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FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS: SEXUAL CULTURES - DEADLINE OCT 31 2011
by Attwood, Feona 25 Oct '11

25 Oct '11

FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS: SEXUAL CULTURES - DEADLINE OCT 31 2011 SEXUAL CULTURES: THEORY, PRACTICE, RESEARCH This conference, co-hosted by the Onscenity Research Network and the Schools of Arts and Social Sciences at Brunel University, will take place on April 20-22 2012 at Brunel University, London, UK. http://www.onscenity.org/conf1/ Our keynote speakers are: Martin Barker, Professor of Film and Television Studies, Aberystwyth University, UK Violet Blue, blogger, columnist, sex educator, and author, US Judith Halberstam, Professor of English, American Studies and Ethnicity and Gender Studies, University of Southern California, US Katrien Jacobs, Associate Professor at Chinese University of Hong Kong Fiona Patten, Australian Sex Party The key themes of the conference are: Sex and technology Technologies of all kinds have been central to the ways in which sex is understood and experienced in contemporary societies. We are interested in papers that explore evolving technologies in the presentation of sex through print, photography, film and video to todays online and mobile media; the ways that technologies are increasingly integrated into everyday sex lives; the expansion of sex technologies in toy, doll, machine and robot manufacture, the marketing of drugs such as Viagra and cosmetic technologies such as body modification and genital surgery for enhancing sex; the expansion of sex work and recreation online; sex 2.0 practices, regimes and environments such as porn tubes, sex chat rooms and worlds like Second Life; and the shifting relations between bodies and machines in the present and in predictions of futuresex. The regulation of sex Papers in this strand of the conference will examine how sexuality and the ways in which it is represented are the focus of government policy and subject to various forms of regulation. In democratic societies, sexuality is generally thought to be the domain of the private and personal, outside the ambit of the law whose function in this sphere is simply to maintain public decency. Yet vast amounts of institutional effort and resources are invested in what has come to be called moral regulation, in which self-governance and moral discourse are generally preferred to coercive forms of regulation. At the same time, governments continue to make certain forms of sexual practice and representation illegal. What are the limits of the legally possible today, both in terms of sexual behaviour and representation, and what are the various means employed to encourage us to behave properly in the sexual domain? Working sex In recent years sex work has become a potent site for the discussion of labour, commerce and sexual ethics, attracting increased academic attention and public concern. Papers in this strand of the conference will seek to develop our understanding of commercial sex, focus on conceptualizing emerging types of sexual labour, and explore the place of sex work of all kinds in contemporary society. They will ask how an investigation of contemporary forms of sex work and sex as work may shed new light on the study of cultural production, industry, commerce, and notions of commodification and labour. We are also seeking papers which are interested in exploring the connections between work and leisure, work and pleasure, sex work as forms of body and affective labour, and the ethics and politics of sexual labour. Researching everyday sex Research into sexuality can often be caught in a politics of anxiety where it is constructed as something that needs to be managed, protected and even guarded against. Sexuality is also understood as absolutely intrinsic to our sense of identity, an important indicator of mental and emotional health and a form of intimate communication and individual fulfillment, as well as an important site of pleasure and play. Papers in this strand of the conference will take as their focus the diverse sexual identities, practices, representations, values and experiences that make up the mundane and spectacular elements of everyday sexual life. We seek papers that examine the politics and/or ethics of researching everyday sexualities, as well as the lived realities of sex in the quotidian. We invite proposals for the following: Panels and roundtable discussions of up to four speakers Papers (20 minutes) Short Ignite papers (5 minutes/20 slides) Posters Deadline for the submission of proposals is October 31 2011. For all individual papers please submit a 150 word abstract and 150 word biographical note. Please indicate which key theme of the conference your paper belongs to. For panels and roundtable sessions please submit a 600-800 overview and set of abstracts with 150 word biographical notes. Please indicate which key theme of the conference your paper belongs to. Please submit your proposals to conference(a)onscenity.org<mailto:conference@onscenity.org><mailto:conference@onscenity.org> Onscenity is funded by the UK Arts & Humanities Research Council and draws together international experts in order to respond to the new visibility or onscenity of sex in commerce, culture and everyday life. The network is committed to working towards developing new approaches to the relationships between sex, commerce, media and technology. Drawing on the work of leading scholars from around the world, it aims to map a transformed landscape of sexual practices and co-ordinate a new wave of research.

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FW: [BOAI] Bibliographies about Open Access from Digital Scholarship
by michael gurstein 24 Oct '11

24 Oct '11

This may be of interst to some. M -----Original Message----- From: boai-forum-bounces(a)ecs.soton.ac.uk [mailto:boai-forum-bounces@ecs.soton.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Charles W. Bailey, Jr. Sent: Monday, October 24, 2011 8:11 AM To: boai-forum(a)ecs.soton.ac.uk Subject: [BOAI] Bibliographies about Open Access from Digital Scholarship This post presents six bibliographies about open access topics. All works are under a Creative Commons license. The digital versions are open access. http://bit.ly/nIVjLN -- Best Regards, Charles Charles W. Bailey, Jr. Publisher, Digital Scholarship http://bit.ly/Z6HFx -- To unsubscribe from the BOAI Forum, use the form on this page: http://www.soros.org/openaccess/forum.shtml?f !DSPAM:2676,4ea58aa2217018457020913!

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looking for the name of a particular reporter who covered Hurricane Katrina
by Tery G 23 Oct '11

23 Oct '11

Hi all, I'm talking with my class this week about blogs and blogging, and there's an event I want to mention, but I'd like to have a name to attach to it. I'm just asking here on the longshot possibility that someone might remember. The situation was that many news outlets were covering the recovery efforts, and Bush did a speech from someplace in New Orleans. All the lights in the neighborhood were on, and part of the point was how well the recovery was going in some places. When Bush and company left, all the lights went out. Turned out they really weren't on all the time; it was a setup just for the speech. The reporters on the scene apparently didn't know this until after Bush left. One reporter was so upset by the situation that he blogged about it later, I think on his personal blog. I believe he worked for a major news outlet. I don't remember whether or not he got fired for the blogging. Does anyone happen to recall who that was? Tery

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#Occupy Wall Street/#OWS, analysis, and help for reading list?
by Baker, Andrea 23 Oct '11

23 Oct '11

Hello, everyone, I'd like to share a post made by Michael Gurstein and sent recently to the CITSA list of sociologists: http://gurstein.wordpress.com/2011/10/22/up-from-facebook-occupy—rebuilding… It contains worthwhile thoughts on the development of Occupy Wall Street offline and online and how *community* is developed. He has a place for comments for anyone interested in reflecting on what he writes. Mike's post stimulated me to ask too, is anyone developing a *reading list* on OWS? I am going to teach a course in Social Movements next year and would love to have some readings in addition to the one above that you consider either summary statements of empirical realities, eye witness accounts, and scholarly analyses. cheers, andee

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CFP. Urban Food Futures: ICTs and Opportunities
by Jaz Choi 23 Oct '11

23 Oct '11

Apologies for cross-posting. CFP. URBAN FOOD FUTURES: ICTS AND OPPORTUNITIES Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford, UK December 14, 2011 http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/events/?id=472 ---- Food is a vital foundation of all human life. It is essential to a myriad of political, socio-cultural, economic and environmental practices throughout history. However, those practices of food production, consumption, and distribution have the potential to now go through immensely transformative shifts as network technologies become increasingly embedded in every domain of contemporary life. Information and communication technologies (ICTs) are one of the key foundations of global functionality and sustenance today and undoubtedly will continue to present new challenges and opportunities for the future. As such, this one-day symposium will bring together leading scholars across disciplines to address challenges and opportunities at the intersection of food and ICTs in everyday urban environment. In particular, the discussion will revolve around the question: What are the key roles that network technologies play in re-shaping the food systems at micro- to macroscopic level? The symposium will contribute a unique perspective on urban food futures through the lens of network society paradigm where ICTs enable innovations in production, organisation, and communication within society. Some of the topics addressed will include encouraging transparency in food commodity chains; value of cultural understanding and communication in global food sustainability; and technologies to social inclusion; all of which evoke and examine the question surrounding networked individuals as changes catalysts for urban food futures. The event will provide an avenue for new discussions and speculations on key issues surrounding urban food futures in the network era, with a particular focus on bottom-up micro actions that challenge the existing food systems towards a broader sociocultural, political, technological, and environmental transformations. One central area of concern is that current systems of food production, distribution, and consumption do not ensure food security for the future, but rather seriously threaten it. With the recent unprecedented scale of urban growth and rise of middle-class, the problem continues to intensify. This situation requires extensive distribution networks to feed urban residents, and therefore poses significant infrastructural challenges to both the public and private sectors. The symposium will also address the transferability of citizen empowerment that network technologies enable as demonstrated in various significant global political transformations from the bottom-up, such as the recent Egyptian Youth Revolution. Another key theme of the discussion will be the role of ICTs (and the practices that they mediate) in fostering transparency in commodity chains. The symposium will ask what differences these technologies can make on the practices of food consumption and production. After discussions, we will initiate an international network of food-thinkers and actors that will function as a platform for knowledge sharing and collaborations. The participants will be invited to engage in planning for the on-going future development of the network. ---- PARTICIPATION In order to keep the symposium interactive and focused, it will be limited to invited participants. Papers will be selected for presentation at the symposium based on peer review of abstracts. We welcome submissions of original work from diverse disciplinary backgrounds including, but not limited to, urban informatics, human-computer interaction, sustainability, design, humanities and future studies. Interested participants should submit a 500 word abstract, and 250 word biography, by 28 October 2011 to Dr. Jaz Hee-jeong Choi (h.choi(a)qut.edu.au<mailto:h.choi@qut.edu.au>). The authors of successful abstracts will be notified by 7 November 2011. We are currently in the process of ensuring that post-workshop publication of selected papers will follow in a special journal issue. ---- PARTNERS This symposium is a collaboration with the Institute for Creative Industries and Innovation (QUT), the Creative Industries Faculty (QUT), and the Urban Informatics Research Lab (QUT). We hope to see you there! ---- dr. jaz hee-jeong choi urban informatics lab institute for creative industries and innovation // e: h.choi(a)qut.edu.au // w: www.nicemustard.com<http://www.nicemustard.com> // p: +617 3138 8190 // m: +61 433 167 151

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Paul's book promotion
by Johnson, Thomas J 22 Oct '11

22 Oct '11

I would like to second Paul's good works about Networked Sociability and Individualism. I have the pleasure of having chapters devoted to social media selective exposure and avoidance and another looking at selective exposure and hostile media effects and perceptions of Sarah Palin and Hilary Clinton. The list of authors and chapters looked quite solid. Tom johnson On Oct 22, 2011, at 5:00 PM, <air-l-request(a)listserv.aoir.org> <air-l-request(a)listserv.aoir.org> wrote: > Send Air-L mailing list submissions to > air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > air-l-request(a)listserv.aoir.org > > You can reach the person managing the list at > air-l-owner(a)listserv.aoir.org > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of Air-L digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Re: no regrets after doing this venture... (roderick graham) > 2. Book promotion (Paul Emerson Teusner) > 3. keylogger combo software for Mac (Kris M. Markman) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Sat, 22 Oct 2011 05:07:05 -0400 > From: roderick graham <roderickshawngraham(a)hotmail.com> > To: <first_ladi_2008(a)yahoo.com>, <natpoor(a)gmail.com>, > <air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org> > Subject: Re: [Air-L] no regrets after doing this venture... > Message-ID: <SNT128-W25A1027EB3008B10B8D437B3E90(a)phx.gbl> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > Whats up > whats up. > what have you been up to You should look here > http://przyczepygastronomiczne.cba.pl/MatthewWood58.html > c ya. > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Sat, 22 Oct 2011 23:24:23 +1100 > From: "Paul Emerson Teusner" <paulteusner(a)me.com> > To: <air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org> > Subject: [Air-L] Book promotion > Message-ID: <000d01cc90b5$884f7210$98ee5630$(a)me.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="gb2312" > > G?day everyone, > > > > Apologies for cross-postings and such. > > > > I?d like to promote a book coming out by IGI Global, of which I?m a > contributor: > > > > Networked Sociability and Individualism: Technology for Personal and > Professional Relationships, ed. Francesca Comunello. > > > > The recent popularity of Social Network Sites (SNS) shows that there is a > growing interest in articulating, making visible, and managing personal or > professional relationships through technology-enabled environments. > > > > Networked Sociability and Individualism: Technology for Personal and > Professional Relationships provides a multidisciplinary framework for > analysing the new forms of sociability enabled by digital media and > networks. This book focuses on a variety of social media and > computer-mediated communication environments with the aim of identifying and > understanding different types of social behaviour and identity expression. > > > > For more information, and a list of contributors, go to > http://www.igi-global.com/book/networked-sociability-individualism/53001. To > get a discount when ordering one or more copies (and other titles), go here: > http://www.igi-global.com/Files/Ancillary/e854d522-d7bc-4f50-aab8-d4213da6f8 > fa_9781613503386.pdf. > > > > paul emerson teusner > > <http://teusner.org/> fishers, surfers and casters ? <http://paulteusner. > org/> cv site ? <http://rmit.academia.edu/PaulEmerson> academia.edu > > > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 3 > Date: Sat, 22 Oct 2011 13:18:48 -0500 > From: "Kris M. Markman" <krism(a)alumni.utexas.net> > To: air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org > Subject: [Air-L] keylogger combo software for Mac > Message-ID: <00EB1B77-1B12-40B4-A8BE-C5719618EA46(a)alumni.utexas.net> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > > Dear AoIR friends, > Do any of you happen to know of any software like this: > http://www.informatics.no/progvareTMLoc.htm > that exists for the Mac, not Windows? A keylogger, applogger, and speedlogger in one? > Thanks! > -Kris > ---------- ---------- ---------- > Kris M. Markman, Ph.D. > Assistant Professor, Dept. of Communication > University of Memphis > www.krismarkman.com > > > > > > > ------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > 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/ > > End of Air-L Digest, Vol 87, Issue 22 > *************************************

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FW: [New post] Up from Facebook: #Occupy-(Re)Building and Empowering Communities
by michael gurstein 22 Oct '11

22 Oct '11

New post on Gurstein's Community Informatics <http://1.gravatar.com/blavatar/b5101a0bf56d6ccf9d413bc5a3f1a041?s=32&ts=131 9318394> <http://gurstein.wordpress.com/author/gurstein/> Up <http://gurstein.wordpress.com/2011/10/22/up-from-facebook-occupy%e2%80%94re building-and-empowering-communities/> from Facebook: #Occupy-(Re)Building and Empowering Communities <http://wp.me/pJQl5-8b> http://wp.me/pJQl5-8b by Michael <http://gurstein.wordpress.com/author/gurstein/> Gurstein #OWS (occupy Wall Street and the "Occupy" movement) have been widely discussed but not as yet in the context of a broader understanding of an evolving Digital/Information Society. Comment <http://gurstein.wordpress.com/2011/10/22/up-from-facebook-occupy%e2%80%94re building-and-empowering-communities/#respond> See <http://gurstein.wordpress.com/2011/10/22/up-from-facebook-occupy%e2%80%94re building-and-empowering-communities/#comments> all comments Unsubscribe or change your email settings at Manage <http://subscribe.wordpress.com/?key=0411ceb4c3067f687647025a213718cc&email= mgurst%40vcn.bc.ca> Subscriptions. Trouble clicking? Copy and paste this URL into your browser: http://gurstein.wordpress.com/2011/10/22/up-from-facebook-occupy%e2%80%94reb uilding-and-empowering-communities/ Thanks for flying <http://wordpress.com> with WordPress.com <http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gurstein.wordpress.com&blog=10925955& post=507&subd=gurstein&ref=&email=1&email_o=wpcom> !DSPAM:2676,4ea33380217016407871730!

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keylogger combo software for Mac
by Kris M. Markman 22 Oct '11

22 Oct '11

Dear AoIR friends, Do any of you happen to know of any software like this: http://www.informatics.no/progvareTMLoc.htm that exists for the Mac, not Windows? A keylogger, applogger, and speedlogger in one? Thanks! -Kris ---------- ---------- ---------- Kris M. Markman, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Dept. of Communication University of Memphis www.krismarkman.com

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Book promotion
by Paul Emerson Teusner 22 Oct '11

22 Oct '11

G’day everyone, Apologies for cross-postings and such. I’d like to promote a book coming out by IGI Global, of which I’m a contributor: Networked Sociability and Individualism: Technology for Personal and Professional Relationships, ed. Francesca Comunello. The recent popularity of Social Network Sites (SNS) shows that there is a growing interest in articulating, making visible, and managing personal or professional relationships through technology-enabled environments. Networked Sociability and Individualism: Technology for Personal and Professional Relationships provides a multidisciplinary framework for analysing the new forms of sociability enabled by digital media and networks. This book focuses on a variety of social media and computer-mediated communication environments with the aim of identifying and understanding different types of social behaviour and identity expression. For more information, and a list of contributors, go to http://www.igi-global.com/book/networked-sociability-individualism/53001. To get a discount when ordering one or more copies (and other titles), go here: http://www.igi-global.com/Files/Ancillary/e854d522-d7bc-4f50-aab8-d4213da6f8 fa_9781613503386.pdf. paul emerson teusner <http://teusner.org/> fishers, surfers and casters ∷ <http://paulteusner. org/> cv site ∷ <http://rmit.academia.edu/PaulEmerson> academia.edu

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Re: [Air-L] no regrets after doing this venture...
by roderick graham 22 Oct '11

22 Oct '11

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