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New free e-learning course – Why We Post - The Anthropology of Social Media
by Major, Alison 04 Feb '16

04 Feb '16

New free e-learning course – Why We Post - The Anthropology of Social Media Register today at http://bit.ly/1Kl87Bz (Chinese, Hindi, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, Tamil and Turkish versions available at http://bit.ly/1PLppDU) We are delighted to announce a new, free e-learning course that may be of interest to readers of this list. We apologise for any cross posting. Why We Post - The Anthropology of Social Media will begin on 29th February 2016. This five week course is taught by the nine anthropologists behind Why We Post, the global social media research study based at University College London. Topics include: Week One: What is social media - Polymedia and Scalable Sociality. The focus upon content rather than platforms. The 9 fieldsites. The practical uses of this research. Main fieldsite – village England Week Two – The shift to visual images in communication. Memes as the moral police of the internet. The significance for illiteracy. The diversity of the selfie. Main field sites - South Italy, Trinidad. Week Three – The impact on politics and gender. Why public social media is more conservative than offline life. The transformation of gender relations in Hindu and Muslim societies. Main field sites - south India and southeast Turkey Week Four –What we learn from The Chinese platforms. The impact of social media more generally on privacy, on education and on commerce. Main field sites – Industrial China, Rural China Week Five – The relation between online equality and offline inequality. When social media may not express identity or individuality. Seeing the normative. How the world changed social media. Main field sites – northeast Brazil and north Chile. The course is available in seven languages in addition to English. Register today for the English version at: http://bit.ly/1Kl87Bz Register for the Chinese, Hindi, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, Tamil and Turkish versions at: http://bit.ly/1PLppDU NB: These non-English versions are not time bound and can be followed at any time and duration from Feb 29th 2016. 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. Outputs will include a free e-learning course (available in 8 languages), a website and 11 open access books, to be published by UCL Press. To find out more, visit ucl.ac.uk/why-we-post<http://www.ucl.ac.uk/why-we-post>. To view the video introduction to the Why We Post project, please visit https://youtu.be/0jA5B32MP98

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DEADLINE Sunday, Feb, 7th!! Second Princeton/Vienna doctoral workshop.
by Ardevol-Abreu, Alberto 04 Feb '16

04 Feb '16

> DEADLINE Sunday, Feb, 7th!! Second Princeton/Vienna doctoral workshop. > > > Hola colleagues and friends, > > > I’d like to remind you that the deadline for the second Princeton/Vienna doctoral workshop (open call) is next Sunday (Feb. 7th). Hurry up! As you probably know already, this year it will take place in Vienna in late April (27th – 29th). > > About 8 students will be selected to come to the University of Vienna and present their advanced doctoral work. They will receive feedback from peers, and a panel of 6 six international experts from different Universities around the world. Some financial support will be provided to all selected students. > > > Please see the call via the following link (also PDF attached to this email). > > http://milab.univie.ac.at/fileadmin/user_upload/p_milab/News/CITP_MiLab_Wor… > > > We appreciate your efforts in encouraging your best students to apply. You can contact Homero Gil de Zúñiga (homero.gil.de.zuniga(a)univie.ac.at) should you have any questions. > > > Best regards, > > > Alberto Ardèvol-Abreu > > > CITP/MiLab Spring 2016 Doctoral Workshop > > The Center for Information Technology Policy (CITP) at Princeton University and the Media Innovation Lab (MiLab) at the University of Vienna are pleased to announce our second annual Doctoral Workshop to be held April 27th to April 29th at the University of Vienna. The workshop will be led by Nick Feamster, Professor of Computer Science and Acting Director of CITP at Princeton University, and Homero Gil de Zúñiga, who holds the Medienwandel Professorship in the Department of Communication and leads the MiLab at the University of Vienna. > > > The goal of the workshop is to provide a forum for leading doctoral students to present their late-stage research to experts in the field, receive feedback and advice, and gain exposure to related work in other disciplines. We seek to provide a helpful, interactive experience for students, to highlight the work of rising stars in this area, and to foster interdisciplinary collaboration. > > > Participants will be selected through a competitive review process. We expect to invite about 8 doctoral students to attend. We will provide support for travel and lodging up to 500 EUR per attendee. Students are encouraged to submit dissertation relevant work; abstracts and shorter proposals will not be accepted. > > Research topics should focus on the interplay between information and communication technologies and the social, political, civic, and governmental spheres. We welcome applications from doctoral students doing relevant work in any discipline, including communication studies, computer science, economics, political science, and sociology. Possible topics include, but are not limited to, the following: > > >  Citizen journalism > >  Civic engagement and digital technology > >  E-voting security > >  Internet governance > >  Open government data > >  Privacy technologies for democratic ends > >  Social media and political expression > >  State-sponsored internet freedom programs > > > Submission process: Please submit your manuscript, along with your CV and full contact information, to > > > Laura Cummings-Abdo (citp(a)princeton.edu) and Meike Müller (meike.mueller(a)univie.ac.at) no later than February 7th, 2016. > > > For more information about our work, please visit our websites: CITP (citp.princeton.edu) and MiLab (milab.univie.ac.at). >

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CFP: Cunning Knowledge and Media Technologies
by Christopher O'Neill 04 Feb '16

04 Feb '16

Call for Papers: Cunning Knowledge and Media Technologies *Platform: Journal of Media and Communication* http://platformjmc.com An interdisciplinary journal for early career researchers and graduate students Volume editor: Christopher O’Neill Abstract submissions due: *5th of March, 2016* Full paper submissions due: *20th of May, 2016* Everyone is on the side of the cunning. Media, communications, and cultural studies scholars have increasingly come to identify resistance with the alacrity of Michel de Certeau’s walker, with the trickster whose clever ‘tactics’ always outwit the lumbering stupidities of state power and its ‘strategies’. Cunning knowledge comes from below, it is popular, it resists codification and iteration, it responds to a given exigency *in the moment*, it is defined by a certain *disposition*. Cunning belongs to those who, in a state of lack, are driven to subvert majoritarian institutions and ways of thinking. Theorists including Michel de Certeau, Guy Debord, Sarah Kofman, Carlo Ginzburg, Donna Haraway, Marcel Detienne, Jean-Pierre Vernant, Gilbert Simondon, and François Jullien have celebrated the capacity for cunning to undermine instrumental or otherwise reductive conceptions of knowledge. But what happens when even the largest organs of state and corporate power self-consciously seek to recuperate the power of the cunning for their own ends? In Hesiod we read that Zeus swallowed the Greek goddess of cunning Metis, for “fear that she might bring forth a thunderbolt stronger than his own”. Analogously, Google has produced “a kind of cunning world-wide-web-weaving”, Dan Mellamphy has argued in a previous issue of *Platform*, it has “swallowed-up the ruse and intelligence of the internet” by crafting a powerful, emergent, yet unstable archive, a bottom-up form of administrative knowledge. Furthermore, the distinction Certeau makes between the prescriptive spatial grammar of urban strategists, and the colloquial *détournements* made by walkers, seems less secure today, as pattern-of-life spatial analytics attempt to grasp the movement of the city *in motion*, with all its associated rhythms and cadences. This issue of *Platform* seeks papers which engage with the question: What does ‘cunning’ signify today in the technological realm? Does cunning still belong to those who lack power, or are the powerful today so powerful that they lack not even lack? As the qualities associated with cunning, such as adaptation, induction, speed, and resilience become adopted as normative values in finance and statecraft, does cunning still possess the capacity to disrupt (disruption itself perhaps now holding dubious critical efficacy), or is there a need to consider new modes of critique, ‘new weapons’, perhaps a reappraisal of the neglected virtues of slowness, deliberation, even stasis? *Platform* seeks papers on all aspects related to cunning and media & technology, including but not limited to: -Hunting techniques (the venatic) & (state) surveillance, drones, etc. -The relation between witchcraft, alchemy, sorcery, and modern technoscience -Cunning as a gendered knowledge -Cunning as an aspect of neo-liberal subjectivity -Cunning and lack, aporia, poverty -Cunning and medical technologies (e.g., health tracking technologies) -Cunning as an embodied knowledge, its relation to gesture -The relation between mimesis, trickery, and online self-identity and self-representation -The relation between haptic media and cunning techniques of sleight-of-hand (prestidigitation) -Cross cultural conceptions of cunning (e.g., comparing *metis*, *zhi*, etc.) -The relation between fortune-telling, soothsaying techniques, and predictive analytics -Cunning and design/craft -Cunning and approaches to ‘queering’ normative knowledge practices -Cunning and its relation to temporality and speed -The relation between cunning and other forms of knowledge (e.g., *phronesis*, *sophia*, etc.) Please send all enquiries and submissions to platformjmc(a)gmail.com. Abstracts must be accompanied by a brief curriculum vitae and biographical note, and should not exceed 350 words. Abstracts are to be submitted no later than 5th of March, 2016. Full papers will be due by 20th of May 2016; please be aware that acceptance of abstracts does not guarantee publication. All submissions should be from early career researchers (defined as being within a few years of completing their PhD.) or current graduate students undertaking their Masters, PhD. or international equivalent. All eligible submissions will be sent for double-blind peer-review. Early submission is highly encouraged as the review process will commence on submission. Note: Please read the submission guidelines before submitting work <http://platformjmc.com/make-a-submission/guidelines/>. Submissions received not in house style will not be accepted and authors will be asked to resubmit their work with the correct formatting before it is sent for review. *Platform: Journal of Media and Communication* is a fully refereed, open-access online graduate journal. Founded and published by the School of Culture and Communication at the University of Melbourne (Australia), *Platform* was launched in November 2008. *Platform* is refereed by an international board of established and emerging scholars working across diverse fields in media and communication studies, and is edited by graduate students at the University of Melbourne. -- Christopher O'Neill PhD Candidate School of Culture and Communication University of Melbourne Australia

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updated digital campaigning/advocacy guide
by Colin Delany 03 Feb '16

03 Feb '16

Hi folks, an updated version of my comprehensive digital campaigning/online advocacy guide is now online. The 2016 version is completely rewritten for this year's elections, with new chapters and sections on new tools and tactics. It keeps the same strategic emphasis as the 2014 edition, though, focused on winning political battles rather than pursuing shiny digital objects. It's the best snapshot of how digital politics is actually being done in 2016 that I know of. If you downloaded a PDF from Epolitics.com in the past, you should have received an email directing you to a free copy of the new version. Otherwise, you can download "How to Use the Internet to Win in 2016: A Comprehensive Guide to Online Politics for Campaigns & Advocates" at http://www.epolitics.com/winning It's also in the Amazon Store for Kindle, and the ebook has been used (or is in use now) in undergrad and grad classes at at least 8 universities that I know of, including George Washington University, UT San Antonio, UNC Chapel Hill, American University (DC), Virginia Tech, University of Georgia and Johns Hopkins. If you'd like to evaluate a copy for your own teaching or studies, let me know or download a copy. Thanks folks! I'm mostly a lurker on this list, but it's a great source of information. And, I'm always looking for case studies and new perspectives at Epolitics.com -- here are a couple of posts from Luis Hestres, who's on the list. http://www.epolitics.com/author/luishestres/ --cpd "How to Use the Internet to Win in 2016: A Comprehensive Guide to Online Politics for Campaigns & Advocates" [Ebook] http://www.epolitics.com/winning Colin Delany Epolitics.com -- digital strategy for politics and advocacy http://www.epolitics.com 202-422-4682 cpd(a)epolitics.com @epolitics

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Panel/roundtable on digital media/news content analysis?
by Luis E. Hestres 03 Feb '16

03 Feb '16

Hi everyone, My colleague Jill Hopke of DePaul U. and I would like to form a panel or roundtable for AoIR 2016 on methodological questions related to content analysis of digital media. As Jill and I were coming up with coding schemes for Twitter data and news media for a project, questions kept coming up about constant changes in social media platforms, the longevity of social media studies in light of these constant changes, the relationship between textual and audiovisual data, what news outlets to include/exclude when virtually all are now online in some form, and many others. We think these and related questions could make for an interesting panel or roundtable where we could use examples from our own research as prompts for discussing these issues. If you are interested please let me know ASAP so we can start working on a proposal. Thanks! Luis - - - - - Dr. Luis E. Hestres Assistant Professor Department of Communication The University of Texas at San Antonio One UTSA Circle San Antonio, TX 78249-0732 http://www.luishestres.com Want to support our tax deductible nonprofit work by contributing to the UTSA department of communication? Please visit: https://giving.utsa.edu/FriendsofCommunication Thanks for your support!

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Educator Perceptions of Game-based Learning Survey
by Wilma Hodges 03 Feb '16

03 Feb '16

Dear Educator: I am a doctoral student at Nova Southeastern University in the Ed.D. program, with a concentration in Instructional Technology and Distance Education. My dissertation focuses on the perceptions of educators regarding games and game-based learning for educational use in higher education. I would like to invite you to participate in the Educator Perceptions of Game-based Learning Survey as part of my doctoral research. Additionally, please feel free to forward this survey invitation to your colleagues and professional contacts. I would like to obtain broad representation among educators in higher education and would greatly appreciate your help in disseminating this invitation to a greater number of potential participants. The survey should take no more than 15 minutes to complete. All survey submissions are anonymous. If you agree to participate, you may access this anonymous online survey at the following link. https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/5XMR75V This study has been approved by the Institutional Review Board at Nova Southeastern University. If you have any questions or concerns about this study, please contact me at wh291(a)nova.edu. Thank you. Respectfully, Wilma Hodges Doctoral Student Instructional Technology and Distance Education Nova Southeastern University

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6th annual International Symposium on Digital Ethics
by Heider, Donald 03 Feb '16

03 Feb '16

Call for abstracts The Center for Digital Ethics & Policy at Loyola University Chicago (digitalethics.org) will be holding its 6th annual International Symposium on Digital Ethics on Nov 4th, 2016. The keynote speaker will be Professor Lilie Chouliaraki from the London School of Economics. We are looking for papers on digital ethics. Topics might include privacy, anonymity, griefing, free speech, intellectual property, hacking, scamming, surveillance, information mining, transparency, digital citizenship, or anything else relating to ethical questions and digital technology. This is an interdisciplinary symposium, we welcome all backgrounds and approaches to research. Abstracts should propose original research that has not been presented or published elsewhere. The abstract should be between 500 and 1,000 words in length (not including references) and should include a discussion of the methodology used. Authors of accepted papers will be eligible for up to $400 in travel funds to be able to attend the Chicago symposium. The author(s) of the top student paper will be eligible for up to $1,000 in travel funds. Abstracts are due by midnight CST on April1st, 2016, and should follow APA or MLA. Authors of top papers will have the opportunity to have their work published in Proceedings from the 6th Annual Symposium on Digital Ethics. Send your submission in a MS Word document attachment to contact(a)digitalethics.org<mailto:contact@digitalethics.org>, and please write Digital Ethics Symposium submission in the subject line. You can send questions to the same email address. My best, Don Heider Dean School of Communication Loyola University Chicago

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Internet and Web Archives Research Use Survey
by Matthew Weber 03 Feb '16

03 Feb '16

Online Survey Recruitment Notice Study Title: Internet and Web Archives Research Use Survey Dear Researchers and Librarians: Do you use Internet and Web archives in your research? Do you plan to in the future? Or are you an archivist or librarian who either collects or plans to collect archived Internet content? This email is seeking participants for a study being conducted by Dr. Matthew Weber, Rutgers University, and Dr. Pamela Graham, Columbia University. We are examining the research use of Internet and Web Archives by scholars and librarians. We are specifically interested in your opinions regarding challenges that exist with regards to using these archives in research, and the types of metadata that you either collect or use (or would in the future). The survey is brief, and should only take 10 – 15 minutes of your time. All responses will be anonymous, although you will have a chance to provide your contact information if you would like to see the results, or if you would be willing to participate in a follow-up interview. All contact information will be kept separate from the results. The survey can be accessed here https://rutgers.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_eu4mY6CbGdDCCK9 <https://rutgers.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_eu4mY6CbGdDCCK9> Please contact matthew.weber(a)rutgers.edu <mailto:matthew.weber@rutgers.edu> if you have any questions. Thanks, Matt and Pamela Matthew S. Weber Assistant Professor School of Communication and Information Rutgers University (ph): 848-932-8718

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CMU HCII Social Computing Lab - Summer Research Program For Undergraduates - Deadline March 15th
by Laura Dabbish 03 Feb '16

03 Feb '16

Please let promising undergraduate students know about this summer research opportunity. We are accepting applications until March 15th. Thanks! --Laura Dabbish --------------- *Social Computing Lab Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) Summer Program Human-Computer Interaction Institute Carnegie Mellon University May 31, 2016 – August 5, 2016 * *****Application Deadline: March 15th, 2016 ***** * Program Details and Application Instructions Available here*: https://hciisocialcomputing.wordpress.com/summer-reu-program-description/ The Social Computing Lab at Carnegie Mellon has an exciting summer research opportunity for undergraduate students. The Social Computing Lab’s REU program allows talented undergraduates to spend 10 weeks during the summer in a research laboratory at Carnegie Mellon University. Students will conduct research in an area matched to the interests expressed in the student’s application. Guidance and supervision of the research project will be provided by the faculty member as well as, in some cases, postdoctoral fellows and/or graduate students. Seminars specific to those participating in the REU program will be held weekly including seminars on graduate admissions and career opportunities in science, education, computer science and engineering. In addition, Social Computing Lab seminars and those held by Carnegie Mellon’s Human Computer Interaction Institute and Language Technologies Institute and will be open to the students, giving them exposure to a wide range of research in social computing. Each student will receive a fellowship stipend with funds for housing support. Applications are encouraged from students who wish to learn to conduct research in a modern academic research laboratory under the guidance of experienced scientists and engineers and experiment in social computing and online collaboration. The REU program will expose students to the excitement and opportunities of a research career. This experience will provide excellent preparation for students interested in subsequently pursuing a Masters or Ph.D. degree. We seek broad participation, including members of underrepresented groups as defined by the National Science Foundation (African American, Hispanic, Native American) who may be considering pursuing further graduate study human-computer interaction, psychology or computer science. Although students from other years may apply, this opportunity is most fitting for students at the end of their sophomore or junior year of undergraduate studies. We encourage applications from students who would like to conduct research in the fields of human-computer interaction, online communities, computer-mediated communication, distributed collaboration, crowdsourcing, visualization, assistive technology, social aspects of privacy and security, and language technologies. * Application Instructions*: To apply, complete the application form here: https://hciisocialcomputing.wordpress.com/summer-reu-program-application/

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What the Trump Defeat in Iowa Says about the Limits of Social Media
by Paul Levinson 03 Feb '16

03 Feb '16

Could be a significant data point http://paullevinson.blogspot.com/2016/02/what-trump-defeat-in-iowa-says-abo…

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