From bcnewell at uw.edu Fri Aug 5 09:07:09 2016 From: bcnewell at uw.edu (Bryce C Newell) Date: Fri, 5 Aug 2016 15:07:09 +0200 Subject: [Sigifp-l] CFP: Visual Data as Accountability, Resistance, and Surveillance Message-ID: This is a reminder that abstracts for the special issue of Law & Social Inquiry on the theme of ?Visual Data as Accountability, Resistance, and Surveillance? are due August 10. We look forward to receiving your abstracts! The full CFP follows: *(with apologies for cross-posting)* > > > *Call for Papers (abstracts due August 10, 2016)* > > *Visual Data as Accountability, Resistance, and Surveillance* > For a special issue of *Law & Social Inquiry* (Journal links: Wiley > *|* American > Bar Foundation > ) > > > Edited by: Sarah Brayne (UT-Austin), Karen E. C. Levy (Cornell), and Bryce > Clayton Newell (Tilburg) > > *Overview* > > The capture, analysis, and dissemination of visual data?including video > (with or without audio), photographs, and other visual recordings?has > become ubiquitous. Facilitated by digitization, globalization, and the > proliferation of mobile media, visual data is transforming the > documentation of activities in a wide range of contexts, including > policing, legal adjudication, war, human rights struggles, and civic > action. Visual data is being collected by state actors and individual > citizens, each often documenting the actions of the other. The use of this > data as evidence (both inside and outside formal legal proceedings) raises > significant issues related to privacy and ethics, authentication and > credibility, interpretation, inequality, power, and legibility. Law is > implicated at both the point of recording (or documentation) and during > downstream activities, such as when recordings are shared or posted online, > publicly disclosed under freedom of information laws, or introduced into > evidence during legal proceedings. > > Different technologies afford different viewpoints. Visual data > constitutes a unique form of information that presents emergent legal and > policy questions because of its technical form and social effects. The > mobilization of visual data can shape and reshape public opinion, > representation, suppression, visibility, inequality, and admissibility of > evidence; it can serve to incriminate or exonerate. Visual evidence can > legitimize certain accounts of events while calling others into question. > And, thanks to the proliferation of mobile devices, more people can capture > video and photographs than ever before, at a moment?s notice, simply by > pulling out their phones?and can distribute them instantaneously, creating > visual records of all types of behaviors and conflicts, from confrontations > between citizens and police to political gaffes, from sex tapes to > dashboard camera footage of traffic-related events. The recent adoption of > police body cameras and the use of video by bystanders as a tool for > inverse surveillance demonstrate our increasing reliance on video as a > check on power, as well as a source of ostensible authority when accounts > about ?what really happened? are in conflict. At the same time, the crucial > role of interpretation suggests video is not as much of an ?objective > observer? or independent witness as it is sometimes claimed to be, and > visual evidence may have unforeseen implications for weighing evidence in > civil or criminal cases?or in the court of public opinion. > > Permissive freedom of information laws in some jurisdictions have also led > to recordings made by the police ending up on websites like > YouTube?alongside myriad channels of police misconduct videos filmed by > citizens. All of this footage increases the secondary visibility of those > captured in recordings, and the video itself can also be analyzed as > (potentially) a new form of big data. Audio and video streams contain > biometric information that can be detected, analyzed, and compared against > existing databases?while also adding new data to these databases in the > process. > > The creation, dissemination, mediation, interpretation, and quantification > of visual data are all fundamentally social processes. From citizen video > of police (mis)conduct to the visual documentation of human rights abuses, > the process of transforming material experience into digital evidence can > facilitate accountability or resistance. These citizen-led forms of > surveillance also function as forms of resistance to more panoptic forms of > state-sponsored video collection and surveillance (e.g. camera-enabled > drones, CCTV cameras). On the other hand, police-worn body cameras also act > as an accountability mechanism, even though they face away from officers > and collect evidence about?and document the conduct of?civilians. These > forms of mobile, user-controlled cameras significantly alter earlier > reliance on more static and passive video collection. > > As technological developments far outpace empirical research on?and legal > regulation of?visual data, this special paper symposium in Law & Social > Inquiry will provide an opportunity to highlight new empirical work with > connections to law and policy, serve as a venue to build theory about a > rapidly changing subject, and showcase research relevant to a variety of > stakeholders?including lawyers, judges, law enforcement, legislators and > policymakers, activists and civil and human rights organizations, > technologists, and academics in a variety of fields. > > We welcome contributions that present original empirical research; offer > conceptual, critical, or theoretical analyses; or address the unique legal, > ethical, and policy questions implicated by visual documentation. We > welcome scholarly contributions that come from?or that cross?academic > disciplines such as sociology, law, information science, anthropology, > science and technology studies, criminology, geography, communications and > media studies, and computer science. > > > *We encourage submissions addressing (but not limited to) such subjects > as:* > > - Body-worn cameras, dashcams, policing practices > - Citizen video/video as human rights advocacy > - Covert and overt recording > - Video as surveillance and sousveillance > - Resistance to and avoidance of audio or visual surveillance > - Design and regulation of audio or visual surveillance systems > - Unanticipated consequences of audio or visual records > - Use and interpretation of audio or video as evidence in legal > proceedings > - Data storage, access, and retention policies > - Algorithmic practices of metadata extraction from video content > - Image processing > - Technical means of privacy preservation and authentication > - Audio and video analytics and forensics > - Audio and video redaction and privacy concerns > - Live streaming > - Video/audio and public opinion > - Voyeurism, victimhood, and the ethics of viewing > - Affective aspects of video > - Embedding human values into the design of video-related technologies > or systems (e.g. value sensitive design or privacy by design) > - Implications for inequality > - Facial recognition or other forms of biometrics enabled by audio or > visual documentation and recording > > *Deadlines and anticipated timeline:* > > - > *Initial abstract submission deadline (~ 500 words): August 10, 2016 * > - Authors notified of (tentative) acceptance: August 30, 2016 > - Full papers due (based on accepted abstracts): December 1, 2016 > - Papers sent out for peer-review: mid-December, 2016 > - Reviews returned to authors (with editorial decisions): expected, > Feb.-Mar. 2017 > - Publication in 2017 > > > *Specifics about submissions:* > Initial abstracts should contain approximately 500 words. Subsequent full > paper submissions should contain fewer than 10,000 words (including > footnotes and citations), and should contain a 200-word abstract and > biographical information about the authors on a cover page. Invited full > paper submissions will undergo formal double-blind peer review, which is > expected to take between 1 and 3 months (submissions that are not selected > for peer-review will be released back to the authors quickly). All > submissions should be submitted in editable Word (*.doc/x) or *.rtf > formats, and should adhere to the formatting and citation requirements of > Law & Social Inquiry (available at http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/pdf/ > lsi_author_guidelines.pdf). > > All submissions should be sent to the editors via email to > LSIvisualdataspecialissue at gmail.com. Please do not submit to this special > call via the regular Law & Social Inquiry journal submission portal. > > Additional questions may be sent to the editors at the same address. > > > *--* > *Bryce Clayton Newell, Ph.D., J.D.* > Post-Doctoral Researcher > Tilburg Institute for Law, Technology, and Society (TILT) > Tilburg University, Faculty of Law > b.c.newell at uvt.nl | SSRN | @newmedialaw > > www.bcnewell.com | www.humanitarianfilm.org > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From pfernand at utk.edu Tue Aug 23 13:25:06 2016 From: pfernand at utk.edu (Fernandez, Peter David) Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2016 17:25:06 +0000 Subject: [Sigifp-l] Call for Chapter Proposals - Applying Library Values to Emerging Technology: Tips and Techniques for Advancing within Your Mission Message-ID: <6A55A59A-50A3-4F41-94CE-D2F0B46996F3@utk.edu> ***Cross-posted to multiple lists; please excuse duplication.*** We?re excited to invite you to submit chapter proposals for our forthcoming ACRL book, Applying Library Values to Emerging Technology: Tips and Techniques for Advancing within Your Mission The Book As emerging technologies become easier to use, public service information professionals of all kinds are increasingly tasked with making decisions regarding which technologies to use, promote, and provide support for. These technology-mediated exchanges can play an important role in how information, and the library, is perceived and used. This book will share perspectives on how to interpret and apply the ALA's Core Values of Librarianship in the context of emerging technologies as well highlight case studies of organizations and applications that exemplify relevant library values. It will be grounded in theory, but be made applicable to a variety of libraries by situating discussions within a framework for decision-making. Authors will retain copyright of their work, and after one year the entire book will be made available open access. Structure The book will be organized into chapters corresponding with the values identified in the ALA's Core Values of Librarianship, but individual chapters do not need to tie directly to any particular interpretation of those values (see ?Chapter Details?). Authors should consider library values in the context of emerging technology, and what the implications are for making decisions about library practice. The editors are interested in considering a wide variety of perspectives and forms of submissions in order to be relevant to a broad audience Each section will include both: * Practical case studies of how to effectively use a particular technology in a library setting * Theoretical models for understanding and interpreting the relevant library value (or values) in context of a relevant technology Most submissions should include at least some elements of theory and practice, but can focus on any aspect. We will also consider submissions featuring just one element (an important theoretical consideration that could impact other works, or a particularly impactful case study). Copyright Priority will be given to producing the best possible final work that is meaningful to a wide audience rather than necessarily ?original research,? so authors may reuse portions of previous works when copyright allows. If doing so, authors are expected to revise their work and provide at minimum an introduction and conclusion that fit with the theme of this volume. Chapter Details For a more context and suggested topics for each chapter visit this document: https://goo.gl/slsCNV Potential Sections Include: ? Confidentiality/Privacy & Intellectual Freedom ? Access/Democracy ? The Public Good/Social Responsibility & Education and Lifelong Learning ? Preservation ? Diversity ? Service ? Professionalism Examples of topics include: * Libraries providing access to encryption technology * Libraries providing training/access to technology that enables expression * Libraries relationship to modern efforts to censor (e.g. NSA; Patriot Act; China?s firewall) * Technology that supports Open Access * The #ICANHAZPDF phenomenon, and technology surrounding interlibrary loan * Licensing/copyright agreements and library values * Preventing link-rot and related issues with archiving websites * Issues surrounding private/public communications online (e.g. preserving e-mails, Facebook posts and other semi-public digital objects stored on private servers) * How library interfaces impact diversity * How library values such as professionalism and service can be embodied in technology decisions Don?t see your topic/idea here? We encourage you to contact the editors at valuesandtechnologyacrl at gmail.com to discuss how your idea may fit within this book?s scope. Proposal Guidelines and Submission Instructions A short form with an attached Word document (.doc or .docx) is required for proposal submission. The Word document should be written in Times New Roman, 12 pt., be double-spaced, and include: * A working title * Names of all contributing authors & their respective institutions * Contact information for the primary author * Estimated final word count * A brief (250-500 word) description of your proposed chapter * Please identify any relevant library values and technologies, and if your chapter will include any explicit recommendations for decision making Attach your chapter submission proposal to an email with the subject line: Chapter Proposal Submission_(PrimaryAuthor?sLastName) And send to: valuesandtechnologyacrl at gmail.com Our information Peter Fernandez, Interim Head, LRE Liaison Programs University of Tennessee Libraries Kelly Tilton, Information Literacy Instruction Librarian at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville Important Dates Proposals are due October 10th, 2016 * Contributors will be notified of their status (acceptance or rejection) by October 31, 2016 * Deadline to submit the first draft of accepted chapters for revision: February 1, 2017 * Submission of edited volume to publisher: May 31, 2017 ACRL Publications Agreement FAQ: http://www.ala.org/acrl/publications/publicationsfaq Peter Fernandez Interim Head, LRE Liaison Programs University of Tennessee Libraries pfernand at utk.edu | 865-974-2886 orcid.org/0000-0002-9731-6567 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From nadia.caidi at utoronto.ca Wed Aug 24 11:11:00 2016 From: nadia.caidi at utoronto.ca (Nadia Caidi) Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2016 11:11:00 -0400 Subject: [Sigifp-l] Faculty Position in Information/Social Work at the Univ. of Toronto Message-ID: Apologies for duplication. Assistant Professor ? Social Work and Information The Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work (FIFSW) and the Faculty of Information (iSchool) at the University of Toronto invite applications for a tenure-stream position at the rank of Assistant Professor. The position will be held 51% at the FIFSW and 49% at the iSchool. Appointments will begin July 1, 2017. The University of Toronto is strongly committed to diversity within its community and especially welcomes applications from racialized persons / persons of colour, women, Indigenous / Aboriginal People of North America, persons with disabilities, LGBTQ persons, and others who may contribute to the further diversification of ideas. As part of your application, you will be asked to complete a brief Diversity Survey. This survey is voluntary. Any information directly related to you is confidential and cannot be accessed by search committees or human resources staff. Results will be aggregated for institutional planning purposes. For more information, please see http://uoft.me/UP. Candidates are expected to have a program of research and experience especially focused on big data from a quantitative or qualitative angle, analyzing both the challenges and opportunities of big data for social justice. Areas of specific interest can include the use and impact of big data for social service and child welfare agencies, youth service agencies, public libraries, archives and information centres, and for vulnerable citizens and marginalized communities, including older adults, indigenous, and immigrant communities. Research areas may include, but are not limited to, the following: big data and society, data and information and communication technology use, infrastructure and platform studies, ethics of algorithms, data and discrimination, data and human rights, data and social inclusion, privacy and data, and disability studies in information studies and social work. Theoretical and methodological approaches to research should be commensurate with applicants? teaching and fields of expertise. The Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work pursues excellence in the development and testing of new knowledge that will have an impact on social work direct practice and social policy, as well as social work education. Our commitment to social justice means that we look for creative solutions to social problems at the local, national and international level. We are proud of our record as one of North America?s pre-eminent Social Work Faculties, offering programs at the MSW, PhD, and post-MSW diploma levels. The Faculty is involved in several collaborative programs and joint degrees that provide many opportunities for interdisciplinary collaboration including Health Administration; Addiction Studies; Aging and the Life Course; Asia Pacific Studies; Bioethics; Child Welfare; Community Development; Ethnic and Pluralism Studies; Health Care, Technology and Place; Health Services and Policy Research; Human Development; Sexual Diversity; Women and Gender Studies; and Women?s Health. Faculty website: http://wvvw.socialwork.utoronto.ca. The iSchool at the University of Toronto educates the next generation of professional and academic leaders in Information to transform society through collaboration, innovation and knowledge creation. The Faculty believes that society's information practices are being reconfigured and transformed by material shifts in information infrastructures and by political and cultural shifts in our attitudes toward information as a social phenomenon, accompanied by ethical challenges. The Faculty of Information provides a context in which to work in an emerging interdisciplinary environment with close ties to a range of collaborative programs including Knowledge Media Design and Book History and Print Culture. The Faculty is also home to the Digital Curation Institute. Faculty website: http://wvvw.ischool.utoronto.ca Candidates must have a PhD in social work, information or a related field by the time of appointment or shortly thereafter; an active research program that contributes especially to information studies affecting social work; social work practice experience; an emerging reputation in research with demonstrated ability to attract external research funding; and publications in high quality peer reviewed journals. Evidence of excellence in teaching (including a teaching dossier outlining experience and accomplishments) is also required. Salary will be commensurate with qualifications and experience. The application deadline is February 28, 2017. All qualified candidates are invited to apply by clicking on the link below. Applications should include a cover letter, full curriculum vitae, teaching dossier (including a statement of teaching philosophy), a brief outline of current and proposed future research interests and two samples of published work. All application materials should be submitted through the University of Toronto?s online application system. If you have questions about this position, please contact socialwork.admin at utoronto.ca. Please combine attachments into one or two files in PDF/MS Word format. Submission guidelines can be found at: http://uoft.me/how-to-apply. Applicants should also ask three referees to send letters directly to the Faculty via e-mail to socialwork.admin at utoronto.ca. Applications without references will not be considered. All qualified candidates are encouraged to apply; however, Canadians and permanent residents will be given priority. 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URL: From arubel at wisc.edu Sun Aug 28 19:58:28 2016 From: arubel at wisc.edu (Alan Rubel) Date: Sun, 28 Aug 2016 23:58:28 +0000 Subject: [Sigifp-l] Reminder: call for participation workshop on information ethics and policy Oct. 14 Message-ID: Call for participation: Advancing Information Ethics and Policy Education: Designing Curriculum for Diverse Contexts, sponsored by SIG-IEP and SIG-ED ASIS&T Annual Meeting, Copenhagen, Denmark October 14, 2016 Organizers: Alan Rubel (University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA), Shannon Oltmann (University of Kentucky, USA), A.J. Million (University of Missouri, USA), Lisa Nathan (University of British Columbia, Canada), Bryce Newell (Tilburg University, Netherlands), Emad Kharzraee (Kent State University, USA), Emily Knox (University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign, USA), Colin Rhinesmith (University of Oklahoma, USA), Kristene Unsworth (Drexel University, USA) Please join us for a full-day, collaborative workshop focusing on teaching information ethics and policy on October 14, 2016. The SIG IEP, with the support of SIG ED, is sponsoring a workshop on teaching information ethics and policy at the ASIS&T annual meeting in Copenhagen. The workshop will be highly collaborative, with most of the day devoted to working groups focused on building curriculum ideas, pedagogical approaches, project ideas, and teaching tools. Each working group will be preceded by one or two very short presentations on the topic in order to spark discussion and collaboration. The goal of the workshop is to learn from other scholars and teachers of IEP about different approaches, topics, and teaching methods. We are seeking participation from the broadest range of scholars and practitioners whose work includes, or relates to, information ethics and policy (broadly construed). Participation requires only registration and willingness to actively engage over the course of the workshop. We encourage, but do not require, participants to bring syllabi, reading lists, and other artifacts to share during the workshop. In addition, if you have a particularly novel, successful, or interesting approach, unit, assignment, or method for teaching information ethics and policy and would like to do a very short (less than 10 minutes) presentation, please send an abstract (approx.. 500 words) describing the presentation to Alan Rubel at arubel at wisc.edu (subject line: ASIS&T workshop) by August 30. We anticipate publishing versions of the short presentations in a special issue of the ASIS&T Bulletin. We will notify accepted presentations by September 1, in time for conference early registration (which ends September 2, 2016). Alan Rubel Associate Professor iSchool (School of Library and Information Studies) Legal Studies Program University of Wisconsin, Madison arubel at wisc.edu alanrubel.com Alan Rubel Associate Professor iSchool (School of Library and Information Studies) Legal Studies Program University of Wisconsin, Madison arubel at wisc.edu alanrubel.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: