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Mediated Conversation: HICSS-53 CFP
by Yoram Kalman 29 Mar '19

29 Mar '19

Members of AoIR and of the Air-L listserv who research aspects of online conversation are invited to submit papers to HICSS, the 53rd Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS) that will take place in the island of Maui, Hawaii in January 2020. [1]https://mediatedconversation.wordpress.com/ The Mediated Conversation minitrack focuses on the study of conversations taking place on digital and social media. Conversations are at the core of human communication. Mediated conversations can use text, audio, images or video, or any combination thereof. The minitrack welcomes research on conversations that are interpersonal, as well as those that occur in organizational or mass communication, educational or political contexts, and in any other sphere of human activity, including the emerging interplay of human-machine communication. Online CFP: [2]http://hicss.hawaii.edu/tracks-53/digital-and-social-media/#mediated -conversation-minitrack Submission: [3]http://hicss.hawaii.edu/authors/ This minitrack brings together researchers and innovators to explore mediated conversation and its implications; to raise new socio-technical, ethical, pedagogical, linguistic, and social questions; and to suggest new methods, perspectives, and design approaches. The Mediated Conversation minitrack is the successor of the Persistent Conversation minitrack established by Tom Erickson and Susan Herring at HICSS in 1999, which was originally focused on the novelty of conversational persistence. With the prevalence of mediated conversation, we are called upon to consider a wider field of issues. Examples of appropriate topics include, but are not limited to: • Innovation in mediated conversational practice • The dynamics and analysis of large-scale conversation systems (e.g., MOOCs and big data applications) • Methods for analyzing mediated conversation: qualitative, quantitative, data analytics, etc. • Mediated collaboration • The dark side of mediated conversation: e.g., loafing, hate speech, bullying, and communication overload • Studies of virtual communities or other sites of mediated conversation • Ethics and mediated conversation: privacy, deception, freedom of speech, security, and information warfare • The role of mediated conversation in knowledge management • The role of mediated conversation in organizations • Domain-specific applications, opportunities, and challenges of mediated conversations and conversational exchanges (e.g., in education, healthcare, social movements, government, citizen participation, and news media) • Conversation visualization • The role of listeners, lurkers, and silent interactions • Novel properties of mediated conversation • A platform’s role in mediating the conversation • Power dynamics and conversational patterns among users of social media • The role of conversation in understanding the interplay between media producers and media audiences • Human-machine communication and related conversations (e.g., chatbots) Fast track journal opportunity: Authors of papers accepted for presentation in the minitrack will be offered the opportunity to submit an extended version of their papers for consideration for fast-track publication in the ACM journal ACM Transaction on Social Computing ([4]https://tsc.acm.org/) Important dates April 15 | 6:00 pm HST: Paper submission begins. June 15 | 11:59 pm HST: Paper submission deadline. August 17 | 11:59 pm HST: Notification of Acceptance/Rejection September 4 | 11:59 pm HST: Deadline for authors to submit the revised version of papers accepted with mandatory changes (A-M) September 11: Notification of Acceptance/Rejection for A-M papers September 22: Deadline for authors to submit final manuscript for publication Minitrack Co-Chairs: Sheizaf Rafaeli (Primary Contact) University of Haifa [5]sheizaf(a)rafaeli.net Seth C. Lewis University of Oregon [6]sclewis(a)uoregon.edu Yoram M. Kalman The Open University of Israel [7]yoramka(a)openu.ac.il -- Yoram Kalman, PhD [8]https://www.kalmans.com Cell: +972 (0)54-574-7375 References 1. https://mediatedconversation.wordpress.com/ 2. http://hicss.hawaii.edu/tracks-53/digital-and-social-media/#mediated-conver… 3. http://hicss.hawaii.edu/authors/ 4. https://tsc.acm.org/ 5. mailto:sheizaf@rafaeli.net 6. mailto:sclewis@uoregon.edu 7. mailto:yoramka@openu.ac.il 8. https://www.kalmans.com/

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new: special issue on 'Internet Architecture & Human Rights'
by Milan, Stefania 28 Mar '19

28 Mar '19

Dear AoiR friends and colleagues We are very excited to announce the publication of a Special Issue of the journal Policy & Internet on Internet Architecture and Human Rights. Edited by Monika Zalnieriute (Allens Hub for Technology, UNSW Sydney, Australia) and myself, issue 11(1) explores what we call the "human rights gap�� whereby "the delegation of human rights enforcement to private actors circumvents both international human rights law, and often domestic laws and constitutions as well". Said human rights gap is the consequence of the "vacuum which occurs when human rights are public [��] and the Internet architecture��through which human rights online are largely mediated and governed today��is mainly privately owned or privately operated�� (Zalnieriute & Milan, p. 8). We explore this claim with the help of stellar contributions, as follows: Samantha Bradshaw & Laura DeNardis: Privacy by Infrastructure: The Unresolved Case of the Domain Name System Niels ten Oever: Productive Contestation, Civil Society, and Global Governance: Human Rights as a Boundary Object in ICANN Milton L. Mueller & Farzaneh Badiei: Requiem for a Dream: On Advancing Human Rights via Internet Architecture Nicolas Suzor, Molly Dragiewicz, Bridget Harris, Rosalie Gillett, Jean Burgess & Tess Van Geelen: Human Rights by Design: The Responsibilities of Social Media Platforms to Address Gender�\Based Violence Online Ben Wagner: Liable, but Not in Control? Ensuring Meaningful Human Agency in Automated Decision�\Making Systems To read, follow this link: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/19442866/2019/11/1 Enjoy! Best, Stefania and Monika Stefania Milan Associate Professor of New Media and Digital Culture, University of Amsterdam | https://stefaniamilan.net

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FINAL reminder - Digital Inclusion Policy and Research Conference 2019 - Deadline 31 March
by Elinor Carmi 28 Mar '19

28 Mar '19

Hi everyone, This is the FINAL reminder for the conference we're organising in 18-19 June 2019, 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…>. Deadline for submissions - 31st March 2019! Acceptance notification will be sent by 25th April 2019. Confirmed keynote speakers: Renata Ávila and Auska Ovando (Ciudadanía Inteligente<https://ciudadaniai.org/>) Dr. Payal Aurora<http://payalarora.com/> (Erasmus University Rotterdam, Founder of CatalystLab<http://www.catalyst-lab.org/>) Professor Ellen Helsper<http://www.lse.ac.uk/media-and-communications/people/academic-staff/ellen-h…> (L.S.E.) The conference is free of charge. We're also happy to announce that we will be collaborating with the Policy Review journal<https://policyreview.info/> (open access) and make a special issue from the conference. Full CFP for the special issue will be out next week, presenters from the conference will be considered first. Please see below all the information for the CFP, and feel free to email me if you have any further questions. Have a fantastic weekend, 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 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DIPRC2019: Digital Inclusion Policy and Research Conference 2019 University of Liverpool in London, Finsbury Square London, UK, June 18-19, 2019 As more of our everyday lives become digital, from paying bills, to contacting companies and services and keeping in touch with your friends and family - it has become crucial to include everyone in the online world. What type of skills do people need to ‘be digital’? Do different people from different ages and abilities need different types of skills and training? And how can we foresee what skills will be needed for future work? While these questions have been occupying the private sector and policy makers, as more tasks become automated and digitalised they become ever more crucial. 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. The GoodThings Foundation published a report on September 2018 which identified that over 11 million UK citizens lack the basic digital skills they need to participate fully in our digital economy<https://www.goodthingsfoundation.org/research-publications/economic-impact-…>. As the Foundation predicts, by 2028 the UK will lose over £22 billion of value as a direct result of digital exclusion. Since the introduction of machine learning and artificial intelligence research has shifted to understanding inequalities in complex skills and use. In addition, as ‘fake news’ and misinformation have become common practice by various entities it has introduced new avenues to include in digital literacies. This shift has become key to some governmental digital strategies, such as those of the UK Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) and their equivalents around the globe. This conference will bring together academic research with policy makers and stakeholders to review the current state for the art in digital inclusion policy and practice. The conference will draw upon 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. Though key themes have remained, such as: material and financial access; skills and digital literacy; effective use by citizens and communities; the impact of socio-economic factors; motivation and attitudes; and, more recently socio-economic and socio-cultural variations in patterns of usage. Digital inequities therefore have become an important part of broader persistent issues of social equity and justice. The primary aim of this conference is to link up international policy efforts to address digital inequalities, access and skills with the outcomes of recent research at from around the globe. The intention being to support sharing best practice and research insights. The conference will be a mix of invited presentations from policy and research colleagues, along with open paper sessions. For the open sessions we seek presentations 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 Submission and Registration Guidelines The conference is FREE of charge. To register go to the Eventbrite page: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/diprc2019-digital-inclusion-policy-and-resea…. If you wish to present a paper or case study please submit a 300 word abstract by 31st March 2019 to: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=diprc2019. Acceptance notification will be sent by 25th April 2019. Contact The conference is organised by Professor Simeon Yates and Dr. Elinor Carmi, Department of Communication and Media, Faculty of the Humanities and Social Sciences, School of the Arts, Liverpool University, UK For questions and other inquiries please email Dr. Elinor Carmi - Elinor.Carmi(a)liverpool.ac.uk We look forward to seeing you in June! Venue The conference will run from 18 June to 19 June at the London Campus of the University of Liverpool, University of Liverpool in London, 33 Finsbury Square, London, EC2A 1AG: https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/london/ – just off London’s “Silicon Roundabout” district: http://www.siliconroundabout.org.uk/ .

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Casey Fiesler on Research Ethics
by Joly MacFie 28 Mar '19

28 Mar '19

https://howwegettonext.com/scientists-like-me-are-studying-your-tweets-are-… *Scientists... have an ethical obligation to exercise a higher standard of care for people in more vulnerable positions, and this should extend to collecting data from potentially vulnerable groups in digital spaces.* -- --------------------------------------------------------------- Joly MacFie 218 565 9365 Skype:punkcast -------------------------------------------------------------- -

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Final CfP Conference on Disinformation in Denmark
by Anja Bechmann 28 Mar '19

28 Mar '19

Dear colleagues, FINAL Call for Papers for the Conference on Disinformation hosted at Aarhus Institute of Advanced Studies in Denmark: https://nordis.research.it.uu.se/aarhus/ <https://t.co/MrdMSFNbIe> - submit your best work and join the network when we establish the Center for Social Media and Disinformation Monitoring. Yours sincerely, Anja Bechmann Director, Professor Mobile: (+45) 51335138 Email: anjabechmann(a)cc.au.dk Web: www.datalab.au.dk<http://www.datalab.au.dk> DATALAB, Center for Digital Social Research Aarhus University Helsingforsgade 14, ICT-City 8200 Aarhus N Denmark

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Re: [Air-L] Searching Instagram/Twitter by keyword and narrowing to specific focus
by Aysenur Ataman 28 Mar '19

28 Mar '19

Dear Natalie, I do not know any tool that would allow you to combine the two parameters (hashtag and geographical location) when searching for posts on Instagram. I collected data pre Dec 1st 2018 API change via Netlytic and am not sure Netlytic' access is still valid but I do recommend checking that out. Steps I recommend your friend takes: 1) It is very crucial to think carefully about what hashtag will be useful for your research. Better it is not a BIG hashtag. 2) Collect metadata using the hashtag(s) and dates as parameters. 3) Use longitude-latitude to detect locations yourself. Will be much more reliable that way. I played with scraping the number of followers after these steps and see if I can come up with a formula to make sense of number of likes and comments under each post but then I decided with the bots and fake accounts no finding will be reliable. So I gave up… If anyone has thoughts and solutions for that I would be glad to hear. Best, Ayşenur _____________________________________________ Ayşenur Benevento Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences Abdullah Gül University On 28 Mar 2019 05:38 +0300, Natalie Rock <drnatalierock(a)gmail.com>, wrote: Community: This is a question from a colleague. Its out of my wheelhouse but probably not yours! He is interested in tracking dialogue on Twitter and Instagram about renewable energy, especially in light of the Green New Deal, but with the search focused on change makers (i.e. those over a certain number of followers). He has set up an account with Keyhole but their searches are not useful. Keyhole doesn't allow you to specify the search by geography; nor does it allow you to indicate which profiles to search. When he searches "renewable energy" (keyword and hashtag) he gets hundreds of thousands of returns, but many are unrelated to his focus. So, do you know a platform that enables: -searching/scraping by geography -specifying searches according to number of followers and which is the same or below Keyhole's current price range of $370/month? Thank you! Natalie _______________________________________________ The Air-L(a)listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org Join the Association of Internet Researchers: http://www.aoir.org/

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Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in Political Communication
by Adi Kuntsman 28 Mar '19

28 Mar '19

Dear all, My department is seeking to appoint alecturer or senior lecturer in political communication, so support the growthof our MA in International Relations and Global Communications, ourpostgraduate research degrees in Digital Politics, as well as our undergraduateprovision in the area. We are looking for expertise in one or more of thefollowing areas of political communication: discourse, rhetoric, propaganda,data and politics, data rights and data justice, digital politics andcommunication governance. Full details are here https://manmetjobs.mmu.ac.uk/jobs/vacancy/lecturer-senior-lecturer-in-polit… Best wishes Adi Dr AdiKuntsman | Senior Lecturer in Digital Politics | Coordinator, PhD, MPhil and Masters by Research in Digital Politics| Department of Politics | Manchester Metropolitan University | Room 437Geoffrey Manton Building| M15 6LL | Tel: +44 (0)161 247 6165 |Web|

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Artificial Intelligence Bootcamp
by Ibrahim Kushchu 28 Mar '19

28 Mar '19

Dear Colleagues I am writing to you regarding mobileGovernment Consortium International’s new initiative certified, comprehensive, non-tech Artificial Intelligence training program. This new initiative, TheNextMinds.com <http://thenextminds.com/>, arose from years of accumulated work on mobileGovernment and need to integrate AI in this field, and now we are focussing on improving capacity of interested professionals in integrating AI to their tasks. This non-technical course aims at supporting participants to gain strong knowledge of AI so that they can make well informed decisions regarding AI integration. It is developed based on years of experience gained from practical projects on mGovernment with various organisations, and the content is refined according to the typical issues managers face when new technologies are influencing their decisions and relavant tasks they do. More specifically the training contains: • Comprehensive coverage of AI basics, concepts, key techniques and the fields of AI, • AI applications in business and government relating to your own job or business operations, • AI‘s cutting edge technologies, and their integration to your business • The future impact of AI on businesses, economies, governments and the society. Duration is five days but It has a modular structure reflecting various levels AI competency. The participants may chose any one of four modules and may choose participate just one day or more depending on their interest, background and desired level of competency. There will be three trainers, who are well known international experts in their respective fields, and two assistants making this training as much interactive as possible. The program can easily be customized to the specific needs of any organization to better serve their desired level competency in AI. Max Participation is 15. This will be held in June and also in October. Please find further info at: https://thenextminds.com/ai-training/. Please show interest and should you have any queries please do not hesitate to contact me. Kind regards Kushchu ====== Ibrahim KUSHCHU, MBA, MSC., PHD Founding Director, theNextMinds info(a)thenextminds.com www.thenextminds.com +44 7740143135 - Visit mLife Conferences http://www.m4life.org

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Searching Instagram/Twitter by keyword and narrowing to specific focus
by Natalie Rock 28 Mar '19

28 Mar '19

Community: This is a question from a colleague. Its out of my wheelhouse but probably not yours! He is interested in tracking dialogue on Twitter and Instagram about renewable energy, especially in light of the Green New Deal, but with the search focused on change makers (i.e. those over a certain number of followers). He has set up an account with Keyhole but their searches are not useful. Keyhole doesn't allow you to specify the search by geography; nor does it allow you to indicate which profiles to search. When he searches "renewable energy" (keyword and hashtag) he gets hundreds of thousands of returns, but many are unrelated to his focus. So, do you know a platform that enables: -searching/scraping by geography -specifying searches according to number of followers and which is the same or below Keyhole's current price range of $370/month? Thank you! Natalie

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Continuing Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in Digital Media
by Nicholas Carah 28 Mar '19

28 Mar '19

Dear AoIR colleagues, The School of Communication and Arts at The University of Queensland, Australia is advertising a continuing Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in Digital Media. This is a continuing teaching and research academic appointment (equivalent to Assistant Professor/Associate Professor). We'd be very keen to have members of the AoIR community apply and join the vibrant digital media, communication and cultural studies scene in Brisbane (and Australia too!). Details below. Best, Nic Job Posting for a Continuing Position as Lecturer / Senior Lecturer in Digital Media in the School of Communication and Arts at the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia See the full job ad here: http://jobs.uq.edu.au/caw/en/job/505313/lecturersenior-lecturer-in-digital-… Applications are due 19 April 11.55pm Australian Eastern Standard Time. We are seeking a colleague in Communication and Digital Media to collaborate in teaching and research that responds critically to contemporary media cultures and industries characterised by the emergence of media platforms, the ubiquity of data collection and analysis, and the accelerating use of machine learning and artificial intelligence. The candidate will join us at a critical juncture, playing a crucial role in shaping the nature and scope of our growing programs, namely the Digital Media major within the Bachelor of Communication. We are looking for someone whose teaching and research speaks to and investigates the intersection between the practice and the critical theorization of digital media. UQ's Bachelor of Communication heavily emphasises the exchanges between theory and practice, between thinking and doing, and between critiquing digital culture and seeing oneself as an active participant and shaper of that culture. We're particularly interested to hear from candidates whose work engages with computational methods, data visualisation, data analytics, and/or data cultures. We're open to applications from scholars across humanities, social sciences, media and cultural studies, digital humanities, digital rhetoric, design, computer and data science and/or other relevant backgrounds. Nicholas Carah Deputy Head of School | School of Communication and Arts | The University of Queensland 61 7 3365 3145 | n.carah(a)uq.edu.au<mailto:n.carah@uq.edu.au> | UQ profile<https://researchers.uq.edu.au/researcher/1512> | research teaching writing<http://mediamachines.org/> | @nnniccc<https://twitter.com/nnniccc>

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