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Call for Projects | Interactivos?'13 Tools for a Read-Write World
by Medialab-Prado comunicacion 11 Dec '12

11 Dec '12

*MEDIALAB-PRADO* Área de Las Artes del Ayuntamiento de Madrid Arts Department of the Madrid City Council http://medialab-prado.es* * * * Interactivos?'13 Tools for a Read-Write World. Call for Projects Medialab-Prado and The Libre Graphics Research Unit are seeking for projects to be *collaboratively developed* during a two-weeks workshop to be held in Madrid, 15-27 April, 2013. We are interested in your ideas for*tools to design, edit, draw and write together*. This edition focuses on (re)inventing a Libre Graphics workflow that supports collaboration and exchange. Advisors: Libre Graphics Magazine editorial team (ginger coons, Ana Carvalho and Ricardo Lafuente); Comunes Collective - KUNE collaborative software (Vicente Ruiz Jurado, Samer Hassan) and Jennifer Dopazo. Curated by Femke Snelting (LGRU, Constant) *Call Open: October 31 2012 – January 15, 2013.* Call for collaborators: February 5 – April 9, 2013. Libre Graphics Meeting and presentations of the selected projects: April 10-13, 2013. Workshop: April 15-27, 2013. Entry rules and submission form: http://medialab-prado.es/article/ilgru_call_projects -- Nerea García Garmendia Comunicación / Press Medialab-Prado Intermediae Matadero Madrid Paseo de la Chopera, 14 28045 Madrid (Temporary Location) Tel. +34 915 177 288 difusion(a)medialab-prado.es www.medialab-prado.es http://www.facebook.com/MedialabPradoMadrid Twitter: @medialabprado

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Call for Projects | Interactivos?'13 Tools for a Read-Write World
by Medialab-Prado comunicacion 11 Dec '12

11 Dec '12

*MEDIALAB-PRADO* Área de Las Artes del Ayuntamiento de Madrid Arts Department of the Madrid City Council http://medialab-prado.es* * * * Interactivos?'13 Tools for a Read-Write World. Call for Projects Medialab-Prado and The Libre Graphics Research Unit are seeking for projects to be *collaboratively developed* during a two-weeks workshop to be held in Madrid, 15-27 April, 2013. We are interested in your ideas for*tools to design, edit, draw and write together*. This edition focuses on (re)inventing a Libre Graphics workflow that supports collaboration and exchange. Advisors: Libre Graphics Magazine editorial team (ginger coons, Ana Carvalho and Ricardo Lafuente); Comunes Collective - KUNE collaborative software (Vicente Ruiz Jurado, Samer Hassan) and Jennifer Dopazo. Curated by Femke Snelting (LGRU, Constant) *Call Open: October 31 2012 – January 15, 2013.* Call for collaborators: February 5 – April 9, 2013. Libre Graphics Meeting and presentations of the selected projects: April 10-13, 2013. Workshop: April 15-27, 2013. Entry rules and submission form: http://medialab-prado.es/article/ilgru_call_projects -- Nerea García Garmendia Comunicación / Press Medialab-Prado Intermediae Matadero Madrid Paseo de la Chopera, 14 28045 Madrid (Temporary Location) Tel. +34 915 177 288 difusion(a)medialab-prado.es www.medialab-prado.es http://www.facebook.com/MedialabPradoMadrid Twitter: @medialabprado

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How long is a pause that is considered as a sign of break-down in students' conversations in virtual world classes ?
by Wang Airong 11 Dec '12

11 Dec '12

Dear all, Apologize for cross-posting! I am looking for literature that talks about pauses in students’ conversations especially in the virtual world classes. Does anybody know such kind of literature, and how long is a pause that is considered to be a break-down, 4 seconds, or something else? Thank you so much! Best, Airong WANG Doctoral Student in English Didactics Mid Sweden University Sweden

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Re: [Air-L] Why do people apologize for cross-posting?
by Barry Wellman 11 Dec '12

11 Dec '12

Justine, My guess is that it is something to do with English culture, in which people even apologize for posting abstracts of their articles. But it is research that I will never do. Barry Wellman _______________________________________________________________________ S.D. Clark Professor of Sociology, FRSC NetLab Director Department of Sociology 725 Spadina Avenue, Room 388 University of Toronto Toronto Canada M5S 2J4 twitter:@barrywellman http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman fax:+1-416-978-3963 NETWORKED:The New Social Operating System. Lee Rainie & Barry Wellman MIT Press http://amzn.to/zXZg39 Print $19; Kindle $16 Old/newCybertimes http://bit.ly/c8N9V8 It's still rock & roll to me ________________________________________________________________________ On Tue, 11 Dec 2012, Justine Humphry wrote: > Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2012 12:01:40 +1100 > From: Justine Humphry <justine.humphry(a)gmail.com> > To: Barry Wellman <wellman(a)chass.utoronto.ca> > Subject: Re: [Air-L] Why do people apologize for cross-posting? > > Hi, > > I've always wondering this myself - especially considering that the act of > sending an email apologising about sending an email could potentially be > received as spam, or at the least more annoying than receiving the > cross-posted information without qualifications, which, as you say, > recipients might recognise as an effort to get the information out as > widely as possible. > > I'm sure there's at least one article in that don't you think? > > Justine > > Digital Cultures Lecturer, Digital Cultures Program > University of Sydney > > On 11 December 2012 10:25, Barry Wellman <wellman(a)chass.utoronto.ca> wrote: > >> How else do you get the word out to multiple lists. >> Please be proud of yourself. >> >> >> Barry Wellman >> ______________________________**______________________________** >> ___________ >> >> S.D. Clark Professor of Sociology, FRSC NetLab Director >> Department of Sociology 725 Spadina Avenue, Room 388 >> University of Toronto Toronto Canada M5S 2J4 twitter:@barrywellman >> http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~**wellman<http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman> fax: >> +1-416-978-3963 >> NETWORKED:The New Social Operating System. Lee Rainie & Barry Wellman >> MIT Press http://amzn.to/zXZg39 Print $19; Kindle $16 >> Old/newCybertimes http://bit.ly/c8N9V8 It's still rock & roll to me >> >> ______________________________**______________________________** >> ____________ >> >> ______________________________**_________________ >> 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<http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org> >> >> Join the Association of Internet Researchers: >> http://www.aoir.org/ >> >

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Why do people apologize for cross-posting?
by Barry Wellman 11 Dec '12

11 Dec '12

How else do you get the word out to multiple lists. Please be proud of yourself. Barry Wellman _______________________________________________________________________ S.D. Clark Professor of Sociology, FRSC NetLab Director Department of Sociology 725 Spadina Avenue, Room 388 University of Toronto Toronto Canada M5S 2J4 twitter:@barrywellman http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman fax:+1-416-978-3963 NETWORKED:The New Social Operating System. Lee Rainie & Barry Wellman MIT Press http://amzn.to/zXZg39 Print $19; Kindle $16 Old/newCybertimes http://bit.ly/c8N9V8 It's still rock & roll to me ________________________________________________________________________

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WUaS has a number of open, board positions and committees for which we are looking for members, if you'd like to plug in
by Scott MacLeod 11 Dec '12

11 Dec '12

Hi All on AoIR, Thanks for your engagement with World University and School - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com . The next, open, hour-long, monthly, business meeting is on January 12th a 9 am PT, in which you're welcome to participate. We have a number of open, board positions and committees for which we are looking for members, if you'd like to plug in in other ways. WUaS, hour-long,monthly, business meeting meets on the 2nd Saturdays of the month, and in a Google + Hangout these days. WUaS's business meeting's agenda, as well as other resources, are usually posted here a few days prior to the meeting: http://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/ . As you may know, WUaS is like Wikipedia with MIT OCW, with free, CC, online, MIT-centric degrees planned. I'm glad to say WUaS doubled the size of our actual Board, - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/World_University_Foundation - from 3 members to 6 after our monthly, business meeting on Saturday, and from all over the world, thanks to a Stanford Coursera course.! Best regards, Scott -- http://scottmacleod.com/worlduniversityandschool.htm This email is intended only for the use of the individual or entity to which it is addressed and may contain information that is privileged and confidential. If the reader of this email message is not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution, or copying of this communication is prohibited. If you have received this email in error, please notify the sender and destroy/delete all copies of the transmittal. Thank you.

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CfP: Special Issue of CyberOrient: "Orchestrating Hip-hop Culture Online"
by Vit Sisler 10 Dec '12

10 Dec '12

Colleagues, With all due apologies for cross-posting: Call for Papers: Special Issue of CyberOrient: Online Journal of the Virtual Middle East “Orchestrating Hip-hop Culture Online: within and Beyond the Middle East” Guest Editor: Anders Ackfeldt Submission deadline: 31 May 2013 Vol. 7, Iss. 2 (autumn 2013) Aim Hip-hop culture, which started in New York more than thirty years ago, has become a matter of global concern. The growth of the Internet has facilitated its spread across the globe from the US to Tokyo, and from Johannesburg to Nuuk. This special issue of CyberOrient seeks critical examinations of the impact, functions and dynamics of Middle Eastern and/or Islamic themed hip-hop in cyberspace, within and beyond the Middle East. Submissions regarding visual aspects are welcomed – examples include breakdance, album cover art and graffiti. Papers dealing with the junction of geopolitics and Middle Eastern/Islamic themed hip-hop culture are also encouraged. About CyberOrient CyberOrient (http://www.cyberorient.net/) is a peer-reviewed journal published by the Middle East Section of the American Anthropological Association in collaboration with the Faculty of Arts of Charles University in Prague. The aim of the journal is to provide research and theoretical considerations on the representation of Islam and the Middle East, the very areas that used to be styled as an “Orient”, in cyberspace, as well as the impact of the internet and new media in Muslim and Middle Eastern contexts. Submissions are welcome from scholars in any discipline. Submission Articles should be submitted directly to Anders Ackfeldt (anders.ackfeldt(a)cme.lu.se) and Vit Sisler (vit.sisler(a)ff.cuni.cz ). Submissions should be between 5,000 and 8,000 words long and follow the AAA Style Guide (http://www.aaanet.org/publications/guidelines.cfm) The special issue will be published online with free access in autumn 2013. Full CfP www.cyberorient.net/dwn/1003/7921_CyberOrient_CFP_2013_2.pdf Best, Vit -- Vit Sisler, Ph.D. Charles University in Prague Faculty of Arts & Philosophy Institute of Information Science and Librarianship New Media Studies http://uisk.jinonice.cuni.cz/sisler/

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Some reflections on Manuel Castells book "Networks of outrage and hope. Social movements in the Internet age"
by Christian Fuchs 10 Dec '12

10 Dec '12

Maybe this is of interest for some on this list. -- CF Fuchs, Christian. 2012. Some reflections on Manuel Castells’ book “Networks of outrage and hope. Social movements in the Internet age“. tripleC - Open Access Journal for a Global Sustainable Information Society 10 (2): 775-797. http://www.triple-c.at/index.php/tripleC/article/view/459 Abstract: This paper provides critical reflections on Manuel Castells’ (2012) book Networks of Outrage and Hope. Social Movements in the Internet Age that analyses the “nature and perspectives of networked social movements” (p. 4) and gives special focus to the role of “social media” in movements that emerged in 2011 in Tunisia, Iceland, Egypt, Spain and the United States. I situate Castells’ book in an intellectual discourse that focuses on the political implications of social media and that has involved Clay Shirky, Malcom Gladwell and Evgeny Morozov. The article also discusses the role of social theory and empirical research in Castells’ book, presents as an alternative a theoretical model of the relationship between social movements and the media, discusses the implications that some empirical data that focus on social media in the Egyptian revolution and the Occupy Wall Street movement have for Castells’ approach, discusses how Castells positions himself towards capitalism and compares his explanation of the crisis and his political views to David Harvey’s approach. Keywords: social movements, social media, Internet, protest, revolution, occupation, Arab spring, 15-M, indignadas, indignados, Occupy Wall Street, Manuel Castells, network, Networks of outrage and hope. Social movements in the Internet age. Section overview: 1. Introduction 2. Social Media and Politics: A Controversy between Clay Shirky, Malcom Gladwell and Evgeny Morozov 3. Castells on Social Media in the Context of Protests and Revolutions: The Dimension of Social Theory 4. Social Theory Recovered: A Model of the Relationship between Social Movements and the Media 5. Castells on Social Media in the Context of Protests and Revolutions: The Dimension of Empirical Research 6. Manuel Castells and David Harvey: The Question of Political Struggle - For or against Capitalism? 7. Conclusion -- Prof. Christian Fuchs Chair in Media and Communication Studies Department of Informatics and Media Uppsala University Kyrkogrdsgatan 10 Box 513 751 20 Uppsala Sweden christian.fuchs(a)im.uu.se Tel +46 (0) 18 471 1019 http://fuchs.uti.at http://www.im.uu.se NetPolitics Blog: http://fuchs.uti.at/blog Editor of tripleC: http://www.triple-c.se Chair of ESA Research Network 18-Sociology of Communications and Media Research ICTs and Society Network: http://www.icts-and-society.net

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Open rank position at Northeastern in computational social science/digital humanities
by Brian Keegan 09 Dec '12

09 Dec '12

---------- Forwarded message ---------- Northeastern University invites applications and nominations at all ranks (Professor/Associate Professor/Assistant Professor) for a cluster of faculty positions in fields encompassed by the Digital Humanities and Computational Social Science. We define the range of relevant disciplines broadly to include study in the humanities or human behavior and developing computational methods applied to these domains. In association with a new multidisciplinary center, the NUlab for Texts, Maps, and Networks, this cluster hire builds on Northeastern’s national prominence in the digital humanities, computational social science, and network science. At the core of NUlab lies new collaborative work across disciplines in the era of big data, digitized texts, visualization, and social media. The premise of the lab is that both the humanities and the social sciences are at the beginning of a paradigm shift driven by the opportunities offered by emerging corpora of large-scale data coupled with enormous computational power. We welcome applications from faculty engaged in research areas and technologies including (but not limited to) geographic information systems, text mining, topic modeling, network analysis, natural language processing, machine learning, gaming, new media, digital curation, and data visualization and design. Cross-disciplinary and cross-college appointments are possible. Inquiries and nominations may be directed to Professor Elizabeth Maddock Dillon <e.dillon(a)neu.edu> or Professor David Lazer <d.lazer(a)neu.edu>. (Please put in subject line of any inquiries "Inquiry re DH/CSS search".) Review of applications will begin December 10, 2012, but the search will remain open until all positions are filled. _________________________________________ David Lazer *(pronounced as if it were Lazar) * Professor of Political Science and Computer and Information Science, Northeastern University Co-Director, NULab for Texts, Maps, and Networks Director, Program on Networked Governance, Harvard University CHECK OUT: VisPolitics.com <http://vispolitics.com/> Virtual identities: davidlazer.com twitter.com/davidlazer blogs.iq.harvard.edu/netgov/ http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=gMndACUAAAAJ&hl=en http://www.researchgate.net/profile/David_Lazer/ _____________________________________________________________________ SOCNET is a service of INSNA, the professional association for social network researchers (http://www.insna.org) To unsubscribe, send an email message to listserv(a)lists.ufl.edu containing the line UNSUBSCRIBE SOCNET in the body of the message.

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Google is sticking to its own vision of freedom of expression - The NEWS Pakistan
by Fouad Bajwa 09 Dec '12

09 Dec '12

According to Pakistan's largest English Daily, the News International: Permanent Link to the Story: http://jang.com.pk/thenews/Dec2012-weekly/nos-09-12-2012/dia.htm#1 Only valid for today's e-print: http://e.thenews.com.pk/12-9-2012/nos_page9.asp Virtually blocked - With no breakthrough on YouTube registration in Pakistan in sight, the authorities affirm the ban will stay By Shahzada Irfan Ahmed After a prolonged spell of suppressed activity, social media websites in Pakistan suddenly became alive on Dec 3, with endless posts and tweets about the reopening of YouTube in the country. To many, this was nothing unexpected as the development had coincided with the tentative deadline given by Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) Chairman for the removal of the ban. He had told a private TV channel on November 15 that the Youtube ban may be lifted within 15 to 20 days. Article: Virtually blocked - With no breakthrough on YouTube registration in Pakistan in sight, the authorities affirm the ban will stay By Shahzada Irfan Ahmed refresh - TNS The News on Sunday December 09, 2012 Source: http://jang.com.pk/thenews/Dec2012-weekly/nos-09-12-2012/dia.htm#1 After a prolonged spell of suppressed activity, social media websites in Pakistan suddenly became alive on Dec 3, with endless posts and tweets about the reopening of YouTube in the country. To many, this was nothing unexpected as the development had coincided with the tentative deadline given by Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) Chairman for the removal of the ban. He had told a private TV channel on November 15 that the Youtube ban may be lifted within 15 to 20 days. Popular news channels also broke the news, mostly via tickers, but the furore was short-lived. Soon afterwards, the PTA sources denied issuing any such orders and held some service providers responsible for this discrepancy. Like always, they had no clue of when the ban was going to be lifted. The situation to date is that there has not been any development since the imposition of a blanket ban on YouTube in Pakistan which came into effect on September 17. The PTA chairman once expressed the hope the website will be registered in Pakistan, but sources privy to its communication with Google — the owner of YouTube — say the internet giant has not given an encouraging response. Having a local presence in around 40 countries, with some small ones having an internet user base of only 3 million or so, apparently Google is not desirous of entertaining Pakistan’s request which has a base of 22 million internet users. The question haunting many is whether the authorities have succeeded or not in getting the desired results with the help of this ban, and what will be the future course of action if Google does not register itself here. Muhammad Nawaz, an IT geek, technologist and academic, says the government of Pakistan should have signed a contract with Google years ago as this was not the first time the website had been blocked in Pakistan. Had it been registered inside Pakistan, it would have been bound to abide by the local laws issued by the local authorities. The ban, he says, is of no use as people have found ways to circumvent it. “Those who want to access YouTube are doing that with the help of certain softwares, proxy websites and Internet Protocol (IP) blockers”. Nawaz says the objectionable trailer of the blasphemous movie that triggered the ban was blocked in India, Turkey etc. just because they had country versions of YouTube. “In Turkey, anyone who types YouTube.com is diverted to YouTube.com.tr but this is not the case here. There the website has had to comply with the orders of Turkish courts and has often blocked content such as that related to Kemal Ataturk.” On the other hand, a well-discussed Multi-Lateral Assistance Treaty (MLAT) between Google and Pakistan is pending for well above two years, mainly due to the lack of interest shown by the PTA and other related authorities. “What can we expect from the authority which cannot even block the websites like https://www.facebook.com/3Gcorruption targetting its own sitting and outgoing bosses.” Nawaz points out that a large number of people have been deprived of the opportunity to do educational research online, access entertainment-related content, benefit from religious content and health tips. To elaborate his point, he says, there are between 70,000 to 80,000 students enrolled with the Virtual University (VU) who access their lectures via YouTube. “Though there’s a compulsion on cable operators to air VU channels on their networks but hardly anyone does that. So YouTube is the only option left for them.” There is another angle to the story which is apparently haunting the PTA. Fouad Bajwa, an internet rights activist and policy advocate based in Lahore, observes that in Pakistan the internet policy has always been based on public demand and defined by norms of public morality. “The PTA fears that its policy decision to open YouTube may affect public order as has happened in the form of protests leading to loss of property and lives in Pakistan”. Based on his interactions with different stakeholders, Bajwa feels the government has been under pressure to open the website. “But the challenge on the other hand is that the Google is not listening to the government demands to remove or block the objectionable content. I’ve also heard that Badar Khushnood, the Google representative in Pakistan, has also failed to convince the Google to do something acceptable to the Pakistani authorities”. So right now, the PTA is facing a challenge and has to decide whether it should open the website or not and, if yes, on what conditions. It is strongly believed among the internet community that the Google is sticking to its own vision of freedom of expression, something its representative expressed at the Internet Governance Forum in Baku recently. Google representative Badar Khushnood was not willing to comment due to the sensitivity of the issue. It was also learnt he is avoiding media interaction since the day the Interior Minister Rahman Malik publicly warned of action against him if the Google refused to cooperate with Pakistan on terrorism-related issues. Sources say the Google has expressed fears that local registration of YouTube will compromise the interests of the Pakistani public at the hands of the state. They add the PTA has offered to follow all the requirements for local registration, but Google is giving one excuse or the other every time. The internet giant believes the restoration of judiciary in Pakistan, the Arab Spring in the Middle East and the uprising in Iran became successful only because the site was not subservient to local laws. So, the option the PTA is working on is to set up a highly advanced content filtering system which will block the unwanted material and may also detect use of proxy servers, the sources say, adding “when will it be possible is a mystery.” This will be a tough task as an estimated 72 hours of video content is uploaded on Facebook every minute. TNS forwarded a questionnaire to the PTA spokesperson Malahat Rab more than a week ago, but she has still not responded. All we have received is a statement forwarded on behalf of Sajjad Latif Awan, Director Enforcement, PTA Headquarters, Islamabad. It says the PTA has not ordered anybody to open the access of YouTube in Pakistan and there are reports that some service providers and operators have facilitated that. “The PTA has initiated inquiry to check which Service Providers and Operators have opened the access to YouTube and afterwards stern actions will be taken against those responsible,” it adds. -- 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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