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Final call: Electronic Literature Organization, Hold The Light: Media Art Show + Papers, Due December 15th
by Carolyn Guertin 14 Dec '13

14 Dec '13

> Hold the Light > > 2014 Electronic Literature Organization Conference > > > Call for Contributions > > DEADLINES > > > The deadline for both the Media Art Show and the academic paper track has been extended until DECEMBER 15, 2013. > > > THEME > > The conference theme is "Hold the Light: Identity, Change, Commitment," focusing on the meaning of electronic literature in a time when nearly every form of communication is inflected by computation and networks. How do we distinguish what we do? What’s the nature of our particular cultural work? Where should we expand our horizons, and where should we hold whatever lines we've drawn? > > CONFERENCE > > For the Conference we welcome contributions that address identity, purpose, and future development, along with other concerns including, but not limited to, history, critique, theory, reception, and social situation. Proposals will most likely describe a scholarly presentation suitable for delivery in about 20 minutes, with time for questions. Other presentation formats are welcome and should be described in the proposal. > > Proposers must attend the conference. > > Presentations may include elements of demonstration or performance, as part of a discussion that goes beyond the work itself. With this stipulation, proposers are welcome to address their own work. > > We invite proposals of no more than 500 words, including a brief description of the content and format of the presentation, and contact information for the presenter(s). Describe any technical needs beyond standard screen projection and audio. Send proposals to eliterature2014 [at] gmail.com, using plain text format in the email, or attached in MS-Word format or PDF. > > Proposals will be reviewed by a Program Committee appointed by the Program Co-Chairs. > > MEDIA ARTS SHOW > > The Media Arts Show provides an occasion for juried review, and extended display, performance, and presentation, of original works. Please identify submissions for the Show as such. > > The Committee especially welcomes submissions from artists who are new to electronic literature or who are in the beginning stages of their e-literary artistic production. Limited funds will be available to support artists presenting work at the Show, or in local galleries as part of the Show. Artists need not attend the Conference in order to show work. > > Some works selected for inclusion in the Media Arts Show will also be designated for live performance. Please indicate such a willingness in your proposal. Skype or other virtual presentation modes will not be permitted for artistic works. > > A virtual Festival of E-Literature First Encounters will gather works produced by students or others who are making e-lit for the first time. We hope all faculty will encourage their students to submit work for consideration. The deadline for submission to the Festival of E-Literature First Encounters is 1 February 2014. > > All Media Arts proposals should be no more than 500 words, including a brief description of the content and format of the presentation and contact information for the presenter(s). Please limit your submissions to one work per artist. If you're a member of a collaboration, artists may submit one collaborative work and one individual work for consideration. If you're a member of more than one collaboration and wish to submit multiple collaborative works, please query us in advance of the deadline to discuss the volume of work you'd like to submit. Our aim in limiting multiple submissions is to permit as many artists as possible to show work, and not to overburden our jurors, who are donating their time to review all submissions carefully. > > Describe any technical needs beyond standard screen projection and audio. Send proposals to eliterature2014 [at] gmail.com, using plain text format in the email, or attached in MS-Word format or PDF. > > MEDIA ART SUBMISSION DEADLINE > > Proposals for the Conference and Media Arts Show are requested by Sunday, December 15, 2013. > > PLEASE CIRCULATE > > If you know of friends, colleagues, or organizations not aware of ELO or this conference, please feel free to circulate this Call. A PDF version is available here. > > Program Committee Chairs > > Marjorie Luesebrink, Independent Artist (Co-Chair) > Sandy Baldwin, West Virginia University (Co-Chair) > Kathi Inman Berens, University of Southern California (Media Arts Curator) > -- Carolyn Guertin, PhD Senior Researcher, Augmented Reality Lab, York University author of Digital Prohibition: Piracy and Authorship in New Media Art (Continuum, 2012) Website: http://carolynguertin.com/ Email: carolyn.guertin(a)gmail.com

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CHI14 Workshop: Biological Rhythms and Technology
by Jaime Snyder 13 Dec '13

13 Dec '13

[Apologies for cross posting] Biological Rhythms and Technology http://pac.cs.cornell.edu/rhythms/ Workshop at CHI 2014 Toronto, Canada, April 27th 9.00am – 6.00pm We are constantly changing. Every week. Every day. Every minute. Our bodies coordinate many physiological and mental changes to help us adapt to our environment. As a consequence of these fluctuations, we can be more suited to certain types of activities at specific times of the day. Disruptions of our rhythms can have serious impacts on our sleep, productivity, and well-being. In spite of these natural fluctuations, the technologies we use to work and to communicate respond identically throughout the day to our interactions. However, a new class of technologies has emerged that takes our biological rhythms into account. This interactive workshop will bring together researchers interested in designing technologies to support biological rhythms. We invite participants from a range of disciplines (including sleep, well-being, and mental health) to take part in this workshop to discuss the design and development of technology to support individual rhythms; social impacts of measuring these physiological, behavioral, and mental changes; and feedback interventions to help people become more aware of these changes. The goal of the workshop is to create a community around incorporating an awareness of biological rhythms into the design of technology How to participate Submit a 2-4 page paper in the ACM Extended Abstract format about your ongoing work, recent results, or study methods related to biological rhythms. At least one author of each accepted papers must attend the workshop and all participants much register for the workshop and attend at least one day of the conference. Important dates • Submission Deadline: 17 Jan 2014 • Notification: 10 Feb 2014 • Workshop date: 27 April 2014 For more info: http://pac.cs.cornell.edu/rhythms/ Organizers Mark Matthews, Cornell University, USA  Erin Carroll, University of Rochester, USA  Saeed Abdullah, Cornell University, USA  Jaime Snyder, Cornell University, USA  Matthew Kay, University of Washington, USA  Tanzeem Choudhury, Cornell University, USA  Geri Gay, Cornell University, USA  Julie Kientz, University of Washington, USA

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Call for Papers -1984: Freedom and Censorship in the Media - Where Are We Now? [Reopened due to relocation]
by Mark Mckenna 13 Dec '13

13 Dec '13

Dear Colleagues, Apologies for cross posting. Please circulate and distribute widely: *1984: FREEDOM AND CENSORSHIP IN THE MEDIA – WHERE ARE WE NOW?* *University of Sunderland – London Campus (23rd-24th April 2014)* In response to an overwhelming international interest from academics, we have decided to relocate the conference to the University of Sunderland’s *London* Campus. The conference will now take place on the *23rd and 24th of April 2014*. In light the change in venue and dates, we are reopening the call for papers. The new deadline for the submission of abstracts is January 17th 2014. The conference aims to examine censorship both nationally and internationally and in all forms of media. Selected papers will be published with a leading UK publisher in a forthcoming edited collection based on the event. *Confirmed keynote speakers* Professor Martin Barker, University of East Anglia Jerry Barnett, SexAndCensorship.org Professor Julian Petley, Brunel University Professor Clarissa Smith, University of Sunderland In 2013 has raised concerns about new censorship measures. Jerry Barnett has referred to it as ‘Internet Censorship 1.0’, It seems that 2014 is not so far away from 1984 in terms of the social and political struggles for the control of the media landscape. Censorship is still the currency of the contemporary political discourse. Worries over effects of media content and technologies are never far from the headlines. When anxieties centre on protecting children and the fortification of the social fabric, regulation often seems like the first resort. The year 2014 will see the thirtieth anniversary of the 1984 Video Recordings Act (VRA): this event offers the opportunity to reflect on how and why concerns about individual media technologies and particular media genres become so important that campaigners and politicians can claim that ‘the very soul of the nation’ is at stake. Using the VRA as a starting point, this conference aims to critically examine the key issues in politics and campaigning which shape calls for censorship. If new technologies always spark old anxieties around ‘effects’ and propensities to cause ‘harm’, what might we learn from extant legislation and their implementation? As we settle into the internet age and media on demand, policing national media borders seems ever more futile, yet the clamour for legislation to protect children and society shows no signs of abating. We invite submissions that explore issues relating to censorship which may be specific to the history, implementation and legacies of the Video Recordings Act but we also welcome papers which examine media regulation/censorship in contemporaneous issues and their historical antecedents. Their broader cultural contexts, which are national and international in focus and which draw connections between Suggested topics: Censorship Evolving practices and technologies of media classification and/or censorship ‘Problematic’ media cultures Regulation of representations of sex, gender and sexualities Digital and online censorship Oppositional voices Protecting and questioning national borders Campaigns and campaigners Activism/activists and the political arena International narratives of censorship British regulation in a global context National and international regulation/censorship Documentary and avant-garde Controversies around computer games History of contemporary film censorship/classification Audiences and the social experiences of censorship Censorship and the creation of communities of dissent Regulations and government policy Proposals for individual papers or pre-constituted panels are welcomed. The submission deadline is 17th January 2014 and notifications of acceptance will be made by the 31st January 2014. Proposals should include title, abstract (350 words), 3-5 key bibliographical references, along with the name of the presenter, institutional affiliation and biographical information (100 words), and email. Panel organizers are asked to submit panel proposals including a panel title, a short description of the panel and information on all the papers following the guidelines listed above. Panels may consist of three speakers with a maximum of 20 minutes speaking time each. All submissions, expressions of interest and enquiries should be sent to: admin(a)where-are-we-now.co.uk Please see the conference website for more details: www.where-are-we-now.co.uk

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Summer School Crowdfunding!
by RUßMANN Uta | FHWien der WKW 13 Dec '13

13 Dec '13

Have a dollar to spare? We are organizing a summer school on ICT4Democracy next March in New Delhi, India (http://serd.org.in/ss2014/) We have been able to find funding for keynote lectures, but it seems hard to find funding for the participants (MA- & PhD-students). So we thought to try a new way to raise funds with our crowd funding event! Help us raise 6500 US-Dollar to provide free food and accommodation for our students. Many of them come from developing countries! See our crowd funding event! Every dollar and euro counts! http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/summer-school-support-young-researchers/x… And please spread the word! Wishing you all a Merry Christmas! Uta ******************************************************************** Uta Russmann Endowed Professorship for Strategic Communication Management & New Media Department of Communication, Marketing & Sales FHWien University of Applied Sciences of WKW Währinger Gürtel 97, 1180 Vienna, Austria Phone: +43 (1) 476 77-5848, Fax: +43 (1) 476 77-5704 uta.russmann(a)fh-wien.ac.at<mailto:uta.russmann@fh-wien.ac.at> www.fh-wien.ac.at/kommas<http://www.fh-wien.ac.at/kommas> **************************NEWS********************************** Ab Herbst 2014 neuer Bachelor-Studiengang "Content-Produktion & Digitales Medienmanagement"<http://www.fh-wien.ac.at/journalismus-medienmanagement/bachelor-studium-con…> am Institut für Journalismus & Medienmanagement! Sie finden uns auch unter facebook.com/FHWien<http://www.facebook.com/FHWien>, twitter.com/FHWienAT<http://www.twitter.com/FHWienAT> und auf Google+<https://plus.google.com/u/0/112183961531581231679> ******************FHWien der WKW: Die führende Fachhochschule für Management & Kommunikation******************

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cfp: media convergence and multi-platform strategies
by Ulrike Rohn 13 Dec '13

13 Dec '13

Hello, The next annual conference of the European Media Management Education Association (EMMA) on media convergence and multi-platform strategies will take place in Tallinn, Estonia, June 12-13, 2014. Submissions are invited in the form of an abstract (750-word maximum). Abstracts are due by 6 January 2014. For more information on the Call: http://www.media-management.eu/conference/tallinn-2014/call-for-paper.html For more information about EMMA: www.media-management.eu We look forward to receiving your abstracts and hope to see you in Tallinn next summer! Ulrike Rohn ------------------------ Dr. Ulrike Rohn Institute of Journalism, Communication and Information Studies University of Tartu Lossi 36 51041 Tartu Estonia

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Re: [Air-L] Academics and blogging
by Scott MacLeod 13 Dec '13

13 Dec '13

Hi, Mary-Helen, Thanks for your post. I just want to contribute to this thread and AoIR by mentioning two blogs with much about Academics and blogging: 'Global University' label at World University and School's blog - http://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/search/label/global%20universi… - 'Global University' label at Scott MacLeod's blog - http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/global%20university . World University and School is Creative Commons' licensed, like Wikipedia with MIT OpenCourseWare (but not endorsed by MIT OCW), and seeks to become the Harvard / MIT of the internet and in all 7,105 languages and 242 countries, matriculating our first, undergraduate class online in Google + group video Hangouts, for example - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/The_College_at_World_University_and_S… . I've added your post - http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2013/12/12/academic-attention… - to the 'Social Science,' wiki page at WUaS, here - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Social_Science#World_University_and_S… . Best, Scott - Scott MacLeod - Founder & President - http://scottmacleod.com/worlduniversityandschool.html - worlduniversityandschool(a)gmail.com - World University and School - like Wikipedia with MIT OpenCourseWare (not endorsed by MIT OCW) - incorporated as a nonprofit effective April 2010. On Thu 12/12/13 3:38 PM , Mary-Helen Ward mary-helen.ward(a)sydney.edu.au sent: > I know that some members of this list have a strong history of writing > about academic blogging going back a decade (you're all cited in my > thesis!), but, like most good ideas, it has taken a while for the world to > catch up. It seems that writing about academics and blogging is now A > Thing. > Given the discussion this week about non-traditional academic writing and > open source publishing, this might be of interest: http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2013/12/12/academ > ic-attention-economy/ > Apart from the authors' work on academic blogging, there are some > interesting ideas here about open-access publishing and how people find > articles of interest to them. > I have mentioned my thesis on twitter a few times, and every time there has > been a spike in views and downloads. In three months the abstract has been > viewed over 500 times, and the full document downloaded just over 100 > times. > Mary-Helen > -- > DR MARY-HELEN WARD | Education Design Manager: Sciences Technology and > BusinessSydney eLearning | Office of the DVC Education > THE UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY > T +61 2 9351 7399 | F +61 2 9036 0000 | M +61 402 388424 > _______________________________________________ > The Air-L > @listserv.aoir.org mailing listis provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.orgSubscribe, 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/ > >

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CFP: M/C Journal 'cute' issue
by Axel Bruns 13 Dec '13

13 Dec '13

G'day ! Given the discussion about closed- and open-access journals on the list at the moment, our latest call for submissions to M/C Journal seems timely - M/C has been open-access and published under a Creative Commons licence since its inception in 1998. We now invite submissions for our 'cute' issue, with articles due by 28 Feb. 2014. As the Internet is fuelled by cute cat images, I hope this may be of interest to some of you. Also still open is the CFP for our 'taste' issue, with articles due 17 Jan. 2014. Please contact the issue editors for further information ! FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - 9 Dec. 2013 M/C - Media and Culture http://www.media-culture.org.au/ is calling for contributors to the 'cute' issue of M/C Journal http://journal.media-culture.org.au/ M/C Journal is inviting new contributors. Founded in 1998, M/C is a crossover journal between the popular and the academic, and a blind- and peer-reviewed journal. Our Website at http://journal.media-culture.org.au/<http://journal.media-culture.org.au/provides> provides open access to all past issues. To find out how and in what format to contribute your work, visit http://journal.media-culture.org.au/index.php/mcjournal/about/submissions. Call for Papers: 'cute' Edited by James Meese and Ramon Lobato Cute content is a fundamental but under-researched component of the Internet economy. Millions of people around the world start their day with videos of kittens, puppies and meerkats. Recent years have seen the rise of global animal brands, such as Maru and Grumpy Cat, along with new talent agencies for this purpose. Online portal I Can Haz Cheezburger has received millions of dollars in venture capital funding, becoming a diversified media business in its own right. YouTube channels, Twitter hashtags and blog rolls form an infrastructure across which a vast amount of cute-themed user-generated content, as well as an increasing amount of commercially produced and branded material, now circulates. Cute content can also be understood as an aesthetic tradition. Tracing the history of animal imagery leads us to a range of practices - kitsch portraiture, stock photography, greeting card imagery - as well as newer online spaces, such as the 4chan message boards, which have resignified the captioned cat pic as a geek subcultural practice. Approaching cute content as a sphere of contemporary cultural production raises a number of questions for analysis. How can we contextualise digital cute content within a longer history of mediated human-animal interactions? What is the nature of animal celebrity and stardom? What textual forms does online cute imagery take in different national and regional contexts? This issue of M/C Journal invites contributions interested in exploring 'cute' as a mode of textual production and as a sector of the Internet economy. Possible topics to be addressed include, but are not limited to, the following: * Histories of animal imagery in digital and pre-digital contexts * The specificity of particular national and regional cute cultures * Authorship and genre in cute content * The political economy of cute content * Intellectual property and attribution disputes * Case studies of animal celebrities, memes, and cute portals * Comparative perspectives on cute cultures Prospective contributors should email an abstract of 100-250 words and a brief biography to the issue editors. Abstracts should include the article title and should describe your research question, approach, and argument. Biographies should be about three sentences (maximum 75 words) and should include your institutional affiliation and research interests. Articles should be 3000 words (plus bibliography). All articles will be refereed and must adhere to MLA style (6th edition). Article deadline: 28 Feb. 2014<x-apple-data-detectors://5> Issue release date: 30 Apr. 2014<x-apple-data-detectors://6> M/C Journal was founded (as "M/C - A Journal of Media and Culture") in 1998 as a place of public intellectualism analysing and critiquing the meeting of media and culture. Contributors are directed to past issues of M/C Journal for examples of style and content, and to the submissions page for comprehensive article submission guidelines. M/C Journal articles are blind peer-reviewed. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Further M/C Journal issues scheduled for 2013/4: 'augment': article deadline 11 Oct. 2013, release date 11 Dec. 2013 'taste': article deadline 17 Jan. 2014<x-apple-data-detectors://9>, release date 19 Mar. 2014<x-apple-data-detectors://10> 'cute': article deadline 28 Feb. 2014<x-apple-data-detectors://11>, release date 30 Apr. 2014<x-apple-data-detectors://12> 'persona': article deadline 25 Apr. 2014<x-apple-data-detectors://13>, release date 25 June 2014<x-apple-data-detectors://14> 'gothic': article deadline 20 June 2014<x-apple-data-detectors://15>, release date 20 Aug. 2014<x-apple-data-detectors://16> 'illegitimate': article deadline 15 Aug. 2014<x-apple-data-detectors://17>, release date 15 Oct. 2014<x-apple-data-detectors://18> 'counterculture': article deadline 10 Oct. 2014<x-apple-data-detectors://19>, release date 10 Dec. 2014<x-apple-data-detectors://20> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- M/C - Media and Culture is located at <http://www.media-culture.org.au/>. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- M/C Journal is online at <http://journal.media-culture.org.au/>. All past issues of M/C Journal on various topics are available there. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- end Dr Axel Bruns -- General Editor editor(a)media-culture.org.au<mailto:editor@media-culture.org.au> M/C - Media and Culture http://www.media-culture.org.au/ -- M/C Journal http://journal.media-culture.org.au/

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Academics and blogging
by Mary-Helen Ward 12 Dec '13

12 Dec '13

I know that some members of this list have a strong history of writing about academic blogging going back a decade (you're all cited in my thesis!), but, like most good ideas, it has taken a while for the world to catch up. It seems that writing about academics and blogging is now A Thing. Given the discussion this week about non-traditional academic writing and open source publishing, this might be of interest: http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2013/12/12/academic-attention… Apart from the authors' work on academic blogging, there are some interesting ideas here about open-access publishing and how people find articles of interest to them. I have mentioned my thesis on twitter a few times, and every time there has been a spike in views and downloads. In three months the abstract has been viewed over 500 times, and the full document downloaded just over 100 times. Mary-Helen -- DR MARY-HELEN WARD | Education Design Manager: Sciences Technology and Business Sydney eLearning | Office of the DVC Education THE UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY T +61 2 9351 7399 | F +61 2 9036 0000 | M +61 402 388424

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Fwd: Internet Society Internet data and research portal
by Joly MacFie 12 Dec '13

12 Dec '13

This from the Internet Society Chapter Delegates list. That ISOC is making a serious effort to aggregate research and data is a welcome development. I am sure Michael would welcome all and any input on how to optimise his task. I've cc'd him above. j ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Michael Kende <kende(a)isoc.org> Date: Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 10:17 AM Subject: [Chapter-delegates] Internet data and research To: "chapter-delegates(a)elists.isoc.org" <chapter-delegates(a)elists.isoc.org> As part of my new role at ISOC, we are launching a new portal on the ISOC website that aggregates existing data sources and reports (ours and third-party), The purpose of it is threefold: first, as a public resource to learn about the impact of new infrastructure on the Internet, and the broader economic impact of the Internet; second, in order to help identify gaps in data, and determine how best to fill those gaps; and third, to promote new analysis and insights by everyone in the Internet community, including ourselves, to further stimulate a better understanding of the Internet and its Economy. The portal is at. https://www.internetsociety.org/internet-data-and-research One outstanding issue is whether, and if so how, to exclude bad research and data from the list. On the one hand is a strong desire to be open and inclusive of all available data and reports, while on the other hand there is a thought that we should review and exclude suspect or biased work. We do not have the resources to perform such extensive review on each linked item (as of today there are over 200 in the database), and I believe that it would be difficult to determine the criteria for excluding work in any case. However, in order to be of most use as a public resource, it would be useful to provide information that could help all of us make decisions about what data and reports to use. As a result, we are considering including a review section, such as used in Amazon, to rate and provide comments from all, including hopefully the authors. For starters, there are two feedback sections, one to send me comments on specific reports, and the other to provide suggestions for work that has not yet been included. Thoughts on how to move this forward would be most appreciated. Best regards, Michael Kende Chief Economist Internet Society Galerie Jean-Malbuisson 15 CH-1204 Geneva Switzerland Tel: +41 22 809 0367 E-mail: kende(a)isoc.org Website: www.internetsociety.org 'The Internet is for Everyone!' -- --------------------------------------------------------------- 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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Deadline Approaching for Abstracts for ICA Preconference: Innovation in Higher Education
by William Dutton 12 Dec '13

12 Dec '13

Registration for our pre conference is open on the ICA Web site, and any abstracts on innovation in education should be sent to events at oii.ox.ac.uk on the 13th - that is 13 December. We welcome research focused on MOOCs, but also on other relevant innovations in higher education enabled by the Internet. See: http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/events/?id=634 Are we building a better future? William H. Dutton Professor of Internet Studies Professorial Fellow, Balliol College Oxford Internet Institute University of Oxford 1 St Giles', Oxford OX1 3JS UNITED KINGDOM Tel +44 (0)1865 287 210 Fax +44 (0)1865 287 211 Cell +44 (0)7768 823906 Web: http://people.oii.ox.ac.uk/dutton/about/ You can access my papers on the Social Science Research Network (SSRN) at: http://ssrn.com/author=478025 Latest Books: The Oxford Handbook of Internet Studies (2013): http://ukcatalogue.oup.com/product/9780199589074.do Politics and the Internet (2014): http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415561501/

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