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Faculty Position in English at Rochester Institute of Technology
by Amit Ray 15 Oct '13

15 Oct '13

The Department of English at the Rochester Institute of Technology invites applications for an Assistant Professor tenure-track position to begin August 2014 with specialization in computational linguistics and/or innovative technical methods in language science, with a focus on one or more areas of application. Possible areas include: · Cultural or social analytics · Speech technology · Human-computer communication · Clinical, assistive, and/or access technology · Cognitive modeling of linguistic processes (for example reading) · Games and/or social media For details please visit: http://careers.rit.edu/faculty Search: 797BR

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Call for Issue Editor - Assembled
by Tzafnat Shpak 15 Oct '13

15 Oct '13

[image: Journal of Virtual Worlds Logo]<http://jvwresearch.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=de4fa2a435382cb1fa67cb…> Call for a Guest Editor of JVWR Assembled Issue October 14, 2013 At the beginning of every year we publish a special *Assembled issue* that includes the best of all the papers submitted during the precedent year and are not designated for a topical issue. We are now looking for a prime guest editor and co-editors to manage the process for 2014. There are already more than 20 papers in our publishing system. This is a great opportunity to influence the state of our field. Please *reply by Nov 1, 2013* to info(a)jvwresearch.org with a short CV and a cover letter listing your publishing and editing experience. ------------------- We invite you to read a guest post on Prof. Sivan blog "*A Day in Your Life 2015 with (Google) Glass*<http://jvwresearch.us2.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=de4fa2a435382cb1fa67c…> ". If you have colleagues who may be interested in becoming an editor or a co-editor, please feel free to forward this call further. Looking forward to hearing from you, Thankfully, *Tzafnat Shpak* Coordinating Editor, The Journal of Virtual Worlds Research<http://jvwresearch.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=de4fa2a435382cb1fa67cb…> tzafnat.shpak(a)jvwresearch.org *[image: Like Call for Issue Editor - Assembled on Facebook]<http://us2.campaign-archive1.com/?u=de4fa2a435382cb1fa67cb708&id=0373c71b38…> * <http://jvwresearch.us2.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=de4fa2a435382cb1fa67c…> © 2013 Journal of Virtual Worlds Research All rights reserved.

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call for book chapter
by CS 15 Oct '13

15 Oct '13

Call for Book Chapters: Social media have dramatically popularized practices of evaluation, especially of cultural products and artistic expressions. The practices of “liking” and rating any shared contents such as music to blogs, film, videos, photographs to artwork and performances have been ubiquitous in today’s digital environments. As a result, creative producers are increasingly developing reputations and careers through a complex blend of online social reputation management and distribution platforms, and more longstanding forms of marketing channels and professional evaluation. In this context, Online Evaluation of Creativity and the Arts (under contract with Routledge edited by H. Cecilia Suhr) seeks to examine the newly emerging forms of evaluation, such as contests, competitions, ranking, commenting, liking, and rating, which are taking place in digital environments. In doing so, this book investigates the criteria and assessment practices tied to the evaluation of creativity and artistic works. This book further analyzes what is at stake when digital environments heighten the role of amateur and peer criticism to the level of expert critiques. While exploring potential informal learning opportunities and offering incisive critiques on the emerging norms and standards of evaluation, the essays in this book cover a wide range of artistic and creative practices. If interested in contributing to this book, please contact H. Cecilia Suhr, suhrhc(a)miamioh.edufor initial inquiries on your topic as well as further guidelines. This project will move very quickly. If your abstract is accepted, a full-length chapter will be requested for final consideration. Only those chapters that require minor revision will be selected.

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Fwd: [SWS-L:413] Call for panelists - feminist online pedagogy
by Dianna Fielding 14 Oct '13

14 Oct '13

Dear List, Please see below a CFP which may be of interest to some of you. All questions should be directed to Julie Wiest. Thanks, Dianna ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Julie Wiest <jbwiest(a)gmail.com> Date: Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 3:10 PM Subject: [SWS-L:413] Call for panelists - feminist online pedagogy To: sws-l <Sws-l(a)listproc.cc.ku.edu> Greetings, SWS members! I am seeking participants for a panel session focused on feminist online pedagogy for the *2014 SWS Winter Meeting*. In their recent article in *Feminist Teacher*, Chick and Hassel (2009) called for increased efforts to bring the feminist classroom online, explaining that "(f)eminist pedagogy produces a classroom environment of mutual respect where both teacher and students take active, responsible, and shared roles in the learning process" (p. 197-198). We know that online education is likely here to stay: About 6.7 million U.S. college students (about 32 percent) are now taking at least one course online, and about 69 percent of institutions of higher education report that online education is critical to their long-term strategy.* For this panel, I am looking for teacher-scholars who have taught online (or who are just interested in online teaching) and can offer ideas, tips, and strategies for incorporating feminist principles and values into the online classroom. Especially welcome are panelists who can discuss these experiences/ideas in relation to gender and/or intersectional inequalities, in keeping with the conference theme. *Please let me know by Oct 25* if you are interested in serving as a panelist or have any questions. Thank you, Julie Wiest <https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#141b895ab4353ca8__ftn2> * Elaine Allen and Jeff Seaman, “Changing Course: Ten Years of Tracking Online Education in the United States,” *Babson Survey Research Group *and *Quahog Research Group* (2013). http://www.onlinelearningsurvey.com/reports/changingcourse.pdf <https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#141b895ab4353ca8__ftnref2>

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Call for Proposals: Participatory City 2014
by Medialab-Prado Comunicación 14 Oct '13

14 Oct '13

*MEDIALAB-PRADO* *Plaza**de las Letras** **Calle Ala**meda, 15** **28014 Madrid** ****www.medialab-prado.es** * Call for Proposals: Participatory City 2014 AARHUS -- BERLIN -- BRUSSELS -- DESSAU -- HELSINKI -- ISTANBUL -- LINZ -- LIVERPOOL -- MADRID -- MARSEILLE -- MELBOURNE -- MONTREAL -- RIGA -- SAO PAULO -- VIENNA -- ZAGREB In 2014, with the topic of Participatory City, the Connecting Cities Network will in particular discuss the question of how urban media facades as a temporary field of interaction can become a catalyst for shared encounters and a platform for urban activism. We invite artists to submit projects that enable citizens to experience new ways of interaction with the urban environment and to understand, respond to, evaluate and question the transformations that the city is undergoing. Extended deadline: October, 20. 2013. More information: http://medialab-prado.es/article/callforproposalsparticipatorycity2014 and http://www.connectingcities.net/node/32

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Award Announcement: PCA Electronic Reference Award
by Paul Booth 14 Oct '13

14 Oct '13

* Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association* *2014 Award* *Electronic Reference Site Award* * * The Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association sponsors this prestigious award each year along with literary and film awards. This award recognizes the growth and importance of new academic formats. Award winners will be announced at the PCA/ACA annual convention in Chicago, IL in 2014 and posted on the PCA/ACA website at http://www.h-net.org/~pcaacca/and on other appropriate websites, and in other media forums. Recipients need not be present at the conference to receive the award. *Submissions and Nominations Procedures: * The policies and procedures for the Electronic Awards are similar to all the other awards with a focus on quality and relevancy. The award in a particular year would look at the submissions of websites created over a three year period. The deadline for receipt of materials to be considered is *December 16, 2013* The subjects of the site should be relevant to Popular and American Culture. The criteria for judgment by the committee would include: Quality of research/scholarship, Use of hypertext/networking of electronic medium, Use of Supplementary/Secondary Materials, Contribution to Popular and American studies scholarship, Breadth of archived material, Ease of searching, Updatability For nominating sites for the PCA/ACA Best Electronic Reference Site award, please contact Paul Booth at pbooth(a)depaul.edu. In your nomination, please include the website address, the subject of the site, and contact information for the nominator/nominate. Self-nominations welcome. -- Paul Booth, PhD Assistant Professor of Media and Cinema Studies/Communication Technology College of Communication DePaul University 14 E. Jackson Chicago, IL 60604

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Side Job for a Media Researcher /Ethnographer based in Moscow
by Goetz Bachmann 14 Oct '13

14 Oct '13

The Centre for Digital Cultures (CDC) at Leuphana University Lüneburg, Germany, and its User Research Lab are looking for an ethnographer / media researcher based in Russia, who wants to join our project. ** ** Our long-term user research project was developed in co-operation with BBC World Service and looks at news and media consumption in 8 countries around the globe. Since one and a half years ago, we follow a network of 30 heavy news followers that are social media-savvy, who document their news consumption in a digital media diary and take part in additional ethnographic research.**** ** ** Your task would be to work with four of these participants. This will take 1-2 days per month. Your honorarium would be 190 Euros p/m.**** ** ** If you are an ethnographer based in Moscow, Russia, and if you are interested in a small, continuous side job, please send an email with a CV to beate.raetz(a)leuphana.de. If you are currently engaged in fieldwork, please include a paragraph about the field and your research.**** ** ** Thanks a lot!**** ** ** http://cdc.leuphana.com/structure/public-service-media-20-lab/user-research…

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Reminder - upcoming deadline, PhD workshop on researching the sociable self - Oslo, Nov. 27-28
by Charles Ess 14 Oct '13

14 Oct '13

Dear AoIRists, A gentle reminder that the deadline for registration for the PhD workshop - "Researching the relational / sociable self: Methods, Privacy, Ethics" - is coming up: Oct. 26, 2013. We invite doctoral students from a range of disciplines including media and communication studies, information science, sociology, philosophy, and political science to participate in this interdisciplinary PhD course. Faculty presenters / mentors include: Charles Ess (Department of Media and Communication, University of Oslo); Hallvard Fossheim (Director of the Norwegian National Committee for Research Ethics in the Social Sciences and the Humanities (NESH) and Professor II, University of Trømso, Norway); Stine Lomborg (Department of Media, Cognition and Communication, University of Copenhagen, Denmark); Annette Markham (Department of Aesthetics and Communication, Aarhus University, Denmark); Espen Ytreberg (Department of Media and Communication, University of Oslo) Please see the course website, <http://www.hf.uio.no/imk/forskning/aktuelt/arrangementer/phd/2013/methods-p rivacy-ethics.html> for further details, including guiding questions, provisional schedule, available ECTs and correlative requirements, and instructions for submitting expressions of interest (due no later than October 26, 2013). Many thanks in advance, - charles ess Professor in Media Studies Department of Media and Communication Director, Centre for Research on Media Innovations <http://www.hf.uio.no/imk/english/research/center/media-innovations/> My latest book, Digital Media Ethics, is now available from Polity: http://www.politybooks.com/book.asp?ref=0745656056 University of Oslo P.O. Box 1093 Blindern NO-0317 Oslo Norway email: charles.ess(a)media.uio.no

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Blogging AOIR Denver
by Janet Salmons, Ph.D. 14 Oct '13

14 Oct '13

Hello again, wearing a local host committee member hat... We know that AOIR is multi-disciplinary... and we'd like the good work presented, exchanged and considered at the conference to get out into related fields. Do you write, blog or post for other associations or professional groups with common interests? While we expect that many attendees will post on social media on their own, we'd like to find some individuals who have the ability/connections to post more substantive reviews and/or discussion of key ideas. For example, I write for the New Social Media, New Social Science blog http://nsmnss.blogspot.co.uk/ about qual methods and ethics. I am also on the Academy of Management Ethics Education Committee and can post on their blog http://ethicist.aom.org/. I plan to attend relevant sessions then write a piece to post on both of theses sites. It would be ideal if "citizen journalists" could attend at least two sessions within a program area and blog/tweet during or after the conference. Depending on your time and level of enthusiasm, you could interview presenters and/or link to their websites/books. We've identified a few themes to get you thinking, and are of course open to others that interest you: - Conference theme - Internet Life and Death - Research methods - Research ethics - Identity - Politics and Privacy - Games and Play If this sounds interesting, please contact me off list: jesalmons[at] vision2lead.com. Best, Janet *Janet Salmons Ph.D.* *Capella University School of Business and Vision2Lead, Inc. *Site- http://www.vision2lead.com Follow Twitter at #einterview Now available as Kindle e-books: Online Interviews in Real Time & Cases in Online Interview Research PO Box 943 Boulder, CO 80306-0943 jsalmons(a)vision2lead.com

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Denver and the area: local view
by Janet Salmons, Ph.D. 14 Oct '13

14 Oct '13

Hello from Colorado! I'd like to respond to several posts made by folks planning to visit the area. You may also contact me off-list if you have a question. 1) Shutdown. Can't speak to customs etc. but once you get here you are not likely to be inconvenienced. 2) Museums. There is a cluster of museums fairly close to the main conference hotel: the Denver Art Museum (www.denverartmuseum.org) The Still Museum (https://www.clyffordstillmuseum.org) and the Colorado History Museum (www.historycolorado.org) Museum of Nature and Science is on the other side of town, and will require a bit more navigation www.dmns.org 3) More arts! Those who like performing arts can check out the Denver Center (www.denvercenter.org) or Symphony (www.coloradosymphony.org/) both are an easy walk from the conference hotel. Jazz? Check out Dazzle (www. dazzlejazz.com) and other clubs (tune into my fav radio station, www.kuvo.org for more!). 4) Want to get closer to the mountains? You can get a bus from Market Street Station to Boulder (www.rtd-denver.com/HowToRideBus.shtml) wherere there are many places to walk and hike. See: http://www.bouldercoloradohiking.com/ and http:/<http://www.bouldercoloradohiking.com/> /www.bouldercoloradousa.com . If you have a car, check out Nederland, a funky town, near lots of places to hike (http://nederlandco.org/) and ( http://www.bouldercounty.org/os/parks/pages/caribouranch.aspx) for starters. PLEASE keep in mind we've just had devastating floods. So while yes, they are opening Rocky Mountain National Park, it is NOT 1 1/2 hours because there are many road closures that will not be fixed in two weeks. (See http://www.coloradodot.info/travel ) At this point I would not recommend it. Keep in mind that in the high country the weather will be changing as well-- which may mean other road closures. If you are longing for a "Rocky Mountain high" write to me and I can give you some other suggestions. Its been noted elsewhere but worth repeating, you are coming to the Mile High City: the extreme dryness and altitude can get to you! The main ways to avoid altitude sickness are: 1) drink water pretty much non-stop, especially the first day. You need a full water bottle with you. 2) Drink alcohol with care, especially while acclimating. It will have a different impact than it does at sea level! (See: http://www.denver.org/metro/high-altitude-tips) * * It is a great place to visit, I am sure you will enjoy it! Anything else? Janet * * *Janet Salmons Ph.D.* *Capella University School of Business and Vision2Lead, Inc. *Site- http://www.vision2lead.com Follow Twitter at #einterview Now available as Kindle e-books: Online Interviews in Real Time & Cases in Online Interview Research PO Box 943 Boulder, CO 80306-0943 jsalmons(a)vision2lead.com t

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