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Job Posting: Open Rank Tenure Track Faculty Positions in Information Science at CU Boulder
by Casey Lynn Fiesler 21 Sep '15

21 Sep '15

Please feel free to share with any people or communities that you think might be interested in these positions! Job posting: https://www.jobsatcu.com/postings/107999 The newly established Department of Information Science in the College of Media, Communication and Information at the University of Colorado Boulder (CU) seeks outstanding candidates for multiple tenure-track positions at all ranks. Successful candidates will help shape the future of Information Science—as a Department and as a discipline—and support the growth trajectory of the new College. The Department takes a progressive approach to the discipline of Information Science, focusing on human–data interaction in all its diverse forms and contexts. The College of Media, Communication and Information (CMCI) is the first new college at CU in 53 years. CMCI is at the forefront of the revolution in communication and digital technology, and is a distinctive, collaborative, interdisciplinary and entrepreneurial enterprise where students engage with world-class faculty to learn, create and analyze media content in its many forms. CMCI is establishing a new standard for teaching and scholarship in communication, media and information. The roster of the Department’s founding faculty reveals a diversity of backgrounds and interests that constitutes a shared commitment to progressive visions of Information Science. Our current faculty have training in multiple disciplines that include Cognitive Science, Computer Science, Computer-Supported Cooperative Work, Data Science, Education, Human–Computer Interaction, Humanities, Informatics, Law, Media Studies, and Psychology. Furthermore, the Department sits in a College that includes faculty with whom we have close relationships in Advertising, Public Relations and Media Design; Communication; Critical Media Practices; Intermedia Art, Writing and Performance; Journalism; and Media Studies. In addition, the Department’s research and educational missions are enhanced by multiple cross-disciplinary relationships across the university at large. Finally, the Department of Information Science collaborates extensively with the Department of Computer Science and is a member of the campus-wide Human-Centered Computing community. Candidates must have a Ph.D. in Information Science, Computer Science, or a related discipline. Candidates must show evidence of or an ability to develop an independent research program; a commitment to teaching and creating a diverse educational environment; and a desire to contribute to a rapidly expanding institutional environment. Applications will be evaluated beginning November 2, 2015. The search will continue until positions are filled. Applications must include a letter of interest specifying an area of specialization and how that relates to the broader mission of information science; curriculum vitae; statements of research and teaching; and contact information for at least three references. CU Boulder is a research university with about 25,000 undergraduates and 6,000 graduate students. The city of Boulder is a high-tech hub, with the highest concentration of tech startups in the US at 2.5 times the density of Silicon Valley, according to the Kauffman Foundation. Boulder is also home to 4 national labs—NCAR, NIST, NOAA, and NREL—which support additional opportunities for scientific and technical collaboration. Located at the base of the Rocky Mountains yet only 27 miles from Denver, Boulder is frequently named one of the most desirable places in the US to live. The University of Colorado is an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to building a diverse workforce. We encourage applications from women, racial and ethnic minorities, individuals with disabilities and veterans. Alternative formats of this ad can be provided upon request for individuals with disabilities by contacting the ADA Coordinator at hr-ada(a)colorado.edu. Applications must be submitted online at http://www.jobsatcu/postings/107999 *** Casey Fiesler Assistant Professor, Information Science University of Colorado Boulder www.caseyfiesler.com

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Call For Abstracts – The Act of Media: Workshop on Law, Media And Technology in South Asia, 8th to 10th January 2016, Sarai-CSDS, Delhi
by Sandeep Mertia 21 Sep '15

21 Sep '15

*Call for Abstracts - The Act of Media: Workshop on Law, Media And Technology in South Asia, 8th to 10th January 2016, The Sarai Programme, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS), Delhi. * The traditional understanding of ‘media law’ has gradually given way to approaches that show us that ‘law’ and ‘media’ are not separate domains but constantly overlap, define and redefine each other. The law seeks to define and regulate media practice, inciting a discursive space which brings media, its relationship to social order and subversion, its materiality and evidentiary status, into the very folds of the law. And the law is relayed, debated and disputed through media publicity and tested by media acts that regularly challenge legal regulation. Following in this trajectory, this workshop will explore the historical relationship between law and media, as it is constituted in culture, politics and performance and on the shifting ground of sovereignty in South Asia. The period leading up to the Partition, the framing of the Indian Constitution and the establishment of two sovereign nation states in the subcontinent, was an important reference point for the debates that occurred round the law, and its relationship to the circulation of information, media and free expression. In India, the debates in the Constituent Assembly and during the First Amendment to the Constitution are testament to how concerns around the political viability of the nation and public order rode roughshod over concerns of civil liberties and freedom of speech and expression. Arguably, we have transited to a new political setting, in which the earlier concentration of power in the sovereign state and its legal institutions have become substantially complicated by the transformation of the media sphere. This workshop will aim to explore the role of the law and censorship through, as William Mazzarella puts it, a theory of performative dispensations, when political authority can no longer reside in the physical body of a singular sovereign and finds itself in the anonymous space of mass publicity. It is with this background in mind that The Act of Media workshop will explore the histories of technological development in the subcontinent and the manner in which both the promise of, and anxieties around technology have framed legal discourse and regulation. The workshop will examine how media-enabled subjectivities produce new sites of departure in the law. The shift from theatre to cinema; cinema to video; and video to satellite television have been productive sites for law’s engagement with technology. The understanding of traditional notions of sovereignty, jurisdiction, and a public sphere defined by rational discourse have been challenged by the contemporary post Web 2.0 moment and the sheer speed, reach and inter-media circulation that this moment has enabled, breaking the bubble sphere of the old Internet. The increasing use of cell phone enabled technologies, and the evolution of cultural practices around the cell phone, pose a massive challenge to older forms of control, policing and the terms of political engagement. The workshop will explore debates, both in South Asia and globally, around trolling, hate speech, violence, the ‘dark net’ and ‘unsocial media’, and the emergence of new infrastructures of governance and surveillance. The Act of Media workshop will bring together law and media practitioners, legal and media theorists, scholars from the law and social sciences, media and visual studies and media anthropology. The workshop will be a space to throw open and explore new ideas and work in these fields, and engage with ongoing research in this area, while keeping in mind the nuances of legal and media practice. Workshop themes will include: *I Evidence, Truth and Legal Procedure* Changing media technologies demand the ability of law to deal with the evidentiary aspects of these technologies. The government’s truth labs that have been set up have institutionalized practices related to criminal law, criminology and forensics. Drawing upon the work of scholars such as Cornelia Vismann, what are the longer histories of media technologies that help explain the relationship between the file, truth and law? For instance, the ability to fake and doctor images and recordings throws into question how evidence law can verify the authenticity of these claims. *II Histories of Media, Law and Technology* The proliferation of blogs, online forums like Facebook and Twitter, and peer-to-peer networks such as Whatsapp have led to the government arguing for stricter legal standards to regulate these media. In the 2015 *Shreya Singhal* judgment, the Indian Supreme Court held that legal regulation of the Internet could not be equated to the regulation of other media. At the same time the Court held that the safeguards under the Constitution could not be diluted for the Internet. How does one read this development in relation to older debates and legal doctrine around changing media technology? *III Law and the Media Event* With the legal trial becoming a media event, there has been an increasing focus on the power of the media and its ability to influence the legal process. The ethical and legal issues surrounding the interviews of undertrials, the release of a film or book while a trial is going on, and the hyper-mediatised coverage of incidents like the Arushi murder, have led to legal precedent, and debates on the ethical aspects of these trials. What happens to the notion of publicity in the trial? How has the law attempted to balance the right to fair trial and the freedom of speech and the right to receive information? *IV Censors and their Sensibilities* How do we understand the production of knowledge and theory of aesthetics even as we examine debates around the censorship of media through the law? What are the ways that the language of the law, couched in reason, struggles with the affective space of sentiments – hurt, contempt, and disgust? Does the medium determine the capacity of language to incite, inflame, outrage and stir passions? What are the tensions between the evolving juridical categories such as hate speech, the social media’s circulation of incendiary material, and political contestations around these categories and practices? *V Consent, Technology and Gendered Violence* The Internet has emerged as a highly masculine space, and there are emerging debates in the Indian context around the barriers that women and persons of diverse genders face in occupying the online public sphere. Videos of rape that are circulated, revenge pornography, and videos and images of public figures that circulate without their consent, have given us cause to think of the complex interplay between the criminal law, consent, and the gendered use of technology. Is the state and police apparatus complicit in the production of a pornographic public? How has the emergence of social media and new media technologies changed the terms of the debates around representation, and the distinction between the speech act and its impact? *VI Circulation, Virality, Rumour* How does the law deal with events that are staged for the afterlife of You Tube videos, when the audience is not just those watching the events but the millions of people who view and share these videos? In what way is new and ubiquitous media technology like Whatsapp images on mobile phones implicated in the production of heightened affect? What are the infrastructures of surveillance and regulation that are put in place to respond to the circulation of ‘objectionable’ material on social media? How has the phenomenon of rumour and its potential to mobilize crowds adapted to the post Web 2.0 moment? How have corporate media agencies such as Google and Facebook responded to the circulation of rumour and hate speech and how transparent are they in their actions? *The Sarai Programme invites submission of abstracts for ‘The Act of Media’ workshop. Abstracts should not exceed 300 words, and should be sent to * *dak(a)sarai.net* <dak(a)sarai.net>* by 15th October, 2015, with the subject heading ‘Proposal for The Act of Media Workshop'. Authors of the selected abstracts will be notified by 1st November 2015.* *The workshop will be held from 8th to 10th January 2016, at Sarai-CSDS, 29 Rajpur Road, Delhi. The Sarai Programme will cover three days of accommodation for outstation participants. In addition, participants from India will be eligible for travel support.* URL: http://sarai.net/call-for-abstracts-the-act-of-media-workshop-on-law-media-… *----------*Sandeep Mertia, Research Associate, Sarai-CSDS, 29, Rajpur Road, Delhi - 110054.

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Two Positions at the University or Georgia
by shira chess 21 Sep '15

21 Sep '15

(apologies for cross posting) My department at UGA (the newly renamed Department of Entertainment and Media Studies) is hiring two positions: Asst/Associate Professor of Production Studies and Creative Industries http://grady.uga.edu/about/faculty3 Director of the New Media Institute http://grady.uga.edu/about/faculty2 Feel free to distribute widely! Shira Chess Assistant Professor of Mass Media Arts Dept. of Entertainment and Media Studies Grady College of Journalism & Mass Communication The University of Georgia

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SECOND CFP Special Issue of Popular Communication: Self-(Re)presentation Now
by Nancy Thumim 21 Sep '15

21 Sep '15

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

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CFP: ACM IUI 2016: ACM Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces
by Christoph Trattner 21 Sep '15

21 Sep '15

--------------------------- Call for Submissions --------------------------- 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. The conference brings together people from academia, industry and non-profit organizations and gives its participants the opportunity to present and see cutting-edge IUI work in an focused and interactive setting. It is large enough to be diverse and lively (we expect over 200 people), but small enough to allow for extensive interaction among attendees and easy attendance to the events that the conference offers, ranging from oral paper presentations, poster sessions, workshops, panels and doctoral consortium for graduate students. IUI topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Processing of multi-modal input (gestures, eye gaze, face, physiological information etc.) - Natural language and speech processing - Intelligent visualization tools - Generation of multimodal content - Big Data/Text summarization and analytics - Intelligent interfaces for ubiquitous computing - Smart environments and tangible computing - Smart interaction and interfaces for wearable computing - Intelligent assistants for complex tasks - Support for collaboration in multiuser environments - Persuasive and assistive technologies in IUI - Affective, social and aesthetic interfaces - Education and learning-related technologies - User-Adaptive interaction - Recommender systems - Modelling and prediction of user behaviour - Interactive Machine Learning - Planning and plan recognition for IUI - Knowledge-based approaches to user interface design and generation - Proactive and agent-based paradigms for user interaction - Example-and demonstration-based interfaces - Evaluations of intelligent user interfaces SUBMISSION ------------------- Full and Short Papers ----------------------------- We invite original paper submissions that describe novel user interfaces, applications, interactive and intelligent technologies, empirical studies, or design techniques. IUI 2016 especially encourages submissions on innovative and visionary new concepts or directions for the design of intelligent interfaces. We do not require evaluations with users, but we do expect papers to include an appropriate evaluation for their stated contribution. Accepted papers will appear in the ACM Digital Library and citation indices. Full papers (10 pages with unlimited references) should make substantial, novel and relevant contributions to the field. Short papers (4 pages with unlimited references) can either contain smaller contributions or novel work that is still progress. Accepted full papers will be invited for oral presentation and short papers either as oral or poster presentation. Authors of accepted IUI 2016 full papers will have an opportunity to submit extended versions to the ACM Transactions on Interactive Intelligent Systems (TiiS, http://tiis.acm.org) for consideration for a special issue titled "Highlights of IUI 2016". For information on what counts as an appropriate "extension" of a conference paper for TiiS, see submissions) Abstracts Due: October 9, 2015, 6pm PST Full and Short Papers Due: October 14, 2015, 6pm PST Posters ---------- Posters provide an opportunity for sharing valuable ideas, eliciting useful feedback on early- stage work and fostering discussions and collaborations among colleagues. We invite submissions on all topics of the conference. All submissions should convey a scientific result or work in progress that is not yet ready to be published as a full length research paper at a refereed conference. The page limit for poster papers is 4 pages. Accepted poster papers will appear in the companion proceedings in the ACM Digital Library. Abstracts Due: December 20, 2015, 6pm PST Demonstrations --------------------- The demonstrations track complements the overall program of the conference. Demonstrations show implementations of novel, interesting, and important intelligent user interface concepts or systems. We invite submissions relevant to intelligent user interfaces and which address, but are not limited to, the topics of the conference. All submissions are intended to convey a scientific result or work in progress and should not be advertisements for commercial software packages. The page limit for demo papers is 4 pages. Accepted demo papers will be published in the companion proceedings in the ACM Digital Library. Abstracts Due: December 20, 2015, 6pm PST Student Consortium --------------------------- The ACM IUI 2016 Student Consortium provides an opportunity for Masters and Doctoral students to present and receive feedback about their research in an interdisciplinary workshop, under the guidance of a panel of mentors, selected from senior people in the field. We invite students who feel they would benefit from this kind of feedback on their research to apply for this unique opportunity to share their work with students in a similar situation as well as senior researchers in the field. The strongest candidates will be those who have a clear topic and research approach, and have made some progress, but who are not so far along their research that they can no longer make changes. Submissions : December 20, 2015, 6pm PST 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 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 ACM IUI 2016 ORGANIZERS ---------------------------------------- General Co-Chairs <chair2016(a)iui.acm.org>: - Jeff Nichols, Google - John O'Donovan, UCSB - Jalal Mahmud, IBM Program Co-Chairs <program2016(a)iui.acm.org>: - Cristina Conati, UBC - Massimo Zancanaro, Bruno Kessler Foundation Poster and Demo Co-Chairs <poster2016(a)iui.acm.org>: - Nava Tintarev, University of Aberdeen - Bongwon Suh, Seoul National University - Matt Dennis, University of Aberdeen Workshop and Tutorial Co-Chairs <workshop2016(a)iui.acm.org <workshop(a)iui.acm.org>>: - Ido Guy, Yahoo! - Jill Freyne, CSIRO Student Consortium Co-Chairs <studentconsortium2016(a)iui.acm.org>: - Tracy Hammond, Texas A&M University - Aaron Adler, BBN Technologies Publicity Co-Chairs <publicity2016(a)iui.acm.org>: - Denis Parra, PUC Chile - Christoph Trattner, NTNU & Know-Center Sponsorship Chair <sponsors2016(a)iui.acm.org>: - Jian Wang, LinkedIn Proceedings Chair <proceedings2016(a)iui.acm.org>: - Bart Knijnenburg, Clemson University -- ------------------------------------------------------- Dipl.-Ing. Dr.techn. Christoph Trattner BSc Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) Dept. of Computer and Information Science, Norway and Know-Center Research Center for Big Data Analytics & Data Driven Business Head of Social Computing Area Graz University of Technology, Austria E-mail: ctrattner(a)know-center.at Tel: +43 650 2402801 Homepage: http://christophtrattner.info ------------------------------------------------------- New book: Mining, Modeling, and Recommending 'Things' in Social Media* by M. Atzmueller, A. Chin, C. Scholz, C. Trattner (eds.) http://link.springer.com/978-3-319-14723-9 -------------------------------------------------------

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future of online news?
by Richard Forno 20 Sep '15

20 Sep '15

(x-posted) Will this be the future of 'news' on the Internet? Only accessible in a timely manner if you're on/using the "right" platform/browser? Scary if true. ;/ Wired: "This story is being previewed exclusively on Apple News until Tuesday, September 22nd" http://www.osnews.com/img/28849/wtf.png I will dub this practice implementing a "platform embargo." -- rick -- It's better to burn out than fade away.

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Two job postings in Digital Media at RMIT University.
by Adam Nash 20 Sep '15

20 Sep '15

Dear Colleagues, Please disseminate these two positions to any suitable candidates you may know. The Bachelor of Design (Digital Media) at RMIT University is currently seeking applicants for two positions: Lecturer, Level B, Digital Media; Industry Fellow, Digital Media. Both positions are in Melbourne, at the gateway to the Asia Pacific century, the world's most liveable city. Lecturer, Digital Media. The Lecturer will be responsible for carrying out teaching activities and for maintaining and advancing their scholarly, research and/or professional capabilities relevant to the discipline. It is essential you have a doctorate or PhD within a field related to digital media and will be required to undertake activities in line with the university's research strategy that emphasises relevant and applied research to advance scholarship and professional engagement. http://yourcareer.rmit.edu.au/mob/caw/en/job/551046/lecturer-digital-media Industry Fellow, Digital Media. The position requires demonstrated ability to teach in the discipline area of digital media in the Bachelor of Design (Digital Media) program and significant industry experience in the practice and associated scholarship of digital media. http://yourcareer.rmit.edu.au/mob/caw/en/job/551101/lecturer-industry-fello… -- Dr Adam Nash Program Manager, B.Design (Digital Media). Director, Playable Media Lab, Computer Games Design Research Centre. School of Media and Communication, RMIT University, GPO Box 2476, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 3001 +61-3-9925-2598 adam.nash(a)rmit.edu.au www.rmit.edu.au/mediacommunication CRICOS Provider Code: 00122A

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3 phd and 1 post-doc positions available ERC project 'Digital Crossings in Europe'
by Leurs, K.H.A. (Koen) 19 Sep '15

19 Sep '15

Dear colleagues, apologies for cross-posting, can you kindly inform possible candidates for these 4 positions on offer at Utrecht University, the Netherlands? There are 3 Phd positions available and one Postdoc position available within the project ‘Digital Crossings in Europe: Gender, Diaspora and Belonging’ (CONNECTINGEUROPE). This project is funded by the European Research Council (ERC), by way of a Consolidator Grant awarded to the principal investigator (PI) Prof. dr. Sandra Ponzanesi (Professor of Gender and Postcolonial Studies, Utrecht University, the Netherlands) and will be running at Utrecht University, the Netherlands from 2016-2021. 3 PhD positions 'Digital Crossings in Europe. Gender, Diaspora and Belonging'(1,0 fte each) Postdoc 'Digital Crossings in Europe. Gender, Diaspora and Belonging' (0,8 FTE) The project aims to investigate the relation between migration and digital technologies, in particular the way in which the ‘connected migrant’ contributes to new forms of European integration and cosmopolitan citizenship. The project explores digital diasporas in relation to issues of gender, ethnicity and affective belonging, focusing on how new technologies enhance new forms of connectivity between the homeland and destination countries, bus also across diasporas. The project pioneers a new interdisciplinary method that combines media studies, postcolonial theories, digital humanities and gender studies, drawing from the humanities and social science. It proposes a comparative approach, based on qualitative digital methods, that focuses on Somali, Romanian and Turkish women migrants who have settled in some of Europe’s main cities (London – PhD1, Amsterdam – PhD2 and Rome – PhD3) and the way in which they keep digitally and emotionally connected to their homeland cities (Mogadishu, Bucharest, Istanbul – Postdoc). The project will chart how different forms of migration (labour, postcolonial and post socialist) impact on the new European order at the local and transnational levels. Within the project, three PhD positions and a postdoc position (advertised separately) will be available for the following projects: 1. PhD1 - Digital Diasporas: London. 2. PhD2 - Digital Diasporas: Amsterdam. 3. PhD3 - Digital Diasporas: Rome. 4. Postdoc: The Politics of Home The three PhDs will have to conduct fieldwork across the three migrant groups (Turkish, Somali, Romanian) in the proposed city (London, Amsterdam or Rome). The interaction, collaboration and sharing of data with the other PhDs and the postdoc is expected. The PhD and Postdoc candidates will of course have the opportunity to fill in the details of these projects or expand on them, based on their expertise, the data they gather and their own research ideas, all in consultation with the principal investigator. If you are interested, please contact the project director, Prof. dr. Sandra Ponzanesi (s.ponzanesi(a)uu.nl) for more information. For a short description of the project please click the following link: www.digitaleurope.nl/. To apply for the positions please go to: Postdoc: https://www.academictransfer.com/employer/UU/vacancy/30039/lang/en/ PhD positions: https://www.academictransfer.com/employer/UU/vacancy/30040/lang/en/ Koen Leurs, PhD Assistent professor Gender and Postcolonial Studies | Department of Media and Culture Studies | Utrecht University | Munstraat 2A 3512 EV NL | room 0.05 | T. + 31 (0)30 253 7844 | www.koenleurs.net

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Communication - Associate or Assistant Professor - SUNY Albany
by Harrison, Teresa M 19 Sep '15

19 Sep '15

The Department of Communication at the University at Albany is seeking applications for a tenure track faculty position at the rank of Associate or Assistant Professor to conduct original research and teach courses in political communication, civic engagement, and/or e-government. The Department currently has concentrations in health, political, interpersonal/intercultural, and organizational communication; and focuses on the impact of new media and technology on social practices within all of these contexts. Preference will be given to candidates who can contribute to the Department's strengths in new media, and communication and technology. The Department has a distinctive commitment to public engagement, and awards BA degrees in Communication and in Journalism; and MA, and PhD degrees in Communication. Senior scholars should possess an established record of productive research and a record of excellence in teaching; junior scholars should demonstrate the potential for productive research and some evidence of teaching effectiveness. Applicants should also share a commitment to the University's strategic values for engaged learning and societal responsibility, and to its goals for increasing levels of external funding. Applicants must address in their applications their ability to work with and instruct a culturally diverse population. For additional information and to apply for this position: https://albany.interviewexchange.com/jobofferdetails.jsp;jsessionid=C493F23…

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ICTD conference call for papers
by Charles Steinfield 18 Sep '15

18 Sep '15

For those interested in the role of ICTs in development, please consider submitting a paper to the ICTD 2016 meeting. It will be held in Ann Arbor, Michigan from June 3-6. I’ve attended a couple of recent ICTD meetings and it is an excellent meeting, with opportunities to mix with academic researchers from many disciplines as well as representatives from development agencies and the private sector. I highly recommend it. The call for papers is pasted in below. Regards, Chip Steinfield Charles Steinfield Department of Media and Information Michigan State University East Lansing, MI 48840 USA +1 517 482 8651 steinfie(a)msu.edu ----------------------------------------------- ICTD 2016 Ann Arbor, MI, USA | 3-6 June 2016 Call for Papers and Notes Deadline for Submission of Full paper: November 20 2015 The Eighth International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development (ICTD2016), to be hosted at the University of Michigan from June 3-6, 2016, cordially invites you to submit Full Papers and Notes. Held in cooperation with ACM SIGCHI and ACM SIGCAS, ICTD2016 will provide an international forum for scholarly researchers to explore the role of information and communication technologies (ICTs) in social, political, and economic development. The ICTD conferences have been taking place approximately every 18 months since 2006; 2016 marks the first time that the conference will go to an annual cycle. Important dates · November 20, 2015: Deadline for submission of Full Papers · January 15, 2016: Notification of acceptances for Full Papers · January 29, 2016: Deadline for submission of Notes · February 26, 2016: Notification of acceptances for Notes · March 25, 2016: Camera-ready Full Papers and Notes due All submission are due 11:59 pm UTC. Over the past several decades, as radio and television have been joined by computers, the Internet, and mobile devices, information and communication technologies (ICTs) have become more pervasive, more accessible, and more relevant in the lives of people around the world. Virtually no sphere of human activity remains apart from ICTs, from markets to health care, education to governance, family life to artistic expression. Diverse groups across the world interact with, are affected by, and can shape the design of these technologies. The ICTD conference is a place to understand these interactions, and to examine, critique, and refine the persistent, pervasive hope that ICTs can be enlisted by individuals and communities in the service of human development. There are multidisciplinary challenges associated with the engineering, application and adoption of ICTs in developing regions and/or for development, with implications for design, policy, and practice. For the purposes of this conference, the term “ICT” comprises electronic technologies for information processing and communication, as well as systems, interventions, and platforms that are built on such technologies. “Development” includes, but is not restricted to, poverty alleviation, education, agriculture, healthcare, general communication, gender equality, governance, infrastructure, environment and sustainable livelihoods. The conference program will reflect the multidisciplinary nature of ICTD research, with anticipated contributions from fields including (but not limited to) anthropology, computer science, communication, design, economics, electrical engineering, geography, human-computer interaction, information science, information systems, political science, public health, and sociology. Full Papers An ICTD Full Paper, which is up to 10 pages in the ACM two-column format (including references, figures and tables), must make a new research contribution and provide complete and substantial support for its results and conclusions. Accepted papers typically represent a major advance for the field of ICTD. Full Papers will be evaluated via double-blind peer review by a multidisciplinary panel of at least three readers, one of whom will come from outside the paper’s disciplinary domain in order to ensure broad readability. Accepted Full Papers will be presented as oral presentations at the conference. Full Papers will be evaluated according to their novel research contribution, methodological soundness, theoretical framing and reference to related work, quality of analysis, and quality of writing and presentation. Manuscripts considering novel designs, new technologies, project assessments, policy analyses, impact studies, theoretical contributions, social issues around ICT and development, and so forth will be considered. Well-analyzed negative results from which generalizable conclusions can be drawn are also sought. Authors are encouraged (but not required) to address the diversity of approaches in ICTD research by providing context, implications, and actionable guidance to researchers and practitioners beyond the authors’ primary domains. Full Papers typically present mature work whereas Notes (see below) are used for presenting preliminary research that is still work-in-progress. All accepted Full Papers will be archived in the ACM Digital Library. A subset of the Full Papers will also appear in a special issue of the Information Technologies & International Development journal. See additional specifications under “All Submissions” below. Notes With a shorter 4-page limit, Notes are intended to introduce work-in-progress that may be published later in a journal, as well as to document shorter project write-ups. An ICTD Note is likely to have a more focused and succinct research contribution to the ICTD field than Full Papers. For example, Notes on novel ICTD systems may not cover the entire design of the system but may instead go into depth in specific areas (e.g., how the system was evaluated with real users or how the formative work to create the system was conducted). Notes are also not expected to include a discussion of related work that is as broad and complete as that of a submission to the Full Papers venue. Accepted Notes will be presented as poster presentations at the conference. Notes will be evaluated by at least two multidisciplinary reviewers in a double-blind fashion and will be assessed according to their research contribution, methodological soundness, quality of analysis, and quality of writing, and presentation. Manuscripts considering novel designs, new technologies, project assessments, policy analyses, impact studies, theoretical contributions, social issues around ICT and development, and so forth will be considered. However Notes need not necessarily be as comprehensive, novel, or generalizable as Full Papers. All accepted Notes will be made available in the ACM Digital Library. Notes authors will be invited to present a poster. See additional specifications under “All Submissions” below. All Submissions Only original, unpublished, research papers in English will be considered. Full Papers and Notes must use the ACM templates (LaTex and Word), and must be no longer than 10 pages and 4 pages respectively. (The main text, figures, tables, footnotes, references, etc. must fit within these page limits.) Additional material may be included in an Appendix, but the text within the page limits must read as a standalone work. Submissions longer than the page limits, not in the template format, not related to the conference themes, and/or not meeting a minimum bar of academic research writing will be rejected without full review. For each accepted Full Paper and Note, at least one of the authors will be required to register and present it at ICTD2016. If not, the submission will not be published in the final proceedings. For Full Papers, see the ACMs copyright policies and options. Copyright for Notes will be retained by the authors. Submitted Full Papers and Notes must not include names or other information that would identify the authors. Note that since the Full Paper and Notes submission review cycles will be sequential; it will be possible to revise, shorten, and resubmit elements of promising but non-selected Full Papers in time for reconsideration in the separate Notes review round. For more information, see http://ictd2016.info or email Susan Wyche at spwyche(a)msu.edu. General Conference Chair Kentaro Toyama, University of Michigan Program Committee Chairs Lakshmi Subramanian, New York University  Susan Wyche, Michigan State University Notes Chairs Carleen Maitland, Pennsylvania State University Janaki Srinivasan, International Institute of Information Technology Bangalore Senior Program Committee Richard Anderson, University of Washington Elizabeth Belding, U.C. Santa Barbara Michael Best, United Nations University / Georgia Institute of Technology Josh Blumenstock, University of Washington Marshini Chetty, University of Maryland Ed Cutrell, Microsoft Research India Rogerio de Paula, IBM Research Brazil Vanessa Frias-Martinez, University of Maryland Heather Horst, RMIT University Dorothea Kleine, Royal Holloway University of London Rich Ling, Nanyang Technical University Joyojeet Pal, University of Michigan Balaji Parthasarathy, International Institute of Information Technology Bangalore Tapan Parikh, U.C. Berkeley Nimmi Rangaswamy, Xerox Research Center India Aaditeshwar Seth, IIT Delhi Araba Sey, University of Washington Charles Steinfield, Michigan State University Revi Sterling, NetHope Bill Thies, Microsoft Research India ICTD Steering Committee Francois Bar, University of Southern California Michael Best, United Nations University / Georgia Institute of Technology Ken Keniston, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Balaji Parthasarathy, International Institute of Information Technology, Bangalore Krithi Ramamritham, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay AnnaLee Saxenian, University of California, Berkeley Kentaro Toyama, University of Michigan Ernest Wilson, University of Southern California

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