February 2014 - Air-L - lists.aoir.org

CFP RIAS Special Issue - American-Digital Studies
by Carassai,Mauro 17 Feb '14

17 Feb '14

(apologies for cross-posting and please forward this to whomever you think may be interested) Please review the attached Call for Papers for a special issue for RIAS (Review of International American Studies) focused on the relationship between American and digital studies. More specifically, the special issue explores the cultural logic of the digital from a fluid, heterogeneous, and comparative perspective. You can find detailed information about the project either in the attachment or at: https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/node/55044 Please send your abstract and one-paragraph bio to rias.special.issue(a)gmail.com Contact e-mails: mcarassai(a)ufl.edu leonardo.flores(a)upr.edu Editors: Mauro Carassai and Leonardo Flores Carassai, Mauro English Department University of Florida

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CFP: Creating Cultures, postgraduate conference in Culture, Media, and the Creative Industries, King's College London
by Jeremy 16 Feb '14

16 Feb '14

(apologies for cross-posting and please forward this to whomever you think may be interested) Call for Papers: Creating Cultures, a postgraduate conference in Culture, Media, and the Creative Industries, King's College London http://thecmcisocialfactory.wordpress.com/creating-cultures-postgrad-confer… Keynote speaker: Prof. Lev Manovich, CUNY Held on the 12th and 13th of June 2014, this multi-disciplinary postgraduate conference seeks a broad array of perspectives that explore cultural representations, practices, and industries. The title 'Creating Cultures' prompts inquiries into concepts of culture being created, cultures of creativity, cultures evolving and changing, and also cultures of creative work and play. Culture evokes ideas about its conflicting and disputed foundations, and culture as a medium through which social, political, spatial, and historical meanings are communicated and understood. The theme of this conference invites explorations of power relations, gender, subjectivity, the spatial, technology and contemporary media. Abstract submissions for presentations and pre-formed panels are invited on themes in cultural and/or media studies, such as: Power and cultural politics Identity and representation Media and mediation Digital cultures, new media, and media futures Cultures and change Popular culture Contested and counter cultures Art and artistic practice Cultural labour and industries Territorial and spatial cultures Globalisation and transnational cultures Cultural and media research methodologies Please submit 300 word abstracts, or proposals for creative presentation formats, and a maximum 100-word biography to cmci-conference(a)kcl.ac.uk by the 28th of March. Decisions on submissions will be sent by the 17th of April. For any queries contact: Jeremy Matthew (jeremy.matthew(a)kcl.ac.uk) or Photini Vrikki (photini.vrikki(a)kcl.ac.uk) and please check our website at http://thecmcisocialfactory.wordpress.com/creating-cultures-postgrad-confer…

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Facebook changes their gender options
by Rena Bivens 15 Feb '14

15 Feb '14

Hi everyone, Perhaps you have already heard about Facebook's recent changes to their gender options. If not check out the link here: http://bigstory.ap.org/article/apnewsbreak-new-gender-options-facebook-users In some ways this is a big step forward but there is more to it than that. I've been working on this issue for a few years and was in the process of finishing a journal article on the topic from a critical theory perspective that is due March 1st (for a special issue) but am now revising over the next couple of weeks as a result of this news. Here is my initial response (directed more towards journalists but nonetheless) - I'd love to hear your feedback! http://renabivens.com/201402/my-reaction-facebook-launches-new-gender-optio… Here it is again via Twitter: https://twitter.com/renabivens/statuses/43439344394764697<https://twitter.com/renabivens/statuses/434393443947646977> 7 Best, Rena Bivens Rena Bivens, Ph.D. (Sociology) Banting Fellow School of Journalism and Communication Studies Carleton University 1125 Colonel By Drive, Ottawa, Ontario Canada K1S 5B6 Tel: 613 520-2600 ext. 2041 renabivens.com

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Re: [Air-L] "Networked" & query
by Barry Wellman 15 Feb '14

15 Feb '14

Thanks for your interest. We're in the midst of projects. If you go to Navel Studies on my website, you'll see some of our first papers on Networked Research. The Networked Individuals project doesnt have any papers out yet. However, the preceding "Connected Lives" project does on my website. And Dr. Bernie Hogan at Oxford Internet Institute was central in that. Barry Wellman _______________________________________________________________________ NetLab FRSC INSNA Founder Faculty of Information (iSchool) 611 Bissell Building 140 St. George St. University of Toronto Toronto Canada M5S 3G6 http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman twitter: @barrywellman NSA/CSEC: Canadian and American citizen NETWORKED:The New Social Operating System. Lee Rainie & Barry Wellman MIT Press http://amzn.to/zXZg39 Print $14 Kindle $16 Old/NewCyberTimes http://bit.ly/c8N9V8 ________________________________________________________________________ On Fri, 14 Feb 2014, Marilou Polymeropoulou wrote: > Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2014 22:24:39 +0000 > From: Marilou Polymeropoulou <marilou.polymeropoulou(a)music.ox.ac.uk> > To: "wellman(a)chass.utoronto.ca" <wellman(a)chass.utoronto.ca> > Subject: "Networked" & query > > Dear Prof. Wellman, > > Your AoIR list e-mail regarding your new publication arrived just in time when I was writing a piece on networked digital music. I've just bought the Kindle version (as a Valentine's present to myself) and I'm looking forward to reading it. > > My research at Oxford is about the chipscene, a transnational collective of musicians who compose chipmusic, a kind of digital music whose characteristic is 8-bit sounds. I've conducted physical, multi-sited and digital ethnographic fieldwork among chipmusicians, and I'm currently finishing my doctoral thesis with an emphasis on creativity. > > The research conducted at NetLab interests me very much. I cannot find any analytical information on current projects, only the titles, so I would really appreciate it if you could share any further information with me. > > Thank you very much in advance. > > With best wishes, > Marilou Polymeropoulou > > DPhil in Music > University of Oxford > St. Peter's College > http://mariloup.wordpress.com > > > > > > >

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Valentine's Day surprise: Paperback edition of Networked is out
by Barry Wellman 14 Feb '14

14 Feb '14

The paperback edition of Networked: The New Social Operating System (Rainie & Wellman) appeared for Valentine's Day. If you order one today, I will sing to you the next time we meet (some may call this a negative inducement.) So I started exploring the pricing http://www.amazon.com/Networked-New-Social-Operating-System/dp/0262526166/r… The Amazon.com pricing is intriguing. Paperback: US$14.19 Hardcover: US$20.04 (up a buck from last week - you'd think they'd want to clear out the Hards) Kindle: US$16.33 Even more intrigue. The Canadian price is even cheaper than the US Hardcover: Cdn $19.75; (aobut US$17.80) Paperback: Cdn $13.68 But Kindle more expensive: $18.02 Given that the Cdn dollar is now about 90cents in US$, it is cheaper for Canadians to order locally, but not for Americans to do so (shipping costs). UK harcover price, as always, is higher: L14.04 (US$23.50) NO paperback yet Kindle is: L12.64 (US$21) -- and of course, e-shipping is the same as in the US and Canada Japanese price is Y2853 for hardback (about US$28),with no pb listed. BTW: There is a hard-hitting article in the current New Yorker about Amazon's dealing with publishers. Barry Wellman _______________________________________________________________________ NetLab FRSC INSNA Founder Faculty of Information (iSchool) 611 Bissell Building 140 St. George St. University of Toronto Toronto Canada M5S 3G6 http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman twitter: @barrywellman NSA/CSEC: Canadian and American citizen NETWORKED:The New Social Operating System. Lee Rainie & Barry Wellman MIT Press http://amzn.to/zXZg39 Print $20 Kindle $16 Old/NewCyberTimes http://bit.ly/c8N9V8 ________________________________________________________________________

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sentiment analysis on Twitter for smoking cessation groups
by Ashley Nicoles Sanders-Jackson 14 Feb '14

14 Feb '14

Greetings, I am beginning a project for which we have 4 private smoking cessation groups (3 months each) to analyze (we are writing a grant to collect more data as well). I have seen some of the work related to sentiment analysis on Twitter but I am interested in developing a system that is better tailored to our data (e.g. being smokefree has specific meaning in this context). We are therefore considering developing a system by content coding a number of tweets (either having researchers code them or by having smokers code them) for positive and negative valence and perhaps some discrete emotions (e.g. sadness or hope). How many coded tweets would we need to train a simple machine learning system on our dataset (for example one of the many possibilities in R) and what are the best out-of-box programs to use? I know a bit about content analysis and about smoking cessation but not so much about machine learning. So bear in mind that you are dealing with a novice. Actually, if anyone would be interested in collaborating on the project who actually does know what they are doing, they would be welcome as well. Ashley

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Call for book chapters: Handbook on 3D3C Virtual Worlds
by Tzafnat Shpak 14 Feb '14

14 Feb '14

[image: Journal of Virtual Worlds Research]<http://jvwresearch.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=de4fa2a435382cb1fa67cb…> Call for Book Chapters: Handbook on 3D3C Virtual Worlds Applications, Technologies and Policies for Three Dimensional Systems for Community, Creation and Commerce *Editor*: Prof. Yesha Sivan, JVWR Managing editor; Metaverse Labs Ltd. *Publisher*: Springer-Verlag, Germany Introduction: The field of virtual worlds / Augmented Reality / 3D / etc. is vast, interconnected and expanding. In that respect, "3D3C Worlds" is defined as a combination of four factors: - 3D stands for the three dimensional representation of worlds as seen in Google Earth, Augmented Reality, 3D printing and the like; - Community as in a collection of people work, play and act together. Consider Facebook and Twitter as one example, and enhance it by the dynamics of World of Warcraft guilds; - Creation is the ability to create new artifacts, as seen for example in Second Life or in Open Source movement; - Commerce is the ability to harness these previous factors to gain monetary real value (consider Bitcoin, exchanges, etc.) Objective of the Book: - Become the official "handbook" on 3D3C Virtual Worlds - Highlight and enhance some earlier work conducted for the Journal - Further advance and augment the field with "topical reviews" A "topical review" means a review of a corpus of knowledge of one aspect of the field. It can be a classic literature review, a more formal statistical meta-analysis or other forms suggested by authors. Topics we already have chapters on: - Collaboration >> Virtual Worlds as Innovative Collaboration Media for Distributed Work - Taxation >> Taxation of Virtual World Economies: An Empirical Review - Medical >> Overview: Virtual Reality in Medicine - Education >> An Exploratory Research Agenda for 3-D Virtual Worlds as Collaborative Learning Ecosystems: Extracting Evidences from Literature - Art >> 1993-2013: A Survey of Two Decades of Artistic Works using Computational Ecosystems - Geography >> An Aspatial Economics? The Economic Geography of Virtual Worlds - Creativity >> Fostering Team Creativity in Virtual Worlds - Money >> Virtual Currencies, Micropayments and Fiat Money: Where Are We Coming From and Where Does the Industry Stand? - Legal >> Privacy, Law, and Virtual Worlds - Multilinguality >> Multilingual issues in virtual worlds: a general review - Money >> Blazing Trails: A New Way Forward for Virtual Currencies and Money Laundering - Collaboration >> Virtual Collaboration Spaces: Bringing Presence to Distributed Collaboration Topics of interest that we are looking for include, but are not limited to: - Case studies - Augmented Reality - 3D Printing - Commerce / business - History - Security - Design - Military - Users - Standards - Social behaviours - Gender - Cases of projects, constellations, and "islands" -- Could be visual depiction (as the book will be in color) - Cases of firms, and business endeavours - Impact on special audiences for virtual worlds - Technical review of research trends in the field (metrics) - Measurements and evolution of usage in virtual worlds. - Defence Related Virtual worlds - Devices for virtual life - Mobility How to submit: The final chapter length should be 15-25 pages in the Springer format. Initially please email your 2-3 page chapter proposals including: - Chapter title - Author names, current affiliation, and email addresses - Short author/s bio - Chapter intent / purpose / abstract - Chapter structure outline - List some key publication(s) on which your chapter will be based *Editorial Process*: All accepted chapters will undergo a rigorous peer-review process. Email submissions to info(a)jvwresearch.org <+info(a)jvwresearch.org>. Dates: Authors are encouraged to send proposals as early as possible to get a quick response. *March 28, 2014*: Book chapter proposal submission deadline. *April 30, 2014*: Notification of chapter proposal acceptance. *July 30, 2014*: Full chapter submission. *September 15, 2014*: Peer-review results returned. *October 15, 2014*: Camera-ready chapter submission. *December 15, 2014*: Planned publication. Looking forward to hearing from you, Thankfully, *Prof. Yesha Y. Sivan* JVWR Managing Editor Metaverse-Labs Ltd. TheJVWR - The Journal of Virtual Worlds Research http://jvwresearch.org<http://jvwresearch.us2.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=de4fa2a435382cb1fa67c…> (TheJVWR) [image: Like Call for book chapters: Handbook on 3D3C Virtual Worlds on Facebook]<http://us2.campaign-archive2.com/?u=de4fa2a435382cb1fa67cb708&id=14e0db392c…> @TheJVWR. [image: share on Twitter]<http://twitter.com/share?url=http%3A%2F%2Feepurl.com%2FOl18z&text=Call+for+…> (c) 2014 Journal of Virtual Worlds Research All rights reserved.

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Happy Valentine's Day
by FEDERICO MONACO 14 Feb '14

14 Feb '14

Dear Aoir members, you are all invited to our wedding, performance and remix on the web: http://www.cvpido.com thank you for participating to our web event. Federico, Federica and Demetra -- http://www.federicomonaco.com

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CFP: The Transnational Movement of People and Information
by Catherine Vieira 14 Feb '14

14 Feb '14

Call For Papers: Special Issue of Literacy in Composition Studies Title: The Transnational Movement of People and Information Guest Editors: Rebecca Lorimer Leonard, Kate Vieira, Morris Young To be considered, please submit a 250-word abstract that discusses the proposed article to the editors at kevieira(a)wisc.edu. The deadline for proposal submissions is March 14, 2014. The movement of people and information across national borders is rapid and widespread. By some estimates, over 180 million people worldwide are currently living outside the country of their birth, keeping in contact with homelands, forging new migratory networks, and navigating new circumstances through writing. Literacy in composition studies has begun to respond to this context through increased attention to the global, the international, and the transnational. This special issue seeks to forward this emerging area of interest. Often defined as a set of skills and resources, literacy has figured prominently in debates about immigrants’ national integration. Some have called for migrants’ swift assimilation through literacy, others have pointed to the value of migrants’ diverse literacy legacies, and still others have examined how their literacies change in new national contexts. But if we think of literacy more materially, as skills and resources made possible by the technology of writing, it becomes clear that literacy plays a role in more than migrants’ incorporation within nations. It also shapes their movement among them. Writing can facilitate transnational communication and network migration via the postal system and Internet. And writing is a key tool in migration policy, as nation states use immigration documents, such as visas and passports, to allow some migrants in and to keep others out. Writing, in other words, is deeply imbricated both in transnational lived experiences and in the infrastructures that govern transnational mobility. The central question this special issue asks is how. We welcome articles that address these issues empirically, theoretically, and/or rhetorically. Among the questions to be considered are the following: How do migrants’ literacy practices change and persist across time and national borders? How does the transnational inhere in local literacies? How do other semiotic practices interact with writing in transnational contexts? How is literacy taught and learned transnationally? How does writing itself move? What are the implications of changing communication technologies, such as the post and the Internet, for transnational lives and literacies? How does writing motivate, influence, or restrict the travels of people? How have structural forces (such as governments, institutions, race, etc.) facilitated and/or discouraged literacy and immigration? Which methodologies might glean productive inquiries into transnational literacies? Literacy in Composition Studies is a peer-reviewed venue for a broad range of scholarship in literacy and writing studies. http://licsjournal.org. -- Kate Vieira Assistant Professor English Department, Program in Composition and Rhetoric University of Wisconsin, Madison kevieira(a)wisc.edu

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AJDE Special Issue: Interactions in Distance Education
by João Mattar 14 Feb '14

14 Feb '14

Hello! I will submit a proposal for a special issue on *Interactions in Distance Education* for the American Journal of Distance Education (AJDE<http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/hajd20/current#.Uv35XrRAeOc>). The articles should be based on empirical research. If you would like to submit an article for the proposal, please e-mail me a one paragraph abstract. I will get back as soon as I have a feedback on the proposal Thanks -- [ ]s João Mattar Professor TIDD<http://www.google.com.br/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&ved=0CCsQ…>PUC-SP (Brasil)<http://facebook.com/joaomattar>

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