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Canceled event: CfP: 7th CMSTW conference in St. Petersburg, Russ... @ Wed Jan 2 11am - Sun Jan 13, 2019 12pm (CST) (air-l@listserv.aoir.org)
by ljin8788＠gmail.com 12 Nov '18

12 Nov '18

This event has been canceled. Title: [Air-L] CfP: 7th CMSTW conference in St. Petersburg, Russia; TECH & METHODS track --Apologies for potential cross-posting-- 7th International Conference COMPARATIVE MEDIA STUDIES IN TODAY’S WORLD (CMSTW’2019) CALL FOR PAPERS Time: April 16–18, 2019 Place: St.Petersburg, Russia Working language: English Theme for 2019: COMMUNITIES. AUDIENCES. PUBLICS In the recent decades, proliferation of communicative channels, including digital ones, has led to fragmentation of mass communication and its overarching audiences. Digitalization, on one hand, has brought on stage new audience constellations aligned along new societal cleavages – the process that is often framed negatively in academic literature, as it potentially contributes to social disintegration in the absence of common information denominators. On the other hand, the boom on the market provides numerous opportunities to rethink relations between media and their audiences, focusing... When: Wed Jan 2 11am – Sun Jan 13, 2019 12pm Central Time - Chicago Calendar: air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org Who: * ljin8788(a)gmail.com - organizer * air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org * s.bodrunova(a)spbu.ru Invitation from Google Calendar: https://www.google.com/calendar/ You are receiving this courtesy email at the account air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org because you are an attendee of this event. To stop receiving future updates for this event, decline this event. Alternatively you can sign up for a Google account at https://www.google.com/calendar/ and control your notification settings for your entire calendar. Forwarding this invitation could allow any recipient to modify your RSVP response. Learn more at https://support.google.com/calendar/answer/37135#forwarding

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Invitation: CfP: 7th CMSTW conference in St. Petersburg, Russ... @ Wed Jan 2 11am - Sun Jan 13, 2019 12pm (CST) (air-l@listserv.aoir.org)
by ljin8788＠gmail.com 12 Nov '18

12 Nov '18

You have been invited to the following event. Title: [Air-L] CfP: 7th CMSTW conference in St. Petersburg, Russia; TECH & METHODS track --Apologies for potential cross-posting-- 7th International Conference COMPARATIVE MEDIA STUDIES IN TODAY’S WORLD (CMSTW’2019) CALL FOR PAPERS Time: April 16–18, 2019 Place: St.Petersburg, Russia Working language: English Theme for 2019: COMMUNITIES. AUDIENCES. PUBLICS In the recent decades, proliferation of communicative channels, including digital ones, has led to fragmentation of mass communication and its overarching audiences. Digitalization, on one hand, has brought on stage new audience constellations aligned along new societal cleavages – the process that is often framed negatively in academic literature, as it potentially contributes to social disintegration in the absence of common information denominators. On the other hand, the boom on the market provides numerous opportunities to rethink relations between media and their audiences, focusing... When: Wed Jan 2 11am – Sun Jan 13, 2019 12pm Central Time - Chicago Calendar: air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org Who: * ljin8788(a)gmail.com - organizer * air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org * s.bodrunova(a)spbu.ru Event details: https://www.google.com/calendar/event?action=VIEW&eid=NTFjazV0ZWMyaGFoZnMzb… Invitation from Google Calendar: https://www.google.com/calendar/ You are receiving this courtesy email at the account air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org because you are an attendee of this event. To stop receiving future updates for this event, decline this event. Alternatively you can sign up for a Google account at https://www.google.com/calendar/ and control your notification settings for your entire calendar. Forwarding this invitation could allow any recipient to modify your RSVP response. Learn more at https://support.google.com/calendar/answer/37135#forwarding

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Data & Society Openings: Researchers, Postdocs, Faculty Fellows
by danah boyd 12 Nov '18

12 Nov '18

Hi y'all! Data & Society has a cluster of new openings that are designed to attract a range of junior and senior scholars. Please forward this to folks you think might want to know and fingers crossed that some of y'all might find these of interest. <grin> Postdoctoral Scholars: https://datasociety.net/blog/2018/11/07/call-for-postdoctoral-scholars/ <https://datasociety.net/blog/2018/11/07/call-for-postdoctoral-scholars/> Data & Society is recruiting one to three Postdoctoral Scholars whose work complements research projects currently underway at the Institute and advances our mission. Postdoctoral Scholars will be expected to work with senior research leadership to construct a viable research project that will both advance scholarly knowledge and contribute to the broader goals of Data & Society. These are 2-year positions based in NYC starting in September 2019. Applications are due December 6, 2018. Researchers (Social Instabilities in Labor Futures): https://datasociety.net/blog/2018/11/08/researcher-social-instabilities-in-… <https://datasociety.net/blog/2018/11/08/researcher-social-instabilities-in-…> Data & Society is hiring for two research positions in Data & Society’s Social Instabilities in Labor Futures Initiative. Candidates would design and conduct research into one of two topics: "Public Sector Labor and Technology Disruption" or "Franchise Entrepreneurship and Financialization." Ideally, one of these positions will go to someone who can take on the role of "Research Lead" for the initiative. The other position would be a researcher position. These are two-year positions with the possibility of renewal. Applications due December 17, 2018. Faculty Fellows: https://datasociety.net/blog/2018/11/07/call-for-faculty-fellows/ <https://datasociety.net/blog/2018/11/07/call-for-faculty-fellows/> Data & Society is seeking two to three Faculty Fellows for our 2019-20 Class of Fellows. Faculty fellows work on independent or collaborative research projects that contribute to the mission of the organization. These are 10-month paid fellowships and fellows are expected to be in residence two days a week. Applications are due December 17, 2018. The full call provides much greater detail into each of these opportunities. Please help us spread the word! danah

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IEEE WoWMoM 2019: call for papers
by Andrea Passarella 12 Nov '18

12 Nov '18

-------------------------------------------------------------- IEEE WoWMoM 2019 Call for Papers 9-12 June 2019, Washington DC, USA http://cs.ucf.edu/wowmom2019/ -------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS SCOPE AND OVERVIEW IEEE WoWMoM 2019 is soliciting original and previously unpublished papers addressing research challenges and advances in the areas of wireless, mobile, and multimedia networking as well as ubiquitous and pervasive systems. The evolution of wireless networking technologies and their key role in future Internet scenarios offer an increasing wealth of opportunities for distributing multimedia content. To provide users with high quality of experience, especially under moderate to high utilization, appropriate architectural networking paradigms are necessary. At the same time, Internet of Things environments, wearable computing and sensors, support a diverse range of domains and services, providing rich sets of measurements for characterizing, detecting, and understanding complex behaviours and systems. These are some of the challenges that are of interest to IEEE WoWMoM 2019. The IEEE WoWMoM 2019 conference takes a broader view and seeks papers describing innovative research contributions to the field of mobile and wireless networking in general. Papers that present original work, validated by experimentation, simulation, or analysis, are solicited. Practical experiences and experimental efforts from both industry and academia, duly documenting the lessons learned from testbeds, field-trials, or real deployments, are also welcome. Specific areas of interest: - Ad-hoc, sensor, mesh and vehicular wireless networks - Content-centric architectures for wireless, mobile and multimedia networks - Context-awareness in wireless, mobile and multimedia networks - Cognitive communications and networking - Dependability and survivability issues for wireless, mobile and multimedia networks - Energy-efficiency for wireless, mobile and multimedia networks - Internet/Web of Things - Localisation, tracking, and mobility management and services - Middleware services for wireless, mobile and multimedia networks - Mobile applications and services over 5G networks - Mobile big data networking and services - Mobile cloud computing - Mobile edge computing - Mobile health networking - Mobile network traffic characterization and measurements - Mobile social networks - Modelling, analysis, and performance evaluation of wireless, mobile and multimedia networks - Network virtualisation and software-defined wireless networks - Opportunistic and delay-tolerant networks - Participatory, mobile and urban sensing - Resource management for QoS/QoE provisioning - RFID, NFC, and Machine-to-machine (M2M) communications - Satellite and space networking - Seamless inter-networking and self-organisation - Security, trust and privacy issues for wireless, mobile and multimedia networks - System prototypes, measurements, real-world deployment, and experiences - Underwater wireless, mobile and multimedia networks - Virtual mobile infrastructure - Wireless BAN, PAN, LAN, MAN and WAN - Wireless multimedia systems, services and applications - Wearable Computing PAPER SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION All submissions must describe original research, not published or currently under review for another workshop, conference, or journal. Papers must be submitted electronically through EDAS. Please refer to the conference website for the detailed submissions instructions, including the type of papers that can be submitted. ACCEPTED PAPERS For accepted papers, attendance and presentation by one of the authors is mandatory. Submission implies the willingness of at least one author to attend the conference and present the paper. Accepted papers will be included in the proceedings of IEEE WoWMoM 2019 and submitted for publication to IEEE Xplore. All conference proceedings must meet IEEE's quality standards, and IEEE reserves the right not to publish any proceedings that do not meet these standards. WoWMoM organizers reserve the right to exclude a paper from distribution after the conference (e.g., removal from IEEE Xplore) if the paper is not presented at the conference for unjustified reasons. Selected Papers will be considered for a special issue of the Elsevier journal of Pervasive and Mobile Computing (PMC). IMPORTANT DATES Abstract submission: November 23, 2018 Full manuscript due: November 30, 2018 Acceptance notification: March 15, 2019 Camera-Ready version due: Mid April, 2019 Conference Dates: 9-12 June, 2019 For any additional information feel free to contact the PC chairs at maria(a)csd.uoc.gr and jasleen(a)cs.unc.edu

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THE 19TH IEEE/ACM INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON CLUSTER, CLOUD AND GRID COMPUTING (IEEE/ACM CCGrid 2019): CALL FOR PAPERS
by Announce Announcements 12 Nov '18

12 Nov '18

THE 19TH IEEE/ACM INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON CLUSTER, CLOUD AND GRID COMPUTING (IEEE/ACM CCGrid 2019) CALL FOR PAPERS Advances in architectures, networks, systems and middleware technologies are leading to new concepts and platforms for computing, ranging from Clusters and Grids to Clouds and Datacenters, and result in an outstanding impact to numerous aspects of the modern world. The 19th Annual IEEE/ACM International Symposium in Cluster, Cloud, and Grid Computing (CCGrid 2019) is a forum bringing together international researchers, developers, and practitioners to present leading research activities and results on a broad range of topics related to these concepts, platforms, and their applications. The conference features keynotes, technical presentations, workshops, and posters, as well as the Doctoral Symposium and the SCALE challenge featuring live demonstrations. CCGrid has travelled over the world. Its next stop is in beautiful Larnaca, Cyprus, in May 2019. Papers due: December 7, 2018 Author Notifications: February 15, 2019 Revised Submission: March 1, 2019 Notification of Acceptance: March 15, 2019 Camera Ready: March 28, 2019 More info at http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=YWlyLUwJCQlhaXItTEBsaXN0c2Vydi… ***Organizing Committee*** **General Chairs:** Marios Dikaiakos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Schahram Dustdar, TU Wien, Austria **Program Chairs:** Sarunas Girdzijauskas, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden George Pallis, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Yongwei Wu, Tsinghua University, China **Workshop and Tutorial Chairs:** Adel Nadjaran Toosi, Monash University, Australia Borja Sotomayor, University of Chicago, USA **Doctoral Symposium Chair:** Sandra Gesing, University of Notre Dame, USA **SCALE Challenge Chairs:** Herodotos Herodotou, Cyprus University of Technology, Cyprus Radu Prodan, University of Innsbruck, Austria **Local Arrangement Chairs:** TBD **Publicity Chair:** Demetris Trihinas, University of Nicosia, Cyprus **Proceedings Chair:** Georgiana Copil, SAP, Romania **Registration & Finance Chair:** George Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus **Sponsorships and Students Travel Award Chair:** Eliezer Dekel, Huawei, Germany **Web Chair:** Kyriakos Georgiades, EasyConferences, Cyprus **Vice Chairs:** Applications and Data Science Vasiliki Kalavri, ETH Zurich, Switzerland Eiko Yoneki, University of Cambridge, UK Architecture and Networking Anne-Cecile Orgerie, IRISA, France Luis Veiga Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal Cloud Computing Shadi Ibrahim, INRIA, France Dimitrios Tsoumakos, Ionian University, Greece Autonomic Computing, Datacenters and Cyber-infrastructure: Georges DaCosta, IRIT, France Xuanhua Shi, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China Performance Modelling and Evaluation Rodrigo N. Calheiros, Western Sydney University, Australia Alexandru Iosup, Vrije Universiteit, The Netherlands Programming Models and Runtime Systems Thomas Fahringer, University of Innsbruck, Austria Asterios Katsifodimos, TU Delft, The Netherlands Scheduling and Resource Management Ewa Deelman, USC Information Sciences Institute, USA Rizos Sakellariou, University of Manchester, UK Storage and I/O Systems Gregory Chockler, Royal Holloway University of London, UK Hillel Kolodner, IBM Haifa, Israel Edge Computing Ivana Podnar ??arko, University of Zagreb, Croatia Haiying (Helen) Shen, University of Virginia, USA ***Program Committee*** **Storage and I/O Systems** Jiwu Shu, Tsinghua University Qingsong Wei, Institute of High Peformance Computing Bo Mao, Xiamen University Patrick P. C. Lee, The Chinese University of Hong Kong Weikuan Yu, Florida State University Cao Qiang, Huazhong University of Science and Technology Pedro Garcia Lopez, Universitat Rovira i Virgili Weijun Xiao, Virginia Commonwealth University Yu Hua Huazhong, University of Science and Technology, Ming Zhao, Arizona State University Qing Liu, New Jersey Institute of Technology Maria S. Perez, Universidad Polit?©cnica de Madrid Lei Tian, TINTRI Yong Chen, Texas Tech University Song Jiang, University of Texas, Arlington Yifeng Zhu, University of Maine Gala Yadgar, Technion Danny Harnik, IBM Xiaosong Ma, North Carolina State University Philip Shilane, EMC Joseph Izraelevitz, University of Rochester **Programming Models and Runtime Systems** Patrizio Dazzi, ISTI-CNR Florina M. Ciorba, University of Basel Murali Emani, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Dragi Kimovski, Alpen-Adria-Universit?§t Klagenfurt Hong-Linh Truong, Vienna University of Technology Jan Hidders, Vrije Universiteit Brussel Dan Holmes, The University of Edinburgh Siegfried Benkner, University of Vienna Jan S Rellermeyer, Delft University of Technology Marios Fragkoulis, TU Delft Jingling Xue, The University of New South Wales Karl Fuerlinger, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich Stephen Olivier, Sandia National Laboratories Sriram Krishnamoorthy, Pacific Northwest National Lab Alexandre Eichenberger, IBM Costin Iancu, LBNL Peter Thoman, University of Innsbruck Alexandre Denis, INRIA Hari Subramoni, The Ohio State University Martin Schulz, Technical University of Munich Stefan Lankes, RWTH Aachen University Philipp Gschwandtner, University of Innsbruck Paris Carbone, KTH Royal Institute of Technology Jim Dowling, Swedish Institute of Computer Science, Kista, Sweden Christoph Kessler, Link??ping University Christian Engelmann, Oak Ridge National Laboratory Ron Brightwell, Sandia National Laboratories Patrick Bridges, University of New Mexico Raymond Namyst, University of Bordeaux - Inria Jesper Larsson Tr?§ff, Vienna University of Technology Marcelo Pasin, Universit?© de Neuch?¢tel Kamil Iskra, Argonne National Laboratory Roberto Gioiosa, Oak Ridge National Laboratory Alexandre Strube, Forschungszentrum Julich GmbH Abdulrahman Kaitoua, Politecnico di Milano **Cloud Computing** S?©bastien Monnet, University Savoie Mont Blanc Anastassios Nanos, OnApp Amelie Chi Zhou, Shenzhen University Suzanne McIntosh, New York University - Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Center for Data Science Adrien Lebre, INRIA Guillaume Pierre, IRISA / Universit?© de Rennes 1 Orcun Yildiz, Argonne National Laboratory Hai Jin, Huazhong University of Science and Technology Song Wu, Huazhong University of Science and Technology Hong-Linh Truong, Vienna University of Technology Michael Schoettner, Heinrich-Heine University Duesseldorf Bingsheng He, National University of Singapore Thomas Lambert, University of Bordeaux Osamu Tatebe, University of Tsukuba Ivona Brandic, Vienna University of Technology Georgios Goumas, National Technical University of Athens Domenico Talia, University of Calabria Matthieu Dorier, Argonne National Laboratory Alexandru Costan, INRIA Nectarios Koziris, National Technical University of Athens Isaac Triguero Vel?°zquez, University of Nottingham Suren Byna, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Ioan Raicu, Illinois Institute of Technology Yong Zhao, University of Science and Technology of China Giuseppe Di Modica, University of Catania **Applications and Data Science** Jing Gong, KTH Royal Institute of Technology Lin Gan, Tsinghua University Kornilios Kourtis, IBM Alexey Svyatkovskiy, Princeton University Yi-Chao Wang, Shanghai Jiao Tong University Jedrzej Rybicki, Forschunszentrum Juelich Gmbh Long Cheng, University College Dublin Jianhui Li, Computer Network Information Center,Chinese Academy of Sciences Adrian Jackson, The University of Edinburgh Scott Klasky, Oak Ridge National Laboratory Ian Cosden, Princeton University Curt Hillegas, Princeton University Katerina Antypas, NERSC Lawrence Berkeley National Lab Pat Martin, Queen's University Erlin Yao, ICT, CAS Vladimir Voevodin, RCC MSU Gregory Bauer, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign John Liagouris, ETH William M. Tang, Princeton University Massimo Quadrana, Politecnico di Milano Nicolas Kourtellis, Telefonica Research **Scheduling and Resource Management** Luiz F. Bittencourt, University of Campinas Liana Fong, IBM T. J. Watson Research Anirban Mandal, Renaissance Computing Institute Claus Pahl, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano Ioana Banicescu, Mississippi State University Kris Bubendorfer, Victoria University of Wellington Dick Epema, Delft University of Technology Dimitrios Nikolopoulos, Queen's University of Belfast Valentin Cristea, University Politehnica of Bucharest - UPB Wei Zheng, Xiamen University Ioannis Konstantinou, National Technical University of Athens Uwe Schwiegelshohn, TU Dortmund University Maciej Malawski, AGH University of Science and Technology Oliver Sinnen, Parallel & Reconfigurable Computing lab, Dept. of Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of Auckland Cesar De Rose, PUCRS Denis Trystram, Grenoble Institute of Technology Ivona Brandic, TU Wien Henri Casanova, University of Hawaii at Manoa Radu Prodan, University of Innsbruck Alex Delis, University of Athens Ivan Rodero, Rutgers University Joanna Kolodziej, Cracow University of Technology Ramin Yahyapour, GWDG - University of G??ttingen Douglas Thain, University of Notre Dame **Performance Modelling and Evaluation** Sameer Shende, University of Oregon Shangguang Wang, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications Young Choon Lee, Macquarie University Alexandru Uta, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam Marc Perache, CEA,DAM,DIF Bogdan Ghit, Databricks Xing Liu, IBM Lauren Smith, US Department of Defense Mihai Capot?É, Intel Nikolas Roman Herbst, University of W?ºrzburg Alexandru Calotoiu, TU Darmstadt Christian Terboven, RWTH Aachen University Swaroop Pophale, Oak Ridge National Laboratory Andreas Knuepfer, TU Dresden Bronis de Supinski, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Abhinav Bhatele, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Karen L. Karavanic, Portland State University Markus Geimer, Juelich Supercomputing Centre Jean-Baptiste Besnard, ParaTools SAS Erwin Laure, KTH/PDC Simon Hammond, Sandia National Laboratories Nathan Tallent, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Didem Unat, University of California San Diego Sascha Hunold, Vienna University of Technology Matei Ripeanu, The University of British Columbia Naoya Maruyama, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Bahman Javadi, Western Sydney University Wenhong Tian, Uni. of Eletr. Sci. and Tech. of China Yogesh Simmhan, Indian Institute of Science Animesh Trivedi, Vrije Universiteit, The Netherlands Michele Weiland, The University of Edinburgh **Autonomic Computing, Datacenters, and Cyber-infrastructure** Shinobu Miwa, The University of Electro-Communications Murali Emani, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Eitan Zahavi, Mellanox Technologies Karl Fuerlinger, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich Patricia Stolf, IRIT, Universit?© de Toulouse Vladimir Vlassov, Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), School for Information and Communication Technology Siegfried Benkner, University of Vienna Paul Renaud-Goud, IRIT, Universit?© de Toulouse Hong-Linh Truong, Vienna University of Technology Nectarios Koziris, National Technical University of Athens Beniamino Di Martino, University of Campania "Luigi Vanvitelli" Harald Kornmayer. DHBW Mannheim Shrisha Rao, International Institute of Information Technology - Bangalore Zhiyi Huang, Univ of Otago Rong Ge, Clemson University Jean-Marc Pierson, IRIT, Universit?© de Toulouse Olivier Richard, LIG Laboratory Grenoble Avi Mendelson, Technion Zhiling Lan, Illinois Institute of Technology Vatche Ishakian, Bentley University, Computer Information Systems Department Robert Ricci, University of Utah Marian Bubak, AGH Krakow PL and University of Amsterdam NL Ariel Oleksiak, Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center Jesus Escudero-Sahuquillo, University of Castilla-La Mancha Nikolaos Chrysos, Foundation For Research & Technology - Hellas (FORTH) Gianni Antichi, University of Cambridge Holger Fr??ning, University of Heidelberg Soeren Sonntag, Intel Pedro Javier Garcia, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha Hubertus Franke, IBM Robert Birke, ABB Research Andreea Simona Anghel, IBM Research - Zurich Research Laboratory John Carter, IBM Min Si, Argonne National Laboratory Marco Chiesa, Universite catholique de Louvain Balazs Gerofi, The University of Tokyo John Thomson, OnApp Jonathan Eastep, Intel Warren Smith, The Weather Company, an IBM Business **Architecture and Networking** Alexandra Carpen-Amarie, Fraunhofer Rolando Martins, University of Porto Ryan E. Grant, Sandia National Laboratories Abhinav Vishnu, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Bruno Schulze, LNCC Sven-Arne Reinemo, Simula Research Laboratory Dongyoon Lee, Virginia Tech Taylor Groves, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Javier Garcia Blas, Carlos III University Richard Graham, Mellanox Technologies Frederic Suter, CC IN2P3 / CNRS Abdel-Hameed Badawy, New Mexico State University Federico Silla, Universitat Polit?®cnica de Val?®ncia Tian Guo, Worcester Polytechnic Institute Huiyang Zhou, NC State University Michihiro Koibuchi, National Institute of Informatics James Dinan, Intel Felix Freitag, Universitat Polit?®cnica de Catalunya Hatem Ltaief, KAUST Jiayuan Meng, Argonne National Lab Guillaume Mercier, ENSEIRB/INRIA **Edge Computing** Claudio Ardagna, Universita' degli Studi di Milano - Dipartimento di Informatica Javid Taheri, Karlstad University Zhuozhao Li, University of Chicago Anthony Simonet, Rutgers University Chenxi Qiu, Department of Computer Science, Rowan University In Kee Kim, University of Georgia Tummalapalli Sudhamsh Reddy, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Texas at Arlington, USA Andrei Tchernykh, CICESE Research Center Yan Bai, University of Washington Xiaoqiang Ma, Huazhong University of Science and Technology Marcos Assuncao, Inria, LIP, ENS Lyon Omer Rana, Cardiff University Dana Petcu, West University of Timisoara Haiyang Wang, University of Minnesota duluth Rafael Mayo, CIEMAT Jedrzej Musial, Poznan University of Technology Mario S?ºdholt, IMT Atlantique (Nantes) Laurence T. Yang, St Francis Xavier University Helene Coullon, INRIA Zahir Tari, RMIT University Enzo Mingozzi, University of Pisa Pierre Manneback, University of Mons Frederic Desprez, INRIA Jinwei Liu, Clemson University Renato Figueiredo, University of Florida Husnu Narman, University of Oklahoma Kang Chen, Southern Illinois University Ahmad Al-Shishtawy, Swedish Institute of Computer Science (SICS) Lutz Schubert, OMI, University of Ulm Thierry Coupaye, Orange Labs Kejiang Ye, SIAT, Chinese Academy of Sciences Ali Shoker, HASLab, INESC TEC & University of Minho

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CfP: 7th CMSTW conference in St. Petersburg, Russia; TECH & METHODS track
by Бодрунова Светлана С ергеевна 12 Nov '18

12 Nov '18

--Apologies for potential cross-posting-- 7th International Conference COMPARATIVE MEDIA STUDIES IN TODAY’S WORLD (CMSTW’2019) CALL FOR PAPERS Time: April 16–18, 2019 Place: St.Petersburg, Russia Working language: English Theme for 2019: COMMUNITIES. AUDIENCES. PUBLICS In the recent decades, proliferation of communicative channels, including digital ones, has led to fragmentation of mass communication and its overarching audiences. Digitalization, on one hand, has brought on stage new audience constellations aligned along new societal cleavages – the process that is often framed negatively in academic literature, as it potentially contributes to social disintegration in the absence of common information denominators. On the other hand, the boom on the market provides numerous opportunities to rethink relations between media and their audiences, focusing on constructing consumer, political, and/or cultural communities in media on all levels, from hyperlocal to transnational. If we, indeed, face the fundamentally new, fragmented, redefined communicative groupings, how do we describe them? Can we actually measure ‘a public’ similar to the way we measure audiences – and how do we measure the latter, too? Do social media represent publics, and with what limitations? Is community equal to a platform? And can we draw parallels with the recent and no-so-recent past of the media systems when calling a constellation of people a community, an audience, a public? The conference seeks contributions that deal with describing, measuring, and assessing the deliberative quality and consumer behavior of communicative communities, audiences, and publics, both today and in the past. The aim of this conference is to bring together sociological, economic, psychological, communicative, and technological perspectives in rethinking the relations between social groups, media markets, and communicative technologies. We especially welcome contributions of comparative nature, while single-case studies are also welcome if they state how the method may be expanded to involve comparisons. CONFERENCE TRACKS In 2019, the conference will have four tracks that feature various aspects of the questions posed above. The submissions might orient to but are not limited to the following sub-topics: THEORY track Chairs: Silvio Waisbord, George Washington University, USA Florian Toepfl, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany • (Re)defining communities, audiences, publics: academic vs. industrial definitions of communicative groupings • Today’s grounds of formation of audiences and publics: towards multi-dimensional assessment of group communication • Group communication and its role in social change: national to regional to global • New types of democratic and authoritarian publics and their social and political roles • Public sphere(s): old, new, (non)existent • Communicative affordances and their roles in community building • Media effects in fragmented communication POLITICAL AND SOCIAL track Chairs: Svetlana Bodrunova, St.Petersburg State University, Russia Anna Litvinenko, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany – St.Petersburg State University, Russia • New socio-economic order and communication in the post-recession world • Personal vs. group communication: the borders of the social in public discussions • Social gaps and political publics • Communicating ideology in today’s world • The state and co-optation of platforms: free speech, communicative authoritarianism, and computational propaganda • Communities communicating: practices in comparative perspective • Minority, ethnicity, and migration as communicative triggers MEDIA INDUSTRY AND JOURNALISM track Chair: Federico Subervi, University of Leeds, UK • Communication as belonging: media consumption as community builder/destroyer • Business models for newspapers and beyond: is there an audience? • Group interests and media content: new rituals of audience involvement • Online journalism and the blurred borders of media consumption • Personalized or mass journalism? Decisions for today’s fragmentation of media use • Community media and their resources for survival • Measuring audiences: media metric industries of today • The visual: representing communities and creating audience involvement TECH AND METHODS track Chair: Olessia Koltsova, National Research University – Higher School of Economics, Russia • Platform affordances and community formation • Media and their audiences on social networks • Communities and computationals: bots, trolls, and their real impact tested • Detection of communities and publics: automated and semi-automated methods • Measuring publics: conceptualization and instruments • Approaches to comparisons in online community detection When submitting to the conference, please start your title with naming the track, e.g. ‘THEORY A new definition of community building on Twitter’. ABOUT THE CONFERENCE Since 2013, the conference has gathered experts in a wide range of topics within comparative media research, from media systems studies and transformations in communication to the rise of platform-based communication to emotions and rationality in mediated discussions. In 2019, the 7th conference will include a plenary podium discussion, four keynote speeches, special ‘guest country’ events, panels for presenting papers, book presentations, and a range of workshops (subject to submissions). The cultural program of the conference will include excursions to the State Hermitage and the Russian Museum that holds one of the best collections of Russian fine art in the world. The conference is an integral part of the 58th Russian-speaking ‘Media in Modern World’ Annual Forum. Thus, interested audience is ensured, and you may wish to take part in the Plenary Session (with simultaneous translation into English), as well as other sessions and panels at the Annual Forum on April 18-19. INVITED GUESTS Jean Burgess (Queensland University of Technology, Australia) Barbara Pfetsch (Freie Universität Berlin, Germany) Boguslawa Dobek-Ostrowska (University of Wroclaw, Poland) Florian Töpfl (Freie Universität Berlin, Germany) FORMS OF PARTICIPATION Individual submissions Full papers: 9 to 15 pages, Springer formatted, anonymized Short papers: 5 to 8 pages, Springer formatted, anonymized Extended abstracts: 300 words, free form (pdf), anonymized All submissions must be uploaded via the conference EasyChair account (will be available starting from November 15, 2018; please see the address on the conference website). Full and short papers will be considered for publication in the conference proceedings. Group submissions Panel submissions: a 300-word panel rationale plus 3 to 5 abstracts of max 200 words, free form (pdf), anonymized. Full and short papers may be submitted as parts of the panels to be included in the proceedings, but panels may also be accepted without full paper submission. Workshops: 2 to 4 pages, Springer formatted, de-anonymized All submissions must be uploaded via the conference EasyChair account (will be available starting from November 15, 2018; please see the address on the conference website). Workshops Workshops are a special group form of participation in the conference. They are dedicated to detailed in-group discussion of a collection of papers (up to ten). Workshop proposals are submitted by the general conference deadline; workshop papers are submitted by a later deadline, but are subject to blind peer-review just as the conference submissions. Accepted papers will be published in the second volume of proceedings after the conference. The initial payment for the workshop includes all the papers by workshop organizers; also, external individual submissions may be included in a workshop. Workshop chairs organize the reviewing process together with the conference organizers. PUBLISHING OPPORTUNITIES AND AWARDS Springer International Publishing The conference has applied to Springer International Publishing to publish its proceedings in one of its series (SCOPUS). We ask all the authors of full, short papers, and workshop proposals, to use the Springer templates. The templates and the guidelines for authors: www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines… Special issue at SOCIAL MEDIA + SOCIETY The conference will feature its best papers at Social Media + Society, a leading journal in the field (SCOPUS Q1). The journal focuses on research upon social media and their roles in social and political life. While submitting via EasyChair, please tick the box ‘I want my paper to be considered for the special issue’ if you wish so. Note that the issue is regarded ‘invited content’, which makes this open access publication free of charge. DIGITAL JOURNALISM publishing opportunity The conference steering committee will identify (based on the reviews) the best conference paper on issues that relate to digital media and online journalism. This paper will be suggested for publication in Digital Journalism (SCOPUS Q1), another distinguished journal in communication studies. Prof. Svetlana Bodrunova, the CMSTW program chair and Digital Journalism board member, will advise on how to make the paper fit the standards of the journal before submitting it to the journal peer review. Katrin Voltmer’s prize for the best PhD student paper In 2018, Katrin Voltmer established a prize for the best PhD student’s paper of the conference; this prize is equal to 10,000 RUR. The prize will be handed in at the closing ceremony. DEADLINES AND OTHER DATES Individual submissions January 14, 2019 – main submission deadline (papers and extended abstracts, including papers that belong to panels) February 5, 2019 – notifications of acceptance February 15, 2019 – camera-ready papers deadline February 10, 2019 – deadline to confirm participation March 1, 2018 – early-bird registration deadline April 1, 2018 – regular registration deadline Group submissions January 14, 2019 – main submission deadline (panel and workshop proposals) January 20, 2019 – notification of acceptance and announcement of workshops on the website February 5, 2019 – deadline for individual workshop submissions to EasyChair February 20, 2019 – notification of acceptance for workshop papers March 1, 2019 – registration deadline for group submissions March 15, 2018 – early-bird registration deadline for individual workshop submissions April 1, 2018 – regular registration deadline Please note that there will be no on-site registration payment procedures; please ensure your participation by paying the participation fee before April 1, 2018. Visa support St.Petersburg University provides visa support for the conference participants. Visa invitation letters will be sent out on request. Please note that, for the USA and UK citizens, preparation of an official invitation may take up to 5 weeks, while for the EU citizens it takes 1 to 2 weeks. PARTICIPATION FEES Presenters: UN Tier 1 country: 150 euro (early-bird: 120 euro) UN Tier 2 country: 120 euro (early-bird: 100 euro) UN Tier 3 country: 80 euro (early-bird: 60 euro) Student/PhD student presenter – 50 euro Individual workshop submission: 100 euro (early-bird: 80 euro) Panel (up to 5 papers): 250 euro (early-bird: 200 euro), individual submissions included in payment Workshop (up to 10 participants): 250 euro for the initial group submission Non-presenting participant – 30 euro Please note that the price for the entrance tickets to the State Hermitage is to be paid extra at the museum and is currently 10 euro, or 700 roubles. Conference venue, website, and email: The conference venue is School of Journalism and Mass Communications, St.Petersburg University, 26, 1st line of Vasilievsky island, St.Petersburg 199004 Russia The conference website will be cmstw2019.org (opens November 12, 2018). Those interested in learning of previous conferences and general information may wish to visit cmstw2018.org. In case of any queries, please send us your questions to cmstw2019(a)spbu.ru. We’re looking forward to welcoming you in St.Petersburg! -- Svetlana S. Bodrunova, Prof., D.Polit.Sci. Head, Center for International Media Research School of Journalism and Mass Communications, St.Petersburg State University +7 921 933 02 14 spasibo-tebe(a)yandex.ru

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Media Studies Position--Deadline Extended
by Mcglotten, Shaka 11 Nov '18

11 Nov '18

Hi all: The deadline for the Assistant Professor position at Purchase College has been extended until Nov. 7. Please circulate widely! Job Posting--Assistant Professor of Media Studies @ Purchase College-SUNY Founded on the principle that artists and scholars are indispensable to each other and the pursuit of social justice, Purchase College combines professional conservatory programs in the visual and performing arts and distinguished programs in the liberal arts and sciences. The Media Studies Program invites applications for a full-time tenure-track Assistant Professor to join our faculty, beginning Fall 2019. We seek a scholar of media cultures who will also contribute to the recently inaugurated MFA in Media Arts and Culture. We are particularly interested in candidates with an interdisciplinary approach (critical race theory, decolonial/postcolonial studies, disability studies, indigenous studies, and gender/queer studies) with research in one or more the following areas: artificial intelligence, critical data studies, digital activism, media archeology, platform studies, and social media. Media Studies is intertwined with the Anthropology Program; therefore, familiarity with ethnographic methods is highly desirable. The candidate should have a record of excellence in teaching, and a passion for working closely with students is essential. The successful candidates will be committed to student learning, student success, and a liberal arts education. Responsibilities include teaching 5 courses and supervising 4-6 senior projects per academic year. Professors in Media Studies typically teach 3 required courses and 2 electives in the faculty’s area of research. Other duties include mentoring upper-level undergraduate students and graduate students, academic advising and community service (which encompasses committee work as well as College, School, and Board of Study governance). Located 25 miles north of Manhattan in Westchester County, the campus celebrates diversity and creativity, encouraging students to “Think Wide Open.” Purchase College is part of the State University of New York system. Qualifications: PhD in Media Studies or related field. ABD candidates with completion date by May 2019 will be considered but must have the PhD in hand by the time of appointment. Evidence of excellence in teaching at the undergraduate college level, or of potential as an effective teacher, is also required. Candidates from underrepresented groups are strongly encouraged to apply. Applicants must attach the following to the online employment application: 1) Cover letter should discuss research and teaching, as well as how the candidate will contribute to the Bachelor’s and MFA program. 2) CV 3) Teaching portfolio or student evaluations To apply, please visit the following website: https://jobs.purchase.edu and complete an online application first. Hard copy and email submissions are not accepted. Review of applications will continue until January 7, 2018. Purchase College, SUNY is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer. Best, — Shaka McGlotten (they/he) Associate Professor of Media Studies Coordinator, Gender Studies & Global Black Studies Center for Critical Race and Digital Studies<https://criticalracedigitalstudies.com/> Fall 2018 Office Hours: Th, 12-2; and by appointment Social Sciences 1024

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CFP: Queer Surveillance -- Deadline Dec. 1
by Gary Kafer 10 Nov '18

10 Nov '18

Dear all, We invite you to consider the following CFP for a Special Issue of *Surveillance & Society* on "Queer Surveillance" Editors: Daniel Grinberg & Gary Kafer https://ojs.library.queensu.ca/index.php/surveillance-and-society/announcem… Submission deadline:* December 1, 2018* for publication September 2019. This special issue calls for an encounter between queer studies and surveillance studies to reconsider the stakes of queerness in relation to vectors of monitoring, control, and intimacy. Our conception of queer surveillance aims to expand upon the ways in which assemblages of affects, behaviors, and bodies are made either legible or non-normative within dominant social systems on local, national, and transnational scales. By interrogating the conjunctures of queerness and surveillance, this issue seeks to deepen understanding of the classificatory processes that register some bodies as overly opaque and dangerous and others as sufficiently transparent and secure. At the same time, we ask how queerness and surveillance can be co-constitutive and mutually reinforcing in order to more fully recognize where their shifting logics conflict or align within nationalist and colonial paradigms. Our conception of queer in queer surveillance is neither identitarian (the surveillance of stable LGBTQ+ identities) nor anti-identitarian (queerness as resistant to the identities that surveillance systems construct). Rather, this issue seeks to explore the queer relationships that we might develop with the rubrics that surveillance technologies impose upon bodies through categories of race, gender, sexuality, class, ability, religion, and citizenship. What is queer here is not simply the matrix of identities falling under the rubric of LGBTQ+. Advancing from previous scholarship on queer surveillance, we consider the ways in which queerness gestures towards the spatial and temporal contingency of identity formations that hegemonic structures of visibility, acceptability, and legality continually make and unmake.1 We take note from Jasbir Puar’s assertion that the “assemblage” of queerness isn’t simply the opposition between queer and non-queer subjects or a praxis of resistant alterity, but is produced through the enmeshing of bodies, affects, and technologies across the normative territories that social categorizations shape.2 Building on recent work on feminism and race in surveillance studies, this issue will also move beyond narrow questions of privacy and fixed identities into more capacious concepts of privilege, risk, and access.3 Key here is the conceit that surveillance is yoked to structural inequalities and systems of oppression wherein biased surveillance systems marginalize and dehumanize communities. As such, we might say that surveillance systems do not operate through predetermined identities, but rather politicize their production, distribution, and performance. Consider, for example, more recent scholarship that demonstrates how racial, gender, and class politics impact trans communities’ abilities to traverse security checkpoints, obtain access to medical care, or navigate bureaucratic challenges of identification.4 Gender here becomes a politicized site of negotiation normalized through its citational effects on bodies within affective economies of fear, suspicion, and risk. For this special issue, we invite scholarship that attends to the corporeal, technological, and affective impacts of queer surveillance in both its historical and contemporary iterations. Likewise, we are interested in mapping local and global scales of such operations. Specifically, we ask how queerness is historically and culturally contingent and how the standards of the normative and perverse vary across legal and sociopolitical contexts. Concurrently, we ask how queerness can reorient the concentrations of surveillance, as well as the affinities and attunements that emerge from such counteractive positions. In addition, this issue will outline the ever-shifting contours of queer surveillance as it is being enacted and as it radically reshapes the configurations of visibility, desirability, and identification. Possible research areas within queer surveillance studies might include (but are not limited to): ● Queering surveillance theory ● Histories and archives of queer surveillance ● Global practices of monitoring sexual identity, gender, and race ● Counter-surveillance and sousveillance tactics ● Policing of intimacy and sexual practices ● Healthcare in queer communities ● Identity formation in self-surveillance and peer surveillance ● Queer dynamics of digital surveillance (algorithms, networking apps, social media) ● The politics of visibility/invisibility and opacity/transparency ● Biopolitics, corporealities, and affect ● Normativity and abnormality ● Queerness and the carceral state Submission Information: We welcome full academic papers, opinion pieces, review pieces, poetry, artistic, and audiovisual submissions. Submissions will undergo a peer-review and revision process prior to publication. Submissions should be original work, neither previously published nor under consideration for publication elsewhere. All references to previous work by contributors should be masked in the text (e.g., “Author 2015”). All papers must be submitted through the online submission system no later than December 1, 2018, for publication in September 2019. (When submitting, please indicate in the notes box that the paper is for the special issue on Queer Surveillance.) Please submit the papers in a MS Word-compatible format. For further submission guidelines, please see: https://ojs.library.queensu.ca/index.php/surveillance-and-society/about/sub… For all inquiries regarding the issue, please contact the editors: Gary Kafer <gkafer(a)uchicago.edu> and Daniel Grinberg <dgrinberg(a)umail.ucsb.edu>. References: 1 See David Phillips, “Negotiating the Digital Closet: Online Pseudonyms and the Politics of Sexual Identity,” Information, Communication, and Society 5.3 (2002): 406-424; David Phillips and Carol Cunningham, “Queering Surveillance Research” in Queer Online: Media Technology and Sexuality, ed. Kate O’Riordan and David J. Phillips (New York: Peter Lang, 2007), 31-44; Kathryn Conrad, “‘Nothing to Hide… Nothing to Fear’: Discriminatory Surveillance and Queer Visibility in Great Britain and Northern Ireland” in The Ashgate Research Companion to Queer Theory, eds. Noreen Giffney and Michael O’Rourke (Farnham, UK: Ashgate Publishing, 2009), 329-346. 2 Jasbir Puar, Terrorist Assemblages: Homonationalism in Queer Times (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 2007). 3 Rachel Dubrofsky and Shoshana Magnet, eds. Feminist Surveillance Studies (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 2015); Emily van der Meulen and Robert Heynen, eds. Expanding the Gaze: Gender and the Politics of Surveillance (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2016). Simone Browne, Dark Matters: On the Surveillance of Blackness (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 2015). 4 Shoshana Magnet and Tara Rodgers, “Stripping for the State: Whole Body Imaging Technologies and the Surveillance of Othered Bodies,” Feminist Media Studies 12.1 (2012): 101-118; Toby Beauchamp, “Artful Concealment and Strategic Visibility: Transgender Bodies and U.S. State Surveillance After 9/11,” Surveillance & Society 6.4 (2009): 356-366; Lisa Jean Moore and Paisley Currah, “Legally Sexed: Birth Certificates and Transgender Citizens” in Feminist Surveillance Studies, edited by Rachel E. Dubrofsky and Shoshanna A. Magnet (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 2015), 58-76. -- Gary Kafer Department of Cinema and Media Studies University of Chicago gkafer(a)uchicago.edu

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Multiple Senior Research Positions for Team Leaders at RISE, Cyprus
by Jahna Otterbacher 10 Nov '18

10 Nov '18

Dear colleagues, The Research Center on Interactive Media, Smart Systems, and Emerging Technologies (http://rise.org.cy <http://rise.org.cy/>) has openings for several positions of Team Leaders for the creation of Multidisciplinary Research Groups within the center. Successful applicants will receive a competitive salary and additional funds for recruiting two junior researchers under their supervision. Applications are solicited across all areas of Interactive Media, Smart Systems, and Emerging Technologies, including (but not limited to) the following: iNicosia (relevant to RISE’s flagship project on smart cities) Augmented Reality Data Analysis and Visualization Interactive (Human-In-The-Loop) Machine Learning Virtual Humans User Experience/Interaction Design Imaging/Computer Vision Applied Cognition/Neuroscience (with research interest in interactive technologies) 3D printing/Fabrication Wearable Computing Other areas relevant to Interactive Media, Smart Systems, and Emerging Technologies The full announcement, deadlines, and application procedure can be found here: http://www.rise.org.cy/en-gb/vacancies/team-leaders/ <http://www.rise.org.cy/en-gb/vacancies/team-leaders/> Regards, Jahna Otterbacher RISE Center of Excellence, Cyprus

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"Society Is Being Programmed By A Black Box"
by Hasan Azad 09 Nov '18

09 Nov '18

Dear all, I highly recommend the Youtube channel Truthstream Media where this video is from. The husband and wife team regularly produce incredibly insightful mini-documentaries and commentaries: "It Knows You Better Than You Know Yourself. Where do we go from here? Data has become the tail that wags the dog; and we are pets, not free individuals in this configuration. And things are growing Darker." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQmIPK7DQh8 Regards, Hasan -- Hasan Azad, PhD Dept. of Religion Columbia University NY, 10027 Red and Green Oil on Water - A Novel: https://www.amazon.com/Red-Green-Water-Hasan-Azad-ebook/dp/B01IZMTHEY/ref=s… Ta'seel Commons: http://www.taseelcommons.com/ Academia.edu: https://columbia.academia.edu/HasanAzad Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/has-an-apple co-founder: Yoga Makes Art: https://yogaandwriting.wordpress.com/2016/02/

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