[P2P-F] Fwd: [liberationtech-events] CfP: "Crowdsourcing for Politics & Policy" at IPP2014

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"Crowdsourcing for Politics & Policy" at IPP2014  Date: Mon, 06 Jan 2014
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 From: David Sutcliffe (david.sutcliffe at oii.ox.ac.uk)

Dear all,
The journal Policy and Internet will be holding its third conference
(co-convened by the OII, in collaboration with the ECPR) 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 / ECPR).

Contact: policyandinternet at oii.ox.ac.uk
#ipp2014

** 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.

** 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.

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

***

David Sutcliffe

Managing Editor
Oxford Internet Institute
University of Oxfordhttp://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/
Tel: +44 (0)1865 612334

Managing Editor
Policy and Internet
Journalhttp://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1002/(ISSN)1944-2866
http://blogs.oii.ox.ac.uk/policy/

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