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FW: [MCJ] CFP: M/C Journal 'counterculture' Issue
by Axel Bruns 10 Aug '14

10 Aug '14

G'day ! This may be of interest to some of you: > -----Original Message----- > From: Axel Bruns [mailto:editor@media-culture.org.au] > Sent: Monday, 11 August 2014 9:44 > To: Axel Bruns > Subject: [MCJ] CFP: M/C Journal 'counterculture' Issue FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - 11 Aug. 2014 M/C - Media and Culture http://www.media-culture.org.au/ is calling for contributors to the 'counterculture' issue of M/C Journal http://journal.media-culture.org.au/ M/C Journal is inviting new contributors. Founded in 1998, M/C is a crossover journal between the popular and the academic, and a blind- and peer-reviewed journal. Our Website at http://journal.media-culture.org.au/ provides open access to all past issues. To find out how and in what format to contribute your work, visit http://journal.media-culture.org.au/index.php/mcjournal/about/submissions. Call for Papers: 'counterculture' Edited by Rob Garbutt, Jacqueline Dutton, and Johanna Kijas The seeds of the global counterculture sprouted in the 1960s, flourished into the 1970s and for some the counterculture continues to frame their daily lives. Its challenge to the functionalist culture characterised by formal education, career, marriage and mortgage yielded a range of experiments, some failures and short-lived and others long-lasting and now almost mainstream. Whatever the outcome, the intent was not one possible future for one's life but a future of possibilities, along with a commitment to social and environmental sustainability. The counterculture was, therefore, intensely biopolitical in the sense that it was and is a politics of life, one's own life and life on planet earth more generally. The counterculture was also contested from the beginning. The "counter" has been absorbed into consumer culture and commodified with ease. The love of transgression often saw the politics of power-relations overlooked. And despite being "counter", a relationship with the "mainstream" has always been necessary. In the 1970s and 80s, the counterculture was alive in academic discussions, but recently it has been relatively dormant. This issue is designed to stimulate reflection and discussion of the counterculture in Australia and beyond. Areas of investigation may include, but are not limited to: * indigenous peoples and the counterculture * urban and rural countercultures * countercultural festivals * back to the land movements * utopian experiments * media and the counterculture * alternative: food, medicine, energy, architecture, childbirth, spirituality, sexuality, lifestyles … * the mainstream and the counterculture * contemporary manifestations of the counterculture * intentional communities * the counterculture and consumption * competition, cooperation and the counterculture * global and peripheral countercultures * the "counter" in counterculture * the counterculture and environmental movements * hippies Prospective contributors should email an abstract of 100-250 words and a brief biography to the issue editors. Abstracts should include the article title and should describe your research question, approach, and argument. Biographies should be about three sentences (maximum 75 words) and should include your institutional affiliation and research interests. Articles should be 3000 words (plus bibliography). All articles will be refereed and must adhere to MLA style (6th edition). Please send any enquiries to counterculture(a)journal.media-culture.org.au. All articles must be submitted through the M/C Journal site. Article deadline: 10 Oct. 2014 Issue release date: 10 Dec. 2014 M/C Journal was founded (as "M/C - A Journal of Media and Culture") in 1998 as a place of public intellectualism analysing and critiquing the meeting of media and culture. Contributors are directed to past issues of M/C Journal for examples of style and content, and to the submissions page for comprehensive article submission guidelines. M/C Journal articles are blind peer-reviewed. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Further M/C Journal issues scheduled for 2014: 'gothic': article deadline 20 June 2014, release date 20 Aug. 2014 'illegitimate': article deadline 15 Aug. 2014, release date 15 Oct. 2014 'counterculture': article deadline 10 Oct. 2014, release date 10 Dec. 2014 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- M/C - Media and Culture is located at <http://www.media-culture.org.au/>. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- M/C Journal is online at <http://journal.media-culture.org.au/>. All past issues of M/C Journal on various topics are available there. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- end Dr Axel Bruns -- General Editor editor(a)media-culture.org.au M/C - Media and Culture http://www.media-culture.org.au/

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AoIR Book Award
by Kendall, Lori 10 Aug '14

10 Aug '14

I am delighted to announce two things concerning the AoIR book award. First, in light of her generous and various contributions to the Association of Internet Researchers, we are naming our book award for Nancy Baym. Second, I would like to announce that the 2014 Nancy Baym Annual Book Award will go to Dr. Mark Andrejevic for "Infoglut: How Too Much Information is Changing What We Think and Know" (Routledge). The following is from this year’s book award committee, Andrew Herman (chair), Jean Burgess, and Susanna Paasonen: “In a year when the committee was blessed with a cornucopia of many fine books that were well worth reading, the members were unanimous and unambiguously enthusiastic in their decision to give the award to Dr. Andrejevic’s book. The book’s virtues are many, but the committee was particularly impressed by the nuanced theoretical sophistication, analytical originality, rhetorical clarity, and political commitment that Dr. Andrejevic brought to bear on the extremely important and timely issue of “big data” in a variety of forms and practices. There are, no doubt, many books being written at this moment on the topic of big data, but we feel that Infloglut will help set the theoretical agenda for critical internet scholars working in this area for some time to come.” As part of the award, we look forward to a featured presentation by Dr. Andrejevic at IR15 in Daegu in October. Meanwhile, please join me in congratulating him on his award! Lori Kendall AoIR President

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Drone selfies, a Google challenge and the horrors of visuality: Photomediations Machine
by Joanna Zylinska 08 Aug '14

08 Aug '14

We have the pleasure to announce eight new contributions to the curated online space Photomediations Machine: http://www.photomediationsmachine.net - IOCOSE investigate what a drone would do if war and terror were over: http://photomediationsmachine.net/2014/08/06/drone-selfies/ - Jack Carvosso’s images of spontaneous feats of balance cast a new light on the everyday: http://photomediationsmachine.net/2014/08/06/sorry-i-was-miles-away/ - Google takes on the challenge to respond to artist Guido Segni’s 'Pics or it didn't happen' request: http://photomediationsmachine.net/2014/08/06/pics-or-it-didnt-happen/ - The visual corruption of the idea of Terra Australis by Perth-based artist Mike Gray: http://photomediationsmachine.net/2014/07/31/corrupt/ - An investigation of how science and art have attempted to capture human thought in images: http://photomediationsmachine.net/2014/06/30/digital-thought-imaging/ - Pasi Väliaho’s video essay explores a secret behind a photograph from a concentration camp: http://photomediationsmachine.net/2014/06/30/stills-from-a-film-that-was-ne… - An artist 'grows' images in a petri dish, using liquid colours and materials: http://photomediationsmachine.net/2014/06/30/the-petri-dish-project/ - Rob Coley argues that current mechanisms of omnipresent control demand a new study of visuality: http://photomediationsmachine.net/2014/06/30/the-horrors-of-visuality/ ************************************************ 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 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

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re porn, rights, emancipation course
by Sandra Braman 08 Aug '14

08 Aug '14

Charles, Patrick Burkart's book PIRATE POLITICS (MIT Press 2014), on the Pirate Party, might provide a good course reading for its unique look at how what started as copyright battles turned into an actual political party active at the European Union level precisely because those involved took a liberatory stance towards their rights. Sounds like a great class; thanks for sharing so much detail about it. One could actually address much, if not all, of communication law through the lens of pornography. You could find cases involving not only what you've listed so far, but also defamation, antitrust, and so on. The dimension of pornography that makes it particularly valuable as a focus for a course encouraging people to think about their communication rights from a liberation perspective is that, in US law at least, "community standards" are relied upon to determine when something should be considered unacceptably obscene rather than acceptably pornographic for adults. It is thus the one opening in the law for discussion of how to determine just what a speech community should be deemed to be and for the rights of what we might think of as speech communities. It would be great to see someone fully develop that side of pornography law through the kind of lenses you are using in this course. The other issue worth looking at re porn would be not just the jurisdictional problem when it comes to what happens online (which country's laws should govern), but the fact that so much of the law is becoming globalized itself. When laws are harmonized, which can happen through many different kinds of processes, they become like each other across state lines irrespective of differences in national legal systems or political forms. To what extent has pornography law become globalized? Don't know if anyone has addressed that question yet, but one would expect this area of communication law to be among those most resistant to globalization because cultural differences here are so profound. Sandra Braman

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Re: [Air-L] request for suggestions - Internet regulation vis-a-vis pornography / privacy etc.
by Nathan Fisk 07 Aug '14

07 Aug '14

Hello Charles, For an easier/shorter/supplemental read, I would suggest chapter 8 out of Kimmel’s “Guyland” (Kimmel, M. S. (2008). Guyland: the perilous world where boys become men. New York: Harper.). He does a good job of setting up pornography consumption as a performance of masculinity for (white, college educated) 18-24 year olds. Softcore/lad magazines (Maxim, Sports Illustrated) become a form of reassurance, violent pornography becomes a form of compensation/revenge fantasy in the wake of civil rights movements. More generally, he notes the ways in which different demographic groups consume pornography for different, and culturally situated reasons. Has sparked a number of uncomfortable and interesting discussion in my undergraduate courses. -Nate Fisk On Aug 7, 2014, at 6:00 PM, air-l-request(a)listserv.aoir.org wrote: > Send Air-L mailing list submissions to > air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > air-l-request(a)listserv.aoir.org > > You can reach the person managing the list at > air-l-owner(a)listserv.aoir.org > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of Air-L digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. request for suggestions - Internet regulation vis-a-vis > pornography / privacy etc. (Charles Ess) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Thu, 07 Aug 2014 12:49:04 +0200 > From: Charles Ess <charles.ess(a)gmail.com> > To: Air list <air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org> > Subject: [Air-L] request for suggestions - Internet regulation > vis-a-vis pornography / privacy etc. > Message-ID: <D0092640.9F36A%charles.ess(a)gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" > > Dear all, > > I teach a MA course titled "Pornography, Protection, Power" which is > centrally focused on questions of who / what _should_/_could_ (both huge > questions, of course) attempt to regulate Internet-facilitated > communication vis-a-vis _possible_ limits to free expression, e.g., > pornography, libel, "clear and present danger" tests in the U.S. > (especially since 9/11), and so on (and, rest assured, with a thousand > historical / cultural / political caveats). > > As I've come to structure the course, I focus on the theme of emancipation > as a core norm - one that underlies primary justifications of democratic > polity and correlative norms of equality, privacy, and freedom of > expression (among others). The course includes: > > A) a good dose of readings on pornography - as a "classical" limit on > freedom of expression - including diverse cultural and historical > observations, with a particular focus on the now long debate over porn as > legitimately protected either free expression and/or as emancipatory in > its own right; > > B) a good dose of readings on democratic polity, with specific attention > to the central importance of freedom of expression for both individual > self-development and democratic debate and processes more broadly; > a particular focus here is on the rights of children in all of this, as > brilliantly exposited by my colleague Elisabeth Staksrud in her _Children > in the Online World: Risk, Regulation, Rights_ (2013); > > C) a very strong dose of readings (primarily from Mansell and Raboy, The > Handbook of Global Media and Communication Policy) on the history of > efforts (initially in "Western" countries) to regulate communication > media, beginning with print - and highlighting the contrasts between such > efforts as new media technologies emerge, beginning with the telegraph and > telephone / broadcast media / and then the rise of the Internet as > challenging / blurring earlier definitions and regimes; > > D) a large theme here is the broad shift, starting ca. 1970s away from > national-state centered support and control of broadcast media (especially > in the European and Scandinavian contexts with their strong traditions of > public service broadcasting) towards neo-liberal de/re-regulation of media > - leading to an ever increasing ownership and control of media by private > companies and multinational corporations, with Google, Apple, Facebook, > and others as the primary / usual suspects; > > E) some readings on copyright, copying, and creativity (where efforts to > define and protect patents and copyright inspire [largely futile] efforts > to regulate / control file-sharing, etc.); and > > F) a small unit on "liberation technology," as reflected in contemporary > work on circumventing state censorship of the Internet in any number of > countries (using Walid Al-Saqaf's _alkasir_ software as a primary example > from the Arabic-speaking world). > > WHAT I'M ASKING HELP WITH ... > 1) any additional readings that you might suggest, as either primary or > optional? > For example, in the direction of policy readings, I've been working > through Sandra Braman's _Change of State: Information, Policy, and Power_ > (MIT: 2012), which is just terrific, especially for articulating the U.S. > side of things, and will add some selections to supplant the current > readings as more E.U./Scandinavian-oriented. But I'm sure more good > material is "out there" to be considered > > 2) suggestions for case-studies, especially suited for in-class debate? > For example, I am thinking of beginning with Facebook - both the recent > study on 600,000+ users, coupled with the upcoming class-action lawsuit > spearheaded by the Austrian law student Max Schrems. The idea is to call > attention to a current, real-world conflict between (perceived) users' > rights (as articulated and, ideally, defended by liberal-democratic > regimes) and corporately-owned Internet-based communication venues. So > specific resources here would be helpful - > As would suggestions for other case-studies that would be suited > especially for in-class analysis, discussion, and debate. > Edward Snowden's case is an obvious candidate, along with Wiki-leaks - > again, useful resources would be appreciated - > But I'm sure there are other, more country-specific cases that would be > very pertinent and lively for the students. > > With a thousand thanks in advance for reading this far and for any > suggestions you may have to offer - > > - charles ess > Professor in Media Studies > Department of Media and Communication > Director, Centre for Research on Media Innovations > <http://www.hf.uio.no/imk/english/research/center/media-innovations/> > Editor, The Journal of Media Innovations > <https://www.journals.uio.no/index.php/TJMI/> > > My latest book, Digital Media Ethics, is now available from Polity: > http://www.politybooks.com/book.asp?ref=0745656056 > > University of Oslo > P.O. Box 1093 Blindern > NO-0317 > Oslo Norway > email: charles.ess(a)media.uio.no > > > > > ------------------------------ > > Subject: Digest Footer > > _______________________________________________ > 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/ > > ------------------------------ > > End of Air-L Digest, Vol 121, Issue 8 > ************************************* >

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request for suggestions - Internet regulation vis-a-vis pornography / privacy etc.
by Charles Ess 07 Aug '14

07 Aug '14

Dear all, I teach a MA course titled "Pornography, Protection, Power" which is centrally focused on questions of who / what _should_/_could_ (both huge questions, of course) attempt to regulate Internet-facilitated communication vis-a-vis _possible_ limits to free expression, e.g., pornography, libel, "clear and present danger" tests in the U.S. (especially since 9/11), and so on (and, rest assured, with a thousand historical / cultural / political caveats). As I've come to structure the course, I focus on the theme of emancipation as a core norm - one that underlies primary justifications of democratic polity and correlative norms of equality, privacy, and freedom of expression (among others). The course includes: A) a good dose of readings on pornography - as a "classical" limit on freedom of expression - including diverse cultural and historical observations, with a particular focus on the now long debate over porn as legitimately protected either free expression and/or as emancipatory in its own right; B) a good dose of readings on democratic polity, with specific attention to the central importance of freedom of expression for both individual self-development and democratic debate and processes more broadly; a particular focus here is on the rights of children in all of this, as brilliantly exposited by my colleague Elisabeth Staksrud in her _Children in the Online World: Risk, Regulation, Rights_ (2013); C) a very strong dose of readings (primarily from Mansell and Raboy, The Handbook of Global Media and Communication Policy) on the history of efforts (initially in "Western" countries) to regulate communication media, beginning with print - and highlighting the contrasts between such efforts as new media technologies emerge, beginning with the telegraph and telephone / broadcast media / and then the rise of the Internet as challenging / blurring earlier definitions and regimes; D) a large theme here is the broad shift, starting ca. 1970s away from national-state centered support and control of broadcast media (especially in the European and Scandinavian contexts with their strong traditions of public service broadcasting) towards neo-liberal de/re-regulation of media - leading to an ever increasing ownership and control of media by private companies and multinational corporations, with Google, Apple, Facebook, and others as the primary / usual suspects; E) some readings on copyright, copying, and creativity (where efforts to define and protect patents and copyright inspire [largely futile] efforts to regulate / control file-sharing, etc.); and F) a small unit on "liberation technology," as reflected in contemporary work on circumventing state censorship of the Internet in any number of countries (using Walid Al-Saqaf's _alkasir_ software as a primary example from the Arabic-speaking world). WHAT I'M ASKING HELP WITH ... 1) any additional readings that you might suggest, as either primary or optional? For example, in the direction of policy readings, I've been working through Sandra Braman's _Change of State: Information, Policy, and Power_ (MIT: 2012), which is just terrific, especially for articulating the U.S. side of things, and will add some selections to supplant the current readings as more E.U./Scandinavian-oriented. But I'm sure more good material is "out there" to be considered 2) suggestions for case-studies, especially suited for in-class debate? For example, I am thinking of beginning with Facebook - both the recent study on 600,000+ users, coupled with the upcoming class-action lawsuit spearheaded by the Austrian law student Max Schrems. The idea is to call attention to a current, real-world conflict between (perceived) users' rights (as articulated and, ideally, defended by liberal-democratic regimes) and corporately-owned Internet-based communication venues. So specific resources here would be helpful - As would suggestions for other case-studies that would be suited especially for in-class analysis, discussion, and debate. Edward Snowden's case is an obvious candidate, along with Wiki-leaks - again, useful resources would be appreciated - But I'm sure there are other, more country-specific cases that would be very pertinent and lively for the students. With a thousand thanks in advance for reading this far and for any suggestions you may have to offer - - charles ess Professor in Media Studies Department of Media and Communication Director, Centre for Research on Media Innovations <http://www.hf.uio.no/imk/english/research/center/media-innovations/> Editor, The Journal of Media Innovations <https://www.journals.uio.no/index.php/TJMI/> My latest book, Digital Media Ethics, is now available from Polity: http://www.politybooks.com/book.asp?ref=0745656056 University of Oslo P.O. Box 1093 Blindern NO-0317 Oslo Norway email: charles.ess(a)media.uio.no

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Call for Chapter, Book on Video Game Sex and Sexuality
by Matthew Wy. 06 Aug '14

06 Aug '14

Call for Completed Chapter, Book Project on Video Games Rated M for Mature: Sex and Sexuality in Video Games We are looking for a single completed chapter for our edited collection. We have a signed contract with a publisher and a delivery date of January of 2015 but have lost one of our submissions due to unforeseen circumstances. So we need to replace it with a completed or mostly completed submission. The focus of the collection, as can be seen in the title, is Sex and Sexuality in Video Games. Our three sections: The (R)Evolution of Video Games and Sex - Chapters on the history of sex and sexuality in video games, including censorship, translation, and production Video Games and Sexual (Dis)Embodiment - Analyses of the body, player interaction, and sexual identity and performance in gameplay Systems/Spaces of Sexual (Im)Possibilities - Analyses and close-readings of game spaces and mechanics, with attention to sexuality and sex as mechanics, representative features, or spatial dimensions of play" If you have something you feel would fit in with one of these themes, please send it along with a short author(s) bio to Matthew Wysocki (mwysocki(a)flagler.edu) or Evan W. Lauteria (ewlauteria(a)ucdavis.edu) We are looking for submission around 5600 words.

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Readings on theory of science for communication and computing..
by Taina Bucher 06 Aug '14

06 Aug '14

Dear AoIRists, I'm looking for some readings for an undergraduate class on the theory of science in communication and IT. I am particularly looking for readings that concern the disciplinary overlaps, differences and boundaries between media and communications and computer science. Does anyone have any ideas/suggestions for articles or chapters dealing with the interdisciplinary opportunities and challenges between these fields from a philosophy of science perspective? Some context on the course and study programme: The syllabus already contains some basic philosophy of science (logical positivism, critical rationalism, critical realism etc), communication theory as a field, traditions of computing, and some STS. The course is part of the BA in Communication and IT, an interdisciplinary programme between the Humanities (media and communications) and Computer science (HCI, CSCW). The readings I'm looking for would be for the very last class, which aims to offer some kind of synthesis and alternative perspectives on the theory of science in communication and IT. Many thanks! -- Taina Bucher Assistant Professor Centre for Communication and Computing Department of Media, Cognition, and Communication University of Copenhagen Karen Blixensvej 4 DK-2300 Copenhagen S

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Open Data on Net Neutrality
by Shulman, Stu 06 Aug '14

06 Aug '14

Yesterday the FCC released the public comments on Net Neutrality: http://www.fcc.gov/files/ecfs/14-28/ecfs-files.htm The FCC has asked the public to help make "visualizations" to help find the substantive comments and surface key themes: http://www.fcc.gov/blog/fcc-makes-open-internet-comments-more-accessible-pu… Quoting the FCC: "We recognize that not everyone may have the requisite technical skills to build visualizations and analyze raw XML data. (Members of the public will, of course, still have the option of reviewing and searching the record via ECFS). However, we’re hoping that those who do have the technical know-how will develop and share these tools for the public to use." Texifter has tools to allow anyone not versed in raw XML extraction to search and code this data, among other things, then export the results as a CSV file, including the relevant metadata. We have loaded the data and started a project using DiscoverText, which was built specifically for crowd-source public comment review by US federal agencies. We invite you to join our collaborative, web-based effort to find substantive comments and visualize what the public said about Net Neutrality. You can work directly with me and others to crowd source the review of the non-duplicate comments, or you can conduct your own parallel project with the same data. To get involved, sign up for the free trial DiscoverText account and note in the comment box that you want to work with the FCC data. https://app.discovertext.com/Home/SignupContactTrial You might be interested in these preliminary stats based on what we downloaded yesterday: + 446,667 items posted to the FCC web site + 300,172 items after de-duplication + The largest group of exact duplicates is 105,320 identical items that say: "Net neutrality is the First Amendment of the Internet, the principle that Internet service providers (ISPs) treat all data equally. As an Internet user, net neutrality is vitally important to me. The FCC should use its Title II authority to protect it. Most Americans have only one choice for truly high speed Internet: their local cable company. This is a political failure, and it is an embarrassment. America deserves competition and choice. Without net neutrality, a bad situation gets even worse. These ISPs will now be able to manipulate our Internet experience by speeding up some services and slowing down others. That kills choice, diversity, and quality. It also causes tremendous economic harm. If ISPs can speed up favored services and slow others, new businesses will no longer be able to rely on a level playing field. When ISPs can slow your site and destroy your business at will, how can any startup attract investors? My friends, family, and I use the Internet for conversation and fun, but also for work and business. When you let ISPs mess with our Internet experience, you are attacking our social lives, our entertainment, and our economic well being. We won'tstand for it. ISPs are opposing Title II so that they can destroy the FCC's net neutrality rules in court. This is the same trick they pulled last time. Please, let's not be fooled again. Title II is the strong, legally sound way to enforce net neutrality. Use it." -- Dr. Stuart W. Shulman http://people.umass.edu/stu Founder and CEO, Texifter http://texifter.com LinkedIn http://www.linkedin.com/in/stuartwshulman Twitter https://twitter.com/StuartWShulman

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CFP: Whose voice?: Global Populisms, Media and Political Institutions in Uncertain Times
by jayson harsin 06 Aug '14

06 Aug '14

Hello, this CFP may be of possible interest to some of you on the list. best wishes, Jayson Whose voice?: Global Populisms, Media and Political Institutions in Uncertain Times Populars: “A resurgence of populism in Europe”; the “economic populism” of Latin America; “a populist, business-minded Hindu nationalist...at once India's most popular and most divisive politician”; “populist notions of culture that frame homosexuality as an ‘un-African’, alien behaviour foisted on the continent by western imperialists”; “a populist feminist movement was ignited this spring when Rush Limbaugh's vitriol more than backfired” as well as “what was known in Latin America as ‘popular feminism’”; #bringbackourgirls and #notyourrescueproject; Taksim and Tahir; the Pirate Party and the Tea Party; the French National Front, and the Zanzibar Civic Union Front. This list is only a partial survey of the numerous social and political movements that have been described as giving voice to the needs and desires of ‘the people’ over the past decade. What is at stake in the noisy return of ‘the people’ to contemporary social and political debates? What are the languages and media that these popular movements use to communicate? This two-day colloquium will provide a forum in which scholars are able to share research on the role that media and communication technology are playing in contemporary populist movements. Not very long ago, it was thought that the populist movements of the twentieth century, organized around charismatic leaders and the actions of undifferentiated masses, had been displaced by the rise of networked media and communication platforms that allowed for open access. Yet, the events of the past decade have witnessed the rise of political movements that echo traditional forms of populism while incorporating the non-hierarchical characteristics of networked communication media. The goal of this colloquium is to bring together research that explores the changing relationship between populism and popular democratic movements globally as well as the contemporary significance of ‘the popular’ more broadly as a category of analysis in critical communication and media studies scholarship. To this end, this meeting hopes to bring together scholars whose work draws upon the traditions of cultural studies and critical theory in order to make sense of the relationship between the people, media and political institutions in the contemporary moment. This colloquium calls upon scholars to present material that engages with the following questions: *What is the role that communication and media play in the formation of these new populist movements as well as in attempts to contain or preempt them? *What is the relationship between these movements and established or emergent forms of political organization and institutionalization? *How do these movements intersect with processes of economic globalization, the politics of gender and sexuality, as well as ethnic, religious, caste, tribal or other social formations and modes of collective identification? We are seeking contributions from scholars based in Communication and Media Studies or any other related field interested in discussing a variety of movements, contexts and communication practices. Please send 300-word proposals to theglobalpopular(a)gmail.combefore September 1st, 2014. Presentations will be 20 minutes in length, there will be an opportunity to circulate beforehand where possible. The conference will be held at Baruch College, City University of New York, New York City, with support from the Weissman School of Arts and Sciences on October 24-25, 2014. The conference is organized by Jayson Harsin (Baruch College) and Mark Hayward (York University).

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