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International "COMMUNICATIVE FIGURATIONS“ conference 7-9 December 2016
by Leif Kramp 07 Oct '16

07 Oct '16

*** Please excuse cross-posting *** International "COMMUNICATIVE FIGURATIONS“ conference From December 7-9, 2016 the Bremen House of Science (Haus der Wissenschaft, Sandstr. 4/5, Bremen, Germany) will host the international conference 'Communicative Figurations' on the interdependent transformation of communication, media, society and culture. The ZeMKI, Centre for Media, Communication and Information Research, University of Bremen, organises the international conference in collaboration with the Hans-Bredow-Institute for Media Research, Hamburg and the SOCIUM, University of Bremen. The conference welcomes numerous speakers from all over Europe and the United States who investigate transforming communications against the background of an increasing complexity of the media environment. Richard Rogers (Digital Method Initiative, University of Amsterdam) and Gina Neff (Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford) will be keynote speakers. For today’s life-worlds, media communication is essential: work, leisure, socialization, the public sphere, public engagement, etc. are articulated by different types of mediated communication. Even from a historical point of view it is impossible for us to imagine the multiple and contradictory processes of modernization without media. Today, various domains of the social world are so closely related to (digital) media that they could not exist in their present form beyond media. In this sense, we live in times of 'deep mediatization'. A particular challenge of researching this stage of mediatization is the present complexity of the media environment: It is not one single medium that is the driving force of change. With the spreading of various technical communication media - television, radio, mobile phone, internet platforms etc. - we are confronted with a 'media manifold' which stimulates various processes of re-mediation and transmediation. And as media are more and more software-based and related to the internet, their use becomes entangled with processes of datafication. How can we investigate then transforming communications in times of deep mediatization? How do the figurations of living together change with the media environment? The conference takes these fundamental questions seriously and moves the transformation of communications and figurations through the 'media manifold' into the foreground. The focuses of the conference are the transformation of journalism, religion, education, communities, politics, and public discourse. Beyond this, the conference puts an emphasis on the (digital) methods used to investigate related processes of transformation. It is the concluding event of the Creative Research Unit 'Communicative Figurations', being funded within the framework of the Initiative of Excellence. CONFERENCE PROGRAMME WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 7, 2016 20:00 Get Together THURSDAY, DECEMBER 8, 2016 9:00 Plenary: Researching Transforming Communications *Andreas Hepp, University of Bremen, GER *Uwe Hasebrink, Hans-Bredow-Institut, GER 10:00-11:00 KEYNOTE 1: Otherwise Engaged: From vanity metrics to critical analytics *Richard Rogers, University of Amsterdam, NL 11:00-13:00 Panel: Journalism and its audience - audiences and their journalisms (chair: Wiebke Loosen) *Laura Ahva, University of Tampere, FI *Irene Costera Meijer, University of Amsterdam, NL *Neil Thurman, LMU Munich, GER *Wiebke Loosen & Uwe Hasebrink, Hans-Bredow-Institut, GER 13:00 Lunch Olbers Hall 14:00-16:00 Panel: Remembering to belong? – Family memory in times of deep mediatization (chair: Christine Lohmeier) *Sara Polak, Leiden University, NL *Karina Horsti, University of Jyväskylä, FI *Göran Bolin, Södertörn University, SE *Christine Lohmeier & Rieke Böhling, University of Bremen, GER Little Hall 14:00-16:00 Panel: Forces of persistence? Religious authority in times of deep mediatization (chair: Kerstin Radde-Antweiler) *Pauline Cheong, Arizona State University, USA *Andrea Rota, University of Fribourg, CH *Tim Hutchings, Stockholm University, SE *Kerstin Radde-Antweiler, Sina Gogolok & Hannah Grünenthal, University of Bremen, GER 16:00 Coffee and tea break Olbers Hall 16:30-18:30 Panel: Datafying education (chair: Andreas Breiter) *Kim Schildkamp, University of Twente, NL *Daniel Light, Center for Children and Technology, New York, USA *Rebecca Eynon, Oxford Internet Institute, Oxford, UK *Andreas Breiter & Juliane Jarke, University of Bremen, GER Little Hall 16:30-18:30 Panel: Networked media collectivities (chair: Thomas Friemel) *Thomas Friemel & Matthias Bixler, University of Bremen, GER *Mathias Weber, University of Mainz, GER *Volker Gehrau, University of Münster, GER *Christian Steglich, Linköping University, SE 20:00 Dinner FRIDAY, DECEMBER 9, 2016 Olbers Hall 9:00-10:00 KEYNOTE 2: The social lives of personal data: Communicative Figurations in the rise of self-tracking *Gina Neff, University of Oxford, UK Olbers Hall 10:00-12:00 Panel: Pioneer communities: Imagining media-related transformations (chair: Andreas Hepp) *Tamara Witschge, University of Groningen, NL *Leah A. Lievrouw, University of Los Angeles, USA *Nicole Zillien, University of Trier, GER *Andreas Hepp, University of Bremen, GER Little Hall 10:00-12:00 Panel: Imagined communities and cross-media constructions of collectivities (chair: Hans-Ulrich Wagner) *Andreas Fickers, University of Luxemburg, LUX *Marie Cronquist, Lund University, SE *Alec Badenoch, University of Utrecht, NL *Lisa Spanka, University of Bremen, GER 12:00 Lunch Olbers Hall 13:00-15:00 Panel: School’s out: Informal learning in mediatized collectives (chair: Karsten Wolf) *Karsten Wolf, University of Bremen, GER *Paul Eisewicht, TU Dortmund, GER & Pfadenhauer, Michaela, University of Vienna, AT *Manuela Pietrass, University of the Bundeswehr Munich, GER *Sebastian Fiedler, University of Hamburg, GER Little Hall 13:00-15:00 Panel: Meeting face-to-face: Communication and political decision-making (chair: Tanja Pritzlaff) *Stéphanie Novak, Espol, Lille, FR & Sandrine Baume, UNIL-Dorigny, Lausanne, CH *Philippe Urfalino, Directeur d'études EHESS (Ecole des hautes études en sciences sociales), FR *Tanja Pritzlaff & Frank Nullmeier, University of Bremen, GER 15:00 Coffee and tea break Olbers Hall 15:30-17:30 Disturbances of the middle classes’ conduct of life and their coping (chair: Ute Volkmann) *Peter Lunt, University of Leicester, UK *Christine Linke, University of Rostock, GER *Uwe Schimank, Ute Volkmann & Michael Walter, University of Bremen, GER Little Hall 15:30-17:30 Panel: Bridging moralization and deliberation research (chair: Stefanie Averbeck-Lietz) *Simon Beste, University of Stuttgart, GER *Peter Dahlgren, University of Lunt, SE *Jostein Gripsrud, University of Bergen, NO *Stefanie Averbeck-Lietz & Rebecca Venema, University of Bremen, GER 17:30 Coffee and tea break Olbers Hall 18:00-19:30 Panel: The mediated construction of reality (chair: Uwe Hasebrink) *Nick Couldry, LSE, UK & Andraes Hepp University of Bremen, GER *Uwe Hasebrink, Hans Bredow Institut, GER *Hubert Knoblauch, TU Berlin, GER *Giselinde Kuipers, University of Amsterdam, NL 20:00 Dinner REGISTRATION Registration for the conference is now open. Please register via e-mail (commfigurations[at]uni-bremen.de) with your name, status group and affiliation. You will receive a confirmation. Please note the following registration fees that have to be paid at the conference check in accompanied by a proof of your status group (e.g. certifcate of matriculation). Regular rate: 30 euros Doctoral students: 20 euros Graduate students: 10 euros You will receive a cash receipt. The registration fees include the conference dinner and lunches as well as coffee and tea in the breaks between the panels. CONFERENCE BROCHURE The conference brochure can be downloaded at: http://www.kommunikative-figurationen.de/fileadmin/redak_kofi/news/cofi-con…

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Job vacancy: Professorship for Innovative Methods in Media and Communication Research
by Leif Kramp 07 Oct '16

07 Oct '16

*** Please excuse cross-posting *** Job vacancy: Professorship for Innovative Methods in Media and Communication Research Job vacancy at the ZeMKI, Centre for Media, Communication and Information Research of the University of Bremen: Professorship for Innovative Methods in Media and Communication Research. The University of Bremen, Faculty 9 Cultural Studies seeks candidates for appointment as professor. The professorship is part of the institutional strategy to strengthen research and development by awarding professorships in dynamic research areas. One of these areas is “Media Change”, which investigates the communicative figurations of mediatized cultures and societies. Professorship (W 2/Associate Professor) Innovative Methods in Media and Communication Research (temporary civil servant position for five years with tenure option) Reference number P693/16 Applicants should have expertise in media and communication research with a special profile in methodological questions. Expected is expertise in quantitative as well as qualitative approaches of media and communication research and, in addition, an independent approach to the development of research methods. It is also expected that the successful candidate will exhibit engagement within the research field “Media Change” within the Faculty of Cultural Studies and the acquisition of third-party funding, as well as interdisciplinary research cooperation within the Centre for Media, Communication and Information Research (ZeMKI) and its research group “Communicative Figurations”. Teaching is dedicated to the BA and MA programs of the Institute for Media and Communication Studies (IPKM) and should include, beside various thematic modules, courses in methods of media and communication research. An interest in the increasing number of postgraduate courses is also expected. In addition to the pre-conditions of civil service law, a relevant doctoral dissertation, as well as other relevant academic achievements of outstanding quality, evidenced, for instance, by a junior professorship or by a post-doctoral thesis. A further requirement is that the successful candidates can evidence their pedagogical-didactic suitability by documented teaching experience. Applicants are expected to have acquired teaching skills in the German language after a period of 2-3 years. We expect a readiness to cooperate in research with other research areas within and outside the University of Bremen. We also expect the applicant’s readiness to acquire third-party funds as well as openness to innovations in teaching methods. Experience with media-supported forms of teaching is desirable as well as the readiness to consider gender aspects in research and teaching. The University of Bremen has received a number of awards for its diversity policies. We strive to increase the number of female researchers and particularly solicit applications from suitably qualified female candidates. International applications and applications on the part of academics with a migration background are explicitly welcome. Disabled persons with the same professional and personal qualifications will be given preference. The option of a Tenure Track is offered under reservation of a possible change of the Bremen Higher Education Act (BremHG). For further information, please contact the head of the Centre for Media, Communication and Information Research (ZeMKI), Prof. Dr. Andreas Hepp. Please send your application including CV, teaching experience, and a list of publications by November 9th, 2016, 2016, citing the reference number to: Universität Bremen Dean of Faculty 9 – Cultural Studies Prof. Dr. Dorle Dracklé Postfach 330 440 28334 Bremen Germany (bewerbungen.fb9[at]uni-bremen.de <>) Download <http://www.zemki.uni-bremen.de/fileadmin/redak_zemki/dateien/Dateien-News/P…> http://www.zemki.uni-bremen.de/de/aktuelles/nachricht/article//stellenaussc…

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Fwd: [hackademia] IRC channel
by Sarah Myers West 07 Oct '16

07 Oct '16

Hi all! Sharing this with Biella's permission - there's an IRC channel now running on freenode for those of us who are researching hacker communities, #hackademia. There are a lot of different guides out there to accessing IRC, but here's an easy browser link for anyone who isn't familiar: https://webchat. freenode.net/?channels=#hackademia. Best, Sarah ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: biella <biella(a)riseup.net> Date: Wed, Oct 5, 2016 at 5:11 AM Subject: [hackademia] IRC channel To: "hackademia(a)lists.riseup.net" <hackademia(a)lists.riseup.net> Hi all, There is an hackademia IRC channel on freenode. #hackademia More detailed instructions for those who don't know how to use it coming later. Biella -- *Sarah Myers West* Doctoral Candidate and Wallis Annenberg Graduate Research Fellow Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism University of Southern California E-mail: sarahmye(a)usc.edu Twitter: @sarahbmyers

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CFP: “Digital Media and the Spatial Transformation of Public Contention” - ECPR Joint Sessions Workshop
by Anastasia Kavada 06 Oct '16

06 Oct '16

Dear all, Please see below for the call for papers of the ECPR Joint Sessions Workshop on “Digital Media and the Spatial Transformation of Public Contention”. The full description of the workshop can be found here: https://ecpr.eu/Events/PanelDetails.aspx?PanelID=4836&EventID=104 CFP: The proposed workshop explores and theorizes how the rise of online platforms, such as Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and Tumblr, is affecting the spatial configuration of public contention. The goal is to create a cross-disciplinary network of scholars to develop a new dynamic conception of publicness. Rather than simply situating contentious politics within a specific ‘sphere’ that serves as their container, we are interested in examining how contentious politics unfolds across different geographical, cultural, political and material configurations. The workshop specifically calls for papers that investigate and conceptualize how in contemporary protests relations of publicness are constantly redrawn across the ‘local’, ‘national’, and ‘transnational’. Moreover, it aims to stimulate research on how the technological infrastructures of the emerging hybrid media system, in which digital platforms, broadcast media, and face-to-face communication are deeply entangled, shape the spatial trajectories of public contention. Finally, the workshop hopes to attract papers that critically examine how the intense use of digital media in public contestation, often in combination with alternative media, further confuses the traditional distinction between ‘public’ and ‘commercial’ space. In combination, the papers should enable a lively debate on how to research and theorize public contention in the new communication environment. Do we have to revise or even abandon dominant conceptualizations of publicness, like the public sphere, which are very much predicated on the nation state? And if so, what new concepts do we need to understand how the rapid development of digital platforms is transforming the spaces of public contestation? Joint Session Workshops of the European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR) include 15-20 participants and allow in-depth discussion on a specific topic. The 2017 Joint Sessions will take place in Nottingham between 25-30 April 2017. The deadline for submitting paper proposals is on the 1st December 2016. To submit your paper proposal please follow this link: https://ecpr.eu/Login.aspx?ReturnUrl=%2fMyEcpr%2fForms%2fPaperProposalForm.… For any questions about this workshop please contact Anastasia Kavada at A.Kavada(a)westminster.ac.uk<mailto:A.Kavada@westminster.ac.uk> and Thomas Poell at Poell(a)uva.nl<mailto:Poell@uva.nl> Many thanks, Anastasia and Thomas The University of Westminster is a charity and a company limited by guarantee. Registration number: 977818 England. Registered Office: 309 Regent Street, London W1B 2UW. This message and its attachments are private and confidential. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender and remove it and its attachments from your system.

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CfP: 2017 International Conference on Social Media & Society (#SMSociety) - Toronto, Canada - July 28-30, 2017
by Anatoliy 06 Oct '16

06 Oct '16

Apologies for cross-postings ******************************** 2017 International Conference on Social Media & Society (#SMSociety) WHEN: July 28-30, 2017 WHERE: Toronto, Canada (Ted Rogers School of Management, Ryerson University) SUBMISSION DEADLINES: Dec 5, 2016: Workshops, Tutorials, & Panels Jan 16, 2017: Full & WIP Papers Mar 6, 2017: Poster Abstracts Conference website: <http://SocialMediaAndSociety.org> http://SocialMediaAndSociety.org CALL FOR PROPOSALS 2017 #SMSociety Theme: Social Media for Social Good or Evil Our online behaviour is far from virtual--it extends our offline lives. Much social media research has identified the positive opportunities of using social media; for example, how people use social media to form support groups online, participate in political uprising, raise money for charities, extend teaching and learning outside the classroom, etc. However, mirroring offline experiences, we have also seen social media being used to spread propaganda and misinformation, recruit terrorists, live stream criminal activities, reinforce echo chambers by politicians, and perpetuate hate and oppression (such as racist, sexist, homophobic, and anti-Semitic behaviour). Furthermore, behind the posts are algorithms, power structures, commercial interests and other factors that surreptitiously influence our experiences on social media. So, we ask: * What does it actually mean to use social media for social good? * How can social media be further leveraged for social justice? What are the threats to meaningful participation and how can we overcome these threats? * What do we know about the 4 W's of who, what, why, where (and how) do people engage in anti-social behaviour online? * What theoretical and methodological tools can we use to study anti-social behaviour? Can we detect such behaviour automatically? * What are the ethics of algorithms (inclusion, accessibility, data discrimination, bots)? * What are the legal, policy, privacy, and ethical implications of using social big data? * Considering the proliferation of bots online, can we still trust social media data? * And more broadly, what are the major effects of using social media on political, economic, individual, and social aspects of our society? The 2017 International Conference on Social Media & Society (#SMSociety) invites scholarly and original submissions that relate to the broad theme of Social Media & Society. We welcome both quantitative and qualitative work which crosses interdisciplinary boundaries and expands our understanding of the current and future trends in social media research, especially those that explore some of the questions and issues raised above. ABOUT THE CONFERENCE: The International Conference on Social Media & Society (#SMSociety) is an annual gathering of leading social media researchers from around the world. Now, in its 8th year, the 2017 conference will be held in Toronto, Canada at Ted Rogers School of Management, Ryerson University on July 28-30. >From its inception, the Conference has focused on the best practices for studying the impact and implications of social media on society. Our invited industry and academic keynotes have highlighted the shifting questions and concerns for the social media research community. From introducing media multiplexity and networked individualism with Caroline Haythornthwaite and Barry Wellman in 2010 and 2011, to measuring influence with Gilad Lotan and Sharad Goel in 2012 and 2013, to defining social media research as a field with Keith Hampton in 2014, to identifying our commitments as social media researchers in policy making with Bill Dutton in 2015, to exploring the future of social media technologies with John Weigelt in 2015, to highlighting the challenges of social media data mining in the context of big data with Susan Halford and Helen Kennedy in 2016. Organized by the <http://socialmedialab.ca/> Social Media Lab at <http://www.ryerson.ca/tedrogersschool/> Ted Rogers School of Management at Ryerson University, the conference provides participants with opportunities to exchange ideas, present original research, learn about recent and ongoing studies, and network with peers. The conference's intensive three-day program features workshops, full papers, work-in-progress papers, panels, and posters. The wide-ranging topics in social media showcase research from scholars working in many fields including Communication, Computer Science, Education, Journalism, Information Science, Management, Political Science, Sociology, Social Work, etc. SUBMISSION DETAILS: See online at https://socialmediaandsociety.org/submit/ PUBLISHING OPPORTUNITIES: Full and WIP (short) papers presented at the Conference will be published in the conference proceedings by <http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2930971&CFID=847001369&CFTOKEN=15617273&p reflayout=flat#prox> ACM International Conference Proceeding Series (ICPS) and will be available in the ACM Digital Library. All conference presenters will be invited to submit their work as a full paper to the special issue of the <http://sms.sagepub.com/> Social Media + Society journal (published by SAGE). TOPICS OF INTEREST: Social Media Impact on Society . Political Mobilization & Engagement . Extremism & Terrorism . Politics of Hate and Oppression . The Sharing/Attention Economy . Social Media & Health . Virality & Memes . Social Media & Social Justice . Social Media & Business (Marketing, PR, HR, Risk Management, etc.) . Social Media & Academia (Alternative Metrics, Learning Analytics, etc.) . Social Media & Public Administration . Social Media & the News Online/Offline Communities . Trust & Credibility in Social Media . Online Community Detection . Influential User Detection . Identity Social Media & Small Data . Case Studies of Online Communities Formed on Social Media . Case Studies of Offline Communities that Rely on Social Media . Sampling Issues . Value of Small Data Social Media & Big Data . Visualization of Social Media Data . Social Media Data Mining . Scalability Issues & Social Media Data . Social Media Analytics . Ethics of Big Data/Algorithms Theories & Methods . Qualitative & Quantitative Approaches . Opinion Mining & Sentiment Analysis . Social Network Analysis . Theoretical Models for Studying, Analysing and Understanding Social Media Social Media & Mobile . App-ification of Society . Privacy & Security Issues in the Mobile World . Apps for the Social Good . Networking Apps ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: Anatoliy Gruzd, Ryerson University, Canada - Conference Chair Jenna Jacobson, University of Toronto, Canada - Conference Chair Philip Mai, Ryerson University, Canada - Conference Chair K. Hazel Kwon, Arizona State University, USA - Poster Chair ADVISORY BOARD: William H. Dutton, Michigan State University, USA Zizi Papacharissi, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA Barry Wellman, INSNA Founder, The Netlab Network

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Event: Harun Farocki and the Question of Cognitive Labour
by Westminster Institute for Advanced Studies 06 Oct '16

06 Oct '16

Harun Farocki and the Question of Cognitive Labour https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/harun-farocki-and-the-question-of-cognitive-… https://www.westminster.ac.uk/events/harun-farocki-and-the-question-of-cogn… Fri 18 November 2016 18:30 – 21:00 University of Westminster 309 Regent Street 1st Floor Boardroom London W1B 2HW Marking the 120-year anniversary of the first screening of Lumière Brothers' *Workers Leaving the Factory* at the University of Westminster’s Regent Street campus, the Westminster Institute for Advanced Studies hosts an evening featuring short films by Harun Farocki and comments by two distinguished experts. In 1896, the Royal Polytechnic Institution – today the University of Westminster – hosted the first ever screening of moving images to a British audience: A set of ten short films by the Lumière Brothers. One of these was *Workers Leaving the Factory*. In 1995, German filmmaker Harun Farocki produced a film of the same title, exploring the relation between the cinema and the factory. Farocki asked: W hy have the factory and industrial labour been systematically hidden and disregarded in the history of cinema? Through the montage of similar scenes from the history of film, Farocki depicts the factory gate as a site of social struggle. The gate functions as a metaphor for the gradual eviction of the industrial worker from the factory and the emergence of new forms of cognitive labour. In other words, *Workers Leaving the Factory* marks the exit of the mass worker from industrial capitalism and into what is called the social factory in Italian autonomous theory. Farocki’s films prompt us to ask pressing questions in relation to what today is called cognitive/informational/cultural labour. The event aims to show how contemporary theories of labour allow us to read and interpret the work of one of the key figures in contemporary German cinema and how cinema can inform critical social theory. On this evening, Dr Claudio Celis Bueno (Westminster Institute for Advanced Studies) and Dr Michael Cowan (University of S. Andrews) will be exploring the internal relation between the audio-visual work of Farocki and new theoretical reflections on labour in contemporary society. Drawing lines backwards into film history, the event takes place in the historical building where the Lumière Brothers’ film was first shown to a British public. We will be just next door to the Regent Street Cinema, which was re-opened by University of Westminster in 2015.

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Event: Harun Farocki and the Question of Cognitive Labour
by Westminster Institute for Advanced Studies 06 Oct '16

06 Oct '16

Harun Farocki and the Question of Cognitive Labour https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/harun-farocki-and-the-question-of-cognitive-… https://www.westminster.ac.uk/events/harun-farocki-and-the-question-of-cogn… Fri 18 November 2016 18:30 – 21:00 University of Westminster 309 Regent Street 1st Floor Boardroom London W1B 2HW On this evening, Dr Claudio Celis Bueno (Westminster Institute for Advanced Studies) and Dr Michael Cowan (University of S. Andrews) will be exploring the internal relation between the audio-visual work of Farocki and new theoretical reflections on labour in contemporary society.

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PhD scholarship in media studies with special focus on visual images of conflicts (University of Copenhagen)
by Mette Mortensen 06 Oct '16

06 Oct '16

PhD Scholarship in media studies with special focus on visual images of conflicts. The Department of Media, Cognition, and Communication, Faculty of Humanities, University of Copenhagen, Denmark, invites applications for a 3-year PhD scholarship. The successful candidate will be situated within the "Images of Conflict, Conflicting Images" (ICCI) core group project supported by the Velux Foundation. The scholarship is expected to begin February 1, 2017, or as soon as possible thereafter. Deadline for applications November 16 2016. Please see this link for details about the position and the application requirements: http://employment.ku.dk/phd/?show=859841 Mette Mortensen, PhD Associate professor Section of Film, Media and Communication Department of Media, Cognition and Communication University of Copenhagen Karen Blixensvej 4 (+45)3532 9181 metmort(a)hum.ku.dk<mailto:metmort@hum.ku.dk> http://mcc.ku.dk/staff/?pure=en/persons/182931 Recent books: - Journalism and Eyewitness Images: Digital Media, Participation, and Conflict. Routledge (2015). http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415828499/ - News Across Media. Production, Distribution and Consumption. Routledge: 2016. Co-edited with Jakob Linaa Jensen & Jacob Ørmen. https://www.routledge.com/News-Across-Media-Production-Distribution-and-Con sumption/Jensen-Mortensen-rmen/p/book/9781138911734 - The Dynamics of Mediatized Conflicts. Peter Lang: 2015. Co-edited with Mikkel Fugl Eskjær & Stig Hjarvard. https://www.peterlang.com/view/product/31130

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Internet Policy Review special issue: Doing internet governance
by Frédéric Dubois 06 Oct '16

06 Oct '16

[image: Doing Internet Governance] <http://policyreview.info/articles/analysis/doing-internet-governance-practi…> S P E C I A L I S S U E What are the invisible politics at work in the governance of the internet? Do companies frame the work of app developers and webmasters? What are the power structures behind Bitcoin? Was the Free Basics controversy in India a clear case of the clash of ideologies? These, and many more questions are tackled within the most recent publication Doing Internet Governance: The Practices, Controversies, Infrastructures, and Institutions <http://policyreview.info/articles/analysis/doing-internet-governance-practi…> of the* Internet Policy Review*. This special issue makes an argument for, and illustrates, the applicability of a science and technology studies (STS) informed approach to internet governance research. An editorial and ten articles by a broad range of scholars aim to add to the mainstream internet governance scholarship by unpacking macro questions of politics and power. They do so through the analysis of the mundane and taken-for-granted practices and discourses that constitute the design, regulation, maintenance, and use of both technical and institutional arrangements of internet governance. Together, this body of work calls to rethink how we conceptualise both internet and governance. Take a look <http://policyreview.info/articles/analysis/doing-internet-governance-practi…> The editors of this special issue are Dmitry Epstein, Department of Communication, University of Illinois at Chicago (dmitry(a)uic.edu <dmitry@uic.edu?subject=IPR+Special+Edition:+Doing+Internet+Governance>), Christian Katzenbach, Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society ( katzenbach(a)hiig.de <katzenbach@hiig.de?subject=IPR+Special+Edition:+Doing+Internet+Governance>) and Francesca Musiani, Institute for Communication Sciences, CNRS/Paris-Sorbonne/UPMC (francesca.musiani(a)cnrs.fr <francesca.musiani@cnrs.fr?subject=IPR+Special+Edition:+Doing+InternetGovernance> ). [image: Doing Internet Governance] You exceptionally received this mail because you are subscribed to the AoIR list. Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society Französische Straße 9 | 10117 Berlin | info(a)hiig.de <info(a)hiig.de>

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PhD Opportunities at the University of Melbourne
by Scott Wright 05 Oct '16

05 Oct '16

Hi everyone, The Media and Communications (M&C) program at The University of Melbourne is now calling for expressions of interest from prospective Australian postgraduate research students as part of the University’s annual Scholarship Round. The M&C program is a leading Australian university research environment, offering a vibrant space for research students exploring numerous areas of enquiry in media, communications, and related areas. We are actively connected with the Asian region, and engaged with numerous public institutions and industry organisations. The university is one of the top-ranked institutions in the world, and the top-ranked institution in Australia (THE 2016). We are seeking enthusiastic applicants with excellent academic track records (equal to an Australian Bachelor Degree with First Class Honours) for competitive PhD scholarships to undertake study in our program. In particular we are keen to support applicants that align with our key areas of research: - Children, youth and digital media - Humanitarian communication and crisis reporting - Journalism studies and digital journalism - Marketing communication - Media and mobility - Political communication - Public cultures - Publishing studies - Media theory and digital culture - Urban communication Closing date for applications is October 31st; though we encourage potential applicants to make contact with relevant supervisors in the M&C or publishing and communications programs: http://arts.unimelb.edu.au/culture-communication/welcome/staff Further information on our program can be found here: http://arts.unimelb.edu.au/culture-communication/study/media-and-communicat… Information about application process can be found here: http://graduate.arts.unimelb.edu.au/degrees/25-doctor-of-philosophy-arts/ap… Apologies for cross-posting! Cheers, Scott www.scott-wright.net Dr Scott Wright Senior Lecturer in Political Communication University of Melbourne Melbourne VIC, 3000 Australia http://culture-communication.unimelb.edu.au/about/staff/dr-scott-wright

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