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Book Announcement: Monetising the Dividual Self. The Emergence of the Lifestyle Blog and Influencers in Malaysia
by Julian Hopkins 05 Mar '19

05 Mar '19

Dear All, I am happy to announce the publication of 'Monetising the Dividual Self. The Emergence of the Lifestyle Blog and Influencers in Malaysia', I believe it is the first book focused on the emergence of microcelebrities/influencers in an Asian context and the data is based on long-term ethnographic on- and offline fieldwork. In a nutshell, this book traces the beginnings of what are now know as social media influencers. I started looking at them in about 2005 and the book starts with a 'blog war' in the pre-monetised Malaysian blogosphere. I use this a starting point to discuss the components of personal blogging - the performance of authenticity and the interaction of blogs and self expression. The chronological development of the chapters intersperses detailed academic and theoretical discussions with case studies and thick descriptions suitable for classroom discussion. The book uses actor-network theory, assemblage and affordances as its theoretical foundations. It describes lifestyle bloggers as entrepreneurs of the dividual self and suggests that they offer prototypes of future forms of self-expression and being. The account ends with a regional blogmeet in 2009 that - in hindsight - might have been the high point of blogging in Malaysia and Singapore, before Facebook, Twitter and Instagram came to dominate. I'd like to thank all of the bloggers who gave me their time, the School of Arts and Social Sciences at Monash University Malaysia, the many academics who provided feedback and support over the years and the very patient editors at Berghahn Books. For those who are interested, there is a two months limited time 50% discount available for purchases via the publisher website. The book is here: https://www.berghahnbooks.com/title/HopkinsMonetising and the code HOP185 can be used when an order is placed via this site. Best regards, Julian --- *DR JULIAN HOPKINS* Adjunct Senior Research Fellow School of Arts & Social Sciences Monash University Malaysia Recent publication: https://www.berghahnbooks.com/title/HopkinsMonetising E: julian.hopkins(a)monash.edu W: http://julianhopkins.com *Your reaction is more important than who is right.*

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[DEADLINE EXTENSION] - CFP - IFIP WWIC 2019: submit your abstract by March 24, 2019
by simone.bolettieri＠iit.cnr.it 05 Mar '19

05 Mar '19

[Apologies if you got multiple copies of this invitation] -------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS IFIP WWIC 2019 The 17th International Conference on Wired/Wireless Internet Communications http://wwic2019.nws.cs.unibo.it June 17-19, 2019, Bologna, Italy -------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ***** (EXTENDED) SUBMISSION DEADLINE: MARCH 24, 2019 ***** ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Extended versions of selected papers will be invited for publication on a fast track special issue of Computer Communications (Elsevier) journal. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Due to advancements in technology and development of new services, we foresee a tremendous growth of new devices and smart things that need to be connected to the Internet through a variety of wireless technologies. At the same time, the edge of the Internet is increasingly empowered with new capabilities, like pervasive sensing and computing power, which opens the way to new domains, services and business models beyond traditional mobile Internet, such as connected cars, participatory and urban sensing, industrial IoT. As a consequence, new types of information have to be delivered by the network with varying requirements in terms of reliability, transmission rates and latency. To cope with the exponential growth of devices and mobile data traffic, there is a need for clean-slate or evolutionary Internet architectures merging and assembling different network technologies, supporting new paradigms for wired/wireless system planning and optimization, efficient transport over heterogeneous wireless access options, efficient and quality-aware content distribution, and new approaches for unified operations and management of the heterogeneous components, like software-defined systems and network function virtualization. These are only some examples of the challenges that are of interest to IFIP WWIC 2019. The IFIP WWIC 2019 conference takes a broader view to the merge of wired and wireless technologies and welcomes submissions from academia and industry that explore challenges and advances in architectures, algorithms, protocols, and technologies for a global wired/wireless Internet network. Papers that present original work, validated by experimentation, simulation, or analysis, are solicited. We also encourage work-in-progress and position papers that describe highly original ideas, present new directions, or have the potential to generate insightful provocative discussions. IFIP WWIC is a single-track conference which has reached, over the last 15 years, a high-quality level, which is reflected by the paper acceptance rate as well as the level of attendance. Following the conference tradition, there will be a best paper award. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following: - Anticipatory Mobile Networking - Architectures and protocols for unified operations and management in wired/wireless environments - Architectures and protocols for mobile edge/fog computing - Content-centric and user-centric networking in wired/wireless environments - Cross-layer network design and optimization - Data-driven network design and optimization - Delay/disruptive tolerant and opportunistic networking - Emergency communication and public-safety networks - End-to-end QoS support - Game-theory applications in distributed networked systems - Heterogeneous wireless access networks - Internet/Web of Things and Machine-to-Machine (M2M) communications - Interactions between wireless and optical networks - Intent-based wired and wireless networking - Localisation, tracking, and mobility management - Machine-learning approaches in cognitive radio networks - Machine-learning approaches for network planning, optimization and management - Modelling of heterogeneity aspects - Mobile clouds and mobile edge computing (MEC) - Mobile service level agreements / specifications - Network mobility and handover management - Network Function Virtualization (NFV) - Network security, trust and privacy in in wired/wireless environment - Pricing, charging, and accounting - QoS/QoE mechanisms in wired/wireless environments - Resource management and admission control - Robot and UAV networks - Routing in wired/wireless environments - Satellite and space networking - Seamless inter-networking and self-organisation - Service composition and management - System prototypes, measurements, real-world deployment, and experiences - Software-defined wireless networks - 5G and beyond 5G networks - Traffic characterization and modelling - Transport protocols and congestion control in wired/wireless environment - User-centric networking - Virtual and overlay networks - WiFi hotspot sharing - Wireless ad hoc, mesh, vehicular and sensor networks - Wireless network monitoring - Wearable communications and computing ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- PAPER SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Prospective authors are invited to submit original papers with unpublished material and not currently submitted for consideration elsewhere. Papers should not exceed 12 LNCS formatted pages, including figures, tables, and references. At least one author of each accepted paper must register to the conference and present the paper. Papers accepted and presented at IFIP WWIC 2019 will be published as part of the Springer LNCS. They will also be submitted to appear in Scopus, ISI Web of Science, DBLP and other leading indexing services. Extended versions of selected papers will be invited for publication on a fast track special issue of Computer Communications (Elsevier) journal. All submitted papers must conform to the LNCS Formatting Guidelines. Authors are invited to use either the LNCS's Latex template or MS Word Template. If you have any questions about paper submissions or the program, please contact us at http://wwic2019.nws.cs.unibo.it. All submissions must be made electronically via EDAS using this link: https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=25605 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- IMPORTANT DATES ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - Manuscript registration deadline: (extended) March 24, 2019 - Manuscript submission deadline: (extended) March 24, 2019 - Manuscript acceptance notification: April 26, 2019 - Camera-ready paper submission: May 6, 2019 - Conference dates: June 17-19, 2019 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ORGANIZING COMMITTEE ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- General Chairs Marco Di Felice, University of Bologna, Italy Enrico Natalizio, Université de Lorraine, France Program Chairs Raffaele Bruno, IIT-CNR, Italy Andreas Kassler, Karlstad University, Sweden Publication & Web Chair Angelo Trotta, University of Bologna, Italy Publicity Chairs Deval Bhamare, Karlstad University, Sweden Simone Bolettieri, IIT-CNR, Italy ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Stefano Basagni, Northeastern University, USA Boris Bellalta, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain Paolo Bellavista, University of Bologna, Italy Fernando Boavida, University of Coimbra, Portugal Torsten Braun, University of Bern, Switzerland Marcos Caetano, University of Brasilia, Brasil Georg Carle, Technische Universität München, Germany Fabio Cavaliere, Ericsson, Italy Gianni Cerro, University of Cassino and Southern Lazio, Italy Marilia Curado, University of Coimbra, Portugal Robson De Grande, Brock University, Canada Svetlana Girs, Mälardalen University, Sweden Fabrizio Granelli, University of Trento, Italy Sonia Heemstra de Groot, Eindhoven Technical University, Netherlands Geert Heijenk, University of Twente, Netherlands Salil Kanhere, UNSW, Australia Ibrahim Korpeoglu, Bilkent University, Turkey Bjorn Landfeldt, Lund University, Sweden Peter Langendoerfer, IHP Microelectronics, Germany Xavier Masip-Bruin, UPC, Spain Agapi Mesodiakaki, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece Edmundo Monteiro, University of Coimbra, Portugal Liam Murphy, University College Dublin, Ireland Panagiotis Papadimitriou, University of Macedonia, Greece Paul Patras, University of Edinburgh, UK Danda Rawat, Howard University, USA Miguel Sepulcre, Universidad Miguel Hernandez de Elche, Spain Burkhard Stiller, University of Zürich, Switzerland Violet Syrotiuk, Arizona State University, USA Fabrice Théoleyre, CNRS, France Vassilis Tsaoussidis, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece Carlo Vallati, University of Pisa, Italy ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CONTACT ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- For further information, please visit the conference website at: http://wwic2019.nws.cs.unibo.it or contact the conference organizers at: wwic2019-chairs(a)edas.info

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Event posting
by Catherine Baker 05 Mar '19

05 Mar '19

Hello, I am looking to post the following event at Loughborough University to Air-L members. All are welcome to attend. All the details are posted below. Please don't hesitate to contact me if there are any additional information needed. All the best, Catherine Baker Event: Online Civic Culture Centre (O3C) Seminar, March 15: Dr Carl Miller (Demos) 2–3.15pm Loughborough University. Room WAV011 (Wavy Top Building) Map (no. 72): https://www.lboro.ac.uk/media/wwwlboroacuk/content/cds/documents/A4%20digit… ALL WELCOME! “The Death of the Gods: The New Global Power Grab” Carl’s new book The Death of the Gods: The New Global Power Grab (Penguin) describes his groundbreaking journey to track down and expose one of the most important things that shapes, guides and limits each of our lives: power. The journey brought him face-to-face with face with a fake news merchant in Kosovo, cyber-pranksters in Berlin, hikikormori – ‘the departed’, in South Korea who only live online. Amongst the rolling hills of Berkshire, he met British Army information warriors and in Las Vegas the largest gathering of hackers in the world. He has gone on a cyber-crime raid with the police, peered into the mechanics of secret algorithms, built a bot to keep the peace on Twitter, lived in a political-technology commune (twice) and become involved in a struggle for control of an online assassination market. Bio Carl Miller is the co-founder and Research Director of the Centre for the Analysis of Social Media at Demos, the first UK think tank institute dedicated to studying the digital world, and is a Visiting Research Fellow at King’s College London. Carl writes widely about the pitfalls and promises of the digital age. His interests cover digital politics, cyber-crime, the changing nature of warfare, journalism, the rise of the hackers, the threat of hate speech, the grip of automation and how power is being reshaped. He has written for Wired, The New Scientist, The Telegraph, The Guardian, The Sunday Times, and for a number of websites and academic journals. Carl’s website is www.carlmiller.co and he tweets @carljackmiller. O3C website: https://www.lboro.ac.uk/research/online-civic-culture-centre

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The 27th ACM Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (UMAP 2019): Last Call for Theory, Opinion and Reflection Papers
by Announce Announcements 05 Mar '19

05 Mar '19

*** LAST CALL FOR THEORY, OPINION AND REFLECTION PAPERS *** 27th ACM International Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (ACM UMAP 2019) Golden Bay Beach Hotel 5*, Larnaca, Cyprus, June 9-12, 2019 http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=YWlyLUwJCQlhaXItTEBsaXN0c2Vydi… Submissions due: March 16, 2019 ACM UMAP - User Modelling, Adaptation and Personalization is the premier international conference for researchers and practitioners working on systems that adapt to individual users, to groups of users, and that collect, represent, and model user information. Theory, Opinion and Reflection (TOR) are position papers that critically look at ongoing and emerging research topics, reflections on persistent or fleeting trends in the field and blue sky future ideas for UMAP research. They offer an opportunity for discussing thought-provoking work relevant to the UMAP community, albeit they are not yet ready to be published as a full length research papers at a refereed conference. They should be of sufficient quality and relevance to the UMAP community and demonstrate the ability to spur discussion and debate on the future course of the UMAP research. The presentations will be in the form of a 10 minute pitch in a plenary conference session, just before a break. The presenters will present the topic and raise relevant questions to stimulate discussion during the breaks. Submissions should have a maximum length of 4 pages in the ACM SIG proceedings template. SUBMISSION AND REVIEW PROCESS Submissions must adhere to the ACM SIG Standard (SIGCONF) proceedings template. A template can be found at: http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=YWlyLUwJCQlhaXItTEBsaXN0c2Vydi…. Submit your papers in PDF format via EasyChair for UMAP 2019 TOR at: http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=YWlyLUwJCQlhaXItTEBsaXN0c2Vydi…. The review process will be single blinded, i.e. authors' names should be included in the papers. Submissions will be reviewed by at least two independent reviewers. They will be assessed based on their originality and novelty, potential to stimulate discussion on important research questions, potential contribution to UMAP research and practice, potential impact in particular use cases, as well as their overall readability. Papers that exceed the page limits (4 pages for TOR) or do not adhere to the formatting guidelines will be returned without review. IMPORTANT DATES · Submission of TOR papers: March 16th, 2019 · Notification of acceptance: April 5th, 2019 · Camera-ready versions of accepted papers: April 15th, 2019 Note: The submissions times are 11:59 pm Anywhere on Earth. PUBLICATION AND PRESENTATION Accepted Theory, Opinion and Reflection papers will be published in the ACM UMAP 2019 Adjunct Proceedings in the ACM Digital Library. All categories will be presented at the poster reception of the conference, in the form of a poster and/or a software demonstration following poster format. This form of presentation will provide presenters with an opportunity to obtain direct feedback about their work from a wide audience during the conference. At least one author of each accepted paper must register for the conference and present the paper there. THEORY, OPINION AND REFLECTION PAPERS CHAIRS · Jan-Geert Houben, Delft University, The Netherlands (g.j.p.m.houben AT tudelft.nl) · Bamshad Mobasher, DePaul University, USA (mobasher AT cs.depaul.edu)

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Workshop on Adaptive and Personalized Privacy and Security (APPS 2019) at ACM UMAP 2019
by Marios Belk 05 Mar '19

05 Mar '19

ACM UMAP Workshop - Adaptive and Personalized Privacy and Security (APPS 2019) - CALL FOR PAPERS The International Workshop on Adaptive and Personalized Privacy and Security, in conjunction with the 27th ACM Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (ACM UMAP 2019), Larnaca, Cyprus, June 09-12, 2019 Workshop Website: http://appsworkshop.cs.ucy.ac.cy Paper Submissions: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=apps2019 IMPORTANT DATES Papers submission deadline: March 13, 2019 (23:59 AoE time) Notification: March 26, 2019 Camera-ready papers: April 03, 2019 MOTIVATION & GOALS Millions of users across different continents and countries are daily engaged with privacy and security tasks which are indispensable in modern information systems and services. Such tasks are commonly related to user authentication, human interaction proofs (e.g., captcha), privacy and security pop-up dialogs, setting privacy and security features within online user profiles, etc. Recent privacy and security incidents of famous online services have once more underpinned the necessity towards further investigating and improving current approaches and practices related to the design of efficient and effective privacy and security. In order to achieve this objective, one possible direction is related to providing adaptive and personalized characteristics to privacy- and security-related user tasks, given the diversity of the user characteristics (like cultural, cognitive, age, habits), the technology (like standalone, mobile, mixed-virtual-augmented reality, wearables) and interaction contexts of use (like being on the move, social settings, spatial limitations). Hence, adaptive and personalized privacy and security implies the ability of an interactive system or service to support its end-users, who are engaged in privacy- and/or security-related tasks, based on user models which describe in a holistic way what constitutes the user’s physical, technological and interaction context in which computation takes place. APPS 2019 aims to bring together researchers and practitioners working on diverse topics related to understanding and improving the usability of privacy and security software and systems, by applying user modeling, adaptation and personalization principles. The workshop will address the following objectives: - increase our understanding and knowledge on supporting usable privacy and security interaction design through novel user modeling mechanisms and adaptive user interfaces; - discuss methods and techniques for understanding user attitudes and perceptions towards privacy and security issues in various application areas; - identify human-centered models for the design, development and evaluation of adaptive and personalized privacy and security systems; - discuss methods for evaluating the impact and added value of adaptation and personalization in privacy and security systems. TOPICS OF INTEREST Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Adaptation and personalization approaches in usable privacy and security - Effects of human factors (e.g., cognition, personality, etc.) in privacy and security systems - Novel user interaction concepts and user interfaces for achieving usable security - Cultural diversity in usable privacy and security - Context-aware privacy and security - Adaptive usable security in various domains such as healthcare, IoT, automotive - Trust perceived in patient-centric healthcare systems - Perceived security and usability in patient-centric healthcare systems - Adaptive user authentication policies - Novel approaches to the design and evaluation of usable security systems - Lessons learned from the deployment and use of usable privacy and security features - Ethical considerations in adaptive and personalized privacy and security PAPER SUBMISSION & PUBLICATION All workshop papers must contain original, previously unpublished, research work adhering the two publication types: - Full research papers (6 pages, incl. references), proposing new approaches, innovative methods and research findings. - Short research papers (4 pages, incl. references), presenting works in progress, lessons learned, emerging or future research issues and directions on topics related to APPS. Manuscripts should be formatted using the ACM Standard (SIGCONF) templates (http://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template) Please submit your paper through the EasyChair submission system: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=apps2019 At least one author of each accepted paper must attend the workshop and present the paper. Accepted papers will be published by ACM and will be available via the ACM Digital Library. ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Marios Belk, University of Central Lancashire, Cyprus Campus, CY Christos Fidas, University of Patras, GR Elias Athanasopoulos, University of Cyprus, CY Andreas Pitsillides, University of Cyprus, CY

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DIPI 2019 - just a few days to submission deadline (March 11) - Data Distribution in Industrial and Pervasive Internet - Washington DC
by Eirini Eleni Tsiropoulou 05 Mar '19

05 Mar '19

============================================================= 1st International Workshop on Data Distribution in Industrial and Pervasive Internet (DIPI 2019)* June 9-12, 2019 Washington DC, USA http://cnd.iit.cnr.it/dipi2019/ *co-located with IEEE WoWMoM 2019 ============================================================= ******** Benefits ******** - Accepted papers will be included and indexed in IEEE Xplore - 6-pages double column format - Editorial follow-ups: Extended versions of selected papers might be considered for possible fast track publication in a Special Issue of Elsevier Computer Communications ******** Topics of Interest ******** The ubiquitous presence of data originating from the integration of wireless networks, pervasive computing, industrial equipment and people, has led to an increased interest in solutions for distributed data management and efficient data distribution at the edge of the networked environments. The essence of this vision is the creation of data-driven networks saturated with pervasive sensing, computing, and wireless communication that ideally support the needs of individuals, societies and industries. Contributions can be analytical, empirical, technological, methodological, or a combination of those. Papers reporting strong data-oriented systems engineering contributions backed by solid and appropriate evaluations are strongly encouraged. The impact of the contributions should be demonstrated in the context of the data-related aspects in the pervasive and industrial internet. Research contributions are solicited in all application areas pertinent to industrial and pervasive data distribution, including but not limited to: Data distribution in Industrial Internet, where novel data management techniques can be supported by networking protocols, algorithms and processes, and where intelligent entities can exchange and manage distributed data in order to achieve improved performance for both the cyber and the physical components. Particular areas of interest include: - Data-driven industrial IoT architectures with multiple inter-connected networking technologies - Pervasive data distribution and management algorithms for the Industrial Internet - Networking protocol stacks and standardization for enabling efficient data distribution - Industrial cloud and edge computing, communication and networking technologies - Data-oriented networked control, distributed optimization, and distributed learning - Industrial internet robotics and autonomous systems - Modeling of tightly integrated, data-intensive Cyber-Physical processes, computation platforms, and networks - Data distribution solutions which satisfy the Industry 4.0 requirements Data distribution in Pervasive Internet, where the ambient intelligence of network devices embedded in the environment can provide a constant and unobtrusive data management and distribution. Particular areas of interest include: - Large-scale data management and distribution in pervasive internet - Clouds, cloudlets, fog computing, device-to-device coordination - Pervasive big data and artificial intelligence - Smart spaces and intelligent environments - Cognitive computing techniques - Social Cyber-Physical Computing and human in the loop, data-oriented approaches - Crowdsensing and analytics of human user data in Cyber-Physical Systems Contributions focused on the horizontal topics of (a) security, privacy, trust (b) reliability, safety (c) experiences from real-world deployments, testbeds, case studies, are also welcome, as long as they target one of the aforementioned application areas. ******** Main Organizers ******** - Workshop Chairs Theofanis P. Raptis, Institute for Informatics and Telematics, National Research Council (IIT-CNR), Italy Georgios Z. Papadopoulos, IMT Atlantique, France - Technical Program Committee Masoud Abbaszadeh (GE Global Research, USA) Xenofon (Fontas) Fafoutis (DTU, Denmark) Antoine Gallais (Inria Lille / University of Strasbourg, France) Oana Iova (INSA Lyon, France) Salil Kanhere (UNSW Sydney, Australia) Stamatis Karnouskos (SAP, Germany) Vasilis Katos (Bournemouth University, UK) Ernoe Kovacs (NEC Labs Europe, Germany) Francois Lemercier (NIST, USA) Valeria Loscri (Inria Lille, France) Nathalie Mitton (Inria Lille, France) Julien Montavont (University of Strasbourg, France) Sharief Oteafy (DePaul University, USA) Chrysa Papagianni (Nokia Bell Labs, Belgium) Andrea Passarella (IIT-CNR, Italy) Tanguy Ropitault (NIST, USA) Miguel Sepulcre (Miguel Hernandez University of Elche, Spain) Lei Shu (University of Lincoln, UK / Nanjing Agricultural University, China) George Sklivanitis (Florida Atlantic University, USA) Petros Spachos (University of Guelph, Canada) Violet R. Syrotiuk (Arizona State University, USA) Geraldine Texier (IMT Atlantique, France) Fabrice Theoleyre (CNRS / University of Strasbourg, France) Eirini Eleni Tsiropoulou (University of New Mexico, USA) Carlo Vallati (University of Pisa, Italy) Cong Wang (Old Dominion University, USA) Dimitrios Zorbas (Tyndall National Institute, Ireland) - Publicity co-Chairs Gangyong Jia (Hangzhou Dianzi University, China) Fabrice Theoleyre (CNRS / University of Strasbourg, France) Eirini Eleni Tsiropoulou (University of New Mexico, USA) ******** Important Dates ******** Paper Submission: March 11, 2019 Acceptance Notification: April 15, 2019 Camera Ready: April 29, 2019 ******** Submission Guidelines ******** http://cnd.iit.cnr.it/dipi2019/sub.html -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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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Rhetorics of Data CFP - Proposals due 3/15
by Hutchinson, Les 04 Mar '19

04 Mar '19

Hello Internet researchers, Apologies for cross-posting. This is a reminder that proposals for the special issue of Computers & Composition are due Friday, March 15th. While this scholarship is rooted in the scholarly discipline of Rhetoric and Composition, there is a lot of connection with Internet Studies. We would love to see your research proposed. *** CALL FOR PROPOSALS -- Special Issue of Computers and Composition Rhetorics of Data: Collection, Consent, & Critical Digital Literacies Guest Editors: Les Hutchinson (Michigan State University) and Maria Novotny (University of Wisconsin Oshkosh) Given the extent of regular breaking news coverage of user privacy violations (such as the recent whistleblowing on the Facebook and Cambridge Analytica collaboration or the 2017 Equifax data breach), Rhetorics of Data presents an opportunity for rhetorical action in regard to ethical questions about data collection, consent, and the need to acquire critical digital literacies as response. This special issue draws on the journal’s history of scholarship that has defined critical digital literacies with regard to data collection. In 2008, Stephanie Vie noticed that, despite students having a great deal of experience with digital technologies, they lacked “critical technological skills.” Then, drawing from Vie’s scholarship, Estee Beck (2015) argued that “if educators ask students to dig into digital spaces that use tracking technologies, then they also have some responsibility to teach students about invisible digital identities, how to become more informed about digital tracking, and how to possibly opt-out of behavioral marketing.” Kevin Brock and Dawn Shepherd (2016) noted that our discipline’s tendency to focus on the pragmatic nature of procedural rhetoric for how it promotes “code literacy” has lacked an attention to the rhetorical potential behind people’s social, political, and cultural uses of technology for persuasive means. John Gallagher (2017), too, believed that computers and writing educators have an obligation to teach students to consider algorithmic audiences when composing in the Internet. Following Gallagher’s argument, Dustin Edwards (2018) agreed that online writers should attend to digital audiences like algorithms, but they should also contend with larger institutional structures that have designed the algorithms that run platforms as well as the policies that shape users’ online experiences. What has yet to be addressed by this critical conversation in the field is an attention to the correlation between consent and data. Our special issue specifically extends these conversations and connects to the call in the forthcoming Computers & Composition special issue Composing Algorithms: Writing (with) Rhetorical Machines by Aaron Beveridge, Sergio C. Figueiredo, and Steven K. Holmes. In their CFP, they argue that “We need to better understand the problems posed by algorithmic mediation, but we also need to get involved in making algorithms and studying them through computational and digital methods.” Our own special issue addresses this need by reflecting on the new scenes, methods, and pedagogies required for modeling critical digital literacy practices that promote user agency and consent surrounding rhetorics of data, which is often mediated through algorithms. We define critical digital literacies as critical methods of inquiry that 1) identify ethical concerns or issues within a technological infrastructure, 2) understand the rhetorical implications of these concerns or issues for how they impact people (users and non-users), and 3) respond with a range of tactics that promote more ethical outcomes for use of these technologies. We offer this special issue as a designated space for contributors to both identify and understand how data operates rhetorically, but also that contributors offer action and response to issues concerning data collection. Data is more than a stagnant object; it is personal information collected through complex algorithms (Beck, 2015; Gallagher, 2017; Edwards, 2018) that often function without user knowledge, but is then commodified and appropriated across networks by political and corporate giants, and their unknown third-party affiliates. As Amidon and Reyman (2015) argue, user contributions are the very content that “‘writes’ the social web into existence,” and thus create enormous value. This special issue seeks to build off of these conversations, asking questions such as: ● How do we take up issues of data collection and ethics in our theories, teaching, research, and politics? ● What theories can guide our pedagogies and research to implement critical digital literacies responses in our writing classrooms? ● Where do we locate the impetus for critical digital literacies outside of the university and in our communities? ● What ethical approaches to data collection can we adopt to better protect others while we educate and research? ● How are other fields examining and teaching critical digital literacies and what may rhetoric and composition earn and/or apply from such methods? ● What role does data collection play in online writing environments, including (but not limited to) social media spaces and composing platforms like Google Docs? ● How does the design and language of Terms of Service and Privacy Policies affect users of online technologies and platforms? What do users need for these policies to be more accessible? How can we teach these practices in our writing classrooms? Contributions to this special issue will extend and forward these scholarly conversations by emphasizing the role of consent when enacting critical rhetorical action--response--in the classroom, in communities, and in our public sphere. Examples of such responses could look like ● the redesign of Terms of Service/Conditions and Privacy Policies to support user consent; ● research gathered from community-based workshops that educate others on a particular privacy issue to promote critical digital literacy; ● consensual website or app design; ● service-learning assignments where students collaborate with a technological company to user test online safety of a digital product; ● collaborative discussions regarding the creation of online spaces that promote intersectional resistance to marginalization and oppression; ● and other critical, creative actions to ethical concerns surrounding data collection. Timeline* Proposals due: March 15, 2019 Preliminary decision on authors: May 15, 2019 First drafts of 6,000-7,000 words (not including bib/works cited) due: January 15, 2020 Feedback from editors on first drafts returned to author/s: March 15, 2020 Article revisions due: June 15, 2020 Article sent out for blind review: June 30, 2020 Feedback from blind review returned to author/s: September 1, 2020 Second article revisions due: January 1, 2021 Ready for copyediting: February 1, 2021 Publication: Fall 2021 *Our timeline provides the time and space for contributing authors to design classes to incorporate these foci for this upcoming academic year and/or obtain IRB for new research if needed. This is intentional as we understand our call, emphasizing response, may require additional research time. Submission and Contact Details Individuals, co-authors, or collectives should submit a 250-500 word proposal that clearly identifies an ethical, rhetorical issue concerning data collection and consent, proposes an engaged response for addressing this issue, a brief address of contribution to the field(s), and an overview of the article. Proposals should be submitted as .doc or .docx files to Les Hutchinson (hutch220(a)msu.edu) and Maria Novotny (novotnym(a)uwosh.edu) The editors enthusiastically encourage those interested to contact us for information or with any questions prior to submitting a proposal. Considering the special issue’s focus on response, we are happy to think through ideas together to ensure the success of the proposal. Les Hutchinson PhD Candidate Department of Writing, Rhetoric, & American Cultures Michigan State University 434 Farm Lane Rm 237 East Lansing, MI 48824 she/her/they/them

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visualizing twitter's evolution 2012-2018
by kalev leetaru 04 Mar '19

04 Mar '19

Given all of the discussion last month around social media analysis, I thought my latest piece might be of considerable interest, tracing the evolution of Twitter 2012-2018 through the 1% stream, charting everything from its growth to its retweet and linking trends, to its changing geography. There are a lot of statistics in there of considerable relevance for those studying Twitter and social media more broadly: https://www.forbes.com/sites/kalevleetaru/2019/03/04/visualizing-seven-year… It essentially repeats the analyses of my previous 2012 and 2015 studies, this time with a much longer time horizon, updating a number of the statistics and charting how they have changed over time: https://firstmonday.org/article/view/4366/3654 https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2015/08/twitter-global-so… The transition of Twitter from a content platform to a behavioral platform via its centralization around elite accounts and the rising retweet density have particular algorithmic and methodological implications for Twitter studies. Kalev

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Re: [Air-L] Open access journals
by Mittell, Jason S. 04 Mar '19

04 Mar '19

Jill et. al., The best overall resource is the Directory of Open Access Journals: https://doaj.org/ I'll plug the journal I co-run, [in]Transition<http://mediacommons.org/intransition>, which publishes video essays rather than written articles. I'd also take a moment to ask everyone to consider their own publishing and reviewing practices, and how they contribute to access & openness, rather than profiteering by private companies off of the free labor of academics. If you are in the position to do so, consider pledging not to publish in, edit, and/or review for commercially-owned journals. -Jason --- Jason Mittell, Professor of Film & Media Culture and American Studies Middlebury College 208 Axinn Center Middlebury, Vermont 05753 (802) 443-3435 / fax: (802) 443-2805 Blog: http://go.middlebury.edu/justtv

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iPres2019 Earlybird Registration now open
by Natalie Harrower 04 Mar '19

04 Mar '19

The Early Bird Registration for iPRES 2019 is now open. This year the 16th International Conference on Digital Preservation will visit Amsterdam in The Netherlands (September 16 - 20), with the Dutch Digital Heritage Network as your host. Register now<https://scanmail.trustwave.com/?c=6600&d=kpX93NrOkCHEn7i8E7L7Xts_z6Thq-2l1m…> to secure your place and to benefit from the early bird fee! Event Description iPRES is the premier and longest-running conference series on digital preservation. Since 2004, the annual iPRES conference travels in rotation around the globe on four continents. iPRES brings together 300-400 scientists, students, researchers, archivists, librarians, providers, and other experts to share recent developments and innovative projects in a wide variety of topics in digital preservation from strategy to implementation, and from international and local initiatives. Year on year the debate and research profiled at iPRES have moved digital preservation from a technology driven niche specialism of experts to a global challenge with the community to match. Programme The iPRES 2019 programme will include workshops, tutorials, paper presentations, panels, hackathons, the great digital preservation bake-off and professional visits to Dutch Heritage Institutes. This year, the overall conference theme is Eye on the Horizon<https://scanmail.trustwave.com/?c=6600&d=kpX93NrOkCHEn7i8E7L7Xts_z6Thq-2l1m…>. Early Bird Registration If you are planning to attend iPRES 2019, register now for the Early Bird fee<https://scanmail.trustwave.com/?c=6600&d=kpX93NrOkCHEn7i8E7L7Xts_z6Thq-2l1m…> and secure your place. Deadline for Submissions While we have your attention, may we remind you that the deadline for submissions is 18 March 2019 (23:59:59 Amsterdam Time CET). We welcome full papers (no abstracts) as well as proposals for workshops, tutorials, posters, panel discussions and for a hackathon. Submissions should relate to the overall conference theme, Eye on the Horizon, describing the cutting edge of our domain and crossing into other domains. Read more on: https://ipres2019.org/call-for-contributions<https://scanmail.trustwave.com/?c=6600&d=kpX93NrOkCHEn7i8E7L7Xts_z6Thq-2l1m…> _______________ Dr. Natalie Harrower Director, Digital Repository of Ireland Royal Irish Academy n.harrower(a)ria.ie<mailto:n.harrower@ria.ie> | @natalieharrower www.dri.ie<http://www.dri.ie> | @dri_ireland The Academy is subject to the FOI Act 2014, the Data Protection Acts 1988-2003 and 2018, GDPR (EU 2016/679) and S.I. No. 336/2011, EC Privacy & Electronic Communications Regulations. For further information see our website www.ria.ie/privacy-and-data-protection

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