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casual lecturer position in Online Research Methods (Australian National University)
by Robert Ackland 28 May '12

28 May '12

Dear List, I am looking to hire a casual lecturer who can co-teach a course in online research methods in the Master of Social Research (MSR) at the Australian National University in Canberra (DEMO8087 - Online Research Methods - http://studyat.anu.edu.au/courses/DEMO8087;details.html) The course is compulsory in the successful Social Science of the Internet specialisation of the MSR (http://adsri.anu.edu.au/graduate-study/ssi) and it also attracts students from other MSR specialisations and ANU programs. I expect we will have 15-20 students. The course is running in Second semester this year, which commences 23 July and runs for 13 weeks (with two weeks teaching break in middle). I am specifically looking for someone who can teach the following topics: - online interviews - online focus groups - online field research (e.g. virtual ethnography) If the person can also teach about online surveys, that would be great (but not essential). I envisage the teaching would be for a minimum of 4 weeks, but up to 6-7 weeks i.e. half of the course. The timing of the block of teaching is flexible i.e. could be first or second half of semester. I will continue to be course coordinator (and deal with student administration etc.), and I'll be teaching the other half of the course, which will be on social media network analysis. But otherwise, the casual lecturer will have quite a bit of flexibility regarding mode of teaching, assessment etc. The expected qualifications for the casual lecturer are PhD in related area and experience using qualitative online research methods. My preference is for someone who can teach in-person in Canberra, but for an exceptional candidate I'd be willing to investigate the possibility of teaching from off-site (e.g. via skype). -- Dr Robert Ackland Associate Professor, Australian Demographic and Social Research Institute, The Australian National University Coordinator, Master of Social Research e-mail: robert.ackland(a)anu.edu.au homepage: https://researchers.anu.edu.au/researchers/ackland-rj project: http://voson.anu.edu.au ph./fax: +61 2 6125 0312/+61 2 6125 2992 Information about the Master of Social Research (Social Science of the Internet specialisation): http://adsri.anu.edu.au/graduate-study/msr CRICOS No: 061772F --

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Program, travel information for CATaC'12 - June 18-20, Aarhus, Denmark
by Charles Ess 28 May '12

28 May '12

Dear AoIRists, On behalf of the Organizing Committee - we are very pleased to announce that the detailed program for CATaC'12 (Cultural Attitudes towards Technology and Communication) is now available on the conference website: <http://www.catacconference.org/> The program is made up of presentations from colleagues from over 20 countries, and is accompanied by a great deal of detailed information regarding travel to and from Aarhus, Denmark; excursion possibilities, restaurant recommendations, etc. Registration for CATaC'12 is still open - but please note that accommodations will be extremely tight during this period in Aarhus. If you are considering attending, we strongly suggest that you ensure you have reserved accommodations before registering for the conference. Our congratulations to the authors whose papers and panels were accepted and thereby constitute a very strong conference program indeed. We very much look forward to welcoming presenters and participants to Aarhus in June. All the best from "the city of smiles" - charles ess (Media Studies, Aarhus University) Fay Sudweeks (Professor Emerita, Murdoch University, Australia), honorary chair Herbert Hrachovec (University of Vienna, Austria) Leah Macfadyen (University of British Columbia, Canada) Jose Abdelnour Nocera (University of West London, UK) Kenneth Reeder (University of British Columbia, Canada) Ylva Hård af Segerstad (Gothenburg University, Gothenburg, Sweden) Michele M. Strano (Bridgewater College, Virginia, USA) Andra Siibak (University of Tartu, Estonia) Maja van der Velden (University of Oslo)

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Re: Fuchs & Mosco (Eds): "Marx is Back � The Importance of Marxist Theory and Research for Critical Communication Studies Today"
by Andrew Herman 26 May '12

26 May '12

Woo-hoo! Andrew Herman, Ph. D. Associate Professor and Chairperson Department of Communication Studies Graduate Program in Cultural Analysis and Social Theory Wilfrid Laurier University Waterloo, Ontario N2L 3C5 CANADA 519 884-1970 x3693 >>> Christian Fuchs <christian.fuchs(a)uti.at> 05/25/12 6:08 PM >>> Fuchs, Christian and Vincent Mosco, eds. 2012. Marx is Back – The Importance of Marxist Theory and Research for Critical Communication Studies Today. tripleC–Open Access Journal for a Global Sustainable Information Society (http://www.triple.c.at) 10 (2): 127-632. Dear colleagues, We are happy to announce publication of tripleC's special issue "Marx is Back – The Importance of Marxist Theory and Research for Critical Communication Studies Today" that contains 29 contributions on more than 500 pages. http://www.triple-c.at/index.php/tripleC/issue/current The entire issue as one single file is available here: http://www.triple-c.at/index.php/tripleC/article/view/427 The contributions shows that Marx and Marxism are truly back! With kind regards, Christian Fuchs and Vincent Mosco --- Table of Contents 127-140 Christian Fuchs and Vincent Mosco Introduction: Marx is Back – The Importance of Marxist Theory and Research for Critical Communication Studies Today. Marx, the Media, Commodities, and Capital Accumulation 141-155 Nicole S. Cohen Cultural Work as a Site of Struggle: Freelancers and Exploitation 156-170 Mattias Ekman Understanding Accumulation: The Relevance of Marx’s Theory of Primitive Accumulation in Media and Communication Studies 171-183 Eran Fisher How Less Alienation Creates More Exploitation? Audience Labour on Social Network Sites 184-202 Richard Hall and Bernd Stahl Against Commodification: The University, Cognitive Capitalism and Emergent Technologies 203-213 William Henning James Hebblewhite “Means of Communication as Means of Production” Revisited 214-229 Vincent Manzerolle and Atle Mikkola Kjøsen The Communication of Capital: Digital Media and the Logic of Acceleration 230-252 George Pleios Communication and Symbolic Capitalism. Rethinking Marxist Communication Theory in the Light of the Information Society 253-273 Robert Prey The Network’s Blindspot: Exclusion, Exploitation and Marx’s Process-Relational Ontology 274-301 Jernej Prodnik A Note on the Ongoing Process of Commodification: From the Audience Commodity to the Social Factory 302-312 Jens Schröter The Internet and “Frictionless Capitalism” 313-333 Andreas Wittel Digital Marx: Toward a Political Economy of Distributed Media Marx and Ideology Critique 334-348 Pablo Castagno Critical Transitions: Marxist Theory and Media Democratization in Post-Neoliberal Argentina 349-391 İrfan Erdogan Missing Marx: The Place of Marx in Current Communication Research and the Place of Communication in Marx’s Work 392-412 Christian Fuchs Towards Marxian Internet Studies 413-424 Christian Garland and Stephen Harper Did Somebody Say Neoliberalism?: On the Uses and Limitations of a Critical Concept in Media and Communication Studies 425-438 Jim McGuigan The Coolness of Capitalism Today 439-456 Brice Nixon Dialectical Method and the Critical Political Economy of Culture 457-473 Michelle Rodino-Colocino “Feminism” as Ideology: Sarah Palin’s Anti-feminist Feminism and Ideology Critique 474-487 Gerald Sussman Systemic Propaganda as Ideology and Productive Exchange Marx and Media Use 488-508 Brian A. Brown and Anabel Quan-Haase “A Workers’ Inquiry 2.0”: An Ethnographic Method for the Study of Produsage in Social Media Contexts 509-517 Katarina Giritli Nygren and Katarina L Gidlund The Pastoral Power of Technology. Rethinking Alienation in Digital Culture Marx, Alternative/Socialist Media and Social Struggles 518-536 Miriyam Aouragh Social Media, Mediation and the Arab Revolutions 537-554 Lee Artz 21st Century Socialism: Making a State for Revolution 555-569 Peter Ludes Updating Marx’s Concept of Alternatives 570-576 Vincent Mosco Marx is Back, But Which One? On Knowledge Labour and Media Practice 577-599 Wilhelm Peekhaus The Enclosure and Alienation of Academic Publishing: Lessons for the Professoriate 600-617 Sebastian Sevignani The Problem of Privacy in Capitalism and the Alternative Social Networking Site Diaspora* 618-632 Padmaja Shaw Marx as Journalist: Revisiting the Free Speech Debate _______________________________________________ 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/

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special issue eHealth
by Crutzen Rik (GVO) 26 May '12

26 May '12

Dear AoIR-members, Together with Gordon Gao, I served as Guest Editor of a special issue of Policy & Internet on eHealth. This open access issue is available at http://www.psocommons.org/policyandinternet/vol4/iss2/ Please feel free to forward this to others who might be interested. Thank you in advance. Kind regards, Rik Crutzen Maastricht University/CAPHRI www.crutzen.net<http://www.crutzen.net>

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Fuchs & Mosco (Eds): "Marx is Back – The Importance of Marxist Theory and Research for Critical Communication Studies Today"
by Christian Fuchs 25 May '12

25 May '12

Fuchs, Christian and Vincent Mosco, eds. 2012. Marx is Back – The Importance of Marxist Theory and Research for Critical Communication Studies Today. tripleC–Open Access Journal for a Global Sustainable Information Society (http://www.triple.c.at) 10 (2): 127-632. Dear colleagues, We are happy to announce publication of tripleC's special issue "Marx is Back – The Importance of Marxist Theory and Research for Critical Communication Studies Today" that contains 29 contributions on more than 500 pages. http://www.triple-c.at/index.php/tripleC/issue/current The entire issue as one single file is available here: http://www.triple-c.at/index.php/tripleC/article/view/427 The contributions shows that Marx and Marxism are truly back! With kind regards, Christian Fuchs and Vincent Mosco --- Table of Contents 127-140 Christian Fuchs and Vincent Mosco Introduction: Marx is Back – The Importance of Marxist Theory and Research for Critical Communication Studies Today. Marx, the Media, Commodities, and Capital Accumulation 141-155 Nicole S. Cohen Cultural Work as a Site of Struggle: Freelancers and Exploitation 156-170 Mattias Ekman Understanding Accumulation: The Relevance of Marx’s Theory of Primitive Accumulation in Media and Communication Studies 171-183 Eran Fisher How Less Alienation Creates More Exploitation? Audience Labour on Social Network Sites 184-202 Richard Hall and Bernd Stahl Against Commodification: The University, Cognitive Capitalism and Emergent Technologies 203-213 William Henning James Hebblewhite “Means of Communication as Means of Production” Revisited 214-229 Vincent Manzerolle and Atle Mikkola Kjøsen The Communication of Capital: Digital Media and the Logic of Acceleration 230-252 George Pleios Communication and Symbolic Capitalism. Rethinking Marxist Communication Theory in the Light of the Information Society 253-273 Robert Prey The Network’s Blindspot: Exclusion, Exploitation and Marx’s Process-Relational Ontology 274-301 Jernej Prodnik A Note on the Ongoing Process of Commodification: From the Audience Commodity to the Social Factory 302-312 Jens Schröter The Internet and “Frictionless Capitalism” 313-333 Andreas Wittel Digital Marx: Toward a Political Economy of Distributed Media Marx and Ideology Critique 334-348 Pablo Castagno Critical Transitions: Marxist Theory and Media Democratization in Post-Neoliberal Argentina 349-391 İrfan Erdogan Missing Marx: The Place of Marx in Current Communication Research and the Place of Communication in Marx’s Work 392-412 Christian Fuchs Towards Marxian Internet Studies 413-424 Christian Garland and Stephen Harper Did Somebody Say Neoliberalism?: On the Uses and Limitations of a Critical Concept in Media and Communication Studies 425-438 Jim McGuigan The Coolness of Capitalism Today 439-456 Brice Nixon Dialectical Method and the Critical Political Economy of Culture 457-473 Michelle Rodino-Colocino “Feminism” as Ideology: Sarah Palin’s Anti-feminist Feminism and Ideology Critique 474-487 Gerald Sussman Systemic Propaganda as Ideology and Productive Exchange Marx and Media Use 488-508 Brian A. Brown and Anabel Quan-Haase “A Workers’ Inquiry 2.0”: An Ethnographic Method for the Study of Produsage in Social Media Contexts 509-517 Katarina Giritli Nygren and Katarina L Gidlund The Pastoral Power of Technology. Rethinking Alienation in Digital Culture Marx, Alternative/Socialist Media and Social Struggles 518-536 Miriyam Aouragh Social Media, Mediation and the Arab Revolutions 537-554 Lee Artz 21st Century Socialism: Making a State for Revolution 555-569 Peter Ludes Updating Marx’s Concept of Alternatives 570-576 Vincent Mosco Marx is Back, But Which One? On Knowledge Labour and Media Practice 577-599 Wilhelm Peekhaus The Enclosure and Alienation of Academic Publishing: Lessons for the Professoriate 600-617 Sebastian Sevignani The Problem of Privacy in Capitalism and the Alternative Social Networking Site Diaspora* 618-632 Padmaja Shaw Marx as Journalist: Revisiting the Free Speech Debate

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HICSS CFP: Learning Analytics & Networked Learning
by Caroline Haythornthwaite 25 May '12

25 May '12

Deadline is approaching for submissions to HICSS for January 2013. Here's the call for Learning Analytics & Networked Learning See also CFP for Minitrack: Social Networking and Community sent previously. CFP: Learning Analytics & Networked Learning Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS) 46, January 7-10, 2013, Maui, HI PAPERS DUE: June 15, 2012 via the HICSS conference system http://www.hicss.hawaii.edu/hicss_46/apahome46.htm http://haythorn.wordpress.com/hicss-minitracks-cfp/ This minitrack calls for papers that address leading edge use of technology or system design to analyze, support, and/or create learning and learning environments. The scope is wide and includes papers that use technology to examine how social learning happens, use data from learning environments to support learning processes, and examine new practices of formal and informal learning on and through the Internet. Papers that fit this minitrack fall under new and ongoing areas of learning research that may be referred to as learning analytics, networked learning, technology enhanced learning, computer-supported collaborative learning, ubiquitous learning, and mobile learning. Of particular interest are papers that capture, analyze and show novel use of data produced from online learning environments, develop and/or test methodologies for analyzing online learning, address automated data collection and analysis in support of learning, professional development and knowledge creation, and discuss issues and opportunities relating to information literacy, literacy and new media, ubiquitous learning, entrepreneurial learning and/or mobile learning. We encourage research that covers system and learning theories, social learning and networking tools and their development, research methods, and/or measurable outcomes as they relate to the area of technology and its support of improving networked learning. We also encourage papers that address learning and learning communities that are created in any setting, including educational institutions, workplaces, public knowledge, personal knowledge, and/or ‘serious leisure’. Appropriate usage environments range from same-time, same-place to anytime, anywhere that increase interactions among the learners in formal and informal learning settings and mixtures thereof, and may include collectives from learning crowds to communities. We envision papers that · address the use of automated data capture to follow and analyze learning processes · develop methodologies for analyzing online learning · develop metrics for characterizing and following learning trends online · test the validity of automated data for capturing a true representation of learning and knowledge creation · analyze and/or support the role of social networks in learning · report on the development and maintenance of innovative online environments for learning · discuss trends in learning on and through the Internet, including issues and opportunities relating to information literacy, literacy and new media, ubiquitous learning and entrepreneurial learning · examine economic models, trends and markets for online learning, including open source and open access models · examine the foundations for learning in online networks, crowds and communities · examine the design and facilitation of learning in online networks, crowds and communities · examine the validity of information and learning processes online, and trust in online information sources for learning · address the role of particular devices – laptops, mobiles, OLPC – in learning · examine trends in how we learn with and through technology – in secondary and higher education, workplaces, society, developed and underdeveloped nations · discuss ethical issues relating to learning online, including issues relating to data capture, analysis and display, and learning about controversial subjects or anti-social activities. This minitrack -- LEARNING ANALYTICS AND NETWORKED LEARNING -- is part of the INTERNET AND DIGITAL ECONOMY track at HICSS. Minitrack Organizers Caroline Haythornthwaite, University of British Columbia c.haythorn(a)ubc.ca Maarten de Laat, Open University of the Netherlands maarten.delaat(a)ou.nl Shane Dawson, University of British Columbia shane.dawson(a)ubc.ca Dan Suthers University of Hawaii suthers(a)hawaii.edu ABOUT HICSS CONFERENCES http://www.hicss.hawaii.edu/hicss_46/apahome46.htm HICSS conferences are devoted to the most relevant advances in the information, computer, and system sciences, and encompass developments in both theory and practice. Accepted papers may be theoretical, conceptual, tutorial or descriptive in nature. Those selected for presentation will be included in the Conference Proceedings published by the IEEE Computer Society and maintained in the IEEE Digital Library. How to Submit a Paper: Follow Author Instructions posted on the conference web site: http://www.hicss.hawaii.edu/hicss_46/apahome46.htm · HICSS papers must contain original material. They may not have been previously published, nor currently submitted elsewhere. All submissions undergo a double-blind peer review process. · Abstracts are optional, but strongly recommended. You may contact the Minitrack Chair(s) for guidance or verification of content. · Submit a paper to only one Minitrack. If a paper is submitted to more than one minitrack, then either paper may be rejected by either minitrack without consultation with author or other chairs. If you are not sure of the appropriate Minitrack, submit an abstract to the Track Chair(s) for determination, and/or seek informal opinion(s) of Minitrack Chair(s) before submitting. · Do not author or co-author more than 5 papers. This means that an individual may be listed as author or co-author on no more than 5 submitted papers. Track Chairs must approve any names added after submission or acceptance on August 15. IMPORTANT 2012 DEADLINES FOR AUTHORS · June 15 -- SUBMIT FULL MANUSCRIPTS FOR REVIEW as instructed. The review is double-blind; therefore, this initial submission must be without author names. · Aug 15 -- Review System emails Acceptance Notices to authors. It is very important that at least one author of each accepted paper attend the conference. Therefore, all travel guarantees – including visa or your organization’s fiscal funding procedures – should begin immediately. Make sure your server accepts the review system address https://precisionconference.com/~hicss. · Sept 15 -- SUBMIT FINAL PAPER. Add author names to your paper, and submit your Final Paper for Publication to the site provided in your Acceptance Notice. (This URL is not public knowledge.) · Oct 1 -- Early Registration fee deadline. At least one author of each paper should register by this date in order secure publication in the Proceedings. Fees will increase on Oct 2 and Dec 2. · Oct 15 -- Papers without at least one paid-in-full registered author may be deleted from the Proceedings and not scheduled for presentation; authors will be so notified by the Conference Office. Cancellation and Refund Policy All conference cancellation requests must be in writing. A fee will be charged for cancellation of registration after Oct 15, at which time the paper is subject to withdrawal from the Proceedings. There is no registration refund after December 1. Cancellations for accommodations must be handled directly with the hotel.

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HICSS CFP: Social Networking And Community
by Caroline Haythornthwaite 25 May '12

25 May '12

Deadline is approaching for submissions to HICSS for January 2013. Here's the call for Social Networking and Community. See also CFP for Minitrack: Learning Analytics & Networked Learning to follow. CFP: Social Networking And Community Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS) 46 January 7-10, 2013, Maui, HI PAPERS DUE: June 15, 2012 via the HICSS conference system http://www.hicss.hawaii.edu/hicss_46/apahome46.htm ORGANIZERS Caroline Haythornthwaite, University of British Columbia (Primary Contact): c.haythorn(a)ubc.ca Karine Nahon, University of Washington, karineb(a)uw.edu This HICSS minitrack has been ongoing since 2003 under various titles (http://ekarine.org/news/hicsscommunities/) Papers address the interrelationship between the Internet and social media and communities (online and offline) in the context of business, personal life, and/or learning. This minitrack aims to capture research on issues and practices around our new interlinkages via social media in support of online communities of practice, inquiry and interest for business, political, social, learning, and gaming initiatives and outcomes. In 2011, the minitrack was the biggest at the conference, with 6 sessions over a day and a half. In 2012, the minitrack was 4 sessions over one day, with the most stringent acceptance rate in the track. In 2009, 2010 and 2012, the Best Paper selected for the Minitrack was also selected as the Best Paper for the Track. We call for papers that address issues of online communities of practice, inquiry and interest created in the interest of political, educational, business, social and/or gaming pursuits, and with attention to how online community building and management contribute to success in the digital economy and society. While the focus is primarily online communities, papers are also welcomed that address the interplay between online and offline means of interaction. We call for empirical and theoretical papers that add to our understanding of the social, political, and economic landscape of communities and social networks at work, school, home, and play. Examples of the possible interdisciplinary topics of interest in these contexts include, but are not limited to the following: Social, political and/or economic impact of social media Communities as sociological phenomenon in the digital economy Community development and community informatics Design, development, and user studies of social media Online communities of practice, inquiry or interest Business models of Second Life E-learning: structures, implementations, and practices Serious leisure communities online Organizational behavior of communities Social network studies and analyses of online communities Mobile applications, services and use for and by online communities Case studies and topologies of online communities Case studies and analyses of the rise and fall of social network sites and online communities Theoretical models of virtual worlds Advertising in online communities and social networks Models for managing behavior in online communities Behavior in online gaming communities Models and cases of synergies and/or conflicts between real and virtual worlds Diffusion and adoption of social networking applications and practices Development of social networking applications and practices Critical perspectives on social media and local and/or virtual community Disruptive strategies of virtual worlds ABOUT HICSS CONFERENCES http://www.hicss.hawaii.edu/hicss_46/apahome46.htm HICSS conferences are devoted to the most relevant advances in the information, computer, and system sciences, and encompass developments in both theory and practice. Accepted papers may be theoretical, conceptual, tutorial or descriptive in nature. Those selected for presentation will be included in the Conference Proceedings published by the IEEE Computer Society and maintained in the IEEE Digital Library. How to Submit a Paper: Follow Author Instructions posted on the conference web site: http://www.hicss.hawaii.edu/hicss_46/apahome46.htm HICSS papers must contain original material. They may not have been previously published, nor currently submitted elsewhere. All submissions undergo a double-blind peer review process. Abstracts are optional, but recommended. You may contact the Minitrack Chair(s) for guidance or verification of content. Submit a paper to only one Minitrack. If a paper is submitted to more than one minitrack, then either paper may be rejected by either minitrack without consultation with author or other chairs. If you are not sure of the appropriate Minitrack, submit an abstract to the Track Chair(s) for determination, and/or seek informal opinion(s) of Minitrack Chair(s) before submitting. Do not author or co-author more than 5 papers. This means that an individual may be listed as author or co-author on no more than 5 submitted papers. Track Chairs must approve any names added after submission or acceptance on August 15. IMPORTANT DEADLINES FOR AUTHORS FOR HICSS 46 June 15, 2012 -- SUBMIT FULL MANUSCRIPTS FOR REVIEW as instructed. The review is double-blind; therefore, this initial submission must be without author names. Aug 15, 2012 -- Review System emails Acceptance Notices to authors. It is very important that at least one author of each accepted paper attend the conference. Therefore, all travel guarantees – including visa or your organization’s fiscal funding procedures – should begin immediately. Make sure your server accepts the review system address https://precisionconference.com/~hicss. Sept 15, 2012 -- SUBMIT FINAL PAPER. Add author names to your paper, and submit your Final Paper for Publication to the site provided in your Acceptance Notice. (This URL is not public knowledge.) Oct 1, 2012 -- Early Registration fee deadline. At least one author of each paper should register by this date in order secure publication in the Proceedings. Fees will increase on Oct 2 and Dec 2. Oct 15, 2012 -- Papers without at least one paid-in-full registered author may be deleted from the Proceedings and not scheduled for presentation; authors will be so notified by the Conference Office.

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Re: [Air-L] Air-L Digest, Vol 94, Issue 23
by Katy P 24 May '12

24 May '12

That hashtag could really have legs. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Wed, 23 May 2012 18:32:37 -0400 > From: Barry Wellman <wellman(a)chass.utoronto.ca> > To: aoir list <air-l(a)aoir.org> > Subject: [Air-L] quotes and hashtags > Message-ID: > <Pine.SGI.4.64.1205231829340.3906173(a)origin.chass.utoronto.ca> > Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed > > Most so-calld quotes on the internet arent verifiable. > Just went thru that again today with the alleged Hemingway, "All first > drafts are shit." (Yes, I know there is a quote with "shit" in it, but > it's quite different) > > And whoever said hashtags are useless doesn't grok their usefulness for: > > #conferences, such as #ica-12 > > #ironic statements. > > Speaking of which, the International Communication Association is awarding > a prize to the best #ica12 tweet by Fri nite. The prize: Me! > More exactly, "coffee with Barry" on Saturday + a signed copy of our > Networked book. > > I swear I didn't set this up. > > #blamekatypearce > > > Barry Wellman > ______________________________________________________________________

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Re: [Air-L] Twitter quote from Nunberg (Darja Dayter)
by Jen King 24 May '12

24 May '12

Hi Darja, I'm a former student of Geoff's, so I forwarded your email to him. His response: *** The reporter had an agenda, but I never said that. My own view is that hashtags are a boon to human happiness. What's a little stupid is using them as annotated emoticons: "I miss you. #weepy." Geoff *** Hope that helps - Jen *-*-*-*-*-* Jen King Ph.D Candidate UC Berkeley School of Information jenking.net

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Re: [Air-L] Nunberg
by André Brock 24 May '12

24 May '12

there's this: https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=295398323830557&id=176233… Geoffrey Nunberg <https://www.facebook.com/geoffrey.nunberg> via Ben Zimmer<https://www.facebook.com/bgzimmer> December 28, 2011 at 3:49pm<https://www.facebook.com/geoffrey.nunberg/posts/295398323830557> · **<https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=295398323830557&id=176233…> <https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=295398323830557&id=176233…> - Quotes Ben Zimmer and me, but makes me sound more sour on this than I am. I think of the ironized hashtag as sort of a typographic variation of the old "file under ___" standby, as in "John Rocker Admits Steroid Use, File Under 'Who Gives A Shit?'" or "For the 'Duh! file'" Or maybe as in "File under 'lessons of the digital age': what goes round, comes round, but in fewer characters." André Andre Brock Assistant Professor - Library and Information Science/POROI University of Iowa Iowa City, IA 52242 On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 5:00 PM, <air-l-request(a)listserv.aoir.org> wrote: > Send Air-L mailing list submissions to > air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > air-l-request(a)listserv.aoir.org > > You can reach the person managing the list at > air-l-owner(a)listserv.aoir.org > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of Air-L digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Twitter quote from Nunberg (Darja Dayter) > 2. New Deadline: CfP - 7th Annual GigaNet Symposium (Julia Pohle) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Wed, 23 May 2012 07:16:30 +0200 > From: Darja Dayter <coocho(a)gmail.com> > To: air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org > Subject: [Air-L] Twitter quote from Nunberg > Message-ID: > <CAK5Fx98O0eiYpM=B6QsFWKzjN_U-xeADTPH_5PYgWmw8tbLkPQ(a)mail.gmail.com > > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > Dear AoIRists, > > in articles on Twitter in various internet media I often come across a > quote from Geoffrey Nunberg who allergedly called Twitter hashtags an > emoticon of sorts and 'plain stupid' (e.g. here > http://gizmodo.com/5869538/how-the-hashtag-is-ruining-the-english-language > ) > However, they do not give a source, and I cannot locate it. Does > anyone know if Geoff Nunberg really said anything like that, and if > yes, where? It seems to me that wider context would be important in > this situation. > > Thanks! > Daria > > -- > Wiss. Mitarbeiterin > Englische Sprachwissenschaft > University of Bayreuth > Germany > > @coocho > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Wed, 23 May 2012 15:07:57 +0200 > From: Julia Pohle <jpohle(a)vub.ac.be> > To: air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org > Subject: [Air-L] New Deadline: CfP - 7th Annual GigaNet Symposium > Message-ID: <4FBCE12D.2080600(a)vub.ac.be> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed > > > CALL FOR PAPERS > Deadline extended until May 31! > > 7th Annual Symposium > 5 November 2012 > Baku, Azerbaijan > > > The Global Internet Governance Academic Network (GigaNet) is seeking > submissions of research about Internet Governance to be presented at the > Seventh GigaNet Annual Symposium, held on 5 November 2012, one day > before the United Nations Internet Governance Forum (IGF) in Baku, > Azerbaijan. > > GigaNet is a scholarly community that promotes the development of > Internet Governance as a recognized, interdisciplinary field of study > and facilitates informed dialogue on policy issues and related matters > between scholars and governments, international organizations, the > private sector and civil society. http://giga-net.org/ > > Since 2006, GigaNet has organized an Annual Symposium to showcase > research about Internet Governance, focusing on an interdisciplinary > approach. As in previous years, the symposium will provide room to > discuss current and future questions as well as the challenges > encountered and results achieved in Global Internet Governance. > > > Conference themes > > GigaNet is interested in receiving abstracts related to Internet > Governance themes, especially those containing innovative approaches > and/or emerging research areas. We encourage submissions on the > following topics: > > * Internet policies on freedom of expression (censorship, kill-switches, > filtering, policies that promote free expression, corporate social > responsibility) > * Internet freedom and governance in regions in transition (Arab region, > Caucasus etc.) > * From PIPA to ACTA: National and international agreements on online > copyright enforcement > * Cyber-security, the state and international relations > * Dataveillance and privacy - the economic perspective > * Global Internet infrastructure policy (net neutrality, peering and > interconnection, ASN assignment, routing infrastructure security, etc.) > * Innovative methods for Internet Governance research > * The role of the UN and intergovernmental institutions in global > Internet Governance > * Policy issues surrounding ICANN?s new gTLD program > * IP addressing: economic and technical challenges of scarcity and > governance > * Internet governance and development > > Other proposals on questions of global Internet governance will also be > considered. > > > > Submissions > Interested scholars should submit abstracts of research paper at the > Easy Chair platform: > http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=giganet2012. > The new deadline for submissions is May 31st! > > Paper proposals should be submitted following these requirements: > * An abstract of 800-1000 words, in English, where it is mandatory to > describe the main research goal(s) and the methodological background of > the paper > * A short bio note focused on institutional affiliations, advanced > degrees, scholarly publications and work in the field of Internet > Governance and related issues (for example ICTs). Please include a link > to a more detailed CV. > * Important note: accepted abstracts will be required to deliver their > full paper a month before the conference. Those unable to do so will be > removed from the program. > > > Process and publication > The Program Committee members will evaluate the abstracts submitted and > decisions will be sent to applicants by email before 15 June 2012. > > Accepted papers for oral presentations should be followed by a full > research paper to be sent by 30 September 2012. Some quality papers > submitted that are not accepted for oral presentations will be > recommended for poster presentations. > > Accepted speakers and poster presenters? submissions and final papers > will be published on the GigaNet website. An online publication with > selected papers on the main challenges of Internet Governance is also > planned for the Azerbaijan IGF. > > > Registration > The GigaNet Annual Symposium is free of charge. However, registration > will be required to gain entry to the event venue. Please continue > visiting our website for further information about registration, venue > and accommodation. > > > GigaNet 2012-13 Program Committee > > * Leo Van Audenhove ? PC Chair, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium > * Milton Mueller ? GigaNet Steering Committee Chair, Syracuse > University, USA > * Titi Akinsanmi ? University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa > * Sandra Braman ? University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA > * Fatima Cambronero ? AGEIA DENSI, Argentina > * Laura DeNardis ? American University, USA > * Dmitry Epstein ? Cornell University, USA > * John Gathegi ? University of South Florida, USA > * Hans Klein ? Georgia Institute of Technology, USA > * Francesca Musiani ? MINES ParisTech, France > * Jamal Shahin ? University of Amsterdam, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, > The Netherlands > * Sonny Zulhuda ? International Islamic University, Malaysia > > > If you have any question related to the submission or the symposium > activities, please > e-mail the Program Committee Chair: leo.van.audenhove(a)vub.ac.be. > > > > ------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > 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/ > > End of Air-L Digest, Vol 94, Issue 22 > ************************************* >

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