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REMINDER: CfP special edition of Internet Policy Review on Australian Internet Policy - abstract submission deadline 14 March
by Angela Daly 09 Mar '16

09 Mar '16

*Special issue on ‘Australian internet policy’* *Call for papers of the **Internet Policy Review* supported by the *Swinburne Institute for Social Research* and *.au Domain Administration (auDA)* TOPIC & RELEVANCE Australia is a country in which there have been various interesting developments in internet policy over the last decade. The ambitious government-led National Broadband Network gained international attention in internet policy circles, although its actual trajectory has proved different from initial plans. While in many ways internet access and use in Australia’s large cities is similar to that experienced by European users, it is also a vast country with many rural and remote populations, for whom the internet is more difficult to access and use. Australia has also not been immune from international trends regarding internet policy, such as an increased emphasis of intellectual property enforcement in the online space, the clash between individual privacy and counter-terrorism measures and the disruption brought to various economic sectors by apps such as Uber. Furthermore, Australia itself is one nation participating in international trade negotiations which are likely to have an effect on internet policy globally, including the recently-signed Trans Pacific Partnership, and the Trade in Services Agreement which is still being discussed. SCOPE OF THE SPECIAL ISSUE The aim of the special issue in the *Internet Policy Review* is to explore these recent developments in Australian internet policy and how they relate to internet policy developments internationally. Australia is in many ways a country similar to European states, but also with many differences: both the similarities and differences can be seen playing out in the internet policy field. Accordingly, we welcome proposals that address policy developments and debates so long as they relate to the governance of the Australian internet in some way, or Australian internet policy in regional or international fora. Comparative analyses, especially with European societies and jurisdictions, are particularly welcome (but such comparison is not necessary for inclusion in the special edition). Papers can have both a theoretical or empirical focus, and if empirical can be qualitative, quantitative or employing mixed methods. This call for papers is open to researchers from the fields of policy studies, sociology, law, philosophy, data, information and technology studies, economics and management and, related fields. FOCUS OF THE PAPERS We are particularly interested to receive proposals on the following themes in Australian internet policy: · *Intellectual property and the internet:* definition, enforcement, consequences · *The internet economy:* emerging markets; Uberisation and disruption · *The National Broadband Network; net neutrality* · *Data retention, surveillance and privacy* · *Internet governance; domain name policy* · *The interaction of trade and internet policy:* TPP; TiSA · *Australia’s internet policy regionally/internationally:* intersections with development, migration and security policy · *Digital inclusion:* providing internet access to all Australians BEST PAPER AWARD A best paper award will be issued to the paper accepted for publication that the editorial team judges as being of the highest quality and provoking the most interesting arguments. SPECIAL EDITION EDITORS - Dr Angela Daly, Queensland University of Technology ( angela.daly(a)qut.edu.au) - Professor Julian Thomas, Swinburne Institute for Social Research ( jthomas(a)swin.edu.au) IMPORTANT DATES *14 March 2016:* Deadline for expression of interest and abstract submissions (500 word abstracts). *4 April 2016:* Authors informed of decision on abstracts *2 June 2016:* Deadline for full text submissions (max. 30,000 characters spaces included). All details on text submissions can be found under: http://policyreview.info/authors *October 2016:* Publication of the special issue *Submission of abstracts via online form: http://policyreview.info/node/392 <http://policyreview.info/node/392>*

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Final call for abstracts on "Future Making" for Danish STS Conference. Deadline March 15
by Annette Markham 08 Mar '16

08 Mar '16

**apologies for any cross listing*** Dear AoIR Colleagues, Please note the March 15 deadline. It's only 300 word abstracts, so that's plenty of time :) Join me and many other STS colleagues in June, 2015 at the Danish STS (DASTS) Conference in Aarhus, June 2-3, 2015. http://sts.au.dk/dasts16/ You can submit papers in many different sessions. I'm organizing a panel called Future Making: Methods, 'Data', and Social Change." See below for session details. Session 6: FUTURE MAKING: METHODS, ‘DATA,’ AND SOCIAL CHANGE Organizer: Annette Markham, Aarhus University. Please submit Title and 300 word abstract before the end of March 15, 2015 via the webform: http://sts.au.dk/dasts16/submit/ . For questions, contact sessions organizer: amarkham [at] dac [dot] au [dot] dk Session Description: How do people make sense of intensely local but digitally mediated and heavily networked life in the 21st Century? How do individuals deal with the enormous amounts of data they generate and accumulate in their everyday digital lives? What stories are told through this data? How much of the story does an individual actually control? What stories are automatically generated by how we organize our files (or not), switch computers, use multiple storage devices, both in the cloud and in our pockets? These questions are well suited to an STS approach, especially if we embrace the challenge to move beyond description to intervention. Within a proactive stance of ethical future making, what creative practices can we offer to developers, citizens, and policy makers to critically interrogate the situations constituted through automation and datafication? How might our well-honed STS methods help people grapple with, manage, or make sense of the complexity of the personal big data they produce as they live their everyday lives in a digital era? This track invites contributions that address these questions and build a case for intervention; modes and attitudes of inquiry that contribute research expertise to collaborative and participatory social change. Format can be traditional paper presentations, but track participants are particularly encouraged to consider how their ideas can be conveyed through workshops, creative presentations, exhibitions, interactive discussions, or other ‘unconference’ activities. These experimental formats are useful for thinking through practices other than academic discourse, while being grounded firmly in robust academic methodologies, to develop models for inquiry that are oriented more toward social change than scholarly description. More specific to the topic of building better digital futures, this track is designed to provoke energetic discussions of how STS scholarship can transform findings into interventions, raise consciousness about the automated and algorithmic processes increasingly curating our memories, and help people develop personally meaningful methods for documenting, archiving, and later re-exhibiting lived experience, whether individually or as part of larger groups and municipalities. The focus of individual submissions should connect to this track theme. Proposals are not limited to the following, but could be focused on one or more of these well known problems of contemporary digital culture: *Datafication*. This term marks the growing tendency to digitize, quantify, and transform human experience into data; this process increasingly directs personal and professional activities. When used as part of big data calculations, our experiences are equalized and flattened into data points, giving the illusion that all experiences are equally meaningful and ultimately accessible. Our digital traces are stored in large government and privately held data centers, bought and sold for marketing, personalization of apps, or just to keep track of us. Data are simultaneously invisible and everywhere. They assume an “itness,” making their qualities seem concrete and incontrovertible. *Algorithmic interpellation*. Algorithms manipulate data and feed us information about ourselves. Future norms and structures are emerging through current designs and frameworks for thinking about social media platforms; the automated and corporatized features of these platforms do not necessarily operate in the best interest of people. *Locus of control*. As information becomes digitized, such as family photos, letters, and other everyday artifacts, information that helps individuals remember gets lost in deep file structures and outdated devices. Although there are many apps and programs to help us sort through these datasets, the digitizing processes has not significantly improved our ability to seamlessly retrieve and make sense of past events. At a broader structural level, similar question can be raised: What is the role of social media platforms in creating our memories? How much does the automated Facebook curation of our Year in Review exhibit, for example, dictate the stories that will eventually be understood as individual memory, generational history, and cultural heritage? *Hegemonic culturing*. Whatever we define as a case, a situation, or a phenomenon is at least a complex play of negotiations, alignments and realignments within society. How do these structures and processes function hegemonically, neutralizing and naturalizing certain ways of being while obscuring other alternatives? This question is important particularly when and if people don’t think of datafication or algorithmic processing as problems at all. A subtle shift in the discourse over the past 20 years indicates a growing acceptance of the ‘fact’ of constant surveillance and mass data collection by companies that provide users with applications, platforms, and devices. At the same time, individuals are increasingly held personally responsible for actions online, while the platforms and infrastructures are portrayed as natural carriers and neutral collectors of data. submit session abstract for consideration by March 15 here: http://sts.au.dk/dasts16/submit/ ***************************************************** Annette N. Markham, Ph.D. Professor MSO, School of Communication & Culture, Aarhus University Affiliate Professor, School of Communication, Loyola University, Chicago amarkham(a)gmail.com http://markham.internetinquiry.org/ Twitter: annettemarkham

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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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DataONE Users Group Meeting: Registration Open
by Robert Sandusky 08 Mar '16

08 Mar '16

Friends Join us at the annual DataONE Users Group (DUG) Meeting in Chapel Hill this summer to learn more about DataONE and contribute to a community of data managers, librarians, researchers and others that are changing the way we discover and use open data. Co-located with the ESIP Summer meeting, the DUG meeting is 2 days of plenary talks, community led sessions and break-out discussions focussed on "Expanding Data Networks". Registration is free and we are accepting submissions for talks and posters until April 15th. Summary details are provided below. For more comprehensive information go to: https://www.dataone.org/dataone-users-group/2016-meeting. We look forward to seeing you there. Bob Sandusky University of Illinois at Chicago Meeting Dates: July 17th-18th Meeting Location: Friday Center, Chapel Hill, NC Meeting Theme: Expanding Data Networks Registration Link: https://www.dataone.org/dataone-users-group-meeting-registration-2016 Hotel Room Block: Courtyard Chapel Hill Meeting Page: https://www.dataone.org/dataone-users-group/2016-meeting

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Online Fundraising 101
by Colin Delany 08 Mar '16

08 Mar '16

Hi folks, my friends over at Campaigns & Elections just published essentially the entire online fundraising chapter from the latest version of my digital campaigning ebook. It's a standalone piece, and it's not behind a paywall. Free stuff, and a good resource for students: http://campaignsandelections.com/campaign-insider/2677/online-fundraising-1… It goes into detail about basic online fundraising principles, email fundraising best practices, data/analytics/testing, social media fundraising and more (note that technology infrastructure, list-building, advertising, mobilization, etc, are covered in other chapters). More about the book at http://www.epolitics.com/winning Also note that C&E's CampaignTech East event is coming up in a couple of months -- early bird registration ends in a few days. http://campaigntecheast.com Enjoy! --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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Reminder: CfP Digital Media, Psychoanalysis and the Subject
by Jacob Johanssen 08 Mar '16

08 Mar '16

CfP Digital Media, Psychoanalysis and the Subject Deadline: March 25 Editors: Jacob Johanssen (University of Westminster, UK) and Steffen Krüger (University of Oslo, Norway). Abstract: Revisiting psychoanalytic theory and practice as a potential for media and communication studies, this CfP for a special issue of CM: Communication and Media Journal, to be published in December 2016, seeks to enable a dialogue between communication/media studies and psychoanalysis in order to critically explore the processes and dynamics of contemporary culture. Guiding questions are: - What are the psychoanalytic concepts and methodological processes that have a bearing on our research into media and/or communication? - What are the implications of psychoanalysis, its theoretical tools and practice, for media and communication studies - specifically for the conceptions of subjectivity in the field? - What are the implications of media and communication studies for psychoanalytic concepts/ practice? Call for Papers: For the past two decades, critical research into media and communication has sought ways to understand the significant shift brought about by digitalisation and a proliferation of networked media. With this shift, questions of individuality, the single media user as entity and her/his relations to society have taken on renewed salience. Not only is consuming media content (films, TV series, websites etc.) becoming open to increasingly individual choices (streaming services across different mediums, for example), but the individual as such has become part of the content being produced. People find themselves instigated to express and share who they are and relate themselves to others via multiple, networked media channels on diverse platforms. These platforms are characterised by the double objective of enabling feelings of community whilst also profiting from the ensuing communication. Relying on targeted data extraction as business models, the relations they facilitate tend toward the commodification of the individual and, intentional or not, open up possibilities for corporate and governmental surveillance. The notions and concepts with which researchers have sought to emphasise and highlight relevant aspects of this shifting situation, such as 'convergence', 'connectivity', 'participation', ‘produsage', ‘interactivity’ and ‘user-generated content’ etc. have long since become common parlance. They are challenged and defended, changed and rearranged. To these concepts attach themselves a variety of approaches, theories, models and assumptions that focus on a diverse range of angles, including gender, ethnicity, class, subculture or group memberships from micro, meso, to macro perspectives. With these come diverse philosophies and worldviews that often concern questions of activity, passivity and agency with regard to media use. Yet, whereas many of these approaches can be seen as responses to the renewed centrality of the individual media user, the conceptions of subjectivity underlying these works frequently remain implicit and in need of reflection. What is established by such 'implicit notions' of subjectivity (Dahlgren, 2013: 72) is an idea of media users leaning strongly towards rationality, cognition, categorisation and assimilation. While, as mentioned above, consumer choices become ever finer grained to meet individual demand, the challenge that the resulting notion of individuality poses to our conceptions of the subject have hardly been taken up by media and communication studies so far (see Willson, 2010). Thus, in order to counter the tendency of foregoing the relevance of subjective experience, Peter Dahlgren has recently advocated ‘reactivating concerns about the subject’ (2013: 73) in media studies research, stating that researchers in the field need to consider also ‘communicative modes beyond the rational’ (ibid: 82). Heeding this call, psychoanalysis may be the discipline best equipped to point to ways out of the rationalistic impasse. As Brown and Lunt (2002) suggest, ‘there is something about psychoanalysis that is corrosive to the whole model of the subject built up by the social identity tradition’ (2002: 8) – i.e. the very tradition onto which implicit models of the subject in media and communication studies frequently default. This call for papers wants to initiate a critical appreciation of this ‘corrosiveness’ of psychoanalytic theory as a productive potential for media and communication studies. With its diverse traditions – Freudian, Kleinian, Lacanian, Winnicottian, relational, etc. – foregrounding the conflicted, ambivalent, defended, divided, multifaceted, layered and processual aspects of human beings in their relations with others, psychoanalysis shifts our attention to contradiction, incoherence, ambiguity and resistance in media texts as well as in the responses to them. In view of the new media situation it seems also well worth to readdress the critiques of psychoanalysis brought forth by Michel Foucault (1966) as well as Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari (2009). While psychoanalysis is primarily a clinical field, the application of theoretical and methodological concepts outside the consulting room has shown that they can be immensely fruitful and productive as long as they steer clear from broad-sweeping generalisations and pathologizations. Scholars within media and communication studies (e.g. Kris 1941, Kris and Leites 1947; Radway 1984; Walkerdine 1984, 2007; Ang 1985; Silverstone 1994; Turkle 1995, 2011; Hills 2002; Richards 2007; Kavka 2009; Dean 2010; Elliott 2013; Krzych 2010, 2013; Yates and Bainbridge 2012, 2014; Carpentier 2014a, b; Balick 2014; Krüger and Johanssen 2014, Johanssen forthcoming; Krüger forthcoming) have drawn on psychoanalytic schools in different manners and to varying degrees. Connecting with and reflecting upon this tradition, we invite articles that focus on the implications that psychoanalytic concepts and methodologies have on studies in media and communication, and/or, vice versa, the implications that media and communication studies have on our understanding of psychoanalytic concepts and practice. While our main focus is on digital media, we also want to encourage media and communication researchers in other fields to consider the implications of and for psychoanalysis. Contributions are thus invited to address the following questions: - What are the psychoanalytic concepts and methodological processes that have a bearing on our research into media communication? - What are the implications of psychoanalysis, its theoretical tools and practice, for media and communication studies - specifically for the conceptions of subjectivity in the field? - What are the implications of media and communication studies for psychoanalytic concepts/ practice? These broader questions can translate into more specific ones, e.g.: - What has psychoanalysis to offer to the interpretation of research data? - What is the legacy and/or future of psychoanalytic thinking in media and communication research? - Which psychoanalytic concepts are useful for thinking about the limiting as well as empowering opportunities that present themselves within contemporary digital culture? - How is this culture useful for thinking about psychoanalysis? - What and how can we understand the subject in relation to concrete patterns of media content production and consumption? - How does the subject cope with and make sense of the ubiquity of media communication? With what psychosocial effects? Possible fields of study are: - Psychoanalysis and media surveillance - Psychoanalysis and data ownership - Psychoanalysis and media audiences - Psychoanalysis and social media (self presentation, narcissism, flaming, trolling, etc.) - Psychoanalysis and media institutions - Psychoanalysis and journalistic practices - Psychoanalysis, media and ideology The editors specifically invite authors to initiate conversations between psychoanalytic concepts and media scholarship. Theoretical or empirical works are equally welcome. We invite full papers (6000-8000 words including references) as well as shorter commentaries (up to 3000 words) on the topic. Please submit abstracts (300 words) by 25 March 2016 to: digit.psa(a)gmail.com. Timeline: 25 March: Deadline for abstract submissions. Authors will be notified within two weeks. 27 June: Deadline for full paper submissions. 16 September: Deadline for submission of revised papers. 31 October: Deadline for final author revisions. About the Editors: Jacob Johanssen (j.johanssen(a)westminster.ac.uk) is Senior Lecturer at the University of Westminster. His PhD research involves interviews with viewers of the programme ‘Embarrassing Bodies’ and explores their investments, affective responses and wider viewing practices by drawing on media studies and psychoanalysis both theoretically and methodologically. His research interests include psychoanalysis and the media, affect theory, psychosocial studies, critical theory, as well as digital culture. Steffen Krüger, PhD, (steffen.krueger(a)media.uio.no) is postdoctoral researcher and lecturer at the Department of Media and Communication, University of Oslo (Norway). He is contributing editor of the journal American Imago – Psychoanalysis and the Human Sciences. In his current research into digital culture, he analyses forms of interaction in digital media from a psychosocial, and specifically, depth-hermeneutic perspective. About CM: CM: Communication and Media Journal is based in Serbia, at the University of Belgrade (http://aseestant.ceon.rs/index.php/comman/issue/current) CM is an open access, double blind peer reviewed academic journal. Over the past years, several special issues, aimed at an international academic audience, have been published (such as Interrogating audiences: Theoretical horizons of participation, edited by Carpentier and Dahlgren, 2011).

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ACM Hypertext 2016 - Call for Creative Track, Late-Breaking Results, Doctoral Consortium, Workshop Papers
by Christoph Trattner 08 Mar '16

08 Mar '16

SUBJECT: ACM Hypertext 2016 - Call for Creative Track, Late-Breaking Results, Doctoral Consortium, Workshop Papers ========================================================================== HYPERTEXT 2016 27th ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media 10-13 July 2016 - Halifax, Canada http://ht.acm.org/ht2016/ EXTENDED PROCEEDINGS: * Creative Track * Late-Breaking Results * Doctoral Consortium * Workshop Papers Submission deadline: 6 May 2016 CONFERENCE SCOPE The ACM Hypertext conference is a premium venue for high quality peer-reviewed research on hypertext theory, systems and applications. It is concerned with all aspects of modern hypertext research including social media, semantic web, dynamic and computed hypertext and hypermedia as well as narrative systems and applications. Hypertext 2016 will focus on missing links on the WWW: how can the Hypertext paradigm and research inspire and improve the Web? Which missing links (and linking paradigms) can improve connections, communication and collaboration? Apart from the regular research tracks, Hypertext 2016 will feature a creative track. The conference will take place at the campus of Dalhousie University in Halifax, the capital of Nova Scotia and the major cultural centre of Canada’s Atlantic provinces. EXTENDED PROCEEDINGS The Extended Proceedings provide a publication opportunity for early stage research results, as compared to the full-paper track of the conference. Accepted papers will be presented at the poster session during Hypertext 2016. Submission categories are: CREATIVE TRACK Track Chair: Stacey Mason (University of California, Santa Cruz, USA) In the wake of a booming resurgence of interest in creative hypertext over recent years, we are increasingly seeing new directions and possibilities for artists exploring the creative potential of the link. This year, we are delighted to offer a space for exhibition and performance of creative hypertext works at the conference venue. http://ht.acm.org/ht2016/calls/creative-track LATE-BREAKING RESULTS Chairs: Kevin Koidl (Trinity College Dublin) and Ben Steichen (Santa Clara University) This session is a venue for early stage research results, as compared to the full-paper track of the conference. Late-breaking results contain original and unpublished accounts of innovative research ideas, preliminary results, industry showcases, and system prototypes. Papers can cover any of the 3 full paper tracks listed for Hypertext 2016 http://ht.acm.org/ht2016/calls/late-breaking-results DOCTORAL CONSORTIUM Chair: Johan Bollen, Indiana University, Bloomington IN We invite applications to participate in the HT2016 Doctoral Consortium, which offers PhD candidates the opportunity to present their doctoral research at HT2016 and receive feedback and guidance from a committee of distinguished research faculty. http://ht.acm.org/ht2016/calls/doctoral-consortium WORKSHOP SUBMISSIONS Hypertext 2016 will feature three exciting workshops, of which the titles and organizers are listed below. *Web Search and Individual Differences (IndiDiff)* Organizers: Herre van Oostendorp, Aline Chevalier, Wai-Tat Fu, Saraschandra Karanam http://www.staff.science.uu.nl/~karan002/IndiDiff2016/ *Narrative and Hypertext (NHT)* Organizers: Charlie Hargood, David Millard http://nht.ecs.soton.ac.uk/2016/ *The Future of Computer Annotation* Organizers: James Blustein, Ann-Barbara Graff http://web.cs.dal.ca/~jamie/AnnAtHT16.html IMPORTANT DATES (FOR ALL CATEGORIES) 6 May 2016: Paper Submission 3 June 2016: Notifications 24 June 2016: Camera-Ready -- ------------------------------------------------------- Dipl.-Ing. Dr.techn. Christoph Trattner BSc Know-Center Research Center for Big Data Analytics & Data Driven Business Graz University of Technology, Austria E-mail: ctrattner(a)know-center.at Tel: +43 650 2402801 Homepage: http://christophtrattner.info ------------------------------------------------------- New book: Mining, Modeling, and Recommending 'Things' in Social Media* by M. Atzmueller, A. Chin, C. Scholz, C. Trattner (eds.) http://link.springer.com/978-3-319-14723-9 -------------------------------------------------------

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[Automatic Computing] textbook or material
by Dina 08 Mar '16

08 Mar '16

Hello everyone, I'm looking for useful textbooks or materials on Autonomic Computing. Kindly share it with me. Thanks. Best D

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research on cam sites/sex work online
by Feona Attwood 07 Mar '16

07 Mar '16

Hi everyone, I’m looking for work on adult/sex cam sites - or more broadly on online sex work - and finding very little. If you can suggest anything I’d be really grateful - I’m happy to compile a list and share it if people are interested. If you do have anything to suggest please can you email me at f.attwood(a)mdx.ac.uk<mailto:f.attwood@mdx.ac.uk>. Thanks, Feona

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Limn #6: The Total Archive
by ckelty ckelty 07 Mar '16

07 Mar '16

Dear AOIRers, Boris Jardine and I just finished editing a great set of short (teachable!) articles on the past and present of vast accumulations of data, informaion, samples, records, books and many other things. It’s a whirlwind tour, we hope you will take a read, and share with people who might be interested. Christopher Kelty -------------------------------------------- Limn Number 6: The Total Archive http://limn.it/issue/06/ Edited by Boris Jardine and Christopher Kelty Vast accumulations saturate our world: security agencies want every phone call and email, advertisers want every preference of every individual; India wants to give everyone a number, and maybe an iris scan; hundreds of thousands of whole genome sequences; seed banks of all existing plants, and of course, books... all of them. Just what is the purpose of these optimistically total archives, and how are they changing us? This issue of Limn asks authors and artists to consider how these accumulations govern us, where this obsession with totality came from and how we might think differently about big data and algorithms, by thinking carefully about archives. http://limn.it @limnmagazine http://facebook.com/limnmagazine

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