February 2011 - Air-L - lists.aoir.org

Check out my books
by Paul Levinson 21 Feb '11

21 Feb '11

Hi air, Check out the books I added on Goodreads. http://www.goodreads.com/friend/i?i=LTM2MDY0NjEzNDA6MzEx&e=air-l@listserv.a… l - Paul (Levinson.paul(a)gmail.com) Goodreads is a community for book lovers. It's a great way to get book recommendations from your friends and others. You can keep a list of books to read, join book clubs, and even take the never-ending book trivia quiz. _____________________________ To opt-out of future invites to Goodreads please follow this link: http://www.goodreads.com/user/block_email?inviter_id=641714 This email was sent by request to air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org.

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Call for Teaching Ideas - Social Media & Revolution
by Anthony Nadler 21 Feb '11

21 Feb '11

Julie Wilson and I created the website www.teachingmedia.org to help college-level, media studies faculty and instructors share teaching ideas and resources such as recommended readings, media clips, assignments, and syllabi. We're trying to create an online commons for media studies pedagogy. In addition to housing an ongoing database of teaching ideas, we're periodically posting calls for ideas about specific topics. Our first topic: In the wake of recent revolutions and popular protests in Moldova, Iran, Tunisia, and Egypt, there has been a lot of speculation about the relationship between these social uprisings, authoritarian states, and social media applications such Facebook and Twitter. How might you examine this relationship in an undergraduate media studies class? Have you come across any texts, articles, or podcasts you’d recommend assigning? Any ideas for special assignments or exercises? Please visit www.teachingmedia.org to join this discussion or contribute other teaching ideas to this collective resource. Tony Nadler PhD Candidate, Communication Studies University of Minnesota

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Internet Taxation: Call for Papers (deadline 31 May 2011)
by David Sutcliffe 21 Feb '11

21 Feb '11

Hello all, Policy and Internet is calling for papers for a forthcoming special issue on Internet taxation (paper deadline: 31 May 2011). See: http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/news/?id=453 The seamless transmission of digitally malleable products across jurisdictions, with the potential for bypassing of governmental controls, leads to many unique problems in Internet taxation. The issue will synthesize the extant research in the area and include recent research developments. The goal is to improve the understanding of the issues involved for both researchers and policy makers, to provide policy recommendations, and to suggest avenues for further research in the area. Papers should be based on empirical research and analysis and help to further theoretical and/or methodological development. In all cases, authors should consider the policy implications of the research presented. Please contact the editors (policyandinternet(a)oii.ox.ac.uk) if you have any queries about how your paper might fit in the issue. Policy and Internet: http://www.psocommons.org/policyandinternet/ Best wishes, David [Sutcliffe, Managing Ed.]

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Dissertation on linguistic and pragmatic aspects of corporate blogs (open access PDF)
by Cornelius Puschmann 21 Feb '11

21 Feb '11

<shameless self-promotion> Dear all, allow me to briefly point those of you studying internet communication from the perspective of linguistics/rhetorics/genre studies (as well as anyone else who might be interested) to my dissertation on corporate blogging, published last year with Göttingen University Press: Puschmann, C. (2010). *The corporate blog as an emerging genre of computer-mediated communication: features, constraints, discourse situation. * (S. Hagenhoff, D. Hogrefe, E. Mittler, M. Schumann, G. Spindler, & V. Wittke, eds.) Göttinger Schriften zur Internetforschung (Vol. 7). Göttingen: Universitätsverlag Göttingen. Abstract: Digital technology is increasingly impacting how we keep informed, how we communicate professionally and privately, and how we initiate and maintain relationships with others. The function and meaning of new forms of computer-mediated communication (CMC) is not always clear to users on the onset and must be negotiated by communities, institutions and individuals alike. This thesis examines the linguistic and rhetorical properties of the weblog, another relatively young genre of CMC, to determine its function in private and professional (business) communication. It approaches the question of what functions blogs realize for authors and readers and argues that corporate blogs, which, like blogs by private individuals, are a highly diverse in terms of their form, function and intended audience, essentially mimic key characteristics of private blogs in order to appear open, non-persuasive and personal, all essential qualities for companies that wish to make a positive impression on their constituents. Download free PDF/order: http://blog.ynada.com/368 </shameless self-promotion> All the best, Cornelius -- Dr. 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 +49 211 81 15927 (office) Nachwuchsforschergruppe "Wissenschaft und Internet" / Junior Researchers Group "Science and the Internet" http://nfgwin.uni-duesseldorf.de

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Undergrad software studies seminar question
by Jonathan Cohn 21 Feb '11

21 Feb '11

dear AoIR Listers, I am currently working on a syllabus for an undergraduate software studies seminar. While I have been able to find essays that perform close readings on video games and digital art pieces, I have been having more trouble with finding articles that perform similar types of close readings on commercial software (like Microsoft Word, Final Cut Pro, TurboTax, WindowsXP, etc). If anyone knows of good essays that employ semiotic, phenomenological, and/or deconstructive methodologies in the analysis of these forms of software, I would be quite appreciative. Also, I would love to know if there are particular journals that specialize in printing essays of this type. thank you very much, Jonathan Cohn PhD Candidate Cinema and Media Studies, UCLA

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IR12 help with Paticipation Panel version 2
by Peter Timusk 21 Feb '11

21 Feb '11

Hello are there any senior scholars who would like to help put together another participation and community/politics/art online panel? I would like to write about exclusion and the digital divide and DIY punk rock art as well there was early interest in elections participation online when I first suggested a political participation panel. There are two of us interested in this panel 2 submission right now and I would need a more senior scholar to help the process along. Although I sometimes write on the Internet at work at Statistics Canada it is not my main duties at work and I am not working in a school nor do I have a Ph.D. I think we would want more than one participation panel and more performance arts than just online games eh? I for one would love to play music live for example and bring my guitar and I am trying to get the Net into lyrics. Peter Timusk B.Math statistics. BA legal studies Legal studies of the Information Age Vice President Computers for Communites School work blog http://notebook.webpagex.org Some papers www.webpagex.org

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Call for Chapters - "The Intersectional Internet: Race, Gender, and Culture Online" [March 15, 2011]
by André Brock 21 Feb '11

21 Feb '11

Colleagues, Please pass this on to anyone you know who might be interested... ----------------------------------------------------------- *Call for Chapters - “The Intersectional Internet: Race, Gender, and Culture Online” edited by André Brock (University of Iowa)* *Technology as Culture: Media, Machines, and Ideology* I am soliciting research articles or essays for an edited collection on the production, maintenance, or contestation of cultural identities in information and communication technologies. I invite contributions from scholars and practitioners in any field or endeavor that approaches information and communication technologies from a cultural or humanist perspective. *I am interested in chapters that contextualize ICTs within sociocultural contexts drawing upon the interactions of multiple categorical axes of identity (e.g., race and class). * ** The collection, entitled “The Intersectional Internet: Race, Sex, and Culture Online”, will be published by Peter Lang in late 2012 as part of the Digital Editions series (Steve Jones, series editor). For this collection, intersectionality frames the examination of intersecting, multiple identities that complicate, extend, and maintain Internet/ICT beliefs, design, and practices. ICTs recreate social worlds *in situ*, removed from direct physical and emotional feedback and contravening time and geographical constraints. However, this social separation from the material world still retains ideologies born of physical, temporal, and social beliefs. That ideological retention can be seen in technological beliefs privileging governments over citizens, corporations over people, and the expansion of white privilege in cyberspace. Contributions should address technocultural beliefs from a structural perspective, examining institutional discourses about technology’s effects on perceptions of intellect, sociability, progress, or culture as mediated by technology. Contributions to this collection could consider but are not limited to: - technology-based debates on privacy, surveillance, or insurrection - identity formation in new media - public policy debates about the expansion of broadband to underserved areas - Internal or external discourses about technology’s possibilities for mainstream or minority cultures. - technoculture and the West - the Social Web a decade after 9/11 Authors are requested to submit an abstract of no more than 750 words (in plain text or word format) by *March 15, 2010* to andre-brock(a)uiowa.edu. Authors will receive confirmation of receipt immediately and decision notifications will go out on April 1, 2011. The abstract submission should contain the names and institutions of the author along with contact information (name, e-mail, postal address, phone and fax numbers) and the working title of the proposed essay/writing. Submitted manuscripts should be original work, not concurrently submitted to any other venue. NOTE: Only electronic submissions will be accepted. -- Andre Brock Assistant Professor - Library and Information Science/POROI University of Iowa Iowa City, IA 52242

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Re: [Air-L] seeking one ir12 panelist
by Abbe Forman 21 Feb '11

21 Feb '11

Thanks to all who responded....many! Hope to see everyone in Seattle! Peace y'all Abbe Abbe E. Forman, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Temple University abbe.forman(a)temple.edu

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Issue One of Journal of Information Policy Published Online
by Richard Taylor 20 Feb '11

20 Feb '11

Colleagues, With apologies for cross-postings. The first issue of the Journal of Information Policy, a new, peer-reviewed online-only journal, supported by a grant from The Ford Foundation, is now available online at: www.jip-online.org The accompanying announcement press release is available at: http://live.psu.edu/story/51442#rss61 <http://live.psu.edu/story/51442> Comments and suggestions are welcome, as are submissions for future articles, which can be submitted through the journal's website, noted above. Regards to all, Richard Richard D. Taylor Co-Editor-in-Chief Journal of Information Policy Palmer Chair and Professor of Telecommunications Studies Co-Director, Institute for Information Policy The Pennsylvania State University

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Update on C&T 2011 Organizations and Social Network Sites workshop: JCMC special issue confirmed
by Charles Steinfield 20 Feb '11

20 Feb '11

Dear colleagues, Are you studying some aspect of social network site use in organizational contexts? If so, please consider participating in the "Organizations and Social Network Sites" workshop to be held at the Communities and Technologies 2011 conference in Brisbane, Australia. We have now confirmed that after the workshop, several papers will be selected and invited for submission to a special issue of the Journal of Computer Mediated Communication. All papers will undergo a double- blind review at the journal. However, we will work with the authors of selected papers to revise their papers to increase the likelihood of acceptance at JCMC and there will be a special issue devoted to this topic. Here are the key dates: April 1, 2011: submit an extended abstract (1500 words) to Charles Steinfield (steinfie(a)msu.edu) and Marleen Huysman (mhuysman(a)feweb.vu.nl) April 15, 2011: acceptance notifications for the workshop will be sent out June 1, 2011: final papers due June 30, 2011: workshop will be held in Brisbane, Australia Please share this information with colleagues working on this topic. Charles Steinfield, Michigan State University (steinfie(a)msu.edu) Marleen Huysman, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (mhuysman(a)feweb.vu.nl)

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