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Crowdsourcing a research agenda: open digital badges
by Sheryl Grant 05 Nov '14

05 Nov '14

Hi all, The Badge Alliance <http://www.badgealliance.org/> research working group is in the process of crowdsourcing a research agenda on digital badges for learning. If you have even a sliver of interest or knowledge in badges for learning, we encourage you to take a few minutes to answer one, some, or all of the questions in this short survey: https://umich.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_9vKFoaOoT8HhhJz We'll be closing the survey on Friday, November 21. Thanks! Sheryl Grant HASTAC, Director of Badge Research What Counts as Learning: Open Digital Badges for New Opportunities <http://dmlhub.net/publications/what-counts-learning> Digital Media and Learning Competition, Director of Social Networking Duke University, Durham NC

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Any digital art history PhDs looking for a job?
by Jill Walker Rettberg 05 Nov '14

05 Nov '14

There's an absolutely open associate professor position in art history (any kind of art history whatsoever) advertised in our department and I would just love for someone doing something digital to get the job. PLEASE, if you know someone with a PhD in art history who is interested in the internet who might be interested in a job in Norway, LET THEM KNOW. And if you fit the bill, APPLY? http://www.jobbnorge.no/en/available-jobs/job/106195/associate-professor-fo… (if that job ad shows up in Norwegian look for the link labeled "English") While I'll admit the art history people in our department are not very internet-ish, there are some wonderful people there. And us digital culture people are just down the hallway, and we do lots of work on digital art and literature. There's also an excellent art school doing great digital art, and some wonderful digital artists here. If you're thinking, "Huh, NORWAY?" let me tell you the jobs are not bad here. You get 50% research time, 50% teaching by default. The salary for this job starts at USD 70,000, and though cost of living may be higher here than in many countries consider free health care, free tuition, 12 months paid parental leave, heavily subsidized childcare and you'll see that the deal is really pretty sweet. Also Norway has publically funded universities and isn't slashing funding for higher education as many countries are doing. Here is some info from another academic who moved to Norway about transitioning to academia here. http://theprofessorisin.com/2013/02/18/if-youre-considering-grad-schoolwork… http://theprofessorisin.com/2013/02/19/if-youre-considering-grad-schoolwork… and something I wrote about the (in some ways) open hiring process http://jilltxt.net/?p=3472 Feel free to email me if you have any questions. Jill Jill Walker Rettberg Professor of Digital Culture Dept of Linguistic, Literary and Aesthetic Studies University of Bergen Postboks 7800 5020 Bergen + 47 55588431 Blog - http://jilltxt.net Twitter - http://twitter.com/jilltxt My book "Seeing Ourselves Through Technology: How We Use Selfies, Blogs and Wearable Devices to See and Shape Ourselves" is out on Palgrave as an open access publication - buy it in print or download it for free! http://jilltxt.net/books

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Info about anti-pedophile campaigns involving avatars
by Alejandro Tortolini 05 Nov '14

05 Nov '14

Hi listers! I'm looking for info about anti-pedophile campaigns involving avatars or other forms of virtual representation, like Sweetie from Terre des hommes... Can you help me? Thanks in advance, -- Alejandro Tortolini http://dooid.me/aletor

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#GamerGate Lessons for academics
by Jennifer Stromer-Galley 04 Nov '14

04 Nov '14

For those of you who've been following #gamergate, I wanted to share an article that was just published in the International Communication Association newsletter. Shira Chess, Mia Consalvo, Nina Huntemann, Adrienne Shaw, Carol Stabile, and I wrote an essay that we hope will help trigger some thoughtful discussion among us academics and our associations about ways our community can support those of us who become targets of harassment because of our scholarly endeavors. I'm pleased to note that AoIR has already adopted one of the items on our list of recommendations, which is for academic associations to draft statements of inclusivity :). The article can be read here: http://www.icahdq.org/membersnewsletter/NOV14_ART0009.asp ~Jenny Associate Professor | School of Information Studies Vice President | Association of Internet Researchers Syracuse University 220 Hinds Hall Syracuse, New York 13244 t 315.443.1823 f 315.443.5673 e jstromer(a)syr.edu w www.stromer-galley.com<http://www.stromer-galley.com/> w http://www.aoir.org<http://www.aoir.org/> ischool.syr.edu My New Book: Presidential Campaigning in the Internet Age<http://global.oup.com/academic/product/presidential-campaigning-in-the-inte…>

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Resources for finding postdocs?
by Robinson,Cory 04 Nov '14

04 Nov '14

I’m currently searching Twitter, all the job sites (US and abroad), subscribed to many listservs, but wondering if anyone has additional resources for finding postdocs? If area of research helps, I’m seeking positions in ICTs, privacy, ethics, data mining, etc. Thanks in advance! - Cory -- Stephen Cory Robinson cory.robinson(a)colostate.edu<mailto:cory.robinson@colostate.edu> Office: Clark C258A http://colostate.academia.edu/StephenCoryRobinson

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Social Media and Disasters: CAMRI seminar with Dhiraj Murthy, Nov 12
by Christian Fuchs 04 Nov '14

04 Nov '14

Social Media and Disasters: the Case of Hurricane Sandy and Twitter Dhiraj Murthy CAMRI Seminar University of Westminster Wed, Nov 12, 14:00 Harrow Campus Room A7.1 http://www.westminster.ac.uk/camri/research-seminars/social-media-and-disas… Registration is possible per e-mail to christian.fuchs(a)uti.at, at latest until Nov 10 Sociological understandings of social media and disasters remain an emergent field. Despite major disasters in which victims and others have engaged over social media, we have limited understandings of the function of social media during disasters as well as the ad-hoc communities formed. This presentation seeks to extend current scholarship on Twitter use during natural disasters through the exploration of tweets related to Hurricane Sandy. The storm caused over $65 billion in damage, making it the second costliest storm in U.S. history. We examine the behaviour of Twitter users over from October 22, 2012 to November 3, 2012, using mentions, links and hashtags for data analysis. All tweets relating to the storm during this period were collected. Certain Twitter functionalities rose to prominence depending on the stage of the storm. For instance, in the days following Hurricane Sandy’s initial landfall, users became more interested in relief efforts. The conclusion is that behaviour in an anticipated natural disaster can be distilled into a framework of micro-events that take place within the larger context of the disaster and can be studied using comparative temporal methods. Dhiraj Murthy is a Senior Lecturer of Sociology at Goldsmiths, University of London. His current research explores social media, virtual organizations, and big data quantitative analysis. His work on social networking technologies in virtual breeding grounds was funded by the National Science Foundation, Office of CyberInfrastructure. Dhiraj also has a book about Twitter published by Polity Press. He founded and directed the Social Network Innovation Lab, an interdisciplinary research group investigating social networks and virtual organizations.

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Call for Papers: 2015 International Internet Preservation Consortium General Assembly
by Nicholas Taylor 03 Nov '14

03 Nov '14

The International Internet Preservation Consortium is seeking proposals for presentations and workshops at the next conference and general assembly to be held at Stanford University in California, USA on the 27 and 28 April 2015. The theme is "Innovation, connection and co-operation in web data"; see more below. ** *Proposals* The presentations should be aimed at 20 mins. for single papers and up to 60 mins. for panel sessions of up to 3 speakers. Workshops or training for specific web archiving tools, concepts, or issues can be up to half a day in length. Abstracts should include the name of the speaker, a title, conference sub-theme (see below) and be no more than 300 words. Proposals should be emailed tojason.webber(a)bl.uk <mailto:jason.webber@bl.uk>by*Friday 28 November 2014*. All abstracts should be in English. All submissions will be reviewed by the Conference Committee and those which are accepted will be notified by Friday 19 December 2014. http://netpreserve.org/ga2015-call-papers *Theme* Innovation, connection and co-operation in web data The history of web archiving has been one of the interaction between fast-evolving web technologies and the processes and technologies used to archive the web: a perpetual arms race between developers of the live web, and the archivists charged to preserve the record. This interplay is the theme for this year's GA at Stanford, in the heart of Silicon Valley. It has four sub-themes: ** *Access* How can the providers of archives harness the power of new technologies to improve the experience of users, and to enable them to do more with the content that archives provide? Which are the innovative projects that show the way, and which are the emerging technologies that will be next? Can web archiving developers co-operate more and better with others in the field, to mutual benefit? There are common technical issues at play, such as the scalability of technologies such as Apache Solr for big data: how might expertise best be shared? ** *Research* What does truly innovative research look like? How are researchers, both inside and outside the academic sector, using the archived web now, and what are the questions they would like to ask of the archive, but cannot (yet)? Is there yet innovation in the *methods* that researchers are using; or is the use of web archives still analogous to older paradigms of the use of printed objects? ** *Harvesting* How can archivists and indeed all those who rely on crawler technologies keep pace with the ever-changing technologies by which content is delivered? How might developers and archivists work better together so that questions of "archivability" become part of the design process? ** *Preservation* As the web evolves, so do the formats in which it is delivered, and formats that were once innovative soon become obsolescent. How might developers and archivists work together to ensure that data can be preserved, and effective global standards adopted?

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Twitter portraits, MP3 faces and dronies as a new Internet craze: Photomediations Machine
by Joanna Zylinska 03 Nov '14

03 Nov '14

We have the pleasure to announce eight new contributions to the curated online space Photomediations Machine: http://www.photomediationsmachine.net - Status Symbols: amazing Twitter portraits created with spinning LEDs that translate celebrities' tweets into flashing bursts of light: http://photomediationsmachine.net/2014/11/01/status-symbols-twitter-portrai… - Lost in Fathoms challenges our perception of geologic timescales and of humanity's impact on the earth’s systems: http://photomediationsmachine.net/2014/11/01/lost-in-fathoms-exploring-the-… - What does your face sound like in mp3? Sound Portraits: http://photomediationsmachine.net/2014/11/01/sound-portraits/ - Topia daedala: landscapes manufactured from plastic and clouds, in the era of petrochemical urgency: http://photomediationsmachine.net/2014/11/01/topia-daedala/ - BLKBX.MOV: The Black Box as an icon of power and ideology explored via popular Internet images: http://photomediationsmachine.net/2014/09/29/blkbx-mov/ - A visual essay that analyses creative processes and formulas in art: http://photomediationsmachine.net/2014/09/29/algorithms-in-art/ - A reassessment of portraiture via the art and science of photogrammetry: http://photomediationsmachine.net/2014/09/29/sedimentary-tropes/ - ‘Would you mind my drone taking a picture of us?’: the ‘dronie’ as a new Internet craze: http://photomediationsmachine.net/2014/09/29/would-you-mind-my-drone-taking… ************************************************ PHOTOMEDIATIONS MACHINE http://www.photomediationsmachine.net Photomediations Machine is a curated online space where the dynamic relations of mediation as performed in photography and other media can be encountered, experienced and engaged. Photomediations Machine adopts a process-based approach to image making by tracing the technological, biological, cultural, social and political flows of mediation that produce photographic objects. Showcasing theoretical and practical work at the intersections of art and mainstream practices, Photomediations Machine is both an archive of mediations past and a site of production of media as-we-do-not-know-them-yet. Photomediations Machine is non-commercial, non-profit and fully open access. Curated by Joanna Zylinska and Ting Ting Cheng, Photomediations Machine has an International Advisory Board which includes Katherine Behar, Lisa Cartwright, Alberto López Cuenca, Asbjørn Grønstad, Richard Grusin, Sarah Kember, Max Liljefors, Melissa Miles, Nicholas Mirzoeff, W.J.T. Mitchell, Luiza Nader, Nina Sellars, Jonathan Shaw, Katrina Sluis, Marquard Smith, Hito Steyerl and Bernadette Wegenstein. It is a sister project to the online open access journal Culture Machine (http://www.culturemachine.net) established in 1999. Website: http://www.photomediationsmachine.net For regular updates and more, follow us on Twitter: @Photomediations Visit us on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/photomediations.machine Submissions invited: http://photomediationsmachine.net/submissions/ -- Professor Joanna Zylinska Department of Media and Communications Goldsmiths, University of London http://www.joannazylinska.net Curator of Photomediations Machine http://www.photomediationsmachine.net NEW BOOK, Minimal Ethics for the Anthropocene, available open access: http://www.openhumanitiespress.org/minimal-ethics.html

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Deadline Extension for CFP: Computer Culture (SWPACA Conference, February 11-14, 2015)
by natasha chuk 03 Nov '14

03 Nov '14

Computer Culture Area 36th Annual Southwest Popular / American Culture Association Conference February 11-14, 2015 Hyatt Regency, Albuquerque, NM www.southwestpca.org *PROPOSAL SUBMISSION DEADLINE (EXTENDED):* Saturday, November 15, 2014 Proposals for papers are now being accepted for the area of Computer Culture, as one of the many areas within the 36th annual conference of the Southwest Popular/American Culture Association (SWPACA). Please consider submitting. This year’s conference theme is: *Many Faces, Many Voices: Intersecting Borders in Popular and American Culture* COMPUTER is broadly defined as any computational device, whether smartphone or abacus, and any form of information technology, including the origins of concepts of interactive text, which may predate computational devices as traditionally conceived. CULTURE is rooted in the concept of cultural meaning. We ask not just operational questions such as, "How do people communicate using computers?" but questions of meaning such as, "What does it mean when people communicate using computers instead of using pre-computer approaches to communication?" Along these lines, we are interested in communication as well as creative practices/applications and how computer technologies shape them. "Computer Culture" can be understood in a variety of ways: ● the culture of the computer, that is, as computers interact with each other, what culture do they have of their own? ● the culture around the computer, that is, (sub)cultures associated with the production, maintenance, use, and destruction of computers ● the culture through the computer, that is, explicit treatment of how computer mediation influences cultural phenomena that exist or has existed in forms that did not involve computer mediation, and what these influences mean ● the culture by the computer, that is, the ways in which new (sub)cultures or (sub)cultural phenomena have arisen because of computers and understandings of these given awareness of the nature and/or workings of computers Example questions associated with Computer Culture would include, but not be limited to: ● What implications are there because of the powerfulness of (computer/information) technology, and are these implications beneficial, detrimental, inevitable, or avoidable? ● What are the cultural origins of computers, computer/information technologies, and practices associated with them? What is the descriptive and prescriptive outlook for the conditions of those cultural forces associated with those cultural origins? ● How do cultural forces (such as changes from one generation to the next, trends in education or society, or other cultural phenomena) impact (and are impacted by) computer/information technologies/market-forces, and what do these impacts (in either direction or both) mean? Paper topics might include (but are not limited to) those that address: ● issues of (re)presentation through computers (website analysis and design), ● methods of discourse involving computers (blogging, Twitter, social networks, viral video, live feeds), ● theories focused on the relationship between computers and culture, uses of computers in particular contexts and the impacts thereof (computers and pedagogy, online literary journals, etc.), ● the relationship between computers and cultural forces (such as news, politics, and terrorism), ● security/privacy/fraud/surveillance and computers (online security issues, spam, scams, and hoaxes), ● creative practice, web art, generative and digital art, virtual performance, ● the self, the “second self,” identity formation/negotiation, anonymity ● “cyberkids,” internet youth cultures ● data visualization and digital geographies ● hashtag thinking, communities, data organization and archives While we will consider any relevant paper, we have a preference for those that involve transferable methodological approaches. This is an interdisciplinary conference, and other conference attendees would benefit from being able to adapt your research methods to their future research. Scholars, teachers, professionals, artists, and others interested in computer culture are encouraged to participate. Graduate students are also particularly welcome with award opportunities for the best graduate papers. More information about awards can be found at http://southwestpca.org/conference/graduate-student-awards/ Specifically, we would like to highlight the following award opportunities: ● The "Computer Culture and Game Studies Award" ● The "Heldrich-Dvorak Travel Fellowships" Given how papers may often fall into multiple categories, there may be other award opportunities listed at http://southwestpca.org/conference/graduate-student-awards/ which would be appropriate for your paper. (However, each presenter may only apply for one – not including the Travel Fellowships, which can be in addition.) If you wish to form your own panel, we would be glad to facilitate your needs. This conference is a presentation opportunity. Visit <http://www.journaldialogue.org/>http://journaldialogue.org <http://www.journaldialogue.org/> for information about the organization's new, peer-reviewed journal, Dialogue: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Popular Culture and Pedagogy. Please pass along this call to friends and colleagues. For consideration, *submit 100-200 word abstracts and proposals for panels by Saturday, November 15, 2014* to the conference’s electronic submission system, which can be found at: http://conference2015.southwestpca.org/

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DPASSH 2015 Call for Papers | June 25-26, 2015 | Dublin, Ireland
by Natalie Harrower 03 Nov '14

03 Nov '14

Hi AoIR-Listers: Please distribute widely and apologies for cross-posting (however contradictory these might seem :) Call for Papers: DPASSH 2015 The 1st Annual conference on Digital Preservation for the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities “Shaping our Legacy: Safeguarding the Social and Cultural Record” hosted by the Digital Repository of Ireland Dublin, Ireland 25-26th June 2015 On the last day of June of 1922, the western block of Dublin’s Four Courts exploded, engulfing the Irish Public Record Office in flames. As smoke billowed from the eighteenth-century construction and the fire brigade struggled to bring the flames under control, debris fell onto the surrounding Dublin streets, and the Irish Times reported that a priceless library was left in ashes. The fire, caused by the outbreak of the Irish Civil War, hit at the heart of government records, destroying hundreds of years of Irish history that had been housed centrally since the 18th century. A few days after the fire, the Provisional Government issued a notice asking citizens to return to public custody any and all of the burned fragments of the public record that had “blown to other districts.” In the current digital age, our social and cultural record is also at risk, but its degradation occurs over time. Instead of burning rapidly, digital records are threatened by a slow-burning fire that can go undetected as a result of insufficient data management practices. Additionally, the preservation of our digital social and cultural heritage is subject to domain- and community-specific requirements. These issues demand that we reflect critically on the purpose of digital preservation, and ask fundamental questions about how requirements should shape our practices. Similar to the public appeal in 1922, we are looking for public, academic and industry engagement on the issue of digital preservation, to help identify the fragments that have been, or are in danger of being lost, as well as to build the digital preservation strategies that will shape and safeguard our public record. To address the complexities of long-term digital preservation in the social and cultural realms, we are hosting the first Digital Preservation for the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (DPASSH 2015) conference, titled “Shaping our Legacy: Safeguarding our Social and Cultural Record.” The conference will take place on June 25-26, 2015 at Croke Park, in Dublin, Ireland, and will include international keynote speakers, networking, expert panels, peer-reviewed papers, and posters. Submissions are invited from all sectors and perspectives (academics, researchers, students, industry, cultural heritage institutions, preservation infrastructures, etc.) for a variety of presentation formats that critically reflect on all areas relating to digital preservation in the humanities and social sciences, arts, and cultural heritage sectors. Conference themes include but are not limited to: • Cultural Responsibility & Preservation: critical reflections on preservation, challenges in choosing what to preserve, digital curation, digital stewardship, archiving processes. • People & Preservation: stakeholder engagement, community approaches, partnership building, education & training, knowledge transfer. • Policy & Preservation: advocacy, national approaches, sustainability, open access, open data. • Sharing & Preservation: content curation, contextual information and metadata, aesthetics of preservation, sharing of research data, user tools, crowdsourcing. • Technology & Preservation: Technical challenges posed by datasets in arts/humanities/social sciences, digitisation vs. the born digital record, preservation infrastructures, software and tools. • Trust & Preservation: TDRs, provenance, authenticity, certification, security, data protection, copyright, licensing. Important Details: - Submission Deadline: 26th January 2015 - Notification of outcome: 30th March 2015 - Full papers due: 25th May 2015 - All abstracts will be peer reviewed, and accepted papers will be published as conference proceedings. - All submissions must be made through the conference website: dpassh.dri.ie - Abstract Length: Long papers: 400-500 words; Short papers: 200-300 words; Posters: 50-100 words - Final Paper Word Length: Long papers: 3000-5000; Short papers: 1500-2000 - Questions: Dr. Natalie Harrower, Chair of the Programme Committee: n.harrower(a)ria.ie _______ Dr. Natalie Harrower Manager, Education & Outreach Digital Repository of Ireland Royal Irish Academy 19 Dawson St., Dublin 2 www.dri.ie Twitter: @natalieharrower / @dri_ireland<https://twitter.com/dri_ireland> www.ria.ie<http://www.ria.ie/> The Royal Irish Academy/Acadamh Ríoga na hÉireann Ireland's Academy for the sciences and humanities The Royal Irish Academy is subject to the Freedom of Information Acts 1997 & 2003 and is compliant with the provisions of the Data Protection Acts 1988 & 2003. For further information see our website www.ria.ie

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