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CALL FOR BOOK VOLUMES
by Hakikur Rahman 19 Feb '13

19 Feb '13

FYA Please: CALL FOR BOOK VOLUMES Book Volume Proposal Submission Deadline: March 30, 2013 Advances in Social Networking and Online Communities (ASNOC) Book Series Chief Editor: Dr. Hakikur Rahman, SchoolNet Foundation Bangladesh More information: http://www.hakik.org/current_call1.htm Best regards, Hakikur Rahman

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Re: [Air-L] Pointers for Undergraduate degrees in Digital Cultures
by Angela Shetler 18 Feb '13

18 Feb '13

The University of Sydney has a Digital Cultures program: http://sydney.edu.au/arts/digital_cultures/undergrad/index.shtml Regards, Angela Shetler ANGELA SHETLER Associate Lecturer | Writing Hub Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences THE UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY Old Teachers' College (A22) The University of Sydney | NSW | 2006 T +61 2 9351 2578 E angela.shetler(a)sydney.edu.au<mailto:angela.shetler@sydney.edu.au> W http://sydney.edu.au/arts/teaching_learning/writing_hub/ CRICOS 00026A This email plus any attachments to it are confidential. Any unauthorised use is strictly prohibited. If you receive this email in error, please delete it and any attachments. Please think of our environment and only print this e-mail if necessary.

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Call for Participation: Stanford STS Conference on Governing Technology (due 3/22/2013)
by David Nemer 18 Feb '13

18 Feb '13

Apologies for cross-posting. Please forward widely! We welcome submissions from any field and institution to the first annual Stanford Graduate STS conference, "Governing Technology." More information is below. Thank you, and we hope to see you in May! - Morgan, Damien, Mark, and the rest of the GSST conference committee ---------------------------------------------- Governing Technology: Material Politics and Hybrid Agencies *Thursday, May 9 and Friday, May 10**, 2013* *Stanford Humanities Center* *http://governing.morganya.org * This conference aims to bring together two communities of scholars: those examining the ways that states and other institutions have sought to govern technologies, and those examining the ways that technologies have influenced the practice and form of governing. In the process, we will revisit the concept of governance through the lens of *material politics*. As some technologies promise the world and others threaten to overrun it, scholars in the humanities and social sciences have turned a critical eye to the agentive power and material effects of technology, as well as the responses that this power invokes. Research on technology’s entanglements with states, transnational organizations, and other powerful institutions has often taken its cues from science and technology studies. In particular, pioneering work in STS on materiality, on governmentality, and on hybrid and nonhuman agency has become more and more a part of mainstream work in history, geography, anthropology, communication, literary studies, sociology, and beyond. Scholars from across these fields have, in turn, developed new frameworks of analysis that go beyond classic conceptions of governmentality and materiality to incorporate their own disciplinary strengths. Cornell professor Steve Jackson<https://sites.google.com/site/stanfordstsgrad/conference/keynote> will discuss the interplay between governance and technology in his keynote lecture <https://sites.google.com/site/stanfordstsgrad/conference/keynote>. The conference will wrap up with a roundtable discussion on building the STS community in the Bay Area and beyond, featuring STS professors from Stanford and several nearby Universities of California. Call for Participation We invite papers that consider (or critique) the relevance of *material politics* in understanding the relationship between governance and technology: how states and other institutions respond to challenges imposed by new and emerging technological developments and how technologies, understood broadly, become part of governing. Papers from any discipline or institution are encouraged. Possible topics include, but are not limited to: - Natural resource management and extraction - The politics of environmental regulation and tourism - National or transnational policies on innovation and intellectual property - The regulation and development of biotechnology - The agency and role of non-governmental organizations - Governing dangerous materials - The politics of agricultural technologies - Medical innovation and regulation - The *un*governability of certain technologies - The politics of technology in public health or urban planning - Historical accounts of technological governance or agency - Theoretical discussions or critiques of material agencies - Theoretical discussions of governance through the lens of material politics Please submit the following to *governing.technology(a)morganya.org*: - *A submission abstract* of no more than 250 words - *A brief biography* of no more than 50 words to be included in the conference program The deadline for submissions is *March 22, 2013*. Notifications will be sent and the schedule posted by April 12, 2013. -- *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

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positions in Digital Cultures and New Media - Middlesex University
by Feona Attwood 18 Feb '13

18 Feb '13

***Please circulate widely*** The School of Media and Performing Arts at Middlesex is currently recruiting to a number of posts across the Media Department. These posts have been created as part of the University's 'Investing in Excellence' programme. Alongside the recent in investment in an £80 million Media Arts complex, these positions demonstrate the University's commitment to a research culture in which a vibrant Media department plays a leading role. The link below will take you to the vacancies page where you will find further details for the following positions: Head of Media Department (MPA20) Professor in Television (MPA21) Reader in Television (MPA22) Professor in Creative Writing (MPA23) Reader in Creative Writing (MPA24) Professor in Language and Media (MPA25) Reader in Language and Media (MPA26) Professor in Digital Cultures (MPA27) Reader in Digital Cultures (MPA28) Lecturer in Film & Television (MPA33) Lecturer in New Media (MPA34) Lecturer in Promotional Cultures (MPA35) http://www.mdx.ac.uk/aboutus/Work/enhancing-research/index.aspx The deadline for applications is 6 March. Anyone wishing to make informal enquiries should contact the acting head of department Patrick Phillips p.phillips(a)mdx.ac.uk<mailto:p.phillips@mdx.ac.uk>. James Graham Senior Lecturer in Media and Literary Studies School of Media and Performing Arts Middlesex University http://adri.mdx.ac.uk.contentcurator.net/graham-dr-james --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Please note that Middlesex University's preferred way of receiving all correspondence is via email in line with our Environmental Policy. All incoming post to Middlesex University is opened and scanned by our digital document handler, CDS, and then emailed to the recipient. If you do not want your correspondence to Middlesex University processed in this way please email the recipient directly. Parcels, couriered items and recorded delivery items will not be opened or scanned by CDS. There are items which are "exceptions" which will be opened by CDS but will not be scanned a full list of these can be obtained by contacting the University. -------------------------------------------------------- MeCCSA mailing list -------------------------------------------------------- To manage your subscription or unsubscribe from the MECCSA list, please visit: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=MECCSA&A=1 ------------------------------------------------------- MeCCSA is the subject association for the field of media, communication and cultural studies in UK Higher Education. Membership is open to all who teach and research these subjects in HE institutions, via either institutional or individual membership. The field includes film and TV production, journalism, radio, photography, creative writing, publishing, interactive media and the web; and it includes higher education for media practice as well as for media studies. This mailing list is a free service from MeCCSA and is not restricted to members. For further information, please visit: http://www.meccsa.org.uk/ -------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Please note that Middlesex University's preferred way of receiving all correspondence is via email in line with our Environmental Policy. All incoming post to Middlesex University is opened and scanned by our digital document handler, CDS, and then emailed to the recipient. If you do not want your correspondence to Middlesex University processed in this way please email the recipient directly. Parcels, couriered items and recorded delivery items will not be opened or scanned by CDS. There are items which are "exceptions" which will be opened by CDS but will not be scanned a full list of these can be obtained by contacting the University.

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FW: MSc scholarship at OII
by Eric Meyer 18 Feb '13

18 Feb '13

We are delighted to announce that we have secured an additional MSc scholarship for the coming academic year. Kindly supported by Google, this scholarship will be open to MSC candidates applying in all three deadlines, including the final application deadline for 2013/14 entry to our MSc and DPhil programmes, which is 8 March 2013. Please see how to apply on our website. See http://us5.campaign-archive1.com/?u=9125dddb3054a8ddcb4f56f23&id=7239aead31 Professor Ralph Schroeder Oxford Internet Institute University of Oxford 1 St.Giles Oxford OX1 3JS http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/people/schroeder/ Tel.01865-287224/287210

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Last week for OII Summer Doctoral Programme applications
by Victoria Nash 18 Feb '13

18 Feb '13

Dear Air-listers, As the deadline approaches for this year's Oxford Internet Institute Summer Doctoral Programme (SDP), I'd be very grateful if you could forward this e-mail to any PhD students who may want to apply. The OII SDP brings together PhD students from around the world for a fortnight of study with leading academics in the field. The programme is structured around daily lectures, seminars and social events, aimed at developing student thinking on a range of issues central to the Internet and improving their thesis research. This year's programme will be held at the iSchool at the University of Toronto from 8th-19th July. Participating tutors include faculty from several of the great universities nearby (Barry Wellman, Seamus Ross, Leslie Regan Shade, Rhonda McEwen, Anabel Quan-Haase, Jason Nolan, Ron Deibert and others) as well as faculty from OII (Bernie Hogan, Eric Meyer and Vicki Nash). We also hope to bring back SDP alumni for a day of networking and presentations on the 12th July. The deadline for applications is 25th February. Further details and information about how to apply can be found at: http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/teaching/sdp/Y2013.cfm whilst more informal information is available on the SDP blog at: http://blogs.oii.ox.ac.uk/sdp/ Thanks are due to all our SDP partners, most notably, the UoT iSchool, but also the Faculty of Communication and Design at Ryerson University, Annenberg School of Communication at USC, the Creative Industries faculty at QUT and the ARC Centre of Excellence for Creative Industries and Innovation. If you have any questions, please get in touch. Best Vicki Dr Victoria Nash Director of Graduate Studies Policy & Research Fellow Oxford Internet Institute University of Oxford http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/ T: 01865 287231 Tw: @VickiNashOII W: http://victoriajnash.tumblr.com/

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Re: [Air-L] Literature on online conflict
by Mathieu ONeil 18 Feb '13

18 Feb '13

Hi James Conflict in groups can be conceptualized in organizational terms (they distinguish between task, process, etc forms of conflict), in anthropological terms (the group constituting itself against a monstrous "other"). In online communities it can be a way to enforce discipline, reinforce cohesion, indoctrinate newcomers etc. I deal with these issues in my book Cyberchiefs. For organization science perspectives on conflict in distributed teams see the work of people like Pamela Hinds, Karen Jehn, Elizabeth Mannix. For an Internet-specific take see Franco et al. "Anatomy of a flame" and for work that focuses on communication see Lange "What is your claim to flame" and O'Sullivan and Flanagin "Reconceptualising flaming". There are probably many others. HTH cheers Mathieu On 02/18/13, James Robson <james.robson(a)gtc.ox.ac.uk> wrote: > Hi all, > > I wonder if anyone could help. I’m looking for literature that deals with online conflict at a theoretical level. > > For my doctorate I’m undertaking a digital ethnography of some teacher related online social spaces and conflict appears to be very important for the communities I’ve been participating in, mainly in two ways: firstly in meaning making arguments which develop users’ understandings of their subjects and themselves as professionals (eg arguments about the purpose of their subject, the purpose of teaching etc); and secondly, in arguments in which a majority unifies against a minority to emphasize a particular dominant discourse (eg you have to be a particular kind of person to be a good teacher). In both of these situations conflict seems to be particularly important in relation to the construction and performance of users’ professional identities. > > I’m trying to develop my thinking on what’s going on here, so am looking for literature that deals with online conflict particularly at a theoretical level. > > Any suggestions would be very much appreciated. > > Many thanks > James > _______________________________________________ > 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/ > > -- **** Dr Mathieu O'Neil Associate Professor, HDEA-TCS, Université Paris Sorbonne 1 rue Victor Cousin 75230 Paris cedex 05, France http://www.paris-sorbonne.fr/l-universite/nos-enseignants-chercheurs/articl… Adjunct Research Fellow, ADSRI, The Australian National University Coombs Building (#9) Canberra ACT 0200, Australia https://researchers.anu.edu.au/researchers/o-neil-m

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Literature on online conflict
by James Robson 18 Feb '13

18 Feb '13

Hi all, I wonder if anyone could help. I’m looking for literature that deals with online conflict at a theoretical level. For my doctorate I’m undertaking a digital ethnography of some teacher related online social spaces and conflict appears to be very important for the communities I’ve been participating in, mainly in two ways: firstly in meaning making arguments which develop users’ understandings of their subjects and themselves as professionals (eg arguments about the purpose of their subject, the purpose of teaching etc); and secondly, in arguments in which a majority unifies against a minority to emphasize a particular dominant discourse (eg you have to be a particular kind of person to be a good teacher). In both of these situations conflict seems to be particularly important in relation to the construction and performance of users’ professional identities. I’m trying to develop my thinking on what’s going on here, so am looking for literature that deals with online conflict particularly at a theoretical level. Any suggestions would be very much appreciated. Many thanks James

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Final call for papers: Digital Transformers Symposium, Manchester, May 2013
by Joanne Bates 18 Feb '13

18 Feb '13

Hi all, A reminder that the deadline for abstracts for the forthcoming AHRC funded Digital Transformers Symposium for PGRs and ECRs is coming up on the 28th February. See below for the call for papers. We already have some great guest speakers and workshops lined up - check out the programme so far here - http://www.digitaltransformersnetwork.com/2013/02/14/confirmed-speakers-and… *Digital Transformers Symposium, Manchester, 23rd May 2013* The AHRC funded *Digital Transformers Symposium* ( http://www.digitaltransformersnetwork.com) is a one day event aimed at postgraduate students and early career researchers in the Humanities on the methodological and conceptual approaches and techniques required for the study of digital data and digitally mediated environments. The event will combine presentations and workshops, giving participants hands on experience of new techniques for working with digital data and space for discussion about the methodological, conceptual and disciplinary challenges these emerging techniques and practices are generating. Ways of understanding and analysing digital data and digitally mediated environments are varied and complex. The skills required are increasingly specialised and do not necessarily conform to any particular theoretical or epistemological perspective. At the same time, an expanding set of broadly applicable concepts, techniques and methods are emerging that can be used across, and tailored to, the needs of multiple disciplines in the Humanities. Examples include data visualisation techniques, text and data mining, and network analysis, and theories and concepts around the socio-cultural, socio-political and cognitive processes that affect the use and interpretation of digital data and digitally mediated environments. Key symposium themes to be explored therefore include: - Key concepts and theories that inform the study of digital data and digitally mediated environments. - The wider socio-political, philosophical and cultural concepts/issues surrounding these. - Methodological approaches to the study of digital data and digitally mediated environments. - Particular techniques and tools that can be used to study, analyse, and represent digital data and digitally mediated environments. The symposium organisers invite papers from research students and early career researchers in the Humanities that explore these, and related, themes. *Submission information* Abstracts (maximum 300 words) for *15 minute* research and position papers related to the symposium themes are requested by the deadline of *28 February 2013* to *digitaltransformersnetwork(a)gmail.com* Proposals for panels of 3-4 speakers are also welcome. A proposal should have three to four papers and should consist of a panel title and short framing text, and abstracts for all the papers with paper titles and authors. Proposals are requested by the deadline of *28 February 2013* to * digitaltransformersnetwork(a)gmail.com* *Notification of acceptance: 31 March 2013* A small amount of funding is available on a competitive basis to cover travel and subsistence costs for participants unable to source funding from elsewhere. Applications for funding will open in March 2013. *Organisers and funders* The Digital Transformers Symposium is funded by a Collaborative Skills Development training grant awarded by the AHRC. It is being co-organised by postgraduate students and early career researchers from Manchester Metropolitan University's Department of Information and Communications and the University of Sheffield's Information School. *For further information please see ** http://www.digitaltransformersnetwork.com/<https://db3prd0104.outlook.com/owa/redir.aspx?C=xIsVrcmbqUiWohuOIS3eec5nRAm…> or contact us at *digitaltransformersnetwork(a)gmail.com<https://db3prd0104.outlook.com/owa/redir.aspx?C=xIsVrcmbqUiWohuOIS3eec5nRAm…> -- Jo Bates Lecturer Room 236, Information School, University of Sheffield, Sheffield S1 4DP, United Kingdom Email: jo.bates(a)sheffield.ac.uk Phone: 0114 2222648

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Locating passive consumers on social network sites
by Maya Yuan 18 Feb '13

18 Feb '13

Hi everyone, I’m doing a project that focuses on how people consume and respond to political content on a Twitter-like social network site. I was planning to target both active people who are highly interested in these contents, showing by posting comments (I actually found this group of people via reading the comments they posted on) or re-sending them; and passive consumers, who basically only read these contents. The problem is, it is hard to reach these passive population on a social network site. Does anyone have tips on locating these people or any literature about this question? Many thanks. Mengyao Yuan PhD student of sociology University of Edinburgh Email: maya.yuan2010(a)gmail.com

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