CFP: Technology and Emerging Media

CCA 2015 Annual meeting: Call for papers - Technology and Emerging Media

We invite you to submit a proposal (individual paper, panel or roundtable) to the Technology and Emerging Media (TEM) track within the next Canadian Communication Association conference that will take place on June 3-5, 2015 at the University of Ottawa, Ontario.

All participants in the TEM track will have the opportunity to submit a paper based on their presentation, for inclusion in the "TEM Proceedings" that are published online on the interest group’s website: http://tem.fl.ulaval.ca/ Detailed guidelines will be e-mailed  to TEM participants in due course.

The "Technology and Emerging Media" track covers works addressing a wide range of communication and media-related issues, with a focus on technology and technological innovation. Particularly relevant to the track are proposals addressing the following topics:

• Information and communication technologies, notably aspects of their design, diffusion, and uses;
• Digital media and related social phenomena;
• Issues related to recent technological developments in the field of communication: social media/social Web, mobile media, online games, and new diffusion platforms for traditional media.

Please note that in order for your proposal to be included in the TEM track, we ask that you select "technology and emerging media" as a topic on the submission form. Further details on the submission process can be found at: http://www.acc-cca.ca/submit

The Technology and Emerging Media section is now an official CCA interest group. If you are interested in joining the group, please send a note to: guillaume.latzko-toth@com.ulaval.ca to be registered to the TEM mailing list.

REMINDER: Deadline for submitting proposals to the CCA conference is: December 12, 2014. General call for papers: http://www.acc-cca.ca/callforpaper   

CFP: DATA POWER: a two-day, international conference

DATA POWER: a two-day, international conference
Date: Monday 22nd and Tuesday 23rd JUNE 2015
Venue: University of Sheffield, UK

Data make many promises. Through data, we can access opinions, feelings, behaviours, people, in real time, at great volume and at great speed. Tracking data is the holy grail. Data have the potential to transform all aspects of society, making all of its operations more efficient. Big data represent opportunities for social researchers to enhance understanding of human behaviour. The numbers speak for themselves.

But what is the cost of the data delirium (van Zoonen)? What kind of power is enacted when data are employed by governments and security agencies to monitor populations or by private corporations to accumulate knowledge about consumers in an increasingly ‘knowing capitalism’ (Thrift)? Because contemporary forms of data mining and analytics open up the potential for new, unaccountable and opaque forms of population management in a growing range of social realms, questions urgently need to be asked not only about who gets access to data and whose privacy is invaded, but also about control, discrimination, and social sorting – about data power. We also need to ask about the possibility of agency in the face of data power, of social groups sidestepping the dominating interests of big business and big government in our increasingly big-data-driven world.
This conference creates a space to reflect on these and other critical issues relating to data’s ever more ubiquitous power. Keynote speakers include these fantastic commentators on data power:

• Mark Andrejevic, Center for Critical and Cultural Studies, University of Queensland, author of AOIR book award winner Infoglut (2013);
• Nick Couldry, London School of Economics, author and editor of 11 books & numerous articles, including ‘Big data from the bottom up’ (Big Data and Society);
• Kate Crawford, Microsoft Social Media Research Collective, author of numerous articles on big data and Understanding the Internet: Language, Technology, Media, Power (forthcoming) (participation to be confirmed);
• José van Dijck, Comparative Media Studies, University of Amsterdam, author of The Culture of Connectivity (2013);
• Alison Hearn, Faculty of Information and Media Studies, University of Western Ontario, author of numerous articles on data, labour and subjectivity;
• Richard Rogers, Digital Methods Initiative, University of Amsterdam, author of ICA book award winner Digital Methods (2013);
• Evelyn Ruppert, Department of Sociology, Goldsmiths College, University of London, author (with Engin Isin) of Being Digital Citizens (forthcoming) & editor of Big Data and Society;
• Joseph Turow, Annenberg School of Communication, University of Pennslyvania, author of The Daily You (2012), amongst many other publications.

Papers are invited on the following – and other relevant – topics:

• The political economy of data
• Data cultures (data and the cultural industries, data journalism)
• Data and the production of subjectivity and identity
• Theorising data
• The politics of data visualisation
• Data labour
• Emotional data
• The social life of data and data-driven methods
• The politics of open and linked data
• Data-driven governance, surveillance and control
• Data and discrimination
• The regulation of data mining
• Data citizens
• Resistance, agency, appropriation.

Information/details

• Whilst we welcome papers of all kinds, please note that this conference focuses on critical questions about data’s power. Papers which do not address critical, social questions will not be accepted.
• Submit 250 word paper proposals to data-power-conference@sheffield.ac.uk<mailto:data-power-conference@sheffield.ac.uk>by 16th January 2015. Decisions will be communicated by 30th January 2015.
• The conference fee is £120 waged (approx. $190 / 150 euro, £80 unwaged/student (approx. $130 / 100 euro).
• The conference will launch the special issue of The European Journal of Cultural Studies edited by Mark Andrejevic, Alison Hearn and Helen Kennedy, entitled ‘Data Mining and Analytics’.
• DATA POWER is hosted by the University of Sheffield’s Digital Society Network, and the Department of Sociological Studies, both in the Faculty of Social Sciences.
• The Steel City of Sheffield is one of the UK’s largest cities, close to the Peak District National Park in the heart of England, and with a fantastic cultural and creative life.

CFP: iACToR’s 20th Annual CyberPsychology, CyberTherapy & Social Networking Conference

iACToR’s 20th Annual CyberPsychology, CyberTherapy & Social Networking Conference

20th Anniversary Conference

June 29 – July 2, 2015
University of California San Diego
La Jolla, California

Visit our website: http://www.interactivemediainstitute.com/cypsy20/

Important Dates:
Abstract Deadline – December 1, 2014
Early Registration Ends – March 15, 2015

Call for Presentations

The 20th Annual CyberPsychology, CyberTherapy & Social Networking Conference (CYPSY20) will take place on June 29 – July 2, 2015 in San Diego, California. Jointly organised by the Interactive Media Institute, in collaboration with the Virtual Reality Medical Institute and International Association of CyberPsychology, Training, & Rehabilitation (iACToR), the conference is an international networking and sharing platform for researchers, clinicians, policymakers and funding agents to share and discuss advancements in the growing disciplines of CyberPsychology and Social Networking. To submit your abstract, please visit our website www.interactivemediainstitute.com/cypsy20.

This year’s conference will also feature the workshop Social Media: Psychological Research Methods and Therapeutic Applications. You can find more details at our website.

For further information, please contact the Conference Coordinator, Chelsie Boyd, at cybertherapy@vrphobia.com. Because of the international nature of CYPSY20 and the expanded focus of its theme, we recognize the importance of extending our invitation to participants around the world interested and dedicated to enhancing public awareness of how technology can overcome obstacles and increase access to top quality healthcare for all citizens.

Encouraged topics include but are not limited to:

• Virtual Reality
• Advanced Interaction Training
• Games for Health
• Telehealth & Telepresence
• Videoconferencing
• Robotics
• Brain Computer Interfaces
• Cognitive & Physical Rehabilitation
• Wearable Computing
• Non-invasive Physiological Monitoring Devices
• Positive Technology
• Social Networking in Healthcare
• Information Technologies
• Social Implications of Facebook, Twitter, etc.
• Neurorehabilitation
• Mobile Healthcare
• Wireless Healthcare
• Cyberbullying
• Health Applications
• Healthy Ageing
• Edugames
• Technology for Therapy
• Serious Games
• Apps for Kids

The submission deadline is December 1, 2014.

See Presenter Information at http://www.interactivemediainstitute.com/cypsy20/ for logistics.

Create your own reality!

Professor Dr. Brenda K. Wiederhold, Ph.D., MBA, BCB, BCN
Conference Co-Chair & Organizer
Interactive Media Institute
Virtual Reality Medical Institute

Professor Dr. Giuseppe Riva, Ph.D.
Conference Co-Chair
Istituto Auxologico Italiano

Professor Dr. Mark D. Wiederhold, M.D., Ph.D., FACP
Conference Co-Chair
Virtual Reality Medical Center

Professor Dr. Stephane Bouchard, Ph.D.
Scientific Chair
Universite du Quabec en Outaoais

Dr. Willem-Paul Brinkman, Ph.D.
Scientific Chair
Delft University of Technology

Dr. Jose Gutierrez Maldonado, Ph.D.
Scientific Chair
Universitat de Barcelona

Professor Dr. Pedro Gamito, Ph.D.
Website Chair
Universidade Lusofona de Humanidades e Tecnologias

CFP: Computer Culture Area (SWPACA)

Computer Culture Area
36th Annual Southwest Popular / American Culture Association Conference
February 11-14, 2015
Hyatt Regency, Albuquerque, NM
www.southwestpca.org

*PROPOSAL SUBMISSION DEADLINE (EXTENDED):* Saturday, November 15, 2014

Proposals for papers are now being accepted for the area of Computer Culture, as one of the many areas within the 36th annual conference of the Southwest Popular/American Culture Association (SWPACA). Please consider submitting.

This year’s conference theme is:

*Many Faces, Many Voices: Intersecting Borders in Popular and American Culture*

COMPUTER is broadly defined as any computational device, whether smartphone or abacus, and any form of information technology, including the origins of concepts of interactive text, which may predate computational devices as traditionally conceived.

CULTURE is rooted in the concept of cultural meaning. We ask not just operational questions such as, "How do people communicate using computers?" but questions of meaning such as, "What does it mean when people communicate using computers instead of using pre-computer approaches to communication?" Along these lines, we are interested in communication as well as creative practices/applications and how computer technologies shape them.

"Computer Culture" can be understood in a variety of ways:

• the culture of the computer, that is, as computers interact with each other, what culture do they have of their own?
• the culture around the computer, that is, (sub)cultures associated with the production, maintenance, use, and destruction of computers
• the culture through the computer, that is, explicit treatment of how computer mediation influences cultural phenomena that exist or has existed in forms that did not involve computer mediation, and what these influences mean
• the culture by the computer, that is, the ways in which new (sub)cultures or (sub)cultural phenomena have arisen because of computers and understandings of these given awareness of the nature and/or workings of computers

Example questions associated with Computer Culture would include, but not be limited to:

• What implications are there because of the powerfulness of (computer/information) technology, and are these implications beneficial, detrimental, inevitable, or avoidable?
• What are the cultural origins of computers, computer/information technologies, and practices associated with them? What is the descriptive and prescriptive outlook for the conditions of those cultural forces associated with those cultural origins?
• How do cultural forces (such as changes from one generation to the next, trends in education or society, or other cultural phenomena) impact (and are impacted by) computer/information technologies/market-forces, and what do these impacts (in either direction or both) mean?

Paper topics might include (but are not limited to) those that address:

• issues of (re)presentation through computers (website analysis and design),
• methods of discourse involving computers (blogging, Twitter, social networks, viral video, live feeds),
• theories focused on the relationship between computers and culture, uses of computers in particular contexts and the impacts thereof (computers and pedagogy, online literary journals, etc.),
• the relationship between computers and cultural forces (such as news, politics, and terrorism),
• security/privacy/fraud/surveillance and computers (online security issues, spam, scams, and hoaxes),
• creative practice, web art, generative and digital art, virtual performance,
• the self, the “second self,” identity formation/negotiation, anonymity
• “cyberkids,” internet youth cultures
• data visualization and digital geographies
• hashtag thinking, communities, data organization and archives

While we will consider any relevant paper, we have a preference for those that involve transferable methodological approaches. This is an interdisciplinary conference, and other conference attendees would benefit from being able to adapt your research methods to their future research.

Scholars, teachers, professionals, artists, and others interested in computer culture are encouraged to participate.

Graduate students are also particularly welcome with award opportunities for the best graduate papers. More information about awards can be found at

http://southwestpca.org/conference/graduate-student-awards/

Specifically, we would like to highlight the following award opportunities:

• The "Computer Culture and Game Studies Award"
• The "Heldrich-Dvorak Travel Fellowships"

Given how papers may often fall into multiple categories, there may be other award opportunities listed at http://southwestpca.org/conference/graduate-student-awards/ which would be appropriate for your paper.  (However, each presenter may only apply for one – not including the Travel Fellowships, which can be in addition.)

If you wish to form your own panel, we would be glad to facilitate your needs. This conference is a presentation opportunity.

Visit  <http://www.journaldialogue.org/>http://journaldialogue.org <http://www.journaldialogue.org/> for information about the organization's new, peer-reviewed journal, Dialogue: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Popular Culture and Pedagogy.

Please pass along this call to friends and colleagues.

For consideration, *submit 100-200 word abstracts and proposals for panels by Saturday, November 15, 2014* to the conference’s electronic submission system, which can be found at: http://conference2015.southwestpca.org/

CFP: International Conference on Location-based Social Media Data

International Conference on Location-based Social Media Data

March 13-14, 2015,  Athens, Georgia, USA

http://research.franklin.uga.edu/iclsm

Second Call for Papers

In the era of big data, increasingly sizeable datasets come from social media, particularly location-based social media, in the form that is widely known as user-generated contents. Many social media datasets are made available at the finest spatial and temporal scales. The availability of such data creates unprecedented opportunities for researchers to uncover what were previously hidden in the era of small data. What kind of new research questions may be addressed with the available social media data? What are the social, ethical, and political implications of the wide use of social media platforms and the availability of such data? Particularly, what can geographers, GIScientists, and social scientists in general, contribute in response to the unique research opportunities and challenges with social media data?

This conference is designed to bring together researchers from various fields and perspectives to share ideas and findings of their research related to social media data. The aim is to provide a forum for participants to reflect upon what has been accomplished and to discuss what can be pursued in the future. We look forward to your participation!

Submission

You are invited to submit full papers (5000 words) or extended abstracts (1200-1500 words) at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iclsm2015. Example topics include, but are not limited to, the following:

Theories and Data Models for Social Media Data

• GIS representation and data structure for social media data
• Theoretical models of social media data in geographic, temporal, and social dimensions
• Open GIS in the big data era
• Scalability issues with social media data
• Data quality and representativeness of social media data

Analysis and Applications

• Applications of social media data and analysis in any field of study
• Social media data mining
• Social or complex network analysis
• Fractal or scaling analysis of big data
• Big data analytics and place sentiments
• Human mobility and spatial interaction

Geovisualization for Social Media Data

• Geovisualization of social media data in space, time, and social dimensions
• Visual analytics tools for social media data
• Exploratory and visual data mining of social media data
• Agent-based simulations of human mobility and interaction patterns

All submissions will be peer-reviewed. Authors of accepted submissions are expected to give oral or poster presentations at the conference. Following the peer-review process, highest quality research papers will be considered for publication in a special issue of Computers, Environment and Urban Systems and possibly an edited book.

Special Sessions

You are welcome to organize special sessions. If you would like to organize a special session, please submit a brief proposal with a suggested theme and possible participants (if available).  Proposals or questions about special sessions can be sent to lclsm2015@gmail.com or any one of the conference organizers. The deadline for special session proposals is Nov. 15, 2014.

Student paper competition sessions will be organized, while awards will be made to master’s student papers and doctoral student papers separately.

Important Dates

Nov. 15, 2014: Special session proposals due

Dec. 20, 2014: Full papers due

Jan. 15, 2015: Extended abstracts due

Jan. 30, 2015: Notification of paper acceptance

Mar. 13-14, 2015: Conference

Inaugural “Sports, Communication, and Technology Summit

*Inaugural “Sports, Communication, and Technology Summit” hosted by the
Marist College Center for Sports Communication*
Saturday, March 28, 2015

8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Location: Marist College

The Marist College Center for Sports Communication is pleased to announce its first Summit on Sports, Communication, and Technology. This day-long event will bring together undergraduate students, graduate students, faculty, practitioners, and industry leaders for a robust discussion of and unique skill training in the broadly defined domain of sports communication technology – from video and audio production to sports apps to wearable computing technology at live events. While this event is focused on unique experiences for undergraduate students, there will be important learning endeavors for faculty, graduate students, and those working in the field. We encourage registration and involvement from all groups. The event is open to all those from various and divergent fields with an interest in this topic. To encourage participation, registration is set at $35 for all participants, which goes towards offsetting event costs.

You can register for the event here <http://sportscomm.marist.edu/techregister.html>.

The summit will consist of the following events:

*Undergraduate Case Study Competition*

Student groups of up to six will present a solution to a case that will be assigned approximately two months in advance of the event (the beginning of the spring semester). This case will ask students to solve a problem/quandary in sports using communication technology. The solution can come in a variety of forms: a concept or research paper, a campaign, software, an app, or any other format that best provides a solution to the presented problem. At the symposium, students groups will give a ten minute presentation to the audience and panel of judges on their solution. At the conclusion of group presentations, judges will ask questions to participants. Awards will be given to the winning three groups. More information about the case, including specific guidelines and rules, will be given to teams upon registration and the assignment of the project.

*Panel Discussion*

The symposium will feature a panel of leading professionals, innovators, and scholars in a discussion of a vital topic in the sports, communication, and technology space. Attendees will be able to ask questions of the panelists after the presentation. This year’s panel will focus on communication technology for the in-arena experience. The panel will focus on ways interactive technology , from smart devices to video boards, have enriched fan experiences at live sporting events and ways that sport producers are enhancing these technologies to keep up with/surpass the at-home viewing experience. Panelists will address successes, challenges, and possible future evolution.

*Lunch and Keynote Speaker*

Lunch will be provided for all registered attendees. A keynote speaker (to be named) will address the assembly during the lunch period. Additionally, Marist College Center for Sports Communication faculty will discuss the Center’s research agenda in and highlight their student/faculty research collaborations.


*Hands-on Tutorials*
In 45-minute sessions, professors and practitioners will provide tutorials on relevant sports communication technology. These sessions will offer attendees hands-on experience in some form of sports communication technology, particularly ones that might fall outside of traditional
classroom instruction. Sessions will fall into one of the following categories, all as pertinent to sport: video/editing application, web development/design, mobile technology, and social media technology. Several sessions will run concurrently, and each will be limited to approximately 20 students per session. There will be three 45-minute sessions, allowing students to try three different tutorials if they wish. There will be a signup page for each session, allowing for students to sign up in advance and plan their afternoon.

*Workshops*

In these sessions, student groups will be able to workshop projects and concepts with application to sport media and communication. Examples could include web stories, apps, websites, software, digital productions, hardware, and social media productions, among others. Students will receive feedback and assistance from experts such as faculty, industry professionals, and potential users. These workshops will allow for student developers to present their ideas to experts and receive feedback and constructive critique toward improving these products. Student groups must submit a request in advance for these workshops, as there will be limited spots available.

*Faculty/Industry Expert Volunteers*

There are several opportunities for faculty and industry experts to volunteer for various tasks at the summit. These primarily include tutorial session leader/assistant and workshop panelist. If you have a particular area of expertise in sports, communication, and technology, please contact any of the summit organizers (listed below) to inquire about volunteering. You may also indicate this on the registration form. All assistance is greatly appreciated and will help make for a more robust learning experience for summit attendees.

For more information about the summit, please contact Keith Strudler, director of the Marist College Center for Sports Communication, at Keith.Strudler@marist.eduor (845) 575-3506, Ryan Rogers at Ryan.Rogers@marist.edu, or Tim Mirabito at Tim.Mirabito@marist.edu.

CFP: International Conference on Computational Social Science

CALL FOR ABSTRACTS

International Conference on Computational Social Science
Finlandia Hall, Helsinki, Finland, 8-11 June 2015

WEBSITE

http://www.iccss2015.eu/

IMPORTANT DATES

Deadline for abstract submission: 15 November 2014
Opening of registration: 15 January 2015
Conference dates: 8-11 June 2015

EVENT OVERVIEW

The conference will bring together scientists from different areas to meet and discuss problems on social systems and dynamics, as well as research questions motivated by large datasets, either extracted from real applications (e.g. social media, communication systems), or created via controlled experiments.

PROGRAM CHAIRS

Karen Cook (Stanford)
Santo Fortunato (Aalto University)
Michael Macy (Cornell)

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

Opening talk by Michael Macy (Cornell)

Lada Adamic (Facebook)
Sinan Aral (MIT)
Albert-Laszlo Barabasi (Northeastern University and CEU)
Nicholas Christakis (Yale)
Robin Dunbar  (Oxford)
Andreas Flache (University of Groeningen)
Dirk Helbing (ETH Zurich)
Matthew Jackson (Stanford)
Jure Leskovec (Stanford)
Alex Pentland (MIT)
Alessandro Vespignani (Northeastern University)
Duncan Watts (Microsoft)

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

Santo Fortunato (Aalto University),
Aristides Gionis (Aalto),
Heikki Hämmäinen (Aalto),
Kimmo Kaski (Aalto),
Walter Quattrociocchi (IMT Lucca),
Jari Saramäki (Aalto),
Juuso Valimäki (Aalto)

TOPICS OF INTEREST INCLUDE (but are not limited to)

• Social networks
• Social contagion
• Communication dynamics
• Information diffusion and other spreading phenomena
• Social influence
• Crowd-sourcing
• Popularity dynamics
• Smart cities
• Attention economics
• Social design and user behavior
• Group formation, evolution and group behavior analysis
• Human mobility
• Mobility and context-awareness
• Economics of trust

SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS

Contributions to the conference have to be submitted via Easychair (www.easychair.org), the name of the event there is IC2S2.

Each submission consists of an extended abstract of max 2 pages (A4). Please give a sufficiently detailed description of your work, put at least one figure, otherwise it will be difficult for the PC to assess its relevance. Short, paper-like abstracts will not be considered. Abstracts do not need to refer to unpublished work. If the work is published or under submission elsewhere it is fine. We want to give to everyone the opportunity to present the most relevant work to the topics of the conference. There will be no proceedings, but we are exploring the possibility of having a special journal issue, where selected contributions will be published. Authors of those contributions would be invited to submit full papers after the conference. Each extended abstract will be reviewed by two PC members. Abstracts can be submitted from September the 15th till November 15th, 2014. We will do our best to have mostly oral presentations of the selected contributions, both plenary and in parallel sessions. However, there will be a poster session as well. During the submission process, you will be asked to specify whether your contribution is intended for a) Plenary session presentation, b) Parallel session presentation or c) Poster session presentation. The final allocation of each contribution will be decided by the Program Committee.

CONTACT

For any question you might have please contact Prof. Santo Fortunato (santo.fortunato@aalto.fi)