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The 16th IEEE International Symposium on Signal Processing and Information Technology (ISSPIT 2016): Last Call for Papers (***extended deadline***)
by Announce Announcements 27 Sep '16

27 Sep '16

*** Last Call for Papers *** The 16th IEEE International Symposium on Signal Processing and Information Technology (ISSPIT 2016) December 12-14, 2016, St. Raphael Resort, Limassol, Cyprus http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=YWlyLUwJCQlhaXItTEBsaXN0c2Vydi… *** Extended deadline: Oct 6th, 2016 *** IEEE ISSPIT 2016 is the sixteenth in a series of international symposia that aims to cover a wide range of topics in the intersection of signal processing and information technology and to become a fertile ground for discussions between the two research and development communities. Apart from sessions that will present new research results, tutorials and special sessions will be offered as well. Papers describing original work are invited in the general fields covered by ISSPIT, with an emphasis on the topics listed below. Accepted papers will be published in the Proceedings of IEEE ISSPIT 2016 and will be available via IEEE Xplore. Acceptance will be based on quality, relevance, and originality. A contest for Best Paper Awards (senior and student) will be held. Papers are invited in the following (non exclusive) topics: · Signal Processing Theory and Methods · Signal Processing for Communications and Networking · Design & Implementation of Signal Processing Systems · Image, Video & Multidimensional Signal Processing · Multimedia Signal Processing · Biological Image and signal processing · Audio and Acoustic signal Processing · Health Informatics and e-Health · Sensor Arrays · Big Data Analytics in Signal Processing and IT · Radar Signal Processing · Internet Software Architectures · Multimedia and Image Based Systems · Mobile Information Systems · E-Commerce · Bioinformatics and Bioengineering · Information Processing · Geographical Information Systems · Object Based Software Engineering · Speech Processing · Computer Networks · Neural Networks · Social Networks Analysis · Internet of Things · Engineering Systems of Systems Prospective authors are invited to submit full-length, 6-page (max) papers in two-column formats including diagrams and references. Authors can submit their papers as PDF files through the online submission system to be found on the ISSPIT 2016 website: http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=YWlyLUwJCQlhaXItTEBsaXN0c2Vydi…. The title page should include author(s) name(s), affiliation, mailing address, telephone, fax, and e-mail address. The author should indicate one or two of the above categories that best describe the topic of the paper. IMPORTANT DATES · Regular paper submission: October 6th, 2016 (extended) · Notification of acceptance: October 27th, 2016 · Camera-ready version with registration: November 15th , 2016 GENERAL CHAIRS · Christos Douligeris, University of Piraeus, Greece · Andreas Pitsillides, University of Cyprus, Cyprus · Andreas Spanias, Arizona State University, USA TECHNICAL PROGRAM CHAIRS · Ioannis Kyriakides, University of Nicosia, Cyprus · Veselin Rakocevic, City University, UK · Thanos Stouraitis, Khalifa University, UAE REGISTRATION & FINANCE CHAIR · Reda Ammar, University of Connecticut, USA PUBLICATION CO-CHAIRS · Josephine Antoniou, University of Central Lancanshire, Cyprus · Christophoros Christophorou, University of Cyprus, Cyprus · Angeliki Tsioliaridou, Foundation of Research and Technology, Greece TUTORIALS CO-CHAIRS · Marios Lestas, Frederick University, Cyprus (eng.lm(a)frederick.ac.cy) · Vasos Vassiliou, University of Cyprus, Cyprus (vasosv(a)cs.ucy.ac.cy) PLENARY & SPECIAL SESSIONS CO-CHAIRS · Christos Liaskos, Foundation of Research and Technology, Greece (cliaskos(a)ics.forth.gr) · Vicky Lesta Papadopoulou, European University Cyprus (V.Papadopoulou(a)euc.ac.cy) PUBLICITY CO-CHAIRS · Suvendi Rimer, University of Johannesburg, South Africa · Cristiano Silva, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais ñ UFMG, Brazil LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS CHAIR · George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus WEB MANAGER · Kyriakos Georgiades, Easy Conferences, Cyprus STEERING COMMITTEE · E. Abdel-Raheem, Ain Shams University, Egypt · R. Ammar, University of Connecticut, USA · F. Elguibaly, University of Victoria, Canada · A. Elmaghraby, University of Louisville, USA (Chair) · A. Tantawy, IBM, Egypt, USA · A. Tewfik, University of Minnesota, USA

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Internet Policy undergraduate class
by Heather Ford 27 Sep '16

27 Sep '16

I’m about to start teaching a class on Internet Policy for third year undergraduate students at the School of Media and Communication, Leeds University today. Last year, we dipped our toes into using a class hashtag https://twitter.com/hashtag/intpolicyleeds?src=hash to send current news relating to Internet policy issues to one another using the hashtag. This year, I’m going to try to extend it a bit more by tweeting the folks we’re readings in class and by encouraging students more directly to contribute. I have helped teach similar classes at other universities in the past and I was wondering whether there was anyone on the list right now who is about to teach something similar who may want to work with us on this. I thought it might be fun if there was another class in another part of the world also contributing to the hashtag. On another note, if you do teach a similar class, I’d be super interested in compiling reading lists/curricula/handbooks, so please ping me offlist and I’ll share the result back to the list if there is interest. Best, Heather. Dr Heather Ford University Academic Fellow University of Leeds School of Media and Communications http://hblog.org @hfordsa Software Sustainability Institute Fellow http://software.ac.uk/ Leeds Critical Data Studies Group Coordinator http://lists.leeds.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/datastudies Ethnography Matters co-founder and editor http://ethnographymatters.net

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Re: [Air-L] Twitter Scraper
by dominique.a.salas 26 Sep '16

26 Sep '16

Thank you all so much. I'm excited to research these options! Dominique Salas, MFA PhD candidate in Latin American Studies, Tulane University dominiqueasalas.tumblr.com -------- Original message --------From: Stuart Shulman <stuart.shulman(a)gmail.com> Date: 9/26/16 6:57 AM (GMT-06:00) To: Karine Nahon <karine(a)ekarine.org> Cc: Maurice Vergeer <m.vergeer(a)maw.ru.nl>, dominique salas <dominique.a.salas(a)gmail.com>, air-l <air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org> Subject: Re: [Air-L] Twitter Scraper Karine is right, but you can get every Tweet if you are able to generate funding to employ a service like Gnip: http://support.gnip.com/apis/powertrack2.0/ The new Gnip PowerTrack has many cool expanded capabilities, including longer rules, emoji search and cashtags. With a student account on DiscoverText ($24/month), the Twitter data price is $3/10,000 Tweets day forward and it includes access to the PowerTrack 2.0. You can do a lot of great exploratory research for free using the 30-day trial. The same volume pricing is available for historical data via Sifter, plus a fee of $20/day searched. In terms of viral Tweets, the automated duplicate detection and near duplicate clustering presents a road map of RTs and MTs, as well as a unique sampling method when coding data or training classifiers. DiscoverText & Sifter Explained: https://vimeo.com/124029796 https://vimeo.com/126214352 ~Stu Stu Shulman Amherst Regional High School, Coach MA Olympic Development Program, Assistant Coach On Mon, Sep 26, 2016 at 1:49 AM, Karine Nahon <karine(a)ekarine.org> wrote: Dominique, Note that harvesting data in case of viral information is more complicated because of limitations (how much information can you basically mine) which exist in different APIs. Karine Karine Nahon/Author of Going Viral/Best Information Science Book Award and Outstanding Academic Title/eKarine.org Associate Professor/Interdisciplinary Center (IDC) / University of Washington On 26/9/16, 08:11, "Air-L on behalf of Maurice Vergeer" <air-l-bounces(a)listserv.aoir.org on behalf of m.vergeer(a)maw.ru.nl> wrote: Dear Dominique, please look at this site (http://socialmediadata.wikidot.com/) for an extended list of social media tools. Many are stand alone applications and some are packages within another software environment. Some focus on tweets, while others on networks. Depending what you need one or the other might serve your need. Because your project seems issue related, a tool using the search API for hashtag sampling seems most appropriate. I use yourtwapperkeeper (standalone on a linux machine) and streamR in R (windows Mac or Linux). The benefit of using a package in R is that R you can use R subsequently for further analysis. But it's a steep learning curve, but definitely pays off in the long run. HTH Maurice On Mon, Sep 26, 2016 at 1:37 AM, dominique salas < dominique.a.salas(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Hello all, > > I’m new to the listserv but look forward to learning in this great > community. I was recommended to join the listserv to ask what might be the > most efficient Twitter scraper/bot set-up as of late. I am trying to track > circulated and augmented arguments online, but since many are viral and > also are picked up by various news networks, getting a dataset is > elementary and crucial. > > I look forward to hearing back, even if you anticipate problems or issues > I might run into. > > > Dominique Salas, MFA > PhD candidate in Latin American Studies, Tulane University > _______________________________________________ > 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/ -- ________________________________________________ Maurice Vergeer To contact me, see http://mauricevergeer.nl/node/5 To see my publications, see http://mauricevergeer.nl/node/1 ________________________________________________ _______________________________________________ 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/ _______________________________________________ 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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Call for Participants: Videographic Criticism workshop, June 2017
by Jason Mittell 26 Sep '16

26 Sep '16

Greetings, We are pleased to announce that we are accepting applications for the NEH-funded workshop Scholarship in Sound & Image: Producing Videographic Criticism, to be held June 18 - July 1, 2017 in Middlebury Vermont. This workshop is only open to graduate students in Film & Media Studies or a related discipline. (There will be a similar workshop in June 2018, open to those holding Ph.D.s.) See information at http://sites.middlebury.edu/videoworkshop/apply/ - applications are due December 1, 2016. Additionally, if anyone is interested in hosting a mini two-day workshop for faculty & grad students on your campus, we are available to bring our show on the road! See info at https://justtv.wordpress.com/2016/09/26/learn-videographic-criticism-at-mid… . Feel free to contact me with any questions. -Jason Mittell --- Jason Mittell, Professor of Film & Media Culture and American Studies Faculty Director for Digital Liberal Arts Initiative <http://sites.middlebury.edu/dla/> Middlebury College 208 Axinn Center Middlebury, Vermont 05753 (802) 443-3435 / fax: (802) 443-2805 Blog: http://go.middlebury.edu/justtv *To schedule an appointment with me, click here <http://www.meetme.so/JasonMittell>.*

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CFP: Writing in a Digital Age/Submissions Due Oct 17
by Beck, Estee 26 Sep '16

26 Sep '16

Just a reminder about the deadline for proposals (October 17th) **Link to proposal** https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B0NLr285sb3uSzFmWkp5blBoMVE We're announcing a CFP for a webtext collection on topics surrounding surveillance, privacy, and writing infrastructures. The invitation for interdisciplinary proposals includes projects that intersect writing classrooms, communities, and cultures. A sample of what we're interested in include: * how community members respond to local to national events where acts of sur- and sous-veillance occur to protect the interests of those in authority and those of the citizenry, e.g., Ferguson, Flint, and online. * ways surveillance impact culture(s) and influence daily habits and/or lives as it connects to digital rhetoric and writing, e.g., algorithmic discrimination, fitness trackers, Internet of Things objects, social media habits, intellectual property. * how digital rhetoric and writing/communication scholars/educators inform public and private industries to make reforms to surveillance practices. <mailto:digitalwriting@protonmail.com>The deadline for 500-word proposals of webtexts is October 17, 2016. Notifications to authors will occur on December 19, 2016 and draft chapters are due April 17, 2017. Queries and submissions: digitalwritingatprotonmaildotcom / digitalwriting(a)protonmail.com Sincerely, Estee Beck, PhD Assistant Professor of Professional & Technical Writing/Digital Humanities Department of English The University of Texas at Arlington estee.beck(a)uta.edu Les Hutchinson Doctoral Student Department of Writing, Rhetoric, and American Cultures Michigan State University hutch220(a)msu.edu _________________________________________________________________ Estee Beck, Ph.D. ? Assistant Professor, English ? The University of Texas at Arlington

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Call for Participation: Infrastructures of Publics - Publics of Infrastructures, Dec 8-10 2016, Siegen, Germany
by Korn, Matthias 26 Sep '16

26 Sep '16

Call for Participation Infrastructures of Publics - Publics of Infrastructures December 8-10, 2016 University of Siegen, Germany http://sfb1187.uni-siegen.de/annual-conference-2016/ First Annual Conference 2016 of the Collaborative Research Center 1187 "Media of Cooperation" (University of Siegen) Funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) === About the Conference The first annual conference of the Collaborative Research Center 1187 "Media of Cooperation" addresses the crossing over of two overarching research perspectives on cooperative media practices: Infrastructures and their publics on the one hand and publics and their infrastructures on the other. The conference scrutinizes publics and infrastructures not separately but in their constitutive interrelations, which allow publics and infrastructures to come into being in the first place. The conference takes a praxeological approach, discussing historical and current processes of cooperative media practices as infrastructuring and making public(s). It involves a wide range of disciplines including Anthropology, Media Studies, History, Social Sciences, and Informatics. The conference assembles national and international experts who contribute to research and theories on ‘analog’ and ‘digital’ forms of the production and design of different publics and infrastructures. Media Studies understood in this broad way builds on concepts of networked issue publics or societies (Noortje Marres) and experimental publics and cooperative thought (Paul Kockelman). It opens up new perspectives on publics and their media infrastructures. === About "Media of Cooperation" During the last two decades, media practices have become recognizable as practices of cooperation in discourses around digital participation and digital cultures, social media, and the dissolution of boundaries between production, distribution, and reception. These diagnoses of the present that concentrate on digital media only make obvious what is in fact valid for all media. Starting point for the Collaborative Research Center 1187 "Media of Cooperation" thus is the recognition that all media are cooperatively produced conditions of cooperation. Media practices and techniques emerge out of the reciprocal production and provision of common goals, means, and procedures. The Collaborative Research Center prefers a perspective and logic of “cooperation without consensus” (Susan Leigh Star) to an a priori orientation toward consensus. The latter bias is meant to be circumvented but consensus can nevertheless still be an objective of cooperative media practices. === Keynotes + Program Keynote I | Noortje Marres (Warwick) Infrastructuring Publics or Societies? On Street Trials as Experiments in Interpretation Keynote II | Paul Kockelman (Yale) Witchful Thinking: Experimental Publics, Cooperative Thought, and Mediated Renderings of the Real The program further includes 5 panel sessions (on In/Transparency, Work/Places, Mobilities, Standardizations, and Academia), two panel discussions, and a design exhibition. The full program is available online: http://sfb1187.uni-siegen.de/annual-conference-2016/ === Registration + Contact Main conference language will be English. *Free* online registration requested by October 31, 2016. URL: http://sfb1187.uni-siegen.de/annual-conference-2016/ Email: annualconference2016(a)sfb1187.uni-siegen.de === Conference Organizers Matthias Korn, Thomas Ludwig, Wolfgang Reißmann, Tobias Röhl, David Sittler University of Siegen, Collaborative Research Center 1187: Media of Cooperation -- Dr. Matthias Korn e-Science / Computer-Supported Cooperative Research DFG-SFB 1187: Media of Cooperation, University of Siegen Institute for Information Systems, Fak. III, University of Siegen Phone: +49 271 740-2293 Cell: +49 173 7232 198 Office: US-D 102 Mail: matthias.korn(a)uni-siegen.de Twitter: @matsch_o0 Web: http://mkorn.binaervarianz.de/

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Re: [Air-L] Twitter Scraper
by Maurice Vergeer 26 Sep '16

26 Sep '16

Dear Dominique, please look at this site (http://socialmediadata.wikidot.com/) for an extended list of social media tools. Many are stand alone applications and some are packages within another software environment. Some focus on tweets, while others on networks. Depending what you need one or the other might serve your need. Because your project seems issue related, a tool using the search API for hashtag sampling seems most appropriate. I use yourtwapperkeeper (standalone on a linux machine) and streamR in R (windows Mac or Linux). The benefit of using a package in R is that R you can use R subsequently for further analysis. But it's a steep learning curve, but definitely pays off in the long run. HTH Maurice On Mon, Sep 26, 2016 at 1:37 AM, dominique salas < dominique.a.salas(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Hello all, > > I’m new to the listserv but look forward to learning in this great > community. I was recommended to join the listserv to ask what might be the > most efficient Twitter scraper/bot set-up as of late. I am trying to track > circulated and augmented arguments online, but since many are viral and > also are picked up by various news networks, getting a dataset is > elementary and crucial. > > I look forward to hearing back, even if you anticipate problems or issues > I might run into. > > > Dominique Salas, MFA > PhD candidate in Latin American Studies, Tulane University > _______________________________________________ > 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/ -- ________________________________________________ Maurice Vergeer To contact me, see http://mauricevergeer.nl/node/5 To see my publications, see http://mauricevergeer.nl/node/1 ________________________________________________

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Twitter Scraper
by dominique salas 26 Sep '16

26 Sep '16

Hello all, I’m new to the listserv but look forward to learning in this great community. I was recommended to join the listserv to ask what might be the most efficient Twitter scraper/bot set-up as of late. I am trying to track circulated and augmented arguments online, but since many are viral and also are picked up by various news networks, getting a dataset is elementary and crucial. I look forward to hearing back, even if you anticipate problems or issues I might run into. Dominique Salas, MFA PhD candidate in Latin American Studies, Tulane University

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Discussion platform suggestions?
by Murray Turoff 26 Sep '16

26 Sep '16

Jose, everything you want for a discussion plratform and more was aavaiable in the EIES system from 1975 to around 1995. See the network nation book by hiltz and turoff, for a complete description. The only product today able to do all this is the system many universities use for teaching on line courses which was built by a consortium of those universities, but it does not have a simple interface and a lot of overhead to handle administration processes for faculty and students. some message system software is modifiable and professionals have modified it to create special functions such as voting on how good a comment is when people are asking others to solve problems what you are talking about would be further improved if followed the principles of the Delphi method for example, allowing anonymous or pen name input. see the first two chapters of the delphi method book free on my website by linstone and turoff. http://is.njit.edu/turoff Message: 1 Date: Sun, 25 Sep 2016 12:24:13 +1000 From: Josie Anne Reade <j.reade(a)student.unimelb.edu.au> To: "air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org" <air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org> Subject: [Air-L] Discussion platform suggestions? Message-ID: <D3A9A953-E42D-41C2-B6F4-576A197FC002(a)student.unimelb.edu.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Hi all, I am wondering if anyone on this mailing list is able to suggest a third party discussion platform that meets the below criteria. FUNTIONALITY: Allow group members to create a new post, comment on existing posts, add photos and videos/voice recordings. Allow administrators to perform all group member functions as well as approve and/or delete group members posts when necessary. ACCESSIBILITY: Accessible on a range of devices such as desktops, tablet computers and smartphones (Android and iOS operating systems). Easy to navigate user interface. PRIVACY: Discussion needs to remain private and only visible to group members via log in. Group members must be able to either create their own username or be assigned a username, without it having to be their full name or connected to any of their existing social media profiles (hence even though a secret Facebook group would be convenient and easy to use for participants, it is not suitable as group members are able to see each other’s names). I am a research assistant on a project that seeks to use this method to elicit responses from a cohort of 530 participants and augment the project’s existing use of interviews and workshops. I have looked at Reddit, Muut and Google Groups but they don’t seem to quite tick all of the boxes. Also in conversation with EthOS. Any suggestions or tips welcome. Thank you in advance! Josie -- *please send messages to murray.turoff(a)gmail.com <murray.turoff(a)gmail.com> do not use @njit.edu <http://njit.edu> addressDistinguished Professor EmeritusInformation Systems, NJIThomepage: http://is.njit.edu/turoff <http://is.njit.edu/turoff>*

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Re: [Air-L] Discussion platform suggestions?
by Cara Wallis 25 Sep '16

25 Sep '16

In addition to Slack, you could also check out Spruz. **************************************************************************************** Cara Wallis, Ph.D. Associate Professor Ray A. Rothrock '77 Research Fellow Department of Communication Texas A&M University Bolton 214B College Station, TX 77843-4234 Cara Wallis is the author of Technomobility in China: Young Migrant Women and Mobile Phones (NYU Press, 2013). ________________________________________ From: Air-L [air-l-bounces(a)listserv.aoir.org] on behalf of air-l-request(a)listserv.aoir.org [air-l-request(a)listserv.aoir.org] Sent: Sunday, September 25, 2016 8:28 AM To: air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org Subject: Air-L Digest, Vol 146, Issue 26 Send Air-L mailing list submissions to air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to air-l-request(a)listserv.aoir.org You can reach the person managing the list at air-l-owner(a)listserv.aoir.org When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of Air-L digest..." Today's Topics: 1. Discussion platform suggestions? (Josie Anne Reade) 2. Re: Discussion platform suggestions? (Mathias Klang) 3. Re: Discussion platform suggestions? (Mathias Klang) 4. Re: Discussion platform suggestions? (Josie Anne Reade) 5. Re: Discussion platform suggestions? (Alex Leavitt) 6. Re: Discussion platform suggestions? (Katherine Carpenter) 7. Communities & Technologies 2017, Troyes, France - 1st Call for Papers, Case Studies, and Workshops (Korn, Matthias) 8. CFP: Communicating Music Scenes: Networks, Power, Technology (Tamas Tofalvy) 9. Re: Discussion platform suggestions? (Nathaniel Poor) 10. Re: Discussion platform suggestions? (Alex Krupp) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Sun, 25 Sep 2016 12:24:13 +1000 From: Josie Anne Reade <j.reade(a)student.unimelb.edu.au> To: "air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org" <air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org> Subject: [Air-L] Discussion platform suggestions? Message-ID: <D3A9A953-E42D-41C2-B6F4-576A197FC002(a)student.unimelb.edu.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Hi all, I am wondering if anyone on this mailing list is able to suggest a third party discussion platform that meets the below criteria. FUNTIONALITY: Allow group members to create a new post, comment on existing posts, add photos and videos/voice recordings. Allow administrators to perform all group member functions as well as approve and/or delete group members posts when necessary. ACCESSIBILITY: Accessible on a range of devices such as desktops, tablet computers and smartphones (Android and iOS operating systems). Easy to navigate user interface. PRIVACY: Discussion needs to remain private and only visible to group members via log in. Group members must be able to either create their own username or be assigned a username, without it having to be their full name or connected to any of their existing social media profiles (hence even though a secret Facebook group would be convenient and easy to use for participants, it is not suitable as group members are able to see each other’s names). I am a research assistant on a project that seeks to use this method to elicit responses from a cohort of 530 participants and augment the project’s existing use of interviews and workshops. I have looked at Reddit, Muut and Google Groups but they don’t seem to quite tick all of the boxes. Also in conversation with EthOS. Any suggestions or tips welcome. Thank you in advance! Josie ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Sun, 25 Sep 2016 03:59:51 +0000 (UTC) From: Mathias Klang <mathiasklang(a)gmail.com> To: Josie Anne Reade <j.reade(a)student.unimelb.edu.au>, <air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org> Subject: Re: [Air-L] Discussion platform suggestions? Message-ID: <B402E66CC921D351.16FE2196-A197-4564-8396-C64B5AF904C9(a)mail.outlook.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 ---- Mathias Klang, Associate Professor, Political Communication UMass Boston www.klangable.com @klangable On Sat, Sep 24, 2016 at 10:24 PM -0400, "Josie Anne Reade" <j.reade(a)student.unimelb.edu.au> wrote: Hi all, I am wondering if anyone on this mailing list is able to suggest a third party discussion platform that meets the below criteria. FUNTIONALITY: Allow group members to create a new post, comment on existing posts, add photos and videos/voice recordings. Allow administrators to perform all group member functions as well as approve and/or delete group members posts when necessary. ACCESSIBILITY: Accessible on a range of devices such as desktops, tablet computers and smartphones (Android and iOS operating systems). Easy to navigate user interface. PRIVACY: Discussion needs to remain private and only visible to group members via log in. Group members must be able to either create their own username or be assigned a username, without it having to be their full name or connected to any of their existing social media profiles (hence even though a secret Facebook group would be convenient and easy to use for participants, it is not suitable as group members are able to see each other’s names). I am a research assistant on a project that seeks to use this method to elicit responses from a cohort of 530 participants and augment the project’s existing use of interviews and workshops. I have looked at Reddit, Muut and Google Groups but they don’t seem to quite tick all of the boxes. Also in conversation with EthOS. Any suggestions or tips welcome. Thank you in advance! Josie _______________________________________________ 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/ ------------------------------ Message: 3 Date: Sun, 25 Sep 2016 04:00:36 +0000 (UTC) From: Mathias Klang <mathiasklang(a)gmail.com> To: Josie Anne Reade <j.reade(a)student.unimelb.edu.au>, <air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org> Subject: Re: [Air-L] Discussion platform suggestions? Message-ID: <B402E66CC921D351.569D0232-7B50-4F7D-815B-C262AA7E2CB1(a)mail.outlook.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Have you tried or looked at Slack? Mathias ---- Mathias Klang, Associate Professor, Political Communication UMass Boston www.klangable.com @klangable On Sat, Sep 24, 2016 at 10:24 PM -0400, "Josie Anne Reade" <j.reade(a)student.unimelb.edu.au> wrote: Hi all, I am wondering if anyone on this mailing list is able to suggest a third party discussion platform that meets the below criteria. FUNTIONALITY: Allow group members to create a new post, comment on existing posts, add photos and videos/voice recordings. Allow administrators to perform all group member functions as well as approve and/or delete group members posts when necessary. ACCESSIBILITY: Accessible on a range of devices such as desktops, tablet computers and smartphones (Android and iOS operating systems). Easy to navigate user interface. PRIVACY: Discussion needs to remain private and only visible to group members via log in. Group members must be able to either create their own username or be assigned a username, without it having to be their full name or connected to any of their existing social media profiles (hence even though a secret Facebook group would be convenient and easy to use for participants, it is not suitable as group members are able to see each other’s names). I am a research assistant on a project that seeks to use this method to elicit responses from a cohort of 530 participants and augment the project’s existing use of interviews and workshops. I have looked at Reddit, Muut and Google Groups but they don’t seem to quite tick all of the boxes. Also in conversation with EthOS. Any suggestions or tips welcome. Thank you in advance! Josie _______________________________________________ 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/ ------------------------------ Message: 4 Date: Sun, 25 Sep 2016 14:01:56 +1000 From: Josie Anne Reade <j.reade(a)student.unimelb.edu.au> To: Mathias Klang <mathiasklang(a)gmail.com>, <air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org> Subject: Re: [Air-L] Discussion platform suggestions? Message-ID: <75D26888-DE4D-43D9-827D-5AC9CFB3D916(a)student.unimelb.edu.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Just checking it out now, thank you very much for the suggestion! Josie From: Mathias Klang <mathiasklang(a)gmail.com> Date: Sunday, 25 September 2016 at 2:00 PM To: Josie Reade <j.reade(a)student.unimelb.edu.au>, <air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org> Subject: Re: [Air-L] Discussion platform suggestions? Have you tried or looked at Slack? Mathias ---- Mathias Klang, Associate Professor, Political Communication UMass Boston www.klangable.com @klangable On Sat, Sep 24, 2016 at 10:24 PM -0400, "Josie Anne Reade" <j.reade(a)student.unimelb.edu.au> wrote: Hi all, I am wondering if anyone on this mailing list is able to suggest a third party discussion platform that meets the below criteria. FUNTIONALITY: Allow group members to create a new post, comment on existing posts, add photos and videos/voice recordings. Allow administrators to perform all group member functions as well as approve and/or delete group members posts when necessary. ACCESSIBILITY: Accessible on a range of devices such as desktops, tablet computers and smartphones (Android and iOS operating systems). Easy to navigate user interface. PRIVACY: Discussion needs to remain private and only visible to group members via log in. Group members must be able to either create their own username or be assigned a username, without it having to be their full name or connected to any of their existing social media profiles (hence even though a secret Facebook group would be convenient and easy to use for participants, it is not suitable as group members are able to see each other’s names). I am a research assistant on a project that seeks to use this method to elicit responses from a cohort of 530 participants and augment the project’s existing use of interviews and workshops. I have looked at Reddit, Muut and Google Groups but they don’t seem to quite tick all of the boxes. Also in conversation with EthOS. Any suggestions or tips welcome. Thank you in advance! Josie _______________________________________________ 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/ ------------------------------ Message: 5 Date: Sat, 24 Sep 2016 21:26:56 -0700 From: Alex Leavitt <alexleavitt(a)gmail.com> To: Josie Anne Reade <j.reade(a)student.unimelb.edu.au> Cc: AoIR-L <air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org> Subject: Re: [Air-L] Discussion platform suggestions? Message-ID: <CACBxmg51vGaaNpT9tWWROiqpMbgD3A6=on53OrJZTVK0OJkc_Q(a)mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 I was going to recommend private subreddits, but video is the lacking component. However, +1 to Mathias's suggestion: I think Slack has a 1GB upload limit but should hit on all your checkboxes. --- Alexander Leavitt, Ph.D. Quantitative UX Researcher, Facebook Research http://alexleavitt.com Twitter: @alexleavitt <http://twitter.com/alexleavitt> On Sat, Sep 24, 2016 at 9:01 PM, Josie Anne Reade < j.reade(a)student.unimelb.edu.au> wrote: > Just checking it out now, thank you very much for the suggestion! > > > > Josie > > > > From: Mathias Klang <mathiasklang(a)gmail.com> > Date: Sunday, 25 September 2016 at 2:00 PM > To: Josie Reade <j.reade(a)student.unimelb.edu.au>, <air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org > > > Subject: Re: [Air-L] Discussion platform suggestions? > > > > Have you tried or looked at Slack? > > > > Mathias > > > > ---- > Mathias Klang, > Associate Professor, > Political Communication UMass Boston > www.klangable.com @klangable > > > > > > On Sat, Sep 24, 2016 at 10:24 PM -0400, "Josie Anne Reade" < > j.reade(a)student.unimelb.edu.au> wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I am wondering if anyone on this mailing list is able to suggest a third > party discussion platform that meets the below criteria. > > > > FUNTIONALITY: Allow group members to create a new post, comment on > existing posts, add photos and videos/voice recordings. Allow > administrators to perform all group member functions as well as approve > and/or delete group members posts when necessary. > > > > ACCESSIBILITY: Accessible on a range of devices such as desktops, tablet > computers and smartphones (Android and iOS operating systems). Easy to > navigate user interface. > > > > PRIVACY: Discussion needs to remain private and only visible to group > members via log in. Group members must be able to either create their own > username or be assigned a username, without it having to be their full name > or connected to any of their existing social media profiles (hence even > though a secret Facebook group would be convenient and easy to use for > participants, it is not suitable as group members are able to see each > other’s names). > > > > I am a research assistant on a project that seeks to use this method to > elicit responses from a cohort of 530 participants and augment the > project’s existing use of interviews and workshops. > > > > I have looked at Reddit, Muut and Google Groups but they don’t seem to > quite tick all of the boxes. Also in conversation with EthOS. > > > > Any suggestions or tips welcome. Thank you in advance! > > Josie > > _______________________________________________ > 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/ > > _______________________________________________ > 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/ > ------------------------------ Message: 6 Date: Sat, 24 Sep 2016 21:50:03 -0700 From: Katherine Carpenter <carpenter.katherinej(a)gmail.com> To: Josie Anne Reade <j.reade(a)student.unimelb.edu.au> Cc: "air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org" <air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org> Subject: Re: [Air-L] Discussion platform suggestions? Message-ID: <CAAfeAmUUHNJsuMB6O-UDfD6z45X8c0JRZu3mB6NwX5D0XntpkA(a)mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Also Telegram might work for you. On Saturday, September 24, 2016, Josie Anne Reade < j.reade(a)student.unimelb.edu.au> wrote: > Just checking it out now, thank you very much for the suggestion! > > > > Josie > > > > From: Mathias Klang <mathiasklang(a)gmail.com <javascript:;>> > Date: Sunday, 25 September 2016 at 2:00 PM > To: Josie Reade <j.reade(a)student.unimelb.edu.au <javascript:;>>, < > air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org <javascript:;>> > Subject: Re: [Air-L] Discussion platform suggestions? > > > > Have you tried or looked at Slack? > > > > Mathias > > > > ---- > Mathias Klang, > Associate Professor, > Political Communication UMass Boston > www.klangable.com @klangable > > > > > > On Sat, Sep 24, 2016 at 10:24 PM -0400, "Josie Anne Reade" < > j.reade(a)student.unimelb.edu.au <javascript:;>> wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I am wondering if anyone on this mailing list is able to suggest a third > party discussion platform that meets the below criteria. > > > > FUNTIONALITY: Allow group members to create a new post, comment on > existing posts, add photos and videos/voice recordings. Allow > administrators to perform all group member functions as well as approve > and/or delete group members posts when necessary. > > > > ACCESSIBILITY: Accessible on a range of devices such as desktops, tablet > computers and smartphones (Android and iOS operating systems). Easy to > navigate user interface. > > > > PRIVACY: Discussion needs to remain private and only visible to group > members via log in. Group members must be able to either create their own > username or be assigned a username, without it having to be their full name > or connected to any of their existing social media profiles (hence even > though a secret Facebook group would be convenient and easy to use for > participants, it is not suitable as group members are able to see each > other’s names). > > > > I am a research assistant on a project that seeks to use this method to > elicit responses from a cohort of 530 participants and augment the > project’s existing use of interviews and workshops. > > > > I have looked at Reddit, Muut and Google Groups but they don’t seem to > quite tick all of the boxes. Also in conversation with EthOS. > > > > Any suggestions or tips welcome. Thank you in advance! > > Josie > > _______________________________________________ > The Air-L(a)listserv.aoir.org <javascript:;> 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/ > > _______________________________________________ > The Air-L(a)listserv.aoir.org <javascript:;> 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/ ------------------------------ Message: 7 Date: Sun, 25 Sep 2016 11:30:35 +0000 From: "Korn, Matthias" <matthias.korn(a)uni-siegen.de> To: "air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org" <air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org> Subject: [Air-L] Communities & Technologies 2017, Troyes, France - 1st Call for Papers, Case Studies, and Workshops Message-ID: <E967BF13-4AA5-4C4E-A7AF-EEFF7386E8D4(a)uni-siegen.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" C&T 2017 – Technology for the Common Good 26-30 June 2017, Université de Technologie de Troyes, France http://comtech.community/ == ABOUT C&T The biennial Communities and Technologies (C&T) conference is the premier international forum for stimulating scholarly debate and disseminating research on the complex connections between communities – both physical and virtual – and information and communication technologies. C&T 2017 welcomes participation from researchers, designers, educators, industry, and students from the many disciplines and perspectives bearing on the interaction between community and technology, including architecture, arts, business, design, economics, education, engineering, ergonomics, informatics, information technology, geography, health, humanities, law, media and communication studies, and social sciences. For the 2017 round of C&T, we welcome contributions that particularly pay attention on technology that can be deployed for the common good. The conference program will include competitively selected, peer-reviewed papers and case studies, as well as pre-conference workshops, a doctoral consortium, and invited keynotes. We look forward to welcoming you to an exciting conference in Troyes! Myriam Lewkowicz, Markus Rohde Conference Chairs == IMPORTANT DATES * February 1: Full papers, workshops and case studies due * March 1: Notification of acceptance for workshops proposals * April 1: Notification of acceptance for full papers and case studies * April 20: Camera-ready for full papers, workshop descriptions and case studies due * May 2: Workshop papers and Doctoral Consortium applications due * June 26-30: Workshops and conference in Troyes, France == CALL FOR PAPERS (FULL AND SHORT) C&T focuses on the notion of communities as social entities comprised of people who share something in common; this common element may be geography, needs, goals, interests, practices, organizations, enemies, or other bases for social connection. Communities are considered to be a basic unit of social experience. For the 2017 round of C&T, we welcome contributions that particularly pay attention on technology that can be deployed for the common good. This raises a number of questions, issues, and implications that might not be relevant in other computing related conferences. The common good generally means finding peaceful ways to resolve conflict, securing a more equitable society, a healthy and diverse environment for ourselves and future generations, and cultural diversity. Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) can support community formation and development by facilitating communication and coordination among members, as well as enable and empower communities to deal with challenges and threats. We must also acknowledge the possibility that ICTs could be used in processes that degrade communities or community life; some ICTs could actually be antithetical to healthy communities. In this case certain developments should at the very least be questioned, if not actively discouraged. For this reason we also encourage critiques of existing systems, approaches, policies, and trajectories— any of the factors that encourage private gain at the expense of the common good. It’s not enough to assert that some particular technology will support the common good. Too often, in fact, the assumption is that a particular technological approach — if not the whole of ICT development — is steadfastly advancing towards a state of maximal support for the common good. What lines of argument can we develop that help support a case that a technological approach will support the common good — or wouldn’t? As researchers and academics we must entertain the possibility that our investigations may force us to revise some of our own approaches and assumptions, including rethinking who are the stakeholders of our work, and how our work should be evaluated. Modeling and designing the world we’d like to see can provide invaluable insights. Beyond conducting research and developing tools, services, policy, and the like, we aim to build the circumstances that help promote this work and the orientation in the world. What systems can help encourage civic intelligence and public problem solving? How do we recognize systems that discourage them? Are certain approaches to design, deployment, etc. more likely to result in systems that support the common good? And, if so, where have these been used—and with what degree of success. This focus acknowledges the reality that technological systems exist within social environments and frameworks, policy proposals, and educational approaches may be extremely relevant. Finally, how do we as a community identify our goals, gather our information, and report our findings as to help the communities upon whom we rely to use the information most effectively? Topics appropriate for submission to this conference are manifold. And they may emerge from a variety of relevant perspectives including philosophy, social sciences, design, art, the humanities, etc. Examples of some of the vibrant areas of communities and technology research include, but are not limited to: * Domains such as learning/education, health, cultural heritage; crises and natural disasters; environmental degradation and climate change; * Variety of communities and their relationships to technology; urban and rural, migrants, refugees, indigenous and first peoples, LGBTQ, low-income communities, measuring impacts on communities —positive, negative, and mixed * Bottom-up movements, grassroots developments, civic activism, community engagement, participatory publics, communities and innovation; * Crowdsourcing, crowdfunding, collective and civic intelligence, community learning, early warning systems, collective awareness, collaborative awareness platforms; social cognition; community emotion; happiness; historical memory; * Community owned and operated technology, DIY and maker communities (makerspaces, fablabs, crafters); community agriculture; * Online and offline communities, urban and rural communities; urban technologies; urban informatics; urban interaction design; cross-community work; new forms of communities; * Community memory, archives, and knowledge; resilience; smart communities in the context of smart cities; sustainable communities; economic and social development; * Civic problem-solving, communities in relation to urgent and complex challenges to the health of the planet and the people that inhabit it; collaborative systems; partnering with education; government, civil society, and movements; * Sharing economies; social media and social capital; associations, strong and weak ties, stakeholders; * Methodological issues including research, action, participatory approaches, community-centred design, infrastructuring and evaluation methodologies; ethnographic and case studies of communities; * Supporting community processes: sensemaking, online deliberation; argumentation and discussion-mapping; community ideation and idea management systems; collective decision-making; group memory; participatory sensory networks; * Technological issues: community toolkits; federated systems; integration with other systems, integration with face-to-face systems; * The future of communities and technology; simulations and utopian design; durable relationships and long-range goals; and * Developing and supporting the Communities & Technologies community; social and technological critique; effectiveness and other measures == Submitting a Paper Please submit all papers and abstracts using the ACM recommended templates. Papers will be submitted via EasyChair. In order to allow for a diversity of contributions, the conference will accept full and short research papers. * Full papers must be no longer than ten pages, including all additional material such as references, appendices, and figures. * Short (or Work-in-progress) papers must be no longer than four pages. The papers must include a title, sufficient space for the author name(s) to appear on the paper, abstract, keywords, body, and references. Papers submitted by the due date will undergo a double blind peer review process by the Program Committee and will be evaluated on the basis of their significance, innovation, academic rigour, and clarity of writing. Since 2009, the C&T proceedings are published by ACM. The application is under process for 2017. Please send any questions to the Program Chairs: papers(a)comtech.community Ingrid Mulder, Douglas Schuler Program Chairs == CASE STUDIES This year, C&T introduces a new category of submissions: Case Studies. With this category, we encourage C&T researchers or practitioners to present a case study or an experience report of real-world cases projects that provide new insights and learnings to other C&T researchers and practitioners. In general, both kinds of research are welcome – more analytical (such as ethnographical case studies and historical analysis of case) as well as more action-oriented (such as design case studies, action research reports). In addition, methodological reflections about case study research are appreciated. == What counts as a good case study research Case studies should be inspiring, but should not be constrained by traditional academic expectations. The primary criteria is relevance in making a significant contribution to the community. Successful case studies will meet the following criteria: they report on new work that derives in original insights, they have the potential for real impact on the C&T body of knowledge and practice, they report on very specific or singular communities or experiences. They shed light into emerging and/or marginalized topics and address existing gaps in the broader C&T methods and understanding. Suggested topics of interest include, but are not restricted to: * Technology design and use in the developing world and non-Western societies * Research of a specific domain, user group, organisation or experience, discussing its rationale, any issues, and lessons learned * Pilot studies preceding and informing larger-scale investigations * Application, critique, or evolution of a method, process, theory, or tool * Challenges to existing notions of Research, Design, Theory, and Practice * Revisiting definitions of C&T practice * The role of technology in civic activism, community engagement, participatory publics * The role of technology in the context of the refugee and migrant crisis * The role of technology in consumer empowerment (supply chain transparency, open data, etc.) * Sharing and commoning practices (communities and the sharing economy and/or commons-based production) Other more specific areas of interest: * Uses and misuses of technology by communities * New maker practices * Technology in humanitarian crisis contexts * Decentralisation and blockchain * Gender and technology * HCI teaching and learning in education, training, or knowledge sharing. * ‘Big Ideas’ and how to make them happen == Preparing and submitting your case study Case studies will be submitted via EasyChair. The Case Study submissions must be reported using the ACM recommended templates, should not exceed 5 pages, and can include supplementary material in the form of pictures, videos, documents, websites, etc. If supplementary materials are submitted, we request authors to include a list of the supplementary documents in their submission and a description of the nature and purpose of each item. Submissions will undergo a peer review process by the Program Committee members. Accepted case study reports will be published in the Proceedings, together with long and short papers. Since 2009, the C&T proceedings are published by ACM. The application is under process for 2017. Please send any questions to the Case Studies Chairs: casestudies(a)comtech.community Mara Balestrini, Gunnar Stevens Case Studies Chairs == WORKSHOPS C&T Workshops will run for a half or one full day and will take place on June 26th or June 27th. Workshops provide a platform to discuss, explore and advance specific research areas of Communities & Technologies with a group of like-minded researchers and practitioners. Each workshop should generate ideas that give the C&T community a new, innovative way of thinking about the topic, or ideas that suggest promising directions for future research. Topics addressed may include (but are not limited to) theories, methodologies, artifacts in practices, emerging application areas, design innovations, strategy and organizational issues pertaining to communities and technology. While workshop summaries will be integrated into the conference proceedings published by ACM (pending), organizers can consider converting individual workshop papers into edited books or special issues of journals. Furthermore, there is the option of publishing the workshop submissions (all contributions) as an International Report on Socio-Informatics (IRSI): http://www.iisi.de/en/international-reports-on-socio-informatics-irsi/. You may consider including such publication goals in your workshop proposal. A workshop proposal must be prepared according to ACM recommended templates and should be no more than 4 pages including references. Furthermore each proposal should: * include the title of the workshop, * list organizers and their backgrounds, * provide workshop’s theme, goals and activities, * indicate maximum number of participants, * provide means of soliciting and selecting participants. Please send proposals directly to the Workshop Chairs: workshops(a)comtech.community Sukeshini A. Grandhi, Lars Rune Christensen Workshop Chairs -- Dr. Matthias Korn e-Science / Computer-Supported Cooperative Research DFG-SFB 1187: Media of Cooperation, University of Siegen Institute for Information Systems, Fak. III, University of Siegen Phone: +49 271 740-2293 Cell: +49 173 7232 198 Office: US-D 102 Mail: matthias.korn(a)uni-siegen.de Twitter: @matsch_o0 Web: http://mkorn.binaervarianz.de/ ------------------------------ Message: 8 Date: Sun, 25 Sep 2016 13:41:09 +0200 From: Tamas Tofalvy <tamastofalvy(a)gmail.com> To: Air-L(a)listserv.aoir.org Subject: [Air-L] CFP: Communicating Music Scenes: Networks, Power, Technology Message-ID: <CABNYJ+KHGujSrBAc1pcHE+Ow=zfLVwOckQn71bd2cQ00CmcoNQ(a)mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Dear all, I'm happy to announce the following conference that might be of interest to many of you: *Communicating Music Scenes: Networks, Power, Technology <http://cms2017.wordpress.com>* *Budapest, 19-20 May 2017* The conference aims to address the relation(ship)s and communication between people, formal and informal institutions, and technologies in the context of music making. Understanding and exploring music scenes as networks can help us to uncover the power relations that affect those scenes, while also leading to a nuanced understanding of the changing technological and media context in which music is produced, disseminated, consumed, and talked about. We invite papers that address the following themes: - Music scenes and formal and informal communication infrastructures in view of the related technologies and economies - Music scenes and genres, technology and networks: Social Network Analysis, Actor Network Theory etc. - Communication in and about music scenes - Power as formal and political, as well as informal and subcultural: inclusion and exclusion - Musical diplomacy, music scenes and transnational communication - Technology, power and remembering/forgetting music scenes - (Sub)cultural and other forms of capital in music scenes - Music scenes and DIY media, online and offline - Music scenes and digital technology: change and/continuity - Underground scenes and the formal music industries: power and democracy - Music scenes and society: the reproduction and/or subversion of power structures through technology and communication infrastructures - Local – global dynamics and power: the global music industries and local infrastructures - Gender, sexuality and music scenes - Nation(ality), ethnicity and music scenes - Age and music scenes - Social class and music scenes *Keynote Speakers:* David Hesmondhalgh (University of Leeds, UK) Paolo Magaudda (University of Padova, Italy) Anna Szemere (ELTE, Hungary) Ferenc Hammer (ELTE, Hungary) The conference will be held at the Institute of Musicology, Research Center for Humanities, Hungarian Academy of Sciences (HAS), and is jointly organized by the Institute of Musicology, Budapest University of Technology and Economics (BME) and IASPM Hungary. *Deadline for abstracts (250 words) with short bio (50 words):* 31 January 2017 Conference website: cms2017.wordpress.com Organizers: Ádám Ignácz (HAS), Emília Barna (BME), Tamás Tófalvy (BME) Should you have any questions regarding the CFP or the conference, please feel free to contact me, Best, Tamas -- Tamas Tofalvy, PhD assistant prof @ Budapest University of Technology and Economics (Dept. of Sociology and Comm.) secretary general @ Association of Hungarian Content Providers (MTE) M: (0036) 30 488 75 84 Web: [EN] http://bit.ly/1RlMXBQ [HU] http://bit.ly/1LlFEbZ A: H-1111 Budapest, Egry J. u. 1., BME GTK E ép., 705. ------------------------------ Message: 9 Date: Sun, 25 Sep 2016 08:39:36 -0400 From: Nathaniel Poor <natpoor(a)gmail.com> To: Josie Anne Reade <j.reade(a)student.unimelb.edu.au> Cc: AoIR-L <air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org> Subject: Re: [Air-L] Discussion platform suggestions? Message-ID: <247D1829-F9C8-42CE-BF07-482E7C11AD83(a)gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 We use Slack at the office and I believe it does all of those things. > On Sep 25, 2016, at 12:01 AM, Josie Anne Reade <j.reade(a)student.unimelb.edu.au> wrote: > > Just checking it out now, thank you very much for the suggestion! > > > > Josie > > > > From: Mathias Klang <mathiasklang(a)gmail.com> > Date: Sunday, 25 September 2016 at 2:00 PM > To: Josie Reade <j.reade(a)student.unimelb.edu.au>, <air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org> > Subject: Re: [Air-L] Discussion platform suggestions? > > > > Have you tried or looked at Slack? > > > > Mathias > > > > ---- > Mathias Klang, > Associate Professor, > Political Communication UMass Boston > www.klangable.com @klangable > > > > > > On Sat, Sep 24, 2016 at 10:24 PM -0400, "Josie Anne Reade" <j.reade(a)student.unimelb.edu.au> wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I am wondering if anyone on this mailing list is able to suggest a third party discussion platform that meets the below criteria. > > > > FUNTIONALITY: Allow group members to create a new post, comment on existing posts, add photos and videos/voice recordings. Allow administrators to perform all group member functions as well as approve and/or delete group members posts when necessary. > > > > ACCESSIBILITY: Accessible on a range of devices such as desktops, tablet computers and smartphones (Android and iOS operating systems). Easy to navigate user interface. > > > > PRIVACY: Discussion needs to remain private and only visible to group members via log in. Group members must be able to either create their own username or be assigned a username, without it having to be their full name or connected to any of their existing social media profiles (hence even though a secret Facebook group would be convenient and easy to use for participants, it is not suitable as group members are able to see each other’s names). > > > > I am a research assistant on a project that seeks to use this method to elicit responses from a cohort of 530 participants and augment the project’s existing use of interviews and workshops. > > > > I have looked at Reddit, Muut and Google Groups but they don’t seem to quite tick all of the boxes. Also in conversation with EthOS. > > > > Any suggestions or tips welcome. Thank you in advance! > > Josie > > _______________________________________________ > 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/ > > _______________________________________________ > 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/ ------------------------------- Nathaniel Poor, Ph.D. https://github.com/natpoor http://natpoor.blogspot.com/ https://sites.google.com/site/natpoor/ http://www.underwood-institute.org/ ------------------------------ Message: 10 Date: Sun, 25 Sep 2016 09:28:13 -0400 From: Alex Krupp <alex.krupp(a)gmail.com> To: Josie Anne Reade <j.reade(a)student.unimelb.edu.au> Cc: "air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org" <air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org> Subject: Re: [Air-L] Discussion platform suggestions? Message-ID: <CAOMQBP992V_BOibAZKTJQ0icx9tZ301LBt+3_+etpjg4kAAvAw(a)mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 I run a small social network called FWD:Everyone (www.fwdeveryone.com) that meets most/all of these needs. The site facilitates publishing email conversations, either publicly on the web or else privately within an organization. Here is a link that shows what one of the public threads looks like... Clicking thread participants brings up their profiles, you can see comments at the bottom of the threads, etc. https://www.fwdeveryone.com/t/qzFKnR4GQC6UVtzgHulRFA/huffpost-artsy We have some other academics using the platform for similar use cases, because it allows administrators to email out a question or homework assignment to their students. Then each student just replies to that message, can have a back-and-forth with the teacher, and then upload it to one of the private repositories within their organization. One nice design feature for this use case is that while users need an account to post comments or create profiles on the site, they don't need any of that just to reply to an email and have it published within their organization. This means that forgetting their passwords or having technical issues isn't ever a reason for them not getting their homework done. The design is responsive for desktop/phones/tablets and it supports attachments. Having admin tools to delete content within your organization is in the API, and should be added to the front end within the next week or two. If participants ever decide they want to make some of their conversations completely public, we have tools for automatically getting permission from each message contributor in a thread, anonymizing users, making redactions, etc. We're also an Embedly provider, meaning that content can be easily embedded within your website or blog, or else within platforms like Reddit or Medium. Here is a link showing what our embed looks like in an iFrame or whatever: https://oembed.fwdeveryone.com/?threadId=aY8lj4Z9Q0-C6Ol_Nl_UmA Alex On Sat, Sep 24, 2016 at 10:24 PM, Josie Anne Reade < j.reade(a)student.unimelb.edu.au> wrote: > Hi all, > > > > I am wondering if anyone on this mailing list is able to suggest a third > party discussion platform that meets the below criteria. > > > > FUNTIONALITY: Allow group members to create a new post, comment on > existing posts, add photos and videos/voice recordings. Allow > administrators to perform all group member functions as well as approve > and/or delete group members posts when necessary. > > > > ACCESSIBILITY: Accessible on a range of devices such as desktops, tablet > computers and smartphones (Android and iOS operating systems). Easy to > navigate user interface. > > > > PRIVACY: Discussion needs to remain private and only visible to group > members via log in. Group members must be able to either create their own > username or be assigned a username, without it having to be their full name > or connected to any of their existing social media profiles (hence even > though a secret Facebook group would be convenient and easy to use for > participants, it is not suitable as group members are able to see each > other’s names). > > > > I am a research assistant on a project that seeks to use this method to > elicit responses from a cohort of 530 participants and augment the > project’s existing use of interviews and workshops. > > > > I have looked at Reddit, Muut and Google Groups but they don’t seem to > quite tick all of the boxes. Also in conversation with EthOS. > > > > Any suggestions or tips welcome. Thank you in advance! > > Josie > > _______________________________________________ > 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/ -- Alex Krupp Cell: (607) 351 2671 Subscribe to my blog: http://alexkrupp.typepad.com/ Follow me on twitter: @alexkrupp My homepage: www.alexkrupp.com ------------------------------ Subject: Digest Footer _______________________________________________ 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/ ------------------------------ End of Air-L Digest, Vol 146, Issue 26 **************************************

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