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Privacy Research Fellowship at NYU Available for 2013-14
by Solon Barocas 25 Feb '13

25 Feb '13

> From: HELEN Nissenbaum <hfn1(a)nyu.edu> > Subject: [MCC Talk] Post-doc opportunity > Date: February 21, 2013 10:46:35 AM EST > Reply-To: hfn1(a)nyu.edu > > Privacy Research Fellowship at NYU Available for 2013-14 > > The Information Law Institute of NYU’s Engelberg Center on Innovation Law and Policy is accepting applications for one-year fellowships in the area of privacy law and policy to begin in Fall 2013. The fellowship is open to law school graduates or PhDs in relevant disciplines with excellent credentials. Additional legal or policy experience is a plus, particularly if in a related field. While in residence at NYU School of Law, the fellow will be expected to devote time to joint projects, pursue his or her own privacy-related research agenda and help with programming of topical events. Joint research may be supervised by Helen Nissenbaum (Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication), Katherine Strandburg (Professor of Law), or Ira Rubinstein (ILI Senior Fellow). A special focus for 2013-14 will be education privacy in light of cloud computing and other third-party educational service providers (e.g. MOOCs). Thus, a basic understanding of relevant law (or willingness to learn quickly), ability to engage with US regulatory agencies as well as corporate and educational actors, and some appreciation of underlying technologies would be a plus. > > The fellow will have the opportunity to participate in Information Law Institute activities, including the multidisciplinary Privacy Research Group, to interact with other faculty associated with the ILI and Engelberg Center, and to take part in many other activities at NYU School of Law. Further information about the ILI and our associated Privacy Research Group is available at http://www.law.nyu.edu/centers/ili/index.htm. > > Applications for the fellowship should be sent by email to ILI assistant Nicole Arzt, nicole.arzt(a)nyu.edu, and should include: a cover letter, curriculum vitae, copies of or links to any relevant publications, and the names and contact information of three references. We will begin reviewing applications on March 20 and continue until the position is filled. > > The fellowship is supported by a grant from Microsoft Corporation. > > > Nicole Arzt > NYU School of Law > 40 Washington Square South > Room 336 > New York, NY 10012 > 212-998-6013 > (fax) 212-995-4760 > nicole.arzt(a)nyu.edu > > Helen Nissenbaum, Professor > Media, Culture, & Communication, NYU > http://www.nyu.edu/projects/nissenbaum

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Survey Reminder, Using Virtual Teams in Engineering
by Pam Brewer 25 Feb '13

25 Feb '13

** Using Virtual Teams in Engineering, Survey Request Dear Colleagues: If you or someone you know works closely with the engineering process, will you please participate in this survey on using international virtual teams in engineering? We hope to collect international data on engineering communication that will benefit you and your organizations. We will provide the first 150 participants with a $10 (USD) Amazon gift code (provided via grant support). We will also share the resulting data (before publication) with participants who request it. (We request that you respond only once to this survey. If you have already responded, thank you very much.) Participation is anonymous, and you are not asked to share private or proprietary information. In order to take the survey, go to https://survey.appstate.edu/TakeSurvey.aspx?SurveyID=n62169l<https://survey.appstate.edu/TakeSurvey.aspx?SurveyID=n62169l> If the above link does not work for any reason, you may also access the survey at http://survey.appstate.edu </redirect?url=http%3A%2F%2Fsurvey%2Eappstate%2Eedu&urlhash=gBza&_t=tracking_anet>. Type n62169l in the ID field. If you have any questions, please contact me at brewerpe(a)appstate.edu. Thank you very much for your participation. Best regards, Pam Estes Brewer, Ph.D. -- Pam Estes Brewer, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Director of Undergraduate Studies, English Department of English Appalachian State University Manager, STC Academic Special Interest Group phone 828-262-2351 fax 828-262-2133 email brewerpe(a)appstate.edu

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Social Media & Faculty/Student Interaction Research Update
by L Eaton 25 Feb '13

25 Feb '13

Greetings all, Here is the latest update on an ongoing research project examining interactions between faculty and college students via social media. http://goo.gl/PnG03 For those interested in taking the survey and contributing to the research or forwarding to survey to students or faculty who have interacted with one another through social media, please go to this link: http://goo.gl/Y4q9n Thanks! -- Good tidings, Lance Lance Eaton http://byanyothernerd.blogspot.com/ _______________________________ I wish I had all the answers; better yet, I wish I knew all the questions to ask.

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cloud computing
by Murray Turoff 25 Feb '13

25 Feb '13

If one goes back to the early days of the R&D on time sharing, the mid sixties to the mid seventies; all the business forecasts were for "computer utlities" that would service all our needs just like electric utilities. There all these papers about how how the president of a company could run the whole company from his office and eliminate most of middle management. Literally hundreds of such papers which one can still look up in various management journals and conferences. It really sounded a lot like the cloud papers today. There were also papers on problems with this concept which are also worth looking up because they are some of the same problems the cloud presents. The cloud itself will not cure many of the problems we face. Not only have most of us become our own Secretary but we have to waste a lot of time maintaining our computers and upgrading them to meet growing hardware capacity demands and rapid changes in software interfaces including operating systems. 1. Re: Historical Origins of the Cloud (Lovaas,Steven) > > Message: 1 > Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2013 23:21:44 +0000 > From: "Lovaas,Steven" <Steven.Lovaas(a)ColoState.EDU> > To: Trevor Croker <tcroker(a)vt.edu> > Cc: "air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org" <air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org> > Subject: Re: [Air-L] Historical Origins of the Cloud > Message-ID: <152B804B-1AAC-448F-9838-5CF2D81D6000(a)ColoState.EDU> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > > Trevor, > > >From the early days of what Cisco called Internetwork Design, it's always > been necessary to focus on a particular network or group of networks, > abstracting the large groups of other networks and the backbone connecting > networks. In some science disciplines, this kind of intermediate > process/infrastructure abstraction has humorously been referenced with > cartoons: "...and then magic happens", etc. > > The graphic tool of choice for network designers has been Visio, since > long before Microsoft bought it and incorporated it into the Office suite. > Visio always had some sort of cloud icon along with all the routers, > switches and servers, and the joke was that every good network diagram had > to have a cloud in it somewhere... > > Eventually, the cloud icon was mostly used to represent the "capital I" > Internet, as that thing that our network design cannot control but which > our traffic has to traverse. I thought it was funny when, in an effort to > update many of the older line-art Visio icons, the artists gave us a dark > grey cloud, apparently swollen with rain and threatening to ruin our > picnic. Not inappropriate, from a security guy's perspective :) > > Steve Lovaas > Colorado State University > please send messages to murray.turoff(a)gmail.com do not use @njit.edu if > you are not > *at njit (no more forwarding) Distinguished Professor Emeritus Information Systems, NJIT homepage: http://is.njit.edu/turoff *

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Pedagogy -- Grad program class size, online and trad'l
by Batchelor, Bob 24 Feb '13

24 Feb '13

Hello listmates, I am doing research regarding class sizes in graduate programs, both online and traditional. While I have read quite a bit of anecdotal stuff and talked with many colleagues who have a gut feeling about class sizes in grad programs, I am not finding as much as I would like. If you do research in this area or are interested in it, would you mind sharing resources? I want to put some meat behind the notion that the smaller the class, the better the class or the opposite, if the research supports it. Thanks in advance! Sincerely, Bob Batchelor Kent State University http://new.jmc.kent.edu/about/faculty/directory/batchelor.aspx

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CFP for 4S Panel: From Hobby to Science Work: The Culture & Politics of Professionalized Maker Culture
by Laura Forlano 24 Feb '13

24 Feb '13

Apologies for x-posting. 4S Meeting in San Diego, Oct 9-12, 2013. From Hobby to Science Work: The Culture & Politics of Professionalized Maker Culture Current Participants: Carl DiSalvo, Laura Forlano, Silvia Lindtner, Thomas Lodato Hacker/maker culture is often associated with a DIY (do it yourself) ethos and Internet counterculture — in distinction from professionalized fields such as design, scientific research, or engineering. However, in recent years, hacker cultures and professionalized fields have been brought together through the efforts such as hackerspaces, which function as collocated laboratories for citizen science engagements, new product development, or batch-manufacturing. Events such as hackathons, start-up weekends, and accelerators allow DIY makers to move beyond a hobbyist activity and transform ideas into tangible products by exploiting an existing infrastructure of venture capital funding, corporate support and manufacturing labor. In addition to corporations, state organizations such as DARPA and governments in Asia have begun participate in these transformations in order to provide financial support for maker and DIY efforts with the goal of triggering new forms of innovation for their nations. The purpose of this panel is to bring together research that examines the conditions and issues of the transformation of hacker/maker culture from DIY endeavors to increasingly professionalized and purportedly economically-viable activities, and engages with the culture and politics of such professionalization process of the hobbyist Maker movement. We will examine how DIY maker production appropriates and remakes dominant narratives of creativity, innovation, and entrepreneurship to render and for what purposes. We ask questions such as: Who is excluded and how do local manifestations of the broader movement vary? How can analytical and methodological tools from STS inform the study of interdisciplinary maker worlds that aspire to bring together science, technology and society in new ways? What digital and other material artifacts are produced along the way, where and how do they travel, and which populations are implicated in their production? We envision this panel will contribute to ongoing concerns in Digital STS and innovation studies. We are soliciting participation in this panel (or possibly, a series of panels). If you are interested in contributing please send an email with a brief paper description to cdisalvo(a)gatech.edu by March 1st. Laura Forlano, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Design Institute of Design Illinois Institute of Technology Visiting Scholar Program in Comparative Media Studies Massachusetts Institute of Technology (646) 245-5388 (c) http://lauraforlano.org http://designingorganizations.org

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Re: [Air-L] Call for Applications, 2013-2014 Yahoo! Fellow in Residence, Georgetown University
by bury417＠yahoo.ca 24 Feb '13

24 Feb '13

I realize that the exclamation mark is part of the trademark but I must confess it is rather jarring to see an academic position with this punctuation in the title. Rhiannon Rhiannon Bury Associate Professor Women's and Gender Studies Athabasca University rbury(a)athabascau.ca Sent from Yahoo! Mail for iPhone

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Historical Origins of the Cloud
by Trevor Croker 24 Feb '13

24 Feb '13

Hello all, I am currently trying to track down the historical origin of the term "cloud computing." So far, I have only come across speculation that the cloud imagery was used in computer textbooks and slowly adopted into the computing lexicon. Any suggested resources or guidance would be very much appreciated. Best, Trevor Croker PhD Candidate in the Science and Technology Studies Program at Virginia Tech

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Call for Applications, 2013-2014 Yahoo! Fellow in Residence, Georgetown University
by Francesca Musiani 24 Feb '13

24 Feb '13

The Institute for the Study of Diplomacy at Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service in Washington, DC is now accepting applications for the position of 2013-2014 Yahoo! Fellow in Residence. The fellowship is supported by the Yahoo! International Values, Communications Technology, and Global Internet Fellowship Fund, which was established in 2007-08 at the School of Foreign Services (SFS) at Georgetown University with the help of a $1 million gift from Yahoo! Inc. Every year, the fund supports one fellow attached to the Institute for the Study of Diplomacy (ISD) and two junior fellows from the MSFS graduate program at SFS to do research on how international values apply to the development and use of new communications technologies. Additional information can be found on the Institute's website using the following links: http://isd.georgetown.edu/programs/yahoofellow/ http://isd.georgetown.edu/files/Yahoo_Announcement.pdf Kind regards, Francesca -- Francesca Musiani, PhD 2012-13 Yahoo! Fellow in Residence<http://isd.georgetown.edu/programs/yahoofellow/> Institute for the Study of Diplomacy <http://isd.georgetown.edu/> Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service <http://sfs.georgetown.edu/> Georgetown University 1316 36th Street NW Washington, DC 20057-1025 CSI, MINES ParisTech <http://www.csi.mines-paristech.fr/> | ANR ADAM project<http://adam.hypotheses.org/> Berkman Center for Internet and Society @ Harvard Law<http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/> ESN-IAMCR <http://iamcr.org/s-wg/cctmc/esn> | GigaNet <http://giga-net.org> Personal website <http://www.csi.mines-paristech.fr/Perso/Musiani/> | Twitter <https://twitter.com/franmusiani>

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Gloviczki Poetry Book Publication
by Peter Gloviczki 24 Feb '13

24 Feb '13

Dear AOIR Friends and Colleagues, I'm really pleased to share that my first full-length collection of poetry, Kicking Gravity (Salmon Poetry, 2013) is now available. Though the poems are mostly fictional, I write about the media in certain poems and media in everyday life is a theme that runs through the collection. If you're interested, I encourage you to take a look. I'm glad to Skype with any media studies, creative nonfiction or literary arts classes (or others) that would like to discuss the book. Thanks, Peter For a copy, visit: <http://www.salmonpoetry.com/details.php?ID=288&a=235>. About this Book “Peter Joseph Gloviczki’s short lyrics and prose poems speak to the contemporary reader, in tender, precise language, about love, the spirit, and the body, and while his poems may be short and concise, the scope of his work is without limit.” William Reichard “And what will the ricochet / of my right ankle be worth” asks the speaker in the opening lines of Peter Joseph Gloviczki’s first full- length collection, Kicking Gravity. This book finds the speaker traveling around the world and returning home with a newfound appreciation for life, love, the possibilities of the body and the landscapes that connect us. The speaker is a romantic and an explorer. >From Budapest to London and New Orleans to the American Midwest, these poems listen with a journalist’s ear. Kicking Gravity is a passionate and fully formed debut. Author Biography Peter Joseph Gloviczki is a teacher, a communication researcher and a poet. His poems have appeared in The Christian Science Monitor, Hayden’s Ferry Review, New Orleans Review, 32 Poems and elsewhere. Kicking Gravity is his first full-length collection of poems. He has reviewed poetry collections for Mid-American Review and his poems have been widely anthologized, including in Dogs Singing: A Tribute Anthology (Salmon Poetry, 2011). A Pushcart Prize nominee and the winner of a senryu prize from Modern Haiku, he grew up in Rochester, Minnesota, where he graduated from Mayo High School. He earned his B.A. at St. Olaf College in Northfield, Minnesota, and his M.A. and Ph.D. in Mass Communication at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis. His research examines the implications of emerging technologies for journalism and mass communication. He lives and writes in Minneapolis.

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