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CFP - HICSS-48: Global Virtual Teams (GVT) Minitrack
by Derrick L. Cogburn 15 Apr '14

15 Apr '14

Dear AoIR Colleagues, For those of you studying various aspects of communication, collaboration and technology in globally distributed teams, groups, and networks, we invite you to submit a paper to the minitrack on Global Virtual Teams (GVT) for the 48th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS). HICSS-48 will be held from 5-8 January 2015 at the Grand Hyatt on Kauai. Our full Call for Papers and detailed information about the conference can be found here http://www.hicss.hawaii.edu/hicss_48/apahome48.htm and information for potential authors can be found here http://www.hicss.hawaii.edu/hicss_48/48CFP-final.pdf. The firm due date for submission of full papers is: 15 June 2014. All peer reviews will be completed by 1 August, with accept/reject decisions emailed shortly thereafter. If you are interested in serving as a reviewer, please contact us as well. About the Global Virtual Teams Minitrack HICSS uses a minitrack structure, where smaller groups of dedicated conference participants engage intensively with a limited number of peer reviewed full papers. The minitrack on Global Virtual Teams focuses on a wide range of topics related to distributed communication, collaboration and technology. Today many business processes, government and scientific projects, and civil society advocacy activities are executed by geographically dispersed virtual teams. Team members often do not have the same first language, come from different national cultures, work in different time zones and may be employed in different organizations. These differences, among others, present unique opportunities and challenges for management and leadership. This minitrack invites papers that offer insights into the successful operation of global virtual teams. Session topics include but are not limited to: • Temporal separation and its effects on collaboration • Cultural differences in perception of time • Conflict resolution across cultures • Accessibility in global virtual teams • Project management styles and differences across cultures • Differences in language understanding and its effects on collaboration • Power distance and its effects on collaboration • Uncertainty (risk) avoidance and its effects on collaboration • Collaboration and communication tools • Differences between academic and non-academic virtual teams • Global virtual team case studies Both academics and practitioners are encouraged to submit papers. Also, we will again offer our HICSS workshop on Cross-Cultural Communication in Accessible Global Virtual Teams. And, for HICSS-48 we are offering a half-day workshop on big data analytics and text mining in global virtual teams research. If you have any questions about the CFP, GVT minitrack or workshops, or HICSS in general, please do not hesitate to contact either of us. We look forward to your submissions and the continued success of the HICSS GVT minitrack. Mike and Derrick Mike Hine (mike.hine(a)carleton.ca) Associate Professor of Information Systems Sprott School of Business Carleton University Derrick L. Cogburn (dcogburn(a)american.edu) Associate Professor of International Relations International Communication Program Executive Director, Institute on Disability and Public Policy COTELCO: The Collaboration Laboratory School of International Service American University

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Seeking Estonian translation services for dissertation research, specifically survey translation
by Robinson,Cory 15 Apr '14

15 Apr '14

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<mailto:cory.robinson@colostate.edu> Office: Clark C258A http://colostate.academia.edu/StephenCoryRobinson

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Re: [Air-L] CFP: Studying Selfies: Evidence, Affect, Ethics, and the Internet’s Visual Turn
by Andrew Herman 15 Apr '14

15 Apr '14

Please publish this in three weeks so I can use it in my course I am teaching this summer! Associate Professor Department of Communication Studies Wilfrid Laurier University Waterloo, ON N2L 3C5 >>> Kate Miltner 04/15/14 12:27 PM >>> *Studying Selfies: Evidence, Affect, Ethics, and the Internet’s Visual Turn* *A special section of the International Journal of Communication (IJoC)* Guest-edited by: Dr. Theresa Senft Master Teacher in Global Liberal Studies New York University Terri.senft(a)nyu.edu Dr. Nancy Baym Principal Researcher Microsoft Research baym(a)microsoft.com *Overview* The fact that “selfie” was Oxford English Dictionary’s word of the year for 2013 indicates that the selfie is a topic of popular interest. Yet for scholars, the selfie phenomenon represents a paradox. As an object, the selfie lends itself to cultural scorn and shaming. As a cultural practice, however, selfie circulation grows by the moment, moving far beyond the clichéd province of bored teenagers online. The rapid spread of camera-enabled mobile phones worldwide means that selfies have become a global phenomenon. Yet dominant discourses about what selfies are, and what they mean, tend to be extremely U.S. focused. In this special section, we aim to provide international perspectives on selfies. As an act of production, we are interested in why selfie-making lends itself to discussions featuring words like “narcissistic” or “empowering.” As a media genre, we are interested in the relationship of the selfie to documentary, autobiography, advertising, and celebrity. As a cultural signifier, we ask: What social work does a selfie do in communities where it was intended to circulate, and what happens when it circulates beyond those communities? As an emblematic part of the social media’s increased “visual turn,” selfies provide opportunities for scholars to develop best practices for interpreting images online in rigorous ways. Case studies of selfie production, consumption and circulation can also provide much needed insight into the social dynamics at play on popular social media platforms like Facebook, Instagram, Reddit, WeChat and Tumblr. We are seeking scholarly articles from diverse fields, and a wide range of theoretical and methodological approaches, including: media studies, communication, anthropology, digital humanities, computational and social sciences, cultural geography, history, and critical cultural studies. *Possible topics include, but are not limited to:* *Selfie as discourse:* What is the history (or histories) of the selfie? How do these histories map to contemporary media and scholarly discourses regarding self-representation, autobiography, photography, amateurism, branding, and/or celebrity? *Selfie as evidence*: What are the epistemological ramifications of the selfie? How do selfies function as evidence that one attended an event, feels intimate with a partner, was battered in a parking lot, is willing to be “authentic” with fans, or claims particular standing in a social or political community? One uploaded, how do selfies become evidence of a different sort, subject to possibilities like “revenge porn,” data mining, or state surveillance? *Selfie as affect:* What feelings do selfies elicit for those who produce, view, and/or circulate them? What are we to make of controversial genres like infant selfies, soldier selfies, selfies with homeless people, or selfies at funerals? How do these discourses about controversial selfies map to larger conversations about “audience numbness” and “empathy deficit” in media? *Selfie as ethics:* Who practices “empowering” selfie generation? Who does not? Who cannot? How do these questions map to larger issues of class, race, gender, sexuality, religion and geography? What responsibilities do those who circulate selfies of others have toward the original creator of the photo? What is the relationship between selfies and other forms of documentary photoan selfies be used as case studies to better understand the visual turn in social media use? How do selfies “speak,” and what methods might we develop to better understand what is being said? *Formatting and Requirements* To be considered for this collection, a paper of maximum 5,000 words (including images with captions, footnotes, references and appendices, if any) must be submitted by *June 15, 2014*. All submissions should be accompanied by two to three suggested reviewers including their e-mail addresses, titles, affiliations and research interests. Submissions will fall under the category of “Features” which are typically shorter than full research articles. All submissions must adhere strictly to the most recent version of the APA styleguide (including in-text citations and references). Papers must include the author(s) name, title, affiliation and e-mail address. Any papers that do not follow these guidelines will not be submitted for peer review. The International Journal of Communication is an open access journal ( ijoc.org) All articles will be available online at the point of publication. The anticipated publication timeframe for this special section is March 2015. *Contact Information* All submissions should be emailed to* ijocselfieissue(a)outlook.com by June 15, 2014*. Late submissions will not be included for consideration. _______________________________________________ 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/

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CFP: Studying Selfies: Evidence, Affect, Ethics, and the Internet’s Visual Turn
by Kate Miltner 15 Apr '14

15 Apr '14

*Studying Selfies: Evidence, Affect, Ethics, and the Internet’s Visual Turn* *A special section of the International Journal of Communication (IJoC)* Guest-edited by: Dr. Theresa Senft Master Teacher in Global Liberal Studies New York University Terri.senft(a)nyu.edu Dr. Nancy Baym Principal Researcher Microsoft Research baym(a)microsoft.com *Overview* The fact that “selfie” was Oxford English Dictionary’s word of the year for 2013 indicates that the selfie is a topic of popular interest. Yet for scholars, the selfie phenomenon represents a paradox. As an object, the selfie lends itself to cultural scorn and shaming. As a cultural practice, however, selfie circulation grows by the moment, moving far beyond the clichéd province of bored teenagers online. The rapid spread of camera-enabled mobile phones worldwide means that selfies have become a global phenomenon. Yet dominant discourses about what selfies are, and what they mean, tend to be extremely U.S. focused. In this special section, we aim to provide international perspectives on selfies. As an act of production, we are interested in why selfie-making lends itself to discussions featuring words like “narcissistic” or “empowering.” As a media genre, we are interested in the relationship of the selfie to documentary, autobiography, advertising, and celebrity. As a cultural signifier, we ask: What social work does a selfie do in communities where it was intended to circulate, and what happens when it circulates beyond those communities? As an emblematic part of the social media’s increased “visual turn,” selfies provide opportunities for scholars to develop best practices for interpreting images online in rigorous ways. Case studies of selfie production, consumption and circulation can also provide much needed insight into the social dynamics at play on popular social media platforms like Facebook, Instagram, Reddit, WeChat and Tumblr. We are seeking scholarly articles from diverse fields, and a wide range of theoretical and methodological approaches, including: media studies, communication, anthropology, digital humanities, computational and social sciences, cultural geography, history, and critical cultural studies. *Possible topics include, but are not limited to:* *Selfie as discourse:* What is the history (or histories) of the selfie? How do these histories map to contemporary media and scholarly discourses regarding self-representation, autobiography, photography, amateurism, branding, and/or celebrity? *Selfie as evidence*: What are the epistemological ramifications of the selfie? How do selfies function as evidence that one attended an event, feels intimate with a partner, was battered in a parking lot, is willing to be “authentic” with fans, or claims particular standing in a social or political community? One uploaded, how do selfies become evidence of a different sort, subject to possibilities like “revenge porn,” data mining, or state surveillance? *Selfie as affect:* What feelings do selfies elicit for those who produce, view, and/or circulate them? What are we to make of controversial genres like infant selfies, soldier selfies, selfies with homeless people, or selfies at funerals? How do these discourses about controversial selfies map to larger conversations about “audience numbness” and “empathy deficit” in media? *Selfie as ethics:* Who practices “empowering” selfie generation? Who does not? Who cannot? How do these questions map to larger issues of class, race, gender, sexuality, religion and geography? What responsibilities do those who circulate selfies of others have toward the original creator of the photo? What is the relationship between selfies and other forms of documentary photography, with regard to ethics? *Selfie as pedagogy:* How can selfies be used as case studies to better understand the visual turn in social media use? How do selfies “speak,” and what methods might we develop to better understand what is being said? *Formatting and Requirements* To be considered for this collection, a paper of maximum 5,000 words (including images with captions, footnotes, references and appendices, if any) must be submitted by *June 15, 2014*. All submissions should be accompanied by two to three suggested reviewers including their e-mail addresses, titles, affiliations and research interests. Submissions will fall under the category of “Features” which are typically shorter than full research articles. All submissions must adhere strictly to the most recent version of the APA styleguide (including in-text citations and references). Papers must include the author(s) name, title, affiliation and e-mail address. Any papers that do not follow these guidelines will not be submitted for peer review. The International Journal of Communication is an open access journal ( ijoc.org) All articles will be available online at the point of publication. The anticipated publication timeframe for this special section is March 2015. *Contact Information* All submissions should be emailed to* ijocselfieissue(a)outlook.com <ijocselfieissue(a)outlook.com> by June 15, 2014*. Late submissions will not be included for consideration.

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science/environmental reporting in the media
by T.Ashe 15 Apr '14

15 Apr '14

Dear all, I'm currently putting together a literature review on the changing media ecology of science and environmental journalism, with a view to the changes occasioned by the rise of new media, and I was wondering if anyone could help me with some advice. I think my major problem is that, without a background in media, I'm struggling even to really clarify what 'new media' means in this context. Even just pinning down the proliferation of technologies is a bit overwhelming and yet I can't really afford to spend more than a page or two on this. I don't think I have the vocabularity to capture how the internet allows traditional media (TV, radio, newspapers, books, etc.) to be accessed from new devices, provided in different ways, etc. and I feel there must be ways of categorising the different dimensions of change, of which I'm not aware. I was wondering if anyone could recommend any literature reviews that succinctly clarify the issues around defining the technological and social rise of new media in a way that can give me the background info to situate my literature review? I know it's a massive topic, but I need something to give me a handle on it, which won't take up too much of the time I should be giving to the rest of the review. Any recommended recent work on journalism and new media would also be great. Any help much appreciated, Teresa -- The Open University is incorporated by Royal Charter (RC 000391), an exempt charity in England & Wales and a charity registered in Scotland (SC 038302).

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2nd CfP
by Dorottya Cserző 15 Apr '14

15 Apr '14

?Dear researchers The Centre for Language and Communication Research<http://cardiff.ac.uk/encap/research/clcr/> at Cardiff University in collaboration with theDepartment of Linguistics<http://www.du.ac.in/index.php?id=319> at the University of Delhi are pleased to announce the international and interdisciplinary conference Downscaling Culture: Revisiting Intercultural Communication Cardiff University, Wales, UK 18-19 September 2014 In this conference we would like to address culture and intercultural communication from a micro-perspective. Commonly the linguistic study of intercultural communication is concerned with analysing miscommunication between speakers from two or more different 'cultures', defined predominantly as large-scale nation and language communities. A downscaled notion of culture entails a fresh look at local cultures: subcultures, small groups, families, communities of practice; every group of persons who use common signs to create meaning-making ensembles of signs that relate to their life-world. We invite papers that address such themes. A full list of further topics as well as the complete call for papers can be found on the conference website<http://www.cardiff.ac.uk/encap/newsandevents/events/conferences/downscaling…>. Abstracts (300 words) for papers and posters are invited until 30 April 2014. Acceptance will be communicated by 31 May 2014. To submit an abstract or for queries, please contact the organising committee at: downscalingculture(a)cardiff.ac.uk<mailto:downscalingculture@cardiff.ac.uk> This conference is made possible through the ESRC Partnering Scheme<http://www.esrc.ac.uk/funding-and-guidance/postgraduates/esrc-students/othe…>. We would like to thank our collaborators for their support!?

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PUBLICATION> Social Informatics: Past, Present, Future
by Howard Rosenbaum 15 Apr '14

15 Apr '14

Apologies for cross-posting We are very happy to announce the publications of the book "Social Informatics: Past, Present and Future," edited by Pnina Fichman and Howard Rosenbaum, both in the Indiana University School of Informatics and Computing and the Rob Kling Center for Social Informatics. The book is a collection of twelve papers that provides a state-of-the-art review of 21st century social informatics. Two papers review the history of social informatics, and show that its intellectual roots can be found in the late 1970s and early '80s and that it emerged in several different locations around the world before it coalesced in the US in the mid-1990s. The evolution of social informatics is described under four periods: foundational work, development and expansion, a robust period of coherence, and a period of diversification that continues today. Five papers provide a view of the breadth and depth of contemporary social informatics, demonstrating the diversity of theoretical and methodological approaches that can be used. Five papers explore the future of social informatics and offer provocative and disparate visions of its trajectory, ranging from arguments for a new philosophical grounding for the social informatics, to calls for a social informatics based on practice thinking and materiality. This book presents a view of SI that emphasizes the core relationship among people, ICT and organizational and social life from a perspective that integrate aspects of social theory and demonstrates clearly social informatics has never been a more necessary research endeavor than it is now. It will be especially useful for graduate students and advanced undergraduate students interested in learning about social informatics research. To learn more about the book (including a Table of Contents), see http://ils.indiana.edu/faculty/hrosenba/www/si-book14/si-book.html To order the book from the publisher, see http://www.cambridgescholars.com/social-informatics-6 To order the book from Amazon, see http://www.amazon.com/Social-Informatics-Past-Present-Future/dp/1443855766/…

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CFP: 2nd Call - History of Modernity and Telephony in the non-West
by Vit Sisler 14 Apr '14

14 Apr '14

History of Modernity and Telephony in the non-West Call for Papers CyberOrient: Online Journal of the Virtual Middle East Editor-in-Chief: Daniel Martin Varisco Guest Editor: Burçe Çelik Submission deadline: April 30th, 2014 (Full Papers) Aim For the past few decades, history of modernization began to be written by focusing on how technologies as components of modernization processes change the lives of humans, their daily practices and imaginations, and the ways in which they construct and express their identities. Telephony, which functions in both public and private spheres and witnesses social and political changes in private as well as professional relations, is regarded as especially important for historical analysis. Functioning on multiple levels, social history of telephony can unearth the ways in which technologies obtain meanings and values in changing cultural contexts and the dynamics of social, political and cultural transformations. The history of modernization in the non-western societies is often studied by focusing on the projects of the rulers and on the discourses of the ruling parties that aim a social/political change in accordance with a particular Occidentalism – where modernity is imagined with a model of the western modernization processes. Yet, the question of how people of these landscapes contributed to the modernization processes and how they produced their own modern practices in daily organizations, relations and experiences, did not receive enough scholarly attention. This special issue of CyberOrient invites articles that focus on the history of modernity and telephony in the non-west that take the user perspective to the center. Topics could include the daily practices of users with telephone technology, the meaning and values that have been attributed to this technology by users, the role of telephony within the social, cultural and political struggles of users, and the effect of the ownership or non-ownership of telephony in social, cultural and political lives of individuals and collectives. We welcome submissions from across disciplines and methodological approaches that are empirically and critically grounded. About CyberOrient CyberOrient (http://www.cyberorient.net/) is a peer-reviewed journal published by the American Anthropological Association, in collaboration with the Faculty of Arts of Charles University in Prague. The aim of the journal is to provide research and theoretical considerations on the representation of Islam and the Middle East, the very areas that used to be styled as an “Orient”, in cyberspace, as well as the impact of the internet and new media in Muslim and Middle Eastern contexts. Submission Articles should be submitted directly to Burçe Çelik (burce.celik(a)bahcesehir.edu.tr) and Vit Sisler (vit.sisler(a)ff.cuni.cz) Articles should be between 6,000 and 8,000 words (including references), and follow the AAA style in referencing and citations. Upon acceptance, articles will be published online with free access in autumn 2014. More information can be found here: http://www.cyberorient.net/detail.do?articleId=3682 -- Vit Sisler, Ph.D. Charles University in Prague Faculty of Arts Institute of Information Science and Librarianship New Media Studies http://uisk.jinonice.cuni.cz/sisler/

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CFP: 1st international Workshop on Social Personalization, co-located at HT 2014
by Denis Parra 14 Apr '14

14 Apr '14

Apologies for cross-postings ================================================================= CALL FOR PAPERS -------------------------------------------------------------- International Workshop on Social Personalization (SP'2014) http://columbus.exp.sis.pitt.edu/sp2014/ to be held on September 1st, 2014, Santiago, Chile co-located with ACM HT 2014 -------------------------------------------------------------- Important Dates: ** Submission Deadline: May 23rd 2014 (23:59 Chile Time) ** Notification of Acceptance: Jun 6, 2014 ** Final Papers Due: Jul 6, 2014 ** Workshop date: September 1, 2014 Workshop Organizers: Peter Brusilovsky (University of Pittsburgh, USA) Leandro Balby Marinho (Federal University of Campina Grande, Brasil) Denis Parra (Pontificia Universidad Catolica, Chile) Eliana Scheihing (Universidad Austral, Chile) Christoph Trattner (Know-Center, Austria) For the Social Personalization workshop, we aim to attract researchers from all over the world working in the fields of User Modeling, Personalization and Recommendations where the social context plays a fundamental role. This topic is important because it involves leveraging new sources of information that are specific for social systems such as shared items and tags, user public profiles, social connections, and logs of user social activities in order to improve people's information access in a wide variety of tasks and across different devices. These social information sources offer social personalization systems a chance to compensate for the lack of information and structure that is used by traditional personalization technologies ranging from recommender systems to E-learning. Thus, we invite submissions which may include the following topics, but are not limited to: * novel approaches for social personalization in recommender systems * novel approaches on personalized social collaboration * novel approaches on social linking * novel methods for social search and navigation * novel methods for social predictive models * novel social methods for information visualization and display * applications of the aforementioned topics to diverse domains (education, smart cities, music, etc.) * any other methods that exploit new forms of social data for personalization The goal of this workshop is to share and discuss research that goes hopefully beyond classic personalization techniques, trying to capitalise potentially useful information available in social data for paving the way to more efficient personalized information access technologies. Submissions: We solicit posters (1-2 pages) and research papers (4-6 pages), both in the ACM conference paper style. Papers should be submitted in EasyChair to https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sp2014 Program Committee: Nazareno Andrade, University of Campina Grande, Brazil Jussara Almeida, University of Minas Gerais, Brazil Martin Atzmueller, University of Kassel, Germany Alejandro Bellogin, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain Shlomo Berkovsky, NICTA, AU Anmol Bhasin, LinkedIn, USA Danny Bickson, GraphLab, USA Steven Bourke, UCD, Ireland Robin Burke, de Paul, USA Ed Chi, Google, USA Alvin Chin, Nokia, China Vania Dimitrova, University of Leeds, UK Lucas Drumond, University Hildesheim, Germany Alexander Felfernig, TU-Graz, Austria Zeno Gantner, Nokia, Germany Ruth Garcia, Yahoo! Research Barcelona, Spain Ido Guy, IBM Research, Israel Eelco Herder, L3S, Germany Andreas Hotho, University of Würzburg, Germany Geert-Jan Houben, TU-Delft, Netherlands Sharon Hsiao, Columbia University, USA Bart Knijnenburg, University of California Irvine, USA Milos Kravcik, RWTH Aachen, Germany Mounia Lalmas, Yahoo! Research Barcelona, Spain Neal Lathia, Cambridge University, UK Tobias Ley, Tallinn University, Estonia Alan Said, TU-Delft, NL Shaghayegh Sahebi, University of Pittsburgh, USA Eduardo Veas, Know-Center, Austria Katrien Verbert, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium Tao Ye, Pandora, USA Arkaitz Zubiaga, New York City University, USA Submission category: innovative research ideas, preliminary results, system prototypes or industry showcases. Link or demo in attachment are preferred. Submission guidelines: All submitted papers must * be written in English; * contain author names, affiliations, and email addresses; * be formatted according to the ACM SIG Proceedings template ( http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates) with a font size no smaller than 9pt; * be in PDF (make sure that the PDF can be viewed on any platform), and formatted for US Letter size; Proceedings: All accepted papers will be included in the workshop proceedings and will be published in the Extended Proceedings of ACM Hypertext 2014. It is the authors' responsibility to ensure that their submissions adhere strictly to the required format. Submissions that do not comply with the above guidelines may be rejected without review. All submissions must be entered into the reviewing system: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sp2014 Contact: socialpersonalization.ws(a)gmail.com Follow us on: Facebook https://www.facebook.com/groups/1395906184019635/ Twitter https://twitter.com/sp_workshop ================================================================= Denis Parra Assistant Professor, CS department School of Engineering, PUC CHile http://denisparra.github.io

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Researching Contemporary Culture summer workshops 2014 (London)
by Zara Dinnen 14 Apr '14

14 Apr '14

AOIR-ers, *with apologies for cross posting The deadline for applications to Researching Contemporary Culture has now been extended until 5th May 2014. Researching Contemporary Culture is a series of summer workshops for postgraduate and early career researchers. It takes place from the 14th to 16th July 2014 at the Institute of English Studies, Senate House London. Researching Contemporary Culture aims to help researchers in the field address an array of issues that currently define the study of contemporary culture by offering workshops and presentations on: developing the impact of research through exhibition, curation, and the championing of particular artists'/directors'/authors' work; producing research for open access publications; balancing public engagement and research needs; using online participatory culture as a research tool; conducting sustainable research with ephemeral data. The event will bring together specialist workshop leaders, speakers, and librarians to address these challenges through a research skills development programme of participatory workshops and advice and guidance. Researching Contemporary Culture has evolved out of the work of the Contemporary Fiction Seminar at the Institute of English Studies, and will offer a sustainable research skills enrichment programme appropriate for the study of contemporary culture in the arts and humanities disciplines of the twenty-first century. Speakers include: Caroline Bassett, Clare Birchall, Kieran Connell, Jeremy Gilbert, Gary Hall, Matt Hills, Roger Luckhurst, Holly Pester, Ernesto Priego, Agnes Woolley. The three workshop themes are: Public Practices, Archiving Now, and Interpretive Communities. Researching Contemporary Culture is supported by an AHRC Collaborative Skills Award; with additional support from the University of Birmingham, Birkbeck, University of London, and the Institute of English Studies, University of London; it is organised by Dr Zara Dinnen (University of Birmingham) and Dr Tony Venezia (Birkbeck, University of London), conveners of the Contemporary Fiction Seminar. Further information and details of how to apply are available at the website: researchingthecontemporary.net. Please email contemporaryfictionseminar(a)gmail.com with any queries. -- Dr Zara Dinnen Lecturer in Modern and Contemporary Literature School of English, Drama and American and Canadian Studies University of Birmingham + 44 (0) 121 414 5657

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