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

expert invitation: internet studies organizations
by Polina Kolozaridi 26 Jun '14

26 Jun '14

Dear list participants, you are cordially invited to participate in survey for the special project "Who studies the Internet: public and political impact index <http://www.newmediacenter.ru/2013/12/25/who-studies-the-internet-public-and…>". It is launched by New Media and Society research Center (Moscow) in order to understand the Internet studies field and how it works. We invite you to participate in the survey aimed at understanding the familiarity of different research centers to the research community. Here is the link <https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1cFgBkzy0a3yIpEVWyGVIMrTnfvSCYDSec_dhZ5y-ab…> . The questionnaire will take about 5-10 minutes. If you know other researchers who would contribute on this survey, you can send us their contact details we will invite them to participate. New Media and Society research Center will issue the report based on this survey and we shall send you the report with results. If you have any questions, please contact us. Thank you! Polina Kolozaridi, Alexander Ilin, Ksenia Antonova, Taisiya Kirakosova, Alena Baranova pkolozaridi(a)hse.ru

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CFP: InVisible Culture, Issue 23: "Blueprints" (Deadline: October 15, 2014)
by Anderson, Joel Neville 26 Jun '14

26 Jun '14

http://ivc.lib.rochester.edu/cfp-invisible-culture-issue-23-blueprints<http://ivc.lib.rochester.edu/> “Blueprints” – Issue 23 For its twenty-third issue, InVisible Culture: An Electronic Journal for Visual Culture invites scholarly articles and creative works that consider the multiple valences of the topic: blueprints. In his theoretical manifesto, Toward An Architecture, Le Corbusier wrote, “The plan is the generator. Without plan there can be neither grandeur of aim and expression, nor rhythm, nor mass, nor coherence. . . . The plan is what determines everything; it is the decisive moment.” The plan or blueprint is the primary tool of the architect’s and the drafter’s trades—a technical document that bridges creative impulse and constructive labor, intent and execution, virtuality and materiality. Taking shape as a conversation among concept, form, and representation, a blueprint insistently nudges its spectator’s gaze outside its frame. It is understood as a necessary stage on the way to something larger, something grander, something more, and is usually seen not as a self-contained object, but as prescription directed toward a particular outcome. Yet a blueprint may also be the terminus of the unrealized and the unrealizable. Étienne-Louis Boullée’s Cénotaphe à Newton, Le Corbusier’s Ville Contemporaine, Frank Lloyd Wright’s Broadacres, and the Chicago Spire are among the many visionary designs abandoned at the drawing board, whose construction in real space we may now only imagine. In Issue 23, we would like contributors to consider how blueprints—and more broadly, agendas, manifestos, models, or prophesies—negotiate between the present and an imagined, idealized, or impossible future. What qualities and limitations are shared by conceptual architecture and other speculative mediums? How do plans and prototypes function as a critique of present realities? What is the aesthetic value of diagrams, renderings, sketches, or preparatory studies? What occurs when we no longer consider the model as process, but as finished product? What are the mechanisms through which the plan attempts to fill the gap between language and image or event? We welcome papers and artworks that further the various understandings of blueprints. Possible topics of exploration include, but are not limited to: * Conceptual architecture * Models, prototypes, renderings, and preparatory studies * Graphs, cyanotypes, etchings, and other media related to tracing * Political manifestos * Prophecy and speculation * Disparity between concept and execution * Representations of utopia or dystopia * World’s Fairs and Expos * Storyboards and scripts * Unfinished or posthumously completed works * Dance and performance notation * Digital urban planning Please send completed papers (with references following the guidelines from the Chicago Manual of Style) of between 4,000 and 10,000 words to ivc[dot]rochester[at]gmail[dot]com by October 15, 2014. Inquiries should be sent to the same address. Creative/Artistic Works In addition to written materials, InVisible Culture is accepting work in other media (video, photography, drawing, code) that reflect upon the theme as it is outlined above. For questions or more details concerning acceptable formats, go tohttp://ivc.lib.rochester.edu/contribute or contact ivc[dot]rochester[at]gmail[dot]com. Reviews InVisible Culture is also currently seeking submissions for book, exhibition, and film reviews (600-1,000 words). To submit a review proposal, go tohttp://ivc.lib.rochester.edu/contribute or contact ivc[dot]rochester[at]gmail[dot]com. Blog The journal also invites submissions to its blog feature, which will accommodate more immediate responses to the topic of the current issue. For further details, please contact us at ivc[dot]rochester[at]gmail[dot]com with the subject heading “blog submission.” * InVisible Culture: An Electronic Journal for Visual Culture (IVC) is a student run interdisciplinary journal published online twice a year in an open access format. Through peer reviewed articles, creative works, and reviews of books, films, and exhibitions, our issues explore changing themes in visual culture. Fostering a global and current dialog across fields, IVC investigates the power and limits of vision. InVisible Culture 503A Morey Hall University of Rochester Rochester, NY 14627 http://ivc.lib.rochester.edu<http://ivc.lib.rochester.edu/>

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Gender and Online Activism
by jose marichal 26 Jun '14

26 Jun '14

Dear Internet researchers, Could any of you point me to articles that look at the role of gender in on-line activism, particularly the use of social media in activism? My own efforts at compiling a lit review on this subject has produced some work, but it would be helpful if I could identify some seminar work in the field. I'd be happy to compile what I receive for those that are interested. Warm regards, Jose Marichal California Lutheran University On Thu, Jun 19, 2014 at 8:24 AM, Jean Burgess <je.burgess(a)qut.edu.au> wrote: > > CFP—Issue 24 Fibreculture Journal: Entanglements: activism and technology > > http://fibreculturejournal.org/cfp-entanglements/ > > Please note that for this issue, initial submissions should be abstracts > only. > > Issue Editors: Pip Shea, Tanya Notley and Jean Burgess > > Abstract deadline: August 20 2014 (no late abstracts will be accepted) > Article deadline: November 3 2014 > Publication aimed for: February 2015 > > all contributors and editors must read the guidelines at: > http://fibreculturejournal.org/policy-and-style/ > before working with the Fibreculture Journal > > Email correspondence for this issue: p.shea(a)qub.ac.uk<mailto: > p.shea(a)qub.ac.uk> > > This themed issue explores the entanglements that arise due to frictions > between the philosophies embedded within technologies and the philosophies > embedded within activism. Straightforward solutions are rarely on offer as > the bringing together of different philosophies requires the negotiation of > acceptance, compromise, or submission (Tsing 2004). This friction can be > disruptive, productive, or both, and it may contribute discord or harmony. > > In this special issue, we seek submissions that respond to the idea that > frictions between technologies and activists may ultimately enhance the > ability of activists to take more control of their projects, create new > ethical spaces and subvert technologies, just as it may also result in > tension, conflict and hostility. > > By dwelling in between and within these frictions and entanglements – > through strategic and tactical media discourses as well as the very concept > of an activist politics within technology – this special issue will > elucidate the context-specific nature, constraints and possibilities of the > digital environments that are co-habited by activists from proximate fields > including social movements, human rights, ecological and green movements, > international development, community arts and cultural development. > > Past issues of the Fibreculture Journal have examined activist > philosophies from angles such as social justice and networked > organisational forms, communication rights and net neutrality debates, and > the push back against precarious new media labour. Our issue extends this > work by revealing the conflicting debates that surround activist > philosophies of technology. > > Submissions are sought that engage specifically with the ethics, > rationales and methods adopted by activists to justify selecting, building, > using, promoting or rejecting specific technologies. We also encourage work > that considers the ways in which these negotiations speak to broader > mythologies and tensions embedded within digital culture – between openness > and control; political consistency and popular appeal; appropriateness, > usability and availability. > > We invite responses to these provocations from activists, practitioners > and academics. Critiques, case studies, and multimedia proposals will be > considered for inclusion. Submissions should explore both constraints and > possibilities caused by activism and its digital technology entanglements > through the following themes: > > Alternative technology versus appropriate technology > Pragmatism and technology choice > The philosophies and practices of hacking technologies > Activist cultures and the proprietary web > Digital privacy and security breaches and errors > Uncovering and exposing technology vulnerabilities > Technology and e-waste > The philosophies of long/short term impact > Authenticity and evidence > > Initial submissions should comprise 300 word abstracts and 60 word > biographies, emailed to p.shea(a)qub.ac.uk<mailto:p.shea@qub.ac.uk> and > t.notley(a)uws.edu.au<mailto:t.notley@uws.edu.au> > > References: > > Tsing, A. 2005 Friction: An Ethnography of Global Connection. Princeton: > Princeton University Press. > > The Fibreculture Journal (http://fibreculturejournal.org/) is a peer > reviewed international journal, associated with Open Humanities Press ( > http://openhumanitiespress.org/) that explores critical and speculative > interventions in the debate and discussions concerning information and > communication technologies and their policy frameworks, network cultures > and their informational logic, new media forms and their deployment, and > the possibilities of socio-technical invention and sustainability. > > _______________________________________________ > 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/ -- _______________________________________________________________________________________ josé marichal, ph.d. | professor of political science <http://about.me/marichal> department | california lutheran university 60 w. olsen road | #3800 | thousand oaks, ca 91360 #marichal on Twitter

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*EXTENDED DEADLINE* ECCS'14: Computational Social Science Workshop, Lucca, Italy, 09/2014
by Giovanni Luca Ciampaglia 25 Jun '14

25 Jun '14

Apologies for cross-posting. ============= CALL FOR ABSTRACTS Computational Social Science: Social Contagion, Collective Behaviour, and Networks to be held in Lucca, Italy, 24-25 September 2014 Website: http://cssworkshop.oii.ox.ac.uk/ Important Dates: Abstract submission deadline *30* June 2014 (extended) Conference date 24-25 September 2013 Event Overview Technology-mediated social collectives are taking an important role in the design of social structures. Yet our understanding of the complex mechanisms governing networks and collective behaviour is still deplorably shallow. Fundamental concepts of on- and off-line networks such as power, authority, leader-follower dynamics, consensus emergence, information sharing, conflict, and collaboration are still not well defined and investigated. These are all crucial to illuminate the advantages and pitfalls of collective decision-making, which can cancel out individual mistakes, but also spiral out of control. In recent endeavours, data from Twitter, Facebook, Google+, Wikipedia, and weblogs have been shown to strongly correlate to, and even predict, elections, opinions, attitudes, movie revenues, and oscillations in the stock market, to cite few examples. Similar data provided insights into the mechanisms driving the formation of groups of interests, topical communities, and the evolution of social networks. They also have been used to study polarization phenomena in politics, diffusion of information, and the dynamics of collective attention. However, a deeper understanding of these phenomena is still very much on demand. In parallel, and even preceding the surge in interest towards social media, the area of agent-based modeling (ABM) has grown in scope, focus and capability to produce testable hypotheses, going beyond the original goal of explaining macroscopic behaviors from simple interaction rules among stylized agents. The aim of this satellite is to address the question of ICT-mediated social phenomena emerging over multiple scales, ranging from the interactions of individuals to the emergence of self-organized global movements. We would like to gather researchers from different disciplines and methodological backgrounds to form a forum to discuss ideas, research questions, recent results, and future challenges in this emerging area of research and public interest. TOPICS OF INTEREST - Interdependent social contagion process - Peer production and mass collaboration - Temporally evolving networks and dynamics of social contagion - Cognitive aspects of belief formation and revision - Online communication and information diffusion - Viral propagation in online social network - Crowd-sourcing; herding behaviour vs. wisdom of crowds - E-democracy and online government-citizen interaction - Online socio-political mobilizations - Public attention and popularity - Temporal and geographical patterns of information diffusion - User-information interplay - Group formation, evolution and group behavior analysis. - Modeling, tracking and forecasting dynamic groups in social media. - Community detection and dynamic community structure analysis. - Social simulation, cultural, opinion, and normative dynamics. - Empirical calibration and validation of agent-based social models. - Models of social capital, collective action, social movements. - Coevolution of network and behavior. Questions about the conference scope should be directed to the program co-chairs at css2014(a)indiana.edu Submission Instructions Submissions will be made by sending one A4 page abstract in pdf via Easychair <https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=css14>. The deadline for abstract submission is 22 June 2014. The contributions to the event will be evaluated by the programme committee through a peer review process that will account for the scientific quality as well as for the relevance of the contribution to the aims of the satellite. The authors of accepted abstracts will be notified via e-mail by end of July 2014. Invited Speakers (to be completed) János Kertész (Central European University, Budapest, Hungary) Esteban Moro (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain) Alain Barrat (Centre de Physique Théorique, Marseille, France) Organising Committee - Javier Borge-Holthoefer (Qatar Computing Research Institute, Doha, Qatar) - Jonathan Bright (OII, University of Oxford, UK) - Giovanni Luca Ciampaglia (CnetS, Indiana University at Bloomington, USA) - Sandra Gonzalez-Bailon (Annenberg, University of Pennsylvania, USA) - Emilio Ferrara (CnetS, Indiana University at Bloomington, USA) - Alessandro Flammini (CnetS, Indiana University at Bloomington, USA) - Márton Karsai (ENS de Lyon, INRIA, France) - Alessandro Vespignani (Northeastern University – USA, ISI Foundation, Italy) - Taha Yasseri (OII, University of Oxford, UK) -- Giovanni Luca Ciampaglia ✎ 919 E 10th ∙ Bloomington 47408 IN ∙ USA ☞ http://www.inf.usi.ch/phd/ciampaglia/ ✆ +1 812 287-3471 ✉ gciampag(a)indiana.edu

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Relocation of IR15: Join us in Daegu, Korea!
by Kendall, Lori 25 Jun '14

25 Jun '14

We are excited and pleased to announce that IR15: Boundaries and Intersections will be held in Daegu, Korea, from October 21-24. (Please note the slight date change: the conference will start one day earlier than originally planned.) Our local hosts will be Han Woo Park, Professor, Department of Media & Communication, YeungNam University, Korea; and Leslie Tkach-Kawasaki, Associate Professor, Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Tsukuba, Japan. Prof. Park also hosts the DISC conference, taking place in Daegu this year in December (http://www.slideshare.net/hanpark/disc-2014-cfp-v3) Daegu is easily accessible from Seoul via air, train, or bus. This vibrant city is home to IT industry (and is the birthplace of Samsung), as well as significant cultural attractions (including several UNESCO World Heritage Sites). Our venue will be the Beomeo Saint Western Hotel, a newly opened hotel in the Beomeo district. Lodging will also be available in nearby hotels. We will announce further details shortly and expect to reopen registration very soon. Thank you for your patience and understanding during this difficult transition. We look forward to seeing you all in Korea in October! Lori Kendall President, AoIR

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Re: [Air-L] Gender and Online Activism
by Miriam Sweeney 24 Jun '14

24 Jun '14

Greetings Jose, I encountered this study last week: http://bakerinstitute.org/news/the-arab-awakening-and-the-internet/ "Unveiling the Revolutionaries: Cyberactivism and Women’s Role in the Arab Uprisings” Best, Miriam Sweeney

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CfP: FINANCEcom - deadline 10/9 - Enterprise Applications, Markets, and Services in the Finance Industry, Sydney, Australia
by artur.lugmayr＠tut.fi 24 Jun '14

24 Jun '14

========================================================================================== Call for Papers - FinanceCom 2014 Enterprise Applications, Markets and Services in the Finance Industry Theme of 2014: ?New Emergent Trends of IT in Finance Industry? Sydney, Friday 12th December 2014 Publications will be published by Springer-Verlag as part of the Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing (LNBIP) series (indexed in Scopus among others) http://www.springer.com/series/7911 SUBMISSION DEADLINE: 10th September 2014 http://www.ambientmediaassociation.org/Submissions/2014FinanceCom/ WORKSHOP WEBSITE http://www.tut.fi/emmi/WWW/ameamain/financecom2014 A good opportunity to attend ICIS 2014 in Auckland, New Zealand 14th-17th December and attend this workshop beforehand! ========================================================================================== Advancements in Information and Communication Technologies have paved the way to new business models, markets, networks, services, and players in the financial services industry. FinanceCom 2014 invites papers that help to understand, drive and exploit the associated systems, technologies and opportunities. After very successful FinanceCom workshops in Sydney, Regensburg, Montreal, Paris, Frankfurt and Barcelona, FinanceCom 2014 will be returning to Sydney on 12th December 2014. The workshop spans multiple disciplines, including technical, services, economic, sociological and behavioral sciences. We welcome research from any of these disciplines, as well as cross-disciplinary work. We are open to various levels of analysis and methodology. Topics of interest in this research area include but are not limited to: * Networks and business models o Technology-Driven Transformation of the Financial Industry - towards Banking Value Networks o Business process outsourcing/offshoring and Information Systems o New e-Finance business models enabled by IT o New Bank Business Models & Challenges in a Post-Financial Crisis o Approaches for evaluating operational and credit risks as well as banking and market performance * Financial Markets o Electronic Markets Design and Engineering o Algorithmic and High Frequency Trading / Post Trading Systems and Infrastructures o Analysis of Intraday Market Data and News o Regulation of Electronic Financial Markets (e.g. MiFiD, EMIR or Dodd-Frank) o Private Equity and Ventual Capital Investments * IT and implementations o Role of new technologies (e.g. Web Services, Cloud, Big Data, and Grid Computing) o Implementation experiences and case studies o Enabling decision support systems in banking and financial markets o Enterprise communication in Banking & Financial Services o Interoperability of heterogeneous financial systems and evolving international standards * ?New? Emerging Digital and Virtual Financial Markets o Virtual Currencies (Bitcoin, Amazon, ?) o Alternative Banking, Loan, and Financial Market Models o New Customer Contact Trends o Crowdfunding, Crowdsourcing, and B2B/B2C Social Media o Loyalty Card, and Smart Card Markets o New consumer identification methods (e.g. Biometrics) o M/T/I Banking and Trading Services o New Banking and Payment Trends o Banking, payments, and currencies in emerging countries Important Dates ----------------------------- ? Submission open: 30th July 2014 ? Submission deadline: 10st September 2014 ? Notification of authors: 15th October 2014 ? Deadline revision: 15th November 2014 ? Final submission: 31st January 2015 (final book chapter version) Submission Details ----------------------------- Authors should submit papers of not more than 15 pages as per the Springer guidelines (see ?Instructions for LNBIP Authors? on the Springer series website: http://www.springer.com/series/7911) Authors will be given instructions after the workshop how to submit their works for the edited book. Note, that all submitted papers will be published in conference proceedings, however, only the very best papers will be selected for the Springer publication. All papers undergo a double blind review process. All papers are to be submitted via the following link: http://www.ambientmediaassociation.org/Submissions/2014FinanceCom/ Instructions will be provided via a supplied email address (in case of any problems, please send an email to lartur(a)acm.org) Submitted papers will be reviewed by the program committee. All correspondence will be with the specified primary contact. Publication ----------------------------- We plan to publish best papers as a post proceedings book in the Springer Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing series. For previous proceedings in this series, see LNBIP 4, LNBIP 23 and LNBIP 135 on http://www.springer.com/series/7911. Program Committee Chair Lugmayr Artur, Tampere University of Technology, Finland Local Organisation Chair Fethi Rabhi, University of New South Wales, Australia Maurice Peat, University of Sydney, Australia Program Committee Martin Aichner, Erste Group, Austria Peter Gomber, University of Frankfurt, Germany Dennis Kundisch, University of Paderborn, Germany Artur Lugmayr, Tampere University of Technology, Finland Nikolay Mehandjiev, University of Manchester, UK Jan Muntermann, University of Goettingen, Germany Dirk Neumann, University of Freiburg,Germany Maurice Peat, University of Sydney, Australia Fethi Rabhi, University of New South Wales, Australia Ryan Riordan, University of Ontario, Canada Christof Weinhardt, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany Axel Winkelmann, University of Wuerzburg, Germany

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by Fernandez, Julia 24 Jun '14

24 Jun '14

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Open Position: Post-Doc Fellow in Internet Research, Infrastructures and Governance in Berlin
by Christian Katzenbach 24 Jun '14

24 Jun '14

Hi everyone, this job announcement might be of interest to you: At our internet research institute in Berlin (http://www.hiig.de, co-hosting IR 17), we are looking for a post-doc in Internet Research, Infrastructures and Governance in Berlin. ## Post-Doctoral Research Fellow Internet Infrastructure and Governance 12 Months http://www.hiig.de/en/open-position-post-doctoral-research-fellow/ The Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society (HIIG) seeks applications from post-doctoral researchers for the position of a research fellow in Internet Policy and Governance. The candidate is expected to develop a research program focussing on governing infrastructures in digital societies. This post is a 0.75 FTE position and is available immediately for 12 months in the first instance, with the possibility of renewal thereafter, funding permitting. The salary is based on public sector wages (salary grade: TV-L 14, approx. € 35-40k p.a. gross salary, depending on your working experience, plus child allowances). Applications are invited from outstanding candidates with a PhD in social sciences. The succesful candidate will join the Internet Policy & Governance research team which investigates public and private forms of ordering from a social science perspective with a focus on the interplay between socio-cultural, technical and legal norms shaping the development of the Internet. In order to complement these research activities we seek a post-doctoral research fellow who investigates questions at the intersection of technologies, regulation, discourses and culture (in short: society) with regard to internet infrastructure. Along these lines, the research perspective shall not be restricted to a regulatory perspective on infrastructure but rather represent an articulate sensibility for “governing infrastructures” taking the the politics of infrastructures and technologies into account. Job Description • The succesful candidate is expected to develop and carry forward a research strategy addressing the governance of internet infrastructure and relevant discourses (eg. Net Neutrality, Routing, Big Data, Politics of Platforms). • A core task of this position is the acquisition of third-party funding facilitating the sustainable developement of this research agenda. • The successful candidate will develop and implement empirical case studies taking the lead in project management, data collection and analysis, and the dissemination of results. • The ideal candidate enjoys working with a multidisciplinary team of researchers and actively contributes to the intellectual exchange but also the management and administration of the research unit; the fellow will also mentor junior researchers and support the director. • The succesful candidate is expected to publish in top-rated journals and open-access outlets and to give presentations at national and international conferences. • There are no teaching obligations attached to this position, but teaching agreements with Berlin’s Universities are possible. This position is an ideal opportunity for a scholar whose work draws on a diverse set of disciplines (eg. political science, STS, media and communication studies, sociology, computer science) to bring empirical and analytical perspectives to complex socio-technical issues. It allows for the development of an outstanding academic profile that combines empirical and theoretical originality, multidisciplinary perspectives and management expertise on an international level. Qualifications • A completed PhD or doctoral degree in a subject relevant to the position (preferably social science). • Expertise and experience in writing research proposals. • Research focus on infrastructural and/or technological aspects of Internet Policy and Governance. • Academic ambition and curiosity grounded in a solid methodological, analytical, and theoretical foundation. • A strong academic record with theoretical contributions and empirical projects reflected in academic publications in key outlets and paper presentations at international conferences. • Proficiency in English is expected. An advanced level of German is desired but not obligatory. Working Environment The research activities of the growing Institute in Berlin provide excellent conditions to develop your own research ideas and to advance a range of research projects related to the study of Internet and Society. Our interdisciplinary-oriented projects are planned and implemented in small teams, working in an office located in the heart of Berlin. The Institute has a strong international focus and is currently, together with the Berkman Center at Harvard, the co-lead of a Global Network of Interdisciplinary Internet & Society Research Centers bringing together leading academic institutions from all across the world. For more specific information about the Institute and the research area Internet Policy and Governance, please visit our website http://www.hiig.de/en/research/internet-policy-governance/. Application The application should contain • a letter of motivation, • an academic CV (incl. complete list of publications, presentations and projects), • a research statement (max. 3 pages) that sketches a research agenda relevant to the position, ideally connecting it to your previous research and the research conducted by the HIIG and/or the Internet Policy and Governance team, • one or two publications or excerpts relevant to the position (as pdf), • and list of two referees including contact details. Please submit your application electronically via the application form provided on the website of the Institute: http://www.hiig.de/en/open-position-post-doctoral-research-fellow/ Application review will begin 04 August 2014 and continue until the position is filled. You are welcome to direct your questions to Research Coordinator Christian Katzenbach (katzenbach(a)hiig.de) -- Christian Katzenbach Alexander von Humboldt Institut für Internet und Gesellschaft katzenbach(a)hiig.de Tel: +49 (0)30 2093 3490

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Job Announcement: Program Specialist, MAPP Project w/Henry Jenkins
by Andrew Schrock 24 Jun '14

24 Jun '14

> USC’s Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism is seeking a Program Specialist to join its MacArthur funded Media, Activism, and Participatory Politics (MAPP) Project. > Henry Jenkins’ MAPP Project at USC explores continuities between online participatory culture and civic engagement. With low entry barriers, participatory culture-based communities often encourage online participation and expression even as they promote expression, awareness, mentor-ship,and skill training. Premised on a dynamic understanding of citizenship, we analyze how participatory culture interactions encourage young people across political affiliations and social values to create, discuss and organize to engage with specific civic issues and events. We then ask how these interactions lead to new forms of organizing and action. > Over the past four years, MAPP conducted five case studies of diverse youth-driven communities which translate mechanisms of participatory culture into civic engagement and political participation. Our findings stress the interplay between individual growth, organizations, networks, communities, and platforms. As MAPP researchers learned, these groups often succeed by tapping practices of cultural appropriation, storytelling and remixing, working across organizational contexts, deploying metaphors from popular culture, and drawing on sustained engagement with interest-driven and friendship-based networks. Over time, youth involved in these communities mapped innovative and imaginative trajectories that scaffolded existing skills and interests towards a sustained ability to achieve social change. > We now shift our attention to supporting connections and dialogues between communities and curating and creating media, and working closely with educators and community leaders to ensure the findings of our research find application in real world contexts. We seek staff who are self-motivated, but collaborative and willing to be creative in the management of their work environment. > The Program Specialist will have the opportunity to assume significant responsibility in: > seeking out and supporting relationships with civic communities and organizations > planning and executing face-to-face and online events that encourage productive dialogue between activists, artists, academics and cross between practice and theory > curating MAPP’s ever growing media resources to ensure their accessibility and relevance to diverse audiences > working closely with educators to find ways to integrate MAPP materials into existing curricula > authoring media (video, audio, posters, announcements, short articles) as required by the project > working closely with students on the project to accomplish specific goals > Essential Duties and Responsibilities Include: > Community Liaison > seek out and establish new community connections on behalf of MAPP project > sustain and support existing relationships > connect members in the project network to each other to support productive dialogue and exchange > identify opportunities for closer partnerships with specific communities and organizations > Event Planning > propose, plan, coordinate and execute live and online events > Online Resource/Library Development > Network with other projects and organizations working in related areas > Develop competence with “Scalar” platform > Participate in the development of specific sections of the resource/library > Educator Outreach > seek out connections to educators and educational institutions whose approaches resonate with MAPP’s commitment to participatory practices > support relationships with specific educators > coordinate piloting MAPP’s online resource through these educator networks > Media Curation/Creation > actively participate in the curating and organizing MAPP’s media database (currently in process) > work with other projects in MAPP network to ensure thematic and conceptual alignment > coordinate with other contributors to ensure coherence across various curated section > as needed create media (film interviews, document events, edit existing footage) > Coordination > Set timelines and deliverables for specific tasks and goals > If relevant, provide guidance to student workers on the project > Work with research director to plan budget, allocate funding, and keep the project on track > The University of Southern California values diversity and is committed to equal opportunity in employment. Andrew Schrock USC Annenberg Doctoral Candidate aschrock(a)usc.edu 714.330.6545

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