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Call for Papers "Media: Theory and Practice"
by Mishel Pavlovski 20 Jan '14

20 Jan '14

Dear colleagues, Please find bellow Call for Papers for Second Annual International CCCS Conference 2014 “Media: Theory and Practice”. Sorry for cross posting. Mishel Pavlovski Call for Papers Second Annual International CCCS Conference 2014 ‘Media: Theory and Practice’ Skopje, Macedonia, 4-6 September 2014 Supported by: European Communication Research and Education Association International Association for Media and Communication Research The Centre for Culture and Cultural Studies (CCCS) invites proposals for papers, thematic panels and original media productions for Second Annual International CCCS Conference 2014 ‘Media: Theory and Practice’ The aim of this conference revolves around a foundational impetus to shed greater light on all relevant aspects of media studies, including mass communication, media technology, the visual and the performing arts, TV, radio, WEB and print media, as well as other key components of media studies and mass communication. We invite proposals based on media theory (particularly critical media studies and cultural studies), and proposals that consider the relationship between media and (popular) culture, politics, arts, new media, as pertinent fields of study. We welcome submissions that offer original media productions: documentary films, fictionalized or non-narrative creative expressions. The submitted proposal needs to contain a creative or theoretical explanation of the submitted work. We invite projects by PhD students or submissions by teams of students and instructors (lecturers). Hence, the Second Annual International CCCS Conference 2014 ‘Media: Theory and Practice’ strives to offer a dialogic space for media theorists and practitioners. Along those lines, we invite media studies’ theorists as well as practitioners to offer proposals through engaging and current ideas, paper topics, workshop presentations and round table discussions. Possible topics include, but are not limited to: * Media Analyses o Content analysis o Media literacy o Media discourses * Critical Theory and Media Criticism o Media and hegemony o Media and globalization * Media and Political Communication o Media activism o Media and ideology o Media and democracy * Media and Law o (De)Regulation of media o Media and privacy o Media and copyright * Art and Media o Art-science interface o Media and aesthetics o Film o Theatre o The visual arts o The performing arts * Media and Culture o Media and gender o Diaspora, migrants and media o Media and ethnicity o Media and audience o Cultural populism o Cultural capital o Media and remembrance/forgetting o Media and identity o Media representation * New Media o Media and games o Social media o Digital activism o Media ecosystem o Multimedia * Journalism studies o Journalism and social and cultural representations o The role and status of journalism in the era of digital technology * Alternative and community media Paper proposals For individual paper proposals, please fill out the following form <http://cultcenter.net/?wpgform_qv=registration-form-papers> http://cultcenter.net/?wpgform_qv=registration-form-papers Submissions for individual paper proposals should number to 250 words. Panel proposals Panel proposals are also welcomed, particularly those organized by internationally recognized experts aiming to bring together researchers on key topics for an interactive discussion among the panel members and the participants. Panels are an important component of CCCS’s 2014 Conference. For panel proposals, please fill out the following form <http://cultcenter.net/?wpgform_qv=registration-form-panels> http://cultcenter.net/?wpgform_qv=registration-form-panels Submissions for panel proposals should include a 300-word abstract, for entire panel. Important Dates and Fees * Deadline for abstracts submission: 1 March 2014 * Notifications of acceptance: 1 April 2014 * Deadline for full paper submission: 1 December 2014 * Early registration (till 1 May 2014): €40 * Late registration (till 15 August 2014): €60 * On-site registration (or after 15 August 2014): €80 The Conference will be held on 4-6 September, 2014 in Skopje, the Republic of Macedonia. The registration fee includes: the welcome party, conference materials, an online publication of the abstracts, refreshment breaks. Full papers that have received a positive review will be published in the journals “Култура/Culture” and/or “Investigating Culture”. Official languages: English, Macedonian, Russian For any further information please contact Dr. Mishel Pavlovski ( <mailto:mishel@cultcenter.net> mishel(a)cultcenter.net) or Dr. Loreta Georgievska Jakovleva ( <mailto:loreta@cultcenter.net> loreta(a)cultcenter.net) The Centre for Culture and Cultural Studies <http://www.cultcenter.net/> http://www.cultcenter.net/

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collaborative production
by Barry Wellman 20 Jan '14

20 Jan '14

fyi Barry Wellman _______________________________________________________________________ NetLab FRSC INSNA Founder Faculty of Information (iSchool) 611 Bissell Building 140 St. George St. University of Toronto Toronto Canada M5S 3G6 http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman twitter: @barrywellman NSA/CSEC: Canadian and American citizen NETWORKED:The New Social Operating System. Lee Rainie & Barry Wellman MIT Press http://amzn.to/zXZg39 Print $20 Kindle $16 Old/NewCyberTimes http://bit.ly/c8N9V8 ________________________________________________________________________ ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2014 14:14:15 -0500 From: citasa-request(a)list.citasa.org Reply-To: citasa(a)list.citasa.org To: citasa(a)list.citasa.org Subject: CITASA Digest, Vol 67, Issue 14 Send CITASA mailing list submissions to citasa(a)list.citasa.org To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://list.citasa.org/mailman/listinfo/citasa_list.citasa.org or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to citasa-request(a)list.citasa.org You can reach the person managing the list at citasa-owner(a)list.citasa.org When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of CITASA digest..." Today's Topics: 1. P2Pvalue Debate / Project 22 January Barcelona & online (Mayo Fuster Morell) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Sun, 19 Jan 2014 05:10:37 +0100 From: Mayo Fuster Morell <mayo.fuster(a)eui.eu> To: <info(a)igopnet.cc> Subject: [CITASA] P2Pvalue Debate / Project 22 January Barcelona & online Message-ID: <52DB503D.1060407(a)eui.eu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"; Format="flowed" Hoping is of the interest of people in this list. ENGLISH/CATAL?/CASTELLANO ENGLISH Debate & Presentation European project P2Pvalue: Conditions that favour value creation in common-based peer production 22 January 2014 // Debate 18-21h Barcelona (CCCB) & online. Networking meet up 21-23h at the C3 BAR (CCCB). How does value works in the emerging organizational forms? What conditions favor the collaborative production? What distinguishes the commons from the traditional hierarchical and commercial organizations? Discussion and presentation of the European action research project P2Pvalue "Techno-social platform for sustainable models and value generation in commons-based peer production in the Future Internet". @P2Pvalue #P2Pvalue Live streaming: www.p2pvalue.eu/streaming<http://www.p2pvalue.eu/streaming> Lloc: CCCB - Montalegre, 5 - 08001 Barcelona. Sala Auditori Event info: http://igopnet.cc/p2pvalue-barcelona/ The Common based peer production is an emerging and innovative production model in which the creative energy of large numbers of citizens supported by a digital platform takes place outside the parameters of the traditionally hierarchical and mercantil organization resulting in the public provision of commons resources. This is the case of projects such as Linux, Wikipedia, Open Street Map or SETI , etc.. Recently there has been an expansion to other areas of activity, such as citizen science, product design, management of common spaces and open data sources. The project P2Pvalue depart from an exercise of mapping the diffusion and hybridization of peer production, and investigates the conditions which favor the collaborative creation and the logic of value of these emerging forms. The research results will be used to develop a digital -platform based on decentralized architecture and the design of public policies that promote the commons. 18h Roundtable debate with international participants in the project, and a large representation of local experiences, in which the inspiring axes of the project will be discussed and presented the early reflections and tools generated. The session is open and free and is intended to be also an invitation to participate in the project and meeting up with local communities P2P. Moderation: Marco Berlinguer (IGOPnet.cc Autonomous University of Barcelona) "What governance mean in the digital environment and how it shapes collaborative production" by Mayo Fuster Morell (IGOPnet.cc Autonomous University of Barcelona; Berkman center fellow; Spanish Chapter Open Knowledge Foundation; Amical Viquimedia) "Legal challenges around collaborative production" by Primavera De Filippi (CNRS; Berkman center) "Value in collaborative economies" by Adam Advisson (University of Milan. Co-author of the book "The Ethical Economy. Rebuilding Value after the Crisis") "Decentralised technologies to support digital commons" by Samer Hassan (University Complutense of Madrid) 19:30h Debate. Discussants: Joan Subirats (IGOP-UAB, P2Pvalue), Albert Ca?igueral (OuiShare), Javier Creus (OKFN), Nuria Alabao (Fundaci?n de los Comons), Enric Senabre (Junta P2Pvalue and Goteo), Ignasi Capdevila, Chris Pinchen & Karthik Jayaraman (P2P Foundation), Juan Pav?n (Universitat Complutense de Madrid), Amical Viquipedia, among others. Other participants of the P2Pvalue project Ruben Martinez, Jorge Salcedo & Monica Garriga (IGOPnet.cc), David Rozas (Drupal, Universitat de Surrey), Alessando Gandini (Universitat de Mil?), Pablo Ojanguren, Antonio Tenorio, Antonio Tapiador & Javier Arroyo (Universitat Complutense de Madrid), among others. 21-23h After the event, there will be at CCCB Bar a "networking meet up" party to keep the conversation and present the mapping and directory of collaborative production. Event organised by P2Pvalue project (funded by the European Commission CAPS call), IGOPnet.cc and P2PFoundation, and the support of CCCB. The networking meet up is organised in collaboration with the Spanish Chapter of the Open Knowledge Foundation. Contact: igopnet(a)lists.contrast.org<mailto:igopnet@lists.contrast.org> ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// CATALA Debat Presentaci? projecte P2Pvalue: Producci? col.laborativa en xarxa 22 de Gener 2014 // 18-21h Barcelona (CCCB) & online. 21-23h Networking meet up al C3 BAR (CCCB). Com funciona el valor en les formes organitzatives emergents? Quines condicions afavoreixen la producci? col*laborativa en xarxa? Qu? distingeix el procom? de les organitzacions jer?rquiques i mercantils tradicionals?. Debat i presentaci? de P2Pvalue, projecte europeu de recerca acci?. @P2Pvalue #P2Pvalue Retransmissi? en viu: www.p2pvalue.eu/streaming<http://www.p2pvalue.eu/streaming> Lloc: CCCB - Montalegre, 5 - 08001 Barcelona. Sala Auditori. Info esdeveniment: http://igopnet.cc/ca/p2pvalue-barcelona/ La Common based peer production o producci? procom? entre iguals ?s un model emergent i innovador de producci? en el qual l'energia creativa d'un gran nombre de ciutadans i ciutadanes es coordina, generalment, amb el suport d'una plataforma digital -fora dels par?metres de l'organitzaci? jer?rquica tradicional- per donar com a resultat la provisi? p?blica de recursos procomuns. D'aquesta manera s'han constru?t projectes tan coneguts com Linux, Viquip?dia, SETi o Open Street Map, etc. i fa poc s'est? expandint a moltes altres ?rees d'activitat, com la ci?ncia ciutadana, el disseny de productes, la gesti? d'espais comuns i les fonts de dades obertes. El projecte P2Pvalue<http://www.p2pvalue.eu/> parteix d'un exercici de mapatge de la difusi? i hibridaci? de la producci? entre iguals, i investiga les condicions que afavoreixen la creaci? col*laborativa, aix? com la l?gica del valor d'aquestes formes emergents. Els resultats de la recerca serviran per al desenvolupament d'una plataforma digital basada en arquitectura descentralitzada i el disseny de pol?tiques p?bliques que promoguin el procom?. 18h Taula rodona internacional amb participantes internacionals en el projecte, i una abundant representaci? d'experi?ncies locals, en qu? es debatran els eixos inspiradors del projecte i es presentaran les primeres reflexions i instruments generats. La sessi? ?s oberta i gratu?ta i pret?n ser, a m?s, una invitaci? a participar-hi i un espai de trobada amb les comunitats locals P2P. Presentaci? de la taula, per Marco Berlinguer (IGOPnet.cc) ?La governabilitat de la producci? col*laborativa en l'entorn digital?, per Mayo Fuster Morell (Berkman Center; Universitat Aut?noma de Barcelona IGOPnet.cc, Fundaci?n Cap?tulo Espa?ol Open Knowledge, Amical Viquimedia). ?Els desafiaments legals al voltant de la producci? col*laborativa?, per Primavera de Filippi (CNRS Par?s, Berkman Center). ?El valor en les economies de col*laboraci??, per Adam Advisson (Universitat de Mil?, autor de The Ethical Economy. Rebuilding Value after the Crisis). ?Tecnologies descentralitzades per donar suport als digital commons?, per Samer Hassan (Universitat Complutense de Madrid). 19.30 h // Debat. Comentaristes: Joan Subirats (IGOP-UAB, P2Pvalue), Albert Ca?igueral (OuiShare), Javier Creus (OKFN), Nuria Alabao (Fundaci?n de los Comons), Enric Senabre (Junta P2Pvalue i Goteo), Ignasi Capdevila, Chris Pinchen i Karthik Jayaraman (P2P Foundation), Juan Pav?n (Universitat Complutense de Madrid), Amical Viquipedia, entre d'altres. Altres participants en el projecte P2PValue: Ruben Martinez, Jorge Salcedo i Monica Garriga (IGOPnet.cc), David Rozas (Drupal, Universitat de Surrey), Alessando Gandini (Universitat de Mil?), Pablo Ojanguren, Antonio Tenorio, Antonio Tapiador i Javier Arroyo (Universitat Complutense de Madrid). 21 - 23.00h L'acte continuar? al bar del CCCB amb un piscolabis i espai de networking entre les comunitats locals P2P. S'hi presentar? el directori i el mapa de producci? procom?. Esdeveniment organitzat pel projecte P2Pvalue (finan?at per la Comissi? Europea CAPS call), IGOPnet.cc i P2PFoundation, i el suport del CCCB. El meet up s'organitza en col?laboraci? amb el Cap?tol Espanyol de la Open Knowledge Foundation. Contacte: igopnet(a)lists.contrast.org<mailto:igopnet@lists.contrast.org> ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// CASTELLANO Debate Presentaci?n proyecto P2Pvalue: Producci?n colaborativa en red 22 de enero 2014 // 18-21h Barcelona (CCCB) & online. 21-23h Networking meet up en el C3 BAR (CCCB). ?C?mo funciona el valor en las formas organizativas emergentes? ?Qu? condiciones favorecen la producci?n colaborativa en red? ?Qu? distingue el procom?n de las organizaciones jer?rquicas y mercantiles tradicionales?. Debate y presentaci?n de P2Pvalue, proyecto europeo de investigaci?n acci?n (http://www.p2pvalue.eu) @P2Pvalue #P2Pvalue Retransmisi?n en vivo: www.p2pvalue.eu/streaming<http://www.p2pvalue.eu/streaming> Lugar: CCCB - Montalegre, 5 - 08001 Barcelona. Sala Auditori. Info evento: http://igopnet.cc/es/p2pvalue-barcelona/ La Common based peer production<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commons-based_peer_production> o producci?n procom?n entre iguales es un modelo emergente e innovador de producci?n en el que la energ?a creativa de un gran n?mero de ciudadanos y ciudadanas se coordina, generalmente, apoyado por una plataforma digital -fuera de los par?metros de la organizaci?n jer?rquica tradicional- para dar como resultado la provisi?n p?blica de recursos procomunes. De este modo se han construido proyectos tan conocidos como Linux, Wikipedia, SETi u Open Street Map, etc. y recientemente se est? expandiendo a otras ?reas de actividad, como la ciencia ciudadana, el dise?o de productos, la gesti?n de espacios comunes y las fuentes de datos abiertos. El proyecto P2Pvalue<http://www.p2pvalue.eu/> parte de un ejercicio de mapeo de la difusi?n e hibridaci?n de la producci?n entre iguales, e investiga las condiciones que favorecen la creaci?n colaborativa, as? como la l?gica del valor de estas formas emergentes. Los resultados de la investigaci?n servir?n para el desarrollo de una plataforma digital basada en arquitectura descentralizada y el dise?o de pol?ticas p?blicas que promuevan el procom?n. 18h Mesa redonda internacional con participantes internacionales en el proyecto, bajo la moderaci?n de Marco Berlinguer, y una nutrida representaci?n de experiencias locales, en que se discutir?n los ejes inspiradores del proyecto y se presentar?n las primeras reflexiones e instrumentos generados. La sesi?n es abierta y gratuita y pretende ser, adem?s, una invitaci?n a participar y un espacio de encuentro con las comunidades locales P2P. Presentaci?n de la mesa, por Marco Berlinguer (IGOPnet.cc) ?La gobernabilidad de la producci?n colaborativa en el entorno digital?,por Mayo Fuster Morell (Berkman Center; Universidad Aut?noma de Barcelona IGOPnet.cc, Fundaci?n Cap?tulo Espa?ol Open Knowledge, Amical Viquimedia). ?Los desaf?os legales alrededor de la producci?n colaborativa?, por Primavera de Filippi (CNRS Par?s, Berkman Center). ?El valor en las econom?as de colaboraci?n?, por Adam Advisson (Universidad de Mil?n, autor de The Ethical Economy. Rebuilding Value after the Crisis). ?Tecnolog?as descentralizadas para apoyar los digital commons?, por Samer Hassan (Universidad Complutense de Madrid). 19.30 h // Debate. Comentaristas: Joan Subirats (IGOP-UAB, P2Pvalue), Albert Ca?igueral (OuiShare), Javier Creus (OKFN), Nuria Alabao (Fundaci?n de los Comons), Enric Senabre (Junta P2Pvalue y Goteo), Ignasi Capdevila, Chris Pinchen y Karthik Jayaraman (P2P Foundation), Juan Pav?n (Universidad Complutense de Madrid), Amical Viquipedia, entre otros. Otros participantes en el proyecto P2Pvalue: Ruben Martinez, Jorge Salcedo y Monica Garriga (IGOPnet.cc), David Rozas (Drupal, Universidad de Surrey), Alessando Gandini (Universidad de Mil?n), Pablo Ojanguren, Antonio Tenorio, Antonio Tapiador y Javier Arroyo (Universidad Complutense de Madrid). De 21.30 a 23.00 h el evento seguir? en el Bar del CCCB con un pica pica espacio de networking entre las comunidades locales P2P. En el mismo se presentara el directorio y mapa de producci?n procomun. Evento organizado por el proyecto P2Pvalue (financiado por la Comisi?n Europea CAPS call), IGOPnet.cc y P2PFoundation, y el apoyo del CCCB. El meet up se organiza en colaboraci?n con el Cap?tulo Espa?ol de la Open Knowledge Foundation (OKFN). Contacto: igopnet(a)lists.contrast.org<mailto:igopnet@lists.contrast.org> -- ???`?.(*?.?(`?.? ?.??)?.?*).??`?? ????*???? Mayo Fuster Morell ?.?.?*?`?? @Lilaroja ???`?.(?.??(?.?* *?.?)`?.?).??`?? Fellow. Berkman Center for Internet and Society. Harvard University. Researcher. Institute of Government and Public Policies. Autonomous University of Barcelona. Ph.D European University Institute Website: http://www.onlinecreation.info Phone: 0034-648877748 The information transmitted is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. Any review, retransmission, dissemination, distribution, forwarding, or other use of, or taking of any action in reliance upon, this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited without the express permission of the sender. 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Participate in research about gossip!
by Hansika Kapoor 20 Jan '14

20 Jan '14

Hello, Do spare 10 mins to participate in a study about the evolutionarily significant behaviour of gossip. We're studying how gossiping behaviour is changing in the Internet era. Your contribution will be extremely useful to us :) Feel free to share the link with others who may be interested. Thank you :) If you have trouble viewing or submitting this form, you can fill it out online: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/15N8kHSh-VngNk0Zcco0tiI_BKEbdQ0U0YKuQRXBb1t… -- Thanks & Regards, For Monk Prayogshala, Hansika Kapoor Department of Psychology +91 9167226464 This email message has been dispatched using Monk Prayogshala's Daak communication service.The email message and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email message in error please notify Monk Prayogshala immediately. If you are not the intended recipient you are notified that disclosing, copying, distributing or taking any action in reliance on the contents of this information is strictly prohibited. Warning: Computer viruses can be transmitted via email. The recipient should check this email and any attachments for the presence of viruses.Monk Prayogshala does not accept any liability for any damage caused by any virus transmitted along with this email message. All e-mail transmissions cannot be guaranteed to be secure or error-free as information could be intercepted, corrupted, lost, destroyed, arrive late or incomplete, or contain viruses. Monk Prayogshala does not accept liability for any errors or omissions in the contents of this email message, which arise as a result of e-mail transmission.

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New book: Christian Fuchs - Social Media: A Critical Introduction
by Christian Fuchs 20 Jan '14

20 Jan '14

Christian Fuchs. 2014. Social Media. A Critical Introduction. London: Sage. Paperback ISBN 9781446257319 Hardcover ISBN 9781446257302 More information: http://fuchs.uti.at/books/social-media-a-critical-introduction/ Now more than ever, we need to understand social media - the good as well as the bad. We need critical knowledge that helps us to navigate the controversies and contradictions of this complex digital media landscape. Only then can we make informed judgements about what's happening in our media world, and why. Showing the reader how to ask the right kinds of questions about social media, Christian Fuchs takes us on a journey across social media, delving deep into case studies on Google, Facebook, Twitter, WikiLeaks and Wikipedia. The result lays bare the structures and power relations at the heart of our media landscape. This book is the essential, critical guide for understanding social media and for all students of media studies and sociology. Readers will never look at social media the same way again. Sample chapter: Twitter and Democracy: A New Public Sphere? http://www.uk.sagepub.com/upm-data/58967_Fuchs__Social_Media.pdf Introduction: http://fuchs.uti.at/wp-content/introduction.pdf CONTENTS: 1. What is a Critical Introduction to Social Media? 1 I. FOUNDATIONS 29 2. What is Social Media? 31 3. Social Media as Participatory Culture 52 4. Social Media and Communication Power 69 II. APPLICATIONS 95 5. The Power and Political Economy of Social Media 97 6. Google: Good or Evil Search Engine? 126 7. Facebook: A Surveillance Threat to Privacy? 153 8. Twitter and Democracy: A New Public Sphere? 176 9. WikiLeaks: Can We Make Power Transparent? 210 10. Wikipedia: A New Democratic Form of Collaborative Work and Production? 235 III. FUTURES 251 11. Conclusion: Social Media and its Alternatives – Towards a Truly Social Media 253 References 267 Index 289

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Call for Participants: Transgender Internet Usage Study
by Avery Dame 19 Jan '14

19 Jan '14

Hi all, I'm currently working on a qualitative study on transgender individuals' internet use. I've included the official Call for Participants below, as well as a persistent link to the official call. Please share it widely, as I'm still seeking participants. If you meet the criteria and would be interested in participating, please let me know at the email address below. Call for Participants: I am Avery Dame, a doctoral student in Women's Studies at the University of Maryland, College Park. I am recruiting individuals who identify under the transgender umbrella (including but not limited to transgender, transsexual, genderqueer, ftm, or mtf) for a voluntary qualitative study exploring how transgender individuals acquire knowledge and communicate online about "transgender" and related concepts/issues. If you volunteer, you will be asked to participate in an approximately 60 minute interview on your experiences gathering information and communicating with other transgender individuals online. To be eligible, you must be at least 18 years of age, reside in the United States of America, and identify under the transgender umbrella. For more information, or if you meet the above eligibility criteria and are interested in participating, please contact me via e-mail (adame(a)umd.edu) This project has been approved by the University of Maryland Institutional Review Board, which protects human subjects of research. As part of the study, I will provide confidentiality to all volunteers and participants will be referred to by a letter of the alphabet in all research documents. This project is conducted with the supervision of my project advisor, Dr. Elizabeth Toth. If you have any questions or concerns, you may contact her via by telephone (301-405-8077) or e-mail (eltoth(a)umd.edu) The call can also be found here: http://averydame.net/?p=369 Thank you, Avery Dame -- Avery Dame, M.A. Graduate Student / Women's Studies / University of Maryland, College Park averydame.net <http://www.averydame.net> avery.dame(a)gmail.com

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great social media and influence conference coming up in Toronto
by Barry Wellman 19 Jan '14

19 Jan '14

where it will be sunny and warm Barry Wellman _______________________________________________________________________ NetLab FRSC INSNA Founder Faculty of Information (iSchool) 611 Bissell Building 140 St. George St. University of Toronto Toronto Canada M5S 3G6 http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman twitter: @barrywellman NSA/CSEC: Canadian and American citizen NETWORKED:The New Social Operating System. Lee Rainie & Barry Wellman MIT Press http://amzn.to/zXZg39 Print $20 Kindle $16 Old/NewCyberTimes http://bit.ly/c8N9V8 ________________________________________________________________________ Call for Submissions: Papers (extended abstracts), Panels and Posters 2014 SOCIAL MEDIA & SOCIETY CONFERENCE (#SMSociety14) September 27-28, 2014, Toronto, Canada Conference website: http://SocialMediaAndSociety.com/ IMPORTANT DATES Paper & Panel Abstracts Due: April 18, 2014 Paper & Panel Notification: May 19, 2014 Poster Abstracts Due: May 23, 2014 Poster Notification: June 13, 2014 Conference Dates: September 27-28, 2014 DESCRIPTION We live in an era of â??Big Dataâ??. Petabyte and exabyte-size datasets are becoming increasingly common. Much of the data is coming from social media in the form of user-generated content. What do we do with all of these â??socialâ?? data and how do we make sense of it all? What are the inherent challenges and issues surrounding working with social media data? How are social media platforms and the data that they generate changing us as individuals, changing our organizations and changing our society? Additionally what are the political, ethical, privacy, and security implications of the wide availability of these data? These are just a few questions that we have for this yearâ??s participants of the 2014 Social Media & Society Conference (#SMSociety14). The Social Media & Society Conference is an annual gathering of leading social media researchers from around the world. Now, in its 5th year, the 2014 Conference will be held in Toronto, Canada from September 27 to 28. From its inception, the conference has focused on the best practices for studying the impact and implications of social media on society. The conference offers an intensive two-day program comprising of paper presentations, panel discussions, and posters covering wide-ranging topics related to social media. Organized by the Social Media Lab at Dalhousie University, the conference provides attendees an opportunity to exchange ideas, present their original research, learn about recently completed and work-in-progress studies, and strengthen connections with their peers. Last yearâ??s conference hosted nearly 200 attendees, featured research from 90+ scholars and practitioners across several fields from over 60 institutions in 15 different countries. SUBMISSION PROCESS We invite you to submit papers (extended abstracts), panel proposals and posters on a variety of topics including (but not limited to!): Social Media & Big Data, Social Media Impact on Society, Theories & Methods, and Online/Offline Communities. Full papers are not required for this conference, only an extended abstract (~500 words, excluding references) on a completed or well-developed project related to the broad theme of â??Social Media & Society.â?? All submissions will be peer-reviewed. If selected, the author(s) will be invited to give a 15-minute oral presentation followed by a 5 min Q&A period at the conference. Author(s) of accepted paper abstracts may also be invited to submit their full papers to the new Big Data & Society Journal published by SAGE. Instructions for authors and more information is available at http://SocialMediaAndSociety.com TOPICS OF INTEREST Social Media & Big Data - Visualization of Social Media Data - Social Media Data Mining - Scalability Issues and Social Media Data - Social Media Analytics Social Media Impact on Society - Private Self/Public Self - The Sharing/Attention Economy - Virality & Memes - Political Mobilization & Engagement - Social Media and Health - Social Media and Business (Marketing, PR, HR, Risk Management, etc.) - Social Media and Academia (Alternative Metrics. Learning Analytics, etc.) - Social Media and Public Administration - Social Media and the News Theories & Methods - Qualitative and Quantitative Approaches - Opinion Mining and Sentiment Analysis - Social Network Analysis - Theoretical Models for Studying, Analysing and Understanding Social Media Online/Offline Communities - Trust and Credibility in Social Media - Online Community Detection - Influential User Detection - Online Identity - Case Studies of Online and/or Offline Communities Formed on Social Media CONFERENCE CHAIR Anatoliy Gruzd Associate Professor, School of Information Management Director, Social Media Lab Dalhousie University, Canada Twitter: @gruzd CONFERENCE ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Anatoliy Gruzd, Dalhousie University, Canada Barry Wellman, University of Toronto, Canada Philip Mai, Dalhousie University, Canada Jenna Jacobson, University of Toronto, Canada

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CaTaC'14 - keynote speakers and date change
by Charles Ess 18 Jan '14

18 Jan '14

Dear AoIR-ists, CaTaC¹14: Culture, Technology, Communication: Celebration, Transformation, New Directions important updates. Please distribute and cross-post as appropriate. Conference website: <http://www.catacconference.org/> On behalf of the Organizing Committee, I¹m very pleased to note that CaTaC¹14 will be enlivened and inspired by two keynote speakers: Andrew Feenberg, Canada Research Chair in the Philosophy of Technology, School of Communication, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada. Andrew is among the most significant and influential contemporary philosophers of technology. His work is rooted in Critical Theory and phenomenology, and emphasizes the critical requirements for democratic approaches to technology. Judith Simon, Institute of Philosophy, University of Vienna, Austria; Institute for Technology Assessment, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany Judith's research focuses on epistemic dimensions of ICTs, and is rooted in STS and feminist philosophy. Her ideas on distributed epistemic responsibility in sociotechnical environments play an important role in the Onlife Manifesto, a project of the European Commission that seeks to foster more humane and sustainable technology development. Please also the note change of dates: June 18-20, 2014. NB! June is a busy month for conferences and tourism in Oslo. We strongly urge potentially interested participants to explore the resource lists on the conference website of recommended accommodations and book as early as possible. Notifications of acceptance will be issued sufficiently early (March 28, 2014) so as to allow cost-free reservation cancellation if need be. Important Dates: Submission of papers (short or full), panel proposals: 16 February 2014 Notification of acceptance: 28 March 2014 Final formatted papers (for conference proceedings): 18 April 2014 Information regarding submission procedures will be available soon. Registration fees will be announced in early February. We look forward to welcoming you to Oslo next June! - charles ess Professor in Media Studies Conference Co-organizers: Charles Ess (Department of Media and Communication, University of Oslo) Maja van der Velden (Department of Informatics, University of Oslo) Organizing Committee José Abdelnour-Nocera (School of Computing and Technology, University of West London) Herbert Hrachovec (Philosophy Department, University of Vienna) Leah Macfadyen (Evaluation and Learning Analytics, University of British Columbia) Patrizia Schettino (Communication Studies, Università della Svizzera italiana) Ylva Hård af Segerstad (Department of Applied Information Technology at the University of Gothenburg/Chalmers) Andra Siibak (Media Studies, University of Tartu) Michele M. Strano, Program Chair (Communication Studies, Bridgewater College) Satomi Sugiyama (Communication and Media Studies, Franklin College Switzerland)

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twittersifter beta
by Shulman, Stu 18 Jan '14

18 Jan '14

Beta testing our first new product in three years: free estimates (self-serve) from the full history of Twitter, powered by the Gnip Historical Power Track. Visit http://beta.twittersifter.com to try it out. ~Stu -- Dr. Stuart W. Shulmanhttp://people.umass.edu/stu Founder and CEO, Texifterhttp://texifter.com LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/stuart-shulman/10/351/899 Twitter: http://twitter.com/#!/StuartWShulman Director, QDAP-UMasshttp://www.umass.edu/qdap Editor Emeritus, JITPwww.jitp.net

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(Reminder) Deadline Approaching: Submission to the IJICST Special Issue on Social Media in Asia
by Zixue Tai 17 Jan '14

17 Jan '14

Dear colleagues, This is a friendly reminder that the deadline is getting close for submitting to the special issue of IJICST on social media in Asia. See the attached paper call for details. Zixue Tai University of Kentucky

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ICA Doctoral Consortium
by Lee H. Humphreys 17 Jan '14

17 Jan '14

If you are a PhD student or have a PhD student, please help me spread the word! We're looking for PhD students to participate in the Communication & Technology Division's Doctoral Consortium in Seattle on May 22nd. It's one of the ICA pre-conferences. I work with them last year and it's a great opportunity to really engage with leading faculty in the field about your research and get their theoretical and methodological feedback. The full call is below. I'm helping to organize the event, so if you have any questions feel free to contact me or Miriam Metzger (metzger(a)comm.ucsb.edu<mailto:metzger@comm.ucsb.edu>). Best, Lee Lee Humphreys, PhD Assistant Professor Dept. of Communication Cornell University SEATTLE 2014 PRECONFERENCE 5th Annual Doctoral Consortium of the Communication and Technology Division Thursday, 22 May 2014 | Seattle Public Library Call for Proposals The consortium brings together PhD candidates working on Communication and Technology to give them the opportunity to present and discuss their research in a constructive and international atmosphere. The goals of the event are to provide feedback and advice to participating PhD candidates on their in-progress research thesis. Moreover, the doctoral consortium will provide the opportunity to meet experts as well as fellow PhD candidates from different backgrounds working on related topics. During the consortium, students will be invited to present their work, following which they will receive feedback from their fellow students and faculty participants, all of whom will have read the proposals in advance of the Doctoral Consortium. In addition, at least one faculty participant will be assigned to respond in detail to each proposal. Besides the presentations of proposals, there will also be discussion of other topics such as ethics, research methods, publishing the thesis, and positioning one's work for the job market. Submission Process Applicants must be advanced to candidacy, and have their dissertation proposal topic. Ideally, students will be in the early stages of their dissertation, where feedback would be helpful in refining and advancing their work. To apply, students must submit a proposal describing their research. * Submissions must be related to the working area of the Communication and Technology Division of ICA. A description of the division's primary interests can be found in the last section of this call. * Proposals must identify the significant problems in the field of research, briefly outline current knowledge of the problem domain, and clearly formulate a research question. * Proposals must outline the proposed research approach, methods, and results obtained so far. * Submissions must not exceed 6000 words, and must include name and affiliation of the PhD candidate. * Applications should be accompanied by a short letter of recommendation from the advisor stating how the PhD candidate can benefit from participation in the Doctoral Consortium. The proposal and letter of recommendation must be submitted as one PDF document and sent as an attachment in an email to metzger(a)comm.ucsb.edu<mailto:metzger@comm.ucsb.edu>. The deadline for submission is 31 January 2014. Submitted proposals will be reviewed by the members of the program committee based on significance of research, specificity of research topic and/or questions, clarity of writing, and degree to which student can benefit from expert guidance and feedback. Notification of acceptance will be on 28 February 2014. To help ensure the consortium best meets the needs of its members, limited financial assistance is made possible by the CAT Division. Please note in your application if you would like to be considered for financial support to cover your costs for participation in the CAT Doctoral Consortium (this support would cover only the $75 participation fee and not travel to Seattle). The Communication and Technology Division within ICA The Communication and Technology (CAT) Division is concerned with the role played by Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) in the process of communication. It is committed to enhancing theory and methodology pertaining to adoption, usage, effects, and policy of ICTs. Areas of research include human-computer interaction, computer-mediated communication, mobile communication, and other technologically mediated social interaction and networking in all contexts (interpersonal, group, organizational, societal/cultural) and at all levels of analyses. CAT invites papers that make an innovative and original contribution to our understanding of ICTs, with the primary focus on communication aspects of particular technological characteristics. Papers in which technology is not a specific object of investigation but is instead the context or backdrop for a communication study should be directed to other ICA Divisions. As CAT, the Doctoral Consortium welcomes papers that follow any and all disciplinary approaches (psychology, sociology, anthropology, economics, and policy studies, among others) and all methodological orientations (quantitative, qualitative, critical, cultural, historical, legal, and institutional, among others). Organization Once a proposal is accepted students can register through the ICA website. Costs for participation are 75 US$ per person. Program Committee Dr. Nosh Contractor, Northwestern U Dr. Ang Peng Hwa, Nanying Technical U Dr. Lee Humphreys, Cornell U Dr. Nicole Krämer, U of Duisburg-Essen Dr. Leah Lievrouw, U of California, Los Angeles Dr. Miriam Metzger, U of California, Santa Barbara Dr. S. Shyam Sundar, Pennsylvania State U

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