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2016 Social Media & Society Conference: Keynotes & Presentations Announced!
by Anatoliy 26 Apr '16

26 Apr '16

(Apologies for cross-posting) We would like to invite you to attend the 2016 International Conference on Social Media & Society that will be held on July 11-13 in London, UK. KEYNOTES This year, we are honoured to have two featured keynotes: * Dr. Susan Halford - Director, Web Science Institute, University of Southampton, UK * Dr. Helen Kennedy - Professor of Digital Society, University of Sheffield, UK PRESENTATIONS The conference's intensive 3-day program will feature workshops, full & work-in-progress papers, panels, and posters, covering a wide range of areas including Communication, Computer Science, Education, Journalism, Information Science, Management, Political Science, Sociology, etc. * Accepted workshops: <http://socialmediaandsociety.org/2016-workshops/> http://socialmediaandsociety.org/2016-workshops/ * Accepted panels, papers and posters: <http://socialmediaandsociety.org/schedule/> http://socialmediaandsociety.org/schedule/ REGISTRATION The early-bird deadline ends May 1, 2016, so register ASAP. We hope you can join us for this exciting event and contribute to this emerging research area! Register here: <http://socialmediaandsociety.org/registration/> http://socialmediaandsociety.org/registration/ If you have any questions about the conference, please email us at: smsociety16(a)easychair.org <mailto:smsociety16@easychair.org> ~2016 #SMSociety Organizing Committee Anatoliy Gruzd, Philip Mai, Marc Esteve Del Valle, Ryerson University, Canada Jenna Jacobson, University of Toronto, Canada Dhiraj Murthy, Evelyn Ruppert, & Ville Takala, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK <http://socialmediaandsociety.org/> http://SocialMediaAndSociety.org

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Special Issue on Digital Media Research Methods
by Jonathon Hutchinson 25 Apr '16

25 Apr '16

Communication Research & Practice has published a Special Issue on Digital Media Research Methods. With apologies for cross posting. Dear colleagues, It is with great pleasure that I present the latest special issue of Communication, Research and Practice on Digital Media Research Methods, 2(1): http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rcrp20/2/1 I had the great pleasure of working with these great people, in bringing this special issue together: <http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/22041451.2016.1155307%22%20%5Cl…> Jonathon Hutchinson: An introduction to digital media research methods: how to research and the implications of new media data<http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/22041451.2016.1155307%22%20%5Cl…> Tarrin Wills: Social media as a research method<http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/22041451.2016.1155312> Axel Bruns, Brenda Moon, Avijit Paul, Felix Münch: Towards a typology of hashtag publics: a large-scale comparative study of user engagement across trending topics<http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/22041451.2016.1155328%22%20%5Cl…> Tim Highfield & Tama Leaver: Instagrammatics and digital methods: studying visual social media, from selfies and GIFs to memes and emoji<http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/22041451.2016.1155332%22%20%5Cl…> Robbie Fordyce, Luke Heemsbergen, Thomas Apperley, Michael Arnold, Thomas Birtchnell, Michael Luo, Bjorn Nansen: Things, tags, topics: Thingiverse’s object-centred network<http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/22041451.2016.1155337%22%20%5Cl…> Jean Burgess & Ariadna Matamoras-Fernández: Mapping sociocultural controversies across digital media platforms: one week of #gamergate on Twitter, YouTube, and Tumblr<http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/22041451.2016.1155338%22%20%5Cl…> Cate Dowd: The new order of news and social media enterprises: visualisations, linked data, and new methods and practices in journalism<http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/22041451.2016.1155339%22%20%5Cl…> If you do not have access to these articles, they will become open access for two weeks around the Australian and New Zealand Association (ANZCA) conference, July 6-8. I also have to send an enormous thank you to all of the people involved in supporting this venture (beyond the authors, review team and the Taylor and Francis publishing team), including Professor Terry Flew, Professor Gerard Goggin, Dr Donald Matheson, Dr Diana Bossio, the ANZCA association and the University of Sydney. Enjoy! Warm regards Jonathon DR JONATHON HUTCHINSON | Lecturer in Online and Social Media Department of Media and Communications | Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences THE UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY Room N233, John Woolley Building A20 | The University of Sydney | NSW | 2006 T +61 2 9351 2821 | F +61 2 9351 2434 E jonathon.hutchinson(a)sydney.edu.au<mailto:grant.bollmer@sydney.edu.au> | W jonathonhutchinson.com<http://sydney.edu.au/arts/digital_cultures/>

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WEBCAST TODAY: @ColumbiaSIPA Global Digital Futures Policy Forum
by Joly MacFie 25 Apr '16

25 Apr '16

Geneva are not the only people discussing Internet Policy today! I am personally streaming this one live from the glorious confines of the Italian Academy in NYC. joly posted: "Today Monday April 25 2016 Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs(SIPA) presents the inaugural Global Digital Futures Policy Forum at the Italian Academy in NYC. Forum is envisioned as a long-term intellectual initiative to reima" [image: Livestream] <https://livestream.com/internetsociety/SIPAdigitalfuture>Today *Monday April 25 2016* Columbia University's *School of International and Public Affairs* <https://sipa.columbia.edu/>(SIPA) presents the inaugural *Global Digital Futures Policy Forum* <https://sipa.columbia.edu/experience-sipa/events/conferences/global-digital…> at the Italian Academy in NYC. Forum is envisioned as a long-term intellectual initiative to reimagine our digital future, focus on the potential benefits and costs arising from global digital technology changes and, importantly, anticipate public policy solutions to emerging problems that will shape the future of society and the economy for generations to come. The upcoming forum will consider both domestic and international dimensions of data governance in the context of technological change and globalization. Speakers at today's event include DARPA Director *Dr. Arati Prabhakar*, *Laura DeNardis*, *Daniel Sepulveda*, *Frank Pasquale*, and *Eli Noam*. The event will be webcast live via the *Internet Society Livestream Channels* <https://livestream.com/internetsociety/SIPAdigitalfuture>. * What: Global Digital Futures Policy Forum Where: Italian Academy, NYC When: Monday April 25 2016 09:00-17:30 EDT | 13:00-21:30 UTC Agenda: https://sipa.columbia.edu/experience-sipa/events/conferences/global-digital… <https://sipa.columbia.edu/experience-sipa/events/conferences/global-digital…> Webcast: Plenary+Room A https://livestream.com/internetsociety/SIPAdigitalfuture <https://livestream.com/internetsociety/SIPAdigitalfuture> Room B https://livestream.com/internetsociety2/SIPAdigitalfuture <https://livestream.com/internetsociety2/SIPAdigitalfuture> Twitter: #SIPAdigitalfuture https://twitter.com/hashtag/SIPAdigitalfuture <https://twitter.com/hashtag/SIPAdigitalfuture>* Comment <http://isoc-ny.org/p2/8452#respond> See all comments <http://isoc-ny.org/p2/8452#comments> *Permalink* http://isoc-ny.org/p2/8452 -- --------------------------------------------------------------- Joly MacFie 218 565 9365 Skype:punkcast -------------------------------------------------------------- -

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Positions at Sussex
by Kate O'Riordan 25 Apr '16

25 Apr '16

We are hiring for the following positions in Media Film and Music at the University of Sussex: Senior Lecturer in Media and Cultural Studies; Teaching Fellow in Media - Foundation Year (Fixed term); Lecturer in Music Technology; Teaching Fellow in Music Production (Part time); Lecturer in Media and Cultural Studies; Teaching Fellow in Journalism Vacancy details here: http://www.sussex.ac.uk/aboutus/jobs/582 School page here: http://www.sussex.ac.uk/mfm/ We are also home of the Sussex Humanities Lab: http://www.sussex.ac.uk/shl/ Please consider joining us. all the best Kate Dr Kate O'Riordan Reader, Media Film and Music University of Sussex Falmer BN1 9RG k.oriordan(a)sussex.ac.uk

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TODAY MONDAY: @GenevaGIP Technical Innovation for Digital Policy Conference – remote participation available
by Joly MacFie 25 Apr '16

25 Apr '16

This starts at 08:00 UTC after some demos . You can go direct to the webex link below to join in. [image: Diplo] <http://techinnovation.diplomacy.edu/>Today *Monday 25 April 2016* the *Geneva Internet Platform <http://giplatform.org/>* in cooperation with the *University of Geneva <http://www.unige.ch/>*, *ETH <http://www.ethrat.ch/>*, and *DiploFoundation <http://www.diplomacy.edu/>*present a conference on*Technical Innovation for Digital Policy. <http://techinnovation.diplomacy.edu/> *The conference gathers leading Internet innovators and policy experts to discuss technical innovation and potential solutions to critical areas affecting Internet users worldwide. Speakers include *Jovan Kurbalija*, *Louis Pouzin*, and *Richard Hill*. Remote participation is available, register below. *What: Technical Innovation for Digital Policy Conference <http://techinnovation.diplomacy.edu/>Where: GenevaWhen: Monday 25 April 2016 10:00-15:30 CEST | 08:00-13:30 UTC | 04:00-9:30 EDTProgram: http://techinnovation.diplomacy.edu/ <http://techinnovation.diplomacy.edu/>Register: http://www.diplomacy.edu/registrations/conference-technology-and-digital-po… <http://www.diplomacy.edu/registrations/conference-technology-and-digital-po…>Webex: https://diplofoundation.webex.com/diplofoundation/onstage/g.php?MTID=ef2001… <https://diplofoundation.webex.com/diplofoundation/onstage/g.php?MTID=ef2001…>Twitter: #theGIP https://twitter.com/hashtag/theGIP <https://twitter.com/hashtag/theGIP>* Comment <http://isoc-ny.org/p2/8446#respond> See all comments <http://isoc-ny.org/p2/8446#comments> *Permalink* http://isoc-ny.org/p2/8446 -- --------------------------------------------------------------- Joly MacFie 218 565 9365 Skype:punkcast -------------------------------------------------------------- -

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Re: [Air-L] [Inclusion] #YesWeCode Initiative - & Prince
by Becky Lentz 24 Apr '16

24 Apr '16

This may be of interest to some AOIR folks >#YesWeCode (http://www.yeswecode.org) is an initiative that seeks to >mobilize tech and social justice leaders to connect 100,000 >low-opportunity young adults to the skills and experiences they need to >access high-paying careers in technology. CNN commentator Van Jones >founded the #YesWeCode initiative with the support of Prince, who passed >away yesterday. > >http://www.yeswecode.org/prince > >Jones elaborated on Prince's involvement at the 20th Anniversary Essence >Festival: > >"After the Trayvon Martin verdict I was talking to Prince and he said, >'You know, every time people see a young black man wearing a hoodie, >they think, he's a thug. But if they see a young white guy wearing a >hoodie they think, oh that might be Mark Zuckerberg. That might be a >dot-com billionaire.'" > >"I said, 'Well, yeah, Prince that's true but that's because of racism.' >And he said, 'No, it's because we have not produced enough black Mark >Zuckerbergs. That's on us. That's on us. To deal with what we're not >doing to get our young people prepared to be a part of this new >information economy.'" > >Since July 2014, YesWeCode has been focused on three activities: > >Communicate: In partnership with Oakland, Calfornia-based organizations, >#YesWeCode launched an interactive website with a powerful search tool >that enables users to find local coding education resources. This tool >also helps users find local events and learn more about coding >opportunities. > >Convene: #YesWeCode has convened 100+ coding practitioners and >stakeholders in New York, San Francisco, Chicago, and New Orleans. >#YesWeCode partnered with Qeyno Labs to host a Start-Up Weekend >hackathon in February 2015, focused on uplifting young African-American >men and boys. > >Catalyze: In July, #YesWeCode launched at the 20th Anniversary ESSENCE >Festival with a youth-focused hackathon and a headline performance by >Prince, before a festival audience of 500,000 people. > >Just seemed appropriate to post this. > >--- ><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><> >Ms. Jayne Cravens MSc >Portland, Oregon, USA > >The web site - http://www.coyotecommunications.com >The email - jc(a)coyotecommunications.com >Me on Twitter, other social networks, & my blog: >http://www.coyotecommunications.com/me/jayneonline.shtml > >Author: The Last Virtual Volunteering Guidebook >More about the book, and how to buy it >(as a paperback or as an e-book): >http://www.energizeinc.com/store/1-222-E-1 ><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><> > >

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#MINA2016 – Mobile Futures: Poetics, Production and Innovation.
by Max Schleser 24 Apr '16

24 Apr '16

Apologies for cross postings. Please feel free to share this CFF/CFP. #MINA2016: Call for Films and Papers: #MINA2016: The 6th International Mobile Creativity and Mobile Innovation Symposium & Screening @ Swinburne University - Melbourne, Australia, 30 November - 1 December 2016. This year MINA is pleased to announce that Swinburne University (AUS) will host #mina2016 -International Mobile Creativity and Mobile Innovation Symposium & Screening in Melbourne - Australia, in collaboration with Te Rewa O Puanga - School of Music and Creative Media Production and Toi Rauwharangi, the College of Creative Arts (Massey University, NZ), Colab (Auckland University of Technology, NZ), and in association with RMIT University (AUS). #MINA2016 CALL FOR FILMS: The #MINA2016 International Mobile Innovation Screening will showcase short films (7 min maximum duration) produced on and with smartphones, mobile and pocket cameras. In addition this year will introduce Virtual Reality (VR), Augmented Reality (AR), Drone, Social Media and New Media productions as part of the screening program. Selected works from the #MINA2016 International Mobile Innovation Screening will be featured in the MINA DVD, eBook and MINA's international partner festivals. Please note: Deadline for film submission: 1 June 2016 For more details see: [1]http://mina.pro/cff2016/ #MINA2016 CALL FOR PAPERS: The 6th International Mobile Creativity and Mobile Innovation Symposium @ Swinburne University - Melbourne, will specifically focus on the following themes: Mobile & Making: Film, Documentary, Photography, Sound and Performance. Mobile & Storytelling: Writing, Poetry, Mobile Journalism (MoJo) and Screenwriting. Mobile & Identities: Intimacy, Self and Otherness, Mobile Social Media and Ethics. Mobile & Politics: Activism, Disruption, Hacking, Media Ecology and Big Data. Mobile & Location: Place, Space, Geo-location based, Augmented Reality, Virtual Reality and Mixed Reality. Mobile & Play: Games, Interactivity, Ludification, User Experience and Participation. Mobile & Education: Community of practice, Digital Classrooms, M-Learning and Pedagogy. Mobile & Health: Public Health, Social innovation, Youth Development, Social Inequalities, Environment, Sports, Medicine and Wellbeing. Please note: DEADLINE for paper abstracts and presentation/panel proposals: - Friday 24 June 2016, 5pm (NZ time) For more details see [2]http://mina.pro/cfp2016/ References 1. http://mina.pro/cff2016/ 2. http://mina.pro/cfp2016/

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22nd ACM International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI 2017): Second Call for Papers
by Announce Announcements 23 Apr '16

23 Apr '16

** Second Call for Papers *** 22nd ACM International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces IUI 2017 St. Raphael Resort, Limassol, Cyprus March 13-16, 2017 http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=YWlyLUwJCQlhaXItTEBsaXN0c2Vydi… Overview ACM IUI 2017 is the 22nd annual meeting of the intelligent interfaces community and serves as a premier international forum for reporting outstanding research and development on intelligent user interfaces. The 22nd edition of the conference will be held in Limassol, Cyprus. Limassol (or Lemesos) is a multicultural bustling town, flanked by two ancient cities, Amathus and Kourion, and guarded by the Amathusian Aphrodite and Appolo Hylates. It is a town of great visual diversity and contrast from spectacular seafront views, historic places like the mediaeval Castle, and Byzantine churches. Along the 17 km long sandy beaches, two Marinas, world renowned 5 star hotels, and a most exciting dining, shopping, nightlife and yachting scene create a year-round vibrant lifestyle well beyond the expectations of a Mediterranean island. ACM IUI is where the Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) community meets the Artificial Intelligence (AI), with contributions from related fields such as psychology, behavioral science, cognitive science, computer graphics, design or the arts. Our focus is to improve the interaction between humans and machines, by leveraging both more traditional HCI approaches, as well as solutions that involve state-of-the art AI techniques such as machine learning, natural language processing, data mining, knowledge representation and reasoning. ACM IUI welcomes contribution from any relevant arena: academia, business, or non-profit organizations. Why you should submit to ACM IUI: At ACM IUI, we focus on the interaction between machine intelligence and human intelligence. While other conferences focus on one side or the other, we address the complex interaction between the two. We welcome research that explores how to make the interaction between computers and people smarter, which may leverage solutions from data mining, knowledge representation, novel interaction paradigms, and emerging technologies. We strongly encourage submissions that discuss research from both HCI and AI simultaneously, but also welcome works that focus more on one side or the other. The conference brings together people from academia, industry and non-profit organizations and gives its participants the opportunity to present and see cutting-edge IUI work in a focused and interactive setting. It is large enough to be diverse and lively, but small enough to allow for extensive interaction among attendees and easy attendance to the events that the conference offers, ranging from oral paper presentations, poster sessions, workshops, panels and doctoral consortium for graduate students. Submission Full and Short Papers We invite original paper submissions that describe novel user interfaces, applications, interactive and intelligent technologies, empirical studies, or design techniques. IUI 2017 especially encourages submissions on innovative and visionary new concepts or directions for the design of intelligent interfaces. We do not require evaluations with users, but we do expect papers to include an appropriate evaluation for their stated contribution. Accepted papers will appear in the ACM Digital Library and citation indices. A selected set of accepted top quality full papers will be invited to submit their extended versions for publication in an ACM Transactions on Interactive Intelligent Systems (TiiS, http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=YWlyLUwJCQlhaXItTEBsaXN0c2Vydi… special issue titled "Highlights of IUI 2017". Examples of ACM IUI topics of interest include, but are not limited to: · Intelligent visualization tools · User-Adaptive interaction and personalization · Recommender systems · Intelligent wearable, mobile and ubiquitous interfaces · Modeling and prediction of user behavior · Information retrieval and search · Education and learning-related technologies · Social media analysis · Multi-modal interfaces (speech, gestures, eye gaze, face, physiological information etc.) · Natural language and speech processing · Generation of multimodal content · Big Data and analytics · Smart environments and tangible computing · Intelligent assistants for complex tasks · Collaborative interfaces · Persuasive and assistive technologies in IUI · Affective and aesthetic interfaces · Interactive machine learning · Planning and plan recognition for IUI · Knowledge-based approaches to user interface design and generation · Proactive and agent-based user interaction · Example-and demonstration-based interfaces · Evaluations of intelligent user interfaces Submission Guidelines · Full paper (anonymized 10 pages, references do not count toward the page limit) should make substantial, novel, and relevant contribution to the field. · Short paper (anonymized 4 pages, references do not count toward the page limit) is a much more focused and succinct contribution to the field. Short papers are not expected to include a discussion of related work that is as broad and complete as that of full papers. · Anonymization: ACM IUI uses a double-blind review process. All submissions must be appropriately anonymized according to the following guidelines: 1. Author's names and affiliations are not visible anywhere in the paper. 2. Acknowledgements should be anonymized or removed during the review process. 3. Self-citations should be included where necessary, but must use the third person. For example, "... as shown in our previous user study [2] ..." is not allowed, whereas "... as shown in Smith et al. [2] " is acceptable (because in this case the citation [2] will NOT be perceived as self-citation). Failure to follow these guidelines may results in submissions being rejected without review. Submissions should follow the standard SigCHI format available here: http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=YWlyLUwJCQlhaXItTEBsaXN0c2Vydi… . You may use either the Microsoft Word template or the LaTeX template. Accepted full papers will be invited for oral presentation. Accepted short papers will be invited either as oral or poster presentation, depending on the quality of the papers. AUTHORS TAKE NOTE: The official publication date is the date the proceedings are made available in the ACM Digital Library. This date may be up to two weeks prior to the first day of your conference. The official publication date affects the deadline for any patent filings related to published work. (For those rare conferences whose proceedings are published in the ACM Digital Library after the conference is over, the official publication date remains the first day of the conference.) Important Dates · Abstracts: October 9, 2016 · Full and Short Papers: October 14, 2016 · Reviews to Authors: November 21, 2016 · Rebuttals: November 25, 2016 · Notification of Decisions: December 9, 2016 Committees General Chairs · Tsvika Kuflik, University of Haifa, Israel · George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Program Committee Chairs · Fang Chen, NICTA, Australia · Carlos Duarte, University of Lisbon, Portugal · Wai-Tat Fu, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA Posters/Demos Chairs · Andrina Granic, University of Split, Croatia · Denis Parra. PUC, Chile · Jingtaw Wang, University of Pittsburgh, USA Workshops/Tutorials Chairs · Shlomo Berkovsky, CSIRO, Australia · Bart Kninijnburg, Clemson University, USA Student Consortium Chairs · Peter Brusilovsky, University of Pittsburgh, USA · Katrien Verbert, KULeuven, Belgium Student Volunteers Chairs · Christos Mettouris, University of Cyprus, Cyprus · Tobias Grosse-Puppendahl, Microsoft Research, UK · Julia Sheidin, University of Haifa, Israel Sponsorship Chairs · Daniel Sontag, DFKI, Germany (for Europe) · Feng Tian, Institute of Software Chinese Academy of Sciences, China (for Asia) Treasurer · George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Proceedings Chair · Daniel Afergan, Google, USA Web Masters · Kyriakos Georgiades, EasyConferences · Marios Christou, EasyConferences

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CFS: The Torist, an Onionland Literary Journal
by Robert W. Gehl 22 Apr '16

22 Apr '16

On behalf of GMH, founder of the Torist, I'm pleased to send out this call for submissions for issue 2 of The Torist, an Onionland Literary Journal: In January 2016, we released the first issue of the first literary magazine hosted inside the Tor anonymity network. We knew this project would cater to a niche audience. In fact, that was precisely the point: to create an artistic outlet for the growing communities of people interested in topics such as cryptography and anonymity, and to help these technologies realize their positive potential. Nonetheless, we were taken aback by the breadth of its success. Major media outlets including Motherboard, Lit Hub, Deutschland Radio, and the Atlantic ran pieces on The Torist's inaugural issue. William Gibson, author of Neuromancer, even retweeted an article about us—a cyberpunk's dream come true. Buoyed by the surprise popularity of The Torist Issue 1, we're excited to release this call for fiction, poetry, non-fiction and visual art for our second issue. ====What to Submit Prose submissions should not exceed 4000 words, though there can be a degree of flexibility, for instance if your work is exceptional or is suitable to be excerpted. Prose submissions may encompass fiction, non-fiction, and reviews. Non-fiction could include a broad range of material, for instance journalism, essays and op-eds. Please note we do not provide academic peer review. With works of fiction, we are less concerned about genre and more about whether the work strikes us as insightful, exciting, forward-thinking, and enjoyable. Reviews could deal with (but need not be limited to): books or other publications films music technologies websites (especially in the deep web) events (technology conferences, art exhibitions) Poems should not exceed five pages in length, though there may be exceptions made for outstanding work. Visual artwork will be used on the cover and for illustrations throughout the issue. Submissions can encompass most formats which can be sent electronically including photography, graphic design, and photographs of physical works such as paintings, drawings, and sculptures. We would also be interested in sequential art such as comics. Your work doesn't have to address themes such as cryptography, anonymity or surveillance, though that, too, is welcome. The purpose of The Torist is to engage with communities of people interested in those topics and encourage their creativity to grow. The themes those communities address can arise organically. ====How to Submit We have two main ways of submitting: by email at torist(a)riseup.net or through our GlobaLeaks submissions site toristfgqiroaded.onion. If you use PGP email encryption, please make use of our public key. We accept most file types. If we are unable to open a file, we will contact you if possible and ask for an alternative. Please only use PDFs if it is necessary to preserve special formatting; in particular, PDFs can make it more difficult to edit extended prose. For written work, it is fine either to attach the file or to put it in the body of the email. You may publish under any name you wish, but please avoid offensive ones. If you do not provide us with a name, we will simply publish you as Anonymous. If you have a preference please let us know by putting it in the document containing your work, in an email, or in the “Full description” box in the GlobaLeaks submissions form. Providing a name is completely optional. ====Key Dates For inclusion in Issue 2, we require submissions by August 1, 2016. We intend to produce Issue 2 by December 2016. ====Find Us Online Our Tor blog: toristinkirir4xj.onion Our GlobaLeaks submission site: toristfgqiroaded.onion Our Twitter account: https://twitter.com/thetorist Our Tumblr blog: thetorist.tumblr.com Our PGP key: https://pgp.mit.edu/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x2A37AFAC9449E214

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CFP: Consuming Gender
by Megen De Bruin 22 Apr '16

22 Apr '16

Please find attached a CFP for a special journal edition of Assuming Gender (www.assuminggender.com<http://www.assuminggender.com>) – an online, peer-reviewed academic journal from Cardiff University. For this special edition, Assuming Gender invites 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? Proposals of roughly 500 words should be sent 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. If you could circulate this to any potentially interested parties, we would be much obliged. Kind regards, Megen de Bruin-Molé School of English, Communication and Philosophy Cardiff University John Percival Building, Rm. 1.07 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> Call for Papers: ‘Consuming Gender’ 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. Assuming Gender is an electronic journal dedicated to the timely analysis of constructions of gendered texts, practices, and subjectivities. This journal seeks to continue and shift debates on how gender is problematized in contemporary discourses as well as participate in the dialogue and tensions that maintain the urgency of such conversations. Prior issues can be viewed on www.assuminggender.com<http://www.assuminggender.com/>.

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