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PhD course - Internet Research: New Methodological Challenges and Opportunities
by Klaus Bruhn Jensen 16 Mar '10

16 Mar '10

*PhD course - Internet Research: New Methodological Challenges and Opportunities* Hosting most previous forms of human communication – one-to-one, one- to-many, as well as many-to-many – the internet is a unique kind of medium, a meta-medium (Kay & Richardson, 1977), which users access from stationary as well as mobile platforms. As such, it challenges media and communication studies to think again about relevant and appropriate research methodologies. The internet also provides an opportunity for research to refashion, or reinvent, familiar approaches and instruments. This PhD course provides an overview of the state of internet research, illustrating the applicability of both new and old methodologies to this field of inquiry. The central contributor to the course will be Professor Steve Jones, University of Illinois at Chicago, the founding president of the Association of Internet Researchers, and a key figure in internet research for more than a decade. Steve Jones is a guest professor of the Danish National Research School for Media, Communication, and Journalism during the spring of 2010. Other contributors to the seminar include key figures in Scandinavian new media studies. Participants will have the opportunity to present and discuss papers on their doctoral projects. Time: April 14-16 2010 Place: IT University of Copenhagen, http://www1.itu.dk/ (rooms to be announced) Organizers: Klaus Bruhn Jensen & Gitte Stald Contact: kbj(a)hum.ku.dk, stald(a)itu.dk Sponsored by The Danish National Research School in Media, Communication and Journalism (FMKJ) More information, http://fmkj.dk/?p=1735 ********************************************************** Klaus Bruhn Jensen Professor, dr.phil. Film and Media Studies Section Department of Media, Cognition, and Communication University of Copenhagen DK-2300 Copenhagen S Denmark kbj(a)hum.ku.dk www.media.ku.dk Tel +45-35328100 Fax +45-35328110 ********************************************************** *New book* Media convergence - The three degrees of network, mass, and interpersonal communication, http://www.routledge.com/9780415482042

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2010 ASIS&T SIG-III International Paper Contest
by Michael Zimmer 16 Mar '10

16 Mar '10

Announcement of the 2010 ASIS&T SIG-III International Paper Contest The Special Interest Group on International Information Issues (SIG-III) of the American Society for Information Science & Technology (ASIS&T) is pleased to announce its eleventh competition for papers to be submitted for the 2010 Annual Meeting, which will take place in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, October 22-27, 2010. (http://www.asis.org/Conferences/AM10/am10cfp.html) Building from the overall conference theme, the theme for this year’s paper contest is: "Navigating Streams in a Global Information Ecosystem". Papers could discuss issues, policies and case studies on specific aspects of the theme from a global and/or international perspective. Topics include, but are not limited to, the following core areas: Intercultural Information Ethics: Critical reflection on the ethical challenges related to the global and cross-cultural production, storage, and distribution of information, as well as the ethical dimensions of the global development and implementation of information systems, infrastructures, and policies. Information Behavior: Information needs, information seeking, information gaps and sense-making in various contexts including work, interests or every-day life activities by individuals or groups. Knowledge Organization: Indexing, index construction, indexing languages, thesaurus construction, terminology, classification of information in any form, tagging (expert, user-based, automatic), filtering, metadata, standards for metadata, information architecture. Information Systems, Interactivity and Design: How people use and communicate with information systems; the design, use and evaluation of interactive information technologies and systems, including interfaces and algorithms; search and retrieval, browsing, visualization, personalization. Information and Knowledge Management: Information and knowledge creation, transfer and use at the personal, group, organizational and societal levels. The management of the processes and systems that create, acquire, organize, store, distribute, and use information and/or knowledge. Selected papers will be published in the International Journal of Information Management. Information Use: How people re-purpose existing knowledge from a variety of sources (scientific, humanities, news, family, friends, colleagues), forms (articles, books, video, audio, tweets), locations (work, home, in transit) and mediums (cell-phones, PDAs, digital libraries) to advance knowledge, solve problems, improve information literacy, and learn. Information and Society: Economic, Political, Social Issues: Copyright issues, policies and laws; national and international information policies; privacy and security; economics of information, personal rights vs. freedom of information; surveillance; globalization and the flows of information; computerization movements; social informatics. Selection Criteria There will be up to six winners who will be selected by a panel of judges including: Michael Zimmer (UW-Milwaukee), Johannes Britz (UW-Milwaukee), Maria Haigh (UW-Milwaukee), Hong Xu (University of Pittsburg), Catherine Johnson (Western Ontario), Anindita Paul (University of Missouri), and Borchuluun Yadamsuren (University of Missouri). The judging criteria will be based on: Originality of paper in the developing world and global information ecosystem (originality of the project described, etc.) Relevance to the paper contest theme Quality of argument, presentation and organization Past winners can be found at: http://www.asis.org/SIG/SIGIII/ Eligibility & Information for authors Only papers by a principal author who is a citizen of, and resides in a developing country are eligible. Winners in the 2006-2009 contests are not eligible. The papers should be original, unpublished, and submitted in English. We encourage submissions from librarians, information and network specialists, and educators involved in the creation, representation, maintenance, exchange, discovery, delivery, and use of digital information. Award The award for each winner is a two-year individual membership in ASIS&T. In the case of multiple authors, the principal author will be awarded the ASIS&T membership. In addition, depending on SIG III fundraising for this competition, the first place winner will be rewarded a minimum of $1,000 toward travel, conference registration, and accommodations while attending the ASIS&T Annual Conference in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, October 22-27, 2010. Style The international paper contest committee requires that submissions follow the International Information and Library Review instructions to authors. Detailed information is available under the heading, Guide for Authors at: http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/622845/authori… Publishing opportunities Submitted papers will be considered for inclusion in a special issue of the International Information and Library Review, subject to the usual peer refereeing process, for that journal. ASIS&T Copyright Policy ASIS&T will have the non-exclusive right to publish any of the papers submitted on its web site or in print, with ownership and all other rights remaining with the author. Deadline for submission of full papers Authors are invited to submit manuscripts, not to exceed 5,000 words, by May 31, 2010, to Michael Zimmer at zimmerm(a)uwm.edu, preferably as Microsoft Word or PDF attachments. -- Michael Zimmer, PhD Assistant Professor, School of Information Studies Associate, Center for Information Policy Research University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee 656 Bolton Hall 3210 N. Maryland Ave Milwaukee, WI 53211 p: 414.229.3627 e: zimmerm(a)uwm.edu w: www.michaelzimmer.org

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Third International Meeting of the ICTs-and-Society Network: “Perspectives and Challenges”
by jeremy hunsinger 16 Mar '10

16 Mar '10

Call for contribution and participation Third International Meeting of the ICTs-and-Society Network: “Perspectives and Challenges” The annual meeting of the ICTs-and-Society Network 2010 is hosted by the Internet Interdisciplinary Institute (IN3) at the Open University of Catalonia (UOC) in Barcelona, Spain and supported by the University of Salzburg, Austria. This meeting is as open to everyone engaged in ICTs-and-Society research and related fields – whether you are a senior researcher or a PhD candidate – as the network is open itself. The ICTs-and-Society network provides a forum for taking a step back, questioning why you research what by which means and a platform to discuss with like-minded people. Theannual meeting offers a space where these people can meet personally every year. The topics of the network revolve around • the impact of our research on society, • our basic concepts and our background theories, • and our use of methodologies and may include but are not restricted to: • Normative Research and Meaningful Technology; • Critical Internet Theory; • ICTs and Society – A New Transdiscipline? • Communities of Action – From Message to Movement • Challenges and Problems of Empirical Research; • Towards a Science of Information, Information Society and Information Technology; • How to Reconcile Technology and Society in Curricula; • The Future of the Network: ICTs-and-Society Network quo vadis? Since the meeting is to facilitate self-organisation of researchers for the sake of self-reflection of the field, the format of the meeting will differ from a traditional paper presentation conference. • You are encouraged to suggest panels or round tables or other formats around the issues at stake. As usual, a session will last 90 minutes.  We welcome your suggestions before April 15, 2010. • If you prefer to write a paper, you are free to do so and invited to submit it to tripleC. Please send an abstract before the end of the deadline on 15 April 2010 to Wolfgang Hofkirchner at wolfgang.hofkirchner(a)sbg.ac.at. We will notify you before April 30, 2010. We will assign your paper to an appropriate session where you will be included as panelist or round table participant or else. The first day of the meeting (June 30, 2010) will be shaped by PhD candidates’ presentations only. If you are a student and want to present, please submit a PhD concept. Be aware that your paper should not only deal with your dissertation thesis, but will be evaluated against the criteria of how you reflect the problems of the field as indicated above. Nine papers will be selected. A schedule of the network meeting is available at http://www.icts-and-society.net/meeting/schedule. Please adjust your contribution to one or more of the mentioned sessions, and/or suggest a new topic. Besides the scheduled programme, the meeting will provide ample space and time for ad-hoc working groups, informal and formal discussion groups and networking. Speakers Juliet Webster (Work and Equality Research, London, UK) William Dutton (Oxford Internet Institute, UK) Please have a look at the website at http://www.icts-and-society.net/meeting/ which will be updated on a regular basis. Jeremy Hunsinger Center for Digital Discourse and Culture Virginia Tech Information Ethics Fellow, Center for Information Policy Research, School of Information Studies, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (www.cipr.uwm.edu) Words are things; and a small drop of ink, falling like dew upon a thought, produces that which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think. --Byron

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A/V NOW Available > Mobile Learning 2.0: The Next Phase of Innovation in Mobility > March 3–4 2010
by gerrymck 15 Mar '10

15 Mar '10

Colleagues/ Most Excellent Presentations / Well Worth Your Time >>> /Gerry Full Conference Agenda >>>Wednesday, March 03, 2010 <<< Session Time Session Details 12:00 p.m. - 12:15 p.m. General Session : ELI102/GS01 Session Welcome(9:00 a.m. PT; 10:00 a.m. MT; 11:00 a.m. CT; 12:00 p.m. ET) 12:15 p.m. - 12:55 p.m. Keynote Address : ELI102/GS02 A Revolution in Learning Is Taking Place in Our Hands 12:55 p.m. - 1:15 p.m. ELI102/BRK01 Parking Lot Break 1:15 p.m. - 1:45 p.m. Plenary Session : ELI102/GS03 Your Campus on a Smartphone, and the Future of Mobile Education(10:15 a.m. PT; 11:15 a.m. MT; 12:15 p.m. CT; 1:15 p.m. ET) 1:45 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. ELI102/BRK02 Parking Lot Break 2:00 p.m. - 2:10 p.m. Community Project Parlors Lightning Round : ELI102/GS04A Beyond Emergency Notification 2:10 p.m. - 2:20 p.m. Community Project Parlors Lightning Round : ELI102/GS04C MOCA: It's Not Just Chocolate Anymore 2:20 p.m. - 2:30 p.m. Community Project Parlors Lightning Round : ELI102/GS04B Student iPhone App. Development and Institutional IT: The Story So Far 2:30 p.m. - 2:45 p.m. ELI102/BRK03 Parking Lot Break 2:45 p.m. - 3:15 p.m. ELI102/BRK04 Group Discussion 3:15 p.m. - 3:45 p.m. Plenary Session : ELI102/GS05 Enabling Personalized Learning(12:15 p.m. PT; 1:15 p.m. MT; 2:15 p.m. CT; 3:15 p.m. ET) 3:45 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. ELI102/BRK05 Parking Lot Break 4:00 p.m. - 4:10 p.m. Content Project Parlors Lightning Round : ELI102/GS06B It's Flipping Easy! How Easy-to-Use Portable Digital Camcorders Bring the Larger World and New Pedagogies into the Classroom 4:10 p.m. - 4:20 p.m. Content Project Parlors Lightning Round : ELI102/GS06C Low-Effort, High-Impact Mobile Development: Designing a Mobile Website with iUI 4:20 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. Content Project Parlors Lightning Round : ELI102/GS06A Lowering the Barriers to Mobile Device Adoption 4:30 p.m. - 4:45 p.m. ELI102/BRK06 Parking Lot Break 4:45 p.m. - 5:20 p.m. ELI102/GS07 mLearning App Scavenger Hunt (via Google Form) 5:20 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. ELI102/GS08 Wrap-Up >>> Thursday, March 04, 2010 <<< Session Time Session Details 12:00 p.m. - 12:10 p.m. ELI102/GS09 Welcome(9:00 a.m. PT; 10:00 a.m. MT; 11:00 a.m. CT; 12:00 p.m. ET) 12:10 p.m. - 12:50 p.m. Keynote Address : ELI102/GS10A Strategic Analysis: A Typical Community College Wondering How to Take Advantage of mLearning 12:50 p.m. - 1:05 p.m. ELI102/BRK09 Break 1:05 p.m. - 1:35 p.m. Plenary Session : ELI102/GS11 Mobile Collaboration: Redefining the Classroom (10:05 a.m. PT; 11:05 a.m. MT; 12:05 p.m. CT; 1:05 p.m. ET) 1:35 p.m. - 1:50 p.m. ELI102/BRK07 Parking Lot Break 1:50 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. Collaboration Project Parlors Lightning Round : ELI102/GS12C Assessment of Mobile Learning 2:00 p.m. - 2:10 p.m. Collaboration Project Parlors Lightning Round : ELI102/GS12A Student Engagement in the Age of Mobile Devices 2:10 p.m. - 2:20 p.m. Collaboration Project Parlors Lightning Round : ELI102/GS12B Transforming Digital Toys into Study Buddies: Using Mobile Devices to Engage Students 2:20 p.m. - 2:35 p.m. ELI102/BRK08 Parking Lot Break 2:35 p.m. - 2:45 p.m. ELI102/BRK11 Break 2:45 p.m. - 3:15 p.m. ELI102/GS13 Mobile Devices in Higher Ed ... for Learning? You Bet (11:45 a.m. PT; 12:45 p.m. MT; 1:45 p.m. CT; 2:45 p.m. ET) 3:15 p.m. - 3:30 p.m. ELI102/BRK10 Parking Lot Break 3:30 p.m. - 4:45 p.m. Discussion Groups : ELI102/GS14 Scenario Activity 4:45 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. ELI102/GS15 Closing Wrap-Up Access Available Via [ http://bit.ly/7BFN7i ] >>> NOTE: NOT All Presentations/AV Available <<< NOTE BTW: Happy Saint Patrick's Day On March 17 [ http://www.leprechaunmuseum.ie/ ] enJOY ! /Gerry Gerry McKiernan Associate Professor Science and Technology Librarian Iowa State University Library Ames IA 50011 Follow Me On Twitter > http://twitter.com/GMcKBlogs >>> "The Future Is Mobile" >>>

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Fwd: mobile apps for universities
by Peter Timusk 15 Mar '10

15 Mar '10

Sorry my reply is slightly toxic don't read further if concerned with that. Begin forwarded message: > From: Peter Timusk <ptimusk(a)sympatico.ca> > Date: March 14, 2010 7:19:31 PM GMT-04:00 > To: Tracy Ann Kosa <TracyAnn.Kosa(a)uoit.ca> > Subject: Re: [Air-L] mobile apps for universities > > My university had mobile security alerts via text. They are > introducing more mobile interfaces. See them on the web site. I > won't call them "apps". Apple is not my research director. > > www.UOttawa.ca > > > On 14-Mar-10, at 2:40 PM, Tracy Ann Kosa wrote: > >> Hi All - >> >> My doctoral class is doing a collab course, and our project is >> mobile app development for the university. Just started background >> research, and I'm wondering if anybody knows of any interesting >> apps that universities have developed for their students to use? >> >> Thanks kindly. >> >> @tracyannkosa >> tracyann.kosa(a)uoit.ca >> doctoral candidate in CS >> _______________________________________________ >> The Air-L(a)listserv.aoir.org mailing list >> is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http:// >> aoir.org >> Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org >> >> Join the Association of Internet Researchers: >> http://www.aoir.org/ >> > > Peter Timusk, > B.Math statistics (2002), B.A. legal studies (2006) Carleton > University > Systems Science Graduate student, University of Ottawa. > just trying to stay linear. > Read by hundreds of lurkers every week. > kiitos paljon, merci, thank you and muchas gracias for reading. > > > > > > Peter Timusk, B.Math statistics (2002), B.A. legal studies (2006) Carleton University Systems Science Graduate student, University of Ottawa. just trying to stay linear. Read by hundreds of lurkers every week. kiitos paljon, merci, thank you and muchas gracias for reading.

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FW: Post-Doctoral Position
by Richard Taylor 15 Mar '10

15 Mar '10

Colleagues, This announcement from Dr. Enrico Ferro may be of interest to some. Please respond directly to him. Prof. Richard Taylor Penn State University JOB DESCRIPTION POSITION: Post-doctoral Position INSTITUTION: Istituto Superiore Mario Boella (ISMB) TEAM: The research team mainly operates in the field of ICT innovation management & policies both in the public and in the private sector. CANDITATE REQUIREMENTS: The candidate should be an English native speaker with a good knowledge of the European Commission ICT/SSH funding programs (FP7, Interreg, CIP, MED). The candidate should have a background in Economics, Management or Public Policy and a good understanding of what ICTs are and how they may be fruitfully put to use by governments, companies and individuals. He/she should also have experience in working in at least one European project and in the drafting of international projects proposals. His/her duties will include: - Drafting of international project proposals - Management of international projects - Drafting of academic articles - Lecturing to international students The place of work will be Turin, ITALY. CONTRACT: The contract will last 12 month. Renewal will be subject to the acquisition of new international projects. The salary will range between 22000€ to 29000€ depending on performance. FOR APPLICANTS: Please send Dr Ferro (ferro(a)ismb.it) the following documentation: - A CV in Europass format including the list of authored publications - A cover letter - Two sample publications - At least two reference letters _______________________________ Enrico Ferro, Ph. D. Senior Researcher Technology & Business Intelligence Unit Istituto Superiore Mario Boella (ISMB) Via Boggio 61, 10138, Turin - ITALY Tel: +39-011-2276.232 Fax: +39-011-2276.299 <http://www.enricoferro.com/> http://www.enricoferro.com __________________________________________ Informativa - Art. 13 D.lgs. 196/03 ========================== Il trattamento dei dati ha la finalità di permettere lo svolgimento delle attività di ricerca, formazione e studio, oltre agli ulteriori servizi messi a disposizione dall’Istituto Superiore Mario Boella I dati saranno trattati con modalità manuali, informatiche e/o telematiche; non verranno per nessuna ragione comunicati ad altri soggetti ed Enti senza previa autorizzazione. Potranno venire a conoscenza dei Vostri dati il responsabile del trattamento e le categorie di soggetti incaricati del trattamento. In ogni momento potrà rivolgersi al nostro servizio Privacy per conoscere i suoi dati e farli integrare, modificare o cancellare per violazione di legge, od opporsi al loro trattamento e/o per esercitare gli altri diritti previsti dall’art. 7 del D.lgs 196/03. Titolare del trattamento è la società Istituto Superiore Mario Boella con sede in Via P. Carlo Boggio n. 61- 10138 Torino. All informations and attachments are reserved and an Istituto Superiore Mario Boella intellectual property, if you receive this message for error please delete it and contact <mailto:info@ismb.it> info(a)ismb.it.

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Re: [Air-L] Fwd: mobile apps for universities
by Peter Timusk 15 Mar '10

15 Mar '10

The Internet is more stable to reference IMHO. See the University of Google about how this means I am not fully literate as I am not media literate. On 14-Mar-10, at 8:55 PM, Peter Timusk wrote: > I learned in early social science studies referencing TV and radio > is problematic. So I just avoid it. Peter Timusk, B.Math statistics (2002), B.A. legal studies (2006) Carleton University Systems Science Graduate student, University of Ottawa. just trying to stay linear. Read by hundreds of lurkers every week. kiitos paljon, merci, thank you and muchas gracias for reading.

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EASST 2010 - Track 22 - Deadline Extension - MONDAY, MARCH 22, 2010
by Maurizio 15 Mar '10

15 Mar '10

**Apologies for Crossposting** In response to the numerous requests received the EASST010 Conference Committee has agreed an extension of the call for abstracts deadline. The new deadline is: MONDAY, MARCH 22, 2010 (23:59:59 CET) Please see the website http://events.unitn.it/en/easst010 for further details of how to submit abstract and other conference details. --- Here information about track 22: Call for Abstracts EASST 2010 - TRACK 22. TECHNOLOGICALLY DENSE ENVIRONMENTS: A BRIDGE BETWEEN STS AND ORGANIZATION STUDIES In the past years, a reflection has emerged around the connection between STS (Science and Technology Studies) and other domains, especially management and organization studies. That is exemplified, for example, by the international workshop titled “Does STS mean business?” in 2004, the session at EASST 2006 titled “STS as a boundary discipline: interacting with Organization Studies”, where a number of established STS scholars shared their experiences of “becoming” STS researchers, or by the special issue of the journal “Organization” in January 2009, exploring the relationship between STS and Organization and Management Studies. Regardless of these efforts, many are still struggling to engage with other disciplines, or find the balance between being “STS” and “practically useful”. Our intent, with this stream, is to deepen such reflection, focusing on the empirical issues emerging in Technologically Dense Environments (TDE). In such an environment complex socio-material practices mobilize the joint action of heterogeneous elements, both humans and non-humans, in supporting collective work, blurring the distinction between natural and artificial ontologies. The connections that take place in TDE are the locus where the performance of science and technology is enacted through organizational and working practices. Proposing such a tightly integrated STS-informed Organization-oriented view suggests that we should not speak from the STS perspective only, of which critical analysis de-constructs the making of technological products or services or phenomena, but also apply our observation and findings to the field in a more proactive way, helping to balance the construction of a TDE. Through this lens, we would like to call for contributions studying TDE, that can be seen as sites of scientific and technological production, as well as sites of working and organizing practices using scientific and technical means. Doing this kind of research pushes the STS scholars to confront situated methodological challenges, act as a boundary worker across different fields. Such discussion can serve as relationship building and networking between STS scholars for sharing experiences and support, as well as a bridge for linking empirical, methodological and theoretical issues that different disciplines (e.g., STS, Organization Studies) face, finding a common ground to tackle and/or conceptualise these issues. Possible topics are, but not limited to: • empirical findings from TDE fields, studying organizing processes from a STS-informed perspective; • theoretical reflections on the bridge building and spanning between different fields; • map, discuss and exchange methods and methodologies used in different fields. Abstracts of no more than 500 words should be sent by email (following website instructions) by 2010 March 15th. More info at: http://events.unitn.it/en/easst010 Call-for-Abstract PDF: http://events.unitn.it/sites/events.unitn.it/files/EASST_010_Track_22.pdf Convenors: Manuela Perrotta is research fellow at the Department of Sociology and Social Research, University of Trento. Her main research interests concern the socio-materiality of working and organizing practices, technological change and knowing, and collective memories and technologies. (http://www.unitn.it/rucola/members/perrotta.htm) Maurizio Teli is researcher at Museo Tridentino di Scienze Naturali, Trento. His main research interests concern the political dimensions of software development, three dimensional environments and the organizational transformation in the communication of science. (http://www.maurizioteli.eu)

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Deadline Extension: CfP DIGITAL GAME PLAY AS SOCIOTECHNICAL PRACTICE - EASST 2010
by Stefano De Paoli 15 Mar '10

15 Mar '10

The new deadline is: MONDAY, MARCH 22, 2010 (23:59:59 CET) **** REMINDER ***** Apologies for cross-postings. Please circulate it to interested colleagues and students. Thanks! ************************************************************************************************************* EASST Conference 2010, European Association for the Study of Science and Technology 'Practicing Science and Technology, Performing the Social,' University of Trento, Italy, 2-4 September 2010. Abstract submission deadline: 15 March 2010. http://events.unitn.it/en/easst010 ************************************************************************************************************** TRACK: DIGITAL GAME PLAY AS SOCIOTECHNICAL PRACTICE The Digital Game industry has become one of the fastest growing, innovative and globalised industries in advanced Western economies and Digital Games have become a key cultural artefact and leisure practice in contemporary societies. Developing out of the American military industrial and academic complex in the 1970s the study of Digital Games design and play is the study of a range of sociotechnical practices and the negotiations between a range of human and non-human actors operating within systems of rules. The complexity of these relationships brings forth a series of questions that can be investigated using Science and Technology Studies approaches. However, to date games studies, with few exceptions, have failed to adopt STS approaches and the STS community has largely ignored this area of study. This track seeks to develop the relationship between the game studies community and the STS community. Several research questions can be used to guide this: What STS theories can be used to understand Digital Games as sociotechnical phenomenon? Is the concept of practice and the practice-based approach useful to investigate Digital Games? Is there a relationship between power as inscribed and imposed by artefacts and the technical dimensions of Digital Games? What rules are inscribed into Digital Games technologies and what social worlds do these rules describe? What contribution can the study of Digital Games make to the STS discipline at large? And what contribution can an STS approach make to game studies? Can we foresee an after-method approach for Digital Games? We invite papers that tackle the sociotechnical dimensions of Digital Games and address some of the questions outlined above. Contributions might include (but are not restricted to): • Digital Games as material semiotic artefacts • Digital Games as sociotechnical assemblages • The mess of digital games • Innovation in game design as actor-networking and social shaping • Digital Game design and/or play as performance and practice • Disruptive sociotechnical users’ practices (e.g. hacking, modding) • The scripting of gendered gaming practices • Governance and regulation of gaming practices Abstracts of no more than 500 words should be sent by email (following website instructions: http://events.unitn.it/en/easst010/abstract-submission) by 2010 March 15th. Please include also a preliminary references list (up to 4). Contact for inquiries: stefano.depaoli(a)nuim.ie Convenors Aphra Kerr is a lecturer in the Department of Sociology at the National University of Ireland Maynooth. Her research focuses on the regulation, production and consumption of digital media and in particular of digital games; she established and runs the industry and community website. (www.gamedevelopers.ie) Helen W. Kennedy is Deputy Head in the Department of Culture, Media and Drama at the University of the West of England (UWE) in the UK. She has been researching and writing about games since 1993 and co-founded and chaired (from 2004 – 2009) the Play Research Group at UWE. Jennifer Jenson is Associate Professor of Pedagogy and Technology in the Faculty of Education at York University. Her research interests include gender and gameplay and the design and development of digital games for education. Stefano De Paoli is postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Sociology at the National University of Ireland Maynooth. Stefano has worked in STS since 2004 and recently his research interest has embraced Massive Multiplayer Online Games (http://www.nuim.ie/nirsa/people/postdocs/stefano_de_paoli.shtml)

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CFP: Exploring Produsage - Special Issue of NRHM
by Axel Bruns 15 Mar '10

15 Mar '10

Dear colleagues, Jan Schmidt and I are now calling for submissions to this special journal issue: Exploring Produsage A Special Issue of New Review of Hypermedia and Multimedia Call for papers The concept of produsage points to the shift away from conventional producer/consumer relationships, and highlights the more fluid roles of users and contributors within social media environments. Participants in open source projects, in Wikipedia, in YouTube and Second Life are no longer merely consuming or using preproduced material, but neither are they at all times acting as fully self-determined producers of fully formed new works; rather, they occupy a hybrid position as produsers of content. Produsage processes are now evident across a wide range of activities - mainly online, but increasingly also extending to the offline world - from citizen journalism and communal knowledge management through to collaborative artistic activities, from learner-led education models to citizen engagement in political processes. As such models establish themselves, what does an examination through the lens of the produsage framework reveal about their internal operations? How do they affect the existing institutional, industrial, social, and cultural environments within which they operate? How may they be guarded against cooptation and exploitation by corporate interests? What possible futures do they foreshadow? Potential contributions to this special issue could include, but are not limited to, areas such as: * Conceptualising produsage: theoretical frameworks for examining produsage activities, practical examples of produsage projects, ... * Historical and comparative perspectives: produsage and other forms of collaborative and commons-based work, precedents of produsage, ... * Technologies and practices of produsage: collaborative dynamics of leading produsage spaces, impact of the technological foundations of produsage, ... * Empirical perspectives on produsage: case studies of produsage and its effects, ethnographic research into produsage communities, ... * Methodology: research approaches to the study of produsage, tracking and evaluating produser activitities, ... * Critical perspectives: economic, legal, pedagogic, sociological perspectives on produsage, ... For this special issue of NRHM, we invite contributions on these and other topics related to produsage. Full papers should be around 7,000 words; shorter papers (around 3,000 words) for technical notes, industry perspectives or opinion pieces are also welcome. More detailed instructions for authors can be found online: http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/nrhm. Queries should be directed to the Guest Editors. Authors should submit their papers online via the New Review of Hypermedia and Multimedia Manuscript Central site: http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/tham Important dates 16 July 2010 - paper submission deadline 24 September 2010 - author notification 15 October 2010 - final copy due Northern Spring 2011 - publication Guest Editors Axel Bruns, ARC Centre of Excellence for Creative Industries and Innovation (Brisbane), a.bruns(a)qut.edu.au Jan Schmidt, Hans-Bredow-Institute for Media Research (Hamburg), j.schmidt(a)hans-bredow-institut.de -- Dr Axel Bruns http://snurb.info/ - http://produsage.org/ ARC Centre for Creative Industries and Innovation http://cci.edu.au/ Associate Professor, Media & Communication a.bruns(a)qut.edu.au Creative Industries Faculty, Z1-515, CIP Twitter: @snurb_dot_info Queensland University of Technology +61 7 31385548 Musk Ave, Kelvin Grove, Qld. 4059, Australia CRICOS No.: 00213J

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