[Air-L] Call for proposals - Panel on language aggression and conflict
Pilar Garces
pilar_garces at yahoo.com
Sat Jan 11 04:10:24 PST 2014
Dear colleagues,
In the context of the 9th International Conference on (Im)Politeness, which will be held at the University of Huddersfield (9 – 11 July 2014), we are organizing an invited panel on the language aggression and conflict.
Language studies have for years tended to concentrate on the analysis of harmonious interactions. However, more recently, the study of acrimonious interaction has started gathering momentum. We would like to invite contributions that explore the language of aggression and conflict from various perspectives, such as pragmatic, discursive, sociolinguistic, cultural and cognitive, and focus on but are not restricted to the following areas:
- Language aggression and conflict among family members
- Language aggression and conflict in work/academic settings
- Language aggression and conflict in political discourse
- Language aggression and conflict in the (digital) media.
- Language aggression and conflict in inter/cross cultural communication
- Language aggression and conflict in service encounters
- Language aggression, conflict and identity
- Gender differences in language aggression and conflict
- Emotional communication and conflict
Please send your (300-word) abstracts to the organizers:
Pilar Garcés Blitvich (pgblitvi at uncc.edu) and Maria Sifianou (msifian at enl.uoa.gr)
by February 15, 2014. You will be notified of the reviewers’ decision by the end of February 2014.
Please disseminate this information among any colleagues you think might be interested.
With best wishes,
Pilar and Maria
Co-Editors in Chief – Journal of Language Aggression and Conflict
http://benjamins.com/#catalog/journals/jlac
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1. CFP: SoMNet 2014 Symposium on
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Computing, New Media and Networks - May
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Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA (Marc
Smith)
2. Summer School Crowdfunding (RU?MANN Uta
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3. CFP: Innovation and its Contestants
(Montreal, 18 Apr 14)
(Molly Sauter)
4. Remember! There is an AIR Graduate
Student List! (Molly Sauter)
5. Sources on advocacy email
structure/best practices/as data
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Date: Thu, 9 Jan 2014 21:10:13 -0800
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Subject: [Air-L] CFP: SoMNet 2014 Symposium on
Collaboration, Social
Computing, New Media and Networks - May
19-23, 2014 in Minneapolis,
Minnesota, USA
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SoMNeT 2014
*Third International Symposium on Collaboration, Social
Computing, New
Media and Networks*
*(SoMNet 2014)*
*Call for Papers and Participation*
*As part of*
*The 2014 International Conference on Collaboration
Technologies and
Systems*
*(CTS 2014)*
*May 19-23, 2014*
*The Commons Hotel Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA*
*Submission Deadline: January 22, 2014*
*Submissions could be for full papers, short papers, poster
papers, or
posters*
*SCOPE AND OBJECTIVES*
Social media, social computing, new media and networks have
become major
areas of research, applications, and development in recent
years. The
adoption of social media and their applications have
expanded in kind and
size to unprecedented levels and continue to grow at
accelerated rates.
The creation and deployment of Social Media is one of the
main forces
behind the evolution and expansion of the Internet, the Web,
and mobile
media. Social media account for the majority of
Internet traffic while its
content comprises the greater part of the daily published
multi media on
the Web. These technologies have a profound impact on
society and on
private life. Furthermore, there is a great diversity
in the communities
of people interested in social computing: researchers in
computing,
communications, and social sciences; industrial
practitioners; wide range
of businesses; software and online game vendors; web
entrepreneurs; digital
government organizations; political analysts; educational
institutions,
etc.
You are cordially invited to participate in, contribute to,
and attend the
International Symposium on Collaboration, Social
Computing, New Media, and
Networks (SoMNet 2014) to be held as part of CTS 2014 (
*http://cts2014.cisedu.info/* <http://cisedu.us/rp/cts14/>) May 19-23, 2014
in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA. The Symposium is to
address, explore and
exchange information on the state-of-the-art and practice in
the broad
multi disciplinary field of social computing and new
media. Participation
is extended to researchers, designers, educators and
interested parties in
all disciplines and specialties (computer science,
linguistics, psychology,
statistics, sociology, multimedia and semantic web
technologies, ?).
*The SoMNeT Symposium main themes include (but are not
limited to) the
following:*
- Social (media) Network Data Collection,
Analysis and Visualization
- Content/ Text Data Analysis AND
Integration with Network Data
- Computational/ Algorithmic Solutions and
Datasets Related to Both of
These Themes
*PAPER SUBMISSION*
You are invited to submit original and unpublished research
works on above
and other topics related to social computing, social
networks and new
social media. Submitted papers must not have been
published or
simultaneously submitted elsewhere. Submissions could be for
full papers,
short papers, poster papers, or posters (please
specify). Submission
should include a cover page with authors' names, affiliation
addresses, fax
numbers, phone numbers, and email addresses. Please,
indicate clearly the
corresponding author(s) and include up to 6 keywords from
the above list of
topics and an abstract of no more than 400 words. The
full manuscript
should be at most 8 pages using the two-column IEEE
format. Additional
pages are allowed but will be charged additional fee.
Short papers (up to
4 pages), poster papers and poster (please refer to
http://cts2014.cisedu.info/home/posters<http://cisedu.us/rp/cts14/home/posters>
for posters submission details) will also be
accepted. Please include
page numbers on all preliminary submissions to make it
easier for reviewers
to provide helpful comments.
Authors are invited to submit a PDF copy of their manuscript
to the
Symposium using the following link:
http://cisedu.us/cis/cts/14/users/upload.jsp. In
the form you fill out,
please make sure to indicate that the submission is for
SoMNeT 2014
Symposium in the *Notes* field of the uploading
form. Otherwise, the
manuscript will go to the main track. If the
submission is for a *poster
paper*or *short paper*, indicate that as well on the
manuscript and in the
form's *Notes* field.
Only PDF files will be accepted, uploaded to the link
above. Each paper
will receive a minimum of three reviews. Papers will
be selected based on
their originality, relevance, contributions, technical
clarity, and
presentation. Submission implies the willingness of at
least one of the
authors to register and present the paper, if
accepted. Authors of
accepted papers must guarantee that their papers will be
registered and
presented at the Symposium.
Accepted papers will be published in the Conference
proceedings.
Instructions for final manuscript format and requirements
will be posted on
the CTS 2014 Conference web site. It is our intent to
have the proceedings
formally published in hard and soft copies and be available
at the time of
the conference. The proceedings is projected to be
included in the IEEE
Digital Library and indexed in all major indexing services
accordingly.
If you have any questions about paper submission or the
Symposium, please
contact the Symposium organizers.
*IMPORTANT DATES*
*Paper Submission Deadline: --------------------------
January 22, 2014*
*Acceptance Notification: ------------------------------
February 10, 2014*
*Camera Ready Papers and Registration Due: ------
February 28, 2014 *
*Conference Dates:
------------------------------------ May 19 - 23,
2014*
*SYMPOSIUM ORGANIZERS*
*Marc A. Smith*
Connected Action Consulting Group
California, USA
Phone: +1 (425) 241-9105
Email: marc at connectedaction.net<https://mail.google.com/mail/?view=cm&fs=1&tf=1&to=marc@connectedaction.net>
*Jana Diesner*
The iSchool (Graduate School of Library and Information
Science)
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), Illinois,
USA
Phone: +1 (217) 244-3576
Email: jdiesner at illinois.edu
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Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2014 08:35:54 +0000
From: RU?MANN Uta | FHWien der WKW <Uta.Russmann at fh-wien.ac.at>
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Help us to reach our goal!
We are organizing a summer school on ICT4Democracy next
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to find funding for keynote lectures, but we still need
funding for the participants (MA- & PhD-students).
So we thought to try a new way to raise funds with our crowd
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Help us raise 6500 US-Dollar to provide free food and
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And please spread the word!
If you have already supported our project we sincerely thank
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Endowed Professorship for Strategic Communication Management
& New Media
Department of Communication, Marketing & Sales
FHWien University of Applied Sciences of WKW
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Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2014 13:10:02 -0500
From: Molly Sauter <molly.sauter at gmail.com>
To: air-l at listserv.aoir.org
Subject: [Air-L] CFP: Innovation and its Contestants
(Montreal, 18 Apr
14)
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Montreal, QC, April 18, 2014
Deadline: Jan 24, 2014
<http://ahcsconference.wordpress.com>
Call for Proposals
INNOVATION AND ITS CONTESTANTS
5th Annual Emerging Scholars Conference
McGill University
Department of Art History and Communications Studies
Keynote Speaker: Keith Moxey, Barbara Novak Professor of Art
History
and Department Chair at Barnard College (Columbia
University)
Deadline for Submissions: 24 January 2014
The concept of innovation buttresses a paradigmatically
modern Western
belief in the possibility of infinite economic growth and
technological
progress. It is in fact a buzzword with remarkable
contemporary
currency, one that is instrumentalized as a constant search
for new
technologies, means of production, market adaptations,
scientific
discoveries and social changes. As a fundamental tenet in
Western
systems of thought, it is also ? and has long been ?
inscribed within
the West?s very view of itself as more successful and more
?progressive? than other societies. Note, for example,
G.W.F. Hegel?s
famous juxtaposition of Europe?s ever- changing art against
the
allegedly stagnant visual culture of India: the first
modality
accounted for the privileged position of the West as the
locus of the
emanation of universal Geist; while the latter stipulated
an
essentially ?un-progressive? timelessness in India.
The Western valuation and definition of innovation has
thereby been
mobilized as a justification for diverse colonial,
post-colonial and
now neoliberal enterprises. It operates as a smoke screen to
preserve
dominant power regimes both within the West and globally,
concealing
simultaneously the biased valuation of cultural production,
and the
unequal distribution of technological and scientific headway
among
diverse social strata. This is the case even as the current
global
financial crisis challenges the West?s ability to
regenerate
perpetually. In fact, the stakes involved in the Western
impetus to
innovate seem to intensify even as recent projections of
economic
acceleration in several non-Western countries rouse fears
that the West
is losing ground as innovation?s main stimulant.
The innovation paradigm is moreover implicit within the bulk
of
humanistic academic production. As a case in point, the
Greenbergian
approach to art history, which dominated much of the
twentieth century,
revolves indisputably around a teleology of formal
innovation.
Meanwhile, within a number of current academic discussions ?
for
instance those concerning experimentation and invention in
the history
of science (Galison); global art history (Elkins); visual
culture
studies (Moxey); history of ideas (Godin); the philosophy
of
mondialisation (Nancy); media archaeology (Parikka);
technological
obsolescence (Kittler); and the aesthetics of failure
(Halberstam) ?
innovation is tacitly treated with caution, if not
skepticism.
Given this tangle of collusions and complexities, how are we
to
approach and define innovation in academic discourse? Is the
paradigm
purely a means of disarming social pressure for an
all-inclusive
equalized prosperity; or might it be recuperated to provide
a stimulus
for sustainable growth? Can we understand innovation in a
broader
global spectrum without falling into the trap of cultural
essentialism;
or does this concept perpetuate Western-centric views and
mores? Can
the concept of innovation be used for the analysis of
historical
periods; or does it figure too easily in teleological
narratives?
With these questions in mind, we are opening an enquiry into
the
concept of innovation. We invite paper proposals addressing
a broad
range of academic disciplines and historical periods. Papers
might
address, but are by no means restricted to, the following
questions:
? Socio-economic implications of innovation. How do
societies and
specific agents adapt to new conditions once their old ways
of life
have been destroyed?
? The politics of innovation. Does innovation bring
betterment or
deprivation?
? What are the criteria of innovation?
? Challenging the Western canon of art built on the notions
of style,
progress, and originality
? Technological progress
? Patents
? Is Western-centrism pervasive in the concept of
innovation?
? How does innovation affect personal identities (video
games,
Facebook, etc.)?
? How is innovation different from change?
? The contestations of innovation; the discursive
counterpoints to
innovation
? Centre vs. periphery; milieus of innovation
? Instances of anachronism masked as innovation in culture
from the
Middle Ages to the present day. Recurring regimes: the old
in the new,
the new in the old
? Does materiality matter in innovation?
? Temporality and innovation
? Commodity culture and innovation
We welcome proposals for 20-minute presentations. Please
send your
submission in the form of a 300-word abstract and a brief CV
to
ahcsconference at gmail.com.
All candidates will be contacted by the first
week of February.
For more information, please refer to the conference
website
(http://ahcsconference.wordpress.com/) or
contact
ahcsconference at gmail.com.
Reference / Quellennachweis:
CFP: Innovation and its Contestants (Montreal, 18 Apr 14).
In:
H-ArtHist, Jan 9, 2014. <http://arthist.net/archive/6713>.
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Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2014 13:23:42 -0500
From: Molly Sauter <molly.sauter at gmail.com>
To: air-l at listserv.aoir.org
Subject: [Air-L] Remember! There is an AIR Graduate Student
List!
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Hi everyone-
Since the spring semester is starting again (or as it's
called up here in
Canada, the "winter" semester), I am reminding you that
there is an AIR
graduate list, and it is awesome! If you are a graduate
student studying
the internet/internet-related-things, you should sign up.
Fill out this form here to sign up.
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/18h-DvwPtcQDSnRiv8bEDd0tnkJXxrcnR8T-CUrNrHSg/viewform
best-
-molly sauter
PhD student, Communication Studies, McGill University
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Message: 5
Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2014 14:23:36 -0500
From: Luis Hestres <luishestres at gmail.com>
To: air-l at listserv.aoir.org
Subject: [Air-L] Sources on advocacy email structure/best
practices/as
data for content analysis
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Hi all,
Can anyone recommend any books or chapter(s), article(s),
white paper(s), case studies, etc. that talk about the
?proper? way to structure advocacy emails? Looking for
sources (academic or not) that talk about things like proper
message/paragraph length, structure (as in something similar
to the pyramid structure of news articles), etc.
Even sources that discuss advocacy emails in general (e.g.
as part of content analyses) would help.
Thanks!
- - - - -
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
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"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
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