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FW: Survey on Professional Experiences and Sense of Coherence
by Dawn Gilpin 31 Jan '19

31 Jan '19

Sharing on behalf of a colleague. _______________________________________ Dr. Dawn R. Gilpin Associate Honors Professor Walter Cronkite School of Journalism & Mass Communication Faculty affiliate, Lincoln Center for Applied Ethics Arizona State University dgilpin(a)asu.edu @drgilpin From: Michelle Saint <mesaint(a)asu.edu> Date: Wednesday, January 30, 2019 at 8:16 PM To: Dawn Gilpin <dgilpin(a)asu.edu> Subject: Survey on Professional Experiences and Sense of Coherence Hello, I'm looking for faculty members working at a college or university to participate in a survey as part of a research project. You can access the survey through this link: https://asu.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_0jgYmL3GAoKEROB<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__asu.co1.qualtrics.com_…> Here is more information about the study: I am a Lecturer in the Philosophy department working with a colleague in the Counseling and Counseling Psychology Unit at Arizona State University. We are conducting a research study to explore the relationship between an individual’s professional position as an academic and overall outlook on life. We are inviting your participation, which will involve responding to a survey which includes a brief demographic questionnaire and three brief scales. You have the right not to answer any question, and to stop participation at any time. Your participation in this study is voluntary. You must be 18 or older to participate in this study. If you choose not to participate or to withdraw from the study at any time, there will be no penalty. Your responses to the survey will provide data on upper-education faculty members with regards to: 1) their position within academia; 2) their sense of coherence; and 3) their level of job satisfaction and perceptions of social support within the workplace. Our hope is to add to the current literature on selfcare, mentoring in the workplace, satisfaction in the workplace. There are no foreseeable risks or discomforts to your participation. The data is being collected via Qualtrix and your responses will be separated from any identifying information (email) and stored in an encrypted dropbox. Your responses will be anonymous. The results of this study may be used in reports, presentations, or publications but your name will not be used. If you have any questions concerning the research study, please contact the research team at: Dr. Michelle Saint (Phone: 480/727-4021, Email: mesaint(a)su.edu<mailto:mesaint@su.edu>) and Dr. Jenn Pereira (Phone: 480-671- 4061 Email: jkpereira(a)asu.edu<mailto:jkpereira@asu.edu>). If you have any questions about your rights as a subject/participant in this research, or if you feel you have been placed at risk, you can contact the Chair of the Human Subjects Institutional Review Board, through the ASU Office of Research Integrity and Assurance, at (480) 965-6788. Click this link in order to access the survey: https://asu.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_0jgYmL3GAoKEROB<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__asu.co1.qualtrics.com_…> Sincerely, Michelle Saint

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IEEE CyberScience 2019 | Oxford University | CFP Extended to 28th Feb
by HANAN HINDY 30 Jan '19

30 Jan '19

(We apologize if you receive multiple copies of this message) Dear All, We're pleased to inform you that the IEEE CyberScience deadline for the Call For Papers has now been extended to 28th of February 2019. Joint and Co-located Conferences: - International Conference on Cyber Situational Awareness, Data Analytics and Assessment (CyberSA 2019) - International Conference on Social Media, Wearable and Web Analytics (Social Media 2019) - International Conference on Cyber Security and Protection of Digital Services (Cyber Security 2019) - International Conference on Cyber Incident Response, Coordination, Containment & Control (Cyber Incident 2019) For more details: https://www.c-mric.com/conferences/ Kind Regards ---------------------------------- Hanan Yousry Hindy CyberScience 2019 Publicity Co-Chair PhD Student School of Design and Informatics Abertay University Dundee, Scotland

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Researcher position available at the Oxford Internet Institute
by Mark Graham 30 Jan '19

30 Jan '19

Dear Colleagues, We are seeking to appoint a Researcher to work with us at the Fairwork Foundation <http://fair.work/>. This position provides an exciting opportunity to work with our team to co-develop standards of fair work and apply them to digital platforms. Applicants will have a relevant postgraduate degree in sociology, geography, anthropology, economics, development studies, or related fields. Excellent writing, presentation abilities, and analytical skills are also required. Applicants should be creative, highly organised, and able to effectively manage multiple ongoing tasks. As the successful candidate, you will be based at Fairwork Foundation within the Oxford Internet Institute, and collaborate with Professor Mark Graham and Dr Jamie Woodcock in order to (1) co-develop thresholds and principles of fair work that apply to the platform economy; (2) design strategies and carry out research to evaluate platforms against those thresholds; (3) collaborate in the preparation of publications and research outputs to disseminate the evaluations of platforms against principles of fair work. The pilot stage of the project is primarily based in South Africa and India, but there will also be opportunities to work on pilots in London and Berlin. Based in the heart of Oxford, this post is available immediately and is fixed-term for 6 months in the first instance, with the possibility of renewal thereafter. To apply for this role and for further details please click on the link below. https://www.recruit.ox.ac.uk/pls/hrisliverecruit/erq_jobspec_details_form.j… Grade 7: £32,236 – £39,609 p.a. Only online applications received before 12.00 midday on 8 February 2019 will be considered. Interviews for those shortlisted will take place on 20/21 February 2019. ------------------------------------------ Mark Graham Professor of Internet Geography Oxford Internet Institute University of Oxford Turing Fellow The Alan Turing Institute Research Affiliate School of Geography and the Environment University of Oxford @geoplace <http://twitter.com/geoplace> | markgraham.space <http://twitter.com/geoplace>

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PhD Course "Intimacy and Abuse in the Digital Age"
by Silje Bakken 30 Jan '19

30 Jan '19

Dear everyone, Please spread the word or join us in the PhD course "Intimacy and Abuse in the Digital Age". *Place*: Department of Sociology, University of Copenhagen *Time*: May 15-16 *Register date*: March 1 *No registration fee* The course is led by Prof. Jakob Demant and PhD scholar Sidsel Harder at the Department of Sociology. It gives early career researchers a great opportunity to get feedback on their work from prominent researchers. Open for any PhD student interested in crime and the digital world. Read more (or sign up) here: http://phdcourses.dk/Course/64497#.XFFhsOSWy70 Thanks! And hope to see some of you there :) Best regards, Silje Anderdal Bakken Ph.d. student University of Copenhagen Faculty of Social Science Department of Sociology Øster Farimagsgade 5, Building 16 1353 Copenhagen Cell phone +47 95249229 www.soc.ku.dk<http://www.soc.ku.dk/ <http://www.soc.ku.dk%3chttp/www.soc.ku.dk/>>

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12th International Conference on Informatics in Schools (ISSEP 2019): Second Call for Papers
by Announce Announcements 30 Jan '19

30 Jan '19

*** SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS *** 12th International Conference on Informatics in Schools (ISSEP 2019) Lordos Beach Hotel, Larnaca, Cyprus, November 18-20, 2019 http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=YWlyLUwJCQlhaXItTEBsaXN0c2Vydi… *** Submission Deadline: May 3rd, 2019 *** The International Conference on Informatics in Schools: Situation, Evolution and Perspectives (ISSEP) is a forum for researchers and practitioners in the area of Informatics education, in both primary and secondary schools. The conference provides an opportunity for educators and researchers to reflect upon the goals and objectives of this subject matter, its curricula, various teaching and learning paradigms and topics, as well as the connections to everyday life -- including the various ways of developing Informatics Education in schools. The conference focuses on educational goals and objectives of Informatics or Computer Science as a subject matter in primary, secondary and vocational education and their different realisation in compulsory and voluntary courses. Scope The main topics of the conference are: · Sustainable education in Informatics for pupils of all ages · Connecting Informatics lessons to the students' everyday lives · Teacher education in Informatics · Research on Informatics in schools (empirical / qualitative / quantitative / theory building / research methods / comparative studies / transferability of methods and results from other disciplines) · Computer tools in teaching and studying Informatics In particular, contributions solicited cover a variety of topics including but not limited to: · Accessibility · Assessment · Application of intelligent technologies to personalise learning · Application of Learning Analytics to analyse learners behaviour · Classroom management · Communication skills · Contests and Competitions in Informatics · Computers and society · Courseware · Curriculum issues · Diagnostic teaching · Empirical methods · Ethical/societal issues · Gender and diversity issues · High school/college transition issues · Information systems · Interdisciplinary courses and projects · Laboratory/active learning · Learner profiles · Learning personalisation · Misconceptions · Multimedia · Pedagogy · Programming contests · Students cognitive traits · Students learning styles · Student retention and persistence · Research in Informatics education · Role of programming and algorithmics · Teacher education · Using emerging instructional technologies · Web-based techniques Work submitted to ISSEP should be novel and material that has been previously published should not be republished unless the work has been significantly revised. Note however, that while novel work is highly valued, constructive replication of previous studies can also be a significant contribution, and a new interpretation or evaluation of previously-published work can make a good contribution. The submission site for ISSEP 2019 will be available soon on the conference web site. Call for Manuscripts Authors are invited to submit high-quality manuscripts reporting original unpublished research and recent developments in the topics related to the conference. All papers will be peer reviewed and comments will be provided to the authors. There are three different submission categories: · Research and theory papers · Best practice papers / country reports · Work in progress / discussion papers Submissions must be formatted according to the Springer LNCS style guidelines using LaTeX. The maximum length of the paper (including references, but excluding the optional appendix) is 12 pages. For online Latex editors, see e.g. Overleaf and ShareLatex. Abstract length -- 200-300 words. Submissions are reviewed using a double-blind process. Authors should leave their names and affiliations blank in the articles submitted for review, and take care to avoid details in the article that could be used to identify the authors. These include institution information, specific funding information and clear self-citations. When using the LNCS style, do not change the margin size or the font, do not make a separate title page, etc.: use the LNCS style file as given. However, please do add page numbers, which can be done, for example, by adding \pagestyle{plain} just before \begin{document}. Accepted papers will be included in the ISSEP 2019 local proceedings. Selected top quality papers will be published in the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series. Authors will also have the possibility to extend their work and publish it in the journal "Computer Tools in Education Journal". Important Dates · Abstract submission: May 3rd, 2019 · Paper submission: May 31st, 2019 · Notification of acceptance: August 30th, 2019 · Camera-ready submission: September 13th, 2019 · Author registration: September 13th, 2019 · Early (non-author) registration: October 18th, 2019 Committees General and Organising Chair George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Steering Committee Andreas Bollin, University of Klagenfurt, Austria Valentina Dagiere, Vilnius University, Lithuania Yasemin Gulbahar, Ankara University, Turkey Juraj Hromkovi?, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Switzerland Ivan Kalas, Comenius University, Slovakia George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Sergei Pozdniakov, Saint Petersburg Electrotechnical University, Russia Program Committee Chair Sergei Pozdniakov, Saint Petersburg Electrotechnical University, Russia Program Committee Erik Barendsen, Radboud University Nijmegen and Open Universiteit, Netherlands Andrej Brodnik, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia Christian Datzko, SVIA-SSIE-SSII, Basel, Switzerland Ira Diethelm, Oldenburg University, Germany Michalis Giannakos, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway Bruria Haberman, Holon Institute of Technology, Tel Aviv, Israel Peter Hubwieser , Technical University Munich, Germany Petri Ihantola, Tampere University of Technology, Finland Dennis Komm, Pedagogical University Chur, Switzerland Mark Laanpere, Tallinn University, Estonia Peter Micheuz, University Klagenfurt and Gymnasium Völkermarkt, Austria Mattia Monga, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy Ralf Romeike, University Erlangen (FAU), Germany Giovanni Serafini, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Switzerland Maciej M. Syslo, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Torun, Poland

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Vacancy: 3-year PhD position at ZeMKI, University of Bremen (Computational Communication and Democracy Lab)
by Leif Kramp 30 Jan '19

30 Jan '19

The Centre for Media, Communication and Information Research (ZeMKI) at the University of Bremen is offering a 3-year PhD position at the newly established Computational Communication and Democracy (CCD) Lab. The PhD student will work with the lab director, Prof. Yannis Theocharis on the thematic area Digital Media and Democracy: Challenges and Opportunities Description of the position Duration: 3 years Starting date: 01 April 2019 or soon as possible thereafter Remuneration is based on grade E13 TV-L (50% of a full-time position) of the German federal employee scale (an increase to 100% is possible depending on application for external project funding) General description of the position: The PhD student will be embedded in the newly established CCD Lab, a research-oriented environment within the interdisciplinary ZeMKI of the University of Bremen. The research area Digital Media and Democracy: Challenges and Opportunities focuses on explaining how digital media are transforming the quality of democracy, concentrating on issues such as uncivil behaviour, the activities of countercultures, new forms of political participation and representation, misinformation and exposure to news or social media content in general. The PhD student will be actively involved in the research activities of the CCD Lab and assist in the evolution of its research agenda and research output. It is expected that the PhD student will be an active contributor to the interdisciplinary intellectual environment of the ZeMKI. For more information about the Lab and ZeMKI please see below. Description of research duties. The PhD student will support the Lab director in the development of the research area. This involves providing assistance with data collection and analysis, coordination of existing, and development of new projects for the acquisition of third-party funding, carrying out administrative tasks related to the Lab’s operation (e.g. coordination of student research assistants) and involvement in the Lab’s publication output. The PhD student is expected to develop and carry out her/his own PhD project related to the broader research area. Description of teaching duties: The position involves 2 hours of teaching per week. Essential qualifications Master’s in Media and Communication, Political Science, Computer Science, Sociology, or related disciplines Skills in quantitative methods Skills in computational methods (a focus on text-as-data methods – especially automated text analysis and machine-learning – is a plus) Familiarity with, or willingness to build methodological expertise on, network analysis Experience with social media data analysis is desirable Interest in political communication Command of R (experience with Python is a plus) Strong command of English The University of Bremen intends to increase the proportion of women in science and therefore urges women to apply. Handicapped applicants with the same professional and personal suitability are given priority. Applications from people with a migration background are encouraged. Candidates who already hold a PhD degree will not be considered. For any questions please contact Prof. Dr. Yannis Theocharis at: yannis.theocharis(a)uni-bremen.de <mailto:yannis.theocharis@uni-bremen.de> Application The application should include the following documents: A letter of motivation (no longer than 2 pages) that outlines your substantive research and methodological interests. Please describe why you believe your profile fits with the main objectives and mission of the CCD Lab. CV. A copy of your academic certificates. A writing sample (research paper, publication, or Master’s thesis). Names of two referees. Please send your application including the reference number A4/19 until 01/03/2019 to: Universität Bremen Zentrum für Medien-, Kommunikations- und Informationsforschung (ZeMKI) z.H. Frau Denise Tansel Postfach 33 04 40 28334 Bremen Germany or as PDF via Email (single file) at: dtansel(a)uni-bremen.de <mailto:dtansel@uni-bremen.de> The employment is fixed-term and serves the scientific qualification, governed by the Act of Academic Fixed-Term Contract, §2 (1) (Wissenschaftszeitvertragsgesetz). Therefore, candidates may only be considered for appointment if they still have the respective qualification periods available in accordance with § 2 (1) WissZeitVG. About the Computational Communication and Democracy Lab The Lab’s substantive research agenda is driven by the idea that the proliferation of digital media opens up new avenues for social and political interaction that have radical effects on democratic processes: participation, organisation, representation. As such, digital communication offers opportunities, but also poses enormous challenges that fundamentally affect the quality of our democracies. Relying on developments in the field of computational social science as a point of departure, the Lab’s is also interested in methods through which new types of digital information can be processed and repurposed for studying a variety of social and political phenomena enabled by digital technologies. The lab has two main goals. First, to lead research on different but interdependent substantive topics for understanding, the social and political impact of digital communication and address methodological and epistemological issues related to conceptualisation, operationalisation, measurement and inference. Second, to offer BA, Masters, and PhD students a path for specialisation in computational and data science methods, with applications to communication and media research. About the Centre for Media, Communication and Information Research (ZeMKI) As an inter-faculty research institute, the Centre for Media, Communication and Information Research (ZeMKI) bundles research activities at the University of Bremen in the area of media and communicative change regarding a broad range of cultural, social, organisational and technological context fields. The research institute is committed to interdisciplinary cooperation, integrating researchers from the areas of media and communication studies, cultural studies, information management and media pedagogics. In addition to their research activities, ZeMKI members are active in the various media related study programmes at the University of Bremen. The ZeMKI oversees the profile-building research group "Communicative figurations of mediatized worlds" of the University of Bremen. The research group has been supported as a "Creative Unit" by the institutional strategy "Ambitious and Agile" of the University of Bremen funded within the frame of the Excellence Initiative by the German Federal and State Governments.

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CFP 4S New Orleans: Who knows? Smart cities as epistemology
by Ryan Burns 30 Jan '19

30 Jan '19

Who Knows? Smart cities as epistemology Organizers: Morgan Mouton, Ryan Burns (University of Calgary) Deadline: February 1, 2019 This session interrogates the knowledge politics and discursive practices around ‘smart cities’. It begins from the assumption that the emergence of smart cities necessitated a reframing of how we are to know the city. This reframing hinged on growing public faith in Big Data collection and analytics, “data-driven decision making”, and the ability of digital technologies to solve persistent socio-political problems. While scholars and practitioners alike have contended with the smart city as planning regime, ideology, political economy, and governance strategy, considerably less attention has been directed toward the smart city as a discursive mechanism shaping claims about what the urban is and how it operates. That is, smart cities consist of policies, imaginaries, and discourses that delimit the constitution of “legitimate” knowledge claims, usually toward empiricist and quantitative metrics that translate phenomena into and across data models, analytics platforms, political-economic imperatives, and social norms and values. For instance, Söderström et al. (2014) traced and analyzed the emergence of a form of “corporate storytelling”, a describing of urban systems in ways that buttress multi-national corporations’ centrality to managing them. Similarly, Vanolo (2014) reflected, in Foucauldian terms, on how smart city policies subtly draw in citizens under new urban evaluative terms and standards. White (2016) argues that smart cities invigorate anxieties about purportedly impending crisis inherent to urban systems, which subtend the transformation of “good” urban planning. These advances provoke us to ask about the kinds of epistemologies the smart city enables and suppresses. While we now understand that the smart city comprises a knowledge politics, how are we to make sense of those politics and their implications? What forms of knowing are obfuscated in smart cities discourses and planning regimes? How are new mechanisms of legitimacy secured? In this panel, we expand on existing scholarship to posit that epistemological claims regarding the urban are shifting within the milieu of “smartness”, and to provide specificity, nuance, and characterization to this shift. In other words, smart city discourses are establishing new frames of reference for the definition and the interpretation of the urban. From here, several questions arise: * How can we characterize smart city epistemologies? Is there a singular, or are there multiple epistemologies? More specifically, what do smart city visions promote — and even more importantly, what do they obscure? * What is the performativity of the ’smart city’ discourse? In other words, what can emerging ’smart city’ initiatives tell us about the translation from discourse to practice, and back again? * What are the possibilities for intervention / re-orientation of these new visions of urbanism? * How do actants and assemblages secure legitimacy for their knowledge claims within this smart milieu? What struggles emerge when social and political relations, interpersonal knowledges and experiences, and values and norms come to be encoded in, and as, data? * What are the linkages between smart epistemologies and the (re)production of urban, national, and mesoscale territories? In what ways do governments leverage emergent digital technologies like data science and visualization software, along with their attendant epistemological claims, in their efforts to govern populations? * What are the new politics of visibility within smart cities? How do individuals, organizations, or social groups struggle for or against recognition, legibility, and being seen? * How are we to contend with the material and discursive manifestation of epistemologies in and through the bodies and subjectivities that circulate in the smart city? Please send an abstract of up to 250 words to Ryan Burns (ryan.burns1(a)ucalgary.ca<mailto:ryan.burns1@ucalgary.ca>) and Morgan Mouton (morgan.mouton(a)ucalgary.ca<mailto:morgan.mouton@ucalgary.ca>) by February 1. -- Ryan Burns, PhD Department of Geography Engaging Open Data Research O'Brien Institute for Public Health University of Calgary http://burnsr77.github.io<http://burnsr77.github.io/>

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CfP 5th International Conference on Computational Social Science (IC2S2 2019) at University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
by Diliara Valeeva 29 Jan '19

29 Jan '19

IC2S2 2019 – 5th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON COMPUTATIONAL SOCIAL SCIENCE July 17-20, 2019 University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands Web:https://2019.ic2s2.org/ Twitter:@IC2S2 <https://twitter.com/IC2S2>/ #IC2S2 Deadline for abstracts: 5 February 2019 This summer the fifth edition of IC2S2 is hosted by the University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands. IC2S2 brings together researchers in computational science, complexity, and social science, and provides a platform for new work in the field of computational social science. Following a day of tutorials on July 17, contributed abstracts are presented orally in parallel thematic sessions or as posters at the three day conference, which takes place at the University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands from July 18 to 20. ================================================ KEYNOTE SPEAKERS ================================================ Kenneth Benoit (London School of Economics and Political Science) Jana Diesner (University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign) Deen Freelon (University of North Carolina) Mirta Galesic (Santa Fe Institute) Cesar Hidalgo (MIT Media Lab) Devra Moehler (Facebook Research) Scott Page (University of Michigan) Leto Peel (Université Catholique de Louvain) Emma Spiro (University of Washington) Lukas Vermeer (Booking.com) Claudia Wagner (GESIS Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences) ================================================ SPECIAL SESSION “5 YEARS OF IC2S2" ================================================ After an opening talk by Duncan Watts (Microsoft Research), several renowned computational social scientists from the field will engage in a panel discussion on the future of the field of computational social science. Among confirmed panelists are: Ulrik Brandes (ETH Zürich) Sandra González-Bailón (University of Pennsylvania) Helen Margetts (University of Oxford, The Alan Turing Institute)Markus Strohmaier (RWTH Aachen University) Duncan Watts (Microsoft Research) =================================================== CALL FOR PAPERS (ABSTRACTS) =================================================== IC2S2 solicits abstracts from researchers in the social sciences with a clear component of computation, simulation or data analysis or data science. This includes for example sociology, psychology, communication science, anthropology, media studies, political science, public health, and economics. In addition, contributions from computer science, data science, and computational science with real-world applications in the social sciences or related fields, are welcome. We emphatically welcome abstracts that try to integrate both components. This is not limited to empirical studies; more general theoretical contributions are also welcome. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following: * Network analysis of social systems * Large-scale social experiments * Agent-based or other simulations of social phenomena * Text analysis and natural language processing (NLP) of social phenomena * Cultural patterns and dynamics * Computational science studies (sociology of science) * Social news curation and collaborative filtering * Social media studies * Theoretical discussions in computational social science * Causal inference and computational methods for social science * Ethics in computational social sciences * Reproducibility in computational social science * Large scale infrastructure in computational social science * Novel digital data sources * Computational analyses for addressing societal challenges * Methods and analyses of observational social data * Computational social science research in industry Contributions to the conference should be submitted via EasyChair at:https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ic2s2-2019 <https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ic2s2-2019> Please follow the extended abstract template guidelines for Word (ic2s2-word-template.docx <https://2019.ic2s2.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/ic2s2-word-template.docx>) and LaTeX (ic2s2-latex-template.zip <https://2019.ic2s2.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/ic2s2-latex-template.zip>) for formatting instructions. Note that abstracts should be submitted as a PDFfile no larger than 20MB. Submissions that exceed the 2-page limit (including figures and references) will be automatically rejected. The extended abstract should include a title and a list of 5 keywords, but no authors’ names or affiliations. The abstract should outline the main contribution, data and methods used, results, and the impact of the work. Authors are encouraged to include one figure in their submission (the figure counts towards the page limit). Please do not include authors’ names and affiliations in the submitted document, as peer review will be double blind. Each extended abstract will be reviewed by multiple members of the Program Committee, composed of experts in computational social science. When submitting on EasyChair you will be asked to provide information about the authors and their affiliations and to include a one-sentence summaryof the extended abstract (20-50 words). The summary will be used for assigning reviewers. You can indicate a preference for an oral presentation or a poster presentation, but your preference may not be honored in the final decision. Submissions will be non-archival, and the presented work can be already published, in preparation for publication elsewhere, or ongoing research. Submission implies willingness to present a talk or poster at the conference. The deadline for abstract submission is February 5, 2019. ==================================================== IMPORTANT DATES ==================================================== * February 5, 2019 – Regular abstract submission deadline * March 6, 2019 – Acceptance notification * April 30, 2019 – Early bird registration deadline * June 30, 2019 – Registration deadline * July 17-20, 2019 – Conference ===================================================== SPONSORSHIP ===================================================== Do you want to affiliate your organisation to IC2S2? Bespoke sponsorship packages are available on request. Contact the local chairs Eelke Heemskerk and Frank Takes at ic2s2(a)uva.nl IC2S2 2019 is hosted byCORPNET <https://corpnet.uva.nl/>, University of Amsterdam and so far it is sponsored by Microsoft Research, Statistics Netherlands, ODISSEI, University of Amsterdam, Leiden University, Municipality of Amsterdam, Amsterdam Centre for Inequality Studies and SAGE Publishing. Please watch the video “IC2S2 comes to Amsterdam <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TUWvAysyqPk&t=2s>”. Web:https://2019.ic2s2.org/ Twitter:@IC2S2 <https://twitter.com/IC2S2>/ #IC2S2

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AoIR Flashpoint Symposium and Urbino
by Fabio Giglietto 29 Jan '19

29 Jan '19

Dear All, as you probably know by now, the inaugural AoIR Flashpoint Symposium will take place in Urbino, Italy. The event is conveniently located on monday to let you enjoy Urbino and its neighborhood during the weekend (you may want to have a look to this recent article https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/le-marche-italy-secret-region-guide-f5lk… ). What you may not know, is that the fun for Internet Researchers is not going to over on Monday. Take a look to the entire week lineup, read the calls, note the deadlines, submit your work, spread the world and come visit us in "Le Marche, Italy’s secret region"! ☑️ 24th June 2019 | Association of Internet Researchers (#AoIR) Symposium - Below the Radar: Private Groups, Locked Platforms and Ephemeral Content ( https://aoir.org/aoir2019symposia/) ☑️ 25-29 June 2019 | 15th Conference of Sociocybernetics - “Dark Ages 2.0”: Social Media And Their Impact (https://easychair.org/cfp/ICSC2019) Looking forward to see you all there. Best regards, Fabio Giglietto --- Fabio Giglietto Associate Professor at University of Urbino "Carlo Bo" Twitter: @fabiogiglietto <https://twitter.com/fabiogiglietto> Google Scholar profile <http://scholar.google.it/citations?user=FmenbcUAAAAJ&hl=en>

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2019 CFP Journal of Applied Journalism and Media Studies (Intellect Books) and CMCS Keynotes - Deadline: March 18
by Dr Samita Nandy 29 Jan '19

29 Jan '19

*The following Call for Papers might be of interest to Internet Studies scholars and students exploring online fame and fandom. Personal stories are welcome. **Please share widely.* We are pleased to announce professors Andrew Zolides, Basuli Deb, and Alex Symons as the keynote speakers for the 2019 Centre for Media and Celebrity Studies (CMCS) conference in New York City. Best-presented papers will be published in the *Journal of Applied Journalism and Media Studies <https://cmc-centre.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8d968a451671b45aa780b5…> * *@*IntellectBooks <https://cmc-centre.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8d968a451671b45aa780b5…>. Discounted subscription options are below. *Extended abstract deadline*: *March 18. 2019* *NYC 2019 CMCS 8th International Conference* *Bridging Gaps**: Re-Fashioning Stories for Celebrity Counterpublics* Terrace Club at Club Quarters New York City, USA Friday, August 30 – Sunday, September 1 *Keynote Speakers**:* *Dr Andrew Zolides* Communication and Media, Xavier University, USA *Dr Basuli Deb* English and Gender Studies, Rutgers University and CUNY, USA *Dr Alex Symons* Fashion Media, LIMS College, USA *Call for Papers: * In the recent past, there has been an increased interest in exploring intersections of life writing and studies of celebrity culture. Storytelling is central to effective branding in fame. Furthermore, the use of biographical elements has been recognized as a rhetorical device in writing op-eds, personal essays, and public speaking that often raise awareness on critical issues in popular media. Biography, as Lola Romanucci-Ross points out, is mainly a useful symbolic tool for reflecting, rotating and reversing real-life situations. Like biography, autobiography, memoirs, and testimonials play crucial roles in mapping social facts. The impacts of glamorous forms of storytelling in scandals, gossip, and rumor become so crucial that they are often studied as sociological data, regardless of whether they enable actual social change. For pop culture enthusiasts and social observers, celebrities may or may not be actual role models in telling meaningful stories and constructing subjectivity. Yet, fans and students often invest affective and intellectual labor when it comes to accepting, negotiating or contesting what appears to be significant in understandings of popular figures. Celebrity scholars are equally familiar with the complexities of engaging with and researching “glossy topics”. As Sean Redmond (2014) has shown, acknowledging one’s own celebrity attachments can produce innovative ways of (re)writing fame. Conversely, these first-person accounts may also contribute to the celebritisation of individual academics. What is the critical and pedagogical potential of personal takes on fame within the field of celebrity studies? Celebrity narratives are perceived to have real power whether or not celebrities are “important” people in the academic or moral sense. Drawing on current affairs, celebrity politicians have used personal claims and outrageous stories to push political agendas in divisive ways. Many other famous personas use extravagant fashion as expressions of their luxurious lives and build persona brands at the cost of ethics. For Elizabeth Wissinger, the “glamour labor” involved in self-fashioning, surveillance, and branding is often an inevitable and unfortunate outcome in the production of consumer values and desirable bodies in fashion industries. Public personas still self-fashion themselves and promote their brand by extending text(ures) of language that sells to consumer tastes. However, the challenge remains to sell the values of social justice. Can public intellectuals learn narrative strategies from celebrity storytelling and fill this gap What appears to be a shared reason behind the success of most popular narratives, verbal (including oral) and non-verbal, is a persuasive ‘strategy’ to effectively tell life stories. If studying celebrity biographies / autobiographies, best-selling memoirs, and other popular forms of life-writings and self-expressions carry cultural worth, then biographical elements of rising and celebrated public intellectuals, academics, critics, and activists are equally important to consider in disciplinary and interdisciplinary practices and understanding of fame. For instance, real-life first-hand accounts, such as testimonies and visual evidence, together with literary/artistic representations of gendered oppression provide meaning for progressive thinking and practice. Anecdotal accounts of famous sports personalities, actors, best-selling authors, and top models among other public figures are often useful rhetorical tools that help us to understand popular culture better. With this in mind, we need to extend popular storytelling beyond celebrity culture andpersona branding, and use it to empower social change in academia, politics, and other spheres. The Centre for Media and Celebrity Studies (CMCS) *Bridging Gaps* conference series, with the support of Intellect Books, uses a reflective practice paradigm and asks an urgent question: Can we learn popular strategies and re-fashion celebrity stories into tools for public intellectualism and social transformation, in addition to studying them? What enables or disables the public to tell personal stories in studies and practices of celebrity culture? Can different forms of storytelling from the lives of rising and celebrated academics, public intellectuals, critics, and activists enable urgent social change? The conference problematizes what it means to be a popular “storyteller” and invites all academics, journalists, publicists, activists and models and guests to attend, collaborate and publish valuable and purposeful work around this key question and related topics in our conference. The format of the conference aims at being open and inclusive of interdisciplinary academic scholars and practitioners involved in all areas of celebrity culture, fandom, fashion, and journalism. The conference combines paper presentations, workshop panels, roundtables, slideshows, and interviews that aim to bridge gaps in celebrity activism, persona branding, and fashion education. Working papers, media productions, and personal stories will be considered for the conference. Extended versions of selected best papers will be published in a special issue of the Journal of Applied Journalism and Media Studies (Intellect Books) *Registration includes*: Your printed package for the complete conference, professional development workshop, access to reception, all-day coffee, complimentary evening drink, consideration for publication, and the CMCS $100 best paper and $100 best screen awards. *Abstract Submission Guidelines*: • 250-word abstract or workshop / roundtable / book talk proposal • Include a title, your name, e-mail address, and affiliation if applicable • Submit abstract at celebrity.mediastudies(a)gmail.com Extended deadline *March 18, 2019* • Notification of acceptance:* March 31, 2019* • Early bird deadline for hotel & conference registration:* April 30, 2019* • Conference reception & presentations: *Friday, August 30 – Sunday, September 1, 2019* *Celebrity Chat video Submissions Guidelines*: • Video length should be 10-20 minutes • Include a title, your name, e-mail address, and affiliation if applicable • Submit to Celebrity Chat producer Jackie Raphael at the email address: media.celebstudies(a)gmail.com • Conference reception and presentations: *August 30 –September 1, 2019* *Topics include but are not limited to:* · Celebrity · Fandom · Audience · Persona · Life Writings · Oral storytelling · Fiction · Fashion · Photography · Performance · Publicity · News · Interviews · Social Media · Film and video · Theory and Methods · Research Agenda · Business Models · Ethics and Morality · Human, Animal and Environmental Ethics · Media Literacy · Education and Advocacy · International Relations · Community Building and Partnerships *Conference Chair*: ...

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