June 2013 - Air-L - lists.aoir.org

Re: [Air-L] best website for academic roles?
by Tracey M Benson 05 Jun '13

05 Jun '13

Thanks Jasmine for asking me to clarify, Ideally I am wondering about jobs, though if there are good websites about visiting fellowships that would be useful too. Cheers Tracey On Wed, Jun 5, 2013 at 11:13 AM, McNealy, Jasmine E <jemcnealy(a)uky.edu>wrote: > Tracey, > > What do you mean by "academic roles?" Do you mean academic jobs or > positions? > > Jasmine McNealy > ________________________________________ > From: air-l-bounces(a)listserv.aoir.org [air-l-bounces(a)listserv.aoir.org] > on behalf of Tracey M Benson [bytetime(a)gmail.com] > Sent: Tuesday, June 04, 2013 9:11 PM > To: air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org > Subject: [Air-L] best website for academic roles? > > hi all, > > I am wondering if anyone knows of good websites for finding academic roles? > > Thanks in advance > > Tracey > > Dr Tracey M Benson (aka bytetime) > > Adjunct Postdoctoral Fellow || The Australian National University || School > of Music > Online Strategy and Analysis || www.livinggreener.gov.au > 2013 Jawun secondee || Yorta Yorta Nation Aboriginal Corporation > 2013 Artist-in-Residence || SCANZ2013 > > You can find *bytetime *on twitter, delicious, scribd, flickr, linkedin, > identica, slideshare and facebook. Skype me at *mediakult* > * > * > *Forthcoming: Finding Balance: Mura Gadi, Belconnen Art Centre, August > 2013. You can support the project by making a donation to > http://pozible.com/muragadi > * > * > * > *ABN: *28309779434 > > *websites:* > www.byte-time.net > *blogs:* > geokult.com/ <http://geokult.wordpress.com/> > dorkbotcbr.wordpress.com/ > mediakult.wordpress.com/ > *facebook pages:* > https://www.facebook.com/RemoteConnections > https://www.facebook.com/mediakult * * > _______________________________________________ > 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/ >

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Re: [Air-L] Welcoming our New Executive Committee
by Sean Rintel 05 Jun '13

05 Jun '13

Congratulations to the new executive, especially former UAlbany colleague Prof JSG! Until anon, Sean -- Dr Sean Rintel Lecturer in Strategic Communication | Honours Program Coordinator School of Journalism and Communication The University of Queensland Brisbane QLD Australia 4072 +61-7-3346-8297 | s.rintel(a)uq.edu.au<mailto:s.rintel@uq.edu.au> | @seanrintel | http://seanrintel.com | http://efa.org.au CRICOS Provider: 00025B | Don't even THINK about printing this email!

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Re: [Air-L] Understanding Social Media
by Marj Kibby 04 Jun '13

04 Jun '13

Hi Kayla, Currently developing a similar course, I found "Social Media" too broad and meaningless in developing course topics. So I've ended up with things like: Twitter in politics Facebook in organisations Wikis and collaborative creation Social tagging and music classification Cheers, Marj Associate Professor Marjorie Kibby, B.Ed, M.A, Ph.D, FHERDSA Director, Student Experience FEDUA School of Humanities and Social Science The University of Newcastle Callaghan NSW 2308 Australia Marj.Kibby(a)newcastle.edu.au +61 2 49216604 >>> "Kayla D. Hales" <haleskay(a)msu.edu> 05/06/13 7:59 AM >>> Hello All, I am designing a new Masters level course titled "Understanding Social Media." Information from the course description is below. If any of you have taken or taught similar courses or have ideas about the most relevant content to include in the course, I would greatly appreciate you sharing those thoughts/that content; this includes any journal articles or syllabi you have personally written/created. Thank you in advance. Course objectives: To develop an understanding of social media and their implications. Outline of major topics: 1. Social media in politics 2. Social media applications 3. Social media technologies 4. Social media uses 5. Social media effects 6. Social media in organizations 7. Social media research 8. Trends in social media industries 9. Mobile and location-based social media 10. Social media for interpersonal communication -- Best Regards, Kayla D. Hales, Ph.D. Email: <mailto:HalesKay@msu.edu> HalesKay(a)msu.edu Assistant Professor Michigan State University College of Communication Arts & Sciences _______________________________________________ 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/

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Welcoming our New Executive Committee
by Baker, Andrea 04 Jun '13

04 Jun '13

Hi, I'm joining the others in welcoming the newly elected AoIR Executive group! Congrats to our new VP Jenny, and to the other officers, and the open seat reps, and the grad student. Thank you Jeffrey Keefer for acknowledging those of us who served on the outgoing Exec Committee, much appreciated. To the new group and to all of us, we have our work cut out for us, it seems! cheers, andee

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Welcoming our New Executive Committee
by Alexander Halavais 04 Jun '13

04 Jun '13

Voting has now concluded for our next AoIR Executive Committee. I want to thank all the candidates for being willing to invest their time in the Association--while it's all of us who make it work, it takes a special level of commitment to being willing to serve as a member of the Exec. Also, I want to thank Elizabeth Buchanan and Charles Ess, both former members of the Exec who were kind enough to serve as external "scrutineers." For the 2013-2015 term: Vice Preseident: Jennifer Stromer-Galley Treasurer: Michael Zimmer Secretary: Andrew Herman Open Seat: Sun Sun Lim Open Seat: Annette Markham Open Seat: Kelly Quinn Graduate Student: Anthony Hoffmann In addition, Lori Kendall becomes our President, and I remain on the Exec as the Past President. Congratulations to all; we look forward to what you have in store for us! Best, Alex

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CFP: SIGCIS Workshop, Oct 13, 2013
by Andrew Russell 04 Jun '13

04 Jun '13

Please distribute as appropriate - thanks! Andy ---------------------------------------- Old Ideas: Recomputing the History of Information Technology SIGCIS Workshop, October 13, 2013, Portland, Maine Call Deadline: June 30, 2013. Full details www.sigcis.org/workshop13. The Society for the History of Technology's Special Interest Group for Computers, Information and Society (SIGCIS – http://www.sigcis.org) welcomes submissions for a one-day scholarly workshop to be held on Sunday, October 13, 2013 in Portland, Maine. As in previous years, SIGCIS's annual workshop will occur immediately after the end of the regular SHOT annual meeting program, the details of which are available from http://www.historyoftechnology.org/annual_meeting.html. Information technologists have little time for old thinking, or for anything else old. Entrepreneurs seek the new new thing, computer scientists tackle the grand challenges of future computing, and management consultants chase the next fad. Scholars in the humanities, who are professionally skeptical about the nostrums of neoliberalism, the myth of progress, and the allure of the technological fix, can nevertheless exhibit a similar weakness for the shiny allure of new technologies. In short, information technology is rarely understood as something rooted in history. Its cultural associations are with the future, not the past. For the SIGCIS 2013 Workshop, we invite scholars to turn their attention to something different: old ideas and their relationship to information and computer technology. Perhaps to their overlooked charm, their enduring power, and their continuities with the putatively new. Such papers might • Reclaim from what was famously termed the ”enormous condescension of posterity” the ideas about information and information technology held by specific historical actors, explaining what they really thought they were doing and how the understood the world around them. • Demonstrate hidden historical continuities, by showing that technologies, ideas, or practices generally assumed to be of recent origin have a close relationship with those formerly known by different names. • Advocate explicitly or by example the relevance of less fashionable historical approaches, such as quantitative analysis, old-school Marxism, or micro-level studies of technical practice to understanding the history of information technology. • Explore connections between historical research on computing, and the burgeoning recent literature on software studies, game studies, platform studies, etc. produced by scholars in other areas of the humanities. • Place topics within the history of information technology into broader arcs of birth, aging, and death – whether of individuals, institutions, or social practices. • Illuminate the cultural work done to construct some things as old and others as new, and explain who is carrying out this work and why. If none of the above fit your work, even with some creative twisting, then despair not: we also accept new ideas! SIGCIS has a tradition of welcoming all contributions related to the history of computing and information, whether or not there is an explicit connection with the annual theme. Our membership is international and interdisciplinary, and our members examine the history of information technologies and their place within society from a variety of scholarly perspectives including the history of technology, business history, labor history, social history, the history of science, science studies, communications, gender and sexuality studies, computing, disability studies, and museum studies. Proposals for entire sessions and individual presentations are both welcome. We hope to run special sessions featuring dissertations in progress and other works in progress. The workshop is a great opportunity to get helpful feedback on your projects in a relaxed and supportive environment. All proposals will be subject to a peer review process based on abstracts. SIGCIS can usually make contributions towards the travel costs of graduate student presenters in need of assistance. Full details about the workshop, including submission formats and links for online submission, are at www.sigcis.org/workshop13. Details on the final program, registration, and other practical matters will be posted at the same address as they become available. Questions about the 2013 SIGCIS workshop should be addressed to Thomas Haigh (School of Information Studies, University of Wisconsin--Milwaukee), who is serving as chair of the workshop program committee. Email: thaigh(a)computer.org.

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Help design an online bill of rights in a webinar tomorrow
by Sarah Ann Oates 04 Jun '13

04 Jun '13

Come design a digital bill of rights at my webinar tomorrow 5 June #OnLifeEU<https://twitter.com/search?q=%23OnLifeEU> 11 am EST at http://ec.europa.eu/digital-agenda/futurium/en/content/onlife-webinar-sarah… This is part of the OnLife Initiative, which brought together scholars to discuss academic work that links to policy needs for the digital future. What we came up with is the OnLife Manifesto: Being Human in a Hyperconnected Era. You can download it here: https://ec.europa.eu/digital-agenda/en/onlife-manifesto Now what we want to do is to try to engage a lot of people with these ideas and see if we can translate ideas (such as an online bill of rights!) into reality. The project is European; the ideas are global. You can logon and create your own policy futures and ideas. So this is a new idea for democracy by design -- input/ideas are encouraged (not to say critical). Sarah Sarah Oates Professor and Senior Scholar Philip Merrill College of Journalism 2100L John S. and James L. Knight Hall University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742-7111 phone: +1 301 405 4510 Email: soates(a)umd.edu

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LINK GEZIPARK
by ypd＠gmx.net 04 Jun '13

04 Jun '13

http://gezipark.nadir.org/index_tur.html http://gezipark.nadir.org/index_eng.html THIS MUST FUNCTION !

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Irfan Erdogan: A Report on the Situation in Turkey
by Pelin Göçmen 04 Jun '13

04 Jun '13

Dear colleagues, Here is a report from our colleague Irfan Erdogan about the situation in Turkey. All the best, Pelin A Report on the Situation in Turkey Irfan Erdogan, erdogan.irfan(a)gmail.com, http://irfanerdogan.com/ I am writing this to inform you that people in over 65 cities of 81 in Turkey are demonstrating against the reactionary and oppressive regime of Tayyip Erdogan and his party. We have demonstrations even in the most reactionary cities in Turkey. People in every neighborhood in the cities are on the street. Police throw gas bombs at demonstrators, beat and arrest people. It is not like in the late 1960s, because people did not care about us much then. We students were demonstrating for independence and socialism then. Now everybody is on the street. Nobody cheered when we were demonstrating in the late 60s in Turkey. Now people are cheering and supporting the demonstrators. Today we have more people on the street in my neighborhood in Ankara than yesterday. Police are shooting gas bombs inside the houses because people are providing shelter for demonstrators who are escaping from gas and police beatings. Youngsters and people from every walk of life are on the street and want the Erdogan government to resign. Erdogan uses the classic rhetoric about demonstrators and he threatens them by saying that he can send one million supporters to the street (he means, to smash the demonstrations). He says: "I keep 50 percent of the population at home" (he means that he can use 50 percent of people who support him against the other people). His mindset and approach reminds me of Jay Gould who said once that he is not worried about demonstrations and labor strikes, because he can hire one-half of the working class to kill the other half. For a lot of people, Erdogan is a reactionary dictator. In Turkey people are scared to say something against Erdogan. Television did not provide any news about the demonstrations except the television stations of the major opposition party and Turkish Labor party television, because mainstream media either support the administration or are scared of Erdogan's rage/wrath. People in Istanbul walked in front of the major television stations and announced that if they do not feature them in the news they will occupy the TV station. Then, TV stations started reporting, but in a highly distorted manner. After this incident, very few media personnel resigned from their posts in the TV channel. Erdogan scolded the Reuters journalist who dared to ask him a question that he did not like. The Internet is used for the most effective channel of communication and organization of the protests by everybody. Erdogan expressed his utmost anger against Twitter and social media. Everybody uses their mobile phone for communication and recording the events and putting/disseminating them on the Internet. Mainstream media started lying as usual. Two main labor unions in Turkey run by those who ask some meaningless concessions from the government try to stop workers to demonstrate, but workers are on the street, too. Demonstrations are rapidly spreading all over the country. Soon, I know, religious reactionaries (not all religious people are reactionary) will attack demonstrators. There is a high probability that we will witness a domestic/civil war in Turkey. I was at the center of the demonstrations in Ankara yesterday and the day before. Demonstrators do not do anything wrong, but police continuously shoot pressured water, gas and noise bombs at them and attack demonstrators. Police behave like they are fighting an enemy. They curse at and threaten people by e.g. saying: "get lost otherwise we arrest you and you know what we do when we arrest you." We know there are some progressive and conscientious people in the police force, but they are also under the threat of the empire of fear. But we will see a differing police behavior as the time goes by in the process. Now, there is an indiscriminate uss of gas bombs (CS gas). Your eyes get severely burned and you cannot breathe, you start coughing, and you feel dizzy if you are close to the fume. Also when it hits you or blows up beside you, you get shocked (I saw it). So far we have four killings and many wounded. As usual, they claim that demonstrators/provocateurs destroy and vandalize everything around. Yes we see a lot of destruction; in fact, it is started and done by plain-cloth police. How do I know: (1) this is a historical fact. (2) I know from the late 60s, because we could recognize the police then, but it is difficult to recognize them now. (3) How come there is no vandalism, destruction and terror where there is no police around? Here are few examples: I attend demonstrations at the center of the city where police provokes, attacks and where plain cloth police destroys everything aroun,d provoking some young people to do the same. My daughter and my wife and neighbors attend huge demonstrations in our neighborhood where there is no police presence yet: You can see no violence, no destruction and no vandalism in these demonstrations. -- Dr. Pelin ÖZTÜRK GÖÇMEN (PhD in Graphic Design Education) Gazi University, Turkey http://websitem.gazi.edu.tr/pgocmen * * *Çevreyi korumak için, gerekmedikçe bu e-postayı yazdırmayın.* Please consider the environment before printing this email.

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#occupygezi, #direnankara, #direngziparkı press release
by F. Mutlu Binark 04 Jun '13

04 Jun '13

Dear All In Ankara the police opression and teargasing to the civilians still are continuing...Bsides sound bombs have been used in Ankara. I would like to share the press release of Alternative Informatics Assocation for more info: http://www.alternatifbilisim.org/wiki/Ana_Sayfa ALTERNATIVE INFORMATICS ASSOCIATION’S PRESS RELEASE On May 31 2013, state power /Turkish police has used disproportionate force against citizens protesting the the government’s decision to build a shopping centre at the expense of one of Istanbul’s most famous park Gezi Park. Freedom of assembly and the right to express an opinion is a component of the constitutional and fundamental human rights and freedoms. Turkish citizens have used this right peacefully. But İstanbul police use disproportionate force. This situation means the violation of the fundamental rights written at the Constitution. Also this situation is the violation of UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the European Convention on Human Rights and the European Charter of Fundamental Rights. We see that we are not living in a democratic society, we are living in a country that government uses tear gas against its citizens when they want to use their democratic rights. We condemn this violence. We announce to the public that at any kind of citizen response using tear gas is the signifier of the severity of a coercive and oppressive government. -- Prof.Dr. Mutlu Binark Baskent Universitesi Iletisim Fakultesi Radyo-Tv. ve Sinema Blm. Bagl�ca Kampusu Eskisehir Yolu 20.km. 06530 Ankara Tel: (312) 246 6652-53 Fax: (312) 246 66 57 www.yenimedya.wordpress.com www.dijitaloyun.wordpress.com alternatifbilisim.tv -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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