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Call for chapter proposals: Conditions of Mediation
by Scott Rodgers 06 Sep '14

06 Sep '14

Apologies for cross-posting CALL FOR CHAPTER PROPOSALS Conditions of Mediation: Phenomenological Approaches to Media, Technology and Communication Editors: Tim Markham and Scott Rodgers In June 2013, the ICA preconference Conditions of Mediation (see http://conditionsofmediation.wordpress.com for further information) brought together scholars from a wide range of perspectives – including audience studies, political theory, metaphysics, media archaeology, software studies, science and technology studies, cultural geography and urban studies – to critically reflect on both the merits and limits of phenomenological approaches for understanding media, in philosophical, theoretical, political and empirical terms. Inspired by this very successful conference, we are now preparing a proposal for an edited book under the same title. The proposed format of the book is to have a substantive introduction, two ‘dialogues’ involving Graham Harman, Lisa Parks, Paddy Scannell, Shaun Moores, Nick Couldry and David Berry (based on their keynote papers), and 10-12 short paper chapters of 4000 words (excluding bibliography). We are therefore issuing an Open Call for Chapter Proposals. If you are interested in contributing a chapter to this edited book, please send a chapter title and 400 word abstract by no later than 15 September 2013 to Scott Rodgers at s.rodgers(a)bbk.ac.uk. Those that are subsequently invited to submit a full chapter will need to have this completed by 1 March 2014. Please direct any inquiries to Scott Rodgers at s.rodgers(a)bbk.ac.uk. We look forward to receiving your chapter proposals.

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Workshop invitation / CFA
by Nikolaos Thomopoulos 25 Apr '14

25 Apr '14

Dear Air-L members, this is a call for abstracts for a workshop which may be of interest to some of you. Apologies for cross-postings. You may find the RSA workshop invitation along with the Call For Abstracts (250w - deadline 15th March) at our blog: http://sgICTregion.wordpress.com Theme: Theory and practice of using ICT to facilitate smart and green regional development: best practice, evaluation and future challenges for multi-level governance. Venue: History Center, Thessaloniki, Greece Dates: 5th - 6th June 2014 This workshop is organised with the support of the Regional Studies Association and the ENDURANCE research project and is anticipated to generate interesting debates between academics and practitioners. We would be grateful if you would consider submitting an abstract or alternatively if you could forward this call to other contacts with relevant interest. Please do get in touch at sgICTregion(a)gmail.com in case you have any queries about this workshop. We look forward to welcoming you in Thessaloniki! Best regards Nikolas on behalf of the Organising Committee ______________________________________ Dr Nikolas Thomopoulos Researcher - Institute for Transport Studies University of Leeds QUEEN'S ANNIVERSARY PRIZE WINNERS - 'sustained transport excellence' www.its.leeds.ac.uk/queensprize

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Call for Applications: 2014 OCIS Doctoral Consortium
by Mary Beth Watson-Manheim 18 Apr '14

18 Apr '14

The OCIS division of the Academy of Management is pleased to announce the 2014 Doctoral Consortium, to be held in Philadelphia PA on August 1, 2014. The consortium will provide an opportunity for doctoral students to network, receive feedback on their research and discuss career issues. All interested PhD students working on research in the areas of Organizational Communications, Information Science or Information Systems are invited to apply. Confirmed faculty advisers include: Noshir Contractor, Northwestern University  Jennifer Gibbs, Rutgers University Massimo Magni, Bocconi University  Ann Majchrzak, University of Southern California Mary Beth Watson-Manheim, University of Illinois at Chicago Travel support will be provided for students who are admitted to the consortium.  Acceptance to the consortium will be based on a review of the application materials. Preference for attendance and funding will be given to students who will have defended their dissertation proposals but not their dissertations by the date of the consortium, to those who have not previously participated in the OCIS consortium, and to those whose institutions or fields would not otherwise be represented. The application includes: 1) A 5-page, double-spaced, 12-point abstract of the proposed dissertation research 2) A letter of recommendation from dissertation chair/advisor supporting the student’s participation in the Doctoral Consortium. The due date for applications and letters of recommendation is 21 April 2014. Please email all application materials as attachments in one email to: mbwm.ocis.aom(a)gmail.com For questions, please contact Mary Beth Watson-Manheim (mbwm(a)uic.edu) the 2014 OCIS Doctoral Consortium chair. And please pass this note on to any doctoral students you know who might be interested. -- Mary Beth Watson-Manheim Associate Professor MIS PhD Program Director Department of Information & Decision Sciences Department of Communications University of Illinois, Chicago

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Asking for readings about video games and ethics
by Alejandro Tortolini 31 Mar '14

31 Mar '14

Hi, I´m doing some research about video games and ethics... Can you recomend me some books/readings about it? I´m focusing in this two perspectives: 1) Implicit or explicit values in video games. 2) Gameplay and mechanics as a frame for ethical decisions in video games. Thanks in advance, -- Alejandro Tortolini http://dooid.me/aletor

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Ethics and Game Design
by Karen Schrier Shaenfield 31 Mar '14

31 Mar '14

Hello Alejandro, You are welcome to check out the table of contents for either of my edited collections on ethics and game design, which includes work by Sicart, Consalvo, Zagal, and many others: Ethics and Game Design http://www.amazon.com/Ethics-Game-Design-Teaching-Reference/dp/1615208453 Designing Games for Ethics http://www.amazon.com/Designing-Games-Ethics-Techniques-Frameworks/dp/16096… The books are way too expensive, but I'm happy to share chapters for free with anyone who is interested. You can also check out a few of my journal articles here: http://bst.sagepub.com/content/32/5/375.refs Free download at... http://www.academia.edu/2461813/Avatar_Gender_and_Ethical_Choices_in_Fable_… I have another forthcoming article on game design, ethics and environmental sustainability. I'm happy to share it with anyone once it comes out. My dissertation on games and ethics is available at: http://karenschrier.files.wordpress.com/2012/08/finalversion_dissertation_s… Thanks, Karen Schrier On Mon, Mar 31, 2014 at 6:00 PM, <air-l-request(a)listserv.aoir.org> wrote: > Send Air-L mailing list submissions to > air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > air-l-request(a)listserv.aoir.org > > You can reach the person managing the list at > air-l-owner(a)listserv.aoir.org > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of Air-L digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Public Gossip Scale (hk(a)monkprayogshala.in) > 2. New Post - Assistant Professor - The University of Warwick > (Digital Media Related) (nathaniel tkacz) > 3. New Journal Launch free online until 31 May 2014 (Feona Attwood) > 4. Re: CfP: Int. Conference on Infrastructures and Cooperation > in E-Science and E-Humanities (Steffen Albrecht) > 5. Effectiveness of Online Petitions (Rhiannon Bury) > 6. CFP Global Surveillance and Forms of Resistance (Javier de Rivera) > 7. Asking for readings about video games and ethics > (Alejandro Tortolini) > 8. Re: Asking for readings about video games and ethics > (Luciano Floridi) > 9. Re: Asking for readings about video games and ethics > (Peaslee, Robert) > 10. Re: Asking for readings about video games and ethics > (Nicole Grove) > 11. CFP Rhetoric and Experience Architecture (Liza Potts) > 12. Re: Asking for readings about video games and ethics > (Alejandro Tortolini) > 13. 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Porn Studies is edited by Professor Feona Attwood of Middlesex University and Professor Clarissa Smith of the University of Sunderland and supported by an international editorial board. > > > Finally we have a journal that brings together the urgently needed research, theories, and debates to make sense of an important aspect of social and cultural life. The breadth, depth, and richness of its packed first issue confirms its promise as a platform, not only for understanding pornography - but as a space for new, adventurous, genuinely cosmopolitan rethinking of many of the things about identity, bodies, power, belonging, media, and contemporary reality that we take-for-granted, but still know too little about.? > Gerard Goggin, Professor of Media and Communication, University of Sydney, Australia > > A scholarly journal about pornography is long overdue. Porn studies has matured into a vibrant and flourishing field, and the kind of solid, carefully researched work that is now available will help to counter the ill-informed and inflamed rhetoric that the topic seems to attract. > Gayle Rubin, Associate Professor, Anthropology and Women's Studies, University of Michigan, US > > Porn Studies is the first peer-reviewed journal to take an evidence-based approach to the controversial area of pornography, gender and culture. Its editors are internationally recognized researchers who bring a creative and critical eye to the field. > Catharine Lumby, Professor of Media, Macquarie University, Australia > > A journal dedicated to porn studies is long overdue and most welcome. One of the things it is most important to take seriously is what is taken for pleasure, and Porn Studies will provide the needed critical forum for doing so. > Steve Jones, Distinguished Professor of Communication, University of Illinois Chicago, US? > > Porn Studies will play an important role in encouraging deeper, more considered critical thinking about an incredibly complex and widely misunderstood cultural phenomenon. At a time when simplistic discourses circulate around pornography, often occupying binary positions between ?pro? and ?anti?, ?sex positive? and ?sex negative?, serious studies of this area have become increasingly necessary. Analyses of such diverse topics as education, genres, distribution, and ?effects? converge in this interdisciplinary academic journal, which both looks backwards to explore the history of porn studies, and suggests a range of ways in which this provocative new area can move forwards. > Will Brooker, Professor of Film and Cultural Studies Kingston University, UK and Amy E Forrest, University of Birmingham, UK > > Porn Studies, the new journal, provides a strong interdisciplinary platform for the critical and level-headed interrogation of an important field of re/presentation that pervades every day life in many forms and the cultural imagination. The unremitting glut of images, fuelled by technological advances and carried by established and emergent media platforms including social media, places an urgency on how imageries in/form subjectivisation and what role pornographic re/presentations play in this process: across cultures, territories and times. Bringing into a productive dialogue a wide range of existing and new voices and perspectives, Porn Studies will shape the future understanding of the production and consumption, dynamics and impact of pornography. > Kerstin Mey, Professor of Contemporary Art and Theory, Westminster University, UK > > Porn Studies is a long overdue scholarly response to one of the world's major culture industries > Andrew Ross, Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis, New York University, US > > As a feminist of a certain age, porn has never been an easy topic for me, neither in personal, nor in research or political terms. Porn Studies takes such a predicament seriously and promises not only to demonstrate the wide variety of opinions and theories about porn, but also to present sound empirical and historical research about the meanings of porn for different kinds of consumers in different contexts. > ??Liesbet van Zoonen, Professor of Media and Communication, Loughborough University, UK > > As may be more common than we like to think, pornography leads the way for the rest of the media. It's a serial innovator. Now Porn Studies does the same for media studies. I welcome it the more because it is a beacon of good scholarship. Just look at the first issue to discover a template for media research at its best. It is international in scope. It brings together a fine interdisciplinary team of scholars and industry figures at all stages of their careers. It conducts valuable methodological conversations while addressing significant research questions. Crucially, it seeks to explain pornography in use, without falling for one prejudged approach or school of thought. Here is where economics and culture, production and consumption, practice and ideology, history and technology intersect, revealingly, in lively colloquy that advances knowledge. > John Hartley, Professor of Cultural Science, Curtin University, Australia > > One of the oldest cultural practices in the world has finally got an academic journal. Here at last is an arena for serious discussion and critical debate. > John Storey, Professor of Cultural Studies, University of Sunderland, UK > > > Articles by leading scholars identify some of the leading themes in pornography research today: > > > Utilising data from more than 5000 responses to an online questionnaire, Martin Barker?s ?The ?Problem? of Sexual Fantasies? explores understandings of the relations between pornography and sexual imaginaries. > > > Fears about what children might be learning from pornography have been centre stage for some time, in ?Porn and Sex Education, Porn as Sex Education?, Kath Albury addresses those concerns and their intersections with other issues around young people?s sexual practices, sexual self-representation and sexual knowledge. > > > In ?Studying Porn Cultures? Lynn Comella suggests a ?porn studies-in-action? and exhorts researchers to ?leave the confines of our offices, and spend time in the places where pornography is made, distributed and consumed, discussed and debated, taught and adjudicated?. > > > Read these and more free online until 31 May 2014. > > > A selection of call for papers for issues of Porn Studies can be found here: > http://bit.ly/rprncfp > > **************************************************************** > ACS List signoff instructions, and other important stuff: > http://listserv.uta.fi/archives/acs.html > **************************************************************** > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 4 > Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2014 15:16:20 +0200 (CEST) > From: "Steffen Albrecht" <steffen.albrecht(a)berlin.de> > To: air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org > Subject: Re: [Air-L] CfP: Int. Conference on Infrastructures and > Cooperation in E-Science and E-Humanities > Message-ID: <1396271780.173924-3665(a)martha.daybyday.de> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" > > Dear colleagues, > > The deadline for the "International Conference on Infrastructures and > Cooperation in E-Science and E-Humanities", Leipzig, 4 - 6 June 2014, > has been extended. > > Papers and abstracts can be submitted until 10 April 2014 via the conference website: > http://openaccess.tu-dresden.de/ocs/index.php/ic-escience/iceseh2014 > > Best wishes, > Steffen Albrecht > > > > > > ----- urspr?ngliche Nachricht --------- > > Subject: CfP: Int. Conference on Infrastructures and Cooperation in E-Science and E-Humanities > Date: Fr 07 M?r 2014 18:05:58 CET > From: Steffen Albrecht<steffen.albrecht(a)berlin.de> > To: air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org > > * apologies for cross-postings * > > Dear fellow Internet researchers, > > The International Conference on Infrastructures and Cooperation in E-Science and E-Humanities will be held from June 4-6 2014 in Leipzig, Germany. We invite you to participate and submit your paper addressing current questions and solutions in relation to one of the following thematic fields or other relevant topics: > > - Invention, design and implementation of information and communication technologies to enable, enhance or empower academic activities (field 1) > - Analysis of academic processes, business models, and needs (field 2) > - Social and cultural influences and outcomes related to the use of technology in academic activities (field 3) > > Submissions of full papers with originial work in english language are welcome. All papers will be peer-reviewed, a selection of the best conference papers will be published by Springer. All other papers will be published as open access electronic conference proceedings. > > A special track of the conference will experiment with the innovative format of a "flipped conference". Here, presentation videos will be shared prior to the conference via an online platform, and the meeting in Leipzig will be used in innovative and productive ways - depending on the ideas of the presenters. > > All information about the submission process, conference registration, the venue and the conference program as well as the "flipped conference" track can be found at the conference website: > http://openaccess.tu-dresden.de/ocs/index.php/ic-escience/iceseh2014 > > The conference is organized by the eScience Research Network Saxony. Information about the research network can be found at http://www.escience-sachsen.de/?page_id=685. > > We look forward to seeing you in Leipzig! > > On behalf of the organizing team, > Steffen Albrecht > > -- > > Steffen Albrecht > > Project Coordinator > eScience ? Research Network Saxony > http://www.escience-sachsen.de/?page_id=685 > > Media Center > Technische Universit?t Dresden > > http://mz.tu-dresden.de > > Room 426 > Strehlener Stra?e 22/24 > 01069 Dresden > Germany > > Tel. +49 351-463-39175 > Fax: -463-35605 > eMail: steffen_albrecht(a)mailbox.tu-dresden.de > > > ---- urspr?ngliche Nachricht Ende ---- > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 5 > Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2014 08:49:20 -0700 (PDT) > From: Rhiannon Bury <bury417(a)yahoo.ca> > To: "air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org" <air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org> > Subject: [Air-L] Effectiveness of Online Petitions > Message-ID: > <1396280960.80349.YahooMailNeo(a)web162302.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 > > Hi folks > > These days I am receiving as many as 5 online petitions for various causes, all important and just in my view. I am curious if any one here could point me to? articles or book chapters, preferably based on empirical research, that address the issue of effectiveness.? > > Best, > > Rhiannon > > > Rhiannon Bury > Associate Professor > Women's and Gender Studies > Athabasca University, Canada's Open University > rbury(a)athabascau.ca > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 6 > Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2014 19:46:13 +0200 > From: Javier de Rivera <javier(a)socialmediasociology.com> > To: air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org > Subject: [Air-L] CFP Global Surveillance and Forms of Resistance > Message-ID: <5339A9E5.4080300(a)socialmediasociology.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > Hi everybody, > > This Call for Paper can be of your interest: > http://teknokultura.net/index.php/tk/announcement/view/30 > > For English, click the UK flag. > > Best regards, > Javier de Rivera. > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 7 > Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2014 15:33:54 -0300 > From: Alejandro Tortolini <alemtor(a)gmail.com> > To: List Aoir <air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org> > Subject: [Air-L] Asking for readings about video games and ethics > Message-ID: > <CAOiy8xtjk5r=QozQmLiXRx817feJCDeqBfo3SuTVjQocpNcmOw(a)mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > Hi, I?m doing some research about video games and ethics... Can you > recomend me some books/readings about it? > I?m focusing in this two perspectives: > > 1) Implicit or explicit values in video games. > > 2) Gameplay and mechanics as a frame for ethical decisions in video games. > > > Thanks in advance, > > -- > Alejandro Tortolini > http://dooid.me/aletor > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 8 > Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2014 19:38:47 +0100 > From: Luciano Floridi <lfloridi(a)gmail.com> > To: Alejandro Tortolini <alemtor(a)gmail.com> > Cc: List Aoir <air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org> > Subject: Re: [Air-L] Asking for readings about video games and ethics > Message-ID: <34CF8CA7-604A-4AEC-A757-2ED13204309F(a)gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 > > You may wish to check the work by Miguel Sicart: > http://miguelsicart.net/ > Best wishes, > Luciano > __________________________________________ > Luciano Floridi | www.philosophyofinformation.net > > Professor of Philosophy and Ethics of Information > Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford > > PA Mrs. Julia Farquet > julia.farquet(a)oii.ox.ac.uk > > 1 St Giles, Oxford, OX1 3JS > Tel: +44 (0) 1865 287202 > > http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/people/floridi/ > > > > On 31 Mar 2014, at 19:33, Alejandro Tortolini <alemtor(a)gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hi, I?m doing some research about video games and ethics... Can you >> recomend me some books/readings about it? >> I?m focusing in this two perspectives: >> >> 1) Implicit or explicit values in video games. >> >> 2) Gameplay and mechanics as a frame for ethical decisions in video games. >> >> >> Thanks in advance, >> >> -- >> Alejandro Tortolini >> http://dooid.me/aletor >> _______________________________________________ >> The Air-L(a)listserv.aoir.org mailing list >> is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org >> Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org >> >> Join the Association of Internet Researchers: >> http://www.aoir.org/ > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 9 > Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2014 18:45:57 +0000 > From: "Peaslee, Robert" <robert.peaslee(a)ttu.edu> > To: Alejandro Tortolini <alemtor(a)gmail.com>, List Aoir > <air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org> > Subject: Re: [Air-L] Asking for readings about video games and ethics > Message-ID: <CF5F21B3.C4A7%robert.peaslee(a)ttu.edu> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > Hi Alejandro, > > I would recommend Ian Bogost's work on procedural rhetoric, and you might > message a MA student with whom I've been working, whose thesis, just > defended, deals precisely with game design ethics among other things. His > name is Andrew Potter: andrew.potter(a)ttu.edu > > Best, > rp > ________________________________________ > > Robert Moses Peaslee, Ph.D. > Associate Professor > College of Media & Communication > Texas Tech University > > Coordinator, Texas Tech University International Film Series > > > robert.peaslee(a)ttu.edu > P: (806) 834-2562 > F: (806) 742-1085 > > MS 3082 > Lubbock, TX 79409 > > http://ttu.academia.edu/RobPeaslee > > > "It's a measure of the depth of our consumer trance that the death of the > planet is not sufficient to break it." - Kalle Lasn, Adbusters > > > On 3/31/14 1:33 PM, "Alejandro Tortolini" <alemtor(a)gmail.com> wrote: > >>Hi, I?m doing some research about video games and ethics... Can you >>recomend me some books/readings about it? >>I?m focusing in this two perspectives: >> >>1) Implicit or explicit values in video games. >> >>2) Gameplay and mechanics as a frame for ethical decisions in video games. >> >> >>Thanks in advance, >> >>-- >>Alejandro Tortolini >>http://dooid.me/aletor >>_______________________________________________ >>The Air-L(a)listserv.aoir.org mailing list >>is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org >>Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: >>http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org >> >>Join the Association of Internet Researchers: >>http://www.aoir.org/ > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 10 > Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2014 09:13:28 -1000 > From: Nicole Grove <nicolesunday(a)gmail.com> > To: "Peaslee, Robert" <robert.peaslee(a)ttu.edu> > Cc: List Aoir <air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org> > Subject: Re: [Air-L] Asking for readings about video games and ethics > Message-ID: > <CAMv0R7JUP6Yv2FM_jBxGQ39B4Po+aJc0dq3V1wXfCF+MARdTLw(a)mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > I agree with Robert, Ian Bogost's book Unit Operations and also How To Do > Things with Video Games are very good. McKenzie Wark's Gamer Theory and > Alexander Galloway's Gaming: Essays on Algorithmic Culture are also good if > you are interested in the ethics of games and gaming. > > Best, > Nicole Grove > PhD Candidate > Johns Hopkins University > > https://johnshopkins.academia.edu/grove > > > On Mon, Mar 31, 2014 at 8:45 AM, Peaslee, Robert <robert.peaslee(a)ttu.edu>wrote: > >> Hi Alejandro, >> >> I would recommend Ian Bogost's work on procedural rhetoric, and you might >> message a MA student with whom I've been working, whose thesis, just >> defended, deals precisely with game design ethics among other things. His >> name is Andrew Potter: andrew.potter(a)ttu.edu >> >> Best, >> rp >> ________________________________________ >> >> Robert Moses Peaslee, Ph.D. >> Associate Professor >> College of Media & Communication >> Texas Tech University >> >> Coordinator, Texas Tech University International Film Series >> >> >> robert.peaslee(a)ttu.edu >> P: (806) 834-2562 >> F: (806) 742-1085 >> >> MS 3082 >> Lubbock, TX 79409 >> >> http://ttu.academia.edu/RobPeaslee >> >> >> "It's a measure of the depth of our consumer trance that the death of the >> planet is not sufficient to break it." - Kalle Lasn, Adbusters >> >> >> On 3/31/14 1:33 PM, "Alejandro Tortolini" <alemtor(a)gmail.com> wrote: >> >> >Hi, I?m doing some research about video games and ethics... Can you >> >recomend me some books/readings about it? >> >I?m focusing in this two perspectives: >> > >> >1) Implicit or explicit values in video games. >> > >> >2) Gameplay and mechanics as a frame for ethical decisions in video games. >> > >> > >> >Thanks in advance, >> > >> >-- >> >Alejandro Tortolini >> >http://dooid.me/aletor >> >_______________________________________________ >> >The Air-L(a)listserv.aoir.org mailing list >> >is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org >> >Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: >> >http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org >> > >> >Join the Association of Internet Researchers: >> >http://www.aoir.org/ >> >> _______________________________________________ >> The Air-L(a)listserv.aoir.org mailing list >> is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org >> Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: >> http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org >> >> Join the Association of Internet Researchers: >> http://www.aoir.org/ >> > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 11 > Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2014 15:34:14 -0400 > From: Liza Potts <lpotts(a)msu.edu> > To: "air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org Kirk" <air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org> > Cc: Michael J Salvo <salvo(a)purdue.edu> > Subject: [Air-L] CFP Rhetoric and Experience Architecture > Message-ID: <3E0B6CC8-AAA4-44E9-9F32-DB667E6B08D4(a)msu.edu> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 > > Hi AOIR, > > Michael Salvo and I are pleased to invite you to contribute to our collection Rhetoric and Experience Architecture. We welcome proposals from academic researchers and industry practitioners. Please feel free to contact us about this book project. > > CFP: Rhetoric and Experience Architecture > > Experience architecture (XA) is an emerging area of study focused on the research and practice of creating technologies, products, policies, and services that serve the needs of various participants. Situated in the Humanities and Social Sciences, XA focuses onissues addressing usability, interaction design, service design, user experience, information architecture and content management for websites, mobile apps, software applications, and technology services. > > This collection will focus on the research, theory, and practice of creating compelling experiences across digital and physical spaces based on the foundation of rhetoric. This edited collection will consist of an editors? introduction and three sections. The first section contains eight to twelve chapters that define field connections between rhetoric and experience architecture. The second section is formed by eight to twelve chapters focused on research methodology. The third section includes eight to twelve short vision statements, modeled after the NEH white paper genre, which offer several paths for exploring interdisciplinary trajectories between rhetorical studies and experience architecture. > > Deadline for 500-750 word proposals: Oct. 1, 2014 (Notification by Dec. 1, 2014) > > Please find the full CFP here: > http://www.lizapotts.org/research/rhetoric-and-experience-architecture/ > > Best, > Liza (and Michael) > _________________________________________ > Liza Potts, Ph.D. > Senior Researcher at WIDE Research > Assistant Professor > Department of Writing, Rhetoric, & American Cultures > Michigan State University > 434 Farm Lane (Bessey Hall) Room 291, East Lansing, MI 48824 > Gtalk: LKPotts | Skype: LKPotts | Portfolio: http://www.lizapotts.org/ > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 12 > Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2014 17:35:48 -0300 > From: Alejandro Tortolini <alemtor(a)gmail.com> > To: Nicole Grove <nicolesunday(a)gmail.com> > Cc: List Aoir <air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org> > Subject: Re: [Air-L] Asking for readings about video games and ethics > Message-ID: > <CAOiy8xuU+LaaT__LApkdbfD85RJ+M0AUg6DfNwkuLLMzgPQNYA(a)mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > Jennifer, Nicole, Luciano, Robert: thank you very much!! > Other AIRlisters: more recommendations? > > Alejandro. > > > 2014-03-31 16:13 GMT-03:00 Nicole Grove <nicolesunday(a)gmail.com>: > >> I agree with Robert, Ian Bogost's book Unit Operations and also How To Do >> Things with Video Games are very good. McKenzie Wark's Gamer Theory and >> Alexander Galloway's Gaming: Essays on Algorithmic Culture are also good if >> you are interested in the ethics of games and gaming. >> >> Best, >> Nicole Grove >> PhD Candidate >> Johns Hopkins University >> >> https://johnshopkins.academia.edu/grove >> >> >> On Mon, Mar 31, 2014 at 8:45 AM, Peaslee, Robert <robert.peaslee(a)ttu.edu>wrote: >> >>> Hi Alejandro, >>> >>> I would recommend Ian Bogost's work on procedural rhetoric, and you might >>> message a MA student with whom I've been working, whose thesis, just >>> defended, deals precisely with game design ethics among other things. His >>> name is Andrew Potter: andrew.potter(a)ttu.edu >>> >>> Best, >>> rp >>> ________________________________________ >>> >>> Robert Moses Peaslee, Ph.D. >>> Associate Professor >>> College of Media & Communication >>> Texas Tech University >>> >>> Coordinator, Texas Tech University International Film Series >>> >>> >>> robert.peaslee(a)ttu.edu >>> P: (806) 834-2562 >>> F: (806) 742-1085 >>> >>> MS 3082 >>> Lubbock, TX 79409 >>> >>> http://ttu.academia.edu/RobPeaslee >>> >>> >>> "It's a measure of the depth of our consumer trance that the death of the >>> planet is not sufficient to break it." - Kalle Lasn, Adbusters >>> >>> >>> On 3/31/14 1:33 PM, "Alejandro Tortolini" <alemtor(a)gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> >Hi, I?m doing some research about video games and ethics... Can you >>> >recomend me some books/readings about it? >>> >I?m focusing in this two perspectives: >>> > >>> >1) Implicit or explicit values in video games. >>> > >>> >2) Gameplay and mechanics as a frame for ethical decisions in video >>> games. >>> > >>> > >>> >Thanks in advance, >>> > >>> >-- >>> >Alejandro Tortolini >>> >http://dooid.me/aletor >>> >_______________________________________________ >>> >The Air-L(a)listserv.aoir.org mailing list >>> >is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org >>> >Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: >>> >http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org >>> > >>> >Join the Association of Internet Researchers: >>> >http://www.aoir.org/ >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> The Air-L(a)listserv.aoir.org mailing list >>> is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org >>> Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: >>> http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org >>> >>> Join the Association of Internet Researchers: >>> http://www.aoir.org/ >>> >> >> > > > -- > Alejandro Tortolini > http://dooid.me/aletor > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 13 > Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2014 13:46:50 -0700 > From: Patrick Davison <patrick.davison(a)gmail.com> > To: Alejandro Tortolini <alemtor(a)gmail.com> > Cc: List Aoir <air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org> > Subject: Re: [Air-L] Asking for readings about video games and ethics > Message-ID: > <CAMUG9Q+1yJpmoO0ZHhDXj+3Oyx-rWPP387GARjH-qjtvTw4p-Q(a)mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > Both Mattie Brice: http://www.mattiebrice.com/ > and Anna Anthropy: http://auntiepixelante.com/?page_id=2142 > > are people who both make games and write very intelligently about them, > often (but not always) various ethical dimensions to them. Some of my > favorite posts are: > > http://auntiepixelante.com/?p=1853 (on goals in games) > http://auntiepixelante.com/?p=2182 (on game design and kink) > http://auntiepixelante.com/?p=2152 (on difference and class) > http://www.mattiebrice.com/the-meritocracy-of-video-games/ (on meritocracy) > http://www.mattiebrice.com/death-of-the-player/ (fantastically titled: > "Death of the Player") > > > On Mon, Mar 31, 2014 at 1:35 PM, Alejandro Tortolini <alemtor(a)gmail.com>wrote: > >> Jennifer, Nicole, Luciano, Robert: thank you very much!! >> Other AIRlisters: more recommendations? >> >> Alejandro. >> >> >> 2014-03-31 16:13 GMT-03:00 Nicole Grove <nicolesunday(a)gmail.com>: >> >> > I agree with Robert, Ian Bogost's book Unit Operations and also How To Do >> > Things with Video Games are very good. McKenzie Wark's Gamer Theory and >> > Alexander Galloway's Gaming: Essays on Algorithmic Culture are also good >> if >> > you are interested in the ethics of games and gaming. >> > >> > Best, >> > Nicole Grove >> > PhD Candidate >> > Johns Hopkins University >> > >> > https://johnshopkins.academia.edu/grove >> > >> > >> > On Mon, Mar 31, 2014 at 8:45 AM, Peaslee, Robert <robert.peaslee(a)ttu.edu >> >wrote: >> > >> >> Hi Alejandro, >> >> >> >> I would recommend Ian Bogost's work on procedural rhetoric, and you >> might >> >> message a MA student with whom I've been working, whose thesis, just >> >> defended, deals precisely with game design ethics among other things. >> His >> >> name is Andrew Potter: andrew.potter(a)ttu.edu >> >> >> >> Best, >> >> rp >> >> ________________________________________ >> >> >> >> Robert Moses Peaslee, Ph.D. >> >> Associate Professor >> >> College of Media & Communication >> >> Texas Tech University >> >> >> >> Coordinator, Texas Tech University International Film Series >> >> >> >> >> >> robert.peaslee(a)ttu.edu >> >> P: (806) 834-2562 >> >> F: (806) 742-1085 >> >> >> >> MS 3082 >> >> Lubbock, TX 79409 >> >> >> >> http://ttu.academia.edu/RobPeaslee >> >> >> >> >> >> "It's a measure of the depth of our consumer trance that the death of >> the >> >> planet is not sufficient to break it." - Kalle Lasn, Adbusters >> >> >> >> >> >> On 3/31/14 1:33 PM, "Alejandro Tortolini" <alemtor(a)gmail.com> wrote: >> >> >> >> >Hi, I?m doing some research about video games and ethics... Can you >> >> >recomend me some books/readings about it? >> >> >I?m focusing in this two perspectives: >> >> > >> >> >1) Implicit or explicit values in video games. >> >> > >> >> >2) Gameplay and mechanics as a frame for ethical decisions in video >> >> games. >> >> > >> >> > >> >> >Thanks in advance, >> >> > >> >> >-- >> >> >Alejandro Tortolini >> >> >http://dooid.me/aletor >> >> >_______________________________________________ >> >> >The Air-L(a)listserv.aoir.org mailing list >> >> >is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org >> >> >Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: >> >> >http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org >> >> > >> >> >Join the Association of Internet Researchers: >> >> >http://www.aoir.org/ >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> >> The Air-L(a)listserv.aoir.org mailing list >> >> is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org >> >> Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: >> >> http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org >> >> >> >> Join the Association of Internet Researchers: >> >> http://www.aoir.org/ >> >> >> > >> > >> >> >> -- >> Alejandro Tortolini >> http://dooid.me/aletor >> _______________________________________________ >> The Air-L(a)listserv.aoir.org mailing list >> is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org >> Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: >> http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org >> >> Join the Association of Internet Researchers: >> http://www.aoir.org/ >> > > > ------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > The Air-L(a)listserv.aoir.org mailing list > is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org > Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org > > Join the Association of Internet Researchers: > http://www.aoir.org/ > > End of Air-L Digest, Vol 116, Issue 31 > **************************************

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CFP Rhetoric and Experience Architecture
by Liza Potts 31 Mar '14

31 Mar '14

Hi AOIR, Michael Salvo and I are pleased to invite you to contribute to our collection Rhetoric and Experience Architecture. We welcome proposals from academic researchers and industry practitioners. Please feel free to contact us about this book project. CFP: Rhetoric and Experience Architecture Experience architecture (XA) is an emerging area of study focused on the research and practice of creating technologies, products, policies, and services that serve the needs of various participants. Situated in the Humanities and Social Sciences, XA focuses onissues addressing usability, interaction design, service design, user experience, information architecture and content management for websites, mobile apps, software applications, and technology services. This collection will focus on the research, theory, and practice of creating compelling experiences across digital and physical spaces based on the foundation of rhetoric. This edited collection will consist of an editors’ introduction and three sections. The first section contains eight to twelve chapters that define field connections between rhetoric and experience architecture. The second section is formed by eight to twelve chapters focused on research methodology. The third section includes eight to twelve short vision statements, modeled after the NEH white paper genre, which offer several paths for exploring interdisciplinary trajectories between rhetorical studies and experience architecture. Deadline for 500-750 word proposals: Oct. 1, 2014 (Notification by Dec. 1, 2014) Please find the full CFP here: http://www.lizapotts.org/research/rhetoric-and-experience-architecture/ Best, Liza (and Michael) _________________________________________ Liza Potts, Ph.D. Senior Researcher at WIDE Research Assistant Professor Department of Writing, Rhetoric, & American Cultures Michigan State University 434 Farm Lane (Bessey Hall) Room 291, East Lansing, MI 48824 Gtalk: LKPotts | Skype: LKPotts | Portfolio: http://www.lizapotts.org/

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CFP Global Surveillance and Forms of Resistance
by Javier de Rivera 31 Mar '14

31 Mar '14

Hi everybody, This Call for Paper can be of your interest: http://teknokultura.net/index.php/tk/announcement/view/30 For English, click the UK flag. Best regards, Javier de Rivera.

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Effectiveness of Online Petitions
by Rhiannon Bury 31 Mar '14

31 Mar '14

Hi folks These days I am receiving as many as 5 online petitions for various causes, all important and just in my view. I am curious if any one here could point me to articles or book chapters, preferably based on empirical research, that address the issue of effectiveness. Best, Rhiannon Rhiannon Bury Associate Professor Women's and Gender Studies Athabasca University, Canada's Open University rbury(a)athabascau.ca

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Re: [Air-L] CfP: Int. Conference on Infrastructures and Cooperation in E-Science and E-Humanities
by Steffen Albrecht 31 Mar '14

31 Mar '14

Dear colleagues, The deadline for the "International Conference on Infrastructures and Cooperation in E-Science and E-Humanities", Leipzig, 4 - 6 June 2014, has been extended. Papers and abstracts can be submitted until 10 April 2014 via the conference website: http://openaccess.tu-dresden.de/ocs/index.php/ic-escience/iceseh2014 Best wishes, Steffen Albrecht ----- ursprüngliche Nachricht --------- Subject: CfP: Int. Conference on Infrastructures and Cooperation in E-Science and E-Humanities Date: Fr 07 Mär 2014 18:05:58 CET From: Steffen Albrecht<steffen.albrecht(a)berlin.de> To: air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org * apologies for cross-postings * Dear fellow Internet researchers, The International Conference on Infrastructures and Cooperation in E-Science and E-Humanities will be held from June 4-6 2014 in Leipzig, Germany. We invite you to participate and submit your paper addressing current questions and solutions in relation to one of the following thematic fields or other relevant topics: - Invention, design and implementation of information and communication technologies to enable, enhance or empower academic activities (field 1) - Analysis of academic processes, business models, and needs (field 2) - Social and cultural influences and outcomes related to the use of technology in academic activities (field 3) Submissions of full papers with originial work in english language are welcome. All papers will be peer-reviewed, a selection of the best conference papers will be published by Springer. All other papers will be published as open access electronic conference proceedings. A special track of the conference will experiment with the innovative format of a "flipped conference". Here, presentation videos will be shared prior to the conference via an online platform, and the meeting in Leipzig will be used in innovative and productive ways - depending on the ideas of the presenters. All information about the submission process, conference registration, the venue and the conference program as well as the "flipped conference" track can be found at the conference website: http://openaccess.tu-dresden.de/ocs/index.php/ic-escience/iceseh2014 The conference is organized by the eScience Research Network Saxony. Information about the research network can be found at http://www.escience-sachsen.de/?page_id=685. We look forward to seeing you in Leipzig! On behalf of the organizing team, Steffen Albrecht -- Steffen Albrecht Project Coordinator eScience – Research Network Saxony http://www.escience-sachsen.de/?page_id=685 Media Center Technische Universität Dresden http://mz.tu-dresden.de Room 426 Strehlener Straße 22/24 01069 Dresden Germany Tel. +49 351-463-39175 Fax: -463-35605 eMail: steffen_albrecht(a)mailbox.tu-dresden.de ---- ursprüngliche Nachricht Ende ----

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New Journal Launch free online until 31 May 2014
by Feona Attwood 31 Mar '14

31 Mar '14

Porn Studies; first double issue free online until 31 May 2014: http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rprn20/current#.UzlWDa1dW3k Routledge (Taylor & Francis Group) publish the first double issue of Porn Studies, the premier dedicated, international, peer-reviewed journal tocritically explore those cultural products and services designated as pornographic and their cultural, economic, historical, institutional, legal and social contexts. Porn Studies is edited by Professor Feona Attwood of Middlesex University and Professor Clarissa Smith of the University of Sunderland and supported by an international editorial board. Finally we have a journal that brings together the urgently needed research, theories, and debates to make sense of an important aspect of social and cultural life. The breadth, depth, and richness of its packed first issue confirms its promise as a platform, not only for understanding pornography - but as a space for new, adventurous, genuinely cosmopolitan rethinking of many of the things about identity, bodies, power, belonging, media, and contemporary reality that we take-for-granted, but still know too little about.  Gerard Goggin, Professor of Media and Communication, University of Sydney, Australia A scholarly journal about pornography is long overdue. Porn studies has matured into a vibrant and flourishing field, and the kind of solid, carefully researched work that is now available will help to counter the ill-informed and inflamed rhetoric that the topic seems to attract. Gayle Rubin, Associate Professor, Anthropology and Women's Studies, University of Michigan, US Porn Studies is the first peer-reviewed journal to take an evidence-based approach to the controversial area of pornography, gender and culture. Its editors are internationally recognized researchers who bring a creative and critical eye to the field. Catharine Lumby, Professor of Media, Macquarie University, Australia A journal dedicated to porn studies is long overdue and most welcome. One of the things it is most important to take seriously is what is taken for pleasure, and Porn Studies will provide the needed critical forum for doing so. Steve Jones, Distinguished Professor of Communication, University of Illinois Chicago, US  Porn Studies will play an important role in encouraging deeper, more considered critical thinking about an incredibly complex and widely misunderstood cultural phenomenon. At a time when simplistic discourses circulate around pornography, often occupying binary positions between ‘pro’ and ‘anti’, ‘sex positive’ and ‘sex negative’, serious studies of this area have become increasingly necessary. Analyses of such diverse topics as education, genres, distribution, and ‘effects’ converge in this interdisciplinary academic journal, which both looks backwards to explore the history of porn studies, and suggests a range of ways in which this provocative new area can move forwards. Will Brooker, Professor of Film and Cultural Studies Kingston University, UK and Amy E Forrest, University of Birmingham, UK Porn Studies, the new journal, provides a strong interdisciplinary platform for the critical and level-headed interrogation of an important field of re/presentation that pervades every day life in many forms and the cultural imagination. The unremitting glut of images, fuelled by technological advances and carried by established and emergent media platforms including social media, places an urgency on how imageries in/form subjectivisation and what role pornographic re/presentations play in this process: across cultures, territories and times. Bringing into a productive dialogue a wide range of existing and new voices and perspectives, Porn Studies will shape the future understanding of the production and consumption, dynamics and impact of pornography. Kerstin Mey, Professor of Contemporary Art and Theory, Westminster University, UK Porn Studies is a long overdue scholarly response to one of the world's major culture industries Andrew Ross, Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis, New York University, US As a feminist of a certain age, porn has never been an easy topic for me, neither in personal, nor in research or political terms. Porn Studies takes such a predicament seriously and promises not only to demonstrate the wide variety of opinions and theories about porn, but also to present sound empirical and historical research about the meanings of porn for different kinds of consumers in different contexts.   Liesbet van Zoonen, Professor of Media and Communication, Loughborough University, UK As may be more common than we like to think, pornography leads the way for the rest of the media. It's a serial innovator. Now Porn Studies does the same for media studies. I welcome it the more because it is a beacon of good scholarship. Just look at the first issue to discover a template for media research at its best. It is international in scope. It brings together a fine interdisciplinary team of scholars and industry figures at all stages of their careers. It conducts valuable methodological conversations while addressing significant research questions. Crucially, it seeks to explain pornography in use, without falling for one prejudged approach or school of thought. Here is where economics and culture, production and consumption, practice and ideology, history and technology intersect, revealingly, in lively colloquy that advances knowledge. John Hartley, Professor of Cultural Science, Curtin University, Australia One of the oldest cultural practices in the world has finally got an academic journal. Here at last is an arena for serious discussion and critical debate. John Storey, Professor of Cultural Studies, University of Sunderland, UK Articles by leading scholars identify some of the leading themes in pornography research today: Utilising data from more than 5000 responses to an online questionnaire, Martin Barker’s ‘The “Problem” of Sexual Fantasies’ explores understandings of the relations between pornography and sexual imaginaries. Fears about what children might be learning from pornography have been centre stage for some time, in ‘Porn and Sex Education, Porn as Sex Education’, Kath Albury addresses those concerns and their intersections with other issues around young people’s sexual practices, sexual self-representation and sexual knowledge. In ‘Studying Porn Cultures’ Lynn Comella suggests a ‘porn studies-in-action’ and exhorts researchers to ‘leave the confines of our offices, and spend time in the places where pornography is made, distributed and consumed, discussed and debated, taught and adjudicated’. Read these and more free online until 31 May 2014. A selection of call for papers for issues of Porn Studies can be found here: http://bit.ly/rprncfp **************************************************************** ACS List signoff instructions, and other important stuff: http://listserv.uta.fi/archives/acs.html ****************************************************************

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