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Android tool/app for mobile log/video capture?
by Nathan Stolero 14 Feb '16

14 Feb '16

Dear AOIRs, I'm doing a research on information seeking behavior in Tel Aviv University. I'm looking for an android tool/app (I don't date to ask for iOS of course) that can save a log with data usage of the phone (What apps were used in a specific period, for how long if possible and maybe a more detailed log) OR a simple screen capture (in video) of the mobile screen. I was wondering whether you know any or I'm looking for something that does not exist? Thanks, Nathan ************************************************************* Nathan Stolero PhD Candidate The Communication Department, The Faculty of Social Science Tel Aviv University

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Research ethical issues for panel at AoIR16?
by Charles Ess 14 Feb '16

14 Feb '16

Dear AoIRists, Recognizing that it's getting a bit tight in terms of the March 1 deadline for proposal submissions - nonetheless, I would ask for suggestions and expresssions of interest for contributions to a panel proposal provisionally titled "Contemporary Internet research ethics: o.k. in the grey?" The idea is first of all to go forward from last year's panel, which highlighted several deeply challenging ethical problems in contemporary Internet research: death-casting (Yukari Seko), nakedness and contextual ethics (Katrin Tiidenberg), issues in online counseling (Camilla Granholm), and studying closed FB groups for parents grieving the deaths of their children (Ylva Hård af Segerstad, Dick Kasperowski). These contributions were then commented on by Mark Johns and Annette Markham, who deftly helped weave them in with comparable / larger themes and issues. The open discussion then took up these and additional issues - including the then fresh discussion on the AoIR list of the ethics of using (my pararphase) sensitive / personal data without informed consent or other usual protections, following their "leaking" into publicly accessible venues (sometimes called "grey data"). My hopes for the panel are to update findings and reflections on these specific cases and to extend both examples of such challenging cases, coupled with careful ethical analyses from diverse ethical and cultural traditions - including attention to how we might best wrestle with such ethically grey areas. "O.k. in the grey" is both a reminder of the questions of "grey data", but also goes back to an especially astute student comment in an applied ethics class (now many, many moons ago) as her summary of what we were learning and practicing: namely, how to come to somewhat more comfortable grips with multiple possible approaches and resolutions, along with the correlative intrinsic ambiguities and uncertainties, in our efforts to respond to ethical challenges that must be resolved one way or another. Further, part of the upshot of the discussion was the clear need to continue to explore such cases - both for their own sake and for the sake of an eventual 3.0 version of the AoIR ethics guidelines for Internet research. As many of you know, version 2.0 was published in 2012, led by Annette Markham and Elizabeth Buchanan, following two years' (if not more) work by the AoIR ethics committee. As some of you may not know, the ethics committee has been dissolved. There were many sound and good reasons for this: but especially in the absence of a given group of persons formally assigned responsibilities for such discussions, I also hope that the proposed panel will help keep alive our shared reflections and dialogues on some of the most pressing matters of Internet research ethics. Please send me off-list any suggestions, etc. I will be especially grateful for brief descriptions of a case that you and/or a group of researchers would be interested in and able to present as part of such a panel for general reflection and discussion. Ditto for nominations, including self-nominations, for panel commentators. Many thanks in advance and much looking forward, - charles ess Professor in Media Studies Department of Media and Communication University of Oslo <http://www.hf.uio.no/imk/english/people/aca/charlees/index.html> <http://www.hf.uio.no/imk/english/people/aca/charlees/index.html> Director, Centre for Research in Media Innovations (CeRMI) Editor, The Journal of Media Innovations <https://www.journals.uio.no/index.php/TJMI/> <https://www.journals.uio.no/index.php/TJMI/> Postboks 1093 Blindern 0317 Oslo, Norway c.m.ess(a)media.uio.no

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Readings on Open Knowledge/Data
by Ivo Furman 14 Feb '16

14 Feb '16

Dear AoIR hive mind, I'm looking for some recommendations for articles (or book chapters) on the Open Knowledge Movement and Open Data. I'm teaching a 2 week module for a Media Theory seminar wherein I will be discussing Big Data in a critical manner. I thought it would be really interesting to contrast the politics of Big Data with politics of the Open Knowledge / Open Data movement.. Many thanks in advance for your help. Ivo -- Ivo Furman https://bilgi.academia.edu/IvoFurman TÜBITAK Post-Doctoral Fellow Visiting Lecturer Department of Media and Communications Istanbul Bilgi University

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Re: [Air-L] Air-L Digest, Vol 139, Issue 14
by Neal Thomas 13 Feb '16

13 Feb '16

Hi Ivo -- you might get what you need out of Rob Kitchin's book, The Data Revolution: https://thedatarevolutionbook.wordpress.com/table-of-contents/ N. ___________ Neal Thomas Assistant Professor of Media and Technology Studies Department of Communication The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3285 USA On 2/13/16 6:00 PM, air-l-request(a)listserv.aoir.org wrote: > 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. Readings on Open Knowledge/Data (Ivo Furman) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Sat, 13 Feb 2016 13:29:20 +0000 > From: Ivo Furman <i.furman(a)gold.ac.uk> > To: "air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org" <air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org> > Subject: [Air-L] Readings on Open Knowledge/Data > Message-ID: > <AM4PR0401MB17636A87DD35FC6A578012D1A2A90(a)AM4PR0401MB1763.eurprd04.prod.outlook.com> > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > Dear AoIR hive mind, > > I'm looking for some recommendations for articles (or book chapters) on the Open Knowledge Movement and Open Data. I'm teaching a 2 week module for a Media Theory seminar wherein I will be discussing Big Data in a critical manner. I thought it would be really interesting to contrast the politics of Big Data with politics of the Open Knowledge / Open Data movement.. > > > Many thanks in advance for your help. > > > Ivo > > > -- > Ivo Furman > https://bilgi.academia.edu/IvoFurman > T?BITAK Post-Doctoral Fellow > Visiting Lecturer > Department of Media and Communications > Istanbul Bilgi University >

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Reminder! Deadline for submission to IAMCR Leicester on February 15
by Francesca Musiani 12 Feb '16

12 Feb '16

Please note that the deadline for submission of proposals to the Emerging Scholars Network of IAMCR, for this year's Leicester conference, is just a few days away, 15 February. The ESN call for papers is here http://iamcr.org/leicester2016/cfp_esn and the Open Conference System (OCS) for submission is here http://iamcr-ocs.org/index.php/2016/2016 Looking forward to your submissions, Francesca and Sandra ESN Co-Chairs, IAMCR -- Francesca Musiani assistant research professor (*chargée de recherche*), CNRS, ISCC <http://www.iscc.cnrs.fr/> associate researcher, i3, CSI <http://www.csi.ensmp.fr/>, MINES ParisTech co-chair, ESN-IAMCR <http://iamcr.org/s-wg/cctmc/esn>

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Seeking lit on disclosure of PII/personal data in exchange for pain relief
by Cory Robinson 12 Feb '16

12 Feb '16

All: Would be grateful if anyone can point me in the right direction to find some lit regarding disclosure of PII in exchange for better medical treatment or pain relief. Technology studies, interpersonal, or health/medical all apply. Many thanks! Best, Cory -- Senior Lecturer/Assistant Professor in Communication Design Linköping University P: +46 (0)11 36 36 38 E: cory.robinson(a)liu.se http://colostate.academia.edu/StephenCoryRobinson

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CIRN Prato 2016 Conference, Notice of upcoming Call for Papers
by Rhinesmith, Colin H. 11 Feb '16

11 Feb '16

Dear Colleagues, NOTICE OF UPCOMING CALL FOR PAPERS - (refereed and non-refereed), works-in-progress, workshop proposals and posters, graduate student work CONFERENCE THEME: ENGAGING WITH PARTICIPATION, ACTIVISM, AND TECHNOLOGIES 13th Prato CIRN Conference 2-4 November 2016, Monash Centre, Prato Italy http://cirn.wikispaces.com/Conference+2016 For some years now the CIRN Prato conference has focused on the intersection between Community Informatics (CI), Development Informatics (DI), and Community Archiving (CA). In particular, the 2015 conference focused on information and knowledge as socially constructed artifacts and the ways in which relations of information and knowledge production can reflect unequal distributions of power and privilege, ?whether manifested in gendered activity; the primacy given to formalized expertise or particular language codes; restricted access to information, knowledge and production for those not in positions of institutional control; or the production of particular artifacts?. The 2015 conference also questioned the role of the academy in defining terminology and appropriate technologies of memory, viewing this as a form of epistemological colonization, epistemological colonization on vulnerable groups. The conference sought ways of engaging more meaningfully with practitioners. In 2016 the intention is to continue to explore and to expand on such issues, bringing a stronger focus on more meaningful and equal partnerships with community, civil society, and NGO organisations around the world. The overarching theme of the conference, then, will be the further development of Participatory Action Research (PAR) with regard to both theory and practice, as a means of giving communities a stronger voice despite structural and cultural challenges. This will be explored in a variety of contexts, with particular emphasis on the implications for archival, community and development informatics. One of our keynotes and participants will be Meghna Guhathakurta of Research Initiatives, Bangladesh, an internationally-recognised expert in PAR. Bangladesh has a long history of Participatory Action Research, as part of its struggle for liberation and equality, going back to the earliest days of PAR. Within that context, a second theme of the conference will be to engage with activist archives, such as the Centro di Documentazione di Pistoia (Italy) or the Interference Archive (USA), which see a more overtly political role for the archive, and which tend to privilege use over collection. The approach of these archives to issues of local memory, knowledge and power, will also be of interest to people working in international development, and provides an opportunity to work towards new modes of collaboration. Together, these themes provide a rich environment for re-examining theoretical and methodological approaches to working with community, and the potential to address current concerns as expressed within Community and Development Informatics, such as a lack of theoretical and methodological rigour, and concern about the influence of dominant hegemonies whether they represent powerful sectoral interests, as in Community Informatics, or the Global North, as in Development Informatics . Are their bodies of theory (for example, post-colonial, intersectional or critical theory) and practice that are intrinsically (better for the Global South) (or ?more appropriate?), or do such theories and associated practices continue to serve academic, rather than development interests? Our aim for the conference is for it to be an active community practice in, and not just discussions about, pluralism. We therefore encourage participation from a wide range of cultures, races, ethnicities, religions, socio-economic statuses, gender identities, disabilities, and ages. We also encourage proposals for different ways of knowing and sharing. We especially seek to foster dialogue across difference rather than presentation and preservation of homogeneity, when new ICTs in particular allow the existence and fruitful production of multiverses of information and knowledge. We will also consider papers (refereed and non-refereed), works-in-progress, workshop proposals and posters, related to any aspect of Community Informatics, Development Informatics or Community Archiving. We are particularly interested in papers from researchers and practitioners that can address the challenges of locating community-based research within wider theoretical and practice frameworks. We also have a strong stream for students in Masters and PhD programs who wish to present their work to a larger audience. Conference Committee MB Akhter, Oxfam in Bangladesh Tom Denison, Monash University Joanne Evans, Monash University Anne Gilliland, UCLA Kiera Ladner, University of Manitoba Sue McKemmish, Monash University (Chair) Safiya Noble, UCLA Colin Rhinesmith, University of Oklahoma Mauro Sarrica, Sapienza University, Rome Larry Stillman, Monash University Miriam Sweeney, University of Alabama Kelvin White, University of Oklahoma Martin Wolske, University of Illinois Important Dates and other information will be made available shortly at http://cirn.wikispaces.com/Conference+2016, with a further notice when abstracts can be submitted. Queries: prato2016(a)fastmail.fm<mailto:prato2016@fastmail.fm> --- Colin Rhinesmith, Ph.D. Assistant Professor School of Library and Information Studies University of Oklahoma email: crhinesmith(a)ou.edu<mailto:crhinesmith@ou.edu> phone: (405) 325-3921 web: http://crhinesmith.com

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CFP: AOIR 2016 panel - 'the playful web'
by Shireen Walton 11 Feb '16

11 Feb '16

CfP: AoIR 2016 panel - ‘the playful web’ We solicit papers for a panel considering the notion of ‘play’ as a framework for conceptualising internet research. Most existing scholarship exploring play in relation to internet technologies concentrates on games and gaming (Salen and Zimmerman 2003; Juul 2003; Boellstorff 2008; Nardi 2010). Whilst undoubtedly important, little attention has been given to the ‘play element’ itself in human-technological encounters, and in settings that are not so obviously ludic. Leaving this gap unaddressed risks ‘play’ becoming a category reserved only for a narrow spectrum of activities, or a notion deemed dialectically opposed to ‘work’. This panel addresses the gap by considering play a concept-metaphor (Huizinga 1949; Turner 1982), and analytical category for investigating entities or domains which in themselves are not necessarily considered playful (Frissen et al. 2015). From the drafting of internet legislation, digital labour or the activities of hackers, activists and artists, we seek papers that explore diverse theoretical and practical dimensions of play. Thinking in this fashion does not obviate enquires into issues of power and inequality. To the contrary, one task becomes tracking how the disposition of play has been turned into an ‘object of institutional desire’, how attitudes of indeterminacy, affective power and improvisation become coopted or denied, commodified and utilised in internet environments by individuals and organisations alike (Malaby 2009, 216). As such, the panel feeds strongly back into the main conference theme: (how) can rule-making and breaking be undertaken in a playful fashion? If so, with what consequences? We welcome papers from a variety of disciplinary perspectives, methodologies, and subjects. Topics may include (but are not limited to): games as practice and/or confrontation vis-à-vis status and hierarchy, power and representation; identity and community; chance and uncertainty. Such interests might be explored amongst and between individuals and groups, governments and organisations, from hackers and their practices to artists, citizen journalists, activists and beyond. To be considered for this panel, we would need the AOIR-standard 1200-word abstract by February 22, 2016 sent to: john.mcmanus(a)gtc.ox.ac.uk<mailto:john.mcmanus@gtc.ox.ac.uk>. We will notify our selected panelists by February 26 with any revisions required ahead of the AOIR deadline of March 1. Any questions, please email the panel organisers, shireen.walton(a)anthro.ox.ac.uk<mailto:shireen.walton@sant.ox.ac.uk> and john.mcmanus(a)gtc.ox.ac.uk<mailto:john.mcmanus@gtc.ox.ac.uk> --- Dr Shireen Walton Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology University of Oxford shireen.walton(a)anthro.ox.ac.uk<mailto:shireen.walton@anthro.ox.ac.uk>

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Deadline Extension: GROUP 2016 (ACM conference on supporting group work)
by Casey Lynn Fiesler 11 Feb '16

11 Feb '16

Just a quick note that the GROUP deadline for both research papers and design fictions has been extended by one week, to Friday, February 19. (And if you are on the fence, more information about the conference below!) Submissions here: https://precisionconference.com/~group/ — Casey Fiesler Assistant Professor, Information Science University of Colorado, Boulder www.caseyfiesler.com<http://www.caseyfiesler.com> On Jan 19, 2016, at 1:01 PM, Casey Lynn Fiesler <Casey.Fiesler(a)Colorado.EDU<mailto:Casey.Fiesler@Colorado.EDU>> wrote: Hello all! A friendly reminder that the deadline for papers and notes for GROUP 2016 is February 12, 2016. If you are unfamiliar with GROUP (the ACM conference on supporting group work), it is held in Sanibel Island, FL every other year. By design it tends to have heavy international participation, and though its focus is HCI/CSCW research, it has the specific goal to encourage interaction across disciplinary boundaries. This year's conference will be held November 13-16. Along with (archival, peer-reviewed) research papers, this year the conference has added a category for "Design Fictions," submissions that imagine possible futures for research on the relationships between computers and people. You will find more information here, along with later deadlines for posters, workshops, and works-in-progress: http://oldwww.acm.org/conferences/group/conferences/group16/publish.html I am happy to answer any questions about the conference; just shoot me an email! - Casey --- Casey Fiesler Assistant Professor Department of Information Science University of Colorado Boulder www.caseyfiesler.com<http://www.caseyfiesler.com/>

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New Book: "The Turn to Infrastructure in Internet Governance"
by Francesca Musiani 11 Feb '16

11 Feb '16

Dear AoIR community, Derrick Cogburn, Laura DeNardis, Nanette Levinson and I have the pleasure to announce tle publication of our co-edited book "The Turn to Infrastructure in Internet Governance". The book is available in hardcover and will soon be available as an eBook, on the Palgrave website and on other sellers' websites. http://www.palgrave.com/us/book/9781137533265 It includes contributions by several GigaNet members including Matthew Schruers, Primavera De Filippi, Danièle Bourcier, Meryem Marzouki, Nicolas Arpagian, John Laprise, Patricia Vargas-Leon, Kenneth Merrill and Tatevik Sargsyan, and the four of us. The pre-print version of the introductory chapter by Laura DeNardis and I will soon be available on SSRN. Here is a short presentation of the book: This edited volume brings together experts from around the world to provide coverage and analysis of infrastructure's role in Internet governance, both now and in the future. Never in history have conflicts over Internet governance attracted such widespread attention. High-profile controversies include the disclosures about NSA surveillance by intelligence analyst Edward Snowden, controversy over a decision by the US government to relinquish its historic oversight of Internet names and numbers, and countless cybersecurity breaches involving unauthorized access to Internet users' personal data. Much of the Internet governance ecosystem—both technical architecture and coordinating institutions—is behind the scenes but increasingly carries significant public interest implications. An area once concealed in institutional and technological complexity is now rightly bracketed among other shared global issues —such as environmental protection and human rights—that have considerable global implications but are simply incongruous with national borders. This transformation into an era of global governance by Internet infrastructure presents a moment of opportunity for scholars to bring these politicized infrastructures to the foreground. Kind regards Francesca, Derrick, Laura and Nanette -- Francesca Musiani (ph.d.) assistant research professor (*chargée de recherche*), CNRS, ISCC <http://www.iscc.cnrs.fr/> associate researcher, i3, CSI <http://www.csi.ensmp.fr/>, MINES ParisTech co-chair, ESN-IAMCR <http://iamcr.org/s-wg/cctmc/esn> academic editor, @PolicyR <http://policyreview.info/> on the web <http://www.csi.mines-paristech.fr/People/musiani/> | on twitter <https://twitter.com/franmusiani>

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