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Autocomplete research
by Jasmine E McNealy 03 Apr '13

03 Apr '13

Hello All, I was wondering if anyone could suggests journal articles or other readings on "autocomplete" particularly with respect to the big search engines like Google and Yahoo! (and I guess Bing now). Thank you in advance for you assistance. Best, JM ________________________________ Jasmine McNealy, J.D., Ph.D. Assistant Professor S.I. Newhouse of Public Communication Syracuse University 215 University Place Room 377 NH2 Syracuse, NY 13244 315-443-1151 jemcneal(a)syr.edu

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Call for Book Chapters - Networked China: Global Dynamics of Digital Media and Civic Engagement
by wenhong chen 02 Apr '13

02 Apr '13

Dear colleagues, Happy New Year! My colleague Dr. Stephen Reese and I are co-editing the book Networked China: Global Dynamics of Digital Media and Civic Engagement (Routledge, 2014). Please feel free to forward the call for book chapters - below and attached - to interested groups. best, Wenhong ********************* CALL FOR BOOK CHAPTERS********************* Networked China Global Dynamics of Digital Media and Civic Engagement Call for Book Chapters for the New Agendas in Communication Series Co-editors Wenhong Chen, Assistant Professor, Department of Radio-TV-Film Stephen D. Reese, Professor, School of Journalism College of Communication, the University of Texas at Austin Aim and Scope The Internet and digital media have become conduits and locales where millions of Chinese share information and engage in creative expression and social participation. The Arab Spring and the relative lack of comparable social upheaval in China highlight once again the importance of understanding the implications of digital media and technologies for civic life in the social and historical context. Yet, compared to their growing prevalence and significance, research on the contingent, non-linear, and sometimes paradoxical impacts of digital media and technologies in Chinese societies remain theoretically underdeveloped and empirically understudied. Departing from previous studies centered on censorship or online activism, the proposed volume aims to cast a wider net and explores how people navigate, negotiate, and transform social landscapes rooted in the Chinese context, revealing both the power and limitations of the Internet and other new communication technologies. Chapter authors are encouraged to update prevailing theoretical frameworks and revisit the prosumption of digital media and their implications for globalization, transnational networks and public life. In calling for theory-driven empirical research with scholarly and policy relevance, we welcome chapters engaging with diverse theoretical and methodological approaches, especially interdisciplinary and comparative research. Chapters will be organized around three interrelated themes: digital media access and use, transnational/global networks, and civic engagement. 1. Mapping the Terrain / Digital Media Practices: What are the patterns of digital media access and use in China? What are the impacts of persistent censorship and aggressive marketization? 2. Exploring Glocalized Transnational Networks: What are the patterns of glocalized, transnational networks straddling boundaries of geography, identities, and issues? How do digital technologies and media allow local actors to form these networks in the cloud and on the ground? How does access to and memberships in such networks vary by class, gender, generation, urban-rural location, as well as differential digital media skills and literacy? How does this restructuring work to subvert and transcend traditional social and official hierarchies? 3. Understanding Civic Engagement Online and Offline: How do digital mediated communication and interactions contribute to an informed, connected, and engaged public in China? To what extent do digital media and technologies facilitate transparency and enhance the visibility of oppressed groups, particularly compared with print and broadcast media under tighter government control? To what extent do glocalized transnational networks affect access to and mobilization of resources for social development and changes? Conference The New Agendas in Communication Series is a conference and publication initiative of the College of Communication, the University of Texas at Austin. It aims to call attention to important emerging new areas of study, stimulate needed forms of intellectual inquiry, accelerate the research careers of the conference participants, build community across disciplinary divides for an important young cohort, and produce edited volumes appealing to a broad audience. Contributors should be junior scholars, including recently tenured associate professors, assistant professors, and advanced doctoral students. Single-authored work is preferable, but co-authorship is acceptable as long as all are junior scholars. Selected authors will be invited to participate in the Networked China: New Agendas conference at the University of Texas at Austin to present and help strengthen each others work for publication. As such, a full draft chapter submission is required from participants prior to the conference. Travel and lodging expenses will be supported. Logistics and timeline The book will be published in the New Agendas in Communication Series (Routledge) in 2014, 250-300 pages, with 8-12 chapters. A 300-500 word abstract should be sent to wenchen2006(a)gmail.com by March 1, 2013. Initial screening decisions will be made by April 1, 2013. Authors of accepted abstracts will be expected to submit a full chapter two weeks prior to the conference, to be held in Austin in the third week of October 2013. Wenhong Chen Assistant Professor Department of Radio-TV-Film, College of Communication 1 University Station A0800, CMA 6.136 University of Texas at Austin 2504 Whitis Ave Stop A0800 Austin, TX 78712-1067 T: 512-471-4952 F: 512-471-4077 wenhong.chen(a)austin.utexas.edu

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Geek Researcher Spends Three Years Living With Hackers
by Richard Forno 01 Mar '13

01 Mar '13

Biella does great work.....ergo I'm looking forward to adding this to my must-read pile.....which right now is more like a "scholastic endtable" which is one year away from becoming am "academic-style room divider." ;) --rick Geek Researcher Spends Three Years Living With Hackers http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2012/11/coleman/ When you’re starting off as an anthropologist, you aim is to explore a subculture your peers have yet to uncover, spending years living with the locals and learning their ways. That’s what Gabriella Coleman did. She went to San Francisco and lived with the hackers. Coleman, an anthropologist who teaches at McGill University, spent three years living in the Bay Area, studying the community that builds the Debian Linux open source operating system and other hackers — i.e., people who pride themselves on finding new ways to reinvent software. More recently, she’s been peeling away the onion that is the Anonymous movement, a group that hacks as a means of protest — and mischief. When she moved to San Francisco, she volunteered with the Electronic Frontier Foundation — she believed, correctly, that having an eff.org address would make people more willing to talk to her — and started making the scene. She talked free software over Chinese food at the Bay Area Linux User Group’s monthly meetings upstairs at San Francisco’s Four Seas Restaurant. She marched with geeks demanding the release of Adobe eBooks hacker Dmitry Sklyarov. She learned the culture inside-out. Now, she’s written a book on her experiences: Coding Freedom: The Ethics and Aesthetics of Hacking. It’s a scholarly work of anthropology that examines the question: What does it mean to be a hacker? Earlier this month, she dropped by Wired’s offices to talk about the book. Here’s an edited transcript of the conversation: < -- > http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2012/11/coleman/ --- Just because i'm near the punchbowl doesn't mean I'm also drinking from it.

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Apparently the Italian translation of Networked is out
by Barry Wellman 31 Jan '13

31 Jan '13

http://www.guerini.it/index.php/networked-9788881073290.html Barry Wellman _______________________________________________________________________ S.D. Clark Professor of Sociology, FRSC NetLab Director Department of Sociology 725 Spadina Avenue, Room 388 University of Toronto Toronto Canada M5S 2J4 twitter:@barrywellman http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman fax:+1-416-978-3963 NETWORKED:The New Social Operating System. Lee Rainie & Barry Wellman MIT Press http://amzn.to/zXZg39 Print $19; Kindle $16 Old/newCybertimes http://bit.ly/c8N9V8 It's still rock & roll to me ________________________________________________________________________

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CFP: ICA pre-conference on transmedia storytelling
by Indrek Ibrus 31 Jan '13

31 Jan '13

REMINDER! ONLY 4 DAYS UNTIL DEADLINE. CFP: ICA pre-conference on transmedia storytelling Title: Transmedia Storytelling: Theories, Methods and Research Strategies Time: Monday, 17 June; 08.00 – 17.00 Location: Hilton Metropole London Hotel Costs: 115.00 USD - This fee covers the pre-conference registration, two coffee breaks and a lunch. Organizers: • Carlos A. Scolari (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain) • Indrek Ibrus (Tallinn University, Estonia) Sponsor • Tallinn University Baltic Film and Media School • Universitat Pompeu Fabra Website: http://ica2013transmedia.wordpress.com/ Description: Transmedia storytelling is one of the remarkable experiences emerging from the contemporary media ecology. It is a complex research object that can be approached from different perspectives: economical (diversification and cross-marketing strategies, business models, etc.), narratological (narrative structures, expansion strategies, etc.), legal (copyrights, remix cultures, etc.), sociological (audience formation, DIY and fan cultures, etc.). The main objectives of the pre-conference are to present and discuss the cutting edge studies on transmedia phenomena around the world and to consolidate an international and interdisciplinary network of transmedia researchers. Format: The pre-conference will consist of three sessions and a concluding panel of keynotes: • Session I (09.15-10.45) Political Economy of Transmedia: global and regional cross-platform industries, their diversification strategies, business models, marketing strategies, transmedia and branding, production routines, legal issues, etc. • Session II (11.00-12.30) Transmedia Narrative Worlds: semiotics of transmedia, studies of narrative structures, expansion strategies, adaptation studies, story gamification, etc. • Session III (13.30-15.00) Transmedia and audiences: studies of co-creation, user agencies, remix practices, fan cultures, etc. • Keynotes panel (15.15-17.00) Sarah Atkinson (University of Brighton) Elizabeth Evans (University of Nottingham) Göran Bolin (Södertorn University) Each session will have five papers presented based on abstracts submitted in advance. There will be a respondent for each panel, designed to facilitate dialogue and interaction. Submission Process: Scholars interested in participating in the preconference should submit abstracts of no more than 400 words to Carlos A. Scolari (carlos.scolari(a)gmail.com) and Indrek Ibrus (ibrus(a)tlu.ee) by February 4, 2013. Authors will be informed regarding acceptance / rejection for the preconference no later than February 25, 2013. Full papers will need to be submitted no later than May 15, 2013. The pre-conference will take place on June 17, 2013. Please direct queries and requests for information to carlos.scolari(a)gmail.com and ibrus(a)tlu.ee. --------------------- Dr. Indrek Ibrus Research Fellow Tallinn University, Estonian Institute of Humanities Email: indrek.ibrus(a)gmail.com Phone: +372 56978885 Recent book: "Crossmedia Innovations: Texts, Markets, Institutions". Frankfurt: Peter Lang (2012) Editors: Indrek Ibrus, Carlos A. Scolari. http://www.peterlang.com/index.cfm?event=cmp.ccc.seitenstruktur.detailseite…

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by olalekan olagunju 30 Jan '13

30 Jan '13

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BWPWAP or TINNUTS - join common practice at Transmediale 2013
by wallace 30 Jan '13

30 Jan '13

Referencing the BWPWAP theme of the Transmediale festival, this is an invitation to process/discuss/research together the idea that THERE IS NOTHING NEW UNDER THE SUN (TINNUTS). Join common practice at Transmediale in the green room and by: connecting to the wiki http://wiki.fantomton.de/index.php?title=Commonpractice_tinnuts and at the same time connecting to irc://irc.freenode.net/##commonpractice or joining ##commonpractice channel on freenode. Common practice is an experiment into language and code,and doing things with people, machines and software. This experiment runs for the duration of the festival and is also a beta testing of the platform which includes collaborative practices between wiki, software called IRK.a and human participants. Also see IrkaManual for mor info http://wiki.fantomton.de/index.php?title=IrkaManual. fantomton.de magda.commonpractice.org

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LIt request: how different organizations communicate
by Luis Hestres 30 Jan '13

30 Jan '13

Hello, Can anyone suggest some must-read literature on the link between different types of organizations and how they communicate? My particular focus is nonprofits--especially advocacy organizations--but literature that addresses this link for any type of organization and their communicative practices would be helpful. I'm interested in how an organization's history, structure, funding, core mission and functions, etc., shape how they use media (especially the Internet), what messages they put out, etc. Thanks, Luis - - - - - Luis E. Hestres Ph.D. student | School of Communication | American University More about me at luishestres.com (http://luishestres.com)

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by Cindy Hill 30 Jan '13

30 Jan '13

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CFP-Digital Ethics Symposium at Loyola University Oct 2013
by Annette Markham 29 Jan '13

29 Jan '13

Hi All, This might be of interest to some of you, especially since accepted papers come with a small travel stipend.... *Call for papers* The Center for Digital Ethics & Policy at Loyola University Chicago ( digitalethics.org) will be holding its 3rd annual International Symposium on Digital Ethics on October 4th, 2013. The keynote speaker will be Douglas Rushkoff. We are looking for papers on digital ethics. Topics might include privacy, anonymity, griefing, free speech, intellectual property, hacking, scamming, surveillance, information mining, transparency, digital citizenship, or anything else relating to ethical questions and digital technology, or ethical use of digital technologies in journalism, advertising and public relations. This year we are ask that full papers be submitted for review. These papers should represent original research that has not been presented or published elsewhere. Authors of accepted papers will be eligible for up to $400 in travel funds to be able to attend the Chicago symposium. The author(s) of the top student paper will be eligible for up to $1,000 in travel funds. Papers are due by midnight CST on April 15th, 2012, should follow APA or MLA style and be no longer than 30 pages, not including references. Authors of top papers will have the opportunity to have their work published in *Proceedings from the 3rd Annual Symposium on Digital Ethics.* Send your submission in a MS Word document attachment to contact(a)digitalethics.org, and please write *Digital Ethics Symposium submission* in the subject line. You can send questions to the same email address. ***************************************************** Annette N. Markham, Ph.D. Guest Professor, Department of Informatics, Umeå University, Sweden Affiliate Professor, School of Communication, Loyola University, Chicago amarkham(a)gmail.com http://markham.internetinquiry.org/ Twitter: annettemarkham

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