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Columbia Univ. "Plain Text" event today
by Isabelle Zaugg 02 Nov '17

02 Nov '17

Dear All, Writing to warmly invite you to an event today at Columbia University (see below). Isabelle Isabelle A. Zaugg, PhD Postdoctoral Research Scholar Mellon-Sawyer Seminar in Global Language Justice Institute for Comparative Language and Society Columbia University Thursday, 2 November 2017 at 6:15pm The Heyman Center, Second Floor Common Room<https://heymancenter.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8cc509338c6ddce0ed48…>, Columbia University<https://heymancenter.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8cc509338c6ddce0ed48…> New Books in the Arts & Sciences —panel discussions celebrating recent work by the Columbia Faculty Plain Text: The Poetics of Computation<https://heymancenter.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8cc509338c6ddce0ed48…> by Dennis Tenen This book challenges the ways we read, write, store, and retrieve information in the digital age. Computers—from electronic books to smart phones—play an active role in our social lives. Our technological choices thus entail theoretical and political commitments. Dennis Tenen takes up today's strange enmeshing of humans, texts, and machines to argue that our most ingrained intuitions about texts are profoundly alienated from the physical contexts of their intellectual production. Drawing on a range of primary sources from both literary theory and software engineering, he makes a case for a more transparent practice of human–computer interaction. Plain Text is thus a rallying call, a frame of mind as much as a file format. It reminds us, ultimately, that our devices also encode specific modes of governance and control that must remain available to interpretation. Dennis Tenen is Assistant Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University, where he is a Co-Founder of Columbia's Group for Experimental Research Methods in the Humanities. Panel Chair: Sarah Cole<https://heymancenter.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8cc509338c6ddce0ed48…>, Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University Discussants: Brian Larkin<https://heymancenter.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8cc509338c6ddce0ed48…>, Director of Graduate Studies, Barnard College, Columbia University N. Katherine Hayles<https://heymancenter.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8cc509338c6ddce0ed48…>, James B. Duke Professor of Literature, Duke University Nicholas Dames<https://heymancenter.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8cc509338c6ddce0ed48…>, Theodore Kahan Professor of Humanities, English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University Sponsored by: The Society of Fellows and Heyman Center for the Humanities<https://heymancenter.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8cc509338c6ddce0ed48…> Dean of the Humanities, Arts and Sciences Dean of Social Sciences, Arts and Sciences

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Southern Illinois University grad programs in Mass Communication and Media Arts
by Aaron S. Veenstra 02 Nov '17

02 Nov '17

Southern Illinois University College of Mass Communication and Media Arts PHD • MFA • MA • MS Friends and colleagues, The College of Mass Communication and Media Arts at Southern Illinois University is seeking promising scholars, artists, and media professionals to apply for our range of graduate programs. We offer programs in media theory and research, media arts practice, and professional media management. Our program offers broad opportunities for funding, as well as for research/creative collaboration with faculty and professional practice. Our programs are interdisciplinary in nature, crossing all boundaries within the broader field of media, and with close connections to the SIU Department of Communication Studies and School of Art & Design. Faculty areas of research focus include: - Critical and cultural studies - Digital media and information - Political communication - Media effects - Film studies - Political economy - Media ethics and law - Race and gender in the media - International and intercultural communication Our MFA in interdisciplinary media arts and production-focused MS give students the opportunity to work with faculty in both established and emerging media: - Documentary - Narrative film and performance - Sound production - Animation - Photography - VR/AR The application deadline for fall 2018 enrollment in all degrees is January 15 (MS applications for spring 2018 are still being accepted). For more detailed information, please consult our website at http://mcma.siu.edu/ academics/graduate/ or contact us via email at mcmagrad(a)siu.edu. Thanks in advance for sharing this with your students! -- Aaron S. Veenstra Southern Illinois University Carbondale Acting Associate Dean, College of Mass Communication and Media Arts Associate Professor, School of Journalism asveenstra(a)siu.edu || manytoomany.com

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Social Network Analysis and Gephi workshops and webinars
by Alessandro Zonin 02 Nov '17

02 Nov '17

Hi all, a series of events dedicated to *Social Network Analysis* will take place in november: *WEBINARS *(in english) Introduction to Social Network Analysis - Nov 15, 10:00 AM CET https://www.eventbrite.com/e/webinar-introduction-to-social-network-analysi… Mastering Gephi for Network Analysis - Nov 15, 4:00 PM CET https://www.eventbrite.com/e/webinar-mastering-gephi-for-network-analysis-t… *IN-PRESENCE* (in italian) Gephi per network analysis e data visualization - (Italy, Milan) - Nov 22, 7:30 PM CET https://www.eventbrite.com/e/gephi-per-network-analysis-e-data-visualizatio… *ONLINE COURSES* (in english) Introduction to Social Network Analysis (online self-paced course) https://gumroad.com/l/SNAIntro Regards -- Twitter @AlessandroZonin <https://twitter.com/AlessandroZonin> Blog: Social Network Analysis <https://alessandrozonin.wordpress.com/> Gumroad: Online courses <https://gumroad.com/alessandrozonin#>

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WEBCAST TODAY: Tactical Tech in NYC: Alternative Networks and Practical Privacy @mccNYU
by Joly MacFie 02 Nov '17

02 Nov '17

I'm just heading out to do this. Very glad to see Cornell has brought James G. back to NYC. [image: livestream] <https://livestream.com/internetsociety/tacticaltech> Today, *Thursday November 2 2017* at *2pm*, the *NYU Department of Media, Culture, and Communicatio*n presents* Tactical Tech in NYC: Alternative Networks and Practical Privacy <http://events.nyu.edu/#!view/event/event_id/179230>*. This afternoon conference brings together local organizers, technologists, and scholars working on mesh and alternative networking, cryptography, and practical privacy to discuss strategies, tactics, and shared challenges and opportunities in DIY and ground-up communication and organizing. How are communities and activists in New York City using, misusing, and inventing technologies to confront social injustice and structural inequality? Speakers include *James Grimmelmann* (Cornell Tech), *Brian Hal*l (NYC Mesh), & *Matthew Mitchell* (CryptoParty Harlem). The event will webcast live on the *Internet Society Livestream Channel <https://livestream.com/internetsociety/tacticaltech>*. *What: Tactical Tech in NYC: Alternative Networks and Practical Privacy <http://events.nyu.edu/#!view/event/event_id/179230>Where: NYU, 239 Greene Street, NYC <https://maps.google.com/?q=239+Greene+Street,+NYC&entry=gmail&source=g>When: Thursday November 2 2017 2pm-5pm EDT (18:00-21:00 UTC)Webcast: https://livestream.com/internetsociety/tacticaltech <https://livestream.com/internetsociety/tacticaltech>Twitter: #tacticaltech http://bit.ly/tacticaltech <http://bit.ly/tacticaltech>* Comment <http://isoc-ny.org/p2/9548#respond> See all comments <http://isoc-ny.org/p2/9548#comments> *Permalink* http://isoc-ny.org/p2/9548 - -- --------------------------------------------------------------- Joly MacFie 218 565 9365 Skype:punkcast -------------------------------------------------------------- -

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Thanks and congrats to #AoIR2017 organizers!
by Michael T Zimmer 02 Nov '17

02 Nov '17

As I’ve now had time to digest and recover from #AoIR2017 in Tartu, I wanted to send my sincere thanks to the hosts, organizers, and everyone involved for an excellent conference. While I’ve only been to about a dozen AoIR conferences (and helped host one, and helped plan 6 others), this certainly was one of the best. Thank you, Andra Siibak, for your hosting and excellent program curation. And thank you, AoIR Association Coordinator Michelle Gardner, for everything that you do to help make the conference a success. And thank you, (outgoing) AoIR President Jennifer Stromer-Galley, for your leadership. And the entire AoIR Executive Committee, for your dedication to the Association. I’m really looking forward to #AoIR2018 in Montreal (no pressure, Andrew!) Best, Michael -- Michael Zimmer, PhD Associate Professor, School of Information Studies Director, Center for Information Policy Research University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee e: zimmerm(a)uwm.edu<mailto:zimmerm@uwm.edu> t: @michaelzimmer w: www.michaelzimmer.org<http://www.michaelzimmer.org>

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Call for the ICA 2018 Pre-Conference “Articulating Voice. The Expressivity and Performativity of Media Practices”
by Leif Kramp 02 Nov '17

02 Nov '17

Call for the ICA 2018 Pre-Conference “Articulating Voice. The Expressivity and Performativity of Media Practices” Sponsored by the Philosophy, Theory and Critique (PTC) Division of the International Communication Association Event date: 24 May 2018, 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM, Prague, Czech Republic Venue: Main Conference Hotel Deadline for proposals: 10 January 2018 (300-500 words abstract) Organizers: Christian Pentzold (University of Bremen), Kenzie Burchell (University of Toronto), Olivier Driessens (University of Cambridge), Alice Mattoni (Scuola Normale Superiore), John Postill (RMIT University), Cara Wallis (Texas A&M University) “Media matter most when they seem not to matter at all.” (Wendy Chun) But how can we understand the practices through which innovations in media and digital data move from being unexpected, novel, and impactful to the negotiated, embedded, and habitual? The pre-conference takes issue with the mundane yet pervasive nature of media habits, rituals, and customs. It assesses the purchase of practice-based approaches in order to see under what conditions and with what consequences they enter studies in communication and media. In particular, we invite participants to consider the expressive and performative dimension of what people actually do and say in relation to media and to the wider communication ecologies in which these articulations take place. We are especially interested in contributions that examine how voices are expressed, represented, or muted and that study the ways practices of voice combine, overlap, or collide with other mediated activities in contemporary societies. With this, we strive for an explanation and critical appreciation of media practices whose accomplishment is a perennial exercise in which we find ourselves immersed. We welcome theoretical and/or empirical contributions on questions including: ● How can we theorize and study the interplay between media-related practices and technologies, discourses, or institutions? How are these constellations created, maintained, and transformed? How do praxeological approaches correspond to other inquiries into speech acts, media rituals, or media habits? ● What resources and skills are mobilized in order to perform voices? What is the meaning of the work that goes into activities of voicing? How do they contribute to or undermine the constitution of public spheres, privacy, and civic life in past and contemporary societies? ● How do we grasp media practices empirically, and how do we analyze them across modes of expression, across cultures, different times, and ages? How can we challenge and advance the kinds of translation and transformation happening in-between the situated enactment of media practices and the descriptions and stories of scholarly accounts? ● How can we understand the ways through which media practices are accomplished in social fields? How are they deployed in struggles for gaining voice and visibility as in political communication and journalism, participation and mobilization, health communication, or science communication? How have media practices changed over time and in relation to innovations in digitization and datafication? Responses to the contributions will be given by Elisenda Ardèvol (Universitat Oberta de Catalunya); Maria Bakardjieva (University of Calgary), S. Elizabeth Bird (University of Southern Florida); Nick Couldry (London School of Economics and Political Science). Please email a 300-500 words proposal to Christian Pentzold (christian.pentzold(a)uni-bremen.de) by January 10, 2018. Authors will be notified of their acceptance before January 31, 2018. Please direct any questions to: Alice Mattoni (alice.mattoni(a)sns.it) or Christian Pentzold (christian.pentzold(a)uni-bremen.de) *** -- Prof. Dr. Christian Pentzold Zentrum für Medien-, Kommunikations- und Informationsforschung | Centre for Media, Communication and Information Research Institut für historische Publizistik, Kommunikations- und Medienwissenschaft | Institute for Historic Journalism, Communication and Media Studies Universität Bremen | University of Bremen Linzer Strasse 4, D-28359 Bremen, Germany email: christian.pentzold(a)uni-bremen.de

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M.A. in Communication Studies Program at Northern Illinois University, USA - Please distribute
by Andrea Guzman 01 Nov '17

01 Nov '17

I am asking that you please distribute this information through your appropriate networks regarding Northern Illinois University's M.A. program in Communication Studies, which does provide full assistantships (stipends and tuition waivers) on a competitive basis. The M.A. in Communication Studies, part of the Department of Communication, provides students with the opportunity to focus their graduate work in the area of media studies (including film production), journalism, rhetorical studies, or interpersonal, organizational, and persuasive communication. The study of technology is an integral aspect of work across many of these areas. For example, both Dr. David Gunkel and I teach courses on emerging technology, including the study of artificial intelligence and robotics from a communication perspective. My course this spring, "Automating Media," explores the integration of AI into media industries with a specific focus on journalism within the context of the ongoing automation of media production and consumption. Northern Illinois University is located in DeKalb, IL, USA approximately 50 miles west of Chicago. Additional information is available on the department's website: http://www.comm.niu.edu/comm/academics/graduate/ Faculty advisors or students interested in the program are welcome to contact me or the Director of Graduate Studies, Dr. Kathleen Valde, kvalde(a)niu.edu. Thanks, Andrea _____ Andrea L. Guzman, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Dept. of Communication Northern Illinois University alguzman(a)niu.edu

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New Positions at Simon Fraser University
by DAL JIN 01 Nov '17

01 Nov '17

The School of Communication at Simon Fraser University invites applications from outstanding candidates for two tenure-track positions at the rank of Assistant Professor: 1. News, Social Media, and Public Communication Intersection of news, social media and public communication. Specific areas of focus may include but are not limited to political economy and governance of news production and distribution; the impact of social media on journalism and public communication; news, democracy and the public sphere; critical analysis of news discourse; independent media, ethnic media and alternative journalism; the influence of public relations and marketing on news media; data journalism; communication rights and access to information; media activism; studies of users, creators, and publics. We are searching for candidates who address these or other issues using qualitative, quantitative, media and news analysis that might include discourse and frame analysis, content analysis, ethnography, and computational or digital methods or a combination of approaches. 2. Big data Area of big data in relation to theories and methodologies in the field of communication. Specific areas of focus may include but are not limited to social media, algorithmic culture, critical data studies, digital humanities, surveillance, critical artificial intelligence, platform studies, blockchain and crypto technologies, data visualization, infrastructure studies, quantified self, data politics, data ethics, privacy, and health. We are searching for candidates who address these or other issues using qualitative, quantitative, computational, digital methods or a combination of approaches. Situated in the Faculty of Communication, Art and Technology, the School of Communication is a national and global leader in the discipline. The School is a dynamic site of research and teaching with a strategic focus on digital media and communication. Our critical tradition to the study of communication includes approaches such as media and culture, technology studies, global communication, culture industries and policy, history of communication, and applied media production, among others. The successful candidate will build on the School’s history of critical engagement while developing new directions in research and teaching to reflect contemporary and emergent issues of digital media and communication. We seek an innovative colleague who will challenge traditional distinctions between critical analysis and applied approaches. Candidates are expected to have a completed Ph.D. (or Ph.D. near completion) in Communication or a cognate discipline, a record of teaching experience and excellence, a clear potential to contribute to the School’s research culture, and an emerging publication record appropriate to the position. The successful candidate will be expected to teach and supervise students at all undergraduate and graduate levels and to work with partners inside and outside the University. All qualified candidates are encouraged to apply. However, Canadian citizens and permanent residents will be given priority. Simon Fraser University is committed to employment equity and welcomes applications from all qualified women and men, including visible minorities, persons of aboriginal heritage, persons with disabilities, and LGBTQ-identified persons. Applications should include a cover letter, a curriculum vitae, a concise statement of research established and projected, a statement of teaching experience, performance and philosophy, and two writing samples. Please submit all documents in a single PDF file with bookmarks. In addition, three letters of reference should be sent under separate cover. Please direct all materials to: Director, School of Communication Simon Fraser University 8888 University Drive Burnaby, BC, Canada V5A 1S6 c/o: bebaldwi(a)sfu.ca Review of applications will begin on November 30th, 2017 and will continue until the positions are filled. These positions are subject to funding and final approval by the SFU Board of Governors. Under the authority of the University Act, personal information that is required by the University for academic appointment competitions will be collected. For further details, please see: http://www.sfu.ca/vpacademic/faculty_openings/collection_notice.html

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New Book Announcement
by DAL JIN 01 Nov '17

01 Nov '17

Please share with other AOIR members: Understanding the Business of Global Media in the Digital Age By Micky Lee (Suffolk University) and Dal Yong Jin (Simon Fraser University) Routledge (2017) https://www.routledge.com/Understanding-the-Business-of-Global-Media-in-the… This new introductory textbook provides students with the tools they need to understand the way digital technologies have transformed the global media business of the 21st century. Focusing on three main approaches – media economics, critical political economy, and production studies – the authors provide an empirically rich analysis of ownership, organizational structures and culture, business strategies, markets, networks of strategic alliances, and state policies as they relate to global media. Examples throughout involve both traditional and digital media and are taken from different regions and countries to illustrate how the media business is influenced by interconnected historical, political, economic, and social factors. In addition to introducing today’s convergent world of global media, the book gives readers a greater understanding of their own potential roles within the global media industries. Dal Yong Jin is Professor in the School of Communication at Simon Fraser University, Canada (djin(a)sfu.ca)

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Software for building chatbots and papers
by Elena 01 Nov '17

01 Nov '17

Hi all, I would love to know some tools/software to build chatbots and also recommended readings/papers in order to be updated from the technical point of view. Thanks a lot! Elena

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