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Re: [Air-L] [CITASA] Technology in "unusual" places
by Jen McCalister 25 Jan '14

25 Jan '14

Thank you guys a lot for all the brilliant recommendations. I did a little "dig around" and found some insightful and interesting pieces. I thought I'd share them with you: Nemer, D.(2013). Materializing digital inequalities: the digital artifacts of the marginalized in Brazil. In Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Information and Communications Technologies and Development: Notes-Volume 2 (pp. 108-111). ACM. Nemer, D., Reed, P. (2013). Can a Community Technology Center be For-Profit? A case study of LAN Houses in Brazil. In Proceedings of the CIRN 2013 Community Informatics Conference. Prato, Italy. Vargas, J. H. C. (2006). When a Favela Dared to Become a Gated Condominium The Politics of Race and Urban Space in Rio de Janeiro. Latin American Perspectives, 33(4), 49-81. Zagal, J. P., & Bruckman, A. (2005). From samba schools to computer clubhouses: Cultural institutions as learning environments. Convergence, 11(1), 88-105. Dent, A. S. (2012). Piracy, circulatory legitimacy, and neoliberal subjectivity in Brazil. Cultural Anthropology, 27(1), 28-49. http://www.psych.lse.ac.uk/undergroundsociabilities/index.php From: jenmccalister(a)live.com To: citasa(a)list.citasa.org Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2014 17:49:16 -0500 Subject: [CITASA] Technology in "unusual" places Hello everyone, My name is Jen McCalister, I'm a PhD student at Northumbria University and I'm studying the use of technology in "unusual" places. I was wondering if you smart folks could recommend researchers or scholarly work that focus on technology in the Favellas / slums of Brazil? Thanks heaps. -------------------------------- Jen McCalister PhD Student at Northumbria University _______________________________________________ CITASA mailing list CITASA(a)list.citasa.org http://list.citasa.org/mailman/listinfo/citasa_list.citasa.org

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Technology in "unusual" places‏
by Jen McCalister 25 Jan '14

25 Jan '14

Hello everyone, My name is Jen McCalister, I'm a PhD student at Northumbria University and I'm studying the use of technology in "unusual" places. I was wondering if you smart folks could recommend researchers or scholarly work that focus on technology in the Favellas / slums of Brazil? Thanks heaps. -------------------------------- Jen McCalister PhD Student at Northumbria University

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#ELD14 Call for Proposals closes on Sunday - there is still time to submit!
by AJ Kelton 24 Jan '14

24 Jan '14

The Call for Proposals for the 2014 Emerging Learning Design Conference is about to close, this Sunday, January 26th. http://eld.montclair.edu/eld14-call-for-proposals/ It is not too late to begin thinking about submitting something. #ELD14 is using a revise and resubmit process, similar to what journals use. So a submission that comes in on the 26th will be reviewed by our program committee and accepted or returned with comments, which will give the submitter an opportunity to resubmit, even though the initial submission date has passed. Please consider putting together a proposal. Also, as a reminder, registration is currently open and the Early Bird rate is still available, but there are only 22 seats left at the current price. best, aj p.s. - great thanks to our Platinum Partners: Montclair State University, our Gold Partner: ELI, and our Silver Partner: Cecil College. We've got more Partner announcements to come! -- ----- AJ Kelton Director of Emerging & Instructional Technology College of Humanities and Social Sciences - Montclair State University Doctoral Candidate Educational Communication and Technology - New York University ---------- Emerging Learning Design 2014 http://eld.montclair.edu Twitter: @ELDConf <http://twitter.com/ELDConf> ---------- http://www.ajkelton.net Twitter: @aj_kelton <http://twitter.com/aj_kelton>

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law papers on freedom of speech
by Burcu Bakioglu 24 Jan '14

24 Jan '14

Hi AoiR peeps, If I may bother you with one more request: Do any of you legal types have a legal paper to recommend on freedom of speech for my Internet Governance class? I have a couple at hand but I'm not convinced that they are the most current ones. As with everything Internet, even last year's paper could be sometimes considered to be outdated and with governance you want to present the latest out there, i think... I remember a few legal scholars on the list, I just can't remember exactly who they were, so apologies for a blanket call like this. Thank you in advance. BsB -- Thanks, Burcu S. Bakioglu, Ph.D. Postdoctoral Fellow in New Media Lawrence University http://www.palefirer.com -- "There is nothing more frightening than a clown after midnight." Lon Chaney

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Webology: Volume 10, Number 2, December 2013
by Alireza Noruzi 24 Jan '14

24 Jan '14

Dear All, apologies for cross-posting. We are pleased to inform you that Vol. 10, No. 2 of Webology, an OPEN ACCESS bi-annual journal, is published and available ONLINE now. ------------------ Webology: Volume 10, Number 2, December 2013 TOC: http://www.webology.org/2013/v10n2/toc.html This issue contains: ------------------------- Articles ------------------------- - Managing online identity and diverse social networks on Facebook -- Kirsty Young -- Keywords: Online social networking; Facebook; Identity construction; Impression management; Diverse social networks -- http://www.webology.org/2013/v10n2/a109.pdf - A personalized adaptive e-learning approach based on semantic web technology -- Maryam Yarandi, Hossein Jahankhani, & Abdel-Rahman H. Tawil -- Keywords: Personalized learning; E-learning; Ontology; Adaptive learning; Semantic web -- http://www.webology.org/2013/v10n2/a110.pdf - Have digital repositories come of age? The views of library directors -- David Nicholas, Ian Rowlands, Anthony Watkinson, David Brown, Bill Russell, & Hamid R. Jamali -- Keywords: Institutional repositories; Digital repositories; Open access; Policies; Practices and strategic directions -- http://www.webology.org/2013/v10n2/a111.pdf - Perspectives of academic web content managers on the effectiveness of web publishing and web hosting policies -- Veronica F. McGowan, & Craig McKinley -- Keywords: Web publishing; Hosting policy; Academic web; Universities -- http://www.webology.org/2013/v10n2/a112.pdf - Intelligent interoperable application for employment exchange system using ontology -- Kavidha Ayechetty, & Saradha Arumugam -- Keywords: Interoperable application; distributed application integration; ontology integration; semantic integration; collaborative application; ontology mapping -- http://www.webology.org/2013/v10n2/a113.pdf - Asian top universities in six world university ranking systems -- Mahmood Khosrowjerdi, & Zahra Seif Kashani -- Keywords: Asian Universities, Shanghai ranking, QS ranking, THE ranking, HEEACT ranking, Webometrics ranking, Leiden University ranking -- http://www.webology.org/2013/v10n2/a114.pdf ------------------------- Call for Papers ------------------------- -- http://www.webology.org/callforpapers.html ================================== Best regards, Alireza Noruzi -------------------- Editor-in-Chief of Webology: Alireza Noruzi, Ph.D. Website: http://www.webology.org ~ The great aim of Open Access journals is knowledge sharing. ~ ~ Scientific knowledge is the result of the knowledge sharing and exchange of experiences. ~

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CALL FOR CONFERENCE PROPOSALS: 2015 HETL – SoTE Utah Conference
by Patrick Blessinger 23 Jan '14

23 Jan '14

*CALL FOR CONFERENCE PROPOSALS* *2015 HETL – SoTE Utah Conference* * Proposal Deadline: April 11, 2014* January 20–22, 2015 at Utah Valley University, Orem, Utah <https://www.hetl.org/events/2015-hetl-sote-utah-conference><https://www.hetl.org/events/2015-hetl-sote-utah-conference> *https://www.hetl.org/events/2015-hetl-sote-utah-conference* Please join us for the 2015 Higher Education Teaching and Learning Association (HETL) - Scholarship of Teaching and Engagement (SoTE) Conference to be held in Orem, Utah, on January 20–22, 2015, in cooperation with Utah Valley University Faculty Center for Teaching Excellence<http://www.uvu.edu/facultycenter/> . The conference theme is Reaching the Summit: Explorations in Meaningful Learning Through Community Engagement. Community-based engaged learning provides students with *authentic and meaningful learning* that applies curricula knowledge to real-world situations. Presentations are sought on meaningful community engagement by students, faculty and administration. Presentations on research and global perspectives on engagement are invited. Three tracks will accommodate submission: Track 1: Students and Community Engagement Track 2: Faculty and Community Engagement Track 3: Institution and Community Engagement Conference details are on the conference website<https://www.hetl.org/events/2015-hetl-sote-utah-conference>, and proposals may be submitted at: https://www.hetl.org/2015-<https://www.hetl.org/2015-utah-valley-conference-submission-form/> utah-valley-conference-<https://www.hetl.org/2015-utah-valley-conference-submission-form/> submission-form/<https://www.hetl.org/2015-utah-valley-conference-submission-form/>. *Please submit your proposals by April 11, 2014. * Orem, Utah is nestled in the majestic Wasatch Mountain Range and only minutes way from world renowned ski resorts<http://www.parkcitymountain.com/site/index.html>and the iconic Sundance Film Festival <https://www.sundance.org/> and other cool activities<http://www.newscastic.com/news/10-ways-provo-is-actually-becoming-cool-1329…>. We look forward to seeing you in Utah! Organizing committee, Patrick Blessinger Agata Stachowicz-Stanusch Anton Tolman

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Update to CFP: Projects due 3/1/14: Surveillance and Dataveillance
by Estee N Beck 23 Jan '14

23 Jan '14

Please excuse any cross postings. If you have any questions, please email me off the list at esteenbeck at gmail dot com Call for Projects: Itineration: Cross-Disciplinary Studies in Rhetoric, Media, and Culture Special Edition: Privacy and Dataveillance Updated Deadeline is March 1, 2014 You may view the video CFP and full version of the text-based CFP at this link: http://itineration.org/node/45 Itineration: Cross-Disciplinary Studies in Rhetoric, Media, and Culture invites projects that engage questions of data collection and dataveillance. Some possible areas of inquiry may include, but are not limited to: * Foucault's metaphor of the panopticon and its relationship to questions concerning dataveillance * The rhetorical means companies use to promote dataveillance tracking * The concept of anonymity within social networks, social applications, or other data gathering endeavours (such as medical and financial fields) * Means, implications, and consequences of subverting and resisting data-mining online * Emergent needs of identity protection online from tracking technologies * Public rhetorics concerning security and privacy * The political and social implications of increased observational structures (online or not) and the resulting decrease in privacy * Issues of legal and educational advocacy for greater privacy protection * Technical communication regarding how terms of service and end user agreements discuss tracking technologies along with privacy and anonymity * How data mining and advertising customization leads to assumptions about the attitudes and beliefs in geographical areas * The roles of embodiment and disembodiment connected with gender and identity/privacy and anonymity * The relationship between decreased privacy and anonymity online and boutique and big data practices Interested parties are invited to submit multimedia projects of varying style, form, and content. We are especially interested in projects that push the boundaries in their composition and presentation. In short, please experiment. Play. Learn a new trick. To that end, please note that Itineration no longer publishes text-based articles ("traditional" essay format). Please send any questions concerning project design, format, technical specifications, etc. to Senior Editor and Technical Specialist, Gerald Jackson, at geraldsjackson at gmail dot com. Submissions should be emailed directly to Special Edition editor, Estee Beck, at esteenbeck at gmail dot com. Deadline for submissions is March 1st, 2014. Submission accepted for publication will be published on a rolling basis upon completing the editorial process.

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CABS 2014: Call for Papers
by Mary Beth Watson-Manheim 23 Jan '14

23 Jan '14

*** New Submission Deadline - March 6, 2014 *** --------------------------------------------------------------------------- CABS 2014: Call for Papers --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 5th ACM International Conference on Collaboration Across Boundaries (CABS): Culture, Distance and Technology http://cabs.acm.org/ August 20-22, 2014, Kyoto, Japan Collaboration across Boundaries: Culture, Distance, & Technology 2014 (CABS 2014) is an international and interdisciplinary conference focused on exploring the nature and ways to facilitate intercultural collaboration, including improvements enabled by technology. CABS 2014 is the 5th international conference in the series formerly held as International Conference on Intercultural Collaboration (ICIC). CABS aims to be a multidisciplinary forum that integrates the socio-cultural and technical perspectives, with the objective of exchanging the latest results of studying and supporting intercultural collaboration. ---------------------------------- IMPORTANT DATES: ---------------------------------- March 6, 2014: Submission Deadline for Full Papers, Panels, and Workshops. April 30, 2014: Notification of Acceptance for Full Papers, Panels, and Workshops. May 21, 2014: Submission Deadline for Late-Breaking Papers. June 4, 2014: Notification of Acceptance for Late-Breaking Papers. June 25, 2014: Final camera-ready papers due (Full Papers, Late-Breaking Papers, Panels, Workshops). ---------------------------------- Full Papers Full papers must present original work with contributions to research and practice of intercultural collaboration. All full papers will be evaluated using a double-blind review process. Accepted authors have the option of having their paper included or NOT to be included in the ACM digital library (http://portal.acm.org/) If the authors choose not to have their full paper included, only the abstract of the paper will be included in the ACM Digital Library. Those unpublished papers can be re-submitted and published at other conference proceedings (including ACM conferences) or journals. Full papers can be up to 10 pages long. Submission for a full paper should be thoroughly anonymized and formatted according to the ACM SIGCHI Publications Format using the SIGCHI Papers Template. Papers should be submitted through the Precision Conference System (www.precisionconference.com/~cabs) Please see the SIGCHI author instruction page (http://www.sigchi.org/publications/chipubform) for more information and the downloadable templates. To facilitate the interdisciplinary reviewing process, authors of full papers are asked to categorize their papers by theme (one of three themes) to help us direct papers to the most appropriate reviewers. The three themes are: Communication & Management, Computer-Mediated Collaboration, and Cross-linguistic Collaboration. Although some papers will fit within multiple themes and others may not be an ideal fit for any of them, we ask the authors to choose the closest theme. We will strive to recruit the most appropriate reviewers for all papers. Below are examples of types of contributions a paper in any of the three themes can make to CABS: - DESCRIPTIONS of intercultural and multilingual experiences: Dynamics of global teams, social networks and communities of practice, globally distributed work in virtual context, language use in multicultural and global teams. - METHODOLOGIES and frameworks for studying global collaboration: Developing instruments for measuring culture including surveys, experimental paradigms, computational frameworks, etc.. - THEORIES and models for understanding cultures such as modeling culture, intercultural collaboration, and language varieties. - EMPIRICAL INVESTIGATIONS of intercultural collaboration: Field studies of intercultural collaboration in global organizations and/or in local communities, ethnographic studies on different infrastructure and media use across nations, laboratory studies on the use of technologies, etc.. - TRANSLATION and transition of language and practice: Use of language on the Internet, translating different norms and shaping new practices in global teams, issues of translating language and practices, effects of e-learning on culture diversity. - DOMAIN-SPECIFIC APPLICATIONS for collaboration across boundaries: Education/learning, global enterprise, information and knowledge management/sharing. - INNOVATIVE TECHNOLOGIES for collaboration across boundaries: HCI technologies, robots, conversational agents, language and speech technologies to overcome culture and language barriers. Late-Breaking Papers (Work in Progress) Authors are encouraged to submit their late-breaking papers to present as posters during the conference. Late-breaking papers will be published in the ACM Digital Library, if the authors wish to do so (see above). Late-breaking papers should be no longer than 4 two-column pages in length, formatted according to the ACM SIGCHI template. Please see the SIGCHI author instruction page (http://www.sigchi.org/publications/chipubform) for more information and downloadable templates. Late-Breaking Papers should be submitted through the Precision Conference System (www.precisionconference.com/~cabs) Late-breaking papers will not be blind reviewed. Authors should include their complete names and contact information at the top of their submitted PDF file. Submitted late-breaking papers will not be divided into three subcommittees. They will be reviewed by a panel of distinguished researchers in the area of intercultural collaboration. General Co-Chairs Vanessa Evers (University of Twente, Netherlands) Naomi Yamashita (NTT Communication Science Laboratories, Japan) Program Co-Chairs ・Computer Mediated Collaboration: Susan Fussell (Cornell University, USA) ・Cross-linguistic Communication: Carolyn Rose (Carnegie Mellon University, USA) ・Management and Communication: Mary Beth Watson-Manheim (University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC), USA) Program Committee ・ Computer Supported Collaboration Pernille Bjorn (IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark) Hideaki Kuzuoka (University of Tsukuba, Japan) Gloria Mark (University of California, Irvine, USA) John Thomas (IBM, USA) Hao-Chuan Wang (National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan) ・ Cross-linguistic Communication Seza Dogruoz (Tilburg University, Netherlands) Rohit Kumar (BBN Technologies, USA) Kristine Lund (University of Lyon, France) Stephan Vogel (Qatar Computing Research Institute, Qatar) Janyce Wiebe (University of Pittsburgh, USA) ・ Management and Communication Wai Fong Boh (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore) Miriam Erez (Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Israel) Paul Leonardi (Northwestern University, USA) Michael O'Leary (Georgetown University, USA) Sundeep Sahay (University of Oslo, Norway) -- Mary Beth Watson-Manheim Associate Professor MIS PhD Program Director Department of Information & Decision Sciences Department of Communications University of Illinois, Chicago

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Research on middle class and use of social media for political participation
by Joan Okitoi 23 Jan '14

23 Jan '14

Dear fellow AoiR's, I am doing a qualitative PhD research at the University of Bonn on how the middle class are using social media to engage in political discussions online vis-a-vis their actions offline, to communicate with politicians, to mobilize and protest when certain political decisions are made by leaders etc. Does anyone know of research that sheds more light on how the middle class utilize social media to shape politics? Thank you all very much in advance. Best regards, Joan

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Call for Chapters: New Opportunities for Artistic Practice in Virtual Worlds
by Denise Doyle 23 Jan '14

23 Jan '14

Dear AoiR list Please find below a Call for Chapters for 'New Opportunities for Artistic Practice in Virtual Worlds' Many thanks Denise ----------------- CALL FOR CHAPTER PROPOSALS Proposal Submission Deadline: February 28, 2014 New Opportunities for Artistic Practice in Virtual Worlds A book edited by Dr. Denise Doyle (University of Wolverhampton, UK) To be published by IGI Global: http://www.igi-global.com/publish/call-for-papers/call-details/1228 Introduction Although virtual worlds remain unstable phenomena a substantial amount of research continues to be undertaken within them and is reflected in the number of disciplines that study them particularly in an interdisciplinary context. Whilst there is already a history of artists investigating new spaces and new technological forms this exploration has continued more recently with sections of the artistic community utilising virtual worlds as a new form, or a new potential artistic space. Established real-world artists have explored virtual worlds as environments for practice and a number of artists and designers have continued to specifically work with Second Life to explore the potential and limitations of the platform itself. A range of early key works and other seminal works produced in Second Life still hold strong to be scrutinised in the context of new technologies and for their contribution in expanding our understanding and experience of virtual space. Objective of the Book The mission of the publication is to provide a coherent account of artistic practices in virtual worlds and to consider the contribution the Second Life platform has made in an historical, theoretical and critical context within the field of art and technology and digital art. The book will bring together a diverse group of stakeholders who have yet to have a coherent dialogue on Second Life’s contribution to artistic practice and will provide a platform to bring together artists critical reflections on the work they have undertaken in the platform and in other virtual worlds. Finally, the volume will examine the specific features and characteristics of Second Life that contribute to the virtual aesthetics and languages born out of the nature of avatar-based interaction that have been developed by the artistic and creative community. Target Audience The volume is intended for both artists and scholars in the fields of digital art, art and technology, media arts history, virtual worlds, games studies and a broader academic audience who are interested in the history of art and technology and the philosophical implications of virtual space. It will be an important study book for media arts, games studies and virtual worlds studies students and will be a useful resource as a historical and critical reference for new media art. The book will be of value to the field of the philosophy of technology and contribute to the continued theoretical discourse of physical and virtual space. Recommended topics include, but are not limited to, the following: Artistic spaces for collaborative experiences MGandhi: Joseph DeLappe’s Salt Satyagraha Project The histories and technologies of the artistic imagination Early artist pioneers in Second Life The transreal: the politics and aesthetics of the virtual and physical Art and performance in Second Life Critical frameworks for the analysis of artworks in virtual worlds Paul Sermon, telematics and Second Life Art between worlds: artistic strategies of imagination and place The Kritical Works in SL project The phenomenological experience of the artist in virtual Worlds Sound and aesthetics in virtual space Virtual Sweat-shops: the politics of virtual world spaces High art/Folk art practices Lynn Hershman and the Presence project Digital materialisations: from the virtual to the physical Second Life: Ten years on Artist as avatar; audience as avatar Performance, Affect, Virtuality Virtual worlds and media art histories Submission Procedure Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit on or before February 28, 2014, a 2-3 page chapter proposal clearly explaining the mission and concerns of his or her proposed chapter. Submissions should be made through the link at the bottom of this page. Authors of accepted proposals will be notified by March 15, 2014 about the status of their proposals and sent chapter guidelines. Full chapters are expected to be submitted by June 30, 2014. All submitted chapters will be reviewed on a double-blind review basis. Contributors may also be requested to serve as reviewers for this project. Publisher This book is scheduled to be published by IGI Global (formerly Idea Group Inc.), publisher of the ìInformation Science Referenceî (formerly Idea Group Reference), ìMedical Information Science Reference,î ìBusiness Science Reference,î and ìEngineering Science Referenceî imprints. For additional information regarding the publisher, please visit www.igi-global.com. This publication is anticipated to be released in 2015. Important Dates February 28, 2014: Proposal Submission Deadline March 15, 2014: Notification of Acceptance June 30, 2014: Full Chapter Submission August 30, 2014: Review Results Returned October 15, 2014: Final Acceptance Notification October 30, 2014: Final Chapter Submission Inquiries can be forwarded to Dr. Denise Doyle Faculty of Arts, MK Building Molineux Street UNIVERSITY OF WOLVERHAMPTON WV1 1SB Tel.: +44 1902 322 443 E-mail: D.Doyle(a)wlv.ac.uk

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