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

Fwd: Banting Postdoctoral Fellowships (all welcome-jh)
by Jeremy hunsinger 03 Jun '14

03 Jun '14

If you are interested in doing something with us at laurier in communication studies/internet studies/cultural studies/etc/, and we have some cool things going on, drop me or my colleagues a note. ---- Banting Postdoctoral Fellowships – Call for applications Banting Postdoctoral Fellowships are the most prestigious postdoc fellowships in Canada, and are available to postdoctoral fellows working in all fields that fall under any of the three tri-council funding agencies: NSERC, SSHRC & CIHR. The aim of the program is to attract and retain top-tier national and international postdocs and to position these postdoctoral fellows for success as research leaders of tomorrow. The application requirements for these prestigious awards (valued at $70,000/year for 2 years, beginning between April and October of 2015) are unique, in that they are not only based on the merit of the applicant and their potential to launch a successful research-intensive career, but also focus on the synergy between the applicant, the proposed supervisor, and the host institution (and its commitment to the research program and environment with which the applicant is to be affiliated). Applicants must therefore complete their application in full collaboration with the proposed host institution. This year’s national application deadline is September 24, 2014. But because of the extensive nature of the applications, and the required institutional elements, the internal deadline for pre-applications (notices of intent) to the Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies is August 22, 2014. Applicants who will be supported by the university for the national competition will be notified by September 3, 2014. We encourage faculty to recruit exceptional postdoctoral researchers whose research aligns well with one of the research strengths of the university to submit an application to FGPS by the August internal deadline. For more information about the Banting Postdoctoral Fellowship program, and the institution’s internal process and application requirements, please follow these links: http://banting.fellowships-bourses.gc.ca/home-accueil-eng.html http://www.wlu.ca/page.php?grp_id=36&p=24457 Questions can be directed to Matt Smith, Associate Dean, Postdoctoral Affairs (msmith(a)wlu.ca) -- jeremy hunsinger Center for Digital Discourse and Culture Virginia Tech www.tmttlt.com () ascii ribbon campaign - against html mail /\ - against microsoft attachments http://www.stswiki.org/ sts wiki http://transdisciplinarystudies.tmttlt.com/ Transdisciplinary Studies:the book series I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it. -Pablo Picasso

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Call: RESPECT 2nd Policy Workshop Barcelona 17-18, 2014
by Christian Fuchs 03 Jun '14

03 Jun '14

Call for Abstracts Technology and Crime: Law, Privacy and Policy in the Era of Big Data RESPECT 2nd Policy Workshop Barcelona September 17-18, 2014 http://respectbarcelona.eu/ For years, information about crimes has been collected. However, the use of data to contribute to public safety as well as to prevent and solve crimes has changed significantly with the proliferation of data-mining devices and processes. In the era of big data, analysing and understanding is more of a challenge than simply gathering data. At the same time, the existence of large-scale surveillance programmes and the routine collaboration between the public and private sector raise concerns about the space for law and privacy in these new practices. This all poses a challenge to policymaking, where the demands for increased security, privacy, transparency and accountability need to be negotiated and acted upon. At this crucial moment for the intersection between security, law and technology, we are seeking papers that address any of the topics mentioned above, as well as contributions presenting new approaches to the issues at stake. Abstracts of no more than 300 words (including authors, affiliation, contact details and at least 3 keywords should be sent before June 30th via https://www.easychair.org.

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Banting Postdoctoral Fellowships (Canadian only (I think? -jh))
by Jeremy hunsinger 03 Jun '14

03 Jun '14

Banting Postdoctoral Fellowships – Call for applications Banting Postdoctoral Fellowships are the most prestigious postdoc fellowships in Canada, and are available to postdoctoral fellows working in all fields that fall under any of the three tri-council funding agencies: NSERC, SSHRC & CIHR. The aim of the program is to attract and retain top-tier national and international postdocs and to position these postdoctoral fellows for success as research leaders of tomorrow. The application requirements for these prestigious awards (valued at $70,000/year for 2 years, beginning between April and October of 2015) are unique, in that they are not only based on the merit of the applicant and their potential to launch a successful research-intensive career, but also focus on the synergy between the applicant, the proposed supervisor, and the host institution (and its commitment to the research program and environment with which the applicant is to be affiliated). Applicants must therefore complete their application in full collaboration with the proposed host institution. This year’s national application deadline is September 24, 2014. But because of the extensive nature of the applications, and the required institutional elements, the internal deadline for pre-applications (notices of intent) to the Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies is August 22, 2014. Applicants who will be supported by the university for the national competition will be notified by September 3, 2014. We encourage faculty to recruit exceptional postdoctoral researchers whose research aligns well with one of the research strengths of the university to submit an application to FGPS by the August internal deadline. For more information about the Banting Postdoctoral Fellowship program, and the institution’s internal process and application requirements, please follow these links: http://banting.fellowships-bourses.gc.ca/home-accueil-eng.html http://www.wlu.ca/page.php?grp_id=36&p=24457 Questions can be directed to Matt Smith, Associate Dean, Postdoctoral Affairs (msmith(a)wlu.ca)

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CfP Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication. Digital Intimacies: Exploring digital media and intimate lives in the Middle East
by Elisabetta Costa 03 Jun '14

03 Jun '14

*Middle East** Journal of Culture and Communication * *Special Issue Call for Papers * *Digital Intimacies: * *Exploring digital media and intimate lives in the Middle East* Over the last decade, the spread of digital technologies has profoundly reshaped intimate lives worldwide, transforming the ways in which people are involved in intimate relationships and experience love, sexuality and emotions in everyday lives. Like other places, in the Middle East, millions use the internet on a daily basis to access a variety of music and cultural products, and to communicate, create and maintain relationships with partners, family members, friends and lovers, as well as for activism. Indeed, along with providing spaces for different modes of activism and resistance, digital platforms have become critical arenas in which young people negotiate ideas and practices of love, dominant gender roles and religious and societal values. While some work has begun to critically engage with the use of the Internet for activism, very little is known of the ways in which digital platforms and different technologies (including mobile phones) can remold imaginaries and practices of love and friendship and mediate the ways in which "intimacy" is experienced and lived in the Middle East. This special issue aims to fill the gap in the scholarship on intimate lives and digital media in Middle East by focusing on the everyday uses of digital platforms and addressing their material, gendered and imaginative implications for practices. We welcome articles from a wide range of disciplines (including and not restricted to anthropology, sociology, internet, cultural and media studies) that draw on empirically-grounded studies and that raise broader methodological and theoretical reflections. Some of the questions we hope to address are: 1. New imaginaries of love and marriage: how does people's access to online cultural products (within Islamic and non-Islamic contexts) contribute to remoulding their romantic imaginations, conventional courtship practices and intimate desires? 2. Digital media practices: which are the actual media practices whereby young people create, maintain, and end intimate relationships through digital media? How do social media expand inter-personal communicative possibilities and wide people's social networks beyond immediate family and community based networks? 3. Digital media in long distance relationships: how are digital media used in long-distances relationships between family members and lovers, in national and transnational contexts? 4. Digital media and social change: how do media practice challenge, reproduce and reinforce dominant social practices and gendered imaginaries? What is the impact of online practices on the way people experience intimacy in the every-day life? 5. Digital technologies, sex and sexuality: how do people have sex online? How do they produce and consume pornography? 6. The use of the internet by LGBTQ people: how do they create network, form communities and communicate online? Deadline for submission of abstracts is 30 September 2014. Abstracts should not exceed 500 words and should provide a short explanation of your contribution to this special issue, provide a clear description of the proposed approach, the theoretical framework and empirical data. Notification of acceptance of abstracts: 15 November 2014 Deadline for submission of complete manuscripts: 30 March 2015 Articles should be between 6000- 7000 words long and include an abstract of 150 words, the author's affiliation and email address and at least five keywords Please send a paper proposal along with a short bio by 30 September 2014 to Elisabetta Costa (University College London) at e.costa(a)ucl.ac.uk; and to Laura Menin (University of Milano Bicocca) at l.menin(a)campus.unimib.it. MEJCC is a peer-reviewed journal published by Brill three times a year ( http://www.brill.com/middle-east-journal-culture-and-communication Elisabetta Costa, Postdoctoral Research at UCL e.costa(a)ucl.ac.uk http://www.ucl.ac.uk/social-networking/projects/social-networking-social-sc… www.gsmis.org

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CFP: Mobile Trash
by Andrea Zeffiro 03 Jun '14

03 Jun '14

CFP: MOBILE TRASH Edited by Mél Hogan & Andrea Zeffiro (January 2016) For this special issue of Wi: Journal of Mobile Media [wi.mobilities.ca], we are gathering contributions that address the idea of ‘mobile trash.’ The intention of this issue is to reconfigure the concepts of ‘mobile’ and ‘mobilities’ in relation to trash, by its various definitions and formations, from new materialism, feminism, media ecology, media archaeology, and queer frameworks. We’re especially interested in short pieces (2500 words) and creative interventions that explore mobile trash as pollution, fumes, compost, satellites, e-waste, toxins, bodies, drones, viruses, hacks, landfill, etc. We welcome pieces that poetically engage the politics of trash and speak to its borders, transitions, movements, materialities, shifts, contagions, ecologies, permutations, mutations, and invisible transferences. The online issue goes live January 2016 and will be accompanied by a print-on-demand issue. If interested, please send us a 300 word abstract to info(a)technotrash.org Include your name, personal URL, and title of submission. Timeline / Deadline for abstracts: Nov 1, 2014. / We will let you know if your project is selected by Feb 1, 2015. / Final submissions due: Sept 1, 2015. / Issue goes live: January 1, 2016. http://technotrash.org/cfp-mobile-trash-2016/

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Sociomateriality and previous empirical research
by Karin Bolldén 03 Jun '14

03 Jun '14

Dear Colleagues I am a PhD Candidate writing a thesis on online teaching practices in a higher education context and have difficulties navigating through all the previous empirical studies published. Is there anyone on this list who has knowledge of: 1. published empirical studies in a higher education context, using sociomaterial perspectives/practice theory as a theoretical perspective (in particular Schatzki) when analysing online teaching? 2. a recent handbook or research overview on online teaching and learning in higher education or a recent handbook in distance education/e-learning in general that could serve as a starting point for getting an overview of the current research situation in the field? 3. a text that deals with the different concepts that are used to denominate the field (such as distance education and e-learning) and also gives some clarity on which concepts that are mostly used at the moment? I am sincerely grateful for anything you would like to share with me. Best regards Karin Bolldén PhD Student in Adult Learning Department of Behavioural Sciences and Learning Linköping University, Sweden

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CFP: Mobile Trash
by Andrea Zeffiro 03 Jun '14

03 Jun '14

CFP: MOBILE TRASH Edited by Mél Hogan & Andrea Zeffiro (January 2016) For this special issue of Wi: Journal of Mobile Media [wi.mobilities.ca], we are gathering contributions that address the idea of ‘mobile trash.’ The intention of this issue is to reconfigure the concepts of ‘mobile’ and ‘mobilities’ in relation to trash, by its various definitions and formations, from new materialism, feminism, media ecology, media archaeology, and queer frameworks. We’re especially interested in short pieces (2500 words) and creative interventions that explore mobile trash as pollution, fumes, compost, satellites, e-waste, toxins, bodies, drones, viruses, hacks, landfill, etc. We welcome pieces that poetically engage the politics of trash and speak to its borders, transitions, movements, materialities, shifts, contagions, ecologies, permutations, mutations, and invisible transferences. The online issue goes live January 2016 and will be accompanied by a print-on-demand issue. If interested, please send us a 300 word abstract to info(a)technotrash.org Include your name, personal URL, and title of submission. Timeline / Deadline for abstracts: Nov 1, 2015. / We will let you know if your project is selected by Feb 1, 2015. / Final submissions due: Sept 1, 2015. / Issue goes live: January 1, 2016. http://technotrash.org/cfp-mobile-trash-2016/

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Ephemerality Literature?
by Davis, Jennifer Lauren - davis5jl 03 Jun '14

03 Jun '14

Hi all, Sorry for the cross-post. Nathan Jurgenson and I are putting together a bibliography on ephemerality. Please send along any relevant citations. We will make the full list available on Cyborgology.org Thanks!! Jenny Jenny L. Davis Assistant Professor of Sociology James Madison University Weekly Author: Cyborgology.org Twitter: @Jenny_L_Davis ________________________________________

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digitalSTS proposal submission site open (May 1st-June 1st 2014)
by Laura Forlano 03 Jun '14

03 Jun '14

FYI - Deadline extended to June 7th. The digitalSTS submission system is now accepting proposals for the edited volume, from May 1st to June 1st 2014. During June the site will be open for the digitalSTS community to collaboratively review the submissions. Please see digitalsts.net for more information and the full call for proposals. - We invite one-page proposals for an edited volume on “digitalSTS” that advance our understanding of digital objects, phenomena, processes, and methods in Science and Technology Studies. Please submit proposals at submit.digitalsts.net SUBMISSION PERIOD May 1 2014 to June 1st 2014 Proposals will be solicited and adjudicated in one of three categories: (1) Theory and Cases, (2) Methods, and (3) Making. To best tailor your proposed submission, we outline the three categories and their expectations below. Please see digitalsts.net for more information. Strong contributions will draw direct connections to topics, literatures, and inquiries of central importance to STS. They may also engage contributions from intersecting fields such as anthropology, communications, media studies, computer-supported cooperative work, and human-computer interaction. We encourage the broadest possible participation from individuals and groups working across Science and Technology Studies and its constitutive or intersecting domains. In line with the principles and practices of the growing digitalSTS community, this Call for Proposals (and Things!) was generated by community members at the digitalSTS Workshop at 4S in October 2013. Submissions will be discussed and adjudicated in an open, online peer review format before the Editorial Team will select and solicit papers. We welcome all members of the STS community to participate in the process of reviewing proposals. 1. Theory and Cases (a.k.a. “The Handbook”): Submissions to the “Theory and Cases” section should explore or propose a significant or novel contribution to STS theory through an empirical case study focused on digital environments, objects, or practices. Through such studies, we aim tobuild a corpus of theory around the digital within STS, and also contribute to larger debates and established topics within the field (for example: social shaping, actor-networks, ontologies, expertise, feminist STS, science and technology policy, etc.). 2. Methods (a.k.a. “The Field-guide”): We seek submissions that address methods and methodologies for studies of the digital, broadly construed, as well as novel approaches that draw on the enabling capacities of digital approaches for investigations of STS topics. The digital presents many novel phenomena and also provokes a reexamination of existing objects of analysis for STS. The styles for submission are broad: we seek exemplary studies that demonstrate methods, or reflexive papers that explore high level methodologies and hands-on approaches. 3. Making (a.k.a. “The Scrapbook”): This section of the Handbook issues a “Call for Things” targeted at an audience of scholars, designers and makers as well as hybrid identities such as scholar/makers. The call is intended to bring together texts as well as visual materials (such as diagrams, images, prototypes, videos) that use design/making to engage with themes and theories about STS (such as power, materiality), design/making for STS (such as how visual materials and hands-on methods can be incorporated into STS) and design with STS (such as collaborations between scholars and makers). * Note: We recognize that submissions may cross categories; these are provisional and it may be the case that the final handbook is organized otherwise. Deadlines: Online Submission System Open May 1st 2014 Submissions Deadline (One Page Proposal) June 1st 2014 Community Review period: June 1st – July 1st 2014 Submission and Review system at submit.digitalsts.net Editors David Ribes, Georgetown University Janet Vertesi, Princeton University Editorial Team Carl DiSalvo, Georgia Institute of Technology Laura Forlano, Illinois Institute of Technology Steve Jackson, Cornell University Yanni Loukissas, Harvard metaLAB Daniela Rosner, University of Washington Stephanie Steinhardt, Cornell University Matt Burton, University of Michigan Stuart Geiger, University of California Berkeley

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call for chapter: Closed Systems / Open Worlds
by Jeremy hunsinger 03 Jun '14

03 Jun '14

Closed Systems / Open Worlds Edited by: Jeremy Hunsinger (Wilfrid Laurier University), Jason Nolan (Ryerson University) & Melanie McBride (York University) This book will consist of explorations at the boundaries of virtual worlds as enclosed but encouraging spaces for exploration, learning, and enculturation. Game/worlds like Second Life, OpenSim, Minecraft, and Cloud Party are providing spaces for the construction of alternatives and reimaginings, though frequently they end up more as reproductions. We seek to challenge those spaces and their creativities and imaginings. These worlds exist as both code and conduct. Code is a modulating multiple signifier, in that the interpreters of the code vary from human to machine and that our understanding of the signifier changes the worldliness in itself. The conduct of both participants and administrators of these spaces influences how they flourish and then fade. As such the worlds and their anima/animus are socially constructed fictions where authors/creators/users, both above and below the actions are sometimes in concert, yet often in conflict with the space and intentions of the originators. This book seeks critically engaged scholars who want to risk the possibility of change in the face of closed systems. We are looking for critical or speculative essays that must be theoretically, empirically and/or contextually grounded chapters of 5000-6500 words plus apparatus. Doctoral students and non-tenure faculty members will be afforded blind peer review upon request. We are aiming for 12 -14 chapters that define the boundaries and thus likely futures of research on virtual worlds. Dates Aug 1, 2014 – 250 word précis with 5-10 key references Aug. 30, 2014 – accept/reject proposals Feb 1, 2015 – final draft due July 1, 2015 – feedback from reviewers September 1, 2015 – final version December 1, 2015 – in press Queries and submissions: ClosedandOpenBook(a)gmail.com Topics may include: alternative and minor game/virtual/etc. worlds archeologies/genealogies of virtuality augmented and mixed-reality worlds distributed cognitions early explorations in virtual learning environments the freedom of limitations identity construction and/or identity tourism the limits of simulation and emulation memories and forgetting in virtual worlds multisensory virtual environments multisensory exclusions in virtual worlds narratival and post-narratival andragogies, ‘learning worlds’ negative spaces as learning spaces (bullying, trolling, flaming, etc.) in virtual worlds non-social virtual worlds (dwarf fortress, some forms of minecraft, etc.) real world virtual worlds and boundaries (Lego, Hello Kitty, WebKinz, etc.) replication of real world environments/problems surrealism, unrealism and constructable alterities of/within virtual worlds transformative virtual classroom vapourware and virtuality the virtuality of learning -- jeremy hunsinger Center for Digital Discourse and Culture Virginia Tech www.tmttlt.com () ascii ribbon campaign - against html mail /\ - against microsoft attachments http://www.stswiki.org/ sts wiki http://transdisciplinarystudies.tmttlt.com/ Transdisciplinary Studies:the book series I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it. -Pablo Picasso

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