[P2P-F] Fwd: [liberationtech] Deadline approaching: IPP2014 Conference Call: "Crowdsourcing for Politics and Policy" - 25/26.Sept.2014

Thu Feb 27 17:39:17 CET 2014

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Chris Pinchen <chris at cataspanglish.com>
Date: Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 11:14 AM
Subject: Fwd: [liberationtech] Deadline approaching: IPP2014 Conference
Call: "Crowdsourcing for Politics and Policy" - 25/26.Sept.2014
To: P2PValue Project Members List <members at p2pvalue.eu>

 Hi all,

not sure if I forwarded this before - may be of interest

Cheers,

Chris

-------- Original Message --------  Subject: [liberationtech] Deadline
approaching: IPP2014 Conference Call: "Crowdsourcing for Politics and
Policy" - 25/26.Sept.2014  Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2014 15:04:51 +0000
From: Calderaro,
Andrea <Andrea.Calderaro at EUI.eu> <Andrea.Calderaro at EUI.eu>  Reply-To:
liberationtech
<liberationtech at lists.stanford.edu> <liberationtech at lists.stanford.edu>  To:
liberationtech at lists.stanford.edu
<liberationtech at lists.stanford.edu><liberationtech at lists.stanford.edu>

Dear all,

The journal Policy & Internet will be holding its third conference
(co-convened by the OII, in collaboration with the Internet & Politics ECPR
SG) next 25-26 September in Oxford, on the subject of crowdsourcing. We are
currently calling for abstracts.

Conference: http://ipp.oii.ox.ac.uk/
Call: http://ipp.oii.ox.ac.uk/2014/call-for-papers
Abstract deadline: 14 March 2014.

Location: Thursday 25 - Friday 26 September 2014, Oxford Internet
Institute, University of Oxford.
Convenors: Helen Margetts (OII), Vili Lehdonvirta (OII), David Sutcliffe
(OII), Sandra Gonzalez-Bailon (Annenberg, UPenn), Andrea Calderaro (EUI).

Contact: policyandinternet at oii.ox.ac.uk

 ** Important dates **

Extended abstract submission deadline: 14 March 2014
Decisions on abstracts: 14 April 2014
Full paper / poster submission deadline (for accepted abstracts): 15 August
2014
Conference dates: Thursday 25 - Friday 26 September 2014.

** Rationale **

Crowdsourcing - the provision of goods by large numbers of people
contributing via an online platform - is used to generate and sustain
policy ideas, labour markets, business investment, charitable donations,
knowledge commons (such as Wikipedia), cultural goods and artefacts,
libraries, government transparency, public management reform, education,
scientific development and the institutions of democracy itself. This
pattern of technology-enabled institutional change, where a known few are
replaced by an indefinite many, has deep and diverse implications for
government, business, civil society, democratic life and public
policy-making. Researchers and policy-makers have barely begun to examine
the opportunities and challenges that the crowdsourcing model presents.

The Internet, Politics, Policy 2014 conference is dedicated to facilitating
discussion on crowdsourcing across disciplinary boundaries. The conference
calls for papers on the observed and potential implications of
crowdsourcing for politics, policy and academic practice. Perspectives are
welcomed from across science, social science and the humanities as well as
from academic and policy-making communities. We aim to identify both what
is novel in crowdsourcing, and the ways it enables and extends existing
social and political processes.

** Topics **

The conference aims to attract papers from a range of disciplines analysing
crowdsourcing-related phenomena. We welcome both theoretical and empirical
papers reporting original research on crowdsourcing and related concepts
such as microwork, peer production, human computing, co-creation, open
innovation and e-government. We particularly welcome comparative approaches
and papers drawing on new empirical findings and novel research methods.

Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):

How is crowdsourcing changing politics? Topics of interest include citizen
participation in government and the political process, and online
collective action.

Uses of big data in evidence-based public policy, including probabilistic,
and conditional and predictive policy-making and the use of social media
data for government self-improvement.

Online labor markets, new organizational forms, and the blurring of
boundaries between work and play, as well as the economics of crowdsourcing
more generally.

Co-production and co-creation of public policy, through (for example) the
use of feedback facilities, rating, ranking and reputation applications.

Crowdsourcing for conflict management, peace building and humanitarian
intervention, including crisis mapping.

Crowdsourcing for educational, scientific and technological development,
such as citizen science, crowd-funding, massive online open courses, and
the methodological, epistemological and ethical issues involved.

New methods for analyzing crowdsourcing, such as computational social
science and big data analytics, including sentiment analysis, topic
classification, sampling from social media platforms, and inferring from
socially generated data to the wider population.

Ethical issues arising from the use of such methods, such as
de-anonymisation, privacy, and inequalities created by the use of
predictive analytics in decisions concerning individuals.

When crowds turn into mobs: online hate groups, organized cyberbullying,
their dynamics and effective policy responses.

Perspectives from any academic discipline are welcomed, including:
political science, economics, law, sociology, medicine, information
science, communications, philosophy, computer science, physics, psychology,
management, organization science, geography and humanities. Papers should
attempt to frame their object of study in relation to established concepts
and theories. 'Crowdsourcing' need not be the central concept in a paper as
long as it deals with the issues and topics identified in this call.

** Proposal submission **

* Paper proposals

Paper proposals should consist of a title and a 1,000-word extended
abstract that specifies and motivates the research question, describes the
methods and data used, and summarises the main findings. Abstracts will be
peer reviewed, and the authors of accepted proposals are expected to submit
full papers prior to the conference. Applicants will have the opportunity
to co-submit their paper to the journal Policy and Internet, which will
operate a fast-track review process for papers accepted to the conference.

Paper submissions can also be considered for a Best Paper Award (sponsored
by the journal Policy and Internet). The prize will be awarded at the
closing session of the conference. As the paper is intended to be published
in a future issue of the journal, authors should indicate whether they
would like their paper to be considered for the prize.

* Poster proposals

Posters should summarise in a visually engaging manner the purpose, methods
and results of an original piece of research. All accepted submissions will
be considered for a Best Poster Award. The prize will be awarded at the
closing session of the conference.

IPP2014: Crowdsourcing for Politics and Policy
http://ipp.oii.ox.ac.uk/

  -----------------------------------------------
Andrea Calderaro, PhD

Center for Media Pluralism and Media Freedom | European University Institute

Personal Page: www.eui.eu/Personal/Researchers/calderaro/
Twitter: @andreacalderaro

The information transmitted is intended only for the person or entity to
which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged
material. Any review, retransmission, dissemination, distribution,
forwarding, or other use of, or taking of any action in reliance upon, this
information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient is
prohibited without the express permission of the sender. If you received
this communication in error, please contact the sender and delete the
material from any computer.

-- 
*Please note an intrusion wiped out my inbox on February 8; I have no
record of previous communication, proposals, etc ..*

P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net  - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net

<http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation>Updates:
http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens

#82 on the (En)Rich list: http://enrichlist.org/the-complete-list/
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: https://lists.ourproject.org/pipermail/p2p-foundation/attachments/20140227/957b37c0/attachment.htm 
-------------- next part --------------
-- 
Liberationtech is public & archives are searchable on Google. Violations of list guidelines will get you moderated: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech. Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at companys at stanford.edu.