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Call For Papers
by Radhika Gajjala 18 Aug '07

18 Aug '07

Call for Papers: Edited Collection on Digital Embodiment, Performativity and Globalization Title: Everyday 3D Lives: Digital Embodiment, Performativity and Globalization Editor : Radhika Gajjala [ http://personal.bgsu.edu/~radhik ] In the recent past, there has been much talk of “web 2.0 “ and “web 3D” as new media. Educators and researchers all over the world are debating the pros and cons of such environments. MMORPGs (Massive(ly) multiplayer online role-playing games) such as World of Warcraft (WoW) and online 3D environments for social and economic activity. Immersive environments such as secondlife are being examined from multiple disciplinary lenses. This edited will include articles based in examinations of embodiment, performativity, gender, race, class, ethnicity, sexuality and globalization critically, and will be open to multiple disciplinary intersections. for more info on this call - see http://cyberdiva.org/blog/2007/08/18/ call-for-papers-edited-collection-on-digital-embodiment- performativity-and-globalization/

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Help with a Facebook survey?
by Adam Joinson 17 Aug '07

17 Aug '07

Dear colleagues, I've recently launched a brief study of what motivates people to use Facebook. The survey is available at: https://www.survey.bath.ac.uk/facebook/ If you're a Facebook user, please do consider completing the survey - it should take less than five minutes, and would be a great, great help... Thanks Adam Joinson. p.s. any feedback or comments welcome off list too

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Fwd: [DIGIRHET] Women of color in computer science/new media question
by Ed Lamoureux 17 Aug '07

17 Aug '07

forwarded from H-DIGIRHET reply to breeze harper, please Begin forwarded message: > From: doug eyman <eymand(a)gmail.com> > Date: August 17, 2007 12:06:20 PM CDT > To: H-DIGIRHET(a)H-NET.MSU.EDU > Subject: [DIGIRHET] Women of color in computer science/new media > question > Reply-To: H-Net Network on Digital Rhetoric <H-DIGIRHET(a)H-NET.MSU.EDU> > > Subject: Women of color in computer science/new media question > From: A. Breeze Harper <breezeharper(a)gmail.com> > Date: Aug 15, 2007 8:00 PM > > Would you know of any sources that provide me with info about computer > science/new media and young women of color. For example, how many > of us > women of color have careers in this field or how the digital divide > will > effect young girls of color. Any ideas? > > Thanks, > > Breeze Edward Lee Lamoureux, Ph. D. Associate Professor, Multimedia Program and Department of Communication Co-Director, New Media Center 1501 W. Bradley Bradley University Peoria IL 61625 309-677-2378 <http://slane.bradley.edu/com/faculty/lamoureux/website2/index.html> <http://gcc.bradley.edu/mm/> AIM/IM & skype: dredleelam Second Life: Professor Beliveau

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[AOIR 8.0] Vancouver Conference Update #5 (August 16, 2007)
by Richard Smith 17 Aug '07

17 Aug '07

Hello, all you AIRtimers! Time for another AIR Conference update. Thought I'd forgotten about it, eh? Not a chance. We love stuffing your email box with bits from the far north - check your ports for frost - and will continue right up to the opening of the conference. Today's update includes news on the program, a contest that could win you fame and glory, visa information, PIE, and the usual entreaties to register early. PROGRAM The full program, as you already are aware, I am sure, is now available online. If you haven't seen it already, check out the link as posted by Mia (http://oak.cats.ohiou.edu/~consalvo/aoir_conference_schedule.xls) or go here: http://wiki.aoir.org/index.php?title=IR8_Program CONTEST As Matthew told me in my briefing when taking on this job, the Australians really "set the bar" in terms of the program. I aim to clear that bar and set a new record. But, I know that my own design skills aren't going to do it. So, I have concocted this idea to have a "program design" contest. If you design the new program I will pay for your registration to AoIR (or the cash equivalent). Is that something you'd like to do? If so, check out the details on the contest here: http://wiki.aoir.org/index.php?title=IR8_Contest VISA You might need a visa to come to Canada. Please check our web site for information about countries whose citizens require visas, and details on how to get a letter of invitation, if necessary: http://wiki.aoir.org/index.php?title=IR8_VISA_info PIE Yes, pie. We're going to have pie at this conference. Thank Holly and Mia for that. And if you want more info on the pie, we'll you should be on the AoIR facebook group, then, shouldn't you? http://sfu.facebook.com/group.php?gid=5212889713 REGISTER If you haven't registered for the conference yet, what are you waiting for? Get on it! Here is the link: http://www.aoir.org/?q=conf HOTELS Are you booked into a hotel? If not, you might be sleeping rough. There is a lot of great information on hotels here: http://wiki.aoir.org/index.php?title=IR8_Location_and_Hotels That's all for now, folks. ...r -- Richard Smith, Professor, School of Communication Simon Fraser University, 515 West Hastings Street, Vancouver, CANADA V6B 5K3 Phone: 778 782 5116 Web: http://www.sfu.ca/~smith/ New book!: http://arago.cprost.sfu.ca/smith/mawc

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skype crashes
by Ed Lamoureux 17 Aug '07

17 Aug '07

"Skype engineers said the flaw existed in every copy of the Skype software that had been downloaded since the service’s start in 2003." http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/17/business/17ebay.html?th&emc=th Edward Lee Lamoureux, Ph. D. Associate Professor, Multimedia Program and Department of Communication Co-Director, New Media Center 1501 W. Bradley Bradley University Peoria IL 61625 309-677-2378 <http://slane.bradley.edu/com/faculty/lamoureux/website2/index.html> <http://gcc.bradley.edu/mm/> AIM/IM & skype: dredleelam Second Life: Professor Beliveau

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still need some footballers
by Jeremy Hunsinger 16 Aug '07

16 Aug '07

It will be fun or at least interesting:) We could use 3 more likely fantasy footballers:) jeremy hunsinger Information Ethics Fellow, Center for Information Policy Research, School of Information Studies, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (www.cipr.uwm.edu) () ascii ribbon campaign - against html mail /\ - against microsoft attachments http://www.aoir.org The Association of Internet Researchers http://www.stswiki.org/ stswiki http://cfp.learning-inquiry.info/ LI-the journal http://transdisciplinarystudies.tmttlt.com/ Transdisciplinary Studies:the book series

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Call for position papers: The ethics of data sharing in e-social science
by Annamaria Carusi 16 Aug '07

16 Aug '07

Title: The ethics of data sharing in e-social science Organisers: Annamaria Carusi and Marina Jirotka Oxford University Computing Laboratory and Oxford e-Research Centre Keynote speaker: Prof Elizabeth Buchanan, Center for Information Policy Research, School of Information Studies, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Call for position papers The new possibilities for conducting social science research created by e-Social Science also bring with them a number of ethical challenges regarding data use and re-use, access, archiving and management. While e-social science tools and technologies are forging ahead, they are also creating gaps and indeterminacies where it is not clear what ethical procedures or actions are appropriate. There are also often tensions and contradictions between different legal and institutional requirements, standards and conditions which researchers are expected to meet. Disciplinary and personal ethics can be further factors which make this a complex arena of ethical judgement and action. This workshop aims to bring together researchers in e-social science who have experience of ethical issues that arise in the context of data sharing, or who have conducted research in this area. For full details please see http://ess.si.umich.edu/ Please note extended deadline for position papers up to 6 pages is now August 30th, 2007.

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Please suggest titles for the AOIR Book Exhibit
by Orion Anderson 16 Aug '07

16 Aug '07

TO ALL INTERNET RESEARCHERS WHO WOULD LIKE TO HAVE THEIR OWN BOOK INCLUDED--OR WHO WISH TO SUGGEST ANY OTHER BOOKS FOR INCLUSION at the BOOK EXHIBIT OF THE 8th ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF THE ASSOCIATION OF INTERNET RESEARCHERS, coming up October 17-20, 2007: Please respond to the request below immediately, providing information on BOOKS YOU HAVE AUTHORED and/or any OTHER TITLES THAT YOU THINK ARE IMPORTANT FOR THE CONFERENCE AND WOULD LIKE TO HAVE INCLUDED IN THE AOIR BOOK EXHIBIT. _____________________________________________________ Dear Colleague, The 2007 meeting of the ASSOCIATION OF INTERNET RESEARCHERS will feature a book exhibit specially organized and managed by the LIBRARY OF SOCIAL SCIENCE. The exhibit will bring together recent and significant titles covering all things Internet, as well as titles on new media technologies and practices. The exhibit will contribute substantially to the intellectual value of our conference by providing a comprehensive collection of the latest publications. We seek your input to assist in developing an exhibit that will include books on the full range of topics. If you are an AUTHOR and wish to have your book included in the exhibit, please respond ASAP by e-mail to LSSBookExhibits(a)earthlink.net or fax it to 413-832-8145, providing the following information: (1) The title(s) of the book(s) you are recommending, and date(s) of publication. (2) The name(s) of the publisher(s). (3) (If you are an author): The name, telephone number and e-mail address of your contact at each publishing company. Please be sure to include your own name, telephone number and e-mail address with the information that you send to us, so we can follow up if we require additional information. If there are other titles that you wish to recommend for inclusion in the display, for each title simply provide the NAME OF THE BOOK, THE AUTHOR and the PUBLISHER. Please respond to this e-mail immediately, so that we can begin work to assure that the book(s) you have authored or recommended are included in the display. Thank you very much. With regards, Mei Ha Chan P. S. To obtain additional information on the book exhibit, authors or publishers may call me at 718-393-1075 . LIBRARY OF SOCIAL SCIENCE BOOK EXHIBITS Mei Ha Chan E-mail: LSSBookExhibits(a)earthlink.net TEL 718-393-1075 FAX 413-832-8145 ______________________________________ Library of Social Science 92-30 56th Ave., Suite 3-E Elmhurst, NY 11373 T: (718) 393-1075 F: (413) 832-8145 Richard A. Koenigsberg, Ph. D., Director Mei Ha Chan, Associate Director Orion Anderson, Communications Director Richard Klein, Marketing Manager Website for LIBRARY OF SOCIAL SCIENCE BOOK EXHIBITS: http://libraryofsocialscience.com/ 2006/2007 LSS BOOK EXHIBIT SCHEDULE: http://libraryofsocialscience.com/sched.html

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QUT iCi Guest Seminar - Mirjam Struppek - Friday 17th August
by Marcus Foth 15 Aug '07

15 Aug '07

Guest Seminar by Mirjam Struppek Interactionfield - Urban Space and Public Sphere and the New Media Date: Friday 17th August Venue: The Loft, Z2 Level 5, QUT Creative Industries Precinct Time: 5pm - 6.30pm Map: http://www.qut.edu.au/about/location/map_ciprecinct.pdf Please RSVP to courtney.oconnor(a)qut.edu.au http://qutedu.facebook.com/event.php?eid=5236926753 In an experimental timeframe of about ten years, interactive media installations and performances have emerged as a new art form in urban space. Screen Installations, Public Projections, Interactive Fassades and Shopwindows, Public Communication-Sculptures and Messageboards or Space Annotations, Psychogeographic Performances and Location-Based Mobile Games try to create create new visual experiences in an increasingly commercialised urban space. What has been learned from the investigation of the interconnectedness of urban public space, interaction and new media utilising the growing digital infrastructure and new wireless and wearable gadgets. What strategies and tools can be found to engage the audience, considering the character of an urban surrounding and desired type of interaction and personal or joint experiences. http://www.interactionfield.de/ http://www.urbanscreens.org/ SHORT BIOGRAPHY Mirjam Struppek works as urbanist, researcher and consultant in Berlin. She has lectured and published essays with a special focus on the livability of urban space, public sphere and its transformation and acquisition through new media. Since 2002 she is developing the online-information-platform interactionfield about the relation of interaction, new media and public space. In this context she organises the monthly lecture and discussion evening „Urban Media Salon“. She developed the first international conference Urban Screens in 2005 and is currently working on further implementing this concept of utilising outdoor screens for a sustainable urban society.. In 2003 she worked as Assistant in a gallery for still and motion pictures in Berlin. She is holding a degree with distinction in Urban- and Environmental Planning from University of Kaiserslautern and spent in 1999 two research semester at the Graduate School of Environmental Studies at Nagoya University, Japan. Please join the Urban Informatics facebook group: http://qutedu.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2493830797 -- Dr Marcus Foth Australian Postdoctoral Fellow Visiting Fellow, Oxford Internet Institute Institute for Creative Industries and Innovation Queensland University of Technology (CRICOS No. 00213J) Creative Industries Precinct, Brisbane QLD 4059, Australia Phone +61 7 313 x88772 - Fax x88195 - Office Z6-511 m.foth(a)qut.edu.au - http://www.vrolik.de/publications/

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Zero Comments now available
by geert lovink 15 Aug '07

15 Aug '07

Dear all, I am proud to announce the appearance of my new book, Zero Comments, Blogging and Critical Internet Culture, the third volume in a series on critical Internet culture (after Dark Fiber and My First Recession). I got it in the mail on Friday, you can order it through Amazon but I am not sure if it has yet arrived in bookshops. The book contains eleven essays and an introduction that deals with Web 2.0 and Internet culture after its recovery of 9/11 and the dotcom crash. This is the table of content: Introduction: Pride and Glory of Web 2.0 Blogging, the Nihilist Impulse The Cool Obscure: Crisis of New Media Arts Whereabouts of German Media Theory Blogging & Building: The Netherlands After Digitization Indifference of the Networked Presence: On Internet Time Revisiting Sarai: Five Years of New Media Culture in India ICT After Development: The Incommunicado Agenda Updating Tactical Media: Strategies for Media Activism Axioms of Free Cooperation: Contesting Online Collaboration Theses on Distributed Aesthetics Introducing Organized Networks: The Quest for Sustainable Concepts And this is the original blurb that I wrote for the backcover: In Zero Comments Geert Lovink upgrades worn-out concepts and inquires the latest Web 2.0 hype around blogs, wikis and social network sites. In this third volume of his studies into critical Internet culture, Lovink develops a 'general theory of blogging.' Unlike most publications he is not focusing on the dynamics between bloggers and the mainstream news media. Instead of celebrating 'citizen journalism' blogs are analyzed in their 'nihilist impulse' to empty out established meaning structures. Blogs bring on decay of the 20th century broadcast media, and are proud of their in-crowd aspect in which linking, tagging and ranking have become the main drivers. The book also deals with the silent globalization of the Net in which no longer the West, but countries like India, China and Brazil are becoming main players in new media culture. It is not only the latest that Internet enthusiasts should focus on. Zero Comments upgrades concepts such as global Internet time, tactical media, the crisis of new media arts and the problematic relationship between architecture and the Net. The book ends with speculative notions on concepts such as organized networks, free cooperation and distributed aesthetics. Zero Comments contains two large essays, the extended chapter on blogging and my take on new media arts. The book has made an interesting three years journey. I started working on it in Brisbane in July 2003, then took it to Amsterdam and finished at the Wissenschaftskolleg in Berlin. I closed the manuscript eleven months ago, early September 2006. The book has won an honorable mention, the 2007 Ars Electronica Media Art Research Award, will come out this Fall in German (Transkript Verlag, Bielefeld) and in a shortened edition in Italian (with Bruno Mondadori). I am not sure yet if and where launches and presentations will be held. For now I am excited to hold it in my hand and flip through the pages. Let the Infrastructure do its work–and then you can have a read. Thanks for everyone who supported me in the writing and enjoy! With regards, Geert

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