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salient points at McLuhan in an Age of Social Media book salon
by Paul Levinson 30 Jan '16

30 Jan '16

If you missed the Book Salon at McLuhan Centre Coach House at the University of Toronto on Wednesday, here is a summary of some of the salient points, made via Tweets, and collected by Leora Kornfeld (Berkman Center for Internet & Society, Harvard University) http://demassed.blogspot.com/2016/01/quick-posttonight-as-tomorrow-is.html <http://demassed.blogspot.com/2016/01/quick-posttonight-as-tomorrow-is.html?…>

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Call for Papers: Researching disinformation within hybrid media ecologies. Where we are and where we are going (AOIR 2016 Panel)
by Fabio Giglietto 30 Jan '16

30 Jan '16

Hi everyone, Laura Iannelli, Luca Rossi, Augusto Valeriani and I are seeking panelists for an #AOIR2016 panel on "Researching Disinformation Within Hybrid Media Ecologies. Where We Are And Where We Are Going" (tentative title). --------- Panel description On friday November 13, a group of coordinated attacks hit Paris causing more than 130 victims. The frantic moments following the first fragmented news, the spread of rumors and the wide media coverage of the following days, highlighted all the strength and fragility of an hybrid media system in which new and old media logics compete and integrate. During the hours following the attacks, we have witnessed the spread of testimonies published on social media and widely diffused by legacy media, we have observed the emergence of forms of cooperation aimed at supporting the search for the missing and we have participated in the ritual of collective mourning with the hashtag #PrayforParis. At the same time, however we have also read numerous reports that, although eventually proved to be false, have contributed to shape the representation of those events. Contemporary information ecologies, by simplifying processes of production and circulation of news, could also facilitate the diffusion of false information and/or unverified news. In this context, new digital elites (i.e. bloggers, social media power users etc.), legacy media actors and non-elites are still in search of a strategy for real time verification and debunking. Previous studies emphasized the importance of echo chamber effects and "confirmation bias" (the tendency to consider true information that confirms what we already believe true) as the cognitive process that, at the same time, makes misinformation easy to spread and difficult to debunk. Peer networks play an important role as a source of confirmation or disconfirmation of rumors. As a result, homophilic and polarized communities represent a fertile ground for disinformation. Recent studies also pointed out the combined effect of "confirmation bias" and online communities often characterized by a high degree of homogeneity. Additional multidisciplinary research is needed to enlighten changes and continuities in the participatory processes that invest the media sphere and more specifically: - to understand the diverse forms of disinformation and their effects on the quality of contemporary democracies; - to explore the diverse existing practices of fact-checking and debunking in the disinformation cycle; - to analyse values and norms of newer and older dominant media companies, their policies and decisions on what contents and actors can become popular and can have voice in the hybrid media system; - to explain the relations among the broader participation of non-elite media actors in the production of misinformation and disinformation and the other forms of political participation involving citizens in contemporary democratic societies. --------- To be considered for this panel, we would need the AOIR-standard 1200-word abstract by *February 15, 2016* sent to fabio.giglietto(a)uniurb.it. We will notify our selected panelists by February 20 with any revisions required ahead of the AOIR deadline of March 1. Best regards, Fabio Giglietto Laura Iannelli Luca Rossi Augusto Valeriani

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McGannon Book Award: Nominees for 2015?
by Alice E. Marwick 29 Jan '16

29 Jan '16

Hi all, Please email me if you have any suggestions for nominations! Even just an author/title and we'll do the rest. Thanks! Alice *Call for Nominees: McGannon Book Award* http://www.mcgannoncenter.com/?p=197 The McGannon Communication Research Center at Fordham University announces its 2015 McGannon Book Award for Social and Ethical Relevance in Communication Technology Research. Nominations for the 2015 Award currently are being accepted. Please note that last year we changed the focus of the award. Nominees should consist of book-length research published in 2015 that addresses or informs the social justice and/or ethical dimensions of communication technology, broadly defined. Authors of the winning book will be awarded $2,000 and receive a plaque commemorating the award. Nominations should consist of a cover letter briefly summarizing the book’s research focus and findings, along with four copies of the book. Self-nominations are welcome, as are submissions from early career researchers and scholars from diverse backgrounds. Edited volumes are not eligible for consideration. Deadline for consideration is March 1st, 2016. Send nominations to: McGannon Book Award McGannon Communication Research Center Faculty Memorial Hall, Room 430 Fordham University Bronx, NY 10458 ABOUT THE MCGANNON CENTER The McGannon Communication Research Center was founded in 1986 and is dedicated to furthering understanding of the ethical and social justice dimensions of media and communication technologies, particularly how such technologies affect the distribution of wealth, opportunities, and privileges within society. The Center engages in, sponsors, and promotes interdisciplinary academic research that provides an empirical foundation for informed technological development, policy-making, and debate. McGannon serves as a hub at Fordham University for faculty, scholars, students, and visitors interested in the social, legal, political, economic, and cultural dimensions of communication technologies and emerging media. The center’s Director is Dr. Alice Marwick, who conducts research into the social, cultural, and policy implications of social media. ADDITIONAL INFORMATION www.mcgannoncenter.com Email: mcgctr(a)fordham.edu -- Alice E. Marwick, PhD Director, McGannon Center Assistant Professor, Department of Communication and Media Studies Fordham University amarwick(a)fordham.edu http://www.mcgannoncenter.com http://www.tiara.org <http://www.tiara.org>

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ACM IUI 2016: Last opportunity for early bird registration
by Denis Parra 29 Jan '16

29 Jan '16

----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ACM IUI 2016: ACM Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Early Bird registration extended until January 31st, 2016 Sonoma, CA, USA March 7 - 10, 2016 http://iui.acm.org/ We have confirmed two amazing keynote speakers: - Elisabeth André, Augsburg University "Socially-Sensitive Interfaces: From Offline Studies to Interactive Experiences" - Xavier Amatriain, VP of Engineering at Quora "Past, present, and future of Recommender Systems: an industry perspective" ACM IUI 2016 is the 21st annual meeting of the intelligent interfaces community and serves as a premier international forum for reporting outstanding research and development on intelligent user interfaces. ACM IUI is where the Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) community meets the Artificial Intelligence (AI) community. Registration for the ACM IUI conference is open! Details about prices for students, ACM members, early and late registration: http://iui.acm.org/2016/attending.html Direct link to registration: https://www.regonline.com/acmiui2016 Looking forward to see you in Sonoma, CA! Denis Alejandro Parra Santander Profesor Asistente, DCC Escuela de Ingeniería, PUC Chile +56 (2) 2354-4442 http://web.ing.puc.cl/~dparra/

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NEW BOOK: Asian Perspectives on Digital Culture
by Sun Sun LIM 29 Jan '16

29 Jan '16

NEW BOOK: Asian Perspectives on Digital Culture We are pleased to announce the publication of our new book "Asian Perspectives on Digital Culture Emerging Phenomena, Enduring Concepts" available from Routledge https://www.routledge.com/products/9781138842328 and Amazon http://www.amazon.com/Asian-Perspectives-Digital-Culture-Internationalizing… "In Asia, amidst its varied levels of economic development and diverse cultural traditions and political regimes, the Internet and mobile communications are increasingly used in every aspect of life. Yet the analytical frames used to understand the impact of digital media on Asia predominantly originate from the Global North, neither rooted in Asia's rich philosophical traditions, nor reflective of the sociocultural practices of this dynamic region. This volume examines digital phenomena and its impact on Asia by drawing on specifically Asian perspectives. Contributors apply a variety of Asian theoretical frameworks including guanxi, face, qing, dharma and karma. With chapters focusing on emerging digital trends in China, Hong Kong, India, Japan, Korea, Philippines, Singapore, and Taiwan, the book presents compelling and diverse research on identity and selfhood, spirituality, social networking, corporate image, and national identity as shaped by and articulated through digital communication platforms." Table of Contents 1. A (Digital) Giant Awakens - Invigorating Media Studies with Asian Perspectives, Sun Sun Lim and Cheryll Ruth R. Soriano 2. Face and Online Social Networking, Sun Sun Lim and Iccha Basnyat 3. My Letter to Heaven via Email - Translocal Piety and Mediated Selves in Urban Marian Piety in the Philippines, Manuel Victor J. Sapitula and Cheryll Ruth R. Soriano 4. Exploring Confucianism in Understanding Face-ism in Online Dating Sites of Eastern and Western Cultures, Michael Prieler 5. Credibility, Reliability, and Reciprocity: Mobile Communication, Guanxi, and Protest Mobilization in Contemporary China, Jun Liu 6. The Local Sociality and Emotion of Jeong in Koreans' Media Practices, Kyong Yoon 7. Ritual and Communal Connection in Mobile Phone Communication: Representations of Kapwa, Bayanihan and "People Power" in the Philippines, Cheryll Soriano and Sun Sun Lim 8. What is Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) in India? Discursive Constructions of CSR as Sarva Loka Hitam in Online Narratives of Companies in India, Ganga S Dhanesh 9. Shadow and Soul: Stereoscopic Phantasmagoria and Holographic Immortalization in Transnational Chinese Pop, Liew Kai Khiun 10. Tweets in the Limelight: The Contested Relationship between (Dis)harmony and Newsworthiness, Yenn Lee 11. Asian modernity and the post human future: Some reflections, T T Sreekumar 12. Re-Orienting Global Digital Cultures, Gerard Goggin This book represents our modest contribution to internationalizing media studies. With much thanks to all our contributors, colleagues and mentors! Sun Sun Lim, Dept of Communication & New Media, National University of Singapore Cheryll Soriano, Dept of Communication, De La Salle University, Philippines ________________________________ Important: This email is confidential and may be privileged. If you are not the intended recipient, please delete it and notify us immediately; you should not copy or use it for any purpose, nor disclose its contents to any other person. Thank you.

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New blog on virtual teaming
by Pam Estes Brewer 28 Jan '16

28 Jan '16

Hi all- I am trying my hand at a blog on virtual teaming. Please visit http://virtualteamsinternational.com<http://virtualteamsinternational.com/>. I will regularly post items of interest that support effective virtual team use within organizations. Best, Pam Pam Estes Brewer, Ph.D. Associate Professor Director, Master of Science in Technical Communication Management Department of Technical Communication/ Mercer University School of Engineering U.S. 478.301.4146 Brewer_pe(a)mercer.edu<mailto:Brewer_pe@mercer.edu>

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Paper: When Does ICT-Enabled Citizen Voice Lead to Government Responsiveness? World Bank Digital Dividends Background Report
by Steven Clift 28 Jan '16

28 Jan '16

When Does ICT-Enabled Citizen Voice Lead to Government Responsiveness? Tiago Piexoto with the World Bank and Jonathan Fox at American University collaborated on a background paper released alongside the World Bank's major Digital Dividend report (bonus links below). Amazingly, it reviews 23 ICT projects designed to raise citizen voices in governance. This is incredibly important research. The full paper in PDF is at: http://po.st/citizenvoicegovresponselists Abstract: When Does ICT-Enabled Citizen Voice Lead to Government Responsiveness? World Development Report Background Paper - Digital Dividends This paper reviews evidence on the use of 23 information and communication technology (ICT) platforms to project citizen voice to improve public service delivery. This meta-analysis focuses on empirical studies of initiatives in the global South, highlighting both citizen uptake (‘yelp’) and the degree to which public service providers respond to expressions of citizen voice (‘teeth’). The conceptual framework further distinguishes between two trajectories for ICT-enabled citizen voice: Upwards accountability occurs when users provide feedback directly to decision-makers in real time, allowing policy-makers and program managers to identify and address service delivery problems – but at their discretion. Downwards accountability, in contrast, occurs either through real time user feedback or less immediate forms of collective civic action that publicly call on service providers to become more accountable and depends less exclusively on decision-makers’ discretion about whether or not to act on the information provided. This distinction between the ways in which ICT platforms mediate the relationship between citizens and service providers allows for a precise analytical focus on how different dimensions of such platforms contribute to public sector responsiveness. These cases suggest that while ICT platforms have been relevant in increasing policymakers’ and senior managers’ capacity to respond, most of them have yet to influence their willingness to do so. Clift notes: * To discuss this report: http://facebook.com/groups/opengovgroup I invite you join E-Democracy.org's nearly 5,000 member Facebook Group on Open Government and Civic Technology. Quality -global- exchanges daily. * For the larger Digital Dividends report, see: http://po.st/worldbankdigitaldividendsreport Note the 15 background paper of which the paper above in included: http://www.worldbank.org/en/publication/wdr2016/background-papers * Follow the authors on Twitter: http://twitter.com/participatory https://twitter.com/jonathanfox707 * Follow me: http://twitter.com/democracy http://dowire.org - E-newsletter since 1998 http://1radionews.com - My world radio app Steven Clift - Executive Director, E-Democracy.org clift(a)e-democracy.org - +1 612 234 7072 @democracy - http://linkedin.com/in/netclift _______________________________________________ okfn-discuss mailing list okfn-discuss(a)lists.okfn.org https://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/okfn-discuss Unsubscribe: https://lists.okfn.org/mailman/options/okfn-discuss

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Call for participants for ICA'2016 preconference workshop on mining social media for communication research
by Hai Liang 28 Jan '16

28 Jan '16

Dear colleagues, We are organising an ICA’2016 preconference workshop on mining social media for communication research, which will be held in Tokyo in June 8, 2016. Please kindly help distribute the call for participants to your colleagues/friends/students. Thanks! Best, Hai *Call for Participants for ICA’2016 Preconference Workshop on Mining Social Media for Communication Research* *Date and Time: * June 8, 2016 (9:00-12:00 and 14:00-17:00) *Location and Venue: * National Institute of Informatics (NII), Tokyo, Japan The emergence of social media has provided both opportunities and challenges for communication research, ranging from data acquisition to measurement construction, statistical analysis, and results presentation. However, the existing tools (such as manual content analysis and SPSS package) with which communication scholars are familiar become increasingly inadequate. This one-day preconference workshop will focus on four key steps in mining social media for communication research, including overall design, data collection, data analysis, and data visualization. The workshop will use Twitter as a primary running example of social media, as Twitter is arguably the most heavily studied social media platform by communication scholars. All training talks in the workshop will be a mixture of conceptual discussions and hands-on practices (using R language as the primary tool). As such, the participants are requested to bring with their notebook computers. For more detailed information, please visit http://weblab.com.cityu.edu.hk/blog/workshops/ica-2016-workshop/. You can download the registration form at http://tinyurl.com/mining2016 . Please return this registration form to Dr. Winson Peng at winsonpeng(a)ntu.edu.sg. -- Hai Liang, Ph.D. | Post-doctoral Fellow | JMSC-The University of Hong Kong | http://weblab.com.cityu.edu.hk/blog/lianghai/

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Reminder: ICA 2016 Post-Conference and 14th CIRC--Fudan University, Shanghai, China--June 2016
by Jack Qiu 28 Jan '16

28 Jan '16

Dear AoIR members and friends: Sorry for cross posting. This is a gentle reminder that we are approaching the deadline for abstract submissions -- Feb 1, next Monday -- for the 2016 International Communication Association (ICA) Post-Conference and 14th Chinese Internet Research Conference (CIRC). The conference theme is "Mediatization: Digital Revolution and the Chinese Setting". It will be held at Fudan University, Shanghai, June 14-15, 2016. For more info, see: http://www.icahdq.org/conf/2016/MediatizationCFP.asp Please feel free to spread the word. Best Baohua Zhou (Ph.D.) Professor & Assistant Dean Director of new media communication program Journalism School at Fudan University 400 Guoding Rd.,200433 Shanghai, China http://homepage.fudan.edu.cn/baohuazhou/

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summer institute for doctoral students: difference in media and culture
by christina dunbar-hester 27 Jan '16

27 Jan '16

(with apologies for x-posting) Call for Applicants: USC Annenberg Summer Doctoral Institute on Difference in Media and Culture See link for details. Deadline March 1. http://annenberg.usc.edu/school-communication/doctorate-communication/news/… ** Christina Dunbar-Hester Author of *Low Power to the People* <http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/low-power-people>, MIT Press Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism University of Southern California

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