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Fwd: [csaa-forum] Call for Abstracts: The End of the Open Internet: Surveillance/Copyright/Privacy
by Natalya Godbold 24 Aug '13

24 Aug '13

Looks like it could interest the Air-listers Natalya ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Holly Randell-Moon <holly.randell-moon(a)hotmail.com> Date: Sat, Aug 24, 2013 at 12:11 PM Subject: [csaa-forum] Call for Abstracts: The End of the Open Internet: Surveillance/Copyright/Privacy To: "csaa-forum(a)lists.cdu.edu.au" <csaa-forum(a)lists.cdu.edu.au> *Call for Abstracts: The End of the Open Internet: Surveillance/Copyright/Privacy* Across the Internet, immense changes are affecting ordinary users with urgent implications both worldwide and locally. New Zealand has been the test case for changing practices surrounding copyright, surveillance, sovereignty and privacy. Recent issues include the so-called ‘PRISM’ program of surveillance, Megaupload, digital free trade agreements, and the three-strikes law, along with broader concerns about governance and control around new mobile and digital technologies. In every instance, such changes threaten to reshape online participation and alter the balance of power between citizen and state, and between open access to information and growing commercial intrusion into private lives. Yet while each of these issues has clear global parallels, these concerns have attracted only limited attention within the New Zealand mediasphere. The conference is designed to create an engaged, cross-disciplinary and critical dialogue regarding the intensification of control and policing of internet usage, including both commercial activity and democratic participation in New Zealand. This includes international trade relations, the extension of global corporate power, and the role of digital democracy and questions of state power. We invite submissions for presentations, papers, and preconstituted panels focusing on both regional and international implications of surveillance, copyright, and privacy. All abstracts will be peer-reviewed and published, and there will be other publishing opportunities for selected papers following the conference. While we invite a wide range of academic papers we also welcome proposals from activists, artists, practitioners and stakeholders who represent a spectrum of political perspectives. Possible topics include, but are not limited to: · internet surveillance; · the mobilization of the language of terrorism and the policing of the internet; · the Te Urewara raids; · the three strikes law and the involvement of ISPs in policing users; · the Kim Dotcom affair; · the relationship between new technologies and shifting practices of surveillance; · Digital divides and the left behind; · The commodification of users; · The attention economy; · ICT’s and the grounding of the cloud; · Subaltern subversion and dark webs; · The new enclosures and the walled garden of web use; · Wikileaks; · Information bombs and disasters; · Or any other issue tied to the broad conference themes. A range of theoretical perspectives, articulations on the issues, and praxis/case studies are encouraged. Special attention will be given to submissions that challenge or critique existing thinking or practice on these issues. For more information about the conference and to submit a abstract, please visit our website: https://blogs.otago.ac.nz/scpconf/ We would appreciate if you circulate this call for papers around your networks. We look forward to your submissions. Many thanks the organisers Surveillance, Copyright, Privacy conference https://blogs.otago.ac.nz/scpconf/ Dr. Holly Randell-Moon Department of Media, Film and Communication 6th Floor Richardson Building Central Campus University of Otago Dunedin 9016 New Zealand Editor *Critical Race and Whiteness Studies <http://www.acrawsa.org.au/ejournal/>* Area Chair, Religion Popular Culture Association of Australia and New Zealand, PopCAANZ<http://popcaanz.com> *Television Aesthetics and Style<http://www.bloomsbury.com/us/television-aesthetics-and-style-9781623562496/> * ------ "Under Thatcher, who ruled us with an iron rod, great art was made. Amazing designers and musicians. Acid house was born. Very colourful and progressive. 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gnip now offering geolocation of twitter profiles and text
by kalev leetaru 24 Aug '13

24 Aug '13

Hi everyone, for those of you trying to map tweets in your work, I just saw that GNIP is now offering geographic enrichment of their Twitter stream that geocodes both the Location information in user profiles AND the tweet text itself (it separates the two) and makes this available as lat/long data for mapping/filtering/etc alongside the traditional sensor-based and software-set Exact Location and Place geographic fields. http://blog.gnip.com/twitter-geo-data-enrichment/ While GNIP is using their own engine for this, you can see an overview of what the profile and tweet text geography of Twitter looks like in my paper from earlier this year: http://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/4366/3654 Thought I would share this with the list since using GNIP's stream you can now essentially leave the geographic coding to them and just get an additional set of metadata for each tweet capturing what geographic information it contains, making it trivial to map tweets both by where they are coming from and where they are talking about... Kalev Leetaru Yahoo! Fellow in Residence Institute for the Study of Diplomacy Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service Georgetown University

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Re: [Air-L] gnip now offering geolocation of twitter profiles and text
by kalev leetaru 23 Aug '13

23 Aug '13

Hi David, if you're interested more in geography, you might find of interest my paper on our larger fulltext geocoding infrastructure, which will be released open source through the NSF CyberGIS initiative later this year: http://www.dlib.org/dlib/september12/leetaru/09leetaru.html ~Kalev On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 7:07 PM, David Pask-Hughes < adpaskhughes(a)hotmail.co.uk> wrote: > Just a note, although I feel the need to heavily mitigate this. > > It is by no means the focus of your paper, of course, but you refer to > "Cornwall" as a "city" in the UK. It most certainly is not a city, and > there is a long history of debate surrounding its status in relation to > England and the UK (some argue for some form of devolution). For some, > calling Cornwall a UK city would be like calling Wales or Scotland a UK > city. > > Of course, I'm not suggesting this is an ideologically-motivated mistake > and in no way devalues your paper, but I thought I ought to bring attention > to this particular error! > > Sent from my Windows Phone > ------------------------------ > From: kalev leetaru <kalev.leetaru5(a)gmail.com> > Sent: 23/08/2013 21:59 > To: air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org > Subject: [Air-L] gnip now offering geolocation of twitter profiles and > text > > Hi everyone, for those of you trying to map tweets in your work, I just > saw > that GNIP is now offering geographic enrichment of their Twitter stream > that geocodes both the Location information in user profiles AND the tweet > text itself (it separates the two) and makes this available as lat/long > data for mapping/filtering/etc alongside the traditional sensor-based and > software-set Exact Location and Place geographic fields. > > http://blog.gnip.com/twitter-geo-data-enrichment/ > > While GNIP is using their own engine for this, you can see an overview of > what the profile and tweet text geography of Twitter looks like in my paper > from earlier this year: > > http://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/4366/3654 > > Thought I would share this with the list since using GNIP's stream you can > now essentially leave the geographic coding to them and just get an > additional set of metadata for each tweet capturing what geographic > information it contains, making it trivial to map tweets both by where they > are coming from and where they are talking about... > > > Kalev Leetaru > Yahoo! Fellow in Residence > Institute for the Study of Diplomacy > Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service > Georgetown University > _______________________________________________ > 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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Future of Music Coalition quizzes as teaching tools
by MMadden＠PewInternet.org 23 Aug '13

23 Aug '13

Dear Wonderful People of AoIR, I'm forwarding the info below on behalf of a contact at the Future of Music Coalition... Thought it might be of interest to those of you who are teaching classes this semester about music, tech + copyright. Happy weekend to all, -MM +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ The nonprofit Future of Music Coalition is currently hosting a set of four online Music and Money quizzes<http://futureofmusic.org/music-and-money-quizzes> that use real-world music business scenarios to test musicians' knowledge of the copyright laws and licensing arrangements that shape the current music landscape. Educators who teach music industry, music performance, copyright law, entertainment law or media policy are invited to use these quizzes as a teaching tool. Educators could use the quizzes to gather baseline information from incoming students, or use a particular question as an introduction/hook to a lecture, or specific questions could be packaged together to address a particular topic. FMC would be happy to work with educators to install a simple 5-digit code to group findings by school/class, or re-organize questions to meet your needs. Contact Kristin Thomson kristin(a)futureofmusic.org<mailto:kristin@futureofmusic.org> Quizzes are online here: http://futureofmusic.org/music-and-money-quizzes This blog post reports the quiz responses after 30 days in the field: http://www.futureofmusic.org/blog/2013/07/22/music-copyright-curve +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Mary Madden Senior Researcher Pew Research Center's Internet and American Life Project Web: www.pewinternet.org Email: mmadden(a)pewinternet.org Phone: 202-419-4515 Twitter: mary_madden

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Any AoIR members in Shanghai who'd like to meet up?
by Terri Senft 23 Aug '13

23 Aug '13

Hi Pals, I am currently in Shanghai looking at girls and public/street media use until next Tuesday, August 27th. In addition to making you all jealous (!!), I am writing to see if there are any faculty or students reading the AoIR list who are currently in Shanghai, and if so, whether you'd like to get together for tea or whatnot. Best way to contact me is at terri.senft(a)nyu.edu Yours in humidity, Terri -- <http://goog_689013053> <http://goog_689013053> Dr. Theresa M. Senft Global Liberal Studies Program School of Arts & Sciences New York University 726 Broadway NY NY 10003 home: *www.terrisenft.net <http://goog_689013053>** * facebook: www.facebook.com/theresa.senft twitter: @terrisenft

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Archiving Google+ and Facebook pages?
by Katie Derthick 22 Aug '13

22 Aug '13

Hi all, I'm hoping someone can point me to a good tool for archiving quickly-changing pages like Google+ and Facebook group pages. Happy to assemble a list for the wiki. Thanks! Katie

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Re: [Air-L] [ciresearchers] Facebook take on Digital Inequalities seems way too deterministic... surprised?
by David Nemer 22 Aug '13

22 Aug '13

Hi Heather, since I'm still collecting ethnographic data, I haven't published anything on Facebook and the marginalized specifically. I have submitted 2 papers to different conferences that touch a little bit on that... one of the papers I will present at IR14.0. Will you be there? Alejandro Tortolini, maybe the UN is considering things as a human rights in a faster manner, because now they might have broadband internet... as Mr. Z said... fast internet makes everyone's life better. :-) On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 11:08 PM, Heather Gray <h.gray(a)griffith.edu.au>wrote: > I hear you and concur! My researching is higher education in Myanmar, but > am yet to look at Facebook use for education there, although I have been > analysing it in the courses I teach in Australia, with some interesting > insights, but again not looking outside the education field. David, have > you published anything on this yet? > > Heather > > > On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 2:51 AM, David Nemer <dnemer(a)indiana.edu> wrote: > >> Dear all, >> >> Last night Mr. Z released a report called "Is Connectivity A Human >> Right?" with an attempt to come up with a plan to provide internet access >> to all of us. >> >> The title of the report gave me some hope on the content of his plan, but >> after reading it, I was, again, frustrated but not surprised. He is mostly >> concerned in spending money to improve the internet infrastructure and >> defray the costs with data plans, arguing that the internet is the >> "foundation of the global knowledge economy." >> >> I do see the value in investing money on internet infrastructure, since >> it is a big factor that keeps the digital inequalities so evident, but as >> we all know, it is just another factor... what about digital literacy and >> situated education? >> >> As I'm doing fieldwork in the slums (favelas) of Brazil, I finally see >> how Facebook became THE THING over here... and everywhere. People don't >> care about the "internet", web, emails... they only want to get on >> Facebook. It became very interesting when I started analyzing their >> behavior on the social networking site. It is mostly chatting, sharing and >> liking. The chat is in a horizontal way (they are chatting with people who >> belong to the same social class / community), but the stuff they share and >> like are completely vertical, the stuff come in English and/or from higher >> (and more educated) social classes and/or ads and pages suggested by >> Facebook. I have several informants who are illiterate and spend all their >> afternoons in the Telecentros and LAN Houses sharing and liking these >> things that they don't really understand. >> >> (Naive mode on) I honestly still don't know why Facebook wants to have >> everyone on the Intenet (mode off). My hunch is that they could (want to) >> turn those in social and economic disadvantages into mechanical turks and >> content consumers... >> >> Facebook does collaborate with local cellphone carriers... in Brazil Oi >> and Claro customers don't pay to get on the SNS on their mobile phones. So >> why don't Facebook start collaborating with local programs to develop >> digital literacy and critical thinking among the people that "can't buy >> data plans"? >> >> Anyways, I don't want to sound repetitive because people in AoIR and >> Community Informatics lists are well aware of such deterministic approaches >> and how they are not effective... but I'd like to invite everyone to think >> of ways to bring different views into places that can make a difference >> like Facebook >> >> Here's the link of the report: >> https://www.facebook.com/isconnectivityahumanright/isconnectivityahumanrigh… >> >> -- >> *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 >> > > > > -- > ......................................................* > Dr Heather Gray > Convenor & Lecturer > School of I <http://www.griffith.edu.au/gbs>nformation and Communication > Technology (ICT) > Technology (N44) Room 1.28 > Nathan campus, Griffith University, > 170 Kessels Road, Nathan QLD 4111, Australia > Phone: Nathan +61 7 3735 3702 > Mobile: +61 (0) 423 919 217 > Twitter: @MISeTeacher > Email: H.Gray(a)griffith.edu.au > > Please consider our environment before printing this email > > CRICOS Provider 00233E > > PRIVATE AND CONFIDENTIAL. 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Facebook take on Digital Inequalities seems way too deterministic... surprised?
by David Nemer 21 Aug '13

21 Aug '13

Dear all, Last night Mr. Z released a report called "Is Connectivity A Human Right?" with an attempt to come up with a plan to provide internet access to all of us. The title of the report gave me some hope on the content of his plan, but after reading it, I was, again, frustrated but not surprised. He is mostly concerned in spending money to improve the internet infrastructure and defray the costs with data plans, arguing that the internet is the "foundation of the global knowledge economy." I do see the value in investing money on internet infrastructure, since it is a big factor that keeps the digital inequalities so evident, but as we all know, it is just another factor... what about digital literacy and situated education? As I'm doing fieldwork in the slums (favelas) of Brazil, I finally see how Facebook became THE THING over here... and everywhere. People don't care about the "internet", web, emails... they only want to get on Facebook. It became very interesting when I started analyzing their behavior on the social networking site. It is mostly chatting, sharing and liking. The chat is in a horizontal way (they are chatting with people who belong to the same social class / community), but the stuff they share and like are completely vertical, the stuff come in English and/or from higher (and more educated) social classes and/or ads and pages suggested by Facebook. I have several informants who are illiterate and spend all their afternoons in the Telecentros and LAN Houses sharing and liking these things that they don't really understand. (Naive mode on) I honestly still don't know why Facebook wants to have everyone on the Intenet (mode off). My hunch is that they could (want to) turn those in social and economic disadvantages into mechanical turks and content consumers... Facebook does collaborate with local cellphone carriers... in Brazil Oi and Claro customers don't pay to get on the SNS on their mobile phones. So why don't Facebook start collaborating with local programs to develop digital literacy and critical thinking among the people that "can't buy data plans"? Anyways, I don't want to sound repetitive because people in AoIR and Community Informatics lists are well aware of such deterministic approaches and how they are not effective... but I'd like to invite everyone to think of ways to bring different views into places that can make a difference like Facebook Here's the link of the report: https://www.facebook.com/isconnectivityahumanright/isconnectivityahumanrigh… -- *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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UCLA Post-Doctoral Research Position
by petertdarch＠ucla.edu 21 Aug '13

21 Aug '13

UCLA Post-Doctoral Research Position http://knowledgeinfrastructures.gseis.ucla.edu/postdoc2013.html One-year appointment beginning October, 2013, with possibility for renewal. Review of applications begins August 15; submission deadline is September 15. We seek a postdoctoral researcher to join our research project: The Transformation of Knowledge, Culture, and Practice in Data-Driven Science: A Knowledge Infrastructures Perspective (2012-2015) http://knowledgeinfrastructures.gseis.ucla.edu/index.html. We are conducting interview, ethnographic, and document studies of scientific data practices such as data collection, analysis, management, sharing, and reuse at four distributed research projects in astronomy and earth sciences. Our project is funded by the Sloan Foundation Digital Information Technology Program http://www.sloan.org/program/28 The postdoctoral researcher will participate actively in the collaboration, including the design, conduct, and analysis of interviews, document analysis, ethnographic fieldwork, and writing for publication. The postdoctoral researcher will gain experience in collaborative research, research project organization, and digital data research practices. The project is based at the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) and residence nearby is required for the duration of the postdoctoral research appointment. Some travel is required for research and conferences. Required background includes + completion of the PhD; experience in interview, document analysis, or ethnography; + strong writing skills; + research experience studying astronomy, physical sciences, or earth sciences; + substantial knowledge of scholarly communication, practice and policy in data-driven research, Information Studies, or Science, Technology, and Society studies. Preferred background includes + experience in writing for publication; + expertise in knowledge organization (metadata, ontologies, archival analysis); + expertise in the physical or earth sciences. Please submit a statement of interest that discusses your qualifications and interests with respect to the required and preferred background for the position. Your application should also include two scholarly writing samples (e.g., refereed journal articles or conference papers, dissertation chapters), curriculum vitae, and list of three references. Send these to Prof. Christine Borgman, PI, borgman(a)gseis.ucla.edu and to Prof. Sharon Traweek, Co-PI traweek(a)history.ucla.edu The starting salary is $50,000 per year, plus benefits. Selected candidate may enroll in UC sponsored benefits or opt out. Official documentation for completion of the PhD is required (certificate of completion, transcript, or diploma). Work is to be done 12 months of the year, excluding university holidays; the postdoctoral researcher is entitled to 24 paid personal days and 12 paid sick days per year. For further information about postdoctoral appointments at UCLA: http://www.gdnet.ucla.edu/postdocs.html Postdoctoral Researchers at UC are represented by UAW Local 5810. http://uaw5810.org/ More information about the investigators: Christine Borgman, Professor & Presidential Chair in Information Studies, UCLA http://is.gseis.ucla.edu/cborgman/; Sharon Traweek, UCLA Gender Studies & History Departments, with ties to students and faculty in the Anthropology & Information Studies Departments; member of the advisory boards for the UCLA Terasaki Center for Japanese Studies and the UCLA Center for the Study of Women http://www.genderstudies.ucla.edu/people/faculty/Sharon-Traweek http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/history/traweek/ Interviews will be conducted at UCLA, by video, and at conferences attended by the principal investigators prior to the time the position is filled.

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CAMRI Seminar (Sep 25): Vincent Mosco on the Political Economy of Cloud Computing and Big Data
by Christian Fuchs 21 Aug '13

21 Aug '13

To the Cloud: Big Data in a Turbulent World September 25, 2013 02:00pm-04:00pm Room A7.03, Harrow Campus, University of Westminster, Communication and Media Research Institute (CAMRI), Northwick Park tube station (Metropolitan Line) Full information: http://www.westminster.ac.uk/research/a-z/camri/seminars/camri-seminar-cale… Opening talk of this autumn’s CAMRI Research Seminar Series (announcement of further dates/events will follow) Participation Participation is free and everyone is welcome. Please register at latest until 22 September by sending an email to Christian Fuchs: christian.fuchs(a)uti.at. Abstract This presentation offers an account of the political, economic, social and cultural issues emerging from the growth of cloud computing. It starts by situating cloud computing as a major force in the globalisation of informational capitalism and in the advance of a particular way of knowing, what I call digital positivism. It proceeds to examine the origins of cloud computing in the movements that arose in the pre-internet era to create an information utility. The presentation then defines cloud computing, describes its major characteristics, and identifies the leading corporate, and government cloud players. In doing so, it describes the battles for market power among a handful of companies such as Amazon, Apple, Google, Microsoft, Facebook, and Rackspace, the rapid and, for some, worrisome, expansion of the government cloud, the internationalisation of cloud computing, and the emergence of bottom-up community cloud projects. Next, it considers how the cloud is being marketed and mythologised through advertising, social media, corporate and government research, industry lobbying, and marketing events. Massive promotion is essential because dark clouds are gathering over the industry including the environmental problems created by data centres; concerns over privacy, security, and surveillance; and labour issues, particularly the impact on IT departments, and more generally on knowledge workers whose jobs are threatened by the cloud. The presentation concludes by offering a technical and a cultural critique of big data, digital positivism, and the cloud’s “way of knowing.” Biography Dr Vincent Mosco is Professor Emeritus, Queen's University, Canada. He is formerly Canada Research Chair in Communication and Society and Professor of Sociology. He is author of many works, including The Political Economy of Communication, second edition (Sage, 2009), The Laboring of Communication: Will Knowledge Workers of the World Unite (co-authored with Catherine McKercher, Lexington Books, 2008), and The Digital Sublime: Myth, Power, and Cyberspace (MIT Press, 2004). -- Christian Fuchs Professor of Social Media University of Westminster, Communication and Media Research Institute http://fuchs.uti.at, http://www.triple-c.at @fuchschristian +44 (0) 20 7911 5000 ext 67380

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