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Job announcement: Academic Fellowships at the School of Media and Communication, University of Leeds
by Christopher Birchall 06 Oct '14

06 Oct '14

We're advertising a couple of posts at the University of Leeds that may be of interest to you, colleagues or recent PhD students. These are University Academic Fellowships in Journalism and Digital Culture (http://jobs.leeds.ac.uk/PVMCM1001) and in Digital Methods (http://jobs.leeds.ac.uk/PVMCM1000) and are part of this scheme: http://250greatminds.leeds.ac.uk/ The posts will be mostly research-based at first, with the post-holders contributing more to teaching and administrative responsibilities over time. We aim to appoint excellent early career academics and provide support for them to develop their publication and funding profiles, allowing a gradual build-up to a more typical research/teaching/admin split for a research-intensive university. Successful completion of a structured five year development programme will lead to confirmation as an Associate Professor. See the links above for further descriptions and how to apply. Chris Birchall Research Associate and BA New Media Programme Leader, School of Media and Communication, 2.13 Clothworkers' Building North, University of Leeds media.leeds.ac.uk<http://media.leeds.ac.uk>

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[Faculty Positions] University of Kentucky ICT Program
by Seungahn Nah 05 Oct '14

05 Oct '14

*****sorry for cross-posting***** Dear Colleagues-- The Information Communication Technology (ICT) Program at the University of Kentucky has multiple faculty positions. For more information, please visit the site below. http://ict.uky.edu/lis/content/call-applicants-multiple-faculty-positions-i… All the best, SEUNGAHN -- ********************************************** Seungahn Nah, PhD Associate Professor Community Communication, Dept. of Community and Leadership Development Information Communication Technology, School of Library and Information Science Director, Community Communication Research Group (CCRG) Director, Kentucky Citizen Media Project (KCMP): The Lexington Commons Graduate Faculty, Communication and Information Studies University of Kentucky Tel: (859) 257-1509; Fax: (859) 257-1164 Visiting Scholar, The Metamorphosis Project and The Alhambra Source Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism University of Southern California <seungahn.nah(a)uky.edu>

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CfD on methodologies: #hypermobile, #InformationOverload?
by Daniel Kunzelmann 05 Oct '14

05 Oct '14

Should ethnogr@phers today be multi-sited and virtual-spaced at the same time? And if yes - how can we handle this? http://transformations-blog.com/ethnogrphers-multi-sited-and-virtual-spaced…. Would be interested to hear what you think. Also, if you are doing ethnography on-site AND on-line, and want to address or discuss methodological challenges with us, the Transformations Network organizes a panel at the “Networked Urban Mobilities” Conference in Copenhagen from 5-7th November. P.S: Feel free to spread the word via https://twitter.com/TheFieldnote/status/518817648059371520 or https://www.facebook.com/engaginganthropology/posts/362008193976424.

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Call for Research Papers - International Symposium on Online Journalism 2015
by Amy Schmitz Weiss 04 Oct '14

04 Oct '14

Dear Colleagues, Just wanted to share with you some information about an upcoming CFP on online journalism. ------------------------------------- International Symposium on Online Journalism (ISOJ) is now accepting papers for 2015! Deadline: December 12, 2014 Symposium Dates: April 17-18, 2015 Where: University of Texas at Austin The International Symposium on Online Journalism at the University of Texas at Austin is now welcoming full paper submissions for 2015! Papers accepted to the conference will be published in the #ISOJ journal. The International Symposium on Online Journalism welcomes all papers that clearly deal with original research into online journalism. Papers that are submitted by the deadline will be blind reviewed by a panel of scholars from leading universities from around the world. Check out the symposium website to review papers accepted in previous years (since 2004) to understand the kind of research topics and issues that have been covered. NEW! This year, we encourage authors to include multimedia with their research paper submission. As this is a paper competition that focuses on online journalism, we encourage submissions that embrace the digital platform. In addition to traditional text, researchers may also submit videos, interactive infographics, audio files and any other form of multimedia with their research paper. NOTE: The multimedia components are absolutely optional and the existence or not of these components will not affect the judging process. For More Details: https://online.journalism.utexas.edu/callforpapers.php ------------------------------------- -- Cheers, Amy Schmitz Weiss Associate Professor JMS Graduate Adviser Journalism Area Coordinator School of Journalism and Media Studies San Diego State University

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University of Kentucky ICT Faculty Positions
by Seungahn Nah 04 Oct '14

04 Oct '14

*****sorry for cross-posting***** Dear Colleagues-- The Information Communication Technology (ICT) Program at the University of Kentucky has multiple faculty positions. For more information, please visit the site below. http://ict.uky.edu/lis/content/call-applicants-multiple-faculty-positions-i… All the best, SEUNGAHN -- ********************************************** Seungahn Nah, PhD Associate Professor Community Communication, Dept. of Community and Leadership Development Information Communication Technology, School of Library and Information Science Director, Community Communication Research Group (CCRG) Director, Kentucky Citizen Media Project (KCMP): The Lexington Commons Graduate Faculty, Communication and Information Studies University of Kentucky Tel: (859) 257-1509; Fax: (859) 257-1164 Visiting Scholar, The Metamorphosis Project and The Alhambra Source Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism University of Southern California <seungahn.nah(a)uky.edu>

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CFP: new feminisms/new materialisms/new media
by Tamara Kneese 03 Oct '14

03 Oct '14

*CFP: The 2015 Neil Postman Graduate Conference * *Department of Media, Culture, and Communication* *New York University * *new feminisms / new materialisms / new media * CFP Deadline: Monday November 3, 2014 Conference Date: Thursday March 12, 2015 *Keynote:* Karen Barad <http://feministstudies.ucsc.edu/faculty/singleton.php?&singleton=true&cruz_…>*, Professor of Feminist Studies, Philosophy, and History of Consciousness, **University of California at Santa Cruz* After excursions into clouds, networks, and virtual worlds, the study of culture and media has taken a materialist turn. Media archaeologists, Marxists, ecologists, and designers rightly insist on a return to things, infrastructures, and the environment. But this once-firm ground now teems with vital forces, nonhuman agencies, and quantum particles. This renewed interest in materiality should not be seen as a return or revival; rather, the project of new materialisms shows how what Jane Bennett calls “vibrant matter” is applicable to salient political and ethical concerns in the 21st century. Feminist and queer theorists, long interested in questions of the body and matter, are developing accounts of materiality and relationality that challenge received hierarchies of language and representation, subject and object. Feminist scholar Karen Barad, for example, emphasizes the irreducible relationality of phenomena: “relata do not preexist relations.” [1] Both new materialisms and media studies examine objects not as independent entities, but as centers of interaction and mediation. Alexander Galloway, for instance, asks “that we think of media not so much as objects but as principles of mediation.” [2] We convene this conference in order to foreground feminism and situate new materialisms in relation to ongoing questions in media studies. How might we develop relational understandings of technology and infrastructures? How do new materialisms change our notions of the body, labor, and sociality? What critical and political approaches to agency, personhood, and mediation might emerge? Our deliberate use of the adjective “new” in the title should be seen as a provocation to uncover continuities with “old” materialisms, develop feminist and materialist media histories, and to historicize current debates. We invite papers from across a range of disciplines that address new materialisms in their many forms and functions. Possible topics areas include (but are not limited to): - Feminist and queer media archeology - Feminist histories of science and technology - Nature, culture, and the environment - “Immaterial,” relational, and affective labor - Critical race theory and intersectional approaches - Theories of embodiment, wearable, or ubiquitous media - Marxist materialisms - Media, architecture, and infrastructures - Assemblage theories from Deleuze to Latour - Agency and personhood - Feminist and queer phenomenologies - Feminist design - Queer computing and feminist approaches to social media The New York University Department of Media, Culture, and Communication invites graduate students, academics, activists, workers, and artists to submit conference paper proposals. The conference will be held on March 12, 2015 at NYU. Paper proposal submissions (no more than 300 words) should be sent by *Monday November 3, 2014* to postman.nyu(a)gmail.com (with "Call for Papers" in the subject). *Karen Barad* is Professor of Feminist Studies, Philosophy, and History of Consciousness at the University of California at Santa Cruz. Barad's Ph.D. is in theoretical particle physics and quantum field theory. Barad held a tenured appointment in a physics department before moving into more interdisciplinary spaces. Barad is the author of *Meeting the Universe Halfway: Quantum Physics* and the *Entanglement of Matter and Meaning* (Duke University Press, 2007) and numerous articles in the fields of physics, philosophy, science studies, poststructuralist theory, and feminist theory. Barad is the Co-Director of the Science & Justice Graduate Training Program at UCSC. [1] Karen Barad, “Posthumanist Performativity: Toward an Understanding of How Matter Comes to Matter,” Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 28, no. 3 (2003), 815. [2] Alexander Galloway, The Interface Effect (Malden, MA: Polity, 2012), 120.

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New book: Seeing Ourselves Through Technology (open access)
by Jill Walker Rettberg 03 Oct '14

03 Oct '14

My new book is out, and it's open access (CC-BY) so you can download it for free in many formats right now, or wait a while and buy a print copy. Many thanks to everyone who helped me think about these issues - a lot of you are on this list. I would love to hear any responses. Jill http://jilltxt.net http://twitter.com/jilltxt ----- Seeing Ourselves Through Technology: How We Use Selfies, Blogs and Wearable Devices to See and Shape Ourselves. Palgrave, 2014. http://www.palgraveconnect.com/pc/doifinder/10.1057/9781137476661 http://www.amazon.com/Seeing-Ourselves-Through-Technology-Wearable-ebook/dp… Selfies, blogs and lifelogging devices have become important ways in which we understand ourselves. Jill Walker Rettberg analyses these and related genres as three intertwined modes of self-representation: visual, written and quantitative. Rettberg explores topics like the meaning of Instagram filters, smartphone apps that write your diary for you, and the ways in which governments and commercial entities create their own representations of us from the digital traces we leave behind as we go through our lives. “Rettberg fills an important gap in the existing literature with insightful analysis of a wide variety of very recent digital practices. Her writing presents an appealing voice of academic authority that is inflected with a personal experience strongly grounded in an ethos of embodied and situated knowledge. Rettberg explains what it means to be a participant observer who tracks her own movements, emotions, and interactions with ubiquitous technologies and many other means of self-surveillance. This is a timely and compact scholarly monograph that provides an extended critical interpretation of a contemporary topic. As an important feminist new media theorist, Rettberg is worth listening to.” – Elizabeth Losh, University of California, San Diego, USA “Jill Walker Rettberg challenges us to take seriously selfies and other forms of digital self-expression and understand them in the broader context of culture and power. In so doing, she connects important ideas and theories about aesthetics, privacy, art and data to explore and explain contemporary data-fication of the body and identity. I will never look at a selfie the same way again.” – Steve Jones, University of Illinois, USA “Rettberg’s incisive examination of contemporary tools and habits of self-documentation – blogs and Facebook updates, Fitbits and selfies – reveals the ways those practices relate to centuries-old patterns like autobiography and self-portraits. She also demonstrates that contemporary distaste for self-documentation is often motivated by a desire to discipline or silence the (non-elite) practitioners, a habit targeted with special ferocity at young women. Seeing Ourselves… is essential reading for anyone wanting to understand the history and patterns of self-documentation.” – Clay Shirky, New York University, USA

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PNAS opinion piece on the creepy Facebook study
by Pimple, Kenneth 03 Oct '14

03 Oct '14

"Learning as we go: Lessons from the publication of Facebook's social-computing research" by Jeffrey P. Kahn, Effy Vayena, and Anna C. Mastroianni. PNAS 111(38):13677-13679 (Sept. 23) doi: 10.1073/pnas.1416405111 http://www.pnas.org/content/111/38/13677.full Ken ===== Kenneth D. Pimple, Ph.D. Director of Teaching Research Ethics Programs Poynter Center for the Study of Ethics and American Institutions Indiana University 618 East Third Street Bloomington IN 47405-3602 (812) 856-4986 FAX 855-3315 pimple(a)indiana.edu http://poynter.indiana.edu/ http://mypage.iu.edu/~pimple/ Blog: http://nationalethicscenter.org/groups/trewde/blog Twitter: @TeachRCR - https://twitter.com/TeachRCR

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UK Digital Communications Infrastructure Strategy consultation
by Joly MacFie 03 Oct '14

03 Oct '14

As part of its charmingly named policy program 'Making it easier for the communications and telecoms industries to grow, while protecting the interests of citizens', on Aug 6 2014 the UK Govt. issued a RFC - *Digital Communications Infrastructure Strategy consultation <https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/digital-communications-infrastr…>. * It is now closed, and the results are yet to be published. But even so, it provides a good rundown on the state of infrastructure play in merrie old, and has some nice graphics, such as Annex D <https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/3…> . j -- --------------------------------------------------------------- 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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REMINDER - Streets to Screens: Mediating Conflict Through Digital Networks
by Holly Steel 03 Oct '14

03 Oct '14

Dear all, Colleagues may be interested in a symposium run by the Centre for the Study of Global Media and Democracy at Goldsmiths, University of London, and the Department of Sociology, University of York, on mediating conflict through digital networks. Apologies for cross-posting. *Streets to Screens: Mediating Conflict Through Digital Networks* *9.30-17.30* *7th November 2014* *Professor Stuart Hall Building, LG01* *Goldsmiths, University of London* >From Gaza to Ukraine, Afghanistan to Syria, social media is being used by people within conflict zones to organise, document and communicate their lives and struggles from the streets to our screens. As these pieces of content travel through time and space, they come into contact with various actors – from activists, to NGOs, news agencies, and global audiences – who attempt to claim purchase on the narrative of those events as they unfold. Over the course of the last decade, we have seen the emergence of forms of reportage that seek to navigate the diverse and fractured media ecology. These mediations are said to challenge the ways in which the mainstream media cover conflicts and global publics are invited to bear witness. This one-day symposium will explore a number of key issues in mediating conflicts today, and will address some of the following questions: - What role do networked eyewitnesses, activists and citizen journalists play in conflict communication today? - What are the challenges faced by those mediating conflict online? - In what ways are social media content produced within the zone of conflict shaping the coverage produced by news organisations? - What are the implications of these forms of reportage for eyewitnesses, activists, citizen journalists, perpetrators, NGOs, journalists, news media, audiences and global publics? *Confirmed speakers:* · Stuart Allan, *Cardiff University* · Kari Andén-Papadopolous, *Stockholm University* · Tamar Ashuri, *Tel-Aviv University* · Malachy Browne, *Storyful* · Lilie Chouliaraki,* LSE* · Sam Gregory, WITNESS · Andrew Hoskins, *University of Glasgow* · Sarah Maltby, *University of Sussex* · Mette Mortensen, University of Copenhagen · Ben O'Loughlin, *Royal Holloway* · Helen Thornham, *University of Leeds* · Einar Thorsen, Bournemouth University · Eugenia Siapera, *Dublin City University* · Liam Stack, *New York Times* · Katrin Voltmer,* University of Leeds* · Claire Wardle, *UNHCR* Tickets are FREE but registration is required. For more information please visit: http://www.york.ac.uk/sociology/about/news-and-events/department/2014/stree… *For more information, please contact Holly Steel at has502(a)york.ac.uk <has502(a)york.ac.uk>* -- Holly Steel Doctoral Researcher Department of Sociology University of York Heslington York YO10 5DD Tel: 01904 323578

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