March 2012 - Air-L - lists.aoir.org

Pew Internet-Elon University "Future" survey results for apps-Web question released today
by Janna Q. Anderson - Imagining the Internet 23 Mar '12

23 Mar '12

Good morning, As you were an invitee to participate in the fifth "Future of the Internet" survey, fielded by Elon University's Imagining the Internet Center and the Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project, we thought you would like to know that the results from the second survey question are now available online. The question examined people's opinions about the likely 2020 future for apps and the Web. A report synthesizing the results has been posted online at http://www.pewinternet.org. You can view complete details at the Imagining the Internet site at these specific addresses: http://www.elon.edu/e-web/predictions/expertsurveys/2012survey/default.xhtml http://www.elon.edu/e-web/predictions/expertsurveys/2012survey/future_apps_… http://www.elon.edu/e-web/predictions/expertsurveys/2012survey/future_apps_… http://www.elon.edu/e-web/predictions/expertsurveys/2012survey/future_apps_… If you have trouble reaching any of the links provided, please cut and paste the URL into your browser. More than 1,000 people participated in the survey, sharing a number of wonderful insights. Thank you to those who so generously gave their time to share their hopes and concerns! Best regards, Janna Anderson and Lee Rainie -- Janna Quitney Anderson Director of Imagining the Internet www.imaginingtheinternet.org Associate Professor School of Communications Elon University andersj(a)elon.edu (336) 278-5733 (o) Twitter: @JannaQ Lee Rainie, Director Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project 1615 L Street, NW -- Suite 700 Washington, DC 20036 W - 202-419-4510 email: Lrainie(a)pewinternet.org Twitter: @Lrainie

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New Book: Artificial Culture
by Tama Leaver 22 Mar '12

22 Mar '12

New Book Announcement (apologies for x-posting) Artificial Culture: Identity, Technology, and Bodies (Routledge, 2012) Tama Leaver, Curtin University Amazon http://amzn.to/wRe4PN Routledge: http://bit.ly/mivLzx Artificial Culture is an examination of the articulation, construction, and representation of "the artificial" in contemporary popular cultural texts, with a focus on science fiction films and novels, but also addressing digital culture more broadly including analysis of Wikileaks, the Visible Human Project and the emergence of synthespians. The book argues that today we live in an artificial culture due to the deep and inextricable relationships between people and technology, with human bodies as a key marker of these symbiotic connections. While the artificial is often imagined as outside of the natural order and thus also beyond the realm of humanity, paradoxically, artificial concepts are simultaneously produced and constructed by human ideas and labor. The artificial can thus act as a boundary point against which it is possible in some respects to measure what it might mean to be human. More importantly, the artificial often blurs the boundary between humans, technology and the environment at large in often purposefully unsettling ways. The core texts analysed in the book are: 2001 A Space Odyssey; the four Terminator films; Greg Egan’s novels Permutation City and Diaspora; The Visible Human Project; William Gibson’s bridge trilogy (Virtual Light, Idoru, and All Tomorrow’s Parties); Wikileaks; The Matrix films and franchise; WETA’s digital effects in the Lord of the Rings films, with a particular focus on the synthespian Gollum; the Spider-Man trilogy; Wall-E; and Avatar. Contents: Part1: Artificial Intelligence 1. Early Artificial Intelligence Films: ‘When are you going to let me out of this box? 2. "I am a machine!": Artificial Intelligences in Contemporary Cinema Part 2: Artificial Life 3. From Digital Genesis to the Artificial Other 4. Diasporic Subjectivities: Not Quite ‘Beyond the Infinite’ Part 3: Artificial Space 5. The Fortification of Place in the Digital Age 6. Resistance is Spatial 7. The Infinite Plasticity of the Digital? Part 4: Artificial Culture 8. Matrices of Embodiment 9. The Symbiosis of Special Effects Part 5: Artificial Culture 10. Before the Mourning 11. Artificial Mourning: Spider-Man, Special Effects and September 11 For slightly more information (and colour versions of the images used in the book) please visit http://www.tamaleaver.net/artificial-culture/ . My apologies that the book on the expensive side; if you have access to a university library, perhaps recommend they purchase it in the first instance. -Tama -- Dr Tama Leaver Lecturer in Internet Studies Faculty of Humanities, Curtin University of Technology GPO Box U1987 Perth WA Australia 6845 Phone: (+61 8) 9266 1258 Fax: (+61 8) 9266 3166 Email: t.leaver(a)curtin.edu.au Web: www.tamaleaver.net CRICOS Provider Code: 00301J (WA) 02637B (NSW)

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CFP - INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF COMPUTER NETWORKS (IJCN)
by J. Stewart 21 Mar '12

21 Mar '12

CALL FOR PAPERS - INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF COMPUTER NETWORKS (IJCN) ISSN: 1985-4129 Volume 4, Issue 3 Info. at http://www.cscjournals.org/csc/journals/IJCN/journal_cfp.php?JCode=IJCN Computer Science Journals (CSC Journals) invites researchers, editors, scientists & scholars to publish their scientific research papers in an International Journal of Computer Networks (IJCN) Volume 4, Issue 3. The International Journal of Computer Networks (IJCN) is an archival, bimonthly journal committed to the timely publications of peer-reviewed and original papers that advance the state-of-the-art and practical applications of computer networks. It provides a publication vehicle for complete coverage of all topics of interest to network professionals and brings to its readers the latest and most important findings in computer networks. CSC Journals anticipate and invite papers on any of the following topics: Ad-hoc Wireless Networks Network Architectures and Protocols Algorithms, Systems and Applications Network Coding ATM Networks Network Modeling and Performance Analysis Network Body Sensor Networks Network Operation and Management Cellular Networks Network Security and Privacy Cognitive Radio Networks Network Services and Applications Congestion and Flow Control Optical Networks Cooperative Networks Peer-to-Peer Networks Delay Tolerant Networks Personal Area Networks Fault Tolerant Networks Switching and Routing Information Theory Telecommunication Networks Local Area Networks Trust Worth Computing Metropolitan Area Networks Ubiquitous Computing MIMO Networks Web-based Services Mobile Computing Wide Area Networks Mobile Satellite Networks Wireless Local Area Networks Multicast and Broadcast Networks Wireless Mesh Networks Multimedia Networks Wireless Sensor Networks Important Dates - IJCN CFP - Volume 4, Issue 3. Paper Submission: March 31, 2012 Author Notification: May 15, 2012 Issue Publication: June 2012 For complete details about IJCN archives publications, abstracting/indexing, editorial board and other important information, please refer to IJCN homepage. We look forward to receive your valuable papers. If you have further questions please do not hesitate to contact us at cscpress(a)cscjournals.org. Our team is committed to provide a quick and supportive service throughout the publication process. A complete list of journals can be found at http://www.cscjournals.org/csc/bysubject.php Sincerely, J. Stewart Computer Science Journals (CSC Journals) B-5-8 Plaza Mont Kiara, Mont Kiara 50480, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Tel: + 603 6207 1607, + 603 2782 6991 Fax:+ 603 6207 1697 Url: http://www.cscjournals.org

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CfP Platform Journal; please share widely with new academics / graduate students
by Luke J Heemsbergen 21 Mar '12

21 Mar '12

PLATFORM: JOURNAL OF MEDIA & COMMUNICATION An Interdisciplinary Journal for Early Career Researchers of Media “Automating Conduct: Autonomy in Control” (Vol 4, Issue 2) Abstract Submissions Due: APRIL 26 2012 Full Paper Submissions Due: JULY 22 2012 Platform encourages all contributions related to media studies, with special consideration currently given to engagement with the cultures, politics and social issues layered within automation and transparency. The freedoms of control that circulate in the digital networked society imbue modalities of both transparency and automation. The coupling of high technological automation with a heightened sense of surveillance implies certain forms of automated conduct as necessary, but not sufficient, for autonomy in spatiotemporal, psychological, economic and aesthetic dimensions of subjectivity and polity. Thus, locating autonomy, automation and transparency in the network becomes a critical project in both respects of the word. After WikiLeaks, can freedom be a creature of the light or the dark? Is autonomy found in the open or in the hidden and unique? What are the critical responses to automated agents that ubiquitously categorise and increasingly contribute to the construction of our social-world and its boundaries? How do they create terror and police the social, while effectively engaging themselves in ‘boundary work’? Together, automation and transparency create: issues of privacy in surveillance for mediated and inhabited spaces, asymmetries of access and temptation (e.g. online shopping & dating), and fundamental implications for literacy, living, and society. We encourage contributors to ask what opacities, reflexes, subjectivities and politics are available in what Robert Samuels (2009) terms ‘automodernity’ as society approaches indistinguishability between either of David Brin’s (1996) allegorical cities of automated transparency? PLATFORM encourages the submission of empirical and theoretical work engaging with these themes of freedom, control, transparency and automation including but not limited to: -Automation and/or transparency as a facet of everyday life -New technologies of automation and transparency and their affect on artists, protestors, publishers, and the police; -Automodernity and/or the aestehtics of the automatic -Transparency and its impact on the potential to 'represent' -Automation and/or transparency as (counter) hegemonic instruments -Challenges to social, political, and economic assumptions including relations to, and means of, production (P2P, FOSS, Venture Communism etc.); -The impact of automation and/or transparency on media production and consumption -Processes and practices of privacy within automated surveillance -The impact of automation and/or transparency on reading/writing/learning -Automation and its impact on the body (automation as prosthesis, as memory) -Legal/IP/ethical considerations in media automation and/or transparency -Methodological considerations for automation and/or transparency in research -Other critiques working across diverse fields in media and communication studies are welcome PLEASE DISTRIBUTE WIDELY! Issue Editors: Luke Heemsbergen (University of Melbourne, School of Culture and Communication) Suneel Jethani (University of Melbourne, School of Culture and Communication) Please send all enquires and submissions to platformjmc(a)gmail.com We recommend that prospective authors submit abstracts well before the abstract deadline of April 26, 2012 to allow for feedback and suggestions from the editors. All submissions should be from early career researchers (defined as being within a few years of completing their Ph.D) or current graduate students undertaking their Masters, Ph.D. or international equivalent. All eligible submissions will be sent for double-blind peer-review. Early submission is highly encouraged as the review process will commence on submission. Note: Please read the Submission Guidelines before submitting work. Submissions not in house style will not be accepted and authors will be asked resubmit their work with the correct formatting before it is sent for review. PLATFORM: Journal of Media and Communication is a fully refereed, open-access online graduate journal. Founded and published by the School of Culture and Communication at the University of Melbourne (Australia), PLATFORM was launched in November 2008. PLATFORM is refereed by an international board of established and emerging scholars working across diverse fields in media and communication studies, and is edited by graduate students at the University of Melbourne. PLATFORM invites graduate students working in disciplines related to media studies to submit to the journal. We also welcome applications for editorial positions as well as proposals to guest edit a special issue of the journal. For more information and to apply, please contact us at platformjmc(a)gmail.com. -- PLATFORM: Journal of Media and Communication URL: http://journals.culture-communication.unimelb.edu.au/platform/ Email: platformjmc(a)gmail.com Luke Heemsbergen University of Melbourne

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Subject: Deadline dates, ASIST 2012 Annual Meeting
by Richard Hill 21 Mar '12

21 Mar '12

ASIST 75th Annual Meeting Information, Interaction, Innovation: Celebrating the Past, Constructing the Present, and Creating the Future October 26-31, 2012, Baltimore, Maryland IMPORTANT DATES 1) Papers, Panels, Workshops & Tutorials Deadline for submissions: April 30 2) Posters, Demos & Videos: Deadline for submissions: June 10 http://asis.org/asist2012/ Dick Hill Richard Hill Executive Director American Society for Information Science and Technology 1320 Fenwick Lane, Suite 510 Silver Spring, MD 20910 FAX: (301) 495-0810 (301) 495-0900

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Relevant panels at CLAI Transitions 2012, Cork
by Nina Shiel 21 Mar '12

21 Mar '12

Apologies for crossposting. Individual proposals are still being sought for the Comparative Literature Association of Ireland First International Conference, Transitions 2012, 28-30 June, Cork, Ireland. Deadline has been extended to 30 March, 2012. The following panels may be of interest to list members: Digital Transitions Virtual Realities: Online Construction of Identity: Virtual Realities: Online Construction of Identity Metamorphoses of (New) Media: On Aesthetics, Art and Artificial Reproduction Full descriptions of these panels, the extended CFP and contact details are available at http://www.complit.org/cfp.html * * Best regards, Nina Shiel -- Nina Shiel PhD Researcher in Comparative Literature Research supported by the Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences School of Applied Language and Intercultural Studies Dublin City University, Dublin 9, Republic of Ireland http://vividdescription.wordpress.com/

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New Book--Wordplay and the Discourse of Video Games
by Paul, Christopher 20 Mar '12

20 Mar '12

Wordplay and the Discourse of Video Games: Analyzing Words, Design and Play Routledge Studies in New Media and Cyberculture, 2012 http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415893060/ Publisher Description: In this timely new book, Christopher Paul analyzes how the words we use to talk about video games and the structures that are produced within games shape a particular way of gaming by focusing on how games create meaning, lead to identification and division, persuade, and circulate ideas. Paul examines the broader social discourse about gaming, including: the way players are socialized into games; the impact of the lingering association of video games as kid's toys; the dynamics within specific games (including Grand Theft Auto and EA Sports Games); and the ways in which players participate in shaping the discourse of games, demonstrated through examples like the reward system of World of Warcraft and the development of theorycraft. Overall, this book illustrates how video games are shaped by words, design and play; all of which are negotiated, ongoing practices among the designers, players, and society that construct the discourse of video games. Chapter List Introduction: The New Rhetoric of Video Games I. The Context 1. Socializing Gamers 2. Video Games as 'Kid's' Toys 3. Talking Game Design 4. Consoles Read Rhetorically II. The Texts 5.GTA, Humor, and Protagonists 6. EA Sports and Planned Obsolescence 7. Rearticulating Rewards in WoW 8. Theorycraft and Optimization 9. Balance and Meritocracies III. Using Wordplay 10. Words, Design, and Play I gave a talk about two chapters from the book last fall at ITU Copenhagen. The video is available online at: http://itu.23video.com/video/3941563/gls-15-wordplay

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UNC-Chapel Hill is hiring - strategic comm & new media
by Brabham, Daren C 20 Mar '12

20 Mar '12

AoIR colleagues, I wanted to share news of a new tenure-track position we are hiring for here in the School of Journalism & Mass Communication at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill: http://jomc.unc.edu/faculty-a-staff-content-items/wanted-assistant-professo… Those researching/teaching at the intersection of strategic communication and social media should find the position interesting. I am not on this search committee – please direct questions to the person listed in the job posting. WANTED: Assistant Professor in Strategic Communication and New Media The School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is searching for an outstanding scholar to fill a new tenure-track assistant professor position in strategic communication and new media. The selected candidate will contribute to the M.A. in Technology and Communication<http://matc.jomc.unc.edu> (MATC), an innovative online degree program launched in Fall 2011. The MATC focuses on interactive media, the Internet and digital economics, addressing issues that are reshaping mass communication in the 21st century. One of the first online M.A. programs in mass communication, it was created to offer journalists and other communication professionals an opportunity to examine changes in industry economics and technology. This new degree draws on the expertise of the school’s nationally respected faculty and their research to position students for leadership roles in digital media and Web-based communication. The selected candidate will likely teach one or two courses in the MATC program each year, as well as other courses in strategic communication. Starting date for the appointment: Either Jan. 1 or July 1, 2013. Review of applications will begin May 7, 2012, and will continue until the position is filled. Educational requirements: Successful applicants will have a Ph.D. Those who are ABD and near degree completion may be considered. Qualifications & experience: An established research agenda and teaching experience are preferred in the areas of strategic communication and new media. In addition, applicants should be capable of supervising graduate students’ theses and final projects. Applicants for the position must be able to teach “JOMC 720: Strategic Communication” in the MATC curriculum<http://matc.jomc.unc.edu/curriculum>. Preference will be given to candidates who are qualified to teach more than one MATC course. Applicants are asked to provide a detailed explanation of their qualifications to teach “JOMC 720: Strategic Communication,” in addition to any other courses in the MATC curriculum. Teach two courses a semester. Perform other customary duties of a faculty member: research and scholarly activities, advising and service. Candidate instructions: Go to http://jobs.unc.edu/2502507 to apply. Submit a letter, curriculum vita or resume, an example of published research, and  at least three references. The letter should address the applicant’s vision for how his/her research and teaching will complement the MATC program. Applicants also may submit course syllabi and other material as relevant. Supporting documents should be submitted as electronic attachments to the application when possible. Any other materials that cannot be attached to the application may be mailed to: Jo Bass Assistant to the Dean School of Journalism and Mass Communication UNC-Chapel Hill Campus Box 3365 Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3365 The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is an equal-opportunity employer. --- Daren C. Brabham, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, School of Journalism & Mass Communication Editor, Case Studies in Strategic Communication | www.csscjournal.org<http://www.csscjournal.org> University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Carroll Hall, CB 3365 Chapel Hill, NC 27599 (801) 633-4796 (mobile) daren.brabham(a)unc.edu<mailto:daren.brabham@unc.edu> | www.darenbrabham.com<http://www.darenbrabham.com>

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AoIRists at work
by Charles Ess 20 Mar '12

20 Mar '12

<http://chronicle.com/blogs/percolator/sympathy-for-the-bully/28927?sid=wc&u tm_source=wc&utm_medium=en> Congrats to danah boyd and Mary Gray- C. Professor MSO (2009-2012) Media Studies Helsingforsgade 14 8200 Århus N. Denmark mail: <imvce(a)hum.au.dk> tel: (+45) 8716 1991 Professor, Philosophy and Religion Drury University, Springfield, Missouri 65802 USA Exemplary persons seek harmony, not sameness. -- Analects 13.23

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Sina Weibo & Disqus APIs Live on DiscoverText
by Stuart Shulman 20 Mar '12

20 Mar '12

Folks, We just added the Sina "Weibo" and "Disqus" to the existing Twitter, Facebook & Google+ options for archiving social media on DiscoverText. We could really use some help from fluent Chinese speakers to test it out and provide feedback. We continue to offer free, no obligation 30-day access to our Enterprise-grade product: http://bit.ly/pArIvj For more information on these platforms, see: Weibo http://weibo.com Disqus http://disqus.com/about/ ~Stu -- Dr. Stuart W. Shulman people.umass.edu/stu Editor Emeritus, JITP jitp.net <http://www.jitp.net> Director, QDAP-UMass umass.edu/qdap <http://www.umass.edu/qdap> Founder and CEO, Texifter texifter.com <http://www.texifter.com> LinkedIn: linkedin.com/pub/stuart-shulman/10/351/899<http://www.linkedin.com/pub/stuart-shulman/10/351/899> Twitter: twitter.com/#!/StuartWShulman<http://twitter.com/#%21/StuartWShulman>

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