Theme: “Communication at a Crossroads” Deadline for abstract submissions: 30 April 2018 A crossroads is a site where roads intersect. It is a point of crisis, a turning point, and a point of alternative configurations, convergence plus divergence, meeting and departure, unity and disunity. Metaphorically, it is a point of flux and change, a critical […]
This specialized track focuses on the ongoing challenges for using data from social media platforms and from third party aggregators as sources for research metrics and scientometric indicators. These challenges include but are not limited to: –> platform-based restrictions in accessing social media data and potential biases resulting from limited access (also: biases introduced by […]
Big Data Ethics in China’s Social media Sector Webpage:https://www.findaphd.com/search/ProjectDetails.aspx?PJID=94883 Project Description Requirements: The candidate should have a first class or upper second class honours degree, or a master’s degree (or equivalent qualification), in Law/Sociology/Media and Communication/Digital Data Studies/Applied Ethics, Evidence of good spoken and written Chinese and English is essential. The candidate should […]
Minitrack: Collective Intelligence and Crowds HICSS 52 http://hicss.hawaii.edu/ Track: Digital and Social Media January 8-11, 2019, Maui, Hawaii, USA This minitrack is open to analysis of collective intelligence, knowledge creation, and crowdsourcing. We think that assemblages of people and machines are making new forms of organization possible, and we are interested in research that explores […]
Call for Papers Youth Futures: Connection and Mobility in the Asia Pacific Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation Flagship Conference Venue: Deakin Downtown, Melbourne City Campus November 15-16 2018 Young people across the Asia-Pacific live in increasingly interlinked, complex and uncertain worlds. New mobilities as well as new kinds of connectivity, […]
Building Resistance Against Racist Digital Futures A call for interventions In the recent years, we have seen adramatic increase in everyday application of digital technologies in theworkplace, public services and everyday activities. They are presented to usthrough the lens of freedom and positive futurity – a freedom to live a‘comfortable life’, a freedom to […]
Prague Media Point Nov 15-18, 2018 MEDIA AND TECHNOLOGY: INNOVATIVE JOURNALISM IN A CONTESTED POLITICAL SPACE CALL FOR CONFERENCE PAPERS In an increasingly unstable world, independent media are facing unprecedented challenges. Journalism’s crucial role to represent the public interest is being actively undermined by declining audiences, upended business models, and the emergence of alternative sources […]
Call for Papers: The International Symposium on Media Innovations 2018 (ISMI18) Theme: Media Innovations and Good Lives Dear list members, we are pleased to announce that the seventh International Symposium on Media Innovations (ISMI18) will take place in Oslo, Norway on Friday 31st August and Saturday 1st September, 2018. Join us, along with a small […]
HICSS-52 Call for papers for the mini-track on: “COLLABORATION VIA SOCIAL MEDIA” Part of the Collaboration Systems and Technology Track of the Fifty-Second Annual Hawai’i International Conference on Systems Sciences (HICSS) Maui, HI – January 8-11, 2019 Papers are invited for the mini-track on “COLLABORATION VIA SOCIAL MEDIA” as part of the Collaboration Systems and […]
*CfP VOX-POL CONFERENCE – VIOLENT EXTREMISM, TERRORISM, AND THE INTERNET: PRESENT AND FUTURE TRENDS* *Dates: *20 and 21 Aug. 2018 (post-conference workshops 22 Aug.) *Location: *University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands *Final Submission Date: *Friday, 13 April VOX-Pol’s third biennial conference will take place at the University of Amsterdam on 20 – 21 August 2018, with […]