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2 Week Reminder - CFP: Alternate Reality Games
by Antero Garcia 04 Aug '14

04 Aug '14

*Hello everyone, just a quick, final note that chapter proposals for the CFP below are due on 8/15 - please get in touch if you have any questions.* *Call for Chapters: Alternate Reality Games and the Cusp of Digital Gameplay* Series: Approaches to Digital Game Studies, Bloomsbury Editors: Antero Garcia, Colorado State University & Greg Niemeyer, University of California, Berkeley Alternate Reality Games (ARGs) challenge what players understand as “real.” Though prominent examples of ARGs have persisted over the past two decades, only recently have ARGs come to the prominence as a unique and highly visible digital game genre. Adopting many of the same strategies as online video games, ARGs blur the distinction between the “real” and the “virtual.” We seek chapter proposals for a proposed collection that explores and defines the possibilities of ARGs. With ARGs continuing to be an important and blurred space between digital and physical gameplay, this collection offers clear analysis of game design, implementation, and ramifications for game studies. Divided into three distinct sections (noted below), this collection emphasizes first hand accounts by leading ARG creators, scholarly analysis of the meaning behind ARGs from noted critics and researchers, and explication of emerging visualization and data collection methodologies. We are particularly interested in cultivating research from various disciplinary perspectives; by balancing the voices of designers, players, and researchers, this work highlights how the Alternate Reality Game genre is transforming the ways we play and interact today. We seek chapter proposals that fit within one of the following three book sections: *Section One – Development and Execution* Chapters in this section of the book detail the design and implementation of ARGs. Authors pay attention to specific fictions, audiences, and goals within these ARGs and offer a clear step-by-step behind the scenes look at how these game designers engineer new modes of play and participation. *Section Two – Alternating Reality – how ARGs are changing games and society* These chapters focus on analysis and critique of ARGs. While some chapters may focus on specific games, other chapters in this section invoke larger trends in ARGs. *Section Three – Data Visualization and Collection* As the ARG genre is dependent on responding to the ways participants interact with one another and with a story’s content, this section of the book looks at how we interpret and construct data. In particular, the genre of digital games is reinventing new data visualization methodologies and this section should illuminate ways games display information during play and as synopsis after a game concludes. This edited volume has received initial interest from the Digital Game Studies series editors and we are currently seeking additional chapters to share with the editors and secure a book contract. *The deadline for proposals of 300-500 words is August 15, 2014. Please email your abstract and a 100 word biography to anterobot(a)gmail.com <anterobot(a)gmail.com> (please indicate to which section of the book your proposal is directed). All authors will be notified of acceptance by September 2nd and full chapter manuscripts would be due in April, 2015. Please do not hesitate to contact us with any questions at the above address.* -- Follow my exploits digitally at: www.theamericancrawl.com

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Re: [Air-L] Relationships between text and media objects
by Michele White 03 Aug '14

03 Aug '14

Hi Daniel, I have been teaching a course in the textual analysis of Internet and related technologies that addresses some of your research questions. We mainly build our analysis from humanities forms of close reading rather than web design or HCI texts. I have also been building arguments based on the reoccurring aspects of Internet sites in my previous and developing research and have an article on the use of textual analysis in Internet settings on my “to do” list. I have an outline of some Internet analysis methods that I could send to the listerv if there is any interest. Some of the following might be of use to you because they outline key textual and visual features of the web (and other aspects of the Internet and new media): Hayles, N. Katherine. How We Think: Digital Media and Contemporary Technogenesis. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2012. Menon, Elizabeth K. “Virtual Realities, Technoaesthetics and Metafictions of Digital Culture,” In The State of the Real: Aesthetics in the Digital Age, ed. Damian Sutton, Susan Brind, and Ray McKenzie. London: I.B. Tauris, 2007: 151-161. Wakeford, Nina. “Developing Methodological Frameworks for Studying the World Wide Web,” In Web Studies, 2nd. ed., ed. David Gauntlett and Ross Horsley. London: Arnold, 2004: 34-50. Landow, George P. Hypertext 3.0: Critical Theory and New Media in an Era of Globalization. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006. I think this key chapter on textual analysis might also be highly useful: Johnson, Barbara. “Teaching Deconstructively,” Writing and Reading Differently, ed. G.Douglas Atkins and M. L. Johnson (Lawrence: University of Kansas Press, 1986), 140-48. Thanks, Michele Professor Michele White Department of Communication 219 Newcomb Hall Tulane University New Orleans, LA 70118 Author of: Producing Women in Internet Sites: Traditional Femininity, Queer Engagements, and Creative Practices (Routledge, 2015). Buy It Now: Lessons from eBay (Duke University Press, 2012) The Body and the Screen: Theories of Internet Spectatorship (MIT Press, 2006)

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CALL FOR PANELISTS - Hawaii International Conference on Arts & Humanities, Honolulu, January 10-13, 2015
by David Zemmels 02 Aug '14

02 Aug '14

CALL FOR PANELISTS ============================================================= Hawaii International Conference on Arts & Humanities, Honolulu, January 10-13, 2015 http://www.hichumanities.org/ IMPORTANT DATES Submission/Proposal Deadline: August 15th, 2014 Acceptance notifications: 2-3 weeks later FORMAT OF PRESENTATION Panel sessions will last 90 minutes and it is the presenters’ choice how that time is split between panelists. PANEL DESCRIPTION Identity and Play: Playing with Self in Digital Games and Social Media Play with self and personal identity can vary over time, across media, and as a consequence of psychological and social context. Our focus in this panel will be to investigate how digital media designs and services affect the construction and maintenance of self. The panel discussion will examine specific examples of self construction in virtual environments and how existing media designs -- including, prominently, digital game designs -- engage, facilitate, and, potentially, inhibit play with self. We are positioning this panel as a review of existing research. Questions we would like to address include: Is there a “networked” self? What is consistent and what is incongruous in the presentation of self across social media? Is the construction of self in game-based media designs more or less gratifying than the construction of self in other (non-game-based) media designs? What game design components are most critical to the construction of self? E. g.: Avatar personalization/customization? Use of “alts”? Anonymity? Guilds and/or other multiplayer components? How important are traditional “social presence” features to the construction of self? How have digital media design technologies influenced the self construction process? To what extent can the construction of self be algorithmized and automated? Are self construction “apps” feasible? We would like panel participants to address broad questions such as these with reference to existing media designs and services (though accompanying theoretical speculation will also be desired and valued). CONTACT If interested in participating in this panel session, please contact before Aug. 15: David Zemmels, PhD, MFA zemmels(a)loyno.edu +1 (504) 865-3632 School of Mass Communication Loyola University New Orleans 6363 St. Charles Ave. New Orleans, LA 70118 ============================================================= ____________________________________ David Zemmels, PhD, MFA School of Mass Communication Loyola University New Orleans

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Final CFP: Revisiting Critical GIS - short meeting at Friday Habor
by Jim T 02 Aug '14

02 Aug '14

Hi all, Again, apologies for cross-posting. Also, to reiterate, this meeting is *very much* meant to appeal to a diverse set of scholars working on related topics in interesting ways. Please feel encouraged to apply or pass the CFP along to those who might be interested. Best, Jim Revisiting Critical GIS The rapid development and dissemination of digital geospatial technologies, datasets, and practices raise questions about how various arguments of 'critical GIS' remain as relevant as ever, require rejuvenation, or have run their course. Drawing in part on such developments, but also on enthusiasm for the digital humanities and on new materialist and even speculative realist currents of thought within social and cultural theory, the prospects for a renewed engagement between critical human and quantitative geographies appears more hopeful today than they have for some time (Barnes 2009). This forum provides a venue within which participants can think through these and other issues collaboratively, emerging with fresh ideas and perspectives to bring to research and teaching. To this end, the 2+ day format will blend pre-planned and collaboratively organized sessions. Four sessions have been organized around broad themes that touch upon recent discussions in the cognate literatures. Each participant will be associated with one of these planned sessions and will co-organize its content and format with others. Additionally, there are three periods scheduled for collaboratively formed sessions (collective or break-out) that emerge from the discussions at the conference. The event will be held from later on Friday, October 17th to the morning of Monday, October 20th at the University of Washington’s Friday Harbor Laboratories on San Juan Island <https://depts.washington.edu/fhl/>. Day 0 (Friday) Afternoon / evening arrivals, welcome event Dinner Note: Ferry/flight schedules tend to be such that one needs to arrive at this time in order to be present for the critical first sessions in the morning. Day 1 (Saturday) Breakfast Session 1: Getting to know one another: who we are, why we’re here, and what we want to do Session 2: The story so far: critical GIS, GIScience, and 'not only... but also' Lunch Session 3: Hybrids: Critical Quantification and Digital Humanities Session 4: Collaborative session I (Collective or break-out) Dinner Collaboration and creativity Day 2 (Sunday) Breakfast Session 5: Corporatization of spatial information and our response Session 6: What tools? What theory? Lunch Session 7: Collaborative session II (Collective or break-out) Session 8: Collaborative session III (Collective or break-out) Dinner Collaboration and creativity Day 3 (Monday) Breakfast Session 9: Concluding Session: Paths Forward Departure Given the nature of this event, the number of participants will be limited to fewer than thirty, with a firm aim towards inclusivity (including, but not limited to academic seniority; students, early career faculty, and #alt-ac are strongly encouraged to participate). Would-be participants should submit a short prospectus (300 word maximum). The prospectus should address what the participant hopes to do at the gathering and muse about what s/he hopes might emerge in the time beyond--a forward-looking aspirational piece, rather than a description of previous works. Prospectuses are due August 1, 2014 and successful applicants will be informed by September 1, 2014. Please submit your prospectus via email to revisitingcritgis(a)gmail.com. The cost of attendance is estimated to be approximately $345 for faculty and $225 for students, meals and shared accommodations included. Confirmation of costs will be provided at time of acceptance. Limited support may be available to assist graduate student attendance. Please apply and we will try to make a solution work. Organizing Committee Luke Bergmann, University of Washington Jim Thatcher, University of Washington - Tacoma David O’Sullivan, University of California - Berkeley Jeremy Crampton, University of Kentucky Sarah Elwood, University of Washington Reuben Rose-Redwood, University of Victoria Nadine Schuurman, Simon Fraser Matt Wilson, University of Kentucky References Barnes TJ. 2009. Not Only... But Also: Critical and Quantitative Geography. The Professional Geographer 61, 1442-54.

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REGISTRATION OPEN: Fan Studies Network Conference 2014, London
by Bertha Chin 01 Aug '14

01 Aug '14

Dear all, We are delighted to announce that registration for the Fan Studies Network Conference 2014 is now open. The event will take place on 27-28 September at Regent's University, London. You can register on the conference webpage here: http://www.regents.ac.uk/events/the-fan-studies-network-conference.aspx There are very limited spaces for the event, so we urge you to register as soon as possible. Full information about prices and location can be found via the link above. The current draft schedule is available to view online here: https://fanstudies.files.wordpress.com/2014/08/fan-studies-network-conferen… Any questions, please email us at fsnconference(a)gmail.com We think this will be a very exciting conference - we hope to see you there! The FSN conference team -- Dr. Bertha Chin Independent Scholar <http://cardiff.academia.edu/BerthaChin> @bertha_c Board Member, Fan Studies Network (http://fanstudies.wordpress.com/)

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Fan Studies Network Conference Registration
by bethanvjones 01 Aug '14

01 Aug '14

Dear all, We are delighted to announce that registration for the Fan Studies Network Conference 2014 is now open. The event will take place on 27-28 September at Regent's University, London. You can register on the conference webpage here: http://www.regents.ac.uk/events/the-fan-studies-network-conference.aspx There are very limited spaces for the event, so we urge you to register as soon as possible. Full information about prices and location can be found via the link above. The current draft schedule is available to view online here: https://fanstudies.files.wordpress.com/2014/08/fan-studies-network-conferen… Any questions, please email us at fsnconference(a)gmail.com We think this will be a very exciting conference - we hope to see you there! The FSN conference team

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Contents of Vol. 12, No. 1 of International Journal of Distance Education Technologies (IJDET, an EI journal)
by Maiga Chang 01 Aug '14

01 Aug '14

[Apologies if you receive multiple times, please circulate this to your colleagues who might be interested, thank you so much.] [This email includes the table of contents of Vol. 12, No. 1 of International Journal of Distance Education Technologies (IJDET, an EI journal) and the general call for papers of IJDET] ------- Annoucement of the publication of Vol. 12, No. 1 of IJDET (an EI journal)----------- http://www.igi-global.com/journal/international-journal-distance-education-… We are glad to announce the publication of Vol. 12, No. 1 of International Journal of Distance Education Technologies (IJDET, an EI journal). In this issue, SIX papers are included: What Kind of Employee Wants to Use Corporate E-Learning: An Empirical Case Study in the Financial Industry (pages 1-12) Tainyi Luor, Hsi-Peng Lu, Judy Chuan-Chuan Lin, Hueiju Yu Despite the plethora of previous studies on the various uses of e-learning, there is a dearth of research on employees' action to use corporate e-learning (ACE1). The present study attempts to address this lack in literature by investigating whether individual factors such as self-esteem and need for cognition, and job factors such as job hygiene factors (JHF) and job motivation factors (JMF) applied from Herzberg's Motivation-Hygiene Theory affect learners' ACE. This study tests the difference between high action and low action learners. Findings indicate that high action learners have higher individual factors and JMF than lower action learners. The difference in JHF between high action learners and low action learners is not significant. From a practical perspective, the authors' findings provide corporate e-learning providers with a heightened perspective into the possible actions of its employees regarding their use of corporate e-learning programs and platforms, which could offer organizations with important insights into human capital investment. http://www.igi-global.com/article/what-kind-of-employee-wants-to-use-corpor… Implementing Advanced Characteristics of X3D Collaborative Virtual Environments for Supporting e-Learning: The Case of EVE Platform (pages 13-37) Christos Bouras, Vasileios Triglianos, Thrasyvoulos Tsiatsos Three dimensional Collaborative Virtual Environments are a powerful form of collaborative telecommunication applications, enabling the users to share a common three-dimensional space and interact with each other as well as with the environment surrounding them, in order to collaboratively solve problems or aid learning processes. Such an environment is “EVE Training Area tool” which is supported by “EVE platform”. This tool is a three-dimensional space where participants, represented by three-dimensional humanoid avatars, can use a variety of e-collaboration tools. This paper presents advanced functionality that has been integrated on “EVE Training Area tool” in order to support: (a) multiple collaborative learning techniques (b) Spatial audio conferencing, which is targeted to support principle 3 (augmenting user's representation and awareness). Furthermore the paper presents technological and implementation issues concerning the evolution of “EVE platform” in order to support this functionality. http://www.igi-global.com/article/implementing-advanced-characteristics-of-… Analysing the Suitability of Virtual Worlds for Direct Instruction and Individual Learning Activities (pages 38-51) Telmo Zarraonandia, Rita Francese, Ignazio Passero, Paloma Diaz, Genoveffa Tortora Despite several researchers reporting evidence that 3D Virtual Worlds can be used to effectively support educational processes in recent years, the integration of this technology in real learning processes is not as commonplace as in other educational technologies. Instructional designers have to balance the cost associated with the development of these virtual environments with the expected outcomes reported by the use of the new technology, but for some types of learning processes those outcomes are not always easily predicted. In this document the authors experience using 3D Virtual Worlds is summarized with the aim of getting a deeper understanding of their potential pedagogical use when supporting two different types of learning activities commonly included on a course: direct instruction, which exploits the social dimension of the technology, and individual learning activities in which that feature is not used. Based on those experiences a set of guidelines for designing 3D virtual world learning environments is proposed. http://www.igi-global.com/article/analysing-the-suitability-of-virtual-worl… Effects of Implementing STEM-I Project-Based Learning Activities for Female High School Students (pages 52-73) Shi-Jer Lou, Huei-Yin Tsai, Kuo-Hung Tseng, Ru-Chu Shih This study aims to explore the application of STEM-I (STEM-Imagination) project-based learning activities and its effects on the effectiveness, processes, and characteristics of STEM integrative knowledge learning and imagination development for female high school students. A total of 72 female high school students were divided into 18 teams. Students were provided with a place to discuss, share, and integrate learning activities. A questionnaire and focus group interviews were conducted for data collection. The results show that STEM-I project-based learning activities can promote the development of diverse abilities and effectively expand STEM knowledge integration and learning for female high school students as well as enhance their imagination in the project-based activities. Additionally, the STEM-I instructional model with the process of initiation, development, expression, alternative, and links (IDEAL) is confirmed. Finally, some suggestions are proposed for future studies on STEM education and imagination integrative instruction. http://www.igi-global.com/article/effects-of-implementing-stem-i-project-ba… Factors Related to Students' Performance of Hybrid Learning in an English Language Course (pages 74-90) Saovapa Wichadee Redesigning a course along the lines of a hybrid format that blends face-to-face and online learning brings about changes in instructional practice. This paper introduces hybrid teaching that uses multiple web-based tools to supplement the students' face-to-face learning environment in a difficult situation in Thailand. In order to examine factors related to student learning achievement in the hybrid teaching course, data regarding learning achievement score, amount of participation, comfort with technology, and course satisfaction were collected from 182 students enrolled in an English course and analyzed by using correlation coefficients and multiple regression analysis. The findings indicated that students had a moderate level of satisfaction with the hybrid course and comfort with technology use, and previous experience of hybrid courses did not have an effect on their satisfaction. Student learning achievement was positively correlated with how much participation students had, but was negatively correlated with students' comfort with technology. There were no correlations between student learning achievement and how satisfied they felt with the hybrid course. In addition, an analysis of benefits and drawbacks of this hybrid course allowed teachers insights into what changes were needed when adjusting the hybrid course for language teaching. http://www.igi-global.com/article/factors-related-to-students-performance-o… Differences between Visual Style and Verbal Style Learners in Learning English(pages 91-104) Chiu-Jung Chen English proverb is an interested part when learner applied it in real life situation. The participants of this study were chosen from a big university in the middle area of Taiwan. The researchers selected some learners from Department of Foreign Language (DFL) and Department of Non-Foreign Language (DNFL). 40 students were from DFL, and 40 students were from DNFL. According to learner's short-term memory (STM) abilities, the researchers separated participants into four quadrants (Q1-Q4). According to visual style and verbal style of learning style, learning content representation (LCR) types are clarified into Type A, B, C. The research question is that participants with different STM abilities, how different LCR types affect the learning performance of English proverbs? The authors' results described that LCR with pictorial annotation (Type A) help participants with lower verbal ability and higher visual ability (Q2) to have better performance than other three quadrants, because type A participants feel easier to learn content presented in a visual form than in a verbal form. Providing LCR with both written and pictorial annotation (Type C) helps learners best with higher verbal ability and higher visual ability (Q1) in the recognition test. Providing redundancy learning content lead a higher cognitive load and result to irritation and lack of concentration, in accordance with the Cognitive Load theory. It implied that providing simple learning materials (only written annotation, Type B) is useful to participants with lower verbal ability and lower visual ability (Q3). The research results show that instructors should provide suitable learning materials to their learners in accordance with their STM abilities. http://www.igi-global.com/article/differences-between-visual-style-and-verb… ------- General Call for Papers for IJDET (an EI journal)----------- The electronic version of this cfp can be seen at http://maiga.athabascau.ca/editors/IJDET-Call_for_Papers-General.pdf International Journal of Distance Education Technologies (IJDET) (http://www.igi-global.com/journal/international-journal-distance-education-…) The International Journal of Distance Education Technologies (IJDET) is a forum for researchers and practitioners to disseminate practical solutions to the automation of open and distance learning. Targeted to academic researchers and engineers who work with distance learning programs and software systems, as well as general users of distance education technologies and methods, IJDET discusses computational methods, algorithms, implemented prototype systems, and applications of open and distance learning. All manuscripts submitted to the journal are peer-reviewed according to the procedure consisting of initial review, peer review, and recommendation Editor in Chief: Dr. Maiga Chang (maiga.chang(a)gmail.com) Indices: Compendex (Elsevier EI), DBLP, EBSCOhost, ERIC, Google Scholar, INSPEC, PsycINFOR, SCOPUS, and many others Suggested topics: IJDET is an EI journal and the scope of the journal includes, but is not limited to: - Assessment - Distance Learning for Culture and Arts - Intelligent and Adaptive Learning - Intelligent Agents and Multi-Agent Systems - Mobile Learning - Nurse Medical Healthcare - Pedagogical Issues - Social Learning - Serious Games for Distance Education - Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) Education - Technology Enhanced Learning - Ubiquitous Learning - Virtual Worlds for Distance Education Manuscript guidelines: All submissions have to follow IJDET manuscript guidelines at http://www.igi-global.com/publish/resources/journal-organization-and-format… http://www.igi-global.com/journals/guidelines-for-submission.aspx should be submitted online at http://www.ijdet.com/ after registering an account. Special Issue proposals: We also encourage potential research in any fields related to the journal to form a high quality guest editorial team to submit special issue proposal online, for any emerging, important, and hot topics. Please submit your special issue proposal online as a manuscript and choose "[Special Issue Proposal]" as its Section The special issue proposal sample can be downloaded at http://vip.is-very-good.org/editing/IJDET-Special_Issue_Proposal_Sample.doc For queries, please contact Dr. Maiga Chang (maiga.chang(a)gmail.com) ------------------------------------ Sincerely, Maiga Chang maiga.chang(a)gmail.com http://maiga.athabascau.ca 07, 31 '14 PM 11:32 in Edmonton --------------------------------- Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Technology for Education and Learning Executive Editor, International Journal of Distance Education Technologies (EI) Associate Editor, International Journal of Online Pedagogy and Course Design Learning Culture and Language through ICTs: Methods for Enhanced Instruction http://www.igi-global.com/reference/details.asp?ID=33419 ----------- Chair of GCCCE 2014 sub-conference on Joyful Learning and Society Co-Chair of ICCE 2013 sub-conference on Digital Game and Digital Toy Enhanced Learning and Society (GTEL&S) http://icce2013bali.org/ ----------- Guest Editor, Research and Practice in Technology Enhanced Learning Special Issue on Practical Applications of Mobile and Internet Educational Games http://www.apsce.net/Download/RPTEL-2012-SI5_PracticalEducationalGames_CFP.… Guest Editor, International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning (SSCI) Special Issue on Technology Enhanced Information Retrieval and Processing for Online Learning (Vol. 13, No. 5) http://www.irrodl.org/index.php/irrodl/issue/view/54 Guest Associate Editor, IEEE Technology and Engineering Education Special Issue on Cloud Computing Technology and Applications (Vol. 7, No. 2) http://www.ewh.ieee.org/soc/e/sac/itee/index.php/meem/article/viewFile/252/… http://www.ewh.ieee.org/soc/e/sac/itee/index.php/meem/issue/view/30 --------- School of Computing and Information Systems (http://scis.athabascau.ca/) Athabasca University 1200, 10011-109 Street Edmonton, T5J-3S8 AB, Canada --------------- Phone: +1-866-916-8646 Website: http://maiga.dnsalias.org and http://maiga.athabascau.ca CV: http://scis.athabascau.ca/scis/staff/faculty.jsp?id=maigac Leave me an Audio/Video message with JoinNet (required to install in Microsoft Windows OS first) http://meeting.athabascau.ca/gotomeeting.php?u=5&c=visit JoinNet software: http://www.homemeeting.com/en_US/download_joinnet.html

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