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New Open Access Book: Social Media in Southeast Italy
by Major, Alison 12 Oct '16

12 Oct '16

*****Apologies for any cross-posting***** UCL Press is delighted to announce the publication of a brand new open access book that may be of interest to readers of this list, Social Media in Southeast Italy. ----------------------------------------------------------------- Social Media in Southeast Italy Razvan Nicolescu Download free: http://bit.ly/2e51g5A ----------------------------------------------------------------- This title is available in both free open access (PDF/ html) and print editions (paperback, £15.00 | hardback, £35.00). Why is social media in southeast Italy so predictable when it is used by such a range of different people? This book describes the impact of social media on the population of a town in the southern region of Puglia, Italy. Razvan Nicolescu spent 15 months living among the town's residents, exploring what it means to be an individual on social media. Why do people from this region conform on platforms that are designed for personal expression? Nicolescu argues that social media use in this region of the world is related to how people want to portray themselves. He pays special attention to the ability of users to craft their appearance in relation to collective ideals, values and social positions, and how this feature of social media has, for the residents of the town, become a moral obligation: they are expected to be willing to adapt their appearance to suit their different audiences at the same time, which is crucial in a town where religion and family are at the heart of daily life. Download free: http://bit.ly/2e51g5A ----------------------------------------------------------------- About Why We Post Why do we post on social media? Is it true that we are replacing face-to-face relationships with on-screen life? Are we becoming more narcissistic with the rise of selfies? Does social media create or suppress political action, destroy privacy or become the only way to sell something? And are these claims equally true for a factory worker in China and an IT professional in India? With these questions in mind, nine anthropologists each spent 15 months living in communities in China, Brazil, Turkey, Chile, India, England, Italy and Trinidad. They studied not only platforms but the content of social media to understand both why we post and the consequences of social media on our lives. Their findings indicate that social media is more than communication - it is also a place where we now live. This series explores and compares the results in a collection of ground-breaking and accessible ethnographic studies. To find out more, visit http://www.ucl.ac.uk/why-we-post<http://www.ucl.ac.uk/why-we-> About UCL Press UCL Press is the UK's first fully open access university press. Re-established at UCL in 2015, UCL Press publishes peer-reviewed scholarly monographs, edited collections, textbooks and journals, by both UCL academics and non-UCL academics. All its books are made available as free, downloadable PDFs from its website, as well as in print for sale through retailers at affordable prices, and many of its books are also made available on a free, enhanced, browser-based platform. Its mission is to make its published outputs available to a global audience, irrespective of their ability to pay. Find out more at http://www.ucl.ac.uk/ucl-press. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

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Podcasting/audio on-demand researchers?
by Steven Clift 11 Oct '16

11 Oct '16

Are you involved with podcasting related research? If yes, please get in touch. I am interested in particular on the consumption of "fresh" hourly and daily news on-demand versus more classic more evergreen podcasts. Thanks, Steven Clift http://1radionews.com

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Predoctoral research position at Medialab UGR
by Esteban Romero Frías 11 Oct '16

11 Oct '16

Dear all, I'd like to share a predoctoral research position at Medialab UGR ( http://medialab.ugr.es/) in the University of Granada (Spain). It is linked to a project called *Knowmetrics: evaluation of knowledge in the digital society*. The contract is initially for 6 months (with an extension of 16 months). We look for a person who is comfortable working with an Open Science approach and committed to the vision of Medialab UGR (page in English: http://medialab.ugr.es/what-is-ugr-medialab/) It is necessary to speak Spanish. The position is open to any candidate. More information in: http://medialab.ugr.es/noticias/oferta-de-contrato- de-investigacion-en-medialab-ugr-para-el-proyecto-knowmetrics/ Best regards - Esteban Romero-Frías http://estebanromero.com/ Twitter: @polisea <http://twitter.com/polisea> Director de Medialab UGR <http://medialab.ugr.es/> - Laboratorio de Investigación en Cultura y Sociedad Digital Vicerrectorado de Investigación y Transferencia de la Universidad de Granada - Departamento de Economía Financiera y Contabilidad Facultad de Ciencias Económicas y Empresariales Universidad de Granada Campus Universitario de Cartuja, s/n C.P. 18071 Granada (España)

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CFP: Distribution Matters ICA 2017 Pre-Conference
by Joshua Braun 11 Oct '16

11 Oct '16

With apologies for cross-posting! —Josh Distribution Matters // Media Circulation in Civic Life and Popular Culture ICA PRECONFERENCE CALL May 25, 2017 in San Diego [This call is on the web at https://distributionmatters.wordpress.com] This preconference aims to examine how and why media distribution matters to civic life and media culture and the ways in which it underpins issues that are more traditionally examined in terms of media production or textual analysis. After all, many of the biggest challenges and opportunities facing the media industries today revolve around the capacity to circulate media and information instantaneously and more cheaply than ever before via the internet—what Michael Curtin, Jennifer Holt, and Kevin Sanson (2014) have referred to as the "distribution revolution." At the same time, grappling with the signal importance of media distribution in industry and public life also means understanding that this importance is older than, and reaches beyond, today's commercial internet. Scholars from across the field of media industry research—and in other areas including media law and regulation, communication history, journalism studies, and cultural theory—have used a variety of analytical vocabularies to theorize the distribution process. Historian and social theorist Michael Warner (2002), for instance, offers examples from the 17th century press when he argues that distribution is the central concern in the construction of democratic publics. "Not texts themselves create publics, but the concatenation of texts through time," he writes. "Only when a previously existing discourse can be supposed, and when a responding discourse can be postulated, can a text address a public" (p. 90). In other words, reliable distribution networks make possible the individual and collective conceit that when we publish a text we are speaking to the same assembled group over time. Media distribution, then, can be read as the infrastructural heart of "imagined communities" in the style of Benedict Anderson (2006). If, as Charles Acland (2003) argues, "the organization of how, when, and under what conditions people congregate is a fundamental dimension of social life," it is through distribution practices and infrastructures that much of this organization takes place (Tryon, 2013), both historically and in today's media environment. CALL FOR ABSTRACTS We aim to bring together the growing group of scholars who focus on distribution as its own topic of study, as well as other work that intersects with distribution, but has not typically been framed in that way—topics such as internet governance, trending algorithms, digital rights management, media infrastructures, and others. Participants should submit an extended abstract of one to two pages. Accepted abstracts will be developed into papers to be distributed to panelists and other attendees in advance of the event. Abstracts may take the form of brief case studies, position papers, conceptual interventions, or other formats likely to lead to engaged discussion. Rather than lengthy research presentations, participants will present briefly (5 minutes) on their work before participating in a roundtable discussion. Submissions dealing with both contemporary and historical themes and subjects are welcomed, as are submissions from a wide variety of disciplinary approaches. Suggested topics include, but are not limited to: * Distribution and Imagined Community. How do contemporary, legacy, and historical distribution infrastructures, practices, and policies affect the construction of publics and our sense of community? Whether it's a nation's postal network, the broadcast radius of the local television station, the circulation footprint of the local newspaper, the far-flung reach of satellite television channels, or the "calculated publics" (e.g., Gillespie, 2014) produced by algorithms on contemporary online media platforms, we welcome explorations of the ways in which distribution brings together—or divides—publics and public discourses. * Distribution and Media Work. Can a focus on distribution broaden traditionally production-focused accounts of labor in the media industries, whether by considering distribution as an important form of labor unto itself or by exploring the impact of distribution on production work? We welcome accounts that examine what it takes to get content in front of audiences, and the various kinds of labour involved—from PR and marketing work to warehousing, shelf-stacking and transportation. * Distribution and Public Discourse. Much has been said—and debated—about the manner in which digital technologies have allowed ordinary people to distribute their own content, as well as the manner in which a few large online intermediaries have come to dominate revenues and the market for audiences' attention. Digital distribution platforms (and some of their historical predecessors) also present us with a high-choice media environment characterized by filter bubbles and fragmentation. Where do these debates about disintermediation and fragmentation stand today? And what does it mean to examine them in terms of distribution? * Distribution, Public Visibility, and Surveillance. The infrastructures of distribution—the presence of papers on news racks or channels on the dial—have long served to make the audiences for particular media visible to a broader public, as well as to interpellate prospective members of those audiences/publics. At the same time, distribution infrastructures also offer tremendous affordances for surveillance—rifling the mail, intercepting telegraph signals, tapping phones, placing digital cookies, deep packet inspection. We welcome contributions that examine distribution as a tool of visibility and/or consider its role in the business and politics of seeing and being seen. * Distribution, Popular Culture, and Personalization. Digital media is characterized by the contrasting dynamics of increased sociability (through apps, social media and 'sharing') and increased individualization (through mobile viewing, miniature screens, and personalized recommendations). By some accounts, media use has shifted from being a communal, in-person experience in theaters and living rooms to a rather more individual and personalized one, enjoyed by each user on her own personal device. We welcome contributions that examine the changing scale of media experiences through various distribution technologies. * Distribution and Intellectual Property. The one-click model of friction-free digital distribution is still a work in progress. Content providers, streaming services, and digital storefronts jockey for position in ways that have resulted in fragmentation, incompatible standards, and copy protection schemes that alter consumers' relationships with their media and devices. Unsurprisingly then, unauthorized distribution (i.e., piracy) remains a constant feature of everyday media consumption in all countries. We welcome contributions examining the relationship between distribution, IP, and consumption. * Affordances of Distribution, Past and Present. Digital distribution infrastructures include a tremendous number of high-tech affordances for selectively placing content in front of audiences—filters, recommender systems, geolocation/geoblocking, and metadata-based categorization to name just a few. What role do these affordances (and their associated constraints) play in contemporary media distribution and its social impacts? And what historical precedents exist for what we typically think of as uniquely digital phenomena? FORMAT Panelists whose abstracts are accepted will develop them into papers that will be distributed in May to preconference attendees in advance of the event. Participants will introduce, then discuss their papers with other scholars in a series of thematically organized roundtables, with the conversation moderated by a panel chair who participates in the conversation. Roundtables will be held in front of the full audience of preconference attendees; after the initial moderated discussion the floor will be opened to audience questions. The final panel of the preconference will be a reflection by senior scholars on the work and themes of the day. The organizers hope to work with participants following the event to develop a selection of the conference abstracts into papers for a special issue or edited volume. SUBMISSION PROCESS Please email submissions to <distribution.matters.preconf(a)gmail.com> by November 20, 2016. Authors will be informed of acceptance/rejection decisions no later than December 20, 2016. Accepted abstracts will be posted to the preconference website in advance of the event. If you have questions about submissions or any aspect of the preconference, you may direct them to <distribution.matters.preconf(a)gmail.com> or contact any of the individual organizers—Joshua Braun <jabraun at umass dot edu>, Ramon Lobato <ramonlobato at gmail dot com>, or Amanda Lotz <lotz at umich dot edu>. LOCATION AND REGISTRATION The preconference will be held at San Diego State University's Conrad Prebys Aztec Student Union (6075 Aztec Cir Dr.), which is located directly on the San Diego trolley system's Green Line, making it reachable from the conference hotel for just $5 round-trip. For faster door-to-door service, participants can split cab fares to and from the event. More details on transport to and from the event will be provided at a later date. Registration will be limited to 60 persons via a registration code to be issued by the organizers. After accepted presenters have registered, registration will be open to any ICA attendee who requests a code until the cap of 60 is reached or administrative deadlines force us to finalize event attendance. Thanks to the generosity of our sponsors, we do not anticipate a registration fee. CONFIRMED PARTICIPANTS Sandra Ball-Rokeach, ICA Fellow, Professor in the Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism at the University of Southern California, director of the USC Communication Technology and Community Program Sandra Braman, ICA Fellow, John Paul Abbott Professor of Liberal Arts and Professor of Communication at Texas A&M University. Stuart Cunningham, Distinguished Professor of Media and Communications, Digital Media Research Centre, Queensland University of Technology Greg Downey, Evjue-Bascom Professor in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication and the School of Library and Information Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Sharon Strover, Philip G. Warner Regents Professor in Communication, director of the Technology and Information Policy Institute at UT Austin SPECIAL THANKS This preconference is possible thanks to the ICA Media Industry Studies Interest Group and the ICA Journalism Studies and Popular Communication Divisions. We are especially grateful for financial support from the Media Industry Studies Interest Group; the University of Michigan Department of Communication Studies; the University of Massachusetts Amherst Journalism Department and College of Social and Behavioral Sciences; and the Culture Digitally scholarship collective. It is thanks to their generous support that we have been able to make this event free to participants. -- Josh Braun, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Journalism Studies Journalism Department University of Massachusetts Amherst @josh_braun Skype: wideaperture http://wideaperture.net/ new book: http://yalebooks.com/book/9780300197501/program-brought-you "Maybe the only gift is a chance to inquire, to know nothing for certain. An inheritance of wonder and nothing more." William Least Heat-Moon

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CFP: Legal/Tech Issues in Cloud and IoT (CLaw 2017)
by Jat Singh 11 Oct '16

11 Oct '16

=========================================================== CLaw: IEEE 3rd International Workshop on Legal and Technical Issues in Cloud Computing and the Internet of Things http://www.claw-workshop.org April 2017, Vancouver, Canada in conjunction with IC2E 2016: IEEE International Conference on Cloud Engineering (apologies for cross-posting) =========================================================== *** This workshop brings together technical and legal practitioners to explore technical responses to legal problems, and to interrogate legal frameworks for new and emerging directions in cloud computing, the Internet of Things, and systems technologies in general *** With cloud computing continuing to revolutionise the provision of IT services, and the promises and threats of the Internet of Things (IoT) growing by the day, legal and policy concerns surrounding these technologies gain increasing salience and prominence. Existing and proposed regulatory and governance regimes place obligations on those who manage (process, use and collect) data. The end-users of applications provisioned in the cloud and IoT also have certain rights that must be respected – various parties all bear varying degrees of responsibility, which must be properly managed. Managing these rights and responsibilities is becoming increasingly complex, both technically and legally, particularly due to the emergence of new cloud services and models, as well as because of movements towards collaborative, decentralised and mobile clouds. For instance, the cloud will play an increasing role in supporting the evolving IoT, which exacerbates issues of scale and data management while bringing real (physical) world considerations. Building on the successes of the previous workshops, CLaw 2017 aims to facilitate an interdisciplinary exploration of tech-legal challenges as regards emerging systems technologies. =========================================================== The workshop aims to encompass a broad range of issues where technology and law intersect. Some suggested topics, in no particular order, include: * Technical enforcement of legal regulations, service level agreements, mutual legal assistance requests, and other instruments * Privacy and security in cloud services and IoT * Internet of Things: data sharing, threats, liability, audit and compliance concerns for cloud-supported IoT, fog and edge computing * Application of cloud computing in regulated sectors * Emerging cloud and infrastructure service models (X as a Service) * Issues concerning the interaction between cloud and IoT technologies, and big data and machine learning * Emerging cloud technologies (decentralised clouds: cloudlets, droplets; containment mechanisms) * Compatibility issues between regulation and technical implementation * Regional cloud initiatives (e.g. EU-only cloud), and other data localisation concerns * Cybercrime: phishing, malware and spam proliferation within cloud computing and IoT * Encryption, security technologies and responsibility * Issues of surveillance in cloud and IoT architectures * Anti-discrimination, human rights, privacy and power issues with cloud and IoT * Interaction between cloud and IoT and consumer-facing business models, including the transformations towards crowd labour, algorithmic decision-making and automation The key goal of this workshop is to stimulate a multidisciplinary discussion and new directions on these important issues. As such, we welcome a wide range of submissions, whether technical, legal or thought pieces to stimulate debate. For those technical in nature - fully implemented and evaluated systems are not essential, and application-specific papers are welcome. Papers should be no more than six pages in IEEE format. Accepted papers will be published in IEEE Xplore, and at least one author of an accepted paper is required to present the work at the workshop. Important Dates: * Paper submission: Dec 1, 2016 * Author notification: Jan 10, 2017 * Final camera ready: Jan 15, 2017 * Workshop date: 4-7 Apr 2017 (exact date TBD) For further details, including submission instructions, please see http://www.claw-workshop.org/

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DEADLINE APPROACHING: CfP 'Consuming Gender', a special edition of Cardiff University's 'Assuming Gender' journal
by Megen De Bruin 11 Oct '16

11 Oct '16

With apologies for cross-posting: —————————————————— Call for Papers - Special Issue, 'Consuming Gender'<http://www.assuminggender.com/p/call-for-papers.html> This special issue of Assuming Gender – an online, peer-reviewed academic journal from Cardiff University – seeks to explore the way gender is both presented and consumed through popular media and advertising. As Ann Herrmann points out in the article ‘Shopping for Identities’, commodities ‘are characterised by their dual nature: material composition and symbolic meaning’ (Herrmann 2002: 539). Consumer culture plays a significant role in constructing valid (and normative) identity categories with which consumers are encouraged to identify. Scholars as diverse as Americus Reed, Laura C. Nelson, and Henry Jenkins have theorised the ways in which identity and consumer culture are intertwined. Reed, for example, claims in ‘Activating the Self-Importance of Consumer Selves’ that ‘[s]ocial identities are mental representations that can become a basic part of how consumers view themselves’ (Reed 2004: 286). In a later article on ‘Identity-Based Consumer Behaviour’, Reed and others use the example of athletics to illustrate their point: ‘if consumers view themselves as “athletes”, they are likely to behave in ways that are consistent with what it means to “be” an athlete’ (Reed, Forehand, Puntoni and Warlop 2002: 310). Consumption thus becomes defined by identity, and identity becomes defined by consumption. While the construction of identities based on athleticism seems relatively benign, the case quickly becomes more complicated when consumer identities are racially, economically, or sexually coded. In addition to delineating the borders between various interest groups, consumer culture plays a significant role in establishing and maintaining binary identity distinctions (male/female, gay/straight, black/white), undermining the validity of those identifying across or in-between one or more categories, or who refuse categorisation at all. Those identities not classified as valid consumer groups are not seen as valid identities at all. For this special issue of Assuming Gender, we invite articles that focus specifically on the idea of ‘Consuming Gender’. How has consumer culture constructed (and how has it been constructed by) gender through the ages? Suggested topics include, but are not limited to: * Consuming gender/gendered consumption * Historical contexts of gendered consumption * Feminist/postfeminist approaches to consumption * Consumption and intersectionality * Queer consumption * Media constructions of (gendered) consumer identities * Post/colonialism and gendered consumption Please send a proposal of roughly 500 words to Megen de Bruin-Molé, Akira Suwa and Daný van Dam at gender(a)cardiff.ac.uk<mailto:gender@cardiff.ac.uk> under the subject line ‘CFP Consuming Gender’, including your name, e-mail institutional affiliation (if any), and a biographical note (100 words maximum). We welcome papers from scholars of all backgrounds, disciplines, and career stages. The deadline for proposals is 16 October, 2016, and completed papers of 5000 to 8000 words will be expected no later than 16 April, 2017. (More information available at the link: http://www.assuminggender.com/p/call-for-papers.html) —————————————————— Megen de Bruin-Molé School of English, Communication and Philosophy Cardiff University John Percival Building, Rm. 0.46 Colum Drive Cardiff CF10 3EU UK Email: DeBruinMJ(a)cardiff.ac.uk<mailto:DeBruinMJ@cardiff.ac.uk> Social media: @MegenJM | facebook.com/megenj<http://facebook.com/megenj> Website: angelsandapes.com<http://angelsandapes.com>

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CFP - Media Policy and Digitalization workshop
by Aske Kammer 11 Oct '16

11 Oct '16

Perhaps of interest for some in the AoIR community: CFP: "MEDIA POLICY AND DIGITALIZATION" WORKSHOP AT NoPSA 2017 Odense (DK), August 8-11, 2017 The workshop will constitute The 2nd European Symposium on Media Policy. Description: Media policy constitutes a neglected sub-field of political sciences and has, traditionally, been relegated to the realms of media and communication studies. However, since it concerns the structures that support and regulate democracy, freedom of expression, and public participation, and since it is of increasing interest to policy-makers on both national and super-national levels, it is an area that could also be of interest for the political-science community. This workshop proposes an occasion for starting such a conversation and fertilizing the ground for increased integration of media policy in the political sciences. Issues of media policy have become pertinent in recent years as technological and social development reconfigures the object of this policy area. So, the workshop will focus particularly on the challenges that digitalization poses to media policy and the questions that it raises. These challenges include - but are not limited to - (1) how traditional media markets such as broadcasters and the press increasingly converge on digital media, challenging the regulatory frameworks and subsidy systems put in place by policy-makers; (2) how digital intermediaries such as Google and Facebook are central actors in citizens' media use but transgress the tools of the same policy-makers; and (3) the extent to which one can even distinguish between "media policy" and other policy areas such as cultural policy, policies of infrastructure (telecommunications), and trade/business policy. Workshop format: We emphasize the workshop format of the event, expecting all authors with accepted abstract to submit full papers before the workshop (see timeline below) and act as designated opponents on other authors' papers (i.e., reading the paper in advance and prepare comments). At the workshop, we will have 45-60 minutes for each paper: 20 minutes for presentation, 10 minutes for comments from the opponent, and 15-30 minutes for general discussion. This format should allow for time to work in-depth with the paper contributions. The workshop will accept a maximum of 15 papers, and we hope to be able to publish the best of them as a special issue. Timeline: January 15, 2017: Deadline for paper proposals. Proposals should have the form of extended abstracts (750 words) and be sent directly to workshop chair Aske Kammer (aska(a)itu.dk) March 15, 2017: Notification of acceptance May 15, 2017: Deadline for Early Bird registration July 15, 2017: Deadline for submission of full papers (send to workshop chair Aske Kammer, aska(a)itu.dk) August 8-11, 2017: Conference Workshop leadership: - Chair: Aske Kammer (The IT University of Copenhagen, aska(a)itu.dk<mailto:aska@itu.dk>) - Vice-chair: Vilde Schanke Sundet (Lillehammer University College, Vilde.Schanke.Sundet(a)hil.no<mailto:Vilde.Schanke.Sundet@hil.no>) Venue: The workshop will be part of the Nordic Political Science Association's (NoPSA) XVIII Political Science Congress, which will be held at the Department of Political Science and Public Management at the University of Southern Denmark on August 8-11, 2017. For more information, please visit http://www.sdu.dk/NOPSA2017.

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When are papers from the conference available online?
by Alex Leavitt 11 Oct '16

11 Oct '16

Having missed the conference this year, I want to follow up on some that were interesting in the program! --- Alexander Leavitt, Ph.D. Quantitative UX Researcher, Facebook Research http://alexleavitt.com Twitter: @alexleavitt <http://twitter.com/alexleavitt>

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WEBCAST TODAY: Net neutrality in Europe: The BEREC guidelines and beyond
by Joly MacFie 10 Oct '16

10 Oct '16

This is just about to start. A highly detailed presentation from the co-chair of the expert working group that developed Europe's NN policy. joly posted: " Today Friday October 7th 2016 the Columbia Institute for Tele-Information presents the annual conference on the State of Telecom at the Columbia University, NYC. This year's event has the theme Online Video as the Disruptor: Winners and Losers. The even" [image: Livestream] <https://livestream.com/internetsociety/berec/>Last *Thursday 6 October 2016* the *Geneva Internet Platform <http://giplatform.org/>* presented a webinar *Net neutrality in Europe: The BEREC guidelines and beyond <http://www.diplomacy.edu/calendar/webinar-net-neutrality-europe-berec-guide…>* . *Mr Frode Sørensen*, Senior Adviser at Norwegian Communications Authority (Nkom) presented an overview of the recently published *Body of European Regulators for Electronic Communications <http://berec.europa.eu/>* set of *Guidelines on the Implementation by National Regulatory Authorities (NRAs) of European Network Neutrality Rules <http://berec.europa.eu/eng/document_register/subject_matter/berec/regulator…>*. The BEREC guidelines are aimed at assisting national regulatory authorities in implementing their net neutrality-related obligations according to the new *EU regulations (2015/2120) <https://publications.europa.eu/en/publication-detail/-/publication/8fdf5d08…>*, including by closely monitoring and ensuring ‘compliance with the rules to safeguard equal and non-discriminatory treatment of traffic in the provision of Internet access services and related end-user rights’. The Guidelines were received with enthusiasm by civil society – some of whom see them as a win for net neutrality in the EU – and with a degree of reticence by telecom operators – some of whom argue that most of their concerns have not been taken into account. Regulators say their guidelines have found a balanced solution within the frames set out by the regulation, indicated by the observation that both camps in the debate seem equally (un)happy. Mr Sørensen provided a snapshot of the BEREC’s net neutrality guidelines, and reflected on their effect on commercial practices such as zero rating, traffic management of internet access services, the issue of specialised services, and the innovation and rights of Internet users, as well as questions raised by the participants. An edited version of the webinar will be streamed at *1pm EDT* today *Monday October 10 2016* on the *Internet Society Livestream Channel <https://livestream.com/internetsociety/berec/>* *What: Net neutrality in Europe: The BEREC guidelines and beyond <http://www.diplomacy.edu/calendar/webinar-net-neutrality-europe-berec-guide…>* *When: Monday October 10 2016 1pm EDT (17:00 UTC)* *Webcast: https://livestream.com/internetsociety/berec/ <https://livestream.com/internetsociety/berec/>* *Twitter: #berec + #thegip http://bit.ly/2dZn2Cy <http://bit.ly/2dZn2Cy>* <http://isoc-ny.org/p2/8703> Comment <http://isoc-ny.org/p2/8703> See all comments <http://isoc-ny.org/p2/8703> *Permalink* http://isoc-ny.org/p2/8703 <http://isoc-ny.org/p2/8699> -- --------------------------------------------------------------- Joly MacFie 218 565 9365 Skype:punkcast -------------------------------------------------------------- -

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CFP: Postcolonial Perspectives in Game Studies - Special issue of Open Library of Humanities
by Emil Lundedal Hammar 10 Oct '16

10 Oct '16

Call for articles for a special issue of Open Library of Humanities: Postcolonial Perspectives in Game Studies Since the first key publications in the nineties on videogames research in Humanities and Social Sciences contexts, the field of Game Studies has become an established platform for discussion and debate on how games contribute to our cultural, social and aesthetic experiences. Game Studies has, consequently, also taken up debates on diversity and inclusion, time and again. In line with the revitalization of radical reactionary and conservative forces across the globe, the recent bigoted GamerGate controversy saw incisive discussions on gender and questions of race in games have also been at the forefront. Not much, however, has been said about the representation of colonialism, empire and neo-colonialism in videogames although some of the very earliest games have featured these issues, sometimes in problematic ways. As games are part of and perpetuate past and present global power structures in relation to inequalities in material wealth and symbolic representation, to exploitation of labor, and to hegemonic articulations of history and the Other, it is necessary for game studies to not only bring these issues to light, but also critically analyze the relationship between games and existing postcolonial power relationships. Analysing games as disparate as Age of Empires, Far Cry 2 and Assassin’s Creed: Freedom Cry reveal intrinsic questions about how the ludic relates to colonialism and how it informs the postcolonial experience. This open-access special issue of Open Library of Humanities aims to bring questions of Postcolonialism to the forefront of game studies. An often underexplored and neglected area in the domain of studying both digital and analogue games, a critique of the (mis)representation of Orientalist attitudes, race, hybridity, notions of space and the fragmented postcolonial identities is urgently required. We, therefore, seek submissions that provide critical analysis of colonial representations in games and also challenge notions of colonial hegemonic power-structures. Possible topics might include, but are not limited to: * Colonialism / Neocolonialism / Postcolonialism / Imperialism * The Other / Alterity * Decolonization * Hegemony * Orientalism * Postcolonial praxis * Global capitalism / economy * Self-representation / voice / agency * Subalternity * Indigenous culture * Religion(s) / Language(s) / Nationalism(s) * Thirdspace * Eurocentrism * Game studies & politics of knowledge Research articles should be approximately 8000 words in length, including references and a short bibliography. Submissions should comprise of: * Abstract (250 words) * Full-length article (8000 words) * Author information (short biographical statement of 200 words) Deadline for abstracts: 15th December 2016 Notification of accepted abstracts: 16th January 2017 Deadline for full articles: 28th April 2017 Submissions should be made online at: https://submit.openlibhums.org/<https://olh.openlibhums.org/> in accordance with the author guidelines and clearly marking the entry as [“Postcolonial Game Studies” SPECIAL COLLECTION]. Submissions will then undergo a double-blind peer-review process. Authors will be notified of the outcome as soon as reports are received. The special collection, edited by Dr Souvik Mukherjee, Department of English, Presidency University, Kolkata, India, and Emil Hammar, Department of Language & Culture, University of Tromsø, Norway, is to be published in the Open Library of Humanities (OLH) (ISSN 2056-6700<tel:2056-6700>). The OLH is an Andrew W. Mellon Foundation-funded open-access journal with a strong emphasis on quality peer review and a prestigious academic steering board. Unlike some open-access publications, the OLH has no author-facing charges and is instead financially supported by an international consortium of libraries<https://about.openlibhums.org/libraries/supporting-institutions/>. To learn more about the Open Library of Humanities please visit: https://www.openlibhums.org/ To read about the CFP on the Open Library of Humanities website, please visit: <https://www.openlibhums.org/>https://about.openlibhums.org/2016/09/19/cfp-postcolonial-perspectives-in-g… <https://www.openlibhums.org/> The Open Library of Humanities (OLH) is a charitable organisation dedicated to publishing open access scholarship with no author-facing article processing charges (APCs). We are funded by an international consortium of libraries who have joined us in our mission to make scholarly publishing fairer, more accessible, and rigorously preserved for the digital future. The deadline for submission of abstract is 15th December 2016. Best regards, Dr. Souvik Mukherjee, Department of English, Presidency University, Kolkata, India Emil Hammar, Department of Language & Culture, University of Tromsø, Norway

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