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Non-software uses of GitHub
by Jim Herbsleb 16 Apr '25

16 Apr '25

I’m looking for GitHub repositories that are used for things other than software, especially where users are actively collaborating rather than just putting together static collections. So far, we have found a few books being written, some musical transcriptions being error-checked, and some policy documents maintained online. Does anyone know of any examples of these or other categories? Any pointers much appreciated. Happy to share what we find with anyone interested. Jim ---- Jim Herbsleb Carnegie Mellon University http://herbsleb.org/ Google Scholar profile: https://goo.gl/sv3p7l

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CfP: "Rethinking AI Neural Networks, Biopolitics and the New Artificial Intelligence"
by Ramón Reichert 22 Feb '18

22 Feb '18

Dear AoIR/AoIR-Grad list members, enclosed please find the second call for proposals for: "Rethinking AI Neural Networks, Biopolitics and the New Artificial Intelligence" Digital Culture & Society Abstract submission: 01 September, 2017 Ramón Reichert, Mathias Fuchs (eds.) Rethinking AI Neural Networks, Biopolitics and the New Artificial Intelligence Ramón Reichert, Mathias Fuchs (eds.) The meaning of AI has undergone drastic changes during the last 60 years of AI discourse(s). What we talk about when saying “AI” is not what it meant in 1958, when John McCarthy, Marvin Minsky and their colleagues started using the term. Take game design as an example: When the Unreal game engine introduced "AI" in 1999, they were mainly talking about pathfinding. For Epic Megagames, the producers of Unreal, an AI was just a bot or monster whose pathfinding capabilities had been programmed in a few lines of code to escape an enemy. This is not "intelligence" in the Minskyan understanding of the word (and even less what Alan Turing had in mind when he designed the Turing test). There are also attempts to differentiate between AI, classical AI and "Computational Intelligence" (Al-Jobouri 2017). The latter is labelled CI and is used to describe processes such as player affective modelling, co-evolution, automatically generated procedural environments, etc. Artificial intelligence research has been commonly conceptualised as an attempt to reduce the complexity of human thinking. (cf. Varela 1988: 359-75) The idea was to map the human brain onto a machine for symbol manipulation – the computer. (Minsky 1952; Simon 1996; Hayles 1999) Already in the early days of what we now call “AI research” McCulloch and Pitts commented on human intelligence and proposed in 1943 that the networking of neurons could be used for pattern recognition purposes (McCulloch/Pitts 1943). Trying to implement cerebral processes on digital computers was the method of choice for the pioneers of artificial intelligence research. The “New AI” is no longer concerned with the needs to observe the congruencies or limitations of being compatible with the biological nature of human intelligence: “Old AI crucially depended on the functionalist assumption that intelligent systems, brains or computers, carry out some Turing-equivalent serial symbol processing, and that the symbols processed are a representation of the field of action of that system.” (Pickering 1993, 126) The ecological approach of the New AI has its greatest impact by showing how it is possible “to learn to recognize objects and events without having any formal representation of them stored within the system.” (ibid, 127) The New Artificial Intelligence movement has abandoned the cognitivist perspective and now instead relies on the premise that intelligent behaviour should be analysed using synthetically produced equipment and control architectures (cf. Munakata 2008). Kate Crawford (Microsoft Research) has recently warned against the impact that current AI research might have, in a noteworthy lecture titled: AI and the Rise of Fascism. Crawford analysed the risks and potential of AI research and asked for a critical approach in regard to new forms of data-driven governmentality: “Just as we are reaching a crucial inflection point in the deployment of AI into everyday life, we are seeing the rise of white nationalism and right-wing authoritarianism in Europe, the US and beyond. How do we protect our communities – and particularly already vulnerable and marginalized groups – from the potential uses of these systems for surveillance, harassment, detainment or deportation?” (Crawford 2017) Following Crawford’s critical assessment, this issue of the Digital Culture & Society journal deals with the impact of AI in knowledge areas such as computational technology, social sciences, philosophy, game studies and the humanities in general. Subdisciplines of traditional computer sciences, in particular Artificial Intelligence, Neuroinformatics, Evolutionary Computation, Robotics and Computer Vision once more gain attention. Biological information processing is firmly embedded in commercial applications like the intelligent personal Google Assistant, Facebook’s facial recognition algorithm, Deep Face, Amazon’s device Alexa or Apple’s software feature Siri (a speech interpretation and recognition interface) to mention just a few. In 2016 Google, Facebook, Amazon, IBM and Microsoft founded what they call a Partnership on AI. (Hern 2016) This indicates a move from academic research institutions to company research clusters. We are in this context interested in receiving contributions on the aspects of the history of institutional and private research in AI. We would like to invite articles that observe the history of the notion of “artificial intelligence” and articles that point out how specific academic and commercial fields (e.g. game design, aviation industry, transport industry etc.) interpret and use the notion of AI. Against this background, the special issue Rethinking AI will explore and reflect the hype of neuroinformatics in AI discourses and the potential and limits of critique in the age of computational intelligence. (Johnston 2008; Hayles 2014, 199-210) We are inviting contributions that deal with the history, theory and the aesthetics of contemporary neuroscience and the recent trends of artificial intelligence. (cf. Halpern 2014, 62ff) Digital societies increasingly depend on smart learning environments that are technologically inscribed. We ask for the role and value of open processes in learning environments and we welcome contributions that acknowledge the regime of production as promoted by recent developments in AI. We particularly welcome contributions that are historical and comparative or critically reflective about the biological impact on social processes, individual behaviour and technical infrastructure in a post-digital and post-human environment? What are the social, cultural and ethical issues, when artificial neuronal networks take hold in digital cultures? What is the impact on digital culture and society, when multi-agent systems are equipped with license to act? Submissions might cover the following topics or extend beyond that: A historical perspective of object/pattern recognition/identification/detection and AI Artificial intelligence recognition algorithms Computer vision Deep learning Device ecology Digital education governance Epistemology of learning in artificial neural networks Evolutionary computation Fuzzy systems and neural networks Games and virtual worlds Genetic algorithms Human enhancement and transhumanism Media archaeology Philosophical Posthumanism Philosophy of robotics Prognostics and predictive modelling Science history of neural nets and deep learning Socio-cultural Posthumanism Deadlines and contact information - Expressions of interest/Initial abstracts (max. 300 words) and short biographical note (max. 100 words) are due on: September 04, 2017. - Authors will be notified by September 10, 2017, whether they are invited to submit a full paper. - Full papers are due on: November 20, 2017. - Notifications to authors of referee decisions: January 15, 2018. - Final versions due: March 01, 2018. - Please send your abstract and short biographical note to Ramón Reichert ramon.reichert(a)univie.ac.at and Mathias Fuchs mathias.fuchs(a)leuphana.de. About the Journal: Digital Culture & Society seeks contributions that display a clear, inspiring engagement with media theory and/or methodological issues. Emphasising the relevance of new practices and technology appropriation for theory as well as methodology debates, the journal also encourages empirical investigations. For more info please visit: http://digicults.org/callforpapers/cfp-rethinking-ai/ For more information, see the official journal website: http://digicults.org/callforpapers/cfp-rethinking-ai/ With best wishes, Ramón -- Ramón Reichert tfm | Department for Theatre, Film and Media Studies Vienna University Althanstraße 14 1090 Vienna E-Mail: ramon.reichert(a)univie.ac.at Twitter: Ramón Reichert Skype: ramon_reichert NEW: CfP „Rethinking AI: Neural Networks, Biopolitics and the New Artificial Intelligence”. Spring Issue of Digital Culture & Society. Abstract deadline: July 10, 2017, http://digicults.org/callforpapers/cfp-rethinking-ai/ Co-Editor Journal Digital Culture & Society: http://www.transcript-verlag.de/zeitschriften/digital-culture-und-society/ Head of the post-graduate master’s course Data Studies at the Danube University Krems: http://www.donau-uni.ac.at/en/studium/data-studies/index.php European Project Researcher "Visual/video literacies", Erasmus+: http://ec.europa.eu/programmes/erasmus-plus/projects/eplus-project-details-… Lectrice Département des sciences de la communication et des médias Université de Fribourg, Suisse, http://www.unifr.ch/dcm/?page=accueil Lecturer in Contextual Studies School of Humanities and Social Sciences, St. Gallen, Switzerland http://www.unisg.ch/de/universitaet/schools/humanities+and+social+sciences Expert evaluator on behalf of the European Commission: https://erc.europa.eu/ Reviewer on behalf of the Federal Ministry of Education and Research: https://www.bmbf.de/ Current publications: http://www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-2592-9/big-data http://www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-3665-9/selfies-selbstthematisier… Residential Address: Feuerbachstraße 4/11 A-1020 Vienna Tel.: +43 699 171 88 401

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Question about PhD programs that combine Digital Humanities/Internet Studies with Literature Studies
by Julia Kott 02 Dec '17

02 Dec '17

Seeking a PhD program that would combine literary studies with DH. Are there such programs? Where would be a good place to look for that? Thank you, Julia

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CfP Digitising Early Childhood Conference 09-13th July 2018
by Crystal Abidin 30 Nov '17

30 Nov '17

Dear colleagues, I am pleased to share the CfP for the Digitising Early Childhood Conference 2018 to be held in Perth, Australia. Conference website here: *http://www.digitisingearlychildhood.com/call-for-papers.html <http://www.digitisingearlychildhood.com/call-for-papers.html> * Thank you. Dr Crystal Abidin International Steering Committee Digitising Early Childhood -- Dr Crystal Abidin, PhD Anthropologist wishcrys.com latest papers: Commercial blogs as entrepreneurial self-actualization <http://booksandjournals.brillonline.com/content/journals/10.1163/15685314-0…> | Calibrated amateurism and child Influencers <http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/2056305117707191> | Politician selfies as charismatic engagement <https://www.academia.edu/24830965/Abidin_Crystal._2017._Vote_for_my_selfie_…> | Influencer sexbait as sexuality education <https://www.academia.edu/16152332/Abidin_Crystal._2017._Sex_Bait_Sex_talk_o…> | Identity among mixed race East Asians in Australia <https://www.academia.edu/16152394/Abidin_Crystal._2017._Just_Asian_Inscribi…>

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Re: [Air-L] Non-software uses of GitHub
by Seda Guerses 30 Nov '17

30 Nov '17

Hey Jim, Open Source Publishing, a group that came out of Constant, a Brussels based arts collective, have been researching and using versioning systems in graphic design/typography. http://strabic.fr/OSP-Visual-Culture In case you don’t speak French, this video is in English: https://vimeo.com/107907361 OSP has specifically focused on what it means to use versioning systems for collaborative work on images rather than on text/code. They use git, and not github, due to problems with licensing in the latter. Also see: Libra Graphics Research Unit where much of this experimentation started. http://www.constantvzw.org/site/-Libre-Graphics-Research-Unit-.html Looking forward to see what you compile. s.

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WEBCAST TODAY: GIP Digital Watch Briefing: Internet Governance in November 2017
by Joly MacFie 30 Nov '17

30 Nov '17

Just about to start. A bumper edition this month! [image: livestream] <https://livestream.com/internetsociety/gipdwnov17>The *GIP Digital Watch Internet governance briefings <http://digitalwatch.giplatform.org/briefings>* provide a ‘zoomed-out’ update of the major global IG and digital policy developments. View a re-stream of the *November 2017 briefing* <https://www.diplomacy.edu/calendar/briefing-internet-governance-november-20…> at *13:00 EST (18:00 UTC)* today *November 30 2017 *for a round-up of the major global IG and digital policy developments. Correspondents in *Ghana*, *Caribbean*, and *Pakistan* share regional perspectives. *View on Livestream*: https://livestream.com/internetsociety/gipdwnov17 Comment <http://isoc-ny.org/p2/9657#respond> See all comments <http://isoc-ny.org/p2/9657#comments> *Permalink* http://isoc-ny.org/p2/9657 -- --------------------------------------------------------------- Joly MacFie 218 565 9365 Skype:punkcast -------------------------------------------------------------- -

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Open Access: "Communicative Figurations: Transforming Communications in Times of Deep Mediatization"
by Leif Kramp 30 Nov '17

30 Nov '17

New book series „Transforming Communications“ (Palgrave Macmillan) starts with edited volume (OPEN ACCESS): "Communicative Figurations: Transforming Communications in Times of Deep Mediatization“ edited by Andreas Hepp, Andreas Breiter and Uwe Hasebrink This open access volume assesses the influence of our changing media environment. Today, there is not one single medium that is the driving force of change. With the spread of various technical communication media such as mobile phones and internet platforms, we are confronted with a media manifold of deep mediatization. But how can we investigate its transformative capability? This book answers this question by taking a non-media-centric perspective, researching the various figurations of collectivities and organizations humans are involved in. The first part of the book outlines a fundamental understanding of the changing media environment of deep mediatization and its transformative capacity. The second part focuses on collectivities and movements: communities in the city, critical social movements, maker, online gaming groups and networked groups of young people. The third part moves institutions and organizations into the foreground, discussing the transformation of journalism, religion, politics, and education, whilst the fourth and final part is dedicated to methodologies and perspectives. This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license: Download for free at https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007%2F978-3-319-65584-0 <https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007%2F978-3-319-65584-0> TABLE OF CONTENTS PART I: INTRODUCTION 1 Rethinking Transforming Communications: An Introduction Andreas Hepp, Andreas Breiter and Uwe Hasebrink https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-65584-0_1 <https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-65584-0_1> 2 Researching Transforming Communications in Times of Deep Mediatization: A Figurational Approach Andreas Hepp and Uwe Hasebrink https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-65584-0_2 <https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-65584-0_2> PART II COLLECTIVITIES AND MOVEMENTS 3 Living Together in the Mediatized City: The Figurations of Young People’s Urban Communities Andreas Hepp, Piet Simon and Monika Sowinska https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-65584-0_3 <https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-65584-0_3> 4 Chaos Computer Club: The Communicative Construction of Media Technologies and Infrastructures as a Political Category Sebastian Kubitschko https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-65584-0_4 <https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-65584-0_4> 5 Repair Cafés as Communicative Figurations: Consumer-Critical Media Practices for Cultural Transformation Sigrid Kannengießer https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-65584-0_5 <https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-65584-0_5> 6 Communicative Figurations of Expertization: DIY_MAKER and Multi-Player Online Gaming (MOG) as Cultures of Amateur Learning Karsten D. Wolf and Urszula Wudarski https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-65584-0_6 <https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-65584-0_6> 7 The Communicative Construction of Space-Related Identities. Hamburg and Leipzig Between the Local and the Global Yvonne Robel and Inge Marszolek https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-65584-0_7 <https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-65584-0_7> 8 Networked Media Collectivities. The Use of Media for the Communicative Construction of Collectivities Among Adolescents Thomas N. Friemel and Matthias Bixler https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-65584-0_8 <https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-65584-0_8> PART III INSTITUTIONS AND ORGANIZATIONS 9 The Transformation of Journalism: From Changing Newsroom Cultures to a New Communicative Orientation? Leif Kramp and Wiebke Loosen https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-65584-0_9 <https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-65584-0_9> 10 Moralizing and Deliberating in Financial Blogging. Moral Debates in Blog Communication During the Financial Crisis 2008 Rebecca Venema and Stefanie Averbeck-Lietz https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-65584-0_10 <https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-65584-0_10> 11 ‘Blogging Sometimes Leads to Dementia, Doesn’t It?’ The Roman Catholic Church in Times of Deep Mediatization Kerstin Radde-Antweiler, Hannah Grünenthal and Sina Gogolok https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-65584-0_11 <https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-65584-0_11> 12 Relating Face to Face. Communicative Practices and Political Decision-Making in a Changing Media Environment Tanja Pritzlaff-Scheele and Frank Nullmeier https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-65584-0_12 <https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-65584-0_12> 13 Paper Versus School Information Management Systems: Governing the Figurations of Mediatized Schools in England and Germany Andreas Breiter and Arne Hendrik Ruhe https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-65584-0_13 <https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-65584-0_13> PART IV METHODOLOGIES AND PERSPECTIVES 14 Researching Communicative Figurations: Necessities and Challenges for Empirical Research Christine Lohmeier and Rieke Böhling https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-65584-0_14 <https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-65584-0_14> 15 Researching Individuals’ Media Repertoires: Challenges of Qualitative Interviews on Cross-Media Practices Juliane Klein, Michael Walter and Uwe Schimank https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-65584-0_15 <https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-65584-0_15> 16 The Complexity of Datafication: Putting Digital Traces in Context Andreas Breiter and Andreas Hepp https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-65584-0_16 <https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-65584-0_16> 17 Communicative Figurations and Cross-Media Research Kim Christian Schrøder https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-65584-0_17 <https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-65584-0_17> 18 Communicative Figurations: Towards a New Paradigm for the Media Age? Giselinde Kuipers https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-65584-0_18 <https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-65584-0_18> #### Hepp, Andreas/Breiter, Andreas/Hasebrink, Uwe (eds.) (2017): Communicative Figurations. Transforming Communications in Times of Deep Mediatization. London: Palgrave Macmillan, ISBN 978-3-319-65583-3, EUR 29,95 (Hardcover) Free to download at https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007%2F978-3-319-65584-0 <https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007%2F978-3-319-65584-0> BOOK SERIES WEBSITE: HTTP://WWW.TRANSFORMING-COMMUNICATIONS.ORG <http://www.transforming-communications.org/> ####

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Syracuse University School of Information Studies Doctoral Program
by Jennifer Stromer-Galley 30 Nov '17

30 Nov '17

Syracuse University's School of Information Studies welcomes applicants for our Ph.D. program. The interdisciplinary nature of our program is visible through the backgrounds of the 30 current doctoral students. These students hail from ten countries and have academic training in the social sciences, communications, business, computer science, librarianship, linguistics, information science, and others areas. Our doctoral program is a welcoming and inclusive place for scholars from under-represented populations, something we see as a defining element of our program. Doctoral students pursue individualized course plans that are tuned to their particular research interests and needs. This means advising and, more importantly, close working relationships with faculty members is a cornerstone of the Syracuse University iSchool Ph.D. program. This is why it is both residential and full-time. We celebrate the success of our recent graduates who are taking up tenure-track positions in premier research institutions and exceptional liberal arts colleges, excelling in academic and policy think tanks, and pursuing entrepreneurial success! Current students are earning awards for their publications and dissertation work, continuing a long tradition of such recognition. For 2018, we are particularly interested in speaking with applicants and seeing applications from those whose interests align with one or more of the following research areas + Social computing, social media, social networks, and crowdsourcing + Organizational impacts of ICTs (e.g., Citizen Science, FLOSS, mobile work, distributed scientific collaboration, and infrastructure studies) + Information policy, Internet governance, and telecommunications policy (e.g., Wireless telecommunications policy and telecommunication service markets) + Librarianship + Text and data mining, Natural Language Processing and Information Retrieval + Computational social science, visualization, and data analytics + Data infrastructure and services in support of research + Information security and privacy Applications are due before 3 January, 2018. Please note that admitted students are assured of at least four year's funding (including summers) along with tuition and other support. You can learn more about the Syracuse iSchool faculty and interests at https://ischool.syr.edu/research/faculty-research-areas/. You can learn more about the iSchool PhD program at https://ischool.syr.edu/academics/graduate/doctoral/information-science-and… You can learn PhD application process at https://ischool.syr.edu/admissions/checklists/phd-checklist/ . Please reach out to the faculty members whose interests draw you forward; the program director, Steve Sawyer, at ssawyer(a)syr.edu<mailto:ssawyer@syr.edu>; or, the doctoral programs manager, Jennifer Barclay, at istphd(a)syr.edu<mailto:istphd@syr.edu> or me at jstromer(a)syr.edu<mailto:jstromer@syr.edu> with questions! ~Jenny Jennifer Stromer-Galley | Professor Director, Center for Computational and Data Sciences Past President, Association of Internet Researchers School of Information Studies 220 Hinds Hall Syracuse, New York 13244 e jstromer(a)syr.edu<mailto:jstromer@syr.edu> My 2016 political social media project: illuminating.ischool.syr.edu<http://illuminating.ischool.syr.edu/>

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Looking for PhD students
by Herold, David [APSS] 30 Nov '17

30 Nov '17

[Chinese version below] Looking for PhD Students: Observing and Video-recording of the Use of Mobile Phone in Everyday Life Technological developments (for example, Internet access, social media, GPS) have contributed to the emergence of new practices and new forms of sociality: new ways of interacting with people (��shaking your phone�� on WeChat), new forms of dating (location-aware dating platforms such as MoMo, ZuiYou), new ways of user-to-user services (finding a ride through Uber or DiDi), or new ways of paying for goods (electronic money such as WeChat Pay or Alipay). Our group is investigating these topics by observing, or even video-recording, people using technology in everyday life. We draw on ethnomethodology and conversation analysis to make visible our taken-for-granted ways of interacting with these technologies. We are looking for students with a background in sociology, anthropology, or communication, who would be interested in studying some of these topics by doing a PhD at the Department of Sociology at The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK). The deadline is 30 January 2018 (for admission 2018/2019) �C and 1 December 2018 (for admission 2019/2020). So if you are interested, please contact Prof. Christian Greiffenhagen (c.greiffenhagen(a)cuhk.edu.hk<mailto:c.greiffenhagen@cuhk.edu.hk>) in English or Yumei Gan (1155090095(a)link.cuhk.edu.hk<mailto:1155090095@link.cuhk.edu.hk>) in Chinese. For further information: Prof. Christian Greiffenhagen: http://www.cuhk.edu.hk/soc/GREIFFENHAGEN_Christian.html<http://secure-web.cisco.com/1s5K2IPlFOQY0Ntgr2mdlrDEI71UV2fOOBY5n0cDuD94aXn…> PhD in Sociology @ CUHK: http://www.cuhk.edu.hk/soc/MPhil_admission.html<http://secure-web.cisco.com/1boooxP5pCys_VpKd-Fo4G8dxJe0FKVwDvm4ktlzPV6AQQf…> ��ʿ�� ⣺�۲첢¼��ֻ��ճ�ʹ�� Ƽ��Ľ��ڴ��ȫ�µ��ϵ��µ��ʵ��磺��˻��·�ʽ (��΢�š�ҡһҡ��); Լ��ʽ (��ڵ��λ�õ��ƶ��罻: İİ��); �û��û��·�� (�ε�/�Ų��); ֧��ʽ�ĸ�� (֧��/΢��֧��ȵ��Ǯ��)�� ǵ��Ŷ�ͨ��۲켰¼��ڴӸ��о��ճ��ǡ��Ρ�ʹ��¿Ƽ��Ǵӡ��˷��ѧ��(Ethnomethodology)�͡��Ự��(Conversation Analysis)��ӽǳ��о�ϰ��Ϊ��Ҳ��Ϊ��Ȼ��ճ��¼���õ��о�� ҵ��µĲ�ʿѧ��ѧ��ѧ��ѧ��ѧ��ѧ��ѧϰ��о��ֻ��ճ�ʹ�ó��Ȥ��Ȱ�ϸ�ڣ��Ը��Ĵ�ѧ��ѧϵ��ʿѧλ�� 2018/2019ѧ��¼ȡ�Ľ�ֹ��Ϊ2018��1��30��; 2019/2020ѧ��¼ȡ�Ľ�ֹ��Ϊ2018��12��1�ա��Ȥ��ӭ��ʹ��Ӣ��: Christian Greiffenhagen �� (c.greiffenhagen(a)cuhk.edu.hk<mailto:c.greiffenhagen@cuhk.edu.hk>) ��ʹ��÷��(1155090095(a)link.cuhk.edu.hk<mailto:1155090095@link.cuhk.edu.hk>) �� ʦ��Ϣ��Ĵ�ѧ��ʿ��ѧ��ѯ��Բμ�� Prof. Christian Greiffenhagen: http://www.cuhk.edu.hk/soc/GREIFFENHAGEN_Christian.html<http://secure-web.cisco.com/1s5K2IPlFOQY0Ntgr2mdlrDEI71UV2fOOBY5n0cDuD94aXn…> ��Ĵ�ѧ��ѧϵ��ʿѧ��¼ȡ��Ϣ: http://www.cuhk.edu.hk/soc/MPhil_admission.html<http://secure-web.cisco.com/1boooxP5pCys_VpKd-Fo4G8dxJe0FKVwDvm4ktlzPV6AQQf…> [http://mlm.polyu.edu.hk/PolyU80_Email_Signature.png] www.polyu.edu.hk/80anniversary<http://www.polyu.edu.hk/80anniversary> Disclaimer: This message (including any attachments) contains confidential information intended for a specific individual and purpose. If you are not the intended recipient, you should delete this message and notify the sender and The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (the University) immediately. Any disclosure, copying, or distribution of this message, or the taking of any action based on it, is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. The University specifically denies any responsibility for the accuracy or quality of information obtained through University E-mail Facilities. Any views and opinions expressed are only those of the author(s) and do not necessarily represent those of the University and the University accepts no liability whatsoever for any losses or damages incurred or caused to any party as a result of the use of such information.

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CfP. 4S Sydney Open Panel. Messing with Methods in More-than-Human Worlds. August 29 - September 1 2018
by Jaz Choi 30 Nov '17

30 Nov '17

We invite you to submit abstracts for Messing with Methods in More-than-Human Worlds, an Open Panel at 4S Sydney, August 29 - September 1 2018 (https://4s2018sydney.org/) 74. Messing with Methods in More-than-Human Worlds Organisers: Jaz Hee-jeong Choi, QUT; Anne Galloway, Victoria University of Wellington (NZ), Larissa Hjorth, RMIT (AU) A multitude of political, technoscientific and ecological disruptions are challenging the ‘myth’ of human exceptionalism, forcing researchers to find new ways of understanding—and intervening in—a range of human/nonhuman encounters. From reconfigured definitions of ‘agency’ and the ‘social’ to renewed explorations of ‘co-presence’ and ‘mutual becoming,’ more-than-human approaches (see for e.g.: Kirksey & Helmreich, 2010; Buller, 2015; Despret, 2016; Bastian et al., 2017) can exemplify Haraway’s (2016) invitation to ‘stay with the trouble’ of human/nonhuman entanglements. But actually doing this research is hard. There is still a tendency, as Abram (2011) puts it, to speak “about such entities only behind their backs” instead of actively calling out and listening to them. And when we do succeed with that task, we still face the challenge of how to (re)tell these stories, or even trickier, how to ‘take action.’ This panel is a hopeful call for a collective, transdisciplinary effort to consider these methodological possibilities and limitations, and to share even our messiest experiments in creating and communicating knowledge necessary for thriving in more-than-human worlds. We welcome papers that think through these, and other, questions: What does it mean to do more-than-human participatory research? How does taking the more-than-human seriously reconfigure both notions and practicalities of ‘open,’ ethical research? What kinds of more-than-human (cosmo)politics are made public through different methods of ‘engagement’ and ‘impact’? What is the role of design and/or creative practice as both process and product in more-than-human research? How can indigenous ways of knowing revitalise human/nonhuman encounters, and serve to decolonise both ethnographic and creative practice? REFERENCES: Kirksey, S. & Helmreich, S. (2010) ‘The emergence of multispecies ethnography.’ Cultural Anthropology 25(4): 545–576; Buller, H. (2015) ‘Animal geographies II: methods’. Progress in Human Geography. 39 (3): 374-384; Despret, V. (2016) What would animals say if we asked the right questions? Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press; Bastian, M. et al. (eds.) (2017) Participatory Research in More-than-human Worlds. London: Routledge; Haraway, D. (2016) Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene. Raleigh: Duke University Press; Abram, D. (2011) Becoming Animal: An Earthly Cosmology. London: Vintage. How to Submit: Abstracts close: Feb 1st, 2018 Open panel paper submissions should be in the form of abstracts of up to 250 words. They should include the paper’s main arguments, methods, and contributions to STS. When submitting papers to open panels on the abstract submission platform, you will select the Open Panel you are submitting to. Papers submitted to an open session will be reviewed by the open session organizer(s) and will be given first consideration for that session. Papers not included in the session to which they were submitted will be considered for other sessions. -- Dr. Jaz Hee-jeong Choi Visiting Professor, Data Science Lab @ Graduate School of Culture Technology, KAIST Director, Urban Informatics Associate, Digital Media Research Centre Senior Lecturer, School of Design, Creative Industries Faculty Queensland University of Technology -- e: h.choi(a)qut.edu.au<mailto:h.choi@qut.edu.au> -- w: urbaninformatics.net<http://urbaninformatics.net> -- p: +617 3138 7657 -- m: +61 433 167 151

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