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Photo-sharing in Social Media
by Eftekhar, Azar 24 Jul '14

24 Jul '14

Hello everyone, I would be extremely grateful if you could spare about 20 minutes to participate in my study about online photo sharing and individual differences. Any help in spreading the word is highly appreciated. https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/photosonline2 Thank you in advance for your goodwill. Best wishes Azar ------------------------- Azar Eftekhar PhD student in Psychology Institute of Psychology University of Wolverhampton http://www.wlv.ac.uk/default.aspx?page=31190 Twitter: @azar_eftekhar -- Scanned by iCritical.

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Studying the Chinese Internet workshop, ANU, Canberra, 31 July & 1 August
by Robert Ackland 24 Jul '14

24 Jul '14

Dear Colleagues, The following workshop being held next week at the Australian National University, Canberra, may be of interest. Regards, Robert Ackland ------------------------------------------------------------------ Workshop - Studying the Chinese Internet ???????/ ??????? Thursday 31 July - Friday 1 August, Australian National University, Canberra China has the world's largest number of internet users, a vibrant web-based economy and social media landscape, and a government intent on managing the technology's social and political effects. This two-day workshop brings the nascent study of the Chinese web to the Australian National University (ANU) with presentations by researchers from China studies, computer science and the social sciences. The workshop is being organised by: Australian Centre on China in the World <http://ciw.anu.edu.au/>, College of Asia & the Pacific Australian Demographic & Social Research Institute <http://adsri.anu.edu.au>, College of Arts & Social Sciences Workshop web page <http://adsri.anu.edu.au/news-chineseinternet> download draft program (PDF) <http://voson.anu.edu.au/papers/ChineseInternet_program_v5.pdf> Program Day 1 (Thursday 31 July) Training in social media analysis A small group training session run by A/Prof Robert Ackland, involving an introduction to social network analysis and hands-on training in the NodeXL and VOSON tools for collecting and analysing social media and WWW hyperlink network data. /Please note/ that there is a limit of 15 places for this training session so register quickly! Further, the training session is reserved for people who will also be attending Day 2 of the workshop. Also note that participants will need to provide their own laptops running Windows Excel 2007/2010/2013 and with NodeXL pre-installed (NodeXL does not work on Macs!). Registered participants will be given further details on the training session. Day 2 (Friday 1 August) Research presentations Presentations by researchers working on the political or social impact of the internet in China, methods for studying the Chinese web, or emerging research agendas on related questions. *Keynote presentation* * 'Charting the Landscape of Chinese Social Media: What We Know and What We Don't Know from Existing Research' by Professor Jonathan Zhu, Director of the Web Mining Lab, City University of Hong Kong. *Other presentations* * "A Web Analysis of HIV Information Delivery in China", Dr Robert Ackland, Australian National University and Dr Jiaying Zhao, Australian National University * "Predicting Depressed Individuals with Suicide Ideation Using Social Media Data", Jin Han, Australian National University * "Analyzing Events in Chinese Microblogs", Dr Lexing Xie, Australian National University * "Preliminary Analysis of Muslim Networking on the Chinese Web", Dr Wai Yip Ho, Hong Kong Institute of Education * "Multiple Identity Formation via Social Media by Professional Chinese Immigrants to Australia", Dr Jerry Watkins, University of Canberra and Dr Chong Han, University of Western Sydney * "Human Flesh Searching in the Greater China Region", Dr Lennon Chang, City University of Hong Kong * Ryan Manuel, Australian National University (title TBA) * Dr Michael Jensen, University of Canberra and Wei Si, University of Canberra (title TBA) Location Day 1 Training session Room 1.04, Coombs Extension, Building 8 Corner of Garran and Fellows Road Australian National University Day 2 Research presentations Seminar room, Australian Centre on China in the World Building 188, Fellows Lane Australian National University download draft program (PDF) <http://voson.anu.edu.au/papers/ChineseInternet_program_v5.pdf> ANU campus map <http://campusmap.anu.edu.au/> Registration Please register for the workshop <https://chineseinternet.eventbrite.com.au> Registration is free. Please note that people registering for Day 1 (training session) are also expected to register for Day 2 (research presentations). However, it is possible to register for Day 2 only. Workshop organisers * Dr Robert Ackland, VOSON & ADSRI, College of Arts & Social Sciences, ANU * Dr Wai Yip Ho, Department of Social Sciences, Hong Kong Institute of Education * Dr Sarah Logan, School of International and Political Studies, College of Asia & the Pacific, ANU * Ryan Manuel, Australian Centre on China in the World, College of Asia & the Pacific, ANU Further information Robert Ackland E: robert.ackland(a)anu.edu.au <mailto:robert.ackland@anu.edu.au> -- Assoc. Prof. Robert Ackland Deputy Director (Education) 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)

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FW: [ICTs-and-Society] Fwd: Fwd: Fwd: CFP - Interface Critique - Symposium @ University of Arts, Berlin
by Robert Mason 23 Jul '14

23 Jul '14

Pardon the cross-posting -----Original Message----- From: owner-discussion-icts-and-society-net(a)icts-and-society.net [mailto:owner-discussion-icts-and-society-net@icts-and-society.net] On Behalf Of Christian Fuchs Sent: Wednesday, July 23, 2014 1:47 PM To: discussion-icts-and-society-net(a)icts-and-society.net Subject: [ICTs-and-Society] Fwd: Fwd: Fwd: CFP - Interface Critique - Symposium @ University of Arts, Berlin From: Florian Hadler, flohadler(a)udk-berlin.de: We are organizing an interdisciplinary symposium at the University of Arts in Berlin, called "Interface Critique". You can find attached the CFP as PDF, but I also posted the text below, as I noticed that you dont send attachments in your List. The Call and other Resources are also available online: http://interfacecritique.net/call-for-paper-2/ You can also find a german version of the call there. The Deadline for Abstracts is August 15. I would be glad if you could spread the Call within your network and hope that it fits into the profile. Thank you and best regards from Berlin - Florian Hadler *INTERFACE CRITIQUE* **/Developing a cultural science perspective of the human-machine interface/ Call for Papers for an interdisciplinary symposium at the Institute for Theory and Practice of Communication at the Berlin University of Arts, November 7th – 8th, 2014 GUIs, TUIs and NUIs: An „I“ in acronyms to describe human-machine interfaces has become as common as mysterious. The more it is taken for granted, the more it seems to escape our understanding. What does “interface” mean in the context of contemporary technical development? The trend towards unobstrusiveness is conspicuous: “Deep integration”, “actionable notifications” or “Shytech” – the visual aesthetic trends tend to hide mechanisms, functions and processes. How can we critically examine interfaces that increasingly disappear into the background? The symposium tries to understand the phenomenon “interface” in its dynamic development in order to develop critical perspectives beyond culturally pessimistic reflexes. We are looking for papers dealing with topics such as inclusion and exclusion, subjectivation and desubjectivation, continuities and non-simultaneity. Considering that many interfaces are not only connected with each other, but also merge into one another, that they not only enable communication with technology, but also normalize it, it becomes evident: understanding interfaces is an approach to understanding the world. We suggest the following perspectives: *Panel 1 – Theories, Terms, Concepts <http://interfacecritique.net/panel-1-theories-terms-concepts/>* >From an**understanding**of “interface” as a separating but also mediating device to more controversial explorations of the term, this panel wants to discover new ways of thinking about interfaces. The theoretical discourse on “interfaces” varies from space theory (Drucker) to theories of power (Galloway). In the tension between these interdisciplinary perspectives the interface appears as an oscillating nexus, whose dynamic and actuality provokes ever new definitions. Spatial, process-oriented or as an effect – in this panel we invite to discover new understandings of the term, to step into its shadow, fathom the unseen and question assumed fixations. *Panel 2 – Micro history* <http://interfacecritique.net/panel-2-micro-history/>** Focusing on the artefacts’ context and the details of actual practice, this panel draws relations between the historical protagonists and their surrounding world. The micro-historical approach offers an analysis of time periods within which the historical contexts are withdrawn from its écriture automatique, from the institutional and technological logic, and thereby throws the “human factor” back into the macro-historical discourse. Think of investigations about selected individiuals (designers, developers, entrepreneurs) and their environment, about concrete strategic orientations and actions of certain companies, or even about specific updates, revisions oder extensions of services, apps or operating systems. *Panel 3 – Trends and Paradigms* <http://interfacecritique.net/panel-3-trends-and-paradigms/>*<http://interfacecritique.net/panel-3-trends-and-paradigms/> *** Within this panel we want to discover the paradigms of interface design as subjects of cultural criticism and reflection. It deals with current and past trends, with historical developments of design paradigms and the interactions of utilization and development, appropriation and normalization. How adaptive, open and context-sensitive is and was the conception of interfaces? Who gives whom how much room for appropriation? Is it possible to think concepts such as Skeuomorphism, flat or material design as concepts of cultural history? What does it mean to conceive the interface as an apparatus? *Panel 4 – Talk and Narration of and through interfaces* <http://interfacecritique.net/panel-4-talk-and-narration-of-and-through-inte…>**** Hard- and software converge to create**new forms**of communication**that we often live with before we can talk about them. We ask about the hermeneutics of interfaces, about the interpretation of their texts, signs and symbols. We are interested in narratives: those that enroll in interfaces and those that will – as parts of our culture – also be part of the writing of history. How do wording conventions (UIDL) and metaphors (such as stream, tweet, cloud etc.) become established? How and with which tonality do interfaces talk with users? Which zones, gaps, restrictions and accesses can be articulated? And what does this mean for our everyday construction of language and reality? The symposium follows an interdisciplinary approach and addresses researchers of all disciplines who want to discuss their work in the context of cultural science. Explicitly invited (besides cultural scientists) are researchers of technical disciplines and designers. Papers can refer to the panels depicted above, but can also open up other perspectives. Proposals can be in English or German. Please send your abstract with a maximum of 300 words and a short biography to proposals(a)interfacecritique.net <mailto:proposals@interfacecritique.net>. Deadline is August 15th. August 15: Deadline for submissions November 7/8: Conference in Berlin proposals(a)interfacecritique.net <mailto:proposals@interfacecritique.net> www.interfacecritique.net <http://www.interfacecritique.net> Organisation: Joachim Haupt – j.haupt(a)udk-berlin.de <mailto:j.haupt@udk-berlin.de> Florian Hadler – flohadler(a)udk-berlin.de <mailto:flohadler@udk-berlin.de> -- Florian Hadler /Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter/ Universität der Künste Berlin /Institut für Theorie und Praxis der Kommunikation Gesellschafts- und Wirtschaftskommunikation/ flohadler(a)udk-berlin.de <mailto:flohadler@udk-berlin.de> +49 30 3185 2559 Besucheradresse: /Mierendorffstraße 30 Raum 112 10589 Berlin/ Postfach: /120544/

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Testing Tencent Weibo Feeds - Fluent Chinese Speakers Needed
by Shulman, Stu 23 Jul '14

23 Jul '14

We are testing a new social data API from Tencent Weibo. If you are fluent in Chinese and would like some ad hoc work coding (labeling or tagging), we pay $13/hour and provide free access to DiscoverText.com. Coders can use the system to conduct their own independent research. Please send me a CV if you are interested: stu(a)texifter.com We are also testing a new method of Chinese tokenization for search. We have sample sets of 10,000+ Weibo and other social data posts. Thanks, ~Stu -- Dr. Stuart W. Shulman http://people.umass.edu/stu Founder and CEO, Texifter http://texifter.com LinkedIn http://www.linkedin.com/in/stuartwshulman Twitter https://twitter.com/StuartWShulman

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Re: [Air-L] studying mobiles in Myanmar
by gus andrews 23 Jul '14

23 Jul '14

Rich, if it hasn't already come up, I think Everett Rogers's compendium Diffusion of Innovations might be a good starting point for finding related work or theory. Gillian "Gus" Andrews Senior Program Associate Open Internet Tools Project openitp.org gandre.ws

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CfP: City Labs Workshop (part of SocInfo'14), Barcelona, 10 Nov 2014
by Marcus Foth 23 Jul '14

23 Jul '14

CALL FOR PAPERS ============================================================= City Labs Workshop, Barcelona, November 10th 2014 In conjunction with the International Conference on Social Informatics (SocInfo 2014) http://ibm.co/1j08AeL IMPORTANT DATES Paper submission deadline: Sept 22, 2014 Paper acceptance notifications: Oct 1, 2014 Camera Ready: Oct 5, 2014 ============================================================= Social media and digital traces from sensor such as smartcards and mobile phones have played a key role in providing insights into people's activities, opinions and day-to-day lives. These detailed user-generated information streams offer a unique opportunity for cities to understand and engage their citizens. The research domain of smarter cities aims to monitor disruptive events (e.g., emergencies, Olympics), analyze social behaviour, identify citizens' sentiment and understand their interactions with services. On the other side, cities can use their understanding of the citizen to foster stronger relationships with the diverse communities in their constituencies. This understanding could be applied to mobilize people on important issues such as education, health care, political engagement and community awareness. Also, new digital fabrication tools have been recently used to generate adoptable, dynamic and interactive architecture able to evolve together with urban dwellers, and it has been shown that new Internet-of-Things devices could effectively capture physical observations to understand how cities and urban centers work. As a result, cities now provide a living lab where applied research can be carried out to understand citizen and services with a focus on collaborative, user-centred design and co-creation. This workshop aims to bring together researchers and practitioners to discuss and explore the research challenges and opportunities in applying the pervasive and social computing paradigm to understand cities. We are seeking multidisciplinary contributions that reveal interesting aspects about urban life and exploit the digital traces to create novel citizen-centric applications that benefit not only citizens, but also urban planners and policy makers. We believe this topic will attract researchers from communities ranging for computational science, to social science and urban design. This workshop fosters discussions covering topics such as (but not limited to): - Use of social media to engage citizens, for example through gamification - Improving understanding of the city through mining social media - Disaster recovery and coordination using social media - Mobilizing the community through social media - Pervasive applications for user interaction and data collection - Enabling citizen and NGO initiatives through social media - Methodology for quality evaluation and validation of user generated content - Visualizations and interfaces to enable exploration of city data - Privacy and ethical concerns in citizen engagement - Internet of Things (IoT) for cities - Digital Fabrication tools for adaptable cities SUBMISSIONS In order to support submissions from various disciplines we will accept a number of options. - Long papers (no longer than 8 pages) and short papers (no longer than 4 pages) will be published along with the Springer proceedings of the conference. - Researchers wishing to submit to the conference but who do not wish to have their content published are welcome to submit position papers (no longer than 2 pages). These papers will not be published and therefore authors are free to submit this work elsewhere. All contributions must be submitted as PDF format to the EasyChair submission system (https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=citylabs2014) They should be formatted according to Springer LNCS paper formatting guidelines (http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0) ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Elizabeth M. Daly, IBM Research, Ireland Areti Markopoulou, IAAC/Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia Daniele Quercia, Yahoo Labs, Barcelona PROGRAM COMMITTEE Anthony Townsend, New York University Charlie Catlett, Argonne National Laboratory Colin Ellard, University of Waterloo Dani Villatoro, IIIA - CSIC Ed Manley, University College London Enrique Friasmartinez, Telefonica Giovanni Quattrone, University College of London José Luis De Vicente, CCCB Josep Perelló, University of Barcelona Mar Santamaria, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya Marcus Foth, Queensland University of Technology Michael Smyth, Edinburgh Napier University Mirco Musolesi, University of Birmingham Miriam Roure, MIT Neal Lathia, University of Cambridge Oleg Pachenkov, European University at St. Petersburg Olga Subiros, CCCB Prodromos Tsiavos, UCL/GFOSS Ramon Riberafumaz, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya Raz Schwartz, Cornell Tech NYC Rosta Farzan, University of Pittsburgh Sarah Gallacher, Intel Collaborative Research Institute Sascha Haselmayer, Living Labs Global — Professor Marcus Foth Director, Urban Informatics Research Lab Professorial Fellow, School of Design Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia m.foth(a)qut.edu.au – @UrbanInf – www.urbaninformatics.net CRICOS No. 00213J

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Re studying mobiles in Myanmar
by Sandra Braman 22 Jul '14

22 Jul '14

In response to Rich Ling's query, there are numerous items to mention but one would want to begin with the classic and still important book by Daniel Lerner from the 1950s, THE PASSING OF TRADITIONAL SOCIETY (re the Middle East) for a set of dimensions (re urbanization, participation in politics, etc.) that will be of importance with the mobile phone in Myanmar as elsewhere as a starting point. The technology involved is different, but here, as elsewhere, what was learned before the Internet and mobile telephony came along remains of deep value for questions such as this. Sandra Braman ----- Original Message ----- From: air-l-request(a)listserv.aoir.org To: air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org Sent: Monday, July 21, 2014 5:01:19 PM Subject: Air-L Digest, Vol 120, Issue 18 Send Air-L mailing list submissions to air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to air-l-request(a)listserv.aoir.org You can reach the person managing the list at air-l-owner(a)listserv.aoir.org When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of Air-L digest..." Today's Topics: 1. Re: Suggestions for literature on adoption of technology as background for our study of mobiles in Myanmar (OPEN) (john-willy.bakke(a)telenor.com) 2. European meta data researchers wanted (Mathias Klang) 3. The Fibreculture Journal?Call for Papers?Entanglements: Activism and Technology (Jean Burgess) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2014 12:24:23 +0000 From: <john-willy.bakke(a)telenor.com> To: <riseling(a)gmail.com>, <air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org> Subject: Re: [Air-L] Suggestions for literature on adoption of technology as background for our study of mobiles in Myanmar (OPEN) Message-ID: <57C423DD43E5384FB10AE35D448ECF282A506DF8(a)TNS-FBU-24-205.corp.telenor.no> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Hi Rich & the rest of the community Two titles come to my mind - both directly related to the introduction of phones: Assa Doron and Robin Jeffrey: The Great Indian Phone Book: How the Cheap Cell Phone Changes Business, Politics, and Daily Life (2013) Heather Hudson: When Telephones Reach the Village: The Role of Telecommunication in Rural Development (1984) BR, John Willy Bakke -----Original Message----- From: Air-L [mailto:air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org] On Behalf Of Rich Ling Sent: 2. juli 2014 09:10 To: air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org Subject: [Air-L] Suggestions for literature on adoption of technology as background for our study of mobiles in Myanmar Dear all,? Along with colleagues from Nanyang Technical University, I am starting an ethnographic study of the adoption and diffusion of mobile phones in Myanmar. The study is also being supported by Telenor. Myanmar is one of the last countries in the world without a well developed mobile communication network (the others are North Korea,? Cuba and Eritrea).? We are starting to put together the literature review and we are interested in gathering suggestions. We are using Jonathan Donner's lives and livelihoods idea to frame the work. Beyond that I would like to get the wisdom of the crowd regarding the articles and books that examine the question of introducing new technology to a society and tracing the social consequences of the technology.? I think,? for example, of Cottrell's Death by Dieselization or perhaps Sharp's Steel Axes for Stone-age Australians. I know that neither of these two articles are about ICTs and that both are as old as dust, ?but they focus on socio-technical transitions and their social consequences. ?What are the other articles and books in this genre that might help us focus on the transition from face to face interaction to mediated communication?? Thanks in advance.? Rich Ling _______________________________________________ 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/ ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2014 14:42:29 -0400 From: Mathias Klang <klang(a)ituniv.se> To: <air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org> Subject: [Air-L] European meta data researchers wanted Message-ID: <53CD5F15.3070309(a)ituniv.se> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1"; format=flowed Hi, Part of my work is for Commons Machinery (commonsmachinery.se) and we are applying for an EU grant. As part of this process we would like to include European researchers interested in culture and metadata. This should be a good opportunity for PhD students. Please contact me if you are interested. See the short proposal sketched out below regards Mathias *The **Snappy Title **Project* Commons Machinery and partners are planning to apply for funding for a project, the goal of which is to bridge the gap between audiences and artists by making cultural material more useable online. Succinctly, we're developing tools that make it possible to link back to the original context of images, even when those images are distributed and shared widely online. With this e-mail, we're looking for partners in academia, among cultural institutions, artists, and from the community itself -- as thought partners, active participants in the project, participants in our reference group or in other forms. *The Funding* We're applying for a small scale Cooperation Project under Creative Europe, with an expected deadline for submission the 1st of October 2014. The EU funds up to EUR 200,000 for small scale projects, and require a 40% co-financing by applicants. We're looking for a project that lasts 1?-2 years, with a start date in May 2015 - but we'll draft the final details in collaboration. Organizations from any part of the world may join, but there are restrictions on the funding that could be made available for organizations from outside of the EU (and some other countries, full list on http://ec.europa.eu/culture/opportunities/documents/eligible-countries_en.p…) *The****Background* Our online environment is awash with images, however many of these images have been moved from their original context and no longer retain the information that gives them meaning. When organizations and individuals put images online they are often viewed in within a single web domain, collection or authorship. However, due to the ease in copying, images are often removed from their original contexts and, through this, they lose some of their meaning and value; it becomes impossible to trace them back to their origin. From a practical point of view, it's also an issue for users who want to correctly reuse an image in accordance with copyright legislation; they must save copyright and other information to adequately attribute the creator, and maintain this information through all stages of their work. This system is unwieldy, complex, and unreliable. Using new technology with tool integration, information about the images could seamlessly follow the image without effort from the users. This system would not be limited to copyright basics such as authorship but can include a range of additional information about the image, for example, where the original is, which collection it belongs to, which organization retains rights to the image (if any!), and where users can learn more about the image. Such information could be automatically visualized and made available to users, even when they encounter images outside of their original context, for instance when an image has been shared online, posted in a forum, or made available on another web site. This is of interest to organizations connected with the image (such as galleries, libraries, archives, and museums). Such organizations, as well as the artists themselves and the audience, would all benefit from having a stronger association between each and every digital image and its' context. *The **Solution **& Our Hypothesis* Commons Machinery is working to create an infrastructure and the tools needed to make this association persistent. Our Elogio web service will enable an audience to save and use images, while keeping all relevant contextual information intact. It will also allow holders of information about images to make such information available through this common infrastructure in a way that when the audience encounter their images online, the contextual information is displayed, and when a user saves or uses an image, the original context is carried over into the resulting work. Our hypothesis is that if this information is made available to the audience, it would increase the bond between audiences and artists, and between audiences and cultural institutions. By visualizing the context in which images used online originally has appeared, we believe that the viewers will feel a stronger connection with the artists and the institutions holding the originals, leading to a potential in retaining and enlarging their audience, as well as improving the experience of viewing images online and deepening the relationships. *The Project & The **Test* The technology is still in its early stages, and our hypothesis is just this -- a hypothesis. Through this project, we would hope to learn more about how this kind of technology can be used for audience engagement, and if it does indeed lead to deeper and more relevant relationships. We envision a project where each main partner has specific and complementary skill sets and expertise. The content providers -- cultural institutions -- know their content and are interested in making it more usable to the public while ensuring that links back to their institution remain intact. Our systems developers will collaborate with these participating institutions in tailoring the system to their needs, providing education and training, and gathering data on its use. Research partners will be engaged in the gathering and analysis of the empirical data through qualitative interviews with the participants, surveys among users, and analysis of the data generated from the use of the system. Researchers will be actively involved by conducting in depth interviews with stakeholders, gathering empirical data about each of their needs. The data from the use of the system together with interviews will provide material for researchers working to evaluate the system in the wider context of sharing cultural material online. Community partners will be engaged throughout the project in raising awareness and interest in the project and the work by holding workshops, training sessions and facilitating other meetings involving the projects' stakeholder groups. The project will provide education and training materials about metadata and its usage to help content providers and individuals alike. *What we're looking for* If you, as an individual, as representing an organisation or institution, or your organization or institution as a whole, has an interest in the project, we invite you to email us at hello(a)commonsmachinery.se <mailto:hello@commonsmachinery.se> to introduce yourself. As mentioned in the beginning, we're looking for participants in our reference group of the project that will continuously influence the project by giving their thoughts on issues we'll be facing along the way. We're also looking for GLAM institutions and other information holders who may want to participate in the project by delivering information to it, and, with our help, engaging with their own audiences to try the tools (primarily browser extensions). We can only have a very limited number of such core partners though, but we'll aim to make the instructions available broadly so that others can also participate. In terms of research partners, we're looking for people and universities with a background and interest in researching these kinds of audience engagements through technology, or who have other complementary research agendas which they feel are interesting to explore in collaboration. -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Mathias Klang, Associate Professor, University of G?teborg Website: http://klangable.com US Cell: 215 882 0989 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ------------------------------ Message: 3 Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2014 21:16:41 +0000 From: Jean Burgess <je.burgess(a)qut.edu.au> To: AoIR <air-l(a)aoir.org> Subject: [Air-L] The Fibreculture Journal?Call for Papers?Entanglements: Activism and Technology Message-ID: <58AB30B3-0453-41F0-A114-3DE41E8BFFC4(a)qut.edu.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Dear colleagues, a reminder about our upcoming special issue of FCJ. Abstracts due on or before 20 August. Begin forwarded message: 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@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. ------------------------------ Subject: Digest Footer _______________________________________________ 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/ ------------------------------ End of Air-L Digest, Vol 120, Issue 18 **************************************

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Teaching Game Studies at DiGRA
by Paul, Christopher 22 Jul '14

22 Jul '14

We've still got a couple of spots left if people are going to DiGRA and want to talk about teaching game studies. If you have any questions, please feel free to ask. -chris Teaching Game Studies: DiGRA Edition Sunday, August 3, 2014, 1:30-4:45pm Organized by: Mia Consalvo, Concordia University Christopher Paul, Seattle University This half-day workshop is a follow-up to the one held at the Foundations of Digital Games conference in April 2014. Following that workshop a report was released, including syllabi, course post-mortems and a synthesis of the discussion regarding challenges and opportunities related to teaching game studies courses. This workshop continues that discussion and focuses on the following: *Sharing additional course experiences with new participants *In-depth discussion of a variety of assignments and their structure *Future projects or activities (creation of a network; special journal issue; book; more white-papers; etc.) *Other topics as desired by participants Participation is free and open to all DiGRA attendees. If you wish to attend, please email Christopher Paul (paulc(a)seattleu.edu<mailto:paulc@seattleu.edu>) with the following information: -Name -Institution and department -Teaching experience in game studies -Your goals and interests in this workshop Space is limited to 15 participants, so please RSVP by July 30, 2014 in order for us to plan the sessions accordingly.

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The Fibreculture Journal—Call for Papers—Entanglements: Activism and Technology
by Jean Burgess 21 Jul '14

21 Jul '14

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@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.

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European meta data researchers wanted
by Mathias Klang 21 Jul '14

21 Jul '14

Hi, Part of my work is for Commons Machinery (commonsmachinery.se) and we are applying for an EU grant. As part of this process we would like to include European researchers interested in culture and metadata. This should be a good opportunity for PhD students. Please contact me if you are interested. See the short proposal sketched out below regards Mathias *The **Snappy Title **Project* Commons Machinery and partners are planning to apply for funding for a project, the goal of which is to bridge the gap between audiences and artists by making cultural material more useable online. Succinctly, we're developing tools that make it possible to link back to the original context of images, even when those images are distributed and shared widely online. With this e-mail, we're looking for partners in academia, among cultural institutions, artists, and from the community itself -- as thought partners, active participants in the project, participants in our reference group or in other forms. *The Funding* We're applying for a small scale Cooperation Project under Creative Europe, with an expected deadline for submission the 1st of October 2014. The EU funds up to EUR 200,000 for small scale projects, and require a 40% co-financing by applicants. We're looking for a project that lasts 1½-2 years, with a start date in May 2015 - but we'll draft the final details in collaboration. Organizations from any part of the world may join, but there are restrictions on the funding that could be made available for organizations from outside of the EU (and some other countries, full list on http://ec.europa.eu/culture/opportunities/documents/eligible-countries_en.p…) *The****Background* Our online environment is awash with images, however many of these images have been moved from their original context and no longer retain the information that gives them meaning. When organizations and individuals put images online they are often viewed in within a single web domain, collection or authorship. However, due to the ease in copying, images are often removed from their original contexts and, through this, they lose some of their meaning and value; it becomes impossible to trace them back to their origin. From a practical point of view, it's also an issue for users who want to correctly reuse an image in accordance with copyright legislation; they must save copyright and other information to adequately attribute the creator, and maintain this information through all stages of their work. This system is unwieldy, complex, and unreliable. Using new technology with tool integration, information about the images could seamlessly follow the image without effort from the users. This system would not be limited to copyright basics such as authorship but can include a range of additional information about the image, for example, where the original is, which collection it belongs to, which organization retains rights to the image (if any!), and where users can learn more about the image. Such information could be automatically visualized and made available to users, even when they encounter images outside of their original context, for instance when an image has been shared online, posted in a forum, or made available on another web site. This is of interest to organizations connected with the image (such as galleries, libraries, archives, and museums). Such organizations, as well as the artists themselves and the audience, would all benefit from having a stronger association between each and every digital image and its' context. *The **Solution **& Our Hypothesis* Commons Machinery is working to create an infrastructure and the tools needed to make this association persistent. Our Elogio web service will enable an audience to save and use images, while keeping all relevant contextual information intact. It will also allow holders of information about images to make such information available through this common infrastructure in a way that when the audience encounter their images online, the contextual information is displayed, and when a user saves or uses an image, the original context is carried over into the resulting work. Our hypothesis is that if this information is made available to the audience, it would increase the bond between audiences and artists, and between audiences and cultural institutions. By visualizing the context in which images used online originally has appeared, we believe that the viewers will feel a stronger connection with the artists and the institutions holding the originals, leading to a potential in retaining and enlarging their audience, as well as improving the experience of viewing images online and deepening the relationships. *The Project & The **Test* The technology is still in its early stages, and our hypothesis is just this -- a hypothesis. Through this project, we would hope to learn more about how this kind of technology can be used for audience engagement, and if it does indeed lead to deeper and more relevant relationships. We envision a project where each main partner has specific and complementary skill sets and expertise. The content providers -- cultural institutions -- know their content and are interested in making it more usable to the public while ensuring that links back to their institution remain intact. Our systems developers will collaborate with these participating institutions in tailoring the system to their needs, providing education and training, and gathering data on its use. Research partners will be engaged in the gathering and analysis of the empirical data through qualitative interviews with the participants, surveys among users, and analysis of the data generated from the use of the system. Researchers will be actively involved by conducting in depth interviews with stakeholders, gathering empirical data about each of their needs. The data from the use of the system together with interviews will provide material for researchers working to evaluate the system in the wider context of sharing cultural material online. Community partners will be engaged throughout the project in raising awareness and interest in the project and the work by holding workshops, training sessions and facilitating other meetings involving the projects' stakeholder groups. The project will provide education and training materials about metadata and its usage to help content providers and individuals alike. *What we're looking for* If you, as an individual, as representing an organisation or institution, or your organization or institution as a whole, has an interest in the project, we invite you to email us at hello(a)commonsmachinery.se <mailto:hello@commonsmachinery.se> to introduce yourself. As mentioned in the beginning, we're looking for participants in our reference group of the project that will continuously influence the project by giving their thoughts on issues we'll be facing along the way. We're also looking for GLAM institutions and other information holders who may want to participate in the project by delivering information to it, and, with our help, engaging with their own audiences to try the tools (primarily browser extensions). We can only have a very limited number of such core partners though, but we'll aim to make the instructions available broadly so that others can also participate. In terms of research partners, we're looking for people and universities with a background and interest in researching these kinds of audience engagements through technology, or who have other complementary research agendas which they feel are interesting to explore in collaboration. -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Mathias Klang, Associate Professor, University of Göteborg Website: http://klangable.com US Cell: 215 882 0989 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

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