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Search for Tenure Track Position at the Department of Communication, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
by Neta Kligler-Vilenchik 17 Jul '17

17 Jul '17

The Noah Mozes Department of Communication and Journalism <http://communication.mscc.huji.ac.il/> at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem invites outstanding candidates to apply for a tenure-track position starting July, 2018. For more information about our faculty and research please visit: https://scholars.huji.ac.il/smart Applicants must hold a Ph.D. degree at the time of hire, and demonstrate an active research program, indicating the potential for outstanding scholarship. Ability to teach in Hebrew is required. Deadline for applications: September 26, 2017. Please see our website for additional information on the application process: http://communication.huji.ac.il/

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New OA book - Trevor Smith: Politicizing Digital Space
by Christian Fuchs 16 Jul '17

16 Jul '17

Trevor Garrison Smith: Politicizing Digital Space - Theory, the Internet, and Renewing Democracy New book in the open access book series "Critical Digital and Social Media Studies" (ed. Christian Fuchs), published by University of Westminster Press http://www.uwestminsterpress.co.uk/si…/books/10.16997/book5/ The objective of this book is to outline how a radically democratic politics can be reinvigorated in theory and practice through the use of the internet. The author argues that politics in its proper sense can be distinguished from anti-politics by analyzing the configuration of public space, subjectivity, participation, and conflict. Each of these terrains can be configured in a more or less political manner, though the contemporary status quo heavily skews them towards anti-political configuration. Using this understanding of what exactly politics entails, this book considers how the internet can both help and hinder efforts to move each area in a more political direction. By explicitly interpreting contemporary theories of the political in terms of the internet, this analysis avoids the twin traps of both technological determinism and technological cynicism. Raising awareness of what the word ‘politics’ means, the author develops theoretical work by Arendt, Rancière, Žižek and Mouffe to present a clear and coherent view of how in theory, politics can be digitized and alternatively how the internet can be deployed in the service of trulydemocratic politics.

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New OA book - Trevor Smith: Politicizing Digital Space
by Christian Fuchs 16 Jul '17

16 Jul '17

Trevor Garrison Smith: Politicizing Digital Space - Theory, the Internet, and Renewing Democracy New book in the open access book series "Critical Digital and Social Media Studies" (ed. Christian Fuchs), published by University of Westminster Press http://www.uwestminsterpress.co.uk/si…/books/10.16997/book5/ The objective of this book is to outline how a radically democratic politics can be reinvigorated in theory and practice through the use of the internet. The author argues that politics in its proper sense can be distinguished from anti-politics by analyzing the configuration of public space, subjectivity, participation, and conflict. Each of these terrains can be configured in a more or less political manner, though the contemporary status quo heavily skews them towards anti-political configuration. Using this understanding of what exactly politics entails, this book considers how the internet can both help and hinder efforts to move each area in a more political direction. By explicitly interpreting contemporary theories of the political in terms of the internet, this analysis avoids the twin traps of both technological determinism and technological cynicism. Raising awareness of what the word ‘politics’ means, the author develops theoretical work by Arendt, Rancière, Žižek and Mouffe to present a clear and coherent view of how in theory, politics can be digitized and alternatively how the internet can be deployed in the service of trulydemocratic politics.

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Call for Proposals: Computers and Composition special issue on Digital Technologies, Bodies, and Embodiments
by Phil Bratta 15 Jul '17

15 Jul '17

Dear all, It's my pleasure to invite you to submit a proposal to a special issue in *Computers and Composition* ( https://www.journals.elsevier.com/computers-and-composition) focused on Digital Technologies, Bodies, and Embodiments. I have attached the CFP as well as provided it below. Thanks! Phil Bratta *Context* In the last five years or so, rhetoric and composition scholarship has offered work that brings digital media and bodies to the forefront to shape pedagogical praxis, illuminate cultural practices, and extend composition studies (into writing studies). Yet, much of this scholarship remains focused on the *rhetorical* construction of embodiment, as indicated by several recent journal special issues: Perspectives and Definitions of Digital Rhetoric (*Enculturation *23 2016), Wearable Rhetorics: Bodies, Cities, Collectives (*Rhetoric Society Quarterly *46.3 2016), Embodied and Affective Rhetorics (*Present Tense *6.1 2016), Embodied Sound (*Kairos* 21.1 2016), and Sexing Colorlines: Black Sexualities, Popular Culture, and Cultural Production (*Poroi* 7.2 2011). The advent and, now, ubiquity of digital media and digital writing practices demands a rethinking of the relationships between rhetoric, bodies, embodiments, and writing (as broadly construed): how writing embodies and composes a writer; how writing embodies and composes others; and, inversely, how bodies and embodiments compose hegemonic regimes of—or sites of resistance to—contemporary writing modalities, both in and outside the writing classroom. This special issue will examine questions of digital media, bodies, and embodiments with specific attention to writing studies itself: how writing composes embodiments and how embodiments compose writing within and through digital technologies and institutions. We are calling for scholarship that offers theoretical, methodological, and/or pedagogical work that contributes to the latest research on, about, with, and between (dis)connections of digital technologies, bodies, embodiments, and writing in digital-cultural contexts, texts, and events. Following *Computers and Composition*’s emphasis on the use of computers and digital technologies in teaching and the writing classroom, writing program administration, and writing research, we are particularly interested in submissions that apply theoretical methods to the practical dimension of the field. To this end, our special issue of *Computers and Composition* seeks to continue and extend some of the ideas in the journal’s past and forthcoming special issues, such as Jonathan Alexander and Will Banks’ “Sexualities, Technologies, and the Teaching of Writing” (2004) and Jason Tham, Megan McGrath, Ann Hill Duin, and Joe Moses’ forthcoming “Wearable Technology, Ubiquitous Computing, and Immersive Experience: Implications for Writing Studies.” For this special issue, we distinguish “the body” and “embodiment” as different conceptual terms—a move laid out by N. Katherine Hayles and Anne Frances Wysocki. The body, according to Hayles, is abstract and normalized; embodiment, in contrast, is an instantiated materiality, a corporeality that cannot be separated from its medium and context (196). We might conclude that the body is general and embodiment is particular. Likewise, Wysocki asserts that embodiment “calls us to attend to what we just simply do, day to day, moving about, communicating with others, using objects that we simply use in order to make things happen” (3). Of course, embodiment and the body are always woven together in lived experiences and social contexts. The key is not to create a binary relationship between the two or privilege one over the other; rather, the two need to be conceptualized together as they are inextricably intertwined. Suggestions for topics that contributors may wish to engage with include, but are not limited to: rhetoric, composition, and writing; histories of composition, writing, and digital technologies; critical pedagogies, teaching praxes, and classroom practices; theoretical legacies (in praxis): feminism, post-colonial theory, decolonial theory, queer theory, critical race theory, poststructuralism, cultural rhetorics theory, etc.; digital humanities, digital media, and digital studies; art, creative-critical work/scholarship, and genre studies; disability studies; visual culture and rhetorics; new media and game studies; social justice, activism, and community outreach; space, place, and land; subjectivity, identity, agency, and difference; professional and technical communication and writing, UX/XA, and design; and computational rhetorics and analytics. Some possible questions authors may wish to engage (but are not required): 1. How do we account for the indistinguishable materiality between bodies, embodiments, and digital technologies, and how does writing negotiate this tension? 2. How do we consider the relations of bodies and embodiments to non-digital and digital places, technologies, and others? Likewise, how does the shift from non-digital to digital writing further complicate such relations? 3. What affordances and constraints do non-digital and digital writing technologies create for the bodies and embodiments of teachers and students in the classroom? 4. How do subjectivities and identities (race, gender, class, sexual orientation, nationality, dis/ability, age, and/or creed) factor into the use, accessibility, and practice of digital technologies and writing both in and outside the classroom? 5. How do writing program administrators create writing programs that tend to the complexities of embodiment, especially as digitally mediated? 6. How does the relationship between embodiment, identity, and ubiquitous computing challenge “traditional” conceptions of writing assessment? 7. What technologies, bodies, embodiments, and writing practices emerge, oppress, subvert, and augment if we consider ideas of space, place, and land? 8. What constitutes the meaning/content of a body and embodiment and the grammar/syntax of a body and embodiment, and how do we arrive at such? 9. How might art and artists illuminate dominant assumptions of embodied technologies, and how might writing studies take on such aesthetic methods? *Timeline* Proposals due: October 31, 2017 Decision to authors on preliminary inclusion: December 31, 2017 Initial drafts of 6,000-7,000 words to guest editors: June 30, 2018 Article revisions due to guest editors: December 31, 2018 Publication of special issue: September 2019 *Submission and Contact Details* Individuals or co-authors should submit a 300-500 word proposal that gives an overview of the piece, including impetus and focus, and contribution to the field(s). Proposals should be submitted as .doc or .docx files to ssndvall(a)memphis.edu and philbratta(a)gmail.com. The subject line of the email submission should read “Special Issue Proposal: Digital Technologies, Bodies, and Embodiments.” For more information or queries, email Scott Sundvall and Phil Bratta: ssndvall(a)memphis.edu and philbratta(a)gmail.com -- 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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Schedule for the 2017 Digital Media and Learning Conference
by Jamieson Pond 14 Jul '17

14 Jul '17

Digital Media & Learning Conference 2017 October 4-6, 2017 / University of California, Irvine Connecting leading innovators, educators, and researchers The schedule for this year’s Digital Media and Learning Conference is now available online. The 2017 DML Conference is a two-day event happening October 5-6, 2017. In addition, a full day of hands-on pre-conference workshops, organized by top experts in the field, is being offered. Workshop topics range from courses in media making, learning analytics, program evaluation, and game design, to working sessions focused on delving into cutting edge problems in research and practice. The pre-conference workshop day is being held October 4, 2017. The 2017 DML Conference will include a keynote from danah boyd, founder and president of Data & Society, Esra'a Al-Shafei, a Bahraini civil rights activist, and Henry Jenkins, Provost’s Professor of Communication, Journalism, and Cinematic Arts at the University of Southern California. To learn more about this year’s DML Conference and the schedule of events, visit https://dml2017.dmlhub.net/. You can also get updates by following the Twitter hashtag #2017DML (https://twitter.com/hashtag/2017dml) Respectfully, Jamieson Pond, Research Community Manager Digital Media & Learning Research Hub jpond(a)hri.uci.edu (949) 824-6205 dmlhub.net | dmlcentral.net | clalliance.org | Spigot.org Twitter: @DMLResearchHub | @TheCLAlliance | @dmlconference Fb.com/dmlresearchhub

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Do you have Twitter assignments?
by Franklin Yartey 14 Jul '17

14 Jul '17

Dear Colleagues: Do any of you have any meaningful and effective Twitter assignments for 100 and 300 level social media classes you could consider sharing with me? I look forward to your responses. Thanks. Franklin -- Franklin Nii Amankwah Yartey, Ph.D Associate Professor of Communication Communication Department University of Dubuque 2000 University Ave Dubuque, Iowa, 52001 Office: Van Vliet 311 Email: fyartey(a)dbq.edu Phone: 563-589-3181 Fax: 563-589-3416 http://www.franklinyartey.com/ <http://www.dbq.edu/>

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Fwd: [Registration open] Data for Policy 2017 - Government by Algorithm?, 6-7 September, London
by Zeynep Engin 14 Jul '17

14 Jul '17

Dear Colleagues, We will appreciate if you could circulate this registration announcement in your networks. Thanks & kind regards, Zeynep *Dr Zeynep Engin* Department of Computer Science University College London ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Data for Policy 2017 <team(a)dataforpolicy.org> Date: 11 July 2017 at 14:26 Subject: [Registration open] Data for Policy 2017 - Government by Algorithm?, 6-7 September, London Register early to secure your place! 3rd Annual International Conference *Data for Policy 2017*: Government by Algorithm? 6-7 September 2017 | London dataforpolicy.org <http://dataforpolicy.us9.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=0e48a758fb1eccb009e…> | @dataforpolicy <http://dataforpolicy.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=0e48a758fb1eccb009ec…> Registration is now open for the Data for Policy 2017 conference – the third in a series of prestigious annual international conferences exploring the theories and applications of data science for government policy and research. Following the past two conferences at University of Cambridge, the UK Government Data Science Partnership (Go-Science, GDS, ONS) is hosting this year’s conference at Westminster Conference Centre (1VS) in London. Data for Policy 2017 is a truly unique international event not to be missed – *book early to secure a place! <http://dataforpolicy.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=0e48a758fb1eccb009ec…>* *Organisations represented include: * European Commission | University of Cambridge | New York University | The Alan Turing Institute | Harvard University | Jawharlal Nehru University, India | Network Rail, UK | Tel Aviv University, Israel | Stanford University | UNICEF | Zhejiang University, China | Greater London Authority | Open Data Institute | Full Fact | Tallinn University, Finland | Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy, UK| University of Washington | Federal University Lokoja, Nigeria | Overseas Development Institute, Indonesia | Ministry of Justice, UK | Nesta | University Sains Malaysia | Royal Statistical Society | University of Queensland, Australia | KU Leuven, Belgium | Eurostat | The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) | Department for Communities and Local Government, UK | UN Global Pulse | University of Zurich, Switzerland | Imperial College London | Vodafone | Bank of England | Cancer Research UK | Benefacts, Ireland | Metropolitan Police Service, UK | PricewaterhouseCoopers, UK | Carnegie Mellon University | Essex County Council | Administrative Data Research Network (ADRN) | Cambridge University Press | Hebrew University, Israel | Sage Publications | University of Essex | Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia | All Party Parliamentary Group on Data Analytics (APGDA), UK | Crowdjury, Argentina | Data-Pop Alliance | J-PAL North America | IP Australia | University of Oxford | Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand | University of Dublin, Ireland | Leiden University, Netherlands | itdUPM, Spain | Australian National University | Bocconi University, Italy | Nova School of Business and Economics, Portugal | GlassAI | Intel | The Local Data Company | French Biodiversity Agency | Social Coin | Pulse Lab Jakarta, Indonesia | University College London *Registration Deadlines:* Presenters Registration Deadline: Tuesday, 1st August 2017 Public Registration Deadline: Friday, 25th August 2017 * *Please note that public registration may be closed earlier if all spaces are filled before the deadline If you are interested in* sponsorship and exhibition opportunities* please get in touch via email – team(a)dataforpolicy.org Further information available on the conference website - dataforpolicy.org <http://dataforpolicy.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=0e48a758fb1eccb009ec…> *Copyright © 2017 Data for Policy, All rights reserved.*

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Final CFP: ICDIM 2017
by ijwa＠dline.info 14 Jul '17

14 Jul '17

Twelfth International Conference on Digital Information Management (ICDIM 2017) Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan September 12-14, 2017 www.icdim.org Technically and Financially co-sponsored by TEMS, IEEE ICDIM 2017 hosts the following co-located workshops during the conference. Third Workshop on Internet of Everything (IoE) Third International Workshop on 'Future Big Data' (FBD 2017) Third Workshop on Intelligent Information Systems (IIS 2017) Sixth Workshop on "Advanced Techniques on Data Analytics and Data Visualization" Following the successful earlier conferences at Bangalore (2006), Lyon (2007), London (2008), Michigan (2009) , Thunder Bay (2010), Melbourne (2011), Macau (2012), Islamabad (2013), Thailand (2014) Republic of Korea (South Korea)(2015) and Porto (2016), the Twelfth event is being organized at Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan in 2017. The International Conference on Digital Information Management is a multidisciplinary conference on digital information management, science and technology. The principal aim of this conference is to bring people in academia, research laboratories and industry together, and offer a collaborative platform to address the emerging issues and solutions in digital information science and technology. Digital Information technologies are gaining maturity and rapid momentum in adoption across disciplines. The digital community is producing new ways of using digital information technologies for integrating and making sense out of various data ranging from real/live streams and simulations to analytics data analysis, in support of mining of knowledge. The conference will feature original research and industrial papers on the theory, design and implementation of digital information systems, as well as demonstrations, tutorials, workshops and industrial presentations. The Twelfth International Conference on Digital Information Management will be held during September 12-14, 2017 at Fukuoka, Japan The topics in ICDIM 2017 include but are not confined to the following areas. Information Retrieval Data Grids, Data and Information Quality Big Data Management Temporal and Spatial Databases Data Warehouses and Data Mining Web Mining including Web Intelligence and Web 3.0 E-Learning, eCommerce, e-Business and e-Government Natural Language Processing XML and other extensible languages Web Metrics and its applications Enterprise Computing Semantic Web, Ontologies and Rules Human-Computer Interaction Artificial Intelligence and Decision Support Systems Knowledge Management Ubiquitous Systems Peer to Peer Data Management Interoperability Mobile Data Management Data Models for Production Systems and Services Data Exchange issues and Supply Chain Data Life Cycle in Products and Processes Case Studies on Data Management, Monitoring and Analysis Security and Access Control Information Content Security Mobile, Ad Hoc and Sensor Network Security Distributed information systems Information visualization Web services Quality of Service Issues Multimedia and Interactive Multimedia Image Analysis and Image Processing Video Search and Video Mining Cloud Computing Intelligence Systems Artificial Intelligence Applications + Proceedings - All the accepted papers will appear in the proceedings published by IEEE. - All papers will be fully indexed by IEEE Xplore. - All the ICDIM papers are indexed by DBLP. General Chair Taketoshi Ushiama (Kyushu University, Japan) Honorary Chair Toyohide Watanabe (Nagoya Industrial Science Research Institute, Japan) Organizing Chair Manabu Ohta (Okayama University, Japan) Local Arrangement Chair Toki Takeda (NTT, Japan) Program Chairs Ramiro Smano Robles, Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto Rua, Portugal Yao-Liang Chung, National Taiwan Ocean University, Taiwan Hung-Yuan Chung, National Central University, Taiwan Important Dates Full Paper Submission July 15, 2017 Notification of Authors August 08, 2017 Registration Due September 1, 2017 Camera Ready Due September 1, 2017 Workshops/Tutorials/Demos September 13, 2017 Main conference September 12-14, 2017 Submissions at- http://icdim.org/submission.html Contact: conference at icdim.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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2nd CfP - Japan in the Digital Age
by Esperanza Miyake 14 Jul '17

14 Jul '17

Japan in the Digital Age 2nd Call for Papers Saturday 28th October, 2017 The Shed, Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester Keynote Speakers * Prof. Ian Condry, Professor of Japanese Cultural Studies, Massachusetts Institute of Technology * Mr. Kazuhito Gen-I (?? ??), award-winning media practitioner, working on 2.5 Dimension project (theatre adaptation of anime, manga and videogame) Japan has been a place of fascination throughout the years, particularly to those interested in media and popular culture, business, science and technology, and other related areas such as transport and tourism. Yet surprisingly, there is little sustained discussion on how contemporary Japan is situated within the rapidly changing landscape of digital technologies in the New Millennium. How has digitisation changed Japanese aesthetics and values? Have mobile phone technologies altered the way Japanese business language is used? How does 'tradition' shape Japanese digital cultures? Such questions need urgent attention as currently, there are a number of significant and innovative digital initiatives in Japan which have impacted on Japanese culture and arts, technology, business and society, but are little known outside of Japan. We invite academics, PG students, industry researchers and practitioners for contributions which examine the transformation of Japan in the Digital Age, and the transformation of the Digital Age through Japanese culture, practice, politics, technologies, industries and beyond. The overall aim of the Symposium is to provide a supportive and inspiring environment to encourage cross-disciplinary and cross-sector dialogues, to learn about innovative digital projects in Japan, and to build a network of those engaged with Japan through their work and lives. Suggested topics include: - Digital technologies and Japanese popular culture (e.g. anime/manga, games, fashion) - Japanese digital identity, politics and society - Digital communications, Japanese language and business - Innovative Japanese digital design and technologies Please submit a 250-word abstract to e.miyake(a)mmu.ac.uk by 4th August 2017, using the following format: title + abstract; name of author(s); affiliation; email; key words. For any enquiries, please get in touch with Dr. Esperanza Miyake (e.miyake(a)mmu.ac.uk)? "Before acting on this email or opening any attachments you should read the Manchester Metropolitan University email disclaimer available on its website http://www.mmu.ac.uk/emaildisclaimer "

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Teaching: Replacing *NetSmart* (2012)
by Joseph Reagle 13 Jul '17

13 Jul '17

For the last five years I've been using Howard Rheingold's *Net Smart: How To Thrive Online* (2012). It's been great because it introduces lots of important ideas in the context of learning how to be a more informed and capable netizen. For example, how to be mindful, skeptical, and make use of the power of social networks. Five years on, though, the book is a bit dated (e.g., discussion of the del.icio.us social bookmarking site). I am thinking I should look for alternatives. I don't think I'll be able to find a single book to replace it, but I hope to find a more current reading or two (perhaps chapters from different books) that cover similar ground. I welcome recommendations! "Attention," ch=1 : multi-tasking; executive control; intention & mindfulness when online - Alex Soojung-Kim Pang, *The Distraction Addiction* (2013). Excellent, but a whole book rather than a chapter or two. "Crap detection," ch=2 : appropriate skepticism, finding credible sources, fake news "Participation power," ch=3 : participatory culture, folksonomy, playbor "Social-digital know-how," ch=4 : evolution of cooperation, Dunbar's number and scale, social dilemmas (tragedy of commons, public goods, prisoner's dilemma) "Social has a shape," ch=5 : strength of weak ties, 80/20, long tail I've put this in a Google Doc too, if you want to make a suggestion there. <https://docs.google.com/document/d/1hb5_jZAOSNriIOjmJGQkRyOGodeWb-XhyeUGU5i…> Thank you for any suggestions :-)

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