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

mails acceptances
by gaby david 26 Apr '10

26 Apr '10

hello Holly Kruse I 've tried a couple of times writing into the list but my mails keep bouncing. I guess that youy have to allow me? well in any case thank you in advance, gaby david PhD candidate LHIVIC - EHESS - Paris

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CFP: M/C Journal 'waste' Issue
by Axel Bruns 26 Apr '10

26 Apr '10

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - 26 April 2010 M/C - Media and Culture http://www.media-culture.org.au/ is calling for contributors to the 'waste' 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. To see what M/C Journal is all about, check out our Website, which contains all the issues released so far, at <http://journal.media-culture.org.au/>. To find out how and in what format to contribute your work, visit <http://journal.media-culture.org.au/journal/submission.php>. Call for Papers: 'waste' Edited by Kirsten Seale and Caroline Hamilton Walter Benjamin's work eloquently testifies that reading 'the rags, the refuse' reveals much about the constitution of culture. What a culture does not value speaks as much about that culture as what it does value. In any economy that fetishises the commodity and consumption the realm of waste, that which is left over or left behind, is politicised. The politics of waste, however, are problematic. The production and classification of waste is systemic with capitalist modes of production and their social and cultural taxonomies. Consequently, there are compelling reasons for waste to be brought to the fore as a topic for cultural enquiry. It is all the more timely given the environmental dimensions and pressures of waste. In this issue of M/C Journal we seek contributions that consider the matter and metaphor of waste in diverse cultural contexts. Beyond considerations of waste in terms of trash and refuse we seek to delve into areas of waste overlooked: wasted time, wasted bodies, getting wasted, literal and metaphorical wastelands and dumping grounds. Contact the editors at waste(a)journal.media-culture.org.au, and submit articles of 3,000 words in length through our Website at http://journal.media-culture.org.au/ Article deadline: 25 June 2010 Issue release date: 25 Aug. 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 and 2011: '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 'diaspora': article deadline 4 Mar. 2011, release date 4 May 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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Research around digital divide in Computer mediated communication by speech-impaired
by Pavan Garre 25 Apr '10

25 Apr '10

Dear AIR members, I am User Experience design masters student from India. For a research module on "Digital design, and, society", I am doing research around speech-impaired in the context of digital divide, mostly around urban Bangalore. For the next ten to fifteen days, I plan to do extensive research from desk research to contextual interviews. As my mentor, is from indifferent domain, is guiding very passively and remotely, I am opening up to ask for some active remote guidance. Apart from remote guidance for few days, I am ready to accept every form of suggestions, opinions, comments and research material around speech-impaired and digital divide in computer mediated communication. So far, I have written two mediocre unguided research papers and probably, this would be guided first-authored research paper. Being user experience designer, I have ACM student membership and, my college has JSTOR membership. Cheers, Pavan Garre User Experience Designer National Institute of Design, R & D Campus, Bangalore, KR, India. http://artifactsby.me +919620603379

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AoIR iCS (Information Communication & Society) conference issue is out
by Caroline Haythornthwaite 24 Apr '10

24 Apr '10

Congratulations to all authors of the AoIR conference special issue. They worked very hard to meet our incredibly short deadlines on producing the issue. /Caroline Haythornthwaite & Lori Kendall (special issue editors) -------------------------------------- Caroline Haythornthwaite Leverhulme Visiting Professor, Institute of Education, University of London (2009-10) Professor, Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 501 East Daniel St., Champaign IL 61820 (haythorn(a)illinois.edu)

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Re: [Air-L] Comments as examples of 'public opinion'
by Katherine Albury 23 Apr '10

23 Apr '10

Thanks for all the great advice, every suggestion has been very helpful. Cheers, Kath Dr Kath Albury ARC Postdoctoral Research Fellow Journalism and Media Research Centre University of New South Wales SYDNEY NSW 2052 Telephone: 61 2 9385 8533 Fax: 61 2 9385 8528. http://www.kathalbury.com ________________________________ From: Deen Freelon <dfreelon(a)gmail.com> Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2010 10:00:19 +1000 To: Katherine Albury <k.albury(a)unsw.edu.au> Cc: <air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org> Subject: Re: [Air-L] Comments as examples of 'public opinion' Katherine, You might want to take a look at this article: Zhou, Y., & Moy, P. (2007). Parsing Framing Processes: The Interplay Between Online Public Opinion and Media Coverage. Journal of Communication, 57(1), 79-98. Not sure if it's exactly what you're looking for but it's probably at least somewhat close. ~DEEN On 4/20/10 11:21 PM, Katherine Albury wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm working on a paper that looks at comments on online news sites and Facebook groups, reading them as examples of 'public opinion' or 'popular discourse' around victims of sexual assault. The bulk of the article draws on theories of 'victim-attribution' from psychology& criminology - but I'd like to acknowledge the specific sites I'm working in. > > If any listmembers can suggest some books or articles that discuss online comments as reflections of popular opinion, or public debate, I'd be very grateful. > > Cheers, > > Kath Albury > Post-Doctoral Research Fellow > Journalism and Media Research Centre > University of New South Wales > -- > > _______________________________________________ > 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/ > -- Deen Freelon Ph.D. Candidate, Dept. of Communication University of Washington dfreelon(a)uw.edu http://dfreelon.org/

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Comments as examples of 'public opinion'
by Katherine Albury 22 Apr '10

22 Apr '10

Hi all, I'm working on a paper that looks at comments on online news sites and Facebook groups, reading them as examples of 'public opinion' or 'popular discourse' around victims of sexual assault. The bulk of the article draws on theories of 'victim-attribution' from psychology & criminology - but I'd like to acknowledge the specific sites I'm working in. If any listmembers can suggest some books or articles that discuss online comments as reflections of popular opinion, or public debate, I'd be very grateful. Cheers, Kath Albury Post-Doctoral Research Fellow Journalism and Media Research Centre University of New South Wales --

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QUT Urban Informatics iPhone app DispoMaps v2 now available
by Marcus Foth 22 Apr '10

22 Apr '10

Fellow AoIR-lers if you have an iPhone, please consider downloading and testing the new version of our iPhone app DispoMaps. It is part of a PhD research and development project by Jan Seeburger: http://www.urbaninformatics.net/projects/jan/ Please send feedback off-list to: feedback(a)urbaninformatics.net thank you cheers, marcus -- Assoc. Prof. Marcus Foth Principal Research Fellow Urban Informatics Research Group Institute for Creative Industries and Innovation Queensland University of Technology (CRICOS No. 00213J) 130 Victoria Park Road, Brisbane QLD 4059, Australia Phone +61 7 313 x88772 - Fax x88238 - Office K506, KG m.foth(a)qut.edu.au - http://www.urbaninformatics.net/ QUT Urban Informatics iPhone app DispoMaps version 2 by Jan Seeburger now available http://bit.ly/cR2YN3 DispoMaps enables you to share your current location on an online map with anyone. The map is constantly updated as you go, using your iPhone’s GPS. DispoMaps is easy to use. Launch the app, switch Location Sharing to “ON,” and decide how you want to share your location: via SMS, email, twitter, or facebook. Your recipients will be sent a link to a unique web page displaying a map of your real-time location. Once you have arrived at your destination, you can easily dispose of your map by switching Location Sharing to “OFF.” DispoMaps does not require user accounts. And the recipients of your DispoMaps do not even have to have the app installed. Your privacy is protected: The web page does not contain any information that reveals your personal identity. DispoMaps allows you to stop sharing and dispose of your map whenever you want. For enhanced security, DispoMaps automatically expire after a set period of idle time. What’s new in version 2.0 - Major bug fixes - Major user interface improvements - Twitter integration - Facebook Connect integration Download via iTunes: http://bit.ly/cR2YN3 http://www.urbaninformatics.net/

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University of Denver Media Studies Postdoc
by jeremy hunsinger 22 Apr '10

22 Apr '10

> > The > Department of Media, Film, and Journalism Studies in the Divisions of > Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences at the University of Denver > invites applications for a lecturer-postdoctoral fellow beginning Fall > 2010 with a three-year contract, renewable annually. This position is > designed for individuals who have recently completed their Ph.D. with > the opportunity to participate in career development workshops and our > division-wide faculty mentoring program. Eligible candidates will have > received a Ph.D. no earlier than May 2007. > > Preferred qualifications > include demonstrated expertise in international, global, and/or > multicultural communication and/or media and the ability to teach > research methods. > > The department has foci in film, new media, > journalism, strategic communication, politics, law and ethics, and > health communication. The successful candidate will contribute to one or > more of these existing areas. The successful candidate will teach six > courses over three quarters each year, including one First-Year Seminar > each fall quarter. The candidate will also have responsibility for > courses in the common university-wide curriculum, which can > be undergraduate seminars, related to their research interests that are > framed to meet university and departmental learning outcomes. > > We will > begin considering applications after May 15, 2010. For information > about the Department of Media, Film, and Journalism Studies, please see http://www.du.edu/ahss/schools/mfjs/. > Please complete the online application at https://www.dujobs.org/, and attach a > c.v., the contact information for three references, and a letter of > application that suggests courses to be taught or introduced. > Additional materials can be sent to: Lecturer-Postdoctoral Search > Committee, Department of Media, Film, and Journalism > Studies, University of Denver, 2490 S. Gaylord > St., Denver, CO 80208. The University of Denver is committed to > enhancing the diversity of its faculty and staff and encourages > applications from women, minorities, people with disabilities and > veterans. > > > > > _______________________________________________ > CULTSTUD-L mailing list: CULTSTUD-L(a)lists.comm.umn.edu > http://lists.comm.umn.edu/mailman/listinfo/cultstud-l 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) www.tmttlt.com () ascii ribbon campaign - against html mail /\ - against microsoft attachments http://www.stswiki.org/ sts wiki http://transdisciplinarystudies.tmttlt.com/ Transdisciplinary Studies:the book series

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Submissions to mLIfe 2010 - EURO mGOV, mSOCIETY and mDEVELOPMENT 2010
by Prof. I. Kushchu 22 Apr '10

22 Apr '10

---- Apologies for X postings ---- === MOBILE LIFE CONFERENCES 2010 === Brighton, UK, 26-28 July 2010 - http://www.m4life.org conf(a)m4life.org -- The 5th European Conference on Mobile Government (The EURO mGOV 2010) -- The 3rd International Conference on Mobile Society (mSOCIETY 2010) -- The 2nd Int. Conference on Mobile Development (mDevelopement 2010) === Research Paper Submission Deadline : 30th of April 2010 === The mLife 2010 key plenary speakers: -- Serge Ferre, NOKIA, Vice President Corporate and Head of EU Representation -- Jane Fountain, Professor of Political Science and Public Policy and Director, National Center for Digital Government (ncdg.org) Director, Science, Technology and Society Initiative (umass.edu/sts) -- Dorothy Gordon, Director-General, Ghana-India Kofi Annan Centre of Excellence in ICT -- William H. Dutton, Professor and Director of the Oxford Internet Institute, Professor of Internet Studies, University of Oxford, and Fellow of Balliol College -- ibrahim Kushchu, Associate Prof. and Founding Director, mGCI, UK -- Rain Rannu, Founder at Fortumo Ltd, Estonia -- Roland Traunmüller, Professor Emeritus, the Institute for Informatics in Business and Government at Linz University, Austria. === Important dates are: • Practice talk proposals : Ongoing until 31st of May 2010 • Research Paper Submission Deadline : 30th of April 2010 • Conference Dates : 26-28 July 2010 === Conference web site (http://www.m4life.org) for updates, detailed information on submissions and participation on Also, looking forward to your contributions of proposals for panels, workshops, and demos ------- IBRAHIM KUSHCHU, MBA, MSC., PHD Associate Professor and Founding Director, Mobile Government Consortium International, UK http://www.mgovernment.org ik(a)mgovernment.org +44 1273 327876 - Visit mLife Conferences http://www.m4life.org

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CFP for Academic Mindtrek Conference 2010, Oct 6-8, Tampere, Finland
by Olli Sotamaa 22 Apr '10

22 Apr '10

Dear all, below you will find the basic info for this year's Academic Mindtrek Conference. The conference has altogether 5 tracks featuring the following themes: 1) Social Media, 2) Ambient and Ubiquitous Media, 3) Digital Games, 4) Open Source, 5) Media Business, Media Production and Media Management. All the accepted papers will be published in the ACM digital library. There are also plans to publish a selected set of papers as a book. The detailed Call for papers can be found at http://www.mindtrek.org/2010/academic Looking forward to seeing you in Tampere! Olli Olli Sotamaa // Senior Research Fellow Department of Information Studies and Interactive Media // University of Tampere olli.sotamaa(a)uta.fi // +358 50 420 1472 // www.uta.fi/~olli.sotamaa/ ============================================================= Academic MindTrek 2010: Call for Papers, Tutorials and Workshops 6th - 8th October, 2010, Tampere, Finland http://www.mindtrek.org/2010/academic ============================================================= The MindTrek Association hosts MindTrek as a yearly conference, and the Academic MindTrek conference has been a part of this unique set of events, comprising competitions, world famous keynote speakers, plenary sessions, media festivals, and workshops since 1997. It is a meeting place where experts and thinkers present results from their latest work regarding the development of Internet, interactive media, and the information society. September 6th is the main Academic day, featuring the following themes: 1) Social Media, 2) Ambient and Ubiquitous Media, 3) Digital Games, 4) Open Source, 5) Media Business, Media Production and Media Management. Submission Deadlines - 23rd Apr: Deadline for long papers, workshops and tutorial proposals (6-8 pages) - 21st May: submission of short papers, poster presentations and tool demonstrations (3-4 pages) - 30th July: paper submission deadline for workshops - 1st August: Camera ready papers and copyright forms Key-Dates - 15th May: notification for workshops & tutorials - 28th May: notification of acceptance/rejection for long papers - 24th June: notification of short papers and posters - 6th-8th October 2010: MindTrek academic conference

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