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IS Openings at the Most Wired Public University in the US
by Michael Bieber 05 Jul '01

05 Jul '01

IS has been at NJIT for decades, but our IS Department is only a few days old, along with our new College of Computing Services. And we're growing rapidly. Last year we hired 6 new IS faculty, and we have several openings for Assistant, Associate and Full Professors starting in Spring and Fall 2002, with yet more anticipated for the future! For three years, Yahoo! Internet Life magazine has named NJIT as the "most wired" public university in the U.S. in its annual ranking, and the country's 3rd most wired university overall. NJIT has several laboratory facilities, including a new Collaborative Hypermedia and Application Development Lab and a new electronic arts habitat (eARTh) Lab. NJIT is located 25 minutes from New York City by train. Our IS program is one of the largest in the New York metropolitan area. The area has a high concentration of industry and businesses, with many opportunities for research collaboration and consulting. We also have a high degree of collaboration among researchers across campus. In our B.A., M.A. and Ph.D. programs, Assistant Professors teach 2 courses a year, and Associate Professors teach 4 courses a year. In keeping with NJIT's technical focus, we are looking primarily for candidates with strong technical skills. For further details, please see http://is.njit.edu/recruiting01.html or contact Michael Bieber at recruit-is(a)njit.edu. Thanks!

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Repost: CFP: Cyberactivism: Critical Theories and Practices of Online Activism
by Mike Ayers 05 Jul '01

05 Jul '01

This deadline is about 2 months away. feel free to foward this message or a link to this site to other listservs/persons that might be interested. http://www.cis.vt.edu/ws/cyberactivism.html Call For Papers Cyberactivism: Critical Theories and Practices of Online Activism Edited by Martha McCaughey and Mike Ayers Virginia Tech/New School University Submission Deadline: September 15, 2001 Social movements and social movement groups have historically incorporated new technologies into their framework towards working for social change. Activists are also incorporating the Internet into their strategies to affect change in society. This edited volume seeks to bring together essays that discuss current issues surrounding how activists, social movement groups/organizations, and grassroots organizations are using the Internet for social change work. This volume seeks to highlight the importance of current social movement theory, cultural studies, media studies, and cyberculture studies to explore how cyberspace can or can not aid people working towards social change. We seek submissions that discuss the following: -- The application of social movement theory to Internet social movement groups -- Essays by activists about how cyberspace has changed activism or allowed activists to create social change -- Comparative analyses of online activist groups and offline activist groups -- Theoretical frameworks for studying online activism/social movements -- Case studies on race-, gender-, or sexuality-based movements on the Internet Essays should be in the range of 5,000 to 8,000 words. Please submit completed essays for consideration in Rich Text File (RTF) format as an attached document to: Martha McCaughey (marth(a)vt.edu) and Mike Ayers (mayers(a)vt.edu)

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CFP - Media Ecology Association program at NCA 2002 New Orleans
by J. Sternberg 05 Jul '01

05 Jul '01

Call for Papers and Panel Proposals for the Media Ecology Association Program at the 2002 Annual Convention of the National Communication Association November 21-24, 2002 New Orleans Sheraton & New Orleans Marriott The Media Ecology Association (http://www.media-ecology.org) invites submissions of competitive papers, panel programs and other innovative programs addressing theoretical, research, and/or methodological issues in Media Ecology, the study of the leading or defining role of technology and techniques, modes of information and codes of communication in human affairs (e.g., language and culture, technology and culture, orality and literacy, medium theory, the symbolic structure or grammar of communication media and its implications, etc.). Each complete paper submission must include: (1) a detachable title page with the title of the paper and author name, address, institutional affiliation and e-mail address; (2) a separate 50-75 word abstract with the paper's title. Program proposals should include: (1) a properly completed NCA 2002 convention proposal form (downloadable from http:///www.natcom.org); (2) a thematic title for the program; (3) a rationale for the program; (4) a title and abstract of each paper to be presented; and (5) names, addresses, institutional affiliations of all participants. Five hard copies of completed papers or panel proposals should be sent (to arrive by February 1, 2002) to: Casey M.K. Lum MEA/NCA Program Planner Department of Communication William Paterson University Hobart Hall 300 Pompton Road Wayne, New Jersey 07470-2103 For panel proposals, please also send a PC-formatted floppy with the file in MSWord or WordPerfect for Windows. Submissions received after the February 1, 2002 deadline will not be accepted.

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Reminder: Call for Papers, JOBEM
by Matt McAllister 02 Jul '01

02 Jul '01

<fontfamily><param>Geneva</param>Reminder: Call For Papers Special theme issue of the Journal of Broadcasting and Electronic Media: New Media and the Commercial Sphere New Media and the Commercial Sphere is the title of a special issue now being planned for the Journal of Broadcasting and Electronic Media. This issue will be guest co-edited by Matthew P. McAllister of the Department of Communication Studies at Virginia Tech and Joseph Turow of the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania. The interrelationships between society's commercial sphere and such new electronic media as the wired Internet, the wireless Web, interactive television, and digital radio have not received enough scholarly attention. This special issue is intended to encourage research on a broad spectrum of topics relating to the process and effects of marketing and advertising on the emerging digital interactive media environment. Submission deadline for papers is August 1, 2001 Possible relevant topics include, but are not limited to, the following: ** The impact of the new media environment on traditional commercial media, and vice versa; ** The role of media conglomerates-including the use of internal synergies and joint ventures-in developing the new media sphere; ** The impact of the new digital commercial environment on journalism in new and traditional media; ** Forces encouraging or discouraging the blurring of advertising and media content in the new media realm; ** The implications of electronic commerce for the media system; ** Critical studies of advertising and marketing in the new media; ** The influence of commercial Web content on traditional media; ** The process and implications of database/target marketing; ** The industrial construction of audiences in the new media environment; ** Digital production and manipulation of advertising imagery; ** The process, nature and effects of interactive advertising; ** Textual and content analyses of advertising on new media. We encourage a variety of theoretical and methodological approaches to this broad area. Manuscripts should conform to the guidelines of the Journal of Broadcasting and Electronic Media. (For detailed information, see http://www.beaweb.org/pubs1.html) To be considered for the special issue, manuscripts must be received by August 1, 2001. Inquiries and five copies of the manuscript should be sent to: Matthew P. McAllister Department of Communication Studies Virginia Tech Blacksburg, VA 24061-0311 540-231-9830 (phone); 540-231-9817 (fax) e-mail: <color><param>0000,0000,00FF</param>mattm(a)vt.edu </color></fontfamily>

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new reviews in cyberculture (july 2001)
by david silver 01 Jul '01

01 Jul '01

AIR'ers, *** apologies for crosspostings *** *** feel free to distribute *** New Book Reviews in Cyberculture Studies (July 2001) Each month, the Resource Center for Cyberculture Studies (RCCS) <otal.umd.edu/~rccs/> publishes two or three full-length book reviews. The reviews reflect a modest attempt to locate critically various contours of the emerging and interdisciplinary field of cyberculture studies. To date, RCCS has reviewed over 95 books, covering a range of topics, from online culture, communities, and identities to hypertext, digital literacy, and online pedagogy to Internet policy, the digital divide, and online privacy. New reviews (found at http://otal.umd.edu/~rccs/books) include: Amy Jo Kim, Community Building on the Web (Peachpit Press, 2000). Reviewed by Stine Gotved. Steven Johnson, Interface Culture: How New Technology Transforms the Way We Create & Communicate (Basic Books, 1997). Reviewed by Jonathan Alexander. Timothy Druckrey, editor, Ars Electronica: Facing the Future. A Survey of Two Decades (MIT Press, 1999). Reviewed by Jamie Brassett. If you or your colleagues are interested in reviewing books for RCCS, contact us directly at <rccs(a)otal.umd.edu>. As always, please feel free to forward this message. david silver http://www.glue.umd.edu/~dsilver

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