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New issue and call for submissions: Participations, the Journal for Audience and Reception Studies
by Rosenbaum-Andre, Judith E. 08 Dec '15

08 Dec '15

Participations, The Journal for Audience and Reception Studies has published its latest issue online at http://www.participations.org This issue once again offers a rich variety of articles, including an innovative study into the role played by online participation into narrative spoilers, a discussion about new directions for methodologies in fan studies, as well as a themed section on “Media generations”. This themed section, which consists of nine different publications, discusses differences in generational usage of media from various perspectives. The journal is open to all users, so please check out this latest endeavor. Participations is also always on the lookout for new contributions in the field of mass/popular culture. Please see http://www.participations.org/submission_guidelines.htm for details on submitting an essay ------------------------------------------------ Judith E. Rosenbaum, PhD Associate Professor, Mass Communication Research Facilitator, Health Disparities Research Community Albany State University 504 College Drive Albany, GA 31705 Phone: 229.430.3684 Office: BCB 261/Wiley 304

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Re: [Air-L] Risk awareness and aversion in online spaces
by Ian O'Byrne 03 Dec '14

03 Dec '14

Hi, Thanks for sharing this. It makes me think about how we construct our identity online, in the light of this online trolling behavior that we sometimes see. I'm also concerned about these same practices as data and freedoms are under attack as well. Our research was trying to understand how to empower educators...and as a result their students as they work/play in these spaces. Thanks again. I'll grab the book. :) -Ian On Sun, Nov 30, 2014, 9:44 AM Research <researchtexts(a)gmail.com> wrote: > There is a new Canadian book that talks about how online abuse -- > tormenting, bullying, stalking, revenge porn, predation -- is driving > different types of people off the Internet. > Extreme Mean: Trolls, > Bullies and Predators > Online. Author is Paula Todd. > www.extrememean.com > > > > > On Nov 30, 2014, at 8:33 AM, Peter Timusk <peterotimusk(a)gmail.com> > wrote: > > > > I don't read about this so much. I have heard a few law professors speak > on facebook and privacy in Canada. I think about this though. I think I > have more risk of my friends exposing my privacy than any company or social > media staff. It's in the realm of legal studies for sure. > > > > Peter T. > > > > I don't speak for my employer or associations I am a member of or > volunteer for unless otherwise noted. > > > >> On Nov 28, 2014, at 1:36 PM, Ian O'Byrne <wiobyrne(a)gmail.com> wrote: > >> > >> Dear colleagues, > >> > >> I'm working on some research my colleague and we're seeing signs of this > >> form of risk awareness and/or aversion as it relates to digital identity > >> construction and sharing. Our population is pre-service and veteran > >> educators. > >> > >> I'm wondering if anyone else is seeing this in their work...and what > >> citations or literature do you reference. > >> > >> Thanks in advance, > >> -Ian > >> _______________________________________________ > >> The Air-L(a)listserv.aoir.org mailing list > >> is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org > >> Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/ > listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org > >> > >> Join the Association of Internet Researchers: > >> http://www.aoir.org/ > > _______________________________________________ > > The Air-L(a)listserv.aoir.org mailing list > > is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org > > Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/ > listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org > > > > Join the Association of Internet Researchers: > > http://www.aoir.org/ >

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2nd call: Show Me Your Dashboard - Digital Methods Winter School 2015 - Univ. of Amsterdam
by Liliana Bounegru 01 Dec '14

01 Dec '14

This is the second call for participation in the Digital Methods Winter School at the University of Amsterdam, 12-16 January 2015. The deadline for applications is 8 December 2014. Together with Nathaniel Tkacz on dashboard critique (Univ Warwick) and Carolin Gerlitz on social media metrics (Univ Amsterdam), new speakers have confirmed from SumOfUs, UNICEF, TckTckTck, Climate Action Network and the Dutch design agency Clever Franke. We are also joined by the Density Design Lab, Milan. SHOW ME YOUR DASHBOARD New Media Monitoring and Data Analytics as Critical PracticeDigital Methods Winter School, Data Sprint and Mini-Conference *12-16 January 2015 | Digital Methods Winter School * *Digital Methods Initiative | http://www.digitalmethods.net/ <http://www.digitalmethods.net/>**Media Studies | University of Amsterdam* *https://wiki.digitalmethods.net/Dmi/WinterSchool2015* <https://wiki.digitalmethods.net/Dmi/WinterSchool2015> The Digital Methods Initiative (DMI), Amsterdam, is pleased to announce its 7th annual Winter School, on New Media Monitoring and Data Analytics as Critical Practice. The format is that of a data sprint, with hands-on work on media monitoring with data analytics, and a Mini-conference, where PhD candidates, motivated scholars and advanced graduate students present short papers on digital methods and new media related topics, and receive feedback from the Amsterdam group of DMI researchers and international participants. Participants need not give a paper at the Mini-conference to attend the Winter School. The focus of this year's Winter School is on how online media monitoring is currently done by non-governmental (NGOs) such as treealerts.org, and it seeks to identify practices that could fill in the notion of critical data analytics. For the occasion we have invited academics to present on the state of the art of online media monitoring by focusing on three areas where there is both innovation as well as repurposing of techniques normally associated with marketing, business intelligence and the work of digital agencies: issue discovery and language placement (who's carrying the conversation), engagement and public fund-raising (when do images and other engagement formats ‘work’?) and crisis communication (who is making the calls when there is a breakdown?). At the Winter School social media analysts and communications specialists from NGOs will present on the state of the art of media monitoring, their current analytical needs and what the Internet can continue to add with respect to new data sources as well as monitoring techniques. We will also ask each of the organizations to show us their dashboards. The first day kicks off with Nathaniel Tkacz from the University of Warwick who will talk about Dashboards and Data Signals <http://blogs.cim.warwick.ac.uk/dashboard/about-2/>, and the desire to control the data deluge. The second keynote speaker is Carolin Gerlitz from the University of Amsterdam who will talk about new media metrics critique. Next a series of online media monitoring dashboards and methods will be presented. The Dutch design agency Clever Franke will show TrendViz <http://www.trendviz.com/#home>. Soenke Lorenzen of Greenpeace International, Eoin Dubsky of SumOfUs, Dounia Kchiere of UNICEF, and Christian Teriete of TckTckTck will be talking about media monitoring at their respective organisations. Next will be project pitches by Ria Voorhaar of the Climate Action Network, Danie Stockmann of Leiden University, Jonathan Gray of the Open Knowledge Foundation, and Alberto Abellan of Social Alto Analytics. After the the first day of talks as well as dashboard show and tell, the data sprint commences, whereupon the attendees, including analysts, designers and programmers, undertake empirical projects that address the state of the art in NGO online media data analysis. We work on projects that seek to meet the current analytical needs. The week closes with presentations of the outcomes as well as a festive celebration. During the week there is also an evening of talks and a debate with Jimmy Wales <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Wales>, co-founder of Wikipedia, at the nearby Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Science <https://www.knaw.nl/en/>. The theme of the 2015 Winter School furthers the analytical collaboration between the Digital Methods Initiative and NGO media analysts, including Soenke Lorenzen of Greenpeace International <http://www.greenpeace.org>. Previously workshop facilitators and collaborators have included representatives from Human Rights Watch <http://www.hrw.org/>, Association for Progressive Communications <https://www.apc.org/>, Women on Waves <http://www.womenonwaves.org/>, Carbon Trade Watch <http://www.carbontradewatch.org/>, Corporate Observatory Europe <http://corporateeurope.org> and Fair Phone <http://www.fairphone.com/>. In preparation for the sprint we also have developed how-to worksheets on New Media Monitoring and Tooling that take as their case studies NGO issue mappings with digital methods. Upon conclusion we aim to compile the Sprint projects from the Winter School, and combine them with the how-to sheets to produce an open access publication on NGO media monitoring. All participants are invited to contribute. Digital Methods Winter School Data Sprint A data sprint is a workshop format for intensive, empirical project work, where analysts, programers, designers and subject matter experts collaborate to output research. This year's data sprint is devoted to new media monitoring with data analytics, and particularly its critical practice. Broadly speaking, media monitoring is understood as the process of reading, watching or listening to the editorial content of media sources on a continuing basis, and then identifying, analyzing and saving materials that contain specific themes, topics, keywords, names, forms or formats. Monitoring the editorial content of news sources including newspapers, magazines, trade journals, TV shows, radio programs and specific websites is by far the most common form of media monitoring, but most organizations increasingly monitor social media online, and its impact on the diffusion of news in all media or in online conversation (including the comment space) more generally. Most companies, government agencies, not-for-profit organizations utilize media monitoring as a tool to study the "meaning of mentions" of their organization, its campaigns and slogans, and gain some sense of the composition of their audiences, and what animates them (or keeps them quiet). During the first day of the data sprint academics studying online media monitoring will present the state of the art of the field, focusing on three areas: issue discovery and issue language placement (who is the carrying the conversation, and which voices are continually elided?), engagement and fundraising communication (how are audiences and funders reacting to so-called 'faces of need' and other formats and calls for engagement?) and crisis communication (when there is a breakdown, who makes the calls?). Representatives from leading NGOs will present to the attendees how they practice online media monitoring, the look of their dashboards and the analytical needs that drive them. What are these experts able to accomplish with the techniques available to them, and which questions remain unanswered? What are the critical media monitoring practices and questions that are specific to NGOs? How to conceptualize and operationalize issue discovery, engagement for fundraising and crisis monitoring? We will ask the NGO communications experts to address these questions. We also will ask them what they think digital methods and issue mapping may add to the outputs of media monitoring. The conversations with the experts will serve as starting points for winter school attendees - including analysts, designers and programmers - to develop into empirical projects that aim to answer research questions, and develop further techniques for media monitoring online.Digital Methods Mini-Conference at the Winter School The annual Digital Methods Mini-Conference at the Winter School, normally a one-day affair, provides the opportunity for digital methods and allied researchers to present short yet complete papers (5,000-7,500 words) and serve as respondents, providing feedback. Often the work presented follows from previous Digital Methods Summer Schools. The mini-conference accepts papers in the general digital methods and allied areas: the hyperlink and other natively digital objects, the website as archived object, web historiographies, search engine critique, Google as globalizing machine, cross-spherical analysis and other approaches to comparative media studies, device cultures, national web studies, Wikipedia as cultural reference, the technicity of (networked) content, post-demographics, platform studies, crawling and scraping, graphing and clouding, and similar. Key dates The deadline for application is 8 December 2014. To apply please send along a letter of motivation as well as your CV to winterschool [at] digitalmethods.net, with DMI Winter School in the subject header. Notifications will be sent on 9 December. If you are participating in the Mini-conference the deadline for submission of paper titles, abstracts and bios is also 8 December, with DMI Mini-conference & Winter School in the subject header. Please send your materials to winterschool [at] digitalmethods.net . To attend the Winter School, you need not participate in the Mini-conference. Deadline for submission of complete papers (5,000-7,500 words) is 6 January 2015. The program and schedule are available on 7 January. Fees & Logistics The fee for the Digital Methods Winter School 2015 is EUR 295. Bank transfer information will be sent along with the notification on 9 December 2014. The Winter School is self-catered. The venue is in the center of Amsterdam with abundant coffee houses and lunch places. Participants are expected to find their own housing (airbnb and other short-stay sites are helpful). During the week there is an evening at the Royal Academy with Jimmy Wales of Wikipedia. The Winter School closes on Friday with a festive event, after the final presentations. Here is a guide to the Amsterdam new media scene <https://www.digitalmethods.net/MoM/NewMediaAmsterdam>. For further questions, please contact the organizers, Liliana Bounegru, Natalia Sanchez and Saskia Kok, at winterschool(a)digitalmethods.net. About DMI The Digital Methods Winter School is part of the Digital Methods Initiative, Amsterdam, dedicated to reworking method for Internet-related research. The Digital Methods Initiative holds the annual Digital Methods Summer Schools (eight to date), which are intensive and full time 2-week undertakings in the Summertime. The 2015 Summer School will take place 29 June - 10 July 2015. The coordinators of the Digital Methods Initiative are Sabine Niederer and Esther Weltevrede (PhD candidates in New Media & Digital Culture, University of Amsterdam), and the director is Richard Rogers, Professor of New Media & Digital Culture, University of Amsterdam. Liliana Bounegru is the managing director. Digital methods are online at http://www.digitalmethods.net/. The DMI about page includes a substantive introduction, and also a list of Digital Methods people, with bios. DMI holds occasional Autumn and Spring workshops, such as recent ones on mapping climate change and vulnerability indexes <https://wiki.digitalmethods.net/Dmi/ClimateConflicts> as well as on studying right-wing extremism and populism <https://wiki.digitalmethods.net/Dmi/RightWingPopulismStudy> online. There is also a Digital Methods book <http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/digital-methods> (MIT Press, 2013), papers and articles <https://wiki.digitalmethods.net/Dmi/PapersPublications> by DMI researchers as well as Digital Methods tools <https://wiki.digitalmethods.net/Dmi/ToolDatabase>. See you in the winter time in Amsterdam! Image credit: Online resonance of the international climate change issue agenda <https://wiki.digitalmethods.net/Dmi/014Project3aOnlineResonanceOfTheInterna…>, EMAPS data sprint, Amsterdam, April 2014.

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Emerging research on Facebook-Native Politicians - Live Hangout Q+A Dec 3/4
by Steven Clift 01 Dec '14

01 Dec '14

Presentation video, slides, blog posts, live Hangout event RSVPs for Dec 3/4 virtual Q and A: http://bit.ly/facebookpoliticians I have a completely fresh case study to share on what I am calling "Facebook-Native Politicians." Imagine if the new majority elected to your city council were on Facebook from their teen or college days - a decade of engaging socially online before becoming an elected representative. This is the new wired Minneapolis story. Seven new council members, elected at an average age of 33. This is a Facebook story and NOT a Twitter story. My 30 minute presentation starts just 5 minutes in: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5PPLTMXPQ1 RSVP for the Q+A Hangouts: Dec 3 Europe/Americas: https://plus.google.com/u/0/events/cfs2ijq9gb3e2e5ug8cruelvcqg Dec 3 Americas Evening/Dec 4 Asia Pacific https://plus.google.com/u/0/events/c2kvr2vm6b22pemu4s6qcaeribo Discuss/share on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/opengovgroup/permalink/1559727457592178/ Huge thanks to Involve and the Centre for the Study of Democracy at the University of Westminster for hosting this event in London last month. The UK local councillors and Dan Jellinek provide some great context and contrasting views in the full webcast (which is nicely edited). If you want to see further research and lesson sharing on this topic, please get in touch: clift(a)e-democracy.org - I'd like to build this out further and build a bridge across practitioner and academic worlds. Finally, if you know of other "Facebook Native Politicians" who engage constituents online, please introduce them to me so I can invite them to connect with their peers around the world: clift(a)e-democracy.org Sincerely, Steven Clift E-Democracy.org P.S. I view these Facebook engaged mostly local elected representatives as a crucial bridge for the open government movement. Most of them haven't heard much about "open government data" etc., but they have a digital openness and engagement instinct. My thought is that we should aggressively seek to connect with them "where they are" online in order to introduce them to the wider world of open government. This is why ironically, an engagement space on a closed system like Facebook Groups is needed: https://www.facebook.com/groups/opengovgroup Steven Clift - http://stevenclift.com Executive Director - http://E-Democracy.org Twitter: http://twitter.com/democracy Tel/Text: +1.612.234.7072 ᐧ

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Web Sites of Digital Rights Organizations?
by Tim Libert 30 Nov '14

30 Nov '14

Hi, I’m conducting an analysis of privacy-compromising (i.e. ‘tracking’) code on websites of digital rights organizations. I am writing to ask for help in assembling a list of such sites - if you have suggestions for specific sites, or even better, know of a list of sites, please send to me. In this case, “digital rights" may be broadly understood to incorporate free expression, privacy, FOSS, free culture, etc., and “organization” may be loosely applied to mean sites which are connected to a group which advocates or educates in areas in digital rights. News websites, topical blogs, and the like are out of scope for this project. Thanks in advance, Tim Libert

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Risk awareness and aversion in online spaces
by Ian O'Byrne 30 Nov '14

30 Nov '14

Dear colleagues, I'm working on some research my colleague and we're seeing signs of this form of risk awareness and/or aversion as it relates to digital identity construction and sharing. Our population is pre-service and veteran educators. I'm wondering if anyone else is seeing this in their work...and what citations or literature do you reference. Thanks in advance, -Ian

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Emerald Studies in Media and Communication CFP
by Apryl Williams 29 Nov '14

29 Nov '14

Apologies for cross posting** *Call for Submissions 2015* *Emerald Studies in Media and Communication* *Sponsored by CITASA* Initial Submissions Due: Monday February 23, 2014 midnight GMT By email to editorial(a)emeraldmediastudies.com The 2015 Editorial Team of *Emerald Studies in Media and Communication* sponsored by CITASA is inviting submissions of original, unpublished papers for two volumes to be published in late 2015 and early 2015. The deadline for submissions is Monday February 23, 2014. *Volume 10: Digital Distinctions & Inequalities* We welcome submissions on any facet of digital inclusion, digital inequality, digital differentiation, and/or digital divides writ large. We are interested in these topics as they relate to any communication platform, populations, and kinds of production/consumption of digital media, information technologies, social inequalities, etc. *Volume 11: New Media Cultures * We welcome submissions on any facet of culture and [new] media. Submissions may explore any aspect of culture, communication, and [new] media broadly defined. 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. Please see emeraldmediastudies.com <editorial(a)emeraldmediastudies.com> for more information about the calls, series, editors, guidelines, etc. The series welcomes work from a variety of perspectives from media scholars working in the social sciences, humanities, and related fields such as media studies, information studies, STS, and communication. Submissions may be empirical, theoretical, methodological, or synthetic statements of significant developments in the field. Empirical submissions may make use of any method or approach. Contributions on a wide variety of topics on new media, ICTs, communication, and related themes are welcome from a variety of disciplinary perspectives. Submission Overview Submissions should be 6,000-12,000 words in length inclusive of abstract, references, and notes. British or American spelling may be used. While no special formatting is requested at the outset, upon acceptance authors must format their manuscripts in accordance with the series' guidelines. Contributions will be peer-reviewed through editorial screening and anonymous refereeing by external reviewers. See submission guidelines for details. For more information, please email: editorial(a)emeraldmediastudies.com. We look forward to hearing from you— 2015 Editorial Team Laura Robinson, Shelia Cotten, Jeremy Schulz, Tim Hale, Joy Hightower, & Apryl Williams

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why apologize?
by Barry Wellman 28 Nov '14

28 Nov '14

Dear Prof Pickard, If the book is as good as you and others say it is, why are you apologizing for telling us about it on this list? Undoubtedly, you put your BST into it, and you deserve the readership. "From: Victor Pickard <vpickard(a)asc.upenn.edu> To: "air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org" <air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org> Dear Friends and Colleagues, (Apologies for cross-posting). My new book America's Battle for Media Democracy: " Barry Wellman _______________________________________________________________________ FRSC NetLab Network INSNA Founder Faculty of Information (iSchool) University of Toronto Toronto Canada M5S 3G6 http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman twitter: @barrywellman NETWORKED:The New Social Operating System. Lee Rainie & Barry Wellman MIT Press http://amzn.to/zXZg39 Print $15 Kindle $9 Old/NewCyberTimes http://bit.ly/c8N9V8 ________________________________________________________________________

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New Book: America's Battle for Media Democracy
by Victor Pickard 28 Nov '14

28 Nov '14

Dear Friends and Colleagues, (Apologies for cross-posting). My new book America's Battle for Media Democracy: The Triumph of Corporate Libertarianism and the Future of Media Reform was officially released earlier this month, and it's now available as an e-book and in paperback. Focusing on media activism around radio and newspapers in the 1940s, the book shows how this history holds much contemporary relevance for policy issues like net neutrality and the future of digital journalism. More info here: http://victorpickard.com/book/ Table of Contents Introduction: The policy origins and normative foundations of American media 1. The revolt against radio 2. A progressive turn at the FCC 3. The battle of the Blue Book 4. The origins of the Fairness Doctrine 5. The 1940s newspaper crisis and the birth of the Hutchins Commission 6. Should the giants be slain or persuaded to be good? 7. The postwar settlement for American media Conclusion: Confronting market failure Reviews "Today’s media didn't have to be so bad. Pickard tells a riveting and heretofore largely unknown story of how corporate media had its way with the public interest and trivialized our country’s civic dialogue, despite the efforts of reformers and a once-heroic FCC. Bringing the story right up to today’s high-stakes battle for an Open Internet, this is 'must-must' reading for anyone interested in putting our democracy back on track." Hon. Michael J. Copps, FCC Commissioner, 2001–2012 "America's Battle for Media Democracy is a well-researched, thoughtful, and lucid critique of media policy in the contemporary United States. To make his case, Pickard turns to history. During the 1940s, media activists joined together with government officials, academics, and even some corporate leaders to articulate an expansive, social democratic vision for newspapers and radio. The defeat of this movement hastened the triumph of corporate libertarianism - a tradition whose origin Pickard provocatively traces not to the free market fundamentalism of the recent past, but, rather, to the political settlement that followed the Second World War." Richard R. John, Columbia University "In America’s Battle for Media Democracy, Victor Pickard has produced a landmark work in communication history and media studies. Based on painstaking research, [he] sheds crucial new light on the political debates that created the contemporary commercial media system in the United States, and by doing so he allows us to envision a different and better future. This is mandatory reading for everyone concerned with media and politics." Robert W. McChesney, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign "Victor Pickard is a scholar on the rise. His writing is fine and to the point. There is always need for solid media history based on primary research and good analysis - and this book fulfills both." Christopher Sterling, George Washington University AMERICA'S BATTLE FOR MEDIA DEMOCRACY,<http://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/politics-international-relati…> Cambridge University Press<http://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/politics-international-relati…> Victor Pickard, Assistant Professor Annenberg School for Communication University of Pennsylvania 3620 Walnut Street Philadelphia PA 19104 Academia: https://upenn.academia.edu/VictorPickard Website: http://victorpickard.com/ Twitter: @VWPickard <http://twitter.com/VWPickard>

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UPDATES ON INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON COMPUTATIONAL SOCIAL SCIENCE (ICCSS 2015)
by news＠iccss2015.eu 27 Nov '14

27 Nov '14

***APOLOGIES FOR MULTIPLE POSTINGS*** Dear Colleagues, here are some news on ICCSS 2015 (www.iccss2015.eu) 1) We are proud to announce that the City of Helsinki has offered to host a reception in the evening of the opening day of the event, June the 8th. The reception will be at City Hall http://www.visithelsinki.fi/en/sights-and-attractions/city-hall 2) We are seeking continuously funds for the conference, but we can anticipate that the conference fee for early registration will be of about 350 euro for regular participants and around 200 euro for students. 3) Participants who need support are encouraged to send an email to santo.fortunato(a)aalto.fi to get an update on the situation. Best regards, the ICCSS Team

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