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PhD student positions in Media, Technology, & Democracy
by Deen Freelon 30 Nov '12

30 Nov '12

Hi all, Our program is seeking PhD students! We are a good fit for anyone interested in studying the Internet as it pertains to politics, policy, and/or civic engagement. Our location in Washington, DC doesn't hurt for studying those topics either. Best, ~DEEN ----------------------- Seeking Applications for Doctoral Student Fellows, School of Communication at American University, Washington, DC American University invites applications for doctoral student fellows for the PhD Program in Communication. The program is dedicated to educating the next generation of communication scholars and expert professionals. All students will receive full tuition remission as well as a generous living stipend. The PhD program in Communication fosters scholarship that builds new theory and knowledge, and enhances the ability of institutions, social groups, and professionals to apply that knowledge to undertake salient political and social challenges. Courses cover a wide spectrum of issues addressing the cultural, technological, economic, and policy forces shaping the media system, and emphasizing the role of new media in civil society and democracy, a theme consistent with the core public service mission of American university. Students work closely with a faculty advisor to create an individualized program of electives. This interdisciplinary degree includes communication classes, as well as courses from other units on campus, organized around the student's choice of a thematic concentrations. The innovative design of this accelerated program enables students who enter with a research-focused masters degree to complete the PhD in three years. The priority application deadline is December 15, 2012. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis until all positions are filled. Learn more at http://www.american.edu/soc/phd -- Deen Freelon, Ph.D. Assistant Professor American University School of Communication Office: Asbury 228A dfreelon(a)gmail.com http://dfreelon.org

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DiGRA 2013 Call for Participation
by Celia Pearce (Georgia Tech) 29 Nov '12

29 Nov '12

PLEASE CIRCULATE The Digital Games Research Association (DiGRA) announces the Call for Participation for DiGRA 2013, to be hosted by Georgia Institute of Technology at the Georgian Terrace Hotel in Atlanta Georgia August 26-29 2013. DiGRA 2013 will bring together a diverse international community of interdisciplinary researchers engaged in cutting edge research in the field of game studies. For more information, visit: http://dm.lmc.gatech.edu/digra2013/ or email digra2013(a)digra.org Please note change of school name and email address: celia.pearce(a)lmc.gatech.edu In ev'ry job that must be done There is an element of fun You find the fun, and snap! The job's a game! -Mary Poppins ...................................................... Celia Pearce, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Digital Media Director, Experimental Game Lab School of Literature, Media and Communication Georgia Institute of Technology Digital Media/TSRB 316B 85 Fifth Street NW Atlanta , Georgia 30308-1030 mobile & text: +1 310 866-8014 e-mail: celia.pearce(a)lmc.gatech.edu skype: gamegrrrl Web sites: • Digital Media Program: http://dm.lmc.gatech.edu • EGL: http://egl.lmc.gatech.edu • Emergent Game Group: http://egg.lmc.gatech.edu • IndieCade: www.IndieCade.com • Celia Pearce & Friends (Design & Consulting): www.cpandfriends.com Avatars: • There: Artemesia • Second Life: Artemesia Sandgrain

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UNCTAD Information Economy Report 2012: The Software Industry and Developing Countries
by Fouad Bajwa 29 Nov '12

29 Nov '12

Dear Colleagues, I would like to share with you for information purposes only UNCTAD's latest Information Economy Report 2012: The Software Industry and Developing Countries with source: http://unctad.org/en/pages/PublicationWebflyer.aspx?publicationid=271 Official Website: http://www.unctad.org/ Web Flyer: http://unctad.org/en/pages/PublicationWebflyer.aspx?publicationid=271 Download Full Report: Information Economy Report 2012 (UNCTAD/IER/2012) 28 Nov 2012, 142 page(s), 2600.4 KB http://unctad.org/en/PublicationsLibrary/ier2012_en.pdf Information Economy Report 2012 (Overview) (UNCTAD/IER/2012 (Overview)) 28 Nov 2012, 740.4 KB http://unctad.org/en/PublicationsLibrary/ier2012overview_en.pdf For more languages: http://unctad.org/en/pages/PublicationWebflyer.aspx?publicationid=271 Highlight The Information Economy Report 2012: The Software Industry and Developing Countries is the seventh in the flagship series published by the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD). In the 2012 edition, special attention is given to the role of software capabilities in accelerating progress towards a more inclusive information society. Key issues covered include: - The link between software capabilities and development - Global and regional trends in production, spending, trade, investment, venture capital and employment in the software sector - The evolving ICT landscape and its impact on software production patterns - Trends and implications related to free and open source software (FOSS) - An analysis of the market orientation of software production in developing countries - Country case studies - Policy recommendations on how governments and their development partners can better leverage software for development and strengthen national software systems The Information Economy Report 2012 finds that, because software is increasingly permeating societies at all levels of development and activity, it is becoming more important for countries to develop the technological capabilities needed to adopt and adapt existing software solutions, and eventually to innovate. Software and service activities represent an opportunity for developing countries, thanks to the low capital entry requirements, the sector's high-value, high-growth nature and knowledge-rich profile. Due to changes in the ICT landscape, even small-scale developers in developing countries can now participate in software development and production, for example in the area of mobile applications. The Report suggests that there is considerable room for developing countries to make better use of the software potential. The Report introduces the concept of the national software system. It emphasizes that domestic software producers and users are greatly influenced by the quality and affordability of ICT infrastructure, access to relevant human resources and capital, the legal framework, an enabling business infrastructure, as well as by the links with software networks in the rest of the world. Governments play a central role in the national software system. Overall, the competitiveness of the system is affected by the national vision, strategy and government policies which should nurture software capabilities and the system as a whole. In particular, Governments are important users of software (notably through e-government and public procurement activities) and they strongly influence most of the enabling factors of the system. The Information Economy Report 2012 offers several policy recommendations to governments, such as: - To take active part in fostering their national software systems. - To tailor software development strategies to their specific contexts, based on consultations and partnerships with relevant stakeholders. - To integrate software strategies into broader development plans - To strike a balance between domestic and export market promotion related to software - To adapt education and training schemes to the new ICT landscape - To encourage technological upgrading in enterprises, and adoption of relevant international standards and certifications - To facilitate the strengthening of developer communities - To give adequate attention to FOSS, especially in public procurement - To seek the support of development partners in training, application development, support to the strengthening of legal and regulatory frameworks, supporting IT/software associations and clusters, meetings of developers, software SME development and more - To leverage South-South cooperation where appropriate The Information Economy Report 2012 explores various examples of software development initiatives by individual countries and groups of countries. Among the cases cited are: - Software trends in the BRIC countries - Nigeria's new software strategy - The emerging Android ecosystem in Sri Lanka - The Malaysian Public Sector Open Source Software Programme - The eGovFrame platform of the Republic of Korea - Software for sustainable development in Lao PDR - The Free Software and Open Source Foundation for Africa - A global UNCTAD/WITSA survey of national IT/Software Associations - Locally developed software to improve farmers' access to information in Bangladesh - Software promotion in Argentina - In the Statistical Annex of the Report, UNCTAD presents among other things international data on software spending, exports and employment. For more information about UNCTAD´s work on ICT for Development under the Division on Technology and Logistics, please contact: ICT Analysis Section Division on Technology and Logistics Telephone: +41 22 917 55 91 Fax: +41 22 917 00 52 e-mail: ict4d(a)unctad.org www.unctad.org/ict4d -- Regards. -------------------------- Fouad Bajwa ICT4D and Internet Governance Advisor My Blog: Internet's Governance: http://internetsgovernance.blogspot.com/ Follow my Tweets: http://twitter.com/fouadbajwa

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Fwd: CALL FOR ICA JOURNAL EDITORS
by Alexander Halavais 28 Nov '12

28 Nov '12

Just a quick note for those who didn't already get this from ICA. As many of you know, JCMC has published some great work in our field. It would be wonderful to have yet another AoIR member at the helm! - Alex ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: ICA Publications <email(a)icahdq.org> Date: Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 10:50 AM Subject: CALL FOR ICA JOURNAL EDITORS To: alex(a)halavais.net *PLEASE DO NOT REPLY TO THIS EMAIL. It has been sent automatically from the International Communication Association offices in Washington, DC to ICA Members. Questions should be directed to the contacts listed within the message. Thank you.* ------------------------------ **Call for ICA Journal Editors *Communication, Culture & Critique* The ICA Publications Committee is soliciting nominations for editor of *Communication, Culture & Critique* (CCC). Self-nominations are welcome. *Communication, Culture & Critique* provides an international forum for critical, interpretive, and qualitative research examining the role of communications and cultural criticism in today's world. The journal welcomes high-quality research and analyses from diverse theoretical and methodological approaches from all fields of communication, media, and cultural studies. A completed nomination package would include a letter of application from the candidate indicating a willingness to serve and a vision for the journal, a CV, three letters of support from published scholars familiar with the candidate's work and experience, and a letter of institutional support from the candidate's home institution. Responsibilities are detailed in the ICA Publication Manual on the ICA website: http://www.icahdq.org/pubs/Publication_Manual.pdf. Details about the journal are available through the following links: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1111/(ISSN)1753-9137/homepage/Soc… http://www.icahdq.org/pubs/journals.asp Editors of ICA publications should reflect and seek to enhance the diversity of the Association in interest, gender, ethnicity, national origin, and regional representation. Some previous ICA editors have worked with a support structure of associate editors to meet the diverse demands. The term of editor extends three years beginning 1 January 2014. Please send your nomination package by 15 December 2012 to: Frank Esser, Chair, Publications Committee (mailto:frank.esser@uzh.ch <frank.esser(a)uzh.ch>). ------------------------------ *Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication* The ICA Publications Committee is also soliciting nominations for editor of *Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication * (JCMC). Self-nominations are welcome. The *Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication* is a web-based journal that publishes scholarship on computer-mediated communication. Broadly interdisciplinary in scope, the JCMC publishes mostly empirical research making use of social science methods, which should be presented according to the accepted standards for each method. Although the field of computer-mediated communication research is still young, successful original research submissions are expected to include comprehensive literature reviews, and to be theoretically grounded and methodologically rigorous, in addition to advancing new knowledge in innovative ways. A completed nomination package would include a letter of application from the candidate indicating a willingness to serve and a vision for the journal, a CV, three letters of support from published scholars familiar with the candidate's work and experience, and a letter of institutional support from the candidate's home institution. Responsibilities are detailed in the ICA Publication Manual on the ICA website: <http://www.icahdq.org/> http://www.icahdq.org/pubs/Publication_Manual.pdf. <http://www.icahdq.org/> Details about the journal are available through the following links: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1111/(ISSN)1083-6101/homepage/Soc… http://www.icahdq.org/pubs/journals.asp Editors of ICA publications should reflect and seek to enhance the diversity of the Association in interest, gender, ethnicity, national origin, and regional representation. Some previous ICA editors have worked with a support structure of associate editors to meet the diverse demands. The term of editor extends three years beginning 1 January 2014. Please send your nomination package by 15 December 2012 to: Frank Esser, Chair, Publications Committee (frank.esser(a)uzh.ch) *Frank Esser U of Zurich Chair, Publications Committee * ** ------------------------------ *ICA broadcasts email announcements from **email(a)icahdq.org*<email(a)icahdq.org> *. Please add this address to your address book or to the "safe sender" list if you would like to ensure delivery of future announcements.* ** ** ** Click here to opt out of future emails.<http://www.ccservices.com/Tradewinds/bce.asp?cmd=optout&sn=5393777001000300…> -- -- // // This email is // [ ] assumed public and may be blogged / forwarded. // [x] assumed to be private, please ask before redistributing. // // Alexander C. Halavais, ciberflâneur // http://alex.halavais.net // // Please attribute any stupid errors above to autocorrect on my phone. // (But I probably was typing on a keyboard.)

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“Qualitative Research and Social Media” Events in London and online
by Janet Salmons, Ph.D. 28 Nov '12

28 Nov '12

"Qualitative Research and Social Media," the third Knowledge Exchange Seminar of the New Social Media, New Social Science (NSMNSS) network will take place in London, January 28, 2013. >> When? Monday, 28th January. Arrival and lunch from 12:30, sessions from 13:00-16:30. >> Where? The Hatton, 51-53 Hatton Garden, London, EC1N 8HN The seminar will bring together speakers to discuss a range of topics, including opportunities and challenges of 'Deep Data', understanding behaviors and networks through the lens of netnography, and the changing role of the qualitative researcher online. I am presenting virtually... Please find a detailed programme posted here: http://bit.ly/Stdz6I. If you are able to attend the event in London, please contact Claire Ashby claire.ashby(a)natcen.ac.uk to confirm your attendance by Friday, 14 December. Please include in your email whether you require any special considerations to attend the event. Attendees will be accepted on a first-come, first-served basis. There are limited spaces for this event so places will be allocated on a first-come first-served basis, preference will be given to participants willing to contribute their own research experience to one of the sessions, and provide their thoughts in a blog piece or through a short video which can be shared with the wider network. Participants are asked to share their experiences at the event by providing a descriptive case study - a short 2-3 minute description of your experience using qualitative methods in social media research. Please identify which of the suggested themes in the programme you think your example would fit under and we will ask you to share this during the relevant session. If you can’t join the London event, follow along with the Twitter stream at #NSMNSS. Also, anyone anywhere can join me for a Qualitative Research and Social Media webinar on on February 5th at 16:00 GMT/UTC, 17:00 CET, noon EST. See: http://bit.ly/Stdz6I for details;soon I will post more information about researchers who will contribute to this exciting online event. Again, please write to Claire Ashby at NatCen Learning, claire.ashby(a)natcen.ac.uk with this message: "I would like to reserve a seat at the webinar on 5/02/13" and she will send you details of your login for that session in the New Year. Hope to see you online! Janet Janet Salmons Ph.D. Capella University School of Business and Technology and Vision2Lead, Inc. Site- http://www.vision2lead.com Follow Twitter at #einterview Now available from Sage: Cases in Online Interview Research PO Box 943 Boulder, CO 80306-0943 jsalmons(a)vision2lead.com

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Ethics statement note on first footnote.
by Tilton, Shane 28 Nov '12

28 Nov '12

I just finished reading our Ethics statement from http://aoir.org/reports/ethics2.pdf and I don't think the first footnote on page 12 makes sense. It right now states "See Buchanan and Ess, 2009, who found that U.S. -- based IRBs referred most regularly to the". It seems to be missing language along the lines of referring to AoIR's Ethical Guidelines after the "to."

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Re: [Air-L] Looking for references on grammatical prejucice
by William Bain 28 Nov '12

28 Nov '12

Hello, Maybe it's already been mentioned, but in line with the context theme, there's also the notion of "speak-write" where, in the arguablly informal context of emails and other communications spellings and other minor language features are overlooked. Best wishes, wb

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Newsletter of the Institute of Network Cultures - November 2012
by Geert Lovink 28 Nov '12

28 Nov '12

Institute of Network Cultures News In this newsletter you can read more about: Unlike Us #3 conference and the Unlike Us Reader Out of Ink research project on the future of publishing Re-search project and Society of the Query New intern: Larissa /////////////////////////////////////////////////// Unlike Us #3 Conference: March 21-23, 2013 After a successful Unlike Us conference earlier this year, INC is planning Unlike Us #3, to be held March 21-23, 2013, again in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. This next edition will build on topics, discussions, and questions raised at the last conference, and approach timely topics in social networking that are being discussed on the Unlike Us list (with 700 participants), the blog and elsewhere. Themes under discussion are (among other things) theory, history and critique of social media, The Federated Web Show, mobile use of social media, activism and the political economy of social networks. The main discussion will, most likely, be about the notions of the decentralized/federated social web in relation to alternative software/ web platforms which are currently under development. Alongside the conference, a series of smaller sessions and workshops, like a hackathon, will be set up in a community space. The planning team is now contacting potential speakers, ranging from theory, art, and computer science. If you want to receive Unlike Us updates, please subscribe to the email list: http://listcultures.org/mailman/listinfo/unlike-us_listcultures.org. More information about Unlike Us: http://networkcultures.org/wpmu/unlikeus/ Unlike Us Reader An Unlike Us Reader will be published prior to the conference in the INC Readers series. Written by theorists, artists, philosophers and other creative thinkers, the collected articles touch on topics like Facebook, Diaspora and Lorea, software studies, philosophy and economy, next to art, activism and alternatives. Publication is planned for the beginning of 2013, and of course the reader will be presented at the conference. The Unlike Us Reader will be published in the line of the INC Readers and produced in print, pdf, and epub. /////////////////////////////////////////////////// Out of Ink, research project on the future of publishing With the Out of Ink project, INC is currently investigating the state of the art on the future of publishing industries. Recently our Italian intern Francesca Coluzzi interviewed several experts in the field: Interview with Niels Schrader, Mind Design Amsterdam: 'a new adventure is starting!' Interview with Michele Aquila and Valeria Di Rosa, U10 Milan: Tweetbooks and storytelling Interview with Dimitri Nieuwenhuizen, LUST The Hague Interview with Erik Kessels, KesselsKramer Amsterdam The main research issues are: digital technology shaping the entire publishing cycle; book form and content change and translation across print and digital media; tools, software and open source culture in the publishing practice; and digital environments and new possibilities for collaborative practices and self publishing. Besides that the blog (http://networkcultures.org/wpmu/outofink/) will undergo a makeover, in order to have a complete overview of the whole Out of Ink project with new features and aims. Also concept models will be made. /////////////////////////////////////////////////// Re-search and Society of the Query René König continues building the Re-search network on search engines by maintaining the collaborative research blog Society of the Query (networkcultures.org/wpmu/re-search) and an associated mailing list. The mailing list currently consists of around 80 researchers who post about relevant news, conferences, publications, etc. in the field of search engines. Read the new blogposts on Google's autocomplete feature and "Googling 9/11". Posts by guest authors are planned for the near future. The goal of the network is to gather researchers, artists and other people with varying perspectives on search engines and their societal and cultural implications. This will create a basis of ideas and people for a conference planned for late 2013. René König is also working on his PhD thesis which deals with the usage of search engines from the perspective of sociology of knowledge: How do search engines shape our information practices? Which strategies do users develop to navigate through search engines and how do they evaluate the presented information? User studies will help to answer these questions. Currently, the concrete design of these studies is getting conceptualized. Subscribe to the Re-search mailinglist here: http://listcultures.org/mailman/listinfo/re-search_listcultures.org /////////////////////////////////////////////////// New intern at INC Larissa Hildebrandt is an intern for the Unlike Us #3 conference in Amsterdam. She is currently a student in the New Media and Digital Culture MA program at the University of Amsterdam. She recently completed her BA in Communication at Simon Fraser University in British Columbia, Canada. Email: larissa[at]networkcultures[dot]org /////////////////////////////////////////////////// Also check: Institute of Network Cultures Blog http://networkcultures.org/ Overview INC Publications http://networkcultures.org/publications/overview/ Institute of Network Cultures Media Archive http://networkcultures.org/archive/ Geert Lovink’s Net critique blog http://networkcultures.org/geert/ Institute of Network Cultures Amsterdam New Media Research Centre http://www.networkcultures.org

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A one-day symposium on research methods in social sciences
by Akthar, Iqbal 28 Nov '12

28 Nov '12

Thinking through Methodologies in Media A one-day symposium on research methods in social sciences Call for papers Date: 26th March, 2013 Venue: Liverpool John Moores University, Liverpool How do I conduct an online ethnography? Are there new ways to think about visual cultures? Can I write about sound? What are creative methodologies, and how can they be developed? We invite researchers to a one-day symposium, with a publication to follow, to think together through research methodologies as they relate to digital, visual, and sound cultures. We particularly welcome papers from postgraduate and early researchers to present their ideas and research methods in their current field of study. Papers are invited on any of the below fields of study: 1.New Media/Digital Culture 2.Films/Visual Culture 3.Music/Sound Culture A 300 word abstract should be submitted by February 28th, 2013 to Dr Esperanza Miyake (e.miyake(a)ljmu.ac.uk) with the following information: a) author(s); b) affiliation; c) email address; d) abstract ________________________________ Important Notice: the information in this email and any attachments is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s). If you are not an intended recipient, or a person responsible for delivering it to an intended recipient, you should delete it from your system immediately without disclosing its contents elsewhere and advise the sender by returning the email or by telephoning a number contained in the body of the email. No responsibility is accepted for loss or damage arising from viruses or changes made to this message after it was sent. The views contained in this email are those of the author and not necessarily those of Liverpool John Moores University.

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Deadline Extended - Game Studies Area: 2013 PCA/ACA National Conference
by Gerald Voorhees 28 Nov '12

28 Nov '12

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 Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association National Conference to be held Wednesday, March 27 through Saturday March 30, 2013 at the Wardman Park Marriott in Washington, DC. The deadline for submission of paper abstracts and panel proposals has been extended to Friday December 7, 2012. The complete call for papers may be reviewed at: http://pcaaca.org/game-studies/

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