From ilopatov at pratt.edu Wed Sep 6 12:51:57 2017 From: ilopatov at pratt.edu (Irene Lopatovska) Date: Wed, 6 Sep 2017 12:51:57 -0400 Subject: [Students-l] ASIS&T AM student party Message-ID: <023001d32730$743cc710$5cb65530$@pratt.edu> Dear Student Chapter Members and Advisors, If you are attending the ASIS&T Annual Meeting this year, please mark your calendars for the student chapter party on Sunday, Oct. 29, 9-9:30pm (location to be announced): https://www.asist.org/am17/sessions/student-reception-social/ If you have any questions or want to meet with me during the conference, please drop me a line. I am looking forward to seeing you in Crystal City! 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URL: From michel.menou at orange.fr Wed Sep 13 04:23:33 2017 From: michel.menou at orange.fr (Michel Menou) Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2017 10:23:33 +0200 Subject: [Students-l] [Fwd: Air-L] Fully-funded PhD studentships for ERC project, DATAJUSTICE Message-ID: > Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2017 09:07:54 +0000 > From: Lina Dencik > To:"air-l at listserv.aoir.org" > Subject: [Air-L] Fully-funded PhD studentships for ERC project > DATAJUSTICE > Message-ID: > > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" > > Dear all - the below may be of interest to you or someone you know. > > > 2 fully-funded PhD studentships to work on the ERC Starting Grant DATAJUSTICE at Cardiff's School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies. Candidates will be part of the recently established Data Justice Lab (a further post-doc position in computer science and a post-doc position focused on law/policy will be advertised soon). > > The project DATAJUSTICE explores the meaning of social justice in an age of datafication. > > It is premised on two significant developments: > > 1. the shift to a focus on the collection and processing of massive amounts of data across social life > 2. the increasing concern with the societal implications of such processes. > > Whilst initial concern with the technical ability to ?datafy? and collect information on ever-more social activity focused on surveillance and privacy, increasing emphasis is being placed on the fact that data processes are not ?flat? and do not implicate everyone in the same way, but, rather, are part of a system of ?social sorting?, creating new categories of citizens, and premised on an emerging order of ?have? and ?have nots? between data profilers and data subjects. In such a context, questions of social justice and datafication require detailed study. This project frames this research agenda around the notion of ?data justice?. > > The project will focus on developments in Europe and will combine the study of technical systems with the study of practices, experiences and policy frameworks in different contexts. It is principally concerned with examining the impacts of datafication on marginalized communities and implications for social and economic rights. > > Projects should particularly engage with developments in Europe concerning data systems and algorithmic decision-making in relation to one or a combination of the following areas: > > * governance of refugees and migrants > * hiring and management of low-wage work > * discrimination in law enforcement and policing. > > European Research Council (ERC) studentships are highly competitive. You should hold a 1st or strong upper 2nd class Master?s or equivalent degree in one of the following disciplines: sociology, media and communication, politics, international relations, development studies, criminology, industrial relations or related disciplines. > > Experience working with social justice issues and marginalized communities will also be considered, and applicants with such backgrounds are especially encouraged to apply. > > Deadline for applications: October 20th, 2017 > > Interview date: November 8th, 2017 > > Start date: February 1st, 2018 > > Apply here:https://www.cardiff.ac.uk/study/postgraduate/funding-and-fees/view/erc-phd-in-journalism-studies-data-justice-understanding-datafication-in-relation-to-social-justice-datajustice > > For queries, please contact the Principal Investigator, Dr Lina Dencik (DencikL at cardiff.ac.uk) > > -- > Dr Lina Dencik > Senior Lecturer / Director MA Journalism, Media and Communication > Co-Director, Data Justice Lab > School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies, Cardiff University > Bute Building, King Edward VII Avenue, Cardiff CF10 3NB > Email:DencikL at cardiff.ac.uk, Tel: +44 (0)29 208 75461 > Twitter: @LinaDencik > Fellow, Center for Media, Data and Society, Central European University -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From Daniel.Alemneh at unt.edu Wed Sep 13 20:24:44 2017 From: Daniel.Alemneh at unt.edu (Alemneh, Daniel) Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2017 00:24:44 +0000 Subject: [Students-l] [EXT] [Chapters-l] Successful ASIS&T Regional Conference in Central Ohio In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Thank you Timothy for summarizing and sharing the story of another successful ASIS&ST Regional Meeting in Colombus, Ohio. I think such a regional meeting is not only a great way to recruit new members, but also a wonderful opportunity for ASIS&T current members to get together without traveling far and to encourage everyone to expand local professional networks. We started our first such Regional Chapters meeting last year at Rutgers University, and since then, we had many successful regional meetings in various parts of the world: Europe (Berlin), Asia (Taiwan), and in the US (including another one in Dublin Ohio). See some of the past Regional meetings here: https://www.asist.org/?s=Regional+Meeting . These meetings feature excellent technical programs on a variety of topics and are interesting, informative, convenient, and fun. Besides, considering the global rotations of the future ASIS&T conferences, such Regional Meetings allow for a greater opportunity for interactions between attendees, whether they can attend the Annual Meeting in that particular year or not. Please note that all ASIS&T members are encouraged to participate in their local Chapters. All ASIS&T members whose mailing addresses are within a Chapter?s geographic boundaries are automatically members of that Chapter. Although not all ASIS&T Chapters are active, there are 21 regional chapters (including the new Brazil Regional Chapter, our first from Latin America). ASIS&T is committed to providing assistance to help local Chapters to organize activities or special projects that revitalize and engage local members. Among other available resources and services, Chapters can apply for one of the Chapter Development Funds: https://www.asist.org/files/chapters/regional/ChapterDevelopmentFundsAppl.pdf. Hope to see most of you at the Annual Meeting next month. Daniel From: Chapters-l [mailto:chapters-l-bounces at asist.org] On Behalf Of TIMOTHY DICKEY Sent: Wednesday, September 13, 2017 6:01 AM To: chapters-l at asis.org; students-l at asis.org Subject: [EXT] [Chapters-l] Successful ASIS&T Regional Conference in Central Ohio Good morning, chapter leaders! Daniel suggested I write and pass along the most recent event for success in chapter-based regional conferences! On Friday, Sept.8, three ASIS&T chapters (Central Ohio, Northern Ohio, and Indiana) hosted the 2017 Midwest Regional Conference in Columbus, OH. More than 60 people from 4 states joined us at the newly-renovated Main Branch of Columbus Metropolitan Library for the event, themed "Innovations in 21st-Century Information Services." The two featured speakers were Patrick Losinski (CEO, Columbus Metropolitan Libraries) and Lynn Silipigni Connaway (ASIS&T President and Senior Research Scientist, OCLC). In addition, each of the three sponsoring chapters offered a strong panel of speakers: "The right to be forgotten and digital collections," "Evolving landscapes in public and academic libraries," and "Big data management." (The full program is here.) As is typical for events in the Central Ohio chapter, we attracted attendees from the ASIS&T membership and non-members in roughly equal numbers, as well as serving a large number of practitioners. Generous sponsorships from IUPUI and Kent State University, and venue and parking support from CML helped keep the registration fees low. We are in the process of collecting more formal feedback from participants, but heard comments (one even from the podium) praising the quality of the program and the experience, and several participants asked if the Midwest ASIST chapters could make this kind of event a more regular occurrence. Anyone interested in hearing more about our experience, or thinking about planning a regional meeting with their chapter and others, feel free to write to me, or catch me at annual next month! All best, timothy Timothy J. Dickey, Ph.D., MLIS. tdickey1 at kent.edu (614) 785-1632 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From michel.menou at orange.fr Mon Sep 18 07:34:05 2017 From: michel.menou at orange.fr (Michel Menou) Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2017 13:34:05 +0200 Subject: [Students-l] Fwd: Air-L Digest, Vol 158, Issue 20 In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <4a22ada9-cea7-9c60-f022-2061493959f1@orange.fr> -------- Forwarded Message -------- Message: 2 Date: Sun, 17 Sep 2017 15:59:33 +0000 From: "Malazita, James Wilson" To: aoir list ?[air-l at aoir.org]? Subject: [Air-L] Incoming Ph.D. Student Funding Opportunity Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1256" Hi Everyone, Below is a call for a funded Ph.D. student position in the Department of Science and Technology Studies at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Please pass along to potentially interested undergraduate and Masters students that you know. They can also contact me (malazj at rpi.edu) with any inquiries. Thanks! Jim Malazita Assistant Professor Science & Technology Studies Games & Simulation Arts & Sciences Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute malazj at rpi.edu ---------------------------------------------------------- Program: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Department of Science & Technology Studies Funding Opportunity: Ph.D. Student in Science & Technology Studies Topic Area: STS, Critical Design, and the Critical Digital Humanities The Department of Science & Technology Studies at Rensselaer Polytechnic invites applications for an incoming Ph.D. student with interests in STS, critical media and design, and the digital humanities. Students also interested in the politics of digital design, critical perspectives on knowledge, and/or feminist, queer, and postcolonial perspectives on science and technology are especially encouraged to apply. The incoming student will receive funding for two years under the supervision of Dr. James Malazita, Assistant Professor of STS and of Games & Simulation Arts & Sciences. Among the student's responsibilities will be the implementing and co-directing of the Tactical Humanities Lab, a new digital humanities physical and digital research space; participation in a National Endowment for the Humanities-funded project bridging critical humanities and computer science education; generation of publications and grant applications; mentoring of undergraduate design, STS, and computer science students; and the pursuit of their own independent research. The incoming student will be fully funded for two years, which includes tuition, a stipend for two academic years, and funding for two summers. The student will also have the opportunity to access funds for conference travel and for the purchasing of materials related to the Tactical Humanities Lab. The student will have the opportunity to fund the remainder of their graduate education through internal and external grant funding, as well as through Teaching Assistant and Research Assistant positions within the Department of Science & Technology Studies. Interested students must apply directly to the Ph.D. Program in STS, and in their application letter should (1) demonstrate their fit for the RPI STS Program, including alignment with faculty research and departmental culture, and (2) indicate their interest in the STS, Critical Design, and Critical Digital Humanities funding line. For questions about the position and its related research projects, please contact Dr. James Malazita at malazj at rpi.edu. For further questions about the Ph.D. program in STS, please contact our Graduate Program Director, Dr. Atsushi Akera, at akeraa at rpi.edu. Additional information about the Ph.D. program in STS can be found at http://www.sts.rpi.edu/pl/graduate-curriculum-s20 From michel.menou at orange.fr Fri Sep 22 04:36:14 2017 From: michel.menou at orange.fr (Michel Menou) Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2017 10:36:14 +0200 Subject: [Students-l] Fwd: Air-L Digest, Vol 158, Issue 23 HASTAC Scholars Applications are Due October 15 In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <544c29e1-6123-e5dc-01ae-459420260263@orange.fr> -------- Forwarded Message -------- Message: 3 Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2017 16:43:37 +0000 From: Kalle Westerling To: "air-l at listserv.aoir.org" Subject: [Air-L] HASTAC Scholars Applications are Due October 15 Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" ** Sorry for cross-posting ** HASTAC Scholars Applications are Due October 15 Now is the time to apply for HASTAC Scholars, or encourage your students to apply! The application period closes on October 15. Please apply here or share this link with interested colleagues and students: http://bit.ly/apply-to-hastac-scholars. HASTAC Scholars is a student-centered network of Ph.D., Masters, and some undergraduate students who are interested in engaging the intersections of technology and learning. HASTAC Scholars apply this interest in varied ways, both in-person and online: by writing about their own work?their research questions; by amplifying amazing things happening on their respective campuses and regions; and by helping to develop online conversations, hosting local events, and representing HASTAC at other events. Scholars organize Twitter chats and host webinars to share tools, expertise, and resources. Taken together, these activities provide opportunities not only to share knowledge with others, but also to learn from peers about various technologies and tools, all while gaining expertise in particular skill sets, such as in conducting interviews, writing reviews, and participating in other intellectual, artistic, or community-based conversations. All graduate and undergraduate students are welcome to apply. Scholars who identify as members of historically underrepresented or marginalized groups are especially encouraged to apply, as are groups of students who are part of the same program. The application is not lengthy, and the program connects students with a valuable network of peers across the country. Starting last year, Scholars will be admitted for a two-year cycle. During their second year, Scholars are encouraged to take on greater leadership and peer mentoring roles. We think that this extended timeline will go a long way toward building peer mentorship structures and keeping consistent activity and energy on the site year-round. For anyone with questions, I will host an AMA (Ask Me Anything) about the application process this coming Monday at 12noon EDT via Twitter #HASTACScholars. Please don't hesitate to email me with any questions at scholars at hastac.org. All best, Kalle Westerling Director, HASTAC Scholars From chirags at rutgers.edu Sat Sep 23 16:32:54 2017 From: chirags at rutgers.edu (Chirag Shah) Date: Sat, 23 Sep 2017 20:32:54 +0000 Subject: [Students-l] Final CFP: ACM CHIIR 2018 in New Brunswick, NJ, USA Message-ID: ACM CHIIR 2018 Call for Papers and Proposals http://sigir.org/chiir2018/ ACM SIGIR Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval (CHIIR) (pronounced ?cheer?) which will take place during March 11-15, 2018 in New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA. Conference Scope and Topics Users are central to the design, evaluation, and use of information retrieval systems. ACM CHIIR 2018 invites submissions on user-centered approaches to information access, retrieval, and use, including studies of interactive systems, novel interaction paradigms, new evaluation methods, and a range of related areas. Alongside with detailed studies on specific information retrieval systems and situations, we welcome longitudinal, real-life, and ethnographic research of contextually embedded search tasks. Due to the rapidly increasing use of online and social media-oriented information interaction in all areas of human life - including work, leisure, and education - there has never been a more important time to consider, both empirically and theoretically, the consequences that search options, search strategies, recommendation systems, visualization, social media groups and other aspects of information interaction can have on the development of both individuals and society as a whole. Submissions focusing on user-centered work in the area of information interaction and retrieval are welcome, for example: * Information seeking, including task-based and exploratory studies * Interaction techniques for information retrieval and discovery * Online information seeking, including log analysis of search and browsing * Modeling and simulation of information interaction * Search user interfaces, including those for specialized tasks, populations and domains * Information use, including measures of use as well as broader sense-making * Field and case studies relevant to understanding prerequisites for information searching, design and access * User-centered evaluation methods and measures, including measures of user experience and performance, experiment and search task design, eye-tracking and physiological approaches, data analysis methods, and usability * Human interaction and experience with mobile searching and services * User-Centered Design approaches to humans interacting with information and systems * Context-aware and personalized search and design, contextual features and analysis for information interaction * Information visualization and visual analytics, including search result presentation * Collaborative information seeking and social search, including social utility and network analysis for information interaction Contribution Types Full papers: High quality, original research of relevance to CHIIR may be submitted as a full paper (10 pages). Submissions are expected to contain a rigorous evaluation of any proposed findings, using techniques such as laboratory studies, field experiments, in situ observational studies, crowdsourcing, simulations of search behavior, or log analysis. Authors should describe their methods and techniques in enough detail to allow for replication and reuse. Accepted full papers will be published in the proceedings, and presented as paper presentations at the conference. Perspective papers: A special category of full papers (10 pages), perspective papers should present novel ideas or insights concerning approaches, key challenges, or theoretical or methodological issues that have the potential to inspire substantive discussion and lead to significant advances in the field. These papers should not consist primarily of literature reviews or the presentation of stand-alone studies, but may take the form of: * Reflections upon the body of research, considering how the field, the theories, the models, and the methods have developed; * Discussion of the implications of research findings on users in the real world; * Proposals for and discussions of theories or models of information-interaction; or * Critical, provocative, and creative contributions to stir debate and discussion. Short papers: Short Papers (4 pages) should report on original, significant, high-quality research. A short paper is likely to present a more focused study, and tends to make a smaller scope of contribution to the research program than full papers. For example, reporting on work in progress, preliminary research analysis, or late-breaking results may be suitable for Short Papers. This might be a good venue for those researchers who are new to the CHIIR community to become familiar with the field. Accepted short papers will be published in the proceedings, and presented as posters at the conference. Demonstrations: Demonstrations (4 pages) should enable presenters to give participants first-hand experience of novel research prototypes, operational systems, or in-progress concepts in development. The submission should both describe and show the proposed solution, addressing questions such as: What problem does the prototype/system/concept seek to address? How does it do so? Who are the users? How will you demonstrate this work? How does the work compare with those that exist already? Finally, how, where and when will your technology have a technical or commercial impact? The authors will have an opportunity of submitting a short video to show how their demo works. Wireless network access, along with a table and poster mount backdrop, will be provided for all accepted demonstrations. A paper describing each accepted demonstration will be included in the conference proceedings. Doctoral Consortium: Doctoral Consortium proposals (3 pages) should include the abstract, motivation, research questions, (planned or ongoing) methodology, progress made, and future plans. The CHIIR Doctoral consortium, held in conjunction with the main conference, provides an opportunity for doctoral students to present and discuss their research with senior researchers and other doctoral students in a seminar format. The Doctoral Consortium focuses on 1) advising students regarding current critical issues in their research, and 2) making students aware of the strengths and weaknesses of their research as viewed from different perspectives. Accepted proposals are eligible for publication in the proceedings. Workshops: Original Workshop Proposals (4 pages) should be highly interactive and could be either full-day or half-day. We welcome workshops that address important issues, discuss potential solutions, integrate various approaches, and offer innovative perspectives within the themes of the conference and have strong potential to contribute to the evolution of research and development of human computer interaction and information retrieval. Tutorials: Proposals for Tutorials (4 pages) should address topics relevant to the themes of the conference and could be either full-day or half-day. Each proposal is expected to cover the selected topic in depth by providing the audience with different perspectives, approaches, and recent developments and advances in the community. The accepted Workshops and Tutorials will be included in the conference proceedings. Deadlines 1 October 2017 - Full papers and Perspectives papers due 22 October 2017 - Short papers, Demos, Workshops and Tutorials proposals due 1 November 2017 ? Doctoral Consortium applications due 15 December 2017 - Notification of acceptance Submission Guidelines * CHIIR submissions should be original, high quality research that has not been published previously and are not under review for another conference or journal. * An international program committee will review all submissions. * All reviews will be double-blind, so submissions must be fully anonymized when submitted. * The page limits for each type of submission includes references. * All submissions should be formatted using the ACM Conference style (for LaTeX or Word). Submissions should be made in PDF. * All accepted submissions will be made available in the ACM Digital Library as part of the CHIIR series. * Submissions should not contain any author identification and should be submitted electronically via the conference submission system. Conference Chairs Chirag Shah, Rutgers University, USA Nick Belkin, Rutgers University, USA Program Chairs Katriina Bystrom, Oslo and Akershus University College, Norway Falk Scholer, RMIT University, Australia Jeff Huang, Brown University, USA Contact General information: chiir2018 at acm.org PC Chairs: chiir2018pc at acm.org **** Chirag Shah, PhD Associate Professor of Information and Computer Science, Rutgers University Director, InfoSeeking Lab, http://infoseeking.org http://chiragshah.org, @chirag_shah **** -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Lutz Bornmann Division for Science and Innovation Studies Administrative Headquarters of the Max Planck Society Hofgartenstr. 8 80539 Munich Tel.: +49 89 2108 1265 Mobil: +49 170 9183667 Email: bornmann at gv.mpg.de WWW: www.lutz-bornmann.de ResearcherID: http://www.researcherid.com/rid/A-3926-2008 ResearchGate: http://www.researchgate.net/profile/Lutz_Bornmann -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: