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Call for Submission 4S 2019 Open Panel: STS, Knowledge Production, Policing and Criminal Justice
by Fieke Jansen 20 Dec '18

20 Dec '18

Dear colleagues, Just before the holidays, I wanted to share our call for submissions to the 4S open panel 153 “STS And Computational Knowledge Production In Policing And Criminal Justice” Recent innovations in technologies and processes of data analysis and computational science – mainly in reference to terms (and myths) like big data, algorithmic decision making and artificial intelligence – have transformed many processes of knowledge production in the fields of policing and criminal justice. With predictive policing as one of its earliest and most prominent representatives (Perry et al. 2013; Bennett Moses & Chan, 2018), the algorithmic mediated production of (prospective) knowledge has now also affected the criminal justice system at every level. Different predictive models include generating risky spaces – PredPol (Mohler et al., 2015); risky individuals – Chicago’s ‘strategic subject list’ (Saunders/Hunt/Hollywood, 2016) and US’ Computer-Assisted Passenger Pre-screening System; or calculating the recidivism risk of convicted offenders in order to inform the sentence decision (predictive prosecution) (Ferguson, 2016). This development has gone hand-in-hand with a rapid technological expansion from the frontline to the back office. Thus, regardless of whether suspects or spaces are objects of (predictive) knowledge production, or if recidivism risk scores for convicted offenders are generated, in the end, policing and justice are increasingly characterized by socio-technical interwovenness with digital data production and algorithmic technologies. This calls for a thorough STS analysis to get at the innovations, interruptions, regenerations, successes and failures herein involved in the co-construction of policing practices and technological development. Correspondingly, this panel seeks to ask how STS can provide analytical tools for grasping the entanglement of technology and society involved in the development and implementation of computational knowledge production in policing and criminal justice. Deadline: February 1, 2019 Submissions: https://www.4s2019.org/accepted-open-panels/ We are looking forward to your proposals! Thomas Linder, Queen’s University, Kingston, Canada Nikolaus Pöchhacker, MCTS, Technical University of Munich Simon Egbert, University of Hamburg Fieke Jansen, Cardiff University Jens Hälterlein, University of Freiburg

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CFP - Digital Memory Practices in and after Conflict
by noam tirosh 19 Dec '18

19 Dec '18

Dear Colleagues, Please find the Call for Participation and Papers for a workshop that will take place in Belgrade at the Faculty of Media and Communications (FMK) in September 19. Please fell free to share it with anyone you know who may be interested to apply. Best Wishes, Noam Tirosh Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

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Call for Contributions: iConference workshop in Washington, DC, March 31st, 2019
by Violeta Trkulja 19 Dec '18

19 Dec '18

Dear colleagues, We invite you to submit your research to our workshop. Please find below a call for contributions and send it to interested colleagues. Apologies for cross posting. Thank you and kind regards, Juliane Stiller, Nadia Caidi, Violeta Trkulja and Syed Ishtique Ahmed *Charting the Future of Forced Migration Research in Information Science* This is a call for contributions for a full-day workshop at the 2019 iConference to be held in Washington, DC United States, on Sunday, March 31st, 2019. Information as a research object in the area of forced migration[1] and vice versa, forced migration in the information science domain, is only slowly gaining attention and has not yet been addressed in an interdisciplinary research environment. Information science provides a perfect lens through which to examine a range of forced migration-related issues, practices, and methodologies. In the workshop, we would like to bring together researchers from the information fields broadly construed, along with researchers in related disciplines to showcase the range of areas, practices and methodologies available to research forced migration. The aim is to introduce our IS colleagues to other research in related disciplines, as well as acculturate our colleagues from other disciplines into the rich research context and frameworks in information science. Throughout the workshop, attendees will be able to examine these research questions, focusing on one of the two following themes: +Information spaces of refugees -navigating the information environments in new and/or transitional countries -operational knowledge about information practices in different contexts -making space for refugees -evolving services provided by (public) libraries and other information professionals in the context of forced migration +Digitally-mediated environments of refugees -information-related skills and strategies that facilitate access to information -the role of social media and online spaces as sources of information and in creating and regaining a sense of place -role and/or importance of access to ICT for refugees -credibility and assessment issues; multilingual interactions; user-generated content The workshop will feature a panel, lightning talks and engagement sessions. +Abstract Submission The workshop welcomes submissions for presenting a lightning talk of 15 minutes in one of the main themes of the workshop: Information spaces of refugees and digitally-mediated environments for refugees. Each lightning talk session will be followed by an interactive engagement with part of the audience led by the speaker. When submitting an abstract for a talk, please state your plan for an interactive session that encourages audience commentary and engagement. Please plan for no more than 30 minutes. Your submission should include the following things: -abstract of your lightning talk with up to 300 words -short description of your audience engagement idea with no more than 200 words. Please send your submission to iconf2019-forcedmigrationws(a)lists.hu-berlin.de *Important Dates* -Abstract submission deadline: Jan 15th, 2019 -Notification of acceptance: Feb 15th, 2019 Knowledge Dissemination – Special Issue of IJIDI In addition to the Workshop, we will also produce a Special Issue in the International Journal for Information, Diversity and Inclusion (IJIDI) on the theme of the future of forced migration in information science. We welcome full research papers that make a novel contribution to this area of research (e.g., empirical, theory-based, methodological, comparative), and we seek a broad spectrum of submissions from workshop attendees as well as those who are not able to attend the workshop. The Special Issue will also have a special section for student work, works in progress, opinion pieces, and professional reports. Deadlines for the Special Issue of IJIDI: Extended abstracts of up to 1,000 words for full research papers and up to 500 words for contributions to the special section are due by April 30, 2019. Authors will be notified of acceptance by May 30, 2019. The final papers will be due by October 15, 2019. Publication scheduled for the April 2020 issue. Organizers Dr. Juliane Stiller, Berlin School of Library and Information Science, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany (juliane.stiller(a)ibi.hu-berlin.de) Dr. Nadia Caidi, Faculty of Information, University Toronto, Canada (nadia.caidi(a)utoronto.ca) Dr. Violeta Trkulja, Berlin School of Library and Information Science, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany (violeta.trkulja(a)ibi.hu-berlin.de) Dr. Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed, Computer Science, University of Toronto, Canada (ishtiaque(a)cs.toronto.edu) [1] Lloyd, A., Pilerot, O., & Hultgren, F. (2017). The remaking of fractured landscapes: Supporting refugees in transition (SpiRiT). Information Research, 22(3), paper 764. Retrieved from http://www.informationr.net/ir/22-3/paper764.html -- Dr. Juliane Stiller und Dr. Violeta Trkulja Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin Berlin School of Library and Information Science Sitz: Dorotheenstrasse 26, 10117 Berlin Post: Unter den Linden 6, 10099 Berlin Mail: juliane.stiller(a)ibi.hu-berlin.de | violeta.trkulja(a)ibi.hu-berlin.de Web: www.ibi.hu-berlin.de

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ACM CHI Workshop Call for Participation: “HCI for Accurate, Impartial and Transparent Journalism: Challenges and Solutions”
by Mike Ananny 18 Dec '18

18 Dec '18

Hi All, Maybe of interest to some on this list, please consider sharing with your networks and applying to this ACM CHI workshop I'm co-organizing. See below and here: http://hciandjournalism.com/ . Application deadline: February 12, 2019. Workshop in Glasgow: May 5, 2019. Best, -- Mike. *-- MIKE ANANNY* + /NEW BOOK:/ "Networked Press Freedom: Creating Infrastructures for a Public Right to Hear" [Amazon <https://www.amazon.com/Networked-Press-Freedom-Creating-Infrastructures/dp/…> | MIT Press <https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/networked-press-freedom>] + /Associate Professor of Communication & Journalism/ | Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism, University of Southern California + /Faculty Affiliate/ | Science, Technology, and Society, University of Southern California + /2018-19 Berggruen Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences/ | Stanford University mike.ananny.org <http://mike.ananny.org> | ananny(a)usc.edu <mailto:ananny@usc.edu> | @ananny <http://twitter.com/ananny> ***** *HCI for Accurate, Impartial and Transparent Journalism: Challenges and Solutions* CHI Workshop, May 5, 2019, Glasgow, Scotland We invite position papers and project descriptions for the CHI 2019 workshop “HCI for Accurate, Impartial and Transparent Journalism: Challenges and Solutions”. <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__hciandjournalism.com_&d…>This one-day workshop is a multidisciplinary forum of problem-solving and collaboration for academics and practitioners in the intersection of HCI and journalism. The key question in this workshop is: How can HCI support accurate, impartial and transparent journalism? In this interactive, collaborative workshop, participants will actively engage in identifying ways for HCI to support journalistic goals and developing a shared roadmap for HCI for accurate, transparent and impartial journalism. HCI and journalism researchers and practitioners from both academia and industry are invited to submit a position paper or a project description in the CHI Extended Abstract format (max. 4 pages). The paper should discuss the challenges in design, implementation and evaluation of technologies in journalism and present solutions how HCI can address these challenges. If the submission is a project description, it should describe the project objectives and discuss the challenges in the project execution in the framework of the workshop goals. Please add a link to the project and supply visuals with your submission if possible. The submissions will be reviewed by the organizers and evaluated based on the contribution quality and the applicants’ diversity. To ensure cross-pollination across disciplinary and practice boundaries, we will compose a diverse group of participants with different backgrounds. At least one author of each accepted paper must attend the workshop and register for both the workshop and one day of the conference. Please submit your paper to HCIAndJournalism(a)gmail.com <mailto:HCIAndJournalism@gmail.com> by February 12, 2019. *Workshop topics* We welcome diverse submissions with making links across practitioner and academic perspectives, technologies, empirical contexts, theories and methods. Submissions should cover issues related to HCI’s role in enabling accurate, impartial and transparent journalism, including, but not limited to, the following: * The design of user interfaces and user experiences for supporting accuracy, impartiality and transparency in journalism * The role of design in mitigating misinformation and establishing and maintaining credibility in journalism * The design and development of workflows that blend journalists and algorithms in the production and/or curation of news information * Application of design methodologies, such as value-sensitive design, in development of tools to support journalistic activity * Identification of methods and theories for effectively examining HCI’s role in supporting journalistic goals * The design of interactive news media applications, platforms, services, tools, or content * Social computing and intersections with journalism: commenting, discussion, community engagement *****

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What is Technology? Deadline extended
by Janet Wasko 18 Dec '18

18 Dec '18

*DEADLINE EXTENDED TO JANUARY 21, 2019* WHAT IS TECHNOLOGY? UNIVERSITY OF OREGON PORTLAND • APRIL 11–13, 2019 For CFP and more information, see: whatis.uoregon.edu<http://whatis.uoregon.edu> Current participants include: Carolyn Marvin (Univ. of Pennsylvania), Larry Hickman (Southern Illinois Univ. Carbondale), Melissa Gregg (Intel), Eric Schatzberg (Georgia Tech), Carolyn R. Miller (North Carolina State Univ.), Victoria Vesna (Art|Sci Center, UCLA), Clifford Christians (Univ. of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Nandini Ranganathan (PNCA), Mark Bedau (Reed College), Colin Koopman (Univ. of Oregon), Kenji Williams (Bella Gaia), Ward Cunningham (wiki inventor) and Amber Case. Conference Organizers: Janet Wasko and Jeremy Swartz (University of Oregon) Send 150–200 word abstracts for papers / panels / installations by *JANUARY 21, 2019* to: Janet Wasko • jwasko(a)uoregon.edu<mailto:jwasko@uoregon.edu> • University of Oregon • 97403-1275 • USA

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ELO2019 CFP Extension
by James O'Sullivan 18 Dec '18

18 Dec '18

***ELO2019 CFP EXTENSION*** Dear colleagues, Due to popular demand, the call for papers and artistic proposals for ELO2019 has been extended. *The new deadline is Jan 14th 2019, 11pm GMT.* The official CFP on the ELO2019 website has been updated to reflect these changes: http://elo2019.ucc.ie/cfp/ <http://elo2019.ucc.ie/cfp/?fbclid=IwAR39s0Zu-ukC3vYo2dyBOqCR4zYNJPAfZnd7vzs…> Please do continue to share this call with relevant scholars / networks / practitioners.

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CfP: HCI for Accurate, Impartial and Transparent Journalism: Challenges and Solutions
by Tanja Aitamurto 18 Dec '18

18 Dec '18

Dear all, We are looking for position papers and project descriptions for our CHI workshop "HCI for Accurate, Impartial and Transparent Journalism: Challenges and Solutions" <http://hciandjournalism.com/>, to be held May 5, 2019 in Glasgow, Scotland. The 4-page papers or project descriptions are due February 12, 2019. Please see the CfP below, and let me know if you have any questions. Thank you. *HCI for Accurate, Impartial and Transparent Journalism: Challenges and Solutions* CHI Workshop, May 5, 2019, Glasgow, Scotland We invite position papers and project descriptions for the CHI 2019 workshop “HCI for Accurate, Impartial and Transparent Journalism: Challenges and Solutions”. <http://hciandjournalism.com/>This one-day workshop is a multidisciplinary forum of problem-solving and collaboration for academics and practitioners in the intersection of HCI and journalism. The key question in this workshop is: How can HCI support accurate, impartial and transparent journalism? In this interactive, collaborative workshop, participants will actively engage in identifying ways for HCI to support journalistic goals and developing a shared roadmap for HCI for accurate, transparent and impartial journalism. HCI and journalism researchers and practitioners from both academia and industry are invited to submit a position paper or a project description in the CHI Extended Abstract format (max. 4 pages). The paper should discuss the challenges in design, implementation and evaluation of technologies in journalism and present solutions how HCI can address these challenges. If the submission is a project description, it should describe the project objectives and discuss the challenges in the project execution in the framework of the workshop goals. Please add a link to the project and supply visuals with your submission if possible. The submissions will be reviewed by the organizers and evaluated based on the contribution quality and the applicants’ diversity. To ensure cross-pollination across disciplinary and practice boundaries, we will compose a diverse group of participants with different backgrounds. At least one author of each accepted paper must attend the workshop and register for both the workshop and one day of the conference. Please submit your paper to HCIAndJournalism(a)gmail.com by February 12, 2019. *Workshop topics* We welcome diverse submissions with making links across practitioner and academic perspectives, technologies, empirical contexts, theories and methods. Submissions should cover issues related to HCI’s role in enabling accurate, impartial and transparent journalism, including, but not limited to, the following: - The design of user interfaces and user experiences for supporting accuracy, impartiality and transparency in journalism - The role of design in mitigating misinformation and establishing and maintaining credibility in journalism - The design and development of workflows that blend journalists and algorithms in the production and/or curation of news information - Application of design methodologies, such as value-sensitive design, in development of tools to support journalistic activity - Identification of methods and theories for effectively examining HCI’s role in supporting journalistic goals - The design of interactive news media applications, platforms, services, tools, or content - Social computing and intersections with journalism: commenting, discussion, community engagement *Organizers* Tanja Aitamurto, Northwestern University, USA Mike Ananny, University of Southern California, USA Chris W. Anderson, University of Leeds, UK Larry Birnbaum, Northwestern University, USA Nicholas Diakopoulos, Northwestern University, USA Matilda Hanson, Dagens Nyheter, Sweden Jessica Hullman, Northwestern University, USA Nick Ritchie, BBC Research & Development, UK Tanja Aitamurto, PhD Visiting Assistant Professor Medill School of Journalism Northwestern University www.tanjaaitamurto.com

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8th Computer Science Education Research Conference (CSERC' 19): First Call for Papers
by Announce Announcements 18 Dec '18

18 Dec '18

*** FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS *** 8th Computer Science Education Research Conference (CSERC '19) 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 *** *** Proceedings to be published by ACM ICPS *** The Computer Science Education Research Conference (CSERC) is an international forum for researchers with interests in educational aspects of all computing disciplines including computer science, computer engineering, software engineering, and information systems. It embraces a broad view of the current and future trends in computing education and aspires to be a lively environment for presenting the latest research and empirical results. Submissions to CSERC 2019 might cover, but are not limited to, the following topics: · Specific educational subject matter, such as programming, database systems, computer security, and modelling. · Particular educational innovations, such as MOOCs, flipped-classroom, game-based education, and E-Learning. · Specific groups of students, such as first years, women, masters students, minorities, impaired students. · Broader topics, such as curriculum, group-work, assessment, class infrastructure. Submissions Original and unpublished submissions in all areas related to computing education are invited in the following categories: · Research Paper: Reporting theoretical or theoretically-informed empirical studies undertaken to investigate a specific aspect or address a particular problem in computing education. · Experience Report: Describing a classroom innovation and an evaluation of its impact. · Software Report: Describing developed tools for supporting teaching, learning or assessment in computing education. Types of accepted submissions include: · Full Paper (approximately 12 pages). · Practical Report (about 6 pages). · Poster (2 pages). Submission Format Templates for submissions can be found at the ACM SIG roceedings website, http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=YWlyLUwJCQlhaXItTEBsaXN0c2Vydi… . Papers can be submitted using EasyChair: http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=YWlyLUwJCQlhaXItTEBsaXN0c2Vydi… . Documents proposed for conference presentation should be high quality, unpublished, original work and submitted on-line. The official language of the conference is English. Review Process and Publication Papers submitted for presentation at the conference are reviewed by the international Program Committee. The authors of the reviewed submissions will receive constructive feedback provided by CSERC Program Committee. Authors of papers presented at the conference will produce a final version of the paper, which takes into account the discussions that were held during the conference. The final versions of the papers accepted for presentation at CSERC'19 will be published in the ACM Digital library. At least one co-author of every accepted paper must register for the event and present the paper. Important Dates · Abstract submission: Friday 3 May 2019 · Paper submission deadline: Tuesday 21 May 2019 · Notification of paper acceptance: Friday 30 August 2019 · Author registration: Friday 13 September 2019 · Early (non-author) registration: Friday 18 October 2019 · Submission of camera ready papers taking reviewer comments in consideration: Thursday 19 December 2019 · Submission of paper final versions: Friday 10 January 2020 Colocation with ISSEP 2019 CSERC'19 co-locates with the 12th International Conference on Informatics in Schools: Situation, Evolution and Perspectives (ISSEP 2019). ISSEP is a forum for researchers and practitioners in the area of Informatics education, in both primary and secondary schools. It provides an opportunity for educators to reflect upon the goals and objectives of this subject matter, its curricula and various teaching/learning paradigms and topics, possible connections to everyday life and various ways of developing Informatics Education in schools. Combining CSERC and ISSEP provides a unique opportunity for educational researchers and practitioners to get a broad and comprehensive overview of educational research initiatives taking place at primary and secondary schools as well as higher education. Committees Program Committee Chair Ebrahim Rahimi, Open Universiteit, The Netherlands Program Committee Co-Chair Dave Stikkolorum, University of Leiden, The Netherlands Organising Chair George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Web Master Evert van de Vrie, Open Universiteit, The Netherlands

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CfP: Special Issue in Games & Culture on Games of Empire
by Emil Lundedal Hammar 18 Dec '18

18 Dec '18

Call for Papers: Games of Empire 10 Years Later - Special Issue in Games & Culture 2019 marks ten years since the publication of Nick Dyer-Witheford and Greig de Peuter’s seminal Games of Empire. Adopting the concept of Empire from Italian autonomous Marxist authors Michael Negri & Antonio Hardt, the book is considered one of the hallmarks of videogame cultural criticism. Situated within Western video game scholarship of the early 2000’s, the book reminded many that critical analysis informed by social theory is vital to capturing the phenomena of videogame production processes, and the power hierarchies they derive from and reproduce. Ten years later, today, it is impossible to ignore the significance that the book – despite its flaws – has shown in addressing the under-researched political aspects of the global videogame industry and cultures. At the same time, it is impossible to ignore the ever-pressing need for cultural and materialist criticism within game studies. There are many elephants in the room – the inequities of the global games labour market, the growing Game Workers unionization and the international solidarity necessary for it, the games industry’s contribution to the expansion and consolidation of global corporate interests, the revitalization of fascism in and around games, and the reproduction of colonialism under conditions of globalised supply chains and markets. In light of this, many researchers are returning to the question of how conditions of production highlight the inherently politicized nature of videogames as a global 21st century cultural industry, prompting them to explore how it can be subjected to critical analysis, to inform interventions both by scholars and by workers in the sector. Games of Empire, specifically, while an opportune starting point for critical analysis everywhere, is not without its limits. Indeed, while Dyer-Witheford and de Peuter and others (e.g., Banks & Cunningham, 2013; Nieborg, 2011; O’Donnell, 2014; Deuze, 2007), have shown that it is possible (and publishable) to inspect and critique the role of the videogames industry in the world, much remains to be said about both. Contemporary phenomena emblematic to videogames’ culture and industry require scholarly and critical addressing – issues such as the cultural and economic imperialism of global videogame companies; the platformization of culture (Nieborg & Poell, 2018); the privileging and problematization of indie and intersectional production (Martin & Deuze, 2009; Ruffino, 2012; Shaw, 2009); the consolidation of cultural and economic power via the dynamics of monopoly capitalism and imperialism, including the exploitative structure of platforms that turn players into workers and information into commodities capturing the cultural activity of play as seen in free-to-play and so-called lootbox business models (Joseph 2017); the mutually beneficial relationship between corporate grassroots movements such as Gamergate and multinational companies’ exploitation of their workers (Keogh 2018; Polansky 2018); the material and ecological ramifications of always-online infrastructures, planned obsolescence, videostreaming, and so-called cloud-based gaming; the cultural and economic conditions that maintain and reproduce what Fron, Fullerton, Morie, & Pearce called “the Hegemony of Play” (2007) ; the game industry’s intersecting matrix of domination (Collins 2002) along racial, gendered, sexual, class, language, ethnic, and bodily dimensions; and so on. Even within the nebulous discipline of game studies itself, questions of Empire are in dire need of addressing (Russworm 2018), especially against the background of positionality , the politics of citation, academia as a colonial force, bourgeois conferences overrepresenting Western, privileged and tenure-track participants able to pay extravagant fees (Butt, et al., 2018), as well as the relationship between industry and research. As such, the initial discussions motivated by Dyer-Witheford and de Peuter’s research remain as, if not more, relevant than ever. It is crucial that similar critical investigations are contemporarily re-articulated to highlight paths and strategies to understand videogames today as symptoms of a deeply unjust state of the world, and perhaps to transform the structures that reproduce this state. To do so, this special issue of Games & Culture invites authors in game studies, cultural studies, production studies, and related disciplines to engage in a dialogue with Games of Empire and the themes of global capitalism, videogame production as global cultural industry, and related themes of Empire, inequality, and hegemony. This dialogue can be based on contemporary and ongoing research, both theoretical and empirical, into videogame production today. Possible papers could include themes such as: * Empire and multitude in the contemporary games sector * Cognitive capitalism and work in the globalised production chain * Machinic subjects in the post-platform era * Social theory in game studies (post-Empire) * Platform capitalism * Working conditions in videogame production * Nomad game making * Major and minor subjectivity in game production * Making desiring subjects * 21st century imperialism and monopoly capitalism * Comparative production cultures: difference and continuity between (national) production cultures * Postcolonialism, empire, and emancipation * Cultural production in the margins: Games & workers of the so-called global south. * Unionization efforts among game workers (Game Workers Unite, #AsAGameWorker, etc.) * Empire through & within academia and game studies * The Military-Industrial-Media-Entertainment Network, in and outside of the imperial core * The ecological and material aspects of the global games industry in the Age of the Capitalocene These themes can be interpreted broadly. When submitting an extended abstract, please identify explicitly how your proposed submission responds to Games of Empire, including developing one of its concepts, critiquing its arguments, or reflecting back on its significance in contemporary research. Timeline Extended abstracts should be submitted by March 1st 2019. Notification of abstract acceptance by April 1st 2019. Full manuscripts (approximately 5.000 words) of accepted abstracts are due September 6th 2019. Notification of manuscript acceptance by November 4th 2019. Final publications of 5-6 accepted articles in Games & Culture are expected around June 2020 Submission process Submissions should comprise of * Extended abstracts between 800-1000 words excluding bibliography. * Author information (short biographical statement of 200 words) Please submit to Emil Hammar (emil.hammar(a)uit.no<mailto:emil.hammar@uit.no>) by March 1st 2019. Best regards, Dr. Caroline Pelletier, UCL Institute of Education, London, England Lars de Wildt, Institute for Media Studies, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium Dr. Souvik Mukherjee, Department of English, Presidency University, Kolkata, India Emil Hammar, Department of Language & Culture, University of Tromsø, Norway References Banks, J. (2013) Co-creating videogames. London, England: Bloomsbury. Banks, J., & Cunningham, S. (2013). Games and entertainment software. In Handbook on the digital creative economy, 416. Baym, N. K. (2015) Connect with your audience!: The relational labor of connection. The Communication Review, Special Issue, 18, 14–22. Bulut, Ergin. 2018. “One-Dimensional Creativity: A Marcusean Critique of Work and Play in the Video Game Industry.” tripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique. Open Access Journal for a Global Sustainable Information Society 16 (2): 757–71. https://doi.org/10.31269/triplec.v16i2.930. Butt, M. A. R., de Wildt, L., Kowert, R., & Sandovar, A. 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FW: IIPC Web Archiving Conference 2019: Second Call for Papers [DEADLINE: 7th January 2019]
by Grotke, Abigail 17 Dec '18

17 Dec '18

Passing along this announcement: -- In 2019 the IIPC Web Archiving Conference is proudly hosted by the National and University Library of Croatia in Zagreb<http://www.nsk.hr/en/>, and coincides with the 15th anniversary of the Croatian Web Archive<http://haw.nsk.hr/en> (HAW). The WAC (#iipcWAC19<https://twitter.com/hashtag/iipcWAC18>) will be held in the Westin Hotel Zagreb,<https://www.marriott.com/hotels/travel/zagwi-the-westin-zagreb/> on 6 & 7 June 2019. Please submit your proposals using EasyChair<https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wac2019> by 7th January 2019. Call for Papers WEB ARCHIVING COMMUNITY: MATURING PRACTICE TOGETHER It is widely acknowledged by libraries, archives and heritage institutions that web archiving is crucial to the global mission of preserving digital heritage. The task of comprehensively archiving the World Wide Web cannot be accomplished by one institution alone and organisations such as the IIPC play a vital role in bringing together the web archiving community, and its various stakeholders, to carry out this vital undertaking. The IIPC Web Archiving Conference is an international forum which provides a unique opportunity for web archiving practitioners, researchers, developers, and those starting out in web archiving, to come together to share experience, disseminate knowledge, promote activities and network. Proposals on all aspects of web archiving practice as well as researching and using web archives are invited. Particularly welcome are proposals related to the Central, Eastern and South-Eastern European region and proposals from the perspective of new users and researchers. Potential topics include: Starting out in web archiving * Legal and ethical issues * Selection and curation * Training, outreach and education * Crawling and QA strategies * Institutional and organizational structures and approaches * Collection management tools Legal issues * Impact of legislation e.g. the Directive of the European Parliament and of the Council on copyright in the Digital Single Market * Compliance with General Data Protection Regulation * Use of web archives as evidence in legal or journalistic use cases Research use of web archives * Use, usability and access to web archives and web archive datasets * Researcher case studies * Collaborations between researchers and web archiving institutions Maintaining web archive content, operations and tools development * Preservation and sustainability issues and strategies * Collection analysis and metrics * Metadata, description and access * Preservation of obsolete formats * Tools development and workflows The Programme Committee invite proposals for: * 15 or 30 minute presentations (please submit the preferred length of your presentation) 60 minute panel discussions * Conference themed workshops (60 minutes or 90 minutes; workshop organisers can indicate if more time is required) * Tutorials focusing on particular tools (60 minutes or 90 minutes; workshop organisers can indicate if more time is required) * Posters with accompanying 5 minute lightning talks. Proposals for presentations, panels and posters must be submitted as an abstract of between 300 and 500 words. Panels are expected to reflect varying and potentially conflicting viewpoints represented by a diverse group of panelists and proposals should outline the panel agenda as well as the role of a moderator, if applicable. Proposals for workshops and tutorials should be 800 to 1,000 words and include information about coordinators, format, target participant numbers and technical requirements. Workshops and tutorials should also include expected learning outcomes. Proposals should demonstrate how the presentation, panel or workshop contributes to the general themes relating to building, maintaining and researching web archives. All proposals should be accompanied by 3 to 5 keywords. Please submit your proposals using EasyChair<https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wac2019>. For questions, please e-mail iipc2019(a)iipc.simplelists.com<mailto:iipc2019@iipc.simplelists.com> The deadline for submissions is 7th January 2019. All submissions will be reviewed by the WAC19 Programme Committee<http://netpreserve.org/ga2019/organisation/> and submitters will be notified by mid-February 2019. www.netpreserve.org/ga2019<http://www.netpreserve.org/ga2019> @NetPreserve<https://twitter.com/NetPreserve> #iipcWAC19<https://twitter.com/hashtag/iipcWAC19>

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