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FW: [edem] CFP: Conference for e-democracy, e-participation and e-voting
by Axel Bruns 07 Sep '10

07 Sep '10

G'day ! This may be of interest to some of you. I've attended the last two CeDEM conferences, and have found them throughly enjoyable - and Government 2.0 is now a growing discussion topic and research area in many countries around the world, of course. > -----Original Message----- > From: edem-bounces(a)egov.donau-uni.ac.at [mailto:edem-bounces@egov.donau- > uni.ac.at] On Behalf Of edem(a)egov.donau-uni.ac.at > Sent: Tuesday, 7 September 2010 19:05 > To: edem(a)egov.donau-uni.ac.at > Subject: [edem] CFP: Conference for e-democracy, e-participation and e-voting > > Dear Reader, > > welcome to our first e-democracy updates after the summer break. > Please disseminate the CFP among your peers and networks. > Apologies for cross-posting! > > ************************************************************* > > CALL FOR PAPERS > > Conference for e-democracy, e-participation and e-voting > 5-6 May 2011 > Danube University Krems, Austria > http://www.donau-uni.ac.at/cedem > > During the last 10 years, the world has focused on social media and > the new forms of societal behaviour, including content generation, > collaboration and sharing as well as network organisation. These > behaviours and expectations, in particular transparency and access > to data, new ways of interacting with government and democratic > institutions will continue to develop, and profound changes in > society are to be expected. Society has been confronted with > Open Government, Open Data and Open Access. What have > the experiences been so far? How do these impact society, > democratic structures and organisations? What changes occur at > citizen level? What are the implications for democracy, society, > science and business? > > CeDEM11 presents the following tracks, which focus on these changes: > > Track: E-PARTICPATION with co-chairs: > Julia Glidden (21C Consulting, UK) > Jeremy Millard (Danish Technological Institute, DK) > > Track: OPEN ACCESS and OPEN DATA with co-chair: > Andy Williamson (Hansard Society, UK) > > Track: OPEN GOVERNMENT with co-chairs: > Philipp Müller (University of Salzburg, Business School, AT) > Axel Bruns (Queensland University of Technology, AUS) > > Track: E-VOTING with co-chairs: > Melanie Volkamer (Technical University Darmstadt, GER) > Thad Hall (University of Utah, USA) > > > We would like to invite individuals from academic, applied and > practitioner backgrounds as well as public authorities, NGO/NPOs, > education institutions and independent organisations to submit > their research and project papers as well as workshop proposals > related to the CeDEM11 Tracks. We welcome different > multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary approaches and disciplines > including (but not limited to): law & legal studies, social sciences, > computer sciences, political sciences, psychology, sociology, > applied computer gaming and simulation, democratic theory, > media and communication sciences. > > DEADLINE for Submissions: 1 December 2010 > > Conference Chairs: > Peter Parycek (Danube University Krems, AT) > Manuel J. Kripp (E-Voting.CC, AT) > Noella Edelmann (Danube University Krems, AT) > > Confrence Website: http://www.donau-uni.ac.at/cedem > > > ************************************************************* > > CFP: IRIS 2011, WORKSHOP: OPEN GOVERNMENT & OPEN ACCESS > > Open Government can change how citizens interact with their own > government. The Ministers responsible for the eGovernment policy of > the European Union Member States stated that "there is a growing > expectation from European citizens and businesses for their > governments to be more open, flexible and collaborative in their > delivery of public services across Europe." (Malmö, 2009) > The use of ICT supports connectedness among citizens and can lead > to more transparent, collaborative and participative society. > This new research field includes: > > * Empowerment of citizens: opportunities, problems and challenges; > * Open government and changes in decision making processes; > * The impact of transparent government on e-participation; > * Changes in the G2B relationship; > * Political and legal issues of open access and open data; > * Open access and open data licence and format issues. > > http://www.univie.ac.at/RI/IRIS2011/ > http://irisj.eu/iris2011/ > > > ************************************************************* > > CFP: HCII INTERNATIONAL 2011 > > 4th International Conference on Online Communities and Social > Computing > Parallel Session on "e-Deliberation 2.0" http://www.hcii2011.org/ > > The main aim of this session is to explore the deliberative potential > of web 2.0 technologies, and, at the same time, to examine whether > we need to rethink the very notion(s) of deliberation, in view of the > ways in which people put in use the online tools available to them. > > Further Information about the Session on *e-Deliberation 2.0: > Dr. Dimitra Milioni, Cyprus University of Technology, > Dept. of Communication and Internet Studies, Dimitra.Milioni(a)cut.ac.cy > > Dr. Dimitris Gouscos, University of Athens, Greece, > Dept. of Communication and Media Studies, gouscos(a)media.uoa.gr > > > ************************************************************* > > E-GOVERNMENT Master of Science (MSc) > > To disseminate our current research output and education programmes, > the Centre for E-Government will hold an information event for > potential students about the new curricula and research matters. > Leading decision-makers of Austrian E-Government will report about > possible future developments and the importance of ongoing and > continuing education. > http://tiny.cc/eGov_5Oct10 > > 5. October 2010, 17:30 > Palais Porcia, Vienna, Austria > The presentations will be held in German language! > > > ************************************************************* > > BLOGPOSTS FROM http://digitalgovernment.wordpress.com/ > > REPORTS FROM ePAT and eGOV IN LAUSANNE > ePart: http://tiny.cc/Blog_ePart2010Lausanne > eGOV: http://tiny.cc/Blog_eGov2010Lausanne > > REPORTS FROM eVOTE 2011 > Day1: http://tiny.cc/Blog_eVote2010Bregenz > Day2: http://tiny.cc/Blog_eVote2010Bregenz2 > > > ************************************************************* > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, please click on the link below. > _______________________________________________ > Edem mailing list > Edem(a)egov.donau-uni.ac.at > http://egov.donau-uni.ac.at/mailman/listinfo/edem -- 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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Call for book reviewers about digital ethics - pls forward
by Adrienne Massanari 07 Sep '10

07 Sep '10

The Center for Digital Ethics & Policy (CDEP) in the School of Communication at Loyola University Chicago is looking for reviewers interested in contributing to our blog which will be launching in September 2010. CDEP is committed to facilitating a community-wide conversation regarding the ethical consequences of new media. To that end, we are creating a book review section for the web site, which will serve as a resource for academics, journalists, and practitioners. Reviews should be around 500-750 words, written for a general audience, and focus on the ethical implications of the reviewed text. We will provide a copy of the text and a small stipend ($50) for completed reviews. Currently, we are looking for individuals interested in reviewing the following books: Carr, The Shallows Deuze, Media Work Ess, Digital Media Ethics Flanagin, Kids and Credibility: An Empirical Examination of Youth, Digital Media Use, and Information Credibility (MacArthur) Gershon, The Breakup 2.0: Disconnecting over New Media Gillespie, Wired Shut Huntemann, Joystick Soldiers: The Politics of Play in Military Video Games Johns, Piracy Nissenbaum, Privacy in Context Solove, Future of Reputation CDEP is especially interested in publishing the work of graduate students, young faculty, and post-docs. If you are interested in participating, or would like to review a text not on this list, please contact Adrienne Massanari, Program Director at amassanari(a)luc.edu. Thanks, Adrienne Massanari (Apologies for the cross-posting!) --- Adrienne Massanari, PhD Program Director - Center for Digital Ethics and Policy Assistant Professor - New/Digital Media School of Communication Loyola University, Chicago

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Information Technology and Society: Course in Second Life
by M. Deanya Lattimore 07 Sep '10

07 Sep '10

Dear AoIR, World University & School is incorporated and is offering a free, open class on the I.T. Revolution - http://socinfotech.pbworks.com/ - for WUAS credit, on Harvard's virtual island in Second Life starting this Saturday Sept. 11 from 11a - 1p PT. (This course could be a great opportunity for you, or a student of yours, to come into conversation about a paper you are writing, for example). World University is also planning to video-stream live a free UC Berkeley "Biological Anthropology" undergraduate class beginning in Jan. 2011 (probably on Tuesday and Thursday mornings PT), also for WUaS credit. Both courses are listed here: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Courses#Individual_courses (where other for-credit courses will be listed). World University & School is planning for matriculating classes for online degree course work primarily through partnering with great universities like UC Berkeley beginning in 2014, with interactivity in virtual worlds. Resources are growing at the open, free, editable, wiki World University & School, where we all can teach and learn: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/World_University. WUaS is like Wikipedia with MIT OCW, Berkeley Webcast, and facilitating people-to-people teaching and learning. Please contact worlduniversityandschool(a)gmail.com with further questions, and check out the WUas wiki. There are already a lot of open, free, wiki teaching and learning resources at World University & School: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Courses. Sincerely, Scott http://scottmacleod.com

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Interactive Media Asst. Prof. at Quinnipiac
by Alex Halavais 07 Sep '10

07 Sep '10

Come join fellow AoIRers Ewa Callahan and me at Quinnipiac! - Alex Interactive Media: Full-time Tenure Track Faculty Position The Department of Film, Video and Interactive Media, School of Communications, Quinnipiac University seeks applicants for a full-time, tenure track faculty position in Interactive Communications beginning August, 2011. Primary teaching responsibilities include graduate (on-line and on-campus) courses in the Interactive Communications Master's Program in two or more of the following areas: * Interactive media theory and practice * Visual design for interactive media * Digital video and audio design and production * User experience * Interactive animation * Writing for the interactive media * The design and practice of social media * Social and cultural effects of new media Undergraduate teaching in Interactive Media and other areas may be assigned. Continuing scholarly research/activity and service to the University are required. The successful candidate will combine a progressive design philosophy with excellent technical proficiency and have the following qualifications: * A Ph.D. or Master’s of Fine Arts (M.F.A.) degree in interactive media or related field. The terminal degree requirement may be waived for applicants with an M.A. or M.S. who exhibit a documented record of extraordinary film, video or interactive media skill and professional accomplishment. * Professional experience in interactive communication or related fields * A mastery of interactive tools and technologies. * A body of work which demonstrates a solid understanding of design principles that are used online and in other interactive environments. A critical understanding of visual aesthetics, user experience, information design, and conceptual thinking is a must. Apply on line at https://careers.quinnipiac.edu . Application materials should include curriculum vitae and letter of application addressing professional experience, teaching philosophy, and a program of research or design. After initial consideration has been completed, candidates selected for further consideration will be asked to send three letters of reference, evidence of teaching performance, samples of professional/creative work (DVD or url) and a copy of transcripts. Review of applications will begin November 1, 2010 and continue until position is filled.

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Fwd: [CSL]: Privacy (Communication & Digital Culture/PCA)
by jeremy hunsinger 07 Sep '10

07 Sep '10

Begin forwarded message: > From: Joanne Roberts <joanne.roberts(a)NORTHUMBRIA.AC.UK> > Date: September 7, 2010 8:58:49 AM EDT > To: CYBER-SOCIETY-LIVE(a)JISCMAIL.AC.UK > Subject: [CSL]: Privacy (Communication & Digital Culture/PCA) > Reply-To: Interdisciplinary academic study of Cyber Society <CYBER-SOCIETY-LIVE(a)JISCMAIL.AC.UK> > > From: Mark Nunes [mailto:mnunes@spsu.edu] > Sent: 07 September 2010 13:39 > To: Interdisciplinary academic study of Cyber Society > Subject: CFP: Privacy (Communication & Digital Culture/PCA) > > Call for Papers > > Privacy > Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association (US) > National Conference > San Antonio, TX > April 20-23, 2011 > > The Communication and Digital Culture Area of the Popular Culture Association is soliciting proposals for panels and individual papers that explore questions of privacy in a network society. > > How has the penetration of information technology into everyday life reframed our concepts of privacy, intimacy, and public information? Have social media altered our understanding of what, where, and with whom to share? How have civil liberties become a matter of one’s ability to “opt in” or “opt out” of data mining? > > > Possible topics include: > > Myths of Generational Differences > Self-Surveillance > The Politics of Public Information > “Control-Self-Delete” > Facebook as Performance > Online Reputation Management > Personalization & Aggregation > Public Figures & the End of Lying > Cookies, Beacons, and Trackers > Radical Transparency > > > Submit a 250-word proposal to: > > Mark Nunes, Chair > Department of English, Technical Communication, and Media Arts > Southern Polytechnic State University > Marietta, GA 30060-2896 > mnunes(a)spsu.edu > > Deadline for Submissions: December 15, 2010 > > > Note: Communication and Digital Culture is a themed area. Submissions off-theme should be submitted to: > Internet Culture Area Chair, Montana Miller, montanm(a)bgnet.bgsu.edu > Game Studies Area Co-Chairs, digitalgames.pcaaca(a)gmail.com > > ************************************************************************************ > Distributed through Cyber-Society-Live [CSL]: CSL is a moderated discussion > list made up of people who are interested in the interdisciplinary academic > study of Cyber Society in all its manifestations.To join the list please visit: > http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/cyber-society-live.html > ************************************************************************************* > > ************************************************************************************ > Distributed through Cyber-Society-Live [CSL]: CSL is a moderated discussion > list made up of people who are interested in the interdisciplinary academic > study of Cyber Society in all its manifestations.To join the list please visit: > http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/cyber-society-live.html > ************************************************************************************* Jeremy Hunsinger Center for Digital Discourse and Culture Virginia Tech http://www.tmttlt.com Whoever ceases to be a student has never been a student. -George Iles

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Just out: Tom Apperley, Gaming Rhythms: Play and Counterplay from the Situated to the Global
by Geert Lovink 07 Sep '10

07 Sep '10

The Institute of Network Cultures proudly presents the 6th title in the Theory on Demand series: Tom Apperley, Gaming Rhythms: Play and Counterplay from the Situated to the Global Global gaming networks are heterogenous collectives of localized practices, not unified commercial products. Shifting the analysis of digital games to local specificities that build and perform the global and general, Gaming Rhythms employs ethnographic work conducted in Venezuela and Australia to account for the material experiences of actual game players. This book explores the materiality of digital play across diverse locations and argues that the dynamic relation between the everyday life of the player and the experience of digital game play can only be understood by examining play-practices in their specific situations. Thomas Apperley is a Lecturer in Media Studies at the University of New England (NSW), Australia. Author: Tom Apperley, Design: Katja van Stiphout. Printer: ‘Print on Demand’. Publisher: Institute of Network Cultures, Amsterdam 2010. ISBN: 978-90-816021-1-2. This publication is available through various print on demand services such as www.lulu.com. Download the free pdf here: http://www.networkcultures.org/_uploads/TOD%236%20total%20def.pdf

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Re: [Air-L] Air-L Digest, Vol 74, Issue 9
by Ivana Felicia 07 Sep '10

07 Sep '10

Hi Holly, maybe you can search for Martha McCaughey and Michael D.Ayers book, Cyberactivism: Online activism in theory and practice, Routledge, 2003. Message: 4 Date: Sun, 5 Sep 2010 16:03:44 -0500 From: Holly Kruse <holly.kruse(a)gmail.com> To: air-l(a)aoir.org Subject: [Air-L] Theories of computer networks Message-ID: <25EF7C05-0E49-4618-A55D-1A1E2F271BAC(a)gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Hi all: I'm curious: what are recommended sources for social and cultural theories of computer networks?: specifically, social theories having to do with the technology's expansion across space. I'm need to make a fairly explicit analogy between the social implications of the historical development/organization and colonization of space of computer networks and another, older communication technology. I don't need to make analogies to other older communication technologies (writing, print, telegraph, telephone, radio, TV, etc. ? or phonograph, on which I've written. I pretty familiar with that literature). For purposes of this project, I just need sources on computer networks. I probably need to re-read Castells, because it's been a while. Anything else? Thanks! Holly ---- Holly Kruse Department of Communications Rogers State University 1701 W. Will Rogers Blvd. Claremore, OK 74017 918-343-7879 hkruse(a)rsu.edu or holly.kruse(a)gmail.com http://hollykruse.com or http://www.rsu.edu/academics/comm/kruse.asp

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New Book: Gaydar Culture
by Sharif Mowlabocus 07 Sep '10

07 Sep '10

Dear esteemed colleagues, Please forgive this unsolicited piece of self-promotion but I wanted to alert you to the publication of my new book Gaydar Culture. I've pasted some publisher blurb below. A few of the topics covered in the book include: - Grindr and 'digital cruising' - Gaydar, identity and user profiles - Public sex cultures on and offline - Bareback websites - Gay men's visual culture The book is available from Amazon or direct from the publisher's website - where you'll receive a discount for a limited period. http://www.ashgate.com/isbn/9780754675358 Many thanks Sharif Mowlabocus Gaydar Culture Popular culture has recognised urban gay men's use of the Web over the last ten years, with gay Internet dating and Net-cruising featuring as narrative devices in hit television shows. Yet to date, the relationship between urban gay culture and digital media technologies has received only limited attention. "Gaydar Culture" explores the integration of specific techno-cultural practices within contemporary gay male sub-culture. Taking British gay culture as its primary interest, the book locates its critical discussion within the wider global context of a proliferating model of Western 'metropolitan' gay male culture. Focusing primarily on web-based forms and practices in order to address the key issues of sexual and gender identity, with a secondary emphasis on the attending themes of sexual practice and sexual risk, its principal concern is the impact that increasing levels of digital 'immersion' or 'integration' is having on these aspects of 'mainstream' gay male culture. Making use of a series of case studies in the development of a theoretical framework through which past, present and future practices of digital immersion can be understood and critiqued, this book constitutes a timely intervention into the fields of digital media studies, cultural studies and the study of gender and sexuality. Dr. Sharif Mowlabocus Lecturer in Media and Digital Media Studies Dept. of Media and Film Studies University of Sussex Tel: 01273 876587 s.j.mowlabocus(a)sussex.ac.uk ***OUT NOW**** Gaydar Culture: Gay Men, Technology & Embodiment in the Digital Age More details at: http://www.ashgate.com/isbn/9780754675358 Centre for Material Digital Culture: www.sussex.ac.uk/rcmdc/ Brighton and Sussex Sexualities Network: www.cmis.brighton.ac.uk/bssn Blog http://creativemess.wordpress.com/

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Re: [Air-L] Theories of computer networks (Holly Kruse)
by yannbona＠molekulab.net 07 Sep '10

07 Sep '10

Hi Holly, You might consider taking a look to classic Science and Technology Studies (STS) literature on Large Technological Systems. For Instance; Hughes, T. P. (1987). The evolution of large technological systems. In Bijker, W. E., Hughes, T. P., and Pinch, T. J., editors, The Social Construction of Technological Systems: New Directions in the Sociology and History of Technology, number x, 405 p, pages 51-82. MIT Press. ...Star, S. L. (1999). The ethnography of infrastructure. American Behavioral Scientist, 43(3):377-391. Although a quick search at any journal database should give you a more comprehensive and updated results, those are still a good place to start. You might also want to take a look at a forthcoming book @ http://www.openwaves.ws/ Best of luck and, if you agree, I would be interested in reading a copy of your work. -- Yann Bona http://wifi-r.molekulab.net/ >>>>>>>>>> Message: 4 Date: Sun, 5 Sep 2010 16:03:44 -0500 From: Holly Kruse <holly.kruse(a)gmail.com> To: air-l(a)aoir.org Subject: [Air-L] Theories of computer networks Message-ID: <25EF7C05-0E49-4618-A55D-1A1E2F271BAC(a)gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Hi all: I'm curious: what are recommended sources for social and cultural theories of computer networks?: specifically, social theories having to do with the technology's expansion across space. I'm need to make a fairly explicit analogy between the social implications of the historical development/organization and colonization of space of computer networks and another, older communication technology. I don't need to make analogies to other older communication technologies (writing, print, telegraph, telephone, radio, TV, etc. ? or phonograph, on which I've written. I pretty familiar with that literature). For purposes of this project, I just need sources on computer networks. I probably need to re-read Castells, because it's been a while. Anything else? Thanks! Holly ---- Holly Kruse Department of Communications Rogers State University 1701 W. Will Rogers Blvd. Claremore, OK 74017 918-343-7879 hkruse(a)rsu.edu or holly.kruse(a)gmail.com http://hollykruse.com or http://www.rsu.edu/academics/comm/kruse.asp

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For the Air-L digest
by Meng Yoe Tan 06 Sep '10

06 Sep '10

Hello, I've been doing a lot of reading for my research on Christianity online. What I've noticed so far is that the books I've read are a little bit old. I'm wondering if you guys have any good suggestions/recommendations on very recently published books/edited volumes on: 1. virtual communities 2. internet research methods 3. identity online 4. cyberculture readings in general. Feel free to email me at myoe.tan(a)gmail.com if you're interested in a longer discussion. Thanks for your help in advance Tan Meng Yoe PhD candidate, Monash University

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