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Seventh International Conference on Future Generation Communication Technologies (FGCT 2018)
Luton, UK
August 20-22, 2018
http://www.socio.org.uk/fgct
Technically co-sponsored by UK & RI IEEE

In the last decade, a number of newer communication technologies have been evolved, which have a significant impact on the technology, as a whole. The impact ranges from incremental applications to dramatical breakthrough in the society. Users rely heavily on broadcast technology, social media, mobile devices, video games and other innovations to enrich the learning and adoption process.

The Seventh International Conference on Future Generation Communication Technologies (FGCT 2018) conference is designed for teachers, administrators, practitioners, researchers and scientists in the development arenas. It aims to provide discussions and simulations in the communication technology at the broad level and broadcasting technology and related technologies at the micro level. Through a set of research papers, using innovative and interactive approach, participants can expect to share a set of research that will prepare them to apply new technologies to their work in teaching, research and educational development amid this rapidly evolving landscape.

Topics discussed in this platform are not limited to-

Emerging cellular and new network architectures for 5G
New antenna and RF technology for 5G wireless
Modulation algorithms
Circuits, software and systems for 5G
Convergence of multi-modes, multi-bands, multi-standards and multi- applications in 5G systems
Cognitive radio and collaborative transmissions in 5G
Computing and processing platform for 5G
Programming models and development tools to enable 5G systems
Small cells and heterogeneous networks
Metrics and Evaluation of 5G systems
Standardization of 5G
Deployment options such as small cells, eICIC, MIMO and CoMP
LTE/WiFi interworking, carrier aggregation, dual connectivity
C-RAN, D-RAN, mmWave, Massive MIMO and ultra-low latency
Higher protocol layers
Latency and traffic scheduling
Broadcast technology
Future Internet and networking architectures
Future mobile communications
Mobile Web Technology
Mobile TV and multimedia phones
Communication Security, Trust, Protocols and Applications
Communication Interfaces
Communication Modelling
Satellite and space communications
Communication software
Future Generation Communication Networks
Communication Network Security
Communication Data Grids
Collaborative Communication Technology
Intelligence for future communication systems
Forthcoming optical communication systems
Communication Technology for Elearning, Egovernment, Ebusiness
Games and games designing
Social technology devises, tools and applications
Crowdsourcing and Human Computation
Human-computer communication
Pervasive Computing
Grid, crowd sourcing and cloud computing
Hypermedia systems
Software and technologies for E-communication
Intelligent Systems for E-communication
Future Cloud for Communication
Future warehousing
Future communication for healthcare and medical devices applications
Future communication for Mechatronic applications

All presented papers in the conference will be published in the proceedings of the conference and submitted to the IEEE Xplore Digital Library.

The conference will have workshops on specific themes, industrial presentation, invited talks and collaborative discussion forums.
The selected papers after extension and modification will be published in many peer reviewed and indexed journals.

Important Dates

Submission of Papers: June 10, 2018
Notification of Acceptance: July 08, 2018
Camera Ready: August 05, 2018
Registration: August 05, 2018
Conference Dates: August 20-22, 2018

Programme Committee
General Chair

Ezendu Ariwa, Univeristy of Warwick, UK

Programme Chairs

Yong Yue, University of Bedfordshire, UK
Adrian FLOREA, Lucian Blaga” University of Sibiu, Romania

Submissions at-http://www.socio.org.uk/fgct/paper-submission/

contact: fgct@socio.org.uk

Call for Papers: AMCIS 2018

Minitrack: Social Theory in Information Systems Research (STIR ’18)
Track: Social Inclusion (SIGSI)

24th Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS), Aug. 16-18, 2018
New Orleans, LA, USA

This minitrack solicits papers using social theory to critically examine ICTs and their roles in enabling and constraining social inclusion. What can be done to improve access to computing for underrepresented groups? In what ways do new technologies impact digital divides? What are the social, cultural, political, and economic implications of the Internet of things? These are examples of the kinds of questions we are interested in exploring in this minitrack. We are particularly interested in completed or emerging research using social theory to address the conference theme, Digital Disruption, critically examining the ways in which emerging technologies are changing the sociotechnical landscape in ways that narrow or widen the digital divide.

This will be the 18th consecutive year for STIR, and we hope to continue a tradition of high quality papers, and thought-provoking and lively discussion for IS researchers using social theory in their work.

In addition to research aligned with the conference theme we are also interested in high quality empirical and conceptual work that uses social theory to investigate issues such as (but not limited to):

• Improving access to computing for underrepresented minorities
• Reengineering the pipeline in STEM education for greater inclusiveness and diversity
• Critically assessing the ways in which ICTs and information systems can be used to privilege some and exclude others
• Understanding the impacts of the Internet of Things on the digital divide
• Assessing the unintended consequences of technology implementation and use in organizations and in social life
• Reflection on the ways in which ICT assemblages support and challenge political, cultural, and economic hegemonies.

Mini-Track chairs

Howard Rosenbaum, Indiana University  hrosenba@indiana.edu<mailto:hrosenba@indiana.edu>
Pnia Fichman, Indiana University  fichman@indiana.edu<mailto:fichman@indiana.edu>

Submission Instructions:

https://amcis2018.aisnet.org/submissions/call-for-papers/

Important Dates:

January 15, 2018: Manuscript submissions open
February 28, 2018: Deadline for paper submissions
April 18, 2018: Authors will be notified of decisions

The Ninth International Conference on the Applications of Digital Information and Web Technologies (ICADIWT 2018)

CALL FOR PAPERS

The Ninth International Conference on the Applications of Digital Information and Web Technologies (ICADIWT 2018)
June 25-27, 2018
Porto, Portugal
http://www.socio.org.uk/icadiwt

The Ninth International Conference on the Applications of Digital Information and Web Technologies (ICADIWT 2018) is a forum for researchers to present the intensive and innovative research, ideas, developments and applications in the areas of Computer Communications, Communication networks, Communication Software Communication Technologies and Applications, and other related themes.

This conference (ICADIWT Edition IX) will include presentations of contributed papers and state-of-the-art lectures by invited keynote speakers. Digital Technologies is embeded in the research activites of a large number of people and it ensures the Ubiquitous reaching of more number of people in the recent years. Research in digital technologies has been carried out in many directions using various resources and tools and on the other side, the application issues are addressed by more volume of researchers not necessarily limited to information and computing technology. Thus the proposed conference series realize its value and potential and manifest the requirements in the form of the international conference.

This edition will address the following outlined themes (but not limited to)

Internet Communication
Internet Technologies
Web Applications
Internet Software
Data Access and Transmission
Digital Communication Software
Digital Networks
Web Communication Interfaces
Adaptive Systems
Internet of Things
Internet of breath
Augmented Reality
Databases and applications
Web Systems Engineering Design
Intelligent Agent systems/
Semantic Web Studies
Adaptive Web applications and personalization
Actuators and sensors
Robotics and Machine Vision
Smart cities and structures
Control
Automation
Human-machine interfaces
Real-time simulation
Digital Technologies for Mechanical and other designs

Publication and Indexing

The accepted full papers will be published in the IOS series (Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications (FAIA))and submitted for inclusion in many indexes. Accepted full papers will be submitted for indexing to multiple abstract and indexing partners. The papers will be indexed in many databases as given at http://www.frontiersinai.com/?q=indexing

The accepted papers will be published as a post-conference publication. During the conference, the pre-conference volume will be distributed.

Important Dates

Submission of papers- April 01, 2018
Notification-May 10, 2018
Camera ready-June 10, 2018
Registration-June 15, 2018
Conference Dates-June 25-27, 2018

PROGRAM COMMITTEES

Honorary Chair
Jolanta Mizera-Pietraszko, (Opole University, Poland)

General Chairs
Ramiro Smano Robles, Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto Rua, Portugal
Pit Pichappan, Digital Information Research Labs, India

Program Chairs
Yao-Liang Chung, National Taiwan Ocean University, Taiwan
Ricardo Rodriguez Jorge, Autonomous University of Ciudad Juarez, Mexico

Submissions at
http://www.socio.org.uk/icadiwt/paper-submission/

Contact
diwt@dirf.org  or icadiwt@socio.org.uk

IEEE International Conference on Social Media, Wearable and Web Analytics (Social Media 2018)

Call For Papers
Social Media 2018<https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cybersa2018>
https://www.c-mric.org/conferences

IEEE International Conference on Social Media, Wearable and Web Analytics (Social Media 2018)
(Glasgow 2018)

The aim of the Social Media 2018 is to encourage participation and promotion of collaborative scientific, industrial and academic inter-workings among individual researchers, practitioners, members of existing associations, academia, standardisation bodies, and including government departments and agencies. The purpose is to build bridges between academia and industry, and to encourage interplay of different cultures. Social Media 2018 invites researchers and industry practitioners to submit papers that encompass principles, analysis, design, methods and applications. All submitted papers are independently peer-reviewed. Social Media 2018 is part of four collocated conferences IEEE Cyber Security 2018, IEEE Cyber Situation Awareness 2018, and IEEE Cyber Incident 2018.

We are pleased to announce that IEEE Cyber Incident 2018 will be opened by Mr Matheson, MSP Cabinet Secretary for Justice.

Academic Partners:

- University of Oxford
- Abertay University

Topics:

Fake News
Advances in Social Media
Social Media theoretical underpinnings
Security in Social Media
Trust and privacy in Social Media
Social Medial Big Data Analysis
Organisational Knowledge Management
Branding and E-Marketing Realtime Communications and Instant Messaging
Social Network Analysis
Social Media Technologies
Convergence Learning,
Communities & Skills development
Cultural Impacts
Digital Contents Research
Digital Economics
Measurement and analysis of social and crowdsourcing systems
Social and Digital Inclusion
Digital Trust and Reputation
Bridging Geographical and Location
Gaps Policy, Legal, Legislation & Compliance
Standardisation

and Related Topics

Keynote Speakers:

- Prof Sadie Creese (University of Oxford)
- Prof Karen Renaud (Abertay University)
- Prof Frank Wang (Kent University)
- Dr Cyril Onwubiko (C-Mric)
- Stu Hirst (Capital One)
- Prof Jens Pedersen (Aalborg University)
- Detective Inspector Eamonn Keane (Police Scotland)

Important Dates:

Full Paper Submission: 26th of January 2018
Short Paper Submission: 26th of January 2018
Paper Notification: 24th of March 2018

Authors of the best 20%-25% papers presented at the conference will be invited to adapt their papers for a publication in one of the special issue peer reviewed journal.

Collocated Conferences:

IEEE Situational Awareness 2018    http://www.c-mric.com/csa2018
IEEE Cyber Security 2018        http://www.c-mric.com/cs2018
IEEE Cyber Incident 2018 http://www.c-mric.com/ci2018

Workshops:

IEEE CIRC  (International Workshop on Cyber Insurance and Risk Controls) https://www.c-mric.com/CIRC

Paper Submission link:

https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=socialmedia2018<https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cybersa2018>

Associated Partners and Sponsors

 *   E:Security.Group
 *   The Scottish Informatics and Computer Science Alliance
 *   Privacy Azure
 *   Secudit

Civic Reception organised by Glasgow City Council

Call for Sponsors:

http://www.c-mric.com/sponsorship

Conference venue:

Grand Central hotel in Glasgow

Paper Call: “Making time in digital societies: Considering the interplay of media, data and temporalities” in New Media

CALL FOR ABSTRACTS
Special Issue on “Making time in digital societies: Considering the interplay of media, data and temporalities” in New Media & Society
Guest Editors: Christine Lohmeier (University of Bremen), Anne Kaun (Södertörn University), & Christian Pentzold(University of Bremen)

Studying media and communication processes through the lens of time and temporality enjoys a long history. Waves of technological innovation such as mechanization and electrification have come with a profound reconfiguration of social time. This holds true for datafication too. Datafication – referring to processes of quantification and the transformation of evermore objects into data, as well as the automation of judgements, evaluations, and decision-making – requires us to rethink, once again, the relationship between media, data, and temporality.
The special issue of New Media & Society will address the continuities and disruptions emerging in the nexus of time and media. It addresses the challenges of acting in the present, acceding to the future, and mobilizing the past in increasingly datafied societies. We assume that the changing mediations of time leave their mark on the ways we process and order the pace, sequence, and rhythms of intersecting lives.
Contributions to this special issue will explore changes in the perception and conception of time that go hand in hand with technological change and provide a discussion on how to grasp these empirical variations theoretically. They are invited to scrutinize the frictions between a plurality of social temporalities and the tendencies to establish dominate modes of creating, keeping, and managing time. While the focus is on current developments, the issue also seeks to includecontributions that encompass a historically grounded and contextualizing discussion of the interplay between media, data, and temporality.
Papers could address but are not limited to the following themes:
• media use and the management of time
• mediation and the communicative organization of time (e.g., through clocks, calendars, timetables)
• digital media technologies in relation to acceleration, (de)synchronization, or deceleration
• data-based modes of time making and time keeping
• embodiment, affect, and temporality
• media, time, and material objects
• power struggles around mediated time and temporalities in movements of resistance or social change; temporal insurgency
• cultural and social negotiations of media and time
• temporal and technological arrangements between the past, present, and future
• interrelations between time, media, and other activities
Abstract submission: 1 May 2018
Notification of selected proposals: 1 June 2018
Full paper submission: 15 January 2019
Publication planned for 2020

Submissions:
Submissions should include name and affiliation of the author(s), an abstract of 500 words, and 3 to 5 keywords. They should be sent to the e-mail address no later than 1 May 2018: mediatizedtime@uni-bremen.de Invited paper submission will be due 15 January 2019 and will be submitted directly to the submission site for New Media & Society: https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/nms where they will undergo peer review following the usual procedures of the journal. The invitation to submit a full article does not guarantee acceptance into the special issue. The special issue will be published in 2020.

In case you have any questions or suggestions, please get in touch: mediatizedtime@uni-bremen.de

Emerald Studies in Media and Communications: 30th anniversary of the CITAMS section

Emerald Studies in Media and Communications is delighted to update our 2018 call with a special volume commemorating the 30th anniversary of the CITAMS section. The deadline for all three volumes is February 12, 2018.

 

CITAMS@30

This special anniversary volume commemorates the 30th anniversary of the CITAMS section. Submissions are welcome that explore any topic relevant to the thirty-year section history or the future of the section in years to come. Topics include but are not limited to communication, information technologies, and media sociology. Guest editors are Wenhong Chen and Barry Wellman.

Call for Theorizing the Digital: Social Theory and Digital Culture
We welcome submissions using a wide variety of data and analytic techniques, assuming they are rigorously employed.  We also welcome theoretical submissions, assuming they focus squarely on the topic of the volume. Methodological papers will be considered as long as they are grounded in theoretical concerns.

The scope of the volume is wide and includes application of classical and contemporary theorists in media contexts. Any topic that engages the volume’s theme is welcome. Potential topics could include: ethics, practices, and politics of “big data”; self, identity, and community; privacy, publicity and surveillance; personal and algorithmic patterns of curation; social network formation, maintenance, and change; news and (dis)information; visual representations; memes and virality; politics; mediated embodiment, etc. Lead editor is Jeremy Schulz with guest editors Gabe Ignatow and Jenny Davis.

Call for Power, Media, and Everyday Life: Expanding the Intersectional
We welcome submissions using a wide variety of data and analytic techniques, assuming they are rigorously employed, and theoretical or methodological submissions, assuming they focus squarely on the topic of the volume. The scope of this volume is wide, as it aims to contribute phenomenological and epistemic knowledge to the growing field of intersectionality. Submissions are welcome on any topics that speak to intersectionality as it relates to media including gender, race/ethnicity, class, sexuality, and ability. In addition, we are also especially interested in papers that expand and broaden the discourse of intersectionality vis-à-vis media to include: Parenthood, Community, Religion, Nationality, Immigration, Language, Political Association, Aging, etc. Lead editor is Apryl Williams with guest editor Ruth Tsuria.

Submission Guidelines: Deadline February 12, 2018 by email to editorial@emeraldmediastudies.com.
Submissions should be approximately 7,000-10,000 in length inclusive of abstract, references, and notes. American or British spelling may be used.

While no special formatting is requested at the outset, upon acceptance authors must gain all permissions and format their manuscripts in accordance with the series' guidelines.

Submissions may be considered for either volume. All submissions must include

1) title of manuscript,

2) abstract up to 250 words,

3) up to 6 keywords,

4)  main text with headings,

5) references,

6) as appropriate to the submission appendices, images, figures, and tables.

 

For initial submissions, please follow these four steps or the submission may not be considered:
1) Create two copies of your submission: one in PDF for anonymous review and one in Word with all author information.
2) Use the title of your submission when naming your copies of your submissions in both Word and PDF.
3) Put the title of your submission and the name of the volume you prefer in the subject line of your email.
4) Email both copies of your submission in a single email to editorial@emeraldmediastudies.com by the deadline.

Anonymized Review Copy in PDF
Title of your submission + Anonymized (example: "Submission Title Anonymized")
Remove any author information and affiliations and save doc as PDF

Editorial Copy in Word
Title of your submission + Editorial (example: "Submission Title Editorial")
In a Word document, include all elements above, as well as a title page with all author names, emails, and bios of up to 250 words.

For more information, see emeraldmediastudies.com.
Please address any questions to: editorial@emeraldmediastudies.com

Call for Book Proposals: Critical Digital and Social Media Studies

REMINDER - 2018  CALL FOR BOOK PROPOSAL SUBMISSIONS: CRITICAL DIGITAL AND SOCIAL MEDIA STUDIES

Submission Deadline: Monday 12 February 2017 23:00 BST by e-mail to Andrew Lockett (University of Westminster Press Manager) at A.Lockett@westminster.ac.uk
For fullest series details and proposal guidelines see https://uwestminsterpress.blog

Critical Digital and Social Media Studies is an established book series edited by Christian Fuchs on behalf of the Westminster Institute for Advanced Studies and published by the University of Westminster Press (UWP). We invite submissions of book proposals that fall into the scope of the series.

CALL DETAILS
After the publication of five titles in the series we invite submission of book proposals (adhering to the guidelines set out below) as one document with one full chapter for books in the range of 35,000-80,000 words. The books in the series are published online in an open access format available online without payment using a Creative Commons licence (CC-BY-NC-ND) and simultaneously as affordable paperbacks. We are able to publish a number of books in the call without any book processing charges thanks to generous support by the University of Westminster that covers these fees. Potential authors are welcome to contact the series editor outside of the initial time frame of this call for book proposals but should note that priority for funding support for suitable projects will be given to those proposals meeting the deadline. There is a preference for the submission of proposals for books whose writing can be finished and that can be submitted to UWP within the next 6-15 months. In the event of a surplus of strong proposals preference will be given to single-authored book proposals over edited volumes.

We welcome submissions of a book outline proposal with (exactly one) sample chapter submitted as one single Word or PDF document. We can only accept suggestions for books written in English.

TOPICS
Example topics that the book series is interested in include: the political economy of digital and social media; digital and informational capitalism; digital labour; ideology critique in the age of social media; new developments of critical theory in the age of digital and social media; critical studies of advertising and consumer culture online; critical social media research methods; critical digital and social media ethics; working class struggles in the age of social media; the relationship of class, gender and race in the context of digital and social media; the critical analysis of the implications of big data, cloud computing, digital positivism, the Internet of things, predictive online analytics, the sharing economy, location- based data and mobile media, etc.; the role of classical critical theories for studying digital and social media; alternative social media and Internet platforms; the public sphere in the age of digital media; the critical study of the Internet economy; critical perspectives on digital democracy; critical case studies of online prosumption; public service digital and social media; commons-based digital and social media; subjectivity, consciousness, affects, worldviews and moral values in the age of digital and social media; digital art and culture in the context of critical theory; environmental and ecological aspects of digital capitalism and digital consumer culture.

PUBLISHED TITLES

CRITICAL THEORY OF COMMUNICATION: LUKÁCS, ADORNO, MARCUSE, HONNETH AND HABERMAS IN THE AGE OF THE INTERNET AND SOCIAL MEDIA
Christian Fuchs, Westminster Institute for Advanced Studies, University of Westminster
https://doi.org/10.16997/book1

KNOWLEDGE IN THE AGE OF DIGITAL CAPITALISM: AN INTRODUCTION TO COGNITIVE MATERIALISM
Mariano Zukerfeld (CONICET), Argentina.
https://doi.org/10.16997/book3

POLITICIZING DIGITAL SPACE: THEORY, THE INTERNET, AND RENEWING DEMOCRACY
Trevor Smith Carleton University Ottowa.
https://doi.org/10.16997/book5

CAPITAL, STATE, EMPIRE: THE NEW AMERICAN WAY OF DIGITAL WARFARE
Scott Timcke, University of the West Indies, at St Augustine, Trinidad & Tobago.
https://doi.org/10.16997/book6

THE SPECTACLE 2.0: READING DEBORD IN THE CONTEXT OF DIGITAL CAPITALISM
Edited by Marco Briziarelli, University of New Mexico and Emiliana Armano, the State University of Milan.
https://doi.org/10.16997/book11