May 2015 - Air-L - lists.aoir.org

Re: [Air-L] Qualitative Data Analysis Software
by Andrea Guzman 13 May '15

13 May '15

Hello Andrew and all, I used MAXQDA for coding and additional analysis for my interviews. The program also has a system for creating memos (stand alone, attached to text, attached to codes, etc) and creating internal document links. I really like the export feature that has saved me a lot of time when writing. Andrea -- Andrea L. Guzman, M.A. PhD Candidate Department of Communication University of Illinois at Chicago aguzma31(a)uic.edu

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CFP Bridging Gaps: Where is the Persona in Celebrity and Journalism? (New York, 2015)
by Dr Samita Nandy 13 May '15

13 May '15

*Call for Papers* *Bridging Gaps:* *Where is the Persona in Celebrity and Journalism?* * The Terrace Club** 25 W. 51st St. (Off Fifth Ave.) New York, NY* * September 2-3, 2015 * In tabloid journalism and in social media, gossip, rumors and scandals about celebrities develop intimacy among fans. Such gossip and rumour mongering serves a purpose in society: to build a common moral ground on the backs of celebrity lives. However what about the celebrities themselves whose emotional lives are consumed by us? The production, circulation and reception of these celebrities then negate the democratic role of journalism in providing value-free information and undermine artistic talent and activism for which many celebrities became famous. Corporate interests of governments and businesses have dominated the field of journalism and the new industry, in particular. A combination of media productions such as interviews, portraits, diary entries, life-writing, and unedited footage can facilitate a relation between celebrities as subjects of journalistic enquiry and modes of their representation. The biographical and autobiographical elements in these productions can express nuances and subtleties of creative drives that construct public personas. Scholars can also act as journalists and interview celebrities, adding research as informed opinions. As celebrity studies scholar Olivier Driessens suggests, there are innovative ways in which researchers can surpass cultural intermediaries, such as managers, who control the celebrity's agenda, and fill methodological gaps in media studies and practices. We need to build academic, media and community partnerships to implement creative strategies and informed opinions in content production. What creative strategies do you implement to position your modes of inquiry in celebrity culture? How can journalists benefit from researchers in developing stories? Should academics become cultural critics to build an engaged audience? Show new and powerful ways of storytelling that journalists and researchers should consider in examining authentic personas in fame. The Centre for Media and Celebrity Studies (CMCS), in association with sponsors WaterHill Publishing and Centre for Ecological, Social, and Informatics Cognitive Research (ESI.CORE), invites academics, journalists, publicists, social innovators and guests to attend, speak and collaborate at the international conference *Bridging Gaps - Where is the Persona in Celebrity and Journalism*? Join us in NYC where the conference will uniquely combine vibrant roundtable and workshop panels in a collaborative network! We invite original cross-disciplinary proposals for the conference. Extended version of selected best papers will be published in an edited book by WaterHill Publishing. Working papers and media productions will be considered. *Submission guidelines:* - 250-word abstract or workshop / roundtable proposal - Include a title, your name, e-mail address, and affiliation if applicable - Submit to conference Chairs Dr Jackie Raphael and Dr Samita Nandy at *celeb.studies(a)gmail.com <celeb.studies(a)gmail.com>* - Deadline for submission: *June 1, 2015* - Notification of acceptance: *June 8, 2015* - Conference presentation: *September 2-3, 2015* The format of the conference aims at being open and inclusive through roundtable and workshop panels with substantial discussion and networking sessions. We welcome speculative ideas, exploratory practices, position papers, manifestos, performances as well as traditional academic papers from affiliated and independent researchers, journalists, social innovators and related media professionals. *Topics include but are not limited to:* - Persona - Celebrity - Scandals - Infamy - Online Fame - Social Media - News - Journalism - Publicity - Policies - Interviews - Audiences - Fandom - Fiction - Genre - Biography - Literature - Film - Video - Television - Fashion - Photography - Selfies - Portraiture - Art History - Performance - Life Writings - Diaspora - Theory and Methods - Research Agenda - Business Models - Ethics and Morality - Cognition and Memory - Media Literacy - Social Innovation - Education and Advocacy - Community Building - Business and Community Partnerships Enjoy your stay and meetings at Club Quarters during the conference. We invite applicants to visit www.clubquarters.com <http://cmc-centre.com/conferences-2015/nycsept15/www.clubquarters.com> to view the hotel. Discounted rates will be available for accepted delegates after June 8, 2015. Conference URL: http://cmc-centre.com/conferences-2015/nycsept15/. <http://cmc-centre.com/conferences-2015/nycsept15/> *Dr Samita Nandy*Director, Centre for Media and Celebrity Studies (CMCS) Reviewer, Routledge, SAGE Publications and Wilfrid Laurier University Press PhD Curtin University, Australia (Media / Celebrity) MA and BA York University, Canada (Communication) URL <samitanandy(a)gmail.com>: <http://www.cmc-centre.com/> http://www.cmc-centre.com/ | www.samitanandy.com

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Reminder: Call for papers "Divides: Inclusion & Representation Across the Web"
by Lindsay Poirier 13 May '15

13 May '15

"Divides: Inclusion & Representation Across the Web" http://divides2015.org/ Workshop at the 2015 ACM Web Science Conference http://websci15.org/ Oxford University | June 28, 2015 - July 1, 2015 ------------------------------------------------------------ -------------------------------- While the Web has immensely expanded opportunities for diverse populations to engage in global discussions and contribute to online content, questions on how to expand online inclusivity and better attend to a politics of representation remain pertinent to Web Science. In their monograph, "Web Science: Understanding the Emergence of Macro-Level Features on the World Wide Web," O'Hara et al set forth that the scientific study of the Web hinges on considering how micro-level actions emerge into macro-level phenomena. The goal of this workshop is to reflect on these micro-level actions from the standpoint of users who have been habitually excluded from or misrepresented in Web environments and to consider how these divides play a role in shaping macro-level phenomena. In doing so, the workshop aims to facilitate interdisciplinary discussions that consider how Web standards, technologies, platforms, and research methodologies could be improved so as to increase inclusivity and refocus representation on the Web. This workshop is framed in terms of 'divides' both strategically and with caution. Focus on 'bridging the digital divide' has privileged concerns about access to digital technologies over the design and research decisions that facilitate exclusion and misrepresentation. While exclusion from the Web is an issue that needs to be attended to, we would like to broaden the concept of digital divides. The traditional focus narrows the scope of 'divides' to those who have access to digital technology v. those that do not, ignoring the diversity of users with access, the role of architecture in causing exclusion, and the role of certain research methodologies in establishing a politics of representation. In another sense, the traditional focus forecloses rich interdisciplinary collaborations; bridging the digital divide becomes a mutually exclusive activity where social scientists point out excluded populations and computer scientists design and deliver. Instead, this workshop will aim to reinvigorate the concept of 'divides' with a focus on how social scientists and computer scientists can draw on each other's expertise in order to offer insights on how Web standards, technologies, and platforms can be restructured to enhance participation and engagement with the Web amongst diverse populations. It will additionally consider how research studying the Web as complex socio-technical system can better attend to those who have been excluded from or poorly represented in Web environments. The workshop aims to collect empirical cases that exemplify why an attention to divides is so critical to Web Science. The organizers want to provide a forum in which both social scientists and computer scientists can draw from their experiences in designing and studying the Web in order to provide concrete examples of exclusion and misrepresentation. ------------ Submissions ------------ We are seeking papers that provoke conversation on Web exclusion and misrepresentation, report on experiences from past or current projects, that offer ideas for solutions, or strategies. Relevant topics may include but are not limited to: * Access and opportunities for engagement * Inequality of access and inequality of representation * Visibilities and invisibilities * Postcolonial/feminist/critical race viewpoints on the Web * Resistance and quirky approaches to using the Web * Marginalization on the Web * Politics of data ideologies, practices, and visualizations * Politics of Web architectures and platforms * Examples of Web technologies that consider marginalized users Submissions should be made via EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=divides2015 Papers should be no more than two pages in Word or PDF format, formatted according to the official ACM SIG proceedings template ( http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates) Please use the ACM 1998 classification scheme (http://www.acm.org/about/class/1998/) ------------ Important Dates ------------ Submission deadline: May 16, 2015 (23:59 Hawaiian time) Notification: May 26, 2015 Camera-ready: June 20, 2015 Workshop date: June 29, 2015 WebSci15 Conference dates: June 28 to July 1, 2015 Early bird registration for WebSci15: May 28, 2015 ------------ Workshop Organisers ------------ Lindsay Poirier (Science and Technology Studies, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute), Email:poiril@rpi.edu<mailto:poiril@rpi.edu> Elzabi Rimington (Web Science CDT, University of Southampton), Email: emr2g08(a)soton.ac.uk<mailto:emr2g08@soton.ac.uk> Katharina Kinder-Kurlanda (GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences), Email: katharina.kinder-kurlanda(a)gesis.org<mailto: katharina.kinder-kurlanda(a)gesis.org> -- Lindsay Poirier MS/PhD Student, Research Assistant Science and Technology Studies Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute poiril(a)rpi.edu | lindsaypoirier.com

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What personal significance does the internet have for users?
by Daniel Jung 13 May '15

13 May '15

Hi In an article I am preparing, I write about an African informant's personal assessment of what the internet means to him. He underlines that the internet is a direct extension of previous technology like telegraph, telefax, and that it continues to offer "Verschriftlichung" (putting oral into writing). After describing his view, I claim: "I have a hunch that European users would rather emphasize speed, convenience, ubiquity and access to the realm of information, than the /solidifying /of information." But this is just a hunch, and I don't know if I am correct. Are there studies to back up or refute my claim? Are there surveys contrasting users (by culture or age) in their perception of what the internet means? Thanks for any pointers! -- Daniel Jung

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Bourdieu and the media - A new issue of MedieKultur available now
by Sara Mosberg Iversen 13 May '15

13 May '15

Dear list members We’re happy to announce that the latest issue of <http://ojs.statsbiblioteket.dk/index.php/mediekultur/issue/current> MedieKultur<http://ojs.statsbiblioteket.dk/index.php/mediekultur/issue/current> has just been published. The theme is "Bourdieu and the media”. See also our most recent calls<http://ojs.statsbiblioteket.dk/index.php/mediekultur/index> for contributions. Best Sara Mosberg Iversen, Journal Manager Associate Professor, Department for the Study of Culture University of Southern Denmark

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Call for papers - Theorising Digital Society symposium
by Deborah Lupton 12 May '15

12 May '15

Hi all THEORISING DIGITAL SOCIETY UNIVERSITY OF CANBERRA, 14 SEPTEMBER 2015 Drawing inspiration from the successful ‘Theorizing the Web’ conferences held annually in the USA since 2011, this one-day symposium will present new research that brings theoretical perspectives to bear on contemporary digital media and other digital technologies. The keynote speaker is Professor Susan Halford, Head of the Department of Sociology, Social Policy and Criminology and Co-Director of the Web Science Institute, University of Southampton, UK. The symposium will be free of charge to all participants, but the numbers of speakers and attendees will be limited. Please submit titles and abstracts of up to 200 words to Professor Deborah Lupton, the symposium convenor, by email (deborah.lupton(a)canberra.edu.au) The deadline for submission is 30 June 2015. Papers are invited that address the following topics or others related to the theme: - * Theorising methods of researching digital society - * Digital social networks and social media - * Software, code and platform studies - * Apps as artefacts - * Big data cultures and the digital data economy - * Materialisations of data - * Gamification and game cultures - * Self-tracking devices, wearable tech and the quantified self - * Characteristics of digital technology use and non-use - * Veillance/surveillance and digital technologies - * Embodiment, selfhood and digital technologies - * The Internet of Things - * Maker cultures - * Design and artistic responses to digital society - * Work and labour in digital society - * Social activism and social movements using digital technologies - * Gender, race/ethnicity, age, disability, sexual identity, geographical location and social class and how these structure digital technology use and meanings - * Celebrity and fandom on the internet Th

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IR16 DC update
by Pauline Cheong 11 May '15

11 May '15

Good Day! Kindly forward to interested persons and relevant networks. The *Doctoral Colloquium* at the IR16.0 conference in Phoenix, Oct. 21, 2015 *Latest news and updates*: http://aoir.org/ir16/doctoral-colloquium/ Submission deadline: June 15, 2015 Please feel free to contact me with any questions. All the best and look forward to seeing you in Phoenix, Pauline ---------------------------------------------- *Pauline Hope Cheong, Ph.D.* Doctoral Colloquium Chair, IR16 *Associate Professor* *Hugh Downs School of Human Communication* *Arizona State University*

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Re: [Air-L] Meet the Candidates for the AoIR Executive Committee
by Ben Light 11 May '15

11 May '15

Okay following up on this - this is a clear case of candidate fail! I suffered at the hands of the power of default. Our profiles in the AoIR membership system are set to be locked down in privacy terms, and of course this translates into the discussion facility. If you want to comment or are a candidate, I recommend you visit privacy settings and open them up. Of course, I realise some people might want to comment anonymously - if so you you might want to visit privacy to lock things back down! Candidates, we really do need to open up our profiles though otherwise no one can work out who’s saying what unless we put our name at the top/bottom of a post. But also, the discussion digest won’t list your name, just anonymous, if you don’t open it up so any workaround might not be that helpful. Cheers, B. such fail, many redness, much honesty WOW! On 11/05/2015 16:37, "Ben Light" <ben.light(a)qut.edu.au> wrote: >Hi all, and Anna in particular, > >I¹m copying to the list just so other candidates see this and also anyone >wanting to post to the discussion board. I¹ve noticed that even though I >was logged into the system when I posted my replies this morning, my post >is coming up as anonymous. When I entered my replies to questions this >morning, the system did say I was authoring as Ben Light. It seems some >other people have also ended up posting as Œanonymous¹ I can¹t see >anywhere in the system that I¹ve made an error myself. I know Axel Bruns >has managed to post as himself. I also saw Axel today and we checked what >I¹d done and he can¹t see anything that differentiates our posts. Any >ideas anyone - it¹s gonna get messy if we can¹t see who¹s asking questions >and who¹s replying :O) > >Apologies if this is a big candidate fail, but I thought either way it¹d >be good for us all to know what¹s what. > >In the meantime, I have replied to a few posts and popped my name in the >text so you can see it¹s me! #workaround > >Best wishes, > >Ben. > >Ben Light >PhD MSc BA(Hons) >Professor of Digital Media Studies > >Digital Media Research Centre >Queensland University of Technology >Creative Industries Precinct Z1-515 >Musk Avenue Kelvin Grove >QLD 4059 Australia > >Phone: +61 7 3138 8280 >Twitter: @doggyb >QUT: http://www.staff.qut.edu.au/staff/lightb >Open Access Publications: >http://eprints.qut.edu.au/view/person/Light,_Ben.html > > > > >_______________________________________________ >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/

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CFP Digital Culture & Communication Section ECREA
by Fotopoulou, Aristea 11 May '15

11 May '15

Call for Papers: Standards, Disruptions and Values in Digital Culture and Communication Organised by the Digital Culture and Communication Section of ECREA (DCC), and the Department of Communication Studies (ICT&S Center), University of Salzburg, 26-28 November 2015 Keynote speakers: Prof Charles Ess (University of Oslo) Prof Helen Kennedy (University of Sheffield) In digital culture and communication, with the pervasiveness that characterises online media, standards and values are contested, whereas well-established paths in the production and circulation of information have been newly arranged or abandoned altogether. Technical and social standards are consistent, formal and informal norms, values or conventions of doing, operating, producing, and/or performing. As the basis of technical transmission, standards in media allow transferability and interoperability, reduce complexity, and facilitate communication across formats, platforms and boundaries. As a consequence of transformations and re-orientations that continuously happen in almost all fields of the media, new technological standards, ethical codes, narrative and visual tropes are being produced. It is therefore crucial to critically evaluate the relationship between standards and values in their social, political, technological and creative dimensions. Who has the power to define, develop and implement standards? Which values are attached to standardisation processes in creative industries and how are they related to copyright and patents in technological development? Are peer-production, open-access publishing and free-culture movements different kinds of markets or disruptions to existing models of markets? What is the relationship between technological standardisation and cultural diversity? This workshop aims to address such questions. We welcome papers on the following issues and topics: - Technical and social standards in digital media: How do technical standards evolve in the media industry and how are they implemented? What kind of values shape this process? What modes of interventions exist (e.g. between players like platform operators and users?) - Visual and narrative standards and disruptions in digital culture: How are visual standards and codes built and how do they influence the comprehension of data? How do visual media and narratives introduce new canons in forms such such as remix, memes or selfies? - Professional and ethical standards in digital contexts: Who is responsible of implementing professional ethical standards? Are there emerging frameworks? How do ethical codes inform digital culture research? How do big data contribute or condition these developments? Please send abstracts by May 25, 2015 to ecreadigitalculture(a)gmail.com Conference website: http://dcc.icts.sbg.ac.at/ See also: http://wp.me/p2XXkX-6v Dr Aristea Fotopoulou Lecturer in Media, Department of Sociology Lancaster University Web: http://www.lancaster.ac.uk/sociology/profiles/aristea-fotopoulou Twitter: @aristeaf Blog: loopingthreads.com

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Meet the Candidates for the AoIR Executive Committee
by Ben Light 11 May '15

11 May '15

Hi all, and Anna in particular, I¹m copying to the list just so other candidates see this and also anyone wanting to post to the discussion board. I¹ve noticed that even though I was logged into the system when I posted my replies this morning, my post is coming up as anonymous. When I entered my replies to questions this morning, the system did say I was authoring as Ben Light. It seems some other people have also ended up posting as Œanonymous¹ I can¹t see anywhere in the system that I¹ve made an error myself. I know Axel Bruns has managed to post as himself. I also saw Axel today and we checked what I¹d done and he can¹t see anything that differentiates our posts. Any ideas anyone - it¹s gonna get messy if we can¹t see who¹s asking questions and who¹s replying :O) Apologies if this is a big candidate fail, but I thought either way it¹d be good for us all to know what¹s what. In the meantime, I have replied to a few posts and popped my name in the text so you can see it¹s me! #workaround Best wishes, Ben. Ben Light PhD MSc BA(Hons) Professor of Digital Media Studies Digital Media Research Centre Queensland University of Technology Creative Industries Precinct Z1-515 Musk Avenue Kelvin Grove QLD 4059 Australia Phone: +61 7 3138 8280 Twitter: @doggyb QUT: http://www.staff.qut.edu.au/staff/lightb Open Access Publications: http://eprints.qut.edu.au/view/person/Light,_Ben.html

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