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Support Needed for Formation of ICA Human-Machine Communication Interest Group
by Andrea Guzman 15 Dec '18

15 Dec '18

Apologies for cross posting. If you are a member of the International Communication Association (ICA), please consider signing the petition to establish a Human-Machine Communication Interest Group at ICA by December 20, 2018. Human-Machine Communication research focuses on the development of meaning between people and technology that is designed to enact the role of communicator. It encompasses research within Human-Computer Interaction, Human-Robot Interaction, and Human-Agent Interaction focused on aspects of people’s interactions with machines as well as the outcomes for individuals, for society, and for the study of communication itself. The goal of the HMC Interest Group is to provide an institutional space aimed at fostering research and developing a network of scholars. In keeping with the ethos of our preconferences, the HMC Interest Group would be inclusive of the different theoretical and methodological approaches to research within ICA and strive to engage scholars at every level of their career. Any member of ICA can sign the petition as long as they are current on their dues. To add your name in support visit: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ILMtFvOtYE0QRTUxyVB7qNFfVasZCe_dsKq… Please also circulate to interested parties. Questions? Feel free to contact me. Andrea _______________ Andrea L. Guzman, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Dept. of Communication Northern Illinois University alguzman(a)niu.edu Out now: Human-Machine Communication: Rethinking Communication, Technology, & Ourselves from Peter Lang. https://www.peterlang.com/view/title/64309?format=PBK My latest article, "Voices in and of the Machine: Source Orientation toward Mobile Virtual Assistants," to appear in Computers in Human Behavior: https://bit.ly/2xXt1Ds

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IEEE Cyber Incident 2019 | Oxford University | Call For Papers
by HANAN HINDY 14 Dec '18

14 Dec '18

(We apologize if you receive multiple copies of this message) **** IEEE Cyber Incident 2019, June 3-4, Oxford University, UK **** -------------------- DESCRIPTION -------------------------------- The IEEE International Conference on Cyber Incident Response, Coordination, Containment & Control (Cyber Incident 2019) is an international refereed conference dedicated to the advancement of Cyber Incident Response, Coordination, Containment and Control. The aim of the Cyber Incident 2019 is to encourage participation and promotion of collaborative scientific, industrial and academic inter-workings among individual researchers, practitioners, members of existing associations, academia, standardisation bodies, and including government departments and agencies. The purpose is to build bridges between academia and industry, and to encourage interplay of different cultures. Cyber Incident 2019 invites researchers and industry practitioners to submit papers that encompass principles, analysis, design, methods and applications. All submitted papers are independently peer-reviewed. The conference proceedings will be submitted for consideration for publishing and listing on the following bibliographic indexes: IEEE Computer Society Digital Library, IEEE Xplore Digital Library, DBLP Computer Science, Scopus, CiteSeerX, Computer Science Index, EI Compendex, Academic Search Complete, CiteULike, Google Scholar & Microsoft Academic Search. -------------------- KEYNOTE SPEAKERS -------------------------------- * Prof. Aunshul Rege, Associate Professor with the Department of Criminal Justice at Temple University, USA. * Prof. Mike Hinchey is the Chair of IEEE UK & Ireland Section for 2018-2019. * Prof. Sadie Creese is a Professor of Cyber Security in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Oxford. * Prof. Awais Rashid is a Professor of Cyber Security at University of Bristol, UK * TBA * TBA -------------------- IMPORTANT DATES -------------------------------- The Deadline for all paper submissions, that is, both full papers and extended abstracts for Poster, WIP, PoC, Research Idea and PhD Seminar presentations is 26th January 2019. All Industry track, Work in Progress track, Research Ideas track and PhD Seminar track will be published in the conference proceedings. Interested participants, please submit your proposal using the online submission system hosted by Easychair Conference Portal. -------------------- TOPICS of INTEREST -------------------------------- Original papers are invited on recent advances in Incident Detection and Mitigation. The topics in Cyber Incident 2019 include but not limited to: *Cyber Incident Response* * Cyber Incident Analysis * Cyber Incident Triage * Cyber Incident Correlation and Assessment * Coordination * Containment * Root Cause Analysis (RCA) * Timeliness * Handling and Handling Process * Reporting * Escalation * Cyber Incident Management *Decision Control* * Decision Control * Emergence Services * Preparedness * Readiness * Analysis * Risk Management * Conditionality * Proportionality * Prioritisation * Decision Making * Risk-Based Decision * Human in the Loop *Preparedness & Readiness* * Training * Processes and Procedures * Policy and Standards * Emergency Services * Chain of Custody * Forensic Readiness and Investigations * Cyber Incident Notification and Announcements * Cyber Incident Management Tool * Standardisation * Framework and Methodology * Expertise, Skills, Knowledge and Resource * Maturity Model and Goal Setting * Certification and Accreditation * Memberships to Cyber Incident Responders, Incident Response Organisation *Digital Forensicc* * Rule-Based Systems * Expert Systems * Adaptive Learning Systems * Predictive Systems * The use of Biometrics to aid Forensic Investigations * Speak, audio and voice Recognition for forensics * Correlation and cross-correlation for Incident Analysis * Cross-Domain Analysis * Cross-Channel Incident Analysis * Multi-domain Analysis * Digital Forensics Principles, Rules and Standards * Digital Forensic Investigations * Speak, audio and voice Recognition for forensics * Chain of Custody * Mobile Forensics * Live data and live stream forensics * Live Imagery Forensics * Memory Forensics * Browser and Cache Memory Forensics ** Threat and Adversarial Modelling ** * Data-Centric System Threat Modelling * Attack Tree * Exploits and Attack Modelling * Attack Vector and Attack Surface * Risk, Control and Control Objectives * Analysing Threat Modelling * Cyber Incident Management * Business Continuity Plan and Measures * Root Cause Analysis * Security Metrics * Threat Intelligence -------------------------------- BEST PAPERS -------------------------------- The best paper of each section will be selected and their author(s) will receive a corresponding Award Certificate. Authors of the Best 20%-25% papers presented at the *conference will be invited to adapt their papers for their publication in one of the special issues peer reviewed journals. ---------------------------------- Hanan Yousry Hindy CyberScience 2019 Publicity Co-Chair PhD Student School of Design and Informatics Abertay University Dundee, Scotland hananhindy.com<http://hananhindy.com/>

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CyberSciTech 2019 CFP (August 5-8, 2019, Fukuoka, Japan)
by Kevin I-Kai Wang 14 Dec '18

14 Dec '18

[Our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP] --------------------------------------------------------------------------- The 4th IEEE Cyber Science and Technology Congress (CyberSciTech 2019) http://cyber-science.org/2019/ August 5-8, 2019, Fukuoka, Japan IMPORTANT DATES -------------------------- Workshop/SS Proposal Due: Jan. 20, 2019 Regular Paper Submission Due: Mar. 20, 2019 Wksp/SS/Poster Paper Due: April 20, 2019 Authors Notification: May 25, 2019 Camera-ready Submission: June 20, 2019 SCOPE AND TRACKS -------------------------- Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: Regular Tracks (6-8 pages) Track 1: Cyberspace Theory & Technology - Cyberspace Property, Structure & Models - Cyber Pattern, Evolution, Ecology & Science - SDN/SDS, 5G/6G, Vehicle & Novel Network - Cloud, Fog, Edge & Green Computing - Big Data Analytics, Technology & Service - Infrastructures for Smart City/Country Track 2: Cyber Security, Privacy & Trust - Cyber Security, Safety & Resilience - Cyber Crime, Fraud, Abuse & Forensics - Cyber Attack, Terrorism, Warfare & Defense - Cyber Privacy, Trust & Insurance - Blockchain, DLT Techniques & Applications - Post-quantum Cryptography Track 3: Cyber Physical Computing & Systems - Cyber Physical Systems & Interfaces - Cyber Physical Dynamics & Disaster Relief - Cyber Manufacturing & Control - Embedded Systems & Software - Autonomous Robots & Vehicles - Internet of Things (IoT) & Smart Systems Track 4: Cyber Social Computing & Networks - Social Networking & Computing - Computational Social Science - Crowd Sourcing, Sensing & Computing - Cyber Culture, Relation, Creation & Art - Cyber Social Right, Policy, Laws & Ethics - Cyber Learning, Economics & Politics Track 5: Cyber Intelligence & Cognitive Science - Cyber/Digital Brain & Artificial Intelligence - Hybrid & Hyper-connected Intelligence - Affective/Mind Cognition & Computing - Brain/Mind Machine Interface - Intelligent Multimedia Technology - Intelligent Object, Environment & Service Track 6: Cyber Life & Wellbeing - Cyber Life & Human Centric Computing - Cyber Medicine, Healthcare & Psychology - Cyborg/Wearable/Implantable Technology - Human/Animal Behavior Recognition - Personal Big Data & Personality Computing - Virtual, Augmented & Mixed Reality Work-in-Progress (WiP) and Poster Tracks IEEE CyberSciTech 2019 welcomes submissions of Work-in-Progress (WiP) and Poster papers describing on-going research progress. We welcome submissions within the scope of regular tracks IEEE CyberSciTech2019 CALLS -------------------------- For original papers in: * Regular Tracks: 6-8 pages * WiP/Workshop/Special Session Tracks: 4-6 pages * Poster Track: 2 pages * All submissions should be in the IEEE CS proceedings format: https://www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templates.html * All accepted conference (regular, WiP, poster), workshop, and special session papers will be published by IEEE in Conference Proceedings (IEEE-DL and EI indexed). Selected high quality papers will be recommended to prestige journal special issues. For Workshop and Special Session Proposals. Please submitted your proposals to cyberscitechcongress(a)gmail.com. CO-LOCATED CONFERENCES -------------------------- * The 17th IEEE International Conf. on Pervasive Intelligence & Computing (PICom 2019) * The 17th IEEE International Conf. on Dependable, Autonomic & Secure Comp (DASC 2019) * The 5th IEEE Int'l Conf. on Cloud and Big Data Computing (CBDCom 2019)

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RIDING THE WAVES: Pre-ICA conference accepts abstracts
by Matei, Sorin Adam 13 Dec '18

13 Dec '18

Dear colleagues, Purdue University, Sorbonne Nouvelle, and University of Paris would like to extend an invitation to you and to any of your interested colleagues to the pre-ICA conference: Riding or Lashing the Waves: Regulating Media for Diversity in a Time of Uncertainty National Press Club Washington, DC, United States, May 24, 2019 https://easychair.org/cfp/RIDING19 This will be a high-density conversation with politicians, academics, and regulators from both sides of the Atlantic about an issue that preoccupies us all: can social media maintain a diverse, yet civil and trustworthy conversation? With the increase in technology over the past 20 years the term “mass media” has morphed to cover a chaotic maze of broad and narrowcast media, both local and global. The rise of new instruments of mass communication including instant messaging apps, blogging and vlogging, podcasting, live broadcasting using mobile phones, and screen capture videos have all broadened the definition of the term “mass media”. With all of this change - what are the regulatory, policy, and production rules that can make future media diverse, embracing pluralism of perspectives and ideas, user-focused and civically-responsible, while remaining profitable? In other words, what legal frameworks, organizational innovations, self-regulation ideas or technologies can be or should not be used to maintain diversity and sustainability? Please visit https://easychair.org/cfp/RIDING19 for further information and submission guidelines. We accept both abstracts and full papers. Feel free to distribute this widely. For further information, please do not hesitate to contact us Sorin Adam Matei Conference Chair Professor of Communication Brian Lamb School of Communication Associate Dean of Research and Graduate Studies College of Liberal Arts, Purdue University https://www.cla.purdue.edu/about/administration/ cla-adr(a)purdue.edu<mailto:cla-adr@purdue.edu> François Moreau Conference co-Chair Professor of Economics University of Paris 13 Director of Research The Creative Industries Research Laboratory of Excellence https://icca.univ-paris13.fr/mon-profil/moreau-francois/ francois.moreau(a)univ-paris13.fr<mailto:francois.moreau@univ-paris13.fr> Franck Rebillard co-Chair Professor of Communication Sorbonne Nouvelle Director of the Institute for Media and Communication http://www.univ-paris3.fr/m-rebillard-franck-81572.kjsp?RH=1236696349083 franck.rebillard(a)sorbonne-nouvelle.fr<mailto:franck.rebillard@sorbonne-nouvelle.fr> Fabrice Rochelandet co-Chair Professor of Communication Sorbonne Nouvelle Principal Investigator “Audiovisual clusters of creativity in Paris” fabrice.rochelandet(a)free.fr<mailto:fabrice.rochelandet@free.fr> http://www.univ-paris3.fr/m-rochelandet-fabrice--170203.kjsp

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New book - The Digital Edge: How Black and Latino Youth Navigate Digital Inequality
by Jacqueline Vickery 13 Dec '18

13 Dec '18

Wanted to make the community aware of a new book that was officially released last week (paperback and Kindle editions available) *The Digital Edge: How Black and Latino Youth Navigate Digital Inequality *(NYU Press) by S. Craig Watkins, Andres Lombana-Bermudez, Alexander Cho, Jacqueline Ryan Vickery, Vivian Shaw, and Lauren Weinzimmer. https://nyupress.org/books/9781479849857/ *The Digital Edge* examines how the digital and social-media lives of low-income youth, especially youth of color, have evolved amidst rapid social and technological change. While notions of the digital divide between the “technology rich” and the “technology poor” have largely focused on access to new media technologies, the contours of the digital divide have grown increasingly complex. Analyzing data from a year‐long ethnographic study at Freeway High School, the authors investigate how the digital media ecologies and practices of black and Latino youth have adapted as a result of the wider diffusion of the internet all around us--in homes, at school, and in the palm of our hands. Their eager adoption of different technologies forge new possibilities for learning and creating that recognize the collective power of youth: peer networks, inventive uses of technology, and impassioned interests that are remaking the digital world. Relying on nearly three hundred in-depth interviews with students, teachers, and parents, and hundreds of hours of observation in technology classes and after school programs, The Digital Edge carefully documents some of the emergent challenges for creating a more equitable digital and educational future. Focusing on the complex interactions between race, class, gender, geography and social inequality, the book explores the educational perils and possibilities of the expansion of digital media into the lives and learning environments of low-income youth. Ultimately, the book addresses how schools can support the ability of students to develop the social, technological, and educational skills required to navigate twenty-first century life. *Dr. Jacqueline Ryan **Vickery* Associate Professor | Graduate Director Department of Media Arts College of Liberal Arts & Social Sciences University of North Texas http://jrvickery.com *"Let us go forth with fear and courage and rage to save the world." - **Grace Paley*

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Book Announcement - Blogging My Religion
by Giulia Evolvi 13 Dec '18

13 Dec '18

Dear All, I am very pleased to announce the publication of my book: Blogging my Religion: Secular, Muslim, and Catholic Media Spaces in Europe Giulia Evolvi https://www.routledge.com/Blogging-My-Religion-Secular-Muslim-and-Catholic-… *Summary* Religion in Europe is currently undergoing changes that are reconfiguring physical and virtual spaces of practice and belief, and these changes need to be understood with regards to the proliferation of digital media discourses. This book explores religious change in Europe through a comparative approach that analyzes Atheist, Catholic, and Muslim blogs as spaces for articulating narratives about religion that symbolically challenge the power of religious institutions. The book adds theoretical complexity to the study of religion and digital media with the concept of hypermediated religious spaces. The theory of hypermediation helps to critically discuss the theory of secularization and to contextualize religious change as the result of multiple entangled phenomena. It considers religion as being connected with secular and post-secular spaces, and media as embedding material forms, institutions, and technologies. A spatial perspective contextualizes hypermediated religious spaces as existing at the interstice of alternative and mainstream, private and public, imaginary and real venues. By offering the innovative perspective of hypermediated religious spaces, this book will be of significant interest to scholars of religious studies, the sociology of religion, and digital media. With code HUM19 you can get a 20% discount Best Regards, Giulia Evolvi, Dr Research Associate Ruhr University Bochum giulia.evolvi(a)rub.de @giuliaevolvi www.giuliaevolvi.com

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12th International Conference on Informatics in Schools (ISSEP 2019): First Call for Papers
by Announce Announcements 13 Dec '18

13 Dec '18

*** FIRST 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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Call for Papers - (New) Theories of Digital Publics (in German)
by Herbers, Martin 13 Dec '18

13 Dec '18

<mailto:air-l@listserv.aoir.org>Dear list members, I'm organizing the PreConference "(New) Theories of Digital Publics" to the Annual Meeting of the German Communication Association in Münster, Germany on May 9th 2019. Conference language is German. The conference will discuss the interplay of classical theories of the public sphere and their interconnection with theories of digitization. Please find further information (in German only) here: http://dgpuk-pre-conf2019.post-publics.de/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/CfP_Ne… I am looking forward to receiving your abstracts until January 28th, 2019. All the best Martin __________________________________ Zeppelin Universität zwischen Wirtschaft Kultur Politik Martin R. Herbers Dr. phil. Akademischer Mitarbeiter | PostDoc Lehrstuhl für Allgemeine Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaft Am Seemooser Horn 20 88045 Friedrichshafen | Bodensee T +49 7541 6009 1382 F +49 7541 6009 1199 martin.herbers(a)zu.de zu.de Twitter: @MR_Herbers __________________________________ Zeppelin Universität gemeinnützige GmbH Sitz der Gesellschaft Friedrichshafen | Bodensee Amtsgericht Ulm HRB 632002 Geschäftsführung Prof Dr Insa Sjurts (Sprecherin) | Matthias Schmolz

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Digital Memory Practices in and After Conflict - CFP
by noam tirosh 12 Dec '18

12 Dec '18

Hi there! This CFP might be of interest. http://cfccs.org/2019workshop Please feel free to contact me for any further questions. Noam Tirosh

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CfP ICA's Doctoral Consortium of Communication and Technology and Mobile Communication
by M.L. Antheunis 11 Dec '18

11 Dec '18

CALL FOR STUDENT PROPOSALS 10th Annual Doctoral Consortium of the Communication and Technology Division co-sponsored by the Mobile Communication Interest Group of the International Communication Association (ICA) Friday, 24 May 2019 | Washington DC, exact location to be announced Description The consortium will bring together PhD candidates conducting research on various types of communication technologies and mobile communication to give them the opportunity to present and discuss their research in a constructive and international atmosphere. The objectives of the event are to provide feedback and advice to participating PhD candidates on their in-progress research thesis. Moreover, the Doctoral Consortium will provide the opportunity to meet experts as well as fellow PhD candidates from different backgrounds working on related topics. During the consortium, students and faculty will be organized into small groups, determined by the thematic nature of the research. In each group, students will present their work, and receive feedback from their fellow students and faculty participants, all of whom will have read the proposals in advance of the Doctoral Consortium. Each proposal will receive detailed feedback from three faculty participants. There will be two poster sessions to allow participants from other groups to learn about and comment on the research of the PhD candidates. In addition to the presentation and critique of proposals, there will be discussion of issues related to making the transition from graduate student to faculty member. Of course, this process differs widely across different nations and academic traditions. Bearing these differences in mind, we will discuss positioning one’s work for the job market, strategies for publication, the interviewing process and other aspects of faculty job searches. Anticipating a time when participants will have an academic position, the discussion will include issues like managing workload and working relationships, finding a work/life balance, and ways of being a successful academic. Submission Process Applicants must be advanced to candidacy and have their dissertation proposal topic previously approved by their committee or supervisor. Ideally, students will be in the early stages of their dissertation, where feedback would be helpful in refining and advancing their work. To apply, students must submit a proposal describing their research. Submissions must be related to one of the working areas of the Communication and Technology Division (CAT) or the Mobile Communication Interest Group (MCIG) of the International Communication Association (ICA). A description of the respective research areas can be found in the last section of this call. We encourage students to closely read these descriptions, as we will not consider any submissions not fitting the working areas of Cat or MCIG. In your submission, please identify whether you’re submitting to MCIG or CAT. Proposals must identify a significant problem (or problems) in a relevant field of research, briefly outline current knowledge of the problem domain, and clearly formulate a research question, or specify hypotheses to be tested. Proposals should outline the research approach, methods, and any results obtained so far. Submissions should be between 3000 and 4000 words (excluding references and appendices) and must include name and affiliation of the PhD candidate. Applications need to be accompanied by a short letter of recommendation from the advisor or member of the dissertation committee stating how the PhD candidate can benefit from participation in the Doctoral Consortium. The proposal and letter of recommendation must be submitted as one PDF document and sent as an attachment in an email to Veronika Karnowski at veronika.karnowski(a)ifkw.lmu.de<mailto:veronika.karnowski@ifkw.lmu.de>. The deadline for submission is 1 February 2019. Submitted proposals will be reviewed by the members of the program committee based on significance of research, specificity of research topic and/or questions, clarity of writing and degree to which student can benefit from expert guidance and feedback. To help ensure the consortium best meets the needs of its members, limited financial assistance is made possible by the CAT Division and the MCIG. Please note in your application if you would like to be considered for financial support to cover your costs for participation in the Doctoral Consortium (this support would cover only the $75 participation fee and not travel to the conference). About the Communication and Technology Division The CAT Division is concerned with the role played by Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) in the process of communication. It is committed to enhancing theory and methodology pertaining to adoption, usage, effects, and policy of ICTs. Areas of research include human-computer interaction, computer-mediated communication, mobile communication, and other technologically mediated social interaction and networking in all contexts (interpersonal, group, organizational, societal/cultural) and at all levels of analyses. CAT invites papers that make an innovative and original contribution to our understanding of ICTs, with the primary focus on communication aspects of particular technological characteristics. About the Mobile Communication Interest Group The MCIG focuses on the phenomenon of mobility in communication – thus being placed on the intersection of mobility, technology, and culture in human communication. While including a wide array of perspectives and approaches in communication scholarship from historical perspectives to studies on future media innovations, from ethnographic to quantitative empirical approaches, from journalism studies to media effects research the common ground of the Interest Group is state of the art theorizing on mobile communication as well as the discussion of adequate methodology to do so. Registration Participation is only by invitation. Once a proposal is accepted, students can register through the ICA website. Cost for participation is US$75 per person. Steering Committee Marjolijn L. Antheunis, Tilburg U, Netherlands (Program Director) Katy Pearce, U of Washington, USA (Program committee) Veronika Karnowski, LMU Munich, Germany (Program committee) German Neubaum, U of Duisburg-Essen, Germany (Program committee) Faculty members will be announced later

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