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AoIR meetup at IAMCR Montreal
by Guillaume Latzko-Toth 01 Jul '15

01 Jul '15

This message is addressed to AoIR members who will attend the International Association for Media and Communication Research Conference which will be held in Montreal from July 12th to 16th. On behalf of AoIR members based in Montreal as well as the LabCMO research group (which includes a number of AoIR members), I would like to invite AoIR members to an informal happy hour taking place on Wednesday, July 15, 5 pm to 7 pm, at pub L'Ile Noire (1649 Saint-Denis - www.ilenoire.com) This event will allow AoIR members who attend the IAMCR Conference to discuss a possible AoIR activity within the 2016 World Social Forum (which will also take place in Montreal in August 2016: http://www.fsm2016.org/en/) It will also be an opportunity for AoIR members to get to know each other better. And, for those who intend to visit Montreal and its surroundings, you will be able to ask questions to AoIR members who live in the area! If you plan to attend, please *join* the Facebook event we have set up: https://www.facebook.com/events/1648679558683559/ (or send a note to: myles.david(a)uqam.ca) We are looking forward to meeting you on that occasion. Guillaume Latzko-Toth Associate Professor, Departement of information and communication, Université Laval Codirector, Laboratory on Computer-Mediated Communication (LabCMO - www.labcmo.ca)

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Hiring New Coders: Political Fear
by Shulman, Stu 01 Jul '15

01 Jul '15

Do you know political fear when you see it in a Tweet? Can you identify the difference between an economic fear and an ideological or competency fear, based solely on 140 characters and perhaps an image, headline, or snippet of metadata? We are hiring fear coders. Our CoderVerse members get free DiscoverText access for their own research plus $13/hour for their coding on the political fear project. This work is actually quite interesting, especially if you are into the historical uses of fear in the US electoral system. Please send me a CV (stu(a)texifter.com) if you want to do some of this Twitter content labeling. The project ends July 14. There may be other subsequent projects. ~Stu -- Dr. Stuart W. Shulman Founder and CEO, Texifter LinkedIn http://www.linkedin.com/in/stuartwshulman Twitter https://twitter.com/StuartWShulman

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REVISED CFP Special Issue of Popular Communication: Self-(Re)presentation Now
by Nancy Thumim 01 Jul '15

01 Jul '15

Dear all, resending this as there was an error in the previous version. Dear colleagues, please see below call for papers. Apologies for cross posting. Best wishes, Nancy Popular Communication: The International Journal of Media and Culture Special Issue: Self-(Re)presentation Now Guest Editor: Nancy Thumim Call for Papers The editors of Popular Communication: The International Journal of Media and Culture invite submissions for a special issue on the topic of Self-(Re)presentation. We welcome critical approaches in new media, film, television and cultural studies; media and communication studies; museum studies and allied fields. We seek manuscripts that examine the politics, practices and aesthetics of self-(re)presentation and that engage critically with questions of conceptualization and methodology. >From a time when self-(re)presentation was arguably a marginal, often political, practice at the edges of media culture, we are at a moment in media and cultural spaces in diverse local and national contexts where we are seeing: 1) An explosion of individual and group self-(re)presentations; 2) an explosion of popular and media discussion about the practice, possibilities and promise for presenting and representing the self and others; 3) a corresponding explosion of academic research tackling different kinds of presentations, performances and representations of individual selves and communities. This special issue of Popular Communication: The International Journal of Media and Culture aims to showcase intersecting, contradictory, complementary and critical approaches to self-(re)presentation. We are aiming for a multi-disciplinary issue that will showcase excellent scholarship on self-(re)presentation with the aim of highlighting key areas of debate and contention in research that invokes the concept of self-(re)presentation. We welcome proposals for articles addressing topics including (but not limited to) the following: · Questions of methodology and conceptualisation of self-(re)presentation · Historical approaches to self-(re)presentation · Visual studies of self-(re)presentations · Audiences for self-(re)presentations · Practices and uses of self-(re)presentation by particular individuals, groups and communities · The relationship of audio visual and digital self-(re)presentation to political representation and questions of citizenship · Self-(re)presentation and Big Data · Self-(re)presentation, surveillance and sousveillance · Selfies · Self-(re)presentational photography and film making as political practice for groups and communities · Community Media and self-(re)presentation · Self-(re)presentation and documentary · Self-(re)presentation and photography · Invited, facilitated and co-produced self-(re)presentation · Digital storytelling Submitted papers should be 6,000 -7,000 words in length (inclusive of all elements). The deadline for submission is 30th December 2015. Peer review and author responses to peer review will then be completed by 30th December 2016, with anticipated publication of the special issue in early 2017. Nancy Thumim n.thumim(a)leeds.ac.uk<mailto:n.thumim@leeds.ac.uk> welcomes email queries before this date. Instructions for submitting your article can be found at http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/hppc20/current Some manuscripts may not be sent out for review if deemed inappropriate for the journal. Popular Communication provides a forum for scholarly investigation, analysis, and dialogue on communication symbols, forms, phenomena and systems within the context of popular culture across the globe. Popular Communication publishes articles on all aspects of popular communication, examining different media such as television, film, new media, games, print media, radio, music, and dance; the study of texts, events, artifacts, spectacles, audiences, technologies, and industries; and phenomena and practices, including, but not limited to, fan, youth and subcultures, questions of representation, digitalization, cultural globalization, spectator sports, sexuality, advertising, and consumer culture. Yours sincerely Patrick C Burkart, Miyase Christensen, Mehdi Semati, Nabeel Zuberi and Nancy Thumim Dr Nancy Thumim Programme Leader of the MA in Communication Studies Lecturer in Media and Communication School of Media and Communication University of Leeds Leeds LS2 9JT http://media.leeds.ac.uk/people/nancy-thumim/

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CFP Special Issue of Popular Communication: Self- (Re) presentation Now
by Nancy Thumim 01 Jul '15

01 Jul '15

Dear colleagues, please see below call for papers. Apologies for cross posting. Best wishes, Nancy Popular Communication: The International Journal of Media and Culture Special Issue: Self- (Re) presentation Now Guest Editor: Nancy Thumim Call for Papers The editors of Popular Communication: The International Journal of Media and Culture invite submissions for a special issue on the topic of Self (re)presentation. We welcome critical approaches in new media, film, television and cultural studies; media and communication studies; museum studies and allied fields. We seek manuscripts that examine the politics, practices and aesthetics of self (re)presentation and that engage critically with questions of conceptualization and methodology. >From a time when (re)presentation was arguably a marginal, often political, practice at the edges of media culture, we are at a moment in media and cultural spaces in diverse local and national contexts where we are seeing: 1) An explosion of individual and group self-(re)presentations; 2) an explosion of popular and media discussion about the practice, possibilities and promise for presenting and representing the self and others; 3) a corresponding explosion of academic research tackling different kinds of presentations, performances and representations of individual selves and communities. This special issue of Popular Communication: The International Journal of Media and Culture aims to showcase intersecting, contradictory, complementary and critical approaches to self-(re)presentation. We are aiming for a multi-disciplinary issue that will showcase excellent scholarship on self (re)presentation with the aim of highlighting key areas of debate and contention in research that invokes the concept of self-(re)presentation. We welcome proposals for articles addressing topics including (but not limited to) the following: * Questions of methodology and conceptualization of self (re) presentation * Historical approaches to self(re)presentation * Visual studies of self (re)presentations * Audiences for self-(re)presentations * Practices and uses of self-(re)presentation by particular individuals, groups and communities * The relationship of audio visual and digital self-(re)presentation to political representation and questions of citizenship * Self-(re)presentation and Big Data * Self-(re)presentation, surveillance and sousveillance * Selfies * Self-(re)presentational photography and film making as political practice for groups and communities * Community Media and self-(re)presentation * Self (re)presentation and documentary * Self (re)presentation and photography * Invited, facilitated and co-produced self-(re)presentation * Digital storytelling Submitted papers should be 6,000 -7,000 words in length (inclusive of all elements). The deadline for submission is 30th December 2015. Peer review and author responses to peer review will then be completed by 30th December 2016, with anticipated publication of the special issue in early 2017. Nancy Thumim n.thumim(a)leeds.ac.uk<mailto:n.thumim@leeds.ac.uk> welcomes email queries before this date. Instructions for submitting your article can be found at http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/hppc20/current Some manuscripts may not be sent out for review if deemed inappropriate for the journal. Popular Communication provides a forum for scholarly investigation, analysis, and dialogue on communication symbols, forms, phenomena and systems within the context of popular culture across the globe. Popular Communication publishes articles on all aspects of popular communication, examining different media such as television, film, new media, games, print media, radio, music, and dance; the study of texts, events, artifacts, spectacles, audiences, technologies, and industries; and phenomena and practices, including, but not limited to, fan, youth and subcultures, questions of representation, digitalization, cultural globalization, spectator sports, sexuality, advertising, and consumer culture. Yours sincerely Patrick C Burkart, Miyase Christensen, Mehdi Semati, Nabeel Zuberi and Nancy Thumim Dr Nancy Thumim Programme Leader of the MA in Communication Studies Lecturer in Media and Communication School of Media and Communication University of Leeds Leeds LS2 9JT http://media.leeds.ac.uk/people/nancy-thumim/

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