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Reminder - The politics of trolling and the Negative Space of The Internet - Fibreculture Journal CFP
by Jason Wilson 18 Sep '12

18 Sep '12

Hi all, (apologies for cross-posting) We're in the midst of something of a "troll panic" here in Australia - Sydney's News Limited tabloid newspaper, the Daily Telegraph, has initiated a "stop the trolls" campaign in response to Twitter abuse directed at celebrities. A Rugby League footballer who was the target of abuse has secured an audience with the Prime Minister to discuss the problem, and various politicians have signed up for the campaign. http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/aussie-skipper-michael-clarke-and-nrl… I am aware of similar events in the UK in the recent past. Under the circumstances, I thought it might be a good moment to remind the list of the current call for papers for the Fibreculture Journal. The politics of trolling and the Negative Space of The Internet A great deal of thinking about the Internet and politics is still structured by a desire for deliberative democracy. From 1993 - when Howard Rheingold enunciated one of the Internet’s key founding myths - the virtual community - scholars have sought and found communities characterised by a mutuality of interests, a common purpose, a collaborative striving to renovate the democratic ideal, a tendency towards the “regulative idea” of the ideal speaking position, and an acknowledgement of the obligations of citizenship within the political association. For so long the Internet has continued to function, in Barbrook’s formulation, as a “redemptive technology”. Social media is just the latest in a long line of technologies which may, on a certain vision, rescue liberal democracy, with its decaying civic life and corrupt media, from itself. There is, proportionally, too little attention to the everyday conflicts that haunt all such communities. Some conflict is temporary, and can be accounted for in terms of long-standing democratic theory. But some conflict is persistent, intractable. Some of it is gratuitous, and deliberately disruptive. Online, those who bring it about are often subject to normative disapprobation. Sometimes people call them trolls. ”Troll”, as a term of moral opprobrium, indicates an online actor who is not interested in deliberation, but in derailing it. Trolling is not apt to be captured by network maps or visualisations of online publics, because these teachniques cannot discern which nodes in a conversational network are created in bad faith, or in a spirit of disruptive play. Trolls are not interested in redeeming democracy through deliberation, and they mock attempts to do so. Trolls respect no procedural rules, though they may be generative of them. Trolls are the constitutive outside of online communities of political discussion, they are the intolerable of the most tolerant communities. Trolls are usually someone else, defined from our own position and interests. When they are not, and we inhabit trolling, we discover that trolling requires know-how, close reading, experience, sometimes sympathy with those we would disrupt. What are the consequences to seeing trolling and other forms of affective behaviour as the norm, rather than the aberrant? The discourse of digital art has long since told this story, but the intellectual desire for open and constitutive democracy has overridden the 'actually existing democracy' of bullying, trolling, threats, inane memes and low signal-to-noise ratios. What would happen if we started to think of trolling as the central practice in online discourse? What if trolling is the Internet’s signature mode of discursive politics? What if we started to think about trolling as a practice which is generative rather than destructive? This special issue of fibreculture seeks a range of perspectives on trolling, online conflict and incivility. Twenty years on, it looks to interrogate the founding myth of virtual community with accounts of generative conflict, strategic incivility, and productive trolling. We seek papers on a range of topics not limited to - Trolling, activism and politics - The persistence and ubiquity of online conflict - Trolling as a business model: the mainstream media and clickbait - Gendered aspects of trolling and incivility - 4chan and trolling; activism and meme factories - Trolling and cyberbullying - Complaints about trolling and the “hatred of democracy” – are complaints about trolling really an attempt to re-gentrify political debate? - Cultures and rituals of trolling – troll culture and the celebration of lulz - Trolling and “cyber-bullying” - The Internet and agonistic politics - Trolling and counterpublics - The grammar of trolling - Trolling as the glitch in social network analysis and “big data” - Popular culture, trolls and the democratization of politics - Tabloid media, professionalization of trolling and the economics of opinion - Trolling as cyber-bullying, internet as masochistic survivalist playground - The pleasures of trolling - Trolling the trolls - The art and ‘new aesthetics’ of trolling - The gamification of trolling Please note that for this issue, initial submissions should be abstracts only abstract deadline: October 15, 2012 (via email, to Jason Wilson, email address below) article deadline: January 15, 2012 publication aimed for: April/May, 2013 all contributors and editors must read the guidelines at; http://fibreculturejournal.org/policy-and-style/ before working with the Fibreculture Journal email correspondence for this issue: Jason.Wilson(a)canberra.edu.au Christian.mccrea(a)rmit.edu.au Glen.fuller(a)canberra.edu.au

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Digital Media Culture Position: Assistant Professor Tenure-track, UC Irvine
by Peter Krapp 17 Sep '12

17 Sep '12

School of Humanities, Department of Film and Media Studies Digital Media Culture Position: Assistant Professor Tenure-track The Department of Film and Media Studies at the University of California, Irvine invites applications for a tenure-track appointment at the Assistant Professor level, beginning July 1, 2013. We seek scholars whose research and teaching is dedicated to the history and theory of digital media culture. Applicants must demonstrate potential for excellence in scholarship and undergraduate and graduate teaching. Research and teaching interests should include a range of issues in digital culture, using theoretical models that consider aesthetic, social, and technological changes as cultural processes. The preferred candidate will be a humanities scholar able to teach courses in media studies and digital culture, focusing on theoretically engaged work on a range of issues (e.g., gaming, interactivity, software studies, transnational flows, avant-garde or alternative digital media practices, mobile and social media, data-mining and surveillance, media archeology et al.) Ph.D. in Film and Media Studies or related field must be completed before date of appointment. Please apply online at http://recruit.ap.uci.edu and submit a letter of application, a curriculum vitae, an article-length writing sample, a sample course syllabus, and three letters of reference. The application deadline is November 15, 2012. Please see www.humanities.uci.edu/filmstudies for more information about the Department of Film and Media Studies and the Ph.D. Program in Visual Studies at UC Irvine. For additional information, please contact: Professor Peter Krapp, Chair, Department of Film and Media Studies, 2000 Humanities Gateway, ZOT 2435, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA 92697-2435. digitalsearch(a)uci.edu The University of California, Irvine is an equal opportunity employer committed to excellence through diversity and strongly encourages applications from all qualified applicants, including women and minorities. UCI is responsive to the needs of dual career couples, is dedicated to work-life balance through an array of family-friendly policies, and is the recipient of an NSF ADVANCE Award for gender equity. http://www.oeod.uci.edu/ads/index_ten.asp#5986 -- Peter Krapp Chair, Film & Media Studies Professor, Visual Studies/English/Informatics University of California, Irvine, CA 92697-2435 Chair-Elect and Secretary, UC Irvine Academic Senate 2012-2013 949-824-7685 (Academic Senate office)

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Fwd: CFP Intersectional Conflict and Dialogue in Transnational Migrant and Digital Diaspora Networks
by Holly Kruse 14 Sep '12

14 Sep '12

Forwarded by request. Please contact those listed below for more information. Holly > ---------------------------- Original Message ---------------------------- > Subject: CFP Intersectional Conflict and Dialogue in Transnational Migrant > and Digital Diaspora Networks > From: "Athina Karatzogianni" <athina.k(a)gmail.com> > Date: Wed, September 12, 2012 5:10 am > To: air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org > Cc: holly(a)aoir.org > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > *Intersectional Conflict and Dialogue in** Transnational Migrant and > Digital Diaspora Networks* > > * > * > > *Call For Papers* > > > *11-12 April 2013* > > Department of Social Sciences <http://www2.hull.ac.uk/fass/socsci.aspx>, > Wilberforce Bldg., University of Hull. > > > > *Keynote Speakers:* > > Leopoldina > Fortunati<http://www.dest.uniud.it/dest/docenti/fortunati/fortunati_l.htm> > , University of Udine, Italy > > Andreas > Hepp<http://www.zemki.uni-bremen.de/en/members/professors.html?tx_wtdirectory_pi…>, > University of Bremen, Germany > > Mirca > Madianou<http://www2.le.ac.uk/departments/media/people/dr-mirca-madianou>, > University of Leicester, UK > > Jo van der Spek, Director of Migrant to Migrant > Radio<http://m2m.streamtime.org/>, > Holland > > > > > > New structures of being and experience in hybrid media environments and > social networks point to the continuities and discontinuities of modes of > conflict and dialogue, but also offer new dialectical necessities to be > explored. Migrants, far more than other groups in society, with their > experiences rich in borderlessness, struggle, resistance and empowerment, > raise a double challenge when we attempt to research politics of digital > presence. > > > We invite colleagues to raise to this challenge and to discuss migrant > ideology, organization, affect, agency and discourses; to comment on > digital objects and media produced by pro-migrant and anti-migrant groups > and diaspora communities; and to discuss the impact of race, gender, > ethnicity and class on everyday discourses in networked digital and hybrid > environments. > > > > With an eye to European migration policy and the possibility for a digital > public sphere with a European flavor, we particularly welcome - but will > not restrict to - the presentation of recent research on conflict and > migration in Europe, as well as research focusing on the possibilities of > dialogue and democratic praxis in the European digital public sphere beyond > the representational. > > > > This conference is part of Hull’s dissemination activities for the European > FP7 project MIG@NET <http://www.mignetproject.eu/> 'Transnational Digital > Networks: Migration and Gender' and it is in joint collaboration with Geert > Lovink and the Institute of Network Cultures. <http://networkcultures.org/> > > > > *The deadline for abstracts is 1**st** of December 2012. * > > Please submit your abstract and affiliation to Athina > Karatzogianni<http://www2.hull.ac.uk/fass/socsci/staff/academic-staff/karatzogianni,-athi…> > at athina.k(a)gmail.com or a.karatzogianni(a)hull.ac.uk. > > There is no conference registration charge or any other fees. > Abstracts will be peer reviewed by the conference panel with the aid of > external evaluators, and shall be accepted solely on the basis of merit and > relevance. > This is the event > link<http://www2.hull.ac.uk/fass/socsci/news-and-events/intersectional-conflict-…> > if > you want to share with your contacts. > > *Special Panels Organization:* > > > Dennis Nguyen, PhD Candidate, University of Hull. > > Elisa Serafinelli, PhD Candidate, University of Hull. > > > -- > Dr Athina > Karatzogianni<http://www2.hull.ac.uk/fass/socsci/staff/academic-staff/karatzogianni,-athi…> > Senior Lecturer in New Media and Political Communication > Director of Media Programmes in Social Sciences > Department of Social Sciences > The University of Hull > United Kingdom > HU6 7RX > T: ++44 (0) 1482 46 6083 > E: a.karatzogianni(a)hull.ac.uk > > * > on twitter <http://twitter.com/#%21/_athinak_> > on facebook <http://www.facebook.com/athina.karatzogianni> > on linkedin <http://uk.linkedin.com/in/athinak1> > > * > Download my work <http://works.bepress.com/athina_karatzogianni/> > > > -- > Holly Kruse > List Manager > holly(a)aoir.org

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Fwd: [OERU] Scientists, Foundations, Libraries, Universities, and Advocates Unite and Issue New Recommendations to Make Research Freely Available to All Online
by gene loeb 14 Sep '12

14 Sep '12

Hi all, Important news, hope this goes further. Gene ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Cable Green <cable(a)creativecommons.org> Date: Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 2:31 PM Subject: [OERU] Scientists, Foundations, Libraries, Universities, and Advocates Unite and Issue New Recommendations to Make Research Freely Available to All Online To: OER Forum <oer-forum(a)lists.esn.org.za>, OER-DISCUSS(a)jiscmail.ac.uk, oer-university(a)googlegroups.com, Educause Openness Constituent Group < OPENNESS(a)listserv.educause.edu>, "Open: WikiEducator" < wikieducator(a)googlegroups.com> [Forwarding from the Open Society Foundations and SPARC.] FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: September 12, 2012 CONTACT: Andrea Higginbotham, SPARC, andrea(a)arl.org; 202-296-2296 Amy Weil, Open Society Foundations, aweil(a)sorosny.org; 212-548-0381 Scientists, Foundations, Libraries, Universities, and Advocates Unite and Issue New Recommendations to Make Research Freely Available to All Online WASHINGTON -- In response to the growing demand to make research free and available to anyone with a computer and an internet connection, a diverse coalition today issued new guidelines ( http://www.soros.org/openaccess/boai-10-recommendations) that could usher in huge advances in the sciences, medicine, and health. The recommendations were developed by leaders of the Open Access movement ( http://www.soros.org/openaccess/participants) which has worked for the past decade to provide the public with unrestricted, free access to scholarly research—much of which is publicly funded. Making the research publicly available to everyone—free of charge and without most copyright and licensing restrictions—will accelerate scientific research efforts and allow authors to reach a larger number of readers. “The reasons to remove restrictions as far as possible are to share knowledge and accelerate research. Knowledge has always been a public good in a theoretical sense. Open Access makes it a public good in practice,” said professor Peter Suber, director of the Open Access Project at Harvard University and a senior researcher at SPARC (The Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition). The Open Access recommendations include the development of Open Access policies in institutions of higher education and in funding agencies, the open licensing of scholarly works, the development of infrastructure such as Open Access repositories and creating standards of professional conduct for Open Access publishing. The recommendations also establish a new goal of achieving Open Access as the default method for distributing new peer-reviewed research in every field and in every country within ten years’ time. “Science and scholarship are activities funded from the public purse because society believes they will lead to a better future in terms of our health, environment, and culture,” said Heather Joseph, executive director of SPARC. “Anything that maximises the efficacy and efficiency of research benefits every one of us. Open Access is a major tool in that quest. These new recommendations will underpin future developments in communicating the results of research over the next decade.” Today, Open Access is increasingly recognized as a right rather than an abstract ideal. The case for rapid implementation of Open Access continues to grow. Open Access benefits research and researchers; increases the return to taxpayers on their investment in research; and amplifies the social value of research, funding agencies, and research institutions. The Open Access recommendations are the result of a meeting hosted earlier this year by the Open Society Foundations, on the tenth anniversary of the landmark Budapest Open Access Initiative ( http://www.soros.org/openaccess/read) which first defined Open Access. “Foundations rarely have the good fortune to be actively present at the birth of a world-wide movement that fundamentally changes the rules of the game and provides immediate benefit to the world,” said István Rév, director of the Open Society Archives and a member of the Open Society Foundations Global Board. “This is what happened when the Open Society Foundations initiated a meeting at the end of 2001 that gave birth to the Open Access movement.” ### SPARC (Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition), with SPARC Europe and SPARC Japan, is an international alliance of more than 800 academic and research libraries working to create a more open system of scholarly communication. SPARC’s advocacy, educational, and publisher partnership programs encourage expanded dissemination of research. SPARC is on the Web at http://www.arl.org/sparc. The Open Society Foundations work to build vibrant and tolerant democracies whose governments are accountable to their citizens. Working with local communities in more than 100 countries, the Open Society Foundations support justice and human rights, freedom of expression, and access to public health and education. The Open Society Foundations is on the Web at http://www.soros.org. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "OER university" group. To post to this group, send email to oer-university(a)googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to oer-university+unsubscribe(a)googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/oer-university?hl=en?hl=en Visit the OER univeristy page on http://wikieducator.org/OER_university -- With Sincerest Best Wishes , Gene Gene Loeb, Ph.D.

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Free download: New special issue on "Migration and the Internet: Social networking and diasporas" in the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies
by Ulf-Dietrich Reips 13 Sep '12

13 Sep '12

Dear colleague: our new special issue has appeared! Oiarzabal, P. J., & Reips, U.-D. (eds.) (2012). Migration and the Internet: Social networking and diasporas [Special issue]. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 38 (9). doi:10.1080/1369183X.2012.698208 See table of content in the flyer available from https://dl.dropbox.com/u/22340089/CJMS%20IMISCOE%20Flyer%202012%20-%2038.9%…. Free download available for 30 days from the link in the flyer: http://tandfonline.com/r/cjms389 The link expiry date is 31/12/12, so as long as you login/register for the access on or before the 31/12/12, you'll get your 30 days access. Please distribute the flyer and link as widely as you like. Cheers Ulf -- Prof. Dr. Ulf-Dietrich Reips Ikerbasque Research Professor Director, iScience group Facultades de Ingenería y de Psicología y Educación Universidad de Deusto Avda. de las Universidades 24 48007 Bilbao, España http://iscience.deusto.es/ http://www.facebook.com/InternetScience

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CfP: 3rd International Workshop on Model-driven Approaches for Simulation Engineering (Mod4Sim13) part of the Symposium on Theory of Modeling and Simulation SCS SpringSim 2013)
by Daniele Gianni 13 Sep '12

13 Sep '12

################################################################# CALL FOR PAPERS 3rd International Workshop on Model-driven Approaches for Simulation Engineering part of the Symposium on Theory of Modeling and Simulation (SCS SpringSim 2013) ################################################################# April 7-10, 2013, San Diego, CA (USA) http://www.sel.uniroma2.it/Mod4Sim13 ################################################################# # Papers Due: *** November 1, 2012 *** # Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings # and archived in the ACM Digital Library. ################################################################# The workshop aims to bring together experts in model-based, model-driven and software engineering with experts in simulation methods and simulation practitioners, with the objective to advance the state of the art in model-driven simulation engineering. Model-driven engineering approaches provide considerable advantages to software systems engineering activities through the provision of consistent and coherent models at different abstraction levels. As these models are in a machine readable form, model-driven engineering approaches can also support the exploitation of computing capabilities for model reuse, programming code generation, and model checking, for example. The definition of a simulation model, its software implementation and its execution platform form what is known as simulation engineering. As simulation systems are mainly based on software, these systems can similarly benefit from model-driven approaches to support automatic software generation, enhance software quality, and reduce costs, development effort and time-to-market. Similarly to systems and software engineering, simulation engineering can exploit the capabilities of model-driven approaches by increasing the abstraction level in simulation model specifications and by automating the derivation of simulator code. Further advantages can be gained by using modeling languages, such as UML and SysML – but not exclusively those. For example, modeling languages can be used for descriptive modeling (to describe the system to be simulated), for analytical modeling (to specify analytically the simulation of the same system), and for implementation modeling (to define the respective simulator). A partial list of topics of interest includes: * model-driven simulation engineering processes * requirements modeling for simulation * domain specific languages for modeling and simulation * model transformations for simulation model building * model transformations for simulation model implementation * model-driven engineering of distributed simulation systems * relationship between metamodeling standards (e.g., MOF, Ecore) and distributed simulation standards (e.g., HLA, DIS) * metamodels for simulation reuse and interoperability * model-driven technologies for different simulation paradigms (discrete event simulation, multi-agent simulation, sketch-based * simulation, etc.) * model-driven methods and tools for performance engineering of simulation systems * simulation tools for model-driven software performance engineering * model-driven technologies for simulation verification and validation * model-driven technologies for data collection and analysis * model-driven technologies for simulation visualization * Executable UML * Executable Architectures * SysML / Modelica integration * Simulation Model Portability and reuse * model-based systems verification and validation * simulation for model-based systems engineering To stimulate creativity, however, the workshop maintains a wider scope and welcomes contributions offering original perspectives on model-driven engineering of simulation systems. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ On-Line Submissions and Publication +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ We invite paper submissions in three forms: 1. Full paper (max 8 pages), describing innovative research results. These papers are eligible for the best paper award and may be invited for an extended version in a special issue of the SCS SIMULATION journal. 2. Work-in-progress paper (max 6 pages), describing novel research ideas and promising work that have not yet been fully evaluated. 3. Short paper (max 6 pages), describing industrial and hands-on experience on any relevant area (i.e. military, government, space, etc.). All the papers must be submitted through the SCS conference management systems (http://www.softconf.com/scs/DEVS13/) and select the Mod4Sim track. The submissions must be in PDF format and conform to the SCS conference template (Word template is available at http://www.scs.org/upload/documents/templates/ConferenceSubmissionWORDTempl… , guidelines are available at http://www.scs.org/PDFs/formattingkit.pdf) All the submitted papers must be original and not submitted else where. Submitted papers will be peer reviewed with respect to their quality, originality and relevance. The authors of the accepted papers must register in advance for inclusion of their paper in the conference proceedings. Authors of accepted papers will be invited to update their papers basing on the reviews, before providing the camera ready. All accepted papers will be included in the conference proceedings and archived in both the ACM Digital Library. However, **only** accepted **full papers** will be printed in hard copy. Authors may contact the organizers for expression of interest and content appropriateness at any time. +++++++++++++++ Important Dates +++++++++++++++ * Submission Deadline: November 1, 2012 * Decision to paper authors: January 10, 2013 * Camera ready due: February 5, 2013 * Conference dates: April 7-10, 2013 ++++++++++++++++++++ Organizing Committee ++++++++++++++++++++ * Andrea D'Ambrogio - University of Rome TorVergata, Italy * Daniele Gianni - European Space Agency, The Netherlands +++++++++++++++++ Program Committee +++++++++++++++++ * Steffen Becker - University of Paderborn, Germany * Paolo Bocciarelli - University of Rome TorVergata, Italy * David Chen - Univeristy of Bordeaux I, France * Cristian Englert - Serco, The Netherlands * Huascar Espinoza - European Software Institute and Tecnalia, Spain * Paul A. Fishwick - University of Florida, USA * Carlos Juiz - University of Balearic Islands, Spain * Cristiano Leorato - Rhea, The Netherlands * Steve McKeever - University of Oxford, UK * Halit Oguztüzün - Middle East Technical University, Turkey * Andreas Tolk - Old Dominion University, USA * Hans Vangheluwe - University of Antwerp, Belgium and McGill University, Canada * Anthony Walsh - European Space Agency, Germany * Heming Zhang - Tsinghua University, China *** Contact Information *** Andrea D'Ambrogio and Daniele Gianni (workshop co-chairs) Emails: dambro(a)uniroma2.it and danielegmail-mod4sim(a)yahoo.it

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Open Access issue of JOBEM on Socially Mediated Publicness out now!
by Nancy Baym 13 Sep '12

13 Sep '12

Many on this list might be interested in the pieces published in the new issue of the Journal of Broadcasting and Electronic Media guest edited by danah boyd and myself on the topic of SOCIALLY-MEDIATED PUBLICNESS. What's more, many more of you may be able to read them than usual because, with the support of the editor Zizi Papacharissi, we were able to convince Taylor & Francis to make this issue open access. The link to the issue is: http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/hbem20/56/3 Please enjoy and help show T&F (and other journal publishers) that open access is a great way to go! Nancy

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Final programme of the 7th Giganet Symposium - 5th of November in Baku, Azerbaijan
by Francesca Musiani 13 Sep '12

13 Sep '12

Dear colleagues, please find below the final programme of the 7th Giganet Symposium, to be held on the 5th of November in Baku, Azerbaijan. Best regards, Francesca -------------------- 7th Giganet Symposium, 5th of November, Baku Azerbaijan Pre-Conference to the Internet Governance Forum Baku Expo Exhibition and Convention Center 9.00 – 10.00: The UN, the ITU and Internet governance Contested Boundaries. The International Telecommunication Regulations and Internet Governance William Drake – University of Zurich New Issue Domains in the UN Ambit. Negotiating Meanings for Security in Cyberspace Roxane Radu – Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies Regionalism and the Caribbean Internet Governance Forum Dhanaraj Thakur – University of the West Indies 10.00 – 11.15: The role of private actors in Internet governance A Quantitative Study of the Factors Driving the Deployment of DPI by Network Operators Worldwide Hadi Asghari – Delft University of Technology Michel Van Eeten – Delft University of Technology Milton Mueller – Syracuse University Shirin Tabatabaie – Delft University of Technology >From Neutral Thirds to Private Law Enforcers Nicole van der Meulen – Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam Arno Lodder – Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam Internet Policies and Corporate Social Responsibility Rolf H. Weber – University of Zurich 11.15 – 11.45: Coffee 11.45 – 13.00: Governance of critical Internet resources Dimensioning the Elephant. An empirical Analysis of the Ipv4 Transfer Market Milton Mueller – Syracuse University Brenden Kuerbis – Syracuse University Laying the Path. Technical Approaches to Legal and Policy Issues in Internet Design Sandra Braman – University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee Impact of the New gTLD Program ... Domain Name Regulation Revolution in China Hongbin Zhu – China Internet Network Information Centre 13.00 – 14.30: Lunch 14.30 – 15.45: The Internet, civic engagement and state repression Media Disruption and Revolutionary Unrest. Evidence from Mubarak's Quasi- Experiment Navid Hassanpour – Yale University The Effects of the Internet on Civic Engagement Under Authoritarianism. The Case of Azerbaijan Katy Pearce – University of Washington Sarah Kendzior – University of Washington Deen Freelon – American University Digital Citizenship in the South Caucasus. A Comparative Analysis between Armenia, Georgia and Azerbaijan Wayne Buente – University of Hawaii Lala Hajibayova – Indiana University 15.45 – 16.15: Coffee 16.15 – 17.30: Cyber security, privacy and copyright Cookies versus Clams. Tracking Technologies and their Implications for Online Privacy Andreas Kuehn – Syracuse University The Evolution of Formal and Informal Institutions related to Cyber-Security. A Comparison of China and India Nir Kshetri – University of North Carolina Discourse Networks on Access Blocking in France and Germany and the European Union Yana Breindl – Oxford Internet Institute -- Francesca Musiani 2012-13 Yahoo! Fellow in Residence Institute for the Study of Diplomacy Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service Georgetown University 1316 36th Street NW Washington, DC 20057-1025 Affiliate, Berkman Center for Internet & Society, Harvard University Research engineer and PhD Candidate, Center for the Sociology of Innovation, MINES ParisTech Section Head and Co-Chair, ESN-IAMCR (http://iamcr.org/s-wg/cctmc/esn) Outreach officer, GigaNet (http://giga-net.org) http://www.csi.mines-paristech.fr/Perso/Musiani/

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Fwd: [Sesweden] Call for Papers - Software Technology Exchange Workshop 2012
by Sari 12 Sep '12

12 Sep '12

On behalf of Jaana Nyfjord. All the best, Sari -------- Original Message -------- Subject: [Sesweden] Call for Papers - Software Technology Exchange Workshop 2012 Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2012 21:15:14 +0200 From: Jaana Nyfjord <jaana(a)swedsoft.se> Swedsoft and its members invite you submit papers to the Second International Software Technology Exchange Workshop (STEW). Swedsoft is a cross domain initiative to strengthen software engineering in Swedish industry and Academia through cooperation and research. The workshop will take place on November 28 2012 in Kista, Sweden. STEW - General Information ======================== Transfer of results of academic research into real products or integrating them into industrial ways-of-working is one of the key challenges for both academic institutions and companies in many domains. Computing systemsand software related research are not exceptions here. Many companies today are often unaware of the existing research and many academic institutions have difficulties to disseminate their results within the industry. To remedy this, the Second International Software Technology Exchange Workshop (STEW) has been organized by Swedsoft to facilitate knowledge exchange and dissemination ofacademic results within the industry. STEW provides a forum forresearchers who can gain access to the interested industry representatives, and for the industry representatives who havethe interest and opportunity to utilize the outcome of the research into realproducts or software product development. The workshop also strives topromote networking among academia and industry attendees. Areas of Interest =============== We seek submissions from researchers working in any field related to software technologies and software development methodologies. The only requirement is that the research results published should havereached a level where industrial adoption becomes possible. The main fields ofinterest include, but are not limited to ·Emerging or established software technologies such as many-core programming,real-time systems, cloud computing, novel programming paradigms, languages or tools ·Software development techniques, especially in the context of complex systems, large scale development and geographically distributed organizations, such as model based development, agile and post-agile waysof working, feature centric development ·Software governance models, methods, studies and proposals Submissions shall be in standard, 2-column ACM format, no longer than 3 pages. While quantitative results are welcome, we are mostly interested in the novelty aspect of the research as well as its relevance for the industry and immediacy of putting it into practice in an industrial setting. Both unpublished as well asrecently published papers are welcome. STEW does not have any copyright requirements. Hence, publishing at STEW should not prevent the researchers from publishing the results at other scientific conferences. All accepted submissions will be published through Swedsoft'swebpage, www.swedsoft.se <http://www.swedsoft.se/>. By submitting, authors automatically givepermission for publication on the Swedsoft page. The Program Committee will consist of industrial and academic representatives.The Program Committee will give priority to papers that can clearlyarticulate both the results of the research as well as the concrete areas ofapplicability. At least one author of each accepted paper will be required to attendthe workshop and present the paper in a 20 minutes session. We encourage you toprepare a demo of your technology, if applicable. Please use the following link to submit your papers: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=stew2012 Important Dates ============== Paper submission deadline...................................October 12th, 2012 Author notification..................................................October 31st, 2012 STEW date...................................................................November 28th, 2012 Program Chair and Workshop Organizers =================================== Program Chair: Stefan Andersson, Vice President Head of Product Creation, Saab AB Workshop Organizers (contact persons): Jaana Nyfjord, Swedsoft (jaana(a)swedsoft.se <mailto:jaana@swedsoft.se>) Björn Hovstadius, Swedsoft (bjorn(a)swedsoft.se <mailto:bjorn@swedsoft.se>)

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assistant professor in digital communication
by Donald Heider 12 Sep '12

12 Sep '12

Loyola University Chicago is searching for a tenure track assistant professor in the area of digital communication. The successful candidate will teach a combination of theoretical and applied courses to undergraduate and graduate students. Strong applicants will possess a terminal degree, a record of scholarly publishing or creative production, teaching experience, and significant, professional experience in a related field. Applicants must have an excellent knowledge in several of these areas: digital culture, social networks, virtual worlds, media ethics and policy, gaming, web design/programming or other current and developing technologies. The School of Communication is housed in a new building in the heart of Chicago, a block from the Water Tower. The school serves 800 undergraduates and a new graduate program in digital storytelling and hosts the Center for Digital Ethics and Policy (digitalethics.org) Applicants should provide a cover letter, a current curriculum vitae and the names and email addresses of at least three professional references, at www.careers.luc.edu/applicants/Central?quickFind=55302 Other supporting materials may be submitted online or via mail to: Hannah Rockwell Chair, Digital Communication Search Committee c/o Doretha Tyler-Gant School of Communication Loyola University 820 N. Michigan Ave Chicago, IL 60611. For best consideration apply by November 21st, 2012. Don Heider Dean, School of Communication Loyola University Chicago 820 N, Michigan Ave. Chicago, IL 60611 312-915-6558

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