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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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literature on Informational (Internet) Power
by 宋辰婷 16 Sep '15

16 Sep '15

Dear all, I am a Chinese student of sociology. Now I am writing a part of my dissertation about informational (Internet) power. The power I want to discuss is the one achieved by ordinary people through down-to up path to effect both Internet and entity, rather than the one owned by a state or nation. Could you please suggest me some articles/books about it? Thank you very much! I appreciate your help gratefully! Chenting Song * PhD candidate in Renming University* *Visiting student in Northwestern University*

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Re: [Air-L] literature on (social) history of the Internet
by Kevin Driscoll 14 Sep '15

14 Sep '15

Hello Polina, Other folks have already suggested some key works so here are just a few additional resources that I've found useful. The latest issue of Information & Culture is a special issue on internet histories. The articles are not open access (yet) but the abstracts are on the website. Please let me know if you can't find copies of the articles you need: * http://www.infoculturejournal.org/abstracts SIGCIS, a special interest group of the Society for the History of Technology concerned with the history of computing maintains collections of syllabi and other resources on their website: * SIGCIS Syllabus Repository, http://www.sigcis.org/syllabi * SIGCIS History Resources, http://www.sigcis.org/resources The BBS documentary is an incredibly thorough series by Jason Scott (proprietor of textfiles.com) that focuses on early dial-up systems, mainly in North America: * https://archive.org/details/bbs_documentary Relevant to the upcoming conference, I also wanted to shout out everyone that participated in the internet histories preconference organized by Gerard Goggin and Mark McLelland at IR14: "Appropriating the Internet: Alternative & Comparative Histories" IR14, Denver, CO, USA, 2013 http://web.archive.org/web/20130831184519/http://ir14.aoir.org/preconferenc… As for my own drop in the bucket, my dissertation was about the social and political implications of various internet histories. You may find the introduction useful as a complement to some of other resources: * Driscoll, Kevin. “Hobbyist Inter-Networking and the Popular Internet Imaginary: Forgotten Histories of Networked Personal Computing, 1978-1998.” Dissertation, University of Southern California, 2014. http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/compoundobject/collection/p15799coll3/id/… . Best of luck and please do keep us posted. It's always exciting to see historical work discussed on AIR-L! Kevin Driscoll http://kevindriscoll.info (P.S. Apologies if you get two copies of this. It seems that the first one didn't go through to the list.) On Sun, Aug 2, 2015 at 6:01 PM, <air-l-request(a)listserv.aoir.org> wrote: > Date: Mon, 3 Aug 2015 01:56:46 +0600 > From: Polina Kolozaridi <poli.kolozaridi(a)gmail.com> > To: "air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org" <air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org> > Subject: [Air-L] literature on (social) history of the Internet > Message-ID: > < CA+Ae1QBWO3ZFYi_UYYaLeGEGyWfkcu1rPCTfmWORmA61wCV9YQ(a)mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 > > Dear all, > > I am now writing a part of my dissertation about social history of the > Internet and looking for some good sources on this subject (or just history > of the Internet). > > Could you please suggest me some articles/books about it? > > gratefully, > Polina Kolozaridi > *HSE Higher School of Economics, Moscow* > *researcher, PhD candidate* > >

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ACM IUI 2016: Call for Workshop and Tutorial Proposals (Sept 4)
by Denis Parra 31 Aug '15

31 Aug '15

Please distribute to those interested. --------------------------- Call for Proposals --------------------------- ACM IUI 2016: ACM Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sonoma, CA, USA March 7 - 10, 2016 http://iui.acm.org/ ACM IUI 2016 is the 21st annual meeting of the intelligent interfaces community and serves as a premier international forum for reporting outstanding research and development on intelligent user interfaces. ACM IUI is where the Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) community meets the Artificial Intelligence (AI) community. We are also very interested in contributions from related fields, such as psychology, behavioral science, cognitive science, computer graphics, design, the arts, etc. Workshop Proposals ---------------------------- We invite proposals for full-day and half-day workshops on topics that are of interest to the ACM IUI community. Workshops will be held on the first (March 29) and last day (April 1) of the conference. The conference may provide a free registration for each workshop to assist its organization. Workshop proposals due: September 4, 2015, 6pm PST Submit your workshop proposal to workshop2016(a)iui.acm.org For details, visit: http://iui.acm.org/2016/workshops.html Tutorial Proposals ------------------------ We invite proposals for tutorials from active researchers and experienced presenters. Ideally, a tutorial will cover the state-of-the-art research and development in a specific area strongly related to ACM IUI. Tutorials on interdisciplinary areas, novel or fast growing directions, and significant practical applications are also encouraged. Accepted tutorial organizers will be exempt from the registration fee (one per tutorial). Tutorials proposals due: September 4, 2015, 6pm PST Submit your tutorial proposal to workshop2016(a)iui.acm.org For details, visit: http://iui.acm.org/2016/tutorials.html Denis Alejandro Parra Santander Profesor Asistente, DCC Escuela de Ingeniería, PUC Chile +56 (2) 2354-4442 http://web.ing.puc.cl/~dparra/

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Re: [Air-L] hackademia list
by gus andrews 31 Aug '15

31 Aug '15

Bemused to see Dr. Abdulla contribute another instance of something I noted at the academic meetup Biella called at CCC. If I was wearing my anthropology hat and doing grounded coding of utterances, I would definitely create a meta-category of "self-deprecation immediately following the use of the term 'hacker.'" I'm interested in how the invocation of "the hacker" leads people to dismiss their own technological skills as lacking! I've been attending hacker conferences since 2002 and I don't code or break into things, but I am still a contributing member of the community. You might be surprised at how welcoming parts of the hacker community can be to non-technical people. Dr. Abdulla, my YouTube media and digital literacy show did two brief episodes on the traditional meanings of "hacking" within the computer community, with two high-profile hacker community organizers, Emmanuel Goldstein and Mitch Altman: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vjMnUX6v4M https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hoDOrKZK3Kg (Note that these skew toward the more positive view of hacking, as many hackers see themselves.) Hope those are of interest! Gillian "Gus" Andrews Senior Fellow, Secure Usability Fellowship Program Simply Securehttps://simplysecure.org/ and Producer, The Media Show youtube.com/themediashow On Mon, Aug 31, 2015 at 3:53 PM, <air-l-request(a)listserv.aoir.org> wrote: > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 6 > Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2015 21:44:24 +0200 > From: "Dr. Rasha Abdulla" <rasha(a)aucegypt.edu> > To: gabriella.coleman(a)mcgill.ca > Cc: aoir list <air-l(a)aoir.org> > Subject: Re: [Air-L] hackademia list > Message-ID: > <CAEMXXtPxkFePmJrgM7_85urSB= > J9N2YWknkuOcKFc1Kb4D0L8A(a)mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 > > While I'm not enough of a caliber to join the hacking mailing list, I was > wondering if you guys know of a good educational video that I can show my > (undergraduate) students about hacking. I'm not interested in a how to > video:), but rather something regarding the uses and effects thereof. > > Thanks a lot in advance. > Rasha > > Rasha A. Abdulla, Ph.D. > Associate Professor and Past Chair > Journalism and Mass Communication > The American University in Cairo > www.rashaabdulla.com > Twitter: @RashaAbdulla > <http://twitter.com/rashaabdulla> > > > > On Mon, Aug 31, 2015 at 6:39 PM, Gabriella "Biella" Coleman < > enid.coleman(a)mcgill.ca> wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > Many of us who went to the Chaos Computer Club camp in Germany met to > > discuss the study of hacking (whether through scholarly, activist or > > artistic work). We have created a mailing list to continue the > > discussion and plan for future meetings. Please join if you are > interested > > > > List name for subscribing > > hackademia-subscribe(a)lists.riseup.net > > <mailto:hackademia-subscribe@lists.riseup.net> > > > > Instructions for joining: > > > > > > > https://help.riseup.net/en/lists/list-user/subscribing#how-do-i-subscribe-t… > > > > All best, > > > > Biella > > > > -- > > Gabriella Coleman > > Wolfe Chair in Scientific and Technological Literacy > > Department of Art History & Communication Studies > > McGill University > > 853 Sherbrooke Street West > > Montreal, PQ > > H3A 0G5 > > http://gabriellacoleman.org/ > > 514-398-8572 > > > > _______________________________________________ > > 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/ > > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 7 > Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2015 19:53:20 +0000 > From: Jerry Lamont Robinson <jlrobi02(a)syr.edu> > To: "Dr. Rasha Abdulla" <rasha(a)aucegypt.edu> > Cc: "gabriella.coleman(a)mcgill.ca" <gabriella.coleman(a)mcgill.ca>, > aoir > list <air-l(a)aoir.org> > Subject: Re: [Air-L] hackademia list > Message-ID: <4EB10ADF-F4C7-45FD-B826-FB11A8C8DC3B(a)syr.edu> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > > Here is a link to a Tedx Talk that i recently watched: > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KwJyKmCbOws > > Hope this helps! > > Jerry Robinson | PhD Candidate | School of Information Studies > Syracuse University > 221 Hinds Hall > Syracuse, New York 13244 > c 315.200.2858 email jlrobi02(a)syr.edu<mailto:Jlrobi02@syr.edu> > https://www.ischool.syr.edu/ > http://my.ischool.syr.edu/People/jlrobi02? > > On Aug 31, 2015, at 3:44 PM, Dr. Rasha Abdulla <rasha(a)aucegypt.edu<mailto: > rasha(a)aucegypt.edu>> wrote: > > While I'm not enough of a caliber to join the hacking mailing list, I was > wondering if you guys know of a good educational video that I can show my > (undergraduate) students about hacking. I'm not interested in a how to > video:), but rather something regarding the uses and effects thereof. > > Thanks a lot in advance. > Rasha > > Rasha A. Abdulla, Ph.D. > Associate Professor and Past Chair > Journalism and Mass Communication > The American University in Cairo > www.rashaabdulla.com<http://www.rashaabdulla.com> > Twitter: @RashaAbdulla > <http://twitter.com/rashaabdulla> > > > > On Mon, Aug 31, 2015 at 6:39 PM, Gabriella "Biella" Coleman < > enid.coleman(a)mcgill.ca> wrote: > > Hi all, > > Many of us who went to the Chaos Computer Club camp in Germany met to > discuss the study of hacking (whether through scholarly, activist or > artistic work). We have created a mailing list to continue the > discussion and plan for future meetings. Please join if you are interested > > List name for subscribing > hackademia-subscribe(a)lists.riseup.net > <mailto:hackademia-subscribe@lists.riseup.net> > > Instructions for joining: > > > > https://help.riseup.net/en/lists/list-user/subscribing#how-do-i-subscribe-t… > > All best, > > Biella > > -- > Gabriella Coleman > Wolfe Chair in Scientific and Technological Literacy > Department of Art History & Communication Studies > McGill University > 853 Sherbrooke Street West > Montreal, PQ > H3A 0G5 > http://gabriellacoleman.org/ > 514-398-8572 > > _______________________________________________ > 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/ > > _______________________________________________ > 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/ > > > ------------------------------ > > Subject: Digest Footer > > _______________________________________________ > 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/ > > ------------------------------ > > End of Air-L Digest, Vol 133, Issue 28 > ************************************** >

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Proud inaugural recipient of:
by Barry Wellman 31 Aug '15

31 Aug '15

Outstanding Service & Leadership in the Social Media & Society Research Community award, July 2015 Announced at the 6th annual Social Media & Society conference organized recently in Toronto by Anatoliy Gruzd, Philip Mai, and Jenna Jacobson. Barry Wellman _______________________________________________________________________ FRSC INSNA Founder University of Toronto http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman twitter: @barrywellman NETWORKED:The New Social Operating System. Lee Rainie & Barry Wellman MIT Press http://amzn.to/zXZg39 Print $14 Kindle $9 _______________________________________________________________________

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hackademia list
by Gabriella "Biella" Coleman 31 Aug '15

31 Aug '15

Hi all, Many of us who went to the Chaos Computer Club camp in Germany met to discuss the study of hacking (whether through scholarly, activist or artistic work). We have created a mailing list to continue the discussion and plan for future meetings. Please join if you are interested List name for subscribing hackademia-subscribe(a)lists.riseup.net <mailto:hackademia-subscribe@lists.riseup.net> Instructions for joining: https://help.riseup.net/en/lists/list-user/subscribing#how-do-i-subscribe-t… All best, Biella -- Gabriella Coleman Wolfe Chair in Scientific and Technological Literacy Department of Art History & Communication Studies McGill University 853 Sherbrooke Street West Montreal, PQ H3A 0G5 http://gabriellacoleman.org/ 514-398-8572

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CFP AAG 2016: Toward a geographical software studies
by ryan burns 31 Aug '15

31 Aug '15

*Toward a geographical software studies*A series of sessions for the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers <http://www.aag.org/annualmeeting> in San Francisco, March 29-April 2, 2016 Ryan Burns <http://burnsr77.github.io/> (Temple University) Nick Lally <http://www.nicklally.com/> (University of Wisconsin–Madison) A growing body of recent geographic scholarship has focused its attention on software and algorithms. Some of these studies analyze geographic technologies —GIS and the geoweb, for example— as such, while others investigate a myriad of digital technologies that have become ubiquitous within the spaces of everyday life. These software/code objects interact with and modulate the world in complex ways, enact processes that connect humans and nonhumans, and become entangled with social, cultural, political, and economic systems. Moreover, software created to visualize data is used to produce knowledge about urban environments and everyday life, but obscure the processes and contexts which underlie its development. Engaging these topics, geographers have developed concepts like the “automatic production of space” (Thrift and French 2002), “software-sorted geographies” (Graham 2005), and “code/space” (Kitchin and Dodge 2011) to describe how software and space are co-constituted in the contemporary world. Productive research is building on these topics to explore new ways geographies are produced (Rose, Degen, and Melhuish 2014), governed (Amoore 2011), materialized, represented (Woodward et al. 2015), and lived through software (Kinsley 2014). This session seeks to bring together a range of spatial thinkers who are producing new studies, theories, and methods for understanding and producing software. We welcome submissions that address all facets of software: the context of its production, its internal operational logics, the material work it does in the world, and its spatial distribution of social and political effects. Suggested themes could include: • Radical, feminist, or postcolonial political theories of software, software production, and/or hacking. What are the liberatory potentials/limits of coding or software and its critiques? • The political economy of software, code, attentional economies, and the audience as commodity. • Methodological contributions for the study of software (deconstruction, ethnography, reading code, reverse-engineering, archival research, hacking, writing software, visual studies, understanding processes, online research, etc) • Software and visual and affective epistemology. • The materiality of software and the work it does in the world (the production of space, embodiment, urbanization, social sorting, securitization, infrastructure, etc). Amoore, L. 2011. Data Derivatives: On the Emergence of a Security Risk Calculus for Our Times. Theory, Culture & Society 28 (6):24–43. Graham, S. D. 2005. Software-sorted geographies. Progress in Human Geography 29 (5):562–580. Kitchin, R., and M. Dodge. 2011. Code/space: software and everyday life. Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press. Kinsley, S. 2014. The Matter of “Virtual” Geographies. Progress in Human Geography 38(3): 364-384. Rose, G., M. Degen, and C. Melhuish. 2014. Networks, interfaces, and computer-generated images: learning from digital visualisations of urban redevelopment projects. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 32 (3):386–403. Thrift, N., and S. French. 2002. The automatic production of space. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers 27 (3):309–335. Woodward, K., J. P. Jones, L. Vigdor, S. A. Marston, H. Hawkins, and D. P. Dixon. 2015. One Sinister Hurricane: Simondon and Collaborative Visualization. Annals of the Association of American Geographers :1–16. *Please submit a 250 word abstract to Nick (nlally(a)wisc.edu <nlally(a)wisc.edu>) and Ryan (ryan.burns(a)temple.edu <ryan.burns(a)temple.edu>) by October 9th, 2015.* -- Ryan Burns, PhD Dept of Geography and Urban Studies, Temple University 859-582-9125 http://burnsr77.github.io

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Deadline approaching - CFP: Children's and young people's rights in the digital age (Special issue of New Media and Society)
by Livingstone,S 31 Aug '15

31 Aug '15

Deadline approaching... and apologies for cross-posting Children's and young people's rights in the digital age Call for papers for a special issue of NEW MEDIA & SOCIETY Editors: Sonia Livingstone and Amanda Third Abstracts due (400-500 words): 15th September 2015 In 1989, Sir Tim Berners Lee released the code that would form the foundation of the World Wide Web, which now boasts an audience of three billion users worldwide. The same year, the United Nations adopted the Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC), the most widely ratified human rights treaty in the history of the UN. The trajectories thereby set in motion have recently become explicitly intertwined, with growing momentum behind calls for the recognition of the potential of online and networked media for promoting children's rights. At the same time, researchers, child rights' advocates and internet governance experts, among others, are concerned that children's rights are being newly infringed rather than enhanced in the digital age. While the past quarter of a century has seen the emergence of a significant literature examining the broad issue of children's rights and, in parallel, a burgeoning field of research on children's new media and digital practices in a variety of national and international contexts, the question of children's rights in the digital age has yet to receive sustained scholarly attention, especially compared with the attention paid to adult rights online. Within popular discourse, children and young people are frequently configured as riding at the forefront of the 'digital revolution'. Nonetheless, as high level debates about global internet provision and governance extend their geographic, political and economic scope, the position of children and young people is barely acknowledged. Further, in the twists and turns of often heated policy debates, children's own experiences, voices and interests are vastly under-considered. This special issue thus seeks to contribute to the defini tion, empirical evidence base, and theorisation of the field internationally. Not only are children's needs and experiences in the digital age often treated as merely a minority interest but they are also often seen as essentially problematic, as demanding exceptional treatment from adult society or causing unwarranted restrictions on adult freedoms. It is important to recognise the fundamental nature of the challenges - this is not just a matter of 'digital rights' but of all children's rights as they may be being transformed in a 'digital age'. Nor is it just a matter of the exceptional circumstances that apply to children, for addressing the rights of children and young people also has implications for adult rights in a digital age. How does a consideration of children compel a wider re-examination of the concepts both of the digital and of human rights? If children's rights in the digital age have yet to receive attention in the global North, this is even more acute in the global South. The tipping point has already passed, with two thirds of the world's nearly three billion internet users living in developing countries, many of them children. At present, the evidence regarding their online activities is very patchy, too often drawing on anecdote, practitioners' observations and institutional reports or media accounts. There is thus an urgent need for a scholarly focus on the rights of children and young people within this larger picture of expanding connectivity in the global South. This is vital to foster debates about children's rights informed by dialogues among diverse epistemologies, experiences and normative frameworks. This special issue seeks to unpack the ways digital media are impacting - both positively and negatively - children's rights today and, in doing so, to reflect on the ways that children's rights might provide a meaningful counterpoint from which to consider the role of 'the digital' in advancing human rights more broadly. Assembling contributions from leading scholars and practitioners in the field internationally, this special issue seeks to bring fully into view the ways in which children's rights - indeed rights generally - may be being reconfigured by the appropriation of digital networked technologies around the world. Submissions will critically examine the normative and socio-technological assumptions embedded in conceptual, policy and practitioner perspectives. To catalyse the debates, we now call for reflective papers of 6000-7000 words analysing key dilemmas or tensions shaping children's rights in the digital age, as well as shorter empirical or practitioner pieces (3000-4000 words each). Papers on key dilemmas or tensions that respondents to the call might address include: * The tension between universal or fundamental human rights and the specific rights demanded by the digital age * The tensions between 'adult rights' and 'children's rights' * The relationship between children's rights and their citizenship * Collective rights versus individual rights * The tension between 'adult power' and 'children's rights' * The tension between the universal ('the child', 'rights') and the specific (the lived experiences of children) * Hierarchies of children's rights in the digital age * Children's rights in the digital age in the global North and global South Empirical or practitioner pieces might address: * Children's privacy rights and the role of peers and peer culture * Youth participation rights in the mediated public sphere * Historical shifts in children's communication rights * Child protection in the global South: is the internet helping or hindering? * From principles to practice: applying arguments about digital rights in particular domains * Who is (or should be) ensuring children's rights online - parents, government, industry? * Children's creative workarounds to gain health resources online * Evaluating initiatives for e-learning and other digital educational programmes * How are children's rights represented or abused in 'big data' * Digital exclusion as a barrier to children's communication rights * Rethinking possibilities for children's identity and expression in the network society * Problems of reputation for networked youth * Public policy /multi-stakeholder governance regarding children's rights in the digital age * Children's information rights: what are the dilemmas? * Education for all - newly possible in the network society? * Grooming, hacking, cyberstalking, trolling and other crimes against children online * Meanings/limits of "voice" in participatory research on children's rights in the digital age * The intergenerational dimensions of children's rights Please submit abstracts for either the 'dilemma' papers or 'empirical/practitioner papers' by 15th September 2015 to both editors - Sonia Livingstone (s.livingstone(a)lse.ac.uk<mailto:s.livingstone@lse.ac.uk>) and Amanda Third (A.Third(a)uws.edu.au<mailto:A.Third@uws.edu.au>). The editors will invite full papers from selected submissions by early October, with full papers to be submitted for independent review by 1st February 2016. It is anticipated that the special issue will be published via Online First by late 2016. Professor Sonia Livingstone, DPhil, FBPS, FRSA, OBE Department of Media and Communications, LSE S105, St Clements Building, Houghton Street, London WC2A 2AE, UK Web: www.sonialivingstone.net<http://www.sonialivingstone.net> Blog: www.parenting.digita<http://www.parenting.digita@Livingstone_S>l Twitter: @Livingstone_S EU Kids Online: www.eukidsonline.net<http://www.eukidsonline.net> TEDx talk: http://ow.ly/wwWiC Open access papers: http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/view/lseauthor/Livingstone,_Sonia.default.html Fellow, Berkman Center for Internet and Society, Harvard Fellow and past President, International Communication Association Books: Meanings of Audiences (2013), Digital Technologies in the Lives of Young People (2014) _______________________________________________ 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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Data Journalism Position at Lehigh
by Jack Lule 31 Aug '15

31 Aug '15

Greetings, friends, I want to let you know about an intriguing tenure-track faculty position in data journalism at Lehigh University. The position is part of a large interdisciplinary hiring initiative called Data X (http://lehigh.edu/datax) The primary focus of this position is journalism and mass communication. The successful candidate will conduct research and teaching at the intersections of journalism, data and computer science. Relevant journalism and mass communication research can include data visualization, data-driven investigative reporting, data mining, storytelling with data, social network analysis, and data analysis focusing on privacy and veracity. Applications are due by September 30. Applicants should apply at Academic Jobs Online: https://academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/5678. We are interested in identifying Ph.D. students nearing graduation or professors interested in moving laterally. We always look to increase the diversity of our candidate pool, so if you know of any appropriate diversity applicants, please encourage them to apply. Many thanks. Jack Lule Jack Lule, Ph.D. Professor and Chair, Journalism and Communication The Global Studies Program The Weinstock Center for Journalism 33 Coppee Drive, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA 18015 Phone: (610)758-4177; Fax: (610)758-6198www.lehigh.edu/~jl0dwww.lehigh.edu/globalizationwww.lehigh.edu/… On Thu, Aug 27, 2015 at 6:01 PM, <air-l-request(a)listserv.aoir.org> wrote: > Send Air-L mailing list submissions to > air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > air-l-request(a)listserv.aoir.org > > You can reach the person managing the list at > air-l-owner(a)listserv.aoir.org > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of Air-L digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Approaches to studying Snapchat and other ephemeral social > media (Liam Pomfret) > 2. Re: Approaches to studying Snapchat and other ephemeral > social media (Alex Leavitt) > 3. Re: Approaches to studying Snapchat and other ephemeral > social media (Sarah Ann Oates) > 4. Re: Approaches to studying Snapchat and other ephemeral > social media (Jon Michael Wargo) > 5. Assistant/Associate Professor Tech Comm/Media Studies Mercer > Univ (Pam Estes Brewer) > 6. CFP: What is Media? | April 14-16, 2016 (Jeremy Swartz) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2015 00:52:20 +0000 > From: Liam Pomfret <l.pomfret(a)business.uq.edu.au> > To: "air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org" <air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org> > Subject: [Air-L] Approaches to studying Snapchat and other ephemeral > social media > Message-ID: <33e476262bcc41029b8e5f8f06236e30(a)uq-exmbx3.soe.uq.edu.au> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > Hello all, > > I'm currently doing some RA work for my PhD supervisor regarding consumer > responses to social marketing campaigns in social media. One area of > particular interest with this has been in consumers' use of ephemeral > social media platforms such as snapchat. A brief review of the literature > doesn't seem to turn up all that much having been written in this area > though. Would anyone here possibly be able to recommend some studies > (published or unpublished) or approaches to studying these kinds of > environments that we should be looking at? > > Kind regards, > Liam Pomfret > > _______________________________________________________ > Liam Pomfret ?l ?PhD Student ?l ?UQ Business School > > The University of Queensland l Brisbane QLD 4072 l AUSTRALIA > E:?l.pomfret@business.uq.edu.au | T: @LiamPomfret | W: > https://business.uq.edu.au > > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2015 18:27:13 -0700 > From: Alex Leavitt <alexleavitt(a)gmail.com> > To: Liam Pomfret <l.pomfret(a)business.uq.edu.au> > Cc: "air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org" <air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org> > Subject: Re: [Air-L] Approaches to studying Snapchat and other > ephemeral social media > Message-ID: > < > CACBxmg5ms0oSx3L1tU1OjVLs_pjDU3e8B+gimcVEY7n-C5BSAA(a)mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 > > > http://www.academia.edu/11849002/Sharing_the_Small_Moments_Ephemeral_Social… > > > http://alexleavitt.com/papers/2015_CHI_Leavitt_ThisIsAThrowawayAccount_Anon… > > > --- > > Alexander Leavitt > PhD Candidate > USC Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism > http://alexleavitt.com > Twitter: @alexleavitt <http://twitter.com/alexleavitt> > > > On Wed, Aug 26, 2015 at 5:52 PM, Liam Pomfret < > l.pomfret(a)business.uq.edu.au> > wrote: > > > Hello all, > > > > I'm currently doing some RA work for my PhD supervisor regarding consumer > > responses to social marketing campaigns in social media. One area of > > particular interest with this has been in consumers' use of ephemeral > > social media platforms such as snapchat. A brief review of the literature > > doesn't seem to turn up all that much having been written in this area > > though. Would anyone here possibly be able to recommend some studies > > (published or unpublished) or approaches to studying these kinds of > > environments that we should be looking at? > > > > Kind regards, > > Liam Pomfret > > > > _______________________________________________________ > > Liam Pomfret l PhD Student l UQ Business School > > > > The University of Queensland l Brisbane QLD 4072 l AUSTRALIA > > E: l.pomfret(a)business.uq.edu.au | T: @LiamPomfret | W: > > https://business.uq.edu.au > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > 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/ > > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 3 > Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2015 01:28:55 +0000 > From: Sarah Ann Oates <soates(a)umd.edu> > To: Liam Pomfret <l.pomfret(a)business.uq.edu.au>, > "air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org" <air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org> > Subject: Re: [Air-L] Approaches to studying Snapchat and other > ephemeral social media > Message-ID: > <4D173A5B6FCE2D44BEB003A158461C250FFDB638(a)OITMX1006.AD.UMD.EDU> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > > As a well-written basis for a lot of this, I would recommend Moe and > Schweidel Social Media Intelligence, Cambridge, 2014. > > Sarah Oates > Professor and Senior Scholar > Philip Merrill College of Journalism > 2100L John S. and James L. Knight Hall > University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742-7111 > phone: +1 301 405 4510 > > Email: soates(a)umd.edu > ________________________________________ > From: Air-L [air-l-bounces(a)listserv.aoir.org] on behalf of Liam Pomfret [ > l.pomfret(a)business.uq.edu.au] > Sent: Wednesday, August 26, 2015 8:52 PM > To: air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org > Subject: [Air-L] Approaches to studying Snapchat and other ephemeral > social media > > Hello all, > > I'm currently doing some RA work for my PhD supervisor regarding consumer > responses to social marketing campaigns in social media. One area of > particular interest with this has been in consumers' use of ephemeral > social media platforms such as snapchat. A brief review of the literature > doesn't seem to turn up all that much having been written in this area > though. Would anyone here possibly be able to recommend some studies > (published or unpublished) or approaches to studying these kinds of > environments that we should be looking at? > > Kind regards, > Liam Pomfret > > _______________________________________________________ > Liam Pomfret l PhD Student l UQ Business School > > The University of Queensland l Brisbane QLD 4072 l AUSTRALIA > E: l.pomfret(a)business.uq.edu.au | T: @LiamPomfret | W: > https://business.uq.edu.au > > > _______________________________________________ > 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/ > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 4 > Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2015 21:38:41 -0400 > From: Jon Michael Wargo <wargojon(a)msu.edu> > To: Liam Pomfret <l.pomfret(a)business.uq.edu.au> > Cc: "air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org" <air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org> > Subject: Re: [Air-L] Approaches to studying Snapchat and other > ephemeral social media > Message-ID: <20150826213841.49014sk0wjqj6881(a)mail.msu.edu> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > > https://www.academia.edu/12181247/Spatial_Stories_with_Nomadic_Narrators_Af… > > Jon > > Quoting Liam Pomfret <l.pomfret(a)business.uq.edu.au>: > > > Hello all, > > > > I'm currently doing some RA work for my PhD supervisor regarding > > consumer responses to social marketing campaigns in social media. One > > area of particular interest with this has been in consumers' use of > > ephemeral social media platforms such as snapchat. A brief review of > > the literature doesn't seem to turn up all that much having been > > written in this area though. Would anyone here possibly be able to > > recommend some studies (published or unpublished) or approaches to > > studying these kinds of environments that we should be looking at? > > > > Kind regards, > > Liam Pomfret > > > > _______________________________________________________ > > Liam Pomfret ?l ?PhD Student ?l ?UQ Business School > > > > The University of Queensland l Brisbane QLD 4072 l AUSTRALIA > > E:?l.pomfret@business.uq.edu.au | T: @LiamPomfret | W: > https://business.uq.edu.au > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > 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/ > > > > ? > > Jon M. Wargo > University Fellow & Graduate Student Instructor > Curriculum, Instruction, and Teacher Education [CITE] Ph.D. Program > Michigan State University > 313 Erickson Hall > 620 Farm Lane > East Lansing, MI 48824 > > E: wargojon(a)msu.edu > C: 219.512.5284 > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 5 > Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2015 09:33:18 -0400 > From: Pam Estes Brewer <brewer_pe(a)mercer.edu> > To: "air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org" <air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org> > Subject: [Air-L] Assistant/Associate Professor Tech Comm/Media Studies > Mercer Univ > Message-ID: > > <33CE8A0C01B7284D828BA80FFDB712825FFED18D25(a)MERCERMAIL.MercerU.local> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > > Dear Colleagues- > > Mercer University's Department of Technical Communication in the School of > Engineering seeks applicants for Assistant/Associate Professor of Technical > Communication/Media Studies. Mercer's TCO program is located on the Macon > campus approximately 1 hour south of Atlanta. I have copied the position > announcement below. > > Best! > Pam > > Pam Estes Brewer, Ph.D. > Associate Professor > Director, Master of Science in Technical Communication Management > Department of Technical Communication/ Mercer University School of > Engineering > U.S. 478.301.4146 > Brewer_pe(a)mercer.edu<mailto:Brewer_pe@mercer.edu> > > > > Assistant/Associate Professor, Technical Communication/Media Studies > > > > Responsibilities: > > > > The Technical Communication Department (TCO) announces openings for > tenure-track positions at the Associate or Assistant Professor level. > Applicant's areas of emphasis should include digital/social media and > expertise in current industry standard tools. Candidates are expected to > excel in teaching and contribute to outstanding degree programs. Mercer > University is one of only a few schools offering technical communication > degrees from a school of engineering. > > The department offers bachelor's and master's degrees in technical > communication, and provides service courses for the School of Engineering. > Mercer University enjoys an excellent reputation, being consistently > recognized in national surveys. Technical Communication faculty are active > in STC, IEEE PCS, and other professional organizations. > > All faculty are expected to maintain currency in the field and conduct > scholarly activity. Because the primary mission of Mercer is teaching, > scholarship is broadly defined. > > TCO faculty typically teach three courses each semester. These include > courses in the BS in Technical Communication and the MS in Technical > Communication Management, as well as a two-course sequence in technical > communication required for all students in the School of Engineering. > Graduate teaching is done entirely online using WebEx and Blackboard. > > The curricula are under constant review to keep up with current trends and > research, and to improve the quality of learning. Laboratories-including > usability and digital media labs-are well equipped with current > technologies. > > TCO faculty are expected to advise students and keep regular office hours. > All faculty attend departmental meetings, participate in SACS and ABET > assessment reviews, and serve on committees in the School of Engineering > and the University. > > Start Date: Spring Semester 2016 > > > > Qualifications: > > > > A doctoral degree in technical communication and/or media studies from an > accredited college/university is required. In addition, candidates must > have industry experience as a technical communicator, demonstrate > competence to teach undergraduates, demonstrate experience or capability of > teaching graduate students via distance learning, and demonstrate ability > to work in a team environment. > > For more information about Mercer University, the School of Engineering, > the TCO Department, or the degree programs, please visit > http://www.mercer.edu, http://engineering.mercer.edu/, > http://engineering.mercer.edu/academics/undergraduate/technical-communicati… > , or > http://engineering.mercer.edu/academics/graduate/technical-communication-ma… > . > > Applicants should apply at https://www.mercerjobs.com and attach the > following materials: cover letter, complete resume, and list of references > with current phone numbers. Those invited to interview will submit official > copies of all transcripts and samples of work. Review begins as soon as > applications are received and continues until the positions are filled. > > Direct inquiries to the search chair: > Dr. Helen M. Grady > Mercer University School of Engineering > 1400 Coleman Avenue > Macon, GA 31207 > > Voice: 478.301.2211 > E-mail: grady_h(a)mercer.edu<mailto:grady_h@mercer.edu> > > > > AA/EEO/Veteran/Disability > > > > > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 6 > Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2015 10:32:36 -0700 > From: Jeremy Swartz <jher(a)uoregon.edu> > To: air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org > Subject: [Air-L] CFP: What is Media? | April 14-16, 2016 > Message-ID: <9cd3eade92e30911182ddd014115a3f1(a)uoregon.edu> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed > > CALL FOR PAPERS > > WHAT IS MEDIA? > Experience ? Exploration ? Emergence > > UNIVERSITY OF OREGON ? PORTLAND, OREGON, USA ? APRIL 14-16, 2016 > > What is media today? How is media studies defined? How have media > technologies transformed media theory and practice? What are the futures > of media and how are they evolving? > > With media including a wider and wider range of concepts, products, > services, and institutions, the definition of media continues to be in a > state of flux. Important questions abound and we will address a sweeping > range of issues at the What is Media? event next April in Portland. > > The conference will feature a unique coalescing of media scholars, > government and community officials, industry professionals, alumni, and > students, as well as artists, filmmakers, grassroots community > organizations, and the public. The event will feature keynote speakers, > roundtables, paper presentations, and special events, in an attempt to > answer questions about the ever-evolving nature of media. > > Presentations/papers/installations may include the following topics (as > well as others): > > ? What is a medium? What distinguishes a medium from the media? How are > they changing? What are the new emerging media? What are immersive > media? > ? What is media studies? What is the relationship between media, > communication, and film studies? > ? How does media studies relate to other areas of inquiry and other > disciplines? > ? What are current approaches to the study of media effects, media > audiences, and media psychology? > ? What can media professionals learn from media studies and vice versa? > ? What is media industry studies? and its relationship to political > economy and media economics? > ? What is citizen/civic media? and the roles/responsibilities of the > media in contemporary democracy? > ? What are media ecologies? In what ways do they address the > environmental crisis? > ? How is media similar/different in various cultures? and the > significance of media in a global context? > ? What new economic, cultural, political, and social factors are > affecting media? > ? How does media studies highlight gender, race, and/or indigenous > concerns? > ? What is the philosophy of media? media ethics? media aesthetics? > ? How does science and technology studies deal with media? > ? What is mediation and/or mediatization? > ? What are the relationships between media technologies and media > content? > ? What are the positive/negative consequences of media technologies for > the public interest? > ? What are the current trends in media education and media literacy? > ? How have media technologies been embraced by spiritual/contemplative > organizations? > ? Where do media, the arts and sciences converge (e.g. intermedia, > biomedia, etc.)? > ? What laws, regulations, and/or policies are appropriate for the media > today? > ? What are the emerging discourses of media, surveillance and > cybersecurity? > ? What is media archaeology? What can media history teach us about the > future of media? > > Conference Organizers: > Janet Wasko (University of Oregon) and Jeremy Swartz (University of > Oregon) > > Send 100-150 word abstracts of papers or presentations by November 2, > 2015 to: > Janet Wasko ? jwasko(a)uoregon.edu > School of Journalism and Communication > University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon, 97403-1275, USA > > > > ------------------------------ > > Subject: Digest Footer > > _______________________________________________ > 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/ > > ------------------------------ > > End of Air-L Digest, Vol 133, Issue 25 > ************************************** >

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