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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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LAST CALL: ABSTRACT SUBMISSION WILL BE CLOSED ON DECEMBER THE 7th (ICCSS Helsinki)
by news＠iccss2015.eu 01 Dec '14

01 Dec '14

***APOLOGIES FOR MULTIPLE POSTINGS*** CALL FOR ABSTRACTS International Conference on Computational Social Science Finlandia Hall, Helsinki, Finland, 8-11 June 2015 WEBSITE http://www.iccss2015.eu/ IMPORTANT DATES Deadline for abstract submission: 7 December 2014, 23:59 GMT Opening of registration: 15 January 2015 Conference dates: 8-11 June 2015 CONFERENCE FEE 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. EVENT OVERVIEW The conference will bring together scientists from different areas to meet and discuss problems on social systems and dynamics, as well as research questions motivated by large datasets, either extracted from real applications (e.g. social media, communication systems), or created via controlled experiments. PROGRAM CHAIRS Karen Cook (Stanford) Santo Fortunato (Aalto University) Michael Macy (Cornell) KEYNOTE SPEAKERS Opening talk by Michael Macy (Cornell) Lada Adamic (Facebook) Sinan Aral (MIT) Albert-Laszlo Barabasi (Northeastern University and CEU) Nicholas Christakis (Yale) Robin Dunbar (Oxford) Andreas Flache (University of Groeningen) Dirk Helbing (ETH Zurich) Matthew Jackson (Stanford) David Lazer (Northeastern University) Jure Leskovec (Stanford) Alex Pentland (MIT) Alessandro Vespignani (Northeastern University) Duncan Watts (Microsoft) ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Santo Fortunato (Aalto University) Aristides Gionis (Aalto) Heikki Hämmäinen (Aalto) Kimmo Kaski (Aalto) Walter Quattrociocchi (IMT Lucca) Jari Saramäki (Aalto) Juuso Valimäki (Aalto) TOPICS OF INTEREST INCLUDE (but are not limited to) Social networks Social contagion Communication dynamics Information diffusion and other spreading phenomena Social influence Crowd-sourcing Popularity dynamics Smart cities Attention economics Social design and user behavior Group formation, evolution and group behavior analysis Human mobility Mobility and context-awareness Economics of trust SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS Contributions to the conference have to be submitted via Easychair (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ic2s2) the name of the event there is IC2S2. Each submission consists of an extended abstract of max 2 pages. Please give a sufficiently detailed description of your work, put at least one figure, otherwise it will be difficult for the PC to assess its relevance. Short, paper-like abstracts will not be considered. Abstracts do not need to refer to unpublished work. If the work is published or under submission elsewhere it is fine. We want to give to everyone the opportunity to present the most relevant work to the topics of the conference. There will be no proceedings, but we are going to have a special issue in EPJ Data Science (http://www.epjdatascience.com/) where selected contributions will be published. Authors of those contributions would be invited to submit full papers after the conference. Each extended abstract will be reviewed by two PC members. Abstracts can be submitted from September the 15th till December 7th, 2014. We will do out best to have mostly oral presentations of the selected contributions, both plenary and in parallel sessions. However, we are probably going to have a poster session as well. During the submission process, you will be asked to specify whether your contribution is intended for a) Plenary session presentation, b) Parallel session presentation or c) Poster session presentation. The final allocation of each contribution will be decided by the Program Committee. CONTACT For any question you might have please contact Prof. Santo Fortunato (santo.fortunato(a)aalto.fi)

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ICTs and the Right to Life - Suggestions re Case Studies?
by R.A. Larsen 01 Dec '14

01 Dec '14

Hello all, I'm part of a research committee at Cambridge, working to produce a report on the effects of ICTs on the right to life for UN special rapporteur Christof Heyns. Below is a link to the project: https://www.cghr.polis.cam.ac.uk/research-themes/right_to_life/ICTs_right_t… We will be building up case studies on instances where ICTs can be used to prevent infringement on the right to life, provide better forms of accountability, and allow for more effective advocacy. So I'm searching for apps, organizations, and/or platforms in these arenas to profile. (Some examples: Amnesty's Panic Button app and Citizen Evidence Lab, various social media platforms and other communication platforms (Skype, Tor), Witness' model of video advocacy, predictive escalation projects re big data, crowdmapping/crowdsourcing efforts, Thunderclap, Access' Digital Security Helpline...) Does anyone have any general suggestions or can anyone point towards standouts or up-and-coming projects in this arena? At this stage, we're still trying to thoroughly suss out the landscape and make contacts. Thanks in advance! Rebekah Larsen

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two generously funded PhD positions on Mediating (Semi-)Authoritarianism at Free University Berlin
by Leurs, K.H.A. (Koen) 01 Dec '14

01 Dec '14

CfA: Two generously funded PhD positions at Free University Berlin IMPORTANT NOTE: This is only an unofficial, informal, translated call for applications. The legally binding, official German job announcement is available at: http://www.fu-berlin.de/service/stellen/st_2014/st_20141117.html The Emmy Noether research group on Mediating (Semi-)Authoritarianism – The Power of the Internet in the Post-Soviet World invites applications for two fully funded PhD positions (of up to four years), starting in early or mid-2015. The research group will be based at the Institute for Media and Communications Studies at the Free University Berlin. It is being funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) from October 2014 to September 2019. The five-year project investigates the interrelations of internet-mediated communication and politics in the post-Soviet region, with a strong comparative focus on three countries: Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus. It draws primarily on qualitative methods of communication research, but also employs quantitative approaches. Comparisons are structured around a series of key theoretical concepts, including the decoding of news items, counterpublics, critical news literacy, and political representation. Additional information about the project can be found at www.mediating-authoritarianism.net<http://www.mediating-authoritarianism.net>. Job Description / Duties and Responsibilities · Pursuing independent research: Applicants will be expected to develop, design, and accomplish independent research that will qualify them for the award of a PhD degree. The topic of the candidate’s independent doctoral research should be closely related to the central topic of the research group. Thus, ideally, their independent research will strongly benefit from synergies with research carried out in the framework of the research group. · Contributing to the success of the research group: PhD students will play an important role as members of the Emmy Noether group. They will make strong, creative, and independent contributions to the project by helping to refine the overall research design, as well as by collecting, analysing, and interpreting data. They will contribute as (co-)authors to publications of the research group. One of the two PhD positions announced here will focus on data collection and analysis with regard to Belarus, the other with regard to Ukraine. · Administration, outreach & teaching: The project group will organize a small number of public events (approximately one event per year), seek to host visiting scholars from across the globe, and maintain a website that includes a blog. It will also be involved in teaching at the Institute of Media and Communications Studies at Free University Berlin (one course in each semester). Although routine tasks in these areas will be carried out by a student assistant, PhD candidates will be expected to take on management responsibilities and other leading roles in this work. Person Specification / Selection Criteria · A Masters degree or equivalent in Media and Communications or a related discipline such as Sociology, Political Science, or Psychology (essential). Highly- motivated candidates with or without prior work experience are strongly encouraged to apply. · Experience in qualitative and/or quantitative social science research methods. · Evidence of in-depth knowledge and understanding of the candidate’s own field of study, which will ideally be related to political communication (essential). · Fluency in English (essential), either Ukrainian or Belarusian (essential), and Russian (desirable). Willingness to acquire practical knowledge of German in the course of the project (essential). · Evidence of ability and willingness to work as part of a team (essential). · Evidence of strong self-management skills, as required to successfully complete a four-year PhD project (essential). · Evidence of flexibility, autonomy, and creativity (essential). · Evidence of strong communication skills (desirable). · Evidence of strong analytical and critical skills and clear academic writing (desirable). Salary and Working Conditions · The two PhD positions in the Emmy Noether research group come with an internationally highly competitive salary, which will be stipulated in accordance with the German collective agreement for the public sector (TV-L E 13 at a 0.65 full time equivalent). Depending on the candidate’s work experience, the initial annual salary will thus be at least 26,814 Euros (increase pending). From this gross salary, contributions to the German pension scheme, health assurance, and other social insurances will be automatically deducted. Depending on the family situation, the PhD candidate’s initial net salary will thus amount to at least 1,600 Euros a month (approximately 2,150 USD). · The Emmy Noether group will offer PhD candidates a vibrant and international academic environment with flat hierarchies. In the course of the project, they will receive hands-on training in pursuing internationally competitive communication research. At the same time, they will be intensely supervised and supported by the leader of the research group, members of academic staff at the Free University Berlin, and international scholars affiliated with the project in pursuing their independent PhD research. PhD candidates will be encouraged to pursue their own ideas, make strong individual contributions to the success of the research project, and develop an emerging track record of independent academic publications that will qualify them to pursue a subsequent academic career. · The two PhD positions will have access to generous subsidies for conference travel, fieldwork, and external academic training. How to Apply Additional information about the project can be found at www.mediating-authoritarianism.net<http://www.mediating-authoritarianism.net>. To apply, we recommend providing the following documents: · CV. · Letter of motivation (maximum two pages) stating why you would like to pursue a PhD within the research group, potential topic of your PhD, type of research you could imagine pursuing, and how you think you could contribute to the success of the project. Please also provide evidence with regard to selection criteria listed above. · One to three samples of academic writing (course work, your BA or MA thesis, etc.) · Relevant school certificates and university diplomas (certificate of qualification for university matriculation, BA and MA diplomas, or equivalents). · Contact details and phone numbers of two or three referees (at least one academic). Please send your applications to the group leader Dr Florian Toepfl at f.toepfl(a)fu-berlin.de. The application deadline is 15.12.2014. Ideally, the two PhD candidates will be employed in early or mid-2015. We very much look forward to receiving your applications! Koen Leurs, PhD | Marie Curie Postdoctoral Researcher, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) | | Affiliated researcher Graduate Gender Studies Institute for Cultural Enquiry (ICON) Utrecht University | www.koenleurs.net <https://mail.lse.ac.uk/ecp/Customize/www.koenleurs.net> <www.koenleurs.net>

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a call - a reminder - texts
by Vasilis Kostakis 01 Dec '14

01 Dec '14

Dear all, Firstly, I would like to remind you about the CfP on the materiality of the digital Commons for a special issue to be published by the open access, peer reviewed journal tripleC: http://www.triple-c.at/index.php/tripleC/announcement/view/23 Secondly, I would like to let you know about a call for visiting scholars & collaborators announced by the P2P Lab, Greece: http://p2plab.gr/en/call Last, here you may have free access to the published work of the P2P Lab collaborators: http://p2plab.gr/en/publications Best, Vasilis -- Dr. Vasilis Kostakis Research Fellow Ragnar Nurkse School of Innovation and Governance Research Director P2P Lab: http://p2plab.org

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Oxford OII-Ruskin Funded DPhil Position / Artists and the Internet
by Eric Meyer 01 Dec '14

01 Dec '14

Please distribute widely, particularly to any potentially interested British or European applicants you might know: http://bit.ly/DACS-OII-Ruskin The Oxford Internet Institute and the Ruskin School of Art in partnership with DACS (Design and Artists Copyright Society) invite applications for a three year doctoral studentship which will lead to a DPhil in Information, Communication and the Social Sciences at the University of Oxford beginning in the academic year 2015-16. The successful student will be located primarily at the Oxford Internet Institute in Oxford, but will also be required to spend periods of time at the Ruskin School of Art in Oxford and DACS in London as part of this Knowledge Exchange (KE) Studentship. The student will also be affiliated with St Catherine's College, Oxford and a member of St Catherine's Middle Common Room (MCR). This three-year doctoral studentship will aim to use a variety of sources and methods to investigate opportunities for transforming the economic and policy-making landscape for artists. In doing so the successful applicant might address some of the following key research themes and approaches: * The relationship between working artists and the public as mediated by the Internet, and how new online markets are altering the traditional roles of artists, arts organisations, art fans, and art buyers * How historic and contemporary data from DACS can be analysed, transformed, visualised, and communicated to understand better the changing economic landscape for working artists * How theories emerging from the aesthetic turn in the social sciences can be applied to understand better the ways DACS and other arts organisations work with artists * How the experiences of various members of the art world are being transformed by uses of the Internet, and what the policy implications of these transformations might be * Policy-related questions concerning artists' revenues, copyright protections and exceptions in the UK, EU and elsewhere, and governmental policy towards art and arts funding * Developing novel approaches to working with quantitative data to contribute to contemporary art discourse * Using qualitative approaches to understand more comprehensively the role of the Internet in the working practices of contemporary artists and arts organisations Applicants are welcome to suggest other areas of research that would capitalise on the unprecedented access to DACS and working artists offered by this studentship. The award pays all tuition and college fees for home (UK) or EU applicants. Those students who satisfy the ESRC residency requirements will receive the full award including a yearly stipend (approximately £14,000 for 2015-16). Students who do not meet the residency requirements will receive a fees-only award. The closing date for applications is noon (UK time) 23 January 2015. For more details, including how to apply and eligibility rules, please see: http://bit.ly/DACS-OII-Ruskin Professor Eric T. Meyer Senior Research Fellow and Associate Professor Director of Graduate Studies Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford Email: eric.meyer(a)oii.ox.ac.uk<mailto:eric.meyer@oii.ox.ac.uk> Web: http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/people/meyer/ Google Scholar: http://bit.ly/GS-ETMeyer SSRN: http://ssrn.com/author=912385 Twitter: @etmeyer

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