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New book: Handbook of Digital Politics
by Stephen Coleman 17 Sep '16

17 Sep '16

List members might be interested in the following new publication: Handbook of Digital Politics Edited by Stephen Coleman, Professor of Political Communication, School of Media and Communication, University of Leeds, UK and Deen Freelon, Assistant Professor, School of Communication, American University, Washington, DC, US Published by Edward Elgar Contents: 1. Introduction: Conceptualising Digital Politics Stephen Coleman and Deen Freelon PART I THEORIZING DIGITAL POLITICS 2. The Internet as a Civic Space Peter Dahlgren 3. The Social Foundations of Future Digital Politics Nick Couldry 4. The Fifth Estate: A Rising Force of Pluralistic Accountability William H. Dutton and Elizabeth Dubois 5. Silicon Valley Ideology and Class Inequality: A Virtual Poll Tax on Digital Politics Jen Schradie PART II GOVERNMENT AND POLICY 6. Online Voting Advice Applications: Foci, Findings and Future of an Emerging Research Field Fadi Hirzalla and Liesbet van Zoonen 7. Internet Voting: The State of the Debate Thad Hall 8. Digital Campaigning Daniel Kreiss 9. e-Petitions Scott Wright 10. Argumentation Tools for Digital Politics: Addressing the Challenge of Deliberation in Democracies Neil Benn PART III COLLECTIVE ACTION AND CIVIC ENGAGEMENT 11. The Logic of Connective Action: Digital Media and The Personalization of Contentious Politics W. Lance Bennett and Alexandra Segerberg 12. Youth Civic Engagement Chris Wells, Emily Vraga, Kjerstin Thorson, Stephanie Edgerly and Leticia Bode 13. Internet Use and Political Engagement in Youth Yunhwan Kim and Erik Amnå PART IV POLITICAL TALK 14. Everyday Political Talk in the Internet-Based Public Sphere Todd Graham 15. Creating Spaces for Online Deliberation Christopher Birchall and Stephen Coleman 16. Computational Approaches to Online Political Expression: Rediscovering a “Science of the Social” Dhavan V. Shah, Kathleen Bartzen Culver, Alex Hanna, Timothy Mcafee, and JungHwan Yang 17. Two-screen Politics: Evidence, Theory and Challenges Nick Anstead and Ben O’Loughlin PART V JOURNALISM 18. From News Blogs to News on Twitter: Gatewatching and Collaborative News Curation Axel Bruns and Tim Highfield 19. Research on the Political Implications of Political Entertainment Michael A. Xenos 20. Journalism, Gatekeeping and Interactivity Neil Thurman PART VI INTERNET GOVERNANCE 21. Internet Governance, Rights and Democratic Legitimacy Giles Moss 22. Social Media Surveillance Christian Fuchs PART VII EXPANDING THE FRONTIERS OF DIGITAL POLITICS RESEARCH 23. Visibility and Visualities: ‘Ways of Seeing’ Politics in the Digital Media Environment Katy Parry 24. Automated Content Analysis of Online Political Communication Ross Petchler and Sandra González-Bailon 25. On the Cutting Edge of Big Data: Digital Politics Research in the Social Computing Literature Deen Freelon ‘The Handbook of Digital Politics edited by Stephen Coleman and Deen Freelon is an incredibly rich and outstanding collection of essays on the ideologies, theories and methodologies that currently inspire the field of political science and communication. The editors brilliantly succeed in guiding us through this fascinating world – avoiding any rhetoric, or either a dystopian or utopian perspective on the subject. The articles collected here represent the golden section of the contemporary debate on digital politics.’ – Leopoldina Fortunati, Head of the Ph.D program in Multimedia Communication, University of Udine, Italy ‘Coleman and Freelon have deftly edited a series of essays that help us transition to the next big thing in political communication—an internet connecting many people over many kinds of devices, making large volumes of data. Digital politics is no longer so much about what happens in your browser, but about what happens when your devices talk to each other on their own. This collection helps us to get ready to understand the new infrastructure of political life.’ – Philip N. Howard, University of Washington, US Stephen Coleman Professor of Political Communication School of Media and Communication University of Leeds Recent publications: How Voters Feel: http://www.cambridge.org/gb/academic/subjects/politics-international-relati… Can The Media Serve Democracy? http://www.palgrave.com/page/detail/can-the-media-serve-democracy-stephen-c… Handbook of Digital Politics: https://www.e-elgar.com/bookentry_main.lasso?currency=US&id=15497

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Archiving Facebook Group Posts
by Michael Deml 06 Jun '16

06 Jun '16

Hello, I am a Master's student in sociology at the University of Geneva in Switzerland. I am currently working on research involving a Facebook group as a sort of virtual ethnography. I was wondering if anyone knew of any researchers who work with archiving Facebook group discussions. I am looking for a way to better facilitate the archiving of my data, as I planned on creating a corpus based on 6 months of discussions within the Facebook group. Any help you could offer would be greatly appreciated. Please respond offline to michaeljdeml(a)gmail.com. Best wishes, Michael Deml (michaeljdeml(a)gmail.com)

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Second call for papers - Charting the Digital: Play, Discourse, Disruption - DL 25 March
by Alex Gekker 04 Apr '16

04 Apr '16

8-9 October 2016, Venice (Italy) http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/international/world/venice/location/ Organised by the ERC funded Charting the Digital team: Sybille Lammes (Principal Investigator), Chris Perkins (Senior Research Fellow), Sam Hind (PhD candidate), Alex Gekker (PhD candidate) and Clancy Wilmott (PhD candidate and Research Fellow). ____ [Download PDF Here <https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/15825733/UpdatedDisseminationProjectCFP…> ] After receiving initial submissions, we are now re-issuing a track-specific call to better accommodate the emergent themes of the conference. Please see below for the original CFP and possible range of topics. Submission is possible via one of the following formats/methods: - Presentation abstract of up to 500 words (including keywords). - Full papers of up to 6000 words. We are planning to publish a conference proceedings, in which both formats may be included. Submissions of full papers is encouraged, as in addition to conference proceedings, select papers will also be considered for a special issue journal dedicated to playful and digital cartographies. However, submitting a full paper does not also automatically guarantee journal acceptance which will be conducted through a double blind peer-review process. When submitting, please indicate to which of the following tracks your talk or paper is intended: 1. Maps make societies, societies make maps 2. Maps make cities, cities make maps 3. Maps make manoeuvres, manoeuvres make maps Abstract deadline: 25 March 2016 Notification of acceptance: 15 April 2016 Full paper submission (optional): 15 June 2016 Please send to: chartingthedigital(a)gmail.com ===== Original CfP Whether a navigation device that adjusts its route-display according to where the driver chooses to go, or a map in a computer game that is co-produced by players’ input, digital mapping has transformed our daily lives and how we engage with and shape our worlds. During this final conference of the ERC project Charting the Digital we will share and discuss what this transformation means. Over the last 4 years the Charting team has interrogated what this shift entails, taking on board new developments in the field as well as novel technological possibilities. This has encompassed the deployment of theoretical and methodological frameworks in order to analyse a broad spectrum of digital mapping applications, platforms and devices - from the use of mobile apps such as Google/Apple Maps, Citymapper, Ingress, TripAdvisor, Waze and many more to revolutionary platforms like Google Earth and OSM and devices from smartphones and watches to fitness trackers. Using an interdisciplinary approach we have examined digital maps in relation to each other, to ‘traditional’ non-digital cartographies and to other media forms concerned with mapping and navigation. In so doing we have expanded concepts of navigational interfaces; play, playfulness and playful mapping; casual politics; cartographic reason and logic; and mapping experimentation, risk and failure. Now it is time to set up the next stage of this inquiry. Through discussion with scholars whose ideas influence, challenge or resonate with our work, we wish to open the question of what digital mapping is, has become, or could become in the future. ____ We are interested in a variety of themes, which include, but are not limited to: Playful cartography - videogames and maps - minimaps, player representation, post-colonialism - location-based games - pervasive games with/out maps - mapping as play, play as mapping: the relations between game maps and physical movement - actions/activities/manoeuvres - situationism and pyscho-geography - cheating Mapping and discourse - systems of thought - interoperable logics - rationalism - authority - transformations - transplantations - abstraction and formalisation - cartographic reason - maps and culture Performative mapping - embodiment - materiality - new technologies - new vocabularies - imaginaries - spatialities - limits to representation - temporality (immediacy, ephemerality, (a)synchronicities) Big data, small data, ‘sweaty’ data in digital mapping practices - empirical/ethical challenges - ‘offline’ to ‘online’ articulation - visualisation: the transformation from data to map (layering, inscription) - cartographic politics of big data - issues of representation/scale - applicability of big data metaphors (‘fumes’, ‘sweat’, stacks etc.) Disruptive cartographies - tactical/strategic/logistic - interrelation between disruption, disobedience, disorientation and dislocation - risk and excess (and play) - cartographies of care - autonomous mapping practices - ‘disruption’ as innovation (critique of) - post-colonial mapping - new epistemologies/ways of mapping/unmapping - hacking, hacker culture and crypto-politics - failure (systemic, glitches, inter-active/haptic, capture/collect, privacy/crypto concerns, as productive/non-binary, entrepreneurial/motivational discourse) Mapping methods - in pedagogy - design and making - conceptual frameworks (situatedness, moments, traces, instantiations, models etc.) - playful mapping as method - interdisciplinarity - mobile methods & fieldwork Future Maps and future mapping - self-driving cars and mapping - predictive maps and crisis maps - embodied, sensory maps/wearable technology - personalised maps - ‘dumb’ phones, un-mapping and non-maps We invite contributions from methodological, theoretical and practical vantage points, and are particularly interested in bringing together a wide range of approaches, from junior and senior researchers, and from diverse disciplinary backgrounds. Thank you in advance, The Charting the Digital team

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Video transcription services?
by John Glass 04 Apr '16

04 Apr '16

Hi Wanted to ask if anyone could recommend a reliable and affordable video transcription service? I have found several just from a search, but would prefer to go with a service that others have used and can recommend. Thanks John Glass

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Re: [Air-L] AoIR seeks an Association Coordinator
by Jennifer Stromer-Galley 14 Mar '16

14 Mar '16

Quick follow-up that it looks like the email address in text is correct but the linkto is incorrect. Please email resume and cover letter to prez(a)aoir.org<mailto:prez@aoir.org> (or just directly to me if there is concern). Apologies for the snafu. ~JSG From: Jennifer Stromer-Galley Sent: Monday, January 25, 2016 1:49 PM To: air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org Subject: AoIR seeks an Association Coordinator Hi everyone - AoIR needs a new Association Coordinator (AC), as Anna Hoffman, our current AC, transitions to full-time academic life. The AC is our one paid staff member who provides ongoing management and support to keep the Association running like clockwork. Below is the job ad. Please feel free to circulate among friends, colleagues, and relevant job lists. Perhaps, some of you might consider applying. If anyone has questions, don't hesitate to email me. ~JSG Associate Professor, School of Information Studies, Syracuse University Director, Center for Computational and Data Science President, Association of Internet Researchers jstromer(a)syr.edu<mailto:jstromer@syr.edu> www.stromer-galley.com<http://www.stromer-galley.com> +++++ The Association of Internet Researchers (www.aoir.org<http://www.aoir.org>) is an academic association dedicated to the advancement of the cross-disciplinary field of Internet studies. It is a member-based support network promoting critical and scholarly Internet research independent from traditional disciplines and existing across academic borders. The association is international in scope. We hold a yearly interdisciplinary academic conference. Our upcoming conference is in October in Berlin. AoIR seeks an energetic and responsible Association Coordinator to support the mission of the Association. The AC provides support for all aspects of Association business, including: managing the website and the email list of 5,000 subscribers, monitoring and contributing to social media, managing the membership lists, supporting our online publication of conference proceedings, and assisting with conference management. Required skills include: strong technical abilities and an ability to successfully trouble-shoot software systems, such as WordPress for managing our website, ConfTool for conference management, and Wild Apricot for membership management. We have an open-access publishing system that also requires troubleshooting, updating, and management. The applicant must possess strong communication and writing skills, an understanding of community management, and an ability to work proactively and independently. Experience with academic associations is strongly preferred. This is an Independent Contractor position of 10-15 hours a week. Pay is commensurate with experience. Non-U.S. applicants will be subject to withholding and taxes. Review of applications will begin February 8, 2016 until the position is filled. Please send a cover letter and resume to Prof. Jennifer Stromer-Galley at prez(a)aoir.org<mailto:president@aoir.org>.

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Re: [Air-L] gender
by Baker, Andrea 08 Mar '16

08 Mar '16

David Banks, thank you so very much for this citation below. I wish I had seen it sooner. In any event, I hope the article and its recommendations can help any person or institution subject to gender inequalities in promotions to full professorships. "The "13+ Club" touches on gender and tenure more broadly. Might be helpful here: http://muse.jhu.edu/login?auth=0&type=summary&url=/journals/nwsa_journal/v0…" cheers, andee

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CFP: YouTube conference, London, September 2016
by Jean Burgess 29 Feb '16

29 Feb '16

Dear colleagues, I’m forwarding this CFP at the request of the organizers – please email the address below directly with any questions. Best regards Jean YouTube Conference: Call for Papers 23/4 September 2016, Middlesex University, The Burroughs, Hendon, London. Keynote speaker: Professor Jean Burgess Please send an abstract of 350 words plus a short bio of 100 words for single papers or 500 words and individual bios for group panels by email attachment to youtube(a)mdx.ac.uk<mailto:youtube@mdx.ac.uk>. Deadline for receipt of abstracts is 4 April 2016. YouTube has just passed its tenth birthday and it is timely to review not only how it has changed in that time, but also its wider influence. By focusing on YouTube as a platform we want to draw together research that is distributed across disciplines to help cross-fertilise knowledge about YouTube and its users, and to identity the research questions and methods that best capture its ever-expanding reach, impact and significance. We plan to include a panel of industry insiders to offer insights into possible futures in the light of current developments alongside the academic papers which we now invite you to propose. Keynote Address Professor Burgess will consider how YouTube and the broader online video environment have changed in the past decade, and what its competing futures look like. She will also discuss how we might learn to recognise such patterns of change empirically, and the key methodological approaches to studying the co-evolution of proprietary digital media platforms and their cultures of use over time. Possible questions to address (but not limited to these): * How has the institutionalisation of YouTube changed its nature? * Has YouTube accelerated processes of media convergence and transformation? * What is the changing relationship of television to YouTube? * How have production techniques and practices developed as the platform matured? * What communities of practice have been influential in the development of YouTube norms? * How has the development of new aesthetic forms been enabled by YouTube? * What innovations in performance and modes of address can be detected on YouTube? * To what degree do YouTube’s affordances operate as a social medium? * What new forms of celebrity and fandom have emerged on YouTube and why? * What wider social, cultural and political changes can be attributed to YouTube’s influence? * Why do we need to regulate the corporate power of YouTube’s owners Google? * Is YouTube a positive space for self realisation and expression of marginalised identities? * How do concerns over data harvesting and privacy apply to YouTube? * How have conflicts over rights affected the monetization of YouTube activities? * What potential does YouTube have as a repository of curated archives? * What are the genres that have thrived on YouTube and what wider significance does this have? (e.g. education, journalism, advertising and marketing, campaigning and propaganda, entertainment, documentary, drama, comedy and parody, how to ...) * Is the development of specific apps for Music, Kids and Gaming a significant new trend? * What research methods are used to study YouTube? What are their strengths and weaknesses? Conference organisation team: * Professor Jane Arthurs * Dr Alessandro Gandini * Dr Paul Kerr * Nicola Skinner

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Internet & social media curriculum and materials for first-year university students
by Kevin R. Guidry 29 Feb '16

29 Feb '16

Colleagues, This is a little bit different from the research- and publication-focused questions that are often asked here but it may be interesting to some of you: If you could design a few relatively short exercises focused on "responsible use of the internet and other social media" for all (18-21 year old) undergraduate students at a university, what would you do? I'm on an ad hoc committee formed by my university's Faculty Senate to examine and revise the First-Year Seminar (FYS) courses that all University of Delaware undergraduate students are required to take. One of the specific items that the senate has mandated be included in every FYS course is "responsible use of the internet and other social media" so we have to figure out how faculty from any discipline can responsibly and effectively address this topic with first-year students. We've drafted the following student learning outcomes: 1. Describe principles and specific examples of ways the Internet and social media can be used to both help and harm others 2. Demonstrate effective ways to responsibly use social media to positively engage with others and portray oneself with authenticity There are many other important topics and skills addressed in these courses so the time available to focus on these specific outcomes is limited. I think that if we aim to keep our recommended curricula to less than 60 minutes of in-class time then the faculty who teach these courses are very likely to adopt our curricula and materials. Given the immense variations in resources, expertise, interest, and nearly everything else across the ~100 sections of the courses that fulfill this requirement, creating curricula and materials that address these outcomes is quite daunting. However, it's also very exciting given the potential impact since this would reach nearly all of the approximately 18,000 undergrad students at our university. We're very focused on basing our curricula and materials on empirical knowledge rather than personal opinion or experience. I'd very much appreciate any specific or general thoughts, recommendations, or resources you'd be willing to share! Kevin

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Beyond the hashtags: #Ferguson, #Blacklivesmatter, and the online struggle for offline justice
by Deen Freelon 29 Feb '16

29 Feb '16

Colleagues, My coauthors and I have just released a report on the Black Lives Matter movement's use of social media. It is freely available and can be downloaded here: http://www.cmsimpact.org/blmreport . The report was funded by a grant from the Spencer Foundation. This report is the culmination of over a year's worth of planning, grant writing, and research. It is based on an analysis of over 40 million tweets, over 100,000 hyperlinks, and 40 participant interviews. If you're interested in Black Lives Matter, social media research, and/or data science, I hope you'll give it a look. As lead author, I'd be happy to chat about this if you have any questions. Happy leap day, ~DEEN -- Deen Freelon, Ph.D. Assistant Professor American University School of Communication Office: McKinley 325 dfreelon(a)gmail.com | http://dfreelon.org | @dfreelon

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Reminder: CfP VOX-Pol Conference on Violent Extremism, Terrorism, and the Internet
by Maura Conway 29 Feb '16

29 Feb '16

Hi All, Just a reminder that the deadline for receipt of abstracts for our below conference is this Friday, 4 March. Best, Maura PS: Have a new paper forthcoming that argues, amongst other things, that if we want to progress research on violent online extremism we need to draw much more from Internet research than at present. Gated version of paper, for those interested and with access at http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/1057610X.2016.1157408, drop me a line if you don't have access and I'll send you a copy by return. M ********** *CfP VOX-POL MID-PROJECT CONFERENCE: TAKING STOCK OF RESEARCH ON VIOLENT ONLINE POLITICAL EXTREMISM* *LOCATION: *Dublin City University, Dublin, Ireland *DATES: *23 – 24 June 2016 (pre-conf workshops 22 June) *BACKGROUND* The VOX-Pol Network of Excellence (voxpol.eu) is an EU-funded academic research network focused on researching the prevalence, contours, functions, and impacts of violent online political extremism and responses to it. For more info., visit http://www.voxpol.eu or follow us on Twitter at @VOX_Pol. *CALL FOR PAPERS* We are seeking panels and papers describing and discussing in-depth and cutting-edge research on violent political extremism and terrorism and the Internet. Perspectives from all academic (sub-)disciplines are welcome, particularly communications, computer science, cultural studies, ethnography, fan studies, information science, international relations, internet studies, law, media studies, philosophy, politics, psychology, sociology, translation studies, and terrorism studies. The following topics are of particular interest: - History and evolution of violent online extremism; - Online radicalisation; - The Internet and recruitment into violent political extremist and terrorist groups; - Methodologies, including mixed methods approaches, for violent political extremism and terrorism-related Internet research; - Children/youth, violent political extremism, and online content; - Women/gender, violent political extremism, and online content; - Case studies of particular (sub-)groups’ cross-platform use of the Internet and social media; - Case studies of the use of the Internet by violent extremists and/or terrorists in particular countries or regions; - Case studies of the manifestation(s) and workings of violent political extremism on specific online platforms, particularly less-studied platforms (e.g. JustPaste.It, Tumblr, VKontakte); - Case studies of particular online mediums or Internet-related technologies (e.g. video, mobile telephones, etc.) and their roles in violent online extremism; - The role of online crowdsourcing in violent political extremism and terrorism; - Audience reception of violent online political extremist content; - Policy/legislative and other responses to violent online political extremism, including online CVE activity; - The role of the Darkweb in contemporary violent extremism and/or terrorism; - Ethical issues surrounding online extremism-related research; - Evaluative or ‘taking stock’ analyses. We welcome papers or panel proposals in these and all relevant areas, particularly empirically grounded research and papers reporting significant new results. Papers that are methodologically innovative are also especially welcome. *ABSTRACT SUBMISSION* Authors of individual papers should submit a 300-word abstract via our *proposal submission page <https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=voxpol2016>* by 5pm GMT on Friday, 4 March 2016. 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