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CFP: FDG 2010: The 5th International Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games
by Yusuf Pisan 04 Jan '10

04 Jan '10

[ Apologies for cross-posting. Please forward to colleagues and mailing lists as appropriate ] ========== FDG 2010: CALL FOR PAPERS ========== FDG 2010: The 5th International Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games 19-21 June 2010, at Asilomar Conference Grounds, Monterey, California. http://fdg2010.org/ *** Important Dates *** Workshop Proposals: 18 Sep 2009 (past) Paper and Poster Submission: 5 Feb 2010 (soon soon) Doctoral Consortium Submission: 12 Feb 2010 Author Notification: 29 Mar 2010 Demo Submission: 2 Apr 2010 Registration for Authors: 9 Apr 2010 Camera Ready Papers: 23 Apr 2010 Workshops: 18 Jun 2010 Conference: 19-21 Jun 2010 *** Happy New Year. There is less than a month to get those papers ready for FDG 2010. Time to get cracking *** LATEST NEWS =========== * Invited Speakers: Jane McGonigal, Director of Game Research & Development Institute for the Future http://www.avantgame.com/bio.htm James Gee, Mary Lou Fulton Presidential Professor of Literacy Studies Arizona State University https://webapp4.asu.edu/directory/person/1054842 ... additional invited speakers forthcoming ... * Workshops at FDG 2010 Three workshops will be held in conjunction with FDG 2010 Intelligent Narrative Technologies III Procedural Content Generation in Games Teaching Aesthetics in Game Design Visit http://fdg2010.org/Workshops.html for details. * Update to Doctoral Symposium There is updated instructions for the FDG Doctoral Symposium. The deadline is still 12 Feb 2009. See below for submission details. * FDG is an ACM in-collaboration conference All papers accepted to FDG 2010, as well as all the papers accepted into the FDG workshops, will be published in the ACM Digital Library, indexed, cross-referenced and will available for easy access, downloading and referencing! * Microsoft support for FDG 2010 Microsoft has been a long-term supporter of FDG. In fact, the conference series was originally created by Kent Foster and John Nordlinger at Microsoft, and was known as the Microsoft Academic Days on Game Development in Computer Science Education (GDCSE). In 2009, the conference changed its name and expanded its scope to the Foundations of Digital Games. John Nordinger has recently left Microsoft to pursue a Master's degree in Film Production at the University of Southern California. We wish him all the best! * Panels at FDG 2010 In addition to invited speakers from industry and academy leaders, peer-reviewed papers and tutorials, FDG 2010 will have panels on topics related to games. If you have any burning suggestions for panel topics or people you would like to see on the panel, please email Ian Bogost ian.bogost(a)lcc.gatech.edu OVERVIEW ======== FDG 2010, the International Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games, is a focal point for academic efforts in all areas of research and education involving games, game technologies, gameplay and game design. The goal of the conference is the advancement of the study of digital games, including new game technologies, capabilities, designs, applications, educational uses, and modes of play. FDG 2010 will include presentations of peer-reviewed papers, invited talks by high-profile industry and academic leaders, hands-on tutorials and topical panels on a range of subjects related to games research and education. We invite researchers and educators to share insights and cutting-edge results relating to game technologies and their use. PAPER and POSTER SUBMISSIONS ============================ FDG 2010 will accept both full paper and poster submissions. Authors may choose to submit their papers and posters to the general conference or to a specific theme area. The seven theme areas for FDG 2010 are described below. 1) Artificial Intelligence Track Chair: Magy Seif El-Nasr, Simon Fraser University We solicit papers on artificial intelligence research that provides novel solutions to traditional game AI problems (e.g., path planning, camera control, terrain analysis, user modeling, tactical/strategic and decision making), supports novel game concepts or gameplay elements (e.g. interactive drama, narrative/character development and NPC belief/attitude/emotion modeling), provides automated or semi-automated solutions to game production challenges (e.g., game design, content creation, testing and procedural animation), or describes the integration of AI technologies (e.g., machine learning, logical inference and planning) into game AI architectures. 2) Computer Science and Games Education Track Chair: Andrew Phelps, Rochester Institute of Technology The Computer Science and Games Education Theme Area invites researchers and educators to submit papers illustrating the latest advances and innovation in curricula for games and computer science, in both formal and informal educational contexts. All papers must show rigorous and compelling evaluation. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: game design and development curricula, effective practices and infrastructure for the use of games and game technologies in Computer Science courses and programs, Web-based (adaptive) educational games and interdisciplinary collaboration among computer scientists and others to create games in educational contexts. 3) Game Design Track Chair: Tracy Fullerton, University of Southern California The Game Design theme seeks detailed reports of creative practice and methods, as well as the exploration and development of innovative gameplay forms and mechanics. Design postmortems that rigorously analyze the intent and effect of particular solutions, mechanics, structures or gaming situations are very welcome. Also, research on new models for player involvement, design for learning, participatory design, iterative player-centered process, and investigations into the relationship between hardware and software platforms and design are strongly encouraged. Submissions may discuss theoretical designs or implemented ones, but should provide evaluative evidence and rigorous analysis of outcomes. 4) Game Studies Track Chair: Mia Consalvo, MIT Game Studies as a field is broadly interdisciplinary, welcoming a variety of theoretical, methodological and computational approaches to the study of games and play. This year, we particularly seek submissions that investigate areas such as player experience, game ontology, the social and cultural aspects of gameplay, cross-cultural or global analyses, networked play (including consoles), game aesthetics and criticism, casual and serious gaming and analysis of new and emerging phenomena. All submissions must provide rigorous analysis and present evaluative evidence. 5) Graphics and Interfaces Track Chair: Steven Feiner, Columbia University The Graphics and Interfaces theme seeks papers on all aspects of computer graphics and user interfaces that are specifically related to digital games, including but not limited to: animation, modeling, rendering, 2D and 3D user interfaces, collaborative user interfaces, mobile user interfaces, tangible user interfaces, design of (interfaces for) Web 2.0 game focused web applications, integration of web-based and computer/console based game worlds, augmented reality and virtual reality, and novel interaction devices and displays. 6) Infrastructure (Databases, Networks, Security) Track Chair: Mark Claypool, WPI The Infrastructure track invites submissions that focus on the many aspects of improving systems support for digital games. Suitable papers should describe novel networks, operating systems or database systems that are especially designed for games, or make novel use of existing systems to support games. Topics of interest include: networked game architectures, network protocol design for games, latency compensation and synchronization methods, mobile and/or resource-constrained game platforms, software and middleware support for networked games, content delivery and adaptation, services for supporting networked games, cheat detection and prevention, networking and security for Web-based games and game portals, database engines and database optimization for games, distributed database techniques and consistency models for networked games, and data management for games that cross physical and virtual worlds. 7) Learning in Games Track Chair: Elisabeth Hayes, Arizona State University Learning in Games invites papers that investigate how games contribute to intellectual, creative, social, and embodied forms of learning in and outside the classroom, for learners of all ages. Studies focused on educational games as well as the learning potential of COTS games are welcome. Research on the design of games for learning, the outcomes of game-based learning, and learning that occurs in the social contexts and interactions around games (such as within fan communities) should be submitted to this track. Papers on the professional training of game developers should be submitted to the Computer Science and Games Education track. All paper and poster submissions will be rigorously peer reviewed for their technical merit (where applicable), significance, clarity and relevance to the advancement of the study of games. All full papers must describe a completed unit of work and show rigorous and compelling evaluation of the ideas they present. Poster submissions should describe novel work in progress that is not at the same level of research maturity as a full submission. Full papers must not exceed eight pages, but can be shorter. We will review for quality not length! Poster submissions must not exceed two pages. All submissions must be submiteed via https://easychair.org/login.cgi?conf=fdg2010 and must comply with the official ACM proceedings format using one of the templates provided at http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html All accepted paper and poster submissions will be published in the conference proceedings. For a paper or poster to appear in the proceedings, at least one author must register for the conference by the deadline for camera-ready copy submission. All papers, posters, and doctoral consortium publications from FDG 2010 will be included in the ACM Digital Library. Submissions must not have been published previously. In addition, a submission identical or substantially similar (or even a subset or superset) in content to one submitted to FDG should not be simultaneously under consideration at another conference or journal during the entire FDG review process (i.e., from the submission deadline until the notifications of decisions are emailed to authors). DOCTORAL CONSORTIUM =================== (updated instructions) FDG 2010 - the International Conference on Foundations of Digital Games - is soliciting submissions from doctoral students for the FDG Doctoral Consortium. The FDG 2010 Doctoral Consortium provides a supportive environment in which Ph.D. students can get early feedback on their research directions, both from fellow students and from experienced faculty in the area. The consortium is intended primarily for beginning Ph.D. students who intend to pursue a career in academia. Since the goal of the Doctoral Consortium is to enable greater number of new PhDs in the area, applications from students who are close to completing their PhD will have lower priority (or are discouraged). Approximately 5 students will be invited to participate. Students participating in the consortium will submit a 3 page extended abstract describing their research, which will be reviewed by the conference program committee. Accepted abstracts will appear in the conference proceedings. Students authors of accepted papers will be invited to participate in both the main conference and the doctoral consortium and will receive financial support including conference registration, and an allowance for travel expenses. Accepted authors should contact the consortium chair for specifics. All students accepted into the Doctoral Consortium will be expected to attend both the conference and the Doctoral Consortium session. Interested students should submit a CV and 3 page extended abstract that discusses: * What the goals of your research are * Why those goals are important and who they would be important to * How your approach differs from previous approaches, if any * Your current results, if any * Plans for completing this research The extended abstract should not be a paper describing completed work, but a research proposal describing a promising unexplored research direction. Applicants should upload their 3 page extended abstract (PDF format) and their CV (as an attachment, PDF format ) to http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icfdgdc2010, by February 12, 2010. Applications should also have their advisors email a letter of recommendation by this date directly to Zoran Popovic (zoranp+fdgdc10(a)gmail.com) with the subject line "FDG DC Recommendation". Applicants should make sure that advisors send the support letter by February 12, 2010. Important Dates for Doctoral Consortium Doctoral Consortium proposal submissions: 12 February 2010 Advisor support letter: 12 February 2010 Doctoral Consortium notification of results: 2 April 2010 Registration for Authors: 9 April 2010 Please direct your questions to the Doctoral Consortium Chair Zoran Popovic (zoranp+fdgdc10(a)gmail.com) FDG 2010 ORGANIZING COMMITTEE ============================= Conference Chair Ian Horswill, Northwestern University Program Chair Yusuf Pisan, University of Technology, Sydney Doctoral Consortium Chair Zoran Popovic, University of Washington Workshops Chair Michael Mateas, University of California, Santa Cruz Panels Chair Ian Bogost, Georgia Institute of Technology Tutorials Chair Robin Hunicke, That Game Company Local Arrangements Chair Marilyn Walker, University of California, Santa Cruz Webmaster Karl Cheng-Heng Fua, Northwestern University ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ====================== Please see http://fdg2010.org/ for this year's conference and http://foundationsofdigitalgames.org/ for past years, including: Table of Contents for FDG 2009: http://portal.acm.org/toc.cfm?id=1536513 Table of Contents for GDCSE 2008: http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1463673 Proceedings for GDCSE 2007: http://www.eng.unt.edu/ian/Cruise2007/madgdcse2007.pdf To get the latest news on FDG, subscribe to the FDG-announce mailing list. Send an email to listserv(a)listserv.it.northwestern.edu with no subject line and a body saying: SUBSCRIBE fdg-announce firstname lastname Yusuf -- A/Professor Yusuf Pisan Games Studio Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology University of Technology, Sydney http://staff.it.uts.edu.au/~ypisan/ http://games.it.uts.edu.au/ Skype: ypisan [CFP v3, sent out on 4 Jan 2010]

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FW: [MCJ] CFP: M/C Journal 'ambient' Issue
by Axel Bruns 03 Jan '10

03 Jan '10

G'day ! FYI: > -----Original Message----- > From: Axel Bruns [mailto:editor@media-culture.org.au] > Sent: Monday, 4 January 2010 9:52 > To: Axel Bruns > Subject: [MCJ] CFP: M/C Journal 'ambient' Issue FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - 4 Jan. 2010 M/C - Media and Culture http://www.media-culture.org.au/ is calling for contributors to the 'ambient' issue of M/C Journal http://journal.media-culture.org.au/ M/C Journal is looking for new contributors. Founded in 1998, M/C is a crossover journal between the popular and the academic, and a blind- and peer-reviewed journal. Our Website at http://journal.media-culture.org.au/ provides open access to all past issues. To find out how and in what format to contribute your work, visit http://journal.media-culture.org.au/index.php/mcjournal/about/submissions. Call for Papers: 'ambient' Edited by Luke Jaaniste Ambience is all around us. Wherever we are. Conditioned as we are as being-in-the-world, we are always surrounded. A surrounding that affords meaningful pathways and places of action and thought, that is intelligently geared up with us. The fundamental surroundings might be the earth itself, upon which multiple worlds, spaces, zones, nets, webs, districts, precincts and the like occupy our lives, as we occupy them. Ambience can be contrasted with salience. What is salient is what is of immediate interest and attention. Before us right now, taken up. Hopefully, dear reader, these words you are reading have particular salience for you. Right now. But when something is taken up in our field of attention and action, there is so much that remains, always already there, in the background, in the periphery, in the ether, in the air. So when Brian Eno famously coined the term 'ambient music' in the 1970s - and triggered off a whole raft of terms like ambient video, ambient art, ambient architecture, ambient tv, ambient media, ambient marketing, ambient journalism, ambient computing, ambient screens, ambient poetics and ambient literature - he was doing something a little odd. Making ambience salient. In his music and in his discourse about it. Ambience has been palpably in place, since the dawn of time, but as way of talking about the world is helps gear us towards the all-around and how so much of being human is conditioned and affected by our surrounds, in a age when place and place-making has changed in dramatic ways, locally and globally. In this issue, we ask: what ideas and interaction take place in ambience? Please send a 100-word abstract to the editors at ambient(a)journal.media-culture.org.au. Articles of 3,000 words in length should be submitted online at http://journal.media-culture.org.au/ and should be prepared in accordance with the M/C Journal style guidelines, available at http://journal.media-culture.org.au/index.php/mcjournal/about/submissions. Article deadline: 5 Mar. 2010 Issue release date: 5 May 2010 M/C Journal was founded (as "M/C - A Journal of Media and Culture") in 1998 as a place of public intellectualism analysing and critiquing the meeting of media and culture. Contributors are directed to past issues of M/C Journal for examples of style and content, and to the submissions page for comprehensive article submission guidelines. M/C Journal articles are blind peer-reviewed. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Further M/C Journal issues scheduled for 2010/11: 'ambient': article deadline 5 Mar. 2010, release date 5 May 2010 'deaf': article deadline 30 Apr. 2010, release date 30 June 2010 'waste': article deadline 25 June 2010, release date 25 Aug. 2010 'pig': article deadline 20 Aug. 2010, release date 20 Oct. 2010 'coalition': article deadline 15 Oct. 2010, release date 15 Dec. 2010 'doubt': article deadline 21 Jan. 2011, release date 23 Mar. 2011 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- M/C - Media and Culture is located at <http://www.media-culture.org.au/>. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- M/C Journal is online at <http://journal.media-culture.org.au/>. All past issues of M/C Journal on various topics are available there. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- end Dr Axel Bruns -- General Editor editor(a)media-culture.org.au M/C - Media and Culture http://www.media-culture.org.au/

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Fwd: CFP Reminder: Canadian Journal of Media Studies Call for Papers: Media, Knowledge and the Network University
by Steve Jones 03 Jan '10

03 Jan '10

Forwarding on behalf of a colleague... and sending my own best wishes to all for the new year... Steve Begin forwarded message: > _________________________________________________________________________________________________________ > CANADIAN JOURNAL OF MEDIA STUDIES > > CALL FOR PAPERS > > 2009 marks the 30th anniversary of the publication of Jean-François Lyotard’s The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge. “[I}t is common knowledge,” he wrote, “that the miniaturization and commercialization of machines is already changing the way learning is acquired, classified, made available, and exploited” (1984, org. 1979: 4). In 2010, “Connected Understanding” will be the theme of the Congress of Social Sciences and Humanities in Montreal (http://www.congress2010.ca/) The Canadian Journal of Media Studies announces a special issue on Media, Knowledge and the Network University edited by Bob Hanke, York University, and David Spencer, University of Western Ontario. > > The massification and informationalization of the university has transformed not only the content of teaching and research but also disciplinary processes of knowledge production and the technological form of academic life and culture. The integration and normalization of ICT's raises many questions about the university, academic labour, scholarly communication and collaboration, and academic technoculture. In 1957, Marshall McLuhan invited us to reconsider the education process by announcing that, with the advent of television, the “classroom without walls” had arrived. A half a century later, we are working in the university without walls and the ICT “revolution” is over. In “Universities, wet, hard, and harder,” German media theorist Friedrich Kittler reviewed 800 years of university-based media history to observe that “universities have finally succeeded in forming once again a complete media system.” Yet media scholars have rarely chosen to study their own universities as media systems. This special issue of the CJMS is an invitation to reflexive, critical media studies. Established and emerging scholars are invited to address continuities and transformations in new media and the network university and to set the agenda for future study and debate. > > Possible questions and areas of research and critical inquiry include: > > What is unthought, unrepresented and unquestioned in discussions of the public university and the ‘neoliberal turn,’ technologically-mediated post-secondary education, and institutional initiatives in the virtualization of the educational process? > > What is the impact of the cybernation of the university? What is happening in information technology (IT) infrastructure, planning and governance? What IT strategies are pursued by specific institutions in different jurisdictions? What is the role of IT professionals as intermediaries between IT industries, intermediating organizations, private-sector partners and the university? What is the faculty experience of ICTs, and IT “solutions,” services, and support? > > What are the networks of possibility and affordances of technology, and what are the obstacles and limits? the unintended, unanticipated consequences? > > What hybrid methodologies, research techniques and software enhance our capacity to map the wireless campus and network condition of the university? > > What philosophers of technology and politics are relevant to sharpening our thinking on the question of technology? What scholarly perspectives on invention, innovation and the process of emergence enable us to break the habit of instrumentalist thinking and discard the “tool” metaphor? How can we take technical artifacts, from small, portable technology to entire campus networks, out of their “black boxes” in order to study them? How does the technical substrate matter to our thinking? Our reading and writing of “texts”? Our notions of “research”? > > How is the university embedded in the network society and cognitive capitalism? What are the drivers of IT change in universities? What are the consequences of the disjuncture between the digital culture and practices outside the university and IT (planning, procurement/evaluation/implementation, support and services) inside universities? > > How can we move beyond user-centric approaches to Web 2.0 based software applications and learning management systems, peer-to-peer networks, and small tech in academic settings? In the new network culture, how can we grasp the relations between what is “given” and what is unlikely, surprising, unexpected and unrealized? > > How can we move beyond debates over “student centered” learning and faculty deskilling to new models of reskilling and organized research networks, technological literacy and technologies of the common? How can we articulate scholarly “collaboration” and student “engagement” with a politics of knowledge (commodified knowledge, open scholarship and knowledge within the social sciences and humanities, popular knowledge, indigenous knowledge, etc.) that will strengthen the public mission of the university after the recession? How can we turn away from the “knowledge economy” and towards knowledge cultures? What does the prototype of the Canadian Institute for Health Research’s Knowledge Broker Model portend for the social sciences and humanities? > > We also invite investigations of: > > • computerization, campus networking strategies, and ICT-related organizational change since the advent of distributed computing, the Internet and the WWW > • space, time, speed and rhythm in the network university > • the production and operativity of networks and archives, scholarly journals and portals, web-based learning environments and objects, research cyberinfrastructure, critical cyberpedagogy, technological literacy, copyright/left, intellectual property rights > • open access movement, open access research, open educational resources, open courseware, institutional repositories, ‘Do it Yourself’ education or edupunk > • tropes of factory, ecology, network, mobility, common > • articulations and destabilizations of oral/written, actual/virtual, bureaucratic records/institutional memory, off-line/on line, knowledge creation/information sharing, formal learning on campus/informal learning off campus, amateur/professional, artist/researcher > • ideology of convenience, ethos of performativity, the promotional condition, immaterial academic labour, general intellect, circuits of knowledge and struggle > • technological “progress,”“knowledge economy,” knowledge “transfer” or “mobilization,” creativity, innovation, academic freedom, academic capitalism > • the coming network university, knowledge futures, ecoethical perspectives on the university’s inputs and outputs and the discourse of “sustainability” > > Since intellectual innovation may be engendered at the intersections of disciplines, contributions are welcome from outside of Communication and traditions and trajectories of media studies outside of Canada. Solo or collaborative work that provides a comparative, international perspective on the network university in different countries is especially welcome. > > Submission Guidelines > > Authors should submit papers of about 25 pages (or 8000 words) in MLA style with abstract and keywords electronically to David Spencer, Editor, dspencer(a)uwo.ca. With the exception of the title page, please remove all indications of authorship. > > The deadline for papers is February 28, 2010. Peer review and notification of acceptance will be completed by March 31, 2010. Final manuscripts accepted for publication will be due April 30, 2010. > > Comments and queries can be sent to Bob Hanke, Guest Co-Editor, bhanke(a)yorku.ca. > For more information about the Canadian Journal of Media Studies, visit http://cjms.fims.uwo.ca/default.htm

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CFP: Book Collection: Identity Technologies: producing online selves ?Deadline: June 15, 2010
by Poletti, Anna 03 Jan '10

03 Jan '10

CALL FOR PAPERS? Book Collection: Identity Technologies: producing online selves ? Deadline: June 15, 2010 The popularity of social networking sites, user-generated content, wireless technologies and games has engendered a rapid proliferation of identities and ways to imagine, produce and consume them. As a result, the internet has become central to how many of its users understand intimacy, communication and community. We contend that this phenomenon is nothing new. Online and offline forms of identity have the potential to act genealogically, challenging our ideas about utopian approaches to the internet as a place without history, bodies or politics. How then can we understand what identity means online and why it is so important to so many internet users that they have a digital existence? For us, answers to this question do not have to take the form of utopian ideas about internet identities, time and space, but should admit that issues about internet identity are inevitably embedded in concerns about the production of discourse and about the material conditions of internet access, surveillance and use. In this essay collection, we hope to gather together investigations into a whole host of questions raised by the popularity and power of identity technologies. What kinds of selves are generated online? How do memory and narrative, key elements of autobiography, exist and persist in various forms of online subjectivity? How is identity related to virtual time and space? How do we account for the role of recreation and entertainment in communicating an online self? How do we describe and analyze the relationship between hardware and software design and the identities they occasion and transmit? Is it possible to resist the hail of ITs (internet technologies)? What is the relationship between identity politics and ITs? We aim to bring together emerging ideas about identity and online life from the fields of cultural studies, new media studies and auto/biography studies in order to explore what online identity is and what it might mean. Please submit a completed essay by June 15, 2010. Essays must be 4000-6000 words in Chicago B style with 12-point font. Essays must be written in English, but they do not have to be about the anglophone, western version of the internet. The collection will be published in digital and paper form with a university press.??We welcome submissions which include--but are not limited to--the following topics:? theorizing online identity questions of pedagogy research methods youth cultures and emerging identities social networking virtual lives online desires collaboration biography and technology work shopping hardware and software publicity and privacy regulation identity theft personal video cyberbodies and cyberspaces avatars internet surveillance archives viruses and "going viral" deception and authenticity activism Send one copy each of your submission as an electronic attachment to: Anna Poletti, Charles Sturt University <apoletti(a)csu.edu.au> Julie Rak, University of Alberta <julie.rak(a)ualberta.ca> Dr. Anna Poletti Lecturer in English School of Humanities & Social Sciences Charles Sturt University Locked Bag 678 Wagga Wagga NSW 2678 e: apoletti(a)csu.edu.au ph: + 61 2 6933 2478 fax: +61 2 6933 2792

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request: suggestions theories applied to Internet research
by Ronald E. Rice 03 Jan '10

03 Jan '10

Hi folks... I'd be very grateful for any suggestions as to your favorite or most useful theory applied to studying social aspects of the Internet, especially adaptions of existing theories (e.g., diffusion, adaptive structuration, uses & gratifications, SIDE, etc.) or new theoretical approaches (Walther's SIP, media genres) developed since the rise of the Internet. If you could provide a complete reference, and possibly a link to a central document (and if you wish to be excessive, also a statement as to why you think it's a good addition), I will, as we all do, provide a summary back to the list. Please send your suggestions to my email, not the list. Thanks in advance, and Happy New Year! ======================================================= Ronald E. Rice Arthur N. Rupe Chair in the Social Effects of Mass Communication Co-Director, Carsey-Wolf Center for Film, Television, and New Media President of the International Communication Association 2006-2007 Dept. of Communication, 4005 Social Sciences & Media Studies Bldg. University of California Santa Barbara, CA 93106-4020 Ph: 805-893-8696; Fax: 805-893-7102 rrice(a)comm.ucsb.edu http://www.comm.ucsb.edu/people/faculty/rice.php http://www.cftnm.ucsb.edu/

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