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Syracuse University's ISchool welcomes applications for our PhD program
by Jennifer Stromer-Galley 05 Nov '14

05 Nov '14

Syracuse University's School of Information Studies welcomes applicants for our doctoral program. Admitted students are assured of at least four year's funding (including summers) along with tuition and other support. The interdisciplinary nature of our program is visible through the backgrounds of the 40 students currently pursuing their Ph.D. Students hail from ten countries and a range of academic backgrounds: communications and other social sciences, business, computer science, library science, information science, and others. This makes our doctoral program a welcoming and inclusive place for scholars from under-represented populations, something we see as a defining element of our program. Doctoral students pursue individualized course plans that are tuned to their particular research interests and needs. This means advising and, more importantly, close working relationships with faculty members is a cornerstone of the Syracuse University iSchool Ph.D. program. This is why it is both residential and full-time. We celebrate the success of our recent graduates who are taking up tenure-track positions in premier research institutions and exceptional liberal arts colleges, excelling in academic and policy think tanks, and pursuing entrepreneurial success! Current students are earning awards for their publications and dissertation work, continuing a long tradition of such recognition. For 2015, we are particularly interested in speaking with applicants and seeing applications from those whose interests align with one or more of the following research areas: Text and data mining, Natural Language Processing and Information Retrieval | Data science and data analytics | Information policy, Internet governance, and telecommunications policy | Information technology policy and globalization | Mobile computing | Librarianship | Usability, accessibility, and universal design | Data infrastructure and services in support of research Organizational impacts of ICTs (e.g., Citizen Science, FLOSS, Wikipedia, mobile work, distributed scientific collaboration, health IT) | Digitally-enabled research methods (e.g., Trace ethnography, socio-computational approaches) | Smart grids/energy informatics and Infrastructure studies | Information security and privacy (policies, management, and technologies) | Social Computing, social media, social networks, and crowdsourcing You can learn more about the Syracuse iSchool faculty and interests at http://ischool.syr.edu/future/doctoral/research_areas.aspx. You can learn more about the doctoral program and application (due 3 January, 2014) at http://ischool.syr.edu/future/doctoral/index.aspx. Please reach out to the program director, Steve Sawyer, at ssawyer(a)syr.edu<mailto:ssawyer@syr.edu>, or our doctoral programs manager, Jennifer Barclay, at jabarcla(a)syr.edu<mailto:jabarcla@syr.edu>, with questions! ~Jenny Associate Professor | School of Information Studies Vice President | Association of Internet Researchers Syracuse University 220 Hinds Hall Syracuse, New York 13244 t 315.443.1823 f 315.443.5673 e jstromer(a)syr.edu w www.stromer-galley.com<http://www.stromer-galley.com/> w http://www.aoir.org<http://www.aoir.org/> ischool.syr.edu My New Book: Presidential Campaigning in the Internet Age<http://global.oup.com/academic/product/presidential-campaigning-in-the-inte…>

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CFP for a special issue of Forum Qualitative Research/Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung (FQS)
by MC Cambre 05 Nov '14

05 Nov '14

CFP for a special issue of Forum Qualitative Research/Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung (FQS): [FQS is a peer-reviewed multilingual online journal for qualitative research established in 1999] Visibilities. Multiple Orders and Practices through Visual Discourse Analysis and Beyond In contemporary societies, visual media and related visual practices are ubiquitous. Digitalisation has enabled new communicative and aesthetic practices of ‘vernacular image’ production. Knowledge about symbolic and iconic techniques is refined in professional as well as amateur contexts. Technologies of storage, computation and distribution have rendered image, sound and text mobile and drawing them into what has become known as ‘big data’. This ubiquity, accessibility and speed of information creation and sharing via polymedia channels means, the visible, along with the audible and the touchable, becomes an increasingly important interface between meanings, milieus, organisations and technologies. At this stage fields such as visual studies and visual sociology have seen that hermeneutic and ethnographic approaches have been of somewhat limited value in understanding these new mediations, institutions and economic formations. Many scholars have noted that the situation has challenged the analytical and methodological frames they have used in the past. In the special issue, we welcome papers that address visibilities in relation to social, cultural and material orderings and their principles. Methodological approaches might reflexively provide keys to understanding the social, technological and economic flows of our time. Contemporary visibilities draw together, space, time, things, and the social. They produce and make intelligible differences and similarities. They sensitize and desensitize people to other people, animals and things. The binary opposition between the discursive and non-discursive has thus not become obsolete, but lost much of its explanatory force. Just as cultural text in a broader sense is not only produced by language, visibility can be produced through, images, texts, sounds, or other materialities and non-materialities. The texts in this volume will be dedicated to understanding the practices, the types of power relations and the technological infrastructures in which practices of visualising and orders of visibilities unfold. While most discourse analyses rely on the notion that everything which is said is dependent on what is sayable, we invite contributors to imagine how we might analyze visual practices in relation to the visible. In visual research, the relation between the social and the visual has been generally studied from two perspectives: either the image merely indicates a state of the social and becomes reduced to it, or it uses optical instruments as tools for registering the social and thus confounds the visual with the social itself, granting direct access to its reality. We believe it is might be more appropriate to speak of studying social and cultural realities with the image. With in the sense of entering into dialogue and argument with the image, all the while not attempting to understand the image on its own, but how image, sound and materiality are deployed reflexively in social arenas – with their own specific power or potential to render visible or invisible. Doing research with the image as we propose for this special issue supposes that social reality thickens through the emergence of visibilities, which manifest in images, texts, infrastructures etc. We would like to invite contributions that acknowledge representation is increasingly replaced by recursivity. Papers are also welcome that take the position that neither language nor the visual nor the spatial nor the temporal registers are any longer privileged modes of world-making, but that visibilities, or even sensualities (as sensibilities of bodies to others bodies) can materialize in all of these domains. Thinking with the image (and the sensible) and the study of visibilities in these ways will allow researchers to address a number of important issues of contemporary social, political and economic life. Following this critical perspective, we invite contributions that consider but are not limited to the following related themes: 1. How are boundaries drawn (or erased) visually between nature and culture, between the social and the non-social, the human and non-human and between different categories of people: Which individuals and associations become included as subjects worth interpreting and understanding? 2. What is the nature of the relationship between the development of visual practices, cultures, and technologies and certain knowledge regimes or economic regimes? Which forms of subjectivation are advanced in regimes of the visible and sayable, do they inform individualisation or dividualisation or other? 3. In which ways might the distribution of knowledge be formed or informed differently within the context of a general aesthetization and informatization of ‘networked’ societies? What might the roles of experts and amateurs and their relationships be in the development of cultural skills such as visualization and illustration? 4. How far do visibilities and legibilities have the capacity to influence social and cultural orders through technologies, practices, and activism. Which kinds of competences and agencies are afforded by visual practices and visual discourse and what kind of limitations might be found? 5. How can methodological considerations also evolve to reflect our reflexive positions in a visually saturated world? What part can images be said to play in research phases such as data collection, analysis and rendering of results? Are these still appropriate or do we need new ways of thinking with visualities? The collection of papers in this special issue will bring together and into dialogue authors from German, French and English speaking academia. For the sake of accessibility, we kindly ask for contributions to be submitted in English. Please submit abstracts of not more than 800 words by January 30th to: Mathias Blanc: mathias.blanc(a)univ-lille3.fr Maria-Carolina Cambre: mcambre(a)ualberta.ca Boris Traue: boris.traue(a)posteo.de -- -- Carolina Cambre PhD Assistant Professor, King's University College @ Western University http://ualberta.academia.edu/mariacarolinacambre/About http://www.bloomsbury.com/us/the-semiotics-of-che-guevara-9781472505293/

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Crowdsourcing a research agenda: open digital badges
by Sheryl Grant 05 Nov '14

05 Nov '14

Hi all, The Badge Alliance <http://www.badgealliance.org/> research working group is in the process of crowdsourcing a research agenda on digital badges for learning. If you have even a sliver of interest or knowledge in badges for learning, we encourage you to take a few minutes to answer one, some, or all of the questions in this short survey: https://umich.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_9vKFoaOoT8HhhJz We'll be closing the survey on Friday, November 21. Thanks! Sheryl Grant HASTAC, Director of Badge Research What Counts as Learning: Open Digital Badges for New Opportunities <http://dmlhub.net/publications/what-counts-learning> Digital Media and Learning Competition, Director of Social Networking Duke University, Durham NC

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Any digital art history PhDs looking for a job?
by Jill Walker Rettberg 05 Nov '14

05 Nov '14

There's an absolutely open associate professor position in art history (any kind of art history whatsoever) advertised in our department and I would just love for someone doing something digital to get the job. PLEASE, if you know someone with a PhD in art history who is interested in the internet who might be interested in a job in Norway, LET THEM KNOW. And if you fit the bill, APPLY? http://www.jobbnorge.no/en/available-jobs/job/106195/associate-professor-fo… (if that job ad shows up in Norwegian look for the link labeled "English") While I'll admit the art history people in our department are not very internet-ish, there are some wonderful people there. And us digital culture people are just down the hallway, and we do lots of work on digital art and literature. There's also an excellent art school doing great digital art, and some wonderful digital artists here. If you're thinking, "Huh, NORWAY?" let me tell you the jobs are not bad here. You get 50% research time, 50% teaching by default. The salary for this job starts at USD 70,000, and though cost of living may be higher here than in many countries consider free health care, free tuition, 12 months paid parental leave, heavily subsidized childcare and you'll see that the deal is really pretty sweet. Also Norway has publically funded universities and isn't slashing funding for higher education as many countries are doing. Here is some info from another academic who moved to Norway about transitioning to academia here. http://theprofessorisin.com/2013/02/18/if-youre-considering-grad-schoolwork… http://theprofessorisin.com/2013/02/19/if-youre-considering-grad-schoolwork… and something I wrote about the (in some ways) open hiring process http://jilltxt.net/?p=3472 Feel free to email me if you have any questions. Jill Jill Walker Rettberg Professor of Digital Culture Dept of Linguistic, Literary and Aesthetic Studies University of Bergen Postboks 7800 5020 Bergen + 47 55588431 Blog - http://jilltxt.net Twitter - http://twitter.com/jilltxt My book "Seeing Ourselves Through Technology: How We Use Selfies, Blogs and Wearable Devices to See and Shape Ourselves" is out on Palgrave as an open access publication - buy it in print or download it for free! http://jilltxt.net/books

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Info about anti-pedophile campaigns involving avatars
by Alejandro Tortolini 05 Nov '14

05 Nov '14

Hi listers! I'm looking for info about anti-pedophile campaigns involving avatars or other forms of virtual representation, like Sweetie from Terre des hommes... Can you help me? Thanks in advance, -- Alejandro Tortolini http://dooid.me/aletor

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#GamerGate Lessons for academics
by Jennifer Stromer-Galley 05 Nov '14

05 Nov '14

For those of you who've been following #gamergate, I wanted to share an article that was just published in the International Communication Association newsletter. Shira Chess, Mia Consalvo, Nina Huntemann, Adrienne Shaw, Carol Stabile, and I wrote an essay that we hope will help trigger some thoughtful discussion among us academics and our associations about ways our community can support those of us who become targets of harassment because of our scholarly endeavors. I'm pleased to note that AoIR has already adopted one of the items on our list of recommendations, which is for academic associations to draft statements of inclusivity :). The article can be read here: http://www.icahdq.org/membersnewsletter/NOV14_ART0009.asp ~Jenny Associate Professor | School of Information Studies Vice President | Association of Internet Researchers Syracuse University 220 Hinds Hall Syracuse, New York 13244 t 315.443.1823 f 315.443.5673 e jstromer(a)syr.edu w www.stromer-galley.com<http://www.stromer-galley.com/> w http://www.aoir.org<http://www.aoir.org/> ischool.syr.edu My New Book: Presidential Campaigning in the Internet Age<http://global.oup.com/academic/product/presidential-campaigning-in-the-inte…>

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Resources for finding postdocs?
by Robinson,Cory 04 Nov '14

04 Nov '14

I’m currently searching Twitter, all the job sites (US and abroad), subscribed to many listservs, but wondering if anyone has additional resources for finding postdocs? If area of research helps, I’m seeking positions in ICTs, privacy, ethics, data mining, etc. Thanks in advance! - Cory -- Stephen Cory Robinson cory.robinson(a)colostate.edu<mailto:cory.robinson@colostate.edu> Office: Clark C258A http://colostate.academia.edu/StephenCoryRobinson

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Social Media and Disasters: CAMRI seminar with Dhiraj Murthy, Nov 12
by Christian Fuchs 04 Nov '14

04 Nov '14

Social Media and Disasters: the Case of Hurricane Sandy and Twitter Dhiraj Murthy CAMRI Seminar University of Westminster Wed, Nov 12, 14:00 Harrow Campus Room A7.1 http://www.westminster.ac.uk/camri/research-seminars/social-media-and-disas… Registration is possible per e-mail to christian.fuchs(a)uti.at, at latest until Nov 10 Sociological understandings of social media and disasters remain an emergent field. Despite major disasters in which victims and others have engaged over social media, we have limited understandings of the function of social media during disasters as well as the ad-hoc communities formed. This presentation seeks to extend current scholarship on Twitter use during natural disasters through the exploration of tweets related to Hurricane Sandy. The storm caused over $65 billion in damage, making it the second costliest storm in U.S. history. We examine the behaviour of Twitter users over from October 22, 2012 to November 3, 2012, using mentions, links and hashtags for data analysis. All tweets relating to the storm during this period were collected. Certain Twitter functionalities rose to prominence depending on the stage of the storm. For instance, in the days following Hurricane Sandy’s initial landfall, users became more interested in relief efforts. The conclusion is that behaviour in an anticipated natural disaster can be distilled into a framework of micro-events that take place within the larger context of the disaster and can be studied using comparative temporal methods. Dhiraj Murthy is a Senior Lecturer of Sociology at Goldsmiths, University of London. His current research explores social media, virtual organizations, and big data quantitative analysis. His work on social networking technologies in virtual breeding grounds was funded by the National Science Foundation, Office of CyberInfrastructure. Dhiraj also has a book about Twitter published by Polity Press. He founded and directed the Social Network Innovation Lab, an interdisciplinary research group investigating social networks and virtual organizations.

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Call for Papers: 2015 International Internet Preservation Consortium General Assembly
by Nicholas Taylor 04 Nov '14

04 Nov '14

The International Internet Preservation Consortium is seeking proposals for presentations and workshops at the next conference and general assembly to be held at Stanford University in California, USA on the 27 and 28 April 2015. The theme is "Innovation, connection and co-operation in web data"; see more below. ** *Proposals* The presentations should be aimed at 20 mins. for single papers and up to 60 mins. for panel sessions of up to 3 speakers. Workshops or training for specific web archiving tools, concepts, or issues can be up to half a day in length. Abstracts should include the name of the speaker, a title, conference sub-theme (see below) and be no more than 300 words. Proposals should be emailed tojason.webber(a)bl.uk <mailto:jason.webber@bl.uk>by*Friday 28 November 2014*. All abstracts should be in English. All submissions will be reviewed by the Conference Committee and those which are accepted will be notified by Friday 19 December 2014. http://netpreserve.org/ga2015-call-papers *Theme* Innovation, connection and co-operation in web data The history of web archiving has been one of the interaction between fast-evolving web technologies and the processes and technologies used to archive the web: a perpetual arms race between developers of the live web, and the archivists charged to preserve the record. This interplay is the theme for this year's GA at Stanford, in the heart of Silicon Valley. It has four sub-themes: ** *Access* How can the providers of archives harness the power of new technologies to improve the experience of users, and to enable them to do more with the content that archives provide? Which are the innovative projects that show the way, and which are the emerging technologies that will be next? Can web archiving developers co-operate more and better with others in the field, to mutual benefit? There are common technical issues at play, such as the scalability of technologies such as Apache Solr for big data: how might expertise best be shared? ** *Research* What does truly innovative research look like? How are researchers, both inside and outside the academic sector, using the archived web now, and what are the questions they would like to ask of the archive, but cannot (yet)? Is there yet innovation in the *methods* that researchers are using; or is the use of web archives still analogous to older paradigms of the use of printed objects? ** *Harvesting* How can archivists and indeed all those who rely on crawler technologies keep pace with the ever-changing technologies by which content is delivered? How might developers and archivists work better together so that questions of "archivability" become part of the design process? ** *Preservation* As the web evolves, so do the formats in which it is delivered, and formats that were once innovative soon become obsolescent. How might developers and archivists work together to ensure that data can be preserved, and effective global standards adopted?

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Twitter portraits, MP3 faces and dronies as a new Internet craze: Photomediations Machine
by Joanna Zylinska 03 Nov '14

03 Nov '14

We have the pleasure to announce eight new contributions to the curated online space Photomediations Machine: http://www.photomediationsmachine.net - Status Symbols: amazing Twitter portraits created with spinning LEDs that translate celebrities' tweets into flashing bursts of light: http://photomediationsmachine.net/2014/11/01/status-symbols-twitter-portrai… - Lost in Fathoms challenges our perception of geologic timescales and of humanity's impact on the earth’s systems: http://photomediationsmachine.net/2014/11/01/lost-in-fathoms-exploring-the-… - What does your face sound like in mp3? Sound Portraits: http://photomediationsmachine.net/2014/11/01/sound-portraits/ - Topia daedala: landscapes manufactured from plastic and clouds, in the era of petrochemical urgency: http://photomediationsmachine.net/2014/11/01/topia-daedala/ - BLKBX.MOV: The Black Box as an icon of power and ideology explored via popular Internet images: http://photomediationsmachine.net/2014/09/29/blkbx-mov/ - A visual essay that analyses creative processes and formulas in art: http://photomediationsmachine.net/2014/09/29/algorithms-in-art/ - A reassessment of portraiture via the art and science of photogrammetry: http://photomediationsmachine.net/2014/09/29/sedimentary-tropes/ - ‘Would you mind my drone taking a picture of us?’: the ‘dronie’ as a new Internet craze: http://photomediationsmachine.net/2014/09/29/would-you-mind-my-drone-taking… ************************************************ PHOTOMEDIATIONS MACHINE http://www.photomediationsmachine.net Photomediations Machine is a curated online space where the dynamic relations of mediation as performed in photography and other media can be encountered, experienced and engaged. Photomediations Machine adopts a process-based approach to image making by tracing the technological, biological, cultural, social and political flows of mediation that produce photographic objects. Showcasing theoretical and practical work at the intersections of art and mainstream practices, Photomediations Machine is both an archive of mediations past and a site of production of media as-we-do-not-know-them-yet. Photomediations Machine is non-commercial, non-profit and fully open access. Curated by Joanna Zylinska and Ting Ting Cheng, Photomediations Machine has an International Advisory Board which includes Katherine Behar, Lisa Cartwright, Alberto López Cuenca, Asbjørn Grønstad, Richard Grusin, Sarah Kember, Max Liljefors, Melissa Miles, Nicholas Mirzoeff, W.J.T. Mitchell, Luiza Nader, Nina Sellars, Jonathan Shaw, Katrina Sluis, Marquard Smith, Hito Steyerl and Bernadette Wegenstein. It is a sister project to the online open access journal Culture Machine (http://www.culturemachine.net) established in 1999. Website: http://www.photomediationsmachine.net For regular updates and more, follow us on Twitter: @Photomediations Visit us on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/photomediations.machine Submissions invited: http://photomediationsmachine.net/submissions/ -- Professor Joanna Zylinska Department of Media and Communications Goldsmiths, University of London http://www.joannazylinska.net Curator of Photomediations Machine http://www.photomediationsmachine.net NEW BOOK, Minimal Ethics for the Anthropocene, available open access: http://www.openhumanitiespress.org/minimal-ethics.html

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