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

18 Dec '18

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

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

18 Dec '18

*** FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS *** 8th Computer Science Education Research Conference (CSERC '19) Lordos Beach Hotel, Larnaca, Cyprus, November 18-20, 2019 http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=YWlyLUwJCQlhaXItTEBsaXN0c2Vydi… *** Submission Deadline: May 3rd, 2019 *** *** Proceedings to be published by ACM ICPS *** The Computer Science Education Research Conference (CSERC) is an international forum for researchers with interests in educational aspects of all computing disciplines including computer science, computer engineering, software engineering, and information systems. It embraces a broad view of the current and future trends in computing education and aspires to be a lively environment for presenting the latest research and empirical results. Submissions to CSERC 2019 might cover, but are not limited to, the following topics: · Specific educational subject matter, such as programming, database systems, computer security, and modelling. · Particular educational innovations, such as MOOCs, flipped-classroom, game-based education, and E-Learning. · Specific groups of students, such as first years, women, masters students, minorities, impaired students. · Broader topics, such as curriculum, group-work, assessment, class infrastructure. Submissions Original and unpublished submissions in all areas related to computing education are invited in the following categories: · Research Paper: Reporting theoretical or theoretically-informed empirical studies undertaken to investigate a specific aspect or address a particular problem in computing education. · Experience Report: Describing a classroom innovation and an evaluation of its impact. · Software Report: Describing developed tools for supporting teaching, learning or assessment in computing education. Types of accepted submissions include: · Full Paper (approximately 12 pages). · Practical Report (about 6 pages). · Poster (2 pages). Submission Format Templates for submissions can be found at the ACM SIG roceedings website, http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=YWlyLUwJCQlhaXItTEBsaXN0c2Vydi… . Papers can be submitted using EasyChair: http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=YWlyLUwJCQlhaXItTEBsaXN0c2Vydi… . Documents proposed for conference presentation should be high quality, unpublished, original work and submitted on-line. The official language of the conference is English. Review Process and Publication Papers submitted for presentation at the conference are reviewed by the international Program Committee. The authors of the reviewed submissions will receive constructive feedback provided by CSERC Program Committee. Authors of papers presented at the conference will produce a final version of the paper, which takes into account the discussions that were held during the conference. The final versions of the papers accepted for presentation at CSERC'19 will be published in the ACM Digital library. At least one co-author of every accepted paper must register for the event and present the paper. Important Dates · Abstract submission: Friday 3 May 2019 · Paper submission deadline: Tuesday 21 May 2019 · Notification of paper acceptance: Friday 30 August 2019 · Author registration: Friday 13 September 2019 · Early (non-author) registration: Friday 18 October 2019 · Submission of camera ready papers taking reviewer comments in consideration: Thursday 19 December 2019 · Submission of paper final versions: Friday 10 January 2020 Colocation with ISSEP 2019 CSERC'19 co-locates with the 12th International Conference on Informatics in Schools: Situation, Evolution and Perspectives (ISSEP 2019). ISSEP is a forum for researchers and practitioners in the area of Informatics education, in both primary and secondary schools. It provides an opportunity for educators to reflect upon the goals and objectives of this subject matter, its curricula and various teaching/learning paradigms and topics, possible connections to everyday life and various ways of developing Informatics Education in schools. Combining CSERC and ISSEP provides a unique opportunity for educational researchers and practitioners to get a broad and comprehensive overview of educational research initiatives taking place at primary and secondary schools as well as higher education. Committees Program Committee Chair Ebrahim Rahimi, Open Universiteit, The Netherlands Program Committee Co-Chair Dave Stikkolorum, University of Leiden, The Netherlands Organising Chair George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Web Master Evert van de Vrie, Open Universiteit, The Netherlands

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

18 Dec '18

Call for Papers: Games of Empire 10 Years Later - Special Issue in Games & Culture 2019 marks ten years since the publication of Nick Dyer-Witheford and Greig de Peuter’s seminal Games of Empire. Adopting the concept of Empire from Italian autonomous Marxist authors Michael Negri & Antonio Hardt, the book is considered one of the hallmarks of videogame cultural criticism. Situated within Western video game scholarship of the early 2000’s, the book reminded many that critical analysis informed by social theory is vital to capturing the phenomena of videogame production processes, and the power hierarchies they derive from and reproduce. Ten years later, today, it is impossible to ignore the significance that the book – despite its flaws – has shown in addressing the under-researched political aspects of the global videogame industry and cultures. At the same time, it is impossible to ignore the ever-pressing need for cultural and materialist criticism within game studies. There are many elephants in the room – the inequities of the global games labour market, the growing Game Workers unionization and the international solidarity necessary for it, the games industry’s contribution to the expansion and consolidation of global corporate interests, the revitalization of fascism in and around games, and the reproduction of colonialism under conditions of globalised supply chains and markets. In light of this, many researchers are returning to the question of how conditions of production highlight the inherently politicized nature of videogames as a global 21st century cultural industry, prompting them to explore how it can be subjected to critical analysis, to inform interventions both by scholars and by workers in the sector. Games of Empire, specifically, while an opportune starting point for critical analysis everywhere, is not without its limits. Indeed, while Dyer-Witheford and de Peuter and others (e.g., Banks & Cunningham, 2013; Nieborg, 2011; O’Donnell, 2014; Deuze, 2007), have shown that it is possible (and publishable) to inspect and critique the role of the videogames industry in the world, much remains to be said about both. Contemporary phenomena emblematic to videogames’ culture and industry require scholarly and critical addressing – issues such as the cultural and economic imperialism of global videogame companies; the platformization of culture (Nieborg & Poell, 2018); the privileging and problematization of indie and intersectional production (Martin & Deuze, 2009; Ruffino, 2012; Shaw, 2009); the consolidation of cultural and economic power via the dynamics of monopoly capitalism and imperialism, including the exploitative structure of platforms that turn players into workers and information into commodities capturing the cultural activity of play as seen in free-to-play and so-called lootbox business models (Joseph 2017); the mutually beneficial relationship between corporate grassroots movements such as Gamergate and multinational companies’ exploitation of their workers (Keogh 2018; Polansky 2018); the material and ecological ramifications of always-online infrastructures, planned obsolescence, videostreaming, and so-called cloud-based gaming; the cultural and economic conditions that maintain and reproduce what Fron, Fullerton, Morie, & Pearce called “the Hegemony of Play” (2007) ; the game industry’s intersecting matrix of domination (Collins 2002) along racial, gendered, sexual, class, language, ethnic, and bodily dimensions; and so on. Even within the nebulous discipline of game studies itself, questions of Empire are in dire need of addressing (Russworm 2018), especially against the background of positionality , the politics of citation, academia as a colonial force, bourgeois conferences overrepresenting Western, privileged and tenure-track participants able to pay extravagant fees (Butt, et al., 2018), as well as the relationship between industry and research. As such, the initial discussions motivated by Dyer-Witheford and de Peuter’s research remain as, if not more, relevant than ever. It is crucial that similar critical investigations are contemporarily re-articulated to highlight paths and strategies to understand videogames today as symptoms of a deeply unjust state of the world, and perhaps to transform the structures that reproduce this state. To do so, this special issue of Games & Culture invites authors in game studies, cultural studies, production studies, and related disciplines to engage in a dialogue with Games of Empire and the themes of global capitalism, videogame production as global cultural industry, and related themes of Empire, inequality, and hegemony. This dialogue can be based on contemporary and ongoing research, both theoretical and empirical, into videogame production today. Possible papers could include themes such as: * Empire and multitude in the contemporary games sector * Cognitive capitalism and work in the globalised production chain * Machinic subjects in the post-platform era * Social theory in game studies (post-Empire) * Platform capitalism * Working conditions in videogame production * Nomad game making * Major and minor subjectivity in game production * Making desiring subjects * 21st century imperialism and monopoly capitalism * Comparative production cultures: difference and continuity between (national) production cultures * Postcolonialism, empire, and emancipation * Cultural production in the margins: Games & workers of the so-called global south. * Unionization efforts among game workers (Game Workers Unite, #AsAGameWorker, etc.) * Empire through & within academia and game studies * The Military-Industrial-Media-Entertainment Network, in and outside of the imperial core * The ecological and material aspects of the global games industry in the Age of the Capitalocene These themes can be interpreted broadly. When submitting an extended abstract, please identify explicitly how your proposed submission responds to Games of Empire, including developing one of its concepts, critiquing its arguments, or reflecting back on its significance in contemporary research. Timeline Extended abstracts should be submitted by March 1st 2019. Notification of abstract acceptance by April 1st 2019. Full manuscripts (approximately 5.000 words) of accepted abstracts are due September 6th 2019. Notification of manuscript acceptance by November 4th 2019. Final publications of 5-6 accepted articles in Games & Culture are expected around June 2020 Submission process Submissions should comprise of * Extended abstracts between 800-1000 words excluding bibliography. * Author information (short biographical statement of 200 words) Please submit to Emil Hammar (emil.hammar(a)uit.no<mailto:emil.hammar@uit.no>) by March 1st 2019. Best regards, Dr. Caroline Pelletier, UCL Institute of Education, London, England Lars de Wildt, Institute for Media Studies, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium Dr. Souvik Mukherjee, Department of English, Presidency University, Kolkata, India Emil Hammar, Department of Language & Culture, University of Tromsø, Norway References Banks, J. (2013) Co-creating videogames. London, England: Bloomsbury. Banks, J., & Cunningham, S. (2013). Games and entertainment software. In Handbook on the digital creative economy, 416. Baym, N. K. (2015) Connect with your audience!: The relational labor of connection. The Communication Review, Special Issue, 18, 14–22. Bulut, Ergin. 2018. “One-Dimensional Creativity: A Marcusean Critique of Work and Play in the Video Game Industry.” tripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique. Open Access Journal for a Global Sustainable Information Society 16 (2): 757–71. https://doi.org/10.31269/triplec.v16i2.930. Butt, M. A. R., de Wildt, L., Kowert, R., & Sandovar, A. (2018). Homo Includens: Surveying DiGRA’s Diversity. Transactions of the Digital Games Research Association, 4(1). Collins, Patricia Hill. 2002. Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment. Routledge. Deuze M. (2007) Media work, Cambridge: Polity Press Dyer-Witheford, N., & de Peuter, G. (2009). Games of empire. Global Capitalism and Video Games. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota. Parker, F, Whitson, J and Simon, B (2017) Megabooth: The cultural intermediation of indie games. New Media and Society. Fron, J., Fullerton, T., Morie, J. F., & Pearce, C. (2007, September). The Hegemony of Play. In DiGRA Conference. Giddens, S and Harvey, F (2018) Introduction to Special Issue Ludic Economies: Ludic Economies 101. Games and Culture Harvey A and Fisher S. (2015) “Everyone Can Make Games!”: The post-feminist context of women in digital game production. Feminist Media Studies 15: 576-592. Joseph, Daniel. 2017. “Distributing Productive Play: A Materialist Analysis of Steam.” Ryerson University. Keogh, Brendan. 2018. “Gamers and Managers vs Workers: The Impossible (and Gendered) Standards Imposed on Game Developers.” Overland Literary Journal (blog). 2018. https://overland.org.au/2018/07/gamers-and-managers-vs-workers-the-impossib…. Martin, C. B., & Deuze, M. (2009). The independent production of culture: A digital games case study. Games and culture, 4(3), 276-295. Nieborg, D. (2011). Triple-A: The political economy of the blockbuster video game. (Ph.D. Thesis, University of Amsterdam.) Retrieved from UvA-DARE (Digital Academic Repository): http://hdl.handle.net/11245/1.345555. Nieborg, D., & Poell, T. (2018). The platformization of cultural production: Theorizing the contingent cultural commodity. New Media & Society, 1461444818769694. O'Donnell, C. (2014). Developer's dilemma: The secret world of videogame creators. MIT press. Polansky, L. 2018. “Worse than Scabs: Gamer Rage as Anti-Union Violence.” Rhizome. October 30, 2018. http://rhizome.org/editorial/2018/oct/30/worse-than-scabs-gamer-rager-as-an…. Ruffino, P. (2012). Narratives of independent production in video game culture. Loading..., 7(11). Russworm, TreaAndrea M. 2018. “A Call to Action for Video Game Studies in an Age of Reanimated White Supremacy.” The Velvet Light Trap 81 (1): 73–76. Shaw, A. (2009). Putting the gay in games: Cultural production and GLBT content in video games. Games and Culture, 4(3), 228-253. Whitson J. (2017) Voodoo software and boundary objects in game development: How developers collaborate and conflict with game engines and art tools. New Media and Society Whitson J. (2018) What Can We Learn From Studio Studies Ethnographies? A “Messy” Account of Game Development Materiality, Learning, and Expertise. Games and Culture.

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FW: IIPC Web Archiving Conference 2019: Second Call for Papers [DEADLINE: 7th January 2019]
by Grotke, Abigail 17 Dec '18

17 Dec '18

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

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Call for papers: Digital Fortress Europe: Exploring Boundaries between Media, Migration and Technology
by Leurs, K.H.A. (Koen) 17 Dec '18

17 Dec '18

Dear colleagues, We have just released the call for abstracts for next year's European Communication Research and Education Association – Diaspora, Migration and the Media workshop taking place in Brussels, Belgium on 30 & 31 October 2019. Kindly see all info below - and you may access the CFP here: https://t.co/k52GOGBT9x Best wishes, Koen Leurs ***** “Digital Fortress Europe: Exploring Boundaries between Media, Migration and Technology” 30 and 31 October 2019, Brussels, Belgium The two-day conference “Digital Fortress Europe” intends to be a forum to reflect on the relations between media, migration, and technology. These relations demand our fullest attention because they touch on the essence of what migration means in societies that are undergoing democratic challenges. Research shows that media and technologies play a vital role for people who migrate, but that the same media and technologies serve to spread xenophobia, increase societal polarization and enable elaborate surveillance possibilities. With its intensifying anti-migration populist discourses, humanitarian border crises and efforts to secure borders through technological solutions, the European context provides a pulsating scene to examine such deepening relations. Taking place in the heart of Europe’s political capital, this conference aims to critically reflect on what the much-debated notion of “Fortress Europe” means in the digital age and how it can guide our future thinking on media and migration. As such, scholars of media, communication, migration and technology will be stimulated to contribute to critical discussions on border politics and migration debates. The thematic focus of this conference is on media, migration and technology and all their possible linkages and intersections. While significant attention goes to digital technologies and social media, the organizers do aim for a broad focus that also includes traditional media, and aspects of media production, organization, consumption, representation and policy. The three confirmed keynote speakers will be: • Dr Payal Arora(Erasmus University Rotterdam) • Professor Huub Dijstelbloem (University of Amsterdam) • Professor Myria Georgiou (London School of Economics) Besides the keynotes and parallel paper presentations the programme will also include a public event, a PhD masterclass and a book launch (details to be confirmed in the final programme). The conference takes place at the Palace of the Academies in the centre of Brussels (Hertogstraat 1, 1000 Brussel). The conference is organized by the European Communication Research & Education Association’s (ECREA) Diaspora, Migration & the Media (DMM) section in collaboration with the ECREA’s International & Intercultural Communication (IIC) section, the Young Scholars Network of ECREA (YECREA), the Netherlands-Flemish Communication Association (NeFCA), and has received support from the Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Science and the Arts (KVAB). The organizers welcome submissions for paper presentations on the following three broad themes: • Borders and media technologies, particularly focusing on critical research on biometrics, algorithms, drones and cartography. • Producing and circulating meanings and media on migration, including work on discourse and representation, journalism, popular culture and policy. • Media uses and technologies by and for migrants and diasporas, including research on activism, identity, emotion/affect, education, well-being, language and mediated social relations. Especially welcome are submissions rooted in critical cultural studies, critical data studies, postcolonial studies, feminist research and from scholars who build bridges between academia, policy, activism, arts and public debate. Instructions Please submit a 500-word abstract in an anonymized MS Word file only (other formats or non-anonymized documents will not be considered) per e-mail to ecreadmm(a)gmail.com. Please mention “Submission Brussels Conference” in your e-mail subject. A separate call for the related PhD masterclass will soon be circulated. After the evaluation of abstracts, accepted authors will be invited to submit full papers in order to be considered for the Best Paper Award (junior award and senior award) and for a possible publication in a Special Issue and/or a book. We refer to previous collaborations in the form of a special issue of the European Journal of Cultural Studies (Sage), Crossings: Journal of Migration and Culture (Intellect), Communications: The European Journal for Communication Research (Mouton De Gruyter). Timeline • 17 December 2018: launch call for papers • 22 February 2019: deadline abstract submission • 15 April 2019: notification of acceptance • 10 May 2019: opening of registrations • 1 July 2019: publication of final programme • 15 September 2019: closing of registrations • 30-31 October 2019: conference Organizing team • Kevin Smets, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, ECREA DMM vice-chair (local organizing committee) • Yazan Badran, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (local organizing committee) • Paola Condemayta Soto, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (local organizing committee) • Koen Leurs, Utrecht University, ECREA DMM chair • Irati Agirreazkuenaga, University of the Basque Country, ECREA DMM vice-chair • Melis Mevsimler, Utrecht University, ECREA DMM young scholars representative • Leen d’Haenens, KU Leuven • Alexander Dhoest, University of Antwerp • Stijn Joye, Ghent University -- --

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Call for Papers EGOV2019 - Joint conference EGOV-CeDEM-EPart 2019 - deadline 17 March 2019
by Noella Edelmann 17 Dec '18

17 Dec '18

Apologies for Cross-Posting! EGOV2019 - Joint conference EGOV-CeDEM-ePart 2019 San Benedetto Del Tronto, Italy 2-4 September 2019 Call for Papers https://easychair.org/cfp/egovcedemepart2019 The EGOV-CeDEM-ePart 2019 represents the merge of the IFIP WG 8.5 Electronic Government (EGOV), the IFIP WG 8.5 IFIP Electronic Participation (ePart) and the Conference for E-Democracy and Open Government Conference (CeDEM). The conference is held annually and will be hosted 2-4 September 2019 in San Benedetto del Tronto by the University of Camerino, Italy. The conference focuses on e-Government, Open Government, eParticipation and e-Democracy, but on several other related topics too, such as the role of social media, digital transformation in society, Artificial Intelligence, policy informatics, smart governance and social innovation. Several different types of submissions can be made, such as completed research, but also ongoing research, reflections & viewpoints, posters, workshops. The conference organises a PhD Colloquium and offers a limited number of PhD bursaries. We invite individuals from academic and applied backgrounds as well as from business, public authorities, NGOs, NPOs and education institutions to submit their research papers, reflections, posters as well as practitioner papers, panel or workshop proposals to the topics addressed in the tracks. We also welcome interdisciplinary approaches to the conference topics. Important Dates * (Hard) deadline for submissions: 17 March 2019 * Notification of acceptance: 30 April 2019 * Poster submission deadline (non-anonymous-camera ready) 15 May 2019 * Poster acceptance 1 June 2019 * Camera-ready paper submission and author registration: 1 June 2019 * Conference: 2-4 September 2019 * PhD Colloquium: 1 September 2019 Conference Chairs * Olivier Glassey, University of Lausanne, Switzerland * Marijn Janssen, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands * Ida Lindgren, Linköping University, Sweden * Panos Panagiotopoulos, Queen Mary University of London, UK * Peter Parycek, Danube University Krems, Austria * Andrea Polini, University of Camerino, Italy * Barbara Re, University of Camerino, Italy * Hans Jochen Scholl, University of Washington, USA * Efthimios Tambouris, University of Macedonia, Greece * Shefali Virkar, Danube University Krems, Austria Local Host Chair * Flavio Corradini, University of Camerino, Italy Tracks at EGOV-CeDEM-EPART 2019 General E-Government & Open Government Track: all e-government-related topics except the special-topics tracks. In particular, it also covers emerging and special topics in e-government research * Ida Lindgren (lead), Linköping University, Sweden * Hans Jochen Scholl, University of Washington, USA * Gabriela Viale Pereira, Danube University Krems, Austria General E-Democracy & eParticipation Track: all eParticipation-related topics except the special-topic tracks. This track aims to present the best of recent developments in electronic participation and electronic democracy as they cover a wide range of technical, political and social areas * Panos Panagiotopoulos (lead), Queen Mary University of London, United Kingdom * Robert Krimmer, Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia * Peter Parycek, Fraunhofer Fokus, Germany / Danube-University Krems, Austria Smart Cities (Government, Communities & Regions) Track: all aspects of smart governance, including frameworks, policies, and the use of technology * Manuel Pedro Rodríguez Bolívar (lead), University of Granada, Spain * Karin Axelsson, Linköping University, Sweden * Nuno Lopes, DTx: Digital Transformation Colab, Portugal AI, Data Analytics, & Automated Decision Making Track: welcomes research examining the potential, adoption, use, and impacts of various data analytics methods ranging from visualisations and descriptive statistical analyses to machine learning and AI methods in the public sector. * Habin Lee (lead), Brunel University London, United Kingdom * Euripidis Loukis, University of Aegean, Greece * Tomasz Janowski, Gdansk University, Poland Social Media Track: Digital networking and information sharing applications, interfaces between governments and their respective publics, digital collaborations within public organizations and across governance networks, studies that draw on conceptual, case study, survey, mixed or other suitable methods. * Noella Edelmann (lead), Danube University Krems, Austria * Sarah Hoffmann (University Bremen) * Marius Rohde Johannessen (University of South-Eastern Norway) Social Innovation Track: focuses on the intersection between research, practice, and policy related to social innovation. * Gianluca Misuraca (lead), European Commission, Spain * Marijn Janssen, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands * Csaba Csaki, Corvinus Business School, Hungary Open Data: Social and Technical Aspects Track: focuses on open government data, public big data sharing and use, data for improving public value and transparency as well as data analytics capitalizing on Linked Open Data and other Technologies. * Efthimios Tambouris (lead), University of Macedonia, Greece * Anneke Zuiderwijk, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands * Ramon Gil-Garcia, University at Albany, USA Digital Society: focuses on the relationship between all kinds of stakeholders adopting and integrating all kinds of technologies at home, education and recreation. * Thomas Lampoltshammer (lead), Danube University Krems, Austria * David Osimo, The Lisbon Council, Spain * Martijn Hartog, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands Practitioners* Track: practitioners are encouraged to provide long abstracts of forthcoming papers, summaries of workshop proceedings, descriptions of project outputs, work experiences, inspiring case studies and best practice examples * Peter Reichstädter (lead), Austrian Parliament, Austria * Morten Meyerhoff Nielsen, United Nations University, Portugal * Francesco Mureddu, The Lisbon Council, Belgium * Francesco Molinari, Politecnico di Milano, Italy PhD Colloquium: The overall aim of the PhD colloquium is to connect PhD students to the e-government research community. During the colloquium, you will meet other PhD students, younger researchers that have just finished their PhDs, and more experienced scholars. Submitted proposals will not be submitted. * Gabriela Viale Pereira (lead), Danube University Krems, Austria * Ramon Gil-Garcia, University at Albany, USA * Ida Lindgren, Linköping University, Sweden * Anneke Zuiderwijk-van Eijk, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands * Evangelos Kalampokis, University of Macedonia, Greece Types of Publications Accepted full research papers (max. 12 pages) will be published in the Springer LNCS IFIP EGOV or IFIP EPART proceedings. The EGOV proceedings covers the general E-Government & Open Government, Smart Cities, AI and Automated Decision Making, and Open Data tracks; whereas the EPART proceedings will cover the general E-Democracy & eParticipation, Social Media, Social Innovation Track, and Digital Society tracks. Papers in the categories of Ongoing Research (max. 8 pages), Reflections and Viewpoints (max. 6 pages), Practitioner Papers (max. 6 pages), projects (max. 8 pages), workshops (max. 2 pages), panel proposals (max. 2 pages), and posters (max. 2 pages) can be published (but do not need to be) in a special conference issue of the eJournal of eDemocracy and Open Government (JeDEM). Please note that PhD colloquium papers will not be published. Conference venue The conference will be held at the premises of University of Camerino in San Benedetto Del Tronto. The city is located at the Adriatic coast and there are many hotels on walking distance. Further details * Contact: egovcedemepart2019(a)easychair.org * Submission website: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=egovcedemepart2019 Look forward to seeing you there! Noella Noella Edelmann PhD Senior Researcher Danube University Krems Department for E-Governance and Administration Center for E-Government Dr.-Karl-Dorrek-Straße 30 A-3500 Krems Austria Tel. +43 (0)2732 893 2303 www.donau-uni.ac.at/egov

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Melissa Gregg's new book -- author interview
by Ilana Gershon 17 Dec '18

17 Dec '18

Dear Colleagues, Anyone curious about Melissa Gregg's new book, Counterproductive, can read an interview about the book at CaMP anthropology blog -- well worth it. https://campanthropology.org/ Best, Ilana

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Two PH.D positions at NTNU
by halefom abraha 17 Dec '18

17 Dec '18

[Apologies for cross posting] Two Ph.D Positions at NTNU https://www.jobbnorge.no/en/available-jobs/job/160083/phd-position-in-relia… https://www.jobbnorge.no/en/available-jobs/job/160102/phd-position-in-aggre… Halefom

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CFP E-Vote-ID 2019
by Peter ROENNE 16 Dec '18

16 Dec '18

[Apologies for cross and multiple postings] ------------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS E-Vote-ID 2019 Fourth International Joint Conference on Electronic Voting Bregenz, Austria, 1-4 October 2019 www.e-vote-id.org (Paper Submission Date: 15 May 2019) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- WWW: https://www.e-vote-id.org/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/EVoteID/ Twitter: @evotingcc Hashtag: #EVoteID2019 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- General Chairs: Krimmer, Robert (Tallinn University of Technology, Ragnar Nurkse School, Estonia), Volkamer, Melanie (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany) Outreach Chairs: Rønne, Peter (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg), Krivonosova, Iuliia (Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This is the fourth time one of the leading international events for e-voting experts from all over the world has convened, and the 15th anniversary of the first e-voting conference taking place in Bregenz (Austria). The conference will take place in October 2019, and one of its major objectives will be to provide a forum for interdisciplinary and open discussion of all issues relating to electronic voting. The first 3 times the conference was held, visitors numbered a total of more than 300 participants, discussing 95 presentations. On the occasion of the 15th anniversary, papers focusing on a review of conference archives will be especially welcome. The aim of the conference is to bring e-voting specialists working in academia, politics, government and industry together, in order to discuss various aspects of all forms of electronic voting (including, but not limited to, polling stations, kiosks, ballot scanners and remote voting by electronic means) in the four following tracks below, and in a PhD colloquium: Track on Security, Usability and Technical Issues Chairs: Cortier, Véronique (CNRS, France), Beckert, Bernhard (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany), Küsters, Ralf (University of Stuttgart, Germany) Design, analysis, formal modeling or researching and implementation of: - Electronic voting protocols and systems; - Voter identification and authentication; - Ballot secrecy, receipt-freeness and coercion resistance; - Election verification including end-to-end verifiability and risk-limiting audits; - Requirements; - Evaluation and certification, including international security standards, e.g. Common Criteria or ITSEC; - Human aspects of security mechanisms in electronic voting and in particular of verifiability mechanisms; or - Any other security and HCI (human-computer) issues relevant for electronic voting. Track on Administrative, Legal, Political and Social Issues Chairs: Serdült, Uwe (Ritsumeikan University, Japan / University of Zurich, Switzerland), Duenas-Cid, David (Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia / Kozminski University, Poland) - Discussion of legal, political and social issues of implementing electronic voting, ideally employing case study methodology; - Analysing the interrelationship with, and the effects of electronic voting on democratic institutions and processes; - Assessing the cultural impact of electronic voting on institutions, behaviours and attitudes in the Digital Era; - Discussing the administrative, legal, political and social risks of electronic voting; - How to draft pieces of electronic voting legislation; - Public administrations and the implementation of electronic voting; - Understandability, transparency, and trust issues in electronic voting; - Data Protection concerns; - Public interests vs. PPP (public private partnerships). Track on Elections and Practical Experiences Chairs: Martin, Steven (OSCE/ODIHR, Poland), Helbach, Jörg (Rheinische Fachhochschule Köln, Germany) - Reviewing developments in the area of applied electronic voting; - Reporting on experiences with electronic voting or the preparation thereof (including reports on development and implementation, case law, court verdicts, legislative steps, public and political debates, election outcomes, etc.); Contributions to this area will be published in TUT press proceedings only. These experience-based and practical reports need not contain original research, but must be accurate, complete and, where applicable, evidence-based accounts of the technology or system used. Submissions will be judged on the quality of review and level of analysis, and the applicability of the results to other democracies. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Track on E-Voting System Demo Chair: Rønne, Peter (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg) We invite demonstrations of electronic voting systems and related software, to be presented in an open session on Tuesday 1 October before the welcoming reception. Participation is open to all participants at the conference, but we request a Short Paper (two pages) by 15 September submitted via Easychair describing system requirements and properties, e.g.: - whether the system is intended for use in controlled (i.e. in polling stations) or uncontrolled environments (i.e. remotely via the Internet or in kiosks); - which types of elections it accommodates; - whether it addresses needs of voters with disabilities; - what sort of verifiability it provides; - the extent to which it guarantees voter privacy; - whether it has been deployed in a real election; - how to obtain more information. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- PhD Colloquium Chairs: Koenig, Reto (Bern University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland), Driza Maurer, Ardita (Zentrum für Demokratie Aarau ZDA/ University of Zurich, Switzerland) The aim of the colloquium is to foster understanding and collaboration between PhD students from various disciplines working on e-voting. To this end, the program allows plenty of scope for discussion and to initiate collaboration based on presentations by attendees. Each participant interested should submit his/her research proposal (or alternatively ideas for papers, open problems, or other issues where feedback from colleagues would be helpful etc.) in the form of a short paper (two pages in length) using the conference's EasyChair platform. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Format of the Conference The format of the conference will be a three-day meeting. The PhD Colloquium and the Demonstration Session take place on the day before the formal conference begins. No parallel sessions will be held, and sufficient room will be provided for informal communication. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Paper-based Submissions Paper-based submissions may be in one of two formats-either as a full paper or as an abstract. - Full paper submissions (max 16 pages in LNCS format in total); - Short Paper submissions (max 2 pages in LNCS format in total). All submissions will be subject to double-blind review. Submissions must be anonymous (with no reference to the authors). Submissions must be made using the conference's EasyChair system, which serves as the online system for the review process. During submission, please select the appropriate area of interest or the PhD colloquium. The chairs of the fields of interest reserve the right to re-assign papers to other areas, in case of a better fit based on reviewer feedback and in collaboration with other focus of interest chairs. LNCS style must be used. If you believe that one or more of the program's committee members may have a conflict of interest with your submission, please inform the general chairs at conference-chairs(a)e-vote-id.org. In turn, settings in the EasyChair system will be set accordingly, so that the respective member/s is/are not involved in the review process. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Key Dates for Submissions Deadline for submitting papers: (Hawaiian time, rigid deadline, no extension) 15 May 2019 - 23:59 Notification of Acceptance: 24 June 2019 Deadline for PhD Colloquium submissions: 28 June 2019 Deadline for Short Papers for E-Voting System Demo Session: 15 September 2019 Other Relevant Dates Deadline for Paper Bids: 20 May 2019 Deadline for Reviews: 15 June 2019 Programme Committee Discussion: 21 June 2019 Deadline for Re-submitting Conditionally Accepted Papers (shepherding process): 12 July 2019 Deadline for Camera-Ready Paper Submissions: 26 July 2019 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Publication Conference proceedings will be available at the time of the conference. Full papers accepted for the tracks on security, usability, and technical issues, respective administrative, legal, political, and social issues will be published in Springer LNCS. All other publications accepted, including full papers in the election experience track, abstracts accepted in any of the tracks, and from the submissions to the PhD colloquium will be published in proceedings with TUT press. Should your host academic institution requires you to publish your research as open-access only, please contact the respective conference chair for further information on the intended method for making accepted publications accessible. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Venue The conference will be held in the Renaissance Castle Hofen in Lochau/Bregenz on the shores of Lake Constance in Austria. A welcoming reception will be organized for all conference participants in Castle Hofen on the evening of 1 October, where the conference dinner will also take place on 3 October and will feature the traditional "cheese road". ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Programme Committee General Chairs Krimmer, Robert (Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia) Volkamer, Melanie (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany) Track Chairs Track on Security, Usability, and Technical Issues Cortier, Véronique (CNRS, France) Beckert, Bernhard (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany) Küsters, Ralf (University of Stuttgart, Germany) Track on Administrative, Legal, Political, and Social Issues Serdült, Uwe (University of Zurich, Switzerland, and Ritsumeikan University, Japan) Duenas-Cid, David (Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia and Kozminski University, Poland) Track on Elections and Practical Experiences Martin, Steven (OSCE/ODIHR, Poland) Helbach, Jörg (Rheinische Fachhochschule Köln, Germany) PhD Colloquium Koenig, Reto (University of Applied Science Berne, Switzerland) Driza Maurer, Ardita (Zentrum für Demokratie Aarau ZDA / University of Zurich, Switzerland) Outreach Chairs Rønne, Peter (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg) Krivonosova, Iuliia (Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia) Track on Security, Usability, and Technical Issues Programme Committee Arapinis, Myrto (The University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom) Benaloh, Josh (Microsoft Research, USA) Endriss, Ulle (University of Amsterdam) Essex, Aleksander (Western University, Canada) Galindo, David (University of Birmingham, UK) Gibson, Paul (Telecom SudParis, France) Gjosteen, Kristian (NTNU Trondheim, Norway) Gore, Rajeev (Australian National University, Australia) Grimm, Rüdiger (University of Koblenz, Germany) Haenni, Rolf (Bern University of Applied Science, Switzerland) Haines, Thomas (Polyas, Denmark) Kulyk, Oksana (TU Darmstadt, Germany) Pereira, Olivier (UC Louvain, Belgium) Rønne, Peter (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg) Ryan, Mark (University of Birmingham, United Kingdom) Ryan, Peter Y.A. (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg) Schneider, Steve (University of Surrey, UK) Schoenmakers, Berry (University of Amsterdam, Netherlands) Schürmann, Carsten (IT University Copenhagen, Denmark) Stark, Philip (University of Berkeley, USA) Teague, Vanessa (University of Melbourne, Australia) Truderung, Tomasz (Polyas, Germany) Warinschi, Bogdan (University of Bristol, United Kingdom) Wen, Roland (UNSW Sydney, Australia) Willemson, Jan (Cybernetica, Estonia) Track on Administrative, Legal, Political and Social Science Programme Committee Aranyossy, Marta (Corvinus University, Hungary) Barrat, Jordi (EVOL2 - eVoting Research Lab, Spain) Braun Binder, Nadja (University of Zurich, Switzerland) Germann, Micha (KU Leuven, Belgium) Goodman, Nicole (University of Toronto, Canada) Hall, Thad (University of Utah, USA) James, Toby (University of East Anglia, United Kingdom) Kalvet, Tarmo (Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia) Masso, Anu (Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia) Mecinas, Juan Manuel (Universidad de las Américas Puebla, Mexico) Musial-Karg, Magdalena (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland) Nemaslaki, András (Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary) Nurmi, Hannu (University of Turku, Finland) Pammett, Jon (University of Carleton, Canada) Reniu, Josep Maria (University of Barcelona, Spain) Sasvari, Peter (National University of Public Service, Hungary) Vinkel, Priit (National Election Commission, Estonia) Track on Election and Practical Experience Programme Committee Bismark, David (Votato, Sweden) Bull, Christian (Telenor, Norway) Caarls, Susanne (Independent Expert, Netherlands) Catozzi, Gianpiero (EC-UNDP, Belgium) Driza Maurer, Ardita (Independent Expert, Switzerland) Franklin, Joshua (NIST, USA) Loeber, Leontine (Council of State, Netherlands) Martin-Rozumilowicz, Beata (IFES, Washington) McDermott, Ronan (Independent Expert, Switzerland) Petrov, Goran (Independent Expert, Macedonia) Plante, Stephanie (University of Ottawa, Canada) Spycher, Oliver (Federal Chancellery, Switzerland) Vollan, Kåre (Quality AS, Norway) Wolf, Peter (International IDEA, Stockholm) Wenda, Gregor (Federal Ministry of the Interior, Austria) Yard, Mike (IFES, Libya)

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Faculty Position in Visual Culture, Design/Media, and Technology at MICA
by Victoria Pass 16 Dec '18

16 Dec '18

The Maryland Institute College of Art is currently searching for a new full time faculty member to join the art history department and teach classes that will speak to students in our animation, graphic design, film, photography and game design programs (they don't have to connect to all of these areas, but just to give you an idea). If you have any questions about the job, I'm happy to answer them. Please feel free to share this listing widely. Thanks so much! -Vicky https://assets.mica.edu/files/resources/visual-culture-and-technology-v2-fu… -- ============ Victoria Rose Pass, PhD Art History Maryland Institute College of Art 1300 West Mount Royal Avenue Baltimore, MD 21217 vpass(a)mica.edu www.mica.edu

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