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CFP - ADDA 1 - Approaches to Digital Discourse Analysis
by Pilar Garces 10 Oct '14

10 Oct '14

Dear all, I have pasted below the cfps for the ADDA-1 conference. I shall be grateful if you would post it on the listserv. Thanks! All best, Pilar 1st International Conference: Approaches to Digital Discourse Analysis: ADDA 1 Valencia, 19-20 November 2015 CALL FOR PAPERS Papers are invited for the 1st International Conference: Approaches to Digital Discourse Analysis - ADDA 1, which will take place in Valencia, 19-20 November 2015. This conference aims to bring together researches interested in the analysis of digital discourse from different disciplines, approaches and traditions. Thus, it seeks to foster state-of-the-art debates and discussions on this burgeoning field of research and provide opportunities for multidisciplinary and critical reflection. Confirmed plenary speakers Jannis Androutsopoulos – Universität Hamburg Susan C. Herring – Indiana University Crispin Thurlow – University of Bern Conference themes Papers are invited from discourse scholars from different traditions focusing on digital discourse, among others: • Research methods in digital discourse analysis • Critical digital discourse analysis • Micro analysis of digital discourse • Digital genres • Discourse and identities in the digital world • Multimodality and digital discourse • Conflict in digital discourse • Cognitive approaches to discourse analysis • Digital discourse and the professions • Digital service encounters • Political discourse in the digital age • Gender and the digital media • Digital discourse and education Scientific committee Freddie Attenborough - Loughborough University Paul Baker - University of Lancaster Noemi Baron – American University Marta Dynel - University of Łódź Will Gibson – Institute of Education. University of London Rodney Jones – City University of Hong Kong Miriam Locher – Universität Basel Sergio Maruenda Bataller – Universitat de València Ruth Page – University of Leicester Carmen Pérez Sabater – Universidad Politécnica de Valencia José Santaemilia Ruiz - Universitat de València Wyke Stommel – Radboud University Nijmegen Francisca Suau Jiménez – Universitat de València Francisco Yus – Universidad de Alicante Wei Zhang- Peking University Submission information • Panel proposals: Panel proposals are invited by 15 January 2015. Decisions will be notified by 30 January. Panels may include up to 6 papers. Individual panel members should submit abstracts, marking the Panel name, to the conference address by 15 February 2015. All abstracts, both in panels and as individual papers, will be subject to double blind peer review. • Individual papers: Abstracts of no more than 350 words, including references, are invited. The deadline for abstract submission is 15 February 2015. Please send the abstracts to the conference email address, as a word document and remember not to include author(s) name and affiliation in the abstract.  Notification of acceptance by 15 March. Conference website and email address www.uv.es/adda For any queries please contact ADDA 1 organizers, Patricia Bou-Franch (Universitat de València) and Pilar Garcés-Conejos Blitvich (University of North Carolina at Charlotte), at adda.organizers(a)gmail.com

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Master’s degree program on Technology, Security and Privacy
by José María Zavala Pérez 10 Oct '14

10 Oct '14

Dear colleagues, We are excited to announce two new online master’s degree programs on 'Technology and Security' and 'Technology and Privacy', starting in February 2015. These one-year programs, jointly administered by the University of Barcelona and Eticas Research & Consulting, offer a grounding in theoretical and historical approaches to technology and security but also policy analysis and communications tools. The online format means that students benefit from the expertise of internationally-recognized lecturers as well as in-depth tutoring. More information about the programs is available at http://technologyandsecurity.info <http://technologyandsecurity.info/>and http://technologyandprivacy.info. Pre-registration is now open. Please share widely in your networks! Kind regards, The Eticas team -- *José María Zavala Pérez * Eticas Research & Consulting C/ Ferlandina, 49 (08001 Barcelona) / Reloj 2 (28770 Madrid) +34 936 005 400 - www.eticasconsulting.com <http://www.eticasconsulting.com/> - @eticasconsult

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CFP: Digital Media, Power, and Democracy in Election Campaigns: A Workshop
by Jennifer Stromer-Galley 10 Oct '14

10 Oct '14

Please circulate widely! ~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…> +++++++ DIGITAL MEDIA, POWER, AND DEMOCRACY IN ELECTION CAMPAIGNS: A WORKSHOP Conveners: Andrew Chadwick and Jennifer Stromer-Galley Over recent years, the uprisings in Eastern Europe and the Middle East have focused attention on the question of digital media and political power. This has resulted in a wave of research on the relationships between technological change, mobilization, and revolutionary activism in authoritarian and semi-democratic political contexts. While this research has generated important insights, we suggest that it should now be joined by fresh analysis of the role of digital media in election campaigns. We call for papers that are international or comparative in orientation, that present new evidence, and that connect the study of digital media explicitly with questions concerning power and democracy. We invite authors to examine established democracies both in and beyond the United States and Europe, and in emerging and what comparative regime theorists have termed "difficult democracies" across the world. Our aim is to bring together scholars for a two-day workshop at Greenberg House, Syracuse University's base in Washington, D.C., on June 25 and 26, 2015. Papers will be considered for peer review and potential inclusion in a special issue of the International Journal of Press/Politics (IJPP) to be published in 2016. AIMS Central to the political life of all types of democracies are the organizations, practices, and media technologies of election campaigns, yet we know surprisingly little about the changes that have occurred in this field over recent years. We invite papers that explore what we see as the increasingly contested issue of the balance of power between political elites, digital media actors, and citizens in election campaigning. Our aim is to orient this project around two classical and fruitfully contested concepts: power and democracy. We are keen to attract papers that explore continuity and change in the power relations that shape campaigns. We conceive of these power relations in three principal ways. First, we see a need to focus on the internal communication structures of party and campaign organizations. How and to what extent have digital media changed the organizational characteristics of parties and campaigns? Are internal hierarchies becoming flatter? Are newer forms of communicative expertise shifting the balance of power between candidates, elite campaign professionals, and rank and file activists? What roles are emerging for the growing practices of data analytics, dataveillance, and voter activation? Second, scholars may focus on power relations in the communication flows between party and campaign organizations and the wider constellation of organizations and quasi-organizations within which citizen participation now occurs. To what extent are the boundaries between parties and campaigns and looser citizen activist networks and advocacy groups being blurred by the use of digital media? What is the role of specialist digital consultants? To what extent have the mid-2000s predictions about the loosening of communicative and organizational discipline in parties and campaigns proved correct? Are citizens' and activists' uses of digital media playing a role in hastening the decline or even the "death" of political parties, as has been widely discussed, for example, in the United Kingdom over recent years? Third, papers may examine the interactions between ordinary citizens and party and campaign organizations. As campaigns and parties spread their messaging and involvement efforts to social media, the affordances of those media open up possibilities for increased interaction and communication between ordinary citizens and the official campaign apparatus. But the presence of affordances does not guarantee their use. In what ways are citizens involving themselves in the workings of campaigns? In what ways or to what extent are parties and campaigns actually opening up their organizations, messaging, and planning to ordinary citizens? Are such actions carefully structured by campaigns or are they genuinely open to the ideas and strategies of citizens? We primarily seek papers that advance empirical knowledge. Undergirding our interest in these themes, however, is intense normative curiosity about the potential democratizing effects of digital media, not only in relatively "settled" liberal-democratic contexts but also in the globally important difficult-democratic cases that increasingly inform thinking about real-world democracy, such as, for example, Brazil, India, Russia, Mexico, Singapore, Egypt, Turkey, Tunisia, the Balkan states, and parts of central and eastern Europe. Our concern with the difficult democracies emerges because it could be the case that in these political systems important power shifts are more likely. We would like authors to directly address the question of whether the adoption of digital media is increasing citizens' influence over the hierarchical organizational structures that have typically dominated parties and election campaigns since the rise of the mass broadcast era. We also want authors to think about conditionality: the balance of forces and causes that shape whether changes in mediated campaigning are democratizing or not democratizing in their effects. We have no orthodoxy regarding data and methods. We foresee a range of approaches: single country and comparative studies; papers adopting methods of big data analysis; those adopting quantitative approaches; and those situated within qualitative and ethnographic traditions. PROCEDURE AND SCHEDULE *November 14, 2014: 500-word paper proposals due. Please email your proposals to andrew.chadwick(a)rhul.ac.uk and jstromer(a)syr.edu *November 28, 2014: Requests for full papers to authors and invitations to the workshop at Greenberg House, Syracuse University's dedicated base in Washington D.C., to be held June 25-26, 2015. *June 1, 2015: Full workshop papers to Andrew and Jennifer. *June 25-26, 2015: Workshop. Note: The conference conveners are working to find sponsorships to help defray the costs of attending the workshop. *June 30, 2015: Call for papers for the special issue of the IJPP. *July 31, 2015: Full papers submitted to IJPP for anonymous peer review. *Peer review process completed by January 2016. *Publication of special issue in mid to late 2016. ABOUT THE CONVENORS Andrew Chadwick is Professor of Political Science in the Department of Politics and International Relations at Royal Holloway, University of London, where he founded the New Political Communication Unit in 2007. Since the late 1990s he has authored numerous publications about digital media and political communication. His books include: The Hybrid Media System: Politics and Power (Oxford University Press, 2013), which won the Best Book Award of the American Political Science Association's Section on Information Technology and Politics; The Handbook of Internet Politics, co-edited with Philip N. Howard (Routledge 2009); and Internet Politics: States, Citizens, and New Communication Technologies (Oxford University Press, 2006), which won the American Sociological Association Outstanding Book Award (Communication and Information Technologies Section) and is among the most widely-cited books in its field. Andrew is the founding Editor of the Oxford University Press book series Oxford Studies in Digital Politics, which currently features 13 books, a founding Associate Editor (2006-09) and Senior Editorial Board member (ongoing) of the Journal of Information Technology and Politics, and an editorial board member of the new Sage journal, Social Media and Society. In 2009 he guest-edited a special issue of the Journal of Information Technology and Politics on the theme of politics and web 2.0. Andrew's website is at http://www.andrewchadwick.com and he tweets as @andrew_chadwick Jennifer Stromer-Galley is Associate Professor in the School of Information Studies at Syracuse University, and Vice President of the Association of Internet Researchers. She has been studying "social media" since before it was called social media. She is an expert on human interaction through digital media, and has written extensively about political institutions' uses of the internet for governance and for campaigning. She recently published Political Campaigning in the Internet Age (Oxford University Press, 2014), which details the ways presidential campaigns have adapted to and adopted digital media in the United States across five election cycles. She has also developed measures of influence, leadership, and discussion quality through social media. Jenny has published over 40 journal articles, proceedings, and book chapters, and has been co-Principal Investigator of projects that have received over $12 million in support from the National Science Foundation, IARPA, and the Air Force Research Lab. She is currently Associate Editor for the Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication and on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Communication. Her website is www.stromer-galley.com, and she tweets as @profjsg. ABOUT THE INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PRESS/POLITICS The International Journal of Press/Politics (IJPP), published quarterly, is an interdisciplinary journal for the analysis and discussion of the role of media and politics in a globalized world. The Journal publishes theoretical and empirical research which analyzes the linkages between the news media and political processes and actors.

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Dept. of Communication at Tulane Job, Professor of Practice
by Michele White 09 Oct '14

09 Oct '14

Hi Folks The Department of Communication at Tulane University is hiring a Professor of Practice. I thought some of you might be interested. Best,Michele Tulane University, School of Liberal Arts, CommunicationProfessor of Practice, CommunicationLocation: Uptown Campus, New Orleans, LA The Department of Communication at Tulane University invitesapplications for a full-time, non-tenure track, Professor of Practice positionbeginning in August 2015. We are an interdisciplinary department in the Schoolof Liberal Arts specializing in the critical study of media, culture,identities, and relationships. With approximately 200 undergraduate majors, ourfull-time faculty offers a range of theoretical, historical, andpractice-oriented courses. We are seeking candidates with the ability to teachCommunication Studies (COMM 2900), which introduces students to thedepartment’s theoretical underpinnings by exploring our focus on relationshipsand identities, texts and representation, and structures and institutions. Inaddition to this competency, we are especially interested in individuals with abackground in one or more of the following: Film Studies, Technology and NewMedia Studies, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Public Policy, and PoliticalEconomy. The position carries an initialannual salary of $40,000. Moreinformation about our department and COMM 2900 can be found athttp://tulane.edu/liberal-arts/communication/ QUALIFICATIONS Qualified candidates for this position will hold a terminaldegree in Communication or in a related discipline by 1 February 2015. Theappointment will be for three years, renewable contingent on performance andfunding, and will carry no obligations for research or publication. Theteaching load is three courses per semester. Some departmental service is expected. APPLICATION INSTRUCTIONS Candidates should submit a letter that identifies areas ofexpertise and possible courses, a curriculum vitae, a one-page proposal forCOMM 2900, up to two syllabi, teaching evaluations, and the names and contactinformation for three references. Questions can be directed to Michele White(michele(a)tulane.edu), chair of the search committee. Review of applicationswill begin on 17 November and continue until the position is filled. Allapplication materials should be submitted online through this Interfolio site:http://apply.interfolio.com/26785

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Assoc. Prof. Computational Social Science Job
by Barbara Ley 08 Oct '14

08 Oct '14

Hi everybody, Attached is the link (and downloaded document) to a Computational Social Science job ad at the University of Delaware. The appointment will made be at the Associate level (tenured or untenured, depending on qualifications). http://apply.interfolio.com/26898 I am not familiar with the position details, so any questions should be directed to the search chair, Paul Brewer (prbrewer(a)udel.edu) Thanks! -- Barbara L. Ley Associate Professor Department of Communication Department of Women and Gender Studies University of Delaware 250 Pearson Hall Newark, DE 19716 Phone: (302) 831-0148 Fax: (302)-831-1892 Email: bley(a)udel.edu

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@HASTS_MIT: October lineup
by Amy Johnson 08 Oct '14

08 Oct '14

Hi folks, The second month of @HASTS_MIT<https://twitter.com/HASTS_MIT>, a collaborative Twitter project, has just begun. HASTS is history, anthropology, and STS at MIT. Each week of the fall 2014 semester a different HASTS community member — students, faculty, alumni, staff, affiliates, etc. — is running the @HASTS_MIT account. It's a social media experiment in interdisciplinarity. Check it out for thoughts on research, projects, reading, fieldwork, and much more. The first month was both fascinating and tremendous fun. Come join us! You can follow the account<https://twitter.com/HASTS_MIT> or, if you don't have a Twitter account, drop by https://twitter.com/HASTS_MIT<https://twitter.com/HASTS_MIT.>. October schedule (bios below) 10/6 - 10/12 Shreeharsh Kelkar 10/13 - 10/19 Benjamin Aldes Wurgaft 10/20 - 10/26 Harriet Ritvo 10/27 - 11/2 Diane Greco Josefowicz Curious what people were tweeting about in September? Links to curations for individual September hosts follow the October bios. If you have questions or comments about the project, please contact me at amyj(a)mit.edu or via Twitter @shrapnelofme. Thanks, ~Amy October lineup: Shreeharsh Kelkar<http://web.mit.edu/hasts/graduate/kelkar.html>, HASTS PhD candidate Shreeharsh Kelkar is interested in understanding the role of computing in workplaces using historical and ethnographic methods. Broadly, his interests lie in understanding the relationship between institutions, technology and knowledge production. His dissertation will focus on online learning technologies (like MOOCs) and the changes they are bringing about in different workplaces and their associated roles and work practices. Shreeharsh also tweets as @scritic<https://twitter.com/scritic>. Benjamin Aldes Wurgaft<http://web.mit.edu/anthropology/people/postdocs.html>, HASTS affiliate Benjamin Aldes Wurgaft is a National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he writes about lab-grown meat and the futures of food. A native of Cambridge, Massachusetts, he studied at Swarthmore College and did his graduate work in European intellectual history at Berkeley. Before coming to MIT he was the inaugural Andrew W. Mellon Interdisciplinary Postdoctoral Fellow at the New School for Social Research, and a visiting researcher at UCLA. His scholarly articles, essays, and writings on food culture have appeared in History and Theory, Modern Intellectual History, Gastronomica, Meatpaper and other publications, and several books are in the works. Ben also tweets as @benwurgaft<https://twitter.com/benwurgaft>. Harriet Ritvo<http://history.mit.edu/people/harriet-ritvo>, HASTS faculty Harriet Ritvo teaches courses in British history, environmental history, the history of human-animal relations, and the history of natural history. She is the author of The Dawn of Green: Manchester, Thirlmere, and Modern Environmentalism<http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/D/bo5764147.html> (Chicago UP, 2009), The Platypus and the Mermaid, and Other Figments of the Classifying Imagination<http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674673588> (Harvard UP, 1997), The Animal Estate: The English and Other Creatures in the Victorian Age<http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674037076> (Harvard UP, 1987), and Noble Cows and Hybrid Zebras: Essays on Animals and History<http://books.upress.virginia.edu/detail%2Fbooks%2Fgroup-4121.xml> (Virginia, 2010); she is also the co-editor of Macropolitics of Nineteenth-Century Literature: Nationalism, Imperialism, Exoticism<https://www.dukeupress.edu/Macropolitics-of-Nineteenth-Century-Literature/i…> (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1991), and the editor of Charles Darwin's The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication<http://www.amazon.ca/Variation-Animals-Plants-Under-Domestication/dp/080185…> (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998). Her articles and reviews on British cultural history, environmental history, and the history of human-animal relations have appeared in a wide range of periodicals, including The London Review of Books, Science, Daedalus, The American Scholar, Technology Review, and The New York Review of Books, as well as scholarly journals in several fields. Harriet also tweets as @HRitvo<https://twitter.com/HRitvo>. Diane Greco Josefowicz<http://www.bu.edu/writingprogram/people/writing-program-faculty/diane-greco…>, HASTS alum Diane Greco Josefowicz cowrote The Zodiac of Paris<http://press.princeton.edu/titles/9147.html> (Princeton UP, 2010) with Jed Z. Buchwald, an account of the fortunes of an ancient, Egyptian bas-relief ceiling smuggled into nineteenth-century Paris where it caused a controversy between scientists and religious fundamentalists. The author of the pioneering Cyborg Web, she worked for many years as an editor at Eastgate Systems, the premier hypertext publisher in the United States. Her award-winning fiction, essays and articles have appeared in national publications such as Conjunctions, Fence, and Poets & Writers Magazine, and her scholarly articles and reviews appear regularly in Isis and Perspectives on Science, among others. She is the Science and Technology editor of The Victorian Web<http://www.victorianweb.org>, and teaches in the Undergraduate Writing Program at Boston University. Diane also tweets as @dianegreco<https://twitter.com/dianegreco>. Curious what project hosts were tweeting about in September? Then check out these curations to read the tweets of a particular host from beginning to end: September collections Mitali Thakor: https://storify.com/HASTS_MIT/hasts-mit-mitali-thakor Ian Condry: https://storify.com/HASTS_MIT/hasts-mit-ian-condry Amy Johnson: https://storify.com/HASTS_MIT/hasts-mit-amy-johnson Wade Roush: https://storify.com/HASTS_MIT/hasts-mit-wade-roush Lan Li: https://storify.com/HASTS_MIT/hasts-mit-lan-li --- Amy Johnson PhD candidate<http://web.mit.edu/hasts/graduate/johnson.html>, MIT HASTS Berkman Center for Internet & Society<http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/people/ajohnson>, Harvard Keio International Project for Internet & Society<http://kipis.sfc.keio.ac.jp/people/amy-johnson/>, Keio University @shrapnelofme<https://twitter.com/shrapnelofme>

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Re: [Air-L] On the aesthetics and politics of #Dronies
by Elisenda Ardèvol 08 Oct '14

08 Oct '14

Drones for art: Video: Cirque du Soleil Does Its Thing… With Drones http://techcrunch.com/2014/09/23/video-cirque-du-soleil-does-its-thing-with… On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 2:41 AM, Elizabeth Anne Watkins < writetowatkins(a)gmail.com> wrote: > If anyone is interested, the MIT Art, Culture and Technology program is > having a public lecture on drones tomorrow, Monday the 22nd: > > Dronological: The Art and Science of Unmanned Systems > > > > *Marko Peljhan*: Artist, Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies at UC Santa > Barbara, and Director of Systemics Lab, MAT/ART, UC Santa Barbara > > Unmanned aircraft systems have recently been rediscovered due to their use > in the so-called “war on terror,” but are an invention more than 100 years > old. The lecture will explore the histories and interconnectedness of these > systems with geopolitical, scientific, techno-social, tactical media and > conceptual contexts. It will also present cases of their real and imagined > appearances, uses, and disappearances in order to track the potential > future vectors of utilization and concurrent reflection. > > > http://act.mit.edu/projects-and-events/lectures-series/2014-fall/sept-22-ma… > > On Sat, Sep 20, 2014 at 4:53 PM, Kyle Kontour <kkontour(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > > Two things that occur to me that are alternative explanations, which also > > require more field work: > > > > 1. A unique aspect of the aesthetics of the drone camera is how it > mimics > > how we imagine personal flight to be (i.e. if humans had wings): it's > much > > more immanent and intimate than airplane flight given the combination of > > slow speed and low level altitude in most of these videos. > > > > 2. There is the obvious political aspect of "populist" drone use that > is a > > direct challenge to its use by police, military, and other government > > organizations, which the author mentions. But I wonder if there is also > > the old politics of the scamp coming through, by which I mean, drones are > > used to unnerve people or disrupt things, which may or may not be overtly > > political per se, and are instead done for the drone user's happy mayhem. > > The mere presence of a drone controlled by "just anyone" inherently calls > > into question the use of drones in general. > > > > On Sat, Sep 20, 2014 at 11:57 AM, Daniel Kunzelmann < > > kunzelmann.daniel(a)yahoo.de> wrote: > > > > > Used for surveillance, drones hunt or kill. But could their air power > > also > > > be understood as cultural capital? http://transformations-blog. > > > com/would-you-mind-my-drone-taking-a-picture-of-us-2/ > > > _______________________________________________ > > > The Air-L(a)listserv.aoir.org mailing list > > > is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org > > > Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/ > > > listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org > > > > > > Join the Association of Internet Researchers: > > > http://www.aoir.org/ > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > The Air-L(a)listserv.aoir.org mailing list > > is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org > > Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: > > http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org > > > > Join the Association of Internet Researchers: > > http://www.aoir.org/ > > > _______________________________________________ > The Air-L(a)listserv.aoir.org mailing list > is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org > Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: > http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org > > Join the Association of Internet Researchers: > http://www.aoir.org/ > -- Elisenda Ardevol Professora Agregada Estudis d'Arts i Humanitats Universitat Oberta de Catalunya UOC Associate Professor IN3 Researcher mediaccions digital culture reserach group http://mediaccions.net Aquest missatge s'adreça exclusivament al seu destinatari. Este mensaje es para uso exclusivo del destinatario. This email is only for the receiver's eyes. Abans d'imprimir, penseu en el medi ambient. Antes de imprimir, piensa en el medio ambiente. Before printing, consider the environment.

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Re: [Air-L] Give your input to JMCQ and get 30% Sage book discount
by Louisa Shu Ying Ha 08 Oct '14

08 Oct '14

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First Monday special issue: Napster, 15 years on
by Andrew Whelan 08 Oct '14

08 Oct '14

Hello AoIR-ists, Some of you might be interested in the special issue of First Monday released earlier this week, 'Rethinking Digital Music Distribution'. The issue marks 15 years since the advent of the file-sharing platform Napster: *http://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/issue/view/427 <http://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/issue/view/427>*. Best, Andrew

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IS-EUD 2015 Call for Participation
by Patrick Shih 07 Oct '14

07 Oct '14

[Apologies for cross-postings. Please send to interested colleagues and students] IS-EUD 2015 CALL FOR PARTICIPATION http://www.iseud.net/ ********************************************************************* 5th Symposium on End User Development: My world, my device, my program Madrid, 26-29 May 2014 ********************************************************************* * THEME * In an increasingly connected world, we use computer technology in more and more of our work practices and everyday routines. End users face the challenge of adapting and combining these devices and technologies for their potentially various and differing purposes, and engage in creative, often collaborative, activities to make the infrastructures fit their practice. End-user development has established itself as a research discipline that connects the ergonomics of programming with the users’ needs and abilities to shape the technological infrastructures they live in. The research does not aim at making everybody a programmer, but at allowing everybody to be in control of the technologies they live and work with at a degree of complexity of their choice. This includes improving the concepts and interfaces for programming and configuration as well as supporting end users in their activities to share, delegate and collaborate. The IS-EUD 2015 in Madrid welcomes researchers and practitioners interested in exploring innovative, creative, simpler and more empowered ways of ideating, infrastructuring, configuring, adapting and programming our modern IT infrastructures at home and at work. We look at devices like smartphones, dishwashers, smart TVs, robots, cars, wearable IT, houses and laptops, and we look at practices and milieus like engineering, shopfloor, hackspaces, fab labs, app programming, e-health, e-mobility, e-democracy and energy efficient IT, and aim at improving tools, interfaces, processes and methods that support user-driven innovation. The conference welcomes contributions that − describe new, simple and efficient interfaces for adaptation and programming, − describe new approaches for more flexible software and device architectures, − describe new processes and methods to approach complex scenarios of infrastructuring, − present studies and design implications on challenges and practices of end user development and user creativity. In this edition we aim at opening the conference to the end users with a new category of contributions called the EUD playground where a plethora of interactive activities can be planned, from studios, to hackatons, to whatever format that invites end users to try out technologies devised for them. * SCOPE AND TOPICS * Authors are invited to submit manuscripts of original unpublished work in all areas related to EUD. Long papers may address work on cognitive and design aspects, underlying theories, formal methods, taxonomies, implementation efforts, tool support, and empirical studies. Short papers that present work in progress or demonstrations of tools are also solicited. Specific topics addressed include (but are not limited to) the following ones: − EUD in everyday life − EUD in specific fields of application − Device ecologies to enable EUD activities − EUD methodologies and approaches − End user participation in Co-Design and Co-Production of software − Supporting collaboration in EUD settings − EUD technologies, frameworks and tools − Recommender systems to support EUD − Collaborative Software Development − Cultures of Participation and Meta-design − EUD and Open Source − Web 2.0 and mash-up technologies enabling EUD − Strategies to foster EUD in software development companies − EUD cost-benefit models − EUD and crowdsourcing − EUD for supporting device sustainability − Usability and UX evaluation of EUD systems * LONG AND SHORT PAPERS * We invite two different types of paper submissions: (a) long papers, up to 16 pages, describing original unpublished research; (b) short papers, up to 6 pages, describing original unpublished research, whose results are more preliminary or less validated than for long papers. All submissions will be reviewed by the Program Committee. Accepted papers (both long and short) will appear in the proceedings of IS-EUD 2015, published by Springer as Lecture Notes on Computer Science (LNCS). Short papers will be presented at the conference as poster or live demo in a specific session. Submission The review process is double-blind, thus submissions must be anonymized. Papers must be carefully formatted according to the Springer LNCS format (http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0) Paper title, authors and affiliations, abstract and keywords/topics, must be submitted by December 15, 2014 to aid in reviewer assignments. Authors may submit and update their submission through the EasyChair system (http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iseud2015) until the paper submission deadline. Important dates − Abstract submission: December 15, 2014 − Paper submission: December 22, 2014 − Notification: February 20, 2015 − Camera-ready: March 9, 2015 * WORK-IN-PROGRESS * Work-in-progress (WIP) submissions are intended for presenting preliminary results. The authors of accepted contributions will have the opportunity to display a poster and explain their work to other conference attendees during the conference. Accepted Work-in-progress contributions will be published in a dedicated issue of the “International Reports on Socio-Informatics” series and will be available online at http://irsi.iisi.de. The issue has its own ISSN. Submission Authors may submit and update their contribution (up to 4 pages) through the EasyChair system (http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iseud2015) until the deadline. Important dates − Submission: March 6, 2015 − Notification: March 20, 2015 − Camera-ready: March 27, 2015 * EUD-PLAYGROUND * This year, IS-EUD invites proposal for hands-on sessions to be held in parallel tracks, as part of the main conference program, on the afternoon of Thursday, May 28th, 2015. The “End-Users’ Playground” will be open to the general public, thus offering a unique scenario in which (a) wider categories of the public will create, modify and extend technologies with the tools researchers have developed for their needs and (b) researchers can obtain feedback directly from end users. The Playground aims at inspiring new perspectives on the field of End-User Development. It will be an excellent opportunity for organizers to share their tools with other researchers and to engage the end-users at the same time, in order to broaden the scope of their research practices. A successful Playground activity, therefore, will offer direct hands-on experiences with new and cutting-edge end-user development technologies, both for conference attendees and non-professionals. Playground activities should accommodate a maximum of 20 participants each, with a minimum of 5 participants required to run the activity and they are open to anyone (conference attendees and the general public). Each activity will last a maximum of 4 hours. For each Playground activity, we request a short proposal (up to 4 pages). Accepted proposals will be published in the Conference Proceedings. Organizers are also strongly encouraged to arrange for posterior publications of a Playground activity’s output. Submission guidelines Submit a proposal formatted according according to the Springer LNCS format (http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0) The proposal should be structured accorded to the following: 1. Abstract (150 words maximum) 2. Topics to be covered and their relevance to the EUD community 3. Detailed description of the planned hands-on activity (e.g., how the tool will be introduced to the participants, a scenario of the activity in text or in visual format, a tasks list, a description of the organization of participants in the groups, etc.). You may include diagrams or screenshots if relevant. 4. Objectives and learning goals for the activity 5. Supporting documentation (e.g., project website) 6. References Please add an additional page in which you indicate: 1. Short biographical statement(s) of organizer(s) 2. Cost of material and hardware, if any (per participant, with list of individual items) 3. Logistics requirements: space, equipment, video/audio, specialized tools, etc. 4. Selection criteria and expected number of participants 5. Expected length (up to 4 hours) Submission Organizers may submit and update their proposal through the EasyChair system (http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iseud2015) until the proposal submission deadline. Important dates − Proposal: January 26, 2015 − Notification: February 28, 2015 − Camera-ready: March 9, 2015 * WORKSHOPS * High quality workshops, aligned to the themes of the conference, provide an informal setting where participants have the opportunity to discuss specific topics in an atmosphere that fosters the active exchange of ideas. Submission Workshop proposals (up to 4 pages) must be carefully formatted using the Springer LNCS format (http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0) Workshop organizers may submit and update their workshop proposal through the EasyChair system (http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iseud2015) until the deadline. Important dates − Proposal: January 26, 2015 − Notification: February 9, 2015 − Camera-ready: March 9, 2015 − Workshops date: May 26, 2015 * DOCTORAL CONSORTIUM * The IS-EUD Doctoral Consortium is intended to bring together PhD students working on theory and application of EUD. We particularly encourage students that are somewhere in the middle of their research to submit to this workshop. Submission Applications to the Doctoral Consortium (up to 4 pages) must be carefully formatted the Springer LNCS format (http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0) Authors may submit and update their submission through the EasyChair system (http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iseud2015) until the submission deadline. Important dates − Submission: January 15, 2015 − Notification: February 28, 2015 − Camera-ready: March 9, 2015 * VENUE * The Symposium will take place at Media-Lab Prado and the Leganés Campus of Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. The Workshops and the Doctoral Consortium will be held at the University Campus in Leganés, a city in the south of Madrid connected through public transportation to the city center (see location http://goo.gl/maps/ePQLV) The main track of the conference including the Playground will take place at Media-Lab Prado in Madrid downtown (see location at http://goo.gl/maps/OgFTF) * ORGANIZERS * Conference chairs − Paloma Diaz, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain − Volkmar Pipek, Siegen University, Germany Program chairs (Full Papers) − Carmelo Ardito, University of Bari, Italy − Carlos Jensen, Oregon State University, US Program chairs (Short Papers) − Ignacio Aedo, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain − Alexander Boden, Fraunhofer FIT, Germany EUD-Playground chairs − Andrea Bellucci, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain − Lily Diaz, Aalto University, Finland − Monica Maceli, Drexel University, US Industrial Liaison chairs − Marcos García, MediaLab-Prado, Spain − Alex Jaimes Larrate, Yahoo Labs, US/Spain/India − Boris De Ruyter, Philips Research Europe, The Netherlands Workshop chairs − Daniela Fogli, University of Brescia, Italy − Yvonne Dittrich, IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark Doctoral Consortium chairs − Clarisse de Souza, PUC-Rio, Brazil − Panos Markopoulos, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands − Simone Stumpf, City University London, UK Publicity chairs − Patrick Shih, Pennsylvania State University, US − Teresa Onorati, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain Local arrangement chair − Telmo Zarraonandia, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain * STEERING COMMITTEE * − Margaret Burnett, Oregon State University, US − Maria Francesca Costabile, University of Bari, Italy − Boris De‎ Ruyter, Philips Research Europe, The Netherlands − Yvonne Dittrich, IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark − Gerhard Fischer, University of Colorado, US − Anders Mørch, University of Oslo, Norway − Antonio Piccinno, University of Bari, Italy − Volkmar Pipek, Siegen University, Germany − Mary Beth Rosson, Pennsylvania State University, US − David Redmiles, University of California, US − Gunnar Stevens, Siegen University, Germany − Volker Wulf, Siegen University, Germany For more information, look at http://www.iseud.net/ ________________________________________________________ Dr. Patrick C. Shih College of Information Sciences and Technology The Pennsylvania State University ________________________________________________________

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