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Reminder: AoIR meetup at #IAMCR2015 Montreal today
by Guillaume Latzko-Toth 15 Jul '15

15 Jul '15

A brief reminder to AoIR folks who are currently attending the IAMCR Conference in Montreal: join us this Wed. July 15, from 5 pm to 7 pm, at pub L'Ile Noire (1649 Saint-Denis, Montreal). More details on this Facebook event page: https://www.facebook.com/events/1648679558683559/ Guillaume

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CFP - Video Games, Culture, & Justice - Abstracts wanted by 8/3/2015
by André Brock 14 Jul '15

14 Jul '15

Apologies if this is a repost. +++++ *Call for Papers* *Video Games, Culture, & Justice* Kishonna L Gray (Eastern Kentucky University), Co-Editor David J Leonard (Washington State University), Co-Editor André Brock (University of Michigan), Co-Editor *Deadline for Abstracts: August 3rd, 2015Full Essays Due: November 16th, 2015* The purpose of this edited volume will be to propel game studies towards a more responsive existence in the area of social justice. The text will attempt to move beyond the descriptive level of analysis of what and begin engaging the why, highlighting the structural and institutional factors perpetuating inequalities that permeate gaming culture and extend into a myriad of institutions. The public outcry associated with GamerGate has put ‘why’ at the forefront of game studies. This attack directed at ‘social justice warriors’ brought the hidden reality of harassment, cyberbullying, sexism, racism, homophobia, transphobia, and other injustices to light. These attacks are part and parcel of gaming culture; challenges to the lack of diversity or the gross stereotypes are often met with demonization and rhetorical violence. Yet, we must move beyond individual acts of prejudice, discrimination, and microaggressions to examine the structural and institutional factors that allow them to exist. We must look at how the daily practices sustain what Mark Anthony Neal calls “micro-nooses” and lived reality of violence on and offline. Amid this culture of violence, the gaming industry has embraced the rhetoric of diversity and inclusion. In response to protests, game developers have incorporated statements asserting their commitment to producing diverse games and creating an industry that is not dominated by white men. GamerGaters, who gained media attention through their misogynist and racist attacks on women gamers and developers, tried to justify their campaign as an attempt to restore the ethics needed in video game journalism. Given the post-racial rhetorical turn of the last six years, it is important to push conversations about gaming and gamers beyond diversity, to expose the disconnect between rhetorics of multiculturalism and the struggle for justice and equity. It is important to highlight the contradiction between ideals of inclusion espoused within the video game industry and society as a whole and the persistence of injustices within the structural and institutional context in which they may have developed. This compilation not only seeks to answer these questions but also to produce work that intervenes in the culture of violence and inequity from which these works emanate from inside and outside of academia. Traditionally, academic public discourses concerned with criminal justice focused on issues pertaining to crime and legal justice; within game studies, there has an effort to examine criminogenic effects of violent video games on the streets. We must move beyond this simple construction of justice and video games. This interdisciplinary text defines justice broadly, but in terms to speak to the struggle of racial, gender, and social justice. Moving beyond abstract principles, the collection focuses on the stakes playing out in virtual reality, demonstrating the ways that struggles for justice online, in the policy booth, in the court house, in our schools, in legislatures and in streets must be waged online. As such, this collection seeks a broader range of critical perspectives on justice issues within gaming culture seeking whether gaming culture can foster critical consciousness, aid in participatory democracy, and effect social change. It will give voice to the silenced and marginalized, offering counter narratives to those post-racial and post-gendered fantasies that so often obscure the violent context of production and consumption. In offering this framework, this volume will be grounded in the concrete situations of marginalized members within gaming culture Early career scholars, game industry personnel, gaming activists, graduate students, and others are invited to submit work addressing the connected themes of Video Games, Culture, & Justice. Suggested essay topics may include (but are not limited to): • Representation and Identity in Video Games • Examining the complex nature of intersections • Marginalized identities within gaming culture • Developing culturally responsive games • Activism within video games • Power and anonymity • Negative experiences in multiplayer settings • Applying social justice theories to gaming • Militarization and video games • Cyberbullying, online harassment, and other virtual violence • Policing game communities • Swatting and blurring boundaries of virtual and physical spaces • Online disinhibition, anonymity, and trolling • The impact of serious games and games for change • Hacking inequalities (sexism, racism, heterosexism, ableism, etc) • Solutions to eliminate bias • Hypermasculinity in tech culture • Methodological successes and challenges • Genre, representation, and social justice • Gaming interfaces as social praxis • The graphical arms race: hyperreality, phenotype, and identity Please submit abstracts (500 word max) along with a short bio and your CV/resume to gamesculturejustice(a)gmail.com by August 3rd, 2015. Authors will be notified by August 31st, 2015 if their proposals have been accepted for the prospectus. Final essays should be within the range of 4000 – 6000 words, submitted as a Word or Rich Text Format. Notifications to submit full essays will occur shortly after abstracts are submitted and they will be due November 16th 2015. For more information please contact the co-editors at gamesculturejustice(a)gmail.com. *Deadline for Abstracts: August 3rd, 2015* *Full Essays Due: November 16th, 2015* Kishonna L. Gray (Ph.D., Arizona State University) is the Director of the Critical Gaming Lab at Eastern Kentucky University as well as faculty in the School of Justice Studies, African/African-American Studies, & Women & Gender Studies. Her work broadly intersects identity and new media although she has a particular focus on gaming. Her most recent book, Race, Gender, & Deviance in Xbox Live, provides a much-needed theoretical framework for examining deviant behavior and deviant bodies within that virtual gaming community. Her work can be found at www.kishonnagray.com and at www.criticalgaminglab.com. Follow her on Twitter @DrGrayThaPhx and @CriticalGameLab. David J. Leonard (Ph.D., University of California – Berkeley) is Associate Professor and chair in the Department of Critical Culture, Gender and Race Studies at Washington State University, Pullman. He regularly writes about issues of race, gender, inequality, and popular culture. His work has appeared in a number of academic journals and anthologies. His works can be found at http://www.drdavidjleonard.com. Follow him on Twitter @drdavidjleonard. André Brock (Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign) is an Assistant Professor of Communication Studies at the University of Michigan. His research interests include digital and online performances of race and culture, African American technoculture, and critical cultural informatics. Follow him on Twitter @DocDre. Andre Brock Assistant Professor - Communication Studies University of Michigan

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CFP L@S 2016: Third Annual ACM Conference on Learning at Scale, Edinburgh UK
by Vitomir Kovanovic 14 Jul '15

14 Jul '15

Call for Papers ================================================================================ L@S 2016, the Third Annual Meeting of the ACM Conference on Learning at Scale, will be held April 25 and 26, 2016 at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland (http://learningatscale.acm.org) It will be co-located with the 6th International Learning Analytics and Knowledge Conference, LAK 2016, April 25-29, 2016 (http://lak16.solaresearch.org/) The conference is at the intersection of computer science and the learning sciences, seeking to improve practice and theories of learning at scale. Strong submissions typically build on relevant research and frameworks beyond a single home discipline. The program committee is multidisciplinary and will expect that contributions expand what is known when the state of the art of several relevant source literatures is considered. Important Dates -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Full papers due: Oct 18, 2015 Notifications of acceptance of Full Papers: Dec 14, 2015 Work-in-progress (WiP) and Demonstration papers due: Jan 3, 2016 Full Papers camera-ready copy due: Jan 14, 2016 Notifications of acceptance of WiP and Demonstration papers: Jan 31, 2016 WiP, Demonstrations camera-ready copy due: Feb 14, 2016 L@S 2016 Conference: Apr 25, 26, 2016 No extensions will be given. Invited Topics -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- We solicit paper submissions reporting on rigorous research on methodologies, studies, analyses, tools, or technologies for learning at scale. Learning at Scale includes MOOCs, games (including massively multiplayer online games), citizen science communities, and other types of learning environments which (a) provide learning experiences to large number of learners and/or (b) produce detailed, high volume data about the learning process. Papers that tackle specific aspects of scale are particularly encouraged, for example, papers that deal with learning or educational phenomena that can only occur, be supported, or be observed with very large numbers of students, or in which the system improves after being exposed to data from previous use by many students. Example topics include but are not limited to: * Usability studies and effectiveness studies of design elements for students or instructors, including: * Status indicators of student progress * Status indicators of instructor effectiveness * Tools and pedagogy to promote community, support learning, or increase retention in at-scale environments * Log analysis of student behavior, e.g.: * Assessing reasons for student outcome as determined by modifying tool design * Modeling students based on responses to variations in tool design * Evaluation strategies such as quiz or discussion forum design * Instrumenting systems and data representation to capture relevant indicators of learning. * Personalization and adaptation, based on log data, user modeling, or choice. * Studies of applications of existing learning theories to the MOOC context (peer learning, project based learning, etc.). * Informing theories of learning at scale. * Large online learning in the developing world * New tools and techniques for learning at scale, including: * Games for learning at scale * Automated feedback tools (for essay writing, programming, etc) * Automated grading tools * Tools for interactive tutoring * Tools for learner modeling * Interfaces for harnessing learning data at scale * Innovations in platforms for supporting learning at scale * Tools to support for capturing, managing learning data * Tools and techniques for managing privacy of learning data * Investigation of observable student behaviors and their correlation if any with learning, e.g.: * What do more successful learners do more of? * What do more successful instructors do more of? * Self- and co-regulation of learning at scale * Collaborative learning in courses that have scale * Depth and retention of learning and understanding * Improvements to learning, community, and pedagogy in large-scale in-person and blended online and in-person courses * Instructional principles for learning at scale * Facilitation of informal subcommunities Paper Submissions -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- We invite full paper, shorter papers reporting on work-in-progress, and demonstrations. ### Full Papers Full papers must not exceed 10 pages (shorter is fine) and must use the ACM CHI Archive Format, available in latex[1] and Word[2]. Submissions must be in PDF format, written in English, contain original work and not be under review for any other venue while under review for this conference. All papers should be submitted through the EasyChair. In order to increase high quality papers and independent merit, the evaluation process will be double blind. The papers submitted for review MUST NOT contain the authors' names, affiliations, or any information that may disclose the authors' identity (this information is to be restored in the camera-ready version upon acceptance). Please replace author names and affiliations with Xs on submitted papers. In particular, in the version submitted for review please avoid explicit auto-references, such as "in [1] we show" -- consider "in [1] it is shown". I.e., you should cite your own relevant previous work, so that a reviewer can access it and see the new contributions, but yet the text should be written so that it does not state that the cited work belongs to the authors. ### Work-in-Progress A Work-in-Progress (WiP) is a concise report of recent findings or other types of innovative or thought-provoking work that has not yet reached a level of completion that would warrant submission of a full paper. Topics are the same as those listed for full papers. At the conference, all accepted WiP submissions will be presented in poster form. Selected WiPs may be invited for oral presentation during the conference. Rejected full-papers can be resubmitted as WiP and will be evaluated accordingly. Formatting: Work-in-Progress submissions 4 pages or fewer in length in the Extended Abstracts Format[3] and submitted as a PDF file. Due to the very rapid selection process we cannot offer any extensions to the deadline. WiP submissions are not anonymous and should therefore include all author names, affiliations and contact information. If accepted, you should expect to prepare a poster to present at the conference venue. WiP submissions should be submitted through the EasyChair. ### Demonstrations Demonstrations show aspects of learning at scale in an interactive hands-on form. A live demonstration is a great opportunity to communicate ideas and concepts in a powerful way that a regular presentation cannot. We invite demonstrations of learning and analytical environments and other systems that have direct relevance to learning at scale. We especially encourage authors of accepted papers and industrial partners to showcase their technologies using this format. Demonstration submissions are 2 pages or fewer in length in the Extended Abstracts Format[3] and submitted as a PDF file. A demonstration proposal should address two components: * The merit and nature of the demonstrated technology. If the proposed demonstration is associated with a Full Paper or a WiP submission, please point to the title of the submission instead of repeating the information here. * Details of how the demo will be executed in practice, and how visitors will interact with it during the conference. Proposals for demonstrations should be submitted through the EasyChair. ### Archival Proceedings Full papers will appear in the conference proceedings published by the ACM Press in the ACM Digital Library. Work-in-Progress and Demonstration papers will appear in a separate part of the conference proceedings. The status of Work-in-Progress paper will be akin to what CHI describes as "semi-archival", meaning the results reported in the WIP must be original, but copyright is retained by the authors and the material can be used as the basis for future publications in ACM venues as long as there are significant revisions from the original. Proceedings from prior years can be accessed here: * L@S 2014 Proceedings (http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2556325) * L@S 2015 Proceedings (http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2724660) ### Submission Instructions Full Papers and Work in Progress should be submitted at EasyChair (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=las2016) Inquiries -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Please direct all inquiries to: pc-chairs(a)learningatscale.acm.org Organization -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Conference Chair: Jeff Haywood, the University of Edinburgh, UK Program Co-Chairs: Vincent Aleven, Carnegie Mellon University, USA Judy Kay, University of Sydney, Australia Ido Roll, University of British Columbia, Canada Local Organization Chair: Dragan Gasevic, the University of Edinburgh, UK Program Committee: Tiffany Barnes, North Carolina State University, USA Marie Bienkowski, SRI International, USA Gautam Biswas, Vanderbilt University, USA Ulrike Cress, Knowledge Media Research Center, Germany Pierre Dillenbourg, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland Douglas Fisher Vanderbilt University, USA Armando Fox, University of California at Berkeley, USA Dragan Gasevic, University of Edinburgh, UK Art Graesser, University of Memphis, USA Philip Guo, University of Rochester, USA Marti Hearst, University of California at Berkeley, USA Daniel Hickey, Indiana University, USA Ulrich Hoppe, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany Juho Kim, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA Kenneth Koedinger, Carnegie Mellon University, USA Chinmay Kulkarni, Stanford University, USA Marcia Linn, University of California at Berkeley, USA Rose Luckin, The London Knowledge Lab, UK Robert Miller, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA John Mitchell, Stanford University, USA Zachary Pardos, University of California at Berkeley, USA Beverly Park Woolf, University of Massachusetts, USA Jeremy Roschelle, SRI International, USA Carolyn Rose, Carnegie Mellon University, USA Daniel Russell, Google, USA Mehran Sahami, Stanford University, USA Eileen Scanlon, Open University, UK Daniel Seaton, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA Karen Swan, Univ of Illinois, Springfield, USA Candace Thille, Stanford University, USA Astrid Wichmann, Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany [1] https://github.com/sigchi/Document-Formats [2] http://www.sigchi.org/publications/chipubform/sigchi-paper-format-2016/view [3] http://chi2015.acm.org/authors/format/#extendedformat -- The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336.

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CfP: 2015 Learning with MOOCs Workshop, Teachers College, Columbia University, New York (Oct 2-3, 2015)
by Vitomir Kovanovic 14 Jul '15

14 Jul '15

We invite you to submit your papers to the second Learning with MOOCs: A Practitioners Workshop, to be held at Teachers College, Columbia University in New York City, October 2-3, 2015. You are invited to submit a one- to two-page description of work completed within MOOC settings for discussion at the workshop. http://lwmoocs2.weebly.com/ This workshop plans to bring together educators, technologists, researchers, learning scientists, entrepreneurs, and funders of MOOCs to share their innovations, discuss the impact on education and to answer practical questions such as: How can we best support student learning in MOOC environments? How can MOOCs be successfully integrated with the traditional classroom experience? For which students and in what contexts are these courses most effective? What can we learn from the rich data streams generated by these platforms? How do we structure the learning activities to produce data streams that better support research and learning? Topics include, but are not restricted to: - Creating and teaching with MOOCs - Novel pedagogical processes with MOOCs - Tools for collaboration, feedback, testing and content delivery - Best practices in MOOCs - Learning from experiments with MOOCs (including both successes and failures) - Metrics of success for learners and instructors of MOOCs - On-campus use of MOOCs * Evaluation of MOOCs - Learning analytics and MOOCs * Interactive activities in MOOCs - Challenges facing MOOCs - Expanding the learner community with MOOCs - Learning research based on MOOCs - Open content /open licensing and MOOCs - Revenue, funding, and financial models - Intellectual property, licenses, ownership - Learner voices - Transcription, captions, and translation issues - Partnership opportunities - local, national, international - Media production best practices - for distribution and preservation - MOOCs viewed as, and connecting to, communities of inquiry and practice - Credentialing and MOOCs We invite researchers and practitioners interested in coming together to discuss these issues to submit a description of work (one to two pages) they have done related to MOOCs. These descriptions should include interesting findings that they have learned through their work that they believe would be valuable to share with other practitioners and researchers, and/or a question or challenges that they confronted that they would like to discuss with others. We look forward to receiving your submissions! Sincerely, Ryan Baker, Teachers College, Columbia University, Program Chair Dragan Gasevic, University of Edinburgh, Program Chair Key Dates: Monday, July 20th, 2015: Submission deadline Thursday, August 20th, 2015: Acceptance notification Friday-Saturday, October 2-3, 2015: Conference Submissions for the workshop are handled via Easy Chair, at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lwmoocs2015 -- The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336.

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CFP: Video Games, Culture & Justice
by Kishonna Gray 13 Jul '15

13 Jul '15

Call for Papers: *Video Games, Culture, & Justice* André Brock (University of Michigan), Co-Editor Kishonna L Gray (Eastern Kentucky University), Co-Editor David J Leonard (Washington State University), Co-Editor The purpose of this edited volume is to propel game studies towards a more responsive existence in the area of social justice. The text will attempt to move beyond the descriptive level of analysis of *what* and begin engaging the *why*, highlighting the structural and institutional factors perpetuating inequalities that permeate gaming culture and extend into a myriad of institutions. The public outcry associated with GamerGate has put ‘why’ at the forefront of game studies. GamerGaters, who gained media attention through their misogynist and racist attacks on women gamers and developers, even tried to justify their campaign as an attempt to restore the ethics needed in video game journalism. This attack directed at ‘social justice warriors’ brought the hidden reality of harassment, cyberbullying, sexism, racism, homophobia, transphobia, and other injustices to light. These attacks are part and parcel of gaming culture; challenges to the lack of diversity or the gross stereotypes are often met with demonization and rhetorical violence directed at those who merely seek to help gaming reach its fullest potential. Yet, in these struggles, we must move beyond individual acts of prejudice, discrimination, and microaggressions to examine the structural and institutional factors that allow them to exist. We must look at how the daily practices sustain what Mark Anthony Neal calls “micro-nooses” and lived reality of violence on and offline. Amid this culture of violence, the gaming industry has embraced the rhetoric of diversity and inclusion. In response to protests, game developers have incorporated statements asserting their commitment to producing diverse games and building an industry no longer dominated by white men. Given the post-racial rhetorical turn of the last six years, it is important to push conversations about gaming and gamers beyond diversity, to expose the disconnect between rhetorics of multiculturalism and the struggle for justice and equity. It is important to highlight the contradiction between ideals of inclusion espoused within the video game industry and society as a whole and the persistence of injustices within the structural and institutional context in which they may have developed. This compilation not only seeks to answer these questions but also to produce work that intervenes in the culture of violence and inequity from which these works emanate from inside and outside of academia. Traditionally, academic public discourses concerned with criminal justice focused on issues pertaining to crime and legal justice; within game studies, there has an effort to examine criminogenic effects of violent video games on the streets. We must move beyond this simple construction of justice and video games. This interdisciplinary text defines justice broadly, but in terms to speak to the struggle of racial, gender, and social justice. Moving beyond abstract principles, the collection focuses on the stakes playing out in virtual reality, demonstrating the ways that struggles for justice online, in the policy booth, in the court house, in our schools, in legislatures and in streets must be waged online. As such, this collection seeks a broader range of critical perspectives on justice issues within gaming culture seeking whether gaming culture can foster critical consciousness, aid in participatory democracy, and effect social change. It will give voice to the silenced and marginalized, offering counter narratives to those post-racial and post-gendered fantasies that so often obscure the violent context of production and consumption. In offering this framework, this volume will be grounded in the concrete situations of marginalized members within gaming culture. Early career scholars, game industry personnel, gaming activists, graduate students, and others are invited to submit work addressing the connected themes of Video Games, Culture, & Justice. Suggested essay topics may include (but are not limited to): · Representation and Identity in Video Games · Examining the complex nature of intersections · Marginalized identities within gaming culture · Developing culturally responsive games · Activism within video games · Power and anonymity · Negative experiences in multiplayer settings · Applying social justice theories to gaming · Militarization and video games · Cyberbullying, online harassment, and other virtual violence · Policing game communities · Swatting and blurring boundaries of virtual and physical spaces · Online disinhibition, anonymity, and trolling · The impact of serious games and games for change · Hacking inequalities (sexism, racism, heterosexism, ableism, etc) · Solutions to eliminate bias · Hypermasculinity in tech culture · Methodological successes and challenges · Genre, representation, and social justice · Gaming interfaces as social praxis · The graphical arms race: hyperreality, phenotype, and identity Please submit abstracts (500 word max) along with a short bio and your CV/resume to gamesculturejustice(a)gmail.com by September 15th, 2015. Authors will be notified by October 5th, 2015 if their proposals have been accepted for the prospectus. Final essays should be within the range of 4000 – 6000 words, submitted as a Word or Rich Text Format. Notifications to submit full essays will occur shortly after abstracts are submitted and they will be due December 28th, 2015. For more information please contact the co-editors at gamesculturejustice(a)gmail.com. Deadline for Abstracts: September 15th, 2015 Full Essays Due: December 28th, 2015 *André Brock* (*Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign*) is an Assistant Professor of Communication Studies at the University of Michigan. His research interests include digital and online performances of race and culture, African American technoculture, and critical cultural informatics. Follow him on Twitter @DocDre. *Kishonna L. Gray* (*Ph.D., Arizona State University*) is the Director of the Critical Gaming Lab at Eastern Kentucky University as well as faculty in the School of Justice Studies, African/African-American Studies, & Women & Gender Studies. Her work broadly intersects identity and new media although she has a particular focus on gaming. Her most recent book, Race, Gender, & Deviance in Xbox Live, provides a much-needed theoretical framework for examining deviant behavior and deviant bodies within that virtual gaming community. Her work can be found at www.kishonnagray.com and at www.criticalgaminglab.com. Follow her on Twitter @DrGrayThaPhx <https://twitter.com/drgraythaphx> and @CriticalGameLab <https://twitter.com/CriticalGameLab>. *David J. Leonard* (*Ph.D., University of California – Berkeley*) is Associate Professor and chair in the Department of Critical Culture, Gender and Race Studies at Washington State University, Pullman. He regularly writes about issues of race, gender, inequality, and popular culture. His work has appeared in a number of academic journals and anthologies. His works can be found at http://www.drdavidjleonard.com. Follow him on Twitter <http://twitter.com/drdavidjleonard>@drdavidjleonard <http://twitter.com/drdavidjleonard>.

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Attending Academy of Management conference? Join this discussion!
by Janet Salmons, Ph.D. 13 Jul '15

13 Jul '15

If you are coming to AOM in Vancouver, I hope you will be a part of the conversation! This will be a lively, interactive caucus on emerging ethics issues in teaching, supervising or doing research, and in professional practice. The Ethics Education Committee will review comments made in small groups and recommend changes as needed to the AOM Ethics Code. *Tuesday, Aug 11 2015 1:15PM - 2:45PM* at *Vancouver Convention Centre* in *Room 218 *http://bit.ly/1HNssId Infographic here: http://vision2lead.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Caucus.jpeg In a rapidly-changing, digitally-connected world do Academy of Management members face new ethics issues as academics, professionals, students? To what extent does the Academy of Management Code of Ethics <http://vision2lead.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/AOM_Code_of_Ethics-Caucus…>provide guidance for ethical actions? What are your experiences, concerns or perceptions of ethical issues as a part of AOM or in your academic and/or professional life? This lively Caucus session will involve small group discussions about: - *Global membership* - *Scholar-Practitioners in Management and Consulting Professions* - *Communication and Data in the Digital Age* - *Scholar as Role Model* - *Publication Process* See you there! Janet *Janet Salmons Ph.D.* *Incoming chair, AOM Ethics Education Committee* *Core Faculty, Capella University School of Business* *Indie Scholar @ Vision2Lead* *Site- http://www.vision2lead.com <http://www.vision2lead.com>* *Follow Twitter @einterview * *Qualitative Online Interviews (now in Kindle edition!)* *On Amazon: Social Media in Social Research* *PO Box 943* *Boulder, CO 80306-0943* *jsalmons[at]vision2lead.com <http://vision2lead.com>*

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Internet in Global Media Policy #IAMCR2015 Montreal, 13-16.07.2015
by Gerard Goggin 13 Jul '15

13 Jul '15

Dear AoIRists, Those attending IAMCR in Montreal this week may be interested in various Global Media Policy WG sessions with focus on Internet governance, media policy, and mapping - see below. Cheers, Gerard Goggin GLOBAL MEDIA POLICY (GMP) WORKING GROUP PROGRAM IAMCR Montreal 2015, UQAM, 13-16 July 2015, http://congresiamcr.uqam.ca/ Session 1: Tues 14 July, 16.00-17.30 hrs – Room DS-1545 Internet Governance: Updates & Critical Takes on a Policy Puzzle (Joint Session GMP & Taskforce on Media and Communications Policy) Session 2: Wed 15 July, 09.00-10.30 hrs – Room DS-1545 Mapping as Relevant Knowledge? Research, Politics, Practicalities Session 3: Wednesday 15 July, 14.00-15.30 hrs – Room DS-1545 Mapping Communications Governance – International Collaborations and Practical Challenges Session 4: Wednesday 15 July, 16.00-17.30 hrs – Room DS-1545 Business Meeting of Global Media Policy Working Group Session 5: Thursday 16 July 2015, 09.00-10.30 hrs - DS1525 Gendering Global Media Policy: Critical Perspectives on ‘Digital Agendas’ — In memory of Dr. Heike Jensen (Communication Policy and Technology Section & Global Media Policy Working Group) Full details of GMP program below & at http://bit.ly/1KIWZMg Global Media Policy Working Group program IAMCR Montréal 2015 Session 1: Tues 14 July Slot Code: GMP-T3a Time: 16.00-17.30 hrs Room: DS-1545 Title: Internet Governance: Updates & Critical Takes on a Policy Puzzle (Joint Session GMP & Taskforce on Media and Communications Policy) Chair: Jeremy Shtern (Ryerson University) The Internet is central to contemporary media, but its governance is complex, dynamic, and dispersed across different arena. This interactive session will feature latest updates and analyses from scholars and activists at the frontlines of global Internet governance, with a particular focus on the different civil society, policy, and research agendas in play. Topics will include: ICANN/IANA stewardship transition; Global Conference on Cyberspace; Internet Governance Forum; Internet Social Forum; Net Mundial; WSIS +10; civil society agendas. Participants: Stefania Milan (University of Amsterdam) James Losey (Stockholm University) Mallory Knodel (Association for Progressive Communications) Stephanie Perrin (University of Toronto) Julie Pohle (SMIT, Vrije Universiteit Brussel) Arne Hintz (Cardiff University) Session 2: Wed 15 July Slot Code: GMP-W1a Time: 09.00-10.30 hrs Room: DS-1545 Title: Mapping as Relevant Knowledge? Research, Politics, Practicalities Chair: Claudia Padovani (University of Padova) Given the number of ‘mapping projects’ that have emerged over the past few years related to communication and digital policies, this session reflects on two intertwined questions they pose: * how relevant is all this mapping to policy and advocacy engagement? To what extent, and in what conditions, do these initiatives may actually contribute to more participatory practices, better informed policy decisions, and better media (typicallly the common goals of different mapping initiatives). * what of the practical challenges in the establishment and development of these initiatives: platform population, content generation and sharing, sustainability of projects (expert knowledge, skills, human and financial resources), language diversity and accessibility, comprehensiveness or gaps in policy information and analysis. The session will feature interventions and discussions from leading policy scholars and experts. A key aim is to share ideas on how to better integrate critical research into existing initiatives, and develop forms of cooperation across these and other emergent forms of policy knowledge. Participants: Arne Hintz (Cardiff University) and Gerard Goggin (University of Sydney) — IAMCR Mapping Media Policy Samantha Grassle & Stefaan Verhulst (Govlab, New York University) Annabelle Sreberny (SOAS, University of London) Francesca Musiani (French National Centre for Scientific Research) Marjan de Bruin (University of West Indies) Robin Mansell (London School of Economics) Session 3: Wednesday 15 July Slot Code: GMP-W2a Time: 14.00-15.30 hrs Room: DS-1545 Title: Mapping Communications Governance – International Collaborations and Practical Challenges Internet governance is increasingly complex, fragmented and hard to navigate. A number of projects have emerged to map this complex landscape and identify issues, existing responses and policies, actors and actions. These include, among others, the European GIPO; Mapping Global Media Policy; the NETmundial Initiative. While these efforts serve different needs and audiences, there is a need to coordinate and collaborate. This session will reflect on the current state of play and conduct an examination of whether these mapping efforts can provide a joined-up infrastructure of both research and information exchange. The session, designed as a workshop, will address questions surrounding mapping best practices, effective methods to develop taxonomies, how to ensure interoperability and coordination among Mapping projects, and effective methods to populate data. Participants: Arne Hintz (Cardiff University), Gerard Goggin (University of Sydney), Claudia Padovani (University of Padova), Marc Raboy (McGill University) — Mapping Global Media Policy Samantha Grassle and Stefaan Verhulst (GovLab, New York University) — Netmundial Solutions Map Session 4: Wednesday 15 July Slot Code: GMP-W3a Time: 16.00-17.30 hrs Room: DS-1545 Title: Business Meeting of Global Media Policy Working Group Chair: Gerard Goggin (University of Sydney) Session 5: Thursday 16 July 2015 Slot Code: CPT-TH1a Time: 09.00-10.30 hrs Room: DS1525 Title: Gendering Global Media Policy: Critical Perspectives on ‘Digital Agendas’ — - In memory of Dr. Heike Jensen (CPT and the Global Media Policy Working Group) Convenors: Claudia Padovani (University of Padova) and Leslie Shade (University of Toronto) Chair: Lisa McLaughlin ( <mailto:mclauglm@miamioh.edu>Miami University) Discussant: Jo Pierson (Vrije Universiteit Brussel) Twenty years have passed since the international community committed to foster gender equity in communication by increasing ‘the participation and access of women to expression and decision-making in and through the media and new technologies of communication” (Beijing 1995, Platform for Action of the Fourth World Conference on Women, Section J). Much work remains to improve persistent gender inequalities across societies and major transformations – in technology and infrastructures, normative frameworks and policy arrangements - that have marked communication landscapes globally. 2015 also marks ten years since the World Summit on Information Society, a relevant moment in international debates about digital governance. This offers opportunities to the scholarly community and other stakeholders to assess the progress made in relation to the WSIS Plan of Action and to critically discuss gender-aware approaches to current trends in communication governance. This panel features expert speakers from diverse geo-cultural contexts, from academia and the advocacy and policy sector, to address questions related to ‘digital agendas’: overall frameworks and strategies for the development and implementation of digital policies being adopted in most regional and national contexts. It is now crucial to assess if and how such strategies live up to the commitment, made twenty years ago, of fostering women’s participation in communication and of mainstreaming gender across all sectors. These issues relate to the 2015 conference theme, as gendered-aspects of communication policies touch upon dynamics of empowerment, disempowerment, cultural hegemony and forms of resistance. The panel also contributes toward IAMCR’s collaboration with the Unesco-promoted Global Alliance on Media and Gender (Gamag) whose aim is to contribute to a research agenda and to produce policy-relevant knowledge based on sound theoretical approaches and gender-sensitive analytical frameworks. Presentations: Claudia Padovani (University of Padova): Gendering European Communication Governance: The Challenge of Gender Mainstreaming Twenty Years After Beijing. Leslie Regan Shade (University of Toronto): Missing in Action: Gender in Canada’s Digital Agenda. Anita Gurumurty (IT for Change): Whose Digital Agendas? Unpacking What Counts for Policy. Anne Webb (Independent consultant Gender research design, training and management):Information and Communication Technology in a Gender Inequality Context: Research in Africa and the Middle East. Fiona Martin and Gerard Goggin (University of Sydney): Reconstructing the Ubiquitous End-User: The New Politics of Gender and Media Policy in Digital Government Services in Australia. \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\ Gerard Goggin ARC Future Fellow Professor of Media and Communications Department of Media and Communications University of Sydney e: gerard.goggin(a)sydney.edu.au <applewebdata://58CAECF0-6F6E-47A3-9980-953EE0F9094E/gerard.goggin@sydney.e du.au> p: +61 2 9114 1218 m: +61 428 66 88 24 w: http://sydney.edu.au/arts/media_communications/staff/gerard_goggin.shtml >

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New issue -- Journal of Peer Production #7: Policies for the Commons
by george dafermos 13 Jul '15

13 Jul '15

Dear friends and colleagues, It is our great pleasure to announce the public release of Issue #7 of the Journal of Peer Production! This issue, which has been edited by me and Vasilis Kostakis, features several articles which explore how the principles of the commons, of peer production and of the social economy can form the basis for a paradigm shift in society. We are hoping you will enjoy them and find them useful! Best, George and Vasilis *-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------* New issue -- Journal of Peer Production #7: Policies for the Commons <http://peerproduction.net/issues/issue-7-policies-for-the-commons/> *-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------* A spectre is haunting the world - the spectre of the Commons. Without a doubt, the world system is in a crisis of such magnitude that the existing state of affairs cannot possibly be maintained for much longer. At the same time, models based on the collective management of common goods and the social economy have sprung up amidst this state of permanent crisis, which suggest that another world is possible. Taking the policy proposals originally developed by the FLOK Society project in Ecuador as a starting point, this JoPP issue explores how the principles of the Commons, of peer production, of free software and of the social economy can constitute the basis for the development of appropriate policies enabling the transition to alternative, post-capitalist social and economic models. The articles collected in this issue address some crucial aspects of this transformation: the transition process from a capitalist knowledge economy towards a social knowledge economy; the transformation of the secondary sector of the economy, with an emphasis on manufacturing and energy; and the reconfiguration of the state and the commonification of public services in the direction of a "Partner State" in which the resources and functions of the state are primarily used to enable and empower autonomous social production. +=================================================+ | T A B L E O F C O N T E N T S | +=================================================+ +-----Editorial section---------------------------------------------------------------------+ Editorial notes: Public policy proposals for a society of the commons <http://peerproduction.net/issues/issue-7-policies-for-the-commons/editorial…> by George Dafermos and Vasilis Kostakis The FLOK doctrine <http://peerproduction.net/issues/issue-7-policies-for-the-commons/the-flok-…> by David Vila-Viñas and Xabier Barandiaran +-----Peer-reviewed papers-------------------------------------------------------------+ Transforming the productive base of the economy through the open design commons and distributed manufacturing <http://peerproduction.net/issues/issue-7-policies-for-the-commons/peer-revi…> by George Dafermos Transforming the energy matrix: Transition policies for the development of the distributed energy model <http://peerproduction.net/issues/issue-7-policies-for-the-commons/peer-revi…> by George Dafermos, Panos Kotsampopoulos, Kostas Latoufis, Ioannis Margaris, Beatriz Rivela, Fausto Paulino Washima, Pere Ariza-Montobbio and Jesús López Public policy for a social economy <http://peerproduction.net/issues/issue-7-policies-for-the-commons/peer-revi…> by John Restakis ICT, open government and civil society <http://peerproduction.net/issues/issue-7-policies-for-the-commons/peer-revi…> by John Restakis, Daniel Araya, Maria José Calderon and Robin Murray Towards a new configuration between the state, civil society and the market <http://peerproduction.net/issues/issue-7-policies-for-the-commons/peer-revi…> by Michel Bauwens and Vasilis Kostakis +-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+

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help! video search (esp user-generated content)
by Elizabeth Anne Watkins 13 Jul '15

13 Jul '15

Hello AoIR-Listers, Calling on your expertise! I'm looking for video search engines and annotation tools, using either crowdsourced tagging (ie MTurk) or (super interested in) computational vision. I've found a few vid annotation tools so far: http://web.mit.edu/vondrick/vatic/ http://ant.umn.edu/ http://www.anvil-software.org/ http://www.annotations.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k80243&pageid=icb.pag… still searching for, well, search. Any ideas? Thanks very much! Elizabeth Anne Watkins MS in Art, Culture + Technology, MIT

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Join AEJMC’s South Asia Initiative
by Aikat, Debashis 11 Jul '15

11 Jul '15

Join AEJMC’s South Asia Initiative to foster cross-disciplinary conversations and collaborative relationships In our commitment to the “Global Bridges” theme of the 2015 Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC) conference in San Francisco, a group of long-standing AEJMC members are convening the South Asia Initiative to bring together AEJMC members with interest and expertise in South Asia and the South Asian diaspora worldwide. The AEJMC South Asia Initiative will foster cross-disciplinary conversations and collaborative relationships. We invite you to the inaugural meeting: ~~ Time: 3:15-4:45 p.m., Aug. 7, 2015 (Friday) ~~ Place: Willow Room (B2 Golden Gate Level), San Francisco Marriott Marquis Hotel, San Francisco. ~~ See more details at http://goo.gl/aB2X18 We hope you’ll attend this meeting and share your ideas. Let us know if you are unable to attend the inaugural meeting, but wish to be a part of the AEJMC South Asia Initiative. We also welcome your ideas. Can you please share this note with graduate students and colleagues interested in Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Myanmar (Burma), Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka? To facilitate an engaging interaction among attendees, we will discuss your ideas during the inaugural meeting. No pre-registration is required. Just show up. All are welcome. Are you interested in media and communication issues relating to South Asia or the South Asian diaspora? Email your ideas to Dr. Deb Aikat (da(a)unc.edu<mailto:da@unc.edu>) School of Media and Journalism, UNC Chapel Hill, USA. Mention “SAsia15” in the subject line of your email. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks. Cordially, Deb A. ************************* Debashis 'Deb' Aikat, Ph. D. Associate Professor School of Media and Journalism CB # 3365, Carroll Hall 374 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3365 Phone: 919 962 4090 (office) Fax: 919 962 0620 Email: da(a)unc.edu<mailto:da@unc.edu> URL: http://mj.unc.edu/directory/faculty/debashis-aikat *************************

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