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Fwd: 2006 International Digital Media and Arts Association and Interactive Media Studies Conference Call for Papers
by Steve Jones 13 Nov '05

13 Nov '05

> Call for Papers > > The International Digital Media and Arts Association and Miami > University's > Center for Interactive Media Studies presents the 2006 iDMAa + IMS > Conference. The conference's theme is built around an examination > of the many > codes that drive the digital media and arts world. The Conference > will bring > academics, artists, and industry representatives together to help > define, > refine and advance the leading edge of new media. This is the third > annual > iDMAa Conference and fifth annual IMS Conference. > > The conference will include refereed paper presentations, panels, > discussion > workshops, gallery talks, and performances. Pre-conference, hands-on > tutorials (free for iDMAa members) will begin on Wednesday, April > 5th, 2006. > The conference will begin on April 6th and end on April 8th. The > conference > will also include a juried exhibition and a vendor fair. This > conference is > sponsored and hosted in Oxford, Ohio by Miami University's Center for > Interactive Media Studies. > > The Conference seeks submissions of papers for presentation and > discussion. > All papers will be refereed for acceptance and selected papers will be > published in the iDMAa Journal. There will be an on-line proceedings, > including all accepted work, as well. Submissions will be accepted > in two > categories: papers and notes. Papers will follow traditional > academic writing > standards and should not exceed ten pages. Notes are at most two > pages long. > Online and interactive supplements can be included. > > Please send all submissions by November 23rd, 2005 to: > Prof. Peg Faimon, Program Chair > 231 Hiestand Hall > Miami University > Oxford, OH 45056 > faimonma(a)muohio.edu > > Papers may be submitted for review in Microsoft Word or PDF format. > Please > follow standard academic paper formatting conventions. > > Supplementary materials may be submitted in formats displayable by > standard > web browsers with freely available plug-ins (e. g. Flash, > RealPlayer, Windows > Media Player 10 or Quicktime). Authors will be notified of > acceptance by > January 6, 2006. > > Your submission should include a cover letter indicating which > conference > track is preferred (See list below). Participants are also > encouraged to > propose panels or complete 'paper sessions' on topics of specific > interest. > Special conference rates are available to individuals who organize > and bring > complete panels for sessions. > > We encourage the submission of panels. Panel submissions should > include a > brief description of the panel topic and list of panelists. Note > that any > panel chair submitting a panel with a minimum of four panelists who > are full > paying registrants to the conference will receive a discounted > registration. > > > <code> Conference Tracks > > "We all have the extraordinary coded within us, waiting to be > released" > - Jean Houston > > The 2006 iDMAa + IMS conference is structured around the taxonomy > outlined > below. These categories are meant only to be broad groupings as an > organizational tool. The suggestions included below each track are > just that > - suggestions. We encourage broad, creative, and radical > interpretations of > these tracks. > > Track One: Art Code | Code Art > Sample Topics: Algorithmic Art, Software Art, Net Art, Installation > Art, > Physic Computing, Sonic Art, Interactive Design and Development > > Track Two: Academic Code > Sample Topics: Curriculum Development, Promotion & Tenure, Program > Development, Pedagogy, Technical Support and Funding, Inter- > Institutional > Collaboration, Digital Film Schools, Classroom and Lab Exemplars, > eTextbooks > > Track Three: Image Code > Sample Topics: Digital Photography, Digital Imaging as Art, 3-D > Modeling, > Digital Printing, Medical Imaging, Commercial Design, Installation, > Digital > Painting > > Track Four: Time-Based Code > Sample Topics: Digital Video, Flash, Processing, Distance > Collaboration/Performance, Animation, Film, Interactive > > Track Five: Cultural Code > Sample Topics: Network Culture and Complexity/Change, Philosophy, > Digital > Identity > > Track Six: Legal Code > Sample Topics: Copyright, Legal Issues for Artists, P2P File > Sharing, Open > Source, Creative Commons > > Track Seven: Semiotic Code & Storytelling > Sample Topics: Digital Narrative, Digital Asset Management, Still > Image as > Narrative, Semantic Web > > Track Eight: Commercial Code > Sample Topics: Mobile Media, Emerging Technologies, Business > Applications > > Track Nine: Game Code > Sample Topics: Serious games, artistic games, commercial games, > games as > pedagogy, analysis of games

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Re: [Air-l] facebook
by Mary L. Gray 13 Nov '05

13 Nov '05

shameless self-promotion here: I've got a piece on thefacebook as a means of mediating social distance. it'll be in the ASA journal, _Contexts_ ...it should be out in the issue after next. I'd welcome feedback or thoughts on the draft if anyone's interested. ___________________________________________________________ Mary L. Gray, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Department of Communication and Culture Affiliate Faculty Gender Studies Department and American Studies Program Indiana University Bloomington, IN 47405-9700 ph. 812/855.4379 fx. 812/855.6014 email: mLg(a)indiana.edu http://www.indiana.edu/~qcentral On Nov 13, 2005, at 3:07 PM, air-l-request(a)listserv.aoir.org wrote: > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Sat, 12 Nov 2005 21:10:13 -0600 > From: "Mark D. Johns" <johnsmar(a)luther.edu> > Subject: [Air-l] Facebook > To: air-l(a)aoir.org > Message-ID: <4376AE95.6010107(a)luther.edu> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed > > Searches of the papers at AoIR conferences and the journal indexes > come > up empty. Who is doing research on the social networking websites, > such > as Facebook, Myspace, XuQa, Tagworld, Catch-27, etc.??? If you know of > any scholarly work on this phenomenon, please email me off list. > Thanks. > -- > Mark D. Johns, Ph.D. > Assistant Professor > Dept. of Communication Studies > Luther College, Decorah, Iowa > http://faculty.luther.edu/~johnsmar/

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Facebook
by Mark D. Johns 13 Nov '05

13 Nov '05

Searches of the papers at AoIR conferences and the journal indexes come up empty. Who is doing research on the social networking websites, such as Facebook, Myspace, XuQa, Tagworld, Catch-27, etc.??? If you know of any scholarly work on this phenomenon, please email me off list. Thanks. -- Mark D. Johns, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Dept. of Communication Studies Luther College, Decorah, Iowa http://faculty.luther.edu/~johnsmar/ ----------------------------------------------- "Get the facts first. You can distort them later." ---Mark Twain

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space, place and the internet
by Barry Wellman 12 Nov '05

12 Nov '05

This seems a possible venue for readers of these lists. Absolutely no apologies for cross posting. Barry _____________________________________________________________________ Barry Wellman Professor of Sociology NetLab Director wellman at chass.utoronto.ca http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman Centre for Urban & Community Studies University of Toronto 455 Spadina Avenue Toronto Canada M5S 2G8 fax:+1-416-978-7162 To network is to live; to live is to network _____________________________________________________________________ ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Sat, 12 Nov 2005 12:00:10 -0500 From: urbanth-l-request(a)lists.ysu.edu Subject: URBANTH-L Digest, Vol 55, Issue 6 [x-posted from SPACE-AND-PLACE(a)LISTSERV.TEMPLE.EDU] Please feel free to forward this call to others who might be interested. **1st Call for Papers** Computer-Supported Cooperative Work Journal Special Issue "Settings for Collaboration: The Role of Place" Co-edited by Luigina Ciolfi, Geraldine Fitzpatrick and Liam Bannon Background Existing Recent work in HCI, CSCW and -more recently- interaction design has begun to critically examine the concept of place, its meaning and the implications for design. Early work by Erickson (1993) and Harrison and Dourish (1996) suggested that place, is a more appropriate concept rather than space is the notion that for providing an appropriate suitable framework for understanding people's interaction with their physical environment. More recently, a consideration of place has been introduced in studies of particular domains such as geographical technologies, collaborative systems and interactive environments. In particular, increasing attention is being paid to the notion of place as a useful conceptual tool when studying people's interaction with ubiquitous computing environments, whereby computational power augments and enhances existing features of actual physical environments. Place provides a frame for understanding how people relate to complex environments that include technology, physical and material resources and especially other inhabitants. A debate is emerging regarding different conceptual definitions of place and on their implications if introduced within the HCI, CSCW and interaction design areas, particularly in terms of methodological approaches. The meaning and implications of these different notions needs to be discussed and analysed, and especially when the notion of place is applied to understanding social and collaborative activities in a number of locales, from work environments, to public spaces,. This is even more so as new forms of collaboration are enabled through ubiquitous computing environments. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): conceptual frameworks for understanding place methodological approaches for studying interaction and communication in place case studies describing the design and evaluation of spatially distributed and mobile technologies case studies of human experience of place mediated by technologies SUBMISSIONS Deadline for submissions: 31st January 2006 Notification of Acceptance: 15th April 2006 Submission of manuscripts (between 5000 and 10000 words, a figure equals 250 words) are invited. At this stage no specific format is required, however you are invited to follow the layout guidelines given at http://www.springerlink.com/(odegqt3b3lfjvx45b10mnom1)/app/home/journal.asp? referrer=parent&backto=linkingpublicationresults,1:100250,1 Please **email** your submission (in MS Word or Acrobat PDF format) to luigina.ciolfi(a)ul.ie REVIEW BOARD (more reviewers to be confirmed) Liam Bannon, University of Limerick (Ireland) Matthew Chalmers, University of Glasgow (UK) Luigina Ciolfi, University of Limerick (Ireland) Geraldine Fitzpatrick, University of Sussex (UK) Eva Hornecker, University of Sussex (UK) Leysia Palen, University of Colorado (USA) Mark Perry, Brunel University (UK) GUEST EDITORS Luigina Ciolfi, University of Limerick (Ireland) Geraldine Fitzpatrick, University of Sussex (UK) Liam Bannon, University of Limerick (Ireland) Please contact luigina.ciolfi(a)ul.ie if you have any queries ----------------------------------------------------------- Dr. Luigina Ciolfi Interaction Design Centre Engineering Research Building, ER1 005 University of Limerick, Ireland Tel. [+353] 061 213530 Fax. [+353] 061 213484 Web: http://richie.idc.ul.ie/luigina/ http://www.idc.ul.ie/ http://www.shared-worlds.org/ http://www.idc.ul.ie/nomads/

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Direct Representation
by Stephen Coleman 12 Nov '05

12 Nov '05

This is a new pamphlet, which argues for a more interactive form of democracy, published yesterday by the Institute for Public Policy Research: http://www.ippr.org.uk/ecomm/files/Stephen_Coleman_Pamphlet.pdf Stephen Coleman Oxford Internet Institute

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Antw: air-l Digest, Vol 16, Issue 9 (Absence - Carl-Markus Piswanger)
by Carl-Markus Piswanger 11 Nov '05

11 Nov '05

I am out of office. I will be back on November 21. Carl-Markus Piswanger

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last.fm?
by Nancy Baym 11 Nov '05

11 Nov '05

Hi, Is anyone studying last.fm? If you are, I would love to hear about your work. Thanks, Nancy

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CFP: SALSA 2006
by Kris Markman 11 Nov '05

11 Nov '05

Note: Susan Herring will be a keynote speaker CALL FOR PAPERS: SALSA 2006 please post/distribute/forward The Symposium About Language and Society-Austin is pleased to announce its 14th Annual Meeting to be held April 7-9, 2006 at the University of Texas at Austin. We encourage the submission of abstracts on research that addresses the relationship of language to culture and society. Desired frameworks include but are not limited to: Linguistic Anthropology Sociolinguistics Ethnography of Communication Language and Identity Speech Play, Verbal Art, and Poetics Language, Media, and Technology Language and Social Interaction Discourse Analysis & Conversation Analysis Language Vitality Language Socialization Gesture and Talk in Interaction Language and Politics 2006 KEYNOTE SPEAKERS Kira Hall, University of Colorado at Boulder John Haviland, Reed College Susan Herring, Indiana University Qing Zhang, University of Texas at Austin Papers delivered at the conference will be published as a special edition of the Texas Linguistic Forum. Speakers will be allowed 20 minutes for presentation and 10 minutes for discussion. Papers will be selected on the basis of a blind review process. Please send submissions to SALSA 2006 through the online submission form on the SALSA web page. All submissions must include TWO abstracts: An extended abstract not to exceed 4,100 characters and spaces (approximately 600 words), including references and examples; and a shorter abstracts not to exceed 1,100 spaces and characters (approximately 150 words). Please note that the online submission form does not accept special formatting or text such as IPA. Only electronic submissions sent through our online form will be accepted. The abstract submission system will be available beginning November 22, 2005. Each person is limited to ONE submission as the primary author; multiple submissions by the same first author will not be accepted. Visit the SALSA web page for submission guidelines and conference details and to submit your abstract: http://studentorgs.utexas.edu/salsa/ Deadline for receipt of abstracts is Tuesday, JANUARY 17, 2006. Late submissions will not be accepted, and we cannot accept papers that are to be published elsewhere. Notification of acceptance will be sent in mid-February 2006. Pre-registration fees will be $25 for students and $50 for non-students, and on-site registration fees will be $30 for students and $60 for non-students. Contact us at: SALSA University of Texas at Austin Department of Linguistics 1 University Station Stop B5100 Austin TX 78712-0198 email: salsaut(a)uts.cc.utexas.edu -- ********** ********** ********** ********** Kris M. Markman, M.A., Ph.D. Candidate Communication Studies The University of Texas at Austin Email: jho-kmm(a)mail.utexas.edu https://webspace.utexas.edu/~kris3198 ********** ********** ********** **********

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Fwd: Yale "Regulating Search?" Symposium - Dec. 3
by Dan L Burk 10 Nov '05

10 Nov '05

Of possible interest. DLB On 10 Nov 2005, Eddan Katz wrote: > > Regulating Search? > A Symposium on Search Engines, Law, and Public Policy > December 3, 2005 > Yale Law School > New Haven, CT > http://islandia.law.yale.edu/isp/regulatingsearch.html > > > Search is big business, and search functionality increasingly shapes > the information society. Yet how the law treats search is still up > for grabs, and with it, the power to dominate the next generation of > the online world. How will this potential to wield control affect > search engine companies, their advertisers, their users, or the > information they index? What will search engines look like in the > future, and what is the role of regulators in this emerging market? > > The Information Society Project at Yale Law School is proud to > present "Regulating Search?: A Symposium on Search Engines, Law, and > Public Policy," the first academic conference devoted to search > engines and the law. "Regulating Search?" will take place on > December 3, 2005 at Yale Law School in New Haven, CT. > > This event will bring together representatives from the search > industry, government, civil society, and academia to discuss the > emerging intersection of search engines and various forms of > regulation. It is made possible by the generous support of the > Microsoft Corporation, Google, Inc., and the Knight Foundation. > > A distinguished group of experts will map out the terrain of search > engine law & policy in four panels: (1) The Search Space; (2) Search > Engines and Public Regulation; (3) Search Engines and Intellectual > Property; and (4) Search Engines and Individual Rights. A detailed > description of these four panels is included below and the current > list of confirmed speakers will be available on the conference > website. > > Registration for the conference and further information are available > at http://islandia.law.yale.edu/isp/regulatingsearch.html. Early Bird > registration is $35 for students, $75 for academic and nonprofit > participants, and $165 for corporate and law firm participants. Early > Bird registration ends on Nov. 15. > > > Regulating Search? > A Symposium on Search Engines, Law, and Public Policy > > Panel 1: The Search Space > This panel will review the wide range of what search engines do and > their importance in the information ecosystem. It will survey the > pressures search engines face, the technologies they employ, and the > constituencies they must serve. It will frame the question, to be > explored throughout the day, of whether search is a matter that > requires specific regulatory intervention and a special set of legal > rules for its governing. In this panel, industry participants, > computer scientists, and analysts will flag major trends in search > engine technology and try to predict future developments, with the > goal of pointing out those trends that will create new conflicts and > new litigation. > > Some questions the panelists may ask include: > How competitive will the search engine market be in five years? > Who will be creating the next generation of search innovations: large > corporate entities or judgment-proof individuals? > Will the rise of geography-based search change our assumptions about > such questions as privacy, jurisdiction, and censorship? > What's next in personalized search? > What's next in decentralized peer-to-peer search? > Will vertical search upend our intuitions about what a search engine does? > Do search companies think of legal risks when they make development > decisions? > What kinds of services will search merge with? > > > Panel 2: Search Engines and Public Regulation > This panel will discuss the possibility of direct government > regulation of search functionality. Such regulation might proceed > under several jurisdictional heads (e.g. antitrust, consumer > protection, or telecommunications) with any of a number of possible > policy goals. Where one or a few search engines achieve dominance > over a particular aspect of search, the possibility of such > regulation seems more imminent. This panel will discuss who might > regulate search, why, and how. > > Some questions the panelists may ask include: > Do search engines have First Amendment or Takings Clause rights that > would preclude certain forms of regulation? > Should government regulators intervene to make sure that the search > market stays competitive? > Should search engines be subjected to an informational equivalent of > common-carrier rules? > Is there an obligation to provide evenhanded listing of sites? > Evenhanded listing of results? > Should search engines be required to disclose their commercial > sponsors? Their algorithms? > Should consumers be protected from bad search results? From having > their search results malevolently altered? > Does the recent spate of security breaches at database companies > portend similar trouble for search companies? > Should search engines be afraid of anti-spyware legislation? Of > anti-spam legislation? > > > Panel 3: Search Engines and Intellectual Property > This panel will review past and present litigation involving search > engines and claims framed in the legal doctrines of copyright, > trademark, patent, and right of publicity. Whether search engines are > innocent intermediaries, heroic crusaders for open access, or > villainous agents of infringement depends on who you ask--as does the > appropriate legal response. The panel will discuss the ways in which > IP law shapes the landscape of permissible and impermissible searches. > > Some questions the panelists may ask include: > What does the Grokster decision mean for makers of search engines? > What are the obligations of search engines when responding to > searches on trademarked terms? > What IP rights do and should search engines have available to protect > their algorithms and databases? > What are the obligations of search engines vis-a-vis the copyright > claims of the makers of the content they index? > Do search engines' activities implicate the right of publicity? > Should search engines be liable for their activities in exposing > security holes and spreading data that may include trade secrets? > What are the possibilities for using search engines to promote > authorized use of IP protected content? > > Panel 4: Search Engines and Individual Rights > Some say that search engines are engines of free expression; others > see them as vehicles for hate speech. Some think that search enables > large-scale intrusion into the privacy of others; others think that > the search companies themselves are the new surveillers, spying on > their users; still others see anonymous search as a moral necessity > and a real possibility. This panel will look at the role of search > engines in reshaping our experience of basic rights and at the > pressures the desire to protect those rights place on search. > > Some questions the panelists may ask include: > Should search engines remove content that some find objectionable? > What kinds of data do search engines collect on the individuals who > use them? What kinds should they be allowed to collect? > Do search engines facilitate stalking and other dangerous activities? > If so, what can be done about it? > How can search engines facilitate the free flow of valuable political > and expressive speech? > In an age when search engines create rankings based on mass opinion > and links, what does this technique mean for individual dissent and > personal liberty? > Do search engines empower individuals by promoting accessibility to > their words and thoughts online, or do they only help today's strong > media players get stronger? > Is there a right to search anonymously? > Is access to search technology a basic human right of access to knowledge? > > -- > > Eddan Katz > Lecturer in Law, Yale Law School > Executive Director, Information Society Project > http://islandia.law.yale.edu/isp/ > _______________________________________________ > Dan L. Burk Oppenheimer, Wolff & Donnelly Professor University of Minnesota Law School 229 19th Avenue South Minneapolis, MN 55455 USA *************************************** Voice: 612-626-8726 Fax: 612-625-2011

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CFP interActions
by Alla Genkina 10 Nov '05

10 Nov '05

This online journal encourages graduate students and junior faculty to submit their work: _____________________________________________________________ InterActions: UCLA Journal of Education and Information Studies is a peer-reviewed electronic journal [http://www.interactions.gseis.ucla.edu/] that is committed to the promotion of scholarly work that examines areas of education and information studies via interdisciplinary and critical frameworks. A critical framework is any approach that expands our notion of traditional analyses of problems and issues. The journal seeks to link diverse theoretical and practical projects, as well as provides a space to record the voices of emerging scholars (graduate students and postdoctoral fellows), activists, and practitioners. As education and information institutions continue to face challenging times, we seek to promote submissions that engage alternative, liberatory possibilities informed by creative theories, methodologies, practices, and visions. In particular, we encourage submissions that: • Extend conventional areas of study through critical and interdisciplinary frameworks: These areas include, but are not limited to: bilingual education, affirmative action, special education, standards and testing, teacher education, school violence, higher education, social research methodology, information retrieval, access, systems and institutions, etc. • Utilize an interdisciplinary framework: Draw upon traditional fields of study (such as policy, sociology, information-seeking and retrieval, pedagogy, evaluation, psychological development, etc.) or provide insight from diverse disciplines (e.g., legal theory, ethnic studies, women's studies, technology studies, etc.). • Incorporate critical frameworks and address issues of social inequities: These frameworks may include, but are not restricted to, feminism, critical race theory, Marxism, post-colonialism, critical pedagogy, queer studies, disability studies, etc. Whether or not submissions utilize critical frameworks, they should demonstrate innovation and commitment to advancing current analyses and discourses in progressive directions. Deadlines: For Volumes 2 and 3, January 6, 2006. Submission Guidelines: All articles undergo a double-blind peer-review. Please visit the website for detailed submission guidelines. Manuscripts that do not abide by the submission guidelines will be returned to the author. Please contact interactions(a)gseis.ucla.edu for more details. Please send an electronic version of your submission in Word or Rich Text (rtf) format to: interactions(a)gseis.ucla.edu. Send four paper copies of your submission to: InterActions: UCLA Journal of Education and Information Studies UCLA - Graduate School of Education & Information Studies 2933 Mathematical Sciences Building - Box 951521 Los Angeles, CA 90095-1521

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