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CFP: Special issue of Feminist Media Studies on Women and Mobile Intimacy
by Sun Sun LIM 28 Feb '11

28 Feb '11

* Apologies for cross posting * Call for Papers Women and mobile intimacy in an age of social media and affective technology Special issue of Feminist Media Studies (Dec 2012) Edited by Larissa Hjorth & Sun Sun Lim In the burgeoning of emotional, affective labour by the rise of ICTs (Information and Communication Technologies) and the rise of public and private intimacies by and through social media, what does it mean to speak of "mobile intimacy" today? In a world aflux with mobile, ubiquitous technologies how are various forms of mobility (and immobility) across temporal, spatial, geographic, economic, socio-cultural and technological differences transforming how we experience and define intimacy? One thing remains certain - these practices are informed by gender and cultural context. Extant research suggests that women's relationships with mobile technology are fraught with contradictions. As women domesticate mobile technologies and employ their routine-altering affordances, they seek to strike balances between aid-liability, autonomy-dependency, contactability-intrusiveness and intimacy-distance. The very affordances that give women the freedom to sustain intimate, boundary-transcending relationships are the same ones that impel women to create distances between themselves and their significant others. Even as mobile technologies enable women to traverse temporal, spatial and geographic barriers, women are not always prepared to have these barriers dismantled, particularly as they may be averse to there being too much intimacy. With the advent of mobile technologies, the social roles ascribed to women - of daughter, sister, mother, friend and teacher - have to be performed through these always accessible and potentially disruptive platforms, thus intensifying the burden of these responsibilities. How then do women strategically deploy technology so that they can maintain a sense of self, while ceding some parts of their lives to the obligations and joys of "mobile intimacy?" This proposed special issue seeks to unpack "mobile intimacy" - a notion that encompasses many issues around emotions, co-presence, diaspora, personal technologies and emerging forms of affective, social, and emotional labour. Acknowledging that mobility can take various permutations (technological, geographic, socio-economic to name but a few), the papers should aim to focus upon particular aspects of women and mobile intimacy in order to flesh out some of the defining features of what encompasses mobile intimacy and the associated gender performativity today. Topics of interest in relation to women and mobile intimacy include but are not limited to: * Presentation of self * Identify formation and assertion * Technology domestication * Issues of marginalisation * Issues of empowerment * Familial, social and professional relationships * Transnational and diasporic relationships The special issue editors are Larissa Hjorth (Senior lecturer, School of Media and Communication, RMIT University) and Sun Sun Lim (Associate Professor, Communications and New Media Department, National University of Singapore). Please submit a 350-word abstract and abridged CV to both larissa.hjorth(a)rmit.edu.au<mailto:larissa.hjorth@rmit.edu.au> and sunlim(a)nus.edu.sg<mailto:sunlim@nus.edu.sg> no later than May 1, 2011. IMPORTANT DATES Deadline for abstracts 1 May 2011 Decisions to authors 15 May 2011 First drafts 1 December 2011 Decisions 15 February 2012 Second/final drafts 1 June 2012 Final proofs 1 August 2012 Issue publication 1 December 2012 AIMS and SCOPE Feminist Media Studies provides a transdisciplinary, transnational forum for researchers pursuing feminist approaches to the field of media and communication studies, with attention to the historical, philosophical, cultural, social, political, and economic dimensions and analysis of sites including print and electronic media, film and the arts, and new media technologies. The journal invites contributions from feminist researchers working across a range of disciplines and conceptual perspectives. Feminist Media Studies offers a unique intellectual space bringing together scholars, professionals and activists from around the world to engage with feminist issues and debates in media and communication. Its editorial board and contributors reflect a commitment to the facilitation of international dialogue among researchers, through attention to local, national and global contexts for critical and empirical feminist media inquiry. For guidelines on how to submit a paper to Feminist Media Studies please visit: www.tandf.co.uk/journals/rfms<http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/rfms>

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Re: [Air-L] seek textbook recommendation on CMC
by Guillaume Latzko-Toth 27 Feb '11

27 Feb '11

This one might be interesting for you to consider, too: Thurlow, C., Lengel, L., & Tomic, A. (2004). Computer Mediated Communication: Social Interaction and the Internet. London; Thousand Oaks, Calif.: Sage Publications. It comes with a companion website: http://www.com.washington.edu/cmc/ Guillaume >I'm teaching an undergraduate course on computer-mediated >communication in the fall. Can anybody recommend some recent >textbooks or supplementary readings? You can send me an email at >mwu(a)lsua.edu or just reply to the post. Thanks a lot. Min Wu >_______________________________________________ >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/ ------------ Guillaume Latzko-Toth, Ph.D. Postdoctoral fellow Department of Communication University of Illinois at Chicago

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textbooks on race, gender, ethnicity, class, and media
by henry mainsah 27 Feb '11

27 Feb '11

I am doing research for a book on digital media and difference. Can anybody recommend some junior (secondary/high school) or senior level (Bachelor level) textbooks on media, race, gender, and class?

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seek textbook recommendation on CMC
by Murray Turoff 27 Feb '11

27 Feb '11

<air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org>For some wonderful reference, historical, and foundation material for lectures you should look at The Network Nation: Human Communication via Computers (revised 1993, MIT press) which can still be ordered at a very reasonable price compared to most text books. It provides a lot of material on work done before CMC in many fields that was relevant as well as some ways of thinking about the technology you will not find in most places as well as all the very early work that most students never hear about. The authors were Hiltz and turoff and the original edition was 1978. The 1993 as a new chapter summarizing the next 15 years. the cost benefit analysis done in the book seems to have been forgotten and serves as a very good lecture. So does the early related work in psychology and sociology. The interesting aspect were the predictions in the issue of the Boswash times that began every chapter some of which came true and some which have not yet come true. It sets a nice tone for the students to try making predictions about what might be the next prediction beyond current systems. -- Distinguished Professor Emeritus Information Systems, NJIT homepage: http://is.njit.edu/turoff Visiting Scholar Carlos III University, Madrid Spain Nov. 2010 - May 2011

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Call for Papers - IEEE 1st Workshop on Multimedia in Edutainment 2011 (MME 2011) [deadline extended]
by Maiga Chang 27 Feb '11

27 Feb '11

[deadline has been extended to March 7 (http://www.lsou.org/ieee/hfm_ID.html) [Apologies if you receive multiple times, please circulate this to your colleagues and graduate students who might be interested, thank you so much.] ---------------- MME 2011 Call for Papergs ----------------- 1st IEEE Workshop on Multimedia in Edutainment (MME 2011) (http://www.lsou.org/ieee/index.html) Barcelona, Spain July 11 to 15, 2011 Sponsored by the IEEE Communications Society Co-Located with IEEE ICME 2011 (http://www.icme2011.org) Suggested topics: u Practical cases u Author tools and Multimedia contents u Impact and Stories. Effectiveness of learning. Failures and what we can learn from them u Integration of Multimedia contents within LMS u Assessment in Multimedia tools u Edutainment in particular u Serious Games in general u Affective computing u AR, VR and Mixed Reality in Education u Interactive Arts in Education u Audio and Video in Learning u Haptics based learning and training u Machine learning in games and educational measurement u Active Interaction in Games u Animation Techniques u Digital Museum and Digital Heritage Education u Educational Robots and Toys u Game-based Learning u Training Interactions in Games u Location-based games and ubiquitous technology u Non-Visual Senses (smelling, touching, hearing) Simulation and animation u Synergies between Digital TV and Edutainment Applications Important dates: We encourage researchers from industry and academia to submit original works (reported results should not be under consideration in any other journal or conference). Submissions should not exceed six (6) single-spaced, two-column pages using at least 11 point size fonts on 8.5 x 11 inch pages. Submission format and instruction, as well as other important information, can be found on the author guide web page of the main conference (http://www.icme2011.org/authorguide.php) The important dates are: Paper Submission: extended to March 7 (http://www.lsou.org/ieee/hfm_ID.html) Notification of Paper Acceptance: April 10, 2011 Camera-Ready Paper Due: April 20, 2011 Electronic Paper Submission: https://cmt.research.microsoft.com/ICMEW2011

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seek textbook recommendation on CMC
by Min Wu 26 Feb '11

26 Feb '11

I'm teaching an undergraduate course on computer-mediated communication in the fall. Can anybody recommend some recent textbooks or supplementary readings? You can send me an email at mwu(a)lsua.edu or just reply to the post. Thanks a lot. Min Wu

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Jomaguerra Universidad Sevilla-Master quiere mantener el contacto en LinkedIn
by Jomaguerra Universidad Sevilla-Master via LinkedIn 26 Feb '11

26 Feb '11

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Facebook Page Engagement Metrics
by Steven Clift 26 Feb '11

26 Feb '11

What should they be? Is anyone comparing the generative nature of fb pages with other online discussion/exchange formats? Yesterday I gave a webinar presentation to dozens of school communicators http://e-democracy.org/schools and it was notable that all of the questions were about fb pages. >From my experience with community issues forums http://e-democracy.org/if a fb page member is worth about 1/10th the value of a full member of our hybrid elist/forum site. However, I could be quite wrong. I've noted the decent engagement on this popular community stillwater, mn 11,000 member fb page http://www.facebook.com/WeLoveStillwater - but my 675 member neighborhood issues forum (reaching 15% of households) Http://e-democracy.org/se seems to generate far more traffic ( views? Unknown). So as almost all the institutional momentum for hosting any form of public engagement online shifts to Facebook (versus setting up a blog, forums, promoting broader community-wide interactive spaces, etc.) what does this really require to work well? Numbers, facilitation, content seeding frequency/style, etc. What are the best examples of community, school, local gov, fb pages that demonstrate effective practices? I'd really like to see a list of pages with the highest participation to members ratio and explore why they work. Perhaps someone out there has done that? I should note that we feed our issues forums into dedicated fb pages that we set up to make our content available in that format ... But they are more or less one-way. Steven Clift E-Democracy.org P.S. Please cc: clift(a)e-democracy.org

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Re: [Air-L] FW: Call for Chapter (edited work)
by Roxanne Marcotte 25 Feb '11

25 Feb '11

FYI CALL FOR CHAPTERS: MUSLIM WOMEN'S DIGITAL GEOGRAPHIES (edited work; tentative publication date 2012) Dr Anna Piela I would like to announce a call for chapters for an edited collection "Muslim Women's Digital Geographies". The collection aims to bring together research on Muslim women's diverse activity on the Internet that may span personal writing, debates in discussion groups, political activism, networking and other forms of interaction with other people and audiences. The collection is interdisciplinary, and welcomes perspectives from all disciplines, be they Islamic studies, social sciences, technology studies, gender studies, fashion studies, linguistics, art, politics and many others. Scholarship on Muslim women in the recent years has extensively focused on the Islamic dress-code as the main signifier of faith. However, there are many other, under-researched aspects of Muslim women's lives, including their use of new technologies for religious purposes. Most notably, Muslim women use the Internet as a platform for creation of gender-specific understanding of Islamic scriptures. These alternative readings question the validity of patriarchal, mainstream interpretations that have shaped lives of generations of Muslim women who have long challenged them from within academia (see Wadud, 2001; Barlas, 2006) and locally, in 'face-to-face' grassroots contexts such as women's organisations and mosque study circles (see Afshar, 1998; Mahmood, 2005; Badran, 2006; Bhimji, 2009). The Internet is increasingly seen as a facilitator of such interpretive practices that can now be conducted through collaboration of Muslim women from different geographic and cultural locations. This geographic and cultural diversity is likely to have an impact in terms of originality of the scriptural readings, as such Internet-based interpretations have the potential to be much more inclusive than previous, localised understandings of Islam. This is particularly important for grassroots women who have been largely excluded from decision-making in Islamic religious structures in spite of the rise of Islamic feminism. As a result, the Internet is perceived by some Muslim women as a platform enabling them to create and publish their interpretations of the Qur'an and the Hadith to many audiences. The collection Muslim Women's Digital Geographies retains a focus on intersections of the Islamic faith and technology. Exploration of different ways in which Muslim women employ new technologies, in particular the Internet, to develop and emphasise their identity and agency as Muslim women (especially in the context of stereotypical media representations of Islam in the West) will contribute to more complex and sophisticated understanding of their lives and experiences. The book is expected to be published by Brill in the Women and Gender series. Please contact me if you have any queries regarding publication of a chapter in the book. Contact details: Dr Anna Piela annapiela(a)googlemail.com <mailto:annapiela@googlemail.com> Tel. 00447772175801

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Christchurch Earthquake Laptop Appeal
by Tessa Houghton 25 Feb '11

25 Feb '11

Hello AoIR members, This is probably only relevant to list members in New Zealand, but please think about helping if you can: "Christchurch earthquake - you can help. If you are an Auckland company with a working laptop that is less than 3 years old that you can donate, send it to New Zealand Trade & Enterprise, before Friday 4th March, well packed with the hardware and software specifications listed on outside of box to: John Ferguson, Sector Manager - Digital Content & Technology New Zealand Trade & Enterprise, Level 11, 23-27 Albert St, Auckland. We will find a business that can use it. Please be generous." We need laptops that are 3 or less years old and have an operating system installed and data cleaned off the machine. They need to be sent to the NZTE Auckland office, packaged for delivery with the machine specifications and OS listed on the package before next Friday 4th March. We are not seeking old PCs, screens or servers. This is an interim response to help people get connected again, not full office rebuilds. We are aiming for Auckland companies to help in this first initiative. A good question to ask before sending anything in is "would I use it (the laptop) myself"?" Cheers, Tessa ----------------------------- Tessa J. Houghton PhD Student Media and Communication School of Social and Political Science University of Canterbury New Zealand http://twitter.com/TidgeH http://nz.linkedin.com/in/tessajadehoughton http://canterbury-nz.academia.edu/TessaHoughton "If one could conclude as to the nature of the Creator from a study of creation, it would appear that God has an inordinate fondness for stars and beetles." - J.B.S. Haldane

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