonathan Gray, Lecturer in Critical Infrastructure Studies, King's College London (UK) * Adelheid Heftberger, Head of Film Access, Bundesarchiv (German Federal Archive) (Germany) * Leah Lievrouw, Professor of Information Studies, UCLA (USA) * Nyasha Mboti, Associate Professor of Communication Studies, University of Johannesburg (South Africa) * Gabriel Menotti, Associate Professor of Communications, Federal University of Espírito Santo (Brazil) * Ricardo Cedeño Montaña, Associate Professor of Communications, Universidad de Antioquia (Colombia) * Maria O'Brien, PhD Candidate, School of Communications, Dublin City University (Ireland) * Kate O'Riordan, Professor of Digital Culture & Head of School of Media, Film and Music, University of Sussex (UK) * Jussi Parikka, Professor of Technological Culture & Aesthetics, University of Southampton (UK) * Xiang Ren, Senior Lecturer in Chinese Media and Culture, Western Sydney University (Australia) * Cheryll Ruth Soriano, Associate Professor of Communication, De La Salle University (Philippines) * Ece Vitrinel, Assistant Professor of Communication, Galatasaray University (Turkey) twitter: @mediarxiv email: mediarxiv(a)mediarxiv.com main site: mediarxiv.org companion site: mediarxiv.com github: github.com/orgs/MediArXiv/dashboard rss: http://tiny.cc/zwzq4y

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CFP - special issue - 'What do digital inclusion and data literacy mean today?' Internet Policy Review Journal
by Elinor Carmi 03 Apr '19

03 Apr '19

Hello everyone, I'm excited to share the CFP for the special issue that I'm co-editing together with Professor Simeon Yates - 'What do digital inclusion and data literacy mean today?<https://policyreview.info/node/1388>' for the Internet Policy Review journal (open access). What type of skills do people need to ‘be digital’ today? Is access to the internet enough, or do people need to understand how the internet works as well? We feel that with misinformation/'fake-news', AI/ML, and adtech taking a larger part in our lives the topics of digital inclusion and data literacies are changing. We invite people to submit papers from a wide variety of fields to this issue as the topics of digital inclusion and data literacies keep on evolving into many directions. The CFP details are below, or you can view it on the Internet Policy Review website<https://policyreview.info/node/1388>. This special issue is also linked to the conference we're organising on 18-19th at Liverpool University's London campus - DIPRC2019: Digital Inclusion Policy and Research Conference 2019.<https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/diprc2019-digital-inclusion-policy-and-resea…> The conference is free of charge - All welcome! Looking forward to reading your abstracts, All the best, Dr. Elinor Carmi, Postdoc Research Associate - Digital Media & Society, Department of Communication and Media, Faculty of the Humanities and Social Sciences, School of the Arts, Liverpool University, UK. https://elinorcarmi.com<https://elinorcarmi.com/> Twitter: @Elinor_Carmi ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CFP - Special issue of Internet Policy Review on What do digital inclusion and data literacy mean today? Topic and relevance As more of our everyday lives become digital, from paying bills, reading news, to contacting companies and services, keeping in touch with your friends and family, and even voting - it has become crucial to include everyone in the online world. But the meaning of digital inclusion keeps on changing and with it also the set of skills that are necessary to be ‘digital’ (Jaeger et al., 2012). What type of skills do people need to ‘be digital’ today? Is access to the internet enough, or do people need to understand how the internet works as well? Which kind of training programmes should be developed? Should there be one type of skills and training programme or different ones who cater to people from different backgrounds and needs (ableism, age, education, gender, race, religion)? With the automation of many jobs, how can we foresee what skills will be needed for future work? These questions have been occupying the private sector and policy makers, and as more tasks become automated and digitalised, addressing them becomes ever more crucial. Discussions of inequality in the use of digital media and systems have predominantly focused on issues measured by access to the internet and skills such as checking emails, finding information and downloading music (van Dijk and Hacker, 2003, van Dijk, 2005). These topics have been key issues for policymakers (Yates et al., 2014; 2015a; 2015b) and are central to the development of many governmental digital strategies in Europe, the UK, and the USA (Mawson, 2001). Recent academic work on issues of digital inclusion and inequalities has shifted the focused from quantitative indicators and looks at issues of digital skills in relation to the social support networks people receive (Helsper & Van Deursen, 2017). As such research shows, there is strong evidence that the quality of support people have access to is unequally distributed and replicate existing inequalities. Evidence shows that inequalities in access to and use of digital media have measurable impacts on the life chances, health and economic wellbeing of citizens. In other words, it is not only a matter of skills but also the context and communities people live in that influences people’s inclusion in the ‘digital’. Scope of the special issue Since the introduction and widespread use of machine learning and artificial intelligence in different decision making processes relating to citizens’ life (health, justice, policing) and onto entertainment (e.g., Netflix and Spotify) and news, research on digital skills has shifted. This is because inequalities now involve more complex issues of how these technologies work and what they can influence and manipulate. In addition, as ‘fake news’ and misinformation have become common practices by various entities, new avenues in the types of digital literacies citizens need have been introduced. These include digital understanding of how the internet works (Doteveryone, 2018), how to engage with online news (e.g., fact checking), how digital advertising / adtech works (ICO, 2019) and how to use different tools to be able to control and manage the type of information shared with other parties. This shift has become central to some governmental digital strategies, such as those of the UK Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) (2019) and their equivalents around the globe, in countries such as Brazil, India, and the USA, or the Norwegian Ombudsman (Forbrukerrådet, 2018). After the Cambridge Analytica scandal, governments have realised the power of technology giants like Facebook, Google, Amazon and Microsoft, to shape and influence people’s behaviour. Consequently, many aim to regulate and force them to change how they are designed and the way they present information (from content to advertisements). This special issue draws on over two decades of research, policy, and practice. Over this time digital inequalities, digital inclusion and digital literacies have changed in response to developments in digital technologies and media. Key themes have remained, such as: material and financial access to technological devices and services; skills and digital literacy; effective use by citizens and communities to participate in political and civic discussions and activities; the impact of socio-economic factors; motivation and attitudes; and, more recently socio-economic and socio-cultural variations in patterns of usage. Digital inequalities therefore have become an important part of broader persistent issues of social equity and justice. Focus of the papers The primary aim of this special issue is to link up international policy efforts to address contemporary and future digital inequalities, access and skills with the outcomes of research from around the globe. The intention is on sharing best practice and research insights, while acknowledging that these problems are not the same in different parts of the world and so there are no universal solutions. We invite authors to submit papers that cover empirical research as well as policy and practice interventions, such as: ● Data analysis of levels of digital inclusion / exclusion and engagement ● Studies on the link between misinformation and data literacies ● Studies of the impacts of digital exclusion ● Policy interventions ● Case studies of initiatives and programmes ● Case studies of community impact Special issue editors Dr Elinor Carmi (Elinor.Carmi(a)liverpool.ac.uk<mailto:Elinor.Carmi@liverpool.ac.uk>) Postdoc Research Associate - Digital Media & Society, Department of Communication and Media, Faculty of the Humanities and Social Sciences, School of the Arts, Liverpool University, UK. Professor Simeon Yates Associate Pro-Vice Chancellor Research Environment and Postgraduate Research Liverpool University, UK. Important dates Release of the call for papers April 2019 Deadline for full text submissions / All details on text submissions can be found under http://policyreview.info/authors 25 August 2019 Comprehensive peer review feedback by October 2019 Deadline for submission of revised papers November 2019 Preparation for publication April 2020 Publication of the special issue May 2020 References DCMS (2019). Disinformation and ‘fake news’: Final Report. Available at: https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201719/cmselect/cmcumeds/1791/1791.… Doteveryone (2018). People, Power and Technology: The 2018 Digital Understanding Report. Available at: http://understanding.doteveryone.org.uk/ Forbrukerrådet. (2018). Deceived by Design: How tech companies use dark patterns to discourage us from exercising our rights to privacy. Available at: https://fil.forbrukerradet.no/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/2018-06-27-deceive… f GoodThings Foundation (2018). The economic impact of Digital Inclusion in the UK. Available at: https://www.goodthingsfoundation.org/sites/default/files/research-publicati… pact_of_digital_inclusion_in_the_uk_final_submission_stc_0.pdf Helsper, E.J. and Van Deursen, A.J. (2017). Do the rich get digitally richer? Quantity and quality of support for digital engagement. Information, Communication & Society, 20(5), pp.700-714. ICO (2019). Internet users' experience of online advertising. Available at: https://www.ofcom.org.uk/research-and-data/internet-and-on-demand-research/… Jaeger, P. T., Bertot, J. C., Thompson, K. M., Katz, S. M., & DeCoster, E. J., 2012. The intersection of public policy and public access: Digital divides, digital literacy, digital inclusion, and public libraries. Public Library Quarterly, 31(1), 1-20. Mawson, J. (2001) ‘The end of social exclusion? On information technology policy as a key to social inclusion in large European cities’, Regional Studies Journal, 35(9), 861–877. Van Dijk, J., & Hacker, K. (2003). The digital divide as a complex and dynamic phenomenon. The information society, 19(4), 315-326. Van Dijk, J. A. (2005). The Deepening Divide: Inequality in the Information Society. Sage Publications. Yates, S., Kirby, J., & Lockley, E. (2014). Supporting digital engagement: final report to Sheffield City Council. Supporting Digital Engagement: Final Report to Sheffield City Council. Yates, S., Kirby, J., & Lockley, E. (2015a). Digital media use: Differences and inequalities in relation to class and age. Sociological Research Online, 20(4), 12. Yates, S. J., Kirby, J., & Lockley, E. (2015b). ‘Digital-by-default’: reinforcing exclusion through technology. IN DEFENCE OF WELFARE 2, 158.

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Registration now open: "Information Science Trends: Search Engines and Information Retrieval", Hamburg, 26 April 2019
by Dirk Lewandowski 03 Apr '19

03 Apr '19

Dear colleagues, Join us for a day of exciting talks and discussions on search engines and information retrieval! (Free) registration is now open for the ASIS&T European Chapter event “Information Science Trends: Search Engines and Information Retrieval” in Hamburg, Germany, on Friday, 26 April 2019. Please register at https://www.eventbrite.de/e/information-science-trends-search-engines-and-i… The event will take place at Hamburg University of Applied Sciences Kunst- und Mediencampus Hamburg Finkenau 35 22081 Hamburg Germany Program: 9:30 AM Registration 10:00 AM Welcome and opening remarks 10:15 AM Keynote Prof. Olof Sundin, Lund University, Sweden Invisible Search in Everyday Life How can we understand search and search engines in everyday life? In his lecture Sundin will introduce and discuss some key concepts from his new book Invisible Search and Online Search Engines: The Ubiquity of Search in Everyday Life (2019, with Jutta Haider); specifically he will elucidate the notions friction of relevance and infrastructural meaning-making. The lecture broadens a traditional understanding of searching in information science by locating searching squarely in society and as entwined with the conditions of everyday life. 11:30 AM Dirk Lewandowski, Hamburg University of Applied Sciences, Germany A call for fair search engines Search engines like Google have a massive influence on what information users get to see, and on what search results users select. It has been often lamented that search engines are biased. I, however, argue that we have only scratched the surface because search engine bias is a multifaceted concept and the discussion usually solely focuses on some aspects. Further to giving an overview of the topic, I will show how search engine providers (and regulators) can take steps towards making search fair. Whereas a bias-free search engine is impossible, a fair search is. Here, I will not only focus on the big web search engines but also on how developers and product owners can make their search systems fair. 12:30 PM Lunch 1:30 PM Emmy Le, Otto GmbH & Co. KG, Hamburg, Germany Product Search at otto.de OTTO is one of the largest full-range online retailer in Germany with over 2.9 million products. Thus the internal on-site product search with more than 1 million search queries per day is the most critical feature to make relevant products and information easy to find. Achieving the right balance between business, measuring search quality and user needs can be quite challenging when building an ecommerce search engine. How we at OTTO respond to these challenges will be part of this talk. 02:15 PM Short presentations Astrid Mager, Institute of Technology Assessment, Wien, Austria Alternative search engines as drivers for social change? Ingo Knuth, Janina Masuhr, Hochschule für Medien, Kommunikation und Wirtschaft, Berlin, Germany Decision Drivers for Search Engine Usage – The Role of the Lock-in Effects Christiane Behnert, Hamburg University of Applied Sciences, Germany Influences on the relevance judgment process in academic search systems More short presentations tba. 04:00 PM Coffee Break 4:30 PM ASIS&T presentation: ASIS&T, the European Chapter, the European Student Chapter 04:45 PM Tom Alby, Euler Hermes, Hamburg, Germany Data Science in Search Engine Development Machine Learning has been an essential part of large-scale search engine development even before the term "data science" was coined. With the increasing interest in data science and artificial intelligence, the impact of self-learning algorithms on search engine development, relevance and transparency has to be reviewed. In addition, what is the chance for new search engines to succeed without the vast amount of data that has already been collected? 05:45 PM Closing remarks Kind regards, Dirk Lewandowski Prof. Dr. Dirk Lewandowski T +49 40 428 75 36 21 Skype: dirk.lewandowski Twitter: @Dirk_Lew HAMBURG UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES Faculty Design, Media and Information Department of Information Finkenau 35 / 22081 Hamburg / Germany http://www.searchstudies.org/dirk Suchmaschinen verstehen, 2. Auflage: http://suchmaschinen-verstehen.de Editor, Aslib Journal of Information Management http://www.emeraldgrouppublishing.com/products/journals/journals.htm?id=AJIM

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ICDIM 2019
by ijwa＠dline.info 03 Apr '19

03 Apr '19

Fourteenth International Conference on Digital Information Management (ICDIM 2019) August 22-24, 2019 Irish Computer Society, Dublin, Ireland (www.icdim.org) 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 Dublin, Ireland 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 Lanaguage 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 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 Ezendu Ariwa, UK IEEE Chair 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 June 05, 2019 Notification of Acceptance/Rejection July 05, 2019 Registration Due August 05, 2019 Camera Ready Due August 05, 2019 Workshops/Tutorials/Demos August 23, 2019 Main conference August 22-24, 2019 SUBMISSIONS AT http://www.icdim.org/submission.html Contact: conference(a)icdim.org -----------------

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Africana: Digital Humanities Institute, May 28-June 11, 2019
by Gault, Erika D - (egault) 02 Apr '19

02 Apr '19

Hi All, I am pleased to announce an upcoming Digital Humanities online workshop on data tools and digital methods in Africana Studies through our Center for Digital Humanities at the University of Arizona (see below also). Please share and/or apply if you are interested. More information is available on our website at https://africanadhi.com. Feel free to email me with any questions. Thanks! [http://img1.wsimg.com/isteam/stock/WbDjldj]<https://africanadhi.com/> Africana DHi 2019<https://africanadhi.com/> Digital Humanities in Black africanadhi.com AFRICANA DHi Call for Applications DO YOU HAVE AN IDEA, A DIGITAL PROJECT, OR JUST WANT TO LEARN MORE ABOUT DIGITAL TOOLS FOR DOING AFRICANA STUDIES WORK? Africana DHi is a three week online workshop to be held from May 28- June 11, 2019 in association with the Center for Digital Humanities at the University of Arizona. During the DHi, which is supported by a National Endowment for the Humanities Institutes in Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities grant and the CUNY Graduate Center Digital Humanities Research Initiative, participants will explore interdisciplinary, digital humanities research and teaching with DH scholars, develop core computational research skills through online workshops, and begin developing their own digital humanities projects. When participants complete the workshop they will become part of a growing network of distributed digital humanities research institutes, and their reflections will inform the publication of the Spring 2020 Special Issue of Fire!!!, the peer-reviewed digital journal for the Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH). Short courses—or “bootcamps”—that last anywhere from one day to two months are an increasingly popular way to offer intensive training in digital tools and skills over a short period of time; however, these courses are resource-intensive to run, require travel and financial support, and are rarely focused on Africana-centered approaches to the digital humanities. Africana DHi joins the growing list of conferences and summer bootcamps designed specifically for teaching methods and digital tools for the study of African Diaspora histories, cultures, and people. We seek participants who are post-secondary researchers, professors, independent scholars, library or museum professionals. Applications that propose a specific project will receive first consideration. The workshop will include lessons and materials available on this website, but we will also rely upon each other to share information, skills and knowledge. Applying Applications must be received by April 26, 2019. Applicants will be informed of their acceptance by May 6, 2019. More information and application materials can be found here:http:/africanadhi.com<https://africanadhi.com/> or by contacting the Institute Organizer, Erika Gault at support(a)africanadhi.com The Institute is supported by the Center for Digital Humanities at the University of Arizona, the Africana Studies Program in the College of Humanities at the University of Arizona, the Digital Humanities Research Initiative, and the National Endowment for the Humanities. Erika D. Gault, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Africana Studies Program University of Arizona Learning Services Building | RM 229 1512 E. First Street, PO Box 210105 Tucson, AZ 85721-0105 -USA www.africana.arizona.edu<http://www.africana.arizona.edu/>

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Jobs in the Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London
by Feldman, Zeena 02 Apr '19

02 Apr '19

King’s College London is in the fourth year of making a significant investment in the Department of Digital Humanities as part of an ambitious programme of growth and expansion in existing and emergent research areas and student numbers across its five Master programmes and the BA Digital Culture. King's College London has a long tradition of research in the Digital Humanities, going back to the early 1990s. King's is one of the few places in the world where students at all levels can pursue a wide range of inter-disciplinary study of the digital (https://www.kcl.ac.uk/ddh/about/about) We are seeking to recruit exceptional candidates to join the Department no later than 1st September, who can enthuse and inspire our students, conduct world-leading research, and contribute to the life and reputation of the Department through academic leadership and public engagement. We are hiring for * Lecturer in Digital Marketing and Communications (https://bit.ly/2HOEZXh) * Lecturer in Games and Virtual Environments (https://bit.ly/2TL3dDH) * Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in Digital Methods (https://bit.ly/2TKbJ5A) * Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in Global Digital Cultures (https://bit.ly/2U5xZfd) * Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in Design and Technologies (https://bit.ly/2Uka7E2) Closing date: 28 April 2019 Lecturer candidates will be on their way to becoming scholars of international standing with a research and publication trajectory that illustrates this ambition. They will contribute to the further development of the Department¹s research strengths, provide high-quality teaching and supervision, and work collaboratively within the Department and beyond. Senior Lecturer candidates will be scholars of international standing with a strong research and publication record and evidence of or potential for research income generation. The successful applicants will play a key role in leading work across the Department to enhance our research strengths, to develop new and emergent research areas, to innovate in teaching practice and pedagogy, and to contribute to our underpinning values of co-research and collaboration.

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WEBCAST TUE/WED: Net Inclusion 2019 in Charlotte NC
by Joly MacFie 02 Apr '19

02 Apr '19

About to begin. The NDIA's website includes this definition: *Digital Inclusion refers to the activities necessary to ensure that all individuals and communities, including the most disadvantaged, have access to and use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs). This includes 5 elements: 1) affordable, robust broadband internet service; 2) internet-enabled devices that meet the needs of the user; 3) access to digital literacy training; 4) quality technical support; and 5) applications and online content designed to enable and encourage self-sufficiency, participation and collaboration. Digital Inclusion must evolve as technology advances. Digital Inclusion requires intentional strategies and investments to reduce and eliminate historical, institutional and structural barriers to access and use technology.* [image: Livestream] <https://livestream.com/internetsociety/netinclusion2019/>On *April 1-3 2019* the *National Digital Inclusion Alliance <https://www.digitalinclusion.org/>* hosts *Net Inclusion 2019 <https://www.digitalinclusion.org/netinclusion2019/>* in Charlotte NC. This annual event focuses on digital inclusion issues, covering topics that include local, state, and federal policies affecting digital equity; sources of financial and program support; and effective practices from around the country. Plenary sessions will be *webcast live <https://www.digitalinclusion.org/netinclusion2019/>*, and simulcast via the *Internet Society Livestream Channel <https://livestream.com/internetsociety/>*. *VIEW ON LIVESTREAM: https://livestream.com/internetsociety/netinclusion2019/ <https://livestream.com/internetsociety/netinclusion2019/>* *INFO: https://www.digitalinclusion.org/netinclusion2019/ <https://www.digitalinclusion.org/netinclusion2019/>* *FULL AGENDA: https://netinclusion2019.sched.com/ <https://netinclusion2019.sched.com/>* *TWITTER" #netinclusion2019 https://bit.ly/netinclusion2019 <https://bit.ly/netinclusion2019>* *The conference is being funded in part by the Knight Foundation <https://knightfoundation.org/>.* *Permalink* https://isoc.live/11012/ - -- --------------------------------------------------------------- Joly MacFie 218 565 9365 Skype:punkcast -------------------------------------------------------------- -

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CfP Workshop on Engineering Accountable Information Systems Stockholm University Stockholm, Sweden, June 10-11, 2019
by Ben Wagner 02 Apr '19

02 Apr '19

Dear all, we currently have a call for papers on Accountable Systems for a workshop at ECIS 2019 that might be interesting for many people on this list: https://easychair.org/cfp/ECIS2019-EAIS <https://easychair.org/cfp/ECIS2019-EAIS> Deadline for submissions is 15 March 2019. If you have any questions about it please don’t hesitate to get in touch. Best, Ben -- Dr. Ben Wagner Assistant Professor Institute for Information Systems and Society Vienna University of Economics and Business Director, Privacy & Sustainable Computing Lab Email: ben.wagner(a)wu.ac.at | Tel: +43-1-31336-6061 Web: https://www.privacylab.at/ | Twitter: @benwagne_r ECIS 2019 Workshop: Engineering Accountable Information Systems The function of information systems in society is increasingly in focus of information systems research. One outstanding challenge is how to build information systems which promote accountability, as part of a wider debate on fairness, accountability, and transparency principles (e.g., ACM FAT*). This need for accountability must be reflected on all layers of systems engineering, ranging from process analysis to concrete technical components and primitives employed during implementation. Based on our existing research we believe that three specific areas of information systems research are most relevant in this context: user cognition and human behaviour in relation to the design of interfaces; automated decision-making systems and decision-support systems; critical business processes with a particular need for accountability. In all these and further areas, accountability in complex information systems needs to be addressed through technical mechanisms. Existing high-level considerations on accountability in information systems notwithstanding, however, the concrete engineering and implementation of such mechanisms has so far received only limited attention. Similarly, the challenges arising during such transformations of abstract accountability concepts into concrete technologies as well as the critical evaluation of respective implementations are only rarely covered by existing research. We see this workshop as an opportunity to close these gaps through engaging with the existing debate on accountability while integrating key knowledge from the information systems community. Importantly, our approach to accountable systems is not just focused on high level norms of system development, but indispensably also incorporates practical questions of engineering and designing actual systems. We therefore encourage submissions from the above-mentioned and other areas of accountability engineering as long as they sufficiently incorporate questions of concrete systems engineering and implementation. Submission Guidelines Authors should follow the ECIS 2019 guidelines for research in progress papers, with papers between 4 and 7 pages in length. A poster is not required. Full details are available here: http://ecis2019.eu/information-to-authors Submissions must be made through the EasyChair system via the following link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ecis2019eais For questions about the workshop, submissions or review process, contact the chairs via ecis2019eais[at]easychair[dot]org Relevant Dates • Submissions due by March 15 2019 • Replies by April 15 2019 • Final Papers due June 1 2010 • Workshop will be held on June 10 and 11, at Stockholm University’s Kista campus. Organizing & Program Committee Chairs • Ben Wagner, WU Vienna • Frank Pallas, TU Berlin • Florian Cech, TU Vienna • Ancsa Hannak, CSH Vienna Program Committee • Soheil Human, WU Vienna • Till Winkler, WU Vienna • Niels ten Oever, University of Amsterdam • Jörg Pohle, HIIG Berlin • Claudia Müller-Birn, FU Berlin • Juhi Kulshreshta, GESIS, Leibniz • Eliška Pírková, University of Helsinki • Juan Quintero, FAU Erlangen Nürnberg • Eva Zangerle, University of Innsbruck • Abhijnan Chakraborty, MPI Saarbrucken • Piotr Sapiezynski, Northeastern University • Jat Singh, University of Cambridge • Martina Zitterbart, KIT Karlsruhe • Giovanni Sartor, EUI Florence • Abbas Masnavi, CalTech • Golnaz Bidabadi, San Jose State University • Melanie Herschel, IPVS, University of Stuttgart Publication Accepted papers will be published as part of an open-access online collection with CEUR Workshop Proceedings http://ceur-ws.org/ and an overview of the workshop findings will be published with CAIS (Communications of the Association for Information Systems). Venue The conference will be held in Stockholm University’s Kista campus on June 10 and 11.

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Data Power conference 2019: abstract submission deadline 31st January 2019
by Helen Kennedy 02 Apr '19

02 Apr '19

The *Global in/securities* theme of the 2019 Data Power conference (*on 12th & 13th September in Bremen, Germany*) attends to questions around these phenomena, asking: How does data power further or contest global in/securities? How are global in/securities constructed through or against data? How do civil society actors, government, people engage with societal and individual in/securities through and with data? What are appropriate ontologies to think about data and persons? How may we envisage a just data society? And what does decolonizing data in/securities look like? This conference creates a space to reflect on these and other critical issues relating to data’s in/security and its decolonizing. Confirmed keynote speakers are: - Virginia Eubanks, University at Albany, USA; - Jack Linchuan Qiu, Chinese University, Hongkong; - Seeta Peña Gangadaran, LSE, UK; - Nimmi Rangaswamy, Indian Institute of Information Technology, IIIT, Hyderabad, India. *Papers and panels* are invited on the following – and other – topics: - Big data and humanitarianism - ‘Good’ data, data justice and well-being - Data, discrimination and inequality - Data activism, citizen engagement, indigenous data sovereignty and open data - Critical, theoretical and feminist approaches to data in/securities - Data journalism and rhetorics of data visualization - Data-driven governance and open data - Securitization and militarization of data infrastructures - Emerging in/securities through algorithms and automated decision-making - Forensic data, human rights and refugees - Decolonizing data in/securities and data labor - Machine learning, developmentalism and human security *Information/details * - The conference website is here: https://www.uni-bremen.de/datapower/ - Please submit 250-word-paper proposals for papers, using the online submission system at the conference webpage: https://www.uni-bremen.de/data-power-global-insecurities/ (to be opened soon). - The deadline for panel and paper proposals is *31st January 2019.* - To submit a panel, follow the instructions here: https://www.uni-bremen.de/datapower/call-for-papers-registration/ - The conference fee is 200 Euro, and 100 Euro for students. There will be travel grants for participants from the global south and PhD student fee waivers (please indicate the need when applying). - The organising committee will select papers for a special theme proposal to be submitted to the peer reviewed journal Big Data & Society. - For information on travel visa, please visit the following web page: https://ec.europa.eu/home-affairs/what-we-do/policies/borders-and-visas/vis… . Letters of invitation will be sent by the conference organizers.

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