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Call for Chapters: Handbook of Research on Political Campaigning 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 Campaigning in the Computer Age CFP URL: https://www.igi-global.com/publish/call-for-papers/call-details/3478 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 December 5, 2018. 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 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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Call for Chapters: Handbook of Research on Political Campaigning 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 Campaigning in the Computer Age CFP URL: https://www.igi-global.com/publish/call-for-papers/call-details/3478 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 December 5, 2018. 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 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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CfP for chapters on disability, bodies, media and representation in Asia
by Jacob Johanssen 20 Nov '18

20 Nov '18

We have space for some additional chapters in the edited collection *Disability and the Media: Other Bodies* on the themes of *disability, bodies, media and representation in Asia*. in the following edited collection. Book edited by Diana Garrisi (JC School of Film and Television Arts, Xi’an Jiaotong Liverpool University) and Jacob Johanssen (Communication and Media Research Institute, University of Westminster) Under contract with Routledge and to be published 2019 in the Routledge Research in Disability and Media Studies series ( https://www.routledge.com/Routledge-Research-in-Disability-and-Media-Studie… ) Using a variety of theoretical and methodological approaches this volume encompasses an array of media forms including cinema, newspapers, television, advertising and social media. This book has several purposes. It critically discusses the relationship between self-representation and representations in either reinforcing or debunking myths around disability and othering. It explores the cultural, political and commercial basis for why media can negatively portray some people as intrinsically different. Finally, it suggests that the dynamic relationship between traditional and new media and the blurred lines between forms of representation and self-representation in new media can make it more difficult to continue framing ability and disability as mutually exclusive categories, and therefore cast the latter as unwanted. The book presents instances of a possible, slow cultural shift in favour of non-dichotomic views on ability and disability increasingly represented as fluid and necessary conditions characterizing the essence of each human being. *We are specifically interested in chapters that focus on Asia and its different countries in relation to the themes of the book.* Possible themes include but are not limited to: · Affective labour of bodies · Auto-ethnographic accounts of the body in / through digital media · Celebrity bodies and the spectacles of transformation · Cinema and disability · Contemporary coverage of disability in print/online/television/radio · De-colonizing and de-westernising the mediated body · Disability and advertising · Disability and race · Disability and the media: historical perspectives · (Dis)Empowerments of the disabled body · Journalism and practices of othering the body · Neoliberalism, policy and austerity politics · Reality television and the body · Representing wounds and scars · Researching bodies and the media: frameworks and methodologies · Stigma and the body - Posthumanist and non-representational frameworks · The abject body · The body and trauma · The mediated body as spectacle · The medicalised body in the media · The objectification of the disabled body in the media We invite submissions of 200-250 words chapter proposals. Deadline: Friday, 21 December 2018 Submissions should also include: a) Title of chapter b) Author name/s, institutional details c) Corresponding author’s email address d) Keywords (no more than 5) e) A short bio Please send chapters to diana.garrisi(a)xjtlu.edu.cn and j.johanssen(a)westminster.ac.uk Commissioned chapters are around 5,000 words. The fact that an abstract is accepted does not guarantee publication of the final manuscript. All chapters submitted will be judged on the basis of a double-blind reviewing process.

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Call for faculty applications - IIT Delhi, India
by P. VIGNESWARA ILAVARASAN 20 Nov '18

20 Nov '18

Call for faculty applications @ Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (Dept. of Management Studies) Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi is one of the leading global premier higher education engineering institutions in the world. It is recently recognized as one of two public Institutes of Eminence by the Govt. of India. Located in heart of New Delhi and spread across 320 acres housing 9000 plus students and faculty members, IIT Delhi offers best environment for learning and teaching with more than thirty five different disciplinary units hosting more than 550 faculty members. Please see here for further details: www.iitd.ac.in The Department of Management Studies (DMS) is ranked number one in research and practices category in the National Institute Research Framework, Govt of India for the last two years. It is consistently ranked within top ten business schools of the country. In international QS ranking, it ranks among the top 5 in the country. The Dept. offers full time and executive MBA and PhD programmes. Apart from significant contributions to the globally reputed journals, two journals published by Springer and Emerald are managed by the department. Located within IIT Delhi, it offers limitless opportunities for interdisciplinary research and teaching. Please see here: http://dms.iitd.ac.in/ The Dept. is seeking applications for faculty positions to enhance its global reach. This is a special drive for international faculty applications. Applications are invited as per details below: Areas Economics, Finance, HR & OB, Information Systems, Marketing, Operations, and Strategy. Qualification PhD from a reputed global university in relevant discipline. Nationality Non-Indian passport holder. Desired publications ABDC A & above; ABS rank 3 & above, Impact factor 1 & above, Scopus Cite Score 1.5 & above. Prior work experience Not essential. Compensation https://tinyurl.com/iitddmsfac In addition, DMS shall offer economy airfare for joining. Apply here http://www.iitd.ac.in/jobs-iitd/index.html Please feel free to write for further details: Dr. P. Vigneswara Ilavarasan, PhD Chair – International Relations Associate Professor, Dept. of Management Studies, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi. 110016 E: vignes(a)iitd.ac.in W:http://web.iitd.ac.in/~vignes/.

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Listing
by Serena 19 Nov '18

19 Nov '18

*Michigan State University School of Journalism Director position* Michigan State University's School of Journalism in the College of Communication Arts and Sciences invites applications for its next Director! Please consider applying and share it with your colleagues. The School of Journalism at MSU is an amazing place with incredible faculty and students. More information can be found here: http://careers.msu.edu/cw/en-us/job/500275/school-directormanagement?fbclid… Thank you, Serena Miller -- Serena Miller, Ph.D. Michigan State University College of Communication Arts and Sciences/School of Journalism Journalism Innovations, Associate Professor PhD Executive Committee, Information & Media Studies Standing Committee for Research, AEJMC Kopenhaver Center Fellow, AEJMC Future Institute Fellow International Radio and Television Society (IRTS) Foundation Fellow Twitter: @dr_serena <https://twitter.com/dr_serena> Google Scholar <https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=LJtBOcgAAAAJ&hl=en>

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What is Technology? April 11-13, 2019
by Janet Wasko 19 Nov '18

19 Nov '18

WHAT IS TECHNOLOGY? Value • Velocity • Vortex UNIVERSITY OF OREGON IN PORTLAND April 11-13, 2019 What is Technology? (2019) will examine the vortices of interaction among practical arts and tools, techniques and processes, moral knowledge and imagination to navigate our everchanging media/life/universe. In a broad sense, technology can be understood as methods of intelligent inquiry and problem-solving in all domains of human life. The conference-experience will enact a collaborative network of transdisciplinary research by cultivating communication as the heart of science, technology, engineering, art, mathematics, and environments. The ninth annual What is…? will bring together natural and social scientists, scholars, government officials, industry professionals, artists and designers, as well as alumni, students, community organizations, and the public. We invite proposals for scholarly papers, panels, and installations on a wide variety of issues and topics. Please see whatis.uoregon.edu<http://whatis.uoregon.edu> for additional details. Proposals may address the following questions (as well as others): • How are technologies and values related? What are velocities of technology (e.g., acceleration studies)? • What are the forces of technology? Is there only one form of technology or different kinds? • What are current approaches to the study of technologies? How is technology interpreted through various lenses (e.g. critical theory, cultural studies, eco-phenomenology, feminism, globalization, intersectionality, journalism, media studies, metamodernism, new materialism, political economy, posthumanism, rhetoric, semiotics, etc.)? • What are philosophies of technology? Where do technology and ethics interface/interact? • What is Science and Technology Studies (STS)? What are the Digital Humanities (DH)? What is the relationship between Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics (STEM), and communication/media/film studies, or other disciplines in the humanities (e.g. anthropology, archaeology, comparative literature, curatorial studies, library studies, psychology, sociology)? What is STEM+C (Computing), E-STEM (Environmental), or STEMM (Medicine)? • How does technology relate to—or converge—music, art, design, architecture, and/or craft, e.g. STEAM (Arts)? • How do technologies’ scale, pace, and pattern transform/limit their impact? What are techné and/or technics? • What are immersive technologies (e.g. apps, Augmented/Virtual/Mixed Realities, IoT, gamification, etc.)? • What are the implications of emerging technologies (e.g. AGI, creative coding, holography, information literacy, nano-bio-info-cogno, predictive analytics, regenerative medicine, risk analysis, robotics, 3D bio-printing, etc.)? • How are the natural sciences and technology coming together (e.g. artificial biology, bioinspired design, biomimicry, data science, ecological system analysis, environmental analysis, etc.)? Is biology itself technology? • How do technologies obscure and/or highlight issues of gender, race, class, and/or indigeneity? What are indigenous knowledge and technologies? What is emerging research on equity, access, and learning? • What are the positive/negative consequences of media technologies for the public interest? • What relationships are there between technology and warfare, innovation and defense, etc.? What are emerging discourses of cyberinfrastructure, cyberlearning, cybertraining, or cybersecurity, etc.? • How is technology related to disability studies, accessibility/alter-abled education, accessible/assistive technologies, and mobility? How does technology relate to birth/life/aging/death, and/or contemplation/well-being? • What are technological determinism, technological realism, and technological humanism? technophilia versus technophobia, technological utopianism versus dystopianism, and/or technological singularity versus multiplicity? • How is collective intelligence, and/or collective wisdom, engaging and/or changing our lives? • How might technologies contribute to socio-technical community resilience and/or thriving communities? Send 150–200 word abstracts for papers, panels, or installations by DECEMBER 21, 2018, to: Janet Wasko • jwasko(a)uoregon.edu<mailto:jwasko@uoregon.edu> University of Oregon • Eugene, Oregon • 97403-1275 • USA

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Call for Participation: "Datafication and Community Activism." UC Irvine 3/8/2019 - 3/9/2019
by Roderic Crooks 19 Nov '18

19 Nov '18

All: Here is the CFP for a workshop I’m putting together at UC Irvine in March. Application due 1/15/2019. Please share widely and address questions to Roderic Crooks (crooksr(a)uci.edu <mailto:crooksr@uci.edu>). Thanks very much. https://goo.gl/MXa7u1 <https://goo.gl/MXa7u1> Call for Participation Datafication and Community Activism: Redrawing the Boundaries of Research A workshop to be held in the Department of Informatics, University of California, Irvine Irvine, California March 8 – 9, 2019 Organized by Roderic Crooks (crooksr(a)uci.edu <mailto:crooksr@uci.edu>), Assistant Professor, Department of Informatics. Yeshimabeit Milner, Executive Director, Data 4 Black Lives. Datafication, “the transformation of social action into online quantified data, thus allowing for real-time tracking and predictive analysis” (van Dijck, 2014, p. 198) describes both the spread of data-intensive technologies and a concomitant ideological stake in a politics of knowledge. This transformation ignores the ways that algorithms, models, and data schema can serve as vehicles for bias and further oppression (Noble, 2018). Data-intensive technologies of “automated inequality” in their various forms, though originally developed in the context of scientific and commercial environments, are being deployed relentlessly in racialized, minoritized, and precariatized communities: in provision of public services by government agencies, in bail decisions by the criminal justice system, in threat assessment by law enforcement, and in many other sites (Eubanks, 2017). Activists have responded to these threats through organizing, direct action, and, in many cases, reports and documents that support grassroots activism. (e.g., Stop LAPD Spying Coalition, 2018). Community-based researchers have connected state-of-art technologies to long histories of oppression and violence in communities of color. Writing by activists educates community members and policymakers about the harms data capture can pose and, at the same time, offers more meaningful alternatives to the presumed benefits of technological access in minoritized communities (Crooks, 2017). What are the possibilities for technology researchers to engage with activists in response to the challenges posed to our communities by data-intensive modes of governance and administration? How can research support social movements in exposing the role of technology in constraining, (infra)structuring, and directing the civil sphere? How might scholars dedicated to studying and serving minortized communities redraw the boundaries of research and activism to address the concerns of our home communities, build solidarity, and contribute to collective resiliency? This workshop and working group will meet to map out new research agendas that draw on, support, and advance activist responses to datafication in minoritized communities. We invite scholars, journalists, graduate students, artists, adjunct lecturers, para-academics, public scholars, community activists, and data/information professionals interested in thinking through the relationship between activism and research to join this forum. The goal of the two-day workshop will be to identify an actionable research agenda that will support the interests of minoritized communities and to build an intellectual network to support this work. The workshop will feature a talk by Yeshimabet Milner, Executive Director of Data for Black Lives (http://d4bl.org <http://d4bl.org/>), “a group of activists, organizers, and mathematicians committed to the mission of using data science to create concrete and measurable change in the lives of Black people.” Topics for discussion might include: · Intersectional feminist, critical race, indigenous, and/or postcolonial approaches to data studies; · Publications and grey literature to support community self-defense and activism; · Interventionist science and technology studies; · Working in and with minoritzed and precariatized communities; · Pedagogy and teaching strategies for community liberation; · Immaterial, emotional and affective labor in activism and social movements; · Resistance, non-participation, and speculative engagements with politics. People interested in participating should send a 250-word statement of research/statement of activism to crooksr(a)uci.edu <mailto:crooksr@uci.edu> by January 15, 2019. Please include in this statement what you would like to contribute to this workshop and what you would like to get out of it. In addition, please include a 100-word bio. Submissions will be reviewed and participants will be invited by Feb 1, 2019. Participation will be capped at 20 people. Meals will be provided. Limited support for travel and lodging is available: priority for funding goes to students and those without institutional support. We welcome your questions. Please contact crooksr(a)uci.edu <mailto:crooksr@uci.edu> with any related inquiry. References Crooks, R. N. (2018). Times Thirty: Access, Maintenance, and Justice. Science, Technology, & Human Values, 016224391878305. https://doi.org/10.1177/0162243918783053 <https://doi.org/10.1177/0162243918783053> Eubanks, V. (2017). Automating inequality: How high-tech tools profile, police, and punish the poor. New York, NY: St. Martin’s Press. Noble, S. U. (2018). Algorithms of oppression: How search engines reinforce racism. New York, NY: New York University Press. Stop LAPD Spying Coalition. (2018). Before the bullet hits the body: Dismantling predictive policing in Los Angeles. Retrieved from https://stoplapdspying.org/before-the-bullet-hits-the-body-dismantling-pred… <https://stoplapdspying.org/before-the-bullet-hits-the-body-dismantling-pred…> van Dijck, J. (2014). Datafication, dataism and dataveillance: Big Data between scientific paradigm and ideology. Surveillance & Society, 12(2), 197–208. https://doi.org/10.24908/ss.v12i2.4776 <https://doi.org/10.24908/ss.v12i2.4776>

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Applications due Nov. 27 for Postdoctoral Researcher positions at AI Now Institute
by Casey Gollan 19 Nov '18

19 Nov '18

Hi AoIR, The deadline to apply for Postdoctoral Researcher positions at AI Now Institute is about a week away — applications are due November 27. Please feel free to be in touch at apply(a)ainowinstitute.org with any questions! Best,Casey https://ainowinstitute.org/join-us.html#postdoctoral-researcher Full job description: AI Now is hiring two-to-three postdoctoral researchers whose work resonates with the Institute’s mission. We welcome applications across a range of interests and disciplines. This two-year position is an ideal opportunity for scholars engaging with the social implications of AI and related technologies, who want to be part of this growing research community.For the 2019 cohort, we are specifically looking to appoint one postdoctoral researcher whose work relates to issues of AI, Gender, and Race. If your work relates to this field, please indicate that in your application and research statement. As an interdisciplinary institute, AI Now will provide postdocs with the opportunity to develop their scholarship at a top academic institution with an remit to collaborate with researchers and practitioners across different fields, whether within NYU, at partner institutions, or working with relevant industry and civil society organizations. Postdocs will devote time to their own research and collaborative projects as well as contributing to AI Now programs and events related to their research portfolio. Teaching is not expected, but can be an option, depending on a candidate’s availability and interest. ABOUT THE AI NOW INSTITUTE AI Now is committed to mentorship and support and to accommodating and resourcing research agendas that fit within its core mission. Postdocs will become a core part of a vibrant research community that includes reading groups, expert workshops, international conferences, regular salons, and site-specific travel. Postdocs will also have the opportunity to help shape the annual AI Now Symposium. The AI Now Institute at New York University is an interdisciplinary research center dedicated to examining the social implications of artificial intelligence. We focus on producing fundamental research and expanding the emerging field focused on these issues. Currently, our research focuses on four key domains: rights and liberties, labor and automation, bias and inclusion, and safety and critical infrastructure. Founded in 2017 by Kate Crawford and Meredith Whittaker, the AI Now Institute is housed at New York University, where it fosters vibrant interdisciplinary engagement across the University and beyond. Our work includes collaborations across an expansive, world-class network of scholars, policy-makers, activists and advocates, technologists and industry leaders, and many others. AI Now is affiliated across six different NYU faculties: the Tandon School of Engineering, the Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development, the Law School, the Stern School of Business, the Center for Data Science. RESOURCES AND BENEFITS * Competitive salary and benefits * A generous research budget for conferences (including international), fieldwork, and research materials available as needed * Access to an exceptional network of mentors and established researchers spanning NYU and beyond, including civil society and industry practitioners * Relocation assistance available as needed QUALIFICATIONS Eligible candidates will have received their PhD in 2017-2019 (conferred by August 2019). Start date for this position will be in September 2019. Postdoc positions are two years in length and this position will conclude at the end of June 2021. Successful candidates will have extensive research experience and an established research track record, demonstrated by journal publications and/or conference papers, as well as other forms of academic participation, such as program committees and editorial boards. Candidates may be trained in any discipline, but should be interested in addressing the complex social implications of AI and related systems, and be committed to working in an interdisciplinary environment. Candidates from all disciplines, both technical and non-technical, are welcome to apply. Examples of relevant research areas include: issues of bias and fairness in algorithmic systems, gender representation and AI, the implications of algorithmic risk assessment and means testing in criminal justice and social welfare, the geopolitical implications of artificial intelligence, the role of industrial actors in the creation of modern AI systems, the ways in which AI and automation are shaping specific labor sectors and the nature of work, infrastructural analyses of AI, the history of AI, and the political implications of machine vision. We are also open to a range of topics and approaches that go beyond these domains. The ideal candidate will enjoy bold and creative research design, working on collaborative teams, mentoring junior researchers, exploring new methodologies, and engaging broad audiences with their research. The AI Now postdoctoral program is located at New York University and candidates will be expected to spend the majority of their time on-site, with the exception of travel for conferences, research, meetings, etc.

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Call for papers: ICAME 40 pre-conference workshop on corpus approaches to social media
by Daria Dayter 19 Nov '18

19 Nov '18

Dear colleagues, we invite your submissions to a pre-conference workshop "Corpus Approaches to Social Media" which is to take place on June 1, 2019, in Neuchatel, Switzerland, before the main ICAME 40 event. Submission deadline: December 15, 2018 Submission link and the full CFP text: https://icame40.ch/program/pre-conference-workshops/ Workshop conveners: Sofia Rüdiger & Daria Dayter Workshop Description Language-centered research on online interactions has been steadily gaining momentum since the days of early Web 2.0. Corpora creation in this field, however, offers a set of new challenges that pre-internet or even Web 1.0 researchers did not have to reckon with. This workshop will therefore focus on the collection, analysis, and processing of corpora of single- and multi-modal, synchronous and asynchronous communication on different social media platforms and channels and the challenges connected to these research endeavors. We invite submissions from scholars working on a range of social media, such as Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, SMS and WhatsApp, Snapchat, Instagram, gaming chats, blog comments sections, wiki discussions, and YouTube comments. The contributions will describe various aspects of data collection, annotation, processing, and exploitation of machine-readable corpora for research in the humanities. The workshop thus brings together language-centered research on interactive social media in linguistics, communication studies, media studies, and social sciences with research questions from the fields of corpus and computational linguistics, language technology, and text analytics. We intend to create a forum to address the following challenges of corpus-based studies in the realm of social media: - Ethical issues of accessing and harvesting data and making it available as a part of “open data” initiatives, especially in multimodal analysis when removing an image impoverishes the analysis - Legal issues of accessing and harvesting data, and the question of our social responsibility as scientists outweighing legal concerns (cf. the case of Fivethirtyeight sharing a corpus of Russian trolls’ tweets) - Difficulty obtaining data which is often very rich in personal information and subjects therefore being reluctant to donate their WhatsApp chats or Facebook conversations - Technical challenges of collecting and storing corpora (including how-to talks, sharing experiences in using available tools such as Trendalyzer, Tweet Visualiser, twXplorer, DiscoverText, Twitter StreamGraph, WebAnno, CATMA) - Annotation of social media corpora: inter-coder reliability; reconciling the need for tailor-made annotation with the standardization drive - Lemmatization, POS tagging, syntactic parsing, and named entity recognition Call for Papers We welcome contributions which address the issues mentioned above as standalone subjects, but also invite presentations approaching these matters within the framework of concrete corpus studies of social media, for example, in the realm of sociolinguistics, discourse analysis, translanguaging and code-switching, applied linguistics, multimodality, as well as descriptions of social media registers. *Abstracts of max. 500 words (including references) should be submitted online via www.icame40.ch/login <http://www.icame40.ch/login>*. The deadline for abstract submission is 15 December 2018. Notification of acceptance will be sent out by January 10. If you have any questions, please contact the workshop conveners under daria.dayter(a)unibas.ch best wishes, Daria Dayter and Sofia Rüdiger Dr. Daria Dayter Department of English - University of Basel Postdoctoral Assistant Nadelberg 6, room 15 CH-4051 Basel / Switzerland Tel: 0041 - 61 - 2 07 27 82 Email: daria.dayter(a)unibas.ch https://english.philhist.unibas.ch/en/persons/daria-dayter/

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University of Washington’s Allen School Seeking New PhD Students for Research in Universal Internet Access and Community Networking
by Yosem Companys 18 Nov '18

18 Nov '18

From: Kurtis Heimerl <kheimerl(a)cs.washington.edu> Apologies for the wide posting but I feel like these lists have the kind of people we're looking for! Feel free to forward on if there are other communities that could be interested. ***** The ICTD Research Group at the University of Washington’s Allen School of Computer Science and Engineering (http://ictd.cs.washington.edu/) is seeking qualified students, both from the US and abroad, with an interest in universal internet access and community networking to apply to the PhD program in computer networking. The ICTD group, led by Professors Kurtis Heimerl and Richard Anderson, has long worked on the problems of Universal Internet Access internationally, with deployments and projects in both the rural Philippines (in partnership with the University of the Philippines) and Indonesia (in partnership with Ob Anggen). As our research shifts to wide-area LTE networks and the infrastructure of repair, we want to find more motivated and passionate students with interest and capacity in the space. There is a particular interest in students with personal experience with hard connectivity problems. If interested, please visit the UWCSE admissions page (https://www.cs.washington.edu/academics/phd) All students admitted to the Allen School Ph.D. program are guaranteed funding for 3 years in the form of a research assistantship, teaching assistantship or fellowship. All or most of the cost of tuition is covered by the assistantship or fellowship. If you have any questions, please direct them to Professor Kurtis Heimerl <kheimerl(a)cs.washington.edu>. A little about the University of Washington’s Allen School of Computer Science and Engineering: Consistently ranked among the top computer science programs in the world, the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering educates tomorrow's innovators and engages in research that advances core and emerging areas of the field. We also lead a broad range of multi-disciplinary initiatives that demonstrate the transformative power of computing and are nationally recognized for our success in promoting diversity. We are located in the spectacular Paul G. Allen Center for Computer Science & Engineering at the heart of the University of Washington campus in Seattle — a center of innovation in software, life sciences, global health, aerospace, and many other fields — where Allen School faculty, students, and alumni are making an impact and changing the world. -- Public Key: https://flowcrypt.com/pub/kheimerl@cs.washington.edu

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