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recruiting students for the Intermedia Arts, Writing, Performance PhD // U Colorado Boulder
by Lori Emerson 24 Oct '16

24 Oct '16

Dear all, Applications are now being accepted for the University of Colorado at Boulder's practice-based PhD in Intermedia Art, Writing and Performance. We would be grateful if you would pass this announcement on to any students or colleagues you think might be interested in our program, especially as we are trying to continue building as diverse a cohort as possible. The Intermedia Art, Writing and Performance (IAWP) unit is entering its second year and is an interdisciplinary digital arts and humanities research unit with a practice-based PhD. Located in the University of Colorado's College of Media, Communication and Information, IAWP's core faculty collaboratively investigate past and present forms of digital art, writing, and performance and offer graduate students a hands-on, experiential-based learning environment in which to explore emerging forms of creativity triggered by practice-based research methodologies. The research conducted in the program reflects the rapidly transforming knowledge systems and digital media economies emerging from the substantial technological shifts currently taking place in our society. Digital creative work and critical media literacy play a defining role in our information society and are transforming all aspects of contemporary life, including the way many professional visual artists, multimedia performers, writers, publishers, digital humanists and archivists pursue their practice. Traditional scholarly and creative work outputs such as the single-authored print book or conventional gallery exhibitions have already been challenged by the emergence of multi-authored and/or hybridized forms of transmission such as Internet art sites, electronic literature, live audio/visual performance, multi-platform storytelling or transmedia narratives, software art, interactive installations for public spaces, augmented reality, game art, networked media activism, and innovative art applications for mobile devices and tablets. IAWP’s internationally-renowned and affiliated faculty network collaborate with graduate students probing the significance of a digitally-expanded, process-based research environment located in a cluster of interdisciplinary research labs. The program provides a flexible pedagogical structure that will lead to the creation of new and hybridized forms of art, writing, performance, scholarship, theory, design, curation, exhibition, and publication appropriate for our current cultural moment. The program concentrates its curriculum on digital forms of creativity so as to cultivate cutting-edge investigations into the practice, theory, history, and philosophy of media and its relationships to creativity, communication, technology, and information. Application deadlines: International: December 1, 2016 Domestic: January 1, 2017 To find out more about IAWP as well as application guidelines and program requirements, please visit: http://www.colorado.edu/cmci/academics/phd-intermedia-art-writing-and-perfo… For more on the IAWP faculty, please visit: http://www.colorado.edu/cmci/people/intermedia-art-writing-and-performance Thanks so much for your help with this--- yours, Lori -- Lori Emerson Associate Professor | Director, Media Archaeology Lab Department of English and Intermedia Arts, Writing, and Performance University of Colorado at Boulder Hellems 101, 226 UCB, Boulder, CO 80309-0226 loriemerson.net | mediaarchaeologylab.com

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UCL Why We Post lecture steamed live on Periscope- today!
by Major, Alison 24 Oct '16

24 Oct '16

UCL Why We Post lecture steamed live on Periscope Time: 1pm (London) / 2pm (Berlin) / 8am (New York) Free to attend, broadcast by @ucl on Periscope -------------- We are delighted to announce a live-streamed lecture about Why We Post<http://www.ucl.ac.uk/why-we-post> by Professor Daniel Miller that may be of interest to members of this list. This UCL lecture will be live-streamed around the world next week on the Periscope platform, in the first partnership of its kind with a UK university. The lecture, taking place on Monday 24 October at 1pm (BST), will be given by UCL Press author Professor Daniel Miller (UCL Anthropology) as part of the MSc programme in Digital Anthropology<http://www.ucl.ac.uk/anthropology/studying/msc-digital-anthropology>. Available for iOS and Android devices, the Periscope live-streaming video app gives everyone the ability to share and watch live broadcasts from their mobile phone, enabling interactive two-way communications between broadcaster and viewer in real time. During a live stream, viewers can connect directly with the broadcaster by sending messages or sharing their support by tapping the screen to send Hearts. The app was acquired by Twitter in early 2015, shortly after it was launched. This will be the first academic lecture to be Periscoped in partnership with a university and is based on findings from the 'Why We Post' research project<http://www.ucl.ac.uk/why-we-post> - which investigated how social media is used around the world. This landmark project saw nine UCL anthropologists each spend 15 months living in eight countries in communities as varied as an English village, a factory town in North China, and a community on the Turkish-Syrian border. Each team member conducted in-depth analysis into how the local populations behave and interact across social media channels and how these platforms are impacting on the way we live our lives, with the findings available via a dedicated website with more than 100 films<http://www.ucl.ac.uk/why-we-post>, a free e-learning course (MOOC) on FutureLearn<https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/anthropology-social-media> and 11 Open Access books<http://www.ucl.ac.uk/ucl-press/why-we-post> published by UCL Press. The course and website are available in eight languages. About Why We Post Why We Post is a project by nine anthropologists who conducted nine simultaneous 15-month studies on the uses and consequences of social media around the world. Sites included a factory town and a rural town in China, a town on the Syrian-Turkish border, low income settlements in Brazil and Chile, an IT complex set between villages in South India, an English village, and small towns in Italy and Trinidad. www.ucl.ac.uk/why-we-post<file:///C:\Users\Danny\Downloads\www.ucl.ac.uk\why-we-post>

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Special Issue: E-Politics of Immersion – Immersive Storytelling in Digital Ecosystems
by Yasmin Ibrahim 23 Oct '16

23 Oct '16

CALL FOR PAPERS Special Issue: E-Politics of Immersion – Immersive Storytelling in Digital Ecosystems SUBMISSION DUE DATE: 15 January 2017 PUBLICATION: International Journal of E-Politics OBJECTIVE OF THE THEMED ISSUE: This special issue invites submissions on the E-Politics of Immersion with a particular interest in Immersive Storytelling in Digital Ecosystems. With Facebook's $2 billion acquisition of start-up company Oculus and its virtual reality (VR) head mounted headset-technology Rift, the intricate dynamics between media platforms and how they affect the mechanics of everyday life are about to change drastically. Facebook's investment in VR is part of a strategy to expand its digital ecosystem to full sensory technology and fully engage users through immersive content strategies in a mediated environment. In the age of massive media consumption and the digital performance of the self, of binge watching, selfies and transmedia narratives, immersion becomes a defining element for the understanding of our times. Emerging, interactive content strategies, in which both authors and audiences contribute meaning, embodiment, and emotions reframe immersive storytelling as a site for the production of new, alternative, and inclusive content ideas, where old identities and new social formations are contested and ‘worked out’. But what does it mean to be fully immersed within a narrative? Immersive storytelling has much to do with a feeling of presence, the ‘make-believe’ of being involved, engaged and attached to a mediated narrative as a psychological and physiological sensation. While immersion in VR technology offers the opportunity to be surrounded by and move and act within representional spaces, it can be seen as the culmination of a long history in the creation of immersive environments. Immersive storytelling can be found in many traditional approaches in cinematic, theatrical, and literary research, but especially interactive and transmedia storytelling, 360° videos on YouTube, VR based theme parks, VR animated content, drama series, and VR games design pose questions how immersive mediated narratives can and should be, in which way they influence our media consumption, and how they relate to immersion as a sociocultural phenomenon and the powers, strategies, and dynamics of digital ecosystems. We invite papers that explore highly innovative ideas and/or paradigm shifts in conventional theory and practice of immersion and immersive storytelling. The International Journal of E-Politics is interdisciplinary so we welcome any disciplinary, theoretical or methodological approach, insights on usage scenarios and applications, and aspects of narrative technologies from a large range of fields and disciplines related to immersion and immersive storytelling, including computational narrative, narratology, media studies and media production, drama and performance studies, game studies and games design, semiotics, interactive arts, cognitive science, human-computer interaction and transmedia studies. We also encourage original contributions that explore the issues at any level i.e. individual or social, national or transnational. SUGGESTED TOPICS: We are interested in topics that include (but are not limited to) the following: * Theories and aesthetics of immersive storytelling e.g. spatial, narrative, social, lucid dimensions, etc. * Poetics of Immersion e.g. immersive storytelling in digital games, film and television, literature, non-fiction and documentaries, social media platforms, journalism, as tools for learning and teaching, in roleplays, theatre and improvisation, live installations, museums, etc. * Immersive Narratologies e.g. immersive storytelling in relation to traditional dramaturgies, interactive, multimedia, transmedia storytelling, etc. * Role of user/audience in immersive storytelling e.g. audience research approaches, augmented and virtual reality, fandom, health concerns, etc. * Role of author/designer in immersive storytelling e.g. script writing, format development, media production (360° cameras, editing software), etc. * Methods/frameworks for testing story development and user experiences (case studies, post-mortems and best practice) * Immersion and immersive storytelling as sociocultural phenomena e.g. Pokémon Go, Snapchat, binge watching, fandom, social media, etc. * Immersion and immersive storytelling on digital ecosystems e.g. Facebook’s strategy for VR, Netflix, VR ‘console war’ (Oculus, Sony, HTC), etc. SUBMISSION PROCEDURE: Researchers from any field of enquiry that deal with immersion and immersive storytelling are invited to submit papers for this themed issue. All submissions are due by January 15, 2017. All queries to Christian Stiegler christian.stiegler(a)brunel.ac.uk<mailto:christian.stiegler@brunel.ac.uk> Full papers to be submitted electronically, http://www.igi-global.com/submission/manuscripts/

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Mobile Innovation Network Australasia Symposium & Screening
by Max Schleser 23 Oct '16

23 Oct '16

6TH INTERNATIONAL MOBILE INNOVATION SCREENING The #MINAmobile2016 International Mobile Innovation Screening will showcase short films produced on and with smartphones, mobile and pocket cameras. In addition this year will introduce Virtual Reality (VR), Augmented Reality (AR), Drone, Social Media and New Media productions as part of the screening program (http://mina.pro/screening) MINA CREATIVITY & MOBILE INNOVATION SYMPOSIUM This year MINA, the Mobile Innovation Network Australasia, is pleased to announce that Swinburne University (AUS) will host #MINAmobile2016 International Mobile Creativity and Mobile Innovation Symposium & Screening in Melbourne, 30th November - 2nd December (http://mina.pro/minamobile2016/) Tickets via https://minamobile2016.eventbrite.co.nz www.mina.pro / Max(a)mina.pro / @MINAmobile / https://www.facebook.com/MobileInnovationNetwork

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22nd ACM International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI 2017): First Call for Demos and Posters
by Announce Announcements 22 Oct '16

22 Oct '16

*** First Call for Demos and Posters *** 22nd ACM International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces IUI 2017 St. Raphael Resort, Limassol, Cyprus March 13-16, 2017 http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=YWlyLUwJCQlhaXItTEBsaXN0c2Vydi… ACM IUI 2017 is the 22nd annual meeting of the intelligent interfaces community and serves as a premier international forum for reporting outstanding research and development on intelligent user interfaces. The 22nd edition of the conference will be held in Limassol, Cyprus. Limassol (or Lemesos) is a multicultural bustling town, flanked by two ancient cities, Amathus and Kourion, and guarded by the Amathusian Aphrodite and Appolo Hylates. It is a town of great visual diversity and contrast from spectacular seafront views, historic places like the mediaeval Castle, and Byzantine churches. Along the 17 km long sandy beaches, two Marinas, world renowned 5 star hotels, and a most exciting dining, shopping, nightlife and yachting scene create a year-round vibrant lifestyle well beyond the expectations of a Mediterranean island. ACM IUI is where the Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) community meets the Artificial Intelligence (AI), with contributions from related fields such as psychology, behavioral science, cognitive science, computer graphics, design or the arts. Our focus is to improve the interaction between humans and machines, by leveraging both more traditional HCI approaches, as well as solutions that involve state-of-the art AI techniques such as machine learning, natural language processing, data mining, knowledge representation and reasoning. ACM IUI welcomes contribution from any relevant arena: academia, business, or non-profit organizations. 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. Submitting a draft poster along with your submission is not required but highly recommended. The page limit for poster papers is 4 pages (including references). Accepted poster papers will appear in the companion proceedings in the ACM Digital Library. Demos 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 (including references). Accepted demo papers will be published in the companion proceedings in the ACM Digital Library. Submission Guidelines Demo and poster submissions do not need to be anonymized. The page limit is 4 pages (including references) in HCI extended abstract format (MS Word template, http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=YWlyLUwJCQlhaXItTEBsaXN0c2Vydi…, LaTeX template, http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=YWlyLUwJCQlhaXItTEBsaXN0c2Vydi…. Submitting a draft poster along with your poster submission is not required but highly recommended. Submit your demos and posters at http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=YWlyLUwJCQlhaXItTEBsaXN0c2Vydi…. Poster and Demo presenters: 120cm x 147cm (47" x 58") poster boards and pushpins will be provided to mount your posters. Important Dates · Submissions Due: December 16, 2016 · Notifications to Authors: January 8, 2017 · Camera Ready Due: January 13, 2017 Demos/Posters Co-Chairs · Andrina Granic, University of Split, Croatia · Denis Parra, PUC, Chile · Jingtao Wang, University of Pittsburgh, USA

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New issue of Global Media and China is out!
by Xiao Han 22 Oct '16

22 Oct '16

Dear Colleagues, We are pleased to announce that the new issue of our open-access journal Global Media and China - co-produced by the SAGE and Communication University of China (CUC) - is out, which is a collection of five original articles covering different topics, and two translated papers (from Chinese). Please see the detailed Table of Contents at the bottom of this email. If you are interested in our journal and would like to contribute, you can submit your manuscripts at https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/gmac <https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/gmac>. For more information about Global Media and China, please go to gch.sagepub.com <http://gch.sagepub.com/>, you can also find detailed submission guidelines there. You can freely read this new issue at: http://gch.sagepub.com/content/1/3.toc <http://gch.sagepub.com/content/1/3.toc> Original Articles Markos Kounalakis China’s position on international intervention: A media and journalism critical discourse analysis of its case for “Sovereignty” versus “Responsibility to Protect” principles in Syria Stefano Calzati Chinese domestic tourism, the blogosphere, and travel writing: Assessing the literary and political status of Chinese travelogues in print and online Colin Sparks, Haiyan Wang, Yu Huang, Yanhua Zhao, Nan Lv, and Dan Wang The impact of digital media on newspapers: Comparing responses in China and the United States Qian Wang A comparative case study: Network agenda setting in crisis and non-crisis news Deqiang Ji, Zhengrong Hu, and Yousaf Muhammad Neighbouring competitor? Indian image in Chinese media In Focus (translation) Guoming Yu Panorama of media contact behaviours of present-day urban dwellers: Descriptions and analysis based on diary reports Peng Duan Essay on the external communication strategies of the China Dream: Analysis and study of reports on the China Dream in The Washington Post and on CNN All the best, Xiao Han Xiao Han (PhD) Research Assistant, Communication University of China, CUC Commissioning Editor, Global Media and China (SAGE), gch.sagepub.com <http://gch.sagepub.com/>

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advice on course readings
by Adriana de Souza e Silva 21 Oct '16

21 Oct '16

All, I’m teaching a graduate seminar for MS and PhD students called “internet and society” next spring. I’m looking for good readings (book chapters and/or journal articles) on two subjects: - history of asynchronous communication platforms (USENET, BBS, blogs, wikis, etc.) - history of synchronous communication platforms (MUDs, chat environments, etc.) I find a lot of stuff on specific uses of blogs, twitter etc, but very little on their historical antecedents. Any suggestions would be welcome! Best, Adriana ______________________________ Adriana de Souza e Silva, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Communication Director of the Communication Rhetoric and Digital Media (CRDM) Ph.D. Program NC State University http://www.souzaesilva.com

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Re: [Air-L] Readings on the early internet
by Thomas Ball 21 Oct '16

21 Oct '16

While Minitel was key in France, in the States, early net access flourished with ISPs like Compuserve, Prodigy, Pipeline and Echo.com...

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Interdisciplinary PhD Positions, Information Studies
by Andrea Forte 21 Oct '16

21 Oct '16

Hi all, It's that time of year when students look for advice about PhD program applications. This year we are launching a new, redesigned PhD program in Information Studies here in the College of Computing and Informatics at Drexel University. PhD in Information Studies http://drexel.edu/cci/PhDIS It's designed to be a highly interdisciplinary program with a lot of flexibility that would suit students interested in Internet research. We are currently accepting applicants for a variety of funded research assistantship positions in various areas of: - human-centered computing (HCC), - data science, and - information science. Some of our RA openings are highlighted here: http://drexel.edu/cci/programs/graduate-programs/phd-information-studies/Ad…, but this is not an exhaustive list of opportunities. Questions can be directed to PhD program director, moi, (aforte(a)drexel.edu) First consideration deadline is Dec 15th, but we accept apps til Jan 15th. -Andrea -- :: Andrea Forte :: Associate Professor :: College of Computing and Informatics :: Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA :: http://andreaforte.net | aforte(a)drexel.edu | 215.895.0543 :: http://www.drexelsocialcomputing.net

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Re: [Air-L] advice on course readings
by Elizabeth Rodwell 21 Oct '16

21 Oct '16

I’d add excerpts from My TIny Life, by Julian Dibbell >> > On 19 Oct 2016, at 11:45 PM, Adriana de Souza e Silva > <aasilva(a)ncsu.edu> wrote: > > > All, > > > I’m teaching a graduate seminar for MS and PhD students called > “internet and society” next spring. > > > I’m looking for good readings (book chapters and/or journal > articles) on two subjects: > > - history of asynchronous communication platforms (USENET, BBS, > blogs, wikis, etc.) > > - history of synchronous communication platforms (MUDs, chat > environments, etc.) > > > I find a lot of stuff on specific uses of blogs, twitter etc, but > very little on their historical antecedents. Any suggestions would be > welcome! > > > Best, > > Adriana > > ______________________________ > > Adriana de Souza e Silva, Ph.D. > > Associate Professor of Communication > > Director of the Communication Rhetoric and Digital Media (CRDM) > Ph.D. Program > > NC State University > > http://www.souzaesilva.com >

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