From charles.ess at gmail.com Sat Feb 1 00:07:14 2014 From: charles.ess at gmail.com (Charles Ess) Date: Sat, 01 Feb 2014 09:07:14 +0100 Subject: [Air-L] PhD course - Methodologies: Mobile Media & Mobility - Aarhus University Message-ID: Dear AoIR-ists, With the usual regrets for duplications and cross-postings - please pass along to potential candidates and appropriate lists. Please note that the course offers a sliding scale of requirements and correlative ECTs. There are no course fees, though participants will be required to pay ca. 1000.00 DKK to cover their catering costs (lunches, coffee and tea breaks, etc.) over the course of the workshop. Methodologies: Mobile Media & Mobility International PhD course, Aarhus University 1-3 April 2014 http://phdcourses.dk/Course/24583#.UuIXh_Y1j-Y Lecturers: Adriana de Souza e Silva, NC State University Rich Ling, IT-University of Copenhagen Gunnar Liest?l, Oslo University Kristian Hegner Reinau, Aalborg University Jonas Larsen, Roskilde University Anne Marit Waade, Aarhus University Thomas Bj?rner, Aalborg University Charles Ess, Oslo University Organisers: Charles Ess (Professor, UiO); Thomas Bj?rner (Associate Professor, AAU); and Anne Marit Waade (Associate Professor, AU). Graduate School of Arts, Aarhus University, PhD degree program: ICT Media, Communication and Journalism. ECTS 4 ECTS inclusive of submitting a paper 3 ECTS without submitting a paper (1 ECT extra for participating in the research workshop April 4) Time: April 1-3,2014 Room and Place: Aarhus University Cost/ Policy No course fee. Travel, accommodation and meals are not covered by the course. The course will give different perspectives on methodologies within studies in mobile media and mobility. This multidisciplinary course covers fields of research such as media science, communication, ethnography, anthropology, social science, geography, architecture, urban design and planning, research ethics, etc. The Ph.D.-course will be based on lectures, workshops and students own project presentations in a mixed setting aiming at creating an open and creative research dialogue. For a more detailed course description, registration information, etc., please see the course website: On behalf of the organisers, Charles Ess Professor in Media Studies Department of Media and Communication Director, Centre for Research on Media Innovations University of Oslo P.O. Box 1093 Blindern NO-0317 Oslo Norway email: charles.ess at media.uio.no From ekoltsova at hse.ru Sat Feb 1 06:54:11 2014 From: ekoltsova at hse.ru (=?koi8-r?B?68/M2MPP18Eg5czFzsEg4NLYxdfOwQ==?=) Date: Sat, 1 Feb 2014 14:54:11 +0000 Subject: [Air-L] a postdoc at Internet studies lab Message-ID: Dear all, A postdoc position at our Internet Studies Lab (that will actually make you feel very rich in Russia :)! ) is now open. Job description: http://linis.hse.ru/announcements/110788699.html It may the be extended for a tenure-track position at the dept of media and communication that we are launching in 2015, or at sociology, political science, economics etc. Olessia Koltsova Director, Laboratory for Internet Studies National Research University Higher School of Economics (St.Petersburg branch) room 322, 46 Rimskogo-Korsakova St. 190008, St.Petersburg, Russia Phone: +7 (812) 677-9452 www.linis.hse.ru E-mail: ekoltsova at hse.ru http://www.hse.ru/en/org/persons/202747 From william.dutton at oii.ox.ac.uk Sat Feb 1 07:44:46 2014 From: william.dutton at oii.ox.ac.uk (William Dutton) Date: Sat, 1 Feb 2014 15:44:46 +0000 Subject: [Air-L] a postdoc at Internet studies lab In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Olessia, please consider joining the Global Network of Interdisciplinary Internet & Society Research Centers: http://www.hiig.de/en/global-network-of-interdisciplinary-internet-society-research-centers/ On 1 Feb 2014, at 14:54, ???????? ????? ??????? wrote: > > Dear all, > > A postdoc position at our Internet Studies Lab (that will actually make you feel very rich in Russia :)! ) is now open. Job description: http://linis.hse.ru/announcements/110788699.html > > It may the be extended for a tenure-track position at the dept of media and communication that we are launching in 2015, or at sociology, political science, economics etc. > > Olessia Koltsova > Director, Laboratory for Internet Studies > National Research University Higher School of Economics (St.Petersburg branch) > room 322, 46 Rimskogo-Korsakova St. > 190008, St.Petersburg, Russia > Phone: +7 (812) 677-9452 > www.linis.hse.ru > E-mail: ekoltsova at hse.ru > http://www.hse.ru/en/org/persons/202747 > _______________________________________________ > The Air-L at listserv.aoir.org mailing list > is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org > Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org > > Join the Association of Internet Researchers: > http://www.aoir.org/ William H. Dutton Professor of Internet Studies Professorial Fellow, Balliol College CITI Fellow, Columbia University Oxford Martin Fellow Oxford Internet Institute University of Oxford 1 St Giles', Oxford OX1 3JS UNITED KINGDOM Tel +44 (0)1865 287 210 Fax +44 (0)1865 287 211 Cell +44 (0)7768 823906 Web: http://people.oii.ox.ac.uk/dutton/about/ You can access my papers on the Social Science Research Network (SSRN) at: http://ssrn.com/author=478025 Latest Books: The Oxford Handbook of Internet Studies (2013): http://ukcatalogue.oup.com/product/9780199589074.do Politics and the Internet (2014): http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415561501/ From ropolyi at ludens.elte.hu Sat Feb 1 08:51:57 2014 From: ropolyi at ludens.elte.hu (ropolyi at ludens.elte.hu) Date: Sat, 01 Feb 2014 17:51:57 +0100 Subject: [Air-L] Ten Years of Facebook Conference Message-ID: <20140201175157.57367kx0uz070ist@webmail.elte.hu> *Ten Years of Facebook: The Third Argumentor Conference* 4-6 September 2014, Oradea / Nagyv?rad, Romania This year marks the tenth anniversary of the launch of Facebook, the most ubiquitous social media and communication platform in the world. It also gives us the opportunity to take a step back and examine increasingly important questions about how Facebook and the new social web have impacted the world of communication, from debate, discourse and rhetoric to philosophy, politics, social context, and other forms of new media. Has Facebook been constructive or disruptive in these different areas - or perhaps both? How does the ease and ubiquity of online communication affect longstanding national, generational, ideological, gender and class divides? We welcome papers seeking to explore such questions, including approaches that aim to challenge the importance, relevance or timeliness of such questions. ORGANIZED BY: Partium Christian University / Romania Sapientia Hungarian University of Transylvania / Romania University of Debrecen / Hungary Conference website: https://sites.google.com/site/argumentor2014/ Abstract submission deadline: 3 February 2014 Laszlo Ropolyi From mariarosariataddeo at gmail.com Sat Feb 1 14:27:31 2014 From: mariarosariataddeo at gmail.com (Mariariosaria Taddeo) Date: Sat, 1 Feb 2014 22:27:31 +0000 Subject: [Air-L] Nominations for the Brian Michael Goldberg Memorial Award Message-ID: <88D2571C-C151-4607-9A14-70F09728D472@gmail.com> The International Association for Computing and Philosophy is proud to present the ?Brian Michael Goldberg Memorial Award? to graduate students in recognisance of outstanding achievements in the areas of Computing and Philosophy. This award is sponsored by the Department of Philosophy at Carnegie Mellon and carries a $500 USD stipend, which will be presented each year at one of the IACAP conferences. Nominees and applicants are welcome from around the world. This Award was made possible by a generous gift from Dr. Gerald and Nancy Goldberg in memory of their son, Brian Michael Goldberg. In their words: Brian was a twenty-two year old student who was admitted to Carnegie Mellon University in 1991 to the doctoral program in philosophy. He died unexpectedly before he could realize his dream of attending Carnegie Mellon. Brian was an independent thinker who loved competition and a good challenge. Throughout his life, he found it exciting to enter and win contests. He loved challenging his mind, especially by studying philosophy, mathematics and logic. He loved challenging his creativity through photography, painting and theatre arts. He loved challenging his body by learning such diverse sports as wrestling, fencing and scuba diving. He loved debating and challenging others to think in new ways and had seriously considered becoming a university professor. To honor who he was and what he loved, this Goldberg Memorial Award is offered to challenge and motivate other graduate students in Brian?s chosen field of study. To nominate, please send names and website URLs (or CVs) to: berkich at gmail.com by February the 28th 2014. For more information, please see http://www.iacap.org/awards/ -- Dr. Mariarosaria Taddeo Research Fellow in Cyber Security and Ethics, PAIS, University of Warwick Research Associate - Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, University of Oxford President, International Association for Computing and Philosophy http://taddeo.philosophyofinformation.net/index.html From joel.neville.anderson at rochester.edu Sat Feb 1 15:17:55 2014 From: joel.neville.anderson at rochester.edu (Joel Neville Anderson) Date: Sat, 1 Feb 2014 18:17:55 -0500 Subject: [Air-L] Call for Papers and Creative Works: InVisible Culture, Issue 22: "Opacity" Message-ID: Dear Air-L subscribers, Please circulate the latest CFP for my graduate program's journal, InVisible Culture: An Electronic Journal for Visual Culture (pasted below). Please don't hesitate to contact me with any questions. Best regards, Joel Neville Anderson Managing Editor InVisible Culture 503A Morey Hall University of Rochester Rochester, NY 14627 http://ivc.lib.rochester.edu - ?Opacity? - Issue 22 For its twenty-second issue, InVisible Culture: An Electronic Journal for Visual Culture invites scholarly articles and creative works that address the multiple meanings of opacity. In the spring of 2013, former US intelligence contractor Edward Snowden began releasing documents pertaining to the wide-ranging data collection methods of the National Security Agency. Alternately hailed as hero and traitor, Snowden?s actions have fueled intense public debate regarding issues of privacy and transparency. For Issue 22, we would like contributors to consider the tension between transparency and opacity and reflect on the cultural and political contexts that gave rise to their connotations of openness and secrecy. What does it mean to claim either as a right? The late writer, poet, and critic ?douard Glissant (1928-2011) developed a model of opacity as a means of creating ethical relationships, writing in Poetics of Relation, ?Transparency no longer seems like the bottom of the mirror in which Western humanity reflected the world in its own image. There is opacity now at the bottom of the mirror, a whole alluvium deposited by populations.? How could opacity be used as a tool of resistance? What stakes are involved in the revelation or obscuring of artworks? racial, cultural, or gendered origins? How might we imagine opacity to be useful or limiting to the work of visual culture? We also seek to address optical properties of opacity more broadly as a conceptual tool for approaching medium specificity, innovations in color theory, and other subjects. Does our understanding of opacity shift in regard to digital technologies as it may between cultural spheres and political territories? How might visual culture be invested in the theoretical and physical properties of opacity and transparency? We welcome papers and artworks that further the various understandings of opacity. Possible topics of exploration include, but are not limited to: Aesthetic and political dimensions of transparency and opacity Identity politics, ?the right to opacity? Privacy and visibility, surveillance The ?transparent society? and digital panopticism Scientific and medical visualization, the body, big data Opacity of architectural traditions Liminal spaces, borders, zones of conflict Transparency and globalization, geopolitics Emerging, established, and decaying democracies Politics of clothing, fabric, screens, interstitial space and material Camera obscura/lucida, properties of darkness and light, color, pigmentation Transparency and opacity in the plastic arts (painting, film, sculpture) Penetration and resistance Please send completed papers (with references following the guidelines from the Chicago Manual of Style) of between 4,000 and 10,000 words to ivc[dot]rochester[at]gmail[dot]com by May 1, 2014. Inquiries should be sent to the same address. Creative/Artistic Works In addition to written materials, InVisible Culture is accepting work in other media (video, photography, drawing, code) that reflect upon the theme as it is outlined above. For questions or more details concerning acceptable formats, go to http://ivc.lib.rochester.edu/contribute or contact ivc[dot]rochester[at]gmail[dot]com. Reviews InVisible Culture is also currently seeking submissions for book, exhibition, and film reviews (600-1,000 words). To submit a review proposal, go to http://ivc.lib.rochester.edu/contribute or contact ivc[dot]rochester[at]gmail[dot]com. Blog The journal also invites submissions to its blog feature, which will accommodate more immediate responses to the topic of the current issue. For further details, please contact us at ivc[dot]rochester[at]gmail[dot]com with the subject heading ?blog submission.? * InVisible Culture: An Electronic Journal for Visual Culture (IVC) is a student run interdisciplinary journal published online twice a year in an open access format. Through peer reviewed articles, creative works, and reviews of books, films, and exhibitions, our issues explore changing themes in visual culture. Fostering a global and current dialog across fields, IVC investigates the power and limits of vision. From Jakob.Svensson at kau.se Sun Feb 2 04:46:17 2014 From: Jakob.Svensson at kau.se (Jakob Svensson) Date: Sun, 02 Feb 2014 13:46:17 +0100 Subject: [Air-L] M4D Doctoral Workshop, Dakar - deadline extended til Feb 14th Message-ID: M4D Doctoral Workshop, Dakar - deadline extended til Feb 14th April 7, 2014 We invite applications to the M4D Doctoral Workshop in Dakar Senegal. The workshop will provide a forum for PhD students in the area of mobile communication technology in and for development to present their work and receive constructive feedback from experts in the field as well as from peers. PhD students at any stage of their doctoral studies are invited to submit papers. The workshop will host about 15 attendees besides the experts in the field. We expect submissions to be from current PhD students who have selected a clear research topic within M4D in the broadest sense. Participation for selected PhD students are free for M4D2014 conference delegates who have registered and paid the conference fee. The doctoral workshop is sponsored by the International Network of Postgraduate Students in the area of ICT4D (IPID). Goal of workshop The goal of the workshop is to provide professional development in M4D with critical, but constructive, feedback and advice to PhD students on their ongoing research from senior researchers. The workshop will also offer the opportunity to meet and exchange ideas and suggestions with peers in the M4D field. Submission Submissions should address the student's PhD research area, specifically: a well-defined formulation of the problem statement, objectives and aims of the research, explain the research context and why the research is important, give details of research design and data collection techniques, present preliminary results and research findings, do clarify the state of the research work, a brief sketch of the intended theoretical/disciplinary approach and audience(s) for the work, as well as the related theoretical and practical contributions to the multidisciplinary area of 'M4D'. Your name, affiliation, email address, PhD supervisor's name and affiliation and year when you started PhD should be included. The submission should be max. 5000 words in length. Please note that the workshop is not a venue for publication; there will be no published proceedings. However, we encourage workshop participants to also submit to the M4D2014 main conference (poster, full or short paper see www.m4d2014.net). Doctoral workshop participants are asked to submit their papers to m4d AT kau.se with the subject line [M4D2014 doctoral workshop]. Workshop Format Participants will be divided into two groups depending on their research topic. Group A will be led by Anne Shongwe and Jonathan Donner and Group B by Laura Stark and Richard Ling. Participants will be asked to read the group member?s papers prior the workshop so that focus can be on discussing each paper in depth rather than listening to presentations. We will reserve around 15-20 minutes for comments and 10-15 minutes for general discussion. Important Dates Submission by: 23:59 (GMT), 14 February 2014 Notification of acceptance: 15 March 2014 (by this date the M4D conference fee should be paid) Workshop date: 7 April 2014 Jakob Svensson, Ph. D. Ass. Prof. Media and Communication Studies Director, BA Programme in Media & Communication Studies Director, MA Programme in Global Media Karlstad University SE-65188 Karlstad, Sweden Telephone +46 54 700 1893 Mobile + 46 73 443 48 04 www.kau.se/media www.kau.se/en/humanit twitter.com/Centre4HumanIT facebook.com/karlstadsuniversitet KAU.SE From k.albury at unsw.edu.au Sun Feb 2 18:19:43 2014 From: k.albury at unsw.edu.au (Kath Albury) Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2014 02:19:43 +0000 Subject: [Air-L] Qual research with digital diaries- seeking tools & tips, please Message-ID: Hi folks, I was wondering if anyone on this list had experience of using a mobile diary app as research tool (for participants). I'd like participants to post to a diary via phone or tablet, & will need to have access (& be able to archive diaries). I've looked at ethno hub (http://ethnohub.com), and my panel (which is a market research tool (http://www.mobilemarketresearch.net/mypanel/features). And there's always the option of plain old wordpress - but the question is how to export & archive the data? Any tips (or even anecdotes) from seasoned players will be greatly appreciated. Cheers, Kath Kath Albury, PhD Senior Lecturer, School of Arts and Media University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, 2052 Ph: 61 2 9385 8533 UNSW CRICOS Provider code 00098G http://research.unsw.edu.au/people/dr-kath-albury From K.Mccullagh at uea.ac.uk Mon Feb 3 00:35:57 2014 From: K.Mccullagh at uea.ac.uk (Karen Mc Cullagh (LAW)) Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2014 08:35:57 +0000 Subject: [Air-L] Final Reminder: BILETA Conference Message-ID: <18A01807BD2AE443B3B948CBE5FF0D391E901D@ueastfexch01.UEA.AC.UK> Final reminder: The Call for Papers for the 29th BILETA Annual Conference (14-16 April 2014, University of East Anglia) has been extended to facilitate requests for extensions. If you missed the original deadline, you now have until 7th February 2014 to submit an abstract. To view the call for papers and information about the conference see the attachment and click on the link: http://www.uea.ac.uk/law/news-and-events/bileta-conference Queries should be sent to the organiser, Dr Karen Mc Cullagh, via bileta2014 at uea.ac.uk ----------------------------------------------- Dr Karen Mc Cullagh Lecturer UEA Law School University of East Anglia Norwich Research Park Norwich NR4 7TJ w: http://karenmccullagh.co.uk/ T: 01603 59 7617 From Nicolas.Jullien at telecom-bretagne.eu Mon Feb 3 01:17:26 2014 From: Nicolas.Jullien at telecom-bretagne.eu (Nicolas Jullien) Date: Mon, 03 Feb 2014 10:17:26 +0100 Subject: [Air-L] =?iso-8859-1?q?PhD_grants_at_iSchool=2C_T=E9l=E9com_Breta?= =?iso-8859-1?q?gne=2C_France?= Message-ID: <52EF5EA6.8040806@telecom-bretagne.eu> Hello all, we, at iSchool, Telecom Bretagne, are looking for PhD Candidates (starting September, 2014, 3 years grant) on the following topics: - management, labor economics: virtual teaming, employees' participation in online communities - economics evaluation: multi-criteria evaluation of IT platforms - analytic tools and theories: data mining, social graph analysis. The work can be done in English, PhD candidate can follow French courses If you know people interested in discussing those topics, aks them to send me an email with their resume and their topic of interest. Nicolas Jullien -- Ma?tre de Conf?rences (HDR) / Associate Professor. LUSSI - iSchool, M at rsouin. Institut TELECOM Bretagne & UEB In charge of the Master "Information Systems Project Management and Consulting" http://www.telecom-bretagne.eu/studies/msc/information-systems-management/ Co-animator of the Institut Mines-Telecom's research network "TIC and Society" http://nicolas-jullien.lussi-ischool.eu/ Skype: Nicolas.Jullien1 Tel +33 (0) 229 001 245 TELECOM Bretagne, Technop?le Brest Iroise CS 83818 29238 BREST CEDEX 3 From rbeneito at gmail.com Mon Feb 3 07:43:41 2014 From: rbeneito at gmail.com (Roser Beneito Montagut) Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2014 15:43:41 +0000 Subject: [Air-L] to add participants to your SNSs or not? Message-ID: Hello everybody, We have just started an ethnography (online and offline) to study the extent to which the social web can mitigate isolation and loneliness feelings among the elderly by promoting their interpersonal relationships online. I appreciate if you can point me to articles discussing whether the researcher has added the participants to his/her social network site (e.g. Facebook) or has created an specific profile for the research. We have decided to add the participants to our SNSs, creating a group for them, but I would like to know what other researchers have done and the challenges of this methodological decision they have faced. Apologies beforehand if this topic has already been discussed in the list. Thanks, Roser Roser Beneito-Montagut Senior Lecturer School of Computing, Multimedia and Telecommunication Open University of Catalonia Barcelona From ella.fegitz at gmail.com Mon Feb 3 08:59:11 2014 From: ella.fegitz at gmail.com (Ella Fegitz) Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2014 16:59:11 +0000 Subject: [Air-L] Fwd: Call for papers - Radical Negativity In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: We would like to remind you about the following conference: *Radical Negativity: Interrogating productive possibilities for negative states of being* Friday 13 June 2014 Goldsmiths, University of London Conference Keynote: Lisa Blackman, Professor in Media and Communications, Goldsmiths Supported by the Centre for Feminist Research, Department of Media and Communications, and the Centre for Cultural Studies at Goldsmiths. Website: http://radicalnegativity.com *Proposals are due by Friday 14 February 2014* More recent feminist and queer scholarship has begun to productively address the dark aspects of human subjectivity perceived to have a detrimental impact on the self-constituting practices of the positive self, such as shame, trauma, unhappiness, loss, pain, and melancholia, and reconceptualise them not only as integral to the process of subject formation, but critical and productive affective states in which to engage political action. This interdisciplinary conference addresses the ways in which feminist and queer research may be informed by embracing philosophical oppositions, the 'negative double' of the positive value. The conference will interrogate what can be learned from interventions focused on the interconnections between the negative and human agency, and how such a frame can inform ideas of feminist and queer practice. Borrowing from Eve Sedgwick, this conference proposes that forms of the negative are "not distinctly 'toxic' parts of a group or individual identity that can be excised; they are instead integral to and residual in the processes by which identity itself is formed. They are available for the work of metamorphosis, reframing, refiguration, transfiguration, affective and symbolic loading and deformation (Sedgwick and Frank, 2003, p.63)." If, like Sedgwick, we take up this challenge to valorise negative states of being as key conditions both for the production of meaning and being and as organising principles of identity, then we hope explorations into such states may provide the potential to open up new possibilities for politics and connection. We invite papers and panel proposals that explore how negative states and conditions of being such as unhappiness, irresponsibility, passivity, vulnerability, failure, shame, hesitancy, pain, dispossession, rage, madness and depression may provide loci from which action and political engagement can arise. *Submission Guidelines* Please submit paper abstracts of 300-500 words along with a short biography of 100 words. Panel proposals should include a 300-word description along with accompanying paper abstracts for the panel of 300-500 words. Please provide a short 100-word biography for each presenter. Email submissions to: radicalnegativity at gmail.com by*Friday 14 February 2014*. From sheena.hyndman at gmail.com Mon Feb 3 13:57:34 2014 From: sheena.hyndman at gmail.com (Sheena Hyndman) Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2014 16:57:34 -0500 Subject: [Air-L] CFP (DEADLINE EXTENDED): Dancecult: Special Issue on the Remix and EDMC Message-ID: Hello, I'm writing to request that the CFP below be circulated to the list. With gratitude, Sheena Hyndman _________________________________________ Hello all, Please note that the deadline for the CFP below has been extended to *February 16, 2014*. Best, SH > --------------------------------------------------------------- > > *CFP: The Remix and EDMC Special Edition of Dancecult: Journal of > Electronic Dance Music Culture* > > Guest Editor: Sheena Hyndman > > https://dj.dancecult.net/ > > This special issue seeks to address topics and issues related to the remix > as a component of electronic dance music culture. The remix, a form of > derivative song composition that combines existing recorded sound with > newly composed musical material, has become an increasingly popular subject > of study both within and outside academia. While derivative musical and > cultural expression is not a phenomenon exclusive to the present, the remix > is unique from past forms of derivative music making because of the way it > is defined by its relationship to the sound reproduction technologies of > the 20th and 21st centuries. This combination of derivativeness and > technology has encouraged an influx of scholarship addressing the > problematic relationship of the remix with intellectual property to the > exclusion of many other aspects of remixing, and in light of recent > technological developments, the flourishing of participatory culture and > the growing importance of the remix in the contemporary music industry, > there remains a great deal of territory to explore with respect to the > remix as an expression of contemporary music culture. Therefore, this > special issue seeks to broaden understandings of remixing as a key element > of electronic dance music culture by encouraging debate among composers, > performers, promoters, fans and detractors. > > This special issue of Dancecult invites contributions from scholars in > all areas on the subject of the remix as an expression of past and > contemporary electronic dance music and culture. The goal of this special > issue is to broaden the understanding of remixed music beyond the most > commonly articulated tropes in existing scholarship. To this end, > contributions from scholars, performers, music industry insiders, admirers > and critics are welcomed and encouraged. While contributions from all areas > of scholarship will be considered, it is requested that submissions be > underpinned by a focus on remixing as it relates to electronic dance music > culture. > > / / Suggested Themes / / > > The editor encourages that contributions be grounded in musical > scholarship relating to remixing and EDMC. Potential topics include, but > are not limited to: > > - The history of remixing; > > - Remix genres and scenes; > > - Audience consumption and listening practices; > > - Attitudes towards derivativeness in music; > > - The remix as an expression of past, contemporary, popular and/or > underground dance music cultures; > > - The remix as a process of song composition; > > - The remix as performance practice; > > - The remix and the music industry; > > - Authenticity and originality; > > - Professional and amateur remixing; > > - Types of compensation for producers of remixes; > > - Music blogging; > > - Cross-geographical and -temporal collaborative music making. > > / / Submissions / / > > Feature Articles: > > Feature Articles will be peer-reviewed and are 6000?9000 words in length > (including endnotes, captions and bibliography). > > For policies, see: > > > https://dj.dancecult.net/index.php/dancecult/about/editorialPolicies#sectionPolicies > > *??????????????????????????* > > This special edition will also feature articles for our "From the Floor" > section. Rather than being written in the formal style of the academic > essay, submissions for this shorter format (750?2500 words) are more > conversational, blog-like and informal in tone and may feature more > experimental and creative styles of reporting. From the Floor contributions > may take the form of dispatches from the field, mini-ethnographies, > interviews and photo essays, and contributors are encouraged to include > relevant multimedia components such as music, video and hypertext. > > Articles must adhere to all style and formatting rules stipulated in the Dancecult > Style Guide (DSG). > > Download it here: > > > https://dj.dancecult.net/index.php/dancecult/manager/files/PublicFolder/dancecult_styleguide2.8.5.pdf > > Multimedia Submissions: Dancecult encourages authors to complement their > written work with audio and visual > > material. See the DSG for style and formatting requirements. > > Language: > > Although the language of publication in Dancecult is English, the editor > strongly encourages submissions from non-Anglophone scholars and will be > happy to provide linguistic/stylistic support during the writing process. > > / / Dates and Deadlines / / > > This special edition is proposed for publication in Dancecult in November > 2014. > > If interested, please send a 250 word abstract and brief author biography > to Sheena Hyndman (sheena.hyndman at gmail.com) before January 31, 2014. > > If your abstract is accepted for guest editor review, the deadline for > full article submission is May 31, 2014. > > Beyond that, the deadline for online submission to Dancecult (for peer > review) is August 15, 2014. > > Please send inquiries and expressions of interest to Sheena Hyndman: > sheena.hyndman at gmail.com. > > -- > Sheena Hyndman, PhD > Independent Scholar > Phone: (416) 561-0553 > Email: sheena.hyndman at gmail.com > LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=90342896&trk=tab_pro > > > > > -- > Sheena Hyndman, PhD > Independent Scholar > Phone: (416) 561-0553 > Email: sheena.hyndman at gmail.com > LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=90342896&trk=tab_pro > > > > -- > Sheena Hyndman, PhD > Independent Scholar > Phone: (416) 561-0553 > Email: sheena.hyndman at gmail.com > LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=90342896&trk=tab_pro > -- Sheena Hyndman, PhD Independent Scholar Phone: (416) 561-0553 Email: sheena.hyndman at gmail.com LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=90342896&trk=tab_pro -- Sheena Hyndman, PhD Independent Scholar Phone: (416) 561-0553 Email: sheena.hyndman at gmail.com LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=90342896&trk=tab_pro From m_olszan at live.concordia.ca Mon Feb 3 17:58:48 2014 From: m_olszan at live.concordia.ca (Magdalena O!) Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2014 01:58:48 +0000 Subject: [Air-L] Censorship and mobile apps In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <32BED9FB-C34B-4095-968A-9A3B46B059EA@live.concordia.ca> Hello, I'm writing about censorship and Instagram and looking for more research on censorship and mobile apps. I can't seem to find any. Thank you so much Magdalena =^.^= Magdalena Olszanowski, PhD Student, SSHRC Fellow Senior Research Assistant, Mobile Media Lab HASTAC Scholar Communication Studies Concordia University Montreal, QC @raisecain From julian.hopkins at monash.edu Mon Feb 3 19:29:56 2014 From: julian.hopkins at monash.edu (Julian Hopkins) Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2014 11:29:56 +0800 Subject: [Air-L] Panel CFP AoIR 2015 - Social media, convergence, and commercialisation Message-ID: Hello all, Please excuse any cross posting. I am hoping to find others interested in constituting a panel based (broadly) on the theme of 'Social media, convergence, and commercialisation.' A description follows, but I am definitely open to adapting it depending on people's own research areas. *'Internet infrastructure has had commercial components since 1974, but the content was for a long time not subject to significant commercial influence. Now, however, advertising and the commercialisation of internet content may be argued to be the dominant force driving the internet. This panel will explore different facets of this development by taking a critical and empirical approach to aspects of social media in Asia, exploring the relevance of convergence both between online media forms and the on- and offline, as well as issues of privacy, digital literacy, and the transformation of 'free' labour.' *Please feel free to forward this to anyone you feel may be interested. Best regards, Julian ++++++++++ Dr Julian Hopkins Lecturer School of Arts & Social Sciences Monash University Malaysia www.sass.monash.edu.my Blog: www.julianhopkins.net Twitter: @julianhopkins From nb at imv.au.dk Tue Feb 4 00:21:29 2014 From: nb at imv.au.dk (=?Windows-1252?Q?Niels_Br=FCgger?=) Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2014 08:21:29 +0000 Subject: [Air-L] =?windows-1252?q?PhD-Seminar=2C_Web_Archiving_and_Archive?= =?windows-1252?q?d_Web_=97_a_new_Research_Method=2C_a_new_Object_of_Study?= =?windows-1252?q?=3F?= Message-ID: <719F6AC5-D76B-431C-8D7A-15DBEBE2A476@imv.au.dk> ***apologies for cross-postings*** PhD seminar Web Archiving and Archived Web ? a new Research Method, a new Object of Study? Aarhus University, Denmark, 11-12 June 2014 Organised by the Danish Digital Humanities Lab/NetLab & Aarhus University, the PhD programme ?ICT, Media, Communication and Journalism? This PhD seminar focus on web archiving and web archives with a view to investigating the nexus between web archiving and web archives as a new research method and as a new object of study. The aim of the seminar is double. On the one hand it is to introduce web archiving as a research method to be used by scholars studying contemporary political, social, and cultural phenomena within the humanities and the social sciences, and, on the other hand, the aim is to introduce to the methodological and theoretical issues related to the use of existing (trans)national web archives, in the main in relation to historical studies involving the web. Participation as well as coffee and lunch are free of charge. Participants must pay for dinner, travel and accomodation themselves. The number of participants is limited to 20. Deadline for submission of application is Monday 24 March 2014. The lectures and the lecturers: ? ?Virtual Digs: Excavating, Preserving, and Archiving the Web?, Meghan Dougherty, Assistant Professor, Digital Communication, Loyola University Chicago ? ?A Data Driven Approach to Web Archive Research?, Anat Ben-David, post-doctoral researcher with the WebART project, University of Amsterdam ? ?Archiving web material for future research??, Ditte Laursen, senior researcher and curator at the State Media Archive, State Library in Denmark ? ?Probing a nation?s web sphere?, Niels Br?gger, Associate Professor, Aarhus University, Head of the Centre for Internet Studies Read the full call, including more about the course format, the venue, and how to enrol:http://www.netlab.dk/courses/ Very best, Niels Br?gger ?????????????????????????????? LATEST PUBLICATIONS AND PAPERS August 2013 Web historiography and Internet Studies: Challenges and perspectives, New Media & Society, 15(5), 752-764 Read more: http://nms.sagepub.com/content/15/5/752.abstract June 2013 Historical Network Analysis of the Web, Social Science Computer Review, 31(3), 306-321 Read more: http://ssc.sagepub.com/content/31/3/306.abstract March 2013 The Web and Digital Humanities: Theoretical and Methodological Concerns (w. N.O. Finnemann), Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media 57(1), 66-80 Read more: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/08838151.2012.761699 NIELS BR?GGER, Associate Professor, PhD Director, the Centre for Internet Studies Department of Aesthetics and Communication Aarhus University Helsingforsgade 14 8200 Aarhus N Denmark Phone (switchboard) +45 8715 0000 Phone (direct) +45 8716 1971 Phone (mobile) +45 2945 3231 E-mail nb at imv.au.dk Webpage http://imv.au.dk/~nb Profile at LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/1/50a/555 Skype name: niels_bruegger The Centre for Internet Research http://cfi.au.dk NetLab http://netlab.dk The history of dr.dk, 1996-2006 http://drdk.dk LARM (Radio Culture and Auditory Resources Research Infrastructure) http://www.larm-archive.org From rforno at infowarrior.org Tue Feb 4 03:45:22 2014 From: rforno at infowarrior.org (Richard Forno) Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2014 06:45:22 -0500 Subject: [Air-L] Zimmer op-ed in WaPo Message-ID: <616BD252-23E8-4E92-8F3C-CB959C685024@infowarrior.org> For those interested, AOIR?s own Michael Zimmer has an op-ed in today?s Washington Post. :) Mark Zuckerberg?s theory of privacy http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/mark-zuckerbergs-theory-of-privacy/2014/02/03/2c1d780a-8cea-11e3-95dd-36ff657a4dae_story.html --- Just because i'm near the punchbowl doesn't mean I'm also drinking from it. From salvatore.iaconesi at artisopensource.net Tue Feb 4 06:49:39 2014 From: salvatore.iaconesi at artisopensource.net (Salvatore Iaconesi) Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2014 15:49:39 +0100 Subject: [Air-L] Human Ecosystems project launching in Toronto at the ArtSci Salon Message-ID: Human Ecosystems project launching in Toronto http://www.artisopensource.net/2014/02/04/human-ecosystems-at-artsci-salon-toronto/ The Human Ecosystems project is going to Toronto, at the Fields Institute for Research in Mathematical Sciences for ArtSci Salon, to start the real-time observation of the city, and for a first workshop on real-time cities, ubiquitous information, commons and the new public spaces (and some information visualization and BigData, too). More info about the Human Ecosystems Project: http://www.artisopensource.net/projects/human-ecosystems.html The project has already started in Rome (Italy), Sao Paulo (Brazil), Malm? (Sweden), and is starting in more cities across the world really soon. -- *Salvatore Iaconesi* salvatore.iaconesi at artisopensource.net skype: xdxdVSxdxd *Art is Open Source*: http://www.artisopensource.net *TED Fellow 2012*: http://fellows.ted.com/profiles/salvatore-iaconesi *Eisenhower Fellow 2013*: http://www.efworld.org/ Contract Professor of Digital Design at La Sapienza University of Rome Professor of Digital Design at ISIA Design Florence Professor of Interaction Design at IED Istituto Europeo di Design From krismw11 at umd.edu Tue Feb 4 07:00:12 2014 From: krismw11 at umd.edu (Kristin Williams) Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2014 15:00:12 +0000 Subject: [Air-L] Censorship and mobile apps In-Reply-To: <32BED9FB-C34B-4095-968A-9A3B46B059EA@live.concordia.ca> References: <32BED9FB-C34B-4095-968A-9A3B46B059EA@live.concordia.ca> Message-ID: Hi Magdalena, This chapter recently came to my attention. I haven't read it, but it looks like it might be in the right direction. Chapter 3. Digital Deprivation: New Media, Civil Society and Sustainability Paddy Coulter and Cathy Baldwin From CIVIL SOCIETY IN THE AGE OF MONITORY DEMOCRACY Edited by Lars Tr?g?rdh, Nina Witoszek, & Bron Taylor Afterword by Bill McKibben All the best, -Kristin -----Original Message----- From: air-l-bounces at listserv.aoir.org [mailto:air-l-bounces at listserv.aoir.org] On Behalf Of Magdalena O! Sent: Monday, February 03, 2014 8:59 PM To: Subject: [Air-L] Censorship and mobile apps Hello, I'm writing about censorship and Instagram and looking for more research on censorship and mobile apps. I can't seem to find any. Thank you so much Magdalena =^.^= Magdalena Olszanowski, PhD Student, SSHRC Fellow Senior Research Assistant, Mobile Media Lab HASTAC Scholar Communication Studies Concordia University Montreal, QC @raisecain _______________________________________________ The Air-L at listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org Join the Association of Internet Researchers: http://www.aoir.org/ From sarah.choukah at umontreal.ca Tue Feb 4 07:53:06 2014 From: sarah.choukah at umontreal.ca (Sarah Choukah) Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2014 10:53:06 -0500 Subject: [Air-L] Censorship and mobile apps In-Reply-To: References: <32BED9FB-C34B-4095-968A-9A3B46B059EA@live.concordia.ca> Message-ID: Hi Magdalena, This might of interest for you. The paper is called: "From the Digital to the Tentacular, or From iPods to Cephalopods: Apps, Traps, and Entre?es?without?Exit" (interesting title, right?), and it's written by Dan Mellamphy and Nandita Biswas Mellamphy for an upcoming book on apps they're editing at MIT Press. The chapter is much broader in scope but I think it's very easy to get from themes like "capitalist reticulation" to that of more specific issues such as censorship on the theoretical front. Hope this helps, Sarah Choukah Doctorante D?partement de communication Universit? de Montr?al On Tue, Feb 4, 2014 at 10:00 AM, Kristin Williams wrote: > Hi Magdalena, > > This chapter recently came to my attention. I haven't read it, but it > looks like it might be in the right direction. > > Chapter 3. Digital Deprivation: New Media, Civil Society and Sustainability > Paddy Coulter and Cathy Baldwin > > From > CIVIL SOCIETY IN THE AGE OF MONITORY DEMOCRACY > Edited by Lars Tr?g?rdh, Nina Witoszek, & Bron Taylor > Afterword by Bill McKibben > > All the best, > -Kristin > > -----Original Message----- > From: air-l-bounces at listserv.aoir.org [mailto: > air-l-bounces at listserv.aoir.org] On Behalf Of Magdalena O! > Sent: Monday, February 03, 2014 8:59 PM > To: > Subject: [Air-L] Censorship and mobile apps > > Hello, > > I'm writing about censorship and Instagram and looking for more research > on censorship and mobile apps. I can't seem to find any. > > Thank you so much > > Magdalena > > =^.^= > > Magdalena Olszanowski, PhD Student, SSHRC Fellow Senior Research > Assistant, Mobile Media Lab HASTAC Scholar > Communication Studies Concordia University Montreal, QC > > @raisecain > > _______________________________________________ > The Air-L at listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association > of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or > unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org > > Join the Association of Internet Researchers: > http://www.aoir.org/ > _______________________________________________ > The Air-L at listserv.aoir.org mailing list > is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org > Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: > http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org > > Join the Association of Internet Researchers: > http://www.aoir.org/ > From luishestres at gmail.com Tue Feb 4 10:20:21 2014 From: luishestres at gmail.com (Luis Hestres) Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2014 13:20:21 -0500 Subject: [Air-L] Censorship and mobile apps In-Reply-To: References: <32BED9FB-C34B-4095-968A-9A3B46B059EA@live.concordia.ca> Message-ID: <9CF12F5E9F954A0C96B1EA76125BB78A@gmail.com> Hi Magdalena, If I may plug my own research on this subject, here?s an article I published last year: http://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/article/view/1904 Here?s the abstract: App Neutrality: Apple?s App Store and Freedom of Expression Online Apple?s wireless devices have become a critical entry point into the Internet. But unlike the broader Internet, which can be construed as a relatively open communications network, the iOS app store is arguably a closed technological ecosystem. Developers must gain Apple?s approval before distributing their apps through the store. Some have criticized the company?s app review and approval process for being opaque and arbitrary. This process has also resulted in the rejection of both explicitly and implicitly political apps. This article analyzes Apple?s guidelines and approval process, discusses content-based rejections of apps, and outlines the consequences of this process for developers? and consumers? freedom of expression. It also argues for principles that guarantee ?app neutrality? while also guaranteeing device safety and quality control. - - - - - Luis E. Hestres Ph.D. candidate | School of Communication | American University More about me at luishestres.com (http://luishestres.com/) or LinkedIn (http://www.linkedin.com/in/hestres) | Follow me on Twitter (https://twitter.com/#!/luishestres/) | Visit my SSRN Author page (http://ssrn.com/author=1820222) "Theoretical critiques are like sociopaths: Their aggressive drives are rarely balanced by constructive instincts." -- From "Caught in a Winding, Snarling Vine: The Structural Bias of Political Process Theory" by Jeff Goodwin and James M. Jasper, Sociological Forum 14(1), 1999 On Tuesday, February 4, 2014 at 10:53 AM, Sarah Choukah wrote: > Hi Magdalena, > > This might of interest for > you. > The paper is called: "From the Digital to the Tentacular, or From iPods to > Cephalopods: Apps, Traps, and Entre?es?without?Exit" (interesting title, > right?), and it's written by Dan Mellamphy and Nandita Biswas Mellamphy for > an upcoming book on apps they're editing at MIT Press. The chapter is much > broader in scope but I think it's very easy to get from themes like > "capitalist reticulation" to that of more specific issues such as > censorship on the theoretical front. > > Hope this helps, > > Sarah Choukah > Doctorante > D?partement de communication > Universit? de Montr?al > > > On Tue, Feb 4, 2014 at 10:00 AM, Kristin Williams wrote: > > > Hi Magdalena, > > > > This chapter recently came to my attention. I haven't read it, but it > > looks like it might be in the right direction. > > > > Chapter 3. Digital Deprivation: New Media, Civil Society and Sustainability > > Paddy Coulter and Cathy Baldwin > > > > From > > CIVIL SOCIETY IN THE AGE OF MONITORY DEMOCRACY > > Edited by Lars Tr?g?rdh, Nina Witoszek, & Bron Taylor > > Afterword by Bill McKibben > > > > All the best, > > -Kristin > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: air-l-bounces at listserv.aoir.org (mailto:air-l-bounces at listserv.aoir.org) [mailto: > > air-l-bounces at listserv.aoir.org (mailto:air-l-bounces at listserv.aoir.org)] On Behalf Of Magdalena O! > > Sent: Monday, February 03, 2014 8:59 PM > > To: > > Subject: [Air-L] Censorship and mobile apps > > > > Hello, > > > > I'm writing about censorship and Instagram and looking for more research > > on censorship and mobile apps. I can't seem to find any. > > > > Thank you so much > > > > Magdalena > > > > =^.^= > > > > Magdalena Olszanowski, PhD Student, SSHRC Fellow Senior Research > > Assistant, Mobile Media Lab HASTAC Scholar > > Communication Studies Concordia University Montreal, QC > > > > @raisecain > > > > _______________________________________________ > > The Air-L at listserv.aoir.org (mailto:Air-L at listserv.aoir.org) mailing list is provided by the Association > > of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or > > unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org > > > > Join the Association of Internet Researchers: > > http://www.aoir.org/ > > _______________________________________________ > > The Air-L at listserv.aoir.org (mailto:Air-L at listserv.aoir.org) mailing list > > is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org > > Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: > > http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org > > > > Join the Association of Internet Researchers: > > http://www.aoir.org/ > > > > _______________________________________________ > The Air-L at listserv.aoir.org (mailto:Air-L at listserv.aoir.org) mailing list > is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org > Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org > > Join the Association of Internet Researchers: > http://www.aoir.org/ > > From charles.ess at gmail.com Tue Feb 4 11:01:49 2014 From: charles.ess at gmail.com (Charles Ess) Date: Tue, 04 Feb 2014 20:01:49 +0100 Subject: [Air-L] CaTaC'14 - Oslo, June 17-20: website for submissions to CaTaC'14 now available Message-ID: Dear AoIRists, Just a short note to inform those who are interested that the website for turning in papers and proposals for consideration for CaTaC?14 is now available: For further details on the conference, including recently posted information, please see: Additional information ? e.g., regarding conference fees ? will also be available soon. Please pass on to any potentially interested colleagues ? and many thanks in advance. Charles Ess Professor in Media Studies Department of Media and Communication Director, Centre for Research on Media Innovations University of Oslo P.O. Box 1093 Blindern NO-0317 Oslo Norway email: charles.ess at media.uio.no From toine at hum.aau.dk Tue Feb 4 13:07:39 2014 From: toine at hum.aau.dk (Toine Bogers) Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2014 21:07:39 +0000 Subject: [Air-L] Final Call for Participation: iConference 2014 (Berlin, Germany) Message-ID: ************************************************************* iConference 2014: Standard registrations available through Feb. 15, 2014 Conference Dates: 4-7 March, 2014, Berlin, Germany Conference Home: http://ischools.org/the-iconference/ Conference Schedule: https://www.conftool.com/iConference2014/sessions.php ************************************************************* This is our last call for iConference 2014 standard registrations. Standard rates remain available through Feb. 15, 2014; late fees apply thereafter. If you have not yet finalized your plans for our upcoming conference in Berlin, we encourage you to register as soon as possible! iConference 2014 will bring together scholars and researchers from around the world who share a common concern about critical information issues in contemporary society. This is our ninth annual conference and the first to be held in Europe. Organized under the banner ?Breaking Down Walls | Culture, Context, Computing?, iConference 2014 will provide an inspiring sense of community, high quality research presentations, and myriad opportunities for engagement. All information field practitioners are welcome; affiliation with a member-iSchool is not required. The complete conference schedule is available on our website. Highlights include: ? A compelling program of peer-reviewed Papers, Notes, and Posters. ? Thought-provoking Workshops and Sessions for Interaction and Engagement. ? Keynote addresses from Tony Hey of Microsoft Research and Melissa Terras of the Department of Information Studies, University College London. ? Myriad opportunities for socializing and networking with premier thinkers in the information field. Social events include our Opening Reception at Humboldt Universit?t zu Berlin, a private gala dinner at the world-renowned Naturkunde Museum Berlin, two networking-oriented Poster Sessions, a Farewell Reception, and multiple shared meals and social breaks throughout. ? Unique opportunities for career mentoring and growth, including a Doctoral Colloquium (invitation only), an Early Career Colloquium (open to all) and a Professional Development Seminar (also open to all). ? A Social Media Expo featuring presentations by iSchool student teams, sponsored by Microsoft Research. ? The opportunity to personally experience Berlin, one of the most historic and compelling cities in Europe. iConference 2014 is presented by the iSchools organization and hosted by The Berlin School of Library and Information Science at Humboldt-Universit?t zu Berlin; the program is administered by the Royal School of Library and Information Science, University of Copenhagen. The presenting sponsor is Microsoft Research, with additional funding from the National Science Foundation, Emerald Publishing, De Gruyter, Springer, Purdue University Press, MIT Press, Morgan & Claypool Publishers, and Citavi. The conference takes place 4-7 March, 2014. More at http://ischools.org/the-iconference/ From dewoller at gmail.com Tue Feb 4 14:59:38 2014 From: dewoller at gmail.com (Dennis Wollersheim) Date: Wed, 05 Feb 2014 09:59:38 +1100 Subject: [Air-L] Qual research with digital diaries- seeking tools & tips, please In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <52F170DA.5030700@gmail.com> Hi Kath The good thing about 'plain old wordpress' is that it is an open format, very easy to archive. You just need to 'spider' the website once the posts are up, that is, run software that visits every webpage and saves a copy. Firefox has a plugins that will do it, foxyspider and spiderzilla are 2 examples. Cheers Dennis On 03/02/14 13:19, Kath Albury wrote: > Hi folks, > > I was wondering if anyone on this list had experience of using a mobile > diary app as research tool (for participants). I'd like participants to > post to a diary via phone or tablet, & will need to have access (& be able > to archive diaries). I've looked at ethno hub (http://ethnohub.com), and > my panel (which is a market research tool > (http://www.mobilemarketresearch.net/mypanel/features). And there's always > the option of plain old wordpress - but the question is how to export & > archive the data? > > Any tips (or even anecdotes) from seasoned players will be greatly > appreciated. > > Cheers, Kath > Kath Albury, PhD > Senior Lecturer, School of Arts and Media > University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, 2052 > Ph: 61 2 9385 8533 > UNSW CRICOS Provider code 00098G > http://research.unsw.edu.au/people/dr-kath-albury > _______________________________________________ > The Air-L at listserv.aoir.org mailing list > is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org > Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org > > Join the Association of Internet Researchers: > http://www.aoir.org/ From stu at texifter.com Tue Feb 4 15:02:03 2014 From: stu at texifter.com (Shulman, Stu) Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2014 18:02:03 -0500 Subject: [Air-L] Qual research with digital diaries- seeking tools & tips, please In-Reply-To: <52F170DA.5030700@gmail.com> References: <52F170DA.5030700@gmail.com> Message-ID: WordPress has a nice XML export that lets you get the entire contents of a blog (if you are the owner) in a single metadata-rich file. DiscoverText has a nice upload option for WordPress XML exports. On Tue, Feb 4, 2014 at 5:59 PM, Dennis Wollersheim wrote: > Hi Kath > > The good thing about 'plain old wordpress' is that it is an open format, > very easy to archive. You just need to 'spider' the website once the posts > are up, that is, run software that visits every webpage and saves a copy. > Firefox has a plugins that will do it, foxyspider and spiderzilla are 2 > examples. > > Cheers > Dennis > > > > > On 03/02/14 13:19, Kath Albury wrote: > >> Hi folks, >> >> I was wondering if anyone on this list had experience of using a mobile >> diary app as research tool (for participants). I'd like participants to >> post to a diary via phone or tablet, & will need to have access (& be able >> to archive diaries). I've looked at ethno hub (http://ethnohub.com< >> http://ethnohub.com/>), and >> my panel (which is a market research tool >> (http://www.mobilemarketresearch.net/mypanel/features). And there's >> always >> the option of plain old wordpress - but the question is how to export & >> archive the data? >> >> Any tips (or even anecdotes) from seasoned players will be greatly >> appreciated. >> >> Cheers, Kath >> Kath Albury, PhD >> Senior Lecturer, School of Arts and Media >> University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, 2052 >> Ph: 61 2 9385 8533 >> UNSW CRICOS Provider code 00098G >> http://research.unsw.edu.au/people/dr-kath-albury >> _______________________________________________ >> The Air-L at listserv.aoir.org mailing list >> is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org >> Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/ >> listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org >> >> Join the Association of Internet Researchers: >> http://www.aoir.org/ >> > > _______________________________________________ > The Air-L at listserv.aoir.org mailing list > is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org > Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/ > listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org > > Join the Association of Internet Researchers: > http://www.aoir.org/ > -- Dr. Stuart W. Shulmanhttp://people.umass.edu/stu Founder and CEO, Texifterhttp://texifter.com LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/stuart-shulman/10/351/899 Twitter: http://twitter.com/#!/StuartWShulman From geneloeb at gmail.com Tue Feb 4 15:09:48 2014 From: geneloeb at gmail.com (gene loeb) Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2014 17:09:48 -0600 Subject: [Air-L] Zimmer op-ed in WaPo In-Reply-To: <616BD252-23E8-4E92-8F3C-CB959C685024@infowarrior.org> References: <616BD252-23E8-4E92-8F3C-CB959C685024@infowarrior.org> Message-ID: Richard, Thanks for posting this article. It is very important. It explains the operation of FaceBook to get people to learn to give up their privacy. More significant, various activities, programs, games, are requiring persons to use Face Book to communicate or to participate. Thanks, Michael Zimmer Gene Gene Loeb, Ph.D. On Tue, Feb 4, 2014 at 5:45 AM, Richard Forno wrote: > > For those interested, AOIR's own Michael Zimmer has an op-ed in today's > Washington Post. :) > > Mark Zuckerberg's theory of privacy > > http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/mark-zuckerbergs-theory-of-privacy/2014/02/03/2c1d780a-8cea-11e3-95dd-36ff657a4dae_story.html > > > --- > Just because i'm near the punchbowl doesn't mean I'm also drinking from it. > > _______________________________________________ > The Air-L at listserv.aoir.org mailing list > is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org > Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: > http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org > > Join the Association of Internet Researchers: > http://www.aoir.org/ > -- With Sincerest Best Wishes , Gene Gene Loeb, Ph.D. From k.albury at unsw.edu.au Tue Feb 4 15:25:05 2014 From: k.albury at unsw.edu.au (Kath Albury) Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2014 23:25:05 +0000 Subject: [Air-L] Qual research with digital diaries- seeking tools & tips, please In-Reply-To: <52F170DA.5030700@gmail.com> References: <52F170DA.5030700@gmail.com> Message-ID: Hi all, Quite a few people contacted me off-list, expressing interest in this topic- a consensus seems to be shaping up in favour of Wordpress. Many thanks for your advice. Cheers, Kath Kath Albury, PhD Senior Lecturer, School of Arts and Media University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, 2052 Ph: 61 2 9385 8533 UNSW CRICOS Provider code 00098G http://research.unsw.edu.au/people/dr-kath-albury On 5/02/14 9:59 AM, "Dennis Wollersheim" wrote: >Hi Kath > >The good thing about 'plain old wordpress' is that it is an open format, >very easy to archive. You just need to 'spider' the website once the >posts >are up, that is, run software that visits every webpage and saves a copy. >Firefox has a plugins that will do it, foxyspider and spiderzilla are 2 >examples. > >Cheers >Dennis > > > > >On 03/02/14 13:19, Kath Albury wrote: >> Hi folks, >> >> I was wondering if anyone on this list had experience of using a mobile >> diary app as research tool (for participants). I'd like participants to >> post to a diary via phone or tablet, & will need to have access (& be >>able >> to archive diaries). I've looked at ethno hub >>(http://ethnohub.com), and >> my panel (which is a market research tool >> (http://www.mobilemarketresearch.net/mypanel/features). And there's >>always >> the option of plain old wordpress - but the question is how to export & >> archive the data? >> >> Any tips (or even anecdotes) from seasoned players will be greatly >> appreciated. >> >> Cheers, Kath >> Kath Albury, PhD >> Senior Lecturer, School of Arts and Media >> University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, 2052 >> Ph: 61 2 9385 8533 >> UNSW CRICOS Provider code 00098G >> http://research.unsw.edu.au/people/dr-kath-albury >> _______________________________________________ >> The Air-L at listserv.aoir.org mailing list >> is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org >> Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: >>http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org >> >> Join the Association of Internet Researchers: >> http://www.aoir.org/ > From seeta.gangadharan at gmail.com Tue Feb 4 16:38:54 2014 From: seeta.gangadharan at gmail.com (=?UTF-8?B?U2VldGEgUGXDsWEgR2FuZ2FkaGFyYW4=?=) Date: Tue, 04 Feb 2014 19:38:54 -0500 Subject: [Air-L] Qual research with digital diaries- seeking tools & tips, please In-Reply-To: References: <52F170DA.5030700@gmail.com> Message-ID: <52F1881E.9090804@gmail.com> VoJo is another option. http://vojo.co/ On 2/4/14 6:25 PM, Kath Albury wrote: > Hi all, > > Quite a few people contacted me off-list, expressing interest in this > topic- a consensus seems to be shaping up in favour of Wordpress. Many > thanks for your advice. > > Cheers, Kath > Kath Albury, PhD > Senior Lecturer, School of Arts and Media > University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, 2052 > Ph: 61 2 9385 8533 > UNSW CRICOS Provider code 00098G > http://research.unsw.edu.au/people/dr-kath-albury > > > > > On 5/02/14 9:59 AM, "Dennis Wollersheim" wrote: > >> Hi Kath >> >> The good thing about 'plain old wordpress' is that it is an open format, >> very easy to archive. You just need to 'spider' the website once the >> posts >> are up, that is, run software that visits every webpage and saves a copy. >> Firefox has a plugins that will do it, foxyspider and spiderzilla are 2 >> examples. >> >> Cheers >> Dennis >> >> >> >> >> On 03/02/14 13:19, Kath Albury wrote: >>> Hi folks, >>> >>> I was wondering if anyone on this list had experience of using a mobile >>> diary app as research tool (for participants). I'd like participants to >>> post to a diary via phone or tablet, & will need to have access (& be >>> able >>> to archive diaries). I've looked at ethno hub >>> (http://ethnohub.com), and >>> my panel (which is a market research tool >>> (http://www.mobilemarketresearch.net/mypanel/features). And there's >>> always >>> the option of plain old wordpress - but the question is how to export & >>> archive the data? >>> >>> Any tips (or even anecdotes) from seasoned players will be greatly >>> appreciated. >>> >>> Cheers, Kath >>> Kath Albury, PhD >>> Senior Lecturer, School of Arts and Media >>> University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, 2052 >>> Ph: 61 2 9385 8533 >>> UNSW CRICOS Provider code 00098G >>> http://research.unsw.edu.au/people/dr-kath-albury >>> _______________________________________________ >>> The Air-L at listserv.aoir.org mailing list >>> is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org >>> Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: >>> http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org >>> >>> Join the Association of Internet Researchers: >>> http://www.aoir.org/ > _______________________________________________ > The Air-L at listserv.aoir.org mailing list > is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org > Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org > > Join the Association of Internet Researchers: > http://www.aoir.org/ From j.unger at lancaster.ac.uk Wed Feb 5 04:54:04 2014 From: j.unger at lancaster.ac.uk (Unger, Johann) Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2014 12:54:04 +0000 Subject: [Air-L] Facebook and the construction of (migrants') identities Message-ID: Dear AOIR-ers, A PhD student in my department is currently trying to finish his thesis on Dr J W Unger Lecturer and Academic Director of Summer Programmes Department of Linguistics and English Language Lancaster University LA1 4YL e-mail: j.unger at lancaster.ac.uk tel: +44 1524 592591 Follow me on Twitter @johnnyunger From j.unger at lancaster.ac.uk Wed Feb 5 05:01:52 2014 From: j.unger at lancaster.ac.uk (Unger, Johann) Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2014 13:01:52 +0000 Subject: [Air-L] Facebook and the construction of (migrants') identities In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Meanwhile, I'm trying to finish my email! Apologies for the earlier, unfinished draft. Here's what I meant to write: Dear AOIR-ers, A PhD student in my department is currently trying to finish his thesis on migrants' use if Facebook, with a particular focus on how they construct their identities. If you know of any interesting work in this area, I'd be grateful of you could let me know either off-list or on. We'll collate any responses and circulate in due course. Many thanks, Johnny Dr J W Unger Lecturer and Academic Director of Summer Programmes Department of Linguistics and English Language Lancaster University LA1 4YL e-mail: j.unger at lancaster.ac.uk tel: +44 1524 592591 Follow me on Twitter @johnnyunger From tiziano.bonini at gmail.com Wed Feb 5 05:30:33 2014 From: tiziano.bonini at gmail.com (tiziano bonini) Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2014 14:30:33 +0100 Subject: [Air-L] Facebook and the construction of (migrants') identities In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Dear Johann, I investigated something similar in my PhD thesis. Unfortunately it is in Italian but I published a part of it in this article: "Media as home making tools: life story of a Filipino migrant in Milan", Media, Culture & society, 33(6), 869-883. Here the link to read it: http://www.scribd.com/doc/79449459/Media-as-Home-Making-Tools-MC-S-2011 Best tiziano 2014-02-05 Unger, Johann : > Meanwhile, I'm trying to finish my email! Apologies for the earlier, > unfinished draft. Here's what I meant to write: > > Dear AOIR-ers, > > A PhD student in my department is currently trying to finish his thesis on > migrants' use if Facebook, with a particular focus on how they construct > their identities. If you know of any interesting work in this area, I'd be > grateful of you could let me know either off-list or on. We'll collate any > responses and circulate in due course. > > Many thanks, > Johnny > > Dr J W Unger > Lecturer and Academic Director of Summer Programmes > Department of Linguistics and English Language > Lancaster University > LA1 4YL > > e-mail: j.unger at lancaster.ac.uk > tel: +44 1524 592591 > Follow me on Twitter @johnnyunger > _______________________________________________ > The Air-L at listserv.aoir.org mailing list > is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org > Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: > http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org > > Join the Association of Internet Researchers: > http://www.aoir.org/ > -- Tiziano Bonini ||| lecturer in media studies ||| Arts, Culture and Comparative Literature Institute IULM University of Milano via Carlo Bo 4 20143 Milano, Italy ::: Academia ::: http://iulm.academia.edu/TizianoBonini ::: Audio/Radio ::: www.radiofactory.org http://audioboo.fm/tizianobonini From K.H.A.Leurs at uu.nl Wed Feb 5 06:27:53 2014 From: K.H.A.Leurs at uu.nl (Leurs, K.H.A. (Koen)) Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2014 14:27:53 +0000 Subject: [Air-L] Facebook and the construction of (migrants') identities In-Reply-To: References: , Message-ID: <00655BF384232847B11F8A9380EDC227278EC065@ICTSC-W-S204.soliscom.uu.nl> Dear Johnny, Kindly consider these publications (apologies for the self-promotion) Hepp, A., Bozdag, C. & Suna, L. (2012). Mediatized migrants: Media cultures and communicative networking in the diaspora. In L. Fortunati, R. Pertierra & J. Vincent (Eds.), Migrations, diaspora, and information technology in global societies, (pp. 172-188). London: Routledge. Leurs, K. & Ponzanesi, S. (2013). Intersectionality, digital identities and migrant youths. In C. Carter, L. Steiner & L. McLaughlin (Eds.), Routledge companion to media and gender. London: Routledge. Leurs, K. & Ponzanesi, S. (2013). Bits of homeland. In C. Ponte & M. Georgiou (Eds.) Special issue on Media, technology and the migrant family. Observatorio (OBS*), 7 (1). Leurs, K., Midden, E. & Ponzanesi, S. (2012). Digital multiculturalism in the Netherlands: Religious, ethnic, and gender positioning by Moroccan-Dutch youth. Religion and Gender, 2 (1), 150-175. Leurs, K. & Ponzanesi, S. (2011). Mediated crossroads: Youthful digital diasporas. M/C Journal, 14(2), http://journal.media-culture.org.au/ Leurs, K. & Ponzanesi, S. (2011). Communicative spaces of their own. Migrant girls performing selves using Instant Messaging software. Feminist Review, 99, 55-78. Mainsah, H. (2011). Transcending the national imaginery: Digital online media and the transnational networks of ethnic minority youth in norway. In E. Eide & K. Nikunen (Eds.), Media in motion: Cultural complexity and migration in the Nordic region, (pp. 201-219). Surrey: Ashgate. Mainsah, H. (2009). Ethnic minorities and digital technologies. New spaces for constructing identity. (Unpublished doctoral dissertation). Oslo University, Norway. Hope these are useful, Best wishes, Koen. Koen Leurs, PhD | Marie Curie Postdoctoral Researcher, LSE | | Affiliated researcher Graduate Gender Studies / Institute for Cultural Enquiry (ICON) Utrecht University | www.uu.nl/wiredup | http://www.mignetproject.eu/ | www.koenleurs.net ________________________________________ From: air-l-bounces at listserv.aoir.org [air-l-bounces at listserv.aoir.org] on behalf of tiziano bonini [tiziano.bonini at gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, February 05, 2014 2:30 PM To: Unger, Johann Cc: air-l at listserv.aoir.org Subject: Re: [Air-L] Facebook and the construction of (migrants') identities Dear Johann, I investigated something similar in my PhD thesis. Unfortunately it is in Italian but I published a part of it in this article: "Media as home making tools: life story of a Filipino migrant in Milan", Media, Culture & society, 33(6), 869-883. Here the link to read it: http://www.scribd.com/doc/79449459/Media-as-Home-Making-Tools-MC-S-2011 Best tiziano 2014-02-05 Unger, Johann : > Meanwhile, I'm trying to finish my email! Apologies for the earlier, > unfinished draft. Here's what I meant to write: > > Dear AOIR-ers, > > A PhD student in my department is currently trying to finish his thesis on > migrants' use if Facebook, with a particular focus on how they construct > their identities. If you know of any interesting work in this area, I'd be > grateful of you could let me know either off-list or on. We'll collate any > responses and circulate in due course. > > Many thanks, > Johnny > > Dr J W Unger > Lecturer and Academic Director of Summer Programmes > Department of Linguistics and English Language > Lancaster University > LA1 4YL > > e-mail: j.unger at lancaster.ac.uk > tel: +44 1524 592591 > Follow me on Twitter @johnnyunger > _______________________________________________ > The Air-L at listserv.aoir.org mailing list > is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org > Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: > http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org > > Join the Association of Internet Researchers: > http://www.aoir.org/ > -- Tiziano Bonini ||| lecturer in media studies ||| Arts, Culture and Comparative Literature Institute IULM University of Milano via Carlo Bo 4 20143 Milano, Italy ::: Academia ::: http://iulm.academia.edu/TizianoBonini ::: Audio/Radio ::: www.radiofactory.org http://audioboo.fm/tizianobonini _______________________________________________ The Air-L at listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org Join the Association of Internet Researchers: http://www.aoir.org/ From gn254 at cam.ac.uk Wed Feb 5 07:05:27 2014 From: gn254 at cam.ac.uk (Galina Nikiporets-Takigawa) Date: Wed, 05 Feb 2014 15:05:27 +0000 Subject: [Air-L] Facebook and the construction of (migrants') identities In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Hi, Johnny, With apologise for self-promotion and not being directly related (not about Facebook), but relevant - two chapters on digital communication in identities construction of post-soviet migrants in the UK: (2013) ?Digital debates on Soviet memory in the national identity construction of post-soviet migrants?, in Negotiating Linguistic, Cultural and Social Identities in the Post-Soviet World, Sarah Smith and Conny Opitz eds., Peter Lang, 163-182. ISBN 978-3-0343-0840-3 pb. (2010) ?Digital communication of the Russian-speaking community as a reflection of language contact and performance of identity?, in Instrumentarium of Linguistics. Sociolinguisitc Approaches to Non-Standard Russian, Arto Mustajoki et al. eds., Slavica Helsingiensia 40, 369-380. Both PDFs are available here https://cambridge.academia.edu/GalinaNikiporetsTakigawa, Best, Galina On 2014-02-05 13:01, Unger, Johann wrote: > Meanwhile, I'm trying to finish my email! Apologies for the earlier, > unfinished draft. Here's what I meant to write: > > Dear AOIR-ers, > > A PhD student in my department is currently trying to finish his > thesis on migrants' use if Facebook, with a particular focus on how > they construct their identities. If you know of any interesting work > in this area, I'd be grateful of you could let me know either off-list > or on. We'll collate any responses and circulate in due course. > > Many thanks, > Johnny > > Dr J W Unger > Lecturer and Academic Director of Summer Programmes > Department of Linguistics and English Language > Lancaster University > LA1 4YL > > e-mail: j.unger at lancaster.ac.uk > tel: +44 1524 592591 > Follow me on Twitter @johnnyunger > _______________________________________________ > The Air-L at listserv.aoir.org mailing list > is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org > Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: > http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org > > Join the Association of Internet Researchers: > http://www.aoir.org/ -- Dr Galina Nikiporets-Takigawa Department of Slavonic Studies University of Cambridge Sidgwick Avenue, Cambridge CB3 9DA https://cambridge.academia.edu/GalinaNikiporetsTakigawa From pedro.oiarzabal at deusto.es Wed Feb 5 08:47:12 2014 From: pedro.oiarzabal at deusto.es (P.J. Oiarzabal) Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2014 16:47:12 +0000 Subject: [Air-L] Facebook and the construction of (migrants') identities In-Reply-To: References: , , Message-ID: Hi there, Please also considered the following publications: Oiarzabal, Pedro J. and Ulf-Dietrich Reips. (Eds.) Special Issue ?Migration and the Internet: Social Networking and Diasporas.? Journal of Ethnicity and Migration Studies, Vol. 38, No. 9 (2012): 1333-1490 (ISSN 1369-183X).Oiarzabal, Pedro J. ?Diaspora Basques and Online Social Networks: An Analysis of Users of Basque Institutional Diaspora Groups on Facebook.? Journal of Ethnicity and Migration Studies, Vol. 38, No. 9 (2012): 1469-1485.Oiarzabal, Pedro J. (2011). ?The Online Social Networks of the Basque Diaspora. Fast Forwarded, 2005-2009,? in Javier Echeverria, Andoni Alonso, and Pedro J. Oiarzabal (eds.). Knowledge Communities. Conference Series. Vol. 6. Reno: Center for Basque Studies, University of Nevada, Reno. (Hardcover, 260 pages; ISBN 978-1-877802-97-3). Oiarzabal, Pedro J. (2013). The Basque Diaspora Webscape: Identity, Nation, and Homeland, 1990s-2010s. Basque Diaspora and Migration Studies Series, No. 7. Center for Basque Studies, University of Nevada, Reno. (Paperback, 272 pages; ISBN 978-1-935709-41-1). Oiarzabal, Pedro J. and Andoni Alonso. (Eds.) (2010). Diasporas in the New Media Age: Identity, Politics and Community. Reno: University Nevada Press. (Paperback, 384 pages; ISBN 978-0-87417-815-9). Best regards, Pedro Pedro J. Oiarzabal, PhD pedro.oiarzabal at deusto.es University of Deusto Pedro Arrupe Human Rights Institute, Avenida de las Universidades, 24 48007 - Bilbao Tel.:+34-944139003 (ext. 2077) http://www.idh.deusto.es Have you seen my latest book, The Basque Diaspora Webscape: Identity, Nation and Homeland, 1990s-2010s? bit.ly/1f01i50 > Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2014 15:05:27 +0000 > From: gn254 at cam.ac.uk > To: j.unger at lancaster.ac.uk; tiziano.bonini at gmail.com; K.H.A.Leurs at uu.nl; air-l at listserv.aoir.org > Subject: Re: [Air-L] Facebook and the construction of (migrants') identities > > Hi, Johnny, > > With apologise for self-promotion and not being directly related (not > about Facebook), but relevant - two chapters on digital communication in > identities construction of post-soviet migrants in the UK: > > (2013) ?Digital debates on Soviet memory in the national identity > construction of post-soviet migrants?, in Negotiating Linguistic, > Cultural and Social Identities in the Post-Soviet World, Sarah Smith and > Conny Opitz eds., Peter Lang, 163-182. ISBN 978-3-0343-0840-3 pb. > > (2010) ?Digital communication of the Russian-speaking community as a > reflection of language contact and performance of identity?, in > Instrumentarium of Linguistics. Sociolinguisitc Approaches to > Non-Standard Russian, Arto Mustajoki et al. eds., Slavica Helsingiensia > 40, 369-380. > > > Both PDFs are available here > https://cambridge.academia.edu/GalinaNikiporetsTakigawa, > > > Best, > > Galina > > On 2014-02-05 13:01, Unger, Johann wrote: > > Meanwhile, I'm trying to finish my email! Apologies for the earlier, > > unfinished draft. Here's what I meant to write: > > > > Dear AOIR-ers, > > > > A PhD student in my department is currently trying to finish his > > thesis on migrants' use if Facebook, with a particular focus on how > > they construct their identities. If you know of any interesting work > > in this area, I'd be grateful of you could let me know either off-list > > or on. We'll collate any responses and circulate in due course. > > > > Many thanks, > > Johnny > > > > Dr J W Unger > > Lecturer and Academic Director of Summer Programmes > > Department of Linguistics and English Language > > Lancaster University > > LA1 4YL > > > > e-mail: j.unger at lancaster.ac.uk > > tel: +44 1524 592591 > > Follow me on Twitter @johnnyunger > > _______________________________________________ > > The Air-L at listserv.aoir.org mailing list > > is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org > > Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: > > http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org > > > > Join the Association of Internet Researchers: > > http://www.aoir.org/ > > -- > Dr Galina Nikiporets-Takigawa > Department of Slavonic Studies > University of Cambridge > Sidgwick Avenue, Cambridge CB3 9DA > https://cambridge.academia.edu/GalinaNikiporetsTakigawa > _______________________________________________ > The Air-L at listserv.aoir.org mailing list > is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org > Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org > > Join the Association of Internet Researchers: > http://www.aoir.org/ From laevantine at gmail.com Wed Feb 5 10:40:43 2014 From: laevantine at gmail.com (Todd Harper) Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2014 13:40:43 -0500 Subject: [Air-L] Game studies book note -- The Culture of Digital Fighting Games Message-ID: Just a small note if you have an interest in game studies, particularly gaming communities, e-sports, or communities of practice: my book "The Culture of Digital Fighting Games: Performance and Practice" came out at the end of December 2013. In summary, the book is an extension of my dissertation work on the competitive fighting game community, looking at their play practices, social interactions, and the like. If this is of interest to you, there's more information on Routledge's page for the book: http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415821308/ There's also a review copy request form -- http://www.routledge.com/resources/review_copy_request/%209780415821308/ And a library recommendation form, if you're of the mind - http://www.routledge.com/resources/librarian_recommendation/9780415821308/ Thanks, and have a good one. >Todd -- Todd Harper Postdoctoral Researcher, MIT Game Lab -- http://gamelab.mit.edu laevantine at gmail.com | tlharper at mit.edu From julie.grinberg at yahoo.com Wed Feb 5 14:47:51 2014 From: julie.grinberg at yahoo.com (Julie Grinberg) Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2014 14:47:51 -0800 (PST) Subject: [Air-L] =?utf-8?q?PhD-Seminar=2C_Web_Archiving_and_Archived_Web_?= =?utf-8?q?=E2=80=94_a_new_Research_Method=2C_a_new_Object_of_Study=3F?= In-Reply-To: <719F6AC5-D76B-431C-8D7A-15DBEBE2A476@imv.au.dk> References: <719F6AC5-D76B-431C-8D7A-15DBEBE2A476@imv.au.dk> Message-ID: <1391640471.93494.YahooMailNeo@web121903.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> Dear Niels,? My name is Yuliya Grinberg, I'm a Ph.D candidate in anthropology at Columbia University developing a project on what I have tentatively titled the "Digital Data Mines" dealing precisely with questions of the archive in the digital age. This seminar seems so great, but I am also looking for material I could read during the spring in preparation of my dissertation proposal. I'm particularly interested in literature related to the topic of "Virtual Digs." ?I'm wondering if there is a suggested reading list you could help refer me to? Thanks in advance! Yuliya Grinberg? On Tuesday, February 4, 2014 4:17 AM, Niels Br?gger wrote: ***apologies for cross-postings*** PhD seminar Web Archiving and Archived Web ? a new Research Method, a new Object of Study? Aarhus University, Denmark, 11-12 June 2014 Organised by the Danish Digital Humanities Lab/NetLab & Aarhus University, the PhD programme ?ICT, Media, Communication and Journalism? This PhD seminar focus on web archiving and web archives with a view to investigating the nexus between web archiving and web archives as a new research method and as a new object of study. The aim of the seminar is double. On the one hand it is to introduce web archiving as a research method to be used by scholars studying contemporary political, social, and cultural phenomena within the humanities and the social sciences, and, on the other hand, the aim is to introduce to the methodological and theoretical issues related to the use of existing (trans)national web archives, in the main in relation to historical studies involving the web. Participation as well as coffee and lunch are free of charge. Participants must pay for dinner, travel and accomodation themselves. The number of participants is limited to 20. Deadline for submission of application is Monday 24 March 2014. The lectures and the lecturers: ? ?Virtual Digs: Excavating, Preserving, and Archiving the Web?, Meghan Dougherty, Assistant Professor, Digital Communication, Loyola University Chicago ? ?A Data Driven Approach to Web Archive Research?, Anat Ben-David, post-doctoral researcher with the WebART project, University of Amsterdam ? ?Archiving web material for future research??, Ditte Laursen, senior researcher and curator at the State Media Archive, State Library in Denmark ? ?Probing a nation?s web sphere?, Niels Br?gger, Associate Professor, Aarhus University, Head of the Centre for Internet Studies Read the full call, including more about the course format, the venue, and how to enrol:http://www.netlab.dk/courses/ Very best, Niels Br?gger ?????????????????????????????? LATEST PUBLICATIONS AND PAPERS August 2013 Web historiography and Internet Studies: Challenges and perspectives, New Media & Society, 15(5), 752-764 Read more: http://nms.sagepub.com/content/15/5/752.abstract June 2013 Historical Network Analysis of the Web, Social Science Computer Review, 31(3), 306-321 Read more: http://ssc.sagepub.com/content/31/3/306.abstract March 2013 The Web and Digital Humanities: Theoretical and Methodological Concerns (w. N.O. Finnemann), Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media 57(1), 66-80 Read more: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/08838151.2012.761699 NIELS BR?GGER, Associate Professor, PhD Director, the Centre for Internet Studies Department of Aesthetics and Communication Aarhus University Helsingforsgade 14 8200 Aarhus N Denmark Phone (switchboard)? +45 8715 0000 Phone (direct)? ? ? ? ? ? ? +45 8716 1971 Phone (mobile)? ? ? ? ? ? +45 2945 3231 E-mail? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? nb at imv.au.dk Webpage? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? http://imv.au.dk/~nb Profile at LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/1/50a/555 Skype name: niels_bruegger The Centre for Internet Research? ? ? ? ? ? ? http://cfi.au.dk NetLab? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? http://netlab.dk??? ??? The history of dr.dk, 1996-2006? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? http://drdk.dk LARM (Radio Culture and Auditory Resources Research Infrastructure) http://www.larm-archive.org _______________________________________________ The Air-L at listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org Join the Association of Internet Researchers: http://www.aoir.org/ From jwallis at csu.edu.au Wed Feb 5 17:53:48 2014 From: jwallis at csu.edu.au (Wallis, Jacob) Date: Thu, 6 Feb 2014 12:53:48 +1100 Subject: [Air-L] Air-L Digest, Vol 115, Issue 5 In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Hi Johnny, Some of my colleagues have done some work in this area with migrant refugees located in regional New South Wales, Australia - published as..... Lloyd, A., Kennan, M. A., Thompson, K. M., & Asim Qayyum. (2013). Connecting with new information landscapes: information literacy practices of refugees. Journal of Documentation, 69(1), 121-144. Cheers, Jake Jake Wallis Lecturer School of Information Studies Charles Sturt University Tel: +61 2 6051 9433 Email: jwallis at csu.edu.au www.csu.edu.au ------------------------------ Message: 6 Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2014 13:01:52 +0000 From: "Unger, Johann" To: "air-l at listserv.aoir.org" Subject: Re: [Air-L] Facebook and the construction of (migrants') identities Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Meanwhile, I'm trying to finish my email! Apologies for the earlier, unfinished draft. Here's what I meant to write: Dear AOIR-ers, A PhD student in my department is currently trying to finish his thesis on migrants' use if Facebook, with a particular focus on how they construct their identities. If you know of any interesting work in this area, I'd be grateful of you could let me know either off-list or on. 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CONTACT: If you have any questions, comments or feedback regarding this study, you can contact us at aj at monkprayogshala.in By continuing, you are stating that you are over 16 years of age, and that you understand the provided information and consent to participate in the study being conducted. I've invited you to fill out the form Public Gossip. To fill it out, visit: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1Fv4THHNK3d_5b6R8N_9sl1XqAPsrdp3rFv6wnlx_ryA/viewform From stuart.shulman at gmail.com Thu Feb 6 11:05:57 2014 From: stuart.shulman at gmail.com (Stuart Shulman) Date: Thu, 6 Feb 2014 14:05:57 -0500 Subject: [Air-L] Gnip and Twitter Bringing Social Data to Academic Researchers Message-ID: Gnip and Twitter Bringing Social Data to Academic Researchers http://blog.gnip.com/twitter-data-grants/ >From the Gnip blog: "What if the next generation of data scientists could have access to social data for their research? And what if we could help increase the quantity and quality of published research using social data? Exploring what might be possible has led to an exciting new collaboration between Twitter and Gnip. Today, we're announcing the pilot of the Twitter Data Grants program, a new initiative designed to support research and fuel innovation in our industry." On a related note: I have taken on the task of setting up 1-2 academic panels for the next Big Boulder conference. If you are an academic doing work with Twitter data and you are interested in potentially appearing on a Big Boulder panel, please send me a brief synopsis of your project and a link to any web-based materials about it. For more about past Big Boulder conferences, please visit: http://blog.gnip.com/big-boulder-the-worlds-first-social-data-conference/ and http://blog.gnip.com/big-boulder-2013-recap/ For information about the Big Boulder Initiative: http://blog.gnip.com/social-data-industry-organization/ ~Stu -- Dr. Stuart W. Shulman people.umass.edu/stu Founder and CEO, Texifter texifter.com LinkedIn: linkedin.com/pub/stuart-shulman/10/351/899 Twitter: twitter.com/#!/StuartWShulman From gciampag at indiana.edu Thu Feb 6 17:50:07 2014 From: gciampag at indiana.edu (Giovanni Luca Ciampaglia) Date: Thu, 06 Feb 2014 20:50:07 -0500 Subject: [Air-L] ACM Web Science Conference (WebSci'14), June 23-26, 2014 Message-ID: <52F43BCF.4080605@indiana.edu> *** Apologies for multiple postings *** FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS & ACCEPTED SATELLITE EVENTS ACM Web Science Conference (WebSci'14), June 23-26, 2014 Bloomington, Indiana, USA websci14.org / @WebSciConf / #WebSci14 Deadline for papers: Feb. 23rd 2014 Web Science is the emergent science of the people, organizations, applications, and of policies that shape and are shaped by the Web, the largest informational artifact constructed by humans in history. Web Science embraces the study of the Web as a vast universal information network of people and communities. As such, Web Science includes the study of social networks whose work, expression, and play take place on the Web. The social sciences and computational sciences meet in Web Science and complement one another: Studying human behavior and social interaction contributes to our understanding of the Web, while Web data is transforming how social science is conducted. The Web presents us with a great opportunity as well as an obligation: If we are to ensure the Web benefits humanity we must do our best to understand it. Call for Papers The Web Science conference is inherently interdisciplinary, as it attempts to integrate computer and information sciences, communication, linguistics, sociology, psychology, economics, law, political science, philosophy, digital humanities, and other disciplines in pursuit of an understanding of the Web. This conference is unique in the manner in which it brings these disciplines together in creative and critical dialogue, and we invite papers from all the above disciplines, and in particular those that cross traditional disciplinary boundaries. Following the success of WebSci'09 in Athens, WebSci'10 in Raleigh, WebSci'11 in Koblenz, WebSci '12 in Evanston, and WebSci'13 in Paris, for the 2014 conference we are seeking papers and posters that describe original research, analysis, and practice in the field of Web Science, as well as work that discusses novel and thought-provoking ideas and works-in-progress. Possible topics for submissions include, but are not limited to, the following: * Analysis of human behavior using social media, mobile devices, and online communities * Methodological challenges of analyzing Web-based * large-scale social interaction * Data-mining and network analysis of the Web and human communities on the Web * Detailed studies of micro-level processes and interactions * on the Web * Collective intelligence, collaborative production, and social computing * Theories and methods for computational social science on the Web * Studies of public health and health-related behavior on the Web * The architecture and philosophy of the Web * The intersection of design and human interaction on the Web * Economics and social innovation on the Web * Governance, democracy, intellectual property, and the commons * Personal data, trust, and privacy * Web and social media research ethics * Studies of Linked Data, the Cloud, and digital eco-systems * Big data and the study of the Web * Web access, literacy, and development * Knowledge, education, and scholarship on and through the Web * People-driven Web technologies, including crowd-sourcing, open data, and new interfaces * Digital humanities * Arts & culture on the Web or engaging audiences using Web resources * Web archiving techniques and scholarly uses of Web archives * New research questions and thought-provoking ideas Submission Web Science is necessarily a very selective single track conference with a rigorous review process. To accommodate the distinct traditions of its many disciplines, we provide three different submission formats: full papers, short papers, and posters. For all types of submissions, inclusion in the ACM DL proceedings will be by default, but not mandatory (opt-out via EasyChair). All accepted research papers (full and short papers) will be presented during the single-track conference. All accepted posters will be given a spot in the single-track lightning talk session, and room to present their papers during a dedicated poster session. Full research papers (5 to 10 pages, ACM double column, 20 mins presentation including Q&A) Full research papers should present new results and original work that has not been previously published. Research papers should present substantial theoretical, empirical, methodological, or policy-oriented contributions to research and/or practice. Short research papers (up to 5 pages, ACM double column, 15 mins presentation including Q&A) Short research papers should present new results and original work that has not been previously published. Research papers can present preliminary theoretical, empirical, methodological, or policy-oriented contributions to research and/or practice. Posters (up to 2 pages, ACM double column, lightning talk + poster presentation) Extended abstracts for posters, which should be in English, can be up to 2 pages. Submission instructions Full and short paper and poster submissions should be formatted according to the official ACM SIG proceedings template (http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates). Please make use of the ACM 1998 classification scheme (http://www.acm.org/about/class/1998/), and submit papers using EasyChair at https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=websci2014. Other creative submission formats (flexible formats) Other types of creative submissions are also encouraged, and the exact format and style of presentation are open. Examples might include artistic performances or installations, interactive exhibits, demonstrations, or other creative formats. For these submissions, the proposers should make clear both what they propose to do, and any special requirements they would need to successfully do it (in terms of space, time, technology, etc.) Review The Web Science program committee consists of a program committee that covers all relevant areas of Web Science. Each submission will be refereed by three PC members and one short meta review written by a Co-PC chair, to cover both the research background of each submission as well as the necessary interdisciplinary aspects. (Optional) Archival Proceedings in the ACM Digital Library All accepted papers and posters will by default appear in the Web Science 2014 Conference Proceedings and can also be made available through the ACM Digital Library, in the same length and format of the submission unless indicated otherwise (those wishing not to be indexed and archived can "opt out" of the proceedings). Satellite Events The following is the list of accepted satellite events. All workshops will be held on June 23. Full day events Altmetrics14 - Expanding Impacts and Metrics http://altmetrics.org/altmetrics14 Judit Bar-Ilan, Rodrigo Costas, Paul Groth, Stefanie Haustein, Vincent Lariviere, Isabella Peters and Mike Taylor Massive Data Flow: Understanding the Complex Dynamics of the Web Seth Bullock, Takashi Ikegami and Mizuki Oka Computational Approaches to Social Modeling (ChASM) http://www.chasm.ws Andrea Baronchelli, Bruno Goncalves, Nicola Perra, Claudia Wagner, Markus Strohmaier, Noshir Contractor, and Emilio Ferrara The web of scientific knowledge: current trends and future perspectives in the big data era Filippo Radicchi, Stasa Milosevic, Ying Ding, Cassidy Sugimoto, Vincent Leriviere, and Min Song Yonsei Doctoral Consortium Howard Rosenbaum, Pnina Fichman, Susan Davies, Lora Aroyo Half-day events Interdisciplinary Coups to Calamities http://www.icc.ecs.soton.ac.uk Clare J. Hooper, David Millard and Norhidayah Azman Web Science Education: Sharing experiences and developing community http://webscience-education-workshop.net Stephane B. Bazan, Su White, Steffen Staab, Michalis Vafopoulos, Susan Halford, Clare Hooper, Hans Akkermans and Mark Weal Research Methodologies for analyzing Cybercrime and Cyberwar http://webscience-cybercrime-workshop.net Dominic Hobson, Neil Macewan, Lisa Sugiura, Stephane B. Bazan and Craig Webber 2nd International Workshop on Building Web Observatories (B-WOW2014) https://sites.google.com/site/bwow2014 Ramine Tinati, Thanassis Tiropanis, Ian Brown and Wendy Hall Deadlines Full & Short Papers: * 23 February 2014: Submissions of full and short papers * 13 April 2014: Notification of acceptance for papers * 11 May 2014: Camera-ready version of papers and posters due Late Breaking Posters: * 23 March 2014: Submissions of posters * 13 April 2014: Notification of acceptance for posters * 11 May 2014: Camera-ready version of posters due Authors take note: The official publication date is the date the proceedings are made available in the ACM Digital Library. This date may be up to two weeks prior to the first day of the conference. The official publication date affects the deadline for any patent filings related to published work. (If proceedings are published in the ACM Digital Library after the conference is over, the official publication date is the first day of the conference.) Conference calendar and rough program * 23 June 2014: workshops, opening reception and keynote * 24 June 2014: keynote(s), technical program, poster reception * 25 June 2014: keynote(s), technical program, social event * 26 June 2014: keynote, technical program, closing General chairs * Fil Menczer, Indiana University * Jim Hendler, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute * Bill Dutton, Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford Program chairs * Markus Strohmaier, University of Koblenz and GESIS (Computing) * Ciro Cattuto, ISI Foundation (Physics) * Eric T. Meyer, Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford (Social Sciences) Program Commiteee * Yong-Yeol Ahn, Indiana University * Luca Maria Aiello, Yahoo! Research * William Allen, University of Oxford * Sitaram Asur, HP Labs * Alain Barrat, CNRS * Fabricio Benevenuto, Federal University of Minas Gerais * Mark Bernstein, Eastgate Systems, Inc * Paolo Boldi, Universita degli Studi di Milano * Niels Brugger, Aarhus Universitet * Licia Capra, University College London * Carlos Castillo, Qatar Computing Research Institute * Lu Chen, Wright State University * Cristobal Cobo, Oxford Internet Institute * David Crandall, Indiana University * Pasquale De Meo, VU University, Amsterdam * David De Roure, Oxford e-Research Centre * Pnina Fichman, Indiana University * Alessandro Flammini, Indiana University * Matteo Gagliolo, Universite libre de Bruxelles * Laetitia Gauvin, ISI Foundation, Turin * Daniel Gayo Avello, University of Oviedo * Scott Golder, Cornell University * Bruno Goncalves, Aix-Marseille Universite * Andrew Gordon, University of Southern California * Scott Hale, Oxford Internet Institute * Noriko Hara, Indiana University * Bernhard Haslhofer, University of Vienna * Andreas Hotho, University of Wuerzburg * Geert-Jan Houben, TU Delft * Jeremy Hunsinger, Wilfrid Laurier University * Ajita John, Avaya Labs * Robert Jaschke, L3S Research Center * Haewoon Kwak, Telefonica Research * Renaud Lambiotte, University of Namur * Matthieu Latapy, CNRS * Silvio Lattanzi, Google * Vili Lehdonvirta, Oxford Internet Institute * Sune Lehmann, Technical University of Denmark * Kristina Lerman, University of Southern California * David Liben-Nowell, Carleton College * Yu-Ru Lin, University of Pittsburgh * Huan Liu, Arizona State University * Jared Lorince, Indiana University * Mathias Lux, Klagenfurt University * Massimo Marchiori, University of Padova and UTILABS * Yutaka Matsuo, University of Tokyo * Jaimie Murdock, Indiana University * Mirco Musolesi, University of Birmingham * Eni Mustafaraj, Wellesley College * Wolfgang Nejdl, L3S and University of Hannover * Andre Panisson, ISI Foundation, Turin * Hanwoo Park, Yeungnam University * Fernando Pedone, University of Lugano * Leto Peel, University of Colorado, Boulder * Orion Penner, IMT Lucca * Nicola Perra, Northeastern University * Rob Procter, University of Warwick * Cornelius Puschmann, Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society * Daniele Quercia, Yahoo! Labs * Carlos P. Roca, Universitat Rovira i Virgili * Richard Rogers, University of Amsterdam * Daniel Romero, Northwestern University * Matthew Rowe, Lancaster University * Giancarlo Ruffo, Universita di Torino * Derek Ruths, McGill University * Rossano Schifanella, Universita di Torino * Ralph Schroeder, Oxford Internet Institute * Kalpana Shankar, University College Dublin * Xiaolin Shi, Microsoft * Elena Simperl, University of Southampton * Philipp Singer, Knowledge Management Institute * Marc Smith, Connected Action Consulting Group * Steffen Staab, University of Koblenz-Landau * Burkhard Stiller, University of Zurich * Lei Tang, @WalmartLabs * Loren Terveen, University of Minnesota * Sebastiano Vigna, Universita degli Studi di Milano * Claudia Wagner, GESIS-Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences * Jillian Wallis, UC Los Angeles * Stan Wasserman, Indiana University * Ingmar Weber, Qatar Computing Research Institute * Matthew Weber, Rutgers University * Lilian Weng, Indiana University * Christopher Wienberg, University of Southern California * Ben Zhao, UC Santa Barbara * Arkaitz Zubiaga, Dublin Institute of Technology From maurizio.teli at gmail.com Fri Feb 7 00:45:06 2014 From: maurizio.teli at gmail.com (Maurizio) Date: Fri, 7 Feb 2014 09:45:06 +0100 Subject: [Air-L] 5th ERQ Conference - Call for abstracts: It's a free work... When work relations become passionate Message-ID: Apologies for Cross-Posting --- Dear colleague, we are pleased to send you the call for abstracts of the session *It**'s a free work... When work relations become passionate.* Your contribution to the proposed session will be greatly appreciated! We take this occasion to remind you that the keynote speakers for the V Etnography and Qualitative Research Conference are *Michael Burawoy*, University of California Berkeley, and *Marc Ab?l?s*, LAIOS - Laboratoire d'Anthropologie des Institutions et des Organisations Sociales. On the conference website and below you can find the text of the call for abstracts. Proposals should be sent by* Februay 17, 2014 *to: annalisa.murgia at unitn.it maurizio at ahref.eu Please, also CC the conference address: workshop.etnografia at unibg.it Each proposal, of a maximum length of 1000 words, should contain: * the title of your talk; * your contact details (full name, email address, post address and affiliation) and those of your co-author/s, if any. Contributions will be accepted both in *Italian* and *English*. Acceptance of proposals will be notified by March 17, 2014. Contributors must register by April 21, 2014 to be included in the program. With best wishes, Annalisa Murgia & Maurizio Teli -- Call for abstracts V Ethnography and Qualitative Research Conference. Bergamo, Italy 5-7 June 2014 website: http://www.etnografiaricercaqualitativa.it/?p=13 *It's a free work... When working relations become passionate* Convenors:* Annalisa Murgia* (Department of Sociology and Social Research of the University of Trento) & *Maurizio Teli* (Fondazione Dear AOIRers, As a program committee member, I would like to invite you to the 5th Social Media and Society Conference, an annual gathering of leading social media researchers around the world. It will be held in Toronto, Canada from September 27 to 28. Last year?s conference hosted nearly 200 attendees, featured research from 90+ scholars and practitioners across several field from over 60 institutions in 15 different countries. The conference calls for an extended abstract (~500 words), panel proposals and posters on the variety of topics including, but not limited to: Social Media & Big Data, Social Media Impact on Society, Theories & Methods, and Online/Offline Communities. For more information, please find http://socialmediaandsociety.com/?p=629 and for more inquiries, feel free to send an email to the organizer: Dr. Anatoliy Gruzd (gruzd at dal.ca) or to me: Dr. Hazel Kwon (khkwon at asu.edu). Thanks! K. Hazel Kwon, Ph.D. Assistant Professor School of Social and Behavioral Sciences Arizona State University https://webapp4.asu.edu/directory/person/1949238 k.hazel.kwon at gmail.com From cdwyer at pace.edu Fri Feb 7 11:27:39 2014 From: cdwyer at pace.edu (Cathy Dwyer) Date: Fri, 7 Feb 2014 14:27:39 -0500 Subject: [Air-L] Pace University Faculty Positions Message-ID: Pace University's Seidenberg School of Computer Science and Information Systems invites applications for several anticipated full-time tenure-track faculty positions in Computer Science or Information Technology. The selected faculty members will be expected to: conduct research, supervise doctoral, graduate and undergraduate students, teach computer science or information technology courses, at all levels and serve on committees at both department and school level. Appointment will be at one or more of our three campuses in NYC and Westchester. Candidates must possess an earned doctorate in computer science, information systems or a related field. They should have proven teaching and research potential, preferably in rapidly evolving areas such as telehealth, cybersecurity, software engineering and Big Data analytics. The anticipated positions will start in fall 2014. Review of applications will begin as they are received. Applications will be accepted until the positions are filled. Please submit a letter of application, curriculum vitae, sample publications, and three letters of recommendation (sent directly from references) to Faculty Search Committee chair Dr Constance Knapp atSeidenberg_Search at pace.edu. Only electronic submissions will be considered. https://chroniclevitae.com/jobs/0000808217-01 -- Catherine Dwyer, Ph.D. Chair, Department of Information Technology - NYC campus Pace University, Seidenberg School of Computer Science & Information Systems 163 William Street #240 New York, NY 10038 212-346-1728 http://csis.pace.edu/~dwyer/ From mcforelle at gmail.com Fri Feb 7 17:51:38 2014 From: mcforelle at gmail.com (Michelle Forelle) Date: Fri, 7 Feb 2014 17:51:38 -0800 Subject: [Air-L] History of "accounts" Message-ID: Hi all, I'm working on a project which requires me to look into the history of the concept of "accounts," as in bank accounts or social media accounts. What is it that identifies something as an "account," where did that definition come from, and what is at stake in it? I'm having a hard time finding a foothold, though - it's brutal trying to search for it point-blank given the many usages of the word "account" in the literature. Does anyone know of a history of bank accounts, social media accounts, or any other form of "account" that might be able to get me started? Much appreciative of any help, Michelle C Forelle -- PhD student USC Annenberg School of Communication @mcforelle on the tweet machine (407) 864-2225 From fred at firesabre.com Fri Feb 7 19:06:09 2014 From: fred at firesabre.com (Fred Fuchs) Date: Fri, 07 Feb 2014 21:06:09 -0600 Subject: [Air-L] History of "accounts" In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <52F59F21.8080807@firesabre.com> On 2/7/2014 7:51 PM, Michelle Forelle wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm working on a project which requires me to look into the history of the > concept of "accounts," as in bank accounts or social media accounts. "Accounts" in computing began in the days of batch processing and timesharing. Here are some related links: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time-sharing http://www-formal.stanford.edu/jmc/history/timesharing/timesharing.html http://www.princeton.edu/~achaney/tmve/wiki100k/docs/Time-sharing.html http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=880740 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q07PhW5sCEk http://www.bobbemer.com/TIMESHAR.HTM Here's a bit more on banking too: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_banking http://money.howstuffworks.com/personal-finance/banking/swiss-bank-account2.htm http://www.factmonster.com/ipka/A0801059.html Good luck, Fred -- Fred Fuchs - Founder, CEO, & Producer FireSabre Consulting LLC Content Services for Virtual Worlds Creation, Events, Training, & Simulations www.linkedin.com/in/fredfuchs https://twitter.com/Fred_Fuchs --- This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus protection is active. http://www.avast.com From mcforelle at gmail.com Sat Feb 8 11:16:34 2014 From: mcforelle at gmail.com (Michelle Forelle) Date: Sat, 8 Feb 2014 11:16:34 -0800 Subject: [Air-L] History of "accounts" In-Reply-To: <52F59F21.8080807@firesabre.com> References: <52F59F21.8080807@firesabre.com> Message-ID: My thanks to everyone both on- and off-list! I really appreciate the contributions and am psyched to start reading into them. If anyone is interested in the resources I wind up putting together on the topic, email me off-list and I'll be happy to share :) Thanks, AoIR! On Fri, Feb 7, 2014 at 7:06 PM, Fred Fuchs wrote: > On 2/7/2014 7:51 PM, Michelle Forelle wrote: > > Hi all, > > I'm working on a project which requires me to look into the history of the > concept of "accounts," as in bank accounts or social media accounts. > > > "Accounts" in computing began in the days of batch processing and > timesharing. Here are some related links: > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time-sharing > http://www-formal.stanford.edu/jmc/history/timesharing/timesharing.html > http://www.princeton.edu/~achaney/tmve/wiki100k/docs/Time-sharing.html > http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=880740 > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q07PhW5sCEk > http://www.bobbemer.com/TIMESHAR.HTM > > Here's a bit more on banking too: > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_banking > > http://money.howstuffworks.com/personal-finance/banking/swiss-bank-account2.htm > http://www.factmonster.com/ipka/A0801059.html > > Good luck, > > Fred > > -- > Fred Fuchs - Founder, CEO, & Producer > FireSabre Consulting LLC > Content Services for Virtual Worlds > Creation, Events, Training, & Simulationswww.linkedin.com/in/fredfuchshttps://twitter.com/Fred_Fuchs > > > > ------------------------------ > > > This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirusprotection is active. > > -- PhD student USC Annenberg School of Communication @mcforelle on the tweet machine (407) 864-2225 From tsenft at gmail.com Sat Feb 8 14:15:05 2014 From: tsenft at gmail.com (Terri Senft) Date: Sat, 8 Feb 2014 17:15:05 -0500 Subject: [Air-L] Selfies Research Network Message-ID: Selfies Research Network, anyone? Yes we made on. Yes ,it's already fantastic, Yes you are invited if you are researching in the area of selfies, digital photography, autobiography, performance, etc. Yes, we are ESPECIALLY interested to hear from you if you do research with populations outside of North America or Europe, or work in languages other than English. Our Facebook group is here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/664091916962292/ See you there! Terri p.s. Scholars from China and other places Facebook is blocked. I desperately want to hear from you, and am open to thoughts about how to include you in the conversation/research. Please write me personally to think through these issues. We will figure something out, I promise!! -- Dr. Theresa M. Senft Global Liberal Studies Program School of Arts & Sciences New York University 726 Broadway NY NY 10003 home: *www.terrisenft.net * (needs a serious updating) facebook: www.facebook.com/theresa.senft twitter: @terrisenft From andresmh at andresmh.com Sat Feb 8 15:44:48 2014 From: andresmh at andresmh.com (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Andr=E9s_Monroy=2DHern=E1ndez?=) Date: Sat, 8 Feb 2014 15:44:48 -0800 Subject: [Air-L] Scratch Big Data Summit at MIT-- sharing 5 years of online community data Message-ID: Hello, AIR, I'm writing to let you know about a workshop that we're organizing on March 21 at the MIT Media Lab, bringing together researchers who are interested in studying the Scratch online community . At the workshop, we'll be sharing a dataset with the first five years of public data from the Scratch community, and discussing ways that people might use this dataset. Here's a website with more information about the workshop and how to apply: https://sites.google.com/site/scratchdatameeting/ Cheers. From joly at punkcast.com Sat Feb 8 16:08:53 2014 From: joly at punkcast.com (Joly MacFie) Date: Sat, 8 Feb 2014 19:08:53 -0500 Subject: [Air-L] Selfies Research Network In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: An International Legal Hackers Data Privacy Hackathon, is happening this weekend, At the NYC location, one group is hacking legal solutions to revenge porn. You can see a brief introduction late in the last few minutes of www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lu_H_Bgt9po - where they note most of the raw material comes from selfies. What is briefly discussed is possibly the creation of a new copyright registration category for what are private thus technically unpublished works, in order that the DMCA can be invoked if the selfies are exploited by others. More info https://www.hackerleague.org/hackathons/data-privacy-legal-hackathon/hacks/using-copyright-to-remove-revenge-pornography-selfies j On Sat, Feb 8, 2014 at 5:15 PM, Terri Senft wrote: > Selfies Research Network, anyone? > > Yes we made on. Yes ,it's already fantastic, Yes you are invited if you > are researching in the area of selfies, digital photography, autobiography, > performance, etc. > > Yes, we are ESPECIALLY interested to hear from you if you do research with > populations outside of North America or Europe, or work in languages other > than English. > > Our Facebook group is here: > > https://www.facebook.com/groups/664091916962292/ > > See you there! > > Terri > > p.s. Scholars from China and other places Facebook is blocked. I > desperately want to hear from you, and am open to thoughts about how to > include you in the conversation/research. Please write me personally to > think through these issues. We will figure something out, I promise!! > > > > -- > > > > > Dr. Theresa M. Senft > Global Liberal Studies Program > School of Arts & Sciences > New York University > 726 Broadway NY NY 10003 > > home: *www.terrisenft.net * > (needs a serious updating) > facebook: www.facebook.com/theresa.senft > twitter: @terrisenft > _______________________________________________ > The Air-L at listserv.aoir.org mailing list > is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org > Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: > http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org > > Join the Association of Internet Researchers: > http://www.aoir.org/ > -- --------------------------------------------------------------- Joly MacFie 218 565 9365 Skype:punkcast WWWhatsup NYC - http://wwwhatsup.com http://pinstand.com - http://punkcast.com VP (Admin) - ISOC-NY - http://isoc-ny.org -------------------------------------------------------------- - From erika.pearson at otago.ac.nz Sun Feb 9 13:02:32 2014 From: erika.pearson at otago.ac.nz (Erika Pearson) Date: Sun, 9 Feb 2014 21:02:32 +0000 Subject: [Air-L] IR15 Submission System OPEN Message-ID: <739B75D2B089AC4B945845F518CCAF51959BD3CD@ITS-EXM-P06.registry.otago.ac.nz> Dear colleagues We are pleased to open submissions for proposals for IR15: Boundaries and Intersections (Bangkok, October, 2014). To re-familiarize yourself with the call for papers and types of submissions solicited, please see: http://ir15.aoir.org/?page_id=19 . If you submitted a proposal to the conference last year (through ConfTools) your login credentials should be the same (tied to your email address). When submitting your proposal, please take the time to read the submission categories and topics carefully, as they are different from previous years. If you have any queries about the submission process, please email conference chair Erika Pearson ( ir15programchair at aoir.org ). We look forward to seeing your proposals. To go directly to the submission site: https://www.conftool.com/aoir-ir15/ Yours Erika Pearson IR15 Program Chair From tsenft at gmail.com Sun Feb 9 14:34:13 2014 From: tsenft at gmail.com (Terri Senft) Date: Sun, 9 Feb 2014 17:34:13 -0500 Subject: [Air-L] Research on Africans and mobile photography? Message-ID: Hi All, While putting together the Selfies Research Network, I find myself at a complete loss for names of researchers who have studied mobile photography practices in Africa. Anybody have names of authors or articles that come to mind? Better yet, if you are a scholar studying these practices yourself, we'd love to have you join our international group. Feel free to drop me a line personally, and our Facebook group is at: https://www.facebook.com/groups/664091916962292 Many thanks! Terri -- Dr. Theresa M. Senft Global Liberal Studies Program School of Arts & Sciences New York University 726 Broadway NY NY 10003 home: *www.terrisenft.net * (needs a serious updating) facebook: www.facebook.com/theresa.senft twitter: @terrisenft From baym at microsoft.com Sun Feb 9 14:37:25 2014 From: baym at microsoft.com (Nancy Baym) Date: Sun, 9 Feb 2014 22:37:25 +0000 Subject: [Air-L] Research on Africans and mobile photography? In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Hey Terri, Not EXACTLY what you are looking for but very close: Paula Uimonen (2013) Visual identity in Facebook, Visual Studies, 28:2, 122-135, DOI: 10.1080/1472586X.2013.801634 Abstract: Seeing your friends in Facebook has become a common means of social interaction, illustrating a visual turn in digital media in general and social media in particular. This article explores visual identity in Facebook, focusing on the use of profile photographs in the performance of digitally mediated selfhood. In Facebook, relationships are increasingly communicated through images, thus rendering the interactive reflexivity of performance rather visible. Based on the profile photographs of students at an arts college in Tanzania, the article discusses the construction of cultural identities through visual communication. By visually expressing their selves through profile photographs, users engage in the social construction of reality, crafting their digitally mediated identities in interaction with their online social relations. The online performance of selfhood is analysed in the context of offline social and material realities, to underline cultural aspirations for global inclusion. Building on anthropological readings of performance, the concept of social aesthetic frame is introduced to capture patterns of digital stratification that encompass the online construction of networked selfhood in the peripheries of the global network society. The article builds on anthropological research on digital media and intercultural interaction at a national arts institute in Tanzania, using a combination of digital, sensory and visual research methods. On 2/9/14 5:34 PM, "Terri Senft" wrote: >Hi All, > >While putting together the Selfies Research Network, I find myself at a >complete loss for names of researchers who have studied mobile photography >practices in Africa. > >Anybody have names of authors or articles that come to mind? > >Better yet, if you are a scholar studying these practices yourself, we'd >love to have you join our international group. > >Feel free to drop me a line personally, and our Facebook group is at: > >https://www.facebook.com/groups/664091916962292 > > >Many thanks! >Terri >-- > > > > >Dr. Theresa M. Senft >Global Liberal Studies Program >School of Arts & Sciences >New York University >726 Broadway NY NY 10003 > >home: *www.terrisenft.net * >(needs a serious updating) >facebook: www.facebook.com/theresa.senft >twitter: @terrisenft >_______________________________________________ >The Air-L at listserv.aoir.org mailing list >is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org >Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: >http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org > >Join the Association of Internet Researchers: >http://www.aoir.org/ From sarah.logan at anu.edu.au Sun Feb 9 15:18:09 2014 From: sarah.logan at anu.edu.au (Sarah Logan) Date: Sun, 9 Feb 2014 23:18:09 +0000 Subject: [Air-L] Air-L Digest, Vol 115, Issue 9 In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Wow, this is amazing! Surely we don't need all the numbers: we can say, for example, that readership from Thailand increased by some huge among over the second week, showing that the website draws topical readers, which makes the poll more relevant. And we can say that the bulk of the readership comes from SE Asia, especially Thailand and Malaysia... So it might not be necessary to do the hugely detailed stats< especially as the numbers over two weeks are not really generalisable to a trend - we could try and pull them out to a year, but I suspect they would remain the same. What do you think? Digital Politics Research Fellow State, Society and Governance in Melanesia Australian National University Twitter: @circt -----Original Message----- From: air-l-bounces at listserv.aoir.org [mailto:air-l-bounces at listserv.aoir.org] On Behalf Of air-l-request at listserv.aoir.org Sent: Monday, 10 February 2014 10:00 AM To: air-l at listserv.aoir.org Subject: Air-L Digest, Vol 115, Issue 9 Send Air-L mailing list submissions to air-l at listserv.aoir.org To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to air-l-request at listserv.aoir.org You can reach the person managing the list at air-l-owner at listserv.aoir.org When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of Air-L digest..." Today's Topics: 1. Scratch Big Data Summit at MIT-- sharing 5 years of online community data (Andr?s Monroy-Hern?ndez) 2. Re: Selfies Research Network (Joly MacFie) 3. IR15 Submission System OPEN (Erika Pearson) 4. Research on Africans and mobile photography? (Terri Senft) 5. Re: Research on Africans and mobile photography? (Nancy Baym) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Sat, 8 Feb 2014 15:44:48 -0800 From: Andr?s Monroy-Hern?ndez Cc: air-l at listserv.aoir.org Subject: [Air-L] Scratch Big Data Summit at MIT-- sharing 5 years of online community data Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Hello, AIR, I'm writing to let you know about a workshop that we're organizing on March 21 at the MIT Media Lab, bringing together researchers who are interested in studying the Scratch online community . At the workshop, we'll be sharing a dataset with the first five years of public data from the Scratch community, and discussing ways that people might use this dataset. Here's a website with more information about the workshop and how to apply: https://sites.google.com/site/scratchdatameeting/ Cheers. ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Sat, 8 Feb 2014 19:08:53 -0500 From: Joly MacFie To: Terri Senft Cc: aoir list Subject: Re: [Air-L] Selfies Research Network Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 An International Legal Hackers Data Privacy Hackathon, is happening this weekend, At the NYC location, one group is hacking legal solutions to revenge porn. You can see a brief introduction late in the last few minutes of www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lu_H_Bgt9po - where they note most of the raw material comes from selfies. What is briefly discussed is possibly the creation of a new copyright registration category for what are private thus technically unpublished works, in order that the DMCA can be invoked if the selfies are exploited by others. More info https://www.hackerleague.org/hackathons/data-privacy-legal-hackathon/hacks/using-copyright-to-remove-revenge-pornography-selfies j On Sat, Feb 8, 2014 at 5:15 PM, Terri Senft wrote: > Selfies Research Network, anyone? > > Yes we made on. Yes ,it's already fantastic, Yes you are invited if > you are researching in the area of selfies, digital photography, > autobiography, performance, etc. > > Yes, we are ESPECIALLY interested to hear from you if you do research > with populations outside of North America or Europe, or work in > languages other than English. > > Our Facebook group is here: > > https://www.facebook.com/groups/664091916962292/ > > See you there! > > Terri > > p.s. Scholars from China and other places Facebook is blocked. I > desperately want to hear from you, and am open to thoughts about how > to include you in the conversation/research. Please write me > personally to think through these issues. We will figure something out, I promise!! > > > > -- > > > > > Dr. Theresa M. Senft > Global Liberal Studies Program > School of Arts & Sciences > New York University > 726 Broadway NY NY 10003 > > home: *www.terrisenft.net * (needs a serious > updating) > facebook: www.facebook.com/theresa.senft > twitter: @terrisenft > _______________________________________________ > The Air-L at listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the > Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change > options or unsubscribe at: > http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org > > Join the Association of Internet Researchers: > http://www.aoir.org/ > -- --------------------------------------------------------------- Joly MacFie 218 565 9365 Skype:punkcast WWWhatsup NYC - http://wwwhatsup.com http://pinstand.com - http://punkcast.com VP (Admin) - ISOC-NY - http://isoc-ny.org -------------------------------------------------------------- - ------------------------------ Message: 3 Date: Sun, 9 Feb 2014 21:02:32 +0000 From: Erika Pearson To: "air-l at listserv.aoir.org" Subject: [Air-L] IR15 Submission System OPEN Message-ID: <739B75D2B089AC4B945845F518CCAF51959BD3CD at ITS-EXM-P06.registry.otago.ac.nz> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Dear colleagues We are pleased to open submissions for proposals for IR15: Boundaries and Intersections (Bangkok, October, 2014). To re-familiarize yourself with the call for papers and types of submissions solicited, please see: http://ir15.aoir.org/?page_id=19 . If you submitted a proposal to the conference last year (through ConfTools) your login credentials should be the same (tied to your email address). When submitting your proposal, please take the time to read the submission categories and topics carefully, as they are different from previous years. If you have any queries about the submission process, please email conference chair Erika Pearson ( ir15programchair at aoir.org ). We look forward to seeing your proposals. To go directly to the submission site: https://www.conftool.com/aoir-ir15/ Yours Erika Pearson IR15 Program Chair ------------------------------ Message: 4 Date: Sun, 9 Feb 2014 17:34:13 -0500 From: Terri Senft To: aoir list Subject: [Air-L] Research on Africans and mobile photography? Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Hi All, While putting together the Selfies Research Network, I find myself at a complete loss for names of researchers who have studied mobile photography practices in Africa. Anybody have names of authors or articles that come to mind? Better yet, if you are a scholar studying these practices yourself, we'd love to have you join our international group. Feel free to drop me a line personally, and our Facebook group is at: https://www.facebook.com/groups/664091916962292 Many thanks! Terri -- Dr. Theresa M. Senft Global Liberal Studies Program School of Arts & Sciences New York University 726 Broadway NY NY 10003 home: *www.terrisenft.net * (needs a serious updating) facebook: www.facebook.com/theresa.senft twitter: @terrisenft ------------------------------ Message: 5 Date: Sun, 9 Feb 2014 22:37:25 +0000 From: Nancy Baym To: Terri Senft , aoir list Subject: Re: [Air-L] Research on Africans and mobile photography? Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Hey Terri, Not EXACTLY what you are looking for but very close: Paula Uimonen (2013) Visual identity in Facebook, Visual Studies, 28:2, 122-135, DOI: 10.1080/1472586X.2013.801634 Abstract: Seeing your friends in Facebook has become a common means of social interaction, illustrating a visual turn in digital media in general and social media in particular. This article explores visual identity in Facebook, focusing on the use of profile photographs in the performance of digitally mediated selfhood. In Facebook, relationships are increasingly communicated through images, thus rendering the interactive reflexivity of performance rather visible. Based on the profile photographs of students at an arts college in Tanzania, the article discusses the construction of cultural identities through visual communication. By visually expressing their selves through profile photographs, users engage in the social construction of reality, crafting their digitally mediated identities in interaction with their online social relations. The online performance of selfhood is analysed in the context of offline social and material realities, to underline cultural aspirations for global inclusion. Building on anthropological readings of performance, the concept of social aesthetic frame is introduced to capture patterns of digital stratification that encompass the online construction of networked selfhood in the peripheries of the global network society. The article builds on anthropological research on digital media and intercultural interaction at a national arts institute in Tanzania, using a combination of digital, sensory and visual research methods. On 2/9/14 5:34 PM, "Terri Senft" wrote: >Hi All, > >While putting together the Selfies Research Network, I find myself at a >complete loss for names of researchers who have studied mobile photography >practices in Africa. > >Anybody have names of authors or articles that come to mind? > >Better yet, if you are a scholar studying these practices yourself, we'd >love to have you join our international group. > >Feel free to drop me a line personally, and our Facebook group is at: > >https://www.facebook.com/groups/664091916962292 > > >Many thanks! >Terri >-- > > > > >Dr. Theresa M. Senft >Global Liberal Studies Program >School of Arts & Sciences >New York University >726 Broadway NY NY 10003 > >home: *www.terrisenft.net * >(needs a serious updating) >facebook: www.facebook.com/theresa.senft >twitter: @terrisenft >_______________________________________________ >The Air-L at listserv.aoir.org mailing list >is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org >Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: >http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org > >Join the Association of Internet Researchers: >http://www.aoir.org/ ------------------------------ _______________________________________________ The Air-L at listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org Join the Association of Internet Researchers: http://www.aoir.org/ End of Air-L Digest, Vol 115, Issue 9 ************************************* From jpedregosa at gmail.com Mon Feb 10 01:18:34 2014 From: jpedregosa at gmail.com (Jj Pedregosa) Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2014 10:18:34 +0100 Subject: [Air-L] Conference on Digital Discrimination and Social Networks. Barcelona, 13th and 14th of March Message-ID: The main aim of the conference is to invite participants to actively *share current experiences and research and push forward our knowledge to fight discrimination*. Academics, NGOs working with youths or on discrimination, activists, trainers, teachers, policy makers, journalists, social media professionals and the general public are welcome to attend. Programme of the conference: http://digitaldiscrimination.eu/conference/ From fabio.alla at gmail.com Mon Feb 10 04:30:28 2014 From: fabio.alla at gmail.com (Fabio) Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2014 13:30:28 +0100 Subject: [Air-L] Pinterest, Google+ and Foursquare stats Message-ID: Hello AoIR, I'm working on a project about various social network sites and I'm looking for updated data about Pinterest, G+ and Foursquare. I already found old global stats but at the moment what I really need are demographic and usage information (both global and nation-based, in particular italian and european ones) about the current situation of these SNS (or at least not older than few months). Can anyone suggest or recommend a trusted and updated source? Thank you so much: any help will be surely welcome. -- Fabio Stefano Alla Dipartimento di Comunicazione e Ricerca Sociale Sapienza Universit? di Roma From hrosenba at indiana.edu Mon Feb 10 06:07:37 2014 From: hrosenba at indiana.edu (Howard Rosenbaum) Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2014 09:07:37 -0500 Subject: [Air-L] AMCIS 2014 > CFP: Social Theory in Information Systems Research (STIR '14) Message-ID: <8819609F-65E9-441B-91C4-DAB48E007CD7@indiana.edu> [Apologies for cross-posting] Call For Papers: AMCIS Mini-track: Social Theory in Information Systems Research (STIR '14) 20th Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS): Smart Sustainability, the Information Systems opportunity, Savannah, GA, August 7-10, 2014 Conference Website: http://amcis2013.aisnet.org/ DESCRIPTION: This Mini Track solicits papers that make use of social theory in information systems research drawing upon such approaches as sociotechnical theory, critical theory, social informatics, organizational theory, cultural anthropology, sociology and others. We are interested in understanding and supporting the evolution of social theory, socio-technical theory, and social informatics in information systems research. We want to highlight research that uses these approaches to critically examine the constitution of information and communications technologies, and their roles in organizations and society; these are among the most important questions about IS, organizations, and society. We particularly invite IS research that applies, builds on, compares, or critiques these social theories. We are interested in high quality empirical and conceptual work that uses social theory to study and theorize about application domains including large-scale social and organizational phenomena. We seek to attract research papers and research-in-progress papers from all IS researchers who are using the work of social theorists, organizational theorists, sociotechnical theorists, and cultural anthropologists, symbolic interactionists, and many others. We are particularly interested in research that makes use of social theory 1) to address issues of designing a smart and sustainable digital future, 2) to answer questions about how we are interacting with ICTs in our work and social lives in ways that help and hinder the move towards sustainability, and 3) to critically examine the constitution of ICTs, and their roles in the design, maintenance and dissolution of sustainable organizations and social groups. This will be the 14th consecutive year for the Mini Track at AMCIS, and we hope to continue a tradition of high quality paper submissions, thought-provoking presentations and lively discussion for all IS researchers using, or considering the use of, social theory in their work. SUGGESTED TOPICS In addition to research aligned with the conference theme we are also interested in high quality empirical and conceptual work that uses social theory to study and understand: * The implications of social networks for organizations and social groups * Conceptual and empirical work focusing on the ways ICT can promote or hinder social inclusion * The significance of cyberinfrastructure for commerce, governing and research and development * The relationships between ICTs and people as they participate in online communities and virtual teams * Online communities of practice, their processes and outcomes * The dynamics of crowdsourcing online * Hacktivism and the use of technology to mobilize resources and advance ideology * Unintended consequences of technology implementation and use in organizations and in social life * Scientific collaboration and scholarly communication as enabled and constrained by ICTs * The impacts of social computing on our social and work lives Minitrack chairs: Howard Rosenbaum, School of Informatics and Computing, Indiana University hrosenba at indiana.edu Pnina Fichman, School of Informatics and Computing, Indiana University fichman at indiana.edu Submission Process: Instructions for authors and more information is available at: http://amcis2014.aisnet.org/index.php/call-for-papers Full paper submissions must be made electronically through the AMCIS on-line submission system. Papers can be submitted beginning on January 5, 2014. The link will be available at: http://aisel.aisnet.org/amcis2014_papers/ Submissions will close on March 1, 2014. ------------------------ Pnina Fichman Associate Professor, School of Informatics and Computing Director, Rob Kling Center for Social Informatics Affiliated Associate Professor, School of Global and International Studies 901 East 10th Street, Informatics West #301 Indiana University, Bloomington, 47408 Phone (812) 856-1587 E-Mail fichman at indiana.edu Web http://ella.slis.indiana.edu/~fichman/ From hrosenba at indiana.edu Mon Feb 10 06:07:30 2014 From: hrosenba at indiana.edu (Howard Rosenbaum) Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2014 09:07:30 -0500 Subject: [Air-L] AMCIS 2014> CFP: Global and Cross Cultural Impacts of Big Data Minitrack Message-ID: <63EC0707-5B4E-416D-9797-4790579B3634@indiana.edu> [Apologies for cross-posting] CALL FOR PAPERS: AMCIS Minitrack - Global and Cross Cultural Impacts of Big Data 20th Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS): Smart Sustainability, the Information Systems Opportunity, Savannah, GA, August 7-10, 2014 Conference Website: http://amcis2013.aisnet.org/ DESCRIPTION Manyika et al. (2011; 4) note ?big data has now reached every sector of the global economy. Like other essential factors of production ? much of modern economic activity simply couldn?t take place without it.? An emerging grand challenge involves gathering, organizing, curating, managing, analyzing, visualizing and disseminating these heterogeneous data over the lifecycle of the data for such purposes such as scientific discovery, medical advances, entrepreneurial activity and public policy formulation. People in the public and private sectors are taking note of this development as are academics, who are exploring ways of dealing with big data, defined by the National Science Foundation (2012) as: ?large, diverse, complex, longitudinal, and/or distributed data sets generated from instruments, sensors, Internet transactions, email, video, click streams, and/or all other digital sources available today and in the future. This minitrack solicits high quality conceptual and empirical work that focuses on the global impacts of big data on governments, multinational companies, NGOs and other organizations. Big data datasets and the technologies for analyzing them are developing faster than our understanding of the ways in which this phenomenon is impacting and will impact the ways work is done in a wide range of settings. As scholars and researchers begin to investigate the impacts of Big Data, this minitrack provides a venue for them to share their work. Appropriate topics for this minitrack include (but are not limited to) the following: ? Big data use in organizational, national and international settings ? How the introduction of big data affects organizational and group work flow ? Ways that big data is affecting organizational and group decision making ? Security and privacy impacts of big data use ? The intended and unintended consequences of big data ? The dark side of big data: surveillance, illicit activities, discriminatory analytics, and the end of privacy ? Big data as a social, political, economic, and/or cultural phenomenon Minitrack chairs: Pnina Fichman, School of Informatics and Computing, Indiana University fichman at indiana.edu Howard Rosenbaum, School of Informatics and Computing, Indiana University hrosenba at indiana.edu SUBMISSION PROCESS: Full paper submissions must be made electronically through the AMCIS on-line submission system no later than March 1, 2014. Manuscript Central will start accepting paper submissions on January 5, 2014 at: http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/amcis2014 Additional instructions for authors: http://amcis2014.aisnet.org/index.php/call-for-papers Important Dates: March 1, 2014: (11:59 PM EST): Deadline for paper submissions April 4 2014: Authors will be notified of acceptances on or about this date April 18, 2014: Authors revisions due April 25, 2014: (11:59 PM EST): For accepted papers, camera ready copy due _______________________________________________ The Air-L at listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org Join the Association of Internet Researchers: http://www.aoir.org/ From constantin.hoferer at hiig.de Mon Feb 10 08:45:48 2014 From: constantin.hoferer at hiig.de (Constantin Hoferer) Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2014 17:45:48 +0100 Subject: [Air-L] Fellowship in Berlin 2014 at the Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society Message-ID: Dear AOIRers, I would like to use the possibility to inform you about our this years fellowship program. The Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society (HIIG | @HIIG_berlin) which has been founded in March 2012 is meant to enable innovative scientific research in the field of Internet and society and to observe the development of the Internet in its interplay with societal transformation processes. This year the HIIG opens its doors for fellows from all over the world again. We invite applications from early stage researchers pursuing a project of transdisciplinary Internet research. If you are seeking exchange regarding your research aspirations and find our objectives to match yours or to complement them, we are looking forward to hearing your thoughts! Feel free to share our call. Constantin *Abstract:* Opportunities: Our fellowship provides innovative thinkers a unique opportunity to exchange experiences and set off new initiatives in an inviting intellectual environment. The selected fellows are very welcome to collaborate in a growing international team and to participate in the research activities at our institute. We encourage you to actively shape your stay according to your research interests. We offer a number of opportunities to get involved with our research programme and discuss your research project with the HIIG research team, such as: - Developing a paper concerning your research project, e.g. writing a journal paper in our SSRN Internet & Society Series - Holding a presentation about a topic of your choice in our weekly Journal Club - Organising a workshop of your research topic - Engage in joint activities and projects with other fellows - And more - according to your interest Benefits: Based in the heart of Berlin we will provide you with modern office space that you will share with our researchers. Fellows are expected to bring their own funding through their home institution or outside grants. Fellows must take care of their accommodation, insurance, childcare, and transportation arrangements. However, in specific cases we can provide fellows on request with a travel allowance of up to EURO 700,- and a visa subsidy of up to EURO 200,-. Read more about last years Fellow Programme . Timeframe: We offer fellowships from 3 up to 12 months starting from June 1st, 2014. Qualifications: - Master's degree - Fluency in English; command of German is appreciated - Research experience and an Internet research project of your own Required application documents: - curriculum vitae - letter of motivation: explaining your interest in the fellowship, your expectations and your research background (1 page) - outline of a) your research project, b) the work you aim to conduct during the fellowship, c) contributions you plan to realise during your stay, d) projects on our research agenda that are of interest to you, and e) if possible, preferred project partners at our institute (altogether on a maximum of 3 pages) - optional: your latest publication or work sample covering Internet research (maximum of 1 paper / chapter / presentation in English or German) Applications will only be accepted through our online application form attached below. Closing date for applications is Monday, March 17 2014. Please contact Jana Schudrowitz with any questions via application at hiig.de. You may apply here . -- [image: HIIG-Logo] Constantin Hoferer Alexander von Humboldt Institut f?r Internet und Gesellschaft gGmbH Bebelplatz 1 ? 10099 Berlin T +49 30 20 07 60 82 ? F +49 30 20 93-3435 ? www.hiig.de ? [image: Facebook-Button] [image: Twitter-Button] [image: Google+1-Button] Gesellschaftssitz Berlin | Amtsgericht Berlin Charlottenburg | HRB 140911B USt-ID DE 27/601/54619 | Gesch?ftsf?hrung: Dr. Jeanette Hofmann ? Prof. Dr. Dr. Ingolf Pernice ? Prof. Dr. Dr. Thomas Schildhauer ? Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Schulz ? Dr. Karina Prei? From rdt4 at psu.edu Mon Feb 10 10:08:45 2014 From: rdt4 at psu.edu (Richard Denny Taylor) Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2014 13:08:45 -0500 (EST) Subject: [Air-L] CFP IIP-FCC Broadband Reg Wksp Message-ID: Colleagues, With apologies for cross-postings: Call for Paper Proposals THE FUTURE OF BROADBAND REGULATION A by-invitation experts' workshop Organized by the Institute for Information Policy at Penn State University and co-sponsored by the Federal Communications Commission Federal Communications Commission 445 12th St. SW Washington, DC May 28-30, 2014 The U.S. National Broadband Plan envisions the transition of the U.S. telecommunications infrastructure to a ubiquitous IP-based broadband network. While there is a vibrant discussion of how best to manage the transition, there is only a nascent discussion of what the policy framework should look like after it is completed. What is the long-term outlook (beyond the transition and into the next decade) for the broadband ecosystem, and how will the regulatory system have to adapt to a changed environment? Advances in infrastructure technology and applications have, and will likely continue to push at the boundaries of current regulatory frameworks for telecommunications, media, and even intellectual property rights The Institute for Information Policy at Penn State (IIP), in collaboration with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), is pleased to announce this call for paper proposals addressing the multiple factors in thinking about regulation for post-transition broadband networks. Authors of selected papers will be invited to present and discuss them during a 2-day by-invitation-only workshop designed to bring together up to a dozen experts to be held at the Federal Communications Commissions on (date). The Workshop is designed to draw together the latest academic thinking on these questions and to give FCC staff the opportunity to suggest elements of a forward-looking research agenda that would contribute to the policy discourse around them. The workshop is part of a series of events focused on "Making Policy Research Accessible," organized by the IIP, with the support of the Ford Foundation and the Media Democracy Fund. Presenters at the workshop will be invited to submit their completed papers to the Journal of Information Policy (www.jip-online.org). All disciplines are welcome. Invited topics of papers may include, but are not limited to: . Will the dominant model for delivery of broadband services be fixed or mobile? How much competition will there be (especially wireline)? Will there be new technologies or entrants? . What is the future of "over-the-top" content and CDNs? . What will be the impact of the "internet of things"? What is its regulatory status? . How is the "public interest" defined in the broadband ecosystem? What sorts of regulatory safeguards/interventions will be needed to advance the public interest? . How do the FCC's broadband promotion programs interact with efforts of other agencies, on both the demand and supply side? . How should the concept of universal service evolve? What can the designers of universal service policies learn from efforts to stimulate demand for broadband? . What are the implications for regulatory frameworks of technological and other changes in the broadband ecosystem? . How should the division of labor between state and federal regulatory authorities change? . Are there any regulatory challenges on the horizon that are not yet part of the mainstream broadband regulation debate? Abstracts of up to 500 words and a short bio of the author(s) should be submitted to pennstateiip at psu.edu by March 15, 2014. Please write IIPFCCPOST: YOUR NAME in the subject line. Accepted presenters will be notified by March 31, 2014. From ondiney at gmail.com Mon Feb 10 19:07:31 2014 From: ondiney at gmail.com (Stephanie Vie) Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2014 22:07:31 -0500 Subject: [Air-L] Call for chapter proposals: Social Media/Social Writing collection Message-ID: *Call for Papers (CFP)* We invite contributions for an edited collection on social media and writing within higher education entitled *Social Writing/Social Media: Pedagogy, Presentation, and Publics*. The prospectus for this project has been preliminarily approved by the WAC Clearinghouse's Perspectives on Writing book series, an imprint of Parlor Press that publishes books in free digital editions and low-cost print editions. We are committed to moving this project through the review process in a timely manner, both because of the timeliness of research on social media as well as our collective interest in seeing this book in print as soon as possible. This edited collection imagines social media broadly and encourages pieces that examine specific social media spaces such as Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Pinterest, etc., within theoretical frameworks as well as pieces that look at writing within larger social media categories, such as micro-blogging, social networking, etc. We ask authors to consider their proposed chapter for one of the following three sections: - *Social media and pedagogy*: How are social media shaping and being shaped by educational issues related to writing studies? Pedagogy chapters should be theoretically informed and avoid atheoretical "what I did in my class" approaches. We welcome empirical and qualitative studies of pedagogical approaches. We especially welcome projects that engage in critical making pedagogies. - *Social media and personalities*: How do individuals use writing to create, maintain, and reshape their identities in relation to others? We are particularly interested in chapters that use critical, professional, or other theoretically informed approaches for examining social media and writing. - *Social media and publics*: In what ways are social media being used to develop and sustain writing-related efforts in local and national communities? We are specifically interested in chapters that interrogate civic engagement, politics, and/or activism vis-?-vis writing and social media. Contributors are encouraged to consider the following possible social media topics (however, other areas are welcome): - Literacy practices and communal norms about writing - Student writing produced outside of class - Pedagogies of possibilities and resistances - Critical issues in/and group dynamics - Issues of identity, anonymity, and pseudonymity - Privacy and surveillance within social media - End-User Licensing Agreements, Terms of Service, and/or copyright law - Non-alphabetic rhetorical activity - Digital divide and access issues for faculty, students, and/or community stakeholders - Service-learning and community-based research efforts in the community facilitated by social media - Genre-based analyses of social media activities Please send abstracts of no more than 500 words to Douglas Walls (Douglas.Walls at ucf.edu) and Stephanie Vie (Stephanie.Vie at ucf.edu) by June 15, 2014. Submissions should include full contact information and a brief biographical statement (including institutional affiliation) for all proposed authors. Indicate which of the three sections (pedagogy, presentation, or publics) where you see your chapter best fitting. Accepted authors will be invited to submit full chapter drafts by September 15, 2014. Initial queries are welcome. The editors will be in attendance at Writing Research Across Borders (February), the Conference on College Composition and Communication (March), Rhetoric Society of America (May), and Computers & Writing (June) and would be happy to meet to talk over proposals and/or chapter drafts. Proposed Timeline: - Deadline for abstracts: June 15, 2014 - Notification of acceptance to authors: June 22, 2014 - Deadline for first draft of accepted chapters: September 15, 2014 - Editors' feedback on first drafts: December 15, 2014 - Deadline for revised chapters: February 15, 2015 Douglas Walls, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Department of Writing and Rhetoric University of Central Florida Douglas.Walls at ucf.edu Stephanie Vie, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Department of Writing and Rhetoric University of Central Florida Stephanie.Vie at ucf.edu From jpedregosa at gmail.com Tue Feb 11 02:08:48 2014 From: jpedregosa at gmail.com (Jj Pedregosa) Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2014 11:08:48 +0100 Subject: [Air-L] Conference on Digital Discrimination and Social Networks. Barcelona, 13th and 14th of March Message-ID: Friends The main aim of the conference is to invite participants to actively *share current experiences and research and push forward our knowledge to fight discrimination*. Academics, NGOs working with youths or on discrimination, activists, trainers, teachers, policy makers, journalists, social media professionals and the general public are welcome to attend. Programme of the conference: http://digitaldiscrimination.eu/conference/ ITD Tr?nsit Projectes Ceps Projectes Socials | B?ria 17 pral 08003 Barcelona +34 933 194 750 @juanpedregosa Projectes Internacionals, Consultoria i Gesti? Cultura, Digital, Innovaci?, Inclusi?, Participaci?, Educaci? From rapha1106 at yahoo.fr Tue Feb 11 05:30:07 2014 From: rapha1106 at yahoo.fr (raphael nowak) Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2014 13:30:07 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Air-L] CFP Reminder - Napster, 15 years on: Rethinking digital music distribution. A themed special edition of First Monday Message-ID: <1392125407.88470.YahooMailNeo@web171305.mail.ir2.yahoo.com> With apologies for cross-posting: Call for papers ? First Monday themed special edition Napster, 15 years on: Rethinking digital music distribution ? Guest editors: Rapha?l Nowak (Griffith University, Australia) and Andrew Whelan (University of Wollongong, Australia) ? 2014 marks the fifteenth anniversary of the release of the peer-to-peer application Napster. Developed by a student, Shawn Fanning, with the help of his friend Shawn Parker and uncle John Fanning, Napster established music downloading as a mass phenomenon. By 2001, 50 million users had downloaded content with Napster. Many other applications followed ? Gnutella, Kazaa, LimeWire, eMule, Soulseek, BitTorrent, among others ?further developing and entrenching p2p technology. Online music distribution has been fiercely contested since Napster. Online availability has changed the way music is produced, sold, distributed, shared and consumed. While these changes are often decried or celebrated through well-rehearsed positions, their implications can also be exaggerated, as attending to contemporary industry business models and persisting analog formats would suggest. Building on multi- and cross-disciplinary approaches addressing developments in the 15 years since the advent of Napster, we seek papers that advance contemporary debates associated with music downloading (authorized and illicit) and its consequences and ramifications. We welcome 300 word abstracts reflecting on the last 15 years in the realm of online music distribution and consumption. While attending to this broad aim, proposed articles will also address a more specific theme. Potential themes may include, but are not limited to: ?????? Exchange relations and the circulation of digital objects ?????? Politics and ethics of p2p practices ?????? Hyper-consumption, curatorialism and open access music archives ?????? Online music subcultures and (social) networks ?????? Domestication of p2p and p2p as/in technoculture ?????? Communications, transfer, storage, and playback hardware and infrastructure ?????? Discursive framing: leeches, pirates, free music ?????? Contemporary music celebrity culture ?????? Suppression and criminalization of downloading and ?copyfight? ?????? Aesthetic experiences and qualities of digital music practices and rituals ?????? 0day, release groups, pre-releases and leaks ?????? Affordances, affects and materialities of the mp3 format ?????? The evolution and ecology of music downloading ?????? Direct downloads, music blogging, and online visibility ?????? Monetization, markets and the business of p2p ?????? Analog formats: continuity and resurgence ?????? Pre-histories and futures of digital music distribution 300 word abstracts should be submitted to Rapha?l Nowak (raph.nowak at gmail.com)by February 21, 2014. On the basis of these abstracts, invitations to submit papers will be sent out in early March 2014. Full papers should be submitted by June 20, 2014, and will undergo the usual First Monday peer-review process. Invitation to submit a full paper does not therefore guarantee acceptance into the issue. The themed special edition will be published November 2014. This Call for Papers can be found in pdf format at?http://bit.ly/Nxp5k8. Please forward as appropriate to interested parties. ? Rapha?l Nowak Andrew Whelan From d.bennato at gmail.com Tue Feb 11 08:01:43 2014 From: d.bennato at gmail.com (Davide Bennato) Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2014 17:01:43 +0100 Subject: [Air-L] [DEADLINE 15 FEBRUARY 2014] Call for ABSTRACTS Social science & Big data (not only) Message-ID: Call for ABSTRACTS: Social Science & Big Data WHAT: A matter of design. Making society through science & tecnology WHERE: Polytechnic of Milan WHEN: 12-14 June 2014 TRACK: N.5 Rethinking sociological gaze and citizenship through data. Epistemological and Political Implications of the Rise of Big Data INFO Conferencehttp://www.stsitalia.org/conferences/ocs/index.php/STSIC/AMD/schedConf/cfp Track 5 details http://www.stsitalia.org/conferences/STSITALIA_2014/AMD_Track5.pdf -- ************************************************************* http://www.tecnoetica.it/ http://www.processiculturali.it/ http://www.sociologiadeimediadigitali.it skype: davide.bennato http://www.linkedin.com/in/davidebennato From victoria.nash at oii.ox.ac.uk Tue Feb 11 08:42:12 2014 From: victoria.nash at oii.ox.ac.uk (Victoria Nash) Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2014 16:42:12 +0000 Subject: [Air-L] Approaching deadline for OII Summer Doctoral Programme Message-ID: <70164DA4BB578F48A5CA605B0AE4022236BDC6@MBX06.ad.oak.ox.ac.uk> Dear friends, The deadline for applications to this year's Oxford Internet Institute Summer Doctoral Programme is the 24th February, so I would be really grateful if you could pass this reminder on to any students who might be eligible to apply. The Programme will be held in Oxford from 7th-18th July 2014, and is suitable for PhD students at the dissertation stage of their degree. The programme offers two weeks of intensive teaching from senior faculty at the OII, as well as some guest speakers, who will offer insights into their research processes and tuition on methods as well as presenting substantive papers. Students will also be asked to present on their own research.. We also fit in some punting, a ghost tour and some fancy dinners... The overall aims are to help improve students' dissertations and to develop a cohesive peer network for future collaboration and support. For further information on this year's SDP, including application instructions, please see our website at: http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/graduatestudy/sdp/Y2014.cfm For more general info, the SDP blog and a great video by the 2013 crowd, look here: http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/graduatestudy/sdp/ If anyone has any questions, feel free to e-mail me directly. Many thanks! Vicki Dr Victoria Nash Research and Policy Fellow Director of Graduate Studies Oxford Internet Institute University of Oxford http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/ T: 01865 287231 Tw: @VickiNashOII W: http://victoriajnash.tumblr.com/ From r.harper at microsoft.com Tue Feb 11 09:06:32 2014 From: r.harper at microsoft.com (Richard Harper) Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2014 17:06:32 +0000 Subject: [Air-L] Skype Connections and the Gaze of Friendship and Family: a mini-conference Message-ID: Apologies for cross postings- Skype Connections and the Gaze of Friendship and Family MSR and Skype are pleased to invite extended abstracts for a mini academic conference/workshop on all aspects of interaction in video-mediated communications in private and domestic life. See here for further details. It will be held on June 3rd and 4th 2014 at MSR Cambridge, England. Chairs: Richard Harper, Microsoft Research Cambridge; Christian Licoppe, Telecom ParisTech, Paris; Rod Watson, Institut Marcel Mauss, Paris. This is the first call for participation (January 2014). Extended abstracts (of up to 600 words excluding title and affiliation) should report theoretical and empirical research into the interactional order of video calling in domestic and personal life. Ethnomethodological and conversation analytic perspectives are particularly welcomed on such things as: * the relationship between the sequential patterns of communication and the medium of Skype-type video connections in the social and family sphere; * the methods and patterns of recipient design and repair within such communications; * the properties and shape of topic management (e.g., news announcements and personal disclosures); * the character and role of embodiment and embodied interaction in such communications; * the salience of the visual and 'visual availability'; * the relation between individual instances of Skype-type communications and the larger activity assemblies of which they are a part - whether it be a routine 'catch-up' call within friendship or a special occasion like a dinner or a birthday celebration for a distributed family. These are of course not exclusive and other topics are welcome. There will be a preference for wholly original work, though research previously presented of an extremely high quality may be considered. The conference will be framed by keynote addresses by leaders in the field of interaction analysis, CA and ethnomethodology. Announcement of these will be made shortly. Important dates: * Deadline for extended abstracts: Friday March 14th * Announcement of acceptance: April 18th * Last date for registration: to be decided A selection of papers from the conference will be prepared for a Special Issue of Pragmatics, the Journal of the International Pragmatics Association. Selection will be made by the conference chairs and reviewing panel. Some support for researchers seeking to attend the event is available. Attendance at the conference is free and will include attendance at a gala dinner in a Cambridge College. For informal enquiries about the topics and format of the event, please contact Richard Harper (r.harper at microsoft.com). To attend (as speaker or auditor), email scgff at microsoft.com From jhuns at vt.edu Wed Feb 12 07:47:12 2014 From: jhuns at vt.edu (Jeremy Hunsinger) Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2014 10:47:12 -0500 Subject: [Air-L] Fwd: [governance] Communication of the European Commisson: "Internet Policy and Governance - Europe's role in shaping the future of Internet Governance" In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: [ Apologies for cross-posting. Please share as you deem appropriate ] Dear all, I would like to let you know that today (12 February 2013) the European Commission has adopted its formal policy position on Internet governance, via a Communication to the European Parliament, the Council, the European Economic and Social Committee and the Committee of the Regions: "Internet Policy and Governance - Europe's role in shaping the future of Internet governance" (COM(2014) 72/4). The press release of the adoption is available at http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_IP-14-142_en.htm . The text of the Communication is available at http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/newsroom/cf/dae/document.cfm?doc_id=4453. The statement by Neelie Kroes, Vice-President of the European Commission and Commissioner for the Digital Agenda, is available at http://ec.europa.eu/avservices/video/player.cfm?ref=I086325 . I hope you find this information useful and the content of the Communication interesting. Best, Andrea -- I speak only for myself. Sometimes I do not even agree with myself. Keep it in mind. Twitter: @andreaglorioso Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/andrea.glorioso LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=1749288&trk=tab_pro From joly at punkcast.com Wed Feb 12 12:09:49 2014 From: joly at punkcast.com (Joly MacFie) Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2014 15:09:49 -0500 Subject: [Air-L] ISOC Internet data and research portal update Message-ID: ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Michael Kende Date: Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 10:19 AM Subject: [Chapter-delegates] Internet data and research v2 I am please to announce version two of the portal (with the same URL as below). There are two main changes to the portal, and we have also updated it with recent reports. The first change is the Amazon-style system allowing everyone to rate a data source or report (out of five stars) and provide written comments as well. The second is to make it much easier to search, either by category and sub-category or by keyword. There is also a link to send in comments including new data and reports that we overlooked. Our hope is that this provides a broad view of the state of the art in what is known about the Internet and its impact, and that it will also help us to identify gaps in our knowledge, which we will work to fill. As such, I hope that you use the portal and interact with it, and please send it on to broaden the user base. Best regards, Michael From: Michael Kende Date: Tuesday, November 26, 2013 4:17 PM As part of my new role at ISOC, we are launching a new portal on the ISOC website that aggregates existing data sources and reports (ours and third-party), The purpose of it is threefold: first, as a public resource to learn about the impact of new infrastructure on the Internet, and the broader economic impact of the Internet; second, in order to help identify gaps in data, and determine how best to fill those gaps; and third, to promote new analysis and insights by everyone in the Internet community, including ourselves, to further stimulate a better understanding of the Internet and its Economy. The portal is at. https://www.internetsociety.org/internet-data-and-research One outstanding issue is whether, and if so how, to exclude bad research and data from the list. On the one hand is a strong desire to be open and inclusive of all available data and reports, while on the other hand there is a thought that we should review and exclude suspect or biased work. We do not have the resources to perform such extensive review on each linked item (as of today there are over 200 in the database), and I believe that it would be difficult to determine the criteria for excluding work in any case. However, in order to be of most use as a public resource, it would be useful to provide information that could help all of us make decisions about what data and reports to use. As a result, we are considering including a review section, such as used in Amazon, to rate and provide comments from all, including hopefully the authors. For starters, there are two feedback sections, one to send me comments on specific reports, and the other to provide suggestions for work that has not yet been included. Thoughts on how to move this forward would be most appreciated. Best regards, Michael Kende Chief Economist Internet Society Galerie Jean-Malbuisson 15 CH-1204 Geneva Switzerland Tel: +41 22 809 0367 E-mail: kende at isoc.org Website: www.internetsociety.org 'The Internet is for Everyone!' -- --------------------------------------------------------------- Joly MacFie 218 565 9365 Skype:punkcast WWWhatsup NYC - http://wwwhatsup.com http://pinstand.com - http://punkcast.com VP (Admin) - ISOC-NY - http://isoc-ny.org -------------------------------------------------------------- - From f.attwood at mdx.ac.uk Thu Feb 13 01:29:17 2014 From: f.attwood at mdx.ac.uk (Feona Attwood) Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2014 09:29:17 +0000 Subject: [Air-L] media and cultural studies research studentships; gender, sex and sexualities Message-ID: <4EFEF18F-7E43-4730-BCC6-A5088857373E@mdx.ac.uk> Please circulate widely. Middlesex Media Research Studentships, 2014. Research in Media focuses on Cultural Theory and Communication Studies, with particular interest in Gender, Sex and Sexualities. We welcome innovative and interdisciplinary proposals from excellent candidates that reflect the research interests of Middlesex Media and Performing Arts staff. Applicants are advised to consult the School web pages and school staff profiles: http://www.mdx.ac.uk/aboutus/staffdirectory/index.aspx Any queries should in the first instance be directed to Prof Vida L Midgelow, Director of Research Degrees (School of Media and Performance): v.midgelow at mdx.ac.uk Full details and application forms: http://www.mdx.ac.uk/research/applications/fees/bursaries/index.aspx The deadline for receipt of applications is 11.59pm on 14th March 2014 and interviews will be held in April/May 2014. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Please note that Middlesex University's preferred way of receiving all correspondence is via email in line with our Environmental Policy. All incoming post to Middlesex University is opened and scanned by our digital document handler, CDS, and then emailed to the recipient. If you do not want your correspondence to Middlesex University processed in this way please email the recipient directly. Parcels, couriered items and recorded delivery items will not be opened or scanned by CDS. There are items which are "exceptions" which will be opened by CDS but will not be scanned a full list of these can be obtained by contacting the University. From nasreen.rajani at gmail.com Thu Feb 13 08:29:16 2014 From: nasreen.rajani at gmail.com (Nasreen Rajani) Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2014 11:29:16 -0500 Subject: [Air-L] Women and Technology Conference Message-ID: <96CE1DAD-BF90-40B1-AAF4-B9CB7D8AA391@gmail.com> *SUBMISSION DEADLINE EXTENDED* to February 24, 2014. Dear Colleagues, Please note that the deadline for abstract submissions for the Women and Technology Conference held at Carleton University, Ottawa, ON on April 16th has been extended. See below for more information. Carleton University will be hosting the inaugural Women and Technology Conference for emerging scholars on April 16, 2014. Please see the below call for abstracts for submission guidelines and details. Visit our website for more information: http://womenandtechcu.wordpress.com/ Please distribute widely. WTCCU Organizing Committee, Nasreen Rajani, Alexandra Born, Matt Murdoch ??????? The Women and Technology Conference is a meeting of Ontario scholars working in applied and technical fields, the natural sciences, humanities, and social sciences. This year?s meeting will take place in Ottawa, on Wednesday, April 16, 2014, with all events being hosted at Carleton University. The goal of the Women and Technology Conference is to highlight scholarship on women and technology by focusing on two broad topics: 1. Women as producers and users of technology in applied and technical fields. a. Examples of disciplines represented within this topic include: engineering; architecture; industrial design; neuroscience; and the biological, chemical, physical, and computing sciences. 2. The relationship(s) between women and technology. This includes the role of women as both subjects and objects in knowledge/media production, as well as the impact of women on the relative success of emerging and established technologies. a. Examples of disciplines represented within this topic include: film and media studies; business; sociology; history; public policy; and women?s and gender studies. One of the major goals of this conference is to help advance the work of Ontario scholars by creating an interdisciplinary space for dialogue on women and technology. To help ensure that these goals are achieved, you are encouraged to tailor your abstract and presentation to a well-educated audience without expertise in your field. Submissions reporting on original scholarship and research are preferred. Presentations not meeting this requirement will be considered on a case-by-case basis, with preference given to those who have first-hand experience working at the nexus of women and technology. To apply: please submit a 150-word abstract with 3 keywords/phrases for a 10-15 minute oral paper presentation to:womenandtechcu at carleton.ca. Deadline: February 24, 2014 at 4:00pm EST In your submission, please indicate if you require assistance with childcare. The conference organizers will provide subsidies for child care and associated costs (e.g., parking and transportation). From maxigas at anargeek.net Thu Feb 13 09:01:43 2014 From: maxigas at anargeek.net (maxigas) Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2014 18:01:43 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Air-L] CFP 4S/ESOCITE - Open Panel 63. Peer production and open collaboration Message-ID: <20140213.180143.1958132948645296344.maxigas@anargeek.net> Dear researchers, We invite you to submit an abstract to our session on the relevance of peer production, open collaboration and hacking to Science and Technology Studies. The panel is organised for the 4S/ESOCITE conference in Buenos Aires, 20-23 August 2014. You are welcome to get in touch with us to discuss abstracts informally. Deadline: March 3 2014 Conference website: http://www.4sonline.org/meeting ---- 63. Peer production and open collaboration: Revisiting closure, stabilisation and black boxing through unfinished artefacts maxigas and Eduard Aibar This panel seeks to bring together scholars studying peer production processes through STS lenses and concepts. Peer production is a form of network-based voluntary cooperation aimed at contributing to a commons, epitomised by the Linux kernel and Wikipedia and more recently applied to hardware. Case studies of peer production projects can inspire new theoretical developments within STS and simultaneously engender insights on emerging socio-technical ensembles. Peer producers work a lot to fend off stabilisation, building functional parts (like loose couplings and Application Programming Interfaces) into technologies and organisations which serve to prevent closure. While these mechanisms for openness do stabilise, the resulting technologies are not exactly black boxes whose functional composition is rendered inaccessible to gaze, discourse and engineering. They can be understood as ?unfinished artefacts?. Moreover, shared machine workshops manifest a model which goes against the received wisdom of trade-offs between ?professional? expertise and radically open ?amateur? contributions. Such open organisational architectures blend in three functions traditionally separate in modern institutions: education, research and production. In this context citizen participation in technological issues is mainly achieved by practical interventions into research and development. We call for contributors who explore peer production specific projects from a wide range of STS perspectives. One is how stabilisation, closure and black boxing are themselves socially constructed, deconstructed and reconfigured in this arena. Another is the broader structural implications of peer production, since it is usually read as an emerging mode of production with disruptive consequences. Finally, since peer production is increasingly used in a wide range of settings (software development, knowledge production, infrastructure building or farming), the way it is re-enacted and appropriated by new actors can also be of interest to scholars with various theoretical backgrounds. Languages: English and Spanish http://www.4sonline.org/open_sessions -- maxigas, kiberpunk FA00 8129 13E9 2617 C614 0901 7879 63BC 287E D166 http://research.metatron.ai/ "Forget the damned motor car and build the cities for lovers!" From robert50 at illinois.edu Thu Feb 13 17:29:14 2014 From: robert50 at illinois.edu (Sarah Roberts) Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2014 20:29:14 -0500 Subject: [Air-L] [CFP] DIGITAL LABOR: SWEATSHOPS, PICKET LINES, AND BARRICADES, The New School, Nov 14-16, 2014 In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Call for Proposals DIGITAL LABOR: SWEATSHOPS, PICKET LINES, AND BARRICADES To be held at The New School, a university in New York City NOVEMBER 14-16, 2014 #dl14 The third in The New School's Politics of Digital Culture Conference Series Sponsored by The New School and The Institute for Distributed Creativity DIGITAL LABOR: SWEATSHOPS, PICKET LINES, AND BARRICADES brings together designers, labor organizers, theorists, social entrepreneurs, historians, legal scholars, independent researchers, cultural producers -- and perspectives from workers themselves -- to discuss emerging forms of mutual aid and solidarity. Over the past decade, advancements in software development, digitization, an increase in computer processing power, faster and cheaper bandwidth and storage, and the introduction of a wide range of inexpensive, wireless-enabled computing devices and mobile phones, set the global stage for emerging forms of labor that help corporations to drive down labor costs and ward off the falling rate of profits. Companies like CrowdFlower, oDesk, or Amazon.com?s Mechanical Turk serve as much more than payment processors or interface providers; they shape the nature of the tasks that are performed. Work is organized against the worker. Recent books included The Internet as Playground and Factory (Scholz, 2013), Living Labor (Hoegsberg and Fisher) based on the exhibition Arbeitstid that took place in Oslo in 2013 and Cognitive Capitalism, Education, and Digital Labour (Peters, Bulut, et al, eds., Peter Lang, 2011). In 2012, the exhibition The Workers was curated by MASS MOCA in the United States. Christian Fuchs? book Digital Labor and Karl Marx is forthcoming with Routledge. Several events have been organized in the last few years to focus on these developments: Digital Labor: the Internet as Playground and Factory conference (The New School, New York City, 2009 http://digitallabor.org), Digital Labor: Workers, Authors, Citizens (Western University, London, Ontario, Canada, 2009), Invisible Labor Colloquium (Washington University Law School, 2013), Towards Critical Theories of Social Media (Uppsala University, Sweden, 2012), Re:publica (Berlin, 2013), and the Chronicles of Work lecture series at Schlo? Solitude (Stuttgart, Germany, 2012/2013). We would like to continue and elaborate on these discussions by raising the following questions: Broad issues: Who and where are the workers and how do they understand their situation? How and where do they act in political terms? How can we analyze digital labor as a global phenomenon, pertaining to issues like underdevelopment and supply chains? Which theories and concepts can help us to frame our thinking about the gridlock of digital work? How do waste, repair, and disposal play into the debate about labor? Are there artistic works that respond to contemporary labor? Gender, Race, Class, Ability: How do gender, race, ability, and class play out in the diverse fields of digital labor? How are laboring capacities, also in the digital realm, sustained and maintained by maternal labor, or the labor of care workers, domestic workers? Alternatively, how do we conceptualize digital work that is underwaged and often coded as feminized? What are the postcolonial tensions arising between digital workers in different locales? Organizing: How relevant are unions to the millions of crowdsourced workers? How can we resist the all-too-common ?the labor movement is dead? narrative? Which concrete projects might offer us a critical foundation upon which to build broader strategies for ?digital solidarity?? What can be learned from the history of organized labor when it comes to crowdsourcing and lawsuits like Otey vs. CrowdFlower? What are possibilities and tensions that arise with projects aiming for solidarity among people in global labor systems? Policy: What are the reasons for withholding legislation that would allow for an enforcement of the Fair Labor Standards Act in the crowdsourcing industry? Are there new forms of contracts or widened definitions of employment that would better address today?s work realities? What policy proposals might be developed and put on the table now? FORMATS: In addition to traditional conference structures, Digital Labor: Sweatshops, Picket Lines, and Barricades also aims to experiment with creative presentation formats and novel venues. We welcome applications for the following formats: - experimental lectures (e.g., ?theory tapas,? pecha kuchas, collaborative presentations, or formats not using spoken language) - lectures or panels - keynote dialogues - design fiction workshops for those interested in design storytelling and envisioning alternative futures (3 hours) - performance lectures in the places where some of this work is taking place: the living rooms of participants (20 minutes each) SUBMIT a 300-word abstract or a link to short video, and a one-page CV to: digitallabor2014 at gmail.com by March 21, 2014. Please state clearly which format you are applying for and do emphasize how your proposal speaks to the questions above. Confirmation of participation: March 31, 2014. If you have any logistical questions, please contact Alexis Rider digitallabor2014 at gmail.com We are planning an open access digital work notebook that documents and expands the discussion leading up to, during, and after this event. Contributions will emerge from the iDC mailing list. https://mailman.thing.net/mailman/listinfo/idc Conference editor: Trebor Scholz with (Advisory Board): Lilly Irani, Frank Pasquale, Sarah T. Roberts, Karen Gregory, Ken Wark, and Winifred Poster. Producer: Alexis Rider. Join the discussion: https://mailman.thing.net/mailman/listinfo/idc @idctweets @trebors --- S a r a h T. R o b e r t s Faculty of Information and Media Studies (FIMS) Western University http://fims.uwo.ca/index.htm Blogging periodically at http://illusionofvolition.com From anne at digitalmethods.net Fri Feb 14 02:34:19 2014 From: anne at digitalmethods.net (Anne Helmond) Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2014 11:34:19 +0100 Subject: [Air-L] Call for Participation: Digital Methods Summer School 2014 Message-ID: Call for Participation: Digital Methods Summer School 2014 23 June - 4 July 2014 Digital Methods Initiative New Media & Digital Culture University of Amsterdam Turfdraagsterpad 9 1012 XT Amsterdam the Netherlands On Geolocation: Remote Event Analysis (Mapping Conflicts, Disasters, Elections and other Events with Online and Social Media Data) This year's Digital Methods Summer School is devoted to the remote analysis of events. When Twitter changed its byline in 2009 from "What are you doing?" to "What's happening?" it acknowledged a transition in its use and value from an ego-tweeting and ambient friend-following medium to a news and event-following one. Indeed there is a growing literature (in the Summer School's reader) on the relationship between social media and events, often focusing on conflicts, disasters as well as political elections. But what do events look like online, and how does one follow them analytically? What is the value of the event's second screening, as it is sometimes termed? Also, is the event's comment culture worth keeping as records of what has transpired? How to capture as well as re-render, or playback, the event? Claude Levi-Strauss famously wrote, "I hate travelling and explorers," and indeed the great anthropologist spent scant time in the field, preferring remote analysis, a research practice that relied less on sensing instruments than on objects and description. Social media contributes sensing measures in the form of activity metrics and other data. They also raise the question as to what the Internet and social media add to events as well as subtract from them (so to speak). Evgeni Morozov relates the story that after the network was brought down in Iran during the Election crisis of 2009, there were perhaps 6 Twitter users on the ground in Teheran (http://www.evgenymorozov.com/morozov_twitter_dissent.pdf). Indeed the picture provided by Twitter may be demographically skewed. As the Pew Research Center found in 2013, reactions to events on Twitter differ dramatically from public opinion about them ( http://www.pewresearch.org/2013/03/04/twitter-reaction-to-events-often-at-odds-with-overall-public-opinion/ ). We are also interested in the events as they unfold in and through mobile devices, and the data supplied with them. 'On geolocation', as opposed to 'on location', refers to the location data sent along with the posts and other content such as the camera data embedded in digital images. At the Summer School we analyse event data as supplied by social media and devices (broadly conceived), and also seek baselines against which to assess and compare its contributions. Example of remote event analysis using Twitter data, Digital Methods Summer School project 2013 (https://wiki.digitalmethods.net/Dmi/NetworkedIssuePublics). About "Digital Methods" as Concept Digital methods is a term coined as a counter-point to virtual methods, which typically digitize existing methods and port them onto the Web. Digital methods, contrariwise, seek to learn from the methods built into the dominant devices online, and repurpose them for social and cultural research. That is, the challenge is to study both the info-web as well as the social web with the tools that organize them. There is a general protocol to digital methods. At the outset stock is taken of the natively digital objects that are available (links, tags, threads, etc.) and how devices such as search engines make use of them. Can the device techniques be repurposed, for example by remixing the digital objects they take as inputs? Once findings are made with online data, where to ground them? Is the baseline still the offline, or are findings to be grounded in more online data? There is also a Digital Methods book (http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/digital-methods). About the Summer School The Digital Methods Summer School, founded in 2007 together with the Digital Methods Initiative, is directed by Professor Richard Rogers, Chair in NewSummer School is one training opportunity provided by the Digital Methods Initiative (DMI). DMI also has a Winter School, which includes a mini-conference, where papers are presented and responded to. Winter School papers are often the result of Summer School projects. The Summer School is coordinated by two Ph.D candidates in New Media at the University of Amsterdam, or affiliates. This year the coordinators are Catherine Somz? and Sabine Niederer, both affiliated with the Digital Methods Initiative, University of Amsterdam. The Summer School has a technical staff as well as a design staff. The Summer School also relies on a technical infrastructure of some nine servers hosting tools and storing data. Participants bring their laptops, learn method, undertake research projects, make reports, tools and graphics and write them up on the Digital Methods wiki. The Summer School concludes with final presentations. Often there are guests from non-governmental or other organizations who present their issues. For instance, Women on Waves came along during the 2010, Fair Phone to the 2012 Summer School and Greenpeace and their Gezi Park project in 2013. Digital Methods people are currently interning at major NGOs and international organizations (the UN). The Digital Methods Initiative was founded with a grant from the Mondriaan Foundation, and the Summer School has been supported by the Center for Creation, Content and Technology (CCCT), University of Amsterdam, organized by the Faculty of Science with sponsorship from Platform Beta. Previous Digital Methods Summer Schools, 2007-2013 (https://wiki.digitalmethods.net/Dmi/DmiSummerSchool). Applications and fees To apply for the Digital Methods Summer School 2014, please send a one-page letter explaining how digital methods training would benefit your current work, and also enclose a CV. Mark your application "DMI Training Certificate Program," and send to info [at] digitalmethods.net. The deadline for applications for the Summer School is 23 April. Notices will be sent on 25 April. Please address your application email to the Summer School coordinators, Catherine Somz? and Sabine Niederer, info [at] digitalmethods.net. Informal queries may be sent to Catherine [at] digitalmethods.net. The Summer School costs EUR 345 per person. Accepted applicants will be informed of the bank transfer details upon notice of acceptance to the Summer School. The fee must be paid by 24 May 2013. Scholarships The Digital Methods Summer School is part of the University of Amsterdam Summer School program me (http://www.uva.nl/en/education/other-programmes/summer-winter). This means that students attending the partnering universities in the LERU (http://www.leru.org/index.php/public/home/) and U21 networks (http://www.universitas21.com/) are eligible for a scholarship to help cover the cost for tuition and housing for the DMI Summer School. Please consult their sites to see whether you are eligible for a scholarship and for the application procedure. Housing and Accommodations The Summer School is self-catered, and there are abundant cafes and a university mensa nearby. The Digital Methods Summer School is located in the heart of Amsterdam. There are limited accommodations available to participants at The Student Hotel at reasonable rates (http://www.thestudenthotel.com/). In your application please indicate whether you are interested in making use of this service. Reservations will be made by us on the basis of your request included in your application. In your acceptance notification, you will be given further information about booking and payment. Please contact the local organizers if you need information about prices. For those who prefer non-University accommodations, we suggest airbnb or similar. For shorter stay, there is Hotel Le Coin (http://www.lecoin.nl/), where we have a university discount. Summer School Training Certificate The Digital Methods Summer School issues completion certificates to particisignificant contribution to a Summer School project. For previous Summer School projects, see for example (https://wiki.digitalmethods.net/Dmi/WikipediaAsASpaceOfControversy). Schedule The Summer School meets every day. Please bring your laptop. We will provide abundant connectivity. We start generally at 9:30 in the morning, and end around 5:30. There are morning talks two-three days per week. On the last Friday we have a boat trip on the canals of Amsterdam. Social Media & User-Generated Content Twitter hashtag #dmi14 We shall have a list of summer school participants and make an old-fashioned Facebook. We look forward to welcoming you to Amsterdam in the Summertime! From joaomattar at gmail.com Fri Feb 14 03:12:54 2014 From: joaomattar at gmail.com (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Jo=E3o_Mattar?=) Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2014 09:12:54 -0200 Subject: [Air-L] AJDE Special Issue: Interactions in Distance Education Message-ID: Hello! I will submit a proposal for a special issue on *Interactions in Distance Education* for the American Journal of Distance Education (AJDE). The articles should be based on empirical research. If you would like to submit an article for the proposal, please e-mail me a one paragraph abstract. I will get back as soon as I have a feedback on the proposal Thanks -- [ ]s Jo?o Mattar Professor TIDDPUC-SP (Brasil) From kevieira at wisc.edu Fri Feb 14 04:45:33 2014 From: kevieira at wisc.edu (Catherine Vieira) Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2014 06:45:33 -0600 Subject: [Air-L] CFP: The Transnational Movement of People and Information In-Reply-To: <778084fe596f4.52fe0fde@wiscmail.wisc.edu> References: <778084fe596f4.52fe0fde@wiscmail.wisc.edu> Message-ID: <766080785a765.52fdbb8d@wiscmail.wisc.edu> Call For Papers: Special Issue of Literacy in Composition Studies Title: The Transnational Movement of People and Information Guest Editors: Rebecca Lorimer Leonard, Kate Vieira, Morris Young To be considered, please submit a 250-word abstract that discusses the proposed article to the editors at kevieira at wisc.edu. The deadline for proposal submissions is March 14, 2014. The movement of people and information across national borders is rapid and widespread. By some estimates, over 180 million people worldwide are currently living outside the country of their birth, keeping in contact with homelands, forging new migratory networks, and navigating new circumstances through writing. Literacy in composition studies has begun to respond to this context through increased attention to the global, the international, and the transnational. This special issue seeks to forward this emerging area of interest. Often defined as a set of skills and resources, literacy has figured prominently in debates about immigrants? national integration. Some have called for migrants? swift assimilation through literacy, others have pointed to the value of migrants? diverse literacy legacies, and still others have examined how their literacies change in new national contexts. But if we think of literacy more materially, as skills and resources made possible by the technology of writing, it becomes clear that literacy plays a role in more than migrants? incorporation within nations. It also shapes their movement among them. Writing can facilitate transnational communication and network migration via the postal system and Internet. And writing is a key tool in migration policy, as nation states use immigration documents, such as visas and passports, to allow some migrants in and to keep others out. Writing, in other words, is deeply imbricated both in transnational lived experiences and in the infrastructures that govern transnational mobility. The central question this special issue asks is how. We welcome articles that address these issues empirically, theoretically, and/or rhetorically. Among the questions to be considered are the following: How do migrants? literacy practices change and persist across time and national borders? How does the transnational inhere in local literacies? How do other semiotic practices interact with writing in transnational contexts? How is literacy taught and learned transnationally? How does writing itself move? What are the implications of changing communication technologies, such as the post and the Internet, for transnational lives and literacies? How does writing motivate, influence, or restrict the travels of people? How have structural forces (such as governments, institutions, race, etc.) facilitated and/or discouraged literacy and immigration? Which methodologies might glean productive inquiries into transnational literacies? Literacy in Composition Studies is a peer-reviewed venue for a broad range of scholarship in literacy and writing studies. http://licsjournal.org. -- Kate Vieira Assistant Professor English Department, Program in Composition and Rhetoric University of Wisconsin, Madison kevieira at wisc.edu From monaco.federico at gmail.com Fri Feb 14 05:23:13 2014 From: monaco.federico at gmail.com (FEDERICO MONACO) Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2014 14:23:13 +0100 Subject: [Air-L] Happy Valentine's Day Message-ID: Dear Aoir members, you are all invited to our wedding, performance and remix on the web: http://www.cvpido.com thank you for participating to our web event. Federico, Federica and Demetra -- http://www.federicomonaco.com From tzafnat.shpak at jvwresearch.org Fri Feb 14 06:16:23 2014 From: tzafnat.shpak at jvwresearch.org (Tzafnat Shpak) Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2014 16:16:23 +0200 Subject: [Air-L] Call for book chapters: Handbook on 3D3C Virtual Worlds Message-ID: [image: Journal of Virtual Worlds Research] Call for Book Chapters: Handbook on 3D3C Virtual Worlds Applications, Technologies and Policies for Three Dimensional Systems for Community, Creation and Commerce *Editor*: Prof. Yesha Sivan, JVWR Managing editor; Metaverse Labs Ltd. *Publisher*: Springer-Verlag, Germany Introduction: The field of virtual worlds / Augmented Reality / 3D / etc. is vast, interconnected and expanding. In that respect, "3D3C Worlds" is defined as a combination of four factors: - 3D stands for the three dimensional representation of worlds as seen in Google Earth, Augmented Reality, 3D printing and the like; - Community as in a collection of people work, play and act together. Consider Facebook and Twitter as one example, and enhance it by the dynamics of World of Warcraft guilds; - Creation is the ability to create new artifacts, as seen for example in Second Life or in Open Source movement; - Commerce is the ability to harness these previous factors to gain monetary real value (consider Bitcoin, exchanges, etc.) Objective of the Book: - Become the official "handbook" on 3D3C Virtual Worlds - Highlight and enhance some earlier work conducted for the Journal - Further advance and augment the field with "topical reviews" A "topical review" means a review of a corpus of knowledge of one aspect of the field. It can be a classic literature review, a more formal statistical meta-analysis or other forms suggested by authors. Topics we already have chapters on: - Collaboration >> Virtual Worlds as Innovative Collaboration Media for Distributed Work - Taxation >> Taxation of Virtual World Economies: An Empirical Review - Medical >> Overview: Virtual Reality in Medicine - Education >> An Exploratory Research Agenda for 3-D Virtual Worlds as Collaborative Learning Ecosystems: Extracting Evidences from Literature - Art >> 1993-2013: A Survey of Two Decades of Artistic Works using Computational Ecosystems - Geography >> An Aspatial Economics? The Economic Geography of Virtual Worlds - Creativity >> Fostering Team Creativity in Virtual Worlds - Money >> Virtual Currencies, Micropayments and Fiat Money: Where Are We Coming From and Where Does the Industry Stand? - Legal >> Privacy, Law, and Virtual Worlds - Multilinguality >> Multilingual issues in virtual worlds: a general review - Money >> Blazing Trails: A New Way Forward for Virtual Currencies and Money Laundering - Collaboration >> Virtual Collaboration Spaces: Bringing Presence to Distributed Collaboration Topics of interest that we are looking for include, but are not limited to: - Case studies - Augmented Reality - 3D Printing - Commerce / business - History - Security - Design - Military - Users - Standards - Social behaviours - Gender - Cases of projects, constellations, and "islands" -- Could be visual depiction (as the book will be in color) - Cases of firms, and business endeavours - Impact on special audiences for virtual worlds - Technical review of research trends in the field (metrics) - Measurements and evolution of usage in virtual worlds. - Defence Related Virtual worlds - Devices for virtual life - Mobility How to submit: The final chapter length should be 15-25 pages in the Springer format. Initially please email your 2-3 page chapter proposals including: - Chapter title - Author names, current affiliation, and email addresses - Short author/s bio - Chapter intent / purpose / abstract - Chapter structure outline - List some key publication(s) on which your chapter will be based *Editorial Process*: All accepted chapters will undergo a rigorous peer-review process. Email submissions to info at jvwresearch.org <+info at jvwresearch.org>. Dates: Authors are encouraged to send proposals as early as possible to get a quick response. *March 28, 2014*: Book chapter proposal submission deadline. *April 30, 2014*: Notification of chapter proposal acceptance. *July 30, 2014*: Full chapter submission. *September 15, 2014*: Peer-review results returned. *October 15, 2014*: Camera-ready chapter submission. *December 15, 2014*: Planned publication. Looking forward to hearing from you, Thankfully, *Prof. Yesha Y. Sivan* JVWR Managing Editor Metaverse-Labs Ltd. TheJVWR - The Journal of Virtual Worlds Research http://jvwresearch.org (TheJVWR) [image: Like Call for book chapters: Handbook on 3D3C Virtual Worlds on Facebook] @TheJVWR. [image: share on Twitter] (c) 2014 Journal of Virtual Worlds Research All rights reserved. From asnsande at stanford.edu Fri Feb 14 07:34:58 2014 From: asnsande at stanford.edu (Ashley Nicoles Sanders-Jackson) Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2014 07:34:58 -0800 (PST) Subject: [Air-L] sentiment analysis on Twitter for smoking cessation groups Message-ID: Greetings, I am beginning a project for which we have 4 private smoking cessation groups (3 months each) to analyze (we are writing a grant to collect more data as well). I have seen some of the work related to sentiment analysis on Twitter but I am interested in developing a system that is better tailored to our data (e.g. being smokefree has specific meaning in this context). We are therefore considering developing a system by content coding a number of tweets (either having researchers code them or by having smokers code them) for positive and negative valence and perhaps some discrete emotions (e.g. sadness or hope). How many coded tweets would we need to train a simple machine learning system on our dataset (for example one of the many possibilities in R) and what are the best out-of-box programs to use? I know a bit about content analysis and about smoking cessation but not so much about machine learning. So bear in mind that you are dealing with a novice. Actually, if anyone would be interested in collaborating on the project who actually does know what they are doing, they would be welcome as well. Ashley From stu at texifter.com Fri Feb 14 07:42:36 2014 From: stu at texifter.com (Shulman, Stu) Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2014 10:42:36 -0500 Subject: [Air-L] sentiment analysis on Twitter for smoking cessation groups In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Ashley, You might want to chat with the Health Media Collaboratory http://www.healthmediacollaboratory.org/ They have done interesting work with our tools: https://vimeo.com/55175059 We interviewed researchers at the University of Illinois Chicago in the Health Media Collaboratory about their use of DiscoverText and the Gnip-enabled Power Track for Twitter to study smoking behavior. The team, led by Dr. Sherry Emery, explains why it is important to train and use custom machine classifiers to sort the millions of tweets they are collecting from the full Twitter fire hose. The UIC team strongly argues for the combination of good tools and highly reliable data. On Fri, Feb 14, 2014 at 10:34 AM, Ashley Nicoles Sanders-Jackson wrote: > Greetings, > > I am beginning a project for which we have 4 private smoking cessation > groups (3 months each) to analyze (we are writing a grant to collect more > data as well). I have seen some of the work related to sentiment analysis > on Twitter but I am interested in developing a system that is better > tailored to our data (e.g. being smokefree has specific meaning in this > context). We are therefore considering developing a system by content > coding a number of tweets (either having researchers code them or by > having smokers code them) for positive and negative valence and perhaps > some discrete emotions (e.g. sadness or hope). How many coded tweets > would we need to train a simple machine learning system on our dataset > (for example one of the many possibilities in R) and what are the best > out-of-box programs to use? I know a bit about content analysis and about > smoking cessation but not so much about machine learning. So bear in mind > that you are dealing with a novice. Actually, if anyone would be > interested in collaborating on the project who actually does know what > they are doing, they would be welcome as well. > > Ashley > _______________________________________________ > The Air-L at listserv.aoir.org mailing list > is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org > Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org > > Join the Association of Internet Researchers: > http://www.aoir.org/ -- Dr. Stuart W. Shulman http://people.umass.edu/stu Founder and CEO, Texifter http://texifter.com LinkedIn http://www.linkedin.com/in/stuartwshulman Twitter https://twitter.com/StuartWShulman From wellman at chass.utoronto.ca Fri Feb 14 12:41:30 2014 From: wellman at chass.utoronto.ca (Barry Wellman) Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2014 15:41:30 -0500 Subject: [Air-L] Valentine's Day surprise: Paperback edition of Networked is out Message-ID: The paperback edition of Networked: The New Social Operating System (Rainie & Wellman) appeared for Valentine's Day. If you order one today, I will sing to you the next time we meet (some may call this a negative inducement.) So I started exploring the pricing http://www.amazon.com/Networked-New-Social-Operating-System/dp/0262526166/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&sr=1-1&qid=1336500288 The Amazon.com pricing is intriguing. Paperback: US$14.19 Hardcover: US$20.04 (up a buck from last week - you'd think they'd want to clear out the Hards) Kindle: US$16.33 Even more intrigue. The Canadian price is even cheaper than the US Hardcover: Cdn $19.75; (aobut US$17.80) Paperback: Cdn $13.68 But Kindle more expensive: $18.02 Given that the Cdn dollar is now about 90cents in US$, it is cheaper for Canadians to order locally, but not for Americans to do so (shipping costs). UK harcover price, as always, is higher: L14.04 (US$23.50) NO paperback yet Kindle is: L12.64 (US$21) -- and of course, e-shipping is the same as in the US and Canada Japanese price is Y2853 for hardback (about US$28),with no pb listed. BTW: There is a hard-hitting article in the current New Yorker about Amazon's dealing with publishers. Barry Wellman _______________________________________________________________________ NetLab FRSC INSNA Founder Faculty of Information (iSchool) 611 Bissell Building 140 St. George St. University of Toronto Toronto Canada M5S 3G6 http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman twitter: @barrywellman NSA/CSEC: Canadian and American citizen NETWORKED:The New Social Operating System. Lee Rainie & Barry Wellman MIT Press http://amzn.to/zXZg39 Print $20 Kindle $16 Old/NewCyberTimes http://bit.ly/c8N9V8 ________________________________________________________________________ From wellman at chass.utoronto.ca Sat Feb 15 06:29:05 2014 From: wellman at chass.utoronto.ca (Barry Wellman) Date: Sat, 15 Feb 2014 09:29:05 -0500 Subject: [Air-L] "Networked" & query In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Thanks for your interest. We're in the midst of projects. If you go to Navel Studies on my website, you'll see some of our first papers on Networked Research. The Networked Individuals project doesnt have any papers out yet. However, the preceding "Connected Lives" project does on my website. And Dr. Bernie Hogan at Oxford Internet Institute was central in that. Barry Wellman _______________________________________________________________________ NetLab FRSC INSNA Founder Faculty of Information (iSchool) 611 Bissell Building 140 St. George St. University of Toronto Toronto Canada M5S 3G6 http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman twitter: @barrywellman NSA/CSEC: Canadian and American citizen NETWORKED:The New Social Operating System. Lee Rainie & Barry Wellman MIT Press http://amzn.to/zXZg39 Print $14 Kindle $16 Old/NewCyberTimes http://bit.ly/c8N9V8 ________________________________________________________________________ On Fri, 14 Feb 2014, Marilou Polymeropoulou wrote: > Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2014 22:24:39 +0000 > From: Marilou Polymeropoulou > To: "wellman at chass.utoronto.ca" > Subject: "Networked" & query > > Dear Prof. Wellman, > > Your AoIR list e-mail regarding your new publication arrived just in time when I was writing a piece on networked digital music. I've just bought the Kindle version (as a Valentine's present to myself) and I'm looking forward to reading it. > > My research at Oxford is about the chipscene, a transnational collective of musicians who compose chipmusic, a kind of digital music whose characteristic is 8-bit sounds. I've conducted physical, multi-sited and digital ethnographic fieldwork among chipmusicians, and I'm currently finishing my doctoral thesis with an emphasis on creativity. > > The research conducted at NetLab interests me very much. I cannot find any analytical information on current projects, only the titles, so I would really appreciate it if you could share any further information with me. > > Thank you very much in advance. > > With best wishes, > Marilou Polymeropoulou > > DPhil in Music > University of Oxford > St. Peter's College > http://mariloup.wordpress.com > > > > > > > From rena.bivens at gmail.com Sat Feb 15 06:35:02 2014 From: rena.bivens at gmail.com (Rena Bivens) Date: Sat, 15 Feb 2014 09:35:02 -0500 Subject: [Air-L] Facebook changes their gender options In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Hi everyone, Perhaps you have already heard about Facebook's recent changes to their gender options. If not check out the link here: http://bigstory.ap.org/article/apnewsbreak-new-gender-options-facebook-users In some ways this is a big step forward but there is more to it than that. I've been working on this issue for a few years and was in the process of finishing a journal article on the topic from a critical theory perspective that is due March 1st (for a special issue) but am now revising over the next couple of weeks as a result of this news. Here is my initial response (directed more towards journalists but nonetheless) - I'd love to hear your feedback! http://renabivens.com/201402/my-reaction-facebook-launches-new-gender-options/ Here it is again via Twitter: https://twitter.com/renabivens/statuses/43439344394764697 7 Best, Rena Bivens Rena Bivens, Ph.D. (Sociology) Banting Fellow School of Journalism and Communication Studies Carleton University 1125 Colonel By Drive, Ottawa, Ontario Canada K1S 5B6 Tel: 613 520-2600 ext. 2041 renabivens.com From jeremyrmatthew at gmail.com Sun Feb 16 07:46:00 2014 From: jeremyrmatthew at gmail.com (Jeremy) Date: Sun, 16 Feb 2014 15:46:00 +0000 Subject: [Air-L] CFP: Creating Cultures, postgraduate conference in Culture, Media, and the Creative Industries, King's College London Message-ID: (apologies for cross-posting and please forward this to whomever you think may be interested) Call for Papers: Creating Cultures, a postgraduate conference in Culture, Media, and the Creative Industries, King's College London http://thecmcisocialfactory.wordpress.com/creating-cultures-postgrad-conference/ Keynote speaker: Prof. Lev Manovich, CUNY Held on the 12th and 13th of June 2014, this multi-disciplinary postgraduate conference seeks a broad array of perspectives that explore cultural representations, practices, and industries. The title 'Creating Cultures' prompts inquiries into concepts of culture being created, cultures of creativity, cultures evolving and changing, and also cultures of creative work and play. Culture evokes ideas about its conflicting and disputed foundations, and culture as a medium through which social, political, spatial, and historical meanings are communicated and understood. The theme of this conference invites explorations of power relations, gender, subjectivity, the spatial, technology and contemporary media. Abstract submissions for presentations and pre-formed panels are invited on themes in cultural and/or media studies, such as: Power and cultural politics Identity and representation Media and mediation Digital cultures, new media, and media futures Cultures and change Popular culture Contested and counter cultures Art and artistic practice Cultural labour and industries Territorial and spatial cultures Globalisation and transnational cultures Cultural and media research methodologies Please submit 300 word abstracts, or proposals for creative presentation formats, and a maximum 100-word biography to cmci-conference at kcl.ac.uk by the 28th of March. Decisions on submissions will be sent by the 17th of April. For any queries contact: Jeremy Matthew (jeremy.matthew at kcl.ac.uk) or Photini Vrikki (photini.vrikki at kcl.ac.uk), and please check our website at http://thecmcisocialfactory.wordpress.com/creating-cultures-postgrad-conference/ From jkraemer at uci.edu Sun Feb 16 12:25:52 2014 From: jkraemer at uci.edu (Jordan Kraemer) Date: Sun, 16 Feb 2014 12:25:52 -0800 Subject: [Air-L] to add participants to your SNSs or not? In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Dear Roser, I wanted to reply to your message from a couple of weeks ago about whether to add research participants to one's existing social network profiles or not. This issue definitely came up in my ethnographic research on Facebook among users in Berlin, and I recently published an article you might find helpful ("Friend or Freund: Social Media and Transnational Connections in Berlin, http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/07370024.2013.823821), though I'm not sure how much I discuss the issue directly. I am addressing it further in a book chapter I'm working on, and could share with you a recent conference paper based on the same material. I found it made more sense to use my existing Facebook and Twitter profiles, and to create a separate group for research participants, as you mention, though in some cases, I had to create new profiles because my participants were on sites I hadn't used before. But I know other researchers have found the opposite worked better, and created separate profiles. I think it depends a lot on the specifics of the project and your relationship to your research participants. For example, how will it look if the researcher isn't already embedded in existing networks of connections? How easily or quickly will it be to join the participants' networks? Some people might find it odd or suspicious to add someone who has no or few contacts, but on the other hand, it helps clearly demarcate the researcher as a researcher. Another consideration if you do create separate profiles is how will you manage your personal accounts -- will you just stay logged in to your research accounts, or will you switch back and forth? best, Jordan ---------------------------- Jordan Kraemer Social Science Research Network Junior Fellow Anthropology, UC Irvine www.jordankraemer.com On Feb 3, 2014, at 7:43 AM, Roser Beneito Montagut wrote: > Hello everybody, > > We have just started an ethnography (online and offline) to study the > extent to which the social web can mitigate isolation and loneliness > feelings among the elderly by promoting their interpersonal relationships > online. > > I appreciate if you can point me to articles discussing whether the > researcher has added the participants to his/her social network site (e.g. > Facebook) or has created an specific profile for the research. We have > decided to add the participants to our SNSs, creating a group for them, but > I would like to know what other researchers have done and the challenges of > this methodological decision they have faced. > > Apologies beforehand if this topic has already been discussed in the list. > > Thanks, > > Roser > > Roser Beneito-Montagut > Senior Lecturer > School of Computing, Multimedia and Telecommunication > Open University of Catalonia > Barcelona > _______________________________________________ > The Air-L at listserv.aoir.org mailing list > is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org > Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org > > Join the Association of Internet Researchers: > http://www.aoir.org/ > From mcarassai at ufl.edu Sun Feb 16 16:07:17 2014 From: mcarassai at ufl.edu (Carassai,Mauro) Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2014 00:07:17 +0000 Subject: [Air-L] CFP RIAS Special Issue - American-Digital Studies Message-ID: (apologies for cross-posting and please forward this to whomever you think may be interested) Please review the attached Call for Papers for a special issue for RIAS (Review of International American Studies) focused on the relationship between American and digital studies. More specifically, the special issue explores the cultural logic of the digital from a fluid, heterogeneous, and comparative perspective. You can find detailed information about the project either in the attachment or at: https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/node/55044 Please send your abstract and one-paragraph bio to rias.special.issue at gmail.com Contact e-mails: mcarassai at ufl.edu leonardo.flores at upr.edu Editors: Mauro Carassai and Leonardo Flores Carassai, Mauro English Department University of Florida From charles.ess at gmail.com Sun Feb 16 21:03:36 2014 From: charles.ess at gmail.com (Charles Ess) Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2014 06:03:36 +0100 Subject: [Air-L] CaTaC'14 - deadline extension, registration fees Message-ID: Dear AoIRists, On behalf of the Program Committee for CaTaC?14, I?m happy to announce A) the deadline for submissions has been extended to March 2, 2014, and B) our schedule of registration fees has been established: Full registration: early bird - closing date, April 4 - 250 USD; after April 4: 275 USD Reviewer: early bird - 225 USD: after April 4: 250 USD Author: early bird - 225 USD: after April 4: 250 USD Author and Reviewer: early bird - 200 USD: after April 4: 225 USD Student: early bird - 175 USD: after April 4: 200 USD Those familiar with the conference will recognize that these registration fees are ca. 50% of the norm for previous years. These reduced fees are made possible through various forms of support from the Department of Informatics and the Department of Media and Communication, University of Oslo. We hope these reduced fees will make participation in CaTaC?14 more feasible and attractive for all interested in participating. For more details on the conference, please see For information on conference themes and tracks, and for submitting paper proposals, please go to Please cross-post and distribute as appropriate. Many thanks, - Charles Ess (Media and Communication, University of Oslo) Maja van der Velden (Informatics, University of Oslo) Herbert Hrachovec (Philosophy, University of Vienna) Michele Strano, Program Chair (Communication Studies, Bridgewater College) Leah Macfadyen (Evaluation and Learning Analytics, University of British Columbia) From christian.fuchs at uti.at Mon Feb 17 06:27:38 2014 From: christian.fuchs at uti.at (Christian Fuchs) Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2014 14:27:38 +0000 Subject: [Air-L] "Media and Communication in and after the Global Capitalist Crisis": ESA RN18 2014 Conference Call Message-ID: <53021C5A.5030103@uti.at> Media and Communication in and after the Global Capitalist Crisis: Renewal, Reform or Revolution? ESA RN18 Mid-Term Conference 2014 University of Bucharest, Romania October 17-18, 2014 Full Call Text and additional information: http://fuchs.uti.at/wp-content/RN18_2014.pdf Call for Participation and Abstracts European Sociological Association, Research Network 18: Sociology of Communications and Media Research http://www.europeansociology.org/research-networks/rn18-sociology-of-communications-and-media-research.html Submission deadline for abstracts: July 1st, 2014. Submission per e-mail to christian.fuchs at uti.at Abstracts should be written in a word processor, have 250-500 words, and contain title, author name(s), email address(es), institutional affiliations, the suggested presentation?s abstract. The world has experienced a global crisis of capitalism that started in 2008 and is continuing until now. It has been accompanied by a crisis of the state and a general crisis of legitimation of dominant ideologies such as neoliberalism. Responses to the crisis have been variegated and have included austerity measures of the state that have hit the weakest, an increased presence of progressive protests, revolutions and strikes that have made use of digital, social and traditional media in various ways, the rise of far-right movements and parties in many parts of Europe and other parts of the world, the Greek state?s closing down of public service broadcaster ERT and increased commercial pressure on public service broadcasting in general, new debates about how to strengthen public service media, increased socio-economic and class inequality in many parts of the world and at a global level, precarious forms of work in general and in the media and cultural industries in particular, the emergence of new media reform movements, an extension and intensification of the crisis of newspapers and the print media, an increasing shift of advertising budgets to targeted ads on the Internet and along with this development the rise of commercial ?social media? platforms, Edward Snowden?s revelations about the existence of a global surveillance-industrial complex that operates a communications surveillance system called ?Prism? that involves the NSA and media companies such as Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Yahoo!, AOL, Skype, Apple and Paltalk; discussions about the power and freedom of the press in light of the Levenson inquiry, shifting geographies of the political and media landscape that have to do with the economic rise of countries such as China and India. Given this context, the main questions that ESA RN18?s 2014 conference asks and to which it invites contributions are: How has the crisis affected the media and communication landscape in Europe and globally and what perspectives for the future of media and communications are there? What suggestions for media reforms are there? How feasible are they? What kind of media policies and reforms do we need today? Which ones should be avoided? Are we in this context likely to experience a renewal of neoliberalism or something different? Plenary sessions: 1) Keynote Talk: Prof. Peter Ludes (Jacobs University Bremen, Germany): Wanted: Critical Visual Theories! 2) Special Session: Public Media and Alternative Journalism in Romania With Dr. Raluca Petre (?Ovidius? University Constanta, Romania): On the Distinction between State and Public Media: Re-Centering Public Options; Dr. Antonio Momoc (University of Bucharest, Romania): Alternative Media as Public Service Journalism; Costi Rogozanu (journalist and media activist, criticatac.ro) ? Is Alternative Media an Alternative? Call for Papers ESA RN18 welcomes submissions of abstracts for contributions. Questions that can for example be addressed include, but are not limited to the following ones: * Media and capitalism: How have capitalism and the media changed in recent years? Are there perspectives beyond capitalism and capitalist media? How can we best use critical/Marxist political economy and other critical approaches for understanding the media and capitalism today? What is the role of media and communication technologies in the financialization, acceleration, and globalization of the capitalist economy? What are the conditions of working in the media, cultural and communication industries in the contemporary times? What is the role of Marx today for understanding crisis, change, capitalism, communication, and critique? * Media reform and media policy in times of crisis: How do the media need to be reformed and changed in order to contribute to the emergence of a good society? Which media reform movements are there and what are their goals? What have been policy ideas of how to overcome the crisis and deal with contemporary changes in relation to European media and communication industries? What can we learn from recent discussions about the media?s power and freedom, such as the Leveson inquiry? What are implications for media reforms? * Media and the public sphere: How should the concept of the public sphere best be conceived today and how does it relate to the media? How has the public sphere changed during the crisis in Europe and globally? What has been the relation between public and commercial broadcasting during and after the crisis? How have public service media changed, which threats and opportunities does it face? How can/should public service be renewed in the light of crisis, the Internet, and commercialisation? Can public service be extended from broadcasting to the online realm, digital and social media? What has been the role of public service media in Europe? How has this role transformed? * Media and activism: How can media scholars best cooperate with activists in order to contribute to a better media system and a better society? What are major trends in media activism today and how do activists use and confront the media and how do commercial, public and alternative media relate to contemporary social movements? What have been important experiences of media activists and media reform organisations in the past couple of years? What are the opportunities, risks, limits and possibilities of media activism today? For answering these questions, we also invite contributions and submissions by media activists, who want to talk about and share their experiences. * Media ownership: Who owns the media and ICTs? What are peculiar characteristics of knowledge and the media as property? What conflicts and contradictions are associated with it and how have they developed in times of crisis? How concentrated are the media and ICTs and how has this concentration changed since the start of the 2008 crisis? How has media and ICT ownership, convergence, de-convergence and concentration developed since the start of the 2008 crisis? What reforms of media and ICT ownership are needed in light of the crisis of capitalism and the crisis of intellectual property rights? * Media and crisis: What have been the main consequences of the crisis for media and communication in various parts of the world and Europe from a comparative perspective? What role have the media played in the construction of the crisis? How have the media conveyed the social and economic crises of recent years to citizens and what are the consequences of this flow of ideas and explanations? What role can they play in overcoming the crisis? What is the relationship of the media and class during and after the crisis? What role have ideologies (such as racism, right-wing extremism, fascism, neoliberalism, anti-Semitism, etc) played in the media during the crisis and what can we learn from it for reforming the media? How have audiences interpreted media contents that focus on austerity, crisis, neoliberalism, protests, revolutions, or media reforms? * The globalisation of the media and society: What are major trends in the globalisation of capitalism, society and the media? Given the globalisation of media and society, what are challenges for media and society today? What can we learn from non-Western media scholars and media cultures outside of Europe? Are concepts such as cultural/media imperialism, transnational cultural domination or the new imperialism feasible today and if so, in which ways? * Digital and social media: What is digital labour and how has class changed in the context of social and digital media? What is the connection of value creation, knowledge labour and digital labour? How do the global dimension and the global division of digital labour look like, especially in respect to China, India, Asia and Africa? How do new forms of exploitation and unremunerated labour (?free labour?, ?crowdsourcing?) look like in the media sector (e.g. in the context of Internet platforms such as Facebook or Google)? What is the relationship of the commons and commodification on digital and social media? How do capital accumulation and targeted advertising work on social media and what are their implications for users and citizens? What are alternatives to capitalist digital and social media? How can alternative social and digital media best look like and be organized? What can in this context be the roles of the digital commons, civil society media and public service media? Which ideologies of the Internet and social media are there? How can we best understand the surveillance-industrial Internet complex operated by the NSA together with Internet corporations such as Google and Facebook and what are the implications of Edward Snowden?s revelations? How do power and political economy work in the context of platforms such as Google, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, WikiLeaks, Wikipedia, Weibo, LinkedIn, Blogspot/Blogger, Wordpress, VK, Pinterest, Tumblr, Instagram, etc? * Media and Critical Social Theory: What can we learn and use from critical sociology and the sociology of critique when studying the media? What do critique and critical theory mean in contemporary times? What are critical sociology and the sociology of critique and what are its roles for studying media and communication?s role in society? Which social theories do we need today for adequately understanding media & society in a critical way? What is the role of political economy and Marx?s theory for understanding media & society today? * Communication and (Post-)Crisis: How has the crisis affected the communication landscape in Europe and globally and what perspectives for the future are there? How do the working conditions in communication industries look like after the crisis? What are the challenges for communication industries in the near future in the context of the crisis and post-crisis? What is the role of post-crisis-communication industries in a globalised economy? From christian.fuchs at uti.at Mon Feb 17 06:28:02 2014 From: christian.fuchs at uti.at (Christian Fuchs) Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2014 14:28:02 +0000 Subject: [Air-L] "Media and Communication in and after the Global Capitalist Crisis": ESA RN18 2014 Conference Call Message-ID: <53021C72.1080303@uti.at> Media and Communication in and after the Global Capitalist Crisis: Renewal, Reform or Revolution? ESA RN18 Mid-Term Conference 2014 University of Bucharest, Romania October 17-18, 2014 Full Call Text and additional information: http://fuchs.uti.at/wp-content/RN18_2014.pdf Call for Participation and Abstracts European Sociological Association, Research Network 18: Sociology of Communications and Media Research http://www.europeansociology.org/research-networks/rn18-sociology-of-communications-and-media-research.html Submission deadline for abstracts: July 1st, 2014. Submission per e-mail to christian.fuchs at uti.at Abstracts should be written in a word processor, have 250-500 words, and contain title, author name(s), email address(es), institutional affiliations, the suggested presentation?s abstract. The world has experienced a global crisis of capitalism that started in 2008 and is continuing until now. It has been accompanied by a crisis of the state and a general crisis of legitimation of dominant ideologies such as neoliberalism. Responses to the crisis have been variegated and have included austerity measures of the state that have hit the weakest, an increased presence of progressive protests, revolutions and strikes that have made use of digital, social and traditional media in various ways, the rise of far-right movements and parties in many parts of Europe and other parts of the world, the Greek state?s closing down of public service broadcaster ERT and increased commercial pressure on public service broadcasting in general, new debates about how to strengthen public service media, increased socio-economic and class inequality in many parts of the world and at a global level, precarious forms of work in general and in the media and cultural industries in particular, the emergence of new media reform movements, an extension and intensification of the crisis of newspapers and the print media, an increasing shift of advertising budgets to targeted ads on the Internet and along with this development the rise of commercial ?social media? platforms, Edward Snowden?s revelations about the existence of a global surveillance-industrial complex that operates a communications surveillance system called ?Prism? that involves the NSA and media companies such as Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Yahoo!, AOL, Skype, Apple and Paltalk; discussions about the power and freedom of the press in light of the Levenson inquiry, shifting geographies of the political and media landscape that have to do with the economic rise of countries such as China and India. Given this context, the main questions that ESA RN18?s 2014 conference asks and to which it invites contributions are: How has the crisis affected the media and communication landscape in Europe and globally and what perspectives for the future of media and communications are there? What suggestions for media reforms are there? How feasible are they? What kind of media policies and reforms do we need today? Which ones should be avoided? Are we in this context likely to experience a renewal of neoliberalism or something different? Plenary sessions: 1) Keynote Talk: Prof. Peter Ludes (Jacobs University Bremen, Germany): Wanted: Critical Visual Theories! 2) Special Session: Public Media and Alternative Journalism in Romania With Dr. Raluca Petre (?Ovidius? University Constanta, Romania): On the Distinction between State and Public Media: Re-Centering Public Options; Dr. Antonio Momoc (University of Bucharest, Romania): Alternative Media as Public Service Journalism; Costi Rogozanu (journalist and media activist, criticatac.ro) ? Is Alternative Media an Alternative? Call for Papers ESA RN18 welcomes submissions of abstracts for contributions. Questions that can for example be addressed include, but are not limited to the following ones: * Media and capitalism: How have capitalism and the media changed in recent years? Are there perspectives beyond capitalism and capitalist media? How can we best use critical/Marxist political economy and other critical approaches for understanding the media and capitalism today? What is the role of media and communication technologies in the financialization, acceleration, and globalization of the capitalist economy? What are the conditions of working in the media, cultural and communication industries in the contemporary times? What is the role of Marx today for understanding crisis, change, capitalism, communication, and critique? * Media reform and media policy in times of crisis: How do the media need to be reformed and changed in order to contribute to the emergence of a good society? Which media reform movements are there and what are their goals? What have been policy ideas of how to overcome the crisis and deal with contemporary changes in relation to European media and communication industries? What can we learn from recent discussions about the media?s power and freedom, such as the Leveson inquiry? What are implications for media reforms? * Media and the public sphere: How should the concept of the public sphere best be conceived today and how does it relate to the media? How has the public sphere changed during the crisis in Europe and globally? What has been the relation between public and commercial broadcasting during and after the crisis? How have public service media changed, which threats and opportunities does it face? How can/should public service be renewed in the light of crisis, the Internet, and commercialisation? Can public service be extended from broadcasting to the online realm, digital and social media? What has been the role of public service media in Europe? How has this role transformed? * Media and activism: How can media scholars best cooperate with activists in order to contribute to a better media system and a better society? What are major trends in media activism today and how do activists use and confront the media and how do commercial, public and alternative media relate to contemporary social movements? What have been important experiences of media activists and media reform organisations in the past couple of years? What are the opportunities, risks, limits and possibilities of media activism today? For answering these questions, we also invite contributions and submissions by media activists, who want to talk about and share their experiences. * Media ownership: Who owns the media and ICTs? What are peculiar characteristics of knowledge and the media as property? What conflicts and contradictions are associated with it and how have they developed in times of crisis? How concentrated are the media and ICTs and how has this concentration changed since the start of the 2008 crisis? How has media and ICT ownership, convergence, de-convergence and concentration developed since the start of the 2008 crisis? What reforms of media and ICT ownership are needed in light of the crisis of capitalism and the crisis of intellectual property rights? * Media and crisis: What have been the main consequences of the crisis for media and communication in various parts of the world and Europe from a comparative perspective? What role have the media played in the construction of the crisis? How have the media conveyed the social and economic crises of recent years to citizens and what are the consequences of this flow of ideas and explanations? What role can they play in overcoming the crisis? What is the relationship of the media and class during and after the crisis? What role have ideologies (such as racism, right-wing extremism, fascism, neoliberalism, anti-Semitism, etc) played in the media during the crisis and what can we learn from it for reforming the media? How have audiences interpreted media contents that focus on austerity, crisis, neoliberalism, protests, revolutions, or media reforms? * The globalisation of the media and society: What are major trends in the globalisation of capitalism, society and the media? Given the globalisation of media and society, what are challenges for media and society today? What can we learn from non-Western media scholars and media cultures outside of Europe? Are concepts such as cultural/media imperialism, transnational cultural domination or the new imperialism feasible today and if so, in which ways? * Digital and social media: What is digital labour and how has class changed in the context of social and digital media? What is the connection of value creation, knowledge labour and digital labour? How do the global dimension and the global division of digital labour look like, especially in respect to China, India, Asia and Africa? How do new forms of exploitation and unremunerated labour (?free labour?, ?crowdsourcing?) look like in the media sector (e.g. in the context of Internet platforms such as Facebook or Google)? What is the relationship of the commons and commodification on digital and social media? How do capital accumulation and targeted advertising work on social media and what are their implications for users and citizens? What are alternatives to capitalist digital and social media? How can alternative social and digital media best look like and be organized? What can in this context be the roles of the digital commons, civil society media and public service media? Which ideologies of the Internet and social media are there? How can we best understand the surveillance-industrial Internet complex operated by the NSA together with Internet corporations such as Google and Facebook and what are the implications of Edward Snowden?s revelations? How do power and political economy work in the context of platforms such as Google, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, WikiLeaks, Wikipedia, Weibo, LinkedIn, Blogspot/Blogger, Wordpress, VK, Pinterest, Tumblr, Instagram, etc? * Media and Critical Social Theory: What can we learn and use from critical sociology and the sociology of critique when studying the media? What do critique and critical theory mean in contemporary times? What are critical sociology and the sociology of critique and what are its roles for studying media and communication?s role in society? Which social theories do we need today for adequately understanding media & society in a critical way? What is the role of political economy and Marx?s theory for understanding media & society today? * Communication and (Post-)Crisis: How has the crisis affected the communication landscape in Europe and globally and what perspectives for the future are there? How do the working conditions in communication industries look like after the crisis? What are the challenges for communication industries in the near future in the context of the crisis and post-crisis? What is the role of post-crisis-communication industries in a globalised economy? From mariarosariataddeo at gmail.com Mon Feb 17 07:54:30 2014 From: mariarosariataddeo at gmail.com (Mariariosaria Taddeo) Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2014 15:54:30 +0000 Subject: [Air-L] workshop on ethics of cyber activism at the University of Warwick Message-ID: <7ED58C84-6774-4F85-A047-65EF850F4540@gmail.com> Apologies for cross-posting The ethics of cyber-activism Cyber activism or Hacktivism is an emerging phenomenon, which has recently become more prominent thanks to the actions of a group called Anonymous. In brief, cyber-activism is an evolution of hacking activities motivated by political and ethical reasons directed at both public institutions and private citizens and which rests on the perception of the cyberspace as a digital commons that should be freely and equally enjoyed by all individuals. Issues pertaining to cyber activism have been observed and analysed by several scholars over the past decade. However, cyber activism is now becoming a concerning phenomenon mainly thanks to the actions of Anonymous. This is a highly distributed group famously identified by Guy Fawkes mask, which since 2008 has become a symbol of the movement and of the fight against power and authorities that Anonymous' members claim to conduct. Members of this group launched in the past several 'operations' targeting both individuals who had allegedly committed immoral acts and commercial or public websites as in the case of Operation Payback or in the attack launched against Scientology with the so called Project Chanology. The growth of Anonymous and, more in general, the dissemination of the use of the cyber sphere as a new medium to foster activism poses several questions at the crossroad between social and political sciences and ethics. Programme: Time Speaker Topic 10:00 Opening remarks 10:15 ? 10:45 Lee Salter (University of Sussex) Media Understandings of Cyberactivism: Ethics and power in public discourse 10:45 ? 11:00 Coffee 11:00 ? 11:30 Keren Elazari Unmasking Anonymous ? the Global hacker movement 11:30 ? 12:00 George Lucas (US Naval University) Three ways of being a Cyber Hacktivist 12:00 ? 12:30 Stefania Milan (European Institute) Ethics of technology and ethics of organising: the Cyberactivists? struggle for moral values in cyberspace 12:30 ? 13:00 Timothy Jordan (KCL) Generations of Hacktivism 13:00 ? 14:30 Lunch 14:30 ? 15:00 Llouis Reynolds (DEMOS) Service Generation: a step change in youth social action 15:00 ? 15:30 Simon Lindgren (Umea University, Sweden) Global media, Local movements: The role of local context in social media mobilisation 15:30 ? 16:00 Pollyanna Ruiz (LSE) Activism, Anonymity, Accountability 16:00 ? 16:30 Coffee 16:30 ? 17:00 Carolyn Gideon Spill over Effects of Cyber Activism and Policy Implications 17:00 ? 17:30 Round table Location: Building 28 (See below) Where is the International Manufacturing Laboratory? Further information: For further information, please see the website:http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/pais/research/ierg/cyberethics or contact Dr. Mariarosaria Taddeo (M.Taddeo at warwick.ac.uk) If you would like to attend this workshop, please email Mrs. Shona Parsons s.m.parsons at warwick.ac.uk -- Dr. Mariarosaria Taddeo Research Fellow in Cyber Security and Ethics, PAIS, University of Warwick Research Associate - Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, University of Oxford President, International Association for Computing and Philosophy http://rosariataddeo.net From knut.lundby at media.uio.no Mon Feb 17 09:29:32 2014 From: knut.lundby at media.uio.no (Knut Lundby) Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2014 18:29:32 +0100 Subject: [Air-L] Reminder: PhD-course on Mediatization in Oslo Message-ID: <1AD3DB62-0D41-41F8-A08B-D42B0268216A@media.uio.no> Reminder: INVITATION TO PhD-COURSE OM "MEDIATIZATION" AT THE UNIVERSITY OF OSLO ?Mediatization? has become a key term in contemporary media and communication studies. PhD-students are invited to a two days PdD-seminar on "Mediatization" 20-21 March 2014 at the Department of Media and Communication, University of Oslo. The course is free of charge but participants need to cover their own travel and stay in Oslo. Please see: http://www.hf.uio.no/imk/forskning/aktuelt/arrangementer/phd/2014/seminar-mediatization.html The course is directed by Professor Knut Lundby, supported by Dr. Sigrid Kannengiesser from University of Bremen. Expressions of Interest should be stated no later than 28 February to . See details under the above link. Regards, Knut Lundby _________________________________ KNUT LUNDBY. Professor Department of Media and Communication University of Oslo - www.media.uio.no From loriken at illinois.edu Mon Feb 17 10:17:12 2014 From: loriken at illinois.edu (Kendall, Lori) Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2014 18:17:12 +0000 Subject: [Air-L] Join us This Year in Bangkok! Submit Your Proposals for IR15 Message-ID: <72A7C5438AAF2B4382455117C749427D2A600420@CITESMBX1.ad.uillinois.edu> Just a quick reminder that submissions are due March 1 for IR 15: Boundaries and Intersections, the 2014 conference of the Association of Internet Researchers.* This deadline includes proposals for ignites, pre-conference workshops, and our new experimental category. Come join us in Bangkok in October! You can find the Call for Proposals here: http://ir15.aoir.org/?page_id=19, and the submission site here: https://www.conftool.com/aoir-ir15/index.php?page=login. Some quick notes about submitting through the ConfTool system: Your proposal of any type must include a short abstract (exact word count depends on submission type) which will appear in the program. Thereafter, for paper and panel proposals, you need to upload your 1000-1200 page proposal. In order to upload your proposals for these submission types, once the first page is complete, please scroll down to the bottom of the page and click the Proceed button. This will bring you to a second page to upload your full proposal. These proposals are also due March 1. Only after you do both steps is your submission complete. If you have any other questions feel free to contact the program chair Erika Pearson at ir15programchair at aoir.org or the association coordinator at ac at aoir.org We look forward to seeing you all in Bangkok! Lori Kendall President, AoIR *Note: The deadline appears as March 2 in ConfTool in order to allow people from various different time zones to make their submissions in a timely fashion. Please make a note of the relationship of the ConfTool deadline to your local time and make your submissions as early as possible. From difusion at medialab-prado.es Mon Feb 17 10:20:53 2014 From: difusion at medialab-prado.es (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Medialab-Prado_Comunicaci=F3n?=) Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2014 19:20:53 +0100 Subject: [Air-L] Open Call for Capsules. 1st Design and Digital Culture Conference Message-ID: <53025305.4080704@medialab-prado.es> *MEDIALAB-PRADO* *Plaza**de las Letras** **Calle Ala**meda, 15** **28014 Madrid T. 912 191 157** ****www.medialab-prado.es** ****Entrada gratuita* ** #edcd. Open Call for Capsules. 1st Design and Digital Culture Conference Open call for the submission of "capsules" or short talk on projects or experiences on design and digital culture within the context of the *#ecdc. 1st Design and Digital Culture Conference* event that takes place on April 8 and 9, 2014. The experience or project submited as a Capsule should contain creative elements related to technology and digital culture, such as its use, the development of technological languages, or the influence of digital culture in its creation. Deadline for submissions: March 7, 2014 More information and submissions: http://medialab-prado.es/article/capsulasedcd * http://medialab-prado.es* From ajk407 at nyu.edu Mon Feb 17 11:19:50 2014 From: ajk407 at nyu.edu (AJ Kelton) Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2014 14:19:50 -0500 Subject: [Air-L] #ELD14 Call for Proposals Closing Message-ID: The #ELD14 Program Committee has now caught up with the many wonderful submissions we received and the call for proposals for #ELD14 will officially close for NEW submissions on Friday, February 14th. http://eld.montclair.edu/eld14-call-for-proposals/ If you have previously submitted something and are in the process of revising it, please continue that process. The C4P will close on Wednesday ONLY to NEW proposals. But if you are revising something, please do not wait very long as revised submissions will only be accepted until the program is full. If you have any questions, please email them to eld at mail.montclair.edu. p.s. - as a reminder, registration is currently open with rates starting at only $95, but there are only a limited number of registrations left at that price. http://eld.montclair.edu/registration/ -- ----- AJ Kelton Director of Emerging & Instructional Technology College of Humanities and Social Sciences - Montclair State University Doctoral Candidate Educational Communication and Technology - New York University ---------- Emerging Learning Design 2014 http://eld.montclair.edu Twitter: @ELDConf ---------- http://www.ajkelton.net Twitter: @aj_kelton From krguidry at mistakengoal.com Mon Feb 17 11:29:42 2014 From: krguidry at mistakengoal.com (krguidry at mistakengoal.com) Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2014 14:29:42 -0500 Subject: [Air-L] Polite plea for abbreviation and initialism expansion Message-ID: <1616b1692b4977adbfc8c067c5da1621@mistakengoal.com> Colleagues, Maybe I'm the only one who gets confused or lost but it would be very helpful if you could please spell out abbreviations and initialisms in your messages. This appears to be a very interdisciplinary group so I am guessing that others might also appreciate this effort to be welcoming and inclusive of everyone. Thanks so much! Kevin From mfa13 at sfu.ca Mon Feb 17 13:38:18 2014 From: mfa13 at sfu.ca (Michael Filimowicz) Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2014 13:38:18 -0800 (PST) Subject: [Air-L] Call for Papers and Conference Presentations In-Reply-To: <1866100589.7420453.1392672710479.JavaMail.root@sfu.ca> Message-ID: <1349816660.7444344.1392673098964.JavaMail.root@sfu.ca> Call for Papers & Conference Presentations: CINESONIKA 4 ? The Fourth International Conference & Festival of the Soundtrack Venue: Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, British Columbia Dates: July 8-10th, 2014 Keynote Speaker: Amy Herzog (Queens College, CUNY) author of 'Dreams of Difference, Songs of the Same: The Musical Moment in Film' and co-editor of 'The Oxford Handbook of Sound and Image in Digital Media' We are seeking multi-disciplinary contributions on sound in relation to the moving image. Media thinkers, film scholars, art historians, performance theorists, composers, filmmakers, sound practitioners, multimedia semioticians, philosophers of perception ? we invite these and others to submit proposals for 20 minute panel presentations. All accepted presentations will be considered for inclusion in The Soundtrack academic journal if expanded into papers and submitted for peer review (1000-3000 words for short articles, 5000-6000 words for long papers). Submitting to the Conference: Please write "Cinesonika 4 Abstract" in the subject heading. Deadline for Abstracts (under 500 words): June 1 2014 Please submit your abstract and short bio both as an attachment (.doc or .pdf) and also pasted into the body of your email submission, to submit at cinesonika.com LINK: http://www.cinesonika.com From fred at firesabre.com Mon Feb 17 15:48:11 2014 From: fred at firesabre.com (Fred Fuchs) Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2014 17:48:11 -0600 Subject: [Air-L] to add participants to your SNSs or not? In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <53029FBB.5010408@firesabre.com> On 2/16/2014 2:25 PM, Jordan Kraemer wrote: > Some people might find it odd or suspicious to add someone who has no or few contacts, but on the other hand, it helps clearly demarcate the researcher as a researcher. Another consideration if you do create separate profiles is how will you manage your personal accounts -- will you just stay logged in to your research accounts, or will you switch back and forth? > One solution is to use different web browsers for your research and personal accounts. That way one can leave both logged on if needed. Over time the two accounts may have very different sets of contacts. It's also important to be careful which account you're making a post too. The wrong sort of post could alienate research participants. Fred -- Fred Fuchs - Founder, CEO, & Producer FireSabre Consulting LLC Content Services for Virtual Worlds Creation, Events, Training, & Simulations www.linkedin.com/in/fredfuchs https://twitter.com/Fred_Fuchs --- This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus protection is active. http://www.avast.com From u.reips at ikerbasque.org Mon Feb 17 16:52:13 2014 From: u.reips at ikerbasque.org (Ulf-Dietrich Reips) Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2014 01:52:13 +0100 Subject: [Air-L] postdoc position In-Reply-To: <53029FBB.5010408@firesabre.com> References: <53029FBB.5010408@firesabre.com> Message-ID: Dear colleague, we are offering a postdoc position for one year to work with us on applications for Internet-based research and e-learning. The position requires teaching of two classes/semester on Psychological Research Methods. Please let me know ASAP if you are interested. Best wishes Ulf -- Prof. Dr. Ulf-Dietrich Reips Psychological Methods Department of Psychology Box 31 78457 Konstanz Germany http://iscience.uni-konstanz.de From tranth at leeds.ac.uk Tue Feb 18 07:15:07 2014 From: tranth at leeds.ac.uk (Nikolaos Thomopoulos) Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2014 15:15:07 +0000 Subject: [Air-L] Workshop invitation / CFA Message-ID: Dear Air-L members, this is a call for abstracts for a workshop which may be of interest to some of you. Apologies for cross-postings. You may find the RSA workshop invitation along with the Call For Abstracts (250w - deadline 15th March) at our blog: http://sgICTregion.wordpress.com Theme: Theory and practice of using ICT to facilitate smart and green regional development: best practice, evaluation and future challenges for multi-level governance. Venue: History Center, Thessaloniki, Greece Dates: 5th - 6th June 2014 This workshop is organised with the support of the Regional Studies Association and the ENDURANCE research project and is anticipated to generate interesting debates between academics and practitioners. We would be grateful if you would consider submitting an abstract or alternatively if you could forward this call to other contacts with relevant interest. Please do get in touch at sgICTregion at gmail.com in case you have any queries about this workshop. We look forward to welcoming you in Thessaloniki! Best regards Nikolas on behalf of the Organising Committee ______________________________________ Dr Nikolas Thomopoulos Researcher - Institute for Transport Studies University of Leeds QUEEN'S ANNIVERSARY PRIZE WINNERS - 'sustained transport excellence' www.its.leeds.ac.uk/queensprize From jstromer at syr.edu Tue Feb 18 12:01:25 2014 From: jstromer at syr.edu (Jennifer Stromer-Galley) Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2014 20:01:25 +0000 Subject: [Air-L] Feedback on the AoIR Website Desired! Message-ID: Hi everyone A sub-committee of the AoIR Executive Board is working to revamp the Association's website (www.aoir.org). We would love to get your thoughts on the website, whether you've visited it or not. So, take a few minutes to take the survey. Follow this link: https://syracuseuniversity.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_1UhJqsqjSB9Jm5f. It shouldn't take more than 10 minutes of your time, and it will really help us get a sense of how to improve the website. Any questions or concerns, give a shout! Your PR/Website Committee: Anthony Hoffman, Annette Markham, and Jenny Stromer-Galley Associate Professor | School of Information Studies Vice President | Association of Internet Researchers Syracuse University 220 Hinds Hall Syracuse, New York 13244 t 315.443.1823 f 315.443.5673 e jstromer at syr.edu w www.stromer-galley.com w www.aoir.org ischool.syr.edu From antoine.mazieres at gmail.com Wed Feb 19 02:32:34 2014 From: antoine.mazieres at gmail.com (Antoine Mazieres) Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2014 11:32:34 +0100 Subject: [Air-L] Agile/Extreme/Lean methods for academic research Message-ID: Dear all, Startups I've been enjoying quite a lot of literature on how to handle project, ideas, development, thinking, etc, with theories such as Extreme, Agile, Lean, etc. All dating of less than 10 years. I was looking around for similar literature on academic research and project, and couldn't find anything modern, socially-aware (eg. connected) and relevant, making links between doing, thinking, envisioning, writing and more. I am thinking of the project management, hardware/software/experimentation development needed in the research processes, refactoring of collaborative writings, project design, time management, etc. Does someone have seen some initiative, publication, blog about this topic ? Thanks ! Antoine Mazi?res http://mazier.es/ From karlamarx at gmail.com Wed Feb 19 04:52:36 2014 From: karlamarx at gmail.com (Helga Tawil Souri) Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2014 07:52:36 -0500 Subject: [Air-L] CFP - Handbook of Media and Culture in the Middle East Message-ID: *Call for Papers* *Handbook of Media and Culture in the Middle East* Editors : Gholam Khiabany, Tarik Sabry, *Helga Tawil*-Souri The aim of the *Handbook of Media and Culture in the Middle East* is to direct attention to the multivalent and multi-local characteristics of knowledge production, media, and culture in the region. It highlights the necessity, once again, of the need and the possibilities of going beyond the false binaries, and of speaking with a 'third voice'. It addresses key questions such as: - Is Middle Eastern Media Studies a periphery or should it be regarded as part of a wider project of (social) science of society? - Does it have a particular hermeneutics? - How do we address the particularities of the region while also considering broader socio-cultural and media shifts? While challenging the provincialism of perceived 'universal' theory of media and society, this handbook also highlights the perceived 'alternative', i.e. militant particularism, which is just the flipside of the vacuous universalism it deplores, rather than a genuine alternative to it. The handbook will articulate the questions of media and culture in the Middle East beyond the limitations of presentism by focusing on the symbiotic relationship that exists between both old and new media. It also promises to highlight the role (and meaning) of culture as a dynamic site of struggle and contestation. The handbook is also an attempt to test some prevailing approaches regarding the role of empire, among other exogenous and endogenous factors, and its consequences for culture and politics. The handbook takes an interdisciplinary approach to media and culture in the Middle East and brings together internationally recognised scholars from around the world. The more recent revolutionary fervour in the Arab World has further brought the region into the attention of the world like never before. However, while this collection will certainly be an attempt at 'catching history on the wing', to quote Benjamin, we are seeking contributions, from various disciplines, that advance our understandings of the past and present and the struggle for the future of media and cultural resources, forms of organisations and expressions, as well as production, distribution, and consumption. This volume will be published by Blackwell as part of the prestigious series The Global Handbooks in Media and Communication Research, designed to define an intellectual terrain: its historic emergence; its key theoretical paradigms; its transnational evolution, its key empirical research and possible future directions. For more information and examples of the series see: http://eu.wiley.com/WileyCDA/Section/id-410903.html Submissions will be assessed for their scholarly merit and the extent to which they contribute to our greater understanding of the mediated cultures in the Middle East. Contributors should limit their articles to between 6000 and 8000 words (including references). *Abstracts (250 words) are due by 28 March 2014.* *Upon acceptance, full articles will be due by 20 October 2014.* For further information about the handbook, or to submit your abstract, please contact the editors: Gholam Khiabany, Goldsmiths, University of London (g.khiabany at gold.ac.uk) Tarik Sabry, University of Westminster (Sabryt at westminster.ac.uk) Helga Tawil-Souri, New York University (helga at nyu.edu) -- From jhunsinger at wlu.ca Wed Feb 19 05:34:30 2014 From: jhunsinger at wlu.ca (Jeremy hunsinger) Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2014 08:34:30 -0500 Subject: [Air-L] Agile/Extreme/Lean methods for academic research In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: On Google Groups there is a dated, but still insightful group called 'efficient academics' that is pretty good. From jhunsinger at wlu.ca Wed Feb 19 05:51:26 2014 From: jhunsinger at wlu.ca (Jeremy hunsinger) Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2014 08:51:26 -0500 Subject: [Air-L] Call for Abstracts for Chapters Vol.2 International Handbook of Internet Research Message-ID: Call for Abstracts for Chapters Volume 2 of the International Handbook of Internet Research (editors Jeremy Hunsinger, Lisbeth Klastrup, and Matthew Allen) Abstracts due June 1 2014; full chapters due Sept. 1 2015 After the remarkable success of the first International Handbook of Internet Research (2010), Springer has contracted with its editors to produce a second volume. This new volume will be arranged in three sections, that address one of three different aspects of internet research: foundations, futures, and critiques. Each of these meta-themes will have its own section of the new handbook. Foundations will approach a method, a theory, a perspective, a topic or field that has been and is still a location of significant internet research. These chapters will engage with the current and historical scholarly literature through extended reviews and also as a way of developing insights into the internet and internet research. Futures will engage with the directions the field of internet research might take over the next five years. These chapters will engage current methods, topics, perspectives, or fields that will expand and re-invent the field of internet research, particularly in light of emerging social and technological trends. The material for these chapters will define the topic they describe within the framework of internet research so that it can be understand as a place of future inquiry. Critique chapters will define and develop critical positions in the field of internet research. They can engage a theoretical perspective, a methodological perspective, a historical trend or topic in internet research and provide a critical perspective. These chapters might also define one type of critical perspective, tradition, or field in the field of internet research. We value the way in which this call for papers will itself shape the contents, themes, and coverage of the Handbook. We encourage potential authors to present abstracts that will consolidate current internet research, critically analyse its directions past and future, and re-invent the field for the decade to come. Contributions about the internet and internet research are sought from scholars in any discipline, and from many points of view. We therefore invite internet researchers working within the fields of communication, culture, politics, sociology, law and privacy, aesthetics, games and play, surveillance and mobility, amongst others, to consider contributing to the volume. Initially, we ask scholars and researchers to submit an 500 word abstract detailing their own chapter for one of the three sections outlined above. The abstract must follow the format presented below. After the initial round of submissions, there may be a further call for papers and/or approaches to individuals to complete the volume. The final chapters will be chosen from the submitted abstracts by the editors or invited by the editors. The chapter writers will be notified of acceptance by January 1st, 2015. The chapters will be due September 2015, should be between 6,000 and 10,000 words (inclusive of references, biographical statement and all other text). Each abstract needs to be presented in the following form: ? Section (Either Foundations, Futures, or Critiques) ? Title of chapter ? Author name/s, institutional details ? Corresponding author's email address ? Keywords (no more than 5) ? Abstract (no more than 500 words) ? References Please e-mail your abstract/s to: internet.research.handbook at gmail.com We look forward to your submissions and working with you to produce another definitive collection of thought-provoking internet research. Please feel free to distribute this CfP widely. Thank you Jeremy, Lisbeth, and Matt From joseph.2011 at reagle.org Wed Feb 19 06:13:05 2014 From: joseph.2011 at reagle.org (Joseph Reagle) Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2014 09:13:05 -0500 Subject: [Air-L] Agile/Extreme/Lean methods for academic research In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <5304BBF1.80301@reagle.org> On 02/19/2014 05:32 AM, Antoine Mazieres wrote: > Does someone have seen some initiative, publication, blog about this topic ? I recommend . From dittrich at apl.washington.edu Wed Feb 19 09:49:57 2014 From: dittrich at apl.washington.edu (Dave Dittrich) Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2014 09:49:57 -0800 Subject: [Air-L] Agile/Extreme/Lean methods for academic research In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <5304EEC5.9080903@apl.washington.edu> On 2/19/14 2:32 AM, Antoine Mazieres wrote: > I am thinking of .. software/experimentation > development needed in the research processes, refactoring of collaborative > writings... http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3639880/ -- Dave Dittrich dittrich at u.washington.edu http://staff.washington.edu/dittrich PGP key: http://staff.washington.edu/dittrich/pgpkey.txt Fingerprint: 097B 4DCB BF16 E1D8 A06C 7512 A751 C80A D15E E079 From keckert at umd.edu Wed Feb 19 13:04:00 2014 From: keckert at umd.edu (Kristin Dagmar Eckert) Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2014 21:04:00 +0000 Subject: [Air-L] Studies on blogs in US, UK, Germany and Switzerland on how much bloggers make from their blogs Message-ID: <0A6BAADED9DB714B8885DC08221E3B9F0A59D284@OITMX1006.AD.UMD.EDU> Hi everyone I am searching for studies, articles and information on how many bloggers get how much income from their blogs in the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany and Switzerland each. I looked around and found some indications in news media articles but not studies. I was wondering if studies on the issue in any of the four countries exist (ideally also with gendered data). I have indications in my dissertation project on a large quantity of commercial blogs in the U.S. and the U.K. and would like to put that into context of previous research. In Germany and Switzerland my interview participants indicated commercial blogs and income from blogs is rare, equally I would like to back that up with studies/articles/information on the matter. I am grateful for any links and hints. Thank you very much. Best, Stine Stine Eckert Ph.D. Candidate Philip Merrill College of Journalism University of Maryland 2100N Knight Hall www.stineeckert.com @stineeckert From joomen at beeldengeluid.nl Wed Feb 19 13:06:16 2014 From: joomen at beeldengeluid.nl (Johan Oomen) Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2014 22:06:16 +0100 Subject: [Air-L] CFP: Second International Workshop on Linked Media (LiME 2014) Message-ID: <0519746E-9EB7-4E8F-859F-F4C86B39F95E@beeldengeluid.nl> =================================================================== CFP: Second International Workshop on Linked Media (LiME 2014) http://www.linkedtv.eu/event/LiME2014/ =================================================================== The workshop is co-located with the ESWC 2014 conference held in Heraklion, Greece on 25-29 May 2014. *Deadlines*: - Submission deadline: March 6, 2014, 23:59PM Hawaii Time - Notifications: April 1, 2014, 23:59PM Hawaii Time - Camera ready version: April 15, 2014, 23:59PM Hawaii Time Goals of the workshop: If the future Web will be able to fully use the scale and quality of online media, a Web scale layer of structured and semantic media annotation is needed, which we call *Linked Media*. Drawing on the success of the Linked Data movement, we believe annotation of media using Linked Data concepts can be the basis for Web-wide media interlinking based on concept matching and relationships. This 2nd international workshop on Linked Media (LiME'2014), building on last year's successful event held at WWW 2013, aims at promoting the principles of Linked Media on the Web by gathering semantic multimedia and Linked Data researchers to exchange current research and development work on creating conceptual descriptions of media items, multimedia metadata publication on the Web, and its semantic processing, particular based on Linked Data approaches to concept matching and relationships. Specifically, we aim to build a research community to promote a future Web where automated multimedia analysis results can be used as a basis to integrate Linked Data-based conceptual annotations into structured media descriptions, which can be published and shared online. When media descriptions are more easily findable and processable, new applications and services can be created in which online media is more easily shared, retrieved, re-used and re-purposed. This will offer a wide range of possibilities for various stakeholders in the creative industries. Workshop topics and themes: To push further the evolution of the Rich Media Web, and to facilitate its convergence with the Semantic Web, it is essential to establish consensus on online media annotation standards, the use of semantics in describing what media represents, and demonstrate approaches to leverage such structured and semantic media descriptions in Web applications. While non-textual content is often now the first destination of online agents rather than HTML/textual resources, and thus access to structured annotation of the online media is increasingly important for new Web applications capable of media search, retrieval, adaptation and presentation, the online media annotation space is still limited, fragmented and lacking in consensus for building Web tools and interfaces to support it. LiME'2014 focuses on identifying the key building blocks required to foster the development of new Web tools and interfaces that will support the growth and re-use of Linked Media, which is inspired by the Linked Data movement for making structured descriptions of resources more easily available online. The workshop topics include, but are not limited to: * Approaches to online media descriptions - Tools and approaches aligning the fragmented approaches to online media description, its processing and publication, e.g. based around Linked Data, W3C Media Ontology and Media Fragments URI. - Tools and approaches to search and retrieval of online media based on its structured description, scaling to the Web - Tools and approaches addressing issues of trust, quality and rights of online media * Extracting and linking - Tools and approaches to lower the cost of creating structured descriptions of online media resources - New methods of automatic, real time, metadata extraction of any online media content (including live streams) - Ideas how to incorporate Linked Data into media description (and benefit from the additional metadata of the Linked Data cloud) - New methods for automatically assessing the suitability of (non-trusted) content for interweaving (e.g. violence detection, nudity detection), and publishing such assessments * Showcases, business models and assessment - New Web applications making use of Linked Media (across different platforms) including evaluation with end-users and/or suitable business models - Approaches to tracking user interaction with media (and exploiting this knowledge to enrich annotations) The workshop is sponsored by the EU projects LinkedTV (http://www.linkedtv.eu) and MICO (http://www.mico-project.eu/) as well as the large open source community around Apache Stanbol (http://stanbol.apache.org/) & Apache Marmotta (http://marmotta.apache.org/). Submission: Submissions should not exceed 12 pages and are to be formatted according to Springer LNCS guidelines (http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-7-72376-0) and submitted to https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lime2014. Papers should be submitted in PDF format. We encourage various types of submission: - full papers (max 12 pages) for mature work which has been subject to evaluation - demo submissions (max 5 pages) for demos, software and platforms which may be able to support a part of the Linked Media ecosystem The workshop proceedings will be published online through CEUR-WS. A selection of the best papers from the workshop will also appear in an LNCS companion volume of ESWC 2014. Programme Committee: - Lora Aroyo, VU University, NL - Olivier Aubert, University of Nantes, FR - Marco Bertini, University di Firenze, IT - Werner Bailer, Joanneum, AT - Dan Brickley, Google Inc., UK - Tobias B?rger, Payback GmbH, AT - Pierre-Antoine Champin, University Lyon 1, FR - Paolo Ciccarese, Massachusetts General Hospital Biomedical Informatics Core, USA - Davy Van Deursen, EVS, BE - Jean-Claude Dufourd, Telecom ParisTech, FR - Nikolaos Gkalelis, CERTH, GR - Lynda Hardman, CWI, NL - Michiel Hildebrand, CWI, NL - George Ioannidis, IN2, UK - Antoine Isaac, Europeana, NL - Ioannis Kompatsiaris, CERTH, GR - Tom Kurz, Salsbourg Research, AT - Yunjia Li, University of Southampton, UK - Vasileios Mezaris, CERTH, GR - Frank Nack, University of Amsterdam, NL - Silvia Pfeiffer, Vquence, AU - Yves Raimond, BBC, UK - Giuseppe Rizzo, University di Torino, IT - Harald Sack, University of Postdam, DE - Thomas Steiner, Google Inc., DE Organizers: - Lyndon Nixon, Modul University, AT - Rapha?l Troncy, EURECOM, FR - Erik Mannens, iMinds / University of Ghent, BE - Johan Oomen, Sound & Vision, NL - Florian Stegmaier, University of Passau, DE From jaroslaw.kopec at gmail.com Thu Feb 20 00:30:57 2014 From: jaroslaw.kopec at gmail.com (=?utf-8?Q?Jaros=C5=82aw_Kope=C4=87?=) Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2014 09:30:57 +0100 Subject: [Air-L] Critical theory of gamification / Archaeology of gamification Message-ID: Dear All, I am preparing a seminar on critical theory of gamification. Right now I am mostly interested in archaeology of gamification, that is in looking for gamification?s prefigurations in tabletop and video games. I would very much appreciate some tips on readings from you. -- Jaros?aw Kope? Faculty of Liberal Arts University of Warsaw Poland From anders.lovlie at hig.no Thu Feb 20 01:40:03 2014 From: anders.lovlie at hig.no (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Anders_Sundnes_L=F8vlie?=) Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2014 10:40:03 +0100 Subject: [Air-L] Agile/Extreme/Lean methods for academic researc In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <5305CD73.6020708@hig.no> I sketched a model for "Agile Media Design Research" in my PhD dissertation: http://folk.uio.no/anderssl/published/lovlie_phd.pdf This is in the context of humanities-based media research, so it is focused on design as a hermeneutic process that can inform research, not so much on project management. -- Anders Sundnes L?vlie Associate professor, Gj?vik University College english.hig.no On 20.02.14 00:00, air-l-request at listserv.aoir.org wrote: > Message: 1 > Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2014 11:32:34 +0100 > From: Antoine Mazieres > To: "air-l at listserv.aoir.org" > Subject: [Air-L] Agile/Extreme/Lean methods for academic research > Message-ID: > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > Dear all, > > Startups I've been enjoying quite a lot of literature on how to handle > project, ideas, development, thinking, etc, with theories such as Extreme, > Agile, Lean, etc. All dating of less than 10 years. > > I was looking around for similar literature on academic research and > project, and couldn't find anything modern, socially-aware (eg. connected) > and relevant, making links between doing, thinking, envisioning, writing > and more. > > I am thinking of the project management, hardware/software/experimentation > development needed in the research processes, refactoring of collaborative > writings, project design, time management, etc. > > Does someone have seen some initiative, publication, blog about this topic ? > > Thanks ! > > Antoine Mazi?res > > http://mazier.es/ > From antoine.mazieres at gmail.com Thu Feb 20 02:46:11 2014 From: antoine.mazieres at gmail.com (Antoine Mazieres) Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2014 11:46:11 +0100 Subject: [Air-L] Agile/Extreme/Lean methods for academic research In-Reply-To: <5304EEC5.9080903@apl.washington.edu> References: <5304EEC5.9080903@apl.washington.edu> Message-ID: Oh ! very nice ! There is even a branching model for scientific collaboration : http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3639880/ (scigit-flow) Thanks ! Sum up of refs gathered here and there, for those interested : http://technocalifornia.blogspot.ch/2008/06/agile-research.html https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/17143/agile-extreme-lean-methods-for-academic-research https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/the-efficient-academic https://www.academia.edu/4191679/Innovation_Infrastructures_to_Transform_the_Mexican_Internet_Industry_The_Case_of_the_Startup_Community http://www.nmc.org/pdf/2014-horizon-he-preview.pdf http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3639880/ On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 6:49 PM, Dave Dittrich wrote: > On 2/19/14 2:32 AM, Antoine Mazieres wrote: > > I am thinking of .. software/experimentation > > development needed in the research processes, refactoring of > collaborative > > writings... > > http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3639880/ > > -- > Dave Dittrich > dittrich at u.washington.edu > http://staff.washington.edu/dittrich > > PGP key: http://staff.washington.edu/dittrich/pgpkey.txt > Fingerprint: 097B 4DCB BF16 E1D8 A06C 7512 A751 C80A D15E E079 > From sebastian.deterding at gmx.de Thu Feb 20 16:31:28 2014 From: sebastian.deterding at gmx.de (Sebastian Deterding) Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2014 19:31:28 -0500 Subject: [Air-L] Critical theory of gamification / Archaeology of, > gamification In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <53069E60.3070604@gmx.de> Dear Jaroslaw, I have a chapter in print that extensively traces the prehistory of gamification: Deterding, S. (in print): The Ambiguity of Games: Histories and Rhetorics of the Gameful World, in Walz, S. P. & Deterding, S. (eds.), The Gameful World: Approaches, Issues, Applications. Cambridge, MA, London: MIT Press. Email me for a copy. Best Sebastian > Message: 1 > Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2014 09:30:57 +0100 > From: Jaros?aw Kope? > To: air-l at listserv.aoir.org > Subject: [Air-L] Critical theory of gamification / Archaeology of > gamification > Message-ID: > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > > Dear All, > > I am preparing a seminar on critical theory of gamification. Right now I am mostly interested in archaeology of gamification, that is in looking for gamification?s prefigurations in tabletop and video games. > > I would very much appreciate some tips on readings from you. > > -- > Jaros?aw Kope? > Faculty of Liberal Arts > University of Warsaw > Poland -- Cheers, Sebastian ------------------------------------------------------------- Sebastian Deterding | coding conduct Web: http://codingconduct.cc | Twitter: @dingstweets ------------------------------------------------------------- This email is [X] assumed public and may be forwarded, blogged, etc. [_] assumed to be private. Please ask before redistributing ------------------------------------------------------------- From sebastian.deterding at gmx.de Thu Feb 20 16:35:46 2014 From: sebastian.deterding at gmx.de (Sebastian Deterding) Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2014 19:35:46 -0500 Subject: [Air-L] Critical theory of gamification / Archaeology Message-ID: <53069F62.70406@gmx.de> Dear Jaroslaw, I have a chapter in print that extensively traces the prehistory of gamification: Deterding, S. (in print): The Ambiguity of Games: Histories and Rhetorics of the Gameful World, in Walz, S. P. & Deterding, S. (eds.), The Gameful World: Approaches, Issues, Applications. Cambridge, MA, London: MIT Press. Email me for a copy. Best Sebastian -- Cheers, Sebastian ------------------------------------------------------------- Sebastian Deterding | coding conduct Mail: sebastian at codingconduct.cc | Twitter: @dingstweets Web: http://codingconduct.cc | Skype: sebastiandeterding US mobile: +1 (585) 747-8616 | DE mobile: +49 15140030044 ------------------------------------------------------------- This email is [_] assumed public and may be forwarded, blogged, etc. [X] assumed to be private. Please ask before redistributing ------------------------------------------------------------- From explicit_corpse at hotmail.com Thu Feb 20 16:55:53 2014 From: explicit_corpse at hotmail.com (V. T.) Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2014 16:55:53 -0800 Subject: [Air-L] Critical theory of gamification / Archaeology of gamification In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: I would highly recommend Graeme Kirkpatrick's Computer Games and the Social Imaginary:http://ca.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-0745641105.html veronika tzankova From simone.heidbrink at zegk.uni-heidelberg.de Fri Feb 21 01:47:11 2014 From: simone.heidbrink at zegk.uni-heidelberg.de (Simone Heidbrink) Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2014 10:47:11 +0100 Subject: [Air-L] Special issue on "Religion in Digital Games" is online! Message-ID: <5307209F.8050707@zegk.uni-heidelberg.de> Dear all, The editors of "online - Heidelberg Journal of Religions on the Internet" (http://online.uni-hd.de) are pleased to announce the publication of the special issue "Religion in Digital Games" featuring a multitude of exciting scientific perspectives on videogames as new research focus in Cultural and Religious Studies by authors from many different disciplines. It includes articles on theory and method as well as case studies with a focus on both game content and the player. We hope the articles assembled in this issue will contribute to encouraging further academic debate on the topic of religion in digital games and help openig up the field for even more motivated and enthusiastic scholars and research projects. The journal is keen to collect high quality scholarship on issues relating to religions on the Internet and welcomes submissions pertaining to all aspects of theses matters anytime to be published in our next issue scheduled for fall 2014! Of course we will gladly consider the publication of further articles related to religion and video games as well as any other topic fitting the scope of the journal. Submissions and queries should be send to the following address: online.religion at zegk.uni-heidelberg.de Best regards Simone Heidbrink & Tobias Knoll (editors of the special issue) -- Simone Heidbrink, M.A. Institut f?r Religionswissenschaft Zentrum f?r Europ?ische Geschichts- und Kulturwissenschaften (ZEGK) Universit?t Heidelberg Akademiestr. 4-8 D - 69117 Heidelberg fon: ++49-(0)6221-54 74 82 fax: ++49-(0)6221-54 76 24 From a.birkbak at gmail.com Fri Feb 21 02:50:41 2014 From: a.birkbak at gmail.com (Andreas Birkbak) Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2014 11:50:41 +0100 Subject: [Air-L] Research of Facebook public groups In-Reply-To: References: <6E61AC1252115240BEFB63F66879D668029129@exp-dag1-n1.uol.le.ac.uk> Message-ID: Dear Ruth, Here's a study of two Facebook Groups founded in reaction to a snowstorm emergency in Denmark that I've done: http://vbn.aau.dk/da/publications/crystallizations-in-the-blizzard(00900bdf-5dd9-4edf-8a99-582c96b22081).html It combines quantitative and qualitative approaches, including analysis of discourse. Best, Andreas 2014-01-23 21:48 GMT+01:00 Pask-Hughes, Alexander < a.pask-hughes at lancaster.ac.uk>: > Hi Ruth, > > I imagine you'll have likely come across these and not all look at > Facebook, but I think they're probably relevant discourse-analytic > examples, with a focus beyond self and identity: > > Burke & Goodman (2012) "Bring back Hitler's gas chambers": Asylum seeking, > Nazis and Facebook - A discursive analysis. D&S 23(1). > > Goodman & Rowe (2014) "Maybe it is prejudice... but it is NOT racism": > Negotiating racism in discussion forums about Gypsies. D&S 25(1). > > Shaikjee & Milani (2013) "It's time for Afrikaans to go"... or not? > Language ideologies and (ir)rationality in the blogosphere. Language > Matters 44(2). > > > Aside from these, there's the research from Todd Graham and Scott Wright > (including the EU cyberspace paper with Ruth Wodak), although that's > probably veering too far away from both Facebook and discourse analysis. > > I was sure someone archived the Thatcher tweets as well... > > > Alexander David Pask-Hughes > > PhD student > Seminar Tutor for LING204: Discourse Analysis > > Department of Linguistics and English Language > Lancaster University > > E-mail: a.pask-hughes at lancaster.ac.uk > Twitter: @adpaskhughes > > ________________________________________ > From: air-l-bounces at listserv.aoir.org [air-l-bounces at listserv.aoir.org] > on behalf of Page, Ruth (Dr.) [rep22 at leicester.ac.uk] > Sent: 22 January 2014 09:49 > To: air-l at listserv.aoir.org > Subject: [Air-L] Research of Facebook public groups > Dear AoIR list members, > > I'm doing some work from a discourse analysis perspective on the way > interactions on Facebook public groups take place. I'm specifically looking > at the RIP pages set up in response to the death of former Prime Minister > Margaret Thatcher. > > I'm familiar with a lot of the research literature on Facebook, but most > of what I know is based on studies that examined personal Facebook > accounts/wall interactions. > > Can anyone please recommend studies of Facebook groups? I'm especially > interested in anything that has a linguistic/discourse analysis focus, but > it would also be good to learn from studies from a more general social > science perspective too. > > Thanks in advance for any suggestions! > > Ruth > > Dr Ruth Page > Room 1509, Attenborough Tower > School of English > University of Leicester > Leicester > LE1 7RH > UK > +44 (0)116 223 1286 > _______________________________________________ > The Air-L at listserv.aoir.org mailing list > is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org > Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: > http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org > > Join the Association of Internet Researchers: > http://www.aoir.org/ > _______________________________________________ > The Air-L at listserv.aoir.org mailing list > is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org > Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: > http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org > > Join the Association of Internet Researchers: > http://www.aoir.org/ > From francesca.musiani at gmail.com Fri Feb 21 03:04:58 2014 From: francesca.musiani at gmail.com (Francesca Musiani) Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2014 12:04:58 +0100 Subject: [Air-L] Call for Applications, 2014-15 Yahoo! Fellow in Residence, Georgetown University Message-ID: CALL FOR APPLICATIONS Yahoo! Fellow in Residence International Values, Communications Technology & the Global Internet School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University Washington, D.C. The Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service is pleased to invite applications for the position of Yahoo! Fellow in Residence for the academic year 2014-2015. This one academic year position is funded by the Yahoo! Fund on International Values, Communications Technology and the Global Internet, which was established at Georgetown University by a gift from Yahoo! Inc. The Yahoo! Fellow will be chosen by Georgetown University from applicants drawn from the government, corporate, non-profit and academic sectors. The Fellowship The Yahoo! Fellow in Residence explores the relationship between new communications technologies and international values in varying national and international contexts. Projects should address the issue of applying international values and principles (e.g., free expression, regulation, citizenship and privacy) to new communications technologies and the diffusion of information in rapidly changing global environments. These might include large and evolving economies--including Brazil, Russia, India, and China--as well as interactions between the developing and developed worlds. Projects can draw on insights from many disciplines, including politics, economics, business, and socio-cultural research. It is expected that the Yahoo! Fellow will undertake research and writing, some of which will be posted on the website of the Institute for the Study of Diplomacy, during his or her stay. In addition, the Fellow must organize at least one workshop or conference during each of the two semesters in residence, work with graduate fellows supported by the same Yahoo! grant, engage in co-curricular offerings and other interactions with the Georgetown student body, and participate in the professional life of Washington, D.C. The Yahoo! Fellow in Residence will be a part of the Institute for the Study of Diplomacy (ISD) at Georgetown University. The Institute will provide office space, supplies, and administrative support during the fellowship year. The Yahoo! Fellow will have the opportunity to be a member of a group of ISD associates and fellows drawn from the United States and foreign government agencies. The fellowship provides a stipend of $60,000 to support housing and living expenses for the academic year and $5,000 to cover travel associated with the appointment. The appointment will cover the period of August 15, 2014 to May 15, 2015. Within the School of Foreign Service, the Master of Science in Foreign Service Program (MSFS) will provide a locus for the applied curricular and research support activities associated with the Yahoo! Fellows. The Program's multi-disciplinary faculty, including experienced public and private sector practitioners, comprises a broad resource base for research and collaboration on globalization forces and impacts across an array of diverse sectors and cross-national applications. Relevant results generated by the Yahoo! Fellows' projects could be incorporated into the MSFS Program's curriculum through guest lectures, special seminars, case studies and/or course modules. It is anticipated that research projects may thereby yield multiplier educational effects that extend beyond the tenure of a particular Yahoo! Fellow. MSFS graduate students will also be selected to receive partial-tuition fellowships as Junior Yahoo! Fellows. The selected students will engage in study and research associated with the Yahoo! Fellow in Residence and/or other faculty engaged in related project activities. Applications Applications should be imaginative, multidisciplinary, analytical, and capable of being completed during the fellowship year. They should include proposals for projects and associated conferences or workshops. An advanced degree is not required, however, for those pursuing graduate work, the degree must be completed and in hand prior to assuming the fellowship. Applicants should submit the following: * Letter of interest * Curriculum vitae * Statement describing a proposed project and methodology (not to exceed 2,500 words) Submit application materials to: Institute for the Study of Diplomacy Attn: Yahoo! Fellow Search 1316 36th Street, NW Washington, DC 20007 Deadline: Applicants are advised to submit materials by Monday, April 7, 2014. 3 Applications will be considered until a final applicant has been selected and has accepted the appointment. Electronic submissions may be sent to the following email address: dolgasc at georgetown.edu. In the subject line, please add the text: Yahoo! Fellow Application. Background Information For information on the Yahoo! Program and current and past fellows, please visit the Institute for the Study of Diplomacy website: http://isd.georgetown.edu/programs/yahoofellow/. Kalev Leetaru (2013-2014) Francesca Musiani (2012-2013) S?verine Ars?ne (2011-2012) Han-Teng Liao (2010-2011) Evgeny Morozov (2009-2010) Gaurav Mishra (2008-2009) Irene Wu (2007-2008) For information on the Master of Science in Foreign Service (MSFS) graduate program, please visit http://msfs.georgetown.edu. For information on Georgetown University, please visit www.georgetown.edu. -- Francesca Musiani Postdoctoral researcher Centre de Sociologie de l'Innovation MINES ParisTech 60, Boulevard Saint-Michel 75272 Paris Cedex 06, France From slc at publicus.net Fri Feb 21 05:58:02 2014 From: slc at publicus.net (Steven Clift) Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2014 07:58:02 -0600 Subject: [Air-L] Research of Facebook public groups In-Reply-To: References: <6E61AC1252115240BEFB63F66879D668029129@exp-dag1-n1.uol.le.ac.uk> Message-ID: You might be interested in what we are doing with: https://www.facebook.com/groups/opengovgroup I trolled deeply to find scores of open government, open data, smart city, civic tech Facebook Groups around the world, many are listed here: http://pages.e-democracy.org/List_of_groups And far more are here (mixed with other groups): https://www.facebook.com/stevenlclift/groups I then worked to promote this new global group as a space to connect these many national/language based groups. Because Facebook controls message distribution via News feed exposure, the number of members are deceiving and at about 250 members, the default notification switches from all new posts to new posts from just your friends, these spaces can quickly become dormant. However, some Facebook Groups really have a lot of life if they have continued posting of new topics by an array of members. On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 4:50 AM, Andreas Birkbak wrote: > Dear Ruth, > > Here's a study of two Facebook Groups founded in reaction to a snowstorm > emergency in Denmark that I've done: > http://vbn.aau.dk/da/publications/crystallizations-in-the-blizzard(00900bdf-5dd9-4edf-8a99-582c96b22081).html > > It combines quantitative and qualitative approaches, including analysis of > discourse. > > Best, > Andreas > > > 2014-01-23 21:48 GMT+01:00 Pask-Hughes, Alexander < > a.pask-hughes at lancaster.ac.uk>: > >> Hi Ruth, >> >> I imagine you'll have likely come across these and not all look at >> Facebook, but I think they're probably relevant discourse-analytic >> examples, with a focus beyond self and identity: >> >> Burke & Goodman (2012) "Bring back Hitler's gas chambers": Asylum seeking, >> Nazis and Facebook - A discursive analysis. D&S 23(1). >> >> Goodman & Rowe (2014) "Maybe it is prejudice... but it is NOT racism": >> Negotiating racism in discussion forums about Gypsies. D&S 25(1). >> >> Shaikjee & Milani (2013) "It's time for Afrikaans to go"... or not? >> Language ideologies and (ir)rationality in the blogosphere. Language >> Matters 44(2). >> >> >> Aside from these, there's the research from Todd Graham and Scott Wright >> (including the EU cyberspace paper with Ruth Wodak), although that's >> probably veering too far away from both Facebook and discourse analysis. >> >> I was sure someone archived the Thatcher tweets as well... >> >> >> Alexander David Pask-Hughes >> >> PhD student >> Seminar Tutor for LING204: Discourse Analysis >> >> Department of Linguistics and English Language >> Lancaster University >> >> E-mail: a.pask-hughes at lancaster.ac.uk >> Twitter: @adpaskhughes >> >> ________________________________________ >> From: air-l-bounces at listserv.aoir.org [air-l-bounces at listserv.aoir.org] >> on behalf of Page, Ruth (Dr.) [rep22 at leicester.ac.uk] >> Sent: 22 January 2014 09:49 >> To: air-l at listserv.aoir.org >> Subject: [Air-L] Research of Facebook public groups >> Dear AoIR list members, >> >> I'm doing some work from a discourse analysis perspective on the way >> interactions on Facebook public groups take place. I'm specifically looking >> at the RIP pages set up in response to the death of former Prime Minister >> Margaret Thatcher. >> >> I'm familiar with a lot of the research literature on Facebook, but most >> of what I know is based on studies that examined personal Facebook >> accounts/wall interactions. >> >> Can anyone please recommend studies of Facebook groups? I'm especially >> interested in anything that has a linguistic/discourse analysis focus, but >> it would also be good to learn from studies from a more general social >> science perspective too. >> >> Thanks in advance for any suggestions! >> >> Ruth >> >> Dr Ruth Page >> Room 1509, Attenborough Tower >> School of English >> University of Leicester >> Leicester >> LE1 7RH >> UK >> +44 (0)116 223 1286 >> _______________________________________________ >> The Air-L at listserv.aoir.org mailing list >> is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org >> Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: >> http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org >> >> Join the Association of Internet Researchers: >> http://www.aoir.org/ >> _______________________________________________ >> The Air-L at listserv.aoir.org mailing list >> is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org >> Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: >> http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org >> >> Join the Association of Internet Researchers: >> http://www.aoir.org/ >> > _______________________________________________ > The Air-L at listserv.aoir.org mailing list > is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org > Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org > > Join the Association of Internet Researchers: > http://www.aoir.org/ From jgroshek at bu.edu Fri Feb 21 10:57:11 2014 From: jgroshek at bu.edu (Jacob Groshek) Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2014 13:57:11 -0500 Subject: [Air-L] MA/PhD in Emerging Media Studies at Boston University Message-ID: Dear Colleagues, Please circulate to students that may have an interest in either our newly formed MA or PhD tracks, or both. More information can be found here http://www.bu.edu/com/academics/emerging-media/ and our MA course listings for fall 2014 onward are attached. Early applications are eligible for generous tuition scholarships and funding for teaching or research. I'm happy to answer any additional questions as well. Best, Jacob (Ps. Apologies for cross-posts) -- Dr. Jacob Groshek Assistant Professor of Emerging Media 704 Commonwealth Ave., Office 302D Boston University 617-353-6421 jgroshek.com From jackharris999 at gmail.com Fri Feb 21 11:09:55 2014 From: jackharris999 at gmail.com (Jack Harris) Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2014 14:09:55 -0500 Subject: [Air-L] MA/PhD in Emerging Media Studies at Boston University In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Bryant, you may want to look into this as a fallback since it appears to include good funding, One Year Masters in Emerging Media at Boston University. It includes design and applied as well as academic experience. It's a new program, a good program and I know the division director who recently left Rutgers and is an international and well-regarded expert in this field. On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 1:57 PM, Jacob Groshek wrote: > Dear Colleagues, > > Please circulate to students that may have an interest in either our newly > formed MA or PhD tracks, or both. > > More information can be found here > > http://www.bu.edu/com/academics/emerging-media/ > > and our MA course listings for fall 2014 onward are attached. Early > applications are eligible for generous tuition scholarships and funding for > teaching or research. > > I'm happy to answer any additional questions as well. > > Best, > > Jacob > > (Ps. Apologies for cross-posts) > > -- > Dr. Jacob Groshek > Assistant Professor of Emerging Media > 704 Commonwealth Ave., Office 302D > Boston University > 617-353-6421 > jgroshek.com > > _______________________________________________ > The Air-L at listserv.aoir.org mailing list > is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org > Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: > http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org > > Join the Association of Internet Researchers: > http://www.aoir.org/ > -- _____________________________ Jack Harris http://www.linkedin.com/in/jackharrisnyc/ http://rci-rutgers.academia.edu/JackLHarris SC&I Fellow, School of Communication and Information. Governor's Executive Fellow, Eagleton Institute of Politics Rutgers University, New Brunswick NJ 952-212-7287 jackharris999 at gmail.com www.pocketfarms.wordpress.com/ From fichman at indiana.edu Sat Feb 22 04:00:05 2014 From: fichman at indiana.edu (Fichman, Pnina) Date: Sat, 22 Feb 2014 12:00:05 +0000 Subject: [Air-L] AMCIS 2014 > Final CFP: Social Theory in Information Systems Research (STIR '14) Message-ID: <8E1650F8-F5DC-425B-B91B-2A3FDA1B714A@indiana.edu> [Apologies for cross-posting] Final Call For Papers: AMCIS Mini-track: Social Theory in Information Systems Research (STIR '14) 20th Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS): Smart Sustainability, the Information Systems opportunity, Savannah, GA, August 7-10, 2014 Conference Website: http://amcis2013.aisnet.org/ DESCRIPTION: This Mini Track solicits papers that make use of social theory in information systems research drawing upon such approaches as sociotechnical theory, critical theory, social informatics, organizational theory, cultural anthropology, sociology and others. We are interested in understanding and supporting the evolution of social theory, socio-technical theory, and social informatics in information systems research. We want to highlight research that uses these approaches to critically examine the constitution of information and communications technologies, and their roles in organizations and society; these are among the most important questions about IS, organizations, and society. We particularly invite IS research that applies, builds on, compares, or critiques these social theories. We are interested in high quality empirical and conceptual work that uses social theory to study and theorize about application domains including large-scale social and organizational phenomena. We seek to attract research papers and research-in-progress papers from all IS researchers who are using the work of social theorists, organizational theorists, sociotechnical theorists, and cultural anthropologists, symbolic interactionists, and many others. We are particularly interested in research that makes use of social theory 1) to address issues of designing a smart and sustainable digital future, 2) to answer questions about how we are interacting with ICTs in our work and social lives in ways that help and hinder the move towards sustainability, and 3) to critically examine the constitution of ICTs, and their roles in the design, maintenance and dissolution of sustainable organizations and social groups. This will be the 14th consecutive year for the Mini Track at AMCIS, and we hope to continue a tradition of high quality paper submissions, thought-provoking presentations and lively discussion for all IS researchers using, or considering the use of, social theory in their work. SUGGESTED TOPICS In addition to research aligned with the conference theme we are also interested in high quality empirical and conceptual work that uses social theory to study and understand: * The implications of social networks for organizations and social groups * Conceptual and empirical work focusing on the ways ICT can promote or hinder social inclusion * The significance of cyberinfrastructure for commerce, governing and research and development * The relationships between ICTs and people as they participate in online communities and virtual teams * Online communities of practice, their processes and outcomes * The dynamics of crowdsourcing online * Hacktivism and the use of technology to mobilize resources and advance ideology * Unintended consequences of technology implementation and use in organizations and in social life * Scientific collaboration and scholarly communication as enabled and constrained by ICTs * The impacts of social computing on our social and work lives Minitrack chairs: Howard Rosenbaum, School of Informatics and Computing, Indiana University hrosenba at indiana.edu Pnina Fichman, School of Informatics and Computing, Indiana University fichman at indiana.edu Submission Process: Instructions for authors and more information is available at: http://amcis2014.aisnet.org/index.php/call-for-papers Full paper submissions must be made electronically through the AMCIS on-line submission system. Papers can be submitted beginning on January 5, 2014. The link will be available at: http://aisel.aisnet.org/amcis2014_papers/ Submissions will close on March 1, 2014. ------------------------ Pnina Fichman Associate Professor, School of Informatics and Computing Director, Rob Kling Center for Social Informatics Affiliated Associate Professor, School of Global and International Studies 901 East 10th Street, Informatics West #301 Indiana University, Bloomington, 47408 Phone (812) 856-1587 E-Mail fichman at indiana.edu Web http://ella.slis.indiana.edu/~fichman/ _______________________________________________ From fichman at indiana.edu Sat Feb 22 04:04:35 2014 From: fichman at indiana.edu (Fichman, Pnina) Date: Sat, 22 Feb 2014 12:04:35 +0000 Subject: [Air-L] AMCIS 2014> Final CFP: Global and Cross Cultural Impacts of Big Data Message-ID: <26EA9DE4-8B71-4737-85C1-CEBB21FED6D2@indiana.edu> [Apologies for cross-posting] Final CALL FOR PAPERS: AMCIS Minitrack - Global and Cross Cultural Impacts of Big Data 20th Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS): Smart Sustainability, the Information Systems Opportunity, Savannah, GA, August 7-10, 2014 Conference Website: http://amcis2013.aisnet.org/ DESCRIPTION Manyika et al. (2011; 4) note ?big data has now reached every sector of the global economy. Like other essential factors of production ? much of modern economic activity simply couldn?t take place without it.? An emerging grand challenge involves gathering, organizing, curating, managing, analyzing, visualizing and disseminating these heterogeneous data over the lifecycle of the data for such purposes such as scientific discovery, medical advances, entrepreneurial activity and public policy formulation. People in the public and private sectors are taking note of this development as are academics, who are exploring ways of dealing with big data, defined by the National Science Foundation (2012) as: ?large, diverse, complex, longitudinal, and/or distributed data sets generated from instruments, sensors, Internet transactions, email, video, click streams, and/or all other digital sources available today and in the future. This minitrack solicits high quality conceptual and empirical work that focuses on the global impacts of big data on governments, multinational companies, NGOs and other organizations. Big data datasets and the technologies for analyzing them are developing faster than our understanding of the ways in which this phenomenon is impacting and will impact the ways work is done in a wide range of settings. As scholars and researchers begin to investigate the impacts of Big Data, this minitrack provides a venue for them to share their work. Appropriate topics for this minitrack include (but are not limited to) the following: ? Big data use in organizational, national and international settings ? How the introduction of big data affects organizational and group work flow ? Ways that big data is affecting organizational and group decision making ? Security and privacy impacts of big data use ? The intended and unintended consequences of big data ? The dark side of big data: surveillance, illicit activities, discriminatory analytics, and the end of privacy ? Big data as a social, political, economic, and/or cultural phenomenon Minitrack chairs: Pnina Fichman, School of Informatics and Computing, Indiana University fichman at indiana.edu Howard Rosenbaum, School of Informatics and Computing, Indiana University hrosenba at indiana.edu SUBMISSION PROCESS: Full paper submissions must be made electronically through the AMCIS on-line submission system no later than March 1, 2014. Manuscript Central will start accepting paper submissions on January 5, 2014 at: http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/amcis2014 Additional instructions for authors: http://amcis2014.aisnet.org/index.php/call-for-papers Important Dates: March 1, 2014: (11:59 PM EST): Deadline for paper submissions April 4 2014: Authors will be notified of acceptances on or about this date April 18, 2014: Authors revisions due April 25, 2014: (11:59 PM EST): For accepted papers, camera ready copy due ----------------------- Pnina Fichman, Ph.D. Director, Rob Kling Center for Social Informatics Associate Professor, School of Informatics and Computing Affiliated Associate Professor, School of Global and International Studies 901 E. 10th St. Informatics West #301 Indiana University, Bloomington IN 47408 Office: (812) 856-1587 Cell: (812) 322-0219 Web: http://ella.slis.indiana.edu/~fichman/ From jemcnealy at uky.edu Sat Feb 22 07:16:49 2014 From: jemcnealy at uky.edu (McNealy, Jasmine E) Date: Sat, 22 Feb 2014 15:16:49 +0000 Subject: [Air-L] New BS degree in Information Communication Technology Message-ID: {Apologies for cross posts.} Please circulate to any undergraduate students that may have an interest in our new program. The Bachelors of Science in Information Communication Technology (ICT) at the University of Kentucky focuses on the intersection of technology, people who use that technology, policies and regulations that govern the use of that technology and communities or environments in which that technology is used. It is the newest undergraduate degree program in the College of Communication and Information, the university?s official iSchool, part of a collection of Information Schools dedicated to advancing the information field. Housed in the School of Library and Information Science, ICT is an applied information technology degree program. The full press release can be found here: https://ci.uky.edu/lis/content/ict-program-debuts More program specifics can be found here: http://ict.uky.edu Thank you, Jasmine McNealy, J.D., Ph.D. Assistant Professor Information Communication Technology Program University of Kentucky 320 Little Library Building Lexington, KY 40506 (859) 218-2297 From dheider at luc.edu Sat Feb 22 09:14:47 2014 From: dheider at luc.edu (Heider, Donald) Date: Sat, 22 Feb 2014 17:14:47 +0000 Subject: [Air-L] Call for Papers - International Symposium on Digital Ethics Message-ID: <772e528ce29b4e6a83aeda7ce2a55f85@mbxls2.adms.luc.edu> Call for papers The Center for Digital Ethics & Policy at Loyola University Chicago (digitalethics.org) will be holding its 4th Annual International Symposium on Digital Ethics on Nov 7th, 2014. We are looking for papers on digital ethics. Topics might include privacy, anonymity, griefing, free speech, intellectual property, hacking, scamming, surveillance, information mining, transparency, digital citizenship, and/or the ethical use of digital technologies in journalism, advertising and public relations. Paper abstracts should propose original research and be between 500 and 1,000 words in length (not including references). Authors invited to present papers will be eligible for up to $400 in travel funds to be able to attend the Chicago symposium. The author(s) of the Top Student Paper will be eligible for up to $1,000 in travel funds. Abstracts are due by midnight CST on April 15th, 2014, should follow APA or MLA. Authors of top papers will have the opportunity to have their work published in Proceedings from the 4th Annual Symposium on Digital Ethics. Send your submission in a MS Word document attachment to contact at digitalethics.org, and please write Digital Ethics Symposium submission in the subject line. Please send questions to the same email address. From mariarosariataddeo at gmail.com Sun Feb 23 07:17:07 2014 From: mariarosariataddeo at gmail.com (Mariariosaria Taddeo) Date: Sun, 23 Feb 2014 15:17:07 +0000 Subject: [Air-L] The Annual Meeting of the International Association for Computing and Philosophy - Thessaloniki, Greece Message-ID: <72361FFD-135C-4C10-9220-81B1B9E6B29E@gmail.com> Call for Papers: IACAP 2014 The Annual Meeting of the International Association for Computing and Philosophy www.iacap.org Anatolia College/ACT Thessaloniki, Greece July 2-4. 2014 Conference Website UPDATES: The submission deadline for symposium proposals has been extended. The Covey and Simon Award winners have been selected. The Executive Committee is pleased to announce that the Covey Award has been awarded to Professor Selmer Bringsjord (Rensselaer Polytechnic) and the Simon Award has been awarded to Professor Gualterio Piccinini (Missouri- St. Louis). This year?s meeting of the International Association for Computing and Philosophy will be held at Anatolia College/ACT in Thessaloniki, Greece. Computing technologies both raise philosophical questions and elucidate traditional philosophical problems. IACAP meetings emphasise this two-way relationship, providing an opportunity for researchers in multiple fields to share new work in an interdisciplinary setting. We invite both abstract submissions and symposium proposals in areas at the intersection of computing and philosophy. This year?s meeting will have a single main track focusing on topics central to IACAP membership interests. Symposia will focus on more specific topics, organised autonomously by members or member groups. One symposium will be dedicated to the work of young researchers. Some abstracts will be accepted for presentation as posters. Paper presentations will be allotted 30 minutes, including discussion. Selected papers will be published in a volume of the ?Synthese Library? (Springer). Authors of accepted abstracts will be invited to submit a full paper for peer-review to this volume. IACAP is also soliciting nominations for a number of awards (see below). Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): ? Artificial Intelligence ? Artificial Life ? Cognitive Science, Computation & Cognition ? Computational Modeling in Science and Social Science ? Computer-Mediated Communication ? Distance Education and Electronic Pedagogy ? Ethical Problems and Societal Impact of Computation and Information ? History of Computing ? Information Culture and Society ? Logic ? Metaphysics of Computing ? Philosophy of Information ? Philosophy of Information Technology ? Robotics ? Virtual Reality ... and related issues Format For abstracts, we request anonymous submission of 600-1000 words (plus references) in plain text or PDF, plus a short abstract of up to 120 words. All submissions will be reviewed double-blind by at least two members of the programme committee. All submissions of paper abstracts - whether to the main track or to symposia - are made centrally on the same site and all reviewing takes place on that site. For symposia, please provide a brief motivation (ca. 300 words), a list of envisaged speakers, and indication of time needed (full day, half day, etc.). The submission procedure and reviewing for symposia will be taken care of by their organisers - but within the structure provided by IACAP and the submission system for this conference. Dates Submission of symposium proposals: 28 February 2014 Submission of abstracts: 1 March 2014 Notification of acceptance or rejection: 13 March for symposia, 31 March for papers. Submissions may be sent through Easychair. Further details can be found on the conference website . -- Dr. Mariarosaria Taddeo Research Fellow in Cyber Security and Ethics, PAIS, University of Warwick Research Associate - Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, University of Oxford President, International Association for Computing and Philosophy http://rosariataddeo.net From timothy.jordan at kcl.ac.uk Sun Feb 23 09:06:22 2014 From: timothy.jordan at kcl.ac.uk (Jordan, Timothy) Date: Sun, 23 Feb 2014 17:06:22 +0000 Subject: [Air-L] FW: Postdocs Ego-media ERC project In-Reply-To: <0c9a024b7c424392a3e55ecc28e13f94@AMSPR03MB550.eurprd03.prod.outlook.com> References: , <4a3fcd5b6f1e4e6ebb4f9bfc74771b92@AMXPR03MB229.eurprd03.prod.outlook.com> <0c9a024b7c424392a3e55ecc28e13f94@AMSPR03MB550.eurprd03.prod.outlook.com> Message-ID: Dear all, Two Post-Docs on ?Ego-media: The impact of new media on forms and practices of self-presentation?, a European Research Council grant led by Professor Max Saunders here at King's College London that I'm also part of. Cheers Tim Dr Tim Jordan, Senior Lecturer Department of Digital Humanities and Department of Culture, Media and Creative Industries, Creative Arts Administrative Centre, Room 5D, D Floor, Chesham Building, King's College London, Strand, London WC2R 2LS, England Phone: +44 (0)20 78481100 ? ? King?s College London is advertising two postdoctoral positions (of 3 years and 5 years) to work on a new collaborative research project in Life Writing and digital media funded by the European Research Council. It is called ?Ego-media: The impact of new media on forms and practices of self-presentation?, and is being led by Professor Max Saunders, the Director of the Arts and Humanities Research Institute. He will be joined by his Co-Director of the Centre for Life-Writing Research, Professor Clare Brant, and two other King?s academics: Alexandra Georgakopoulou, Professor of Discourse Analysis & Sociolinguistics om the Centre for Language, Discourse & Communication, and Professor Leone Ridsdale, from the Institute of Psychiatry. The project?s steering group also includes colleagues from Culture Media and Creative Industries, Digital Humanities, French, Medical Humanities, Medical Sociology, War Studies, and Education. ? It aims to study the impact of new media on autobiographical narratives: an impact increasing as habits and practices of self-presentation evolve rapidly in response to constantly fast-changing technology. It will consider the implications of these new forms and practices for such notions as autobiography, selfhood, subjectivity, individuality, self-intelligibility, agency, creativity, privacy, and sociability. ? The closing date for applications is the 11th March. For further details of how to apply please see: ? ? http://www.kcl.ac.uk/depsta/pertra/vacancy/external/pers_detail.php?jobindex=14266 ? http://www.kcl.ac.uk/depsta/pertra/vacancy/external/pers_detail.php?jobindex=14262 ? ? ? From kwfu at hku.hk Sun Feb 23 21:46:45 2014 From: kwfu at hku.hk (KW Fu) Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2014 13:46:45 +0800 Subject: [Air-L] PhD scholarships for China Media/Internet Research in the University of Hong Kong: Deadline: April 30, 2014 Message-ID: <04ab01cf3123$cdce27d0$696a7770$@hku.hk> Dear all, The Journalism and Media Studies Centre (JMSC) at The University of Hong Kong is inviting applications for the 2014-2015 PhD programme. Postgraduate scholarships are available for eligible candidates. Applicants should possess a good Bachelor's or Master's degree in the social sciences, China studies, engineering/information science, public health, legal studies or journalism/media/communication studies Good command of written and spoken English is essential, and knowledge of the Chinese language is an advantage. The scholarship programme offers HK$14,000 (US$1795) per month for the 2014-2015 academic year. For further details, please visit the HKU Graduate School website: http://www.gradsch.hku.hk/gradsch/web/ The JMSC is an academic unit that offers undergraduate and graduate degrees through the Faculty of Social Sciences. It provides excellent support and resources to China media researchers. Led by Qian Gang and Prof. Ying Chan, the China Media Project documents and analyzes the process of media reform and development in China. The JMSC's Weiboscope project deploys quantitative research methodology to conduct big-data research to collect and analyze Chinese social media. Deadline: April 30, 2014. Application to the HKU Graduate School. Website: http://www.gradsch.hku.hk/gradsch/web/. General enquiry: Jason Hui (email: tyhui at hku.hk); Research-related enquiry: Dr. King-wa Fu (email: kwfu at hku.hk) King-wa Fu, PhD Assistant Professor Journalism and Media Studies Centre The University of Hong Kong Room 206, Eliot Hall, Pokfulam Road, Hong Kong Tel: (852) 3917-1643 Fax: (852) 2858-8736 Website: https://sites.google.com/site/fukingwa/ From aherman at wlu.ca Mon Feb 24 04:16:45 2014 From: aherman at wlu.ca (Andrew Herman) Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2014 07:16:45 -0500 Subject: [Air-L] CFP: PRECONFERENCE WORKSHOP ON INTERNET CATS! Message-ID: <530AF1DE0200003F0007CB40@gwvia03.wlu.ca> AOIR Internet Cat Proposal for IR 15 Preconference Proposal Hi All I would like to put together a preconference workshop on thesubject of Internet Cats: LOL Cats and Icanhazcheezbuger; Internet Cat Videos and International Internet Cat Video Festivals; Internet Cat Memes and Gatonovelas; Internet Cat Ur-Demigods such as Keyboard Cat and contemporary luminaries suchas Lil Bub, and documentaries about them, and so on. Clearly, the myth that the ?Internetis Made of Cats? is widely held but nobody really knows why and, with theexception of Kate Miltner?s MA work at the LSE, there has been little sustainedanalytical consideration of Internet Cats. This is an aporia in Critical Internet Studies that must be addressed as soon as possible. If not now, when? The purpose of the workshop is to bring together scholarswho have interest in pursuing the theorization, conceptualization and empiricalanalysis one of Internet Cats the most important features of evolving Internetculture. Please let me know if you areinterested. All I need at this point is an expression of interest inparticipating, your institutional affiliation, and-if you have one- a title ofa brief presentation. PLEASE CONTACT ME BY FEBRuARY 28 at the latest. Andrew Herman Associate Professor Department of Communication Studies Wilfrid Laurier University Waterloo, ON N2L 3C5 From ierick at gmail.com Mon Feb 24 08:21:00 2014 From: ierick at gmail.com (Ingrid Erickson) Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2014 11:21:00 -0500 Subject: [Air-L] CFP: 2014 Digital Societies and Social Technologies (DSST) Summer Institute Message-ID: <530B716C.5090206@gmail.com> **Apologies for Duplication** Call for Participation: 2014 Digital Societies and Social Technologies (DSST) Summer Institute July 8 ? July 10, 2014 (arrival July 7; departure July 11 for 3 full days) University of Missouri ? Columbia, Columbia, MO http://www.sociotech.net/v2/dsst2014 MOOCs, Education and learning; personal health and well-being; open innovation, eScience, and citizen science; co-production, open source, and new forms of work; cultural heritage and information access; energy management and climate change; civic hacking, engagement and government; disaster response; cybersecurity and privacy ? these are just a few problem domains where effective design and robust understanding of complex sociotechnical systems is critical. To meet these challenges a trans-disciplinary community of scholars has come together from fields as wide ranging as CSCW, HCI, social computing, organization studies, information visualization, social informatics, sociology, information systems, medical informatics, computer science, ICT for development, education, learning science, journalism, and political science. Through summer institutes (CSST), extended workshops (Social Webshop), preconference workshops at a wide variety of venues, and other activities (Digital Societies and Technology Research Coordination Network) this community of researchers from academia and industry has developed a strong focus on problems and opportunities arising from the interplay of social and technological systems which span individuals, groups, organizations, and societies. The 2014 Summer Institute builds on this tradition to strengthen and expand this diverse community by bringing together graduate students, post doctoral students, faculty, and other researchers in four groups at the University of Missouri ? Columbia on July 8 ? 10, 2014: Doctoral students, post doctoral students, pre-tenure faculty, and early career researchers ? Through mentoring, peer networking, and skill-building tutorials, doctoral students, post doctoral students, pre-tenure faculty, and early career researchers will identify substantive ways that the theories, approaches, and tools within the larger community can advance their work with the design and study of sociotechnical systems. Established researchers ? Prior summer institute/workshop participants and established researchers will network with other researchers (senior and junior), explore ideas and new directions, shape emerging research agendas, articulate critical challenges, and share knowledge about practices, tools, and approaches which have the potential to advance the design and study of sociotechnical systems. Emerging multi-disciplinary research teams ? Nascent groups of researchers seeking to develop cross-disciplinary collaborations will work with peers and mentors to refine problem statements and research goals; connect with collaborators with complementary skills and interests; and create actionable research agendas and funding proposals. Preference will be given to groups interested in designing and studying sociotechnical systems that address societal grand challenges such as (but not limited to) healthcare; energy management and climate change; cybersecurity and privacy; education and learning; disaster response; technology development and innovation; economic development and work; and civic engagement and participation. Research infrastructure development teams ? Groups of researchers interested in creating computational or analytic tools, data resources, training materials or other infrastructure to support the design and study of sociotechnical systems will work with one another, other Summer institute participants, and local developers. These infrastructure ?hackathon? sessions will result in the creation of use cases, prototypes, draft materials, and when possible deployable systems and resources. Applying for DSST 2014 Applications are encouraged from all academic, industry, NGO, and public sector organizations worldwide. To apply for the 2013 Summer Institute, select the group that best fits your needs and situation and send the appropriate materials to the Summer Institute co-coordinator (Sean Goggins) at gogginss at missouri.edu by March 20, 2014: Doctoral students, post doctoral students, pre-tenure faculty, and early career researchers should send their CV and a short (~ 1 page) response to: ?How does/will your work advance our ability to design and understand critical sociotechnical systems?? Several core references should be included to situate your work within the larger research community. Doctoral students should also provide a letter of recommendation from their advisor/department chair indicating their expected graduation date. Established researchers should send their CV and a short (~ 1 page) response to: ?What are the most interesting challenges and opportunities related to the design and study of critical sociotechnical systems? What activity (30 minutes to 4 hours long) could you run that would help the Summer Institute participants better engage these challenges and opportunities?? Proposed activities can be for any (or all) Summer Institute participants and might include, but are not limited to: focused presentations; brainstorming sessions; in-depth problem descriptions; method, tool, or data tutorials; or research agenda setting exercises. Emerging multi-disciplinary research teams should apply as a group, sending their CVs and a short (~ 1 page) response to: ?What is the research focus/problem domain? What types of activities/studies are needed to engage that domain? How will pursuing this agenda help advance our ability to design and understand critical sociotechnical systems?? References potential funding sources can be included, if known, to situate the proposal within the larger research community. Groups invited to the Summer Institute will have between 4-6 people. However, only 3 individuals need to be part of an application for it to be considered (assistance will be provided prior to the Summer Institute to help invited teams recruit additional participants as needed). Preference will be given to cross-institutional teams in which junior/mid-career researchers play significant leadership roles. Research infrastructure development teams should apply as a group, sending their CVs and a short (~ 1 page) response to: ?What is the problem you are seeking to address? What will you do to address that problem? How will creating these technologies, tools, materials or infrastructure improve our ability to design and understand critical sociotechnical systems?? References to examples from other domains can be included to situate your proposal. Teams invited for the Summer Institute will have between 4-6 people from multiple disciplines and institutions. However, only 3 individuals need to be part of an application to be considered (assistance will be provided prior to the Summer Institute to help invited teams recruit additional participants as needed). Lodging, meals, and other onsite costs will be covered for all Summer Institute participants. Limited travel support is available, if needed, for participants from US and Canadian institutions (with preference given to doctoral and post-doctoral students). Travel support may also be available for other Summer Institute participants. To be considered for all available financial support you should provide the following information when you apply: What college or university do you attend? What is your primary department affiliation? If you are applying from a Canadian university, are you a member of the GRAND network? Materials should be sent to Summer Institute co-coordinator (Sean Goggins) at gogginss at missouri.edu by March 20th, 2014. Applications will be reviewed by the Summer Institute Advisory Group beginning March 30th, 2013 using the following criteria: -Clear articulation of the hoped-for contribution to the theory, practice, or design of sociotechnical systems -Likelihood of Summer Institute participation providing significant practical benefit for the individual/team -Contribution to a balanced and diverse group of participants The number of participants selected will depend on the available funding and the fit between applicants? interests and goals. For more information about the Summer Institute, contact the Summer Institute co-coordinators, Sean Goggins (gogginss at missouri.edu) and Diane Bailey (debailey at ischool.utexas.edu). For information about the broader community of researchers interested in design and study of sociotechnical systems, see: CSST (www.sociotech.net), the ?Researchers of the Socio-Technical? Facebook group, or the CSST listserv (csst at listserv.syr.edu). 2014 Mentors Mark Ackerman, University of Michigan Diane Bailey, University of Texas (Co-Director) Paul Dourish, University of California ? Irvine Nicole Ellison, University of Michigan Sean Goggins, University of Missouri (Co-Director) Erik Johnston, Arizona State University Tony Salvador, Intel Jennifer Stromer-Galley, Syracuse Susan Stuckey, IBM Steve Sawyer, Syracuse (Digital Societies RCN) Wayne Lutters, UMBC (Digital Societies RCN) Brian Butler, Maryland (Digital Societies RCN) Andrea Hoplight-Tapia, The Pennsylvania State University (Digital Societies RCN) From jstromer at syr.edu Mon Feb 24 13:22:26 2014 From: jstromer at syr.edu (Jennifer Stromer-Galley) Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2014 21:22:26 +0000 Subject: [Air-L] Still time to provide feedback on the AoIR Website Message-ID: Hi everyone! Last week I posted a note inviting feedback on the AoIR website. A sub-committee of the AoIR Executive Board is working to revamp the Association's website (www.aoir.org). We still want to get your thoughts on the website, whether you've visited it or not. Take a few minutes now to take the survey: https://syracuseuniversity.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_1UhJqsqjSB9Jm5f. Let us know how we can better serve you! Your PR/Website Committee: Anthony Hoffman, Annette Markham, and Jenny Stromer-Galley Associate Professor | School of Information Studies Vice President | Association of Internet Researchers Syracuse University 220 Hinds Hall Syracuse, New York 13244 t 315.443.1823 f 315.443.5673 e jstromer at syr.edu w www.stromer-galley.com w www.aoir.org ischool.syr.edu From je.burgess at qut.edu.au Mon Feb 24 18:28:19 2014 From: je.burgess at qut.edu.au (Jean Burgess) Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2014 02:28:19 +0000 Subject: [Air-L] ICA Regional Conference (Brisbane, 2014) Update Message-ID: <5D8D232B-E847-4368-A645-6B190527AD20@qut.edu.au> The ICA Regional Conference (Brisbane, 2014) Call for Extended Abstracts and Panel Proposals Digital Transformations, Social Media Engagement, and the Asian Century Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia, 1-3 October 2014 The ICA Regional Conference will be held at the City (Gardens Point) Campus of the Queensland University of Technology (QUT), Brisbane, Australia, from 1-3 October 2014. The event is supported by the Creative Industries Faculty at QUT, the QUT Business School, the International Communications Association (ICA), and the Australian and New Zealand Communication Association (ANZCA). The conference will be seeking extended abstracts (1000-2000 words) and panel proposals related to the thematic areas of: ? Digital media and social change; ? Information media and digital journalism; ? Entertainment media and culture; ? Convergence law, policy and political economy; ? Asian media in transition; ? Communication and public engagement; ? Organizational communication; ? Social media and communications practice; ? Science and environmental communication ? Health communication; ? Digital media and education; ? Crisis and emergency communication; ? Digital media and political communication. Extended Abstracts Extended abstracts should indicate author details and institutional affiliation on the front page. They should be not less than 1000 words in length and not more than 2000 words in length. References cited in the extended abstract should be included in a bibliography. Note: there will not be a call for refereed papers. Submissions will be accepted or rejected on the basis of the extended abstract only. If this will present you with any issues in relation to conference support from your institution, please contact the conference organizers. The conference organizers reserve the right to publish the extended abstract in a book available to all conference delegates. This does not preclude submission of the material to any refereed academic journal, book, book chapter or other publication. Panel proposals Panel proposals must provide a rationale for the panel of not more than 400 words, and each proposed presenter must also provide an abstract of 100-250 words. There are to be no less than three and more than four presenters in any panel proposal, although a Panel Chair and Panel Respondent can also be included. All submissions to the Conference will be subject to peer review, and submitters will be advised of whether their proposal has been accepted or rejected no later than 21 June 2014. All of those who have papers and panel proposals accepted will be required to register for the Conference no later than 12 September 2014. Failure to register by this date will lead to papers being withdrawn from the program. All submissions are to be through the Conference web site at http://icabrisbane2014.com/. Emailed attachments will not be accepted. Registration Fees FACULTY ($ AUD) Early Bird Registration (on or before 22 August 2014 AEST) $300.00 Standard Registration (from 23 August until 12 September 2014 AEST) $350.00 Late Registration (from 13 September until 26 September 2014 AEST) $400.00 STUDENT Early Bird Registration (on or before 22 August 2014 AEST) $150.00 Standard Registration (from 23 August until 12 September 2014 AEST) $175.00 Late Registration (from 13 September until 26 September 2014 AEST) $200.00 Further information on the conference can be found in the attached flyer or visit the website atwww.icabrisbane2014.com . You can also email icabrisbane2014 at qut.edu.au for any queries related to the conference. From david.sutcliffe at oii.ox.ac.uk Tue Feb 25 02:59:20 2014 From: david.sutcliffe at oii.ox.ac.uk (David Sutcliffe) Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2014 10:59:20 +0000 Subject: [Air-L] Call for P&I Journal Special Issues + IPP2014 Crowdsourcing Conference Call Message-ID: <009CA1130984AE42944344901B6512532FC35B28@MBX07.ad.oak.ox.ac.uk> Dear all, The journal Policy and Internet is calling for special issue proposals. Policy and Internet Calls for Special Issues: http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/news/?id=1057 The journal is multidisciplinary: perspectives from any academic discipline are welcomed, particularly political science, economics, law, sociology, information science, communications, philosophy, computer science, psychology, management, geography and medicine. Possible topics for a special issue might include (for example): > Collective action / public participation in policy-making > Privacy / surveillance / the coercive state > Big Data / predictive analytics for public policy > Open data / open government > Internet governance > Crime / law enforcement > Health > Online labour markets The journal was established in 2009 as the first major peer-reviewed journal investigating the implications of the Internet and associated technologies for public policy. It is published quarterly by Wiley-Blackwell, and edited by the Oxford Internet Institute (University of Oxford) for the Policy Studies Organization (PSO). The Editors are Professor Helen Margetts, Professor Luciano Floridi, Dr Vili Lehdonvirta, and Dr Sandra Gonzalez-Bailon. Proposals should be send to the editors at: policyandinternet at oii.ox.ac.uk by 1 April 2014 *** Conference Call Reminder: Crowdsourcing for Politics and Policy *** And also, a reminder that the journal will be holding its third conference (co-convened by the OII, in collaboration with the ECPR) on 25-26 September in Oxford, on the subject of crowdsourcing. We are currently calling for abstracts. 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 Thank you! Best wishes, David Sutcliffe (Managing Editor) *** David Sutcliffe Managing Editor Oxford Internet Institute University of Oxford http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/ Tel: +44 (0)1865 612334 Managing Editor Policy and Internet Journal http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1002/(ISSN)1944-2866 http://blogs.oii.ox.ac.uk/policy/ From zara.dinnen at gmail.com Tue Feb 25 05:26:05 2014 From: zara.dinnen at gmail.com (Zara Dinnen) Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2014 13:26:05 +0000 Subject: [Air-L] Researching Contemporary Culture summer workshops 2014 (London) Message-ID: AOIR-ers, *with apologies for cross posting The following series of workshops may be of interest: Researching Contemporary Culture is a series of summer workshops for postgraduate and early career researchers. It takes place from the 14th to 16th July 2014 at the Institute of English Studies, Senate House London. Researching Contemporary Culture aims to help researchers in the field address an array of issues that currently define the study of contemporary culture by offering workshops and presentations on: developing the impact of research through exhibition, curation, and the championing of particular artists'/directors'/authors' work; producing research for open access publications; balancing public engagement and research needs; using online participatory culture as a research tool; conducting sustainable research with ephemeral data. The event will bring together specialist workshop leaders, speakers, and librarians to address these challenges through a research skills development programme of participatory workshops and advice and guidance. Researching Contemporary Culture has evolved out of the work of the Contemporary Fiction Seminar at the Institute of English Studies, and will offer a sustainable research skills enrichment programme appropriate for the study of contemporary culture in the arts and humanities disciplines of the twenty-first century. Speakers include: Caroline Bassett, Clare Birchall, Kieran Connell, Jeremy Gilbert, Gary Hall, Matt Hills, Roger Luckhurst, Holly Pester, Ernesto Priego, Agnes Woolley. The three workshop themes are: Public Practices, Archiving Now, and Interpretive Communities. Researching Contemporary Culture is supported by an AHRC Collaborative Skills Award; with additional support from the University of Birmingham, Birkbeck, University of London, and the Institute of English Studies, University of London; it is organised by Dr Zara Dinnen (University of Birmingham) and Dr Tony Venezia (Birkbeck, University of London), conveners of the Contemporary Fiction Seminar. Further information and details of how to apply are available at the website: researchingthecontemporary.net. Please email contemporaryfictionseminar at gmail.com with any queries. -- Dr Zara Dinnen Lecturer in Modern and Contemporary Literature School of English, Drama and American and Canadian Studies University of Birmingham + 44 (0) 121 414 5657 From pbooth81 at gmail.com Tue Feb 25 06:07:17 2014 From: pbooth81 at gmail.com (Paul Booth) Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2014 08:07:17 -0600 Subject: [Air-L] Reminder (01 Mar Deadline) Joss Whedon: A Celebration Message-ID: Call for Papers and Topic Proposals: Joss Whedon: A Celebration (Apologies for cross-posting) Now accepting submissions and ideas for the second annual Pop Culture Colloquium at DePaul University in Chicago! The Media and Cinema Studies program at DePaul University is hosting a one-day celebratory colloquium in honor of the work of Joss Whedon on Saturday, May 03, from 9-6. This event will feature roundtable discussions from scholars and fans of Whedon, speaking about the cultural impact of his work, as well as analyzing aspects of his television shows and films. The even will also feature special guests, screenings, screenwriting workshops, and (perhaps) a sing-a-long or two... The audience for this event is both graduate and undergraduate students, both fans and scholars, and the focus should be on informed and enlightening discussion rather than formal academic papers. "Joss Whedon: A Celebration" will take place on DePaul's Loop campus. If you're interested in speaking on a round table, please send a 200 word abstract of your topic and a CV or resume to Paul Booth (pbooth at depaul.edu) by Mar 01. Also please email with any questions. We hope that you will be able to join in the discussion and celebration! -- Paul Booth, PhD Assistant Professor of Media and Cinema Studies/Communication Technology College of Communication DePaul University 14 E. Jackson Chicago, IL 60604 From tsenft at gmail.com Tue Feb 25 12:13:42 2014 From: tsenft at gmail.com (Terri Senft) Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2014 15:13:42 -0500 Subject: [Air-L] Conference proposals: Word counts on roundtable and fishbowl submissions? Message-ID: Hi All, I putting this out to the list, because I'm assuming others will have the same question soon: I'm currently drafting both a roundtable and a fishbowl submission for Bangkok, and cannot find any information regarding appropriate word counts for these formats. 've looked at all the guidelines, twice. There are max counts for papers, panels, pre-conference workshops, and ignite talks, but nothing for roundtables or fishbowls. I did try to suss this out myself, fwiw. I registered on the automated conference submission system, and when I tried to copy what I'd written into submission box, I gt a note that my submission is "too many words." Unfortunately, I received nothing that told me what the word limit is, or how many words I am over-limit... Can someone help me out, here? Thanks! Terri -- Dr. Theresa M. Senft Global Liberal Studies Program School of Arts & Sciences New York University 726 Broadway NY NY 10003 home: *www.terrisenft.net * (needs a serious updating) facebook: www.facebook.com/theresa.senft twitter: @terrisenft From tsenft at gmail.com Tue Feb 25 12:13:42 2014 From: tsenft at gmail.com (Terri Senft) Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2014 15:13:42 -0500 Subject: [Air-L] Conference proposals: Word counts on roundtable and fishbowl submissions? Message-ID: Hi All, I putting this out to the list, because I'm assuming others will have the same question soon: I'm currently drafting both a roundtable and a fishbowl submission for Bangkok, and cannot find any information regarding appropriate word counts for these formats. 've looked at all the guidelines, twice. There are max counts for papers, panels, pre-conference workshops, and ignite talks, but nothing for roundtables or fishbowls. I did try to suss this out myself, fwiw. I registered on the automated conference submission system, and when I tried to copy what I'd written into submission box, I gt a note that my submission is "too many words." Unfortunately, I received nothing that told me what the word limit is, or how many words I am over-limit... Can someone help me out, here? Thanks! Terri -- Dr. Theresa M. Senft Global Liberal Studies Program School of Arts & Sciences New York University 726 Broadway NY NY 10003 home: *www.terrisenft.net * (needs a serious updating) facebook: www.facebook.com/theresa.senft twitter: @terrisenft From zimmerm at uwm.edu Tue Feb 25 12:32:49 2014 From: zimmerm at uwm.edu (Michael Zimmer) Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2014 14:32:49 -0600 Subject: [Air-L] PhD Workshop on Internet Research and Ethics (March 20-21, Aalborg, DK) Message-ID: <9B6A6FFD-C5E5-4DA9-9654-3F749E140EEE@uwm.edu> Colleagues: I wanted to share this upcoming PhD student workshop on "Internet Research and Ethics", held March 20-21 at Aalborg University. Details below. -Michael March 20-21: Internet Research and Ethics http://www.hcci.hum.aau.dk/index.php?id=9041&tx_ttnews[tt_news]=365&cHash=78c59d117dc13406b40ab6c698b3e3ae Organisers: Michael Zimmer, Tia Hansen, Thomas Ryberg, Ann Bygholm Registration to hannepc at hum.aau.dk Room: 1.40, Nyhavnsgade 14, 9000 Aalborg Aim of the workshop: The aim of this workshop is to explore research ethics in general and with a particular focus on Internet Research Ethics and the dilemmas emerging with new grounds for research and data collection. The workshop will start with introductions to the history and principles of research ethics in general and a focus on non-biomedical areas of research and Human Research Ethic Boards (Tia Hansen, Ann Bygholm). Furthermore, there will be introductions on how to use pilot studies to improve ethics as well as results. The workshop will thus introduce to the work being conducted as part of the doctoral school's Human Research Ethics Board. Following this the workshop will focus on Internet Research Ethics and the core issues related to internet studies (e.g. data collection and archiving) (Michael Zimmer). Furthermore, we shall explore particular research projects as cases where various research ethical dilemmas and problems emerge. Format: The workshop will be highly interactive and include a mixture of presentations, group work, case-exploration, discussion and PhD students? presentations of own research projects. We therefore ask each student to hand in a short (1-2 pages) description of: ? Presentation of their research project (case, context, aim) ? Statement of dilemmas, problems or ethical considerations in relation tothe research project These presentations should be handed in on Friday March 14 at the latest. The presentations will be collected and made available to all participants. Preliminary programme (timing to be finally confirmed): Day 1 ? March 20: 8.15 - 9.00 Welcome and introduction 9.00-12.00 Research ethics basics and tools by Tia Hansen and Ann Bygholm - lectures interspersed with ?exercises?/discussions in pairs. Themes: ? History and principles of research ethics in general ? Non-biomedical areas and Review Boards in particular ? Don?t launch without a pilot! How to use pilot studies to improve ethics as well as results 12-13 Lunch break 13.00-17.00: Core issues and approaches in Internet Research Ethics- Michael Zimmer ? presentations and discussions Day 2 ? March 21: 8.15 - 10.00 Internet ethics - exploring cases: "Tastes, Ties and Time" and ?The Blackberry Project? 10.15 ? 12.00: PhD Students presenting cases and working in smaller discussion groups with organizers as discussants 12.00 - 13.00 Lunch break 13.00 - 14.30: Continuing work in pairs or smaller groups - preparing for a short summary of the discussions/main issues 14.30 - 16.00: Roundtable finale: ? Students present main results of revisiting their projects (lists of to do and leftover problems?) ? Plenum discussion of cases/dilemmas ? Evaluation, and take-home messages Readings: Research Ethics and Basic tools: Alderson, P., & Morrow, V. (2006). Multidisciplinary research ethics review: is it feasible? International Journal of Social Research Methodology, 9(5), 405-417, doi: 10.1080/13645570500435207 Cozby, P. C. (2003). Ethical research. Chapter 3 in Methods in behavioral research (pp. 34-60). Boston: McGraw-Hill. Core issues and approaches in Internet Research Ethics: Buchanan, E., & Zimmer, M. (2012). Internet Research Ethics. The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Retrieved from plato.stanford.edu/entries/ethics-internet-research/ Markham, A. & Buchanan, E. (2012). Ethical Decision-Making and Internet Research Recommendations from the AoIR Ethics Working Committee (Version 2.0). Retrieved fromaoir.org/documents/ethics-guide/ Secretary's Advisory Committee on Human Research Protections (SACHRP). (2012). Considerations and Recommendations Concerning Internet Research and Human Subjects Research Regulations. Retrieved fromhttp://www.hhs.gov/ohrp/sachrp/mtgings/2013%20March%20Mtg/internet_research.pdf Internet ethics - exploring cases: Zimmer, M. (2010). ?But the data is already public?: On the ethics of research in Facebook. Ethics and Information Technology, 12(4), 313?325. (http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10676-010-9227-5) Parry, M. (2011). Harvard Researchers Accused of Breaching Students? Privacy. The Chronicle of Higher Education. Retrieved from chronicle.com/article/Harvards-Privacy-Meltdown/128166/ Underwood, M. K., Rosen, L. H., More, D., Ehrenreich, S. E., & Gentsch, J. K. (2012). The BlackBerry project: Capturing the content of adolescents? text messaging. Developmental Psychology, 48(2), 295?302. Hill, K. (2012). A Texas University?s Mind-Boggling Database Of Teens? Daily Text Messages, Emails, and IMs Over Four Years. Forbes.com. Retrieved fromwww.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2012/04/18/a-texas-universitys-mind-boggling-database-of-teens-daily-text-messages-emails-and-ims-over-four-years/ Practical: ECTS: 2 Points for attending and for preparation (including handing in 1-2 page description of research project and ethical dilemmas ? see above). For more information about Michael Zimmer: ? http://www4.uwm.edu/sois/people/profiles/zimmerm.cfm ? http://www.michaelzimmer.org/about/bio/ For more information about Tia Hansen ? http://vbn.aau.dk/en/persons/tia-g-b-hansen(ddcf2848-2f9e-4f0a-a87c-bc7b12ac95f3).html Number of participants: max 15 Registration to: hannepc at hum.aau.dk no later than March 12 Location: Aalborg University, Aalborg, room not yet confirmed -- Michael Zimmer, PhD Assistant Professor, School of Information Studies Director, Center for Information Policy Research University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee e: zimmerm at uwm.edu w: www.michaelzimmer.org From erika.pearson at otago.ac.nz Tue Feb 25 13:05:26 2014 From: erika.pearson at otago.ac.nz (Erika Pearson) Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2014 21:05:26 +0000 Subject: [Air-L] reminder: CfP for IR15 closing March 1 Message-ID: Dear colleagues Just a quick reminder that the deadline for submissions for IR15: Boundaries and Intersections is coming up on March 1st. There will be no general extensions past this date, so please make sure you get your submissions in on time. Information about the types of submissions (including the inaugural "Prize For The Weird"!) is online at ir15.aoir.org. Also, to clarify, abstracts for roundtable, fishbowl and experimental sessions should be approximately 250-300 words, and no additional uploaded document is required. If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me at ir15programchair at aoir.org We look forward to your submissions and seeing you in Bangkok in October! best wishes erika pearson program chair, IR15 ir15.aoir.org From judith.simon at univie.ac.at Wed Feb 26 06:40:25 2014 From: judith.simon at univie.ac.at (Judith Simon) Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2014 15:40:25 +0100 Subject: [Air-L] CfA: PhD Summer School, San Sebastian, Spain (28.07. - 01.08.2014) Message-ID: <530DFCD9.4060403@univie.ac.at> The Post-Graduate Program in Philosophy, Science and Values (University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU, and National Autonomous University of Mexico, UNAM) and the Institute for Technology Assessment and Systems Analysis (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology) invite PhD students to apply for the interdisciplinary and international Summer School: *The Regulative Capacity of Knowledge Objects: Opening the Black Box of Knowledge Governance* Think of Climate Change, Wikileaks, nanotechnology, Responsible Innovation, neural implants, Linux, GMOs or the German Energy Transition. But when we think about it, do they actually exist? And if they do what should they be like in the future? What exactly are they? Are they symbols, technical artifacts, discourses, constellations of actors, scientific disputes? Are they political issues, societal problems, human-nonhuman-hybrids, modifiers of existence, problems for governance and regulation? In a way, they are all of these things and less -- and probably more. They are what this Summer School refers to as "knowledge objects". These objects are peculiar, blurry, constantly unfolding and transforming entities that increasingly challenge contemporary societies and sciences and our understanding of knowledge. The knowledge in knowledge objects is always plural: scientific, public, mundane, interdisciplinary, speculative, uncertain. It is heterogeneously produced about, with, through or in them and contributes to their identification, contestation and transformation. Yet, knowledge objects are also enablers of such knowledge productions and the societal controversies that go along with them. This intricate entanglement of knowledge objects and society poses various normative and regulative questions -- which are part of these objects and due to them the problems societies face. This entanglement could be viewed as a fundamental challenge for knowledge governance. To address these complex challenges to societies and sciences, the Summer School aims to bring together two strands of science and technology studies (STS) which so far haven't combined: the focus on "knowledge objects" and the perspective of "knowledge governance". The starting point of this summer school is the assumption that knowledge objects are subject and object of knowledge governance. They create the need for and they enable various forms of knowledge governance. In a way, this synchrony is a black box of knowledge governance. The Summer School proposes that this "governance black box" can be opened by focusing on an extended concept of knowledge objects and by analyzing their governance dimensions. *Keynotes by:* *David Guston*, PhD, Professor of Political Science, Arizona State University, US *Graham Harman*, PhD, Professor of Philosophy, American University, Cairo, Egypt *Karin Knorr-Cetina*, PhD, Professor emeritus of Sociology, University of Constance, Germany, and George *Wells Beadle* Distinguished Service Professor, University of Chicago, US *Noortje Marres*, PhD, Senior Lecturer, Goldsmiths University of London, UK Applications are due by 28th March 2014. *Find out all the details at: http://www.itas.kit.edu/english/events_2014_summerschool.php * -- Judith Simon Department of Philosophy - University of Vienna (PI: Epistemic Trust in Socio-Technical Epistemic Systems ) ITAS - Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (Senior Researcher) Institut Jean Nicod - Ecole normale sup?rieure - Paris (Associate Post-doctoral fellow) From amarkham at gmail.com Wed Feb 26 07:38:28 2014 From: amarkham at gmail.com (Annette Markham) Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2014 16:38:28 +0100 Subject: [Air-L] Join the MA Program in Digital Living, Aarhus University Fall 2014 Message-ID: Dear Colleagues, Thanks in advance for distributing this information to those who might be interested in attending our new MA program in "Digital Living" at Aarhus University, as part of the Department of Aesthetics & Communication within the Faculty of Arts. ********** Are you interested in how digital technologies are used in everyday life? Do you care how technologies impact social and work life? Would you like to learn how to design better futures by exploring the intersection of networked sociality, organizational practices, and IT design? If so, you might be interested in a new international master's degree program at Aarhus University: "Digital Living: Work and Social Life in an Era of Smart Machines and Social Media." Curriculum taught in English. Learn more here: http://arts.au.dk/digitalliving This MA focuses on how digital technologies are used in everyday life and offers students the opportunity to consider how we might design better futures by exploring the intersection of networked sociality, organizational practices, and IT design. Discuss cutting edge knowledge about the social impact of digital technologies with internationally established professors. Learn from computer scientists how digital forms of communication and interaction are designed and programmed. Work with professors from information and media studies to build a strong grounding in the political, social, and economic structures of 21st Century organizations and institutions. In addition to theoretically-grounded classroom discussions, students design and build interfaces, engage in empirical studies of digital contexts, and explore how new eBusiness models work. This well-rounded master's program provides solid grounding for analyzing contemporary social media practices and developing sustainable and ethical digital futures. Digital living is an interdisciplinary Master Program within Information Studies at Aarhus University. Curriculum taught in English. Application deadline: March 15 (April 1 for Danish residents)* Notification of Acceptance: early May 2014 Start Date: 1 September 2014 Need more information? Feel free to contact: Associate Professor Annette Markham: amarkham at dac.au.dk Associate Professor Claus Bossen: imvcb at dac.au.dk *exceptions to the deadline may be granted, depending on circumstances. Please inquire if this might apply to you. Best Regards, Annette ***************************************************** Annette N. Markham, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Dept of Aesthetics & Communication, Aarhus University Guest Professor, Dept of Informatics, Ume? University, Sweden Affiliate Professor, School of Communication, Loyola University, Chicago amarkham at gmail.com http://markham.internetinquiry.org/ Twitter: annettemarkham From qcentral at indiana.edu Wed Feb 26 07:49:37 2014 From: qcentral at indiana.edu (Mary L. Gray) Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2014 10:49:37 -0500 Subject: [Air-L] Queer Internet Studies Workshop April 4 - NYC References: <6732C52F455BE3469977ADE67D43E2511BBB764F@TK5EX14MBXC293.redmond.corp.microsoft.com> Message-ID: <575F2A14-2AB9-4CBC-ABEB-7D09EF3FCCEC@indiana.edu> Hey all, I'm passing along the CFP for an AMAZING workshop!! Hope you can make it!! best, mary Mary L. Gray Associate Professor Communication and Culture Adjunct Faculty, American Studies; Anthropology; Gender Studies Indiana University, Bloomington Senior Researcher Microsoft Research --------- Hi all, See below for details on a Queer Internet Studies workshop I'm organizing with Jack Gieseking. It's a one-day workshop to be held at the Columbia School of Journalism with support from the Brown Institute for Media Innovation and Just Publics 365. Space is limited and we're taking people on a first-come, first-serve basis. Hope you can make it! All apologies for cross-posting, Jessa ** Queer Internet Studies: A One-Day Workshop The increasing visibility of lgbtq lives and issues in mainstream media has been fraught with criticism of how such lives and issues are depicted and to whose benefit or detriment. Building from the critical work underlying these objections, we ask: what are concurrent technological developments, namely in ever emergent digital media? Online technologies have provided a means of storytelling, visualization, community building, and educational resources that have important implications for what it means to be queer. Internet scholarship crosses a number of disciplinary boundaries, converging on questions of how digital technologies are reshaping issues of identity, community and interpersonal relationships. Queer theory has been similarly multi-faceted in drawing together a diverse set of scholars interested in sexuality, gender and structures of power. In conjoining these areas of investigation, the main objective of the QIS workshop is to generate conversations that cross disciplines and backgrounds, anchored in questions of how online technologies shape and are appropriated by queer identities. The Queer Internet Studies brings together thinkers, makers and doers in a workshop format who draw upon social scientific methods to do work at the intersection of queer life and the internet. Taking Samuel Delany's (2001) call for lgbtq contact and networking to heart, we seek to bring together researchers who investigate the construction of queer communities, the development of queer knowledge production and cultures, and assess how queer identity is understood and archived. This workshop is geared towards fostering scholarly, activist, and journalistic opportunities for digital technologies and queer storytelling and visualization. We look to identify existing projects as well as suggest future collaborations of writers, scholars, and technologists interested in possibilities for supporting the development of the queer internet and queering the internet. Format: The workshop is structured around generating conversations and connections between people working on similar topics from different backgrounds. More interactive sessions will take place in the morning with lightning round introductions and large group conversations. Structured afternoon sessions will allow for conversations between invited speakers, followed by open working group time for collaboration and conversation. The day will conclude with a social hour geared towards connecting participants who share ideas for projects and collaborations. Additional details: The workshop will be held at Columbia University's School of Journalism on April 4, 2014. Here's a website with more information: http://www.jgieseking.org/qis2014/ If you'd like to attend, please fill out the following form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1DgWcsK_DuPQfIaFAXrKj80yCl5B3FRzCyfDtIViOtno/viewform For questions and more information, email jlingel at microsoft.com or jgieseki at bowdoin.edu. Thanks! Jack & Jessa From ptcox at camden.rutgers.edu Wed Feb 26 08:43:44 2014 From: ptcox at camden.rutgers.edu (Patrick Cox) Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2014 10:43:44 -0600 Subject: [Air-L] H-DigiRhet Editors wanted Message-ID: Hello! My name is Patrick Cox and I am Vice-President for Networks at H-Net. I'm looking for editors to run H-Net's network on Digital Rhetoric, H-DigiRhet (https://networks.h-net.org/h-digirhet). The network is already loaded up onto the Commons and has over 800 subscribers, but no one running it! Folks with an interest in building this community of Digital scholars using the full range of tools and resources the H-Net Commons has to offer will find here a ready-made audience looking at a blank canvas. In addition to lively discussion and debate, the site can be used to build a collections of resources, blogging, multimedia content, original book reviews, collaborations with other H-Net Networks, and pretty much anything else you'd like to find on a website to build truly unique resource for the field of Digital Studies. Ideally, multiple people will apply to form a team of editors. You provide the ambition, H-Net will provide the training and technical support. If you are interested, contact Patrick Cox at vp-net at mail.h-net.msu.edu. Thanks. Patrick Cox H-NET Vice-President for Networks -- Patrick Cox PhD Candidate, Childhood Studies, Rutgers http://camden-rutgers.academia.edu/PatrickCox http://childhood.camden.rutgers.edu/ https://email.rutgers.edu/mailman/listinfo/exploring_childhood_studies "In the depths of winter I finally learned there was in me an invincible summer." --Albert Camus "Don't let your studies interfere with your education." --Colonel Henry Rutgers "the jUdges of nOrmalitY are present everywhere." --Foucault, of course From jpedregosa at gmail.com Thu Feb 27 04:16:07 2014 From: jpedregosa at gmail.com (Jj Pedregosa) Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2014 13:16:07 +0100 Subject: [Air-L] Conference on Digital Discrimination and Social Networks. Barcelona, 13th and 14th of March Message-ID: Friends The main aim of the conference is to invite participants to actively *share current experiences and research and push forward our knowledge to fight discrimination*. Academics, NGOs working with youths or on discrimination, activists, trainers, teachers, policy makers, journalists, social media professionals and the general public are welcome to attend. Programme of the conference: http://digitaldiscrimination.eu/conference/ From jacqueline.vickery at unt.edu Thu Feb 27 07:49:56 2014 From: jacqueline.vickery at unt.edu (Dr. Jacqueline Vickery) Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2014 09:49:56 -0600 Subject: [Air-L] Survey on vlogs Message-ID: Hello, One of my grad students is conducing research on vlogs for his thesis. If you have 10 minutes to spare please consider taking his survey: https://unt.az1.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_6WeVcs4m7jD3Qj3 and please feel free to distribute widely. Thanks, - jacqueline ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr. Jacqueline Vickery, Ph.D. Assistant Professor College of Arts & Sciences Department of Radio, Television, & Film University of North Texas ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From Wolfgang.Suetzl at uibk.ac.at Thu Feb 27 09:25:06 2014 From: Wolfgang.Suetzl at uibk.ac.at (=?iso-8859-1?Q?S=FCtzl=2C_Wolfgang?=) Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2014 17:25:06 +0000 Subject: [Air-L] CfP Media Art in Media Education Message-ID: Call for Papers MEDIENIMPULSE 2/2014 MEDIENIMPULSE is a quarterly, peer-reviewed open-access online journal on media education publishing German and English language contributions. Please send 300-word abstracts and enquiries to Wolfgang Suetzl at suetzl at ohio.edu by 10 March 2014. Full papers of max. 25000 characters due by 15 May 2014 Date of publication 21 June 2014 Special focus: The Potential of Media art in Media Education The development of media technologies has long met with the interest of media educationalists. Media art offers a wide range of possibilities of experimentation, critical reflection, and communication in educational settings. This edition of MEDIENIMPULSE is dedicated to an in-depth exploration of this area of research. One question artists have been pursuing is how media help create new structures and communicative processes in society. On the one hand, media art itself is facing a paradox of communication, often working with digital technologies while not benefitting from large digital audiences. Additionally, possibilities of communicating about media art in a text-based fashion are often limited. On the other hand, media artists have adopted progressive positions in debates on media technologies in understanding media art as intervention and questioning, and, not least of all, as a deconstruction of media themselves. Against this background, digital media art has created non-commercialized discursive openings for education, critical reflection, subversive media use, innovation, and resistance. The contributions to this issue of MEDIENIMPULSE concern the interrelations between media art and media education, and their particular relevance to the practical and theoretical challenges in media education. From acocciol at pratt.edu Thu Feb 27 12:52:09 2014 From: acocciol at pratt.edu (Anthony Cocciolo) Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2014 15:52:09 -0500 Subject: [Air-L] Search reopened: Assistant Prof. for Computing and Emerging Technologies, Pratt Institute, NYC Message-ID: Pratt Institute, School of Information and Library Science, has an opening for full time tenure-track position at the level of assistant professor in the area of *Computing and Emerging Information Technologies* Full time, tenure-track, beginning Fall 2014 *http://tinyurl.com/search2014 * To apply: Applicants are invited to submit a single PDF file that includes the following documents: Cover letter, curriculum vitae, statement on research and teaching interests, and names of four references. Please e-mail materials to: Debbie Rabina: drabina at pratt.edu To learn more about Pratt SILS full-time faculty visit http://research.prattsils.org/ -- Debbie Rabina, Ph.D. Associate Professor Pratt Institute, School of Information and Library Science 144 West 14th Street, 6th fl. New York, NY 10011-7301 drabina at pratt.edu http://mysite.pratt.edu/~drabina/index.htm From jjwilliams at ualr.edu Thu Feb 27 15:12:39 2014 From: jjwilliams at ualr.edu (Joe Williams) Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2014 17:12:39 -0600 Subject: [Air-L] U of Arkansas Little Rock tenure-track opening Message-ID: <004e01cf3411$78d86650$6a8932f0$@ualr.edu> Hi All, My apologies for cross-postings. The Department of Rhetoric and Writing at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock (UALR) invites applications for a tenure-track assistant professor to teach undergraduate and graduate courses in professional writing. We are especially interested in candidates with expertise and experience in one of the following areas: a) new media design and development; b) creative nonfiction, especially related to new media. Here is the link to the complete job posting: http://ualr.peopleadmin.com/postings/1939 A bit about us: The Department of Rhetoric and Writing, a stand-alone writing department, houses the First-Year Composition program, the University Writing Center, and the Little Rock Writing Project. The department offers a BA, a minor, and an MA in Professional and Technical Writing. These degrees include courses in rhetoric, editing, creative nonfiction, and technical writing. The department has approximately 70 active majors and 60 active graduate students. If you have any questions about UALR or our program in general, don't hesitate to email me. Best, Joe Williams -------- Joseph John Williams, Ph.D. Co-Director, ATLE Associate Professor of Rhetoric and Writing University of Arkansas at Little Rock 2801 S. University Avenue Little Rock, AR 72204 (501) 569-8313 jjwilliams at ualr.edu From explicit_corpse at hotmail.com Thu Feb 27 22:39:17 2014 From: explicit_corpse at hotmail.com (V. T.) Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2014 22:39:17 -0800 Subject: [Air-L] Call for chapter proposals: A Thousand Platforms: Deep Teaching for Computational Media and Generalist Design In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: CALL FOR BOOK CHAPTER PROPOSALSA Thousand Platforms: Deep Teaching for Computational Media and Generalist DesignEdited by Michael Filimowicz, School of Interactive Arts and Technology, Simon Fraser University Today?s creators of interactive media ?switch hardware and software tools like colors of paint.?[1] This edited collection focuses on undergraduate teaching and learning by bringing together essays addressing pedagogies that produce the fabled "unicorns" ? graduates who can Program, Design and Create. Curricula in computational media are faced with various challenges, such as (1) maintaining a balance between breadth and depth of specialist knowledge; (2) developing fluency in coding despite otherwise advanced technological creativity; or (3) the role of numeracy in visually-dominated media. A multiplicity of technical skillsets? animation, graphic design, electronics, computer vision, web design, sound design, 3D printing, algorithmic thinking amongst many others ? contribute to an equally diverse set of professional fields, such as UXD, audiovisual postproduction, web application development, project management, creative directing practices, game programming, storytelling, industrial design, communication design and beyond. This rich combination of skillsets and possible roles are profoundly cross-pollinating and thus trigger continuous shifts in professional contexts. Within this framework, this edited collection intends to address topics such as ( but not limited to): ? Project-based courses and teamwork? Entrepreneurial components to curricula? The perception and realities of specialist vs. generalist knowledge? Translating faculty research and graduate collegiality into the undergraduate realm? Conceptualization of similarities, differences, continuums and relationships between art and design pedagogies? Ways in which generalist creative and technical knowledge translate to a student audience with "glamour job" expectations ? Pedagogical strategies that acclimate students for a fast changing workforce where much of the most interesting and rewarding work is performed on a per project basis? Instructional strategies that evoke students? passion about coding, mathematics, research methodologies and writing In brief, this edited collection asks: what does it mean to teach students toward a thousand technological platforms? Please send your original 500 word abstracts in the body of the email along with a short bio to mfa13 at sfu.ca with the subject heading ?1000 Platforms.? Deadline: Aug 1, 2014.Notification of acceptance: Oct 1, 2014Full chapters (6000-7000 words) due: January 11th, 2015. ---------[1] To cite an interview with Matt Cottam in Joshua Noble's Programming Interactivity. From jsalmons at vision2lead.com Fri Feb 28 07:52:30 2014 From: jsalmons at vision2lead.com (Janet Salmons, Ph.D.) Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2014 08:52:30 -0700 Subject: [Air-L] New Social Media, New Social Science... and New Ethical Issues! Message-ID: The New Social Media, New Social Science network is a partnership of the NatCen, Sage UK and the Oxford Internet Institute. NSMNSS has convened numerous on-site and online events about the use of social media in research. Attendees at the on-site events are mostly UK-based, but the online events have attracted global participation. Ethical issues have been a persistent theme throughout the discussions. We offered a questionnaire last spring to learn more specifically about ethical concerns as well as the sources they consult when making decisions in their own research. Not surprisingly, the AOIR guidelines were frequently mentioned as trusted resources. I analyzed all of the records from events and the questionnaire responses to determine what specific issues e-researchers identify, and to what extent these issues are addressed the codes and guidelines they named. In addition to the AOIR guide, I looked at a number of other current guidelines from professional associations. You can find links to the full report and an overview presentation on the NSMNSS blog *http://bit.ly/1kvhDAH .* You can join us for a conversation on the issues in a Tweetchat at #NSMNSS on March 11, 19:00 or 7 pm in London, 3 PM in New York. (See www.timeanddate.com for your time zone.) *Janet Salmons Ph.D.* *Capella University School of Business & Vision2Lead, Inc.*Site- http://www.vision2lead.com Follow Twitter @einterview Now available as Kindle e-books: Online Interviews in Real Time & Cases in Online Interview Research. Coming soon: Qualitative Online Interviews Boulder, CO jsalmons at vision2lead.com From lee.komito at ucd.ie Fri Feb 28 08:46:18 2014 From: lee.komito at ucd.ie (Lee Komito) Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2014 16:46:18 +0000 Subject: [Air-L] Assistant Professor/College Lecturer Position: University College Dublin School of Information & Library Studies Message-ID: <5310BD5A.7020801@ucd.ie> Open Position: Lecturer in Information Ref: 006474 Lecturer in Information (Above the Bar) University College Dublin - UCD School of Information and Library Studies The School of Information and Library Studies at University College Dublin invites applications for a five-year posts. The successful candidate will contribute significantly to the quality expansion of research in one or more of the following areas: digital curation, visualization / information design, informatisation of social/ organisational processes, information architecture, information systems design, related topics regarding the interplay of people, information, technology and social structures; and to participate effectively in the School's educational programmes. Applicants should have completed a PhD in Information and Library Science or related discipline. Candidates who do not yet have a PhD in Information and Library Science or related discipline but who expect to have completed this degree by the date of appointment may be considered. Closing date for applications is Monday, 31 March 2013 (GMT). It is envisaged an appointee will commence in post September 2014. Further information (including application procedure) should be obtained from http://www.ucd.ie/hr/jobvacancies. For more detail on the School of Information and Library Studies, and its undergraduate and postgraduate programmes, see http://www.ucd.ie/sils. Informal inquiries to Dr. Lee Komito (lee.komito at ucd.ie), Head of School/Head of Subject. Representatives from the School will be available at upcoming iConference in Berlin for further discussion. -- Lee Komito (e) lee.komito at ucd.ie School of Information & Library Studies (p) +353.1.7167594 University College Dublin (f) +353.1.7161161 Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland (w) www.ucd.ie/lkomito From amanda.licastro at gmail.com Fri Feb 28 10:48:57 2014 From: amanda.licastro at gmail.com (Amanda Licastro) Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2014 13:48:57 -0500 Subject: [Air-L] #MLA15 CFP of interest Message-ID: If you are hoping to attend MLA next January in Vancouver, please consider applying to our panel which I think will be of interest to this list. Designing an Archive for Cloud and Crowd - How can networks (human and/or digital) combat institutional amnesia? What digital spaces can we build today to preserve a history for tomorrow? 350-word proposals by 14 March 2014. Contact amanda.licastro at gmail.com or benmiller314 at gmail.com Have a wonderful weekend, Amanda Amanda Licastro M.A. Doctoral Student CUNY Graduate Center Instructional Technology Fellow Macaulay Honors College http://digitocentrism.commons.gc.cuny.edu/ @amandalicastro From mpavlovski at iml.ukim.edu.mk Fri Feb 28 23:55:10 2014 From: mpavlovski at iml.ukim.edu.mk (Mishel Pavlovski) Date: Sat, 1 Mar 2014 08:55:10 +0100 Subject: [Air-L] Extended deadline CFP "Media: Tyheory and Practice" Message-ID: <000001cf3523$96346f60$c29d4e20$@iml.ukim.edu.mk> Call for papers Extended Deadline: 15 March 2014 Second Annual International CCCS Conference 2014 ??Media: Theory and Practice?? Hotel Continental, Skopje, Macedonia, 4?\6 September 2014 http://cultcenter.net/ Supported by: European Communication Research and Education Association International Association for Media and Communication Research The Centre for Culture and Cultural Studies (CCCS) invites proposals for papers, thematic panels and original media productions for Second Annual International CCCS Conference 2014 ??Media: Theory and Practice?? The aim of this conference revolves around a foundational impetus to shed greater light on all relevant aspects of media studies, including mass communication, media technology, the visual and the performing arts, TV, radio, WEB and print media, as well as other key components of media studies and mass communication. We invite proposals based on media theory (particularly critical media studies and cultural studies), and proposals that consider the relationship between media and (popular) culture, politics, arts, new media, as pertinent fields of study. We welcome submissions that offer original media productions: documentary films, fictionalized or non-narrative creative expressions. The submitted proposal needs to contain a creative or theoretical explanation of the submitted work. We invite projects by PhD students or submissions by teams of students and instructors (lecturers). Hence, the Second Annual International CCCS Conference 2014 ??Media: Theory and Practice?? strives to offer a dialogic space for media theorists and practitioners. Along those lines, we invite media studies?? theorists as well as practitioners to offer proposals through engaging and current ideas, paper topics, workshop presentations and round table discussions. Possible topics include, but are not limited to: * Media Analyses o Content analysis o Media literacy o Media discourses * Critical Theory and Media Criticism o Media and hegemony o Media and globalization * Media and Political Communication o Media activism o Media and ideology o Media and democracy * Media and Law o (De)Regulation of media o Media and privacy o Media and copyright * Art and Media o Art-science interface o Media and aesthetics o Film o Theatre o The visual arts o The performing arts * Media and Culture o Media and gender o Diaspora, migrants and media o Media and ethnicity o Media and audience o Cultural populism o Cultural capital o Media and remembrance/forgetting o Media and heritage o Media and identity o Media representation * New Media o Media and games o Social media o Digital activism o Media ecosystem o Multimedia * Journalism studies o Journalism and social and cultural representations o The role and status of journalism in the era of digital technology Paper proposals For individual paper proposals, please fill out the following form http://cultcenter.net/?wpgform_qv=registration-form-papers If you have problems filling the form, please download offline form in MS WORD format http://cultcenter.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/Registration-form.docx Submissions for individual paper proposals should number to 250 words. Important Dates and Fees Deadline for abstracts submission: 15 March 2014 Notifications of acceptance: 1 April 2014 Deadline for full paper submission: 1 December 2014 Early registration (till 1 May 2014): ?40 Late registration (till 15 August 2014): ?60 On-site registration (or after 15 August 2014): ?80 The registration fee includes: the welcome party, conference materials, an online publication of the abstracts, refreshment breaks. Full papers that have received a positive review will be published in the journals ?????????? ??????/Culture?? and/or ??Investigating Culture??. Official languages of Conference are English, Russian and Macedonian. The Conference will be held on 4-6 September, 2014 in Hotel Continental, Skopje, the Republic of Macedonia. For any further information please contact Dr. Mishel Pavlovski (mishel at cultcenter.net) or Dr. Loreta Georgievska Jakovleva (loreta at cultcenter.net) ============================================================================ ============== Dr. Mishel Pavlovski University ??Ss. Cyril and Methodius?? Institute for Macedonian Literature http://www.iml.ukim.edu.mk/ Centre for Culture and Cultural Studies http://cultcenter.net/ From charles.ess at gmail.com Sat Feb 1 00:07:14 2014 From: charles.ess at gmail.com (Charles Ess) Date: Sat, 01 Feb 2014 09:07:14 +0100 Subject: [Air-L] PhD course - Methodologies: Mobile Media & Mobility - Aarhus University Message-ID: Dear AoIR-ists, With the usual regrets for duplications and cross-postings - please pass along to potential candidates and appropriate lists. Please note that the course offers a sliding scale of requirements and correlative ECTs. There are no course fees, though participants will be required to pay ca. 1000.00 DKK to cover their catering costs (lunches, coffee and tea breaks, etc.) over the course of the workshop. Methodologies: Mobile Media & Mobility International PhD course, Aarhus University 1-3 April 2014 http://phdcourses.dk/Course/24583#.UuIXh_Y1j-Y Lecturers: Adriana de Souza e Silva, NC State University Rich Ling, IT-University of Copenhagen Gunnar Liest?l, Oslo University Kristian Hegner Reinau, Aalborg University Jonas Larsen, Roskilde University Anne Marit Waade, Aarhus University Thomas Bj?rner, Aalborg University Charles Ess, Oslo University Organisers: Charles Ess (Professor, UiO); Thomas Bj?rner (Associate Professor, AAU); and Anne Marit Waade (Associate Professor, AU). Graduate School of Arts, Aarhus University, PhD degree program: ICT Media, Communication and Journalism. ECTS 4 ECTS inclusive of submitting a paper 3 ECTS without submitting a paper (1 ECT extra for participating in the research workshop April 4) Time: April 1-3,2014 Room and Place: Aarhus University Cost/ Policy No course fee. Travel, accommodation and meals are not covered by the course. The course will give different perspectives on methodologies within studies in mobile media and mobility. This multidisciplinary course covers fields of research such as media science, communication, ethnography, anthropology, social science, geography, architecture, urban design and planning, research ethics, etc. The Ph.D.-course will be based on lectures, workshops and students own project presentations in a mixed setting aiming at creating an open and creative research dialogue. For a more detailed course description, registration information, etc., please see the course website: On behalf of the organisers, Charles Ess Professor in Media Studies Department of Media and Communication Director, Centre for Research on Media Innovations University of Oslo P.O. Box 1093 Blindern NO-0317 Oslo Norway email: charles.ess at media.uio.no From ekoltsova at hse.ru Sat Feb 1 06:54:11 2014 From: ekoltsova at hse.ru (=?koi8-r?B?68/M2MPP18Eg5czFzsEg4NLYxdfOwQ==?=) Date: Sat, 1 Feb 2014 14:54:11 +0000 Subject: [Air-L] a postdoc at Internet studies lab Message-ID: Dear all, A postdoc position at our Internet Studies Lab (that will actually make you feel very rich in Russia :)! ) is now open. Job description: http://linis.hse.ru/announcements/110788699.html It may the be extended for a tenure-track position at the dept of media and communication that we are launching in 2015, or at sociology, political science, economics etc. Olessia Koltsova Director, Laboratory for Internet Studies National Research University Higher School of Economics (St.Petersburg branch) room 322, 46 Rimskogo-Korsakova St. 190008, St.Petersburg, Russia Phone: +7 (812) 677-9452 www.linis.hse.ru E-mail: ekoltsova at hse.ru http://www.hse.ru/en/org/persons/202747 From william.dutton at oii.ox.ac.uk Sat Feb 1 07:44:46 2014 From: william.dutton at oii.ox.ac.uk (William Dutton) Date: Sat, 1 Feb 2014 15:44:46 +0000 Subject: [Air-L] a postdoc at Internet studies lab In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Olessia, please consider joining the Global Network of Interdisciplinary Internet & Society Research Centers: http://www.hiig.de/en/global-network-of-interdisciplinary-internet-society-research-centers/ On 1 Feb 2014, at 14:54, ???????? ????? ??????? wrote: > > Dear all, > > A postdoc position at our Internet Studies Lab (that will actually make you feel very rich in Russia :)! ) is now open. Job description: http://linis.hse.ru/announcements/110788699.html > > It may the be extended for a tenure-track position at the dept of media and communication that we are launching in 2015, or at sociology, political science, economics etc. > > Olessia Koltsova > Director, Laboratory for Internet Studies > National Research University Higher School of Economics (St.Petersburg branch) > room 322, 46 Rimskogo-Korsakova St. > 190008, St.Petersburg, Russia > Phone: +7 (812) 677-9452 > www.linis.hse.ru > E-mail: ekoltsova at hse.ru > http://www.hse.ru/en/org/persons/202747 > _______________________________________________ > The Air-L at listserv.aoir.org mailing list > is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org > Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org > > Join the Association of Internet Researchers: > http://www.aoir.org/ William H. Dutton Professor of Internet Studies Professorial Fellow, Balliol College CITI Fellow, Columbia University Oxford Martin Fellow Oxford Internet Institute University of Oxford 1 St Giles', Oxford OX1 3JS UNITED KINGDOM Tel +44 (0)1865 287 210 Fax +44 (0)1865 287 211 Cell +44 (0)7768 823906 Web: http://people.oii.ox.ac.uk/dutton/about/ You can access my papers on the Social Science Research Network (SSRN) at: http://ssrn.com/author=478025 Latest Books: The Oxford Handbook of Internet Studies (2013): http://ukcatalogue.oup.com/product/9780199589074.do Politics and the Internet (2014): http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415561501/ From ropolyi at ludens.elte.hu Sat Feb 1 08:51:57 2014 From: ropolyi at ludens.elte.hu (ropolyi at ludens.elte.hu) Date: Sat, 01 Feb 2014 17:51:57 +0100 Subject: [Air-L] Ten Years of Facebook Conference Message-ID: <20140201175157.57367kx0uz070ist@webmail.elte.hu> *Ten Years of Facebook: The Third Argumentor Conference* 4-6 September 2014, Oradea / Nagyv?rad, Romania This year marks the tenth anniversary of the launch of Facebook, the most ubiquitous social media and communication platform in the world. It also gives us the opportunity to take a step back and examine increasingly important questions about how Facebook and the new social web have impacted the world of communication, from debate, discourse and rhetoric to philosophy, politics, social context, and other forms of new media. Has Facebook been constructive or disruptive in these different areas - or perhaps both? How does the ease and ubiquity of online communication affect longstanding national, generational, ideological, gender and class divides? We welcome papers seeking to explore such questions, including approaches that aim to challenge the importance, relevance or timeliness of such questions. ORGANIZED BY: Partium Christian University / Romania Sapientia Hungarian University of Transylvania / Romania University of Debrecen / Hungary Conference website: https://sites.google.com/site/argumentor2014/ Abstract submission deadline: 3 February 2014 Laszlo Ropolyi From mariarosariataddeo at gmail.com Sat Feb 1 14:27:31 2014 From: mariarosariataddeo at gmail.com (Mariariosaria Taddeo) Date: Sat, 1 Feb 2014 22:27:31 +0000 Subject: [Air-L] Nominations for the Brian Michael Goldberg Memorial Award Message-ID: <88D2571C-C151-4607-9A14-70F09728D472@gmail.com> The International Association for Computing and Philosophy is proud to present the ?Brian Michael Goldberg Memorial Award? to graduate students in recognisance of outstanding achievements in the areas of Computing and Philosophy. This award is sponsored by the Department of Philosophy at Carnegie Mellon and carries a $500 USD stipend, which will be presented each year at one of the IACAP conferences. Nominees and applicants are welcome from around the world. This Award was made possible by a generous gift from Dr. Gerald and Nancy Goldberg in memory of their son, Brian Michael Goldberg. In their words: Brian was a twenty-two year old student who was admitted to Carnegie Mellon University in 1991 to the doctoral program in philosophy. He died unexpectedly before he could realize his dream of attending Carnegie Mellon. Brian was an independent thinker who loved competition and a good challenge. Throughout his life, he found it exciting to enter and win contests. He loved challenging his mind, especially by studying philosophy, mathematics and logic. He loved challenging his creativity through photography, painting and theatre arts. He loved challenging his body by learning such diverse sports as wrestling, fencing and scuba diving. He loved debating and challenging others to think in new ways and had seriously considered becoming a university professor. To honor who he was and what he loved, this Goldberg Memorial Award is offered to challenge and motivate other graduate students in Brian?s chosen field of study. To nominate, please send names and website URLs (or CVs) to: berkich at gmail.com by February the 28th 2014. For more information, please see http://www.iacap.org/awards/ -- Dr. Mariarosaria Taddeo Research Fellow in Cyber Security and Ethics, PAIS, University of Warwick Research Associate - Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, University of Oxford President, International Association for Computing and Philosophy http://taddeo.philosophyofinformation.net/index.html From joel.neville.anderson at rochester.edu Sat Feb 1 15:17:55 2014 From: joel.neville.anderson at rochester.edu (Joel Neville Anderson) Date: Sat, 1 Feb 2014 18:17:55 -0500 Subject: [Air-L] Call for Papers and Creative Works: InVisible Culture, Issue 22: "Opacity" Message-ID: Dear Air-L subscribers, Please circulate the latest CFP for my graduate program's journal, InVisible Culture: An Electronic Journal for Visual Culture (pasted below). Please don't hesitate to contact me with any questions. Best regards, Joel Neville Anderson Managing Editor InVisible Culture 503A Morey Hall University of Rochester Rochester, NY 14627 http://ivc.lib.rochester.edu - ?Opacity? - Issue 22 For its twenty-second issue, InVisible Culture: An Electronic Journal for Visual Culture invites scholarly articles and creative works that address the multiple meanings of opacity. In the spring of 2013, former US intelligence contractor Edward Snowden began releasing documents pertaining to the wide-ranging data collection methods of the National Security Agency. Alternately hailed as hero and traitor, Snowden?s actions have fueled intense public debate regarding issues of privacy and transparency. For Issue 22, we would like contributors to consider the tension between transparency and opacity and reflect on the cultural and political contexts that gave rise to their connotations of openness and secrecy. What does it mean to claim either as a right? The late writer, poet, and critic ?douard Glissant (1928-2011) developed a model of opacity as a means of creating ethical relationships, writing in Poetics of Relation, ?Transparency no longer seems like the bottom of the mirror in which Western humanity reflected the world in its own image. There is opacity now at the bottom of the mirror, a whole alluvium deposited by populations.? How could opacity be used as a tool of resistance? What stakes are involved in the revelation or obscuring of artworks? racial, cultural, or gendered origins? How might we imagine opacity to be useful or limiting to the work of visual culture? We also seek to address optical properties of opacity more broadly as a conceptual tool for approaching medium specificity, innovations in color theory, and other subjects. Does our understanding of opacity shift in regard to digital technologies as it may between cultural spheres and political territories? How might visual culture be invested in the theoretical and physical properties of opacity and transparency? We welcome papers and artworks that further the various understandings of opacity. Possible topics of exploration include, but are not limited to: Aesthetic and political dimensions of transparency and opacity Identity politics, ?the right to opacity? Privacy and visibility, surveillance The ?transparent society? and digital panopticism Scientific and medical visualization, the body, big data Opacity of architectural traditions Liminal spaces, borders, zones of conflict Transparency and globalization, geopolitics Emerging, established, and decaying democracies Politics of clothing, fabric, screens, interstitial space and material Camera obscura/lucida, properties of darkness and light, color, pigmentation Transparency and opacity in the plastic arts (painting, film, sculpture) Penetration and resistance Please send completed papers (with references following the guidelines from the Chicago Manual of Style) of between 4,000 and 10,000 words to ivc[dot]rochester[at]gmail[dot]com by May 1, 2014. Inquiries should be sent to the same address. Creative/Artistic Works In addition to written materials, InVisible Culture is accepting work in other media (video, photography, drawing, code) that reflect upon the theme as it is outlined above. For questions or more details concerning acceptable formats, go to http://ivc.lib.rochester.edu/contribute or contact ivc[dot]rochester[at]gmail[dot]com. Reviews InVisible Culture is also currently seeking submissions for book, exhibition, and film reviews (600-1,000 words). To submit a review proposal, go to http://ivc.lib.rochester.edu/contribute or contact ivc[dot]rochester[at]gmail[dot]com. Blog The journal also invites submissions to its blog feature, which will accommodate more immediate responses to the topic of the current issue. For further details, please contact us at ivc[dot]rochester[at]gmail[dot]com with the subject heading ?blog submission.? * InVisible Culture: An Electronic Journal for Visual Culture (IVC) is a student run interdisciplinary journal published online twice a year in an open access format. Through peer reviewed articles, creative works, and reviews of books, films, and exhibitions, our issues explore changing themes in visual culture. Fostering a global and current dialog across fields, IVC investigates the power and limits of vision. From Jakob.Svensson at kau.se Sun Feb 2 04:46:17 2014 From: Jakob.Svensson at kau.se (Jakob Svensson) Date: Sun, 02 Feb 2014 13:46:17 +0100 Subject: [Air-L] M4D Doctoral Workshop, Dakar - deadline extended til Feb 14th Message-ID: M4D Doctoral Workshop, Dakar - deadline extended til Feb 14th April 7, 2014 We invite applications to the M4D Doctoral Workshop in Dakar Senegal. The workshop will provide a forum for PhD students in the area of mobile communication technology in and for development to present their work and receive constructive feedback from experts in the field as well as from peers. PhD students at any stage of their doctoral studies are invited to submit papers. The workshop will host about 15 attendees besides the experts in the field. We expect submissions to be from current PhD students who have selected a clear research topic within M4D in the broadest sense. Participation for selected PhD students are free for M4D2014 conference delegates who have registered and paid the conference fee. The doctoral workshop is sponsored by the International Network of Postgraduate Students in the area of ICT4D (IPID). Goal of workshop The goal of the workshop is to provide professional development in M4D with critical, but constructive, feedback and advice to PhD students on their ongoing research from senior researchers. The workshop will also offer the opportunity to meet and exchange ideas and suggestions with peers in the M4D field. Submission Submissions should address the student's PhD research area, specifically: a well-defined formulation of the problem statement, objectives and aims of the research, explain the research context and why the research is important, give details of research design and data collection techniques, present preliminary results and research findings, do clarify the state of the research work, a brief sketch of the intended theoretical/disciplinary approach and audience(s) for the work, as well as the related theoretical and practical contributions to the multidisciplinary area of 'M4D'. Your name, affiliation, email address, PhD supervisor's name and affiliation and year when you started PhD should be included. The submission should be max. 5000 words in length. Please note that the workshop is not a venue for publication; there will be no published proceedings. However, we encourage workshop participants to also submit to the M4D2014 main conference (poster, full or short paper see www.m4d2014.net). Doctoral workshop participants are asked to submit their papers to m4d AT kau.se with the subject line [M4D2014 doctoral workshop]. Workshop Format Participants will be divided into two groups depending on their research topic. Group A will be led by Anne Shongwe and Jonathan Donner and Group B by Laura Stark and Richard Ling. Participants will be asked to read the group member?s papers prior the workshop so that focus can be on discussing each paper in depth rather than listening to presentations. We will reserve around 15-20 minutes for comments and 10-15 minutes for general discussion. Important Dates Submission by: 23:59 (GMT), 14 February 2014 Notification of acceptance: 15 March 2014 (by this date the M4D conference fee should be paid) Workshop date: 7 April 2014 Jakob Svensson, Ph. D. Ass. Prof. Media and Communication Studies Director, BA Programme in Media & Communication Studies Director, MA Programme in Global Media Karlstad University SE-65188 Karlstad, Sweden Telephone +46 54 700 1893 Mobile + 46 73 443 48 04 www.kau.se/media www.kau.se/en/humanit twitter.com/Centre4HumanIT facebook.com/karlstadsuniversitet KAU.SE From k.albury at unsw.edu.au Sun Feb 2 18:19:43 2014 From: k.albury at unsw.edu.au (Kath Albury) Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2014 02:19:43 +0000 Subject: [Air-L] Qual research with digital diaries- seeking tools & tips, please Message-ID: Hi folks, I was wondering if anyone on this list had experience of using a mobile diary app as research tool (for participants). I'd like participants to post to a diary via phone or tablet, & will need to have access (& be able to archive diaries). I've looked at ethno hub (http://ethnohub.com), and my panel (which is a market research tool (http://www.mobilemarketresearch.net/mypanel/features). And there's always the option of plain old wordpress - but the question is how to export & archive the data? Any tips (or even anecdotes) from seasoned players will be greatly appreciated. Cheers, Kath Kath Albury, PhD Senior Lecturer, School of Arts and Media University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, 2052 Ph: 61 2 9385 8533 UNSW CRICOS Provider code 00098G http://research.unsw.edu.au/people/dr-kath-albury From K.Mccullagh at uea.ac.uk Mon Feb 3 00:35:57 2014 From: K.Mccullagh at uea.ac.uk (Karen Mc Cullagh (LAW)) Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2014 08:35:57 +0000 Subject: [Air-L] Final Reminder: BILETA Conference Message-ID: <18A01807BD2AE443B3B948CBE5FF0D391E901D@ueastfexch01.UEA.AC.UK> Final reminder: The Call for Papers for the 29th BILETA Annual Conference (14-16 April 2014, University of East Anglia) has been extended to facilitate requests for extensions. If you missed the original deadline, you now have until 7th February 2014 to submit an abstract. To view the call for papers and information about the conference see the attachment and click on the link: http://www.uea.ac.uk/law/news-and-events/bileta-conference Queries should be sent to the organiser, Dr Karen Mc Cullagh, via bileta2014 at uea.ac.uk ----------------------------------------------- Dr Karen Mc Cullagh Lecturer UEA Law School University of East Anglia Norwich Research Park Norwich NR4 7TJ w: http://karenmccullagh.co.uk/ T: 01603 59 7617 From Nicolas.Jullien at telecom-bretagne.eu Mon Feb 3 01:17:26 2014 From: Nicolas.Jullien at telecom-bretagne.eu (Nicolas Jullien) Date: Mon, 03 Feb 2014 10:17:26 +0100 Subject: [Air-L] =?iso-8859-1?q?PhD_grants_at_iSchool=2C_T=E9l=E9com_Breta?= =?iso-8859-1?q?gne=2C_France?= Message-ID: <52EF5EA6.8040806@telecom-bretagne.eu> Hello all, we, at iSchool, Telecom Bretagne, are looking for PhD Candidates (starting September, 2014, 3 years grant) on the following topics: - management, labor economics: virtual teaming, employees' participation in online communities - economics evaluation: multi-criteria evaluation of IT platforms - analytic tools and theories: data mining, social graph analysis. The work can be done in English, PhD candidate can follow French courses If you know people interested in discussing those topics, aks them to send me an email with their resume and their topic of interest. Nicolas Jullien -- Ma?tre de Conf?rences (HDR) / Associate Professor. LUSSI - iSchool, M at rsouin. Institut TELECOM Bretagne & UEB In charge of the Master "Information Systems Project Management and Consulting" http://www.telecom-bretagne.eu/studies/msc/information-systems-management/ Co-animator of the Institut Mines-Telecom's research network "TIC and Society" http://nicolas-jullien.lussi-ischool.eu/ Skype: Nicolas.Jullien1 Tel +33 (0) 229 001 245 TELECOM Bretagne, Technop?le Brest Iroise CS 83818 29238 BREST CEDEX 3 From rbeneito at gmail.com Mon Feb 3 07:43:41 2014 From: rbeneito at gmail.com (Roser Beneito Montagut) Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2014 15:43:41 +0000 Subject: [Air-L] to add participants to your SNSs or not? Message-ID: Hello everybody, We have just started an ethnography (online and offline) to study the extent to which the social web can mitigate isolation and loneliness feelings among the elderly by promoting their interpersonal relationships online. I appreciate if you can point me to articles discussing whether the researcher has added the participants to his/her social network site (e.g. Facebook) or has created an specific profile for the research. We have decided to add the participants to our SNSs, creating a group for them, but I would like to know what other researchers have done and the challenges of this methodological decision they have faced. Apologies beforehand if this topic has already been discussed in the list. Thanks, Roser Roser Beneito-Montagut Senior Lecturer School of Computing, Multimedia and Telecommunication Open University of Catalonia Barcelona From ella.fegitz at gmail.com Mon Feb 3 08:59:11 2014 From: ella.fegitz at gmail.com (Ella Fegitz) Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2014 16:59:11 +0000 Subject: [Air-L] Fwd: Call for papers - Radical Negativity In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: We would like to remind you about the following conference: *Radical Negativity: Interrogating productive possibilities for negative states of being* Friday 13 June 2014 Goldsmiths, University of London Conference Keynote: Lisa Blackman, Professor in Media and Communications, Goldsmiths Supported by the Centre for Feminist Research, Department of Media and Communications, and the Centre for Cultural Studies at Goldsmiths. Website: http://radicalnegativity.com *Proposals are due by Friday 14 February 2014* More recent feminist and queer scholarship has begun to productively address the dark aspects of human subjectivity perceived to have a detrimental impact on the self-constituting practices of the positive self, such as shame, trauma, unhappiness, loss, pain, and melancholia, and reconceptualise them not only as integral to the process of subject formation, but critical and productive affective states in which to engage political action. This interdisciplinary conference addresses the ways in which feminist and queer research may be informed by embracing philosophical oppositions, the 'negative double' of the positive value. The conference will interrogate what can be learned from interventions focused on the interconnections between the negative and human agency, and how such a frame can inform ideas of feminist and queer practice. Borrowing from Eve Sedgwick, this conference proposes that forms of the negative are "not distinctly 'toxic' parts of a group or individual identity that can be excised; they are instead integral to and residual in the processes by which identity itself is formed. They are available for the work of metamorphosis, reframing, refiguration, transfiguration, affective and symbolic loading and deformation (Sedgwick and Frank, 2003, p.63)." If, like Sedgwick, we take up this challenge to valorise negative states of being as key conditions both for the production of meaning and being and as organising principles of identity, then we hope explorations into such states may provide the potential to open up new possibilities for politics and connection. We invite papers and panel proposals that explore how negative states and conditions of being such as unhappiness, irresponsibility, passivity, vulnerability, failure, shame, hesitancy, pain, dispossession, rage, madness and depression may provide loci from which action and political engagement can arise. *Submission Guidelines* Please submit paper abstracts of 300-500 words along with a short biography of 100 words. Panel proposals should include a 300-word description along with accompanying paper abstracts for the panel of 300-500 words. Please provide a short 100-word biography for each presenter. Email submissions to: radicalnegativity at gmail.com by*Friday 14 February 2014*. From sheena.hyndman at gmail.com Mon Feb 3 13:57:34 2014 From: sheena.hyndman at gmail.com (Sheena Hyndman) Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2014 16:57:34 -0500 Subject: [Air-L] CFP (DEADLINE EXTENDED): Dancecult: Special Issue on the Remix and EDMC Message-ID: Hello, I'm writing to request that the CFP below be circulated to the list. With gratitude, Sheena Hyndman _________________________________________ Hello all, Please note that the deadline for the CFP below has been extended to *February 16, 2014*. Best, SH > --------------------------------------------------------------- > > *CFP: The Remix and EDMC Special Edition of Dancecult: Journal of > Electronic Dance Music Culture* > > Guest Editor: Sheena Hyndman > > https://dj.dancecult.net/ > > This special issue seeks to address topics and issues related to the remix > as a component of electronic dance music culture. The remix, a form of > derivative song composition that combines existing recorded sound with > newly composed musical material, has become an increasingly popular subject > of study both within and outside academia. While derivative musical and > cultural expression is not a phenomenon exclusive to the present, the remix > is unique from past forms of derivative music making because of the way it > is defined by its relationship to the sound reproduction technologies of > the 20th and 21st centuries. This combination of derivativeness and > technology has encouraged an influx of scholarship addressing the > problematic relationship of the remix with intellectual property to the > exclusion of many other aspects of remixing, and in light of recent > technological developments, the flourishing of participatory culture and > the growing importance of the remix in the contemporary music industry, > there remains a great deal of territory to explore with respect to the > remix as an expression of contemporary music culture. Therefore, this > special issue seeks to broaden understandings of remixing as a key element > of electronic dance music culture by encouraging debate among composers, > performers, promoters, fans and detractors. > > This special issue of Dancecult invites contributions from scholars in > all areas on the subject of the remix as an expression of past and > contemporary electronic dance music and culture. The goal of this special > issue is to broaden the understanding of remixed music beyond the most > commonly articulated tropes in existing scholarship. To this end, > contributions from scholars, performers, music industry insiders, admirers > and critics are welcomed and encouraged. While contributions from all areas > of scholarship will be considered, it is requested that submissions be > underpinned by a focus on remixing as it relates to electronic dance music > culture. > > / / Suggested Themes / / > > The editor encourages that contributions be grounded in musical > scholarship relating to remixing and EDMC. Potential topics include, but > are not limited to: > > - The history of remixing; > > - Remix genres and scenes; > > - Audience consumption and listening practices; > > - Attitudes towards derivativeness in music; > > - The remix as an expression of past, contemporary, popular and/or > underground dance music cultures; > > - The remix as a process of song composition; > > - The remix as performance practice; > > - The remix and the music industry; > > - Authenticity and originality; > > - Professional and amateur remixing; > > - Types of compensation for producers of remixes; > > - Music blogging; > > - Cross-geographical and -temporal collaborative music making. > > / / Submissions / / > > Feature Articles: > > Feature Articles will be peer-reviewed and are 6000?9000 words in length > (including endnotes, captions and bibliography). > > For policies, see: > > > https://dj.dancecult.net/index.php/dancecult/about/editorialPolicies#sectionPolicies > > *??????????????????????????* > > This special edition will also feature articles for our "From the Floor" > section. Rather than being written in the formal style of the academic > essay, submissions for this shorter format (750?2500 words) are more > conversational, blog-like and informal in tone and may feature more > experimental and creative styles of reporting. From the Floor contributions > may take the form of dispatches from the field, mini-ethnographies, > interviews and photo essays, and contributors are encouraged to include > relevant multimedia components such as music, video and hypertext. > > Articles must adhere to all style and formatting rules stipulated in the Dancecult > Style Guide (DSG). > > Download it here: > > > https://dj.dancecult.net/index.php/dancecult/manager/files/PublicFolder/dancecult_styleguide2.8.5.pdf > > Multimedia Submissions: Dancecult encourages authors to complement their > written work with audio and visual > > material. See the DSG for style and formatting requirements. > > Language: > > Although the language of publication in Dancecult is English, the editor > strongly encourages submissions from non-Anglophone scholars and will be > happy to provide linguistic/stylistic support during the writing process. > > / / Dates and Deadlines / / > > This special edition is proposed for publication in Dancecult in November > 2014. > > If interested, please send a 250 word abstract and brief author biography > to Sheena Hyndman (sheena.hyndman at gmail.com) before January 31, 2014. > > If your abstract is accepted for guest editor review, the deadline for > full article submission is May 31, 2014. > > Beyond that, the deadline for online submission to Dancecult (for peer > review) is August 15, 2014. > > Please send inquiries and expressions of interest to Sheena Hyndman: > sheena.hyndman at gmail.com. > > -- > Sheena Hyndman, PhD > Independent Scholar > Phone: (416) 561-0553 > Email: sheena.hyndman at gmail.com > LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=90342896&trk=tab_pro > > > > > -- > Sheena Hyndman, PhD > Independent Scholar > Phone: (416) 561-0553 > Email: sheena.hyndman at gmail.com > LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=90342896&trk=tab_pro > > > > -- > Sheena Hyndman, PhD > Independent Scholar > Phone: (416) 561-0553 > Email: sheena.hyndman at gmail.com > LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=90342896&trk=tab_pro > -- Sheena Hyndman, PhD Independent Scholar Phone: (416) 561-0553 Email: sheena.hyndman at gmail.com LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=90342896&trk=tab_pro -- Sheena Hyndman, PhD Independent Scholar Phone: (416) 561-0553 Email: sheena.hyndman at gmail.com LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=90342896&trk=tab_pro From m_olszan at live.concordia.ca Mon Feb 3 17:58:48 2014 From: m_olszan at live.concordia.ca (Magdalena O!) Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2014 01:58:48 +0000 Subject: [Air-L] Censorship and mobile apps In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <32BED9FB-C34B-4095-968A-9A3B46B059EA@live.concordia.ca> Hello, I'm writing about censorship and Instagram and looking for more research on censorship and mobile apps. I can't seem to find any. Thank you so much Magdalena =^.^= Magdalena Olszanowski, PhD Student, SSHRC Fellow Senior Research Assistant, Mobile Media Lab HASTAC Scholar Communication Studies Concordia University Montreal, QC @raisecain From julian.hopkins at monash.edu Mon Feb 3 19:29:56 2014 From: julian.hopkins at monash.edu (Julian Hopkins) Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2014 11:29:56 +0800 Subject: [Air-L] Panel CFP AoIR 2015 - Social media, convergence, and commercialisation Message-ID: Hello all, Please excuse any cross posting. I am hoping to find others interested in constituting a panel based (broadly) on the theme of 'Social media, convergence, and commercialisation.' A description follows, but I am definitely open to adapting it depending on people's own research areas. *'Internet infrastructure has had commercial components since 1974, but the content was for a long time not subject to significant commercial influence. Now, however, advertising and the commercialisation of internet content may be argued to be the dominant force driving the internet. This panel will explore different facets of this development by taking a critical and empirical approach to aspects of social media in Asia, exploring the relevance of convergence both between online media forms and the on- and offline, as well as issues of privacy, digital literacy, and the transformation of 'free' labour.' *Please feel free to forward this to anyone you feel may be interested. Best regards, Julian ++++++++++ Dr Julian Hopkins Lecturer School of Arts & Social Sciences Monash University Malaysia www.sass.monash.edu.my Blog: www.julianhopkins.net Twitter: @julianhopkins From nb at imv.au.dk Tue Feb 4 00:21:29 2014 From: nb at imv.au.dk (=?Windows-1252?Q?Niels_Br=FCgger?=) Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2014 08:21:29 +0000 Subject: [Air-L] =?windows-1252?q?PhD-Seminar=2C_Web_Archiving_and_Archive?= =?windows-1252?q?d_Web_=97_a_new_Research_Method=2C_a_new_Object_of_Study?= =?windows-1252?q?=3F?= Message-ID: <719F6AC5-D76B-431C-8D7A-15DBEBE2A476@imv.au.dk> ***apologies for cross-postings*** PhD seminar Web Archiving and Archived Web ? a new Research Method, a new Object of Study? Aarhus University, Denmark, 11-12 June 2014 Organised by the Danish Digital Humanities Lab/NetLab & Aarhus University, the PhD programme ?ICT, Media, Communication and Journalism? This PhD seminar focus on web archiving and web archives with a view to investigating the nexus between web archiving and web archives as a new research method and as a new object of study. The aim of the seminar is double. On the one hand it is to introduce web archiving as a research method to be used by scholars studying contemporary political, social, and cultural phenomena within the humanities and the social sciences, and, on the other hand, the aim is to introduce to the methodological and theoretical issues related to the use of existing (trans)national web archives, in the main in relation to historical studies involving the web. Participation as well as coffee and lunch are free of charge. Participants must pay for dinner, travel and accomodation themselves. The number of participants is limited to 20. Deadline for submission of application is Monday 24 March 2014. The lectures and the lecturers: ? ?Virtual Digs: Excavating, Preserving, and Archiving the Web?, Meghan Dougherty, Assistant Professor, Digital Communication, Loyola University Chicago ? ?A Data Driven Approach to Web Archive Research?, Anat Ben-David, post-doctoral researcher with the WebART project, University of Amsterdam ? ?Archiving web material for future research??, Ditte Laursen, senior researcher and curator at the State Media Archive, State Library in Denmark ? ?Probing a nation?s web sphere?, Niels Br?gger, Associate Professor, Aarhus University, Head of the Centre for Internet Studies Read the full call, including more about the course format, the venue, and how to enrol:http://www.netlab.dk/courses/ Very best, Niels Br?gger ?????????????????????????????? LATEST PUBLICATIONS AND PAPERS August 2013 Web historiography and Internet Studies: Challenges and perspectives, New Media & Society, 15(5), 752-764 Read more: http://nms.sagepub.com/content/15/5/752.abstract June 2013 Historical Network Analysis of the Web, Social Science Computer Review, 31(3), 306-321 Read more: http://ssc.sagepub.com/content/31/3/306.abstract March 2013 The Web and Digital Humanities: Theoretical and Methodological Concerns (w. N.O. Finnemann), Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media 57(1), 66-80 Read more: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/08838151.2012.761699 NIELS BR?GGER, Associate Professor, PhD Director, the Centre for Internet Studies Department of Aesthetics and Communication Aarhus University Helsingforsgade 14 8200 Aarhus N Denmark Phone (switchboard) +45 8715 0000 Phone (direct) +45 8716 1971 Phone (mobile) +45 2945 3231 E-mail nb at imv.au.dk Webpage http://imv.au.dk/~nb Profile at LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/1/50a/555 Skype name: niels_bruegger The Centre for Internet Research http://cfi.au.dk NetLab http://netlab.dk The history of dr.dk, 1996-2006 http://drdk.dk LARM (Radio Culture and Auditory Resources Research Infrastructure) http://www.larm-archive.org From rforno at infowarrior.org Tue Feb 4 03:45:22 2014 From: rforno at infowarrior.org (Richard Forno) Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2014 06:45:22 -0500 Subject: [Air-L] Zimmer op-ed in WaPo Message-ID: <616BD252-23E8-4E92-8F3C-CB959C685024@infowarrior.org> For those interested, AOIR?s own Michael Zimmer has an op-ed in today?s Washington Post. :) Mark Zuckerberg?s theory of privacy http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/mark-zuckerbergs-theory-of-privacy/2014/02/03/2c1d780a-8cea-11e3-95dd-36ff657a4dae_story.html --- Just because i'm near the punchbowl doesn't mean I'm also drinking from it. From salvatore.iaconesi at artisopensource.net Tue Feb 4 06:49:39 2014 From: salvatore.iaconesi at artisopensource.net (Salvatore Iaconesi) Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2014 15:49:39 +0100 Subject: [Air-L] Human Ecosystems project launching in Toronto at the ArtSci Salon Message-ID: Human Ecosystems project launching in Toronto http://www.artisopensource.net/2014/02/04/human-ecosystems-at-artsci-salon-toronto/ The Human Ecosystems project is going to Toronto, at the Fields Institute for Research in Mathematical Sciences for ArtSci Salon, to start the real-time observation of the city, and for a first workshop on real-time cities, ubiquitous information, commons and the new public spaces (and some information visualization and BigData, too). More info about the Human Ecosystems Project: http://www.artisopensource.net/projects/human-ecosystems.html The project has already started in Rome (Italy), Sao Paulo (Brazil), Malm? (Sweden), and is starting in more cities across the world really soon. -- *Salvatore Iaconesi* salvatore.iaconesi at artisopensource.net skype: xdxdVSxdxd *Art is Open Source*: http://www.artisopensource.net *TED Fellow 2012*: http://fellows.ted.com/profiles/salvatore-iaconesi *Eisenhower Fellow 2013*: http://www.efworld.org/ Contract Professor of Digital Design at La Sapienza University of Rome Professor of Digital Design at ISIA Design Florence Professor of Interaction Design at IED Istituto Europeo di Design From krismw11 at umd.edu Tue Feb 4 07:00:12 2014 From: krismw11 at umd.edu (Kristin Williams) Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2014 15:00:12 +0000 Subject: [Air-L] Censorship and mobile apps In-Reply-To: <32BED9FB-C34B-4095-968A-9A3B46B059EA@live.concordia.ca> References: <32BED9FB-C34B-4095-968A-9A3B46B059EA@live.concordia.ca> Message-ID: Hi Magdalena, This chapter recently came to my attention. I haven't read it, but it looks like it might be in the right direction. Chapter 3. Digital Deprivation: New Media, Civil Society and Sustainability Paddy Coulter and Cathy Baldwin From CIVIL SOCIETY IN THE AGE OF MONITORY DEMOCRACY Edited by Lars Tr?g?rdh, Nina Witoszek, & Bron Taylor Afterword by Bill McKibben All the best, -Kristin -----Original Message----- From: air-l-bounces at listserv.aoir.org [mailto:air-l-bounces at listserv.aoir.org] On Behalf Of Magdalena O! Sent: Monday, February 03, 2014 8:59 PM To: Subject: [Air-L] Censorship and mobile apps Hello, I'm writing about censorship and Instagram and looking for more research on censorship and mobile apps. I can't seem to find any. Thank you so much Magdalena =^.^= Magdalena Olszanowski, PhD Student, SSHRC Fellow Senior Research Assistant, Mobile Media Lab HASTAC Scholar Communication Studies Concordia University Montreal, QC @raisecain _______________________________________________ The Air-L at listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org Join the Association of Internet Researchers: http://www.aoir.org/ From sarah.choukah at umontreal.ca Tue Feb 4 07:53:06 2014 From: sarah.choukah at umontreal.ca (Sarah Choukah) Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2014 10:53:06 -0500 Subject: [Air-L] Censorship and mobile apps In-Reply-To: References: <32BED9FB-C34B-4095-968A-9A3B46B059EA@live.concordia.ca> Message-ID: Hi Magdalena, This might of interest for you. The paper is called: "From the Digital to the Tentacular, or From iPods to Cephalopods: Apps, Traps, and Entre?es?without?Exit" (interesting title, right?), and it's written by Dan Mellamphy and Nandita Biswas Mellamphy for an upcoming book on apps they're editing at MIT Press. The chapter is much broader in scope but I think it's very easy to get from themes like "capitalist reticulation" to that of more specific issues such as censorship on the theoretical front. Hope this helps, Sarah Choukah Doctorante D?partement de communication Universit? de Montr?al On Tue, Feb 4, 2014 at 10:00 AM, Kristin Williams wrote: > Hi Magdalena, > > This chapter recently came to my attention. I haven't read it, but it > looks like it might be in the right direction. > > Chapter 3. Digital Deprivation: New Media, Civil Society and Sustainability > Paddy Coulter and Cathy Baldwin > > From > CIVIL SOCIETY IN THE AGE OF MONITORY DEMOCRACY > Edited by Lars Tr?g?rdh, Nina Witoszek, & Bron Taylor > Afterword by Bill McKibben > > All the best, > -Kristin > > -----Original Message----- > From: air-l-bounces at listserv.aoir.org [mailto: > air-l-bounces at listserv.aoir.org] On Behalf Of Magdalena O! > Sent: Monday, February 03, 2014 8:59 PM > To: > Subject: [Air-L] Censorship and mobile apps > > Hello, > > I'm writing about censorship and Instagram and looking for more research > on censorship and mobile apps. I can't seem to find any. > > Thank you so much > > Magdalena > > =^.^= > > Magdalena Olszanowski, PhD Student, SSHRC Fellow Senior Research > Assistant, Mobile Media Lab HASTAC Scholar > Communication Studies Concordia University Montreal, QC > > @raisecain > > _______________________________________________ > The Air-L at listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association > of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or > unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org > > Join the Association of Internet Researchers: > http://www.aoir.org/ > _______________________________________________ > The Air-L at listserv.aoir.org mailing list > is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org > Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: > http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org > > Join the Association of Internet Researchers: > http://www.aoir.org/ > From luishestres at gmail.com Tue Feb 4 10:20:21 2014 From: luishestres at gmail.com (Luis Hestres) Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2014 13:20:21 -0500 Subject: [Air-L] Censorship and mobile apps In-Reply-To: References: <32BED9FB-C34B-4095-968A-9A3B46B059EA@live.concordia.ca> Message-ID: <9CF12F5E9F954A0C96B1EA76125BB78A@gmail.com> Hi Magdalena, If I may plug my own research on this subject, here?s an article I published last year: http://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/article/view/1904 Here?s the abstract: App Neutrality: Apple?s App Store and Freedom of Expression Online Apple?s wireless devices have become a critical entry point into the Internet. But unlike the broader Internet, which can be construed as a relatively open communications network, the iOS app store is arguably a closed technological ecosystem. Developers must gain Apple?s approval before distributing their apps through the store. Some have criticized the company?s app review and approval process for being opaque and arbitrary. This process has also resulted in the rejection of both explicitly and implicitly political apps. This article analyzes Apple?s guidelines and approval process, discusses content-based rejections of apps, and outlines the consequences of this process for developers? and consumers? freedom of expression. It also argues for principles that guarantee ?app neutrality? while also guaranteeing device safety and quality control. - - - - - Luis E. Hestres Ph.D. candidate | School of Communication | American University More about me at luishestres.com (http://luishestres.com/) or LinkedIn (http://www.linkedin.com/in/hestres) | Follow me on Twitter (https://twitter.com/#!/luishestres/) | Visit my SSRN Author page (http://ssrn.com/author=1820222) "Theoretical critiques are like sociopaths: Their aggressive drives are rarely balanced by constructive instincts." -- From "Caught in a Winding, Snarling Vine: The Structural Bias of Political Process Theory" by Jeff Goodwin and James M. Jasper, Sociological Forum 14(1), 1999 On Tuesday, February 4, 2014 at 10:53 AM, Sarah Choukah wrote: > Hi Magdalena, > > This might of interest for > you. > The paper is called: "From the Digital to the Tentacular, or From iPods to > Cephalopods: Apps, Traps, and Entre?es?without?Exit" (interesting title, > right?), and it's written by Dan Mellamphy and Nandita Biswas Mellamphy for > an upcoming book on apps they're editing at MIT Press. The chapter is much > broader in scope but I think it's very easy to get from themes like > "capitalist reticulation" to that of more specific issues such as > censorship on the theoretical front. > > Hope this helps, > > Sarah Choukah > Doctorante > D?partement de communication > Universit? de Montr?al > > > On Tue, Feb 4, 2014 at 10:00 AM, Kristin Williams wrote: > > > Hi Magdalena, > > > > This chapter recently came to my attention. I haven't read it, but it > > looks like it might be in the right direction. > > > > Chapter 3. Digital Deprivation: New Media, Civil Society and Sustainability > > Paddy Coulter and Cathy Baldwin > > > > From > > CIVIL SOCIETY IN THE AGE OF MONITORY DEMOCRACY > > Edited by Lars Tr?g?rdh, Nina Witoszek, & Bron Taylor > > Afterword by Bill McKibben > > > > All the best, > > -Kristin > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: air-l-bounces at listserv.aoir.org (mailto:air-l-bounces at listserv.aoir.org) [mailto: > > air-l-bounces at listserv.aoir.org (mailto:air-l-bounces at listserv.aoir.org)] On Behalf Of Magdalena O! > > Sent: Monday, February 03, 2014 8:59 PM > > To: > > Subject: [Air-L] Censorship and mobile apps > > > > Hello, > > > > I'm writing about censorship and Instagram and looking for more research > > on censorship and mobile apps. I can't seem to find any. > > > > Thank you so much > > > > Magdalena > > > > =^.^= > > > > Magdalena Olszanowski, PhD Student, SSHRC Fellow Senior Research > > Assistant, Mobile Media Lab HASTAC Scholar > > Communication Studies Concordia University Montreal, QC > > > > @raisecain > > > > _______________________________________________ > > The Air-L at listserv.aoir.org (mailto:Air-L at listserv.aoir.org) mailing list is provided by the Association > > of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or > > unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org > > > > Join the Association of Internet Researchers: > > http://www.aoir.org/ > > _______________________________________________ > > The Air-L at listserv.aoir.org (mailto:Air-L at listserv.aoir.org) mailing list > > is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org > > Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: > > http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org > > > > Join the Association of Internet Researchers: > > http://www.aoir.org/ > > > > _______________________________________________ > The Air-L at listserv.aoir.org (mailto:Air-L at listserv.aoir.org) mailing list > is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org > Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org > > Join the Association of Internet Researchers: > http://www.aoir.org/ > > From charles.ess at gmail.com Tue Feb 4 11:01:49 2014 From: charles.ess at gmail.com (Charles Ess) Date: Tue, 04 Feb 2014 20:01:49 +0100 Subject: [Air-L] CaTaC'14 - Oslo, June 17-20: website for submissions to CaTaC'14 now available Message-ID: Dear AoIRists, Just a short note to inform those who are interested that the website for turning in papers and proposals for consideration for CaTaC?14 is now available: For further details on the conference, including recently posted information, please see: Additional information ? e.g., regarding conference fees ? will also be available soon. 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More at http://ischools.org/the-iconference/ From dewoller at gmail.com Tue Feb 4 14:59:38 2014 From: dewoller at gmail.com (Dennis Wollersheim) Date: Wed, 05 Feb 2014 09:59:38 +1100 Subject: [Air-L] Qual research with digital diaries- seeking tools & tips, please In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <52F170DA.5030700@gmail.com> Hi Kath The good thing about 'plain old wordpress' is that it is an open format, very easy to archive. You just need to 'spider' the website once the posts are up, that is, run software that visits every webpage and saves a copy. Firefox has a plugins that will do it, foxyspider and spiderzilla are 2 examples. Cheers Dennis On 03/02/14 13:19, Kath Albury wrote: > Hi folks, > > I was wondering if anyone on this list had experience of using a mobile > diary app as research tool (for participants). I'd like participants to > post to a diary via phone or tablet, & will need to have access (& be able > to archive diaries). I've looked at ethno hub (http://ethnohub.com), and > my panel (which is a market research tool > (http://www.mobilemarketresearch.net/mypanel/features). And there's always > the option of plain old wordpress - but the question is how to export & > archive the data? > > Any tips (or even anecdotes) from seasoned players will be greatly > appreciated. > > Cheers, Kath > Kath Albury, PhD > Senior Lecturer, School of Arts and Media > University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, 2052 > Ph: 61 2 9385 8533 > UNSW CRICOS Provider code 00098G > http://research.unsw.edu.au/people/dr-kath-albury > _______________________________________________ > The Air-L at listserv.aoir.org mailing list > is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org > Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org > > Join the Association of Internet Researchers: > http://www.aoir.org/ From stu at texifter.com Tue Feb 4 15:02:03 2014 From: stu at texifter.com (Shulman, Stu) Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2014 18:02:03 -0500 Subject: [Air-L] Qual research with digital diaries- seeking tools & tips, please In-Reply-To: <52F170DA.5030700@gmail.com> References: <52F170DA.5030700@gmail.com> Message-ID: WordPress has a nice XML export that lets you get the entire contents of a blog (if you are the owner) in a single metadata-rich file. DiscoverText has a nice upload option for WordPress XML exports. On Tue, Feb 4, 2014 at 5:59 PM, Dennis Wollersheim wrote: > Hi Kath > > The good thing about 'plain old wordpress' is that it is an open format, > very easy to archive. You just need to 'spider' the website once the posts > are up, that is, run software that visits every webpage and saves a copy. > Firefox has a plugins that will do it, foxyspider and spiderzilla are 2 > examples. > > Cheers > Dennis > > > > > On 03/02/14 13:19, Kath Albury wrote: > >> Hi folks, >> >> I was wondering if anyone on this list had experience of using a mobile >> diary app as research tool (for participants). I'd like participants to >> post to a diary via phone or tablet, & will need to have access (& be able >> to archive diaries). I've looked at ethno hub (http://ethnohub.com< >> http://ethnohub.com/>), and >> my panel (which is a market research tool >> (http://www.mobilemarketresearch.net/mypanel/features). And there's >> always >> the option of plain old wordpress - but the question is how to export & >> archive the data? >> >> Any tips (or even anecdotes) from seasoned players will be greatly >> appreciated. >> >> Cheers, Kath >> Kath Albury, PhD >> Senior Lecturer, School of Arts and Media >> University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, 2052 >> Ph: 61 2 9385 8533 >> UNSW CRICOS Provider code 00098G >> http://research.unsw.edu.au/people/dr-kath-albury >> _______________________________________________ >> The Air-L at listserv.aoir.org mailing list >> is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org >> Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/ >> listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org >> >> Join the Association of Internet Researchers: >> http://www.aoir.org/ >> > > _______________________________________________ > The Air-L at listserv.aoir.org mailing list > is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org > Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/ > listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org > > Join the Association of Internet Researchers: > http://www.aoir.org/ > -- Dr. Stuart W. Shulmanhttp://people.umass.edu/stu Founder and CEO, Texifterhttp://texifter.com LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/stuart-shulman/10/351/899 Twitter: http://twitter.com/#!/StuartWShulman From geneloeb at gmail.com Tue Feb 4 15:09:48 2014 From: geneloeb at gmail.com (gene loeb) Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2014 17:09:48 -0600 Subject: [Air-L] Zimmer op-ed in WaPo In-Reply-To: <616BD252-23E8-4E92-8F3C-CB959C685024@infowarrior.org> References: <616BD252-23E8-4E92-8F3C-CB959C685024@infowarrior.org> Message-ID: Richard, Thanks for posting this article. It is very important. It explains the operation of FaceBook to get people to learn to give up their privacy. More significant, various activities, programs, games, are requiring persons to use Face Book to communicate or to participate. Thanks, Michael Zimmer Gene Gene Loeb, Ph.D. On Tue, Feb 4, 2014 at 5:45 AM, Richard Forno wrote: > > For those interested, AOIR's own Michael Zimmer has an op-ed in today's > Washington Post. :) > > Mark Zuckerberg's theory of privacy > > http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/mark-zuckerbergs-theory-of-privacy/2014/02/03/2c1d780a-8cea-11e3-95dd-36ff657a4dae_story.html > > > --- > Just because i'm near the punchbowl doesn't mean I'm also drinking from it. > > _______________________________________________ > The Air-L at listserv.aoir.org mailing list > is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org > Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: > http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org > > Join the Association of Internet Researchers: > http://www.aoir.org/ > -- With Sincerest Best Wishes , Gene Gene Loeb, Ph.D. From k.albury at unsw.edu.au Tue Feb 4 15:25:05 2014 From: k.albury at unsw.edu.au (Kath Albury) Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2014 23:25:05 +0000 Subject: [Air-L] Qual research with digital diaries- seeking tools & tips, please In-Reply-To: <52F170DA.5030700@gmail.com> References: <52F170DA.5030700@gmail.com> Message-ID: Hi all, Quite a few people contacted me off-list, expressing interest in this topic- a consensus seems to be shaping up in favour of Wordpress. Many thanks for your advice. Cheers, Kath Kath Albury, PhD Senior Lecturer, School of Arts and Media University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, 2052 Ph: 61 2 9385 8533 UNSW CRICOS Provider code 00098G http://research.unsw.edu.au/people/dr-kath-albury On 5/02/14 9:59 AM, "Dennis Wollersheim" wrote: >Hi Kath > >The good thing about 'plain old wordpress' is that it is an open format, >very easy to archive. You just need to 'spider' the website once the >posts >are up, that is, run software that visits every webpage and saves a copy. >Firefox has a plugins that will do it, foxyspider and spiderzilla are 2 >examples. > >Cheers >Dennis > > > > >On 03/02/14 13:19, Kath Albury wrote: >> Hi folks, >> >> I was wondering if anyone on this list had experience of using a mobile >> diary app as research tool (for participants). I'd like participants to >> post to a diary via phone or tablet, & will need to have access (& be >>able >> to archive diaries). I've looked at ethno hub >>(http://ethnohub.com), and >> my panel (which is a market research tool >> (http://www.mobilemarketresearch.net/mypanel/features). And there's >>always >> the option of plain old wordpress - but the question is how to export & >> archive the data? >> >> Any tips (or even anecdotes) from seasoned players will be greatly >> appreciated. >> >> Cheers, Kath >> Kath Albury, PhD >> Senior Lecturer, School of Arts and Media >> University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, 2052 >> Ph: 61 2 9385 8533 >> UNSW CRICOS Provider code 00098G >> http://research.unsw.edu.au/people/dr-kath-albury >> _______________________________________________ >> The Air-L at listserv.aoir.org mailing list >> is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org >> Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: >>http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org >> >> Join the Association of Internet Researchers: >> http://www.aoir.org/ > From seeta.gangadharan at gmail.com Tue Feb 4 16:38:54 2014 From: seeta.gangadharan at gmail.com (=?UTF-8?B?U2VldGEgUGXDsWEgR2FuZ2FkaGFyYW4=?=) Date: Tue, 04 Feb 2014 19:38:54 -0500 Subject: [Air-L] Qual research with digital diaries- seeking tools & tips, please In-Reply-To: References: <52F170DA.5030700@gmail.com> Message-ID: <52F1881E.9090804@gmail.com> VoJo is another option. http://vojo.co/ On 2/4/14 6:25 PM, Kath Albury wrote: > Hi all, > > Quite a few people contacted me off-list, expressing interest in this > topic- a consensus seems to be shaping up in favour of Wordpress. Many > thanks for your advice. > > Cheers, Kath > Kath Albury, PhD > Senior Lecturer, School of Arts and Media > University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, 2052 > Ph: 61 2 9385 8533 > UNSW CRICOS Provider code 00098G > http://research.unsw.edu.au/people/dr-kath-albury > > > > > On 5/02/14 9:59 AM, "Dennis Wollersheim" wrote: > >> Hi Kath >> >> The good thing about 'plain old wordpress' is that it is an open format, >> very easy to archive. You just need to 'spider' the website once the >> posts >> are up, that is, run software that visits every webpage and saves a copy. >> Firefox has a plugins that will do it, foxyspider and spiderzilla are 2 >> examples. >> >> Cheers >> Dennis >> >> >> >> >> On 03/02/14 13:19, Kath Albury wrote: >>> Hi folks, >>> >>> I was wondering if anyone on this list had experience of using a mobile >>> diary app as research tool (for participants). I'd like participants to >>> post to a diary via phone or tablet, & will need to have access (& be >>> able >>> to archive diaries). I've looked at ethno hub >>> (http://ethnohub.com), and >>> my panel (which is a market research tool >>> (http://www.mobilemarketresearch.net/mypanel/features). And there's >>> always >>> the option of plain old wordpress - but the question is how to export & >>> archive the data? >>> >>> Any tips (or even anecdotes) from seasoned players will be greatly >>> appreciated. >>> >>> Cheers, Kath >>> Kath Albury, PhD >>> Senior Lecturer, School of Arts and Media >>> University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, 2052 >>> Ph: 61 2 9385 8533 >>> UNSW CRICOS Provider code 00098G >>> http://research.unsw.edu.au/people/dr-kath-albury >>> _______________________________________________ >>> The Air-L at listserv.aoir.org mailing list >>> is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org >>> Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: >>> http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org >>> >>> Join the Association of Internet Researchers: >>> http://www.aoir.org/ > _______________________________________________ > The Air-L at listserv.aoir.org mailing list > is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org > Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org > > Join the Association of Internet Researchers: > http://www.aoir.org/ From j.unger at lancaster.ac.uk Wed Feb 5 04:54:04 2014 From: j.unger at lancaster.ac.uk (Unger, Johann) Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2014 12:54:04 +0000 Subject: [Air-L] Facebook and the construction of (migrants') identities Message-ID: Dear AOIR-ers, A PhD student in my department is currently trying to finish his thesis on Dr J W Unger Lecturer and Academic Director of Summer Programmes Department of Linguistics and English Language Lancaster University LA1 4YL e-mail: j.unger at lancaster.ac.uk tel: +44 1524 592591 Follow me on Twitter @johnnyunger From j.unger at lancaster.ac.uk Wed Feb 5 05:01:52 2014 From: j.unger at lancaster.ac.uk (Unger, Johann) Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2014 13:01:52 +0000 Subject: [Air-L] Facebook and the construction of (migrants') identities In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Meanwhile, I'm trying to finish my email! Apologies for the earlier, unfinished draft. Here's what I meant to write: Dear AOIR-ers, A PhD student in my department is currently trying to finish his thesis on migrants' use if Facebook, with a particular focus on how they construct their identities. If you know of any interesting work in this area, I'd be grateful of you could let me know either off-list or on. We'll collate any responses and circulate in due course. Many thanks, Johnny Dr J W Unger Lecturer and Academic Director of Summer Programmes Department of Linguistics and English Language Lancaster University LA1 4YL e-mail: j.unger at lancaster.ac.uk tel: +44 1524 592591 Follow me on Twitter @johnnyunger From tiziano.bonini at gmail.com Wed Feb 5 05:30:33 2014 From: tiziano.bonini at gmail.com (tiziano bonini) Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2014 14:30:33 +0100 Subject: [Air-L] Facebook and the construction of (migrants') identities In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Dear Johann, I investigated something similar in my PhD thesis. Unfortunately it is in Italian but I published a part of it in this article: "Media as home making tools: life story of a Filipino migrant in Milan", Media, Culture & society, 33(6), 869-883. Here the link to read it: http://www.scribd.com/doc/79449459/Media-as-Home-Making-Tools-MC-S-2011 Best tiziano 2014-02-05 Unger, Johann : > Meanwhile, I'm trying to finish my email! Apologies for the earlier, > unfinished draft. Here's what I meant to write: > > Dear AOIR-ers, > > A PhD student in my department is currently trying to finish his thesis on > migrants' use if Facebook, with a particular focus on how they construct > their identities. If you know of any interesting work in this area, I'd be > grateful of you could let me know either off-list or on. We'll collate any > responses and circulate in due course. > > Many thanks, > Johnny > > Dr J W Unger > Lecturer and Academic Director of Summer Programmes > Department of Linguistics and English Language > Lancaster University > LA1 4YL > > e-mail: j.unger at lancaster.ac.uk > tel: +44 1524 592591 > Follow me on Twitter @johnnyunger > _______________________________________________ > The Air-L at listserv.aoir.org mailing list > is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org > Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: > http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org > > Join the Association of Internet Researchers: > http://www.aoir.org/ > -- Tiziano Bonini ||| lecturer in media studies ||| Arts, Culture and Comparative Literature Institute IULM University of Milano via Carlo Bo 4 20143 Milano, Italy ::: Academia ::: http://iulm.academia.edu/TizianoBonini ::: Audio/Radio ::: www.radiofactory.org http://audioboo.fm/tizianobonini From K.H.A.Leurs at uu.nl Wed Feb 5 06:27:53 2014 From: K.H.A.Leurs at uu.nl (Leurs, K.H.A. (Koen)) Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2014 14:27:53 +0000 Subject: [Air-L] Facebook and the construction of (migrants') identities In-Reply-To: References: , Message-ID: <00655BF384232847B11F8A9380EDC227278EC065@ICTSC-W-S204.soliscom.uu.nl> Dear Johnny, Kindly consider these publications (apologies for the self-promotion) Hepp, A., Bozdag, C. & Suna, L. (2012). Mediatized migrants: Media cultures and communicative networking in the diaspora. In L. Fortunati, R. Pertierra & J. Vincent (Eds.), Migrations, diaspora, and information technology in global societies, (pp. 172-188). London: Routledge. Leurs, K. & Ponzanesi, S. (2013). Intersectionality, digital identities and migrant youths. In C. Carter, L. Steiner & L. McLaughlin (Eds.), Routledge companion to media and gender. London: Routledge. Leurs, K. & Ponzanesi, S. (2013). Bits of homeland. In C. Ponte & M. Georgiou (Eds.) Special issue on Media, technology and the migrant family. Observatorio (OBS*), 7 (1). Leurs, K., Midden, E. & Ponzanesi, S. (2012). Digital multiculturalism in the Netherlands: Religious, ethnic, and gender positioning by Moroccan-Dutch youth. Religion and Gender, 2 (1), 150-175. Leurs, K. & Ponzanesi, S. (2011). Mediated crossroads: Youthful digital diasporas. M/C Journal, 14(2), http://journal.media-culture.org.au/ Leurs, K. & Ponzanesi, S. (2011). Communicative spaces of their own. Migrant girls performing selves using Instant Messaging software. Feminist Review, 99, 55-78. Mainsah, H. (2011). Transcending the national imaginery: Digital online media and the transnational networks of ethnic minority youth in norway. In E. Eide & K. Nikunen (Eds.), Media in motion: Cultural complexity and migration in the Nordic region, (pp. 201-219). Surrey: Ashgate. Mainsah, H. (2009). Ethnic minorities and digital technologies. New spaces for constructing identity. (Unpublished doctoral dissertation). Oslo University, Norway. Hope these are useful, Best wishes, Koen. Koen Leurs, PhD | Marie Curie Postdoctoral Researcher, LSE | | Affiliated researcher Graduate Gender Studies / Institute for Cultural Enquiry (ICON) Utrecht University | www.uu.nl/wiredup | http://www.mignetproject.eu/ | www.koenleurs.net ________________________________________ From: air-l-bounces at listserv.aoir.org [air-l-bounces at listserv.aoir.org] on behalf of tiziano bonini [tiziano.bonini at gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, February 05, 2014 2:30 PM To: Unger, Johann Cc: air-l at listserv.aoir.org Subject: Re: [Air-L] Facebook and the construction of (migrants') identities Dear Johann, I investigated something similar in my PhD thesis. Unfortunately it is in Italian but I published a part of it in this article: "Media as home making tools: life story of a Filipino migrant in Milan", Media, Culture & society, 33(6), 869-883. Here the link to read it: http://www.scribd.com/doc/79449459/Media-as-Home-Making-Tools-MC-S-2011 Best tiziano 2014-02-05 Unger, Johann : > Meanwhile, I'm trying to finish my email! Apologies for the earlier, > unfinished draft. Here's what I meant to write: > > Dear AOIR-ers, > > A PhD student in my department is currently trying to finish his thesis on > migrants' use if Facebook, with a particular focus on how they construct > their identities. If you know of any interesting work in this area, I'd be > grateful of you could let me know either off-list or on. We'll collate any > responses and circulate in due course. > > Many thanks, > Johnny > > Dr J W Unger > Lecturer and Academic Director of Summer Programmes > Department of Linguistics and English Language > Lancaster University > LA1 4YL > > e-mail: j.unger at lancaster.ac.uk > tel: +44 1524 592591 > Follow me on Twitter @johnnyunger > _______________________________________________ > The Air-L at listserv.aoir.org mailing list > is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org > Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: > http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org > > Join the Association of Internet Researchers: > http://www.aoir.org/ > -- Tiziano Bonini ||| lecturer in media studies ||| Arts, Culture and Comparative Literature Institute IULM University of Milano via Carlo Bo 4 20143 Milano, Italy ::: Academia ::: http://iulm.academia.edu/TizianoBonini ::: Audio/Radio ::: www.radiofactory.org http://audioboo.fm/tizianobonini _______________________________________________ The Air-L at listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org Join the Association of Internet Researchers: http://www.aoir.org/ From gn254 at cam.ac.uk Wed Feb 5 07:05:27 2014 From: gn254 at cam.ac.uk (Galina Nikiporets-Takigawa) Date: Wed, 05 Feb 2014 15:05:27 +0000 Subject: [Air-L] Facebook and the construction of (migrants') identities In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Hi, Johnny, With apologise for self-promotion and not being directly related (not about Facebook), but relevant - two chapters on digital communication in identities construction of post-soviet migrants in the UK: (2013) ?Digital debates on Soviet memory in the national identity construction of post-soviet migrants?, in Negotiating Linguistic, Cultural and Social Identities in the Post-Soviet World, Sarah Smith and Conny Opitz eds., Peter Lang, 163-182. ISBN 978-3-0343-0840-3 pb. (2010) ?Digital communication of the Russian-speaking community as a reflection of language contact and performance of identity?, in Instrumentarium of Linguistics. Sociolinguisitc Approaches to Non-Standard Russian, Arto Mustajoki et al. eds., Slavica Helsingiensia 40, 369-380. Both PDFs are available here https://cambridge.academia.edu/GalinaNikiporetsTakigawa, Best, Galina On 2014-02-05 13:01, Unger, Johann wrote: > Meanwhile, I'm trying to finish my email! Apologies for the earlier, > unfinished draft. Here's what I meant to write: > > Dear AOIR-ers, > > A PhD student in my department is currently trying to finish his > thesis on migrants' use if Facebook, with a particular focus on how > they construct their identities. If you know of any interesting work > in this area, I'd be grateful of you could let me know either off-list > or on. We'll collate any responses and circulate in due course. > > Many thanks, > Johnny > > Dr J W Unger > Lecturer and Academic Director of Summer Programmes > Department of Linguistics and English Language > Lancaster University > LA1 4YL > > e-mail: j.unger at lancaster.ac.uk > tel: +44 1524 592591 > Follow me on Twitter @johnnyunger > _______________________________________________ > The Air-L at listserv.aoir.org mailing list > is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org > Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: > http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org > > Join the Association of Internet Researchers: > http://www.aoir.org/ -- Dr Galina Nikiporets-Takigawa Department of Slavonic Studies University of Cambridge Sidgwick Avenue, Cambridge CB3 9DA https://cambridge.academia.edu/GalinaNikiporetsTakigawa From pedro.oiarzabal at deusto.es Wed Feb 5 08:47:12 2014 From: pedro.oiarzabal at deusto.es (P.J. Oiarzabal) Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2014 16:47:12 +0000 Subject: [Air-L] Facebook and the construction of (migrants') identities In-Reply-To: References: , , Message-ID: Hi there, Please also considered the following publications: Oiarzabal, Pedro J. and Ulf-Dietrich Reips. (Eds.) Special Issue ?Migration and the Internet: Social Networking and Diasporas.? Journal of Ethnicity and Migration Studies, Vol. 38, No. 9 (2012): 1333-1490 (ISSN 1369-183X).Oiarzabal, Pedro J. ?Diaspora Basques and Online Social Networks: An Analysis of Users of Basque Institutional Diaspora Groups on Facebook.? Journal of Ethnicity and Migration Studies, Vol. 38, No. 9 (2012): 1469-1485.Oiarzabal, Pedro J. (2011). ?The Online Social Networks of the Basque Diaspora. Fast Forwarded, 2005-2009,? in Javier Echeverria, Andoni Alonso, and Pedro J. Oiarzabal (eds.). Knowledge Communities. Conference Series. Vol. 6. Reno: Center for Basque Studies, University of Nevada, Reno. (Hardcover, 260 pages; ISBN 978-1-877802-97-3). Oiarzabal, Pedro J. (2013). The Basque Diaspora Webscape: Identity, Nation, and Homeland, 1990s-2010s. Basque Diaspora and Migration Studies Series, No. 7. Center for Basque Studies, University of Nevada, Reno. (Paperback, 272 pages; ISBN 978-1-935709-41-1). Oiarzabal, Pedro J. and Andoni Alonso. (Eds.) (2010). Diasporas in the New Media Age: Identity, Politics and Community. Reno: University Nevada Press. (Paperback, 384 pages; ISBN 978-0-87417-815-9). Best regards, Pedro Pedro J. Oiarzabal, PhD pedro.oiarzabal at deusto.es University of Deusto Pedro Arrupe Human Rights Institute, Avenida de las Universidades, 24 48007 - Bilbao Tel.:+34-944139003 (ext. 2077) http://www.idh.deusto.es Have you seen my latest book, The Basque Diaspora Webscape: Identity, Nation and Homeland, 1990s-2010s? bit.ly/1f01i50 > Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2014 15:05:27 +0000 > From: gn254 at cam.ac.uk > To: j.unger at lancaster.ac.uk; tiziano.bonini at gmail.com; K.H.A.Leurs at uu.nl; air-l at listserv.aoir.org > Subject: Re: [Air-L] Facebook and the construction of (migrants') identities > > Hi, Johnny, > > With apologise for self-promotion and not being directly related (not > about Facebook), but relevant - two chapters on digital communication in > identities construction of post-soviet migrants in the UK: > > (2013) ?Digital debates on Soviet memory in the national identity > construction of post-soviet migrants?, in Negotiating Linguistic, > Cultural and Social Identities in the Post-Soviet World, Sarah Smith and > Conny Opitz eds., Peter Lang, 163-182. ISBN 978-3-0343-0840-3 pb. > > (2010) ?Digital communication of the Russian-speaking community as a > reflection of language contact and performance of identity?, in > Instrumentarium of Linguistics. Sociolinguisitc Approaches to > Non-Standard Russian, Arto Mustajoki et al. eds., Slavica Helsingiensia > 40, 369-380. > > > Both PDFs are available here > https://cambridge.academia.edu/GalinaNikiporetsTakigawa, > > > Best, > > Galina > > On 2014-02-05 13:01, Unger, Johann wrote: > > Meanwhile, I'm trying to finish my email! Apologies for the earlier, > > unfinished draft. Here's what I meant to write: > > > > Dear AOIR-ers, > > > > A PhD student in my department is currently trying to finish his > > thesis on migrants' use if Facebook, with a particular focus on how > > they construct their identities. If you know of any interesting work > > in this area, I'd be grateful of you could let me know either off-list > > or on. We'll collate any responses and circulate in due course. > > > > Many thanks, > > Johnny > > > > Dr J W Unger > > Lecturer and Academic Director of Summer Programmes > > Department of Linguistics and English Language > > Lancaster University > > LA1 4YL > > > > e-mail: j.unger at lancaster.ac.uk > > tel: +44 1524 592591 > > Follow me on Twitter @johnnyunger > > _______________________________________________ > > The Air-L at listserv.aoir.org mailing list > > is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org > > Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: > > http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org > > > > Join the Association of Internet Researchers: > > http://www.aoir.org/ > > -- > Dr Galina Nikiporets-Takigawa > Department of Slavonic Studies > University of Cambridge > Sidgwick Avenue, Cambridge CB3 9DA > https://cambridge.academia.edu/GalinaNikiporetsTakigawa > _______________________________________________ > The Air-L at listserv.aoir.org mailing list > is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org > Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org > > Join the Association of Internet Researchers: > http://www.aoir.org/ From laevantine at gmail.com Wed Feb 5 10:40:43 2014 From: laevantine at gmail.com (Todd Harper) Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2014 13:40:43 -0500 Subject: [Air-L] Game studies book note -- The Culture of Digital Fighting Games Message-ID: Just a small note if you have an interest in game studies, particularly gaming communities, e-sports, or communities of practice: my book "The Culture of Digital Fighting Games: Performance and Practice" came out at the end of December 2013. In summary, the book is an extension of my dissertation work on the competitive fighting game community, looking at their play practices, social interactions, and the like. If this is of interest to you, there's more information on Routledge's page for the book: http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415821308/ There's also a review copy request form -- http://www.routledge.com/resources/review_copy_request/%209780415821308/ And a library recommendation form, if you're of the mind - http://www.routledge.com/resources/librarian_recommendation/9780415821308/ Thanks, and have a good one. >Todd -- Todd Harper Postdoctoral Researcher, MIT Game Lab -- http://gamelab.mit.edu laevantine at gmail.com | tlharper at mit.edu From julie.grinberg at yahoo.com Wed Feb 5 14:47:51 2014 From: julie.grinberg at yahoo.com (Julie Grinberg) Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2014 14:47:51 -0800 (PST) Subject: [Air-L] =?utf-8?q?PhD-Seminar=2C_Web_Archiving_and_Archived_Web_?= =?utf-8?q?=E2=80=94_a_new_Research_Method=2C_a_new_Object_of_Study=3F?= In-Reply-To: <719F6AC5-D76B-431C-8D7A-15DBEBE2A476@imv.au.dk> References: <719F6AC5-D76B-431C-8D7A-15DBEBE2A476@imv.au.dk> Message-ID: <1391640471.93494.YahooMailNeo@web121903.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> Dear Niels,? My name is Yuliya Grinberg, I'm a Ph.D candidate in anthropology at Columbia University developing a project on what I have tentatively titled the "Digital Data Mines" dealing precisely with questions of the archive in the digital age. This seminar seems so great, but I am also looking for material I could read during the spring in preparation of my dissertation proposal. I'm particularly interested in literature related to the topic of "Virtual Digs." ?I'm wondering if there is a suggested reading list you could help refer me to? Thanks in advance! Yuliya Grinberg? On Tuesday, February 4, 2014 4:17 AM, Niels Br?gger wrote: ***apologies for cross-postings*** PhD seminar Web Archiving and Archived Web ? a new Research Method, a new Object of Study? Aarhus University, Denmark, 11-12 June 2014 Organised by the Danish Digital Humanities Lab/NetLab & Aarhus University, the PhD programme ?ICT, Media, Communication and Journalism? This PhD seminar focus on web archiving and web archives with a view to investigating the nexus between web archiving and web archives as a new research method and as a new object of study. The aim of the seminar is double. On the one hand it is to introduce web archiving as a research method to be used by scholars studying contemporary political, social, and cultural phenomena within the humanities and the social sciences, and, on the other hand, the aim is to introduce to the methodological and theoretical issues related to the use of existing (trans)national web archives, in the main in relation to historical studies involving the web. Participation as well as coffee and lunch are free of charge. Participants must pay for dinner, travel and accomodation themselves. The number of participants is limited to 20. Deadline for submission of application is Monday 24 March 2014. The lectures and the lecturers: ? ?Virtual Digs: Excavating, Preserving, and Archiving the Web?, Meghan Dougherty, Assistant Professor, Digital Communication, Loyola University Chicago ? ?A Data Driven Approach to Web Archive Research?, Anat Ben-David, post-doctoral researcher with the WebART project, University of Amsterdam ? ?Archiving web material for future research??, Ditte Laursen, senior researcher and curator at the State Media Archive, State Library in Denmark ? ?Probing a nation?s web sphere?, Niels Br?gger, Associate Professor, Aarhus University, Head of the Centre for Internet Studies Read the full call, including more about the course format, the venue, and how to enrol:http://www.netlab.dk/courses/ Very best, Niels Br?gger ?????????????????????????????? LATEST PUBLICATIONS AND PAPERS August 2013 Web historiography and Internet Studies: Challenges and perspectives, New Media & Society, 15(5), 752-764 Read more: http://nms.sagepub.com/content/15/5/752.abstract June 2013 Historical Network Analysis of the Web, Social Science Computer Review, 31(3), 306-321 Read more: http://ssc.sagepub.com/content/31/3/306.abstract March 2013 The Web and Digital Humanities: Theoretical and Methodological Concerns (w. N.O. Finnemann), Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media 57(1), 66-80 Read more: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/08838151.2012.761699 NIELS BR?GGER, Associate Professor, PhD Director, the Centre for Internet Studies Department of Aesthetics and Communication Aarhus University Helsingforsgade 14 8200 Aarhus N Denmark Phone (switchboard)? +45 8715 0000 Phone (direct)? ? ? ? ? ? ? +45 8716 1971 Phone (mobile)? ? ? ? ? ? +45 2945 3231 E-mail? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? nb at imv.au.dk Webpage? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? http://imv.au.dk/~nb Profile at LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/1/50a/555 Skype name: niels_bruegger The Centre for Internet Research? ? ? ? ? ? ? http://cfi.au.dk NetLab? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? http://netlab.dk??? ??? The history of dr.dk, 1996-2006? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? http://drdk.dk LARM (Radio Culture and Auditory Resources Research Infrastructure) http://www.larm-archive.org _______________________________________________ The Air-L at listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org Join the Association of Internet Researchers: http://www.aoir.org/ From jwallis at csu.edu.au Wed Feb 5 17:53:48 2014 From: jwallis at csu.edu.au (Wallis, Jacob) Date: Thu, 6 Feb 2014 12:53:48 +1100 Subject: [Air-L] Air-L Digest, Vol 115, Issue 5 In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Hi Johnny, Some of my colleagues have done some work in this area with migrant refugees located in regional New South Wales, Australia - published as..... Lloyd, A., Kennan, M. A., Thompson, K. M., & Asim Qayyum. (2013). Connecting with new information landscapes: information literacy practices of refugees. Journal of Documentation, 69(1), 121-144. Cheers, Jake Jake Wallis Lecturer School of Information Studies Charles Sturt University Tel: +61 2 6051 9433 Email: jwallis at csu.edu.au www.csu.edu.au ------------------------------ Message: 6 Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2014 13:01:52 +0000 From: "Unger, Johann" To: "air-l at listserv.aoir.org" Subject: Re: [Air-L] Facebook and the construction of (migrants') identities Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Meanwhile, I'm trying to finish my email! Apologies for the earlier, unfinished draft. Here's what I meant to write: Dear AOIR-ers, A PhD student in my department is currently trying to finish his thesis on migrants' use if Facebook, with a particular focus on how they construct their identities. If you know of any interesting work in this area, I'd be grateful of you could let me know either off-list or on. We'll collate any responses and circulate in due course. Many thanks, Johnny Dr J W Unger Lecturer and Academic Director of Summer Programmes Department of Linguistics and English Language Lancaster University LA1 4YL e-mail: j.unger at lancaster.ac.uk tel: +44 1524 592591 Follow me on Twitter @johnnyunger Charles Sturt University | ALBURY-WODONGA | BATHURST | CANBERRA | DUBBO | GOULBURN | MELBOURNE | ONTARIO | ORANGE | PORT MACQUARIE | SYDNEY | WAGGA WAGGA | LEGAL NOTICE This email (and any attachment) is confidential and is intended for the use of the addressee(s) only. If you are not the intended recipient of this email, you must not copy, distribute, take any action in reliance on it or disclose it to anyone. Any confidentiality is not waived or lost by reason of mistaken delivery. Email should be checked for viruses and defects before opening. 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Disclaimer added by CodeTwo Exchange Rules 2007 http://www.codetwo.com From hk at monkprayogshala.in Thu Feb 6 01:06:06 2014 From: hk at monkprayogshala.in (hk at monkprayogshala.in) Date: Thu, 06 Feb 2014 09:06:06 +0000 Subject: [Air-L] Public Gossip Scale Message-ID: <089e014950d4fc3d2704f1b92e93@google.com> Hello, Do spend a couple of minutes participating in research about gossip :) This is the second part of the project, and you can fill in this form even if you've filled in an earlier one! Do help :) Thanks! Best, Hansika Kapoor This is the second part of a study on gossip behaviour. You are eligible to participate regardless of whether you've filled a similar form earlier or not :) PURPOSE: This questionnaire concerns the tendency of people to talk about public figures. It is a tendency which occurs almost every day, and most people indulge in it. 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CONTACT: If you have any questions, comments or feedback regarding this study, you can contact us at aj at monkprayogshala.in By continuing, you are stating that you are over 16 years of age, and that you understand the provided information and consent to participate in the study being conducted. I've invited you to fill out the form Public Gossip. To fill it out, visit: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1Fv4THHNK3d_5b6R8N_9sl1XqAPsrdp3rFv6wnlx_ryA/viewform From stuart.shulman at gmail.com Thu Feb 6 11:05:57 2014 From: stuart.shulman at gmail.com (Stuart Shulman) Date: Thu, 6 Feb 2014 14:05:57 -0500 Subject: [Air-L] Gnip and Twitter Bringing Social Data to Academic Researchers Message-ID: Gnip and Twitter Bringing Social Data to Academic Researchers http://blog.gnip.com/twitter-data-grants/ >From the Gnip blog: "What if the next generation of data scientists could have access to social data for their research? And what if we could help increase the quantity and quality of published research using social data? Exploring what might be possible has led to an exciting new collaboration between Twitter and Gnip. Today, we're announcing the pilot of the Twitter Data Grants program, a new initiative designed to support research and fuel innovation in our industry." On a related note: I have taken on the task of setting up 1-2 academic panels for the next Big Boulder conference. If you are an academic doing work with Twitter data and you are interested in potentially appearing on a Big Boulder panel, please send me a brief synopsis of your project and a link to any web-based materials about it. For more about past Big Boulder conferences, please visit: http://blog.gnip.com/big-boulder-the-worlds-first-social-data-conference/ and http://blog.gnip.com/big-boulder-2013-recap/ For information about the Big Boulder Initiative: http://blog.gnip.com/social-data-industry-organization/ ~Stu -- Dr. Stuart W. Shulman people.umass.edu/stu Founder and CEO, Texifter texifter.com LinkedIn: linkedin.com/pub/stuart-shulman/10/351/899 Twitter: twitter.com/#!/StuartWShulman From gciampag at indiana.edu Thu Feb 6 17:50:07 2014 From: gciampag at indiana.edu (Giovanni Luca Ciampaglia) Date: Thu, 06 Feb 2014 20:50:07 -0500 Subject: [Air-L] ACM Web Science Conference (WebSci'14), June 23-26, 2014 Message-ID: <52F43BCF.4080605@indiana.edu> *** Apologies for multiple postings *** FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS & ACCEPTED SATELLITE EVENTS ACM Web Science Conference (WebSci'14), June 23-26, 2014 Bloomington, Indiana, USA websci14.org / @WebSciConf / #WebSci14 Deadline for papers: Feb. 23rd 2014 Web Science is the emergent science of the people, organizations, applications, and of policies that shape and are shaped by the Web, the largest informational artifact constructed by humans in history. Web Science embraces the study of the Web as a vast universal information network of people and communities. As such, Web Science includes the study of social networks whose work, expression, and play take place on the Web. The social sciences and computational sciences meet in Web Science and complement one another: Studying human behavior and social interaction contributes to our understanding of the Web, while Web data is transforming how social science is conducted. The Web presents us with a great opportunity as well as an obligation: If we are to ensure the Web benefits humanity we must do our best to understand it. Call for Papers The Web Science conference is inherently interdisciplinary, as it attempts to integrate computer and information sciences, communication, linguistics, sociology, psychology, economics, law, political science, philosophy, digital humanities, and other disciplines in pursuit of an understanding of the Web. This conference is unique in the manner in which it brings these disciplines together in creative and critical dialogue, and we invite papers from all the above disciplines, and in particular those that cross traditional disciplinary boundaries. Following the success of WebSci'09 in Athens, WebSci'10 in Raleigh, WebSci'11 in Koblenz, WebSci '12 in Evanston, and WebSci'13 in Paris, for the 2014 conference we are seeking papers and posters that describe original research, analysis, and practice in the field of Web Science, as well as work that discusses novel and thought-provoking ideas and works-in-progress. Possible topics for submissions include, but are not limited to, the following: * Analysis of human behavior using social media, mobile devices, and online communities * Methodological challenges of analyzing Web-based * large-scale social interaction * Data-mining and network analysis of the Web and human communities on the Web * Detailed studies of micro-level processes and interactions * on the Web * Collective intelligence, collaborative production, and social computing * Theories and methods for computational social science on the Web * Studies of public health and health-related behavior on the Web * The architecture and philosophy of the Web * The intersection of design and human interaction on the Web * Economics and social innovation on the Web * Governance, democracy, intellectual property, and the commons * Personal data, trust, and privacy * Web and social media research ethics * Studies of Linked Data, the Cloud, and digital eco-systems * Big data and the study of the Web * Web access, literacy, and development * Knowledge, education, and scholarship on and through the Web * People-driven Web technologies, including crowd-sourcing, open data, and new interfaces * Digital humanities * Arts & culture on the Web or engaging audiences using Web resources * Web archiving techniques and scholarly uses of Web archives * New research questions and thought-provoking ideas Submission Web Science is necessarily a very selective single track conference with a rigorous review process. To accommodate the distinct traditions of its many disciplines, we provide three different submission formats: full papers, short papers, and posters. For all types of submissions, inclusion in the ACM DL proceedings will be by default, but not mandatory (opt-out via EasyChair). All accepted research papers (full and short papers) will be presented during the single-track conference. All accepted posters will be given a spot in the single-track lightning talk session, and room to present their papers during a dedicated poster session. Full research papers (5 to 10 pages, ACM double column, 20 mins presentation including Q&A) Full research papers should present new results and original work that has not been previously published. Research papers should present substantial theoretical, empirical, methodological, or policy-oriented contributions to research and/or practice. Short research papers (up to 5 pages, ACM double column, 15 mins presentation including Q&A) Short research papers should present new results and original work that has not been previously published. Research papers can present preliminary theoretical, empirical, methodological, or policy-oriented contributions to research and/or practice. Posters (up to 2 pages, ACM double column, lightning talk + poster presentation) Extended abstracts for posters, which should be in English, can be up to 2 pages. Submission instructions Full and short paper and poster submissions should be formatted according to the official ACM SIG proceedings template (http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates). Please make use of the ACM 1998 classification scheme (http://www.acm.org/about/class/1998/), and submit papers using EasyChair at https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=websci2014. Other creative submission formats (flexible formats) Other types of creative submissions are also encouraged, and the exact format and style of presentation are open. Examples might include artistic performances or installations, interactive exhibits, demonstrations, or other creative formats. For these submissions, the proposers should make clear both what they propose to do, and any special requirements they would need to successfully do it (in terms of space, time, technology, etc.) Review The Web Science program committee consists of a program committee that covers all relevant areas of Web Science. Each submission will be refereed by three PC members and one short meta review written by a Co-PC chair, to cover both the research background of each submission as well as the necessary interdisciplinary aspects. (Optional) Archival Proceedings in the ACM Digital Library All accepted papers and posters will by default appear in the Web Science 2014 Conference Proceedings and can also be made available through the ACM Digital Library, in the same length and format of the submission unless indicated otherwise (those wishing not to be indexed and archived can "opt out" of the proceedings). Satellite Events The following is the list of accepted satellite events. All workshops will be held on June 23. Full day events Altmetrics14 - Expanding Impacts and Metrics http://altmetrics.org/altmetrics14 Judit Bar-Ilan, Rodrigo Costas, Paul Groth, Stefanie Haustein, Vincent Lariviere, Isabella Peters and Mike Taylor Massive Data Flow: Understanding the Complex Dynamics of the Web Seth Bullock, Takashi Ikegami and Mizuki Oka Computational Approaches to Social Modeling (ChASM) http://www.chasm.ws Andrea Baronchelli, Bruno Goncalves, Nicola Perra, Claudia Wagner, Markus Strohmaier, Noshir Contractor, and Emilio Ferrara The web of scientific knowledge: current trends and future perspectives in the big data era Filippo Radicchi, Stasa Milosevic, Ying Ding, Cassidy Sugimoto, Vincent Leriviere, and Min Song Yonsei Doctoral Consortium Howard Rosenbaum, Pnina Fichman, Susan Davies, Lora Aroyo Half-day events Interdisciplinary Coups to Calamities http://www.icc.ecs.soton.ac.uk Clare J. Hooper, David Millard and Norhidayah Azman Web Science Education: Sharing experiences and developing community http://webscience-education-workshop.net Stephane B. Bazan, Su White, Steffen Staab, Michalis Vafopoulos, Susan Halford, Clare Hooper, Hans Akkermans and Mark Weal Research Methodologies for analyzing Cybercrime and Cyberwar http://webscience-cybercrime-workshop.net Dominic Hobson, Neil Macewan, Lisa Sugiura, Stephane B. Bazan and Craig Webber 2nd International Workshop on Building Web Observatories (B-WOW2014) https://sites.google.com/site/bwow2014 Ramine Tinati, Thanassis Tiropanis, Ian Brown and Wendy Hall Deadlines Full & Short Papers: * 23 February 2014: Submissions of full and short papers * 13 April 2014: Notification of acceptance for papers * 11 May 2014: Camera-ready version of papers and posters due Late Breaking Posters: * 23 March 2014: Submissions of posters * 13 April 2014: Notification of acceptance for posters * 11 May 2014: Camera-ready version of posters due Authors take note: The official publication date is the date the proceedings are made available in the ACM Digital Library. This date may be up to two weeks prior to the first day of the conference. The official publication date affects the deadline for any patent filings related to published work. (If proceedings are published in the ACM Digital Library after the conference is over, the official publication date is the first day of the conference.) Conference calendar and rough program * 23 June 2014: workshops, opening reception and keynote * 24 June 2014: keynote(s), technical program, poster reception * 25 June 2014: keynote(s), technical program, social event * 26 June 2014: keynote, technical program, closing General chairs * Fil Menczer, Indiana University * Jim Hendler, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute * Bill Dutton, Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford Program chairs * Markus Strohmaier, University of Koblenz and GESIS (Computing) * Ciro Cattuto, ISI Foundation (Physics) * Eric T. Meyer, Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford (Social Sciences) Program Commiteee * Yong-Yeol Ahn, Indiana University * Luca Maria Aiello, Yahoo! Research * William Allen, University of Oxford * Sitaram Asur, HP Labs * Alain Barrat, CNRS * Fabricio Benevenuto, Federal University of Minas Gerais * Mark Bernstein, Eastgate Systems, Inc * Paolo Boldi, Universita degli Studi di Milano * Niels Brugger, Aarhus Universitet * Licia Capra, University College London * Carlos Castillo, Qatar Computing Research Institute * Lu Chen, Wright State University * Cristobal Cobo, Oxford Internet Institute * David Crandall, Indiana University * Pasquale De Meo, VU University, Amsterdam * David De Roure, Oxford e-Research Centre * Pnina Fichman, Indiana University * Alessandro Flammini, Indiana University * Matteo Gagliolo, Universite libre de Bruxelles * Laetitia Gauvin, ISI Foundation, Turin * Daniel Gayo Avello, University of Oviedo * Scott Golder, Cornell University * Bruno Goncalves, Aix-Marseille Universite * Andrew Gordon, University of Southern California * Scott Hale, Oxford Internet Institute * Noriko Hara, Indiana University * Bernhard Haslhofer, University of Vienna * Andreas Hotho, University of Wuerzburg * Geert-Jan Houben, TU Delft * Jeremy Hunsinger, Wilfrid Laurier University * Ajita John, Avaya Labs * Robert Jaschke, L3S Research Center * Haewoon Kwak, Telefonica Research * Renaud Lambiotte, University of Namur * Matthieu Latapy, CNRS * Silvio Lattanzi, Google * Vili Lehdonvirta, Oxford Internet Institute * Sune Lehmann, Technical University of Denmark * Kristina Lerman, University of Southern California * David Liben-Nowell, Carleton College * Yu-Ru Lin, University of Pittsburgh * Huan Liu, Arizona State University * Jared Lorince, Indiana University * Mathias Lux, Klagenfurt University * Massimo Marchiori, University of Padova and UTILABS * Yutaka Matsuo, University of Tokyo * Jaimie Murdock, Indiana University * Mirco Musolesi, University of Birmingham * Eni Mustafaraj, Wellesley College * Wolfgang Nejdl, L3S and University of Hannover * Andre Panisson, ISI Foundation, Turin * Hanwoo Park, Yeungnam University * Fernando Pedone, University of Lugano * Leto Peel, University of Colorado, Boulder * Orion Penner, IMT Lucca * Nicola Perra, Northeastern University * Rob Procter, University of Warwick * Cornelius Puschmann, Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society * Daniele Quercia, Yahoo! Labs * Carlos P. Roca, Universitat Rovira i Virgili * Richard Rogers, University of Amsterdam * Daniel Romero, Northwestern University * Matthew Rowe, Lancaster University * Giancarlo Ruffo, Universita di Torino * Derek Ruths, McGill University * Rossano Schifanella, Universita di Torino * Ralph Schroeder, Oxford Internet Institute * Kalpana Shankar, University College Dublin * Xiaolin Shi, Microsoft * Elena Simperl, University of Southampton * Philipp Singer, Knowledge Management Institute * Marc Smith, Connected Action Consulting Group * Steffen Staab, University of Koblenz-Landau * Burkhard Stiller, University of Zurich * Lei Tang, @WalmartLabs * Loren Terveen, University of Minnesota * Sebastiano Vigna, Universita degli Studi di Milano * Claudia Wagner, GESIS-Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences * Jillian Wallis, UC Los Angeles * Stan Wasserman, Indiana University * Ingmar Weber, Qatar Computing Research Institute * Matthew Weber, Rutgers University * Lilian Weng, Indiana University * Christopher Wienberg, University of Southern California * Ben Zhao, UC Santa Barbara * Arkaitz Zubiaga, Dublin Institute of Technology From maurizio.teli at gmail.com Fri Feb 7 00:45:06 2014 From: maurizio.teli at gmail.com (Maurizio) Date: Fri, 7 Feb 2014 09:45:06 +0100 Subject: [Air-L] 5th ERQ Conference - Call for abstracts: It's a free work... When work relations become passionate Message-ID: Apologies for Cross-Posting --- Dear colleague, we are pleased to send you the call for abstracts of the session *It**'s a free work... When work relations become passionate.* Your contribution to the proposed session will be greatly appreciated! We take this occasion to remind you that the keynote speakers for the V Etnography and Qualitative Research Conference are *Michael Burawoy*, University of California Berkeley, and *Marc Ab?l?s*, LAIOS - Laboratoire d'Anthropologie des Institutions et des Organisations Sociales. On the conference website and below you can find the text of the call for abstracts. Proposals should be sent by* Februay 17, 2014 *to: annalisa.murgia at unitn.it maurizio at ahref.eu Please, also CC the conference address: workshop.etnografia at unibg.it Each proposal, of a maximum length of 1000 words, should contain: * the title of your talk; * your contact details (full name, email address, post address and affiliation) and those of your co-author/s, if any. Contributions will be accepted both in *Italian* and *English*. Acceptance of proposals will be notified by March 17, 2014. Contributors must register by April 21, 2014 to be included in the program. With best wishes, Annalisa Murgia & Maurizio Teli -- Call for abstracts V Ethnography and Qualitative Research Conference. Bergamo, Italy 5-7 June 2014 website: http://www.etnografiaricercaqualitativa.it/?p=13 *It's a free work... When working relations become passionate* Convenors:* Annalisa Murgia* (Department of Sociology and Social Research of the University of Trento) & *Maurizio Teli* (Fondazione Dear AOIRers, As a program committee member, I would like to invite you to the 5th Social Media and Society Conference, an annual gathering of leading social media researchers around the world. It will be held in Toronto, Canada from September 27 to 28. Last year?s conference hosted nearly 200 attendees, featured research from 90+ scholars and practitioners across several field from over 60 institutions in 15 different countries. The conference calls for an extended abstract (~500 words), panel proposals and posters on the variety of topics including, but not limited to: Social Media & Big Data, Social Media Impact on Society, Theories & Methods, and Online/Offline Communities. For more information, please find http://socialmediaandsociety.com/?p=629 and for more inquiries, feel free to send an email to the organizer: Dr. Anatoliy Gruzd (gruzd at dal.ca) or to me: Dr. Hazel Kwon (khkwon at asu.edu). Thanks! K. Hazel Kwon, Ph.D. Assistant Professor School of Social and Behavioral Sciences Arizona State University https://webapp4.asu.edu/directory/person/1949238 k.hazel.kwon at gmail.com From cdwyer at pace.edu Fri Feb 7 11:27:39 2014 From: cdwyer at pace.edu (Cathy Dwyer) Date: Fri, 7 Feb 2014 14:27:39 -0500 Subject: [Air-L] Pace University Faculty Positions Message-ID: Pace University's Seidenberg School of Computer Science and Information Systems invites applications for several anticipated full-time tenure-track faculty positions in Computer Science or Information Technology. The selected faculty members will be expected to: conduct research, supervise doctoral, graduate and undergraduate students, teach computer science or information technology courses, at all levels and serve on committees at both department and school level. Appointment will be at one or more of our three campuses in NYC and Westchester. Candidates must possess an earned doctorate in computer science, information systems or a related field. They should have proven teaching and research potential, preferably in rapidly evolving areas such as telehealth, cybersecurity, software engineering and Big Data analytics. The anticipated positions will start in fall 2014. Review of applications will begin as they are received. Applications will be accepted until the positions are filled. Please submit a letter of application, curriculum vitae, sample publications, and three letters of recommendation (sent directly from references) to Faculty Search Committee chair Dr Constance Knapp atSeidenberg_Search at pace.edu. Only electronic submissions will be considered. https://chroniclevitae.com/jobs/0000808217-01 -- Catherine Dwyer, Ph.D. Chair, Department of Information Technology - NYC campus Pace University, Seidenberg School of Computer Science & Information Systems 163 William Street #240 New York, NY 10038 212-346-1728 http://csis.pace.edu/~dwyer/ From mcforelle at gmail.com Fri Feb 7 17:51:38 2014 From: mcforelle at gmail.com (Michelle Forelle) Date: Fri, 7 Feb 2014 17:51:38 -0800 Subject: [Air-L] History of "accounts" Message-ID: Hi all, I'm working on a project which requires me to look into the history of the concept of "accounts," as in bank accounts or social media accounts. What is it that identifies something as an "account," where did that definition come from, and what is at stake in it? I'm having a hard time finding a foothold, though - it's brutal trying to search for it point-blank given the many usages of the word "account" in the literature. Does anyone know of a history of bank accounts, social media accounts, or any other form of "account" that might be able to get me started? Much appreciative of any help, Michelle C Forelle -- PhD student USC Annenberg School of Communication @mcforelle on the tweet machine (407) 864-2225 From fred at firesabre.com Fri Feb 7 19:06:09 2014 From: fred at firesabre.com (Fred Fuchs) Date: Fri, 07 Feb 2014 21:06:09 -0600 Subject: [Air-L] History of "accounts" In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <52F59F21.8080807@firesabre.com> On 2/7/2014 7:51 PM, Michelle Forelle wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm working on a project which requires me to look into the history of the > concept of "accounts," as in bank accounts or social media accounts. "Accounts" in computing began in the days of batch processing and timesharing. Here are some related links: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time-sharing http://www-formal.stanford.edu/jmc/history/timesharing/timesharing.html http://www.princeton.edu/~achaney/tmve/wiki100k/docs/Time-sharing.html http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=880740 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q07PhW5sCEk http://www.bobbemer.com/TIMESHAR.HTM Here's a bit more on banking too: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_banking http://money.howstuffworks.com/personal-finance/banking/swiss-bank-account2.htm http://www.factmonster.com/ipka/A0801059.html Good luck, Fred -- Fred Fuchs - Founder, CEO, & Producer FireSabre Consulting LLC Content Services for Virtual Worlds Creation, Events, Training, & Simulations www.linkedin.com/in/fredfuchs https://twitter.com/Fred_Fuchs --- This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus protection is active. http://www.avast.com From mcforelle at gmail.com Sat Feb 8 11:16:34 2014 From: mcforelle at gmail.com (Michelle Forelle) Date: Sat, 8 Feb 2014 11:16:34 -0800 Subject: [Air-L] History of "accounts" In-Reply-To: <52F59F21.8080807@firesabre.com> References: <52F59F21.8080807@firesabre.com> Message-ID: My thanks to everyone both on- and off-list! I really appreciate the contributions and am psyched to start reading into them. If anyone is interested in the resources I wind up putting together on the topic, email me off-list and I'll be happy to share :) Thanks, AoIR! On Fri, Feb 7, 2014 at 7:06 PM, Fred Fuchs wrote: > On 2/7/2014 7:51 PM, Michelle Forelle wrote: > > Hi all, > > I'm working on a project which requires me to look into the history of the > concept of "accounts," as in bank accounts or social media accounts. > > > "Accounts" in computing began in the days of batch processing and > timesharing. Here are some related links: > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time-sharing > http://www-formal.stanford.edu/jmc/history/timesharing/timesharing.html > http://www.princeton.edu/~achaney/tmve/wiki100k/docs/Time-sharing.html > http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=880740 > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q07PhW5sCEk > http://www.bobbemer.com/TIMESHAR.HTM > > Here's a bit more on banking too: > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_banking > > http://money.howstuffworks.com/personal-finance/banking/swiss-bank-account2.htm > http://www.factmonster.com/ipka/A0801059.html > > Good luck, > > Fred > > -- > Fred Fuchs - Founder, CEO, & Producer > FireSabre Consulting LLC > Content Services for Virtual Worlds > Creation, Events, Training, & Simulationswww.linkedin.com/in/fredfuchshttps://twitter.com/Fred_Fuchs > > > > ------------------------------ > > > This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirusprotection is active. > > -- PhD student USC Annenberg School of Communication @mcforelle on the tweet machine (407) 864-2225 From tsenft at gmail.com Sat Feb 8 14:15:05 2014 From: tsenft at gmail.com (Terri Senft) Date: Sat, 8 Feb 2014 17:15:05 -0500 Subject: [Air-L] Selfies Research Network Message-ID: Selfies Research Network, anyone? Yes we made on. Yes ,it's already fantastic, Yes you are invited if you are researching in the area of selfies, digital photography, autobiography, performance, etc. Yes, we are ESPECIALLY interested to hear from you if you do research with populations outside of North America or Europe, or work in languages other than English. Our Facebook group is here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/664091916962292/ See you there! Terri p.s. Scholars from China and other places Facebook is blocked. I desperately want to hear from you, and am open to thoughts about how to include you in the conversation/research. Please write me personally to think through these issues. We will figure something out, I promise!! -- Dr. Theresa M. Senft Global Liberal Studies Program School of Arts & Sciences New York University 726 Broadway NY NY 10003 home: *www.terrisenft.net * (needs a serious updating) facebook: www.facebook.com/theresa.senft twitter: @terrisenft From andresmh at andresmh.com Sat Feb 8 15:44:48 2014 From: andresmh at andresmh.com (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Andr=E9s_Monroy=2DHern=E1ndez?=) Date: Sat, 8 Feb 2014 15:44:48 -0800 Subject: [Air-L] Scratch Big Data Summit at MIT-- sharing 5 years of online community data Message-ID: Hello, AIR, I'm writing to let you know about a workshop that we're organizing on March 21 at the MIT Media Lab, bringing together researchers who are interested in studying the Scratch online community . At the workshop, we'll be sharing a dataset with the first five years of public data from the Scratch community, and discussing ways that people might use this dataset. Here's a website with more information about the workshop and how to apply: https://sites.google.com/site/scratchdatameeting/ Cheers. From joly at punkcast.com Sat Feb 8 16:08:53 2014 From: joly at punkcast.com (Joly MacFie) Date: Sat, 8 Feb 2014 19:08:53 -0500 Subject: [Air-L] Selfies Research Network In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: An International Legal Hackers Data Privacy Hackathon, is happening this weekend, At the NYC location, one group is hacking legal solutions to revenge porn. You can see a brief introduction late in the last few minutes of www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lu_H_Bgt9po - where they note most of the raw material comes from selfies. What is briefly discussed is possibly the creation of a new copyright registration category for what are private thus technically unpublished works, in order that the DMCA can be invoked if the selfies are exploited by others. More info https://www.hackerleague.org/hackathons/data-privacy-legal-hackathon/hacks/using-copyright-to-remove-revenge-pornography-selfies j On Sat, Feb 8, 2014 at 5:15 PM, Terri Senft wrote: > Selfies Research Network, anyone? > > Yes we made on. Yes ,it's already fantastic, Yes you are invited if you > are researching in the area of selfies, digital photography, autobiography, > performance, etc. > > Yes, we are ESPECIALLY interested to hear from you if you do research with > populations outside of North America or Europe, or work in languages other > than English. > > Our Facebook group is here: > > https://www.facebook.com/groups/664091916962292/ > > See you there! > > Terri > > p.s. Scholars from China and other places Facebook is blocked. I > desperately want to hear from you, and am open to thoughts about how to > include you in the conversation/research. Please write me personally to > think through these issues. We will figure something out, I promise!! > > > > -- > > > > > Dr. Theresa M. Senft > Global Liberal Studies Program > School of Arts & Sciences > New York University > 726 Broadway NY NY 10003 > > home: *www.terrisenft.net * > (needs a serious updating) > facebook: www.facebook.com/theresa.senft > twitter: @terrisenft > _______________________________________________ > The Air-L at listserv.aoir.org mailing list > is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org > Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: > http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org > > Join the Association of Internet Researchers: > http://www.aoir.org/ > -- --------------------------------------------------------------- Joly MacFie 218 565 9365 Skype:punkcast WWWhatsup NYC - http://wwwhatsup.com http://pinstand.com - http://punkcast.com VP (Admin) - ISOC-NY - http://isoc-ny.org -------------------------------------------------------------- - From erika.pearson at otago.ac.nz Sun Feb 9 13:02:32 2014 From: erika.pearson at otago.ac.nz (Erika Pearson) Date: Sun, 9 Feb 2014 21:02:32 +0000 Subject: [Air-L] IR15 Submission System OPEN Message-ID: <739B75D2B089AC4B945845F518CCAF51959BD3CD@ITS-EXM-P06.registry.otago.ac.nz> Dear colleagues We are pleased to open submissions for proposals for IR15: Boundaries and Intersections (Bangkok, October, 2014). To re-familiarize yourself with the call for papers and types of submissions solicited, please see: http://ir15.aoir.org/?page_id=19 . If you submitted a proposal to the conference last year (through ConfTools) your login credentials should be the same (tied to your email address). When submitting your proposal, please take the time to read the submission categories and topics carefully, as they are different from previous years. If you have any queries about the submission process, please email conference chair Erika Pearson ( ir15programchair at aoir.org ). We look forward to seeing your proposals. To go directly to the submission site: https://www.conftool.com/aoir-ir15/ Yours Erika Pearson IR15 Program Chair From tsenft at gmail.com Sun Feb 9 14:34:13 2014 From: tsenft at gmail.com (Terri Senft) Date: Sun, 9 Feb 2014 17:34:13 -0500 Subject: [Air-L] Research on Africans and mobile photography? Message-ID: Hi All, While putting together the Selfies Research Network, I find myself at a complete loss for names of researchers who have studied mobile photography practices in Africa. Anybody have names of authors or articles that come to mind? Better yet, if you are a scholar studying these practices yourself, we'd love to have you join our international group. Feel free to drop me a line personally, and our Facebook group is at: https://www.facebook.com/groups/664091916962292 Many thanks! Terri -- Dr. Theresa M. Senft Global Liberal Studies Program School of Arts & Sciences New York University 726 Broadway NY NY 10003 home: *www.terrisenft.net * (needs a serious updating) facebook: www.facebook.com/theresa.senft twitter: @terrisenft From baym at microsoft.com Sun Feb 9 14:37:25 2014 From: baym at microsoft.com (Nancy Baym) Date: Sun, 9 Feb 2014 22:37:25 +0000 Subject: [Air-L] Research on Africans and mobile photography? In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Hey Terri, Not EXACTLY what you are looking for but very close: Paula Uimonen (2013) Visual identity in Facebook, Visual Studies, 28:2, 122-135, DOI: 10.1080/1472586X.2013.801634 Abstract: Seeing your friends in Facebook has become a common means of social interaction, illustrating a visual turn in digital media in general and social media in particular. This article explores visual identity in Facebook, focusing on the use of profile photographs in the performance of digitally mediated selfhood. In Facebook, relationships are increasingly communicated through images, thus rendering the interactive reflexivity of performance rather visible. Based on the profile photographs of students at an arts college in Tanzania, the article discusses the construction of cultural identities through visual communication. By visually expressing their selves through profile photographs, users engage in the social construction of reality, crafting their digitally mediated identities in interaction with their online social relations. The online performance of selfhood is analysed in the context of offline social and material realities, to underline cultural aspirations for global inclusion. Building on anthropological readings of performance, the concept of social aesthetic frame is introduced to capture patterns of digital stratification that encompass the online construction of networked selfhood in the peripheries of the global network society. The article builds on anthropological research on digital media and intercultural interaction at a national arts institute in Tanzania, using a combination of digital, sensory and visual research methods. On 2/9/14 5:34 PM, "Terri Senft" wrote: >Hi All, > >While putting together the Selfies Research Network, I find myself at a >complete loss for names of researchers who have studied mobile photography >practices in Africa. > >Anybody have names of authors or articles that come to mind? > >Better yet, if you are a scholar studying these practices yourself, we'd >love to have you join our international group. > >Feel free to drop me a line personally, and our Facebook group is at: > >https://www.facebook.com/groups/664091916962292 > > >Many thanks! >Terri >-- > > > > >Dr. Theresa M. Senft >Global Liberal Studies Program >School of Arts & Sciences >New York University >726 Broadway NY NY 10003 > >home: *www.terrisenft.net * >(needs a serious updating) >facebook: www.facebook.com/theresa.senft >twitter: @terrisenft >_______________________________________________ >The Air-L at listserv.aoir.org mailing list >is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org >Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: >http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org > >Join the Association of Internet Researchers: >http://www.aoir.org/ From sarah.logan at anu.edu.au Sun Feb 9 15:18:09 2014 From: sarah.logan at anu.edu.au (Sarah Logan) Date: Sun, 9 Feb 2014 23:18:09 +0000 Subject: [Air-L] Air-L Digest, Vol 115, Issue 9 In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Wow, this is amazing! Surely we don't need all the numbers: we can say, for example, that readership from Thailand increased by some huge among over the second week, showing that the website draws topical readers, which makes the poll more relevant. And we can say that the bulk of the readership comes from SE Asia, especially Thailand and Malaysia... So it might not be necessary to do the hugely detailed stats< especially as the numbers over two weeks are not really generalisable to a trend - we could try and pull them out to a year, but I suspect they would remain the same. What do you think? Digital Politics Research Fellow State, Society and Governance in Melanesia Australian National University Twitter: @circt -----Original Message----- From: air-l-bounces at listserv.aoir.org [mailto:air-l-bounces at listserv.aoir.org] On Behalf Of air-l-request at listserv.aoir.org Sent: Monday, 10 February 2014 10:00 AM To: air-l at listserv.aoir.org Subject: Air-L Digest, Vol 115, Issue 9 Send Air-L mailing list submissions to air-l at listserv.aoir.org To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to air-l-request at listserv.aoir.org You can reach the person managing the list at air-l-owner at listserv.aoir.org When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of Air-L digest..." Today's Topics: 1. Scratch Big Data Summit at MIT-- sharing 5 years of online community data (Andr?s Monroy-Hern?ndez) 2. Re: Selfies Research Network (Joly MacFie) 3. IR15 Submission System OPEN (Erika Pearson) 4. Research on Africans and mobile photography? (Terri Senft) 5. Re: Research on Africans and mobile photography? (Nancy Baym) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Sat, 8 Feb 2014 15:44:48 -0800 From: Andr?s Monroy-Hern?ndez Cc: air-l at listserv.aoir.org Subject: [Air-L] Scratch Big Data Summit at MIT-- sharing 5 years of online community data Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Hello, AIR, I'm writing to let you know about a workshop that we're organizing on March 21 at the MIT Media Lab, bringing together researchers who are interested in studying the Scratch online community . At the workshop, we'll be sharing a dataset with the first five years of public data from the Scratch community, and discussing ways that people might use this dataset. Here's a website with more information about the workshop and how to apply: https://sites.google.com/site/scratchdatameeting/ Cheers. ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Sat, 8 Feb 2014 19:08:53 -0500 From: Joly MacFie To: Terri Senft Cc: aoir list Subject: Re: [Air-L] Selfies Research Network Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 An International Legal Hackers Data Privacy Hackathon, is happening this weekend, At the NYC location, one group is hacking legal solutions to revenge porn. You can see a brief introduction late in the last few minutes of www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lu_H_Bgt9po - where they note most of the raw material comes from selfies. What is briefly discussed is possibly the creation of a new copyright registration category for what are private thus technically unpublished works, in order that the DMCA can be invoked if the selfies are exploited by others. More info https://www.hackerleague.org/hackathons/data-privacy-legal-hackathon/hacks/using-copyright-to-remove-revenge-pornography-selfies j On Sat, Feb 8, 2014 at 5:15 PM, Terri Senft wrote: > Selfies Research Network, anyone? > > Yes we made on. Yes ,it's already fantastic, Yes you are invited if > you are researching in the area of selfies, digital photography, > autobiography, performance, etc. > > Yes, we are ESPECIALLY interested to hear from you if you do research > with populations outside of North America or Europe, or work in > languages other than English. > > Our Facebook group is here: > > https://www.facebook.com/groups/664091916962292/ > > See you there! > > Terri > > p.s. Scholars from China and other places Facebook is blocked. I > desperately want to hear from you, and am open to thoughts about how > to include you in the conversation/research. Please write me > personally to think through these issues. We will figure something out, I promise!! > > > > -- > > > > > Dr. Theresa M. Senft > Global Liberal Studies Program > School of Arts & Sciences > New York University > 726 Broadway NY NY 10003 > > home: *www.terrisenft.net * (needs a serious > updating) > facebook: www.facebook.com/theresa.senft > twitter: @terrisenft > _______________________________________________ > The Air-L at listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the > Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change > options or unsubscribe at: > http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org > > Join the Association of Internet Researchers: > http://www.aoir.org/ > -- --------------------------------------------------------------- Joly MacFie 218 565 9365 Skype:punkcast WWWhatsup NYC - http://wwwhatsup.com http://pinstand.com - http://punkcast.com VP (Admin) - ISOC-NY - http://isoc-ny.org -------------------------------------------------------------- - ------------------------------ Message: 3 Date: Sun, 9 Feb 2014 21:02:32 +0000 From: Erika Pearson To: "air-l at listserv.aoir.org" Subject: [Air-L] IR15 Submission System OPEN Message-ID: <739B75D2B089AC4B945845F518CCAF51959BD3CD at ITS-EXM-P06.registry.otago.ac.nz> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Dear colleagues We are pleased to open submissions for proposals for IR15: Boundaries and Intersections (Bangkok, October, 2014). To re-familiarize yourself with the call for papers and types of submissions solicited, please see: http://ir15.aoir.org/?page_id=19 . If you submitted a proposal to the conference last year (through ConfTools) your login credentials should be the same (tied to your email address). When submitting your proposal, please take the time to read the submission categories and topics carefully, as they are different from previous years. If you have any queries about the submission process, please email conference chair Erika Pearson ( ir15programchair at aoir.org ). We look forward to seeing your proposals. To go directly to the submission site: https://www.conftool.com/aoir-ir15/ Yours Erika Pearson IR15 Program Chair ------------------------------ Message: 4 Date: Sun, 9 Feb 2014 17:34:13 -0500 From: Terri Senft To: aoir list Subject: [Air-L] Research on Africans and mobile photography? Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Hi All, While putting together the Selfies Research Network, I find myself at a complete loss for names of researchers who have studied mobile photography practices in Africa. Anybody have names of authors or articles that come to mind? Better yet, if you are a scholar studying these practices yourself, we'd love to have you join our international group. Feel free to drop me a line personally, and our Facebook group is at: https://www.facebook.com/groups/664091916962292 Many thanks! Terri -- Dr. Theresa M. Senft Global Liberal Studies Program School of Arts & Sciences New York University 726 Broadway NY NY 10003 home: *www.terrisenft.net * (needs a serious updating) facebook: www.facebook.com/theresa.senft twitter: @terrisenft ------------------------------ Message: 5 Date: Sun, 9 Feb 2014 22:37:25 +0000 From: Nancy Baym To: Terri Senft , aoir list Subject: Re: [Air-L] Research on Africans and mobile photography? Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Hey Terri, Not EXACTLY what you are looking for but very close: Paula Uimonen (2013) Visual identity in Facebook, Visual Studies, 28:2, 122-135, DOI: 10.1080/1472586X.2013.801634 Abstract: Seeing your friends in Facebook has become a common means of social interaction, illustrating a visual turn in digital media in general and social media in particular. This article explores visual identity in Facebook, focusing on the use of profile photographs in the performance of digitally mediated selfhood. In Facebook, relationships are increasingly communicated through images, thus rendering the interactive reflexivity of performance rather visible. Based on the profile photographs of students at an arts college in Tanzania, the article discusses the construction of cultural identities through visual communication. By visually expressing their selves through profile photographs, users engage in the social construction of reality, crafting their digitally mediated identities in interaction with their online social relations. The online performance of selfhood is analysed in the context of offline social and material realities, to underline cultural aspirations for global inclusion. Building on anthropological readings of performance, the concept of social aesthetic frame is introduced to capture patterns of digital stratification that encompass the online construction of networked selfhood in the peripheries of the global network society. The article builds on anthropological research on digital media and intercultural interaction at a national arts institute in Tanzania, using a combination of digital, sensory and visual research methods. On 2/9/14 5:34 PM, "Terri Senft" wrote: >Hi All, > >While putting together the Selfies Research Network, I find myself at a >complete loss for names of researchers who have studied mobile photography >practices in Africa. > >Anybody have names of authors or articles that come to mind? > >Better yet, if you are a scholar studying these practices yourself, we'd >love to have you join our international group. > >Feel free to drop me a line personally, and our Facebook group is at: > >https://www.facebook.com/groups/664091916962292 > > >Many thanks! >Terri >-- > > > > >Dr. Theresa M. Senft >Global Liberal Studies Program >School of Arts & Sciences >New York University >726 Broadway NY NY 10003 > >home: *www.terrisenft.net * >(needs a serious updating) >facebook: www.facebook.com/theresa.senft >twitter: @terrisenft >_______________________________________________ >The Air-L at listserv.aoir.org mailing list >is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org >Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: >http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org > >Join the Association of Internet Researchers: >http://www.aoir.org/ ------------------------------ _______________________________________________ The Air-L at listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org Join the Association of Internet Researchers: http://www.aoir.org/ End of Air-L Digest, Vol 115, Issue 9 ************************************* From jpedregosa at gmail.com Mon Feb 10 01:18:34 2014 From: jpedregosa at gmail.com (Jj Pedregosa) Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2014 10:18:34 +0100 Subject: [Air-L] Conference on Digital Discrimination and Social Networks. Barcelona, 13th and 14th of March Message-ID: The main aim of the conference is to invite participants to actively *share current experiences and research and push forward our knowledge to fight discrimination*. Academics, NGOs working with youths or on discrimination, activists, trainers, teachers, policy makers, journalists, social media professionals and the general public are welcome to attend. Programme of the conference: http://digitaldiscrimination.eu/conference/ From fabio.alla at gmail.com Mon Feb 10 04:30:28 2014 From: fabio.alla at gmail.com (Fabio) Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2014 13:30:28 +0100 Subject: [Air-L] Pinterest, Google+ and Foursquare stats Message-ID: Hello AoIR, I'm working on a project about various social network sites and I'm looking for updated data about Pinterest, G+ and Foursquare. I already found old global stats but at the moment what I really need are demographic and usage information (both global and nation-based, in particular italian and european ones) about the current situation of these SNS (or at least not older than few months). Can anyone suggest or recommend a trusted and updated source? Thank you so much: any help will be surely welcome. -- Fabio Stefano Alla Dipartimento di Comunicazione e Ricerca Sociale Sapienza Universit? di Roma From hrosenba at indiana.edu Mon Feb 10 06:07:37 2014 From: hrosenba at indiana.edu (Howard Rosenbaum) Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2014 09:07:37 -0500 Subject: [Air-L] AMCIS 2014 > CFP: Social Theory in Information Systems Research (STIR '14) Message-ID: <8819609F-65E9-441B-91C4-DAB48E007CD7@indiana.edu> [Apologies for cross-posting] Call For Papers: AMCIS Mini-track: Social Theory in Information Systems Research (STIR '14) 20th Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS): Smart Sustainability, the Information Systems opportunity, Savannah, GA, August 7-10, 2014 Conference Website: http://amcis2013.aisnet.org/ DESCRIPTION: This Mini Track solicits papers that make use of social theory in information systems research drawing upon such approaches as sociotechnical theory, critical theory, social informatics, organizational theory, cultural anthropology, sociology and others. We are interested in understanding and supporting the evolution of social theory, socio-technical theory, and social informatics in information systems research. We want to highlight research that uses these approaches to critically examine the constitution of information and communications technologies, and their roles in organizations and society; these are among the most important questions about IS, organizations, and society. We particularly invite IS research that applies, builds on, compares, or critiques these social theories. We are interested in high quality empirical and conceptual work that uses social theory to study and theorize about application domains including large-scale social and organizational phenomena. We seek to attract research papers and research-in-progress papers from all IS researchers who are using the work of social theorists, organizational theorists, sociotechnical theorists, and cultural anthropologists, symbolic interactionists, and many others. We are particularly interested in research that makes use of social theory 1) to address issues of designing a smart and sustainable digital future, 2) to answer questions about how we are interacting with ICTs in our work and social lives in ways that help and hinder the move towards sustainability, and 3) to critically examine the constitution of ICTs, and their roles in the design, maintenance and dissolution of sustainable organizations and social groups. This will be the 14th consecutive year for the Mini Track at AMCIS, and we hope to continue a tradition of high quality paper submissions, thought-provoking presentations and lively discussion for all IS researchers using, or considering the use of, social theory in their work. SUGGESTED TOPICS In addition to research aligned with the conference theme we are also interested in high quality empirical and conceptual work that uses social theory to study and understand: * The implications of social networks for organizations and social groups * Conceptual and empirical work focusing on the ways ICT can promote or hinder social inclusion * The significance of cyberinfrastructure for commerce, governing and research and development * The relationships between ICTs and people as they participate in online communities and virtual teams * Online communities of practice, their processes and outcomes * The dynamics of crowdsourcing online * Hacktivism and the use of technology to mobilize resources and advance ideology * Unintended consequences of technology implementation and use in organizations and in social life * Scientific collaboration and scholarly communication as enabled and constrained by ICTs * The impacts of social computing on our social and work lives Minitrack chairs: Howard Rosenbaum, School of Informatics and Computing, Indiana University hrosenba at indiana.edu Pnina Fichman, School of Informatics and Computing, Indiana University fichman at indiana.edu Submission Process: Instructions for authors and more information is available at: http://amcis2014.aisnet.org/index.php/call-for-papers Full paper submissions must be made electronically through the AMCIS on-line submission system. Papers can be submitted beginning on January 5, 2014. The link will be available at: http://aisel.aisnet.org/amcis2014_papers/ Submissions will close on March 1, 2014. ------------------------ Pnina Fichman Associate Professor, School of Informatics and Computing Director, Rob Kling Center for Social Informatics Affiliated Associate Professor, School of Global and International Studies 901 East 10th Street, Informatics West #301 Indiana University, Bloomington, 47408 Phone (812) 856-1587 E-Mail fichman at indiana.edu Web http://ella.slis.indiana.edu/~fichman/ From hrosenba at indiana.edu Mon Feb 10 06:07:30 2014 From: hrosenba at indiana.edu (Howard Rosenbaum) Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2014 09:07:30 -0500 Subject: [Air-L] AMCIS 2014> CFP: Global and Cross Cultural Impacts of Big Data Minitrack Message-ID: <63EC0707-5B4E-416D-9797-4790579B3634@indiana.edu> [Apologies for cross-posting] CALL FOR PAPERS: AMCIS Minitrack - Global and Cross Cultural Impacts of Big Data 20th Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS): Smart Sustainability, the Information Systems Opportunity, Savannah, GA, August 7-10, 2014 Conference Website: http://amcis2013.aisnet.org/ DESCRIPTION Manyika et al. (2011; 4) note ?big data has now reached every sector of the global economy. Like other essential factors of production ? much of modern economic activity simply couldn?t take place without it.? An emerging grand challenge involves gathering, organizing, curating, managing, analyzing, visualizing and disseminating these heterogeneous data over the lifecycle of the data for such purposes such as scientific discovery, medical advances, entrepreneurial activity and public policy formulation. People in the public and private sectors are taking note of this development as are academics, who are exploring ways of dealing with big data, defined by the National Science Foundation (2012) as: ?large, diverse, complex, longitudinal, and/or distributed data sets generated from instruments, sensors, Internet transactions, email, video, click streams, and/or all other digital sources available today and in the future. This minitrack solicits high quality conceptual and empirical work that focuses on the global impacts of big data on governments, multinational companies, NGOs and other organizations. Big data datasets and the technologies for analyzing them are developing faster than our understanding of the ways in which this phenomenon is impacting and will impact the ways work is done in a wide range of settings. As scholars and researchers begin to investigate the impacts of Big Data, this minitrack provides a venue for them to share their work. Appropriate topics for this minitrack include (but are not limited to) the following: ? Big data use in organizational, national and international settings ? How the introduction of big data affects organizational and group work flow ? Ways that big data is affecting organizational and group decision making ? Security and privacy impacts of big data use ? The intended and unintended consequences of big data ? The dark side of big data: surveillance, illicit activities, discriminatory analytics, and the end of privacy ? Big data as a social, political, economic, and/or cultural phenomenon Minitrack chairs: Pnina Fichman, School of Informatics and Computing, Indiana University fichman at indiana.edu Howard Rosenbaum, School of Informatics and Computing, Indiana University hrosenba at indiana.edu SUBMISSION PROCESS: Full paper submissions must be made electronically through the AMCIS on-line submission system no later than March 1, 2014. Manuscript Central will start accepting paper submissions on January 5, 2014 at: http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/amcis2014 Additional instructions for authors: http://amcis2014.aisnet.org/index.php/call-for-papers Important Dates: March 1, 2014: (11:59 PM EST): Deadline for paper submissions April 4 2014: Authors will be notified of acceptances on or about this date April 18, 2014: Authors revisions due April 25, 2014: (11:59 PM EST): For accepted papers, camera ready copy due _______________________________________________ The Air-L at listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org Join the Association of Internet Researchers: http://www.aoir.org/ From constantin.hoferer at hiig.de Mon Feb 10 08:45:48 2014 From: constantin.hoferer at hiig.de (Constantin Hoferer) Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2014 17:45:48 +0100 Subject: [Air-L] Fellowship in Berlin 2014 at the Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society Message-ID: Dear AOIRers, I would like to use the possibility to inform you about our this years fellowship program. The Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society (HIIG | @HIIG_berlin) which has been founded in March 2012 is meant to enable innovative scientific research in the field of Internet and society and to observe the development of the Internet in its interplay with societal transformation processes. This year the HIIG opens its doors for fellows from all over the world again. We invite applications from early stage researchers pursuing a project of transdisciplinary Internet research. If you are seeking exchange regarding your research aspirations and find our objectives to match yours or to complement them, we are looking forward to hearing your thoughts! Feel free to share our call. Constantin *Abstract:* Opportunities: Our fellowship provides innovative thinkers a unique opportunity to exchange experiences and set off new initiatives in an inviting intellectual environment. The selected fellows are very welcome to collaborate in a growing international team and to participate in the research activities at our institute. We encourage you to actively shape your stay according to your research interests. We offer a number of opportunities to get involved with our research programme and discuss your research project with the HIIG research team, such as: - Developing a paper concerning your research project, e.g. writing a journal paper in our SSRN Internet & Society Series - Holding a presentation about a topic of your choice in our weekly Journal Club - Organising a workshop of your research topic - Engage in joint activities and projects with other fellows - And more - according to your interest Benefits: Based in the heart of Berlin we will provide you with modern office space that you will share with our researchers. Fellows are expected to bring their own funding through their home institution or outside grants. Fellows must take care of their accommodation, insurance, childcare, and transportation arrangements. However, in specific cases we can provide fellows on request with a travel allowance of up to EURO 700,- and a visa subsidy of up to EURO 200,-. Read more about last years Fellow Programme . Timeframe: We offer fellowships from 3 up to 12 months starting from June 1st, 2014. Qualifications: - Master's degree - Fluency in English; command of German is appreciated - Research experience and an Internet research project of your own Required application documents: - curriculum vitae - letter of motivation: explaining your interest in the fellowship, your expectations and your research background (1 page) - outline of a) your research project, b) the work you aim to conduct during the fellowship, c) contributions you plan to realise during your stay, d) projects on our research agenda that are of interest to you, and e) if possible, preferred project partners at our institute (altogether on a maximum of 3 pages) - optional: your latest publication or work sample covering Internet research (maximum of 1 paper / chapter / presentation in English or German) Applications will only be accepted through our online application form attached below. Closing date for applications is Monday, March 17 2014. Please contact Jana Schudrowitz with any questions via application at hiig.de. You may apply here . -- [image: HIIG-Logo] Constantin Hoferer Alexander von Humboldt Institut f?r Internet und Gesellschaft gGmbH Bebelplatz 1 ? 10099 Berlin T +49 30 20 07 60 82 ? F +49 30 20 93-3435 ? www.hiig.de ? [image: Facebook-Button] [image: Twitter-Button] [image: Google+1-Button] Gesellschaftssitz Berlin | Amtsgericht Berlin Charlottenburg | HRB 140911B USt-ID DE 27/601/54619 | Gesch?ftsf?hrung: Dr. Jeanette Hofmann ? Prof. Dr. Dr. Ingolf Pernice ? Prof. Dr. Dr. Thomas Schildhauer ? Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Schulz ? Dr. Karina Prei? From rdt4 at psu.edu Mon Feb 10 10:08:45 2014 From: rdt4 at psu.edu (Richard Denny Taylor) Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2014 13:08:45 -0500 (EST) Subject: [Air-L] CFP IIP-FCC Broadband Reg Wksp Message-ID: Colleagues, With apologies for cross-postings: Call for Paper Proposals THE FUTURE OF BROADBAND REGULATION A by-invitation experts' workshop Organized by the Institute for Information Policy at Penn State University and co-sponsored by the Federal Communications Commission Federal Communications Commission 445 12th St. SW Washington, DC May 28-30, 2014 The U.S. National Broadband Plan envisions the transition of the U.S. telecommunications infrastructure to a ubiquitous IP-based broadband network. While there is a vibrant discussion of how best to manage the transition, there is only a nascent discussion of what the policy framework should look like after it is completed. What is the long-term outlook (beyond the transition and into the next decade) for the broadband ecosystem, and how will the regulatory system have to adapt to a changed environment? Advances in infrastructure technology and applications have, and will likely continue to push at the boundaries of current regulatory frameworks for telecommunications, media, and even intellectual property rights The Institute for Information Policy at Penn State (IIP), in collaboration with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), is pleased to announce this call for paper proposals addressing the multiple factors in thinking about regulation for post-transition broadband networks. Authors of selected papers will be invited to present and discuss them during a 2-day by-invitation-only workshop designed to bring together up to a dozen experts to be held at the Federal Communications Commissions on (date). The Workshop is designed to draw together the latest academic thinking on these questions and to give FCC staff the opportunity to suggest elements of a forward-looking research agenda that would contribute to the policy discourse around them. The workshop is part of a series of events focused on "Making Policy Research Accessible," organized by the IIP, with the support of the Ford Foundation and the Media Democracy Fund. Presenters at the workshop will be invited to submit their completed papers to the Journal of Information Policy (www.jip-online.org). All disciplines are welcome. Invited topics of papers may include, but are not limited to: . Will the dominant model for delivery of broadband services be fixed or mobile? How much competition will there be (especially wireline)? Will there be new technologies or entrants? . What is the future of "over-the-top" content and CDNs? . What will be the impact of the "internet of things"? What is its regulatory status? . How is the "public interest" defined in the broadband ecosystem? What sorts of regulatory safeguards/interventions will be needed to advance the public interest? . How do the FCC's broadband promotion programs interact with efforts of other agencies, on both the demand and supply side? . How should the concept of universal service evolve? What can the designers of universal service policies learn from efforts to stimulate demand for broadband? . What are the implications for regulatory frameworks of technological and other changes in the broadband ecosystem? . How should the division of labor between state and federal regulatory authorities change? . Are there any regulatory challenges on the horizon that are not yet part of the mainstream broadband regulation debate? Abstracts of up to 500 words and a short bio of the author(s) should be submitted to pennstateiip at psu.edu by March 15, 2014. Please write IIPFCCPOST: YOUR NAME in the subject line. Accepted presenters will be notified by March 31, 2014. From ondiney at gmail.com Mon Feb 10 19:07:31 2014 From: ondiney at gmail.com (Stephanie Vie) Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2014 22:07:31 -0500 Subject: [Air-L] Call for chapter proposals: Social Media/Social Writing collection Message-ID: *Call for Papers (CFP)* We invite contributions for an edited collection on social media and writing within higher education entitled *Social Writing/Social Media: Pedagogy, Presentation, and Publics*. The prospectus for this project has been preliminarily approved by the WAC Clearinghouse's Perspectives on Writing book series, an imprint of Parlor Press that publishes books in free digital editions and low-cost print editions. We are committed to moving this project through the review process in a timely manner, both because of the timeliness of research on social media as well as our collective interest in seeing this book in print as soon as possible. This edited collection imagines social media broadly and encourages pieces that examine specific social media spaces such as Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Pinterest, etc., within theoretical frameworks as well as pieces that look at writing within larger social media categories, such as micro-blogging, social networking, etc. We ask authors to consider their proposed chapter for one of the following three sections: - *Social media and pedagogy*: How are social media shaping and being shaped by educational issues related to writing studies? Pedagogy chapters should be theoretically informed and avoid atheoretical "what I did in my class" approaches. We welcome empirical and qualitative studies of pedagogical approaches. We especially welcome projects that engage in critical making pedagogies. - *Social media and personalities*: How do individuals use writing to create, maintain, and reshape their identities in relation to others? We are particularly interested in chapters that use critical, professional, or other theoretically informed approaches for examining social media and writing. - *Social media and publics*: In what ways are social media being used to develop and sustain writing-related efforts in local and national communities? We are specifically interested in chapters that interrogate civic engagement, politics, and/or activism vis-?-vis writing and social media. Contributors are encouraged to consider the following possible social media topics (however, other areas are welcome): - Literacy practices and communal norms about writing - Student writing produced outside of class - Pedagogies of possibilities and resistances - Critical issues in/and group dynamics - Issues of identity, anonymity, and pseudonymity - Privacy and surveillance within social media - End-User Licensing Agreements, Terms of Service, and/or copyright law - Non-alphabetic rhetorical activity - Digital divide and access issues for faculty, students, and/or community stakeholders - Service-learning and community-based research efforts in the community facilitated by social media - Genre-based analyses of social media activities Please send abstracts of no more than 500 words to Douglas Walls (Douglas.Walls at ucf.edu) and Stephanie Vie (Stephanie.Vie at ucf.edu) by June 15, 2014. Submissions should include full contact information and a brief biographical statement (including institutional affiliation) for all proposed authors. Indicate which of the three sections (pedagogy, presentation, or publics) where you see your chapter best fitting. Accepted authors will be invited to submit full chapter drafts by September 15, 2014. Initial queries are welcome. The editors will be in attendance at Writing Research Across Borders (February), the Conference on College Composition and Communication (March), Rhetoric Society of America (May), and Computers & Writing (June) and would be happy to meet to talk over proposals and/or chapter drafts. Proposed Timeline: - Deadline for abstracts: June 15, 2014 - Notification of acceptance to authors: June 22, 2014 - Deadline for first draft of accepted chapters: September 15, 2014 - Editors' feedback on first drafts: December 15, 2014 - Deadline for revised chapters: February 15, 2015 Douglas Walls, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Department of Writing and Rhetoric University of Central Florida Douglas.Walls at ucf.edu Stephanie Vie, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Department of Writing and Rhetoric University of Central Florida Stephanie.Vie at ucf.edu From jpedregosa at gmail.com Tue Feb 11 02:08:48 2014 From: jpedregosa at gmail.com (Jj Pedregosa) Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2014 11:08:48 +0100 Subject: [Air-L] Conference on Digital Discrimination and Social Networks. Barcelona, 13th and 14th of March Message-ID: Friends The main aim of the conference is to invite participants to actively *share current experiences and research and push forward our knowledge to fight discrimination*. Academics, NGOs working with youths or on discrimination, activists, trainers, teachers, policy makers, journalists, social media professionals and the general public are welcome to attend. Programme of the conference: http://digitaldiscrimination.eu/conference/ ITD Tr?nsit Projectes Ceps Projectes Socials | B?ria 17 pral 08003 Barcelona +34 933 194 750 @juanpedregosa Projectes Internacionals, Consultoria i Gesti? Cultura, Digital, Innovaci?, Inclusi?, Participaci?, Educaci? From rapha1106 at yahoo.fr Tue Feb 11 05:30:07 2014 From: rapha1106 at yahoo.fr (raphael nowak) Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2014 13:30:07 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Air-L] CFP Reminder - Napster, 15 years on: Rethinking digital music distribution. A themed special edition of First Monday Message-ID: <1392125407.88470.YahooMailNeo@web171305.mail.ir2.yahoo.com> With apologies for cross-posting: Call for papers ? First Monday themed special edition Napster, 15 years on: Rethinking digital music distribution ? Guest editors: Rapha?l Nowak (Griffith University, Australia) and Andrew Whelan (University of Wollongong, Australia) ? 2014 marks the fifteenth anniversary of the release of the peer-to-peer application Napster. Developed by a student, Shawn Fanning, with the help of his friend Shawn Parker and uncle John Fanning, Napster established music downloading as a mass phenomenon. By 2001, 50 million users had downloaded content with Napster. Many other applications followed ? Gnutella, Kazaa, LimeWire, eMule, Soulseek, BitTorrent, among others ?further developing and entrenching p2p technology. Online music distribution has been fiercely contested since Napster. Online availability has changed the way music is produced, sold, distributed, shared and consumed. While these changes are often decried or celebrated through well-rehearsed positions, their implications can also be exaggerated, as attending to contemporary industry business models and persisting analog formats would suggest. Building on multi- and cross-disciplinary approaches addressing developments in the 15 years since the advent of Napster, we seek papers that advance contemporary debates associated with music downloading (authorized and illicit) and its consequences and ramifications. We welcome 300 word abstracts reflecting on the last 15 years in the realm of online music distribution and consumption. While attending to this broad aim, proposed articles will also address a more specific theme. Potential themes may include, but are not limited to: ?????? Exchange relations and the circulation of digital objects ?????? Politics and ethics of p2p practices ?????? Hyper-consumption, curatorialism and open access music archives ?????? Online music subcultures and (social) networks ?????? Domestication of p2p and p2p as/in technoculture ?????? Communications, transfer, storage, and playback hardware and infrastructure ?????? Discursive framing: leeches, pirates, free music ?????? Contemporary music celebrity culture ?????? Suppression and criminalization of downloading and ?copyfight? ?????? Aesthetic experiences and qualities of digital music practices and rituals ?????? 0day, release groups, pre-releases and leaks ?????? Affordances, affects and materialities of the mp3 format ?????? The evolution and ecology of music downloading ?????? Direct downloads, music blogging, and online visibility ?????? Monetization, markets and the business of p2p ?????? Analog formats: continuity and resurgence ?????? Pre-histories and futures of digital music distribution 300 word abstracts should be submitted to Rapha?l Nowak (raph.nowak at gmail.com)by February 21, 2014. On the basis of these abstracts, invitations to submit papers will be sent out in early March 2014. Full papers should be submitted by June 20, 2014, and will undergo the usual First Monday peer-review process. Invitation to submit a full paper does not therefore guarantee acceptance into the issue. The themed special edition will be published November 2014. This Call for Papers can be found in pdf format at?http://bit.ly/Nxp5k8. Please forward as appropriate to interested parties. ? Rapha?l Nowak Andrew Whelan From d.bennato at gmail.com Tue Feb 11 08:01:43 2014 From: d.bennato at gmail.com (Davide Bennato) Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2014 17:01:43 +0100 Subject: [Air-L] [DEADLINE 15 FEBRUARY 2014] Call for ABSTRACTS Social science & Big data (not only) Message-ID: Call for ABSTRACTS: Social Science & Big Data WHAT: A matter of design. Making society through science & tecnology WHERE: Polytechnic of Milan WHEN: 12-14 June 2014 TRACK: N.5 Rethinking sociological gaze and citizenship through data. Epistemological and Political Implications of the Rise of Big Data INFO Conferencehttp://www.stsitalia.org/conferences/ocs/index.php/STSIC/AMD/schedConf/cfp Track 5 details http://www.stsitalia.org/conferences/STSITALIA_2014/AMD_Track5.pdf -- ************************************************************* http://www.tecnoetica.it/ http://www.processiculturali.it/ http://www.sociologiadeimediadigitali.it skype: davide.bennato http://www.linkedin.com/in/davidebennato From victoria.nash at oii.ox.ac.uk Tue Feb 11 08:42:12 2014 From: victoria.nash at oii.ox.ac.uk (Victoria Nash) Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2014 16:42:12 +0000 Subject: [Air-L] Approaching deadline for OII Summer Doctoral Programme Message-ID: <70164DA4BB578F48A5CA605B0AE4022236BDC6@MBX06.ad.oak.ox.ac.uk> Dear friends, The deadline for applications to this year's Oxford Internet Institute Summer Doctoral Programme is the 24th February, so I would be really grateful if you could pass this reminder on to any students who might be eligible to apply. The Programme will be held in Oxford from 7th-18th July 2014, and is suitable for PhD students at the dissertation stage of their degree. The programme offers two weeks of intensive teaching from senior faculty at the OII, as well as some guest speakers, who will offer insights into their research processes and tuition on methods as well as presenting substantive papers. Students will also be asked to present on their own research.. We also fit in some punting, a ghost tour and some fancy dinners... The overall aims are to help improve students' dissertations and to develop a cohesive peer network for future collaboration and support. For further information on this year's SDP, including application instructions, please see our website at: http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/graduatestudy/sdp/Y2014.cfm For more general info, the SDP blog and a great video by the 2013 crowd, look here: http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/graduatestudy/sdp/ If anyone has any questions, feel free to e-mail me directly. Many thanks! Vicki Dr Victoria Nash Research and Policy Fellow Director of Graduate Studies Oxford Internet Institute University of Oxford http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/ T: 01865 287231 Tw: @VickiNashOII W: http://victoriajnash.tumblr.com/ From r.harper at microsoft.com Tue Feb 11 09:06:32 2014 From: r.harper at microsoft.com (Richard Harper) Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2014 17:06:32 +0000 Subject: [Air-L] Skype Connections and the Gaze of Friendship and Family: a mini-conference Message-ID: Apologies for cross postings- Skype Connections and the Gaze of Friendship and Family MSR and Skype are pleased to invite extended abstracts for a mini academic conference/workshop on all aspects of interaction in video-mediated communications in private and domestic life. See here for further details. It will be held on June 3rd and 4th 2014 at MSR Cambridge, England. Chairs: Richard Harper, Microsoft Research Cambridge; Christian Licoppe, Telecom ParisTech, Paris; Rod Watson, Institut Marcel Mauss, Paris. This is the first call for participation (January 2014). Extended abstracts (of up to 600 words excluding title and affiliation) should report theoretical and empirical research into the interactional order of video calling in domestic and personal life. Ethnomethodological and conversation analytic perspectives are particularly welcomed on such things as: * the relationship between the sequential patterns of communication and the medium of Skype-type video connections in the social and family sphere; * the methods and patterns of recipient design and repair within such communications; * the properties and shape of topic management (e.g., news announcements and personal disclosures); * the character and role of embodiment and embodied interaction in such communications; * the salience of the visual and 'visual availability'; * the relation between individual instances of Skype-type communications and the larger activity assemblies of which they are a part - whether it be a routine 'catch-up' call within friendship or a special occasion like a dinner or a birthday celebration for a distributed family. These are of course not exclusive and other topics are welcome. There will be a preference for wholly original work, though research previously presented of an extremely high quality may be considered. The conference will be framed by keynote addresses by leaders in the field of interaction analysis, CA and ethnomethodology. Announcement of these will be made shortly. Important dates: * Deadline for extended abstracts: Friday March 14th * Announcement of acceptance: April 18th * Last date for registration: to be decided A selection of papers from the conference will be prepared for a Special Issue of Pragmatics, the Journal of the International Pragmatics Association. Selection will be made by the conference chairs and reviewing panel. Some support for researchers seeking to attend the event is available. Attendance at the conference is free and will include attendance at a gala dinner in a Cambridge College. For informal enquiries about the topics and format of the event, please contact Richard Harper (r.harper at microsoft.com). To attend (as speaker or auditor), email scgff at microsoft.com From jhuns at vt.edu Wed Feb 12 07:47:12 2014 From: jhuns at vt.edu (Jeremy Hunsinger) Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2014 10:47:12 -0500 Subject: [Air-L] Fwd: [governance] Communication of the European Commisson: "Internet Policy and Governance - Europe's role in shaping the future of Internet Governance" In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: [ Apologies for cross-posting. Please share as you deem appropriate ] Dear all, I would like to let you know that today (12 February 2013) the European Commission has adopted its formal policy position on Internet governance, via a Communication to the European Parliament, the Council, the European Economic and Social Committee and the Committee of the Regions: "Internet Policy and Governance - Europe's role in shaping the future of Internet governance" (COM(2014) 72/4). The press release of the adoption is available at http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_IP-14-142_en.htm . The text of the Communication is available at http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/newsroom/cf/dae/document.cfm?doc_id=4453. The statement by Neelie Kroes, Vice-President of the European Commission and Commissioner for the Digital Agenda, is available at http://ec.europa.eu/avservices/video/player.cfm?ref=I086325 . I hope you find this information useful and the content of the Communication interesting. Best, Andrea -- I speak only for myself. Sometimes I do not even agree with myself. Keep it in mind. Twitter: @andreaglorioso Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/andrea.glorioso LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=1749288&trk=tab_pro From joly at punkcast.com Wed Feb 12 12:09:49 2014 From: joly at punkcast.com (Joly MacFie) Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2014 15:09:49 -0500 Subject: [Air-L] ISOC Internet data and research portal update Message-ID: ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Michael Kende Date: Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 10:19 AM Subject: [Chapter-delegates] Internet data and research v2 I am please to announce version two of the portal (with the same URL as below). There are two main changes to the portal, and we have also updated it with recent reports. The first change is the Amazon-style system allowing everyone to rate a data source or report (out of five stars) and provide written comments as well. The second is to make it much easier to search, either by category and sub-category or by keyword. There is also a link to send in comments including new data and reports that we overlooked. Our hope is that this provides a broad view of the state of the art in what is known about the Internet and its impact, and that it will also help us to identify gaps in our knowledge, which we will work to fill. As such, I hope that you use the portal and interact with it, and please send it on to broaden the user base. Best regards, Michael From: Michael Kende Date: Tuesday, November 26, 2013 4:17 PM As part of my new role at ISOC, we are launching a new portal on the ISOC website that aggregates existing data sources and reports (ours and third-party), The purpose of it is threefold: first, as a public resource to learn about the impact of new infrastructure on the Internet, and the broader economic impact of the Internet; second, in order to help identify gaps in data, and determine how best to fill those gaps; and third, to promote new analysis and insights by everyone in the Internet community, including ourselves, to further stimulate a better understanding of the Internet and its Economy. The portal is at. https://www.internetsociety.org/internet-data-and-research One outstanding issue is whether, and if so how, to exclude bad research and data from the list. On the one hand is a strong desire to be open and inclusive of all available data and reports, while on the other hand there is a thought that we should review and exclude suspect or biased work. We do not have the resources to perform such extensive review on each linked item (as of today there are over 200 in the database), and I believe that it would be difficult to determine the criteria for excluding work in any case. However, in order to be of most use as a public resource, it would be useful to provide information that could help all of us make decisions about what data and reports to use. As a result, we are considering including a review section, such as used in Amazon, to rate and provide comments from all, including hopefully the authors. For starters, there are two feedback sections, one to send me comments on specific reports, and the other to provide suggestions for work that has not yet been included. Thoughts on how to move this forward would be most appreciated. Best regards, Michael Kende Chief Economist Internet Society Galerie Jean-Malbuisson 15 CH-1204 Geneva Switzerland Tel: +41 22 809 0367 E-mail: kende at isoc.org Website: www.internetsociety.org 'The Internet is for Everyone!' -- --------------------------------------------------------------- Joly MacFie 218 565 9365 Skype:punkcast WWWhatsup NYC - http://wwwhatsup.com http://pinstand.com - http://punkcast.com VP (Admin) - ISOC-NY - http://isoc-ny.org -------------------------------------------------------------- - From f.attwood at mdx.ac.uk Thu Feb 13 01:29:17 2014 From: f.attwood at mdx.ac.uk (Feona Attwood) Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2014 09:29:17 +0000 Subject: [Air-L] media and cultural studies research studentships; gender, sex and sexualities Message-ID: <4EFEF18F-7E43-4730-BCC6-A5088857373E@mdx.ac.uk> Please circulate widely. Middlesex Media Research Studentships, 2014. Research in Media focuses on Cultural Theory and Communication Studies, with particular interest in Gender, Sex and Sexualities. We welcome innovative and interdisciplinary proposals from excellent candidates that reflect the research interests of Middlesex Media and Performing Arts staff. Applicants are advised to consult the School web pages and school staff profiles: http://www.mdx.ac.uk/aboutus/staffdirectory/index.aspx Any queries should in the first instance be directed to Prof Vida L Midgelow, Director of Research Degrees (School of Media and Performance): v.midgelow at mdx.ac.uk Full details and application forms: http://www.mdx.ac.uk/research/applications/fees/bursaries/index.aspx The deadline for receipt of applications is 11.59pm on 14th March 2014 and interviews will be held in April/May 2014. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Please note that Middlesex University's preferred way of receiving all correspondence is via email in line with our Environmental Policy. All incoming post to Middlesex University is opened and scanned by our digital document handler, CDS, and then emailed to the recipient. If you do not want your correspondence to Middlesex University processed in this way please email the recipient directly. Parcels, couriered items and recorded delivery items will not be opened or scanned by CDS. There are items which are "exceptions" which will be opened by CDS but will not be scanned a full list of these can be obtained by contacting the University. From nasreen.rajani at gmail.com Thu Feb 13 08:29:16 2014 From: nasreen.rajani at gmail.com (Nasreen Rajani) Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2014 11:29:16 -0500 Subject: [Air-L] Women and Technology Conference Message-ID: <96CE1DAD-BF90-40B1-AAF4-B9CB7D8AA391@gmail.com> *SUBMISSION DEADLINE EXTENDED* to February 24, 2014. Dear Colleagues, Please note that the deadline for abstract submissions for the Women and Technology Conference held at Carleton University, Ottawa, ON on April 16th has been extended. See below for more information. Carleton University will be hosting the inaugural Women and Technology Conference for emerging scholars on April 16, 2014. Please see the below call for abstracts for submission guidelines and details. Visit our website for more information: http://womenandtechcu.wordpress.com/ Please distribute widely. WTCCU Organizing Committee, Nasreen Rajani, Alexandra Born, Matt Murdoch ??????? The Women and Technology Conference is a meeting of Ontario scholars working in applied and technical fields, the natural sciences, humanities, and social sciences. This year?s meeting will take place in Ottawa, on Wednesday, April 16, 2014, with all events being hosted at Carleton University. The goal of the Women and Technology Conference is to highlight scholarship on women and technology by focusing on two broad topics: 1. Women as producers and users of technology in applied and technical fields. a. Examples of disciplines represented within this topic include: engineering; architecture; industrial design; neuroscience; and the biological, chemical, physical, and computing sciences. 2. The relationship(s) between women and technology. This includes the role of women as both subjects and objects in knowledge/media production, as well as the impact of women on the relative success of emerging and established technologies. a. Examples of disciplines represented within this topic include: film and media studies; business; sociology; history; public policy; and women?s and gender studies. One of the major goals of this conference is to help advance the work of Ontario scholars by creating an interdisciplinary space for dialogue on women and technology. To help ensure that these goals are achieved, you are encouraged to tailor your abstract and presentation to a well-educated audience without expertise in your field. Submissions reporting on original scholarship and research are preferred. Presentations not meeting this requirement will be considered on a case-by-case basis, with preference given to those who have first-hand experience working at the nexus of women and technology. To apply: please submit a 150-word abstract with 3 keywords/phrases for a 10-15 minute oral paper presentation to:womenandtechcu at carleton.ca. Deadline: February 24, 2014 at 4:00pm EST In your submission, please indicate if you require assistance with childcare. The conference organizers will provide subsidies for child care and associated costs (e.g., parking and transportation). From maxigas at anargeek.net Thu Feb 13 09:01:43 2014 From: maxigas at anargeek.net (maxigas) Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2014 18:01:43 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Air-L] CFP 4S/ESOCITE - Open Panel 63. Peer production and open collaboration Message-ID: <20140213.180143.1958132948645296344.maxigas@anargeek.net> Dear researchers, We invite you to submit an abstract to our session on the relevance of peer production, open collaboration and hacking to Science and Technology Studies. The panel is organised for the 4S/ESOCITE conference in Buenos Aires, 20-23 August 2014. You are welcome to get in touch with us to discuss abstracts informally. Deadline: March 3 2014 Conference website: http://www.4sonline.org/meeting ---- 63. Peer production and open collaboration: Revisiting closure, stabilisation and black boxing through unfinished artefacts maxigas and Eduard Aibar This panel seeks to bring together scholars studying peer production processes through STS lenses and concepts. Peer production is a form of network-based voluntary cooperation aimed at contributing to a commons, epitomised by the Linux kernel and Wikipedia and more recently applied to hardware. Case studies of peer production projects can inspire new theoretical developments within STS and simultaneously engender insights on emerging socio-technical ensembles. Peer producers work a lot to fend off stabilisation, building functional parts (like loose couplings and Application Programming Interfaces) into technologies and organisations which serve to prevent closure. While these mechanisms for openness do stabilise, the resulting technologies are not exactly black boxes whose functional composition is rendered inaccessible to gaze, discourse and engineering. They can be understood as ?unfinished artefacts?. Moreover, shared machine workshops manifest a model which goes against the received wisdom of trade-offs between ?professional? expertise and radically open ?amateur? contributions. Such open organisational architectures blend in three functions traditionally separate in modern institutions: education, research and production. In this context citizen participation in technological issues is mainly achieved by practical interventions into research and development. We call for contributors who explore peer production specific projects from a wide range of STS perspectives. One is how stabilisation, closure and black boxing are themselves socially constructed, deconstructed and reconfigured in this arena. Another is the broader structural implications of peer production, since it is usually read as an emerging mode of production with disruptive consequences. Finally, since peer production is increasingly used in a wide range of settings (software development, knowledge production, infrastructure building or farming), the way it is re-enacted and appropriated by new actors can also be of interest to scholars with various theoretical backgrounds. Languages: English and Spanish http://www.4sonline.org/open_sessions -- maxigas, kiberpunk FA00 8129 13E9 2617 C614 0901 7879 63BC 287E D166 http://research.metatron.ai/ "Forget the damned motor car and build the cities for lovers!" From robert50 at illinois.edu Thu Feb 13 17:29:14 2014 From: robert50 at illinois.edu (Sarah Roberts) Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2014 20:29:14 -0500 Subject: [Air-L] [CFP] DIGITAL LABOR: SWEATSHOPS, PICKET LINES, AND BARRICADES, The New School, Nov 14-16, 2014 In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Call for Proposals DIGITAL LABOR: SWEATSHOPS, PICKET LINES, AND BARRICADES To be held at The New School, a university in New York City NOVEMBER 14-16, 2014 #dl14 The third in The New School's Politics of Digital Culture Conference Series Sponsored by The New School and The Institute for Distributed Creativity DIGITAL LABOR: SWEATSHOPS, PICKET LINES, AND BARRICADES brings together designers, labor organizers, theorists, social entrepreneurs, historians, legal scholars, independent researchers, cultural producers -- and perspectives from workers themselves -- to discuss emerging forms of mutual aid and solidarity. Over the past decade, advancements in software development, digitization, an increase in computer processing power, faster and cheaper bandwidth and storage, and the introduction of a wide range of inexpensive, wireless-enabled computing devices and mobile phones, set the global stage for emerging forms of labor that help corporations to drive down labor costs and ward off the falling rate of profits. Companies like CrowdFlower, oDesk, or Amazon.com?s Mechanical Turk serve as much more than payment processors or interface providers; they shape the nature of the tasks that are performed. Work is organized against the worker. Recent books included The Internet as Playground and Factory (Scholz, 2013), Living Labor (Hoegsberg and Fisher) based on the exhibition Arbeitstid that took place in Oslo in 2013 and Cognitive Capitalism, Education, and Digital Labour (Peters, Bulut, et al, eds., Peter Lang, 2011). In 2012, the exhibition The Workers was curated by MASS MOCA in the United States. Christian Fuchs? book Digital Labor and Karl Marx is forthcoming with Routledge. Several events have been organized in the last few years to focus on these developments: Digital Labor: the Internet as Playground and Factory conference (The New School, New York City, 2009 http://digitallabor.org), Digital Labor: Workers, Authors, Citizens (Western University, London, Ontario, Canada, 2009), Invisible Labor Colloquium (Washington University Law School, 2013), Towards Critical Theories of Social Media (Uppsala University, Sweden, 2012), Re:publica (Berlin, 2013), and the Chronicles of Work lecture series at Schlo? Solitude (Stuttgart, Germany, 2012/2013). We would like to continue and elaborate on these discussions by raising the following questions: Broad issues: Who and where are the workers and how do they understand their situation? How and where do they act in political terms? How can we analyze digital labor as a global phenomenon, pertaining to issues like underdevelopment and supply chains? Which theories and concepts can help us to frame our thinking about the gridlock of digital work? How do waste, repair, and disposal play into the debate about labor? Are there artistic works that respond to contemporary labor? Gender, Race, Class, Ability: How do gender, race, ability, and class play out in the diverse fields of digital labor? How are laboring capacities, also in the digital realm, sustained and maintained by maternal labor, or the labor of care workers, domestic workers? Alternatively, how do we conceptualize digital work that is underwaged and often coded as feminized? What are the postcolonial tensions arising between digital workers in different locales? Organizing: How relevant are unions to the millions of crowdsourced workers? How can we resist the all-too-common ?the labor movement is dead? narrative? Which concrete projects might offer us a critical foundation upon which to build broader strategies for ?digital solidarity?? What can be learned from the history of organized labor when it comes to crowdsourcing and lawsuits like Otey vs. CrowdFlower? What are possibilities and tensions that arise with projects aiming for solidarity among people in global labor systems? Policy: What are the reasons for withholding legislation that would allow for an enforcement of the Fair Labor Standards Act in the crowdsourcing industry? Are there new forms of contracts or widened definitions of employment that would better address today?s work realities? What policy proposals might be developed and put on the table now? FORMATS: In addition to traditional conference structures, Digital Labor: Sweatshops, Picket Lines, and Barricades also aims to experiment with creative presentation formats and novel venues. We welcome applications for the following formats: - experimental lectures (e.g., ?theory tapas,? pecha kuchas, collaborative presentations, or formats not using spoken language) - lectures or panels - keynote dialogues - design fiction workshops for those interested in design storytelling and envisioning alternative futures (3 hours) - performance lectures in the places where some of this work is taking place: the living rooms of participants (20 minutes each) SUBMIT a 300-word abstract or a link to short video, and a one-page CV to: digitallabor2014 at gmail.com by March 21, 2014. Please state clearly which format you are applying for and do emphasize how your proposal speaks to the questions above. Confirmation of participation: March 31, 2014. If you have any logistical questions, please contact Alexis Rider digitallabor2014 at gmail.com We are planning an open access digital work notebook that documents and expands the discussion leading up to, during, and after this event. Contributions will emerge from the iDC mailing list. https://mailman.thing.net/mailman/listinfo/idc Conference editor: Trebor Scholz with (Advisory Board): Lilly Irani, Frank Pasquale, Sarah T. Roberts, Karen Gregory, Ken Wark, and Winifred Poster. Producer: Alexis Rider. Join the discussion: https://mailman.thing.net/mailman/listinfo/idc @idctweets @trebors --- S a r a h T. R o b e r t s Faculty of Information and Media Studies (FIMS) Western University http://fims.uwo.ca/index.htm Blogging periodically at http://illusionofvolition.com From anne at digitalmethods.net Fri Feb 14 02:34:19 2014 From: anne at digitalmethods.net (Anne Helmond) Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2014 11:34:19 +0100 Subject: [Air-L] Call for Participation: Digital Methods Summer School 2014 Message-ID: Call for Participation: Digital Methods Summer School 2014 23 June - 4 July 2014 Digital Methods Initiative New Media & Digital Culture University of Amsterdam Turfdraagsterpad 9 1012 XT Amsterdam the Netherlands On Geolocation: Remote Event Analysis (Mapping Conflicts, Disasters, Elections and other Events with Online and Social Media Data) This year's Digital Methods Summer School is devoted to the remote analysis of events. When Twitter changed its byline in 2009 from "What are you doing?" to "What's happening?" it acknowledged a transition in its use and value from an ego-tweeting and ambient friend-following medium to a news and event-following one. Indeed there is a growing literature (in the Summer School's reader) on the relationship between social media and events, often focusing on conflicts, disasters as well as political elections. But what do events look like online, and how does one follow them analytically? What is the value of the event's second screening, as it is sometimes termed? Also, is the event's comment culture worth keeping as records of what has transpired? How to capture as well as re-render, or playback, the event? Claude Levi-Strauss famously wrote, "I hate travelling and explorers," and indeed the great anthropologist spent scant time in the field, preferring remote analysis, a research practice that relied less on sensing instruments than on objects and description. Social media contributes sensing measures in the form of activity metrics and other data. They also raise the question as to what the Internet and social media add to events as well as subtract from them (so to speak). Evgeni Morozov relates the story that after the network was brought down in Iran during the Election crisis of 2009, there were perhaps 6 Twitter users on the ground in Teheran (http://www.evgenymorozov.com/morozov_twitter_dissent.pdf). Indeed the picture provided by Twitter may be demographically skewed. As the Pew Research Center found in 2013, reactions to events on Twitter differ dramatically from public opinion about them ( http://www.pewresearch.org/2013/03/04/twitter-reaction-to-events-often-at-odds-with-overall-public-opinion/ ). We are also interested in the events as they unfold in and through mobile devices, and the data supplied with them. 'On geolocation', as opposed to 'on location', refers to the location data sent along with the posts and other content such as the camera data embedded in digital images. At the Summer School we analyse event data as supplied by social media and devices (broadly conceived), and also seek baselines against which to assess and compare its contributions. Example of remote event analysis using Twitter data, Digital Methods Summer School project 2013 (https://wiki.digitalmethods.net/Dmi/NetworkedIssuePublics). About "Digital Methods" as Concept Digital methods is a term coined as a counter-point to virtual methods, which typically digitize existing methods and port them onto the Web. Digital methods, contrariwise, seek to learn from the methods built into the dominant devices online, and repurpose them for social and cultural research. That is, the challenge is to study both the info-web as well as the social web with the tools that organize them. There is a general protocol to digital methods. At the outset stock is taken of the natively digital objects that are available (links, tags, threads, etc.) and how devices such as search engines make use of them. Can the device techniques be repurposed, for example by remixing the digital objects they take as inputs? Once findings are made with online data, where to ground them? Is the baseline still the offline, or are findings to be grounded in more online data? There is also a Digital Methods book (http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/digital-methods). About the Summer School The Digital Methods Summer School, founded in 2007 together with the Digital Methods Initiative, is directed by Professor Richard Rogers, Chair in NewSummer School is one training opportunity provided by the Digital Methods Initiative (DMI). DMI also has a Winter School, which includes a mini-conference, where papers are presented and responded to. Winter School papers are often the result of Summer School projects. The Summer School is coordinated by two Ph.D candidates in New Media at the University of Amsterdam, or affiliates. This year the coordinators are Catherine Somz? and Sabine Niederer, both affiliated with the Digital Methods Initiative, University of Amsterdam. The Summer School has a technical staff as well as a design staff. The Summer School also relies on a technical infrastructure of some nine servers hosting tools and storing data. Participants bring their laptops, learn method, undertake research projects, make reports, tools and graphics and write them up on the Digital Methods wiki. The Summer School concludes with final presentations. Often there are guests from non-governmental or other organizations who present their issues. For instance, Women on Waves came along during the 2010, Fair Phone to the 2012 Summer School and Greenpeace and their Gezi Park project in 2013. Digital Methods people are currently interning at major NGOs and international organizations (the UN). The Digital Methods Initiative was founded with a grant from the Mondriaan Foundation, and the Summer School has been supported by the Center for Creation, Content and Technology (CCCT), University of Amsterdam, organized by the Faculty of Science with sponsorship from Platform Beta. Previous Digital Methods Summer Schools, 2007-2013 (https://wiki.digitalmethods.net/Dmi/DmiSummerSchool). Applications and fees To apply for the Digital Methods Summer School 2014, please send a one-page letter explaining how digital methods training would benefit your current work, and also enclose a CV. Mark your application "DMI Training Certificate Program," and send to info [at] digitalmethods.net. The deadline for applications for the Summer School is 23 April. Notices will be sent on 25 April. Please address your application email to the Summer School coordinators, Catherine Somz? and Sabine Niederer, info [at] digitalmethods.net. Informal queries may be sent to Catherine [at] digitalmethods.net. The Summer School costs EUR 345 per person. Accepted applicants will be informed of the bank transfer details upon notice of acceptance to the Summer School. The fee must be paid by 24 May 2013. Scholarships The Digital Methods Summer School is part of the University of Amsterdam Summer School program me (http://www.uva.nl/en/education/other-programmes/summer-winter). This means that students attending the partnering universities in the LERU (http://www.leru.org/index.php/public/home/) and U21 networks (http://www.universitas21.com/) are eligible for a scholarship to help cover the cost for tuition and housing for the DMI Summer School. Please consult their sites to see whether you are eligible for a scholarship and for the application procedure. Housing and Accommodations The Summer School is self-catered, and there are abundant cafes and a university mensa nearby. The Digital Methods Summer School is located in the heart of Amsterdam. There are limited accommodations available to participants at The Student Hotel at reasonable rates (http://www.thestudenthotel.com/). In your application please indicate whether you are interested in making use of this service. Reservations will be made by us on the basis of your request included in your application. In your acceptance notification, you will be given further information about booking and payment. Please contact the local organizers if you need information about prices. For those who prefer non-University accommodations, we suggest airbnb or similar. For shorter stay, there is Hotel Le Coin (http://www.lecoin.nl/), where we have a university discount. Summer School Training Certificate The Digital Methods Summer School issues completion certificates to particisignificant contribution to a Summer School project. For previous Summer School projects, see for example (https://wiki.digitalmethods.net/Dmi/WikipediaAsASpaceOfControversy). Schedule The Summer School meets every day. Please bring your laptop. We will provide abundant connectivity. We start generally at 9:30 in the morning, and end around 5:30. There are morning talks two-three days per week. On the last Friday we have a boat trip on the canals of Amsterdam. Social Media & User-Generated Content Twitter hashtag #dmi14 We shall have a list of summer school participants and make an old-fashioned Facebook. We look forward to welcoming you to Amsterdam in the Summertime! From joaomattar at gmail.com Fri Feb 14 03:12:54 2014 From: joaomattar at gmail.com (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Jo=E3o_Mattar?=) Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2014 09:12:54 -0200 Subject: [Air-L] AJDE Special Issue: Interactions in Distance Education Message-ID: Hello! I will submit a proposal for a special issue on *Interactions in Distance Education* for the American Journal of Distance Education (AJDE). The articles should be based on empirical research. If you would like to submit an article for the proposal, please e-mail me a one paragraph abstract. I will get back as soon as I have a feedback on the proposal Thanks -- [ ]s Jo?o Mattar Professor TIDDPUC-SP (Brasil) From kevieira at wisc.edu Fri Feb 14 04:45:33 2014 From: kevieira at wisc.edu (Catherine Vieira) Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2014 06:45:33 -0600 Subject: [Air-L] CFP: The Transnational Movement of People and Information In-Reply-To: <778084fe596f4.52fe0fde@wiscmail.wisc.edu> References: <778084fe596f4.52fe0fde@wiscmail.wisc.edu> Message-ID: <766080785a765.52fdbb8d@wiscmail.wisc.edu> Call For Papers: Special Issue of Literacy in Composition Studies Title: The Transnational Movement of People and Information Guest Editors: Rebecca Lorimer Leonard, Kate Vieira, Morris Young To be considered, please submit a 250-word abstract that discusses the proposed article to the editors at kevieira at wisc.edu. The deadline for proposal submissions is March 14, 2014. The movement of people and information across national borders is rapid and widespread. By some estimates, over 180 million people worldwide are currently living outside the country of their birth, keeping in contact with homelands, forging new migratory networks, and navigating new circumstances through writing. Literacy in composition studies has begun to respond to this context through increased attention to the global, the international, and the transnational. This special issue seeks to forward this emerging area of interest. Often defined as a set of skills and resources, literacy has figured prominently in debates about immigrants? national integration. Some have called for migrants? swift assimilation through literacy, others have pointed to the value of migrants? diverse literacy legacies, and still others have examined how their literacies change in new national contexts. But if we think of literacy more materially, as skills and resources made possible by the technology of writing, it becomes clear that literacy plays a role in more than migrants? incorporation within nations. It also shapes their movement among them. Writing can facilitate transnational communication and network migration via the postal system and Internet. And writing is a key tool in migration policy, as nation states use immigration documents, such as visas and passports, to allow some migrants in and to keep others out. Writing, in other words, is deeply imbricated both in transnational lived experiences and in the infrastructures that govern transnational mobility. The central question this special issue asks is how. We welcome articles that address these issues empirically, theoretically, and/or rhetorically. Among the questions to be considered are the following: How do migrants? literacy practices change and persist across time and national borders? How does the transnational inhere in local literacies? How do other semiotic practices interact with writing in transnational contexts? How is literacy taught and learned transnationally? How does writing itself move? What are the implications of changing communication technologies, such as the post and the Internet, for transnational lives and literacies? How does writing motivate, influence, or restrict the travels of people? How have structural forces (such as governments, institutions, race, etc.) facilitated and/or discouraged literacy and immigration? Which methodologies might glean productive inquiries into transnational literacies? Literacy in Composition Studies is a peer-reviewed venue for a broad range of scholarship in literacy and writing studies. http://licsjournal.org. -- Kate Vieira Assistant Professor English Department, Program in Composition and Rhetoric University of Wisconsin, Madison kevieira at wisc.edu From monaco.federico at gmail.com Fri Feb 14 05:23:13 2014 From: monaco.federico at gmail.com (FEDERICO MONACO) Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2014 14:23:13 +0100 Subject: [Air-L] Happy Valentine's Day Message-ID: Dear Aoir members, you are all invited to our wedding, performance and remix on the web: http://www.cvpido.com thank you for participating to our web event. Federico, Federica and Demetra -- http://www.federicomonaco.com From tzafnat.shpak at jvwresearch.org Fri Feb 14 06:16:23 2014 From: tzafnat.shpak at jvwresearch.org (Tzafnat Shpak) Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2014 16:16:23 +0200 Subject: [Air-L] Call for book chapters: Handbook on 3D3C Virtual Worlds Message-ID: [image: Journal of Virtual Worlds Research] Call for Book Chapters: Handbook on 3D3C Virtual Worlds Applications, Technologies and Policies for Three Dimensional Systems for Community, Creation and Commerce *Editor*: Prof. Yesha Sivan, JVWR Managing editor; Metaverse Labs Ltd. *Publisher*: Springer-Verlag, Germany Introduction: The field of virtual worlds / Augmented Reality / 3D / etc. is vast, interconnected and expanding. In that respect, "3D3C Worlds" is defined as a combination of four factors: - 3D stands for the three dimensional representation of worlds as seen in Google Earth, Augmented Reality, 3D printing and the like; - Community as in a collection of people work, play and act together. Consider Facebook and Twitter as one example, and enhance it by the dynamics of World of Warcraft guilds; - Creation is the ability to create new artifacts, as seen for example in Second Life or in Open Source movement; - Commerce is the ability to harness these previous factors to gain monetary real value (consider Bitcoin, exchanges, etc.) Objective of the Book: - Become the official "handbook" on 3D3C Virtual Worlds - Highlight and enhance some earlier work conducted for the Journal - Further advance and augment the field with "topical reviews" A "topical review" means a review of a corpus of knowledge of one aspect of the field. It can be a classic literature review, a more formal statistical meta-analysis or other forms suggested by authors. Topics we already have chapters on: - Collaboration >> Virtual Worlds as Innovative Collaboration Media for Distributed Work - Taxation >> Taxation of Virtual World Economies: An Empirical Review - Medical >> Overview: Virtual Reality in Medicine - Education >> An Exploratory Research Agenda for 3-D Virtual Worlds as Collaborative Learning Ecosystems: Extracting Evidences from Literature - Art >> 1993-2013: A Survey of Two Decades of Artistic Works using Computational Ecosystems - Geography >> An Aspatial Economics? The Economic Geography of Virtual Worlds - Creativity >> Fostering Team Creativity in Virtual Worlds - Money >> Virtual Currencies, Micropayments and Fiat Money: Where Are We Coming From and Where Does the Industry Stand? - Legal >> Privacy, Law, and Virtual Worlds - Multilinguality >> Multilingual issues in virtual worlds: a general review - Money >> Blazing Trails: A New Way Forward for Virtual Currencies and Money Laundering - Collaboration >> Virtual Collaboration Spaces: Bringing Presence to Distributed Collaboration Topics of interest that we are looking for include, but are not limited to: - Case studies - Augmented Reality - 3D Printing - Commerce / business - History - Security - Design - Military - Users - Standards - Social behaviours - Gender - Cases of projects, constellations, and "islands" -- Could be visual depiction (as the book will be in color) - Cases of firms, and business endeavours - Impact on special audiences for virtual worlds - Technical review of research trends in the field (metrics) - Measurements and evolution of usage in virtual worlds. - Defence Related Virtual worlds - Devices for virtual life - Mobility How to submit: The final chapter length should be 15-25 pages in the Springer format. Initially please email your 2-3 page chapter proposals including: - Chapter title - Author names, current affiliation, and email addresses - Short author/s bio - Chapter intent / purpose / abstract - Chapter structure outline - List some key publication(s) on which your chapter will be based *Editorial Process*: All accepted chapters will undergo a rigorous peer-review process. Email submissions to info at jvwresearch.org <+info at jvwresearch.org>. Dates: Authors are encouraged to send proposals as early as possible to get a quick response. *March 28, 2014*: Book chapter proposal submission deadline. *April 30, 2014*: Notification of chapter proposal acceptance. *July 30, 2014*: Full chapter submission. *September 15, 2014*: Peer-review results returned. *October 15, 2014*: Camera-ready chapter submission. *December 15, 2014*: Planned publication. Looking forward to hearing from you, Thankfully, *Prof. Yesha Y. Sivan* JVWR Managing Editor Metaverse-Labs Ltd. TheJVWR - The Journal of Virtual Worlds Research http://jvwresearch.org (TheJVWR) [image: Like Call for book chapters: Handbook on 3D3C Virtual Worlds on Facebook] @TheJVWR. [image: share on Twitter] (c) 2014 Journal of Virtual Worlds Research All rights reserved. From asnsande at stanford.edu Fri Feb 14 07:34:58 2014 From: asnsande at stanford.edu (Ashley Nicoles Sanders-Jackson) Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2014 07:34:58 -0800 (PST) Subject: [Air-L] sentiment analysis on Twitter for smoking cessation groups Message-ID: Greetings, I am beginning a project for which we have 4 private smoking cessation groups (3 months each) to analyze (we are writing a grant to collect more data as well). I have seen some of the work related to sentiment analysis on Twitter but I am interested in developing a system that is better tailored to our data (e.g. being smokefree has specific meaning in this context). We are therefore considering developing a system by content coding a number of tweets (either having researchers code them or by having smokers code them) for positive and negative valence and perhaps some discrete emotions (e.g. sadness or hope). How many coded tweets would we need to train a simple machine learning system on our dataset (for example one of the many possibilities in R) and what are the best out-of-box programs to use? I know a bit about content analysis and about smoking cessation but not so much about machine learning. So bear in mind that you are dealing with a novice. Actually, if anyone would be interested in collaborating on the project who actually does know what they are doing, they would be welcome as well. Ashley From stu at texifter.com Fri Feb 14 07:42:36 2014 From: stu at texifter.com (Shulman, Stu) Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2014 10:42:36 -0500 Subject: [Air-L] sentiment analysis on Twitter for smoking cessation groups In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Ashley, You might want to chat with the Health Media Collaboratory http://www.healthmediacollaboratory.org/ They have done interesting work with our tools: https://vimeo.com/55175059 We interviewed researchers at the University of Illinois Chicago in the Health Media Collaboratory about their use of DiscoverText and the Gnip-enabled Power Track for Twitter to study smoking behavior. The team, led by Dr. Sherry Emery, explains why it is important to train and use custom machine classifiers to sort the millions of tweets they are collecting from the full Twitter fire hose. The UIC team strongly argues for the combination of good tools and highly reliable data. On Fri, Feb 14, 2014 at 10:34 AM, Ashley Nicoles Sanders-Jackson wrote: > Greetings, > > I am beginning a project for which we have 4 private smoking cessation > groups (3 months each) to analyze (we are writing a grant to collect more > data as well). I have seen some of the work related to sentiment analysis > on Twitter but I am interested in developing a system that is better > tailored to our data (e.g. being smokefree has specific meaning in this > context). We are therefore considering developing a system by content > coding a number of tweets (either having researchers code them or by > having smokers code them) for positive and negative valence and perhaps > some discrete emotions (e.g. sadness or hope). How many coded tweets > would we need to train a simple machine learning system on our dataset > (for example one of the many possibilities in R) and what are the best > out-of-box programs to use? I know a bit about content analysis and about > smoking cessation but not so much about machine learning. So bear in mind > that you are dealing with a novice. Actually, if anyone would be > interested in collaborating on the project who actually does know what > they are doing, they would be welcome as well. > > Ashley > _______________________________________________ > The Air-L at listserv.aoir.org mailing list > is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org > Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org > > Join the Association of Internet Researchers: > http://www.aoir.org/ -- Dr. Stuart W. Shulman http://people.umass.edu/stu Founder and CEO, Texifter http://texifter.com LinkedIn http://www.linkedin.com/in/stuartwshulman Twitter https://twitter.com/StuartWShulman From wellman at chass.utoronto.ca Fri Feb 14 12:41:30 2014 From: wellman at chass.utoronto.ca (Barry Wellman) Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2014 15:41:30 -0500 Subject: [Air-L] Valentine's Day surprise: Paperback edition of Networked is out Message-ID: The paperback edition of Networked: The New Social Operating System (Rainie & Wellman) appeared for Valentine's Day. If you order one today, I will sing to you the next time we meet (some may call this a negative inducement.) So I started exploring the pricing http://www.amazon.com/Networked-New-Social-Operating-System/dp/0262526166/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&sr=1-1&qid=1336500288 The Amazon.com pricing is intriguing. Paperback: US$14.19 Hardcover: US$20.04 (up a buck from last week - you'd think they'd want to clear out the Hards) Kindle: US$16.33 Even more intrigue. The Canadian price is even cheaper than the US Hardcover: Cdn $19.75; (aobut US$17.80) Paperback: Cdn $13.68 But Kindle more expensive: $18.02 Given that the Cdn dollar is now about 90cents in US$, it is cheaper for Canadians to order locally, but not for Americans to do so (shipping costs). UK harcover price, as always, is higher: L14.04 (US$23.50) NO paperback yet Kindle is: L12.64 (US$21) -- and of course, e-shipping is the same as in the US and Canada Japanese price is Y2853 for hardback (about US$28),with no pb listed. BTW: There is a hard-hitting article in the current New Yorker about Amazon's dealing with publishers. Barry Wellman _______________________________________________________________________ NetLab FRSC INSNA Founder Faculty of Information (iSchool) 611 Bissell Building 140 St. George St. University of Toronto Toronto Canada M5S 3G6 http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman twitter: @barrywellman NSA/CSEC: Canadian and American citizen NETWORKED:The New Social Operating System. Lee Rainie & Barry Wellman MIT Press http://amzn.to/zXZg39 Print $20 Kindle $16 Old/NewCyberTimes http://bit.ly/c8N9V8 ________________________________________________________________________ From wellman at chass.utoronto.ca Sat Feb 15 06:29:05 2014 From: wellman at chass.utoronto.ca (Barry Wellman) Date: Sat, 15 Feb 2014 09:29:05 -0500 Subject: [Air-L] "Networked" & query In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Thanks for your interest. We're in the midst of projects. If you go to Navel Studies on my website, you'll see some of our first papers on Networked Research. The Networked Individuals project doesnt have any papers out yet. However, the preceding "Connected Lives" project does on my website. And Dr. Bernie Hogan at Oxford Internet Institute was central in that. Barry Wellman _______________________________________________________________________ NetLab FRSC INSNA Founder Faculty of Information (iSchool) 611 Bissell Building 140 St. George St. University of Toronto Toronto Canada M5S 3G6 http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman twitter: @barrywellman NSA/CSEC: Canadian and American citizen NETWORKED:The New Social Operating System. Lee Rainie & Barry Wellman MIT Press http://amzn.to/zXZg39 Print $14 Kindle $16 Old/NewCyberTimes http://bit.ly/c8N9V8 ________________________________________________________________________ On Fri, 14 Feb 2014, Marilou Polymeropoulou wrote: > Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2014 22:24:39 +0000 > From: Marilou Polymeropoulou > To: "wellman at chass.utoronto.ca" > Subject: "Networked" & query > > Dear Prof. Wellman, > > Your AoIR list e-mail regarding your new publication arrived just in time when I was writing a piece on networked digital music. I've just bought the Kindle version (as a Valentine's present to myself) and I'm looking forward to reading it. > > My research at Oxford is about the chipscene, a transnational collective of musicians who compose chipmusic, a kind of digital music whose characteristic is 8-bit sounds. I've conducted physical, multi-sited and digital ethnographic fieldwork among chipmusicians, and I'm currently finishing my doctoral thesis with an emphasis on creativity. > > The research conducted at NetLab interests me very much. I cannot find any analytical information on current projects, only the titles, so I would really appreciate it if you could share any further information with me. > > Thank you very much in advance. > > With best wishes, > Marilou Polymeropoulou > > DPhil in Music > University of Oxford > St. Peter's College > http://mariloup.wordpress.com > > > > > > > From rena.bivens at gmail.com Sat Feb 15 06:35:02 2014 From: rena.bivens at gmail.com (Rena Bivens) Date: Sat, 15 Feb 2014 09:35:02 -0500 Subject: [Air-L] Facebook changes their gender options In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Hi everyone, Perhaps you have already heard about Facebook's recent changes to their gender options. If not check out the link here: http://bigstory.ap.org/article/apnewsbreak-new-gender-options-facebook-users In some ways this is a big step forward but there is more to it than that. I've been working on this issue for a few years and was in the process of finishing a journal article on the topic from a critical theory perspective that is due March 1st (for a special issue) but am now revising over the next couple of weeks as a result of this news. Here is my initial response (directed more towards journalists but nonetheless) - I'd love to hear your feedback! http://renabivens.com/201402/my-reaction-facebook-launches-new-gender-options/ Here it is again via Twitter: https://twitter.com/renabivens/statuses/43439344394764697 7 Best, Rena Bivens Rena Bivens, Ph.D. (Sociology) Banting Fellow School of Journalism and Communication Studies Carleton University 1125 Colonel By Drive, Ottawa, Ontario Canada K1S 5B6 Tel: 613 520-2600 ext. 2041 renabivens.com From jeremyrmatthew at gmail.com Sun Feb 16 07:46:00 2014 From: jeremyrmatthew at gmail.com (Jeremy) Date: Sun, 16 Feb 2014 15:46:00 +0000 Subject: [Air-L] CFP: Creating Cultures, postgraduate conference in Culture, Media, and the Creative Industries, King's College London Message-ID: (apologies for cross-posting and please forward this to whomever you think may be interested) Call for Papers: Creating Cultures, a postgraduate conference in Culture, Media, and the Creative Industries, King's College London http://thecmcisocialfactory.wordpress.com/creating-cultures-postgrad-conference/ Keynote speaker: Prof. Lev Manovich, CUNY Held on the 12th and 13th of June 2014, this multi-disciplinary postgraduate conference seeks a broad array of perspectives that explore cultural representations, practices, and industries. The title 'Creating Cultures' prompts inquiries into concepts of culture being created, cultures of creativity, cultures evolving and changing, and also cultures of creative work and play. Culture evokes ideas about its conflicting and disputed foundations, and culture as a medium through which social, political, spatial, and historical meanings are communicated and understood. The theme of this conference invites explorations of power relations, gender, subjectivity, the spatial, technology and contemporary media. Abstract submissions for presentations and pre-formed panels are invited on themes in cultural and/or media studies, such as: Power and cultural politics Identity and representation Media and mediation Digital cultures, new media, and media futures Cultures and change Popular culture Contested and counter cultures Art and artistic practice Cultural labour and industries Territorial and spatial cultures Globalisation and transnational cultures Cultural and media research methodologies Please submit 300 word abstracts, or proposals for creative presentation formats, and a maximum 100-word biography to cmci-conference at kcl.ac.uk by the 28th of March. Decisions on submissions will be sent by the 17th of April. For any queries contact: Jeremy Matthew (jeremy.matthew at kcl.ac.uk) or Photini Vrikki (photini.vrikki at kcl.ac.uk), and please check our website at http://thecmcisocialfactory.wordpress.com/creating-cultures-postgrad-conference/ From jkraemer at uci.edu Sun Feb 16 12:25:52 2014 From: jkraemer at uci.edu (Jordan Kraemer) Date: Sun, 16 Feb 2014 12:25:52 -0800 Subject: [Air-L] to add participants to your SNSs or not? In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Dear Roser, I wanted to reply to your message from a couple of weeks ago about whether to add research participants to one's existing social network profiles or not. This issue definitely came up in my ethnographic research on Facebook among users in Berlin, and I recently published an article you might find helpful ("Friend or Freund: Social Media and Transnational Connections in Berlin, http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/07370024.2013.823821), though I'm not sure how much I discuss the issue directly. I am addressing it further in a book chapter I'm working on, and could share with you a recent conference paper based on the same material. I found it made more sense to use my existing Facebook and Twitter profiles, and to create a separate group for research participants, as you mention, though in some cases, I had to create new profiles because my participants were on sites I hadn't used before. But I know other researchers have found the opposite worked better, and created separate profiles. I think it depends a lot on the specifics of the project and your relationship to your research participants. For example, how will it look if the researcher isn't already embedded in existing networks of connections? How easily or quickly will it be to join the participants' networks? Some people might find it odd or suspicious to add someone who has no or few contacts, but on the other hand, it helps clearly demarcate the researcher as a researcher. Another consideration if you do create separate profiles is how will you manage your personal accounts -- will you just stay logged in to your research accounts, or will you switch back and forth? best, Jordan ---------------------------- Jordan Kraemer Social Science Research Network Junior Fellow Anthropology, UC Irvine www.jordankraemer.com On Feb 3, 2014, at 7:43 AM, Roser Beneito Montagut wrote: > Hello everybody, > > We have just started an ethnography (online and offline) to study the > extent to which the social web can mitigate isolation and loneliness > feelings among the elderly by promoting their interpersonal relationships > online. > > I appreciate if you can point me to articles discussing whether the > researcher has added the participants to his/her social network site (e.g. > Facebook) or has created an specific profile for the research. We have > decided to add the participants to our SNSs, creating a group for them, but > I would like to know what other researchers have done and the challenges of > this methodological decision they have faced. > > Apologies beforehand if this topic has already been discussed in the list. > > Thanks, > > Roser > > Roser Beneito-Montagut > Senior Lecturer > School of Computing, Multimedia and Telecommunication > Open University of Catalonia > Barcelona > _______________________________________________ > The Air-L at listserv.aoir.org mailing list > is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org > Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org > > Join the Association of Internet Researchers: > http://www.aoir.org/ > From mcarassai at ufl.edu Sun Feb 16 16:07:17 2014 From: mcarassai at ufl.edu (Carassai,Mauro) Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2014 00:07:17 +0000 Subject: [Air-L] CFP RIAS Special Issue - American-Digital Studies Message-ID: (apologies for cross-posting and please forward this to whomever you think may be interested) Please review the attached Call for Papers for a special issue for RIAS (Review of International American Studies) focused on the relationship between American and digital studies. More specifically, the special issue explores the cultural logic of the digital from a fluid, heterogeneous, and comparative perspective. You can find detailed information about the project either in the attachment or at: https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/node/55044 Please send your abstract and one-paragraph bio to rias.special.issue at gmail.com Contact e-mails: mcarassai at ufl.edu leonardo.flores at upr.edu Editors: Mauro Carassai and Leonardo Flores Carassai, Mauro English Department University of Florida From charles.ess at gmail.com Sun Feb 16 21:03:36 2014 From: charles.ess at gmail.com (Charles Ess) Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2014 06:03:36 +0100 Subject: [Air-L] CaTaC'14 - deadline extension, registration fees Message-ID: Dear AoIRists, On behalf of the Program Committee for CaTaC?14, I?m happy to announce A) the deadline for submissions has been extended to March 2, 2014, and B) our schedule of registration fees has been established: Full registration: early bird - closing date, April 4 - 250 USD; after April 4: 275 USD Reviewer: early bird - 225 USD: after April 4: 250 USD Author: early bird - 225 USD: after April 4: 250 USD Author and Reviewer: early bird - 200 USD: after April 4: 225 USD Student: early bird - 175 USD: after April 4: 200 USD Those familiar with the conference will recognize that these registration fees are ca. 50% of the norm for previous years. These reduced fees are made possible through various forms of support from the Department of Informatics and the Department of Media and Communication, University of Oslo. We hope these reduced fees will make participation in CaTaC?14 more feasible and attractive for all interested in participating. For more details on the conference, please see For information on conference themes and tracks, and for submitting paper proposals, please go to Please cross-post and distribute as appropriate. Many thanks, - Charles Ess (Media and Communication, University of Oslo) Maja van der Velden (Informatics, University of Oslo) Herbert Hrachovec (Philosophy, University of Vienna) Michele Strano, Program Chair (Communication Studies, Bridgewater College) Leah Macfadyen (Evaluation and Learning Analytics, University of British Columbia) From christian.fuchs at uti.at Mon Feb 17 06:27:38 2014 From: christian.fuchs at uti.at (Christian Fuchs) Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2014 14:27:38 +0000 Subject: [Air-L] "Media and Communication in and after the Global Capitalist Crisis": ESA RN18 2014 Conference Call Message-ID: <53021C5A.5030103@uti.at> Media and Communication in and after the Global Capitalist Crisis: Renewal, Reform or Revolution? ESA RN18 Mid-Term Conference 2014 University of Bucharest, Romania October 17-18, 2014 Full Call Text and additional information: http://fuchs.uti.at/wp-content/RN18_2014.pdf Call for Participation and Abstracts European Sociological Association, Research Network 18: Sociology of Communications and Media Research http://www.europeansociology.org/research-networks/rn18-sociology-of-communications-and-media-research.html Submission deadline for abstracts: July 1st, 2014. Submission per e-mail to christian.fuchs at uti.at Abstracts should be written in a word processor, have 250-500 words, and contain title, author name(s), email address(es), institutional affiliations, the suggested presentation?s abstract. The world has experienced a global crisis of capitalism that started in 2008 and is continuing until now. It has been accompanied by a crisis of the state and a general crisis of legitimation of dominant ideologies such as neoliberalism. Responses to the crisis have been variegated and have included austerity measures of the state that have hit the weakest, an increased presence of progressive protests, revolutions and strikes that have made use of digital, social and traditional media in various ways, the rise of far-right movements and parties in many parts of Europe and other parts of the world, the Greek state?s closing down of public service broadcaster ERT and increased commercial pressure on public service broadcasting in general, new debates about how to strengthen public service media, increased socio-economic and class inequality in many parts of the world and at a global level, precarious forms of work in general and in the media and cultural industries in particular, the emergence of new media reform movements, an extension and intensification of the crisis of newspapers and the print media, an increasing shift of advertising budgets to targeted ads on the Internet and along with this development the rise of commercial ?social media? platforms, Edward Snowden?s revelations about the existence of a global surveillance-industrial complex that operates a communications surveillance system called ?Prism? that involves the NSA and media companies such as Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Yahoo!, AOL, Skype, Apple and Paltalk; discussions about the power and freedom of the press in light of the Levenson inquiry, shifting geographies of the political and media landscape that have to do with the economic rise of countries such as China and India. Given this context, the main questions that ESA RN18?s 2014 conference asks and to which it invites contributions are: How has the crisis affected the media and communication landscape in Europe and globally and what perspectives for the future of media and communications are there? What suggestions for media reforms are there? How feasible are they? What kind of media policies and reforms do we need today? Which ones should be avoided? Are we in this context likely to experience a renewal of neoliberalism or something different? Plenary sessions: 1) Keynote Talk: Prof. Peter Ludes (Jacobs University Bremen, Germany): Wanted: Critical Visual Theories! 2) Special Session: Public Media and Alternative Journalism in Romania With Dr. Raluca Petre (?Ovidius? University Constanta, Romania): On the Distinction between State and Public Media: Re-Centering Public Options; Dr. Antonio Momoc (University of Bucharest, Romania): Alternative Media as Public Service Journalism; Costi Rogozanu (journalist and media activist, criticatac.ro) ? Is Alternative Media an Alternative? Call for Papers ESA RN18 welcomes submissions of abstracts for contributions. Questions that can for example be addressed include, but are not limited to the following ones: * Media and capitalism: How have capitalism and the media changed in recent years? Are there perspectives beyond capitalism and capitalist media? How can we best use critical/Marxist political economy and other critical approaches for understanding the media and capitalism today? What is the role of media and communication technologies in the financialization, acceleration, and globalization of the capitalist economy? What are the conditions of working in the media, cultural and communication industries in the contemporary times? What is the role of Marx today for understanding crisis, change, capitalism, communication, and critique? * Media reform and media policy in times of crisis: How do the media need to be reformed and changed in order to contribute to the emergence of a good society? Which media reform movements are there and what are their goals? What have been policy ideas of how to overcome the crisis and deal with contemporary changes in relation to European media and communication industries? What can we learn from recent discussions about the media?s power and freedom, such as the Leveson inquiry? What are implications for media reforms? * Media and the public sphere: How should the concept of the public sphere best be conceived today and how does it relate to the media? How has the public sphere changed during the crisis in Europe and globally? What has been the relation between public and commercial broadcasting during and after the crisis? How have public service media changed, which threats and opportunities does it face? How can/should public service be renewed in the light of crisis, the Internet, and commercialisation? Can public service be extended from broadcasting to the online realm, digital and social media? What has been the role of public service media in Europe? How has this role transformed? * Media and activism: How can media scholars best cooperate with activists in order to contribute to a better media system and a better society? What are major trends in media activism today and how do activists use and confront the media and how do commercial, public and alternative media relate to contemporary social movements? What have been important experiences of media activists and media reform organisations in the past couple of years? What are the opportunities, risks, limits and possibilities of media activism today? For answering these questions, we also invite contributions and submissions by media activists, who want to talk about and share their experiences. * Media ownership: Who owns the media and ICTs? What are peculiar characteristics of knowledge and the media as property? What conflicts and contradictions are associated with it and how have they developed in times of crisis? How concentrated are the media and ICTs and how has this concentration changed since the start of the 2008 crisis? How has media and ICT ownership, convergence, de-convergence and concentration developed since the start of the 2008 crisis? What reforms of media and ICT ownership are needed in light of the crisis of capitalism and the crisis of intellectual property rights? * Media and crisis: What have been the main consequences of the crisis for media and communication in various parts of the world and Europe from a comparative perspective? What role have the media played in the construction of the crisis? How have the media conveyed the social and economic crises of recent years to citizens and what are the consequences of this flow of ideas and explanations? What role can they play in overcoming the crisis? What is the relationship of the media and class during and after the crisis? What role have ideologies (such as racism, right-wing extremism, fascism, neoliberalism, anti-Semitism, etc) played in the media during the crisis and what can we learn from it for reforming the media? How have audiences interpreted media contents that focus on austerity, crisis, neoliberalism, protests, revolutions, or media reforms? * The globalisation of the media and society: What are major trends in the globalisation of capitalism, society and the media? Given the globalisation of media and society, what are challenges for media and society today? What can we learn from non-Western media scholars and media cultures outside of Europe? Are concepts such as cultural/media imperialism, transnational cultural domination or the new imperialism feasible today and if so, in which ways? * Digital and social media: What is digital labour and how has class changed in the context of social and digital media? What is the connection of value creation, knowledge labour and digital labour? How do the global dimension and the global division of digital labour look like, especially in respect to China, India, Asia and Africa? How do new forms of exploitation and unremunerated labour (?free labour?, ?crowdsourcing?) look like in the media sector (e.g. in the context of Internet platforms such as Facebook or Google)? What is the relationship of the commons and commodification on digital and social media? How do capital accumulation and targeted advertising work on social media and what are their implications for users and citizens? What are alternatives to capitalist digital and social media? How can alternative social and digital media best look like and be organized? What can in this context be the roles of the digital commons, civil society media and public service media? Which ideologies of the Internet and social media are there? How can we best understand the surveillance-industrial Internet complex operated by the NSA together with Internet corporations such as Google and Facebook and what are the implications of Edward Snowden?s revelations? How do power and political economy work in the context of platforms such as Google, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, WikiLeaks, Wikipedia, Weibo, LinkedIn, Blogspot/Blogger, Wordpress, VK, Pinterest, Tumblr, Instagram, etc? * Media and Critical Social Theory: What can we learn and use from critical sociology and the sociology of critique when studying the media? What do critique and critical theory mean in contemporary times? What are critical sociology and the sociology of critique and what are its roles for studying media and communication?s role in society? Which social theories do we need today for adequately understanding media & society in a critical way? What is the role of political economy and Marx?s theory for understanding media & society today? * Communication and (Post-)Crisis: How has the crisis affected the communication landscape in Europe and globally and what perspectives for the future are there? How do the working conditions in communication industries look like after the crisis? What are the challenges for communication industries in the near future in the context of the crisis and post-crisis? What is the role of post-crisis-communication industries in a globalised economy? From christian.fuchs at uti.at Mon Feb 17 06:28:02 2014 From: christian.fuchs at uti.at (Christian Fuchs) Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2014 14:28:02 +0000 Subject: [Air-L] "Media and Communication in and after the Global Capitalist Crisis": ESA RN18 2014 Conference Call Message-ID: <53021C72.1080303@uti.at> Media and Communication in and after the Global Capitalist Crisis: Renewal, Reform or Revolution? ESA RN18 Mid-Term Conference 2014 University of Bucharest, Romania October 17-18, 2014 Full Call Text and additional information: http://fuchs.uti.at/wp-content/RN18_2014.pdf Call for Participation and Abstracts European Sociological Association, Research Network 18: Sociology of Communications and Media Research http://www.europeansociology.org/research-networks/rn18-sociology-of-communications-and-media-research.html Submission deadline for abstracts: July 1st, 2014. Submission per e-mail to christian.fuchs at uti.at Abstracts should be written in a word processor, have 250-500 words, and contain title, author name(s), email address(es), institutional affiliations, the suggested presentation?s abstract. The world has experienced a global crisis of capitalism that started in 2008 and is continuing until now. It has been accompanied by a crisis of the state and a general crisis of legitimation of dominant ideologies such as neoliberalism. Responses to the crisis have been variegated and have included austerity measures of the state that have hit the weakest, an increased presence of progressive protests, revolutions and strikes that have made use of digital, social and traditional media in various ways, the rise of far-right movements and parties in many parts of Europe and other parts of the world, the Greek state?s closing down of public service broadcaster ERT and increased commercial pressure on public service broadcasting in general, new debates about how to strengthen public service media, increased socio-economic and class inequality in many parts of the world and at a global level, precarious forms of work in general and in the media and cultural industries in particular, the emergence of new media reform movements, an extension and intensification of the crisis of newspapers and the print media, an increasing shift of advertising budgets to targeted ads on the Internet and along with this development the rise of commercial ?social media? platforms, Edward Snowden?s revelations about the existence of a global surveillance-industrial complex that operates a communications surveillance system called ?Prism? that involves the NSA and media companies such as Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Yahoo!, AOL, Skype, Apple and Paltalk; discussions about the power and freedom of the press in light of the Levenson inquiry, shifting geographies of the political and media landscape that have to do with the economic rise of countries such as China and India. Given this context, the main questions that ESA RN18?s 2014 conference asks and to which it invites contributions are: How has the crisis affected the media and communication landscape in Europe and globally and what perspectives for the future of media and communications are there? What suggestions for media reforms are there? How feasible are they? What kind of media policies and reforms do we need today? Which ones should be avoided? Are we in this context likely to experience a renewal of neoliberalism or something different? Plenary sessions: 1) Keynote Talk: Prof. Peter Ludes (Jacobs University Bremen, Germany): Wanted: Critical Visual Theories! 2) Special Session: Public Media and Alternative Journalism in Romania With Dr. Raluca Petre (?Ovidius? University Constanta, Romania): On the Distinction between State and Public Media: Re-Centering Public Options; Dr. Antonio Momoc (University of Bucharest, Romania): Alternative Media as Public Service Journalism; Costi Rogozanu (journalist and media activist, criticatac.ro) ? Is Alternative Media an Alternative? Call for Papers ESA RN18 welcomes submissions of abstracts for contributions. Questions that can for example be addressed include, but are not limited to the following ones: * Media and capitalism: How have capitalism and the media changed in recent years? Are there perspectives beyond capitalism and capitalist media? How can we best use critical/Marxist political economy and other critical approaches for understanding the media and capitalism today? What is the role of media and communication technologies in the financialization, acceleration, and globalization of the capitalist economy? What are the conditions of working in the media, cultural and communication industries in the contemporary times? What is the role of Marx today for understanding crisis, change, capitalism, communication, and critique? * Media reform and media policy in times of crisis: How do the media need to be reformed and changed in order to contribute to the emergence of a good society? Which media reform movements are there and what are their goals? What have been policy ideas of how to overcome the crisis and deal with contemporary changes in relation to European media and communication industries? What can we learn from recent discussions about the media?s power and freedom, such as the Leveson inquiry? What are implications for media reforms? * Media and the public sphere: How should the concept of the public sphere best be conceived today and how does it relate to the media? How has the public sphere changed during the crisis in Europe and globally? What has been the relation between public and commercial broadcasting during and after the crisis? How have public service media changed, which threats and opportunities does it face? How can/should public service be renewed in the light of crisis, the Internet, and commercialisation? Can public service be extended from broadcasting to the online realm, digital and social media? What has been the role of public service media in Europe? How has this role transformed? * Media and activism: How can media scholars best cooperate with activists in order to contribute to a better media system and a better society? What are major trends in media activism today and how do activists use and confront the media and how do commercial, public and alternative media relate to contemporary social movements? What have been important experiences of media activists and media reform organisations in the past couple of years? What are the opportunities, risks, limits and possibilities of media activism today? For answering these questions, we also invite contributions and submissions by media activists, who want to talk about and share their experiences. * Media ownership: Who owns the media and ICTs? What are peculiar characteristics of knowledge and the media as property? What conflicts and contradictions are associated with it and how have they developed in times of crisis? How concentrated are the media and ICTs and how has this concentration changed since the start of the 2008 crisis? How has media and ICT ownership, convergence, de-convergence and concentration developed since the start of the 2008 crisis? What reforms of media and ICT ownership are needed in light of the crisis of capitalism and the crisis of intellectual property rights? * Media and crisis: What have been the main consequences of the crisis for media and communication in various parts of the world and Europe from a comparative perspective? What role have the media played in the construction of the crisis? How have the media conveyed the social and economic crises of recent years to citizens and what are the consequences of this flow of ideas and explanations? What role can they play in overcoming the crisis? What is the relationship of the media and class during and after the crisis? What role have ideologies (such as racism, right-wing extremism, fascism, neoliberalism, anti-Semitism, etc) played in the media during the crisis and what can we learn from it for reforming the media? How have audiences interpreted media contents that focus on austerity, crisis, neoliberalism, protests, revolutions, or media reforms? * The globalisation of the media and society: What are major trends in the globalisation of capitalism, society and the media? Given the globalisation of media and society, what are challenges for media and society today? What can we learn from non-Western media scholars and media cultures outside of Europe? Are concepts such as cultural/media imperialism, transnational cultural domination or the new imperialism feasible today and if so, in which ways? * Digital and social media: What is digital labour and how has class changed in the context of social and digital media? What is the connection of value creation, knowledge labour and digital labour? How do the global dimension and the global division of digital labour look like, especially in respect to China, India, Asia and Africa? How do new forms of exploitation and unremunerated labour (?free labour?, ?crowdsourcing?) look like in the media sector (e.g. in the context of Internet platforms such as Facebook or Google)? What is the relationship of the commons and commodification on digital and social media? How do capital accumulation and targeted advertising work on social media and what are their implications for users and citizens? What are alternatives to capitalist digital and social media? How can alternative social and digital media best look like and be organized? What can in this context be the roles of the digital commons, civil society media and public service media? Which ideologies of the Internet and social media are there? How can we best understand the surveillance-industrial Internet complex operated by the NSA together with Internet corporations such as Google and Facebook and what are the implications of Edward Snowden?s revelations? How do power and political economy work in the context of platforms such as Google, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, WikiLeaks, Wikipedia, Weibo, LinkedIn, Blogspot/Blogger, Wordpress, VK, Pinterest, Tumblr, Instagram, etc? * Media and Critical Social Theory: What can we learn and use from critical sociology and the sociology of critique when studying the media? What do critique and critical theory mean in contemporary times? What are critical sociology and the sociology of critique and what are its roles for studying media and communication?s role in society? Which social theories do we need today for adequately understanding media & society in a critical way? What is the role of political economy and Marx?s theory for understanding media & society today? * Communication and (Post-)Crisis: How has the crisis affected the communication landscape in Europe and globally and what perspectives for the future are there? How do the working conditions in communication industries look like after the crisis? What are the challenges for communication industries in the near future in the context of the crisis and post-crisis? What is the role of post-crisis-communication industries in a globalised economy? From mariarosariataddeo at gmail.com Mon Feb 17 07:54:30 2014 From: mariarosariataddeo at gmail.com (Mariariosaria Taddeo) Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2014 15:54:30 +0000 Subject: [Air-L] workshop on ethics of cyber activism at the University of Warwick Message-ID: <7ED58C84-6774-4F85-A047-65EF850F4540@gmail.com> Apologies for cross-posting The ethics of cyber-activism Cyber activism or Hacktivism is an emerging phenomenon, which has recently become more prominent thanks to the actions of a group called Anonymous. In brief, cyber-activism is an evolution of hacking activities motivated by political and ethical reasons directed at both public institutions and private citizens and which rests on the perception of the cyberspace as a digital commons that should be freely and equally enjoyed by all individuals. Issues pertaining to cyber activism have been observed and analysed by several scholars over the past decade. However, cyber activism is now becoming a concerning phenomenon mainly thanks to the actions of Anonymous. This is a highly distributed group famously identified by Guy Fawkes mask, which since 2008 has become a symbol of the movement and of the fight against power and authorities that Anonymous' members claim to conduct. Members of this group launched in the past several 'operations' targeting both individuals who had allegedly committed immoral acts and commercial or public websites as in the case of Operation Payback or in the attack launched against Scientology with the so called Project Chanology. The growth of Anonymous and, more in general, the dissemination of the use of the cyber sphere as a new medium to foster activism poses several questions at the crossroad between social and political sciences and ethics. Programme: Time Speaker Topic 10:00 Opening remarks 10:15 ? 10:45 Lee Salter (University of Sussex) Media Understandings of Cyberactivism: Ethics and power in public discourse 10:45 ? 11:00 Coffee 11:00 ? 11:30 Keren Elazari Unmasking Anonymous ? the Global hacker movement 11:30 ? 12:00 George Lucas (US Naval University) Three ways of being a Cyber Hacktivist 12:00 ? 12:30 Stefania Milan (European Institute) Ethics of technology and ethics of organising: the Cyberactivists? struggle for moral values in cyberspace 12:30 ? 13:00 Timothy Jordan (KCL) Generations of Hacktivism 13:00 ? 14:30 Lunch 14:30 ? 15:00 Llouis Reynolds (DEMOS) Service Generation: a step change in youth social action 15:00 ? 15:30 Simon Lindgren (Umea University, Sweden) Global media, Local movements: The role of local context in social media mobilisation 15:30 ? 16:00 Pollyanna Ruiz (LSE) Activism, Anonymity, Accountability 16:00 ? 16:30 Coffee 16:30 ? 17:00 Carolyn Gideon Spill over Effects of Cyber Activism and Policy Implications 17:00 ? 17:30 Round table Location: Building 28 (See below) Where is the International Manufacturing Laboratory? Further information: For further information, please see the website:http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/pais/research/ierg/cyberethics or contact Dr. Mariarosaria Taddeo (M.Taddeo at warwick.ac.uk) If you would like to attend this workshop, please email Mrs. Shona Parsons s.m.parsons at warwick.ac.uk -- Dr. Mariarosaria Taddeo Research Fellow in Cyber Security and Ethics, PAIS, University of Warwick Research Associate - Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, University of Oxford President, International Association for Computing and Philosophy http://rosariataddeo.net From knut.lundby at media.uio.no Mon Feb 17 09:29:32 2014 From: knut.lundby at media.uio.no (Knut Lundby) Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2014 18:29:32 +0100 Subject: [Air-L] Reminder: PhD-course on Mediatization in Oslo Message-ID: <1AD3DB62-0D41-41F8-A08B-D42B0268216A@media.uio.no> Reminder: INVITATION TO PhD-COURSE OM "MEDIATIZATION" AT THE UNIVERSITY OF OSLO ?Mediatization? has become a key term in contemporary media and communication studies. PhD-students are invited to a two days PdD-seminar on "Mediatization" 20-21 March 2014 at the Department of Media and Communication, University of Oslo. The course is free of charge but participants need to cover their own travel and stay in Oslo. Please see: http://www.hf.uio.no/imk/forskning/aktuelt/arrangementer/phd/2014/seminar-mediatization.html The course is directed by Professor Knut Lundby, supported by Dr. Sigrid Kannengiesser from University of Bremen. Expressions of Interest should be stated no later than 28 February to . See details under the above link. Regards, Knut Lundby _________________________________ KNUT LUNDBY. Professor Department of Media and Communication University of Oslo - www.media.uio.no From loriken at illinois.edu Mon Feb 17 10:17:12 2014 From: loriken at illinois.edu (Kendall, Lori) Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2014 18:17:12 +0000 Subject: [Air-L] Join us This Year in Bangkok! Submit Your Proposals for IR15 Message-ID: <72A7C5438AAF2B4382455117C749427D2A600420@CITESMBX1.ad.uillinois.edu> Just a quick reminder that submissions are due March 1 for IR 15: Boundaries and Intersections, the 2014 conference of the Association of Internet Researchers.* This deadline includes proposals for ignites, pre-conference workshops, and our new experimental category. Come join us in Bangkok in October! You can find the Call for Proposals here: http://ir15.aoir.org/?page_id=19, and the submission site here: https://www.conftool.com/aoir-ir15/index.php?page=login. Some quick notes about submitting through the ConfTool system: Your proposal of any type must include a short abstract (exact word count depends on submission type) which will appear in the program. Thereafter, for paper and panel proposals, you need to upload your 1000-1200 page proposal. In order to upload your proposals for these submission types, once the first page is complete, please scroll down to the bottom of the page and click the Proceed button. This will bring you to a second page to upload your full proposal. These proposals are also due March 1. Only after you do both steps is your submission complete. If you have any other questions feel free to contact the program chair Erika Pearson at ir15programchair at aoir.org or the association coordinator at ac at aoir.org We look forward to seeing you all in Bangkok! Lori Kendall President, AoIR *Note: The deadline appears as March 2 in ConfTool in order to allow people from various different time zones to make their submissions in a timely fashion. Please make a note of the relationship of the ConfTool deadline to your local time and make your submissions as early as possible. From difusion at medialab-prado.es Mon Feb 17 10:20:53 2014 From: difusion at medialab-prado.es (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Medialab-Prado_Comunicaci=F3n?=) Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2014 19:20:53 +0100 Subject: [Air-L] Open Call for Capsules. 1st Design and Digital Culture Conference Message-ID: <53025305.4080704@medialab-prado.es> *MEDIALAB-PRADO* *Plaza**de las Letras** **Calle Ala**meda, 15** **28014 Madrid T. 912 191 157** ****www.medialab-prado.es** ****Entrada gratuita* ** #edcd. Open Call for Capsules. 1st Design and Digital Culture Conference Open call for the submission of "capsules" or short talk on projects or experiences on design and digital culture within the context of the *#ecdc. 1st Design and Digital Culture Conference* event that takes place on April 8 and 9, 2014. The experience or project submited as a Capsule should contain creative elements related to technology and digital culture, such as its use, the development of technological languages, or the influence of digital culture in its creation. Deadline for submissions: March 7, 2014 More information and submissions: http://medialab-prado.es/article/capsulasedcd * http://medialab-prado.es* From ajk407 at nyu.edu Mon Feb 17 11:19:50 2014 From: ajk407 at nyu.edu (AJ Kelton) Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2014 14:19:50 -0500 Subject: [Air-L] #ELD14 Call for Proposals Closing Message-ID: The #ELD14 Program Committee has now caught up with the many wonderful submissions we received and the call for proposals for #ELD14 will officially close for NEW submissions on Friday, February 14th. http://eld.montclair.edu/eld14-call-for-proposals/ If you have previously submitted something and are in the process of revising it, please continue that process. The C4P will close on Wednesday ONLY to NEW proposals. But if you are revising something, please do not wait very long as revised submissions will only be accepted until the program is full. If you have any questions, please email them to eld at mail.montclair.edu. p.s. - as a reminder, registration is currently open with rates starting at only $95, but there are only a limited number of registrations left at that price. http://eld.montclair.edu/registration/ -- ----- AJ Kelton Director of Emerging & Instructional Technology College of Humanities and Social Sciences - Montclair State University Doctoral Candidate Educational Communication and Technology - New York University ---------- Emerging Learning Design 2014 http://eld.montclair.edu Twitter: @ELDConf ---------- http://www.ajkelton.net Twitter: @aj_kelton From krguidry at mistakengoal.com Mon Feb 17 11:29:42 2014 From: krguidry at mistakengoal.com (krguidry at mistakengoal.com) Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2014 14:29:42 -0500 Subject: [Air-L] Polite plea for abbreviation and initialism expansion Message-ID: <1616b1692b4977adbfc8c067c5da1621@mistakengoal.com> Colleagues, Maybe I'm the only one who gets confused or lost but it would be very helpful if you could please spell out abbreviations and initialisms in your messages. This appears to be a very interdisciplinary group so I am guessing that others might also appreciate this effort to be welcoming and inclusive of everyone. Thanks so much! Kevin From mfa13 at sfu.ca Mon Feb 17 13:38:18 2014 From: mfa13 at sfu.ca (Michael Filimowicz) Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2014 13:38:18 -0800 (PST) Subject: [Air-L] Call for Papers and Conference Presentations In-Reply-To: <1866100589.7420453.1392672710479.JavaMail.root@sfu.ca> Message-ID: <1349816660.7444344.1392673098964.JavaMail.root@sfu.ca> Call for Papers & Conference Presentations: CINESONIKA 4 ? The Fourth International Conference & Festival of the Soundtrack Venue: Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, British Columbia Dates: July 8-10th, 2014 Keynote Speaker: Amy Herzog (Queens College, CUNY) author of 'Dreams of Difference, Songs of the Same: The Musical Moment in Film' and co-editor of 'The Oxford Handbook of Sound and Image in Digital Media' We are seeking multi-disciplinary contributions on sound in relation to the moving image. Media thinkers, film scholars, art historians, performance theorists, composers, filmmakers, sound practitioners, multimedia semioticians, philosophers of perception ? we invite these and others to submit proposals for 20 minute panel presentations. All accepted presentations will be considered for inclusion in The Soundtrack academic journal if expanded into papers and submitted for peer review (1000-3000 words for short articles, 5000-6000 words for long papers). Submitting to the Conference: Please write "Cinesonika 4 Abstract" in the subject heading. Deadline for Abstracts (under 500 words): June 1 2014 Please submit your abstract and short bio both as an attachment (.doc or .pdf) and also pasted into the body of your email submission, to submit at cinesonika.com LINK: http://www.cinesonika.com From fred at firesabre.com Mon Feb 17 15:48:11 2014 From: fred at firesabre.com (Fred Fuchs) Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2014 17:48:11 -0600 Subject: [Air-L] to add participants to your SNSs or not? In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <53029FBB.5010408@firesabre.com> On 2/16/2014 2:25 PM, Jordan Kraemer wrote: > Some people might find it odd or suspicious to add someone who has no or few contacts, but on the other hand, it helps clearly demarcate the researcher as a researcher. Another consideration if you do create separate profiles is how will you manage your personal accounts -- will you just stay logged in to your research accounts, or will you switch back and forth? > One solution is to use different web browsers for your research and personal accounts. That way one can leave both logged on if needed. Over time the two accounts may have very different sets of contacts. It's also important to be careful which account you're making a post too. The wrong sort of post could alienate research participants. Fred -- Fred Fuchs - Founder, CEO, & Producer FireSabre Consulting LLC Content Services for Virtual Worlds Creation, Events, Training, & Simulations www.linkedin.com/in/fredfuchs https://twitter.com/Fred_Fuchs --- This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus protection is active. http://www.avast.com From u.reips at ikerbasque.org Mon Feb 17 16:52:13 2014 From: u.reips at ikerbasque.org (Ulf-Dietrich Reips) Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2014 01:52:13 +0100 Subject: [Air-L] postdoc position In-Reply-To: <53029FBB.5010408@firesabre.com> References: <53029FBB.5010408@firesabre.com> Message-ID: Dear colleague, we are offering a postdoc position for one year to work with us on applications for Internet-based research and e-learning. The position requires teaching of two classes/semester on Psychological Research Methods. Please let me know ASAP if you are interested. Best wishes Ulf -- Prof. Dr. Ulf-Dietrich Reips Psychological Methods Department of Psychology Box 31 78457 Konstanz Germany http://iscience.uni-konstanz.de From tranth at leeds.ac.uk Tue Feb 18 07:15:07 2014 From: tranth at leeds.ac.uk (Nikolaos Thomopoulos) Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2014 15:15:07 +0000 Subject: [Air-L] Workshop invitation / CFA Message-ID: Dear Air-L members, this is a call for abstracts for a workshop which may be of interest to some of you. Apologies for cross-postings. You may find the RSA workshop invitation along with the Call For Abstracts (250w - deadline 15th March) at our blog: http://sgICTregion.wordpress.com Theme: Theory and practice of using ICT to facilitate smart and green regional development: best practice, evaluation and future challenges for multi-level governance. Venue: History Center, Thessaloniki, Greece Dates: 5th - 6th June 2014 This workshop is organised with the support of the Regional Studies Association and the ENDURANCE research project and is anticipated to generate interesting debates between academics and practitioners. We would be grateful if you would consider submitting an abstract or alternatively if you could forward this call to other contacts with relevant interest. Please do get in touch at sgICTregion at gmail.com in case you have any queries about this workshop. We look forward to welcoming you in Thessaloniki! Best regards Nikolas on behalf of the Organising Committee ______________________________________ Dr Nikolas Thomopoulos Researcher - Institute for Transport Studies University of Leeds QUEEN'S ANNIVERSARY PRIZE WINNERS - 'sustained transport excellence' www.its.leeds.ac.uk/queensprize From jstromer at syr.edu Tue Feb 18 12:01:25 2014 From: jstromer at syr.edu (Jennifer Stromer-Galley) Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2014 20:01:25 +0000 Subject: [Air-L] Feedback on the AoIR Website Desired! Message-ID: Hi everyone A sub-committee of the AoIR Executive Board is working to revamp the Association's website (www.aoir.org). We would love to get your thoughts on the website, whether you've visited it or not. So, take a few minutes to take the survey. Follow this link: https://syracuseuniversity.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_1UhJqsqjSB9Jm5f. It shouldn't take more than 10 minutes of your time, and it will really help us get a sense of how to improve the website. Any questions or concerns, give a shout! Your PR/Website Committee: Anthony Hoffman, Annette Markham, and Jenny Stromer-Galley Associate Professor | School of Information Studies Vice President | Association of Internet Researchers Syracuse University 220 Hinds Hall Syracuse, New York 13244 t 315.443.1823 f 315.443.5673 e jstromer at syr.edu w www.stromer-galley.com w www.aoir.org ischool.syr.edu From antoine.mazieres at gmail.com Wed Feb 19 02:32:34 2014 From: antoine.mazieres at gmail.com (Antoine Mazieres) Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2014 11:32:34 +0100 Subject: [Air-L] Agile/Extreme/Lean methods for academic research Message-ID: Dear all, Startups I've been enjoying quite a lot of literature on how to handle project, ideas, development, thinking, etc, with theories such as Extreme, Agile, Lean, etc. All dating of less than 10 years. I was looking around for similar literature on academic research and project, and couldn't find anything modern, socially-aware (eg. connected) and relevant, making links between doing, thinking, envisioning, writing and more. I am thinking of the project management, hardware/software/experimentation development needed in the research processes, refactoring of collaborative writings, project design, time management, etc. Does someone have seen some initiative, publication, blog about this topic ? Thanks ! Antoine Mazi?res http://mazier.es/ From karlamarx at gmail.com Wed Feb 19 04:52:36 2014 From: karlamarx at gmail.com (Helga Tawil Souri) Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2014 07:52:36 -0500 Subject: [Air-L] CFP - Handbook of Media and Culture in the Middle East Message-ID: *Call for Papers* *Handbook of Media and Culture in the Middle East* Editors : Gholam Khiabany, Tarik Sabry, *Helga Tawil*-Souri The aim of the *Handbook of Media and Culture in the Middle East* is to direct attention to the multivalent and multi-local characteristics of knowledge production, media, and culture in the region. It highlights the necessity, once again, of the need and the possibilities of going beyond the false binaries, and of speaking with a 'third voice'. It addresses key questions such as: - Is Middle Eastern Media Studies a periphery or should it be regarded as part of a wider project of (social) science of society? - Does it have a particular hermeneutics? - How do we address the particularities of the region while also considering broader socio-cultural and media shifts? While challenging the provincialism of perceived 'universal' theory of media and society, this handbook also highlights the perceived 'alternative', i.e. militant particularism, which is just the flipside of the vacuous universalism it deplores, rather than a genuine alternative to it. The handbook will articulate the questions of media and culture in the Middle East beyond the limitations of presentism by focusing on the symbiotic relationship that exists between both old and new media. It also promises to highlight the role (and meaning) of culture as a dynamic site of struggle and contestation. The handbook is also an attempt to test some prevailing approaches regarding the role of empire, among other exogenous and endogenous factors, and its consequences for culture and politics. The handbook takes an interdisciplinary approach to media and culture in the Middle East and brings together internationally recognised scholars from around the world. The more recent revolutionary fervour in the Arab World has further brought the region into the attention of the world like never before. However, while this collection will certainly be an attempt at 'catching history on the wing', to quote Benjamin, we are seeking contributions, from various disciplines, that advance our understandings of the past and present and the struggle for the future of media and cultural resources, forms of organisations and expressions, as well as production, distribution, and consumption. This volume will be published by Blackwell as part of the prestigious series The Global Handbooks in Media and Communication Research, designed to define an intellectual terrain: its historic emergence; its key theoretical paradigms; its transnational evolution, its key empirical research and possible future directions. For more information and examples of the series see: http://eu.wiley.com/WileyCDA/Section/id-410903.html Submissions will be assessed for their scholarly merit and the extent to which they contribute to our greater understanding of the mediated cultures in the Middle East. Contributors should limit their articles to between 6000 and 8000 words (including references). *Abstracts (250 words) are due by 28 March 2014.* *Upon acceptance, full articles will be due by 20 October 2014.* For further information about the handbook, or to submit your abstract, please contact the editors: Gholam Khiabany, Goldsmiths, University of London (g.khiabany at gold.ac.uk) Tarik Sabry, University of Westminster (Sabryt at westminster.ac.uk) Helga Tawil-Souri, New York University (helga at nyu.edu) -- From jhunsinger at wlu.ca Wed Feb 19 05:34:30 2014 From: jhunsinger at wlu.ca (Jeremy hunsinger) Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2014 08:34:30 -0500 Subject: [Air-L] Agile/Extreme/Lean methods for academic research In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: On Google Groups there is a dated, but still insightful group called 'efficient academics' that is pretty good. From jhunsinger at wlu.ca Wed Feb 19 05:51:26 2014 From: jhunsinger at wlu.ca (Jeremy hunsinger) Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2014 08:51:26 -0500 Subject: [Air-L] Call for Abstracts for Chapters Vol.2 International Handbook of Internet Research Message-ID: Call for Abstracts for Chapters Volume 2 of the International Handbook of Internet Research (editors Jeremy Hunsinger, Lisbeth Klastrup, and Matthew Allen) Abstracts due June 1 2014; full chapters due Sept. 1 2015 After the remarkable success of the first International Handbook of Internet Research (2010), Springer has contracted with its editors to produce a second volume. This new volume will be arranged in three sections, that address one of three different aspects of internet research: foundations, futures, and critiques. Each of these meta-themes will have its own section of the new handbook. Foundations will approach a method, a theory, a perspective, a topic or field that has been and is still a location of significant internet research. These chapters will engage with the current and historical scholarly literature through extended reviews and also as a way of developing insights into the internet and internet research. Futures will engage with the directions the field of internet research might take over the next five years. These chapters will engage current methods, topics, perspectives, or fields that will expand and re-invent the field of internet research, particularly in light of emerging social and technological trends. The material for these chapters will define the topic they describe within the framework of internet research so that it can be understand as a place of future inquiry. Critique chapters will define and develop critical positions in the field of internet research. They can engage a theoretical perspective, a methodological perspective, a historical trend or topic in internet research and provide a critical perspective. These chapters might also define one type of critical perspective, tradition, or field in the field of internet research. We value the way in which this call for papers will itself shape the contents, themes, and coverage of the Handbook. We encourage potential authors to present abstracts that will consolidate current internet research, critically analyse its directions past and future, and re-invent the field for the decade to come. Contributions about the internet and internet research are sought from scholars in any discipline, and from many points of view. We therefore invite internet researchers working within the fields of communication, culture, politics, sociology, law and privacy, aesthetics, games and play, surveillance and mobility, amongst others, to consider contributing to the volume. Initially, we ask scholars and researchers to submit an 500 word abstract detailing their own chapter for one of the three sections outlined above. The abstract must follow the format presented below. After the initial round of submissions, there may be a further call for papers and/or approaches to individuals to complete the volume. The final chapters will be chosen from the submitted abstracts by the editors or invited by the editors. The chapter writers will be notified of acceptance by January 1st, 2015. The chapters will be due September 2015, should be between 6,000 and 10,000 words (inclusive of references, biographical statement and all other text). Each abstract needs to be presented in the following form: ? Section (Either Foundations, Futures, or Critiques) ? Title of chapter ? Author name/s, institutional details ? Corresponding author's email address ? Keywords (no more than 5) ? Abstract (no more than 500 words) ? References Please e-mail your abstract/s to: internet.research.handbook at gmail.com We look forward to your submissions and working with you to produce another definitive collection of thought-provoking internet research. Please feel free to distribute this CfP widely. Thank you Jeremy, Lisbeth, and Matt From joseph.2011 at reagle.org Wed Feb 19 06:13:05 2014 From: joseph.2011 at reagle.org (Joseph Reagle) Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2014 09:13:05 -0500 Subject: [Air-L] Agile/Extreme/Lean methods for academic research In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <5304BBF1.80301@reagle.org> On 02/19/2014 05:32 AM, Antoine Mazieres wrote: > Does someone have seen some initiative, publication, blog about this topic ? I recommend . From dittrich at apl.washington.edu Wed Feb 19 09:49:57 2014 From: dittrich at apl.washington.edu (Dave Dittrich) Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2014 09:49:57 -0800 Subject: [Air-L] Agile/Extreme/Lean methods for academic research In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <5304EEC5.9080903@apl.washington.edu> On 2/19/14 2:32 AM, Antoine Mazieres wrote: > I am thinking of .. software/experimentation > development needed in the research processes, refactoring of collaborative > writings... http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3639880/ -- Dave Dittrich dittrich at u.washington.edu http://staff.washington.edu/dittrich PGP key: http://staff.washington.edu/dittrich/pgpkey.txt Fingerprint: 097B 4DCB BF16 E1D8 A06C 7512 A751 C80A D15E E079 From keckert at umd.edu Wed Feb 19 13:04:00 2014 From: keckert at umd.edu (Kristin Dagmar Eckert) Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2014 21:04:00 +0000 Subject: [Air-L] Studies on blogs in US, UK, Germany and Switzerland on how much bloggers make from their blogs Message-ID: <0A6BAADED9DB714B8885DC08221E3B9F0A59D284@OITMX1006.AD.UMD.EDU> Hi everyone I am searching for studies, articles and information on how many bloggers get how much income from their blogs in the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany and Switzerland each. I looked around and found some indications in news media articles but not studies. I was wondering if studies on the issue in any of the four countries exist (ideally also with gendered data). I have indications in my dissertation project on a large quantity of commercial blogs in the U.S. and the U.K. and would like to put that into context of previous research. In Germany and Switzerland my interview participants indicated commercial blogs and income from blogs is rare, equally I would like to back that up with studies/articles/information on the matter. I am grateful for any links and hints. Thank you very much. Best, Stine Stine Eckert Ph.D. Candidate Philip Merrill College of Journalism University of Maryland 2100N Knight Hall www.stineeckert.com @stineeckert From joomen at beeldengeluid.nl Wed Feb 19 13:06:16 2014 From: joomen at beeldengeluid.nl (Johan Oomen) Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2014 22:06:16 +0100 Subject: [Air-L] CFP: Second International Workshop on Linked Media (LiME 2014) Message-ID: <0519746E-9EB7-4E8F-859F-F4C86B39F95E@beeldengeluid.nl> =================================================================== CFP: Second International Workshop on Linked Media (LiME 2014) http://www.linkedtv.eu/event/LiME2014/ =================================================================== The workshop is co-located with the ESWC 2014 conference held in Heraklion, Greece on 25-29 May 2014. *Deadlines*: - Submission deadline: March 6, 2014, 23:59PM Hawaii Time - Notifications: April 1, 2014, 23:59PM Hawaii Time - Camera ready version: April 15, 2014, 23:59PM Hawaii Time Goals of the workshop: If the future Web will be able to fully use the scale and quality of online media, a Web scale layer of structured and semantic media annotation is needed, which we call *Linked Media*. Drawing on the success of the Linked Data movement, we believe annotation of media using Linked Data concepts can be the basis for Web-wide media interlinking based on concept matching and relationships. This 2nd international workshop on Linked Media (LiME'2014), building on last year's successful event held at WWW 2013, aims at promoting the principles of Linked Media on the Web by gathering semantic multimedia and Linked Data researchers to exchange current research and development work on creating conceptual descriptions of media items, multimedia metadata publication on the Web, and its semantic processing, particular based on Linked Data approaches to concept matching and relationships. Specifically, we aim to build a research community to promote a future Web where automated multimedia analysis results can be used as a basis to integrate Linked Data-based conceptual annotations into structured media descriptions, which can be published and shared online. When media descriptions are more easily findable and processable, new applications and services can be created in which online media is more easily shared, retrieved, re-used and re-purposed. This will offer a wide range of possibilities for various stakeholders in the creative industries. Workshop topics and themes: To push further the evolution of the Rich Media Web, and to facilitate its convergence with the Semantic Web, it is essential to establish consensus on online media annotation standards, the use of semantics in describing what media represents, and demonstrate approaches to leverage such structured and semantic media descriptions in Web applications. While non-textual content is often now the first destination of online agents rather than HTML/textual resources, and thus access to structured annotation of the online media is increasingly important for new Web applications capable of media search, retrieval, adaptation and presentation, the online media annotation space is still limited, fragmented and lacking in consensus for building Web tools and interfaces to support it. LiME'2014 focuses on identifying the key building blocks required to foster the development of new Web tools and interfaces that will support the growth and re-use of Linked Media, which is inspired by the Linked Data movement for making structured descriptions of resources more easily available online. The workshop topics include, but are not limited to: * Approaches to online media descriptions - Tools and approaches aligning the fragmented approaches to online media description, its processing and publication, e.g. based around Linked Data, W3C Media Ontology and Media Fragments URI. - Tools and approaches to search and retrieval of online media based on its structured description, scaling to the Web - Tools and approaches addressing issues of trust, quality and rights of online media * Extracting and linking - Tools and approaches to lower the cost of creating structured descriptions of online media resources - New methods of automatic, real time, metadata extraction of any online media content (including live streams) - Ideas how to incorporate Linked Data into media description (and benefit from the additional metadata of the Linked Data cloud) - New methods for automatically assessing the suitability of (non-trusted) content for interweaving (e.g. violence detection, nudity detection), and publishing such assessments * Showcases, business models and assessment - New Web applications making use of Linked Media (across different platforms) including evaluation with end-users and/or suitable business models - Approaches to tracking user interaction with media (and exploiting this knowledge to enrich annotations) The workshop is sponsored by the EU projects LinkedTV (http://www.linkedtv.eu) and MICO (http://www.mico-project.eu/) as well as the large open source community around Apache Stanbol (http://stanbol.apache.org/) & Apache Marmotta (http://marmotta.apache.org/). Submission: Submissions should not exceed 12 pages and are to be formatted according to Springer LNCS guidelines (http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-7-72376-0) and submitted to https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lime2014. Papers should be submitted in PDF format. We encourage various types of submission: - full papers (max 12 pages) for mature work which has been subject to evaluation - demo submissions (max 5 pages) for demos, software and platforms which may be able to support a part of the Linked Media ecosystem The workshop proceedings will be published online through CEUR-WS. A selection of the best papers from the workshop will also appear in an LNCS companion volume of ESWC 2014. Programme Committee: - Lora Aroyo, VU University, NL - Olivier Aubert, University of Nantes, FR - Marco Bertini, University di Firenze, IT - Werner Bailer, Joanneum, AT - Dan Brickley, Google Inc., UK - Tobias B?rger, Payback GmbH, AT - Pierre-Antoine Champin, University Lyon 1, FR - Paolo Ciccarese, Massachusetts General Hospital Biomedical Informatics Core, USA - Davy Van Deursen, EVS, BE - Jean-Claude Dufourd, Telecom ParisTech, FR - Nikolaos Gkalelis, CERTH, GR - Lynda Hardman, CWI, NL - Michiel Hildebrand, CWI, NL - George Ioannidis, IN2, UK - Antoine Isaac, Europeana, NL - Ioannis Kompatsiaris, CERTH, GR - Tom Kurz, Salsbourg Research, AT - Yunjia Li, University of Southampton, UK - Vasileios Mezaris, CERTH, GR - Frank Nack, University of Amsterdam, NL - Silvia Pfeiffer, Vquence, AU - Yves Raimond, BBC, UK - Giuseppe Rizzo, University di Torino, IT - Harald Sack, University of Postdam, DE - Thomas Steiner, Google Inc., DE Organizers: - Lyndon Nixon, Modul University, AT - Rapha?l Troncy, EURECOM, FR - Erik Mannens, iMinds / University of Ghent, BE - Johan Oomen, Sound & Vision, NL - Florian Stegmaier, University of Passau, DE From jaroslaw.kopec at gmail.com Thu Feb 20 00:30:57 2014 From: jaroslaw.kopec at gmail.com (=?utf-8?Q?Jaros=C5=82aw_Kope=C4=87?=) Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2014 09:30:57 +0100 Subject: [Air-L] Critical theory of gamification / Archaeology of gamification Message-ID: Dear All, I am preparing a seminar on critical theory of gamification. Right now I am mostly interested in archaeology of gamification, that is in looking for gamification?s prefigurations in tabletop and video games. I would very much appreciate some tips on readings from you. -- Jaros?aw Kope? Faculty of Liberal Arts University of Warsaw Poland From anders.lovlie at hig.no Thu Feb 20 01:40:03 2014 From: anders.lovlie at hig.no (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Anders_Sundnes_L=F8vlie?=) Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2014 10:40:03 +0100 Subject: [Air-L] Agile/Extreme/Lean methods for academic researc In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <5305CD73.6020708@hig.no> I sketched a model for "Agile Media Design Research" in my PhD dissertation: http://folk.uio.no/anderssl/published/lovlie_phd.pdf This is in the context of humanities-based media research, so it is focused on design as a hermeneutic process that can inform research, not so much on project management. -- Anders Sundnes L?vlie Associate professor, Gj?vik University College english.hig.no On 20.02.14 00:00, air-l-request at listserv.aoir.org wrote: > Message: 1 > Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2014 11:32:34 +0100 > From: Antoine Mazieres > To: "air-l at listserv.aoir.org" > Subject: [Air-L] Agile/Extreme/Lean methods for academic research > Message-ID: > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > Dear all, > > Startups I've been enjoying quite a lot of literature on how to handle > project, ideas, development, thinking, etc, with theories such as Extreme, > Agile, Lean, etc. All dating of less than 10 years. > > I was looking around for similar literature on academic research and > project, and couldn't find anything modern, socially-aware (eg. connected) > and relevant, making links between doing, thinking, envisioning, writing > and more. > > I am thinking of the project management, hardware/software/experimentation > development needed in the research processes, refactoring of collaborative > writings, project design, time management, etc. > > Does someone have seen some initiative, publication, blog about this topic ? > > Thanks ! > > Antoine Mazi?res > > http://mazier.es/ > From antoine.mazieres at gmail.com Thu Feb 20 02:46:11 2014 From: antoine.mazieres at gmail.com (Antoine Mazieres) Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2014 11:46:11 +0100 Subject: [Air-L] Agile/Extreme/Lean methods for academic research In-Reply-To: <5304EEC5.9080903@apl.washington.edu> References: <5304EEC5.9080903@apl.washington.edu> Message-ID: Oh ! very nice ! There is even a branching model for scientific collaboration : http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3639880/ (scigit-flow) Thanks ! Sum up of refs gathered here and there, for those interested : http://technocalifornia.blogspot.ch/2008/06/agile-research.html https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/17143/agile-extreme-lean-methods-for-academic-research https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/the-efficient-academic https://www.academia.edu/4191679/Innovation_Infrastructures_to_Transform_the_Mexican_Internet_Industry_The_Case_of_the_Startup_Community http://www.nmc.org/pdf/2014-horizon-he-preview.pdf http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3639880/ On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 6:49 PM, Dave Dittrich wrote: > On 2/19/14 2:32 AM, Antoine Mazieres wrote: > > I am thinking of .. software/experimentation > > development needed in the research processes, refactoring of > collaborative > > writings... > > http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3639880/ > > -- > Dave Dittrich > dittrich at u.washington.edu > http://staff.washington.edu/dittrich > > PGP key: http://staff.washington.edu/dittrich/pgpkey.txt > Fingerprint: 097B 4DCB BF16 E1D8 A06C 7512 A751 C80A D15E E079 > From sebastian.deterding at gmx.de Thu Feb 20 16:31:28 2014 From: sebastian.deterding at gmx.de (Sebastian Deterding) Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2014 19:31:28 -0500 Subject: [Air-L] Critical theory of gamification / Archaeology of, > gamification In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <53069E60.3070604@gmx.de> Dear Jaroslaw, I have a chapter in print that extensively traces the prehistory of gamification: Deterding, S. (in print): The Ambiguity of Games: Histories and Rhetorics of the Gameful World, in Walz, S. P. & Deterding, S. (eds.), The Gameful World: Approaches, Issues, Applications. Cambridge, MA, London: MIT Press. Email me for a copy. Best Sebastian > Message: 1 > Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2014 09:30:57 +0100 > From: Jaros?aw Kope? > To: air-l at listserv.aoir.org > Subject: [Air-L] Critical theory of gamification / Archaeology of > gamification > Message-ID: > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > > Dear All, > > I am preparing a seminar on critical theory of gamification. Right now I am mostly interested in archaeology of gamification, that is in looking for gamification?s prefigurations in tabletop and video games. > > I would very much appreciate some tips on readings from you. > > -- > Jaros?aw Kope? > Faculty of Liberal Arts > University of Warsaw > Poland -- Cheers, Sebastian ------------------------------------------------------------- Sebastian Deterding | coding conduct Web: http://codingconduct.cc | Twitter: @dingstweets ------------------------------------------------------------- This email is [X] assumed public and may be forwarded, blogged, etc. [_] assumed to be private. 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Best Sebastian -- Cheers, Sebastian ------------------------------------------------------------- Sebastian Deterding | coding conduct Mail: sebastian at codingconduct.cc | Twitter: @dingstweets Web: http://codingconduct.cc | Skype: sebastiandeterding US mobile: +1 (585) 747-8616 | DE mobile: +49 15140030044 ------------------------------------------------------------- This email is [_] assumed public and may be forwarded, blogged, etc. [X] assumed to be private. Please ask before redistributing ------------------------------------------------------------- From explicit_corpse at hotmail.com Thu Feb 20 16:55:53 2014 From: explicit_corpse at hotmail.com (V. T.) Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2014 16:55:53 -0800 Subject: [Air-L] Critical theory of gamification / Archaeology of gamification In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: I would highly recommend Graeme Kirkpatrick's Computer Games and the Social Imaginary:http://ca.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-0745641105.html veronika tzankova From simone.heidbrink at zegk.uni-heidelberg.de Fri Feb 21 01:47:11 2014 From: simone.heidbrink at zegk.uni-heidelberg.de (Simone Heidbrink) Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2014 10:47:11 +0100 Subject: [Air-L] Special issue on "Religion in Digital Games" is online! Message-ID: <5307209F.8050707@zegk.uni-heidelberg.de> Dear all, The editors of "online - Heidelberg Journal of Religions on the Internet" (http://online.uni-hd.de) are pleased to announce the publication of the special issue "Religion in Digital Games" featuring a multitude of exciting scientific perspectives on videogames as new research focus in Cultural and Religious Studies by authors from many different disciplines. It includes articles on theory and method as well as case studies with a focus on both game content and the player. We hope the articles assembled in this issue will contribute to encouraging further academic debate on the topic of religion in digital games and help openig up the field for even more motivated and enthusiastic scholars and research projects. The journal is keen to collect high quality scholarship on issues relating to religions on the Internet and welcomes submissions pertaining to all aspects of theses matters anytime to be published in our next issue scheduled for fall 2014! Of course we will gladly consider the publication of further articles related to religion and video games as well as any other topic fitting the scope of the journal. Submissions and queries should be send to the following address: online.religion at zegk.uni-heidelberg.de Best regards Simone Heidbrink & Tobias Knoll (editors of the special issue) -- Simone Heidbrink, M.A. Institut f?r Religionswissenschaft Zentrum f?r Europ?ische Geschichts- und Kulturwissenschaften (ZEGK) Universit?t Heidelberg Akademiestr. 4-8 D - 69117 Heidelberg fon: ++49-(0)6221-54 74 82 fax: ++49-(0)6221-54 76 24 From a.birkbak at gmail.com Fri Feb 21 02:50:41 2014 From: a.birkbak at gmail.com (Andreas Birkbak) Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2014 11:50:41 +0100 Subject: [Air-L] Research of Facebook public groups In-Reply-To: References: <6E61AC1252115240BEFB63F66879D668029129@exp-dag1-n1.uol.le.ac.uk> Message-ID: Dear Ruth, Here's a study of two Facebook Groups founded in reaction to a snowstorm emergency in Denmark that I've done: http://vbn.aau.dk/da/publications/crystallizations-in-the-blizzard(00900bdf-5dd9-4edf-8a99-582c96b22081).html It combines quantitative and qualitative approaches, including analysis of discourse. Best, Andreas 2014-01-23 21:48 GMT+01:00 Pask-Hughes, Alexander < a.pask-hughes at lancaster.ac.uk>: > Hi Ruth, > > I imagine you'll have likely come across these and not all look at > Facebook, but I think they're probably relevant discourse-analytic > examples, with a focus beyond self and identity: > > Burke & Goodman (2012) "Bring back Hitler's gas chambers": Asylum seeking, > Nazis and Facebook - A discursive analysis. D&S 23(1). > > Goodman & Rowe (2014) "Maybe it is prejudice... but it is NOT racism": > Negotiating racism in discussion forums about Gypsies. D&S 25(1). > > Shaikjee & Milani (2013) "It's time for Afrikaans to go"... or not? > Language ideologies and (ir)rationality in the blogosphere. Language > Matters 44(2). > > > Aside from these, there's the research from Todd Graham and Scott Wright > (including the EU cyberspace paper with Ruth Wodak), although that's > probably veering too far away from both Facebook and discourse analysis. > > I was sure someone archived the Thatcher tweets as well... > > > Alexander David Pask-Hughes > > PhD student > Seminar Tutor for LING204: Discourse Analysis > > Department of Linguistics and English Language > Lancaster University > > E-mail: a.pask-hughes at lancaster.ac.uk > Twitter: @adpaskhughes > > ________________________________________ > From: air-l-bounces at listserv.aoir.org [air-l-bounces at listserv.aoir.org] > on behalf of Page, Ruth (Dr.) [rep22 at leicester.ac.uk] > Sent: 22 January 2014 09:49 > To: air-l at listserv.aoir.org > Subject: [Air-L] Research of Facebook public groups > Dear AoIR list members, > > I'm doing some work from a discourse analysis perspective on the way > interactions on Facebook public groups take place. I'm specifically looking > at the RIP pages set up in response to the death of former Prime Minister > Margaret Thatcher. > > I'm familiar with a lot of the research literature on Facebook, but most > of what I know is based on studies that examined personal Facebook > accounts/wall interactions. > > Can anyone please recommend studies of Facebook groups? I'm especially > interested in anything that has a linguistic/discourse analysis focus, but > it would also be good to learn from studies from a more general social > science perspective too. > > Thanks in advance for any suggestions! > > Ruth > > Dr Ruth Page > Room 1509, Attenborough Tower > School of English > University of Leicester > Leicester > LE1 7RH > UK > +44 (0)116 223 1286 > _______________________________________________ > The Air-L at listserv.aoir.org mailing list > is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org > Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: > http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org > > Join the Association of Internet Researchers: > http://www.aoir.org/ > _______________________________________________ > The Air-L at listserv.aoir.org mailing list > is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org > Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: > http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org > > Join the Association of Internet Researchers: > http://www.aoir.org/ > From francesca.musiani at gmail.com Fri Feb 21 03:04:58 2014 From: francesca.musiani at gmail.com (Francesca Musiani) Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2014 12:04:58 +0100 Subject: [Air-L] Call for Applications, 2014-15 Yahoo! Fellow in Residence, Georgetown University Message-ID: CALL FOR APPLICATIONS Yahoo! Fellow in Residence International Values, Communications Technology & the Global Internet School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University Washington, D.C. The Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service is pleased to invite applications for the position of Yahoo! Fellow in Residence for the academic year 2014-2015. This one academic year position is funded by the Yahoo! Fund on International Values, Communications Technology and the Global Internet, which was established at Georgetown University by a gift from Yahoo! Inc. The Yahoo! Fellow will be chosen by Georgetown University from applicants drawn from the government, corporate, non-profit and academic sectors. The Fellowship The Yahoo! Fellow in Residence explores the relationship between new communications technologies and international values in varying national and international contexts. Projects should address the issue of applying international values and principles (e.g., free expression, regulation, citizenship and privacy) to new communications technologies and the diffusion of information in rapidly changing global environments. These might include large and evolving economies--including Brazil, Russia, India, and China--as well as interactions between the developing and developed worlds. Projects can draw on insights from many disciplines, including politics, economics, business, and socio-cultural research. It is expected that the Yahoo! Fellow will undertake research and writing, some of which will be posted on the website of the Institute for the Study of Diplomacy, during his or her stay. In addition, the Fellow must organize at least one workshop or conference during each of the two semesters in residence, work with graduate fellows supported by the same Yahoo! grant, engage in co-curricular offerings and other interactions with the Georgetown student body, and participate in the professional life of Washington, D.C. The Yahoo! Fellow in Residence will be a part of the Institute for the Study of Diplomacy (ISD) at Georgetown University. The Institute will provide office space, supplies, and administrative support during the fellowship year. The Yahoo! Fellow will have the opportunity to be a member of a group of ISD associates and fellows drawn from the United States and foreign government agencies. The fellowship provides a stipend of $60,000 to support housing and living expenses for the academic year and $5,000 to cover travel associated with the appointment. The appointment will cover the period of August 15, 2014 to May 15, 2015. Within the School of Foreign Service, the Master of Science in Foreign Service Program (MSFS) will provide a locus for the applied curricular and research support activities associated with the Yahoo! Fellows. The Program's multi-disciplinary faculty, including experienced public and private sector practitioners, comprises a broad resource base for research and collaboration on globalization forces and impacts across an array of diverse sectors and cross-national applications. Relevant results generated by the Yahoo! Fellows' projects could be incorporated into the MSFS Program's curriculum through guest lectures, special seminars, case studies and/or course modules. It is anticipated that research projects may thereby yield multiplier educational effects that extend beyond the tenure of a particular Yahoo! Fellow. MSFS graduate students will also be selected to receive partial-tuition fellowships as Junior Yahoo! Fellows. The selected students will engage in study and research associated with the Yahoo! Fellow in Residence and/or other faculty engaged in related project activities. Applications Applications should be imaginative, multidisciplinary, analytical, and capable of being completed during the fellowship year. They should include proposals for projects and associated conferences or workshops. An advanced degree is not required, however, for those pursuing graduate work, the degree must be completed and in hand prior to assuming the fellowship. Applicants should submit the following: * Letter of interest * Curriculum vitae * Statement describing a proposed project and methodology (not to exceed 2,500 words) Submit application materials to: Institute for the Study of Diplomacy Attn: Yahoo! Fellow Search 1316 36th Street, NW Washington, DC 20007 Deadline: Applicants are advised to submit materials by Monday, April 7, 2014. 3 Applications will be considered until a final applicant has been selected and has accepted the appointment. Electronic submissions may be sent to the following email address: dolgasc at georgetown.edu. In the subject line, please add the text: Yahoo! Fellow Application. Background Information For information on the Yahoo! Program and current and past fellows, please visit the Institute for the Study of Diplomacy website: http://isd.georgetown.edu/programs/yahoofellow/. Kalev Leetaru (2013-2014) Francesca Musiani (2012-2013) S?verine Ars?ne (2011-2012) Han-Teng Liao (2010-2011) Evgeny Morozov (2009-2010) Gaurav Mishra (2008-2009) Irene Wu (2007-2008) For information on the Master of Science in Foreign Service (MSFS) graduate program, please visit http://msfs.georgetown.edu. For information on Georgetown University, please visit www.georgetown.edu. -- Francesca Musiani Postdoctoral researcher Centre de Sociologie de l'Innovation MINES ParisTech 60, Boulevard Saint-Michel 75272 Paris Cedex 06, France From slc at publicus.net Fri Feb 21 05:58:02 2014 From: slc at publicus.net (Steven Clift) Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2014 07:58:02 -0600 Subject: [Air-L] Research of Facebook public groups In-Reply-To: References: <6E61AC1252115240BEFB63F66879D668029129@exp-dag1-n1.uol.le.ac.uk> Message-ID: You might be interested in what we are doing with: https://www.facebook.com/groups/opengovgroup I trolled deeply to find scores of open government, open data, smart city, civic tech Facebook Groups around the world, many are listed here: http://pages.e-democracy.org/List_of_groups And far more are here (mixed with other groups): https://www.facebook.com/stevenlclift/groups I then worked to promote this new global group as a space to connect these many national/language based groups. Because Facebook controls message distribution via News feed exposure, the number of members are deceiving and at about 250 members, the default notification switches from all new posts to new posts from just your friends, these spaces can quickly become dormant. However, some Facebook Groups really have a lot of life if they have continued posting of new topics by an array of members. On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 4:50 AM, Andreas Birkbak wrote: > Dear Ruth, > > Here's a study of two Facebook Groups founded in reaction to a snowstorm > emergency in Denmark that I've done: > http://vbn.aau.dk/da/publications/crystallizations-in-the-blizzard(00900bdf-5dd9-4edf-8a99-582c96b22081).html > > It combines quantitative and qualitative approaches, including analysis of > discourse. > > Best, > Andreas > > > 2014-01-23 21:48 GMT+01:00 Pask-Hughes, Alexander < > a.pask-hughes at lancaster.ac.uk>: > >> Hi Ruth, >> >> I imagine you'll have likely come across these and not all look at >> Facebook, but I think they're probably relevant discourse-analytic >> examples, with a focus beyond self and identity: >> >> Burke & Goodman (2012) "Bring back Hitler's gas chambers": Asylum seeking, >> Nazis and Facebook - A discursive analysis. D&S 23(1). >> >> Goodman & Rowe (2014) "Maybe it is prejudice... but it is NOT racism": >> Negotiating racism in discussion forums about Gypsies. D&S 25(1). >> >> Shaikjee & Milani (2013) "It's time for Afrikaans to go"... or not? >> Language ideologies and (ir)rationality in the blogosphere. Language >> Matters 44(2). >> >> >> Aside from these, there's the research from Todd Graham and Scott Wright >> (including the EU cyberspace paper with Ruth Wodak), although that's >> probably veering too far away from both Facebook and discourse analysis. >> >> I was sure someone archived the Thatcher tweets as well... >> >> >> Alexander David Pask-Hughes >> >> PhD student >> Seminar Tutor for LING204: Discourse Analysis >> >> Department of Linguistics and English Language >> Lancaster University >> >> E-mail: a.pask-hughes at lancaster.ac.uk >> Twitter: @adpaskhughes >> >> ________________________________________ >> From: air-l-bounces at listserv.aoir.org [air-l-bounces at listserv.aoir.org] >> on behalf of Page, Ruth (Dr.) [rep22 at leicester.ac.uk] >> Sent: 22 January 2014 09:49 >> To: air-l at listserv.aoir.org >> Subject: [Air-L] Research of Facebook public groups >> Dear AoIR list members, >> >> I'm doing some work from a discourse analysis perspective on the way >> interactions on Facebook public groups take place. I'm specifically looking >> at the RIP pages set up in response to the death of former Prime Minister >> Margaret Thatcher. >> >> I'm familiar with a lot of the research literature on Facebook, but most >> of what I know is based on studies that examined personal Facebook >> accounts/wall interactions. >> >> Can anyone please recommend studies of Facebook groups? I'm especially >> interested in anything that has a linguistic/discourse analysis focus, but >> it would also be good to learn from studies from a more general social >> science perspective too. >> >> Thanks in advance for any suggestions! >> >> Ruth >> >> Dr Ruth Page >> Room 1509, Attenborough Tower >> School of English >> University of Leicester >> Leicester >> LE1 7RH >> UK >> +44 (0)116 223 1286 >> _______________________________________________ >> The Air-L at listserv.aoir.org mailing list >> is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org >> Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: >> http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org >> >> Join the Association of Internet Researchers: >> http://www.aoir.org/ >> _______________________________________________ >> The Air-L at listserv.aoir.org mailing list >> is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org >> Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: >> http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org >> >> Join the Association of Internet Researchers: >> http://www.aoir.org/ >> > _______________________________________________ > The Air-L at listserv.aoir.org mailing list > is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org > Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org > > Join the Association of Internet Researchers: > http://www.aoir.org/ From jgroshek at bu.edu Fri Feb 21 10:57:11 2014 From: jgroshek at bu.edu (Jacob Groshek) Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2014 13:57:11 -0500 Subject: [Air-L] MA/PhD in Emerging Media Studies at Boston University Message-ID: Dear Colleagues, Please circulate to students that may have an interest in either our newly formed MA or PhD tracks, or both. More information can be found here http://www.bu.edu/com/academics/emerging-media/ and our MA course listings for fall 2014 onward are attached. Early applications are eligible for generous tuition scholarships and funding for teaching or research. I'm happy to answer any additional questions as well. Best, Jacob (Ps. Apologies for cross-posts) -- Dr. Jacob Groshek Assistant Professor of Emerging Media 704 Commonwealth Ave., Office 302D Boston University 617-353-6421 jgroshek.com From jackharris999 at gmail.com Fri Feb 21 11:09:55 2014 From: jackharris999 at gmail.com (Jack Harris) Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2014 14:09:55 -0500 Subject: [Air-L] MA/PhD in Emerging Media Studies at Boston University In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Bryant, you may want to look into this as a fallback since it appears to include good funding, One Year Masters in Emerging Media at Boston University. It includes design and applied as well as academic experience. It's a new program, a good program and I know the division director who recently left Rutgers and is an international and well-regarded expert in this field. On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 1:57 PM, Jacob Groshek wrote: > Dear Colleagues, > > Please circulate to students that may have an interest in either our newly > formed MA or PhD tracks, or both. > > More information can be found here > > http://www.bu.edu/com/academics/emerging-media/ > > and our MA course listings for fall 2014 onward are attached. Early > applications are eligible for generous tuition scholarships and funding for > teaching or research. > > I'm happy to answer any additional questions as well. > > Best, > > Jacob > > (Ps. Apologies for cross-posts) > > -- > Dr. Jacob Groshek > Assistant Professor of Emerging Media > 704 Commonwealth Ave., Office 302D > Boston University > 617-353-6421 > jgroshek.com > > _______________________________________________ > The Air-L at listserv.aoir.org mailing list > is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org > Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: > http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org > > Join the Association of Internet Researchers: > http://www.aoir.org/ > -- _____________________________ Jack Harris http://www.linkedin.com/in/jackharrisnyc/ http://rci-rutgers.academia.edu/JackLHarris SC&I Fellow, School of Communication and Information. Governor's Executive Fellow, Eagleton Institute of Politics Rutgers University, New Brunswick NJ 952-212-7287 jackharris999 at gmail.com www.pocketfarms.wordpress.com/ From fichman at indiana.edu Sat Feb 22 04:00:05 2014 From: fichman at indiana.edu (Fichman, Pnina) Date: Sat, 22 Feb 2014 12:00:05 +0000 Subject: [Air-L] AMCIS 2014 > Final CFP: Social Theory in Information Systems Research (STIR '14) Message-ID: <8E1650F8-F5DC-425B-B91B-2A3FDA1B714A@indiana.edu> [Apologies for cross-posting] Final Call For Papers: AMCIS Mini-track: Social Theory in Information Systems Research (STIR '14) 20th Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS): Smart Sustainability, the Information Systems opportunity, Savannah, GA, August 7-10, 2014 Conference Website: http://amcis2013.aisnet.org/ DESCRIPTION: This Mini Track solicits papers that make use of social theory in information systems research drawing upon such approaches as sociotechnical theory, critical theory, social informatics, organizational theory, cultural anthropology, sociology and others. We are interested in understanding and supporting the evolution of social theory, socio-technical theory, and social informatics in information systems research. We want to highlight research that uses these approaches to critically examine the constitution of information and communications technologies, and their roles in organizations and society; these are among the most important questions about IS, organizations, and society. We particularly invite IS research that applies, builds on, compares, or critiques these social theories. We are interested in high quality empirical and conceptual work that uses social theory to study and theorize about application domains including large-scale social and organizational phenomena. We seek to attract research papers and research-in-progress papers from all IS researchers who are using the work of social theorists, organizational theorists, sociotechnical theorists, and cultural anthropologists, symbolic interactionists, and many others. We are particularly interested in research that makes use of social theory 1) to address issues of designing a smart and sustainable digital future, 2) to answer questions about how we are interacting with ICTs in our work and social lives in ways that help and hinder the move towards sustainability, and 3) to critically examine the constitution of ICTs, and their roles in the design, maintenance and dissolution of sustainable organizations and social groups. This will be the 14th consecutive year for the Mini Track at AMCIS, and we hope to continue a tradition of high quality paper submissions, thought-provoking presentations and lively discussion for all IS researchers using, or considering the use of, social theory in their work. SUGGESTED TOPICS In addition to research aligned with the conference theme we are also interested in high quality empirical and conceptual work that uses social theory to study and understand: * The implications of social networks for organizations and social groups * Conceptual and empirical work focusing on the ways ICT can promote or hinder social inclusion * The significance of cyberinfrastructure for commerce, governing and research and development * The relationships between ICTs and people as they participate in online communities and virtual teams * Online communities of practice, their processes and outcomes * The dynamics of crowdsourcing online * Hacktivism and the use of technology to mobilize resources and advance ideology * Unintended consequences of technology implementation and use in organizations and in social life * Scientific collaboration and scholarly communication as enabled and constrained by ICTs * The impacts of social computing on our social and work lives Minitrack chairs: Howard Rosenbaum, School of Informatics and Computing, Indiana University hrosenba at indiana.edu Pnina Fichman, School of Informatics and Computing, Indiana University fichman at indiana.edu Submission Process: Instructions for authors and more information is available at: http://amcis2014.aisnet.org/index.php/call-for-papers Full paper submissions must be made electronically through the AMCIS on-line submission system. Papers can be submitted beginning on January 5, 2014. The link will be available at: http://aisel.aisnet.org/amcis2014_papers/ Submissions will close on March 1, 2014. ------------------------ Pnina Fichman Associate Professor, School of Informatics and Computing Director, Rob Kling Center for Social Informatics Affiliated Associate Professor, School of Global and International Studies 901 East 10th Street, Informatics West #301 Indiana University, Bloomington, 47408 Phone (812) 856-1587 E-Mail fichman at indiana.edu Web http://ella.slis.indiana.edu/~fichman/ _______________________________________________ From fichman at indiana.edu Sat Feb 22 04:04:35 2014 From: fichman at indiana.edu (Fichman, Pnina) Date: Sat, 22 Feb 2014 12:04:35 +0000 Subject: [Air-L] AMCIS 2014> Final CFP: Global and Cross Cultural Impacts of Big Data Message-ID: <26EA9DE4-8B71-4737-85C1-CEBB21FED6D2@indiana.edu> [Apologies for cross-posting] Final CALL FOR PAPERS: AMCIS Minitrack - Global and Cross Cultural Impacts of Big Data 20th Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS): Smart Sustainability, the Information Systems Opportunity, Savannah, GA, August 7-10, 2014 Conference Website: http://amcis2013.aisnet.org/ DESCRIPTION Manyika et al. (2011; 4) note ?big data has now reached every sector of the global economy. Like other essential factors of production ? much of modern economic activity simply couldn?t take place without it.? An emerging grand challenge involves gathering, organizing, curating, managing, analyzing, visualizing and disseminating these heterogeneous data over the lifecycle of the data for such purposes such as scientific discovery, medical advances, entrepreneurial activity and public policy formulation. People in the public and private sectors are taking note of this development as are academics, who are exploring ways of dealing with big data, defined by the National Science Foundation (2012) as: ?large, diverse, complex, longitudinal, and/or distributed data sets generated from instruments, sensors, Internet transactions, email, video, click streams, and/or all other digital sources available today and in the future. This minitrack solicits high quality conceptual and empirical work that focuses on the global impacts of big data on governments, multinational companies, NGOs and other organizations. Big data datasets and the technologies for analyzing them are developing faster than our understanding of the ways in which this phenomenon is impacting and will impact the ways work is done in a wide range of settings. As scholars and researchers begin to investigate the impacts of Big Data, this minitrack provides a venue for them to share their work. Appropriate topics for this minitrack include (but are not limited to) the following: ? Big data use in organizational, national and international settings ? How the introduction of big data affects organizational and group work flow ? Ways that big data is affecting organizational and group decision making ? Security and privacy impacts of big data use ? The intended and unintended consequences of big data ? The dark side of big data: surveillance, illicit activities, discriminatory analytics, and the end of privacy ? Big data as a social, political, economic, and/or cultural phenomenon Minitrack chairs: Pnina Fichman, School of Informatics and Computing, Indiana University fichman at indiana.edu Howard Rosenbaum, School of Informatics and Computing, Indiana University hrosenba at indiana.edu SUBMISSION PROCESS: Full paper submissions must be made electronically through the AMCIS on-line submission system no later than March 1, 2014. Manuscript Central will start accepting paper submissions on January 5, 2014 at: http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/amcis2014 Additional instructions for authors: http://amcis2014.aisnet.org/index.php/call-for-papers Important Dates: March 1, 2014: (11:59 PM EST): Deadline for paper submissions April 4 2014: Authors will be notified of acceptances on or about this date April 18, 2014: Authors revisions due April 25, 2014: (11:59 PM EST): For accepted papers, camera ready copy due ----------------------- Pnina Fichman, Ph.D. Director, Rob Kling Center for Social Informatics Associate Professor, School of Informatics and Computing Affiliated Associate Professor, School of Global and International Studies 901 E. 10th St. Informatics West #301 Indiana University, Bloomington IN 47408 Office: (812) 856-1587 Cell: (812) 322-0219 Web: http://ella.slis.indiana.edu/~fichman/ From jemcnealy at uky.edu Sat Feb 22 07:16:49 2014 From: jemcnealy at uky.edu (McNealy, Jasmine E) Date: Sat, 22 Feb 2014 15:16:49 +0000 Subject: [Air-L] New BS degree in Information Communication Technology Message-ID: {Apologies for cross posts.} Please circulate to any undergraduate students that may have an interest in our new program. The Bachelors of Science in Information Communication Technology (ICT) at the University of Kentucky focuses on the intersection of technology, people who use that technology, policies and regulations that govern the use of that technology and communities or environments in which that technology is used. It is the newest undergraduate degree program in the College of Communication and Information, the university?s official iSchool, part of a collection of Information Schools dedicated to advancing the information field. Housed in the School of Library and Information Science, ICT is an applied information technology degree program. The full press release can be found here: https://ci.uky.edu/lis/content/ict-program-debuts More program specifics can be found here: http://ict.uky.edu Thank you, Jasmine McNealy, J.D., Ph.D. Assistant Professor Information Communication Technology Program University of Kentucky 320 Little Library Building Lexington, KY 40506 (859) 218-2297 From dheider at luc.edu Sat Feb 22 09:14:47 2014 From: dheider at luc.edu (Heider, Donald) Date: Sat, 22 Feb 2014 17:14:47 +0000 Subject: [Air-L] Call for Papers - International Symposium on Digital Ethics Message-ID: <772e528ce29b4e6a83aeda7ce2a55f85@mbxls2.adms.luc.edu> Call for papers The Center for Digital Ethics & Policy at Loyola University Chicago (digitalethics.org) will be holding its 4th Annual International Symposium on Digital Ethics on Nov 7th, 2014. We are looking for papers on digital ethics. Topics might include privacy, anonymity, griefing, free speech, intellectual property, hacking, scamming, surveillance, information mining, transparency, digital citizenship, and/or the ethical use of digital technologies in journalism, advertising and public relations. Paper abstracts should propose original research and be between 500 and 1,000 words in length (not including references). Authors invited to present papers will be eligible for up to $400 in travel funds to be able to attend the Chicago symposium. The author(s) of the Top Student Paper will be eligible for up to $1,000 in travel funds. Abstracts are due by midnight CST on April 15th, 2014, should follow APA or MLA. Authors of top papers will have the opportunity to have their work published in Proceedings from the 4th Annual Symposium on Digital Ethics. Send your submission in a MS Word document attachment to contact at digitalethics.org, and please write Digital Ethics Symposium submission in the subject line. Please send questions to the same email address. From mariarosariataddeo at gmail.com Sun Feb 23 07:17:07 2014 From: mariarosariataddeo at gmail.com (Mariariosaria Taddeo) Date: Sun, 23 Feb 2014 15:17:07 +0000 Subject: [Air-L] The Annual Meeting of the International Association for Computing and Philosophy - Thessaloniki, Greece Message-ID: <72361FFD-135C-4C10-9220-81B1B9E6B29E@gmail.com> Call for Papers: IACAP 2014 The Annual Meeting of the International Association for Computing and Philosophy www.iacap.org Anatolia College/ACT Thessaloniki, Greece July 2-4. 2014 Conference Website UPDATES: The submission deadline for symposium proposals has been extended. The Covey and Simon Award winners have been selected. The Executive Committee is pleased to announce that the Covey Award has been awarded to Professor Selmer Bringsjord (Rensselaer Polytechnic) and the Simon Award has been awarded to Professor Gualterio Piccinini (Missouri- St. Louis). This year?s meeting of the International Association for Computing and Philosophy will be held at Anatolia College/ACT in Thessaloniki, Greece. Computing technologies both raise philosophical questions and elucidate traditional philosophical problems. IACAP meetings emphasise this two-way relationship, providing an opportunity for researchers in multiple fields to share new work in an interdisciplinary setting. We invite both abstract submissions and symposium proposals in areas at the intersection of computing and philosophy. This year?s meeting will have a single main track focusing on topics central to IACAP membership interests. Symposia will focus on more specific topics, organised autonomously by members or member groups. One symposium will be dedicated to the work of young researchers. Some abstracts will be accepted for presentation as posters. Paper presentations will be allotted 30 minutes, including discussion. Selected papers will be published in a volume of the ?Synthese Library? (Springer). Authors of accepted abstracts will be invited to submit a full paper for peer-review to this volume. IACAP is also soliciting nominations for a number of awards (see below). Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): ? Artificial Intelligence ? Artificial Life ? Cognitive Science, Computation & Cognition ? Computational Modeling in Science and Social Science ? Computer-Mediated Communication ? Distance Education and Electronic Pedagogy ? Ethical Problems and Societal Impact of Computation and Information ? History of Computing ? Information Culture and Society ? Logic ? Metaphysics of Computing ? Philosophy of Information ? Philosophy of Information Technology ? Robotics ? Virtual Reality ... and related issues Format For abstracts, we request anonymous submission of 600-1000 words (plus references) in plain text or PDF, plus a short abstract of up to 120 words. All submissions will be reviewed double-blind by at least two members of the programme committee. All submissions of paper abstracts - whether to the main track or to symposia - are made centrally on the same site and all reviewing takes place on that site. For symposia, please provide a brief motivation (ca. 300 words), a list of envisaged speakers, and indication of time needed (full day, half day, etc.). The submission procedure and reviewing for symposia will be taken care of by their organisers - but within the structure provided by IACAP and the submission system for this conference. Dates Submission of symposium proposals: 28 February 2014 Submission of abstracts: 1 March 2014 Notification of acceptance or rejection: 13 March for symposia, 31 March for papers. Submissions may be sent through Easychair. Further details can be found on the conference website . -- Dr. Mariarosaria Taddeo Research Fellow in Cyber Security and Ethics, PAIS, University of Warwick Research Associate - Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, University of Oxford President, International Association for Computing and Philosophy http://rosariataddeo.net From timothy.jordan at kcl.ac.uk Sun Feb 23 09:06:22 2014 From: timothy.jordan at kcl.ac.uk (Jordan, Timothy) Date: Sun, 23 Feb 2014 17:06:22 +0000 Subject: [Air-L] FW: Postdocs Ego-media ERC project In-Reply-To: <0c9a024b7c424392a3e55ecc28e13f94@AMSPR03MB550.eurprd03.prod.outlook.com> References: , <4a3fcd5b6f1e4e6ebb4f9bfc74771b92@AMXPR03MB229.eurprd03.prod.outlook.com> <0c9a024b7c424392a3e55ecc28e13f94@AMSPR03MB550.eurprd03.prod.outlook.com> Message-ID: Dear all, Two Post-Docs on ?Ego-media: The impact of new media on forms and practices of self-presentation?, a European Research Council grant led by Professor Max Saunders here at King's College London that I'm also part of. Cheers Tim Dr Tim Jordan, Senior Lecturer Department of Digital Humanities and Department of Culture, Media and Creative Industries, Creative Arts Administrative Centre, Room 5D, D Floor, Chesham Building, King's College London, Strand, London WC2R 2LS, England Phone: +44 (0)20 78481100 ? ? King?s College London is advertising two postdoctoral positions (of 3 years and 5 years) to work on a new collaborative research project in Life Writing and digital media funded by the European Research Council. It is called ?Ego-media: The impact of new media on forms and practices of self-presentation?, and is being led by Professor Max Saunders, the Director of the Arts and Humanities Research Institute. He will be joined by his Co-Director of the Centre for Life-Writing Research, Professor Clare Brant, and two other King?s academics: Alexandra Georgakopoulou, Professor of Discourse Analysis & Sociolinguistics om the Centre for Language, Discourse & Communication, and Professor Leone Ridsdale, from the Institute of Psychiatry. The project?s steering group also includes colleagues from Culture Media and Creative Industries, Digital Humanities, French, Medical Humanities, Medical Sociology, War Studies, and Education. ? It aims to study the impact of new media on autobiographical narratives: an impact increasing as habits and practices of self-presentation evolve rapidly in response to constantly fast-changing technology. It will consider the implications of these new forms and practices for such notions as autobiography, selfhood, subjectivity, individuality, self-intelligibility, agency, creativity, privacy, and sociability. ? The closing date for applications is the 11th March. For further details of how to apply please see: ? ? http://www.kcl.ac.uk/depsta/pertra/vacancy/external/pers_detail.php?jobindex=14266 ? http://www.kcl.ac.uk/depsta/pertra/vacancy/external/pers_detail.php?jobindex=14262 ? ? ? From kwfu at hku.hk Sun Feb 23 21:46:45 2014 From: kwfu at hku.hk (KW Fu) Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2014 13:46:45 +0800 Subject: [Air-L] PhD scholarships for China Media/Internet Research in the University of Hong Kong: Deadline: April 30, 2014 Message-ID: <04ab01cf3123$cdce27d0$696a7770$@hku.hk> Dear all, The Journalism and Media Studies Centre (JMSC) at The University of Hong Kong is inviting applications for the 2014-2015 PhD programme. Postgraduate scholarships are available for eligible candidates. Applicants should possess a good Bachelor's or Master's degree in the social sciences, China studies, engineering/information science, public health, legal studies or journalism/media/communication studies Good command of written and spoken English is essential, and knowledge of the Chinese language is an advantage. The scholarship programme offers HK$14,000 (US$1795) per month for the 2014-2015 academic year. For further details, please visit the HKU Graduate School website: http://www.gradsch.hku.hk/gradsch/web/ The JMSC is an academic unit that offers undergraduate and graduate degrees through the Faculty of Social Sciences. It provides excellent support and resources to China media researchers. Led by Qian Gang and Prof. Ying Chan, the China Media Project documents and analyzes the process of media reform and development in China. The JMSC's Weiboscope project deploys quantitative research methodology to conduct big-data research to collect and analyze Chinese social media. Deadline: April 30, 2014. Application to the HKU Graduate School. Website: http://www.gradsch.hku.hk/gradsch/web/. General enquiry: Jason Hui (email: tyhui at hku.hk); Research-related enquiry: Dr. King-wa Fu (email: kwfu at hku.hk) King-wa Fu, PhD Assistant Professor Journalism and Media Studies Centre The University of Hong Kong Room 206, Eliot Hall, Pokfulam Road, Hong Kong Tel: (852) 3917-1643 Fax: (852) 2858-8736 Website: https://sites.google.com/site/fukingwa/ From aherman at wlu.ca Mon Feb 24 04:16:45 2014 From: aherman at wlu.ca (Andrew Herman) Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2014 07:16:45 -0500 Subject: [Air-L] CFP: PRECONFERENCE WORKSHOP ON INTERNET CATS! Message-ID: <530AF1DE0200003F0007CB40@gwvia03.wlu.ca> AOIR Internet Cat Proposal for IR 15 Preconference Proposal Hi All I would like to put together a preconference workshop on thesubject of Internet Cats: LOL Cats and Icanhazcheezbuger; Internet Cat Videos and International Internet Cat Video Festivals; Internet Cat Memes and Gatonovelas; Internet Cat Ur-Demigods such as Keyboard Cat and contemporary luminaries suchas Lil Bub, and documentaries about them, and so on. Clearly, the myth that the ?Internetis Made of Cats? is widely held but nobody really knows why and, with theexception of Kate Miltner?s MA work at the LSE, there has been little sustainedanalytical consideration of Internet Cats. This is an aporia in Critical Internet Studies that must be addressed as soon as possible. If not now, when? The purpose of the workshop is to bring together scholarswho have interest in pursuing the theorization, conceptualization and empiricalanalysis one of Internet Cats the most important features of evolving Internetculture. Please let me know if you areinterested. All I need at this point is an expression of interest inparticipating, your institutional affiliation, and-if you have one- a title ofa brief presentation. PLEASE CONTACT ME BY FEBRuARY 28 at the latest. Andrew Herman Associate Professor Department of Communication Studies Wilfrid Laurier University Waterloo, ON N2L 3C5 From ierick at gmail.com Mon Feb 24 08:21:00 2014 From: ierick at gmail.com (Ingrid Erickson) Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2014 11:21:00 -0500 Subject: [Air-L] CFP: 2014 Digital Societies and Social Technologies (DSST) Summer Institute Message-ID: <530B716C.5090206@gmail.com> **Apologies for Duplication** Call for Participation: 2014 Digital Societies and Social Technologies (DSST) Summer Institute July 8 ? July 10, 2014 (arrival July 7; departure July 11 for 3 full days) University of Missouri ? Columbia, Columbia, MO http://www.sociotech.net/v2/dsst2014 MOOCs, Education and learning; personal health and well-being; open innovation, eScience, and citizen science; co-production, open source, and new forms of work; cultural heritage and information access; energy management and climate change; civic hacking, engagement and government; disaster response; cybersecurity and privacy ? these are just a few problem domains where effective design and robust understanding of complex sociotechnical systems is critical. To meet these challenges a trans-disciplinary community of scholars has come together from fields as wide ranging as CSCW, HCI, social computing, organization studies, information visualization, social informatics, sociology, information systems, medical informatics, computer science, ICT for development, education, learning science, journalism, and political science. Through summer institutes (CSST), extended workshops (Social Webshop), preconference workshops at a wide variety of venues, and other activities (Digital Societies and Technology Research Coordination Network) this community of researchers from academia and industry has developed a strong focus on problems and opportunities arising from the interplay of social and technological systems which span individuals, groups, organizations, and societies. The 2014 Summer Institute builds on this tradition to strengthen and expand this diverse community by bringing together graduate students, post doctoral students, faculty, and other researchers in four groups at the University of Missouri ? Columbia on July 8 ? 10, 2014: Doctoral students, post doctoral students, pre-tenure faculty, and early career researchers ? Through mentoring, peer networking, and skill-building tutorials, doctoral students, post doctoral students, pre-tenure faculty, and early career researchers will identify substantive ways that the theories, approaches, and tools within the larger community can advance their work with the design and study of sociotechnical systems. Established researchers ? Prior summer institute/workshop participants and established researchers will network with other researchers (senior and junior), explore ideas and new directions, shape emerging research agendas, articulate critical challenges, and share knowledge about practices, tools, and approaches which have the potential to advance the design and study of sociotechnical systems. Emerging multi-disciplinary research teams ? Nascent groups of researchers seeking to develop cross-disciplinary collaborations will work with peers and mentors to refine problem statements and research goals; connect with collaborators with complementary skills and interests; and create actionable research agendas and funding proposals. Preference will be given to groups interested in designing and studying sociotechnical systems that address societal grand challenges such as (but not limited to) healthcare; energy management and climate change; cybersecurity and privacy; education and learning; disaster response; technology development and innovation; economic development and work; and civic engagement and participation. Research infrastructure development teams ? Groups of researchers interested in creating computational or analytic tools, data resources, training materials or other infrastructure to support the design and study of sociotechnical systems will work with one another, other Summer institute participants, and local developers. These infrastructure ?hackathon? sessions will result in the creation of use cases, prototypes, draft materials, and when possible deployable systems and resources. Applying for DSST 2014 Applications are encouraged from all academic, industry, NGO, and public sector organizations worldwide. To apply for the 2013 Summer Institute, select the group that best fits your needs and situation and send the appropriate materials to the Summer Institute co-coordinator (Sean Goggins) at gogginss at missouri.edu by March 20, 2014: Doctoral students, post doctoral students, pre-tenure faculty, and early career researchers should send their CV and a short (~ 1 page) response to: ?How does/will your work advance our ability to design and understand critical sociotechnical systems?? Several core references should be included to situate your work within the larger research community. Doctoral students should also provide a letter of recommendation from their advisor/department chair indicating their expected graduation date. Established researchers should send their CV and a short (~ 1 page) response to: ?What are the most interesting challenges and opportunities related to the design and study of critical sociotechnical systems? What activity (30 minutes to 4 hours long) could you run that would help the Summer Institute participants better engage these challenges and opportunities?? Proposed activities can be for any (or all) Summer Institute participants and might include, but are not limited to: focused presentations; brainstorming sessions; in-depth problem descriptions; method, tool, or data tutorials; or research agenda setting exercises. Emerging multi-disciplinary research teams should apply as a group, sending their CVs and a short (~ 1 page) response to: ?What is the research focus/problem domain? What types of activities/studies are needed to engage that domain? How will pursuing this agenda help advance our ability to design and understand critical sociotechnical systems?? References potential funding sources can be included, if known, to situate the proposal within the larger research community. Groups invited to the Summer Institute will have between 4-6 people. However, only 3 individuals need to be part of an application for it to be considered (assistance will be provided prior to the Summer Institute to help invited teams recruit additional participants as needed). Preference will be given to cross-institutional teams in which junior/mid-career researchers play significant leadership roles. Research infrastructure development teams should apply as a group, sending their CVs and a short (~ 1 page) response to: ?What is the problem you are seeking to address? What will you do to address that problem? How will creating these technologies, tools, materials or infrastructure improve our ability to design and understand critical sociotechnical systems?? References to examples from other domains can be included to situate your proposal. Teams invited for the Summer Institute will have between 4-6 people from multiple disciplines and institutions. However, only 3 individuals need to be part of an application to be considered (assistance will be provided prior to the Summer Institute to help invited teams recruit additional participants as needed). Lodging, meals, and other onsite costs will be covered for all Summer Institute participants. Limited travel support is available, if needed, for participants from US and Canadian institutions (with preference given to doctoral and post-doctoral students). Travel support may also be available for other Summer Institute participants. To be considered for all available financial support you should provide the following information when you apply: What college or university do you attend? What is your primary department affiliation? If you are applying from a Canadian university, are you a member of the GRAND network? Materials should be sent to Summer Institute co-coordinator (Sean Goggins) at gogginss at missouri.edu by March 20th, 2014. Applications will be reviewed by the Summer Institute Advisory Group beginning March 30th, 2013 using the following criteria: -Clear articulation of the hoped-for contribution to the theory, practice, or design of sociotechnical systems -Likelihood of Summer Institute participation providing significant practical benefit for the individual/team -Contribution to a balanced and diverse group of participants The number of participants selected will depend on the available funding and the fit between applicants? interests and goals. For more information about the Summer Institute, contact the Summer Institute co-coordinators, Sean Goggins (gogginss at missouri.edu) and Diane Bailey (debailey at ischool.utexas.edu). For information about the broader community of researchers interested in design and study of sociotechnical systems, see: CSST (www.sociotech.net), the ?Researchers of the Socio-Technical? Facebook group, or the CSST listserv (csst at listserv.syr.edu). 2014 Mentors Mark Ackerman, University of Michigan Diane Bailey, University of Texas (Co-Director) Paul Dourish, University of California ? Irvine Nicole Ellison, University of Michigan Sean Goggins, University of Missouri (Co-Director) Erik Johnston, Arizona State University Tony Salvador, Intel Jennifer Stromer-Galley, Syracuse Susan Stuckey, IBM Steve Sawyer, Syracuse (Digital Societies RCN) Wayne Lutters, UMBC (Digital Societies RCN) Brian Butler, Maryland (Digital Societies RCN) Andrea Hoplight-Tapia, The Pennsylvania State University (Digital Societies RCN) From jstromer at syr.edu Mon Feb 24 13:22:26 2014 From: jstromer at syr.edu (Jennifer Stromer-Galley) Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2014 21:22:26 +0000 Subject: [Air-L] Still time to provide feedback on the AoIR Website Message-ID: Hi everyone! Last week I posted a note inviting feedback on the AoIR website. A sub-committee of the AoIR Executive Board is working to revamp the Association's website (www.aoir.org). We still want to get your thoughts on the website, whether you've visited it or not. Take a few minutes now to take the survey: https://syracuseuniversity.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_1UhJqsqjSB9Jm5f. Let us know how we can better serve you! Your PR/Website Committee: Anthony Hoffman, Annette Markham, and Jenny Stromer-Galley Associate Professor | School of Information Studies Vice President | Association of Internet Researchers Syracuse University 220 Hinds Hall Syracuse, New York 13244 t 315.443.1823 f 315.443.5673 e jstromer at syr.edu w www.stromer-galley.com w www.aoir.org ischool.syr.edu From je.burgess at qut.edu.au Mon Feb 24 18:28:19 2014 From: je.burgess at qut.edu.au (Jean Burgess) Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2014 02:28:19 +0000 Subject: [Air-L] ICA Regional Conference (Brisbane, 2014) Update Message-ID: <5D8D232B-E847-4368-A645-6B190527AD20@qut.edu.au> The ICA Regional Conference (Brisbane, 2014) Call for Extended Abstracts and Panel Proposals Digital Transformations, Social Media Engagement, and the Asian Century Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia, 1-3 October 2014 The ICA Regional Conference will be held at the City (Gardens Point) Campus of the Queensland University of Technology (QUT), Brisbane, Australia, from 1-3 October 2014. The event is supported by the Creative Industries Faculty at QUT, the QUT Business School, the International Communications Association (ICA), and the Australian and New Zealand Communication Association (ANZCA). The conference will be seeking extended abstracts (1000-2000 words) and panel proposals related to the thematic areas of: ? Digital media and social change; ? Information media and digital journalism; ? Entertainment media and culture; ? Convergence law, policy and political economy; ? Asian media in transition; ? Communication and public engagement; ? Organizational communication; ? Social media and communications practice; ? Science and environmental communication ? Health communication; ? Digital media and education; ? Crisis and emergency communication; ? Digital media and political communication. Extended Abstracts Extended abstracts should indicate author details and institutional affiliation on the front page. They should be not less than 1000 words in length and not more than 2000 words in length. References cited in the extended abstract should be included in a bibliography. Note: there will not be a call for refereed papers. Submissions will be accepted or rejected on the basis of the extended abstract only. If this will present you with any issues in relation to conference support from your institution, please contact the conference organizers. The conference organizers reserve the right to publish the extended abstract in a book available to all conference delegates. This does not preclude submission of the material to any refereed academic journal, book, book chapter or other publication. Panel proposals Panel proposals must provide a rationale for the panel of not more than 400 words, and each proposed presenter must also provide an abstract of 100-250 words. There are to be no less than three and more than four presenters in any panel proposal, although a Panel Chair and Panel Respondent can also be included. All submissions to the Conference will be subject to peer review, and submitters will be advised of whether their proposal has been accepted or rejected no later than 21 June 2014. All of those who have papers and panel proposals accepted will be required to register for the Conference no later than 12 September 2014. Failure to register by this date will lead to papers being withdrawn from the program. All submissions are to be through the Conference web site at http://icabrisbane2014.com/. Emailed attachments will not be accepted. Registration Fees FACULTY ($ AUD) Early Bird Registration (on or before 22 August 2014 AEST) $300.00 Standard Registration (from 23 August until 12 September 2014 AEST) $350.00 Late Registration (from 13 September until 26 September 2014 AEST) $400.00 STUDENT Early Bird Registration (on or before 22 August 2014 AEST) $150.00 Standard Registration (from 23 August until 12 September 2014 AEST) $175.00 Late Registration (from 13 September until 26 September 2014 AEST) $200.00 Further information on the conference can be found in the attached flyer or visit the website atwww.icabrisbane2014.com . You can also email icabrisbane2014 at qut.edu.au for any queries related to the conference. From david.sutcliffe at oii.ox.ac.uk Tue Feb 25 02:59:20 2014 From: david.sutcliffe at oii.ox.ac.uk (David Sutcliffe) Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2014 10:59:20 +0000 Subject: [Air-L] Call for P&I Journal Special Issues + IPP2014 Crowdsourcing Conference Call Message-ID: <009CA1130984AE42944344901B6512532FC35B28@MBX07.ad.oak.ox.ac.uk> Dear all, The journal Policy and Internet is calling for special issue proposals. Policy and Internet Calls for Special Issues: http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/news/?id=1057 The journal is multidisciplinary: perspectives from any academic discipline are welcomed, particularly political science, economics, law, sociology, information science, communications, philosophy, computer science, psychology, management, geography and medicine. Possible topics for a special issue might include (for example): > Collective action / public participation in policy-making > Privacy / surveillance / the coercive state > Big Data / predictive analytics for public policy > Open data / open government > Internet governance > Crime / law enforcement > Health > Online labour markets The journal was established in 2009 as the first major peer-reviewed journal investigating the implications of the Internet and associated technologies for public policy. It is published quarterly by Wiley-Blackwell, and edited by the Oxford Internet Institute (University of Oxford) for the Policy Studies Organization (PSO). The Editors are Professor Helen Margetts, Professor Luciano Floridi, Dr Vili Lehdonvirta, and Dr Sandra Gonzalez-Bailon. Proposals should be send to the editors at: policyandinternet at oii.ox.ac.uk by 1 April 2014 *** Conference Call Reminder: Crowdsourcing for Politics and Policy *** And also, a reminder that the journal will be holding its third conference (co-convened by the OII, in collaboration with the ECPR) on 25-26 September in Oxford, on the subject of crowdsourcing. We are currently calling for abstracts. 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 Thank you! Best wishes, David Sutcliffe (Managing Editor) *** David Sutcliffe Managing Editor Oxford Internet Institute University of Oxford http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/ Tel: +44 (0)1865 612334 Managing Editor Policy and Internet Journal http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1002/(ISSN)1944-2866 http://blogs.oii.ox.ac.uk/policy/ From zara.dinnen at gmail.com Tue Feb 25 05:26:05 2014 From: zara.dinnen at gmail.com (Zara Dinnen) Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2014 13:26:05 +0000 Subject: [Air-L] Researching Contemporary Culture summer workshops 2014 (London) Message-ID: AOIR-ers, *with apologies for cross posting The following series of workshops may be of interest: Researching Contemporary Culture is a series of summer workshops for postgraduate and early career researchers. It takes place from the 14th to 16th July 2014 at the Institute of English Studies, Senate House London. Researching Contemporary Culture aims to help researchers in the field address an array of issues that currently define the study of contemporary culture by offering workshops and presentations on: developing the impact of research through exhibition, curation, and the championing of particular artists'/directors'/authors' work; producing research for open access publications; balancing public engagement and research needs; using online participatory culture as a research tool; conducting sustainable research with ephemeral data. The event will bring together specialist workshop leaders, speakers, and librarians to address these challenges through a research skills development programme of participatory workshops and advice and guidance. Researching Contemporary Culture has evolved out of the work of the Contemporary Fiction Seminar at the Institute of English Studies, and will offer a sustainable research skills enrichment programme appropriate for the study of contemporary culture in the arts and humanities disciplines of the twenty-first century. Speakers include: Caroline Bassett, Clare Birchall, Kieran Connell, Jeremy Gilbert, Gary Hall, Matt Hills, Roger Luckhurst, Holly Pester, Ernesto Priego, Agnes Woolley. The three workshop themes are: Public Practices, Archiving Now, and Interpretive Communities. Researching Contemporary Culture is supported by an AHRC Collaborative Skills Award; with additional support from the University of Birmingham, Birkbeck, University of London, and the Institute of English Studies, University of London; it is organised by Dr Zara Dinnen (University of Birmingham) and Dr Tony Venezia (Birkbeck, University of London), conveners of the Contemporary Fiction Seminar. Further information and details of how to apply are available at the website: researchingthecontemporary.net. Please email contemporaryfictionseminar at gmail.com with any queries. -- Dr Zara Dinnen Lecturer in Modern and Contemporary Literature School of English, Drama and American and Canadian Studies University of Birmingham + 44 (0) 121 414 5657 From pbooth81 at gmail.com Tue Feb 25 06:07:17 2014 From: pbooth81 at gmail.com (Paul Booth) Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2014 08:07:17 -0600 Subject: [Air-L] Reminder (01 Mar Deadline) Joss Whedon: A Celebration Message-ID: Call for Papers and Topic Proposals: Joss Whedon: A Celebration (Apologies for cross-posting) Now accepting submissions and ideas for the second annual Pop Culture Colloquium at DePaul University in Chicago! The Media and Cinema Studies program at DePaul University is hosting a one-day celebratory colloquium in honor of the work of Joss Whedon on Saturday, May 03, from 9-6. This event will feature roundtable discussions from scholars and fans of Whedon, speaking about the cultural impact of his work, as well as analyzing aspects of his television shows and films. The even will also feature special guests, screenings, screenwriting workshops, and (perhaps) a sing-a-long or two... The audience for this event is both graduate and undergraduate students, both fans and scholars, and the focus should be on informed and enlightening discussion rather than formal academic papers. "Joss Whedon: A Celebration" will take place on DePaul's Loop campus. If you're interested in speaking on a round table, please send a 200 word abstract of your topic and a CV or resume to Paul Booth (pbooth at depaul.edu) by Mar 01. Also please email with any questions. We hope that you will be able to join in the discussion and celebration! -- Paul Booth, PhD Assistant Professor of Media and Cinema Studies/Communication Technology College of Communication DePaul University 14 E. Jackson Chicago, IL 60604 From tsenft at gmail.com Tue Feb 25 12:13:42 2014 From: tsenft at gmail.com (Terri Senft) Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2014 15:13:42 -0500 Subject: [Air-L] Conference proposals: Word counts on roundtable and fishbowl submissions? Message-ID: Hi All, I putting this out to the list, because I'm assuming others will have the same question soon: I'm currently drafting both a roundtable and a fishbowl submission for Bangkok, and cannot find any information regarding appropriate word counts for these formats. 've looked at all the guidelines, twice. There are max counts for papers, panels, pre-conference workshops, and ignite talks, but nothing for roundtables or fishbowls. I did try to suss this out myself, fwiw. I registered on the automated conference submission system, and when I tried to copy what I'd written into submission box, I gt a note that my submission is "too many words." Unfortunately, I received nothing that told me what the word limit is, or how many words I am over-limit... Can someone help me out, here? Thanks! Terri -- Dr. Theresa M. Senft Global Liberal Studies Program School of Arts & Sciences New York University 726 Broadway NY NY 10003 home: *www.terrisenft.net * (needs a serious updating) facebook: www.facebook.com/theresa.senft twitter: @terrisenft From tsenft at gmail.com Tue Feb 25 12:13:42 2014 From: tsenft at gmail.com (Terri Senft) Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2014 15:13:42 -0500 Subject: [Air-L] Conference proposals: Word counts on roundtable and fishbowl submissions? Message-ID: Hi All, I putting this out to the list, because I'm assuming others will have the same question soon: I'm currently drafting both a roundtable and a fishbowl submission for Bangkok, and cannot find any information regarding appropriate word counts for these formats. 've looked at all the guidelines, twice. There are max counts for papers, panels, pre-conference workshops, and ignite talks, but nothing for roundtables or fishbowls. I did try to suss this out myself, fwiw. I registered on the automated conference submission system, and when I tried to copy what I'd written into submission box, I gt a note that my submission is "too many words." Unfortunately, I received nothing that told me what the word limit is, or how many words I am over-limit... Can someone help me out, here? Thanks! Terri -- Dr. Theresa M. Senft Global Liberal Studies Program School of Arts & Sciences New York University 726 Broadway NY NY 10003 home: *www.terrisenft.net * (needs a serious updating) facebook: www.facebook.com/theresa.senft twitter: @terrisenft From zimmerm at uwm.edu Tue Feb 25 12:32:49 2014 From: zimmerm at uwm.edu (Michael Zimmer) Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2014 14:32:49 -0600 Subject: [Air-L] PhD Workshop on Internet Research and Ethics (March 20-21, Aalborg, DK) Message-ID: <9B6A6FFD-C5E5-4DA9-9654-3F749E140EEE@uwm.edu> Colleagues: I wanted to share this upcoming PhD student workshop on "Internet Research and Ethics", held March 20-21 at Aalborg University. Details below. -Michael March 20-21: Internet Research and Ethics http://www.hcci.hum.aau.dk/index.php?id=9041&tx_ttnews[tt_news]=365&cHash=78c59d117dc13406b40ab6c698b3e3ae Organisers: Michael Zimmer, Tia Hansen, Thomas Ryberg, Ann Bygholm Registration to hannepc at hum.aau.dk Room: 1.40, Nyhavnsgade 14, 9000 Aalborg Aim of the workshop: The aim of this workshop is to explore research ethics in general and with a particular focus on Internet Research Ethics and the dilemmas emerging with new grounds for research and data collection. The workshop will start with introductions to the history and principles of research ethics in general and a focus on non-biomedical areas of research and Human Research Ethic Boards (Tia Hansen, Ann Bygholm). Furthermore, there will be introductions on how to use pilot studies to improve ethics as well as results. The workshop will thus introduce to the work being conducted as part of the doctoral school's Human Research Ethics Board. Following this the workshop will focus on Internet Research Ethics and the core issues related to internet studies (e.g. data collection and archiving) (Michael Zimmer). Furthermore, we shall explore particular research projects as cases where various research ethical dilemmas and problems emerge. Format: The workshop will be highly interactive and include a mixture of presentations, group work, case-exploration, discussion and PhD students? presentations of own research projects. We therefore ask each student to hand in a short (1-2 pages) description of: ? Presentation of their research project (case, context, aim) ? Statement of dilemmas, problems or ethical considerations in relation tothe research project These presentations should be handed in on Friday March 14 at the latest. The presentations will be collected and made available to all participants. Preliminary programme (timing to be finally confirmed): Day 1 ? March 20: 8.15 - 9.00 Welcome and introduction 9.00-12.00 Research ethics basics and tools by Tia Hansen and Ann Bygholm - lectures interspersed with ?exercises?/discussions in pairs. Themes: ? History and principles of research ethics in general ? Non-biomedical areas and Review Boards in particular ? Don?t launch without a pilot! How to use pilot studies to improve ethics as well as results 12-13 Lunch break 13.00-17.00: Core issues and approaches in Internet Research Ethics- Michael Zimmer ? presentations and discussions Day 2 ? March 21: 8.15 - 10.00 Internet ethics - exploring cases: "Tastes, Ties and Time" and ?The Blackberry Project? 10.15 ? 12.00: PhD Students presenting cases and working in smaller discussion groups with organizers as discussants 12.00 - 13.00 Lunch break 13.00 - 14.30: Continuing work in pairs or smaller groups - preparing for a short summary of the discussions/main issues 14.30 - 16.00: Roundtable finale: ? Students present main results of revisiting their projects (lists of to do and leftover problems?) ? Plenum discussion of cases/dilemmas ? Evaluation, and take-home messages Readings: Research Ethics and Basic tools: Alderson, P., & Morrow, V. (2006). Multidisciplinary research ethics review: is it feasible? International Journal of Social Research Methodology, 9(5), 405-417, doi: 10.1080/13645570500435207 Cozby, P. C. (2003). Ethical research. Chapter 3 in Methods in behavioral research (pp. 34-60). Boston: McGraw-Hill. Core issues and approaches in Internet Research Ethics: Buchanan, E., & Zimmer, M. (2012). Internet Research Ethics. The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Retrieved from plato.stanford.edu/entries/ethics-internet-research/ Markham, A. & Buchanan, E. (2012). Ethical Decision-Making and Internet Research Recommendations from the AoIR Ethics Working Committee (Version 2.0). Retrieved fromaoir.org/documents/ethics-guide/ Secretary's Advisory Committee on Human Research Protections (SACHRP). (2012). Considerations and Recommendations Concerning Internet Research and Human Subjects Research Regulations. Retrieved fromhttp://www.hhs.gov/ohrp/sachrp/mtgings/2013%20March%20Mtg/internet_research.pdf Internet ethics - exploring cases: Zimmer, M. (2010). ?But the data is already public?: On the ethics of research in Facebook. Ethics and Information Technology, 12(4), 313?325. (http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10676-010-9227-5) Parry, M. (2011). Harvard Researchers Accused of Breaching Students? Privacy. The Chronicle of Higher Education. Retrieved from chronicle.com/article/Harvards-Privacy-Meltdown/128166/ Underwood, M. K., Rosen, L. H., More, D., Ehrenreich, S. E., & Gentsch, J. K. (2012). The BlackBerry project: Capturing the content of adolescents? text messaging. Developmental Psychology, 48(2), 295?302. Hill, K. (2012). A Texas University?s Mind-Boggling Database Of Teens? Daily Text Messages, Emails, and IMs Over Four Years. Forbes.com. Retrieved fromwww.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2012/04/18/a-texas-universitys-mind-boggling-database-of-teens-daily-text-messages-emails-and-ims-over-four-years/ Practical: ECTS: 2 Points for attending and for preparation (including handing in 1-2 page description of research project and ethical dilemmas ? see above). For more information about Michael Zimmer: ? http://www4.uwm.edu/sois/people/profiles/zimmerm.cfm ? http://www.michaelzimmer.org/about/bio/ For more information about Tia Hansen ? http://vbn.aau.dk/en/persons/tia-g-b-hansen(ddcf2848-2f9e-4f0a-a87c-bc7b12ac95f3).html Number of participants: max 15 Registration to: hannepc at hum.aau.dk no later than March 12 Location: Aalborg University, Aalborg, room not yet confirmed -- Michael Zimmer, PhD Assistant Professor, School of Information Studies Director, Center for Information Policy Research University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee e: zimmerm at uwm.edu w: www.michaelzimmer.org From erika.pearson at otago.ac.nz Tue Feb 25 13:05:26 2014 From: erika.pearson at otago.ac.nz (Erika Pearson) Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2014 21:05:26 +0000 Subject: [Air-L] reminder: CfP for IR15 closing March 1 Message-ID: Dear colleagues Just a quick reminder that the deadline for submissions for IR15: Boundaries and Intersections is coming up on March 1st. There will be no general extensions past this date, so please make sure you get your submissions in on time. Information about the types of submissions (including the inaugural "Prize For The Weird"!) is online at ir15.aoir.org. Also, to clarify, abstracts for roundtable, fishbowl and experimental sessions should be approximately 250-300 words, and no additional uploaded document is required. If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me at ir15programchair at aoir.org We look forward to your submissions and seeing you in Bangkok in October! best wishes erika pearson program chair, IR15 ir15.aoir.org From judith.simon at univie.ac.at Wed Feb 26 06:40:25 2014 From: judith.simon at univie.ac.at (Judith Simon) Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2014 15:40:25 +0100 Subject: [Air-L] CfA: PhD Summer School, San Sebastian, Spain (28.07. - 01.08.2014) Message-ID: <530DFCD9.4060403@univie.ac.at> The Post-Graduate Program in Philosophy, Science and Values (University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU, and National Autonomous University of Mexico, UNAM) and the Institute for Technology Assessment and Systems Analysis (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology) invite PhD students to apply for the interdisciplinary and international Summer School: *The Regulative Capacity of Knowledge Objects: Opening the Black Box of Knowledge Governance* Think of Climate Change, Wikileaks, nanotechnology, Responsible Innovation, neural implants, Linux, GMOs or the German Energy Transition. But when we think about it, do they actually exist? And if they do what should they be like in the future? What exactly are they? Are they symbols, technical artifacts, discourses, constellations of actors, scientific disputes? Are they political issues, societal problems, human-nonhuman-hybrids, modifiers of existence, problems for governance and regulation? In a way, they are all of these things and less -- and probably more. They are what this Summer School refers to as "knowledge objects". These objects are peculiar, blurry, constantly unfolding and transforming entities that increasingly challenge contemporary societies and sciences and our understanding of knowledge. The knowledge in knowledge objects is always plural: scientific, public, mundane, interdisciplinary, speculative, uncertain. It is heterogeneously produced about, with, through or in them and contributes to their identification, contestation and transformation. Yet, knowledge objects are also enablers of such knowledge productions and the societal controversies that go along with them. This intricate entanglement of knowledge objects and society poses various normative and regulative questions -- which are part of these objects and due to them the problems societies face. This entanglement could be viewed as a fundamental challenge for knowledge governance. To address these complex challenges to societies and sciences, the Summer School aims to bring together two strands of science and technology studies (STS) which so far haven't combined: the focus on "knowledge objects" and the perspective of "knowledge governance". The starting point of this summer school is the assumption that knowledge objects are subject and object of knowledge governance. They create the need for and they enable various forms of knowledge governance. In a way, this synchrony is a black box of knowledge governance. The Summer School proposes that this "governance black box" can be opened by focusing on an extended concept of knowledge objects and by analyzing their governance dimensions. *Keynotes by:* *David Guston*, PhD, Professor of Political Science, Arizona State University, US *Graham Harman*, PhD, Professor of Philosophy, American University, Cairo, Egypt *Karin Knorr-Cetina*, PhD, Professor emeritus of Sociology, University of Constance, Germany, and George *Wells Beadle* Distinguished Service Professor, University of Chicago, US *Noortje Marres*, PhD, Senior Lecturer, Goldsmiths University of London, UK Applications are due by 28th March 2014. *Find out all the details at: http://www.itas.kit.edu/english/events_2014_summerschool.php * -- Judith Simon Department of Philosophy - University of Vienna (PI: Epistemic Trust in Socio-Technical Epistemic Systems ) ITAS - Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (Senior Researcher) Institut Jean Nicod - Ecole normale sup?rieure - Paris (Associate Post-doctoral fellow) From amarkham at gmail.com Wed Feb 26 07:38:28 2014 From: amarkham at gmail.com (Annette Markham) Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2014 16:38:28 +0100 Subject: [Air-L] Join the MA Program in Digital Living, Aarhus University Fall 2014 Message-ID: Dear Colleagues, Thanks in advance for distributing this information to those who might be interested in attending our new MA program in "Digital Living" at Aarhus University, as part of the Department of Aesthetics & Communication within the Faculty of Arts. ********** Are you interested in how digital technologies are used in everyday life? Do you care how technologies impact social and work life? Would you like to learn how to design better futures by exploring the intersection of networked sociality, organizational practices, and IT design? If so, you might be interested in a new international master's degree program at Aarhus University: "Digital Living: Work and Social Life in an Era of Smart Machines and Social Media." Curriculum taught in English. Learn more here: http://arts.au.dk/digitalliving This MA focuses on how digital technologies are used in everyday life and offers students the opportunity to consider how we might design better futures by exploring the intersection of networked sociality, organizational practices, and IT design. Discuss cutting edge knowledge about the social impact of digital technologies with internationally established professors. Learn from computer scientists how digital forms of communication and interaction are designed and programmed. Work with professors from information and media studies to build a strong grounding in the political, social, and economic structures of 21st Century organizations and institutions. In addition to theoretically-grounded classroom discussions, students design and build interfaces, engage in empirical studies of digital contexts, and explore how new eBusiness models work. This well-rounded master's program provides solid grounding for analyzing contemporary social media practices and developing sustainable and ethical digital futures. Digital living is an interdisciplinary Master Program within Information Studies at Aarhus University. Curriculum taught in English. Application deadline: March 15 (April 1 for Danish residents)* Notification of Acceptance: early May 2014 Start Date: 1 September 2014 Need more information? Feel free to contact: Associate Professor Annette Markham: amarkham at dac.au.dk Associate Professor Claus Bossen: imvcb at dac.au.dk *exceptions to the deadline may be granted, depending on circumstances. Please inquire if this might apply to you. Best Regards, Annette ***************************************************** Annette N. Markham, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Dept of Aesthetics & Communication, Aarhus University Guest Professor, Dept of Informatics, Ume? University, Sweden Affiliate Professor, School of Communication, Loyola University, Chicago amarkham at gmail.com http://markham.internetinquiry.org/ Twitter: annettemarkham From qcentral at indiana.edu Wed Feb 26 07:49:37 2014 From: qcentral at indiana.edu (Mary L. Gray) Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2014 10:49:37 -0500 Subject: [Air-L] Queer Internet Studies Workshop April 4 - NYC References: <6732C52F455BE3469977ADE67D43E2511BBB764F@TK5EX14MBXC293.redmond.corp.microsoft.com> Message-ID: <575F2A14-2AB9-4CBC-ABEB-7D09EF3FCCEC@indiana.edu> Hey all, I'm passing along the CFP for an AMAZING workshop!! Hope you can make it!! best, mary Mary L. Gray Associate Professor Communication and Culture Adjunct Faculty, American Studies; Anthropology; Gender Studies Indiana University, Bloomington Senior Researcher Microsoft Research --------- Hi all, See below for details on a Queer Internet Studies workshop I'm organizing with Jack Gieseking. It's a one-day workshop to be held at the Columbia School of Journalism with support from the Brown Institute for Media Innovation and Just Publics 365. Space is limited and we're taking people on a first-come, first-serve basis. Hope you can make it! All apologies for cross-posting, Jessa ** Queer Internet Studies: A One-Day Workshop The increasing visibility of lgbtq lives and issues in mainstream media has been fraught with criticism of how such lives and issues are depicted and to whose benefit or detriment. Building from the critical work underlying these objections, we ask: what are concurrent technological developments, namely in ever emergent digital media? Online technologies have provided a means of storytelling, visualization, community building, and educational resources that have important implications for what it means to be queer. Internet scholarship crosses a number of disciplinary boundaries, converging on questions of how digital technologies are reshaping issues of identity, community and interpersonal relationships. Queer theory has been similarly multi-faceted in drawing together a diverse set of scholars interested in sexuality, gender and structures of power. In conjoining these areas of investigation, the main objective of the QIS workshop is to generate conversations that cross disciplines and backgrounds, anchored in questions of how online technologies shape and are appropriated by queer identities. The Queer Internet Studies brings together thinkers, makers and doers in a workshop format who draw upon social scientific methods to do work at the intersection of queer life and the internet. Taking Samuel Delany's (2001) call for lgbtq contact and networking to heart, we seek to bring together researchers who investigate the construction of queer communities, the development of queer knowledge production and cultures, and assess how queer identity is understood and archived. This workshop is geared towards fostering scholarly, activist, and journalistic opportunities for digital technologies and queer storytelling and visualization. We look to identify existing projects as well as suggest future collaborations of writers, scholars, and technologists interested in possibilities for supporting the development of the queer internet and queering the internet. Format: The workshop is structured around generating conversations and connections between people working on similar topics from different backgrounds. More interactive sessions will take place in the morning with lightning round introductions and large group conversations. Structured afternoon sessions will allow for conversations between invited speakers, followed by open working group time for collaboration and conversation. The day will conclude with a social hour geared towards connecting participants who share ideas for projects and collaborations. Additional details: The workshop will be held at Columbia University's School of Journalism on April 4, 2014. Here's a website with more information: http://www.jgieseking.org/qis2014/ If you'd like to attend, please fill out the following form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1DgWcsK_DuPQfIaFAXrKj80yCl5B3FRzCyfDtIViOtno/viewform For questions and more information, email jlingel at microsoft.com or jgieseki at bowdoin.edu. Thanks! Jack & Jessa From ptcox at camden.rutgers.edu Wed Feb 26 08:43:44 2014 From: ptcox at camden.rutgers.edu (Patrick Cox) Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2014 10:43:44 -0600 Subject: [Air-L] H-DigiRhet Editors wanted Message-ID: Hello! My name is Patrick Cox and I am Vice-President for Networks at H-Net. I'm looking for editors to run H-Net's network on Digital Rhetoric, H-DigiRhet (https://networks.h-net.org/h-digirhet). The network is already loaded up onto the Commons and has over 800 subscribers, but no one running it! Folks with an interest in building this community of Digital scholars using the full range of tools and resources the H-Net Commons has to offer will find here a ready-made audience looking at a blank canvas. In addition to lively discussion and debate, the site can be used to build a collections of resources, blogging, multimedia content, original book reviews, collaborations with other H-Net Networks, and pretty much anything else you'd like to find on a website to build truly unique resource for the field of Digital Studies. Ideally, multiple people will apply to form a team of editors. You provide the ambition, H-Net will provide the training and technical support. If you are interested, contact Patrick Cox at vp-net at mail.h-net.msu.edu. Thanks. Patrick Cox H-NET Vice-President for Networks -- Patrick Cox PhD Candidate, Childhood Studies, Rutgers http://camden-rutgers.academia.edu/PatrickCox http://childhood.camden.rutgers.edu/ https://email.rutgers.edu/mailman/listinfo/exploring_childhood_studies "In the depths of winter I finally learned there was in me an invincible summer." --Albert Camus "Don't let your studies interfere with your education." --Colonel Henry Rutgers "the jUdges of nOrmalitY are present everywhere." --Foucault, of course From jpedregosa at gmail.com Thu Feb 27 04:16:07 2014 From: jpedregosa at gmail.com (Jj Pedregosa) Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2014 13:16:07 +0100 Subject: [Air-L] Conference on Digital Discrimination and Social Networks. Barcelona, 13th and 14th of March Message-ID: Friends The main aim of the conference is to invite participants to actively *share current experiences and research and push forward our knowledge to fight discrimination*. Academics, NGOs working with youths or on discrimination, activists, trainers, teachers, policy makers, journalists, social media professionals and the general public are welcome to attend. Programme of the conference: http://digitaldiscrimination.eu/conference/ From jacqueline.vickery at unt.edu Thu Feb 27 07:49:56 2014 From: jacqueline.vickery at unt.edu (Dr. Jacqueline Vickery) Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2014 09:49:56 -0600 Subject: [Air-L] Survey on vlogs Message-ID: Hello, One of my grad students is conducing research on vlogs for his thesis. If you have 10 minutes to spare please consider taking his survey: https://unt.az1.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_6WeVcs4m7jD3Qj3 and please feel free to distribute widely. Thanks, - jacqueline ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr. Jacqueline Vickery, Ph.D. Assistant Professor College of Arts & Sciences Department of Radio, Television, & Film University of North Texas ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From Wolfgang.Suetzl at uibk.ac.at Thu Feb 27 09:25:06 2014 From: Wolfgang.Suetzl at uibk.ac.at (=?iso-8859-1?Q?S=FCtzl=2C_Wolfgang?=) Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2014 17:25:06 +0000 Subject: [Air-L] CfP Media Art in Media Education Message-ID: Call for Papers MEDIENIMPULSE 2/2014 MEDIENIMPULSE is a quarterly, peer-reviewed open-access online journal on media education publishing German and English language contributions. Please send 300-word abstracts and enquiries to Wolfgang Suetzl at suetzl at ohio.edu by 10 March 2014. Full papers of max. 25000 characters due by 15 May 2014 Date of publication 21 June 2014 Special focus: The Potential of Media art in Media Education The development of media technologies has long met with the interest of media educationalists. Media art offers a wide range of possibilities of experimentation, critical reflection, and communication in educational settings. This edition of MEDIENIMPULSE is dedicated to an in-depth exploration of this area of research. One question artists have been pursuing is how media help create new structures and communicative processes in society. On the one hand, media art itself is facing a paradox of communication, often working with digital technologies while not benefitting from large digital audiences. Additionally, possibilities of communicating about media art in a text-based fashion are often limited. On the other hand, media artists have adopted progressive positions in debates on media technologies in understanding media art as intervention and questioning, and, not least of all, as a deconstruction of media themselves. Against this background, digital media art has created non-commercialized discursive openings for education, critical reflection, subversive media use, innovation, and resistance. The contributions to this issue of MEDIENIMPULSE concern the interrelations between media art and media education, and their particular relevance to the practical and theoretical challenges in media education. From acocciol at pratt.edu Thu Feb 27 12:52:09 2014 From: acocciol at pratt.edu (Anthony Cocciolo) Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2014 15:52:09 -0500 Subject: [Air-L] Search reopened: Assistant Prof. for Computing and Emerging Technologies, Pratt Institute, NYC Message-ID: Pratt Institute, School of Information and Library Science, has an opening for full time tenure-track position at the level of assistant professor in the area of *Computing and Emerging Information Technologies* Full time, tenure-track, beginning Fall 2014 *http://tinyurl.com/search2014 * To apply: Applicants are invited to submit a single PDF file that includes the following documents: Cover letter, curriculum vitae, statement on research and teaching interests, and names of four references. Please e-mail materials to: Debbie Rabina: drabina at pratt.edu To learn more about Pratt SILS full-time faculty visit http://research.prattsils.org/ -- Debbie Rabina, Ph.D. Associate Professor Pratt Institute, School of Information and Library Science 144 West 14th Street, 6th fl. New York, NY 10011-7301 drabina at pratt.edu http://mysite.pratt.edu/~drabina/index.htm From jjwilliams at ualr.edu Thu Feb 27 15:12:39 2014 From: jjwilliams at ualr.edu (Joe Williams) Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2014 17:12:39 -0600 Subject: [Air-L] U of Arkansas Little Rock tenure-track opening Message-ID: <004e01cf3411$78d86650$6a8932f0$@ualr.edu> Hi All, My apologies for cross-postings. The Department of Rhetoric and Writing at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock (UALR) invites applications for a tenure-track assistant professor to teach undergraduate and graduate courses in professional writing. We are especially interested in candidates with expertise and experience in one of the following areas: a) new media design and development; b) creative nonfiction, especially related to new media. Here is the link to the complete job posting: http://ualr.peopleadmin.com/postings/1939 A bit about us: The Department of Rhetoric and Writing, a stand-alone writing department, houses the First-Year Composition program, the University Writing Center, and the Little Rock Writing Project. The department offers a BA, a minor, and an MA in Professional and Technical Writing. These degrees include courses in rhetoric, editing, creative nonfiction, and technical writing. The department has approximately 70 active majors and 60 active graduate students. If you have any questions about UALR or our program in general, don't hesitate to email me. Best, Joe Williams -------- Joseph John Williams, Ph.D. Co-Director, ATLE Associate Professor of Rhetoric and Writing University of Arkansas at Little Rock 2801 S. University Avenue Little Rock, AR 72204 (501) 569-8313 jjwilliams at ualr.edu From explicit_corpse at hotmail.com Thu Feb 27 22:39:17 2014 From: explicit_corpse at hotmail.com (V. T.) Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2014 22:39:17 -0800 Subject: [Air-L] Call for chapter proposals: A Thousand Platforms: Deep Teaching for Computational Media and Generalist Design In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: CALL FOR BOOK CHAPTER PROPOSALSA Thousand Platforms: Deep Teaching for Computational Media and Generalist DesignEdited by Michael Filimowicz, School of Interactive Arts and Technology, Simon Fraser University Today?s creators of interactive media ?switch hardware and software tools like colors of paint.?[1] This edited collection focuses on undergraduate teaching and learning by bringing together essays addressing pedagogies that produce the fabled "unicorns" ? graduates who can Program, Design and Create. Curricula in computational media are faced with various challenges, such as (1) maintaining a balance between breadth and depth of specialist knowledge; (2) developing fluency in coding despite otherwise advanced technological creativity; or (3) the role of numeracy in visually-dominated media. A multiplicity of technical skillsets? animation, graphic design, electronics, computer vision, web design, sound design, 3D printing, algorithmic thinking amongst many others ? contribute to an equally diverse set of professional fields, such as UXD, audiovisual postproduction, web application development, project management, creative directing practices, game programming, storytelling, industrial design, communication design and beyond. This rich combination of skillsets and possible roles are profoundly cross-pollinating and thus trigger continuous shifts in professional contexts. Within this framework, this edited collection intends to address topics such as ( but not limited to): ? Project-based courses and teamwork? Entrepreneurial components to curricula? The perception and realities of specialist vs. generalist knowledge? Translating faculty research and graduate collegiality into the undergraduate realm? Conceptualization of similarities, differences, continuums and relationships between art and design pedagogies? Ways in which generalist creative and technical knowledge translate to a student audience with "glamour job" expectations ? Pedagogical strategies that acclimate students for a fast changing workforce where much of the most interesting and rewarding work is performed on a per project basis? Instructional strategies that evoke students? passion about coding, mathematics, research methodologies and writing In brief, this edited collection asks: what does it mean to teach students toward a thousand technological platforms? Please send your original 500 word abstracts in the body of the email along with a short bio to mfa13 at sfu.ca with the subject heading ?1000 Platforms.? Deadline: Aug 1, 2014.Notification of acceptance: Oct 1, 2014Full chapters (6000-7000 words) due: January 11th, 2015. ---------[1] To cite an interview with Matt Cottam in Joshua Noble's Programming Interactivity. From jsalmons at vision2lead.com Fri Feb 28 07:52:30 2014 From: jsalmons at vision2lead.com (Janet Salmons, Ph.D.) Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2014 08:52:30 -0700 Subject: [Air-L] New Social Media, New Social Science... and New Ethical Issues! Message-ID: The New Social Media, New Social Science network is a partnership of the NatCen, Sage UK and the Oxford Internet Institute. NSMNSS has convened numerous on-site and online events about the use of social media in research. Attendees at the on-site events are mostly UK-based, but the online events have attracted global participation. Ethical issues have been a persistent theme throughout the discussions. We offered a questionnaire last spring to learn more specifically about ethical concerns as well as the sources they consult when making decisions in their own research. Not surprisingly, the AOIR guidelines were frequently mentioned as trusted resources. I analyzed all of the records from events and the questionnaire responses to determine what specific issues e-researchers identify, and to what extent these issues are addressed the codes and guidelines they named. In addition to the AOIR guide, I looked at a number of other current guidelines from professional associations. You can find links to the full report and an overview presentation on the NSMNSS blog *http://bit.ly/1kvhDAH .* You can join us for a conversation on the issues in a Tweetchat at #NSMNSS on March 11, 19:00 or 7 pm in London, 3 PM in New York. (See www.timeanddate.com for your time zone.) *Janet Salmons Ph.D.* *Capella University School of Business & Vision2Lead, Inc.*Site- http://www.vision2lead.com Follow Twitter @einterview Now available as Kindle e-books: Online Interviews in Real Time & Cases in Online Interview Research. Coming soon: Qualitative Online Interviews Boulder, CO jsalmons at vision2lead.com From lee.komito at ucd.ie Fri Feb 28 08:46:18 2014 From: lee.komito at ucd.ie (Lee Komito) Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2014 16:46:18 +0000 Subject: [Air-L] Assistant Professor/College Lecturer Position: University College Dublin School of Information & Library Studies Message-ID: <5310BD5A.7020801@ucd.ie> Open Position: Lecturer in Information Ref: 006474 Lecturer in Information (Above the Bar) University College Dublin - UCD School of Information and Library Studies The School of Information and Library Studies at University College Dublin invites applications for a five-year posts. The successful candidate will contribute significantly to the quality expansion of research in one or more of the following areas: digital curation, visualization / information design, informatisation of social/ organisational processes, information architecture, information systems design, related topics regarding the interplay of people, information, technology and social structures; and to participate effectively in the School's educational programmes. Applicants should have completed a PhD in Information and Library Science or related discipline. Candidates who do not yet have a PhD in Information and Library Science or related discipline but who expect to have completed this degree by the date of appointment may be considered. Closing date for applications is Monday, 31 March 2013 (GMT). It is envisaged an appointee will commence in post September 2014. Further information (including application procedure) should be obtained from http://www.ucd.ie/hr/jobvacancies. For more detail on the School of Information and Library Studies, and its undergraduate and postgraduate programmes, see http://www.ucd.ie/sils. Informal inquiries to Dr. Lee Komito (lee.komito at ucd.ie), Head of School/Head of Subject. Representatives from the School will be available at upcoming iConference in Berlin for further discussion. -- Lee Komito (e) lee.komito at ucd.ie School of Information & Library Studies (p) +353.1.7167594 University College Dublin (f) +353.1.7161161 Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland (w) www.ucd.ie/lkomito From amanda.licastro at gmail.com Fri Feb 28 10:48:57 2014 From: amanda.licastro at gmail.com (Amanda Licastro) Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2014 13:48:57 -0500 Subject: [Air-L] #MLA15 CFP of interest Message-ID: If you are hoping to attend MLA next January in Vancouver, please consider applying to our panel which I think will be of interest to this list. Designing an Archive for Cloud and Crowd - How can networks (human and/or digital) combat institutional amnesia? What digital spaces can we build today to preserve a history for tomorrow? 350-word proposals by 14 March 2014. Contact amanda.licastro at gmail.com or benmiller314 at gmail.com Have a wonderful weekend, Amanda Amanda Licastro M.A. Doctoral Student CUNY Graduate Center Instructional Technology Fellow Macaulay Honors College http://digitocentrism.commons.gc.cuny.edu/ @amandalicastro From mpavlovski at iml.ukim.edu.mk Fri Feb 28 23:55:10 2014 From: mpavlovski at iml.ukim.edu.mk (Mishel Pavlovski) Date: Sat, 1 Mar 2014 08:55:10 +0100 Subject: [Air-L] Extended deadline CFP "Media: Tyheory and Practice" Message-ID: <000001cf3523$96346f60$c29d4e20$@iml.ukim.edu.mk> Call for papers Extended Deadline: 15 March 2014 Second Annual International CCCS Conference 2014 ??Media: Theory and Practice?? Hotel Continental, Skopje, Macedonia, 4?\6 September 2014 http://cultcenter.net/ Supported by: European Communication Research and Education Association International Association for Media and Communication Research The Centre for Culture and Cultural Studies (CCCS) invites proposals for papers, thematic panels and original media productions for Second Annual International CCCS Conference 2014 ??Media: Theory and Practice?? The aim of this conference revolves around a foundational impetus to shed greater light on all relevant aspects of media studies, including mass communication, media technology, the visual and the performing arts, TV, radio, WEB and print media, as well as other key components of media studies and mass communication. We invite proposals based on media theory (particularly critical media studies and cultural studies), and proposals that consider the relationship between media and (popular) culture, politics, arts, new media, as pertinent fields of study. We welcome submissions that offer original media productions: documentary films, fictionalized or non-narrative creative expressions. The submitted proposal needs to contain a creative or theoretical explanation of the submitted work. We invite projects by PhD students or submissions by teams of students and instructors (lecturers). Hence, the Second Annual International CCCS Conference 2014 ??Media: Theory and Practice?? strives to offer a dialogic space for media theorists and practitioners. Along those lines, we invite media studies?? theorists as well as practitioners to offer proposals through engaging and current ideas, paper topics, workshop presentations and round table discussions. Possible topics include, but are not limited to: * Media Analyses o Content analysis o Media literacy o Media discourses * Critical Theory and Media Criticism o Media and hegemony o Media and globalization * Media and Political Communication o Media activism o Media and ideology o Media and democracy * Media and Law o (De)Regulation of media o Media and privacy o Media and copyright * Art and Media o Art-science interface o Media and aesthetics o Film o Theatre o The visual arts o The performing arts * Media and Culture o Media and gender o Diaspora, migrants and media o Media and ethnicity o Media and audience o Cultural populism o Cultural capital o Media and remembrance/forgetting o Media and heritage o Media and identity o Media representation * New Media o Media and games o Social media o Digital activism o Media ecosystem o Multimedia * Journalism studies o Journalism and social and cultural representations o The role and status of journalism in the era of digital technology Paper proposals For individual paper proposals, please fill out the following form http://cultcenter.net/?wpgform_qv=registration-form-papers If you have problems filling the form, please download offline form in MS WORD format http://cultcenter.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/Registration-form.docx Submissions for individual paper proposals should number to 250 words. Important Dates and Fees Deadline for abstracts submission: 15 March 2014 Notifications of acceptance: 1 April 2014 Deadline for full paper submission: 1 December 2014 Early registration (till 1 May 2014): ?40 Late registration (till 15 August 2014): ?60 On-site registration (or after 15 August 2014): ?80 The registration fee includes: the welcome party, conference materials, an online publication of the abstracts, refreshment breaks. Full papers that have received a positive review will be published in the journals ?????????? ??????/Culture?? and/or ??Investigating Culture??. Official languages of Conference are English, Russian and Macedonian. The Conference will be held on 4-6 September, 2014 in Hotel Continental, Skopje, the Republic of Macedonia. For any further information please contact Dr. Mishel Pavlovski (mishel at cultcenter.net) or Dr. Loreta Georgievska Jakovleva (loreta at cultcenter.net) ============================================================================ ============== Dr. Mishel Pavlovski University ??Ss. Cyril and Methodius?? Institute for Macedonian Literature http://www.iml.ukim.edu.mk/ Centre for Culture and Cultural Studies http://cultcenter.net/ From charles.ess at gmail.com Sat Feb 1 00:07:14 2014 From: charles.ess at gmail.com (Charles Ess) Date: Sat, 01 Feb 2014 09:07:14 +0100 Subject: [Air-L] PhD course - Methodologies: Mobile Media & Mobility - Aarhus University Message-ID: Dear AoIR-ists, With the usual regrets for duplications and cross-postings - please pass along to potential candidates and appropriate lists. Please note that the course offers a sliding scale of requirements and correlative ECTs. There are no course fees, though participants will be required to pay ca. 1000.00 DKK to cover their catering costs (lunches, coffee and tea breaks, etc.) over the course of the workshop. Methodologies: Mobile Media & Mobility International PhD course, Aarhus University 1-3 April 2014 http://phdcourses.dk/Course/24583#.UuIXh_Y1j-Y Lecturers: Adriana de Souza e Silva, NC State University Rich Ling, IT-University of Copenhagen Gunnar Liest?l, Oslo University Kristian Hegner Reinau, Aalborg University Jonas Larsen, Roskilde University Anne Marit Waade, Aarhus University Thomas Bj?rner, Aalborg University Charles Ess, Oslo University Organisers: Charles Ess (Professor, UiO); Thomas Bj?rner (Associate Professor, AAU); and Anne Marit Waade (Associate Professor, AU). Graduate School of Arts, Aarhus University, PhD degree program: ICT Media, Communication and Journalism. ECTS 4 ECTS inclusive of submitting a paper 3 ECTS without submitting a paper (1 ECT extra for participating in the research workshop April 4) Time: April 1-3,2014 Room and Place: Aarhus University Cost/ Policy No course fee. Travel, accommodation and meals are not covered by the course. The course will give different perspectives on methodologies within studies in mobile media and mobility. This multidisciplinary course covers fields of research such as media science, communication, ethnography, anthropology, social science, geography, architecture, urban design and planning, research ethics, etc. The Ph.D.-course will be based on lectures, workshops and students own project presentations in a mixed setting aiming at creating an open and creative research dialogue. For a more detailed course description, registration information, etc., please see the course website: On behalf of the organisers, Charles Ess Professor in Media Studies Department of Media and Communication Director, Centre for Research on Media Innovations University of Oslo P.O. Box 1093 Blindern NO-0317 Oslo Norway email: charles.ess at media.uio.no From ekoltsova at hse.ru Sat Feb 1 06:54:11 2014 From: ekoltsova at hse.ru (=?koi8-r?B?68/M2MPP18Eg5czFzsEg4NLYxdfOwQ==?=) Date: Sat, 1 Feb 2014 14:54:11 +0000 Subject: [Air-L] a postdoc at Internet studies lab Message-ID: Dear all, A postdoc position at our Internet Studies Lab (that will actually make you feel very rich in Russia :)! ) is now open. Job description: http://linis.hse.ru/announcements/110788699.html It may the be extended for a tenure-track position at the dept of media and communication that we are launching in 2015, or at sociology, political science, economics etc. Olessia Koltsova Director, Laboratory for Internet Studies National Research University Higher School of Economics (St.Petersburg branch) room 322, 46 Rimskogo-Korsakova St. 190008, St.Petersburg, Russia Phone: +7 (812) 677-9452 www.linis.hse.ru E-mail: ekoltsova at hse.ru http://www.hse.ru/en/org/persons/202747 From william.dutton at oii.ox.ac.uk Sat Feb 1 07:44:46 2014 From: william.dutton at oii.ox.ac.uk (William Dutton) Date: Sat, 1 Feb 2014 15:44:46 +0000 Subject: [Air-L] a postdoc at Internet studies lab In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Olessia, please consider joining the Global Network of Interdisciplinary Internet & Society Research Centers: http://www.hiig.de/en/global-network-of-interdisciplinary-internet-society-research-centers/ On 1 Feb 2014, at 14:54, ???????? ????? ??????? wrote: > > Dear all, > > A postdoc position at our Internet Studies Lab (that will actually make you feel very rich in Russia :)! ) is now open. Job description: http://linis.hse.ru/announcements/110788699.html > > It may the be extended for a tenure-track position at the dept of media and communication that we are launching in 2015, or at sociology, political science, economics etc. > > Olessia Koltsova > Director, Laboratory for Internet Studies > National Research University Higher School of Economics (St.Petersburg branch) > room 322, 46 Rimskogo-Korsakova St. > 190008, St.Petersburg, Russia > Phone: +7 (812) 677-9452 > www.linis.hse.ru > E-mail: ekoltsova at hse.ru > http://www.hse.ru/en/org/persons/202747 > _______________________________________________ > The Air-L at listserv.aoir.org mailing list > is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org > Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org > > Join the Association of Internet Researchers: > http://www.aoir.org/ William H. Dutton Professor of Internet Studies Professorial Fellow, Balliol College CITI Fellow, Columbia University Oxford Martin Fellow Oxford Internet Institute University of Oxford 1 St Giles', Oxford OX1 3JS UNITED KINGDOM Tel +44 (0)1865 287 210 Fax +44 (0)1865 287 211 Cell +44 (0)7768 823906 Web: http://people.oii.ox.ac.uk/dutton/about/ You can access my papers on the Social Science Research Network (SSRN) at: http://ssrn.com/author=478025 Latest Books: The Oxford Handbook of Internet Studies (2013): http://ukcatalogue.oup.com/product/9780199589074.do Politics and the Internet (2014): http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415561501/ From ropolyi at ludens.elte.hu Sat Feb 1 08:51:57 2014 From: ropolyi at ludens.elte.hu (ropolyi at ludens.elte.hu) Date: Sat, 01 Feb 2014 17:51:57 +0100 Subject: [Air-L] Ten Years of Facebook Conference Message-ID: <20140201175157.57367kx0uz070ist@webmail.elte.hu> *Ten Years of Facebook: The Third Argumentor Conference* 4-6 September 2014, Oradea / Nagyv?rad, Romania This year marks the tenth anniversary of the launch of Facebook, the most ubiquitous social media and communication platform in the world. It also gives us the opportunity to take a step back and examine increasingly important questions about how Facebook and the new social web have impacted the world of communication, from debate, discourse and rhetoric to philosophy, politics, social context, and other forms of new media. Has Facebook been constructive or disruptive in these different areas - or perhaps both? How does the ease and ubiquity of online communication affect longstanding national, generational, ideological, gender and class divides? We welcome papers seeking to explore such questions, including approaches that aim to challenge the importance, relevance or timeliness of such questions. ORGANIZED BY: Partium Christian University / Romania Sapientia Hungarian University of Transylvania / Romania University of Debrecen / Hungary Conference website: https://sites.google.com/site/argumentor2014/ Abstract submission deadline: 3 February 2014 Laszlo Ropolyi From mariarosariataddeo at gmail.com Sat Feb 1 14:27:31 2014 From: mariarosariataddeo at gmail.com (Mariariosaria Taddeo) Date: Sat, 1 Feb 2014 22:27:31 +0000 Subject: [Air-L] Nominations for the Brian Michael Goldberg Memorial Award Message-ID: <88D2571C-C151-4607-9A14-70F09728D472@gmail.com> The International Association for Computing and Philosophy is proud to present the ?Brian Michael Goldberg Memorial Award? to graduate students in recognisance of outstanding achievements in the areas of Computing and Philosophy. This award is sponsored by the Department of Philosophy at Carnegie Mellon and carries a $500 USD stipend, which will be presented each year at one of the IACAP conferences. Nominees and applicants are welcome from around the world. This Award was made possible by a generous gift from Dr. Gerald and Nancy Goldberg in memory of their son, Brian Michael Goldberg. In their words: Brian was a twenty-two year old student who was admitted to Carnegie Mellon University in 1991 to the doctoral program in philosophy. He died unexpectedly before he could realize his dream of attending Carnegie Mellon. Brian was an independent thinker who loved competition and a good challenge. Throughout his life, he found it exciting to enter and win contests. He loved challenging his mind, especially by studying philosophy, mathematics and logic. He loved challenging his creativity through photography, painting and theatre arts. He loved challenging his body by learning such diverse sports as wrestling, fencing and scuba diving. He loved debating and challenging others to think in new ways and had seriously considered becoming a university professor. To honor who he was and what he loved, this Goldberg Memorial Award is offered to challenge and motivate other graduate students in Brian?s chosen field of study. To nominate, please send names and website URLs (or CVs) to: berkich at gmail.com by February the 28th 2014. For more information, please see http://www.iacap.org/awards/ -- Dr. Mariarosaria Taddeo Research Fellow in Cyber Security and Ethics, PAIS, University of Warwick Research Associate - Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, University of Oxford President, International Association for Computing and Philosophy http://taddeo.philosophyofinformation.net/index.html From joel.neville.anderson at rochester.edu Sat Feb 1 15:17:55 2014 From: joel.neville.anderson at rochester.edu (Joel Neville Anderson) Date: Sat, 1 Feb 2014 18:17:55 -0500 Subject: [Air-L] Call for Papers and Creative Works: InVisible Culture, Issue 22: "Opacity" Message-ID: Dear Air-L subscribers, Please circulate the latest CFP for my graduate program's journal, InVisible Culture: An Electronic Journal for Visual Culture (pasted below). Please don't hesitate to contact me with any questions. Best regards, Joel Neville Anderson Managing Editor InVisible Culture 503A Morey Hall University of Rochester Rochester, NY 14627 http://ivc.lib.rochester.edu - ?Opacity? - Issue 22 For its twenty-second issue, InVisible Culture: An Electronic Journal for Visual Culture invites scholarly articles and creative works that address the multiple meanings of opacity. In the spring of 2013, former US intelligence contractor Edward Snowden began releasing documents pertaining to the wide-ranging data collection methods of the National Security Agency. Alternately hailed as hero and traitor, Snowden?s actions have fueled intense public debate regarding issues of privacy and transparency. For Issue 22, we would like contributors to consider the tension between transparency and opacity and reflect on the cultural and political contexts that gave rise to their connotations of openness and secrecy. What does it mean to claim either as a right? The late writer, poet, and critic ?douard Glissant (1928-2011) developed a model of opacity as a means of creating ethical relationships, writing in Poetics of Relation, ?Transparency no longer seems like the bottom of the mirror in which Western humanity reflected the world in its own image. There is opacity now at the bottom of the mirror, a whole alluvium deposited by populations.? How could opacity be used as a tool of resistance? What stakes are involved in the revelation or obscuring of artworks? racial, cultural, or gendered origins? How might we imagine opacity to be useful or limiting to the work of visual culture? We also seek to address optical properties of opacity more broadly as a conceptual tool for approaching medium specificity, innovations in color theory, and other subjects. Does our understanding of opacity shift in regard to digital technologies as it may between cultural spheres and political territories? How might visual culture be invested in the theoretical and physical properties of opacity and transparency? We welcome papers and artworks that further the various understandings of opacity. Possible topics of exploration include, but are not limited to: Aesthetic and political dimensions of transparency and opacity Identity politics, ?the right to opacity? Privacy and visibility, surveillance The ?transparent society? and digital panopticism Scientific and medical visualization, the body, big data Opacity of architectural traditions Liminal spaces, borders, zones of conflict Transparency and globalization, geopolitics Emerging, established, and decaying democracies Politics of clothing, fabric, screens, interstitial space and material Camera obscura/lucida, properties of darkness and light, color, pigmentation Transparency and opacity in the plastic arts (painting, film, sculpture) Penetration and resistance Please send completed papers (with references following the guidelines from the Chicago Manual of Style) of between 4,000 and 10,000 words to ivc[dot]rochester[at]gmail[dot]com by May 1, 2014. Inquiries should be sent to the same address. Creative/Artistic Works In addition to written materials, InVisible Culture is accepting work in other media (video, photography, drawing, code) that reflect upon the theme as it is outlined above. For questions or more details concerning acceptable formats, go to http://ivc.lib.rochester.edu/contribute or contact ivc[dot]rochester[at]gmail[dot]com. Reviews InVisible Culture is also currently seeking submissions for book, exhibition, and film reviews (600-1,000 words). To submit a review proposal, go to http://ivc.lib.rochester.edu/contribute or contact ivc[dot]rochester[at]gmail[dot]com. Blog The journal also invites submissions to its blog feature, which will accommodate more immediate responses to the topic of the current issue. For further details, please contact us at ivc[dot]rochester[at]gmail[dot]com with the subject heading ?blog submission.? * InVisible Culture: An Electronic Journal for Visual Culture (IVC) is a student run interdisciplinary journal published online twice a year in an open access format. Through peer reviewed articles, creative works, and reviews of books, films, and exhibitions, our issues explore changing themes in visual culture. Fostering a global and current dialog across fields, IVC investigates the power and limits of vision. From Jakob.Svensson at kau.se Sun Feb 2 04:46:17 2014 From: Jakob.Svensson at kau.se (Jakob Svensson) Date: Sun, 02 Feb 2014 13:46:17 +0100 Subject: [Air-L] M4D Doctoral Workshop, Dakar - deadline extended til Feb 14th Message-ID: M4D Doctoral Workshop, Dakar - deadline extended til Feb 14th April 7, 2014 We invite applications to the M4D Doctoral Workshop in Dakar Senegal. The workshop will provide a forum for PhD students in the area of mobile communication technology in and for development to present their work and receive constructive feedback from experts in the field as well as from peers. PhD students at any stage of their doctoral studies are invited to submit papers. The workshop will host about 15 attendees besides the experts in the field. We expect submissions to be from current PhD students who have selected a clear research topic within M4D in the broadest sense. Participation for selected PhD students are free for M4D2014 conference delegates who have registered and paid the conference fee. The doctoral workshop is sponsored by the International Network of Postgraduate Students in the area of ICT4D (IPID). Goal of workshop The goal of the workshop is to provide professional development in M4D with critical, but constructive, feedback and advice to PhD students on their ongoing research from senior researchers. The workshop will also offer the opportunity to meet and exchange ideas and suggestions with peers in the M4D field. Submission Submissions should address the student's PhD research area, specifically: a well-defined formulation of the problem statement, objectives and aims of the research, explain the research context and why the research is important, give details of research design and data collection techniques, present preliminary results and research findings, do clarify the state of the research work, a brief sketch of the intended theoretical/disciplinary approach and audience(s) for the work, as well as the related theoretical and practical contributions to the multidisciplinary area of 'M4D'. Your name, affiliation, email address, PhD supervisor's name and affiliation and year when you started PhD should be included. The submission should be max. 5000 words in length. Please note that the workshop is not a venue for publication; there will be no published proceedings. However, we encourage workshop participants to also submit to the M4D2014 main conference (poster, full or short paper see www.m4d2014.net). Doctoral workshop participants are asked to submit their papers to m4d AT kau.se with the subject line [M4D2014 doctoral workshop]. Workshop Format Participants will be divided into two groups depending on their research topic. Group A will be led by Anne Shongwe and Jonathan Donner and Group B by Laura Stark and Richard Ling. Participants will be asked to read the group member?s papers prior the workshop so that focus can be on discussing each paper in depth rather than listening to presentations. We will reserve around 15-20 minutes for comments and 10-15 minutes for general discussion. Important Dates Submission by: 23:59 (GMT), 14 February 2014 Notification of acceptance: 15 March 2014 (by this date the M4D conference fee should be paid) Workshop date: 7 April 2014 Jakob Svensson, Ph. D. Ass. Prof. Media and Communication Studies Director, BA Programme in Media & Communication Studies Director, MA Programme in Global Media Karlstad University SE-65188 Karlstad, Sweden Telephone +46 54 700 1893 Mobile + 46 73 443 48 04 www.kau.se/media www.kau.se/en/humanit twitter.com/Centre4HumanIT facebook.com/karlstadsuniversitet KAU.SE From k.albury at unsw.edu.au Sun Feb 2 18:19:43 2014 From: k.albury at unsw.edu.au (Kath Albury) Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2014 02:19:43 +0000 Subject: [Air-L] Qual research with digital diaries- seeking tools & tips, please Message-ID: Hi folks, I was wondering if anyone on this list had experience of using a mobile diary app as research tool (for participants). I'd like participants to post to a diary via phone or tablet, & will need to have access (& be able to archive diaries). I've looked at ethno hub (http://ethnohub.com), and my panel (which is a market research tool (http://www.mobilemarketresearch.net/mypanel/features). And there's always the option of plain old wordpress - but the question is how to export & archive the data? Any tips (or even anecdotes) from seasoned players will be greatly appreciated. Cheers, Kath Kath Albury, PhD Senior Lecturer, School of Arts and Media University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, 2052 Ph: 61 2 9385 8533 UNSW CRICOS Provider code 00098G http://research.unsw.edu.au/people/dr-kath-albury From K.Mccullagh at uea.ac.uk Mon Feb 3 00:35:57 2014 From: K.Mccullagh at uea.ac.uk (Karen Mc Cullagh (LAW)) Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2014 08:35:57 +0000 Subject: [Air-L] Final Reminder: BILETA Conference Message-ID: <18A01807BD2AE443B3B948CBE5FF0D391E901D@ueastfexch01.UEA.AC.UK> Final reminder: The Call for Papers for the 29th BILETA Annual Conference (14-16 April 2014, University of East Anglia) has been extended to facilitate requests for extensions. If you missed the original deadline, you now have until 7th February 2014 to submit an abstract. To view the call for papers and information about the conference see the attachment and click on the link: http://www.uea.ac.uk/law/news-and-events/bileta-conference Queries should be sent to the organiser, Dr Karen Mc Cullagh, via bileta2014 at uea.ac.uk ----------------------------------------------- Dr Karen Mc Cullagh Lecturer UEA Law School University of East Anglia Norwich Research Park Norwich NR4 7TJ w: http://karenmccullagh.co.uk/ T: 01603 59 7617 From Nicolas.Jullien at telecom-bretagne.eu Mon Feb 3 01:17:26 2014 From: Nicolas.Jullien at telecom-bretagne.eu (Nicolas Jullien) Date: Mon, 03 Feb 2014 10:17:26 +0100 Subject: [Air-L] =?iso-8859-1?q?PhD_grants_at_iSchool=2C_T=E9l=E9com_Breta?= =?iso-8859-1?q?gne=2C_France?= Message-ID: <52EF5EA6.8040806@telecom-bretagne.eu> Hello all, we, at iSchool, Telecom Bretagne, are looking for PhD Candidates (starting September, 2014, 3 years grant) on the following topics: - management, labor economics: virtual teaming, employees' participation in online communities - economics evaluation: multi-criteria evaluation of IT platforms - analytic tools and theories: data mining, social graph analysis. The work can be done in English, PhD candidate can follow French courses If you know people interested in discussing those topics, aks them to send me an email with their resume and their topic of interest. Nicolas Jullien -- Ma?tre de Conf?rences (HDR) / Associate Professor. LUSSI - iSchool, M at rsouin. Institut TELECOM Bretagne & UEB In charge of the Master "Information Systems Project Management and Consulting" http://www.telecom-bretagne.eu/studies/msc/information-systems-management/ Co-animator of the Institut Mines-Telecom's research network "TIC and Society" http://nicolas-jullien.lussi-ischool.eu/ Skype: Nicolas.Jullien1 Tel +33 (0) 229 001 245 TELECOM Bretagne, Technop?le Brest Iroise CS 83818 29238 BREST CEDEX 3 From rbeneito at gmail.com Mon Feb 3 07:43:41 2014 From: rbeneito at gmail.com (Roser Beneito Montagut) Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2014 15:43:41 +0000 Subject: [Air-L] to add participants to your SNSs or not? Message-ID: Hello everybody, We have just started an ethnography (online and offline) to study the extent to which the social web can mitigate isolation and loneliness feelings among the elderly by promoting their interpersonal relationships online. I appreciate if you can point me to articles discussing whether the researcher has added the participants to his/her social network site (e.g. Facebook) or has created an specific profile for the research. We have decided to add the participants to our SNSs, creating a group for them, but I would like to know what other researchers have done and the challenges of this methodological decision they have faced. Apologies beforehand if this topic has already been discussed in the list. Thanks, Roser Roser Beneito-Montagut Senior Lecturer School of Computing, Multimedia and Telecommunication Open University of Catalonia Barcelona From ella.fegitz at gmail.com Mon Feb 3 08:59:11 2014 From: ella.fegitz at gmail.com (Ella Fegitz) Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2014 16:59:11 +0000 Subject: [Air-L] Fwd: Call for papers - Radical Negativity In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: We would like to remind you about the following conference: *Radical Negativity: Interrogating productive possibilities for negative states of being* Friday 13 June 2014 Goldsmiths, University of London Conference Keynote: Lisa Blackman, Professor in Media and Communications, Goldsmiths Supported by the Centre for Feminist Research, Department of Media and Communications, and the Centre for Cultural Studies at Goldsmiths. Website: http://radicalnegativity.com *Proposals are due by Friday 14 February 2014* More recent feminist and queer scholarship has begun to productively address the dark aspects of human subjectivity perceived to have a detrimental impact on the self-constituting practices of the positive self, such as shame, trauma, unhappiness, loss, pain, and melancholia, and reconceptualise them not only as integral to the process of subject formation, but critical and productive affective states in which to engage political action. This interdisciplinary conference addresses the ways in which feminist and queer research may be informed by embracing philosophical oppositions, the 'negative double' of the positive value. The conference will interrogate what can be learned from interventions focused on the interconnections between the negative and human agency, and how such a frame can inform ideas of feminist and queer practice. Borrowing from Eve Sedgwick, this conference proposes that forms of the negative are "not distinctly 'toxic' parts of a group or individual identity that can be excised; they are instead integral to and residual in the processes by which identity itself is formed. They are available for the work of metamorphosis, reframing, refiguration, transfiguration, affective and symbolic loading and deformation (Sedgwick and Frank, 2003, p.63)." If, like Sedgwick, we take up this challenge to valorise negative states of being as key conditions both for the production of meaning and being and as organising principles of identity, then we hope explorations into such states may provide the potential to open up new possibilities for politics and connection. We invite papers and panel proposals that explore how negative states and conditions of being such as unhappiness, irresponsibility, passivity, vulnerability, failure, shame, hesitancy, pain, dispossession, rage, madness and depression may provide loci from which action and political engagement can arise. *Submission Guidelines* Please submit paper abstracts of 300-500 words along with a short biography of 100 words. Panel proposals should include a 300-word description along with accompanying paper abstracts for the panel of 300-500 words. Please provide a short 100-word biography for each presenter. Email submissions to: radicalnegativity at gmail.com by*Friday 14 February 2014*. From sheena.hyndman at gmail.com Mon Feb 3 13:57:34 2014 From: sheena.hyndman at gmail.com (Sheena Hyndman) Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2014 16:57:34 -0500 Subject: [Air-L] CFP (DEADLINE EXTENDED): Dancecult: Special Issue on the Remix and EDMC Message-ID: Hello, I'm writing to request that the CFP below be circulated to the list. With gratitude, Sheena Hyndman _________________________________________ Hello all, Please note that the deadline for the CFP below has been extended to *February 16, 2014*. Best, SH > --------------------------------------------------------------- > > *CFP: The Remix and EDMC Special Edition of Dancecult: Journal of > Electronic Dance Music Culture* > > Guest Editor: Sheena Hyndman > > https://dj.dancecult.net/ > > This special issue seeks to address topics and issues related to the remix > as a component of electronic dance music culture. The remix, a form of > derivative song composition that combines existing recorded sound with > newly composed musical material, has become an increasingly popular subject > of study both within and outside academia. While derivative musical and > cultural expression is not a phenomenon exclusive to the present, the remix > is unique from past forms of derivative music making because of the way it > is defined by its relationship to the sound reproduction technologies of > the 20th and 21st centuries. This combination of derivativeness and > technology has encouraged an influx of scholarship addressing the > problematic relationship of the remix with intellectual property to the > exclusion of many other aspects of remixing, and in light of recent > technological developments, the flourishing of participatory culture and > the growing importance of the remix in the contemporary music industry, > there remains a great deal of territory to explore with respect to the > remix as an expression of contemporary music culture. Therefore, this > special issue seeks to broaden understandings of remixing as a key element > of electronic dance music culture by encouraging debate among composers, > performers, promoters, fans and detractors. > > This special issue of Dancecult invites contributions from scholars in > all areas on the subject of the remix as an expression of past and > contemporary electronic dance music and culture. The goal of this special > issue is to broaden the understanding of remixed music beyond the most > commonly articulated tropes in existing scholarship. To this end, > contributions from scholars, performers, music industry insiders, admirers > and critics are welcomed and encouraged. While contributions from all areas > of scholarship will be considered, it is requested that submissions be > underpinned by a focus on remixing as it relates to electronic dance music > culture. > > / / Suggested Themes / / > > The editor encourages that contributions be grounded in musical > scholarship relating to remixing and EDMC. Potential topics include, but > are not limited to: > > - The history of remixing; > > - Remix genres and scenes; > > - Audience consumption and listening practices; > > - Attitudes towards derivativeness in music; > > - The remix as an expression of past, contemporary, popular and/or > underground dance music cultures; > > - The remix as a process of song composition; > > - The remix as performance practice; > > - The remix and the music industry; > > - Authenticity and originality; > > - Professional and amateur remixing; > > - Types of compensation for producers of remixes; > > - Music blogging; > > - Cross-geographical and -temporal collaborative music making. > > / / Submissions / / > > Feature Articles: > > Feature Articles will be peer-reviewed and are 6000?9000 words in length > (including endnotes, captions and bibliography). > > For policies, see: > > > https://dj.dancecult.net/index.php/dancecult/about/editorialPolicies#sectionPolicies > > *??????????????????????????* > > This special edition will also feature articles for our "From the Floor" > section. Rather than being written in the formal style of the academic > essay, submissions for this shorter format (750?2500 words) are more > conversational, blog-like and informal in tone and may feature more > experimental and creative styles of reporting. From the Floor contributions > may take the form of dispatches from the field, mini-ethnographies, > interviews and photo essays, and contributors are encouraged to include > relevant multimedia components such as music, video and hypertext. > > Articles must adhere to all style and formatting rules stipulated in the Dancecult > Style Guide (DSG). > > Download it here: > > > https://dj.dancecult.net/index.php/dancecult/manager/files/PublicFolder/dancecult_styleguide2.8.5.pdf > > Multimedia Submissions: Dancecult encourages authors to complement their > written work with audio and visual > > material. See the DSG for style and formatting requirements. > > Language: > > Although the language of publication in Dancecult is English, the editor > strongly encourages submissions from non-Anglophone scholars and will be > happy to provide linguistic/stylistic support during the writing process. > > / / Dates and Deadlines / / > > This special edition is proposed for publication in Dancecult in November > 2014. > > If interested, please send a 250 word abstract and brief author biography > to Sheena Hyndman (sheena.hyndman at gmail.com) before January 31, 2014. > > If your abstract is accepted for guest editor review, the deadline for > full article submission is May 31, 2014. > > Beyond that, the deadline for online submission to Dancecult (for peer > review) is August 15, 2014. > > Please send inquiries and expressions of interest to Sheena Hyndman: > sheena.hyndman at gmail.com. > > -- > Sheena Hyndman, PhD > Independent Scholar > Phone: (416) 561-0553 > Email: sheena.hyndman at gmail.com > LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=90342896&trk=tab_pro > > > > > -- > Sheena Hyndman, PhD > Independent Scholar > Phone: (416) 561-0553 > Email: sheena.hyndman at gmail.com > LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=90342896&trk=tab_pro > > > > -- > Sheena Hyndman, PhD > Independent Scholar > Phone: (416) 561-0553 > Email: sheena.hyndman at gmail.com > LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=90342896&trk=tab_pro > -- Sheena Hyndman, PhD Independent Scholar Phone: (416) 561-0553 Email: sheena.hyndman at gmail.com LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=90342896&trk=tab_pro -- Sheena Hyndman, PhD Independent Scholar Phone: (416) 561-0553 Email: sheena.hyndman at gmail.com LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=90342896&trk=tab_pro From m_olszan at live.concordia.ca Mon Feb 3 17:58:48 2014 From: m_olszan at live.concordia.ca (Magdalena O!) Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2014 01:58:48 +0000 Subject: [Air-L] Censorship and mobile apps In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <32BED9FB-C34B-4095-968A-9A3B46B059EA@live.concordia.ca> Hello, I'm writing about censorship and Instagram and looking for more research on censorship and mobile apps. I can't seem to find any. Thank you so much Magdalena =^.^= Magdalena Olszanowski, PhD Student, SSHRC Fellow Senior Research Assistant, Mobile Media Lab HASTAC Scholar Communication Studies Concordia University Montreal, QC @raisecain From julian.hopkins at monash.edu Mon Feb 3 19:29:56 2014 From: julian.hopkins at monash.edu (Julian Hopkins) Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2014 11:29:56 +0800 Subject: [Air-L] Panel CFP AoIR 2015 - Social media, convergence, and commercialisation Message-ID: Hello all, Please excuse any cross posting. I am hoping to find others interested in constituting a panel based (broadly) on the theme of 'Social media, convergence, and commercialisation.' A description follows, but I am definitely open to adapting it depending on people's own research areas. *'Internet infrastructure has had commercial components since 1974, but the content was for a long time not subject to significant commercial influence. Now, however, advertising and the commercialisation of internet content may be argued to be the dominant force driving the internet. This panel will explore different facets of this development by taking a critical and empirical approach to aspects of social media in Asia, exploring the relevance of convergence both between online media forms and the on- and offline, as well as issues of privacy, digital literacy, and the transformation of 'free' labour.' *Please feel free to forward this to anyone you feel may be interested. Best regards, Julian ++++++++++ Dr Julian Hopkins Lecturer School of Arts & Social Sciences Monash University Malaysia www.sass.monash.edu.my Blog: www.julianhopkins.net Twitter: @julianhopkins From nb at imv.au.dk Tue Feb 4 00:21:29 2014 From: nb at imv.au.dk (=?Windows-1252?Q?Niels_Br=FCgger?=) Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2014 08:21:29 +0000 Subject: [Air-L] =?windows-1252?q?PhD-Seminar=2C_Web_Archiving_and_Archive?= =?windows-1252?q?d_Web_=97_a_new_Research_Method=2C_a_new_Object_of_Study?= =?windows-1252?q?=3F?= Message-ID: <719F6AC5-D76B-431C-8D7A-15DBEBE2A476@imv.au.dk> ***apologies for cross-postings*** PhD seminar Web Archiving and Archived Web ? a new Research Method, a new Object of Study? Aarhus University, Denmark, 11-12 June 2014 Organised by the Danish Digital Humanities Lab/NetLab & Aarhus University, the PhD programme ?ICT, Media, Communication and Journalism? This PhD seminar focus on web archiving and web archives with a view to investigating the nexus between web archiving and web archives as a new research method and as a new object of study. The aim of the seminar is double. On the one hand it is to introduce web archiving as a research method to be used by scholars studying contemporary political, social, and cultural phenomena within the humanities and the social sciences, and, on the other hand, the aim is to introduce to the methodological and theoretical issues related to the use of existing (trans)national web archives, in the main in relation to historical studies involving the web. Participation as well as coffee and lunch are free of charge. Participants must pay for dinner, travel and accomodation themselves. The number of participants is limited to 20. Deadline for submission of application is Monday 24 March 2014. The lectures and the lecturers: ? ?Virtual Digs: Excavating, Preserving, and Archiving the Web?, Meghan Dougherty, Assistant Professor, Digital Communication, Loyola University Chicago ? ?A Data Driven Approach to Web Archive Research?, Anat Ben-David, post-doctoral researcher with the WebART project, University of Amsterdam ? ?Archiving web material for future research??, Ditte Laursen, senior researcher and curator at the State Media Archive, State Library in Denmark ? ?Probing a nation?s web sphere?, Niels Br?gger, Associate Professor, Aarhus University, Head of the Centre for Internet Studies Read the full call, including more about the course format, the venue, and how to enrol:http://www.netlab.dk/courses/ Very best, Niels Br?gger ?????????????????????????????? LATEST PUBLICATIONS AND PAPERS August 2013 Web historiography and Internet Studies: Challenges and perspectives, New Media & Society, 15(5), 752-764 Read more: http://nms.sagepub.com/content/15/5/752.abstract June 2013 Historical Network Analysis of the Web, Social Science Computer Review, 31(3), 306-321 Read more: http://ssc.sagepub.com/content/31/3/306.abstract March 2013 The Web and Digital Humanities: Theoretical and Methodological Concerns (w. N.O. Finnemann), Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media 57(1), 66-80 Read more: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/08838151.2012.761699 NIELS BR?GGER, Associate Professor, PhD Director, the Centre for Internet Studies Department of Aesthetics and Communication Aarhus University Helsingforsgade 14 8200 Aarhus N Denmark Phone (switchboard) +45 8715 0000 Phone (direct) +45 8716 1971 Phone (mobile) +45 2945 3231 E-mail nb at imv.au.dk Webpage http://imv.au.dk/~nb Profile at LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/1/50a/555 Skype name: niels_bruegger The Centre for Internet Research http://cfi.au.dk NetLab http://netlab.dk The history of dr.dk, 1996-2006 http://drdk.dk LARM (Radio Culture and Auditory Resources Research Infrastructure) http://www.larm-archive.org From rforno at infowarrior.org Tue Feb 4 03:45:22 2014 From: rforno at infowarrior.org (Richard Forno) Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2014 06:45:22 -0500 Subject: [Air-L] Zimmer op-ed in WaPo Message-ID: <616BD252-23E8-4E92-8F3C-CB959C685024@infowarrior.org> For those interested, AOIR?s own Michael Zimmer has an op-ed in today?s Washington Post. :) Mark Zuckerberg?s theory of privacy http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/mark-zuckerbergs-theory-of-privacy/2014/02/03/2c1d780a-8cea-11e3-95dd-36ff657a4dae_story.html --- Just because i'm near the punchbowl doesn't mean I'm also drinking from it. From salvatore.iaconesi at artisopensource.net Tue Feb 4 06:49:39 2014 From: salvatore.iaconesi at artisopensource.net (Salvatore Iaconesi) Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2014 15:49:39 +0100 Subject: [Air-L] Human Ecosystems project launching in Toronto at the ArtSci Salon Message-ID: Human Ecosystems project launching in Toronto http://www.artisopensource.net/2014/02/04/human-ecosystems-at-artsci-salon-toronto/ The Human Ecosystems project is going to Toronto, at the Fields Institute for Research in Mathematical Sciences for ArtSci Salon, to start the real-time observation of the city, and for a first workshop on real-time cities, ubiquitous information, commons and the new public spaces (and some information visualization and BigData, too). More info about the Human Ecosystems Project: http://www.artisopensource.net/projects/human-ecosystems.html The project has already started in Rome (Italy), Sao Paulo (Brazil), Malm? (Sweden), and is starting in more cities across the world really soon. -- *Salvatore Iaconesi* salvatore.iaconesi at artisopensource.net skype: xdxdVSxdxd *Art is Open Source*: http://www.artisopensource.net *TED Fellow 2012*: http://fellows.ted.com/profiles/salvatore-iaconesi *Eisenhower Fellow 2013*: http://www.efworld.org/ Contract Professor of Digital Design at La Sapienza University of Rome Professor of Digital Design at ISIA Design Florence Professor of Interaction Design at IED Istituto Europeo di Design From krismw11 at umd.edu Tue Feb 4 07:00:12 2014 From: krismw11 at umd.edu (Kristin Williams) Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2014 15:00:12 +0000 Subject: [Air-L] Censorship and mobile apps In-Reply-To: <32BED9FB-C34B-4095-968A-9A3B46B059EA@live.concordia.ca> References: <32BED9FB-C34B-4095-968A-9A3B46B059EA@live.concordia.ca> Message-ID: Hi Magdalena, This chapter recently came to my attention. I haven't read it, but it looks like it might be in the right direction. Chapter 3. Digital Deprivation: New Media, Civil Society and Sustainability Paddy Coulter and Cathy Baldwin From CIVIL SOCIETY IN THE AGE OF MONITORY DEMOCRACY Edited by Lars Tr?g?rdh, Nina Witoszek, & Bron Taylor Afterword by Bill McKibben All the best, -Kristin -----Original Message----- From: air-l-bounces at listserv.aoir.org [mailto:air-l-bounces at listserv.aoir.org] On Behalf Of Magdalena O! Sent: Monday, February 03, 2014 8:59 PM To: Subject: [Air-L] Censorship and mobile apps Hello, I'm writing about censorship and Instagram and looking for more research on censorship and mobile apps. I can't seem to find any. Thank you so much Magdalena =^.^= Magdalena Olszanowski, PhD Student, SSHRC Fellow Senior Research Assistant, Mobile Media Lab HASTAC Scholar Communication Studies Concordia University Montreal, QC @raisecain _______________________________________________ The Air-L at listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org Join the Association of Internet Researchers: http://www.aoir.org/ From sarah.choukah at umontreal.ca Tue Feb 4 07:53:06 2014 From: sarah.choukah at umontreal.ca (Sarah Choukah) Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2014 10:53:06 -0500 Subject: [Air-L] Censorship and mobile apps In-Reply-To: References: <32BED9FB-C34B-4095-968A-9A3B46B059EA@live.concordia.ca> Message-ID: Hi Magdalena, This might of interest for you. The paper is called: "From the Digital to the Tentacular, or From iPods to Cephalopods: Apps, Traps, and Entre?es?without?Exit" (interesting title, right?), and it's written by Dan Mellamphy and Nandita Biswas Mellamphy for an upcoming book on apps they're editing at MIT Press. The chapter is much broader in scope but I think it's very easy to get from themes like "capitalist reticulation" to that of more specific issues such as censorship on the theoretical front. Hope this helps, Sarah Choukah Doctorante D?partement de communication Universit? de Montr?al On Tue, Feb 4, 2014 at 10:00 AM, Kristin Williams wrote: > Hi Magdalena, > > This chapter recently came to my attention. I haven't read it, but it > looks like it might be in the right direction. > > Chapter 3. Digital Deprivation: New Media, Civil Society and Sustainability > Paddy Coulter and Cathy Baldwin > > From > CIVIL SOCIETY IN THE AGE OF MONITORY DEMOCRACY > Edited by Lars Tr?g?rdh, Nina Witoszek, & Bron Taylor > Afterword by Bill McKibben > > All the best, > -Kristin > > -----Original Message----- > From: air-l-bounces at listserv.aoir.org [mailto: > air-l-bounces at listserv.aoir.org] On Behalf Of Magdalena O! > Sent: Monday, February 03, 2014 8:59 PM > To: > Subject: [Air-L] Censorship and mobile apps > > Hello, > > I'm writing about censorship and Instagram and looking for more research > on censorship and mobile apps. I can't seem to find any. > > Thank you so much > > Magdalena > > =^.^= > > Magdalena Olszanowski, PhD Student, SSHRC Fellow Senior Research > Assistant, Mobile Media Lab HASTAC Scholar > Communication Studies Concordia University Montreal, QC > > @raisecain > > _______________________________________________ > The Air-L at listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association > of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or > unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org > > Join the Association of Internet Researchers: > http://www.aoir.org/ > _______________________________________________ > The Air-L at listserv.aoir.org mailing list > is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org > Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: > http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org > > Join the Association of Internet Researchers: > http://www.aoir.org/ > From luishestres at gmail.com Tue Feb 4 10:20:21 2014 From: luishestres at gmail.com (Luis Hestres) Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2014 13:20:21 -0500 Subject: [Air-L] Censorship and mobile apps In-Reply-To: References: <32BED9FB-C34B-4095-968A-9A3B46B059EA@live.concordia.ca> Message-ID: <9CF12F5E9F954A0C96B1EA76125BB78A@gmail.com> Hi Magdalena, If I may plug my own research on this subject, here?s an article I published last year: http://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/article/view/1904 Here?s the abstract: App Neutrality: Apple?s App Store and Freedom of Expression Online Apple?s wireless devices have become a critical entry point into the Internet. But unlike the broader Internet, which can be construed as a relatively open communications network, the iOS app store is arguably a closed technological ecosystem. Developers must gain Apple?s approval before distributing their apps through the store. Some have criticized the company?s app review and approval process for being opaque and arbitrary. This process has also resulted in the rejection of both explicitly and implicitly political apps. This article analyzes Apple?s guidelines and approval process, discusses content-based rejections of apps, and outlines the consequences of this process for developers? and consumers? freedom of expression. It also argues for principles that guarantee ?app neutrality? while also guaranteeing device safety and quality control. - - - - - Luis E. Hestres Ph.D. candidate | School of Communication | American University More about me at luishestres.com (http://luishestres.com/) or LinkedIn (http://www.linkedin.com/in/hestres) | Follow me on Twitter (https://twitter.com/#!/luishestres/) | Visit my SSRN Author page (http://ssrn.com/author=1820222) "Theoretical critiques are like sociopaths: Their aggressive drives are rarely balanced by constructive instincts." -- From "Caught in a Winding, Snarling Vine: The Structural Bias of Political Process Theory" by Jeff Goodwin and James M. Jasper, Sociological Forum 14(1), 1999 On Tuesday, February 4, 2014 at 10:53 AM, Sarah Choukah wrote: > Hi Magdalena, > > This might of interest for > you. > The paper is called: "From the Digital to the Tentacular, or From iPods to > Cephalopods: Apps, Traps, and Entre?es?without?Exit" (interesting title, > right?), and it's written by Dan Mellamphy and Nandita Biswas Mellamphy for > an upcoming book on apps they're editing at MIT Press. The chapter is much > broader in scope but I think it's very easy to get from themes like > "capitalist reticulation" to that of more specific issues such as > censorship on the theoretical front. > > Hope this helps, > > Sarah Choukah > Doctorante > D?partement de communication > Universit? de Montr?al > > > On Tue, Feb 4, 2014 at 10:00 AM, Kristin Williams wrote: > > > Hi Magdalena, > > > > This chapter recently came to my attention. I haven't read it, but it > > looks like it might be in the right direction. > > > > Chapter 3. Digital Deprivation: New Media, Civil Society and Sustainability > > Paddy Coulter and Cathy Baldwin > > > > From > > CIVIL SOCIETY IN THE AGE OF MONITORY DEMOCRACY > > Edited by Lars Tr?g?rdh, Nina Witoszek, & Bron Taylor > > Afterword by Bill McKibben > > > > All the best, > > -Kristin > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: air-l-bounces at listserv.aoir.org (mailto:air-l-bounces at listserv.aoir.org) [mailto: > > air-l-bounces at listserv.aoir.org (mailto:air-l-bounces at listserv.aoir.org)] On Behalf Of Magdalena O! > > Sent: Monday, February 03, 2014 8:59 PM > > To: > > Subject: [Air-L] Censorship and mobile apps > > > > Hello, > > > > I'm writing about censorship and Instagram and looking for more research > > on censorship and mobile apps. I can't seem to find any. > > > > Thank you so much > > > > Magdalena > > > > =^.^= > > > > Magdalena Olszanowski, PhD Student, SSHRC Fellow Senior Research > > Assistant, Mobile Media Lab HASTAC Scholar > > Communication Studies Concordia University Montreal, QC > > > > @raisecain > > > > _______________________________________________ > > The Air-L at listserv.aoir.org (mailto:Air-L at listserv.aoir.org) mailing list is provided by the Association > > of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or > > unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org > > > > Join the Association of Internet Researchers: > > http://www.aoir.org/ > > _______________________________________________ > > The Air-L at listserv.aoir.org (mailto:Air-L at listserv.aoir.org) mailing list > > is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org > > Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: > > http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org > > > > Join the Association of Internet Researchers: > > http://www.aoir.org/ > > > > _______________________________________________ > The Air-L at listserv.aoir.org (mailto:Air-L at listserv.aoir.org) mailing list > is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org > Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org > > Join the Association of Internet Researchers: > http://www.aoir.org/ > > From charles.ess at gmail.com Tue Feb 4 11:01:49 2014 From: charles.ess at gmail.com (Charles Ess) Date: Tue, 04 Feb 2014 20:01:49 +0100 Subject: [Air-L] CaTaC'14 - Oslo, June 17-20: website for submissions to CaTaC'14 now available Message-ID: Dear AoIRists, Just a short note to inform those who are interested that the website for turning in papers and proposals for consideration for CaTaC?14 is now available: For further details on the conference, including recently posted information, please see: Additional information ? e.g., regarding conference fees ? will also be available soon. Please pass on to any potentially interested colleagues ? and many thanks in advance. Charles Ess Professor in Media Studies Department of Media and Communication Director, Centre for Research on Media Innovations University of Oslo P.O. Box 1093 Blindern NO-0317 Oslo Norway email: charles.ess at media.uio.no From toine at hum.aau.dk Tue Feb 4 13:07:39 2014 From: toine at hum.aau.dk (Toine Bogers) Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2014 21:07:39 +0000 Subject: [Air-L] Final Call for Participation: iConference 2014 (Berlin, Germany) Message-ID: ************************************************************* iConference 2014: Standard registrations available through Feb. 15, 2014 Conference Dates: 4-7 March, 2014, Berlin, Germany Conference Home: http://ischools.org/the-iconference/ Conference Schedule: https://www.conftool.com/iConference2014/sessions.php ************************************************************* This is our last call for iConference 2014 standard registrations. Standard rates remain available through Feb. 15, 2014; late fees apply thereafter. If you have not yet finalized your plans for our upcoming conference in Berlin, we encourage you to register as soon as possible! iConference 2014 will bring together scholars and researchers from around the world who share a common concern about critical information issues in contemporary society. This is our ninth annual conference and the first to be held in Europe. Organized under the banner ?Breaking Down Walls | Culture, Context, Computing?, iConference 2014 will provide an inspiring sense of community, high quality research presentations, and myriad opportunities for engagement. All information field practitioners are welcome; affiliation with a member-iSchool is not required. The complete conference schedule is available on our website. Highlights include: ? A compelling program of peer-reviewed Papers, Notes, and Posters. ? 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The opportunity to personally experience Berlin, one of the most historic and compelling cities in Europe. iConference 2014 is presented by the iSchools organization and hosted by The Berlin School of Library and Information Science at Humboldt-Universit?t zu Berlin; the program is administered by the Royal School of Library and Information Science, University of Copenhagen. The presenting sponsor is Microsoft Research, with additional funding from the National Science Foundation, Emerald Publishing, De Gruyter, Springer, Purdue University Press, MIT Press, Morgan & Claypool Publishers, and Citavi. The conference takes place 4-7 March, 2014. More at http://ischools.org/the-iconference/ From dewoller at gmail.com Tue Feb 4 14:59:38 2014 From: dewoller at gmail.com (Dennis Wollersheim) Date: Wed, 05 Feb 2014 09:59:38 +1100 Subject: [Air-L] Qual research with digital diaries- seeking tools & tips, please In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <52F170DA.5030700@gmail.com> Hi Kath The good thing about 'plain old wordpress' is that it is an open format, very easy to archive. You just need to 'spider' the website once the posts are up, that is, run software that visits every webpage and saves a copy. Firefox has a plugins that will do it, foxyspider and spiderzilla are 2 examples. Cheers Dennis On 03/02/14 13:19, Kath Albury wrote: > Hi folks, > > I was wondering if anyone on this list had experience of using a mobile > diary app as research tool (for participants). I'd like participants to > post to a diary via phone or tablet, & will need to have access (& be able > to archive diaries). I've looked at ethno hub (http://ethnohub.com), and > my panel (which is a market research tool > (http://www.mobilemarketresearch.net/mypanel/features). And there's always > the option of plain old wordpress - but the question is how to export & > archive the data? > > Any tips (or even anecdotes) from seasoned players will be greatly > appreciated. > > Cheers, Kath > Kath Albury, PhD > Senior Lecturer, School of Arts and Media > University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, 2052 > Ph: 61 2 9385 8533 > UNSW CRICOS Provider code 00098G > http://research.unsw.edu.au/people/dr-kath-albury > _______________________________________________ > The Air-L at listserv.aoir.org mailing list > is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org > Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org > > Join the Association of Internet Researchers: > http://www.aoir.org/ From stu at texifter.com Tue Feb 4 15:02:03 2014 From: stu at texifter.com (Shulman, Stu) Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2014 18:02:03 -0500 Subject: [Air-L] Qual research with digital diaries- seeking tools & tips, please In-Reply-To: <52F170DA.5030700@gmail.com> References: <52F170DA.5030700@gmail.com> Message-ID: WordPress has a nice XML export that lets you get the entire contents of a blog (if you are the owner) in a single metadata-rich file. DiscoverText has a nice upload option for WordPress XML exports. On Tue, Feb 4, 2014 at 5:59 PM, Dennis Wollersheim wrote: > Hi Kath > > The good thing about 'plain old wordpress' is that it is an open format, > very easy to archive. You just need to 'spider' the website once the posts > are up, that is, run software that visits every webpage and saves a copy. > Firefox has a plugins that will do it, foxyspider and spiderzilla are 2 > examples. > > Cheers > Dennis > > > > > On 03/02/14 13:19, Kath Albury wrote: > >> Hi folks, >> >> I was wondering if anyone on this list had experience of using a mobile >> diary app as research tool (for participants). I'd like participants to >> post to a diary via phone or tablet, & will need to have access (& be able >> to archive diaries). I've looked at ethno hub (http://ethnohub.com< >> http://ethnohub.com/>), and >> my panel (which is a market research tool >> (http://www.mobilemarketresearch.net/mypanel/features). And there's >> always >> the option of plain old wordpress - but the question is how to export & >> archive the data? >> >> Any tips (or even anecdotes) from seasoned players will be greatly >> appreciated. >> >> Cheers, Kath >> Kath Albury, PhD >> Senior Lecturer, School of Arts and Media >> University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, 2052 >> Ph: 61 2 9385 8533 >> UNSW CRICOS Provider code 00098G >> http://research.unsw.edu.au/people/dr-kath-albury >> _______________________________________________ >> The Air-L at listserv.aoir.org mailing list >> is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org >> Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/ >> listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org >> >> Join the Association of Internet Researchers: >> http://www.aoir.org/ >> > > _______________________________________________ > The Air-L at listserv.aoir.org mailing list > is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org > Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/ > listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org > > Join the Association of Internet Researchers: > http://www.aoir.org/ > -- Dr. Stuart W. Shulmanhttp://people.umass.edu/stu Founder and CEO, Texifterhttp://texifter.com LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/stuart-shulman/10/351/899 Twitter: http://twitter.com/#!/StuartWShulman From geneloeb at gmail.com Tue Feb 4 15:09:48 2014 From: geneloeb at gmail.com (gene loeb) Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2014 17:09:48 -0600 Subject: [Air-L] Zimmer op-ed in WaPo In-Reply-To: <616BD252-23E8-4E92-8F3C-CB959C685024@infowarrior.org> References: <616BD252-23E8-4E92-8F3C-CB959C685024@infowarrior.org> Message-ID: Richard, Thanks for posting this article. It is very important. It explains the operation of FaceBook to get people to learn to give up their privacy. More significant, various activities, programs, games, are requiring persons to use Face Book to communicate or to participate. Thanks, Michael Zimmer Gene Gene Loeb, Ph.D. On Tue, Feb 4, 2014 at 5:45 AM, Richard Forno wrote: > > For those interested, AOIR's own Michael Zimmer has an op-ed in today's > Washington Post. :) > > Mark Zuckerberg's theory of privacy > > http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/mark-zuckerbergs-theory-of-privacy/2014/02/03/2c1d780a-8cea-11e3-95dd-36ff657a4dae_story.html > > > --- > Just because i'm near the punchbowl doesn't mean I'm also drinking from it. > > _______________________________________________ > The Air-L at listserv.aoir.org mailing list > is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org > Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: > http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org > > Join the Association of Internet Researchers: > http://www.aoir.org/ > -- With Sincerest Best Wishes , Gene Gene Loeb, Ph.D. From k.albury at unsw.edu.au Tue Feb 4 15:25:05 2014 From: k.albury at unsw.edu.au (Kath Albury) Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2014 23:25:05 +0000 Subject: [Air-L] Qual research with digital diaries- seeking tools & tips, please In-Reply-To: <52F170DA.5030700@gmail.com> References: <52F170DA.5030700@gmail.com> Message-ID: Hi all, Quite a few people contacted me off-list, expressing interest in this topic- a consensus seems to be shaping up in favour of Wordpress. Many thanks for your advice. Cheers, Kath Kath Albury, PhD Senior Lecturer, School of Arts and Media University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, 2052 Ph: 61 2 9385 8533 UNSW CRICOS Provider code 00098G http://research.unsw.edu.au/people/dr-kath-albury On 5/02/14 9:59 AM, "Dennis Wollersheim" wrote: >Hi Kath > >The good thing about 'plain old wordpress' is that it is an open format, >very easy to archive. You just need to 'spider' the website once the >posts >are up, that is, run software that visits every webpage and saves a copy. >Firefox has a plugins that will do it, foxyspider and spiderzilla are 2 >examples. > >Cheers >Dennis > > > > >On 03/02/14 13:19, Kath Albury wrote: >> Hi folks, >> >> I was wondering if anyone on this list had experience of using a mobile >> diary app as research tool (for participants). I'd like participants to >> post to a diary via phone or tablet, & will need to have access (& be >>able >> to archive diaries). I've looked at ethno hub >>(http://ethnohub.com), and >> my panel (which is a market research tool >> (http://www.mobilemarketresearch.net/mypanel/features). And there's >>always >> the option of plain old wordpress - but the question is how to export & >> archive the data? >> >> Any tips (or even anecdotes) from seasoned players will be greatly >> appreciated. >> >> Cheers, Kath >> Kath Albury, PhD >> Senior Lecturer, School of Arts and Media >> University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, 2052 >> Ph: 61 2 9385 8533 >> UNSW CRICOS Provider code 00098G >> http://research.unsw.edu.au/people/dr-kath-albury >> _______________________________________________ >> The Air-L at listserv.aoir.org mailing list >> is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org >> Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: >>http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org >> >> Join the Association of Internet Researchers: >> http://www.aoir.org/ > From seeta.gangadharan at gmail.com Tue Feb 4 16:38:54 2014 From: seeta.gangadharan at gmail.com (=?UTF-8?B?U2VldGEgUGXDsWEgR2FuZ2FkaGFyYW4=?=) Date: Tue, 04 Feb 2014 19:38:54 -0500 Subject: [Air-L] Qual research with digital diaries- seeking tools & tips, please In-Reply-To: References: <52F170DA.5030700@gmail.com> Message-ID: <52F1881E.9090804@gmail.com> VoJo is another option. http://vojo.co/ On 2/4/14 6:25 PM, Kath Albury wrote: > Hi all, > > Quite a few people contacted me off-list, expressing interest in this > topic- a consensus seems to be shaping up in favour of Wordpress. Many > thanks for your advice. > > Cheers, Kath > Kath Albury, PhD > Senior Lecturer, School of Arts and Media > University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, 2052 > Ph: 61 2 9385 8533 > UNSW CRICOS Provider code 00098G > http://research.unsw.edu.au/people/dr-kath-albury > > > > > On 5/02/14 9:59 AM, "Dennis Wollersheim" wrote: > >> Hi Kath >> >> The good thing about 'plain old wordpress' is that it is an open format, >> very easy to archive. You just need to 'spider' the website once the >> posts >> are up, that is, run software that visits every webpage and saves a copy. >> Firefox has a plugins that will do it, foxyspider and spiderzilla are 2 >> examples. >> >> Cheers >> Dennis >> >> >> >> >> On 03/02/14 13:19, Kath Albury wrote: >>> Hi folks, >>> >>> I was wondering if anyone on this list had experience of using a mobile >>> diary app as research tool (for participants). I'd like participants to >>> post to a diary via phone or tablet, & will need to have access (& be >>> able >>> to archive diaries). I've looked at ethno hub >>> (http://ethnohub.com), and >>> my panel (which is a market research tool >>> (http://www.mobilemarketresearch.net/mypanel/features). And there's >>> always >>> the option of plain old wordpress - but the question is how to export & >>> archive the data? >>> >>> Any tips (or even anecdotes) from seasoned players will be greatly >>> appreciated. >>> >>> Cheers, Kath >>> Kath Albury, PhD >>> Senior Lecturer, School of Arts and Media >>> University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, 2052 >>> Ph: 61 2 9385 8533 >>> UNSW CRICOS Provider code 00098G >>> http://research.unsw.edu.au/people/dr-kath-albury >>> _______________________________________________ >>> The Air-L at listserv.aoir.org mailing list >>> is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org >>> Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: >>> http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org >>> >>> Join the Association of Internet Researchers: >>> http://www.aoir.org/ > _______________________________________________ > The Air-L at listserv.aoir.org mailing list > is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org > Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org > > Join the Association of Internet Researchers: > http://www.aoir.org/ From j.unger at lancaster.ac.uk Wed Feb 5 04:54:04 2014 From: j.unger at lancaster.ac.uk (Unger, Johann) Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2014 12:54:04 +0000 Subject: [Air-L] Facebook and the construction of (migrants') identities Message-ID: Dear AOIR-ers, A PhD student in my department is currently trying to finish his thesis on Dr J W Unger Lecturer and Academic Director of Summer Programmes Department of Linguistics and English Language Lancaster University LA1 4YL e-mail: j.unger at lancaster.ac.uk tel: +44 1524 592591 Follow me on Twitter @johnnyunger From j.unger at lancaster.ac.uk Wed Feb 5 05:01:52 2014 From: j.unger at lancaster.ac.uk (Unger, Johann) Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2014 13:01:52 +0000 Subject: [Air-L] Facebook and the construction of (migrants') identities In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Meanwhile, I'm trying to finish my email! Apologies for the earlier, unfinished draft. Here's what I meant to write: Dear AOIR-ers, A PhD student in my department is currently trying to finish his thesis on migrants' use if Facebook, with a particular focus on how they construct their identities. If you know of any interesting work in this area, I'd be grateful of you could let me know either off-list or on. We'll collate any responses and circulate in due course. Many thanks, Johnny Dr J W Unger Lecturer and Academic Director of Summer Programmes Department of Linguistics and English Language Lancaster University LA1 4YL e-mail: j.unger at lancaster.ac.uk tel: +44 1524 592591 Follow me on Twitter @johnnyunger From tiziano.bonini at gmail.com Wed Feb 5 05:30:33 2014 From: tiziano.bonini at gmail.com (tiziano bonini) Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2014 14:30:33 +0100 Subject: [Air-L] Facebook and the construction of (migrants') identities In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Dear Johann, I investigated something similar in my PhD thesis. Unfortunately it is in Italian but I published a part of it in this article: "Media as home making tools: life story of a Filipino migrant in Milan", Media, Culture & society, 33(6), 869-883. Here the link to read it: http://www.scribd.com/doc/79449459/Media-as-Home-Making-Tools-MC-S-2011 Best tiziano 2014-02-05 Unger, Johann : > Meanwhile, I'm trying to finish my email! Apologies for the earlier, > unfinished draft. Here's what I meant to write: > > Dear AOIR-ers, > > A PhD student in my department is currently trying to finish his thesis on > migrants' use if Facebook, with a particular focus on how they construct > their identities. If you know of any interesting work in this area, I'd be > grateful of you could let me know either off-list or on. We'll collate any > responses and circulate in due course. > > Many thanks, > Johnny > > Dr J W Unger > Lecturer and Academic Director of Summer Programmes > Department of Linguistics and English Language > Lancaster University > LA1 4YL > > e-mail: j.unger at lancaster.ac.uk > tel: +44 1524 592591 > Follow me on Twitter @johnnyunger > _______________________________________________ > The Air-L at listserv.aoir.org mailing list > is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org > Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: > http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org > > Join the Association of Internet Researchers: > http://www.aoir.org/ > -- Tiziano Bonini ||| lecturer in media studies ||| Arts, Culture and Comparative Literature Institute IULM University of Milano via Carlo Bo 4 20143 Milano, Italy ::: Academia ::: http://iulm.academia.edu/TizianoBonini ::: Audio/Radio ::: www.radiofactory.org http://audioboo.fm/tizianobonini From K.H.A.Leurs at uu.nl Wed Feb 5 06:27:53 2014 From: K.H.A.Leurs at uu.nl (Leurs, K.H.A. (Koen)) Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2014 14:27:53 +0000 Subject: [Air-L] Facebook and the construction of (migrants') identities In-Reply-To: References: , Message-ID: <00655BF384232847B11F8A9380EDC227278EC065@ICTSC-W-S204.soliscom.uu.nl> Dear Johnny, Kindly consider these publications (apologies for the self-promotion) Hepp, A., Bozdag, C. & Suna, L. (2012). Mediatized migrants: Media cultures and communicative networking in the diaspora. In L. Fortunati, R. Pertierra & J. Vincent (Eds.), Migrations, diaspora, and information technology in global societies, (pp. 172-188). London: Routledge. Leurs, K. & Ponzanesi, S. (2013). Intersectionality, digital identities and migrant youths. In C. Carter, L. Steiner & L. McLaughlin (Eds.), Routledge companion to media and gender. London: Routledge. Leurs, K. & Ponzanesi, S. (2013). Bits of homeland. In C. Ponte & M. Georgiou (Eds.) Special issue on Media, technology and the migrant family. Observatorio (OBS*), 7 (1). Leurs, K., Midden, E. & Ponzanesi, S. (2012). Digital multiculturalism in the Netherlands: Religious, ethnic, and gender positioning by Moroccan-Dutch youth. Religion and Gender, 2 (1), 150-175. Leurs, K. & Ponzanesi, S. (2011). Mediated crossroads: Youthful digital diasporas. M/C Journal, 14(2), http://journal.media-culture.org.au/ Leurs, K. & Ponzanesi, S. (2011). Communicative spaces of their own. Migrant girls performing selves using Instant Messaging software. Feminist Review, 99, 55-78. Mainsah, H. (2011). Transcending the national imaginery: Digital online media and the transnational networks of ethnic minority youth in norway. In E. Eide & K. Nikunen (Eds.), Media in motion: Cultural complexity and migration in the Nordic region, (pp. 201-219). Surrey: Ashgate. Mainsah, H. (2009). Ethnic minorities and digital technologies. New spaces for constructing identity. (Unpublished doctoral dissertation). Oslo University, Norway. Hope these are useful, Best wishes, Koen. Koen Leurs, PhD | Marie Curie Postdoctoral Researcher, LSE | | Affiliated researcher Graduate Gender Studies / Institute for Cultural Enquiry (ICON) Utrecht University | www.uu.nl/wiredup | http://www.mignetproject.eu/ | www.koenleurs.net ________________________________________ From: air-l-bounces at listserv.aoir.org [air-l-bounces at listserv.aoir.org] on behalf of tiziano bonini [tiziano.bonini at gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, February 05, 2014 2:30 PM To: Unger, Johann Cc: air-l at listserv.aoir.org Subject: Re: [Air-L] Facebook and the construction of (migrants') identities Dear Johann, I investigated something similar in my PhD thesis. Unfortunately it is in Italian but I published a part of it in this article: "Media as home making tools: life story of a Filipino migrant in Milan", Media, Culture & society, 33(6), 869-883. Here the link to read it: http://www.scribd.com/doc/79449459/Media-as-Home-Making-Tools-MC-S-2011 Best tiziano 2014-02-05 Unger, Johann : > Meanwhile, I'm trying to finish my email! Apologies for the earlier, > unfinished draft. Here's what I meant to write: > > Dear AOIR-ers, > > A PhD student in my department is currently trying to finish his thesis on > migrants' use if Facebook, with a particular focus on how they construct > their identities. If you know of any interesting work in this area, I'd be > grateful of you could let me know either off-list or on. We'll collate any > responses and circulate in due course. > > Many thanks, > Johnny > > Dr J W Unger > Lecturer and Academic Director of Summer Programmes > Department of Linguistics and English Language > Lancaster University > LA1 4YL > > e-mail: j.unger at lancaster.ac.uk > tel: +44 1524 592591 > Follow me on Twitter @johnnyunger > _______________________________________________ > The Air-L at listserv.aoir.org mailing list > is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org > Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: > http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org > > Join the Association of Internet Researchers: > http://www.aoir.org/ > -- Tiziano Bonini ||| lecturer in media studies ||| Arts, Culture and Comparative Literature Institute IULM University of Milano via Carlo Bo 4 20143 Milano, Italy ::: Academia ::: http://iulm.academia.edu/TizianoBonini ::: Audio/Radio ::: www.radiofactory.org http://audioboo.fm/tizianobonini _______________________________________________ The Air-L at listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org Join the Association of Internet Researchers: http://www.aoir.org/ From gn254 at cam.ac.uk Wed Feb 5 07:05:27 2014 From: gn254 at cam.ac.uk (Galina Nikiporets-Takigawa) Date: Wed, 05 Feb 2014 15:05:27 +0000 Subject: [Air-L] Facebook and the construction of (migrants') identities In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Hi, Johnny, With apologise for self-promotion and not being directly related (not about Facebook), but relevant - two chapters on digital communication in identities construction of post-soviet migrants in the UK: (2013) ?Digital debates on Soviet memory in the national identity construction of post-soviet migrants?, in Negotiating Linguistic, Cultural and Social Identities in the Post-Soviet World, Sarah Smith and Conny Opitz eds., Peter Lang, 163-182. ISBN 978-3-0343-0840-3 pb. (2010) ?Digital communication of the Russian-speaking community as a reflection of language contact and performance of identity?, in Instrumentarium of Linguistics. Sociolinguisitc Approaches to Non-Standard Russian, Arto Mustajoki et al. eds., Slavica Helsingiensia 40, 369-380. Both PDFs are available here https://cambridge.academia.edu/GalinaNikiporetsTakigawa, Best, Galina On 2014-02-05 13:01, Unger, Johann wrote: > Meanwhile, I'm trying to finish my email! Apologies for the earlier, > unfinished draft. Here's what I meant to write: > > Dear AOIR-ers, > > A PhD student in my department is currently trying to finish his > thesis on migrants' use if Facebook, with a particular focus on how > they construct their identities. If you know of any interesting work > in this area, I'd be grateful of you could let me know either off-list > or on. We'll collate any responses and circulate in due course. > > Many thanks, > Johnny > > Dr J W Unger > Lecturer and Academic Director of Summer Programmes > Department of Linguistics and English Language > Lancaster University > LA1 4YL > > e-mail: j.unger at lancaster.ac.uk > tel: +44 1524 592591 > Follow me on Twitter @johnnyunger > _______________________________________________ > The Air-L at listserv.aoir.org mailing list > is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org > Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: > http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org > > Join the Association of Internet Researchers: > http://www.aoir.org/ -- Dr Galina Nikiporets-Takigawa Department of Slavonic Studies University of Cambridge Sidgwick Avenue, Cambridge CB3 9DA https://cambridge.academia.edu/GalinaNikiporetsTakigawa From pedro.oiarzabal at deusto.es Wed Feb 5 08:47:12 2014 From: pedro.oiarzabal at deusto.es (P.J. Oiarzabal) Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2014 16:47:12 +0000 Subject: [Air-L] Facebook and the construction of (migrants') identities In-Reply-To: References: , , Message-ID: Hi there, Please also considered the following publications: Oiarzabal, Pedro J. and Ulf-Dietrich Reips. (Eds.) Special Issue ?Migration and the Internet: Social Networking and Diasporas.? Journal of Ethnicity and Migration Studies, Vol. 38, No. 9 (2012): 1333-1490 (ISSN 1369-183X).Oiarzabal, Pedro J. ?Diaspora Basques and Online Social Networks: An Analysis of Users of Basque Institutional Diaspora Groups on Facebook.? Journal of Ethnicity and Migration Studies, Vol. 38, No. 9 (2012): 1469-1485.Oiarzabal, Pedro J. (2011). ?The Online Social Networks of the Basque Diaspora. Fast Forwarded, 2005-2009,? in Javier Echeverria, Andoni Alonso, and Pedro J. Oiarzabal (eds.). Knowledge Communities. Conference Series. Vol. 6. Reno: Center for Basque Studies, University of Nevada, Reno. (Hardcover, 260 pages; ISBN 978-1-877802-97-3). Oiarzabal, Pedro J. (2013). The Basque Diaspora Webscape: Identity, Nation, and Homeland, 1990s-2010s. Basque Diaspora and Migration Studies Series, No. 7. Center for Basque Studies, University of Nevada, Reno. (Paperback, 272 pages; ISBN 978-1-935709-41-1). Oiarzabal, Pedro J. and Andoni Alonso. (Eds.) (2010). Diasporas in the New Media Age: Identity, Politics and Community. Reno: University Nevada Press. (Paperback, 384 pages; ISBN 978-0-87417-815-9). Best regards, Pedro Pedro J. Oiarzabal, PhD pedro.oiarzabal at deusto.es University of Deusto Pedro Arrupe Human Rights Institute, Avenida de las Universidades, 24 48007 - Bilbao Tel.:+34-944139003 (ext. 2077) http://www.idh.deusto.es Have you seen my latest book, The Basque Diaspora Webscape: Identity, Nation and Homeland, 1990s-2010s? bit.ly/1f01i50 > Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2014 15:05:27 +0000 > From: gn254 at cam.ac.uk > To: j.unger at lancaster.ac.uk; tiziano.bonini at gmail.com; K.H.A.Leurs at uu.nl; air-l at listserv.aoir.org > Subject: Re: [Air-L] Facebook and the construction of (migrants') identities > > Hi, Johnny, > > With apologise for self-promotion and not being directly related (not > about Facebook), but relevant - two chapters on digital communication in > identities construction of post-soviet migrants in the UK: > > (2013) ?Digital debates on Soviet memory in the national identity > construction of post-soviet migrants?, in Negotiating Linguistic, > Cultural and Social Identities in the Post-Soviet World, Sarah Smith and > Conny Opitz eds., Peter Lang, 163-182. ISBN 978-3-0343-0840-3 pb. > > (2010) ?Digital communication of the Russian-speaking community as a > reflection of language contact and performance of identity?, in > Instrumentarium of Linguistics. Sociolinguisitc Approaches to > Non-Standard Russian, Arto Mustajoki et al. eds., Slavica Helsingiensia > 40, 369-380. > > > Both PDFs are available here > https://cambridge.academia.edu/GalinaNikiporetsTakigawa, > > > Best, > > Galina > > On 2014-02-05 13:01, Unger, Johann wrote: > > Meanwhile, I'm trying to finish my email! Apologies for the earlier, > > unfinished draft. Here's what I meant to write: > > > > Dear AOIR-ers, > > > > A PhD student in my department is currently trying to finish his > > thesis on migrants' use if Facebook, with a particular focus on how > > they construct their identities. If you know of any interesting work > > in this area, I'd be grateful of you could let me know either off-list > > or on. We'll collate any responses and circulate in due course. > > > > Many thanks, > > Johnny > > > > Dr J W Unger > > Lecturer and Academic Director of Summer Programmes > > Department of Linguistics and English Language > > Lancaster University > > LA1 4YL > > > > e-mail: j.unger at lancaster.ac.uk > > tel: +44 1524 592591 > > Follow me on Twitter @johnnyunger > > _______________________________________________ > > The Air-L at listserv.aoir.org mailing list > > is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org > > Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: > > http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org > > > > Join the Association of Internet Researchers: > > http://www.aoir.org/ > > -- > Dr Galina Nikiporets-Takigawa > Department of Slavonic Studies > University of Cambridge > Sidgwick Avenue, Cambridge CB3 9DA > https://cambridge.academia.edu/GalinaNikiporetsTakigawa > _______________________________________________ > The Air-L at listserv.aoir.org mailing list > is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org > Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org > > Join the Association of Internet Researchers: > http://www.aoir.org/ From laevantine at gmail.com Wed Feb 5 10:40:43 2014 From: laevantine at gmail.com (Todd Harper) Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2014 13:40:43 -0500 Subject: [Air-L] Game studies book note -- The Culture of Digital Fighting Games Message-ID: Just a small note if you have an interest in game studies, particularly gaming communities, e-sports, or communities of practice: my book "The Culture of Digital Fighting Games: Performance and Practice" came out at the end of December 2013. In summary, the book is an extension of my dissertation work on the competitive fighting game community, looking at their play practices, social interactions, and the like. If this is of interest to you, there's more information on Routledge's page for the book: http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415821308/ There's also a review copy request form -- http://www.routledge.com/resources/review_copy_request/%209780415821308/ And a library recommendation form, if you're of the mind - http://www.routledge.com/resources/librarian_recommendation/9780415821308/ Thanks, and have a good one. >Todd -- Todd Harper Postdoctoral Researcher, MIT Game Lab -- http://gamelab.mit.edu laevantine at gmail.com | tlharper at mit.edu From julie.grinberg at yahoo.com Wed Feb 5 14:47:51 2014 From: julie.grinberg at yahoo.com (Julie Grinberg) Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2014 14:47:51 -0800 (PST) Subject: [Air-L] =?utf-8?q?PhD-Seminar=2C_Web_Archiving_and_Archived_Web_?= =?utf-8?q?=E2=80=94_a_new_Research_Method=2C_a_new_Object_of_Study=3F?= In-Reply-To: <719F6AC5-D76B-431C-8D7A-15DBEBE2A476@imv.au.dk> References: <719F6AC5-D76B-431C-8D7A-15DBEBE2A476@imv.au.dk> Message-ID: <1391640471.93494.YahooMailNeo@web121903.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> Dear Niels,? My name is Yuliya Grinberg, I'm a Ph.D candidate in anthropology at Columbia University developing a project on what I have tentatively titled the "Digital Data Mines" dealing precisely with questions of the archive in the digital age. This seminar seems so great, but I am also looking for material I could read during the spring in preparation of my dissertation proposal. I'm particularly interested in literature related to the topic of "Virtual Digs." ?I'm wondering if there is a suggested reading list you could help refer me to? Thanks in advance! Yuliya Grinberg? On Tuesday, February 4, 2014 4:17 AM, Niels Br?gger wrote: ***apologies for cross-postings*** PhD seminar Web Archiving and Archived Web ? a new Research Method, a new Object of Study? Aarhus University, Denmark, 11-12 June 2014 Organised by the Danish Digital Humanities Lab/NetLab & Aarhus University, the PhD programme ?ICT, Media, Communication and Journalism? This PhD seminar focus on web archiving and web archives with a view to investigating the nexus between web archiving and web archives as a new research method and as a new object of study. The aim of the seminar is double. On the one hand it is to introduce web archiving as a research method to be used by scholars studying contemporary political, social, and cultural phenomena within the humanities and the social sciences, and, on the other hand, the aim is to introduce to the methodological and theoretical issues related to the use of existing (trans)national web archives, in the main in relation to historical studies involving the web. Participation as well as coffee and lunch are free of charge. Participants must pay for dinner, travel and accomodation themselves. The number of participants is limited to 20. Deadline for submission of application is Monday 24 March 2014. The lectures and the lecturers: ? ?Virtual Digs: Excavating, Preserving, and Archiving the Web?, Meghan Dougherty, Assistant Professor, Digital Communication, Loyola University Chicago ? ?A Data Driven Approach to Web Archive Research?, Anat Ben-David, post-doctoral researcher with the WebART project, University of Amsterdam ? ?Archiving web material for future research??, Ditte Laursen, senior researcher and curator at the State Media Archive, State Library in Denmark ? ?Probing a nation?s web sphere?, Niels Br?gger, Associate Professor, Aarhus University, Head of the Centre for Internet Studies Read the full call, including more about the course format, the venue, and how to enrol:http://www.netlab.dk/courses/ Very best, Niels Br?gger ?????????????????????????????? LATEST PUBLICATIONS AND PAPERS August 2013 Web historiography and Internet Studies: Challenges and perspectives, New Media & Society, 15(5), 752-764 Read more: http://nms.sagepub.com/content/15/5/752.abstract June 2013 Historical Network Analysis of the Web, Social Science Computer Review, 31(3), 306-321 Read more: http://ssc.sagepub.com/content/31/3/306.abstract March 2013 The Web and Digital Humanities: Theoretical and Methodological Concerns (w. N.O. Finnemann), Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media 57(1), 66-80 Read more: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/08838151.2012.761699 NIELS BR?GGER, Associate Professor, PhD Director, the Centre for Internet Studies Department of Aesthetics and Communication Aarhus University Helsingforsgade 14 8200 Aarhus N Denmark Phone (switchboard)? +45 8715 0000 Phone (direct)? ? ? ? ? ? ? +45 8716 1971 Phone (mobile)? ? ? ? ? ? +45 2945 3231 E-mail? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? nb at imv.au.dk Webpage? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? http://imv.au.dk/~nb Profile at LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/1/50a/555 Skype name: niels_bruegger The Centre for Internet Research? ? ? ? ? ? ? http://cfi.au.dk NetLab? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? http://netlab.dk??? ??? The history of dr.dk, 1996-2006? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? http://drdk.dk LARM (Radio Culture and Auditory Resources Research Infrastructure) http://www.larm-archive.org _______________________________________________ The Air-L at listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org Join the Association of Internet Researchers: http://www.aoir.org/ From jwallis at csu.edu.au Wed Feb 5 17:53:48 2014 From: jwallis at csu.edu.au (Wallis, Jacob) Date: Thu, 6 Feb 2014 12:53:48 +1100 Subject: [Air-L] Air-L Digest, Vol 115, Issue 5 In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Hi Johnny, Some of my colleagues have done some work in this area with migrant refugees located in regional New South Wales, Australia - published as..... Lloyd, A., Kennan, M. A., Thompson, K. M., & Asim Qayyum. (2013). Connecting with new information landscapes: information literacy practices of refugees. Journal of Documentation, 69(1), 121-144. Cheers, Jake Jake Wallis Lecturer School of Information Studies Charles Sturt University Tel: +61 2 6051 9433 Email: jwallis at csu.edu.au www.csu.edu.au ------------------------------ Message: 6 Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2014 13:01:52 +0000 From: "Unger, Johann" To: "air-l at listserv.aoir.org" Subject: Re: [Air-L] Facebook and the construction of (migrants') identities Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Meanwhile, I'm trying to finish my email! Apologies for the earlier, unfinished draft. Here's what I meant to write: Dear AOIR-ers, A PhD student in my department is currently trying to finish his thesis on migrants' use if Facebook, with a particular focus on how they construct their identities. If you know of any interesting work in this area, I'd be grateful of you could let me know either off-list or on. 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Disclaimer added by CodeTwo Exchange Rules 2007 http://www.codetwo.com From hk at monkprayogshala.in Thu Feb 6 01:06:06 2014 From: hk at monkprayogshala.in (hk at monkprayogshala.in) Date: Thu, 06 Feb 2014 09:06:06 +0000 Subject: [Air-L] Public Gossip Scale Message-ID: <089e014950d4fc3d2704f1b92e93@google.com> Hello, Do spend a couple of minutes participating in research about gossip :) This is the second part of the project, and you can fill in this form even if you've filled in an earlier one! Do help :) Thanks! Best, Hansika Kapoor This is the second part of a study on gossip behaviour. You are eligible to participate regardless of whether you've filled a similar form earlier or not :) PURPOSE: This questionnaire concerns the tendency of people to talk about public figures. It is a tendency which occurs almost every day, and most people indulge in it. WHO IS CONDUCTING THIS STUDY: This study is being conducted by Aakankshi Javeri, Research Intern at the Department of Psychology, Monk Prayogshala (aj at monkprayogshala.in), under the supervision of Hansika Kapoor, Research Author at Monk Prayogshala (hk at monkprayogshala.in). HAS THIS STUDY BEEN APPROVED? Yes, this study has received Ethical Approval from the IRB at Monk Prayogshala, in November 2013 (#013-003). For queries regarding the same, you may contact aa at monkprayogshala.in WHAT YOU WILL DO: You will begin by providing some basic information about yourself. Then you will be required to respond to a few statements. There are no right or wrong answers to any of the items and this test is in no way a test of your intelligence. Please be as truthful as possible. We anticipate that the entire questionnaire will take about 10 minutes to complete. RISKS: There are NO anticipated risks with participating in this study. BENEFITS: On completion, your email id will be entered into a raffle where you can win a Rs. 750/- Flipkart voucher! :) PLEASE NOTE THE MORE PEOPLE YOU GET TO FILL IN THIS FORM, THE BETTER CHANCE YOU HAVE OF WINNING! Also, your email id will only be used to enter you into the raffle and will not be associated with your identity in any way. [If you are not a resident of India, and if your email id is selected, you will be eligible for an Amazon gift card of the equivalent amount.] CONFIDENTIALITY: Your participation will remain strictly confidential and your responses will not be associated with your identity. PARTICIPATION AND WITHDRAWAL: Your participation in this study is completely voluntary, and you may withdraw at any time without penalty. If at any time during the study you begin to feel uncomfortable, you may exit the study by closing your browser window. CONTACT: If you have any questions, comments or feedback regarding this study, you can contact us at aj at monkprayogshala.in By continuing, you are stating that you are over 16 years of age, and that you understand the provided information and consent to participate in the study being conducted. I've invited you to fill out the form Public Gossip. To fill it out, visit: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1Fv4THHNK3d_5b6R8N_9sl1XqAPsrdp3rFv6wnlx_ryA/viewform From stuart.shulman at gmail.com Thu Feb 6 11:05:57 2014 From: stuart.shulman at gmail.com (Stuart Shulman) Date: Thu, 6 Feb 2014 14:05:57 -0500 Subject: [Air-L] Gnip and Twitter Bringing Social Data to Academic Researchers Message-ID: Gnip and Twitter Bringing Social Data to Academic Researchers http://blog.gnip.com/twitter-data-grants/ >From the Gnip blog: "What if the next generation of data scientists could have access to social data for their research? And what if we could help increase the quantity and quality of published research using social data? Exploring what might be possible has led to an exciting new collaboration between Twitter and Gnip. Today, we're announcing the pilot of the Twitter Data Grants program, a new initiative designed to support research and fuel innovation in our industry." On a related note: I have taken on the task of setting up 1-2 academic panels for the next Big Boulder conference. If you are an academic doing work with Twitter data and you are interested in potentially appearing on a Big Boulder panel, please send me a brief synopsis of your project and a link to any web-based materials about it. For more about past Big Boulder conferences, please visit: http://blog.gnip.com/big-boulder-the-worlds-first-social-data-conference/ and http://blog.gnip.com/big-boulder-2013-recap/ For information about the Big Boulder Initiative: http://blog.gnip.com/social-data-industry-organization/ ~Stu -- Dr. Stuart W. Shulman people.umass.edu/stu Founder and CEO, Texifter texifter.com LinkedIn: linkedin.com/pub/stuart-shulman/10/351/899 Twitter: twitter.com/#!/StuartWShulman From gciampag at indiana.edu Thu Feb 6 17:50:07 2014 From: gciampag at indiana.edu (Giovanni Luca Ciampaglia) Date: Thu, 06 Feb 2014 20:50:07 -0500 Subject: [Air-L] ACM Web Science Conference (WebSci'14), June 23-26, 2014 Message-ID: <52F43BCF.4080605@indiana.edu> *** Apologies for multiple postings *** FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS & ACCEPTED SATELLITE EVENTS ACM Web Science Conference (WebSci'14), June 23-26, 2014 Bloomington, Indiana, USA websci14.org / @WebSciConf / #WebSci14 Deadline for papers: Feb. 23rd 2014 Web Science is the emergent science of the people, organizations, applications, and of policies that shape and are shaped by the Web, the largest informational artifact constructed by humans in history. Web Science embraces the study of the Web as a vast universal information network of people and communities. As such, Web Science includes the study of social networks whose work, expression, and play take place on the Web. The social sciences and computational sciences meet in Web Science and complement one another: Studying human behavior and social interaction contributes to our understanding of the Web, while Web data is transforming how social science is conducted. The Web presents us with a great opportunity as well as an obligation: If we are to ensure the Web benefits humanity we must do our best to understand it. Call for Papers The Web Science conference is inherently interdisciplinary, as it attempts to integrate computer and information sciences, communication, linguistics, sociology, psychology, economics, law, political science, philosophy, digital humanities, and other disciplines in pursuit of an understanding of the Web. This conference is unique in the manner in which it brings these disciplines together in creative and critical dialogue, and we invite papers from all the above disciplines, and in particular those that cross traditional disciplinary boundaries. Following the success of WebSci'09 in Athens, WebSci'10 in Raleigh, WebSci'11 in Koblenz, WebSci '12 in Evanston, and WebSci'13 in Paris, for the 2014 conference we are seeking papers and posters that describe original research, analysis, and practice in the field of Web Science, as well as work that discusses novel and thought-provoking ideas and works-in-progress. Possible topics for submissions include, but are not limited to, the following: * Analysis of human behavior using social media, mobile devices, and online communities * Methodological challenges of analyzing Web-based * large-scale social interaction * Data-mining and network analysis of the Web and human communities on the Web * Detailed studies of micro-level processes and interactions * on the Web * Collective intelligence, collaborative production, and social computing * Theories and methods for computational social science on the Web * Studies of public health and health-related behavior on the Web * The architecture and philosophy of the Web * The intersection of design and human interaction on the Web * Economics and social innovation on the Web * Governance, democracy, intellectual property, and the commons * Personal data, trust, and privacy * Web and social media research ethics * Studies of Linked Data, the Cloud, and digital eco-systems * Big data and the study of the Web * Web access, literacy, and development * Knowledge, education, and scholarship on and through the Web * People-driven Web technologies, including crowd-sourcing, open data, and new interfaces * Digital humanities * Arts & culture on the Web or engaging audiences using Web resources * Web archiving techniques and scholarly uses of Web archives * New research questions and thought-provoking ideas Submission Web Science is necessarily a very selective single track conference with a rigorous review process. To accommodate the distinct traditions of its many disciplines, we provide three different submission formats: full papers, short papers, and posters. For all types of submissions, inclusion in the ACM DL proceedings will be by default, but not mandatory (opt-out via EasyChair). All accepted research papers (full and short papers) will be presented during the single-track conference. All accepted posters will be given a spot in the single-track lightning talk session, and room to present their papers during a dedicated poster session. Full research papers (5 to 10 pages, ACM double column, 20 mins presentation including Q&A) Full research papers should present new results and original work that has not been previously published. Research papers should present substantial theoretical, empirical, methodological, or policy-oriented contributions to research and/or practice. Short research papers (up to 5 pages, ACM double column, 15 mins presentation including Q&A) Short research papers should present new results and original work that has not been previously published. Research papers can present preliminary theoretical, empirical, methodological, or policy-oriented contributions to research and/or practice. Posters (up to 2 pages, ACM double column, lightning talk + poster presentation) Extended abstracts for posters, which should be in English, can be up to 2 pages. Submission instructions Full and short paper and poster submissions should be formatted according to the official ACM SIG proceedings template (http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates). Please make use of the ACM 1998 classification scheme (http://www.acm.org/about/class/1998/), and submit papers using EasyChair at https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=websci2014. Other creative submission formats (flexible formats) Other types of creative submissions are also encouraged, and the exact format and style of presentation are open. Examples might include artistic performances or installations, interactive exhibits, demonstrations, or other creative formats. For these submissions, the proposers should make clear both what they propose to do, and any special requirements they would need to successfully do it (in terms of space, time, technology, etc.) Review The Web Science program committee consists of a program committee that covers all relevant areas of Web Science. Each submission will be refereed by three PC members and one short meta review written by a Co-PC chair, to cover both the research background of each submission as well as the necessary interdisciplinary aspects. (Optional) Archival Proceedings in the ACM Digital Library All accepted papers and posters will by default appear in the Web Science 2014 Conference Proceedings and can also be made available through the ACM Digital Library, in the same length and format of the submission unless indicated otherwise (those wishing not to be indexed and archived can "opt out" of the proceedings). Satellite Events The following is the list of accepted satellite events. All workshops will be held on June 23. Full day events Altmetrics14 - Expanding Impacts and Metrics http://altmetrics.org/altmetrics14 Judit Bar-Ilan, Rodrigo Costas, Paul Groth, Stefanie Haustein, Vincent Lariviere, Isabella Peters and Mike Taylor Massive Data Flow: Understanding the Complex Dynamics of the Web Seth Bullock, Takashi Ikegami and Mizuki Oka Computational Approaches to Social Modeling (ChASM) http://www.chasm.ws Andrea Baronchelli, Bruno Goncalves, Nicola Perra, Claudia Wagner, Markus Strohmaier, Noshir Contractor, and Emilio Ferrara The web of scientific knowledge: current trends and future perspectives in the big data era Filippo Radicchi, Stasa Milosevic, Ying Ding, Cassidy Sugimoto, Vincent Leriviere, and Min Song Yonsei Doctoral Consortium Howard Rosenbaum, Pnina Fichman, Susan Davies, Lora Aroyo Half-day events Interdisciplinary Coups to Calamities http://www.icc.ecs.soton.ac.uk Clare J. Hooper, David Millard and Norhidayah Azman Web Science Education: Sharing experiences and developing community http://webscience-education-workshop.net Stephane B. Bazan, Su White, Steffen Staab, Michalis Vafopoulos, Susan Halford, Clare Hooper, Hans Akkermans and Mark Weal Research Methodologies for analyzing Cybercrime and Cyberwar http://webscience-cybercrime-workshop.net Dominic Hobson, Neil Macewan, Lisa Sugiura, Stephane B. Bazan and Craig Webber 2nd International Workshop on Building Web Observatories (B-WOW2014) https://sites.google.com/site/bwow2014 Ramine Tinati, Thanassis Tiropanis, Ian Brown and Wendy Hall Deadlines Full & Short Papers: * 23 February 2014: Submissions of full and short papers * 13 April 2014: Notification of acceptance for papers * 11 May 2014: Camera-ready version of papers and posters due Late Breaking Posters: * 23 March 2014: Submissions of posters * 13 April 2014: Notification of acceptance for posters * 11 May 2014: Camera-ready version of posters due Authors take note: The official publication date is the date the proceedings are made available in the ACM Digital Library. This date may be up to two weeks prior to the first day of the conference. The official publication date affects the deadline for any patent filings related to published work. (If proceedings are published in the ACM Digital Library after the conference is over, the official publication date is the first day of the conference.) Conference calendar and rough program * 23 June 2014: workshops, opening reception and keynote * 24 June 2014: keynote(s), technical program, poster reception * 25 June 2014: keynote(s), technical program, social event * 26 June 2014: keynote, technical program, closing General chairs * Fil Menczer, Indiana University * Jim Hendler, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute * Bill Dutton, Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford Program chairs * Markus Strohmaier, University of Koblenz and GESIS (Computing) * Ciro Cattuto, ISI Foundation (Physics) * Eric T. Meyer, Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford (Social Sciences) Program Commiteee * Yong-Yeol Ahn, Indiana University * Luca Maria Aiello, Yahoo! Research * William Allen, University of Oxford * Sitaram Asur, HP Labs * Alain Barrat, CNRS * Fabricio Benevenuto, Federal University of Minas Gerais * Mark Bernstein, Eastgate Systems, Inc * Paolo Boldi, Universita degli Studi di Milano * Niels Brugger, Aarhus Universitet * Licia Capra, University College London * Carlos Castillo, Qatar Computing Research Institute * Lu Chen, Wright State University * Cristobal Cobo, Oxford Internet Institute * David Crandall, Indiana University * Pasquale De Meo, VU University, Amsterdam * David De Roure, Oxford e-Research Centre * Pnina Fichman, Indiana University * Alessandro Flammini, Indiana University * Matteo Gagliolo, Universite libre de Bruxelles * Laetitia Gauvin, ISI Foundation, Turin * Daniel Gayo Avello, University of Oviedo * Scott Golder, Cornell University * Bruno Goncalves, Aix-Marseille Universite * Andrew Gordon, University of Southern California * Scott Hale, Oxford Internet Institute * Noriko Hara, Indiana University * Bernhard Haslhofer, University of Vienna * Andreas Hotho, University of Wuerzburg * Geert-Jan Houben, TU Delft * Jeremy Hunsinger, Wilfrid Laurier University * Ajita John, Avaya Labs * Robert Jaschke, L3S Research Center * Haewoon Kwak, Telefonica Research * Renaud Lambiotte, University of Namur * Matthieu Latapy, CNRS * Silvio Lattanzi, Google * Vili Lehdonvirta, Oxford Internet Institute * Sune Lehmann, Technical University of Denmark * Kristina Lerman, University of Southern California * David Liben-Nowell, Carleton College * Yu-Ru Lin, University of Pittsburgh * Huan Liu, Arizona State University * Jared Lorince, Indiana University * Mathias Lux, Klagenfurt University * Massimo Marchiori, University of Padova and UTILABS * Yutaka Matsuo, University of Tokyo * Jaimie Murdock, Indiana University * Mirco Musolesi, University of Birmingham * Eni Mustafaraj, Wellesley College * Wolfgang Nejdl, L3S and University of Hannover * Andre Panisson, ISI Foundation, Turin * Hanwoo Park, Yeungnam University * Fernando Pedone, University of Lugano * Leto Peel, University of Colorado, Boulder * Orion Penner, IMT Lucca * Nicola Perra, Northeastern University * Rob Procter, University of Warwick * Cornelius Puschmann, Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society * Daniele Quercia, Yahoo! Labs * Carlos P. Roca, Universitat Rovira i Virgili * Richard Rogers, University of Amsterdam * Daniel Romero, Northwestern University * Matthew Rowe, Lancaster University * Giancarlo Ruffo, Universita di Torino * Derek Ruths, McGill University * Rossano Schifanella, Universita di Torino * Ralph Schroeder, Oxford Internet Institute * Kalpana Shankar, University College Dublin * Xiaolin Shi, Microsoft * Elena Simperl, University of Southampton * Philipp Singer, Knowledge Management Institute * Marc Smith, Connected Action Consulting Group * Steffen Staab, University of Koblenz-Landau * Burkhard Stiller, University of Zurich * Lei Tang, @WalmartLabs * Loren Terveen, University of Minnesota * Sebastiano Vigna, Universita degli Studi di Milano * Claudia Wagner, GESIS-Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences * Jillian Wallis, UC Los Angeles * Stan Wasserman, Indiana University * Ingmar Weber, Qatar Computing Research Institute * Matthew Weber, Rutgers University * Lilian Weng, Indiana University * Christopher Wienberg, University of Southern California * Ben Zhao, UC Santa Barbara * Arkaitz Zubiaga, Dublin Institute of Technology From maurizio.teli at gmail.com Fri Feb 7 00:45:06 2014 From: maurizio.teli at gmail.com (Maurizio) Date: Fri, 7 Feb 2014 09:45:06 +0100 Subject: [Air-L] 5th ERQ Conference - Call for abstracts: It's a free work... When work relations become passionate Message-ID: Apologies for Cross-Posting --- Dear colleague, we are pleased to send you the call for abstracts of the session *It**'s a free work... When work relations become passionate.* Your contribution to the proposed session will be greatly appreciated! We take this occasion to remind you that the keynote speakers for the V Etnography and Qualitative Research Conference are *Michael Burawoy*, University of California Berkeley, and *Marc Ab?l?s*, LAIOS - Laboratoire d'Anthropologie des Institutions et des Organisations Sociales. On the conference website and below you can find the text of the call for abstracts. Proposals should be sent by* Februay 17, 2014 *to: annalisa.murgia at unitn.it maurizio at ahref.eu Please, also CC the conference address: workshop.etnografia at unibg.it Each proposal, of a maximum length of 1000 words, should contain: * the title of your talk; * your contact details (full name, email address, post address and affiliation) and those of your co-author/s, if any. Contributions will be accepted both in *Italian* and *English*. Acceptance of proposals will be notified by March 17, 2014. Contributors must register by April 21, 2014 to be included in the program. With best wishes, Annalisa Murgia & Maurizio Teli -- Call for abstracts V Ethnography and Qualitative Research Conference. Bergamo, Italy 5-7 June 2014 website: http://www.etnografiaricercaqualitativa.it/?p=13 *It's a free work... When working relations become passionate* Convenors:* Annalisa Murgia* (Department of Sociology and Social Research of the University of Trento) & *Maurizio Teli* (Fondazione Dear AOIRers, As a program committee member, I would like to invite you to the 5th Social Media and Society Conference, an annual gathering of leading social media researchers around the world. It will be held in Toronto, Canada from September 27 to 28. Last year?s conference hosted nearly 200 attendees, featured research from 90+ scholars and practitioners across several field from over 60 institutions in 15 different countries. The conference calls for an extended abstract (~500 words), panel proposals and posters on the variety of topics including, but not limited to: Social Media & Big Data, Social Media Impact on Society, Theories & Methods, and Online/Offline Communities. For more information, please find http://socialmediaandsociety.com/?p=629 and for more inquiries, feel free to send an email to the organizer: Dr. Anatoliy Gruzd (gruzd at dal.ca) or to me: Dr. Hazel Kwon (khkwon at asu.edu). Thanks! K. Hazel Kwon, Ph.D. Assistant Professor School of Social and Behavioral Sciences Arizona State University https://webapp4.asu.edu/directory/person/1949238 k.hazel.kwon at gmail.com From cdwyer at pace.edu Fri Feb 7 11:27:39 2014 From: cdwyer at pace.edu (Cathy Dwyer) Date: Fri, 7 Feb 2014 14:27:39 -0500 Subject: [Air-L] Pace University Faculty Positions Message-ID: Pace University's Seidenberg School of Computer Science and Information Systems invites applications for several anticipated full-time tenure-track faculty positions in Computer Science or Information Technology. The selected faculty members will be expected to: conduct research, supervise doctoral, graduate and undergraduate students, teach computer science or information technology courses, at all levels and serve on committees at both department and school level. Appointment will be at one or more of our three campuses in NYC and Westchester. Candidates must possess an earned doctorate in computer science, information systems or a related field. They should have proven teaching and research potential, preferably in rapidly evolving areas such as telehealth, cybersecurity, software engineering and Big Data analytics. The anticipated positions will start in fall 2014. Review of applications will begin as they are received. Applications will be accepted until the positions are filled. Please submit a letter of application, curriculum vitae, sample publications, and three letters of recommendation (sent directly from references) to Faculty Search Committee chair Dr Constance Knapp atSeidenberg_Search at pace.edu. Only electronic submissions will be considered. https://chroniclevitae.com/jobs/0000808217-01 -- Catherine Dwyer, Ph.D. Chair, Department of Information Technology - NYC campus Pace University, Seidenberg School of Computer Science & Information Systems 163 William Street #240 New York, NY 10038 212-346-1728 http://csis.pace.edu/~dwyer/ From mcforelle at gmail.com Fri Feb 7 17:51:38 2014 From: mcforelle at gmail.com (Michelle Forelle) Date: Fri, 7 Feb 2014 17:51:38 -0800 Subject: [Air-L] History of "accounts" Message-ID: Hi all, I'm working on a project which requires me to look into the history of the concept of "accounts," as in bank accounts or social media accounts. What is it that identifies something as an "account," where did that definition come from, and what is at stake in it? I'm having a hard time finding a foothold, though - it's brutal trying to search for it point-blank given the many usages of the word "account" in the literature. Does anyone know of a history of bank accounts, social media accounts, or any other form of "account" that might be able to get me started? Much appreciative of any help, Michelle C Forelle -- PhD student USC Annenberg School of Communication @mcforelle on the tweet machine (407) 864-2225 From fred at firesabre.com Fri Feb 7 19:06:09 2014 From: fred at firesabre.com (Fred Fuchs) Date: Fri, 07 Feb 2014 21:06:09 -0600 Subject: [Air-L] History of "accounts" In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <52F59F21.8080807@firesabre.com> On 2/7/2014 7:51 PM, Michelle Forelle wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm working on a project which requires me to look into the history of the > concept of "accounts," as in bank accounts or social media accounts. "Accounts" in computing began in the days of batch processing and timesharing. Here are some related links: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time-sharing http://www-formal.stanford.edu/jmc/history/timesharing/timesharing.html http://www.princeton.edu/~achaney/tmve/wiki100k/docs/Time-sharing.html http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=880740 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q07PhW5sCEk http://www.bobbemer.com/TIMESHAR.HTM Here's a bit more on banking too: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_banking http://money.howstuffworks.com/personal-finance/banking/swiss-bank-account2.htm http://www.factmonster.com/ipka/A0801059.html Good luck, Fred -- Fred Fuchs - Founder, CEO, & Producer FireSabre Consulting LLC Content Services for Virtual Worlds Creation, Events, Training, & Simulations www.linkedin.com/in/fredfuchs https://twitter.com/Fred_Fuchs --- This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus protection is active. http://www.avast.com From mcforelle at gmail.com Sat Feb 8 11:16:34 2014 From: mcforelle at gmail.com (Michelle Forelle) Date: Sat, 8 Feb 2014 11:16:34 -0800 Subject: [Air-L] History of "accounts" In-Reply-To: <52F59F21.8080807@firesabre.com> References: <52F59F21.8080807@firesabre.com> Message-ID: My thanks to everyone both on- and off-list! I really appreciate the contributions and am psyched to start reading into them. If anyone is interested in the resources I wind up putting together on the topic, email me off-list and I'll be happy to share :) Thanks, AoIR! On Fri, Feb 7, 2014 at 7:06 PM, Fred Fuchs wrote: > On 2/7/2014 7:51 PM, Michelle Forelle wrote: > > Hi all, > > I'm working on a project which requires me to look into the history of the > concept of "accounts," as in bank accounts or social media accounts. > > > "Accounts" in computing began in the days of batch processing and > timesharing. Here are some related links: > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time-sharing > http://www-formal.stanford.edu/jmc/history/timesharing/timesharing.html > http://www.princeton.edu/~achaney/tmve/wiki100k/docs/Time-sharing.html > http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=880740 > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q07PhW5sCEk > http://www.bobbemer.com/TIMESHAR.HTM > > Here's a bit more on banking too: > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_banking > > http://money.howstuffworks.com/personal-finance/banking/swiss-bank-account2.htm > http://www.factmonster.com/ipka/A0801059.html > > Good luck, > > Fred > > -- > Fred Fuchs - Founder, CEO, & Producer > FireSabre Consulting LLC > Content Services for Virtual Worlds > Creation, Events, Training, & Simulationswww.linkedin.com/in/fredfuchshttps://twitter.com/Fred_Fuchs > > > > ------------------------------ > > > This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirusprotection is active. > > -- PhD student USC Annenberg School of Communication @mcforelle on the tweet machine (407) 864-2225 From tsenft at gmail.com Sat Feb 8 14:15:05 2014 From: tsenft at gmail.com (Terri Senft) Date: Sat, 8 Feb 2014 17:15:05 -0500 Subject: [Air-L] Selfies Research Network Message-ID: Selfies Research Network, anyone? Yes we made on. Yes ,it's already fantastic, Yes you are invited if you are researching in the area of selfies, digital photography, autobiography, performance, etc. Yes, we are ESPECIALLY interested to hear from you if you do research with populations outside of North America or Europe, or work in languages other than English. Our Facebook group is here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/664091916962292/ See you there! Terri p.s. Scholars from China and other places Facebook is blocked. I desperately want to hear from you, and am open to thoughts about how to include you in the conversation/research. Please write me personally to think through these issues. We will figure something out, I promise!! -- Dr. Theresa M. Senft Global Liberal Studies Program School of Arts & Sciences New York University 726 Broadway NY NY 10003 home: *www.terrisenft.net * (needs a serious updating) facebook: www.facebook.com/theresa.senft twitter: @terrisenft From andresmh at andresmh.com Sat Feb 8 15:44:48 2014 From: andresmh at andresmh.com (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Andr=E9s_Monroy=2DHern=E1ndez?=) Date: Sat, 8 Feb 2014 15:44:48 -0800 Subject: [Air-L] Scratch Big Data Summit at MIT-- sharing 5 years of online community data Message-ID: Hello, AIR, I'm writing to let you know about a workshop that we're organizing on March 21 at the MIT Media Lab, bringing together researchers who are interested in studying the Scratch online community . At the workshop, we'll be sharing a dataset with the first five years of public data from the Scratch community, and discussing ways that people might use this dataset. Here's a website with more information about the workshop and how to apply: https://sites.google.com/site/scratchdatameeting/ Cheers. From joly at punkcast.com Sat Feb 8 16:08:53 2014 From: joly at punkcast.com (Joly MacFie) Date: Sat, 8 Feb 2014 19:08:53 -0500 Subject: [Air-L] Selfies Research Network In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: An International Legal Hackers Data Privacy Hackathon, is happening this weekend, At the NYC location, one group is hacking legal solutions to revenge porn. You can see a brief introduction late in the last few minutes of www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lu_H_Bgt9po - where they note most of the raw material comes from selfies. What is briefly discussed is possibly the creation of a new copyright registration category for what are private thus technically unpublished works, in order that the DMCA can be invoked if the selfies are exploited by others. More info https://www.hackerleague.org/hackathons/data-privacy-legal-hackathon/hacks/using-copyright-to-remove-revenge-pornography-selfies j On Sat, Feb 8, 2014 at 5:15 PM, Terri Senft wrote: > Selfies Research Network, anyone? > > Yes we made on. Yes ,it's already fantastic, Yes you are invited if you > are researching in the area of selfies, digital photography, autobiography, > performance, etc. > > Yes, we are ESPECIALLY interested to hear from you if you do research with > populations outside of North America or Europe, or work in languages other > than English. > > Our Facebook group is here: > > https://www.facebook.com/groups/664091916962292/ > > See you there! > > Terri > > p.s. Scholars from China and other places Facebook is blocked. I > desperately want to hear from you, and am open to thoughts about how to > include you in the conversation/research. Please write me personally to > think through these issues. We will figure something out, I promise!! > > > > -- > > > > > Dr. Theresa M. Senft > Global Liberal Studies Program > School of Arts & Sciences > New York University > 726 Broadway NY NY 10003 > > home: *www.terrisenft.net * > (needs a serious updating) > facebook: www.facebook.com/theresa.senft > twitter: @terrisenft > _______________________________________________ > The Air-L at listserv.aoir.org mailing list > is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org > Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: > http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org > > Join the Association of Internet Researchers: > http://www.aoir.org/ > -- --------------------------------------------------------------- Joly MacFie 218 565 9365 Skype:punkcast WWWhatsup NYC - http://wwwhatsup.com http://pinstand.com - http://punkcast.com VP (Admin) - ISOC-NY - http://isoc-ny.org -------------------------------------------------------------- - From erika.pearson at otago.ac.nz Sun Feb 9 13:02:32 2014 From: erika.pearson at otago.ac.nz (Erika Pearson) Date: Sun, 9 Feb 2014 21:02:32 +0000 Subject: [Air-L] IR15 Submission System OPEN Message-ID: <739B75D2B089AC4B945845F518CCAF51959BD3CD@ITS-EXM-P06.registry.otago.ac.nz> Dear colleagues We are pleased to open submissions for proposals for IR15: Boundaries and Intersections (Bangkok, October, 2014). To re-familiarize yourself with the call for papers and types of submissions solicited, please see: http://ir15.aoir.org/?page_id=19 . If you submitted a proposal to the conference last year (through ConfTools) your login credentials should be the same (tied to your email address). When submitting your proposal, please take the time to read the submission categories and topics carefully, as they are different from previous years. If you have any queries about the submission process, please email conference chair Erika Pearson ( ir15programchair at aoir.org ). We look forward to seeing your proposals. To go directly to the submission site: https://www.conftool.com/aoir-ir15/ Yours Erika Pearson IR15 Program Chair From tsenft at gmail.com Sun Feb 9 14:34:13 2014 From: tsenft at gmail.com (Terri Senft) Date: Sun, 9 Feb 2014 17:34:13 -0500 Subject: [Air-L] Research on Africans and mobile photography? Message-ID: Hi All, While putting together the Selfies Research Network, I find myself at a complete loss for names of researchers who have studied mobile photography practices in Africa. Anybody have names of authors or articles that come to mind? Better yet, if you are a scholar studying these practices yourself, we'd love to have you join our international group. Feel free to drop me a line personally, and our Facebook group is at: https://www.facebook.com/groups/664091916962292 Many thanks! Terri -- Dr. Theresa M. Senft Global Liberal Studies Program School of Arts & Sciences New York University 726 Broadway NY NY 10003 home: *www.terrisenft.net * (needs a serious updating) facebook: www.facebook.com/theresa.senft twitter: @terrisenft From baym at microsoft.com Sun Feb 9 14:37:25 2014 From: baym at microsoft.com (Nancy Baym) Date: Sun, 9 Feb 2014 22:37:25 +0000 Subject: [Air-L] Research on Africans and mobile photography? In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Hey Terri, Not EXACTLY what you are looking for but very close: Paula Uimonen (2013) Visual identity in Facebook, Visual Studies, 28:2, 122-135, DOI: 10.1080/1472586X.2013.801634 Abstract: Seeing your friends in Facebook has become a common means of social interaction, illustrating a visual turn in digital media in general and social media in particular. This article explores visual identity in Facebook, focusing on the use of profile photographs in the performance of digitally mediated selfhood. In Facebook, relationships are increasingly communicated through images, thus rendering the interactive reflexivity of performance rather visible. Based on the profile photographs of students at an arts college in Tanzania, the article discusses the construction of cultural identities through visual communication. By visually expressing their selves through profile photographs, users engage in the social construction of reality, crafting their digitally mediated identities in interaction with their online social relations. The online performance of selfhood is analysed in the context of offline social and material realities, to underline cultural aspirations for global inclusion. Building on anthropological readings of performance, the concept of social aesthetic frame is introduced to capture patterns of digital stratification that encompass the online construction of networked selfhood in the peripheries of the global network society. The article builds on anthropological research on digital media and intercultural interaction at a national arts institute in Tanzania, using a combination of digital, sensory and visual research methods. On 2/9/14 5:34 PM, "Terri Senft" wrote: >Hi All, > >While putting together the Selfies Research Network, I find myself at a >complete loss for names of researchers who have studied mobile photography >practices in Africa. > >Anybody have names of authors or articles that come to mind? > >Better yet, if you are a scholar studying these practices yourself, we'd >love to have you join our international group. > >Feel free to drop me a line personally, and our Facebook group is at: > >https://www.facebook.com/groups/664091916962292 > > >Many thanks! >Terri >-- > > > > >Dr. Theresa M. Senft >Global Liberal Studies Program >School of Arts & Sciences >New York University >726 Broadway NY NY 10003 > >home: *www.terrisenft.net * >(needs a serious updating) >facebook: www.facebook.com/theresa.senft >twitter: @terrisenft >_______________________________________________ >The Air-L at listserv.aoir.org mailing list >is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org >Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: >http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org > >Join the Association of Internet Researchers: >http://www.aoir.org/ From sarah.logan at anu.edu.au Sun Feb 9 15:18:09 2014 From: sarah.logan at anu.edu.au (Sarah Logan) Date: Sun, 9 Feb 2014 23:18:09 +0000 Subject: [Air-L] Air-L Digest, Vol 115, Issue 9 In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Wow, this is amazing! Surely we don't need all the numbers: we can say, for example, that readership from Thailand increased by some huge among over the second week, showing that the website draws topical readers, which makes the poll more relevant. And we can say that the bulk of the readership comes from SE Asia, especially Thailand and Malaysia... So it might not be necessary to do the hugely detailed stats< especially as the numbers over two weeks are not really generalisable to a trend - we could try and pull them out to a year, but I suspect they would remain the same. What do you think? Digital Politics Research Fellow State, Society and Governance in Melanesia Australian National University Twitter: @circt -----Original Message----- From: air-l-bounces at listserv.aoir.org [mailto:air-l-bounces at listserv.aoir.org] On Behalf Of air-l-request at listserv.aoir.org Sent: Monday, 10 February 2014 10:00 AM To: air-l at listserv.aoir.org Subject: Air-L Digest, Vol 115, Issue 9 Send Air-L mailing list submissions to air-l at listserv.aoir.org To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to air-l-request at listserv.aoir.org You can reach the person managing the list at air-l-owner at listserv.aoir.org When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of Air-L digest..." Today's Topics: 1. Scratch Big Data Summit at MIT-- sharing 5 years of online community data (Andr?s Monroy-Hern?ndez) 2. Re: Selfies Research Network (Joly MacFie) 3. IR15 Submission System OPEN (Erika Pearson) 4. Research on Africans and mobile photography? (Terri Senft) 5. Re: Research on Africans and mobile photography? (Nancy Baym) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Sat, 8 Feb 2014 15:44:48 -0800 From: Andr?s Monroy-Hern?ndez Cc: air-l at listserv.aoir.org Subject: [Air-L] Scratch Big Data Summit at MIT-- sharing 5 years of online community data Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Hello, AIR, I'm writing to let you know about a workshop that we're organizing on March 21 at the MIT Media Lab, bringing together researchers who are interested in studying the Scratch online community . At the workshop, we'll be sharing a dataset with the first five years of public data from the Scratch community, and discussing ways that people might use this dataset. Here's a website with more information about the workshop and how to apply: https://sites.google.com/site/scratchdatameeting/ Cheers. ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Sat, 8 Feb 2014 19:08:53 -0500 From: Joly MacFie To: Terri Senft Cc: aoir list Subject: Re: [Air-L] Selfies Research Network Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 An International Legal Hackers Data Privacy Hackathon, is happening this weekend, At the NYC location, one group is hacking legal solutions to revenge porn. You can see a brief introduction late in the last few minutes of www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lu_H_Bgt9po - where they note most of the raw material comes from selfies. What is briefly discussed is possibly the creation of a new copyright registration category for what are private thus technically unpublished works, in order that the DMCA can be invoked if the selfies are exploited by others. More info https://www.hackerleague.org/hackathons/data-privacy-legal-hackathon/hacks/using-copyright-to-remove-revenge-pornography-selfies j On Sat, Feb 8, 2014 at 5:15 PM, Terri Senft wrote: > Selfies Research Network, anyone? > > Yes we made on. Yes ,it's already fantastic, Yes you are invited if > you are researching in the area of selfies, digital photography, > autobiography, performance, etc. > > Yes, we are ESPECIALLY interested to hear from you if you do research > with populations outside of North America or Europe, or work in > languages other than English. > > Our Facebook group is here: > > https://www.facebook.com/groups/664091916962292/ > > See you there! > > Terri > > p.s. Scholars from China and other places Facebook is blocked. I > desperately want to hear from you, and am open to thoughts about how > to include you in the conversation/research. Please write me > personally to think through these issues. We will figure something out, I promise!! > > > > -- > > > > > Dr. Theresa M. Senft > Global Liberal Studies Program > School of Arts & Sciences > New York University > 726 Broadway NY NY 10003 > > home: *www.terrisenft.net * (needs a serious > updating) > facebook: www.facebook.com/theresa.senft > twitter: @terrisenft > _______________________________________________ > The Air-L at listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the > Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change > options or unsubscribe at: > http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org > > Join the Association of Internet Researchers: > http://www.aoir.org/ > -- --------------------------------------------------------------- Joly MacFie 218 565 9365 Skype:punkcast WWWhatsup NYC - http://wwwhatsup.com http://pinstand.com - http://punkcast.com VP (Admin) - ISOC-NY - http://isoc-ny.org -------------------------------------------------------------- - ------------------------------ Message: 3 Date: Sun, 9 Feb 2014 21:02:32 +0000 From: Erika Pearson To: "air-l at listserv.aoir.org" Subject: [Air-L] IR15 Submission System OPEN Message-ID: <739B75D2B089AC4B945845F518CCAF51959BD3CD at ITS-EXM-P06.registry.otago.ac.nz> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Dear colleagues We are pleased to open submissions for proposals for IR15: Boundaries and Intersections (Bangkok, October, 2014). To re-familiarize yourself with the call for papers and types of submissions solicited, please see: http://ir15.aoir.org/?page_id=19 . If you submitted a proposal to the conference last year (through ConfTools) your login credentials should be the same (tied to your email address). When submitting your proposal, please take the time to read the submission categories and topics carefully, as they are different from previous years. If you have any queries about the submission process, please email conference chair Erika Pearson ( ir15programchair at aoir.org ). We look forward to seeing your proposals. To go directly to the submission site: https://www.conftool.com/aoir-ir15/ Yours Erika Pearson IR15 Program Chair ------------------------------ Message: 4 Date: Sun, 9 Feb 2014 17:34:13 -0500 From: Terri Senft To: aoir list Subject: [Air-L] Research on Africans and mobile photography? Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Hi All, While putting together the Selfies Research Network, I find myself at a complete loss for names of researchers who have studied mobile photography practices in Africa. Anybody have names of authors or articles that come to mind? Better yet, if you are a scholar studying these practices yourself, we'd love to have you join our international group. Feel free to drop me a line personally, and our Facebook group is at: https://www.facebook.com/groups/664091916962292 Many thanks! Terri -- Dr. Theresa M. Senft Global Liberal Studies Program School of Arts & Sciences New York University 726 Broadway NY NY 10003 home: *www.terrisenft.net * (needs a serious updating) facebook: www.facebook.com/theresa.senft twitter: @terrisenft ------------------------------ Message: 5 Date: Sun, 9 Feb 2014 22:37:25 +0000 From: Nancy Baym To: Terri Senft , aoir list Subject: Re: [Air-L] Research on Africans and mobile photography? Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Hey Terri, Not EXACTLY what you are looking for but very close: Paula Uimonen (2013) Visual identity in Facebook, Visual Studies, 28:2, 122-135, DOI: 10.1080/1472586X.2013.801634 Abstract: Seeing your friends in Facebook has become a common means of social interaction, illustrating a visual turn in digital media in general and social media in particular. This article explores visual identity in Facebook, focusing on the use of profile photographs in the performance of digitally mediated selfhood. In Facebook, relationships are increasingly communicated through images, thus rendering the interactive reflexivity of performance rather visible. Based on the profile photographs of students at an arts college in Tanzania, the article discusses the construction of cultural identities through visual communication. By visually expressing their selves through profile photographs, users engage in the social construction of reality, crafting their digitally mediated identities in interaction with their online social relations. The online performance of selfhood is analysed in the context of offline social and material realities, to underline cultural aspirations for global inclusion. Building on anthropological readings of performance, the concept of social aesthetic frame is introduced to capture patterns of digital stratification that encompass the online construction of networked selfhood in the peripheries of the global network society. The article builds on anthropological research on digital media and intercultural interaction at a national arts institute in Tanzania, using a combination of digital, sensory and visual research methods. On 2/9/14 5:34 PM, "Terri Senft" wrote: >Hi All, > >While putting together the Selfies Research Network, I find myself at a >complete loss for names of researchers who have studied mobile photography >practices in Africa. > >Anybody have names of authors or articles that come to mind? > >Better yet, if you are a scholar studying these practices yourself, we'd >love to have you join our international group. > >Feel free to drop me a line personally, and our Facebook group is at: > >https://www.facebook.com/groups/664091916962292 > > >Many thanks! >Terri >-- > > > > >Dr. Theresa M. Senft >Global Liberal Studies Program >School of Arts & Sciences >New York University >726 Broadway NY NY 10003 > >home: *www.terrisenft.net * >(needs a serious updating) >facebook: www.facebook.com/theresa.senft >twitter: @terrisenft >_______________________________________________ >The Air-L at listserv.aoir.org mailing list >is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org >Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: >http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org > >Join the Association of Internet Researchers: >http://www.aoir.org/ ------------------------------ _______________________________________________ The Air-L at listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org Join the Association of Internet Researchers: http://www.aoir.org/ End of Air-L Digest, Vol 115, Issue 9 ************************************* From jpedregosa at gmail.com Mon Feb 10 01:18:34 2014 From: jpedregosa at gmail.com (Jj Pedregosa) Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2014 10:18:34 +0100 Subject: [Air-L] Conference on Digital Discrimination and Social Networks. Barcelona, 13th and 14th of March Message-ID: The main aim of the conference is to invite participants to actively *share current experiences and research and push forward our knowledge to fight discrimination*. Academics, NGOs working with youths or on discrimination, activists, trainers, teachers, policy makers, journalists, social media professionals and the general public are welcome to attend. Programme of the conference: http://digitaldiscrimination.eu/conference/ From fabio.alla at gmail.com Mon Feb 10 04:30:28 2014 From: fabio.alla at gmail.com (Fabio) Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2014 13:30:28 +0100 Subject: [Air-L] Pinterest, Google+ and Foursquare stats Message-ID: Hello AoIR, I'm working on a project about various social network sites and I'm looking for updated data about Pinterest, G+ and Foursquare. I already found old global stats but at the moment what I really need are demographic and usage information (both global and nation-based, in particular italian and european ones) about the current situation of these SNS (or at least not older than few months). Can anyone suggest or recommend a trusted and updated source? Thank you so much: any help will be surely welcome. -- Fabio Stefano Alla Dipartimento di Comunicazione e Ricerca Sociale Sapienza Universit? di Roma From hrosenba at indiana.edu Mon Feb 10 06:07:37 2014 From: hrosenba at indiana.edu (Howard Rosenbaum) Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2014 09:07:37 -0500 Subject: [Air-L] AMCIS 2014 > CFP: Social Theory in Information Systems Research (STIR '14) Message-ID: <8819609F-65E9-441B-91C4-DAB48E007CD7@indiana.edu> [Apologies for cross-posting] Call For Papers: AMCIS Mini-track: Social Theory in Information Systems Research (STIR '14) 20th Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS): Smart Sustainability, the Information Systems opportunity, Savannah, GA, August 7-10, 2014 Conference Website: http://amcis2013.aisnet.org/ DESCRIPTION: This Mini Track solicits papers that make use of social theory in information systems research drawing upon such approaches as sociotechnical theory, critical theory, social informatics, organizational theory, cultural anthropology, sociology and others. We are interested in understanding and supporting the evolution of social theory, socio-technical theory, and social informatics in information systems research. We want to highlight research that uses these approaches to critically examine the constitution of information and communications technologies, and their roles in organizations and society; these are among the most important questions about IS, organizations, and society. We particularly invite IS research that applies, builds on, compares, or critiques these social theories. We are interested in high quality empirical and conceptual work that uses social theory to study and theorize about application domains including large-scale social and organizational phenomena. We seek to attract research papers and research-in-progress papers from all IS researchers who are using the work of social theorists, organizational theorists, sociotechnical theorists, and cultural anthropologists, symbolic interactionists, and many others. We are particularly interested in research that makes use of social theory 1) to address issues of designing a smart and sustainable digital future, 2) to answer questions about how we are interacting with ICTs in our work and social lives in ways that help and hinder the move towards sustainability, and 3) to critically examine the constitution of ICTs, and their roles in the design, maintenance and dissolution of sustainable organizations and social groups. This will be the 14th consecutive year for the Mini Track at AMCIS, and we hope to continue a tradition of high quality paper submissions, thought-provoking presentations and lively discussion for all IS researchers using, or considering the use of, social theory in their work. SUGGESTED TOPICS In addition to research aligned with the conference theme we are also interested in high quality empirical and conceptual work that uses social theory to study and understand: * The implications of social networks for organizations and social groups * Conceptual and empirical work focusing on the ways ICT can promote or hinder social inclusion * The significance of cyberinfrastructure for commerce, governing and research and development * The relationships between ICTs and people as they participate in online communities and virtual teams * Online communities of practice, their processes and outcomes * The dynamics of crowdsourcing online * Hacktivism and the use of technology to mobilize resources and advance ideology * Unintended consequences of technology implementation and use in organizations and in social life * Scientific collaboration and scholarly communication as enabled and constrained by ICTs * The impacts of social computing on our social and work lives Minitrack chairs: Howard Rosenbaum, School of Informatics and Computing, Indiana University hrosenba at indiana.edu Pnina Fichman, School of Informatics and Computing, Indiana University fichman at indiana.edu Submission Process: Instructions for authors and more information is available at: http://amcis2014.aisnet.org/index.php/call-for-papers Full paper submissions must be made electronically through the AMCIS on-line submission system. Papers can be submitted beginning on January 5, 2014. The link will be available at: http://aisel.aisnet.org/amcis2014_papers/ Submissions will close on March 1, 2014. ------------------------ Pnina Fichman Associate Professor, School of Informatics and Computing Director, Rob Kling Center for Social Informatics Affiliated Associate Professor, School of Global and International Studies 901 East 10th Street, Informatics West #301 Indiana University, Bloomington, 47408 Phone (812) 856-1587 E-Mail fichman at indiana.edu Web http://ella.slis.indiana.edu/~fichman/ From hrosenba at indiana.edu Mon Feb 10 06:07:30 2014 From: hrosenba at indiana.edu (Howard Rosenbaum) Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2014 09:07:30 -0500 Subject: [Air-L] AMCIS 2014> CFP: Global and Cross Cultural Impacts of Big Data Minitrack Message-ID: <63EC0707-5B4E-416D-9797-4790579B3634@indiana.edu> [Apologies for cross-posting] CALL FOR PAPERS: AMCIS Minitrack - Global and Cross Cultural Impacts of Big Data 20th Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS): Smart Sustainability, the Information Systems Opportunity, Savannah, GA, August 7-10, 2014 Conference Website: http://amcis2013.aisnet.org/ DESCRIPTION Manyika et al. (2011; 4) note ?big data has now reached every sector of the global economy. Like other essential factors of production ? much of modern economic activity simply couldn?t take place without it.? An emerging grand challenge involves gathering, organizing, curating, managing, analyzing, visualizing and disseminating these heterogeneous data over the lifecycle of the data for such purposes such as scientific discovery, medical advances, entrepreneurial activity and public policy formulation. People in the public and private sectors are taking note of this development as are academics, who are exploring ways of dealing with big data, defined by the National Science Foundation (2012) as: ?large, diverse, complex, longitudinal, and/or distributed data sets generated from instruments, sensors, Internet transactions, email, video, click streams, and/or all other digital sources available today and in the future. This minitrack solicits high quality conceptual and empirical work that focuses on the global impacts of big data on governments, multinational companies, NGOs and other organizations. Big data datasets and the technologies for analyzing them are developing faster than our understanding of the ways in which this phenomenon is impacting and will impact the ways work is done in a wide range of settings. As scholars and researchers begin to investigate the impacts of Big Data, this minitrack provides a venue for them to share their work. Appropriate topics for this minitrack include (but are not limited to) the following: ? Big data use in organizational, national and international settings ? How the introduction of big data affects organizational and group work flow ? Ways that big data is affecting organizational and group decision making ? Security and privacy impacts of big data use ? The intended and unintended consequences of big data ? The dark side of big data: surveillance, illicit activities, discriminatory analytics, and the end of privacy ? Big data as a social, political, economic, and/or cultural phenomenon Minitrack chairs: Pnina Fichman, School of Informatics and Computing, Indiana University fichman at indiana.edu Howard Rosenbaum, School of Informatics and Computing, Indiana University hrosenba at indiana.edu SUBMISSION PROCESS: Full paper submissions must be made electronically through the AMCIS on-line submission system no later than March 1, 2014. Manuscript Central will start accepting paper submissions on January 5, 2014 at: http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/amcis2014 Additional instructions for authors: http://amcis2014.aisnet.org/index.php/call-for-papers Important Dates: March 1, 2014: (11:59 PM EST): Deadline for paper submissions April 4 2014: Authors will be notified of acceptances on or about this date April 18, 2014: Authors revisions due April 25, 2014: (11:59 PM EST): For accepted papers, camera ready copy due _______________________________________________ The Air-L at listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org Join the Association of Internet Researchers: http://www.aoir.org/ From constantin.hoferer at hiig.de Mon Feb 10 08:45:48 2014 From: constantin.hoferer at hiig.de (Constantin Hoferer) Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2014 17:45:48 +0100 Subject: [Air-L] Fellowship in Berlin 2014 at the Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society Message-ID: Dear AOIRers, I would like to use the possibility to inform you about our this years fellowship program. The Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society (HIIG | @HIIG_berlin) which has been founded in March 2012 is meant to enable innovative scientific research in the field of Internet and society and to observe the development of the Internet in its interplay with societal transformation processes. This year the HIIG opens its doors for fellows from all over the world again. We invite applications from early stage researchers pursuing a project of transdisciplinary Internet research. If you are seeking exchange regarding your research aspirations and find our objectives to match yours or to complement them, we are looking forward to hearing your thoughts! Feel free to share our call. Constantin *Abstract:* Opportunities: Our fellowship provides innovative thinkers a unique opportunity to exchange experiences and set off new initiatives in an inviting intellectual environment. The selected fellows are very welcome to collaborate in a growing international team and to participate in the research activities at our institute. We encourage you to actively shape your stay according to your research interests. We offer a number of opportunities to get involved with our research programme and discuss your research project with the HIIG research team, such as: - Developing a paper concerning your research project, e.g. writing a journal paper in our SSRN Internet & Society Series - Holding a presentation about a topic of your choice in our weekly Journal Club - Organising a workshop of your research topic - Engage in joint activities and projects with other fellows - And more - according to your interest Benefits: Based in the heart of Berlin we will provide you with modern office space that you will share with our researchers. Fellows are expected to bring their own funding through their home institution or outside grants. Fellows must take care of their accommodation, insurance, childcare, and transportation arrangements. However, in specific cases we can provide fellows on request with a travel allowance of up to EURO 700,- and a visa subsidy of up to EURO 200,-. Read more about last years Fellow Programme . Timeframe: We offer fellowships from 3 up to 12 months starting from June 1st, 2014. Qualifications: - Master's degree - Fluency in English; command of German is appreciated - Research experience and an Internet research project of your own Required application documents: - curriculum vitae - letter of motivation: explaining your interest in the fellowship, your expectations and your research background (1 page) - outline of a) your research project, b) the work you aim to conduct during the fellowship, c) contributions you plan to realise during your stay, d) projects on our research agenda that are of interest to you, and e) if possible, preferred project partners at our institute (altogether on a maximum of 3 pages) - optional: your latest publication or work sample covering Internet research (maximum of 1 paper / chapter / presentation in English or German) Applications will only be accepted through our online application form attached below. Closing date for applications is Monday, March 17 2014. Please contact Jana Schudrowitz with any questions via application at hiig.de. You may apply here . -- [image: HIIG-Logo] Constantin Hoferer Alexander von Humboldt Institut f?r Internet und Gesellschaft gGmbH Bebelplatz 1 ? 10099 Berlin T +49 30 20 07 60 82 ? F +49 30 20 93-3435 ? www.hiig.de ? [image: Facebook-Button] [image: Twitter-Button] [image: Google+1-Button] Gesellschaftssitz Berlin | Amtsgericht Berlin Charlottenburg | HRB 140911B USt-ID DE 27/601/54619 | Gesch?ftsf?hrung: Dr. Jeanette Hofmann ? Prof. Dr. Dr. Ingolf Pernice ? Prof. Dr. Dr. Thomas Schildhauer ? Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Schulz ? Dr. Karina Prei? From rdt4 at psu.edu Mon Feb 10 10:08:45 2014 From: rdt4 at psu.edu (Richard Denny Taylor) Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2014 13:08:45 -0500 (EST) Subject: [Air-L] CFP IIP-FCC Broadband Reg Wksp Message-ID: Colleagues, With apologies for cross-postings: Call for Paper Proposals THE FUTURE OF BROADBAND REGULATION A by-invitation experts' workshop Organized by the Institute for Information Policy at Penn State University and co-sponsored by the Federal Communications Commission Federal Communications Commission 445 12th St. SW Washington, DC May 28-30, 2014 The U.S. National Broadband Plan envisions the transition of the U.S. telecommunications infrastructure to a ubiquitous IP-based broadband network. While there is a vibrant discussion of how best to manage the transition, there is only a nascent discussion of what the policy framework should look like after it is completed. What is the long-term outlook (beyond the transition and into the next decade) for the broadband ecosystem, and how will the regulatory system have to adapt to a changed environment? Advances in infrastructure technology and applications have, and will likely continue to push at the boundaries of current regulatory frameworks for telecommunications, media, and even intellectual property rights The Institute for Information Policy at Penn State (IIP), in collaboration with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), is pleased to announce this call for paper proposals addressing the multiple factors in thinking about regulation for post-transition broadband networks. Authors of selected papers will be invited to present and discuss them during a 2-day by-invitation-only workshop designed to bring together up to a dozen experts to be held at the Federal Communications Commissions on (date). The Workshop is designed to draw together the latest academic thinking on these questions and to give FCC staff the opportunity to suggest elements of a forward-looking research agenda that would contribute to the policy discourse around them. The workshop is part of a series of events focused on "Making Policy Research Accessible," organized by the IIP, with the support of the Ford Foundation and the Media Democracy Fund. Presenters at the workshop will be invited to submit their completed papers to the Journal of Information Policy (www.jip-online.org). All disciplines are welcome. Invited topics of papers may include, but are not limited to: . Will the dominant model for delivery of broadband services be fixed or mobile? How much competition will there be (especially wireline)? Will there be new technologies or entrants? . What is the future of "over-the-top" content and CDNs? . What will be the impact of the "internet of things"? What is its regulatory status? . How is the "public interest" defined in the broadband ecosystem? What sorts of regulatory safeguards/interventions will be needed to advance the public interest? . How do the FCC's broadband promotion programs interact with efforts of other agencies, on both the demand and supply side? . How should the concept of universal service evolve? What can the designers of universal service policies learn from efforts to stimulate demand for broadband? . What are the implications for regulatory frameworks of technological and other changes in the broadband ecosystem? . How should the division of labor between state and federal regulatory authorities change? . Are there any regulatory challenges on the horizon that are not yet part of the mainstream broadband regulation debate? Abstracts of up to 500 words and a short bio of the author(s) should be submitted to pennstateiip at psu.edu by March 15, 2014. Please write IIPFCCPOST: YOUR NAME in the subject line. Accepted presenters will be notified by March 31, 2014. From ondiney at gmail.com Mon Feb 10 19:07:31 2014 From: ondiney at gmail.com (Stephanie Vie) Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2014 22:07:31 -0500 Subject: [Air-L] Call for chapter proposals: Social Media/Social Writing collection Message-ID: *Call for Papers (CFP)* We invite contributions for an edited collection on social media and writing within higher education entitled *Social Writing/Social Media: Pedagogy, Presentation, and Publics*. The prospectus for this project has been preliminarily approved by the WAC Clearinghouse's Perspectives on Writing book series, an imprint of Parlor Press that publishes books in free digital editions and low-cost print editions. We are committed to moving this project through the review process in a timely manner, both because of the timeliness of research on social media as well as our collective interest in seeing this book in print as soon as possible. This edited collection imagines social media broadly and encourages pieces that examine specific social media spaces such as Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Pinterest, etc., within theoretical frameworks as well as pieces that look at writing within larger social media categories, such as micro-blogging, social networking, etc. We ask authors to consider their proposed chapter for one of the following three sections: - *Social media and pedagogy*: How are social media shaping and being shaped by educational issues related to writing studies? Pedagogy chapters should be theoretically informed and avoid atheoretical "what I did in my class" approaches. We welcome empirical and qualitative studies of pedagogical approaches. We especially welcome projects that engage in critical making pedagogies. - *Social media and personalities*: How do individuals use writing to create, maintain, and reshape their identities in relation to others? We are particularly interested in chapters that use critical, professional, or other theoretically informed approaches for examining social media and writing. - *Social media and publics*: In what ways are social media being used to develop and sustain writing-related efforts in local and national communities? We are specifically interested in chapters that interrogate civic engagement, politics, and/or activism vis-?-vis writing and social media. Contributors are encouraged to consider the following possible social media topics (however, other areas are welcome): - Literacy practices and communal norms about writing - Student writing produced outside of class - Pedagogies of possibilities and resistances - Critical issues in/and group dynamics - Issues of identity, anonymity, and pseudonymity - Privacy and surveillance within social media - End-User Licensing Agreements, Terms of Service, and/or copyright law - Non-alphabetic rhetorical activity - Digital divide and access issues for faculty, students, and/or community stakeholders - Service-learning and community-based research efforts in the community facilitated by social media - Genre-based analyses of social media activities Please send abstracts of no more than 500 words to Douglas Walls (Douglas.Walls at ucf.edu) and Stephanie Vie (Stephanie.Vie at ucf.edu) by June 15, 2014. Submissions should include full contact information and a brief biographical statement (including institutional affiliation) for all proposed authors. Indicate which of the three sections (pedagogy, presentation, or publics) where you see your chapter best fitting. Accepted authors will be invited to submit full chapter drafts by September 15, 2014. Initial queries are welcome. The editors will be in attendance at Writing Research Across Borders (February), the Conference on College Composition and Communication (March), Rhetoric Society of America (May), and Computers & Writing (June) and would be happy to meet to talk over proposals and/or chapter drafts. Proposed Timeline: - Deadline for abstracts: June 15, 2014 - Notification of acceptance to authors: June 22, 2014 - Deadline for first draft of accepted chapters: September 15, 2014 - Editors' feedback on first drafts: December 15, 2014 - Deadline for revised chapters: February 15, 2015 Douglas Walls, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Department of Writing and Rhetoric University of Central Florida Douglas.Walls at ucf.edu Stephanie Vie, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Department of Writing and Rhetoric University of Central Florida Stephanie.Vie at ucf.edu From jpedregosa at gmail.com Tue Feb 11 02:08:48 2014 From: jpedregosa at gmail.com (Jj Pedregosa) Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2014 11:08:48 +0100 Subject: [Air-L] Conference on Digital Discrimination and Social Networks. Barcelona, 13th and 14th of March Message-ID: Friends The main aim of the conference is to invite participants to actively *share current experiences and research and push forward our knowledge to fight discrimination*. Academics, NGOs working with youths or on discrimination, activists, trainers, teachers, policy makers, journalists, social media professionals and the general public are welcome to attend. Programme of the conference: http://digitaldiscrimination.eu/conference/ ITD Tr?nsit Projectes Ceps Projectes Socials | B?ria 17 pral 08003 Barcelona +34 933 194 750 @juanpedregosa Projectes Internacionals, Consultoria i Gesti? Cultura, Digital, Innovaci?, Inclusi?, Participaci?, Educaci? From rapha1106 at yahoo.fr Tue Feb 11 05:30:07 2014 From: rapha1106 at yahoo.fr (raphael nowak) Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2014 13:30:07 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Air-L] CFP Reminder - Napster, 15 years on: Rethinking digital music distribution. A themed special edition of First Monday Message-ID: <1392125407.88470.YahooMailNeo@web171305.mail.ir2.yahoo.com> With apologies for cross-posting: Call for papers ? First Monday themed special edition Napster, 15 years on: Rethinking digital music distribution ? Guest editors: Rapha?l Nowak (Griffith University, Australia) and Andrew Whelan (University of Wollongong, Australia) ? 2014 marks the fifteenth anniversary of the release of the peer-to-peer application Napster. Developed by a student, Shawn Fanning, with the help of his friend Shawn Parker and uncle John Fanning, Napster established music downloading as a mass phenomenon. By 2001, 50 million users had downloaded content with Napster. Many other applications followed ? Gnutella, Kazaa, LimeWire, eMule, Soulseek, BitTorrent, among others ?further developing and entrenching p2p technology. Online music distribution has been fiercely contested since Napster. Online availability has changed the way music is produced, sold, distributed, shared and consumed. While these changes are often decried or celebrated through well-rehearsed positions, their implications can also be exaggerated, as attending to contemporary industry business models and persisting analog formats would suggest. Building on multi- and cross-disciplinary approaches addressing developments in the 15 years since the advent of Napster, we seek papers that advance contemporary debates associated with music downloading (authorized and illicit) and its consequences and ramifications. We welcome 300 word abstracts reflecting on the last 15 years in the realm of online music distribution and consumption. While attending to this broad aim, proposed articles will also address a more specific theme. Potential themes may include, but are not limited to: ?????? Exchange relations and the circulation of digital objects ?????? Politics and ethics of p2p practices ?????? Hyper-consumption, curatorialism and open access music archives ?????? Online music subcultures and (social) networks ?????? Domestication of p2p and p2p as/in technoculture ?????? Communications, transfer, storage, and playback hardware and infrastructure ?????? Discursive framing: leeches, pirates, free music ?????? Contemporary music celebrity culture ?????? Suppression and criminalization of downloading and ?copyfight? ?????? Aesthetic experiences and qualities of digital music practices and rituals ?????? 0day, release groups, pre-releases and leaks ?????? Affordances, affects and materialities of the mp3 format ?????? The evolution and ecology of music downloading ?????? Direct downloads, music blogging, and online visibility ?????? Monetization, markets and the business of p2p ?????? Analog formats: continuity and resurgence ?????? Pre-histories and futures of digital music distribution 300 word abstracts should be submitted to Rapha?l Nowak (raph.nowak at gmail.com)by February 21, 2014. On the basis of these abstracts, invitations to submit papers will be sent out in early March 2014. Full papers should be submitted by June 20, 2014, and will undergo the usual First Monday peer-review process. Invitation to submit a full paper does not therefore guarantee acceptance into the issue. The themed special edition will be published November 2014. This Call for Papers can be found in pdf format at?http://bit.ly/Nxp5k8. Please forward as appropriate to interested parties. ? Rapha?l Nowak Andrew Whelan From d.bennato at gmail.com Tue Feb 11 08:01:43 2014 From: d.bennato at gmail.com (Davide Bennato) Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2014 17:01:43 +0100 Subject: [Air-L] [DEADLINE 15 FEBRUARY 2014] Call for ABSTRACTS Social science & Big data (not only) Message-ID: Call for ABSTRACTS: Social Science & Big Data WHAT: A matter of design. Making society through science & tecnology WHERE: Polytechnic of Milan WHEN: 12-14 June 2014 TRACK: N.5 Rethinking sociological gaze and citizenship through data. Epistemological and Political Implications of the Rise of Big Data INFO Conferencehttp://www.stsitalia.org/conferences/ocs/index.php/STSIC/AMD/schedConf/cfp Track 5 details http://www.stsitalia.org/conferences/STSITALIA_2014/AMD_Track5.pdf -- ************************************************************* http://www.tecnoetica.it/ http://www.processiculturali.it/ http://www.sociologiadeimediadigitali.it skype: davide.bennato http://www.linkedin.com/in/davidebennato From victoria.nash at oii.ox.ac.uk Tue Feb 11 08:42:12 2014 From: victoria.nash at oii.ox.ac.uk (Victoria Nash) Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2014 16:42:12 +0000 Subject: [Air-L] Approaching deadline for OII Summer Doctoral Programme Message-ID: <70164DA4BB578F48A5CA605B0AE4022236BDC6@MBX06.ad.oak.ox.ac.uk> Dear friends, The deadline for applications to this year's Oxford Internet Institute Summer Doctoral Programme is the 24th February, so I would be really grateful if you could pass this reminder on to any students who might be eligible to apply. The Programme will be held in Oxford from 7th-18th July 2014, and is suitable for PhD students at the dissertation stage of their degree. The programme offers two weeks of intensive teaching from senior faculty at the OII, as well as some guest speakers, who will offer insights into their research processes and tuition on methods as well as presenting substantive papers. Students will also be asked to present on their own research.. We also fit in some punting, a ghost tour and some fancy dinners... The overall aims are to help improve students' dissertations and to develop a cohesive peer network for future collaboration and support. For further information on this year's SDP, including application instructions, please see our website at: http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/graduatestudy/sdp/Y2014.cfm For more general info, the SDP blog and a great video by the 2013 crowd, look here: http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/graduatestudy/sdp/ If anyone has any questions, feel free to e-mail me directly. Many thanks! Vicki Dr Victoria Nash Research and Policy Fellow Director of Graduate Studies Oxford Internet Institute University of Oxford http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/ T: 01865 287231 Tw: @VickiNashOII W: http://victoriajnash.tumblr.com/ From r.harper at microsoft.com Tue Feb 11 09:06:32 2014 From: r.harper at microsoft.com (Richard Harper) Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2014 17:06:32 +0000 Subject: [Air-L] Skype Connections and the Gaze of Friendship and Family: a mini-conference Message-ID: Apologies for cross postings- Skype Connections and the Gaze of Friendship and Family MSR and Skype are pleased to invite extended abstracts for a mini academic conference/workshop on all aspects of interaction in video-mediated communications in private and domestic life. See here for further details. It will be held on June 3rd and 4th 2014 at MSR Cambridge, England. Chairs: Richard Harper, Microsoft Research Cambridge; Christian Licoppe, Telecom ParisTech, Paris; Rod Watson, Institut Marcel Mauss, Paris. This is the first call for participation (January 2014). Extended abstracts (of up to 600 words excluding title and affiliation) should report theoretical and empirical research into the interactional order of video calling in domestic and personal life. Ethnomethodological and conversation analytic perspectives are particularly welcomed on such things as: * the relationship between the sequential patterns of communication and the medium of Skype-type video connections in the social and family sphere; * the methods and patterns of recipient design and repair within such communications; * the properties and shape of topic management (e.g., news announcements and personal disclosures); * the character and role of embodiment and embodied interaction in such communications; * the salience of the visual and 'visual availability'; * the relation between individual instances of Skype-type communications and the larger activity assemblies of which they are a part - whether it be a routine 'catch-up' call within friendship or a special occasion like a dinner or a birthday celebration for a distributed family. These are of course not exclusive and other topics are welcome. There will be a preference for wholly original work, though research previously presented of an extremely high quality may be considered. The conference will be framed by keynote addresses by leaders in the field of interaction analysis, CA and ethnomethodology. Announcement of these will be made shortly. Important dates: * Deadline for extended abstracts: Friday March 14th * Announcement of acceptance: April 18th * Last date for registration: to be decided A selection of papers from the conference will be prepared for a Special Issue of Pragmatics, the Journal of the International Pragmatics Association. Selection will be made by the conference chairs and reviewing panel. Some support for researchers seeking to attend the event is available. Attendance at the conference is free and will include attendance at a gala dinner in a Cambridge College. For informal enquiries about the topics and format of the event, please contact Richard Harper (r.harper at microsoft.com). To attend (as speaker or auditor), email scgff at microsoft.com From jhuns at vt.edu Wed Feb 12 07:47:12 2014 From: jhuns at vt.edu (Jeremy Hunsinger) Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2014 10:47:12 -0500 Subject: [Air-L] Fwd: [governance] Communication of the European Commisson: "Internet Policy and Governance - Europe's role in shaping the future of Internet Governance" In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: [ Apologies for cross-posting. Please share as you deem appropriate ] Dear all, I would like to let you know that today (12 February 2013) the European Commission has adopted its formal policy position on Internet governance, via a Communication to the European Parliament, the Council, the European Economic and Social Committee and the Committee of the Regions: "Internet Policy and Governance - Europe's role in shaping the future of Internet governance" (COM(2014) 72/4). The press release of the adoption is available at http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_IP-14-142_en.htm . The text of the Communication is available at http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/newsroom/cf/dae/document.cfm?doc_id=4453. The statement by Neelie Kroes, Vice-President of the European Commission and Commissioner for the Digital Agenda, is available at http://ec.europa.eu/avservices/video/player.cfm?ref=I086325 . I hope you find this information useful and the content of the Communication interesting. Best, Andrea -- I speak only for myself. Sometimes I do not even agree with myself. Keep it in mind. Twitter: @andreaglorioso Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/andrea.glorioso LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=1749288&trk=tab_pro From joly at punkcast.com Wed Feb 12 12:09:49 2014 From: joly at punkcast.com (Joly MacFie) Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2014 15:09:49 -0500 Subject: [Air-L] ISOC Internet data and research portal update Message-ID: ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Michael Kende Date: Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 10:19 AM Subject: [Chapter-delegates] Internet data and research v2 I am please to announce version two of the portal (with the same URL as below). There are two main changes to the portal, and we have also updated it with recent reports. The first change is the Amazon-style system allowing everyone to rate a data source or report (out of five stars) and provide written comments as well. The second is to make it much easier to search, either by category and sub-category or by keyword. There is also a link to send in comments including new data and reports that we overlooked. Our hope is that this provides a broad view of the state of the art in what is known about the Internet and its impact, and that it will also help us to identify gaps in our knowledge, which we will work to fill. As such, I hope that you use the portal and interact with it, and please send it on to broaden the user base. Best regards, Michael From: Michael Kende Date: Tuesday, November 26, 2013 4:17 PM As part of my new role at ISOC, we are launching a new portal on the ISOC website that aggregates existing data sources and reports (ours and third-party), The purpose of it is threefold: first, as a public resource to learn about the impact of new infrastructure on the Internet, and the broader economic impact of the Internet; second, in order to help identify gaps in data, and determine how best to fill those gaps; and third, to promote new analysis and insights by everyone in the Internet community, including ourselves, to further stimulate a better understanding of the Internet and its Economy. The portal is at. https://www.internetsociety.org/internet-data-and-research One outstanding issue is whether, and if so how, to exclude bad research and data from the list. On the one hand is a strong desire to be open and inclusive of all available data and reports, while on the other hand there is a thought that we should review and exclude suspect or biased work. We do not have the resources to perform such extensive review on each linked item (as of today there are over 200 in the database), and I believe that it would be difficult to determine the criteria for excluding work in any case. However, in order to be of most use as a public resource, it would be useful to provide information that could help all of us make decisions about what data and reports to use. As a result, we are considering including a review section, such as used in Amazon, to rate and provide comments from all, including hopefully the authors. For starters, there are two feedback sections, one to send me comments on specific reports, and the other to provide suggestions for work that has not yet been included. Thoughts on how to move this forward would be most appreciated. Best regards, Michael Kende Chief Economist Internet Society Galerie Jean-Malbuisson 15 CH-1204 Geneva Switzerland Tel: +41 22 809 0367 E-mail: kende at isoc.org Website: www.internetsociety.org 'The Internet is for Everyone!' -- --------------------------------------------------------------- Joly MacFie 218 565 9365 Skype:punkcast WWWhatsup NYC - http://wwwhatsup.com http://pinstand.com - http://punkcast.com VP (Admin) - ISOC-NY - http://isoc-ny.org -------------------------------------------------------------- - From f.attwood at mdx.ac.uk Thu Feb 13 01:29:17 2014 From: f.attwood at mdx.ac.uk (Feona Attwood) Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2014 09:29:17 +0000 Subject: [Air-L] media and cultural studies research studentships; gender, sex and sexualities Message-ID: <4EFEF18F-7E43-4730-BCC6-A5088857373E@mdx.ac.uk> Please circulate widely. Middlesex Media Research Studentships, 2014. Research in Media focuses on Cultural Theory and Communication Studies, with particular interest in Gender, Sex and Sexualities. We welcome innovative and interdisciplinary proposals from excellent candidates that reflect the research interests of Middlesex Media and Performing Arts staff. Applicants are advised to consult the School web pages and school staff profiles: http://www.mdx.ac.uk/aboutus/staffdirectory/index.aspx Any queries should in the first instance be directed to Prof Vida L Midgelow, Director of Research Degrees (School of Media and Performance): v.midgelow at mdx.ac.uk Full details and application forms: http://www.mdx.ac.uk/research/applications/fees/bursaries/index.aspx The deadline for receipt of applications is 11.59pm on 14th March 2014 and interviews will be held in April/May 2014. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Please note that Middlesex University's preferred way of receiving all correspondence is via email in line with our Environmental Policy. All incoming post to Middlesex University is opened and scanned by our digital document handler, CDS, and then emailed to the recipient. If you do not want your correspondence to Middlesex University processed in this way please email the recipient directly. Parcels, couriered items and recorded delivery items will not be opened or scanned by CDS. There are items which are "exceptions" which will be opened by CDS but will not be scanned a full list of these can be obtained by contacting the University. From nasreen.rajani at gmail.com Thu Feb 13 08:29:16 2014 From: nasreen.rajani at gmail.com (Nasreen Rajani) Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2014 11:29:16 -0500 Subject: [Air-L] Women and Technology Conference Message-ID: <96CE1DAD-BF90-40B1-AAF4-B9CB7D8AA391@gmail.com> *SUBMISSION DEADLINE EXTENDED* to February 24, 2014. Dear Colleagues, Please note that the deadline for abstract submissions for the Women and Technology Conference held at Carleton University, Ottawa, ON on April 16th has been extended. See below for more information. Carleton University will be hosting the inaugural Women and Technology Conference for emerging scholars on April 16, 2014. Please see the below call for abstracts for submission guidelines and details. Visit our website for more information: http://womenandtechcu.wordpress.com/ Please distribute widely. WTCCU Organizing Committee, Nasreen Rajani, Alexandra Born, Matt Murdoch ??????? The Women and Technology Conference is a meeting of Ontario scholars working in applied and technical fields, the natural sciences, humanities, and social sciences. This year?s meeting will take place in Ottawa, on Wednesday, April 16, 2014, with all events being hosted at Carleton University. The goal of the Women and Technology Conference is to highlight scholarship on women and technology by focusing on two broad topics: 1. Women as producers and users of technology in applied and technical fields. a. Examples of disciplines represented within this topic include: engineering; architecture; industrial design; neuroscience; and the biological, chemical, physical, and computing sciences. 2. The relationship(s) between women and technology. This includes the role of women as both subjects and objects in knowledge/media production, as well as the impact of women on the relative success of emerging and established technologies. a. Examples of disciplines represented within this topic include: film and media studies; business; sociology; history; public policy; and women?s and gender studies. One of the major goals of this conference is to help advance the work of Ontario scholars by creating an interdisciplinary space for dialogue on women and technology. To help ensure that these goals are achieved, you are encouraged to tailor your abstract and presentation to a well-educated audience without expertise in your field. Submissions reporting on original scholarship and research are preferred. Presentations not meeting this requirement will be considered on a case-by-case basis, with preference given to those who have first-hand experience working at the nexus of women and technology. To apply: please submit a 150-word abstract with 3 keywords/phrases for a 10-15 minute oral paper presentation to:womenandtechcu at carleton.ca. Deadline: February 24, 2014 at 4:00pm EST In your submission, please indicate if you require assistance with childcare. The conference organizers will provide subsidies for child care and associated costs (e.g., parking and transportation). From maxigas at anargeek.net Thu Feb 13 09:01:43 2014 From: maxigas at anargeek.net (maxigas) Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2014 18:01:43 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Air-L] CFP 4S/ESOCITE - Open Panel 63. Peer production and open collaboration Message-ID: <20140213.180143.1958132948645296344.maxigas@anargeek.net> Dear researchers, We invite you to submit an abstract to our session on the relevance of peer production, open collaboration and hacking to Science and Technology Studies. The panel is organised for the 4S/ESOCITE conference in Buenos Aires, 20-23 August 2014. You are welcome to get in touch with us to discuss abstracts informally. Deadline: March 3 2014 Conference website: http://www.4sonline.org/meeting ---- 63. Peer production and open collaboration: Revisiting closure, stabilisation and black boxing through unfinished artefacts maxigas and Eduard Aibar This panel seeks to bring together scholars studying peer production processes through STS lenses and concepts. Peer production is a form of network-based voluntary cooperation aimed at contributing to a commons, epitomised by the Linux kernel and Wikipedia and more recently applied to hardware. Case studies of peer production projects can inspire new theoretical developments within STS and simultaneously engender insights on emerging socio-technical ensembles. Peer producers work a lot to fend off stabilisation, building functional parts (like loose couplings and Application Programming Interfaces) into technologies and organisations which serve to prevent closure. While these mechanisms for openness do stabilise, the resulting technologies are not exactly black boxes whose functional composition is rendered inaccessible to gaze, discourse and engineering. They can be understood as ?unfinished artefacts?. Moreover, shared machine workshops manifest a model which goes against the received wisdom of trade-offs between ?professional? expertise and radically open ?amateur? contributions. Such open organisational architectures blend in three functions traditionally separate in modern institutions: education, research and production. In this context citizen participation in technological issues is mainly achieved by practical interventions into research and development. We call for contributors who explore peer production specific projects from a wide range of STS perspectives. One is how stabilisation, closure and black boxing are themselves socially constructed, deconstructed and reconfigured in this arena. Another is the broader structural implications of peer production, since it is usually read as an emerging mode of production with disruptive consequences. Finally, since peer production is increasingly used in a wide range of settings (software development, knowledge production, infrastructure building or farming), the way it is re-enacted and appropriated by new actors can also be of interest to scholars with various theoretical backgrounds. Languages: English and Spanish http://www.4sonline.org/open_sessions -- maxigas, kiberpunk FA00 8129 13E9 2617 C614 0901 7879 63BC 287E D166 http://research.metatron.ai/ "Forget the damned motor car and build the cities for lovers!" From robert50 at illinois.edu Thu Feb 13 17:29:14 2014 From: robert50 at illinois.edu (Sarah Roberts) Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2014 20:29:14 -0500 Subject: [Air-L] [CFP] DIGITAL LABOR: SWEATSHOPS, PICKET LINES, AND BARRICADES, The New School, Nov 14-16, 2014 In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Call for Proposals DIGITAL LABOR: SWEATSHOPS, PICKET LINES, AND BARRICADES To be held at The New School, a university in New York City NOVEMBER 14-16, 2014 #dl14 The third in The New School's Politics of Digital Culture Conference Series Sponsored by The New School and The Institute for Distributed Creativity DIGITAL LABOR: SWEATSHOPS, PICKET LINES, AND BARRICADES brings together designers, labor organizers, theorists, social entrepreneurs, historians, legal scholars, independent researchers, cultural producers -- and perspectives from workers themselves -- to discuss emerging forms of mutual aid and solidarity. Over the past decade, advancements in software development, digitization, an increase in computer processing power, faster and cheaper bandwidth and storage, and the introduction of a wide range of inexpensive, wireless-enabled computing devices and mobile phones, set the global stage for emerging forms of labor that help corporations to drive down labor costs and ward off the falling rate of profits. Companies like CrowdFlower, oDesk, or Amazon.com?s Mechanical Turk serve as much more than payment processors or interface providers; they shape the nature of the tasks that are performed. Work is organized against the worker. Recent books included The Internet as Playground and Factory (Scholz, 2013), Living Labor (Hoegsberg and Fisher) based on the exhibition Arbeitstid that took place in Oslo in 2013 and Cognitive Capitalism, Education, and Digital Labour (Peters, Bulut, et al, eds., Peter Lang, 2011). In 2012, the exhibition The Workers was curated by MASS MOCA in the United States. Christian Fuchs? book Digital Labor and Karl Marx is forthcoming with Routledge. Several events have been organized in the last few years to focus on these developments: Digital Labor: the Internet as Playground and Factory conference (The New School, New York City, 2009 http://digitallabor.org), Digital Labor: Workers, Authors, Citizens (Western University, London, Ontario, Canada, 2009), Invisible Labor Colloquium (Washington University Law School, 2013), Towards Critical Theories of Social Media (Uppsala University, Sweden, 2012), Re:publica (Berlin, 2013), and the Chronicles of Work lecture series at Schlo? Solitude (Stuttgart, Germany, 2012/2013). We would like to continue and elaborate on these discussions by raising the following questions: Broad issues: Who and where are the workers and how do they understand their situation? How and where do they act in political terms? How can we analyze digital labor as a global phenomenon, pertaining to issues like underdevelopment and supply chains? Which theories and concepts can help us to frame our thinking about the gridlock of digital work? How do waste, repair, and disposal play into the debate about labor? Are there artistic works that respond to contemporary labor? Gender, Race, Class, Ability: How do gender, race, ability, and class play out in the diverse fields of digital labor? How are laboring capacities, also in the digital realm, sustained and maintained by maternal labor, or the labor of care workers, domestic workers? Alternatively, how do we conceptualize digital work that is underwaged and often coded as feminized? What are the postcolonial tensions arising between digital workers in different locales? Organizing: How relevant are unions to the millions of crowdsourced workers? How can we resist the all-too-common ?the labor movement is dead? narrative? Which concrete projects might offer us a critical foundation upon which to build broader strategies for ?digital solidarity?? What can be learned from the history of organized labor when it comes to crowdsourcing and lawsuits like Otey vs. CrowdFlower? What are possibilities and tensions that arise with projects aiming for solidarity among people in global labor systems? Policy: What are the reasons for withholding legislation that would allow for an enforcement of the Fair Labor Standards Act in the crowdsourcing industry? Are there new forms of contracts or widened definitions of employment that would better address today?s work realities? What policy proposals might be developed and put on the table now? FORMATS: In addition to traditional conference structures, Digital Labor: Sweatshops, Picket Lines, and Barricades also aims to experiment with creative presentation formats and novel venues. We welcome applications for the following formats: - experimental lectures (e.g., ?theory tapas,? pecha kuchas, collaborative presentations, or formats not using spoken language) - lectures or panels - keynote dialogues - design fiction workshops for those interested in design storytelling and envisioning alternative futures (3 hours) - performance lectures in the places where some of this work is taking place: the living rooms of participants (20 minutes each) SUBMIT a 300-word abstract or a link to short video, and a one-page CV to: digitallabor2014 at gmail.com by March 21, 2014. Please state clearly which format you are applying for and do emphasize how your proposal speaks to the questions above. Confirmation of participation: March 31, 2014. If you have any logistical questions, please contact Alexis Rider digitallabor2014 at gmail.com We are planning an open access digital work notebook that documents and expands the discussion leading up to, during, and after this event. Contributions will emerge from the iDC mailing list. https://mailman.thing.net/mailman/listinfo/idc Conference editor: Trebor Scholz with (Advisory Board): Lilly Irani, Frank Pasquale, Sarah T. Roberts, Karen Gregory, Ken Wark, and Winifred Poster. Producer: Alexis Rider. Join the discussion: https://mailman.thing.net/mailman/listinfo/idc @idctweets @trebors --- S a r a h T. R o b e r t s Faculty of Information and Media Studies (FIMS) Western University http://fims.uwo.ca/index.htm Blogging periodically at http://illusionofvolition.com From anne at digitalmethods.net Fri Feb 14 02:34:19 2014 From: anne at digitalmethods.net (Anne Helmond) Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2014 11:34:19 +0100 Subject: [Air-L] Call for Participation: Digital Methods Summer School 2014 Message-ID: Call for Participation: Digital Methods Summer School 2014 23 June - 4 July 2014 Digital Methods Initiative New Media & Digital Culture University of Amsterdam Turfdraagsterpad 9 1012 XT Amsterdam the Netherlands On Geolocation: Remote Event Analysis (Mapping Conflicts, Disasters, Elections and other Events with Online and Social Media Data) This year's Digital Methods Summer School is devoted to the remote analysis of events. When Twitter changed its byline in 2009 from "What are you doing?" to "What's happening?" it acknowledged a transition in its use and value from an ego-tweeting and ambient friend-following medium to a news and event-following one. Indeed there is a growing literature (in the Summer School's reader) on the relationship between social media and events, often focusing on conflicts, disasters as well as political elections. But what do events look like online, and how does one follow them analytically? What is the value of the event's second screening, as it is sometimes termed? Also, is the event's comment culture worth keeping as records of what has transpired? How to capture as well as re-render, or playback, the event? Claude Levi-Strauss famously wrote, "I hate travelling and explorers," and indeed the great anthropologist spent scant time in the field, preferring remote analysis, a research practice that relied less on sensing instruments than on objects and description. Social media contributes sensing measures in the form of activity metrics and other data. They also raise the question as to what the Internet and social media add to events as well as subtract from them (so to speak). Evgeni Morozov relates the story that after the network was brought down in Iran during the Election crisis of 2009, there were perhaps 6 Twitter users on the ground in Teheran (http://www.evgenymorozov.com/morozov_twitter_dissent.pdf). Indeed the picture provided by Twitter may be demographically skewed. As the Pew Research Center found in 2013, reactions to events on Twitter differ dramatically from public opinion about them ( http://www.pewresearch.org/2013/03/04/twitter-reaction-to-events-often-at-odds-with-overall-public-opinion/ ). We are also interested in the events as they unfold in and through mobile devices, and the data supplied with them. 'On geolocation', as opposed to 'on location', refers to the location data sent along with the posts and other content such as the camera data embedded in digital images. At the Summer School we analyse event data as supplied by social media and devices (broadly conceived), and also seek baselines against which to assess and compare its contributions. Example of remote event analysis using Twitter data, Digital Methods Summer School project 2013 (https://wiki.digitalmethods.net/Dmi/NetworkedIssuePublics). About "Digital Methods" as Concept Digital methods is a term coined as a counter-point to virtual methods, which typically digitize existing methods and port them onto the Web. Digital methods, contrariwise, seek to learn from the methods built into the dominant devices online, and repurpose them for social and cultural research. That is, the challenge is to study both the info-web as well as the social web with the tools that organize them. There is a general protocol to digital methods. At the outset stock is taken of the natively digital objects that are available (links, tags, threads, etc.) and how devices such as search engines make use of them. Can the device techniques be repurposed, for example by remixing the digital objects they take as inputs? Once findings are made with online data, where to ground them? Is the baseline still the offline, or are findings to be grounded in more online data? There is also a Digital Methods book (http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/digital-methods). About the Summer School The Digital Methods Summer School, founded in 2007 together with the Digital Methods Initiative, is directed by Professor Richard Rogers, Chair in NewSummer School is one training opportunity provided by the Digital Methods Initiative (DMI). DMI also has a Winter School, which includes a mini-conference, where papers are presented and responded to. Winter School papers are often the result of Summer School projects. The Summer School is coordinated by two Ph.D candidates in New Media at the University of Amsterdam, or affiliates. This year the coordinators are Catherine Somz? and Sabine Niederer, both affiliated with the Digital Methods Initiative, University of Amsterdam. The Summer School has a technical staff as well as a design staff. The Summer School also relies on a technical infrastructure of some nine servers hosting tools and storing data. Participants bring their laptops, learn method, undertake research projects, make reports, tools and graphics and write them up on the Digital Methods wiki. The Summer School concludes with final presentations. Often there are guests from non-governmental or other organizations who present their issues. For instance, Women on Waves came along during the 2010, Fair Phone to the 2012 Summer School and Greenpeace and their Gezi Park project in 2013. Digital Methods people are currently interning at major NGOs and international organizations (the UN). The Digital Methods Initiative was founded with a grant from the Mondriaan Foundation, and the Summer School has been supported by the Center for Creation, Content and Technology (CCCT), University of Amsterdam, organized by the Faculty of Science with sponsorship from Platform Beta. Previous Digital Methods Summer Schools, 2007-2013 (https://wiki.digitalmethods.net/Dmi/DmiSummerSchool). Applications and fees To apply for the Digital Methods Summer School 2014, please send a one-page letter explaining how digital methods training would benefit your current work, and also enclose a CV. Mark your application "DMI Training Certificate Program," and send to info [at] digitalmethods.net. The deadline for applications for the Summer School is 23 April. Notices will be sent on 25 April. Please address your application email to the Summer School coordinators, Catherine Somz? and Sabine Niederer, info [at] digitalmethods.net. Informal queries may be sent to Catherine [at] digitalmethods.net. The Summer School costs EUR 345 per person. Accepted applicants will be informed of the bank transfer details upon notice of acceptance to the Summer School. The fee must be paid by 24 May 2013. Scholarships The Digital Methods Summer School is part of the University of Amsterdam Summer School program me (http://www.uva.nl/en/education/other-programmes/summer-winter). This means that students attending the partnering universities in the LERU (http://www.leru.org/index.php/public/home/) and U21 networks (http://www.universitas21.com/) are eligible for a scholarship to help cover the cost for tuition and housing for the DMI Summer School. Please consult their sites to see whether you are eligible for a scholarship and for the application procedure. Housing and Accommodations The Summer School is self-catered, and there are abundant cafes and a university mensa nearby. The Digital Methods Summer School is located in the heart of Amsterdam. There are limited accommodations available to participants at The Student Hotel at reasonable rates (http://www.thestudenthotel.com/). In your application please indicate whether you are interested in making use of this service. Reservations will be made by us on the basis of your request included in your application. In your acceptance notification, you will be given further information about booking and payment. Please contact the local organizers if you need information about prices. For those who prefer non-University accommodations, we suggest airbnb or similar. For shorter stay, there is Hotel Le Coin (http://www.lecoin.nl/), where we have a university discount. Summer School Training Certificate The Digital Methods Summer School issues completion certificates to particisignificant contribution to a Summer School project. For previous Summer School projects, see for example (https://wiki.digitalmethods.net/Dmi/WikipediaAsASpaceOfControversy). Schedule The Summer School meets every day. Please bring your laptop. We will provide abundant connectivity. We start generally at 9:30 in the morning, and end around 5:30. There are morning talks two-three days per week. On the last Friday we have a boat trip on the canals of Amsterdam. Social Media & User-Generated Content Twitter hashtag #dmi14 We shall have a list of summer school participants and make an old-fashioned Facebook. We look forward to welcoming you to Amsterdam in the Summertime! From joaomattar at gmail.com Fri Feb 14 03:12:54 2014 From: joaomattar at gmail.com (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Jo=E3o_Mattar?=) Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2014 09:12:54 -0200 Subject: [Air-L] AJDE Special Issue: Interactions in Distance Education Message-ID: Hello! I will submit a proposal for a special issue on *Interactions in Distance Education* for the American Journal of Distance Education (AJDE). The articles should be based on empirical research. If you would like to submit an article for the proposal, please e-mail me a one paragraph abstract. I will get back as soon as I have a feedback on the proposal Thanks -- [ ]s Jo?o Mattar Professor TIDDPUC-SP (Brasil) From kevieira at wisc.edu Fri Feb 14 04:45:33 2014 From: kevieira at wisc.edu (Catherine Vieira) Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2014 06:45:33 -0600 Subject: [Air-L] CFP: The Transnational Movement of People and Information In-Reply-To: <778084fe596f4.52fe0fde@wiscmail.wisc.edu> References: <778084fe596f4.52fe0fde@wiscmail.wisc.edu> Message-ID: <766080785a765.52fdbb8d@wiscmail.wisc.edu> Call For Papers: Special Issue of Literacy in Composition Studies Title: The Transnational Movement of People and Information Guest Editors: Rebecca Lorimer Leonard, Kate Vieira, Morris Young To be considered, please submit a 250-word abstract that discusses the proposed article to the editors at kevieira at wisc.edu. The deadline for proposal submissions is March 14, 2014. The movement of people and information across national borders is rapid and widespread. By some estimates, over 180 million people worldwide are currently living outside the country of their birth, keeping in contact with homelands, forging new migratory networks, and navigating new circumstances through writing. Literacy in composition studies has begun to respond to this context through increased attention to the global, the international, and the transnational. This special issue seeks to forward this emerging area of interest. Often defined as a set of skills and resources, literacy has figured prominently in debates about immigrants? national integration. Some have called for migrants? swift assimilation through literacy, others have pointed to the value of migrants? diverse literacy legacies, and still others have examined how their literacies change in new national contexts. But if we think of literacy more materially, as skills and resources made possible by the technology of writing, it becomes clear that literacy plays a role in more than migrants? incorporation within nations. It also shapes their movement among them. Writing can facilitate transnational communication and network migration via the postal system and Internet. And writing is a key tool in migration policy, as nation states use immigration documents, such as visas and passports, to allow some migrants in and to keep others out. Writing, in other words, is deeply imbricated both in transnational lived experiences and in the infrastructures that govern transnational mobility. The central question this special issue asks is how. We welcome articles that address these issues empirically, theoretically, and/or rhetorically. Among the questions to be considered are the following: How do migrants? literacy practices change and persist across time and national borders? How does the transnational inhere in local literacies? How do other semiotic practices interact with writing in transnational contexts? How is literacy taught and learned transnationally? How does writing itself move? What are the implications of changing communication technologies, such as the post and the Internet, for transnational lives and literacies? How does writing motivate, influence, or restrict the travels of people? How have structural forces (such as governments, institutions, race, etc.) facilitated and/or discouraged literacy and immigration? Which methodologies might glean productive inquiries into transnational literacies? Literacy in Composition Studies is a peer-reviewed venue for a broad range of scholarship in literacy and writing studies. http://licsjournal.org. -- Kate Vieira Assistant Professor English Department, Program in Composition and Rhetoric University of Wisconsin, Madison kevieira at wisc.edu From monaco.federico at gmail.com Fri Feb 14 05:23:13 2014 From: monaco.federico at gmail.com (FEDERICO MONACO) Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2014 14:23:13 +0100 Subject: [Air-L] Happy Valentine's Day Message-ID: Dear Aoir members, you are all invited to our wedding, performance and remix on the web: http://www.cvpido.com thank you for participating to our web event. Federico, Federica and Demetra -- http://www.federicomonaco.com From tzafnat.shpak at jvwresearch.org Fri Feb 14 06:16:23 2014 From: tzafnat.shpak at jvwresearch.org (Tzafnat Shpak) Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2014 16:16:23 +0200 Subject: [Air-L] Call for book chapters: Handbook on 3D3C Virtual Worlds Message-ID: [image: Journal of Virtual Worlds Research] Call for Book Chapters: Handbook on 3D3C Virtual Worlds Applications, Technologies and Policies for Three Dimensional Systems for Community, Creation and Commerce *Editor*: Prof. Yesha Sivan, JVWR Managing editor; Metaverse Labs Ltd. *Publisher*: Springer-Verlag, Germany Introduction: The field of virtual worlds / Augmented Reality / 3D / etc. is vast, interconnected and expanding. In that respect, "3D3C Worlds" is defined as a combination of four factors: - 3D stands for the three dimensional representation of worlds as seen in Google Earth, Augmented Reality, 3D printing and the like; - Community as in a collection of people work, play and act together. Consider Facebook and Twitter as one example, and enhance it by the dynamics of World of Warcraft guilds; - Creation is the ability to create new artifacts, as seen for example in Second Life or in Open Source movement; - Commerce is the ability to harness these previous factors to gain monetary real value (consider Bitcoin, exchanges, etc.) Objective of the Book: - Become the official "handbook" on 3D3C Virtual Worlds - Highlight and enhance some earlier work conducted for the Journal - Further advance and augment the field with "topical reviews" A "topical review" means a review of a corpus of knowledge of one aspect of the field. It can be a classic literature review, a more formal statistical meta-analysis or other forms suggested by authors. Topics we already have chapters on: - Collaboration >> Virtual Worlds as Innovative Collaboration Media for Distributed Work - Taxation >> Taxation of Virtual World Economies: An Empirical Review - Medical >> Overview: Virtual Reality in Medicine - Education >> An Exploratory Research Agenda for 3-D Virtual Worlds as Collaborative Learning Ecosystems: Extracting Evidences from Literature - Art >> 1993-2013: A Survey of Two Decades of Artistic Works using Computational Ecosystems - Geography >> An Aspatial Economics? The Economic Geography of Virtual Worlds - Creativity >> Fostering Team Creativity in Virtual Worlds - Money >> Virtual Currencies, Micropayments and Fiat Money: Where Are We Coming From and Where Does the Industry Stand? - Legal >> Privacy, Law, and Virtual Worlds - Multilinguality >> Multilingual issues in virtual worlds: a general review - Money >> Blazing Trails: A New Way Forward for Virtual Currencies and Money Laundering - Collaboration >> Virtual Collaboration Spaces: Bringing Presence to Distributed Collaboration Topics of interest that we are looking for include, but are not limited to: - Case studies - Augmented Reality - 3D Printing - Commerce / business - History - Security - Design - Military - Users - Standards - Social behaviours - Gender - Cases of projects, constellations, and "islands" -- Could be visual depiction (as the book will be in color) - Cases of firms, and business endeavours - Impact on special audiences for virtual worlds - Technical review of research trends in the field (metrics) - Measurements and evolution of usage in virtual worlds. - Defence Related Virtual worlds - Devices for virtual life - Mobility How to submit: The final chapter length should be 15-25 pages in the Springer format. Initially please email your 2-3 page chapter proposals including: - Chapter title - Author names, current affiliation, and email addresses - Short author/s bio - Chapter intent / purpose / abstract - Chapter structure outline - List some key publication(s) on which your chapter will be based *Editorial Process*: All accepted chapters will undergo a rigorous peer-review process. Email submissions to info at jvwresearch.org <+info at jvwresearch.org>. Dates: Authors are encouraged to send proposals as early as possible to get a quick response. *March 28, 2014*: Book chapter proposal submission deadline. *April 30, 2014*: Notification of chapter proposal acceptance. *July 30, 2014*: Full chapter submission. *September 15, 2014*: Peer-review results returned. *October 15, 2014*: Camera-ready chapter submission. *December 15, 2014*: Planned publication. Looking forward to hearing from you, Thankfully, *Prof. Yesha Y. Sivan* JVWR Managing Editor Metaverse-Labs Ltd. TheJVWR - The Journal of Virtual Worlds Research http://jvwresearch.org (TheJVWR) [image: Like Call for book chapters: Handbook on 3D3C Virtual Worlds on Facebook] @TheJVWR. [image: share on Twitter] (c) 2014 Journal of Virtual Worlds Research All rights reserved. From asnsande at stanford.edu Fri Feb 14 07:34:58 2014 From: asnsande at stanford.edu (Ashley Nicoles Sanders-Jackson) Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2014 07:34:58 -0800 (PST) Subject: [Air-L] sentiment analysis on Twitter for smoking cessation groups Message-ID: Greetings, I am beginning a project for which we have 4 private smoking cessation groups (3 months each) to analyze (we are writing a grant to collect more data as well). I have seen some of the work related to sentiment analysis on Twitter but I am interested in developing a system that is better tailored to our data (e.g. being smokefree has specific meaning in this context). We are therefore considering developing a system by content coding a number of tweets (either having researchers code them or by having smokers code them) for positive and negative valence and perhaps some discrete emotions (e.g. sadness or hope). How many coded tweets would we need to train a simple machine learning system on our dataset (for example one of the many possibilities in R) and what are the best out-of-box programs to use? I know a bit about content analysis and about smoking cessation but not so much about machine learning. So bear in mind that you are dealing with a novice. Actually, if anyone would be interested in collaborating on the project who actually does know what they are doing, they would be welcome as well. Ashley From stu at texifter.com Fri Feb 14 07:42:36 2014 From: stu at texifter.com (Shulman, Stu) Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2014 10:42:36 -0500 Subject: [Air-L] sentiment analysis on Twitter for smoking cessation groups In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Ashley, You might want to chat with the Health Media Collaboratory http://www.healthmediacollaboratory.org/ They have done interesting work with our tools: https://vimeo.com/55175059 We interviewed researchers at the University of Illinois Chicago in the Health Media Collaboratory about their use of DiscoverText and the Gnip-enabled Power Track for Twitter to study smoking behavior. The team, led by Dr. Sherry Emery, explains why it is important to train and use custom machine classifiers to sort the millions of tweets they are collecting from the full Twitter fire hose. The UIC team strongly argues for the combination of good tools and highly reliable data. On Fri, Feb 14, 2014 at 10:34 AM, Ashley Nicoles Sanders-Jackson wrote: > Greetings, > > I am beginning a project for which we have 4 private smoking cessation > groups (3 months each) to analyze (we are writing a grant to collect more > data as well). I have seen some of the work related to sentiment analysis > on Twitter but I am interested in developing a system that is better > tailored to our data (e.g. being smokefree has specific meaning in this > context). We are therefore considering developing a system by content > coding a number of tweets (either having researchers code them or by > having smokers code them) for positive and negative valence and perhaps > some discrete emotions (e.g. sadness or hope). How many coded tweets > would we need to train a simple machine learning system on our dataset > (for example one of the many possibilities in R) and what are the best > out-of-box programs to use? I know a bit about content analysis and about > smoking cessation but not so much about machine learning. So bear in mind > that you are dealing with a novice. Actually, if anyone would be > interested in collaborating on the project who actually does know what > they are doing, they would be welcome as well. > > Ashley > _______________________________________________ > The Air-L at listserv.aoir.org mailing list > is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org > Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org > > Join the Association of Internet Researchers: > http://www.aoir.org/ -- Dr. Stuart W. Shulman http://people.umass.edu/stu Founder and CEO, Texifter http://texifter.com LinkedIn http://www.linkedin.com/in/stuartwshulman Twitter https://twitter.com/StuartWShulman From wellman at chass.utoronto.ca Fri Feb 14 12:41:30 2014 From: wellman at chass.utoronto.ca (Barry Wellman) Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2014 15:41:30 -0500 Subject: [Air-L] Valentine's Day surprise: Paperback edition of Networked is out Message-ID: The paperback edition of Networked: The New Social Operating System (Rainie & Wellman) appeared for Valentine's Day. If you order one today, I will sing to you the next time we meet (some may call this a negative inducement.) So I started exploring the pricing http://www.amazon.com/Networked-New-Social-Operating-System/dp/0262526166/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&sr=1-1&qid=1336500288 The Amazon.com pricing is intriguing. Paperback: US$14.19 Hardcover: US$20.04 (up a buck from last week - you'd think they'd want to clear out the Hards) Kindle: US$16.33 Even more intrigue. The Canadian price is even cheaper than the US Hardcover: Cdn $19.75; (aobut US$17.80) Paperback: Cdn $13.68 But Kindle more expensive: $18.02 Given that the Cdn dollar is now about 90cents in US$, it is cheaper for Canadians to order locally, but not for Americans to do so (shipping costs). UK harcover price, as always, is higher: L14.04 (US$23.50) NO paperback yet Kindle is: L12.64 (US$21) -- and of course, e-shipping is the same as in the US and Canada Japanese price is Y2853 for hardback (about US$28),with no pb listed. BTW: There is a hard-hitting article in the current New Yorker about Amazon's dealing with publishers. Barry Wellman _______________________________________________________________________ NetLab FRSC INSNA Founder Faculty of Information (iSchool) 611 Bissell Building 140 St. George St. University of Toronto Toronto Canada M5S 3G6 http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman twitter: @barrywellman NSA/CSEC: Canadian and American citizen NETWORKED:The New Social Operating System. Lee Rainie & Barry Wellman MIT Press http://amzn.to/zXZg39 Print $20 Kindle $16 Old/NewCyberTimes http://bit.ly/c8N9V8 ________________________________________________________________________ From wellman at chass.utoronto.ca Sat Feb 15 06:29:05 2014 From: wellman at chass.utoronto.ca (Barry Wellman) Date: Sat, 15 Feb 2014 09:29:05 -0500 Subject: [Air-L] "Networked" & query In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Thanks for your interest. We're in the midst of projects. If you go to Navel Studies on my website, you'll see some of our first papers on Networked Research. The Networked Individuals project doesnt have any papers out yet. However, the preceding "Connected Lives" project does on my website. And Dr. Bernie Hogan at Oxford Internet Institute was central in that. Barry Wellman _______________________________________________________________________ NetLab FRSC INSNA Founder Faculty of Information (iSchool) 611 Bissell Building 140 St. George St. University of Toronto Toronto Canada M5S 3G6 http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman twitter: @barrywellman NSA/CSEC: Canadian and American citizen NETWORKED:The New Social Operating System. Lee Rainie & Barry Wellman MIT Press http://amzn.to/zXZg39 Print $14 Kindle $16 Old/NewCyberTimes http://bit.ly/c8N9V8 ________________________________________________________________________ On Fri, 14 Feb 2014, Marilou Polymeropoulou wrote: > Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2014 22:24:39 +0000 > From: Marilou Polymeropoulou > To: "wellman at chass.utoronto.ca" > Subject: "Networked" & query > > Dear Prof. Wellman, > > Your AoIR list e-mail regarding your new publication arrived just in time when I was writing a piece on networked digital music. I've just bought the Kindle version (as a Valentine's present to myself) and I'm looking forward to reading it. > > My research at Oxford is about the chipscene, a transnational collective of musicians who compose chipmusic, a kind of digital music whose characteristic is 8-bit sounds. I've conducted physical, multi-sited and digital ethnographic fieldwork among chipmusicians, and I'm currently finishing my doctoral thesis with an emphasis on creativity. > > The research conducted at NetLab interests me very much. I cannot find any analytical information on current projects, only the titles, so I would really appreciate it if you could share any further information with me. > > Thank you very much in advance. > > With best wishes, > Marilou Polymeropoulou > > DPhil in Music > University of Oxford > St. Peter's College > http://mariloup.wordpress.com > > > > > > > From rena.bivens at gmail.com Sat Feb 15 06:35:02 2014 From: rena.bivens at gmail.com (Rena Bivens) Date: Sat, 15 Feb 2014 09:35:02 -0500 Subject: [Air-L] Facebook changes their gender options In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Hi everyone, Perhaps you have already heard about Facebook's recent changes to their gender options. If not check out the link here: http://bigstory.ap.org/article/apnewsbreak-new-gender-options-facebook-users In some ways this is a big step forward but there is more to it than that. I've been working on this issue for a few years and was in the process of finishing a journal article on the topic from a critical theory perspective that is due March 1st (for a special issue) but am now revising over the next couple of weeks as a result of this news. Here is my initial response (directed more towards journalists but nonetheless) - I'd love to hear your feedback! http://renabivens.com/201402/my-reaction-facebook-launches-new-gender-options/ Here it is again via Twitter: https://twitter.com/renabivens/statuses/43439344394764697 7 Best, Rena Bivens Rena Bivens, Ph.D. (Sociology) Banting Fellow School of Journalism and Communication Studies Carleton University 1125 Colonel By Drive, Ottawa, Ontario Canada K1S 5B6 Tel: 613 520-2600 ext. 2041 renabivens.com From jeremyrmatthew at gmail.com Sun Feb 16 07:46:00 2014 From: jeremyrmatthew at gmail.com (Jeremy) Date: Sun, 16 Feb 2014 15:46:00 +0000 Subject: [Air-L] CFP: Creating Cultures, postgraduate conference in Culture, Media, and the Creative Industries, King's College London Message-ID: (apologies for cross-posting and please forward this to whomever you think may be interested) Call for Papers: Creating Cultures, a postgraduate conference in Culture, Media, and the Creative Industries, King's College London http://thecmcisocialfactory.wordpress.com/creating-cultures-postgrad-conference/ Keynote speaker: Prof. Lev Manovich, CUNY Held on the 12th and 13th of June 2014, this multi-disciplinary postgraduate conference seeks a broad array of perspectives that explore cultural representations, practices, and industries. The title 'Creating Cultures' prompts inquiries into concepts of culture being created, cultures of creativity, cultures evolving and changing, and also cultures of creative work and play. Culture evokes ideas about its conflicting and disputed foundations, and culture as a medium through which social, political, spatial, and historical meanings are communicated and understood. The theme of this conference invites explorations of power relations, gender, subjectivity, the spatial, technology and contemporary media. Abstract submissions for presentations and pre-formed panels are invited on themes in cultural and/or media studies, such as: Power and cultural politics Identity and representation Media and mediation Digital cultures, new media, and media futures Cultures and change Popular culture Contested and counter cultures Art and artistic practice Cultural labour and industries Territorial and spatial cultures Globalisation and transnational cultures Cultural and media research methodologies Please submit 300 word abstracts, or proposals for creative presentation formats, and a maximum 100-word biography to cmci-conference at kcl.ac.uk by the 28th of March. Decisions on submissions will be sent by the 17th of April. For any queries contact: Jeremy Matthew (jeremy.matthew at kcl.ac.uk) or Photini Vrikki (photini.vrikki at kcl.ac.uk), and please check our website at http://thecmcisocialfactory.wordpress.com/creating-cultures-postgrad-conference/ From jkraemer at uci.edu Sun Feb 16 12:25:52 2014 From: jkraemer at uci.edu (Jordan Kraemer) Date: Sun, 16 Feb 2014 12:25:52 -0800 Subject: [Air-L] to add participants to your SNSs or not? In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Dear Roser, I wanted to reply to your message from a couple of weeks ago about whether to add research participants to one's existing social network profiles or not. This issue definitely came up in my ethnographic research on Facebook among users in Berlin, and I recently published an article you might find helpful ("Friend or Freund: Social Media and Transnational Connections in Berlin, http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/07370024.2013.823821), though I'm not sure how much I discuss the issue directly. I am addressing it further in a book chapter I'm working on, and could share with you a recent conference paper based on the same material. I found it made more sense to use my existing Facebook and Twitter profiles, and to create a separate group for research participants, as you mention, though in some cases, I had to create new profiles because my participants were on sites I hadn't used before. But I know other researchers have found the opposite worked better, and created separate profiles. I think it depends a lot on the specifics of the project and your relationship to your research participants. For example, how will it look if the researcher isn't already embedded in existing networks of connections? How easily or quickly will it be to join the participants' networks? Some people might find it odd or suspicious to add someone who has no or few contacts, but on the other hand, it helps clearly demarcate the researcher as a researcher. Another consideration if you do create separate profiles is how will you manage your personal accounts -- will you just stay logged in to your research accounts, or will you switch back and forth? best, Jordan ---------------------------- Jordan Kraemer Social Science Research Network Junior Fellow Anthropology, UC Irvine www.jordankraemer.com On Feb 3, 2014, at 7:43 AM, Roser Beneito Montagut wrote: > Hello everybody, > > We have just started an ethnography (online and offline) to study the > extent to which the social web can mitigate isolation and loneliness > feelings among the elderly by promoting their interpersonal relationships > online. > > I appreciate if you can point me to articles discussing whether the > researcher has added the participants to his/her social network site (e.g. > Facebook) or has created an specific profile for the research. We have > decided to add the participants to our SNSs, creating a group for them, but > I would like to know what other researchers have done and the challenges of > this methodological decision they have faced. > > Apologies beforehand if this topic has already been discussed in the list. > > Thanks, > > Roser > > Roser Beneito-Montagut > Senior Lecturer > School of Computing, Multimedia and Telecommunication > Open University of Catalonia > Barcelona > _______________________________________________ > The Air-L at listserv.aoir.org mailing list > is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org > Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org > > Join the Association of Internet Researchers: > http://www.aoir.org/ > From mcarassai at ufl.edu Sun Feb 16 16:07:17 2014 From: mcarassai at ufl.edu (Carassai,Mauro) Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2014 00:07:17 +0000 Subject: [Air-L] CFP RIAS Special Issue - American-Digital Studies Message-ID: (apologies for cross-posting and please forward this to whomever you think may be interested) Please review the attached Call for Papers for a special issue for RIAS (Review of International American Studies) focused on the relationship between American and digital studies. More specifically, the special issue explores the cultural logic of the digital from a fluid, heterogeneous, and comparative perspective. You can find detailed information about the project either in the attachment or at: https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/node/55044 Please send your abstract and one-paragraph bio to rias.special.issue at gmail.com Contact e-mails: mcarassai at ufl.edu leonardo.flores at upr.edu Editors: Mauro Carassai and Leonardo Flores Carassai, Mauro English Department University of Florida From charles.ess at gmail.com Sun Feb 16 21:03:36 2014 From: charles.ess at gmail.com (Charles Ess) Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2014 06:03:36 +0100 Subject: [Air-L] CaTaC'14 - deadline extension, registration fees Message-ID: Dear AoIRists, On behalf of the Program Committee for CaTaC?14, I?m happy to announce A) the deadline for submissions has been extended to March 2, 2014, and B) our schedule of registration fees has been established: Full registration: early bird - closing date, April 4 - 250 USD; after April 4: 275 USD Reviewer: early bird - 225 USD: after April 4: 250 USD Author: early bird - 225 USD: after April 4: 250 USD Author and Reviewer: early bird - 200 USD: after April 4: 225 USD Student: early bird - 175 USD: after April 4: 200 USD Those familiar with the conference will recognize that these registration fees are ca. 50% of the norm for previous years. These reduced fees are made possible through various forms of support from the Department of Informatics and the Department of Media and Communication, University of Oslo. We hope these reduced fees will make participation in CaTaC?14 more feasible and attractive for all interested in participating. For more details on the conference, please see For information on conference themes and tracks, and for submitting paper proposals, please go to Please cross-post and distribute as appropriate. Many thanks, - Charles Ess (Media and Communication, University of Oslo) Maja van der Velden (Informatics, University of Oslo) Herbert Hrachovec (Philosophy, University of Vienna) Michele Strano, Program Chair (Communication Studies, Bridgewater College) Leah Macfadyen (Evaluation and Learning Analytics, University of British Columbia) From christian.fuchs at uti.at Mon Feb 17 06:27:38 2014 From: christian.fuchs at uti.at (Christian Fuchs) Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2014 14:27:38 +0000 Subject: [Air-L] "Media and Communication in and after the Global Capitalist Crisis": ESA RN18 2014 Conference Call Message-ID: <53021C5A.5030103@uti.at> Media and Communication in and after the Global Capitalist Crisis: Renewal, Reform or Revolution? ESA RN18 Mid-Term Conference 2014 University of Bucharest, Romania October 17-18, 2014 Full Call Text and additional information: http://fuchs.uti.at/wp-content/RN18_2014.pdf Call for Participation and Abstracts European Sociological Association, Research Network 18: Sociology of Communications and Media Research http://www.europeansociology.org/research-networks/rn18-sociology-of-communications-and-media-research.html Submission deadline for abstracts: July 1st, 2014. Submission per e-mail to christian.fuchs at uti.at Abstracts should be written in a word processor, have 250-500 words, and contain title, author name(s), email address(es), institutional affiliations, the suggested presentation?s abstract. The world has experienced a global crisis of capitalism that started in 2008 and is continuing until now. It has been accompanied by a crisis of the state and a general crisis of legitimation of dominant ideologies such as neoliberalism. Responses to the crisis have been variegated and have included austerity measures of the state that have hit the weakest, an increased presence of progressive protests, revolutions and strikes that have made use of digital, social and traditional media in various ways, the rise of far-right movements and parties in many parts of Europe and other parts of the world, the Greek state?s closing down of public service broadcaster ERT and increased commercial pressure on public service broadcasting in general, new debates about how to strengthen public service media, increased socio-economic and class inequality in many parts of the world and at a global level, precarious forms of work in general and in the media and cultural industries in particular, the emergence of new media reform movements, an extension and intensification of the crisis of newspapers and the print media, an increasing shift of advertising budgets to targeted ads on the Internet and along with this development the rise of commercial ?social media? platforms, Edward Snowden?s revelations about the existence of a global surveillance-industrial complex that operates a communications surveillance system called ?Prism? that involves the NSA and media companies such as Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Yahoo!, AOL, Skype, Apple and Paltalk; discussions about the power and freedom of the press in light of the Levenson inquiry, shifting geographies of the political and media landscape that have to do with the economic rise of countries such as China and India. Given this context, the main questions that ESA RN18?s 2014 conference asks and to which it invites contributions are: How has the crisis affected the media and communication landscape in Europe and globally and what perspectives for the future of media and communications are there? What suggestions for media reforms are there? How feasible are they? What kind of media policies and reforms do we need today? Which ones should be avoided? Are we in this context likely to experience a renewal of neoliberalism or something different? Plenary sessions: 1) Keynote Talk: Prof. Peter Ludes (Jacobs University Bremen, Germany): Wanted: Critical Visual Theories! 2) Special Session: Public Media and Alternative Journalism in Romania With Dr. Raluca Petre (?Ovidius? University Constanta, Romania): On the Distinction between State and Public Media: Re-Centering Public Options; Dr. Antonio Momoc (University of Bucharest, Romania): Alternative Media as Public Service Journalism; Costi Rogozanu (journalist and media activist, criticatac.ro) ? Is Alternative Media an Alternative? Call for Papers ESA RN18 welcomes submissions of abstracts for contributions. Questions that can for example be addressed include, but are not limited to the following ones: * Media and capitalism: How have capitalism and the media changed in recent years? Are there perspectives beyond capitalism and capitalist media? How can we best use critical/Marxist political economy and other critical approaches for understanding the media and capitalism today? What is the role of media and communication technologies in the financialization, acceleration, and globalization of the capitalist economy? What are the conditions of working in the media, cultural and communication industries in the contemporary times? What is the role of Marx today for understanding crisis, change, capitalism, communication, and critique? * Media reform and media policy in times of crisis: How do the media need to be reformed and changed in order to contribute to the emergence of a good society? Which media reform movements are there and what are their goals? What have been policy ideas of how to overcome the crisis and deal with contemporary changes in relation to European media and communication industries? What can we learn from recent discussions about the media?s power and freedom, such as the Leveson inquiry? What are implications for media reforms? * Media and the public sphere: How should the concept of the public sphere best be conceived today and how does it relate to the media? How has the public sphere changed during the crisis in Europe and globally? What has been the relation between public and commercial broadcasting during and after the crisis? How have public service media changed, which threats and opportunities does it face? How can/should public service be renewed in the light of crisis, the Internet, and commercialisation? Can public service be extended from broadcasting to the online realm, digital and social media? What has been the role of public service media in Europe? How has this role transformed? * Media and activism: How can media scholars best cooperate with activists in order to contribute to a better media system and a better society? What are major trends in media activism today and how do activists use and confront the media and how do commercial, public and alternative media relate to contemporary social movements? What have been important experiences of media activists and media reform organisations in the past couple of years? What are the opportunities, risks, limits and possibilities of media activism today? For answering these questions, we also invite contributions and submissions by media activists, who want to talk about and share their experiences. * Media ownership: Who owns the media and ICTs? What are peculiar characteristics of knowledge and the media as property? What conflicts and contradictions are associated with it and how have they developed in times of crisis? How concentrated are the media and ICTs and how has this concentration changed since the start of the 2008 crisis? How has media and ICT ownership, convergence, de-convergence and concentration developed since the start of the 2008 crisis? What reforms of media and ICT ownership are needed in light of the crisis of capitalism and the crisis of intellectual property rights? * Media and crisis: What have been the main consequences of the crisis for media and communication in various parts of the world and Europe from a comparative perspective? What role have the media played in the construction of the crisis? How have the media conveyed the social and economic crises of recent years to citizens and what are the consequences of this flow of ideas and explanations? What role can they play in overcoming the crisis? What is the relationship of the media and class during and after the crisis? What role have ideologies (such as racism, right-wing extremism, fascism, neoliberalism, anti-Semitism, etc) played in the media during the crisis and what can we learn from it for reforming the media? How have audiences interpreted media contents that focus on austerity, crisis, neoliberalism, protests, revolutions, or media reforms? * The globalisation of the media and society: What are major trends in the globalisation of capitalism, society and the media? Given the globalisation of media and society, what are challenges for media and society today? What can we learn from non-Western media scholars and media cultures outside of Europe? Are concepts such as cultural/media imperialism, transnational cultural domination or the new imperialism feasible today and if so, in which ways? * Digital and social media: What is digital labour and how has class changed in the context of social and digital media? What is the connection of value creation, knowledge labour and digital labour? How do the global dimension and the global division of digital labour look like, especially in respect to China, India, Asia and Africa? How do new forms of exploitation and unremunerated labour (?free labour?, ?crowdsourcing?) look like in the media sector (e.g. in the context of Internet platforms such as Facebook or Google)? What is the relationship of the commons and commodification on digital and social media? How do capital accumulation and targeted advertising work on social media and what are their implications for users and citizens? What are alternatives to capitalist digital and social media? How can alternative social and digital media best look like and be organized? What can in this context be the roles of the digital commons, civil society media and public service media? Which ideologies of the Internet and social media are there? How can we best understand the surveillance-industrial Internet complex operated by the NSA together with Internet corporations such as Google and Facebook and what are the implications of Edward Snowden?s revelations? How do power and political economy work in the context of platforms such as Google, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, WikiLeaks, Wikipedia, Weibo, LinkedIn, Blogspot/Blogger, Wordpress, VK, Pinterest, Tumblr, Instagram, etc? * Media and Critical Social Theory: What can we learn and use from critical sociology and the sociology of critique when studying the media? What do critique and critical theory mean in contemporary times? What are critical sociology and the sociology of critique and what are its roles for studying media and communication?s role in society? Which social theories do we need today for adequately understanding media & society in a critical way? What is the role of political economy and Marx?s theory for understanding media & society today? * Communication and (Post-)Crisis: How has the crisis affected the communication landscape in Europe and globally and what perspectives for the future are there? How do the working conditions in communication industries look like after the crisis? What are the challenges for communication industries in the near future in the context of the crisis and post-crisis? What is the role of post-crisis-communication industries in a globalised economy? From christian.fuchs at uti.at Mon Feb 17 06:28:02 2014 From: christian.fuchs at uti.at (Christian Fuchs) Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2014 14:28:02 +0000 Subject: [Air-L] "Media and Communication in and after the Global Capitalist Crisis": ESA RN18 2014 Conference Call Message-ID: <53021C72.1080303@uti.at> Media and Communication in and after the Global Capitalist Crisis: Renewal, Reform or Revolution? ESA RN18 Mid-Term Conference 2014 University of Bucharest, Romania October 17-18, 2014 Full Call Text and additional information: http://fuchs.uti.at/wp-content/RN18_2014.pdf Call for Participation and Abstracts European Sociological Association, Research Network 18: Sociology of Communications and Media Research http://www.europeansociology.org/research-networks/rn18-sociology-of-communications-and-media-research.html Submission deadline for abstracts: July 1st, 2014. Submission per e-mail to christian.fuchs at uti.at Abstracts should be written in a word processor, have 250-500 words, and contain title, author name(s), email address(es), institutional affiliations, the suggested presentation?s abstract. The world has experienced a global crisis of capitalism that started in 2008 and is continuing until now. It has been accompanied by a crisis of the state and a general crisis of legitimation of dominant ideologies such as neoliberalism. Responses to the crisis have been variegated and have included austerity measures of the state that have hit the weakest, an increased presence of progressive protests, revolutions and strikes that have made use of digital, social and traditional media in various ways, the rise of far-right movements and parties in many parts of Europe and other parts of the world, the Greek state?s closing down of public service broadcaster ERT and increased commercial pressure on public service broadcasting in general, new debates about how to strengthen public service media, increased socio-economic and class inequality in many parts of the world and at a global level, precarious forms of work in general and in the media and cultural industries in particular, the emergence of new media reform movements, an extension and intensification of the crisis of newspapers and the print media, an increasing shift of advertising budgets to targeted ads on the Internet and along with this development the rise of commercial ?social media? platforms, Edward Snowden?s revelations about the existence of a global surveillance-industrial complex that operates a communications surveillance system called ?Prism? that involves the NSA and media companies such as Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Yahoo!, AOL, Skype, Apple and Paltalk; discussions about the power and freedom of the press in light of the Levenson inquiry, shifting geographies of the political and media landscape that have to do with the economic rise of countries such as China and India. Given this context, the main questions that ESA RN18?s 2014 conference asks and to which it invites contributions are: How has the crisis affected the media and communication landscape in Europe and globally and what perspectives for the future of media and communications are there? What suggestions for media reforms are there? How feasible are they? What kind of media policies and reforms do we need today? Which ones should be avoided? Are we in this context likely to experience a renewal of neoliberalism or something different? Plenary sessions: 1) Keynote Talk: Prof. Peter Ludes (Jacobs University Bremen, Germany): Wanted: Critical Visual Theories! 2) Special Session: Public Media and Alternative Journalism in Romania With Dr. Raluca Petre (?Ovidius? University Constanta, Romania): On the Distinction between State and Public Media: Re-Centering Public Options; Dr. Antonio Momoc (University of Bucharest, Romania): Alternative Media as Public Service Journalism; Costi Rogozanu (journalist and media activist, criticatac.ro) ? Is Alternative Media an Alternative? Call for Papers ESA RN18 welcomes submissions of abstracts for contributions. Questions that can for example be addressed include, but are not limited to the following ones: * Media and capitalism: How have capitalism and the media changed in recent years? Are there perspectives beyond capitalism and capitalist media? How can we best use critical/Marxist political economy and other critical approaches for understanding the media and capitalism today? What is the role of media and communication technologies in the financialization, acceleration, and globalization of the capitalist economy? What are the conditions of working in the media, cultural and communication industries in the contemporary times? What is the role of Marx today for understanding crisis, change, capitalism, communication, and critique? * Media reform and media policy in times of crisis: How do the media need to be reformed and changed in order to contribute to the emergence of a good society? Which media reform movements are there and what are their goals? What have been policy ideas of how to overcome the crisis and deal with contemporary changes in relation to European media and communication industries? What can we learn from recent discussions about the media?s power and freedom, such as the Leveson inquiry? What are implications for media reforms? * Media and the public sphere: How should the concept of the public sphere best be conceived today and how does it relate to the media? How has the public sphere changed during the crisis in Europe and globally? What has been the relation between public and commercial broadcasting during and after the crisis? How have public service media changed, which threats and opportunities does it face? How can/should public service be renewed in the light of crisis, the Internet, and commercialisation? Can public service be extended from broadcasting to the online realm, digital and social media? What has been the role of public service media in Europe? How has this role transformed? * Media and activism: How can media scholars best cooperate with activists in order to contribute to a better media system and a better society? What are major trends in media activism today and how do activists use and confront the media and how do commercial, public and alternative media relate to contemporary social movements? What have been important experiences of media activists and media reform organisations in the past couple of years? What are the opportunities, risks, limits and possibilities of media activism today? For answering these questions, we also invite contributions and submissions by media activists, who want to talk about and share their experiences. * Media ownership: Who owns the media and ICTs? What are peculiar characteristics of knowledge and the media as property? What conflicts and contradictions are associated with it and how have they developed in times of crisis? How concentrated are the media and ICTs and how has this concentration changed since the start of the 2008 crisis? How has media and ICT ownership, convergence, de-convergence and concentration developed since the start of the 2008 crisis? What reforms of media and ICT ownership are needed in light of the crisis of capitalism and the crisis of intellectual property rights? * Media and crisis: What have been the main consequences of the crisis for media and communication in various parts of the world and Europe from a comparative perspective? What role have the media played in the construction of the crisis? How have the media conveyed the social and economic crises of recent years to citizens and what are the consequences of this flow of ideas and explanations? What role can they play in overcoming the crisis? What is the relationship of the media and class during and after the crisis? What role have ideologies (such as racism, right-wing extremism, fascism, neoliberalism, anti-Semitism, etc) played in the media during the crisis and what can we learn from it for reforming the media? How have audiences interpreted media contents that focus on austerity, crisis, neoliberalism, protests, revolutions, or media reforms? * The globalisation of the media and society: What are major trends in the globalisation of capitalism, society and the media? Given the globalisation of media and society, what are challenges for media and society today? What can we learn from non-Western media scholars and media cultures outside of Europe? Are concepts such as cultural/media imperialism, transnational cultural domination or the new imperialism feasible today and if so, in which ways? * Digital and social media: What is digital labour and how has class changed in the context of social and digital media? What is the connection of value creation, knowledge labour and digital labour? How do the global dimension and the global division of digital labour look like, especially in respect to China, India, Asia and Africa? How do new forms of exploitation and unremunerated labour (?free labour?, ?crowdsourcing?) look like in the media sector (e.g. in the context of Internet platforms such as Facebook or Google)? What is the relationship of the commons and commodification on digital and social media? How do capital accumulation and targeted advertising work on social media and what are their implications for users and citizens? What are alternatives to capitalist digital and social media? How can alternative social and digital media best look like and be organized? What can in this context be the roles of the digital commons, civil society media and public service media? Which ideologies of the Internet and social media are there? How can we best understand the surveillance-industrial Internet complex operated by the NSA together with Internet corporations such as Google and Facebook and what are the implications of Edward Snowden?s revelations? How do power and political economy work in the context of platforms such as Google, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, WikiLeaks, Wikipedia, Weibo, LinkedIn, Blogspot/Blogger, Wordpress, VK, Pinterest, Tumblr, Instagram, etc? * Media and Critical Social Theory: What can we learn and use from critical sociology and the sociology of critique when studying the media? What do critique and critical theory mean in contemporary times? What are critical sociology and the sociology of critique and what are its roles for studying media and communication?s role in society? Which social theories do we need today for adequately understanding media & society in a critical way? What is the role of political economy and Marx?s theory for understanding media & society today? * Communication and (Post-)Crisis: How has the crisis affected the communication landscape in Europe and globally and what perspectives for the future are there? How do the working conditions in communication industries look like after the crisis? What are the challenges for communication industries in the near future in the context of the crisis and post-crisis? What is the role of post-crisis-communication industries in a globalised economy? From mariarosariataddeo at gmail.com Mon Feb 17 07:54:30 2014 From: mariarosariataddeo at gmail.com (Mariariosaria Taddeo) Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2014 15:54:30 +0000 Subject: [Air-L] workshop on ethics of cyber activism at the University of Warwick Message-ID: <7ED58C84-6774-4F85-A047-65EF850F4540@gmail.com> Apologies for cross-posting The ethics of cyber-activism Cyber activism or Hacktivism is an emerging phenomenon, which has recently become more prominent thanks to the actions of a group called Anonymous. In brief, cyber-activism is an evolution of hacking activities motivated by political and ethical reasons directed at both public institutions and private citizens and which rests on the perception of the cyberspace as a digital commons that should be freely and equally enjoyed by all individuals. Issues pertaining to cyber activism have been observed and analysed by several scholars over the past decade. However, cyber activism is now becoming a concerning phenomenon mainly thanks to the actions of Anonymous. This is a highly distributed group famously identified by Guy Fawkes mask, which since 2008 has become a symbol of the movement and of the fight against power and authorities that Anonymous' members claim to conduct. Members of this group launched in the past several 'operations' targeting both individuals who had allegedly committed immoral acts and commercial or public websites as in the case of Operation Payback or in the attack launched against Scientology with the so called Project Chanology. The growth of Anonymous and, more in general, the dissemination of the use of the cyber sphere as a new medium to foster activism poses several questions at the crossroad between social and political sciences and ethics. Programme: Time Speaker Topic 10:00 Opening remarks 10:15 ? 10:45 Lee Salter (University of Sussex) Media Understandings of Cyberactivism: Ethics and power in public discourse 10:45 ? 11:00 Coffee 11:00 ? 11:30 Keren Elazari Unmasking Anonymous ? the Global hacker movement 11:30 ? 12:00 George Lucas (US Naval University) Three ways of being a Cyber Hacktivist 12:00 ? 12:30 Stefania Milan (European Institute) Ethics of technology and ethics of organising: the Cyberactivists? struggle for moral values in cyberspace 12:30 ? 13:00 Timothy Jordan (KCL) Generations of Hacktivism 13:00 ? 14:30 Lunch 14:30 ? 15:00 Llouis Reynolds (DEMOS) Service Generation: a step change in youth social action 15:00 ? 15:30 Simon Lindgren (Umea University, Sweden) Global media, Local movements: The role of local context in social media mobilisation 15:30 ? 16:00 Pollyanna Ruiz (LSE) Activism, Anonymity, Accountability 16:00 ? 16:30 Coffee 16:30 ? 17:00 Carolyn Gideon Spill over Effects of Cyber Activism and Policy Implications 17:00 ? 17:30 Round table Location: Building 28 (See below) Where is the International Manufacturing Laboratory? Further information: For further information, please see the website:http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/pais/research/ierg/cyberethics or contact Dr. Mariarosaria Taddeo (M.Taddeo at warwick.ac.uk) If you would like to attend this workshop, please email Mrs. Shona Parsons s.m.parsons at warwick.ac.uk -- Dr. Mariarosaria Taddeo Research Fellow in Cyber Security and Ethics, PAIS, University of Warwick Research Associate - Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, University of Oxford President, International Association for Computing and Philosophy http://rosariataddeo.net From knut.lundby at media.uio.no Mon Feb 17 09:29:32 2014 From: knut.lundby at media.uio.no (Knut Lundby) Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2014 18:29:32 +0100 Subject: [Air-L] Reminder: PhD-course on Mediatization in Oslo Message-ID: <1AD3DB62-0D41-41F8-A08B-D42B0268216A@media.uio.no> Reminder: INVITATION TO PhD-COURSE OM "MEDIATIZATION" AT THE UNIVERSITY OF OSLO ?Mediatization? has become a key term in contemporary media and communication studies. PhD-students are invited to a two days PdD-seminar on "Mediatization" 20-21 March 2014 at the Department of Media and Communication, University of Oslo. The course is free of charge but participants need to cover their own travel and stay in Oslo. Please see: http://www.hf.uio.no/imk/forskning/aktuelt/arrangementer/phd/2014/seminar-mediatization.html The course is directed by Professor Knut Lundby, supported by Dr. Sigrid Kannengiesser from University of Bremen. Expressions of Interest should be stated no later than 28 February to . See details under the above link. Regards, Knut Lundby _________________________________ KNUT LUNDBY. Professor Department of Media and Communication University of Oslo - www.media.uio.no From loriken at illinois.edu Mon Feb 17 10:17:12 2014 From: loriken at illinois.edu (Kendall, Lori) Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2014 18:17:12 +0000 Subject: [Air-L] Join us This Year in Bangkok! Submit Your Proposals for IR15 Message-ID: <72A7C5438AAF2B4382455117C749427D2A600420@CITESMBX1.ad.uillinois.edu> Just a quick reminder that submissions are due March 1 for IR 15: Boundaries and Intersections, the 2014 conference of the Association of Internet Researchers.* This deadline includes proposals for ignites, pre-conference workshops, and our new experimental category. Come join us in Bangkok in October! You can find the Call for Proposals here: http://ir15.aoir.org/?page_id=19, and the submission site here: https://www.conftool.com/aoir-ir15/index.php?page=login. Some quick notes about submitting through the ConfTool system: Your proposal of any type must include a short abstract (exact word count depends on submission type) which will appear in the program. Thereafter, for paper and panel proposals, you need to upload your 1000-1200 page proposal. In order to upload your proposals for these submission types, once the first page is complete, please scroll down to the bottom of the page and click the Proceed button. This will bring you to a second page to upload your full proposal. These proposals are also due March 1. Only after you do both steps is your submission complete. If you have any other questions feel free to contact the program chair Erika Pearson at ir15programchair at aoir.org or the association coordinator at ac at aoir.org We look forward to seeing you all in Bangkok! Lori Kendall President, AoIR *Note: The deadline appears as March 2 in ConfTool in order to allow people from various different time zones to make their submissions in a timely fashion. Please make a note of the relationship of the ConfTool deadline to your local time and make your submissions as early as possible. From difusion at medialab-prado.es Mon Feb 17 10:20:53 2014 From: difusion at medialab-prado.es (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Medialab-Prado_Comunicaci=F3n?=) Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2014 19:20:53 +0100 Subject: [Air-L] Open Call for Capsules. 1st Design and Digital Culture Conference Message-ID: <53025305.4080704@medialab-prado.es> *MEDIALAB-PRADO* *Plaza**de las Letras** **Calle Ala**meda, 15** **28014 Madrid T. 912 191 157** ****www.medialab-prado.es** ****Entrada gratuita* ** #edcd. Open Call for Capsules. 1st Design and Digital Culture Conference Open call for the submission of "capsules" or short talk on projects or experiences on design and digital culture within the context of the *#ecdc. 1st Design and Digital Culture Conference* event that takes place on April 8 and 9, 2014. The experience or project submited as a Capsule should contain creative elements related to technology and digital culture, such as its use, the development of technological languages, or the influence of digital culture in its creation. Deadline for submissions: March 7, 2014 More information and submissions: http://medialab-prado.es/article/capsulasedcd * http://medialab-prado.es* From ajk407 at nyu.edu Mon Feb 17 11:19:50 2014 From: ajk407 at nyu.edu (AJ Kelton) Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2014 14:19:50 -0500 Subject: [Air-L] #ELD14 Call for Proposals Closing Message-ID: The #ELD14 Program Committee has now caught up with the many wonderful submissions we received and the call for proposals for #ELD14 will officially close for NEW submissions on Friday, February 14th. http://eld.montclair.edu/eld14-call-for-proposals/ If you have previously submitted something and are in the process of revising it, please continue that process. The C4P will close on Wednesday ONLY to NEW proposals. But if you are revising something, please do not wait very long as revised submissions will only be accepted until the program is full. If you have any questions, please email them to eld at mail.montclair.edu. p.s. - as a reminder, registration is currently open with rates starting at only $95, but there are only a limited number of registrations left at that price. http://eld.montclair.edu/registration/ -- ----- AJ Kelton Director of Emerging & Instructional Technology College of Humanities and Social Sciences - Montclair State University Doctoral Candidate Educational Communication and Technology - New York University ---------- Emerging Learning Design 2014 http://eld.montclair.edu Twitter: @ELDConf ---------- http://www.ajkelton.net Twitter: @aj_kelton From krguidry at mistakengoal.com Mon Feb 17 11:29:42 2014 From: krguidry at mistakengoal.com (krguidry at mistakengoal.com) Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2014 14:29:42 -0500 Subject: [Air-L] Polite plea for abbreviation and initialism expansion Message-ID: <1616b1692b4977adbfc8c067c5da1621@mistakengoal.com> Colleagues, Maybe I'm the only one who gets confused or lost but it would be very helpful if you could please spell out abbreviations and initialisms in your messages. This appears to be a very interdisciplinary group so I am guessing that others might also appreciate this effort to be welcoming and inclusive of everyone. Thanks so much! Kevin From mfa13 at sfu.ca Mon Feb 17 13:38:18 2014 From: mfa13 at sfu.ca (Michael Filimowicz) Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2014 13:38:18 -0800 (PST) Subject: [Air-L] Call for Papers and Conference Presentations In-Reply-To: <1866100589.7420453.1392672710479.JavaMail.root@sfu.ca> Message-ID: <1349816660.7444344.1392673098964.JavaMail.root@sfu.ca> Call for Papers & Conference Presentations: CINESONIKA 4 ? The Fourth International Conference & Festival of the Soundtrack Venue: Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, British Columbia Dates: July 8-10th, 2014 Keynote Speaker: Amy Herzog (Queens College, CUNY) author of 'Dreams of Difference, Songs of the Same: The Musical Moment in Film' and co-editor of 'The Oxford Handbook of Sound and Image in Digital Media' We are seeking multi-disciplinary contributions on sound in relation to the moving image. Media thinkers, film scholars, art historians, performance theorists, composers, filmmakers, sound practitioners, multimedia semioticians, philosophers of perception ? we invite these and others to submit proposals for 20 minute panel presentations. All accepted presentations will be considered for inclusion in The Soundtrack academic journal if expanded into papers and submitted for peer review (1000-3000 words for short articles, 5000-6000 words for long papers). Submitting to the Conference: Please write "Cinesonika 4 Abstract" in the subject heading. Deadline for Abstracts (under 500 words): June 1 2014 Please submit your abstract and short bio both as an attachment (.doc or .pdf) and also pasted into the body of your email submission, to submit at cinesonika.com LINK: http://www.cinesonika.com From fred at firesabre.com Mon Feb 17 15:48:11 2014 From: fred at firesabre.com (Fred Fuchs) Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2014 17:48:11 -0600 Subject: [Air-L] to add participants to your SNSs or not? In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <53029FBB.5010408@firesabre.com> On 2/16/2014 2:25 PM, Jordan Kraemer wrote: > Some people might find it odd or suspicious to add someone who has no or few contacts, but on the other hand, it helps clearly demarcate the researcher as a researcher. Another consideration if you do create separate profiles is how will you manage your personal accounts -- will you just stay logged in to your research accounts, or will you switch back and forth? > One solution is to use different web browsers for your research and personal accounts. That way one can leave both logged on if needed. Over time the two accounts may have very different sets of contacts. It's also important to be careful which account you're making a post too. The wrong sort of post could alienate research participants. Fred -- Fred Fuchs - Founder, CEO, & Producer FireSabre Consulting LLC Content Services for Virtual Worlds Creation, Events, Training, & Simulations www.linkedin.com/in/fredfuchs https://twitter.com/Fred_Fuchs --- This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus protection is active. http://www.avast.com From u.reips at ikerbasque.org Mon Feb 17 16:52:13 2014 From: u.reips at ikerbasque.org (Ulf-Dietrich Reips) Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2014 01:52:13 +0100 Subject: [Air-L] postdoc position In-Reply-To: <53029FBB.5010408@firesabre.com> References: <53029FBB.5010408@firesabre.com> Message-ID: Dear colleague, we are offering a postdoc position for one year to work with us on applications for Internet-based research and e-learning. The position requires teaching of two classes/semester on Psychological Research Methods. Please let me know ASAP if you are interested. Best wishes Ulf -- Prof. Dr. Ulf-Dietrich Reips Psychological Methods Department of Psychology Box 31 78457 Konstanz Germany http://iscience.uni-konstanz.de From tranth at leeds.ac.uk Tue Feb 18 07:15:07 2014 From: tranth at leeds.ac.uk (Nikolaos Thomopoulos) Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2014 15:15:07 +0000 Subject: [Air-L] Workshop invitation / CFA Message-ID: Dear Air-L members, this is a call for abstracts for a workshop which may be of interest to some of you. Apologies for cross-postings. You may find the RSA workshop invitation along with the Call For Abstracts (250w - deadline 15th March) at our blog: http://sgICTregion.wordpress.com Theme: Theory and practice of using ICT to facilitate smart and green regional development: best practice, evaluation and future challenges for multi-level governance. Venue: History Center, Thessaloniki, Greece Dates: 5th - 6th June 2014 This workshop is organised with the support of the Regional Studies Association and the ENDURANCE research project and is anticipated to generate interesting debates between academics and practitioners. We would be grateful if you would consider submitting an abstract or alternatively if you could forward this call to other contacts with relevant interest. Please do get in touch at sgICTregion at gmail.com in case you have any queries about this workshop. We look forward to welcoming you in Thessaloniki! Best regards Nikolas on behalf of the Organising Committee ______________________________________ Dr Nikolas Thomopoulos Researcher - Institute for Transport Studies University of Leeds QUEEN'S ANNIVERSARY PRIZE WINNERS - 'sustained transport excellence' www.its.leeds.ac.uk/queensprize From jstromer at syr.edu Tue Feb 18 12:01:25 2014 From: jstromer at syr.edu (Jennifer Stromer-Galley) Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2014 20:01:25 +0000 Subject: [Air-L] Feedback on the AoIR Website Desired! Message-ID: Hi everyone A sub-committee of the AoIR Executive Board is working to revamp the Association's website (www.aoir.org). We would love to get your thoughts on the website, whether you've visited it or not. So, take a few minutes to take the survey. Follow this link: https://syracuseuniversity.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_1UhJqsqjSB9Jm5f. It shouldn't take more than 10 minutes of your time, and it will really help us get a sense of how to improve the website. Any questions or concerns, give a shout! Your PR/Website Committee: Anthony Hoffman, Annette Markham, and Jenny Stromer-Galley Associate Professor | School of Information Studies Vice President | Association of Internet Researchers Syracuse University 220 Hinds Hall Syracuse, New York 13244 t 315.443.1823 f 315.443.5673 e jstromer at syr.edu w www.stromer-galley.com w www.aoir.org ischool.syr.edu From antoine.mazieres at gmail.com Wed Feb 19 02:32:34 2014 From: antoine.mazieres at gmail.com (Antoine Mazieres) Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2014 11:32:34 +0100 Subject: [Air-L] Agile/Extreme/Lean methods for academic research Message-ID: Dear all, Startups I've been enjoying quite a lot of literature on how to handle project, ideas, development, thinking, etc, with theories such as Extreme, Agile, Lean, etc. All dating of less than 10 years. I was looking around for similar literature on academic research and project, and couldn't find anything modern, socially-aware (eg. connected) and relevant, making links between doing, thinking, envisioning, writing and more. I am thinking of the project management, hardware/software/experimentation development needed in the research processes, refactoring of collaborative writings, project design, time management, etc. Does someone have seen some initiative, publication, blog about this topic ? Thanks ! Antoine Mazi?res http://mazier.es/ From karlamarx at gmail.com Wed Feb 19 04:52:36 2014 From: karlamarx at gmail.com (Helga Tawil Souri) Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2014 07:52:36 -0500 Subject: [Air-L] CFP - Handbook of Media and Culture in the Middle East Message-ID: *Call for Papers* *Handbook of Media and Culture in the Middle East* Editors : Gholam Khiabany, Tarik Sabry, *Helga Tawil*-Souri The aim of the *Handbook of Media and Culture in the Middle East* is to direct attention to the multivalent and multi-local characteristics of knowledge production, media, and culture in the region. It highlights the necessity, once again, of the need and the possibilities of going beyond the false binaries, and of speaking with a 'third voice'. It addresses key questions such as: - Is Middle Eastern Media Studies a periphery or should it be regarded as part of a wider project of (social) science of society? - Does it have a particular hermeneutics? - How do we address the particularities of the region while also considering broader socio-cultural and media shifts? While challenging the provincialism of perceived 'universal' theory of media and society, this handbook also highlights the perceived 'alternative', i.e. militant particularism, which is just the flipside of the vacuous universalism it deplores, rather than a genuine alternative to it. The handbook will articulate the questions of media and culture in the Middle East beyond the limitations of presentism by focusing on the symbiotic relationship that exists between both old and new media. It also promises to highlight the role (and meaning) of culture as a dynamic site of struggle and contestation. The handbook is also an attempt to test some prevailing approaches regarding the role of empire, among other exogenous and endogenous factors, and its consequences for culture and politics. The handbook takes an interdisciplinary approach to media and culture in the Middle East and brings together internationally recognised scholars from around the world. The more recent revolutionary fervour in the Arab World has further brought the region into the attention of the world like never before. However, while this collection will certainly be an attempt at 'catching history on the wing', to quote Benjamin, we are seeking contributions, from various disciplines, that advance our understandings of the past and present and the struggle for the future of media and cultural resources, forms of organisations and expressions, as well as production, distribution, and consumption. This volume will be published by Blackwell as part of the prestigious series The Global Handbooks in Media and Communication Research, designed to define an intellectual terrain: its historic emergence; its key theoretical paradigms; its transnational evolution, its key empirical research and possible future directions. For more information and examples of the series see: http://eu.wiley.com/WileyCDA/Section/id-410903.html Submissions will be assessed for their scholarly merit and the extent to which they contribute to our greater understanding of the mediated cultures in the Middle East. Contributors should limit their articles to between 6000 and 8000 words (including references). *Abstracts (250 words) are due by 28 March 2014.* *Upon acceptance, full articles will be due by 20 October 2014.* For further information about the handbook, or to submit your abstract, please contact the editors: Gholam Khiabany, Goldsmiths, University of London (g.khiabany at gold.ac.uk) Tarik Sabry, University of Westminster (Sabryt at westminster.ac.uk) Helga Tawil-Souri, New York University (helga at nyu.edu) -- From jhunsinger at wlu.ca Wed Feb 19 05:34:30 2014 From: jhunsinger at wlu.ca (Jeremy hunsinger) Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2014 08:34:30 -0500 Subject: [Air-L] Agile/Extreme/Lean methods for academic research In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: On Google Groups there is a dated, but still insightful group called 'efficient academics' that is pretty good. From jhunsinger at wlu.ca Wed Feb 19 05:51:26 2014 From: jhunsinger at wlu.ca (Jeremy hunsinger) Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2014 08:51:26 -0500 Subject: [Air-L] Call for Abstracts for Chapters Vol.2 International Handbook of Internet Research Message-ID: Call for Abstracts for Chapters Volume 2 of the International Handbook of Internet Research (editors Jeremy Hunsinger, Lisbeth Klastrup, and Matthew Allen) Abstracts due June 1 2014; full chapters due Sept. 1 2015 After the remarkable success of the first International Handbook of Internet Research (2010), Springer has contracted with its editors to produce a second volume. This new volume will be arranged in three sections, that address one of three different aspects of internet research: foundations, futures, and critiques. Each of these meta-themes will have its own section of the new handbook. Foundations will approach a method, a theory, a perspective, a topic or field that has been and is still a location of significant internet research. These chapters will engage with the current and historical scholarly literature through extended reviews and also as a way of developing insights into the internet and internet research. Futures will engage with the directions the field of internet research might take over the next five years. These chapters will engage current methods, topics, perspectives, or fields that will expand and re-invent the field of internet research, particularly in light of emerging social and technological trends. The material for these chapters will define the topic they describe within the framework of internet research so that it can be understand as a place of future inquiry. Critique chapters will define and develop critical positions in the field of internet research. They can engage a theoretical perspective, a methodological perspective, a historical trend or topic in internet research and provide a critical perspective. These chapters might also define one type of critical perspective, tradition, or field in the field of internet research. We value the way in which this call for papers will itself shape the contents, themes, and coverage of the Handbook. We encourage potential authors to present abstracts that will consolidate current internet research, critically analyse its directions past and future, and re-invent the field for the decade to come. Contributions about the internet and internet research are sought from scholars in any discipline, and from many points of view. We therefore invite internet researchers working within the fields of communication, culture, politics, sociology, law and privacy, aesthetics, games and play, surveillance and mobility, amongst others, to consider contributing to the volume. Initially, we ask scholars and researchers to submit an 500 word abstract detailing their own chapter for one of the three sections outlined above. The abstract must follow the format presented below. After the initial round of submissions, there may be a further call for papers and/or approaches to individuals to complete the volume. The final chapters will be chosen from the submitted abstracts by the editors or invited by the editors. The chapter writers will be notified of acceptance by January 1st, 2015. The chapters will be due September 2015, should be between 6,000 and 10,000 words (inclusive of references, biographical statement and all other text). Each abstract needs to be presented in the following form: ? Section (Either Foundations, Futures, or Critiques) ? Title of chapter ? Author name/s, institutional details ? Corresponding author's email address ? Keywords (no more than 5) ? Abstract (no more than 500 words) ? References Please e-mail your abstract/s to: internet.research.handbook at gmail.com We look forward to your submissions and working with you to produce another definitive collection of thought-provoking internet research. Please feel free to distribute this CfP widely. Thank you Jeremy, Lisbeth, and Matt From joseph.2011 at reagle.org Wed Feb 19 06:13:05 2014 From: joseph.2011 at reagle.org (Joseph Reagle) Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2014 09:13:05 -0500 Subject: [Air-L] Agile/Extreme/Lean methods for academic research In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <5304BBF1.80301@reagle.org> On 02/19/2014 05:32 AM, Antoine Mazieres wrote: > Does someone have seen some initiative, publication, blog about this topic ? I recommend . From dittrich at apl.washington.edu Wed Feb 19 09:49:57 2014 From: dittrich at apl.washington.edu (Dave Dittrich) Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2014 09:49:57 -0800 Subject: [Air-L] Agile/Extreme/Lean methods for academic research In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <5304EEC5.9080903@apl.washington.edu> On 2/19/14 2:32 AM, Antoine Mazieres wrote: > I am thinking of .. software/experimentation > development needed in the research processes, refactoring of collaborative > writings... http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3639880/ -- Dave Dittrich dittrich at u.washington.edu http://staff.washington.edu/dittrich PGP key: http://staff.washington.edu/dittrich/pgpkey.txt Fingerprint: 097B 4DCB BF16 E1D8 A06C 7512 A751 C80A D15E E079 From keckert at umd.edu Wed Feb 19 13:04:00 2014 From: keckert at umd.edu (Kristin Dagmar Eckert) Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2014 21:04:00 +0000 Subject: [Air-L] Studies on blogs in US, UK, Germany and Switzerland on how much bloggers make from their blogs Message-ID: <0A6BAADED9DB714B8885DC08221E3B9F0A59D284@OITMX1006.AD.UMD.EDU> Hi everyone I am searching for studies, articles and information on how many bloggers get how much income from their blogs in the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany and Switzerland each. I looked around and found some indications in news media articles but not studies. I was wondering if studies on the issue in any of the four countries exist (ideally also with gendered data). I have indications in my dissertation project on a large quantity of commercial blogs in the U.S. and the U.K. and would like to put that into context of previous research. In Germany and Switzerland my interview participants indicated commercial blogs and income from blogs is rare, equally I would like to back that up with studies/articles/information on the matter. I am grateful for any links and hints. Thank you very much. Best, Stine Stine Eckert Ph.D. Candidate Philip Merrill College of Journalism University of Maryland 2100N Knight Hall www.stineeckert.com @stineeckert From joomen at beeldengeluid.nl Wed Feb 19 13:06:16 2014 From: joomen at beeldengeluid.nl (Johan Oomen) Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2014 22:06:16 +0100 Subject: [Air-L] CFP: Second International Workshop on Linked Media (LiME 2014) Message-ID: <0519746E-9EB7-4E8F-859F-F4C86B39F95E@beeldengeluid.nl> =================================================================== CFP: Second International Workshop on Linked Media (LiME 2014) http://www.linkedtv.eu/event/LiME2014/ =================================================================== The workshop is co-located with the ESWC 2014 conference held in Heraklion, Greece on 25-29 May 2014. *Deadlines*: - Submission deadline: March 6, 2014, 23:59PM Hawaii Time - Notifications: April 1, 2014, 23:59PM Hawaii Time - Camera ready version: April 15, 2014, 23:59PM Hawaii Time Goals of the workshop: If the future Web will be able to fully use the scale and quality of online media, a Web scale layer of structured and semantic media annotation is needed, which we call *Linked Media*. Drawing on the success of the Linked Data movement, we believe annotation of media using Linked Data concepts can be the basis for Web-wide media interlinking based on concept matching and relationships. This 2nd international workshop on Linked Media (LiME'2014), building on last year's successful event held at WWW 2013, aims at promoting the principles of Linked Media on the Web by gathering semantic multimedia and Linked Data researchers to exchange current research and development work on creating conceptual descriptions of media items, multimedia metadata publication on the Web, and its semantic processing, particular based on Linked Data approaches to concept matching and relationships. Specifically, we aim to build a research community to promote a future Web where automated multimedia analysis results can be used as a basis to integrate Linked Data-based conceptual annotations into structured media descriptions, which can be published and shared online. When media descriptions are more easily findable and processable, new applications and services can be created in which online media is more easily shared, retrieved, re-used and re-purposed. This will offer a wide range of possibilities for various stakeholders in the creative industries. Workshop topics and themes: To push further the evolution of the Rich Media Web, and to facilitate its convergence with the Semantic Web, it is essential to establish consensus on online media annotation standards, the use of semantics in describing what media represents, and demonstrate approaches to leverage such structured and semantic media descriptions in Web applications. While non-textual content is often now the first destination of online agents rather than HTML/textual resources, and thus access to structured annotation of the online media is increasingly important for new Web applications capable of media search, retrieval, adaptation and presentation, the online media annotation space is still limited, fragmented and lacking in consensus for building Web tools and interfaces to support it. LiME'2014 focuses on identifying the key building blocks required to foster the development of new Web tools and interfaces that will support the growth and re-use of Linked Media, which is inspired by the Linked Data movement for making structured descriptions of resources more easily available online. The workshop topics include, but are not limited to: * Approaches to online media descriptions - Tools and approaches aligning the fragmented approaches to online media description, its processing and publication, e.g. based around Linked Data, W3C Media Ontology and Media Fragments URI. - Tools and approaches to search and retrieval of online media based on its structured description, scaling to the Web - Tools and approaches addressing issues of trust, quality and rights of online media * Extracting and linking - Tools and approaches to lower the cost of creating structured descriptions of online media resources - New methods of automatic, real time, metadata extraction of any online media content (including live streams) - Ideas how to incorporate Linked Data into media description (and benefit from the additional metadata of the Linked Data cloud) - New methods for automatically assessing the suitability of (non-trusted) content for interweaving (e.g. violence detection, nudity detection), and publishing such assessments * Showcases, business models and assessment - New Web applications making use of Linked Media (across different platforms) including evaluation with end-users and/or suitable business models - Approaches to tracking user interaction with media (and exploiting this knowledge to enrich annotations) The workshop is sponsored by the EU projects LinkedTV (http://www.linkedtv.eu) and MICO (http://www.mico-project.eu/) as well as the large open source community around Apache Stanbol (http://stanbol.apache.org/) & Apache Marmotta (http://marmotta.apache.org/). Submission: Submissions should not exceed 12 pages and are to be formatted according to Springer LNCS guidelines (http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-7-72376-0) and submitted to https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lime2014. Papers should be submitted in PDF format. We encourage various types of submission: - full papers (max 12 pages) for mature work which has been subject to evaluation - demo submissions (max 5 pages) for demos, software and platforms which may be able to support a part of the Linked Media ecosystem The workshop proceedings will be published online through CEUR-WS. A selection of the best papers from the workshop will also appear in an LNCS companion volume of ESWC 2014. Programme Committee: - Lora Aroyo, VU University, NL - Olivier Aubert, University of Nantes, FR - Marco Bertini, University di Firenze, IT - Werner Bailer, Joanneum, AT - Dan Brickley, Google Inc., UK - Tobias B?rger, Payback GmbH, AT - Pierre-Antoine Champin, University Lyon 1, FR - Paolo Ciccarese, Massachusetts General Hospital Biomedical Informatics Core, USA - Davy Van Deursen, EVS, BE - Jean-Claude Dufourd, Telecom ParisTech, FR - Nikolaos Gkalelis, CERTH, GR - Lynda Hardman, CWI, NL - Michiel Hildebrand, CWI, NL - George Ioannidis, IN2, UK - Antoine Isaac, Europeana, NL - Ioannis Kompatsiaris, CERTH, GR - Tom Kurz, Salsbourg Research, AT - Yunjia Li, University of Southampton, UK - Vasileios Mezaris, CERTH, GR - Frank Nack, University of Amsterdam, NL - Silvia Pfeiffer, Vquence, AU - Yves Raimond, BBC, UK - Giuseppe Rizzo, University di Torino, IT - Harald Sack, University of Postdam, DE - Thomas Steiner, Google Inc., DE Organizers: - Lyndon Nixon, Modul University, AT - Rapha?l Troncy, EURECOM, FR - Erik Mannens, iMinds / University of Ghent, BE - Johan Oomen, Sound & Vision, NL - Florian Stegmaier, University of Passau, DE From jaroslaw.kopec at gmail.com Thu Feb 20 00:30:57 2014 From: jaroslaw.kopec at gmail.com (=?utf-8?Q?Jaros=C5=82aw_Kope=C4=87?=) Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2014 09:30:57 +0100 Subject: [Air-L] Critical theory of gamification / Archaeology of gamification Message-ID: Dear All, I am preparing a seminar on critical theory of gamification. Right now I am mostly interested in archaeology of gamification, that is in looking for gamification?s prefigurations in tabletop and video games. I would very much appreciate some tips on readings from you. -- Jaros?aw Kope? Faculty of Liberal Arts University of Warsaw Poland From anders.lovlie at hig.no Thu Feb 20 01:40:03 2014 From: anders.lovlie at hig.no (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Anders_Sundnes_L=F8vlie?=) Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2014 10:40:03 +0100 Subject: [Air-L] Agile/Extreme/Lean methods for academic researc In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <5305CD73.6020708@hig.no> I sketched a model for "Agile Media Design Research" in my PhD dissertation: http://folk.uio.no/anderssl/published/lovlie_phd.pdf This is in the context of humanities-based media research, so it is focused on design as a hermeneutic process that can inform research, not so much on project management. -- Anders Sundnes L?vlie Associate professor, Gj?vik University College english.hig.no On 20.02.14 00:00, air-l-request at listserv.aoir.org wrote: > Message: 1 > Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2014 11:32:34 +0100 > From: Antoine Mazieres > To: "air-l at listserv.aoir.org" > Subject: [Air-L] Agile/Extreme/Lean methods for academic research > Message-ID: > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > Dear all, > > Startups I've been enjoying quite a lot of literature on how to handle > project, ideas, development, thinking, etc, with theories such as Extreme, > Agile, Lean, etc. All dating of less than 10 years. > > I was looking around for similar literature on academic research and > project, and couldn't find anything modern, socially-aware (eg. connected) > and relevant, making links between doing, thinking, envisioning, writing > and more. > > I am thinking of the project management, hardware/software/experimentation > development needed in the research processes, refactoring of collaborative > writings, project design, time management, etc. > > Does someone have seen some initiative, publication, blog about this topic ? > > Thanks ! > > Antoine Mazi?res > > http://mazier.es/ > From antoine.mazieres at gmail.com Thu Feb 20 02:46:11 2014 From: antoine.mazieres at gmail.com (Antoine Mazieres) Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2014 11:46:11 +0100 Subject: [Air-L] Agile/Extreme/Lean methods for academic research In-Reply-To: <5304EEC5.9080903@apl.washington.edu> References: <5304EEC5.9080903@apl.washington.edu> Message-ID: Oh ! very nice ! There is even a branching model for scientific collaboration : http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3639880/ (scigit-flow) Thanks ! Sum up of refs gathered here and there, for those interested : http://technocalifornia.blogspot.ch/2008/06/agile-research.html https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/17143/agile-extreme-lean-methods-for-academic-research https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/the-efficient-academic https://www.academia.edu/4191679/Innovation_Infrastructures_to_Transform_the_Mexican_Internet_Industry_The_Case_of_the_Startup_Community http://www.nmc.org/pdf/2014-horizon-he-preview.pdf http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3639880/ On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 6:49 PM, Dave Dittrich wrote: > On 2/19/14 2:32 AM, Antoine Mazieres wrote: > > I am thinking of .. software/experimentation > > development needed in the research processes, refactoring of > collaborative > > writings... > > http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3639880/ > > -- > Dave Dittrich > dittrich at u.washington.edu > http://staff.washington.edu/dittrich > > PGP key: http://staff.washington.edu/dittrich/pgpkey.txt > Fingerprint: 097B 4DCB BF16 E1D8 A06C 7512 A751 C80A D15E E079 > From sebastian.deterding at gmx.de Thu Feb 20 16:31:28 2014 From: sebastian.deterding at gmx.de (Sebastian Deterding) Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2014 19:31:28 -0500 Subject: [Air-L] Critical theory of gamification / Archaeology of, > gamification In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <53069E60.3070604@gmx.de> Dear Jaroslaw, I have a chapter in print that extensively traces the prehistory of gamification: Deterding, S. (in print): The Ambiguity of Games: Histories and Rhetorics of the Gameful World, in Walz, S. P. & Deterding, S. (eds.), The Gameful World: Approaches, Issues, Applications. Cambridge, MA, London: MIT Press. Email me for a copy. Best Sebastian > Message: 1 > Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2014 09:30:57 +0100 > From: Jaros?aw Kope? > To: air-l at listserv.aoir.org > Subject: [Air-L] Critical theory of gamification / Archaeology of > gamification > Message-ID: > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > > Dear All, > > I am preparing a seminar on critical theory of gamification. Right now I am mostly interested in archaeology of gamification, that is in looking for gamification?s prefigurations in tabletop and video games. > > I would very much appreciate some tips on readings from you. > > -- > Jaros?aw Kope? > Faculty of Liberal Arts > University of Warsaw > Poland -- Cheers, Sebastian ------------------------------------------------------------- Sebastian Deterding | coding conduct Web: http://codingconduct.cc | Twitter: @dingstweets ------------------------------------------------------------- This email is [X] assumed public and may be forwarded, blogged, etc. [_] assumed to be private. Please ask before redistributing ------------------------------------------------------------- From sebastian.deterding at gmx.de Thu Feb 20 16:35:46 2014 From: sebastian.deterding at gmx.de (Sebastian Deterding) Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2014 19:35:46 -0500 Subject: [Air-L] Critical theory of gamification / Archaeology Message-ID: <53069F62.70406@gmx.de> Dear Jaroslaw, I have a chapter in print that extensively traces the prehistory of gamification: Deterding, S. (in print): The Ambiguity of Games: Histories and Rhetorics of the Gameful World, in Walz, S. P. & Deterding, S. (eds.), The Gameful World: Approaches, Issues, Applications. Cambridge, MA, London: MIT Press. Email me for a copy. Best Sebastian -- Cheers, Sebastian ------------------------------------------------------------- Sebastian Deterding | coding conduct Mail: sebastian at codingconduct.cc | Twitter: @dingstweets Web: http://codingconduct.cc | Skype: sebastiandeterding US mobile: +1 (585) 747-8616 | DE mobile: +49 15140030044 ------------------------------------------------------------- This email is [_] assumed public and may be forwarded, blogged, etc. [X] assumed to be private. Please ask before redistributing ------------------------------------------------------------- From explicit_corpse at hotmail.com Thu Feb 20 16:55:53 2014 From: explicit_corpse at hotmail.com (V. T.) Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2014 16:55:53 -0800 Subject: [Air-L] Critical theory of gamification / Archaeology of gamification In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: I would highly recommend Graeme Kirkpatrick's Computer Games and the Social Imaginary:http://ca.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-0745641105.html veronika tzankova From simone.heidbrink at zegk.uni-heidelberg.de Fri Feb 21 01:47:11 2014 From: simone.heidbrink at zegk.uni-heidelberg.de (Simone Heidbrink) Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2014 10:47:11 +0100 Subject: [Air-L] Special issue on "Religion in Digital Games" is online! Message-ID: <5307209F.8050707@zegk.uni-heidelberg.de> Dear all, The editors of "online - Heidelberg Journal of Religions on the Internet" (http://online.uni-hd.de) are pleased to announce the publication of the special issue "Religion in Digital Games" featuring a multitude of exciting scientific perspectives on videogames as new research focus in Cultural and Religious Studies by authors from many different disciplines. It includes articles on theory and method as well as case studies with a focus on both game content and the player. We hope the articles assembled in this issue will contribute to encouraging further academic debate on the topic of religion in digital games and help openig up the field for even more motivated and enthusiastic scholars and research projects. The journal is keen to collect high quality scholarship on issues relating to religions on the Internet and welcomes submissions pertaining to all aspects of theses matters anytime to be published in our next issue scheduled for fall 2014! Of course we will gladly consider the publication of further articles related to religion and video games as well as any other topic fitting the scope of the journal. Submissions and queries should be send to the following address: online.religion at zegk.uni-heidelberg.de Best regards Simone Heidbrink & Tobias Knoll (editors of the special issue) -- Simone Heidbrink, M.A. Institut f?r Religionswissenschaft Zentrum f?r Europ?ische Geschichts- und Kulturwissenschaften (ZEGK) Universit?t Heidelberg Akademiestr. 4-8 D - 69117 Heidelberg fon: ++49-(0)6221-54 74 82 fax: ++49-(0)6221-54 76 24 From a.birkbak at gmail.com Fri Feb 21 02:50:41 2014 From: a.birkbak at gmail.com (Andreas Birkbak) Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2014 11:50:41 +0100 Subject: [Air-L] Research of Facebook public groups In-Reply-To: References: <6E61AC1252115240BEFB63F66879D668029129@exp-dag1-n1.uol.le.ac.uk> Message-ID: Dear Ruth, Here's a study of two Facebook Groups founded in reaction to a snowstorm emergency in Denmark that I've done: http://vbn.aau.dk/da/publications/crystallizations-in-the-blizzard(00900bdf-5dd9-4edf-8a99-582c96b22081).html It combines quantitative and qualitative approaches, including analysis of discourse. Best, Andreas 2014-01-23 21:48 GMT+01:00 Pask-Hughes, Alexander < a.pask-hughes at lancaster.ac.uk>: > Hi Ruth, > > I imagine you'll have likely come across these and not all look at > Facebook, but I think they're probably relevant discourse-analytic > examples, with a focus beyond self and identity: > > Burke & Goodman (2012) "Bring back Hitler's gas chambers": Asylum seeking, > Nazis and Facebook - A discursive analysis. D&S 23(1). > > Goodman & Rowe (2014) "Maybe it is prejudice... but it is NOT racism": > Negotiating racism in discussion forums about Gypsies. D&S 25(1). > > Shaikjee & Milani (2013) "It's time for Afrikaans to go"... or not? > Language ideologies and (ir)rationality in the blogosphere. Language > Matters 44(2). > > > Aside from these, there's the research from Todd Graham and Scott Wright > (including the EU cyberspace paper with Ruth Wodak), although that's > probably veering too far away from both Facebook and discourse analysis. > > I was sure someone archived the Thatcher tweets as well... > > > Alexander David Pask-Hughes > > PhD student > Seminar Tutor for LING204: Discourse Analysis > > Department of Linguistics and English Language > Lancaster University > > E-mail: a.pask-hughes at lancaster.ac.uk > Twitter: @adpaskhughes > > ________________________________________ > From: air-l-bounces at listserv.aoir.org [air-l-bounces at listserv.aoir.org] > on behalf of Page, Ruth (Dr.) [rep22 at leicester.ac.uk] > Sent: 22 January 2014 09:49 > To: air-l at listserv.aoir.org > Subject: [Air-L] Research of Facebook public groups > Dear AoIR list members, > > I'm doing some work from a discourse analysis perspective on the way > interactions on Facebook public groups take place. I'm specifically looking > at the RIP pages set up in response to the death of former Prime Minister > Margaret Thatcher. > > I'm familiar with a lot of the research literature on Facebook, but most > of what I know is based on studies that examined personal Facebook > accounts/wall interactions. > > Can anyone please recommend studies of Facebook groups? I'm especially > interested in anything that has a linguistic/discourse analysis focus, but > it would also be good to learn from studies from a more general social > science perspective too. > > Thanks in advance for any suggestions! > > Ruth > > Dr Ruth Page > Room 1509, Attenborough Tower > School of English > University of Leicester > Leicester > LE1 7RH > UK > +44 (0)116 223 1286 > _______________________________________________ > The Air-L at listserv.aoir.org mailing list > is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org > Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: > http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org > > Join the Association of Internet Researchers: > http://www.aoir.org/ > _______________________________________________ > The Air-L at listserv.aoir.org mailing list > is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org > Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: > http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org > > Join the Association of Internet Researchers: > http://www.aoir.org/ > From francesca.musiani at gmail.com Fri Feb 21 03:04:58 2014 From: francesca.musiani at gmail.com (Francesca Musiani) Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2014 12:04:58 +0100 Subject: [Air-L] Call for Applications, 2014-15 Yahoo! Fellow in Residence, Georgetown University Message-ID: CALL FOR APPLICATIONS Yahoo! Fellow in Residence International Values, Communications Technology & the Global Internet School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University Washington, D.C. The Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service is pleased to invite applications for the position of Yahoo! Fellow in Residence for the academic year 2014-2015. This one academic year position is funded by the Yahoo! Fund on International Values, Communications Technology and the Global Internet, which was established at Georgetown University by a gift from Yahoo! Inc. The Yahoo! Fellow will be chosen by Georgetown University from applicants drawn from the government, corporate, non-profit and academic sectors. The Fellowship The Yahoo! Fellow in Residence explores the relationship between new communications technologies and international values in varying national and international contexts. Projects should address the issue of applying international values and principles (e.g., free expression, regulation, citizenship and privacy) to new communications technologies and the diffusion of information in rapidly changing global environments. These might include large and evolving economies--including Brazil, Russia, India, and China--as well as interactions between the developing and developed worlds. Projects can draw on insights from many disciplines, including politics, economics, business, and socio-cultural research. It is expected that the Yahoo! Fellow will undertake research and writing, some of which will be posted on the website of the Institute for the Study of Diplomacy, during his or her stay. In addition, the Fellow must organize at least one workshop or conference during each of the two semesters in residence, work with graduate fellows supported by the same Yahoo! grant, engage in co-curricular offerings and other interactions with the Georgetown student body, and participate in the professional life of Washington, D.C. The Yahoo! Fellow in Residence will be a part of the Institute for the Study of Diplomacy (ISD) at Georgetown University. The Institute will provide office space, supplies, and administrative support during the fellowship year. The Yahoo! Fellow will have the opportunity to be a member of a group of ISD associates and fellows drawn from the United States and foreign government agencies. The fellowship provides a stipend of $60,000 to support housing and living expenses for the academic year and $5,000 to cover travel associated with the appointment. The appointment will cover the period of August 15, 2014 to May 15, 2015. Within the School of Foreign Service, the Master of Science in Foreign Service Program (MSFS) will provide a locus for the applied curricular and research support activities associated with the Yahoo! Fellows. The Program's multi-disciplinary faculty, including experienced public and private sector practitioners, comprises a broad resource base for research and collaboration on globalization forces and impacts across an array of diverse sectors and cross-national applications. Relevant results generated by the Yahoo! Fellows' projects could be incorporated into the MSFS Program's curriculum through guest lectures, special seminars, case studies and/or course modules. It is anticipated that research projects may thereby yield multiplier educational effects that extend beyond the tenure of a particular Yahoo! Fellow. MSFS graduate students will also be selected to receive partial-tuition fellowships as Junior Yahoo! Fellows. The selected students will engage in study and research associated with the Yahoo! Fellow in Residence and/or other faculty engaged in related project activities. Applications Applications should be imaginative, multidisciplinary, analytical, and capable of being completed during the fellowship year. They should include proposals for projects and associated conferences or workshops. An advanced degree is not required, however, for those pursuing graduate work, the degree must be completed and in hand prior to assuming the fellowship. Applicants should submit the following: * Letter of interest * Curriculum vitae * Statement describing a proposed project and methodology (not to exceed 2,500 words) Submit application materials to: Institute for the Study of Diplomacy Attn: Yahoo! Fellow Search 1316 36th Street, NW Washington, DC 20007 Deadline: Applicants are advised to submit materials by Monday, April 7, 2014. 3 Applications will be considered until a final applicant has been selected and has accepted the appointment. Electronic submissions may be sent to the following email address: dolgasc at georgetown.edu. In the subject line, please add the text: Yahoo! Fellow Application. Background Information For information on the Yahoo! Program and current and past fellows, please visit the Institute for the Study of Diplomacy website: http://isd.georgetown.edu/programs/yahoofellow/. Kalev Leetaru (2013-2014) Francesca Musiani (2012-2013) S?verine Ars?ne (2011-2012) Han-Teng Liao (2010-2011) Evgeny Morozov (2009-2010) Gaurav Mishra (2008-2009) Irene Wu (2007-2008) For information on the Master of Science in Foreign Service (MSFS) graduate program, please visit http://msfs.georgetown.edu. For information on Georgetown University, please visit www.georgetown.edu. -- Francesca Musiani Postdoctoral researcher Centre de Sociologie de l'Innovation MINES ParisTech 60, Boulevard Saint-Michel 75272 Paris Cedex 06, France From slc at publicus.net Fri Feb 21 05:58:02 2014 From: slc at publicus.net (Steven Clift) Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2014 07:58:02 -0600 Subject: [Air-L] Research of Facebook public groups In-Reply-To: References: <6E61AC1252115240BEFB63F66879D668029129@exp-dag1-n1.uol.le.ac.uk> Message-ID: You might be interested in what we are doing with: https://www.facebook.com/groups/opengovgroup I trolled deeply to find scores of open government, open data, smart city, civic tech Facebook Groups around the world, many are listed here: http://pages.e-democracy.org/List_of_groups And far more are here (mixed with other groups): https://www.facebook.com/stevenlclift/groups I then worked to promote this new global group as a space to connect these many national/language based groups. Because Facebook controls message distribution via News feed exposure, the number of members are deceiving and at about 250 members, the default notification switches from all new posts to new posts from just your friends, these spaces can quickly become dormant. However, some Facebook Groups really have a lot of life if they have continued posting of new topics by an array of members. On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 4:50 AM, Andreas Birkbak wrote: > Dear Ruth, > > Here's a study of two Facebook Groups founded in reaction to a snowstorm > emergency in Denmark that I've done: > http://vbn.aau.dk/da/publications/crystallizations-in-the-blizzard(00900bdf-5dd9-4edf-8a99-582c96b22081).html > > It combines quantitative and qualitative approaches, including analysis of > discourse. > > Best, > Andreas > > > 2014-01-23 21:48 GMT+01:00 Pask-Hughes, Alexander < > a.pask-hughes at lancaster.ac.uk>: > >> Hi Ruth, >> >> I imagine you'll have likely come across these and not all look at >> Facebook, but I think they're probably relevant discourse-analytic >> examples, with a focus beyond self and identity: >> >> Burke & Goodman (2012) "Bring back Hitler's gas chambers": Asylum seeking, >> Nazis and Facebook - A discursive analysis. D&S 23(1). >> >> Goodman & Rowe (2014) "Maybe it is prejudice... but it is NOT racism": >> Negotiating racism in discussion forums about Gypsies. D&S 25(1). >> >> Shaikjee & Milani (2013) "It's time for Afrikaans to go"... or not? >> Language ideologies and (ir)rationality in the blogosphere. Language >> Matters 44(2). >> >> >> Aside from these, there's the research from Todd Graham and Scott Wright >> (including the EU cyberspace paper with Ruth Wodak), although that's >> probably veering too far away from both Facebook and discourse analysis. >> >> I was sure someone archived the Thatcher tweets as well... >> >> >> Alexander David Pask-Hughes >> >> PhD student >> Seminar Tutor for LING204: Discourse Analysis >> >> Department of Linguistics and English Language >> Lancaster University >> >> E-mail: a.pask-hughes at lancaster.ac.uk >> Twitter: @adpaskhughes >> >> ________________________________________ >> From: air-l-bounces at listserv.aoir.org [air-l-bounces at listserv.aoir.org] >> on behalf of Page, Ruth (Dr.) [rep22 at leicester.ac.uk] >> Sent: 22 January 2014 09:49 >> To: air-l at listserv.aoir.org >> Subject: [Air-L] Research of Facebook public groups >> Dear AoIR list members, >> >> I'm doing some work from a discourse analysis perspective on the way >> interactions on Facebook public groups take place. I'm specifically looking >> at the RIP pages set up in response to the death of former Prime Minister >> Margaret Thatcher. >> >> I'm familiar with a lot of the research literature on Facebook, but most >> of what I know is based on studies that examined personal Facebook >> accounts/wall interactions. >> >> Can anyone please recommend studies of Facebook groups? I'm especially >> interested in anything that has a linguistic/discourse analysis focus, but >> it would also be good to learn from studies from a more general social >> science perspective too. >> >> Thanks in advance for any suggestions! >> >> Ruth >> >> Dr Ruth Page >> Room 1509, Attenborough Tower >> School of English >> University of Leicester >> Leicester >> LE1 7RH >> UK >> +44 (0)116 223 1286 >> _______________________________________________ >> The Air-L at listserv.aoir.org mailing list >> is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org >> Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: >> http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org >> >> Join the Association of Internet Researchers: >> http://www.aoir.org/ >> _______________________________________________ >> The Air-L at listserv.aoir.org mailing list >> is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org >> Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: >> http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org >> >> Join the Association of Internet Researchers: >> http://www.aoir.org/ >> > _______________________________________________ > The Air-L at listserv.aoir.org mailing list > is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org > Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org > > Join the Association of Internet Researchers: > http://www.aoir.org/ From jgroshek at bu.edu Fri Feb 21 10:57:11 2014 From: jgroshek at bu.edu (Jacob Groshek) Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2014 13:57:11 -0500 Subject: [Air-L] MA/PhD in Emerging Media Studies at Boston University Message-ID: Dear Colleagues, Please circulate to students that may have an interest in either our newly formed MA or PhD tracks, or both. More information can be found here http://www.bu.edu/com/academics/emerging-media/ and our MA course listings for fall 2014 onward are attached. Early applications are eligible for generous tuition scholarships and funding for teaching or research. I'm happy to answer any additional questions as well. Best, Jacob (Ps. Apologies for cross-posts) -- Dr. Jacob Groshek Assistant Professor of Emerging Media 704 Commonwealth Ave., Office 302D Boston University 617-353-6421 jgroshek.com From jackharris999 at gmail.com Fri Feb 21 11:09:55 2014 From: jackharris999 at gmail.com (Jack Harris) Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2014 14:09:55 -0500 Subject: [Air-L] MA/PhD in Emerging Media Studies at Boston University In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Bryant, you may want to look into this as a fallback since it appears to include good funding, One Year Masters in Emerging Media at Boston University. It includes design and applied as well as academic experience. It's a new program, a good program and I know the division director who recently left Rutgers and is an international and well-regarded expert in this field. On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 1:57 PM, Jacob Groshek wrote: > Dear Colleagues, > > Please circulate to students that may have an interest in either our newly > formed MA or PhD tracks, or both. > > More information can be found here > > http://www.bu.edu/com/academics/emerging-media/ > > and our MA course listings for fall 2014 onward are attached. Early > applications are eligible for generous tuition scholarships and funding for > teaching or research. > > I'm happy to answer any additional questions as well. > > Best, > > Jacob > > (Ps. Apologies for cross-posts) > > -- > Dr. Jacob Groshek > Assistant Professor of Emerging Media > 704 Commonwealth Ave., Office 302D > Boston University > 617-353-6421 > jgroshek.com > > _______________________________________________ > The Air-L at listserv.aoir.org mailing list > is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org > Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: > http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org > > Join the Association of Internet Researchers: > http://www.aoir.org/ > -- _____________________________ Jack Harris http://www.linkedin.com/in/jackharrisnyc/ http://rci-rutgers.academia.edu/JackLHarris SC&I Fellow, School of Communication and Information. Governor's Executive Fellow, Eagleton Institute of Politics Rutgers University, New Brunswick NJ 952-212-7287 jackharris999 at gmail.com www.pocketfarms.wordpress.com/ From fichman at indiana.edu Sat Feb 22 04:00:05 2014 From: fichman at indiana.edu (Fichman, Pnina) Date: Sat, 22 Feb 2014 12:00:05 +0000 Subject: [Air-L] AMCIS 2014 > Final CFP: Social Theory in Information Systems Research (STIR '14) Message-ID: <8E1650F8-F5DC-425B-B91B-2A3FDA1B714A@indiana.edu> [Apologies for cross-posting] Final Call For Papers: AMCIS Mini-track: Social Theory in Information Systems Research (STIR '14) 20th Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS): Smart Sustainability, the Information Systems opportunity, Savannah, GA, August 7-10, 2014 Conference Website: http://amcis2013.aisnet.org/ DESCRIPTION: This Mini Track solicits papers that make use of social theory in information systems research drawing upon such approaches as sociotechnical theory, critical theory, social informatics, organizational theory, cultural anthropology, sociology and others. We are interested in understanding and supporting the evolution of social theory, socio-technical theory, and social informatics in information systems research. We want to highlight research that uses these approaches to critically examine the constitution of information and communications technologies, and their roles in organizations and society; these are among the most important questions about IS, organizations, and society. We particularly invite IS research that applies, builds on, compares, or critiques these social theories. We are interested in high quality empirical and conceptual work that uses social theory to study and theorize about application domains including large-scale social and organizational phenomena. We seek to attract research papers and research-in-progress papers from all IS researchers who are using the work of social theorists, organizational theorists, sociotechnical theorists, and cultural anthropologists, symbolic interactionists, and many others. We are particularly interested in research that makes use of social theory 1) to address issues of designing a smart and sustainable digital future, 2) to answer questions about how we are interacting with ICTs in our work and social lives in ways that help and hinder the move towards sustainability, and 3) to critically examine the constitution of ICTs, and their roles in the design, maintenance and dissolution of sustainable organizations and social groups. This will be the 14th consecutive year for the Mini Track at AMCIS, and we hope to continue a tradition of high quality paper submissions, thought-provoking presentations and lively discussion for all IS researchers using, or considering the use of, social theory in their work. SUGGESTED TOPICS In addition to research aligned with the conference theme we are also interested in high quality empirical and conceptual work that uses social theory to study and understand: * The implications of social networks for organizations and social groups * Conceptual and empirical work focusing on the ways ICT can promote or hinder social inclusion * The significance of cyberinfrastructure for commerce, governing and research and development * The relationships between ICTs and people as they participate in online communities and virtual teams * Online communities of practice, their processes and outcomes * The dynamics of crowdsourcing online * Hacktivism and the use of technology to mobilize resources and advance ideology * Unintended consequences of technology implementation and use in organizations and in social life * Scientific collaboration and scholarly communication as enabled and constrained by ICTs * The impacts of social computing on our social and work lives Minitrack chairs: Howard Rosenbaum, School of Informatics and Computing, Indiana University hrosenba at indiana.edu Pnina Fichman, School of Informatics and Computing, Indiana University fichman at indiana.edu Submission Process: Instructions for authors and more information is available at: http://amcis2014.aisnet.org/index.php/call-for-papers Full paper submissions must be made electronically through the AMCIS on-line submission system. Papers can be submitted beginning on January 5, 2014. The link will be available at: http://aisel.aisnet.org/amcis2014_papers/ Submissions will close on March 1, 2014. ------------------------ Pnina Fichman Associate Professor, School of Informatics and Computing Director, Rob Kling Center for Social Informatics Affiliated Associate Professor, School of Global and International Studies 901 East 10th Street, Informatics West #301 Indiana University, Bloomington, 47408 Phone (812) 856-1587 E-Mail fichman at indiana.edu Web http://ella.slis.indiana.edu/~fichman/ _______________________________________________ From fichman at indiana.edu Sat Feb 22 04:04:35 2014 From: fichman at indiana.edu (Fichman, Pnina) Date: Sat, 22 Feb 2014 12:04:35 +0000 Subject: [Air-L] AMCIS 2014> Final CFP: Global and Cross Cultural Impacts of Big Data Message-ID: <26EA9DE4-8B71-4737-85C1-CEBB21FED6D2@indiana.edu> [Apologies for cross-posting] Final CALL FOR PAPERS: AMCIS Minitrack - Global and Cross Cultural Impacts of Big Data 20th Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS): Smart Sustainability, the Information Systems Opportunity, Savannah, GA, August 7-10, 2014 Conference Website: http://amcis2013.aisnet.org/ DESCRIPTION Manyika et al. (2011; 4) note ?big data has now reached every sector of the global economy. Like other essential factors of production ? much of modern economic activity simply couldn?t take place without it.? An emerging grand challenge involves gathering, organizing, curating, managing, analyzing, visualizing and disseminating these heterogeneous data over the lifecycle of the data for such purposes such as scientific discovery, medical advances, entrepreneurial activity and public policy formulation. People in the public and private sectors are taking note of this development as are academics, who are exploring ways of dealing with big data, defined by the National Science Foundation (2012) as: ?large, diverse, complex, longitudinal, and/or distributed data sets generated from instruments, sensors, Internet transactions, email, video, click streams, and/or all other digital sources available today and in the future. This minitrack solicits high quality conceptual and empirical work that focuses on the global impacts of big data on governments, multinational companies, NGOs and other organizations. Big data datasets and the technologies for analyzing them are developing faster than our understanding of the ways in which this phenomenon is impacting and will impact the ways work is done in a wide range of settings. As scholars and researchers begin to investigate the impacts of Big Data, this minitrack provides a venue for them to share their work. Appropriate topics for this minitrack include (but are not limited to) the following: ? Big data use in organizational, national and international settings ? How the introduction of big data affects organizational and group work flow ? Ways that big data is affecting organizational and group decision making ? Security and privacy impacts of big data use ? The intended and unintended consequences of big data ? The dark side of big data: surveillance, illicit activities, discriminatory analytics, and the end of privacy ? Big data as a social, political, economic, and/or cultural phenomenon Minitrack chairs: Pnina Fichman, School of Informatics and Computing, Indiana University fichman at indiana.edu Howard Rosenbaum, School of Informatics and Computing, Indiana University hrosenba at indiana.edu SUBMISSION PROCESS: Full paper submissions must be made electronically through the AMCIS on-line submission system no later than March 1, 2014. Manuscript Central will start accepting paper submissions on January 5, 2014 at: http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/amcis2014 Additional instructions for authors: http://amcis2014.aisnet.org/index.php/call-for-papers Important Dates: March 1, 2014: (11:59 PM EST): Deadline for paper submissions April 4 2014: Authors will be notified of acceptances on or about this date April 18, 2014: Authors revisions due April 25, 2014: (11:59 PM EST): For accepted papers, camera ready copy due ----------------------- Pnina Fichman, Ph.D. Director, Rob Kling Center for Social Informatics Associate Professor, School of Informatics and Computing Affiliated Associate Professor, School of Global and International Studies 901 E. 10th St. Informatics West #301 Indiana University, Bloomington IN 47408 Office: (812) 856-1587 Cell: (812) 322-0219 Web: http://ella.slis.indiana.edu/~fichman/ From jemcnealy at uky.edu Sat Feb 22 07:16:49 2014 From: jemcnealy at uky.edu (McNealy, Jasmine E) Date: Sat, 22 Feb 2014 15:16:49 +0000 Subject: [Air-L] New BS degree in Information Communication Technology Message-ID: {Apologies for cross posts.} Please circulate to any undergraduate students that may have an interest in our new program. The Bachelors of Science in Information Communication Technology (ICT) at the University of Kentucky focuses on the intersection of technology, people who use that technology, policies and regulations that govern the use of that technology and communities or environments in which that technology is used. It is the newest undergraduate degree program in the College of Communication and Information, the university?s official iSchool, part of a collection of Information Schools dedicated to advancing the information field. Housed in the School of Library and Information Science, ICT is an applied information technology degree program. The full press release can be found here: https://ci.uky.edu/lis/content/ict-program-debuts More program specifics can be found here: http://ict.uky.edu Thank you, Jasmine McNealy, J.D., Ph.D. Assistant Professor Information Communication Technology Program University of Kentucky 320 Little Library Building Lexington, KY 40506 (859) 218-2297 From dheider at luc.edu Sat Feb 22 09:14:47 2014 From: dheider at luc.edu (Heider, Donald) Date: Sat, 22 Feb 2014 17:14:47 +0000 Subject: [Air-L] Call for Papers - International Symposium on Digital Ethics Message-ID: <772e528ce29b4e6a83aeda7ce2a55f85@mbxls2.adms.luc.edu> Call for papers The Center for Digital Ethics & Policy at Loyola University Chicago (digitalethics.org) will be holding its 4th Annual International Symposium on Digital Ethics on Nov 7th, 2014. We are looking for papers on digital ethics. Topics might include privacy, anonymity, griefing, free speech, intellectual property, hacking, scamming, surveillance, information mining, transparency, digital citizenship, and/or the ethical use of digital technologies in journalism, advertising and public relations. Paper abstracts should propose original research and be between 500 and 1,000 words in length (not including references). Authors invited to present papers will be eligible for up to $400 in travel funds to be able to attend the Chicago symposium. The author(s) of the Top Student Paper will be eligible for up to $1,000 in travel funds. Abstracts are due by midnight CST on April 15th, 2014, should follow APA or MLA. Authors of top papers will have the opportunity to have their work published in Proceedings from the 4th Annual Symposium on Digital Ethics. Send your submission in a MS Word document attachment to contact at digitalethics.org, and please write Digital Ethics Symposium submission in the subject line. Please send questions to the same email address. From mariarosariataddeo at gmail.com Sun Feb 23 07:17:07 2014 From: mariarosariataddeo at gmail.com (Mariariosaria Taddeo) Date: Sun, 23 Feb 2014 15:17:07 +0000 Subject: [Air-L] The Annual Meeting of the International Association for Computing and Philosophy - Thessaloniki, Greece Message-ID: <72361FFD-135C-4C10-9220-81B1B9E6B29E@gmail.com> Call for Papers: IACAP 2014 The Annual Meeting of the International Association for Computing and Philosophy www.iacap.org Anatolia College/ACT Thessaloniki, Greece July 2-4. 2014 Conference Website UPDATES: The submission deadline for symposium proposals has been extended. The Covey and Simon Award winners have been selected. The Executive Committee is pleased to announce that the Covey Award has been awarded to Professor Selmer Bringsjord (Rensselaer Polytechnic) and the Simon Award has been awarded to Professor Gualterio Piccinini (Missouri- St. Louis). This year?s meeting of the International Association for Computing and Philosophy will be held at Anatolia College/ACT in Thessaloniki, Greece. Computing technologies both raise philosophical questions and elucidate traditional philosophical problems. IACAP meetings emphasise this two-way relationship, providing an opportunity for researchers in multiple fields to share new work in an interdisciplinary setting. We invite both abstract submissions and symposium proposals in areas at the intersection of computing and philosophy. This year?s meeting will have a single main track focusing on topics central to IACAP membership interests. Symposia will focus on more specific topics, organised autonomously by members or member groups. One symposium will be dedicated to the work of young researchers. Some abstracts will be accepted for presentation as posters. Paper presentations will be allotted 30 minutes, including discussion. Selected papers will be published in a volume of the ?Synthese Library? (Springer). Authors of accepted abstracts will be invited to submit a full paper for peer-review to this volume. IACAP is also soliciting nominations for a number of awards (see below). Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): ? Artificial Intelligence ? Artificial Life ? Cognitive Science, Computation & Cognition ? Computational Modeling in Science and Social Science ? Computer-Mediated Communication ? Distance Education and Electronic Pedagogy ? Ethical Problems and Societal Impact of Computation and Information ? History of Computing ? Information Culture and Society ? Logic ? Metaphysics of Computing ? Philosophy of Information ? Philosophy of Information Technology ? Robotics ? Virtual Reality ... and related issues Format For abstracts, we request anonymous submission of 600-1000 words (plus references) in plain text or PDF, plus a short abstract of up to 120 words. All submissions will be reviewed double-blind by at least two members of the programme committee. All submissions of paper abstracts - whether to the main track or to symposia - are made centrally on the same site and all reviewing takes place on that site. For symposia, please provide a brief motivation (ca. 300 words), a list of envisaged speakers, and indication of time needed (full day, half day, etc.). The submission procedure and reviewing for symposia will be taken care of by their organisers - but within the structure provided by IACAP and the submission system for this conference. Dates Submission of symposium proposals: 28 February 2014 Submission of abstracts: 1 March 2014 Notification of acceptance or rejection: 13 March for symposia, 31 March for papers. Submissions may be sent through Easychair. Further details can be found on the conference website . -- Dr. Mariarosaria Taddeo Research Fellow in Cyber Security and Ethics, PAIS, University of Warwick Research Associate - Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, University of Oxford President, International Association for Computing and Philosophy http://rosariataddeo.net From timothy.jordan at kcl.ac.uk Sun Feb 23 09:06:22 2014 From: timothy.jordan at kcl.ac.uk (Jordan, Timothy) Date: Sun, 23 Feb 2014 17:06:22 +0000 Subject: [Air-L] FW: Postdocs Ego-media ERC project In-Reply-To: <0c9a024b7c424392a3e55ecc28e13f94@AMSPR03MB550.eurprd03.prod.outlook.com> References: , <4a3fcd5b6f1e4e6ebb4f9bfc74771b92@AMXPR03MB229.eurprd03.prod.outlook.com> <0c9a024b7c424392a3e55ecc28e13f94@AMSPR03MB550.eurprd03.prod.outlook.com> Message-ID: Dear all, Two Post-Docs on ?Ego-media: The impact of new media on forms and practices of self-presentation?, a European Research Council grant led by Professor Max Saunders here at King's College London that I'm also part of. Cheers Tim Dr Tim Jordan, Senior Lecturer Department of Digital Humanities and Department of Culture, Media and Creative Industries, Creative Arts Administrative Centre, Room 5D, D Floor, Chesham Building, King's College London, Strand, London WC2R 2LS, England Phone: +44 (0)20 78481100 ? ? King?s College London is advertising two postdoctoral positions (of 3 years and 5 years) to work on a new collaborative research project in Life Writing and digital media funded by the European Research Council. It is called ?Ego-media: The impact of new media on forms and practices of self-presentation?, and is being led by Professor Max Saunders, the Director of the Arts and Humanities Research Institute. He will be joined by his Co-Director of the Centre for Life-Writing Research, Professor Clare Brant, and two other King?s academics: Alexandra Georgakopoulou, Professor of Discourse Analysis & Sociolinguistics om the Centre for Language, Discourse & Communication, and Professor Leone Ridsdale, from the Institute of Psychiatry. The project?s steering group also includes colleagues from Culture Media and Creative Industries, Digital Humanities, French, Medical Humanities, Medical Sociology, War Studies, and Education. ? It aims to study the impact of new media on autobiographical narratives: an impact increasing as habits and practices of self-presentation evolve rapidly in response to constantly fast-changing technology. It will consider the implications of these new forms and practices for such notions as autobiography, selfhood, subjectivity, individuality, self-intelligibility, agency, creativity, privacy, and sociability. ? The closing date for applications is the 11th March. For further details of how to apply please see: ? ? http://www.kcl.ac.uk/depsta/pertra/vacancy/external/pers_detail.php?jobindex=14266 ? http://www.kcl.ac.uk/depsta/pertra/vacancy/external/pers_detail.php?jobindex=14262 ? ? ? From kwfu at hku.hk Sun Feb 23 21:46:45 2014 From: kwfu at hku.hk (KW Fu) Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2014 13:46:45 +0800 Subject: [Air-L] PhD scholarships for China Media/Internet Research in the University of Hong Kong: Deadline: April 30, 2014 Message-ID: <04ab01cf3123$cdce27d0$696a7770$@hku.hk> Dear all, The Journalism and Media Studies Centre (JMSC) at The University of Hong Kong is inviting applications for the 2014-2015 PhD programme. Postgraduate scholarships are available for eligible candidates. Applicants should possess a good Bachelor's or Master's degree in the social sciences, China studies, engineering/information science, public health, legal studies or journalism/media/communication studies Good command of written and spoken English is essential, and knowledge of the Chinese language is an advantage. The scholarship programme offers HK$14,000 (US$1795) per month for the 2014-2015 academic year. For further details, please visit the HKU Graduate School website: http://www.gradsch.hku.hk/gradsch/web/ The JMSC is an academic unit that offers undergraduate and graduate degrees through the Faculty of Social Sciences. It provides excellent support and resources to China media researchers. Led by Qian Gang and Prof. Ying Chan, the China Media Project documents and analyzes the process of media reform and development in China. The JMSC's Weiboscope project deploys quantitative research methodology to conduct big-data research to collect and analyze Chinese social media. Deadline: April 30, 2014. Application to the HKU Graduate School. Website: http://www.gradsch.hku.hk/gradsch/web/. General enquiry: Jason Hui (email: tyhui at hku.hk); Research-related enquiry: Dr. King-wa Fu (email: kwfu at hku.hk) King-wa Fu, PhD Assistant Professor Journalism and Media Studies Centre The University of Hong Kong Room 206, Eliot Hall, Pokfulam Road, Hong Kong Tel: (852) 3917-1643 Fax: (852) 2858-8736 Website: https://sites.google.com/site/fukingwa/ From aherman at wlu.ca Mon Feb 24 04:16:45 2014 From: aherman at wlu.ca (Andrew Herman) Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2014 07:16:45 -0500 Subject: [Air-L] CFP: PRECONFERENCE WORKSHOP ON INTERNET CATS! Message-ID: <530AF1DE0200003F0007CB40@gwvia03.wlu.ca> AOIR Internet Cat Proposal for IR 15 Preconference Proposal Hi All I would like to put together a preconference workshop on thesubject of Internet Cats: LOL Cats and Icanhazcheezbuger; Internet Cat Videos and International Internet Cat Video Festivals; Internet Cat Memes and Gatonovelas; Internet Cat Ur-Demigods such as Keyboard Cat and contemporary luminaries suchas Lil Bub, and documentaries about them, and so on. Clearly, the myth that the ?Internetis Made of Cats? is widely held but nobody really knows why and, with theexception of Kate Miltner?s MA work at the LSE, there has been little sustainedanalytical consideration of Internet Cats. This is an aporia in Critical Internet Studies that must be addressed as soon as possible. If not now, when? The purpose of the workshop is to bring together scholarswho have interest in pursuing the theorization, conceptualization and empiricalanalysis one of Internet Cats the most important features of evolving Internetculture. Please let me know if you areinterested. All I need at this point is an expression of interest inparticipating, your institutional affiliation, and-if you have one- a title ofa brief presentation. PLEASE CONTACT ME BY FEBRuARY 28 at the latest. Andrew Herman Associate Professor Department of Communication Studies Wilfrid Laurier University Waterloo, ON N2L 3C5 From ierick at gmail.com Mon Feb 24 08:21:00 2014 From: ierick at gmail.com (Ingrid Erickson) Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2014 11:21:00 -0500 Subject: [Air-L] CFP: 2014 Digital Societies and Social Technologies (DSST) Summer Institute Message-ID: <530B716C.5090206@gmail.com> **Apologies for Duplication** Call for Participation: 2014 Digital Societies and Social Technologies (DSST) Summer Institute July 8 ? July 10, 2014 (arrival July 7; departure July 11 for 3 full days) University of Missouri ? Columbia, Columbia, MO http://www.sociotech.net/v2/dsst2014 MOOCs, Education and learning; personal health and well-being; open innovation, eScience, and citizen science; co-production, open source, and new forms of work; cultural heritage and information access; energy management and climate change; civic hacking, engagement and government; disaster response; cybersecurity and privacy ? these are just a few problem domains where effective design and robust understanding of complex sociotechnical systems is critical. To meet these challenges a trans-disciplinary community of scholars has come together from fields as wide ranging as CSCW, HCI, social computing, organization studies, information visualization, social informatics, sociology, information systems, medical informatics, computer science, ICT for development, education, learning science, journalism, and political science. Through summer institutes (CSST), extended workshops (Social Webshop), preconference workshops at a wide variety of venues, and other activities (Digital Societies and Technology Research Coordination Network) this community of researchers from academia and industry has developed a strong focus on problems and opportunities arising from the interplay of social and technological systems which span individuals, groups, organizations, and societies. The 2014 Summer Institute builds on this tradition to strengthen and expand this diverse community by bringing together graduate students, post doctoral students, faculty, and other researchers in four groups at the University of Missouri ? Columbia on July 8 ? 10, 2014: Doctoral students, post doctoral students, pre-tenure faculty, and early career researchers ? Through mentoring, peer networking, and skill-building tutorials, doctoral students, post doctoral students, pre-tenure faculty, and early career researchers will identify substantive ways that the theories, approaches, and tools within the larger community can advance their work with the design and study of sociotechnical systems. Established researchers ? Prior summer institute/workshop participants and established researchers will network with other researchers (senior and junior), explore ideas and new directions, shape emerging research agendas, articulate critical challenges, and share knowledge about practices, tools, and approaches which have the potential to advance the design and study of sociotechnical systems. Emerging multi-disciplinary research teams ? Nascent groups of researchers seeking to develop cross-disciplinary collaborations will work with peers and mentors to refine problem statements and research goals; connect with collaborators with complementary skills and interests; and create actionable research agendas and funding proposals. Preference will be given to groups interested in designing and studying sociotechnical systems that address societal grand challenges such as (but not limited to) healthcare; energy management and climate change; cybersecurity and privacy; education and learning; disaster response; technology development and innovation; economic development and work; and civic engagement and participation. Research infrastructure development teams ? Groups of researchers interested in creating computational or analytic tools, data resources, training materials or other infrastructure to support the design and study of sociotechnical systems will work with one another, other Summer institute participants, and local developers. These infrastructure ?hackathon? sessions will result in the creation of use cases, prototypes, draft materials, and when possible deployable systems and resources. Applying for DSST 2014 Applications are encouraged from all academic, industry, NGO, and public sector organizations worldwide. To apply for the 2013 Summer Institute, select the group that best fits your needs and situation and send the appropriate materials to the Summer Institute co-coordinator (Sean Goggins) at gogginss at missouri.edu by March 20, 2014: Doctoral students, post doctoral students, pre-tenure faculty, and early career researchers should send their CV and a short (~ 1 page) response to: ?How does/will your work advance our ability to design and understand critical sociotechnical systems?? Several core references should be included to situate your work within the larger research community. Doctoral students should also provide a letter of recommendation from their advisor/department chair indicating their expected graduation date. Established researchers should send their CV and a short (~ 1 page) response to: ?What are the most interesting challenges and opportunities related to the design and study of critical sociotechnical systems? What activity (30 minutes to 4 hours long) could you run that would help the Summer Institute participants better engage these challenges and opportunities?? Proposed activities can be for any (or all) Summer Institute participants and might include, but are not limited to: focused presentations; brainstorming sessions; in-depth problem descriptions; method, tool, or data tutorials; or research agenda setting exercises. Emerging multi-disciplinary research teams should apply as a group, sending their CVs and a short (~ 1 page) response to: ?What is the research focus/problem domain? What types of activities/studies are needed to engage that domain? How will pursuing this agenda help advance our ability to design and understand critical sociotechnical systems?? References potential funding sources can be included, if known, to situate the proposal within the larger research community. Groups invited to the Summer Institute will have between 4-6 people. However, only 3 individuals need to be part of an application for it to be considered (assistance will be provided prior to the Summer Institute to help invited teams recruit additional participants as needed). Preference will be given to cross-institutional teams in which junior/mid-career researchers play significant leadership roles. Research infrastructure development teams should apply as a group, sending their CVs and a short (~ 1 page) response to: ?What is the problem you are seeking to address? What will you do to address that problem? How will creating these technologies, tools, materials or infrastructure improve our ability to design and understand critical sociotechnical systems?? References to examples from other domains can be included to situate your proposal. Teams invited for the Summer Institute will have between 4-6 people from multiple disciplines and institutions. However, only 3 individuals need to be part of an application to be considered (assistance will be provided prior to the Summer Institute to help invited teams recruit additional participants as needed). Lodging, meals, and other onsite costs will be covered for all Summer Institute participants. Limited travel support is available, if needed, for participants from US and Canadian institutions (with preference given to doctoral and post-doctoral students). Travel support may also be available for other Summer Institute participants. To be considered for all available financial support you should provide the following information when you apply: What college or university do you attend? What is your primary department affiliation? If you are applying from a Canadian university, are you a member of the GRAND network? Materials should be sent to Summer Institute co-coordinator (Sean Goggins) at gogginss at missouri.edu by March 20th, 2014. Applications will be reviewed by the Summer Institute Advisory Group beginning March 30th, 2013 using the following criteria: -Clear articulation of the hoped-for contribution to the theory, practice, or design of sociotechnical systems -Likelihood of Summer Institute participation providing significant practical benefit for the individual/team -Contribution to a balanced and diverse group of participants The number of participants selected will depend on the available funding and the fit between applicants? interests and goals. For more information about the Summer Institute, contact the Summer Institute co-coordinators, Sean Goggins (gogginss at missouri.edu) and Diane Bailey (debailey at ischool.utexas.edu). For information about the broader community of researchers interested in design and study of sociotechnical systems, see: CSST (www.sociotech.net), the ?Researchers of the Socio-Technical? Facebook group, or the CSST listserv (csst at listserv.syr.edu). 2014 Mentors Mark Ackerman, University of Michigan Diane Bailey, University of Texas (Co-Director) Paul Dourish, University of California ? Irvine Nicole Ellison, University of Michigan Sean Goggins, University of Missouri (Co-Director) Erik Johnston, Arizona State University Tony Salvador, Intel Jennifer Stromer-Galley, Syracuse Susan Stuckey, IBM Steve Sawyer, Syracuse (Digital Societies RCN) Wayne Lutters, UMBC (Digital Societies RCN) Brian Butler, Maryland (Digital Societies RCN) Andrea Hoplight-Tapia, The Pennsylvania State University (Digital Societies RCN) From jstromer at syr.edu Mon Feb 24 13:22:26 2014 From: jstromer at syr.edu (Jennifer Stromer-Galley) Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2014 21:22:26 +0000 Subject: [Air-L] Still time to provide feedback on the AoIR Website Message-ID: Hi everyone! Last week I posted a note inviting feedback on the AoIR website. A sub-committee of the AoIR Executive Board is working to revamp the Association's website (www.aoir.org). We still want to get your thoughts on the website, whether you've visited it or not. Take a few minutes now to take the survey: https://syracuseuniversity.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_1UhJqsqjSB9Jm5f. Let us know how we can better serve you! Your PR/Website Committee: Anthony Hoffman, Annette Markham, and Jenny Stromer-Galley Associate Professor | School of Information Studies Vice President | Association of Internet Researchers Syracuse University 220 Hinds Hall Syracuse, New York 13244 t 315.443.1823 f 315.443.5673 e jstromer at syr.edu w www.stromer-galley.com w www.aoir.org ischool.syr.edu From je.burgess at qut.edu.au Mon Feb 24 18:28:19 2014 From: je.burgess at qut.edu.au (Jean Burgess) Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2014 02:28:19 +0000 Subject: [Air-L] ICA Regional Conference (Brisbane, 2014) Update Message-ID: <5D8D232B-E847-4368-A645-6B190527AD20@qut.edu.au> The ICA Regional Conference (Brisbane, 2014) Call for Extended Abstracts and Panel Proposals Digital Transformations, Social Media Engagement, and the Asian Century Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia, 1-3 October 2014 The ICA Regional Conference will be held at the City (Gardens Point) Campus of the Queensland University of Technology (QUT), Brisbane, Australia, from 1-3 October 2014. The event is supported by the Creative Industries Faculty at QUT, the QUT Business School, the International Communications Association (ICA), and the Australian and New Zealand Communication Association (ANZCA). The conference will be seeking extended abstracts (1000-2000 words) and panel proposals related to the thematic areas of: ? Digital media and social change; ? Information media and digital journalism; ? Entertainment media and culture; ? Convergence law, policy and political economy; ? Asian media in transition; ? Communication and public engagement; ? Organizational communication; ? Social media and communications practice; ? Science and environmental communication ? Health communication; ? Digital media and education; ? Crisis and emergency communication; ? Digital media and political communication. Extended Abstracts Extended abstracts should indicate author details and institutional affiliation on the front page. They should be not less than 1000 words in length and not more than 2000 words in length. References cited in the extended abstract should be included in a bibliography. Note: there will not be a call for refereed papers. Submissions will be accepted or rejected on the basis of the extended abstract only. If this will present you with any issues in relation to conference support from your institution, please contact the conference organizers. The conference organizers reserve the right to publish the extended abstract in a book available to all conference delegates. This does not preclude submission of the material to any refereed academic journal, book, book chapter or other publication. Panel proposals Panel proposals must provide a rationale for the panel of not more than 400 words, and each proposed presenter must also provide an abstract of 100-250 words. There are to be no less than three and more than four presenters in any panel proposal, although a Panel Chair and Panel Respondent can also be included. All submissions to the Conference will be subject to peer review, and submitters will be advised of whether their proposal has been accepted or rejected no later than 21 June 2014. All of those who have papers and panel proposals accepted will be required to register for the Conference no later than 12 September 2014. Failure to register by this date will lead to papers being withdrawn from the program. All submissions are to be through the Conference web site at http://icabrisbane2014.com/. Emailed attachments will not be accepted. Registration Fees FACULTY ($ AUD) Early Bird Registration (on or before 22 August 2014 AEST) $300.00 Standard Registration (from 23 August until 12 September 2014 AEST) $350.00 Late Registration (from 13 September until 26 September 2014 AEST) $400.00 STUDENT Early Bird Registration (on or before 22 August 2014 AEST) $150.00 Standard Registration (from 23 August until 12 September 2014 AEST) $175.00 Late Registration (from 13 September until 26 September 2014 AEST) $200.00 Further information on the conference can be found in the attached flyer or visit the website atwww.icabrisbane2014.com . You can also email icabrisbane2014 at qut.edu.au for any queries related to the conference. From david.sutcliffe at oii.ox.ac.uk Tue Feb 25 02:59:20 2014 From: david.sutcliffe at oii.ox.ac.uk (David Sutcliffe) Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2014 10:59:20 +0000 Subject: [Air-L] Call for P&I Journal Special Issues + IPP2014 Crowdsourcing Conference Call Message-ID: <009CA1130984AE42944344901B6512532FC35B28@MBX07.ad.oak.ox.ac.uk> Dear all, The journal Policy and Internet is calling for special issue proposals. Policy and Internet Calls for Special Issues: http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/news/?id=1057 The journal is multidisciplinary: perspectives from any academic discipline are welcomed, particularly political science, economics, law, sociology, information science, communications, philosophy, computer science, psychology, management, geography and medicine. Possible topics for a special issue might include (for example): > Collective action / public participation in policy-making > Privacy / surveillance / the coercive state > Big Data / predictive analytics for public policy > Open data / open government > Internet governance > Crime / law enforcement > Health > Online labour markets The journal was established in 2009 as the first major peer-reviewed journal investigating the implications of the Internet and associated technologies for public policy. It is published quarterly by Wiley-Blackwell, and edited by the Oxford Internet Institute (University of Oxford) for the Policy Studies Organization (PSO). The Editors are Professor Helen Margetts, Professor Luciano Floridi, Dr Vili Lehdonvirta, and Dr Sandra Gonzalez-Bailon. Proposals should be send to the editors at: policyandinternet at oii.ox.ac.uk by 1 April 2014 *** Conference Call Reminder: Crowdsourcing for Politics and Policy *** And also, a reminder that the journal will be holding its third conference (co-convened by the OII, in collaboration with the ECPR) on 25-26 September in Oxford, on the subject of crowdsourcing. We are currently calling for abstracts. 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 Thank you! Best wishes, David Sutcliffe (Managing Editor) *** David Sutcliffe Managing Editor Oxford Internet Institute University of Oxford http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/ Tel: +44 (0)1865 612334 Managing Editor Policy and Internet Journal http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1002/(ISSN)1944-2866 http://blogs.oii.ox.ac.uk/policy/ From zara.dinnen at gmail.com Tue Feb 25 05:26:05 2014 From: zara.dinnen at gmail.com (Zara Dinnen) Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2014 13:26:05 +0000 Subject: [Air-L] Researching Contemporary Culture summer workshops 2014 (London) Message-ID: AOIR-ers, *with apologies for cross posting The following series of workshops may be of interest: Researching Contemporary Culture is a series of summer workshops for postgraduate and early career researchers. It takes place from the 14th to 16th July 2014 at the Institute of English Studies, Senate House London. Researching Contemporary Culture aims to help researchers in the field address an array of issues that currently define the study of contemporary culture by offering workshops and presentations on: developing the impact of research through exhibition, curation, and the championing of particular artists'/directors'/authors' work; producing research for open access publications; balancing public engagement and research needs; using online participatory culture as a research tool; conducting sustainable research with ephemeral data. The event will bring together specialist workshop leaders, speakers, and librarians to address these challenges through a research skills development programme of participatory workshops and advice and guidance. Researching Contemporary Culture has evolved out of the work of the Contemporary Fiction Seminar at the Institute of English Studies, and will offer a sustainable research skills enrichment programme appropriate for the study of contemporary culture in the arts and humanities disciplines of the twenty-first century. Speakers include: Caroline Bassett, Clare Birchall, Kieran Connell, Jeremy Gilbert, Gary Hall, Matt Hills, Roger Luckhurst, Holly Pester, Ernesto Priego, Agnes Woolley. The three workshop themes are: Public Practices, Archiving Now, and Interpretive Communities. Researching Contemporary Culture is supported by an AHRC Collaborative Skills Award; with additional support from the University of Birmingham, Birkbeck, University of London, and the Institute of English Studies, University of London; it is organised by Dr Zara Dinnen (University of Birmingham) and Dr Tony Venezia (Birkbeck, University of London), conveners of the Contemporary Fiction Seminar. Further information and details of how to apply are available at the website: researchingthecontemporary.net. Please email contemporaryfictionseminar at gmail.com with any queries. -- Dr Zara Dinnen Lecturer in Modern and Contemporary Literature School of English, Drama and American and Canadian Studies University of Birmingham + 44 (0) 121 414 5657 From pbooth81 at gmail.com Tue Feb 25 06:07:17 2014 From: pbooth81 at gmail.com (Paul Booth) Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2014 08:07:17 -0600 Subject: [Air-L] Reminder (01 Mar Deadline) Joss Whedon: A Celebration Message-ID: Call for Papers and Topic Proposals: Joss Whedon: A Celebration (Apologies for cross-posting) Now accepting submissions and ideas for the second annual Pop Culture Colloquium at DePaul University in Chicago! The Media and Cinema Studies program at DePaul University is hosting a one-day celebratory colloquium in honor of the work of Joss Whedon on Saturday, May 03, from 9-6. This event will feature roundtable discussions from scholars and fans of Whedon, speaking about the cultural impact of his work, as well as analyzing aspects of his television shows and films. The even will also feature special guests, screenings, screenwriting workshops, and (perhaps) a sing-a-long or two... The audience for this event is both graduate and undergraduate students, both fans and scholars, and the focus should be on informed and enlightening discussion rather than formal academic papers. "Joss Whedon: A Celebration" will take place on DePaul's Loop campus. If you're interested in speaking on a round table, please send a 200 word abstract of your topic and a CV or resume to Paul Booth (pbooth at depaul.edu) by Mar 01. Also please email with any questions. We hope that you will be able to join in the discussion and celebration! -- Paul Booth, PhD Assistant Professor of Media and Cinema Studies/Communication Technology College of Communication DePaul University 14 E. Jackson Chicago, IL 60604 From tsenft at gmail.com Tue Feb 25 12:13:42 2014 From: tsenft at gmail.com (Terri Senft) Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2014 15:13:42 -0500 Subject: [Air-L] Conference proposals: Word counts on roundtable and fishbowl submissions? Message-ID: Hi All, I putting this out to the list, because I'm assuming others will have the same question soon: I'm currently drafting both a roundtable and a fishbowl submission for Bangkok, and cannot find any information regarding appropriate word counts for these formats. 've looked at all the guidelines, twice. There are max counts for papers, panels, pre-conference workshops, and ignite talks, but nothing for roundtables or fishbowls. I did try to suss this out myself, fwiw. I registered on the automated conference submission system, and when I tried to copy what I'd written into submission box, I gt a note that my submission is "too many words." Unfortunately, I received nothing that told me what the word limit is, or how many words I am over-limit... Can someone help me out, here? Thanks! Terri -- Dr. Theresa M. Senft Global Liberal Studies Program School of Arts & Sciences New York University 726 Broadway NY NY 10003 home: *www.terrisenft.net * (needs a serious updating) facebook: www.facebook.com/theresa.senft twitter: @terrisenft From tsenft at gmail.com Tue Feb 25 12:13:42 2014 From: tsenft at gmail.com (Terri Senft) Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2014 15:13:42 -0500 Subject: [Air-L] Conference proposals: Word counts on roundtable and fishbowl submissions? Message-ID: Hi All, I putting this out to the list, because I'm assuming others will have the same question soon: I'm currently drafting both a roundtable and a fishbowl submission for Bangkok, and cannot find any information regarding appropriate word counts for these formats. 've looked at all the guidelines, twice. There are max counts for papers, panels, pre-conference workshops, and ignite talks, but nothing for roundtables or fishbowls. I did try to suss this out myself, fwiw. I registered on the automated conference submission system, and when I tried to copy what I'd written into submission box, I gt a note that my submission is "too many words." Unfortunately, I received nothing that told me what the word limit is, or how many words I am over-limit... Can someone help me out, here? Thanks! Terri -- Dr. Theresa M. Senft Global Liberal Studies Program School of Arts & Sciences New York University 726 Broadway NY NY 10003 home: *www.terrisenft.net * (needs a serious updating) facebook: www.facebook.com/theresa.senft twitter: @terrisenft From zimmerm at uwm.edu Tue Feb 25 12:32:49 2014 From: zimmerm at uwm.edu (Michael Zimmer) Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2014 14:32:49 -0600 Subject: [Air-L] PhD Workshop on Internet Research and Ethics (March 20-21, Aalborg, DK) Message-ID: <9B6A6FFD-C5E5-4DA9-9654-3F749E140EEE@uwm.edu> Colleagues: I wanted to share this upcoming PhD student workshop on "Internet Research and Ethics", held March 20-21 at Aalborg University. Details below. -Michael March 20-21: Internet Research and Ethics http://www.hcci.hum.aau.dk/index.php?id=9041&tx_ttnews[tt_news]=365&cHash=78c59d117dc13406b40ab6c698b3e3ae Organisers: Michael Zimmer, Tia Hansen, Thomas Ryberg, Ann Bygholm Registration to hannepc at hum.aau.dk Room: 1.40, Nyhavnsgade 14, 9000 Aalborg Aim of the workshop: The aim of this workshop is to explore research ethics in general and with a particular focus on Internet Research Ethics and the dilemmas emerging with new grounds for research and data collection. The workshop will start with introductions to the history and principles of research ethics in general and a focus on non-biomedical areas of research and Human Research Ethic Boards (Tia Hansen, Ann Bygholm). Furthermore, there will be introductions on how to use pilot studies to improve ethics as well as results. The workshop will thus introduce to the work being conducted as part of the doctoral school's Human Research Ethics Board. Following this the workshop will focus on Internet Research Ethics and the core issues related to internet studies (e.g. data collection and archiving) (Michael Zimmer). Furthermore, we shall explore particular research projects as cases where various research ethical dilemmas and problems emerge. Format: The workshop will be highly interactive and include a mixture of presentations, group work, case-exploration, discussion and PhD students? presentations of own research projects. We therefore ask each student to hand in a short (1-2 pages) description of: ? Presentation of their research project (case, context, aim) ? Statement of dilemmas, problems or ethical considerations in relation tothe research project These presentations should be handed in on Friday March 14 at the latest. The presentations will be collected and made available to all participants. Preliminary programme (timing to be finally confirmed): Day 1 ? March 20: 8.15 - 9.00 Welcome and introduction 9.00-12.00 Research ethics basics and tools by Tia Hansen and Ann Bygholm - lectures interspersed with ?exercises?/discussions in pairs. Themes: ? History and principles of research ethics in general ? Non-biomedical areas and Review Boards in particular ? Don?t launch without a pilot! How to use pilot studies to improve ethics as well as results 12-13 Lunch break 13.00-17.00: Core issues and approaches in Internet Research Ethics- Michael Zimmer ? presentations and discussions Day 2 ? March 21: 8.15 - 10.00 Internet ethics - exploring cases: "Tastes, Ties and Time" and ?The Blackberry Project? 10.15 ? 12.00: PhD Students presenting cases and working in smaller discussion groups with organizers as discussants 12.00 - 13.00 Lunch break 13.00 - 14.30: Continuing work in pairs or smaller groups - preparing for a short summary of the discussions/main issues 14.30 - 16.00: Roundtable finale: ? Students present main results of revisiting their projects (lists of to do and leftover problems?) ? Plenum discussion of cases/dilemmas ? Evaluation, and take-home messages Readings: Research Ethics and Basic tools: Alderson, P., & Morrow, V. (2006). Multidisciplinary research ethics review: is it feasible? International Journal of Social Research Methodology, 9(5), 405-417, doi: 10.1080/13645570500435207 Cozby, P. C. (2003). Ethical research. Chapter 3 in Methods in behavioral research (pp. 34-60). Boston: McGraw-Hill. Core issues and approaches in Internet Research Ethics: Buchanan, E., & Zimmer, M. (2012). Internet Research Ethics. The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Retrieved from plato.stanford.edu/entries/ethics-internet-research/ Markham, A. & Buchanan, E. (2012). Ethical Decision-Making and Internet Research Recommendations from the AoIR Ethics Working Committee (Version 2.0). Retrieved fromaoir.org/documents/ethics-guide/ Secretary's Advisory Committee on Human Research Protections (SACHRP). (2012). Considerations and Recommendations Concerning Internet Research and Human Subjects Research Regulations. Retrieved fromhttp://www.hhs.gov/ohrp/sachrp/mtgings/2013%20March%20Mtg/internet_research.pdf Internet ethics - exploring cases: Zimmer, M. (2010). ?But the data is already public?: On the ethics of research in Facebook. Ethics and Information Technology, 12(4), 313?325. (http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10676-010-9227-5) Parry, M. (2011). Harvard Researchers Accused of Breaching Students? Privacy. The Chronicle of Higher Education. Retrieved from chronicle.com/article/Harvards-Privacy-Meltdown/128166/ Underwood, M. K., Rosen, L. H., More, D., Ehrenreich, S. E., & Gentsch, J. K. (2012). The BlackBerry project: Capturing the content of adolescents? text messaging. Developmental Psychology, 48(2), 295?302. Hill, K. (2012). A Texas University?s Mind-Boggling Database Of Teens? Daily Text Messages, Emails, and IMs Over Four Years. Forbes.com. Retrieved fromwww.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2012/04/18/a-texas-universitys-mind-boggling-database-of-teens-daily-text-messages-emails-and-ims-over-four-years/ Practical: ECTS: 2 Points for attending and for preparation (including handing in 1-2 page description of research project and ethical dilemmas ? see above). For more information about Michael Zimmer: ? http://www4.uwm.edu/sois/people/profiles/zimmerm.cfm ? http://www.michaelzimmer.org/about/bio/ For more information about Tia Hansen ? http://vbn.aau.dk/en/persons/tia-g-b-hansen(ddcf2848-2f9e-4f0a-a87c-bc7b12ac95f3).html Number of participants: max 15 Registration to: hannepc at hum.aau.dk no later than March 12 Location: Aalborg University, Aalborg, room not yet confirmed -- Michael Zimmer, PhD Assistant Professor, School of Information Studies Director, Center for Information Policy Research University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee e: zimmerm at uwm.edu w: www.michaelzimmer.org From erika.pearson at otago.ac.nz Tue Feb 25 13:05:26 2014 From: erika.pearson at otago.ac.nz (Erika Pearson) Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2014 21:05:26 +0000 Subject: [Air-L] reminder: CfP for IR15 closing March 1 Message-ID: Dear colleagues Just a quick reminder that the deadline for submissions for IR15: Boundaries and Intersections is coming up on March 1st. There will be no general extensions past this date, so please make sure you get your submissions in on time. Information about the types of submissions (including the inaugural "Prize For The Weird"!) is online at ir15.aoir.org. Also, to clarify, abstracts for roundtable, fishbowl and experimental sessions should be approximately 250-300 words, and no additional uploaded document is required. If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me at ir15programchair at aoir.org We look forward to your submissions and seeing you in Bangkok in October! best wishes erika pearson program chair, IR15 ir15.aoir.org From judith.simon at univie.ac.at Wed Feb 26 06:40:25 2014 From: judith.simon at univie.ac.at (Judith Simon) Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2014 15:40:25 +0100 Subject: [Air-L] CfA: PhD Summer School, San Sebastian, Spain (28.07. - 01.08.2014) Message-ID: <530DFCD9.4060403@univie.ac.at> The Post-Graduate Program in Philosophy, Science and Values (University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU, and National Autonomous University of Mexico, UNAM) and the Institute for Technology Assessment and Systems Analysis (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology) invite PhD students to apply for the interdisciplinary and international Summer School: *The Regulative Capacity of Knowledge Objects: Opening the Black Box of Knowledge Governance* Think of Climate Change, Wikileaks, nanotechnology, Responsible Innovation, neural implants, Linux, GMOs or the German Energy Transition. But when we think about it, do they actually exist? And if they do what should they be like in the future? What exactly are they? Are they symbols, technical artifacts, discourses, constellations of actors, scientific disputes? Are they political issues, societal problems, human-nonhuman-hybrids, modifiers of existence, problems for governance and regulation? In a way, they are all of these things and less -- and probably more. They are what this Summer School refers to as "knowledge objects". These objects are peculiar, blurry, constantly unfolding and transforming entities that increasingly challenge contemporary societies and sciences and our understanding of knowledge. The knowledge in knowledge objects is always plural: scientific, public, mundane, interdisciplinary, speculative, uncertain. It is heterogeneously produced about, with, through or in them and contributes to their identification, contestation and transformation. Yet, knowledge objects are also enablers of such knowledge productions and the societal controversies that go along with them. This intricate entanglement of knowledge objects and society poses various normative and regulative questions -- which are part of these objects and due to them the problems societies face. This entanglement could be viewed as a fundamental challenge for knowledge governance. To address these complex challenges to societies and sciences, the Summer School aims to bring together two strands of science and technology studies (STS) which so far haven't combined: the focus on "knowledge objects" and the perspective of "knowledge governance". The starting point of this summer school is the assumption that knowledge objects are subject and object of knowledge governance. They create the need for and they enable various forms of knowledge governance. In a way, this synchrony is a black box of knowledge governance. The Summer School proposes that this "governance black box" can be opened by focusing on an extended concept of knowledge objects and by analyzing their governance dimensions. *Keynotes by:* *David Guston*, PhD, Professor of Political Science, Arizona State University, US *Graham Harman*, PhD, Professor of Philosophy, American University, Cairo, Egypt *Karin Knorr-Cetina*, PhD, Professor emeritus of Sociology, University of Constance, Germany, and George *Wells Beadle* Distinguished Service Professor, University of Chicago, US *Noortje Marres*, PhD, Senior Lecturer, Goldsmiths University of London, UK Applications are due by 28th March 2014. *Find out all the details at: http://www.itas.kit.edu/english/events_2014_summerschool.php * -- Judith Simon Department of Philosophy - University of Vienna (PI: Epistemic Trust in Socio-Technical Epistemic Systems ) ITAS - Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (Senior Researcher) Institut Jean Nicod - Ecole normale sup?rieure - Paris (Associate Post-doctoral fellow) From amarkham at gmail.com Wed Feb 26 07:38:28 2014 From: amarkham at gmail.com (Annette Markham) Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2014 16:38:28 +0100 Subject: [Air-L] Join the MA Program in Digital Living, Aarhus University Fall 2014 Message-ID: Dear Colleagues, Thanks in advance for distributing this information to those who might be interested in attending our new MA program in "Digital Living" at Aarhus University, as part of the Department of Aesthetics & Communication within the Faculty of Arts. ********** Are you interested in how digital technologies are used in everyday life? Do you care how technologies impact social and work life? Would you like to learn how to design better futures by exploring the intersection of networked sociality, organizational practices, and IT design? If so, you might be interested in a new international master's degree program at Aarhus University: "Digital Living: Work and Social Life in an Era of Smart Machines and Social Media." Curriculum taught in English. Learn more here: http://arts.au.dk/digitalliving This MA focuses on how digital technologies are used in everyday life and offers students the opportunity to consider how we might design better futures by exploring the intersection of networked sociality, organizational practices, and IT design. Discuss cutting edge knowledge about the social impact of digital technologies with internationally established professors. Learn from computer scientists how digital forms of communication and interaction are designed and programmed. Work with professors from information and media studies to build a strong grounding in the political, social, and economic structures of 21st Century organizations and institutions. In addition to theoretically-grounded classroom discussions, students design and build interfaces, engage in empirical studies of digital contexts, and explore how new eBusiness models work. This well-rounded master's program provides solid grounding for analyzing contemporary social media practices and developing sustainable and ethical digital futures. Digital living is an interdisciplinary Master Program within Information Studies at Aarhus University. Curriculum taught in English. Application deadline: March 15 (April 1 for Danish residents)* Notification of Acceptance: early May 2014 Start Date: 1 September 2014 Need more information? Feel free to contact: Associate Professor Annette Markham: amarkham at dac.au.dk Associate Professor Claus Bossen: imvcb at dac.au.dk *exceptions to the deadline may be granted, depending on circumstances. Please inquire if this might apply to you. Best Regards, Annette ***************************************************** Annette N. Markham, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Dept of Aesthetics & Communication, Aarhus University Guest Professor, Dept of Informatics, Ume? University, Sweden Affiliate Professor, School of Communication, Loyola University, Chicago amarkham at gmail.com http://markham.internetinquiry.org/ Twitter: annettemarkham From qcentral at indiana.edu Wed Feb 26 07:49:37 2014 From: qcentral at indiana.edu (Mary L. Gray) Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2014 10:49:37 -0500 Subject: [Air-L] Queer Internet Studies Workshop April 4 - NYC References: <6732C52F455BE3469977ADE67D43E2511BBB764F@TK5EX14MBXC293.redmond.corp.microsoft.com> Message-ID: <575F2A14-2AB9-4CBC-ABEB-7D09EF3FCCEC@indiana.edu> Hey all, I'm passing along the CFP for an AMAZING workshop!! Hope you can make it!! best, mary Mary L. Gray Associate Professor Communication and Culture Adjunct Faculty, American Studies; Anthropology; Gender Studies Indiana University, Bloomington Senior Researcher Microsoft Research --------- Hi all, See below for details on a Queer Internet Studies workshop I'm organizing with Jack Gieseking. It's a one-day workshop to be held at the Columbia School of Journalism with support from the Brown Institute for Media Innovation and Just Publics 365. Space is limited and we're taking people on a first-come, first-serve basis. Hope you can make it! All apologies for cross-posting, Jessa ** Queer Internet Studies: A One-Day Workshop The increasing visibility of lgbtq lives and issues in mainstream media has been fraught with criticism of how such lives and issues are depicted and to whose benefit or detriment. Building from the critical work underlying these objections, we ask: what are concurrent technological developments, namely in ever emergent digital media? Online technologies have provided a means of storytelling, visualization, community building, and educational resources that have important implications for what it means to be queer. Internet scholarship crosses a number of disciplinary boundaries, converging on questions of how digital technologies are reshaping issues of identity, community and interpersonal relationships. Queer theory has been similarly multi-faceted in drawing together a diverse set of scholars interested in sexuality, gender and structures of power. In conjoining these areas of investigation, the main objective of the QIS workshop is to generate conversations that cross disciplines and backgrounds, anchored in questions of how online technologies shape and are appropriated by queer identities. The Queer Internet Studies brings together thinkers, makers and doers in a workshop format who draw upon social scientific methods to do work at the intersection of queer life and the internet. Taking Samuel Delany's (2001) call for lgbtq contact and networking to heart, we seek to bring together researchers who investigate the construction of queer communities, the development of queer knowledge production and cultures, and assess how queer identity is understood and archived. This workshop is geared towards fostering scholarly, activist, and journalistic opportunities for digital technologies and queer storytelling and visualization. We look to identify existing projects as well as suggest future collaborations of writers, scholars, and technologists interested in possibilities for supporting the development of the queer internet and queering the internet. Format: The workshop is structured around generating conversations and connections between people working on similar topics from different backgrounds. More interactive sessions will take place in the morning with lightning round introductions and large group conversations. Structured afternoon sessions will allow for conversations between invited speakers, followed by open working group time for collaboration and conversation. The day will conclude with a social hour geared towards connecting participants who share ideas for projects and collaborations. Additional details: The workshop will be held at Columbia University's School of Journalism on April 4, 2014. Here's a website with more information: http://www.jgieseking.org/qis2014/ If you'd like to attend, please fill out the following form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1DgWcsK_DuPQfIaFAXrKj80yCl5B3FRzCyfDtIViOtno/viewform For questions and more information, email jlingel at microsoft.com or jgieseki at bowdoin.edu. Thanks! Jack & Jessa From ptcox at camden.rutgers.edu Wed Feb 26 08:43:44 2014 From: ptcox at camden.rutgers.edu (Patrick Cox) Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2014 10:43:44 -0600 Subject: [Air-L] H-DigiRhet Editors wanted Message-ID: Hello! My name is Patrick Cox and I am Vice-President for Networks at H-Net. I'm looking for editors to run H-Net's network on Digital Rhetoric, H-DigiRhet (https://networks.h-net.org/h-digirhet). The network is already loaded up onto the Commons and has over 800 subscribers, but no one running it! Folks with an interest in building this community of Digital scholars using the full range of tools and resources the H-Net Commons has to offer will find here a ready-made audience looking at a blank canvas. In addition to lively discussion and debate, the site can be used to build a collections of resources, blogging, multimedia content, original book reviews, collaborations with other H-Net Networks, and pretty much anything else you'd like to find on a website to build truly unique resource for the field of Digital Studies. Ideally, multiple people will apply to form a team of editors. You provide the ambition, H-Net will provide the training and technical support. If you are interested, contact Patrick Cox at vp-net at mail.h-net.msu.edu. Thanks. Patrick Cox H-NET Vice-President for Networks -- Patrick Cox PhD Candidate, Childhood Studies, Rutgers http://camden-rutgers.academia.edu/PatrickCox http://childhood.camden.rutgers.edu/ https://email.rutgers.edu/mailman/listinfo/exploring_childhood_studies "In the depths of winter I finally learned there was in me an invincible summer." --Albert Camus "Don't let your studies interfere with your education." --Colonel Henry Rutgers "the jUdges of nOrmalitY are present everywhere." --Foucault, of course From jpedregosa at gmail.com Thu Feb 27 04:16:07 2014 From: jpedregosa at gmail.com (Jj Pedregosa) Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2014 13:16:07 +0100 Subject: [Air-L] Conference on Digital Discrimination and Social Networks. Barcelona, 13th and 14th of March Message-ID: Friends The main aim of the conference is to invite participants to actively *share current experiences and research and push forward our knowledge to fight discrimination*. Academics, NGOs working with youths or on discrimination, activists, trainers, teachers, policy makers, journalists, social media professionals and the general public are welcome to attend. Programme of the conference: http://digitaldiscrimination.eu/conference/ From jacqueline.vickery at unt.edu Thu Feb 27 07:49:56 2014 From: jacqueline.vickery at unt.edu (Dr. Jacqueline Vickery) Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2014 09:49:56 -0600 Subject: [Air-L] Survey on vlogs Message-ID: Hello, One of my grad students is conducing research on vlogs for his thesis. If you have 10 minutes to spare please consider taking his survey: https://unt.az1.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_6WeVcs4m7jD3Qj3 and please feel free to distribute widely. Thanks, - jacqueline ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr. Jacqueline Vickery, Ph.D. Assistant Professor College of Arts & Sciences Department of Radio, Television, & Film University of North Texas ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From Wolfgang.Suetzl at uibk.ac.at Thu Feb 27 09:25:06 2014 From: Wolfgang.Suetzl at uibk.ac.at (=?iso-8859-1?Q?S=FCtzl=2C_Wolfgang?=) Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2014 17:25:06 +0000 Subject: [Air-L] CfP Media Art in Media Education Message-ID: Call for Papers MEDIENIMPULSE 2/2014 MEDIENIMPULSE is a quarterly, peer-reviewed open-access online journal on media education publishing German and English language contributions. Please send 300-word abstracts and enquiries to Wolfgang Suetzl at suetzl at ohio.edu by 10 March 2014. Full papers of max. 25000 characters due by 15 May 2014 Date of publication 21 June 2014 Special focus: The Potential of Media art in Media Education The development of media technologies has long met with the interest of media educationalists. Media art offers a wide range of possibilities of experimentation, critical reflection, and communication in educational settings. This edition of MEDIENIMPULSE is dedicated to an in-depth exploration of this area of research. One question artists have been pursuing is how media help create new structures and communicative processes in society. On the one hand, media art itself is facing a paradox of communication, often working with digital technologies while not benefitting from large digital audiences. Additionally, possibilities of communicating about media art in a text-based fashion are often limited. On the other hand, media artists have adopted progressive positions in debates on media technologies in understanding media art as intervention and questioning, and, not least of all, as a deconstruction of media themselves. Against this background, digital media art has created non-commercialized discursive openings for education, critical reflection, subversive media use, innovation, and resistance. The contributions to this issue of MEDIENIMPULSE concern the interrelations between media art and media education, and their particular relevance to the practical and theoretical challenges in media education. From acocciol at pratt.edu Thu Feb 27 12:52:09 2014 From: acocciol at pratt.edu (Anthony Cocciolo) Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2014 15:52:09 -0500 Subject: [Air-L] Search reopened: Assistant Prof. for Computing and Emerging Technologies, Pratt Institute, NYC Message-ID: Pratt Institute, School of Information and Library Science, has an opening for full time tenure-track position at the level of assistant professor in the area of *Computing and Emerging Information Technologies* Full time, tenure-track, beginning Fall 2014 *http://tinyurl.com/search2014 * To apply: Applicants are invited to submit a single PDF file that includes the following documents: Cover letter, curriculum vitae, statement on research and teaching interests, and names of four references. Please e-mail materials to: Debbie Rabina: drabina at pratt.edu To learn more about Pratt SILS full-time faculty visit http://research.prattsils.org/ -- Debbie Rabina, Ph.D. Associate Professor Pratt Institute, School of Information and Library Science 144 West 14th Street, 6th fl. New York, NY 10011-7301 drabina at pratt.edu http://mysite.pratt.edu/~drabina/index.htm From jjwilliams at ualr.edu Thu Feb 27 15:12:39 2014 From: jjwilliams at ualr.edu (Joe Williams) Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2014 17:12:39 -0600 Subject: [Air-L] U of Arkansas Little Rock tenure-track opening Message-ID: <004e01cf3411$78d86650$6a8932f0$@ualr.edu> Hi All, My apologies for cross-postings. The Department of Rhetoric and Writing at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock (UALR) invites applications for a tenure-track assistant professor to teach undergraduate and graduate courses in professional writing. We are especially interested in candidates with expertise and experience in one of the following areas: a) new media design and development; b) creative nonfiction, especially related to new media. Here is the link to the complete job posting: http://ualr.peopleadmin.com/postings/1939 A bit about us: The Department of Rhetoric and Writing, a stand-alone writing department, houses the First-Year Composition program, the University Writing Center, and the Little Rock Writing Project. The department offers a BA, a minor, and an MA in Professional and Technical Writing. These degrees include courses in rhetoric, editing, creative nonfiction, and technical writing. The department has approximately 70 active majors and 60 active graduate students. If you have any questions about UALR or our program in general, don't hesitate to email me. Best, Joe Williams -------- Joseph John Williams, Ph.D. Co-Director, ATLE Associate Professor of Rhetoric and Writing University of Arkansas at Little Rock 2801 S. University Avenue Little Rock, AR 72204 (501) 569-8313 jjwilliams at ualr.edu From explicit_corpse at hotmail.com Thu Feb 27 22:39:17 2014 From: explicit_corpse at hotmail.com (V. T.) Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2014 22:39:17 -0800 Subject: [Air-L] Call for chapter proposals: A Thousand Platforms: Deep Teaching for Computational Media and Generalist Design In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: CALL FOR BOOK CHAPTER PROPOSALSA Thousand Platforms: Deep Teaching for Computational Media and Generalist DesignEdited by Michael Filimowicz, School of Interactive Arts and Technology, Simon Fraser University Today?s creators of interactive media ?switch hardware and software tools like colors of paint.?[1] This edited collection focuses on undergraduate teaching and learning by bringing together essays addressing pedagogies that produce the fabled "unicorns" ? graduates who can Program, Design and Create. Curricula in computational media are faced with various challenges, such as (1) maintaining a balance between breadth and depth of specialist knowledge; (2) developing fluency in coding despite otherwise advanced technological creativity; or (3) the role of numeracy in visually-dominated media. A multiplicity of technical skillsets? animation, graphic design, electronics, computer vision, web design, sound design, 3D printing, algorithmic thinking amongst many others ? contribute to an equally diverse set of professional fields, such as UXD, audiovisual postproduction, web application development, project management, creative directing practices, game programming, storytelling, industrial design, communication design and beyond. This rich combination of skillsets and possible roles are profoundly cross-pollinating and thus trigger continuous shifts in professional contexts. Within this framework, this edited collection intends to address topics such as ( but not limited to): ? Project-based courses and teamwork? Entrepreneurial components to curricula? The perception and realities of specialist vs. generalist knowledge? Translating faculty research and graduate collegiality into the undergraduate realm? Conceptualization of similarities, differences, continuums and relationships between art and design pedagogies? Ways in which generalist creative and technical knowledge translate to a student audience with "glamour job" expectations ? Pedagogical strategies that acclimate students for a fast changing workforce where much of the most interesting and rewarding work is performed on a per project basis? Instructional strategies that evoke students? passion about coding, mathematics, research methodologies and writing In brief, this edited collection asks: what does it mean to teach students toward a thousand technological platforms? Please send your original 500 word abstracts in the body of the email along with a short bio to mfa13 at sfu.ca with the subject heading ?1000 Platforms.? Deadline: Aug 1, 2014.Notification of acceptance: Oct 1, 2014Full chapters (6000-7000 words) due: January 11th, 2015. ---------[1] To cite an interview with Matt Cottam in Joshua Noble's Programming Interactivity. From jsalmons at vision2lead.com Fri Feb 28 07:52:30 2014 From: jsalmons at vision2lead.com (Janet Salmons, Ph.D.) Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2014 08:52:30 -0700 Subject: [Air-L] New Social Media, New Social Science... and New Ethical Issues! Message-ID: The New Social Media, New Social Science network is a partnership of the NatCen, Sage UK and the Oxford Internet Institute. NSMNSS has convened numerous on-site and online events about the use of social media in research. Attendees at the on-site events are mostly UK-based, but the online events have attracted global participation. Ethical issues have been a persistent theme throughout the discussions. We offered a questionnaire last spring to learn more specifically about ethical concerns as well as the sources they consult when making decisions in their own research. Not surprisingly, the AOIR guidelines were frequently mentioned as trusted resources. I analyzed all of the records from events and the questionnaire responses to determine what specific issues e-researchers identify, and to what extent these issues are addressed the codes and guidelines they named. In addition to the AOIR guide, I looked at a number of other current guidelines from professional associations. You can find links to the full report and an overview presentation on the NSMNSS blog *http://bit.ly/1kvhDAH .* You can join us for a conversation on the issues in a Tweetchat at #NSMNSS on March 11, 19:00 or 7 pm in London, 3 PM in New York. (See www.timeanddate.com for your time zone.) *Janet Salmons Ph.D.* *Capella University School of Business & Vision2Lead, Inc.*Site- http://www.vision2lead.com Follow Twitter @einterview Now available as Kindle e-books: Online Interviews in Real Time & Cases in Online Interview Research. Coming soon: Qualitative Online Interviews Boulder, CO jsalmons at vision2lead.com From lee.komito at ucd.ie Fri Feb 28 08:46:18 2014 From: lee.komito at ucd.ie (Lee Komito) Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2014 16:46:18 +0000 Subject: [Air-L] Assistant Professor/College Lecturer Position: University College Dublin School of Information & Library Studies Message-ID: <5310BD5A.7020801@ucd.ie> Open Position: Lecturer in Information Ref: 006474 Lecturer in Information (Above the Bar) University College Dublin - UCD School of Information and Library Studies The School of Information and Library Studies at University College Dublin invites applications for a five-year posts. The successful candidate will contribute significantly to the quality expansion of research in one or more of the following areas: digital curation, visualization / information design, informatisation of social/ organisational processes, information architecture, information systems design, related topics regarding the interplay of people, information, technology and social structures; and to participate effectively in the School's educational programmes. Applicants should have completed a PhD in Information and Library Science or related discipline. Candidates who do not yet have a PhD in Information and Library Science or related discipline but who expect to have completed this degree by the date of appointment may be considered. Closing date for applications is Monday, 31 March 2013 (GMT). It is envisaged an appointee will commence in post September 2014. Further information (including application procedure) should be obtained from http://www.ucd.ie/hr/jobvacancies. For more detail on the School of Information and Library Studies, and its undergraduate and postgraduate programmes, see http://www.ucd.ie/sils. Informal inquiries to Dr. Lee Komito (lee.komito at ucd.ie), Head of School/Head of Subject. Representatives from the School will be available at upcoming iConference in Berlin for further discussion. -- Lee Komito (e) lee.komito at ucd.ie School of Information & Library Studies (p) +353.1.7167594 University College Dublin (f) +353.1.7161161 Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland (w) www.ucd.ie/lkomito From amanda.licastro at gmail.com Fri Feb 28 10:48:57 2014 From: amanda.licastro at gmail.com (Amanda Licastro) Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2014 13:48:57 -0500 Subject: [Air-L] #MLA15 CFP of interest Message-ID: If you are hoping to attend MLA next January in Vancouver, please consider applying to our panel which I think will be of interest to this list. Designing an Archive for Cloud and Crowd - How can networks (human and/or digital) combat institutional amnesia? What digital spaces can we build today to preserve a history for tomorrow? 350-word proposals by 14 March 2014. Contact amanda.licastro at gmail.com or benmiller314 at gmail.com Have a wonderful weekend, Amanda Amanda Licastro M.A. Doctoral Student CUNY Graduate Center Instructional Technology Fellow Macaulay Honors College http://digitocentrism.commons.gc.cuny.edu/ @amandalicastro From mpavlovski at iml.ukim.edu.mk Fri Feb 28 23:55:10 2014 From: mpavlovski at iml.ukim.edu.mk (Mishel Pavlovski) Date: Sat, 1 Mar 2014 08:55:10 +0100 Subject: [Air-L] Extended deadline CFP "Media: Tyheory and Practice" Message-ID: <000001cf3523$96346f60$c29d4e20$@iml.ukim.edu.mk> Call for papers Extended Deadline: 15 March 2014 Second Annual International CCCS Conference 2014 ??Media: Theory and Practice?? Hotel Continental, Skopje, Macedonia, 4?\6 September 2014 http://cultcenter.net/ Supported by: European Communication Research and Education Association International Association for Media and Communication Research The Centre for Culture and Cultural Studies (CCCS) invites proposals for papers, thematic panels and original media productions for Second Annual International CCCS Conference 2014 ??Media: Theory and Practice?? The aim of this conference revolves around a foundational impetus to shed greater light on all relevant aspects of media studies, including mass communication, media technology, the visual and the performing arts, TV, radio, WEB and print media, as well as other key components of media studies and mass communication. We invite proposals based on media theory (particularly critical media studies and cultural studies), and proposals that consider the relationship between media and (popular) culture, politics, arts, new media, as pertinent fields of study. We welcome submissions that offer original media productions: documentary films, fictionalized or non-narrative creative expressions. The submitted proposal needs to contain a creative or theoretical explanation of the submitted work. We invite projects by PhD students or submissions by teams of students and instructors (lecturers). Hence, the Second Annual International CCCS Conference 2014 ??Media: Theory and Practice?? strives to offer a dialogic space for media theorists and practitioners. Along those lines, we invite media studies?? theorists as well as practitioners to offer proposals through engaging and current ideas, paper topics, workshop presentations and round table discussions. Possible topics include, but are not limited to: * Media Analyses o Content analysis o Media literacy o Media discourses * Critical Theory and Media Criticism o Media and hegemony o Media and globalization * Media and Political Communication o Media activism o Media and ideology o Media and democracy * Media and Law o (De)Regulation of media o Media and privacy o Media and copyright * Art and Media o Art-science interface o Media and aesthetics o Film o Theatre o The visual arts o The performing arts * Media and Culture o Media and gender o Diaspora, migrants and media o Media and ethnicity o Media and audience o Cultural populism o Cultural capital o Media and remembrance/forgetting o Media and heritage o Media and identity o Media representation * New Media o Media and games o Social media o Digital activism o Media ecosystem o Multimedia * Journalism studies o Journalism and social and cultural representations o The role and status of journalism in the era of digital technology Paper proposals For individual paper proposals, please fill out the following form http://cultcenter.net/?wpgform_qv=registration-form-papers If you have problems filling the form, please download offline form in MS WORD format http://cultcenter.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/Registration-form.docx Submissions for individual paper proposals should number to 250 words. Important Dates and Fees Deadline for abstracts submission: 15 March 2014 Notifications of acceptance: 1 April 2014 Deadline for full paper submission: 1 December 2014 Early registration (till 1 May 2014): ?40 Late registration (till 15 August 2014): ?60 On-site registration (or after 15 August 2014): ?80 The registration fee includes: the welcome party, conference materials, an online publication of the abstracts, refreshment breaks. Full papers that have received a positive review will be published in the journals ?????????? ??????/Culture?? and/or ??Investigating Culture??. Official languages of Conference are English, Russian and Macedonian. The Conference will be held on 4-6 September, 2014 in Hotel Continental, Skopje, the Republic of Macedonia. For any further information please contact Dr. Mishel Pavlovski (mishel at cultcenter.net) or Dr. Loreta Georgievska Jakovleva (loreta at cultcenter.net) ============================================================================ ============== Dr. Mishel Pavlovski University ??Ss. Cyril and Methodius?? Institute for Macedonian Literature http://www.iml.ukim.edu.mk/ Centre for Culture and Cultural Studies http://cultcenter.net/ From charles.ess at gmail.com Sat Feb 1 00:07:14 2014 From: charles.ess at gmail.com (Charles Ess) Date: Sat, 01 Feb 2014 09:07:14 +0100 Subject: [Air-L] PhD course - Methodologies: Mobile Media & Mobility - Aarhus University Message-ID: Dear AoIR-ists, With the usual regrets for duplications and cross-postings - please pass along to potential candidates and appropriate lists. Please note that the course offers a sliding scale of requirements and correlative ECTs. There are no course fees, though participants will be required to pay ca. 1000.00 DKK to cover their catering costs (lunches, coffee and tea breaks, etc.) over the course of the workshop. Methodologies: Mobile Media & Mobility International PhD course, Aarhus University 1-3 April 2014 http://phdcourses.dk/Course/24583#.UuIXh_Y1j-Y Lecturers: Adriana de Souza e Silva, NC State University Rich Ling, IT-University of Copenhagen Gunnar Liest?l, Oslo University Kristian Hegner Reinau, Aalborg University Jonas Larsen, Roskilde University Anne Marit Waade, Aarhus University Thomas Bj?rner, Aalborg University Charles Ess, Oslo University Organisers: Charles Ess (Professor, UiO); Thomas Bj?rner (Associate Professor, AAU); and Anne Marit Waade (Associate Professor, AU). Graduate School of Arts, Aarhus University, PhD degree program: ICT Media, Communication and Journalism. ECTS 4 ECTS inclusive of submitting a paper 3 ECTS without submitting a paper (1 ECT extra for participating in the research workshop April 4) Time: April 1-3,2014 Room and Place: Aarhus University Cost/ Policy No course fee. Travel, accommodation and meals are not covered by the course. The course will give different perspectives on methodologies within studies in mobile media and mobility. This multidisciplinary course covers fields of research such as media science, communication, ethnography, anthropology, social science, geography, architecture, urban design and planning, research ethics, etc. The Ph.D.-course will be based on lectures, workshops and students own project presentations in a mixed setting aiming at creating an open and creative research dialogue. For a more detailed course description, registration information, etc., please see the course website: On behalf of the organisers, Charles Ess Professor in Media Studies Department of Media and Communication Director, Centre for Research on Media Innovations University of Oslo P.O. Box 1093 Blindern NO-0317 Oslo Norway email: charles.ess at media.uio.no From ekoltsova at hse.ru Sat Feb 1 06:54:11 2014 From: ekoltsova at hse.ru (=?koi8-r?B?68/M2MPP18Eg5czFzsEg4NLYxdfOwQ==?=) Date: Sat, 1 Feb 2014 14:54:11 +0000 Subject: [Air-L] a postdoc at Internet studies lab Message-ID: Dear all, A postdoc position at our Internet Studies Lab (that will actually make you feel very rich in Russia :)! ) is now open. Job description: http://linis.hse.ru/announcements/110788699.html It may the be extended for a tenure-track position at the dept of media and communication that we are launching in 2015, or at sociology, political science, economics etc. Olessia Koltsova Director, Laboratory for Internet Studies National Research University Higher School of Economics (St.Petersburg branch) room 322, 46 Rimskogo-Korsakova St. 190008, St.Petersburg, Russia Phone: +7 (812) 677-9452 www.linis.hse.ru E-mail: ekoltsova at hse.ru http://www.hse.ru/en/org/persons/202747 From william.dutton at oii.ox.ac.uk Sat Feb 1 07:44:46 2014 From: william.dutton at oii.ox.ac.uk (William Dutton) Date: Sat, 1 Feb 2014 15:44:46 +0000 Subject: [Air-L] a postdoc at Internet studies lab In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Olessia, please consider joining the Global Network of Interdisciplinary Internet & Society Research Centers: http://www.hiig.de/en/global-network-of-interdisciplinary-internet-society-research-centers/ On 1 Feb 2014, at 14:54, ???????? ????? ??????? wrote: > > Dear all, > > A postdoc position at our Internet Studies Lab (that will actually make you feel very rich in Russia :)! ) is now open. Job description: http://linis.hse.ru/announcements/110788699.html > > It may the be extended for a tenure-track position at the dept of media and communication that we are launching in 2015, or at sociology, political science, economics etc. > > Olessia Koltsova > Director, Laboratory for Internet Studies > National Research University Higher School of Economics (St.Petersburg branch) > room 322, 46 Rimskogo-Korsakova St. > 190008, St.Petersburg, Russia > Phone: +7 (812) 677-9452 > www.linis.hse.ru > E-mail: ekoltsova at hse.ru > http://www.hse.ru/en/org/persons/202747 > _______________________________________________ > The Air-L at listserv.aoir.org mailing list > is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org > Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org > > Join the Association of Internet Researchers: > http://www.aoir.org/ William H. Dutton Professor of Internet Studies Professorial Fellow, Balliol College CITI Fellow, Columbia University Oxford Martin Fellow Oxford Internet Institute University of Oxford 1 St Giles', Oxford OX1 3JS UNITED KINGDOM Tel +44 (0)1865 287 210 Fax +44 (0)1865 287 211 Cell +44 (0)7768 823906 Web: http://people.oii.ox.ac.uk/dutton/about/ You can access my papers on the Social Science Research Network (SSRN) at: http://ssrn.com/author=478025 Latest Books: The Oxford Handbook of Internet Studies (2013): http://ukcatalogue.oup.com/product/9780199589074.do Politics and the Internet (2014): http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415561501/ From ropolyi at ludens.elte.hu Sat Feb 1 08:51:57 2014 From: ropolyi at ludens.elte.hu (ropolyi at ludens.elte.hu) Date: Sat, 01 Feb 2014 17:51:57 +0100 Subject: [Air-L] Ten Years of Facebook Conference Message-ID: <20140201175157.57367kx0uz070ist@webmail.elte.hu> *Ten Years of Facebook: The Third Argumentor Conference* 4-6 September 2014, Oradea / Nagyv?rad, Romania This year marks the tenth anniversary of the launch of Facebook, the most ubiquitous social media and communication platform in the world. It also gives us the opportunity to take a step back and examine increasingly important questions about how Facebook and the new social web have impacted the world of communication, from debate, discourse and rhetoric to philosophy, politics, social context, and other forms of new media. Has Facebook been constructive or disruptive in these different areas - or perhaps both? How does the ease and ubiquity of online communication affect longstanding national, generational, ideological, gender and class divides? We welcome papers seeking to explore such questions, including approaches that aim to challenge the importance, relevance or timeliness of such questions. ORGANIZED BY: Partium Christian University / Romania Sapientia Hungarian University of Transylvania / Romania University of Debrecen / Hungary Conference website: https://sites.google.com/site/argumentor2014/ Abstract submission deadline: 3 February 2014 Laszlo Ropolyi From mariarosariataddeo at gmail.com Sat Feb 1 14:27:31 2014 From: mariarosariataddeo at gmail.com (Mariariosaria Taddeo) Date: Sat, 1 Feb 2014 22:27:31 +0000 Subject: [Air-L] Nominations for the Brian Michael Goldberg Memorial Award Message-ID: <88D2571C-C151-4607-9A14-70F09728D472@gmail.com> The International Association for Computing and Philosophy is proud to present the ?Brian Michael Goldberg Memorial Award? to graduate students in recognisance of outstanding achievements in the areas of Computing and Philosophy. This award is sponsored by the Department of Philosophy at Carnegie Mellon and carries a $500 USD stipend, which will be presented each year at one of the IACAP conferences. Nominees and applicants are welcome from around the world. This Award was made possible by a generous gift from Dr. Gerald and Nancy Goldberg in memory of their son, Brian Michael Goldberg. In their words: Brian was a twenty-two year old student who was admitted to Carnegie Mellon University in 1991 to the doctoral program in philosophy. He died unexpectedly before he could realize his dream of attending Carnegie Mellon. Brian was an independent thinker who loved competition and a good challenge. Throughout his life, he found it exciting to enter and win contests. He loved challenging his mind, especially by studying philosophy, mathematics and logic. He loved challenging his creativity through photography, painting and theatre arts. He loved challenging his body by learning such diverse sports as wrestling, fencing and scuba diving. He loved debating and challenging others to think in new ways and had seriously considered becoming a university professor. To honor who he was and what he loved, this Goldberg Memorial Award is offered to challenge and motivate other graduate students in Brian?s chosen field of study. To nominate, please send names and website URLs (or CVs) to: berkich at gmail.com by February the 28th 2014. For more information, please see http://www.iacap.org/awards/ -- Dr. Mariarosaria Taddeo Research Fellow in Cyber Security and Ethics, PAIS, University of Warwick Research Associate - Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, University of Oxford President, International Association for Computing and Philosophy http://taddeo.philosophyofinformation.net/index.html From joel.neville.anderson at rochester.edu Sat Feb 1 15:17:55 2014 From: joel.neville.anderson at rochester.edu (Joel Neville Anderson) Date: Sat, 1 Feb 2014 18:17:55 -0500 Subject: [Air-L] Call for Papers and Creative Works: InVisible Culture, Issue 22: "Opacity" Message-ID: Dear Air-L subscribers, Please circulate the latest CFP for my graduate program's journal, InVisible Culture: An Electronic Journal for Visual Culture (pasted below). Please don't hesitate to contact me with any questions. Best regards, Joel Neville Anderson Managing Editor InVisible Culture 503A Morey Hall University of Rochester Rochester, NY 14627 http://ivc.lib.rochester.edu - ?Opacity? - Issue 22 For its twenty-second issue, InVisible Culture: An Electronic Journal for Visual Culture invites scholarly articles and creative works that address the multiple meanings of opacity. In the spring of 2013, former US intelligence contractor Edward Snowden began releasing documents pertaining to the wide-ranging data collection methods of the National Security Agency. Alternately hailed as hero and traitor, Snowden?s actions have fueled intense public debate regarding issues of privacy and transparency. For Issue 22, we would like contributors to consider the tension between transparency and opacity and reflect on the cultural and political contexts that gave rise to their connotations of openness and secrecy. What does it mean to claim either as a right? The late writer, poet, and critic ?douard Glissant (1928-2011) developed a model of opacity as a means of creating ethical relationships, writing in Poetics of Relation, ?Transparency no longer seems like the bottom of the mirror in which Western humanity reflected the world in its own image. There is opacity now at the bottom of the mirror, a whole alluvium deposited by populations.? How could opacity be used as a tool of resistance? What stakes are involved in the revelation or obscuring of artworks? racial, cultural, or gendered origins? How might we imagine opacity to be useful or limiting to the work of visual culture? We also seek to address optical properties of opacity more broadly as a conceptual tool for approaching medium specificity, innovations in color theory, and other subjects. Does our understanding of opacity shift in regard to digital technologies as it may between cultural spheres and political territories? How might visual culture be invested in the theoretical and physical properties of opacity and transparency? We welcome papers and artworks that further the various understandings of opacity. Possible topics of exploration include, but are not limited to: Aesthetic and political dimensions of transparency and opacity Identity politics, ?the right to opacity? Privacy and visibility, surveillance The ?transparent society? and digital panopticism Scientific and medical visualization, the body, big data Opacity of architectural traditions Liminal spaces, borders, zones of conflict Transparency and globalization, geopolitics Emerging, established, and decaying democracies Politics of clothing, fabric, screens, interstitial space and material Camera obscura/lucida, properties of darkness and light, color, pigmentation Transparency and opacity in the plastic arts (painting, film, sculpture) Penetration and resistance Please send completed papers (with references following the guidelines from the Chicago Manual of Style) of between 4,000 and 10,000 words to ivc[dot]rochester[at]gmail[dot]com by May 1, 2014. Inquiries should be sent to the same address. Creative/Artistic Works In addition to written materials, InVisible Culture is accepting work in other media (video, photography, drawing, code) that reflect upon the theme as it is outlined above. For questions or more details concerning acceptable formats, go to http://ivc.lib.rochester.edu/contribute or contact ivc[dot]rochester[at]gmail[dot]com. Reviews InVisible Culture is also currently seeking submissions for book, exhibition, and film reviews (600-1,000 words). To submit a review proposal, go to http://ivc.lib.rochester.edu/contribute or contact ivc[dot]rochester[at]gmail[dot]com. Blog The journal also invites submissions to its blog feature, which will accommodate more immediate responses to the topic of the current issue. For further details, please contact us at ivc[dot]rochester[at]gmail[dot]com with the subject heading ?blog submission.? * InVisible Culture: An Electronic Journal for Visual Culture (IVC) is a student run interdisciplinary journal published online twice a year in an open access format. Through peer reviewed articles, creative works, and reviews of books, films, and exhibitions, our issues explore changing themes in visual culture. Fostering a global and current dialog across fields, IVC investigates the power and limits of vision. From Jakob.Svensson at kau.se Sun Feb 2 04:46:17 2014 From: Jakob.Svensson at kau.se (Jakob Svensson) Date: Sun, 02 Feb 2014 13:46:17 +0100 Subject: [Air-L] M4D Doctoral Workshop, Dakar - deadline extended til Feb 14th Message-ID: M4D Doctoral Workshop, Dakar - deadline extended til Feb 14th April 7, 2014 We invite applications to the M4D Doctoral Workshop in Dakar Senegal. The workshop will provide a forum for PhD students in the area of mobile communication technology in and for development to present their work and receive constructive feedback from experts in the field as well as from peers. PhD students at any stage of their doctoral studies are invited to submit papers. The workshop will host about 15 attendees besides the experts in the field. We expect submissions to be from current PhD students who have selected a clear research topic within M4D in the broadest sense. Participation for selected PhD students are free for M4D2014 conference delegates who have registered and paid the conference fee. The doctoral workshop is sponsored by the International Network of Postgraduate Students in the area of ICT4D (IPID). Goal of workshop The goal of the workshop is to provide professional development in M4D with critical, but constructive, feedback and advice to PhD students on their ongoing research from senior researchers. The workshop will also offer the opportunity to meet and exchange ideas and suggestions with peers in the M4D field. Submission Submissions should address the student's PhD research area, specifically: a well-defined formulation of the problem statement, objectives and aims of the research, explain the research context and why the research is important, give details of research design and data collection techniques, present preliminary results and research findings, do clarify the state of the research work, a brief sketch of the intended theoretical/disciplinary approach and audience(s) for the work, as well as the related theoretical and practical contributions to the multidisciplinary area of 'M4D'. Your name, affiliation, email address, PhD supervisor's name and affiliation and year when you started PhD should be included. The submission should be max. 5000 words in length. Please note that the workshop is not a venue for publication; there will be no published proceedings. However, we encourage workshop participants to also submit to the M4D2014 main conference (poster, full or short paper see www.m4d2014.net). Doctoral workshop participants are asked to submit their papers to m4d AT kau.se with the subject line [M4D2014 doctoral workshop]. Workshop Format Participants will be divided into two groups depending on their research topic. Group A will be led by Anne Shongwe and Jonathan Donner and Group B by Laura Stark and Richard Ling. Participants will be asked to read the group member?s papers prior the workshop so that focus can be on discussing each paper in depth rather than listening to presentations. We will reserve around 15-20 minutes for comments and 10-15 minutes for general discussion. Important Dates Submission by: 23:59 (GMT), 14 February 2014 Notification of acceptance: 15 March 2014 (by this date the M4D conference fee should be paid) Workshop date: 7 April 2014 Jakob Svensson, Ph. D. Ass. Prof. Media and Communication Studies Director, BA Programme in Media & Communication Studies Director, MA Programme in Global Media Karlstad University SE-65188 Karlstad, Sweden Telephone +46 54 700 1893 Mobile + 46 73 443 48 04 www.kau.se/media www.kau.se/en/humanit twitter.com/Centre4HumanIT facebook.com/karlstadsuniversitet KAU.SE From k.albury at unsw.edu.au Sun Feb 2 18:19:43 2014 From: k.albury at unsw.edu.au (Kath Albury) Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2014 02:19:43 +0000 Subject: [Air-L] Qual research with digital diaries- seeking tools & tips, please Message-ID: Hi folks, I was wondering if anyone on this list had experience of using a mobile diary app as research tool (for participants). I'd like participants to post to a diary via phone or tablet, & will need to have access (& be able to archive diaries). I've looked at ethno hub (http://ethnohub.com), and my panel (which is a market research tool (http://www.mobilemarketresearch.net/mypanel/features). And there's always the option of plain old wordpress - but the question is how to export & archive the data? Any tips (or even anecdotes) from seasoned players will be greatly appreciated. Cheers, Kath Kath Albury, PhD Senior Lecturer, School of Arts and Media University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, 2052 Ph: 61 2 9385 8533 UNSW CRICOS Provider code 00098G http://research.unsw.edu.au/people/dr-kath-albury From K.Mccullagh at uea.ac.uk Mon Feb 3 00:35:57 2014 From: K.Mccullagh at uea.ac.uk (Karen Mc Cullagh (LAW)) Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2014 08:35:57 +0000 Subject: [Air-L] Final Reminder: BILETA Conference Message-ID: <18A01807BD2AE443B3B948CBE5FF0D391E901D@ueastfexch01.UEA.AC.UK> Final reminder: The Call for Papers for the 29th BILETA Annual Conference (14-16 April 2014, University of East Anglia) has been extended to facilitate requests for extensions. If you missed the original deadline, you now have until 7th February 2014 to submit an abstract. To view the call for papers and information about the conference see the attachment and click on the link: http://www.uea.ac.uk/law/news-and-events/bileta-conference Queries should be sent to the organiser, Dr Karen Mc Cullagh, via bileta2014 at uea.ac.uk ----------------------------------------------- Dr Karen Mc Cullagh Lecturer UEA Law School University of East Anglia Norwich Research Park Norwich NR4 7TJ w: http://karenmccullagh.co.uk/ T: 01603 59 7617 From Nicolas.Jullien at telecom-bretagne.eu Mon Feb 3 01:17:26 2014 From: Nicolas.Jullien at telecom-bretagne.eu (Nicolas Jullien) Date: Mon, 03 Feb 2014 10:17:26 +0100 Subject: [Air-L] =?iso-8859-1?q?PhD_grants_at_iSchool=2C_T=E9l=E9com_Breta?= =?iso-8859-1?q?gne=2C_France?= Message-ID: <52EF5EA6.8040806@telecom-bretagne.eu> Hello all, we, at iSchool, Telecom Bretagne, are looking for PhD Candidates (starting September, 2014, 3 years grant) on the following topics: - management, labor economics: virtual teaming, employees' participation in online communities - economics evaluation: multi-criteria evaluation of IT platforms - analytic tools and theories: data mining, social graph analysis. The work can be done in English, PhD candidate can follow French courses If you know people interested in discussing those topics, aks them to send me an email with their resume and their topic of interest. Nicolas Jullien -- Ma?tre de Conf?rences (HDR) / Associate Professor. LUSSI - iSchool, M at rsouin. Institut TELECOM Bretagne & UEB In charge of the Master "Information Systems Project Management and Consulting" http://www.telecom-bretagne.eu/studies/msc/information-systems-management/ Co-animator of the Institut Mines-Telecom's research network "TIC and Society" http://nicolas-jullien.lussi-ischool.eu/ Skype: Nicolas.Jullien1 Tel +33 (0) 229 001 245 TELECOM Bretagne, Technop?le Brest Iroise CS 83818 29238 BREST CEDEX 3 From rbeneito at gmail.com Mon Feb 3 07:43:41 2014 From: rbeneito at gmail.com (Roser Beneito Montagut) Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2014 15:43:41 +0000 Subject: [Air-L] to add participants to your SNSs or not? Message-ID: Hello everybody, We have just started an ethnography (online and offline) to study the extent to which the social web can mitigate isolation and loneliness feelings among the elderly by promoting their interpersonal relationships online. I appreciate if you can point me to articles discussing whether the researcher has added the participants to his/her social network site (e.g. Facebook) or has created an specific profile for the research. We have decided to add the participants to our SNSs, creating a group for them, but I would like to know what other researchers have done and the challenges of this methodological decision they have faced. Apologies beforehand if this topic has already been discussed in the list. Thanks, Roser Roser Beneito-Montagut Senior Lecturer School of Computing, Multimedia and Telecommunication Open University of Catalonia Barcelona From ella.fegitz at gmail.com Mon Feb 3 08:59:11 2014 From: ella.fegitz at gmail.com (Ella Fegitz) Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2014 16:59:11 +0000 Subject: [Air-L] Fwd: Call for papers - Radical Negativity In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: We would like to remind you about the following conference: *Radical Negativity: Interrogating productive possibilities for negative states of being* Friday 13 June 2014 Goldsmiths, University of London Conference Keynote: Lisa Blackman, Professor in Media and Communications, Goldsmiths Supported by the Centre for Feminist Research, Department of Media and Communications, and the Centre for Cultural Studies at Goldsmiths. Website: http://radicalnegativity.com *Proposals are due by Friday 14 February 2014* More recent feminist and queer scholarship has begun to productively address the dark aspects of human subjectivity perceived to have a detrimental impact on the self-constituting practices of the positive self, such as shame, trauma, unhappiness, loss, pain, and melancholia, and reconceptualise them not only as integral to the process of subject formation, but critical and productive affective states in which to engage political action. This interdisciplinary conference addresses the ways in which feminist and queer research may be informed by embracing philosophical oppositions, the 'negative double' of the positive value. The conference will interrogate what can be learned from interventions focused on the interconnections between the negative and human agency, and how such a frame can inform ideas of feminist and queer practice. Borrowing from Eve Sedgwick, this conference proposes that forms of the negative are "not distinctly 'toxic' parts of a group or individual identity that can be excised; they are instead integral to and residual in the processes by which identity itself is formed. They are available for the work of metamorphosis, reframing, refiguration, transfiguration, affective and symbolic loading and deformation (Sedgwick and Frank, 2003, p.63)." If, like Sedgwick, we take up this challenge to valorise negative states of being as key conditions both for the production of meaning and being and as organising principles of identity, then we hope explorations into such states may provide the potential to open up new possibilities for politics and connection. We invite papers and panel proposals that explore how negative states and conditions of being such as unhappiness, irresponsibility, passivity, vulnerability, failure, shame, hesitancy, pain, dispossession, rage, madness and depression may provide loci from which action and political engagement can arise. *Submission Guidelines* Please submit paper abstracts of 300-500 words along with a short biography of 100 words. Panel proposals should include a 300-word description along with accompanying paper abstracts for the panel of 300-500 words. Please provide a short 100-word biography for each presenter. Email submissions to: radicalnegativity at gmail.com by*Friday 14 February 2014*. From sheena.hyndman at gmail.com Mon Feb 3 13:57:34 2014 From: sheena.hyndman at gmail.com (Sheena Hyndman) Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2014 16:57:34 -0500 Subject: [Air-L] CFP (DEADLINE EXTENDED): Dancecult: Special Issue on the Remix and EDMC Message-ID: Hello, I'm writing to request that the CFP below be circulated to the list. With gratitude, Sheena Hyndman _________________________________________ Hello all, Please note that the deadline for the CFP below has been extended to *February 16, 2014*. Best, SH > --------------------------------------------------------------- > > *CFP: The Remix and EDMC Special Edition of Dancecult: Journal of > Electronic Dance Music Culture* > > Guest Editor: Sheena Hyndman > > https://dj.dancecult.net/ > > This special issue seeks to address topics and issues related to the remix > as a component of electronic dance music culture. The remix, a form of > derivative song composition that combines existing recorded sound with > newly composed musical material, has become an increasingly popular subject > of study both within and outside academia. While derivative musical and > cultural expression is not a phenomenon exclusive to the present, the remix > is unique from past forms of derivative music making because of the way it > is defined by its relationship to the sound reproduction technologies of > the 20th and 21st centuries. This combination of derivativeness and > technology has encouraged an influx of scholarship addressing the > problematic relationship of the remix with intellectual property to the > exclusion of many other aspects of remixing, and in light of recent > technological developments, the flourishing of participatory culture and > the growing importance of the remix in the contemporary music industry, > there remains a great deal of territory to explore with respect to the > remix as an expression of contemporary music culture. Therefore, this > special issue seeks to broaden understandings of remixing as a key element > of electronic dance music culture by encouraging debate among composers, > performers, promoters, fans and detractors. > > This special issue of Dancecult invites contributions from scholars in > all areas on the subject of the remix as an expression of past and > contemporary electronic dance music and culture. The goal of this special > issue is to broaden the understanding of remixed music beyond the most > commonly articulated tropes in existing scholarship. To this end, > contributions from scholars, performers, music industry insiders, admirers > and critics are welcomed and encouraged. While contributions from all areas > of scholarship will be considered, it is requested that submissions be > underpinned by a focus on remixing as it relates to electronic dance music > culture. > > / / Suggested Themes / / > > The editor encourages that contributions be grounded in musical > scholarship relating to remixing and EDMC. Potential topics include, but > are not limited to: > > - The history of remixing; > > - Remix genres and scenes; > > - Audience consumption and listening practices; > > - Attitudes towards derivativeness in music; > > - The remix as an expression of past, contemporary, popular and/or > underground dance music cultures; > > - The remix as a process of song composition; > > - The remix as performance practice; > > - The remix and the music industry; > > - Authenticity and originality; > > - Professional and amateur remixing; > > - Types of compensation for producers of remixes; > > - Music blogging; > > - Cross-geographical and -temporal collaborative music making. > > / / Submissions / / > > Feature Articles: > > Feature Articles will be peer-reviewed and are 6000?9000 words in length > (including endnotes, captions and bibliography). > > For policies, see: > > > https://dj.dancecult.net/index.php/dancecult/about/editorialPolicies#sectionPolicies > > *??????????????????????????* > > This special edition will also feature articles for our "From the Floor" > section. Rather than being written in the formal style of the academic > essay, submissions for this shorter format (750?2500 words) are more > conversational, blog-like and informal in tone and may feature more > experimental and creative styles of reporting. From the Floor contributions > may take the form of dispatches from the field, mini-ethnographies, > interviews and photo essays, and contributors are encouraged to include > relevant multimedia components such as music, video and hypertext. > > Articles must adhere to all style and formatting rules stipulated in the Dancecult > Style Guide (DSG). > > Download it here: > > > https://dj.dancecult.net/index.php/dancecult/manager/files/PublicFolder/dancecult_styleguide2.8.5.pdf > > Multimedia Submissions: Dancecult encourages authors to complement their > written work with audio and visual > > material. See the DSG for style and formatting requirements. > > Language: > > Although the language of publication in Dancecult is English, the editor > strongly encourages submissions from non-Anglophone scholars and will be > happy to provide linguistic/stylistic support during the writing process. > > / / Dates and Deadlines / / > > This special edition is proposed for publication in Dancecult in November > 2014. > > If interested, please send a 250 word abstract and brief author biography > to Sheena Hyndman (sheena.hyndman at gmail.com) before January 31, 2014. > > If your abstract is accepted for guest editor review, the deadline for > full article submission is May 31, 2014. > > Beyond that, the deadline for online submission to Dancecult (for peer > review) is August 15, 2014. > > Please send inquiries and expressions of interest to Sheena Hyndman: > sheena.hyndman at gmail.com. > > -- > Sheena Hyndman, PhD > Independent Scholar > Phone: (416) 561-0553 > Email: sheena.hyndman at gmail.com > LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=90342896&trk=tab_pro > > > > > -- > Sheena Hyndman, PhD > Independent Scholar > Phone: (416) 561-0553 > Email: sheena.hyndman at gmail.com > LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=90342896&trk=tab_pro > > > > -- > Sheena Hyndman, PhD > Independent Scholar > Phone: (416) 561-0553 > Email: sheena.hyndman at gmail.com > LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=90342896&trk=tab_pro > -- Sheena Hyndman, PhD Independent Scholar Phone: (416) 561-0553 Email: sheena.hyndman at gmail.com LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=90342896&trk=tab_pro -- Sheena Hyndman, PhD Independent Scholar Phone: (416) 561-0553 Email: sheena.hyndman at gmail.com LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=90342896&trk=tab_pro From m_olszan at live.concordia.ca Mon Feb 3 17:58:48 2014 From: m_olszan at live.concordia.ca (Magdalena O!) Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2014 01:58:48 +0000 Subject: [Air-L] Censorship and mobile apps In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <32BED9FB-C34B-4095-968A-9A3B46B059EA@live.concordia.ca> Hello, I'm writing about censorship and Instagram and looking for more research on censorship and mobile apps. I can't seem to find any. Thank you so much Magdalena =^.^= Magdalena Olszanowski, PhD Student, SSHRC Fellow Senior Research Assistant, Mobile Media Lab HASTAC Scholar Communication Studies Concordia University Montreal, QC @raisecain From julian.hopkins at monash.edu Mon Feb 3 19:29:56 2014 From: julian.hopkins at monash.edu (Julian Hopkins) Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2014 11:29:56 +0800 Subject: [Air-L] Panel CFP AoIR 2015 - Social media, convergence, and commercialisation Message-ID: Hello all, Please excuse any cross posting. I am hoping to find others interested in constituting a panel based (broadly) on the theme of 'Social media, convergence, and commercialisation.' A description follows, but I am definitely open to adapting it depending on people's own research areas. *'Internet infrastructure has had commercial components since 1974, but the content was for a long time not subject to significant commercial influence. Now, however, advertising and the commercialisation of internet content may be argued to be the dominant force driving the internet. This panel will explore different facets of this development by taking a critical and empirical approach to aspects of social media in Asia, exploring the relevance of convergence both between online media forms and the on- and offline, as well as issues of privacy, digital literacy, and the transformation of 'free' labour.' *Please feel free to forward this to anyone you feel may be interested. Best regards, Julian ++++++++++ Dr Julian Hopkins Lecturer School of Arts & Social Sciences Monash University Malaysia www.sass.monash.edu.my Blog: www.julianhopkins.net Twitter: @julianhopkins From nb at imv.au.dk Tue Feb 4 00:21:29 2014 From: nb at imv.au.dk (=?Windows-1252?Q?Niels_Br=FCgger?=) Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2014 08:21:29 +0000 Subject: [Air-L] =?windows-1252?q?PhD-Seminar=2C_Web_Archiving_and_Archive?= =?windows-1252?q?d_Web_=97_a_new_Research_Method=2C_a_new_Object_of_Study?= =?windows-1252?q?=3F?= Message-ID: <719F6AC5-D76B-431C-8D7A-15DBEBE2A476@imv.au.dk> ***apologies for cross-postings*** PhD seminar Web Archiving and Archived Web ? a new Research Method, a new Object of Study? Aarhus University, Denmark, 11-12 June 2014 Organised by the Danish Digital Humanities Lab/NetLab & Aarhus University, the PhD programme ?ICT, Media, Communication and Journalism? This PhD seminar focus on web archiving and web archives with a view to investigating the nexus between web archiving and web archives as a new research method and as a new object of study. The aim of the seminar is double. On the one hand it is to introduce web archiving as a research method to be used by scholars studying contemporary political, social, and cultural phenomena within the humanities and the social sciences, and, on the other hand, the aim is to introduce to the methodological and theoretical issues related to the use of existing (trans)national web archives, in the main in relation to historical studies involving the web. Participation as well as coffee and lunch are free of charge. Participants must pay for dinner, travel and accomodation themselves. The number of participants is limited to 20. Deadline for submission of application is Monday 24 March 2014. The lectures and the lecturers: ? ?Virtual Digs: Excavating, Preserving, and Archiving the Web?, Meghan Dougherty, Assistant Professor, Digital Communication, Loyola University Chicago ? ?A Data Driven Approach to Web Archive Research?, Anat Ben-David, post-doctoral researcher with the WebART project, University of Amsterdam ? ?Archiving web material for future research??, Ditte Laursen, senior researcher and curator at the State Media Archive, State Library in Denmark ? ?Probing a nation?s web sphere?, Niels Br?gger, Associate Professor, Aarhus University, Head of the Centre for Internet Studies Read the full call, including more about the course format, the venue, and how to enrol:http://www.netlab.dk/courses/ Very best, Niels Br?gger ?????????????????????????????? LATEST PUBLICATIONS AND PAPERS August 2013 Web historiography and Internet Studies: Challenges and perspectives, New Media & Society, 15(5), 752-764 Read more: http://nms.sagepub.com/content/15/5/752.abstract June 2013 Historical Network Analysis of the Web, Social Science Computer Review, 31(3), 306-321 Read more: http://ssc.sagepub.com/content/31/3/306.abstract March 2013 The Web and Digital Humanities: Theoretical and Methodological Concerns (w. N.O. Finnemann), Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media 57(1), 66-80 Read more: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/08838151.2012.761699 NIELS BR?GGER, Associate Professor, PhD Director, the Centre for Internet Studies Department of Aesthetics and Communication Aarhus University Helsingforsgade 14 8200 Aarhus N Denmark Phone (switchboard) +45 8715 0000 Phone (direct) +45 8716 1971 Phone (mobile) +45 2945 3231 E-mail nb at imv.au.dk Webpage http://imv.au.dk/~nb Profile at LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/1/50a/555 Skype name: niels_bruegger The Centre for Internet Research http://cfi.au.dk NetLab http://netlab.dk The history of dr.dk, 1996-2006 http://drdk.dk LARM (Radio Culture and Auditory Resources Research Infrastructure) http://www.larm-archive.org From rforno at infowarrior.org Tue Feb 4 03:45:22 2014 From: rforno at infowarrior.org (Richard Forno) Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2014 06:45:22 -0500 Subject: [Air-L] Zimmer op-ed in WaPo Message-ID: <616BD252-23E8-4E92-8F3C-CB959C685024@infowarrior.org> For those interested, AOIR?s own Michael Zimmer has an op-ed in today?s Washington Post. :) Mark Zuckerberg?s theory of privacy http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/mark-zuckerbergs-theory-of-privacy/2014/02/03/2c1d780a-8cea-11e3-95dd-36ff657a4dae_story.html --- Just because i'm near the punchbowl doesn't mean I'm also drinking from it. From salvatore.iaconesi at artisopensource.net Tue Feb 4 06:49:39 2014 From: salvatore.iaconesi at artisopensource.net (Salvatore Iaconesi) Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2014 15:49:39 +0100 Subject: [Air-L] Human Ecosystems project launching in Toronto at the ArtSci Salon Message-ID: Human Ecosystems project launching in Toronto http://www.artisopensource.net/2014/02/04/human-ecosystems-at-artsci-salon-toronto/ The Human Ecosystems project is going to Toronto, at the Fields Institute for Research in Mathematical Sciences for ArtSci Salon, to start the real-time observation of the city, and for a first workshop on real-time cities, ubiquitous information, commons and the new public spaces (and some information visualization and BigData, too). More info about the Human Ecosystems Project: http://www.artisopensource.net/projects/human-ecosystems.html The project has already started in Rome (Italy), Sao Paulo (Brazil), Malm? (Sweden), and is starting in more cities across the world really soon. -- *Salvatore Iaconesi* salvatore.iaconesi at artisopensource.net skype: xdxdVSxdxd *Art is Open Source*: http://www.artisopensource.net *TED Fellow 2012*: http://fellows.ted.com/profiles/salvatore-iaconesi *Eisenhower Fellow 2013*: http://www.efworld.org/ Contract Professor of Digital Design at La Sapienza University of Rome Professor of Digital Design at ISIA Design Florence Professor of Interaction Design at IED Istituto Europeo di Design From krismw11 at umd.edu Tue Feb 4 07:00:12 2014 From: krismw11 at umd.edu (Kristin Williams) Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2014 15:00:12 +0000 Subject: [Air-L] Censorship and mobile apps In-Reply-To: <32BED9FB-C34B-4095-968A-9A3B46B059EA@live.concordia.ca> References: <32BED9FB-C34B-4095-968A-9A3B46B059EA@live.concordia.ca> Message-ID: Hi Magdalena, This chapter recently came to my attention. I haven't read it, but it looks like it might be in the right direction. Chapter 3. Digital Deprivation: New Media, Civil Society and Sustainability Paddy Coulter and Cathy Baldwin From CIVIL SOCIETY IN THE AGE OF MONITORY DEMOCRACY Edited by Lars Tr?g?rdh, Nina Witoszek, & Bron Taylor Afterword by Bill McKibben All the best, -Kristin -----Original Message----- From: air-l-bounces at listserv.aoir.org [mailto:air-l-bounces at listserv.aoir.org] On Behalf Of Magdalena O! Sent: Monday, February 03, 2014 8:59 PM To: Subject: [Air-L] Censorship and mobile apps Hello, I'm writing about censorship and Instagram and looking for more research on censorship and mobile apps. I can't seem to find any. Thank you so much Magdalena =^.^= Magdalena Olszanowski, PhD Student, SSHRC Fellow Senior Research Assistant, Mobile Media Lab HASTAC Scholar Communication Studies Concordia University Montreal, QC @raisecain _______________________________________________ The Air-L at listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org Join the Association of Internet Researchers: http://www.aoir.org/ From sarah.choukah at umontreal.ca Tue Feb 4 07:53:06 2014 From: sarah.choukah at umontreal.ca (Sarah Choukah) Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2014 10:53:06 -0500 Subject: [Air-L] Censorship and mobile apps In-Reply-To: References: <32BED9FB-C34B-4095-968A-9A3B46B059EA@live.concordia.ca> Message-ID: Hi Magdalena, This might of interest for you. The paper is called: "From the Digital to the Tentacular, or From iPods to Cephalopods: Apps, Traps, and Entre?es?without?Exit" (interesting title, right?), and it's written by Dan Mellamphy and Nandita Biswas Mellamphy for an upcoming book on apps they're editing at MIT Press. The chapter is much broader in scope but I think it's very easy to get from themes like "capitalist reticulation" to that of more specific issues such as censorship on the theoretical front. Hope this helps, Sarah Choukah Doctorante D?partement de communication Universit? de Montr?al On Tue, Feb 4, 2014 at 10:00 AM, Kristin Williams wrote: > Hi Magdalena, > > This chapter recently came to my attention. I haven't read it, but it > looks like it might be in the right direction. > > Chapter 3. Digital Deprivation: New Media, Civil Society and Sustainability > Paddy Coulter and Cathy Baldwin > > From > CIVIL SOCIETY IN THE AGE OF MONITORY DEMOCRACY > Edited by Lars Tr?g?rdh, Nina Witoszek, & Bron Taylor > Afterword by Bill McKibben > > All the best, > -Kristin > > -----Original Message----- > From: air-l-bounces at listserv.aoir.org [mailto: > air-l-bounces at listserv.aoir.org] On Behalf Of Magdalena O! > Sent: Monday, February 03, 2014 8:59 PM > To: > Subject: [Air-L] Censorship and mobile apps > > Hello, > > I'm writing about censorship and Instagram and looking for more research > on censorship and mobile apps. I can't seem to find any. > > Thank you so much > > Magdalena > > =^.^= > > Magdalena Olszanowski, PhD Student, SSHRC Fellow Senior Research > Assistant, Mobile Media Lab HASTAC Scholar > Communication Studies Concordia University Montreal, QC > > @raisecain > > _______________________________________________ > The Air-L at listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association > of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or > unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org > > Join the Association of Internet Researchers: > http://www.aoir.org/ > _______________________________________________ > The Air-L at listserv.aoir.org mailing list > is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org > Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: > http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org > > Join the Association of Internet Researchers: > http://www.aoir.org/ > From luishestres at gmail.com Tue Feb 4 10:20:21 2014 From: luishestres at gmail.com (Luis Hestres) Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2014 13:20:21 -0500 Subject: [Air-L] Censorship and mobile apps In-Reply-To: References: <32BED9FB-C34B-4095-968A-9A3B46B059EA@live.concordia.ca> Message-ID: <9CF12F5E9F954A0C96B1EA76125BB78A@gmail.com> Hi Magdalena, If I may plug my own research on this subject, here?s an article I published last year: http://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/article/view/1904 Here?s the abstract: App Neutrality: Apple?s App Store and Freedom of Expression Online Apple?s wireless devices have become a critical entry point into the Internet. But unlike the broader Internet, which can be construed as a relatively open communications network, the iOS app store is arguably a closed technological ecosystem. Developers must gain Apple?s approval before distributing their apps through the store. Some have criticized the company?s app review and approval process for being opaque and arbitrary. This process has also resulted in the rejection of both explicitly and implicitly political apps. This article analyzes Apple?s guidelines and approval process, discusses content-based rejections of apps, and outlines the consequences of this process for developers? and consumers? freedom of expression. It also argues for principles that guarantee ?app neutrality? while also guaranteeing device safety and quality control. - - - - - Luis E. Hestres Ph.D. candidate | School of Communication | American University More about me at luishestres.com (http://luishestres.com/) or LinkedIn (http://www.linkedin.com/in/hestres) | Follow me on Twitter (https://twitter.com/#!/luishestres/) | Visit my SSRN Author page (http://ssrn.com/author=1820222) "Theoretical critiques are like sociopaths: Their aggressive drives are rarely balanced by constructive instincts." -- From "Caught in a Winding, Snarling Vine: The Structural Bias of Political Process Theory" by Jeff Goodwin and James M. Jasper, Sociological Forum 14(1), 1999 On Tuesday, February 4, 2014 at 10:53 AM, Sarah Choukah wrote: > Hi Magdalena, > > This might of interest for > you. > The paper is called: "From the Digital to the Tentacular, or From iPods to > Cephalopods: Apps, Traps, and Entre?es?without?Exit" (interesting title, > right?), and it's written by Dan Mellamphy and Nandita Biswas Mellamphy for > an upcoming book on apps they're editing at MIT Press. The chapter is much > broader in scope but I think it's very easy to get from themes like > "capitalist reticulation" to that of more specific issues such as > censorship on the theoretical front. > > Hope this helps, > > Sarah Choukah > Doctorante > D?partement de communication > Universit? de Montr?al > > > On Tue, Feb 4, 2014 at 10:00 AM, Kristin Williams wrote: > > > Hi Magdalena, > > > > This chapter recently came to my attention. I haven't read it, but it > > looks like it might be in the right direction. > > > > Chapter 3. Digital Deprivation: New Media, Civil Society and Sustainability > > Paddy Coulter and Cathy Baldwin > > > > From > > CIVIL SOCIETY IN THE AGE OF MONITORY DEMOCRACY > > Edited by Lars Tr?g?rdh, Nina Witoszek, & Bron Taylor > > Afterword by Bill McKibben > > > > All the best, > > -Kristin > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: air-l-bounces at listserv.aoir.org (mailto:air-l-bounces at listserv.aoir.org) [mailto: > > air-l-bounces at listserv.aoir.org (mailto:air-l-bounces at listserv.aoir.org)] On Behalf Of Magdalena O! > > Sent: Monday, February 03, 2014 8:59 PM > > To: > > Subject: [Air-L] Censorship and mobile apps > > > > Hello, > > > > I'm writing about censorship and Instagram and looking for more research > > on censorship and mobile apps. I can't seem to find any. > > > > Thank you so much > > > > Magdalena > > > > =^.^= > > > > Magdalena Olszanowski, PhD Student, SSHRC Fellow Senior Research > > Assistant, Mobile Media Lab HASTAC Scholar > > Communication Studies Concordia University Montreal, QC > > > > @raisecain > > > > _______________________________________________ > > The Air-L at listserv.aoir.org (mailto:Air-L at listserv.aoir.org) mailing list is provided by the Association > > of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or > > unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org > > > > Join the Association of Internet Researchers: > > http://www.aoir.org/ > > _______________________________________________ > > The Air-L at listserv.aoir.org (mailto:Air-L at listserv.aoir.org) mailing list > > is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org > > Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: > > http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org > > > > Join the Association of Internet Researchers: > > http://www.aoir.org/ > > > > _______________________________________________ > The Air-L at listserv.aoir.org (mailto:Air-L at listserv.aoir.org) mailing list > is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org > Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org > > Join the Association of Internet Researchers: > http://www.aoir.org/ > > From charles.ess at gmail.com Tue Feb 4 11:01:49 2014 From: charles.ess at gmail.com (Charles Ess) Date: Tue, 04 Feb 2014 20:01:49 +0100 Subject: [Air-L] CaTaC'14 - Oslo, June 17-20: website for submissions to CaTaC'14 now available Message-ID: Dear AoIRists, Just a short note to inform those who are interested that the website for turning in papers and proposals for consideration for CaTaC?14 is now available: For further details on the conference, including recently posted information, please see: Additional information ? e.g., regarding conference fees ? will also be available soon. Please pass on to any potentially interested colleagues ? and many thanks in advance. Charles Ess Professor in Media Studies Department of Media and Communication Director, Centre for Research on Media Innovations University of Oslo P.O. Box 1093 Blindern NO-0317 Oslo Norway email: charles.ess at media.uio.no From toine at hum.aau.dk Tue Feb 4 13:07:39 2014 From: toine at hum.aau.dk (Toine Bogers) Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2014 21:07:39 +0000 Subject: [Air-L] Final Call for Participation: iConference 2014 (Berlin, Germany) Message-ID: ************************************************************* iConference 2014: Standard registrations available through Feb. 15, 2014 Conference Dates: 4-7 March, 2014, Berlin, Germany Conference Home: http://ischools.org/the-iconference/ Conference Schedule: https://www.conftool.com/iConference2014/sessions.php ************************************************************* This is our last call for iConference 2014 standard registrations. Standard rates remain available through Feb. 15, 2014; late fees apply thereafter. If you have not yet finalized your plans for our upcoming conference in Berlin, we encourage you to register as soon as possible! iConference 2014 will bring together scholars and researchers from around the world who share a common concern about critical information issues in contemporary society. This is our ninth annual conference and the first to be held in Europe. Organized under the banner ?Breaking Down Walls | Culture, Context, Computing?, iConference 2014 will provide an inspiring sense of community, high quality research presentations, and myriad opportunities for engagement. All information field practitioners are welcome; affiliation with a member-iSchool is not required. The complete conference schedule is available on our website. Highlights include: ? A compelling program of peer-reviewed Papers, Notes, and Posters. ? Thought-provoking Workshops and Sessions for Interaction and Engagement. ? Keynote addresses from Tony Hey of Microsoft Research and Melissa Terras of the Department of Information Studies, University College London. ? Myriad opportunities for socializing and networking with premier thinkers in the information field. Social events include our Opening Reception at Humboldt Universit?t zu Berlin, a private gala dinner at the world-renowned Naturkunde Museum Berlin, two networking-oriented Poster Sessions, a Farewell Reception, and multiple shared meals and social breaks throughout. ? Unique opportunities for career mentoring and growth, including a Doctoral Colloquium (invitation only), an Early Career Colloquium (open to all) and a Professional Development Seminar (also open to all). ? A Social Media Expo featuring presentations by iSchool student teams, sponsored by Microsoft Research. ? The opportunity to personally experience Berlin, one of the most historic and compelling cities in Europe. iConference 2014 is presented by the iSchools organization and hosted by The Berlin School of Library and Information Science at Humboldt-Universit?t zu Berlin; the program is administered by the Royal School of Library and Information Science, University of Copenhagen. The presenting sponsor is Microsoft Research, with additional funding from the National Science Foundation, Emerald Publishing, De Gruyter, Springer, Purdue University Press, MIT Press, Morgan & Claypool Publishers, and Citavi. The conference takes place 4-7 March, 2014. More at http://ischools.org/the-iconference/ From dewoller at gmail.com Tue Feb 4 14:59:38 2014 From: dewoller at gmail.com (Dennis Wollersheim) Date: Wed, 05 Feb 2014 09:59:38 +1100 Subject: [Air-L] Qual research with digital diaries- seeking tools & tips, please In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <52F170DA.5030700@gmail.com> Hi Kath The good thing about 'plain old wordpress' is that it is an open format, very easy to archive. You just need to 'spider' the website once the posts are up, that is, run software that visits every webpage and saves a copy. Firefox has a plugins that will do it, foxyspider and spiderzilla are 2 examples. Cheers Dennis On 03/02/14 13:19, Kath Albury wrote: > Hi folks, > > I was wondering if anyone on this list had experience of using a mobile > diary app as research tool (for participants). I'd like participants to > post to a diary via phone or tablet, & will need to have access (& be able > to archive diaries). I've looked at ethno hub (http://ethnohub.com), and > my panel (which is a market research tool > (http://www.mobilemarketresearch.net/mypanel/features). And there's always > the option of plain old wordpress - but the question is how to export & > archive the data? > > Any tips (or even anecdotes) from seasoned players will be greatly > appreciated. > > Cheers, Kath > Kath Albury, PhD > Senior Lecturer, School of Arts and Media > University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, 2052 > Ph: 61 2 9385 8533 > UNSW CRICOS Provider code 00098G > http://research.unsw.edu.au/people/dr-kath-albury > _______________________________________________ > The Air-L at listserv.aoir.org mailing list > is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org > Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org > > Join the Association of Internet Researchers: > http://www.aoir.org/ From stu at texifter.com Tue Feb 4 15:02:03 2014 From: stu at texifter.com (Shulman, Stu) Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2014 18:02:03 -0500 Subject: [Air-L] Qual research with digital diaries- seeking tools & tips, please In-Reply-To: <52F170DA.5030700@gmail.com> References: <52F170DA.5030700@gmail.com> Message-ID: WordPress has a nice XML export that lets you get the entire contents of a blog (if you are the owner) in a single metadata-rich file. DiscoverText has a nice upload option for WordPress XML exports. On Tue, Feb 4, 2014 at 5:59 PM, Dennis Wollersheim wrote: > Hi Kath > > The good thing about 'plain old wordpress' is that it is an open format, > very easy to archive. You just need to 'spider' the website once the posts > are up, that is, run software that visits every webpage and saves a copy. > Firefox has a plugins that will do it, foxyspider and spiderzilla are 2 > examples. > > Cheers > Dennis > > > > > On 03/02/14 13:19, Kath Albury wrote: > >> Hi folks, >> >> I was wondering if anyone on this list had experience of using a mobile >> diary app as research tool (for participants). I'd like participants to >> post to a diary via phone or tablet, & will need to have access (& be able >> to archive diaries). I've looked at ethno hub (http://ethnohub.com< >> http://ethnohub.com/>), and >> my panel (which is a market research tool >> (http://www.mobilemarketresearch.net/mypanel/features). And there's >> always >> the option of plain old wordpress - but the question is how to export & >> archive the data? >> >> Any tips (or even anecdotes) from seasoned players will be greatly >> appreciated. >> >> Cheers, Kath >> Kath Albury, PhD >> Senior Lecturer, School of Arts and Media >> University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, 2052 >> Ph: 61 2 9385 8533 >> UNSW CRICOS Provider code 00098G >> http://research.unsw.edu.au/people/dr-kath-albury >> _______________________________________________ >> The Air-L at listserv.aoir.org mailing list >> is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org >> Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/ >> listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org >> >> Join the Association of Internet Researchers: >> http://www.aoir.org/ >> > > _______________________________________________ > The Air-L at listserv.aoir.org mailing list > is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org > Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/ > listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org > > Join the Association of Internet Researchers: > http://www.aoir.org/ > -- Dr. Stuart W. Shulmanhttp://people.umass.edu/stu Founder and CEO, Texifterhttp://texifter.com LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/stuart-shulman/10/351/899 Twitter: http://twitter.com/#!/StuartWShulman From geneloeb at gmail.com Tue Feb 4 15:09:48 2014 From: geneloeb at gmail.com (gene loeb) Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2014 17:09:48 -0600 Subject: [Air-L] Zimmer op-ed in WaPo In-Reply-To: <616BD252-23E8-4E92-8F3C-CB959C685024@infowarrior.org> References: <616BD252-23E8-4E92-8F3C-CB959C685024@infowarrior.org> Message-ID: Richard, Thanks for posting this article. It is very important. It explains the operation of FaceBook to get people to learn to give up their privacy. More significant, various activities, programs, games, are requiring persons to use Face Book to communicate or to participate. Thanks, Michael Zimmer Gene Gene Loeb, Ph.D. On Tue, Feb 4, 2014 at 5:45 AM, Richard Forno wrote: > > For those interested, AOIR's own Michael Zimmer has an op-ed in today's > Washington Post. :) > > Mark Zuckerberg's theory of privacy > > http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/mark-zuckerbergs-theory-of-privacy/2014/02/03/2c1d780a-8cea-11e3-95dd-36ff657a4dae_story.html > > > --- > Just because i'm near the punchbowl doesn't mean I'm also drinking from it. > > _______________________________________________ > The Air-L at listserv.aoir.org mailing list > is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org > Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: > http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org > > Join the Association of Internet Researchers: > http://www.aoir.org/ > -- With Sincerest Best Wishes , Gene Gene Loeb, Ph.D. From k.albury at unsw.edu.au Tue Feb 4 15:25:05 2014 From: k.albury at unsw.edu.au (Kath Albury) Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2014 23:25:05 +0000 Subject: [Air-L] Qual research with digital diaries- seeking tools & tips, please In-Reply-To: <52F170DA.5030700@gmail.com> References: <52F170DA.5030700@gmail.com> Message-ID: Hi all, Quite a few people contacted me off-list, expressing interest in this topic- a consensus seems to be shaping up in favour of Wordpress. Many thanks for your advice. Cheers, Kath Kath Albury, PhD Senior Lecturer, School of Arts and Media University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, 2052 Ph: 61 2 9385 8533 UNSW CRICOS Provider code 00098G http://research.unsw.edu.au/people/dr-kath-albury On 5/02/14 9:59 AM, "Dennis Wollersheim" wrote: >Hi Kath > >The good thing about 'plain old wordpress' is that it is an open format, >very easy to archive. You just need to 'spider' the website once the >posts >are up, that is, run software that visits every webpage and saves a copy. >Firefox has a plugins that will do it, foxyspider and spiderzilla are 2 >examples. > >Cheers >Dennis > > > > >On 03/02/14 13:19, Kath Albury wrote: >> Hi folks, >> >> I was wondering if anyone on this list had experience of using a mobile >> diary app as research tool (for participants). I'd like participants to >> post to a diary via phone or tablet, & will need to have access (& be >>able >> to archive diaries). I've looked at ethno hub >>(http://ethnohub.com), and >> my panel (which is a market research tool >> (http://www.mobilemarketresearch.net/mypanel/features). And there's >>always >> the option of plain old wordpress - but the question is how to export & >> archive the data? >> >> Any tips (or even anecdotes) from seasoned players will be greatly >> appreciated. >> >> Cheers, Kath >> Kath Albury, PhD >> Senior Lecturer, School of Arts and Media >> University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, 2052 >> Ph: 61 2 9385 8533 >> UNSW CRICOS Provider code 00098G >> http://research.unsw.edu.au/people/dr-kath-albury >> _______________________________________________ >> The Air-L at listserv.aoir.org mailing list >> is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org >> Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: >>http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org >> >> Join the Association of Internet Researchers: >> http://www.aoir.org/ > From seeta.gangadharan at gmail.com Tue Feb 4 16:38:54 2014 From: seeta.gangadharan at gmail.com (=?UTF-8?B?U2VldGEgUGXDsWEgR2FuZ2FkaGFyYW4=?=) Date: Tue, 04 Feb 2014 19:38:54 -0500 Subject: [Air-L] Qual research with digital diaries- seeking tools & tips, please In-Reply-To: References: <52F170DA.5030700@gmail.com> Message-ID: <52F1881E.9090804@gmail.com> VoJo is another option. http://vojo.co/ On 2/4/14 6:25 PM, Kath Albury wrote: > Hi all, > > Quite a few people contacted me off-list, expressing interest in this > topic- a consensus seems to be shaping up in favour of Wordpress. Many > thanks for your advice. > > Cheers, Kath > Kath Albury, PhD > Senior Lecturer, School of Arts and Media > University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, 2052 > Ph: 61 2 9385 8533 > UNSW CRICOS Provider code 00098G > http://research.unsw.edu.au/people/dr-kath-albury > > > > > On 5/02/14 9:59 AM, "Dennis Wollersheim" wrote: > >> Hi Kath >> >> The good thing about 'plain old wordpress' is that it is an open format, >> very easy to archive. You just need to 'spider' the website once the >> posts >> are up, that is, run software that visits every webpage and saves a copy. >> Firefox has a plugins that will do it, foxyspider and spiderzilla are 2 >> examples. >> >> Cheers >> Dennis >> >> >> >> >> On 03/02/14 13:19, Kath Albury wrote: >>> Hi folks, >>> >>> I was wondering if anyone on this list had experience of using a mobile >>> diary app as research tool (for participants). I'd like participants to >>> post to a diary via phone or tablet, & will need to have access (& be >>> able >>> to archive diaries). I've looked at ethno hub >>> (http://ethnohub.com), and >>> my panel (which is a market research tool >>> (http://www.mobilemarketresearch.net/mypanel/features). And there's >>> always >>> the option of plain old wordpress - but the question is how to export & >>> archive the data? >>> >>> Any tips (or even anecdotes) from seasoned players will be greatly >>> appreciated. >>> >>> Cheers, Kath >>> Kath Albury, PhD >>> Senior Lecturer, School of Arts and Media >>> University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, 2052 >>> Ph: 61 2 9385 8533 >>> UNSW CRICOS Provider code 00098G >>> http://research.unsw.edu.au/people/dr-kath-albury >>> _______________________________________________ >>> The Air-L at listserv.aoir.org mailing list >>> is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org >>> Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: >>> http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org >>> >>> Join the Association of Internet Researchers: >>> http://www.aoir.org/ > _______________________________________________ > The Air-L at listserv.aoir.org mailing list > is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org > Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org > > Join the Association of Internet Researchers: > http://www.aoir.org/ From j.unger at lancaster.ac.uk Wed Feb 5 04:54:04 2014 From: j.unger at lancaster.ac.uk (Unger, Johann) Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2014 12:54:04 +0000 Subject: [Air-L] Facebook and the construction of (migrants') identities Message-ID: Dear AOIR-ers, A PhD student in my department is currently trying to finish his thesis on Dr J W Unger Lecturer and Academic Director of Summer Programmes Department of Linguistics and English Language Lancaster University LA1 4YL e-mail: j.unger at lancaster.ac.uk tel: +44 1524 592591 Follow me on Twitter @johnnyunger From j.unger at lancaster.ac.uk Wed Feb 5 05:01:52 2014 From: j.unger at lancaster.ac.uk (Unger, Johann) Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2014 13:01:52 +0000 Subject: [Air-L] Facebook and the construction of (migrants') identities In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Meanwhile, I'm trying to finish my email! Apologies for the earlier, unfinished draft. Here's what I meant to write: Dear AOIR-ers, A PhD student in my department is currently trying to finish his thesis on migrants' use if Facebook, with a particular focus on how they construct their identities. If you know of any interesting work in this area, I'd be grateful of you could let me know either off-list or on. We'll collate any responses and circulate in due course. Many thanks, Johnny Dr J W Unger Lecturer and Academic Director of Summer Programmes Department of Linguistics and English Language Lancaster University LA1 4YL e-mail: j.unger at lancaster.ac.uk tel: +44 1524 592591 Follow me on Twitter @johnnyunger From tiziano.bonini at gmail.com Wed Feb 5 05:30:33 2014 From: tiziano.bonini at gmail.com (tiziano bonini) Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2014 14:30:33 +0100 Subject: [Air-L] Facebook and the construction of (migrants') identities In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Dear Johann, I investigated something similar in my PhD thesis. Unfortunately it is in Italian but I published a part of it in this article: "Media as home making tools: life story of a Filipino migrant in Milan", Media, Culture & society, 33(6), 869-883. Here the link to read it: http://www.scribd.com/doc/79449459/Media-as-Home-Making-Tools-MC-S-2011 Best tiziano 2014-02-05 Unger, Johann : > Meanwhile, I'm trying to finish my email! Apologies for the earlier, > unfinished draft. Here's what I meant to write: > > Dear AOIR-ers, > > A PhD student in my department is currently trying to finish his thesis on > migrants' use if Facebook, with a particular focus on how they construct > their identities. If you know of any interesting work in this area, I'd be > grateful of you could let me know either off-list or on. We'll collate any > responses and circulate in due course. > > Many thanks, > Johnny > > Dr J W Unger > Lecturer and Academic Director of Summer Programmes > Department of Linguistics and English Language > Lancaster University > LA1 4YL > > e-mail: j.unger at lancaster.ac.uk > tel: +44 1524 592591 > Follow me on Twitter @johnnyunger > _______________________________________________ > The Air-L at listserv.aoir.org mailing list > is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org > Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: > http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org > > Join the Association of Internet Researchers: > http://www.aoir.org/ > -- Tiziano Bonini ||| lecturer in media studies ||| Arts, Culture and Comparative Literature Institute IULM University of Milano via Carlo Bo 4 20143 Milano, Italy ::: Academia ::: http://iulm.academia.edu/TizianoBonini ::: Audio/Radio ::: www.radiofactory.org http://audioboo.fm/tizianobonini From K.H.A.Leurs at uu.nl Wed Feb 5 06:27:53 2014 From: K.H.A.Leurs at uu.nl (Leurs, K.H.A. (Koen)) Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2014 14:27:53 +0000 Subject: [Air-L] Facebook and the construction of (migrants') identities In-Reply-To: References: , Message-ID: <00655BF384232847B11F8A9380EDC227278EC065@ICTSC-W-S204.soliscom.uu.nl> Dear Johnny, Kindly consider these publications (apologies for the self-promotion) Hepp, A., Bozdag, C. & Suna, L. (2012). Mediatized migrants: Media cultures and communicative networking in the diaspora. In L. Fortunati, R. Pertierra & J. Vincent (Eds.), Migrations, diaspora, and information technology in global societies, (pp. 172-188). London: Routledge. Leurs, K. & Ponzanesi, S. (2013). Intersectionality, digital identities and migrant youths. In C. Carter, L. Steiner & L. McLaughlin (Eds.), Routledge companion to media and gender. London: Routledge. Leurs, K. & Ponzanesi, S. (2013). Bits of homeland. In C. Ponte & M. Georgiou (Eds.) Special issue on Media, technology and the migrant family. Observatorio (OBS*), 7 (1). Leurs, K., Midden, E. & Ponzanesi, S. (2012). Digital multiculturalism in the Netherlands: Religious, ethnic, and gender positioning by Moroccan-Dutch youth. Religion and Gender, 2 (1), 150-175. Leurs, K. & Ponzanesi, S. (2011). Mediated crossroads: Youthful digital diasporas. M/C Journal, 14(2), http://journal.media-culture.org.au/ Leurs, K. & Ponzanesi, S. (2011). Communicative spaces of their own. Migrant girls performing selves using Instant Messaging software. Feminist Review, 99, 55-78. Mainsah, H. (2011). Transcending the national imaginery: Digital online media and the transnational networks of ethnic minority youth in norway. In E. Eide & K. Nikunen (Eds.), Media in motion: Cultural complexity and migration in the Nordic region, (pp. 201-219). Surrey: Ashgate. Mainsah, H. (2009). Ethnic minorities and digital technologies. New spaces for constructing identity. (Unpublished doctoral dissertation). Oslo University, Norway. Hope these are useful, Best wishes, Koen. Koen Leurs, PhD | Marie Curie Postdoctoral Researcher, LSE | | Affiliated researcher Graduate Gender Studies / Institute for Cultural Enquiry (ICON) Utrecht University | www.uu.nl/wiredup | http://www.mignetproject.eu/ | www.koenleurs.net ________________________________________ From: air-l-bounces at listserv.aoir.org [air-l-bounces at listserv.aoir.org] on behalf of tiziano bonini [tiziano.bonini at gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, February 05, 2014 2:30 PM To: Unger, Johann Cc: air-l at listserv.aoir.org Subject: Re: [Air-L] Facebook and the construction of (migrants') identities Dear Johann, I investigated something similar in my PhD thesis. Unfortunately it is in Italian but I published a part of it in this article: "Media as home making tools: life story of a Filipino migrant in Milan", Media, Culture & society, 33(6), 869-883. Here the link to read it: http://www.scribd.com/doc/79449459/Media-as-Home-Making-Tools-MC-S-2011 Best tiziano 2014-02-05 Unger, Johann : > Meanwhile, I'm trying to finish my email! Apologies for the earlier, > unfinished draft. Here's what I meant to write: > > Dear AOIR-ers, > > A PhD student in my department is currently trying to finish his thesis on > migrants' use if Facebook, with a particular focus on how they construct > their identities. If you know of any interesting work in this area, I'd be > grateful of you could let me know either off-list or on. We'll collate any > responses and circulate in due course. > > Many thanks, > Johnny > > Dr J W Unger > Lecturer and Academic Director of Summer Programmes > Department of Linguistics and English Language > Lancaster University > LA1 4YL > > e-mail: j.unger at lancaster.ac.uk > tel: +44 1524 592591 > Follow me on Twitter @johnnyunger > _______________________________________________ > The Air-L at listserv.aoir.org mailing list > is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org > Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: > http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org > > Join the Association of Internet Researchers: > http://www.aoir.org/ > -- Tiziano Bonini ||| lecturer in media studies ||| Arts, Culture and Comparative Literature Institute IULM University of Milano via Carlo Bo 4 20143 Milano, Italy ::: Academia ::: http://iulm.academia.edu/TizianoBonini ::: Audio/Radio ::: www.radiofactory.org http://audioboo.fm/tizianobonini _______________________________________________ The Air-L at listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org Join the Association of Internet Researchers: http://www.aoir.org/ From gn254 at cam.ac.uk Wed Feb 5 07:05:27 2014 From: gn254 at cam.ac.uk (Galina Nikiporets-Takigawa) Date: Wed, 05 Feb 2014 15:05:27 +0000 Subject: [Air-L] Facebook and the construction of (migrants') identities In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Hi, Johnny, With apologise for self-promotion and not being directly related (not about Facebook), but relevant - two chapters on digital communication in identities construction of post-soviet migrants in the UK: (2013) ?Digital debates on Soviet memory in the national identity construction of post-soviet migrants?, in Negotiating Linguistic, Cultural and Social Identities in the Post-Soviet World, Sarah Smith and Conny Opitz eds., Peter Lang, 163-182. ISBN 978-3-0343-0840-3 pb. (2010) ?Digital communication of the Russian-speaking community as a reflection of language contact and performance of identity?, in Instrumentarium of Linguistics. Sociolinguisitc Approaches to Non-Standard Russian, Arto Mustajoki et al. eds., Slavica Helsingiensia 40, 369-380. Both PDFs are available here https://cambridge.academia.edu/GalinaNikiporetsTakigawa, Best, Galina On 2014-02-05 13:01, Unger, Johann wrote: > Meanwhile, I'm trying to finish my email! Apologies for the earlier, > unfinished draft. Here's what I meant to write: > > Dear AOIR-ers, > > A PhD student in my department is currently trying to finish his > thesis on migrants' use if Facebook, with a particular focus on how > they construct their identities. If you know of any interesting work > in this area, I'd be grateful of you could let me know either off-list > or on. We'll collate any responses and circulate in due course. > > Many thanks, > Johnny > > Dr J W Unger > Lecturer and Academic Director of Summer Programmes > Department of Linguistics and English Language > Lancaster University > LA1 4YL > > e-mail: j.unger at lancaster.ac.uk > tel: +44 1524 592591 > Follow me on Twitter @johnnyunger > _______________________________________________ > The Air-L at listserv.aoir.org mailing list > is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org > Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: > http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org > > Join the Association of Internet Researchers: > http://www.aoir.org/ -- Dr Galina Nikiporets-Takigawa Department of Slavonic Studies University of Cambridge Sidgwick Avenue, Cambridge CB3 9DA https://cambridge.academia.edu/GalinaNikiporetsTakigawa From pedro.oiarzabal at deusto.es Wed Feb 5 08:47:12 2014 From: pedro.oiarzabal at deusto.es (P.J. Oiarzabal) Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2014 16:47:12 +0000 Subject: [Air-L] Facebook and the construction of (migrants') identities In-Reply-To: References: , , Message-ID: Hi there, Please also considered the following publications: Oiarzabal, Pedro J. and Ulf-Dietrich Reips. (Eds.) Special Issue ?Migration and the Internet: Social Networking and Diasporas.? Journal of Ethnicity and Migration Studies, Vol. 38, No. 9 (2012): 1333-1490 (ISSN 1369-183X).Oiarzabal, Pedro J. ?Diaspora Basques and Online Social Networks: An Analysis of Users of Basque Institutional Diaspora Groups on Facebook.? Journal of Ethnicity and Migration Studies, Vol. 38, No. 9 (2012): 1469-1485.Oiarzabal, Pedro J. (2011). ?The Online Social Networks of the Basque Diaspora. Fast Forwarded, 2005-2009,? in Javier Echeverria, Andoni Alonso, and Pedro J. Oiarzabal (eds.). Knowledge Communities. Conference Series. Vol. 6. Reno: Center for Basque Studies, University of Nevada, Reno. (Hardcover, 260 pages; ISBN 978-1-877802-97-3). Oiarzabal, Pedro J. (2013). The Basque Diaspora Webscape: Identity, Nation, and Homeland, 1990s-2010s. Basque Diaspora and Migration Studies Series, No. 7. Center for Basque Studies, University of Nevada, Reno. (Paperback, 272 pages; ISBN 978-1-935709-41-1). Oiarzabal, Pedro J. and Andoni Alonso. (Eds.) (2010). Diasporas in the New Media Age: Identity, Politics and Community. Reno: University Nevada Press. (Paperback, 384 pages; ISBN 978-0-87417-815-9). Best regards, Pedro Pedro J. Oiarzabal, PhD pedro.oiarzabal at deusto.es University of Deusto Pedro Arrupe Human Rights Institute, Avenida de las Universidades, 24 48007 - Bilbao Tel.:+34-944139003 (ext. 2077) http://www.idh.deusto.es Have you seen my latest book, The Basque Diaspora Webscape: Identity, Nation and Homeland, 1990s-2010s? bit.ly/1f01i50 > Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2014 15:05:27 +0000 > From: gn254 at cam.ac.uk > To: j.unger at lancaster.ac.uk; tiziano.bonini at gmail.com; K.H.A.Leurs at uu.nl; air-l at listserv.aoir.org > Subject: Re: [Air-L] Facebook and the construction of (migrants') identities > > Hi, Johnny, > > With apologise for self-promotion and not being directly related (not > about Facebook), but relevant - two chapters on digital communication in > identities construction of post-soviet migrants in the UK: > > (2013) ?Digital debates on Soviet memory in the national identity > construction of post-soviet migrants?, in Negotiating Linguistic, > Cultural and Social Identities in the Post-Soviet World, Sarah Smith and > Conny Opitz eds., Peter Lang, 163-182. ISBN 978-3-0343-0840-3 pb. > > (2010) ?Digital communication of the Russian-speaking community as a > reflection of language contact and performance of identity?, in > Instrumentarium of Linguistics. Sociolinguisitc Approaches to > Non-Standard Russian, Arto Mustajoki et al. eds., Slavica Helsingiensia > 40, 369-380. > > > Both PDFs are available here > https://cambridge.academia.edu/GalinaNikiporetsTakigawa, > > > Best, > > Galina > > On 2014-02-05 13:01, Unger, Johann wrote: > > Meanwhile, I'm trying to finish my email! Apologies for the earlier, > > unfinished draft. Here's what I meant to write: > > > > Dear AOIR-ers, > > > > A PhD student in my department is currently trying to finish his > > thesis on migrants' use if Facebook, with a particular focus on how > > they construct their identities. If you know of any interesting work > > in this area, I'd be grateful of you could let me know either off-list > > or on. We'll collate any responses and circulate in due course. > > > > Many thanks, > > Johnny > > > > Dr J W Unger > > Lecturer and Academic Director of Summer Programmes > > Department of Linguistics and English Language > > Lancaster University > > LA1 4YL > > > > e-mail: j.unger at lancaster.ac.uk > > tel: +44 1524 592591 > > Follow me on Twitter @johnnyunger > > _______________________________________________ > > The Air-L at listserv.aoir.org mailing list > > is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org > > Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: > > http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org > > > > Join the Association of Internet Researchers: > > http://www.aoir.org/ > > -- > Dr Galina Nikiporets-Takigawa > Department of Slavonic Studies > University of Cambridge > Sidgwick Avenue, Cambridge CB3 9DA > https://cambridge.academia.edu/GalinaNikiporetsTakigawa > _______________________________________________ > The Air-L at listserv.aoir.org mailing list > is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org > Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org > > Join the Association of Internet Researchers: > http://www.aoir.org/ From laevantine at gmail.com Wed Feb 5 10:40:43 2014 From: laevantine at gmail.com (Todd Harper) Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2014 13:40:43 -0500 Subject: [Air-L] Game studies book note -- The Culture of Digital Fighting Games Message-ID: Just a small note if you have an interest in game studies, particularly gaming communities, e-sports, or communities of practice: my book "The Culture of Digital Fighting Games: Performance and Practice" came out at the end of December 2013. In summary, the book is an extension of my dissertation work on the competitive fighting game community, looking at their play practices, social interactions, and the like. If this is of interest to you, there's more information on Routledge's page for the book: http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415821308/ There's also a review copy request form -- http://www.routledge.com/resources/review_copy_request/%209780415821308/ And a library recommendation form, if you're of the mind - http://www.routledge.com/resources/librarian_recommendation/9780415821308/ Thanks, and have a good one. >Todd -- Todd Harper Postdoctoral Researcher, MIT Game Lab -- http://gamelab.mit.edu laevantine at gmail.com | tlharper at mit.edu From julie.grinberg at yahoo.com Wed Feb 5 14:47:51 2014 From: julie.grinberg at yahoo.com (Julie Grinberg) Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2014 14:47:51 -0800 (PST) Subject: [Air-L] =?utf-8?q?PhD-Seminar=2C_Web_Archiving_and_Archived_Web_?= =?utf-8?q?=E2=80=94_a_new_Research_Method=2C_a_new_Object_of_Study=3F?= In-Reply-To: <719F6AC5-D76B-431C-8D7A-15DBEBE2A476@imv.au.dk> References: <719F6AC5-D76B-431C-8D7A-15DBEBE2A476@imv.au.dk> Message-ID: <1391640471.93494.YahooMailNeo@web121903.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> Dear Niels,? My name is Yuliya Grinberg, I'm a Ph.D candidate in anthropology at Columbia University developing a project on what I have tentatively titled the "Digital Data Mines" dealing precisely with questions of the archive in the digital age. This seminar seems so great, but I am also looking for material I could read during the spring in preparation of my dissertation proposal. I'm particularly interested in literature related to the topic of "Virtual Digs." ?I'm wondering if there is a suggested reading list you could help refer me to? Thanks in advance! Yuliya Grinberg? On Tuesday, February 4, 2014 4:17 AM, Niels Br?gger wrote: ***apologies for cross-postings*** PhD seminar Web Archiving and Archived Web ? a new Research Method, a new Object of Study? Aarhus University, Denmark, 11-12 June 2014 Organised by the Danish Digital Humanities Lab/NetLab & Aarhus University, the PhD programme ?ICT, Media, Communication and Journalism? This PhD seminar focus on web archiving and web archives with a view to investigating the nexus between web archiving and web archives as a new research method and as a new object of study. The aim of the seminar is double. On the one hand it is to introduce web archiving as a research method to be used by scholars studying contemporary political, social, and cultural phenomena within the humanities and the social sciences, and, on the other hand, the aim is to introduce to the methodological and theoretical issues related to the use of existing (trans)national web archives, in the main in relation to historical studies involving the web. Participation as well as coffee and lunch are free of charge. Participants must pay for dinner, travel and accomodation themselves. The number of participants is limited to 20. Deadline for submission of application is Monday 24 March 2014. The lectures and the lecturers: ? ?Virtual Digs: Excavating, Preserving, and Archiving the Web?, Meghan Dougherty, Assistant Professor, Digital Communication, Loyola University Chicago ? ?A Data Driven Approach to Web Archive Research?, Anat Ben-David, post-doctoral researcher with the WebART project, University of Amsterdam ? ?Archiving web material for future research??, Ditte Laursen, senior researcher and curator at the State Media Archive, State Library in Denmark ? ?Probing a nation?s web sphere?, Niels Br?gger, Associate Professor, Aarhus University, Head of the Centre for Internet Studies Read the full call, including more about the course format, the venue, and how to enrol:http://www.netlab.dk/courses/ Very best, Niels Br?gger ?????????????????????????????? LATEST PUBLICATIONS AND PAPERS August 2013 Web historiography and Internet Studies: Challenges and perspectives, New Media & Society, 15(5), 752-764 Read more: http://nms.sagepub.com/content/15/5/752.abstract June 2013 Historical Network Analysis of the Web, Social Science Computer Review, 31(3), 306-321 Read more: http://ssc.sagepub.com/content/31/3/306.abstract March 2013 The Web and Digital Humanities: Theoretical and Methodological Concerns (w. N.O. Finnemann), Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media 57(1), 66-80 Read more: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/08838151.2012.761699 NIELS BR?GGER, Associate Professor, PhD Director, the Centre for Internet Studies Department of Aesthetics and Communication Aarhus University Helsingforsgade 14 8200 Aarhus N Denmark Phone (switchboard)? +45 8715 0000 Phone (direct)? ? ? ? ? ? ? +45 8716 1971 Phone (mobile)? ? ? ? ? ? +45 2945 3231 E-mail? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? nb at imv.au.dk Webpage? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? http://imv.au.dk/~nb Profile at LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/1/50a/555 Skype name: niels_bruegger The Centre for Internet Research? ? ? ? ? ? ? http://cfi.au.dk NetLab? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? http://netlab.dk??? ??? The history of dr.dk, 1996-2006? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? http://drdk.dk LARM (Radio Culture and Auditory Resources Research Infrastructure) http://www.larm-archive.org _______________________________________________ The Air-L at listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org Join the Association of Internet Researchers: http://www.aoir.org/ From jwallis at csu.edu.au Wed Feb 5 17:53:48 2014 From: jwallis at csu.edu.au (Wallis, Jacob) Date: Thu, 6 Feb 2014 12:53:48 +1100 Subject: [Air-L] Air-L Digest, Vol 115, Issue 5 In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Hi Johnny, Some of my colleagues have done some work in this area with migrant refugees located in regional New South Wales, Australia - published as..... Lloyd, A., Kennan, M. A., Thompson, K. M., & Asim Qayyum. (2013). Connecting with new information landscapes: information literacy practices of refugees. Journal of Documentation, 69(1), 121-144. Cheers, Jake Jake Wallis Lecturer School of Information Studies Charles Sturt University Tel: +61 2 6051 9433 Email: jwallis at csu.edu.au www.csu.edu.au ------------------------------ Message: 6 Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2014 13:01:52 +0000 From: "Unger, Johann" To: "air-l at listserv.aoir.org" Subject: Re: [Air-L] Facebook and the construction of (migrants') identities Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Meanwhile, I'm trying to finish my email! Apologies for the earlier, unfinished draft. Here's what I meant to write: Dear AOIR-ers, A PhD student in my department is currently trying to finish his thesis on migrants' use if Facebook, with a particular focus on how they construct their identities. If you know of any interesting work in this area, I'd be grateful of you could let me know either off-list or on. We'll collate any responses and circulate in due course. Many thanks, Johnny Dr J W Unger Lecturer and Academic Director of Summer Programmes Department of Linguistics and English Language Lancaster University LA1 4YL e-mail: j.unger at lancaster.ac.uk tel: +44 1524 592591 Follow me on Twitter @johnnyunger Charles Sturt University | ALBURY-WODONGA | BATHURST | CANBERRA | DUBBO | GOULBURN | MELBOURNE | ONTARIO | ORANGE | PORT MACQUARIE | SYDNEY | WAGGA WAGGA | LEGAL NOTICE This email (and any attachment) is confidential and is intended for the use of the addressee(s) only. If you are not the intended recipient of this email, you must not copy, distribute, take any action in reliance on it or disclose it to anyone. Any confidentiality is not waived or lost by reason of mistaken delivery. Email should be checked for viruses and defects before opening. 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Disclaimer added by CodeTwo Exchange Rules 2007 http://www.codetwo.com From hk at monkprayogshala.in Thu Feb 6 01:06:06 2014 From: hk at monkprayogshala.in (hk at monkprayogshala.in) Date: Thu, 06 Feb 2014 09:06:06 +0000 Subject: [Air-L] Public Gossip Scale Message-ID: <089e014950d4fc3d2704f1b92e93@google.com> Hello, Do spend a couple of minutes participating in research about gossip :) This is the second part of the project, and you can fill in this form even if you've filled in an earlier one! Do help :) Thanks! Best, Hansika Kapoor This is the second part of a study on gossip behaviour. You are eligible to participate regardless of whether you've filled a similar form earlier or not :) PURPOSE: This questionnaire concerns the tendency of people to talk about public figures. It is a tendency which occurs almost every day, and most people indulge in it. WHO IS CONDUCTING THIS STUDY: This study is being conducted by Aakankshi Javeri, Research Intern at the Department of Psychology, Monk Prayogshala (aj at monkprayogshala.in), under the supervision of Hansika Kapoor, Research Author at Monk Prayogshala (hk at monkprayogshala.in). HAS THIS STUDY BEEN APPROVED? Yes, this study has received Ethical Approval from the IRB at Monk Prayogshala, in November 2013 (#013-003). For queries regarding the same, you may contact aa at monkprayogshala.in WHAT YOU WILL DO: You will begin by providing some basic information about yourself. Then you will be required to respond to a few statements. There are no right or wrong answers to any of the items and this test is in no way a test of your intelligence. Please be as truthful as possible. We anticipate that the entire questionnaire will take about 10 minutes to complete. RISKS: There are NO anticipated risks with participating in this study. 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CONTACT: If you have any questions, comments or feedback regarding this study, you can contact us at aj at monkprayogshala.in By continuing, you are stating that you are over 16 years of age, and that you understand the provided information and consent to participate in the study being conducted. I've invited you to fill out the form Public Gossip. To fill it out, visit: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1Fv4THHNK3d_5b6R8N_9sl1XqAPsrdp3rFv6wnlx_ryA/viewform From stuart.shulman at gmail.com Thu Feb 6 11:05:57 2014 From: stuart.shulman at gmail.com (Stuart Shulman) Date: Thu, 6 Feb 2014 14:05:57 -0500 Subject: [Air-L] Gnip and Twitter Bringing Social Data to Academic Researchers Message-ID: Gnip and Twitter Bringing Social Data to Academic Researchers http://blog.gnip.com/twitter-data-grants/ >From the Gnip blog: "What if the next generation of data scientists could have access to social data for their research? And what if we could help increase the quantity and quality of published research using social data? Exploring what might be possible has led to an exciting new collaboration between Twitter and Gnip. Today, we're announcing the pilot of the Twitter Data Grants program, a new initiative designed to support research and fuel innovation in our industry." On a related note: I have taken on the task of setting up 1-2 academic panels for the next Big Boulder conference. If you are an academic doing work with Twitter data and you are interested in potentially appearing on a Big Boulder panel, please send me a brief synopsis of your project and a link to any web-based materials about it. For more about past Big Boulder conferences, please visit: http://blog.gnip.com/big-boulder-the-worlds-first-social-data-conference/ and http://blog.gnip.com/big-boulder-2013-recap/ For information about the Big Boulder Initiative: http://blog.gnip.com/social-data-industry-organization/ ~Stu -- Dr. Stuart W. Shulman people.umass.edu/stu Founder and CEO, Texifter texifter.com LinkedIn: linkedin.com/pub/stuart-shulman/10/351/899 Twitter: twitter.com/#!/StuartWShulman From gciampag at indiana.edu Thu Feb 6 17:50:07 2014 From: gciampag at indiana.edu (Giovanni Luca Ciampaglia) Date: Thu, 06 Feb 2014 20:50:07 -0500 Subject: [Air-L] ACM Web Science Conference (WebSci'14), June 23-26, 2014 Message-ID: <52F43BCF.4080605@indiana.edu> *** Apologies for multiple postings *** FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS & ACCEPTED SATELLITE EVENTS ACM Web Science Conference (WebSci'14), June 23-26, 2014 Bloomington, Indiana, USA websci14.org / @WebSciConf / #WebSci14 Deadline for papers: Feb. 23rd 2014 Web Science is the emergent science of the people, organizations, applications, and of policies that shape and are shaped by the Web, the largest informational artifact constructed by humans in history. Web Science embraces the study of the Web as a vast universal information network of people and communities. As such, Web Science includes the study of social networks whose work, expression, and play take place on the Web. The social sciences and computational sciences meet in Web Science and complement one another: Studying human behavior and social interaction contributes to our understanding of the Web, while Web data is transforming how social science is conducted. The Web presents us with a great opportunity as well as an obligation: If we are to ensure the Web benefits humanity we must do our best to understand it. Call for Papers The Web Science conference is inherently interdisciplinary, as it attempts to integrate computer and information sciences, communication, linguistics, sociology, psychology, economics, law, political science, philosophy, digital humanities, and other disciplines in pursuit of an understanding of the Web. This conference is unique in the manner in which it brings these disciplines together in creative and critical dialogue, and we invite papers from all the above disciplines, and in particular those that cross traditional disciplinary boundaries. Following the success of WebSci'09 in Athens, WebSci'10 in Raleigh, WebSci'11 in Koblenz, WebSci '12 in Evanston, and WebSci'13 in Paris, for the 2014 conference we are seeking papers and posters that describe original research, analysis, and practice in the field of Web Science, as well as work that discusses novel and thought-provoking ideas and works-in-progress. Possible topics for submissions include, but are not limited to, the following: * Analysis of human behavior using social media, mobile devices, and online communities * Methodological challenges of analyzing Web-based * large-scale social interaction * Data-mining and network analysis of the Web and human communities on the Web * Detailed studies of micro-level processes and interactions * on the Web * Collective intelligence, collaborative production, and social computing * Theories and methods for computational social science on the Web * Studies of public health and health-related behavior on the Web * The architecture and philosophy of the Web * The intersection of design and human interaction on the Web * Economics and social innovation on the Web * Governance, democracy, intellectual property, and the commons * Personal data, trust, and privacy * Web and social media research ethics * Studies of Linked Data, the Cloud, and digital eco-systems * Big data and the study of the Web * Web access, literacy, and development * Knowledge, education, and scholarship on and through the Web * People-driven Web technologies, including crowd-sourcing, open data, and new interfaces * Digital humanities * Arts & culture on the Web or engaging audiences using Web resources * Web archiving techniques and scholarly uses of Web archives * New research questions and thought-provoking ideas Submission Web Science is necessarily a very selective single track conference with a rigorous review process. To accommodate the distinct traditions of its many disciplines, we provide three different submission formats: full papers, short papers, and posters. For all types of submissions, inclusion in the ACM DL proceedings will be by default, but not mandatory (opt-out via EasyChair). All accepted research papers (full and short papers) will be presented during the single-track conference. All accepted posters will be given a spot in the single-track lightning talk session, and room to present their papers during a dedicated poster session. Full research papers (5 to 10 pages, ACM double column, 20 mins presentation including Q&A) Full research papers should present new results and original work that has not been previously published. Research papers should present substantial theoretical, empirical, methodological, or policy-oriented contributions to research and/or practice. Short research papers (up to 5 pages, ACM double column, 15 mins presentation including Q&A) Short research papers should present new results and original work that has not been previously published. Research papers can present preliminary theoretical, empirical, methodological, or policy-oriented contributions to research and/or practice. Posters (up to 2 pages, ACM double column, lightning talk + poster presentation) Extended abstracts for posters, which should be in English, can be up to 2 pages. Submission instructions Full and short paper and poster submissions should be formatted according to the official ACM SIG proceedings template (http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates). Please make use of the ACM 1998 classification scheme (http://www.acm.org/about/class/1998/), and submit papers using EasyChair at https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=websci2014. Other creative submission formats (flexible formats) Other types of creative submissions are also encouraged, and the exact format and style of presentation are open. Examples might include artistic performances or installations, interactive exhibits, demonstrations, or other creative formats. For these submissions, the proposers should make clear both what they propose to do, and any special requirements they would need to successfully do it (in terms of space, time, technology, etc.) Review The Web Science program committee consists of a program committee that covers all relevant areas of Web Science. Each submission will be refereed by three PC members and one short meta review written by a Co-PC chair, to cover both the research background of each submission as well as the necessary interdisciplinary aspects. (Optional) Archival Proceedings in the ACM Digital Library All accepted papers and posters will by default appear in the Web Science 2014 Conference Proceedings and can also be made available through the ACM Digital Library, in the same length and format of the submission unless indicated otherwise (those wishing not to be indexed and archived can "opt out" of the proceedings). Satellite Events The following is the list of accepted satellite events. All workshops will be held on June 23. Full day events Altmetrics14 - Expanding Impacts and Metrics http://altmetrics.org/altmetrics14 Judit Bar-Ilan, Rodrigo Costas, Paul Groth, Stefanie Haustein, Vincent Lariviere, Isabella Peters and Mike Taylor Massive Data Flow: Understanding the Complex Dynamics of the Web Seth Bullock, Takashi Ikegami and Mizuki Oka Computational Approaches to Social Modeling (ChASM) http://www.chasm.ws Andrea Baronchelli, Bruno Goncalves, Nicola Perra, Claudia Wagner, Markus Strohmaier, Noshir Contractor, and Emilio Ferrara The web of scientific knowledge: current trends and future perspectives in the big data era Filippo Radicchi, Stasa Milosevic, Ying Ding, Cassidy Sugimoto, Vincent Leriviere, and Min Song Yonsei Doctoral Consortium Howard Rosenbaum, Pnina Fichman, Susan Davies, Lora Aroyo Half-day events Interdisciplinary Coups to Calamities http://www.icc.ecs.soton.ac.uk Clare J. Hooper, David Millard and Norhidayah Azman Web Science Education: Sharing experiences and developing community http://webscience-education-workshop.net Stephane B. Bazan, Su White, Steffen Staab, Michalis Vafopoulos, Susan Halford, Clare Hooper, Hans Akkermans and Mark Weal Research Methodologies for analyzing Cybercrime and Cyberwar http://webscience-cybercrime-workshop.net Dominic Hobson, Neil Macewan, Lisa Sugiura, Stephane B. Bazan and Craig Webber 2nd International Workshop on Building Web Observatories (B-WOW2014) https://sites.google.com/site/bwow2014 Ramine Tinati, Thanassis Tiropanis, Ian Brown and Wendy Hall Deadlines Full & Short Papers: * 23 February 2014: Submissions of full and short papers * 13 April 2014: Notification of acceptance for papers * 11 May 2014: Camera-ready version of papers and posters due Late Breaking Posters: * 23 March 2014: Submissions of posters * 13 April 2014: Notification of acceptance for posters * 11 May 2014: Camera-ready version of posters due Authors take note: The official publication date is the date the proceedings are made available in the ACM Digital Library. This date may be up to two weeks prior to the first day of the conference. The official publication date affects the deadline for any patent filings related to published work. (If proceedings are published in the ACM Digital Library after the conference is over, the official publication date is the first day of the conference.) Conference calendar and rough program * 23 June 2014: workshops, opening reception and keynote * 24 June 2014: keynote(s), technical program, poster reception * 25 June 2014: keynote(s), technical program, social event * 26 June 2014: keynote, technical program, closing General chairs * Fil Menczer, Indiana University * Jim Hendler, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute * Bill Dutton, Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford Program chairs * Markus Strohmaier, University of Koblenz and GESIS (Computing) * Ciro Cattuto, ISI Foundation (Physics) * Eric T. Meyer, Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford (Social Sciences) Program Commiteee * Yong-Yeol Ahn, Indiana University * Luca Maria Aiello, Yahoo! Research * William Allen, University of Oxford * Sitaram Asur, HP Labs * Alain Barrat, CNRS * Fabricio Benevenuto, Federal University of Minas Gerais * Mark Bernstein, Eastgate Systems, Inc * Paolo Boldi, Universita degli Studi di Milano * Niels Brugger, Aarhus Universitet * Licia Capra, University College London * Carlos Castillo, Qatar Computing Research Institute * Lu Chen, Wright State University * Cristobal Cobo, Oxford Internet Institute * David Crandall, Indiana University * Pasquale De Meo, VU University, Amsterdam * David De Roure, Oxford e-Research Centre * Pnina Fichman, Indiana University * Alessandro Flammini, Indiana University * Matteo Gagliolo, Universite libre de Bruxelles * Laetitia Gauvin, ISI Foundation, Turin * Daniel Gayo Avello, University of Oviedo * Scott Golder, Cornell University * Bruno Goncalves, Aix-Marseille Universite * Andrew Gordon, University of Southern California * Scott Hale, Oxford Internet Institute * Noriko Hara, Indiana University * Bernhard Haslhofer, University of Vienna * Andreas Hotho, University of Wuerzburg * Geert-Jan Houben, TU Delft * Jeremy Hunsinger, Wilfrid Laurier University * Ajita John, Avaya Labs * Robert Jaschke, L3S Research Center * Haewoon Kwak, Telefonica Research * Renaud Lambiotte, University of Namur * Matthieu Latapy, CNRS * Silvio Lattanzi, Google * Vili Lehdonvirta, Oxford Internet Institute * Sune Lehmann, Technical University of Denmark * Kristina Lerman, University of Southern California * David Liben-Nowell, Carleton College * Yu-Ru Lin, University of Pittsburgh * Huan Liu, Arizona State University * Jared Lorince, Indiana University * Mathias Lux, Klagenfurt University * Massimo Marchiori, University of Padova and UTILABS * Yutaka Matsuo, University of Tokyo * Jaimie Murdock, Indiana University * Mirco Musolesi, University of Birmingham * Eni Mustafaraj, Wellesley College * Wolfgang Nejdl, L3S and University of Hannover * Andre Panisson, ISI Foundation, Turin * Hanwoo Park, Yeungnam University * Fernando Pedone, University of Lugano * Leto Peel, University of Colorado, Boulder * Orion Penner, IMT Lucca * Nicola Perra, Northeastern University * Rob Procter, University of Warwick * Cornelius Puschmann, Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society * Daniele Quercia, Yahoo! Labs * Carlos P. Roca, Universitat Rovira i Virgili * Richard Rogers, University of Amsterdam * Daniel Romero, Northwestern University * Matthew Rowe, Lancaster University * Giancarlo Ruffo, Universita di Torino * Derek Ruths, McGill University * Rossano Schifanella, Universita di Torino * Ralph Schroeder, Oxford Internet Institute * Kalpana Shankar, University College Dublin * Xiaolin Shi, Microsoft * Elena Simperl, University of Southampton * Philipp Singer, Knowledge Management Institute * Marc Smith, Connected Action Consulting Group * Steffen Staab, University of Koblenz-Landau * Burkhard Stiller, University of Zurich * Lei Tang, @WalmartLabs * Loren Terveen, University of Minnesota * Sebastiano Vigna, Universita degli Studi di Milano * Claudia Wagner, GESIS-Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences * Jillian Wallis, UC Los Angeles * Stan Wasserman, Indiana University * Ingmar Weber, Qatar Computing Research Institute * Matthew Weber, Rutgers University * Lilian Weng, Indiana University * Christopher Wienberg, University of Southern California * Ben Zhao, UC Santa Barbara * Arkaitz Zubiaga, Dublin Institute of Technology From maurizio.teli at gmail.com Fri Feb 7 00:45:06 2014 From: maurizio.teli at gmail.com (Maurizio) Date: Fri, 7 Feb 2014 09:45:06 +0100 Subject: [Air-L] 5th ERQ Conference - Call for abstracts: It's a free work... When work relations become passionate Message-ID: Apologies for Cross-Posting --- Dear colleague, we are pleased to send you the call for abstracts of the session *It**'s a free work... When work relations become passionate.* Your contribution to the proposed session will be greatly appreciated! We take this occasion to remind you that the keynote speakers for the V Etnography and Qualitative Research Conference are *Michael Burawoy*, University of California Berkeley, and *Marc Ab?l?s*, LAIOS - Laboratoire d'Anthropologie des Institutions et des Organisations Sociales. On the conference website and below you can find the text of the call for abstracts. Proposals should be sent by* Februay 17, 2014 *to: annalisa.murgia at unitn.it maurizio at ahref.eu Please, also CC the conference address: workshop.etnografia at unibg.it Each proposal, of a maximum length of 1000 words, should contain: * the title of your talk; * your contact details (full name, email address, post address and affiliation) and those of your co-author/s, if any. Contributions will be accepted both in *Italian* and *English*. Acceptance of proposals will be notified by March 17, 2014. Contributors must register by April 21, 2014 to be included in the program. With best wishes, Annalisa Murgia & Maurizio Teli -- Call for abstracts V Ethnography and Qualitative Research Conference. Bergamo, Italy 5-7 June 2014 website: http://www.etnografiaricercaqualitativa.it/?p=13 *It's a free work... When working relations become passionate* Convenors:* Annalisa Murgia* (Department of Sociology and Social Research of the University of Trento) & *Maurizio Teli* (Fondazione Dear AOIRers, As a program committee member, I would like to invite you to the 5th Social Media and Society Conference, an annual gathering of leading social media researchers around the world. It will be held in Toronto, Canada from September 27 to 28. Last year?s conference hosted nearly 200 attendees, featured research from 90+ scholars and practitioners across several field from over 60 institutions in 15 different countries. The conference calls for an extended abstract (~500 words), panel proposals and posters on the variety of topics including, but not limited to: Social Media & Big Data, Social Media Impact on Society, Theories & Methods, and Online/Offline Communities. For more information, please find http://socialmediaandsociety.com/?p=629 and for more inquiries, feel free to send an email to the organizer: Dr. Anatoliy Gruzd (gruzd at dal.ca) or to me: Dr. Hazel Kwon (khkwon at asu.edu). Thanks! K. Hazel Kwon, Ph.D. Assistant Professor School of Social and Behavioral Sciences Arizona State University https://webapp4.asu.edu/directory/person/1949238 k.hazel.kwon at gmail.com From cdwyer at pace.edu Fri Feb 7 11:27:39 2014 From: cdwyer at pace.edu (Cathy Dwyer) Date: Fri, 7 Feb 2014 14:27:39 -0500 Subject: [Air-L] Pace University Faculty Positions Message-ID: Pace University's Seidenberg School of Computer Science and Information Systems invites applications for several anticipated full-time tenure-track faculty positions in Computer Science or Information Technology. The selected faculty members will be expected to: conduct research, supervise doctoral, graduate and undergraduate students, teach computer science or information technology courses, at all levels and serve on committees at both department and school level. Appointment will be at one or more of our three campuses in NYC and Westchester. Candidates must possess an earned doctorate in computer science, information systems or a related field. They should have proven teaching and research potential, preferably in rapidly evolving areas such as telehealth, cybersecurity, software engineering and Big Data analytics. The anticipated positions will start in fall 2014. Review of applications will begin as they are received. Applications will be accepted until the positions are filled. Please submit a letter of application, curriculum vitae, sample publications, and three letters of recommendation (sent directly from references) to Faculty Search Committee chair Dr Constance Knapp atSeidenberg_Search at pace.edu. Only electronic submissions will be considered. https://chroniclevitae.com/jobs/0000808217-01 -- Catherine Dwyer, Ph.D. Chair, Department of Information Technology - NYC campus Pace University, Seidenberg School of Computer Science & Information Systems 163 William Street #240 New York, NY 10038 212-346-1728 http://csis.pace.edu/~dwyer/ From mcforelle at gmail.com Fri Feb 7 17:51:38 2014 From: mcforelle at gmail.com (Michelle Forelle) Date: Fri, 7 Feb 2014 17:51:38 -0800 Subject: [Air-L] History of "accounts" Message-ID: Hi all, I'm working on a project which requires me to look into the history of the concept of "accounts," as in bank accounts or social media accounts. What is it that identifies something as an "account," where did that definition come from, and what is at stake in it? I'm having a hard time finding a foothold, though - it's brutal trying to search for it point-blank given the many usages of the word "account" in the literature. Does anyone know of a history of bank accounts, social media accounts, or any other form of "account" that might be able to get me started? Much appreciative of any help, Michelle C Forelle -- PhD student USC Annenberg School of Communication @mcforelle on the tweet machine (407) 864-2225 From fred at firesabre.com Fri Feb 7 19:06:09 2014 From: fred at firesabre.com (Fred Fuchs) Date: Fri, 07 Feb 2014 21:06:09 -0600 Subject: [Air-L] History of "accounts" In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <52F59F21.8080807@firesabre.com> On 2/7/2014 7:51 PM, Michelle Forelle wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm working on a project which requires me to look into the history of the > concept of "accounts," as in bank accounts or social media accounts. "Accounts" in computing began in the days of batch processing and timesharing. Here are some related links: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time-sharing http://www-formal.stanford.edu/jmc/history/timesharing/timesharing.html http://www.princeton.edu/~achaney/tmve/wiki100k/docs/Time-sharing.html http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=880740 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q07PhW5sCEk http://www.bobbemer.com/TIMESHAR.HTM Here's a bit more on banking too: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_banking http://money.howstuffworks.com/personal-finance/banking/swiss-bank-account2.htm http://www.factmonster.com/ipka/A0801059.html Good luck, Fred -- Fred Fuchs - Founder, CEO, & Producer FireSabre Consulting LLC Content Services for Virtual Worlds Creation, Events, Training, & Simulations www.linkedin.com/in/fredfuchs https://twitter.com/Fred_Fuchs --- This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus protection is active. http://www.avast.com From mcforelle at gmail.com Sat Feb 8 11:16:34 2014 From: mcforelle at gmail.com (Michelle Forelle) Date: Sat, 8 Feb 2014 11:16:34 -0800 Subject: [Air-L] History of "accounts" In-Reply-To: <52F59F21.8080807@firesabre.com> References: <52F59F21.8080807@firesabre.com> Message-ID: My thanks to everyone both on- and off-list! I really appreciate the contributions and am psyched to start reading into them. If anyone is interested in the resources I wind up putting together on the topic, email me off-list and I'll be happy to share :) Thanks, AoIR! On Fri, Feb 7, 2014 at 7:06 PM, Fred Fuchs wrote: > On 2/7/2014 7:51 PM, Michelle Forelle wrote: > > Hi all, > > I'm working on a project which requires me to look into the history of the > concept of "accounts," as in bank accounts or social media accounts. > > > "Accounts" in computing began in the days of batch processing and > timesharing. Here are some related links: > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time-sharing > http://www-formal.stanford.edu/jmc/history/timesharing/timesharing.html > http://www.princeton.edu/~achaney/tmve/wiki100k/docs/Time-sharing.html > http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=880740 > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q07PhW5sCEk > http://www.bobbemer.com/TIMESHAR.HTM > > Here's a bit more on banking too: > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_banking > > http://money.howstuffworks.com/personal-finance/banking/swiss-bank-account2.htm > http://www.factmonster.com/ipka/A0801059.html > > Good luck, > > Fred > > -- > Fred Fuchs - Founder, CEO, & Producer > FireSabre Consulting LLC > Content Services for Virtual Worlds > Creation, Events, Training, & Simulationswww.linkedin.com/in/fredfuchshttps://twitter.com/Fred_Fuchs > > > > ------------------------------ > > > This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirusprotection is active. > > -- PhD student USC Annenberg School of Communication @mcforelle on the tweet machine (407) 864-2225 From tsenft at gmail.com Sat Feb 8 14:15:05 2014 From: tsenft at gmail.com (Terri Senft) Date: Sat, 8 Feb 2014 17:15:05 -0500 Subject: [Air-L] Selfies Research Network Message-ID: Selfies Research Network, anyone? Yes we made on. Yes ,it's already fantastic, Yes you are invited if you are researching in the area of selfies, digital photography, autobiography, performance, etc. Yes, we are ESPECIALLY interested to hear from you if you do research with populations outside of North America or Europe, or work in languages other than English. Our Facebook group is here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/664091916962292/ See you there! Terri p.s. Scholars from China and other places Facebook is blocked. I desperately want to hear from you, and am open to thoughts about how to include you in the conversation/research. Please write me personally to think through these issues. We will figure something out, I promise!! -- Dr. Theresa M. Senft Global Liberal Studies Program School of Arts & Sciences New York University 726 Broadway NY NY 10003 home: *www.terrisenft.net * (needs a serious updating) facebook: www.facebook.com/theresa.senft twitter: @terrisenft From andresmh at andresmh.com Sat Feb 8 15:44:48 2014 From: andresmh at andresmh.com (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Andr=E9s_Monroy=2DHern=E1ndez?=) Date: Sat, 8 Feb 2014 15:44:48 -0800 Subject: [Air-L] Scratch Big Data Summit at MIT-- sharing 5 years of online community data Message-ID: Hello, AIR, I'm writing to let you know about a workshop that we're organizing on March 21 at the MIT Media Lab, bringing together researchers who are interested in studying the Scratch online community . At the workshop, we'll be sharing a dataset with the first five years of public data from the Scratch community, and discussing ways that people might use this dataset. Here's a website with more information about the workshop and how to apply: https://sites.google.com/site/scratchdatameeting/ Cheers. From joly at punkcast.com Sat Feb 8 16:08:53 2014 From: joly at punkcast.com (Joly MacFie) Date: Sat, 8 Feb 2014 19:08:53 -0500 Subject: [Air-L] Selfies Research Network In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: An International Legal Hackers Data Privacy Hackathon, is happening this weekend, At the NYC location, one group is hacking legal solutions to revenge porn. You can see a brief introduction late in the last few minutes of www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lu_H_Bgt9po - where they note most of the raw material comes from selfies. What is briefly discussed is possibly the creation of a new copyright registration category for what are private thus technically unpublished works, in order that the DMCA can be invoked if the selfies are exploited by others. More info https://www.hackerleague.org/hackathons/data-privacy-legal-hackathon/hacks/using-copyright-to-remove-revenge-pornography-selfies j On Sat, Feb 8, 2014 at 5:15 PM, Terri Senft wrote: > Selfies Research Network, anyone? > > Yes we made on. Yes ,it's already fantastic, Yes you are invited if you > are researching in the area of selfies, digital photography, autobiography, > performance, etc. > > Yes, we are ESPECIALLY interested to hear from you if you do research with > populations outside of North America or Europe, or work in languages other > than English. > > Our Facebook group is here: > > https://www.facebook.com/groups/664091916962292/ > > See you there! > > Terri > > p.s. Scholars from China and other places Facebook is blocked. I > desperately want to hear from you, and am open to thoughts about how to > include you in the conversation/research. Please write me personally to > think through these issues. We will figure something out, I promise!! > > > > -- > > > > > Dr. Theresa M. Senft > Global Liberal Studies Program > School of Arts & Sciences > New York University > 726 Broadway NY NY 10003 > > home: *www.terrisenft.net * > (needs a serious updating) > facebook: www.facebook.com/theresa.senft > twitter: @terrisenft > _______________________________________________ > The Air-L at listserv.aoir.org mailing list > is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org > Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: > http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org > > Join the Association of Internet Researchers: > http://www.aoir.org/ > -- --------------------------------------------------------------- Joly MacFie 218 565 9365 Skype:punkcast WWWhatsup NYC - http://wwwhatsup.com http://pinstand.com - http://punkcast.com VP (Admin) - ISOC-NY - http://isoc-ny.org -------------------------------------------------------------- - From erika.pearson at otago.ac.nz Sun Feb 9 13:02:32 2014 From: erika.pearson at otago.ac.nz (Erika Pearson) Date: Sun, 9 Feb 2014 21:02:32 +0000 Subject: [Air-L] IR15 Submission System OPEN Message-ID: <739B75D2B089AC4B945845F518CCAF51959BD3CD@ITS-EXM-P06.registry.otago.ac.nz> Dear colleagues We are pleased to open submissions for proposals for IR15: Boundaries and Intersections (Bangkok, October, 2014). To re-familiarize yourself with the call for papers and types of submissions solicited, please see: http://ir15.aoir.org/?page_id=19 . If you submitted a proposal to the conference last year (through ConfTools) your login credentials should be the same (tied to your email address). When submitting your proposal, please take the time to read the submission categories and topics carefully, as they are different from previous years. If you have any queries about the submission process, please email conference chair Erika Pearson ( ir15programchair at aoir.org ). We look forward to seeing your proposals. To go directly to the submission site: https://www.conftool.com/aoir-ir15/ Yours Erika Pearson IR15 Program Chair From tsenft at gmail.com Sun Feb 9 14:34:13 2014 From: tsenft at gmail.com (Terri Senft) Date: Sun, 9 Feb 2014 17:34:13 -0500 Subject: [Air-L] Research on Africans and mobile photography? Message-ID: Hi All, While putting together the Selfies Research Network, I find myself at a complete loss for names of researchers who have studied mobile photography practices in Africa. Anybody have names of authors or articles that come to mind? Better yet, if you are a scholar studying these practices yourself, we'd love to have you join our international group. Feel free to drop me a line personally, and our Facebook group is at: https://www.facebook.com/groups/664091916962292 Many thanks! Terri -- Dr. Theresa M. Senft Global Liberal Studies Program School of Arts & Sciences New York University 726 Broadway NY NY 10003 home: *www.terrisenft.net * (needs a serious updating) facebook: www.facebook.com/theresa.senft twitter: @terrisenft From baym at microsoft.com Sun Feb 9 14:37:25 2014 From: baym at microsoft.com (Nancy Baym) Date: Sun, 9 Feb 2014 22:37:25 +0000 Subject: [Air-L] Research on Africans and mobile photography? In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Hey Terri, Not EXACTLY what you are looking for but very close: Paula Uimonen (2013) Visual identity in Facebook, Visual Studies, 28:2, 122-135, DOI: 10.1080/1472586X.2013.801634 Abstract: Seeing your friends in Facebook has become a common means of social interaction, illustrating a visual turn in digital media in general and social media in particular. This article explores visual identity in Facebook, focusing on the use of profile photographs in the performance of digitally mediated selfhood. In Facebook, relationships are increasingly communicated through images, thus rendering the interactive reflexivity of performance rather visible. Based on the profile photographs of students at an arts college in Tanzania, the article discusses the construction of cultural identities through visual communication. By visually expressing their selves through profile photographs, users engage in the social construction of reality, crafting their digitally mediated identities in interaction with their online social relations. The online performance of selfhood is analysed in the context of offline social and material realities, to underline cultural aspirations for global inclusion. Building on anthropological readings of performance, the concept of social aesthetic frame is introduced to capture patterns of digital stratification that encompass the online construction of networked selfhood in the peripheries of the global network society. The article builds on anthropological research on digital media and intercultural interaction at a national arts institute in Tanzania, using a combination of digital, sensory and visual research methods. On 2/9/14 5:34 PM, "Terri Senft" wrote: >Hi All, > >While putting together the Selfies Research Network, I find myself at a >complete loss for names of researchers who have studied mobile photography >practices in Africa. > >Anybody have names of authors or articles that come to mind? > >Better yet, if you are a scholar studying these practices yourself, we'd >love to have you join our international group. > >Feel free to drop me a line personally, and our Facebook group is at: > >https://www.facebook.com/groups/664091916962292 > > >Many thanks! >Terri >-- > > > > >Dr. Theresa M. Senft >Global Liberal Studies Program >School of Arts & Sciences >New York University >726 Broadway NY NY 10003 > >home: *www.terrisenft.net * >(needs a serious updating) >facebook: www.facebook.com/theresa.senft >twitter: @terrisenft >_______________________________________________ >The Air-L at listserv.aoir.org mailing list >is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org >Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: >http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org > >Join the Association of Internet Researchers: >http://www.aoir.org/ From sarah.logan at anu.edu.au Sun Feb 9 15:18:09 2014 From: sarah.logan at anu.edu.au (Sarah Logan) Date: Sun, 9 Feb 2014 23:18:09 +0000 Subject: [Air-L] Air-L Digest, Vol 115, Issue 9 In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Wow, this is amazing! Surely we don't need all the numbers: we can say, for example, that readership from Thailand increased by some huge among over the second week, showing that the website draws topical readers, which makes the poll more relevant. And we can say that the bulk of the readership comes from SE Asia, especially Thailand and Malaysia... So it might not be necessary to do the hugely detailed stats< especially as the numbers over two weeks are not really generalisable to a trend - we could try and pull them out to a year, but I suspect they would remain the same. What do you think? Digital Politics Research Fellow State, Society and Governance in Melanesia Australian National University Twitter: @circt -----Original Message----- From: air-l-bounces at listserv.aoir.org [mailto:air-l-bounces at listserv.aoir.org] On Behalf Of air-l-request at listserv.aoir.org Sent: Monday, 10 February 2014 10:00 AM To: air-l at listserv.aoir.org Subject: Air-L Digest, Vol 115, Issue 9 Send Air-L mailing list submissions to air-l at listserv.aoir.org To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to air-l-request at listserv.aoir.org You can reach the person managing the list at air-l-owner at listserv.aoir.org When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of Air-L digest..." Today's Topics: 1. Scratch Big Data Summit at MIT-- sharing 5 years of online community data (Andr?s Monroy-Hern?ndez) 2. Re: Selfies Research Network (Joly MacFie) 3. IR15 Submission System OPEN (Erika Pearson) 4. Research on Africans and mobile photography? (Terri Senft) 5. Re: Research on Africans and mobile photography? (Nancy Baym) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Sat, 8 Feb 2014 15:44:48 -0800 From: Andr?s Monroy-Hern?ndez Cc: air-l at listserv.aoir.org Subject: [Air-L] Scratch Big Data Summit at MIT-- sharing 5 years of online community data Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Hello, AIR, I'm writing to let you know about a workshop that we're organizing on March 21 at the MIT Media Lab, bringing together researchers who are interested in studying the Scratch online community . At the workshop, we'll be sharing a dataset with the first five years of public data from the Scratch community, and discussing ways that people might use this dataset. Here's a website with more information about the workshop and how to apply: https://sites.google.com/site/scratchdatameeting/ Cheers. ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Sat, 8 Feb 2014 19:08:53 -0500 From: Joly MacFie To: Terri Senft Cc: aoir list Subject: Re: [Air-L] Selfies Research Network Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 An International Legal Hackers Data Privacy Hackathon, is happening this weekend, At the NYC location, one group is hacking legal solutions to revenge porn. You can see a brief introduction late in the last few minutes of www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lu_H_Bgt9po - where they note most of the raw material comes from selfies. What is briefly discussed is possibly the creation of a new copyright registration category for what are private thus technically unpublished works, in order that the DMCA can be invoked if the selfies are exploited by others. More info https://www.hackerleague.org/hackathons/data-privacy-legal-hackathon/hacks/using-copyright-to-remove-revenge-pornography-selfies j On Sat, Feb 8, 2014 at 5:15 PM, Terri Senft wrote: > Selfies Research Network, anyone? > > Yes we made on. Yes ,it's already fantastic, Yes you are invited if > you are researching in the area of selfies, digital photography, > autobiography, performance, etc. > > Yes, we are ESPECIALLY interested to hear from you if you do research > with populations outside of North America or Europe, or work in > languages other than English. > > Our Facebook group is here: > > https://www.facebook.com/groups/664091916962292/ > > See you there! > > Terri > > p.s. Scholars from China and other places Facebook is blocked. I > desperately want to hear from you, and am open to thoughts about how > to include you in the conversation/research. Please write me > personally to think through these issues. We will figure something out, I promise!! > > > > -- > > > > > Dr. Theresa M. Senft > Global Liberal Studies Program > School of Arts & Sciences > New York University > 726 Broadway NY NY 10003 > > home: *www.terrisenft.net * (needs a serious > updating) > facebook: www.facebook.com/theresa.senft > twitter: @terrisenft > _______________________________________________ > The Air-L at listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the > Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change > options or unsubscribe at: > http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org > > Join the Association of Internet Researchers: > http://www.aoir.org/ > -- --------------------------------------------------------------- Joly MacFie 218 565 9365 Skype:punkcast WWWhatsup NYC - http://wwwhatsup.com http://pinstand.com - http://punkcast.com VP (Admin) - ISOC-NY - http://isoc-ny.org -------------------------------------------------------------- - ------------------------------ Message: 3 Date: Sun, 9 Feb 2014 21:02:32 +0000 From: Erika Pearson To: "air-l at listserv.aoir.org" Subject: [Air-L] IR15 Submission System OPEN Message-ID: <739B75D2B089AC4B945845F518CCAF51959BD3CD at ITS-EXM-P06.registry.otago.ac.nz> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Dear colleagues We are pleased to open submissions for proposals for IR15: Boundaries and Intersections (Bangkok, October, 2014). To re-familiarize yourself with the call for papers and types of submissions solicited, please see: http://ir15.aoir.org/?page_id=19 . If you submitted a proposal to the conference last year (through ConfTools) your login credentials should be the same (tied to your email address). When submitting your proposal, please take the time to read the submission categories and topics carefully, as they are different from previous years. If you have any queries about the submission process, please email conference chair Erika Pearson ( ir15programchair at aoir.org ). We look forward to seeing your proposals. To go directly to the submission site: https://www.conftool.com/aoir-ir15/ Yours Erika Pearson IR15 Program Chair ------------------------------ Message: 4 Date: Sun, 9 Feb 2014 17:34:13 -0500 From: Terri Senft To: aoir list Subject: [Air-L] Research on Africans and mobile photography? Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Hi All, While putting together the Selfies Research Network, I find myself at a complete loss for names of researchers who have studied mobile photography practices in Africa. Anybody have names of authors or articles that come to mind? Better yet, if you are a scholar studying these practices yourself, we'd love to have you join our international group. Feel free to drop me a line personally, and our Facebook group is at: https://www.facebook.com/groups/664091916962292 Many thanks! Terri -- Dr. Theresa M. Senft Global Liberal Studies Program School of Arts & Sciences New York University 726 Broadway NY NY 10003 home: *www.terrisenft.net * (needs a serious updating) facebook: www.facebook.com/theresa.senft twitter: @terrisenft ------------------------------ Message: 5 Date: Sun, 9 Feb 2014 22:37:25 +0000 From: Nancy Baym To: Terri Senft , aoir list Subject: Re: [Air-L] Research on Africans and mobile photography? Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Hey Terri, Not EXACTLY what you are looking for but very close: Paula Uimonen (2013) Visual identity in Facebook, Visual Studies, 28:2, 122-135, DOI: 10.1080/1472586X.2013.801634 Abstract: Seeing your friends in Facebook has become a common means of social interaction, illustrating a visual turn in digital media in general and social media in particular. This article explores visual identity in Facebook, focusing on the use of profile photographs in the performance of digitally mediated selfhood. In Facebook, relationships are increasingly communicated through images, thus rendering the interactive reflexivity of performance rather visible. Based on the profile photographs of students at an arts college in Tanzania, the article discusses the construction of cultural identities through visual communication. By visually expressing their selves through profile photographs, users engage in the social construction of reality, crafting their digitally mediated identities in interaction with their online social relations. The online performance of selfhood is analysed in the context of offline social and material realities, to underline cultural aspirations for global inclusion. Building on anthropological readings of performance, the concept of social aesthetic frame is introduced to capture patterns of digital stratification that encompass the online construction of networked selfhood in the peripheries of the global network society. The article builds on anthropological research on digital media and intercultural interaction at a national arts institute in Tanzania, using a combination of digital, sensory and visual research methods. On 2/9/14 5:34 PM, "Terri Senft" wrote: >Hi All, > >While putting together the Selfies Research Network, I find myself at a >complete loss for names of researchers who have studied mobile photography >practices in Africa. > >Anybody have names of authors or articles that come to mind? > >Better yet, if you are a scholar studying these practices yourself, we'd >love to have you join our international group. > >Feel free to drop me a line personally, and our Facebook group is at: > >https://www.facebook.com/groups/664091916962292 > > >Many thanks! >Terri >-- > > > > >Dr. Theresa M. Senft >Global Liberal Studies Program >School of Arts & Sciences >New York University >726 Broadway NY NY 10003 > >home: *www.terrisenft.net * >(needs a serious updating) >facebook: www.facebook.com/theresa.senft >twitter: @terrisenft >_______________________________________________ >The Air-L at listserv.aoir.org mailing list >is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org >Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: >http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org > >Join the Association of Internet Researchers: >http://www.aoir.org/ ------------------------------ _______________________________________________ The Air-L at listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org Join the Association of Internet Researchers: http://www.aoir.org/ End of Air-L Digest, Vol 115, Issue 9 ************************************* From jpedregosa at gmail.com Mon Feb 10 01:18:34 2014 From: jpedregosa at gmail.com (Jj Pedregosa) Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2014 10:18:34 +0100 Subject: [Air-L] Conference on Digital Discrimination and Social Networks. Barcelona, 13th and 14th of March Message-ID: The main aim of the conference is to invite participants to actively *share current experiences and research and push forward our knowledge to fight discrimination*. Academics, NGOs working with youths or on discrimination, activists, trainers, teachers, policy makers, journalists, social media professionals and the general public are welcome to attend. Programme of the conference: http://digitaldiscrimination.eu/conference/ From fabio.alla at gmail.com Mon Feb 10 04:30:28 2014 From: fabio.alla at gmail.com (Fabio) Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2014 13:30:28 +0100 Subject: [Air-L] Pinterest, Google+ and Foursquare stats Message-ID: Hello AoIR, I'm working on a project about various social network sites and I'm looking for updated data about Pinterest, G+ and Foursquare. I already found old global stats but at the moment what I really need are demographic and usage information (both global and nation-based, in particular italian and european ones) about the current situation of these SNS (or at least not older than few months). Can anyone suggest or recommend a trusted and updated source? Thank you so much: any help will be surely welcome. -- Fabio Stefano Alla Dipartimento di Comunicazione e Ricerca Sociale Sapienza Universit? di Roma From hrosenba at indiana.edu Mon Feb 10 06:07:37 2014 From: hrosenba at indiana.edu (Howard Rosenbaum) Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2014 09:07:37 -0500 Subject: [Air-L] AMCIS 2014 > CFP: Social Theory in Information Systems Research (STIR '14) Message-ID: <8819609F-65E9-441B-91C4-DAB48E007CD7@indiana.edu> [Apologies for cross-posting] Call For Papers: AMCIS Mini-track: Social Theory in Information Systems Research (STIR '14) 20th Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS): Smart Sustainability, the Information Systems opportunity, Savannah, GA, August 7-10, 2014 Conference Website: http://amcis2013.aisnet.org/ DESCRIPTION: This Mini Track solicits papers that make use of social theory in information systems research drawing upon such approaches as sociotechnical theory, critical theory, social informatics, organizational theory, cultural anthropology, sociology and others. We are interested in understanding and supporting the evolution of social theory, socio-technical theory, and social informatics in information systems research. We want to highlight research that uses these approaches to critically examine the constitution of information and communications technologies, and their roles in organizations and society; these are among the most important questions about IS, organizations, and society. We particularly invite IS research that applies, builds on, compares, or critiques these social theories. We are interested in high quality empirical and conceptual work that uses social theory to study and theorize about application domains including large-scale social and organizational phenomena. We seek to attract research papers and research-in-progress papers from all IS researchers who are using the work of social theorists, organizational theorists, sociotechnical theorists, and cultural anthropologists, symbolic interactionists, and many others. We are particularly interested in research that makes use of social theory 1) to address issues of designing a smart and sustainable digital future, 2) to answer questions about how we are interacting with ICTs in our work and social lives in ways that help and hinder the move towards sustainability, and 3) to critically examine the constitution of ICTs, and their roles in the design, maintenance and dissolution of sustainable organizations and social groups. This will be the 14th consecutive year for the Mini Track at AMCIS, and we hope to continue a tradition of high quality paper submissions, thought-provoking presentations and lively discussion for all IS researchers using, or considering the use of, social theory in their work. SUGGESTED TOPICS In addition to research aligned with the conference theme we are also interested in high quality empirical and conceptual work that uses social theory to study and understand: * The implications of social networks for organizations and social groups * Conceptual and empirical work focusing on the ways ICT can promote or hinder social inclusion * The significance of cyberinfrastructure for commerce, governing and research and development * The relationships between ICTs and people as they participate in online communities and virtual teams * Online communities of practice, their processes and outcomes * The dynamics of crowdsourcing online * Hacktivism and the use of technology to mobilize resources and advance ideology * Unintended consequences of technology implementation and use in organizations and in social life * Scientific collaboration and scholarly communication as enabled and constrained by ICTs * The impacts of social computing on our social and work lives Minitrack chairs: Howard Rosenbaum, School of Informatics and Computing, Indiana University hrosenba at indiana.edu Pnina Fichman, School of Informatics and Computing, Indiana University fichman at indiana.edu Submission Process: Instructions for authors and more information is available at: http://amcis2014.aisnet.org/index.php/call-for-papers Full paper submissions must be made electronically through the AMCIS on-line submission system. Papers can be submitted beginning on January 5, 2014. The link will be available at: http://aisel.aisnet.org/amcis2014_papers/ Submissions will close on March 1, 2014. ------------------------ Pnina Fichman Associate Professor, School of Informatics and Computing Director, Rob Kling Center for Social Informatics Affiliated Associate Professor, School of Global and International Studies 901 East 10th Street, Informatics West #301 Indiana University, Bloomington, 47408 Phone (812) 856-1587 E-Mail fichman at indiana.edu Web http://ella.slis.indiana.edu/~fichman/ From hrosenba at indiana.edu Mon Feb 10 06:07:30 2014 From: hrosenba at indiana.edu (Howard Rosenbaum) Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2014 09:07:30 -0500 Subject: [Air-L] AMCIS 2014> CFP: Global and Cross Cultural Impacts of Big Data Minitrack Message-ID: <63EC0707-5B4E-416D-9797-4790579B3634@indiana.edu> [Apologies for cross-posting] CALL FOR PAPERS: AMCIS Minitrack - Global and Cross Cultural Impacts of Big Data 20th Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS): Smart Sustainability, the Information Systems Opportunity, Savannah, GA, August 7-10, 2014 Conference Website: http://amcis2013.aisnet.org/ DESCRIPTION Manyika et al. (2011; 4) note ?big data has now reached every sector of the global economy. Like other essential factors of production ? much of modern economic activity simply couldn?t take place without it.? An emerging grand challenge involves gathering, organizing, curating, managing, analyzing, visualizing and disseminating these heterogeneous data over the lifecycle of the data for such purposes such as scientific discovery, medical advances, entrepreneurial activity and public policy formulation. People in the public and private sectors are taking note of this development as are academics, who are exploring ways of dealing with big data, defined by the National Science Foundation (2012) as: ?large, diverse, complex, longitudinal, and/or distributed data sets generated from instruments, sensors, Internet transactions, email, video, click streams, and/or all other digital sources available today and in the future. This minitrack solicits high quality conceptual and empirical work that focuses on the global impacts of big data on governments, multinational companies, NGOs and other organizations. Big data datasets and the technologies for analyzing them are developing faster than our understanding of the ways in which this phenomenon is impacting and will impact the ways work is done in a wide range of settings. As scholars and researchers begin to investigate the impacts of Big Data, this minitrack provides a venue for them to share their work. Appropriate topics for this minitrack include (but are not limited to) the following: ? Big data use in organizational, national and international settings ? How the introduction of big data affects organizational and group work flow ? Ways that big data is affecting organizational and group decision making ? Security and privacy impacts of big data use ? The intended and unintended consequences of big data ? The dark side of big data: surveillance, illicit activities, discriminatory analytics, and the end of privacy ? Big data as a social, political, economic, and/or cultural phenomenon Minitrack chairs: Pnina Fichman, School of Informatics and Computing, Indiana University fichman at indiana.edu Howard Rosenbaum, School of Informatics and Computing, Indiana University hrosenba at indiana.edu SUBMISSION PROCESS: Full paper submissions must be made electronically through the AMCIS on-line submission system no later than March 1, 2014. Manuscript Central will start accepting paper submissions on January 5, 2014 at: http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/amcis2014 Additional instructions for authors: http://amcis2014.aisnet.org/index.php/call-for-papers Important Dates: March 1, 2014: (11:59 PM EST): Deadline for paper submissions April 4 2014: Authors will be notified of acceptances on or about this date April 18, 2014: Authors revisions due April 25, 2014: (11:59 PM EST): For accepted papers, camera ready copy due _______________________________________________ The Air-L at listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org Join the Association of Internet Researchers: http://www.aoir.org/ From constantin.hoferer at hiig.de Mon Feb 10 08:45:48 2014 From: constantin.hoferer at hiig.de (Constantin Hoferer) Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2014 17:45:48 +0100 Subject: [Air-L] Fellowship in Berlin 2014 at the Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society Message-ID: Dear AOIRers, I would like to use the possibility to inform you about our this years fellowship program. The Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society (HIIG | @HIIG_berlin) which has been founded in March 2012 is meant to enable innovative scientific research in the field of Internet and society and to observe the development of the Internet in its interplay with societal transformation processes. This year the HIIG opens its doors for fellows from all over the world again. We invite applications from early stage researchers pursuing a project of transdisciplinary Internet research. If you are seeking exchange regarding your research aspirations and find our objectives to match yours or to complement them, we are looking forward to hearing your thoughts! Feel free to share our call. Constantin *Abstract:* Opportunities: Our fellowship provides innovative thinkers a unique opportunity to exchange experiences and set off new initiatives in an inviting intellectual environment. The selected fellows are very welcome to collaborate in a growing international team and to participate in the research activities at our institute. We encourage you to actively shape your stay according to your research interests. We offer a number of opportunities to get involved with our research programme and discuss your research project with the HIIG research team, such as: - Developing a paper concerning your research project, e.g. writing a journal paper in our SSRN Internet & Society Series - Holding a presentation about a topic of your choice in our weekly Journal Club - Organising a workshop of your research topic - Engage in joint activities and projects with other fellows - And more - according to your interest Benefits: Based in the heart of Berlin we will provide you with modern office space that you will share with our researchers. Fellows are expected to bring their own funding through their home institution or outside grants. Fellows must take care of their accommodation, insurance, childcare, and transportation arrangements. However, in specific cases we can provide fellows on request with a travel allowance of up to EURO 700,- and a visa subsidy of up to EURO 200,-. Read more about last years Fellow Programme . Timeframe: We offer fellowships from 3 up to 12 months starting from June 1st, 2014. Qualifications: - Master's degree - Fluency in English; command of German is appreciated - Research experience and an Internet research project of your own Required application documents: - curriculum vitae - letter of motivation: explaining your interest in the fellowship, your expectations and your research background (1 page) - outline of a) your research project, b) the work you aim to conduct during the fellowship, c) contributions you plan to realise during your stay, d) projects on our research agenda that are of interest to you, and e) if possible, preferred project partners at our institute (altogether on a maximum of 3 pages) - optional: your latest publication or work sample covering Internet research (maximum of 1 paper / chapter / presentation in English or German) Applications will only be accepted through our online application form attached below. Closing date for applications is Monday, March 17 2014. Please contact Jana Schudrowitz with any questions via application at hiig.de. You may apply here . -- [image: HIIG-Logo] Constantin Hoferer Alexander von Humboldt Institut f?r Internet und Gesellschaft gGmbH Bebelplatz 1 ? 10099 Berlin T +49 30 20 07 60 82 ? F +49 30 20 93-3435 ? www.hiig.de ? [image: Facebook-Button] [image: Twitter-Button] [image: Google+1-Button] Gesellschaftssitz Berlin | Amtsgericht Berlin Charlottenburg | HRB 140911B USt-ID DE 27/601/54619 | Gesch?ftsf?hrung: Dr. Jeanette Hofmann ? Prof. Dr. Dr. Ingolf Pernice ? Prof. Dr. Dr. Thomas Schildhauer ? Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Schulz ? Dr. Karina Prei? From rdt4 at psu.edu Mon Feb 10 10:08:45 2014 From: rdt4 at psu.edu (Richard Denny Taylor) Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2014 13:08:45 -0500 (EST) Subject: [Air-L] CFP IIP-FCC Broadband Reg Wksp Message-ID: Colleagues, With apologies for cross-postings: Call for Paper Proposals THE FUTURE OF BROADBAND REGULATION A by-invitation experts' workshop Organized by the Institute for Information Policy at Penn State University and co-sponsored by the Federal Communications Commission Federal Communications Commission 445 12th St. SW Washington, DC May 28-30, 2014 The U.S. National Broadband Plan envisions the transition of the U.S. telecommunications infrastructure to a ubiquitous IP-based broadband network. While there is a vibrant discussion of how best to manage the transition, there is only a nascent discussion of what the policy framework should look like after it is completed. What is the long-term outlook (beyond the transition and into the next decade) for the broadband ecosystem, and how will the regulatory system have to adapt to a changed environment? Advances in infrastructure technology and applications have, and will likely continue to push at the boundaries of current regulatory frameworks for telecommunications, media, and even intellectual property rights The Institute for Information Policy at Penn State (IIP), in collaboration with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), is pleased to announce this call for paper proposals addressing the multiple factors in thinking about regulation for post-transition broadband networks. Authors of selected papers will be invited to present and discuss them during a 2-day by-invitation-only workshop designed to bring together up to a dozen experts to be held at the Federal Communications Commissions on (date). The Workshop is designed to draw together the latest academic thinking on these questions and to give FCC staff the opportunity to suggest elements of a forward-looking research agenda that would contribute to the policy discourse around them. The workshop is part of a series of events focused on "Making Policy Research Accessible," organized by the IIP, with the support of the Ford Foundation and the Media Democracy Fund. Presenters at the workshop will be invited to submit their completed papers to the Journal of Information Policy (www.jip-online.org). All disciplines are welcome. Invited topics of papers may include, but are not limited to: . Will the dominant model for delivery of broadband services be fixed or mobile? How much competition will there be (especially wireline)? Will there be new technologies or entrants? . What is the future of "over-the-top" content and CDNs? . What will be the impact of the "internet of things"? What is its regulatory status? . How is the "public interest" defined in the broadband ecosystem? What sorts of regulatory safeguards/interventions will be needed to advance the public interest? . How do the FCC's broadband promotion programs interact with efforts of other agencies, on both the demand and supply side? . How should the concept of universal service evolve? What can the designers of universal service policies learn from efforts to stimulate demand for broadband? . What are the implications for regulatory frameworks of technological and other changes in the broadband ecosystem? . How should the division of labor between state and federal regulatory authorities change? . Are there any regulatory challenges on the horizon that are not yet part of the mainstream broadband regulation debate? Abstracts of up to 500 words and a short bio of the author(s) should be submitted to pennstateiip at psu.edu by March 15, 2014. Please write IIPFCCPOST: YOUR NAME in the subject line. Accepted presenters will be notified by March 31, 2014. From ondiney at gmail.com Mon Feb 10 19:07:31 2014 From: ondiney at gmail.com (Stephanie Vie) Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2014 22:07:31 -0500 Subject: [Air-L] Call for chapter proposals: Social Media/Social Writing collection Message-ID: *Call for Papers (CFP)* We invite contributions for an edited collection on social media and writing within higher education entitled *Social Writing/Social Media: Pedagogy, Presentation, and Publics*. The prospectus for this project has been preliminarily approved by the WAC Clearinghouse's Perspectives on Writing book series, an imprint of Parlor Press that publishes books in free digital editions and low-cost print editions. We are committed to moving this project through the review process in a timely manner, both because of the timeliness of research on social media as well as our collective interest in seeing this book in print as soon as possible. This edited collection imagines social media broadly and encourages pieces that examine specific social media spaces such as Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Pinterest, etc., within theoretical frameworks as well as pieces that look at writing within larger social media categories, such as micro-blogging, social networking, etc. We ask authors to consider their proposed chapter for one of the following three sections: - *Social media and pedagogy*: How are social media shaping and being shaped by educational issues related to writing studies? Pedagogy chapters should be theoretically informed and avoid atheoretical "what I did in my class" approaches. We welcome empirical and qualitative studies of pedagogical approaches. We especially welcome projects that engage in critical making pedagogies. - *Social media and personalities*: How do individuals use writing to create, maintain, and reshape their identities in relation to others? We are particularly interested in chapters that use critical, professional, or other theoretically informed approaches for examining social media and writing. - *Social media and publics*: In what ways are social media being used to develop and sustain writing-related efforts in local and national communities? We are specifically interested in chapters that interrogate civic engagement, politics, and/or activism vis-?-vis writing and social media. Contributors are encouraged to consider the following possible social media topics (however, other areas are welcome): - Literacy practices and communal norms about writing - Student writing produced outside of class - Pedagogies of possibilities and resistances - Critical issues in/and group dynamics - Issues of identity, anonymity, and pseudonymity - Privacy and surveillance within social media - End-User Licensing Agreements, Terms of Service, and/or copyright law - Non-alphabetic rhetorical activity - Digital divide and access issues for faculty, students, and/or community stakeholders - Service-learning and community-based research efforts in the community facilitated by social media - Genre-based analyses of social media activities Please send abstracts of no more than 500 words to Douglas Walls (Douglas.Walls at ucf.edu) and Stephanie Vie (Stephanie.Vie at ucf.edu) by June 15, 2014. Submissions should include full contact information and a brief biographical statement (including institutional affiliation) for all proposed authors. Indicate which of the three sections (pedagogy, presentation, or publics) where you see your chapter best fitting. Accepted authors will be invited to submit full chapter drafts by September 15, 2014. Initial queries are welcome. The editors will be in attendance at Writing Research Across Borders (February), the Conference on College Composition and Communication (March), Rhetoric Society of America (May), and Computers & Writing (June) and would be happy to meet to talk over proposals and/or chapter drafts. Proposed Timeline: - Deadline for abstracts: June 15, 2014 - Notification of acceptance to authors: June 22, 2014 - Deadline for first draft of accepted chapters: September 15, 2014 - Editors' feedback on first drafts: December 15, 2014 - Deadline for revised chapters: February 15, 2015 Douglas Walls, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Department of Writing and Rhetoric University of Central Florida Douglas.Walls at ucf.edu Stephanie Vie, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Department of Writing and Rhetoric University of Central Florida Stephanie.Vie at ucf.edu From jpedregosa at gmail.com Tue Feb 11 02:08:48 2014 From: jpedregosa at gmail.com (Jj Pedregosa) Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2014 11:08:48 +0100 Subject: [Air-L] Conference on Digital Discrimination and Social Networks. Barcelona, 13th and 14th of March Message-ID: Friends The main aim of the conference is to invite participants to actively *share current experiences and research and push forward our knowledge to fight discrimination*. Academics, NGOs working with youths or on discrimination, activists, trainers, teachers, policy makers, journalists, social media professionals and the general public are welcome to attend. Programme of the conference: http://digitaldiscrimination.eu/conference/ ITD Tr?nsit Projectes Ceps Projectes Socials | B?ria 17 pral 08003 Barcelona +34 933 194 750 @juanpedregosa Projectes Internacionals, Consultoria i Gesti? Cultura, Digital, Innovaci?, Inclusi?, Participaci?, Educaci? From rapha1106 at yahoo.fr Tue Feb 11 05:30:07 2014 From: rapha1106 at yahoo.fr (raphael nowak) Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2014 13:30:07 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Air-L] CFP Reminder - Napster, 15 years on: Rethinking digital music distribution. A themed special edition of First Monday Message-ID: <1392125407.88470.YahooMailNeo@web171305.mail.ir2.yahoo.com> With apologies for cross-posting: Call for papers ? First Monday themed special edition Napster, 15 years on: Rethinking digital music distribution ? Guest editors: Rapha?l Nowak (Griffith University, Australia) and Andrew Whelan (University of Wollongong, Australia) ? 2014 marks the fifteenth anniversary of the release of the peer-to-peer application Napster. Developed by a student, Shawn Fanning, with the help of his friend Shawn Parker and uncle John Fanning, Napster established music downloading as a mass phenomenon. By 2001, 50 million users had downloaded content with Napster. Many other applications followed ? Gnutella, Kazaa, LimeWire, eMule, Soulseek, BitTorrent, among others ?further developing and entrenching p2p technology. Online music distribution has been fiercely contested since Napster. Online availability has changed the way music is produced, sold, distributed, shared and consumed. While these changes are often decried or celebrated through well-rehearsed positions, their implications can also be exaggerated, as attending to contemporary industry business models and persisting analog formats would suggest. Building on multi- and cross-disciplinary approaches addressing developments in the 15 years since the advent of Napster, we seek papers that advance contemporary debates associated with music downloading (authorized and illicit) and its consequences and ramifications. We welcome 300 word abstracts reflecting on the last 15 years in the realm of online music distribution and consumption. While attending to this broad aim, proposed articles will also address a more specific theme. Potential themes may include, but are not limited to: ?????? Exchange relations and the circulation of digital objects ?????? Politics and ethics of p2p practices ?????? Hyper-consumption, curatorialism and open access music archives ?????? Online music subcultures and (social) networks ?????? Domestication of p2p and p2p as/in technoculture ?????? Communications, transfer, storage, and playback hardware and infrastructure ?????? Discursive framing: leeches, pirates, free music ?????? Contemporary music celebrity culture ?????? Suppression and criminalization of downloading and ?copyfight? ?????? Aesthetic experiences and qualities of digital music practices and rituals ?????? 0day, release groups, pre-releases and leaks ?????? Affordances, affects and materialities of the mp3 format ?????? The evolution and ecology of music downloading ?????? Direct downloads, music blogging, and online visibility ?????? Monetization, markets and the business of p2p ?????? Analog formats: continuity and resurgence ?????? Pre-histories and futures of digital music distribution 300 word abstracts should be submitted to Rapha?l Nowak (raph.nowak at gmail.com)by February 21, 2014. On the basis of these abstracts, invitations to submit papers will be sent out in early March 2014. Full papers should be submitted by June 20, 2014, and will undergo the usual First Monday peer-review process. Invitation to submit a full paper does not therefore guarantee acceptance into the issue. The themed special edition will be published November 2014. This Call for Papers can be found in pdf format at?http://bit.ly/Nxp5k8. Please forward as appropriate to interested parties. ? Rapha?l Nowak Andrew Whelan From d.bennato at gmail.com Tue Feb 11 08:01:43 2014 From: d.bennato at gmail.com (Davide Bennato) Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2014 17:01:43 +0100 Subject: [Air-L] [DEADLINE 15 FEBRUARY 2014] Call for ABSTRACTS Social science & Big data (not only) Message-ID: Call for ABSTRACTS: Social Science & Big Data WHAT: A matter of design. Making society through science & tecnology WHERE: Polytechnic of Milan WHEN: 12-14 June 2014 TRACK: N.5 Rethinking sociological gaze and citizenship through data. Epistemological and Political Implications of the Rise of Big Data INFO Conferencehttp://www.stsitalia.org/conferences/ocs/index.php/STSIC/AMD/schedConf/cfp Track 5 details http://www.stsitalia.org/conferences/STSITALIA_2014/AMD_Track5.pdf -- ************************************************************* http://www.tecnoetica.it/ http://www.processiculturali.it/ http://www.sociologiadeimediadigitali.it skype: davide.bennato http://www.linkedin.com/in/davidebennato From victoria.nash at oii.ox.ac.uk Tue Feb 11 08:42:12 2014 From: victoria.nash at oii.ox.ac.uk (Victoria Nash) Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2014 16:42:12 +0000 Subject: [Air-L] Approaching deadline for OII Summer Doctoral Programme Message-ID: <70164DA4BB578F48A5CA605B0AE4022236BDC6@MBX06.ad.oak.ox.ac.uk> Dear friends, The deadline for applications to this year's Oxford Internet Institute Summer Doctoral Programme is the 24th February, so I would be really grateful if you could pass this reminder on to any students who might be eligible to apply. The Programme will be held in Oxford from 7th-18th July 2014, and is suitable for PhD students at the dissertation stage of their degree. The programme offers two weeks of intensive teaching from senior faculty at the OII, as well as some guest speakers, who will offer insights into their research processes and tuition on methods as well as presenting substantive papers. Students will also be asked to present on their own research.. We also fit in some punting, a ghost tour and some fancy dinners... The overall aims are to help improve students' dissertations and to develop a cohesive peer network for future collaboration and support. For further information on this year's SDP, including application instructions, please see our website at: http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/graduatestudy/sdp/Y2014.cfm For more general info, the SDP blog and a great video by the 2013 crowd, look here: http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/graduatestudy/sdp/ If anyone has any questions, feel free to e-mail me directly. Many thanks! Vicki Dr Victoria Nash Research and Policy Fellow Director of Graduate Studies Oxford Internet Institute University of Oxford http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/ T: 01865 287231 Tw: @VickiNashOII W: http://victoriajnash.tumblr.com/ From r.harper at microsoft.com Tue Feb 11 09:06:32 2014 From: r.harper at microsoft.com (Richard Harper) Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2014 17:06:32 +0000 Subject: [Air-L] Skype Connections and the Gaze of Friendship and Family: a mini-conference Message-ID: Apologies for cross postings- Skype Connections and the Gaze of Friendship and Family MSR and Skype are pleased to invite extended abstracts for a mini academic conference/workshop on all aspects of interaction in video-mediated communications in private and domestic life. See here for further details. It will be held on June 3rd and 4th 2014 at MSR Cambridge, England. Chairs: Richard Harper, Microsoft Research Cambridge; Christian Licoppe, Telecom ParisTech, Paris; Rod Watson, Institut Marcel Mauss, Paris. This is the first call for participation (January 2014). Extended abstracts (of up to 600 words excluding title and affiliation) should report theoretical and empirical research into the interactional order of video calling in domestic and personal life. Ethnomethodological and conversation analytic perspectives are particularly welcomed on such things as: * the relationship between the sequential patterns of communication and the medium of Skype-type video connections in the social and family sphere; * the methods and patterns of recipient design and repair within such communications; * the properties and shape of topic management (e.g., news announcements and personal disclosures); * the character and role of embodiment and embodied interaction in such communications; * the salience of the visual and 'visual availability'; * the relation between individual instances of Skype-type communications and the larger activity assemblies of which they are a part - whether it be a routine 'catch-up' call within friendship or a special occasion like a dinner or a birthday celebration for a distributed family. These are of course not exclusive and other topics are welcome. There will be a preference for wholly original work, though research previously presented of an extremely high quality may be considered. The conference will be framed by keynote addresses by leaders in the field of interaction analysis, CA and ethnomethodology. Announcement of these will be made shortly. Important dates: * Deadline for extended abstracts: Friday March 14th * Announcement of acceptance: April 18th * Last date for registration: to be decided A selection of papers from the conference will be prepared for a Special Issue of Pragmatics, the Journal of the International Pragmatics Association. Selection will be made by the conference chairs and reviewing panel. Some support for researchers seeking to attend the event is available. Attendance at the conference is free and will include attendance at a gala dinner in a Cambridge College. For informal enquiries about the topics and format of the event, please contact Richard Harper (r.harper at microsoft.com). To attend (as speaker or auditor), email scgff at microsoft.com From jhuns at vt.edu Wed Feb 12 07:47:12 2014 From: jhuns at vt.edu (Jeremy Hunsinger) Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2014 10:47:12 -0500 Subject: [Air-L] Fwd: [governance] Communication of the European Commisson: "Internet Policy and Governance - Europe's role in shaping the future of Internet Governance" In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: [ Apologies for cross-posting. Please share as you deem appropriate ] Dear all, I would like to let you know that today (12 February 2013) the European Commission has adopted its formal policy position on Internet governance, via a Communication to the European Parliament, the Council, the European Economic and Social Committee and the Committee of the Regions: "Internet Policy and Governance - Europe's role in shaping the future of Internet governance" (COM(2014) 72/4). The press release of the adoption is available at http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_IP-14-142_en.htm . The text of the Communication is available at http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/newsroom/cf/dae/document.cfm?doc_id=4453. The statement by Neelie Kroes, Vice-President of the European Commission and Commissioner for the Digital Agenda, is available at http://ec.europa.eu/avservices/video/player.cfm?ref=I086325 . I hope you find this information useful and the content of the Communication interesting. Best, Andrea -- I speak only for myself. Sometimes I do not even agree with myself. Keep it in mind. Twitter: @andreaglorioso Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/andrea.glorioso LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=1749288&trk=tab_pro From joly at punkcast.com Wed Feb 12 12:09:49 2014 From: joly at punkcast.com (Joly MacFie) Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2014 15:09:49 -0500 Subject: [Air-L] ISOC Internet data and research portal update Message-ID: ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Michael Kende Date: Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 10:19 AM Subject: [Chapter-delegates] Internet data and research v2 I am please to announce version two of the portal (with the same URL as below). There are two main changes to the portal, and we have also updated it with recent reports. The first change is the Amazon-style system allowing everyone to rate a data source or report (out of five stars) and provide written comments as well. The second is to make it much easier to search, either by category and sub-category or by keyword. There is also a link to send in comments including new data and reports that we overlooked. Our hope is that this provides a broad view of the state of the art in what is known about the Internet and its impact, and that it will also help us to identify gaps in our knowledge, which we will work to fill. As such, I hope that you use the portal and interact with it, and please send it on to broaden the user base. Best regards, Michael From: Michael Kende Date: Tuesday, November 26, 2013 4:17 PM As part of my new role at ISOC, we are launching a new portal on the ISOC website that aggregates existing data sources and reports (ours and third-party), The purpose of it is threefold: first, as a public resource to learn about the impact of new infrastructure on the Internet, and the broader economic impact of the Internet; second, in order to help identify gaps in data, and determine how best to fill those gaps; and third, to promote new analysis and insights by everyone in the Internet community, including ourselves, to further stimulate a better understanding of the Internet and its Economy. The portal is at. https://www.internetsociety.org/internet-data-and-research One outstanding issue is whether, and if so how, to exclude bad research and data from the list. On the one hand is a strong desire to be open and inclusive of all available data and reports, while on the other hand there is a thought that we should review and exclude suspect or biased work. We do not have the resources to perform such extensive review on each linked item (as of today there are over 200 in the database), and I believe that it would be difficult to determine the criteria for excluding work in any case. However, in order to be of most use as a public resource, it would be useful to provide information that could help all of us make decisions about what data and reports to use. As a result, we are considering including a review section, such as used in Amazon, to rate and provide comments from all, including hopefully the authors. For starters, there are two feedback sections, one to send me comments on specific reports, and the other to provide suggestions for work that has not yet been included. Thoughts on how to move this forward would be most appreciated. Best regards, Michael Kende Chief Economist Internet Society Galerie Jean-Malbuisson 15 CH-1204 Geneva Switzerland Tel: +41 22 809 0367 E-mail: kende at isoc.org Website: www.internetsociety.org 'The Internet is for Everyone!' -- --------------------------------------------------------------- Joly MacFie 218 565 9365 Skype:punkcast WWWhatsup NYC - http://wwwhatsup.com http://pinstand.com - http://punkcast.com VP (Admin) - ISOC-NY - http://isoc-ny.org -------------------------------------------------------------- - From f.attwood at mdx.ac.uk Thu Feb 13 01:29:17 2014 From: f.attwood at mdx.ac.uk (Feona Attwood) Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2014 09:29:17 +0000 Subject: [Air-L] media and cultural studies research studentships; gender, sex and sexualities Message-ID: <4EFEF18F-7E43-4730-BCC6-A5088857373E@mdx.ac.uk> Please circulate widely. Middlesex Media Research Studentships, 2014. Research in Media focuses on Cultural Theory and Communication Studies, with particular interest in Gender, Sex and Sexualities. We welcome innovative and interdisciplinary proposals from excellent candidates that reflect the research interests of Middlesex Media and Performing Arts staff. Applicants are advised to consult the School web pages and school staff profiles: http://www.mdx.ac.uk/aboutus/staffdirectory/index.aspx Any queries should in the first instance be directed to Prof Vida L Midgelow, Director of Research Degrees (School of Media and Performance): v.midgelow at mdx.ac.uk Full details and application forms: http://www.mdx.ac.uk/research/applications/fees/bursaries/index.aspx The deadline for receipt of applications is 11.59pm on 14th March 2014 and interviews will be held in April/May 2014. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Please note that Middlesex University's preferred way of receiving all correspondence is via email in line with our Environmental Policy. All incoming post to Middlesex University is opened and scanned by our digital document handler, CDS, and then emailed to the recipient. If you do not want your correspondence to Middlesex University processed in this way please email the recipient directly. Parcels, couriered items and recorded delivery items will not be opened or scanned by CDS. There are items which are "exceptions" which will be opened by CDS but will not be scanned a full list of these can be obtained by contacting the University. From nasreen.rajani at gmail.com Thu Feb 13 08:29:16 2014 From: nasreen.rajani at gmail.com (Nasreen Rajani) Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2014 11:29:16 -0500 Subject: [Air-L] Women and Technology Conference Message-ID: <96CE1DAD-BF90-40B1-AAF4-B9CB7D8AA391@gmail.com> *SUBMISSION DEADLINE EXTENDED* to February 24, 2014. Dear Colleagues, Please note that the deadline for abstract submissions for the Women and Technology Conference held at Carleton University, Ottawa, ON on April 16th has been extended. See below for more information. Carleton University will be hosting the inaugural Women and Technology Conference for emerging scholars on April 16, 2014. Please see the below call for abstracts for submission guidelines and details. Visit our website for more information: http://womenandtechcu.wordpress.com/ Please distribute widely. WTCCU Organizing Committee, Nasreen Rajani, Alexandra Born, Matt Murdoch ??????? The Women and Technology Conference is a meeting of Ontario scholars working in applied and technical fields, the natural sciences, humanities, and social sciences. This year?s meeting will take place in Ottawa, on Wednesday, April 16, 2014, with all events being hosted at Carleton University. The goal of the Women and Technology Conference is to highlight scholarship on women and technology by focusing on two broad topics: 1. Women as producers and users of technology in applied and technical fields. a. Examples of disciplines represented within this topic include: engineering; architecture; industrial design; neuroscience; and the biological, chemical, physical, and computing sciences. 2. The relationship(s) between women and technology. This includes the role of women as both subjects and objects in knowledge/media production, as well as the impact of women on the relative success of emerging and established technologies. a. Examples of disciplines represented within this topic include: film and media studies; business; sociology; history; public policy; and women?s and gender studies. One of the major goals of this conference is to help advance the work of Ontario scholars by creating an interdisciplinary space for dialogue on women and technology. To help ensure that these goals are achieved, you are encouraged to tailor your abstract and presentation to a well-educated audience without expertise in your field. Submissions reporting on original scholarship and research are preferred. Presentations not meeting this requirement will be considered on a case-by-case basis, with preference given to those who have first-hand experience working at the nexus of women and technology. To apply: please submit a 150-word abstract with 3 keywords/phrases for a 10-15 minute oral paper presentation to:womenandtechcu at carleton.ca. Deadline: February 24, 2014 at 4:00pm EST In your submission, please indicate if you require assistance with childcare. The conference organizers will provide subsidies for child care and associated costs (e.g., parking and transportation). From maxigas at anargeek.net Thu Feb 13 09:01:43 2014 From: maxigas at anargeek.net (maxigas) Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2014 18:01:43 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Air-L] CFP 4S/ESOCITE - Open Panel 63. Peer production and open collaboration Message-ID: <20140213.180143.1958132948645296344.maxigas@anargeek.net> Dear researchers, We invite you to submit an abstract to our session on the relevance of peer production, open collaboration and hacking to Science and Technology Studies. The panel is organised for the 4S/ESOCITE conference in Buenos Aires, 20-23 August 2014. You are welcome to get in touch with us to discuss abstracts informally. Deadline: March 3 2014 Conference website: http://www.4sonline.org/meeting ---- 63. Peer production and open collaboration: Revisiting closure, stabilisation and black boxing through unfinished artefacts maxigas and Eduard Aibar This panel seeks to bring together scholars studying peer production processes through STS lenses and concepts. Peer production is a form of network-based voluntary cooperation aimed at contributing to a commons, epitomised by the Linux kernel and Wikipedia and more recently applied to hardware. Case studies of peer production projects can inspire new theoretical developments within STS and simultaneously engender insights on emerging socio-technical ensembles. Peer producers work a lot to fend off stabilisation, building functional parts (like loose couplings and Application Programming Interfaces) into technologies and organisations which serve to prevent closure. While these mechanisms for openness do stabilise, the resulting technologies are not exactly black boxes whose functional composition is rendered inaccessible to gaze, discourse and engineering. They can be understood as ?unfinished artefacts?. Moreover, shared machine workshops manifest a model which goes against the received wisdom of trade-offs between ?professional? expertise and radically open ?amateur? contributions. Such open organisational architectures blend in three functions traditionally separate in modern institutions: education, research and production. In this context citizen participation in technological issues is mainly achieved by practical interventions into research and development. We call for contributors who explore peer production specific projects from a wide range of STS perspectives. One is how stabilisation, closure and black boxing are themselves socially constructed, deconstructed and reconfigured in this arena. Another is the broader structural implications of peer production, since it is usually read as an emerging mode of production with disruptive consequences. Finally, since peer production is increasingly used in a wide range of settings (software development, knowledge production, infrastructure building or farming), the way it is re-enacted and appropriated by new actors can also be of interest to scholars with various theoretical backgrounds. Languages: English and Spanish http://www.4sonline.org/open_sessions -- maxigas, kiberpunk FA00 8129 13E9 2617 C614 0901 7879 63BC 287E D166 http://research.metatron.ai/ "Forget the damned motor car and build the cities for lovers!" From robert50 at illinois.edu Thu Feb 13 17:29:14 2014 From: robert50 at illinois.edu (Sarah Roberts) Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2014 20:29:14 -0500 Subject: [Air-L] [CFP] DIGITAL LABOR: SWEATSHOPS, PICKET LINES, AND BARRICADES, The New School, Nov 14-16, 2014 In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Call for Proposals DIGITAL LABOR: SWEATSHOPS, PICKET LINES, AND BARRICADES To be held at The New School, a university in New York City NOVEMBER 14-16, 2014 #dl14 The third in The New School's Politics of Digital Culture Conference Series Sponsored by The New School and The Institute for Distributed Creativity DIGITAL LABOR: SWEATSHOPS, PICKET LINES, AND BARRICADES brings together designers, labor organizers, theorists, social entrepreneurs, historians, legal scholars, independent researchers, cultural producers -- and perspectives from workers themselves -- to discuss emerging forms of mutual aid and solidarity. Over the past decade, advancements in software development, digitization, an increase in computer processing power, faster and cheaper bandwidth and storage, and the introduction of a wide range of inexpensive, wireless-enabled computing devices and mobile phones, set the global stage for emerging forms of labor that help corporations to drive down labor costs and ward off the falling rate of profits. Companies like CrowdFlower, oDesk, or Amazon.com?s Mechanical Turk serve as much more than payment processors or interface providers; they shape the nature of the tasks that are performed. Work is organized against the worker. Recent books included The Internet as Playground and Factory (Scholz, 2013), Living Labor (Hoegsberg and Fisher) based on the exhibition Arbeitstid that took place in Oslo in 2013 and Cognitive Capitalism, Education, and Digital Labour (Peters, Bulut, et al, eds., Peter Lang, 2011). In 2012, the exhibition The Workers was curated by MASS MOCA in the United States. Christian Fuchs? book Digital Labor and Karl Marx is forthcoming with Routledge. Several events have been organized in the last few years to focus on these developments: Digital Labor: the Internet as Playground and Factory conference (The New School, New York City, 2009 http://digitallabor.org), Digital Labor: Workers, Authors, Citizens (Western University, London, Ontario, Canada, 2009), Invisible Labor Colloquium (Washington University Law School, 2013), Towards Critical Theories of Social Media (Uppsala University, Sweden, 2012), Re:publica (Berlin, 2013), and the Chronicles of Work lecture series at Schlo? Solitude (Stuttgart, Germany, 2012/2013). We would like to continue and elaborate on these discussions by raising the following questions: Broad issues: Who and where are the workers and how do they understand their situation? How and where do they act in political terms? How can we analyze digital labor as a global phenomenon, pertaining to issues like underdevelopment and supply chains? Which theories and concepts can help us to frame our thinking about the gridlock of digital work? How do waste, repair, and disposal play into the debate about labor? Are there artistic works that respond to contemporary labor? Gender, Race, Class, Ability: How do gender, race, ability, and class play out in the diverse fields of digital labor? How are laboring capacities, also in the digital realm, sustained and maintained by maternal labor, or the labor of care workers, domestic workers? Alternatively, how do we conceptualize digital work that is underwaged and often coded as feminized? What are the postcolonial tensions arising between digital workers in different locales? Organizing: How relevant are unions to the millions of crowdsourced workers? How can we resist the all-too-common ?the labor movement is dead? narrative? Which concrete projects might offer us a critical foundation upon which to build broader strategies for ?digital solidarity?? What can be learned from the history of organized labor when it comes to crowdsourcing and lawsuits like Otey vs. CrowdFlower? What are possibilities and tensions that arise with projects aiming for solidarity among people in global labor systems? Policy: What are the reasons for withholding legislation that would allow for an enforcement of the Fair Labor Standards Act in the crowdsourcing industry? Are there new forms of contracts or widened definitions of employment that would better address today?s work realities? What policy proposals might be developed and put on the table now? FORMATS: In addition to traditional conference structures, Digital Labor: Sweatshops, Picket Lines, and Barricades also aims to experiment with creative presentation formats and novel venues. We welcome applications for the following formats: - experimental lectures (e.g., ?theory tapas,? pecha kuchas, collaborative presentations, or formats not using spoken language) - lectures or panels - keynote dialogues - design fiction workshops for those interested in design storytelling and envisioning alternative futures (3 hours) - performance lectures in the places where some of this work is taking place: the living rooms of participants (20 minutes each) SUBMIT a 300-word abstract or a link to short video, and a one-page CV to: digitallabor2014 at gmail.com by March 21, 2014. Please state clearly which format you are applying for and do emphasize how your proposal speaks to the questions above. Confirmation of participation: March 31, 2014. If you have any logistical questions, please contact Alexis Rider digitallabor2014 at gmail.com We are planning an open access digital work notebook that documents and expands the discussion leading up to, during, and after this event. Contributions will emerge from the iDC mailing list. https://mailman.thing.net/mailman/listinfo/idc Conference editor: Trebor Scholz with (Advisory Board): Lilly Irani, Frank Pasquale, Sarah T. Roberts, Karen Gregory, Ken Wark, and Winifred Poster. Producer: Alexis Rider. Join the discussion: https://mailman.thing.net/mailman/listinfo/idc @idctweets @trebors --- S a r a h T. R o b e r t s Faculty of Information and Media Studies (FIMS) Western University http://fims.uwo.ca/index.htm Blogging periodically at http://illusionofvolition.com From anne at digitalmethods.net Fri Feb 14 02:34:19 2014 From: anne at digitalmethods.net (Anne Helmond) Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2014 11:34:19 +0100 Subject: [Air-L] Call for Participation: Digital Methods Summer School 2014 Message-ID: Call for Participation: Digital Methods Summer School 2014 23 June - 4 July 2014 Digital Methods Initiative New Media & Digital Culture University of Amsterdam Turfdraagsterpad 9 1012 XT Amsterdam the Netherlands On Geolocation: Remote Event Analysis (Mapping Conflicts, Disasters, Elections and other Events with Online and Social Media Data) This year's Digital Methods Summer School is devoted to the remote analysis of events. When Twitter changed its byline in 2009 from "What are you doing?" to "What's happening?" it acknowledged a transition in its use and value from an ego-tweeting and ambient friend-following medium to a news and event-following one. Indeed there is a growing literature (in the Summer School's reader) on the relationship between social media and events, often focusing on conflicts, disasters as well as political elections. But what do events look like online, and how does one follow them analytically? What is the value of the event's second screening, as it is sometimes termed? Also, is the event's comment culture worth keeping as records of what has transpired? How to capture as well as re-render, or playback, the event? Claude Levi-Strauss famously wrote, "I hate travelling and explorers," and indeed the great anthropologist spent scant time in the field, preferring remote analysis, a research practice that relied less on sensing instruments than on objects and description. Social media contributes sensing measures in the form of activity metrics and other data. They also raise the question as to what the Internet and social media add to events as well as subtract from them (so to speak). Evgeni Morozov relates the story that after the network was brought down in Iran during the Election crisis of 2009, there were perhaps 6 Twitter users on the ground in Teheran (http://www.evgenymorozov.com/morozov_twitter_dissent.pdf). Indeed the picture provided by Twitter may be demographically skewed. As the Pew Research Center found in 2013, reactions to events on Twitter differ dramatically from public opinion about them ( http://www.pewresearch.org/2013/03/04/twitter-reaction-to-events-often-at-odds-with-overall-public-opinion/ ). We are also interested in the events as they unfold in and through mobile devices, and the data supplied with them. 'On geolocation', as opposed to 'on location', refers to the location data sent along with the posts and other content such as the camera data embedded in digital images. At the Summer School we analyse event data as supplied by social media and devices (broadly conceived), and also seek baselines against which to assess and compare its contributions. Example of remote event analysis using Twitter data, Digital Methods Summer School project 2013 (https://wiki.digitalmethods.net/Dmi/NetworkedIssuePublics). About "Digital Methods" as Concept Digital methods is a term coined as a counter-point to virtual methods, which typically digitize existing methods and port them onto the Web. Digital methods, contrariwise, seek to learn from the methods built into the dominant devices online, and repurpose them for social and cultural research. That is, the challenge is to study both the info-web as well as the social web with the tools that organize them. There is a general protocol to digital methods. At the outset stock is taken of the natively digital objects that are available (links, tags, threads, etc.) and how devices such as search engines make use of them. Can the device techniques be repurposed, for example by remixing the digital objects they take as inputs? Once findings are made with online data, where to ground them? Is the baseline still the offline, or are findings to be grounded in more online data? There is also a Digital Methods book (http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/digital-methods). About the Summer School The Digital Methods Summer School, founded in 2007 together with the Digital Methods Initiative, is directed by Professor Richard Rogers, Chair in NewSummer School is one training opportunity provided by the Digital Methods Initiative (DMI). DMI also has a Winter School, which includes a mini-conference, where papers are presented and responded to. Winter School papers are often the result of Summer School projects. The Summer School is coordinated by two Ph.D candidates in New Media at the University of Amsterdam, or affiliates. This year the coordinators are Catherine Somz? and Sabine Niederer, both affiliated with the Digital Methods Initiative, University of Amsterdam. The Summer School has a technical staff as well as a design staff. The Summer School also relies on a technical infrastructure of some nine servers hosting tools and storing data. Participants bring their laptops, learn method, undertake research projects, make reports, tools and graphics and write them up on the Digital Methods wiki. The Summer School concludes with final presentations. Often there are guests from non-governmental or other organizations who present their issues. For instance, Women on Waves came along during the 2010, Fair Phone to the 2012 Summer School and Greenpeace and their Gezi Park project in 2013. Digital Methods people are currently interning at major NGOs and international organizations (the UN). The Digital Methods Initiative was founded with a grant from the Mondriaan Foundation, and the Summer School has been supported by the Center for Creation, Content and Technology (CCCT), University of Amsterdam, organized by the Faculty of Science with sponsorship from Platform Beta. Previous Digital Methods Summer Schools, 2007-2013 (https://wiki.digitalmethods.net/Dmi/DmiSummerSchool). Applications and fees To apply for the Digital Methods Summer School 2014, please send a one-page letter explaining how digital methods training would benefit your current work, and also enclose a CV. Mark your application "DMI Training Certificate Program," and send to info [at] digitalmethods.net. The deadline for applications for the Summer School is 23 April. Notices will be sent on 25 April. Please address your application email to the Summer School coordinators, Catherine Somz? and Sabine Niederer, info [at] digitalmethods.net. Informal queries may be sent to Catherine [at] digitalmethods.net. The Summer School costs EUR 345 per person. Accepted applicants will be informed of the bank transfer details upon notice of acceptance to the Summer School. The fee must be paid by 24 May 2013. Scholarships The Digital Methods Summer School is part of the University of Amsterdam Summer School program me (http://www.uva.nl/en/education/other-programmes/summer-winter). This means that students attending the partnering universities in the LERU (http://www.leru.org/index.php/public/home/) and U21 networks (http://www.universitas21.com/) are eligible for a scholarship to help cover the cost for tuition and housing for the DMI Summer School. Please consult their sites to see whether you are eligible for a scholarship and for the application procedure. Housing and Accommodations The Summer School is self-catered, and there are abundant cafes and a university mensa nearby. The Digital Methods Summer School is located in the heart of Amsterdam. There are limited accommodations available to participants at The Student Hotel at reasonable rates (http://www.thestudenthotel.com/). In your application please indicate whether you are interested in making use of this service. Reservations will be made by us on the basis of your request included in your application. In your acceptance notification, you will be given further information about booking and payment. Please contact the local organizers if you need information about prices. For those who prefer non-University accommodations, we suggest airbnb or similar. For shorter stay, there is Hotel Le Coin (http://www.lecoin.nl/), where we have a university discount. Summer School Training Certificate The Digital Methods Summer School issues completion certificates to particisignificant contribution to a Summer School project. For previous Summer School projects, see for example (https://wiki.digitalmethods.net/Dmi/WikipediaAsASpaceOfControversy). Schedule The Summer School meets every day. Please bring your laptop. We will provide abundant connectivity. We start generally at 9:30 in the morning, and end around 5:30. There are morning talks two-three days per week. On the last Friday we have a boat trip on the canals of Amsterdam. Social Media & User-Generated Content Twitter hashtag #dmi14 We shall have a list of summer school participants and make an old-fashioned Facebook. We look forward to welcoming you to Amsterdam in the Summertime! From joaomattar at gmail.com Fri Feb 14 03:12:54 2014 From: joaomattar at gmail.com (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Jo=E3o_Mattar?=) Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2014 09:12:54 -0200 Subject: [Air-L] AJDE Special Issue: Interactions in Distance Education Message-ID: Hello! I will submit a proposal for a special issue on *Interactions in Distance Education* for the American Journal of Distance Education (AJDE). The articles should be based on empirical research. If you would like to submit an article for the proposal, please e-mail me a one paragraph abstract. I will get back as soon as I have a feedback on the proposal Thanks -- [ ]s Jo?o Mattar Professor TIDDPUC-SP (Brasil) From kevieira at wisc.edu Fri Feb 14 04:45:33 2014 From: kevieira at wisc.edu (Catherine Vieira) Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2014 06:45:33 -0600 Subject: [Air-L] CFP: The Transnational Movement of People and Information In-Reply-To: <778084fe596f4.52fe0fde@wiscmail.wisc.edu> References: <778084fe596f4.52fe0fde@wiscmail.wisc.edu> Message-ID: <766080785a765.52fdbb8d@wiscmail.wisc.edu> Call For Papers: Special Issue of Literacy in Composition Studies Title: The Transnational Movement of People and Information Guest Editors: Rebecca Lorimer Leonard, Kate Vieira, Morris Young To be considered, please submit a 250-word abstract that discusses the proposed article to the editors at kevieira at wisc.edu. The deadline for proposal submissions is March 14, 2014. The movement of people and information across national borders is rapid and widespread. By some estimates, over 180 million people worldwide are currently living outside the country of their birth, keeping in contact with homelands, forging new migratory networks, and navigating new circumstances through writing. Literacy in composition studies has begun to respond to this context through increased attention to the global, the international, and the transnational. This special issue seeks to forward this emerging area of interest. Often defined as a set of skills and resources, literacy has figured prominently in debates about immigrants? national integration. Some have called for migrants? swift assimilation through literacy, others have pointed to the value of migrants? diverse literacy legacies, and still others have examined how their literacies change in new national contexts. But if we think of literacy more materially, as skills and resources made possible by the technology of writing, it becomes clear that literacy plays a role in more than migrants? incorporation within nations. It also shapes their movement among them. Writing can facilitate transnational communication and network migration via the postal system and Internet. And writing is a key tool in migration policy, as nation states use immigration documents, such as visas and passports, to allow some migrants in and to keep others out. Writing, in other words, is deeply imbricated both in transnational lived experiences and in the infrastructures that govern transnational mobility. The central question this special issue asks is how. We welcome articles that address these issues empirically, theoretically, and/or rhetorically. Among the questions to be considered are the following: How do migrants? literacy practices change and persist across time and national borders? How does the transnational inhere in local literacies? How do other semiotic practices interact with writing in transnational contexts? How is literacy taught and learned transnationally? How does writing itself move? What are the implications of changing communication technologies, such as the post and the Internet, for transnational lives and literacies? How does writing motivate, influence, or restrict the travels of people? How have structural forces (such as governments, institutions, race, etc.) facilitated and/or discouraged literacy and immigration? Which methodologies might glean productive inquiries into transnational literacies? Literacy in Composition Studies is a peer-reviewed venue for a broad range of scholarship in literacy and writing studies. http://licsjournal.org. -- Kate Vieira Assistant Professor English Department, Program in Composition and Rhetoric University of Wisconsin, Madison kevieira at wisc.edu From monaco.federico at gmail.com Fri Feb 14 05:23:13 2014 From: monaco.federico at gmail.com (FEDERICO MONACO) Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2014 14:23:13 +0100 Subject: [Air-L] Happy Valentine's Day Message-ID: Dear Aoir members, you are all invited to our wedding, performance and remix on the web: http://www.cvpido.com thank you for participating to our web event. Federico, Federica and Demetra -- http://www.federicomonaco.com From tzafnat.shpak at jvwresearch.org Fri Feb 14 06:16:23 2014 From: tzafnat.shpak at jvwresearch.org (Tzafnat Shpak) Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2014 16:16:23 +0200 Subject: [Air-L] Call for book chapters: Handbook on 3D3C Virtual Worlds Message-ID: [image: Journal of Virtual Worlds Research] Call for Book Chapters: Handbook on 3D3C Virtual Worlds Applications, Technologies and Policies for Three Dimensional Systems for Community, Creation and Commerce *Editor*: Prof. Yesha Sivan, JVWR Managing editor; Metaverse Labs Ltd. *Publisher*: Springer-Verlag, Germany Introduction: The field of virtual worlds / Augmented Reality / 3D / etc. is vast, interconnected and expanding. In that respect, "3D3C Worlds" is defined as a combination of four factors: - 3D stands for the three dimensional representation of worlds as seen in Google Earth, Augmented Reality, 3D printing and the like; - Community as in a collection of people work, play and act together. Consider Facebook and Twitter as one example, and enhance it by the dynamics of World of Warcraft guilds; - Creation is the ability to create new artifacts, as seen for example in Second Life or in Open Source movement; - Commerce is the ability to harness these previous factors to gain monetary real value (consider Bitcoin, exchanges, etc.) Objective of the Book: - Become the official "handbook" on 3D3C Virtual Worlds - Highlight and enhance some earlier work conducted for the Journal - Further advance and augment the field with "topical reviews" A "topical review" means a review of a corpus of knowledge of one aspect of the field. It can be a classic literature review, a more formal statistical meta-analysis or other forms suggested by authors. Topics we already have chapters on: - Collaboration >> Virtual Worlds as Innovative Collaboration Media for Distributed Work - Taxation >> Taxation of Virtual World Economies: An Empirical Review - Medical >> Overview: Virtual Reality in Medicine - Education >> An Exploratory Research Agenda for 3-D Virtual Worlds as Collaborative Learning Ecosystems: Extracting Evidences from Literature - Art >> 1993-2013: A Survey of Two Decades of Artistic Works using Computational Ecosystems - Geography >> An Aspatial Economics? The Economic Geography of Virtual Worlds - Creativity >> Fostering Team Creativity in Virtual Worlds - Money >> Virtual Currencies, Micropayments and Fiat Money: Where Are We Coming From and Where Does the Industry Stand? - Legal >> Privacy, Law, and Virtual Worlds - Multilinguality >> Multilingual issues in virtual worlds: a general review - Money >> Blazing Trails: A New Way Forward for Virtual Currencies and Money Laundering - Collaboration >> Virtual Collaboration Spaces: Bringing Presence to Distributed Collaboration Topics of interest that we are looking for include, but are not limited to: - Case studies - Augmented Reality - 3D Printing - Commerce / business - History - Security - Design - Military - Users - Standards - Social behaviours - Gender - Cases of projects, constellations, and "islands" -- Could be visual depiction (as the book will be in color) - Cases of firms, and business endeavours - Impact on special audiences for virtual worlds - Technical review of research trends in the field (metrics) - Measurements and evolution of usage in virtual worlds. - Defence Related Virtual worlds - Devices for virtual life - Mobility How to submit: The final chapter length should be 15-25 pages in the Springer format. Initially please email your 2-3 page chapter proposals including: - Chapter title - Author names, current affiliation, and email addresses - Short author/s bio - Chapter intent / purpose / abstract - Chapter structure outline - List some key publication(s) on which your chapter will be based *Editorial Process*: All accepted chapters will undergo a rigorous peer-review process. Email submissions to info at jvwresearch.org <+info at jvwresearch.org>. Dates: Authors are encouraged to send proposals as early as possible to get a quick response. *March 28, 2014*: Book chapter proposal submission deadline. *April 30, 2014*: Notification of chapter proposal acceptance. *July 30, 2014*: Full chapter submission. *September 15, 2014*: Peer-review results returned. *October 15, 2014*: Camera-ready chapter submission. *December 15, 2014*: Planned publication. Looking forward to hearing from you, Thankfully, *Prof. Yesha Y. Sivan* JVWR Managing Editor Metaverse-Labs Ltd. TheJVWR - The Journal of Virtual Worlds Research http://jvwresearch.org (TheJVWR) [image: Like Call for book chapters: Handbook on 3D3C Virtual Worlds on Facebook] @TheJVWR. [image: share on Twitter] (c) 2014 Journal of Virtual Worlds Research All rights reserved. From asnsande at stanford.edu Fri Feb 14 07:34:58 2014 From: asnsande at stanford.edu (Ashley Nicoles Sanders-Jackson) Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2014 07:34:58 -0800 (PST) Subject: [Air-L] sentiment analysis on Twitter for smoking cessation groups Message-ID: Greetings, I am beginning a project for which we have 4 private smoking cessation groups (3 months each) to analyze (we are writing a grant to collect more data as well). I have seen some of the work related to sentiment analysis on Twitter but I am interested in developing a system that is better tailored to our data (e.g. being smokefree has specific meaning in this context). We are therefore considering developing a system by content coding a number of tweets (either having researchers code them or by having smokers code them) for positive and negative valence and perhaps some discrete emotions (e.g. sadness or hope). How many coded tweets would we need to train a simple machine learning system on our dataset (for example one of the many possibilities in R) and what are the best out-of-box programs to use? I know a bit about content analysis and about smoking cessation but not so much about machine learning. So bear in mind that you are dealing with a novice. Actually, if anyone would be interested in collaborating on the project who actually does know what they are doing, they would be welcome as well. Ashley From stu at texifter.com Fri Feb 14 07:42:36 2014 From: stu at texifter.com (Shulman, Stu) Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2014 10:42:36 -0500 Subject: [Air-L] sentiment analysis on Twitter for smoking cessation groups In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Ashley, You might want to chat with the Health Media Collaboratory http://www.healthmediacollaboratory.org/ They have done interesting work with our tools: https://vimeo.com/55175059 We interviewed researchers at the University of Illinois Chicago in the Health Media Collaboratory about their use of DiscoverText and the Gnip-enabled Power Track for Twitter to study smoking behavior. The team, led by Dr. Sherry Emery, explains why it is important to train and use custom machine classifiers to sort the millions of tweets they are collecting from the full Twitter fire hose. The UIC team strongly argues for the combination of good tools and highly reliable data. On Fri, Feb 14, 2014 at 10:34 AM, Ashley Nicoles Sanders-Jackson wrote: > Greetings, > > I am beginning a project for which we have 4 private smoking cessation > groups (3 months each) to analyze (we are writing a grant to collect more > data as well). I have seen some of the work related to sentiment analysis > on Twitter but I am interested in developing a system that is better > tailored to our data (e.g. being smokefree has specific meaning in this > context). We are therefore considering developing a system by content > coding a number of tweets (either having researchers code them or by > having smokers code them) for positive and negative valence and perhaps > some discrete emotions (e.g. sadness or hope). How many coded tweets > would we need to train a simple machine learning system on our dataset > (for example one of the many possibilities in R) and what are the best > out-of-box programs to use? I know a bit about content analysis and about > smoking cessation but not so much about machine learning. So bear in mind > that you are dealing with a novice. Actually, if anyone would be > interested in collaborating on the project who actually does know what > they are doing, they would be welcome as well. > > Ashley > _______________________________________________ > The Air-L at listserv.aoir.org mailing list > is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org > Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org > > Join the Association of Internet Researchers: > http://www.aoir.org/ -- Dr. Stuart W. Shulman http://people.umass.edu/stu Founder and CEO, Texifter http://texifter.com LinkedIn http://www.linkedin.com/in/stuartwshulman Twitter https://twitter.com/StuartWShulman From wellman at chass.utoronto.ca Fri Feb 14 12:41:30 2014 From: wellman at chass.utoronto.ca (Barry Wellman) Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2014 15:41:30 -0500 Subject: [Air-L] Valentine's Day surprise: Paperback edition of Networked is out Message-ID: The paperback edition of Networked: The New Social Operating System (Rainie & Wellman) appeared for Valentine's Day. If you order one today, I will sing to you the next time we meet (some may call this a negative inducement.) So I started exploring the pricing http://www.amazon.com/Networked-New-Social-Operating-System/dp/0262526166/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&sr=1-1&qid=1336500288 The Amazon.com pricing is intriguing. Paperback: US$14.19 Hardcover: US$20.04 (up a buck from last week - you'd think they'd want to clear out the Hards) Kindle: US$16.33 Even more intrigue. The Canadian price is even cheaper than the US Hardcover: Cdn $19.75; (aobut US$17.80) Paperback: Cdn $13.68 But Kindle more expensive: $18.02 Given that the Cdn dollar is now about 90cents in US$, it is cheaper for Canadians to order locally, but not for Americans to do so (shipping costs). UK harcover price, as always, is higher: L14.04 (US$23.50) NO paperback yet Kindle is: L12.64 (US$21) -- and of course, e-shipping is the same as in the US and Canada Japanese price is Y2853 for hardback (about US$28),with no pb listed. BTW: There is a hard-hitting article in the current New Yorker about Amazon's dealing with publishers. Barry Wellman _______________________________________________________________________ NetLab FRSC INSNA Founder Faculty of Information (iSchool) 611 Bissell Building 140 St. George St. University of Toronto Toronto Canada M5S 3G6 http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman twitter: @barrywellman NSA/CSEC: Canadian and American citizen NETWORKED:The New Social Operating System. Lee Rainie & Barry Wellman MIT Press http://amzn.to/zXZg39 Print $20 Kindle $16 Old/NewCyberTimes http://bit.ly/c8N9V8 ________________________________________________________________________ From wellman at chass.utoronto.ca Sat Feb 15 06:29:05 2014 From: wellman at chass.utoronto.ca (Barry Wellman) Date: Sat, 15 Feb 2014 09:29:05 -0500 Subject: [Air-L] "Networked" & query In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Thanks for your interest. We're in the midst of projects. If you go to Navel Studies on my website, you'll see some of our first papers on Networked Research. The Networked Individuals project doesnt have any papers out yet. However, the preceding "Connected Lives" project does on my website. And Dr. Bernie Hogan at Oxford Internet Institute was central in that. Barry Wellman _______________________________________________________________________ NetLab FRSC INSNA Founder Faculty of Information (iSchool) 611 Bissell Building 140 St. George St. University of Toronto Toronto Canada M5S 3G6 http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman twitter: @barrywellman NSA/CSEC: Canadian and American citizen NETWORKED:The New Social Operating System. Lee Rainie & Barry Wellman MIT Press http://amzn.to/zXZg39 Print $14 Kindle $16 Old/NewCyberTimes http://bit.ly/c8N9V8 ________________________________________________________________________ On Fri, 14 Feb 2014, Marilou Polymeropoulou wrote: > Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2014 22:24:39 +0000 > From: Marilou Polymeropoulou > To: "wellman at chass.utoronto.ca" > Subject: "Networked" & query > > Dear Prof. Wellman, > > Your AoIR list e-mail regarding your new publication arrived just in time when I was writing a piece on networked digital music. I've just bought the Kindle version (as a Valentine's present to myself) and I'm looking forward to reading it. > > My research at Oxford is about the chipscene, a transnational collective of musicians who compose chipmusic, a kind of digital music whose characteristic is 8-bit sounds. I've conducted physical, multi-sited and digital ethnographic fieldwork among chipmusicians, and I'm currently finishing my doctoral thesis with an emphasis on creativity. > > The research conducted at NetLab interests me very much. I cannot find any analytical information on current projects, only the titles, so I would really appreciate it if you could share any further information with me. > > Thank you very much in advance. > > With best wishes, > Marilou Polymeropoulou > > DPhil in Music > University of Oxford > St. Peter's College > http://mariloup.wordpress.com > > > > > > > From rena.bivens at gmail.com Sat Feb 15 06:35:02 2014 From: rena.bivens at gmail.com (Rena Bivens) Date: Sat, 15 Feb 2014 09:35:02 -0500 Subject: [Air-L] Facebook changes their gender options In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Hi everyone, Perhaps you have already heard about Facebook's recent changes to their gender options. If not check out the link here: http://bigstory.ap.org/article/apnewsbreak-new-gender-options-facebook-users In some ways this is a big step forward but there is more to it than that. I've been working on this issue for a few years and was in the process of finishing a journal article on the topic from a critical theory perspective that is due March 1st (for a special issue) but am now revising over the next couple of weeks as a result of this news. Here is my initial response (directed more towards journalists but nonetheless) - I'd love to hear your feedback! http://renabivens.com/201402/my-reaction-facebook-launches-new-gender-options/ Here it is again via Twitter: https://twitter.com/renabivens/statuses/43439344394764697 7 Best, Rena Bivens Rena Bivens, Ph.D. (Sociology) Banting Fellow School of Journalism and Communication Studies Carleton University 1125 Colonel By Drive, Ottawa, Ontario Canada K1S 5B6 Tel: 613 520-2600 ext. 2041 renabivens.com From jeremyrmatthew at gmail.com Sun Feb 16 07:46:00 2014 From: jeremyrmatthew at gmail.com (Jeremy) Date: Sun, 16 Feb 2014 15:46:00 +0000 Subject: [Air-L] CFP: Creating Cultures, postgraduate conference in Culture, Media, and the Creative Industries, King's College London Message-ID: (apologies for cross-posting and please forward this to whomever you think may be interested) Call for Papers: Creating Cultures, a postgraduate conference in Culture, Media, and the Creative Industries, King's College London http://thecmcisocialfactory.wordpress.com/creating-cultures-postgrad-conference/ Keynote speaker: Prof. Lev Manovich, CUNY Held on the 12th and 13th of June 2014, this multi-disciplinary postgraduate conference seeks a broad array of perspectives that explore cultural representations, practices, and industries. The title 'Creating Cultures' prompts inquiries into concepts of culture being created, cultures of creativity, cultures evolving and changing, and also cultures of creative work and play. Culture evokes ideas about its conflicting and disputed foundations, and culture as a medium through which social, political, spatial, and historical meanings are communicated and understood. The theme of this conference invites explorations of power relations, gender, subjectivity, the spatial, technology and contemporary media. Abstract submissions for presentations and pre-formed panels are invited on themes in cultural and/or media studies, such as: Power and cultural politics Identity and representation Media and mediation Digital cultures, new media, and media futures Cultures and change Popular culture Contested and counter cultures Art and artistic practice Cultural labour and industries Territorial and spatial cultures Globalisation and transnational cultures Cultural and media research methodologies Please submit 300 word abstracts, or proposals for creative presentation formats, and a maximum 100-word biography to cmci-conference at kcl.ac.uk by the 28th of March. Decisions on submissions will be sent by the 17th of April. For any queries contact: Jeremy Matthew (jeremy.matthew at kcl.ac.uk) or Photini Vrikki (photini.vrikki at kcl.ac.uk), and please check our website at http://thecmcisocialfactory.wordpress.com/creating-cultures-postgrad-conference/ From jkraemer at uci.edu Sun Feb 16 12:25:52 2014 From: jkraemer at uci.edu (Jordan Kraemer) Date: Sun, 16 Feb 2014 12:25:52 -0800 Subject: [Air-L] to add participants to your SNSs or not? In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Dear Roser, I wanted to reply to your message from a couple of weeks ago about whether to add research participants to one's existing social network profiles or not. This issue definitely came up in my ethnographic research on Facebook among users in Berlin, and I recently published an article you might find helpful ("Friend or Freund: Social Media and Transnational Connections in Berlin, http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/07370024.2013.823821), though I'm not sure how much I discuss the issue directly. I am addressing it further in a book chapter I'm working on, and could share with you a recent conference paper based on the same material. I found it made more sense to use my existing Facebook and Twitter profiles, and to create a separate group for research participants, as you mention, though in some cases, I had to create new profiles because my participants were on sites I hadn't used before. But I know other researchers have found the opposite worked better, and created separate profiles. I think it depends a lot on the specifics of the project and your relationship to your research participants. For example, how will it look if the researcher isn't already embedded in existing networks of connections? How easily or quickly will it be to join the participants' networks? Some people might find it odd or suspicious to add someone who has no or few contacts, but on the other hand, it helps clearly demarcate the researcher as a researcher. Another consideration if you do create separate profiles is how will you manage your personal accounts -- will you just stay logged in to your research accounts, or will you switch back and forth? best, Jordan ---------------------------- Jordan Kraemer Social Science Research Network Junior Fellow Anthropology, UC Irvine www.jordankraemer.com On Feb 3, 2014, at 7:43 AM, Roser Beneito Montagut wrote: > Hello everybody, > > We have just started an ethnography (online and offline) to study the > extent to which the social web can mitigate isolation and loneliness > feelings among the elderly by promoting their interpersonal relationships > online. > > I appreciate if you can point me to articles discussing whether the > researcher has added the participants to his/her social network site (e.g. > Facebook) or has created an specific profile for the research. We have > decided to add the participants to our SNSs, creating a group for them, but > I would like to know what other researchers have done and the challenges of > this methodological decision they have faced. > > Apologies beforehand if this topic has already been discussed in the list. > > Thanks, > > Roser > > Roser Beneito-Montagut > Senior Lecturer > School of Computing, Multimedia and Telecommunication > Open University of Catalonia > Barcelona > _______________________________________________ > The Air-L at listserv.aoir.org mailing list > is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org > Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org > > Join the Association of Internet Researchers: > http://www.aoir.org/ > From mcarassai at ufl.edu Sun Feb 16 16:07:17 2014 From: mcarassai at ufl.edu (Carassai,Mauro) Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2014 00:07:17 +0000 Subject: [Air-L] CFP RIAS Special Issue - American-Digital Studies Message-ID: (apologies for cross-posting and please forward this to whomever you think may be interested) Please review the attached Call for Papers for a special issue for RIAS (Review of International American Studies) focused on the relationship between American and digital studies. More specifically, the special issue explores the cultural logic of the digital from a fluid, heterogeneous, and comparative perspective. You can find detailed information about the project either in the attachment or at: https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/node/55044 Please send your abstract and one-paragraph bio to rias.special.issue at gmail.com Contact e-mails: mcarassai at ufl.edu leonardo.flores at upr.edu Editors: Mauro Carassai and Leonardo Flores Carassai, Mauro English Department University of Florida From charles.ess at gmail.com Sun Feb 16 21:03:36 2014 From: charles.ess at gmail.com (Charles Ess) Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2014 06:03:36 +0100 Subject: [Air-L] CaTaC'14 - deadline extension, registration fees Message-ID: Dear AoIRists, On behalf of the Program Committee for CaTaC?14, I?m happy to announce A) the deadline for submissions has been extended to March 2, 2014, and B) our schedule of registration fees has been established: Full registration: early bird - closing date, April 4 - 250 USD; after April 4: 275 USD Reviewer: early bird - 225 USD: after April 4: 250 USD Author: early bird - 225 USD: after April 4: 250 USD Author and Reviewer: early bird - 200 USD: after April 4: 225 USD Student: early bird - 175 USD: after April 4: 200 USD Those familiar with the conference will recognize that these registration fees are ca. 50% of the norm for previous years. These reduced fees are made possible through various forms of support from the Department of Informatics and the Department of Media and Communication, University of Oslo. We hope these reduced fees will make participation in CaTaC?14 more feasible and attractive for all interested in participating. For more details on the conference, please see For information on conference themes and tracks, and for submitting paper proposals, please go to Please cross-post and distribute as appropriate. Many thanks, - Charles Ess (Media and Communication, University of Oslo) Maja van der Velden (Informatics, University of Oslo) Herbert Hrachovec (Philosophy, University of Vienna) Michele Strano, Program Chair (Communication Studies, Bridgewater College) Leah Macfadyen (Evaluation and Learning Analytics, University of British Columbia) From christian.fuchs at uti.at Mon Feb 17 06:27:38 2014 From: christian.fuchs at uti.at (Christian Fuchs) Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2014 14:27:38 +0000 Subject: [Air-L] "Media and Communication in and after the Global Capitalist Crisis": ESA RN18 2014 Conference Call Message-ID: <53021C5A.5030103@uti.at> Media and Communication in and after the Global Capitalist Crisis: Renewal, Reform or Revolution? ESA RN18 Mid-Term Conference 2014 University of Bucharest, Romania October 17-18, 2014 Full Call Text and additional information: http://fuchs.uti.at/wp-content/RN18_2014.pdf Call for Participation and Abstracts European Sociological Association, Research Network 18: Sociology of Communications and Media Research http://www.europeansociology.org/research-networks/rn18-sociology-of-communications-and-media-research.html Submission deadline for abstracts: July 1st, 2014. Submission per e-mail to christian.fuchs at uti.at Abstracts should be written in a word processor, have 250-500 words, and contain title, author name(s), email address(es), institutional affiliations, the suggested presentation?s abstract. The world has experienced a global crisis of capitalism that started in 2008 and is continuing until now. It has been accompanied by a crisis of the state and a general crisis of legitimation of dominant ideologies such as neoliberalism. Responses to the crisis have been variegated and have included austerity measures of the state that have hit the weakest, an increased presence of progressive protests, revolutions and strikes that have made use of digital, social and traditional media in various ways, the rise of far-right movements and parties in many parts of Europe and other parts of the world, the Greek state?s closing down of public service broadcaster ERT and increased commercial pressure on public service broadcasting in general, new debates about how to strengthen public service media, increased socio-economic and class inequality in many parts of the world and at a global level, precarious forms of work in general and in the media and cultural industries in particular, the emergence of new media reform movements, an extension and intensification of the crisis of newspapers and the print media, an increasing shift of advertising budgets to targeted ads on the Internet and along with this development the rise of commercial ?social media? platforms, Edward Snowden?s revelations about the existence of a global surveillance-industrial complex that operates a communications surveillance system called ?Prism? that involves the NSA and media companies such as Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Yahoo!, AOL, Skype, Apple and Paltalk; discussions about the power and freedom of the press in light of the Levenson inquiry, shifting geographies of the political and media landscape that have to do with the economic rise of countries such as China and India. Given this context, the main questions that ESA RN18?s 2014 conference asks and to which it invites contributions are: How has the crisis affected the media and communication landscape in Europe and globally and what perspectives for the future of media and communications are there? What suggestions for media reforms are there? How feasible are they? What kind of media policies and reforms do we need today? Which ones should be avoided? Are we in this context likely to experience a renewal of neoliberalism or something different? Plenary sessions: 1) Keynote Talk: Prof. Peter Ludes (Jacobs University Bremen, Germany): Wanted: Critical Visual Theories! 2) Special Session: Public Media and Alternative Journalism in Romania With Dr. Raluca Petre (?Ovidius? University Constanta, Romania): On the Distinction between State and Public Media: Re-Centering Public Options; Dr. Antonio Momoc (University of Bucharest, Romania): Alternative Media as Public Service Journalism; Costi Rogozanu (journalist and media activist, criticatac.ro) ? Is Alternative Media an Alternative? Call for Papers ESA RN18 welcomes submissions of abstracts for contributions. Questions that can for example be addressed include, but are not limited to the following ones: * Media and capitalism: How have capitalism and the media changed in recent years? Are there perspectives beyond capitalism and capitalist media? How can we best use critical/Marxist political economy and other critical approaches for understanding the media and capitalism today? What is the role of media and communication technologies in the financialization, acceleration, and globalization of the capitalist economy? What are the conditions of working in the media, cultural and communication industries in the contemporary times? What is the role of Marx today for understanding crisis, change, capitalism, communication, and critique? * Media reform and media policy in times of crisis: How do the media need to be reformed and changed in order to contribute to the emergence of a good society? Which media reform movements are there and what are their goals? What have been policy ideas of how to overcome the crisis and deal with contemporary changes in relation to European media and communication industries? What can we learn from recent discussions about the media?s power and freedom, such as the Leveson inquiry? What are implications for media reforms? * Media and the public sphere: How should the concept of the public sphere best be conceived today and how does it relate to the media? How has the public sphere changed during the crisis in Europe and globally? What has been the relation between public and commercial broadcasting during and after the crisis? How have public service media changed, which threats and opportunities does it face? How can/should public service be renewed in the light of crisis, the Internet, and commercialisation? Can public service be extended from broadcasting to the online realm, digital and social media? What has been the role of public service media in Europe? How has this role transformed? * Media and activism: How can media scholars best cooperate with activists in order to contribute to a better media system and a better society? What are major trends in media activism today and how do activists use and confront the media and how do commercial, public and alternative media relate to contemporary social movements? What have been important experiences of media activists and media reform organisations in the past couple of years? What are the opportunities, risks, limits and possibilities of media activism today? For answering these questions, we also invite contributions and submissions by media activists, who want to talk about and share their experiences. * Media ownership: Who owns the media and ICTs? What are peculiar characteristics of knowledge and the media as property? What conflicts and contradictions are associated with it and how have they developed in times of crisis? How concentrated are the media and ICTs and how has this concentration changed since the start of the 2008 crisis? How has media and ICT ownership, convergence, de-convergence and concentration developed since the start of the 2008 crisis? What reforms of media and ICT ownership are needed in light of the crisis of capitalism and the crisis of intellectual property rights? * Media and crisis: What have been the main consequences of the crisis for media and communication in various parts of the world and Europe from a comparative perspective? What role have the media played in the construction of the crisis? How have the media conveyed the social and economic crises of recent years to citizens and what are the consequences of this flow of ideas and explanations? What role can they play in overcoming the crisis? What is the relationship of the media and class during and after the crisis? What role have ideologies (such as racism, right-wing extremism, fascism, neoliberalism, anti-Semitism, etc) played in the media during the crisis and what can we learn from it for reforming the media? How have audiences interpreted media contents that focus on austerity, crisis, neoliberalism, protests, revolutions, or media reforms? * The globalisation of the media and society: What are major trends in the globalisation of capitalism, society and the media? Given the globalisation of media and society, what are challenges for media and society today? What can we learn from non-Western media scholars and media cultures outside of Europe? Are concepts such as cultural/media imperialism, transnational cultural domination or the new imperialism feasible today and if so, in which ways? * Digital and social media: What is digital labour and how has class changed in the context of social and digital media? What is the connection of value creation, knowledge labour and digital labour? How do the global dimension and the global division of digital labour look like, especially in respect to China, India, Asia and Africa? How do new forms of exploitation and unremunerated labour (?free labour?, ?crowdsourcing?) look like in the media sector (e.g. in the context of Internet platforms such as Facebook or Google)? What is the relationship of the commons and commodification on digital and social media? How do capital accumulation and targeted advertising work on social media and what are their implications for users and citizens? What are alternatives to capitalist digital and social media? How can alternative social and digital media best look like and be organized? What can in this context be the roles of the digital commons, civil society media and public service media? Which ideologies of the Internet and social media are there? How can we best understand the surveillance-industrial Internet complex operated by the NSA together with Internet corporations such as Google and Facebook and what are the implications of Edward Snowden?s revelations? How do power and political economy work in the context of platforms such as Google, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, WikiLeaks, Wikipedia, Weibo, LinkedIn, Blogspot/Blogger, Wordpress, VK, Pinterest, Tumblr, Instagram, etc? * Media and Critical Social Theory: What can we learn and use from critical sociology and the sociology of critique when studying the media? What do critique and critical theory mean in contemporary times? What are critical sociology and the sociology of critique and what are its roles for studying media and communication?s role in society? Which social theories do we need today for adequately understanding media & society in a critical way? What is the role of political economy and Marx?s theory for understanding media & society today? * Communication and (Post-)Crisis: How has the crisis affected the communication landscape in Europe and globally and what perspectives for the future are there? How do the working conditions in communication industries look like after the crisis? What are the challenges for communication industries in the near future in the context of the crisis and post-crisis? What is the role of post-crisis-communication industries in a globalised economy? From christian.fuchs at uti.at Mon Feb 17 06:28:02 2014 From: christian.fuchs at uti.at (Christian Fuchs) Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2014 14:28:02 +0000 Subject: [Air-L] "Media and Communication in and after the Global Capitalist Crisis": ESA RN18 2014 Conference Call Message-ID: <53021C72.1080303@uti.at> Media and Communication in and after the Global Capitalist Crisis: Renewal, Reform or Revolution? ESA RN18 Mid-Term Conference 2014 University of Bucharest, Romania October 17-18, 2014 Full Call Text and additional information: http://fuchs.uti.at/wp-content/RN18_2014.pdf Call for Participation and Abstracts European Sociological Association, Research Network 18: Sociology of Communications and Media Research http://www.europeansociology.org/research-networks/rn18-sociology-of-communications-and-media-research.html Submission deadline for abstracts: July 1st, 2014. Submission per e-mail to christian.fuchs at uti.at Abstracts should be written in a word processor, have 250-500 words, and contain title, author name(s), email address(es), institutional affiliations, the suggested presentation?s abstract. The world has experienced a global crisis of capitalism that started in 2008 and is continuing until now. It has been accompanied by a crisis of the state and a general crisis of legitimation of dominant ideologies such as neoliberalism. Responses to the crisis have been variegated and have included austerity measures of the state that have hit the weakest, an increased presence of progressive protests, revolutions and strikes that have made use of digital, social and traditional media in various ways, the rise of far-right movements and parties in many parts of Europe and other parts of the world, the Greek state?s closing down of public service broadcaster ERT and increased commercial pressure on public service broadcasting in general, new debates about how to strengthen public service media, increased socio-economic and class inequality in many parts of the world and at a global level, precarious forms of work in general and in the media and cultural industries in particular, the emergence of new media reform movements, an extension and intensification of the crisis of newspapers and the print media, an increasing shift of advertising budgets to targeted ads on the Internet and along with this development the rise of commercial ?social media? platforms, Edward Snowden?s revelations about the existence of a global surveillance-industrial complex that operates a communications surveillance system called ?Prism? that involves the NSA and media companies such as Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Yahoo!, AOL, Skype, Apple and Paltalk; discussions about the power and freedom of the press in light of the Levenson inquiry, shifting geographies of the political and media landscape that have to do with the economic rise of countries such as China and India. Given this context, the main questions that ESA RN18?s 2014 conference asks and to which it invites contributions are: How has the crisis affected the media and communication landscape in Europe and globally and what perspectives for the future of media and communications are there? What suggestions for media reforms are there? How feasible are they? What kind of media policies and reforms do we need today? Which ones should be avoided? Are we in this context likely to experience a renewal of neoliberalism or something different? Plenary sessions: 1) Keynote Talk: Prof. Peter Ludes (Jacobs University Bremen, Germany): Wanted: Critical Visual Theories! 2) Special Session: Public Media and Alternative Journalism in Romania With Dr. Raluca Petre (?Ovidius? University Constanta, Romania): On the Distinction between State and Public Media: Re-Centering Public Options; Dr. Antonio Momoc (University of Bucharest, Romania): Alternative Media as Public Service Journalism; Costi Rogozanu (journalist and media activist, criticatac.ro) ? Is Alternative Media an Alternative? Call for Papers ESA RN18 welcomes submissions of abstracts for contributions. Questions that can for example be addressed include, but are not limited to the following ones: * Media and capitalism: How have capitalism and the media changed in recent years? Are there perspectives beyond capitalism and capitalist media? How can we best use critical/Marxist political economy and other critical approaches for understanding the media and capitalism today? What is the role of media and communication technologies in the financialization, acceleration, and globalization of the capitalist economy? What are the conditions of working in the media, cultural and communication industries in the contemporary times? What is the role of Marx today for understanding crisis, change, capitalism, communication, and critique? * Media reform and media policy in times of crisis: How do the media need to be reformed and changed in order to contribute to the emergence of a good society? Which media reform movements are there and what are their goals? What have been policy ideas of how to overcome the crisis and deal with contemporary changes in relation to European media and communication industries? What can we learn from recent discussions about the media?s power and freedom, such as the Leveson inquiry? What are implications for media reforms? * Media and the public sphere: How should the concept of the public sphere best be conceived today and how does it relate to the media? How has the public sphere changed during the crisis in Europe and globally? What has been the relation between public and commercial broadcasting during and after the crisis? How have public service media changed, which threats and opportunities does it face? How can/should public service be renewed in the light of crisis, the Internet, and commercialisation? Can public service be extended from broadcasting to the online realm, digital and social media? What has been the role of public service media in Europe? How has this role transformed? * Media and activism: How can media scholars best cooperate with activists in order to contribute to a better media system and a better society? What are major trends in media activism today and how do activists use and confront the media and how do commercial, public and alternative media relate to contemporary social movements? What have been important experiences of media activists and media reform organisations in the past couple of years? What are the opportunities, risks, limits and possibilities of media activism today? For answering these questions, we also invite contributions and submissions by media activists, who want to talk about and share their experiences. * Media ownership: Who owns the media and ICTs? What are peculiar characteristics of knowledge and the media as property? What conflicts and contradictions are associated with it and how have they developed in times of crisis? How concentrated are the media and ICTs and how has this concentration changed since the start of the 2008 crisis? How has media and ICT ownership, convergence, de-convergence and concentration developed since the start of the 2008 crisis? What reforms of media and ICT ownership are needed in light of the crisis of capitalism and the crisis of intellectual property rights? * Media and crisis: What have been the main consequences of the crisis for media and communication in various parts of the world and Europe from a comparative perspective? What role have the media played in the construction of the crisis? How have the media conveyed the social and economic crises of recent years to citizens and what are the consequences of this flow of ideas and explanations? What role can they play in overcoming the crisis? What is the relationship of the media and class during and after the crisis? What role have ideologies (such as racism, right-wing extremism, fascism, neoliberalism, anti-Semitism, etc) played in the media during the crisis and what can we learn from it for reforming the media? How have audiences interpreted media contents that focus on austerity, crisis, neoliberalism, protests, revolutions, or media reforms? * The globalisation of the media and society: What are major trends in the globalisation of capitalism, society and the media? Given the globalisation of media and society, what are challenges for media and society today? What can we learn from non-Western media scholars and media cultures outside of Europe? Are concepts such as cultural/media imperialism, transnational cultural domination or the new imperialism feasible today and if so, in which ways? * Digital and social media: What is digital labour and how has class changed in the context of social and digital media? What is the connection of value creation, knowledge labour and digital labour? How do the global dimension and the global division of digital labour look like, especially in respect to China, India, Asia and Africa? How do new forms of exploitation and unremunerated labour (?free labour?, ?crowdsourcing?) look like in the media sector (e.g. in the context of Internet platforms such as Facebook or Google)? What is the relationship of the commons and commodification on digital and social media? How do capital accumulation and targeted advertising work on social media and what are their implications for users and citizens? What are alternatives to capitalist digital and social media? How can alternative social and digital media best look like and be organized? What can in this context be the roles of the digital commons, civil society media and public service media? Which ideologies of the Internet and social media are there? How can we best understand the surveillance-industrial Internet complex operated by the NSA together with Internet corporations such as Google and Facebook and what are the implications of Edward Snowden?s revelations? How do power and political economy work in the context of platforms such as Google, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, WikiLeaks, Wikipedia, Weibo, LinkedIn, Blogspot/Blogger, Wordpress, VK, Pinterest, Tumblr, Instagram, etc? * Media and Critical Social Theory: What can we learn and use from critical sociology and the sociology of critique when studying the media? What do critique and critical theory mean in contemporary times? What are critical sociology and the sociology of critique and what are its roles for studying media and communication?s role in society? Which social theories do we need today for adequately understanding media & society in a critical way? What is the role of political economy and Marx?s theory for understanding media & society today? * Communication and (Post-)Crisis: How has the crisis affected the communication landscape in Europe and globally and what perspectives for the future are there? How do the working conditions in communication industries look like after the crisis? What are the challenges for communication industries in the near future in the context of the crisis and post-crisis? What is the role of post-crisis-communication industries in a globalised economy? From mariarosariataddeo at gmail.com Mon Feb 17 07:54:30 2014 From: mariarosariataddeo at gmail.com (Mariariosaria Taddeo) Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2014 15:54:30 +0000 Subject: [Air-L] workshop on ethics of cyber activism at the University of Warwick Message-ID: <7ED58C84-6774-4F85-A047-65EF850F4540@gmail.com> Apologies for cross-posting The ethics of cyber-activism Cyber activism or Hacktivism is an emerging phenomenon, which has recently become more prominent thanks to the actions of a group called Anonymous. In brief, cyber-activism is an evolution of hacking activities motivated by political and ethical reasons directed at both public institutions and private citizens and which rests on the perception of the cyberspace as a digital commons that should be freely and equally enjoyed by all individuals. Issues pertaining to cyber activism have been observed and analysed by several scholars over the past decade. However, cyber activism is now becoming a concerning phenomenon mainly thanks to the actions of Anonymous. This is a highly distributed group famously identified by Guy Fawkes mask, which since 2008 has become a symbol of the movement and of the fight against power and authorities that Anonymous' members claim to conduct. Members of this group launched in the past several 'operations' targeting both individuals who had allegedly committed immoral acts and commercial or public websites as in the case of Operation Payback or in the attack launched against Scientology with the so called Project Chanology. The growth of Anonymous and, more in general, the dissemination of the use of the cyber sphere as a new medium to foster activism poses several questions at the crossroad between social and political sciences and ethics. Programme: Time Speaker Topic 10:00 Opening remarks 10:15 ? 10:45 Lee Salter (University of Sussex) Media Understandings of Cyberactivism: Ethics and power in public discourse 10:45 ? 11:00 Coffee 11:00 ? 11:30 Keren Elazari Unmasking Anonymous ? the Global hacker movement 11:30 ? 12:00 George Lucas (US Naval University) Three ways of being a Cyber Hacktivist 12:00 ? 12:30 Stefania Milan (European Institute) Ethics of technology and ethics of organising: the Cyberactivists? struggle for moral values in cyberspace 12:30 ? 13:00 Timothy Jordan (KCL) Generations of Hacktivism 13:00 ? 14:30 Lunch 14:30 ? 15:00 Llouis Reynolds (DEMOS) Service Generation: a step change in youth social action 15:00 ? 15:30 Simon Lindgren (Umea University, Sweden) Global media, Local movements: The role of local context in social media mobilisation 15:30 ? 16:00 Pollyanna Ruiz (LSE) Activism, Anonymity, Accountability 16:00 ? 16:30 Coffee 16:30 ? 17:00 Carolyn Gideon Spill over Effects of Cyber Activism and Policy Implications 17:00 ? 17:30 Round table Location: Building 28 (See below) Where is the International Manufacturing Laboratory? Further information: For further information, please see the website:http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/pais/research/ierg/cyberethics or contact Dr. Mariarosaria Taddeo (M.Taddeo at warwick.ac.uk) If you would like to attend this workshop, please email Mrs. Shona Parsons s.m.parsons at warwick.ac.uk -- Dr. Mariarosaria Taddeo Research Fellow in Cyber Security and Ethics, PAIS, University of Warwick Research Associate - Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, University of Oxford President, International Association for Computing and Philosophy http://rosariataddeo.net From knut.lundby at media.uio.no Mon Feb 17 09:29:32 2014 From: knut.lundby at media.uio.no (Knut Lundby) Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2014 18:29:32 +0100 Subject: [Air-L] Reminder: PhD-course on Mediatization in Oslo Message-ID: <1AD3DB62-0D41-41F8-A08B-D42B0268216A@media.uio.no> Reminder: INVITATION TO PhD-COURSE OM "MEDIATIZATION" AT THE UNIVERSITY OF OSLO ?Mediatization? has become a key term in contemporary media and communication studies. PhD-students are invited to a two days PdD-seminar on "Mediatization" 20-21 March 2014 at the Department of Media and Communication, University of Oslo. The course is free of charge but participants need to cover their own travel and stay in Oslo. Please see: http://www.hf.uio.no/imk/forskning/aktuelt/arrangementer/phd/2014/seminar-mediatization.html The course is directed by Professor Knut Lundby, supported by Dr. Sigrid Kannengiesser from University of Bremen. Expressions of Interest should be stated no later than 28 February to . See details under the above link. Regards, Knut Lundby _________________________________ KNUT LUNDBY. Professor Department of Media and Communication University of Oslo - www.media.uio.no From loriken at illinois.edu Mon Feb 17 10:17:12 2014 From: loriken at illinois.edu (Kendall, Lori) Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2014 18:17:12 +0000 Subject: [Air-L] Join us This Year in Bangkok! Submit Your Proposals for IR15 Message-ID: <72A7C5438AAF2B4382455117C749427D2A600420@CITESMBX1.ad.uillinois.edu> Just a quick reminder that submissions are due March 1 for IR 15: Boundaries and Intersections, the 2014 conference of the Association of Internet Researchers.* This deadline includes proposals for ignites, pre-conference workshops, and our new experimental category. Come join us in Bangkok in October! You can find the Call for Proposals here: http://ir15.aoir.org/?page_id=19, and the submission site here: https://www.conftool.com/aoir-ir15/index.php?page=login. Some quick notes about submitting through the ConfTool system: Your proposal of any type must include a short abstract (exact word count depends on submission type) which will appear in the program. Thereafter, for paper and panel proposals, you need to upload your 1000-1200 page proposal. In order to upload your proposals for these submission types, once the first page is complete, please scroll down to the bottom of the page and click the Proceed button. This will bring you to a second page to upload your full proposal. These proposals are also due March 1. Only after you do both steps is your submission complete. If you have any other questions feel free to contact the program chair Erika Pearson at ir15programchair at aoir.org or the association coordinator at ac at aoir.org We look forward to seeing you all in Bangkok! Lori Kendall President, AoIR *Note: The deadline appears as March 2 in ConfTool in order to allow people from various different time zones to make their submissions in a timely fashion. Please make a note of the relationship of the ConfTool deadline to your local time and make your submissions as early as possible. From difusion at medialab-prado.es Mon Feb 17 10:20:53 2014 From: difusion at medialab-prado.es (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Medialab-Prado_Comunicaci=F3n?=) Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2014 19:20:53 +0100 Subject: [Air-L] Open Call for Capsules. 1st Design and Digital Culture Conference Message-ID: <53025305.4080704@medialab-prado.es> *MEDIALAB-PRADO* *Plaza**de las Letras** **Calle Ala**meda, 15** **28014 Madrid T. 912 191 157** ****www.medialab-prado.es** ****Entrada gratuita* ** #edcd. Open Call for Capsules. 1st Design and Digital Culture Conference Open call for the submission of "capsules" or short talk on projects or experiences on design and digital culture within the context of the *#ecdc. 1st Design and Digital Culture Conference* event that takes place on April 8 and 9, 2014. The experience or project submited as a Capsule should contain creative elements related to technology and digital culture, such as its use, the development of technological languages, or the influence of digital culture in its creation. Deadline for submissions: March 7, 2014 More information and submissions: http://medialab-prado.es/article/capsulasedcd * http://medialab-prado.es* From ajk407 at nyu.edu Mon Feb 17 11:19:50 2014 From: ajk407 at nyu.edu (AJ Kelton) Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2014 14:19:50 -0500 Subject: [Air-L] #ELD14 Call for Proposals Closing Message-ID: The #ELD14 Program Committee has now caught up with the many wonderful submissions we received and the call for proposals for #ELD14 will officially close for NEW submissions on Friday, February 14th. http://eld.montclair.edu/eld14-call-for-proposals/ If you have previously submitted something and are in the process of revising it, please continue that process. The C4P will close on Wednesday ONLY to NEW proposals. But if you are revising something, please do not wait very long as revised submissions will only be accepted until the program is full. If you have any questions, please email them to eld at mail.montclair.edu. p.s. - as a reminder, registration is currently open with rates starting at only $95, but there are only a limited number of registrations left at that price. http://eld.montclair.edu/registration/ -- ----- AJ Kelton Director of Emerging & Instructional Technology College of Humanities and Social Sciences - Montclair State University Doctoral Candidate Educational Communication and Technology - New York University ---------- Emerging Learning Design 2014 http://eld.montclair.edu Twitter: @ELDConf ---------- http://www.ajkelton.net Twitter: @aj_kelton From krguidry at mistakengoal.com Mon Feb 17 11:29:42 2014 From: krguidry at mistakengoal.com (krguidry at mistakengoal.com) Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2014 14:29:42 -0500 Subject: [Air-L] Polite plea for abbreviation and initialism expansion Message-ID: <1616b1692b4977adbfc8c067c5da1621@mistakengoal.com> Colleagues, Maybe I'm the only one who gets confused or lost but it would be very helpful if you could please spell out abbreviations and initialisms in your messages. This appears to be a very interdisciplinary group so I am guessing that others might also appreciate this effort to be welcoming and inclusive of everyone. Thanks so much! Kevin From mfa13 at sfu.ca Mon Feb 17 13:38:18 2014 From: mfa13 at sfu.ca (Michael Filimowicz) Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2014 13:38:18 -0800 (PST) Subject: [Air-L] Call for Papers and Conference Presentations In-Reply-To: <1866100589.7420453.1392672710479.JavaMail.root@sfu.ca> Message-ID: <1349816660.7444344.1392673098964.JavaMail.root@sfu.ca> Call for Papers & Conference Presentations: CINESONIKA 4 ? The Fourth International Conference & Festival of the Soundtrack Venue: Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, British Columbia Dates: July 8-10th, 2014 Keynote Speaker: Amy Herzog (Queens College, CUNY) author of 'Dreams of Difference, Songs of the Same: The Musical Moment in Film' and co-editor of 'The Oxford Handbook of Sound and Image in Digital Media' We are seeking multi-disciplinary contributions on sound in relation to the moving image. Media thinkers, film scholars, art historians, performance theorists, composers, filmmakers, sound practitioners, multimedia semioticians, philosophers of perception ? we invite these and others to submit proposals for 20 minute panel presentations. All accepted presentations will be considered for inclusion in The Soundtrack academic journal if expanded into papers and submitted for peer review (1000-3000 words for short articles, 5000-6000 words for long papers). Submitting to the Conference: Please write "Cinesonika 4 Abstract" in the subject heading. Deadline for Abstracts (under 500 words): June 1 2014 Please submit your abstract and short bio both as an attachment (.doc or .pdf) and also pasted into the body of your email submission, to submit at cinesonika.com LINK: http://www.cinesonika.com From fred at firesabre.com Mon Feb 17 15:48:11 2014 From: fred at firesabre.com (Fred Fuchs) Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2014 17:48:11 -0600 Subject: [Air-L] to add participants to your SNSs or not? In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <53029FBB.5010408@firesabre.com> On 2/16/2014 2:25 PM, Jordan Kraemer wrote: > Some people might find it odd or suspicious to add someone who has no or few contacts, but on the other hand, it helps clearly demarcate the researcher as a researcher. Another consideration if you do create separate profiles is how will you manage your personal accounts -- will you just stay logged in to your research accounts, or will you switch back and forth? > One solution is to use different web browsers for your research and personal accounts. That way one can leave both logged on if needed. Over time the two accounts may have very different sets of contacts. It's also important to be careful which account you're making a post too. The wrong sort of post could alienate research participants. Fred -- Fred Fuchs - Founder, CEO, & Producer FireSabre Consulting LLC Content Services for Virtual Worlds Creation, Events, Training, & Simulations www.linkedin.com/in/fredfuchs https://twitter.com/Fred_Fuchs --- This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus protection is active. http://www.avast.com From u.reips at ikerbasque.org Mon Feb 17 16:52:13 2014 From: u.reips at ikerbasque.org (Ulf-Dietrich Reips) Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2014 01:52:13 +0100 Subject: [Air-L] postdoc position In-Reply-To: <53029FBB.5010408@firesabre.com> References: <53029FBB.5010408@firesabre.com> Message-ID: Dear colleague, we are offering a postdoc position for one year to work with us on applications for Internet-based research and e-learning. The position requires teaching of two classes/semester on Psychological Research Methods. Please let me know ASAP if you are interested. Best wishes Ulf -- Prof. Dr. Ulf-Dietrich Reips Psychological Methods Department of Psychology Box 31 78457 Konstanz Germany http://iscience.uni-konstanz.de From tranth at leeds.ac.uk Tue Feb 18 07:15:07 2014 From: tranth at leeds.ac.uk (Nikolaos Thomopoulos) Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2014 15:15:07 +0000 Subject: [Air-L] Workshop invitation / CFA Message-ID: Dear Air-L members, this is a call for abstracts for a workshop which may be of interest to some of you. Apologies for cross-postings. You may find the RSA workshop invitation along with the Call For Abstracts (250w - deadline 15th March) at our blog: http://sgICTregion.wordpress.com Theme: Theory and practice of using ICT to facilitate smart and green regional development: best practice, evaluation and future challenges for multi-level governance. Venue: History Center, Thessaloniki, Greece Dates: 5th - 6th June 2014 This workshop is organised with the support of the Regional Studies Association and the ENDURANCE research project and is anticipated to generate interesting debates between academics and practitioners. We would be grateful if you would consider submitting an abstract or alternatively if you could forward this call to other contacts with relevant interest. Please do get in touch at sgICTregion at gmail.com in case you have any queries about this workshop. We look forward to welcoming you in Thessaloniki! Best regards Nikolas on behalf of the Organising Committee ______________________________________ Dr Nikolas Thomopoulos Researcher - Institute for Transport Studies University of Leeds QUEEN'S ANNIVERSARY PRIZE WINNERS - 'sustained transport excellence' www.its.leeds.ac.uk/queensprize From jstromer at syr.edu Tue Feb 18 12:01:25 2014 From: jstromer at syr.edu (Jennifer Stromer-Galley) Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2014 20:01:25 +0000 Subject: [Air-L] Feedback on the AoIR Website Desired! Message-ID: Hi everyone A sub-committee of the AoIR Executive Board is working to revamp the Association's website (www.aoir.org). We would love to get your thoughts on the website, whether you've visited it or not. So, take a few minutes to take the survey. Follow this link: https://syracuseuniversity.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_1UhJqsqjSB9Jm5f. It shouldn't take more than 10 minutes of your time, and it will really help us get a sense of how to improve the website. Any questions or concerns, give a shout! Your PR/Website Committee: Anthony Hoffman, Annette Markham, and Jenny Stromer-Galley Associate Professor | School of Information Studies Vice President | Association of Internet Researchers Syracuse University 220 Hinds Hall Syracuse, New York 13244 t 315.443.1823 f 315.443.5673 e jstromer at syr.edu w www.stromer-galley.com w www.aoir.org ischool.syr.edu From antoine.mazieres at gmail.com Wed Feb 19 02:32:34 2014 From: antoine.mazieres at gmail.com (Antoine Mazieres) Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2014 11:32:34 +0100 Subject: [Air-L] Agile/Extreme/Lean methods for academic research Message-ID: Dear all, Startups I've been enjoying quite a lot of literature on how to handle project, ideas, development, thinking, etc, with theories such as Extreme, Agile, Lean, etc. All dating of less than 10 years. I was looking around for similar literature on academic research and project, and couldn't find anything modern, socially-aware (eg. connected) and relevant, making links between doing, thinking, envisioning, writing and more. I am thinking of the project management, hardware/software/experimentation development needed in the research processes, refactoring of collaborative writings, project design, time management, etc. Does someone have seen some initiative, publication, blog about this topic ? Thanks ! Antoine Mazi?res http://mazier.es/ From karlamarx at gmail.com Wed Feb 19 04:52:36 2014 From: karlamarx at gmail.com (Helga Tawil Souri) Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2014 07:52:36 -0500 Subject: [Air-L] CFP - Handbook of Media and Culture in the Middle East Message-ID: *Call for Papers* *Handbook of Media and Culture in the Middle East* Editors : Gholam Khiabany, Tarik Sabry, *Helga Tawil*-Souri The aim of the *Handbook of Media and Culture in the Middle East* is to direct attention to the multivalent and multi-local characteristics of knowledge production, media, and culture in the region. It highlights the necessity, once again, of the need and the possibilities of going beyond the false binaries, and of speaking with a 'third voice'. It addresses key questions such as: - Is Middle Eastern Media Studies a periphery or should it be regarded as part of a wider project of (social) science of society? - Does it have a particular hermeneutics? - How do we address the particularities of the region while also considering broader socio-cultural and media shifts? While challenging the provincialism of perceived 'universal' theory of media and society, this handbook also highlights the perceived 'alternative', i.e. militant particularism, which is just the flipside of the vacuous universalism it deplores, rather than a genuine alternative to it. The handbook will articulate the questions of media and culture in the Middle East beyond the limitations of presentism by focusing on the symbiotic relationship that exists between both old and new media. It also promises to highlight the role (and meaning) of culture as a dynamic site of struggle and contestation. The handbook is also an attempt to test some prevailing approaches regarding the role of empire, among other exogenous and endogenous factors, and its consequences for culture and politics. The handbook takes an interdisciplinary approach to media and culture in the Middle East and brings together internationally recognised scholars from around the world. The more recent revolutionary fervour in the Arab World has further brought the region into the attention of the world like never before. However, while this collection will certainly be an attempt at 'catching history on the wing', to quote Benjamin, we are seeking contributions, from various disciplines, that advance our understandings of the past and present and the struggle for the future of media and cultural resources, forms of organisations and expressions, as well as production, distribution, and consumption. This volume will be published by Blackwell as part of the prestigious series The Global Handbooks in Media and Communication Research, designed to define an intellectual terrain: its historic emergence; its key theoretical paradigms; its transnational evolution, its key empirical research and possible future directions. For more information and examples of the series see: http://eu.wiley.com/WileyCDA/Section/id-410903.html Submissions will be assessed for their scholarly merit and the extent to which they contribute to our greater understanding of the mediated cultures in the Middle East. Contributors should limit their articles to between 6000 and 8000 words (including references). *Abstracts (250 words) are due by 28 March 2014.* *Upon acceptance, full articles will be due by 20 October 2014.* For further information about the handbook, or to submit your abstract, please contact the editors: Gholam Khiabany, Goldsmiths, University of London (g.khiabany at gold.ac.uk) Tarik Sabry, University of Westminster (Sabryt at westminster.ac.uk) Helga Tawil-Souri, New York University (helga at nyu.edu) -- From jhunsinger at wlu.ca Wed Feb 19 05:34:30 2014 From: jhunsinger at wlu.ca (Jeremy hunsinger) Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2014 08:34:30 -0500 Subject: [Air-L] Agile/Extreme/Lean methods for academic research In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: On Google Groups there is a dated, but still insightful group called 'efficient academics' that is pretty good. From jhunsinger at wlu.ca Wed Feb 19 05:51:26 2014 From: jhunsinger at wlu.ca (Jeremy hunsinger) Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2014 08:51:26 -0500 Subject: [Air-L] Call for Abstracts for Chapters Vol.2 International Handbook of Internet Research Message-ID: Call for Abstracts for Chapters Volume 2 of the International Handbook of Internet Research (editors Jeremy Hunsinger, Lisbeth Klastrup, and Matthew Allen) Abstracts due June 1 2014; full chapters due Sept. 1 2015 After the remarkable success of the first International Handbook of Internet Research (2010), Springer has contracted with its editors to produce a second volume. This new volume will be arranged in three sections, that address one of three different aspects of internet research: foundations, futures, and critiques. Each of these meta-themes will have its own section of the new handbook. Foundations will approach a method, a theory, a perspective, a topic or field that has been and is still a location of significant internet research. These chapters will engage with the current and historical scholarly literature through extended reviews and also as a way of developing insights into the internet and internet research. Futures will engage with the directions the field of internet research might take over the next five years. These chapters will engage current methods, topics, perspectives, or fields that will expand and re-invent the field of internet research, particularly in light of emerging social and technological trends. The material for these chapters will define the topic they describe within the framework of internet research so that it can be understand as a place of future inquiry. Critique chapters will define and develop critical positions in the field of internet research. They can engage a theoretical perspective, a methodological perspective, a historical trend or topic in internet research and provide a critical perspective. These chapters might also define one type of critical perspective, tradition, or field in the field of internet research. We value the way in which this call for papers will itself shape the contents, themes, and coverage of the Handbook. We encourage potential authors to present abstracts that will consolidate current internet research, critically analyse its directions past and future, and re-invent the field for the decade to come. Contributions about the internet and internet research are sought from scholars in any discipline, and from many points of view. We therefore invite internet researchers working within the fields of communication, culture, politics, sociology, law and privacy, aesthetics, games and play, surveillance and mobility, amongst others, to consider contributing to the volume. Initially, we ask scholars and researchers to submit an 500 word abstract detailing their own chapter for one of the three sections outlined above. The abstract must follow the format presented below. After the initial round of submissions, there may be a further call for papers and/or approaches to individuals to complete the volume. The final chapters will be chosen from the submitted abstracts by the editors or invited by the editors. The chapter writers will be notified of acceptance by January 1st, 2015. The chapters will be due September 2015, should be between 6,000 and 10,000 words (inclusive of references, biographical statement and all other text). Each abstract needs to be presented in the following form: ? Section (Either Foundations, Futures, or Critiques) ? Title of chapter ? Author name/s, institutional details ? Corresponding author's email address ? Keywords (no more than 5) ? Abstract (no more than 500 words) ? References Please e-mail your abstract/s to: internet.research.handbook at gmail.com We look forward to your submissions and working with you to produce another definitive collection of thought-provoking internet research. Please feel free to distribute this CfP widely. Thank you Jeremy, Lisbeth, and Matt From joseph.2011 at reagle.org Wed Feb 19 06:13:05 2014 From: joseph.2011 at reagle.org (Joseph Reagle) Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2014 09:13:05 -0500 Subject: [Air-L] Agile/Extreme/Lean methods for academic research In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <5304BBF1.80301@reagle.org> On 02/19/2014 05:32 AM, Antoine Mazieres wrote: > Does someone have seen some initiative, publication, blog about this topic ? I recommend . From dittrich at apl.washington.edu Wed Feb 19 09:49:57 2014 From: dittrich at apl.washington.edu (Dave Dittrich) Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2014 09:49:57 -0800 Subject: [Air-L] Agile/Extreme/Lean methods for academic research In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <5304EEC5.9080903@apl.washington.edu> On 2/19/14 2:32 AM, Antoine Mazieres wrote: > I am thinking of .. software/experimentation > development needed in the research processes, refactoring of collaborative > writings... http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3639880/ -- Dave Dittrich dittrich at u.washington.edu http://staff.washington.edu/dittrich PGP key: http://staff.washington.edu/dittrich/pgpkey.txt Fingerprint: 097B 4DCB BF16 E1D8 A06C 7512 A751 C80A D15E E079 From keckert at umd.edu Wed Feb 19 13:04:00 2014 From: keckert at umd.edu (Kristin Dagmar Eckert) Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2014 21:04:00 +0000 Subject: [Air-L] Studies on blogs in US, UK, Germany and Switzerland on how much bloggers make from their blogs Message-ID: <0A6BAADED9DB714B8885DC08221E3B9F0A59D284@OITMX1006.AD.UMD.EDU> Hi everyone I am searching for studies, articles and information on how many bloggers get how much income from their blogs in the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany and Switzerland each. I looked around and found some indications in news media articles but not studies. I was wondering if studies on the issue in any of the four countries exist (ideally also with gendered data). I have indications in my dissertation project on a large quantity of commercial blogs in the U.S. and the U.K. and would like to put that into context of previous research. In Germany and Switzerland my interview participants indicated commercial blogs and income from blogs is rare, equally I would like to back that up with studies/articles/information on the matter. I am grateful for any links and hints. Thank you very much. Best, Stine Stine Eckert Ph.D. Candidate Philip Merrill College of Journalism University of Maryland 2100N Knight Hall www.stineeckert.com @stineeckert From joomen at beeldengeluid.nl Wed Feb 19 13:06:16 2014 From: joomen at beeldengeluid.nl (Johan Oomen) Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2014 22:06:16 +0100 Subject: [Air-L] CFP: Second International Workshop on Linked Media (LiME 2014) Message-ID: <0519746E-9EB7-4E8F-859F-F4C86B39F95E@beeldengeluid.nl> =================================================================== CFP: Second International Workshop on Linked Media (LiME 2014) http://www.linkedtv.eu/event/LiME2014/ =================================================================== The workshop is co-located with the ESWC 2014 conference held in Heraklion, Greece on 25-29 May 2014. *Deadlines*: - Submission deadline: March 6, 2014, 23:59PM Hawaii Time - Notifications: April 1, 2014, 23:59PM Hawaii Time - Camera ready version: April 15, 2014, 23:59PM Hawaii Time Goals of the workshop: If the future Web will be able to fully use the scale and quality of online media, a Web scale layer of structured and semantic media annotation is needed, which we call *Linked Media*. Drawing on the success of the Linked Data movement, we believe annotation of media using Linked Data concepts can be the basis for Web-wide media interlinking based on concept matching and relationships. This 2nd international workshop on Linked Media (LiME'2014), building on last year's successful event held at WWW 2013, aims at promoting the principles of Linked Media on the Web by gathering semantic multimedia and Linked Data researchers to exchange current research and development work on creating conceptual descriptions of media items, multimedia metadata publication on the Web, and its semantic processing, particular based on Linked Data approaches to concept matching and relationships. Specifically, we aim to build a research community to promote a future Web where automated multimedia analysis results can be used as a basis to integrate Linked Data-based conceptual annotations into structured media descriptions, which can be published and shared online. When media descriptions are more easily findable and processable, new applications and services can be created in which online media is more easily shared, retrieved, re-used and re-purposed. This will offer a wide range of possibilities for various stakeholders in the creative industries. Workshop topics and themes: To push further the evolution of the Rich Media Web, and to facilitate its convergence with the Semantic Web, it is essential to establish consensus on online media annotation standards, the use of semantics in describing what media represents, and demonstrate approaches to leverage such structured and semantic media descriptions in Web applications. While non-textual content is often now the first destination of online agents rather than HTML/textual resources, and thus access to structured annotation of the online media is increasingly important for new Web applications capable of media search, retrieval, adaptation and presentation, the online media annotation space is still limited, fragmented and lacking in consensus for building Web tools and interfaces to support it. LiME'2014 focuses on identifying the key building blocks required to foster the development of new Web tools and interfaces that will support the growth and re-use of Linked Media, which is inspired by the Linked Data movement for making structured descriptions of resources more easily available online. The workshop topics include, but are not limited to: * Approaches to online media descriptions - Tools and approaches aligning the fragmented approaches to online media description, its processing and publication, e.g. based around Linked Data, W3C Media Ontology and Media Fragments URI. - Tools and approaches to search and retrieval of online media based on its structured description, scaling to the Web - Tools and approaches addressing issues of trust, quality and rights of online media * Extracting and linking - Tools and approaches to lower the cost of creating structured descriptions of online media resources - New methods of automatic, real time, metadata extraction of any online media content (including live streams) - Ideas how to incorporate Linked Data into media description (and benefit from the additional metadata of the Linked Data cloud) - New methods for automatically assessing the suitability of (non-trusted) content for interweaving (e.g. violence detection, nudity detection), and publishing such assessments * Showcases, business models and assessment - New Web applications making use of Linked Media (across different platforms) including evaluation with end-users and/or suitable business models - Approaches to tracking user interaction with media (and exploiting this knowledge to enrich annotations) The workshop is sponsored by the EU projects LinkedTV (http://www.linkedtv.eu) and MICO (http://www.mico-project.eu/) as well as the large open source community around Apache Stanbol (http://stanbol.apache.org/) & Apache Marmotta (http://marmotta.apache.org/). Submission: Submissions should not exceed 12 pages and are to be formatted according to Springer LNCS guidelines (http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-7-72376-0) and submitted to https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lime2014. Papers should be submitted in PDF format. We encourage various types of submission: - full papers (max 12 pages) for mature work which has been subject to evaluation - demo submissions (max 5 pages) for demos, software and platforms which may be able to support a part of the Linked Media ecosystem The workshop proceedings will be published online through CEUR-WS. A selection of the best papers from the workshop will also appear in an LNCS companion volume of ESWC 2014. Programme Committee: - Lora Aroyo, VU University, NL - Olivier Aubert, University of Nantes, FR - Marco Bertini, University di Firenze, IT - Werner Bailer, Joanneum, AT - Dan Brickley, Google Inc., UK - Tobias B?rger, Payback GmbH, AT - Pierre-Antoine Champin, University Lyon 1, FR - Paolo Ciccarese, Massachusetts General Hospital Biomedical Informatics Core, USA - Davy Van Deursen, EVS, BE - Jean-Claude Dufourd, Telecom ParisTech, FR - Nikolaos Gkalelis, CERTH, GR - Lynda Hardman, CWI, NL - Michiel Hildebrand, CWI, NL - George Ioannidis, IN2, UK - Antoine Isaac, Europeana, NL - Ioannis Kompatsiaris, CERTH, GR - Tom Kurz, Salsbourg Research, AT - Yunjia Li, University of Southampton, UK - Vasileios Mezaris, CERTH, GR - Frank Nack, University of Amsterdam, NL - Silvia Pfeiffer, Vquence, AU - Yves Raimond, BBC, UK - Giuseppe Rizzo, University di Torino, IT - Harald Sack, University of Postdam, DE - Thomas Steiner, Google Inc., DE Organizers: - Lyndon Nixon, Modul University, AT - Rapha?l Troncy, EURECOM, FR - Erik Mannens, iMinds / University of Ghent, BE - Johan Oomen, Sound & Vision, NL - Florian Stegmaier, University of Passau, DE From jaroslaw.kopec at gmail.com Thu Feb 20 00:30:57 2014 From: jaroslaw.kopec at gmail.com (=?utf-8?Q?Jaros=C5=82aw_Kope=C4=87?=) Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2014 09:30:57 +0100 Subject: [Air-L] Critical theory of gamification / Archaeology of gamification Message-ID: Dear All, I am preparing a seminar on critical theory of gamification. Right now I am mostly interested in archaeology of gamification, that is in looking for gamification?s prefigurations in tabletop and video games. I would very much appreciate some tips on readings from you. -- Jaros?aw Kope? Faculty of Liberal Arts University of Warsaw Poland From anders.lovlie at hig.no Thu Feb 20 01:40:03 2014 From: anders.lovlie at hig.no (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Anders_Sundnes_L=F8vlie?=) Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2014 10:40:03 +0100 Subject: [Air-L] Agile/Extreme/Lean methods for academic researc In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <5305CD73.6020708@hig.no> I sketched a model for "Agile Media Design Research" in my PhD dissertation: http://folk.uio.no/anderssl/published/lovlie_phd.pdf This is in the context of humanities-based media research, so it is focused on design as a hermeneutic process that can inform research, not so much on project management. -- Anders Sundnes L?vlie Associate professor, Gj?vik University College english.hig.no On 20.02.14 00:00, air-l-request at listserv.aoir.org wrote: > Message: 1 > Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2014 11:32:34 +0100 > From: Antoine Mazieres > To: "air-l at listserv.aoir.org" > Subject: [Air-L] Agile/Extreme/Lean methods for academic research > Message-ID: > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > Dear all, > > Startups I've been enjoying quite a lot of literature on how to handle > project, ideas, development, thinking, etc, with theories such as Extreme, > Agile, Lean, etc. All dating of less than 10 years. > > I was looking around for similar literature on academic research and > project, and couldn't find anything modern, socially-aware (eg. connected) > and relevant, making links between doing, thinking, envisioning, writing > and more. > > I am thinking of the project management, hardware/software/experimentation > development needed in the research processes, refactoring of collaborative > writings, project design, time management, etc. > > Does someone have seen some initiative, publication, blog about this topic ? > > Thanks ! > > Antoine Mazi?res > > http://mazier.es/ > From antoine.mazieres at gmail.com Thu Feb 20 02:46:11 2014 From: antoine.mazieres at gmail.com (Antoine Mazieres) Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2014 11:46:11 +0100 Subject: [Air-L] Agile/Extreme/Lean methods for academic research In-Reply-To: <5304EEC5.9080903@apl.washington.edu> References: <5304EEC5.9080903@apl.washington.edu> Message-ID: Oh ! very nice ! There is even a branching model for scientific collaboration : http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3639880/ (scigit-flow) Thanks ! Sum up of refs gathered here and there, for those interested : http://technocalifornia.blogspot.ch/2008/06/agile-research.html https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/17143/agile-extreme-lean-methods-for-academic-research https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/the-efficient-academic https://www.academia.edu/4191679/Innovation_Infrastructures_to_Transform_the_Mexican_Internet_Industry_The_Case_of_the_Startup_Community http://www.nmc.org/pdf/2014-horizon-he-preview.pdf http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3639880/ On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 6:49 PM, Dave Dittrich wrote: > On 2/19/14 2:32 AM, Antoine Mazieres wrote: > > I am thinking of .. software/experimentation > > development needed in the research processes, refactoring of > collaborative > > writings... > > http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3639880/ > > -- > Dave Dittrich > dittrich at u.washington.edu > http://staff.washington.edu/dittrich > > PGP key: http://staff.washington.edu/dittrich/pgpkey.txt > Fingerprint: 097B 4DCB BF16 E1D8 A06C 7512 A751 C80A D15E E079 > From sebastian.deterding at gmx.de Thu Feb 20 16:31:28 2014 From: sebastian.deterding at gmx.de (Sebastian Deterding) Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2014 19:31:28 -0500 Subject: [Air-L] Critical theory of gamification / Archaeology of, > gamification In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <53069E60.3070604@gmx.de> Dear Jaroslaw, I have a chapter in print that extensively traces the prehistory of gamification: Deterding, S. (in print): The Ambiguity of Games: Histories and Rhetorics of the Gameful World, in Walz, S. P. & Deterding, S. (eds.), The Gameful World: Approaches, Issues, Applications. Cambridge, MA, London: MIT Press. Email me for a copy. Best Sebastian > Message: 1 > Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2014 09:30:57 +0100 > From: Jaros?aw Kope? > To: air-l at listserv.aoir.org > Subject: [Air-L] Critical theory of gamification / Archaeology of > gamification > Message-ID: > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > > Dear All, > > I am preparing a seminar on critical theory of gamification. Right now I am mostly interested in archaeology of gamification, that is in looking for gamification?s prefigurations in tabletop and video games. > > I would very much appreciate some tips on readings from you. > > -- > Jaros?aw Kope? > Faculty of Liberal Arts > University of Warsaw > Poland -- Cheers, Sebastian ------------------------------------------------------------- Sebastian Deterding | coding conduct Web: http://codingconduct.cc | Twitter: @dingstweets ------------------------------------------------------------- This email is [X] assumed public and may be forwarded, blogged, etc. [_] assumed to be private. Please ask before redistributing ------------------------------------------------------------- From sebastian.deterding at gmx.de Thu Feb 20 16:35:46 2014 From: sebastian.deterding at gmx.de (Sebastian Deterding) Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2014 19:35:46 -0500 Subject: [Air-L] Critical theory of gamification / Archaeology Message-ID: <53069F62.70406@gmx.de> Dear Jaroslaw, I have a chapter in print that extensively traces the prehistory of gamification: Deterding, S. (in print): The Ambiguity of Games: Histories and Rhetorics of the Gameful World, in Walz, S. P. & Deterding, S. (eds.), The Gameful World: Approaches, Issues, Applications. Cambridge, MA, London: MIT Press. Email me for a copy. Best Sebastian -- Cheers, Sebastian ------------------------------------------------------------- Sebastian Deterding | coding conduct Mail: sebastian at codingconduct.cc | Twitter: @dingstweets Web: http://codingconduct.cc | Skype: sebastiandeterding US mobile: +1 (585) 747-8616 | DE mobile: +49 15140030044 ------------------------------------------------------------- This email is [_] assumed public and may be forwarded, blogged, etc. [X] assumed to be private. Please ask before redistributing ------------------------------------------------------------- From explicit_corpse at hotmail.com Thu Feb 20 16:55:53 2014 From: explicit_corpse at hotmail.com (V. T.) Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2014 16:55:53 -0800 Subject: [Air-L] Critical theory of gamification / Archaeology of gamification In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: I would highly recommend Graeme Kirkpatrick's Computer Games and the Social Imaginary:http://ca.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-0745641105.html veronika tzankova From simone.heidbrink at zegk.uni-heidelberg.de Fri Feb 21 01:47:11 2014 From: simone.heidbrink at zegk.uni-heidelberg.de (Simone Heidbrink) Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2014 10:47:11 +0100 Subject: [Air-L] Special issue on "Religion in Digital Games" is online! Message-ID: <5307209F.8050707@zegk.uni-heidelberg.de> Dear all, The editors of "online - Heidelberg Journal of Religions on the Internet" (http://online.uni-hd.de) are pleased to announce the publication of the special issue "Religion in Digital Games" featuring a multitude of exciting scientific perspectives on videogames as new research focus in Cultural and Religious Studies by authors from many different disciplines. It includes articles on theory and method as well as case studies with a focus on both game content and the player. We hope the articles assembled in this issue will contribute to encouraging further academic debate on the topic of religion in digital games and help openig up the field for even more motivated and enthusiastic scholars and research projects. The journal is keen to collect high quality scholarship on issues relating to religions on the Internet and welcomes submissions pertaining to all aspects of theses matters anytime to be published in our next issue scheduled for fall 2014! Of course we will gladly consider the publication of further articles related to religion and video games as well as any other topic fitting the scope of the journal. Submissions and queries should be send to the following address: online.religion at zegk.uni-heidelberg.de Best regards Simone Heidbrink & Tobias Knoll (editors of the special issue) -- Simone Heidbrink, M.A. Institut f?r Religionswissenschaft Zentrum f?r Europ?ische Geschichts- und Kulturwissenschaften (ZEGK) Universit?t Heidelberg Akademiestr. 4-8 D - 69117 Heidelberg fon: ++49-(0)6221-54 74 82 fax: ++49-(0)6221-54 76 24 From a.birkbak at gmail.com Fri Feb 21 02:50:41 2014 From: a.birkbak at gmail.com (Andreas Birkbak) Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2014 11:50:41 +0100 Subject: [Air-L] Research of Facebook public groups In-Reply-To: References: <6E61AC1252115240BEFB63F66879D668029129@exp-dag1-n1.uol.le.ac.uk> Message-ID: Dear Ruth, Here's a study of two Facebook Groups founded in reaction to a snowstorm emergency in Denmark that I've done: http://vbn.aau.dk/da/publications/crystallizations-in-the-blizzard(00900bdf-5dd9-4edf-8a99-582c96b22081).html It combines quantitative and qualitative approaches, including analysis of discourse. Best, Andreas 2014-01-23 21:48 GMT+01:00 Pask-Hughes, Alexander < a.pask-hughes at lancaster.ac.uk>: > Hi Ruth, > > I imagine you'll have likely come across these and not all look at > Facebook, but I think they're probably relevant discourse-analytic > examples, with a focus beyond self and identity: > > Burke & Goodman (2012) "Bring back Hitler's gas chambers": Asylum seeking, > Nazis and Facebook - A discursive analysis. D&S 23(1). > > Goodman & Rowe (2014) "Maybe it is prejudice... but it is NOT racism": > Negotiating racism in discussion forums about Gypsies. D&S 25(1). > > Shaikjee & Milani (2013) "It's time for Afrikaans to go"... or not? > Language ideologies and (ir)rationality in the blogosphere. Language > Matters 44(2). > > > Aside from these, there's the research from Todd Graham and Scott Wright > (including the EU cyberspace paper with Ruth Wodak), although that's > probably veering too far away from both Facebook and discourse analysis. > > I was sure someone archived the Thatcher tweets as well... > > > Alexander David Pask-Hughes > > PhD student > Seminar Tutor for LING204: Discourse Analysis > > Department of Linguistics and English Language > Lancaster University > > E-mail: a.pask-hughes at lancaster.ac.uk > Twitter: @adpaskhughes > > ________________________________________ > From: air-l-bounces at listserv.aoir.org [air-l-bounces at listserv.aoir.org] > on behalf of Page, Ruth (Dr.) [rep22 at leicester.ac.uk] > Sent: 22 January 2014 09:49 > To: air-l at listserv.aoir.org > Subject: [Air-L] Research of Facebook public groups > Dear AoIR list members, > > I'm doing some work from a discourse analysis perspective on the way > interactions on Facebook public groups take place. I'm specifically looking > at the RIP pages set up in response to the death of former Prime Minister > Margaret Thatcher. > > I'm familiar with a lot of the research literature on Facebook, but most > of what I know is based on studies that examined personal Facebook > accounts/wall interactions. > > Can anyone please recommend studies of Facebook groups? I'm especially > interested in anything that has a linguistic/discourse analysis focus, but > it would also be good to learn from studies from a more general social > science perspective too. > > Thanks in advance for any suggestions! > > Ruth > > Dr Ruth Page > Room 1509, Attenborough Tower > School of English > University of Leicester > Leicester > LE1 7RH > UK > +44 (0)116 223 1286 > _______________________________________________ > The Air-L at listserv.aoir.org mailing list > is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org > Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: > http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org > > Join the Association of Internet Researchers: > http://www.aoir.org/ > _______________________________________________ > The Air-L at listserv.aoir.org mailing list > is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org > Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: > http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org > > Join the Association of Internet Researchers: > http://www.aoir.org/ > From francesca.musiani at gmail.com Fri Feb 21 03:04:58 2014 From: francesca.musiani at gmail.com (Francesca Musiani) Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2014 12:04:58 +0100 Subject: [Air-L] Call for Applications, 2014-15 Yahoo! Fellow in Residence, Georgetown University Message-ID: CALL FOR APPLICATIONS Yahoo! Fellow in Residence International Values, Communications Technology & the Global Internet School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University Washington, D.C. The Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service is pleased to invite applications for the position of Yahoo! Fellow in Residence for the academic year 2014-2015. This one academic year position is funded by the Yahoo! Fund on International Values, Communications Technology and the Global Internet, which was established at Georgetown University by a gift from Yahoo! Inc. The Yahoo! Fellow will be chosen by Georgetown University from applicants drawn from the government, corporate, non-profit and academic sectors. The Fellowship The Yahoo! Fellow in Residence explores the relationship between new communications technologies and international values in varying national and international contexts. Projects should address the issue of applying international values and principles (e.g., free expression, regulation, citizenship and privacy) to new communications technologies and the diffusion of information in rapidly changing global environments. These might include large and evolving economies--including Brazil, Russia, India, and China--as well as interactions between the developing and developed worlds. Projects can draw on insights from many disciplines, including politics, economics, business, and socio-cultural research. It is expected that the Yahoo! Fellow will undertake research and writing, some of which will be posted on the website of the Institute for the Study of Diplomacy, during his or her stay. In addition, the Fellow must organize at least one workshop or conference during each of the two semesters in residence, work with graduate fellows supported by the same Yahoo! grant, engage in co-curricular offerings and other interactions with the Georgetown student body, and participate in the professional life of Washington, D.C. The Yahoo! Fellow in Residence will be a part of the Institute for the Study of Diplomacy (ISD) at Georgetown University. The Institute will provide office space, supplies, and administrative support during the fellowship year. The Yahoo! Fellow will have the opportunity to be a member of a group of ISD associates and fellows drawn from the United States and foreign government agencies. The fellowship provides a stipend of $60,000 to support housing and living expenses for the academic year and $5,000 to cover travel associated with the appointment. The appointment will cover the period of August 15, 2014 to May 15, 2015. Within the School of Foreign Service, the Master of Science in Foreign Service Program (MSFS) will provide a locus for the applied curricular and research support activities associated with the Yahoo! Fellows. The Program's multi-disciplinary faculty, including experienced public and private sector practitioners, comprises a broad resource base for research and collaboration on globalization forces and impacts across an array of diverse sectors and cross-national applications. Relevant results generated by the Yahoo! Fellows' projects could be incorporated into the MSFS Program's curriculum through guest lectures, special seminars, case studies and/or course modules. It is anticipated that research projects may thereby yield multiplier educational effects that extend beyond the tenure of a particular Yahoo! Fellow. MSFS graduate students will also be selected to receive partial-tuition fellowships as Junior Yahoo! Fellows. The selected students will engage in study and research associated with the Yahoo! Fellow in Residence and/or other faculty engaged in related project activities. Applications Applications should be imaginative, multidisciplinary, analytical, and capable of being completed during the fellowship year. They should include proposals for projects and associated conferences or workshops. An advanced degree is not required, however, for those pursuing graduate work, the degree must be completed and in hand prior to assuming the fellowship. Applicants should submit the following: * Letter of interest * Curriculum vitae * Statement describing a proposed project and methodology (not to exceed 2,500 words) Submit application materials to: Institute for the Study of Diplomacy Attn: Yahoo! Fellow Search 1316 36th Street, NW Washington, DC 20007 Deadline: Applicants are advised to submit materials by Monday, April 7, 2014. 3 Applications will be considered until a final applicant has been selected and has accepted the appointment. Electronic submissions may be sent to the following email address: dolgasc at georgetown.edu. In the subject line, please add the text: Yahoo! Fellow Application. Background Information For information on the Yahoo! Program and current and past fellows, please visit the Institute for the Study of Diplomacy website: http://isd.georgetown.edu/programs/yahoofellow/. Kalev Leetaru (2013-2014) Francesca Musiani (2012-2013) S?verine Ars?ne (2011-2012) Han-Teng Liao (2010-2011) Evgeny Morozov (2009-2010) Gaurav Mishra (2008-2009) Irene Wu (2007-2008) For information on the Master of Science in Foreign Service (MSFS) graduate program, please visit http://msfs.georgetown.edu. For information on Georgetown University, please visit www.georgetown.edu. -- Francesca Musiani Postdoctoral researcher Centre de Sociologie de l'Innovation MINES ParisTech 60, Boulevard Saint-Michel 75272 Paris Cedex 06, France From slc at publicus.net Fri Feb 21 05:58:02 2014 From: slc at publicus.net (Steven Clift) Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2014 07:58:02 -0600 Subject: [Air-L] Research of Facebook public groups In-Reply-To: References: <6E61AC1252115240BEFB63F66879D668029129@exp-dag1-n1.uol.le.ac.uk> Message-ID: You might be interested in what we are doing with: https://www.facebook.com/groups/opengovgroup I trolled deeply to find scores of open government, open data, smart city, civic tech Facebook Groups around the world, many are listed here: http://pages.e-democracy.org/List_of_groups And far more are here (mixed with other groups): https://www.facebook.com/stevenlclift/groups I then worked to promote this new global group as a space to connect these many national/language based groups. Because Facebook controls message distribution via News feed exposure, the number of members are deceiving and at about 250 members, the default notification switches from all new posts to new posts from just your friends, these spaces can quickly become dormant. However, some Facebook Groups really have a lot of life if they have continued posting of new topics by an array of members. On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 4:50 AM, Andreas Birkbak wrote: > Dear Ruth, > > Here's a study of two Facebook Groups founded in reaction to a snowstorm > emergency in Denmark that I've done: > http://vbn.aau.dk/da/publications/crystallizations-in-the-blizzard(00900bdf-5dd9-4edf-8a99-582c96b22081).html > > It combines quantitative and qualitative approaches, including analysis of > discourse. > > Best, > Andreas > > > 2014-01-23 21:48 GMT+01:00 Pask-Hughes, Alexander < > a.pask-hughes at lancaster.ac.uk>: > >> Hi Ruth, >> >> I imagine you'll have likely come across these and not all look at >> Facebook, but I think they're probably relevant discourse-analytic >> examples, with a focus beyond self and identity: >> >> Burke & Goodman (2012) "Bring back Hitler's gas chambers": Asylum seeking, >> Nazis and Facebook - A discursive analysis. D&S 23(1). >> >> Goodman & Rowe (2014) "Maybe it is prejudice... but it is NOT racism": >> Negotiating racism in discussion forums about Gypsies. D&S 25(1). >> >> Shaikjee & Milani (2013) "It's time for Afrikaans to go"... or not? >> Language ideologies and (ir)rationality in the blogosphere. Language >> Matters 44(2). >> >> >> Aside from these, there's the research from Todd Graham and Scott Wright >> (including the EU cyberspace paper with Ruth Wodak), although that's >> probably veering too far away from both Facebook and discourse analysis. >> >> I was sure someone archived the Thatcher tweets as well... >> >> >> Alexander David Pask-Hughes >> >> PhD student >> Seminar Tutor for LING204: Discourse Analysis >> >> Department of Linguistics and English Language >> Lancaster University >> >> E-mail: a.pask-hughes at lancaster.ac.uk >> Twitter: @adpaskhughes >> >> ________________________________________ >> From: air-l-bounces at listserv.aoir.org [air-l-bounces at listserv.aoir.org] >> on behalf of Page, Ruth (Dr.) [rep22 at leicester.ac.uk] >> Sent: 22 January 2014 09:49 >> To: air-l at listserv.aoir.org >> Subject: [Air-L] Research of Facebook public groups >> Dear AoIR list members, >> >> I'm doing some work from a discourse analysis perspective on the way >> interactions on Facebook public groups take place. I'm specifically looking >> at the RIP pages set up in response to the death of former Prime Minister >> Margaret Thatcher. >> >> I'm familiar with a lot of the research literature on Facebook, but most >> of what I know is based on studies that examined personal Facebook >> accounts/wall interactions. >> >> Can anyone please recommend studies of Facebook groups? I'm especially >> interested in anything that has a linguistic/discourse analysis focus, but >> it would also be good to learn from studies from a more general social >> science perspective too. >> >> Thanks in advance for any suggestions! >> >> Ruth >> >> Dr Ruth Page >> Room 1509, Attenborough Tower >> School of English >> University of Leicester >> Leicester >> LE1 7RH >> UK >> +44 (0)116 223 1286 >> _______________________________________________ >> The Air-L at listserv.aoir.org mailing list >> is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org >> Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: >> http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org >> >> Join the Association of Internet Researchers: >> http://www.aoir.org/ >> _______________________________________________ >> The Air-L at listserv.aoir.org mailing list >> is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org >> Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: >> http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org >> >> Join the Association of Internet Researchers: >> http://www.aoir.org/ >> > _______________________________________________ > The Air-L at listserv.aoir.org mailing list > is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org > Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org > > Join the Association of Internet Researchers: > http://www.aoir.org/ From jgroshek at bu.edu Fri Feb 21 10:57:11 2014 From: jgroshek at bu.edu (Jacob Groshek) Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2014 13:57:11 -0500 Subject: [Air-L] MA/PhD in Emerging Media Studies at Boston University Message-ID: Dear Colleagues, Please circulate to students that may have an interest in either our newly formed MA or PhD tracks, or both. More information can be found here http://www.bu.edu/com/academics/emerging-media/ and our MA course listings for fall 2014 onward are attached. Early applications are eligible for generous tuition scholarships and funding for teaching or research. I'm happy to answer any additional questions as well. Best, Jacob (Ps. Apologies for cross-posts) -- Dr. Jacob Groshek Assistant Professor of Emerging Media 704 Commonwealth Ave., Office 302D Boston University 617-353-6421 jgroshek.com From jackharris999 at gmail.com Fri Feb 21 11:09:55 2014 From: jackharris999 at gmail.com (Jack Harris) Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2014 14:09:55 -0500 Subject: [Air-L] MA/PhD in Emerging Media Studies at Boston University In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Bryant, you may want to look into this as a fallback since it appears to include good funding, One Year Masters in Emerging Media at Boston University. It includes design and applied as well as academic experience. It's a new program, a good program and I know the division director who recently left Rutgers and is an international and well-regarded expert in this field. On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 1:57 PM, Jacob Groshek wrote: > Dear Colleagues, > > Please circulate to students that may have an interest in either our newly > formed MA or PhD tracks, or both. > > More information can be found here > > http://www.bu.edu/com/academics/emerging-media/ > > and our MA course listings for fall 2014 onward are attached. Early > applications are eligible for generous tuition scholarships and funding for > teaching or research. > > I'm happy to answer any additional questions as well. > > Best, > > Jacob > > (Ps. Apologies for cross-posts) > > -- > Dr. Jacob Groshek > Assistant Professor of Emerging Media > 704 Commonwealth Ave., Office 302D > Boston University > 617-353-6421 > jgroshek.com > > _______________________________________________ > The Air-L at listserv.aoir.org mailing list > is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org > Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: > http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org > > Join the Association of Internet Researchers: > http://www.aoir.org/ > -- _____________________________ Jack Harris http://www.linkedin.com/in/jackharrisnyc/ http://rci-rutgers.academia.edu/JackLHarris SC&I Fellow, School of Communication and Information. Governor's Executive Fellow, Eagleton Institute of Politics Rutgers University, New Brunswick NJ 952-212-7287 jackharris999 at gmail.com www.pocketfarms.wordpress.com/ From fichman at indiana.edu Sat Feb 22 04:00:05 2014 From: fichman at indiana.edu (Fichman, Pnina) Date: Sat, 22 Feb 2014 12:00:05 +0000 Subject: [Air-L] AMCIS 2014 > Final CFP: Social Theory in Information Systems Research (STIR '14) Message-ID: <8E1650F8-F5DC-425B-B91B-2A3FDA1B714A@indiana.edu> [Apologies for cross-posting] Final Call For Papers: AMCIS Mini-track: Social Theory in Information Systems Research (STIR '14) 20th Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS): Smart Sustainability, the Information Systems opportunity, Savannah, GA, August 7-10, 2014 Conference Website: http://amcis2013.aisnet.org/ DESCRIPTION: This Mini Track solicits papers that make use of social theory in information systems research drawing upon such approaches as sociotechnical theory, critical theory, social informatics, organizational theory, cultural anthropology, sociology and others. We are interested in understanding and supporting the evolution of social theory, socio-technical theory, and social informatics in information systems research. We want to highlight research that uses these approaches to critically examine the constitution of information and communications technologies, and their roles in organizations and society; these are among the most important questions about IS, organizations, and society. We particularly invite IS research that applies, builds on, compares, or critiques these social theories. We are interested in high quality empirical and conceptual work that uses social theory to study and theorize about application domains including large-scale social and organizational phenomena. We seek to attract research papers and research-in-progress papers from all IS researchers who are using the work of social theorists, organizational theorists, sociotechnical theorists, and cultural anthropologists, symbolic interactionists, and many others. We are particularly interested in research that makes use of social theory 1) to address issues of designing a smart and sustainable digital future, 2) to answer questions about how we are interacting with ICTs in our work and social lives in ways that help and hinder the move towards sustainability, and 3) to critically examine the constitution of ICTs, and their roles in the design, maintenance and dissolution of sustainable organizations and social groups. This will be the 14th consecutive year for the Mini Track at AMCIS, and we hope to continue a tradition of high quality paper submissions, thought-provoking presentations and lively discussion for all IS researchers using, or considering the use of, social theory in their work. SUGGESTED TOPICS In addition to research aligned with the conference theme we are also interested in high quality empirical and conceptual work that uses social theory to study and understand: * The implications of social networks for organizations and social groups * Conceptual and empirical work focusing on the ways ICT can promote or hinder social inclusion * The significance of cyberinfrastructure for commerce, governing and research and development * The relationships between ICTs and people as they participate in online communities and virtual teams * Online communities of practice, their processes and outcomes * The dynamics of crowdsourcing online * Hacktivism and the use of technology to mobilize resources and advance ideology * Unintended consequences of technology implementation and use in organizations and in social life * Scientific collaboration and scholarly communication as enabled and constrained by ICTs * The impacts of social computing on our social and work lives Minitrack chairs: Howard Rosenbaum, School of Informatics and Computing, Indiana University hrosenba at indiana.edu Pnina Fichman, School of Informatics and Computing, Indiana University fichman at indiana.edu Submission Process: Instructions for authors and more information is available at: http://amcis2014.aisnet.org/index.php/call-for-papers Full paper submissions must be made electronically through the AMCIS on-line submission system. Papers can be submitted beginning on January 5, 2014. The link will be available at: http://aisel.aisnet.org/amcis2014_papers/ Submissions will close on March 1, 2014. ------------------------ Pnina Fichman Associate Professor, School of Informatics and Computing Director, Rob Kling Center for Social Informatics Affiliated Associate Professor, School of Global and International Studies 901 East 10th Street, Informatics West #301 Indiana University, Bloomington, 47408 Phone (812) 856-1587 E-Mail fichman at indiana.edu Web http://ella.slis.indiana.edu/~fichman/ _______________________________________________ From fichman at indiana.edu Sat Feb 22 04:04:35 2014 From: fichman at indiana.edu (Fichman, Pnina) Date: Sat, 22 Feb 2014 12:04:35 +0000 Subject: [Air-L] AMCIS 2014> Final CFP: Global and Cross Cultural Impacts of Big Data Message-ID: <26EA9DE4-8B71-4737-85C1-CEBB21FED6D2@indiana.edu> [Apologies for cross-posting] Final CALL FOR PAPERS: AMCIS Minitrack - Global and Cross Cultural Impacts of Big Data 20th Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS): Smart Sustainability, the Information Systems Opportunity, Savannah, GA, August 7-10, 2014 Conference Website: http://amcis2013.aisnet.org/ DESCRIPTION Manyika et al. (2011; 4) note ?big data has now reached every sector of the global economy. Like other essential factors of production ? much of modern economic activity simply couldn?t take place without it.? An emerging grand challenge involves gathering, organizing, curating, managing, analyzing, visualizing and disseminating these heterogeneous data over the lifecycle of the data for such purposes such as scientific discovery, medical advances, entrepreneurial activity and public policy formulation. People in the public and private sectors are taking note of this development as are academics, who are exploring ways of dealing with big data, defined by the National Science Foundation (2012) as: ?large, diverse, complex, longitudinal, and/or distributed data sets generated from instruments, sensors, Internet transactions, email, video, click streams, and/or all other digital sources available today and in the future. This minitrack solicits high quality conceptual and empirical work that focuses on the global impacts of big data on governments, multinational companies, NGOs and other organizations. Big data datasets and the technologies for analyzing them are developing faster than our understanding of the ways in which this phenomenon is impacting and will impact the ways work is done in a wide range of settings. As scholars and researchers begin to investigate the impacts of Big Data, this minitrack provides a venue for them to share their work. Appropriate topics for this minitrack include (but are not limited to) the following: ? Big data use in organizational, national and international settings ? How the introduction of big data affects organizational and group work flow ? Ways that big data is affecting organizational and group decision making ? Security and privacy impacts of big data use ? The intended and unintended consequences of big data ? The dark side of big data: surveillance, illicit activities, discriminatory analytics, and the end of privacy ? Big data as a social, political, economic, and/or cultural phenomenon Minitrack chairs: Pnina Fichman, School of Informatics and Computing, Indiana University fichman at indiana.edu Howard Rosenbaum, School of Informatics and Computing, Indiana University hrosenba at indiana.edu SUBMISSION PROCESS: Full paper submissions must be made electronically through the AMCIS on-line submission system no later than March 1, 2014. Manuscript Central will start accepting paper submissions on January 5, 2014 at: http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/amcis2014 Additional instructions for authors: http://amcis2014.aisnet.org/index.php/call-for-papers Important Dates: March 1, 2014: (11:59 PM EST): Deadline for paper submissions April 4 2014: Authors will be notified of acceptances on or about this date April 18, 2014: Authors revisions due April 25, 2014: (11:59 PM EST): For accepted papers, camera ready copy due ----------------------- Pnina Fichman, Ph.D. Director, Rob Kling Center for Social Informatics Associate Professor, School of Informatics and Computing Affiliated Associate Professor, School of Global and International Studies 901 E. 10th St. Informatics West #301 Indiana University, Bloomington IN 47408 Office: (812) 856-1587 Cell: (812) 322-0219 Web: http://ella.slis.indiana.edu/~fichman/ From jemcnealy at uky.edu Sat Feb 22 07:16:49 2014 From: jemcnealy at uky.edu (McNealy, Jasmine E) Date: Sat, 22 Feb 2014 15:16:49 +0000 Subject: [Air-L] New BS degree in Information Communication Technology Message-ID: {Apologies for cross posts.} Please circulate to any undergraduate students that may have an interest in our new program. The Bachelors of Science in Information Communication Technology (ICT) at the University of Kentucky focuses on the intersection of technology, people who use that technology, policies and regulations that govern the use of that technology and communities or environments in which that technology is used. It is the newest undergraduate degree program in the College of Communication and Information, the university?s official iSchool, part of a collection of Information Schools dedicated to advancing the information field. Housed in the School of Library and Information Science, ICT is an applied information technology degree program. The full press release can be found here: https://ci.uky.edu/lis/content/ict-program-debuts More program specifics can be found here: http://ict.uky.edu Thank you, Jasmine McNealy, J.D., Ph.D. Assistant Professor Information Communication Technology Program University of Kentucky 320 Little Library Building Lexington, KY 40506 (859) 218-2297 From dheider at luc.edu Sat Feb 22 09:14:47 2014 From: dheider at luc.edu (Heider, Donald) Date: Sat, 22 Feb 2014 17:14:47 +0000 Subject: [Air-L] Call for Papers - International Symposium on Digital Ethics Message-ID: <772e528ce29b4e6a83aeda7ce2a55f85@mbxls2.adms.luc.edu> Call for papers The Center for Digital Ethics & Policy at Loyola University Chicago (digitalethics.org) will be holding its 4th Annual International Symposium on Digital Ethics on Nov 7th, 2014. We are looking for papers on digital ethics. Topics might include privacy, anonymity, griefing, free speech, intellectual property, hacking, scamming, surveillance, information mining, transparency, digital citizenship, and/or the ethical use of digital technologies in journalism, advertising and public relations. Paper abstracts should propose original research and be between 500 and 1,000 words in length (not including references). Authors invited to present papers will be eligible for up to $400 in travel funds to be able to attend the Chicago symposium. The author(s) of the Top Student Paper will be eligible for up to $1,000 in travel funds. Abstracts are due by midnight CST on April 15th, 2014, should follow APA or MLA. Authors of top papers will have the opportunity to have their work published in Proceedings from the 4th Annual Symposium on Digital Ethics. Send your submission in a MS Word document attachment to contact at digitalethics.org, and please write Digital Ethics Symposium submission in the subject line. Please send questions to the same email address. From mariarosariataddeo at gmail.com Sun Feb 23 07:17:07 2014 From: mariarosariataddeo at gmail.com (Mariariosaria Taddeo) Date: Sun, 23 Feb 2014 15:17:07 +0000 Subject: [Air-L] The Annual Meeting of the International Association for Computing and Philosophy - Thessaloniki, Greece Message-ID: <72361FFD-135C-4C10-9220-81B1B9E6B29E@gmail.com> Call for Papers: IACAP 2014 The Annual Meeting of the International Association for Computing and Philosophy www.iacap.org Anatolia College/ACT Thessaloniki, Greece July 2-4. 2014 Conference Website UPDATES: The submission deadline for symposium proposals has been extended. The Covey and Simon Award winners have been selected. The Executive Committee is pleased to announce that the Covey Award has been awarded to Professor Selmer Bringsjord (Rensselaer Polytechnic) and the Simon Award has been awarded to Professor Gualterio Piccinini (Missouri- St. Louis). This year?s meeting of the International Association for Computing and Philosophy will be held at Anatolia College/ACT in Thessaloniki, Greece. Computing technologies both raise philosophical questions and elucidate traditional philosophical problems. IACAP meetings emphasise this two-way relationship, providing an opportunity for researchers in multiple fields to share new work in an interdisciplinary setting. We invite both abstract submissions and symposium proposals in areas at the intersection of computing and philosophy. This year?s meeting will have a single main track focusing on topics central to IACAP membership interests. Symposia will focus on more specific topics, organised autonomously by members or member groups. One symposium will be dedicated to the work of young researchers. Some abstracts will be accepted for presentation as posters. Paper presentations will be allotted 30 minutes, including discussion. Selected papers will be published in a volume of the ?Synthese Library? (Springer). Authors of accepted abstracts will be invited to submit a full paper for peer-review to this volume. IACAP is also soliciting nominations for a number of awards (see below). Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): ? Artificial Intelligence ? Artificial Life ? Cognitive Science, Computation & Cognition ? Computational Modeling in Science and Social Science ? Computer-Mediated Communication ? Distance Education and Electronic Pedagogy ? Ethical Problems and Societal Impact of Computation and Information ? History of Computing ? Information Culture and Society ? Logic ? Metaphysics of Computing ? Philosophy of Information ? Philosophy of Information Technology ? Robotics ? Virtual Reality ... and related issues Format For abstracts, we request anonymous submission of 600-1000 words (plus references) in plain text or PDF, plus a short abstract of up to 120 words. All submissions will be reviewed double-blind by at least two members of the programme committee. All submissions of paper abstracts - whether to the main track or to symposia - are made centrally on the same site and all reviewing takes place on that site. For symposia, please provide a brief motivation (ca. 300 words), a list of envisaged speakers, and indication of time needed (full day, half day, etc.). The submission procedure and reviewing for symposia will be taken care of by their organisers - but within the structure provided by IACAP and the submission system for this conference. Dates Submission of symposium proposals: 28 February 2014 Submission of abstracts: 1 March 2014 Notification of acceptance or rejection: 13 March for symposia, 31 March for papers. Submissions may be sent through Easychair. Further details can be found on the conference website . -- Dr. Mariarosaria Taddeo Research Fellow in Cyber Security and Ethics, PAIS, University of Warwick Research Associate - Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, University of Oxford President, International Association for Computing and Philosophy http://rosariataddeo.net From timothy.jordan at kcl.ac.uk Sun Feb 23 09:06:22 2014 From: timothy.jordan at kcl.ac.uk (Jordan, Timothy) Date: Sun, 23 Feb 2014 17:06:22 +0000 Subject: [Air-L] FW: Postdocs Ego-media ERC project In-Reply-To: <0c9a024b7c424392a3e55ecc28e13f94@AMSPR03MB550.eurprd03.prod.outlook.com> References: , <4a3fcd5b6f1e4e6ebb4f9bfc74771b92@AMXPR03MB229.eurprd03.prod.outlook.com> <0c9a024b7c424392a3e55ecc28e13f94@AMSPR03MB550.eurprd03.prod.outlook.com> Message-ID: Dear all, Two Post-Docs on ?Ego-media: The impact of new media on forms and practices of self-presentation?, a European Research Council grant led by Professor Max Saunders here at King's College London that I'm also part of. Cheers Tim Dr Tim Jordan, Senior Lecturer Department of Digital Humanities and Department of Culture, Media and Creative Industries, Creative Arts Administrative Centre, Room 5D, D Floor, Chesham Building, King's College London, Strand, London WC2R 2LS, England Phone: +44 (0)20 78481100 ? ? King?s College London is advertising two postdoctoral positions (of 3 years and 5 years) to work on a new collaborative research project in Life Writing and digital media funded by the European Research Council. It is called ?Ego-media: The impact of new media on forms and practices of self-presentation?, and is being led by Professor Max Saunders, the Director of the Arts and Humanities Research Institute. He will be joined by his Co-Director of the Centre for Life-Writing Research, Professor Clare Brant, and two other King?s academics: Alexandra Georgakopoulou, Professor of Discourse Analysis & Sociolinguistics om the Centre for Language, Discourse & Communication, and Professor Leone Ridsdale, from the Institute of Psychiatry. The project?s steering group also includes colleagues from Culture Media and Creative Industries, Digital Humanities, French, Medical Humanities, Medical Sociology, War Studies, and Education. ? It aims to study the impact of new media on autobiographical narratives: an impact increasing as habits and practices of self-presentation evolve rapidly in response to constantly fast-changing technology. It will consider the implications of these new forms and practices for such notions as autobiography, selfhood, subjectivity, individuality, self-intelligibility, agency, creativity, privacy, and sociability. ? The closing date for applications is the 11th March. For further details of how to apply please see: ? ? http://www.kcl.ac.uk/depsta/pertra/vacancy/external/pers_detail.php?jobindex=14266 ? http://www.kcl.ac.uk/depsta/pertra/vacancy/external/pers_detail.php?jobindex=14262 ? ? ? From kwfu at hku.hk Sun Feb 23 21:46:45 2014 From: kwfu at hku.hk (KW Fu) Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2014 13:46:45 +0800 Subject: [Air-L] PhD scholarships for China Media/Internet Research in the University of Hong Kong: Deadline: April 30, 2014 Message-ID: <04ab01cf3123$cdce27d0$696a7770$@hku.hk> Dear all, The Journalism and Media Studies Centre (JMSC) at The University of Hong Kong is inviting applications for the 2014-2015 PhD programme. Postgraduate scholarships are available for eligible candidates. Applicants should possess a good Bachelor's or Master's degree in the social sciences, China studies, engineering/information science, public health, legal studies or journalism/media/communication studies Good command of written and spoken English is essential, and knowledge of the Chinese language is an advantage. The scholarship programme offers HK$14,000 (US$1795) per month for the 2014-2015 academic year. For further details, please visit the HKU Graduate School website: http://www.gradsch.hku.hk/gradsch/web/ The JMSC is an academic unit that offers undergraduate and graduate degrees through the Faculty of Social Sciences. It provides excellent support and resources to China media researchers. Led by Qian Gang and Prof. Ying Chan, the China Media Project documents and analyzes the process of media reform and development in China. The JMSC's Weiboscope project deploys quantitative research methodology to conduct big-data research to collect and analyze Chinese social media. Deadline: April 30, 2014. Application to the HKU Graduate School. Website: http://www.gradsch.hku.hk/gradsch/web/. General enquiry: Jason Hui (email: tyhui at hku.hk); Research-related enquiry: Dr. King-wa Fu (email: kwfu at hku.hk) King-wa Fu, PhD Assistant Professor Journalism and Media Studies Centre The University of Hong Kong Room 206, Eliot Hall, Pokfulam Road, Hong Kong Tel: (852) 3917-1643 Fax: (852) 2858-8736 Website: https://sites.google.com/site/fukingwa/ From aherman at wlu.ca Mon Feb 24 04:16:45 2014 From: aherman at wlu.ca (Andrew Herman) Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2014 07:16:45 -0500 Subject: [Air-L] CFP: PRECONFERENCE WORKSHOP ON INTERNET CATS! Message-ID: <530AF1DE0200003F0007CB40@gwvia03.wlu.ca> AOIR Internet Cat Proposal for IR 15 Preconference Proposal Hi All I would like to put together a preconference workshop on thesubject of Internet Cats: LOL Cats and Icanhazcheezbuger; Internet Cat Videos and International Internet Cat Video Festivals; Internet Cat Memes and Gatonovelas; Internet Cat Ur-Demigods such as Keyboard Cat and contemporary luminaries suchas Lil Bub, and documentaries about them, and so on. Clearly, the myth that the ?Internetis Made of Cats? is widely held but nobody really knows why and, with theexception of Kate Miltner?s MA work at the LSE, there has been little sustainedanalytical consideration of Internet Cats. This is an aporia in Critical Internet Studies that must be addressed as soon as possible. If not now, when? The purpose of the workshop is to bring together scholarswho have interest in pursuing the theorization, conceptualization and empiricalanalysis one of Internet Cats the most important features of evolving Internetculture. Please let me know if you areinterested. All I need at this point is an expression of interest inparticipating, your institutional affiliation, and-if you have one- a title ofa brief presentation. PLEASE CONTACT ME BY FEBRuARY 28 at the latest. Andrew Herman Associate Professor Department of Communication Studies Wilfrid Laurier University Waterloo, ON N2L 3C5 From ierick at gmail.com Mon Feb 24 08:21:00 2014 From: ierick at gmail.com (Ingrid Erickson) Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2014 11:21:00 -0500 Subject: [Air-L] CFP: 2014 Digital Societies and Social Technologies (DSST) Summer Institute Message-ID: <530B716C.5090206@gmail.com> **Apologies for Duplication** Call for Participation: 2014 Digital Societies and Social Technologies (DSST) Summer Institute July 8 ? July 10, 2014 (arrival July 7; departure July 11 for 3 full days) University of Missouri ? Columbia, Columbia, MO http://www.sociotech.net/v2/dsst2014 MOOCs, Education and learning; personal health and well-being; open innovation, eScience, and citizen science; co-production, open source, and new forms of work; cultural heritage and information access; energy management and climate change; civic hacking, engagement and government; disaster response; cybersecurity and privacy ? these are just a few problem domains where effective design and robust understanding of complex sociotechnical systems is critical. To meet these challenges a trans-disciplinary community of scholars has come together from fields as wide ranging as CSCW, HCI, social computing, organization studies, information visualization, social informatics, sociology, information systems, medical informatics, computer science, ICT for development, education, learning science, journalism, and political science. Through summer institutes (CSST), extended workshops (Social Webshop), preconference workshops at a wide variety of venues, and other activities (Digital Societies and Technology Research Coordination Network) this community of researchers from academia and industry has developed a strong focus on problems and opportunities arising from the interplay of social and technological systems which span individuals, groups, organizations, and societies. The 2014 Summer Institute builds on this tradition to strengthen and expand this diverse community by bringing together graduate students, post doctoral students, faculty, and other researchers in four groups at the University of Missouri ? Columbia on July 8 ? 10, 2014: Doctoral students, post doctoral students, pre-tenure faculty, and early career researchers ? Through mentoring, peer networking, and skill-building tutorials, doctoral students, post doctoral students, pre-tenure faculty, and early career researchers will identify substantive ways that the theories, approaches, and tools within the larger community can advance their work with the design and study of sociotechnical systems. Established researchers ? Prior summer institute/workshop participants and established researchers will network with other researchers (senior and junior), explore ideas and new directions, shape emerging research agendas, articulate critical challenges, and share knowledge about practices, tools, and approaches which have the potential to advance the design and study of sociotechnical systems. Emerging multi-disciplinary research teams ? Nascent groups of researchers seeking to develop cross-disciplinary collaborations will work with peers and mentors to refine problem statements and research goals; connect with collaborators with complementary skills and interests; and create actionable research agendas and funding proposals. Preference will be given to groups interested in designing and studying sociotechnical systems that address societal grand challenges such as (but not limited to) healthcare; energy management and climate change; cybersecurity and privacy; education and learning; disaster response; technology development and innovation; economic development and work; and civic engagement and participation. Research infrastructure development teams ? Groups of researchers interested in creating computational or analytic tools, data resources, training materials or other infrastructure to support the design and study of sociotechnical systems will work with one another, other Summer institute participants, and local developers. These infrastructure ?hackathon? sessions will result in the creation of use cases, prototypes, draft materials, and when possible deployable systems and resources. Applying for DSST 2014 Applications are encouraged from all academic, industry, NGO, and public sector organizations worldwide. To apply for the 2013 Summer Institute, select the group that best fits your needs and situation and send the appropriate materials to the Summer Institute co-coordinator (Sean Goggins) at gogginss at missouri.edu by March 20, 2014: Doctoral students, post doctoral students, pre-tenure faculty, and early career researchers should send their CV and a short (~ 1 page) response to: ?How does/will your work advance our ability to design and understand critical sociotechnical systems?? Several core references should be included to situate your work within the larger research community. Doctoral students should also provide a letter of recommendation from their advisor/department chair indicating their expected graduation date. Established researchers should send their CV and a short (~ 1 page) response to: ?What are the most interesting challenges and opportunities related to the design and study of critical sociotechnical systems? What activity (30 minutes to 4 hours long) could you run that would help the Summer Institute participants better engage these challenges and opportunities?? Proposed activities can be for any (or all) Summer Institute participants and might include, but are not limited to: focused presentations; brainstorming sessions; in-depth problem descriptions; method, tool, or data tutorials; or research agenda setting exercises. Emerging multi-disciplinary research teams should apply as a group, sending their CVs and a short (~ 1 page) response to: ?What is the research focus/problem domain? What types of activities/studies are needed to engage that domain? How will pursuing this agenda help advance our ability to design and understand critical sociotechnical systems?? References potential funding sources can be included, if known, to situate the proposal within the larger research community. Groups invited to the Summer Institute will have between 4-6 people. However, only 3 individuals need to be part of an application for it to be considered (assistance will be provided prior to the Summer Institute to help invited teams recruit additional participants as needed). Preference will be given to cross-institutional teams in which junior/mid-career researchers play significant leadership roles. Research infrastructure development teams should apply as a group, sending their CVs and a short (~ 1 page) response to: ?What is the problem you are seeking to address? What will you do to address that problem? How will creating these technologies, tools, materials or infrastructure improve our ability to design and understand critical sociotechnical systems?? References to examples from other domains can be included to situate your proposal. Teams invited for the Summer Institute will have between 4-6 people from multiple disciplines and institutions. However, only 3 individuals need to be part of an application to be considered (assistance will be provided prior to the Summer Institute to help invited teams recruit additional participants as needed). Lodging, meals, and other onsite costs will be covered for all Summer Institute participants. Limited travel support is available, if needed, for participants from US and Canadian institutions (with preference given to doctoral and post-doctoral students). Travel support may also be available for other Summer Institute participants. To be considered for all available financial support you should provide the following information when you apply: What college or university do you attend? What is your primary department affiliation? If you are applying from a Canadian university, are you a member of the GRAND network? Materials should be sent to Summer Institute co-coordinator (Sean Goggins) at gogginss at missouri.edu by March 20th, 2014. Applications will be reviewed by the Summer Institute Advisory Group beginning March 30th, 2013 using the following criteria: -Clear articulation of the hoped-for contribution to the theory, practice, or design of sociotechnical systems -Likelihood of Summer Institute participation providing significant practical benefit for the individual/team -Contribution to a balanced and diverse group of participants The number of participants selected will depend on the available funding and the fit between applicants? interests and goals. For more information about the Summer Institute, contact the Summer Institute co-coordinators, Sean Goggins (gogginss at missouri.edu) and Diane Bailey (debailey at ischool.utexas.edu). For information about the broader community of researchers interested in design and study of sociotechnical systems, see: CSST (www.sociotech.net), the ?Researchers of the Socio-Technical? Facebook group, or the CSST listserv (csst at listserv.syr.edu). 2014 Mentors Mark Ackerman, University of Michigan Diane Bailey, University of Texas (Co-Director) Paul Dourish, University of California ? Irvine Nicole Ellison, University of Michigan Sean Goggins, University of Missouri (Co-Director) Erik Johnston, Arizona State University Tony Salvador, Intel Jennifer Stromer-Galley, Syracuse Susan Stuckey, IBM Steve Sawyer, Syracuse (Digital Societies RCN) Wayne Lutters, UMBC (Digital Societies RCN) Brian Butler, Maryland (Digital Societies RCN) Andrea Hoplight-Tapia, The Pennsylvania State University (Digital Societies RCN) From jstromer at syr.edu Mon Feb 24 13:22:26 2014 From: jstromer at syr.edu (Jennifer Stromer-Galley) Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2014 21:22:26 +0000 Subject: [Air-L] Still time to provide feedback on the AoIR Website Message-ID: Hi everyone! Last week I posted a note inviting feedback on the AoIR website. A sub-committee of the AoIR Executive Board is working to revamp the Association's website (www.aoir.org). We still want to get your thoughts on the website, whether you've visited it or not. Take a few minutes now to take the survey: https://syracuseuniversity.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_1UhJqsqjSB9Jm5f. Let us know how we can better serve you! Your PR/Website Committee: Anthony Hoffman, Annette Markham, and Jenny Stromer-Galley Associate Professor | School of Information Studies Vice President | Association of Internet Researchers Syracuse University 220 Hinds Hall Syracuse, New York 13244 t 315.443.1823 f 315.443.5673 e jstromer at syr.edu w www.stromer-galley.com w www.aoir.org ischool.syr.edu From je.burgess at qut.edu.au Mon Feb 24 18:28:19 2014 From: je.burgess at qut.edu.au (Jean Burgess) Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2014 02:28:19 +0000 Subject: [Air-L] ICA Regional Conference (Brisbane, 2014) Update Message-ID: <5D8D232B-E847-4368-A645-6B190527AD20@qut.edu.au> The ICA Regional Conference (Brisbane, 2014) Call for Extended Abstracts and Panel Proposals Digital Transformations, Social Media Engagement, and the Asian Century Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia, 1-3 October 2014 The ICA Regional Conference will be held at the City (Gardens Point) Campus of the Queensland University of Technology (QUT), Brisbane, Australia, from 1-3 October 2014. The event is supported by the Creative Industries Faculty at QUT, the QUT Business School, the International Communications Association (ICA), and the Australian and New Zealand Communication Association (ANZCA). The conference will be seeking extended abstracts (1000-2000 words) and panel proposals related to the thematic areas of: ? Digital media and social change; ? Information media and digital journalism; ? Entertainment media and culture; ? Convergence law, policy and political economy; ? Asian media in transition; ? Communication and public engagement; ? Organizational communication; ? Social media and communications practice; ? Science and environmental communication ? Health communication; ? Digital media and education; ? Crisis and emergency communication; ? Digital media and political communication. Extended Abstracts Extended abstracts should indicate author details and institutional affiliation on the front page. They should be not less than 1000 words in length and not more than 2000 words in length. References cited in the extended abstract should be included in a bibliography. Note: there will not be a call for refereed papers. Submissions will be accepted or rejected on the basis of the extended abstract only. If this will present you with any issues in relation to conference support from your institution, please contact the conference organizers. The conference organizers reserve the right to publish the extended abstract in a book available to all conference delegates. This does not preclude submission of the material to any refereed academic journal, book, book chapter or other publication. Panel proposals Panel proposals must provide a rationale for the panel of not more than 400 words, and each proposed presenter must also provide an abstract of 100-250 words. There are to be no less than three and more than four presenters in any panel proposal, although a Panel Chair and Panel Respondent can also be included. All submissions to the Conference will be subject to peer review, and submitters will be advised of whether their proposal has been accepted or rejected no later than 21 June 2014. All of those who have papers and panel proposals accepted will be required to register for the Conference no later than 12 September 2014. Failure to register by this date will lead to papers being withdrawn from the program. All submissions are to be through the Conference web site at http://icabrisbane2014.com/. Emailed attachments will not be accepted. Registration Fees FACULTY ($ AUD) Early Bird Registration (on or before 22 August 2014 AEST) $300.00 Standard Registration (from 23 August until 12 September 2014 AEST) $350.00 Late Registration (from 13 September until 26 September 2014 AEST) $400.00 STUDENT Early Bird Registration (on or before 22 August 2014 AEST) $150.00 Standard Registration (from 23 August until 12 September 2014 AEST) $175.00 Late Registration (from 13 September until 26 September 2014 AEST) $200.00 Further information on the conference can be found in the attached flyer or visit the website atwww.icabrisbane2014.com . You can also email icabrisbane2014 at qut.edu.au for any queries related to the conference. From david.sutcliffe at oii.ox.ac.uk Tue Feb 25 02:59:20 2014 From: david.sutcliffe at oii.ox.ac.uk (David Sutcliffe) Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2014 10:59:20 +0000 Subject: [Air-L] Call for P&I Journal Special Issues + IPP2014 Crowdsourcing Conference Call Message-ID: <009CA1130984AE42944344901B6512532FC35B28@MBX07.ad.oak.ox.ac.uk> Dear all, The journal Policy and Internet is calling for special issue proposals. Policy and Internet Calls for Special Issues: http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/news/?id=1057 The journal is multidisciplinary: perspectives from any academic discipline are welcomed, particularly political science, economics, law, sociology, information science, communications, philosophy, computer science, psychology, management, geography and medicine. Possible topics for a special issue might include (for example): > Collective action / public participation in policy-making > Privacy / surveillance / the coercive state > Big Data / predictive analytics for public policy > Open data / open government > Internet governance > Crime / law enforcement > Health > Online labour markets The journal was established in 2009 as the first major peer-reviewed journal investigating the implications of the Internet and associated technologies for public policy. It is published quarterly by Wiley-Blackwell, and edited by the Oxford Internet Institute (University of Oxford) for the Policy Studies Organization (PSO). The Editors are Professor Helen Margetts, Professor Luciano Floridi, Dr Vili Lehdonvirta, and Dr Sandra Gonzalez-Bailon. Proposals should be send to the editors at: policyandinternet at oii.ox.ac.uk by 1 April 2014 *** Conference Call Reminder: Crowdsourcing for Politics and Policy *** And also, a reminder that the journal will be holding its third conference (co-convened by the OII, in collaboration with the ECPR) on 25-26 September in Oxford, on the subject of crowdsourcing. We are currently calling for abstracts. 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 Thank you! Best wishes, David Sutcliffe (Managing Editor) *** David Sutcliffe Managing Editor Oxford Internet Institute University of Oxford http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/ Tel: +44 (0)1865 612334 Managing Editor Policy and Internet Journal http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1002/(ISSN)1944-2866 http://blogs.oii.ox.ac.uk/policy/ From zara.dinnen at gmail.com Tue Feb 25 05:26:05 2014 From: zara.dinnen at gmail.com (Zara Dinnen) Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2014 13:26:05 +0000 Subject: [Air-L] Researching Contemporary Culture summer workshops 2014 (London) Message-ID: AOIR-ers, *with apologies for cross posting The following series of workshops may be of interest: Researching Contemporary Culture is a series of summer workshops for postgraduate and early career researchers. It takes place from the 14th to 16th July 2014 at the Institute of English Studies, Senate House London. Researching Contemporary Culture aims to help researchers in the field address an array of issues that currently define the study of contemporary culture by offering workshops and presentations on: developing the impact of research through exhibition, curation, and the championing of particular artists'/directors'/authors' work; producing research for open access publications; balancing public engagement and research needs; using online participatory culture as a research tool; conducting sustainable research with ephemeral data. The event will bring together specialist workshop leaders, speakers, and librarians to address these challenges through a research skills development programme of participatory workshops and advice and guidance. Researching Contemporary Culture has evolved out of the work of the Contemporary Fiction Seminar at the Institute of English Studies, and will offer a sustainable research skills enrichment programme appropriate for the study of contemporary culture in the arts and humanities disciplines of the twenty-first century. Speakers include: Caroline Bassett, Clare Birchall, Kieran Connell, Jeremy Gilbert, Gary Hall, Matt Hills, Roger Luckhurst, Holly Pester, Ernesto Priego, Agnes Woolley. The three workshop themes are: Public Practices, Archiving Now, and Interpretive Communities. Researching Contemporary Culture is supported by an AHRC Collaborative Skills Award; with additional support from the University of Birmingham, Birkbeck, University of London, and the Institute of English Studies, University of London; it is organised by Dr Zara Dinnen (University of Birmingham) and Dr Tony Venezia (Birkbeck, University of London), conveners of the Contemporary Fiction Seminar. Further information and details of how to apply are available at the website: researchingthecontemporary.net. Please email contemporaryfictionseminar at gmail.com with any queries. -- Dr Zara Dinnen Lecturer in Modern and Contemporary Literature School of English, Drama and American and Canadian Studies University of Birmingham + 44 (0) 121 414 5657 From pbooth81 at gmail.com Tue Feb 25 06:07:17 2014 From: pbooth81 at gmail.com (Paul Booth) Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2014 08:07:17 -0600 Subject: [Air-L] Reminder (01 Mar Deadline) Joss Whedon: A Celebration Message-ID: Call for Papers and Topic Proposals: Joss Whedon: A Celebration (Apologies for cross-posting) Now accepting submissions and ideas for the second annual Pop Culture Colloquium at DePaul University in Chicago! The Media and Cinema Studies program at DePaul University is hosting a one-day celebratory colloquium in honor of the work of Joss Whedon on Saturday, May 03, from 9-6. This event will feature roundtable discussions from scholars and fans of Whedon, speaking about the cultural impact of his work, as well as analyzing aspects of his television shows and films. The even will also feature special guests, screenings, screenwriting workshops, and (perhaps) a sing-a-long or two... The audience for this event is both graduate and undergraduate students, both fans and scholars, and the focus should be on informed and enlightening discussion rather than formal academic papers. "Joss Whedon: A Celebration" will take place on DePaul's Loop campus. If you're interested in speaking on a round table, please send a 200 word abstract of your topic and a CV or resume to Paul Booth (pbooth at depaul.edu) by Mar 01. Also please email with any questions. We hope that you will be able to join in the discussion and celebration! -- Paul Booth, PhD Assistant Professor of Media and Cinema Studies/Communication Technology College of Communication DePaul University 14 E. Jackson Chicago, IL 60604 From tsenft at gmail.com Tue Feb 25 12:13:42 2014 From: tsenft at gmail.com (Terri Senft) Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2014 15:13:42 -0500 Subject: [Air-L] Conference proposals: Word counts on roundtable and fishbowl submissions? Message-ID: Hi All, I putting this out to the list, because I'm assuming others will have the same question soon: I'm currently drafting both a roundtable and a fishbowl submission for Bangkok, and cannot find any information regarding appropriate word counts for these formats. 've looked at all the guidelines, twice. There are max counts for papers, panels, pre-conference workshops, and ignite talks, but nothing for roundtables or fishbowls. I did try to suss this out myself, fwiw. I registered on the automated conference submission system, and when I tried to copy what I'd written into submission box, I gt a note that my submission is "too many words." Unfortunately, I received nothing that told me what the word limit is, or how many words I am over-limit... Can someone help me out, here? Thanks! Terri -- Dr. Theresa M. Senft Global Liberal Studies Program School of Arts & Sciences New York University 726 Broadway NY NY 10003 home: *www.terrisenft.net * (needs a serious updating) facebook: www.facebook.com/theresa.senft twitter: @terrisenft From tsenft at gmail.com Tue Feb 25 12:13:42 2014 From: tsenft at gmail.com (Terri Senft) Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2014 15:13:42 -0500 Subject: [Air-L] Conference proposals: Word counts on roundtable and fishbowl submissions? Message-ID: Hi All, I putting this out to the list, because I'm assuming others will have the same question soon: I'm currently drafting both a roundtable and a fishbowl submission for Bangkok, and cannot find any information regarding appropriate word counts for these formats. 've looked at all the guidelines, twice. There are max counts for papers, panels, pre-conference workshops, and ignite talks, but nothing for roundtables or fishbowls. I did try to suss this out myself, fwiw. I registered on the automated conference submission system, and when I tried to copy what I'd written into submission box, I gt a note that my submission is "too many words." Unfortunately, I received nothing that told me what the word limit is, or how many words I am over-limit... Can someone help me out, here? Thanks! Terri -- Dr. Theresa M. Senft Global Liberal Studies Program School of Arts & Sciences New York University 726 Broadway NY NY 10003 home: *www.terrisenft.net * (needs a serious updating) facebook: www.facebook.com/theresa.senft twitter: @terrisenft From zimmerm at uwm.edu Tue Feb 25 12:32:49 2014 From: zimmerm at uwm.edu (Michael Zimmer) Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2014 14:32:49 -0600 Subject: [Air-L] PhD Workshop on Internet Research and Ethics (March 20-21, Aalborg, DK) Message-ID: <9B6A6FFD-C5E5-4DA9-9654-3F749E140EEE@uwm.edu> Colleagues: I wanted to share this upcoming PhD student workshop on "Internet Research and Ethics", held March 20-21 at Aalborg University. Details below. -Michael March 20-21: Internet Research and Ethics http://www.hcci.hum.aau.dk/index.php?id=9041&tx_ttnews[tt_news]=365&cHash=78c59d117dc13406b40ab6c698b3e3ae Organisers: Michael Zimmer, Tia Hansen, Thomas Ryberg, Ann Bygholm Registration to hannepc at hum.aau.dk Room: 1.40, Nyhavnsgade 14, 9000 Aalborg Aim of the workshop: The aim of this workshop is to explore research ethics in general and with a particular focus on Internet Research Ethics and the dilemmas emerging with new grounds for research and data collection. The workshop will start with introductions to the history and principles of research ethics in general and a focus on non-biomedical areas of research and Human Research Ethic Boards (Tia Hansen, Ann Bygholm). Furthermore, there will be introductions on how to use pilot studies to improve ethics as well as results. The workshop will thus introduce to the work being conducted as part of the doctoral school's Human Research Ethics Board. Following this the workshop will focus on Internet Research Ethics and the core issues related to internet studies (e.g. data collection and archiving) (Michael Zimmer). Furthermore, we shall explore particular research projects as cases where various research ethical dilemmas and problems emerge. Format: The workshop will be highly interactive and include a mixture of presentations, group work, case-exploration, discussion and PhD students? presentations of own research projects. We therefore ask each student to hand in a short (1-2 pages) description of: ? Presentation of their research project (case, context, aim) ? Statement of dilemmas, problems or ethical considerations in relation tothe research project These presentations should be handed in on Friday March 14 at the latest. The presentations will be collected and made available to all participants. Preliminary programme (timing to be finally confirmed): Day 1 ? March 20: 8.15 - 9.00 Welcome and introduction 9.00-12.00 Research ethics basics and tools by Tia Hansen and Ann Bygholm - lectures interspersed with ?exercises?/discussions in pairs. Themes: ? History and principles of research ethics in general ? Non-biomedical areas and Review Boards in particular ? Don?t launch without a pilot! How to use pilot studies to improve ethics as well as results 12-13 Lunch break 13.00-17.00: Core issues and approaches in Internet Research Ethics- Michael Zimmer ? presentations and discussions Day 2 ? March 21: 8.15 - 10.00 Internet ethics - exploring cases: "Tastes, Ties and Time" and ?The Blackberry Project? 10.15 ? 12.00: PhD Students presenting cases and working in smaller discussion groups with organizers as discussants 12.00 - 13.00 Lunch break 13.00 - 14.30: Continuing work in pairs or smaller groups - preparing for a short summary of the discussions/main issues 14.30 - 16.00: Roundtable finale: ? Students present main results of revisiting their projects (lists of to do and leftover problems?) ? Plenum discussion of cases/dilemmas ? Evaluation, and take-home messages Readings: Research Ethics and Basic tools: Alderson, P., & Morrow, V. (2006). Multidisciplinary research ethics review: is it feasible? International Journal of Social Research Methodology, 9(5), 405-417, doi: 10.1080/13645570500435207 Cozby, P. C. (2003). Ethical research. Chapter 3 in Methods in behavioral research (pp. 34-60). Boston: McGraw-Hill. Core issues and approaches in Internet Research Ethics: Buchanan, E., & Zimmer, M. (2012). Internet Research Ethics. The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Retrieved from plato.stanford.edu/entries/ethics-internet-research/ Markham, A. & Buchanan, E. (2012). Ethical Decision-Making and Internet Research Recommendations from the AoIR Ethics Working Committee (Version 2.0). Retrieved fromaoir.org/documents/ethics-guide/ Secretary's Advisory Committee on Human Research Protections (SACHRP). (2012). Considerations and Recommendations Concerning Internet Research and Human Subjects Research Regulations. Retrieved fromhttp://www.hhs.gov/ohrp/sachrp/mtgings/2013%20March%20Mtg/internet_research.pdf Internet ethics - exploring cases: Zimmer, M. (2010). ?But the data is already public?: On the ethics of research in Facebook. Ethics and Information Technology, 12(4), 313?325. (http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10676-010-9227-5) Parry, M. (2011). Harvard Researchers Accused of Breaching Students? Privacy. The Chronicle of Higher Education. Retrieved from chronicle.com/article/Harvards-Privacy-Meltdown/128166/ Underwood, M. K., Rosen, L. H., More, D., Ehrenreich, S. E., & Gentsch, J. K. (2012). The BlackBerry project: Capturing the content of adolescents? text messaging. Developmental Psychology, 48(2), 295?302. Hill, K. (2012). A Texas University?s Mind-Boggling Database Of Teens? Daily Text Messages, Emails, and IMs Over Four Years. Forbes.com. Retrieved fromwww.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2012/04/18/a-texas-universitys-mind-boggling-database-of-teens-daily-text-messages-emails-and-ims-over-four-years/ Practical: ECTS: 2 Points for attending and for preparation (including handing in 1-2 page description of research project and ethical dilemmas ? see above). For more information about Michael Zimmer: ? http://www4.uwm.edu/sois/people/profiles/zimmerm.cfm ? http://www.michaelzimmer.org/about/bio/ For more information about Tia Hansen ? http://vbn.aau.dk/en/persons/tia-g-b-hansen(ddcf2848-2f9e-4f0a-a87c-bc7b12ac95f3).html Number of participants: max 15 Registration to: hannepc at hum.aau.dk no later than March 12 Location: Aalborg University, Aalborg, room not yet confirmed -- Michael Zimmer, PhD Assistant Professor, School of Information Studies Director, Center for Information Policy Research University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee e: zimmerm at uwm.edu w: www.michaelzimmer.org From erika.pearson at otago.ac.nz Tue Feb 25 13:05:26 2014 From: erika.pearson at otago.ac.nz (Erika Pearson) Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2014 21:05:26 +0000 Subject: [Air-L] reminder: CfP for IR15 closing March 1 Message-ID: Dear colleagues Just a quick reminder that the deadline for submissions for IR15: Boundaries and Intersections is coming up on March 1st. There will be no general extensions past this date, so please make sure you get your submissions in on time. Information about the types of submissions (including the inaugural "Prize For The Weird"!) is online at ir15.aoir.org. Also, to clarify, abstracts for roundtable, fishbowl and experimental sessions should be approximately 250-300 words, and no additional uploaded document is required. If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me at ir15programchair at aoir.org We look forward to your submissions and seeing you in Bangkok in October! best wishes erika pearson program chair, IR15 ir15.aoir.org From judith.simon at univie.ac.at Wed Feb 26 06:40:25 2014 From: judith.simon at univie.ac.at (Judith Simon) Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2014 15:40:25 +0100 Subject: [Air-L] CfA: PhD Summer School, San Sebastian, Spain (28.07. - 01.08.2014) Message-ID: <530DFCD9.4060403@univie.ac.at> The Post-Graduate Program in Philosophy, Science and Values (University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU, and National Autonomous University of Mexico, UNAM) and the Institute for Technology Assessment and Systems Analysis (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology) invite PhD students to apply for the interdisciplinary and international Summer School: *The Regulative Capacity of Knowledge Objects: Opening the Black Box of Knowledge Governance* Think of Climate Change, Wikileaks, nanotechnology, Responsible Innovation, neural implants, Linux, GMOs or the German Energy Transition. But when we think about it, do they actually exist? And if they do what should they be like in the future? What exactly are they? Are they symbols, technical artifacts, discourses, constellations of actors, scientific disputes? Are they political issues, societal problems, human-nonhuman-hybrids, modifiers of existence, problems for governance and regulation? In a way, they are all of these things and less -- and probably more. They are what this Summer School refers to as "knowledge objects". These objects are peculiar, blurry, constantly unfolding and transforming entities that increasingly challenge contemporary societies and sciences and our understanding of knowledge. The knowledge in knowledge objects is always plural: scientific, public, mundane, interdisciplinary, speculative, uncertain. It is heterogeneously produced about, with, through or in them and contributes to their identification, contestation and transformation. Yet, knowledge objects are also enablers of such knowledge productions and the societal controversies that go along with them. This intricate entanglement of knowledge objects and society poses various normative and regulative questions -- which are part of these objects and due to them the problems societies face. This entanglement could be viewed as a fundamental challenge for knowledge governance. To address these complex challenges to societies and sciences, the Summer School aims to bring together two strands of science and technology studies (STS) which so far haven't combined: the focus on "knowledge objects" and the perspective of "knowledge governance". The starting point of this summer school is the assumption that knowledge objects are subject and object of knowledge governance. They create the need for and they enable various forms of knowledge governance. In a way, this synchrony is a black box of knowledge governance. The Summer School proposes that this "governance black box" can be opened by focusing on an extended concept of knowledge objects and by analyzing their governance dimensions. *Keynotes by:* *David Guston*, PhD, Professor of Political Science, Arizona State University, US *Graham Harman*, PhD, Professor of Philosophy, American University, Cairo, Egypt *Karin Knorr-Cetina*, PhD, Professor emeritus of Sociology, University of Constance, Germany, and George *Wells Beadle* Distinguished Service Professor, University of Chicago, US *Noortje Marres*, PhD, Senior Lecturer, Goldsmiths University of London, UK Applications are due by 28th March 2014. *Find out all the details at: http://www.itas.kit.edu/english/events_2014_summerschool.php * -- Judith Simon Department of Philosophy - University of Vienna (PI: Epistemic Trust in Socio-Technical Epistemic Systems ) ITAS - Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (Senior Researcher) Institut Jean Nicod - Ecole normale sup?rieure - Paris (Associate Post-doctoral fellow) From amarkham at gmail.com Wed Feb 26 07:38:28 2014 From: amarkham at gmail.com (Annette Markham) Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2014 16:38:28 +0100 Subject: [Air-L] Join the MA Program in Digital Living, Aarhus University Fall 2014 Message-ID: Dear Colleagues, Thanks in advance for distributing this information to those who might be interested in attending our new MA program in "Digital Living" at Aarhus University, as part of the Department of Aesthetics & Communication within the Faculty of Arts. ********** Are you interested in how digital technologies are used in everyday life? Do you care how technologies impact social and work life? Would you like to learn how to design better futures by exploring the intersection of networked sociality, organizational practices, and IT design? If so, you might be interested in a new international master's degree program at Aarhus University: "Digital Living: Work and Social Life in an Era of Smart Machines and Social Media." Curriculum taught in English. Learn more here: http://arts.au.dk/digitalliving This MA focuses on how digital technologies are used in everyday life and offers students the opportunity to consider how we might design better futures by exploring the intersection of networked sociality, organizational practices, and IT design. Discuss cutting edge knowledge about the social impact of digital technologies with internationally established professors. Learn from computer scientists how digital forms of communication and interaction are designed and programmed. Work with professors from information and media studies to build a strong grounding in the political, social, and economic structures of 21st Century organizations and institutions. In addition to theoretically-grounded classroom discussions, students design and build interfaces, engage in empirical studies of digital contexts, and explore how new eBusiness models work. This well-rounded master's program provides solid grounding for analyzing contemporary social media practices and developing sustainable and ethical digital futures. Digital living is an interdisciplinary Master Program within Information Studies at Aarhus University. Curriculum taught in English. Application deadline: March 15 (April 1 for Danish residents)* Notification of Acceptance: early May 2014 Start Date: 1 September 2014 Need more information? Feel free to contact: Associate Professor Annette Markham: amarkham at dac.au.dk Associate Professor Claus Bossen: imvcb at dac.au.dk *exceptions to the deadline may be granted, depending on circumstances. Please inquire if this might apply to you. Best Regards, Annette ***************************************************** Annette N. Markham, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Dept of Aesthetics & Communication, Aarhus University Guest Professor, Dept of Informatics, Ume? University, Sweden Affiliate Professor, School of Communication, Loyola University, Chicago amarkham at gmail.com http://markham.internetinquiry.org/ Twitter: annettemarkham From qcentral at indiana.edu Wed Feb 26 07:49:37 2014 From: qcentral at indiana.edu (Mary L. Gray) Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2014 10:49:37 -0500 Subject: [Air-L] Queer Internet Studies Workshop April 4 - NYC References: <6732C52F455BE3469977ADE67D43E2511BBB764F@TK5EX14MBXC293.redmond.corp.microsoft.com> Message-ID: <575F2A14-2AB9-4CBC-ABEB-7D09EF3FCCEC@indiana.edu> Hey all, I'm passing along the CFP for an AMAZING workshop!! Hope you can make it!! best, mary Mary L. Gray Associate Professor Communication and Culture Adjunct Faculty, American Studies; Anthropology; Gender Studies Indiana University, Bloomington Senior Researcher Microsoft Research --------- Hi all, See below for details on a Queer Internet Studies workshop I'm organizing with Jack Gieseking. It's a one-day workshop to be held at the Columbia School of Journalism with support from the Brown Institute for Media Innovation and Just Publics 365. Space is limited and we're taking people on a first-come, first-serve basis. Hope you can make it! All apologies for cross-posting, Jessa ** Queer Internet Studies: A One-Day Workshop The increasing visibility of lgbtq lives and issues in mainstream media has been fraught with criticism of how such lives and issues are depicted and to whose benefit or detriment. Building from the critical work underlying these objections, we ask: what are concurrent technological developments, namely in ever emergent digital media? Online technologies have provided a means of storytelling, visualization, community building, and educational resources that have important implications for what it means to be queer. Internet scholarship crosses a number of disciplinary boundaries, converging on questions of how digital technologies are reshaping issues of identity, community and interpersonal relationships. Queer theory has been similarly multi-faceted in drawing together a diverse set of scholars interested in sexuality, gender and structures of power. In conjoining these areas of investigation, the main objective of the QIS workshop is to generate conversations that cross disciplines and backgrounds, anchored in questions of how online technologies shape and are appropriated by queer identities. The Queer Internet Studies brings together thinkers, makers and doers in a workshop format who draw upon social scientific methods to do work at the intersection of queer life and the internet. Taking Samuel Delany's (2001) call for lgbtq contact and networking to heart, we seek to bring together researchers who investigate the construction of queer communities, the development of queer knowledge production and cultures, and assess how queer identity is understood and archived. This workshop is geared towards fostering scholarly, activist, and journalistic opportunities for digital technologies and queer storytelling and visualization. We look to identify existing projects as well as suggest future collaborations of writers, scholars, and technologists interested in possibilities for supporting the development of the queer internet and queering the internet. Format: The workshop is structured around generating conversations and connections between people working on similar topics from different backgrounds. More interactive sessions will take place in the morning with lightning round introductions and large group conversations. Structured afternoon sessions will allow for conversations between invited speakers, followed by open working group time for collaboration and conversation. The day will conclude with a social hour geared towards connecting participants who share ideas for projects and collaborations. Additional details: The workshop will be held at Columbia University's School of Journalism on April 4, 2014. Here's a website with more information: http://www.jgieseking.org/qis2014/ If you'd like to attend, please fill out the following form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1DgWcsK_DuPQfIaFAXrKj80yCl5B3FRzCyfDtIViOtno/viewform For questions and more information, email jlingel at microsoft.com or jgieseki at bowdoin.edu. Thanks! Jack & Jessa From ptcox at camden.rutgers.edu Wed Feb 26 08:43:44 2014 From: ptcox at camden.rutgers.edu (Patrick Cox) Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2014 10:43:44 -0600 Subject: [Air-L] H-DigiRhet Editors wanted Message-ID: Hello! My name is Patrick Cox and I am Vice-President for Networks at H-Net. I'm looking for editors to run H-Net's network on Digital Rhetoric, H-DigiRhet (https://networks.h-net.org/h-digirhet). The network is already loaded up onto the Commons and has over 800 subscribers, but no one running it! Folks with an interest in building this community of Digital scholars using the full range of tools and resources the H-Net Commons has to offer will find here a ready-made audience looking at a blank canvas. In addition to lively discussion and debate, the site can be used to build a collections of resources, blogging, multimedia content, original book reviews, collaborations with other H-Net Networks, and pretty much anything else you'd like to find on a website to build truly unique resource for the field of Digital Studies. Ideally, multiple people will apply to form a team of editors. You provide the ambition, H-Net will provide the training and technical support. If you are interested, contact Patrick Cox at vp-net at mail.h-net.msu.edu. Thanks. Patrick Cox H-NET Vice-President for Networks -- Patrick Cox PhD Candidate, Childhood Studies, Rutgers http://camden-rutgers.academia.edu/PatrickCox http://childhood.camden.rutgers.edu/ https://email.rutgers.edu/mailman/listinfo/exploring_childhood_studies "In the depths of winter I finally learned there was in me an invincible summer." --Albert Camus "Don't let your studies interfere with your education." --Colonel Henry Rutgers "the jUdges of nOrmalitY are present everywhere." --Foucault, of course From jpedregosa at gmail.com Thu Feb 27 04:16:07 2014 From: jpedregosa at gmail.com (Jj Pedregosa) Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2014 13:16:07 +0100 Subject: [Air-L] Conference on Digital Discrimination and Social Networks. Barcelona, 13th and 14th of March Message-ID: Friends The main aim of the conference is to invite participants to actively *share current experiences and research and push forward our knowledge to fight discrimination*. Academics, NGOs working with youths or on discrimination, activists, trainers, teachers, policy makers, journalists, social media professionals and the general public are welcome to attend. Programme of the conference: http://digitaldiscrimination.eu/conference/ From jacqueline.vickery at unt.edu Thu Feb 27 07:49:56 2014 From: jacqueline.vickery at unt.edu (Dr. Jacqueline Vickery) Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2014 09:49:56 -0600 Subject: [Air-L] Survey on vlogs Message-ID: Hello, One of my grad students is conducing research on vlogs for his thesis. If you have 10 minutes to spare please consider taking his survey: https://unt.az1.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_6WeVcs4m7jD3Qj3 and please feel free to distribute widely. Thanks, - jacqueline ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr. Jacqueline Vickery, Ph.D. Assistant Professor College of Arts & Sciences Department of Radio, Television, & Film University of North Texas ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From Wolfgang.Suetzl at uibk.ac.at Thu Feb 27 09:25:06 2014 From: Wolfgang.Suetzl at uibk.ac.at (=?iso-8859-1?Q?S=FCtzl=2C_Wolfgang?=) Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2014 17:25:06 +0000 Subject: [Air-L] CfP Media Art in Media Education Message-ID: Call for Papers MEDIENIMPULSE 2/2014 MEDIENIMPULSE is a quarterly, peer-reviewed open-access online journal on media education publishing German and English language contributions. Please send 300-word abstracts and enquiries to Wolfgang Suetzl at suetzl at ohio.edu by 10 March 2014. Full papers of max. 25000 characters due by 15 May 2014 Date of publication 21 June 2014 Special focus: The Potential of Media art in Media Education The development of media technologies has long met with the interest of media educationalists. Media art offers a wide range of possibilities of experimentation, critical reflection, and communication in educational settings. This edition of MEDIENIMPULSE is dedicated to an in-depth exploration of this area of research. One question artists have been pursuing is how media help create new structures and communicative processes in society. On the one hand, media art itself is facing a paradox of communication, often working with digital technologies while not benefitting from large digital audiences. Additionally, possibilities of communicating about media art in a text-based fashion are often limited. On the other hand, media artists have adopted progressive positions in debates on media technologies in understanding media art as intervention and questioning, and, not least of all, as a deconstruction of media themselves. Against this background, digital media art has created non-commercialized discursive openings for education, critical reflection, subversive media use, innovation, and resistance. The contributions to this issue of MEDIENIMPULSE concern the interrelations between media art and media education, and their particular relevance to the practical and theoretical challenges in media education. From acocciol at pratt.edu Thu Feb 27 12:52:09 2014 From: acocciol at pratt.edu (Anthony Cocciolo) Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2014 15:52:09 -0500 Subject: [Air-L] Search reopened: Assistant Prof. for Computing and Emerging Technologies, Pratt Institute, NYC Message-ID: Pratt Institute, School of Information and Library Science, has an opening for full time tenure-track position at the level of assistant professor in the area of *Computing and Emerging Information Technologies* Full time, tenure-track, beginning Fall 2014 *http://tinyurl.com/search2014 * To apply: Applicants are invited to submit a single PDF file that includes the following documents: Cover letter, curriculum vitae, statement on research and teaching interests, and names of four references. Please e-mail materials to: Debbie Rabina: drabina at pratt.edu To learn more about Pratt SILS full-time faculty visit http://research.prattsils.org/ -- Debbie Rabina, Ph.D. Associate Professor Pratt Institute, School of Information and Library Science 144 West 14th Street, 6th fl. New York, NY 10011-7301 drabina at pratt.edu http://mysite.pratt.edu/~drabina/index.htm From jjwilliams at ualr.edu Thu Feb 27 15:12:39 2014 From: jjwilliams at ualr.edu (Joe Williams) Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2014 17:12:39 -0600 Subject: [Air-L] U of Arkansas Little Rock tenure-track opening Message-ID: <004e01cf3411$78d86650$6a8932f0$@ualr.edu> Hi All, My apologies for cross-postings. The Department of Rhetoric and Writing at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock (UALR) invites applications for a tenure-track assistant professor to teach undergraduate and graduate courses in professional writing. We are especially interested in candidates with expertise and experience in one of the following areas: a) new media design and development; b) creative nonfiction, especially related to new media. Here is the link to the complete job posting: http://ualr.peopleadmin.com/postings/1939 A bit about us: The Department of Rhetoric and Writing, a stand-alone writing department, houses the First-Year Composition program, the University Writing Center, and the Little Rock Writing Project. The department offers a BA, a minor, and an MA in Professional and Technical Writing. These degrees include courses in rhetoric, editing, creative nonfiction, and technical writing. The department has approximately 70 active majors and 60 active graduate students. If you have any questions about UALR or our program in general, don't hesitate to email me. Best, Joe Williams -------- Joseph John Williams, Ph.D. Co-Director, ATLE Associate Professor of Rhetoric and Writing University of Arkansas at Little Rock 2801 S. University Avenue Little Rock, AR 72204 (501) 569-8313 jjwilliams at ualr.edu From explicit_corpse at hotmail.com Thu Feb 27 22:39:17 2014 From: explicit_corpse at hotmail.com (V. T.) Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2014 22:39:17 -0800 Subject: [Air-L] Call for chapter proposals: A Thousand Platforms: Deep Teaching for Computational Media and Generalist Design In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: CALL FOR BOOK CHAPTER PROPOSALSA Thousand Platforms: Deep Teaching for Computational Media and Generalist DesignEdited by Michael Filimowicz, School of Interactive Arts and Technology, Simon Fraser University Today?s creators of interactive media ?switch hardware and software tools like colors of paint.?[1] This edited collection focuses on undergraduate teaching and learning by bringing together essays addressing pedagogies that produce the fabled "unicorns" ? graduates who can Program, Design and Create. Curricula in computational media are faced with various challenges, such as (1) maintaining a balance between breadth and depth of specialist knowledge; (2) developing fluency in coding despite otherwise advanced technological creativity; or (3) the role of numeracy in visually-dominated media. A multiplicity of technical skillsets? animation, graphic design, electronics, computer vision, web design, sound design, 3D printing, algorithmic thinking amongst many others ? contribute to an equally diverse set of professional fields, such as UXD, audiovisual postproduction, web application development, project management, creative directing practices, game programming, storytelling, industrial design, communication design and beyond. This rich combination of skillsets and possible roles are profoundly cross-pollinating and thus trigger continuous shifts in professional contexts. Within this framework, this edited collection intends to address topics such as ( but not limited to): ? Project-based courses and teamwork? Entrepreneurial components to curricula? The perception and realities of specialist vs. generalist knowledge? Translating faculty research and graduate collegiality into the undergraduate realm? Conceptualization of similarities, differences, continuums and relationships between art and design pedagogies? Ways in which generalist creative and technical knowledge translate to a student audience with "glamour job" expectations ? Pedagogical strategies that acclimate students for a fast changing workforce where much of the most interesting and rewarding work is performed on a per project basis? Instructional strategies that evoke students? passion about coding, mathematics, research methodologies and writing In brief, this edited collection asks: what does it mean to teach students toward a thousand technological platforms? Please send your original 500 word abstracts in the body of the email along with a short bio to mfa13 at sfu.ca with the subject heading ?1000 Platforms.? Deadline: Aug 1, 2014.Notification of acceptance: Oct 1, 2014Full chapters (6000-7000 words) due: January 11th, 2015. ---------[1] To cite an interview with Matt Cottam in Joshua Noble's Programming Interactivity. From jsalmons at vision2lead.com Fri Feb 28 07:52:30 2014 From: jsalmons at vision2lead.com (Janet Salmons, Ph.D.) Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2014 08:52:30 -0700 Subject: [Air-L] New Social Media, New Social Science... and New Ethical Issues! Message-ID: The New Social Media, New Social Science network is a partnership of the NatCen, Sage UK and the Oxford Internet Institute. NSMNSS has convened numerous on-site and online events about the use of social media in research. Attendees at the on-site events are mostly UK-based, but the online events have attracted global participation. Ethical issues have been a persistent theme throughout the discussions. We offered a questionnaire last spring to learn more specifically about ethical concerns as well as the sources they consult when making decisions in their own research. Not surprisingly, the AOIR guidelines were frequently mentioned as trusted resources. I analyzed all of the records from events and the questionnaire responses to determine what specific issues e-researchers identify, and to what extent these issues are addressed the codes and guidelines they named. In addition to the AOIR guide, I looked at a number of other current guidelines from professional associations. You can find links to the full report and an overview presentation on the NSMNSS blog *http://bit.ly/1kvhDAH .* You can join us for a conversation on the issues in a Tweetchat at #NSMNSS on March 11, 19:00 or 7 pm in London, 3 PM in New York. (See www.timeanddate.com for your time zone.) *Janet Salmons Ph.D.* *Capella University School of Business & Vision2Lead, Inc.*Site- http://www.vision2lead.com Follow Twitter @einterview Now available as Kindle e-books: Online Interviews in Real Time & Cases in Online Interview Research. Coming soon: Qualitative Online Interviews Boulder, CO jsalmons at vision2lead.com From lee.komito at ucd.ie Fri Feb 28 08:46:18 2014 From: lee.komito at ucd.ie (Lee Komito) Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2014 16:46:18 +0000 Subject: [Air-L] Assistant Professor/College Lecturer Position: University College Dublin School of Information & Library Studies Message-ID: <5310BD5A.7020801@ucd.ie> Open Position: Lecturer in Information Ref: 006474 Lecturer in Information (Above the Bar) University College Dublin - UCD School of Information and Library Studies The School of Information and Library Studies at University College Dublin invites applications for a five-year posts. The successful candidate will contribute significantly to the quality expansion of research in one or more of the following areas: digital curation, visualization / information design, informatisation of social/ organisational processes, information architecture, information systems design, related topics regarding the interplay of people, information, technology and social structures; and to participate effectively in the School's educational programmes. Applicants should have completed a PhD in Information and Library Science or related discipline. Candidates who do not yet have a PhD in Information and Library Science or related discipline but who expect to have completed this degree by the date of appointment may be considered. Closing date for applications is Monday, 31 March 2013 (GMT). It is envisaged an appointee will commence in post September 2014. Further information (including application procedure) should be obtained from http://www.ucd.ie/hr/jobvacancies. For more detail on the School of Information and Library Studies, and its undergraduate and postgraduate programmes, see http://www.ucd.ie/sils. Informal inquiries to Dr. Lee Komito (lee.komito at ucd.ie), Head of School/Head of Subject. Representatives from the School will be available at upcoming iConference in Berlin for further discussion. -- Lee Komito (e) lee.komito at ucd.ie School of Information & Library Studies (p) +353.1.7167594 University College Dublin (f) +353.1.7161161 Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland (w) www.ucd.ie/lkomito From amanda.licastro at gmail.com Fri Feb 28 10:48:57 2014 From: amanda.licastro at gmail.com (Amanda Licastro) Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2014 13:48:57 -0500 Subject: [Air-L] #MLA15 CFP of interest Message-ID: If you are hoping to attend MLA next January in Vancouver, please consider applying to our panel which I think will be of interest to this list. Designing an Archive for Cloud and Crowd - How can networks (human and/or digital) combat institutional amnesia? What digital spaces can we build today to preserve a history for tomorrow? 350-word proposals by 14 March 2014. Contact amanda.licastro at gmail.com or benmiller314 at gmail.com Have a wonderful weekend, Amanda Amanda Licastro M.A. Doctoral Student CUNY Graduate Center Instructional Technology Fellow Macaulay Honors College http://digitocentrism.commons.gc.cuny.edu/ @amandalicastro From mpavlovski at iml.ukim.edu.mk Fri Feb 28 23:55:10 2014 From: mpavlovski at iml.ukim.edu.mk (Mishel Pavlovski) Date: Sat, 1 Mar 2014 08:55:10 +0100 Subject: [Air-L] Extended deadline CFP "Media: Tyheory and Practice" Message-ID: <000001cf3523$96346f60$c29d4e20$@iml.ukim.edu.mk> Call for papers Extended Deadline: 15 March 2014 Second Annual International CCCS Conference 2014 ??Media: Theory and Practice?? Hotel Continental, Skopje, Macedonia, 4?\6 September 2014 http://cultcenter.net/ Supported by: European Communication Research and Education Association International Association for Media and Communication Research The Centre for Culture and Cultural Studies (CCCS) invites proposals for papers, thematic panels and original media productions for Second Annual International CCCS Conference 2014 ??Media: Theory and Practice?? The aim of this conference revolves around a foundational impetus to shed greater light on all relevant aspects of media studies, including mass communication, media technology, the visual and the performing arts, TV, radio, WEB and print media, as well as other key components of media studies and mass communication. We invite proposals based on media theory (particularly critical media studies and cultural studies), and proposals that consider the relationship between media and (popular) culture, politics, arts, new media, as pertinent fields of study. We welcome submissions that offer original media productions: documentary films, fictionalized or non-narrative creative expressions. The submitted proposal needs to contain a creative or theoretical explanation of the submitted work. We invite projects by PhD students or submissions by teams of students and instructors (lecturers). Hence, the Second Annual International CCCS Conference 2014 ??Media: Theory and Practice?? strives to offer a dialogic space for media theorists and practitioners. Along those lines, we invite media studies?? theorists as well as practitioners to offer proposals through engaging and current ideas, paper topics, workshop presentations and round table discussions. Possible topics include, but are not limited to: * Media Analyses o Content analysis o Media literacy o Media discourses * Critical Theory and Media Criticism o Media and hegemony o Media and globalization * Media and Political Communication o Media activism o Media and ideology o Media and democracy * Media and Law o (De)Regulation of media o Media and privacy o Media and copyright * Art and Media o Art-science interface o Media and aesthetics o Film o Theatre o The visual arts o The performing arts * Media and Culture o Media and gender o Diaspora, migrants and media o Media and ethnicity o Media and audience o Cultural populism o Cultural capital o Media and remembrance/forgetting o Media and heritage o Media and identity o Media representation * New Media o Media and games o Social media o Digital activism o Media ecosystem o Multimedia * Journalism studies o Journalism and social and cultural representations o The role and status of journalism in the era of digital technology Paper proposals For individual paper proposals, please fill out the following form http://cultcenter.net/?wpgform_qv=registration-form-papers If you have problems filling the form, please download offline form in MS WORD format http://cultcenter.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/Registration-form.docx Submissions for individual paper proposals should number to 250 words. Important Dates and Fees Deadline for abstracts submission: 15 March 2014 Notifications of acceptance: 1 April 2014 Deadline for full paper submission: 1 December 2014 Early registration (till 1 May 2014): ?40 Late registration (till 15 August 2014): ?60 On-site registration (or after 15 August 2014): ?80 The registration fee includes: the welcome party, conference materials, an online publication of the abstracts, refreshment breaks. Full papers that have received a positive review will be published in the journals ?????????? ??????/Culture?? and/or ??Investigating Culture??. Official languages of Conference are English, Russian and Macedonian. The Conference will be held on 4-6 September, 2014 in Hotel Continental, Skopje, the Republic of Macedonia. For any further information please contact Dr. Mishel Pavlovski (mishel at cultcenter.net) or Dr. Loreta Georgievska Jakovleva (loreta at cultcenter.net) ============================================================================ ============== Dr. Mishel Pavlovski University ??Ss. Cyril and Methodius?? Institute for Macedonian Literature http://www.iml.ukim.edu.mk/ Centre for Culture and Cultural Studies http://cultcenter.net/