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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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Call for Animal Meme / Internet Culture Research
by An Xiao Mina 16 Sep '15

16 Sep '15

Hi folks, Please to share this call for research/submissions for an ongoing exhibition I'm working on at the Museum of the Moving Image. Feel free to reach out if you have any questions. Best, An --- Call for Submissions: Animal Memes/Humor for “A Global Perspective” at the Museum of the Moving Image Part of How Cats Took Over the Internet, curated by Jason Eppink While cats are regular fixtures on many internets around the globe, some cultures tend to focus on different animals, while others rarely engage with animals online at all. In collaboration with the Museum of the Moving Image, The Civic Beat, a global research collective looking at the creative side of civic technology, is assembling a map that examines some popular animals and memes, reflecting the vast diversity of internet cultures around the world. The map project is part of How Cats Took Over the Internet, a new exhibition curated by Jason Eppink that offers a cultural deconstruction of the popular animal online. The map continues with this deconstruction by looking at other animal memes and meme cultures in global contexts, taking a quirky topic to offer a deeper look at the many diverse cultures that exist on the global web. The map covers cultural appropriation of llamas in Mexico, Chile, and Peru; the grass mud horse in China; goats in Uganda, the United Kingdom and Brazil; cats in Japan and Pakistan; hyenas in Kenya; bears in Russia; and internet cultures (such as Iran and Syria) where animals don’t generally have a large presence. Each entry is written by a researcher with experience in the country’s online context. The map will continue to grow throughout the course of the exhibition, and it will have a second life on a dedicated web site at a to-be-determined future date. We are seeking meme submissions from internet researchers — academics, journalists, cultural critics, and others — in a wide variety of countries, including but not limited to: - Argentina - Australia - Canada - France - Germany - India - Indonesia - Italy - Malaysia - Nigeria - Saudi Arabia - South Africa - South Korea - and many others We’re particularly interested in submissions from the global south and emerging and underrepresented internet cultures. Submissions should include the following: - Your name - Institutional affiliation and title - Your research background - Country whose internet culture you are studying - A brief paragraph (3–5 sentences long) looking at an animal meme (or animal-based humor) most representative of the internet culture of the country you study and some of the social and cultural reasons for its popularity. (This will be trimmed down by the curators to about 2 sentences, but the extra content is helpful.) - A few representative meme images, with English translations (if needed) - Agreement to release the writing under a Creative Commons NC-BY-SA license. For more information, please see a brief write-up about the project at https://medium.com/the-civic-beat/internet-cats-internet-llamas-and-cultura…. Submissions are due October 9 to info(a)thecivicbeat.com; questions should be addressed to the same. We accept email or Google Doc submissions. No attachments please. Please feel free to forward this email or share this link for the call for entries: https://medium.com/the-civic-beat/send-us-your-animal-memes-6e5d9cca1cb0.

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New Book 'Qu'est-ce Que Le Digital Labor?'
by Antonio A. Casilli 16 Sep '15

16 Sep '15

Dear all, I am pleased to announce the publication of 'Qu'est-ce Que Le Digital Labor?', which I co-authored with my colleague Dominique Cardon. It is, as you can imagine, the first book on this topic published in French. Here's the publisher's press release: http://www.institut-national-audiovisuel.fr/presse/pdf/1128.pdf Feel free to forward this information to your French-speaking friends and colleagues. Also, drop me a line if you are interested in locating a copy. D. Cardon & A. A. Casilli 'Qu'est-ce Que Le Digital Labor?' Paris, INA Editions 2015 ISBN-10: 2869382294 ---- Paris | 01 septembre 2015. À découvrir « Qu’est-ce que le Digital Labor ? » d’Antonio A. Casilli et Dominique Cardon Et si la publication d’un post Facebook ou une simple recherche sur Google se révélaient être des formes de « travail numérique » que nous accomplirions pour les grandes plateformes du Web 2.0 ? Partager des contenus multimédias, évaluer une application mobile, payer en ligne… Des activités quotidiennes en apparence normales mais qui alimentent d’énormes bases de données monétisées par des puissantes entreprises contemporaines. Le Digital Labor ou le travail implicite de tout utilisateur d’Internet est une production de valeur qui ne dit pas son nom. Cette notion a fait son apparition dans la recherche universitaire internationale au début de cette décennie. Le présent ouvrage est le premier en langue française à analyser ce concept pour le mettre en résonance avec la pensée européenne. Il met l’accent sur les questions que pose l’impact du numérique sur le monde du travail : où se situent les frontières entre temps de travail et temps de vie dans une société dont la connectivité est mise à profit ? Sur la toile, les concepts de « participation » et « contribution » n’occultent-ils pas une exploitation de milliards de travailleurs non rémunérés ? Quelles évolutions attendre d’une économie qui s’appuie de plus en plus sur le travail invisible des internautes ? Derrière ces activités, une nouvelle conflictualité sociale se dessine. D’Amazon à Uber, les travailleurs précaires des grandes plateformes s’organisent. Leurs luttes se couplent avec les mouvements spontanés de simples utilisateurs et de contributeurs bénévoles qui demandent des meilleurs services, des conditions générales d’usage plus équitables et des systèmes moins prédateurs quand il s’agit de collecter leurs données personnelles. Face à ces phénomènes, les syndicats aux Etats-Unis et en Europe commencent à interroger les nouvelles formes d’un travail qui échappe à l’encadrement salarial mais qui constitue pourtant le pilier de la création de valeur pour les entreprises contemporaines. ---- -- Antonio A. Casilli Associate Professor, Telecommunication College, Paris Institute of Technology (Telecom ParisTech) Research Fellow Edgar-Morin Center (EHESS) https:/webperso.telecom-paristech.fr/casilli.html @AntonioCasilli

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Manuel Castells is at USoCal, not Berkeley
by Barry Wellman 16 Sep '15

16 Sep '15

despite the poster's assertion about his recent interview with him. Or has he moved backed to Berkeley so recently that Wikipedia hasn't caught up. It has him moving to USC in 2003. 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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CfP ACLA 2016: Literary Boundary Work: Big Data and Comparative Non-Literature, abstracts 9/23
by Scott Kushner 15 Sep '15

15 Sep '15

CALL FOR PAPERS Literary Boundary Work: Big Data and Comparative Non-Literature A seminar proposal for ACLA 2016, next March 17-20 at Harvard Abstracts by September 23 and further details at http://www.acla.org/node/5114 Questions to Scott Kushner, scottkushner(a)uri.edu Convened by Scott Kushner (Communication Studies, URI) and Jonathan Abel (Comp Lit, Penn State) Literary study draws its boundaries too narrowly. This is why as the discipline that continually seeks "literature plus ______” (another language, a new theory, a different medium), comparative literature shines brightest when it engages methodologies and objects from both within and beyond the traditional limits of literary studies. A new century brought novel forms of writing and criticism, though many practitioners of literary study still tread gingerly around status updates and comments, TEI and corpuses. Recent critical techniques for textual interpretation may reveal as illusory close reading's long monopoly on research and pedagogy. New textual cultures in everyday networked media continue to trouble the discipline's notions of the literary. Taken together, such shifts in methodology and object can reshape and rejuvenate literary studies. This seminar will ask what is new and what has stayed the same in comparative literature. Papers will map emergent and resilient methodologies, survey the current boundaries of the field, and inventory the professional practices that legitimize the discipline. As scholars apply new tools to new texts in new ways, what continues to hold comparative literature together and distinguish it from neighboring fields?

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CFP: Beyond IRBs -- Designing Ethical Review Processes for Big Data Research
by Joseph Jerome 15 Sep '15

15 Sep '15

*CALL FOR PAPERS* *Beyond IRBs: Designing Ethical Review Processes for Big Data Research* In the age of Big Data, innovative uses of information are continuously emerging in a wide variety of contexts. Increasingly, researchers at companies, not-for-profit organizations and academic institutions use individuals’ personal data as raw material for analysis and research. For research on data subject to the Common Rule, institutional review boards (IRBs) provide an essential ethical check on experimentation. Still, even academic researchers lack standards around the collection and use of online data sources, and data held by companies or in non-federally funded organizations is not subject to such procedures. Research standards for data can vary widely as a result. Companies and non-profits have become subject to public criticism and may elect to keep research results confidential to avoid public scrutiny or potential legal liability. To prevent unethical data research or experimentation, experts have proposed a range of solutions, including the creation of “consumer subject review boards,”[1] <http://www.futureofprivacy.org/wp-admin/post.php?post=12099&action=edit#_ft…> formal privacy review boards,[2] <http://www.futureofprivacy.org/wp-admin/post.php?post=12099&action=edit#_ft…> private IRBs,[3] <http://www.futureofprivacy.org/wp-admin/post.php?post=12099&action=edit#_ft…> and other ethical processes implemented by individual companies.[4] <http://www.futureofprivacy.org/wp-admin/post.php?post=12099&action=edit#_ft…> Organizations and researchers are increasingly encouraged to pursue internal or external review mechanisms to vet, approve and monitor data experimentation and research. However, many questions remain concerning the desirable structure of such review bodies as well as the content of ethical frameworks governing data use. In addition, considerable debate lingers around the proper role of consent in data research and analysis, particularly in an online context; and it is unclear how to apply basic principles of fairness to selective populations that are subject to research. To address these challenges, the Future of Privacy Forum (FPF) is hosting an academic workshop supported by the National Science Foundation, which will discuss ethical, legal, and technical guidance for organizations conducting research on personal information. *Authors are invited to submit papers for presentation at a full-day program to take place on December 10, 2015*. Successful submissions may address the following issues: - What are the key ethical questions surrounding data-driven research and consumer testing? Should analysis of online data be treated differently than subject testing generally? Which issues warrant additional review? - What lessons can be learned from existing institutional review boards (IRBs), including both academic panels and standalone private entities? Which features of existing IRB structures are applicable to corporate and non-profit big data research? - Which existing government or industry practices offer insights into how researchers can approach ethical questions for Big Data? - How should organizations structure an ethical review process? Which substantive requirements and principles should govern it? How should organizations ensure independent review? Could review mechanisms be wholly internal or must external stakeholders or committees be involved? - What is the proper scope of review? While IRBs currently focus on human-subject testing, Big Data raises a different set of concerns focusing on subsequent analysis and novel uses of data. Which factors are essential for consideration in an ethical process? - What is the proper role of consent in data-driven research environment? Papers for presentation will be selected by an academic advisory board and published in the online edition of the *Washington and Lee Law Review <http://lawreview.journals.wlu.io/online-edition/>*. Four papers will be selected to serve as “firestarters” for the December workshop, awarding each author with a $1000 stipend. Submissions must be 2,500 to 3,500 words, with minimal footnotes and in a readable style accessible to a wide audience. Submissions must be made no later than October 25, 2015, at 11:59 PM ET, to papersubmissions(a)futureofprivacy.org. Publication decisions and workshop invitations will be sent in November. For questions, please contact Joseph Jerome at jjerome(a)futureofprivacy.org. ------------------------------ [1] <http://www.futureofprivacy.org/wp-admin/post.php?post=12099&action=edit#_ft…> Ryan Calo, *Consumer Subject Review Boards: A Thought Experiment*, 66 Stan. L. Rev. Online 97 (2013). [2] <http://www.futureofprivacy.org/wp-admin/post.php?post=12099&action=edit#_ft…> White House Consumer Privacy Bill of Rights Discussion Draft, Section 103(c) (2015). [3] <http://www.futureofprivacy.org/wp-admin/post.php?post=12099&action=edit#_ft…> Jules Polonetsky, Omer Tene, & Joseph Jerome, *Beyond the Common Rule: Ethical Structures for Data Research in Non-Academic Settings*, 13 Colo. Tech. L. J. 333 (2015). [4] <http://www.futureofprivacy.org/wp-admin/post.php?post=12099&action=edit#_ft…> Mike Schroepfer, CTO, Research at Facebook (Oct. 2, 2014), http://newsroom.fb.com/news/2014/10/research-at-facebook/. -- *Joseph Jerome* | Policy Counsel Future of Privacy Forum 1400 Eye Street NW, Suite 450 | Washington, DC 20005 tel. 202.630.8064 @joejerome <https://twitter.com/joejerome> | www.fpf.org <http://www.futureofprivacy.org>

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Come & Collaborate with the Ryerson University Social Media Lab in Toronto, Canada
by Anatoliy 15 Sep '15

15 Sep '15

The Social Media Lab, part of the Ted Rogers School of Management at Ryerson University, invites academic researchers at any stage of their career and senior PhD candidates for a short-term (1-4 month) research visit. The Social Media Lab is an interdisciplinary community of scholars who eagerly address issues surrounding the impact and implications of social media on society. With two funded and two self-funded openings for the program, visiting scholars can further their own research at our Lab, as well as develop and complete a collaborative research project with members of the Lab. During the program, visiting scholars will meet and interact with the Social Media Lab's academic community, both at Ryerson University, in Toronto, and beyond, through our international network of expert collaborators. They will also have the chance to explore Toronto - Canada's largest and most multicultural city. For more information and to apply, please visit http://socialmedialab.ca/visit/ -- Anatoliy Gruzd, PhD Associate Professor, Ted Rogers School of Management Director, Social Media Lab Ryerson University Street Address: 55 Dundas St. West, Toronto, ON, Canada Office: TRS 2-071 (8th floor) Email: <mailto:gruzd@ryerson.ca> gruzd(a)ryerson.ca Twitter: @gruzd Tel: 416-979-5000 ext. 7937 Lab: <http://socialmedialab.ca/> http://SocialMediaLab.ca Homepage: <http://anatoliygruzd.ca/> http://AnatoliyGruzd.ca

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New paper on using Facebook as a research tool
by Gosling, Samuel D 14 Sep '15

14 Sep '15

Colleagues, Those of you doing (or wanting to do) research on Facebook or via Facebook might find our new paper (just published in The American Psychologist) to be of interest. I’m pasting the abstract below. If you’d like a copy, please write to me (samg(a)austin.utexas.edu) or to the lead author, Michal Kosinski (michalk(a)stanford.edu) Facebook as a research tool for the social sciences: Opportunities, challenges, ethical considerations, and practical guidelines. Kosinski, Michal; Matz, Sandra C.; Gosling, Samuel D.; Popov, Vesselin; Stillwell, David American Psychologist, Vol 70(6), Sep 2015, 543-556 http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/a0039210 http://psycnet.apa.org/journals/amp/70/6/543/ Facebook is rapidly gaining recognition as a powerful research tool for the social sciences. It constitutes a large and diverse pool of participants, who can be selectively recruited for both online and offline studies. Additionally, it facilitates data collection by storing detailed records of its users’ demographic profiles, social interactions, and behaviors. With participants’ consent, these data can be recorded retrospectively in a convenient, accurate, and inexpensive way. Based on our experience in designing, implementing, and maintaining multiple Facebook-based psychological studies that attracted over 10 million participants, we demonstrate how to recruit participants using Facebook, incentivize them effectively, and maximize their engagement. We also outline the most important opportunities and challenges associated with using Facebook for research, provide several practical guidelines on how to successfully implement studies on Facebook, and finally, discuss ethical considerations. All the best, Sam Gosling Professor University of Texas, Austin snoopology.com

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Call For Chapters & Editorial Board: Handbook of Research on Scientific and Technological Development in Asia plus Updated Editorial Board List
by Shefali Virkar 14 Sep '15

14 Sep '15

FYI. ------------------------------ *From:* Bryan Christiansen [usdiplomat769239(a)gmail.com] *Sent:* 09 September 2015 08:32 *To:* Sally Wallace; Shefali Virkar; Kijpokin Kasemsap; Ye-Sho Chen; Hun Joo Park; Arun Shankar; Wiboon Kittilaksanawong; Krishnas Swamy; Damla Sengul; Burcu Gundogan; Norhayati Zakaria; Sirjjan Preet; Caner Dirikan; Chandan, Harish C.; Neeta Baporikar; Reza Hosseini; Allen McKenna; Raghu Bir; David Starr-Glass; Rituparna Das; Dr. Rituparna Das; nitty(a)upm.edu.my; zheng.liu01(a)xjtlu.edu.cn; Sukanya Natarajan; Sukanya Natarajan; mukherjee_aroop(a)yahoo.com; Sushma Kashyap; Marie-Therese Claes; Swati Bute; Swati Bute *Cc:* Gülşah Koç; Courtney Tychinski *Subject:* Updated Editorial Board List: Asia Book Dear Colleagues: Please find attached in PDF format the very latest listing of the Editorial Advisory Board for the upcoming publication, *Handbook of Research on Scientific and Technological Development in Asia*. You should see your respective names at the bottom of the following Call For Chapters link no later than this coming Friday: http://www.igi-global.com/publish/call-for-papers/call-details/1908 Please distribute this link throughout your respective networks because we still require additional Chapter Proposals. So far we have a total of 13 proposals submitted and now under full chapter development, but we need at least 15 more. Please contact me for any questions or concerns regarding this matter. Thank you in advance for your participation in this book project. Sincerely, Bryan Christiansen Chairman PRYMARKE, LLC 9408 Bellevue Road Battle Creek, Michigan 49014 USA

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Call For Chapters & Editorial Board: Corporate Espionage, Geopolitics, and Diplomacy Issues in International Business plus Updated EAB List
by Shefali Virkar 14 Sep '15

14 Sep '15

FYI. ------------------------------ *From:* Bryan Christiansen [usdiplomat769239(a)gmail.com] *Sent:* 11 September 2015 08:50 *To:* Shefali Virkar; shefali.virkar(a)oii.ox.ac.uk; Sally Wallace; Hun Joo Park; Kijpokin Kasemsap; Burcu Gundogan; Caner Dirikan; Chandan, Harish C.; Wiboon Kittilaksanawong; David Starr-Glass; Norhayati Zakaria; Neeta Baporikar; Reza Hosseini; Ye-Sho Chen; nitty(a)upm.edu.my; zheng.liu01(a)xjtlu.edu.cn; Mika Westerlund; hakan demir; Allen McKenna *Cc:* Courtney Tychinski; Nur K. *Subject:* Diplomacy Book: Updated EAB List Dear Colleagues: Please find attached in PDF format the very latest listing of the Editorial Advisory Board for the upcoming publication, *Corporate Espionage, Geopolitics, and Diplomacy Issues in International Business*. You should see your respective names at the bottom of the following Call For Chapters link no later than this coming Friday: http://www.igi-global.com/publish/call-for-papers/call-details/1907 Please distribute this link throughout your respective networks because we still require additional Chapter Proposals. So far we have a total of 15 proposals submitted and now under full chapter development, but we need at least 10 more. Please contact me for any questions or concerns regarding this matter. Thank you in advance for your participation in this book project. Sincerely, Bryan Christiansen Chairman PRYMARKE, LLC 9408 Bellevue Road Battle Creek, Michigan 49014 USA

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