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CFA Women and Technology Conference
by Nasreen Rajani 27 Jan '14

27 Jan '14

Carleton University will be hosting the inaugural Women and Technology Conference for emerging scholars on April 16, 2014. Please see the attached call for abstracts for submission guidelines and details. Please distribute widely. WTCCU Organizing Committee, Alexandra Born, Nasreen Rajani, Matt Murdoch

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ICS special issue on the Internet, Social Networks and Civic Engagement in Chinese Societies
by wenhong chen 27 Jan '14

27 Jan '14

Apologies for any cross-posting. We’d like to bring to your attention to the special issue on the Internet, Social Networks and Civic Engagement in Chinese Societies, in Information, Communication and Society, Volume 17, Number 1, February 2014. http://bit.ly/1n7iWs6 The special issue includes seven articles that draw on a variety of theoretical and methodological approaches to advance a balanced and context-rich understanding of the implications of digital media and technologies in China, Taiwan, and the global Chinese diaspora. Contributors include scholars from North America, Europe, and Asia. And Happy Chinese New Year! Guest Editorial Taking Stock, Moving Forward: The Internet, Social Networks and Civic Engagement in Chinese Societies Wenhong Chen http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1369118X.2013.857425#.UuaArrXnZ… Transnational immanence: The autopoietic co-constitution of a Chinese spiritual organization through mediated communication Pauline Cheong, Jennie Hwang and Boris Brummans http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1369118X.2013.833277#.UuaAxbXnZ… Online political participation, civic talk, and media multiplexity: How Taiwanese citizens express political opinions on the web Yuli Hsieh and Meng-Hao Li http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1369118X.2013.833278#.UuaA7bXnZ… Derailed emotions: The transformation of claims and targets during the wenzhou online incident Maria Bondes and Günter Schucher http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1369118X.2013.853819#.UuaBOrXnZ… Weibo communication and government legitimacy in China: A computer-assisted analysis of Weibo messages on two “mass incidents” Jingrong Tong and Landong Zuo http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1369118X.2013.839730#.UuaBWLXnZ… Weibo network, information diffusion and implications for collective action in China Ronggui Huang and Xiaoyi Sun http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1369118X.2013.853817#.UuaBHbXnZ… Expanding civic engagement in China: Super Girl and entertainment-based online community Jingsi Wu http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1369118X.2013.833276#.UuaBn7XnZ… Regional variation in Chinese internet filtering Joss Wright http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1369118X.2013.853818#.UuaBs7XnZ… Wenhong 文泓 Wenhong Chen Assistant Professor Department of Radio-TV-Film, College of Communication 1 University Station A0800, CMA 5.142 University of Texas at Austin 2504 Whitis Ave Stop A0800 Austin, TX 78712-1067 T: 512-471-4952 F: 512-471-4077 wenhong.chen(a)austin.utexas.edu http://utexas.academia.edu/wenhongchen

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CITASA ASA pre-conference symposium!
by Earl, Jennifer Suzanne - (jenniferearl) 27 Jan '14

27 Jan '14

Hi folks, I am writing to invite you to join CITASA for a pre-conference workshop before this year's ASAs. Our CITASA Symposium entitled [New] Media Cultures is co-sponsored by the UC Berkeley Center for New Media. The Symposium is on August 15th--the day before the ASA Annual Meeting in San Francisco. See the below info and visit www.citasasymposium.info for more information. Please feel free to forward this to other groups that might be interested and to distribute widely. See you in the Bay Area in August! Best, Jenn ****** Call For Abstracts and Participation CITASA Symposium: [New] Media Cultures Sponsored by CITASA & the UC Berkeley Center for New Media Venue: UC Berkeley Sutardja Dai Hall Symposium Date: August 15, 2014 Abstract Submission Deadline: March 1, 2014 Notification of Acceptances: March 15, 2014 citasasymposium.info #citasa14 The CITASA Symposium Committee is delighted to announce the call for abstracts for the 2014 Symposium entitled [New] Media Cultures. Sponsored by CITASA and the UC Berkeley Center for New Media, the Symposium is on August 15th--the day before the ASA Annual Meeting in San Francisco. We welcome submissions on any facet of culture, communication, and [new] media as broadly defined as possible. Themes that come to mind are the interplay between [new] media and any of the following: culture, communication, technology, convergence, the arts, cultural production, cultural change in the digital age-and of course anything else [new] media or communication or culture scholars find intriguing... Presentations will be eligible for submission to the 2015 Volume IV of Emerald Studies in Media and Communication entitled [New] Media Cultures (see www.emeraldmediastudies.com/) Space is limited. The deadline for submitting an abstract is March 1, 2014 (notification by March 15). Please send submissions including your name, email, and an abstract of 200-750 words outlining your research to: citasasymposium(a)gmail.com by March 1st. Thinking about attending the Datathon? Join us for both events on the UC Berkeley campus! (see http://ipk.nyu.edu/initiatives/datathons or apply at http://www.surveygizmo.com/s3/1516540/datathon) IMPORTANT DATES Submission Deadline: March 1, 2014 Acceptance Notification: March 15, 2014 Registration Due: March 31, 2014 Symposium: August 15, 2014 at UC Berkeley, Sutardja Dai Hall WEB Site: www.citasasymposium.info Twitter: #citasa14 Contact Email: citasasymposium(a)gmail.com SYMPOSIUM COMMITTEE Laura Robinson, Blanca Gordo, Nalini Kotamraju, Gina Neff, Jennifer Earl, Gabe Ignatow, Jenny Davis, Sara Schoonmaker, Joy Hightower, Whitney Boesel, Nathan Jurgenson, & Jen Schradie *********************************** Jennifer Earl Professor of Sociology Social Sciences 421 University of Arizona Tucson, AZ 85721-0027 Phone: (520) 621-3296 ***********************************

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Reminder: BILETA Conference Extended Call for Papers closes 7th Feb
by Karen Mc Cullagh (LAW) 27 Jan '14

27 Jan '14

A reminder: Abstracts for the 29th BILETA Annual conference should be submitted by 7th February 2014. The University of East Anglia Law School will host the Annual Conference on 14-16 April 2014. The theme of this year's international conference is: Legal regulation & Education: Doing the right thing? Delegates are invited to submit papers relating to law, technology and legal education that examine whether existing laws target the ?right things' and provide adequate protection for rights. If not, what is the right thing to do? Are educationalists doing the right thing in developing moocs, spocs, virtual learning environments etc.? Relevant topics include: Cybercrime & Cyberwarfare, Darknet, Data protection, Domain names, e-Democracy, e-Commerce, e-Government, e-Health, e-Learning and Legal Education, e-money, Human Rights, Intellectual Property, Intermediary Regulation, Net Neutrality, Pornography, Professional Legal Practice and Surveillance. To view the call for papers and information about the conference see the conference website: http://www.uea.ac.uk/law/news-and-events/bileta-conference Abstracts should be submitted by 7th February 2014. Queries should be directed to Conference Organiser, Dr Karen Mc Cullagh via: bileta2014(a)uea.ac.uk ----------------------------------------------- Dr Karen Mc Cullagh Lecturer UEA Law School University of East Anglia Norwich Research Park Norwich NR4 7TJ w: http://karenmccullagh.co.uk/ T: 01603 59 7617

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Call for Proposed Abstracts for a Special Section on “Weber and the Digital Divide: Class, Status, and Power in the Digital Age”
by Massimo Ragnedda 27 Jan '14

27 Jan '14

Dear Colleagues, My colleague Glenn Muschert (Miami Univ.) and I are editing a special collection of articles on Max Weber and the Digital Divide. We are organizing a special journal section for the International Journal of Communication (http://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc) which will examine how Max Weber’s theories may be used in studying digital inequalities. Indeed, this project builds (in part) on some of the ideas explored in our previous volume on *The Digital Divide: The Internet and Social Inequality in International Context *(Routledge 2013): http://books.google.com/books?id=OgYx8URCnU4C. Please see the attached Call for Proposals for details on the scope, timing, and mechanics of this project. Also, please feel welcome to post this call for papers widely and to forward it to interested colleagues and students. We hope to see some proposals from many of you, and for now, please feel welcome to be in contact if you have any questions for us. *C**all* *for Proposed Abstracts for a Special Section on* *“Weber and the Digital Divide: Class, Status, and Power in the Digital Age”* *International Journal of Communication - **http://ijoc.org <http://ijoc.org/>* *Special Editors: Massimo Ragnedda, Northumbria Univ. (UK) & Glenn W. Muschert, Miami Univ. (USA)* Much of the literature on stratification in the digital sphere (i.e., digital divides) has focused on the fundamental material relations of inequality present in the digital divide, often relying on Marxist/conflict schools of thought. To broaden the scope, the current project turns to Max Weber for new perspectives on stratification in the digital sphere. The project will stimulate scholarly exchange about how social stratification in the digital age is reproduced not only based on class dynamics (economic aspects), but also by status/prestige (cultural aspects), and in group affiliations (political aspects). Access to the economic means of production can indeed limit digital participation; however, Weber also posits that the process of stratification expresses itself in two other forms, namely “status” and “party.” Potential contributors are invited to explore the importance of status and political influence in a liquid society, such as the importance of prestige in digital participation (or exclusion), or the influence of political affiliation upon digital divides. Papers may be theoretical and/or analytical in nature, and should examine digital divides in relation to dynamics social class (lifestyle and culture), social status (prestige and market influence), and/or power (political impact/legitimacy). Submissions are welcomed from scholars at all stages of their careers, and from various relevant disciplines (sociology, communications, media studies, etc.). Possible topics for articles include, but are not limited to: · Interplay among economic (class), cultural (status), and/or political (party) factors of digital divides. · The role of digital participation/exclusion on individual and/or group life chances. · The relevance of skills (digital literacy), certifications, and and legitimating credentials in digital divides. · The role of status and prestige hierarchies in digital participation/exclusion (or vice versa). · Cultural meanings (including religious and/or secular value systems) and digital divides. · Political life (i.e., power relations) and dynamics of digital inclusion/exclusion. · Bureaucratic/institutional relationships and digital divides. · Forms of rationality in the digital (e.g., *Zweckrationalität *vs. *Wertrationalität */ ends vs. means rationality). · The influence of worldview (*Weltanschauung) *on digital participation/exclusion. Submissions should be in the form of extended abstracts of around 750 words in MS Word, sent as an email attachment to Massimo Ragnedda ( ragnedda(a)gmail.com) and Glenn Muschert (muschegw(a)MiamiOH.edu) *The* *deadline for submissions is 1 April 2014. * Abstracts will be judged on criteria of relevance and originality of topic. Notification of initially-approved abstracts will be announced in mid-April, after which contributors will be asked to move forward to the peer-review submission phase. Contributions of 7000 words (maxi mum including abstract, footnotes, tables/figures with captions, references, and appendices, if any) will be due 1 July 2014. All submissions must adhere to APA (6th edition) formatting to include: · Any endnotes should be converted to footnotes. · Authors must include their profile, including affiliation and rank, when submitting a manuscript. · All articles should include an abstract of 150 words. · All articles must include a bibliography at the end that conforms to the most current APA style. · All spellings must be rendered in American English. To change British or Commonwealth spellings to their American equivalents, please see the *Merriam-Webster Unabridged Dictionary.* · Only one submission per author will be considered at a time. Contributions will be subject to double-blind peer review, and to encourage coherence in the special section, all contributors will be requested to act as a peer reviewer for at least one other article. After all necessary revisions and editing, the special section is scheduled to publish in 2015. Also, please feel welcome to post this call for papers widely and to forward it to interested colleagues and students. We hope to see some proposals from many of you, and for now, please feel welcome to be in contact if you have any questions for us. With best regards, Massimo Ragnedda and Glenn Muschert -- Massimo Ragnedda Lecturer in Mass Communication Northumbria University (Newcastle, UK) mragnedda.wordpress.com http://notizie.tiscali.it/opinioni/Ragnedda/184/ skype: massimo.ragnedda http://northumbria.academia.edu/MassimoRagnedda Twitter: @massimoragnedda

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CfP: Protecting privacy in a surveillance age - symposium sustainability, ethics and cyberspace at the EMCSR 2014 April 22-25, Vienna
by Stefan Strauß 27 Jan '14

27 Jan '14

Apologies for cross-posting Call for Abstracts (more details attached):/* */ /*Protecting privacy in a surveillance age -- utopia or sine qua non for a sustainable informational ecosystem? */ Privacy is among the most contested issues in contemporary society, not least amplified by the driving force of information and the convergence between analogue and digital environments. This informational transformation of socio-technical systems strains controllability of personal information flows and provides extensive options for privacy infringement and surveillance practices (e.g. drastically highlighted by recent scandals on mass surveillance by security agencies on a global scale); Continuing growth in the availability of personal information is yet unbroken; and individuals encounter further decrease of control over their information and thus their private sphere. Entailed to ongoing socio-technical alterations are controversial views on the function of privacy and its relation to other societal concepts such as security, surveillance practices and transparency. While some technologists propagate a "post-privacy" era linked to utopian visions of blooming open societies free from harm enabled by free information flows, privacy advocates underline the need for a revitalization of privacy. Dichotomized views and perceived trade-offs on privacy vs. security/surveillance often complicate the development of effective privacy-enhancing concepts. Not least as they neglect the societal function of privacy, the complexity of information and the related control mechanisms in socio-technical systems. This session aims to overcome dichotomous framings by reflecting on the contemporary role of privacy and potential ways to improve the effectiveness of sustainable privacy-enhancing concepts. Topics of interest include but are not limited to * Dimensions and core functions of privacy in socio-technical/informational eco-systems * Current and emerging privacy challenges * Concepts and models towards a sustainable privacy concept * The (contradictory and complementary) role of transparency and its interplay with privacy * Privacy as a system, system (theoretical) views on concepts and mechanisms * Sustainability concepts and their potential adaption to privacy * Privacy-by-design mechanisms and their role as integral part of the informational ecosystem and/or subsystems This session is part of the Symposium Sustainability, Ethics and Cyberspace at the European Meetings on Cybernetics and Systems Research (EMCSR) 2014 - Civilisation at the Crossroads - Response and Responsibility of the Systems Sciences, Vienna, 22-25 April 2014.* * Please submit your extended abstracts (1-3 pages, 750-2000 words) by *February 15.* For further information and submission guidelines please visit: http://emcsr.net/calls-2014/calls-for-papers-2014/sustainability-ethics-and… Looking forward to your contributions! Best regards, Stefan Strauß -- Stefan Strauß Institute of Technology Assessment - Institut für Technikfolgen-Abschätzung (ITA) Austrian Academy of Sciences - Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften Strohgasse 45/5 1030 Vienna ----------------------------------------------- Tel.: ++43 1 515 81 - 6599 Fax: ++43 1 710 98 83 E-mail: stefan.strauss(a)oeaw.ac.at Web: http://www.oeaw.ac.at/ita/strauss Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/Institute.of.technology.assessment Twitter: http://twitter.com/Technikfolgen ----------------------------------------------- Strauß, S. (2014 forthcoming): Towards a taxonomy of social and economic costs of surveillance. In: Wright, D.,Kreissl, R. (eds.): Surveillance in Europe. Routledge. Strauß, S. and Nentwich, M., (2013): Social network sites, privacy and the blurring boundary between public and private spaces, Science and Public Policy (6), http://spp.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2013/10/10/scipol.sct072.full Strauß, S. (2013) Digital identities and the upcoming EU privacy reform -- a future-proof approach? LSE Media Policy Project Blog, http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/mediapolicyproject/2013/05/08/digital-identities-and…

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Trending Ethnography
by Tom Boellstorff 27 Jan '14

27 Jan '14

In regard to the recent coverage about predictions of Facebook’s future demise—to me the important untold story here is the “mission creep” where predicting the future has become such valued analytical goal. I just wrote something for the wonderful folks at Culture Digitally about this - take a look! http://culturedigitally.org/2014/01/trending-ethnography-notes-on-import-pr… All the best, Tom Boellstorff

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Facebook Is About to Lose 80% of Its Users, Study Says Read more: Facebook Is About to Lose 80% of Its Users, Study Says | TIME.com http://business.time.com/2014/01/21/facebook-is-about-to-lose-80-of-its-users-study-says/#ixzz2rSfZNmEo
by Joly MacFie 26 Jan '14

26 Jan '14

http://business.time.com/2014/01/21/facebook-is-about-to-lose-80-of-its-use… Facebook’s growth will eventually come to a quick end, much like an infectious disease that spreads rapidly and suddenly dies, say Princeton researchers who are using diseases to model the life cycles of social media. Disease models can be used to understand the mass adoption and subsequent flight from online social networks, researchers at Princeton’s Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering say in a study released Jan. 17. The study has not been peer-reviewed. Updating traditional models on disease spread to assume that “recovery” requires contact with a nondiseased member — i.e., a nonuser of Facebook (“recovered” member of the population) — researchers predicted that Facebook would see a rapid decline, causing the site to lose 80% of its peak user base between 2015 and 2017. Basically, Facebook users will lose interest in Facebook over time as their peers lose interest — if the model is correct. ”Ideas, like diseases, have been shown to spread infectiously between people before eventually dying out, and have been successfully described with epidemiological models,” write the researchers. You can check out the full study here. http://arxiv.org/pdf/1401.4208v1.pdf -- --------------------------------------------------------------- Joly MacFie 218 565 9365 Skype:punkcast WWWhatsup NYC - http://wwwhatsup.com http://pinstand.com - http://punkcast.com VP (Admin) - ISOC-NY - http://isoc-ny.org -------------------------------------------------------------- -

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NYU Accepting Applications for Social Computing Research Fellow
by danah boyd 26 Jan '14

26 Jan '14

This might be of interest to folks on this list: Begin forwarded message: > From: Dove Helena Pedlosky <dove(a)nyu.edu> > Subject: NYU Accepting Applications for Social Computing Research Fellow > Date: January 25, 2014 7:02:24 PM EST > To: danah boyd <danah(a)danah.org> > > Social Computing Research Fellow 2014 > > The Department of Media, Culture, and Communication at New York University is pleased to announce the availability of a postdoctoral position as a Social Computing Research Fellow. > > Fellows conduct foundational research into the relationships between information technologies and society as part of the Intel Science and Technology Center (ISTC) for Social Computing. In addition to pursuing independently defined projects, the fellow will work with Professors Helen Nissenbaum and Erica Robles-Anderson and will also have opportunities to work with leading researchers in social computing, digital culture, and values in design, members of the Center at other participating universities. > > We welcome applications from a variety of disciplines, including engineering and computer sciences, philosophy, design, information sciences, STS, media studies, law, and traditional social sciences and the humanities. > > These one-year positions may be renewable for a second year; teaching in the department may be an option, depending on availability and interest. Fellows also assist with project-related administration and events. > > Interested candidates should apply via email to Jamie Schuler (jamie.schuler(a)nyu.edu) Grants Administrator, Department of Media, Culture, and Communication. Please include: CV with cover letter, writing sample or representative publication, and the names of three references, including relationship, and contact information (email addresses and phone numbers). > > Applicants who have not yet earned their degrees must provide a letter from their academic advisor confirming the expectation of degree by start of the fellowship. Review of applications will begin February 28, 2014. > > Consult socialcomputing.uci.edu for information about the ISTC. > > ** NYU is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer ** > ------ My New Book: "It's Complicated: The Social Lives of Networked Teens" Pre-Order it now! http://bit.ly/dmbItsComplicated (pretty please) "taken out of context / i must seem so strange" -- ani http://www.danah.org/ || @zephoria

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Re: [Air-L] Technology in "unusual" places?
by Magdalena O! 25 Jan '14

25 Jan '14

Check out Bianca Friere Medeiros's work on favelas and the cable car. http://www.mobilities.ca/bianca-friere-medeiros-and-leo-name/ https://vimeo.com/84660141 Magdalena =^.^= Magdalena Olszanowski, PhD Student, SSHRC Fellow Senior Research Assistant, Mobile Media Lab<http://mobilities.ca> HASTAC Scholar Communication Studies Concordia University Montreal, QC @raisecain<http://twitter.com/raisecain> On 2014-01-25, at 6:00 PM, <air-l-request(a)listserv.aoir.org<mailto:air-l-request@listserv.aoir.org>> wrote: [Air-L] Technology in "unusual" places?

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