CFP: Social Media Technology Conference & Workshop

CFP: Social Media Technology Conference & Workshop
October 6-7, 2016
Howard University Washington, D.C.
http://socialmediatechnologyconference.com/
@smtechconf

Social Media and Voices in the Margins
The 6th Annual Social Media Technology Conference & Workshop is a two-day
intensive conference combining panel discussions, posters sessions and
hands-on workshops designed to enlighten attendees about new scholarship,
professional practices and pedagogical approaches to teaching. This year’s
theme focuses on dissecting how power and difference force or provide an
opportunity for social media to be used by those who may be considered
marginalized in U.S. society or within other countries. The goal is to
bring scholars and professionals together to share their perspectives on
how social media are utilized by various individuals, groups, cultures or
organizations to bring their voice, influence and impact on societies.
Interested individuals can send in papers, workshop themes, panels and
poster proposals that address a myriad of topics, including, but not
limited to, the following:

• Social media and Congregation
• Social media and Geographies
• Social media and Acts of Violence
• Social media and Racism
• Social media and Sexism
• Social media and the LGBTQIA Community
• Social media and Inner City Youth
• Social media and Police Violence
• Social media and #BlackLivesMatter
• Social media and the Educationally and/or Economically Disadvantaged
• Social media and Diverse Media Messaging
• Social media and Theology
• Social media and Lifestyles
• Social media and Ageism
• Social Media and the Global South
• Social Media and Intersectionality

Paper and Poster Submissions
Respondents should submit a 3-5 page proposal that includes an overview of
the study as well as research design that includes brief review of the
literature and methodology. All respondents in this category should clearly
identify the submission type on their proposal and send the proposal
through EasyChair by June 30, 2016 at the following site:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=smtc2016. In addition to the
proposal, a file should be uploaded with a 100-word abstract of the
proposed paper or poster as well as a 100-word biography for each author.
Presenters will be notified by mid-July of the status of their submissions
and should register to attend the conference by September 1, 2016.

Panel Submissions
Respondents should submit a 3-5 page proposal addressing the purpose of the
panel and specific issue(s) to be covered. The proposal should include a
list of the confirmed guests or those who will be solicited for the panel
as well as their brief biographies. All respondents in this category should
send the proposal through EasyChair by June 30, 2016 at the following site:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=smtc2016. In addition to the
proposal, a file should be uploaded with a 100-word description of the
proposed panel as well as a 100-word biography for each presenter.
Presenters will be notified by mid-July of the status of their acceptance
and should register to attend the conference by September 1, 2016.

Workshop Submissions
Respondents should submit a 3-5 page proposal addressing the purpose of the
workshop, details about the technology, social media trend or tool to be
explored and what attendees will gain from attending it. Workshops are
scheduled for 90 minutes, so content should be sufficient enough to fill
the timeslot. If applicable, the proposal should include a list of the
confirmed guests or those who will be solicited for the workshops as well
as their brief biographies. All respondents in this category should send
the proposal through EasyChair by June 30, 2016 at the following site:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=smtc2016. In addition to the
proposal, a file should be uploaded with a 100-word description of the
proposed workshop as well as a 100-word biography accompanied by a
photograph for each workshop presenter. Presenters will be notified by
mid-July of the status of their acceptance and should register to attend
the conference by September 1, 2016.

Cost
The registration fee for the two-day conference is $125. Students pay the
reduced rate of $60. All presenters, attendees and workshop participants
are required to pay the conference fee.

Contacts
Dr. Michael Austin
Howard University
michael.austin@howard.edu

Professor Ingrid Sturgis
Howard University
isturgis@howard.edu

Dr. Kehbuma Langmia
Howard University
klangmia@howard.edu

Dr. Tia C. M. Tyree
Howard University
ttyree@howard.edu

Steve Jones Internet Research Lecture features Leopoldina Fortunati

Steve Jones Internet Research Lecture features Leopoldina Fortunati

Hilton Fukuoka Sea Hawk

June 14, 2016

Fukuoka, Japan

The 2016 Steve Jones Internet Research Lecture features Leopoldina Fortunati (University of Udine, Italy), at 12 pm, on June 14, 2016, in Hilton Fukuoka Sea Hawk, International Communication Association’s 66^th Annual Conference, in Fukuoka, Japan.

The title of Fortunati’s lecture is “Feminism, labor and the mechanization of everyday life.”  In the lecture, Fortunati will adopt a political economy approach to examine the issue of machines diffusion in everyday life, which connects machines with labor, value production and struggles/resistance, especially by women, against the present organization and division of labor.

Fortunati will address the social and political role of machines in society, as well as social robots, which can be considered in many ways the next new media. Some social robots built in recent years in many laboratories are ready to be launched on the market and more generally placed in society. But the conceptual tools to handle this last mile to go still need to be fully developed. When an object of such technological complexity and with such rhetorical power, like robots are, is no longer used only by niches of innovators or users (such as autistic) but is proposed as a good of mass consumption, a series of problems, new themes and strategies comes into the spotlight.

This event is co-sponsored by the Carl Couch Center for Social and Internet Research (www.cccsir.com), University of Illinois, Chicago, and the International Communication Association.  For more information about this event, please contact Shing-Ling Sarina Chen, sarina.chen@uni.edu.

#Screentime 2016 - Technological Affordances and Constraints in Mediated Life

#Screentime 2016 - Technological Affordances and Constraints in Mediated Life

http://sites.bu.edu/demsconference/

The graduate students of Boston University’s Division of Emerging Media Studies invite abstracts for their second annual Conference on Emerging Media.

#Screentime aims to explore the social, emotional, and civic implications of today’s media landscape. Social forces and technological elements are driving changes in this developing field of study.This conference is an opportunity to bridge diverse perspectives on the roles of users and technology in new media, and will lay the groundwork for future research.

Topics

Emerging Media Studies is an inherently interdisciplinary field; we welcome abstracts from a variety of perspectives and disciplines on a range of topics, including but not limited to:

• Civility, sub-cultures, and online discourse
• Uses and effects of mobile communication technologies Digital distribution and industry disruption
• Data mining on social networks
• Emerging technologies’ effects on users
• Video games and virtual worlds
• Digital communication and public health

The conference is free of charge to both presenters and attendees.This conference is aimed at graduate students to showcase their research, and as an opportunity to network with peers.

Important Dates

Abstract Submission - May 1, 2016

Acceptance Notification - June 1, 2016

Registration Deadline - TBA

Conference - June 23, 2016

Venue

10 Buick Street – 18th Floor, Student Village 1 – Boston, MA 02215

Submission Instructions

Abstracts should be no more than 300 words. Papers will be peer reviewed.

E-mail your submissions to demsconf@bu.edu

Please include your name and institutional affiliation (department/university), program and year of study, research focus/interests, and contact information (email and phone number).

Applicants will be notified of their acceptance on a rolling basis no later than June 1st, 2016.

CFP: 9th International Conference on ICT, Society and Human Beings 2016

CALL FOR PAPERS ICT 2016: 9th International Conference on ICT, Society and Human Beings 2016
Funchal, Madeira, Portugal, 1 - 3 July 2016
(http://www.ict-conf.org/)
Part of the Multi Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems (MCCSIS 2016)
Funchal, Madeira, Portugal, 1 - 4 July 2016
(http://www.mccsis.org)

Keynote Speaker (confirmed):
Professor emerita Gunilla Bradley, Informatics, School of ICT, Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Stockholm, Sweden

Conference Scope
The effects of ICT on human beings as well as the interaction between ICT, individuals, and society are all within the focus of this conference. Both analyses of interactions and effects are important. Changes in behaviour, perspectives, values, competencies, human and psychological aspects and feelings are all of interest. Reflections on past, present, and future challenges - especially planning to handle the future - are encouraged.
The conference pays attention to societal changes, global and more local organisational and institutional changes, changes in values and in lifestyles, as well as individual cognitive effects and changes, motivational and emotional changes. It also appeals to solution-building in terms of desirable goals and actions for reaching a Good Information Society.
In general all types of research strategies are encouraged, and especially cross-disciplinary and multi-disciplinary studies. Case studies, broader empirical field studies, theoretical analyses, cross-cultural studies, scenarios, ethnographic studies, epistemological analyses may all be presented. For more details please check http://www.ict-conf.org/call-for-papers .

Paper Submission
This is a blind peer-reviewed conference. Authors are invited to submit their papers in English through the conference submission system by May 13, 2016. Submissions must be original and should not have been published previously.

Important Dates:

• Submission Deadline (last call): 13 May 2016
• Notification to Authors (last call): 3 June 2016
• Final Camera-Ready Submission and Early Registration (last call): Until 17 June2016
• Late Registration (last call): After 17 June 2016

Paper Publication
The papers will be published in book and electronic format with ISBN, will be made available through the Digital Library available at http://www.iadisportal.org/digital-library/showsearch.
The conference proceedings will be submitted for indexation by IET's INSPEC, Elsevier, EI Compendex, Scopus, Thomson Reuters Web of Science, EBSCO and other important indexing services.
The best papers will be selected for publishing as extended versions in the IADIS International Journal on WWW/Internet (ISSN: 1645-7641) and also in journals from INDERSCIENCE Publishers.

Conference Contact:
E-mail: secretariat@ict-conf.org
Web site: http://www.ict-conf.org/

Organized by: International Association for Development of the Information Society

Registered participants in the ICT, Society and Human Beings conference may attend the other conferences part of MCCSIS 2016 free of charge.

Genes · Germs · GMOs

Genes · Germs · GMOs

1:30-5:30pm

April 20, 2016

Hillel Building (second floor)

Boston University

213 Bay State Rd, Boston, MA 02215

Reception to follow

Hosted by the Division of Emerging Media Studies

Has the power of social media disrupted scientific understanding?

Armed with just Internet connections, social-media accounts and passionate beliefs, millions of ordinary people now shape the debate on such complex-and-controversial scientific questions as personal genetic testing, genetically modified foods (GMOs), and antibiotic treatments.  This social-media activism not only can distort public understanding of these critical issues but it can disrupt governmental support and regulations.

Come hear distinguished experts discuss such questions as: How has social media empowered its users?  To what extend has the public’s engagement affected the quality of scientific debate? Have the policy outcomes improved?  Speakers include Piper Below (University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston), Kevin Folta (University of Florida), Dominique Broussard (University of Wisconsin), and Annie Waldherr (Freie Universität Berlin).

Sponsored by Boston University’s College of Communication and co-sponsored by the Office of the Vice President & Associate Provost for Research and School of Law

CFP: From Here to Ubiquity: Critical and International Perspectives on Mobile and Ubiquitous Media

Extended call for chapters - From Here to Ubiquity: Critical and International Perspectives on Mobile and Ubiquitous Media

This is an extended call for the submission of chapter proposals for the edited volume From Here to Ubiquity: Critical and International Perspectives on Mobile and Ubiquitous Media. The purpose of this edited collection is to try to develop a clearer definition of, and theoretical grounding for, ubiquitous media by assembling a collection of chapters by established experts and emerging scholars from around the world. Chapters should critically and creatively interrogate “ubiquitous media” in the hopes of developing an overarching understanding of the meaning, processes, and ramifications of the term.

The term "ubiquitous media" has been deployed to characterize platforms such as television, social media, and mobile media; systems such as algorithms, apps, and augmented reality; concepts such as commerce and surveillance, and issues such as privacy, politics, and neocolonialism. Phrases like IoE (the “Internet of Everything”) are increasingly mentioned in academic and the popular press and framed as an inevitability. Universities have laboratories dedicated to the study of ubiquitous media, and marketing companies aggressively tout their ability to target consumers through a ubiquitous media presence (including one company simply called “Ubiquitous Media” which “specializes in targeting consumers throughout their daily routine”).

In short, the phrase “ubiquitous media” is, well, ubiquitous. There is little discussion, however, of what the term “ubiquitous media” actually means. Indeed, individual definitions of “ubiquitous media” are often assumed to be just a ubiquitous as media themselves and, as a result, there is no large-scale theoretical framework through which we can understand the term. With this in mind, we specifically welcome chapters that promise to develop a critical theoretical framework for understanding ubiquitous media.

In addition, a portion of this volume will be dedicated to a specific exploration of mobile technologies as a key precursor – if not central element – of a ubiquitous media environment. This could include past and current mobile technologies, from pagers to PDAs, and cell phones to modern smartphones and wearables, provided they contribute to an understanding of ubiquitous media as both a technical and discursive reality for individuals around the world. Representing global perspectives is also central objective of this volume. An international perspective is important to the development of a comprehensive understanding of what “ubiquitous media” means and the prospectively heterogeneous implications of this development.

Possible approaches/frameworks for these investigations include:

• Theories of ubiquitous media
• Mediatisation
• Political economy
• Space, place and time
• User-experience design
• Business models and start-up culture
• Financial/transactional data and services
• App-centric media
• Digital labour and work-life balance
• Surveillance
• Ubiquitous media and digital literacy
• Ubiquitous media and narratives
• Coding and platforms

Abstracts of 300-350 words (for chapters of approximately 8,000 words) should be emailed to co-editors Dr. Michael S. Daubs at michael.daubs@vuw.ac.nz and Dr. Vince Manzerolle at vmanzero@uwindsor.ca by 15 May 2016. Chapters selected for publication will be notified by 15 June 2016, with full chapter drafts due by 15 September 2016.

CFP: Third International Conference: Social Science and the Internet

CALL FOR ABSTRACTS
Third International Conference: Social Science and the Internet

On Friday, July 1, 2016 the Human-Technology-Interaction Group at Eindhoven University of Technology (NL) will host the third conference meeting on "Social Science and the Internet". Following up on two earlier meetings of Internet researchers in Amsterdam and Utrecht, this third conference in Eindhoven aims to bring together sociologists, psychologists, communication scientists, computer- and data scientists, and other researchers who are interested in the study of human behavior and social interaction in online contexts. With this meeting we aim to further the development of an international community of researchers from various fields who study these Internet related topics. Aiming for an interdisciplinary mix of participants, the conference will provide ample opportunity for discussion in an informal atmosphere.

Keynote speakers

Ulf-Dietrich Reips (University of Konstanz, Germany)

Martijn Willemsen (Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands)

We welcome contributions on (but not restricted to) the following topics:

• Empirical accounts and theoretical arguments concerning online human behavior
• The digital divide, digital skills, and digital inequality
• (User evaluation of) online recommender systems
• Design, use, and effects of social media (Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn, YouTube, etc.) and online communities
• Making sense of social media data for the social sciences
• Persuasive online technologies
• Online markets and online consumer research
• Trust and online reputation systems
• Online research methods: web surveys and experiments
• Privacy and self-disclosure online
• Social networks and social capital online and offline
• Learning analytics
• Social media and learning in formal and informal contexts

The conference fee will be 50 Euros, which covers the costs of coffee, tea, cookies, and a lunch.  The conference language is English.

Abstracts of 300-500 words should be submitted no later than May 9 on:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ssi2016

Deadlines:

• submission of abstract: May 9, 23:59 CET (GMT +1)
• Notification of acceptance decision: June 1
• Conference: July 1

More information about the conference can be found at: http://ssi.ieis.tue.nl/.
Questions? Please contact us at: conf2016tue@gmail.com<mailto:conf2016tue@gmail.com>

On behalf of the entire organizing committee:

• Uwe Matzat<http://umatzat.net/>
• Chris Snijders<http://www.chrissnijders.com/wp/research/>
• Alain Starke<https://www.tue.nl/en/university/departments/industrial-engineering-innovation-sciences/the-department/staff/detail/ep/e/d/ep-uid/20081276/>
• Mark Graus<https://scholar.google.de/citations?user=gy1VnNIAAAAJ&hl=en>