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09 Feb '17

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Job posting at Columbia College Chicago -- Project Manager, Assessment, Accreditation, and Faculty Development Initiatives
by Phil Bratta 08 Feb '17

08 Feb '17

*Find this posting here: *https://colum.taleo.net/ careersection/ex/jobdetail.ftl?job=1700001A&lang=en#.WJtezEsc5p4.email *Project Manager, Assessment, Accreditation, and Faculty Development Initiatives* *-* *(1700001A)* *Description* Reporting to the Associate Provost for Accreditation and Assessment, the Project Manager, Assessment, Accreditation, and Faculty Development Initiatives manages the College’s efforts to assess student learning and development. This position also plays a key role in maintaining the College’s accreditation, through the preparation of accreditation materials for review. In addition, this position will also work closely with the Associate Provost for Faculty Development to support the research, teaching, and development agenda for faculty members. • Manage the implementation of a range of assessment approaches at the College to examine student learning and development and participate in the analysis and reporting of these efforts. • Serve as part of a team in preparation for the College’s upcoming comprehensive accreditation. • Manage files, databases, and other resources related to the College’s assessment and accreditation efforts and compliance reporting. • Assist in the development and implementation of a range of faculty development programming, (on-demand and direct instruction) covering scholarly and creative endeavor, teaching and service/administration. • Manage writing projects and both internal and external communication regarding faculty development research and programming conducted at the college. • Assist in the development and curation of a pointed and robust collection of online/on-demand faculty development resources. • Assist in the creation of open-access learning modules. • Collaborate with faculty and programs in order to support program and class-specific curricular needs. • Performs other duties as assigned. *Qualifications* The ideal candidate will have an earned Master’s Degree and have taught at the post-secondary level. In addition, the successful candidate will possess: • Strong written communication and presentation skills. • The ability to analyze and explain quantitative and qualitative data. • Strong project management skills. • A foundational understanding of academic research methodologies and publication processes. • Experience and familiarity with a range of digital tools and applications relevant to teaching and learning in the 21st century (i.e. LMS systems, Adobe Creative Suite, editing software, etc.). • Experience creating and delivering faculty development programming. *Additional Information* Cover letter, including salary requirements, and three professional references must be included in your Cover Letter. Position Subject to a background screening. This is a non-union position. Qualified candidates of diverse backgrounds are encouraged to apply. *Columbia College Chicago is an EEO Employer* -- Ph.D Candidate Department of Writing, Rhetoric, & American Cultures Michigan State University Bessey Hall room 267 East Lansing, MI 48824 philbratta(a)gmail.com http://www.philbratta.com/

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by minerva gail hawkins 08 Feb '17

08 Feb '17

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Tenure-track Assistant / Tenured Associate Professor – Information Sci and Tech - George Mason University
by Hemant Purohit 08 Feb '17

08 Feb '17

Dear all, Kindly check this interesting faculty opening at George Mason University. ===== The George Mason University Department of Information Sciences and Technology, within the Volgenau School of Engineering (VSE), invites applications for a tenure-track or tenured faculty position at the rank of Assistant or Associate Professor beginning Fall 2017. George Mason University has a strong institutional commitment to the achievement of excellence and diversity among its faculty and staff, and strongly encourages candidates to apply who will enrich Mason’s academic and culturally inclusive environment. While applicants in all areas of information sciences and technology will be considered, the department is particularly interested in candidates in data analytics, and its engineering and information technology aspects. Exceptionally strong senior candidates may also be considered, and must have an established record of excellence in research and teaching. Such candidates will be eligible for appointment as tenured Associate Professor. The position will be housed in the department of Information Sciences and Technology. The department has over 20 full-time faculty members and in addition to B.S. and M.S. programs in Information Technology, the department also participates in an interdisciplinary B.S. in Cyber Security Engineering, M.S. in Data Analytics Engineering, and Ph.D. in Information Technology (concentration in IST) offered by the VSE. For more information on the department, visit our website: http://ist.gmu.edu/. Read more: https://jobs.gmu.edu/postings/39849 ====== Best, Hemant -- Hemant Purohit, Ph.D. Asst. Professor of Information Sciences & Technology, George Mason University Office: 5348 Nguyen Engineering Building | http://ist.gmu.edu/~hpurohit<http://ist.gmu.edu/~hpurohit/> http://lnkdin.me/p/purohithemant | http://twitter.com/hemant_pt

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Archive of recommended readings/films?
by David Abernathy 08 Feb '17

08 Feb '17

Hello all, I have seen several threads on this list suggesting excellent articles, books, and films on various aspects of digital culture. Are these archived anywhere? I am pulling together a course on digital geographies and would love to go back over the many recommendations from this group. Thanks for any guidance, David Abernathy, PhD Dept. of Global Studies Warren Wilson College

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Any examples of journalists using Artificial Intelligence (AI) as an editorial tool?
by Yujung Nam 08 Feb '17

08 Feb '17

Hi, I am looking for any examples of journalists using AI as an editorial tool. Does anybody have some knowledge or examples of a journalistic use of AI in the field? Any information would be greatly appreciated. Yujung -- Yujung Nam, Ph.D Assistant Professor The Edward R. Murrow College of Communication Washington State University PO Box 642530 Pullman, WA 99164-2530 Office. 509-335-5793 Email.y.nam(a)wsu.edu

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CFP: Special Issue of New Media & Society
by Aziz Douai 07 Feb '17

07 Feb '17

*Call for Papers* *Special Issue of New Media & Society:* *Media, Identity, and Online Communities in a Changing Arab World**[1]* Co-edited by Aziz Douai, Eid Mohamed, and Adel Iskandar *Objective and Significance* This special issue will examine the role of new media in the construction of online communities in the Arab world. It is important to understand how user-generated content empowers these new publics and the novel communities established by user comments on social media and news websites. Specifically, there is a need to research these online communities and their perceptions of the role of user-generated content to contribute to politics, and potentially engage other citizens in the public debate. For these reasons, this special issue seeks to answer the following questions: What characterizes these online users’ communities? What are their motivations? How do they perceive the role of news websites’ commenting functions in promoting political engagement? The editors welcome contributions that are theoretically informed and empirically rigorous, employing qualitative and/or quantitative research methods. *Proposed Topics:* Articles could develop a subject in connection to any of the following suggested themes: - Theorization of the Online Arab Public Sphere - User-generated Content and Participatory Cultures - New Media and Social Movement Theory in the Context of the Arab Uprisings - Arab Spring and the Mobilizing Potential of New Media - Media Convergence and Citizen Journalism after the “Arab Spring” - The Political-Cultural Division in the Public Sphere - Network Cultural Production in the Digital age - Digital Divide and Participation in the Public Sphere - New Media and the Construction of New Arab Identities - Regulation Policies and Standardization Processes, and Their Impact on Institutional and Individual Uses of Technology Please note that these themes are suggestions only and the guest editors welcome inquiries on a wide variety of theoretical contributions in the fields of new media and the public sphere, presentation of ongoing research and empirical studies along with any of the abovementioned themes. *Submission:* Proposals should include the author's name and affiliation, title, an abstract of 250-300 words, and 3 to 5 keywords, and should be sent to the e-mail address tiproject(a)dohainstitute.edu.qa no later than March 25th 2017. Selected submissions will be due 30 September 2017 and will be submitted directly to the submission site for *New Media and Society*: https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/nms where they will undergo peer review following the usual procedures of *New Media & Society*. Note therefore that invitation to submit a full article does not therefore guarantee acceptance into the special issue. The special issue will be published in early 2018. *Tentative Timeline:* - Abstract Submission Deadline: *March 25, 2016* - Proposal Selection Notification: *April 15, 2017* - Initial Article Submission Deadline: *September 30, 2017* *[1]* This special issue is part of a larger research project led by Dr. Eid Mohamed and funded by Qatar National Research Fund, NPRP program titled “Transcultural Identities: Solidaristic Action and Contemporary Arab Social Movements.”

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Some of the Confirmed Speakers and Registrations at the mobileGov World Summit 2017
by emre＠mgovernment.net 07 Feb '17

07 Feb '17

Dear Colleagues, We are pleased to present you with some of the so far confirmed public sector and private sector speakers at the mobileGov World Summit 2017 and Global mobileGov Awards 2017. http://www.m4life.org/conferences/mgovsummit2016/members/tamara-hogler/ We are still soliciting entries or nominations for the Global mobileGov Awards 2017. Please show interest at the www.m4life.org Registrations are open and discounts available for the members of mGCI, public Sector/NPO and NGOs at the http://www.m4life.org/conferences/mgovsummit2016/registration/ Best wishes, -- Emre Simsek Researcher MobileGov UK http://www.mgovernment.net/ emre(a)mgovernment.org

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CFP: DiGRA 2017 Workshop: “Gaming the Systems: Towards a More Inclusive DiGRA"
by Adrienne Shaw 07 Feb '17

07 Feb '17

Please share widely *DiGRA 2017 Workshop: “Gaming the Systems: Towards a More Inclusive DiGRA”* What would it mean for Game Studies to be diverse, and what role can DiGRA play in achieving this? Does the term ‘diversity’ deserve critical scrutiny in its own right? In light of corporate initiatives such as Intel’s recent and highly substantial investment in creating an inclusive workforce, ‘diversity’ can legitimately claim to be one of the most impactful terms that has ever been developed in league with humanities and social sciences thinking. On the other hand, diversity can be seen as a code word for the most comfortable way in which difference appears to contemporary power structures - and hence subject to academic critique. Intel’s recent and widely publicized investment in making their own workforce more inclusive and diverse[i], as well as increasing diversity in games and the tech industry broadly, demonstrates that conversations about representation are finally making headway in corporate sectors. At the same time, we might question if these business-minded approaches to diversity are really invested in the more critical types of change diversity is discussed in relation to in academic conversations. Moreover, as the industries we are interested in begin to take seriously questions of their own diversity, we too must take stock of who is represented in the wide field that is game studies. What can we do to make our field more inclusive and represent a wider array of perspectives? Might it even be possible that we could use such efforts in turn to offer a model for the industries we study as they launch efforts to increase diversity? As scholars, perhaps the response to this situation is quite predictable: more research is needed. This DiGRA workshop will pose the question of what a diverse game studies would look like in both theoretical and practical registers: partly by gathering theoretical papers and partly by providing a venue for voicing and testing ideas that can be represented as precedents to DiGRA and other game studies conferences. The workshop will balance the question of what other fields have done to encourage diversity with the question of what scholars of play can bring to thinking about what academic diversity means in the first place. This will be a half day workshop on *July 2, 2017, *organized as follows: *Format and Activities* 12:00-12:30 Opening and Introductions 12:30-13:00 Designing Diversity Guidelines 13:00-15:00 Paper presentation – six papers, 15 minutes each and 5 minutes of question time. 15:00-15:30 Break and Play Time 15:30-17:00 Co-facilitated Discussion *Location* PAR-Arts West North Wing-256 (Collaborative Learning Room) The University of Melbourne Parkville 3000. *Call for Proposals* We welcome proposals for papers that investigate questions such as, but not limited to: · What have conferences, fields of study and the game industry done to encourage diverse participation? Can and should DiGRA take a proactive role in fostering game studies diversity? · To what degree is diversity a useful concept? What political work does it do and can it do in our field? How does it link with concepts of representation, attention and competition, and to what level are such concepts already part of the logic of the academy? · What potentials do academics interested in play bring to broadening or questioning the idea of diversity? · How diverse is the history of game studies as both theory and pedagogy and to whom does this matter? · What is the relation of academic game studies to videogame business and industry across various regional and national contexts, and to what degree does this affect diversity? · Middleware is often cited as increasing access to game development, but how diverse are the resources, assets and legal structures of such tools? What role does the academy play in this area and how could it be expanded? · Who is best positioned to speak on regional issues including funding and representation, and what power dynamics are at play in the centrality of the Anglophone academy to DiGRA? · Is DiGRA creating a safe space for diverse voices, and what are best practices models for how DiGRA should do this internally, and pressure platforms externally? What are the practical issues and how can they be met? Please send your extended abstract (1500-3000 words) to *Sian Beavers *( digradiversityworkshop(a)gmail.com) by *March 6, 2017* at 17:00 CET (9:00 PST). Please note this is an open paper format and you are *not *required to use the DiGRA template for extended abstracts. Accepted papers will be included in a Diversity Special Issue of ToDiGRA, published in 2018, where full papers will be subject to an additional round of peer-review prior to publication. Notifications of acceptance will be sent to participants on April 3, 2017. Full papers (8000 words including references) are due September 15, 2017 for peer review. Camera ready papers for ToDigra publication on November 17, 2017. Please note participation in the workshop is open to all DiGRA participants, regardless of acceptance to the workshop. If you plan to attend the workshop as a participant (not a presenter), please register by June 15, 2017 by sending an email to *Darshana Jayemanne* at ( digradiversityworkshop(a)gmail.com) ------------------------------ [i] http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/233716/Intel_to_invest_300_million_in_te… -- Adrienne Shaw Assistant Professor Temple University Department of Media Studies and Production School of Media and Communication 2020 N. 13th St. Annenberg Hall, room 203A Philadelphia, PA 19122 telephone: 215-204-6201 fax: 215-214-5402 smc.temple.edu/msp www.adrienneshaw.com Office Hours: Tuesday 11am-2pm Email Hours: M-F 12-2pm Author of: Gaming at the Edge: Sexuality and Gender at the Margins of Gamer Culture, University of Minnesota Press, 2014 ( http://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/gaming-at-the-edge) Founder of the LGBTQ Game Archive: https://lgbtqgamearchive.com/

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May Moscow conference "Internet Beyond Numbers"
by Polina Kolozaridi 07 Feb '17

07 Feb '17

Hi colleagues, we are glad to introduce our May Moscow conference "Internet Beyond Numbers", it will be on 23-24 of May. This year conference is dedicated to qualitative methods and Internet history. Conference website: http://internetbeyond.net/en/ Key questions - The history of the internet: the development of the networks, local cases of technology adoption - The alternative networks, intranet, Fidonet as well as local small networks - Anthropological and ethnographic studies of the internet: how to prove or refute the quantitative rates - Critical understanding of working with quantitative data: ethical and methodological problems - Mixed methods using digital tools We welcome participants to submit proposals on these topics and arrange an English-speaking session. The deadline is March, 31. Our mail:* info(a)internetbeyond.net <info(a)internetbeyond.net>. *The application should be written in Russian or English and include: title, five keywords, annotation (approximately 300-500 words), information about the author: full name, position / year of study, the name of the organisation/university. Please do not hesitate to ask me about any details, Polina

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