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CFP - Digital Sociology
by Jessie Daniels 07 Oct '15

07 Oct '15

Apologies for cross-posting, CFP below...please consider sharing your work. Abstract (only) submissions due: October 19. *Jessie Daniels* Professor, CUNY [image: photo] Website: www.jessienyc.com My latest in the new york times: nyti.ms/1JiVKV0 <http://twitter.com/JessieNYC> <http://www.linkedin.com/in/jessiedaniels/> Racism Review Art and Racism: Healing Racial Schisms <http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/racismreview/nYnz/~3/na8ptrfcOzk/> *Digital Sociology Miniconference (2016)* *@ The Eastern Sociological Society* March 17-20, 2016 The Boston Park Plaza Hotel and Towers Boston, MA In keeping with the Eastern Sociological Society’s theme of “My Day Job: Politics and Pedagogy in Academia,” the Digital Sociology Mini-Conference will address the many ways digital technologies are changing ways of knowing and doing our jobs as academics, as well as the broader ways that digital technologies are changing patterns of human social behavior. We maintain that the field of sociology has insights to offer the questions that emerge from the proliferation of digital technologies and that a sociology without a thorough understanding of the digital will be a discipline that is irrelevant to the most pressing issues of the 21st century. In keeping with this year’s theme of “My Day Job: Politics and Pedagogy in Academia,” the *Digital Sociology Miniconference *seeks papers that address the many digital ways of knowing, particularly as those impinge on the work we do as scholars, both within and outside the academy. We seek abstracts, and wholly constituted panels, on a wide range of topics, including, but not limited to, the following themes: - *Public Scholarship, Digital Media and the Neoliberal University: *How is the participation of scholars on public, digital media platforms regarded within the neoliberal university? - *Digital Scholars, Legacy Institutions:* What does it mean to do digital sociology within institutions that are steeped in legacy modes of rewarding scholarship? How are scholars navigating the landscape of getting hired, tenured and promoted with a strong digital presence, or without one? - *Digital Sociological Methods: *How do traditional, analog sociological methods become digital? Are there new, “born digital” sociological methods? Is knowledge production different now? Will big data replace survey methodology? - *Social and Political Change through Social Media:* Given the increasing attention to social media as a tool used by both political and social movements as well as political campaigns in the U.S. and abroad, how does social media contribute to both grassroots organizing and the growth of astroturfed political and social movement structures? What do we know about online and offline activism? What are the risks and costs associated with online activism? How do online activists craft their identities? How do political and social organizations view the utility of online activism? How do specific media platforms are better for transmitting particular types of movement content such as frames, identities and programmatic claims? How do social movement and political movements using media managers interact with activists and constituents? For consideration within this theme, please email abstracts to organizers Rachel Durso ( rdurso2(a)washcoll.edu) and Andrew Martin (martin.1026(a)osu.edu) - *Critical Theories of the Digital Itself: *How have we theorized the digital? What challenges does the digital pose to epistemologies underlying sociological methods? - *Digital Structures, Digital Institutions:* The datafication of everyday life is posing unique challenges to the composition of social institutions and giving rise to new instantiations of education, finance, labor, and governance. How do we theorize, study, and conceptualize the recomposition of these institutions? - *Identity, Community, and Networks: *How do sociological concepts of micro and macro, personal and public, “front stage” and “back stage,” evolve as digital and mobile technologies increasingly blur these boundaries? How do digital environments shape identities of race, gender, sexuality and queerness? And how do the identities of those who create the platforms we use shape the platforms? How do race, gender, sexuality and queerness shape the communities and networks in which we participate? - *Digital Pedagogies, Digital Sociology:* How are digital technologies changing the sociological classroom? Beyond simply a recitation of ‘what I did in my class,’ we’re interested in theoretical and empirical explorations of how to think about digitally-informed pedagogies in the sociology classroom. For consideration under this theme, please send abstracts to: Jan Purk at jpurk(a)mansfield.edu. Organized with jointly with the Committee on Undergraduate Education. We encourage submissions from scholars at all levels, and are particularly enthusiastic to support the work of graduate students and early career researchers. We welcome submissions for individual papers and for entirely constituted sessions. The organizers share a commitment to creating a field that honors diverse voices, and as such are excited to see scholars from groups that are typically underrepresented in sociology. When proposing entirely constituted panels, please keep this commitment to diverse voices in mind. If you have any questions about proposals, topics, or session ideas please contact one of the organizers: Leslie Jones (lesjones(a)sas.upenn.edu) Tressie McMillan Cottom or Jessie Daniels (jdaniels(a)hunter.cuny.edu) For individual presentations, please submit an abstract of no more than 250 words, as well as the title of the paper, name of presenter, institutional affiliation and contact details. For wholly constituted sessions, please include a short description of the concept behind your session, and then include all of the abstracts (along with names and affiliations of presenters) in one document. Deadline: *October 19, 2015.* Please email your submissions to:*ESSDigitalSociology@gmail.com <ESSDigitalSociology(a)gmail.com>*. Those whose proposals are not accepted for the Mini-Conference will be alerted in time to submit to the ESS general call for submissions. The Mini-Conference is organized by Leslie Jones (UPenn) Tressie McMillan Cottom (VCU) and Jessie Daniels (CUNY). - See more at: http://digsoc.commons.gc.cuny.edu/

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INC survey about reading & digital publishing formats
by Geert Lovink 07 Oct '15

07 Oct '15

Dear all, many of you have, at some point, ordered an INC publication or downloaded pdfs and epub from site or read our publications online. We would love it if you do something back and fill out our survey, which ultimately aims to improve our (online) publication services. Best, Geert — Hello, The Institute of Network Cultures has been producing various kinds of publications for years, which are all available online on http://networkcultures.org/publications/ and http://www.publishinglab.nl/publications/. We are approaching you because you have received INC publications in the past. In order to improve the browsability and the readability of the publications, two interns, Josip Batinic (MA New Media and Digital Culture, UvA, Netherlands) and Léna Robin (MA Graphic Design, Haute École des Arts du Rhin, France) are currently working on a new proposal for the website. To do so in the best way possible, they have put together a survey regarding reading habits and browsing preferences, in order to have a good overview of the situation (see link below). We hope that you will be able to help them take digital INC publications to the next level. The survey should take less than 9 minutes to complete. Can you send this link to your students and colleagues? Here is the link to this online survey: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1K01KaxavslYtFLJN3AjhWsNK3uH-tnBs2RjVlIy4j4… Thank you for participating! The INC/Publishing Lab survey team Léna, Josip, Inte, Miriam and Geert

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final CFP AAG 2016: Toward a geographical software studies
by ryan burns 06 Oct '15

06 Oct '15

*Toward a geographical software studies*A series of sessions for the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers <http://www.aag.org/annualmeeting> in San Francisco, March 29-April 2, 2016 Ryan Burns <http://burnsr77.github.io/> (Temple University) Nick Lally <http://www.nicklally.com/> (University of Wisconsin–Madison) A growing body of recent geographic scholarship has focused its attention on software and algorithms. Some of these studies analyze geographic technologies —GIS and the geoweb, for example— as such, while others investigate a myriad of digital technologies that have become ubiquitous within the spaces of everyday life. These software/code objects interact with and modulate the world in complex ways, enact processes that connect humans and nonhumans, and become entangled with social, cultural, political, and economic systems. Moreover, software created to visualize data is used to produce knowledge about urban environments and everyday life, but obscure the processes and contexts which underlie its development. Engaging these topics, geographers have developed concepts like the “automatic production of space” (Thrift and French 2002), “software-sorted geographies” (Graham 2005), and “code/space” (Kitchin and Dodge 2011) to describe how software and space are co-constituted in the contemporary world. Productive research is building on these topics to explore new ways geographies are produced (Rose, Degen, and Melhuish 2014), governed (Amoore 2011), materialized, represented (Woodward et al. 2015), and lived through software (Kinsley 2014). This session seeks to bring together a range of spatial thinkers who are producing new studies, theories, and methods for understanding and producing software. We welcome submissions that address all facets of software: the context of its production, its internal operational logics, the material work it does in the world, and its spatial distribution of social and political effects. Suggested themes could include: • Radical, feminist, or postcolonial political theories of software, software production, and/or hacking. What are the liberatory potentials/limits of coding or software and its critiques? • The political economy of software, code, attentional economies, and the audience as commodity. • Methodological contributions for the study of software (deconstruction, ethnography, reading code, reverse-engineering, archival research, hacking, writing software, visual studies, understanding processes, online research, etc) • Software and visual and affective epistemology. • The materiality of software and the work it does in the world (the production of space, embodiment, urbanization, social sorting, securitization, infrastructure, etc). Amoore, L. 2011. Data Derivatives: On the Emergence of a Security Risk Calculus for Our Times. Theory, Culture & Society 28 (6):24–43. Graham, S. D. 2005. Software-sorted geographies. Progress in Human Geography 29 (5):562–580. Kitchin, R., and M. Dodge. 2011. Code/space: software and everyday life. Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press. Kinsley, S. 2014. The Matter of “Virtual” Geographies. Progress in Human Geography 38(3): 364-384. Rose, G., M. Degen, and C. Melhuish. 2014. Networks, interfaces, and computer-generated images: learning from digital visualisations of urban redevelopment projects. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 32 (3):386–403. Thrift, N., and S. French. 2002. The automatic production of space. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers 27 (3):309–335. Woodward, K., J. P. Jones, L. Vigdor, S. A. Marston, H. Hawkins, and D. P. Dixon. 2015. One Sinister Hurricane: Simondon and Collaborative Visualization. Annals of the Association of American Geographers :1–16. *Please submit a 250 word abstract to Nick (nlally(a)wisc.edu <nlally(a)wisc.edu>) and Ryan (ryan.burns(a)temple.edu <ryan.burns(a)temple.edu>) by October 9th, 2015.* -- Ryan Burns, PhD Dept of Geography and Urban Studies, Temple University 859-582-9125 http://burnsr77.github.io

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"no definitive research yet"
by Joly MacFie 06 Oct '15

06 Oct '15

>From Civicist <http://civichall.org/civicist/> today: *Brave new world*: An in-depth report <http://civichall.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=784ac4a90c07e1e7ebbf294d…> by Mother Jones' *Mark Follman* on data-driven efforts by "threat assessment professionals" to intervene before mass killers take action includes this troubling news: "When I asked threat assessment experts what might explain the recent rise in gun rampages, I heard the same two words over and over: social media. Although there is no definitive research yet, widespread anecdotal evidence suggests that the speed at which social media bombards us with memes and images exacerbates the copycat effect." -- --------------------------------------------------------------- Joly MacFie 218 565 9365 Skype:punkcast -------------------------------------------------------------- -

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FACULTY POSITION: Open Rank (Tenure Track) - The University of Iowa, Tippie College of Business, Department of Management Sciences
by Kang Zhao 06 Oct '15

06 Oct '15

*FACULTY POSITION: Open Rank (Tenure Track)* The University of Iowa Tippie College of Business Department of Management Sciences* The Department of Management Sciences is recruiting for an open rank tenure-track position in business analytics beginning August 17, 2016. Areas of interest include but are not limited to data science, data mining, text/web/social media analytics, and data visualization. Candidates should have a Ph.D. in Computer Science, Management Science, Informatics /Information Sciences, Statistics or a related field and exhibit exceptional research and teaching promise. The Department of Management Sciences offers undergraduate and doctoral programs in Business Analytics and Information Systems (BAIS). The Department offers a Graduate Certificate and Master’s programs in Business Analytics and a specialization in Analytics in the Fulltime MBA program. Further, extensive collaborative opportunities are available with faculty and doctoral students in other departments and interdisciplinary programs such as The University of Iowa Informatics Initiative and the Applied Mathematics and Computational Sciences program. Salary is competitive and commensurate with qualifications. *How to Apply:* Applications are accepted online through Jobs@UIOWA at http://jobs.uiowa.edu/jobSearch/faculty, reference Requisition #67548. All applicants should submit a cover letter, curriculum vita, statement of research interests, statement of teaching interests, three references, and 1-3 research papers online. *Deadlines:* Screening of applications will begin October 23, 2015, and applicants will be considered until the position is filled. The position is subject to funding. *Contact:* Please direct questions to the Chair of the Recruiting Committee Barry Thomas (barrett-thomas(a)uiowa.edu <mailto:barrett-thomas@uiowa.edu>). The University of Iowa is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. Allqualified applicants are encouraged to apply and will receive consideration for employment free from discrimination on the basis of race, creed, color, national origin, age, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, religion, associational preference, status as a qualified individual with a disability, or status as a protected veteran.

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Job Advertisement Department of Mass Communication at the American University of Sharjah
by Sohail Dahdal 06 Oct '15

06 Oct '15

The Department of Mass Communication at the American University of Sharjah seeks a full time faculty member in journalism at the rank of assistant or associate professor and with a professional background and expertise in multimedia journalism, digital storytelling and social media beginning in Fall 2016. Successful candidates must have a doctoral degree in journalism or mass communication from an accredited university, and are expected to have an active research agenda in their area of expertise. Candidates will also have evidence of effective university teaching competencies in multimedia journalism, digital storytelling and social media. The Department of Mass Communication at AUS is one of the most vibrant and successful programs of its kind in the region. Its graduates are recognized as being amongst the best in the industry in the Middle East. AUS is located in the emirate of Sharjah, adjacent to Dubai, in the United Arab Emirates. Founded in 1997 by His Highness Sheikh Dr. Sultan Bin Mohammad Al Qassimi, AUS is an independent, not-for-profit coeducational university in the Gulf, serving some 5,500 students of 82 nationalities. The UAE Commission of Higher Education and the US Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools accredit the American University of Sharjah. Applications must be received prior to November 15 2015 for full consideration. Review of applications will begin upon that date and will continue until the position is filled. Interested applicants should send a letter of application, curriculum vitae, and three letters of recommendation to Dr. Mahmoud Anabtawi, Dean, College of Arts and Sciences, email: (cashr /at/ aus.edu) with the subject line: Application for Journalism. http://www.aus.edu/info/200218/employment/77/faculty_positions/3/#7 Best, Sohail Sohail Dahdal, PH.D Assistant Professor Department of Mass Communication Tel +971 6 515 2530 Mobile +971 55 361 9600 Fax +971 6 515 2554 College of Arts and Sciences Office: NAB 230 American University of Sharjah PO Box 26666, Sharjah United Arab Emirates www.aus.edu sdahdal(a)aus.edu

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2nd CfP LAK16: Edinburgh 25-29th April 2016
by Simon Knight 06 Oct '15

06 Oct '15

**** Call for papers Learning Analytics and Knowledge Conference **** The 6th International Learning Analytics and Knowledge Conference will be held in Edinburgh, UK April 25-29th 2016, co-located with ACM Learning @ Scale 2016. The deadline for all submissions is *October 30, 2015*, which will NOT be extended*.* See http://lak16.solaresearch.org/?page_id=6 This annual conference provides a multidisciplinary forum for addressing the critical issues and challenges confronting the education sector today. The conference theme this year is: “Enhancing Impact: Convergence of Communities for Grounding, Implementation and Validation”. The theme for the LAK16 conference aims to explore the multidisciplinary connections that effectively illustrate how learning analytics can provide critical insights into the individual and collective learning process. It embraces the convergence of these disciplines to provide theoretical and practical insights that will further advance the field – through research, adoption and implementation and ultimately provide a foundation for informing government and institutional policy. We invite research and practice papers that address the “convergence of communities” in LAK and bring a novel perspective and approach for reflecting on the field. *** SUBMISSIONS *** The conference welcomes researcher and practitioner submissions of the following kinds: 1. *Full papers*: 10 pages 2. *Short papers*: 5 pages 3. *Panel proposals*: 4 pages plus 2 separated pages with information about the confirmed panelists 4. *Workshop proposals*: 2 pages 5. *Tutorial proposals*: 2 pages (will not be included in the proceedings) 6. *Demonstrations*: 2 pages 7. *Posters*: 2 pages 8. *Doctoral consortium*: 5 pages (Details: http://lak16.solaresearch.org/?page_id=173) *** RELEVANT DATES *** - *31 October 2015*: Deadline for all submissions - *30 November 2015*: Notification of acceptance for workshop and tutorial proposals - *18 December 2015*: Notification of acceptance for full/short papers, panel proposals, demonstrations and posters - *5 February 2016*: Final version of accepted papers due - *25-29 April 2016*: LAK conference Conference proceedings will be published in ACM Digital Library.

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Re: [Air-L] Air-L Digest, Vol 135, Issue 4
by Charles Steinfield 05 Oct '15

05 Oct '15

Kevin, While I am sure this is not the earliest reference to this idea, it was certainly a core argument in Shoshanna Zuboff’s 1988 book “In the Age of the Smart Machine.” It’s been a long time since I looked at the book, but as I recall, she talks at length about the role of information byproducts generated computer-mediated work to better manage organizations, not always in positive ways from the perspective of workers. To me, this is fundamentally an argument about “digital trace data." best, Chip Charles Steinfield Department of Media and Information Michigan State University East Lansing, MI 48840 USA +1 517 432 8651 steinfie(a)msu.edu On Oct 5, 2015, at 6:00 PM, air-l-request(a)listserv.aoir.org wrote: > > -----Original Message----- > From: Air-L [mailto:air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org <mailto:air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org>] On Behalf Of Kevin G Crowston > Sent: Monday, October 05, 2015 11:17 AM > To: air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org <mailto:air-l@listserv.aoir.org> > Subject: [Air-L] "Definitive" citation for the concept of digital trace data? > > An argument for studies of online behaviour is that the systems collect records of what people do and that such digital trace data provide a rich source of evidence for all kinds of studies. I?m trying to trace back that idea but it seems so taken for granted that there?s often not a citation. So I wondered what people consider the definitive citation for that idea, and for the term "trace data? in this context more specifically.? > > For example, there?s a 2008 handbook article: > > Welser, H. T., Smith, M., Fisher, D., and Gleave, E. 2008. "Distilling Digital Traces: Computational Social Science Approaches to Studying the Internet," in The Sage Handbook of Online Research Methods, N. Fielding, R.M. Lee and G. Blank (eds.). London, England: SAGE Publications, Ltd, pp. 116?141. > > But I suspect there are even earlier sources. > > Kevin Crowston | Distinguished Professor of Information Science | School of Information Studies > > Syracuse University > 348 Hinds Hall > Syracuse, New York 13244 > t (315) 443.1676 f 315.443.5806 e crowston(a)syr.edu <mailto:crowston@syr.edu> > > crowston.syr.edu <http://crowston.syr.edu/>

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"Definitive" citation for the concept of digital trace data?
by Kevin G Crowston 05 Oct '15

05 Oct '15

An argument for studies of online behaviour is that the systems collect records of what people do and that such digital trace data provide a rich source of evidence for all kinds of studies. I’m trying to trace back that idea but it seems so taken for granted that there’s often not a citation. So I wondered what people consider the definitive citation for that idea, and for the term "trace data” in this context more specifically. For example, there’s a 2008 handbook article: Welser, H. T., Smith, M., Fisher, D., and Gleave, E. 2008. "Distilling Digital Traces: Computational Social Science Approaches to Studying the Internet," in The Sage Handbook of Online Research Methods, N. Fielding, R.M. Lee and G. Blank (eds.). London, England: SAGE Publications, Ltd, pp. 116–141. But I suspect there are even earlier sources. Kevin Crowston | Distinguished Professor of Information Science | School of Information Studies Syracuse University 348 Hinds Hall Syracuse, New York 13244 t (315) 443.1676 f 315.443.5806 e crowston(a)syr.edu crowston.syr.edu

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ELD16 Announces Call for Proposals - 11/9/15 deadline
by AJ Kelton 05 Oct '15

05 Oct '15

The 6th Annual Emerging Learning Design Conference (ELD15) is accepting proposals for its 2016 conference, to be held June 2nd & 3rd, 2016, on the campus of Montclair State University. *PROPOSAL DEADLINE – NOVEMBER 9th, 2015. See below for details.* *All proposals received by the above deadline, whether eventually accepted or not,will be included in a drawing for a complimentary ELD16 full registration.* - For the Call for Proposals Submission Form – click HERE <https://utk.co1.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_ddmxihPwjHqzyIZ> - For the ELD16 Session Types – click HERE <http://eld.montclair.edu/eld-call-for-proposals/session-types/> - For the Call for Proposals FAQ – click HERE <http://eld.montclair.edu/eld-call-for-proposals/eld-call-for-proposals-faq/> The theme for this year’s conference is *Adopt & Adapt: Connecting Learning to Life* *ROLLING SUBMISSION / EARLY ACCEPTANCE MODEL* ELD uses a “rolling submission” model for proposals: every proposal will be reviewed and given feedback within 2 weeks of submission. Your submission will either be accepted or you’ll be provided feedback from our reviewers and offered an opportunity to revise and resubmit. We’ll continue this process of accepting or giving constructive feedback to proposals until all presentation slots are filled. Submissions will still be accepted after November 9th, but they will be considered in the second round of proposals. We will work with those who submitted by the deadline and then look toward later submissions to complete the program, should presentation slots still be available. Why this model? Two main reasons: we seen that having revise-and-resubmit cycles make our conference’s presentations the best they can be for our attendees, and accepting excellent proposals as they arrive is a great way to let our prospective audience know what to look forward to even before the whole program is finalized. In addition, this model is easier on our reviewers as we don’t get a rush of proposals on deadline day. How do you submit a proposal? Go here <http://eld.montclair.edu/eld-call-for-proposals/eld-call-for-proposals-faq/> to read some brief instructions on what we need in your submission, and then go HERE <https://utk.co1.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_ddmxihPwjHqzyIZ> and supply that information. We’ll be in touch to confirm your submission was complete, and then let you know within a couple weeks the response from our reviewers. -- ----- AJ Kelton Director of Emerging & Instructional Technology College of Humanities and Social Sciences - Montclair State University Doctoral Candidate Educational Communication and Technology - New York University ---------- Emerging Learning Design 2016 http://eld.montclair.edu Twitter: @ELDConf <http://twitter.com/ELDConf> ---------- http://www.ajkelton.net Twitter: @aj_kelton <http://twitter.com/aj_kelton>

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