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Conference paper
by Katja Vilhunen 30 Sep '16

30 Sep '16

Hello, I am trying to find the paper that was presented in Netherlands: Krishnamurthy, S. (2002), "The multidimensionality of blog conversations: the virtual enactment of September 11", paper presented at Internet Research 3.0, Maastricht, October. Iam doing a research of Finnish knitblogs and I think there might be some information that could be useful to my study. So, I would be very grateful, if it is possible to someone sent me a copy of the paper or help me to find it? Sincerely, Katja Vilhunen (Doctoral Candidate at the University of Eastern Finland) ?

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Last Day to Submit!!
by Davis, Jennifer Lauren - davis5jl 29 Sep '16

29 Sep '16

Hi All, Just a reminder that tomorrow (September 30th) is the deadline to submit to our special issue of Social Sciences focusing on theoretical work in internet and society. (http://www.mdpi.com/journal/socsci/special_issues/social_media_internet_and…) Best of luck on your final edits!! Best, Jenny Jenny L. Davis Assistant Professor of Sociology James Madison University Co-Editor: Cyborgology.org Twitter: @Jenny_L_Davis ________________________________________

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Geomedia 2017 conference 2nd call
by Raul Ferrer Conill 29 Sep '16

29 Sep '16

SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS AND PANELS Submission is now open Geomedia 2017: Spaces of the In-Between Karlstad, Sweden, 9-12 May 2017 Welcome to the 2nd international Geomedia conference! The term geomedia captures the fundamental role of media in organizing and giving meaning to processes and activities in space. It also refers to the geographical qualities of media, for example flows of digital signals between particular places and the infrastructure carrying those flows. The rapid expansion of mobile media, location-based services, geographical information systems and increasingly complex patterns of surveillance/interveillance has amplified the need for critical studies and theorizations of geomedia. The 2nd Geomedia Conference welcomes contributions (full sessions/panels as well as individual papers) that analyze and problematize the relations between the any and all communication media and various forms of spatial creativity, performance and production across material, cultural, social and political dimensions. Geomedia 2017 provides a genuinely interdisciplinary arena for research carried out at the crossroads of geography, media and film studies. It also builds bridges to such fields as urban studies, rural studies, regional planning, cultural studies and tourism studies. Keynote speakers: Christian Licoppe Télécom ParisTech, France Scott McQuire University of Melbourne, Australia Gillian Rose The Open University, UK Plenary panel Geographies of News: Julie Firmstone University of Leeds, UK Nikki Usher George Washington University, USA Philip Napoli Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, USA Lars Nyre University of Bergen, Norway Henrik Örnebring (chair) Karlstad University, Sweden Film screenings and directors: Reflections Sara Broos, Sweden (2016) I Am Dublin David Aronowitsch, Ahmed Abdullahi, Anna Persson and Sharmarke Binyusuf, Sweden (2015) Art installation: Fragmentarium Jacek Smolicki, Sweden Abstract submissions: Geomedia 2017 welcomes proposals for individual papers as well as thematic panels in English through the conference website: <http://www.geomedia.se> www.geomedia.se Individual paper proposals: The author submits an abstract of 200-250 words. Accepted papers are grouped by the organizers into sessions of 5 papers according to thematic area. Thematic panel proposals: The chair of the panel submits a proposal consisting of 4-5 individual paper abstracts (200-250 words) along with a general panel presentation of 200-250 words. Suggested themes include, but are not limited to: - Art and event spaces - Cinematic geographies - Cosmopolitanism - Everyday communication geographies - Epistemologies and methodologies of geomedia - Geographies of media and culture industries - Geographies of news - Historical perspectives of geomedia - Lifestyle and tourism mobilities - Locative and spatial media - Material geographies of media - Media ecologies - Mediatization and space - Migration and media - Mobility and governance - Policy mobilities and power - Power geometries and mobility capital - Surveillance and spatial control - Urban and rural media spaces Conference timeline September 26th 2016: Submission system opens December 9th 2016: Deadline for thematic panel and individual paper proposals January 23rd 2017: Notes of acceptance and registration opens February 28th 2017: Early Bird pricing ends March 20th 2017: Last day of registration Conference website: Information about registration, conference program, venue, social events and practical arrangements will be posted continuously at the conference website: <http://www.geomedia.se> www.geomedia.se Contact: You can reach us at <mailto:info@geomedia.se> info(a)geomedia.se Organizers and venue: Geomedia 2017 is hosted by the Geomedia Research Group at the Department of Geography, Media and Communication, Karlstad University, Sweden. Conference Director: Linda Ryan Bengtsson Conference Coordinator: Lena Grip Director of the Geomedia Research Group: André Jansson Conference theme The special theme of Geomedia 2017 is Spaces of the In-Between. The theme will be addressed through invited keynote talks, a plenary panel, film screenings and artistic installations. Participants are also encouraged to submit proposals for paper sessions addressing the conference theme. Spaces of the In-Between sheds light on how media are, and have been, part of producing spaces and places that fall in-between or resist dominant categorizations. Such spaces include, firstly, more or less fluid media spaces that bridge or problematize the divisions of, for example, work and leisure, home and away, production and consumption. Secondly, spaces of the in-between are produced through various forms of mobility, related to for instance commuting or migration, that are shaped by and giving shape to particular media forms. Finally, the conference theme highlights mediations of concrete places that can be understood as neither/nor. Such places can be found on the margins of society or fall in-between dichotomized geo-social constructs like urban vs. rural, front-stage vs. back-stage, etc. Ultimately, the conference theme opens up for critical discussions of what forms of power and domination are expressed through the mediated/mediatized production of various in-between spaces.

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Fwd: <MoneyLab> Fwd: MoneyLab latest blog post: "Terra0: The Self-Owning Augmented Forest"
by Ueberschlag Leila 29 Sep '16

29 Sep '16

In its latest blog post, MoneyLab presents Terra0; an ongoing art project whose goal is to set up an alternative economic unit on the Ethereum Blockchain, while exploring the relationship between art and capital by functioning as a decentralized autonomous organization (DAO). Here is the link to read the full article: < http:// networkcultures.org/moneylab/2016/09/29/terra0-the-self- owning-augmented-forest/ > Best regards, -- *Leila Ueberschlag | Intern MoneyLab#3* Institute of Network Cultures Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences | HvA MoneyLab <http://networkcultures.org/moneylab/> | 1&2 Dec 2016 | Pakhuis de Zwijger, Amsterdam www.networkcultures.org @INCAmsterdam <https://twitter.com/INCAmsterdam>

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CFP - special issue of Qualitative Inquiry on methods/newmedia/intimacies
by Katherine Anne Blackburn Harrison 29 Sep '16

29 Sep '16

Dear all, Please find below a call for abstracts for a special issue of Qualitative Inquiry. The special issue is provisionally titled "Researching Intimacies and New Media: Methodological Opportunities and Challenges" and the deadline for 500 word abstracts is 1 December. I'm happy to talk more about it with anyone who might be interested in contributing...and I'd be very grateful if you would share this with your wider networks. Many thanks and best wishes Katherine Katherine Harrison, PhD Department of Media, Cognition and Communication University of Copenhagen Karen Blixens Vej 4 DK-2300 Copenhagen S Denmark email: tjx856(a)hum.ku.dk office: 14.3.05 tel: +45 35 33 42 62 ”what is algorithm but ideology in executable form?” (Nakamura 2013) ----------------------------------------------- We hereby invite contributions to a special issue of Qualitative Inquiry to be published 2018, provisionally titled: RESEARCHING INTIMACIES AND NEW MEDIA: METHODOLOGICAL OPPORTUNITIES AND CHALLENGES Guest Editors: Katherine Harrison (University of Copenhagen, Denmark & Lund University, Sweden) & Maria Bee Christensen-Strynø (Roskilde University, Denmark) Deadline for submission: 1 December 2016 New media are increasingly intersecting and intertwined with our daily lives, bodily and intimate practices, and relationships. This special issue will present contributions from researchers who are investigating practices of intimacy mediated either wholly or in part through new media. In particular, it will focus on the methodological issues involved in conducting qualitative research in this flourishing field. A number of volumes published in the last decade have variously covered affect and methodology (e.g. Fraser and Puwar 2008; Pink 2009; Richardson 2005; Stage and Timm 2015), affect and new media (e.g. Chambers 2013; Garde-Hansen and Gorton 2013; Hillis at al 2015; Karatzogianni and Kuntsman 2012; McGlotten 2013; Paasonen 2011; Payne 2014; van Dijck 2013), or online methodologies (e.g. Hine 2000; Kozinets 2012; Markham and Baym 2009). This special issue builds on this existing body of scholarship and develops it further by narrowing the focus to methodological issues of research conducted on/with/through new media and specifically concerned with practices of intimacy. This special issue will zoom in on questions of method and methodology as they are experienced by researchers working at the cutting-edge of scholarship on intimacies and new media. It will share knowledge and experiences from the field, as well as proposing innovative methodological solutions and ideas on how to enter, survive and exit these highly charged fieldsites. Both personal experiences and reflections on current policies, procedures and paradigms will be welcomed. Researching intimacies encompasses a wide variety of practices and relationships, including but not limited to kinship, sexual encounters, body and gender, dis/abilities, migration, friendship, birth and death, romantic relationships, non-monogamies, dating or community formation. Each of these finds different forms in its mediatization. Simultaneously “new media” comprises a variety of digital platforms that offer distinctive ways to share, connect and communicate; differences in hardware and software intersect with situated sociocultural norms about technology use. The combination of intimate practices and new media thus poses challenges to existing methodological paradigms due to the limitations/affordances of the medium intersecting with continuously shifting practices of intimacy. This special issue will present a range of intimate practices as well as a selection of digital sites and apps. In so doing, a variety of different methodological issues will be highlighted and discussed. Suggestions for topics that contributors may wish to engage with include, but are not limited to: - Logistical and technical difficulties in collecting ephemeral or unstable personal data - Intimacy and loneliness of the researcher - Commercialization of online intimacies - The blurring of personal/professional lines of conduct as a researcher - The borderline between “lurking”, voyeurism and participation - Public intimacies in private spaces – accessing and exiting personal spaces as fieldsites - Technical glitches in online intimacies - The illusion of online anonymity or distance - Negotiating national differences in ethical guidelines for online collection of ”intimate” data - Tracking intimacies over time, space and media - Capturing and processing vast amounts of intimate data - Finding participants when the topic provokes shame, anger, or embarrassment - How multiple understandings of “intimacy” affect methodology - Sudden changes to fieldsites in response to public outcry/moral outrage - Adapting old methods to new and slippery fieldsites - Legal frameworks as intimate practices move between screen and materiality - Inclusion/exclusion mechanisms and accessibility We welcome papers from a wide range of disciplines. The editors welcome expressions of interest and are happy to discuss proposals for contributions. Please send your abstract to: tjx856(a)hum.ku.dk AND mariabee(a)ruc.dk . Abstracts should be maximum 500 words long and written in English. Please include your name, title, and affiliation. Deadline for submission of abstracts: 1 December 2016 If accepted, final versions of papers should follow the Qualitative Inquiry submission guidelines which can be viewed here: https://uk.sagepub.com/en-gb/eur/qualitative-inquiry/journal200797#submissi… Please note that the Editors of the journal reserve the right to reject special issues and/or individual articles at any point in the review process.

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"404 History Not Found" Pre-conf workshop - AOIR Berlin October 5th
by Camille Paloque-Berges 29 Sep '16

29 Sep '16

Dear AOIR members, in preparation for our "404 History Not Found" Pre-conf workshop happening at AOIR 2016 on October 5th, we have posted the schedule and abstracts of our invited speakers online. There are a wiki and timeline tools associated with the workshop, publicly accessible (but edit functions are reserved for participants - although in the future we might open it further). If you are a participant registered for the pre-conf and did not receive an instruction email earlier today, please get in touch so we can make it up. If you plan on registering, please do the same! Links : Workshop rationale: https://www.conftool.com/aoir2016/index.php?page=browseSessions&form_sessio… Schedule: http://nethistories.wikispaces.com/Schedule Abstracts for invited speakers: http://nethistories.wikispaces.com/Abstracts We are very happy to join the AOIR debates this year in Berlin, Very best, Kevin and Camille -- Institutional email address : camille.paloque_berges(a)cnam.fr *Laboratory for the History of Techno-Sciences (HT2S), Conservatoire national des arts et métiers, 2 rue Conté, 75003 Paris, France *Associate researcher in the Digital Path cluster of CNRS' Institute for Communication Sciences (ISCC)

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Fwd: Call for Proposals: “Internet Freedom: Present and Future” at the Internet Freedom Festival, March 2017
by Nathalie Marechal 29 Sep '16

29 Sep '16

Last call -- submission deadline is this Sunday, Oct 2, 2016. Nathalie *Nathalie Maréchal* Doctoral Candidate, USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism Senior Information Controls Fellow, Ranking Digital Rights Marechal(a)USC.edu | @MarechalUSC | www.nathaliemarechal.net PGP Fingerprint - EB43 3CE8 A759 5419 52C0 2FF1 B721 C0BF 0F43 0663 ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: IFF Research <research(a)internetfreedomfestival.org> Date: Tue, Aug 16, 2016 at 4:00 PM Subject: Call for Proposals: “Internet Freedom: Present and Future” at the Internet Freedom Festival, March 2017 To: Call for Proposals: “Internet Freedom: Present and Future” at the Internet Freedom Festival Where: Internet Freedom Festival, Las Naves, Valencia, Spain When: March 6-10, 2017 Since 2015, the Internet Freedom Festival has gathered the community keeping the internet open and uncensored for a week of multidisciplinary collaboration among front-line activists, policy experts, tool developers, digital security trainers, and academic researchers from around the world. This year, the “Internet Freedom: Present and Future” theme will promote exchange and collaboration between the scholarly and practitioner communities. In preparing their submissions, researchers should consider the following provocations: - What should practitioners from the various sectors represented at the Festival know from the scholarly literature? - What is the canon of Internet Freedom literature? In what ways is the canon being contested? - What is the cutting edge of scholarly research in this field? - How can this information best be conveyed to lay audiences? Proposals can structured as solo presentations of original research, critical literature reviews, panel discussions, roundtables, debates, or any other format suitable to sharing scholarly research with Internet Freedom practitioners. Standard formats for the IFF include: - Workshop - Training - Hackathon - Presentation - Panel discussion - Networking event - Off-site session - Other: you can also create your own formats, as long as they fit within the allocated times and spaces. The full submission guidelines are at https://internetfreedomfestiva l.org/host-a-session/ <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__internetfreedomfestiva…> Graduate students, early-career academics, and scholars from the Global South are especially encouraged to apply. The Theme How should the future of the Internet Freedom space look? How can we get there from here? The Internet Freedom: Present and Future Theme is dedicated to explore the current state of the Internet Freedom space, its overarching issues, the latest research findings, and the upcoming threats and opportunities. Naturally, sessions that explore the history of Internet Freedom are also relevant. How to Apply Proposals should be submitted through https://internetfreedomfestiva l.org/host-a-session/ <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__internetfreedomfestiva…>, selecting the “Internet Freedom: Present and Future” theme. Please refer to the “Research” theme in the session description. Submissions will be evaluated through a peer-review process comprising academics as well as internet freedom practitioners. Questions can be sent to research(a)internetfreedomfestival.org -- The Internet Freedom Festival Team @InternetFF | www.internetfreedomfestival.org <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.internetfreedomfest…>

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(no subject)
by Deborah Lupton 28 Sep '16

28 Sep '16

The News & Media Research Centre at the University of Canberra is delighted to announce the publication of ‘Decoding Publics: A Review of Digital Media Analytics Tools’ by Mathieu O’Neil and Daniel Kelley. >From the Introduction: ‘We live in the age of what Castells calls “mass self-communication”. As a result ever-more data about the online communications of people and organisations are being produced, as well as about the spread and impact of these communications. Another consequence is that new software tools are regularly announced as the “next big thing” in online analytics. This report is not meant as the definitive word on the subject, or as a complete snapshot of the state of play. We simply aim to provide an entry-point for those who are considering engaging with online data analytics. [...] The report contains brief reviews of fifteen social media software analytics tools assessed using the same criteria, to evaluate the potential of these tools for teaching and training purposes.’ Tools reviewed include: Discovertext, Netlytic, Twitonomy (text analytics) NodeXL, Netlytic (social networks analytics) Issue Crawler, VOSON, Webometrics Analyst (hyperlink analytics) Google Analytics, Hootsuite, SocialMediaMineR (action analytics) Countly, Mixpanel (mobile analytics) Followerwonk, Tweepsmap (location analytics) The report can be downloaded for free here: http://www.canberra.edu.au/research/faculty-research-centres/nmrc/publicati…

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Job opening @ University of Illinois at Chicago
by Steve Jones 28 Sep '16

28 Sep '16

(A number of us from UIC will be in Berlin, feel free to speak with us about this job opening, the department, university, etc.) The Department of Communication at the University of Illinois at Chicago invites applications for an Assistant Professor, tenure-track position, in Digital Cultures and Public Engagement. The position focuses on digital media production and representation, with special emphasis on media and public relations, branding and self-branding, crowdsourcing and crowdfunding of public campaigns, participatory journalism, big data, and online identity and presentation of the cultures of underrepresented groups. Special emphasis will be applied on gender/class/race representations and inequalities online and offline. The candidate will have an earned doctorate in Communication or a related field, strong promise of scholarly achievement and teaching success (at the undergraduate and graduate levels) appropriate for appointment as Assistant Professor, good prospects for external research funding, and demonstrated commitment to multidisciplinary scholarship. UIC is a Carnegie Research Extensive University (Research I), is the largest institution of higher education in the Chicago area, is in the top 50 U.S. universities in federal research funding, and is among the top 200 universities in the world. Recently ranked in the top 50 worldwide, the Department of Communication at UIC focuses on New Media, and offers a BA, MA and PhD with emphasis in: social media + social networks political communication mass media + journalism studies cultural studies gaming + game studies intercultural communication mobile media health communication policy + platform politics science + technology studies human augmentics social computational sciences Located in the heart of Chicago, we collaborate with the UIC Electronic Visualization Laboratory, the pre-eminent virtual reality and high-speed networking research site in the world. The Department is the birthplace and current home of New Media and Society, the leading journal in the field, and the only department to host four leading journals (Journal of Broadcasting and Electronic Media, Mobile Media and Communication and the new, open access and free journal, Social Media & Society along with NMS). The desired appointment date for the position is August 16, 2017, subject to budgetary approval. Electronic applications accepted only – Interested parties should submit a letter of interest, a full curriculum vitae, samples of relevant scholarly publications, evidence of teaching effectiveness, and names of and contact information for three references at https://jobs.uic.edu/job-board/job-details?jobID=70840&job=assistant-profes…. Review of applications will commence October 20, 2016. Applications received by then will receive full consideration. The search will proceed until the position is filled. The University of Illinois at Chicago is an affirmative action/equal opportunity employer, dedicated to the goal of building a culturally diverse pluralistic faculty and staff committed to teaching in a multicultural environment. We strongly encourage applications from women, minorities, individuals with disabilities and covered veterans The University of Illinois may conduct background checks on all job candidates upon acceptance of a contingent offer. Background checks will be performed in compliance with the Fair Credit Reporting Act.

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Call: 2017 Westminster Institute for Advances Studies-International Research Fellowships in Critical Digital & Social Media Studies
by Christian Fuchs 28 Sep '16

28 Sep '16

Call: 2017 Westminster Institute for Advances Studies-International Research Fellowships in Critical Digital & Social Media Studies https://www.westminster.ac.uk/news/2016/call-for-applications-wias-internat… http://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/AUN132/westminster-institute-for-advanced-studies… The Westminster Institute for Advanced Studies (WIAS) www.westminster.ac.uk/wias is an academic space for independent critical thinking beyond borders. It is located at the University of Westminster in the heart of London. Prof Christian Fuchs is its Director. The WIAS’ research focus is critical digital and social media studies. The Westminster Institute for Advanced Studies has an open call for international resarch fellows who during a 3 month stay in 2017 conduct critical studies of digital and social media's role in society. The WIAS aims to contribute to bringing about a paradigm shift from big data analytics to critical digital and social media research methods and theories. Digital and social media research at WIAS uses and develops critical theories, is profoundly theoretical, and discusess the political relevance and implications of the studied topics. The WIAS’ Critical Digital and Social Media Studies Fellowship Programme is aimed at current and future research leaders, who engage in independent critical thinking. It enables them to undertake independent and collaborative research on original topics in a stimulating academic environment in London. Funded scholarships are only awarded as a result of open calls. Priority will be given to well-defined projects that result in published research outputs and demonstrate benefits for the applicant, her/his university and the University of Westminster's research interests. The regular scholarship duration is 3 months (start between 9 January and 1 May 2017). Later start dates are not possible. Application deadline: Friday October 28, 2016 More information, details and application: https://www.westminster.ac.uk/news/2016/call-for-applications-wias-internat…

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