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CFP - Emerging Issues in Communication Research & Policy, Canberra, Australia
by Julie.Freeman 17 May '13

17 May '13

Call for Papers: Emerging Issues in Communication Research and Policy News & Media Research Centre, University of Canberra, Australia 18-19 November 2013 www.canberra.edu.au/nmrc-conference-2013 Building on the success of the 2012 symposium on the future of the Australian National Broadband Network, the News & Media Research Centre (N&MRC) at the University of Canberra will be hosting its inaugural conference on 'Emerging Issues in Communication Research and Policy'. The aim of this forum is to bring together academic researchers, media practitioners and government professionals working in the media, Internet and telecommunications fields to facilitate analysis and critique of the impact of the changing media landscape and regulatory frameworks on the public. The full call for papers can be downloaded from www.canberra.edu.au/nmrc-conference-2013 Key Dates: Abstract / Full Paper Submission: 1 August 2013 Notification of Outcome: 1 October 2013 Revised Paper Deadline: 1 November 2013 Final Date for Registration: 1 November 2013 Accepted full papers will be published in the conference proceedings, which will have an ISBN and be made publicly available via the N&MRC website. Selected papers presented at the conference will be invited for publication in the Telecommunications Journal of Australia, vol. 64, no. 1 (March 2014) (see www.tja.org.au) Contact: Further information is available on the conference website: www.canberra.edu.au/nmrc-conference-2013 Please direct enquiries to Julie Freeman at NMRC.Conference(a)canberra.edu.au Dr Julie Freeman Postdoctoral Research Fellow News & Media Research Centre www.canberra.edu.au/nmrc Faculty of Arts & Design University of Canberra ACT 2601 Australia Email: NMRC.Conference(a)canberra.edu.au

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Fwd: [Wiki-research-l] Research analyst opening at Wikimedia
by Samuel Klein 16 May '13

16 May '13

For the community-dataminers and researchers out there: SJ ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Dario Taraborelli <dtaraborelli(a)wikimedia.org> Date: Tue, May 7, 2013 at 3:59 PM Subject: [Wiki-research-l] Research analyst opening at Wikimedia To: Research into Wikimedia content and communities <wiki-research-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, "A mailing list for the Analytics Team at WMF and everybody who has an interest in Wikipedia and analytics." <analytics(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Cc: Heather McAndrew <hmcandrew(a)wikimedia.org>, Ion Vazquez <ivazquez(a)wikimedia.org> The Wikimedia Foundation is looking to hire a full-time Research Analyst to join our product research and analytics team: http://hire.jobvite.com/j/?cj=oTqrXfwr&s=wiki-research-l This opening is focused on research on editor engagement features and experiments developed by the Foundation's product team. Get in touch off-list if you have any questions on this opening (you can also contact Heather and Ion from our recruitment team, cc'ed). Dario _______________________________________________ Wiki-research-l mailing list Wiki-research-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l -- Samuel Klein @metasj w:user:sj +1 617 529 4266

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Internet Historiography
by Adam Fish 16 May '13

16 May '13

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…

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CFP> HICSS 2014 Minitrack: Crowdsourcing content production and online knowledge repositories
by Howard Rosenbaum 16 May '13

16 May '13

Apologies for cross-posting HICSS 2014 Minitrack: Crowdsourcing content production and online knowledge repositories January 6-9, 2014 Big Island, Hawaii, USA Track: Digital and social media We are pleased to invite you to submit a paper to the Crowdsourcing mini-track for HICSS 2014 taking place at the Hilton Waikoloa on the Big Island of Hawaii from Jan. 6-9th, 2014. In line with the track emphasis on promoting digital and social-media-related research, this minitrack aims to expand the scope of research in HICSS and bring to the conference researchers interested in cutting edge topics involving socio-technical issues of mass knowledge production and crowdsourcing online knowledge repositories. As various forms of collaboration are enabled (and constrained) by the affordances available in social media, researchers are investigating a range of issues including: 1) the diverse ways in which people collaborate to create, manage, curate and manipulate online content and how these activities affect digital repositories; 2) how those who manage these repositories are responding to the dynamics of online co-creation of content; 3) the dynamics of crowdsourced online collaborations and online communities of practice; and 4) the ways in which we can best describe the socio-technical interaction networks that facilitate and inhibit mass knowledge production. In this mini track we are interested in empirical and theoretical work that addresses these and related socio-technical issues. Papers of interest will examine communities of online knowledge repositories such as YouTube, Yahoo!Answers, Wikipedia, and others and may address in this context topics such as: . The socio-technical dynamics of crowdsourcing and mass knowledge production sites . Vandalism and trolling in online mass knowledge production sites . Conflict and cooperation in content production sites . Issues of gender in collaborative content production sites . Global, cross-cultural and international aspects of content production and online intercultural collaborations in online content creation communities . Managing ethics in online mass knowledge production communities . Building, maintaining and ending social relationships on online repositories sites . Social question answering and collaborative information seeking behaviors . Challenges and opportunities of digital curation . Standards and quality of digital content online Detailed information about the conference can be found here http://www.hicss.hawaii.edu/hicss_47/apahome47.htm Information for potential authors can be found here http://www.hicss.hawaii.edu/hicss_47/47cfp.pdf Due date for submission of full papers is: June 15, 2013 Minitrack organizers Pnina Fichman Informatics West #301 901 East 10th Street SLIS, Indiana University Bloomington Indiana 47408 812 856 1587 Noriko Hara 1320 East 10th Street SLIS, Indiana University Bloomington Indiana 47405 812 855 1490 Howard Rosenbaum 1320 East 10th Street SLIS, Indiana University Bloomington Indiana 47405 812 855 3250

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CFP Networked Learning conference
by Caroline Haythornthwaite 16 May '13

16 May '13

CFP: Networked Learning Conference Chairs: Maarten de Laat & Thomas Ryberg http://www.networkedlearningconference.org.uk/ Papers Due: Friday 4th October, 2013. Conference: April 7-9, 2014, Edinburgh, UK -------------------- Dear Colleague We are pleased to announce the Call for papers for the Ninth International Conference on Networked Learning in Higher Education, Lifelong Learning and Professional Development. The conference is hosted by the University of Edinburgh, at the John McIntyre Conference Centre in Edinburgh, on the 7th. 8th & 9th April 2014. Keynote Speakers: Professor Neil Selwyn & Professor Steve Fuller This conference is considered a major event in the international 'technology enhanced learning' conference circuit, and provides a friendly, collegiate context for meeting researchers and practitioners in networked learning All submissions are peer reviewed, and accepted papers published in conference proceeding Further details on submission at: www.networkedlearningconference.org.uk/documents/call.pdf NOTE: Full papers must be submitted for peer review by Friday 4th October, 2013. PRE-CONFERENCE ONLINE HOT SEATs will run from September 2013 to March 2014: Details of Hot Seat hosts can be found at: http://networkedlearningconference.ning.com/ Full Conference Details can be found at: http://www.networkedlearningconference.org.uk/ Maarten de Laat, Open University, Netherlands & Thomas Ryberg, Aalborg University, Denmark

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Collaborative Innovation Networks Conference - CFP deadline May 31
by Daiane Scaraboto 16 May '13

16 May '13

This conference may be of interest to some AOIR members:* -----------------------------------------------* *COINS13: Call for Submissions* *When: *August 11-13, 2013 *Where:* Santiago de Chile, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile *Papers:* Paper submission deadline May 15, 2013 (*extended to May 31*) *Workshops:* Proposal submission deadline May 15, 2013 (*extended to May 31* ) *Artifacts:* Proposal submission deadline June 1, 2013 *Web:* http://www.coinschile.com The Collaborative Innovation Networks Conference (COINS) invites you to submit your papers, workshop proposals, and artifacts to the 4th annual international conference to be held in Santiago de Chile, hosted by Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile from August 11 to August 13, 2013. COINS13 brings together practitioners, researchers and students of the emerging science of collaboration to share their work, learn from each other, and get inspired through creative new ideas. Conference activities will take place throughout the historic cities of Santiago and Valparaiso. Attendees will be encouraged to engage with the community, meet local entrepreneurs, artists, and designers, take a guided tour of the city, and participate in hands-on workshops and interactive sessions. Where science, design, business and art meet, COINS13 looks at the emerging forces behind the phenomena of open-source, creative, entrepreneurial and social movements. Through interactive workshops, professional presentations, and fascinating keynotes, COINS13 combines a wide range of interdisciplinary fields such as social network analysis, group dynamics, design and visualization, information systems, collective action and the psychology and sociality of collaboration. The best papers will be selected for a special issue of the International Journal of Organisational Design and Engineering (IJODE; http://www.inderscience.com/jhome.php?jcode=IJODE) Program Chairs: Marisa Von Bülow (UC) & Cristobal Garcia (UC) Proceedings Chair: Peter Gloor (MIT) *Learning from the Swarm* The COINS13 conference committee seeks original paper submissions, creative workshop ideas and concepts, unique artifacts or installations, and engaging rapid-fire presentations celebrating the theme “Learning from the Swarm”. This year we are asking what is relevant with regard to the innovative powers of creative and civic swarms, what are the observable qualities of virtual collaboration and mobilization, and how does the quest for global cooperation affect local networks. We invite both theoretical and practice-based dialogues, case studies, scientific papers, technological solutions, research studies, and interactive artifacts that thoroughly reflect this year’s conference theme. We invite researchers and designers to submit their latest scientific results and experimental design solutions as full research papers, workshop proposals, and artifact demonstrations in the following conference themes: ● Networks & Collaboration in a Global Context: Optimization through Collaboration | Teamwork through virtually enhanced Collaboration | Measuring the performance of COINs | Patterns of swarm creativity ● Group Dynamics, Social Movements & Net Activism: Collaborative Learning | Collaborative Leadership | Design & visualization of interdisciplinary collaboration | Virtual Teaming ● Individual & Social Learning: The psychology and sociality of collaboration and collective action | Social Behavior Modeling | Social Intelligence and Social Cognition ● Tools and Methods: Social System Design and Architectures | Dynamic Social Network Analysis | Semantic Social Network Analysis | Actor Network Theory The increase of online social network communication opens up unprecedented opportunities to read the collective mind, revealing trends while they are still being hatched by small groups of creative individuals. The Web has become a mirror of the real world, allowing researchers, in fields of social & behavioral science as well as design, to study and better understand why some new ideas change our lives, while others never make it from the drawing board of the innovator. Collaborative Innovation Networks, or COINs, are cyberteams of self-motivated people with a collective vision, enabled by technology to collaborate, challenge the status-quo and innovate by sharing ideas, information, resources and work. COINs are powered by swarm creativity, wherein people work together in a structure that enables a fluid creation and exchange of ideas. ‘Coolhunting’ – the discovering, analyzing, and measuring of trends and trendsetters as well as movers and shakers – puts COINs to productive use. Below are the details and deadlines for the submission of Papers, Workshops, and Artifacts sessions. For up to date information and additional details please visit our website: www.coinschile.com To engage with the broader COINs community, follow us on twitter @coinschile and join our Facebook page (Collaborative Innovation Networks: COINs Conference). *Papers:* Submission Deadline May 15, 2013 (extended to May 31) COINS13 seeks original, high-quality papers that reflect the full breadth and scope of collaboration science and design including: bold research ideas, conceptual developments, research investigations, methodological & theoretical advances, design ideas, development experiences and more. Submissions should report original research, reflections on theoretical concerns, methodological advances, or other insights that contribute to our understanding of all aspects of collaboration and help advance the state of knowledge for the community. We encourage perspectives from diverse disciplinary backgrounds. Papers should be submitted in .doc or .pdf format. Authors are required to attend the conference to present their work. Submit papers by May 31, 2013 on EasyChair: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=coins13 Important Dates: May 15, 2013 | Deadline for Paper Submissions (extended to May 31) June 30, 2013 | Author(s) will be notified of provisional acceptance of the paper July 30, 2013 | Final copy for conference to publications chair August 11-13 | Paper presentations at COINS13, Santiago, Chile *Workshops:* Proposals Submission Deadline May 15, 2013 (extended to May 31) Workshops will take place during the conference and will form part of the main program. This year we are accepting proposals for both two-hour and four-hour sessions. Workshops are intended to provide a forum for exchanging ideas, sharing experiences, fostering conversation and research communities, learning from each other, exploring controversies, engaging in debate, envisioning future directions and elaborating new methods and perspectives. Workshop activities can range from open forum discussion, to demonstrations or presentations with discussion, to collaborative activities such as structured brainstorming, illustrative games or role-plays. Whatever the focus or format, organizers will be required to schedule time for conversation, reflection, discussion, and debate. Although we envision most workshop activities to take place in one setting, let us know if your workshop will venture out into other sites in Santiago. Workshop proposals should include: ● a summary of 500 words describing the theme(s) of the workshop ● a longer detailed description of the workshop structure, activities and goals ● the names, contact information and background of the organizer(s) ● the maximum number of participants you'd like to attend the workshop ● anticipated A/V requirements. Please be as specific as possible as it helps us in selection, and in helping you plan the workshop. Workshop participants will be registered on a first come first served basis by the conference committee, so the workshop organizers will not be able to select their participants. Accepted workshops will be publicized via the COINS13 website within a month after organizers are notified. Workshop organizers will also be encouraged to promote COINS13 and their workshops to potential attendees. Submit proposals by May 15, 2013 to:https:// www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=coins13. Additionally, please include your email address and other contact details. Important Dates: May 15, 2013 | Deadline for workshop submissions (extended to May 31) June 30, 2013 | Author(s) will be notified of provisional acceptance of the workshop August 11-13 | Workshop at COINS13, Santiago, Chile *Artifacts:* Proposals Submission Deadline June 1, 2013 The artifacts category seeks to provide participants with an opportunity to present work in a forum that facilitates open discussion and enables direct interaction with conference attendees. A dedicated session will be held during the conference to present the artifacts. Artifacts can be anything from design sketchbooks, to reformed organizational processes, to ads you’ve produced, to products you’ve made, to short films, to conceptual objects, etc. We encourage submissions that are thought provoking and visually engaging, and which cover exploratory/speculative work, smaller projects, unusual representations of ethnographic work, and so on. The form of the presented materials is open. In keeping with the category title artifacts though, we encourage submissions based on some material instantiation that can be exhibited at the conference. Our hope is that it will be the ‘thinginess’ of the artifacts that will, in part, prompt interaction with and between conference attendees. Submissions should include a single page describing or illustrating the proposed submission (the one page inclusive of any and all figures and references, where appropriate). This page should convey to reviewers what the artifact being submitted is and how it is hoped to provoke discussion. The page will also be included in the published conference proceedings. Also included in the submissions should be a paragraph and image (no more that 150 words) that can be displayed on the conference website. Please submit these submission materials by June 1, 2013 to: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=coins13 Additionally, please include your email address and other contact details. *Important Dates:* June 1, 2013 | Deadline for artifacts submissions June 30, 2013 | Author(s) will be notified of provisional acceptance of the artifact. Accepted submissions will have their 150 word descriptions posted on the COINS13 website. Descriptions (including images) of accepted artifacts will be published in the COINS13 Proceedings. July 30, 2013 | Final papers due August 11-13 | artifacts presentations at COINS13, Santiago, Chile. The artifact itself should be transported to Santiago for the conference. *Academic Committee:* Jose Allard, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile Jana Diesner, UIUC Jorge Fabrega, Universidad Adolfo Ibañez Kai Fischbach, Bamberg University Karin Frick, GDI Sebastián Gatica - Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile Takashi Iba, Keio University Emmanuel Lazega, Paris Dauphine Ionna Likorenzu, INRIA Takis Metaxas, Wellesley & Harvard Meghan Pierce, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile Alvaro Pina-Stranger, Ecole des Mines Johannes Putzke, University of Cologne Carlos Rodriguez-Sickert, Universidad del Desarrollo Erica Salvaj, Universidad del Desarrollo Daiane Scarboto, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile Detlef Schoder, Cologne University Yang Song, University of Amsterdam Ruth Stock-Homburg, Technical University of Darmstadt Marisa Von Büllow, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile *Steering Committee:* Cristobal Garcia, PUC Peter Gloor, MIT Julia Gluesing, Wayne State University Casper Lassenius, Aalto University Christine Miller, SCAD Maria Paasivaara, Aalto University Ken Riopelle, Wayne State University More information: http://www.coinschile.com Daiane Scaraboto Assistant Professor of Marketing Escuela de Administración Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile T:+56 2354-4340 ext. 1594 http://uc-cl.academia.edu/DaianeScaraboto 2013/5/15 <air-l-request(a)listserv.aoir.org> > 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. Resource: Data analytics support from students (Amit Jain) > 2. Journals Related to 'Free Labor' in the Online Economy > (Wallis, Jacob) > 3. Re: Journals Related to 'Free Labor' in the Online Economy > (Ben Morton) (Shriram Venkatraman) > 4. Flossie 2013 CfP (Paula Graham) > 5. Flossie 2013 CfP (Paula Graham) > 6. Bad Influences: Invitation to read and participate in a blog > fiction PhD project (Emma Pooka) > 7. Re: Resource: Data analytics support from students (Sky Croeser) > 8. Registration Open: Digital Media and Sacred Text, June 17 > (Open University, London) (Tim.Hutchings) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Tue, 14 May 2013 20:29:46 -0400 > From: Amit Jain <amit(a)coursolve.org> > To: air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org > Subject: [Air-L] Resource: Data analytics support from students > Message-ID: > < > CAOfkNix1+wJNeppcpxTrqvYp2n-A3H_wu0bjcYNfqBFBut7g4w(a)mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > *An education researcher at Oxford is organizing an opportunity for > researchers and nonprofits to receive free data analytics support from > students in a massively open online course. Anyone can join the course and > post real-world projects for tens of thousands of students to attempt to > solve. Please read below and forward widely!* > > // > > *Calling all professors, researchers, and nonprofits* -- harness student > learning to get free data analyses from the University of Washington's > Introduction > to Data Science <http://coursolve.org/courses/datascience/> course! Sign > up > now to recruit from tens of thousands of students to take on your > organization's projects in data visualization, analysis, or predictive > modeling. You may not need an internal store of data to benefit -- your > organization can learn volumes through publicly available datasets. > > For details and project ideas, please visit: > http://coursolve.org/courses/datascience/ > > Questions? Contact amit(a)coursolve.org. > > -- > Amit Jain > Coursolve (http://coursolve.org) > Twitter: @coursolve <http://twitter.com/coursolve> | Facebook: > Coursolve<http://www.facebook.com/coursolve> > amit(a)coursolve.org | +1 617-752-2673 > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Wed, 15 May 2013 10:53:44 +1000 > From: "Wallis, Jacob" <jwallis(a)csu.edu.au> > To: "air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org" <air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org> > Subject: [Air-L] Journals Related to 'Free Labor' in the Online > Economy > Message-ID: > < > E826490A65E1C240BB38D3B9E767DAA738D896FD37(a)MAIL01.CSUMain.csu.edu.au> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > > Hi Ben, > > This sort of piece sounds like a great fit for either "Information, > Communication & Society" or "The Information Society". > > Good luck! > 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 > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Date: Mon, 13 May 2013 18:39:22 -0500 > From: Ben Morton <benallenmorton(a)gmail.com> > To: air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org > Subject: [Air-L] Journals Related to 'Free Labor' in the Online > Economy > Message-ID: > < > CAEKywwYs9uvV4Kre0rFM_CUq5mk+GK-cV_rttB4V8geFBT8LbQ(a)mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > Dear Colleagues, > > I need some help finding a Journal suitable for my work. > > I recently completed a manuscript that critiques the usage of "free labor," > "exploitation," and other such terms when studying the collective and > often crowdsourced work of individuals within online networks. I am > engaging with critical research of online economies, mostly by Tiziana > Terranova, Mark Andrejevic, Jonathan Zittrain, and Nancy Baym. > > Although I am happy to be finished with the manuscript I need some help > finding a Journal that might be suitable for this type of research. If I > could exploit your free labor for a moment (see what I did there?), could > you recommend any journals you think may benefit? > > Best, > Ben Morton > 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. 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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 > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 3 > Date: Wed, 15 May 2013 08:42:57 +0530 > From: Shriram Venkatraman <venkatraman.shriram(a)gmail.com> > To: air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org > Subject: Re: [Air-L] Journals Related to 'Free Labor' in the Online > Economy (Ben Morton) > Message-ID: > < > CAEqTNUZcLm74Y2PBrkQJ+4a8h8vSp5O+MjWkn+96vRs4jkyqRQ(a)mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > Have seen articles on Digital Labor in http://nms.sagepub.com/ (New Media > and Society) > > > Thanks, > Shriram Venkatraman > > www.gsmis.org > http://www.ucl.ac.uk/social-networking > @UCLSocNet > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 4 > Date: Wed, 15 May 2013 16:05:57 +0100 > From: Paula Graham <pmgazz(a)gmx.co.uk> > To: air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org > Subject: [Air-L] Flossie 2013 CfP > Message-ID: <5193A455.3070201(a)gmx.co.uk> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > CfP: FLOSSIE 2013, 8/9 November, QMUL, London, UK > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > Flossie 2013 is a two-day event for women who are interested in any > aspect of open technology, open knowledge, digital arts, and social > innovation. Whether you code, tinker, use FLOSS in your projects, or > want to explore open alternatives, all women are welcome - from expert > to novice, or anywhere in between. > > Flossie 2013 is a chance to showcase your project, share skills, or talk > about something which really interests you. We're also scheduling plenty > of time to network, share and build on ideas, and to meet new friends > and old. > > Call for proposals: > > We?re inviting proposals for all aspects of the day. > 1. Talk about your current project or a project you?d like to set up > 2. Skills sharing workshops on any aspect of Free/Libre Open Source > software, hardware, data ? anything open! > 3. Talk about social innovation and diversifying technology design > 4. Send us your idea for an activity ? as long as it's open! Even if you > don?t feel you have the expertise yourself, and just have an idea, let > us know. > > Deadline: 19 July 2013 > > Submit your proposal here: http://www.flossie.org/openconf/ > > If you have any questions, please email conf(a)flossie.org or find more > information on our website at www.flossie.org > > -- > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 5 > Date: Wed, 15 May 2013 16:17:41 +0100 > From: Paula Graham <pmgazz(a)gmx.co.uk> > To: air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org > Subject: [Air-L] Flossie 2013 CfP > Message-ID: <5193A715.40104(a)gmx.co.uk> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > CfP: FLOSSIE 2013, 8/9 November, QMUL, London, UK > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > Flossie 2013 is a two-day event for women who are interested in any > aspect of open technology, open knowledge, digital arts, and social > innovation. Whether you code, tinker, use FLOSS in your projects, or > want to explore open alternatives, all women are welcome - from expert > to novice, or anywhere in between. > > Flossie 2013 is a chance to showcase your project, share skills, or talk > about something which really interests you. We're also scheduling plenty > of time to network, share and build on ideas, and to meet new friends > and old. > > Call for proposals: > > We?re inviting proposals for all aspects of the day. > 1. Talk about your current project or a project you?d like to set up > 2. Skills sharing workshops on any aspect of Free/Libre Open Source > software, hardware, data ? anything open! > 3. Talk about social innovation and diversifying technology design > 4. Send us your idea for an activity ? as long as it's open! Even if you > don?t feel you have the expertise yourself, and just have an idea, let > us know. > > Deadline: 19 July 2013 > > Submit your proposal here: http://www.flossie.org/openconf/ > > If you have any questions, please email conf(a)flossie.org or find more > information on our website at www.flossie.org > > -- > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 6 > Date: Wed, 15 May 2013 16:40:38 +0100 > From: "Emma Pooka" <purplepooka(a)blueyonder.co.uk> > To: <air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org> > Subject: [Air-L] Bad Influences: Invitation to read and participate in > a blog fiction PhD project > Message-ID: <002f01ce5182$8cde99c0$a69bcd40$(a)co.uk> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > > I want to announce my PhD project on this list, as I hope that it will be > relevant to some researchers here. Please do pass on the details to any > colleagues or students who you think would be interested in reading or > participating. > > Bad Influences (http://badinfluences.org.uk) is a multi-character, > real-time, interactive blog fiction. It began in January and will continue > until November. The purpose of the project is to explore the poetics of > blog fiction, especially those relating to the narrative time effects of > real-time serialisation, a feature of epistolary fiction using a blog or > social network as its platform. It is also an interactive creative writing > project that I hope will be enjoyable to read and to participate in whether > you have an academic interest in digital literatures and narratology or > not! > > Bad Influences is set in 2026 and tells the story of a global pandemic flu > virus through the blogs of four characters, based in London, New Jersey, > Beijing and Canberra. The blogs are pre-written and are being posted in > real-time (i.e., each post or comment goes up precisely 13 years before the > event it relates). The comments sections of the blogs are open for reader > participation (upon filling in a participation agreement > http://badinfluences.org.uk/take-part/participation-agreement/) and the > commentary is a mixture of pre-written character interaction and improvised > interaction between reader-participants and characters. > > This project could be of interest to anybody teaching or researching > digital > literatures, interactive storytelling, narrative time, disaster fiction or > creative writing. Please feel free to contact me on > purplepooka(a)badinfluences.org.uk for more information, or explore the site > and the story at http://badinfluences.org.uk. Questions and feedback are > very welcome, and I'd love to hear about any use you make of the project in > your own research or teaching. > > Many thanks, > Emma Segar (Edge Hill University) > purplepooka(a)badinfluences.org.uk > > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 7 > Date: Wed, 15 May 2013 19:27:04 +0300 > From: Sky Croeser <scroeser(a)gmail.com> > To: Air-L <air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org> > Subject: Re: [Air-L] Resource: Data analytics support from students > Message-ID: > <CAO+saMwuFoD9oXNZNq+5a7SsBSdpDdXeU= > DBGYt-5X2HcjFchw(a)mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > I am a little skeptical about this. While I think it has the potential to > be very useful, outsourcing data analysis (a key aspect of research, > presumably), seems potentially problematic both in terms of the quality of > research and in terms of the academic labour market (why hire a skilled > research assistant when you can get students to do it for free)? > > I'm curious - are these issues being addressed within the project at all? > > > On 15 May 2013 03:29, Amit Jain <amit(a)coursolve.org> wrote: > > > *An education researcher at Oxford is organizing an opportunity for > > researchers and nonprofits to receive free data analytics support from > > students in a massively open online course. Anyone can join the course > and > > post real-world projects for tens of thousands of students to attempt to > > solve. Please read below and forward widely!* > > > > // > > > > *Calling all professors, researchers, and nonprofits* -- harness student > > learning to get free data analyses from the University of Washington's > > Introduction > > to Data Science <http://coursolve.org/courses/datascience/> course! Sign > > up > > now to recruit from tens of thousands of students to take on your > > organization's projects in data visualization, analysis, or predictive > > modeling. You may not need an internal store of data to benefit -- your > > organization can learn volumes through publicly available datasets. > > > > For details and project ideas, please visit: > > http://coursolve.org/courses/datascience/ > > > > Questions? Contact amit(a)coursolve.org. > > > > -- > > Amit Jain > > Coursolve (http://coursolve.org) > > Twitter: @coursolve <http://twitter.com/coursolve> | Facebook: > > Coursolve<http://www.facebook.com/coursolve> > > amit(a)coursolve.org | +1 617-752-2673 > > _______________________________________________ > > 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: 8 > Date: Wed, 15 May 2013 19:33:14 +0100 > From: Tim.Hutchings <Tim.Hutchings(a)open.ac.uk> > To: "air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org" <air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org> > Subject: [Air-L] Registration Open: Digital Media and Sacred Text, > June 17 (Open University, London) > Message-ID: > <9317489861278C419F4BB340B120C8DF0445273EBE(a)SALCEYCMS1.open.ac.uk> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > DIGITAL MEDIA AND SACRED TEXT > > Monday 17 June 2013, Open University > Camden Town, London, UK > 9am - 6pm > > This one-day Open University conference will bring together academics > interested in the study of digital sacred texts and religious e-reading, > including sociologists, anthropologists, media scholars, computer > scientists, historians and digital humanists. We also welcome religious > practitioners and publishers engaged in creating digital sacred texts. > > We are delighted to announce that the keynote speaker will be Professor > Heidi Campbell (Texas A&M University). > > Attendance at this event will cost ?20. Thanks to generous funding from > the Arts and Humanities Research Council, 30 free places are available for > the first delegates to register. > > A full programme and online registration page can be accessed here: > http://www.mediatingreligion.org/events/digital-media-and-sacred-text > > - Tim Hutchings, Centre for Research on Socio-Cultural Change, Open > University > > -- > The Open University is incorporated by Royal Charter (RC 000391), an > exempt charity in England & Wales and a charity registered in Scotland (SC > 038302). > > > > ------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > 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 106, Issue 16 > ************************************** >

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Resource: Data analytics support from students
by Amit Jain 15 May '13

15 May '13

*An education researcher at Oxford is organizing an opportunity for researchers and nonprofits to receive free data analytics support from students in a massively open online course. Anyone can join the course and post real-world projects for tens of thousands of students to attempt to solve. Please read below and forward widely!* // *Calling all professors, researchers, and nonprofits* -- harness student learning to get free data analyses from the University of Washington's Introduction to Data Science <http://coursolve.org/courses/datascience/> course! Sign up now to recruit from tens of thousands of students to take on your organization's projects in data visualization, analysis, or predictive modeling. You may not need an internal store of data to benefit -- your organization can learn volumes through publicly available datasets. For details and project ideas, please visit: http://coursolve.org/courses/datascience/ Questions? Contact amit(a)coursolve.org. -- Amit Jain Coursolve (http://coursolve.org) Twitter: @coursolve <http://twitter.com/coursolve> | Facebook: Coursolve<http://www.facebook.com/coursolve> amit(a)coursolve.org | +1 617-752-2673

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Registration Open: Digital Media and Sacred Text, June 17 (Open University, London)
by Tim.Hutchings 15 May '13

15 May '13

DIGITAL MEDIA AND SACRED TEXT Monday 17 June 2013, Open University Camden Town, London, UK 9am - 6pm This one-day Open University conference will bring together academics interested in the study of digital sacred texts and religious e-reading, including sociologists, anthropologists, media scholars, computer scientists, historians and digital humanists. We also welcome religious practitioners and publishers engaged in creating digital sacred texts. We are delighted to announce that the keynote speaker will be Professor Heidi Campbell (Texas A&M University). Attendance at this event will cost £20. Thanks to generous funding from the Arts and Humanities Research Council, 30 free places are available for the first delegates to register. A full programme and online registration page can be accessed here: http://www.mediatingreligion.org/events/digital-media-and-sacred-text - Tim Hutchings, Centre for Research on Socio-Cultural Change, Open University -- The Open University is incorporated by Royal Charter (RC 000391), an exempt charity in England & Wales and a charity registered in Scotland (SC 038302).

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Bad Influences: Invitation to read and participate in a blog fiction PhD project
by Emma Pooka 15 May '13

15 May '13

I want to announce my PhD project on this list, as I hope that it will be relevant to some researchers here. Please do pass on the details to any colleagues or students who you think would be interested in reading or participating. Bad Influences (http://badinfluences.org.uk) is a multi-character, real-time, interactive blog fiction. It began in January and will continue until November. The purpose of the project is to explore the poetics of blog fiction, especially those relating to the narrative time effects of real-time serialisation, a feature of epistolary fiction using a blog or social network as its platform. It is also an interactive creative writing project that I hope will be enjoyable to read and to participate in whether you have an academic interest in digital literatures and narratology or not! Bad Influences is set in 2026 and tells the story of a global pandemic flu virus through the blogs of four characters, based in London, New Jersey, Beijing and Canberra. The blogs are pre-written and are being posted in real-time (i.e., each post or comment goes up precisely 13 years before the event it relates). The comments sections of the blogs are open for reader participation (upon filling in a participation agreement http://badinfluences.org.uk/take-part/participation-agreement/) and the commentary is a mixture of pre-written character interaction and improvised interaction between reader-participants and characters. This project could be of interest to anybody teaching or researching digital literatures, interactive storytelling, narrative time, disaster fiction or creative writing. Please feel free to contact me on purplepooka(a)badinfluences.org.uk for more information, or explore the site and the story at http://badinfluences.org.uk. Questions and feedback are very welcome, and I'd love to hear about any use you make of the project in your own research or teaching. Many thanks, Emma Segar (Edge Hill University) purplepooka(a)badinfluences.org.uk

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Flossie 2013 CfP
by Paula Graham 15 May '13

15 May '13

-------------------------------------------------------------------------- CfP: FLOSSIE 2013, 8/9 November, QMUL, London, UK -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Flossie 2013 is a two-day event for women who are interested in any aspect of open technology, open knowledge, digital arts, and social innovation. Whether you code, tinker, use FLOSS in your projects, or want to explore open alternatives, all women are welcome - from expert to novice, or anywhere in between. Flossie 2013 is a chance to showcase your project, share skills, or talk about something which really interests you. We're also scheduling plenty of time to network, share and build on ideas, and to meet new friends and old. Call for proposals: We’re inviting proposals for all aspects of the day. 1. Talk about your current project or a project you’d like to set up 2. Skills sharing workshops on any aspect of Free/Libre Open Source software, hardware, data – anything open! 3. Talk about social innovation and diversifying technology design 4. Send us your idea for an activity – as long as it's open! Even if you don’t feel you have the expertise yourself, and just have an idea, let us know. Deadline: 19 July 2013 Submit your proposal here: http://www.flossie.org/openconf/ If you have any questions, please email conf(a)flossie.org or find more information on our website at www.flossie.org --

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