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AoIR Ethics Working Group 3.0 - suggestion for consideration
by Karen Davies 21 Feb '17

21 Feb '17

Whilst addressing the process of securing participant consent for my study that investigates language use in health discussion fora (anxiety disorders) the following concept became apparent: I suggest that the importance of utilising forum moderators’ knowledge and experience should not be underestimated; their understandings of group expectancies and constraints around group norms, constituted in the gatekeeper’s role, help to facilitate a richer and more contextually informed research ethics, which ultimately best serves the participants within a researcher’s care. Karen Davies PhD student - Lancaster University

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UPEC Summer School 2017: Impact Program (International Media, Political Action & Communication Technologies)
by Stephanie Wojcik 21 Feb '17

21 Feb '17

UPEC Summer School 2017: Impact Program (International Media, Political Action & Communication Technologies). Paris, July 3-13 2017 For the third consecutive year, the University of Paris-Est Créteil (UPEC, France) is organizing a summer school with a two-week English course program that will interest members of the list, particularly Master 2 or PHD students in social sciences who wish to specialize and / or benefit from an intensive training on the stakes of public, political and activist communication. You will find the educational and practical information on Impact (International Media, Political Action & Communication Technologies) at the following address : http://summerschool.u-pec.fr/courses-credits/impact-international-media-pol… Please feel free to hand out to any student who could be interested. Best wishes, Stéphanie Wojcik and Benjamin Ferron Dr. Stéphanie Wojcik Lecturer in Communication studies University of Paris Est Créteil (France) stephanie.wojcik(a)u-pec.fr<mailto:stephanie.wojcik@u-pec.fr> Scientific responsible for the DEL research network http://www.reseaudel.fr/ @reseauDEL / @stephaniewojcik

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Call for abstracts - Digital Food Cultures symposium
by Deborah Lupton 20 Feb '17

20 Feb '17

Dear all I am convening a symposium on Digital Food Cultures at the University of Canberra, Australia, 20 October 2017. The call for abstracts for papers to present at the symposium is now out. Please find the details here <https://simplysociology.wordpress.com/2017/02/05/call-for-abstracts-digital…> : All best wishes Deborah

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Media Position at University of Adelaide
by Sal Humphreys 20 Feb '17

20 Feb '17

Hi All, we are hiring in the Media Department at University of Adelaide in South Australia. Full time tenurable position. Please find position description at: http://careers.adelaide.edu.au/cw/en/job/495761/lecturer-in-media Applications close April 2 2017. Position to start 3 July. cheers Sal Dr Sal Humphreys Senior Lecturer Media Faculty of Arts University of Adelaide Australia Ph +61 8 8313 5227 email sal.humphreys(a)adelaide.edu.au http://researchers.adelaide.edu.au/profile/sal.humphreys

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CFP 2017 Doctoral Summer Seminar Wayne State University -- Free travel, lodging, meals
by K Eckert 20 Feb '17

20 Feb '17

Dear AoIR Members This may be of interest to some of you or your advisees/students. If you have questions about the event, please email Dr. Rahul Mitra, rahul.mitra(a)wayne.edu. Best regards Dr. Eckert CFP Wayne State University 2017 Summer Doctoral Student Seminar, June 5-7 Deadline: March 1, 2017 Paid travel, lodging and meals for accepted participants We invite applicants for the 2017 Summer Doctoral Seminar, to be held June 5-7, 2017, at Wayne State University. The seminar will accept 12-15 doctoral students from around the country/world, with travel, boarding and lodging expenses paid for. Over 3-4 days, doctoral students will work with guest scholar Patrice M Buzzanell of Purdue University, to hone their research agendas. The theme of the 2017 seminar is "Constructing Resilience in Career." Applications are due to Dr. Rahul Mitra, at rahul.mitra(a)wayne.edu by March 1, 2017. You should send: 1) a copy of your latest CV 2) a letter of support from your academic adviser 3) a 500 word statement of how attending this seminar fits with your research goals. BIO: Patrice M. Buzzanell is a Distinguished Professor of Communication in the Brian Lamb School of Communication and in the School of Engineering Education by courtesy at Purdue University. She serves as the Chair and Director of the Susan Bulkeley Butler Center for Leadership Excellence. Her scholarly interests center on career, praxis, and resilience. Editor or co-editor of four books: Case Studies in Organizational and Managerial Communication: Stretching Boundaries (in press), Distinctive Qualities in Communication (2010), Gender in Applied Communication Contexts (2004), and Rethinking Organizational and Managerial Communication from Feminist Perspectives (2000), she has authored more than 175 articles and chapters plus encyclopedia entries and numerous proceedings in engineering education and other disciplines. She currently serves on 16 editorial boards and has edited Management Communication Quarterly and other journals as associate or special issues editor. Fellow of the International Communication Association (ICA), she has served as ICA President as well as President of the Council of Communication Associations (CCA) and the Organization for the Study of Communication, Language and Gender (OSCLG). Most recently, she has been awarded the B. Aubrey Fisher Mentorship Award from ICA and Distinguished Scholar from the National Communication Association. Her NSF funded projects involve construct development and validation of engineering ethics scales, the everyday constitution of ethics in engineering design teams, and design thinking to engage in diversity and inclusion, socio-technical intersections, and formation of engineering professionals. Cultivating Resilience in Career The ways in which individuals and communities communicatively constitute resilience has garnered increasing attention from scholars and practitioners seeking to help themselves and others construct a “new normal” after disaster and loss. No longer reserved for major events and trauma, resilience has come to be understood as an ongoing process cultivated by and with others for difficulties on different levels. In this seminar we examine how communication offers a distinctive vantage point for understanding resilience. In organizing resilience in career, we consider both reintegration and transformation—in work-life, professional/occupational challenges, risk, safety, resilience labor, difference, policy, and network ties. Through resilience, we can design communicative spaces, processes, and possibilities for more socially just and sustainable systems of career, work, and personal life. More details on the seminar theme "Constructing Resilience in Career": The ways in which individuals and communities communicatively constitute resilience has garnered increasing attention from scholars and practitioners seeking to help themselves and others construct a “new normal” after disaster and loss. No longer reserved for major events and trauma, resilience has come to be understood as an ongoing process cultivated by and with others for difficulties on different levels. In this seminar we examine how communication offers a distinctive vantage point for understanding resilience. In organizing resilience in career, we consider both reintegration and transformation—in work-life, professional/occupational challenges, risk, safety, resilience labor, difference, policy, and network ties. Through resilience, we can design communicative spaces, processes, and possibilities for more socially just and sustainable systems of career, work, and personal life. About guest scholar Patrice M Buzzanell: Patrice M. Buzzanell is a Distinguished Professor of Communication in the Brian Lamb School of Communication and in the School of Engineering Education by courtesy at Purdue University. She serves as the Chair and Director of the Susan Bulkeley Butler Center for Leadership Excellence. Her scholarly interests center on career, praxis, and resilience. Editor or co-editor of four books, she has authored more than 175 articles and chapters plus encyclopedia entries and numerous proceedings in engineering education and other disciplines. She currently serves on 16 editorial boards, and has edited Management Communication Quarterly and other journals as associate or special issues editor. Fellow of the International Communication Association (ICA), she has served as ICA President as well as President of the Council of Communication Associations (CCA) and the Organization for the Study of Communication, Language and Gender (OSCLG). Most recently, she has been awarded the B. Aubrey Fisher Mentorship Award from ICA and Distinguished Scholar from the National Communication Association. Stine Eckert, Ph.D. Vice-Chair Feminist Scholarship Division, ICA Assistant Professor Department of Communication 571 Manoogian Hall Wayne State University Detroit, MI 48201 @stineeckert http://stineeckert.com/ https://wikidgrrls.wordpress.com/

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Virtual communities spanning multiple online platforms
by David Brake 20 Feb '17

20 Feb '17

Dear all, I have a grad student who wants to look into this really interesting question in a literature review essay (see below) - I don't know what literatures to suggest to her however - the texts I am familiar with about virtual community all tend to look at them on a single platform. Are there multi-sited ethnographies and other studies examining this you can suggest? > I would like to look at how presence on multiple platforms (eg, Facebook, Twitter, Web, Blog, etc) either strengthens or dilutes a community. This springs off of the discussion you and I had last week about how the platform shapes the community (or not to beat the dead McLuhan horse - how the media shapes the message). I'm curious to examine how the community changes as the platform changes - eg, is it the same community spread across multiple platforms or does each platform represent a distinct community. It's my fault for irresponsibly finding the subject interesting ;-) -- Dr David Brake, Researcher and Educator http://davidbrake.org/, @drbrake Author of "Sharing Our Lives Online: Risks and Exposure in Social Media” https://www.facebook.com/sharingourlivesonline <https://www.facebook.com/sharingourlivesonline>

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Decommissioning Online Infrastructures
by Joshua Braun 20 Feb '17

20 Feb '17

Hi All, I'm looking for literature suggestions. I'm currently starting work on a research project looking at Twitter's dismantling of the Vine video service. In line with the observation made in excellent essays like Steven Jackson's "Rethinking Repair" [1] and Marisa Cohn's "Engineering Obsolesence" [2], there seems to be a lot of research in both media studies and STS on how new technologies, products, and services get created, but not nearly so much on how older ones get dismantled, decommissioned, or enter into maintainership. I would welcome your recommendations of literature that touches on these areas. I'm interested in the topic broadly, but papers on the decommissioning of software and digital infrastructures would be particularly helpful. Many Thanks, Josh P.S. Nathan Ensmenger's "When Good Software Goes Bad: The Unexpected Durability of Digital Technologies" [3] is another paper I'd recommend to other folks interested in this topic. [1] https://sjackson.infosci.cornell.edu/RethinkingRepairPROOFS(reduced)Aug2013… [2] http://ethnographymatters.net/blog/2014/04/21/engineering_obsolescence/ [3] http://themaintainers.org/s/ensmenger-maintainers-v2.pdf -- Josh Braun, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Journalism Studies Journalism Department University of Massachusetts Amherst @josh_braun Skype: wideaperture http://wideaperture.net/ new book: http://wideaperture.net/?view=book "Maybe the only gift is a chance to inquire, to know nothing for certain. An inheritance of wonder and nothing more." William Least Heat-Moon

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AoIR Ethics Working Group 3.0 - introductions; invitation to self-nominations; request for candidate issues, resources
by Charles Ess 20 Feb '17

20 Feb '17

Dear AoIR-ists, As many of you know, as part of our annual conference last October in Berlin, AoIR has initiated a new ethics working group to develop an internet research ethics (IRE) guidelines 3.0. The co-chairs of the new working group are: Anja Bechmann (Aarhus University, Denmark), Charles Ess (Oslo University, Norway), and Michael Zimmer (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee). Our broad plan is to research and develop a draft set of documents for review and comment by the AoIR membership, both by email (i.e., postings to the list with request for response) and as part of the 2018 conference. Depending on the outcomes of that process, we hope to have a semi-final version of the IRE guidelines 3.0 ready for final comment, again by email and, if needed, during the 2019 conference. We hope to have the final version ready for presentation for vote and eventual approval either at the 2019 conference or soon thereafter. A primary impetus for the new guidelines is the critical mass of participants and presenters at the IRE panels this past October: for the first time in our history the majority of presenters and participants were from outside the United States. As well, as was argued by many of the panel presentations, an IRE 3.0 is called for as continued technological and research developments open up new research ethics questions that are only partially addressed in IRE 1.0 (2002) and 2.0 (2012), if at all. In addition, many of the more contemporary issues – especially as driven by “Big Data” developments and research interests – are shared across a range of academic and professional communities, such as computer scientists engaged in the development of “networked systems ethics” (Bendert Zevenbergen) and The Global Initiative for Ethical Considerations in the Design of Autonomous Systems (IEEE Standards Association - <https://standards.ieee.org/develop/project/7000.html> <https://standards.ieee.org/develop/project/7000.html>) At the same time, however, as with the 2.0 guidelines (2012), we anticipate that the 3.0 guidelines will thereby build and expand on both earlier guidelines as foundational documents and approaches in many ways. The WG 3.0 members are listed below: we are very grateful indeed that these colleagues have agreed to join us. As a more complete list of their CVs and research interests (available soon) makes clear, the WG is robustly international as well as radically interdisciplinary; it further includes colleagues outside the AoIR communities whose work will offer relevant insight and directions for an IRE 3.0. As well: we invite AoIR members who would be interested in joining the WG to send us your self-nominations to WG membership. We especially encourage these from scholars and researchers whose work and background will help represent the voices, perspectives, and traditions of areas currently underrepresented in the WG - namely, Africa, Asia, and Latin America. Participating in the WG entails a commitment of ca. 20-30 hours a year for the next 3 years or so. While we hope that many members of the WG 3.0 will be able to attend the annual AoIR conferences and participate in IRE-related events (roundtables, panels, fishbowls, open listening sessions, WG meetings, and, eventually, open meetings with the membership to review and refine suggested IRE 3.0 guidelines) - such attendance is not a requirement for WG membership. Finally, as with all things AoIR (smile), these are volunteer positions: we have no funds to offer to support conference attendance, etc. If you are interested in nominating yourself to the WG, please get in touch with us off-list; we'll send along a more complete position description and approximate schedule of our activities. Self-nomination requires no more than a brief summary of your academic background and research interests, coupled with a few lines about the specific ethical challenges and issues you would like to focus on as part of your contribution to the WG. Lastly, we will be very grateful for your suggestions for what you see as emerging ethical challenges in internet-facilitated research, their possible resolutions, and/or relevant resources. You are welcome to post your suggestions to the AoIR list and/or send them along to the co-chairs off-list. Posting suggestions to the list may help spark other ideas and suggestions as well that we can take on board. Some of the immediate results of our work will be presented and open for discussion as part of the AoIR conference in Tartu this coming October. We very much look forward to gathering your thoughts and suggestions in that venue as well. Many thanks for reading this far and for giving this work your attention and consideration. On behalf of my co-chairs and the WG 3.0, - charles ess -- Professor in Media Studies Department of Media and Communication University of Oslo <http://www.hf.uio.no/imk/english/people/aca/charlees/index.html> <http://www.hf.uio.no/imk/english/people/aca/charlees/index.html> Editor, The Journal of Media Innovations <https://www.journals.uio.no/index.php/TJMI/> <https://www.journals.uio.no/index.php/TJMI/> Postboks 1093 Blindern 0317 Oslo, Norway c.m.ess(a)media.uio.no __ AoIR WG IRE 3.0 – current members, institutional affiliations Brake, David (St. Johns, Newfoundland, Canada) Bruns, Axel (Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia) Dennen, Vanessa (Florida State University, USA) Franzke, Aline (Utrecht Data School, Utrecht, the Netherlands) Gammelby, Ane Kathrine (Aarhus University, Denmark) Gotved, Stine (IT-University, Copenhagen, Denmark) Gray, Mary (Harvard Center for Internet and Society, Microsoft Research - Cambridge, Mass, USA) Heise, Nele (University of Hamburg, Germany) Hongladarom, Soraj (Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand) Hård af Segerstad, Ylva (Gothenburg University, Sweden) Jones, Steve (University of Illinois, Chicago) Kanerva,Lauri (Research Management Lead, Facebook) Kinder-Kurlanda, Katharina (GESIS Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, Cologne, Germany) LIM, Sun Sun (Singapore University of Technology and Design) Locatelli, Elisabetta (Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Milan, Italy) Lomborg, Stine (University of Copenhagen, Denmark) Markham, Annette (Aarhus University) McKee, Heidi (Miami University, Ohio, USA) Murray, John (SRI, Menlo Park, California, USA) Nahon, Karine (Interdisciplinary Center, Herzliya, Israel; University of Washington, USA) Puschmann, Cornelius (Hans Bredow Institute for Media Research, Hamburg; Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society, Berlin, Germany) Seko, Yukari (Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital, Toronto, Canada) Tiidenberg, Katrin (Tallin University, Estonia; Aarhus University, Denmark) Unsworth, Kristene (Drexel University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA) White, Michele (Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA) Whiteman, Natasha (University of Leicester, UK) Wilhelm, Carsten Center for Research on Economy, Society, Arts and Technology, University of Haute Alsace, France) Zevenbergen, Ben (Princeton Center for Information Technology Policy, New Jersey, USA; Oxford Internet Institute, UK)

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Re: [Air-L] Virtual communities spanning multiple online platforms
by Caroline Haythornthwaite 20 Feb '17

20 Feb '17

Other work on multiplexity can be found in social network analysis studies of community — see research of mine suggesting media multiplexity as an attribute of strong ties, e.g., Haythornthwaite, C. (2002). Strong, weak and latent ties and the impact of new media. The Information Society, 18(5), 385-401. Haythornthwaite,Oxford Handbook of Internet Psychology (pp. 121-136). Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press. Other social network approach on community, see the work by Keith Hampton, Anabel Quan-Hasse, and the personal network studies by Wellman, and/or this reference: Rainie, Lee & Wellman, B. (2012). Networked: The New Social Network Operating System. Cambridge, MA: MIT. Someone else also suggested research on MOOCS, particularly relevant is connectivism by Stephen Downes, Dave Cormier and George Siemens, e.g. Siemens, George (2005). Connectivism: A learning theory for the digital age. International Journal of Instructional Technology and Distance Learning, 2(1). Available online at: http://www.itdl.org/journal/jan_05/article01.htm /Caroline On Fri, Feb 17, 2017 at 5:26 AM, David Brake <davidbrake(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Dear all, > > I have a grad student who wants to look into this really interesting question in a literature review essay (see below) - I don't know what literatures to suggest to her however - the texts I am familiar with about virtual community all tend to look at them on a single platform. Are there multi-sited ethnographies and other studies examining this you can suggest? > >> I would like to look at how presence on multiple platforms (eg, Facebook, Twitter, Web, Blog, etc) either strengthens or dilutes a community. This springs off of the discussion you and I had last week about how the platform shapes the community (or not to beat the dead McLuhan horse - how the media shapes the message). I'm curious to examine how the community changes as the platform changes - eg, is it the same community spread across multiple platforms or does each platform represent a distinct community. > > It's my fault for irresponsibly finding the subject interesting ;-) > -- > Dr David Brake, Researcher and Educator http://davidbrake.org/, @drbrake > Author of "Sharing Our Lives Online: Risks and Exposure in Social Media” https://www.facebook.com/sharingourlivesonline <https://www.facebook.com/sharingourlivesonline>

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Postdoc position at the Lab for Internet Studies, St.Petersburg
by Olessia Koltsova 20 Feb '17

20 Feb '17

Dear all, We are hiring! A postdoc position in the Lab for Internet Studies for those who love both data and social Web science. Network & text mining and other support from our team. Deadline: March 15, 2017. https://cas.hse.ru/post_Internet_Studies2017 Olessia Koltsova Director, Laboratory for Internet Studies National Research University Higher School of Economics room 216, 55/2 Sedova St., 190008, St.Petersburg, Russia Phone: +7 (812) 560-00-55 www.linis.hse.ru E-mail: ekoltsova(a)hse.ru http://www.hse.ru/en/org/persons/202747 On Wed, Feb 15, 2017 at 3:52 PM, Joseph Reagle <joseph.2011(a)reagle.org> wrote: > On 2/15/17 6:37 AM, Charles Ess wrote: > > So: suggestions for accessible, student-friendly resources that I can > > recommend and perhaps partly explore with my students that could help > begin > > to fill in some of these more technical gaps in their / my knowledge? > > Hi Charles, I used to be fortunate and Jessica McKellar would visit my > class [0] and give her Internet 101 talk. She moved to the other coast, but > luckily her talk is also on YouTube, so excerpts of that video our now the > core of our 101 discussion [1][2]. It doesn't address proxies directly, but > it sets the stage for our subsequent discussions about ads, privacy, > proxies and the like. > > I hope other folks will share their resources as well as I've yet to find > readings for that day [0] that I'm completely happy with. > > > [0]: http://reagle.org/joseph/2017/cda/cda-syllabus-SP.html#jan- > 20-fri---how-the-web-works > [1]: http://reagle.org/joseph/2017/cda/talks/040-internet-101.html > [2]: http://reagle.org/joseph/2017/cda/handouts/040-internet-101.html > > > _______________________________________________ > The Air-L(a)listserv.aoir.org mailing list > is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org > Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/ > listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org > > Join the Association of Internet Researchers: > http://www.aoir.org/

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