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Call for chapter proposals: Conditions of Mediation
by Scott Rodgers 06 Sep '14

06 Sep '14

Apologies for cross-posting CALL FOR CHAPTER PROPOSALS Conditions of Mediation: Phenomenological Approaches to Media, Technology and Communication Editors: Tim Markham and Scott Rodgers In June 2013, the ICA preconference Conditions of Mediation (see http://conditionsofmediation.wordpress.com for further information) brought together scholars from a wide range of perspectives – including audience studies, political theory, metaphysics, media archaeology, software studies, science and technology studies, cultural geography and urban studies – to critically reflect on both the merits and limits of phenomenological approaches for understanding media, in philosophical, theoretical, political and empirical terms. Inspired by this very successful conference, we are now preparing a proposal for an edited book under the same title. The proposed format of the book is to have a substantive introduction, two ‘dialogues’ involving Graham Harman, Lisa Parks, Paddy Scannell, Shaun Moores, Nick Couldry and David Berry (based on their keynote papers), and 10-12 short paper chapters of 4000 words (excluding bibliography). We are therefore issuing an Open Call for Chapter Proposals. If you are interested in contributing a chapter to this edited book, please send a chapter title and 400 word abstract by no later than 15 September 2013 to Scott Rodgers at s.rodgers(a)bbk.ac.uk. Those that are subsequently invited to submit a full chapter will need to have this completed by 1 March 2014. Please direct any inquiries to Scott Rodgers at s.rodgers(a)bbk.ac.uk. We look forward to receiving your chapter proposals.

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Quantitative analysis of online pornography
by Antoine Mazieres 22 Mar '14

22 Mar '14

Dear IRs, I am looking at available data of online pornography and looked at available studies made out of them. I'm very surprised to mainly only find studies on impact/effect of pornography on humans with almost none study on topology/dynamics/evolution of the object itself. Does some of you have some references in mind that dig in that direction ? (If I manage to arrange a dataset out of available data on public website, I would be glad to share it, let me know if you're interested.) Thanks for your help, All best, Antoine http://mazier.es/

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ISCRAM 2014 deadline extension
by Andrea H. Tapia 07 Jan '14

07 Jan '14

ISCRAM 2014 ANNOUNCEMENT GENERAL paper deadline EXTENSION until December 1st, 2013 Please share very widely. Due to the typhoon in the Philippines and the involvement of many of our members in the recovery effort, the general deadline for full papers for ISCRAM 2014 has been postponed until December 1. However, no extensions can be granted beyond that date for full papers. Those who can are strongly urged to submit their papers before December 1, so that reviewers have a longer time and you are more likely to receive more reviews to help you with any revision. ISCRAM: The 11th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management CONFERENCE THEME: Empowering Citizens and Communities through Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management DATES: May 18-21 2014 LOCATION: Penn State University, Pennsylvania USA http://iscram2014.ist.psu.edu<http://iscram2014.ist.psu.edu/>

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Call for Abstracts: Death, mourning and the internet (Thanatos vol. 3 1/2014)
by Anna E. Haverinen 28 Dec '13

28 Dec '13

Sorry for cross posting, please share! Best, Anna Haverinen Digital Culture, University of Turku, Finland _____________ CALL FOR ABSTRACTS: Thanatos vol. 3 1/2014 Theme issue: Death, mourning and the internet Computer and mobile technologies have now provided a new space and medium to connect and share at the time of loss and bereavement. People seek out for places of ritualised actions, such as lighting candles, writing eulogies, visit memorials during anniversaries and feeling the sense of community at the time of loss. Internet provides a new space for rituals, feeling of co-presence and communality, where memorials are being erected in various online environments. This new way of expressing mourning and honoring are rising interesting questions about value, family, identity, friendship and love. Who is allowed to create a virtual memorial? Who has access and ownership to the material we leave online? Is it only the young people, the Web 2.0 generation,and the digital natives, who are appropriating internet technology to cope with loss and bereavement? What are the problems of using the internet in hospice care? How virtuality, death and/or the after world are being conceptualised through the Web? Thanatos (www.thanatos-journal.com) is a peer-reviewed, multi-disciplinary and a scientific webjournal published by the Finnish Death Studies Association (www.kuolemantutkimus.com) We publish twice a year a journal that consists of articles, short and long research reports, book reviews, columns and seminar reports. The primary publication language is Finnish, but we do accept manuscripts in English and Swedish as well, however, the costs of proofreading are the responsibility of the author. We now invite abstracts in English, Swedish or Finnish (max 400 words) for articles (max 8000 words) and research reports (max 5000 words) from the following example themes: • Digital afterlife • Internet and hospice care • Space and spatiality in virtual memorials • Identity and virtual memorials • Online memorials and heritage • Memorials and online gaming • Death and Facebook • Memorial videos in Youtube (Vimeo etc.) • Online funerals The above mentioned topics are only examples and we encourage you to send your own ideas as well. Abstracts are to be sent to anna.haverinen(a)utu.fiby 3rd of January 2014. Schedule: • 3.1.2014: Abstract deadlines (max 400 words) • 28.2.2014: Full manuscript deadlines (articles max 8000 words, research reports max 5000 words) • 15.4.2014: Writers receive referee and editorial comments on their first drafts • 31.5.2014: Deadline for second drafts • June/July: Journal publication The head editor of the first issue in 2014 will be doctoral student of digital culture, Anna Haverinen (M. Phil.), who has studied virtual memorials and online death rituals extensively since 2007 in her thesis "Virtual Memorials - death and mourning rituals in online environments" (Forthcoming, 2014).

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Call for Papers: EJCS special issue on Data Mining / Anaytics
by Helen Kennedy 20 Dec '13

20 Dec '13

Call for Papers The European Journal of Cultural Studies Special issue on Data Mining / Analytics Editors: Mark Andrejevic, University of Queensland, Australia; Alison Hearn, University of Western Ontario, Canada; Helen Kennedy, University of Leeds, UK. The widespread use of social media has given rise to new forms of monitoring, mining and aggregation strategies designed to monetize the huge volumes of data such usage produces. Social media monitoring and analysis industries, experts and consultancies have emerged offering a broad range of social media intelligence and reputation management services. Such services typically involve a range of analytical methods (sentiment analysis, opinion mining, social network analysis, machine learning, natural language processing), often offered in black-boxed proprietary form, in order to gain insights into public opinion, mood, networks and relationships and identify potential word-of-mouth influencers. Ostensibly, these various forms of data mining, analytics and machine learning also are paving the way for the development of a more intelligent or ‘semantic’ Web 3.0, offering a more ‘productive and intuitive’ user experience. As commercial and non-commercial organisations alike seek to monitor, influence, manage and direct social media conversations, and as global usage of social media expands, questions surface that challenge celebratory accounts of the democratizing, participatory possibilities of social media. Remembering that Web 2.0 was always intended as a business manifesto – O’Reilly’s early maxims included, after all, ‘data is the next Intel inside’, ‘users add value’ and ‘collaboration as data collection’ – we need to interrogate social media not only as communication tools, but also as techno-economic constructs with important implications for the management of populations and the formation of subjects. Data mining and analytics are about much more than targeted advertising: they envision new strategies for forecasting, targeting, and decision making in a growing range of social realms (employment, education, health care, policing, urban planning, epidemiology, etc.) with the potential to usher in new, unaccountable, and opaque forms of discrimination, sorting, inclusion and exclusion. As Web 3.0 and the ‘big data’ it generates moves inexorably toward predictive analytics and the overt technocratic management of human sociality, urgent questions arise about how such data are gathered, constructed and sold, to what ends they are deployed, who gets access to them, and how their analysis is regulated (boyd and Crawford 2012). This special issue aims to bring together scholars who interrogate social media intelligence work undertaken in the name of big data, big business and big government. It aims to draw together empirically-grounded and theoretically-informed analyses of the key issues in contemporary forms of data mining and analytics from across disparate fields and methodologies. . Contributions are invited that address a range of related issues. Areas for consideration could include, but are not limited to: • Political economy of social media platforms • Algorithmic culture • User perspectives on data mining • The politics of data visualisation • Big data and the cultural industries • Data journalism • The social life of big data methods • Inequalities and exclusions in data mining • Affective prediction and control • Data mining and new subjectivities • Ethics, regulation and data mining • Conceptualising big/data/mining • Social media intelligence at work • Social media and surveillance • Critical histories of data mining, sorting, and surveillance. Prospective contributors should email an abstract of 500-700 words to the issue editors by 9th December 2013 (to h.kennedy(a)leeds.ac.uk) Full articles should be submitted to Helen Kennedy (h.kennedy(a)leeds.ac.uk) by 12th May 2014. Manuscripts must be no longer than 7,000 words. Articles should meet with The European Journal of Cultural Studies’ aim to promote empirically based, theoretically informed cultural studies; essayist discussion papers are not normally accepted by this journal. All articles will be refereed: invitation to submit a paper to the special issue in no way guarantees that the paper will be published; this is dependent on the review process. Details • Abstract deadline: 9th December 2013 (to h.kennedy(a)leeds.ac.uk) • Decisions on abstracts communicated by 13th January 2014; • Article submission deadline: 12th May 2014 (to h.kennedy(a)leeds.ac.uk) • Final submission/review process complete: 13th October 2014; • For publication in 2015. Dr Helen Kennedy Senior Lecturer in New Media, Institute of Communications Studies, University of Leeds (http://ics.leeds.ac.uk/) More about me: http://ics.leeds.ac.uk/staff/h.kennedy

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Re: [Air-L] Use of Social Media Tools at an Academic Conference
by Magdalena O! 05 Dec '13

05 Dec '13

Hello, I second guidebook.com<http://guidebook.com>. I've seen it used at the Differential Mobilities Conference in Montreal in May, and with HASTAC last spring. It allows you to upload images, tweets, make your own conference plan, notes, etc. Although this may be obvious, but the key to having a lively social media component to any conference is having dedicated social media people who can monitor hashtags, upload images, participate in backchannel conversations and also know how to effectively synthesize presenter ideas in 140 characters. I have done social media / photography coordination for conferences before. It takes a lot of planning and work, and you can't simply rely on technology to have a live stream and what have you of tweets from attendees if you want to have an impact. :) Cheers =^.^= Magdalena Olszanowski, PhD Student Senior Research Assistant, Mobile Media Lab<http://mobilities.ca> HASTAC Scholar Communication Studies Concordia University Montreal, QC @raisecain<http://twitter.com/raisecain> On 2013-11-28, at 11:01 AM, air-l-request(a)listserv.aoir.org<mailto:air-l-request@listserv.aoir.org> wrote: Re: [Air-L] Use of Social Media Tools at an Academic Conference

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Call for papers
by Pilar Garces 03 Dec '13

03 Dec '13

CALL FOR PAPERS Journal of Language Aggression and Conflict Language studies have for years tended to concentrate on the analysis of harmonious interactions. However, more recently, the study of acrimonious interaction has started gathering momentum. Therefore, the launching of the Journal of Language Aggression and Conflict (John Benjamins) is a timely event to give center stage to research focusing on the language of conflict and aggression. For more information please visit http://benjamins.com/#catalog/journals/jlac/main The first volume is coming out in June 2013. We would like to invite scholars working in these areas to contribute research papers or book reviews for the third or subsequent volumes. The journal is peer-reviewed and is published bi-annually (March and August). The third volume is due March 2014. Interested colleagues are invited to submit their contributions by the end of December 2013. For questions, please contact: Pilar Garcés Blitvich (pgblitvi(a)uncc.edu) and Maria Sifianou (msifian(a)enl.uoa.gr) Please disseminate this information to any colleagues you think might be interested.

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Fwd: Call for Book Chapters - Maestros, Musicians, and Multiplayers: Music Video Games
by Michael Austin 30 Nov '13

30 Nov '13

*Call for Book Chapter Proposals* *Edited Collection on Music Games* *Proposal Submission Deadline:* *February 15, 2014* *Working Title:* *Maestros, Musicians, and Multiplayers: Music Video Games* *Editor:* Michael Austin (Howard University) *Potential Publisher:* Bloomsbury Press, in their “Approaches to Digital Game Studies” Series *Series Editors:* Gerald Voorhees (University of Waterloo), Josh Call (Grandview University), Katie Whitlock (California State University, Chico) While music *for* video games is a popular, emerging field within Game Studies, Musicology, and New Media Studies, few have written on the genre of music video games. The gameplay in music games is mostly concentrated around the player's interaction with some element(s) of music (i.e. rhythm, pitch, volume, etc.). The most popular music games fall within the sub-genre of "rhythm games;" game such as "Dance Dance Revolution," "Guitar Hero," and others, require players to perform a particular interaction or task in rhythm with the music provided. Games such as "Karaoke Revolution" test a player's pitch accuracy as they sing along to popular songs. Other games, such as "Wii Music," require players to control the volume of the music through gestural control of the remote, or allow players to create music of their own, functioning as a free-form music game. Further, there are musical games that are modified for artistic purposes or are created to serve as a musical instrument for concert performances or that allow users to perform telematically with players across the globe; other serious music games teach users to play real musical instruments or demonstrate concepts in music theory, aural skills and singing, etc. For this volume, I am looking for approximately 10-15 chapters that examine music video games and their social significance. Possible topics include (but are not limited to): • Rhythm games (such as Guitar Hero or Dance Dance Revolution) • Pitch games (ex. Karaoke-type games) • Volume games (ex. Wii Music) • Music Memory/Eidetic games • Social music games (such as Song Pop or Turntable.fm) • Quest-based music games (such as The Sixty One) • Mobile music games • Collaborative music games (such as JAM with Chrome) • Adapting non-music games for musical purposes (performing concerts in Second Life, for example) • Serious music games Authors are invited to submit their proposal that should include: 1. The names and contact information for all authors (please identify a main contact) 2. A brief abstract (300-500 words) describing your potential chapter (please include a proposed chapter title). 3. Information about the author(s) demonstrating his/her qualifications for writing a chapter; this should be submitted in the form of a brief C.V. or short biographical statement. *Submission Procedure:* Please submit these materials as a Word Document or PDF file by *Feb. 15, 2014.* Authors of accepted proposals will be notified around March 1, 2014. If the book proposal is accepted, each chapter (of around 6,000-8,000 words) will likely be due sometime in mid-to-late 2014. *Inquiries and Submissions can be emailed to:* Michael Austin, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Media, Journalism, and Film Howard University, Washington, D.C. michael.austin(a)howard.edu

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Internet statistics
by Johnson, Thomas J 30 Nov '13

30 Nov '13

I need some help with Internet statistics. Every source I see show the percentage of each group that uses the Internet (e.g. 98% of those 18-29). I am looking for statistics that indicate of the total Internet population, what percentage use the Internet (e.g. of the Internet population, what percentage is 18-29 so that, in this case, age figures would add up to 100%). I wonder because we always compare our samples to Census figures when the proper comparison should be the Internet population.

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New Book: Internet and Emotions
by eranfisher . 29 Nov '13

29 Nov '13

New edited collection of 13 articles in Routledge Studies in Science, Technology and Society: Internet and Emotions // Tova Benski and Eran Fisher (Eds.) http://www.amazon.com/Internet-Emotions-Routledge-Studies-Technology/dp/041… -- Eran Fisher, PhD Department of Sociology, Political Science, and Communication The Open University 1 University Road, P.O.Box 808, Ra'anana 43537, Israel ד"ר ערן פישר המחלקה לסוציולוגיה, מדעי המדינה ותקשורת האוניברסיטה הפתוחה דרך האוניברסיטה 1, ת.ד. 808, רעננה 43537 New book: Internet and Emotions<http://www.amazon.com/Internet-Emotions-Routledge-Studies-Technology/dp/041…> (Routledge) New in paperback: Media and New Capitalism in the Digital Age<http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1137310812/ref=ox_sc_act_title_3?ie=UTF8&p…>(Palgrave)

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