From schifane at di.unito.it Tue Sep 2 04:14:21 2014 From: schifane at di.unito.it (Rossano Schifanella) Date: Tue, 02 Sep 2014 10:14:21 +0200 Subject: [Sighfis-l] CFP: First Int. Workshop on What's in a dyad? Interaction and Exchange in Social Media (DYAD@SocInfo) Message-ID: <54057C5D.5020807@di.unito.it> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- You are invited to contribute to the SocInfo 2014 Workshop below. Please circulate to any interested party. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- What's in a dyad? Interaction and Exchange in Social Media Workshop website: http://dyad.di.unito.it Conference website: http://socinfo2014.org/ Conference: SocInfo 2014 @ Barcelona, Spain in November 10-13, 2014 Submission deadline: September 8, 2014 A great deal of work has used computational methods to investigate the intensity, structure, topic and sentiment of social interactions. But neither information alone nor structure in isolation can be considered fully responsible for the complexity of social life, whether on- or offline. Online interactions can be conceptualized as a social exchange, and also as a process through which meaning emerges through dialogue between the two partners, i.e. a dyad. We aim for the DYAD workshop to examine online interactions from a number of rich perspectives. Invited speakers include Cristian Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil (Max Planck Institute SWS), Bruno Gon?alves (Aix-Marseille Universit?), and Carlos Diuk-Wasser (Facebook, Inc.) The workshop welcomes submissions on topics related to computational approaches to the study of social interaction, relevant to fields as diverse as social psychology, behavioral economics, sociolinguistics as well as computational linguistics, web science, and network science. Examples of relevant submissions include, but are not limited to, the following topics: - detection of social expectations and norms - status relations and power imbalances - detection and measurement of social support, such as in critical situations related to illness, bullying or grieving - self-disclosure, turn-taking, deference in interpersonal communication - identity - topic development and change in online conversations - emotion dynamics in conversation thread - social dynamics in comment thread (politics, news, interest-based communities) - development of language and the self through social interaction - language variation across communities and social relationships (e.g. distinguishing friends from colleagues, etc.) - persuasive language - pragmatics of language Formatting Submitted works can come as either full 10-page or short 4-page papers, formatted according to Springer LNCS paper formatting guidelines (http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0). Full papers will be given 30 minutes and short 20 minutes for presentations. The authors can choose to publish their papers along with the main conference proceedings, or withhold such publication for future work considerations. Important Dates Submission deadline: September 8, 2014 Notification of acceptance: September 26, 2014 Camera-ready due: October 5, 2014 Workshop date: November 10, 2014 Conference dates: November 10-13, 2014 Find the latest news and PC lists on our website at http://dyad.di.unito.it Workshop organizers Rossano Schifanella, University of Torino Bogdan State, Stanford University & Facebook Yelena Mejova, Qatar Computing Research Institute From micheljmenou at gmail.com Wed Sep 3 08:43:49 2014 From: micheljmenou at gmail.com (Michel Menou) Date: Wed, 03 Sep 2014 14:43:49 +0200 Subject: [Sighfis-l] Fwd: [tripleC] New Special Issue Published: Theorising Digital Labour and Virtual Work In-Reply-To: <20140902183013.E32F56340BCF@dd29412.kasserver.com> References: <20140902183013.E32F56340BCF@dd29412.kasserver.com> Message-ID: <54070D05.1080709@gmail.com> -------- Original Message -------- Subject: [tripleC] New Special Issue Published: Theorising Digital Labour and Virtual Work Date: Tue, 02 Sep 2014 19:43:49 +0200 From: Christian Fuchs To: Michel J. Menou Dear Readers of tripleC, I want to point you towards a new special issue of tripleC that has just been published. The articles are available as pdf, html, and as one comprehensive pdf for download at: http://www.triple-c.at/index.php/tripleC/issue/current Special issue: Philosophers of the World Unite! Theorising Digital Labour and Virtual Work - Definitions, Dimensions and Forms Edited by Marisol Sandoval, Christian Fuchs, Jernej A. Prodnik, Sebastian Sevignani, Thomas Allmer in context of the COST Action Dynamics of Virtual Work http://dynamicsofvirtualwork.com/ This special issue of tripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique aims to contribute to building a theoretical framework for the critical analysis of digital labour, virtual work, and related concepts that can initiate further debates, inform empirical studies, and inspire social struggles connected to work and labour in and beyond digital capitalism. The papers collected in this special issue (a) provide systematic definitions of digital labour, (b) analyse its specific dimension, and (c) discuss different forms of digital labour. The papers collected in this special issue theorise digital labour as a multifaceted field characterised by exploitation, alienation, precariousness, power, inequality, ideology, and struggle. These problems of digital labour are however not inherent to digital technology as such but result from its inclusion and application in capitalist relations of production. Theorising digital labour, as labour that produces or makes use of digital technologies, can help to understand its problems, limits, potentials, and contradictions. It can therefore highlight the need for social change and inspire political action. However, the act of freeing digital technology from being an instrument for the domination of labour requires to go beyond just interpreting the world and to engage in social struggles that want to change it. TOC: Introduction: Philosophers of the World Unite! Theorising Digital Labour and Virtual Work?Definitions, Dimensions, and Forms Marisol Sandoval, Christian Fuchs, Jernej A. Prodnik, Sebastian Sevignani, Thomas Allmer Work and Labour as Metonymy and Metaphor Olivier Frayss? Digital Workers of the World Unite! A Framework for Critically Theorising and Analysing Digital Labour Christian Fuchs, Marisol Sandoval Circuits of Labour: A Labour Theory of the iPhone Era Jack Linchuan Qiu, Melissa Gregg, Kate Crawford Concepts of Digital Labour: Schelling's Naturphilosophie Kevin Michael Mitchell Digital Labour and the Use-value of Human Work. On the Importance of Labouring Capacity for understanding Digital Capitalism Sabine Pfeiffer The Ideological Reproduction: (Free) Labouring and (Social) Working within Digital Landscapes Marco Briziarelli Alienation and Digital Labour?A Depth-Hermeneutic Inquiry into Online Commodification and the Unconscious Steffen Kr?ger, Jacob Johanssen Production Cultures and Differentiations of Digital Labour Yujie Chen Digital Labour in Chinese Internet Industries Bingqing Xia Will Work For Free: The Biopolitics of Unwaged Digital Labour Brian Brown Toward a Political Economy of ?Audience Labour? in the Digital Era Brice Nixon Playing, Gaming, Working and Labouring: Framing the Concepts and Relations Arwid Lund _______________ tripleC : Communication, Capitalism & Critique | Open Access Journal for a Global Sustainable Information Society | http://www.triple-c.at -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Enjoy! http://www.asis.org/SIG/SIGHFIS/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/HFIS-newsletter-2014.pdf --- Dr Lai Ma School of Information and Library Studies University College Dublin Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland Web: http://www.ucd.ie/sils/staff/laima/ Email: lai.ma at ucd.ie Phone: +353 1 716 7592 From vgoode at jhmi.edu Fri Sep 19 10:23:34 2014 From: vgoode at jhmi.edu (Victoria Riese) Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2014 14:23:34 +0000 Subject: [Sighfis-l] Garfield Research Fellowship Award Message-ID: <66952145190A364B96C3B43542878319B76B957F@JHEMTMWEX3.win.ad.jhu.edu> Please consider applying for: The Medical Library Association Eugene Garfield Research Fellowship promotes and supports research on topics in the history of information science. The $5000 fellowship, established in 2013, is to be used for research-related purposes regarding the history of information science to increase the underlying knowledgebase in this area and enhance the current and future practice of the information professions, particularly health sciences librarianship. Health sciences librarians and information scientists, health professionals, researchers, educators, and administrators are eligible. Applicants must have a master's or doctor's degree or be enrolled in a program leading to such a degree and demonstrate a commitment to the health sciences. The fellowship is not designed to support research for a doctoral dissertation or master?s thesis. The award is not restricted to disbursement in a single year and funding may be disbursed over a period of up to two years depending on the needs of the research fellow. The award may be used to supplement or extend other awards, including other private or government-supported fellowships, but is not contingent on receiving other awards. Please see the MLA Grants and Scholarships page (http://www.mlanet.org/awards/grants/) on MLANET for more information. The submission deadline is December 1. Inquiries: E-mail, telephone or written inquiries are welcomed. Please direct inquiries to Maria Lopez, 312.419.9094 x15. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: