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New book: Handbook of Digital Politics
by Stephen Coleman 17 Sep '16

17 Sep '16

List members might be interested in the following new publication: Handbook of Digital Politics Edited by Stephen Coleman, Professor of Political Communication, School of Media and Communication, University of Leeds, UK and Deen Freelon, Assistant Professor, School of Communication, American University, Washington, DC, US Published by Edward Elgar Contents: 1. Introduction: Conceptualising Digital Politics Stephen Coleman and Deen Freelon PART I THEORIZING DIGITAL POLITICS 2. The Internet as a Civic Space Peter Dahlgren 3. The Social Foundations of Future Digital Politics Nick Couldry 4. The Fifth Estate: A Rising Force of Pluralistic Accountability William H. Dutton and Elizabeth Dubois 5. Silicon Valley Ideology and Class Inequality: A Virtual Poll Tax on Digital Politics Jen Schradie PART II GOVERNMENT AND POLICY 6. Online Voting Advice Applications: Foci, Findings and Future of an Emerging Research Field Fadi Hirzalla and Liesbet van Zoonen 7. Internet Voting: The State of the Debate Thad Hall 8. Digital Campaigning Daniel Kreiss 9. e-Petitions Scott Wright 10. Argumentation Tools for Digital Politics: Addressing the Challenge of Deliberation in Democracies Neil Benn PART III COLLECTIVE ACTION AND CIVIC ENGAGEMENT 11. The Logic of Connective Action: Digital Media and The Personalization of Contentious Politics W. Lance Bennett and Alexandra Segerberg 12. Youth Civic Engagement Chris Wells, Emily Vraga, Kjerstin Thorson, Stephanie Edgerly and Leticia Bode 13. Internet Use and Political Engagement in Youth Yunhwan Kim and Erik Amnå PART IV POLITICAL TALK 14. Everyday Political Talk in the Internet-Based Public Sphere Todd Graham 15. Creating Spaces for Online Deliberation Christopher Birchall and Stephen Coleman 16. Computational Approaches to Online Political Expression: Rediscovering a “Science of the Social” Dhavan V. Shah, Kathleen Bartzen Culver, Alex Hanna, Timothy Mcafee, and JungHwan Yang 17. Two-screen Politics: Evidence, Theory and Challenges Nick Anstead and Ben O’Loughlin PART V JOURNALISM 18. From News Blogs to News on Twitter: Gatewatching and Collaborative News Curation Axel Bruns and Tim Highfield 19. Research on the Political Implications of Political Entertainment Michael A. Xenos 20. Journalism, Gatekeeping and Interactivity Neil Thurman PART VI INTERNET GOVERNANCE 21. Internet Governance, Rights and Democratic Legitimacy Giles Moss 22. Social Media Surveillance Christian Fuchs PART VII EXPANDING THE FRONTIERS OF DIGITAL POLITICS RESEARCH 23. Visibility and Visualities: ‘Ways of Seeing’ Politics in the Digital Media Environment Katy Parry 24. Automated Content Analysis of Online Political Communication Ross Petchler and Sandra González-Bailon 25. On the Cutting Edge of Big Data: Digital Politics Research in the Social Computing Literature Deen Freelon ‘The Handbook of Digital Politics edited by Stephen Coleman and Deen Freelon is an incredibly rich and outstanding collection of essays on the ideologies, theories and methodologies that currently inspire the field of political science and communication. The editors brilliantly succeed in guiding us through this fascinating world – avoiding any rhetoric, or either a dystopian or utopian perspective on the subject. The articles collected here represent the golden section of the contemporary debate on digital politics.’ – Leopoldina Fortunati, Head of the Ph.D program in Multimedia Communication, University of Udine, Italy ‘Coleman and Freelon have deftly edited a series of essays that help us transition to the next big thing in political communication—an internet connecting many people over many kinds of devices, making large volumes of data. Digital politics is no longer so much about what happens in your browser, but about what happens when your devices talk to each other on their own. This collection helps us to get ready to understand the new infrastructure of political life.’ – Philip N. Howard, University of Washington, US Stephen Coleman Professor of Political Communication School of Media and Communication University of Leeds Recent publications: How Voters Feel: http://www.cambridge.org/gb/academic/subjects/politics-international-relati… Can The Media Serve Democracy? http://www.palgrave.com/page/detail/can-the-media-serve-democracy-stephen-c… Handbook of Digital Politics: https://www.e-elgar.com/bookentry_main.lasso?currency=US&id=15497

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New issue and call for submissions: Participations, the Journal for Audience and Reception Studies
by Rosenbaum-Andre, Judith E. 08 Dec '15

08 Dec '15

Participations, The Journal for Audience and Reception Studies has published its latest issue online at http://www.participations.org This issue once again offers a rich variety of articles, including an innovative study into the role played by online participation into narrative spoilers, a discussion about new directions for methodologies in fan studies, as well as a themed section on “Media generations”. This themed section, which consists of nine different publications, discusses differences in generational usage of media from various perspectives. The journal is open to all users, so please check out this latest endeavor. Participations is also always on the lookout for new contributions in the field of mass/popular culture. Please see http://www.participations.org/submission_guidelines.htm for details on submitting an essay ------------------------------------------------ Judith E. Rosenbaum, PhD Associate Professor, Mass Communication Research Facilitator, Health Disparities Research Community Albany State University 504 College Drive Albany, GA 31705 Phone: 229.430.3684 Office: BCB 261/Wiley 304

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Call for Book Chapters: "Internet Research Ethics for the Social Age: New Cases and Challenges”
by Michael T Zimmer 30 Nov '15

30 Nov '15

Call for Book Chapters: "Internet Research Ethics for the Social Age: New Cases and Challenges” Editors: Michael Zimmer and Katharina Kinder-Kurlanda Publisher: Peter Lang: Digital Formations (Steve Jones, series editor) Synopsis: The Internet and related social media technologies and platforms have opened up vast new means for communication, socialization, expression, and collaboration. They also have provided new resources for researchers seeking to explore, observe, and measure human opinions, activities and interactions. Increasingly, social media tools are used to aid traditional research: subjects might be recruited through Facebook or Twitter, surveys are administered and shared online, and data is often stored and processed on social and collaborative Web-based platforms and repositories. Social media has also emerged as a preferred domain for research itself: ethnographies take place within massively online social environments, entire collections of Facebook profile pages are scraped for data analysis, and public Twitter streams are routinely mined for academic purposes. Process data such as timestamps or logs are allowing researchers to model usage across time and space employing new computational methods. In short, academic research has begun to fully embrace what Maria Azua describes in her book, “The Social Factor: Innovate, Ignite, and Win through Mass Collaboration and Social Networking,” as “the social age,” the leveraging of the Internet and pervasive connected devices to enhance communication, information exchange, collaboration, and social interactions. As a result, researchers studying the internet find themselves immersed in a domain where information flows freely but potentially bound by contextual norms and expectations, where platforms may oscillate between open and closed information flows, and where data may be user-generated or proprietary. They are confronted with new economies of attention, where algorithms, memes and crowdfunding play a role in what is made visible on the Internet. As in its offline counterpart, Internet and social media-based research raises critical ethical issues of risk and safety to the human subject. The many disciplines already long engaged in human subjects research (such as medicine, anthropology, psychology, communication) have long-standing ethical codes and policies intended to guide researchers and those charged with ensuring that research on human subjects follows both legal requirements and ethical practices, and ethical review boards are charged with approving, monitoring, and reviewing research involving humans to ensure the rights and welfare of the research subjects are protected. But in the so-called “social age” – where individuals increasingly share personal information on platforms with porous and shifting boundaries, the aggregation of data from disparate sources is increasingly the norm, and web-based services, and their privacy policies and terms of service statements change too rapidly for an average user to keep up – the ethical frameworks and assumptions traditionally used by researchers and review boards alike are frequently challenged and, in some cases, inadequate. Researchers using the Internet as a tool or a space of research – and their ethical review boards – are confronted with a continuously expanding set of ethical dilemmas: What ethical obligations do researchers have to protect the privacy of subjects engaging in activities in “public” Internet spaces? Which national or international ethical standards apply when researching global networks, communities, or information flows? How is confidentiality or anonymity assured online? How is and should informed consent be obtained online? How should research on minors be conducted, and how do you prove a subject is not a minor? Is deception (pretending to be someone you are not or withholding identifiable information) in online spaces a norm, or a harm? Is “harm” possible to someone existing online in digital spaces? What are researchers’ obligations in spaces which are governed by platform providers? How should contend with inequalities in data access and uncertainties about data provenance and quality? In recent years, a growing number of scholars have begun exploring this new domain of Internet research ethics, numerous scholarly associations have drafted ethical guidelines for Internet research, and government regulatory authorities are starting to confront the myriad of ethical concerns Internet-based research brings to light. “Internet Research Ethics for the Social Age: New Cases and Challenges” will provide a necessary update to this existing scholarship in four critical ways: • First, as Internet tools and platforms continue to evolve at a rapid pace, we will seek to include brief case studies highlighting unique uses — and related ethical concerns — of the current state-of-the-art technologies and platforms, including new social media platforms like Vine and Tinder, cloud and distributed computing, wearable devices, health tracking applications, and so on. • Second, we will strive to expand the disciplinary terrain impacted by Internet-based research, expanding the investigation of research approaches within the social sciences to include computer science, medicine, engineering, and business, resulting in a more inclusive umbrella of domains that must confront the challenges of Internet research ethics. • Third, we will strive for a more global approach to the challenges of Internet research ethics, soliciting contributions from researchers in diverse regulatory environments, as well as those dealing with the complex ethical dimensions of researching platforms and users that cross borders. • And fourth, we will also pay attention to the new ‘players’ in the domain of internet research ethics, such as platform providers and other commercial data owners who might engage in their own research, frequently disrupting traditional mechanisms of ethical review. Submissions: We envision two kinds of submissions for “Internet Research Ethics for the Social Age: New Cases and Challenges”: - New Cases in Internet Research Ethics: We seek to include brief case studies highlighting unique uses — and related ethical concerns — of current state-of-the-art technologies and platforms within research contexts. Case studies can be descriptive and illustrative, and don’t necessarily need to resolve the ethical concerns. Cases could be examples from one’s own research, or an overview of various related projects in the field. Examples from industry, government, and academia are welcome. Topics for cases include, but are not limited to: • Social network analysis • Meta-data and log analysis • Digital ethnography • Mechanical Turk • Library of Congress Twitter archive • Mobile applications • Wearable computers • Facebook Emotion Contagion debate • Apple HealthKit • Internet shaming - New Challenges in Internet Research Ethics: Complementing the inclusion of various emerging cases, the 2nd part of the volume will provide broader discussions of new challenges in Internet research ethics. These chapters will tend to be more normative and analytical, engaging with the conceptual dimensions of Internet research ethics. We especially seek examples that consider a global perspective. Topics for discussion of challenges include, but are not limited to: • What constitutes a human subject? • What is the nature of Informed consent in online environments? • Issues of privacy and anonymity • Tracking & location privacy • Citizen science & crowdsourcing data collection • Information security • Data sharing & openness • Transnational information flows • Internal and industry-sponsored research Submission details and timeline: Potential contributors are invited to submit a 2-3 page chapter proposal to InternetResearchEthicsBook(a)gmail.com by December 1, 2015, detailing the chapter’s contribution and fit with the book, and the structure of the proposed chapter. Authors will be notified by January 15, 2016 as to the status of their proposal and sent formatting requirements. Full chapters should be 5,000-8,000 words in length (case studies may be shorter) and are due on May 1, 2016. After a round of editorial reviews, final revised manuscripts will be due on August 15, 2016. Editors: Dr. Michael Zimmer School of Information Studies University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Dr. Katharina Kinder-Kurlanda GESIS Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences Institute for Web Science and Technologies at Koblenz University Publisher: The book will be published within the Peter Lang “Digital Formations” series, edited by Dr. Steve Jones (UI-Chicago). Target publication date is late 2016/early 2017. -- Michael Zimmer, PhD Associate Professor and PhD Program Director, School of Information Studies Director, Center for Information Policy Research University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee e: zimmerm(a)uwm.edu w: www.michaelzimmer.org

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ANZCA 2016 CFP
by Marj Kibby 31 Oct '15

31 Oct '15

ANZCA 2016: CREATING SPACE IN THE FIFTH ESTATE University of Newcastle, Callaghan Campus, Newcastle, Australia 6-8 July 2016 Papers, presentations and panel proposals should be submitted by 4 March 2016 at http://anzca2016.com/call-for-papers/ A pre-conference symposium on Social Media Research is currently in the planning stage. ANZCA 2016: CREATING SPACE IN THE FIFTH ESTATE CALL FOR PAPERS While the notion of the fifth estate initially referred to bloggers, journalists and other non-mainstream media outlets it may be that the place we thought outliers occupied is now itself constituting a mainstream space. We want to include all the online networks that create and share information, constitute new communities, and aid in organising social movements that take the place of those that existed in an industrialised world as well as the traditional forms that are finding their niche in the new world. STREAMS: Citizenship Communication Theory Community Media Creativity-Creative Industries Cross Cultural, Interpersonal And Intercultural Cultural Politics Cultural Studies Digital Media Disability Environment And Science Ethics And Law Games Gender Global Media And Development Health Indigeneity Journalism Media History Media Studies Mobile Open Organisational Pedagogy Political Comms Public Relations Screen Production A/Prof Marjorie Kibby Humanities and Social Science Faculty of Education and Arts Communication and Media Research (CAMR) https://dcit.newcastle.edu.au/camr/ The University of Newcastle University Drive, Callaghan NSW 2308 +61 2 49216604 marj.kibby(a)newcastle.edu.au

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FW: [JoCI] New Special Issue: Research Methods in Community Informatics
by Michael Gurstein 31 Oct '15

31 Oct '15

Colleagues, I'll call your attention to this new special issue of JoCI co-edited by Andy Bytheway, Colin Rhinesmith and Mark Wolfe. http://www.ci-journal.net/index.php/ciej/issue/view/50 This is an excellent issue and one I've been looking to have developed for some time. I'll also call your attention to the "Editorial" from the co-editors which provides a very good introduction to the subject and to the special issue. http://www.ci-journal.net/index.php/ciej/article/view/1268/1168 M Michael Gurstein, Ph.D. Editor in Chief: Journal of Community Informatics web: http://ci-journal.net The Journal of Community Informatics Vol 11, No 3 (2015): Special Issue: Research Methods in Community Informatics Table of Contents http://www.ci-journal.net/index.php/ciej/issue/view/50 Editorial -------- Introduction: Research Methods for Community Informatics Colin Rhinesmith A Canadian Election Programme for Digital Citizenship and Social Equity Michael Gurstein, Ph.D. Articles -------- >From Exploration to Design: Aligning Intentionality in Community Informatics Projects Ammar Halabi, Amalia Sabiescu, Salomão David, Sara Vannini, David Nemer Meta-Synthesizing Qualitative Research in Information Systems Hossana Twinomurinzi, Roy Johnson Focus Groups as a Tool to Collect Data in a Community Informatics Project Involving Elderly Rural Women Ronel Smith Reflective evaluation of civil society development: A case study of RLabs Cape Town, South Africa Gary Brian Wills Contributions from Visitor Research to CI and ICT4D Theory and Research Methodology Patricia M Alexander Teaching Open Data for Social Movements: a Research Strategy Alan Freihof Tygel, Maria Luiza Machado Campos, Celso Alexandre Souza de Alvear Curriculum development for mobile digital literacy skills acquisition using a Design Science Approach Judy van Biljon, Ronell van der Merwe, Dalize Van Heerden, John Traxler Design for Sustainability: Countering the Drivers of Unsustainability in Development Projects Isabel Meyer, Mario Alphonso Marais Notes from the field -------- First Mile Methodologies in Community Informatics Research: Learning from First Nations Rob McMahon, Arline Chasle, Tim Whiteduck A Framework to Research the Social Determinants of ICTs for E-Health Lareen Ann Newman What are Community Wireless Networks For? Greta Byrum ________________________________________________________________________ The Journal of Community Informatics http://www.ci-journal.net

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Fwd: Information, Communication & Society, Volume 19, Issue 1, January 2016 is now available online on
by Jack Qiu 31 Oct '15

31 Oct '15

In case you haven't seen this, our new special issue of iCS on "Understanding Digital Cultures" has come online. This is based on the WUN (Worldwide Universities Network) conference we did in Hong Kong in April 2015. Check it out! And many thanks to those who supported us in the event and this special issue! Best, Jack and Brian *From: *"alerts(a)tandfonline.com" <alerts(a)tandfonline.com> *Subject: **Information, Communication & Society, Volume 19, Issue 1, January 2016 is now available online on* *Date: *October 30, 2015 at 4:44:39 AM PDT *To: *petercw(a)sfu.ca *Reply-To: *noreply(a)tandfonline.com [image: Taylor & Francis Online - The new journals and reference work platform for Taylor & Francis] <http://www.tandfonline.com/> The online platform for Taylor & Francis Online content Information, Communication & Society, Volume 19, Issue 1, January 2016 is now available online on <http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rics20/19/1?ai=1jg&ui=5ss6&af=H>Taylor & Francis Online <http://www.tandfonline.com/>. *Special Issue: *Understanding Global Digital Cultures This new issue contains the following articles: *Introduction * Understanding digital cultures <http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1369118X.2015.1094114?ai=1jg&ui…> Jack Qiu & Brian D. Loader Pages: 1-3 DOI: 10.1080/1369118X.2015.1094114 *Articles * Digital media activities and mode of participation in a protest campaign: a study of the Umbrella Movement <http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1369118X.2015.1093530?ai=1jg&ui…> Francis L.F. Lee & Joseph Man Chan Pages: 4-22 DOI: 10.1080/1369118X.2015.1093530 Indigenous voices and mediatized policy-making in the digital age <http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1369118X.2015.1093534?ai=1jg&ui…> Tanja Dreher, Kerry McCallum & Lisa Waller Pages: 23-39 DOI: 10.1080/1369118X.2015.1093534 Understanding the value of networked publics in radio: employing digital methods and social network analysis to understand the Twitter publics of two Italian national radio stations <http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1369118X.2015.1093532?ai=1jg&ui…> Tiziano Bonini, Alessandro Caliandro & Alessandra Massarelli Pages: 40-58 DOI: 10.1080/1369118X.2015.1093532 Citizen attitudes towards China's maritime territorial disputes: traditional media and Internet usage as distinctive conduits of political views in China <http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1369118X.2015.1093527?ai=1jg&ui…> David Denemark & Andrew Chubb Pages: 59-79 DOI: 10.1080/1369118X.2015.1093527 Synchronicity matters: defining the characteristics of digital generations <http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1369118X.2015.1093528?ai=1jg&ui…> Sakari Taipale Pages: 80-94 DOI: 10.1080/1369118X.2015.1093528 Kids Code in a rural village in Norway: could code clubs be a new arena for increasing girls’ digital interest and competence? <http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1369118X.2015.1093529?ai=1jg&ui…> Hilde G. Corneliussen & Lin Prøitz Pages: 95-110 DOI: 10.1080/1369118X.2015.1093529 Constructive activism in the dark web: cryptomarkets and illicit drugs in the digital ‘demimonde’ <http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1369118X.2015.1093531?ai=1jg&ui…> Alexia Maddox, Monica J. Barratt, Matthew Allen & Simon Lenton Pages: 111-126 DOI: 10.1080/1369118X.2015.1093531 Factors for success in repeat crowdfunding: why sugar daddies are only good for Bar-Mitzvahs <http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1369118X.2015.1093533?ai=1jg&ui…> Roei Davidson & Nathaniel Poor Pages: 127-139 DOI: 10.1080/1369118X.2015.1093533 Interested in publishing your Sociology research? Watch our new video to find out more <http://www.tandfonline.com/action/clickThrough?id=6695&url=https%3A%2F%2Fww…> . To update which email alerts you receive, manage your alerts <http://www.tandfonline.com/action/showPreferences?menuTab=alerts> within the My Account area. You can also unsubscribe <http://www.tandfonline.com/action/removeAlert?ai=0&sig=1> from this alert with one click. If you need any further help, please contact us at support(a)tandfonline.com Please do not reply to this email. To ensure that you receive your alerts and information from Taylor & Francis Online, please add " alerts(a)tandfonline.com" and "info(a)tandfonline.com" to your safe senders list. Taylor & Francis, an Informa business. Taylor & Francis is a trading name of Informa UK Limited, registered in England under no. 1072954. Registered office: 5 Howick Place, London, SW1P 1WG -- Jack Linchuan Qiu, Ph.D. Associate Professor School of Journalism and Communication, The Chinese University of Hong Kong http://jack.com.cuhk.edu.hk/ -- Jack Linchuan Qiu, Ph.D. Associate Professor School of Journalism and Communication, The Chinese University of Hong Kong http://jack.com.cuhk.edu.hk/

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WEBCAST FRIDAY: The High Politics of Internet Governance – WSIS+10 Panel @ColumbiaSIPA
by Joly MacFie 30 Oct '15

30 Oct '15

SIPA have kindly offered ISOC-NY 5 seats at this event. *Only if you definitely will attend* please RSVP at http://www.meetup.com/isoc-ny/events/226348878/. For the rest of us there will be a livestream. joly posted: "On Friday October 30 2015 Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs will present a lunchtime panel The High Politics of Internet Governance: Global Policy Conflicts a Decade after the World Summit on the Information Society. On Dece" [image: SIPA WSIS+10] <http://livestream.com/sipa/events/4458501>On *Friday October 30 2015* Columbia University's *School of International and Public Affairs <https://sipa.columbia.edu/>* will present a lunchtime panel *The High Politics of Internet Governance: Global Policy Conflicts a Decade after the World Summit on the Information Society <https://sipa.columbia.edu/experience-sipa/events/the-high-politics-of-inter…>*. On December 15-16 in New York, the United Nations is convening a *General Assembly High-Level Meeting <http://unpan3.un.org/wsis10/GA-High-Level-Meeting> *to review the goals of the World Summit on the Information Society after a decade (WSIS+10) and to craft a future vision for the information society. Input from various stakeholders has raised questions about the future of the Internet and who will run it. This Columbia SIPA panel will explain the implications of this dialog for Internet sustainability, security, and freedom, and how this high-level discussion connects to the planned transition of U.S. oversight in Internet governance. Moderator: *Merit Janow*, Dean, School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University. Panel: *Laura DeNardis*, Professor, American University, and Senior Research Scholar, Columbia SIPA; *Gordon Goldstein*, Managing Director and Head of External Affairs, Silver Lake Group; *Ambassador David Gross*, Partner, Wiley Rein; *Veni Markovski*, Vice President, ICANN; *Ambassador Janis Mazeiks*, Ambassador, Permanent Mission of the Republic of Latvia to the United Nations. The event will be webcast live via the *Columbia SIPA Livestream Channel <http://livestream.com/sipa/events/4458501>*. *What: The High Politics of Internet Governance: Global Policy Conflicts a Decade after the World Summit on the Information Society <https://sipa.columbia.edu/experience-sipa/events/the-high-politics-of-inter…> Where: School of International and Public Affairs, NYC When: Friday October 30 2015 1pm-2pm EDT | 17:00-18:00 UTC Webcast: http://livestream.com/sipa/events/4458501 <http://livestream.com/sipa/events/4458501> Twitter: @ColumbiaSIPA <https://twitter.com/search?q=%40ColumbiaSIPA> | #WSIS10 <https://twitter.com/hashtag/WSIS10>* Comment <http://isoc-ny.org/p2/8152#respond> See all comments <http://isoc-ny.org/p2/8152#comments> *Permalink* http://isoc-ny.org/p2/8152 -- --------------------------------------------------------------- Joly MacFie 218 565 9365 Skype:punkcast -------------------------------------------------------------- -

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Fwd: Postdoctoral Research Associate (Creative Technologies and Making)
by Jeremy Hunsinger 30 Oct '15

30 Oct '15

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Nick Taylor (Staff) <n.x.taylor(a)dundee.ac.uk> Date: Fri, Oct 30, 2015 at 6:51 AM Subject: Postdoctoral Research Associate (Creative Technologies and Making) To: PHD-DESIGN(a)jiscmail.ac.uk We are recruiting a postdoctoral research associate to work on the EPSRC-funded Hacking for Situated Civil Engagement project, based at the University of Dundee. The project concerns the use of hackathons as a method for co-designing civic technologies to address local issues in a Dundee neighbourhood. The researcher will be responsible for co-organising a series of hackathon workshops bringing together community members and local makers. Based on the outputs of these hackathons, the researcher will develop a number of refined prototypes that will be deployed and evaluated in the community. The researcher will be based in DJCAD's new Research Studio and will be expected to play a role in developing the studio community. This will be a full time, fixed-term post for 12 months from 1 March 2016. The closing date is 20 November 2015. For further details, please see: http://ig5.i-grasp.com/fe/tpl_uod01.asp?newms=jj&id=94456&newlang=1 Enquiries can be directed to n.x.taylor(a)dundee.ac.uk<mailto: n.x.taylor(a)dundee.ac.uk> -- Nick Taylor | Dundee Fellow | DJCAD | University of Dundee n.x.taylor(a)dundee.ac.uk<mailto:n.x.taylor@dundee.ac.uk> | www.nick-taylor.co.uk<http://www.nick-taylor.co.uk> The University of Dundee is a registered Scottish Charity, No: SC015096 ----------------------------------------------------------------- PhD-Design mailing list <PHD-DESIGN(a)jiscmail.ac.uk> Discussion of PhD studies and related research in Design Subscribe or Unsubscribe at https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/phd-design -----------------------------------------------------------------

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New job vacancy: Junior Professorship "Communication and media studies with a focus on media society"
by Dr. Leif Kramp 29 Oct '15

29 Oct '15

New job vacancy at the ZeMKI, Centre for Media, Communication and Information Research, University of Bremen: Junior Professorship (W1) "Communication and media studies with a focus on media society". Application deadline: 3rd December 2015 The University of Bremen, a mid-sized university with 250 professorships and 19,000 students, offers a broad range of disciplines and competes internationally in top-level research. With an ambitious institutional strategy the university was successful in the Excellence Initiative as one of eleven universities in Germany.The university will now strengthen research and development by awarding temporary professorships in a number of defined dynamic areas. One of these areas is the main research field of “Media Change”, which investigates the communicative figurations of mediatized cultures and societies.The University of Bremen, Faculty 9 Cultural Studies invites applicants for the following position: Junior Professorship Pay grade: W1 for the duration of 3 years (with a renewal option of further 3 years, depending on a successful interim evaluation) "Communication and media studies with a focus on media society" (Code number: JP 892/15) Applicants should have expertise in media and communication research with a focus on social communication and medial moulding of social processes. The research should focus on a cross-media perspective within at least two of the following main areas: appropriation and user practices of digital media; cultural, social and economical contexts of digital media; opportunities and risks of data collection; digital methods/computer-assisted collection and analysis procedures. An engagement within the main research field “Media Change” within the Faculty of Cultural Studies, the acquisition of third-party funding and interdisciplinary research cooperation within the Centre for Media, Communication and Information Research (ZeMKI) and its research group “Communicative Figurations of Mediatized Worlds” are expected. Teaching is dedicated to the BA and MA programs of the Institute for Historic Journalism, Communication and Media Studies (IPKM) and should include thematic courses in social communication and medial moulding of social processes as well as basic principles of communication and media studies and their methods. An interest in further establishing postgraduate programs is also expected. In addition to the pre-conditions of civil service law, a relevant doctoral dissertation and other relevant academic achievements of outstanding quality are required. A further requirement is that the successful candidates can evidence their pedagogical-didactic suitability by documented teaching experience. Applicants are expected to have acquired teaching skills in the German language after a period of 2-3 years. Junior professors will be unburdened from teaching in the initial stage to further qualify themselves academically. The teaching duties account for 4 semester periods per week. The University of Bremen has received a number of awards for its diversity policies. We strive to increase the number of female researchers and particularly solicit applications from suitably qualified female candidates. International applications and applications on the part of academics with a migration background are explicitly welcome. Disabled persons with the same professional and personal qualifications will be given preference. For further information please contact the head of the Centre for Media, Communication and Information Research (ZeMKI), Prof. Dr. Andreas Hepp (andreas.hepp(a)uni-bremen.de) Please send your application by 3rd December 2015 including CV, a list of publications and teaching experience, research profile and relevant certificates citing the reference number to: Dean of Faculty 9 – Cultural Studies Prof. Dr. Dorle Dracklé University of Bremen Postfach 330 440 28334 Bremen Germany

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McLuhan and the academic world
by Paul Levinson 29 Oct '15

29 Oct '15

quote from McLuhan in an Age of Social Media <http://www.amazon.com/dp/B01711U3GG/ref=nosim/?tag=dexter2a-20> -Paul

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