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CFP: The worlds of Wikimedia: communicating and collaborating across languages and cultures
by Bunty Avieson 10 Dec '18

10 Dec '18

WOW2019: The worlds of Wikimedia: communicating and collaborating across languages and cultures University of Sydney, 12-14 June 2019. Abstracts up to 250 words via EasyChair by March 12, 2019. Acceptance by March 20, 2019. Website: wow2019.net The United Nations declared 2019 as the International Year of Indigenous Languages to celebrate the world’s rich cultural diversity and heighten awareness of cultures at risk. As a free, multimedia publishing site, Wikipedia has unrealized potential for supporting such cultures in terms of languages, traditions and different knowledge systems. This conference invites participants to consider the breadth of human experience and wisdom, and how they can best be served by digital technologies and the Wikimedia movement. We welcome papers that address Wikimedia’s role in enhancing global diversity from a range of perspectives including education, digital communication, indigenous knowledge, GLAM (Galleries, Libraries, Archives, Museums), Disability Studies, Internet studies and Big Data, as a means to investigate new methods of collaboration to broaden inclusion across all levels of society. Topics can refer to any of the various Wikimedia projects, as well as language and cultural diversity, and could address, but are not limited to: * Language preservation * Australian Indigenous storytelling * Theories of knowledge * Andragogy and pedagogy * Internet Activism * Open knowledge * Decolonizing the Internet * Digital tools and methods for online diversity and abilities * Orality and Literacy * Resolving conflict in online communities * New archival practices * Innovative Case Studies and projects Other related topics will also be considered. Any queries please contact Dr Frances Di Lauro, Department of Writing Studies, and Dr Bunty Avieson, Department of Media and Communications. Dr Bunty Avieson | Lecturer The University of Sydney Department of Media and Communications, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences Rm N225, John Woolley | The University of Sydney | NSW | 2006 +61 2 8627 0201 bunty.avieson(a)sydney.edu.au<mailto:bunty.avieson@sydney.edu.au> | sydney.edu.au<https://sydney.edu.au/arts/staff/profiles/bunty.avieson.php> I acknowledge the Gadigal people of the Eora nation as the traditional custodians of the land on which I live and work CRICOS 00026A This email plus any attachments to it are confidential. Any unauthorised use is strictly prohibited. If you receive this email in error, please delete it and any attachments. Please think of our environment and only print this email if necessary.

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CFP Worlds of Wikimedia conference: communicating and collaborating across languages and cultures
by Bunty Avieson 10 Dec '18

10 Dec '18

WOW2019: The worlds of Wikimedia: communicating and collaborating across languages and cultures, at University of Sydney, 12-14 June 2019. Abstracts up to 250 words via EasyChair<https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wow2019> by March 12. Acceptance by March 20. Website: wow2019.net<https://www.wow2019.net/> The United Nations declared 2019 as the International Year of Indigenous Languages<https://en.iyil2019.org/> to celebrate the world’s rich cultural diversity and heighten awareness of cultures at risk. As a free, multimedia publishing site, Wikipedia has unrealized potential for supporting such cultures in terms of languages, traditions and different knowledge systems. This conference invites participants to consider the breadth of human experience, wisdom and knowledge systems, and how they can best be served by digital technologies and the Wikimedia movement. We welcome papers that address Wikimedia’s role in enhancing global diversity from a range of perspectives including education, digital communication, indigenous knowledge, GLAM (Galleries, Libraries, Archives, Museums), Disability Studies, Internet studies and big data, as a means to investigate new methods of collaboration to broaden inclusion across all levels of society. Topics can refer to any of the various Wikimedia projects, as well as language and cultural diversity, and could address, but are not limited to: * Language preservation * Australian Indigenous storytelling * Theories of knowledge * Andragogy and pedagogy * Internet Activism * Open knowledge * Decolonizing the Internet * Digital tools and methods for online diversity and abilities * Orality and Literacy * Resolving conflict in online communities * New archival practices * Innovative Case Studies and projects Other related topics will also be considered. For questions please contact Dr Frances Di Lauro<http://frances.dilauro@sydney.edu.au>, Department of Writing Studies, and Dr Bunty Avieson<http://bunty.avieson@sydney.edu.au>, Department of Media and Communications. Dr Bunty Avieson | Lecturer The University of Sydney Department of Media and Communications, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences Rm N225, John Woolley | The University of Sydney | NSW | 2006 +61 2 8627 0201 bunty.avieson(a)sydney.edu.au<mailto:bunty.avieson@sydney.edu.au> | sydney.edu.au<https://sydney.edu.au/arts/staff/profiles/bunty.avieson.php> I acknowledge the Gadigal people of the Eora nation as the traditional custodians of the land on which I live and work CRICOS 00026A This email plus any attachments to it are confidential. Any unauthorised use is strictly prohibited. If you receive this email in error, please delete it and any attachments. Please think of our environment and only print this email if necessary.

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CFA Edited Volume Visual Pedagogies: Concepts Cases Models
by MC Cambre 09 Dec '18

09 Dec '18

Call for Abstracts Edited Volume: “Visual Pedagogies: Concepts, Cases & Models” Overview We invite abstracts for an edited collection investigating the theoretical, empirical and instructional aspects of what can be envisioned as visual pedagogies, offering classic, creative, and contemporary re-workings of these paradigms. The book will be divided into three complementary sections with an editor in charge of each. Submission guidelines: The book will be designed for an academic audience, however, we also invite creative and novel approaches that challenge and take risks including troubling traditionally accepted concepts such as literacy, learning, teaching, skills and so on. Contributors are asked to write in a manner accessible to readers outside of their respective fields. We encourage the use of images, mixed media, and externally linked or referenced material. Thus, we encourage provocations and novel ways of integrating image, diagram, illustration and other modalities, within and through the book’s pages. To build this book collaboratively and speak across chapters, we will share material, peer edit and discuss contributions within respective sections. In addition, each chapter will undergo rigorous double blind peer-review. Key dates: - Abstracts of 500 words (theoretical framework, methods and focus) plus a 100 word biographical statement: February 25, 2019 - Invitations for full chapters sent to authors: March 26, 2019 - Full chapters (6000-7000 words including references) submission: September 10, 2019 Please email submissions and queries to the relevant section editor (see emails in the beginning of each section description). Section 1: Conceptualizing Visual Pedagogies Section editor: Carolina Cambre, Concordia University, Canada. E-mail: carolina.cambre(a)concordia.ca This section explores visual pedagogies theoretically through a collection of papers that reach into and beyond traditional understandings of both terms “visual” and “pedagogy.” In his 1648 landmark book on didactics, John Amos Comenius set out some enduring fundamental principles for teaching and learning, including what might seem an almost too obvious observation that “all learning happens through the senses” and thus this book refuses to relegate its consideration of the visual in pedagogy to the purely eye-dependent. In other words, we avoid visual essentialism by understanding that the visual is already irretrievably embedded in other sensory awareness. Similarly, we consider pedagogy by pluralizing it and positioning it beyond what might be seen as institutional pedagogical understandings and approaches by looking to de-link it from strict notions of being situated in schooling and within certain age-ranges. Instead, these conceptually oriented papers consider pedagogies in the sense that these approaches can take multiple, non-linear, and situated approaches whether collective or individual that can encompass diverse spaces. Thus the official space of the classroom is one amongst many pedagogical spaces that can include ceremonial, artistic, public, mediated, athletic, informal, community-based and work-related arenas. Chapters in this section will re-think what visual pedagogies involve: including foregrounding the social nature of pedagogy and asking: What does it mean to look together, and deliberately attend to something in a process of desire and possibility? Visual pedagogies are by nature nomadic and do not separate the how of educating from the what. What does this mean? First it means recognizing that “Pedagogy is never innocent,” and that it “carries its own message” (Bruner 1996: 63). Visual pedagogies respond and are actualized within the cultural contexts in which they are working, yet they are not “wed to a context but are taken up in unpredictable ways across various contexts” (Masny & Waterhouse 2011: 291 emphasis in original). As visual pedagogies gain momentum across fields, the need to navigate visual environments both digital and offline in ways that enhance sensibility and awareness of how/what to observe, analyze, criticize and reflect on in any given moment continues to grow. Section 2: Case Studies of Visual Pedagogies in Education Section editor: Edna Barromi-Perlman, University of Haifa, Kibbutz College of Education, Israel. E-mail: edna.barromi(a)smkb.ac.il Reading and interpreting the visual worlds in which we live, work, teach and educate has emerged as an important feature in educational environments. Educational practice is influenced and maneuvered by continual flows of visual imagery, which manifest across multitudes of platforms and modalities. This section of the book will collect case studies based on empirical fieldwork, that reflect on forms of developing knowledge in visual pedagogy and how this knowledge might affect academic or other educational practices, societies, communities and educational systems. This section thus invites case studies of research/action research conducted in this field. The case studies will explore different paradigms and discuss the empirical manifestation of visual pedagogies in the field. The case studies will build on current theories and address diverse audiences as well as diverse learning institutions on a global level. The selection will aim for an international and cross-cultural scope, so that each case study will present challenges specific to its country of origin. The research will encompass fieldwork in formal and informal educational settings as well as digital practices, educational media, online material and printed material and will be open to work that explores various, alternative visual platforms in educational institutions and beyond. Section 3: Visual Pedagogies in Practice Section editor: Joanna Kedra, University of Jyvaskyla, Finland. E-mail: joanna.kedra(a)jyu.fi This section explores visual pedagogies in classroom related contexts by immersing readers straight into the concrete examples of educational practices. In a world saturated by images and digitally and visually mediated communication, visual competency has come to the forefront in the 21st century. Subsequently, the need for skills in visual interpretation, image creation, evaluation and usage has demanded increased attention in education. Today’s students are assumed to be fluent in digital and visual technologies, mainly, due to their perpetual immersion into visually and technologically mediated communication. However, recent studies that examine visual literacy of young adults, mainly visual interpretation, but also abilities in visual production and image use, indicate that the assumption of today’s learners being technologically and visually savvy is mistaken. Thus, there is a pressing need for relevant visual pedagogies. However, practical teaching tools that may assist in developing students’ visual competency are still lacking, along with in-depth reflection on visual teaching practices. At the core of this section lies a desire to introduce and critically evaluate models for teaching-learning interactions with various types of visuals. Visual pedagogies are understood as educating ‘with’ or ‘about’ visuals as well as a group of practices toward development of learners’ visual literacy. Contributors of this section examine visually oriented practices, modes and models and reflect upon them. This section will provide fresh scholarly perspectives within an area of pedagogy that calls for more substantive reflection and practice-based approaches. <http://www.bloomsbury.com/us/the-semiotics-of-che-guevara-9781472505293/>

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The 27th ACM Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (UMAP 2019): First Call for Demos and Late Breaking Results
by Announce Announcements 09 Dec '18

09 Dec '18

*** FIRST CALL FOR DEMOS AND LATE BREAKING RESULTS *** 27th ACM International Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (ACM UMAP 2019) Golden Bay Beach Hotel 5*, Larnaca, Cyprus, June 9-12, 2019 http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=YWlyLUwJCQlhaXItTEBsaXN0c2Vydi… Submissions due: March 16, 2019 ACM UMAP - User Modelling, Adaptation and Personalization is the premier international conference for researchers and practitioners working on systems that adapt to individual users, to groups of users, and that collect, represent, and model user information. ACM UMAP 2019 invites Demonstrations and Late-Breaking Results (LBR) papers of innovative UMAP-based systems (including research prototypes). You are encouraged to submit your Demo or LBR by March 16th 2019. DEMONSTRATIONS Demonstrations will showcase research prototypes and commercially available products in a dedicated session. Demo submissions must be based on an implemented and tested system that pursues one or more innovative ideas in the interest areas of the conference. Demonstrations are an excellent and exciting way to showcase implementations and to get valuable feedback from the community. Each demo submission must make clear which aspects of the system will be demonstrated, and how. To better identify the value of demos, we also encourage authors to submit a pointer to a screencast (max. 5 minutes on Vimeo or YouTube) or to any external material related to the demo (e.g., shared code on GitHub). Descriptions of demonstrations should have a length of max. 2 pages in the ACM SIG proceedings template. On an extra page (not to be published), submissions should include a specification of the technical requirements for demonstrating the system at UMAP 2019. LATE-BREAKING RESULTS Late-Breaking Results (LBR) are research-in-progress that must contain original and unpublished accounts of innovative research ideas, preliminary results, industry showcases, and system prototypes, addressing both the theory and practice of User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization. In addition, papers introducing recently started research projects or summarizing project results are welcome as well. We encourage researchers and practitioners to submit a late-breaking work as it provides a unique opportunity for sharing valuable ideas, eliciting useful feedback on early-stage work, and fostering discussions and collaborations among colleagues. Late-Breaking Results papers have a length of 4 to 6 pages in the ACM SIG proceedings template and will be presented to the conference as posters. SUBMISSION AND REVIEW PROCESS Submissions (demos and late-breaking results) must adhere to the ACM SIG Standard (SIGCONF) proceedings template. A template can be found at: http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=YWlyLUwJCQlhaXItTEBsaXN0c2Vydi… . Submit your papers in PDF format via EasyChair for ACM UMAP 2019 Demos and Late-Breaking Results at: http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=YWlyLUwJCQlhaXItTEBsaXN0c2Vydi… . The review process will be single blinded, i.e. authors' names should be included in the papers. Submissions will be reviewed by at least two independent reviewers. They will be assessed based on their originality and novelty, potential contribution to the research field, potential impact in particular use cases, and the usefulness of presented experiences, as well as their overall readability. Papers that exceed the page limits (2 pages for demos and 6 pages for LBR) or do not adhere to the formatting guidelines will be returned without review. IMPORTANT DATES · Submission of demos and LBR papers: March 16th, 2019 · Notification of acceptance: April 5th, 2019 · Camera-ready versions of accepted papers: April 15th, 2019 The submissions times are 11:59 pm Anywhere on Earth PUBLICATION AND PRESENTATION Accepted Demo and Late Breaking Results papers will be published in the ACM UMAP 2019 Adjunct Proceedings in the ACM Digital Library. All categories will be presented at the poster reception of the conference, in the form of a poster and/or a software demonstration following poster format. This form of presentation will provide presenters with an opportunity to obtain direct feedback about their work from a wide audience during the conference. At least one author of each accepted paper must register for the conference and present the paper there. LATE-BREAKING RESULTS AND DEMO CHAIRS · Styliani Kleanthous, University of Cyprus, Cyprus & RISE LIMITED, Cyprus (Contact: stellak(a)ucy.ac.cy) · Maria Bielikova, Slovak University of Technology Bratislava, Slovakia · Ben Steichen, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, USA

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Last CFP: ACM IUI Workshop on Exploratory Search and Interactive Data Analytics (ESIDA)
by Axel Soto 09 Dec '18

09 Dec '18

Workshop on Exploratory Search and Interactive Data Analytics (ESIDA) Los Angeles, USA, March 20, 2019 Hosted by ACM IUI 2019, March 17-20, 201 https://sites.google.com/view/esida2019 Important dates Submission deadline: December 17, 2018 (midnight Hawaii time) Acceptance notification: January 23, 2019 Final manuscript due: February 6, 2019 Workshop Topic and Description In recent years, retrieval techniques operating on text or semantic annotations, have become the industry standard for retrieval from large data collections, such as documents, images, videos, music, medical data. This approach works well with sufficient high-quality meta-data or tagging. However, with the explosive growth of big data collections, it has become apparent that tagging new data quickly and efficiently is not always possible. Secondly, even if instantaneous high-quality data tagging were possible, there would still be many instances, where search by keyword query is problematic. For example, in the case of image retrieval it might be easier for a user to define their query if they are looking for an image of a cat, but how would they specify that the cat should be of a particular shade of ginger with sad looking eyes? A solution to these problems is active engagement of the user in the information retrieval loop, thus enabling the user to not only explore a given dataset more easily but also gradually direct their search to a more specific area of the search space. The aim of this workshop is to explore new methods and interface/system design for interactive data analytics and management in various domains, including specialised text collections (e.g. legal, medical, scientific), multimedia, and bioinformatics, as well as for various tasks, such as semantic information retrieval, conceptual organization and clustering of data collections for sense-making, semantic expert profiling, and document/multimedia recommender systems. The primary audience of the workshop is researchers and practitioners in the area of interactive and personalized system design as well as interactive machine learning both from academia and industry. IUI, with its focus on the intersection of HCI and AI, is a perfect venue where researchers from system/interface design community and the machine learning community can meet. Workshop Target Areas The workshop aims to solicit submissions in all areas of interactive data analytics and exploratory search including: - design, testing and assessment of interactive systems for data analytics - interactive data visualization for exploratory and investigative analysis - interactive classification and clustering of data - user-assisted curation and validation of the analysis process, and generation of data visualizations - user engagement in the semantic analysis process via suitable annotation and correction tools - study of the trade-off between accuracy of the results and user effort - personalization and user modeling related to interactive system design Submissions aimed at solving practical problems in specific application domains are especially welcome, including: - digital libraries - legal document management - personalized online learning systems - news media - biomedical data - multimedia collections - specialized image and video collections, e.g. medical images. We encourage submissions of work in progress, concept papers, case studies, and generally material that will stimulate discussion, generate useful feedback to the authors, encourage research collaborations and vigorous exchange of ideas on promising research directions, in one of the following formats: - full papers (up to 8 pages in the ACM SIGCHI format), which will be presented either as contributed talks or posters - extended abstracts (up to 4 pages in the ACM SIGCHI format), which will be presented as posters with a possibility to be accompanied by a demo. Submission information Submissions to the workshop will be through EasyChair, <https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=esida2019> https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=esida19 Workshop date March 20, 2019 Workshop location Marriott Marina Del Rey, Los Angeles, CA, USA - https://iui.acm.org/2019/venue_transportation.html Keynote Speaker John O'Donovan: University of California, Santa Barbara, USA Organizers Dorota Glowacka, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh, dorota.glowacka at ed.ac.uk Evangelos Milios, Faculty of Computer Science, Dalhousie University, eem at cs.dal.ca Axel J. Soto, School of Computer Science, University of Manchester, axel.soto at manchester.ac.uk Fernando V. Paulovich, Faculty of Computer Science, Dalhousie University, paulovich at dal.ca Denis Parra, Department of Computer Science, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, dparra at ing.puc.cl Osnat (Ossi) Mokryn, Department of Information and Knowledge Management, University of Haifa (Israel), omokryn at univ.haifa.ac.il Program Committee (to be updated/confirmed): Jaegul Choo — Korea University, South Korea Casey Dugan — IBM T.J. Watson Research, USA Mennatallah El-Assady — University of Konstanz, Germany Maria Cristina Ferreira de Oliveira — University of São Paulo, Brazil Patrik Floreen — University of Helsinki, Finland María Luján Ganuza — Universidad Nacional del Sur, Argentina Andreas Kerren — Linnaeus University, Sweden Koji Koyamada — Kyoto University, Japan Joel Lanir — University of Haifa, Israel Alan Medlar — University of Helsinki, Finland Martijn Millecamp — Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium Rosane Minghim — University of São Paulo, Brazil Ilaria Torre — University of Genoa, Italy Chun-Hua Tsai — University of Pittsburg, USA Eduardo Veas — Graz University of Technology, Austria Chaoli Wang — University of Notre Dame, USA

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CfP: 10th International Workshop on Modeling Social Media: Mining, Modeling and Learning from Social Media (MSM'2019)
by Christoph Trattner 08 Dec '18

08 Dec '18

** Please forward to anyone who might be interested ** -------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS 10th International Workshop on Modeling Social Media (MSM'2019) Mining, Modeling and Learning from Social Media to be held on May 14-17, 2019, San Francisco, USA co-located with TheWebConf 2019 https://msmworkshop.github.io/ -------------------------------------------------------------- Important Dates: ================ ** Submission Deadline: Jan 10, 2019 ** Notification of Acceptance: Feb 14, 2019 ** Camera-Ready Versions Due: Mar 3, 2019 ** Workshop date: May 13-14, 2019 Workshop Organizers: ==================== Martin Atzmueller, Tilburg University, Netherlands; m.atzmueller(a)uvt.nl Alvin Chin, BMW Technology Corporation, USA; alvin.chin(a)bmwna.com Christoph Trattner, University of Bergen, Norway; trattner.christoph(a)gmail.com We aim to attract researchers from all over the world working on data mining, modeling and using machine learning and AI for social media, big and small data, sensor data and the web. Social networks such as Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn have paved the way for generating huge amount of diverse, streaming bit data in a short period of time. Such social media data require the application of big data analytics to produce meaningful information to both information consumers and data generators. Machine learning and AI techniques are particularly effective in situations where deep and predictive insights need to be uncovered from such social media data sets that are large, diverse and fast changing. Following the discussion at our workshop at TheWebConf 2018, we aim to focus on how to apply data mining, recommendation, machine learning and AI models, algorithms and systems for analytic and predictive modeling on social media, big data, small data, web and sensor data. Contrary to last year’s workshop, we would like to particularly invite researchers that are interested in going beyond standard analytics approaches and try to discover the intelligent information hidden in the large and fast-changing social media data. Overall, we are interested in receiving papers related to the following topics which include but are not limited to: * predictive analytics methods or frameworks for social media, big data, small data, sensor data and the web * AI, machine learning, deep learning and NLP models, algorithms and systems for social media, big data, small data, sensor data and the web * deep learning approaches and models for social media, big data, small data, sensor data and data from/on the web * data mining techniques and algorithms for social media, big data, small data, sensor data and data from/on the web * methods for learning social activities and behavioral analytic metrics * evaluation of machine learning and AI frameworks and metrics * explainability and transparency of the machine learning/deep learning/AI methods * applications of machine learning, deep learning and AI * applications of any of the above methods and technologies The goal of this workshop is to use data mining, machine learning and AI approaches and algorithms on social media, big data, small data, sensor data and data from/on the web. Submissions: We solicit full research papers (4-8 pages), and short papers (1-4 pages) both in the ACM conference paper style. Papers should be submitted in EasyChair tohttps://easychair.org/my/conference.cgi?conf=msm2019 Proceedings: ============ Contributions will be included in the Companion volume of TheWebConf 2019 conference, which will be published by ACM and included in the ACM Digital Library. However, to make that happen at least one author of the accepted paper has to register. At the time of submission of the final camera-ready copy, authors will have to indicate the already registered person for that publication. Any paper published by the ACM, IEEE, etc. which can be properly cited constitutes research which must be considered in judging the novelty of a TheWebConf submission, whether the published paper was in a conference, journal, or workshop. Therefore, any paper previously published as part of a WWW or TheWebConf workshop must be referenced and suitably extended with new content to qualify as a new submission to the Research Track at TheWebConf conference. Submission guidelines: ====================== All submitted papers must * be written in English; * contain author names, affiliations, and email addresses; * be formatted according to the ACM SIG Proceedings template (http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates) with a font size no smaller than 9pt; * be in PDF (make sure that the PDF can be viewed on any platform), and formatted for US Letter size; * occupy no more than six pages, including the abstract, references, and appendices. It is the authors’ responsibility to ensure that their submissions adhere strictly to the required format. Submissions that do not comply with the above guidelines may be rejected without review. All submissions must be entered into the reviewing system:https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=msm2019 Contact: ======== Martin Atzmueller, Tilburg University, Netherlands; m.atzmueller(a)uvt.nl Alvin Chin, BMW Technology Corporation, USA; alvin.chin(a)bmwna.com Christoph Trattner, University of Bergen, Norway; trattner.christoph(a)gmail.com Follow us on: ============= Facebook https://www.facebook.com/groups/527164050627185/ Twitter https://twitter.com/msm_workshop -- ------------------------------------------------------- Dipl.-Ing. Dr.techn. Christoph Trattner BSc Associate Professor University of Bergen Department of Information Science and Media Studies Fosswinckelsgt. 6, 5007 Bergen, Norway E-mail: christoph.trattner(a)uib.no Tel: +43 650 2402801 Homepage: http://christophtrattner.info -------------------------------------------------------

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FINAL CFP Reminder: Special Issue of Rhetoric of Health and Medicine (RHM) journal on Mental Health Rhetoric Research
by Drew Holladay 08 Dec '18

08 Dec '18

[Apologies for cross-posting] Hello all, Just a final reminder on the Call for Papers for the next special issue of the Rhetoric of Health and Medicine journal, which will be on “Interrogating the Past and Shaping the Future of Mental Health Rhetoric Research." See details in the attached CFP. Note that submissions should be sent to: rhm.journal.editors(a)gmail.com. Please email 500-1000 word proposals (excluding citations) by December 10, 2018. Best, Drew Holladay *Drew Holladay* Assistant Professor of English University of Maryland, Baltimore County Email: holladay(a)umbc.edu Website: drewholladay.wordpress.com Twitter: @drewholladay <http://twitter.com/drewholladay>

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The 27th ACM Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (UMAP 2019): Last Call for Workshop Proposals
by Announce Announcements 08 Dec '18

08 Dec '18

*** LAST CALL FOR WORKSHOP PROPOSALS *** 27th ACM International Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (ACM UMAP 2019) Golden Bay Beach Hotel 5*, Larnaca, Cyprus, June 9-12, 2019 http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=YWlyLUwJCQlhaXItTEBsaXN0c2Vydi… Proposals due: December 14, 2018 ACM UMAP 2019, the premier international conference for researchers and practitioners working on systems that adapt to individual users or to groups of users, and which collect, represent, and model user information, is pleased to invite proposals for workshops to be held in conjunction with the conference. The workshops provide a venue to discuss and explore emerging areas of User Modelling and Adaptive Hypermedia research with a group of like-minded researchers and practitioners from industry and academia. In this edition, our goal is to have a balanced workshop program comprising different workshop formats and combining emerging and established research topics. Different full-day and half-day workshop schemas are possible, such as: · Working group meetings around a specific problem or topic; participants may be asked to submit a white paper or position statement. · Mini-conferences on specialized topics, having their own paper submission and review processes. · Mini-competitions or challenges around selected topics with individual or team participation. · Interactive discussion meetings focusing on subtopics of the UMAP general research topics. PROPOSAL FORMAT Workshop proposals should be submitted in PDF format to both workshop chairs, not exceeding 5 pages and organized as follows: · Workshop title and acronym. · Workshop chair(s), including affiliation, email address, homepage, and experiences in organizing such events. · Abstract (up to 300 words) and topics of interest. · Motivation on why the workshop is of particular interest at this time. · Workshop format, discussing the mix of events such as paper presentations, invited talks, panels, and general discussions. · Intended audience and expected number of participants. · List of (potential) members of the program committee (at least 50% have to be confirmed at the time of the proposal). · Requested duration (half day or full day). · When available, past editions of the workshop, including URLs, a brief statement on the development of the workshop series, e.g., in terms of topics, number of paper submissions and participants, post-workshop publications over the years and acceptance statistics. INSTRUCTIONS We encourage both researchers and industry practitioners to submit workshop proposals. Researchers interested in submitting a workshop proposal are invited to contact us in advance, so we can help to design successful proposals. In particular, for workshop proposals with novel interactive formats, we are happy to assist in further developing and implementing the ideas. We strongly suggest to have organizers from different institutions, bringing different perspectives to the workshop topic. We welcome workshops with a creative structure that may attract various types of contributions and may ensure rich interactions. The organizers of accepted workshops will prepare a workshop web site containing the call for papers and detailed information about the workshop organization and timeline. They will be responsible for their own publicity and reviewing processes. There will be a conference adjunct proceedings published by ACM where all the workshop papers will be published. Hence, the workshop organizers will need to adhere to the adjunct proceedings publication timeline. IMPORTANT DATES · Proposal submission: December 14, 2018 · Notification of proposal acceptance: January 9, 2019 · Send the workshop description & website URL : January 23, 2019 · (Suggested) 1st call for papers: January 28, 2019 · (Suggested) 2nd call for papers: February 20, 2019 · (Suggested) paper submission: March 13, 2019 · (Suggested) notification to authors: March 26, 2019 · Workshop summary camera-ready: April 3, 2019 · Workshop papers camera-ready: April 3, 2019 · Adjunct proceedings camera ready: April 15, 2019 WORKSHOP CHAIRS · Milos Kravcík, German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI), Germany (milos.kravcik AT dfki.de) · Iván Cantador, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain (ivan.cantador AT uam.es)

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Call for Chapters with Extended Deadline of Jan. 31, 2019: Handbook of Research on Political Campaigning in the Computer Age
by Ashu M. G. Solo 08 Dec '18

08 Dec '18

It would be appreciated if you could forward this call for chapters to anyone who might be interested. Call for Chapters: Handbook of Research on Political Campaigning in the Computer Age Purpose Technology and particularly the Internet have brought about many changes in the realm of politics. Politicians and candidates use their own websites and social network profiles to get their message out. Politicians use political engineering and computational politics including data analytics to increase the effectiveness of their campaign. Aspects of engineering, computer science, mathematics, or natural science can be applied to political campaigning. Potential Topics Potential topics include, but are not limited to, the following: Political Campaigns in the Computer Age • online campaigning • online campaigning using websites and webpages • online campaigning using social networking • online campaigning using multimedia tools • online campaigning using blogs • online campaigning using vlogs • political debates on the Internet • virtual town hall • virtual war room • online fake news and cyberlibel against politicians • case studies • future research directions Engineering, Math, and Science in Political Campaigning • political engineering (application of engineering, computer science, mathematics, or natural science to politics) • computational politics (application of computer science or mathematics to politics) Note: These new interdisciplinary fields were first defined in this research paper: Ashu M. G. Solo. (2011). The New Fields of Public Policy Engineering, Political Engineering, Computational Public Policy, and Computational Politics. In Proceedings of the 2011 International Conference on e-Learning, e-Business, Enterprise Information Systems, and e-Government (EEE'11) (pp. 431-434). URL: <http://worldcomp-proceedings.com/proc/p2011/EEE5211.pdf> http://worldcomp-proceedings.com/proc/p2011/EEE5211.pdf • applications of engineering in political campaigning • applications of computer science in political campaigning • applications of mathematics in political campaigning • applications of natural science in political campaigning • applications of operations research in political campaigning • applications of optimization methods in political campaigning • uncertainty management in political campaigning • applications of computational intelligence methods to political campaigning • applications of fuzzy logic to political campaigning • applications of neural computing to political campaigning • applications of neural networks to political campaigning • applications of evolutionary computation to political campaigning • applications of genetic algorithms to political campaigning • applications of knowledge-based systems to political campaigning • applications of machine learning methods to political campaigning • applications of pattern recognition to political campaigning • applications of data mining to political campaigning • applications of analytics to political campaigning • applications of data integration to political campaigning • applications of data analysis to political campaigning • applications of data modeling to political campaigning • applications of exploratory data analysis to political campaigning • applications of confirmatory data analysis to political campaigning • applications of predictive analytics to political campaigning • applications of text analytics to political campaigning • applications of statistics to political campaigning • applications of data visualization to political campaigning • applications of data dissemination to political campaigning • data-driven decision making in political campaigning • applications of data fusion to political campaigning • applications of multidimensional matrix mathematics to political campaigning • applications of decision theory to political campaigning • applications of game theory to political campaigning • applications of graph theory to political campaigning • forecasting in political campaigning • modeling in political campaigning • simulation in political campaigning • visualization in political campaigning • software tools in political campaigning • case studies • future research directions Publisher: IGI Global Publisher website: https://www.igi-global.com/ Please submit your chapter in Microsoft Word format through the eEditorial Discovery® system by January 31, 2019. Please use the following link when submitting your chapter: https://www.igi-global.com/submission/submit-chapter/?projectid=b3f266fe-43… If you aren’t sure if your chapter fits within the scope of the book, you can send a one paragraph abstract to the editor. The editor will get back to you within two days about whether your chapter fits within the scope of the book. The full chapter will still be reviewed. One or more of the author(s) of each submitted chapter will be expected to review two other submitted chapters. Every person who reviews a chapter will be listed in the editorial advisory board, which will be published in the book. Important Dates Chapter submission deadline: January 31, 2019 Chapter review results: March 31, 2019 Chapter revisions submission deadline: April 30, 2019 Final acceptance results: May 21, 2019 Final chapter and forms submission deadline: June 5, 2019 Editor Ashu M. G. Solo Originator of public policy engineering, computational public policy, political engineering, and computational politics Author, editor, or associate editor of over 825 reviewed publications (research publications and political commentaries) Interdisciplinary researcher, engineering and math developer, electrical engineer, computer engineer, intelligent systems engineer, political and public policy engineer, mathematician, public policy analyst, political writer, former political operative, entrepreneur, civil rights activist, environmental protection technology developer, and former infantry officer CEO/interdisciplinary R&D engineer and mathematician at Maverick Trailblazers Inc.™ and principal at Solo’s Solutions™ Former platoon commander understudy (regiment appointment) in Cdn. Army Reserve Infantry Former CEO or acting CEO for 4 geographical associations of federal and provincial political parties and former city committee representative Email address for inquiries: amgsolo(a)mavericktrailblazers.com <mailto:amgsolo@mavericktrailblazers.com>

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Call for Chapters with Extended Deadline of Jan. 31, 2019: Handbook of Research on Political Revolution and Activism in the Computer Age
by Ashu M. G. Solo 08 Dec '18

08 Dec '18

It would be appreciated if you could forward this call for chapters to anyone who might be interested. Call for Chapters: Handbook of Research on Political Revolution and Activism in the Computer Age Purpose Technology and particularly the Internet have brought about many changes in the realm of politics. Revolutions in many countries in the Middle East and North Africa have started in large part due to social networking websites like Facebook and Twitter. Social networking has also played a role in protests and riots in numerous countries. The whistleblower website Wikileaks has had a tremendous impact in exposing government corruption. The mainstream media no longer has a monopoly on political commentary as anybody can set up a blog or post a video online. Political activists can network together online. Aspects of engineering, computer science, mathematics, or natural science can be applied to political activism. Potential Topics Potential topics include, but are not limited to, the following: Political Revolutions, Political Protests, and Other Citizen Activism in the Computer Age • role of social networking in political revolutions • role of social networking in political revolutions in the Middle East and North Africa • role of social networking in political protests • online petitions • electronic civil disobedience • online vigilantism • hacktivism • role of social networking in political riots • case studies • future research directions Online Political Expression in the Computer Age • political blogs • online political videos • political vlogs • parliamentary informatics • cyberbullying and cyberlibel against activists • case studies • future research directions Whistleblowing in the Computer Age • Wikileaks • whistleblower websites and webpages • transparency • advantages and disadvantages of transparency • whistleblowing • whistleblower protection • whistleblower prosecution • whistleblower persecution • lawsuits against whistleblowers • case studies • future research directions Engineering, Math, and Science in Political Activism • political engineering (application of engineering, computer science, mathematics, or natural science to politics) • computational politics (application of computer science or mathematics to politics) Note: These new interdisciplinary fields were first defined in this research paper: Ashu M. G. Solo. (2011). The New Fields of Public Policy Engineering, Political Engineering, Computational Public Policy, and Computational Politics. In Proceedings of the 2011 International Conference on e-Learning, e-Business, Enterprise Information Systems, and e-Government (EEE'11) (pp. 431-434). URL: <http://worldcomp-proceedings.com/proc/p2011/EEE5211.pdf> http://worldcomp-proceedings.com/proc/p2011/EEE5211.pdf • applications of engineering in political activism • applications of computer science in political activism • applications of mathematics in political activism • applications of natural science in political activism • applications of operations research in political activism • applications of optimization methods in political activism • uncertainty management in political activism • applications of computational intelligence methods to political activism • applications of fuzzy logic to political activism • applications of neural computing to political activism • applications of neural networks to political activism • applications of evolutionary computation to political activism • applications of genetic algorithms to political activism • applications of knowledge-based systems to political activism • applications of machine learning methods to political activism • applications of pattern recognition to political activism • applications of data mining to political activism • applications of analytics to political activism • applications of data integration to political activism • applications of data analysis to political activism • applications of data modeling to political activism • applications of exploratory data analysis to political activism • applications of confirmatory data analysis to political activism • applications of predictive analytics to political activism • applications of text analytics to political activism • applications of statistics to political activism • applications of data visualization to political activism • applications of data dissemination to political activism • data-driven decision making in political activism • applications of data fusion to political activism • applications of multidimensional matrix mathematics to political activism • applications of decision theory to political activism • applications of game theory to political activism • applications of graph theory to political activism • forecasting in political activism • modeling in political activism • simulation in political activism • visualization in political activism • software tools in political activism • case studies • future research directions Publisher: IGI Global Publisher website: https://www.igi-global.com/ Submit your chapter in Microsoft Word format through the eEditorial Discovery® system by January 31, 2019. Please use the following link when submitting your chapter: https://www.igi-global.com/submission/submit-chapter/?projectid=1641853c-6b… If you aren’t sure if your chapter fits within the scope of the book, you can send a one paragraph abstract to the editor. The editor will get back to you within two days about whether your chapter fits within the scope of the book. The full chapter will still be reviewed. One or more of the author(s) of each submitted chapter will be expected to review two other submitted chapters. Every person who reviews a chapter will be listed in the editorial advisory board, which will be published in the book. Important Dates Chapter submission deadline: January 31, 2019 Chapter review results: March 31, 2019 Chapter revisions submission deadline: April 30, 2019 Final acceptance results: May 21, 2019 Final chapter and forms submission deadline: June 5, 2019 Editor Ashu M. G. Solo Originator of public policy engineering, computational public policy, political engineering, and computational politics Author, editor, or associate editor of over 825 reviewed publications (research publications and political commentaries) Interdisciplinary researcher, engineering and math developer, electrical engineer, computer engineer, intelligent systems engineer, political and public policy engineer, mathematician, public policy analyst, political writer, former political operative, entrepreneur, civil rights activist, environmental protection technology developer, and former infantry officer CEO/interdisciplinary R&D engineer and mathematician at Maverick Trailblazers Inc.™ and principal at Solo’s Solutions™ Former platoon commander understudy (regiment appointment) in Cdn. Army Reserve Infantry Former CEO or acting CEO for 4 geographical associations of federal and provincial political parties and former city committee representative Email address for inquiries: amgsolo(a)mavericktrailblazers.com <mailto:amgsolo@mavericktrailblazers.com>

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