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CFP: Game Studies Area of the Popular Culture Association/American Cultrue Association National Convention
by Voorhees, Gerald 03 Sep '10

03 Sep '10

Game Studies: 2011 PCA/ACA National Conference. The Game Studies area of the National Popular Culture Association and the American Culture Association Conference invites proposals for papers and panels on games and game studies for the joint meeting of the National Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association and the Southwest/Texas Popular Culture and American Culture Associations Conference to be held Wednesday, April 20, through Saturday, April 23, 2010, at the Marriott Rivercenter San Antonio and the Marriott-San Antonio Riverwalk in San Antonio, TX The organizers seek proposals covering all aspects of gaming, gaming culture and game studies. Proposals can address any game medium (computer, social, console, tabletop, etc) and all theoretical and methodological approaches are welcome. Possible topics include but are not limited to: -- new game mediums and platforms (Facebook, iPhone/iPad/iPod, etc) -- representation or performance of race, class, gender and sexuality in games -- gaming culture, game specific cultures, and multicultural and cross-cultural issues -- game development, design, authorship and other industry issues -- game advertising, reviews, packaging, promotion, integrated marketing and other commercial concerns -- political and legal entailments such as regulation, censorship, intellectual property -- ludology, textual criticism, media ecology, narratology, etc as paradigms for games studies -- player generated content in MUDs and MMORPGs, Mods, maps and machinima -- game genres, platforms, consoles, console wars and connections to other media -- serious games for education, business, healthcare, (military) training, etc -- space and place in games, play spaces, virtual/physical communities, mobile gaming and localization -- digital literacy, discourse practices, social norms and norming, the politics of play -- public discourse/controversy over violence, militarism, sex, criminality, racism, etc in games So that there will be ample time for discussion, each individual paper presentation should be designed to last approximately fifteen minutes (there will be four presentations per session with time for Q&A). For individual paper submissions, your 250-word (maximum) abstract must be received by December 15, 2010. At the top of your proposal, please include the title of the paper, your name (and the name of any co-presenters), affiliation, mailing address, and e-mail address. This information will be used in the program and to mail your conference materials. At the end of your abstract, please include a list of 3 to 5 keywords. The Game Studies area of the National Popular Culture Association and the American Culture Association Conference also invites complete panel submissions, which may take the form of debates, dialogs, roundtable discussions, thematic panels, (or other format,) and be designed to last approximately eighty minutes. For complete panel submissions, please submit a 250-word panel abstract, as well as 100-word abstracts for each individual presentation. Be sure to include the proposed title of the panel, the organizer's name, affiliation, mailing address, and email, and include this information for all panelists. Panel submissions must be received by December 15, 2010. Technology for use during presentations may be limited. More information about the conference can be found at http://www.pcaaca.org/ <http://www.pcaaca.org/> Please also note that presenters will be required to join either the Popular Culture Association or the American Culture Association prior to attending the conference, as well as pay a registration fee for the conference. Please email all paper and panel proposals to digitalgames.pcaaca(a)gmail.com <mailto:digitalgames.pcaaca@gmail.com> . Questions and concerns can be sent to the address above, or may be directed to one of the area chairs listed below. Katie Whitlock, Theatre Department, California State University, Chico klwhitlock(a)csuchico.edu <mailto:klwhitlock@csuchico.edu> Gerald Voorhees, Nido Qubien School of Communication, High Point University gvoorhee(a)highpoint.edu <mailto:gvoorhee@highpoint.edu> Joshua Call, Department of English, Grand View University jcall(a)grandviewl.edu <mailto:jcall@grandviewl.edu> Tony Avruch, American Culture Studies Program, Bowling Green State University avruch.pca(a)gmail.com <mailto:avruch.pca@gmail.com> Gerald Voorhees, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Games and Interactive Media Nido R. Qubein School of Communication Drawer 33 High Point University High Point, NC 27262-3598 Tel: 336.841.9174 Office: Qubein 356 www.communication.highpoint.edu/ Co-Chair, Game Studies Area Popular Culture Association National Conference http://www.pcaaca.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ At High Point University, every student receives an extraordinary education in an inspiring environment with caring people.

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THATCamp Cologne, September 17/18, University of Cologne, Germany
by Cornelius Puschmann 03 Sep '10

03 Sep '10

Dear colleagues, THATCamp Cologne is a European digital humanities unconference and hackday that will take place at the University of Cologne, Germany, on 17-18 September 2010 (Friday and Saturday). We invite scholars, developers, librarians, and everyone interested in the intersections of technology and the humanities to attend and participate. Program? THATCamp Cologne is an unconference, meaning that the program will be developed from the bottom up via the website and finalized during the initial brainstorming session on Friday. A program outline is available here: http://thatcampcologne.org/program Registration? Participation is free and snacks/wireless Internet will be provided. Register here to secure your spot: http://thatcampcologne.org/wp-login.php?action=register Objectives? Learn new methods, exchange ideas, develop visions and code things on the spot (hackday). Themes? - DH tools, platforms, services, and APIs - cultural heritage data - text encoding and analysis - data hosting/curation/archiving - linked data - visualization - mobile device integration - geographic information systems (GIS) - semantic web, ontologies - teaching and learning DH methods THATCamp Cologne is supported by: Cologne Center for eHumanities (CCeH), Cologne, Germany & Institute for Documentology and Scholarly Editing (IDE) --- Cornelius Puschmann (University of Düsseldorf) and Patrick Sahle (CCeH) Dr. des. Cornelius Puschmann, M.A. Department for English Language and Linguistics Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf Building 23.11, Level 1, Room 21 Universitätsstrasse 1 40225 Düsseldorf Germany, Germany +49 211 811 59 2 (office) +49 176 811 78 0 67 (mobile) http://ynada.com

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Invite to IGF Workshop - Innovative Internet Governance Ideas and Approaches - An Open Discussion Space
by Fouad Bajwa 03 Sep '10

03 Sep '10

As everyone gets ready for the IGF2010 in Lithuania, I would like to invite IGF participants, your colleagues and thought leaders to a workshop organized for all of you as the first ever open discussion space workshop at IGF. You are all invited to participate in the IGC Workshop: *No. 54. Innovative Internet Governance Ideas and Approaches - An Open Discussion Space * * * *(I*GF Theme: Development) where you will be allowed to freely share your ideas and opinions about Internet Governance that can possibly help change the world we live in today. Link to the workshop information page: ** http://www.intgovforum.org/cms/index.php/component/chronocontact/?chronofor… *Workshop Description:* A workshop that provides stakeholders the opportunity to share positive ideas for stimulating socio-economic change in the developing world utilizing the Internet. This will be a venue for both developed and developing world participants. An example may be the ideas presented by Tim Berners-Lee at TED for Opening Data to the world that helped in providing concrete relief information on the ground during the Haiti earthquake crisis. Another idea may be Google's mapping of the Sudan crisis. *With the participation of all stakeholders*, including youth, the workshop will record the many positive ideas that evolve from this venue, measure the changes that they have enabled over time, and at the next IGF meeting identify which ideas had the greatest impact over the past 12 months since presented. *A round table open to all participants of the workshop.* The format will be 5 minutes given to each of the participants to share an existing or revolutionary idea. The Internet governance dimensions of each idea will also be explored. All the ideas will be recorded and categorized under various topics for measurement of impact over the following year. *There will be no formal panellists.* All participants will be given 3-5 minutes to share an idea. The moderator will be Fouad Bajwa. Participants are listed on the wiki at http://wiki.igf-online.net/wiki/Open_space_for_Internet_governance_ideas. This workshop was formerly titled "Revolutionary Internet Governance Ideas that can help change the Developing World". * Kindly let me know if you are participating so that we can arrange a list of participants before hand for record taking! If members from your organization or friends are participating, kindly inform them as well! *Organization:* Internet Governance Caucus *Contact Person:* Fouad Bajwa fouadbajwa(a)gmail.com

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CfP Edited Collection: New Technologies and the Changing Landscapes of Leisure
by Mariek Vanden Abeele 03 Sep '10

03 Sep '10

New Technologies and the Changing Landscapes of Leisure - Call for Submissions for an Edited Collection http://madebyjase.com/cfp-new-technologies/ Jason Rutter & Mariek Vanden Abeele School for Mass Communication Research, Catholic University of Leuven Chapters exploring the use and impact of new technologies on leisure experiences are sought for a proposed book. Abstracts are requested by 15th October 2010 with a view to publication following successful review and publisher selection. Technologies and platforms such as Facebook, computer games, streaming media and smartphones, augmented reality services and haptic sensors along with an always-on and ever-connected culture have significantly transformed the Western world spends its leisure time. New technologies have enabled people to amplify and extend well-established leisure practices such as chatting, gossiping, dating, playing games, gambling, watching films and sharing music. Technologies of leisure have allowed the building of new social networks around enthusiasms, supported the new ways to manage our non-work time and offered new options to package, consume and produce leisure experiences. Users now dip in and out of extended networks of friends and associates exploiting loose ties to talk about their leisure and share information. Even apparently non-technological activities such as holidaying, visiting restaurants and country walks have been changed by these new media technologies as users make decisions based upon consumer review sites, add meaning to their leisure by posting images of their activities on social networking platforms, and update their friends on their whereabouts through location-based networking services such as Foursquare. New technologies are playing an important role in managing existing leisure practices and local networks as mobile phones, instant messaging and sites such as MySpace and Facebook are used to plan nights out and other social events and to maintain contacts with real world friends and family. As such new technologies are increasingly central to planning, performing, sharing and understanding leisure as users flow between being consumers of leisure experiences and producers of their own cultural texts. Broadcast and publishing media have developed strategies to involve users in new forms of interaction with their media encouraging user involvement and framing engagement with branding and marketing strategies as a leisure activity. However, as with all technologies and social processes, access and use is not universal: existing inequalities often remain apparent - even amplified - in technologically-mediated leisure. Users who cannot, or choose not to, adopt new leisure technologies are potentially excluded from this evolving leisure landscape. This proposed collection will focus on people’s interaction with new technologies to manage, negotiate and facilitate their leisure. It will emphasise user practice, attitudes and experience and their changing place within developing social, technical and economic frameworks. It will look at how users have adopted, integrated and innovated with new technologies to facilitate both routine and extraordinary leisure. As such, the editors welcome contributions to the collection that engage with the issues above to illustrate the profound social, cultural and innovative impacts that new technologies are having on leisure experience and practice. Authors are encouraged to propose high quality chapters that engage with any aspect of user experience and engagement with new technology and leisure practices including within the following topics: Sociability and Community: · Managing identity and relationships through technology · Online dating, long distance relationships · Using technologies to manage leisure in time-poor lifestyles New leisure forums: · Online virtual worlds, Second Life, massively multiplayer games · Documenting leisure experiences through reviews, photos and personal narratives · Consuming leisure brands via social networks & consumer engagement Mobile leisure: · Taking music, video, ebooks and software into the evolving mediascape · Location-based service and playing the city · Constructing leisure time and space – multi-tasking, managing and work-leisure tensions Alternative and deviant leisure: · Cybercrime - Piracy, bullying, stalking and scams · Pornography and sexual cultures · Internet addiction, obsession and compulsion Leisure constraints and entitlement: · Experience at different life stages, media literacy and online protection · Access to leisure technologies for people with disabilities · Digital divides and experiences of leisure mediated through gender, race and economics Submission of abstracts: Abstracts should be about 750 words in length (excluding author details and references) and outline the key ideas, arguments and structure for the proposed chapter. They should indicate what data the work will use (where relevant) and the primary literature the completed text will draw upon. It should be clear in what way the chapter offers a new way of understanding the area or the manner in which the author(s) offers an innovative approach. The abstract should be preceded by a single sentence summarising the key ‘take home’ message of the chapter. Finished chapters are expected to be in the region of 7000 words long including notes, references and tables. Abstracts should be sent to Jason Rutter <Jason.Rutter(a)soc.kuleuven.be> and Mariek Vanden Abeele <Mariek.VandenAbeele(a)soc.kuleuven.be> by 15th October 2010. Key Dates: Deadline for abstracts: 15th October 2010 Editorial feedback on abstracts: 19th November 2010 Submissions of full chapters: 4th March 2011 Editorial feedback to authors: 29th April 2011 Deadline for revised chapters: 19th August 2011

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Re: [Air-L] MP3 web player/streaming
by Ismael Peña-López 03 Sep '10

03 Sep '10

Thanks for the tip, John: I may use that if I don't succeed in finding the "perfect" tech I'm looking for. So far, I think my pick is Ampache (http://ampache.org/) which does exactly what I intended, though the management of "Catalogs" (where your mp3 are located) is a little bit buggy. Thanks for all the help, i. -- Ismael Peña-López Department of Law and Political Science Open University of Catalonia http://ictlogy.net Av. Tibidabo 39-43 08035 Barcelona

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Call for Applications: CCI PhD Research Opportunities in 2011
by Axel Bruns 03 Sep '10

03 Sep '10

G'day ! Apologies for the length of this, and for any cross-posts, but this call for PhD applications at Australia's leading centre for research in many of the areas of relevance to AoIR members might be of interest to quite a few people here: PhD research opportunities at the ARC Centre of Excellence for Creative Industries and Innovation in 2011 Undertaking your PhD at the ARC Centre of Excellence for Creative Industries and Innovation (CCI) means you will be working with world class researchers who can offer supervision of the highest standards. Our research activities cover a broad range of emerging issues, themes and projects across the entertainment and creative industries including innovation and policy development; significant project collaborations with Asia; a major project looking at broadband services; mapping the creative industries; IP law; a global cultural futures study and other projects which engage community and industry partners in creative industries from major film studios to the Salvation Army and 'at-risk' young people working as media co-creators. ABOUT THE CCI The ARC Centre of Excellence for Creative Industries and Innovation (CCI) was established in 2005 to focus research and development on the role the creative industries and their contributing disciplines make to a more dynamic and inclusive innovation system and society. With core support from the Australian Research Council from 2005-13, it is acknowledged as a global leader in this emerging field. It is a broadly-based, cross-disciplinary, internationally-focused centre embracing both fundamental theoretical, and highly applied, research in media, cultural and communication studies, law, education, economics and business and information technology, addressing key problems and opportunities arising for Australia, the Asian region, and more broadly in the world, from innovation in and through the creative economy. The Centre's administering institution is the Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane, Australia. The core collaborating partners are Swinburne University of Technology (VIC), Australian Film Television and Radio School (NSW), Edith Cowan University (WA), University of Wollongong (NSW) and the University of New South Wales. The Centre's research projects are organised around four key themes: * Conceptual Modelling * Digital Innovations * Policy and Macro-Trends * Skills and Creative Capital Within these four themes, a number of past and current projects span a wide range of interests and topics. We encourage you to visit the CCI Projects Page at: http://www.cci.edu.au/projects to find out more about the Centre's activities. UNDERTAKING A PHD AT CCI A PhD at CCI gives you the chance to undertake in-depth study in a specific area, by way of independent learning combined with the mentoring of internationally renowned researchers. Graduate research students at CCI have a passion for their topics and fields of research. They take the opportunity to examine important problems at the cutting edge of their disciplines. A list of current CCI research students and their topics is available at: http://www.cci.edu.au/content/current-research-students. Applicants would normally have completed a recognised Australian master's degree by research or bachelor's degree with first or second class honours (division 1). To support you in your research studies, The Commonwealth Government Department of Education provides Australian Postgraduate Awards (APA) which are tenable at an Australian tertiary institution for doctoral and masters research degrees. The scholarships are each valued at $22,500 (tax free) per annum with additional relocation and thesis allowances. Competition for the APA is high. Prospective students, both domestic and international, may also apply for university awarded post graduate scholarships. Some of these offer a living allowance comparable to the APA scholarships as well as offering a number of top-up scholarships. For further information on scholarships, including each University's internal deadlines, see the following links: QUT: http://www.qut.edu.au/research/rhd/scholarships/qut/info/index.jsp Swinburne: http://www.research.swinburne.edu.au/higher-degrees/scholarships/?utm_sourc… Edith Cowan: http://intranet.ecu.edu.au/student/money-matters/scholarships/scholarships-… University of Wollongong: http://www.uow.edu.au/research/rsc/prospective/index.html In addition to the awards mentioned above, competitively-selected top-up scholarships are available to CCI research students who undertake their PhD under the supervision of CCI researchers at one of the following institutions: * Queensland University of Technology * Swinburne University of Technology * Edith Cowan University * University of Wollongong We would like to encourage you to apply. The deadlines for all these scholarships occur during October. HOW TO APPLY To view potential PhD projects commencing in 2011, visit http://cci.edu.au/content/potential-cci-phd-projects-2011 First, think about the area in which you would like to conduct research by visiting the centre website http://cci.edu.au/. Here you can view our current projects and possible supervisors. You can also visit the CCI webpage for Research Students at: http://cci.edu.au/about/research_students. You should then put together a brief proposal and email it along with your CV to the supervisor who you wish to work with and make further contact with them to discuss the proposal. A list of our supervisors with their email contacts is below. Alternatively, you can email Dr Harvey May at h.may(a)qut.edu.au with your proposal, who will seek to match your area of interest with a CCI supervisor. Once you have made contact with the supervisor you are interested in working with, you will need to complete the Scholarship Application form at your university of choice. Remember, the closing dates vary from university to university but are between the 17th and 31st of October, 2010. For application forms and advice, please email the Research Student Support Officer at the CCI partner university you wish to enrol at: Queensland University of Technology: kate.simmonds(a)qut.edu.au Edith Cowan University: scholarships(a)ecu.edu.au Swinburne University of Technology: dmeredyth(a)swin.edu.au University of Wollongong: wgullett(a)uow.edu.au Potential CCI supervisors and their research interests are listed here: http://cci.edu.au/about/research_students Some ideas for potential PhD projects commencing in 2011 are listed here: http://cci.edu.au/content/potential-cci-phd-projects-2011 -- 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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Statement on fair use
by mark latonero 02 Sep '10

02 Sep '10

Re: Andre Brock's question "Does AoIR have a specific statement on fair use of Internet/ICT materials for research in the field?" The International Communication Association (ICA) released a "Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Scholarly Research in Communication" in June 2010. The document was created by Pat Aufderheide, Peter Jaszi, and others (including a cadre of AoIR members). While U.S. centric and not specifically focused on websites, it may be useful in other contexts. http://www.centerforsocialmedia.org/fair-use/related-materials/codes/code-b… Best, Mark ------- Message: 11 Date: Wed, 1 Sep 2010 16:39:49 -0500 From: Andr? Brock <andre.brock(a)gmail.com> To: "air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org" <air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org> Subject: Re: [Air-L] Permission to reproduce webpages? Message-ID: <AANLkTikWu0w6kpyv6hwAVsDGuhKy53GFj2d8XmzEx9cF(a)mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Thanks to everyone who's answered me so far (Hi, Annette!). The legal advice was particularly helpful, and i'm going to follow Ulf-Dietrich's advice and contact the websites - i have contacts at a couple of them. Does AoIR have a specific statement on fair use of Internet/ICT materials for research in the field? I know we have an extensive set of materials on Ethics... (and no, i'm not volunteering to write it. i'm just asking) Andr?

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Re: [Air-L] Twitter as a recruitment tool
by Christopher Sibona 02 Sep '10

02 Sep '10

I mean a) recruiting subjects for a research study through Twitter. I search for Tweets that meet a certain criteria and ask the person to participate in a survey. >Do you mean a) recruiting subjects for a research study through Twitter or b) a >research study about people recruiting individuals for jobs through Twitter?

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Best practices for e-learning
by Holly Kruse 02 Sep '10

02 Sep '10

Hi all: For the first time ever, I'll will be teaching an online class. It's an undergraduate communication theory class, and it will be offered next semester. There is a huge amount of stuff that I need to learn, but mostly what I know at this point is that there are lots of bad online classes. So I'm wondering what practices make for a good online class? If there are any resources to which someone could point me, I'd be very grateful. Thanks! Holly ---- Holly Kruse, Ph.D. 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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Twitter as a recruitment tool
by Christopher Sibona 02 Sep '10

02 Sep '10

Does anyone know if there is any academic research that has used Twitter as a recruitment tool? I used Twitter to recruit for a study I undertook about unfriending behaviors but am uncertain if any other researchers have used this particular recruitment strategy. Thanks. Christopher Sibona PhD Student, Information Systems University of Colorado Denver

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