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Critical Facebook Research Asks for Crowdfunding
by Oliver Leistert 22 Aug '12

22 Aug '12

Dear AIR-Community, about a year ago we published an anthology called 'Generation Facebook'. It contains ground-breaking theoretical papers and essays by leading international scholars such as Saskia Sassen, Geert Lovink and Mark Andrejevic. It is used widely in university teaching, received critical acclaim by the press and is deemed invaluable by media activists. So what's the catch? Right now, the book is only available in German. We think that this outstanding collection deserves an international audience. We also think that the contributions should be freely available in an Open Access format. Since we don’t have the means to make this happen all by ourselves, we decided to ask you (a.k.a “the crowd”) for support to: a) cover the production costs for an Open Access version that is freely available right from the beginning. b) finance translations of texts that originally were contributed in German. If you think this is a project that is worth your attention (and maybe even your money), please take a look at our funding website: http://www.indiegogo.com/generation-facebook You can find more information about the German version on our German publisher’s website: http://www.transcript-verlag.de/ts1859/ts1859.php Please help us to spread the word and to turn this into a successful experiment; please forward this email to anyone potentially interested and any mailing lists you see fit. All the best, Oliver Leistert & Theo Röhle (editors 'Generation Facebook') -- Oliver Leistert Research Fellow Center for Media and Communication Studies Central European University Budapest Web: https://cmcs.ceu.hu/profiles/research-fellow/oliver_leistert Blog: http://nomedia.noblogs.org

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Critical Facebook Research Asks for Crowdfunding
by Oliver Leistert 22 Aug '12

22 Aug '12

Dear AIR-Community, about a year ago we published an anthology called 'Generation Facebook'. It contains ground-breaking theoretical papers and essays by leading international scholars such as Saskia Sassen, Geert Lovink and Mark Andrejevic. It is used widely in university teaching, received critical acclaim by the press and is deemed invaluable by media activists. So what's the catch? Right now, the book is only available in German. We think that this outstanding collection deserves an international audience. We also think that the contributions should be freely available in an Open Access format. Since we don’t have the means to make this happen all by ourselves, we decided to ask you (a.k.a “the crowd”) for support to: a) cover the production costs for an Open Access version that is freely available right from the beginning. b) finance translations of texts that originally were contributed in German. If you think this is a project that is worth your attention (and maybe even your money), please take a look at our funding website: http://www.indiegogo.com/generation-facebook You can find more information about the German version on our German publisher’s website: http://www.transcript-verlag.de/ts1859/ts1859.php Please help us to spread the word and to turn this into a successful experiment; please forward this email to anyone potentially interested and any mailing lists you see fit. All the best, Oliver Leistert & Theo Röhle (editors 'Generation Facebook') -- Oliver Leistert Research Fellow Center for Media and Communication Studies Central European University Budapest Web: https://cmcs.ceu.hu/profiles/research-fellow/oliver_leistert Blog: http://nomedia.noblogs.org

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Re: [Air-L] material for Digital Storytelling course
by Magdalena Olszanowski 22 Aug '12

22 Aug '12

Hi Stefania, There are two profs at Ryerson in Toronto doing work on DST (Lila Pine through New Media and Jacqui Gingras through Nutrition). I second Knut Lundby's book Digital Storytelling, Mediatized Stories. It is the most engaging and rigorous book I have found on the topic. I am not sure this is exactly aligned but here are a few sources for DST: Couldry, Nick. "Mediatization or Mediation? Alternative Understandings of the Emergent Space of Digital Storytelling." New Media and Society. 10.3 (2008): 373- 391. Ohler, Jason. Digital Storytelling in the Classroom: New Media Pathways to Literacy, Learning, and Creativity. Thousand Oaks, CA: Corwin Press, 2008. LaFontaine, Jennifer. “From the Story Circle to Cyberspace: How Technology Transforms the Stories We Tell and How Women Transform the Stories We Hear.” Women and Environments International Magazine. 72/73 (2006): 77-81. Hull, Glynda A. and Mark Evan Nelson. “Locating the Semiotic Power of Multimodality.” Written Communication. 22, (2005): 224-261. “Hearing Ordinary Voices: Cultural Studies Verncaular Creativity and Digital Storytelling” Jean Burgess (2006) Woo, Yen Yen Jocelyn. “Getting Past Our Inner Censor: Collective Storytelling as Pedagogy in a Polarized Media Environment.” The National Association for Media Literacy Education’s Journal of Media Literacy Education. 1, 2 (2010): 132 -136. ________________________________ PhD Student Communication Studies Concordia University Montréal, QC Mailing Address: 7141 Sherbrooke Street West CJ 3.230, 3rd FL Montreal, QC H4B 1R6 Canada ________________________________________ -----Original Message----- From: air-l-bounces(a)listserv.aoir.org [mailto:air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org] On Behalf Of Stefania Milan Sent: Monday, August 20, 2012 12:18 PM To: air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org Subject: [Air-L] material for Digital Storytelling course Hello everyone I am looking for inspiration for a course on Digital Storytelling offered in the framework of a Master in Data Journalism. Any idea re: textbooks, sources, good websites, or anyone teaching something similar who wants to get in touch to exchange ideas? Many thanks, Stefania ---------------------- Stefania Milan, PhD Citizen Lab || Munk School of Global Affairs, University of Toronto || http://citizenlab.org || http://stefaniamilan.net/

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For teachers: Steal this Paper Writing Guide and Workbook :)
by Terri Senft 21 Aug '12

21 Aug '12

Hi All, Fall semester is upon us, and I love when people trade resources, so here is one from me. If you are looking around for a "how to" guide for writing cultural studies and/or digital media studies type research papers, I wrote a 20 page guide and student workbook I'm happy to share. The guide uses this thing I sort of made up called the "Object, Question, Lens & Method" approach. It's pretty idiosyncratic, and you'll probably want to change it to reflect your teaching interests and styles, but it does have lots of examples and charts for students who are struggling to come up with paper ideas, and teachers who can't quite remember the difference between a focus group and user testing, or ethnography and anthropology, etc. The guide and the workbook are both downloadable as PDFs, here: http://www.terrisenft.net/wordpress/for-students/ Feel free to take, change, distribute, whatever. If you would like a copy in Word to alter for your class purposes, give a shout and I'll hook you up. Excelsior! http://www.terrisenft.net/wordpress/for-students/twitter: @terrisenft

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Workshop on Computational and Online Social Science
by danah boyd 21 Aug '12

21 Aug '12

This may be of interest to some of you: Begin forwarded message: > From: Sharad Goel <sharadg(a)microsoft.com> > > We invite participants to the inaugural workshop on Computational and Online Social Science (CAOSS), to be held Friday, October 12, 2012 at Columbia University. Details at: > > http://caossnyc.org > > With an explosion of data on every aspect of our everyday existence -- from what we buy, to where we travel, to who we know -- we are able to observe human behavior with granularity largely thought impossible just a decade ago. The growth of such online activity has further facilitated the design of web-based experiments, enhancing both the scale and efficiency of traditional methods. Together these advances have created an unprecedented opportunity to address longstanding questions in the social sciences, ranging from sociology to political science to economics and beyond. The inaugural 2012 workshop on Computational and Online Social Science (CAOSS) aims to bring together diverse research communities that work at the intersection of computer science and social sciences to build a lasting foundation for this emerging discipline. > > The program features invited speakers Sinan Aral (NYU), David Jensen (UMass), Jure Leskovec (Stanford), David Reiley (Google), and Duncan Watts (Microsoft). > > Call for Participation. As space is limited, we ask that you please complete the free registration form at http://caossnyc.org/registration if you plan to attend. > Additionally, if you would like to present your work as a short talk or poster, please submit an abstract when registering. Submissions will be accepted through September 14th and funding is available for student presenters. > > We encourage you to pass this information on to others who may be interested. Please contact us at admin(a)caossnyc.org if you have any additional questions. > > CAOSS is made possible by the genererous support of Microsoft Research, eBay Research, Facebook, Google, the Applied Statistics Center at Columbia University, ACM SIGecom, and Johnson Research Lab. > > We hope to see you at the workshop! > David, Jake, Sergei, and Sharad > ------ "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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material for Digital Storytelling course
by Stefania Milan 21 Aug '12

21 Aug '12

Hello everyone I am looking for inspiration for a course on Digital Storytelling offered in the framework of a Master in Data Journalism. Any idea re: textbooks, sources, good websites, or anyone teaching something similar who wants to get in touch to exchange ideas? Many thanks, Stefania ---------------------- Stefania Milan, PhD Citizen Lab || Munk School of Global Affairs, University of Toronto || http://citizenlab.org || http://stefaniamilan.net/

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Inclusion of short links in academic publications?
by yana breindl 21 Aug '12

21 Aug '12

Thank you all for your comments! The reason I asked is not because of a word limit but because one of my committee members suggested I'd use short links to ease access for readers of the print dissertation. I do have quite a lot of electronic sources as footnotes in some of the chapters and he mentioned he'd have typed a shortened url but not a long one. An alternative would be to include short urls in the footnotes and add an appendix with corresponding long links. I'm not sure it's worth the hassle though. On 22 July 2011 16:39, Sharon Haleva Amir <sharon(a)trebcon.com> wrote: > > Yana, the only advantage I can think of regarding the usage of shortened > URL > is if you're writing an article and there is a words' limitation (as long > as > the limitation refers to the bibliography/footnotes as well as the article > itself), as sometimes the URLs can be quite long. > > I think that the need to shorten texts (for twitting etc.) was the basic > rational for establishing such services. > > > Best Wishes, > Sharon Haleva Amir, HCLT Fellow > (PhD Candidate) Faculty of Law, > University of Haifa, ISRAEL. > -------------------------------------------------- > http://www.coolcite.com/user/1694 > http://weblaw.haifa.ac.il/en/research/resstudents/pages/sharonha.aspx > > -----Original Message----- > From: air-l-bounces(a)listserv.aoir.org > [mailto:air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org] On Behalf Of yana breindl > Sent: Friday, July 22, 2011 11:27 AM > To: Air-L(a)listserv.aoir.org > Subject: [Air-L] Inclusion of short links in academic publications? > > Hello all, > > I was wondering what your thoughts were concerning the use of shortened > URLs > (e.g. tinyURL, bit.ly etc.) to reference electronic sources in a > dissertation or other academic publication (along with the title, date, > etc. > possibly an annexe with the long URL). Has this been done already? Is it > acceptable? Are there important differences between various shortening > sites? > > Thank you, > > Yana > > > --------------------- > Yana BREINDL > > Ph.D Candidate > Dépt des sciences de l'information et de la communication (SIC) > Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB) > > Tél.: + 32 (0)2 650 44 46 > E-mail: ybreindl(a)ulb.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/ > > -- Yana BREINDL Doctorante Dépt des sciences de l'information et de la communication (SIC) Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB) Tél.: + 32 (0)2 650 44 46 E-mail: ybreindl(a)ulb.ac.be -- Yana BREINDL Doctorante Dépt des sciences de l'information et de la communication (SIC) Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB) Tél.: + 32 (0)2 650 44 46 E-mail: ybreindl(a)ulb.ac.be

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"information behavior" and "swarm behavior"
by Cristian Berrio Zapata 21 Aug '12

21 Aug '12

Dear Colleagues: I am studying the topic of "information behavior" and looking for authors with an ecology perspective about information. It can be from ethology or ecology, what interests me is a systems vision that integrates seeking behavior, testing, processing and storage functions with adaptive skills of the human species. Until now, I have only sources from social science, that very timidly suggested some evolutionary approach. I also interested in what has been called "swarm behavior" regarding information behavior. Thanks and regards -- *Cristian Berrío Zapata*

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IR 13: Announcing a further three plenary speakers...
by Attwood, Feona 20 Aug '12

20 Aug '12

Mary L. Gray is Senior Researcher at Microsoft Research New England and Associate Professor of Communication and Culture at Indiana University. Her work focuses on how people use digital and social media in everyday ways to shape their social identities and create spaces for themselves. Her book, Out in the Country: Youth, Media, and Queer Visibility in Rural America (2009) examined how youth in rural parts of the United States fashioned ‘queer’ senses of gender and sexual identity and the role that media—particularly internet access—played in their lives and political work. Her current research includes work on ethnographically-informed social media research, compliance cyberinfrastructures in universities and their impact on emerging media research, online labour, and the importance of location and place in the context of mobile technologies. Larissa Hjorth is an artist, digital ethnographer and Senior Lecturer at RMIT University, Australia. Her research interests are in the gendered customising of mobile communication, gaming and virtual communities in the Asia–Pacific and she is the author of Mobile Media in the Asia-Pacific (2008). She is the editor (with Gerard Goggin) of Mobile technologies: from Telecommunication to Media (2008) and (with Dean Chan) of Gaming Cultures and Place in the Asia–Pacific region (2009). She is the author of a textbook, Games & Gaming (2010). Susanna Paasonen is Professor of Media Studies at the University of Turku. Her research interests are in Internet research, studies of pornography and theories of affect. Her publications include (with Mia Consalvo) Women and Everyday Uses of the Internet: Agency and Identity (2002), Figures of Fantasy; Internet, Women and Discourse (2005), (with Kaarina Nikunen and Laura Saarenmaa) Pornification: Sex and Sexuality in Media Culture (2007), (with Marianne Liljeström) Working with Affect in Feminist Readings: Disturbing Differences (2010), and Carnal Resonance: Affect and Online Pornography (2011). Susanna is currently launching a new research project on memory work/oral history, archives and pornography.

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CFP: Game Studies: 2013 PCA/ACA National Conference.
by Gerald Voorhees 20 Aug '12

20 Aug '12

The Game Studies area of the National Popular Culture Association and the American Culture Association Conference invites proposals for papers, panels and completed papers on games and game studies for the Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association National Conference to be held Wednesday, March 27, through Saturday March 30, 2013 in Washington, DC. Below, please find: I. Topics of Interest II. Submission Process III. Information about the Conference IV. Contact Information ---------------------------------------------------------------------- *I. Topics of Interest* The organizers seek proposals and papers covering all aspects of gaming, gaming culture and game studies. Proposals can address any game medium (computer, social, console, tabletop, etc) and all theoretical and methodological approaches are welcome. Possible topics include but are not limited to: -- new game mediums and platforms (Facebook, iPhone/iPad/iPod, etc) -- representation or performance of race, class, gender and sexuality in games -- gaming culture, game specific cultures, and multicultural and cross-cultural issues -- game development, design, authorship and other industry issues -- game advertising, reviews, packaging, promotion, integrated marketing and other commercial concerns -- political and legal entailments such as regulation, censorship, intellectual property -- ludology, textual criticism, media ecology, narratology, etc as paradigms for games studies -- player generated content in MUDs and MMORPGs, Mods, maps and machinima -- game genres, platforms, consoles, console wars and connections to other media -- serious games for education, business, healthcare, (military) training, etc -- space and place in games, play spaces, virtual/physical communities, mobile gaming and localization -- digital literacy, discourse practices, social norms and norming, the politics of play -- public discourse/controversy over violence, militarism, sex, criminality, racism, etc in games *II. Submission Process* The Game Studies area of the National Popular Culture Association and the American Culture Association Conference, which began as the Video Games Studies area in 2003, has the most enduring footprint of any North American academic organization that give serious attention to the social and cultural impact of games and gaming. The area continues to grow and offers two avenues for scholars to participate and present their work. *A. Paper Proposals* For individual paper proposal submissions, please submit a 250-word (maximum) abstract by *November 30, 2012*. Submissions must be made online at http://ncp.pcaaca.org. Detailed instructions for using the online submission system can be found at http://www.pcaaca.org/conference/instructions.php. *B. Panel Proposals* For panel submissions, please submit a 250-word (maximum) panel abstract, as well as 100-word abstracts for each individual presentation, by *November 30, 2012*. Panel proposals must be emailed to digitalgames.pcaaca(a)gmail.com. Be sure to include the proposed title of the panel, the organizer’s name, affiliation, mailing address, and email, as well as this information for all panelists. Panel submissions may take the form of debates, dialogs, roundtable discussions, thematic panels, (or other format,) and should be designed to last approximately eighty minutes. *III. Information about the Conference* *A.* So that there will be ample time for discussion, each individual paper presentation should be designed to last approximately twelve to fifteen minutes (there will typically be four presentations per session with time for Q&A). *B.* Technology for use during presentations may be limited. More information about the conference can be found at http://www.pcaaca.org/** *C.* Presenters will be required to join either the Popular Culture Association or the American Culture Association prior to attending the conference, as well as pay a registration fee for the conference. Information about these fees can be found at http://www.pcaaca.org/conference/membership_registration.php. *D.* Awards and Travel Grants are offered, on a competitive basis, by the National Popular Culture Association / American Culture Association 1. Travel Grants The *Michael Schoenecke Travel Grant for Graduate Students* to the National Conference (for 2012, 32 grants @ $300 each). For application requirements, please visit http://www.pcaaca.org/grant/schoenecke.php The *Peter Rollins Travel Grant for Early-Career Faculty* (for 2012, 12 grants @ $500). For application requirements, please visit http://www.pcaaca.org/grant/rollins.php The *Madonna Marsden International Travel Grant* for Individuals presenting at the National Conference (for 2012, 10 grants @$500 each). For application requirements, please visit http://www.pcaaca.org/grant/marsden.php ** *2. Graduate Student Awards* ** *William E. Brigman Award for the Outstanding Graduate Student Paper* presented at the National Conference in a specific year. Applications go to Brigman Award, c/o Gary Hoppenstand, *Journal of Popular Culture*, 4C Morrill Hall, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824 . Please send three hard copies of the paper (without author's name), as well as a copy on disc and photocopy of your student identification card. Those concerned for their privacy may obscure the Social Security number should it appear on the card. Please also include a copy of the acceptance letter/email from the PCA area chair who accepted the paper for presentation in the national conference. Papers should address popular culture and be accepted for a PCA panel. Submissions must be received by January 7th of the year the conference is held. The winning paper must be presented at the upcoming PCA/ACA meeting in the year it is accepted. Should the winning paper not be presented in person, the award will be forfeited. The winning author is invited to submit the essay to *The Journal of Popular Culture* and work with the editor toward its publication. This award is selected by a panel chosen by the editor of the journal. The winner receives a $500 travel award to attend the national conference in the year the paper is selected. * * *William M. Jones Award for the Outstanding Graduate Student Paper*presented at the National Conference in a specific year. Entries are submitted to Amy Dudley, Editorial Assistant, William M. Jones Graduate Student Paper Award Selection Committee, the* Journal of American Culture*, Virginia Wesleyan College, 1584 Wesleyan Drive, Norfolk, VA 23502. Papers must be submitted by January 7th of the year the conference is held. Three copies of the paper, as well as a photocopy of the applicant's student identification card must be submitted. Papers should address American culture. The winning paper must be presented at the PCA/ACA conference. The winner receives a $500 travel award to attend the national conference in the year the paper is selected. Should the winning paper not be presented in person, the award will be forfeited. The winning author should also submit the essay to the* Journal of American Culture* and work with the editor toward its publication. This award is selected by a panel chosen by the editor of the journal. ** *IV. Contact Information* Questions and concerns can be sent to digitalgames.pcaaca(a)gmail.com, or may be directed to one of the area chairs listed below. ** *Katie Whitlock*, Theatre Department, California State University, Chico klwhitlock(a)csuchico.edu** *Gerald Voorhees*, School of Art and Communication, Oregon State University gerald.voorhees(a)oregonstate.edu** ** *Joshua Call*, Department of English, Grand View University jcall(a)grandviewl.edu

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