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New Book - Inhuman Networks: Social Media and the Archaeology of Connection
by Grant Bollmer 12 Sep '16

12 Sep '16

Hi everyone (and apologies for cross-posting), I’m just writing to publicise that my book, ‘Inhuman Networks’, is available now from Bloomsbury, which some of you may be interested in. I’ve included the description and blurbs below, but more information can be found at Bloomsbury’s website: http://www.bloomsbury.com/au/inhuman-networks-9781501316166/ At the moment I believe you can get a 40% discount with the code BOLLMER16 on Bloomsbury’s website, though it’s still quite expensive, so please let your library know if you’re interested! ----------------------- Inhuman Networks: Social Media and the Archaeology of Connection Grant Bollmer Hardback | 304 pp | August 2016 | ISBN: 9781501316159 Social media's connectivity is often thought to be a manifestation of human nature buried until now, revealed only through the diverse technologies of the participatory internet. Rather than embrace this view, Inhuman Networks: Social Media and the Archaeology of Connection argues that the human nature revealed by social media imagines network technology and data as models for behavior online. Covering a wide range of historical and interdisciplinary subjects, Grant Bollmer examines the emergence of “the network” as a model for relation in the 1700s and 1800s and follows it through marginal, often forgotten articulations of technology, biology, economics, and the social. From this history, Bollmer examines contemporary controversies surrounding social media, extending out to the influence of network models on issues of critical theory, politics, popular science, and neoliberalism. By moving through the past and present of network media, Inhuman Networks demonstrates how contemporary network culture unintentionally repeats debates over the limits of Western modernity to provide an idealized future where “the human” is interchangeable with abstract, flowing data connected through well-managed, distributed networks. “Part an archaeology of connectivity, part critical analysis of contemporary culture, Inhuman Networks offers an inspiring take for media studies. Grant Bollmer's rich, multi-layered book shows that social media does not just mediate but performs a subtle yet effective moral code: the networks prescribe senses of the self, community, value and direction. The so-called human exists only if it routes.” – Jussi Parikka, Winchester School of Art, UK author of Digital Contagions (2007) and Insect Media (2010) “Bollmer's Inhuman Networks represents the best of the cultural studies tradition of taking the object seriously, learning everything one can about it, putting it into historical and cultural contexts, and then rigorously critiquing it. Combining media archaeology and genealogy, Bollmer crafts critiques of the admonition to connect or be considered inhuman. However, he also challenges misguided calls for total refusal of connection, instead insisting we humans re-engage with practices of collectivity and commonality.” – Robert W. Gehl, Associate Professor of Communication, University of Utah, USA, and author of Reverse Engineering Social Media “Bollmer's Inhuman Networks issues a bold and welcome critique of social media's culture of connectivity. This accessible, provocative analysis of the “network” concept is shaped by network theorists predating the network society: anatomists deciphering the flow of bodily fluids, railroad conglomerates arguing about rail gauge, defenders of branch banking, and conspiracy theorists. Bollmer deftly shows how the conjunction of these early modern discourses of the network combine with contemporary digital technologies to forge “nodal citizenship,” a reduction of the human to an information node in a broader technological network. A must-read for anyone interested in communication, media studies, cultural theory, and political economy.” – Damien Smith Pfister, Department of Communication, University of Maryland, USA and author of Networked Media, Networked Rhetorics “Inhuman Networks masterfully exposes the stunted understandings and logical fallacies undergirding widespread economic and cultural assertions that unless we are connected through social media we are less than human. Bollmer convincingly argues that enlightenment understandings of “human nature” are being supplanted by neoliberal and normative narratives of networked communications as the way to finally achieve full humanity. Yet this is a disempowered form of “humanity” constituted through capital and data alone and ultimately less important than the inhuman(e) routers through which individuals “connect” in empowered and irrelevant ways.” – Ken Hillis, Professor of Media and Technology Studies University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill USA “As social media becomes more pervasive in many people's lives globally, the complex entanglement of the human and inhuman across practices, cultures, flows and networks are yet to being fully understood. Grant Bollmer's Inhuman Networks: Social Media and the Archaeology of Connection offers a thorough and thought-provoking discussion of how we might re-imagine social media beyond a human-centric model bolstered by problematic metaphors around connection. From metaphors such as “networks” to “contagion”, Bollmer takes us on a fascinating journey in and around the messy relationality between technology, desire and humans. This book puts the complex human and beyond-human dimensions of social media in context historically and conceptually in ways that are both poetic and inspiring.” – Larissa Hjorth, RMIT Distinguished Professor School of Media and Communication, RMIT University, Australia DR GRANT BOLLMER | Lecturer in Digital Cultures Digital Cultures Program, Department of Media and Communications | Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences THE UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY Room N225, John Woolley Building A20 | The University of Sydney | NSW | 2006 T +61 2 9351 2308 | F +61 2 9351 2434 E grant.bollmer(a)sydney.edu.au<mailto:grant.bollmer@sydney.edu.au> | W sydney.edu.au/arts/digital_cultures/<http://sydney.edu.au/arts/digital_cultures/> CRICOS 00026A This email plus any attachments to it are confidential. 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Article on the digital and the real
by Tom Boellstorff 11 Sep '16

11 Sep '16

Dear all: my article “For Whom the Ontology Turns: Rethinking the Digital Real” is now out in a pre-print version from Current Anthropology and is open access. Here is the link: http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/pdfplus/10.1086/687362 Even though this is published in an anthropology journal, I’ve really written it to speak to questions of the “real” with regard to digital technology and culture. I hope you enjoy it! All the best, Tom Boellstorff tom boellstorff + professor + department of anthropology + university of california + irvine + website <http://faculty.sites.uci.edu/boellstorff/>

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new book on Marconi
by Gabriella "Biella" Coleman 11 Sep '16

11 Sep '16

Hi all, My colleague, Marc Raboy, published a (lively and accessible) tome on Marconi and I suspect it might be of interest to those who work in the area of networked communications https://global.oup.com/academic/product/marconi-9780199313587?cc=ca&lang=en& It has received rave reviews... and/or Marc has written some interesting pieces on it. Here are a few http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/21/books/review/marconi-by-marc-raboy.html?_… http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v535/n7612/full/535354a.html He is not active on this list so I offered to pass the news about this pretty monumental book here. Hope everyone is well, Biella -- Gabriella Coleman Wolfe Chair in Scientific and Technological Literacy Department of Art History & Communication Studies McGill University 853 Sherbrooke Street West Montreal, PQ H3A 0G5 http://gabriellacoleman.org/ 514-398-8572

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CFP AAG 2017: Digital\\Human\\Labour
by Jim T 09 Sep '16

09 Sep '16

*Call for Papers: Association of American Geographers (AAG) Annual Meeting. April 5-9, 2017, Boston, MA* The proposed Digital Geographies Working Group of the RGS/IBG and the proposed Digital Geographies Specialty Group of the AAG would like to invite submissions to a series of paper sessions and panels for the 2017 meeting of the American Association of Geographers in Boston, MA. Reflecting the shared interests of these groups, and their mutual desire to facilitate conversations between a wide range of geographical scholarship, this call is for papers exploring specifically the various intersections of ‘digital’ and ‘labour’ in diverse meanings of both. We will convene a concluding panel session, and encourage interested participants to submit abstracts for any of these three paper sessions: *The human labour of digital workDiscussant: Mark Graham* [image: image] The spread of the internet to three and a half billion people around the world has significant implications for the human labour. It is now relatively straightforward to outsource business processes to anyone, anywhere, that has a digital connection. This session aims to bring together scholarship that explores the human labour of this digital work. Who carries it out? How does it effect the livelihoods of workers? What sorts of political and organisational governance regimes bring it into being? And what are the ethical, spatial, social, and economic implications of a world in which human labour is increasing disembedded into digital networks? *The digital labour of being humanDiscussant: Gillian Rose* [image: image] Digital technologies are now embedded in many aspects of everyday life in many places, mediating everyday experiences of embodiment, mobility, and communication. It is clear that many of these mediations are reproducing existing ways and forms of ‘being human’, but it is also clear that new forms of (post)humanities are emerging, co-produced with, for example, VR headsets, big data, and social media platforms. This session aims to bring together scholarship that addresses these monadic emergences. What new forms of distributed agency, performative gestures and navigational orientations could and should be mapped? What are their temporalities and spatialities, and what hierarchies of power and difference do they enact? *The algorithmic labour of beingDiscussant: Jim Thatcher* [image: image] Alongside the rise in access to internet technologies and the quotidian uses of said technologies, has come an entwined rise in the analysis and manipulation of digital information through algorithms. Just as new technologies introduce interfaces, mediations, and affordances to (re)produce representations of self, so too do the algorithms which sort, select, and present information constrain what can be done and known through the use of said devices. Similarly, even as the very real geography of the labor of digital work shifts and extends across the globe, algorithms increasingly insert themselves betwixt and between laborers, customers, and corporate interests, altering traditional employment relations through the mediation of technology. Building from the themes of the previous two sessions, this session aims to bring together research on the many ways in which algorithms and quantification function in the world. Questions of interest include, but are not limited to: What sorts of new spatial relations are possible through the algorithmic mediation of labor relations? Where is the work of algorithms done? What are the historical roots of this process? What new forms of knowledge and power have been enabled (and constrained) by these systems? If you have any additional questions, please contact Jim Thatcher ( jethatch(a)uw.edu) Mark Graham (mark.graham(a)oii.ox.ac.uk) or Gillian Rose ( gillian.rose(a)open.ac.uk) For consideration of inclusion, please submit abstract to jethatch(a)uw.edu by October 15th, 2016. Please format your abstract in a text file of no more than 250 words, including a title, your name, institutional affiliation and email address in the document.

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visibility/invisibility
by Gabriella "Biella" Coleman 09 Sep '16

09 Sep '16

On 2016-09-09 02:39 AM, air-l-request(a)listserv.aoir.org wrote: > Hi Late to the visibility/invisibility train, but thought I’d offer the recent IJOC special section this year "The Management of Visibilities in the Digital Age” including pieces by Mikkel Flyverbom, Paul Leonardi, Cynthia Stohl, Michael Stohl, Clare Birchall, Shiv Ganesh, Jack Bratich, and myself. > > http://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/issue/view/12#more4 > > cheers, Thanks for sharing, this looks great. Birchall, Bratich and a few others were essential for my empirical work on Anonymous (fascinating for they hyper visibility and invisibility). I received a lot of hell/push back too about the use of secrecy and obfuscation in Anonymous and ended up writing something about it directly in an epilogue to the paperback: http://gabriellacoleman.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/hhws-epilogue-extrac… This piece by Jack Bratich was especially helpful: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/09502380601046956 Not sure if anyone has posted this book as I have not read all recommendations but it is quite good: https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/obfuscation And as usual the Annual Review of Anthropology can be gold for citation and laying out problematics. Here is fantastic one on secrecy: http://www.annualreviews.org/doi/abs/10.1146/annurev-anthro-102313-030058 Biella -- Gabriella Coleman Wolfe Chair in Scientific and Technological Literacy Department of Art History & Communication Studies McGill University 853 Sherbrooke Street West Montreal, PQ H3A 0G5 http://gabriellacoleman.org/ 514-398-8572

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Re: [Air-L] Reading list on (media) politics of visibility/invisibility
by Steffen Albrecht 09 Sep '16

09 Sep '16

Dear Daniel, Though it's been published some years ago, I'd highly recommend Brighenti, Andrea (2007): Visibility. A category for the social sciences. In: Current Sociology 55(3), pp. 323-342 with regard to the category ..."classical" approaches and authors that do NOT explicitly talk about today's political (social) media contexts, but which you would consider highly applicable to understand such phenomena. Best, Steffen ----- ursprüngliche Nachricht --------- Subject: Re: [Air-L] Reading list on (media) politics of visibility/invisibility Date: Do 08 Sep 2016 13:09:34 CEST From: Ansgar Koene<Ansgar.Koene(a)nottingham.ac.uk> To: Daniel Kunzelmann<kunzelmann.daniel(a)yahoo.de>, air-l@listserv.aoir.org<air-l@listserv.aoir.org> Hi Daniel, sounds like a really interesting topic to assemble a reading list for. One article I recently read that could fit in the invisible category, under 'influence of algorithms' would be Zeynep Tufekci, “Algorithmic Harms beyond Facebook and Google: Emergent Challenges of Computational Agency”, J. on Telecomm. & High Tech. L., 203, 2015 Cheers, Ansgar Dr. Ansgar Koene Senior Research Fellow: Horizon Policy Impact, CaSMa & UnBias Horizon Digital Economy Research Institute University of Nottingham http://casma.wp.horizon.ac.uk/ http://unbias.wp.horizon.ac.uk/ http://www.horizon.ac.uk/ https://sites.google.com/site/arkoene/ ________________________________________ From: Air-L [air-l-bounces(a)listserv.aoir.org] on behalf of Daniel Kunzelmann [kunzelmann.daniel(a)yahoo.de] Sent: 08 September 2016 10:55 To: air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org Subject: [Air-L] Reading list on (media) politics of visibility/invisibility Dear all, I felt like starting another list of literature :) Here is the question/thesis at stake: We live in a hyper-mediated world, in which the *speed and sheer amount of media posts *(Facebook, your favorite newspapers, Twitter, blogs, you name it...) suggest that political impact, relevance and importance is connected to "being visible" or "making something visible". Vice versa, *if something is **not visible**in today's social-media-democracy it does not exist, thus has no meaning, thus has no political power/impact/relevance**.* Yet, I feel - and so far it's only really a feeling - that *these invisible spaces and actions enable, generate and allocate as much political power as their visible twins.* Against the backdrop of "social-media-everywhere" and the *dominant daily narrative of the visible* (which we all experience when we look at our smartphone), I'm now looking for *authors and concepts that explore/reflect/challenge/* - that either the *politics of the visible* - or the *politics of the invisible* - or even the *relationship between visibility and invisibility* with regards to political power. It might be *authors and concepts that already reflect on today's (hyper) social media worlds**, as well as "classical" approaches on visibility/invisibility of power.* To give you two examples: Thinking about today's social media, we could have a closer look at the power of images (e.g. a meme) on our interfaces (visible) or at the algorithmic structures that sort and "deliver" these images (invisible). Both layers of power are real, in the sense that they affect us in our daily live, but one is visible and one is invisible. And of course, they are certainly connected. Same goes for something that existed before social media, let's say party politics. There have always been official press releases and interviews about how well e.g. a party congress went and what wonderful values this party now stands for (transparency, inclusion, etc.), but at the same time, at the congress in question, there also existed back-room meetings and private phone calls to influence internal party currents (opacity, exclusion, etc.). Again, both spaces and actions are real, in the sense that they have power effects on the party's members and/or possible voters, but one (media) space is visible and the other one invisible. And, here too, both layers work together perfectly. So, anyone wants to share their must-read with me? *...on "new" Cultural and Social Anthropological approaches and authors that already reflect on the politics of visibility/invisibility against today's backdrop of "social-media-everywhere". ** ** **...and/or "classical" ***approaches and authors* that do NOT explicitly talk about today's political (social) media contexts, but which you would consider highly applicable to understand such phenomena. *Either directly drop your recommendations in here: *https://danielderkunzelmann.piratenpad.de/airl-mediaoverload-politics-visibility-invisibility* or reply to this message via the list or a pm :)* * Of course, when the literature list is done, I will be sharing it with all of you! kind regards, Daniel *Daniel Kunzelmann, Ph.D.c / Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich / Institute of Cultural Anthropology/European Ethnology twitter @der_kunzelmann <https://twitter.com/der_kunzelmann> blog http://transformations-blog.com/daniel-kunzelmann/ web http://unibas.academia.edu/DanielKunzelmann linkedin https://www.linkedin.com/pub/daniel-kunzelmann/7b/426/9a5* _______________________________________________ The Air-L(a)listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org Join the Association of Internet Researchers: http://www.aoir.org/ This message and any attachment are intended solely for the addressee and may contain confidential information. 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Re: [Air-L] <MoneyLab> PeerValue conference review on INC MoneyLab blog
by Inge Sorensen 09 Sep '16

09 Sep '16

Hi David, all, This is very interesting. There is similar thinking in Scotland http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/universal-basic-income-snp-sc… Best wishes Inge Inge Ejbye Sørensen PhD MPhil Lord Kelvin Adam Smith Research Fellow in Digital Economy & Culture Centre for Cultural Policy Research 13 Professor Square, room 410 University of Glasgow Glasgow, G12 8QQ, UK Tel 0044 (0)1413303806 UK Mobile 07967 759 269 Mobile 0044 7967759269 (if calling from outside UK) Skype Miss_ies Recent Publications: Erickson, K. & Sørensen, I. E. (2016). Regulating the Sharing Economy. Editorial. Internet Policy Review 5(2). Berlin: Alexander Von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society, pp. 1-13. Available at: http://policyreview.info/articles/analysis/regulating-sharing-economy. Sørensen, I. E. (2016). The Revival of Live TV: Liveness in a multiplatform context. Media Culture Society, 38(3), pp. 381-39. Sørensen, I. E. (2015). Go Crowdfund Yourself. In Geert Lovink, Nathaniel Tkacz & Patricia de Vries (eds.), MoneyLab Reader: An Intervention in Digital Economy. Amsterdam: Institute for Networked Cultures, pp. 268-280. Sørensen, I. E. (2014). Channels as Content Curators - Multiplatform Strategies for Documentary Film and Factual Content in British Public Service Broadcasting. European Journal of Communication 29(1), pp. 34-49. ________________________________ Fra: Moneylab [moneylab-bounces(a)listcultures.org] på vegne af David Garcia [d.garcia(a)new-tactical-research.co.uk] Sendt: 9. september 2016 09:22 Til: Ueberschlag Leila Cc: netbehaviour(a)netbehaviour.org; nettime-l(a)mail.kein.org; moneylab(a)listcultures.org; Air-L(a)listserv.aoir.org Emne: Re: <MoneyLab> PeerValue conference review on INC MoneyLab blog Is it time for Money/Lab to have a candid discussion about the "Basic Income” model. This was put to the vote and defeated in Switzerland but as automation grows and is now touching previously "white collar" middle class jobs the impetus accross the political spectrum is to take this seriously. It could be that the economic impediments to implementing this might be substantive as well as ideological. Would Money/Lab be a place for a candid examination of the different models being proposed and what the practical challenges that would be in introducing it. ----------------------------------------------- d a v i d g a r c i a On 8 Sep 2016, at 15:09, Ueberschlag Leila <leila.ueberschlag(a)gmail.com<mailto:leila.ueberschlag@gmail.com>> wrote: MoneyLab was present at the PeerValue Conference last week in Amsterdam and wrote an article about it called On-Demand Economy: More Regulations and Non-Profits Apps Needed to Build a Fairer Future. "Airbnb and Uber have recently been standing center stage in the international media theater. These dominant network platforms linking sellers and buyers bring new challenges to the field of the so-called collaborative economy and raise serious concern in terms of taxation, job security, healthcare insurance or work compensation. “When you get rid of governments but not of corporations, they grow out of control”, said media theorist and best-selling author Douglas Rushkoff." Read the full article here<http://networkcultures.org/moneylab/2016/09/08/on-demand-economy-more-regul…>. Best regards, -- Leila Ueberschlag | Intern MoneyLab#3 Institute of Network Cultures Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences | HvA MoneyLab<http://networkcultures.org/moneylab/> | 1&2 Dec 2016 | Pakhuis de Zwijger, Amsterdam www.networkcultures.org<http://www.networkcultures.org/> @INCAmsterdam <https://twitter.com/INCAmsterdam> _______________________________________________ Moneylab mailing list Moneylab(a)listcultures.org<mailto:Moneylab@listcultures.org> http://listcultures.org/mailman/listinfo/moneylab_listcultures.org

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Re: [Air-L] Reading list on (media) politics of visibility/invisibility
by Taylor-Smith, Ella 09 Sep '16

09 Sep '16

Dear Daniel My Social Media and Society 2016 paper, looks at the actions of democracy that are more or less visible (e.g. taking place in non-public spaces on and offline) and how that influences our ideas about participation. Taylor-Smith, E. and Smith, C. (2016). Non-public eParticipation in Social Media Spaces. In: Gruzd, A., Jacobson, J., Mai, P., Ruppert, E., Murthy, D. (Eds.) Proceedings of SMSociety '16. ACM. http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2930974&dl=ACM&coll=DL&CFID=665709598&CFT… -Ella ** On Byte Night I'm sleeping out in Charlotte Square with BCS Women's Team to raise money for Action for Children. Sponsorship is very welcome: https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/bcs-women-bcs-women ** Dr Ella Taylor-Smith School of Computing Edinburgh Napier University 10 Colinton Road Edinburgh, EH10 5DT Email: e.taylor-smith(a)napier.ac.uk http://www.iidi.napier.ac.uk/e.taylor-smith http://about.me/EllaTaylorSmith @EllaTasm This message and its attachment(s) are intended for the addressee(s) only and should not be read, copied, disclosed, forwarded or relied upon by any person other than the intended addressee(s) without the permission of the sender. If you are not the intended addressee you must not take any action based on this message and its attachment(s) nor must you copy or show them to anyone. Please respond to the sender and ensure that this message and its attachment(s) are deleted. It is your responsibility to ensure that this message and its attachment(s) are scanned for viruses or other defects. Edinburgh Napier University does not accept liability for any loss or damage which may result from this message or its attachment(s), or for errors or omissions arising after it was sent. Email is not a secure medium. Emails entering Edinburgh Napier University's system are subject to routine monitoring and filtering by Edinburgh Napier University. Edinburgh Napier University is a registered Scottish charity. Registration number SC018373

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Re: [Air-L] Reading list on (media) politics of visibility/invisibility
by Luke Justin Heemsbergen 09 Sep '16

09 Sep '16

Hi Late to the visibility/invisibility train, but thought I’d offer the recent IJOC special section this year "The Management of Visibilities in the Digital Age” including pieces by Mikkel Flyverbom, Paul Leonardi, Cynthia Stohl, Michael Stohl, Clare Birchall, Shiv Ganesh, Jack Bratich, and myself. http://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/issue/view/12#more4 cheers, Luke > On 9 Sep 2016, at 8:00 AM, air-l-request(a)listserv.aoir.org wrote: > > Send Air-L mailing list submissions to > air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > air-l-request(a)listserv.aoir.org > > You can reach the person managing the list at > air-l-owner(a)listserv.aoir.org > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of Air-L digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Announcing AoIR's New Conference Coordinator > (Michelle, AoIR Association Coordinator) > 2. Re: Reading list on (media) politics of > visibility/invisibility (Lindsey, Marley-Vincent) > 3. Ten years ago: The lonelygirl15 scandal (Rainer Hillrichs) > 4. Music & Games Analytics (Tati Tosi) > 5. Re: Reading list on (media) politics of > visibility/invisibility (David Stodolsky) > 6. Re: Ten years ago: The lonelygirl15 scandal (Burcu Bakioglu) > 7. Re: Ten years ago: The lonelygirl15 scandal (Jenni Powell) > 8. Tenure-track position in Strategic Communication/Data > Analytics - American University (Filippo Trevisan) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Thu, 08 Sep 2016 13:55:58 +0000 > From: "Michelle, AoIR Association Coordinator" <ac(a)aoir.org> > To: "air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org" <air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org> > Subject: [Air-L] Announcing AoIR's New Conference Coordinator > Message-ID: > <CAPpsLq734wgtP4sstL6U6A=C0OSVOS1xX8C4B1djhKQXgMnUEw(a)mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 > > As AoIR continues to grow, we realized a dedicated AoIR Conference > Coordinator would help immensely with conference organization and > management. AoIR is very happy to announce the hiring of Dr. Michael Haley > to fill this role for the #AoIR2017 Tartu Conference. > > Michael Haley (Ph.D., Alliant University, 1979) was recently Executive > Director of the International Communication Association. As Executive > Director of ICA, his primary foci was on increasing the visibility and > international scope of the organization, increasing participation of the > organization with related organizations and governmental agencies, > increasing granting and funding opportunities for the membership of the > International Communication Association, and advancing technology within > the association. He has also served as Executive Director of both the > California Psychological Association and the California Psychological > Association Foundation. Michael has a twenty five year history of > involvement in public policy debates and initiatives at both national and > international levels. He has taught in university settings at is co-author > of public policy research articles. He is a Fellow of the American > Psychological Association and is a Certified Association Executive. > > We look forward to working with Michael toward a seamless 2017 event. > > http://aoir.org/confcoord/ > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Thu, 8 Sep 2016 10:21:57 -0400 > From: "Lindsey, Marley-Vincent" <marley-vincent_lindsey(a)brown.edu> > To: AoiR list <air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org> > Subject: Re: [Air-L] Reading list on (media) politics of > visibility/invisibility > Message-ID: > <CACFe-MAQg389MYm7SbfNFyaL7U_r124MpsfetuRLaJmErnQNmA(a)mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 > > Fascinating list of readings! > > A question in my head (and I am unsure if this is the right, or even a good > question) is whether there exists a more clear definition for the idea of > politics: are we speaking explicitly about the backroom deals in which > political power––as mediated by elected officials or party elites in a > democracy––is exchanged and used, or are we also talking about the types of > populist and social pressure whose translation into policy is sometimes not > always clear (ie community organization, hashtag mobilization, and > coordinated campaigns as mediated online)? > > > > On Thu, Sep 8, 2016 at 9:35 AM, Joshua Braun <jabraun(a)journ.umass.edu> > wrote: > >> I'd check out Fred Turner's essay in Tarleton Gillespie, Pablo Boczkowski >> and Kirsten Foot's edited volume, /Media Technologies./ He paints some >> fascinating contrasts between concerns about visibility, invisibility, and >> identity politics in the contemporary internet-driven media economy with >> earlier iterations. >> >> Cheers, >> Josh >> >> >> >> On 09/08/2016 09:30 AM, MC Cambre wrote: >> >>> This is a great initiative and I am happy to throw something in. My only >>> flag is that it is an enormous set of fields, or zone at the intersection >>> of a number of fields. >>> >>> *Some important contributions/interventions:* >>> >>> - Invisibility and “the right to look” (Mirzoeff): [politics] >>> - Invisibility and “the distribution of the sensible” (First Levinas & >>> then Rancière) [philosophy] >>> - Barbara Maria Stafford's notion of an aesthetic of “the visible >>> invisible” [philosophy] >>> - Invisibility as a precondition for transparency. The condition of >>> sight (Merleau-Ponty) from "The Phenomenology of Perception" and of >>> course >>> "The Visible and the Invisible"[philosophy] >>> - Hans Belting's work on the image [art history] >>> - Georges Didi-Huberman on the "visible, visual and virtual" [visual >>> studies] >>> - Rob Shields on "visualicity" [sociology] >>> - Elkins edited book on "visual literacy" has a lot of key essays from >>> Mitchell and Sherwin and others.[social sciences & art history] >>> - Tony Jappy's "Introduction to Visual Semiotics" in the Advances in >>> Semiotics series with Bloomsbury [methods & philosophy] >>> - My own book "The semiotics of Che Guevara: Affective Gateways" >>> centres >>> on this visible/invisible dynaming, and is in the same Semiotics >>> series >>> with Bloomsbury [methods & philosophy] >>> - >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> On Thu, Sep 8, 2016 at 8:02 AM, Steffen Albrecht < >>> steffen.albrecht(a)berlin.de >>> >>>> wrote: >>>> Dear Daniel, >>>> >>>> Though it's been published some years ago, I'd highly recommend >>>> >>>> Brighenti, Andrea (2007): Visibility. A category for the social sciences. >>>> In: Current Sociology 55(3), pp. 323-342 >>>> >>>> with regard to the category >>>> >>>> ..."classical" approaches and authors that do NOT explicitly talk about >>>> today's political (social) media contexts, but which you would consider >>>> highly applicable to understand such phenomena. >>>> >>>> Best, >>>> Steffen >>>> >>>> ----- ursprüngliche Nachricht --------- >>>> >>>> Subject: Re: [Air-L] Reading list on (media) politics of >>>> visibility/invisibility >>>> Date: Do 08 Sep 2016 13:09:34 CEST >>>> From: Ansgar Koene<Ansgar.Koene(a)nottingham.ac.uk> >>>> To: Daniel Kunzelmann<kunzelmann.daniel(a)yahoo.de>, >>>> air-l@listserv.aoir.org<air-l@listserv.aoir.org> >>>> >>>> Hi Daniel, >>>> sounds like a really interesting topic to assemble a reading list >>>> for. >>>> One article I recently read that could fit in the invisible category, >>>> under 'influence of algorithms' would be >>>> Zeynep Tufekci, “Algorithmic Harms beyond Facebook and Google: Emergent >>>> Challenges of Computational Agency”, J. on Telecomm. & High Tech. L., >>>> 203, >>>> 2015 >>>> >>>> Cheers, >>>> Ansgar >>>> >>>> Dr. Ansgar Koene >>>> Senior Research Fellow: Horizon Policy Impact, CaSMa & UnBias >>>> Horizon Digital Economy Research Institute >>>> University of Nottingham >>>> http://casma.wp.horizon.ac.uk/ >>>> http://unbias.wp.horizon.ac.uk/ >>>> http://www.horizon.ac.uk/ >>>> https://sites.google.com/site/arkoene/ >>>> >>>> ________________________________________ >>>> From: Air-L [air-l-bounces(a)listserv.aoir.org] on behalf of Daniel >>>> Kunzelmann [kunzelmann.daniel(a)yahoo.de] >>>> Sent: 08 September 2016 10:55 >>>> To: air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org >>>> Subject: [Air-L] Reading list on (media) politics of >>>> visibility/invisibility >>>> >>>> Dear all, >>>> >>>> I felt like starting another list of literature :) Here is the >>>> question/thesis at stake: We live in a hyper-mediated world, in which >>>> the *speed and sheer amount of media posts *(Facebook, your favorite >>>> newspapers, Twitter, blogs, you name it...) suggest that political >>>> impact, relevance and importance is connected to "being visible" or >>>> "making something visible". Vice versa, *if something is **not >>>> visible**in today's social-media-democracy it does not exist, thus has >>>> no meaning, thus has no political power/impact/relevance**.* >>>> >>>> Yet, I feel - and so far it's only really a feeling - that *these >>>> invisible spaces and actions enable, generate and allocate as much >>>> political power as their visible twins.* Against the backdrop of >>>> "social-media-everywhere" and the *dominant daily narrative of the >>>> visible* (which we all experience when we look at our smartphone), I'm >>>> now looking for *authors and concepts that explore/reflect/challenge/* >>>> >>>> - that either the *politics of the visible* >>>> - or the *politics of the invisible* >>>> - or even the *relationship between visibility and invisibility* with >>>> regards to political power. >>>> >>>> It might be *authors and concepts that already reflect on today's >>>> (hyper) social media worlds**, as well as "classical" approaches on >>>> visibility/invisibility of power.* To give you two examples: >>>> >>>> Thinking about today's social media, we could have a closer look at the >>>> power of images (e.g. a meme) on our interfaces (visible) or at the >>>> algorithmic structures that sort and "deliver" these images (invisible). >>>> Both layers of power are real, in the sense that they affect us in our >>>> daily live, but one is visible and one is invisible. And of course, they >>>> are certainly connected. >>>> >>>> Same goes for something that existed before social media, let's say >>>> party politics. There have always been official press releases and >>>> interviews about how well e.g. a party congress went and what wonderful >>>> values this party now stands for (transparency, inclusion, etc.), but at >>>> the same time, at the congress in question, there also existed back-room >>>> meetings and private phone calls to influence internal party currents >>>> (opacity, exclusion, etc.). Again, both spaces and actions are real, in >>>> the sense that they have power effects on the party's members and/or >>>> possible voters, but one (media) space is visible and the other one >>>> invisible. And, here too, both layers work together perfectly. >>>> >>>> So, anyone wants to share their must-read with me? >>>> >>>> *...on "new" Cultural and Social Anthropological approaches and authors >>>> that already reflect on the politics of visibility/invisibility against >>>> today's backdrop of "social-media-everywhere". ** >>>> ** >>>> **...and/or "classical" ***approaches and authors* that do NOT >>>> explicitly talk about today's political (social) media contexts, but >>>> which you would consider highly applicable to understand such phenomena. >>>> >>>> *Either directly drop your recommendations in here: >>>> *https://danielderkunzelmann.piratenpad.de/airl-mediaoverloa >>>> d-politics-visibility-invisibility* >>>> or reply to this message via the list or a pm :)* >>>> * >>>> Of course, when the literature list is done, I will be sharing it with >>>> all of you! >>>> >>>> kind regards, >>>> Daniel >>>> >>>> *Daniel Kunzelmann, >>>> Ph.D.c / Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich / Institute of Cultural >>>> Anthropology/European Ethnology >>>> twitter @der_kunzelmann <https://twitter.com/der_kunzelmann> >>>> blog http://transformations-blog.com/daniel-kunzelmann/ >>>> web http://unibas.academia.edu/DanielKunzelmann >>>> linkedin https://www.linkedin.com/pub/daniel-kunzelmann/7b/426/9a5* >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> The Air-L(a)listserv.aoir.org mailing list >>>> is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org >>>> Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: >>>> http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org >>>> >>>> Join the Association of Internet Researchers: >>>> http://www.aoir.org/ >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> This message and any attachment are intended solely for the addressee >>>> and may contain confidential information. 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Email >>>> communications with the University of Nottingham may be monitored as >>>> permitted by UK legislation. >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> The Air-L(a)listserv.aoir.org mailing list >>>> is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org >>>> Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: >>>> http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org >>>> >>>> Join the Association of Internet Researchers: >>>> http://www.aoir.org/ >>>> >>>> ---- ursprüngliche Nachricht Ende ---- >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> The Air-L(a)listserv.aoir.org mailing list >>>> is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org >>>> Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: >>>> http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org >>>> >>>> Join the Association of Internet Researchers: >>>> http://www.aoir.org/ >>>> >>>> >>> >>> >> -- >> Josh Braun, Ph.D. >> Assistant Professor of Journalism Studies >> Journalism Department >> University of Massachusetts Amherst >> >> @josh_braun >> Skype: wideaperture >> http://wideaperture.net/ >> new book: http://yalebooks.com/book/9780300197501/program-brought-you >> >> "Maybe the only gift is a chance to inquire, to know nothing for certain. >> An inheritance of wonder and nothing more." >> William Least Heat-Moon >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> The Air-L(a)listserv.aoir.org mailing list >> is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org >> Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: >> http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org >> >> Join the Association of Internet Researchers: >> http://www.aoir.org/ >> > > > > -- > Marley-Vincent Lindsey > Department of History > Brown University > @MarleyVincentL <https://twitter.com/marleyvincentL> > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 3 > Date: Thu, 8 Sep 2016 19:38:55 +0200 > From: Rainer Hillrichs <hillrichs(a)uni-mannheim.de> > To: air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org > Subject: [Air-L] Ten years ago: The lonelygirl15 scandal > Message-ID: > <CAJek5CTCm30miuYCt2mKoi=Q_tabZTTDGEhvTByHn-ofaEnKQg(a)mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 > > Dear colleagues, > > today ten years ago, the *LA Times > <http://articles.latimes.com/2006/sep/08/entertainment/et-lonelygirl8> > *reported > that an Email sent from the lonelygirl15 YouTube account had been tracked > back to the Creative Artists Agency. A couple of days later, three men in > their twenties stepped forth and revealed that they were running the > lonelygirl15 and Danielbeast channels and producing the videos. Bree > (lonelygirl15) and Daniel were not teenagers vlogging their lives but > fictional characters played by two obscure actors. Fans were divided about > what to make of the news; some of them were seriously disappointed. > > In my open access e-book *Poetics of Early YouTube: Production, > Performance, Success* <http://hss.ulb.uni-bonn.de/2016/4407/4407.pdf> I > deal - among other things - with modes of performance in early YouTube > culture. I show that video blogging was not a practice of confessional > self performances which was corrupted by the insincerity of 'fakes' like > lonelygirl15 but a practice in which different modes of performance were > creatively employed from the very beginning. > > If you want to review the book for a journal: You're most welcome! > > Best, > Rainer > > -- > Dr. Rainer Hillrichs > Universität Mannheim > https://uni-mannheim.academia.edu/RainerHillrichs > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 4 > Date: Thu, 8 Sep 2016 14:47:05 -0300 > From: Tati Tosi <tati(a)pluggedresearch.com> > To: "air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org" <air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org> > Subject: [Air-L] Music & Games Analytics > Message-ID: > <CAMMFqLi5VEnEmp+L=9X2uoe5tF0BDNEDwf9XdqWt4LM-4TRL+Q(a)mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 > > Dear Colleagues, > > I am doing a research and I would like to know if you have recommendations > on references in music and games analytics. > > Thank you, > > > > Tatiana Tosi > (11) 99965-0082 > http://about.me/tatiana_tosi > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 5 > Date: Thu, 8 Sep 2016 21:42:26 +0200 > From: David Stodolsky <dss(a)secureid.net> > To: kunzelmann.daniel(a)yahoo.de > Cc: "air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org" <air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org> > Subject: Re: [Air-L] Reading list on (media) politics of > visibility/invisibility > Message-ID: <47179493-C3E2-4384-838F-A4FD9BEB875B(a)secureid.net> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 > > >> On 08 Sep 2016, at 14:02, Steffen Albrecht <steffen.albrecht(a)berlin.de> wrote: >> >> Thinking about today's social media, we could have a closer look at the >> power of images (e.g. a meme > > Can we please stop using NewSpeak on this List? > The term “meme” is meaningless: > > http://cosmism.blogspot.dk/2011/07/artificial-ape.html > > > If you don’t understand rumor propagation, the spread of innovation, etc. > it is time to learn, if you wish to understand these processes. > > > dss > > > > > David Stodolsky, PhD Institute for Social Informatics > Tornskadestien 2, st. th., DK-2400 Copenhagen NV, Denmark > dss(a)socialinformatics.org Skype/Twitter: davidstodolsky > > > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 6 > Date: Thu, 8 Sep 2016 13:18:31 -0700 > From: Burcu Bakioglu <bbakiogl(a)gmail.com> > To: Rainer Hillrichs <hillrichs(a)uni-mannheim.de> > Cc: AoiR list <air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org> > Subject: Re: [Air-L] Ten years ago: The lonelygirl15 scandal > Message-ID: > <CAG+du63Dgaa4ptFYuZ_Ge_uZtrbpU_K25cpBRo3tj_duX5Dw2A(a)mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 > > Wow. congrats... Coincidentally, my second article on Lonelygirl15 and > early YouTube culture just got published last week in Convergence, may be > of interest: > http://con.sagepub.com/content/early/2016/08/18/1354856516655527.full.pdf?i… > > The first article deals with LG15 and fan ARGs and is published on > Transformative Works if that is of interest to you. > > All the best. > > Burcu > > On Thu, Sep 8, 2016 at 10:38 AM, Rainer Hillrichs <hillrichs(a)uni-mannheim.de >> wrote: > >> Dear colleagues, >> >> today ten years ago, the *LA Times >> <http://articles.latimes.com/2006/sep/08/entertainment/et-lonelygirl8> >> *reported >> that an Email sent from the lonelygirl15 YouTube account had been tracked >> back to the Creative Artists Agency. A couple of days later, three men in >> their twenties stepped forth and revealed that they were running the >> lonelygirl15 and Danielbeast channels and producing the videos. Bree >> (lonelygirl15) and Daniel were not teenagers vlogging their lives but >> fictional characters played by two obscure actors. Fans were divided about >> what to make of the news; some of them were seriously disappointed. >> >> In my open access e-book *Poetics of Early YouTube: Production, >> Performance, Success* <http://hss.ulb.uni-bonn.de/2016/4407/4407.pdf> I >> deal - among other things - with modes of performance in early YouTube >> culture. I show that video blogging was not a practice of confessional >> self performances which was corrupted by the insincerity of 'fakes' like >> lonelygirl15 but a practice in which different modes of performance were >> creatively employed from the very beginning. >> >> If you want to review the book for a journal: You're most welcome! >> >> Best, >> Rainer >> >> -- >> Dr. Rainer Hillrichs >> Universität Mannheim >> https://uni-mannheim.academia.edu/RainerHillrichs >> _______________________________________________ >> The Air-L(a)listserv.aoir.org mailing list >> is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org >> Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/ >> listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org >> >> Join the Association of Internet Researchers: >> http://www.aoir.org/ > > > > > -- > > > Thanks, > > > Burcu S. Bakioglu, Ph.D. > > Senior User Experience Ninja | User Experience Team AVS > Innovation Center | ADP | > Pasadena Towers 55 S. Lake Ave | Pasadena, CA, 91101 > > http://www.palefirer.com > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 7 > Date: Thu, 8 Sep 2016 14:00:25 -0700 > From: Jenni Powell <jenni.powell(a)gmail.com> > To: Burcu Bakioglu <bbakiogl(a)gmail.com> > Cc: AoiR list <air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org> > Subject: Re: [Air-L] Ten years ago: The lonelygirl15 scandal > Message-ID: > <CANsCOKTvXEfZ4WobZtP1SU6DzHjKwWqeA0+WxXza8f0Gy-9n4Q(a)mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 > > I love seeing all the lg15 love. If those not aware, I'm bringing it back. > ;) > > On Thu, Sep 8, 2016 at 1:18 PM, Burcu Bakioglu <bbakiogl(a)gmail.com> wrote: > >> Wow. congrats... Coincidentally, my second article on Lonelygirl15 and >> early YouTube culture just got published last week in Convergence, may be >> of interest: >> http://con.sagepub.com/content/early/2016/08/18/1354856516655527.full.pdf? >> ijkey=dNfSDXOVrhygD1L&keytype=finite >> >> The first article deals with LG15 and fan ARGs and is published on >> Transformative Works if that is of interest to you. >> >> All the best. >> >> Burcu >> >> On Thu, Sep 8, 2016 at 10:38 AM, Rainer Hillrichs < >> hillrichs(a)uni-mannheim.de >>> wrote: >> >>> Dear colleagues, >>> >>> today ten years ago, the *LA Times >>> <http://articles.latimes.com/2006/sep/08/entertainment/et-lonelygirl8> >>> *reported >>> that an Email sent from the lonelygirl15 YouTube account had been tracked >>> back to the Creative Artists Agency. A couple of days later, three men in >>> their twenties stepped forth and revealed that they were running the >>> lonelygirl15 and Danielbeast channels and producing the videos. Bree >>> (lonelygirl15) and Daniel were not teenagers vlogging their lives but >>> fictional characters played by two obscure actors. Fans were divided >> about >>> what to make of the news; some of them were seriously disappointed. >>> >>> In my open access e-book *Poetics of Early YouTube: Production, >>> Performance, Success* <http://hss.ulb.uni-bonn.de/2016/4407/4407.pdf> I >>> deal - among other things - with modes of performance in early YouTube >>> culture. I show that video blogging was not a practice of confessional >>> self performances which was corrupted by the insincerity of 'fakes' like >>> lonelygirl15 but a practice in which different modes of performance were >>> creatively employed from the very beginning. >>> >>> If you want to review the book for a journal: You're most welcome! >>> >>> Best, >>> Rainer >>> >>> -- >>> Dr. Rainer Hillrichs >>> Universität Mannheim >>> https://uni-mannheim.academia.edu/RainerHillrichs >>> _______________________________________________ >>> The Air-L(a)listserv.aoir.org mailing list >>> is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org >>> Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/ >>> listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org >>> >>> Join the Association of Internet Researchers: >>> http://www.aoir.org/ >> >> >> >> >> -- >> >> >> Thanks, >> >> >> Burcu S. Bakioglu, Ph.D. >> >> Senior User Experience Ninja | User Experience Team AVS >> Innovation Center | ADP | >> Pasadena Towers 55 S. Lake Ave | Pasadena, CA, 91101 >> >> http://www.palefirer.com >> _______________________________________________ >> The Air-L(a)listserv.aoir.org mailing list >> is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org >> Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/ >> listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org >> >> Join the Association of Internet Researchers: >> http://www.aoir.org/ >> > > > > -- > Jenni Powell > Producer - The New Adventures of Peter and Wendy (Multiple IAWTV Award > Winner) > The Lizzie Bennet Diaries (Emmy Award Winner) > Welcome to Sanditon > Emma Approved (Emmy Award Winner) > Talkin' Comics Weekly (Geekie Award Winner) > Founder / Producer - Discourse Productions > > 11120 Hartsook St. > North Hollywood, CA 91601 > m. (858) 335-4426 > > www.thenewpeterandwendy.com > www.youtube.com/lizziebennet <http://goog_1153641215> > www.youtube.com/pemberleydigital <http://goog_1153641215> > www.youtube.com/geekandsundry <http://www.youtube.com/geekandsundryvlogs> > www.discourseproductions.com > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 8 > Date: Thu, 8 Sep 2016 17:59:34 -0400 > From: Filippo Trevisan <trevisan(a)american.edu> > To: air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org > Subject: [Air-L] Tenure-track position in Strategic Communication/Data > Analytics - American University > Message-ID: <1EFBAC99-4535-4F97-9CB8-AF665034F0FE(a)american.edu> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 > > Dear all, > > The Public Communication Division of American University’s School of Communication is seeking a tenure-track assistant professor in Strategic Communication/Data Analytics. This position will begin on August 1, 2017. > > We look forward to receiving applications from AoIR-ists. The job advert is copied below. To apply, click here <https://apply.interfolio.com/35971>: https://apply.interfolio.com/35971 <https://apply.interfolio.com/35971> > > If you have questions, feel free to reach out to me directly. Thank you! > > Filippo > > ———— > The School of Communication at American University, Washington, D.C., invites applications for a full-time, > tenure-track position at the rank of Assistant Professor in the Public Communication Division beginning August 1, > > 2017. > > Qualifications: > We are seeking candidates with demonstrated expertise in the application of data analytics to strategic communication, particularly the different ways that political campaigns, NGOs, nonprofits, corporations, and federal, state, and local governments analyze and dissect data when crafting and implementing communication campaigns. Candidates will show a strong potential for scholarly and/or professional growth in identifying and targeting audiences, using analytics to evaluate impact, and utilizing micro-targeting to understand public attitudes, lifestyle preferences, values, consumer interests, political concerns, and media and technology habits. This is a position for a strategic communication scholar or professional with a mastery of the tools and technologies that are being used to harness the power of large data sets. > > The committee will place a priority on candidates with a PhD and professional experience in the field as well as candidates with a relevant master's degree and extensive, noteworthy professional experience in the field. > > Responsibilities: > > Tenure-track faculty are expected to conduct scholarly, professional, or creative work. Most tenure-track faculty carry a 2-2 teaching load. All faculty are expected to hold office hours and participate in School and University activities and service. > > Application Instructions: > Review of applications will begin immediately and will continue until the position is filled, subject to on-going budgetary approval. Please submit applications via: https://apply.interfolio.com/35971. Include a letter of application, curriculum vitae, three references, recent teaching evaluations (when possible), and copies of recent creative, professional, or scholarly published papers or working papers. Please contact Wendy Melillo, melillo(a)american.edu <mailto:melillo@american.edu>, or Filippo Trevisan, trevisan(a)american.edu <mailto:trevisan@american.edu>, if you have any questions. > > Salary and benefits are competitive. > > American University is a private institution within easy reach of the many centers of government, business, research, and the arts located within the nation’s capital. For more information about American University, visit www.american.edu <http://www.american.edu/>. Learn more about the School of Communication at http://www.american.edu/soc/ <http://www.american.edu/soc/>. > > > ——— > > Filippo Trevisan, Ph.D. > Assistant Professor > School of Communication > American University > 4400 Massachusetts Avenue NW > Washington, DC - 20016 > > Tel: +1 (202) 885 6930 > Email: trevisan(a)american.edu <mailto:trevisan@american.edu> > Web: www.filippotrevisan.net <http://www.filippotrevisan.net/> > > > > > > > ------------------------------ > > Subject: Digest Footer > > _______________________________________________ > The Air-L(a)listserv.aoir.org mailing list > is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org > Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org > > Join the Association of Internet Researchers: > http://www.aoir.org/ > > ------------------------------ > > End of Air-L Digest, Vol 146, Issue 10 > **************************************

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Tenure-track position in Strategic Communication/Data Analytics - American University
by Filippo Trevisan 08 Sep '16

08 Sep '16

Dear all, The Public Communication Division of American University’s School of Communication is seeking a tenure-track assistant professor in Strategic Communication/Data Analytics. This position will begin on August 1, 2017. We look forward to receiving applications from AoIR-ists. The job advert is copied below. To apply, click here <https://apply.interfolio.com/35971>: https://apply.interfolio.com/35971 <https://apply.interfolio.com/35971> If you have questions, feel free to reach out to me directly. Thank you! Filippo ———— The School of Communication at American University, Washington, D.C., invites applications for a full-time, tenure-track position at the rank of Assistant Professor in the Public Communication Division beginning August 1, 2017. Qualifications: We are seeking candidates with demonstrated expertise in the application of data analytics to strategic communication, particularly the different ways that political campaigns, NGOs, nonprofits, corporations, and federal, state, and local governments analyze and dissect data when crafting and implementing communication campaigns. Candidates will show a strong potential for scholarly and/or professional growth in identifying and targeting audiences, using analytics to evaluate impact, and utilizing micro-targeting to understand public attitudes, lifestyle preferences, values, consumer interests, political concerns, and media and technology habits. This is a position for a strategic communication scholar or professional with a mastery of the tools and technologies that are being used to harness the power of large data sets. The committee will place a priority on candidates with a PhD and professional experience in the field as well as candidates with a relevant master's degree and extensive, noteworthy professional experience in the field. Responsibilities: Tenure-track faculty are expected to conduct scholarly, professional, or creative work. Most tenure-track faculty carry a 2-2 teaching load. All faculty are expected to hold office hours and participate in School and University activities and service. Application Instructions: Review of applications will begin immediately and will continue until the position is filled, subject to on-going budgetary approval. Please submit applications via: https://apply.interfolio.com/35971. Include a letter of application, curriculum vitae, three references, recent teaching evaluations (when possible), and copies of recent creative, professional, or scholarly published papers or working papers. Please contact Wendy Melillo, melillo(a)american.edu <mailto:melillo@american.edu>, or Filippo Trevisan, trevisan(a)american.edu <mailto:trevisan@american.edu>, if you have any questions. Salary and benefits are competitive. American University is a private institution within easy reach of the many centers of government, business, research, and the arts located within the nation’s capital. For more information about American University, visit www.american.edu <http://www.american.edu/>. Learn more about the School of Communication at http://www.american.edu/soc/ <http://www.american.edu/soc/>. ——— Filippo Trevisan, Ph.D. Assistant Professor School of Communication American University 4400 Massachusetts Avenue NW Washington, DC - 20016 Tel: +1 (202) 885 6930 Email: trevisan(a)american.edu <mailto:trevisan@american.edu> Web: www.filippotrevisan.net <http://www.filippotrevisan.net/>

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