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Fwd: two Researcher positions in innovation open in namur belgium
by jeremy hunsinger 14 Jul '12

14 Jul '12

> > Job advertisement > > Thanks to distribute this message to people (or network) who might be interested > > Under the direction of Prof. Philippe Goujon coordinator of the GREAT european project: Governance of REsponsible innovATion > > the Laboratory for Ethical Governance of Information Technology (LEGIT) is hiring: > > *** > > TWO researchers > > (36 months 100% - M/F and 20 months 100% M/F) > > From the beginning of February 2013 > > *** > > Address: Laboratory for Ethical Governance of Information Technology - > Computer Sciences Department - FUNDP - Namur Belgium > > Academic context: Two European Research projects > > More information see the attached file or contact me directly: pgo(a)info.fundp.ac.be > > Philippe Goujon > Philippe Goujon > Professeur > director of the Laboratory for Ethical Governance of Information Technology (LEGIT) > Faculté d'Informatique - Computer Science Department > FUNDP > Rue Grandgagnage, 21- B 5000 NAMUR > 32+81 72 5258 - FAX 32+ 81 72 49 67 > mail.pgo(a)info.fundp.ac.be > > présentation page perso: > http://www.fundp.ac.be/universite/personnes/page_view/01005672/cv.html > http://fundp.academia.edu/Philippegoujon > > Projets en cours: > > > Projet idegov (IDEntification and GOVernance of emerging ethical issues in information systems) > Projet TERRITOIRES DU FUTUR : VERS UN NOUVEAU CONTRAT SOCIAL ? > > projets européens: > > Project CONSIDER (Civil Society OrgaNisationS In Designing rEsearch goveRnance): http://www.consider-project.eu/ > > projet EGAIS (The Etical GovernAnce of emerging technologieS: http://www.egais-project.eu/ > - New Governance perspective for integrating ethics into Technical development Projects and Applications) > > > It is not enough that you should understand about applied science in order that your work may increase man's blessings. Concern for man himself and his fate must always form the chief interest of all technical endeavors. > Albert Einstein > > "La vérité ne triomphe jamais mais ses ennemis finissent toujours par disparaître" > - Max Planck > >

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2012 Book Award Winners
by Alexander Halavais 13 Jul '12

13 Jul '12

It gives me great pleasure to announce the winner of this year's book award: Jason Farman for his book "Mobile Interface Theory: Embodied Space and Locative Media." More information on the work may be found at http://mobileinterfacetheory.com/. In addition, the committee selected for honorable mention Thomas Streeter's "The Net Effect: Romanticism, Capitalism, and the Internet" ( http://www.uvm.edu/~tstreete/Net_Effect/ ). The book award committee had this to say of Prof. Farman's book: "The committee was particularly impressed with Farman's ability to bring into focus the centrality of place and lived time to the current and future analysis of connectivity and mediated communication. The book provided a nice combination of forward-thinking, theoretical yet empirically solid work grounded in a strong historical understanding of new media that opens up avenues for new research and new theory. 'Mobile Interface Theory' also makes us look at the unfolding present and accept the changes foretold within. It has the potential to inform new scholarship, re-set directions, and remind us that, now, the Internet is not somewhere else, but right here, in our pockets, our minds, our places." Thanks go to the committee members--Steve Jones, Sonia Livingstone, and Matthew Allen--for taking on a hefty amount of analytical reading in a short period of time. Thanks also to everyone who submitted their books for consideration. The award is intended to encourage excellence in internet research, and it is heartening to see so much good work being done. Prof. Farman will be presenting a paper at IR13.0, where I can do so in person, but for now, I am pleased to be the first to congratulate him on the award. Best, Alex Halavais AoIR President -- -- // // This email is // [x] assumed public and may be blogged / forwarded. // [ ] assumed to be private, please ask before redistributing. // // Alexander C. Halavais, ciberflâneur // http://alex.halavais.net //

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Digital Ethnography Week - final full program with keynotes
by Stefano De Paoli 13 Jul '12

13 Jul '12

Dear All the final full program of the Digital Ethnography Week (PhD Course + Conference), that will take place in Trento (Italy) between September 17th and September 21st can be consulted here: http://www.ahref.eu/it/ricerca/DEW%202_students-1.pdf More information on the event are available at the following website: http://www.ahref.eu/it/ricerca/educazione/second-digital-ethnography-week Applications is still open, deadline is 22nd of July. Apologies for cross-posting -- stefano de paoli research fellow ahref foundation http://tiny.cc/ckqzz skype: stefanodepaoli phone: 0461 235794 (int 5510) Crimes and punishments in Virtual Worlds http://www.springerlink.com/content/n4m858m182677h44/ Produsage, ANT & Skills http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/content~db=all~content=a935694592~frm=titl…

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Phd Workshop: Researching Media Innovations - Approaches to Users, Producers and Texts
by Niamh Ní Bhroin 13 Jul '12

13 Jul '12

Good afternoon all, I hope this mail finds you well! This is just a reminder to those of you who are interested in our upcoming PhD Workshop in Oslo this November: Researching Media Innovations: Approaches to Users, Producers and Texts The course will be taking place here in Oslo on 7 November 2012. Annette Markham (http://www.markham.internetinquiry.org/where/) will be our keynote speaker. We will also be joined in discussion by Charles Ess (http://pure.au.dk/portal/da/imvce@hum.au.dk) who will be based here in Oslo from September on. More information, including the Call for Papers etc. is available at the following link: http://www.hf.uio.no/forskning/doktorgrad-karriere/forskerutdanning/gjennom… The deadline for submitting abstracts is 27 July 2012, just two weeks from today. If you have any questions about this workshop, please don't hesitate to contact me. Looking forward to welcoming you to Oslo in November! Best wishes, -- NIAMH NÍ BHROIN Stipendiat, PhD Kandidat Institutt for Medier og Kommunikasjon Universitetet i Oslo n.n.bhroin(a)media.uio.no

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Call for Papers - Kinder & Braver World Project
by danah boyd 13 Jul '12

13 Jul '12

Friends and colleagues, Just a light reminder, the July 25th deadline for submissions to the Kinder & Braver World working paper series is fast approaching. This round's call is for papers on "Youth Movements for Social Change" and "The Role of Youth Organizations." Thank you once again for the wonderful help of pushing this out to others! best, danah > Dear Colleagues: > > The Berkman Center for Internet & Society is delighted to announce a Call for Papers for The Kinder & Braver World Project: Research Series (danah boyd and John Palfrey, editors) presented by the Berkman Center and the Born This Way Foundation, and supported by the John D. & Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. > > > For more information regarding the series, please see: http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/research/youthandmedia/kinderbraverworld > > This working paper series publishes short papers that synthesize existing peer-reviewed research or equivalent scholarship and provide research-grounded insight to the variety of stakeholders working on issues related to youth empowerment and action towards creating a kinder, braver world. The papers grow out of different types of research (e.g., social science, mental health, medical, legal) and are aimed at different audiences (e.g., youth, parents, teachers, school boards, religious leaders, policy makers). It will be developed in phases, and over time will cover a wide range of topics related to youth empowerment and the development of kindness and bravery. > > For this call, we are looking for papers that are related to two topics: > > Youth Movements for Social Change. What is known about youth organizing and youth social movements? How do adults and youth work together for social change? How do youth movements leverage technology? What are psychosocial predictors of youth engagement? How do peer norms affect youth activism? What is the relationship between self-efficacy and youth empowerment? What are key research insights that organizations trying to create a social movement with youth need to know? > The Role of Youth Organizations. Youth have long participated in religious and secular organizations, including programs like the Girl Scouts of America, 4-H, and Gay-Straight Alliances. How has participation in these organizations shaped youths’ worldviews, civic engagement, and social wellbeing? What kinds of organizational structures work best to engage youth? Does participation in youth organizations predict healthy civic engagement? How is social media used by youth organizations? What are notable successes and failures in creating youth organizations? What are key lessons from youth organizations that anyone working to support youth should know? > For more information, see the call for papers: http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/research/youthandmedia/kinderbraverworld. > > To view previous papers on Meanness and Cruelty, see: http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/node/7491 > > Important Dates > Submissions are due by July 25, 2012 to kbw-series(a)cyber.law.harvard.edu. > > For information on content and formatting requirements, as well as our review process and all other deadlines, please review our Guidelines to Authors: http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/node/7747. > > Learn more about The Kinder & Braver World Research Series here:http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/research/youthandmedia/kinderbraverworld. > > We look forward to hearing from you; please forward and distribute widely to networks that may be interested. ---------- You are subscribed to the Berkman Fellows and Friends discussion list. Mailing list options: http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/lists/info/berkmanfriends Mailing list members: http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/lists/review/berkmanfriends Please mind that emails sent through this list are considered public unless otherwise noted. ------ "you don't have to like me for who i am / but we'll see what you're made of / by what you make of me" -- ani http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/ http://www.danah.org/ @zephoria

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III° Workshop on advanced research methods - Urbino (Italy) Sep, 14th 2012
by Luca Rossi 11 Jul '12

11 Jul '12

Dear air-list members, Apologies for cross-postings. Call for Abstracts: III° Workshop on advanced research methods University of Urbino Carlo Bo Urbino – Italy 14, September 2012 During recent years the growing availability of digital user generated contents and social network sites data led toward new possibilities for social researches and new approaches and methods came on the scene. On one side these new methods (sometimes labeled computational social science) offer the availability of large amount of data that were unconceivable before but, on the other side, these data raise new issues challenging traditional research methodologies on several different aspects: sampling strategies, data acquisition, data management, research ethics, data ownership etc. The availability of these Social Big Data offered computer scientists the opportunity to deal with topics traditionally belonging to social sciences (political participation, communication studies, sociology). This situation is widely recognized and is generating a growing number of venues (both conferences and journals) characterized by a strong interdisciplinary approach that aims at moving beyond traditional research tradition of both fields. Starting from this perspective the PhD program in Communication Studies and Arts of the Department of Communication Studies of the University of Urbino Carlo Bo continues its research plan organizing the third edition of the Workshop of Advanced Research Methods that will be hold at the University of Urbino Carlo Bo on Sep. 14th 2012. The workshop aim to bring together researchers coming from different fields that, in their own research, are dealing with: - UGC production practices; - UGC Sharing practices: cultural and legal aspects; - Online identity - Online Social Data Mining and management - Social Network Analysis applied to Web2.0 data - Online information propagation - Online communities Short abstracts (500 words) have to be submitted through the website: http://larica.uniurb.it/scss/warm Deadlines: - Abstract submission: August 1st 2012 - Notification of acceptance: August 20th 2012 Contacts: Luca Rossi, Larica - Dipartimento di Scienze della Comunicazione Università degli Studi di Urbino “Carlo Bo” email: luca.rossi(a)uniurb.it t. +39 0722305726 f. +39 0722305727

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Re: [Air-L] Technology as ideologically neutral?
by Nick Breems 10 Jul '12

10 Jul '12

If someone says "it's just a tool", I often reply with Abraham Maslow's observation that "When your only tool is a hammer, all of your problems begin to look like nails." -- Nick Breems - PhD Student @ University of Salford - Assistant Professor of Computer Science @ Dordt College (on leave) Email: nbreems(a)dordt.edu Mobile phone: (from UK): 0771 822 9005 (from US): 011 44 771 822 9005 >>> On Saturday, July 07, 2012 at 6:41 PM, Zeynep Tufekci <socnetres(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Another crucial variant is the "it's just a tool" formulation, commonly > found in popular debates. This kept cropping up during discussions of the > role of new media in the Arab uprisings and, in my view, impeded real > discussion. > > I think that scholars have been so eager to stay away from technological > determinism that we've lost sense of how to argue really about the > structural accordances of technology. Too often, the more acceptable > formulation, "it's socially constructed," also leans towards "it's just a > tool" in essence. > > -z > > On Sat, Jul 7, 2012 at 7:48 AM, Cristian Berrio Zapata < > cristian.berrio(a)gmail.com> wrote: > >> Pls do not let McLuhan out of the scope... in McLuhan, M. (1995). The >> Playboy Interview. Essential McLuhan, 233-269. >> >> “*In the past, the effects of media were experienced more gradually, >> allowing the individual and society to absorb and cushion their impact to >> some degree. Today, in the electronic age of instantaneous communication, I >> believe that our survival, and at the very least our comfort and happiness, >> is predicated on understanding the nature of our new environment, because >> unlike previous environmental changes, the electric media constitute a >> total and near-instantaneous transformation of culture, values and >> attitudes. This upheaval generates great pain and identity loss, which can >> be ameliorated only through a conscious awareness of its dynamics. If we >> understand the revolutionary transformations caused by new media, we can >> anticipate and control them; but if we continue in our self-induced >> subliminal trance, we will be their slaves*.” (McLuhan, 1995) >> >> On the other hand, I am a fan of applying the "complexity" view to all ICT >> views. Therefore it would be quite difficult to sepparate politics, from >> ideology, from economics, from culture, all of them part of the >> Internet-Web pack. It comes to be very visible when looking at digital >> divide programes applied to indigenous communities. >> >> Regarding the "amputation" problem also raised by McLuhan, ICT tools let >> "self perception" out of the scope. Self perception (proprioception and >> tactile perception) is the base of affective bound, "love". Then, what are >> we depriving new generations of? >> >> >> >> 2012/7/7 jeremy hunsinger <jhuns(a)vt.edu> >> >> > I find this to be an interesting debate, though mostly the question is >> > where the ideology actually exists. Does it exist in the object >> itself? >> > relations to the object from other objects? relations to the object to >> > semiotic systems around it? relations to socius or culture? or in the >> > systems alone, cultures alone, socius, alone, etc. >> > >> > basically there is a matrix here of ideologies, contexts, objects and >> > their axiologies operating both ontologically ala mereological >> > constructions and epistemologies. With many blurry middle grounds. >> > >> > I hold that artifacts have politics in themselves, but i'm not sure that >> > all artefacts have ideologies in themselves. The question i tend to >> raise >> > and ask people to write about is... what is the politics of the toaster, >> > because the toaster has a whole political economics and a politics, but >> > does it have an implied ideology. Now the design of a toaster can >> > certainly have ideological components, but the idea of a toaster may >> > perhaps not, though granted whether the idea exists outside of the set of >> > objects is another debate for the Platonists to take up. >> > >> > however... I wonder about the neutrality of the internet because as I've >> > argued here before, that while there is no real internet beyond reference >> > to a conceptual idea that encompasses many technologies and systems that >> > lack what i'd all think of as a unity beyond the concept. So does it as >> a >> > whole have a neutrality or an ideology? there is a certain technocratic >> > rationality to it, and that rationality certainly has a traditionally >> > critiqued ideology, but is that in it, or in the design of it, or in the >> > relations of it within historic contexts? and isn't neutrality and the >> > claim to it, an ideological claim? I've always tended to argue that the >> > claim toward neutrality and objectivity is almost always ideological. >> > >> > one of my favorite authors on this technology as ideology is Paul Virilio >> > and my second favorite is Walter Benjamin in Arcades Project. >> > >> > >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > 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/ >> > >> >> >> >> -- >> *Cristian Berrío Zapata* >> _______________________________________________ >> 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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Re: [Air-L] Using screen captures in Thesis paper
by Marj Kibby 10 Jul '12

10 Jul '12

Both Taiwan and China allow fair use for education, quotation, broadcasting, and library use. (China also allows a very broad fair use exception to government entities using a copyrighted work to transact their official business.) Taiwan’s Law states four factors used to evaluate fair use in any of its many enumerated circumstances. Regardless of whether the use is for schools, libraries, or personal private use, the nature of the work, the purpose of the use, the quantity and quality of the use compared to the entire work, and the effect upon the potential market are all taken into consideration. Marj Associate Professor Marjorie Kibby, B.Ed, M.A, Ph.D, FHERDSA Director, Student Experience FEDUA Head of Discipline: Film, Media and Cultural Studies School of Humanities and Social Science The University of Newcastle Callaghan NSW 2308 Australia Marj.Kibby(a)newcastle.edu.au +61 2 49216604

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Re: [Air-L] Technology as ideologically neutral?
by Neal Thomas 10 Jul '12

10 Jul '12

Hi everyone; Just wanted to chime in late with a few more notable references: http://bit.ly/MfJUcq Habermas wrote an influential piece in debate with Marcuse, in his book Towards a Rational Society. It's entitled 'Technology and Science as Ideology', and was later the focus of an important critique in Feenberg's (already mentioned) Questioning Technology. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilbert_Simondon Feenberg makes occasional use of the philosopher Gilbert Simondon's theory of "concretization", as a way of understanding the relationship between experience and technological development, and the terms under which technical functions are reconciled with wider social contexts or environments. However one might opt to connect the concept up to ideology, Simondon takes a fascinating approach to technology in general -- arguing that we individuate technology, and our selves, by coordinating social, phenomenal and technical potentials in ways that regulate difference, in what he calls technical 'ensembles'. There are English translations of his works floating around the web, as well as this collection that may be of interest, released in January: http://www.euppublishing.com/book/9780748645251 http://bit.ly/NgZ8kw Lorenzo Simpson's Technology, Time and the Conversations of Modernity may also be of use, particularly in any discussion that concerns the relationship between ideology and the temporalities produced by digital technologies. http://www.generation-online.org/p/fpvirno10.htm Marx's 'Fragment on Machines' in the Grundrisse is another important piece of writing, which develops a line of thinking around the relationship between ever-improving industrial processes and living labour. For example: "The development of fixed capital indicates to what degree general social knowledge has become a *direct force of production*, and to what degree, hence, the conditions of the process of social life itself have come under the control of the general intellect and been transformed in accordance with it." The above link is Paolo Virno developing his own account of the 'general intellect' from out of this work. Finally, also worth mentioning is the work of critical historian David Noble. Books like Forces of Production and Progress Without People contain important historical research as to why social processes (and the ideologies they enact, in struggles between different actors) can be far more revealing than the approach that presumes technology to be ideologically neutral. Best, Neal Thomas, Ph.D Assistant Professor Dept. of Communication Studies UNC Chapel Hill http://www.hivemedia.ca/

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Re: [Air-L] Using screen captures in Thesis paper
by Marj Kibby 10 Jul '12

10 Jul '12

Associate Professor Marjorie Kibby, B.Ed, M.A, Ph.D, FHERDSA Director, Student Experience FEDUA Head of Discipline: Film, Media and Cultural Studies School of Humanities and Social Science The University of Newcastle Callaghan NSW 2308 Australia Marj.Kibby(a)newcastle.edu.au +61 2 49216604 >>> "Dan L. Burk" <dburk(a)uci.edu> 11/07/12 6:11 AM >>> Okay, I guess I had better step in. 1) Fair use is specific to the United States (and Israel). Emily appears to be located in Taiwan. She almost certainly has no fair use claim. Australian law does not have a general “fair use” defence but it does allow for "fair dealing" in the use of copyrighted material for the purpose of research or study. A quick Google suggests similar provisions under Taiwanese law. Marj

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