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Social Media Analysis course, Brisbane 7-11 July
by Robert Ackland 01 May '14

01 May '14

Dear List, I am running a 5-day course on Social Media Analysis at the ACSPRI Winter Program, University of Queensland, Brisbane, 7-11 July. More details are available here: https://acspri.org.au/node/1240 Please note that the cut-off for Early Bird discounts is *Wednesday 7th May* (i.e. in 5 days time). This course will provide students with an introduction to social media analysis in the context of social research. The course is designed for social researchers interested in social media, and covers methods of accessing and analysing digital trace data from websites, blogsites, Twitter and Facebook. While there is emphasis on social networks (e.g. WWW hyperlink networks, follower networks in Twitter, friendship networks in Facebook), analysing text content from social media is also covered. There will also be an introduction to using Virtual Worlds (e.g. Second Life and Massively Multiplayer Online Games) and online experiments for social research. Analytic approaches include social network analysis and text content analysis. The course also provides practical training in software tools that can be used for social research using social media data: VOSON (for hyperlink network construction and analysis), NodeXL (Excel 2007/2010 template for social media network analysis), Gephi (network visualisation tool). Notes will include excerpts from my book Web Social Science (SAGE). Please contact me if you would like more details on the course. Regards, Rob -- Assoc. Prof. Robert Ackland Australian Demographic and Social Research Institute Australian National University New book: Web Social Science: Concepts, Data and Tools for Social Scientists in the Digital Age <http://www.amazon.com/Web-Social-Science-Concepts-Scientists/dp/1849204810> (SAGE Publications) e-mail: robert.ackland(a)anu.edu.au <mailto:robert.ackland@anu.edu.au> homepage: https://researchers.anu.edu.au/researchers/ackland-rj project: http://voson.anu.edu.au <http://voson.anu.edu.au/>

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Final call for New Media & Society special issue on hacking & making due 5/1
by Andrew Schrock 01 May '14

01 May '14

Final reminder, deadline is 5/1. CFP: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/178651/NMS-hacking.txt A Andrew Schrock USC Annenberg Doctoral Candidate aschrock(a)usc.edu 714.330.6545

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FW: [MCJ] M/C Journal 'cute' Issue Now Available
by Axel Bruns 01 May '14

01 May '14

G'day ! This may be of interest to some of you. Includes scientific proof that the Internet is indeed made of cats. > -----Original Message----- > From: Axel Bruns [mailto:editor@media-culture.org.au] > Sent: Thursday, 1 May 2014 10:26 > To: Axel Bruns > Subject: [MCJ] M/C Journal 'cute' Issue Now Available > > FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - 1 May 2014 > > M/C - Media and Culture > is proud to present issue two in volume seventeen of > > M/C Journal > http://journal.media-culture.org.au/ > > 'cute' - Edited by James Meese and Ramon Lobato > > Cute content is a fundamental but under-researched component of the Internet > economy. Millions of people around the world start their day with videos of > kittens, puppies and meerkats. Recent years have seen the rise of global > animal brands, such as Maru and Grumpy Cat, along with new talent agencies > for this purpose. Online portal I Can Haz Cheezburger has received millions > of dollars in venture capital funding, becoming a diversified media business > in its own right. YouTube channels, Twitter hashtags and blog rolls form an > infrastructure across which a vast amount of cute-themed user-generated > content, as well as an increasing amount of commercially produced and branded > material, now circulates. > > Cute content can also be understood as an aesthetic tradition. Tracing the > history of animal imagery leads us to a range of practices - kitsch > portraiture, stock photography, greeting card imagery - as well as newer > online spaces, such as the 4chan message boards, which have resignified the > captioned cat pic as a geek subcultural practice. Approaching cute content as > a sphere of contemporary cultural production raises a number of questions for > analysis. How can we contextualise digital cute content within a longer > history of mediated human-animal interactions? What is the nature of animal > celebrity and stardom? What textual forms does online cute imagery take in > different national and regional contexts? This issue of M/C Journal explores > 'cute' as a mode of textual production and as a sector of the Internet > economy. > > =========================================================================== > Further M/C Journal issues scheduled for 2014: > > 'persona': article deadline 25 Apr. 2014, release date 25 June 2014 > 'gothic': article deadline 20 June 2014, release date 20 Aug. 2014 > 'illegitimate': article deadline 15 Aug. 2014, release date 15 Oct. 2014 > 'counterculture': article deadline 10 Oct. 2014, release date 10 Dec. 2014 > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > M/C Journal 17.2 is now online: <http://journal.media-culture.org.au/>. > Previous issues of M/C Journal on various topics are also still available. > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Visit M/C Journal and M/C Reviews at <http://www.media-culture.org.au/>. > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > All contributors are available for media contacts: mc(a)media-culture.org.au. > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > M/C Journal > Vol. 17, No. 2 (2014) - 'cute' > Table of Contents > http://journal.media-culture.org.au/index.php/mcjournal/issue/view/cute > > Editorial > -------- > Kittens All the Way Down: Cute in Context > Ramon Lobato, James Meese > > > Feature > -------- > “It Belongs to the Internet”: Animal Images, Attribution Norms and the > Politics of Amateur Media Production > James Meese > > > Articles > -------- > The Alchian-Allen Theorem and the Economics of Internet Animals > Jason Potts > > Do Cats Know They Rule YouTube? Surveillance and the Pleasures of Cat Videos > Radha O'Meara > > Cute But Relaxed: Ten Years of Rilakkuma in Precarious Japan > Carolyn Shannon Stevens > > “Meng? It Just Means Cute”: A Chinese Online Vernacular Term in Context > Gabriele de Seta > > Cute and Monstrous Furbys in Online Fan Production > Catherine Barbara Caudwell > > Cute-ifying Disability: Lil Bub, the Celebrity Cat > Elaine M Laforteza > > Because Neglect Isn't Cute: Tuxedo Stan's Campaign for a Humane World > Shari Sanders > > I Can Haz Likes: Cultural Intermediation to Facilitate “Petworking” > Jonathon Hutchinson > > > -- > M/C Journal http://journal.media-culture.org.au/ -- Dr Axel Bruns http://snurb.info/ - http://mappingonlinepublics.net/ ARC Future Fellow, 2014-17 http://www.amazon.com/author/axel.bruns/ Associate Professor, Media & Communication a.bruns(a)qut.edu.au ARC Centre for Creative Industries and Innovation http://cci.edu.au/ Creative Industries Faculty, Z1-515, CIP @snurb_dot_info Queensland University of Technology +61 7 31385548 Musk Ave, Kelvin Grove, Qld. 4059, Australia CRICOS No.: 00213J

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