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CFP: Legal/Tech Issues in Cloud and IoT (CLaw 2017)
by Jat Singh 11 Oct '16

11 Oct '16

=========================================================== CLaw: IEEE 3rd International Workshop on Legal and Technical Issues in Cloud Computing and the Internet of Things http://www.claw-workshop.org April 2017, Vancouver, Canada in conjunction with IC2E 2016: IEEE International Conference on Cloud Engineering (apologies for cross-posting) =========================================================== *** This workshop brings together technical and legal practitioners to explore technical responses to legal problems, and to interrogate legal frameworks for new and emerging directions in cloud computing, the Internet of Things, and systems technologies in general *** With cloud computing continuing to revolutionise the provision of IT services, and the promises and threats of the Internet of Things (IoT) growing by the day, legal and policy concerns surrounding these technologies gain increasing salience and prominence. Existing and proposed regulatory and governance regimes place obligations on those who manage (process, use and collect) data. The end-users of applications provisioned in the cloud and IoT also have certain rights that must be respected – various parties all bear varying degrees of responsibility, which must be properly managed. Managing these rights and responsibilities is becoming increasingly complex, both technically and legally, particularly due to the emergence of new cloud services and models, as well as because of movements towards collaborative, decentralised and mobile clouds. For instance, the cloud will play an increasing role in supporting the evolving IoT, which exacerbates issues of scale and data management while bringing real (physical) world considerations. Building on the successes of the previous workshops, CLaw 2017 aims to facilitate an interdisciplinary exploration of tech-legal challenges as regards emerging systems technologies. =========================================================== The workshop aims to encompass a broad range of issues where technology and law intersect. Some suggested topics, in no particular order, include: * Technical enforcement of legal regulations, service level agreements, mutual legal assistance requests, and other instruments * Privacy and security in cloud services and IoT * Internet of Things: data sharing, threats, liability, audit and compliance concerns for cloud-supported IoT, fog and edge computing * Application of cloud computing in regulated sectors * Emerging cloud and infrastructure service models (X as a Service) * Issues concerning the interaction between cloud and IoT technologies, and big data and machine learning * Emerging cloud technologies (decentralised clouds: cloudlets, droplets; containment mechanisms) * Compatibility issues between regulation and technical implementation * Regional cloud initiatives (e.g. EU-only cloud), and other data localisation concerns * Cybercrime: phishing, malware and spam proliferation within cloud computing and IoT * Encryption, security technologies and responsibility * Issues of surveillance in cloud and IoT architectures * Anti-discrimination, human rights, privacy and power issues with cloud and IoT * Interaction between cloud and IoT and consumer-facing business models, including the transformations towards crowd labour, algorithmic decision-making and automation The key goal of this workshop is to stimulate a multidisciplinary discussion and new directions on these important issues. As such, we welcome a wide range of submissions, whether technical, legal or thought pieces to stimulate debate. For those technical in nature - fully implemented and evaluated systems are not essential, and application-specific papers are welcome. Papers should be no more than six pages in IEEE format. Accepted papers will be published in IEEE Xplore, and at least one author of an accepted paper is required to present the work at the workshop. Important Dates: * Paper submission: Dec 1, 2016 * Author notification: Jan 10, 2017 * Final camera ready: Jan 15, 2017 * Workshop date: 4-7 Apr 2017 (exact date TBD) For further details, including submission instructions, please see http://www.claw-workshop.org/

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DEADLINE APPROACHING: CfP 'Consuming Gender', a special edition of Cardiff University's 'Assuming Gender' journal
by Megen De Bruin 11 Oct '16

11 Oct '16

With apologies for cross-posting: —————————————————— Call for Papers - Special Issue, 'Consuming Gender'<http://www.assuminggender.com/p/call-for-papers.html> This special issue of Assuming Gender – an online, peer-reviewed academic journal from Cardiff University – seeks to explore the way gender is both presented and consumed through popular media and advertising. As Ann Herrmann points out in the article ‘Shopping for Identities’, commodities ‘are characterised by their dual nature: material composition and symbolic meaning’ (Herrmann 2002: 539). Consumer culture plays a significant role in constructing valid (and normative) identity categories with which consumers are encouraged to identify. Scholars as diverse as Americus Reed, Laura C. Nelson, and Henry Jenkins have theorised the ways in which identity and consumer culture are intertwined. Reed, for example, claims in ‘Activating the Self-Importance of Consumer Selves’ that ‘[s]ocial identities are mental representations that can become a basic part of how consumers view themselves’ (Reed 2004: 286). In a later article on ‘Identity-Based Consumer Behaviour’, Reed and others use the example of athletics to illustrate their point: ‘if consumers view themselves as “athletes”, they are likely to behave in ways that are consistent with what it means to “be” an athlete’ (Reed, Forehand, Puntoni and Warlop 2002: 310). Consumption thus becomes defined by identity, and identity becomes defined by consumption. While the construction of identities based on athleticism seems relatively benign, the case quickly becomes more complicated when consumer identities are racially, economically, or sexually coded. In addition to delineating the borders between various interest groups, consumer culture plays a significant role in establishing and maintaining binary identity distinctions (male/female, gay/straight, black/white), undermining the validity of those identifying across or in-between one or more categories, or who refuse categorisation at all. Those identities not classified as valid consumer groups are not seen as valid identities at all. For this special issue of Assuming Gender, we invite articles that focus specifically on the idea of ‘Consuming Gender’. How has consumer culture constructed (and how has it been constructed by) gender through the ages? Suggested topics include, but are not limited to: * Consuming gender/gendered consumption * Historical contexts of gendered consumption * Feminist/postfeminist approaches to consumption * Consumption and intersectionality * Queer consumption * Media constructions of (gendered) consumer identities * Post/colonialism and gendered consumption Please send a proposal of roughly 500 words to Megen de Bruin-Molé, Akira Suwa and Daný van Dam at gender(a)cardiff.ac.uk<mailto:gender@cardiff.ac.uk> under the subject line ‘CFP Consuming Gender’, including your name, e-mail institutional affiliation (if any), and a biographical note (100 words maximum). We welcome papers from scholars of all backgrounds, disciplines, and career stages. The deadline for proposals is 16 October, 2016, and completed papers of 5000 to 8000 words will be expected no later than 16 April, 2017. (More information available at the link: http://www.assuminggender.com/p/call-for-papers.html) —————————————————— Megen de Bruin-Molé School of English, Communication and Philosophy Cardiff University John Percival Building, Rm. 0.46 Colum Drive Cardiff CF10 3EU UK Email: DeBruinMJ(a)cardiff.ac.uk<mailto:DeBruinMJ@cardiff.ac.uk> Social media: @MegenJM | facebook.com/megenj<http://facebook.com/megenj> Website: angelsandapes.com<http://angelsandapes.com>

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CFP - Media Policy and Digitalization workshop
by Aske Kammer 11 Oct '16

11 Oct '16

Perhaps of interest for some in the AoIR community: CFP: "MEDIA POLICY AND DIGITALIZATION" WORKSHOP AT NoPSA 2017 Odense (DK), August 8-11, 2017 The workshop will constitute The 2nd European Symposium on Media Policy. Description: Media policy constitutes a neglected sub-field of political sciences and has, traditionally, been relegated to the realms of media and communication studies. However, since it concerns the structures that support and regulate democracy, freedom of expression, and public participation, and since it is of increasing interest to policy-makers on both national and super-national levels, it is an area that could also be of interest for the political-science community. This workshop proposes an occasion for starting such a conversation and fertilizing the ground for increased integration of media policy in the political sciences. Issues of media policy have become pertinent in recent years as technological and social development reconfigures the object of this policy area. So, the workshop will focus particularly on the challenges that digitalization poses to media policy and the questions that it raises. These challenges include - but are not limited to - (1) how traditional media markets such as broadcasters and the press increasingly converge on digital media, challenging the regulatory frameworks and subsidy systems put in place by policy-makers; (2) how digital intermediaries such as Google and Facebook are central actors in citizens' media use but transgress the tools of the same policy-makers; and (3) the extent to which one can even distinguish between "media policy" and other policy areas such as cultural policy, policies of infrastructure (telecommunications), and trade/business policy. Workshop format: We emphasize the workshop format of the event, expecting all authors with accepted abstract to submit full papers before the workshop (see timeline below) and act as designated opponents on other authors' papers (i.e., reading the paper in advance and prepare comments). At the workshop, we will have 45-60 minutes for each paper: 20 minutes for presentation, 10 minutes for comments from the opponent, and 15-30 minutes for general discussion. This format should allow for time to work in-depth with the paper contributions. The workshop will accept a maximum of 15 papers, and we hope to be able to publish the best of them as a special issue. Timeline: January 15, 2017: Deadline for paper proposals. Proposals should have the form of extended abstracts (750 words) and be sent directly to workshop chair Aske Kammer (aska(a)itu.dk) March 15, 2017: Notification of acceptance May 15, 2017: Deadline for Early Bird registration July 15, 2017: Deadline for submission of full papers (send to workshop chair Aske Kammer, aska(a)itu.dk) August 8-11, 2017: Conference Workshop leadership: - Chair: Aske Kammer (The IT University of Copenhagen, aska(a)itu.dk<mailto:aska@itu.dk>) - Vice-chair: Vilde Schanke Sundet (Lillehammer University College, Vilde.Schanke.Sundet(a)hil.no<mailto:Vilde.Schanke.Sundet@hil.no>) Venue: The workshop will be part of the Nordic Political Science Association's (NoPSA) XVIII Political Science Congress, which will be held at the Department of Political Science and Public Management at the University of Southern Denmark on August 8-11, 2017. For more information, please visit http://www.sdu.dk/NOPSA2017.

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When are papers from the conference available online?
by Alex Leavitt 11 Oct '16

11 Oct '16

Having missed the conference this year, I want to follow up on some that were interesting in the program! --- Alexander Leavitt, Ph.D. Quantitative UX Researcher, Facebook Research http://alexleavitt.com Twitter: @alexleavitt <http://twitter.com/alexleavitt>

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WEBCAST TODAY: Net neutrality in Europe: The BEREC guidelines and beyond
by Joly MacFie 10 Oct '16

10 Oct '16

This is just about to start. A highly detailed presentation from the co-chair of the expert working group that developed Europe's NN policy. joly posted: " Today Friday October 7th 2016 the Columbia Institute for Tele-Information presents the annual conference on the State of Telecom at the Columbia University, NYC. This year's event has the theme Online Video as the Disruptor: Winners and Losers. The even" [image: Livestream] <https://livestream.com/internetsociety/berec/>Last *Thursday 6 October 2016* the *Geneva Internet Platform <http://giplatform.org/>* presented a webinar *Net neutrality in Europe: The BEREC guidelines and beyond <http://www.diplomacy.edu/calendar/webinar-net-neutrality-europe-berec-guide…>* . *Mr Frode Sørensen*, Senior Adviser at Norwegian Communications Authority (Nkom) presented an overview of the recently published *Body of European Regulators for Electronic Communications <http://berec.europa.eu/>* set of *Guidelines on the Implementation by National Regulatory Authorities (NRAs) of European Network Neutrality Rules <http://berec.europa.eu/eng/document_register/subject_matter/berec/regulator…>*. The BEREC guidelines are aimed at assisting national regulatory authorities in implementing their net neutrality-related obligations according to the new *EU regulations (2015/2120) <https://publications.europa.eu/en/publication-detail/-/publication/8fdf5d08…>*, including by closely monitoring and ensuring ‘compliance with the rules to safeguard equal and non-discriminatory treatment of traffic in the provision of Internet access services and related end-user rights’. The Guidelines were received with enthusiasm by civil society – some of whom see them as a win for net neutrality in the EU – and with a degree of reticence by telecom operators – some of whom argue that most of their concerns have not been taken into account. Regulators say their guidelines have found a balanced solution within the frames set out by the regulation, indicated by the observation that both camps in the debate seem equally (un)happy. Mr Sørensen provided a snapshot of the BEREC’s net neutrality guidelines, and reflected on their effect on commercial practices such as zero rating, traffic management of internet access services, the issue of specialised services, and the innovation and rights of Internet users, as well as questions raised by the participants. An edited version of the webinar will be streamed at *1pm EDT* today *Monday October 10 2016* on the *Internet Society Livestream Channel <https://livestream.com/internetsociety/berec/>* *What: Net neutrality in Europe: The BEREC guidelines and beyond <http://www.diplomacy.edu/calendar/webinar-net-neutrality-europe-berec-guide…>* *When: Monday October 10 2016 1pm EDT (17:00 UTC)* *Webcast: https://livestream.com/internetsociety/berec/ <https://livestream.com/internetsociety/berec/>* *Twitter: #berec + #thegip http://bit.ly/2dZn2Cy <http://bit.ly/2dZn2Cy>* <http://isoc-ny.org/p2/8703> Comment <http://isoc-ny.org/p2/8703> See all comments <http://isoc-ny.org/p2/8703> *Permalink* http://isoc-ny.org/p2/8703 <http://isoc-ny.org/p2/8699> -- --------------------------------------------------------------- Joly MacFie 218 565 9365 Skype:punkcast -------------------------------------------------------------- -

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CFP: Postcolonial Perspectives in Game Studies - Special issue of Open Library of Humanities
by Emil Lundedal Hammar 10 Oct '16

10 Oct '16

Call for articles for a special issue of Open Library of Humanities: Postcolonial Perspectives in Game Studies Since the first key publications in the nineties on videogames research in Humanities and Social Sciences contexts, the field of Game Studies has become an established platform for discussion and debate on how games contribute to our cultural, social and aesthetic experiences. Game Studies has, consequently, also taken up debates on diversity and inclusion, time and again. In line with the revitalization of radical reactionary and conservative forces across the globe, the recent bigoted GamerGate controversy saw incisive discussions on gender and questions of race in games have also been at the forefront. Not much, however, has been said about the representation of colonialism, empire and neo-colonialism in videogames although some of the very earliest games have featured these issues, sometimes in problematic ways. As games are part of and perpetuate past and present global power structures in relation to inequalities in material wealth and symbolic representation, to exploitation of labor, and to hegemonic articulations of history and the Other, it is necessary for game studies to not only bring these issues to light, but also critically analyze the relationship between games and existing postcolonial power relationships. Analysing games as disparate as Age of Empires, Far Cry 2 and Assassin’s Creed: Freedom Cry reveal intrinsic questions about how the ludic relates to colonialism and how it informs the postcolonial experience. This open-access special issue of Open Library of Humanities aims to bring questions of Postcolonialism to the forefront of game studies. An often underexplored and neglected area in the domain of studying both digital and analogue games, a critique of the (mis)representation of Orientalist attitudes, race, hybridity, notions of space and the fragmented postcolonial identities is urgently required. We, therefore, seek submissions that provide critical analysis of colonial representations in games and also challenge notions of colonial hegemonic power-structures. Possible topics might include, but are not limited to: * Colonialism / Neocolonialism / Postcolonialism / Imperialism * The Other / Alterity * Decolonization * Hegemony * Orientalism * Postcolonial praxis * Global capitalism / economy * Self-representation / voice / agency * Subalternity * Indigenous culture * Religion(s) / Language(s) / Nationalism(s) * Thirdspace * Eurocentrism * Game studies & politics of knowledge Research articles should be approximately 8000 words in length, including references and a short bibliography. Submissions should comprise of: * Abstract (250 words) * Full-length article (8000 words) * Author information (short biographical statement of 200 words) Deadline for abstracts: 15th December 2016 Notification of accepted abstracts: 16th January 2017 Deadline for full articles: 28th April 2017 Submissions should be made online at: https://submit.openlibhums.org/<https://olh.openlibhums.org/> in accordance with the author guidelines and clearly marking the entry as [“Postcolonial Game Studies” SPECIAL COLLECTION]. Submissions will then undergo a double-blind peer-review process. Authors will be notified of the outcome as soon as reports are received. The special collection, edited by Dr Souvik Mukherjee, Department of English, Presidency University, Kolkata, India, and Emil Hammar, Department of Language & Culture, University of Tromsø, Norway, is to be published in the Open Library of Humanities (OLH) (ISSN 2056-6700<tel:2056-6700>). The OLH is an Andrew W. Mellon Foundation-funded open-access journal with a strong emphasis on quality peer review and a prestigious academic steering board. Unlike some open-access publications, the OLH has no author-facing charges and is instead financially supported by an international consortium of libraries<https://about.openlibhums.org/libraries/supporting-institutions/>. To learn more about the Open Library of Humanities please visit: https://www.openlibhums.org/ To read about the CFP on the Open Library of Humanities website, please visit: <https://www.openlibhums.org/>https://about.openlibhums.org/2016/09/19/cfp-postcolonial-perspectives-in-g… <https://www.openlibhums.org/> The Open Library of Humanities (OLH) is a charitable organisation dedicated to publishing open access scholarship with no author-facing article processing charges (APCs). We are funded by an international consortium of libraries who have joined us in our mission to make scholarly publishing fairer, more accessible, and rigorously preserved for the digital future. The deadline for submission of abstract is 15th December 2016. Best regards, Dr. Souvik Mukherjee, Department of English, Presidency University, Kolkata, India Emil Hammar, Department of Language & Culture, University of Tromsø, Norway

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VOX-Pol Lunch Briefing Series, Brussels, Oct. & Nov.
by Maura Conway 10 Oct '16

10 Oct '16

Hi AoIRers, Some colleagues may be interested in the below: VOX-Pol invites you to a series of Lunchtime Briefing Seminars, this autumn in Brussels, each exploring a different aspect of violent online political extremism The series is jointly organised by the EU-funded VOX-Pol Network of Excellence <http://www.voxpol.eu/> and the Representation of the European Commission in Belgium <https://ec.europa.eu/belgium/>. The briefings are aimed at an audience of policy makers, security practitioners, academics, and graduate students. *SCHEDULE* October 11th – Luigi Soreca, European Commission ‘The Role of the EU in Tackling Violent Online Radicalisation Leading to Terrorism’ October 18th – Suzette Abbasciano, University of Massachusetts – Lowell ‘Societal Reactions to the Nice Attack: Online Conversations vs. On-the-Ground Events’ October 25th – Paul Gill, University College London ‘Lone Actors, Extremism and Understanding Online Radicalisation’ *November 1st – Half Term in Brussels – no seminar* November 8th – Matti Pohjonen, VOX-Pol Research Fellow 2015 – 2016 ‘“Rapefugees Not Welcome Here”: Online Hate Speech, the Refugee Crisis, and Far Right Extremism’ November 15th – Elizabeth Pearson, King’s College London ‘*Wilayat* Twitter, Gender and the Downside of Suspension’ November 22nd – Maura Conway, Dublin City University ‘Disrupting ‘Islamic State’s’ Online Activity’ *LOGISTICS AND REGISTRATION* The Lunch Briefing Series will take place close to Schuman, Brussels on Tuesdays from 1215 to 1400. This will include the presentation, a Q&A session, and a networking lunch. The working language will be English; there will be no interpretation provided. Register by sending an email from your organisational email account to lunchbriefingseries(a)voxpol.eu, to include the following details: - First name - Last Name - Organisation - Date(s) of sessions you wish to attend Full logistical details will be provided to those registered. Please see our Upcoming Events <http://www.voxpol.eu/events/> page for more information or email lunchbriefingseries(a)voxpol.eu. Best, Maura *Prof. Maura Conway* School of Law and Government Dublin City University Glasnevin Dublin 9 Ireland Tel. +353 1 700 6472 E-Mail. maura.conway(a)dcu.ie Skype. galwaygrrl Twitter: @galwaygrrl Website: http://doras.dcu.ie/view/people/Conway,_Maura.html ********** VOX-Pol Project on Violent Online Political Extremism Website: http://www.voxpol.eu Twitter: @VOX_Pol -- *Séanadh Ríomhphoist/Email DisclaimerTá an ríomhphost seo agus aon chomhad a sheoltar leis faoi rún agus is lena úsáid ag an seolaí agus sin amháin é. Is féidir tuilleadh a léamh anseo. <https://www4.dcu.ie/iss/seanadh-riomhphoist.shtml>This e-mail and any files transmitted with it are confidential and are intended solely for use by the addressee. Read more here. <https://www4.dcu.ie/iss/email-disclaimer.shtml>*

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Vacancy: Teaching Fellow in Digital Culture
by Feldman, Zeena 10 Oct '16

10 Oct '16

Dear all, The Department of Digital Humanities at King's College London is hiring a full-time Teaching Fellow in Digital Culture. This is a fixed term contract until 31 August 2017 and the deadline for applications is midnight on Sunday 23 October 2016. To apply, please go to the https://www.hirewire.co.uk/HE/1061247/MS_JobDetails.aspx?JobID=73645 and register. Many thanks, Zeena --- Teaching Fellow in Digital Culture Reference: THW/16/059639/001280 Salary Details: £32,958 - £39,324 per annum Allowances: plus £2,623 London Allowance Contract Type: Temporary/Fixed term Contract Term: Full time The Department of Digital Humanities is seeking to recruit an outstanding candidate for the post of Teaching Fellow to be appointed as soon as possible. The appointee will be an excellent teacher, able to enthuse, educate and support our postgraduate and undergraduate students. The successful candidate will be expected to teach on the core and optional modules on the MA Digital Culture and Society (MA DCS) and optional modules on the BA Digital Culture, to supervise MA dissertations, to act as a personal tutor to students to support them in their studies, and to undertake administrative roles as required. The successful candidate will possess excellent knowledge of the social and cultural theories of the digital, a familiarity with the debate on the digital transformation of contemporary economy, society and politics, and an ability to teach across the following areas: digital media and technologies as they develop and mediate identities and modes of being; theories of new media; big data; dataveillance; digital labour and capitalism; digital economy and audiences, digital subcultures; digital journalism and mobile platforms and applications. The selection process will include a presentation and a panel interview. Interviews are scheduled to be held the week commencing: 7 November 2016 The salary will be paid at Grade 6, £32,958 to £39,324 per annum, plus £2,623 per annum London Allowance. This post will be Fixed Term Contract until 31 August 2017 This is a Full-time position For an informal discussion to find out more about the role please contact Sheila Anderson on 020 7848 1981 or sheila.anderson(a)kcl.ac.uk To apply for this role, please go to the King’s College London HireWire Job Board and register to download and submit the specified application form. The deadline for applications is midnight on Sunday 23 October 2016 Closing date: 23 October 2016 Dr Zeena Feldman Lecturer in Digital Culture Deputy Director, BA Digital Culture Admissions Tutor, BA Digital Culture + + + + + + + Office Hours: Tuesdays 1:30-2:30pm and by appointment + + + + + + + King’s College London Department of Digital Humanities 26-29 Drury Lane, room 221 London WC2B 5RL +44 (0)20 7484 1421 / zeena.feldman(a)kcl.ac.uk http://www.kcl.ac.uk/artshums/depts/ddh/people/academic/feldman/index.aspx

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CFP: Audience research into documentary and related media
by Craig Hight 09 Oct '16

09 Oct '16

(Apologies for cross-posting) CFP: Participations: Journal of Audience & Reception Studies Special Issue: Audience research into documentary and related media Expected Publication Date: November 2017 (Vol . 14, Issue 2) Co-Editors: Craig Hight (University of Newcastle, AU); Kate Nash (University of Leeds, UK) Participations is the online Journal devoted to the broad field of audience and reception studies. It aims to bring into dialogue work and debate across all fields involved in examining all areas of media and culture. Participations has pioneered a system of open refereeing for all contributions, designed to encourage open, critical debate among researchers. It can be found at www.participations.org<http://www.participations.org/>. Call for Papers Despite a long established and rich literature on documentary cinema and television, there is still comparatively little research which addresses issues in the reception of the range of content which might fall within the umbrella label of 'documentary media'. This label encompasses celebrated exemplars in cinematic and televisual forms and more recently includes forms ranging across other media, and depending on who is defining the nature of documentary culture, includes everything from photography, drama-documentary, documentary animation (documation), hybrid televisual formats, online and interactive forms, and even documentary comics . Documentary proper has tended, especially within film theory, to draw from an assumed distinctive relationship which audience have with mediations of reality. However, the complexity of forms which draw their rhetorical and affective power from documentary aesthetics and the assumptions they appear to engender is proliferating. Documentary, in its exemplars, assumes a knowing, reflective and literate audience. Other documentary-related forms are driven by more obviously entertainment-centred agendas. How do differently situated audiences negotiate this part of the contemporary mediascape? The aim of this issue is to bring together work which interrogates from the side of reception how documentary is evolving, the implications of the proliferation of documentary and related forms, and the complexities inherent to how viewers of these forms are negotiating their meaning. Possible questions to be addressed might include: 1. What can audience research tell us about the nature of documentary and related media? 1. How can we characterise the nature, characteristics and contradictions of documentary engagement? 2. How do audiences define 'documentary' ? 4. Are there different modes of reading associated with different media forms within the spectrum of documentary and related media? 1. How do audiences understand the nature of ethical practice within documentary and related forms? 2. How do audiences make use of social and political knowledge represented through documentary forms? 7. How do viewers / users assess the nature and integrity of evidence presented in documentary and related forms? 1. Is the notion of indexicality still relevant for contemporary audiences? 9. How do viewers read documation (animated documentary)? 10. How important are paratextual material (including online commentaries), to documentary reception? 11. How do viewers / users assess the issue of 'performance' in documentary and related media 12. How do audiences read mockumentary? 1. How does involvement in video-making and similar amateur pursuits change perceptions of documentary as a form? 14. How do audience understand how documentaries and related media are categorised and made 'findable' through digital distribution channels? 1. How do interactive technologies enhance, or problematize forms of engagement assumed with documentary forms? Manuscripts can cover various media (e.g. cinema, television, theatre, podcasts, photography, online and interactive forms, apps, games, comics, etc.). The editors welcome theoretical essays as well as empirical studies from various methodologies. Please send a 250 word abstract to craig.hight(a)newcastle.edu.au<mailto:jason.zenor@oswego.edu> by November 30, 2016. Please title the email "Participations Special Issue - your last name." DEADLINES Abstracts Due: November 30 2016 Decisions to Authors: December 30 2016 Full submissions: June 1 2017 Final drafts: September 1 2017 Publication: November 2017 Please see the submission guidelines for the journal http://www.participations.org/submission_guidelines.htm

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Ten years ago: Google buys YouTube
by Rainer Hillrichs 09 Oct '16

09 Oct '16

Dear all, who remembers the video of "Chad and Steve" announcing their company had been "acquired by Google"? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QCVxQ_3Ejkg. That was ten years ago today! Among parts of the users of the company and the press this event is seen as the sellout of an initially non-commercial initiative to media capitalism. However, statements from the founders made elsewhere leave little doubt that YouTube was initially designed as a "product" that would eventually be "profitable" through advertisement (Karim 2006). In the Coda "YouTube and YouTube Culture Today" of my e-book *Poetics of Early YouTube: Production, Performance, Success* (Bonn: ULB, 2016) I point out where I see continuities and where breaks with the early period of the platform. In particular, YouTube's own increasing involvement in video production during the past couple of years seems to be a change - a change that moves the company away from the 'platform' model towards traditional vertically-integrated models of media production, distribution, and exhibition. Link: http://hss.ulb.uni-bonn.de/2016/4407/4407.pdf Best, Rainer -- Dr. Rainer Hillrichs Universität Mannheim https://uni-mannheim.academia.edu/RainerHillrichs

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