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2013 Executive Committee Election: Candidate Statements & Voting Information
by Kelly Boudreau 21 May '13

21 May '13

Candidate statements for the 2013 Executive election are now available. For more information on each candidate, please click here<http://aoir.org/about/executive-committee/aoir-elections-2013-candidates/>. Please be aware that in order to vote in this year’s election you must be an active member of AoIR no later than 23:59 Eastern time (-0400 UTC), Tuesday, May 21st. Voting will open May 22, 2013 at 12:01 am (Eastern time, -0400 UTC) and close June 1st, 2013 at 12:00 pm (NOON Eastern time, -0400 UTC). To vote, please click on the following link<https://www.balloteer.com/bp/nph-bstart?&eid=3181626649827258> and use your AoIR Membership User ID number. (To find this number, please log into your AoIR membership page at http://members.aoir.org/ and select ‘view profile’. It is listed as User ID.) If you have any questions concerning your AoIR membership please contact ac(a)aoir.org. For questions on the election or the voting process, please contact secretary(a)aoir.org. - Association Coordinator, AoIR

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2013 Executive Committee Election: Candidate Statements & Voting Information
by Kelly Boudreau 21 May '13

21 May '13

Candidate statements for the 2013 Executive election are now available. For more information on each candidate, please click here<http://aoir.org/about/executive-committee/aoir-elections-2013-candidates/>. Please be aware that in order to vote in this year’s election you must be an active member of AoIR no later than 23:59 Eastern time (-0400 UTC), Tuesday, May 21st. Voting will open May 22, 2013 at 12:01 am (Eastern time, -0400 UTC) and close June 1st, 2013 at 12:00 pm (NOON Eastern time, -0400 UTC). To vote, please click on the following link<https://www.balloteer.com/bp/nph-bstart?&eid=3181626649827258> and use your AoIR Membership User ID number. (To find this number, please log into your AoIR membership page at http://members.aoir.org/ and select ‘view profile’. It is listed as User ID.) If you have any questions concerning your AoIR membership please contact ac(a)aoir.org. For questions on the election or the voting process, please contact secretary(a)aoir.org. - Association Coordinator, AoIR

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IS1202 Training School on Virtual Work, Malta, Sep 16-20 *travel grant application DL May 24*
by Vili Lehdonvirta 20 May '13

20 May '13

Dear AoIRers, Some months ago, Christian Fuchs introduced a new international research network titled Dynamics of Virtual Work (more formally known as COST Action IS1202) to this list. As the leader of the Early-Stage Researchers Subgroup of this network, I'm happy to introduce a summer school that is now being organised under its auspices. A good amount of funding is available to cover participants' travel expenses. The application deadline is this Friday already, but the application process itself is light. I would encourage applications from all doctoral students and postdocs from eligible countries (see link below) who are interested in topics such as prosumer work, crowdsourcing, microwork, virtual teams and avatar-mediated collaboration. Warm regards, Vili IS1202 TRAINING SCHOOL ON VIRTUAL WORK Theoretical and Methodological Approaches to the Study of Virtual Work University of Malta, 16-20 September 2013 Travel grants available - application deadline *May 24th* http://www.um.edu.mt/events/is1202training2013 Information and communication technologies have given rise to new types of paid and unpaid 'digital' or 'virtual' labour. They range from online prosumer work and service co-creation to game labour and the exploitation of global wage differences through digital microwork. These new forms of labour exemplify shifts in the borderlines between 'play' and 'work', as well as in 'employment' and 'entrepreneurship', and have significant implications to private life, global development and the nature of work in general. Because of the gender division of labour, they also affect women and men differently. The objective of this training school is to prepare doctoral students and postdocs from a variety of disciplines to carry out successful research in the cross-disciplinary field of virtual work studies. Virtual work is a multi-faceted phenomenon: in addition to one's own disciplinary background, successful researchers must also understand key contributions from neighbouring disciplines. In this training school, participants will obtain grounding in the most important theoretical perspectives, as well as receive instruction in cutting-edge methodological approaches. Participants will also present their own work, network with other emerging scholars and some of the preeminent scholars in the field, and discuss publication venues, funding strategies and other building blocks of a successful academic career. The Training School on Virtual Work takes place at the University of Malta and its beautiful Mediterranean surroundings. The school is funded by the IS1202 COST Action on the Dynamics of Virtual Work. Funding for travel and participation is available to eligible doctoral students and postdocs. Major theoretical approaches: • Labour Sociology - Professor Jörg Flecker, University of Vienna, Austria • Social Psychology of Organizations - Dr Marko Hakonen, Aalto University, Finland • Political Economy of Communications - Professor Katharine Sarikakis, University o Vienna, Austria (tbc) • Microeconomics and Behavioral Economics - Assistant Professor John Horton, Stern School of Business, New York University, United States • Gender Studies - tbc Important Dates: 24th May 2013 - Deadline for applications for funding 30th May 2013 - Notification of grant selection results. Each applicant will be contacted personally about the outcome of his/her application. 16th September 2013 - Training school commences Organising committee: Dr Vili Lehdonvirta, Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford Dr Mark Micallef, Department of Computer Science, University of Malta Contact: is1202training2013(a)um.edu.mt http://www.um.edu.mt/events/is1202training2013 -- Dr Vili Lehdonvirta Virtual economies and digital work Research Fellow, Oxford Internet Institute http://vili.lehdonvirta.com -- Twitter: ViliLe -- Skype: vlehdonv -- Tel. +44 7456 420012

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Conference programme: ICT and Work
by Mathieu ONeil 20 May '13

20 May '13

*Apologies for multiple posts* Conference programme ICT and Work : The United States at the Origin of the Dissemination of Digital Capitalism Université Paris Sorbonne Histoire et dynamique des espaces anglophones (ED4 - HDEA) - Travail, culture et société (TCS) Date: 29 - 30 May 2013 Venue: Maison de la Recherche, 28 rue Serpente, 75006 Paris Abstracts: http://ictandwork.blogspot.fr/ Registration: inscription.ictwork(a)gmail.com Contribution: 30 euros (students 10 euros) Wednesday 29 May 1:30 pm Registration of participants 2:00 pm Welcome by Barthélémy Jobert, President, Université Paris Sorbonne; Marie-Madeleine Martinet, Director, HDEA, Université Paris Sorbonne; and Alexis Tadié, Director, Doctoral School, Université Paris Sorbonne. 2:30 pm Presentation of European COST Action IS-12-02: Dynamics of Virtual Work by Ursula Huws, University of Hertfordshire Business School 2:55 pm Introductory remarks by Olivier Frayssé, Université Paris Sorbonne, Exporting United States Work Models: Laying Out the Issue Keynote Address 3:15-4:30 pm Eran Fisher, The Open University of Israel, From Ford to Google: The Ideology of Technology Past and Present Respondent: Antonio Casilli, Telecom ParisTech, EHESS Chair: Mathieu O’Neil, Université Paris Sorbonne 4:30 pm Tea Break Session 1 — The Californian Paradigm: Technology and Work Culture 4:50 pm Adam Fish, Lancaster University, Silicon Valley or Hollywood? Place, Politics, and Technology in Cultures of Internet and Television Convergence 5:10 pm Thibault Clément, Université Paris Sorbonne, Whistle While You Work: Disney's Theme Parks as Socio-Technical Devices and the Diffusion of US Work Culture Respondent: Hélène Schmutz, Université Paris Sorbonne 5:30-6:15 pm Discussion Thursday 30 May 9:00 am Coffee, registration. Session 2 — ICT and Labor: New Dynamics in the Era of Globalization 9:30 am Jakob Rigi, Central European University, Intellectual Property and Labor Aristocracy in the USA: the United States as a Knowledge-Based Rentier State 9:50 am Mary L. Gray, Microsoft Research New England, Digital Piecework: Lessons from an Ethnographic Study on Amazon’s MTURK Program Respondent: Élisabeth Koechlin, Université Paris Sorbonne 10:10-10.30 am Discussion 10:30 am Coffee break 10:50 am Angela Martinez Dy, Nottingham University, Unmasking the “Great Equalizer”: Internet Entrepreneurship by Marginalized Actors 11:10 am Eve Bantman Masum, Université Toulouse Le Mirail, Marketing Migration in North America: the Business Model of Brokerage in a Networked Age Respondent: Medina Niang, Université Paris Sorbonne 11:30-12:00 am Discussion Lunch break Session 3 — Reevaluating the Production / Consumption Relationship 2:30 pm Michael Palm, University of North Carolina, Magic Touch: Transaction Apps and the Political Economy of Swiping 2:50 pm Marie-Christine Pauwels, Université Paris-Ouest Nanterre la Défense, Work and Prosumerism: Collaborative Consumption in the US Respondent: Mathieu O'Neil, Université Paris Sorbonne 3:10-3:30 pm Discussion 3:30 pm Tea break Session 4 — Alternative models 3:50 pm Mandy Tröger, University of Illinois, Understanding the Role of Political Economy in US Communication Research 4:10 pm Arwid Lund, University of Uppsala, Peer to Peer Production's Relationship to Capitalism 4:30 pm Johan Söderberg, University of Göteborg: Techno-Utopists and Digital Capitalism 4:50 pm Lela Mosemghvdlishvili & Jeroen Jansz, Erasmus University Rotterdam, What is Free?: Commoditization of Open Source Software Development by Google Respondent: Mathieu O’Neil, Université Paris Sorbonne 5:10-6:00 pm Discussion and conference wrap-up 6:30 pm Closing drinks -- -- **** 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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Help for literature
by Delwar Hossain 20 May '13

20 May '13

Dear Colleagues, I am going to conduct a study on the uses of social media among the South Asian diaspora in the U.S. Specifically, I will focus on some issues: online community, uses of native languages on social media. I really appreciate your suggestions regarding relevant literature on this area. -- .............................................................................................................................. Delwar Hossain || Ph.D. Candidate || College of Mass Communication and Media Arts Southern Illinois University Carbondale || IL-62901,USA || _________________________________________________________________________ Assistant Professor & Former Chairman || Department of Communication & Journalism|| University of Chittagong || e-mail: delwarif(a)siu.edu || delwarif(a)yahoo.com

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CFP: Union for Democratic Communications/Project Censored 2013 Conference (Deadline June 1)
by Kathleen Kuehn 20 May '13

20 May '13

CFP: The Point is to Change It: Media Democracy and Democratic Media in Action UDC/Project Censored Conference At the University of San Francisco, November 1-3 We invite submissions for the Union for Democratic Communication and Project Censored conference November 1-3, 2013 at the University of San Francisco. Submission deadline is June 1, 2013. Sponsored in part by the Department of Media Studies at the University of San Francisco With increasingly precarious employment, accelerating ecological degradation, gulfs between the 1% and the 99%, as well as dramatic booms and busts, we need a global media responsive to the 99%. We need rigorous critique of corporate media’s commodification of social life. We need critique of all forms of censorship, systematic information exclusion, and propaganda. We need grounded ideas for democratizing media in all formats and genres. We need media justice. To revitalize and retool media democracy in today’s media landscape, the Union for Democratic Communications (UDC) and Project Censored are teaming up for our 2013 conference. UDC, which held its first conference in 1981, has worked to overcome concentrated political-economic power in order to contribute to a world based on economic justice, equality, and peace. Project Censored, founded in 1976, has made its mission to expose and counteract modern-day censorship. Together, UDC and Project Censored hope to contribute to a more democratic society and world by sharing our scholarly and activist projects. We invite research, activist & artistic proposals from critical perspectives interrogating media institutions and technologies, political/economic structures, media practices, cultural practices & audiences; we invite studies in critical pedagogy and research on media activism. Proposals that address pro-democratic media reform or outline efforts to expand citizen access to media are particularly welcome. We welcome the following proposals emailed to udcpc2013(a)gmail.com by June 1, 2013: 1. 500-word abstracts that describe the purpose and significance of your research and/or activist projects, especially those that address the issues outlined in the call. 2. Full papers (up to 25 pages including references) from graduate and undergraduate students. The top student paper will be considered for the Top Student Paper Award. Student papers should be indicated as such and also contain a 500-word abstract. Students may apply for funding to cover some of their travel expenses through the Jeanne Hall Memorial Fund. To be considered for such funding, please include a one-line request for consideration of such funding on the top of your proposal. 3. Presentations of Media Literacy projects, including films and multimedia related to the call. 4. Finally, we welcome proposals for pre-constituted panels. Please include 500-word abstracts for each participant (4-5 participants) and one panel rationale of 200-350 words that articulates the connections between the projects and the overall significance of the panel. Sponsored in part by the Department of Media Studies at the University of San Francisco Thanks -- Kathleen M. Kuehn, PhD Assistant Professor Christopher Newport University Department of Communication kathleen.kuehn(a)cnu.edu

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my post from mlr31@psu.edu was rejected
by Michelle Rodino-Colocino 20 May '13

20 May '13

Can you please post this? It was rejected from my mlr31(a)psu.edu address. I am a member of the air list from mlr31(a)psu.edu. Thanks, Michelle We welcome the following proposals emailed to udcpc2013(a)gmail.com by June 1, 2013: 1. 500-word abstracts that describe the purpose and significance of your research and/or activist projects, especially those that address the issues outlined in the call. 2. Full papers (up to 25 pages including references) from graduate and undergraduate students. The top student paper will be considered for the Top Student Paper Award. Student papers should be indicated as such and also contain a 500-word abstract. Students may apply for funding to cover some of their travel expenses through the Jeanne Hall Memorial Fund. To be considered for such funding, please include a one-line request for consideration of such funding on the top of your proposal. 3. Presentations of Media Literacy projects, including films and multimedia related to the call. 4. Finally, we welcome proposals for pre-constituted panels. Please include 500-word abstracts for each participant (4-5 participants) and one panel rationale of 200-350 words that articulates the connections between the projects and the overall significance of the panel. Sponsored in part by the Department of Media Studies at the University of San Francisco Michelle Rodino-Colocino, Ph.D. "Enjoy the process" --my mother Associate Professor "Mangia" --my grandmother Film/Video, Media and Women's Studies "Say it" --my daughter Chair, Steering Committee UDC (Union for Democratic Communications) http://www.democraticcommunications.net/ http://comm.psu.edu/people/mlr31 rocofem(a)gmail.com (work and personal) michelle(a)psu.edu (work) Michelle Rodino-Colocino, Ph.D. "Enjoy the process" --my mother Associate Professor "Mangia" --my grandmother Film/Video, Media Studies & Women's Studies "Say it" --my daughter 117 Carnegie, University Park, 16802 Chair, Steering Committee, Union for Democratic Communications/UDC http://www.democraticcommunications.net/ *http://comm.psu.edu/people/mlr31* <http://www.personal.psu.edu/mlr31/blogs/roco/>rocofem(a)gmail.com (work and personal) michelle(a)psu.edu (work)

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Google goggles privacy privates
by nativebuddha 19 May '13

19 May '13

Techno phobia or really creepy? Sent from my iPhone Begin forwarded message: > From: nativebuddha <nativebuddha(a)gmail.com> > Date: May 19, 2013, 6:43:22 AM EDT > To: nativebuddha(a)gmail.com > Subject: Link from Twitter > > bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/05/17/at-google-conference-even-cameras-in-the-… > > Download the official Twitter app here > > > Sent from my iPhone

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Search Engines and Social Science: A Revolution in the Making
by Sarah Ann Oates 17 May '13

17 May '13

If you research and/or teach on issues relating to internet search, you may be interested in: Search Engines and Social Science: A Revolution in the Making By Filippo Trevisan at the University of Glasgow. This policy paper covers main points and presents additional research out of the Google Forum meetings in London. It was funded as part of a UK Economic and Social Research Council Knowledge Exchange Grant (Civic Consumers or Commercial Citizens?: Social Scientists Working with Google to Better Understand Online Search Behaviour). Download here: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2265348 Key points: n Google Trends is an especially promising tool that could enable academics to explore new questions. n Ever since the internet became commercially available in the mid-1990s, search engines have played a crucial role in orienting online traffic, distributing content and constructing knowledge. n While in the past scholars had been more interested in talking about the role of search engines themselves in shaping society, this approach is being increasingly complemented by work that focuses on how search engines can augment academic research in general. n It is crucial that academics investigate opportunities and challenges in the centrality of search engines in contemporary informational patterns and social interaction. n Emerging strands of research using search-engine tools/data productively include politics and public opinion studies; economics and business; public health and epidemiology; and response/reaction to natural disasters. n Google Trends data offers advantages over traditional social-science methods such as public opinion surveys. It provides enhanced opportunities to study crisis situations as well as the general relationship between offline events and online behaviour. n Applications such as Google Trends could provide unprecedented opportunities for examining the connections between new and old media. n The global dimension of Google Trends as well as the geographical filters that can be applied to its output can facilitate international research by providing comparable data at virtually no cost, thus substantially expanding the scope for social-science research across country boundaries. n Scholars should be aware of the potential drawbacks associated with this emerging methodology, including doubts over data representativeness when generalising from search engine users to an entire population; language differences and “country effects” in relation to search; as well as limited flexibility afforded by Google Trends. Sincerely Sarah Oates ESRC Grant Principal Professor and Senior Scholar Philip Merrill College of Journalism University of Maryland 2100L Knight Hall College Park, MD 20742 Phone: 301-405-4510 Email: soates(a)umd.edu www.media-politics.com<http://www.media-politics.com> See an excerpt from my new book -- Revolution Stalled: The Political Limits of Internet in the Post-Soviet Sphere, 2013, Oxford University Press at http://goo.gl/HTcDd

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Re: [Air-L] Air-L Digest, Vol 106, Issue 17
by Wallis, Jacob 17 May '13

17 May '13

Hi Adam, You might be interested in Matthew Allen's paper on the 'versioning' of the web: Allen, M. (2013). What was Web 2.0? Versions as the dominant mode of internet history. New Media & Society, 15(2), 260-275. Sounds like you're writing an interesting piece. Regards, Jake Jake Wallis Lecturer | School of Information Studies Boorooma Street Wagga Wagga, NSW 2650 Australia Tel: +61 2 6933 4397 Fax: +61 2 6933 2733 Email: jwallis(a)csu.edu.au www.csu.edu.au Twitter | Facebook | LinkedIn | YouTube ------------------------------ Message: 5 Date: Thu, 16 May 2013 17:29:26 +0100 From: Adam Fish <rawbird(a)gmail.com> To: AoIR mailing list <air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org> Subject: [Air-L] Internet Historiography Message-ID: <CAD-s=SxDjuF23DFCJHz6Q7hOQ5JQ5rws-wzFMZVBbfF7Uts8Mw(a)mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Dear AOIRers, Anybody know of articles or books analysing 1) the political historiography of the internet. Who has criticized the historiography of the internet as being written for political gain? Secondly, any research on 2) the space shared by classic liberalism, technology, and history? I am writing this piece on how Obama?s statement on ?the internet? you didn?t build that,? celebrating social liberal federal investments in technology, has been (mis)interpreted by various political actors. Any leads? Best, Adam Fish, PhD Media and Cultural Studies Department of Sociology Lancaster University, UK LA1 4YT p. 01524592699 a.fish2(a)lancaster.ac.uk @mediacultures, mediacultures.org http://www.research.lancs.ac.uk/portal/en/people/adam-fish(10a5067e-a828-49… Charles Sturt University | ALBURY-WODONGA | BATHURST | CANBERRA | DUBBO | GOULBURN | MELBOURNE | ONTARIO | ORANGE | PORT MACQUARIE | SYDNEY | WAGGA WAGGA | LEGAL NOTICE This email (and any attachment) is confidential and is intended for the use of the addressee(s) only. If you are not the intended recipient of this email, you must not copy, distribute, take any action in reliance on it or disclose it to anyone. Any confidentiality is not waived or lost by reason of mistaken delivery. Email should be checked for viruses and defects before opening. Charles Sturt University (CSU) does not accept liability for viruses or any consequence which arise as a result of this email transmission. Email communications with CSU may be subject to automated email filtering, which could result in the delay or deletion of a legitimate email before it is read at CSU. The views expressed in this email are not necessarily those of CSU. Charles Sturt University in Australia http://www.csu.edu.au The Grange Chancellery, Panorama Avenue, Bathurst NSW Australia 2795 (ABN: 83 878 708 551; CRICOS Provider Numbers: 00005F (NSW), 01947G (VIC), 02960B (ACT)). TEQSA Provider Number: PV12018 Charles Sturt University in Ontario http://www.charlessturt.ca 860 Harrington Court, Burlington Ontario Canada L7N 3N4 Registration: www.peqab.ca Consider the environment before printing this email. Disclaimer added by CodeTwo Exchange Rules 2007 http://www.codetwo.com

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