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Retro technologies and memes
by Deller, Ruth A 14 Nov '13

14 Nov '13

Hi all I'm writing a piece that involves discussion of the use of MS Paint within a particular web culture and I was wondering if anyone could point me in the direction of articles (whether 'academic' or not) on the trend within web cultures, particularly meme cultures, to deliberately reference 'primitive' or 'retro'-technologies such as Paint? I'm not just interested for this article - we're delivering new modules looking at media technologies soon so any articles about retro cultures in terms of referencing and reusing older technologies would be interesting. Ruth Deller Principal Lecturer in Media Room 9210 Cantor Building, Shefield Hallam University, UK r.a.deller(a)shu.ac.uk<mailto:r.a.deller@shu.ac.uk>, http://www.ruthdeller.co.uk<http://www.ruthdeller.co.uk/>, @ruthdeller<http://www.twitter.com/ruthdeller>

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Recruitment Information from Peking University Shenzhen
by radian ye 14 Nov '13

14 Nov '13

*BEACH & SUNSHINE, NO POLLUTION at Peking University ShenZhen* *PEKING UNIVERSITY SHENZHEN GRADUATE SCHOOL* *SCHOOL OF HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES* *Financial Journalism* Professor / Associate Professor in Financial Journalism The appointee is expected to have relevant work experience, preferably in international media institutions, and is an active researcher with demonstrated credentials. Applicants should possess a PhD degree in journalism, communication or related fields or be PhD candidates in one of these areas. Those with experiences teaching or working as a journalist will have a definite advantage. Applicants should also have excellent communication skills and proficiency in English. Initial appointment will be made on a fixed-term contract of two to three years commencing September 2014. Re-appointment thereafter is subject to mutual agreement and availability of funding. Rank and salary will be commensurate with qualifications and experience. The Department will also apply for the relevant national/local "Talents Program" for the applicants if they meet the requirements. *Application Procedure:* Applicants should submit the following: (1) a cover letter indicating interest and relevant professional and academic background, including experience working in international media institutions; (2) an updated curriculum vitae; (3) a statement of teaching interests/philosophy; (4) samples of publications/creative works, preferably the best three out of their most recent publications; and (5) names/contact information of at least three references. All application materials, including publication samples, scholarly/creative works, will NOT be returned after the completion of the recruitment exercise. Interested candidates should send their application materials to: B-303 Peking University Shenzhen Graduate School, University Town, Nanshan District, Shenzhen 518055, China, or via email to aiyan(a)pkusz.edu.cn. Review of applications will continue until the posts are filled. The University reserves the right not to make an appointment for the post advertised, and the appointment will be made according to the terms & conditions applicable at the time of offer. http://rw.pkusz.edu.cn/info/article.asp?articleid=1249

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CfP: Little Data and the Big Picture (ACLA 2014, NYU, 20-23 March--FINAL NOTICE)
by Scott Kushner 14 Nov '13

14 Nov '13

The following call for papers (viewble at http://bit.ly/H79K6q) may be of interest to readers with inclinations to literary studies. "Little Data and the Big Picture: What Everyday Literature Can Do for Comparison" a seminar to be held at the Annual Meeting of the American Comparative Literature Association New York University 20-23 March 2014 Abstract deadline: 15 November 2013 The broad claims of Big Data hide the continued importance of the specific, individual, and random. This seminar examines the contributions that Comparative Literature has made and can make for understanding the stories that are written and read against the background of “digital humanities,” “new media,” and the “information society.” Prospective participants are invited to problematize these key terms and explore how textual cultures have evolved alongside, been shaped by, and resisted successive fantasies of a data-driven society. There has always been an everyday literature of letters, memos, telegrams, and notes. How are the forms of today’s everyday literature analogous repetitions of past forms and how do they represent something qualitatively different? How do we judge? In some fashion, the papers in this seminar will explore ways that the specific, the particular, the analog, and the banal persist in the face of the general, the aggregate, the digital, and the grand arc. Possible topics include (but are not limited to): Histories and counter-histories of the information society; everyday digital textuality; computer and human languages; networked social media; Tweet poetics; posting addiction; life writing; comparative media and textual cultures; reception; censorship; quantitative historiography; textual geographies; platforms (computer and otherwise); analog/digital tensions; political action; lacunae; interface; objects (virtual and/or tangible); participation and/or non-participation; material and immaterial conditions of reading and writing. Submit a paper proposal at http://www.acla.org/submit (be sure to select "Little Data..." in the Seminar drop-down menu). Learn more about the meeting and its "distinctive structure" at http://www.acla.org/acla2014. Any questions about the seminar, inquiries about topic suitability, or nominations of possible participants may be directed to scott.kushner(a)gmail.com.

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Social media as an industry
by David Brake 13 Nov '13

13 Nov '13

Dear all, Apologies for asking what may be an obvious question, but what scholarly books/articles published recently would the AoIR hivemind recommend that spell out one or more of: 1) the business models of social media businesses and how these affect their development and practices 2) the corporate and regional cultures of social media businesses and how these affect their development and practices 3) upcoming technological developments and trends and how they will affect how social media works in the coming years (the internet of things, 'big data', the balkanisation of the Internet etc) I don't recall running across many ethnographies of the big Internet companies. In journalism studies we are awash with ethnographies of newsrooms and news organizations– where the equivalent studies of how the people who run, say, Google think and behave? I know there are a number of ones written by journalists but they aren't generally methodologically rigorous… To save bandwidth replies to me directly will be 'digested' and sent out to AoIR in a future email. Thanks in advance - and I wish I could have been in Denver to ask some of these questions f2f! Regards, David PS (ObPlug) I've got two AoIR-related publications recently released: Brake, D. R. (2013). Are we all online content creators now? Web 2.0 and digital divides. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication. doi: 10.1111/jcc4.12042 Retrieved from http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jcc4.12042/abstract Brake, D. R. (2013). Journalists, User Generated Content and Digital Divides. In J. Gordon, G. Stewart & P. Rowinski (Eds.), Br(e)aking The News: Journalism, Politics and New Media (pp. 253-270). Oxford, UK: Peter Lang Enjoy! -- Dr David Brake, FHEA (@drbrake http://davidbrake.org/) Senior Lecturer, Journalism & Communications, University of Bedfordshire

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Digital Activism #Now: April 4th King's College London
by Jordan, Timothy 13 Nov '13

13 Nov '13

Dear all, hopefully something of interest in London. Cheers Tim DIGITAL ACTIVISM #NOW conference Information Politics, Digital Culture and Global Protest Movements King's College London - April 4th 2014 Confirmed speakers: Clare Birchall, Gabriella Coleman, Paolo Gerbaudo, Joss Hands, Tim Jordan and Guobin Yang Twitter: @KingsDCS #DigitalActivismNow #DAconf Facebook: http://on.fb.me/HXs2Hf Blog: http://wp.me/p1BSEo-29 Sign up at http://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/digital-activism-now-tickets-9047139237 The so-called web 2.0 of social network sites was invented as a business strategy to react to the dot.com bust and, as revealed by the NSA scandal, it has been heavily used by the state as a tool of surveillance. Yet, this space has also seen the rise of new powerful forms of digital activism, as seen in the adoption of Facebook and Twitter as means of mass mobilisation in the context of the Arab revolutions, the Spanish indignados and of Occupy Wall Street. These contradictions raise a number of burning questions for contemporary digital activists. What are the real opportunities and threats for digital activism at the time of social network sites and big data? How can protest movements make use of the power of mass diffusion and collective coordination afforded by social media without falling prey of state monitoring or cultural banalisation? And is it better to invest energy in creating alternative and non-commercial communication platforms or in "occupying" the digital mainstream? The "Digital Activism #Now" conference will explore emerging digital protest practices at a time of increasing diffusion of social media and progressive massification and commercialisation of the web. By gathering leading international researchers and activists we will examine how digital activists are making use of the affordances of the social web. Moreover, we will debate the main issues of contention among contemporary digital activists, faced with increasing possibilities of mass outreach but also with new dangers. Among the issues covered by the conference will feature the role of social network sites in contemporary protests, hacktivism at the time of Anonymous and Lulzsec, the activist use of digital culture, internet memes, and online pranks, as means of digital propaganda and the politics of transparency and secrecy in digital whistleblowing. The conference is supported by the Culture, Media and Creative Industries and Digital Humanities Departments, by the China Lau Institute and the North America Institute, all at King's College London. Dr Tim Jordan, Senior Lecturer Department of Digital Humanities and Department of Culture, Media and Creative Industries, Creative Arts Administrative Centre, Room 5D, D Floor, Chesham Building, King's College London, Strand, London WC2R 2LS, England Phone: +44 (0)20 78481100

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Call for Papers: Int'l Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM-14)
by Brian Keegan 13 Nov '13

13 Nov '13

THE 8TH INTERNATIONAL AAAI CONFERENCE ON WEBLOGS AND SOCIAL MEDIA (ICWSM-14) SPONSORED BY THE ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE * Abstracts Due: January 15, 2014 (by 11:59 pm PST) * Full Papers Due: January 22, 2014 (by 11:59 pm PST) * Acceptance Notification: March 10, 2014 * Conference: June 1-4, 2014 in Ann Arbor, Michigan The International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM) is a forum for researchers in computer science and social science to come together to share knowledge, discuss ideas, exchange information, and learn about cutting-edge research in diverse fields with the common theme of online social media. This overall theme includes research in new perspectives in social theories, as well as computational algorithms for analyzing social media. ICWSM is a singularly fitting venue for research that blends social science and computational approaches to answer important and challenging questions about human social behavior through social media while advancing computational tools for vast and unstructured data. ICWSM, now in its eighth year, has become one of the premier venues for computational social science, and previous years of ICWSM have featured papers, posters, and demos that draw upon network science, machine learning, computational linguistics, sociology, communication, and political science. The uniqueness of the venue and the quality of submissions have contributed to a fast growth of the conference and a competitive acceptance rate of 20% for full-length research papers published in the proceedings by the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI). For ICWSM-14, in addition to the usual program of contributed technical talks, posters and invited presentations, the main conference will include a selection of keynote talks from prominent social scientists and technologists. Building on successes in previous years, ICWSM-14 will also hold a day of workshops and tutorials in addition to the main conference. SUMMARY SUBMISSION GUIDELINE Full paper format: Full paper submissions to ICWSM are recommended to be 8 pages long, and must be at most 10 pages long, including figures and references. The final camera-ready length (between 8-10 pages) for each full paper in the proceedings will be at the discretion of the program chairs. All papers must follow AAAI formatting guidelines. Poster and demo paper format: Poster paper submissions to ICWSM must be 4 pages long, including figures and references. Demo paper submissions to ICWSM must be 2 pages long, including figures and references. All papers must be follow AAAI formatting guidelines. Anonymity: Paper submissions to ICWSM must be anonymized. Social science track with only abstracts in the proceedings: We will be continuing the “social science” track at ICWSM-14 following its successful debut in 2013. This option is for researchers in social science who wish to submit full papers without publication in the conference proceedings. While papers in this track will not be published, we expect these submissions to describe the same high-quality and complete work as the main track submissions. Papers accepted to this track will be full presentations integrated with the conference, but they will be published only as abstracts in the conference proceedings. DISCIPLINES * Computational approaches to social media research including * Natural language processing * Text / data mining * Machine learning * Image / multimedia processing * Graphics and visualization * Distributed computing * Graph theory and graphical models * Human-computer interaction * Social science approaches to social media research including * Psychology * Sociology and social network analysis * Communication * Political science * Economics * Anthropology * Media studies and journalism * Interdisciplinary approaches to social media research combining computational algorithms and social science methodologies TYPES OF SOCIAL MEDIA include * Weblogs (posts, comments, and/or social shares) * Social networking sites (e.g., Facebook, LinkedIn) * Microblogs (e.g., Twitter, Tumblr) * Wiki-based knowledge sharing sites (e.g., Wikipedia) * Social news sites and websites of news media (e.g., Huffington Post) * Forums, mailing lists, newsgroups * Community media sites (e.g., YouTube, Flickr, Instagram) * Social Q & A sites (e.g., Quora, Yahoo Answers) * User reviews (e.g., Yelp, Amazon.com) * Social curation sites (e.g., Reddit, Pinterest) * Location-based social networks (e.g., Foursquare) TOPICS INCLUDE (BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO) * Psychological, personality-based and ethnographic studies of social media * Analysis of the relationship between social media and mainstream media * Qualitative and quantitative studies of social media * Centrality/influence of social media publications and authors * Ranking/relevance of blogs and microblogs; web page ranking based on weblogs * Social network analysis; communities identification; expertise and authority discovery * Collaborative filtering * Trust; reputation; recommendation systems * Human computer interaction; social media tools; navigation and visualization * Subjectivity in textual data; sentiment analysis; polarity/opinion identification and extraction, linguistic analyses of social media behavior * Text categorization; topic recognition; demographic/gender/age identification * Trend identification and tracking; time series forecasting * Measuring predictability of real world phenomena based on social media, e.g., spanning politics, finance, and health * New social media applications; interfaces; interaction techniques * Social innovation and effecting change through social media * Social media usage on mobile devices; location, human mobility, and behavior * Organizational and group behavior mediated by social media; interpersonal communication mediated by social media * Studies of digital humanities (culture, history, arts) using social media CONFERENCE WEBSITE http://icwsm.org/2014/ General Co-Chairs Eytan Adar, University of Michigan Paul Resnick, University of Michigan PROGRAM Co-Chairs Munmun De Choudhury, Microsoft Research Bernie Hogan, Oxford Internet Institute Alice Oh, KAIST -- Brian C. Keegan, Ph.D. Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, Lazer Lab College of Social Sciences and Humanities, Northeastern University b.keegan(a)neu.edu www.brianckeegan.com M: 617.803.6971 O: 617.373.7200 Skype: bckeegan

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Digital Methods Winter School Amsterdam January 2014 - Call for Participation
by Liliana Bounegru 13 Nov '13

13 Nov '13

Call for participation in the Digital Methods Winter School, Amsterdam, January 2014 https://wiki.digitalmethods.net/Dmi/WinterSchool2014 Dear all, We are very pleased to announce the 6th annual Digital Methods Winter School, Mini-conference as well as International Workshop and Data Sprint to take place 13-17 January 2014 at the University of Amsterdam. The Winter School this year is dedicated to online data analysis, and has as its workshop and data sprint theme the study of hate violence as well as extremism, using software tools for social media data collection and analysis. This year’s Winter School brings together motivated scholars, PhD candidates as well advanced Master’s students (together with groups of information designers and programmers) for a full week beginning with an opening day event with subject matter expert talks, followed by a parallel mini-conference and sprint on the second day, and finally further data sprinting for the remainder of the week, culminating in final presentations. We have sentiment analysts on hand, together with Facebook and Twitter data extraction experts. We also have extremism and hate monitoring professionals from governmental and non-governmental organisations, who will provide us with the state of the art of online monitoring, and their current analytical interests and needs. We have asked them to speak about what else the Internet may add to the analysis. Thereafter, in the data sprint, the participants will seek to meet these needs (or others arising from the group work), outputting analyses and graphics, working in tandem with the information designers and programmers. For PhD candidates and scholars attending there is also an opportunity to present a paper, and/or be a respondent, during the mini-conference. (Presenting papers is not a requirement for participating in the Winter School.) Each paper is shortly introduced, and two respondents provide 5-7 minute responses followed by author’s retort and general Q&A. For all questions please consult the co-organizers, Natalia Sanchez (N.SanchezQuerubin at uva.nl) and Liliana Bounegru (liliana.bounegru at digitalmethods.net) The call for participation to this year’s Digital Methods Winter School is below. I hope to be able to welcome you to Amsterdam in the new year! Regards Richard Rogers Digital Methods Initiative University of Amsterdam http://www.digitalmethods.net/ My Sentiments Exactly: On Methods of Early Warning, Detection and Monitoring through Online and Social Media Digital Methods Winter School 2014, Mini-Conference and International Workshop and Data Sprint 13-17 January 2014 Digital Methods Initiative New Media & Digital Culture University of Amsterdam Turfdraagsterpad 9 1012 XT Amsterdam the Netherlands The Digital Methods Initiative (DMI), Amsterdam, is pleased to announce its 6th annual Winter School, entitled "My Sentiments Exactly: On Methods of Early Warning, Detection and Monitoring through Online and Social Media." The Digital Methods Winter School provides the opportunity for PhD candidates, advanced MA students and motivated scholars to work on timely research methods as well as present a short paper on digital methods and new media related topics, with feedback from the Amsterdam group of DMI researchers and international participants, often drawn from previous Digital Methods Summer and Winter Schools. This year's Winter School is five days, with one day devoted to the Mini-conference, where the papers are presented and participants also serve as respondents, and four days to the workshop. The theme of the workshop is "methods of early warning," and includes a data sprint. This year's edition will feature, among other interventions, guest lectures by eminent scholars and practitioners. Participants do not have to present a paper to take part in the workshop. Digital Methods Winter School Workshop The 2014 Digital Methods Winter School is devoted to methods of early warning, detection and monitoring with social media data. Animal spirits in the stock market, the mood of the people before the elections, the buzz leading up to the Oscars. Emmys and Grammys - these are some of the common use cases, and for some analysts "data fantasies", put forward for deploying digital detection programs. Occasionally expressed as opportunities in big data, early warning systems and other societal monitoring devices using social media data are of interest as an alternative social research arena even competing with the more conventional social scientific instrumentarium. Google Flu Trends and Dengue Fever Trends signalled the use of engine queries to study incidence of ailment and its geography. The work using Twitter as anticipatory space has been less effective, perhaps summarised in the academic paper entitled, "I Wanted to Predict Elections with Twitter and all I got was this Lousy Paper." The 2014 Digital Methods Summer School takes stock but also applies software techniques to study resonance, salience as well as sentiment using online data. Where are the fruitful realms of application for such monitoring techniques? Are the techniques well suited to the comment and review spaces online? May we characterise hashtags as polemical, comical, highly substantive or nonsensical? How to geo-locate hate speech? Whilst disparate the list of questions seeks to invite application of monitoring software to wide-ranging online data sets, and experimentation. How to determine the spaces and derive metrics for unrest, collective nervousness, and other such constructions. May we derive signatures of affective states? Data Sprint: Hate Violence As Object of Online Study Traditionally, victim studies have relied on two main sources of data: police reports and self-reporting aka victimisation data. Another way to gather instances of hate violence is to conduct press monitoring. More recently, projects have attempted to crowd-source hate crime reports but without great success. This workshop aims to fill in the gaps of these traditional forms of gathering victimisation data by building an apparatus that uses Facebook and Twitter to monitor instances that may lead to hate violence. In doing so we ask: Is there a link between incitements of violence on social media and wider violence? How can we find social media hate activity measures that correlate with violence acts? Could social media give us early warning tool for hate violence? Extremist sympathiser networks, activists as well as victim spaces online will be monitored. An activity measure that will be explored on both Facebook and Twitter is the content (images, URLs, videos) that is most circulated and that animates particular groups. Another approach takes selected events at its core and investigates hate incitement activity around these events on social media retrospectively, and correlates these online activities with violent acts. Digital Methods Winter School Mini-Conference The data sprint is the Winter School workshop. There is also the annual Digital Methods Winter School Mini-Conference. The mini-conference provides the opportunity for digital methods and allied researchers to present short yet complete papers (5,000-7,500 words) and serve as respondents, providing feedback. Often the work presented follows from previous Digital Methods Summer Schools. The mini-conference accepts papers in the general digital methods and allied areas: the hyperlink and other natively digital objects, the website as archived object, web historiographies, search engine critique, Google as globalizing machine, cross-spherical analysis and other approaches to comparative media studies, device cultures, national web studies, Wikipedia as cultural reference, the technicity of (networked) content, post-demographics, platform studies, crawling and scraping, graphing and clouding, and similar. Winter School Schedule 13 January 9.30-17.00 Sentiments and extremism. Subject matter experts and sentiment analysts present. Location: TBA 14 January 9.30-17.00 Mini-conference, per paper: 5-minute paper presentations, two 5-minute responses, 5-minute author response, 5-minute Q&A.Location: Media Studies, Turfdraagsterpad 9, rooms 0.12, 0.13 and 0.04. 15 January 9.30-17.00 Workshop. Location: Media Studies, Turfdraagsterpad 9, rooms 0.12, 0.13 and 0.04. 16 January 9.30-17.00 Workshop. Location: Media Studies, Turfdraagsterpad 9, rooms 0.12, 0.13 and 0.04. 17 January 9.30-17.00 Workshop and afternoon presentations. Location: Media Studies, Turfdraagsterpad 9, rooms 0.12, 0.13 and 0.04. Afternoon presentations: Universiteitstheater, Nieuwe Doelenstraat 16, room 3.01. Maps How to get to/from Schiphol Airport, a guide<http://www.schiphol.nl/Travellers/ToFromSchiphol.htm>. We recommend taking the train. How to get to the University of Amsterdam, Media Studies, Turfdraagsterpad 9, 1012 XT, Amsterdam. Take tram 4, 9, 14, 16, 24, 25 and get of at Spui/Rokin then walk to Oude Turfmarkt, enter the passage and it's the first building on your left. Map for the different locations: https://maps.google.com/maps/ms?msid=201538250879417252106.0004d3ca4fa069bc… A) Media Studies. Turfdraagsterpad 9, 1012 XT, Amsterdam. Rooms: 0.13 and 0.04 B) Universiteitstheater/University Theatre, Nieuwe Doelenstraat 16, 1012 CP, Amsterdam. Room 3.01 C) Oudemanhuispoort 4-6, 1012 CN Amsterdam Also, Google Maps with all locations of the University of Amsterdam<http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&msa=0&msid=2049942403786499770…> . Sharing content We will have an open Skype channel for all participants. Twitter: #dmiwinter14 Application, Fees & Logistics Application deadline is 18 December 2013. To apply please send along a letter of motivation as well as your CV to info at digitalmethods.net. The fee for the Digital Methods Winter School 2014 is EUR 245. Bank transfer information will be sent along with the notification on 19 December 2013. The Winter School is self-catered. The venue is in the center of Amsterdam with abundant coffee houses and lunch places. The Winter School closes with a festive event, after the final presentations. Participants are expected to find their own housing (airbnb and other short-stay sites are helpful). The DMI organisers are happy to provide tips. Here is a guide to the Amsterdam new media scene<https://www.digitalmethods.net/MoM/NewMediaAmsterdam> . About DMI The Digital Methods Winter School is part of the Digital Methods Initiative, Amsterdam, dedicated to reworking method for Internet-related research. The Digital Methods Initiative holds the annual Digital Methods Summer Schools (six to date), which are intensive and full time 2-week undertakings in the Summertime. The 2014 Summer School will take place 23 June - 4 July 2014. The coordinators of the Digital Methods Initiative are Sabine Niederer and Esther Weltevrede (PhD candidates in New Media & Digital Culture, University of Amsterdam), and the director is Richard Rogers, Professor of New Media & Digital Culture, University of Amsterdam. Digital methods are online at http://www.digitalmethods.net/. The DMI about page includes a substantive introduction, and there is also a list of Digital Methods people, with bios. DMI holds occasional Autumn and Spring workshops, such as Mapping Populism in Europe<https://wiki.digitalmethods.net/Dmi/RightWingPopulism> and Climate Change and Conflict<https://wiki.digitalmethods.net/Dmi/ClimateConflicts>. There is also a Digital Methods book<http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/digital-methods> .

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Presidential Records on ICTs (John Paul Laprise)
by Sarah Logan 12 Nov '13

12 Nov '13

Thanks so much for all your work, John - I've had or two conversations about this with you at a conference, but had no idea the resource was this extensive or had required so much effort. -----Original Message----- From: air-l-bounces(a)listserv.aoir.org [mailto:air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org] On Behalf Of air-l-request(a)listserv.aoir.org Sent: Wednesday, 13 November 2013 10:00 AM To: air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org Subject: Air-L Digest, Vol 112, Issue 13 Send Air-L mailing list submissions to air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to air-l-request(a)listserv.aoir.org You can reach the person managing the list at air-l-owner(a)listserv.aoir.org When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of Air-L digest..." Today's Topics: 1. Presidential Records on ICTs (John Paul Laprise) 2. CfP tripleC special issue "Interrogating internships" (ed. Nicole Cohen, Greig de Peuter, Enda Brophy) (Christian Fuchs) 3. Technical description of mobile phones and mobile network (Rich Ling) 4. Livestream of Femtechnet Video Dialogue on "Place" for DOCC 2013 (Irish, Gajjala, Juhasz) at Pitzer this week (Radhika G) 5. 2nd call for papers - EPICS VI - Language Aggression and conflict (Pilar Garces) 6. Fwd: [governance] Fwd: I* Organizations 1net consultations on the future of Internet Governance (Jeremy Hunsinger) 7. ISCRAM 2014 deadline extension (Andrea H. Tapia) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2013 09:40:30 +0000 From: John Paul Laprise <j-laprise(a)northwestern.edu> To: "members(a)sigcis.org" <members(a)sigcis.org>, "air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org" <air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org> Subject: [Air-L] Presidential Records on ICTs Message-ID: <EF05875E7414A441A9175A0D4EFE691429BA8E41(a)NUQCSPMBX2.ads.northwestern.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Hi everyone, Sharon Traweek's recent post on the SIGCIS listserv about declassification and US government records has prompted me to make a general announcement. I've mentioned this to some of you in conference conversations or you probably are aware of this if you've run across my work but I'd like to make a general announcement for all: For the past eleven years (six years as a grad student and going on five years as a faculty member), I have been pursuing ongoing research on White House information technology policy. To that end, I have been filing regular and persistent requests at Presidential Libraries (Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan, Bush (present)) for documents related to a very wide range of ICT keywords. The keyword list is a living list informed by research. In some cases, these records are available but not yet opened and my filing has the effect of fast tracking their availability. In some cases I've filed numerous Freedom of Information Act requests and subsequent appeals to open closed record sets. With classified documents I've filed mandatory review requests and subsequent appeals to declassify records. This takes time and persistence. The end result is that in excess of 200k pages of documents are opened that were not previously available on request. This work continues as the Bush Library come s online and I have made the initial requests to open records there. The long and short of this is that there is a very rich documentary record open and available to interested scholars. Best regards, John Laprise, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Communication in Residence Northwestern University in Qatar Northwestern University -----Original Message----- From: members-bounces(a)sigcis.org [mailto:members-bounces@sigcis.org] On Behalf Of Sharon Traweek Sent: Tuesday, November 12, 2013 3:40 AM To: members(a)sigcis.org Subject: [SIGCIS-Members] de/classification of US government archives re sci/technology Hi, I would appreciate references to any scholarly studies focused specifically on the opening of US cold war government archives of classified [secret] research in the sciences and engineering fields. I have searched for a review article on this topic, including the changing US government strategies for de/classification, but have not found one. That is, I am looking for research on the history of the de/classification process at US government archives 1945 to the present and public access to such materials concerning science and technology. I am aware of passages on this topic distributed in various histories of particular cold war sciences and technologies and in some histories and legal studies of the US Freedom of Information Act of 1966 and the relevant Presidential Executive Orders [12958/13292/13526] on this topic issued since 1995. Cordially, Sharon Traweek, UCLA _______________________________________________ This email is relayed from members(a)sigcis.org, the email discussion list of SHOT SIGCIS. The list archives are at http://sigcis.org/pipermail/members/ and you can change your subscription options at http://sigcis.org/mailman/listinfo/members ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2013 10:09:25 +0000 From: Christian Fuchs <christian.fuchs(a)uti.at> To: "air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org >> List Aoir" <air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org> Subject: [Air-L] CfP tripleC special issue "Interrogating internships" (ed. Nicole Cohen, Greig de Peuter, Enda Brophy) Message-ID: <5281FE55.6020202(a)uti.at> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed http://www.triple-c.at/index.php/tripleC/announcement/view/17 Call for Papers: Special issue of tripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique Interrogating Internships Edited by Nicole S. Cohen (University of Toronto Mississauga), Greig de Peuter (Wilfrid Laurier University), Enda Brophy (Simon Fraser University) When publisher Cond? Nast cancelled its internship program in October 2013, the response was mixed: many cheered the end of a program that asked debt-laden youth to labour for free, while others lamented the closure of one of the only routes into media work. When depicted in the mainstream media, internships are surrounded by an aura of glamour: rapper Kanye West did a stint at luxury designer Fendi, Lady Gaga arranged one at designer Philip Treacy, and Hollywood portrayed the phenomenon in the movie The Internship. The gloss is fading, however: digital electronics manufacturer Foxconn was caught employing student interns on dubious terms on its assembly lines; former interns launched a successful class-action suit against Fox Searchlight Pictures; and Ross Perlin?s Intern Nation: How to Earn Nothing and Learn Little in the Brave New Economy (Verso, 2011) was vital in pushing internships into a critical spotlight internationally. Within just a few years, internships have become a high-profile subject, garnering media attention, catalyzing activism, provoking government action, and sparking lawsuits against massive corporations. Although internships are prevalent in communication, cultural, media, and entertainment industries, scholarly literature on internships from communication and cultural studies remains limited. This special issue of tripleC seeks to situate internships within the labour turn in research in communication studies and beyond. The issue will interrogate some of the multiple articulations between and among internships, capitalism, communication, and culture. Employers in the media and cultural sectors are regularly singled out as playing a key role in perpetuating the normalization and intensification of unpaid or low paid intern labour, illuminating the interplay of glamourous occupations, the reserve army of labour, and discount wages. For many young people, internships provide an initial encounter with and formative experience of the capitalist labour market, yet the relationship between internships and the category of exploitation is not necessarily straightforward. And many youth are shut out of internships altogether, highlighting the way class divisions structure entry into communication and cultural industries. Internships are also an emerging trope in popular media culture, with television shows ranging from Girls to Gallery Girls pointing to the gendered dimension of internships. And, if internships are in the international spotlight today, it is thanks to growing intern labour activism and the way interns and their allies have turned their communicative capacities to alternative ends, raising awareness through DIY video-making, engaging in creative online protest and campaigns, and effectively naming-and-shaming intern employers via social media. Internships are an entry point for interrogating contested conditions of life and labour in communicative capitalism at a time when precarity is an overarching structure of feeling. So, we invite articles, reports, interviews, and pieces that develop key concepts from academics, activists, and interns (current and former) on issues including but not limited to: * the political-economic context of the spread of (unpaid) internships * the relationship of internships to student debt and youth unemployment * social exclusion based on class, race, and gender and intersectional analysis of the social relations of internships; * the production of meaning, e.g., discourse analysis of media coverage of intern issues, everyday talk of internships (?paying your dues,? ?getting a foot in the door?); * representations of internships in popular media culture; * government regulation, policy proposals, legal issues, and class-action law suits; * ?passionate labour,? governmentality, self-exploitation, working for exposure, network sociality, and reputational economies; * case studies of internships within and/or across particular sectors of the arts, media, and cultural industries (e.g., journalism, fashion, film); * historical perspectives on internships in the communication and cultural industries; * intern activism within and beyond the union movement; strategies, tactics, and organizing models; * critical and contextualized biographical accounts of internship experiences; * the role of education institutions in the intern economy; * genealogy of the term ?intern?; * elite internships and access; * theoretical key concepts for interrogating internships, such as exploitation, youth, and intersectionality, etc. Length: * Peer-reviewed academic articles: 5,000-8,000 words not including references * Interviews, reports from organizations, non-academic articles: 1,000-2,500 words not including references * Key concept entries: 1,000-2,000 words not including references Publishing Schedule: Jan. 15, 2014: deadline for proposals (300-500 word abstract) Feb. 1, 2014: notification of acceptance (scholarly articles still subject to peer review) June 1, 2014: deadline for first drafts Aug. 1, 2014: editorial feedback provided Oct. 1, 2014: final drafts submitted Nov. 1, 2014: publication of special issue Please send queries and abstract proposals (including title, abstract of around 300-500 words, affiliation, contact data, brief biographical note) via email to the 3 co-editors: Nicole S. Cohen Institute of Communication, Culture and Information Technology University of Toronto Mississauga nicole.cohen(a)utoronto.ca Greig de Peuter Department of Communication Studies Wilfrid Laurier University gdepeuter(a)wlu.ca Enda Brophy School of Communication Simon Fraser University ebrophy(a)sfu.ca About the journal: tripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique is a non-profit open access journal focusing on the study of media, digital media, information and communication in contemporary capitalist societies. For this task, articles should employ critical theories and/or empirical research inspired by critical theories and/or philosophy and ethics guided by critical thinking as well as relate the analysis to power structures and inequalities of capitalism, especially forms of stratification such as class, racist and other ideologies and capitalist patriarchy. The journal is especially interested in how analyses relate to normative, political and critical dimensions and how they help illuminating conditions that foster or hinder the advancement of an inclusive, just and participatory information society. It publishes both theoretical and empirical contributions as well as reflections and book reviews. Follow tripleC on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CommCapCritique ------------------------------ Message: 3 Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2013 13:03:41 +0100 From: Rich Ling <riseling(a)gmail.com> To: Air-l(a)aoir.org Subject: [Air-L] Technical description of mobile phones and mobile network Message-ID: <CAO5RENAaYicn-p4TGr+D3XwWp_O2xsjsnasrE1gnLRAcZJsTjw(a)mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Dear all, I am looking for a good (readable) description of how a mobile phone works and how the mobile network functions. It will be used as intro material for my students. I am wondering if anyone has good suggestions for literature. Thanks -- Rich L. ------------------------------ Message: 4 Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2013 07:17:19 -0500 From: Radhika G <gradhika2012(a)gmail.com> To: "air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org" <air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org> Subject: [Air-L] Livestream of Femtechnet Video Dialogue on "Place" for DOCC 2013 (Irish, Gajjala, Juhasz) at Pitzer this week Message-ID: <CAPo=r39pmsevLzwjOHLMoJ2hAU0WR=i9RMuFkiqrXe_ZqAMsbg(a)mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 What is Femtechnet? - see http://femtechnet.newschool.edu What is DOCC 2013 - see http://femtechnet.newschool.edu/docc2013/ What is a Femtechnet video dialogue? - see http://femtechnet.newschool.edu/about-video-dialogues/ Livestream: Radhika Gajjala and Sharon Irish on Thurs, 11/14, 10-11 am PST. The Livestream will be available here <http://www.pitzer.edu/webcast>: http://www.pitzer.edu/webcast A quicktime file of this live event will appear on the Commons and our Vimeo page soon thereafter. For discussion while the livestream is in progress or after - http://femtechnet.newschool.edu/studentresources/forums/forum/discussion-li… See for details: http://www.pitzer.edu/offices/mcsi/2013-14/fall_events.asp my twitter id for any updates: cyberdivalivesl ____ Radhika Gajjala http://www.cyberdiva.org ------------------------------ Message: 5 Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2013 04:45:17 -0800 (PST) From: Pilar Garces <pilar_garces(a)yahoo.com> To: "air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org" <air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org> Subject: [Air-L] 2nd call for papers - EPICS VI - Language Aggression and conflict Message-ID: <1384260317.29231.YahooMailNeo(a)web120402.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 The research group ?Intercultural Pragmatic Studies (English-Spanish): Pragmatic and Discourse Issues? is pleased to announce the upcoming Sixth International Symposium on Intercultural, Cognitive and Social Pragmatics. ? EPICS VI will be held on 12-14 May 2014, at the University of Seville, Spain. ? Under the umbrella theme ?Pragmatic Perspectives on Language Aggression and Conflict?, EPICS VI aims at providing a forum for practitioners of pragmatics and other related disciplines to present on their latest research, as well as to share experiences and suggest new avenues for research. Proposals on other topics broadly related to pragmatics and discourse analysis will also be considered for presentation. ? ?Professor Jonathan Culpeper (Lancaster University) and Professor John Joseph (The University of Edinburgh) have agreed to be EPICS VI?s keynote speakers. ? Proposals for oral presentations, panels, and posters should be send to mpadillacruz(a)us.es before December 1st, 2013. Conference Fees: Until January 30, 2014: Attendants: EUR 100 Speakers: EUR 150 After January 30: Attendants: EUR 125 Speakers: EUR 175 These fees are for the full conference (12-14 May) and include the conference pack, coffee breaks and lunches. There will be a conference dinner, whose price is not included in the conference fee. ------------------------------ Message: 6 Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2013 10:43:18 -0500 From: Jeremy Hunsinger <jhuns(a)vt.edu> To: "air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org" <air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org> Subject: [Air-L] Fwd: [governance] Fwd: I* Organizations 1net consultations on the future of Internet Governance Message-ID: <CABvxTGrctVaYf0RoTjF2SygHPeAdKk1EtduQFn6qE9AJtipqig(a)mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 The various I* Organizations have joined forces to work on a project entitled 1net. The project is hosting a free and open online forum about the future of Internet governance. The project has a dedicated website online at http://www.1net.org/content/en, and has a Twitter feed at https://twitter.com/intent/user?screen_name=1netorg. ------------------------------ Message: 7 Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2013 21:27:22 +0000 From: "Andrea H. Tapia" <atapia(a)ist.psu.edu> To: "air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org" <air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org> Subject: [Air-L] ISCRAM 2014 deadline extension Message-ID: <CEA80760.1E2D6%atapia(a)ist.psu.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" 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/> ------------------------------ _______________________________________________ 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 13 **************************************

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Fwd: [governance] Fwd: I* Organizations 1net consultations on the future of Internet Governance
by Jeremy Hunsinger 12 Nov '13

12 Nov '13

The various I* Organizations have joined forces to work on a project entitled 1net. The project is hosting a free and open online forum about the future of Internet governance. The project has a dedicated website online at http://www.1net.org/content/en, and has a Twitter feed at https://twitter.com/intent/user?screen_name=1netorg.

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2nd call for papers - EPICS VI - Language Aggression and conflict
by Pilar Garces 12 Nov '13

12 Nov '13

The research group “Intercultural Pragmatic Studies (English-Spanish): Pragmatic and Discourse Issues” is pleased to announce the upcoming Sixth International Symposium on Intercultural, Cognitive and Social Pragmatics. EPICS VI will be held on 12-14 May 2014, at the University of Seville, Spain. Under the umbrella theme “Pragmatic Perspectives on Language Aggression and Conflict”, EPICS VI aims at providing a forum for practitioners of pragmatics and other related disciplines to present on their latest research, as well as to share experiences and suggest new avenues for research. Proposals on other topics broadly related to pragmatics and discourse analysis will also be considered for presentation. Professor Jonathan Culpeper (Lancaster University) and Professor John Joseph (The University of Edinburgh) have agreed to be EPICS VI’s keynote speakers. Proposals for oral presentations, panels, and posters should be send to mpadillacruz(a)us.es before December 1st, 2013. Conference Fees: Until January 30, 2014: Attendants: EUR 100 Speakers: EUR 150 After January 30: Attendants: EUR 125 Speakers: EUR 175 These fees are for the full conference (12-14 May) and include the conference pack, coffee breaks and lunches. There will be a conference dinner, whose price is not included in the conference fee.

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