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Topics on Internet Censorship and Surveillance: Call for Contributions
by Vasilis Ververis 21 Nov '18

21 Nov '18

*Topics on Internet Censorship and Surveillance (TICS): Call for Contributions* PDF version: https://www.iaria.org/conferences2019/filesICN19/TICS.pdf (Spanish version below) Over the past years there has been a greater demand for online censorship and surveillance, as an understandable reaction against hate speech, copyright violations, and other cases related to citizen compliance with civil laws and regulations by national authorities. Unfortunately, this is often accompanied by a tendency of extensively censoring online content and massively spying on citizens actions. Numerous whistleblower revelations, leaks from classified documents, and a vast amount of information released by activists, researchers and journalists, reveal evidence of government-sponsored infrastructure that either goes beyond the requirements and scope of the law, or operates without any effective regulations in place. In addition, this infrastructure often supports the interests of big private corporations, such as the companies that enforce online copyright control. TICS is a special track in the area of Internet censorship, surveillance and other adversarial burdens to technology that bring in danger; to a greater extend the safety (physical security and privacy) of its users. Proposals for TICS 2019 should be situated within the field of Internet censorship, network measurements, information controls, surveillance and content moderation. Ideally topics should connect to the following, but not limited to: - Technical, social, political, and economical implications of Internet censorship and surveillance - Detection and analysis of network blocking and surveillance infrastructure (hardware or software) - Research on legal frameworks, regulations and policies that imply blocking or limitation of the availability of network services and online content - Online censorship circumvention and anti-surveillance practices - Network measurements methodologies to detect and categorize network interference - Research on the implications of automated or centralized user content regulation (such as for hate speech, copyright, or disinformation) *Important Deadlines* Submission: Jan 29, 2019 Notification: Feb 18, 2019 Registration: Feb 27, 2019 Camera-ready: Feb 27, 2019 *Contribution Types* - Regular papers [in the proceedings, digital library] - Short papers (work in progress) [in the proceedings, digital library] - Posters: two pages [in the proceedings, digital library] - Posters: slide only [slide-deck posted on www.iaria.org] - Presentations: slide only [slide-deck posted on www.iaria.org] - Demos: two pages [posted on www.iaria.org] *Paper Format* - See: http://www.iaria.org/format.html - Before submission, please check and comply with the editorial rules: http://www.iaria.org/editorialrules.html Publications - Extended versions of selected papers will be published in IARIA Journals: http://www.iariajournals.org - Print proceedings will be available via Curran Associates, Inc.: http://www.proceedings.com/9769.html - Articles will be archived in the free access ThinkMind Digital Library: http://www.thinkmind.org *Paper Submission* https://www.iariasubmit.org/conferences/submit/newcontribution.php?event=IC… ########################################################################### Llamado a contribuciones para participación: Con el paso de los años, se va erigiendo cada vez más censura y vigilancia para enfrentar los casos de extremismo, discursos de odio, cumplimiento de derechos de autor, y otras situaciones en que se busca asegurar que los ciudadanos cumplan con las leyes y regulaciones. Sin embargo, vemos un aumento desafortunado en la tendencia de los gobiernos de sobre-bloquear y sobre-vigilar a sus ciudadanos. Numerosas revelaciones de denunciantes, filtraciones de documentos clasificados, y una gran cantidad de información que ha sido presentada por activistas, investigadores y periodistas revelan evidencia de cómo los gobiernos instalan y operan, sin un marco regulatorio que controle y limite los ámbitos o flujos de información capturados en servicios en línea y/o sitios Web. Los gobiernos vigilan celosamente a sus propios ciudadanos apoyando los intereses de las grandes corporaciones como las compañías que buscan aumentar el control de los derechos de autor en línea. Envío de documentos: Informe a la Presidencia: indicando el título de su participación URL para el envío: https://www.iariasubmit.org/conferences/submit/newcontribution.php?event=IC… Por favor, seleccione al track especial TICS como su "Track Preference" (preferencia de track). En conjunto con ICN 2018, Décima Octavo Congreso Internacional sobre Redes (International Conference on Networks) 24 al 28 de marzo de 2019, Valencia, España. https://www.iaria.org/conferences2019/ICN19.html Cheers, ~Vasilis

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Fwd: Call for Papers/Presentations, Sessions, and Demos
by Zeynep Engin 21 Nov '18

21 Nov '18

Please circulate widely your networks... Kind regards, Zeynep We invite contributions for the Data for Policy 2019 conference - Deadline: 28th January Call for Papers, Presentations, Sessions and Demos *Extended Abstract Submission Deadline: January, 28th* 4thInternational Conference *Data for Policy 2019:* Digital Trust and Personal Data 11-12 June 2019, London dataforpolicy.org <https://dataforpolicy.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=0e48a758fb1eccb009e…> | @dataforpolicy <https://dataforpolicy.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=0e48a758fb1eccb009e…> Data science technologies, pioneered in the private sector, are now ripe for transforming the public sector. However, both government policy and technology providers need to address two pressing public concerns: DIGITAL TRUST (privacy and security) and PERSONAL DATA (ownership and beneficial exploitation). The impact from ‘smartification*’ *of public infrastructure and services will be far more significant in comparison to any other sector given the government’s function and importance to every individual and institution. Potential applications range from public engagement through natural text and speech Chatbots, to providing decision support for civil servants via AI-based Robo-advisors, to real-time management of the public infrastructure through the Internet of Things and blockchain, to securing public records using distributed ledgers, and, encoding and codifying laws using smart contracts. However, in many cases current uses of automated decision-making systems have been shown to cause adverse impacts on important life events of individuals – examples range from bias in recruitment of job-applicants, to credit scoring in loans and insurance, and to sentencing of criminals. Also, state surveillance and manipulation of voter behaviour have become the early examples of how such developments may amplify the asymmetry of power (between citizen and those utilising such technologies) causing severe damage to the democratic processes. The Bitcoin ‘hype’, with its correlating energy usage, has also shown the environmental cost of the highly complex computations, as well as indicating other potential unpredicted and unintended consequences. On the other hand, the cost of not using – or the slow uptake of – data science technologies in the public sector is also potentially huge, given that all other aspects of our lives are changing fast under the ongoing digital revolution. It then follows that the stakes could be much higher in both the use and the avoidance of these technologies for public decision making and service delivery. This will require a careful cost/benefit analysis before implementation at scale. The fourth conference in the *Data for Policy *series therefore highlights *‘Digital Trust and Personal Data’ *as its main theme. The conference will also welcome contributions in the broader data science for government and policy discussions. In particular, submissions around the value and harm of using data in the public sector, deployment experience in government, ‘digital ethics’ and ‘ethics engineering’ concepts, personal data sharing frameworks and technologies, transparency in machine learning processes, analytics at source, and secure data transaction methodologies are encouraged. *Topics invited include but are not limited to the following:* - *Data, Government and Policy: *Digital era governance and democracy, data and politics, asymmetry of power, data- and evidence-driven public service delivery, algorithmic government and regulation, open-source and open-data movements, multinational companies and privatization of public services, sharing economy and peer-to-peer services, online communities, crowdsourcing, citizen science, public opinion, data literacy, policy laboratories, case studies and best practices. - *Technologies: *Artificial Intelligence, Big Data, blockchain distributed ledger and smart contract technologies, behavioural and predictive analytics, the Internet of Things, platforms, Global Positioning Systems (GPS), biometric identifiers, augmented and virtual reality, robotics, and other relevant technologies. - *Systems & Infrastructure: *Data collection, capture, storage, processing and visualisation technologies; platforms and web services, mobile applications, meta-data, standards and interoperability, databases and data warehousing, high performance computing, algorithms, programming, decision support systems, user-interaction technologies, and other relevant topics. - *Data Processing & Knowledge Generation:* Data representation and pre-processing, integration, real-time and historical data analysis, mathematical and statistical models, ‘data-driven’ analysis, human-in-the-loop (HITL); mixed methodologies, secondary data analysis, web mining; Randomised Controlled Trials (RCTs), gaps in theory and practice, other relevant topics. - *Policy for Data & Management: *Data governance and regulatory frameworks; General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR); data collection, storage, curation and access; data security, ownership, linkage; data provenance and expiration; private/public sector/non-profit collaboration and partnership; capacity-building and knowledge sharing within government; institutional forms and regulatory tools for data governance. - *Privacy, Security, Ethics & Law: *Ethical concerns around data, algorithms, and interactions (both human-machine and machine-machine interactions) and associated technology responses; legal status of digital systems; bias, transparency and accountability of digital systems; public rights, free speech, dialogue and trust. We also invite submissions for the following Special Tracks: - *Trading Data for Health: Balancing Ethics, Economics and Technology *- Track Chair: Anil *Bharath*, Imperial College London - *Data Practices, Lessons and Challenges: A Private-Sector (Business) Perspective* - Track Chair: Bilal *Gokpinar*, University College London - *Blockchain & Data Governance* - Track Chair: Catherine *Mulligan*, World Economic Forum, UN Digital Cooperation, Imperial, UCL - *Successful Uses of Data and AI for Public Good *– Track Chair: Tom *Smith*, Office for National Statistics, UK Contributions can be proposed in the following categories (please see the guidelines for more details). - *Individual Research/Policy/Practitioner Proposals (1000-word max.): *An extended abstract should be submitted, which includes a title, the research/policy question, the research methodology and data used, and key findings. - *Session Proposals (4500-word max.):* Session proposals are welcome. This combines 3-4 presentations from researchers and/or practitioners each providing a max. 1000-word abstract. A max. 500-word description of the panel should also be submitted. - *Demo Proposals:* The Demonstration Track is intended to provide an opportunity to showcase new tools, technological advances, and services offered in this emerging field. The contributions must demonstrate state-of-the-art technology and must be run live, preferably with some interactive parts. A max. 1000-word description of the session should be submitted, which includes the technology demonstrated, the elements of novelty, the live-action part, the interactive part, the equipment brought by the demonstrators, and the equipment required from the track organisers. - *Poster Submissions:* All individual submissions to the conference will first be considered for oral presentation and then for poster sessions at the conference. Those who wish to make submission for the poster sessions only should make a standard submission indicating at the top that they are only interested in presenting a poster. *Official conference website - dataforpolicy.org* <https://dataforpolicy.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=0e48a758fb1eccb009e…> *Make a submission here* <https://dataforpolicy.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=0e48a758fb1eccb009e…> Please note that this is a fee-paying event and all conference participants, including presenters, will be responsible for arranging their own travel and accommodation. We have limited funding to support student participation: those who wish to be considered for these grants should send a CV and cover letter explaining their case to team(a)dataforpolicy.org. This should be done *after completion of abstract submission*. All general enquiries about the conference should be sent to team(a)dataforpolicy.org *Important Dates: * Submission Deadline for Extended Abstracts 28 January 2019 Notification of Acceptance 4 March 2019 Registration Deadline for Presenters 8 April 2019 Deadline for Discussion Paper submissions 13 May 2019 Deadline for Public Registration 31 May 2019 (may close earlier if all places are taken) Conference in London 11-12 June 2019 *Conference Partnership & Sponsorship:* Data for Policy conference series is an independent non-for-profit initiative and fully funded by the income raised through conference registrations and partner/sponsor contributions. Organisations interested in our flexible partnership/sponsorship packages should get in touch with our team via email (team(a)dataforpolicy.org) *Call for Bids to Host Future Data for Policy Conferences: * We welcome bids from academic, government and private sector stakeholders to host future Data for Policy conferences. Consortium bids bringing together a host country’s academic and government stakeholders are encouraged and demonstration of further industry support would also be an advantage. Interested organisations should send a brief Statement of Interest to team(a)dataforpolicy.org, outlining the partnership model proposed and the commitments offered. Bids will be considered on a rolling basis. *Supporting Institutions: * *Copyright © 2018 Data for Policy, All rights reserved.*

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CfP 16th annual ICA Mobile Pre-conference, May 23, 2019 Washington, D.C.
by Rich Ling 20 Nov '18

20 Nov '18

Dear all, Please find the call for panel proposals for the 16th annual ICA Mobile Pre-conference. Rich Ling Boundary conditions in mobile communication: 16th annual ICA Mobile Pre-conference 2019 Call for Proposals Deadline for Workshop Proposals: Friday, December 31, 2018 Date & Time: May 23, 2019 from 10:00 AM to 6:00 PM Tentative venue: The George Washington University Museum and The Textile Museum. Overview The theme of borders (national, political, social, personal) and transiting them, has become a central issue in society. Borders as the theme of his year’s ICA conference is a timely issue. The personal nature of mobile communication means that this form of mediation is increasingly central to these transitions. Migrants use mobile phones to orient themselves in transit and after they settle in new countries. Political movements use mobile communication to, in some cases break down and in other cases to develop borders. Mobile communication allows us to reach across social boundaries. Thus, there is an obvious connection between borders and our use of mobile communication to deal with them. At the 16th annual ICA Mobile pre-conference, we invite younger scholars (PhDs, postdocs and junior faculty), scholars from the Global South, along with their more established colleagues to consider these issues at the 16th annual Mobile Communication Pre-Conference. The pre-conference will be organized around several interactive Blue-Sky workshop sessions where we invite scholars to present ideas that are at various levels of gestation. Research ideas that are just being formed, ideas for mobile pedagogy, and notions of mobile applications used by practitioners in the field are welcome. This forum is designed to cultivate a supportive and integrated community of thinkers. Workshop themes can focus on any of the dimensions of mobile communication ranging from mobiles and social cohesion, mobile theory/methods, mobile communication and the news, mobile learning, entertainment, gaming and/or photography. They can look into mobile communication in organizations, mobile communication and development, mobile communication for social good and mobile communication as a means for threats to privacy, cyberbullying and/or robotification. Workshops could look into mobile romance, parenting mobiles, locative gaming, mHealth, and the relationships of mobile technologies to the elderly or children. They could focus on mobile communication in the Global South, mobile communication and migration, mobile journalism, etc. In short, we are open to a wide variety of themes associated with the use of mobile communication and mobile media in society. Workshop proposals are particularly welcomed from mobile-oriented scholars in the early stages of their careers. We also welcome established scholars to partner with younger colleagues in the development of proposals. Each workshop will be allocated a time slot of approximately 90 minutes. We are particularly interested to see proposals that include “hands-on” or interactive types of interaction. The workshop sessions should focus on the discussion of new ideas, theory and empirical results, but can also be more practical or industry oriented. A workshop will typically be organized around a consortium of four or five main participants who present and discuss their work but will also engage the audience. Pre-conference attendees can attend multiple workshops. Submissions should include a workshop summary of 500-800 words (excluding title and references). This summary should describe: 1. the topic and its relation to the pre-conference theme, 2. the goal of the workshop 3. the scheduled activity, detailing how participants and audience members will be involved, and 4. the participants and their relationship/contribution to the workshop. Proposals can be submitted via email to *icamobile2019(a)gmail.com <icamobile2019(a)gmail.com>*. The workshop summaries will be published online and in the printed program. Submissions will be reviewed by a committee of scholars. Proposals will be selected based on criteria of relevance, originality, the composition of the group, theoretical/practical contribution, the degree of interactivity with the audience, clarity of presentation, as well as fit with the conference theme. The review will be non-blind due to the interactive workshop nature. Notifications of acceptance will be emailed to contributors by early January 2019. How to participate: There will be a CFP distributed widely among communities of mobile communication scholars. The CFP will also be posted on the pre-conference (following the tradition of previous mobile communication pre-conferences). After gaining ICA approval, we will post the CFP at icamobile.org/2019/ How to participate: are there any other prerequisites? No How do participants register? Open to all Transportation: The location is within walking distance of the Foggy Bottom-GWU Metro station. It is also about a 20-minute walk from the Hilton. Affiliation: Mobile Communication Interest Group

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Distinguished Keynote Speakers at Art Machines: International Symposium on Computational Media Art
by Miss CHEUNG Oi Lun 20 Nov '18

20 Nov '18

Dear Colleagues and Friends, The School of Creative Media welcomes you to Art Machines: International Symposium on Computational Media Art which will take place from the 4th -7th January 2019 at the School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong. This symposium is for Academics, Artists and Professionals in the field of Computational Media Art. The core theme being Machine Learning and Art, the symposium aims to reflect on the impact of Machine Learning on artistic media, the conditions of existence, range, futures and social significance of computationally based art media. The four day symposium includes academic keynotes, panels and discussion forums as well as presentation of artistic projects, a major concurrent exhibition on Asian Digital Art and a student-led workshop. Keynotes will be delivered by these internationally renowned academics: Dr. Ayanna Howard (College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology) Prof. Dominic McIver Lopes (Department of Philosophy, University of British Columbia) Prof. Katja Kwastek (Department of Art & Culture, History and Antiquity, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) Prof. Ken Rinaldo (Department of Art, The Ohio State University) Paper Sessions: Algorithmic Abstractions/Brain Computer Interface/Coding for Artists: Creative Pedagogy/Computational Art in Urban Space/Computational Media and Performance/Computation and Curation/Critical Data Visualization/Critical Practices/Digital Animation/Digital Cinema, Expanded Cinema/Engaging and Contesting Machine Recognition/Game and Playable Media/Identity and Representation/Immersive Media/Machine Learning and Artistic Agency/Machine Learning and Bioart/Machine Learning and Text Generation/Photography and Computation/Robotic Art/Sound Art Register now and be part of this incredible opportunity! Register online now at https://www.cityu.edu.hk/iscma/registration You are also welcome to follow us on these channels: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Art-Machines-International-Symposium-on-Computatio… Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/iscma2019/ School of Creative Media City University of Hong Kong Disclaimer: This email (including any attachments) is for the use of the intended recipient only and may contain confidential information and/or copyright material. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify the sender immediately and delete this email and all copies from your system. Any unauthorized use, disclosure, reproduction, copying, distribution, or other form of unauthorized dissemination of the contents is expressly prohibited.

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Digital Publics at Media@Sydney and DH Downunder 2018
by Justine Humphry 20 Nov '18

20 Nov '18

Digital Publics: Hidden and Untraceable Data Mon. 3 December 2018, 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm Philosophy Room S249, University of Sydney, Camperdown, NSW 2006 Human-machine communication is increasingly embedded in our everyday lives through the rise of social media, the Internet of Things (IoT), linked data, and so-called smart technologies such as connected homes, smart cars, and digital assistants. As our use of these technologies continues to grow and integrate with our personal lives, the early promise of machines increasing user communication and participation seems to have faded towards a world where humans primarily only communicate with machines and must participate or risk being excluded. These integrated and connected processes of human-machine communication are increasingly less visible over time as they become embedded in platforms, sensors and autonomous systems, while the obvious concern for citizens is an increase of user tracking and surveillance. This is a critical moment for expertise from a number of areas to collaboratively design and employ new approaches towards digital research methods, that can inform and work with publics, advise policy makers, and guide appropriate best practice for users of human-machine communication environments. Part of this year’s Digital Humanities Downunder Summer Institute, this Media@Sydney event will examine the current and emerging themes of human-machine communication, with a panel of leading experts discussing and applying their critical lens to this increasingly important area for citizens. Professor Jean Burgess, Director of the Digital Media Research Centre Professor Michele Wilson, Dean of Research for Faculty of Humanities and Professor, Internet Studies, Curtin University Dr Aim Sinpeng, Lecturer University of Sydney Dr Jonathon Hutchinson, Lecturer University of Sydney, and Dr Justine Humphry, Lecturer University of Sydney, will be the discussant for the evening. Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/digital-publics-hidden-and-untraceable-data… We are still accepting registrations for DH Downunder 2018 digital research summer institute – 3-7 December at the University of Sydney The five day program includes classes on digital media methods, introduction to linked open data, projects and writing, introduction to databases, R for data wrangling and visualisation and distant reading, proudly hosted by the University of Sydney and Western Sydney University. Visit DH Downunder 2018 to view programme and register: https://www.westernsydney.edu.au/dhrg/dh_downunder_2018 [Apologies for any cross-posting]

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CFP: ACM IUI Workshop on Exploratory Search and Interactive Data Analytics (ESIDA)
by Axel Soto 20 Nov '18

20 Nov '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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My Book is Out! _Delayed Response: The Art of Waiting from the Ancient to the Instant World_
by Jason Farman 20 Nov '18

20 Nov '18

Hi AoIR List, I wanted to share the exciting news that my book has been released! Today you can check out *Delayed Response: The Art of Waiting from the Ancient to the Instant World,* published through Yale University Press. Here's the link to the hardcover and the audiobook: https://www.amazon.com/Delayed-Response-Waiting-Ancient-Instant/dp/03002256… *Delayed Response is a celebration of waiting throughout history, its importance for connection, understanding, and intimacy in human communication.* Below is the book's longer description: We have always been conscious of the wait for life-changing messages, > whether it be the time it takes to receive a text message from your love, > for a soldier’s family to learn news from the front, or for a space probe > to deliver data from the far reaches of the solar system. In this book in > praise of wait times, award-winning author Jason Farman passionately argues > that the delay between call and answer has always been an important part of > the message. > > Traveling backward from our current era of Twitter and texts, Farman shows > how societies have worked to eliminate waiting in communication and how > they have interpreted those times’ meanings. Exploring seven eras and > objects of waiting—including pneumatic mail tubes in New York, Elizabethan > wax seals, and Aboriginal Australian message sticks—Farman offers a new > mindset for waiting. In a rebuttal to the demand for instant communication, > Farman makes a powerful case for why good things can come to those who wait. Best, Jason -- Jason Farman, Ph.D. Director, Design Cultures & Creativity Program Associate Professor of American Studies Faculty Member, Human-Computer Interaction Lab University of Maryland, College Park http://www.jasonfarman.com <http://www.jasonfarman.com> http://twitter.com/farman New Book Out: Delayed Response <http://jasonfarman.com/delayedresponse/>

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Newest issue of the Journal of Community Informatics
by Eduardo Villanueva 20 Nov '18

20 Nov '18

Hi all, JoCI has just published its newest issue. http://www.ci-journal.net/index.php/ciej It is an special issue, under the guest editorship of Luke Hespanhol (University of Sydney): The Digital Fringe and social participation through Interaction Design. This is our first issue under the sponsorship of the College of Communication and Information of the University of Kentucky. Your comments are appreciated. Best, Eduardo Villanueva-Mansilla Department of Communications, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú Editor-in-chief, The Journal of Community Informatics

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RACI: Apply Now!
by Gergana Petrova 20 Nov '18

20 Nov '18

Dear colleagues, The RIPE Academic Cooperation Initiative (RACI) is again looking for talented academics in the field of Internet technology. Successful applicants receive complimentary tickets, travel and accommodation to the meetings and the opportunity to present their research. If you are working on something interesting, please apply! If you know someone in your network who is, please forward them this message. https://www.ripe.net/raci --------------------- Application deadlines --------------------- MENOG 19, (TBC): apply by 3 February 2019 SEE 8 (16-17 April, Sarajevo): apply by 3 February 2019 RIPE 78 (20-24 May, Reykjavik): apply by 17 February 2019 ENOG 16 (3-4 June, Tbilisi): apply by 17 February 2019 At ENOG 16 you can present in either Russian or English. --------------------------- Examples of relevant topics --------------------------- - Network measurements and analyses - IPv6 deployment - BGP routing - Network security - Internet governance - Peering and interconnectivity - Internet of Things ------------------------------------------------- Get the latest news on RACI and Internet research ------------------------------------------------- - Subscribe to the RACI mailing list: https://www.ripe.net/raci/mailing-list - Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/raci_ripe - Join our group on LinkedIn: https://www.ripe.net/raci/linkedin Please let me know if you have any questions. Have a lovely day! Best regards, Gergana -- Gergana Petrova External Relations RIPE NCC

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Call for Chapters: Handbook of Research on Political Revolution and Activism in the Computer Age
by Ashu M. G. Solo 20 Nov '18

20 Nov '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 CFP URL: https://www.igi-global.com/publish/call-for-papers/call-details/3473 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 December 5, 2018. 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 Initial chapter submission deadline: December 5, 2018 Chapter review results: January 31, 2019 Chapter revisions submission deadline: February 28, 2019 Final acceptance results: March 21, 2019 Final chapter and forms submission deadline: April 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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