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FW: [MCJ] CFP: M/C Journal 'augment' Issue
by Axel Bruns 11 Aug '13

11 Aug '13

G'day ! This may be of interest to some of you: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - 12 Aug. 2013 M/C - Media and Culture http://www.media-culture.org.au/ is calling for contributors to the 'augment' issue of M/C Journal http://journal.media-culture.org.au/ M/C Journal is inviting new contributors. Founded in 1998, M/C is a crossover journal between the popular and the academic, and a blind- and peer-reviewed journal. Our Website at http://journal.media-culture.org.au/provides open access to all past issues. To find out how and in what format to contribute your work, visit http://journal.media-culture.org.au/index.php/mcjournal/about/submissions. Call for Papers: 'augment' Edited by Rebecca Caines and Michelle Stewart Contemporary lives are increasingly saturated with the promise of technological enhancement - augmentation. Whether medically-enhanced "cyborg" bodies, AR glasses, new surveillance and crowdsourcing tools, locative media on mobile phones and gaming consoles, wearable technologies, or immersive third spaces, augmentation is often entangled in discourses of supplement and improvement. Yet augmentation is also contradictory, the logic of technological perfection co-existing with the perception of weakness or a lack. And so from within this messy space of technologies, bodies and spaces, failure is both generative and productive. Always desiring, we create, enhance, and augment: never satiated, we experiment, refine and repeat. Somatic and spatial practices collide on the promise of something more. In this edition of M/C Journal we seek to bring together theorists, practitioners and artists to consider the ways in which augmentation presents itself in the world and in their work. We welcome critical engagement with the philosophical, ethical and cultural implications of the augmented, cyborg and prosthetic body; interrogations of the layered information space of AR, critical reviews of augmented spatial practices; and explorations of the ways in which augmented media intersect with contemporary anxieties around power and statecraft. What is at stake when one engages in augmentation? Who/what pays the price when it falters, miscarries, or backfires? Which actors are engaged - or enrolled - in the practice? Which subjects are left vulnerable? We are particularly interested in cross-disciplinary investigations, mapping the points of connection and disruption in the application, reception and analysis of augmentation. We call upon our colleagues to discuss their forays into landscapes of prosthetics and cameras, Arduinos and QR codes, immersive zones and simulations, all the while collaborating with humans, cyborgs and nonhumans along the way. Prospective contributors should email an abstract of 100-250 words and a brief biography to the issue editors. Abstracts should include the article title and should describe your research question, approach, and argument. Biographies should be about three sentences (maximum 75 words) and should include your institutional affiliation and research interests. Articles should be 3000 words (plus bibliography). All articles will be refereed and must adhere to MLA style (6th edition). Article deadline: 11 Oct. 2013 Issue release date: 11 Dec. 2013 M/C Journal was founded (as "M/C - A Journal of Media and Culture") in 1998 as a place of public intellectualism analysing and critiquing the meeting of media and culture. Contributors are directed to past issues of M/C Journal for examples of style and content, and to the submissions page for comprehensive article submission guidelines. M/C Journal articles are blind peer-reviewed. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Further M/C Journal issues scheduled for 2013: 'remix': article deadline 21 June 2013, release date 21 Aug. 2013 'resilient': article deadline 16 Aug. 2013, release date 16 Oct. 2013 'augment': article deadline 11 Oct. 2013, release date 11 Dec. 2013 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- M/C - Media and Culture is located at <http://www.media-culture.org.au/>. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- M/C Journal is online at <http://journal.media-culture.org.au/>. All past issues of M/C Journal on various topics are available there. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- end Dr Axel Bruns -- General Editor editor(a)media-culture.org.au M/C - Media and Culture http://www.media-culture.org.au/

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Final CFP: Inaugural Issue, Journal of Media Innovations (Open Access)
by Charles Ess 10 Aug '13

10 Aug '13

Dear AoIRists, Please distribute as appropriate: The Journal of Media Innovations <https://www.journals.uio.no/index.php/TJMI/> Inaugural Issue - Spring 2014Researching Media Innovations: Defining the Fields; Tracing Research Trajectories¹ The Journal of Media Innovations explores changes in the media and communication industries through innovation theories. It focuses on innovation in the following areas: § New media services § New players in the media landscape § New roles of users § New practices by existing media organizations Users of digital media are becoming increasingly more active as producers (and re-distributors) of content, contributing to new services, new social constellations and new business models. Over the last decade a number of studies have focused on how Internet and mobile communication impact media services, business models and strategies, and user patterns. The Journal of Media Innovations builds on this large body of research, and takes it one step further by explicitly integrating perspectives on the roles of media technology and innovation with perspectives on the roles users have in generating innovation and transformation in the media sector. Our inaugural issue aims to bring together articles that explore how interrelations between media technology and users contribute to driving innovation. In doing so, we wish to collate and demarcate overviews of relevant fields, perspectives and trajectories for studying innovations in media. The articles will also facilitate critical reflection of the social, economic and political implications of media innovations. Theoretical perspectives may be linked to any field within the humanities or social sciences. These include, but are not limited to: user perspectives; economic perspectives; product perspectives; regulatory perspectives; and, strategic and organisational perspectives. The Journal of Media Innovations is an Open Access journal published by Fritt (Frie tidskrifter fra UiO), using the Open Journal Systems. Under this system, authors retain copyright of their work. Issue Coordinators Editor: Charles Ess Editorial Assistant: Karoline Andrea Ihlebæk Book Review Editor: Arne H. Krumsvik Publication Information: Deadline for Submission: 30th of September 2013; Publication Date: February 2014 Articles should be between 6,000 and 8,000 words in length. All articles will be reviewed in a double-blind system. For more information on Journal style and submission requirements, please see: <https://www.journals.uio.no/index.php/TJMI/about/submissions#onlineSubmissi ons> Additional inquiries should be addressed to: Karoline A. Ihlebæk: k.a.ihlebak(a)media.uio.no With many thanks in advance, - charles Professor in Media Studies Department of Media and Communication Director, Centre for Research on Media Innovations <http://www.hf.uio.no/imk/english/research/center/media-innovations/> University of Oslo P.O. Box 1093 Blindern NO-0317 Oslo Norway email: c.m.ess(a)media.uio.no

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Call for Papers - Eastern Communication Association (CMC Division)
by Nicholas Bowman 09 Aug '13

09 Aug '13

Call for Papers 2014 Communication and Technology Interest Group 105th Annual Eastern Communication Association Convention “Communities of Dissent: A “Lively Experiment” in Dialogue, Diversity, and Discourse” Providence, Rhode Island Omni Providence Hotel April 23-27, 2014 Submission Deadline: Monday, October 15, 2013 The Communication and Technology Interest Group of the Eastern Communication Association invites the submission of competitive papers, thematic program/panel proposals, and innovative programming alternatives (e.g., roundtables, symposia, debates, open forums, and community programs) for the 105th annual convention of the ECA. The 2014 convention’s theme, “Communities of Dissent”, explores the expression and suppression of dissent across communication contexts—relational, organizational, mediated, social, and political—and the attendant implications for such concerns as relational quality, community identification, civic engagement, public dialogue, accountability, and justice. Founded as a haven for religious dissenters, Providence is a city intimately shaped by discourses of disagreement. This year’s conference theme, “Communities of Dissent,” is inspired by the tradition of dissent that has marked the city’s long and notable history. Dissent can be transformational, a lively experiment in tolerance and freedom of conscience. When accepted and encouraged, dissent can be an important monitoring force, providing correctives for unethical behavior, unfavorable decision-making, and insensitivity to others’ needs. Dissent can also be dangerous, undermining sound and orderly government, and fueling conflict and aggression. The convention, as always, features panels, round tables, short courses, and programming on the convention theme. In addition, the Fourth Annual James C. McCroskey and Virginia P. Richmond Undergraduate Scholars Conference (USC) will run concurrently with the ECA convention on Friday and Saturday (April 25-26). USC papers will be accepted through December 20, 2013, to enable scholarly student papers from the fall semester to be submitted. Submissions to the Communication and Technology Interest Group should adhere to the following guidelines: COMPETITIVE PAPERS Mission Statement for the Communication and Technology Interest Group: To encourage the exploration and dissemination of information/communication technologies that influence our perceptions of human communication endeavors. Authors are invited to submit competitive papers on any aspect of communication and technology from any theoretical, methodological, or critical perspective. Excluding title page, notes, and references, papers should be no longer than 25 pages. Papers longer than 25 pages may not be reviewed. Authors who have not presented a paper at a regional, national, or international convention should include the word "DEBUT" in the upper right-hand corner of the title page. Papers authored by current undergraduate or graduate students should include the word "STUDENT" in the upper right-hand corner of the title page. (All of the paper's authors must meet the "debut" or "student" criterion for the paper to be so designated.) Competitive papers should be submitted via e-mail as TWO Separate MS Word files. File #1 must include: 1. A title page with the title of the paper and the following information: names of all authors (in cases of multiple authorship, please indicate who will be presenting at the convention), institutional affiliations, mailing addresses, telephone numbers, and email addresses. 2. An abstract page including a 100-150 word abstract of the paper. The title of the paper should appear on the same page as this abstract. 3. A statement of professional responsibility, as follows: "In submitting the attached paper, I/We recognize that this submission is considered a professional responsibility. I/We agree to present this paper if it is accepted. I/We further recognize that all who attend and present at ECA's annual meeting must register and pay required fees." Papers that do not include this statement will not be programmed. 4. The full paper and reference pages, appendixes, etc. File #2 must include: 1. A title page with no author/s names (the second paper which will be sent out for review should include no information that identifies the author/s anywhere in this submission). 2. An abstract page (see above). 3. A statement of professional responsibility (see above). 4. The full paper and reference pages, appendixes, etc. PANELS AND OTHER PROGRAMS Panels should focus on a unifying theme relevant to research, theory, or criticism in the area of communication and technology. Panels themes should attempt not to repeat session topics from past conferences. Panels are encouraged to include presenters from more than one institution. Panels must consist of a chair, paper presenters, and a respondent. Panels and other programs that could be co-sponsored with other interest groups are strongly encouraged - please send your panel to both interest groups at the same time so that those planners may manage the submission together. Please note in your email your intention to have the panel co-sponsored if that is your plan. Panel and other program proposals should include the following: 1. A thematic title for the program 2. Names of the chair and respondents, if any. Please do not have chairs act as respondents. 3. Names, mailing addresses, telephone numbers, email addresses, and institutional affiliations of all participants. 4. Titles and abstracts for each paper or presentation 5. A program copy (of NO MORE than 75 words description of the panel) as it should appear in the final program 6. A detailed rationale for the program/panel 7. A statement of professional responsibility “In submitting the attached paper, I/We recognize that this submission is considered a professional responsibility. I/We agree to present this paper if it is accepted. I/We further recognize that all who attend and present at ECA's annual meeting must register and pay required fees.” Requests for the use of technology at the conference must be made at the time of submission and we will attempt to make arrangements as resources allow. Any requests made after that time cannot be honored. Conference Absenteeism: Attendees who do not present scheduled papers should not list presentations on academic vitas. Presenters unable to attend the conference after being notified of their acceptance and presenters with last minute emergency issues preventing attendance should notify the planner as soon as possible and consider alternative presentation arrangements. Electronic Filing Formats: Proposals must be submitted only in MS WORD. Only electronic submissions will be reviewed. Submissions should be attached and e-mailed to David Westerman., the Communication and Technology Interest Group program planner, at dkwNF2008(a)gmail.com. PLEASE, write “2014 ECA Communication and Technology Interest Group Submission” in the subject line of your email. Submissions must be received no later than Monday, October 15, 2013. Questions can be addressed to David Westerman at dkwNF2008(a)gmail.com

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cfp: "Gender, Bodies & Technology: Performing the Human, " May 1-3, 2014
by jeremy hunsinger 09 Aug '13

09 Aug '13

Call for Proposals http://www.cpe.vt.edu/gbt/proposals.html Proposals are invited for the third biannual interdisciplinary conference: "Gender, Bodies & Technology: Performing the Human," May 1-3, 2014 The Inn at Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia Sponsored by the Women's and Gender Studies Program at Virginia Tech http://www.cpe.vt.edu/gbt/proposals.html Proposal Deadline: October 1, 2013 Gender, Bodies, & Technology is an initiative within Women’s and Gender Studies at Virginia Tech that aims to creatively and intellectually explore the multiple, proliferating, and gendered dimensions of technologized bodies and embodied technologies. Through our initiative and biannual conference, we seek to demonstrate, theorize, and perform the discursive and material nodes around which gender, bodies, and technology both cohere and fracture: how, for example, do the specter and reality of transvaginal ultrasounds index a historically specific female body? What is the relationship between expanded combat roles for female soldiers and the U.S. military’s escalating use of “unmanned” drone warcraft? How should we interpret airport body scanners and restroom architecture that threaten and displace transgender persons? We invite proposals from scholars in the humanities, social and natural sciences, feminist science studies, visual and performing arts, life sciences, and STEM fields for papers, panels, workshops, new media, art, and performance pieces that explore the intersections of gender, bodies & technology in contexts ranging from classrooms to the military, and from health care to the media. Our confirmed keynote speakers include: • Dr. Jennifer Robertson, Professor of Anthropology at the University of Michigan • Micha Cardenas, performance artist and media theorist based at the University of Southern California • Dr. Shaowen Bardzell, Assistant Professor of Informatics at Indiana University We invite papers, workshops, and panel proposals that address the Gender/Bodies/Technology interface. Though not limited to the following, topics and themes might include: • Gender and the technologies of institutions; the reconfiguration of public and private spheres • Disability and technologies of expression/representation; enabling and constricting roles of technology • The intersectional dimensions of online and digital space; visibility and invisibility issues • Feminist appropriations of technology; technology as liberating vs. reifying social force • GLBT and queer media • Technology and evolution – post- and trans-humanism; bio-cultural change and the gendered dimensions of human plasticity • Gender, bodies, and artificial intelligence • Gendered technologies of the self; bodies and gender as objects of technological intervention • Technological aspects of reproduction and personhood; maternal capacity; neo-eugenics • Social and other new media and their relationship to gendered bodies; social media and sexual violence • Genetic and other biological imaginaries made available by biotechnology; gender and nanotechnology • The GBT configuration in popular media • Avatars, augmented and virtual realities, and the promise of genderless bodies • Gender as code; gender, bodies, and computation • New feminist materialisms; the technological materiality of gender • Technological failures; technophobia and gender • The (bio)technology of transgender, intersex, and other forms of gender variance • Race, ability, class and the politics of visibility in virtual bodies • Gender and digital literacy; the gendered natures of technicity, technophilia, and expertise • Neuroscience, genomics, and the production of sexual difference • Performance, new media and other creative expressions: engaging/enacting/destabilizing conventions of embodiment and technology • Gendered innovations in technological design: gendered objects and design • Technological production and control of classed, racialized, aged, disabled and gendered bodies • New media, digital representation and virtual gendered environments • How technology links (embodied) individuals and enacts (gendered) worlds • Technologically-mediated warfare, gender, and combat • Gender and the “non-human”; robots, animals and environmental expressions of gendered worlds • Technologies of development and sustainability; eco- and environmental feminism • Activism, participatory decision-making and issues of technological citizenship Our conference theme, “Performing the Human,” is an invitation for embodied creative and intellectual effort. We are committed to complementing traditional paper presentations from the social sciences, STEM, and humanities fields with scholarship and performance from the creative arts. We encourage innovative uses of technology and creative session formats and we welcome early contact by email if space and/or technology requirements might present logistical challenges. Proposals will be reviewed and notification of the outcome will be made byNovember 15, 2013. For more information or questions please contact: Christine Labuski/GBT Coordinator and Conference Co-Director Women's and Gender Studies Program Department of Sociology Virginia Tech McBryde Hall (0137) Blacksburg, VA, 24061 USA chrislab(a)vt.edu Jeremy Hunsinger Communication Studies Wilfrid Laurier University Center for Digital Discourse and Culture Virginia Tech http://www.tmttlt.com Whoever ceases to be a student has never been a student. -George Iles

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Re: [Air-L] AoIR Wiki Was: A suggestion for reading lists and syllabi
by John Carter McKnight 08 Aug '13

08 Aug '13

<john.mcknight(a)asu.edu> I've been tasked with updating the wiki. Assuming it would be similar to updating a WordPress installation on a website, something I do regularly, I volunteered. I've discovered I can't make heads or tails of the MediaWIki update instructions, spread across multiple locations. I've just spent two hours with a friend who ran a corporate database design firm, and they couldn't figure it out either, and have gone back to do further research. At this point, I'd like to see it through, to make best use of my friends' volunteer time, and to develop a single, clear, comprehensive set of directions for AoIR volunteers updating the site. Kudos to those who have worked on this project before for their effort on this challenging project, and I do endorse calls for move to a system that can be maintained easily by amateur volunteer labor. John Carter McKnight, JD, PhD > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Wed, 7 Aug 2013 22:21:47 -0500 > From: Michael Zimmer <zimmerm(a)uwm.edu> > To: AoIR-L <air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org> > Subject: Re: [Air-L] AoIR Wiki Was: A suggestion for reading lists and > syllabi > Message-ID: <52D26A04-5E66-4133-BACE-B0EC2A6B2E9B(a)uwm.edu> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 > > I want to express my strong preference for the organization to have its > wiki on aoir.org domain, controlled by us, and not monetized (and > web-bugged) by third parties. > > Currently on http://aoir.wikia.com/ I'm confronted by a Skylanders > advertisement, Mazda banner, and a "Naked and Afraid" video commercial. And > that's just on the top of the page.... > > There are also 8 tracking bugs/cookies being added to by browser. > > I don't understand why we can't host MediaWiki and lock down editing so it > doesn't get overun by spambots. I've had MW on my own site for years, and > by requiring a user account to edit (and I control who gets user accounts), > there's zero spam. > > $0.02, > Michael > > > -- > Michael Zimmer, PhD > Assistant Professor, School of Information Studies > Director, Center for Information Policy Research > University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee > e: zimmerm(a)uwm.edu > w: www.michaelzimmer.org > > > On Aug 6, 2013, at 1:14 PM, Alexander Halavais <halavais(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > > Alex et al, > > > > I think you list my main pluses for a hosted solution. And I > > acknowledge the main advantages to self-hosting with MediaWiki. As I > > noted, many have volunteered to maintain the wiki, and many have > > failed to follow through. I'm not naming names, because there is no > > blame to be taken up here--but it's work that generally gets pushed to > > the back of the queue, particularly when people have to be going up > > for tenure ("I owe my tenure to my awesome wiki gardening" said no one > > ever), or looking for a job, or breathing. In other words, we are not > > more reliable than outsourcing the work, and so we've looked for > > managed solutions in a number of areas. > > > > If there is a very strong feeling among a community of contributors > > that we should be using MediaWiki over something like Wikia, we could > > look a managed solution like Cloudways. But I think it makes more > > sense to go with a platform that is more user friendly to those > > without experience editing a MediaWiki (e.g., Wikipedia). If the ads > > are an issue, we could buy our way out of them. But for me, they > > aren't *enough* of a problem for that. > > > > Frankly, I don't want to be a pessimist, and I am excited by the > > enthusiasm around building the wiki. I also am weighing the present > > enthusiasm against many years of people saying they wanted to work on > > the Wiki (content-wise) but few actually contributing. My suggestion > > would be that we build it on Wikia. If there are people regularly > > contributing, and there is consensus that it makes sense to bring it > > back under local control, and someone on the Executive is willing to > > agree to take on the burden of managing it, then I'll be happy to > > migrating the content. But until there is the commitment to the > > content, I think Wikia is a good interim measure that allows us to > > test the waters. > > > > Best, > > > > Other Alex > > > > > > > > > > On Tue, Aug 6, 2013 at 9:24 AM, Alex Leavitt <alexleavitt(a)gmail.com> > wrote: > >> Just to throw in a bit of discussion: Alex, I would definitely like to > know > >> your thoughts on Wikia vs. our own install. Obviously spam is one issue. > >> Easy of use (ie., markup language) is probably another. On the > our-install > >> side, I can think of three arguments: 1) not relying on a 3rd party > (issues > >> of access, especially if Wikia goes defunct somehow) 2), supporting > >> open-source software, and 3) no ads. > >> > >> Personally, I'm still for the wiki.aoir.org install, but by creating a > Wikia > >> page without some kind of 'official' support of the org, I'm concerned > >> efforts will be divided across both wikis (well, that is, if we can get > new > >> accounts on our own wiki...). > >> > >> I'm happy to volunteer, btw, to be the point person for helping create > new > >> accounts for people that need them. > >> > >> --- > >> > >> Alexander Leavitt > >> PhD Student > >> USC Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism > >> http://alexleavitt.com > >> Twitter: @alexleavitt > >> > >> > >> > >> On Tue, Aug 6, 2013 at 6:41 AM, Jeremy hunsinger <jhuns(a)vt.edu> wrote: > >>> > >>> > >>> > http://web.archive.org/web/20080421002111/http://wiki.aoir.org/index.php?ti… > >>> is a pretty good version of the prior wiki. > >>> > >>> > >>> On Tue, Aug 6, 2013 at 8:45 AM, jeremy hunsinger <jhuns(a)vt.edu> wrote: > >>> > >>>> Great Job Alex, > >>>> > >>>> I guess the http://wiki.aoir.org 's heyday was probably back in > >>>> 2003-2005. It was and is a good idea to have a wiki, spamming aside, > >>>> and > >>>> yes i do still help maintain it sometimes on the old url. It would be > >>>> good > >>>> to find a way to migrate some of the content from the old site to the > >>>> new > >>>> site though. I paid for some of of the content to be added to the wiki > >>>> by > >>>> one of my center assistants back in the day, the lists of researchers > >>>> and a > >>>> few other things. Those sorts of things were handy and drew some > >>>> traffic > >>>> at the time. However, they slowly became dated i guess. > >>>> _______________________________________________ > >>>> 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/ > >>>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> -- > >>> jeremy hunsinger > >>> Center for Digital Discourse and Culture > >>> Virginia Tech > >>> > >>> www.tmttlt.com > >>> > >>> () ascii ribbon campaign - against html mail > >>> /\ - against microsoft attachments > >>> http://www.stswiki.org/ sts wiki > >>> http://transdisciplinarystudies.tmttlt.com/ Transdisciplinary > Studies:the > >>> book series > >>> > >>> I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn > how > >>> to > >>> do it. > >>> -Pablo Picasso > >>> _______________________________________________ > >>> 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/ > >> > >> > > > > > > > > -- > > -- > > // > > // This email is > > // [ ] assumed public and may be blogged / forwarded. > > // [x] assumed to be private, please ask before redistributing. > > // > > // Alexander C. Halavais, ciberfl?neur > > // http://alex.halavais.net > > // > > // Please attribute any stupid errors above to autocorrect on my phone. > > // (But I probably was typing on a keyboard.) > > _______________________________________________ > > 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: 2 > Date: Wed, 7 Aug 2013 20:39:42 -0700 > From: Alex Leavitt <alexleavitt(a)gmail.com> > To: Michael Zimmer <zimmerm(a)uwm.edu> > Cc: AoIR-L <air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org> > Subject: Re: [Air-L] AoIR Wiki Was: A suggestion for reading lists and > syllabi > Message-ID: > <CACBxmg5oJy29x_6yNkF3R_T_p= > JYuCFCtj_5mMw1ZwTjVvMCfQ(a)mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > There really is no reason we can't. Alex's main criticism was loss of > people over time willing to maintain it. > > If someone's willing to give me access to the wiki backend > tonight/tomorrow, I'll be more than happy to update it (given Ben's > optimism that the updated infrastructure will be spam-proof) and start > setting people up with accounts. > > --- > > Alexander Leavitt > PhD Student > USC Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism > http://alexleavitt.com > Twitter: @alexleavitt > >

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Whom and what can you trust in online / mediated environments? Interdisciplinary faculty and PhD workshops - University of Oslo
by Judith Simon 08 Aug '13

08 Aug '13

Dear colleagues, Please cross-post and distribute as appropriate - with the note that the deadline for applications for participation in either the faculty and/or the PhD workshops is coming up: August 15, 2013. (Please see the website for further details.) Faculty workshop PhD workshop Public Debate Whom and what can you trust in online / mediated environments? Interdisciplinary Perspectives in Philosophy, Computer Science, Media Studies. September 26-27, 2013: Department of Media and Communication, University of Oslo. Lecturers / mentors: Dag Elgesem, University of Bergen James Moor, Dartmouth College Judith Simon, University of Vienna &, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Elisabeth Staksrud, University of Oslo Mariarosaria Taddeo, University of Warwick Herman Tavani, Rivier University, New Hampshire John Weckert, Charles Sturt University, Wagga Wagga, Australia Background / description: James Moor¹s seminal paper, ³What is Computer Ethics?² (1985), inaugurated a new generation of interdisciplinary reflection on how computing technologies evoked distinctive new ethical challenges. These challenges are often quite novel and their roots in specific technologies thus require equally novel and collaborative reflection across the otherwise diverse disciplines of philosophy, applied ethics, computer science, social science, and so on. Especially over the past decade, increasing attention has been given to questions of trust and privacy in online and mediated environments. These questions are complicated by important differences between face-to-face and online/mediated experiences of trust and privacy - and further complicated by the increasingly important roles of Artificial Agents (AAs) and Multi-Agent Systems (MASs) such as those at work in ³recommendations for you² on commercial websites, web-page ranking algorithms used in popular search engines, and so on. At the same time, AAs and MASs are becoming increasingly autonomous capable of making decisions independently of human control. Such autonomy raises centrally philosophical questions: Are such AAs and MASs further capable of making autonomous ethical judgments including the specific sort of judgment denoted by phronesis or ³practical wisdom²? And: how would we know if we can or should trust these agents precisely as they become increasingly indispensible to our lives? Our lecturers / mentors have each undertaken leading work in these domains, both within philosophically-grounded and -oriented reflection (J. Moor, J. Simon, M. Taddeo, H. Tavani) and within the contexts of online and mediated communication environments (D. Elgesem, E. Staksrud, C.Ess). Our faculty and PhD workshops are designed to further important dialogue and debate, and foster current doctoral research in these domains. The public debate will offer highlights of current insights and findings, along with critical discussion of our defining themes and questions. For more details, including registration procedures, please see the workshops / lecture website. <http://www.hf.uio.no/forskning/doktorgrad-karriere/forskerutdanning/gjennom foring/linjer/medie/arr_medie/2013/whom-to-trust.html> Looking forward to welcoming many of you to Oslo! Best in the meantime, Charles Ess Professor in Media Studies Department of Media and Communication Director, Centre for Research on Media Innovations <http://www.hf.uio.no/imk/english/research/center/media-innovations/> University of Oslo P.O. Box 1093 Blindern NO-0317 Oslo Norway email:charles.ess@media.uio.no Messages to the list are archived athttp://listserv.liv.ac.uk/archives/philos-l.html. Current posts are also available via Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/PhilosL Discussions should be moved to chora: enrol via http://listserv.liv.ac.uk/archives/chora.html.

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Fwd: Postdoc Position in Peer-to-Peer Finance
by Adam Fish 08 Aug '13

08 Aug '13

Dear Colleagues, [Apologies for cross posting.] Applicants are invited for a EPSRC/Digital Economy Programme full-time funded post-doctoral position investigating digital connectivity and peer-to-peer relationships in financial services. The position is fixed term until 09/12/2014 with the likelihood of a three month extension. The project, 3rd Party Dematerialisation and Rematerialisation of Capital (3DaRoC), will evaluate the role of infrastructural designs and its effects on the patterns of use of financial services provided by digital intermediaries. You are expected to have (or be about to complete) a PhD in Information Systems, Information Science, Behavioural Science, Financial Services, Financial Computing, Economics, Geography, Sociology, Anthropology, Interaction or Experience Design, with experience in using ethnographic or survey-based research techniques. Candidates with research experience or enthusiasm for digital technology and innovation would be especially welcomed. You will be expected to lead on the development of fieldwork, analysis of data, and to develop business models around new technology deployments, as well as working with project partners and supporting the work of the other researchers. The direct line supervisor will be Dr. Adam Fish (Lancaster), and you will be based in the Department of Sociology. Informal enquiries may be made to Dr. Fish at a.fish2(a)lancaster.ac.uk. This is a full time fixed-term post beginning 15 October, or as soon as possible after this date. Please see the link below for my information: http://hr-jobs.lancs.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx?ref=A775 Best, Adam

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Ignite-IR presentation deadline extension: August 12
by Alexander Halavais 08 Aug '13

08 Aug '13

Heard from at least one person that they hadn't realized the Ignite deadline had come and gone, so we are extending it until August 12. If you have a manifesto, a beef, a cool trick, a neat case, an awesome project, a creative streak*, a brief meditation, or anything that will enthrall a large audience for five minutes AND fit the formalism of an ignite (20 slides, auto-advancing every 15 seconds, for a total of 5 minutes), please consider submitting. The Ignite is a plenary session, so it's a good way to get your ideas out to a large audience. You may "add" an Ignite presentation, even if you are already doing two. IGNITE-IR presentation: Ignite is a high-energy five-minute plenary presentation format (seehttp://igniteshow.com/) Please submit a proposal via http://bit.ly/ignite-ir14 . Your slides must be completed (and you must be registered) by September 25 if accepted. Best, Alex Halavais * The committee reserves the right to restrict streaking.

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7th Nokia Ubimedia MindTrek Award || 6.000 Euros Award Sum || 19th August Deadline || Wake Up Call
by artur.lugmayr＠tut.fi 08 Aug '13

08 Aug '13

---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Nokia Ubimedia Awards 2013 Wake-up Call for Entries 7th Annual International Competition on Ubiquitous Media 1st-3rd October 2013, Tampere FINLAND *** 6.000 Euros Award Sum *** Deadline: 19th August 2013 *** http://www.numa.fi ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- as to date we received quite a few great entries to NUMA 2013, but our jury still hungers for more challenging projects. This is a "NUMA 2013 Wake-Up Call" for your ubimedia submissions and we hope that you all you aspiring Ubimedia innovators out there take the chance to join prople who won the competition in the previous years - one of them runs a successful startup. 6000 Euros price sum and travels paid to visit MindTrek 2013 for the three best projects. All we need is a description of your project and if possible a short demonstration video. And we need it til August 15th. We do especially encourage student and PhD-projects, as well as innovative start-ups. Good luck and see you in Tampere! More about the competition & submission system: http:/www.numa.fi Competition Chairs Artur LUGMAYR, EMMi Lab, Tampere Univ. of Technology, FINLAND Cai MELAKOSKI, School of Art, Music and Media, Tampere UAS (TAMK), FINLAND Ville LUOTONEN, Ubiquitous Computing Tampere Center of Expertise, Hermia Ltd., FINLAND Head of Jury Bjoern STOCKLEBEN, Project "Cross Media", University of Applied Sciences Magdeburg-Stendal, GERMANY

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Deadline approaching: interdisciplinary faculty and PhD workshops - University of Oslo
by Charles Ess 08 Aug '13

08 Aug '13

Dear AoIRists, Please cross-post and distribute as appropriate - with the note that the deadline for applications for participation in either the faculty and/or the PhD workshops is coming up: August 15, 2013. (Please see the website for further details.) Faculty workshop PhD workshop Public Debate Whom and what can you trust in online / mediated environments? Interdisciplinary Perspectives in Philosophy, Computer Science, Media Studies. September 26-27, 2013: Department of Media and Communication, University of Oslo. Lecturers / mentors: Dag Elgesem, University of Bergen James Moor, Dartmouth College Judith Simon, University of Vienna &, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Elisabeth Staksrud, University of Oslo Mariarosaria Taddeo, University of Warwick Herman Tavani, Rivier University, New Hampshire John Weckert, Charles Sturt University, Wagga Wagga, Australia Background / description: James Moor¹s seminal paper, ³What is Computer Ethics?² (1985), inaugurated a new generation of interdisciplinary reflection on how computing technologies evoked distinctive new ethical challenges. These challenges are often quite novel and their roots in specific technologies thus require equally novel and collaborative reflection across the otherwise diverse disciplines of philosophy, applied ethics, computer science, social science, and so on. Especially over the past decade, increasing attention has been given to questions of trust and privacy in online and mediated environments. These questions are complicated by important differences between face-to-face and online/mediated experiences of trust and privacy - and further complicated by the increasingly important roles of Artificial Agents (AAs) and Multi-Agent Systems (MASs) such as those at work in ³recommendations for you² on commercial websites, web-page ranking algorithms used in popular search engines, and so on. At the same time, AAs and MASs are becoming increasingly autonomous capable of making decisions independently of human control. Such autonomy raises centrally philosophical questions: Are such AAs and MASs further capable of making autonomous ethical judgments including the specific sort of judgment denoted by phronesis or ³practical wisdom²? And: how would we know if we can or should trust these agents precisely as they become increasingly indispensible to our lives? Our lecturers / mentors have each undertaken leading work in these domains, both within philosophically-grounded and -oriented reflection (J. Moor, J. Simon, M. Taddeo, H. Tavani) and within the contexts of online and mediated communication environments (D. Elgesem, E. Staksrud, C.Ess). Our faculty and PhD workshops are designed to further important dialogue and debate, and foster current doctoral research in these domains. The public debate will offer highlights of current insights and findings, along with critical discussion of our defining themes and questions. For more details, including registration procedures, please see the workshops / lecture website. <http://www.hf.uio.no/forskning/doktorgrad-karriere/forskerutdanning/gjennom foring/linjer/medie/arr_medie/2013/whom-to-trust.html> Looking forward to welcoming many of you to Oslo! Best in the meantime, Charles Ess Professor in Media Studies Department of Media and Communication Director, Centre for Research on Media Innovations <http://www.hf.uio.no/imk/english/research/center/media-innovations/> University of Oslo P.O. Box 1093 Blindern NO-0317 Oslo Norway email: charles.ess(a)media.uio.no

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