October 2013 - Air-L - lists.aoir.org

IR14 and the political situation
by Stine Gotved 13 Oct '13

13 Oct '13

Hello fellow aoir-heads - especially you located in the US. In 10 days, we'll meet up in Denver, and I really look forward to IR14. However, could you please tell if there is anything in the present political situation that I as a foreigner ought to prepare for? Do I for example need to bring loads of cash or do I run the "risk" of being stuck? (I actually like that prospect better than most!) I'm not really alarmed - on the other hand, it's very hard to follow (not to say understand) the details in the administrative shut down. Please share your thoughts on the subject, in regard to the upcoming conference. Thanks, Stine Associalte Professor The IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark

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IR14 extra sightseeing
by Peter Timusk 13 Oct '13

13 Oct '13

Does anyone have plans they want to share about extra sightseeing in Denver, so may be we could go as a group(s)? I know there are some game researchers planning some gaming clubs visits or I hear about that on Twitter. I am getting around on the public transit and spent an hour online last night on the RTD web site and Google Earth planning the buses to all the scheduled events from my hotel etc.. I would love to get out to something like Red Rocks park and also check out museums and the parks in the city. The science and tech museum is in one large park. I did not though book any extra days (Tuesday-Sunday) perhaps I can do one museum the night of arrival Tuesday. The planned events sound good so I am not sure I would want to miss those.

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CFP: Navigating a Networked Death (ICA panel)
by Tamara Kneese 13 Oct '13

13 Oct '13

International Communication Association (ICA) Conference 2014 Seattle, Washington 22-26 May 2014 *CFP: Navigating a Networked Death panel * >From online memorials to crowdfunding funeral costs, the particular sociocultural and technological protocols of social network sites (SNS) undeniably impact experiences of death and mourning. SNS have become major loci for coping with loss and memorializing loved ones. People can simultaneously augment existing funerary practices and create new practices that take advantage of the unique affordances of SNS. As networked and collaborative forms of mourning extend into our online experiences, SNS may become a way of intensifying existing social networks, fomenting new bonds, even while collaborating on, contesting, or negotiating the memory of the deceased. While recent works have analyzed the specific modes of interaction on Facebook walls or MySpace memorials, we seek to better understand the relationships between these online interactions and on-the-ground relationships either affected or created by these exchanges. As the novelty of SNS responses to death fades, we must take a closer look at how these post-mortem social networking practices have become incorporated into everyday life. We are most interested in the relationship between the network of grievers and an individual who has died, and how the deceased becomes a particularly dense node in a constellation of relationships. In this panel, we seek to bring together diverse perspectives on a topic that will affect everyone. As a universal aspect of life, death provides a lens through which to examine networked social bonds. The presentations in this panel will discuss the ways in which we might conceptualize links between online mourning practices and the embodied relationships they reflect, influence, and produce. Potential papers may explore the use of social media to plan memorial services, to collectively cope with loss, or the interactions between different members of an individual’s social circle on SNS and in face-to-face meetings. Especially pertinent are themes related to mourning, grief, memorialization, subjectivity, privacy, authority, collaboration, and affect. Panel co-chairs: Jed Brubaker, PhD candidate in Informatics at UC Irvine and Tamara Kneese, PhD candidate in the Department of Media, Culture, and Communication at New York University. Please send 150-word abstracts no later than OCTOBER 31, 2013 to tek234(a)nyu.edu and jed.brubaker(a)uci.edu

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PRism Special Issue CFP: 'Fandom, Brands and Public Relations'
by Amber Hutchins 13 Oct '13

13 Oct '13

PRism Special Issue CFP: 'Fandom, Brands and Public Relations', Amber Hutchins and Natalie Tindall, prfandom(a)gmail.com Traditional public relations methods of communicating with target publics have changed. The idea of engaged publics or audiences has arisen in multiple fields, including audience studies, media studies, sport culture, participatory culture, marketing, cultural studies, and public relations. The conceptions of the public in previous models are no longer valid across all campaigns. With the advent of social media, content producers and audiences can be one and the same. Fans have more ownership on a global scale, without the limitations of physical proximity, yet our current conceptions of public do not delineate between active and super-active publics, let alone discuss engagement with information beyond processing and seeking it or dealing with publics virtually who are highly motivated to communicate with organizations and brands. Also, in public relations, there is a huge shift to community managers. Yet, there is not a lot of knowledge about the publics who are interacting within the community; this is a place where this special issue can provide significant insight. Fandom and participatory culture have been identified, discussed, and lamented over in these areas and in various global contexts, and these conversations are synonymous and parallel with the ideas outlined in the segmentation strategies and the robust research on the situational theory of publics. However, little conversation between those areas has occurred. For example, online community management of fans and critics is a relatively new method practitioners use to engage stakeholders and public. Although there has been some work on offline community management (or brand communities), primarily in fields outside of public relations, there is not much available for online communities. The work that has been done has been focused on marketing or cultural studies. If you look at our leading public relations and strategic communication journals, research on fans is rare, and the attempt to connect fandom research to segmentation and other public relations theory is nonexistent. The goal of this project is to bring scholarly attention to the disciplines' interaction, engagement, and interaction with fans who are publics. The purpose of this special issue is to integrate stakeholder and publics theories with those of participatory cultures and media studies/fan perspectives; to add new, fresh insight into the public relations discipline's concepts of publics and segmentation; and to apply new research and understandings of publics. * Submission deadline: 1st February 2014 * Anticipated publication date: During the 2014 calendar year Submissions for review should be sent to Amber Hutchins and Natalie T.J. Tindall, prfandom(a)gmail.com See the full call on the PRism website at http://www.prismjournal.org/cfpfandom.html Dr. Amber Hutchins Public Relations Program Director Digital & Social Media Graduate Certificate Coordinator Department of Communication Kennesaw State University ahutch13(a)kennesaw.edu 770.794.7749

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Screening Scholarship Media Festival - Submissions Open Until 10/15
by Veena Vasudevan 13 Oct '13

13 Oct '13

*camra*, a media pedagogy lab, at UPenn's Graduate School of Education & Annenberg School of Communication is holding it's 2nd Annual Screening Scholarship Media Festival (#SSMF2014) and are still accepting submissions. *camra* seeks to push the boundaries of research and media, developing new ways of knowing through audiovisual forms of expression and create an aesthetic sensibility that destabilizes previously held notions of what differentiates art from scholarship. Thus, the festival asks participants to consider the following questions: - *What are the possibilities that advances in media offer for knowledge production? * - *What are the methods and strategies that media makers and academics share in their work?* - * What are the ways in which academics can and should integrate rigorous media production in their research?* Last year we had a range of submissions from artists, filmmakers, scholars, educators, designers and more. They shared films, e-books, online multimodal publications, animations and other amazing media work. SUBMISSIONS DUE ON 10/15/13. For more information and access to online submissions system: http://www.camrapenn.org/screening-scholarship-media-festival/ twitter: @camrapenn facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CamraPenn

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Fwd: [IAMCR] New publication on contested internet governance
by jeremy hunsinger 13 Oct '13

13 Oct '13

Begin forwarded message: > From: Divina MEIGS <divina.meigs(a)orange.fr> > Subject: [IAMCR] New publication on contested internet governance > Date: October 13, 2013 9:28:53 AM EDT > To: IAMCR Announcements List <announcements(a)iamcr.org> > > Dear colleagues > As Internet Governance Forum is taking place in Bali, please find a contribution to this contested debate in the following issue of RFEA 134 > Best > Divina Frau-Meigs > Professor Sorbonne Nouvelle, UNESCO chair “’savoir devenir’ in sustainable digital development” > > > illustration care of DiploFoundation > > Revue française d’études américaines 2012/4 (n° 134). 128 pages. Editeur : Belin > ISSN : 0397-7870 > ISSN en ligne : 1776-3061. ISBN : 9782701162829. > Lien : <http://www.cairn.info/revue-francaise-d-etudes-americaines-2012-4.htm>. > > Contested Internet Governance > Divina Frau-Meigs (Ed.). Conducting Research on the Internet and its Governance > Page 3-19 > > The Internet and its Governance: A General Bibliography > Page 20-24 > > Glossary of Key Terms and Notions about Internet Governance > Page 25 -28 > > Julia Pohle et Luciano Morganti The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN): Origins, Stakes and Tensions > Page 29-46 > > Francesca Musiani et al. Net Neutrality as an Internet Governance Issue: The Globalization of an American-Born Debate > Page 47- 63 > > Jeanette Hofmann Narratives of Copyright Enforcement: The Upward Ratchet and the Sleeping Giant > Page 64-80 > > Elizabeth Dubois et William H. Dutton The Fifth Estate in Internet Governance: Collective Accountability of a Canadian Policy Initiative > Page 81-97 > > Mathieu O’Neil Collaborative Internet Governance: Terms and Conditions of Analysis > Page 98 -113 > > Peng Hwa Ang et Natalie Pang Globalization of the Internet, Sovereignty or Democracy: The Trilemma of the Internet Governance Forum > Page 114-127 > -- > International Association for Media and Communication Research | http://www.iamcr.org > > Join IAMCR | http://www.iamcr.org/join > IAMCR 2013 | http://iamcr2013dublin.com/ > IAMCR on Facebook | http://www.facebook.com/iamcr.org > @IAMCRtweets on Twitter | http://twitter.com/IAMCRtweets > > Announcements mailing list information and policies: http://iamcr.org/mailman/listinfo/announcements_iamcr.org > Unsubscribe: http://iamcr.org/mailman/options/announcements_iamcr.org Jeremy Hunsinger Communication Studies Wilfrid Laurier University Center for Digital Discourse and Culture Virginia Tech () ascii ribbon campaign - against html mail /\ - against microsoft attachments http://www.tmttlt.com You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus. --Mark Twain

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The Institute of Network Cultures presents: MoneyLab--Coining Alternatives
by Geert Lovink 13 Oct '13

13 Oct '13

The Institute of Network Cultures presents: MoneyLab--Coining Alternatives Over the past few years, while the economic downturn endures and budget cuts prevail, we have witnessed the emergence and rise of alternative payment systems and revenue models in digital media. Online bartering sites, a plethora of crowdfunding platforms, new forms of valuation, e-wallets and crypto-currencies like Bitcoin, are but a few examples. These coincide with the huge growth of mobile money transfer services across Asia and Africa and the general convergence of digital and financial industries. Is this where a healthy economic future lies? Do these economic ventures testify to a paradigm shift from a market-based economy towards a network economy? What are the possibilities, pitfalls and issues at hand? Will these experiments gain wider ‘over the counter’ usage, effectively becoming mainstream? Beyond Hayekian notions of ‘currency competition’, what theories and concepts can help us engage with these developments? MoneyLab: Coining Alternatives aims to critically explore, map and probe the politics, inner-workings and governance of these alternative digital economic forms.It is not enough to merely promote and further develop (technical) alternatives, we also need time to ask ourselves critical questions and re-examine the very underpinnings of our endeavors. What’s Cooking? MoneyLab: Discussion List You can join our project by subscribing to the MoneyLab: Coining Alternatives Mailinglist. We are always looking for radical submissions that closely reflect the stated aim of the MoneyLab: Coining Alternatives project. Subscribe here:http://listcultures.org/mailman/listinfo/moneylab_listcultures.org. MoneyLab: Blog Over the next few weeks we will launch the MoneyLab: Coining Alternatives Blog where you can find our position paper, interesting background articles, blog posts, and info on our upcoming events. We will send out a notice to our listservice members as soon as the Blog is live. MoneyLab: Conference We will be hosting a two-day conference event in Amsterdam, on March 21-22, 2014. The purpose of this conference is to launch the network by gathering artists, designers, programmers, activists and researchers. The aim will be to map the field, reflect upon theories and experiences and clarify the key constituents, discourses and architectures at work in the different kinds of network economies. MoneyLab: INC Reader One of the outcomes of the conference will be to publish the discussions and debates as an INC reader, which will serve as a resource on alternatives in networked economies. These will not be proceeding and everyone interested can send in an abstract. The publication is due to come late 2014 and will be published both in a paper version in a variety of electronic versions (pdf, e-pub etc.). MoneyLab: Toolkit In addition, we will develop a toolkit built on the results of our research project that maps the field of alternative revenue models and payments systems geared to freelancers and organizations in the creative industries. >> Join Us!<< Of central importance to this project is the formation of a collaborative network of researchers, artists, developers, engineers, and others interested in sharing, coining, critiquing, and ushering in alternative network economies. Did you read or write an interesting article on this matter, or maybe you also want to host a similar conference, hackathon or other types of conspiratorial gatherings? – let us know! MoneyLab Coordinator: Patricia de Vries Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences | HvA Room 04A07 Rhijnspoorplein 1 NL-1091 GC Amsterdam t: +31 20 5951883 patricia(a)networkcultures.org www.networkcultures.org

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Internet Censorship, Filtering and Blocking in Pakistan - A very strong take on the issue
by Fouad Bajwa 13 Oct '13

13 Oct '13

Dear all, The local Daily International News on Sunday has taken a strong analysis of the Internet censorship issues in Pakistan: Online Edition: http://jang.com.pk/thenews/oct2013-weekly/nos-13-10-2013/spr.htm Print Edition: Special Report Section 1, Page 32: http://e.thenews.com.pk/10-13-2013/nos_page11.asp Special Report Section 2, Page 33: http://e.thenews.com.pk/10-13-2013/nos_page12.asp -- Regards. -------------------------- Fouad Bajwa ICT4D and Internet Governance Advisor My Blog: Internet's Governance: http://internetsgovernance.blogspot.com/ Follow my Tweets: http://twitter.com/fouadbajwa

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Save the date - first CFP: CaTaC¹14: Culture, Technology, Communication - Oslo, June 15-18, 2014
by Charles Ess 13 Oct '13

13 Oct '13

Dear AoIR-ists, On behalf of the Conference Co-Organizers, I'm very pleased to draw your attention to CaTaC¹14: Culture, Technology, Communication: Celebration, Transformation, New Directions. Please distribute and cross-post as appropriate. Venue: Department of Informatics, Ole-Johan Dahls hus, University of Oslo Dates: June 15-18, 2014 Predoctoral PhD workshop: Monday morning, June 16, 2014. Conference website: <http://www.catacconference.org/> NB! June is a busy month for conferences and tourism in Oslo. We strongly urge potentially interested participants to explore the resource lists on the conference website of recommended accommodations and book as early as possible. Notifications of acceptance will be issued sufficiently early (March 14, 2014) so as to allow cost-free reservation cancellation if need be. Important Dates: Submission of papers (short or full), panel proposals: 14 February 2014 Notification of acceptance: 14 March 2014 Final formatted papers (for conference proceedings): 18 April 2014 Background. Our 1998 conference on ³Culture, Technology, and Communication² (CATaC) was among the first devoted to the roles of culturally-variable norms, practices, and communicative preferences in the designs, implementations, and responses to (networked) information and communication technologies. While certainly successful in academic terms (including publications and conference ranking by the Australian Research Council as among the top 20% of conferences in these domains), what became a biennial series has also been marked as a critical but collegial conference culture that provides a unique oasis for participants who share often radically interdisciplinary interests. (AoIR-ists will feel right at home!) Much has changed, of course, since 1998 - including the "mainstreaming" of our signature focus on culture as inextricably interwoven with ICTs. Accordingly, CaTaC'14 will be a transformational conference - one that will explore new, robustly interdisciplinary ways of attending to the intersections of culture, technology, and communication in critical but cordial fashion. We aim to both celebrate the people and accomplishments of the past conference series, and to transform the conference series through development of new research, directions and approaches. We invite both participation in the opening Doctoral Colloquium and paper and panel submissions that address the intersections between culture, technology, and communication with a focus on either Design/Production or Practice (see descriptions below). Doctoral Colloquium: PhD students will present and collaboratively discuss their current work, and enjoy advice and mentoring from senior faculty across the disciplines represented at CaTaC¹14 including informatics and design, communication and media studies, among others (Monday morning, June 16, 8.30-12.00). Conference tracks. We invite research, reflection, and scholarship that specifically address one or more of our defining elements of culture, technology, and communication while simultaneously exploring the interrelationship(s) between these. More particularly, we invite submissions that do so through focusing on either Design/Production or Practice. (For a much more extensive description of the tracks and their threads, please see the conference website.) Design/Production For this track, we invite individual papers and panels that look at how technical, cultural and communication affordances and constraints intersect in the production of technology, messages and theory construction. This track includes: * Designs for Good Lives in a Mediated Age, Invited panel, ³Cross-cultural understandings and designs of social robots as co-agents of good lives² (Satomi Sugiyama, chair). * Trans-mediated and intelligent workplaces: implications for work analysis and interaction design * Technology Design: Politics and ethics * Legal and ethical issues * Research Design and Theory Development Practice We invite individual submissions and panels that have the use of information and communication technologies in specific cultural contexts as their main focus. Examples include: * Cultural diversity and global ICTs, e.g. ,global health information systems, Wikipedia, social media; * Global and local cultures of computing; * The construction of identity using online social media, gaming, and blogging platforms * Political activism through social media * Privacy issues in media environments that encourage public identities. * Analysis of Cultural Discourses about technology that shape understanding and use, Both short (3-5 pages) and long (10-15 pages) original papers are sought for presentation. Panel proposals addressing a specific theme or topic are also encouraged. Papers will be published in the Conference Proceedings (electronic only). Authors retain copyright, etc. Registration fees: to be determined. (We anticipate that registration fees will be somewhat perhaps significantly less than in previous years.) We look forward to welcoming you to Oslo next June! Conference Co-organizers: Charles Ess (Department of Media and Communication, University of Oslo) Maja van der Velden (Department of Informatics, University of Oslo) Organizing Committee José Abdelnour-Nocera (School of Computing and Technology, University of West London) Herbert Hrachovec (Philosophy Department, University of Vienna) Leah Macfadyen (Evaluation and Learning Analytics, University of British Columbia) Patrizia Schettino (Communication Studies, Università della Svizzera italiana) Ylva Hård af Segerstad (Department of Applied Information Technology at the University of Gothenburg/Chalmers) Andra Siibak (Media Studies, University of Tartu) Michele M. Strano, Program Chair (Communication Studies, Bridgewater College) Satomi Sugiyama (Communication and Media Studies, Franklin College Switzerland)

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Big Data techniques
by Peter Timusk 13 Oct '13

13 Oct '13

I would think that when people looking for big data from the net come looking for help they would come to some of you Internet researchers as you have developed techniques for researching the net. Does this sound right?

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