Internet Science 2018 INSCI'2018

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活动简介

5th International conference 'Internet Science' (INSCI'2018) will take place in St. Petersburg, Russia, on October 24 to 26, 2018.

In 2012-2017, this conference has been gathering researchers, policymakers, NGO representatives, and industry professionals interested in making Internet a better place. The conference that started from an EU-funded project has become a focal point linking the academic and industrial communities in their evaluation of best Internet practices.

In 2018, the conference is hosted by St.Petersburg university, the second largest university in Russia. The conference theme is Internet in World Regions: Digital Freedoms and Citizen Empowerment - thus uniting the global and regional dimensions of development of democratic and citizen-oriented Internet.

组委会

Thanassis Tiropanis, University of Southampton, UK

Anna Satsiou, Centre for Research and Technology Hellas, Greece

Jonathan Cave, University of Warwick, UK

Olessia Koltsova, National Research University - Higher School of Economics, Russia

Fabrizio Sestini, European Commission DG CONNECT, Belgium

Franco Bagnoli, University of Florence, Italy

征稿信息

重要日期

2018-06-10

初稿截稿日期

2018-06-30

初稿录用日期

2018-07-15

终稿截稿日期

Thus, INSCI’2018 welcomes submissions to a wide range of topics (not limited to) in the following six tracks:

Internet and Societal Structures

The concepts of citizen empowerment via Internet in local and regional contexts
Social stratification and inequalities of group representation online
Internet communities, social polarization, and dialogue potential
Socially harmful practices and content in online communication

Internet and Digital Politics

Online political freedoms in policing and in effect: regional and local perspectives
Citizen involvement into decision-making: platforms, actors, and experiences
Political discussions online: issues and groups behind them
E-governance practices of today’s authorities
Internet regulation: security vs. openness

Internet and Free Communication Patterns

Freedom of speech online: a contested area of policing
Algorithms as new total communicative power
Extremist and radical talk online and policies against it
Universal Internet freedoms vs. dark web
Post-truth practices online

Internet and New Political Economy

Economic power of online platforms: expropriation of digital labour
Digital corporations: world leaders and regional alternatives
Analogous elites, technological precariat
Enhancement of body and the new poor
Digital professions and reshaping of online labour markets

Internet and Global Access Opportunities

Global and local faces of today’s digital divide
Internet and life-long learning practices around the world
Global media online: translation and language divide
Empowerment of disabled with new body extensions
Post-human and tech-human individuals and societies

Internet and Data Protection

Data openness vs. user protection
Limits of privacy and anonymization
Clouds and data protection regulation
Global tech powers and alternative solutions
Blockchain technologies as promise and threat

作者指南

The conference accepts submissions of full papers (up to 15 pages of standard Springer format) and short papers (up to 8 pages of standard Springer format). Panel submissions (up to 4 papers with a reduced price per paper) are also welcome.

The conference also welcomes half-day workshop and tutorial proposals. The themes for them should be oriented to discussing issues and developing skills important for Internet projects and Internet research. A 2-3-page paper describing the academic and/or industrial rationale for the workshop/tutorial may be included into the conference proceedings (subject to peer-review). A range of workshops and tutorials will also be offered by the conference organizers, including the ones on webometrics and big textual data research.

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

All submitted papers must:

• Be written in English and be submitted in PDF format;

• Be fully anonymized (no detectable author information, including author names, affiliations, and works mentioned in the text);

• Be formatted according to the Springer's LNCS format Proceedings template. Information about the Springer LNCS format can be found athttp://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html;

• Three to five keywords characterizing the paper should be indicated at the end of the abstract;

• Full paper submissions should not exceed 15 pages and short paper should not exceed 8 pages (including all text, figures, references and appendices). We encourage a length of 12 pages for full papers and 6 for short papers;

• Submissions not conforming to the LNCS format, exceeding the submission page limits or being obviously out of the scope of the conference will be rejected without review.

Submissions should be made electronically in PDF via the electronic submission system of the INSCI2018 Conference Management system at EasyChair (please follow the updates at internetscienceconference.eu).

All camera-ready papers should be corrected by following the remarks of the referees and submitted in zip format including (1) the camera-ready version of the authors' work in pdf format, (2) the camera-ready version of the authors' work in editable sources format as well as (3) the Consent to Publish signed in ink and scanned to image file. The results described must be unpublished and must not be under review elsewhere. Submissions must conform to Springer's LNCS format.