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New MPA in Digital Technologies and Public Policy @ UCL
by Madeline Carr 03 Jan '18

03 Jan '18

Hi all, I've recently moved to UCL where I am initiating a new MPA in Digital Technologies and Public Policy <http://www.ucl.ac.uk/steapp/study/masters/2018-19/digital-technologies-and-…>. The program prepares future leaders and decision makers working in policy to meet the challenges and opportunities presented by today's fast-evolving digital technologies. The program has a strong applied element that involves co-produced group research projects between the students and policy 'clients' from the public and private sectors. I'm looking for ambitious, open-minded, curious students who are willing to step out of their disciplinary silos to work collaboratively with students from across the University. We've got some generous scholarships available <http://www.ucl.ac.uk/steapp/study/masters/funding-and-scholarships> and I'd be very grateful if you would circulate news of this for me. Getting new programs off the ground is always a struggle in the first year so any support would be much appreciated! Thanks, Madeline Dr Madeline Carr Associate Professor of International Relations and Cyber Security Department of Science, Technology, Engineering and Public Policy (STEaPP) University College London mobile: +44 (0)752 867 2088 email: madelinemcarr@gmailcom twitter: @MadelineCarr *Recently published...* 'Cyberspace and International Order' in *The Anarchical Society at 40: Contemporary Challenges and Prospects. <https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-anarchical-society-at-40-978019…> *Hidemi Suganami, Madeline Carr and Adam Humphreys (eds). Oxford: OUP, 2017

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ICA Pre-Conference “ARTICULATING VOICE. THE EXPRESSIVITY AND PERFORMATIVITY OF MEDIA PRACTICES”
by Leif Kramp 03 Jan '18

03 Jan '18

ICA 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 Deadline for proposals: 10 January 2018 (300-500 words abstract) Location: Main Conference Hotel 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[at]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[at]sns.it) or Christian Pentzold (christian.pentzold[at]uni-bremen.de). More info can be found here: http://www.zemki.uni-bremen.de/de/veranstaltungen/tagungen/articulating-voi…

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January 15 deadline - Special Issue on Contemporary Issues in Social Media
by Abeza, Gashaw 02 Jan '18

02 Jan '18

Colleagues, This is a reminder regarding the call for papers for the IJSC special issue on "Contemporary Issues in Social Media in Sport." The submission deadline is January 15, 2018. For details, please follow this weblink: http://journals.humankinetics.com/page/news/ijsc. Please reach out to the guest editors of this special issue - Drs. Gashaw Abeza, Norm O'Reilly, and Benoit Seguin - at gabeza(a)smu.edu<mailto:gabeza@smu.edu>, oreillyn(a)ohio.edu<mailto:oreillyn@ohio.edu>, and bseguin(a)uottawa.ca<mailto:bseguin@uottawa.ca> for any questions. Regards, Gashaw _________________________________________ Gashaw Abeza, PhD Clinical Assistant Professor Applied Physiology and Sport Management Program Annette Caldwell Simmons School of Education and Human Development Southern Methodist University 3101 University Blvd. Dallas, TX 75275-0382

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References on ethics and co-creation for postgraduates in Fashion Design and Management
by Marta Delatte 02 Jan '18

02 Jan '18

Dear all, I'm teaching a 3h workshop on ethics and co-creation for postgraduates in Fashion Design and Management. We will be seeing some examples of collaboration, co-creation, exploitation cultural appropriation and homage, and I am looking for some interesting references (papers, case studies, blog posts, news articles... all welcome) One of the case studies that I was planning to discuss is Isabel Marant's apropiation of Mixe embroidery in her 2015 collection https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/mexico-prevents-indigenous-designs-fro… Also, I would love some recommendations on your favourite co-creation manuals for postgrads and undergrads. Of course, I will put it all together and share it here afterwards, as usual in this community <3 Thanks *Marta Delatte *Creative Director and Co-Founder ellenjames.net <http://www.ellenjames.net/> @martadelatte Research Director liquendatalab.com <https://www.liquendatalab.com/> @liquen_ PhD Candidate Media & Memory Research Initiative <http://www2.hull.ac.uk/fass/mamri.aspx> University of Hull (UK) 0034 639023906 (currently in Barcelona)

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Call for Applications: MA in Communication Studies, Wilfrid Laurier University, CANADA
by Andrew Herman 02 Jan '18

02 Jan '18

Call for applications M.A. in Communication Studies Wilfrid Laurier University | Waterloo Deadlines: January 15, 2018: Applications for first consideration to regular stream MA program due January 5, 2018: Co-op Stream Closes (no applications accepted after this date) Apply here<https://www.wlu.ca/admissions-toolkits/graduate-admissions-toolkit/index.ht…>. The Department of Communication Studies at Wilfrid Laurier University welcomes applications to its M.A. program. Our program has two streams: a co-op stream<https://www.wlu.ca/programs/arts/graduate/communication-studies-ma/program-…> that takes 16 months to complete; and our regular stream that takes 1 year to complete. Both programs offer critical engagement with core perspectives in communication studies as well as contemporary research methodologies and practices. Students in the one-year, full-time program typically take three courses each term (Fall and Winter) and complete a Major Research Paper in the Spring/Summer. Students registered in the co-op program generally complete the co-op placement in Spring/Summer and the Major Research Paper in the following Fall term. Our courses for the 2018/2019 academic year are: Platform Studies Network Cultures Critical Discourse Studies Communication Studies Research Methods Graduate Seminar in Communication Studies Global Cultures: Hybrids, Homogeneities, and Flows We have a large, supportive, and interdisciplinary faculty consisting of established and emerging researchers in areas of specialization that include mobile and social media, visual communication, media history, Internet studies, transnationalism, cultural policy, alternative media, and creative industries. Our MA cohorts are generally small and the Communication Studies department has on campus facilities that support student research, including a media lab. The M.A. Program in Communication Studies is offered at Laurier’s campus in Waterloo, Ontario, a university-oriented region with a thriving media technology sector. All applicants are considered for an entrance scholarship. M.A. students are employed as Teaching Assistants in undergraduate Communication Studies courses, and have the opportunity to work as Research Assistants to funded faculty members. Students who hold a major external award (e.g., SSHRC Canada Graduate Scholarship) are eligible for additional scholarship funding. Graduates from our program have pursued doctoral studies and launched professional communication careers in a variety of private, public sector, and non-profit organizations. For more information, see our website here: CS MA at Laurier<https://www.wlu.ca/programs/arts/graduate/communication-studies-ma/index.ht…>. Or contact Dr. Alexandra Boutros, Graduate Program Coordinator, at aboutros(a)wlu.ca<http://aboutros@wlu.ca/>. You can also follow us on Twitter: @LaurierCommGrad<https://twitter.com/LaurierCommGrad>. Graduate Faculty Alexandra Boutros (Ph.D., McGill University) critical race theory, digital technology, transnationalism and diaspora, religion and media Greig de Peuter (Ph.D., Simon Fraser University) political economy, labour, creative industries, video games Jonathan Finn (Ph.D., University of Rochester) visual communication and culture, visual evidence, sport studies Jenna Hennebry (Ph.D., University of Western Ontario) international migration, mobility, globalization, transnationalism, human rights Andrew Herman (Ph.D., Boston College) materialist mobile media/internet studies/methodologies Paul Heyer (Ph.D., Rutgers University) media history (film, radio, television), nonverbal communication Jeremy Hunsinger (Ph.D., Virginia Tech) internet studies, virtual worlds, digital games, technology studies, interpretive methods Penelope Ironstone (Ph.D., York University) risk/health communication, gender/queer media, cultural theory Barbara Jenkins (Ph.D., Yale University) political economy, visual culture, cultural policy, museums Anne-Marie Kinahan (Ph.D., Carleton University) visual communication, print culture, communication history, feminism Sara Matthews (Ph.D., York University) war, memory, contemporary art, psychoanalysis, social conflict museums, public pedagogy Jade Miller (Ph.D., University of Southern California) global media, media industries, urban studies, political economy Martin Morris (Ph.D., York University) communications thought, social and political theory, popular culture Judith Nicholson (Ph.D., Concordia University) mobilities, race and media, human-animal studies Herbert Pimlott (Ph.D., Goldsmiths College, University of London) alternative media, cultural politics, public communication Nathan Rambukkana (Ph.D., Concordia University) discourse analysis, digital intimacies, critical race theory, the public sphere, hybridity Ian Roderick (Ph.D., Monash University) visual communication, technology, semiotics, sociolinguistics Peter Urquhart (Ph.D., McGill University) television, film, media history, visual communication

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Wednesday, January 24 - Social Network Analysis webinar
by Alessandro Zonin 02 Jan '18

02 Jan '18

Hi all, glad to inform you that Wednesday, January 24 will take place a Social Network Analysis webinar: WEBINAR (in english) Introduction to Social Network Analysis - Wednesday, January 24, 2018 from 4:00 PM to 6:00 PM (CET) https://www.eventbrite.com/e/webinar-introduction-to-social-network-analysi… Cannot attend? The same course is also available online: 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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Haifa LINKS Symposium on Content Producers: Incentives, Motivations and Value Creation
by Lior Zalmanson 02 Jan '18

02 Jan '18

Dear Friends and Colleagues, On behalf of the organizing committee, I am pleased to invite you to take part in our upcoming two-day symposium on: *Content Producers: Incentives, Motivations and Value Creation.* which will focus on the future of professional independent content producers and will include topics such as: gig economy, crowdfunding and future of the small newsroom. Our keynote speakers are: · Vili Lehdonvirta, Oxford University · Axel Bruns, Queensland University of Technology · Joel Waldfogel, University of Minnesota Program can be found here: https://tel-design.wixsite. com/links-conference2018/content-producers The event is planned so as to enable mutual acquaintance, discussion and joint research ideas generation. Inviting you to Israel in the coldest month of the year (in the northern hemisphere) means that the weather you will experience here is likely better than elsewhere J It is also President's Day weekend, a long weekend in the U.S.. Please see the program in the attached file and register in advance <https://www.formlets.com/forms/FLCfn5kiji4RTwLx/%0D/> because space is limited. You are welcome to forward the invitation to colleagues who may be interested. Questions and comments are welcome. Lior Zalmanson, Daphne Raban, Sheizaf Rafaeli, David Bodoff, Lina Portnoy Dr. Lior Zalmanson Faculty of Management University of Haifa lzalmanson(a)univ.haifa.ac.il

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Centre of Excellence in Game Culture Studies: Call for Applications
by Frans Mäyrä 02 Jan '18

02 Jan '18

There are multiple game researcher positions available for applications in the new Centre of Game Culture Studies (in Universities of Tampere, Turku, Jyväskylä), see: https://coe-gamecult.org/. Note that the deadline for Tampere team positions is already 5th January, this Friday. Best regards, — Frans Mäyrä -- -- Frans Mäyrä @ mobile

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FW: PhD scholarships
by Paul Henman 01 Jan '18

01 Jan '18

Apologies for cross posting. -----Original Message----- From: Philip Gillingham Dear All I have two PhD scholarships to start next year, one in my project, 'Transforming information system use and design in social welfare' and one in my project 'The use and efficacy of assessment tools and practice frameworks in child welfare'. Please pass this on to anyone you think might be interested and within your networks. More details and instructions on how to apply can be found at the UQ Graduate School website: https://graduate-school.uq.edu.au/project-scholarships#18 Season's greetings Philip Dr Philip Gillingham ARC Future Fellow School of Nursing, Midwifery and Social Work Level 3, Chamberlain Building, The University of Queensland 4072 T: +61 7 3365 1842| E: p.gillingham(a)uq.edu.au |W: www.nmsw.uq.edu.au Latest publication: "The evaluation of practice frameworks for social work with children and families: exploring the challenges. Journal of Public Child Welfare". Available at http://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/qPrmVt7I5qGfkmUZjv89/full For recent publications, go to. http://researchers.uq.edu.au/researcher/2576 or view my profile at researchgate.net or LinkedIn.com

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digital trans reading list
by Oliver Haimson 01 Jan '18

01 Jan '18

Happy new year everyone! In the past few years as I’ve been working on my PhD research about gender transition and social media, I have compiled a list of all of the published research I have come across about transgender people and digital technology, digital and social media, and the Internet. The list is on my website and is sortable by author, year, title, item type, or publication venue: http://oliverhaimson.com/digitaltrans.html I wanted to share my list with you all so that it can be a resource for scholars who are also studying these topics, or who may want to start doing research in this area! I am certain that I am missing some important pieces, and I expect this list to grow over time. Please email me (ohaimson(a)uci.edu) with additions, and I will add them to the list. Disclaimer: I have read most but not all of these pieces, and while most of them are respectful and sensitive to trans people, some are not; yet I include them on the list for the sake of completeness. -- Oliver Haimson PhD Candidate, Informatics, UC Irvine oliverhaimson.com recent publications: - Relationship Breakup Disclosures and Media Ideologies on Facebook. O.L. Haimson, N. Andalibi, M. De Choudhury, G.R. Hayes. *New Media & Society*. - Changes in Social Media Affect, Disclosure, and Sociality for a Sample of Transgender Americans in 2016's Political Climate. O.L. Haimson, G.R. Hayes. *ICWSM 2017*.

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