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physical/digital worlds
by Baker, Andrea 10 Feb '13

10 Feb '13

Hi, everyone, Thanks so much for all your help, from those of you commenting both here in the list and off of it. Yes, Barry, it was Nathan Jurgenson's work that first inspired me to carry on with my current project, sorry I didn't mention knowing about it. I also consulted with him initially, well before posting my inquiry. Nathan and PJ Rey are running their third Theorizing the Web conference, this year in NYC. Of course, much work has dealt with the issue some, including mine on relationships, identities and communities, and thanks for your own important list of contributions, your references. Thankfully there is now such a wealth of writing and research available. However, some of us think we still have a way to go in, to use your words, "flesh"-ing out dimensions of the processes. There's really still much more to say about it at this time, imo. Most these days seem to not only accept that online/mobile/cmc interaction is real but that it is less discrete from other activities than many of us early internet researchers and private citizens had originally conceived, and experienced back then. Anyone else who has specific references, please feel free to continue sending them to me and/or posting them. Here are my original questions previously posted to the aoirlist. I'm hoping the formatting is better this time: "For a piece I'm preparing on interaction back and forth between online and offline or from digital to physical worlds and back, I'm looking for references about how that works for people, especially those who are members of online communities. More than particular data to show this communication in process, although that is good too, I want to conceptualize themovement, the "flow" from one realm to another, to describe what is happening. Also, how does the online communication, including that through mobile phones, affect the offline interaction, and how do the offline encounters affect what goes on inside the online communities and in other social media containing some of the same people interacting offline. This project is part of my music fan research on fan communities, identities, and relationships. I'm already aware of the articles in the first issue of Mobile Media and Communication (January, 2013), and of Lauren Sessions-Goulet's excellent paper of a few years back on offline meetings and online communities, and have a few other helpful sources. I've done a body of work on romantic online relationships so I understand many of the dynamics there. Please feel free to write off list or on. Thanks so much in advance! cheers, andee (andrea baker)" thanks! --a

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Re: [Air-L] internet/flesh "realms"
by Tom Boellstorff 10 Feb '13

10 Feb '13

In terms of the internet/flesh "realms" issue - this is something I'm going to working on quite a bit I hope, and I discuss it in some detail in "Rethinking Digital Anthropology" (In Digital Anthropology. Heather A. Horst and Daniel Miller, editors. Pp. 39–60. London: Berg, 2012.) For details, goto http://faculty.sites.uci.edu/boellstorff/publications/ On Feb 9, 2013, at 3:01 PM, air-l-request(a)listserv.aoir.org wrote: > 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. internet/flesh "realms" (Barry Wellman) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Sat, 9 Feb 2013 14:34:58 -0500 > From: Barry Wellman <wellman(a)chass.utoronto.ca> > To: aoir list <air-l(a)aoir.org> > Subject: [Air-L] internet/flesh "realms" > Message-ID: > <Pine.SGI.4.64.1302091427571.28287808(a)origin.chass.utoronto.ca> > Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed > > There's been a lot written and researched on this already. > But the issue keeps coming on. (I really wish scholarship were more > cumulative.) > > In addition to the items posted in the previous AoIR list, may I suggest > > Nathan Jurgenson's theoretical essays on "digital dualism", such as > http://thesocietypages.org/cyborgology/2011/09/13/digital-dualism-and-the-f… > > The Rainie-Wellman _Networked_ book, especially Part II > http://www.amazon.com/Networked-New-Social-Operating-System/dp/0262017199/r… > > which itself picks up on writing I've done for 15 years, such as > > "An Electronic Group is Virtually a Social Network" > "Physical Place and Cyber Place: The Rise of Personalized Networking" > ""Personal Relationships: On and Off the Internet" (with Jeff Boase) > "Social Connectivity in America" with Hua (Helen) Wang > > all get-able on my website > http://homes.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman/publications/index.html > > Enjoy, > Barry Wellman > _______________________________________________________________________ > > S.D. Clark Professor of Sociology, FRSC NetLab Director > Department of Sociology 725 Spadina Avenue, Room 388 > University of Toronto Toronto Canada M5S 2J4 twitter:@barrywellman > http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman fax:+1-416-978-3963 > NETWORKED:The New Social Operating System. Lee Rainie & Barry Wellman > MIT Press http://amzn.to/zXZg39 Print $19; Kindle $16 > Old/newCybertimes http://bit.ly/c8N9V8 It's still rock & roll to me > > ________________________________________________________________________ > > > > ------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > 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 103, Issue 10 > ************************************** > tom boellstorff/professor/department of anthropology/university of california/irvine/website

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internet/flesh "realms"
by Barry Wellman 09 Feb '13

09 Feb '13

There's been a lot written and researched on this already. But the issue keeps coming on. (I really wish scholarship were more cumulative.) In addition to the items posted in the previous AoIR list, may I suggest Nathan Jurgenson's theoretical essays on "digital dualism", such as http://thesocietypages.org/cyborgology/2011/09/13/digital-dualism-and-the-f… The Rainie-Wellman _Networked_ book, especially Part II http://www.amazon.com/Networked-New-Social-Operating-System/dp/0262017199/r… which itself picks up on writing I've done for 15 years, such as "An Electronic Group is Virtually a Social Network" "Physical Place and Cyber Place: The Rise of Personalized Networking" ""Personal Relationships: On and Off the Internet" (with Jeff Boase) "Social Connectivity in America" with Hua (Helen) Wang all get-able on my website http://homes.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman/publications/index.html Enjoy, Barry Wellman _______________________________________________________________________ S.D. Clark Professor of Sociology, FRSC NetLab Director Department of Sociology 725 Spadina Avenue, Room 388 University of Toronto Toronto Canada M5S 2J4 twitter:@barrywellman http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman fax:+1-416-978-3963 NETWORKED:The New Social Operating System. Lee Rainie & Barry Wellman MIT Press http://amzn.to/zXZg39 Print $19; Kindle $16 Old/newCybertimes http://bit.ly/c8N9V8 It's still rock & roll to me ________________________________________________________________________

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Re: [Air-L] Critical Ethnography
by Dhiraj Murthy 09 Feb '13

09 Feb '13

Dear David, Thanks for generating this great discussion on critical ethnography! I think a lot of list members have benefitted from it. I wrote a piece in Sociology which argues that forms of digital ethnography can be considered 'critical' in various ways (especially through making respondents stakeholders and new ways of engagement). It may be helpful to you. http://soc.sagepub.com/content/42/5/837.full.pdf Regards, Dhiraj ******************************************* My latest book, Twitter, can be ordered in the US at: http://amzn.to/VNrgNn and in the UK/Europe at: http://bitly.com/S3emIq On Feb 8, 2013, at 2:52 PM, "air-l-request(a)listserv.aoir.org" <air-l-request(a)listserv.aoir.org> wrote: > > Message: 1 > Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2013 18:18:06 -0500 > From: David Nemer <dnemer(a)indiana.edu> > To: Annette Markham <amarkham(a)gmail.com> > Cc: aoir <air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org> > Subject: Re: [Air-L] Critical Ethnography > Message-ID: > <CA+Zj46ocTz8ZHskv835SUakatRRSKmD6jzg_mgyhtcZhbabLtQ(a)mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 > > Thank you all for the additional sources. > > Annette, thanks for your list of references. Bringing up "critical > ethnography" here on the list made me realize that this term is not as > widespread or known as I naively thought. It reminded me of our last talk > about how sometimes we take terms for granted as if they were known by > everyone. This calls out for a literature review on the topic... with an > attempt to map out the different terms (feminist, indigenous, critical, > postcolonial methods / ethnography), what methods are used... convergence > and divergences in the literature. I will try to come up with something and > share the literature that I ended up with. > > > On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 12:50 AM, Annette Markham <amarkham(a)gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hi David, >> >> Adding to the list of resources others have provided, here are a few >> off the top of my head. Some are reports of critical ethnographic >> studies, some are method/conceptual pieces done by scholars who have >> done ethnographies, and some are more related to critical approaches >> to interpretive/qualitative methods, not ethnography specifically. I >> have always found them very useful. >> >> If you notice it looks a bit heavy on the 'organization studies' side, >> that's not just because it's my PhD background. A lot of the >> advancement of critical ethnographic approaches has occurred in >> organization studies/science/communication arenas, so its an area rich >> with cases and exemplars. >> >> Sorry for the sloppy citations; just grabbing from here and there >> and....you get the picture.... >> >> ...Cheers, and by the way, I'd love to see the final bibliography you >> end up with (especially as I'm teaching a course in Critical >> Ethnography this semester and my students would find it very useful), >> >> annette >> >> >> Alvesson and Skoldberg's book: Reflexive methodologies. This book is >> generally excellent, but related to your question, they offer a great >> breakdown of what constitutes critical approaches, and critical >> ethnography) (Sage, 2009). >> >> Alvesson and Wilmott (2003). Studying Management Critically (Excellent >> edited volume (by Sage) with several great pieces....I tend to revisit >> those by Deetz, Forester, Martin, and Parker.) >> >> Ashcraft, K. (2001). Organized dissonance: Feminist bureaucracy as >> hybrid form. Academy of Management Journal 44(6), 1301- >> >> Conquergood, D. (1991). Rethinking ethnography: Towards a critical >> cultural politics. Communication Monographs, 58, 179?194. >> >> Dei, Mazzuca, & McIsaac (1997). Reconstructing 'Dropout': A Critical >> Ethnography of the Dynamics of Black Students' Disengagement from >> School. University of Toronto Press. >> >> Deetz, Stanley. (1992) Democracy in an age of corporate colonization: >> Developments in communication and the politics of everyday life >> Albany: State University of New York. (book) >> >> Deetz, S. (1998). Discursive formations, strategized subordination, >> and self-surveillance: An empirical case. In A. McKinlay & K. >> Starkey (eds.), Foucault, management and organizational theory, (pp. >> 151-172). London: Sage. >> >> Fine, M. (1991). Framing Dropouts: Notes on the Politics of an Urban >> Public High School. Suny Press. >> >> Forester, J. (1992). Critical ethnography: on fieldwork in a >> Habermasian way. In Alvesson and Wilmott's edited collection Critical >> Management Studies by Sage Press) >> >> Hochschild, A. R. (1979). Emotion work, feeling rules, and social >> structure. American journal of sociology, 85, 551-575. >> >> Hochschild, A. R. (1983). The managed heart: Commercialization of >> human feeling. Berkeley: University of California Press. >> >> Marcus, G. & Fischer, M. (1982?). Anthropology as cultural critique. >> University of Chicago Press. >> >> Madison, Soyini (2012). Critical Ethnography: Method, ethics, and >> performance. (sage, textbook) >> >> Markham, A. (1996). Designing Discourse: A Critical Analysis Of >> Strategic Ambiguity and Workplace Control Management Communication >> Quarterly May 1, 1996 9: 389- >> >> Mumby, D. K., & Stohl, C. (1991). Power and Discourse in Organization >> Studies: Absence >> and the Dialectic of Control. Discourse and Society, 2, 313-332.Mumby, >> D.K. (1987) `The Political Function of Narrative in Organizations', >> Communication Monographs 54: 113-127. >> >> Mumby, D.K. (1988) Communication and Power in Organizations: >> Discourse, Ideology and Domination. Norwood, NJ: Ablex. >> >> Mumby, D. K., & Putnam, L. (1992). The Politics of Emotion: A Feminist >> Reading of >> "Bounded Rationality." Academy of Management Review, 17, 465-486. >> >> Putnam, L., Bantz, C., Deetz, S., Mumby, D., & Van Maanen, J. >> (1993). Ethnography versus critical theory. Journal of Management >> Inquiry. 2, 221-235. >> >> Rosen, M. (1985) `Breakfast at Spiro's: Dramaturgy and Dominance', >> Journal of Management 11(2): 31-48. >> >> Rosen, M. (1986?). You asked for it: Christmas at the boss' expense. >> Journal of Management Studies, 25, 463- >> >> Shome, R. (2003). Space Matters: The power and practice of space. >> Communication Theory, 13(1) 39- >> >> Willis, Paul. (1981). Learning to Labor: How working class kids get >> working class jobs (book) >> >> Thomas, Jim (1992). Critical ethnography (Sage book). >> >> >> >> ******************************* >> Annette N. Markham, Ph.D. >> Guest Professor, Department of Informatics, Ume? University, Sweden >> Affiliate Professor, School of Communication, Loyola University, Chicago >> amarkham(a)gmail.com >> http://markham.internetinquiry.org/ >> Twitter: annettemarkham >> >> >> On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 9:44 PM, Peaslee, Robert <robert.peaslee(a)ttu.edu> >> wrote: >>> >>> Hi David, list... >>> >>> I might recommend Mitch Duneier's Sidewalk. A breezy read that belies >> it's >>> intellectual and emancipatory heft. >>> >>> Cheers, >>> Rob >>> >>> ________________________________________ >>> >>> Robert Moses Peaslee, Ph.D. >>> Assistant Professor >>> Department of Journalism & Electronic Media >>> College of Media & Communication >>> Texas Tech University >>> >>> Affiliated Faculty - Institute for Hispanic and International >> Communication >>> Faculty Senate - 2012?2015 >>> TTU Campus Coordinator - Global Lens Film Series >>> Chair - Flatland Film Festival and Series Programming Committee >>> >>> >>> p: 806.834.2562 >>> f: 806.742.1085 >>> >>> robert.peaslee(a)ttu.edu >>> >>> http://ttu.academia.edu/RobPeaslee >>> http://www.depts.ttu.edu/comc/utilities/get_biog.php?record=102 >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> On 2/6/13 7:09 PM, "David Nemer" <dnemer(a)indiana.edu> wrote: >>> >>>> Thanks Peter. >>>> >>>> Alex, thanks for your references but what I meant by critical >> ethnography >>>> was the use of ethnography that attempts to break open power, >> oppression, >>>> taken-for-granted 'realities?, and ideologies. In this way, critical >>>> ethnography goes beyond much qualitative description of culture by also >>>> ?action-ing? for change; by challenging false-consciousness and >> ideologies >>>> exposed through investigative examination. It has a "active & action" >>>> sense >>>> in it. It is usually seen in postcolonial science and technology >> studies. >>>> But I was hoping to get references that talks specifically about this >>>> methodology. >>>> >>>> I apologize if I didn't specified it enough. >>>> >>>> Thanks >>>> >>>> >>>> On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 8:01 PM, Alex Leavitt <alexleavitt(a)gmail.com> >>>> wrote: >>>> >>>>> I'd like to hope that all ethnography is critical, but here's some >> intro >>>>> references: >>>>> >>>>> ? Karen O'Reilly, "Ethnographic Methods" is a basic intro text. >>>>> ? Emerson, Fretz, Shaw. Writing Ethnographic Fieldnotes, Ch. 5 >> "Pursuing >>>>> Members' Meanings." >>>>> ? Sanjek, "Fieldnotes: The Making of Anthropology." >>>>> ? Ragin, C.'s "What is a Case?" Ch. 1. >>>>> ? Michael Burawoy. Ethnography Unbound, Ch. 1, 2, Appendix. >>>>> ? "Basics of Qualitative Research: Techniques and Procedures for >>>>> Developing Grounded Theory." Anselm Strauss, Juliet M. Corbin. >>>>> ? Appendix of Paul Lichterman's "Elusive Togetherness." >>>>> >>>>> Alex >>>>> >>>>> --- >>>>> >>>>> Alexander Leavitt >>>>> PhD Student >>>>> USC Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism >>>>> http://alexleavitt.com >>>>> Twitter: @alexleavitt >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 4:55 PM, Peter Gloviczki <glovi002(a)umn.edu> >>>>> wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> Hi David, >>>>>> >>>>>> Murphy & Kraidy have a book called Global Media Studies: An >>>>>> Ethnographic Perspective (Routledge, 2003), which may be useful to >>>>>> you. >>>>>> >>>>>> Hope this helps, Peter >>>>>> >>>>>> On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 6:52 PM, David Nemer <dnemer(a)indiana.edu> >> wrote: >>>>>>> Dear AoIR-ers, >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Do you have any recommendations for books on critical ethnography? >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Thanks >>>>>>> -- >>>>>>> *David Nemer* >>>>>>> PhD Candidate in Social Informatics >>>>>>> School of Informatics and Computing, Indiana University >>>>>>> Editor of the Social Informatics Blog - >>>>>> http://socialinformaticsblog.com >>>>>>> http://www.dnemer.com dnemer(a)indiana.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/ >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> -- >>>>>> Peter Joseph Gloviczki, Ph.D. >>>>>> http://petergloviczki.com >>>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>>> 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/ >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> *David Nemer* >>>> PhD Candidate in Social Informatics >>>> School of Informatics and Computing, Indiana University >>>> Editor of the Social Informatics Blog - >> http://socialinformaticsblog.com >>>> http://www.dnemer.com dnemer(a)indiana.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/ >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> 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/ >> > > > > -- > *David Nemer* > PhD Candidate in Social Informatics > School of Informatics and Computing, Indiana University > Editor of the Social Informatics Blog - http://socialinformaticsblog.com > http://www.dnemer.com dnemer(a)indiana.edu > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Fri, 8 Feb 2013 03:39:32 +0000 > From: Mary-Helen Ward <mary-helen.ward(a)sydney.edu.au> > To: David Nemer <dnemer(a)indiana.edu> > Cc: aoir <air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org> > Subject: Re: [Air-L] Critical Ethnography > Message-ID: > <BD5C93A44300914C850628D9E60A7C9E3B21B315(a)EX-MBX-PRO-03.mcs.usyd.edu.au> > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > > Hi David > > Something else that gave me a sense of the debates in reflexive > ethnography is a special 1999 (turn-of-the-century!) issue of the Journal > of Contemporary Ethnography: volume 28, Issue 5. Some of the better > reflexive ethnographic writers are there, including Norman Denzin and Ruth > Behar. > > Also, for a very readable reflexive book that I really liked: Cerwonka, A. > & Malkki, L. H. Improvising Theory: Process and temporality in > ethnographic fieldwork. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. > > Good luck! > > Mary-Helen > -- > 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 > > > > > On 8/02/13 10:18 AM, "David Nemer" <dnemer(a)indiana.edu> wrote: > >> Thank you all for the additional sources. >> >> Annette, thanks for your list of references. Bringing up "critical >> ethnography" here on the list made me realize that this term is not as >> widespread or known as I naively thought. It reminded me of our last talk >> about how sometimes we take terms for granted as if they were known by >> everyone. This calls out for a literature review on the topic... with an >> attempt to map out the different terms (feminist, indigenous, critical, >> postcolonial methods / ethnography), what methods are used... convergence >> and divergences in the literature. I will try to come up with something >> and >> share the literature that I ended up with. > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 3 > Date: Fri, 8 Feb 2013 07:29:40 +0000 > From: Kate O'Riordan <K.ORiordan(a)sussex.ac.uk> > To: "air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org" <air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org> > Subject: [Air-L] fembot: Ada CFP, Issue 3, Feminist Science Fiction > Message-ID: > <6305E6BA10BDAD44A9CE7A944A4E5F4E1AAF29CD(a)EX-SHA-MBX1.ad.susx.ac.uk> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" > > Some possible cross over. > > all the best > Kate > ------------------------------------- > > Ada: A Journal of Gender, New Media, and Technology | adanewmedia.org > Issue 3: Feminist Science Fiction > > In the 1985 essay that defined the terms for feminist thinking about science and technology in the decades since, Donna Haraway observed that "the boundary between science fiction and social reality is an optical illusion." She drew together the cybernetic organisms of fact and fiction, the beings of shiny technology and messy biological stuff, and her terms and her ideas came as much from the creative thinkers of feminist science fiction (Octavia Butler, Joanna Russ) as they did from technologists, political thinkers, and philosophers. > > It's 2013, and the cyborg manifesto is old enough to vote. Where are feminist science fictions now, and what can they tell us about feminism and technology? New media make our experiences of social reality resonant with classics of speculative fiction, particularly works that accounted for the uneven distribution of futuristic technologies and their participation in hierarchies of race, gender, capital, and ability. Literary scholars continue to explore the intricacies of works by Octavia Butler, James Tiptree Jr., Joanna Russ, et al., while the aesthetic and political techniques of critical and creative speculative thinking that these writers pioneered are taken up in multiple forms. Fiction writers like Nalo Hopkinson, Andrea Hairston, L. Timmel Duchamp, and many more bring questions of language, culture, race, and violence into the fray, as social media platforms like blogs, twitter, and Facebook deepen conversations between writers and fans. Small presses continue to supp > > ort the older technology of the printed page and to articulate why written visions matter for a possible feminist future. > > Feminist science fiction has never only existed between the bindings of books, however. Fictional speculation is part of how we understand ourselves in relationship to technology; from the way our smartphones seem to extend our embodied being, to the difference it makes when we shift our perspective and think instead of the being of the gendered bodies who made them, to the imaginative constructions we produce of the wireless waves and fiber optic cables that link us to collaborators, interlocutors, and friends. Ada is published by the Fembot Collective?s academic network, which is itself a feminist science fiction. An imagined array of co-conspirators made real, its name indexes the power in reworking the venerable sci-fi trope of the gendered automaton. Technological speculation is our social reality, and feminist science fiction has the tools to code it to the specifications of our politics. > > Feminist science fiction describes a diverse landscape of multimodal, multiplatform, multifaceted cultural production. It is a means for thinking marked bodies into technological contexts, from Ada Lovelace herself to Janelle Monae's racialized android Cindi Merriweather. It is also the visual and conversational online cultures that endlessly repeat, reblog, argue, and fight back about what real and imagined futures of gender, race, technology, and representation ought to be like. It may even be the new philosophical modalities of materialist speculation, when they acknowledge that the hierarchized markings on bodies we name as race and gender are not limited to some narrowly defined conception of the human. And it is the unpredictable future of what cybernetics and organisms could be and could become, in the flesh and in plastic, silicon, steel. > > The third issue of Ada: A Journal of Gender, New Media and Technology seeks essays on any of these and more. We welcome unpublished work from scholars of any discipline and background, including collaborative, nontraditional, or multimodal approaches that can especially benefit from the journal?s open access online status. > > Topics and approaches might include, but are not limited to: > > ? Key works of feminist science fiction and their relevance for new media and technology studies > ? Gender, race, sexuality, and/or disability in science fiction literature, film, and television > ? Feminist speculation in new media production > ? Feminist science fiction?s online fan cultures > ? Speculative or science-fictional tropes in new media and technology theory and practice > > General Submission Requirements > Authors should submit essays of 4000-9000 words directly to the editor in Rich Text Format (.rtf) or MS Word format (.doc) by 1 May 2013. 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A short paragraph (40-60 words) about the contributor(s). > > Further guidelines for submission format can be found here: http://adanewmedia.org/submissions/ Please include text descriptions for images and transcripts or subtitles for audio or video files. > > Send submissions and correspondence to Alexis Lothian: ada(a)queergeektheory.org > > About Ada > Ada is an online, open access, open source, peer-reviewed journal run on a nonprofit basis by feminist media scholars from Canada, the UK, and the US. The journal?s first issue was published online in November 2012 and has so far received more than 75,000 page views. Ada operates a review process that combines the feminist mentorship of fan communities with the rigor of peer review. Read more at http://adanewmedia.org/beta-reader-and-review-policy/. We do not -- and will never -- charge fees for publishing your materials, and we will share those materials using a Creative Commons License. > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 4 > Date: Fri, 8 Feb 2013 10:59:30 +0100 > From: AMPARO LASEN DIAZ <alasen(a)cps.ucm.es> > To: air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org > Subject: [Air-L] CFP Encuentro Sociolog?a Ordinaria > Message-ID: > <CA+xFsz4T7iVbBvvWPqJvw3SEMdmmT+kKwZS_GHkeR9FZabUzgg(a)mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 > > Hello, > > This could be of interest for the Spanish Speakers of the list > > CALL FOR PAPERS > Encuentro Sociolog?a ordinaria > 8-9 de mayo de 2013. Media-Lab Prado, Madrid > > Entendiendo la sociolog?a como una particular disposici?n de la mirada > (Simmel), este encuentro apuesta por ubicar lo extra?o en lo familiar > (Garfinkel) o lo familiar en lo extra?o (Goffman). Se trata de una > invitaci?n a aprender de lo banal, lo fr?volo y lo superficial, as? como a > repensar el imperialismo de lo serio, lo profundo, lo trascendente en la > indagaci?n social, tanto en lo relativo a la selecci?n de sus objetos y > sujetos como a la validaci?n de las formas de conocimiento. > El encuentro pretende retomar lo ordinario en dos sentidos claves: lo > cotidiano y lo ordenado, lo rutinario y lo que construye ordenamientos > sociales. El objetivo es explorar conjuntamente la noci?n de lo ordinario, > de una sociolog?a ordinaria y un conocimiento ordinario, referidos a lo > cotidiano, superficial y banal, al conocimiento pr?ctico. Se trata tambi?n > de explorar y desarrollar la diversidad de tonos en la investigaci?n y > an?lisis, particularmente aquellos considerados ordinarios por una visi?n > acad?mica e intelectual tradicional. Nuestra propuesta busca tambi?n dar > cuenta de la complejidad, ambivalencias y perversidad de lo ordinario, > frente a las observaciones positivistas recurrentes que identifican lo > ordinario y sus modos de conocimiento y existencia con lo simple e ingenuo. > As? mismo, otra dimensi?n de lo ordinario es la referida al orden, esto es, > a la reconstituci?n pr?ctica de jerarqu?as, relaciones de poder, > desigualdad, etc? > Se trata por tanto de abrir l?neas de debate e intercambio en torno a > objetos, sujetos, pr?cticas y formas de conocimiento habitualmente > desconsiderados por no responder a los mon?tonos e insidiosos c?nones de lo > trascendente, lo profundo y lo cabal. ?Tiene sentido interrogarse por Lady > Gaga y sus Little Monsters, los juegos y videojuegos, los hilos de > forocoches o las conversaciones de mercado y escalera? ?Pueden ser los > ?reality?, desde los tr?spidos a las chonis con glamour, una forma > privilegiada de analizar lo contempor?neo? ?Cabe cuestionar las > demarcaciones disciplinares entre conocimiento lego y experto en sinton?a > con la emergencia de la figura del prosumidor? ?Qu? metodolog?as, > controversias y tonos pueden ayudar a romper inercias (Becker)? ?Y si > frente la distancia de la supuesta neutralidad objetivista nos comportamos > como vecinas de la corrala (Addams)? > A t?tulo orientativo, las propuestas de comunicaciones pueden tratar temas > como: > ? Troleos, tuiteos, cotilleos y marujeos? > ? Tuneos, choppeos > ? Parkineos y karaokes? > ? Realities, fanfiction, c?mics, v?deos, videojuegos? > ? Bieber y otras ?fevers?... > ? Pornos y auto-pornificaci?n > ? Metodolog?as de andar por casa > ? Pol?ticas ordinarias, frivolidades t?cticas, flashmobs, escrache? > ? otros temas ordinarios, superficiales, banales y fr?volos? > > Sociolog?a ordinaria contempla dos tipos de formatos: por un lado, las > t?picas presentaciones de comunicaciones agrupadas en mesas tem?ticas y, > por otro, mesas redondas, talleres o paneles propuestos como tales en las > que se presenten trabajos en marcha o se planteen controversias que > permitan un intercambio m?s abierto con y entre el p?blico. > Ser?n bienvenidas todo tipo de intervenciones (sociol?gicas, > antropol?gicas, filol?gicas, textuales, hist?ricas, pol?ticas, activistas, > art?sticas, etc.) y formatos (textual, visual) siempre que las cuestiones > pr?cticas de intendencia lo permitan. > Por su parte, las propuestas de mesas redondas, paneles o talleres habr?n > de incluir entre 3 y 5 participantes. La idea es que tras, una breve > intervenci?n/provocaci?n por parte del grupo promotor, conversen entre s? y > con el p?blico en torno a cuestiones como, por ejemplo, ?qu? > potencialidades se encuentran en lo ordinario como objeto, sujeto o forma > de conocimiento?, ?qu? miop?as conllevan las constantes apelaciones a lo > serio, lo trascendente y lo grave?, ?qu? y qui?n es catalogado como > ordinario o insustancial?, ?qu? presupuestos operan bajo la aparente > ?alergia?, cuando no intolerancia, a lo superficial y lo fr?volo?, ?qu? > tiene que ver todo ello con la desigualdad y el poder?, ?y con la > ciudadan?a y la democracia?? > En ambos casos las propuestas habr?n de incluir, junto a la informaci?n de > contacto y afiliaci?n institucional de los/as firmantes, un t?tulo, entre 2 > y 4 palabras clave y un resumen de no m?s de 500 palabras. Podr?n > remitirse hasta el *15 de marzo por correo electr?nico a sociolog? > aordinaria(a)gmail.com* en formato .doc, .docx o .rtf. > Calendario > Hasta el 15 de marzo: recepci?n de propuestas. > 2 de abril: Comunicaci?n por correo electr?nico de aceptaci?n de las > propuestas recibidas y apertura del plazo de inscripci?n. > Hasta el 11 de abril: confirmaci?n de asistencia de las propuestas > seleccionadas. > 22 de abril: Publicaci?n del calendario definitivo de sesiones. > Comit? ordinario > Amparo Las?n, Elena Casado y Antonio A. Garc?a > Grupo de Investigaci?n Complutense Simetr?a Generalizada > > > > > -- > Dr. Amparo Las?n > Dpt. Sociolog?a I > Facultad de Ciencias Pol?ticas y Sociolog?a > Universidad Complutense de Madrid > Campus de Somosaguas s/n > Pozuelo de Alarc?n 28223 Madrid > Tel.0034913942899 > Fax: 0034913962676 > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 5 > Date: Fri, 8 Feb 2013 14:43:40 +0000 > From: Sanjay Sharma <sanjay.sharma11(a)gmail.com> > To: air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org > Subject: [Air-L] Digital Race Workshop - darkmatter > Message-ID: > <CALcVjHsU100b+aY2f08TdTuNQ4BtPugpYXwr94wiA6Hhn+exTg(a)mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > Dear All > > darkmatter Journal has organised a Digital Race Workshop, exploring > research practices for interrogating how race/racism are being > transformed by online networks. The workshop takes place on Thur 21 > Feb 2013, central London. A free event but registration is essential - > further details: http://bit.ly/UDzD3v > > If you can not attend but are interested in joining the digital race > network, send a message to: editor(a)darkmatter101.org > > best regards > darkmatter editors > http://www.darkmatter101.org/ > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 6 > Date: Fri, 8 Feb 2013 14:57:39 +0000 > From: juliano spyer <jspyer(a)gmail.com> > To: air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org > Subject: [Air-L] Examples of student scientific publications > Message-ID: > <CADXFCb46kWojuQEW5-QbLb6Dgy0OTd3SShyCqu+shAcnPa7apQ(a)mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > dear air-l - i am talking to colleagues here at UCL to create a > student scientific magazine/annual published online. > > the idea is to invite master students that successfully finish their > programmes to choose one chapter from their dissertations to make it > available publicly. > > the spirit of the project is to make public a content that has been > "peer reviewed" (considering the marking of dissertations a kind of > assessment of the quality of the research), but to do so in a more > reasonable size for possible readers - not everyone is interested in > reading 50-80 pages to see if there is something particularly > interesting there. > > so my question is: do anyone know of similar publications or > publishing solutions? And also: what is necessary for a publication to > be quoted? > > I am scheduling a meeting with a librarian from UCL to inquire about > that, but i thought I could share this with you in parallel. > > many thanks > www.julianospyer.com.br >> Thinking to gather > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 7 > Date: Fri, 8 Feb 2013 10:44:52 -0500 > From: "Baker, Andrea" <bakera(a)ohio.edu> > To: "air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org" <air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org> > Subject: [Air-L] articles, references on moving across the > digital/physical realms? > Message-ID: <9F5DD307-9720-4DE5-8677-50E553434B07(a)ohio.edu> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > > Hi, everyone, > For a piece I'm preparing on interaction back and forth between online and offline > or from digital to physical worlds and back, I'm looking for references about > how that works for people, especially those who are members of online communities. > > More than particular data to show this communication in process, although that is good too, I want to conceptualize the > movement, the "flow" from one realm to another, to describe what is happening. Also, > how does the online communication, including that through mobile phones, affect the > offline interaction, and how do the offline encounters affect what goes on inside > the online communities and in other social media containing some of the same people interacting offline. This project is part of my music fan research > on fan communities, identities, and relationships. > > I'm already aware of the articles in the first issue of Mobile Media and Communication (January, 2013), and of Lauren Sessions-Goulet's excellent > paper of a few years back on offline meetings and online communities, and have a few other helpful sources. I've done > a body of work on romantic online relationships so I understand many of the dynamics there. > > Please feel free to write off list or on. Thanks so much in advance! > cheers, > andee (andrea baker) > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 8 > Date: Fri, 8 Feb 2013 11:20:00 -0500 > From: David Nemer <dnemer(a)indiana.edu> > To: juliano spyer <juliano(a)naozero.com.br> > Cc: aoir <air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org> > Subject: Re: [Air-L] Examples of student scientific publications > Message-ID: > <CA+Zj46qa8sCKrjZy2twSc8F=4LPYRoFCwAX-5Ny7ZAS5EW33wQ(a)mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > Hi Juliano, > > I haven't heard of a scientific journal that is specifically oriented > towards master students work. In fact, when I finished my masters in > computer science, I was looking for a journal with this purpose, but I > ended up with that traditional journals. I see this as a great idea and a > way to get master students familiar with the publishing culture. > > Keep us posted on your progress, and if you need any sort of help > organizing this, I'd be really interested. > > Um grande abra?o, > > > On Fri, Feb 8, 2013 at 9:57 AM, juliano spyer <jspyer(a)gmail.com> wrote: > >> dear air-l - i am talking to colleagues here at UCL to create a >> student scientific magazine/annual published online. >> >> the idea is to invite master students that successfully finish their >> programmes to choose one chapter from their dissertations to make it >> available publicly. >> >> the spirit of the project is to make public a content that has been >> "peer reviewed" (considering the marking of dissertations a kind of >> assessment of the quality of the research), but to do so in a more >> reasonable size for possible readers - not everyone is interested in >> reading 50-80 pages to see if there is something particularly >> interesting there. >> >> so my question is: do anyone know of similar publications or >> publishing solutions? And also: what is necessary for a publication to >> be quoted? >> >> I am scheduling a meeting with a librarian from UCL to inquire about >> that, but i thought I could share this with you in parallel. >> >> many thanks >> www.julianospyer.com.br >> Thinking to gather >> _______________________________________________ >> 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/ >> > > > > -- > *David Nemer* > PhD Candidate in Social Informatics > School of Informatics and Computing, Indiana University > Editor of the Social Informatics Blog - http://socialinformaticsblog.com > http://www.dnemer.com dnemer(a)indiana.edu > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 9 > Date: Fri, 8 Feb 2013 17:43:34 +0100 > From: Emiliano Trer? <emiliano.trere(a)uniud.it> > To: "Baker, Andrea" <bakera(a)ohio.edu> > Cc: "air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org" <air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org> > Subject: Re: [Air-L] articles, references on moving across the > digital/physical realms? > Message-ID: > <CANmFd7U++WEpWuA_m9sLamFCNkmuU9eEFMjzQJhS9_U-Et7Niw(a)mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > Hi Andrea, > > maybe you'll find useful an article I wrote few years ago with a colleague, > it focuses on how a social movement's communication practices move across > online/offline spaces in different ways: > http://ci-journal.net/index.php/ciej/article/view/761/639 > > > All the best, > Emiliano > > > -- > *Emiliano Trer?, PhD * > Associate Professor | Faculty of Political and Social Sciences | Degree in > Communication and Journalism | Autonomous University of Queretaro | Mexico > *etrere(a)gmail.com* > *http://it.linkedin.com/in/emilianotrere * > > > > > > > On Fri, Feb 8, 2013 at 4:44 PM, Baker, Andrea <bakera(a)ohio.edu> wrote: > >> Hi, everyone, >> For a piece I'm preparing on interaction back and forth between online and >> offline >> or from digital to physical worlds and back, I'm looking for references >> about >> how that works for people, especially those who are members of online >> communities. >> >> More than particular data to show this communication in process, although >> that is good too, I want to conceptualize the >> movement, the "flow" from one realm to another, to describe what is >> happening. Also, >> how does the online communication, including that through mobile phones, >> affect the >> offline interaction, and how do the offline encounters affect what goes on >> inside >> the online communities and in other social media containing some of the >> same people interacting offline. This project is part of my music fan >> research >> on fan communities, identities, and relationships. >> >> I'm already aware of the articles in the first issue of Mobile Media and >> Communication (January, 2013), and of Lauren Sessions-Goulet's excellent >> paper of a few years back on offline meetings and online communities, and >> have a few other helpful sources. I've done >> a body of work on romantic online relationships so I understand many of >> the dynamics there. >> >> Please feel free to write off list or on. Thanks so much in advance! >> cheers, >> andee (andrea baker) >> _______________________________________________ >> The Air-L(a)listserv.aoir.org mailing list >> is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org >> Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: >> http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org >> >> Join the Association of Internet Researchers: >> http://www.aoir.org/ >> > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 10 > Date: Fri, 08 Feb 2013 10:41:29 -0700 > From: "Robert W. Gehl" <robert.gehl(a)utah.edu> > To: air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org > Subject: [Air-L] CFP: Frontiers of New Media, Sept. 20-21 2013, U of > Utah > Message-ID: <511538C9.2000401(a)utah.edu> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed > > This conference should be of interest to AOIR members: > > > The Beginning and End(s) of the Internet: Surveillance, Censorship, > and the Future of Cyber-Utopia > > The Departments of Communication and History at the University of Utah > are seeking submissions for the fourth Frontiers of New Media Symposium > to be held on the campus of the University of Utah, September, 20-21, > 2013. The Frontiers symposium, which has been held every other year > since 2009, brings together a diverse group of scholars to discuss the > past, present, and future of media and communication technologies. > > This year's theme, "The Beginning and End(s) of the Internet: > Surveillance, Censorship, and the Future of Cyber-Utopia," asks > scholars, activists, and journalists to consider the past, present, and > possible futures of the Internet as a force for good in the world. > > In 1969, the University of Utah was the fourth of four nodes of the > ARPANet. For many academic and popular commentators, the birth of the > ARPANet, and later the Internet, marked the beginning of a new frontier: > cyberspace. These same commentators believed that cyberspace heralded > the emergence of a new and hopeful period of communication, political > economy, and culture. In 1996, John Parry Barlow's "Declaration of the > Independence of Cyberspace" famously proclaimed that cyberspace "is a > world that is both everywhere and nowhere, but it is not where bodies > live. We are creating a world that all may enter without privilege or > prejudice accorded by race, economic power, military force, or station > of birth. We are creating a world where anyone, anywhere may express his > or her beliefs, no matter how singular, without fear of being coerced > into silence or conformity." Here is the CyberUtopia: a new, cybernetic > nonplace. And yet, this nonplace has a strong connection to a particular > geographic place: the American West and the research institutions > situated there. > > It is in the American West that a new nonplace is being built, also of > global reach and significance, but of a decidedly different purpose. By > September of this year -- perhaps during this symposium -- the National > Security Agency's "Community Comprehensive National Cybersecurity > Initiative Data Center" will be completed in Bluffdale, Utah. As several > investigative reports and academic studies have shown, this data center > will be a key archive of the electronic communications of individuals > all over the world, American citizens included. The NSA data center has > quickly become an icon for those who point to the growth of government > and corporate surveillance and censorship of the Internet worldwide, > including among Western democracies. For some, this data center raises > the specter of an emergent dystopia, all too real, and all too opposed > to the heady dreams of cyber-utopia. > > This year's Frontiers of New Media Symposium invites scholars, > activists, and journalists to address a number of questions: > > * How do we read cyber-utopian discourse today? With governments > worldwide seeking ever-greater control of the Internet, what hope, > if any, remains for for achieving the dreams of cyber-utopia? In > what ways can the Internet still be a force for good? > * How does this history connect to other histories of communication > and technology? > * What other methods of locating, mapping, and shaping communications > networks have occurred in the past, and what can we learn from them? > * How are specific sites like the NSA data center connected to the > seemingly ubiquitous and placeless network? > * Has the "frontier" of the Internet closed? Is this the end of the > Internet as envisioned by cyber-utopians? > > Submit abstracts of no more than 600 words to > submissions(a)frontiersofnewmedia.org by April 1, 2013, care of Sean > Lawson and Robert W. Gehl. Selection decisions will be made by April 30, > 2013. > > Travel expenses and a modest honorarium will be provided for all > selected participants, including international participants. > > The Frontiers of New Media Symposium is made possible by the generous > support of Simmons Media and is produced jointly by the departments of > History and Communication at the University of Utah. > > -- > Robert W. Gehl > Assistant Professor, Department of Communication > The University of Utah > www.robertwgehl.org | @robertwgehl > Sent from our OS on our Internet > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 11 > Date: Fri, 8 Feb 2013 13:01:49 -0600 > From: Germaine R Halegoua <grhalegoua(a)gmail.com> > To: air-l <air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org> > Subject: [Air-L] CFP: When the City Meets the Citizens Workshop > (ICWSM) > Message-ID: > <CAGPcXyPrFQnimb+GN1ogA1QctpC_fyi1cNMLpHLvfCHO_Qj+zw(a)mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 > > Please distribute to anyone who may be interested. Thank you! > > ============================================================= > > The 2nd When the City Meets the Citizens Workshop: > > Big Data and the Study of the Urban Habitat > > Boston, July 11th 2013 (WCMCW) > > In conjunction with the International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social > Media (ICWSM) > > http://researcher.watson.ibm.com/researcher/view_project.php?id=4394 > > ============================================================= > > Social media analysis can play a key role in providing insights into > people's activities, opinions and day-to-day lives. When they are > geolocated, these user-generated information streams become a unique > opportunity to understand the rhythms and tenors of a city and its > citizens. By applying computational, social science, and humanities methods > to social media data such as photos, tweets and check-ins, researchers are > now beginning to conceive of new methodological and theoretical frameworks > not only to extract local insights but, more importantly, to better > understand cities and their residents. > > Following the success of last year's first WCMCW held in Dublin, this > workshop aims to understand the various ways social media data can be used > to produce knowledge about cities that supports citizen engagement. > > The WCMC workshop will involve discussions on topics such as (but not > limited to): > > * Improving understandings of the city through mining social media > > * Use of social media to engage citizens (for example, through game > mechanics) > > * Visualizations and interfaces to enable exploration of city data > > * Mobilizing communities through social media > > * Pervasive applications for user interaction and data collection > > * Disaster recovery and coordination using social media > > * Enabling citizen and NGO initiatives through social media > > * Methodology for quality evaluation and validation of user generated > content > > * Privacy and ethical concerns in citizen engagement > > Objectives > > Our aim is to facilitate a session that encourages computer scientists, > industry professionals, academic researchers, architects, urban planners, > government officials, hackers, artists, and other interested participants > to work together to explore timely questions relating to social media, big > data, citizen engagement and the creation of smarter cities. We will > encourage interdisciplinary collaboration so that participants can work > together to create a common understanding of how social media data might > address contemporary urban issues. > > Participants will have the opportunity to showcase projects; discuss > theoretical, methodological, ethical, and political questions in regard to > the study of urban life through the prism of social media data; and > participate in a brainstorming ?data hacking? session where participants > will collaboratively tackle a specific social media dataset. > > SUBMISSIONS > > All contributions must be submitted as PDF files. The workshop accepts > novel research or work-in-progress papers (no longer than 4 pages) or > position papers (no longer than 2 pages). All papers must be submitted by > the deadlines provided below and formatted in AAAI two-column, camera-ready > style (see the author instructions page). All submitted papers will be > reviewed and judged on originality, technical correctness, relevance, and > quality of presentation by the Program Committee. All accepted submissions > must be presented during the workshop. Please submit papers to EasyChair > WCMCW2013 (http://www.easychair.org conferences/?conf=wcmcw2013). > > IMPORTANT DATES > > Paper submission deadline: March 18, 2013 > > Paper acceptance notifications: March 26, 2013 > > ORGANIZING COMMITTEE > > Elizabeth M. Daly, IBM Research, Ireland / Co-Chair > > Raz Schwartz, Rutgers University, USA / Co-Chair > > David Millen, IBM Research, USA > > Ingrid Erickson, Rutgers University, USA > > Brian Keegan, Northeastern University, USA > > Germaine Halegoua, University of Kansas, USA > > > -- > Germaine R. Halegoua > Assistant Professor > Dept. of Film and Media Studies > University of Kansas > 225 Oldfather Studios > 1621 W. Ninth St. > Lawrence, KS 66044 > grhalegoua(a)ku.edu > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 12 > Date: Fri, 8 Feb 2013 13:48:02 -0600 > From: Stacy Blasiola <sblasi2(a)uic.edu> > To: "Baker, Andrea" <bakera(a)ohio.edu> > Cc: air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org > Subject: Re: [Air-L] articles, references on moving across the > digital/physical realms? > Message-ID: > <CAACXr+_o0XTgtZUhPYCLdJnC07L7P9qVVo=iFicQJq95JnB2JA(a)mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > I think this speaks to what you're looking for: > > Baym, N.K., & Ledbetter, A. (2009). Tunes that Bind? Information, > Communication & > Society, 12(3), 408-427. > > > Cheers, > Stacy > > On Fri, Feb 8, 2013 at 9:44 AM, Baker, Andrea <bakera(a)ohio.edu> wrote: >> Hi, everyone, >> For a piece I'm preparing on interaction back and forth between online and offline >> or from digital to physical worlds and back, I'm looking for references about >> how that works for people, especially those who are members of online communities. >> >> More than particular data to show this communication in process, although that is good too, I want to conceptualize the >> movement, the "flow" from one realm to another, to describe what is happening. Also, >> how does the online communication, including that through mobile phones, affect the >> offline interaction, and how do the offline encounters affect what goes on inside >> the online communities and in other social media containing some of the same people interacting offline. This project is part of my music fan research >> on fan communities, identities, and relationships. >> >> I'm already aware of the articles in the first issue of Mobile Media and Communication (January, 2013), and of Lauren Sessions-Goulet's excellent >> paper of a few years back on offline meetings and online communities, and have a few other helpful sources. I've done >> a body of work on romantic online relationships so I understand many of the dynamics there. >> >> Please feel free to write off list or on. Thanks so much in advance! >> cheers, >> andee (andrea baker) >> _______________________________________________ >> The Air-L(a)listserv.aoir.org mailing list >> is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org >> Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org >> >> Join the Association of Internet Researchers: >> http://www.aoir.org/ > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 13 > Date: Fri, 8 Feb 2013 19:52:40 +0000 > From: "Peaslee, Robert" <robert.peaslee(a)ttu.edu> > To: Stacy Blasiola <sblasi2(a)uic.edu>, "Baker, Andrea" > <bakera(a)ohio.edu> > Cc: "air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org" <air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org> > Subject: Re: [Air-L] articles, references on moving across the > digital/physical realms? > Message-ID: <550EF550779DF44092A72E36C0AAD32207E3C2(a)centaur05.ttu.edu> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > Hi Andee, > > You might check out Jenny Cool's working paper (and the responses, etc to > it), available through the Media Anthropology list. I believe it was > published there in 2010. It discusses the online/onground activity around > a group called SuperOrganic in the San Francisco bay area... > > Cheers, > Rob > ________________________________________ > > Robert Moses Peaslee, Ph.D. > Assistant Professor > Department of Journalism & Electronic Media > College of Media & Communication > Texas Tech University > > Affiliated Faculty - Institute for Hispanic and International Communication > Faculty Senate - 2012?2015 > TTU Campus Coordinator - Global Lens Film Series > Chair - Flatland Film Festival and Series Programming Committee > > > p: 806.834.2562 > f: 806.742.1085 > > robert.peaslee(a)ttu.edu > > http://ttu.academia.edu/RobPeaslee > http://www.depts.ttu.edu/comc/utilities/get_biog.php?record=102 > > > > > > On 2/8/13 1:48 PM, "Stacy Blasiola" <sblasi2(a)uic.edu> wrote: > >> I think this speaks to what you're looking for: >> >> Baym, N.K., & Ledbetter, A. (2009). Tunes that Bind? Information, >> Communication & >> Society, 12(3), 408-427. >> >> >> Cheers, >> Stacy >> >> On Fri, Feb 8, 2013 at 9:44 AM, Baker, Andrea <bakera(a)ohio.edu> wrote: >>> Hi, everyone, >>> For a piece I'm preparing on interaction back and forth between online >>> and offline >>> or from digital to physical worlds and back, I'm looking for references >>> about >>> how that works for people, especially those who are members of online >>> communities. >>> >>> More than particular data to show this communication in process, >>> although that is good too, I want to conceptualize the >>> movement, the "flow" from one realm to another, to describe what is >>> happening. Also, >>> how does the online communication, including that through mobile >>> phones, affect the >>> offline interaction, and how do the offline encounters affect what goes >>> on inside >>> the online communities and in other social media containing some of the >>> same people interacting offline. This project is part of my music fan >>> research >>> on fan communities, identities, and relationships. >>> >>> I'm already aware of the articles in the first issue of Mobile Media >>> and Communication (January, 2013), and of Lauren Sessions-Goulet's >>> excellent >>> paper of a few years back on offline meetings and online communities, >>> and have a few other helpful sources. I've done >>> a body of work on romantic online relationships so I understand many of >>> the dynamics there. >>> >>> Please feel free to write off list or on. Thanks so much in advance! >>> cheers, >>> andee (andrea baker) >>> _______________________________________________ >>> The Air-L(a)listserv.aoir.org mailing list >>> is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org >>> Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: >>> http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org >>> >>> Join the Association of Internet Researchers: >>> http://www.aoir.org/ >> _______________________________________________ >> The Air-L(a)listserv.aoir.org mailing list >> is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org >> Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: >> http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org >> >> Join the Association of Internet Researchers: >> http://www.aoir.org/ > > > > ------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > The Air-L(a)listserv.aoir.org mailing list > is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org > Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org > > Join the Association of Internet Researchers: > http://www.aoir.org/ > > End of Air-L Digest, Vol 103, Issue 8 > *************************************

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2013 Couch Award Call
by Mark D. Johns 09 Feb '13

09 Feb '13

CALL FOR AWARD APPLICATIONS Carl J. Couch Internet Research Award 2013 Sponsored by the Carl Couch Center for Social and Internet Research http://www.cccsir.com/ The Carl Couch Center issues an international call for student-authored papers to be considered for Carl J. Couch Internet Research Award. The Couch Center welcomes both theoretical and empirical papers that apply symbolic interactionist approaches to internet studies. According to basic symbolic interactionist premises, what we understand as self, identity, relationship, and cultural formations are constructed dialogically and interactively. While the works of George H. Mead, Georg Simmel, Erving Goffman and other leading symbolic interactionists have been integral to the study of social interaction, Carl Couch was among the first from this tradition to suggest the importance of engaging in the study of mediated interaction. It is critical that symbolic interactionists move boldly forward, beyond Couch's initial suggestion, to study what has become for many a dominant form of communication in their everyday life. Whether we research identities, emotion, memory, family, work, career, presentations of self, deception, love, loss or other areas, the impact of mediated communication is felt by those interacting within it. As internet-related media continue to influence our everyday interactions--not only with other people but also with technologies, devices, algorithms, platform parameters, and so forth--it becomes crucial for symbolic interactionists to attend to the role of these mediating factors in the interaction process. We encourage any paper that uses a symbolic interactionist approach in internet studies. We also encourage papers that explore the interface between deliberate social interaction and structured (or automated) interactions sponsored or enacted by various technological features, exploring not only how identities, relations, and social formations are negotiated through social interactions, but also how these interactions are mediated further through the use or capacities of various technologies. Papers will be evaluated based on the quality of (1) mastery of symbolic interactionist approaches and concepts, (2) originality, (3) organization, (4) presentation, and (5) advancement of knowledge. Those contemplating entering should note that an interactionist approach demands thoughtful analysis, and not mere description, of social interactions. Evaluation will be administered by a Review Committee of four: Mark D. Johns, Luther College, Decorah, Iowa Jennifer Dunn, Texas Tech University, Lubbock Annette Markham, University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee Lois Ann Scheidt, Indiana University, Bloomington Competition is open to graduate or undergraduate students of all disciplines. Works that are published or accepted for publication are not eligible for award consideration. Entries should be in English and not exceed 30 pages (approximately 7500 words) in length, including references and appendices. Limit of one entry per student per year. The top paper will receive Couch Award to be presented at the 2013 meeting of the Association of Internet Researchers (aoir.org) at the University of Denver. The top paper will be awarded a certificate and a cash prize of $300 US and the author will be invited to present their work at a session of the AoIR conference, October 24-27, 2013 in Denver, Colorado, USA. Candidates should send a copy of their paper, with a 100-word abstract, electronically to Mark Johns at mjohns(a)luther.edu Application deadline is May 15, 2013. Notification of award will be sent by June 15. Those with questions or comments about Couch Award application, please contact: Mark D. Johns Communication Studies Luther College, Decorah, Iowa Phone: 563-387-1347 E-mail: mjohns(a)luther.edu

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Tunisia. Help with Social Network Analysis?
by intl2 09 Feb '13

09 Feb '13

Hello. As you may have seen, Tunisia has challenges to its survival. Politically, economically, socially, and in most other ways. But, I love the friendliness of the people and the many kindnesses they show towards me and towards others. They are really amazing friends to have! I've been here for two years doing traditional pen-and-paper surveys of young men about migration aspirations and intentions. This was recently supplemented by online surveys with Facebook and Twitter and other online activities to better understand the social systems wrapped around the migration-employment context. Do you know anyone looking at Tunisia from a social network perspective, especially looking at textual and narrative analysis of social media? I would love to collaborate with someone to explore some of the social networks that stabilize or destabilize in Tunisia. My previous work in ethnic relations and migration seems to have given me some ability to think about the issues here, but Tunisia would benefit a lot from work by someone deeper into social network analysis. I guess most of the work could be done remotely since mining & analyzing facebook and twitter streams would be the main focus. If you can suggest someone for me to contact, I will appreciate it very much. Thank you for your kind attention, Jon Gresham, PhD Centre d'Etudes maghrebines a Tunis Impasse Menabrea, 19 bis, rue d'Angleterre Tunis-Hached TN 1049 Tunisia Tel: 00216-55718481 https://www.facebook.com/pages/Centre-dEtudes-Maghrebines-a-Tunis

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articles, references on moving across the digital/physical realms?
by Baker, Andrea 09 Feb '13

09 Feb '13

Hi, everyone, For a piece I'm preparing on interaction back and forth between online and offline or from digital to physical worlds and back, I'm looking for references about how that works for people, especially those who are members of online communities. More than particular data to show this communication in process, although that is good too, I want to conceptualize the movement, the "flow" from one realm to another, to describe what is happening. Also, how does the online communication, including that through mobile phones, affect the offline interaction, and how do the offline encounters affect what goes on inside the online communities and in other social media containing some of the same people interacting offline. This project is part of my music fan research on fan communities, identities, and relationships. I'm already aware of the articles in the first issue of Mobile Media and Communication (January, 2013), and of Lauren Sessions-Goulet's excellent paper of a few years back on offline meetings and online communities, and have a few other helpful sources. I've done a body of work on romantic online relationships so I understand many of the dynamics there. Please feel free to write off list or on. Thanks so much in advance! cheers, andee (andrea baker)

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NEW BOOK: Crossmedia Innovations: Texts, Markets, Institutions
by Indrek Ibrus 09 Feb '13

09 Feb '13

NEW BOOK: Crossmedia Innovations: Texts, Markets, Institutions Editors: Indrek Ibrus, Carlos A. Scolari Website: http://www.peterlang.com/index.cfm?event=cmp.ccc.seitenstruktur.detailseite… Published by Peter Lang Blurb: Crossmedia and transmedia are keywords of increasing importance for media professionals and scholars alike. Although these phenomena are older than sometimes argued, the affordances of digital networked media have radically enriched the nature of "crossmedia strategies" of media industries. As such crossmedia is an emergent practice that arises as one of the core sources of complexity and innovation for late modern cultures. This edited volume includes chapters by authors from three continents who approach the phenomenon from different disciplinary angles: semiotics, cultural studies, media economics, political economy, innovation studies. The common interest lies in the dynamics that lead to experiments with crossmedia and in how our cultures are innovated through such practices. Contents: Indrek Ibrus/Carlos A. Scolari: Introduction: Crossmedia innovation? Maarja Saldre/Peeter Torop: Transmedia space Carlos A. Scolari: The Triplets and the incredible shrinking narrative: Playing in the borderland between transmedia storytelling and adaptation Colin B Harvey: Crossmedia cross-stitch: Spinoff stories as transmedial and intramedial suture Sarah Atkinson: The view from the fourth wall window: Crossmedia fictions Andreu Belsunces Gonçalves: Fringe: Playful transmedia Richard Berger/Ashley Woodfall: The digital utterance: A crossmedia approach to media education Joan Ramon Rodríguez-Amat/Katharine Sarikakis: The fandom menace or the phantom author? On sharecropping, crossmedia and copyright Göran Bolin: Audience activity as a co-production of crossmedia content Cinzia Colapinto/Eleonora Benecchi: Movie industry goes viral in the XXIst century: If what counts is the buzz... Annika Wiklund-Engblom/Seppo Leminen/Mika Westerlund/Simon Staffans/Michaela Esch/Risto Rajala: Towards transmedia innovation: An empirical analysis of a multiplatform format Steinar Ellingsen: Web series, independent media and emerging online markets: Then and now Indrek Ibrus: The AV industry's microcompanies encounter multiplatform production Aurite Kouts: 'You make the movies': Audiences as new filmmakers in the age of user-generated content Jose A. García-Avilés: Innovation management in crossmedia production: Leading change in the newsroom Rosa Franquet i Calvet/María Isabel Villa Montoya: Exploring the crossmedia content of public broadcasters in Catalonia and Denmark Ivar John Erdal: What media logic? Organization of crossmedia production in two medium-sized Norwegian newsrooms. Print: ISBN 978-3-631-62228-5 pb. eBook: ISBN 978-3-653-02575-0

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CFP: When the City Meets the Citizens Workshop (ICWSM)
by Germaine R Halegoua 08 Feb '13

08 Feb '13

Please distribute to anyone who may be interested. Thank you! ============================================================= The 2nd When the City Meets the Citizens Workshop: Big Data and the Study of the Urban Habitat Boston, July 11th 2013 (WCMCW) In conjunction with the International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM) http://researcher.watson.ibm.com/researcher/view_project.php?id=4394 ============================================================= Social media analysis can play a key role in providing insights into people's activities, opinions and day-to-day lives. When they are geolocated, these user-generated information streams become a unique opportunity to understand the rhythms and tenors of a city and its citizens. By applying computational, social science, and humanities methods to social media data such as photos, tweets and check-ins, researchers are now beginning to conceive of new methodological and theoretical frameworks not only to extract local insights but, more importantly, to better understand cities and their residents. Following the success of last year's first WCMCW held in Dublin, this workshop aims to understand the various ways social media data can be used to produce knowledge about cities that supports citizen engagement. The WCMC workshop will involve discussions on topics such as (but not limited to): * Improving understandings of the city through mining social media * Use of social media to engage citizens (for example, through game mechanics) * Visualizations and interfaces to enable exploration of city data * Mobilizing communities through social media * Pervasive applications for user interaction and data collection * Disaster recovery and coordination using social media * Enabling citizen and NGO initiatives through social media * Methodology for quality evaluation and validation of user generated content * Privacy and ethical concerns in citizen engagement Objectives Our aim is to facilitate a session that encourages computer scientists, industry professionals, academic researchers, architects, urban planners, government officials, hackers, artists, and other interested participants to work together to explore timely questions relating to social media, big data, citizen engagement and the creation of smarter cities. We will encourage interdisciplinary collaboration so that participants can work together to create a common understanding of how social media data might address contemporary urban issues. Participants will have the opportunity to showcase projects; discuss theoretical, methodological, ethical, and political questions in regard to the study of urban life through the prism of social media data; and participate in a brainstorming “data hacking” session where participants will collaboratively tackle a specific social media dataset. SUBMISSIONS All contributions must be submitted as PDF files. The workshop accepts novel research or work-in-progress papers (no longer than 4 pages) or position papers (no longer than 2 pages). All papers must be submitted by the deadlines provided below and formatted in AAAI two-column, camera-ready style (see the author instructions page). All submitted papers will be reviewed and judged on originality, technical correctness, relevance, and quality of presentation by the Program Committee. All accepted submissions must be presented during the workshop. Please submit papers to EasyChair WCMCW2013 (http://www.easychair.org conferences/?conf=wcmcw2013). IMPORTANT DATES Paper submission deadline: March 18, 2013 Paper acceptance notifications: March 26, 2013 ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Elizabeth M. Daly, IBM Research, Ireland / Co-Chair Raz Schwartz, Rutgers University, USA / Co-Chair David Millen, IBM Research, USA Ingrid Erickson, Rutgers University, USA Brian Keegan, Northeastern University, USA Germaine Halegoua, University of Kansas, USA -- Germaine R. Halegoua Assistant Professor Dept. of Film and Media Studies University of Kansas 225 Oldfather Studios 1621 W. Ninth St. Lawrence, KS 66044 grhalegoua(a)ku.edu

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Examples of student scientific publications
by juliano spyer 08 Feb '13

08 Feb '13

dear air-l - i am talking to colleagues here at UCL to create a student scientific magazine/annual published online. the idea is to invite master students that successfully finish their programmes to choose one chapter from their dissertations to make it available publicly. the spirit of the project is to make public a content that has been "peer reviewed" (considering the marking of dissertations a kind of assessment of the quality of the research), but to do so in a more reasonable size for possible readers - not everyone is interested in reading 50-80 pages to see if there is something particularly interesting there. so my question is: do anyone know of similar publications or publishing solutions? And also: what is necessary for a publication to be quoted? I am scheduling a meeting with a librarian from UCL to inquire about that, but i thought I could share this with you in parallel. many thanks www.julianospyer.com.br >> Thinking to gather

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