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The stress-buffering effect of self-disclosure on Facebook
by Barry Wellman 06 Jun '17

06 Jun '17

"The stress-buffering effect of self-disclosure on Facebook:An examination of stressful life events, social support, and mental health among college students." Great new article by my friend/collaborator Renwen (Alice) Zhang. In Computers in Human Behavior 75: 527-37 (10/17) Highlights Stressful life events predict intimate and intentional self-disclosure on Facebook. Facebook disclosure moderates the effects of stressful life events on mental health Facebook disclosure is positively related to enacted social support on Facebook. Enacted social support on Facebook contributes to increased satisfaction with life. Facebook is a novel and promising venue for identifying people with depression. Alice is a doctoral student at Northwestern Communications. Barry Wellman A vision is just a vision if it's only in your head Step by step, link by link, putting it together Streisand/Sondheim _______________________________________________________________________ NetLab Network FRSC INSNA Founder http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman twitter: @barrywellman NETWORKED: The New Social Operating System Lee Rainie & Barry Wellman http://amzn.to/zXZg39 _______________________________________________________________________

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Cultures of Capitalism CSAA 2017 Conference, Wellington NZ, 6-8 Dec
by Taffel, Sy 06 Jun '17

06 Jun '17

Cultures of Capitalism Cultural Studies Association of Australasia Conference 2017 December 6-8 Massey University, Wellington Campus Aotearoa New Zealand Keynote Speakers: Professor Patricia Hill Collins (University of Maryland), Professor Jodi Dean (Hobart and William Smith Colleges), Professor Jeremy Gilbert (University of East London), Professor Wendy Larner (University of Victoria, Wellington). The relationship between capital and culture is hotly contested. On the one hand, dominant political discourses valorise "culture" as the solution for ailing communities, cities and industries. Discourses of neo-liberal globalization claim that, in the face of mass migration, war and climate change, communities equipped with the "right" culture will adapt and endure, while others will be left behind; discourses of urban planning celebrate culture as the key to revitalising municipal economies through creativity and social participation; and discourses of post-industrial work, parsing radical shifts in the manufacturing sector, champion cultural, intellectual and creative labour as the paradigm for new forms of work. On the other, a range of critical voices, many of them associated with Cultural Studies, offer a decidedly less rosy vision of the relationship between culture and emergent capitalist formations. For these critics, nascent technologies of capital have led to a renewed reification and exploitation of racialised, sexualised, and classed populations, even as newly precarious conditions of labour give rise to affective economies marked by depression, antagonism and the "crisis ordinary." The 2017 Cultural Studies Association of Australasia conference will focus on the work that cultures do in constructing, contesting, and constituting new capital formations. While the "culture industry" critique cast culture as the opiate through which economic dominance is propagated, cultures can potentially mediate economic conditions in multiple and heterogeneous ways. This conference invites contributions that explore these mediations. In doing so, we return to one of the key concerns of early cultural studies: to make sense of the mutually-determining relation between culture and its capitalist context. If, following Stuart Hall, we understand 'culture' as the production of meaning through language and representation, what are the modes of communication through which capitalism/s are created? How are capitalism/s materialised in different spaces? How is it embodied in different identities and communities? What is the role of the economy in shaping the possibilities for culture? What is the role of Cultural Studies as critical praxis in the present economic time? Papers are invited to address, but are not limited to, the following themes: * The cultural politics of neoliberalism * Precarious and/or immaterial labour * Digital capitalism * Capitalist affects * Trump, Brexit and the resurgence of capitalist nationalisms * Capitalism, culture and technology * The cultural and creative industries * Capitalism, culture and sustainability * Cultures of surveillance and war * Cultural identity and globalisation * Cultural resistance and activism * Productive and unproductive cultures * Base, superstructure and mediation * Formal and real subsumption of culture * Representations of capitalism, class and markets * Political economies of online, digital and social media * Anticapitalist, Socialist, Anarchist and Communist cultures * Racial capitalism * Critical theory, Cultural Marxism and Cultural Studies The conference also accepts papers that fall within the general disciplinary area of Cultural Studies. We are also happy to accept submissions for pre-formed panels: if you wish to submit as part of a pre-formed panel, please indicate this in your submission. In addition, to the regular conference events, we will also be holding a pre-fix day for postgraduate students and early career researchers. More details regarding this event will be announced shortly. Early bird registration costs for the event will be $350 NZD for faculty and fully waged participants, and $250 NZD for students, adjunct faculty and unwaged participants. Registration will include membership of the CSAA. If you are interested in presenting at the conference, please send a 250 word abstract with your name, e-mail address and affiliation to csaa2017(a)massey.ac.nz<mailto:csaa2017@massey.ac.nz> by August 1 2017. Any other enquires regarding the event should also be addressed to csaa2017(a)massey.ac.nz<mailto:csaa2017@massey.ac.nz>. Website: csaa2017.ac.nz<http://csaa2017.ac.nz/> Organising Committee: Nicholas Holm (Massey University), Sy Taffel (Massey University), Holly Randell-Moon (University of Otago), Pansy Duncan (Massey University), Ian Huffer (Massey University), Kevin Veale (Massey University). Sy Taffel, PhD Lecturer in Media Studies |Co-Director, Political Ecology Research Centre College of Humanities and Social Sciences | Massey University Email: s.a.taffel(a)massey.ac.nz<mailto:s.a.taffel@massey.ac.nz> | Telephone: +64 (06 ) 356 9099 ext. 84527 Recently Published: Ecologial Entanglements in the Anthropocene<https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781498535694/Ecological-Entanglements-in-the-Anthr…>, edited by Nicholas Holm and Sy Taffel, Lexington Books Technofossils of the Anthropocene: Media, Geology and Plastics<http://culturalpolitics.dukejournals.org/content/12/3/355.abstract>. Cultural Politics 2016:3, 355-375

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CFP: Internet Governance in the Global South (friendly reminder)
by Daniel Oppermann 06 Jun '17

06 Jun '17

Dear colleagues, Thanks a lot for your feedback so far regarding the upcoming publication at NUPRI-USP on Internet Governance in the Global South. This is a friendly reminder that you can upload your proposals until 15 June 2017. Please, find all information at http://www.internetgovernance.com.br. Thank you, obrigado, gracias! Cordialmente, Daniel Oppermann

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WEBCAST TODAY: Will the Internet Fragment? A Discussion with Milton Mueller
by Joly MacFie 06 Jun '17

06 Jun '17

This is underway. There was an audio outage earlier during Milton's brief keynote. [image: livestream] <https://livestream.com/internetsociety/milton>Today *Tuesday June 6 2017*, at *noon EDT* New America's *Open Technology Institute <https://www.newamerica.org/oti/>* and the *Internet Society Washington DC Chapter <https://isoc-dc.org/>* present *Will the Internet Fragment? <https://www.newamerica.org/oti/events/will-internet-fragment-discussion-mil…>* a panel featuring *Professor Milton Mueller*. author, of *Will the Internet Fragment? <http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-1509501223.html>*. In his new book, Will the Internet Fragment?, Professor Mueller argues that the fragmentation diagnosis misses the mark, and the rhetoric of fragmentation camouflages the real issue: the attempt by governments to align information flows with their jurisdictional boundaries. The fragmentation debate is really a power struggle over the future of national sovereignty, pitting global governance and open access against traditional territorial institutions of government. This conflict, the book argues, can only be resolved through radical institutional innovations. In order to save the internet, we need to move away from national sovereignty and towards popular sovereignty in cyberspace. PANEL: *Dr. Milton Mueller*, Professor, Georgia Institute of Technology School of Public Policy; *Rebecca MacKinnon*, Director, Ranking Digital Rights project at New America; *Tim Maurer*, Co-director of the Cyber Policy Initiative, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace; *Angela McKay*, Senior Director of Cybersecurity Policy and Strategy, Microsoft. MODERATOR:* Derrick Cogburn*, Professor, American University. The vent will be webcast live on the *New Anerica YouTube Channel <https://youtu.be/aSJSbvIrlnw>*, and the *Internet Society Livestream Channel <https://livestream.com/internetsociety/milton>.* *What: Will the Internet Fragment? <https://www.newamerica.org/oti/events/will-internet-fragment-discussion-mil…>Where: New America, Washington DCWhen: Tuesday June 6 2017, at noon EDTWebcast 1: https://youtu.be/aSJSbvIrlnw <https://youtu.be/aSJSbvIrlnw>Webcast 2: https://livestream.com/internetsociety/milton <https://livestream.com/internetsociety/milton>Twitter: #netfrag <https://twitter.com/hashtag/netfrag>* Comment <http://isoc-ny.org/p2/9213#respond> See all comments <http://isoc-ny.org/p2/9213#comments> *Permalink* http://isoc-ny.org/p2/9213 - -- --------------------------------------------------------------- Joly MacFie 218 565 9365 Skype:punkcast -------------------------------------------------------------- -

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Call for Participation: AoIR Early Career Scholars Workshop
by Jeff Hemsley 06 Jun '17

06 Jun '17

Call for Participation: AoIR Early Career Scholars Workshop We are building a global community of junior scholars within AoIR - join us at AoIR 2017 - Tartu!! When: October 18th, AoIR 2017 preconference afternoon session Organizers: Jeff Hemsley (Syracuse University), Andrea L. Guzman (Northern Illinois University), Esther Chin (Swinburne University of Technology), Efrat Daskal (Hebrew University of Jerusalem), Zachary J. McDowell (University of Illinois Chicago) Audience: This workshop is geared toward early career scholars who have their terminal degree and are working toward establishing themselves in a scholarly career. We have worked to create a workshop that is reflective of AoIR’s international membership and the different type of academic and research institutions represented. (Please note: Students should apply to the Doctoral Colloquium). Goals: 1) Provide a space for the next generation of AoIR scholars to start building strong ties with each other, more established researchers, and the AoIR community. 2) To promote understanding of the breadth of academic work, including our shared experiences and differences. 3) Connect with established academics to learn strategies for forwarding our careers. 4) Gain insight into how to formulate similar workshops in future years that support the need for mentoring early scholars in the AoIR community. Format: We will have a mix of interactive sessions involving early career scholars and established academics. To that end, we are asking participants to tell us what they want to talk about. Registration: Participants must register through the official AoIR 2017 conference. We also are asking participants to email 1 to 3 questions that they would like addressed by a panel of established scholars to Jeff Hemsley (jjhemsle(a)syr.edu) AND Andrea L. Guzman (alguzman(a)niu.edu) For more information: https://aoir.org/aoir2017/preconworkshop/#ECS Jeff Hemsley Assistant Professor School of Information Studies Syracuse University Author of 'Going Viral', Polity Press, 2013 Twitter: @JeffHemsley my.ischool.syr.edu/People/jjhemsle www.linkedin.com/in/jeffhemsley

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SPeL 2017 - extended deadlines
by Elvira Popescu 06 Jun '17

06 Jun '17

================================================================== SPeL 2017 10th International Workshop on Social and Personal Computing for Web-Supported Learning Communities http://software.ucv.ro/~epopescu/spel2017 In conjunction with ICWL 2017 (16th International Conference on Web-based Learning) http://www.hkws.org/conference/icwl2017 & SETE 2017 (2nd International Symposium on Emerging Technologies for Education) http://2017.isete.net 20-22 September 2017 Cape Town, South Africa * Extended paper submission deadline: June 25, 2017 (preceded by a mandatory abstract submission by June 18) * All accepted workshop papers will be published by Springer in Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) ================================================================== MOTIVATION =========== The workshop follows the previous SPeL 2008, SPeL 2009, SPeL 2010, SPeL 2011, DULP & SPeL 2012, SPeL 2013, SPeL 2014, SPeL 2015 and SPeL 2016 workshops, held in conjunction with the SAINT 2008 conference, WI/IAT 2009 conference, DEXA 2010 conference, ICWL 2011 conference, ICALT 2012 conference, ICSTCC 2013 conference, ICWL 2014 conference, ICSLE 2015 conference and ICWL & SETE 2017 conferences respectively. The general topic of the workshop is the social and personal computing for web-supported learning communities. Web-based learning is moving from centralized, institution-based systems to a decentralized and informal creation and sharing of knowledge. Social software (e.g., blogs, wikis, social bookmarking systems, media sharing services) is increasingly being used for e-learning purposes, helping to create novel learning experiences and knowledge. In the world of pervasive Internet, learners are also evolving: the so-called "digital natives" want to be in constant communication with their peers, they expect an individualized instruction and a personalized learning environment, which automatically adapt to their individual needs. The challenge in this context is to provide intelligent and adaptive support for collaborative learning, taking into consideration the individual differences between learners. This workshop deals with current research on the interplay between collaboration and personalization issues for supporting intelligent learning environments. Its aim is to provide a forum for discussing new trends and initiatives in this area, including research about the planning, development, application, and evaluation of intelligent learning environments, where people can learn together in a personalized way through social interaction with other learners. The workshop is targeted at academic researchers, developers, educationists and practitioners interested in innovative uses of social media and adaptation techniques for the advancement of intelligent learning environments. The proposed field is interdisciplinary and very dynamic, taking into account the recent advent of Web 2.0 and ubiquitous personalization, and it is hoped to attract a large audience. TOPICS OF INTEREST ================== The workshop welcomes submissions covering aspects of collaboration, social interactions, adaptivity and personalization in technology enhanced learning, particularly related to issues about: * Social learning environments * Theory and modeling of social computing in education * Web 2.0 tools for collaborative learning * Personal learning environments * Lifelong learning networks * Virtual spaces for learning communities * Social networks analysis and mining * Computer-supported collaborative learning * Personalized and adaptive learning * Adaptation methods and techniques for groups of learners * Intelligent learner and group modeling * Collaborative filtering and recommendations for learners * Game-based social learning * Personalized mobile learning applications * Cloud-based social learning * Intelligent agent technology for social learning * Metadata, folksonomies and tagging * Semantic web and ontologies for personalized learning * Cognitive, motivational and affective aspects for personalization * Practice and experience sharing PAPER SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION ================================== The workshop papers should be formatted according to the Springer LNCS Authors Guidelines (http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0) The length of the manuscript should not exceed 6 pages for short papers and 10 pages for full papers. Papers should be submitted in PDF format, through the Easychair system: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=spel2017. All accepted workshop papers will be published in a post-conference proceedings volume in Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS). IMPORTANT DATES =============== Abstract submission: June 18, 2017 (extended, strict!) Full paper submission: June 25, 2017 (extended, strict!) Acceptance notification: July 12, 2017 Registration and camera-ready papers: July 25, 2017 Conference dates: September 20-22, 2017 WORKSHOP CHAIRS ================ Elvira Popescu - University of Craiova, Romania Sabine Graf - Athabasca University, Canada Please refer to the workshop website (http://software.ucv.ro/~epopescu/spel2017) for more information and contact us at: popescu_elvira(a)software.ucv.ro or sabineg(a)athabascau.ca for any inquiry.

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Gender, sexuality and digital culture: A half day symposium at City, University of London, 20 June 2017
by Ehrstein, Yvonne 06 Jun '17

06 Jun '17

GENDER, SEXUALITY AND DIGITAL CULTURE A half day symposium at City, University of London, University Building B200, Northampton Square, EC1V 0HB June 20th 2.00-7.30pm //// Wine reception @7.30PM Keynotes: Winnie M Li and Rowan Ellis New and established scholars and activists reflect on old questions and new challenges. Please join us for an afternoon of talks and discussion at City, in central London, to be followed by drinks and refreshments. Sue Jackson (VUW, New Zealand) talks about her work with girls on feminism Roisin Ryan Flood (Essex) reports on her interviews about internet dating Josie Reade (RMIT, Australia) opens up new ways of thinking about ‘fitspo’ Maree Martinussen (Auckland, New Zealand) explores practices of intimacy in female friendships. Anastasia Powell (RMIT, Australia) talks about her new book Sexual Violence in a Digital Age Laura Thompson (City, London) explores sexual harassment on mobile dating apps Celiya Koster (activist/student, London) discusses co-founding a new intersectional feminist magazine, Typical Girls We are delighted that the symposium will be followed by two very special keynote presentations by Winnie M Li and Rowan Ellis (6-7.30PM) Winnie M Li, author, activist, researcher (LSE) will talk about her extraordinary new novel Dark Chapter, discussing ‘Narrating Lived Experiences of Sexual Violence through Crime Fiction’ @Winniemli Rowan Ellis (‘queer feminist geek’) will discuss her phenomenal campaign to get YouTube to lift their LGBTQ+ restrictions @HeyRowanEllis Followed by a wine reception at 7.30PM Free and open to all but booking essential. Book here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/gender-sexuality-and-digital-culture-a-half-… Organised by the Gender and Sexuality Research Forum at City and supported by the Department of Sociology https://blogs.city.ac.uk/gsrf/ http://www.city.ac.uk/arts-social-sciences/sociology

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Call for Proposals – Radical Networks – October 19-22, 2017 – Brooklyn, NY #radnets
by Joly MacFie 06 Jun '17

06 Jun '17

The Internet Society has sponsored the webcast of this for the last two years. 2016 - https://livestream.com/internetsociety/radnetworks/videos 2015 - https://livestream.com/internetsociety/radicalnetworks/videos and hope to do the same this. Well worth participation, either as a presenter, as an attendee, or, especially, as a sponsor. Put it in your calendar! * <http://radicalnetworks.org/>* *Radical Networks - October 19-22, 2017 - Brooklyn, NY* *http://radicalnetworks.org/ <http://radicalnetworks.org/>* *Call For Proposals!* >From mass surveillance to the over-commercialization of the World Wide Web, the concept of a free and open Internet is being threatened by corporate interests and over-reaching governments. Radical Networks is a festival and a conference, designed to foster critical discussions around these issues and to create opportunities to learn more about policy, DIY networking and the future of the Internet. Artists, lawyers, engineers, writers, policy makers, educators, scientists, journalists, community organizers, and more are invited to present their ideas in this year’s Radical Networks. Submit a proposal for a workshop, a session, a talk, a performance or to participate in the art exhibition. Some possible topics include: Offline networks Mesh networks Local networks for community Experimental application of computer networks Networks for political activism Network security for ordinary citizens Artistic use of computer networks Personal networks Bringing connectivity to rural areas Experimental social networks Control and ownership of networks Ethical hacking ...and anything else that takes a fresh or critical look at how networks are used. *Submissions are due by Friday June 30, 2017 at 11:59pm.* To *submit your proposal*, follow the instructions at *http://radicalnetworks.org/participate/ <http://radicalnetworks.org/participate/>* The call for participation is open to all! Women, people of color, LGBTSTGNC, immigrants, and differently-abled folks are encouraged to apply! *Sponsorship* If you are interested in providing a tax-deductible financial, food or drink, or materials sponsorship to Radical Networks, please get in touch with Sarah at sarah(a)radicalnetworks.org <https://mail.google.com/mail/?view=cm&fs=1&tf=1&to=sarah@radicalnetworks.org> . Comment <http://isoc-ny.org/p2/9209#respond> See all comments <http://isoc-ny.org/p2/9209#comments> *Permalink* http://isoc-ny.org/p2/9209 -- --------------------------------------------------------------- Joly MacFie 218 565 9365 Skype:punkcast -------------------------------------------------------------- -

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CFP Special Issue Nordicom Review (OPEN ACCESS)
by Anja Bechmann 06 Jun '17

06 Jun '17

Call for papers: NORDICOM Review (OPEN ACCESS) Making sense of small and big data as onlife traces Special issue editors: Anja Bechmann, Associate Professor at Aarhus University & Visiting Assoc. Professor at UCI and Kjetil Sandvik, Associate Professor at University of Copenhagen. Onlife designates the transformational reality that in contemporary developed societies, our offline and online experiences and lives are inextricably interwoven (Simon & Ess 2015). Our onlives produce digital traces or footprints, some of which are produced before birth by our parents and continue to exist even after our death (in the shape of registers, bank accounts, social media profiles etc.). This special issue of Nordicom Review examines and discusses how we create meaning in and make sense of small and big data as onlife traces. The fields of qualitative and quantitative studies are often depicted as each other’s counterpart. Yet, when researchers study onlife as a way of conceptualizing the digital layer of our lives, we meet similar obstacles. One of the major questions is how can we infer meaning from the digital traces made by the user to the actual use/praxis or partial to the human(s) behind (incentives, motives, needs)? This is a classical methodological question within communication and behavioural studies that has a renewed interest in the digital social sciences as we discover methodological trajectories into the onlife, be it studies of Internet of Things, apps (e.g. social media, games, self-trackers), or other digital communication and behaviours as traces of digital sociology. Both small and big data studies approaches have tried to ‘solve’ this problem of inference by suggesting triangulation as methodological approach. Within big data studies more data on more users, multiple data points or data over a longer time span on the same user are used to create more ‘clear signals’ and to strengthen the predictions of the motives, ideologies, incentives, and needs of a specific user. Qualitative studies use for instance multisided ethnography and methodological triangulation to heighten the validity of findings when it comes to clearly understand the user and the use behind onlife traces. In a time where user data have become sharable and tradable commodities and where governments, media, health and financial sectors build actions and decisions on top of predictions inferred from data traces of human communication and behaviour in digital spaces it is maybe more important than ever to understand and discuss not if we can make a solid one-to-one interpretation, but how we can advance our inferences or at least explicitly discuss in various studies how we have solved or coped with this issue by advancing our research questions, our methodological approaches, philosophical background or conceptual understanding. We are interested in papers that study onlife empirically and – in this connection – discuss the methods used to infer meaning from data traces to the usage or users behind. Furthermore, we are looking for empirical studies that use and discuss methods to extract meaningful (sociological) findings out of small and big data and discuss the methodological challenges in doing so. We are also looking for philosophical and theoretical contribution (on e.g. AI reasoning) and historical contribution tracking methodological or theoretical conceptualizations of ‘meaning’ and sense-making in combination with traces of use within the framework of understanding digital traces in a sociological perspective. Furthermore, we encourage ethnographic papers studying developers’ work processes when extracting meaning from massive data and acting on top of such predictions. Contributions are not expected to ‘solve’ the ‘meaning’ problem, but by sampling a selection of papers that explicitly discuss this issue in various empirical contexts we hope the special issue can point to further directions in the field of digital sociology. As such, contributors are urged to relate their proposals to the concepts of meaning- and sense-making taking into account that meaning-making is more than a methodological, theoretical and philosophical concept: it is related to how we empirically propose understandings of big as well as small data. Topics may include but are not limited to: -empirical studies of digital traces within a sociological framework -empirical or theoretical studies on transmissions from user data to actual usage -empirical studies of cross-platform usage as indicators of digital user practices -empirical studies or theoretical studies of representation in big data analysis and relations between big data and small data -empirical studies of algorithms and media platform usage -theoretical and methodological discussions on digital sociology, e.g. (lack of) context sensitivity in machine learning (e.g. neural networks or clustering models) applied to digital sociology -historical accounts of ‘meaning’ and ‘reasoning’ in AI, and of ‘meaning’ and ‘sense-making’ in qualitative studies within digital sociology -human-machine communication studies of bots -STS studies of developers’ work processes with big data and machine learning; critical discussions on internet profiling, algorithms and AI; auditing studies of machine learning algorithms; ontologies and (lack of) classifiers in big data and associated machine learning methods Key dates: 1 September 2017: Deadline for abstracts (max. 500 words, excl. references, and additionally a short author bio, max. 150 words). Send submissions to: Anja Bechman<https://www.facebook.com/anjabp?fref=mentions>n (anjabechmann(a)cc.au.dk<mailto:anjabechmann@cc.au.dk> ) and Kjetil Sandvik<https://www.facebook.com/kjetilsandvik?fref=mentions> (sandvik(a)hum.ku.dk<mailto:sandvik@hum.ku.dk> ) with the text “Abstract proposal for Nordicom Special Issue 2018” in the subject line. 1 November 2017: Notification of authors. 1 April 2018: Deadline for full papers (7000 words). 1 June 2018: reviewers’ comments for the authors 1 September 2018: Revised versions from the authors Preliminary date for publication: Winther 2018/2019 All full papers will undergo double-blind peer review, and acceptance of an abstract does not guarantee publication. For questions regarding the special issue, contact: Anja Bechmann<https://www.facebook.com/anjabp?fref=mentions> (anjabechmann(a)cc.au.dk<mailto:anjabechmann@cc.au.dk> ) and Kjetil Sandvik<https://www.facebook.com/kjetilsandvik?fref=mentions> (sandvik(a)hum.ku.dk<mailto:sandvik@hum.ku.dk> ) For questions regarding Nordicom Review, contact:Ingela Wadbring<https://www.facebook.com/ingela.wadbring?fref=mentions> (ingela.wadbring(a)nordicom.gu.se<mailto:ingela.wadbring@nordicom.gu.se> ). Most sincerely, Anja Bechmann Visiting Assoc. Professor, PhD 1(808) 200-8552 anja.bechmann(a)uci.edu<mailto:anja.bechmann@uci.edu> https://www.ics.uci.edu/ www.datalab.au.dk<http://www.datalab.au.dk> www.digitalsociety.dk<http://www.digitalsociety.dk> Donald Bren School of Information & Computer Sciences University of California, Irvine Evoke & eMedia LAB, CaliT2 Irvine, CA 92697-3425

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another round of cfp International Handbook of Internet Research v2
by Jeremy Hunsinger 05 Jun '17

05 Jun '17

(as several of the editors had life events happen, and we need around 20-30 more chapters before our deadline, we are having a another round for the CFP) Call for Abstracts for Chapters Volume 2 of the International Handbook of Internet Research (editors Jeremy Hunsinger, Lisbeth Klastrup, and Matthew Allen) Abstracts due July 17; full chapters due Sept. 1 2017 After the remarkable success of the first International Handbook of Internet Research (2010), Springer has contracted with its editors to produce a second volume. This new volume will be arranged in two sections, that address one of two different aspects of internet research: foundations, and futures. Each of these meta-themes will have its own section of the new handbook. Foundations will approach a method, a theory, a perspective, a topic or field that has been and is still a location of significant internet research. These chapters will engage with the current and historical scholarly literature through extended reviews and also as a way of developing insights into the internet and internet research. Futures will engage with the directions the field of internet research might take over the next five years. These chapters will engage current methods, topics, perspectives, or fields that will expand and re-invent the field of internet research, particularly in light of emerging social and technological trends. The material for these chapters will define the topic they describe within the framework of internet research so that it can be understand as a place of future inquiry. We value the way in which this call for papers will itself shape the contents, themes, and coverage of the Handbook. We encourage potential authors to present abstracts that will consolidate current internet research, critically analyse its directions past and future, and re-invent the field for the decade to come. Contributions about the internet and internet research are sought from scholars in any discipline, and from many points of view. We therefore invite internet researchers working within the fields of communication, culture, politics, sociology, law and privacy, aesthetics, games and play, surveillance and mobility, amongst others, to consider contributing to the volume. Initially, we ask scholars and researchers to submit an 500 word abstract detailing their own chapter for one of the two sections outlined above. The abstract must follow the format presented below. After the initial round of submissions, there may be a further call for papers and/or approaches to individuals to complete the volume. The final chapters will be chosen from the submitted abstracts by the editors or invited by the editors. The chapter writers will be notified of acceptance within 2 weeks. The chapters will be due September 2017, should be between 6,000 and 10,000 words (inclusive of references, biographical statement and all other text). Each abstract needs to be presented in the following form: · Section (Either Foundations or Futures) · Title of chapter · Author name/s, institutional details · Corresponding author’s email address · Keywords (no more than 5) · Abstract (no more than 500 words) · References Please e-mail your abstract/s to: internet.research.handbook(a)gmail.com We look forward to your submissions and working with you to produce another definitive collection of thought-provoking internet research. Please feel free to distribute this CfP widely. Thank you Jeremy, Lisbeth, and Matt

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