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Seminar Series: Code Acts in Education Seminar Series - Scotland
by Lyndsay Grant 07 Nov '13

07 Nov '13

Please see details below of a new seminar series running from January 2014 exploring how computer code is interwoven with educational processes, institutions and practices. Full details can be found at: http://codeactsineducation.wordpress.com/seminars/ The Code Acts in Education seminar series seeks to understand how code and software algorithms are shaping how, when and where learning takes place – in the classroom, the university, the professional workplace, and throughout the lifecourse. The series is organised by researchers at the University of Stirling and University of Edinburgh schools of education, and is funded by the Economic and Social Research Council. The series will set the stage for new research and new innovations exploring the emerging interdependencies between code and education, and will be of interest to researchers from social science and computer science disciplines, educational policy makers, and organisations involved in digital making and computing in education. The seminars will address unanswered questions about how code acts as a sociotechnical agent in education. It will focus on how code interacts with educational institutions—schools, colleges and HE; how code is interwoven with people’s lifelong learning within their everyday lives and communities; and how code acts on professional learning in workplaces. We will be asking how these interactions between code and education might impact on knowledge practices, pedagogic techniques, learner agency, identity formation and other aspects of ‘learning through code.’ We anticipate that the Code Acts in Education seminar series will generate a research network, research capacity, and a research agenda for the educational study of computer code. To register, please go to: http://codeactsineducation.wordpress.com/contact-register/ Places are free but limited! The ESRC has also kindly provided funding to help support delegate travel. Up to £30 per person is available for the first 30 people to register. If you have any queries please contact us at codeacts(a)stir.ac.uk -- Lyndsay Grant Research Associate Bristol University, Graduate School Education, 35 Berkeley Square Bristol BS8 1JA lyndsay.grant(a)bristol.ac.uk

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CfP: ICA Pre-Conference on Sharing
by Wolfgang Sützl 07 Nov '13

07 Nov '13

Call for Papers ICA Pre-Conference: Sharing Thursday, May 22, 2014 University of Washington, Seattle Abstracts: November 30, 2013 Full papers: April 15, 2014 Enquiries: n.john(a)huji.ac.il ******* Sharing is a rich and emotive concept that refers to a range of distinct yet associated practices, all of which are powerfully salient in contemporary society. At the very least, sharing is the constitutive activity of Web 2.0, an alternative mode of production, distribution and consumption, and a type of speech. This pre-conference invites scholars from a range of fields to contribute to the research and theorization of sharing. Thematic background The notion of sharing is widely deployed nowadays, and in a number of different ways. First, sharing is a keyword for the digital age: In Web 2.0 we share statuses, tweets, files, photos, videos, book reviews and more. Second, sharing is the proposed bedrock of alternative forms of production and consumption. Some of these forms are known collectively as the Sharing Economy, an emergent movement that identifies with and rests upon the technologies of social networks; others might fall under headings such as FLOSS, peer production, or the P2P economy. Third, sharing is a category of speech, or a type of communication, that is fundamental to our therapeutic culture, referring mainly—but certainly not only—to the conveyance of intimate information about the self to a significant other. These are just some of the ways in which sharing, in its different senses, is constitutive of important aspects of our social, economic and intimate lives. A feature of sharing that is common to these different practices is that they all touch on the nebulous and porous boundary between the ‘public’ and the ‘private’: for instance, SNS users are criticized for polluting the public sphere, or ‘oversharing’; a popular model in the Sharing Economy involves offering private spaces (spare bedrooms, space in one’s car) for public consumption; and the rise of the therapeutic discourse has entailed increased levels of self-exposure between intimates, friends, and even colleagues. Relatedly, each of the types of sharing draws on a similar pool of values, which includes honesty, openness, trust, and commonality. To the extent that these are desirable values, sharing would thus seem to be integral to any vision of the good life. Indeed, sharing is almost by definition good. But this is precisely the point at which a critique of sharing is required. For instance, we might wish to note that by sharing on social network sites we are contributing to privately-owned (and government-accessed) assemblages of surveillance; we might want to ask in what sense renting out a spare room is sharing it, and we might want to explore the role of venture capital and big business in the Sharing Economy; and we might wonder what structures of power are enacted and reproduced by privileging certain types of culturally-situated speech. More generally, if inclusion in a social framework is predicated on the ability to share, where does this leave people who have nothing? Topics Empirical and theoretical papers are invited on any topic for which sharing is a central concept. Possible topics include, but are not limited to, the following: ● Sharing online: What is the political economy of online sharing? How does the metaphor of sharing as the constitutive activity of Web 2.0 operate? ● Technologies of sharing: Reports have claimed that online sharing (e.g. of statuses) increases people’s propensity to share stuff offline (e.g. power drills). How is sharing today technologically mediated, encouraged, or forced? And: how do different technologies encourage sharing or punish non-sharing? Skype users, for instance, must share bandwidth to use the service; peer-to-peer file sharers share what they are uploading for as long as they are downloading. ● The word, ‘sharing’: Etymologies; ‘sharing’ in different languages; evolving meanings. And: what is stake by calling a practice one of sharing? What is gained? ● The Sharing Economy: The Sharing Economy and collaborative consumption as a critique of capitalism; the differences between sharing and gifting – for instance, does sharing create the same obligations described by Mauss and Derrida in relation to gifts? ● Sharing as a category of speech: What characterizes it? What rules of reciprocity and mutuality govern it? How do the values of sharing as a category of speech inform sharing in other social fields? ● Sharing and gender: Is sharing gendered? What would it mean to say that it is? ● Sharing, giving, exchanging: conceptual boundaries ● What’s new? Sharing is a practice as old as human society, so what is new about sharing in the 21st century, if anything? ● Sharing as a norm: How is sharing normatively promoted? What are the sanctions for non-sharing in the different spheres of sharing? ● Sharing as a form of subjectivation and desubjectivation ● Sharing between having and being: towards existentialist understandings of sharing ● Sharing and the concept of intimacy ● The anthropological narrative of sharing We are particularly interested in submissions that actively interrogate the concept of sharing. If sharing is an important notion in your research, we therefore invite you to think about the work done by the word in your field and how it might relate to other senses or uses. Submissions Submissions are welcomed from scholars at all stages of their careers, and across multiple disciplines engaged in research that relates to sharing. Submissions should be extended abstracts of around 750 words and be in Word doc/docx or PDF format. Please submit your abstract as an email attachment to sharingpreconference(a)gmail.com. The deadline for submissions is November 30, 2013. Papers will be judged on criteria of relevance and originality of topic, clarity of presentation, as well as proximity to—and contribution to—the preconference theme. Notifications on acceptance will be emailed in mid-January. In an effort to facilitate informed discussion of papers, the organizers hope to have the papers for this pre-conference posted online. For this reason, we will ask for full papers to be submitted no later than April 15, 2014. Venue The sharing pre-conference will be held at the University of Washington. Transportation to the venue from the conference hotel will be provided at the beginning and end of each day's events. The preconference is sponsored by the divisions of Popular Communication and Philosophy, Theory and Critique, as well as by the Department of Communication, University of Washington. It is being organized by Nicholas John (Department of Communication, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem) and Wolfgang Sützl (School of Media Arts & Studies, Ohio University). Queries may be directed to n.john(a)huji.ac.il. This call for papers may be downloaded in PDF format at http://sociothink.com/sharingcfp.pdf ++++++++++++++++++ http://www.wolfgangsuetzl.net http://www.uibk.ac.at/medien/

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Re: [Air-L] Researching Crowdfunding and Online Community
by Bienia Rafael (LK) 07 Nov '13

07 Nov '13

Hello Alex! My name is Rafael Bienia and I am working on crowdfunding in the video game industry at Maastricht University (NL). I would like to join the discussion, but what are the practicalities of "sharing and staying in touch"? E-Mail, online platform, or ... ? Best wishes, Rafael PhD candidate Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences Department of Literature and Art Maastricht University Phone: +31-(0)43-3883452 Email: rafael.bienia(a)maastrichtuniversity.nl Staff page: http://www.fdcw.unimaas.nl/staff/bienia Game Studies resources: http://www.rafael-bienia.de Postal address: PO Box 616, 6200 MD Maastricht, The Netherlands Visiting Address: Room: 0.006, Grote Gracht 86, 6211 SZ Maastricht -- Message: 2 Date: Tue, 5 Nov 2013 13:24:22 +0000 From: Alexandra.Stiver <Alexandra.Stiver(a)open.ac.uk> To: "air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org" <air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org> Subject: [Air-L] Researching Crowdfunding and Online Community Message-ID: <60667691F130CD418BD0D4FC512EF91217CBB6A631(a)SALCEYCMS1.open.ac.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Dear colleagues, My name is Alex Stiver and I?m a PhD researcher in the Centre for Research in Computing (http://crc.open.ac.uk/) at The Open University (UK). We are carrying out a three-year funded project related to online community and crowdfunding. Our research hopes to unearth knowledge not only about what makes crowdfunding projects successful financially, but also the nature of the relationship between crowdfunding projects and online community: how do the two impact each other across factors such as collaboration, networking, and feedback? We are wondering if colleagues may have experience with crowdfunding, and would be willing to share their stories and impressions with us: perspectives on the role of project creators or funders, involvement with the community (online or offline) associated with the project, and specific thoughts on crowdfunding platforms and processes. We would be most grateful to hear from you and to be in touch further. Please contact me <alexandra.stiver <at> open.ac.uk> if you would be willing to contribute, or for further information about the project. Many thanks! Alex -- The Open University is incorporated by Royal Charter (RC 000391), an exempt charity in England & Wales and a charity registered in Scotland (SC 038302). ------------------------------ Message: 3 Date: Tue, 5 Nov 2013 15:35:02 +0000 From: Filippo Trevisan <Filippo.Trevisan(a)glasgow.ac.uk> To: Alexandra.Stiver <Alexandra.Stiver(a)open.ac.uk> Cc: "air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org" <air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org> Subject: Re: [Air-L] Researching Crowdfunding and Online Community Message-ID: <CE9EBFB0.2801%filippo.trevisan(a)glasgow.ac.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Hi Alex, Another useful network to put this question out to would be the e-campaigning forum practitioners list: http://fairsay.com/ecflist I imagine many on that list would be very interested in hearing more about your work and possibly collaborating. Filippo ------- Dr. Filippo Trevisan Post-doctoral Research Assistant Adam Smith Research Foundation University of Glasgow 66, Oakfield Avenue Glasgow ? G12 8LS United Kingdom email: filippo.trevisan(a)glasgow.ac.uk Web: www.filippotrevisan.net Download some of my papers here: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=1531633 On 05/11/2013 13:24, "Alexandra.Stiver" <Alexandra.Stiver(a)open.ac.uk> wrote: >Dear colleagues, > >My name is Alex Stiver and I?m a PhD researcher in the Centre for >Research in Computing (http://crc.open.ac.uk/) at The Open University >(UK). > >We are carrying out a three-year funded project related to online >community and crowdfunding. Our research hopes to unearth knowledge not >only about what makes crowdfunding projects successful financially, but >also the nature of the relationship between crowdfunding projects and >online community: how do the two impact each other across factors such as >collaboration, networking, and feedback? > >We are wondering if colleagues may have experience with crowdfunding, and >would be willing to share their stories and impressions with us: >perspectives on the role of project creators or funders, involvement with >the community (online or offline) associated with the project, and >specific thoughts on crowdfunding platforms and processes. We would be >most grateful to hear from you and to be in touch further. > >Please contact me <alexandra.stiver <at> open.ac.uk> if you would be >willing to contribute, or for further information about the project. > >Many thanks! > >Alex >-- The Open University is incorporated by Royal Charter (RC 000391), an >exempt charity in England & Wales and a charity registered in Scotland >(SC 038302). >_______________________________________________ >The Air-L(a)listserv.aoir.org mailing list >is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org >Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: >http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org > >Join the Association of Internet Researchers: >http://www.aoir.org/ ------------------------------ Message: 4 Date: Tue, 5 Nov 2013 11:12:52 -0500 From: Seda Gurses <seda(a)nyu.edu> To: "air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org" <air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org> Subject: Re: [Air-L] Researching Crowdfunding and Online Community Message-ID: <7DEE1C24-0FAB-44FF-A4BC-FB32D21F36B2(a)nyu.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 hi alex, at the conference on online social networks[1] this year, there was a track on crowdsourcing, which had a number of quantitative studies on existing platforms. the first presentation was titled: Launch Hard or Go Home! Predicting the Success of Kickstarter Campaigns Vincent Etter (EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland) Matthias Grossglauser (EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland) Patrick Thiran (EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland) and may be of interest to you. best, s. [1] http://cosn.acm.org/program.html On Nov 5, 2013, at 10:35 AM, Filippo Trevisan <Filippo.Trevisan(a)glasgow.ac.uk> wrote: > Hi Alex, > > Another useful network to put this question out to would be the > e-campaigning forum practitioners list: http://fairsay.com/ecflist > > I imagine many on that list would be very interested in hearing more about > your work and possibly collaborating. > > Filippo > > ------- > Dr. Filippo Trevisan > Post-doctoral Research Assistant > Adam Smith Research Foundation > University of Glasgow > 66, Oakfield Avenue > Glasgow ? G12 8LS > United Kingdom > > email: filippo.trevisan(a)glasgow.ac.uk > Web: www.filippotrevisan.net > > Download some of my papers here: > http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=1531633 > > > > > On 05/11/2013 13:24, "Alexandra.Stiver" <Alexandra.Stiver(a)open.ac.uk> > wrote: > >> Dear colleagues, >> >> My name is Alex Stiver and I?m a PhD researcher in the Centre for >> Research in Computing (http://crc.open.ac.uk/) at The Open University >> (UK). >> >> We are carrying out a three-year funded project related to online >> community and crowdfunding. Our research hopes to unearth knowledge not >> only about what makes crowdfunding projects successful financially, but >> also the nature of the relationship between crowdfunding projects and >> online community: how do the two impact each other across factors such as >> collaboration, networking, and feedback? >> >> We are wondering if colleagues may have experience with crowdfunding, and >> would be willing to share their stories and impressions with us: >> perspectives on the role of project creators or funders, involvement with >> the community (online or offline) associated with the project, and >> specific thoughts on crowdfunding platforms and processes. We would be >> most grateful to hear from you and to be in touch further. >> >> Please contact me <alexandra.stiver <at> open.ac.uk> if you would be >> willing to contribute, or for further information about the project. >> >> Many thanks! >> >> Alex >> -- The Open University is incorporated by Royal Charter (RC 000391), an >> exempt charity in England & Wales and a charity registered in Scotland >> (SC 038302). >> _______________________________________________ >> The Air-L(a)listserv.aoir.org mailing list >> is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org >> Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: >> http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org >> >> Join the Association of Internet Researchers: >> http://www.aoir.org/ > > _______________________________________________ > The Air-L(a)listserv.aoir.org mailing list > is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org > Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org > > Join the Association of Internet Researchers: > http://www.aoir.org/ ------------------------------ Message: 5 Date: Tue, 5 Nov 2013 11:09:27 -0500 From: Rodrigo Davies <rodrigo.davies(a)gmail.com> To: Seda Gurses <seda(a)nyu.edu> Cc: "air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org" <air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org> Subject: Re: [Air-L] Researching Crowdfunding and Online Community Message-ID: <CA+fB0RcP86enwUHx2Gne8XzikbquavP-RruDdL-WcPduEGp6yw(a)mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Hi Alex, I've been looking at crowdfunding for the past year at MIT's Center for Civic Media. My interest is mostly in so-called 'civic' crowdfunding - the use of online platforms to raise money for projects that provide services to communities. I'm interested in questions of fairness/equity, geography and framing. I blog fairly regularly on the topic (rodrigodavies.com/blog) and am working on a couple of articles at the moment. I'd be glad to talk and hear more about your project. Likewise, I'd be glad to connect with other AIR folks who are working in this area. Best regards, Rodrigo -- Rodrigo Davies MIT Center for Civic Media @rodrigodavies | rodrigodavies.com/blog Find a time to talk: doodle.com/rodrigodavies On Tue, Nov 5, 2013 at 11:12 AM, Seda Gurses <seda(a)nyu.edu> wrote: > hi alex, > > at the conference on online social networks[1] this year, there was a track on crowdsourcing, which had a number of quantitative studies on existing platforms. > the first presentation was titled: > > Launch Hard or Go Home! Predicting the Success of Kickstarter Campaigns > Vincent Etter (EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland) > Matthias Grossglauser (EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland) > Patrick Thiran (EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland) > > and may be of interest to you. > best, > s. > > [1] http://cosn.acm.org/program.html > > > On Nov 5, 2013, at 10:35 AM, Filippo Trevisan <Filippo.Trevisan(a)glasgow.ac.uk> wrote: > >> Hi Alex, >> >> Another useful network to put this question out to would be the >> e-campaigning forum practitioners list: http://fairsay.com/ecflist >> >> I imagine many on that list would be very interested in hearing more about >> your work and possibly collaborating. >> >> Filippo >> >> ------- >> Dr. Filippo Trevisan >> Post-doctoral Research Assistant >> Adam Smith Research Foundation >> University of Glasgow >> 66, Oakfield Avenue >> Glasgow ? G12 8LS >> United Kingdom >> >> email: filippo.trevisan(a)glasgow.ac.uk >> Web: www.filippotrevisan.net >> >> Download some of my papers here: >> http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=1531633 >> >> >> >> >> On 05/11/2013 13:24, "Alexandra.Stiver" <Alexandra.Stiver(a)open.ac.uk> >> wrote: >> >>> Dear colleagues, >>> >>> My name is Alex Stiver and I?m a PhD researcher in the Centre for >>> Research in Computing (http://crc.open.ac.uk/) at The Open University >>> (UK). >>> >>> We are carrying out a three-year funded project related to online >>> community and crowdfunding. Our research hopes to unearth knowledge not >>> only about what makes crowdfunding projects successful financially, but >>> also the nature of the relationship between crowdfunding projects and >>> online community: how do the two impact each other across factors such as >>> collaboration, networking, and feedback? >>> >>> We are wondering if colleagues may have experience with crowdfunding, and >>> would be willing to share their stories and impressions with us: >>> perspectives on the role of project creators or funders, involvement with >>> the community (online or offline) associated with the project, and >>> specific thoughts on crowdfunding platforms and processes. We would be >>> most grateful to hear from you and to be in touch further. >>> >>> Please contact me <alexandra.stiver <at> open.ac.uk> if you would be >>> willing to contribute, or for further information about the project. >>> >>> Many thanks! >>> >>> Alex >>> -- The Open University is incorporated by Royal Charter (RC 000391), an >>> exempt charity in England & Wales and a charity registered in Scotland >>> (SC 038302). >>> _______________________________________________ >>> The Air-L(a)listserv.aoir.org mailing list >>> is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org >>> Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: >>> http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org >>> >>> Join the Association of Internet Researchers: >>> http://www.aoir.org/ >> >> _______________________________________________ >> The Air-L(a)listserv.aoir.org mailing list >> is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org >> Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org >> >> Join the Association of Internet Researchers: >> http://www.aoir.org/ > > _______________________________________________ > The Air-L(a)listserv.aoir.org mailing list > is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org > Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org > > Join the Association of Internet Researchers: > http://www.aoir.org/ ------------------------------ Message: 6 Date: Tue, 5 Nov 2013 08:15:09 -0800 From: "Daren Brabham" <brabham(a)usc.edu> Cc: <air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org> Subject: Re: [Air-L] Researching Crowdfunding and Online Community Message-ID: <018201ceda42$3349bbd0$99dd3370$(a)usc.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" I would also point you to http://www.crowdsourcing.org/ to find some stuff on crowdfunding (and crowdsourcing). The site is an aggregator of sorts for anything that discusses these issues. There's not much of a filter, for better or worse, so just about any company or scholarly article that claims to be about crowdsourcing or crowdfunding ends up catalogued on the site. It may serve as a good starting point, though, for tracking down key studies, companies, or researchers on crowdfunding. As a crowdsourcing researcher, I haven't done much on crowdfunding (which I consider conceptually distinct!), but I'm working on a paper now about how the discourse on crowdfunding may affect public arts funding - get in touch in a few weeks and I can share a copy of it. Cheers, 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 (213) 740-2007 office | (801) 633-4796 cell brabham(a)usc.edu | www.darenbrabham.com >> >> >> On 05/11/2013 13:24, "Alexandra.Stiver" <Alexandra.Stiver(a)open.ac.uk> >> wrote: >> >>> Dear colleagues, >>> >>> My name is Alex Stiver and I?m a PhD researcher in the Centre for >>> Research in Computing (http://crc.open.ac.uk/) at The Open >>> University (UK). >>> >>> We are carrying out a three-year funded project related to online >>> community and crowdfunding. Our research hopes to unearth knowledge >>> not only about what makes crowdfunding projects successful >>> financially, but also the nature of the relationship between >>> crowdfunding projects and online community: how do the two impact >>> each other across factors such as collaboration, networking, and feedback? >>> >>> We are wondering if colleagues may have experience with >>> crowdfunding, and would be willing to share their stories and impressions with us: >>> perspectives on the role of project creators or funders, involvement >>> with the community (online or offline) associated with the project, >>> and specific thoughts on crowdfunding platforms and processes. We >>> would be most grateful to hear from you and to be in touch further. >>> >>> Please contact me <alexandra.stiver <at> open.ac.uk> if you would be >>> willing to contribute, or for further information about the project. >>> >>> Many thanks! >>> >>> Alex >>> -- The Open University is incorporated by Royal Charter (RC 000391), >>> an exempt charity in England & Wales and a charity registered in >>> Scotland (SC 038302). >>> _______________________________________________ >>> The Air-L(a)listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the >>> Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, >>> change options or unsubscribe at: >>> http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org >>> >>> Join the Association of Internet Researchers: >>> http://www.aoir.org/ >> >> _______________________________________________ >> The Air-L(a)listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the >> Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change >> options or unsubscribe at: >> http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org >> >> Join the Association of Internet Researchers: >> http://www.aoir.org/ > > _______________________________________________ > The Air-L(a)listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the > Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change > options or unsubscribe at: > http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org > > Join the Association of Internet Researchers: > http://www.aoir.org/ _______________________________________________ The Air-L(a)listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org Join the Association of Internet Researchers: http://www.aoir.org/ ------------------------------ Message: 7 Date: Tue, 5 Nov 2013 13:04:11 -0500 From: Joly MacFie <joly(a)punkcast.com> To: Researchers <air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org> Subject: [Air-L] Internet Society launches call for academic and scholarly papers on multistakeholder participation Message-ID: <CAM9VJk2tYHtvyrNtZM6bYfK4dBTS9cE8qDrbe3qOr9qRYZfnYQ(a)mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Konstantinos Komaitis <komaitis(a)isoc.org> Date: Tue, Nov 5, 2013 at 5:10 AM Subject: Internet Society launches call for academic and scholarly papers on multistakeholder participation Dear all, in August 2013, the Internet Society launched a two-phased process on multistakeholder participation. Seeking public input on how Internet governance has evolved over the years, the first phase included a questionnaire on a range of issues including multistakeholder participation, enhanced cooperation and issues of balance and participation. In this first phase, the Internet Society received approximately 300 responses from more than 53 countries around the world. An initial report was produced with an analysis of the results -- the report can be found here: http://www.internetsociety.org/sites/default/files/bp-msfinalreport-2013201… At the Global Internet Governance Academic Network (GigaNet) symposium in Bali, the Internet Society launched the second phase of the project, which includes a call for research and scholarly papers on the issue of multistakeholder governance and participation. I would like to invite you all to consider submitting papers for this call. Please feel free to disseminate this to your respective networks and mailing lists. If you are affiliated with any university, please do also distribute accordingly. The call for papers can be found via http://www.internetsociety.org/doc/call-papers Please note that the deadline for the submission of abstracts is December 31, 2013. Many thanks and please do not hesitate to contact me should you require any further information. With best wishes Konstantinos Konstantinos Komaitis Policy Advisor, Internet Society komaitis(a)isoc.org tel: +41 22 807 1453 -- --------------------------------------------------------------- Joly MacFie 218 565 9365 Skype:punkcast WWWhatsup NYC - http://wwwhatsup.com http://pinstand.com - http://punkcast.com VP (Admin) - ISOC-NY - http://isoc-ny.org -------------------------------------------------------------- - ------------------------------ Message: 8 Date: Tue, 5 Nov 2013 13:06:21 -0500 From: Joly MacFie <joly(a)punkcast.com> To: Researchers <air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org> Subject: [Air-L] APRICOT 2014 call for papers is now open Message-ID: <CAM9VJk1KhZo+ikTrbvB01DD2kZFyhTraE=e-c_M=1jbGOBP-EQ(a)mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Asia Pacific Regional Internet Conference on Operational Technologies (APRICOT) 18 - 28 February 2014, Bangkok, Thailand https://2014.apricot.net CALL FOR PAPERS =============== The APRICOT 2014 Programme Committee is now seeking contributions for Presentations and Tutorials for APRICOT 2014. We are looking for presenters who would: - Offer a technical tutorial on an appropriate topic; - Participate in the technical conference sessions as a speaker; - Convene and chair panel sessions of relevant topics. Please submit on-line at: http://papers.apricot.net/user/login.php?event=6 CONFERENCE MILESTONES --------------------- Call for Papers Opens: 1 November 2013 First Draft Programme Published: 6 December 2013 Final Deadline for Submissions: 7 February 2014 Final Programme Published: 14 February 2014 Final Slides Received: 21 February 2014 PROGRAMME MATERIAL ------------------ The APRICOT Programme is organised in three parts, including workshops, tutorials and the conference. Topics for tutorials and the conference must be relevant to Internet Operations and Technologies: - IPv4 / IPv6 Routing and operations - IPv6 deployment and transition technologies - Internet backbone operations - ISP and Carrier services - IXPs and Peering - Research on Internet Operations and Deployment - Thai Internet - Network security issues (NSP-SEC, DDoS, Anti-Spam, Anti-Malware) - DNS / DNSSEC - Internet policy (Security, Regulation, Content Management, Addressing, etc) - Access and Transport Technologies, including Cable/DSL, 3G/LTE, wireless, metro ethernet, fibre, MPLS - Content & Service Delivery (Multicast, Voice, Video, "telepresence", Gaming) and Cloud Computing CfP SUBMISSION -------------- Draft slides for both tutorials and conference sessions MUST be provided with CfP submissions otherwise the Programme Committee will be unable to review the submission. For work in progress, the most current information available at time of submission is acceptable. All draft and complete slides must be submitted in PDF format only. Final slides are to be provided by the specified deadline for publication on the APRICOT website. Prospective presenters should note that the majority of speaking slots will be filled well before the final submission deadline. The PC will retain a limited number of slots up to the final submission deadline for presentations that are exceptionally timely, important, or of critical operational importance. Please submit on-line at: http://papers.apricot.net/user/login.php?event=6 Any questions or concerns should be addressed to the Programme Committee by e-mail at: pc-chairs at apricot.net We look forward to receiving your presentation proposals. Dean Pemberton, Mark Tinka & Philip Smith Co-Chairs, APRICOT Programme Committee pc-chairs(a)apricot.net -- -- --------------------------------------------------------------- Joly MacFie 218 565 9365 Skype:punkcast WWWhatsup NYC - http://wwwhatsup.com http://pinstand.com - http://punkcast.com VP (Admin) - ISOC-NY - http://isoc-ny.org -------------------------------------------------------------- - ------------------------------ Message: 9 Date: Tue, 5 Nov 2013 12:27:51 -0800 From: Joe Eckert <jeckert1(a)uw.edu> To: air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org Subject: [Air-L] AAG 2014 CFP, final call: ?Future Directions in Geoweb Research: an alt.conference on Big Data, Theory, and Geography?s Role." Message-ID: <CABM-zBm=pf6CQ1AdoU-d-+zsUD8m0yACsSG2n8WtP546QpnY3w(a)mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 FINAL CALL, REAL-DEAL DEADLINE: Nov. 15, 2013 Apologies for cross posting. This is the final call for papers for the "Future Directions in Geoweb Research: an alt.conference on Big Data, Theory, and Geography's Role." This just in: this alt.conference is now sponsored by the GI Science and Systems, Urban Geography, and Communication specialty groups! We're also very excited by both the quality and quantity of responses so far. We're set to have a very robust series. We'd like to call attention to the unique format we are able to facilitate. We're encouraging submissions for short "lightning panels" that do not interfere with your ability to present more substantial papers at the AAG. The lightning talks are organized by theme and will then be discussed by panelists including Rob Kitchin, Nadine Schuurman, Matt Wilson, Matt Zook, Jeremy Crampton, Monica Stephens, Mark Graham, David O'Sullivan, Agnieszka Leszczynski, Renee Sieber, and others. The purpose of the alt.conference is to give an opportunity for younger scholars to receive immediate feedback and begin discussions with more senior researchers. Contributions will then be solicited for potential inclusion in an edited volume. Consider submitting a short talk and encouraging others to do so as well. Future Directions in Geoweb Research: an alt.conference on Big Data, Theory, and Geography's Role Call for Participants: Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting 8-12 April 2014 Tampa, FL USA Organizers (alphabetical by last name): Josef Eckert, University of Washington Andrew Shears, Mansfield University Jim Thatcher, Clark University Over the last two decades, widespread internet access integrated into daily life as a platform for information exchange, social networking, and commercial transactions. The expansive, rapidly changing data sets produced through these and other digital processes have come to be termed "Big Data." With an estimated 80% of these aggregated data sets containing spatial referent information, Geography as a discipline offers a "home field advantage" in the study of "Big Data" (Pozdnoukhov and Farmer 2012). The addition of "where" to information that records who is doing what, when, and with whom opens new avenues for knowledge and capital production (probably want a citation here). In the eyes of its boosters, the rapid aggregation and analysis of data destroys the need for social explanation as the numbers are able to "speak for themselves" (Anderson 2008). While Big Data and the Geoweb are oft heralded as a veritable gold mine for private industry and a tantalizing new source of data for social research, the rapid development of these technologies in the face of the often personal nature of the derived data is of concern. Studies of the geoweb call our attention to the ways in which user-generated data come into the world and are complicit in its unfolding. Scholars have voiced caution regarding the use of spatial big data, citing issues of accuracy (Liu et. al 2013), heterogenous data and sources, (Goodchild 2012), surveillance (Crampton 2013), shifting privacies (Elwood & Leczynszki 2011), capital investment (Wilson 2012), and urban experience (Thatcher 2013). In spite of this, urban planners (Torrens 2010), politicians (Morozov 2011), marketers (LeValle et al., 2011), and even national funding agencies (NSF 2012) are embracing the modeling of this data as a primary tool by which to understand society. This alt.conference will explore many of the broad implications of Big Data and the Geoweb and its study, including: - Big Data, the Geoweb, and the Critical GIS tradition - New methodologies for gathering and analyzing data - The epistemologies and ontologies of Big Data and the Geoweb - Big Data and the Geoweb as tools for education - Big Data and Geoweb for policy and spatial decision-making - Big Data and urban experience - Big Data and Geoweb as a tool for community planning - Amateur practitioners of Big Data analytics - Activist appropriation of Big Data platforms - Geographies of Big Data beyond GIS - Gendered Big Data - Big Data as Digital Humanities - Data mining vs. data exploration As well as other related topics. The alt.conference will feature a series of sessions of five-minute "lightning talks," each followed by panel and workshop sessions that link the themes discussed to theory and praxis. These sessions will run consecutively on the first day of the AAG conference, and will be capped by an evening networking gathering. Unlike the AAG"s traditional 15-minute papers, a lightning talk is an engaging five-minute presentation that quickly examines intensive subject matter by heavy use of simple but arresting graphics and visuals. The goal is to provide the audience with an entertaining way to absorb information on a number of topics. Traditionally, the presenter spends roughly a minute on each slide. Because these talks do not fit into the AAG"s traditional format, lightning talks do not preclude the presentation of a manuscript or poster elsewhere in the conference. In other words, a lightning talk does not preclude you from given a traditional talk elsewhere at the conference. Scholars interested in giving a lightning talk as part of the alt.conference are asked to submit an abstract or position paper of no longer than 500 words, plus any preliminary graphics, to ashears(a)mansfield.edu by November 15, 2013. Submissions are particularly encouraged from scholars early in their career, from disadvantaged populations and from the developing world. ------------------------------ _______________________________________________ The Air-L(a)listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org Join the Association of Internet Researchers: http://www.aoir.org/ End of Air-L Digest, Vol 112, Issue 6 *************************************

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FW: Cognitive Accessibility Task Force - Seeking Participation
by Joly MacFie 07 Nov '13

07 Nov '13

-----Original Message----- Subject: Cognitive Accessibility Task Force - Seeking Participation The W3C Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) has established a Cognitive Accessibility Task Force to develop more specific guidance on meeting the web accessibility needs of people with cognitive and learning disabilities. The Cognitive Accessibility Task Force home page is: http://www.w3.org/WAI/PF/cognitive-a11y-tf/ The Cognitive Accessibility Task Force expects to: * Identify related work inside and outside of the W3C and build a repository of related research into cognition and disabilities. * Review existing techniques and propose new features where needed. * Build a use case repository to describe different cognitive disabilities and scenarios for how persons with atypical ability profiles use technology successfully or unsuccessfully. * Document business cases and identify areas of resistance, risks and opportunities. *We invite you to contribute to the Cognitive Accessibility Task Force work*. * Active participation in the Task Force takes about 4 hours per week, including teleconferences. * Participation is through either the Protocols and Formats Working Group or the WCAG Working Group. * More about participation is at <http://www.w3.org/WAI/PF/cognitive-a11y-tf/#participation> If you cannot commit that much time, you can still review draft documents. To get announcements of drafts for review, see <http://www.w3.org/WAI/about/announcements>. Please let us know if you have any questions. Feel free to circulate this message to other lists; please avoid cross-postings where possible. Regards, Shawn Henry, WAI Outreach Janina Sajka, PFWG Chair Andrew Kirkpatrick and Joshue O Connor, WCAG WG Co-Chairs Michael Cooper, PFWG and WCAG WG Team Contact ----- Shawn Lawton Henry W3C Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) e-mail: shawn(a)w3.org phone: +1.617.395.7664 about: http://www.w3.org/People/Shawn/ -- --------------------------------------------------------------- Joly MacFie 218 565 9365 Skype:punkcast WWWhatsup NYC - http://wwwhatsup.com http://pinstand.com - http://punkcast.com VP (Admin) - ISOC-NY - http://isoc-ny.org -------------------------------------------------------------- -

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ACM Web Science Conference (WebSci14), June 23-26, 2014
by Giovanni Luca Ciampaglia 06 Nov '13

06 Nov '13

1st CALL FOR PAPERS ACM Web Science Conference (WebSci14), June 23-26, 2014 Bloomington, Indiana, USA websci14.org * @WebSciConf * #WebSci14 Deadline for papers: Feb. 23rd 2014 Web Science is the emergent science of the people, organizations, applications, and of policies that shape and are shaped by the Web, the largest informational artifact constructed by humans in history. Web Science embraces the study of the Web as a vast universal information network of people and communities. As such, Web Science includes the study of social networks whose work, expression, and play take place on the Web. The social sciences and computational sciences meet in Web Science and complement one another: Studying human behavior and social interaction contributes to our understanding of the Web, while Web data is transforming how social science is conducted. The Web presents us with a great opportunity as well as an obligation: If we are to ensure the Web benefits humanity we must do our best to understand it. Call for Papers The Web Science conference is inherently interdisciplinary, as it attempts to integrate computer and information sciences, communication, linguistics, sociology, psychology, economics, law, political science, philosophy, digital humanities, and other disciplines in pursuit of an understanding of the Web. This conference is unique in the manner in which it brings these disciplines together in creative and critical dialogue, and we invite papers from all the above disciplines, and in particular those that cross traditional disciplinary boundaries. Following the success of WebSci'09 in Athens, WebSci'10 in Raleigh, WebSci'11 in Koblenz, WebSci 12 in Evanston, and WebSci13 in Paris, for the 2014 conference we are seeking papers and posters that describe original research, analysis, and practice in the field of Web Science, as well as work that discusses novel and thought-provoking ideas and works-in-progress. Possible topics for submissions include, but are not limited to, the following: * Analysis of human behavior using social media, mobile devices, and online communities * Methodological challenges of analyzing Web-based large-scale social interaction * Data-mining and network analysis of the Web and human communities on the Web * Detailed studies of micro-level processes and interactions on the Web * Collective intelligence, collaborative production, and social computing * Theories and methods for computational social science on the Web * Studies of public health and health-related behavior on the Web * The architecture and philosophy of the Web * The intersection of design and human interaction on the Web * Economics and social innovation on the Web * Governance, democracy, intellectual property, and the commons * Personal data, trust, and privacy * Web and social media research ethics * Studies of Linked Data, the Cloud, and digital eco-systems * Big data and the study of the Web * Web access, literacy, and development * Knowledge, education, and scholarship on and through the Web * People-driven Web technologies, including crowd-sourcing, open data, and new interfaces * Digital humanities * Arts & culture on the Web or engaging audiences using Web resources * Web archiving techniques and scholarly uses of Web archives * New research questions and thought-provoking ideas Submission Web Science is necessarily a very selective single track conference with a rigorous review process. To accommodate the distinct traditions of its many disciplines, we provide three different submission formats: full papers, short papers, and posters. For all types of submissions, inclusion in the ACM DL proceedings will be by default, but not mandatory (opt-out via EasyChair). All accepted research papers (full and short papers) will be presented during the single-track conference. All accepted posters will be given a spot in the single-track lightning talk session, and room to present their papers during a dedicated poster session. Full research papers (5 to 10 pages, ACM double column, 20 mins presentation including Q&A) Full research papers should present new results and original work that has not been previously published. Research papers should present substantial theoretical, empirical, methodological, or policy-oriented contributions to research and/or practice. Short research papers (up to 5 pages, ACM double column, 15 mins presentation including Q&A) Short research papers should present new results and original work that has not been previously published. Research papers can present preliminary theoretical, empirical, methodological, or policy-oriented contributions to research and/or practice. Full and short paper submissions should be formatted according to the official ACM SIG proceedings template (WebSci archive format at http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates) Posters (up to 6 pages, ACM abstract template, lightning talk + poster presentation) Extended abstracts for posters, which should be in English, can be up to 6 pages, and should be formatted according to the official ACM SIG abstract template (extended abstract format at https://www.dropbox.com/sh/pl130rtd134fxu6/hiyzXgWwTs) Other creative submission formats (flexible formats) Other types of creative submissions are also encouraged, and the exact format and style of presentation are open. Examples might include artistic performances or installations, interactive exhibits, demonstrations, or other creative formats. For these submissions, the proposers should make clear both what they propose to do, and any special requirements they would need to successfully do it (in terms of space, time, technology, etc.) Instructions for all types of submissions will be posted on the WebSci14 conference website soon. Review The Web Science program committee consists of a program committee that covers all relevant areas of Web Science. Each submission will be refereed by three PC members and one short meta review written by a Co-PC chair,to cover both the research background of each submission as well as the necessary interdisciplinary aspects. (Optional) Archival Proceedings in the ACM Digital Library All accepted papers and posters will by default appear in the Web Science 2014 Conference Proceedings and can also be made available through the ACM Digital Library, in the same length and format of the submission unless indicated otherwise (those wishing not to be indexed and archived can opt out of the proceedings). Deadlines (tentative) Full & Short Papers: * 23 February 2014: Submissions of full and short papers * 13 April 2014: Notification of acceptance for papers * 11 May 2014: Camera-ready version of papers and posters due Late Breaking Posters: * 23 March 2014: Submissions of posters * 13 April 2014: Notification of acceptance for posters * 11 May 2014: Camera-ready version of posters due Authors take note: The official publication date is the date the proceedings are made available in the ACM Digital Library. This date may be up to two weeks prior to the first day of the conference. The official publication date affects the deadline for any patent filings related to published work. (If proceedings are published in the ACM Digital Library after the conference is over, the official publication date is the first day of the conference.) Call for Workshops TBA - more information will be made available on the conference website soon Conference calendar and rough program - 23 June 2014: workshops, opening reception and keynote - 24 June 2014: keynote(s), technical program, poster reception - 25 June 2014: keynote(s), technical program, social event - 26 June 2014: keynote, technical program, closing General chairs - Fil Menczer, Indiana University - Jim Hendler, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute - Bill Dutton, Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford Program chairs - Markus Strohmaier, University of Koblenz and GESIS (Computing) - Ciro Cattuto, ISI Foundation (Physics) - Eric T. Meyer, Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford (Social Sciences) PC: TBA -- Giovanni Luca Ciampaglia Postdoctoral fellow Center for Complex Networks and Systems Research Indiana University ✎ 910 E 10th St ∙ Bloomington ∙ IN 47408 ☞ http://cnets.indiana.edu/ ✉ gciampag(a)indiana.edu ✆ 1-812-855-7261

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Call for Proposals
by Pam Brewer 06 Nov '13

06 Nov '13

Dear Colleagues- We cordially invite you to submit a proposal for a special issue of the journal Connexions entitled Education and Training for Globally Distributed Virtual Teams. This special issue will feature articles that respond to the following question: "How can we better prepare people to work successfully in international, online contexts?" We are interested in research articles, review articles, focused commentaries, industry perspectives, and teaching cases. Submit proposals to connexionsspecialissue(a)gmail.com<mailto:connexionsspecialissue@gmail.com> on or before 15 January 2014. We have included the text of the Call in this email. To receive a PDF, please respond with your request to this email. If you have any questions, please contact me at brewer_pe(a)mercer.edu<mailto:brewer_pe@mercer.edu> or Kirk St.Amant at stamantk(a)ecu.edu<mailto:stamantk@ecu.edu>. We would be happy to chat with you. Best, Pam Brewer, Guest Editor Kirk St.Amant, Guest Editor connexions Call for Proposals EDUCATION AND TRAINING FOR GLOBALLY DISTRIBUTED VIRTUAL TEAMS Preparing the workforce of the future Special Issue Guest editors Pam Estes Brewer Mercer University (email: brewer_pe(a)mercer.edu<mailto:brewer_pe@mercer.edu>) Kirk St.Amant East Carolina University (email: stamantk(a)ecu.edu<mailto:stamantk@ecu.edu>) Today, information and communication technologies (ICTs) allow individuals located in different nations to collaborate almost as easily as if they were located in the same physical office. As a result, globally distributed virtual teams now support the work of organizations across the spectrum of products and services. Such teams are used by a range of for-profit and non-profit organizations including businesses, government organizations, military, and educational institutions. These organizations are increasingly employing individuals located in different nations to engage in various types of collaborative work via ICTs. As a result of such factors, much of the modern workforce is now migrating toward a virtual model of work, and forces associated with globalization are changing the nature of competitiveness in the new economy. Individuals, in turn, must often adapt rapidly to virtual environments and do so with little or no formal preparation in the types of professional communication practices essential to success in such contexts. As a result, individuals working in internationally distributed teams must generally learn from their mistakes, an effective but often costly approach. Moreover, individuals must also often adapt to working in an environment in which they are regularly paired with new colleagues and clients from different nations, cultures, and language groups. Thus, the modern distributed workplace requires employees to account for and address three central factors-technology, culture, and language-in order to succeed in most work-related tasks. An all-important question arising from this situation is, "How can we better prepare these individuals for this international, online context?" A 2012 IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication special issue on global training reveals, however, that very little information on training-particularly global virtual communication training-has been published in the major professional communication journals in the last ten years. Such a gap needs to be closed if educators and trainers alike wish to prepare adult learners to be successful participants in current (and future) business practices and processes. This special issue on education and training for globally distributed virtual teams seeks to address this topic through articles on how best to prepare individuals to succeed in this new workplace. In particular, the editors are interested in articles that answer questions such as: * What types of education and training are most desired by managers and participants of global virtual teams? * How can organizations best prepare virtual team members for working across boundaries of language? What issues affect translation and terminology? What do team members most need to know about World Englishes, English as a Second Language, or English for Specific Purposes? * How can organizations better prepare employees to collaborate and cooperate online and across cultural boundaries? * How can social media be used to prepare individuals for working in intercultural online contexts? * What legal issues can affect or should be included in global virtual team training? What should participants in global virtual teams know about proprietary information and privacy? In addition, the editors of this special issue welcome articles such as: * Industry commentaries (refer to "types of articles" below). * Critical analyses of the many published task/technology models that support global virtual teams. * Critical analyses of virtual team studies in areas such as technical training, adult education, human resources development, educational technology, human performance technology, technical communication, and user experience design. The guest editors are also interested in discussing other prospective topics with potential contributors. Types of articles connexions publishes four types of articles: * Original research articles of 5,000 to 7,000 words in length * Review articles of 3,000 to 5,000 words in length * Focused commentary and industry perspectives articles of 500 to 3,000 words in length * Teaching cases of 3,000 to 5,000 words in length Submission Guidelines Interested individuals should send a 150-200 word proposal to connexionsspecialissue(a)gmail.com<mailto:connexionsspecialissue@gmail.com> Proposals should be sent as a .docx, .doc, or .rtf file attached to an email message with the subject line: "Proposal for Special Issue on Globally Distributed Virtual Teams." All proposals should include the submitter's name, affiliation, and email address as well as a working title for the proposed article. Production Schedule The schedule for the special issue is as follows: * 15 Jan. 2014 -Proposals due * 15 Feb. 2014 - Decisions on proposals sent to proposal submitters * 15 June 2014 - Manuscripts due * 15 Aug. 2014 - Reviewer comments to authors * 15 Oct. 2014 - Final manuscripts due to editors * Dec. 2014 - Publication of special issue Contact Information Completed proposals or questions about either proposal topics or this special issue should be sent to Pam Estes Brewer and Kirk St.Amant at connexionsspecialissue(a)gmail.com<mailto:connexionsspecialissue@gmail.com> Pam Estes Brewer, Ph.D. Associate Professor Department of Technical Communication Mercer University brewer_pe(a)mercer.edu<mailto:brewer_pe@mercer.edu> 478.301.4146

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IPP2014 Conference Call: "Crowdsourcing for Politics and Policy"
by David Sutcliffe 06 Nov '13

06 Nov '13

Dear all, The journal Policy and Internet will be holding its third conference (co-convened by the OII, in collaboration with the ECPR) next 25-26 September in Oxford, on the subject of crowdsourcing. We are currently calling for abstracts. Conference: http://ipp.oii.ox.ac.uk/ Call: http://ipp.oii.ox.ac.uk/2014/call-for-papers Abstract deadline: 14 March 2014. Location: Thursday 25 - Friday 26 September 2014, Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford. Convenors: Helen Margetts (OII), Vili Lehdonvirta (OII), David Sutcliffe (OII), Sandra Gonzalez-Bailon (Annenberg, UPenn), Andrea Calderaro (EUI / ECPR). Contact: policyandinternet(a)oii.ox.ac.uk #ipp2014 ** Rationale ** Crowdsourcing - the provision of goods by large numbers of people contributing via an online platform - is used to generate and sustain policy ideas, labour markets, business investment, charitable donations, knowledge commons (such as Wikipedia), cultural goods and artefacts, libraries, government transparency, public management reform, education, scientific development and the institutions of democracy itself. This pattern of technology-enabled institutional change, where a known few are replaced by an indefinite many, has deep and diverse implications for government, business, civil society, democratic life and public policy-making. Researchers and policy-makers have barely begun to examine the opportunities and challenges that the crowdsourcing model presents. The Internet, Politics, Policy 2014 conference is dedicated to facilitating discussion on crowdsourcing across disciplinary boundaries. The conference calls for papers on the observed and potential implications of crowdsourcing for politics, policy and academic practice. Perspectives are welcomed from across science, social science and the humanities as well as from academic and policy-making communities. We aim to identify both what is novel in crowdsourcing, and the ways it enables and extends existing social and political processes. ** Topics ** The conference aims to attract papers from a range of disciplines analysing crowdsourcing-related phenomena. We welcome both theoretical and empirical papers reporting original research on crowdsourcing and related concepts such as microwork, peer production, human computing, co-creation, open innovation and e-government. We particularly welcome comparative approaches and papers drawing on new empirical findings and novel research methods. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): > How is crowdsourcing changing politics? Topics of interest include citizen participation in government and the political process, and online collective action. > Uses of big data in evidence-based public policy, including probabilistic, and conditional and predictive policy-making and the use of social media data for government self-improvement. > Online labor markets, new organizational forms, and the blurring of boundaries between work and play, as well as the economics of crowdsourcing more generally. > Co-production and co-creation of public policy, through (for example) the use of feedback facilities, rating, ranking and reputation applications. > Crowdsourcing for conflict management, peace building and humanitarian intervention, including crisis mapping. > Crowdsourcing for educational, scientific and technological development, such as citizen science, crowd-funding, massive online open courses, and the methodological, epistemological and ethical issues involved. > New methods for analyzing crowdsourcing, such as computational social science and big data analytics, including sentiment analysis, topic classification, sampling from social media platforms, and inferring from socially generated data to the wider population. > Ethical issues arising from the use of such methods, such as de-anonymisation, privacy, and inequalities created by the use of predictive analytics in decisions concerning individuals. > When crowds turn into mobs: online hate groups, organized cyberbullying, their dynamics and effective policy responses. Perspectives from any academic discipline are welcomed, including: political science, economics, law, sociology, medicine, information science, communications, philosophy, computer science, physics, psychology, management, organization science, geography and humanities. Papers should attempt to frame their object of study in relation to established concepts and theories. 'Crowdsourcing' need not be the central concept in a paper as long as it deals with the issues and topics identified in this call. ** Proposal submission ** * Paper proposals Paper proposals should consist of a title and a 1,000-word extended abstract that specifies and motivates the research question, describes the methods and data used, and summarises the main findings. Abstracts will be peer reviewed, and the authors of accepted proposals are expected to submit full papers prior to the conference. Applicants will have the opportunity to co-submit their paper to the journal Policy and Internet, which will operate a fast-track review process for papers accepted to the conference. Paper submissions can also be considered for a Best Paper Award (sponsored by the journal Policy and Internet). The prize will be awarded at the closing session of the conference. As the paper is intended to be published in a future issue of the journal, authors should indicate whether they would like their paper to be considered for the prize. * Poster proposals Posters should summarise in a visually engaging manner the purpose, methods and results of an original piece of research. All accepted submissions will be considered for a Best Poster Award. The prize will be awarded at the closing session of the conference. ** Important dates ** > Extended abstract submission deadline: 14 March 2014 > Decisions on abstracts: 14 April 2014 > Full paper / poster submission deadline (for accepted abstracts): 15 August 2014 > Conference dates: Thursday 25 - Friday 26 September 2014. IPP2014: Crowdsourcing for Politics and Policy http://ipp.oii.ox.ac.uk/ *** David Sutcliffe Managing Editor Oxford Internet Institute University of Oxford http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/ Tel: +44 (0)1865 612334 Managing Editor Policy and Internet Journal http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1002/(ISSN)1944-2866 http://blogs.oii.ox.ac.uk/policy/

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Fwd: FW: [CCA-LIST] TT faculty positions - Carleton University
by Gabriella Coleman 06 Nov '13

06 Nov '13

From: CCA-List- Canadian Communication Assocation [mailto:CCA-LIST@LISTS.MCGILL.CA] On Behalf Of Josh Greenberg Sent: Wednesday, November 06, 2013 10:57 AM To: CCA-LIST(a)LISTS.MCGILL.CA Subject: [CCA-LIST] TT faculty positions - Carleton University (Apologies for cross-posting) The School of Journalism and Communication at Carleton University invites applications from outstanding candidates for 2 tenure track positions at the rank of assistant professor. Summary descriptions of each position are available below. Please visit Carleton University's Faculty Opportunities page for more information about each position, including instructions on how to apply. The closing date for both positions is November 22, 2013. http://www5.carleton.ca/facultyrecruitment/faculty-opportunities/ Communication Studies (Open) This is an open position in terms of its defined area(s) of communication scholarship and expertise; however, candidates should articulate how their research contributes to the central intellectual debates of the field broadly and in their own area(s) of specialization in particular, and how they will augment existing areas of faculty research strength. The candidate will be expected to participate in undergraduate and graduate teaching and supervision, share in the administrative duties of the department, and implement a research program that will lead to scholarly publications, and which has the potential to attract external funding, graduate students and postdoctoral researchers. Communication Studies (Culture & Health) We are seeking a candidate who can demonstrate teaching and research expertise in the area of Communication, Culture and Health. Health is identified as an area of interdisciplinary strength at Carleton University. Candidates are encouraged to conceive of health broadly, and in connection to other areas of strength (i.e., Global Identities and Globalization, Science and Technology including Digital Media, and Sustainability and the Environment), where relevant to their expertise. Specific areas of research specialization might include any of the following: cultural studies of health; media representations of health and the body; rhetoric and public health; bio-politics and biomedical surveillance; risk communication; politics, ideology and health; medical imaging as visual communication; communication and bioethics; and critical approaches to health marketing and promotion, among others. The candidate will be expected to participate in undergraduate and graduate teaching and supervision, share in the administrative duties of the department, and implement a research program that will lead to scholarly publications, and which has the potential to attract external funding, graduate students and postdoctoral researchers. __________________________________ Josh Greenberg, PhD Associate Director School of Journalism & Communication Carleton University K1S 5B6 Ph: 613 520-2600, ext. 1965 Email: joshua_greenberg(a)carleton.ca<mailto:joshua_greenberg@carleton.ca> Want to be removed from this listserver? Please email Maureen Coote at maureen.coote(a)mcgill.ca and SPECIFY WHICH LIST YOU WANT TO BE REMOVED FROM.

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Berkman Fellowship Opportunity: Media Cloud Project Fellow
by Joly MacFie 06 Nov '13

06 Nov '13

https://cyber.law.harvard.edu/node/8618 The Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University and the MIT Center for Civic Media seek a fellow to join Media Cloud<http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/research/mediacloud>, a project led by Yochai Benkler <http://benkler.org/> and Ethan Zuckerman<http://www.ethanzuckerman.com/blog/> and driven by an interdisciplinary team of staff and researchers. The fellow will lead the production of scholarly papers and outputs, advance specific research threads, and contribute to the development of research methods and tools. Media Cloud is an open source, open data platform that allows researchers to answer complex quantitative and qualitative questions about the content of online media and helps to support a novel, data-driven perspective on the dynamics of online conversations. This fellowship offers an early-stage researcher in social science, data science, or Internet & society to explore the state of digital media through analysis of networks, big data, social media, mobilization, and attention online. This is a unique opportunity to study the networked public sphere and its impact on current political debates. A full position description for the job can be found below and on the Harvard Human Resources website<https://sjobs.brassring.com/TGWEbHost/jobdetails.aspx?partnerID=25240&siteI…> . Please note that applications for this fellowship must be submitted through the Harvard Human Resources website, and will not be collected or coordinated directly through the Berkman Center. Apply for the Media Cloud fellowship here<https://sjobs.brassring.com/TGWEbHost/jobdetails.aspx?partnerID=25240&siteI…> . --- *Key Responsibilities Include* - leading a research effort to study online debates related to Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR), investigating the framing of terms around sexuality, reproductive health and rights, as well as training a small subset of advocates working on these issues on the use of our tools; - working closely with project members from the Berkman Center and Center for Civic Media to coordinate and conduct research, writing, project outputs, and preparing publications; - documenting processes and strategies for using Media Cloud; - cultivating and supporting relationships among faculty and other experts in media, social science, law, computer science, journalism, data visualization, and other fields to understand substantive issues and objectives, assess needs and capabilities, and collaboratively develop research methods to meet the project’s broader goals; - contributing to the development of the research and technical platforms; - planning, communicating, and implementing Media Cloud workshops and convenings; - managing the selection, oversight, and mentorship of student researchers; - developing plans and timelines to advance project priorities and meet deadlines; and - providing additional project support as needed. The fellowship is positioned to share time between the Berkman Center and the Center for Civic Media at MIT, working closely with researchers, staff, and faculty at both institutions. The community of fellows and researchers at the two Centers includes a wide range of people working on issues related to Internet and society, including scholars, practitioners, innovators, and others committed to understanding and advancing the public interest. *Basic Qualifications* Bachelor’s degree required. *Additional Qualifications* Candidate should be energetic and passionate about working on issues related to social mobilization and network analysis. Superior writing and verbal skills, sound judgment, exceptional ethical standards, and proven abilities in interpersonal communication, supervision, project management, and team building are required. The fellow will have heart, verve, and vigor; a can-do attitude; a very good sense of humor; and a strong desire to affect change in the world. Demonstrable knowledge of statistical and content analysis, text analysis and natural language processing, visualization, and the ability to produce large social science research outputs is preferred. Familiarity with the intersections of policy with technology, regulation, and social impact is beneficial. An advanced degree in a related field is strongly preferred. Experience with technical, substantive, and organizational work for non-governmental or academic organizations is useful, in addition to experience in managing and guiding participating researchers and collaborators. *Additional Information* The Centers encourage and support inviting and rigorous intellectual environments. The right candidate will thrive in a committed, collaborative, and tight-knit community that encourages creativity and humor, supports deep inquiry, values novel approaches to solving problems, strives for transparency, continually builds upon best-practices and lessons learned, and supports its community members’ independent and collective goals. In order to most fully and efficiently carry out her duties, the candidate will attend workshops and conferences, and will have frequent opportunities to expand his/her knowledge. The annual salary is $48,000, and is eligible for health benefits. The position is administratively housed at the Berkman Center, and will report to the Research Director at the Berkman Center. As with all Berkman Center positions, this is a term appointment expected to continue through 12/31/14, subject to department need and funding, with strong potential for continuation based on funding and institutional need. *About Media Cloud* Using Media Cloud, academic researchers, journalism critics, and interested citizens can examine what media sources cover which stories, what language different media outlets use in conjunction with different stories, and how stories spread from one media outlet to another. Media Cloud was the research tool used to develop the recent publication, “Social Mobilization and the Networked Public Sphere: Mapping the SOPA-PIPA Debate<http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/node/8416>.” For more information about Media Cloud, visit: http://mediacloud.org. *About the Berkman Center for Internet & Society* The Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University is a research program founded to explore cyberspace, share in its study, and help pioneer its development. Founded in 1997, through a generous gift from Jack N. and Lillian R. Berkman, the Center is home to an ever-growing community of faculty, fellows, staff, and affiliates working on projects that span the broad range of intersections between cyberspace, technology, and society. More information can be found at http://cyber.law.harvard.edu. *About the MIT Center for Civic Media* The MIT Center for Civic Media works hand in hand with diverse communities to collaboratively create, design, deploy, and assess civic media tools and practices. We are inventors of new technologies that support and foster civic media and political action, we are a hub for the study of these technologies, and we coordinate community-based design processes locally in the Boston area, across the United States, and around the world. Bridging two established programs at MIT—one known for inventing alternate technical futures, the other for identifying the cultural and social potential of media change—the Center for Civic Media is a joint effort between the MIT Media Lab and the MIT Comparative Media Studies Program. It is made possible by funding from the Knight Foundation. More information can be found at http://civic.mit.edu/. *Commitment to Diversity* The work and well-being of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University are strengthened profoundly by the diversity of our network and our differences in background, culture, experience, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, and much more. We actively seek and welcome applications from people of color, women, the LGBTQIA community, and persons with disabilities, as well as applications from researchers and practitioners from across the spectrum of disciplines and methods. --- If the Media Cloud fellowship is not for you, but you're interested in Berkman's fellowship program, please read more on our fellowship page<http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/getinvolved/fellowships>. We are currently accepting applications for 2014-2015 fellowships through our open call<http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/getinvolved/fellowships/opencall20142015>, through which applicants propose their own course of study. Applications through the open call will be accepted through December 8, 2013. -- --------------------------------------------------------------- Joly MacFie 218 565 9365 Skype:punkcast WWWhatsup NYC - http://wwwhatsup.com http://pinstand.com - http://punkcast.com VP (Admin) - ISOC-NY - http://isoc-ny.org -------------------------------------------------------------- -

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CFP: The Politics and Aesthetics of Posthumanism
by Carmel Vaisman 06 Nov '13

06 Nov '13

Dear colleagues, Every IR conference, whether I'm present or tuned in via Twitter, I hear the struggle to theorize our discipline more broadly and transcend the boundaries of the disciplines we come from. For me personally, the emerging theory/ POV of Posthumanism provides that multidisciplinary frame, its complexity allowing both inclusion and criticism of issues in digital culture. I have managed to push the importance of this framework into the discourse of our faculty and I'm excited to announce that we are organizing an international conference accompanied by an art exhibition around it. Our keynotes will be Professor Sheryyl Vint and Dr. Stefan Herbrechter which will be involved also in the art exhibition with surprising angles.... I'm wondering if any of you or your colleagues that might not be on this list, would like to take a trip to Tel Aviv in May and join us. Full CFP text is below, if you want to get the CFP in a designed pdf format please email me, and don't worry about the deadline, it's for locals, we will extend it for internationals. I appreciate your help in spreading the word and hope to see some of you there, Carmel Vaisman, PhD. The Multidisciplinary Program in the Humanities Tel Aviv Unviersity carmell(a)post.tau.acil @carmelva http://absolutecarmel.com *OH-MAN* *OH-MACHINE* *The Politics & Esthetics of Post Humanism* *International Conference, 18-20 May, 2014* Tel-Aviv University & The Midrasha New Center for Art, Culture & Education, Tel Aviv *Exhibition, 15 May - 26 June, 2014* The Midrasha New Center for Art, Culture & Education, Tel Aviv Hosted in collaboration by: The Multidisciplinary Program in Humanities, Tel-Aviv University The Cohn Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Ideas, Tel-Aviv University Hamideasha Faculty of Arts, Beit Berl Academic College *Deadline: 15.12.2013 / gstudies(a)post.tau.ac.il <gstudies(a)post.tau.ac.il>* A recent graffiti sprayed in the center of Tel Aviv raises the question that has reverberated within critical discourse over the past decade: "And what's after postmodernism?" There are those who believe that the probable answer to this question is "post-humanism", a paradigm that is in many respects the direct and obvious continuation of postmodernism. Or as Katherine Hayles underscored in her 1999 seminal book, post-humanism is embodied in the act of deconstruction performed on the humanist liberal concept of "the human."1 The mechanism of deconstruction continues to dismantle the humanist tradition and reaches its peak in the attempt to deconstruct the very essence of humanity itself. In other words, the ideology of the post-human condition challenges the very uniqueness of humankind in relation to other forms of life -- hybrid forms for example – and is no longer satisfied with merely questioning the traditional position of mankind at the center or at the peak of the *great chain of being *as in the past. Currently, the most influential post-humanist trend is that of Trans-humanism, an ideology and perhaps even a social movement that seeks to develop and employ technologies, particularly digital ones, to turn humankind into a new superior techno-biological entity, intellectually, physically, biologically and psychologically enhanced. Thus, some utopian versions of Trans-humanism perceive technology to be a form of life, almost a kind of organism in itself, and believe that merging with it is simply a "natural" evolutionary step. These versions have spawned a discourse of re-enchantment with science and technology to the extent of establishing an almost messianic techno-religious-spiritual vision (*singularity *as redemption, for example), constituting, in effect, an apolitical ideology. Yet even in its non-utopian version, namely in the "classic" techno optimistic discourse, Trans-humanism follows the humanistic path of improving and perfecting human life by means of science and technology, although it does so nowadays by crossing boundaries and reaching the threshold of extreme technological optimism. In the opposing camp there are those who commend post-humanist ideology for reassessing and challenging humanist thought and tradition, and for thereby identifying in humanism the source of the environmental and social problems that we face today, such as the global economic crisis and other undesirable consequences of globalization. They believe that the humanist paradigm fails to understand (and fails to comprehend) the significance of people's over attachment to screens and the psycho cognitive changes that this brings about, and is therefore unable to create a holistic world in which reciprocal relations between subject and object can be maintained. Post-humanism, so these protagonists propose, constitutes therefore an opportunity to indulge in activist thinking which may articulate a new understanding of a variety of concepts such as "self," "machine," "body," "consciousness," "intelligence," "causality," "intimacy," "identity" and "society." Be that as it may, the post-humanist paradigm, with the trends, risks and paradoxes it contains, entails new forms of politics and aesthetics whose influence on popular culture, and on public and scientific discourse is rapidly growing. The post-humanist condition, thus calls for a new, incisive and multidisciplinary discussion of the ancient problem of Men-Machine's relationship, and poses the question of whether we are witnessing a new level of technological determinism that extends beyond the traditional dichotomous discourse of techno-utopia versus techno-dystopia. The conference, a product of the collaboration between Tel Aviv University’s Multidisciplinary Program in the Humanities and the Cohen Institute for the History and Philosophy of the Sciences and Ideas, and Beit Berl College's Midrasha Faculty of the Arts, will focus on these issues as well as related topics. The conference is unique in that it seeks to merge academic, research-oriented and theoretical discourse with artistic projects and ideas. To this end, there will be an Art & Science exhibition alongside the academic panels, in which projects and initiatives by individuals and groups will be displayed. We invite scholars from various disciplines (including history, philosophy, cultural studies, art theory, communication, law, sociology, psychology, biology, computer studies and medicine) to submit proposals for lectures, and we welcome proposals in a variety of formats that will suit the exhibition from those who engage with these issues as artists, as hackers who make activist use of technology, as designers, and as people who are active in the field of visual culture. *A partial list of possible topics* • Trans-humanism and the evolution of the "self" • Neuropsychology; the brain between biology and electronics • The cyborg: biological reality or social construction? • Post-humanism and gender: on feminism in the age of the cyborg • Remote warfare: robots, cyborgs and the ethics of the battlefield • Post-humanism as a social phenomenon or the social ontology of networks • Technological ideology and the new capitalism • The psycho-physical question and post-humanist ideology • Philosophical aspects: Knowledge and actuality in the era of thinking machines • Collective networks and intelligence • On the theology of technology, or technology as redemption • Issues in the history of relations between technology and humanity: from the mechanical to the digital • Technology and immortality, or between life and supra-life in the world of the network • The cybernetic sphere: the dialectics of the new media • Representations and images of post-humanism and intelligent technology in art, film and literature • Comics and science fiction: from the romanticism of super-heroes to the practicality of the cyborg • Ludologia: post-humanism and the new science of game-studies *The Conference Structure* The conference will comprise separate panels, within each of which three 25 minute-long lectures will be delivered. Lectures by a number of guests from abroad will be delivered during the conference. Responders will be invited to these lectures. However, all conference participants will be invited to participate in the discussion. Please submit your proposal according to the following format: *A. Cover page and title of the lecture* • The names of the submitters and their institutional affiliation • The submitter's email address and telephone number • Type of proposal (lecture or art work) *B. Proposal* • Lecture abstract (no more than 500 words) • Concise bibliography *Timeline* Proposals should be submitted by email to gstudies(a)post.tau.ac.il by December 15, 2013. Replies will be sent no later than February 1, 2014. *Members of the Academic Committee* Prof. Moshe Zuckerman, Dr. Carmel Vaisman, Dr. Noah Gedi, Dr. Ehud Lam, Dr. Doron Friedman, Dr. Miri Segal, Dr. Ofer Nordheimer Nur, Dr. Moshe Elhanati, Mr. Daniel Landau, Mr. Udi Edelman

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