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Samples sizes at IR14
by Peter Timusk 12 Oct '13

12 Oct '13

Anyone presenting at IR14 with any research based on large scale surveys? n > 2000?

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[CFP] ICA - KACA 2014
by Lee, Sunny 11 Oct '13

11 Oct '13

Hello all, I wanted to share a call for paper for those who are interested in Korean or Korean-American communication/media related research. This is for the ICA conference in Seattle 2014, and Korean American Communication Association will have research panels during the conference. Please check out and spread the word! Thanks, Sunny Sun Kyong (Sunny) Lee, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Department of Communication The University of Oklahoma 610 Elm Ave., Norman, OK 73019

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Women, Work, and the Web Anthology Call
by Carol Smallwood 11 Oct '13

11 Oct '13

Women, Work, and the Web: How the Web Creates Entrepreneurial Opportunities Book Publisher: Scarecrow Press Editor: Carol Smallwood, Women on Poetry: Writing, Revising, Publishing and Teaching (McFarland, 2012) on Poets & Writers Magazine "List of Best Books for Writers." Writing After Retirement: Tips by Successful Retired Writers forthcoming from Scarecrow Press. http://www.pw.org/content/carol_smallwood Seeking chapters of unpublished work from writers in the U.S. and Canada for an anthology. Interested in such topics as: Women Founding Online Companies; Women Working on the Web With Young Children or Physical Disabilities; Woman's Studies Resources and Curriculum; Surveys/Interviews of Innovative Women on the Web. Chapters of 3,000-4,000 words or two chapters coming to that word count (up to 3 co-authors) on how the Internet has opened doors, leveled the playing field and provided new opportunities for women, are all welcome. Practical, how-to-do-it, anecdotal and innovative writing based on experience how women make money on the Web, further careers. One complimentary copy per chapter, discount on additional copies. Please e-mail two chapter topics each described in two sentences by November 30, 2013, along with a brief bio to smallwood(a)tm.net Please place INTERNET/Last Name on the subject line; if co-authored, paste bio sketches for each author.

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CFP: Case Studies in Strategic Communication
by Daren Brabham 11 Oct '13

11 Oct '13

Case Studies in Strategic Communication (ISSN 2167-1974) is an online, peer-reviewed, open access journal dedicated to the study of strategic communication through the case study form. There are no fees to read or publish in CSSC. CSSC accepts and publishes case study submissions on a rolling basis in annual volumes. Case studies illustrate the strategies, tactics, and execution of communication campaigns through in-depth coverage of a single situation. CSSC welcomes cases covering a range of topics and industries in the domains of public relations, advertising, marketing, and social media. Cases published in CSSC to date have addressed the way a Major League Baseball team integrated social media in its stadium; how the CDC incorporated YouTube videos during the 2009 H1N1 flu epidemic; how a community service project strengthened internal communication for a college sports team; and other topics. CSSC does not publish traditional scholarly research papers. Rather, the focus of the journal is to publish case studies suitable for use in teaching and learning contexts, similar to the form and use of Harvard Business School cases and the cases of the Arthur W. Page Society competition. Visit www.CSSCJournal.org to learn more about the journal and consider submitting your work. Contact Daren Brabham at csscjournal(a)gmail.com with any questions about the journal or about the fit of a possible submission with the journal’s mission. ***Please feel free to circulate this CFP, and please consider incorporating these case studies in your classes*** db --- Daren C. Brabham, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism Editor, Case Studies in Strategic Communication | www.csscjournal.org University of Southern California 3502 Watt Way, Los Angeles, CA 90089 (801) 633-4796 (mobile) brabham(a)usc.edu | www.darenbrabham.com

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new research lab on big data methods and data journalism
by Stefania Milan 11 Oct '13

11 Oct '13

Dear all this is to announce the birth of a new research lab dedicate to big data methods and data journalism. Please visit us on the web (datajlab.nl) and follow us on Twitter (@datajlab). We are a small yet ambitious project emerging from a MSc in Data Journalism, which is grounded in an applied informatics (or e-humanities) department at Tilburg University, in the Netherlands. Please drop a line to know more (stefania(a)datajlab.nl) and get in touch for collaboration, projects, suggestions, or any other inquiry. We look forward to hear from you! Stefania, Founding Director, Data J Lab (datajlab.nl)

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Funded Ph.D. positions at UT Austin available for study of Information Work
by James Howison 10 Oct '13

10 Oct '13

We invite applications for two fully funded PhD positions, starting in August 2014, available for incoming doctoral students to join our study of information work in the Information Work Research Group, School of Information, University of Texas at Austin [1]. Applications are due November 15, 2013 (see below). The faculty and students in the IWRG undertake empirical and analytical studies of information workers in their workplaces, exploring how work and occupations are changing. We draw primarily on ethnography, participant observation, interviews, historical analysis and archival analysis to explore occupations such as records managers, remote financial professions, digital humanists, data analysts, open source software developers and online community managers. Both positions provide full tuition, a stipend of $20,000 and research travel support for two years. As Ph.D. students in the School of Information you would be eligible for continued funding through incoming grants, teaching assistantships and instructor positions; successful students should expect full-time support through the completion of their PhD. Austin is home to SXSW Interactive and a rapidly growing technology sector, and is an energetic, young city that is a great place to live and work through your Ph.D., offering excellent employment and education opportunities for spouses and families. We welcome inquiries from students interested in pursuing academic careers, coming from diverse academic and social backgrounds. Applicants with professional work experience are particularly encouraged to apply, as are students currently completing their masters or undergraduate degrees. Interested applicants should contact James Howison ASAP and provide an up-to-date resume and letter of interest no longer than 1 page. Applicants would then apply for the Information School Ph.D. through the regular admission process; full applications are due 15 November 2013 [2]. Best regards, James Howison on behalf of Information Work Research Group Faculty Lecia Barker Diane Bailey Tanya Clement William Aspray James Howison [1]: http://blogs.ischool.utexas.edu/iwrg/ [2]: https://www.ischool.utexas.edu/admissions/phd

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HELP REQUIRED: Survey on Substance Abuse
by Ismael Peña-López 10 Oct '13

10 Oct '13

Dear list, I’m working on a project with a Foundation to help the community to deal with substance abuse. I’d like to ask you just a bunch of questions. There are no right or wrong answers, I just want to know what you think. Please, do not hesitate to write as much as you can. On the other hand, I kindly ask you to elaborate your answers, depicting your general answer about the issue and then providing some fundamentals or explanations about the reasons that led you to answer the way you did. https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1uobAdEsJv7ODD0GlBKsQsjYnvoppwNQPO2YT87yytH… Please feel free to share. Thank you very much. Ismael Peña-López School of Law and Political Science Open University of Catalonia @ictlogist <http://twitter.com/ictlogist> http://ictlogy.net Av. Tibidabo 39-43 08035 Barcelona (Spain)

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FW: The Organisation of the Organisationless - Talks in Digital Culture: #1 - Oct 21 - 6pm - K0.20 King's College, Strand Campus
by Jordan, Timothy 09 Oct '13

09 Oct '13

Dear all, One for those in London, Cheers Tim Talks in Digital Culture: #1 October 21st - 6pm - K0.20 King's College, Strand Campus THE ORGANISATION OF THE ORGANISATIONLESS Organising and Leadership in the Popular Protest Wave, 2011-2013 >From Egypt, to Spain, the US, Turkey and Brazil, the current wave of popular protest has seen activists adopting social media as key means of communication, and protest camps and impromptu marches as tactics of protest. Besides these distinctive practices, what is striking about these movements is the emergence of new flexible forms of organisation and leadership, that invite us to go beyond simplistic descriptions of these movements as 'leaderless' or 'organisationless'. This event will focus on these emergent forms: their significance, their potentials, their limits and dangers. Rodrigo Nunes (Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro) Paolo Gerbaudo (King's College London) Moderator: Anna Feigenbaum (Bournemouth University) Please RSVP via https://www.facebook.com/events/514739415276355/ Twitter: @KingsDCS Share: https://www.facebook.com/DigitalCultureKings

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Ideas for topics for "Emerging Technology in New Media" Module
by David Crowley 08 Oct '13

08 Oct '13

Hi All, I am involved in teaching a course on Emerging Technology in New Media (a fairly broad topic) and I thought I'd reach out to the list and see does anyone have any interesting (up-to-date-ish) readings/books/ideas for lecture topics for a course like this? It is a final year undergrad module so can be reasonably advanced, Regards, David

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CFP AAG 2014: Alternative Computation and Unconventional Spaces
by Joe Eckert 08 Oct '13

08 Oct '13

Alternative Computation and Unconventional Spaces Monica Stephens, Humboldt State University Josef Eckert, University of Washington Newly emergent features of the computational turn (e.g., Berry 2011) posit new challenges for geographers practicing computer-mediated research. While geographers maintain a strong relationship with geographic information systems, new technologies, hardware, and practices suggest exciting new avenues for computational research. Geographic “big data” demand new, computationally intensive approaches to geospatial analysis. Textual artifacts from social media sources augment traditional geospatial inquiry, but also serve as data for non-GIS computational work such as natural language processing, topic modeling, or social media analysis. These provocative treatments suggest ways in which information can be geographic, yet not necessarily require explicit Cartesian expression. Results of such analyses have determined uneven distributions of data, and limits to the representational abilities of GIS. We’re excited to push beyond traditional GIS techniques to explore other ways in which our digital beings are expressed through space and place. This session welcomes both empirical and theoretical work that advances computer-mediated research in novel ways. We welcome papers on the following topics (or any closely related): 1) Digital humanities-inspired inquiry for Geography 2) Alternative methodologies for the digitally underrepresented 3) Novel geospatial and other computer-mediated approaches to “big data” analyses 4) Non-Cartesian geographic information and its analyses 5) Computer-mediated research located in underrepresented spaces (rural areas, impoverished places, etc.) 6) Geographic natural language processing, topic modeling, or other textual analysis 7) Relational spaces of Social Network Analysis Please send related abstracts to Joe Eckert (jeckert1(a)uw.edu) and Monica Stephens (monica.stephens(a)humboldt.edu) no later than October 31, 2013. Best, Monica Stephens & Joe Eckert

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