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Social Media PhD at Umeå University
by Simon Lindgren 09 Dec '13

09 Dec '13

Phd Position in Social Media and Internet Studies at Umeå University, Sweden We have a 4-5 year fully funded position available for a person looking to write a PhD in the field of Social Media and Internet Studies. The deadline for applying is January 31st 2014. The position is connected to my Internet/Social Media research group at the Department of Sociology. The person hired will become part of the interdisciplinary environment for digital studies within the social sciences and the humanities at Umeå University. A key part of this setting is the Media Places Research Program (http://humlab.umu.se/en/research-development/media-places/) Within the sociological part of this project we are currently studying social media activism, as well as processes of collective coping with trauma through social media. More (Google Translated) details on the application are found here http://goo.gl/Cdk3is (“Position 2”) It might increase the chances of an applicant to apply for the more general “Position 1” as well! Contact Simon Lindgren for any clarifications twitter @simonlindgren mail simon.lindgren(a)umu.se Welcome! Simon Simon Lindgren : Professor Department of Sociology : Umeå University (+46)-70-5656-104 : http://simonlindgren.com

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CeDEM14 Submission Deadline Extended (until 6 January 2014)
by Noella Edelmann 09 Dec '13

09 Dec '13

Apologies for Cross-posting! We are pleased to have received so many submissions to the CEDEM14 Conference for E-Democracy and Open Government, but as we also received some requests for extensions, we are extending the deadline for submissions until the 6. January 2014! CeDEM14 Conference for E-Democracy and Open Government 21-23 May 2014 Danube University Krems, Austria www.donau-uni.ac.at/cedem Extended submission deadline:6. January 2014! The international Conference for e-Democracy and Open Government brings together e-democracy, e-participation and open government specialists working in academia, politics, government and business to critically analyse the innovations, issues, ideas and challenges in the networked societies of the digital age. Confirmed Speakers so far: * Jeanne Holm (Evangelist, Data.gov, U.S. General Services Administration, US) on Open Data; * Alexander Gerber (innocomm Research Center for Science & Innovation Communication, DE) on Scientific Citizenship; * Philipp Müller (Computer Sciences Corporation and Business School of University Salzburg, AT) on Statehood, the Deep Web, and Democracy; CeDEM14Tracks: E-Democracy and E-Participation E-Voting Bottom-Up Movements Social and Mobile Media for Public Administration Open Collaborative Government Democracy, Globalization and Migration Connected Smart City Open Data, Transparency and Open Innovation Technology and Architecture Self-governance in Complex Networks Rethinking Information Visualization for the People Freedom and Ethics in Digital Societies Design and Co-creation for E-democracy Citizen*s Participation in Democratic Governance Processes through ICT in Africa PhD Colloquium Workshop Proposals Reflections Important Dates: *Extended deadline for all submissions: 6 January 2014 *Notification of acceptance: 7 February 2014 *Camera-ready paper submission: 28 February 2014 *Pre-conference event: 20 May 2014 *Conference: 21-22 May 2014 *Open Space, PhD colloquium: 23 May 2014 CeDEM14 Cfp, details,submission site: www.donau-uni.ac.at/cedem We wish you a Merry Christmas, look forward to your submissions and seeing you in Krems! Noella and Peter Noella Edelmann BA, MSc, MAS Researcher CeDEM14 Conference for E-Democracy and Open Government www.donau-uni.ac.at/cedem JeDEM eJournal of eDemocracy and Open Government www.jedem.org Digital Government Blog http://digitalgovernment.wordpress.com/ Centre for E-Government Danube University Krems Dr.-Karl-Dorrek-Strasse 30 3500 Krems Austria www.donau-uni.ac.at/egov

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Elsevier and academia.edu
by Jonathan Sterne, Dr. 09 Dec '13

09 Dec '13

Hi All, I've been following these developments with interest. A few comments. 1. It is not true that there are no open access journals that are good to publish in, even for conservative hiring and tenure committees. Though I guess it depends on your discipline and subfield which they might be. I am on the editorial board of International Journal of Communication and joined precisely because I believe in the project. 2. Publishing requires time, skill and money. But it doesn't have to be done for profit. There is a big difference between university presses, who are mostly money-losing operations, small independent publishers who are guided by an intellectual or political vision, and big conglomerates like elsevier who are in the business of maximizing profits. Why we should be supporting the conglomerates is beyond me, but we should definitely be supporting university presses or a robust library-driven alternative unless you like the idea of laying out your own page proofs in the future and handling all your own copyediting, promotion, reviewing and distribution, on top of all the other duties being offloaded to faculty these days. (this is especially important for book authors) 3. Everything people have been saying about publishers like Elsevier being parasitic on academics' free labour is also applicable to academia.edu<http://academia.edu>. As far as I can tell, academia.edu<http://academia.edu> is itself a for-profit operation, working on the same suspect business model as other social media sites. They provide a "free" site that is actually very expensive to host and maintain. The site is "free" to users because user fees are actually less valuable than the data generated by users of "free" accounts, over which users have no control. I only know of one group of potential customers for such data sets--marketers. So once again we have advertising creeping into new media business models, except it's scholarship, a space where advertising hasn't really taken over. Unless there's something I'm missing, the fact that they were granted a .edu address is an impressive con job, since they appear to be a .com like all the others. If academia.edu<http://academia.edu> has another business model that doesn't involve selling its users' data to third parties over whom we have no control, or marketers as their real clients, I would like to hear about it. 4. I have joined academia.edu<http://academia.edu> to get prepublication copies of essays. I keep my own work on a hosted site that's easy to find in google. That site incurs costs of all sorts, but I know what they are and what the profit-model is for the people providing me the services. For now, I am more comfortable with those options (I could, also, host a site on my own university's servers, but there are reasons not to do that). Best, --Jonathan -- Jonathan Sterne, Professor Department of Art History and Communication Studies McGill University http://sterneworks.org http://mcgill.ca/ahcs http://media.mcgill.ca MP3: The Meaning of a Format <http://www.dukeupress.edu/Catalog/ViewProduct.php?productid=47544> (Duke, 2012)

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Fwd: {New Book: The Proteus Paradox}
by Cherie Todd 09 Dec '13

09 Dec '13

For those of you examining games and life online, you may be interested in this recent publication by Nick Yee. ***************************************** Dear friends and fellow gamers, I am so excited to let you know that my new book on the psychology of online games, “The Proteus Paradox”, is now in print and available on Amazon and other book retailers: http://www.amazon.com/The-Proteus-Paradox-Online-Virtual/dp/0300190999 The book challenges the myths around who plays online games and what really happens in these virtual worlds. We often think of online games as being about fantasy, freedom, and fun, but many gamers describe their gaming as a second job, superstitions flourish, and a player’s suspected offline ethnicity can be a matter of virtual life and death. Drawing from player narratives, psychology lab experiments, and analysis of game server data, this is a book about gnomes falling in love, how the community changes when the NPC city guards give out directions freely, and ultimately, what it means to be human in a digital world. Nick

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CFP: DIS 2014 Workshop Organizers
by lisa nathan 08 Dec '13

08 Dec '13

======================================== ACM DIS 2014 Call for Participation: Designing Interactive Systems Workshop Organizers ======================================== Deadlines and Important Dates for Workshop Organizers • January 12, 2014: Proposal Submission Deadline • Feb 2, 2014: Workshop Proposer Notification • Feb. 7, 2014: Revised 150 word workshop abstract for website • March 2, 2014: Workshop Participant Submission Deadline • March 31st, 2014: Workshop Participant Author Notification • April 20, 2014: Camera Ready Deadline • June 21/22, 2014: One and two-day workshops at DIS 2014 Workshop proposal submission Workshops at DIS provide space to engage and interrogate areas of research and practice with design-oriented, interdisciplinary researchers and practitioners. Workshops may focus on any aspect of the design of interactive systems—whether theory or practice, established concerns or novel approaches, the construction or deconstruction of meaning, form and material—that is likely to attract a cohort of interested participants. The goal of a workshop is to share interests, foster collaborations and develop ideas. Workshops should be designed to encourage participants to engage with each other, provide constructive feedback and envision possibilities within the area of interest. In addition to traditional workshops, we strongly encourage those that enact novel methodologies, incorporate and interrogate both makers and hackers and that push the boundaries of interaction design and theorizing. DIS Workshops are held at the start of the conference (June 21st and 22nd) and can be one or two days in length. Workshops should attract between 10-25 participants. Please plan for 6-hour working days with morning, lunch and afternoon breaks for relaxed socializing. First time proposers may find it helpful to look at workshop abstracts from the last DIS conference:http://www.dis2012.org/workshops.php. ============================================= Preparing and Submitting a Workshop Proposal (Overview) ============================================= Workshop proposals should be formatted using the CHI extended abstracts template (see http://chi2013.acm.org/authors/format/for downloads in different formats) and should contain: · Abstract describing the aims and objectives of the workshop (maximum of 300 words) · Description of the workshop that includes (maximum 4 pages in extended abstract format) · Description of workshop theme · Overview of the workshop (planned activities and duration) · Benefits and significance of running a workshop on the proposed theme · Short biographies of the workshop organizers · Draft call-for-participation (including information about how participants should submit applications to you. Precision Conference is not available for this purpose.) · Recruitment strategy and selection process Workshop proposals should be submitted to Precision Conference (http://precisionconference.com/~sigchi) Please note organizers should plan to bring their own equipment (e.g., laptops, connectors, art/craft supplies). We encourage workshop organizers to create web-based resources for their workshops so that advertising, submission and organization can be handled online. Questions concerning workshop proposals should be directed to the DIS 2014 Workshop Co-Chairs via email: workshops(a)dis2014.org ============ Details by Date ============ January 12, 2014: Workshop proposals should be submitted to Precision Conference (http://precisionconference.com/~sigchi) in CHI Extended Abstract format (seehttp://chi2013.acm.org/authors/format/ for downloads in different formats). Submissions will be acknowledged via email. February 2, 2014: You will be notified by email if your workshop has been accepted. Start advertising it to potential participants! February 7, 2014: Accepted workshops will need to provide an abstract of the workshop for publication on the conference web site. Abstracts should contain the workshop title, names and affiliations of organizers, 150-word abstract, workshop web site, and position paper submission details and any additional participation requirements. March 2, 2014: You should have all the applications for workshop participation in hand. March 31, 2014: You should let applicants know whether they are accepted or not. April 20, 2014: The final workshop description to be published in the ACM Digital Library must be submitted, formatted in the CHI Extended Abstract Format (seehttp://chi2013.acm.org/authors/format/ for downloads in different formats). Workshops Co-Chairs, Contact: workshops(a)dis2014.org Deborah Tatar, Virginia Tech Lisa P. Nathan, University of British Columbia

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CAMRI Seminar (Jan 22): A Conversation with Nicholas Garnham - Revisiting the Political Economy of Communication
by Christian Fuchs 08 Dec '13

08 Dec '13

Revisiting the Political Economy of Communication: A Conversation with Nicholas Garnham Wednesday, January 22nd, 2014. 14:00-16:00 CAMRI Research Seminar University of Westminster, Harrow campus (Metropolitan Line, tube stop: Northwick Park) Room A6.08 (6th floor, A block) http://www.westminster.ac.uk/camri/research-seminars/revisiting-the-politic… Registration at latest until January 19th, per e-mail to christian.fuchs(a)uti.at Nicholas Garnham has played a major role in British Media and Communication Studies, the emergence and development of what James Curran has termed the Westminster School of Media and Communication Studies, and the Political Economy of Communication. His works have focused on and have influenced the intellectual debates on topics such as capitalism and communication, the cultural industries, information and communication technologies, information society theory, media and modernity, media and telecommunications policy, public service media, the public sphere, the relationship between Cultural Studies and Political Economy in Media and Communication Studies, and the theory and sociology of culture. The Political Economy of Communication is today an established field of study that has been institutionalised in the form of research networks such as the International Association of Media and Communication Research’s (IAMCR) Political Economy Section, journals, conferences, handbooks, the regular publication of new books, chapters and articles, undergraduate and postgraduate modules, textbooks, continuous works by PhD students, etc. The task of this seminar is to revisit some of Nicholas Garnham’s ideas, writings and contributions to the study of the Political Economy of Communication and to reflect on the concepts, history, current status and perspectives of this field and the broader study of political economy today. Christian Fuchs will chair this conversation. Recommended Readings: Garnham, Nicholas. 1979. Contribution to a Political Economy of Mass Communication. Media, Culture & Society 1 (2): 123-146. Available at: http://www.uk.sagepub.com/devereux/website%20material/Proofed%20web%20mater…'Contribution%20to%20a%20Political%20Economy....pdf Garnham, Nicholas. 2011. The Political Economy of Communication Revisited. In The Handbook of Political Economy of Communications, eds. Janet Wasko, Graham Murdock and Helena Sousa, 41-61. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell. Biographies: After studying English Literature at Cambridge University Nicholas Garnham worked from 1963-70 in Television as film editor and film director. He joined the Polytechnic of Central London (that is now the University of Westminster) in 1972 to teach film making and film theory. In 1974 he was made head of the newly created Department of Communications and headed the team that created the first Media Studies degree in the UK. He is founding editor of the journal Media, Culture and Society. In 1986 he founded the Centre for Communication and Information Studies (CCIS) – that today is the Communication and Media Research Institute (CAMRI) – and remained its director until he retired from the University of Westminster in 2002. In 1987 he started with William Melody the annual European Communication Policy Research Conference. Since 2002, Nicholas Garnham is Emeritus Professor of Media Studies, University of Westminster. He is author of many contributions to Media and Communication Studies, including the books The Economics of UK Television (Sage 1987, with R. Collins and G. Locksley), Capitalism and Communication: Global Culture and the Economics of Information (Sage 1990), Emancipation, the Media and Modernity (Oxford University Press 2000). Christian Fuchs is Professor of Social Media at the University of Westminster’s Communication and Media Research Institute and the Centre for Social Media Research. He is the editor of the journal tripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique (http://www.triple-c.at) chair of the European Sociological Association’s Research Network 18 – Sociology of Communications and Media Research, Vice Chair of the EU COST Action “Dynamics of Virtual Work” and author of books such as “Social Media: A Critical Introduction” (Sage 2014), “Digital Labour and Karl Marx” (Routledge 2014) and “Foundations of Critical Media and Information Studies” (Routledge 2011).

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Elsevier is taking down papers from Academia.edu
by Richard Forno 08 Dec '13

08 Dec '13

FYI.....via Slashdot.... Elsevier is taking down papers from Academia.edu December 6, 2013 Lots of researchers post PDFs of their own papers on their own web-sites. It’s always been so, because even though technically it’s in breach of the copyright transfer agreements that we blithely sign, everyone knows it’s right and proper. Preventing people from making their own work available would be insane, and the publisher that did it would be committing a PR gaffe of huge proportions. Enter Elsevier, stage left. Bioinformatician Guy Leonard is just one of several people to have mentioned on Twitter this morning that Academia.edu took down their papers in response to a notice from Elsevier. Here’s a screengrab of the notification: < - > http://svpow.com/2013/12/06/elsevier-is-taking-down-papers-from-academia-ed… --- Just because i'm near the punchbowl doesn't mean I'm also drinking from it.

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Re: [Air-L] Air-L Digest, Vol 113, Issue 7
by Matthew Bernius 08 Dec '13

08 Dec '13

On Sat, Dec 7, 2013 at 4:59 PM, <air-l-request(a)listserv.aoir.org> wrote: > It seems like double billing. > > Your U paid you to do the research. Your U pays the publisher to allow > access for those at your U to that research. > Let us not forget that between the research and publication, there are a bunch of steps -- not the least of which are coordinating peer review and formatting/designing the article for publication. It's a mistake to ignore the very necessary (under our current system) work that is done by the folks publishing articles. ----------------------------- Matthew Bernius mBernius(a)gMail.com | http://www.mattbernius.com | @mattBernius<http://bit.ly/hNWEII>

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CFP: InVisible Culture Issue 21: "Pursuit" (DEADLINE JAN. 1, 2014)
by Joel Neville Anderson 08 Dec '13

08 Dec '13

Dear Air-L subscribers, Please circulate the latest call for papers and creative works for Issue 21 of my graduate program's journal, InVisible Culture: An Electronic Journal for Visual Culture, on the theme of “Pursuit” (pasted below). The deadline is fast approaching on January 1, 2014. Thank you. Best regards, Joel Neville Anderson PhD Student, Visual and Cultural Studies University of Rochester - http://ivc.lib.rochester.edu/cfp-invisible-culture-issue-21-pursuit InVisible Culture Issue 21 - "Pursuit" For its twenty-first issue, InVisible Culture: An Electronic Journal for Visual Culture invites scholarly articles and creative works that address the topic of pursuit. We encourage authors and artists to reflect on the meaning and mechanics of pursuit across broad ranging phenomena. This term is meant to address two larger and related concerns. First, it prompts a discussion about matters of narrative, aesthetics, and medium, including topics as specific as the ‘chase film’ and crime narratives, to those as seemingly abstract as failure, paranoia, and process. Second, the word pursuit is meant to direct thinking toward a number of more clearly socio-political concerns, including, but not limited to, the topics of work and profession. In his new book, 24/7: Late Capitalism and the End of Sleep, Jonathan Crary worriedly observes that in the current global paradigm “the highest premium is placed on activity for its own sake,” and that it is the pursuit of sleep that stands as the most meaningful form of resistance in this context. We offer the term pursuit as a thematic framework for considering the manifold forms our embeddedness in a fully-networked, around-the-clock habitus can take, and how these forms bear not only on our positions as workers, professionals, and laborers, but also as active subjects. We welcome papers and artworks that address, complicate, and expand these models of pursuit. Some possible topics of exploration are (but not limited to): Purpose and purposelessness, means without ends The “pursuit” of media: transmediality; new media; medium specificity; the myth of total cinema; pursuit of perfect software (FOSS, cloud storage, smartphone apps, etc.) Paranoia, surveillance, cyberstalking Detective fiction Gaming culture Futurity and speculation Surpassing subject/object conditions Praxis Realism, mimesis Labor, work, vocation, craft, profession Modernism/contemporaneity Failure Nostalgia Utopias and heterotopias Pursuit and politics: feminism, Occupy, Arab Spring; political investments in academia or other professional contexts Agonism Please send completed papers (with references following the guidelines from the Chicago Manual of Style) of between 4,000 and 10,000 words to ivc[dot]rochester[at]gmail[dot]com by January 1st, 2014 at 11:59pm EST. Inquiries should be sent to the same address. Creative/Artistic Works In addition to written materials, Invisible Culture is accepting work in other media (video, photography, drawing, code) that reflect upon the theme as it is outlined above. For questions or more details concerning acceptable formats, go to http://ivc.lib.rochester.edu/contribute or contact ivc[dot]rochester[at]gmail[dot]com. Reviews InVisible Culture is also currently seeking submissions for book, exhibition, and film reviews (600-1,000 words). To submit a review proposal, go to http://ivc.lib.rochester.edu/contribute or contact ivc[dot]rochester[at]gmail[dot]com. Blog The journal also invites submissions to its blog feature, which will accommodate more immediate responses to the topic of the current issue. For further details, please contact us at ivc[dot]rochester[at]gmail[dot]com with the subject heading “blog submission”. * InVisible Culture (An Electronic Journal for Visual Culture) is a peer-reviewed journal dedicated to explorations of the material and political dimensions of cultural practices: the means by which cultural objects and communities are produced, the historical contexts in which they emerge, and the regimes of knowledge or modes of social interaction to which they contribute. http://ivc.lib.rochester.edu

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OCIS Professional Development Workshop: Call For Proposals
by Mary Beth Watson-Manheim 07 Dec '13

07 Dec '13

OCIS Professional Development Workshop: Call For Proposals Submission Deadline January 14, 2014 The Organizational Communication and Information Systems (OCIS) Division of the Academy of Management (AOM) encourages interdisciplinary scholarship and dialogue on communication, collaboration, social networks, and technology use from variety of perspectives, including strategic, managerial, behavioral, and operational issues. To explore these many issues, proposals are invited for the Professional Development Workshops (PDWs) at the AOM Annual Meeting to be held in Philadelphia, PA, USA, 1-5 August 2014. PDW sessions (to be held on Friday and Saturday 1-2 August 2014) are an opportunity to explore cutting edge issues, discuss unresolved questions, learn (or teach) best practices in teaching and research, debate future directions for our field and organize novel activities that bring the expertise and experience of OCIS members to bear on the challenges that we all face in our daily professional lives. PDW sessions might include lectures, classes, workshops, invited speakers, town hall meetings, debates, tours and any other activity that will help members develop their professional skills. Central to each session should be the goal of engaging participants in a high level of interaction. We particularly seek proposals that address the conference theme: The Power of Words. For example, a PDW might help participants learn how the use of social media and openness of information and communication flows has affected privacy and security procedures of many organizations, or about new ICT-enabled collaborations among people from different national, cultural and linguistic backgrounds and implications for management practice. Acceptance of proposals will be based on (a) relevance to the interests of the Division’s membership; (b) creativity; (c) potential to foster integration with the rest of the Academy (we welcome proposals that identify other Divisions and Interest Groups as co-sponsors; more than one co-sponsor can be suggested). Our goal is to have a slate of PDWs that is as diverse, creative and interesting as our membership. If you are interested in proposing a PDW session, you may contact the OCIS PDW chair, Mary Beth Watson-Manheim, before 13 December 2013 for feedback. All proposals for PDW activities must be submitted to the AOM submission website (http://aom.org/annualmeeting/submission/) by January 14, 2014, 5PM ET (NY Time). -- Mary Beth Watson-Manheim Associate Professor MIS PhD Program Director Department of Information & Decision Sciences Department of Communications University of Illinois, Chicago

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