From rhill at asis.org Tue Dec 1 11:21:33 2015 From: rhill at asis.org (Richard Hill) Date: Tue, 1 Dec 2015 11:21:33 -0500 Subject: [Sigifp-l] CFP ASIS&T 2016 Annual, Copenhagen, Oct 14-18, 2016 Message-ID: <387-220151221162133242@LEN-dick-2011> 2016 Annual Meeting of the Association for Information Science and Technology Copenhagen, Denmark | Oct. 14-18, 2016 https://www.asist.org/events/annual-meeting/annual-meeting-2016/\ Creating Knowledge, Enhancing Lives through Information & Technology Information science and technology shape, and are shaped by, decisions, practices and policies that impact people, groups, organizations, governments and societies throughout the world. The Annual Meeting (AM) of the Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T) is a premier, peer-reviewed international conference that gathers scholars and practitioners from around the globe to share research, innovations, and insights regarding how information and technology mediate the creation and use of knowledge within and across cultures and enhance lives. Paper, poster, panel and workshop submissions that focus on the production, discovery, recording, storage, representation, retrieval, presentation, manipulation, dissemination, use, and evaluation of information and on the tools and techniques associated with these processes are welcome. The conference embraces plurality in methods and theories, and encompasses research and development from a broad spectrum of domains, as encapsulated in ASIS&T?s many special interest groups (SIGs). Important Dates: (all deadlines are midnight, Greenwich Mean Time) Paper Mentoring Service Submission of complete draft papers to the mentor service due: 10 March 2016 Mentors? feedback on drafts: 4 April 2016 Papers Submission of papers due: 17 April 2016 Notification regarding submitted papers: 23 May 2016 Submission of ?revise & re-submit? papers due: 3 June 2016 Notification regarding ?revise & re-submit? papers: 23 June 2016 Camera-ready accepted papers due: 25 July 2016 Panels and Workshops Submission of panels and workshop proposals due: 3 May 2016 Notifications regarding submitted panels and workshops: 15 June 2016 Camera-ready accepted panels and workshop descriptions are due: 25 July 2016 Posters Submission of posters due: 24 June 2016 Notifications regarding submitted posters: 30 July 2016 Camera-ready accepted posters are due: 10 August 2016 Submission site: https://www.conftool.pro/asist2016/ Final versions of accepted workshops and tutorials must be formatted according to guidelines provided at: https://www.asist.org/files/meetings/am16/AM16-Template-proceedings.pdf . Richard Hill Executive Director Association for Information Science and Technology 1320 Fenwick Lane, Suite 510 Silver Spring, MD 20910 FAX: (301) 495-0810 (301) 495-0900 From ku26 at drexel.edu Mon Dec 7 10:29:19 2015 From: ku26 at drexel.edu (Unsworth,Kristene) Date: Mon, 7 Dec 2015 15:29:19 +0000 Subject: [Sigifp-l] Fwd: Two funded PhD places at the Surveillance Studies Centre, Queen's University In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <384CCD92EE956887.1-0aede76c-a394-4665-a4ab-8fd1b90141d3@mail.outlook.com> Great opportunity! Sent from Outlook Mobile ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: "David Murakami Wood" > Date: Mon, Dec 7, 2015 at 7:22 AM -0800 Subject: Two funded PhD places at the Surveillance Studies Centre, Queen's University To: "SURVEILLANCE at JISCMAIL.AC.UK" > Two funded PhDs at the Surveillance Studies Centre at Queen's http://www.sscqueens.org/news/phd-students Two Scholarships at the PhD level (starting September 2016) are available in the Department of Sociology at Queen?s University to work on a project, funded through a SSHRC Partnership Grant on ?Big Data Surveillance? under the supervision of David Lyon and/or David Murakami Wood. The project is a multi-disciplinary and comparative analysis of the development and impact of big data analytics in many domains: security, consumer, health, welfare, electoral, intelligence, employment and others. The project is coordinated through the Surveillance Studies Centre at Queen?s University. 1. Big Data Surveillance and Security Intelligence. This PhD would examine some aspect of big data surveillance and Canadian (and other) security intelligence services. Candidates with a background in Political Sociology, Sociology of Organisations, Socio-legal Studies etc. and a particular interest in the study of espionage, the intelligence services or political policing, are encouraged to apply. 2. The Technology of Big Data Surveillance This PhD would focus on sociotechnical aspects of big data surveillance. We encourage candidates with a background in Science and Technology Studies, Social Studies of Technology, Social Studies of Computing, Sociology of Technology, Software Studies etc. with a particular interest in algorithms, code and analytics. Although a social science approach is essential, a combination of social sciences, computer sciences, and practical experience in computing would be desirable. In either case, candidates should be suitably qualified students with a MA (or equivalent) in Sociology or related Social Science discipline, and should have theoretical and empirical interests in surveillance studies, privacy and civil liberties. We particularly value professional experience in human rights, civil liberties and the regulation of surveillance and privacy and are prepared to consider professional experience alongside standard academic qualifications. Students will be funded through a combination of fellowship, research assistance, and teaching assistance funds, to a value of at least $20,000 CDN a year for four years (if accepted into our program, any student who is a Canadian resident will also get a Queen?s Graduate Award of $5,000). In coming to the Department of Sociology at Queen?s, doctoral students will be joining a strong and supportive PhD program based in a department that values excellence in research and teaching. In addition to regular teaching assistant training and support, students will have other opportunities for professional development, such as research training, support for conference presentations and workshop participation, and field research support. Students will also be a part of the Surveillance Studies Centre, with a vibrant intellectual community, including bi-weekly seminars, ad hoc reading groups, occasional public lectures, conferences and workshops. Applicants must apply for the PhD program in the Department of Sociology and specify their interest in working on this project. The deadline for full consideration for the program is 1st February 2016. Informal enquiries should be made to David Lyon lyond at queensu.ca and/or David Murakami Wood dmw at queensu.ca. 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URL: From bcnewell at uw.edu Wed Dec 16 11:17:39 2015 From: bcnewell at uw.edu (Bryce C Newell) Date: Wed, 16 Dec 2015 17:17:39 +0100 Subject: [Sigifp-l] Call for book chapter contributions: Privacy in public spaces Message-ID: (*With apologies for cross-posting)* *Call for Chapter proposals: Privacy in Public Spaces* We are pleased to announce the call for book chapter contributions for a book on privacy in public spaces. Find below the short abstract and attached the long description on the topic. For this volume, we are seeking contributions on the topic of privacy in public spaces from a multitude of fields such as (but not limited to) law, regulation, geography, philosophy or sociology. Please consider: - contributing to this book and/or - posting this call on your mailinglist and/or - sending this call to colleagues you think should be part of this volume. *Abstract (short)* In this volume, we wish to explore how being anonymous and maintaining some expectation of privacy when moving around in physical public space is becoming more difficult due to all sorts of technological, digital infrastructures invading public space. Innovations such as social media, ubiquitous computing and smart sensing (sometimes grouped under the umbrella term of an "Internet-of-Things") are increasingly becoming common practice in public space. Not only does this entail new forms of physical products or devices that are 'smart' (e.g. are somehow connected to a network in which they can communicate to other 'things' and/or humans), this 'smartness' also entails all kinds of data sharing. This sharing takes place in public space, where boundaries of what is 'public' and what is 'private' become more difficult to establish. Both commercial parties and government institutions (often in collaboration) try to benefit from citizens sharing and spilling over their generated data in the grey area of 'public' space. In the process, citizens' private lives become more visible in the public space, and yet, are afforded very limited legal protection compared to private spaces. Conceptually, the book will analyze whether a metaphorical privacy bubble exists, or should exist, around a data-carrying citizen moving about in public space and if so, how such privacy bubbles can be conceptualized. *We welcome contributions that (illustrative):* - Re-conceptualize regulatory spaces of privacy - Offer theoretical accounts of privacy in (physical) public space - Reflect on the delimitation of (physical) public space - Discuss the changes in the role of privacy in public space and the role of public space for privacy - Discuss specific technologies or solutions deployed in public space that increase or alter the character of surveillance in public space - Describe recent trends developing in public space that have an impact on the standing and the role of privacy in public space - Offer thoughts on resilience in face of the changes in public space and particular means of resisting the privacy-intrusive technologies, solutions and trends in physical public space - Offer conceptual and/or theoretical effort in re-thinking privacy and privacy protection in public space *Guidelines for authors* - Authors interested in contributing a chapter should send an abstract of their chapter to Tjerk Timan (t.timan at tilburguniversity.edu) no later than *12 January 2016.* The abstracts should include the name(s) and affiliation of the author(s), proposed title of their contribution and a description of the proposed chapter using no more than* 250 words*. - Authors will be informed no later than* 18 January 2016* on the acceptance of their contribution. - The deadline for submitting full chapters is *30 April 2016*. We accept chapters counting between 6000 and 12000 words. - Submitted chapters will be peer reviewed and sent back to the authors no later than *15 June 2015* who will be given opportunity to process the comments before submitting their final versions no later than 31 July 2016. - We aim for publication in the *second half of 2016. * *Editors: Dr. Tjerk Timan, Dr. Bryce C. Newell and Prof. Bert-Jaap Koops* *Publisher: *Our aim is to submit the book to a renowned publisher, we are considering Ashgate, Routledge or Oxford UP. For questions or inquiries concerning this call, please send a mail to t.timan at tilburguniversity.edu -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: book proposal privacy in public space.docx Type: application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document Size: 511339 bytes Desc: not available URL: From ku26 at drexel.edu Thu Dec 17 08:02:54 2015 From: ku26 at drexel.edu (Unsworth,Kristene) Date: Thu, 17 Dec 2015 13:02:54 +0000 Subject: [Sigifp-l] FW: [Air-L] Digital Social Science Essay Competition In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Perhaps something for one of you finishing or within 3 years after finishing your PhD! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Kristene Unsworth, PhD. Assistant Professor ASIS&T SIG-IEP, Chair The College of Computing & Informatics Drexel University 3141 Chestnut Street Philadelphia, PA 19104 Tel: 215.895.6016 | Fax: 215.895.2494 Drexel.edu/cci On 12/17/15, 7:55 AM, "Air-L on behalf of Mark Carrigan" wrote: >The Independent Social Research Foundation (ISRF) and Big Data & Society >(BD&S) intend to award a prize of CHF 1,000 for the best essay on the >topic >?Influence and Power?. This is a topic, not a title. Accordingly, authors >are free to choose an essay title within this field. The winner will also >be invited to present the work during a special event at Social Media & >Society 2016 and will have the conference fee waived and travel costs >covered. > > >See the Digital Social Science Forum website for more information: >http://www.digitalsocialscience.org/2015/08/digital-social-science-essay-c >ompetition/ >____________________ >Sent From My Desktop >www.markcarrigan.net >@mark_carrigan > >*Social Media for Academics. Now available for pre-order >5>!* >_______________________________________________ >The Air-L at listserv.aoir.org mailing list >is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org >Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: >http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org > >Join the Association of Internet Researchers: >http://www.aoir.org/