[rohrpost] (fwd) CALL: Social Media Implications / Human Choice and Computers

[Andreas Broeckmann]

===========Call for Contributions to


Human Choice and Computers (HCC10)
International Conference

Thursday-Friday 27th-28th September 2012,
the Netherlands
ICT Critical Infrastructures and Society

Dear colleague!

On behalf of the IFIP (International Federation for Information 
Processing) working group "Virtuality and Society" in the technical 
committee  "Relationship between Computers and Society" we would like 
to raise your interest in contrubuting to the above mentioned 
conference. It is being held at the occasion of the 22nd World 
Computer Congress 24th to 26th of September 2012 in Amsterdam.

The issues we would like you to get involved in are the following:

Social Media Implications

- Social media and free speech: what does the Arabellion teach about 
the politics of social media?

The uprise of the arabian people during the so called Arabellion on 
the one hand was possible in its particular way only by widespread 
use of social media, but on the other hand simultaniously surveilled 
by the governments under pressure by the very same social media 
platforms. What are lessons to be learned from this paradoxical 
situation? How does the landscape of social media looks like in 
various countries? Are there platforms to rely on?

- Corporate surveillance

What are the logic and methods used by companies to monitor 
employees' use of social media, and the reactions from employees who 
try to preserve their private spaces? What are the ledal apects of 
such a surveillance?

- Privacy and security: What we do not know

Platforms like Facebook change their privacy rights very often, 
exposing people to the public gaze, when they did not wish that; the 
data available online may be used by criminals, and people are not 
aware of their risks; we need to have more discussion on the ethics 
of using social media to extract data from people, and the risks to 
which companies expose users, without having any liability.


We encourage you personally to think about a contribution to these 
issues and to disseminate the call to anybody you think of as being 
knowledgable and willing to participate.

Papers
Contributors accepted to present papers and participate in HCC10 are 
expected to prepare an

initial paper draft by 28th February 2012.

This draft paper will receive feedback from the HCC10 panel of 
experts, and requests for improvements will be sent by 30th March 
2012. A final version of the paper should be returned to HCC10 
organisers by 30th April 2012. Papers should have between 3,000 and 
5,000 words maximum (including references). All articles will be 
published in the HCC10 conference proceedings (to be published by 
Springer). In addition, the HCC10 conference organisers are 
negotiating with reputable journals the elaboration of a special 
issue on the topic of ICT Critical Infrastructures and Society. The 
contributors of the best HCC10 papers will in turn be invited to 
submit papers to this special issue.

Fees
Since the IFIP is a non profit organisation, presenters and attendees 
are to pay themselves the HCC10 fees and all personal expenses 
related to participating in the event. HCC10 and its organisers 
cannot offer scholarships or supportive funding for the conference. 
Only participants who are able to fund their own participation can be 
accepted. More details on HCC10 fees and the location of the event 
will follow in the coming weeks.

Please mail your suggested contribution (title, type of contribution, 
abstract of one or two paragraphs length) until

February 28th 2012

and suggestions on colleagues to be contacted as soon as possible

to

martin.warnke at leuphana.de

Martin Warnke, Leuphana University Lueneburg
David Kreps, University of Salford
Claus Pias,  Leuphana University Lueneburg

for the working group "Virtuality and Society" in IFIP