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

Texas A&M University is Hiring 2 Lecturers in Communication
by Heidi Campbell 21 Apr '14

21 Apr '14

The Department of Communication at Texas A&M University invites applications for two lecturers starting September 1, 2014. This is a nine-month non-tenure track position, renewable annually for up to three years. Primary duties are to teach basic communication courses such as public speaking, technical speaking, argumentation and debate, rhetorical criticism, and communication technology skills with the possibility of also teaching upper-level courses in area of expertise. Preference will be given to applicants who are also able to teach upper-level courses in communication tactics, issues management, and social media as part of our new undergraduate certificate in strategic communication. The department offers the PhD, MA, and BA degrees, and has 20 tenure-track faculty members, 55 graduate students, and over 1000 undergraduate majors. Further information regarding the department is available at: http://comm.tamu.edu. Texas A&M is a research-intensive flagship university with more than 53,000 students, including 10,000 graduate students, making it the sixth largest university in the United States. The student body includes 26% African American, Hispanic, Asian or Pacific Islander, and American Indian or Alaskan Native students, as well as approximately 5000 international students from 124 countries. We seek candidates who can teach in a diverse and global classroom. Texas A&M University is an equal opportunity, affirmative action employer. This institution does not offer benefits to domestic partners. To receive fullest consideration, applicants should apply by April 28, 2014, but applications will continue to be accepted until the position is filled. Candidates with either a Masters or doctorate in communication or a related field and a strong record of teaching will be considered. Interested candidates should send a letter of application, curriculum vitae, and three reference letters sent to: J. Kevin Barge (kbarge(a)tamu.edu) Department of Communication, 4234 TAMU, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843-4234. Phone: (979) 845-5500; FAX: (979) 845-6594.

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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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April 21 Deadline for 2015 HETL SoTE Utah Conference
by Patrick Blessinger 18 Apr '14

18 Apr '14

This is a reminder to submit your proposal before the *April 21 deadline* for next year's HETL - SoTE conference, to be *held in Orem, Utah at Utah Valley University.* Go to https://www.hetl.org/events/2015-hetl-sote-utah-conference/ for conference details and to submit your proposal. The Utah conference will coincide with the *Sundance Film Festival* and other great leisure and outdoor opportunities for those who also want to experience the rich set of activities that Utah offers. The Scholarship of Teaching and Engagement (SoTE) is an annual conference hosted by Utah Valley University, an institution classified by the Carnegie Foundation as a Community-Engaged Institution. At the conference, you will have the opportunity to explore new developments in community engagement with colleagues from around the world. Also, please share the conference link ( https://www.hetl.org/events/2015-hetl-sote-utah-conference/) with your colleagues and network. Warm regards, Patrick Blessinger

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Conference venues for Social Media Researchers [Deadlines are fast approaching!]
by Anatoliy Gruzd 17 Apr '14

17 Apr '14

Calling all Social Media and Online Communities Researchers! Please consider submitting your research to the following conferences. Deadlines are fast approaching. (1) #SMSociety14: CONFERENCE ON SOCIAL MEDIA AND SOCIETY Location: Toronto, ON, Canada When: September 27-28, 2014 Paper & Panel Abstracts Due: April 18, 2014 (!!!in 4 days!!!) Poster Abstracts Due: May 23, 2014 More info: http://SocialMediaAndSociety.com/?page_id=549 Conference organizers: Anatoliy Gruzd, Dalhousie University Barry Wellman, University of Toronto Philip Mai, Dalhousie University Jenna Jacobson, University of Toronto (2) Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS) Minitrack: SOCIAL NETWORKING & COMMUNITIES Location: Kauai, Hawaii, USA When: January 5-8, 2015 Papers Due: June 15, 2014 More info: http://socialmedialab.ca/?page_id=9308 Minitrack co-chairs: Anatoliy Gruzd, Dalhousie University Caroline Haythornthwaite, University of British Columbia Karine Nahone, University of Washington Please contact Anatoliy Gruzd <gruzd(a)dal.ca> if you have any questions about these calls.

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videos and blog reports from MoneyLab #1
by Geert Lovink 17 Apr '14

17 Apr '14

Dear fellow internet researchers. on March 21-22 2014 the first MoneyLab event was held, here in Amsterdam, organized by the Institute of Network Cultures. It took place inside the ruins of the former Smart Project Space facilities near Leidseplein (now called Lab111). The conference covered, besides the general topic of money theory, monetization and the impact of the 2008 global financial crisis issues such as bitcoin and other crypto-currencies, crowdfunding research and mobile money. There was also a lot of emphasis on artistic responses to money politics. If you want to you more please visit the MoneyLab blog on the INC website and subscribe to the mailinglist (http://listcultures.org/mailman/listinfo/moneylab_listcultures.org) There you can also find out more information about possible next workshops and events such as the planned second MoneyLab conference in London (early 2015). Videos, photos and blog reports of all contributions can be found here: http://www.networkcultures.org/wpmu/moneylab/program-3/report/. Yours, Geert

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Call for chapters: Mobile Communication and the Asian family
by Sun Sun LIM 17 Apr '14

17 Apr '14

Call for chapters Mobile Communication and the Asian family - Transforming technologies, changing households Edited by Sun Sun Lim, National University of Singapore To be published by Springer in January 2015 This book explores how mobile communication technologies are penetrating Asia at a rapid rate, and being avidly domesticated by households in Asia. It investigates how such technologies are being incorporated into Asian families' daily routines for work, education, entertainment and household coordination, while being appropriated for communication and the nurturance of family bonds. Even as mobile communication technology is evolving relentlessly, families in Asia are also going through a period of transformation as the region experiences unprecedented economic growth, urbanisation and demographic shifts. Asia is therefore at the crossroads of technological transformation and social change and this book seeks to capture the mutual impact of these two contemporaneous trends through the lens of the family. I welcome research on different types of families (e.g. nuclear, blended, single-parent, multigenerational, grandparent-led etc.), from a spectrum of socio-economic profiles, that utilise a range of qualitative and quantitative methodological approaches, and which are informed by a diversity of theoretical perspectives. *Research by emerging Asia-focused and/or Asia-based scholars whose work has not previously been published in English is especially welcome.* Chapter proposals are sought for topics including but not limited to the following: * Influence of socio-cultural norms on families' appropriation of mobile communication technologies * Time management and micro-coordination * Practices and negotiations pertaining to acquisition, ownership and usage of mobile communication devices and services * Blurring boundaries between work and family * Issues of (dis)empowerment, privacy and surveillance * Nature and quality of family interaction * Inter-generational differences in perceptions and usage of mobile communication * Parental mediation of mobile device usage Please submit chapter proposals of up to 800 words, and brief author biographies of up to 300 words as an e-mail attachment by 15 May 2014. Authors of accepted proposals will be notified by 5 June 2014 and invited to submit a full paper to sunlim(a)nus.edu.sg<mailto:sunlim@nus.edu.sg> . Manuscripts should be no more than 8,000 words, including notes and references, conform to APA style, and submitted by 30 September, 2014. All papers will be subject to anonymous peer review following submission. Sun Sun LIM PhD Assistant Dean (Research), Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences Associate Professor, Department of Communications and New Media National University of Singapore Website: http://profile.nus.edu.sg/fass/cnmlss/

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Media & Politics Group Annual Conference. Theme: Media, Persuasion and Human Rights
by Andy 17 Apr '14

17 Apr '14

Colleagues, I'm delighted to announce that the Political Studies Association Media & Politics Group Annual Conference will be held this November at Bangor University in N.Wales, hosted by Bangor University's network for Media & Persuasive Communication. We welcome papers on any aspect of Media and Politics, or on this year’s conference theme of Media, Persuasion and Human Rights. While human rights may appear inalienable in international law and covenants, in fact they are sites of contestation, conflict and redefinition, variably implemented across the globe. Reflecting our theme, our key note speakers include Prof. Jon Silverman (University of Bedfordshire) who is currently working on the influence of the media's reporting of war crimes trials in West Africa on civil society. *Conference Date: *Mon. 10th - Tues. 11th Nov. 2014 *Website: * http://www.bangor.ac.uk/creative_industries/media-persuasion/index.php.en *Email: *mediapoliticsconference(a)bangor.ac.uk We seek papers on any of the following themes. 1. *Media and Politics* - any aspect. 2. *Media, Persuasion* *and Human Rights*, including: a) *Mediating Norms.* Jeremy Bentham once called human rights ‘nonsense upon stilts’. What is the philosophical status of human rights and how are deontic norms complicated, challenged and threatened by current geo-political events and their mediation? Are liberal social aspirations being redefined and eroded? Did they ever exist? What betterment do we have to aim for today? b) *Communicating Trade-offs.* When governments balance rights against each other (eg trading-off the right to privacy or freedom from torture in exchange for national security), how do the media respond? How does the complexity of decision-making and trade-offs get communicated? What are decision-makers’ insights on balancing and communicating rights? c) *Contestation and Articulation*. What human rights are privileged by, and contested through, the media? How have these changed over time? How do articulatory struggles play out across the media, and via what persuasive ‘actants’, including NGOs, investigative journalists, the public, lawyers, companies, corporations, governments, and international governance bodies? d) *Media Forms*. How does the struggle over articulation vary across different media forms and genres? How do minority media and the rise of mass self-broadcasting enable perverted viewing and production (eg torture porn, tour of duty war mementos), and with what implications for the normalization of abnormal situations (too taboo for mass view), and for the social enactment of human rights? e) *New Media, New Rights?* What novel opportunities and challenges do new media technologies present for human rights that intrinsically rely on the media, such as the right to privacy and freedom of speech? f) *Mobilisation*. In what ways do media inform and mobilise the public regarding their human rights? This may range from the practices of bearing witness (eg sousveillant communication); to the generation of empathy, intimacy, and a new solidarity through media forms that invoke engagement, identification and pleasure (eg Twitter, film, reality TV, comedy, music)? g) *Gender*. Is there such as thing as 'gendered' human rights? How does gender impact and influence mediated construction of human rights around the globe? How has the media engaged in the representation of gendered and sexualised human rights abuses (for example mass rape, comfort women, sex trafficking and enforced prostitution)? h) *Cultural Imperialism?* What are non-western insights on human rights liberal discourse, and how are these dealt with in various national and trans-national institutions ranging from satellite TV to the International Criminal Court? We encourage diverse responses to the theme, but are especially interested in interdisciplinary responses, not least from policy-makers, activists, philosophers, information-management specialists, computer scientists, journalists, security analysts, and those with expertise in law or politics. *Abstract submission* All proposals should include the following: title and name, institutional affiliation and address, and email address; together with, a paper title, an abstract of not more than 300 words, an indication of which theme(s) you are addressing, and up to five key words about your paper. Please also indicate whether or not you are a postgraduate student. Please indicate which section you wish your proposal to be considered under: 1. 10-15 minute panel presentation; 2. Practice-based work (15 mins - comprising showing of practice-based piece (or an extract) plus any accompanying discussion/context). Abstracts should be sent *by 1**st** July* to mediapoliticsconference(a)bangor.ac.uk . All abstracts will undergo peer review and decisions on papers will be given within 3 weeks of the submission deadline. *Postgraduates & James Thomas Memorial Prize* Postgraduate students are invited to submit a full paper that will be entered into the James Thomas Memorial Prize. This annual award is presented to the most outstanding paper by a postgraduate student at the Media and Politics Group Annual Conference. While abstracts must be submitted by 1st July, full papers must be submitted by 1 October 2014, to allow time for them to be reviewed by the MPG conveners. We look forward to welcoming you to Bangor University. With all best wishes, Andy Senior Lecturer for School of Creative Studies and Media Director of Media and Persuasive Communication (MPC) network Bangor University College Road Bangor MPC web: mpc.bangor.ac.uk MPC Twitter: @MPCBangor <https://twitter.com/MPCBangor> Homepage: http://advertising-communications-culture.blogspot.co.uk/ Books: Digital Advertising<http://www.amazon.co.uk/Digital-Advertising-Dr-Andrew-McStay/dp/0230222412> ; The Mood of Information<http://www.bloomsbury.com/us/the-mood-of-information-9781441176141/> ; Creativity and Advertising<http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415519557/>

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NEW ISSUE OF THE JOURNAL OF PEER PRODUCTION: CURRENCY AND VALUE
by nathaniel tkacz 16 Apr '14

16 Apr '14

The editors are pleased to announce the publication of Issue #4 of the Journal of Peer Production on the topic of Currency and Value. All of the issue content is freely available at: http://peerproduction.net THE JOURNAL OF PEER PRODUCTION ISSUE #4: CURRENCY AND VALUE Editorial Notes by Nathaniel Tkacz, Nicolas Mendoza and Francesca Musiani PEER REVIEWED PAPERS ‘Karma, precious Karma!’ Karmawhoring on Reddit and the Front Page’s Econometrisation by Annika Richterich The Paradoxes of Distributed Trust: Peer-to-Peer Architecture and User Confidence in Bitcoin by Alexandre Mallard, Cécile Méadel and Francesca Musiani The Politics of Cryptography: Bitcoin and the Ordering Machines by Quinn DuPont Reproducing Wealth Without Money, One 3D printer at a Time by Johan Söderberg INVITED COMMENTS Why Contractors Make More Money Than Employees by Amir Taaki Can Bitcoin Compete with Money? by Beat Weber Towards the Democratization of the Means of Monetization: The Three Competing Value Models Present Within Cognitive Capitalism by Michel Bauwens Between Copyleft and Copyfarleft: Advance Reciprocity for the Commons by Miguel Said Vieira & Primavera De Filippi ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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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Re: [Air-L] Seeking Estonian translation services for dissertationresearch, specifically survey translation
by Scott MacLeod 15 Apr '14

15 Apr '14

Hi Cory and Air-L friends, Thanks for your inquiry, Cory. While I don't know of any Estonian translation services per se, I am BCC-ing two Estonian friends who live in the US in this email who can respond to you directly if they are available to help you translate the 70-ish question survey you mention concerning e-commerce transactions. Here is the Estonia wiki subject page at WUaS which is the beginning of a significantly large MIT OCW-centric Estonia World University and School - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Estonia - eventually in the Estonian language - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Estonian_language - (and which like most Nation States' wiki pages - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Nation_States - are the beginnings of MIT OCW World University and Schools in each country, and in large languages in them). Estonians who are interested in developing an online CC MIT OCW-centric university would do so beginning here at WUaS - Eesti language (Estonian): http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Eesti (think Wikipedia). Each language's university would potentially be translated from/to all 7, 105 languages, and not just from / to Estonian-English. You'll find too some translation sections on each WUaS page, which I hope will eventually become a resource and community for open source and helpful translation in many languages. All the best, Scott - Scott MacLeod - Founder & President - http://scottmacleod.com/interlingual/worlduniversityandschool.html - worlduniversityandschool(a)gmail.com - World University and School - like Wikipedia with MIT OpenCourseWare (not endorsed by MIT OCW) - incorporated as a nonprofit effective April 2010. On Tue 15/04/14 3:15 PM , "Robinson,Cory" cory.Robinson(a)colostate.edu sent: > My dissertation investigates differences in online disclosure between > Americans and Estonians during ecommerce transactions. I’m currently > seeking either contacts or recommendations for Estonian translation to > translate a 15-minute, 70(ish) question survey. > Many thanks in advance for any recommendations and help. > > - Cory > -- > Stephen Cory Robinson > cory.robinson(a)colostate.edu<c > ory.robinson(a)colostate.edu>Office: Clark C258A > http://colostate.academia.edu/StephenCoryRobinson > _______________________________________________ > The Air-L > @listserv.aoir.org mailing listis provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.orgSubscribe, 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/ > >

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CfPs: 7th ASE International Conference on Social Computing (SocialCom 2014 Beijing) - deadline April 30
by Christoph Trattner 15 Apr '14

15 Apr '14

=============================================================================== CALL FOR PAPERS The 7th ASE International Conference on Social Computing (SocialCom 2014 Beijing) Tsinghua University, Beijing, China August 4-7, 2014 http://socialcom2014beijing.scienceengineering.org/ =============================================================================== The 7th ASE Conference series on Social Computing (SocialCom 2014 Beijing) is the premier international forum for research on information, communication and interactive technologies that consider social context in social computing and social media. The program contains two tracks for paper submission. IMPORTANT DATES =============================================================================== Paper Submission: April 30, 2014 Acceptance Notification: June 5, 2014 Poster/Demo Submission: June 16, 2014 Industry Speech: June 23, 2014 Final Paper Due: June 25, 2014 SCOPE AND INTERESTS ============================================================================== Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: Track 1: Social Media, Networks, Systems and Services Track - Mobile and Wearable Social Networks and Systems - Social Media Analytics and Media Intelligence - Connecting Offline and Online Networks - Performance Evaluation of Social Media Services/Systems - Novel Recommendation and Inference Techniques - Cyber-physical and Smart Interactive System for Social Networks - Trend and Virality of Social Media - Mobile Social Gaming and Analysis - Applications and Case Studies of the above Track 2: Social Signal Processing Track - Social Intelligence - Social Behavior Modeling and Analysis - Emotional Intelligence - Cultural Dynamics, Opinion Representation, and Influence Processes - Reality Mining - SSP in Human-Computer Interaction and Interface Design - Novel Data Mining and Machine Learning in Social Contexts ELECTRONIC SUBMISSION ============================================================================== Prepare your manuscripts according to ACM paper guidelines ( http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates) between 6 and 8 pages, and not exceeding 8 pages in PDF format. Submit your paper(s) at the SocialCom 2014 Beijing submission site ( http://www.scienceengineering.org/ase/conference/2014/socialcom/beijing/web…) Each submission should be regarded as an undertaking that, should the paper be accepted, at least one of the authors must attend the conference to present the work in order for the paper to be included in the Digital Library. PAPER PUBLICATIONS ============================================================================== Top 2% accepted papers will be published in the ASE Human Journal. Rest of the accepted papers will be included in the ACM Digital Library. Extended versions of selected papers will be considered for publication in several SCI-indexed international journals (see website). CONTACT INFORMATION ============================================================================== Email address: socialcom2014bj(a)googlegroups.com (attn. to SocialCom Chairs) Mailing address: Dept. of Electronic & Computer Engineering, HKUST Clear Water Bay, Kowloon, Hong Kong (attn. to Prof. James She) ORGANIZING COMMITTEE ============================================================================== Honorary Chair Fei-Yue Wang, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China General Chairs Su Yang, Fudan University, China Kristina Lerman, University of Southern California, USA Executive Chairs Alvin Chin, Nokia, China Justin Zhan, North Carolina A&T State University, USA Program Chairs James She, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong Martin Atzmueller, Universit‰t Kassel, Germany Program Vice-Chairs Baoliu Ye, Nanjing University, China Arkaitz Zubiaga, AIRC, Dublin, Ireland Peng Cui, Tsinghua University, China Jill Freyne, CSIRO ICT, Australia Panel Chair Zhang Lin, Beijing Univ. of Posts and Telecommunications, China Demo Chairs Zhiang Wu, Nanjing University of Finance and Economics, China Anatoliy Gruzd, Dalhousie University, Canada Poster Chairs Harold Liu, Beijing Institute of Technology, China Zhiyong Yu, Fuzhou University, China Hua Yuan, University of Electronic Science & Technology of China, China Workshop Chairs Mike Liang, Microsoft Research, China Mauro Conti, University of Padua, Italy Steering Committee Merce Crosas, Harvard University, USA Howard Lander, RENCI/UNC-Chapel Hill, USA Arcot Rajasekar, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, USA Advisory Chair Feng Xia, Dalian University of Technology, China Sponsorship Chair Dou Shen, Baidu, China Local Chair Minlie Huang, Tsinghua University, China Publicity Chairs Ruijin He, Taylor & Francis, China Christoph Trattner, Graz University of Technology, Austria Marc Smith, ConnectedAction, USA Program Committee http://www.scienceengineering.org/ase/conference/2014/socialcom/beijing/web… -- ------------------------------------------------------- Dipl.-Ing. Dr.techn. Christoph Trattner BSc Head of the Social Computing Research Group @Know-Center Graz University of Technology Inffeldgasse 13, 8010 Graz, Austria E-mail: ctrattner(a)know-center.at Tel: +43 316 873 30840 Homepage: http://christophtrattner.info Have an interesting EU-Project on User Modeling & Personalization? Present your Project at UMAP2014: http://umap2014.cs.aau.dk/ -------------------------------------------------------

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