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Effectiveness of Online Petitions (Rhiannon Bury)
by Taylor-Smith, Ella 02 Apr '14

02 Apr '14

hi not the most up to date list, plus the first 2 are about petitions generally, but still useful Bochel, C. (2012) Petitions Systems: Contributing to Representative Democracy? Parliamentary Affairs, 2012, pp1–18. Retrieved on 28th October 2012 from http://pa.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2012/05/29/pa.gss005.full Carman, C. (2010) “The Process is the Reality: Perceptions of Procedural Fairness and Participatory Democracy” in Political Studies 2010 58 pp731-751 doi: 10.1111/j.1467-9248.2010.00840.x Lindner, R. and Riehm, U. (2011). Broadening Participation Through E-Petitions? An Empirical Study of Petitions to the German Parliament, Policy & Internet, 3 (1). Retrived on 28th October 2012 from http://www.psocommons.org/policyandinternet/vol3/iss1/art4 Panagiotopoulos, P. and Al-Debei, M. (2010)Engaging with Citizens Online: Understanding the Role of ePetitioning in Local Government Democracy. Paper Presented at Internet, Politics, Policy 2010: An Impact Assessment, Oxford, 16-17 September 2010. Retrieved on 28th October 2012 from http://microsites.oii.ox.ac.uk/ipp2010/system/files/IPP2010_Panagiotopoulos… -Ella Ella Taylor-Smith Institute for Informatics and Digital Innovation Edinburgh Napier University 10 Colinton Road Edinburgh, EH10 5DT Email: e.taylor-smith(a)napier.ac.uk http://www.iidi.napier.ac.uk/e.taylor-smith http://about.me/EllaTaylorSmith @EllaTasm Edinburgh Napier University offers industry informed courses and 92.3% of our graduates are in work or further study within six months of leaving. With over 17,000 students from over 110 countries, we are an international university and are also proud to be the largest UK provider of higher education in Hong Kong. In 2014, we are celebrating 50 years since we opened our doors as Napier Technical College. This message and its attachment(s) are intended for the addressee(s) only and should not be read, copied, disclosed, forwarded or relied upon by any person other than the intended addressee(s) without the permission of the sender. If you are not the intended addressee you must not take any action based on this message and its attachment(s) nor must you copy or show them to anyone. Please respond to the sender and ensure that this message and its attachment(s) are deleted. It is your responsibility to ensure that this message and its attachment(s) are scanned for viruses or other defects. Edinburgh Napier University does not accept liability for any loss or damage which may result from this message or its attachment(s), or for errors or omissions arising after it was sent. Email is not a secure medium. Emails entering Edinburgh Napier University's system are subject to routine monitoring and filtering by Edinburgh Napier University. Edinburgh Napier University is a registered Scottish charity. Registration number SC018373

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CfP: Media Architecture Biennale 2014 Doctoral Consortium
by Marcus Foth 02 Apr '14

02 Apr '14

CALL FOR PAPERS MEDIA ARCHITECTURE BIENNALE 2014: Doctoral Consortium November 19-22, 2014 Aarhus, Denmark http://mab14.mediaarchitecture.org/doctoral-consortium/ The Doctoral Consortium at MAB is a full-day workshop on 20 November 2014. The colloquium session is primarily intended to highlight and confer around the work of research students, fellows and doctoral candidates working at the intersections of public space, digital media, socio-cultural analysis and theory, techno-artistic practices and critique. We welcome theoretical, analytical, and practice-based research. Researchers undertaking scholarly work at the PhD level are invited to take part in the Doctoral Consortium via the presentation of papers, work-in-progress and multimedia presentations (approximately 30 minutes in length). The Doctoral Consortium is free and open to other MAB delegates, too. Relevant topics include, but are not limited to: * How to support the development of social structures with urban digital media * Social & Cultural Aspects of Media Architecture * Participatory Architecture & City Planning * Spatial Locative Media * Case Studies of Specific Projects * Future Trends & Prototypes * Media Facades & Urban Displays * Interaction Techniques & Interfaces * Critical & Historical Perspectives on Media Architecture * Design Processes & Methods 5 stipends of up to EUR 500 each are available for contributors to the doctoral consortium. These will be distributed according to financial need and quality of proposals. Please indicate that you wish to be considered for a stipend when you apply and list arguments for why you need the support. To apply to present your paper or presentation, please send an abstract of your study (max 500 words) to the Doctoral Consortium Chairs, Marcus Foth <m.foth(a)qut.edu.au> and Søren Pold <pold(a)cavi.au.dk>, with “MAB14-DC” in the subject line, by 1 August 2014. If you are selected to participate in the Doctoral Consortium, you will be invited to submit a short paper (max. 4 pages, a template will be provided) by 30 August 2014 that summarises either your overall research work-in-progress or a specific project that you are working on, as well as your questions and issues that you would like to discuss at the Doctoral Consortium. These papers will be included in the non-refereed part of the MAB 2014 conference proceedings. INFORMATION Twitter: @MABiennale Facebook: Facebook.com/MABiennale Web: http://www.mab14.org Email: conference(a)mediaarchitecture.org Proceedings of the Media Architecture Biennale Conference 2012: http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2421076 Host: Aarhus University, Denmark, in collaboration with Media Architecture Institute. Doctoral Consortium Chairs: Søren Pold (Aarhus University) & Marcus Foth (Queensland University of Technology) -- Associate Professor Marcus Foth Director, Urban Informatics Research Lab Principal Research Fellow, School of Design Queensland University of Technology 130 Victoria Park Road, Brisbane QLD 4059, Australia m.foth(a)qut.edu.au – @sunday9pm – http://www.urbaninformatics.net/ CRICOS No. 00213J

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CFP: InVisible Culture, Issue 22: "Opacity" (DEADLINE: MAY 1, 2014)
by Anderson, Joel Neville 01 Apr '14

01 Apr '14

Dear Air-L subscribers, Only one month remains before the deadline for InVisible Culture: An Electronic Journal for Visual Culture’s latest CFP, on the theme of “Opacity.” Please circulate widely (pasted and linked below). Deadline May 1, 2014. Many thanks. Best regards, Joel Neville Anderson Managing Editor InVisible Culture 503A Morey Hall University of Rochester Rochester, NY 14627 http://ivc.lib.rochester.edu/cfp-invisible-culture-issue-22-opacity “Opacity” - Issue 22 For its twenty-second issue, InVisible Culture: An Electronic Journal for Visual Culture invites scholarly articles and creative works that address the multiple meanings of opacity. In the spring of 2013, former US intelligence contractor Edward Snowden began releasing documents pertaining to the wide-ranging data collection methods of the National Security Agency. Alternately hailed as hero and traitor, Snowden’s actions have fueled intense public debate regarding issues of privacy and transparency. For Issue 22, we would like contributors to consider the tension between transparency and opacity and reflect on the cultural and political contexts that gave rise to their connotations of openness and secrecy. What does it mean to claim either as a right? The late writer, poet, and critic Édouard Glissant (1928-2011) developed a model of opacity as a means of creating ethical relationships, writing in Poetics of Relation, “Transparency no longer seems like the bottom of the mirror in which Western humanity reflected the world in its own image. There is opacity now at the bottom of the mirror, a whole alluvium deposited by populations.” How could opacity be used as a tool of resistance? What stakes are involved in the revelation or obscuring of artworks’ racial, cultural, or gendered origins? How might we imagine opacity to be useful or limiting to the work of visual culture? We also seek to address optical properties of opacity more broadly as a conceptual tool for approaching medium specificity, innovations in color theory, and other subjects. Does our understanding of opacity shift in regard to digital technologies as it may between cultural spheres and political territories? How might visual culture be invested in the theoretical and physical properties of opacity and transparency? We welcome papers and artworks that further the various understandings of opacity. Possible topics of exploration include, but are not limited to: * Aesthetic and political dimensions of transparency and opacity * Identity politics, “the right to opacity” * Privacy and visibility, surveillance * The “transparent society” and digital panopticism * Scientific and medical visualization, the body, big data * Opacity of architectural traditions * Liminal spaces, borders, zones of conflict * Transparency and globalization, geopolitics * Emerging, established, and decaying democracies * Politics of clothing, fabric, screens, interstitial space and material * Camera obscura/lucida, properties of darkness and light, color, pigmentation * Transparency and opacity in the plastic arts (painting, film, sculpture) * Penetration and resistance Please send completed papers (with references following the guidelines from the Chicago Manual of Style) of between 4,000 and 10,000 words to ivc[dot]rochester[at]gmail[dot]com by May 1, 2014. Inquiries should be sent to the same address. Creative/Artistic Works In addition to written materials, InVisible Culture is accepting work in other media (video, photography, drawing, code) that reflect upon the theme as it is outlined above. For questions or more details concerning acceptable formats, go to http://ivc.lib.rochester.edu/contribute<http://ivc.lib.rochester.edu/contribute/> or contact ivc[dot]rochester[at]gmail[dot]com. Reviews InVisible Culture is also currently seeking submissions for book, exhibition, and film reviews (600-1,000 words). To submit a review proposal, go to http://ivc.lib.rochester.edu/contribute<http://ivc.lib.rochester.edu/contribute/> or contact ivc[dot]rochester[at]gmail[dot]com. Blog The journal also invites submissions to its blog feature, which will accommodate more immediate responses to the topic of the current issue. For further details, please contact us at ivc[dot]rochester[at]gmail[dot]com with the subject heading “blog submission.” * InVisible Culture: An Electronic Journal for Visual Culture (IVC) is a student run interdisciplinary journal published online twice a year in an open access format. Through peer reviewed articles, creative works, and reviews of books, films, and exhibitions, our issues explore changing themes in visual culture. Fostering a global and current dialog across fields, IVC investigates the power and limits of vision.

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PhD Scholarship to study Dashboard Interfaces (UK/EU only)
by nathaniel tkacz 01 Apr '14

01 Apr '14

ESRC DTC Collaborative Studentship - Dashboard Interfaces CENTRE FOR INTERDISCPLINARY METHODOLOGIES (CIM) and INTEL (USA): The Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies at The University of Warwick is pleased to announce a new 3-year ESRC Doctoral Collaborative Studentship, on the topic of Dashboard Interfaces. The primary objective of the Studentship is to investigate the function and use of Dashboard Interfaces by individuals and organisations. Such interfaces bring together a range of data flows and visualisations into one or multiple screens for the purpose of monitoring and decision-making. Dashboard interfaces are a site from which to examine the changing role of software in organisations; the relationship between visualisation and control; the social life of metrics and numbers; the nature of the screen interface; and transformations in organisational and individual monitoring and decision-making, among other things. Dr Nathaniel Tkacz (CIM) will act as the primary supervisor for the successful applicant. The collaborating organisation is Intel and the successful candidate will spend a portion of the candidature at Intel's main office in Portland, USA, where they will have the opportunity to work with social science researchers. Outcomes: The main output of the research will be a PhD dissertation, but the successful candidate will also be encouraged to write academic journal articles as well as disseminate the project's findings through other outreach activities to relevant stakeholders and wider publics. Eligibility: We welcome applicants from a range of disciplinary backgrounds with relevant qualifications (at least a 2:i Honours degree or equivalent in a relevant subject), with preference given to students with a relevant Masters degree. The competition is open to Home/EU candidates; full details on eligibility are available from the ESRC ( http://www.esrc.ac.uk/funding-and-guidance/postgraduates/prospective-studen…) and should be consulted before applying. Only candidates who also hold an offer for a place of study on the PhD programme at the University of Warwick (CIM) will be considered. Please note that you must apply to the PhD programme via the University application system before you submit your DTC application. more info: http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fac/cim/study/esrcdtcstudentshipdash/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Nathaniel Tkacz - Assistant Professor | CIM - The University of Warwick ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Research: CIM <http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fac/cim/people/tkacz/> | Twitter: @__nate__ <https://twitter.com/__nate__> | Current Project: MoneyLab <http://networkcultures.org/moneylab/> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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Call for Participants - 21-22/5/2014 - Critical Ways of Seeing
by Elinor Carmi 01 Apr '14

01 Apr '14

Critical Ways of Seeing 21-22/5/2014 Visualizing Knowledge and the Digital - Tool, Politics, or Art? Two Day Symposium and Master Class with Dr Philippe Rekacewicz (Head Geographer & Cartographer, Le Monde Diplomatique), Giulio Frigieri (Infographics, The Guardian), Alfredo Cramerotti (Mostyn, Wales' Contemporary Art Centre), Mushon Zer-Aviv (Media Activist, Tel Aviv/New York), Stefano Cagol (Contemporary Artist, Italy) and (tbc) Marsha Rosengarten (Sociology, Goldsmiths) and Davina Jackson (d-city network). Hosts: Global Media & Transnational Communications Program and Radical Media Forum of the Media & Communications Department, Goldsmiths College, University of London. Convener: Prof. Marianne Franklin, with Elinor Carmi and Paola Crespi. This two-day workshop brings world-renowned exponents of conventional and radical cartography, media digital activism, and contemporary art once again to the Media & Communications Department in two ways: 1) To hold workshop sessions for researchers (students and faculty) looking for new ways to present and visualize their findings as they make use of digital tools in their work; 2) To offer focused sessions with guest speakers on selected topics. The symposium will open with a public session on the fundamentals of cartography and how these are affected by the shift to the digital. It will end with a public debate that brings our experts together * The Symposium is open to all registered participants. * Those who wish to be considered as projects for the Masterclass sessions need to apply by 30th April 2014. More details below. When & Where: May 21-22, 2014, New Academic Building and Media Research Centre (to be confirmed), Goldsmiths College, University of London. Who: All interested and who wish to register for the two days. See below for more information on how to apply for consideration as a focus project for the Masterclass session. All sessions are open to registered participants. 1) SYMPOSIUM REGISTRATION Register HERE! (http://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/critical-ways-of-seeing-2014-21-22-may-2014-t…) : Open to all. Deadline for registrations: May 15th 2014. 2) MASTERCLASS FOCUS PROJECT (selected projects): Please provide a title and brief description of your project (250 words MAX), along with examples from your data collection and problems/dilemmas you have encountered while gathering/analysing the material (250 words MAX); inquiries to Marianne Franklin (m.i.franklin(a)gold.ac.uk) The deadline for this element is: 30th April 2014. For more details please visit: http://radmediaforum.wordpress.com/2013-14-events-2/critical-ways-of-seeing… All the best, Elinor Carmi, MPhil/PhD Candidate, Department of Media & Communications, Goldsmiths College, University of London. www.pinkeee.com Twitter: @pinkeee_

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Journal "Big Data & Society": now open for submissions
by Judith Simon 01 Apr '14

01 Apr '14

Dear colleagues, we are pleased to announce that the new SAGE journal, Big Data & Society, is now open for submissions at http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/bdas. The journal invites contributions that analyse Big Data practices and/or involve empirical engagements and experiments with innovative methods while also reflecting on the consequences for how societies are represented (epistemologies), realised (ontologies) and governed (politics). For more details please see our blog athttp://bigdatasoc.blogspot.co.uk/ or follow us on Twitter at https://twitter.com/BigDataSoc. Journal information and submission guidelines can be found here:http://www.uk.sagepub.com/journals/Journal202236#tabview=manuscriptSub… Best regards, Editorial Office Big Data & Society: Critical Interdisciplinary Inquiries (Launch 2014) bdseditors(a)sagepub.com Editor: Evelyn Ruppert (Goldsmiths, UK) Co-editors: Paolo Ciuccareli (Milan, IT), Anatoliy Gruzd (Dalhousie, CA), Adrian Mackenzie (Lancaster, UK), Richard A. Rogers (Amsterdam, NL), Irina Shklovski (Copenhagen IT, DK), Judith Simon (Vienna, AT & Copenhagen, DK), Matt Zook (Kentucky, US)

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[JVWR] Call for Editors Virtual2Real Hardware
by Tzafnat Shpak 01 Apr '14

01 Apr '14

The JVWR [image: Journal of Virtual Worlds Research]<http://jvwresearch.us2.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=de4fa2a435382cb1fa67c…> Call for Editors: Virtual2Real Hardware (Glass, Rift, Leap and more) The recent (Mar-2014) $2B value of Oculus Rift acquisition by Facebook<http://jvwresearch.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=de4fa2a435382cb1fa67cb…>has moved the importance of Virtual Reality hardware way forward to the market. Virtual worlds are now being augmented with hardware such as: - Oculus Rift<http://jvwresearch.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=de4fa2a435382cb1fa67cb…> - Leap Motion<http://jvwresearch.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=de4fa2a435382cb1fa67cb…> - Google Glass<http://jvwresearch.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=de4fa2a435382cb1fa67cb…> - Eyesight<http://jvwresearch.us2.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=de4fa2a435382cb1fa67c…> - Omnidirectional Treadmills<http://jvwresearch.us2.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=de4fa2a435382cb1fa67c…> - Intel RealSense Technology<http://jvwresearch.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=de4fa2a435382cb1fa67cb…> - Precision Position Tracking<http://jvwresearch.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=de4fa2a435382cb1fa67cb…> - Sony Project Morpheus<http://jvwresearch.us2.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=de4fa2a435382cb1fa67c…> - Head Mounted Displays<http://jvwresearch.us2.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=de4fa2a435382cb1fa67c…> - Vuzix Smart Glasses & Wraps<http://jvwresearch.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=de4fa2a435382cb1fa67cb…> - Osterhout Design Group<http://jvwresearch.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=de4fa2a435382cb1fa67cb…>(ODG) Papers' Topics May Include: - Description of current and new hardware - Research on new interfaces - New market analysis that stems from new hardware - User perception - Market impacts - And more... We are looking for a *prime editor* and 1-2 co-editors for this V2RHardware issue. If you have an interest and background in the field as well as experience in academic editing, please let us know by sending your CV and a cover letter to info(a)jvwresearch.org. Final decision about the editors will be made by end of April 2014 or earlier based on the information we get. *Act soon*. For more details about editors' role and requirements see JVWR site --> About JVWR --> For Issue Editors<http://jvwresearch.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=de4fa2a435382cb1fa67cb…> . Publication is planned for Q1-2 of 2015. With a potential conference on the Virtual2Real Hardware on Q4/ 2014. Current authors, who have already submitted relevant papers, will be notified after editors have been appointed. New authors are invited to think about the issue and wait for the official call. Further Information The Journal of Virtual Worlds Research (http://www.jvwresearch.org/<http://jvwresearch.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=de4fa2a435382cb1fa67cb…>) is an online, open access academic journal that engages a wide spectrum of scholarship and welcomes contributions from the many disciplines and approaches that intersect virtual worlds research. The field of virtual worlds research is a continuously evolving area of study that spans across many disciplines and the JVWR editorial team looks forward to engaging a wide range of creative and scholarly work. For any information regarding this call, please contact JVWR coordinating editor, Ms. Tzafnat Shpak: tzafnat.shpak AT jvwresearch DOT org Note also the following: - Check our web site's special page on* events <http://jvwresearch.us2.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=de4fa2a435382cb1fa67c…>*for updates in our field. - Review* past issues <http://jvwresearch.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=de4fa2a435382cb1fa67cb…> *on our website's special *all issues cover view* page. - We welcome you to join our Facebook page theJVWR<http://jvwresearch.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=de4fa2a435382cb1fa67cb…> - Follow us* @theJVWR <http://jvwresearch.us2.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=de4fa2a435382cb1fa67c…>*on Twitter - And/or subscribe to our mailing list (on the top left of http://www.jvwreserach.org<http://jvwresearch.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=de4fa2a435382cb1fa67cb…> ). We are looking forward to hearing from you soon. *Tzafnat Shpak* Coordinating Editor *Prof. Yesha Y. Sivan* Editor In Chief TheJVWR - The Journal of Virtual Worlds Research http://jvwresearch.org<http://jvwresearch.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=de4fa2a435382cb1fa67cb…> (c) 2014 Journal of Virtual Worlds Research All rights reserved.

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CFP: Generative Justice: Value from the Bottom-up @ RPI, Troy NY, June 27-29 2014
by Joly MacFie 01 Apr '14

01 Apr '14

Forwarded by request. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: David Banks <david.adam.banks(a)gmail.com> Date: Sun, Dec 29, 2013 at 1:01 PM Subject: CFP: Generative Justice To: Hello all, I'm happy to let you know that a conference inspired by the same questions and opportunities as Technoscience as Activism has just been announced. It'll also happen in Troy, New York in the early summer. See the CFP below and contact Vicki Brock (brockv2(a)rpi.edu) or Ron Eglash (eglash(a)rpi.edu) with any questions. Solidarity, -db *Generative Justice: Value from the Bottom-up* A conference at RPI, Troy NY, June 27-29 2014 *Call for Papers* Social problems are often addressed through the top-down forms of "distributive justice": intervention from government agencies and regulations for example. But science and technology innovations have opened new possibilities for "generative justice": bottom-up networks that strive for a more equitable and sustainable world through communitarian value generation. Some examples of generative justice involve lay innovation: maker spaces, DIY movements, and "appropriated" technologies. Other examples are more focused on nature as a generator of value, such as urban agriculture, food justice, and indigenous harvesting. Some focus on the framework of Open Source, putting code, blueprints and manufacturing processes into the public domain. Still others concern composite networks: for example community waste projects that link recycling and organic composting with artistic production, "fixer" movements and other forms of community development. Generative justice can apply to social entrepreneurship, restorative justice, community media, social solidarity economies, and many other structures that allow those who generate value to directly participate in its benefits, create their own conditions of production, and nurture sustainable paths for its circulation. We invite presentation and panel proposals on the theory and practice of generative justice. What theories of ethics, law, epistemology and politics can help to define this concept and improve its utility? What research methods are best used to explore it, and in what analytic frameworks can it be deployed? Are the relations between distributive and generative justice best viewed as opposite ends of a continuum? As mutually supportive symbiosis? How might generative justice experiences and outcomes differ across identities such as race, gender, class, and sexual orientation; across geographic and national differences; across ideological and institutional spectrums? How can we distinguish generative justice from bottom-up forms of exploitation, oppression, or unsustainable ecologies? What kinds of technologies and scientific programs might foster more generative justice, and conversely, how might generative justice contribute to better STEM education, research, and infrastructure? To submit a paper or panel proposal please use the form at: http://www.3helix.rpi.edu/?page_id=4073 For questions contact: BROCKV2(a)rpi.edu -- --------------------------------------------------------------- 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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