March 2010 - Air-L - lists.aoir.org

Extended Deadline - Call for Articles: Social Engineering book
by Stephan Humer 31 Mar '10

31 Mar '10

*** Extended and now final Deadline - Please send proposals until May 1st, 2010 *** Dear list members, Social Engineering is not only a fascinating field of activity, but also clearly underrepresented in academic discussions. So I would like to invite you to an edited book, covering the latest trends, discussions and developments in Social Engineering, preferably with a digital context. Interested authors should submit an extended abstract of no more than 500 words (in English) now by May 1st, 2010. The articles should be completed within the upcoming summer. The book will be peer reviewed and published as a part of the Berlin University of the Arts Digital Class serial in 2010. The serial is an effort to raise people´s awareness of contemporary digital theory aspects in our society. Please join our actual team from several disciplines and fields! -- Best regards Dr. Stephan G. Humer

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Announcement: Reminder: PhD course, IT University of Copenhagen, May 26-28
by T.L. Taylor 31 Mar '10

31 Mar '10

The IT University of Copenhagen will be offering a PhD course entitled, "Acting together on technological playing fields: Computer games, e-sports, and team play" from May 26-28. The course will focus on exploring the artefacts, structures, practices and cultures of team-based computer games through a sociology of games and sports. Students will share their research on the subject and discuss/engage with a collection of literatures and questions related to team games with the purpose of gaining some analytical and methodological tools to critically think with throughout the remainder of their research. The course will be taught of several scholars working specifically in the area of team play, e-sports, and the sociology of sports. T.L. Taylor (IT University of Copenhagen) Jacquelyn Allen-Collinson (University of Exeter) - "Lived-body experiences of sport and games: Phenomenological perspectives" Henry Lowood (Stanford University) - "Players, athletes, and art" Garry Whannel (University of Bedfordshire) - "Look Out! Some problems of method and theory for Screen Studies and Games Studies" Belinda Wheaton (University of Brighton) - "Understanding alternative/extreme/lifestyle sport cultures: theoretical and methodological considerations" We are also very excited to have built into the course a quite unique final day (May 28) consisting of a free public workshop on pro-gaming with an exciting group of e-sports professionals (http://esportseuropeanedition.wordpress.com/) Full details about the course can be found at http://www1.itu.dk/sw132466.asp. Please feel free to distribute widely and drop a line with any questions. Look forward to seeing some of you in Copenhagen! TL -- _____________________________________________ T.L. Taylor, Associate Professor Center for Computer Games Research IT University of Copenhagen Rued Langgaards Vej 7, 2300 Copenhagen, Denmark +45 7218 5035 (tele) / +45 7218 5001 (fax) tltaylor(a)itu.dk / http://www.tltaylor.com

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Media, Culture, and Communication – Visiting Assistant Professor, Non-Tenure, Track
by Gabriella Coleman 30 Mar '10

30 Mar '10

--- Please Distribute --- They are still accepting applications and please distribute. Thanks, Gabriella New York University Department of Media, Culture, and Communication --- Position Available --- Media, Culture, and Communication – Visiting Assistant Professor, Non-Tenure Track The Department of Media, Culture, and Communication in the Steinhardt School of Culture, Education and Human Development at New York University invites applications for a Visiting Assistant Professor whose research focuses on digital media, copyright, and media technologies. The position is to begin September 1, 2010. This is a one-year non-tenure track appointment that is renewable for an additional two years, depending upon department need and satisfactory performance. The Department of Media, Culture, and Communication serves over 750 undergraduate majors and offers MA and PhD programs of study. The Department emphasizes interdisciplinary scholarship and encourages applications from a broad range of methodological perspectives. For more information please see: http://steinhardt.nyu.edu/mcc/. NYU is a large, private university located in the Greenwich Village area of New York City. For further information, visit http://www.nyu.edu. Qualifications The position is open to recent PhDs who have completed their dissertations within the last four years. Doctoral candidates who will have completed their degrees by September 2010 are also invited to apply. Responsibilities The position will involve teaching three undergraduate courses each semester. Courses will include: Introduction to Digital Media; Copyright, Commerce, and Culture; Media, Technology and Society, and other courses in the area of digital media. The position will have no advisement or service obligations, but the successful candidate will be expected to be an active teacher who will engage in the intellectual life of the program and the department. Applications Please apply online with a letter of application, a curriculum vitae, evidence of teaching experience, and copies of publications. Include the names of 3 references and their e- mail addresses in your letter of application (letters are not required at this point). http://www.nyuopsearch.com/applicants/Central?quickFind=50484 Review of applications will begin March 22, 2010 and will continue until the position is filled. Further information about the position can be obtained from: Marita Sturken, Chair, • Department of Media, Culture, and Communication, marita.sturken(a)nyu.edu. New York University is an Equal Opportunity Employer and is committed to building a culturally diverse educational environment. -- **************************************************** Gabriella Coleman, Assistant Professor Department of Media, Culture, & Communication New York University 239 Greene St, 7th floor NY NY 10003 212-992-7696 http://steinhardt.nyu.edu/faculty_bios/view/Gabriella_Coleman

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CFP: iJETS Special Edition *Ageing and Technology*
by Sue Malta 30 Mar '10

30 Mar '10

Dear All This coming October iJETS will be publishing a special themed edition entitled:*Ageing and Technology* (interim title) with a particular focus on the social implications of such technologies for society in general and old age in particular. iJETS is a multi-discplinary journal and, as such, speaks to a wide audience. We welcome contributions from all branches of the social and behavioural sciences and the humanities. We also welcome contributions from those in the physical and life sciences with a concern for the social dimensions of science. The different disciplines all have their own specialised languages, making communication between disciplines all but impossible. For this reason iJETS insists upon clear and direct language, facilitating communication between specialists and the general public. In the first instance interested authors should contact myself, Sue Malta (contact details below) as soon as possible, with a proposed topic, some relevant details about the topic, and a short biography of the author or authors. All papers will be subjected to blind, peer-review. If you require any further information, please do not hesitate to contact me. Kind regards Sue Malta ............................................... Sue Malta Managing Editor International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Society (iJETS) Swinburne University of Technology John Street, Hawthorn, VIC 3122 Email: ijets(a)swin.edu.au Or: smalta(a)groupwise.swin.edu.au www.swin.edu.au/ijets

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The Computational Turn Workshop Keynote Videos
by David M. Berry 29 Mar '10

29 Mar '10

Hi For those unable to make the recent workshop held at Swansea University on the 'Computational Turn', just to let you know that the keynote videos are now available on the workshop website as both playable streaming video or downloads: N. Katherine Hayles (Professor of Literature at Duke U) Lev Manovich (Professor, Visual Arts Department, UCSD) http://www.thecomputationalturn.com/ Best David --- Dr David M. Berry Department of Political and Cultural Studies School of Arts and Humanities Swansea University. Swansea SA2 8PP Wales, UK Tel: 01792 602633 Web: http://www.swansea.ac.uk/staff/academic/Arts/berryd/

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FW: International Call for Researchers: Opportunities available for Migration Researchers‏
by P.J. Oiarzabal 29 Mar '10

29 Mar '10

[sorry for cross-posting] Ikerbasque, the Basque Science Foundation fostered by the Basque Autonomous Community Government of Spain, has launched a new international call to attract 20 senior researchers to any of the local research institutions. This call will be opened from January to the end of September 2010. This is a wonderful opportunity for any researcher wishing to join the University of Deusto’s migration and social inclusion research team. Experienced researchers wishing to apply will be able to join the University of Deusto’s International Migration Research Unit (within the Research Group ‘Social and Cultural Challenges in a Changing World’). For more information please visit: http://www.ikerbasque.net/images/stories/ikerbasque_2010_call_info.pdf Best regards, Pedro J. Oiarzabal, PhD pedro.oiarzabal(a)deusto.es International Migration Research Unit http://www.deusto.es/migraciones University of Deusto Edificio Central, Tercer Piso, Despacho 366 Avenida de las Universidades, 24 48007 - Bilbao Tel.:+34-944139000 (ext. 2077) Check my profile hub @ http://card.ly/oiarzabal

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Gephi - open visualization platform for networks
by Sébastien Heymann 26 Mar '10

26 Mar '10

Hi, If you need to visualize and analyze internet or social networks, this software could help: http://gephi.org. This open source platform aims to explore graphs and complex systems like you manipulate images in Photoshop. This is currently the fastest graph visualization engine in open source, and provide an interactive way to handle networks, apply layouts and metrics, filter data and see the dynamics. It's free and runs on Windows, Linux or Mac OS X. Watch an introduction in video here: http://vimeo.com/9726202 A quick start tutorial is available here: http://gephi.org/2010/quick-start-tutorial/ You can test it with some datasets like the structure of the Internet made by Mark Newman in 2006: http://gephi.org/datasets/internet_routers-22july06.gml.zip. Other datasets are available here: http://wiki.gephi.org/index.php?title=Datasets If you plan to apply for the ESF conference "Future Internet and Society: A Complex Systems Perspective" ( http://www.esf.org/activities/esf-conferences/details/2010/confdetail341/34…) you may use Gephi to speed up your researches and present your results. For example, check out this study on interactions between Science in Society actors on the Web: http://webatlas.fr/exhibition/eurosis/ Hope that help ;) Sebastien Heymann

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Affective fabrics of digital cultures: registration is now open
by Adi Kuntsman 26 Mar '10

26 Mar '10

Affective fabrics of digital cultures: feelings, technologies, politics. 3-4 June 2010, University Place, The University of Manchester To register, please visit the conference website http://www.socialsciences.manchester.ac.uk/ricc/events/digital_affect/index… Plenary speakers: Una Chung (Sarah Lawrence College); Patricia Clough (Queens College, CUNY); Anne-Marie Fortier (Lancaster University); Melissa Gregg (The University of Sydney); Athina Karatzogianni (The University of Hull) This two-day international conference brings into creative tension two fields that are receiving growing scholarly attention: cultural studies of affect, public feelings and the politics of emotion, on the one hand, and scholarship on digital culture, new media and information-communication technologies, on the other. The conference aims to create a space for intellectual dialogue between the two fields by examining the relations between technologies, and in particular, new digital technologies -- the Internet, digital cinema and photography, mobile communication, CCTVs, computer games -- and affective politics. Bringing together contributions from the fields of sociology, media and cultural studies, arts, politics and science and technology studies, the conference will engage with the following questions: How does affect work in on-line networks and digital assemblages? What are the affective regimes of on-line sociality? What kind of perceptions, sensations, affective movements and public feelings emerge in our highly mediated and digitalised environments? What is the cybertouch of war, violence, terror? What are the structures of feeling that operate in the digitalised everyday and computerised ordinary? How can we theorise psycho-political formations of nation, race, empire, population and generation in the age of digital reproduction, mediated visions and globalised communication technologies? How do digital cultures shape our political horizons of fear, anxiety, mourning, hate, hope? Registration Early Bird Registration Fee before 15th April: Waged: £60/ Unwaged: £35 Full Conference Registration Fee after 15th April: Waged: £80/ Unwaged: £45 Registration fee covers refreshments, lunch and wine reception. Final deadline for registration is 15th May To register, please visit the conference website http://www.socialsciences.manchester.ac.uk/ricc/events/digital_affect/index… For further information, please contact Caitriona Devery at caitriona.devery [@] manchester.ac.uk -- Dr. Adi Kuntsman Leverhulme Early Career Fellow Research Institute for Cosmopolitan Cultures The University of Manchester Second Floor, Arthur Lewis Building, room 2.007 Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL, UK _http://www.socialsciences.manchester.ac.uk/ricc/index.html_ _http://adi.kuntsman.googlepages.com_

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Re: [Air-L] DVDs for teaching internet/new media studies
by Scott MacLeod 26 Mar '10

26 Mar '10

Hi Holly, Tama and AoIR researchers, There are a lot of virtual ethnography-related videos (and some audio, as well) here at webnographers.org - http://www.webnographers.org/index.php?title=Videos, [1] with an invitation to post more to this wiki, as you find them. Webnographers.org has a lot of resources! I think resources will grow here, as well, at World University & School's "Media Studies" - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Media_Studies. [2] There's already a free Ph.D. at Harvard in Education listed here for 2011 and 2012: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Courses#Free_Ph.D.s. [3] I'm curious what free Ph.D.s and degrees there are in your countries in your academic fields, and generally. Please let me know, so that you or I can add them to this wiki page, and so that good students . World University and School is an open, free, "edit this page," University and School - like Wikipedia with MIT Open Courseware and Berkeley Webcast (http://webcast.berkeley.edu) [4] All the best, Scott http://scottmacleod.com [5] http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/World_University [6] Links: ------ [1] http://www.webnographers.org/index.php?title=Videos, [2] http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Media_Studies. [3] http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Courses#Free_Ph.D.s. [4] http://webcast.berkeley.edu) [5] http://scottmacleod.com/ [6] http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/World_University

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Fwd: Facebook data destruction
by Seda Guerses 25 Mar '10

25 Mar '10

bertil wrote: Couldn't a for-statistical-purpose-only access have been a possible option? this is a complicated and interesting question. technically, there are two approaches that deal with the question of publishing/accessing large data sets for statistical analysis while avoiding re- identification of individuals: the first one is called privacy preserving data publishing(ppdp) the second differential privacy (the new kid on the block). ppdp has proven that it is not possible to publish anonymized datasets and provide sufficient guarantees with respect to re-identification. differential privacy on the other hand is query based: no dataset is published, instead researchers/analysts can pose queries up to a certain point, and the system guarantees that given the queries, no analysis can lead to re-identification of individuals. microsoft has hired most of the prominent researchers working on differential privacy, while facebook i think won over lars backstrom, who is also from the differential privacy gang (gang membership being based on co-authorship). now, as typically it is the case in most privacy research, the concern is with personal re-identification. the sort of categorization and potential social sorting is not the concern of these algorithmic approaches. so profiling is ok, as long as the analyst cannot identify. that is, as many surveillance studies authors discuss, a myth. at least in cases where social sorting is not based on individual identification but on matching behavior or attributes, e.g., sort customers based on knowledge of past shopping behavior, or based on their connectedness in a social network. one of the ways of dealing with categorization and social sorting is through transparency and engagement. but that brings up a lot of accountability issues for which we do not have models of practice. but i think the discussions on this list are fruitful for thinking about the problem and conceiving new practices and learning from existing ones e.g., the aol query dataset, the report on ethnicity in facebook. cheers, s. Message: 2 Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2010 21:34:57 +0100 From: Bertil Hatt <bertil.hatt(a)ensae.org> To: jkd <jkd(a)email.unc.edu>, Christophe Prieur <christophe.prieur(a)liafa.jussieu.fr> Cc: AoIR-L <air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org> Subject: Re: [Air-L] Fwd: Facebook data destruction Message-ID: <111a48f01003251334h4ad6d42fsb27b385ea26f4f89(a)mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Couldn't a for-statistical-purpose-only access have been a possible option? I'm not familiar with handling such massive data, and I assume that could only have made sense through a paying service, but? allowing scripts to pull some aggregated data (say, preventing any results that didn't involve 10,000+ accounts) would have respected most privacy concerns, no? Having those data anywhere, hackable, is a legal risk and that enough justifies Facebook's threats but I'm still hoping for an academic access of this amazing database. Disclaimer: http://www.kuleuven.be/cwis/email_disclaimer.htm

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