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Call for Participation: Digital Methods Summer School 2014
by Anne Helmond 14 Feb '14

14 Feb '14

Call for Participation: Digital Methods Summer School 2014 23 June - 4 July 2014 Digital Methods Initiative New Media & Digital Culture University of Amsterdam Turfdraagsterpad 9 1012 XT Amsterdam the Netherlands On Geolocation: Remote Event Analysis (Mapping Conflicts, Disasters, Elections and other Events with Online and Social Media Data) This year's Digital Methods Summer School is devoted to the remote analysis of events. When Twitter changed its byline in 2009 from "What are you doing?" to "What's happening?" it acknowledged a transition in its use and value from an ego-tweeting and ambient friend-following medium to a news and event-following one. Indeed there is a growing literature (in the Summer School's reader) on the relationship between social media and events, often focusing on conflicts, disasters as well as political elections. But what do events look like online, and how does one follow them analytically? What is the value of the event's second screening, as it is sometimes termed? Also, is the event's comment culture worth keeping as records of what has transpired? How to capture as well as re-render, or playback, the event? Claude Levi-Strauss famously wrote, "I hate travelling and explorers," and indeed the great anthropologist spent scant time in the field, preferring remote analysis, a research practice that relied less on sensing instruments than on objects and description. Social media contributes sensing measures in the form of activity metrics and other data. They also raise the question as to what the Internet and social media add to events as well as subtract from them (so to speak). Evgeni Morozov relates the story that after the network was brought down in Iran during the Election crisis of 2009, there were perhaps 6 Twitter users on the ground in Teheran (http://www.evgenymorozov.com/morozov_twitter_dissent.pdf) Indeed the picture provided by Twitter may be demographically skewed. As the Pew Research Center found in 2013, reactions to events on Twitter differ dramatically from public opinion about them ( http://www.pewresearch.org/2013/03/04/twitter-reaction-to-events-often-at-o… ). We are also interested in the events as they unfold in and through mobile devices, and the data supplied with them. 'On geolocation', as opposed to 'on location', refers to the location data sent along with the posts and other content such as the camera data embedded in digital images. At the Summer School we analyse event data as supplied by social media and devices (broadly conceived), and also seek baselines against which to assess and compare its contributions. Example of remote event analysis using Twitter data, Digital Methods Summer School project 2013 (https://wiki.digitalmethods.net/Dmi/NetworkedIssuePublics) About "Digital Methods" as Concept Digital methods is a term coined as a counter-point to virtual methods, which typically digitize existing methods and port them onto the Web. Digital methods, contrariwise, seek to learn from the methods built into the dominant devices online, and repurpose them for social and cultural research. That is, the challenge is to study both the info-web as well as the social web with the tools that organize them. There is a general protocol to digital methods. At the outset stock is taken of the natively digital objects that are available (links, tags, threads, etc.) and how devices such as search engines make use of them. Can the device techniques be repurposed, for example by remixing the digital objects they take as inputs? Once findings are made with online data, where to ground them? Is the baseline still the offline, or are findings to be grounded in more online data? There is also a Digital Methods book (http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/digital-methods) About the Summer School The Digital Methods Summer School, founded in 2007 together with the Digital Methods Initiative, is directed by Professor Richard Rogers, Chair in NewSummer School is one training opportunity provided by the Digital Methods Initiative (DMI). DMI also has a Winter School, which includes a mini-conference, where papers are presented and responded to. Winter School papers are often the result of Summer School projects. The Summer School is coordinated by two Ph.D candidates in New Media at the University of Amsterdam, or affiliates. This year the coordinators are Catherine Somzé and Sabine Niederer, both affiliated with the Digital Methods Initiative, University of Amsterdam. The Summer School has a technical staff as well as a design staff. The Summer School also relies on a technical infrastructure of some nine servers hosting tools and storing data. Participants bring their laptops, learn method, undertake research projects, make reports, tools and graphics and write them up on the Digital Methods wiki. The Summer School concludes with final presentations. Often there are guests from non-governmental or other organizations who present their issues. For instance, Women on Waves came along during the 2010, Fair Phone to the 2012 Summer School and Greenpeace and their Gezi Park project in 2013. Digital Methods people are currently interning at major NGOs and international organizations (the UN). The Digital Methods Initiative was founded with a grant from the Mondriaan Foundation, and the Summer School has been supported by the Center for Creation, Content and Technology (CCCT), University of Amsterdam, organized by the Faculty of Science with sponsorship from Platform Beta. Previous Digital Methods Summer Schools, 2007-2013 (https://wiki.digitalmethods.net/Dmi/DmiSummerSchool) Applications and fees To apply for the Digital Methods Summer School 2014, please send a one-page letter explaining how digital methods training would benefit your current work, and also enclose a CV. Mark your application "DMI Training Certificate Program," and send to info [at] digitalmethods.net. The deadline for applications for the Summer School is 23 April. Notices will be sent on 25 April. Please address your application email to the Summer School coordinators, Catherine Somzé and Sabine Niederer, info [at] digitalmethods.net. Informal queries may be sent to Catherine [at] digitalmethods.net. The Summer School costs EUR 345 per person. Accepted applicants will be informed of the bank transfer details upon notice of acceptance to the Summer School. The fee must be paid by 24 May 2013. Scholarships The Digital Methods Summer School is part of the University of Amsterdam Summer School program me (http://www.uva.nl/en/education/other-programmes/summer-winter) This means that students attending the partnering universities in the LERU (http://www.leru.org/index.php/public/home/) and U21 networks (http://www.universitas21.com/) are eligible for a scholarship to help cover the cost for tuition and housing for the DMI Summer School. Please consult their sites to see whether you are eligible for a scholarship and for the application procedure. Housing and Accommodations The Summer School is self-catered, and there are abundant cafes and a university mensa nearby. The Digital Methods Summer School is located in the heart of Amsterdam. There are limited accommodations available to participants at The Student Hotel at reasonable rates (http://www.thestudenthotel.com/) In your application please indicate whether you are interested in making use of this service. Reservations will be made by us on the basis of your request included in your application. In your acceptance notification, you will be given further information about booking and payment. Please contact the local organizers if you need information about prices. For those who prefer non-University accommodations, we suggest airbnb or similar. For shorter stay, there is Hotel Le Coin (http://www.lecoin.nl/) where we have a university discount. Summer School Training Certificate The Digital Methods Summer School issues completion certificates to particisignificant contribution to a Summer School project. For previous Summer School projects, see for example (https://wiki.digitalmethods.net/Dmi/WikipediaAsASpaceOfControversy) Schedule The Summer School meets every day. Please bring your laptop. We will provide abundant connectivity. We start generally at 9:30 in the morning, and end around 5:30. There are morning talks two-three days per week. On the last Friday we have a boat trip on the canals of Amsterdam. Social Media & User-Generated Content Twitter hashtag #dmi14 We shall have a list of summer school participants and make an old-fashioned Facebook. We look forward to welcoming you to Amsterdam in the Summertime!

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[CFP] DIGITAL LABOR: SWEATSHOPS, PICKET LINES, AND BARRICADES, The New School, Nov 14-16, 2014
by Sarah Roberts 14 Feb '14

14 Feb '14

Call for Proposals DIGITAL LABOR: SWEATSHOPS, PICKET LINES, AND BARRICADES To be held at The New School, a university in New York City NOVEMBER 14-16, 2014 #dl14 The third in The New School's Politics of Digital Culture Conference Series Sponsored by The New School and The Institute for Distributed Creativity DIGITAL LABOR: SWEATSHOPS, PICKET LINES, AND BARRICADES brings together designers, labor organizers, theorists, social entrepreneurs, historians, legal scholars, independent researchers, cultural producers -- and perspectives from workers themselves -- to discuss emerging forms of mutual aid and solidarity. Over the past decade, advancements in software development, digitization, an increase in computer processing power, faster and cheaper bandwidth and storage, and the introduction of a wide range of inexpensive, wireless-enabled computing devices and mobile phones, set the global stage for emerging forms of labor that help corporations to drive down labor costs and ward off the falling rate of profits. Companies like CrowdFlower, oDesk, or Amazon.com’s Mechanical Turk serve as much more than payment processors or interface providers; they shape the nature of the tasks that are performed. Work is organized against the worker. Recent books included The Internet as Playground and Factory (Scholz, 2013), Living Labor (Hoegsberg and Fisher) based on the exhibition Arbeitstid that took place in Oslo in 2013 and Cognitive Capitalism, Education, and Digital Labour (Peters, Bulut, et al, eds., Peter Lang, 2011). In 2012, the exhibition The Workers was curated by MASS MOCA in the United States. Christian Fuchs’ book Digital Labor and Karl Marx is forthcoming with Routledge. Several events have been organized in the last few years to focus on these developments: Digital Labor: the Internet as Playground and Factory conference (The New School, New York City, 2009 http://digitallabor.org) Digital Labor: Workers, Authors, Citizens (Western University, London, Ontario, Canada, 2009), Invisible Labor Colloquium (Washington University Law School, 2013), Towards Critical Theories of Social Media (Uppsala University, Sweden, 2012), Re:publica (Berlin, 2013), and the Chronicles of Work lecture series at Schloß Solitude (Stuttgart, Germany, 2012/2013). We would like to continue and elaborate on these discussions by raising the following questions: Broad issues: Who and where are the workers and how do they understand their situation? How and where do they act in political terms? How can we analyze digital labor as a global phenomenon, pertaining to issues like underdevelopment and supply chains? Which theories and concepts can help us to frame our thinking about the gridlock of digital work? How do waste, repair, and disposal play into the debate about labor? Are there artistic works that respond to contemporary labor? Gender, Race, Class, Ability: How do gender, race, ability, and class play out in the diverse fields of digital labor? How are laboring capacities, also in the digital realm, sustained and maintained by maternal labor, or the labor of care workers, domestic workers? Alternatively, how do we conceptualize digital work that is underwaged and often coded as feminized? What are the postcolonial tensions arising between digital workers in different locales? Organizing: How relevant are unions to the millions of crowdsourced workers? How can we resist the all-too-common “the labor movement is dead” narrative? Which concrete projects might offer us a critical foundation upon which to build broader strategies for “digital solidarity”? What can be learned from the history of organized labor when it comes to crowdsourcing and lawsuits like Otey vs. CrowdFlower? What are possibilities and tensions that arise with projects aiming for solidarity among people in global labor systems? Policy: What are the reasons for withholding legislation that would allow for an enforcement of the Fair Labor Standards Act in the crowdsourcing industry? Are there new forms of contracts or widened definitions of employment that would better address today’s work realities? What policy proposals might be developed and put on the table now? FORMATS: In addition to traditional conference structures, Digital Labor: Sweatshops, Picket Lines, and Barricades also aims to experiment with creative presentation formats and novel venues. We welcome applications for the following formats: - experimental lectures (e.g., “theory tapas,” pecha kuchas, collaborative presentations, or formats not using spoken language) - lectures or panels - keynote dialogues - design fiction workshops for those interested in design storytelling and envisioning alternative futures (3 hours) - performance lectures in the places where some of this work is taking place: the living rooms of participants (20 minutes each) SUBMIT a 300-word abstract or a link to short video, and a one-page CV to: digitallabor2014(a)gmail.com by March 21, 2014. Please state clearly which format you are applying for and do emphasize how your proposal speaks to the questions above. Confirmation of participation: March 31, 2014. If you have any logistical questions, please contact Alexis Rider digitallabor2014(a)gmail.com We are planning an open access digital work notebook that documents and expands the discussion leading up to, during, and after this event. Contributions will emerge from the iDC mailing list. https://mailman.thing.net/mailman/listinfo/idc Conference editor: Trebor Scholz with (Advisory Board): Lilly Irani, Frank Pasquale, Sarah T. Roberts, Karen Gregory, Ken Wark, and Winifred Poster. Producer: Alexis Rider. Join the discussion: https://mailman.thing.net/mailman/listinfo/idc @idctweets @trebors --- S a r a h T. R o b e r t s Faculty of Information and Media Studies (FIMS) Western University http://fims.uwo.ca/index.htm Blogging periodically at http://illusionofvolition.com

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CFP 4S/ESOCITE - Open Panel 63. Peer production and open collaboration
by maxigas 13 Feb '14

13 Feb '14

Dear researchers, We invite you to submit an abstract to our session on the relevance of peer production, open collaboration and hacking to Science and Technology Studies. The panel is organised for the 4S/ESOCITE conference in Buenos Aires, 20-23 August 2014. You are welcome to get in touch with us to discuss abstracts informally. Deadline: March 3 2014 Conference website: http://www.4sonline.org/meeting ---- 63. Peer production and open collaboration: Revisiting closure, stabilisation and black boxing through unfinished artefacts maxigas and Eduard Aibar This panel seeks to bring together scholars studying peer production processes through STS lenses and concepts. Peer production is a form of network-based voluntary cooperation aimed at contributing to a commons, epitomised by the Linux kernel and Wikipedia and more recently applied to hardware. Case studies of peer production projects can inspire new theoretical developments within STS and simultaneously engender insights on emerging socio-technical ensembles. Peer producers work a lot to fend off stabilisation, building functional parts (like loose couplings and Application Programming Interfaces) into technologies and organisations which serve to prevent closure. While these mechanisms for openness do stabilise, the resulting technologies are not exactly black boxes whose functional composition is rendered inaccessible to gaze, discourse and engineering. They can be understood as “unfinished artefacts”. Moreover, shared machine workshops manifest a model which goes against the received wisdom of trade-offs between “professional” expertise and radically open “amateur” contributions. Such open organisational architectures blend in three functions traditionally separate in modern institutions: education, research and production. In this context citizen participation in technological issues is mainly achieved by practical interventions into research and development. We call for contributors who explore peer production specific projects from a wide range of STS perspectives. One is how stabilisation, closure and black boxing are themselves socially constructed, deconstructed and reconfigured in this arena. Another is the broader structural implications of peer production, since it is usually read as an emerging mode of production with disruptive consequences. Finally, since peer production is increasingly used in a wide range of settings (software development, knowledge production, infrastructure building or farming), the way it is re-enacted and appropriated by new actors can also be of interest to scholars with various theoretical backgrounds. Languages: English and Spanish http://www.4sonline.org/open_sessions -- maxigas, kiberpunk FA00 8129 13E9 2617 C614 0901 7879 63BC 287E D166 http://research.metatron.ai/ "Forget the damned motor car and build the cities for lovers!"

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Women and Technology Conference
by Nasreen Rajani 13 Feb '14

13 Feb '14

*SUBMISSION DEADLINE EXTENDED* to February 24, 2014. Dear Colleagues, Please note that the deadline for abstract submissions for the Women and Technology Conference held at Carleton University, Ottawa, ON on April 16th has been extended. See below for more information. Carleton University will be hosting the inaugural Women and Technology Conference for emerging scholars on April 16, 2014. Please see the below call for abstracts for submission guidelines and details. Visit our website for more information: http://womenandtechcu.wordpress.com/ Please distribute widely. WTCCU Organizing Committee, Nasreen Rajani, Alexandra Born, Matt Murdoch ——————— The Women and Technology Conference is a meeting of Ontario scholars working in applied and technical fields, the natural sciences, humanities, and social sciences. This year’s meeting will take place in Ottawa, on Wednesday, April 16, 2014, with all events being hosted at Carleton University. The goal of the Women and Technology Conference is to highlight scholarship on women and technology by focusing on two broad topics: 1. Women as producers and users of technology in applied and technical fields. a. Examples of disciplines represented within this topic include: engineering; architecture; industrial design; neuroscience; and the biological, chemical, physical, and computing sciences. 2. The relationship(s) between women and technology. This includes the role of women as both subjects and objects in knowledge/media production, as well as the impact of women on the relative success of emerging and established technologies. a. Examples of disciplines represented within this topic include: film and media studies; business; sociology; history; public policy; and women’s and gender studies. One of the major goals of this conference is to help advance the work of Ontario scholars by creating an interdisciplinary space for dialogue on women and technology. To help ensure that these goals are achieved, you are encouraged to tailor your abstract and presentation to a well-educated audience without expertise in your field. Submissions reporting on original scholarship and research are preferred. Presentations not meeting this requirement will be considered on a case-by-case basis, with preference given to those who have first-hand experience working at the nexus of women and technology. To apply: please submit a 150-word abstract with 3 keywords/phrases for a 10-15 minute oral paper presentation to:womenandtechcu@carleton.ca. Deadline: February 24, 2014 at 4:00pm EST In your submission, please indicate if you require assistance with childcare. The conference organizers will provide subsidies for child care and associated costs (e.g., parking and transportation).

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media and cultural studies research studentships; gender, sex and sexualities
by Feona Attwood 13 Feb '14

13 Feb '14

Please circulate widely. Middlesex Media Research Studentships, 2014. Research in Media focuses on Cultural Theory and Communication Studies, with particular interest in Gender, Sex and Sexualities. We welcome innovative and interdisciplinary proposals from excellent candidates that reflect the research interests of Middlesex Media and Performing Arts staff. Applicants are advised to consult the School web pages and school staff profiles: http://www.mdx.ac.uk/aboutus/staffdirectory/index.aspx Any queries should in the first instance be directed to Prof Vida L Midgelow, Director of Research Degrees (School of Media and Performance): v.midgelow(a)mdx.ac.uk<mailto:v.midgelow@mdx.ac.uk> Full details and application forms: http://www.mdx.ac.uk/research/applications/fees/bursaries/index.aspx The deadline for receipt of applications is 11.59pm on 14th March 2014 and interviews will be held in April/May 2014. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Please note that Middlesex University's preferred way of receiving all correspondence is via email in line with our Environmental Policy. All incoming post to Middlesex University is opened and scanned by our digital document handler, CDS, and then emailed to the recipient. If you do not want your correspondence to Middlesex University processed in this way please email the recipient directly. Parcels, couriered items and recorded delivery items will not be opened or scanned by CDS. There are items which are "exceptions" which will be opened by CDS but will not be scanned a full list of these can be obtained by contacting the University.

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ISOC Internet data and research portal update
by Joly MacFie 12 Feb '14

12 Feb '14

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Michael Kende <kende(a)isoc.org> Date: Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 10:19 AM Subject: [Chapter-delegates] Internet data and research v2 I am please to announce version two of the portal (with the same URL as below). There are two main changes to the portal, and we have also updated it with recent reports. The first change is the Amazon-style system allowing everyone to rate a data source or report (out of five stars) and provide written comments as well. The second is to make it much easier to search, either by category and sub-category or by keyword. There is also a link to send in comments including new data and reports that we overlooked. Our hope is that this provides a broad view of the state of the art in what is known about the Internet and its impact, and that it will also help us to identify gaps in our knowledge, which we will work to fill. As such, I hope that you use the portal and interact with it, and please send it on to broaden the user base. Best regards, Michael From: Michael Kende <kende(a)isoc.org> Date: Tuesday, November 26, 2013 4:17 PM As part of my new role at ISOC, we are launching a new portal on the ISOC website that aggregates existing data sources and reports (ours and third-party), The purpose of it is threefold: first, as a public resource to learn about the impact of new infrastructure on the Internet, and the broader economic impact of the Internet; second, in order to help identify gaps in data, and determine how best to fill those gaps; and third, to promote new analysis and insights by everyone in the Internet community, including ourselves, to further stimulate a better understanding of the Internet and its Economy. The portal is at. https://www.internetsociety.org/internet-data-and-research One outstanding issue is whether, and if so how, to exclude bad research and data from the list. On the one hand is a strong desire to be open and inclusive of all available data and reports, while on the other hand there is a thought that we should review and exclude suspect or biased work. We do not have the resources to perform such extensive review on each linked item (as of today there are over 200 in the database), and I believe that it would be difficult to determine the criteria for excluding work in any case. However, in order to be of most use as a public resource, it would be useful to provide information that could help all of us make decisions about what data and reports to use. As a result, we are considering including a review section, such as used in Amazon, to rate and provide comments from all, including hopefully the authors. For starters, there are two feedback sections, one to send me comments on specific reports, and the other to provide suggestions for work that has not yet been included. Thoughts on how to move this forward would be most appreciated. Best regards, Michael Kende Chief Economist Internet Society Galerie Jean-Malbuisson 15 CH-1204 Geneva Switzerland Tel: +41 22 809 0367 E-mail: kende(a)isoc.org Website: www.internetsociety.org 'The Internet is for Everyone!' -- --------------------------------------------------------------- Joly MacFie 218 565 9365 Skype:punkcast WWWhatsup NYC - http://wwwhatsup.com http://pinstand.com - http://punkcast.com VP (Admin) - ISOC-NY - http://isoc-ny.org -------------------------------------------------------------- -

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Fwd: [governance] Communication of the European Commisson: "Internet Policy and Governance - Europe's role in shaping the future of Internet Governance"
by Jeremy Hunsinger 12 Feb '14

12 Feb '14

[ Apologies for cross-posting. Please share as you deem appropriate ] Dear all, I would like to let you know that today (12 February 2013) the European Commission has adopted its formal policy position on Internet governance, via a Communication to the European Parliament, the Council, the European Economic and Social Committee and the Committee of the Regions: "Internet Policy and Governance - Europe's role in shaping the future of Internet governance" (COM(2014) 72/4). The press release of the adoption is available at http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_IP-14-142_en.htm . The text of the Communication is available at http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/newsroom/cf/dae/document.cfm?doc_id…. The statement by Neelie Kroes, Vice-President of the European Commission and Commissioner for the Digital Agenda, is available at http://ec.europa.eu/avservices/video/player.cfm?ref=I086325 . I hope you find this information useful and the content of the Communication interesting. Best, Andrea -- I speak only for myself. Sometimes I do not even agree with myself. Keep it in mind. Twitter: @andreaglorioso Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/andrea.glorioso LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=1749288&trk=tab_pro

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Skype Connections and the Gaze of Friendship and Family: a mini-conference
by Richard Harper 11 Feb '14

11 Feb '14

Apologies for cross postings- Skype Connections and the Gaze of Friendship and Family MSR and Skype are pleased to invite extended abstracts for a mini academic conference/workshop on all aspects of interaction in video-mediated communications in private and domestic life. See here for further details.<http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/events/scgff/> It will be held on June 3rd and 4th 2014 at MSR Cambridge, England. Chairs: Richard Harper, Microsoft Research Cambridge; Christian Licoppe, Telecom ParisTech, Paris; Rod Watson, Institut Marcel Mauss, Paris. This is the first call for participation (January 2014). Extended abstracts (of up to 600 words excluding title and affiliation) should report theoretical and empirical research into the interactional order of video calling in domestic and personal life. Ethnomethodological and conversation analytic perspectives are particularly welcomed on such things as: * the relationship between the sequential patterns of communication and the medium of Skype-type video connections in the social and family sphere; * the methods and patterns of recipient design and repair within such communications; * the properties and shape of topic management (e.g., news announcements and personal disclosures); * the character and role of embodiment and embodied interaction in such communications; * the salience of the visual and 'visual availability'; * the relation between individual instances of Skype-type communications and the larger activity assemblies of which they are a part - whether it be a routine 'catch-up' call within friendship or a special occasion like a dinner or a birthday celebration for a distributed family. These are of course not exclusive and other topics are welcome. There will be a preference for wholly original work, though research previously presented of an extremely high quality may be considered. The conference will be framed by keynote addresses by leaders in the field of interaction analysis, CA and ethnomethodology. Announcement of these will be made shortly. Important dates: * Deadline for extended abstracts: Friday March 14th * Announcement of acceptance: April 18th * Last date for registration: to be decided A selection of papers from the conference will be prepared for a Special Issue of Pragmatics, the Journal of the International Pragmatics Association<http://www.worldcat.org/title/pragmatics-quarterly-publication-of-the-inter…>. Selection will be made by the conference chairs and reviewing panel. Some support for researchers seeking to attend the event is available. Attendance at the conference is free and will include attendance at a gala dinner in a Cambridge College. For informal enquiries about the topics and format of the event, please contact Richard Harper<http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/people/r.harper/> (r.harper(a)microsoft.com<mailto:r.harper@microsoft.com>). To attend (as speaker or auditor), email scgff(a)microsoft.com<mailto:scgff@microsoft.com>

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Approaching deadline for OII Summer Doctoral Programme
by Victoria Nash 11 Feb '14

11 Feb '14

Dear friends, The deadline for applications to this year's Oxford Internet Institute Summer Doctoral Programme is the 24th February, so I would be really grateful if you could pass this reminder on to any students who might be eligible to apply. The Programme will be held in Oxford from 7th-18th July 2014, and is suitable for PhD students at the dissertation stage of their degree. The programme offers two weeks of intensive teaching from senior faculty at the OII, as well as some guest speakers, who will offer insights into their research processes and tuition on methods as well as presenting substantive papers. Students will also be asked to present on their own research.. We also fit in some punting, a ghost tour and some fancy dinners... The overall aims are to help improve students' dissertations and to develop a cohesive peer network for future collaboration and support. For further information on this year's SDP, including application instructions, please see our website at: http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/graduatestudy/sdp/Y2014.cfm For more general info, the SDP blog and a great video by the 2013 crowd, look here: http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/graduatestudy/sdp/ If anyone has any questions, feel free to e-mail me directly. Many thanks! Vicki Dr Victoria Nash Research and Policy Fellow Director of Graduate Studies Oxford Internet Institute University of Oxford http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/ T: 01865 287231 Tw: @VickiNashOII W: http://victoriajnash.tumblr.com/

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[DEADLINE 15 FEBRUARY 2014] Call for ABSTRACTS Social science & Big data (not only)
by Davide Bennato 11 Feb '14

11 Feb '14

Call for ABSTRACTS: Social Science & Big Data WHAT: A matter of design. Making society through science & tecnology WHERE: Polytechnic of Milan WHEN: 12-14 June 2014 TRACK: N.5 Rethinking sociological gaze and citizenship through data. Epistemological and Political Implications of the Rise of Big Data INFO Conferencehttp://www.stsitalia.org/conferences/ocs/index.php/STSIC/AMD/sche… Track 5 details http://www.stsitalia.org/conferences/STSITALIA_2014/AMD_Track5.pdf -- ************************************************************* http://www.tecnoetica.it/ http://www.processiculturali.it/ http://www.sociologiadeimediadigitali.it skype: davide.bennato http://www.linkedin.com/in/davidebennato

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