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Looking for literature on trigger warnings
by Deller, Ruth A 07 May '14

07 May '14

Hi all - can anyone point me in the direction of any literature on trigger warnings in online communities, blogs etc? I'm writing something about regulation of practice in different online comms and negotiations around trigger warnings are a key part of some of the sites involved. Thanks Ruth

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DePaul University/Communication - One year position Documentary/Digital Communication
by Paul Booth 07 May '14

07 May '14

*Sorry for crossposting - may be of interest to some. Please pass along to any interested parties!* *The College of Communication at DePaul University seeks applicants for a one-year, Instructor Position in Documentary and Digital Communication to begin in September 2014.* The faculty member will teach courses in the College’s undergraduate and graduate programs in Media and Cinema Studies and potentially within the Digital Communication and Media Arts graduate program. Ideal candidates will have the ability to teach courses in both media studies and production. In particular, we seek candidates who can develop and teach courses in documentary studies, with digital or documentary production experience a plus. In addition, the candidate must also have expertise in digital communication and/or media ethics. The successful candidate will join a dynamic, diverse, and growing faculty. Ph.D. or M.F.A. required. Salary is competitive and commensurate with experience. To apply, please follow the link below: https://facultyopportunities.depaul.edu/applicants/jsp/shared/position/JobD… Review of applications will begin on May 16, 2014 and continue until the position is filled. DePaul University is the nation’s largest Catholic university and the largest private university in Chicago, with more than 25,000 undergraduate and graduate students. This vibrant, diverse, and urban university provides a comprehensive liberal arts education and emphasizes both teaching and research. The College of Communication has 54 full-time faculty serving approximately 1,600 undergraduate majors and 200 graduate students. *Statement:* As an Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) employer, DePaul University provides job opportunities to qualified individuals without regard to race, color, ethnicity, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, age, marital status, physical or mental disability, parental status, housing status, source of income or military status, in accordance with applicable federal, state, and local EEO laws. *Required Application Documents: * Cover Letter Curriculum Vitae Evidence of Scholarly or Creative Work Statement of Teaching Philosophy Sample Course Syllabus Complete and unedited prior teaching evaluations, including both statistical summary data and students’ responses to open-ended questions Three names and contact information for references Finalists will be asked to supply three letters of recommendation. -- Paul Booth, PhD Assistant Professor of Media and Cinema Studies/Communication Technology College of Communication DePaul University 14 E. Jackson Chicago, IL 60604

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Experience as Evidence? A Symposium on the Sciences of Subjectivity in Healthcare, Policy and Practice
by Fadhila Mazanderani 07 May '14

07 May '14

Apologies for cross-posting. --- EXPERIENCE AS EVIDENCE? A Symposium on the Sciences of Subjectivity in Healthcare, Policy and Practice St Hugh’s College, Oxford 13-14 October 2014 ‘Experience’ has long been referenced as a valuable, if ‘subjective’, resource in a variety of fields. Especially in healthcare, highly personal, embodied understandings of illness have been studied as an alternative to ‘objective’ biomedical knowledge and are often used to critique biomedical reductionism. In the wake of this critique, as well as burgeoning patient activism and health consumerism, over the last fifty years an industry has emerged that aims to capture, process and distribute the patient ‘experience’. This raises a number of questions about the nature of the knowledge generated by these ‘technologies of experience’: – What does it take to turn experience into evidence? What new methods and expertise are emerging in this field? – What promises, pitfalls and politics come with these approaches? – And what are the implications for research, policy and practice? The symposium brings together a multidisciplinary group of leading scholars and practitioners to discuss these and related questions, critically engaging with how the concept of ‘experience’ is articulated, studied, and developed within medical sociology, science and technology studies (STS), health services research, healthcare policy and practice. Speakers include: Samantha Adams, Madeleine Akrich, Susannah Fox, Havi Carel, Trisha Greenhalgh, Tiago Moreira, Jeannette Pols, Vololona Rabeharisoa, Glenn Robert, Tanja Schneider, Natasha Schüll, Paul Wicks, Alex Wilkie For more information and registration, see: http://experience-as-evidence.org/ Organizing committee: Angela Martin, Fadhila Mazanderani, Louise Locock, John Powell, Steve Woolgar, Sue Ziebland, Malte Ziewitz Hosted by the University of Oxford’s Health Experiences Research Group (HERG) and made possible with the support of NIHR and the Foundation for the Sociology of Health and Illness. http://experience-as-evidence.org

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CFP for Workshops co-located with Hypertext 2014, deadline May 23rd
by Denis Parra 06 May '14

06 May '14

Apologies for cross posting ==================================================================== CALL FOR PAPERS - 4 Workshops co-located at Hypertext 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 ==================================================================== DataWiz: Workshop on Data Visualization. Martina Deplano, University of Turin, Italy. Andrè Panisson, ISI Foundation, Italy. Giancarlo Ruffo, University of Turin, Italy. Web page: http://datawiz2014.di.unito.it/ Abstract: DataWiz aims at bringing together an interdisciplinary audience (e.g. computer and cognitive scientists, designers, data journalists), in order to discuss tools, models and metaphors useful to understand and explain input or output data through advanced graphical user interfaces. In fact, interacting with data by means of intriguing visual representations, that can eventually be accessed from the Web, is a fundamental approach to accurately present scientific findings in an appealing way. The aim is to leave to the observer (likely an expert of the domain) the task of exploring complex phenomena, without the pain of dealing with issues such as data complexity and overload of information. This workshop focuses on both scientific and information visualization, and discussions of best practices and innovative approaches are welcome. ==================================================================== LinkQS: Workshop on Linking The Quantified Self. Amon Rapp, Università di Torino, Italy. Frank Hopfgartner, Technische Universität Berlin, Germany. Till Plumbaum, Technische Universität Berlin, Germany. Bob Kummerfeld, University of Sydney, Australia. Judy Kay, University of Sydney, Australia. Eelco Herder, L3S Research Center Hannover, Germany. Web page: http://linkqsws.wordpress.com/ Abstract: Quantified Self tools help users to collect their data, aggregate them through some forms of reasoning, and feed them back through data visualizations. Although the current spread on the market of these kinds of tools, many issues arise in their usage. Looking at diverse fields of research, such as User Modeling, Web of Things and semantic web it is now possible to imagine to overcome some of these issues. This workshop aims to discuss the new opportunities that arise from these research fields. ==================================================================== SP 2014: Workshop on Social Personalization. Peter Brusilovsky, University of Pittsburgh, USA. Leandro Balby Marinho, Federal University of Campina Grande, Brasil. Denis Parra, Pontificia Universidad Católica, Chile. Eliana Scheihing, Universidad Austral, Chile. Christoph Trattner, Know-Center, Austria. Web page: http://columbus.exp.sis.pitt.edu/sp2014/ Abstract: 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. 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. ==================================================================== WLT 2014: Workshop on Hyperlinking in the Web of Linked Things. Carlos Buil-Aranda, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, Chile. Federica Cena, University of Torino, Italy. Ilaria Torre, University of Genoa, Italy. Web page: http://wlt.dibris.unige.it Abstract: The Web is now evolving from a mere network of connections among virtual content and data to a network of connections among real things and objects. In such new emerging Web, hyperlinks are consequently changing their nature. They can now connect very different kinds of resources that are real world things, data and documents; moreover they can be typed, i.e. they can describe the kind of relationship between the resources they connect, following the Linked Data principles. This workshop aims to discuss the new issues that arise from the rapid changes in this research field. ==================================================================== Denis Parra Assistant Professor, CS Department School of Engineering, PUC CHile http://denisparra.github.io

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MOOD-Y call for submissions EXTENDED
by Paulus, Trena M 06 May '14

06 May '14

International Symposium: MOOD-Y (Micro-Analysis Of Online Data in York) The deadline for submissions has been extended to 14th May, 2014 University of York, UK, 14-15 July, 2014. The analysis of online social behaviours is a vital aspect of contemporary social science, and it is important that large-scale data analysis is complemented by the detailed, qualitative analysis of interaction processes. Through themed presentations of empirical research and methodological processes on the first day, as well as researcher-led collaborative data workshops on the second day, the MOOD-Y symposium will provide a space for developing the theory and methodology of interaction(al) analysis of online social behaviour. The symposium will be appropriate for a range of participants, from specialists in particular analytic perspectives (such as Conversation Analysis, multimodality, Critical Discourse Analysis and cognate areas) to qualitative researchers interested in developing their analytic skills in relation to online data. A substantial aim for the symposium is to further develop an already flourishing interdisciplinary and international network of scholars who share an interest in the analysis of online interactional processes. The symposium is free to attend and has four invited keynotes * William Gibson, Institute of Education, University of London. Topic: Questions, Methodologies, and Key Debates in the MicroAnalysis of Online Data * Wyke Stommel, Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands. Topic: Comparing chat and phone interaction * Trena Paulus, University of Tennessee, USA, Jessica Lester, Indiana University, USA. Topic: A critical review of CA and DP applications in CMC contexts: Methodological implications. * David Giles, The University of Winchester, UK. Topic: The vexed questions of violation and vulnerability. The problems and paradoxes of 'privacy', and the terror of Tweets, traceability, and truth claims. Call for papers and participation We invite 200-500 word proposals for papers that address the qualitative, micro-analytic examination of online data in all its forms, including audio, video and other textual materials. The proposals may deal with either theoretical or methodological issues relating to this area, and may include the use of perspectives such as conversation analysis, forms of discourse analysis, multimodal analysis. Some indicative paper topics include: * Methods for studying interaction in social media (both synchronous and asynchronous) * Using techniques from conversation analysis, discourse analysis and other forms of interactional analysis to investigate online data * Challenges in applying methodologies developed for speech to the study of interaction through text, images and video * Developing methodologies for specific data formats (e.g. discussion threads; comment fields; music compositions; video contributions) * Use of new technologies for data collection, management, analysis and representation * Reports on the findings of an empirical study of online interaction * Discussion of the ethical issues of domain access and data gathering * The relevance of the online/offline divide for the study of online communities * Situating microanalytic techniques within broader research frameworks Proposals should be emailed in Word or PDF format to both Darren Reed (darren.reed(a)york.ac.uk<mailto:Darren.reed@york.ac.uk>) and Will Gibson (w.gibson(a)ioe.ac.uk<mailto:w.gibson@ioe.ac.uk>) by the 14th May, 2014. Proposals should include a title, a 200-500 word abstract, as well as the name, institutional affiliation, email address and contact telephone number of the presenter(s). If there is more than one author or presenter named on the abstract please indicate which is the correspondence author. The symposium will be hosted at the University of York and will be organised over two days with keynote presentations on each of the days. Registration is free.

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The review process for IR15
by Jill Walker Rettberg 06 May '14

06 May '14

Congratulations and condolences to everyone who's just received acceptances and rejections for their IR15 papers and panels. I got one of each (hooray for our pre-conference selfie workshop!) - and I was hoping to renew the (sorry, I know kind of exhausting) discussions about how an ideal review process would look. First, thank you to the organisers for seeing through a very complicated process - and getting the notifications out on time, too! I genuinely appreciate that it is a HUGE job organising a conference, and that there probably is no perfect system - especially in a radically cross-disciplinary conference like this. I'm also program chair for another conference next year and obviously would like to make sure that the reviewing process for that goes as well as possible. My main disappointment was that the two papers I was assigned to review weren't in my area of expertise. I think I made the mistake of checking "digital humanities" among the list of topics and methodologies I could review and I got two papers that had that in their keywords but had absolutely nothing to do with digital humanities at all. I thought that was pretty disappointing, especially since I know many people in the humanities didn't get humanities reviewers, and there I was, a humanist reviewing statistical and sociological methods. Not optimal at all. I would prefer an open review process, though I realise traditional blind review might be easier (due to familiarity?) and for an open process you'd have to find ways to avoid people just voting for their friends or people they know of. There are systems for this though, aren't there? And you could even still have semi-blind review where authors were anonymised. If that's not going to happen, at the least I think tracks (perhaps especially for the humanities) or, better, allowing reviewers to bid for papers they would like to review (based on the titles or perhaps title + abstract) would make sense. It's such a waste to use me to review statistics and have ethnographers reviewing literary/textual analysis, and that can be avoided with bidding. I think Easychair.org allows this. Also it's really fun as a reviewer to see the titles of ALL the proposed papers. You really get an idea of the field as a whole. I don't see any reason why that should be secret. Anyway, in the interest of openness, and because rejection is part of being an academic and one we tend to pretend never happens, I posted my rejected proposal and the reviews it received here: http://jilltxt.net/?p=3963 along with some thoughts about the process both of being a reviewer and of receiving reviews. There are also some interesting comments from others in the Facebook thread I posted here (because nobody comments on blogs anymore) https://www.facebook.com/jill.rettberg/posts/510785413159 I'd really like to hear other peoples' experiences with the process and ideas for how to set up an ideal reviewing process for a cross-disciplinary conference. Jill Jill Walker Rettberg Professor of Digital Culture Dept of Linguistic, Literary and Aesthetic Studies University of Bergen Postboks 7800 5020 Bergen + 47 55588431 Blog - http://jilltxt.net Twitter - http://twitter.com/jilltxt My latest book, Blogging (2nd ed), is available from Polity: http://www.politybooks.com/book.asp?ref=0745663648

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Now Available: Kids on YouTube
by Patricia Lange 05 May '14

05 May '14

Dear Colleagues, Following others’ leads, I’m announcing the publication of my new book, Kids on YouTube: Technical Identities and Digital Literacies (Left Coast Press, 2014). If you’d like to write a review let me know! The book describes what kids learn (and what they don’t) when they hang out on the ‘Tube. Please feel free to pass along to interested colleagues! Book description is here: https://www.lcoastpress.com/book.php?id=500 Henry Jenkins did a multi-part blog interview series with me: Part one: http://henryjenkins.org/2014/03/kids-on-youtube-an-interview-with-patricia-… Part two: http://henryjenkins.org/2014/03/kids-on-youtube-an-interview-with-patricia-… Part three: http://henryjenkins.org/2014/03/kids-on-youtube-an-interview-with-patricia-… Part four: http://henryjenkins.org/2014/03/kids-on-youtube-an-interview-with-patricia-… Table of Contents Chapter 1 Introduction: Ways With Video | 8 Chapter 2 Video-Mediated Friendships: specialization and Relational expertise | 32 Chapter 3 Girls Geeking out on YouTube | 63 Chapter 4 Mediated Civic engagement | 97 Chapter 5 Video-Mediated Lifestyles | 126 Chapter 6 Representational ideologies | 157 Chapter 7 On being self-Taught | 189 Chapter 8 Conclusion | 216 Appendix: Studying YouTube: An ethnographic Approach | 231 Best regards, Patricia G. Lange Assistant Professor Critical Studies California College of the Arts plange(a)cca.edu Editor-in-Chief The CASTAC Blog http://blog.castac.org Websites: http://www.cca.edu/academics/faculty/plange http://www.patriciaglange.org/

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EAGER Workshop live on HASTAC
by Marco Toledo Bastos 05 May '14

05 May '14

Dear AoIR’ers, HASTAC is organizing a workshop focusing on the impact of social networks on scholarly research. The full day workshop will be held on May 28 in the PhD Lab in Digital Knowledge at Duke University. The morning session will be live streamed over the internet, but if you happen to be in the area make sure to register on Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/eager-conference-tickets-11358969985 Feel free to pass this on to graduate students and faculty who may be interested and able to participate in the workshop. Best, Marco Bastos -- Postdoctoral Fellow NSF EAGER Grant mtabastos(a)hastac.org hastac.org/collections/eager http://www.hastac.org/events/eager-conference-may-28-2014 <http://www.hastac.org/events/eager-conference-may-28-2014> EAGER Conference MAY 28, 2014 | HASTAC The National Science Foundation awarded HASTAC the EAGER grant to allow for extensive data mining of HASTAC data. The website includes over 200MB in SQL tables with individual and institutional information of scholars. <http://www.hastac.org/events/eager-conference-may-28-2014> Read more...

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Call for papers - Digital Inequalities
by roderick graham 05 May '14

05 May '14

The journal Future Internet is accepting submissions for an issue on Digital Inequalities (http://www.mdpi.com/journal/futureinternet/special_issues/digital-inequalit…) This is the second edition of this special issue. 6 articles were published last year (http://www.mdpi.com/journal/futureinternet/special_issues/digital-inequality) This issue will accept papers that focus on how social inequality is reproduced or mitigated online or through new technologies. This is a good opportunity for both new and established scholars who are looking for a peer reviewed journal that has a quick turnaround (2 - 3 months). It is also an outlet for niche articles that explore social interaction online. Future Internet is open access, and unlike most open access journals, there are no publication fees. The deadline for manuscripts is August 31st, 2014. To learn more: http://www.mdpi.com/journal/futureinternet/special_issues/digital-inequalit… www.roderickgraham.com

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CFP: Religion in Cyberspace 2014
by Vit Sisler 05 May '14

05 May '14

Dear colleagues, we cordially invite you to participate in the workshop 'Religion in Cyberspace 2014' which will take place at the 12th international conference Cyberspace 2014 held in Brno, Czech Republic, 28-29 November 2013. Illustrative topics religious normative frameworks in cyberspace, networking diasporas, religious collaborative environments, on-line counseling, on-line fatwas and cyber muftis, new religious movements, religious discourses in cyberspace, methodology of online-religion research, rituals in cyberspace etc. Note: Authors of accepted papers will be invited to submit their papers for peer review to Masaryk University Journal of Law and Technology (MUJLT - mujlt.law.muni.cz) or Cyberpsychology (http://www.cyberpsychology.eu) Important dates Abstract submission deadline: 31 July 2014 Notice on acceptance deadline: 31 August 2014 Conference dates: 28 – 29 November 2014 Papers for publication deadline: 11 January 2015 Abstract formal requirements Range: max. 1.500 characters incl. spaces Submission: on-line at www.cyberspace.muni.cz Paper formal requirements and submission Papers published in MUJLT: http://mujlt.law.muni.cz/instructions.php Papers published in Cyberpsychology: http://www.cyberpsychology.eu/submission.php Full CFP Full version of CFP can be found here: http://cyberspace.muni.cz/storage/Cyberspace%202014%20-%20Call%20for%20pape… -- 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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