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Program - Conference "Young adults and circulation of cultural products: Mediterranean Perspectives" France
by Hélène BOURDELOIE 16 Jul '14

16 Jul '14

Dear colleagues, The organizing committee is pleased to send you the program of the conference "Young adults and circulation of cultural products: Mediterranean Perspectives" to be held in the premises of the University of Paris 13 (France), Bobigny 10 to 12 September 2014: http://jacbc.sciencesconf.org/program?lang=en You can register now, via the dedicated website at the conference at the following address: http://jacbc.sciencesconf.org/registration/index This procedure will also allow you to complete your registration by choosing the payment method for registration fees. We are looking forward to seeing you in September. Enjoy your summer break, Sincerely, The organizing committee, LabSic, MSH Paris Nord, LABEX ICCA -------- Hélène Bourdeloie Maître de conférences en sciences de l'information et de la communication Université Paris 13 - Sorbonne Paris Cité LabSIC - Labex ICCA & chercheuse associée au laboratoire COSTECH (UTC) Tél: 01 77 22 27 51 / 06 58 85 28 79 Skype: Helene.bourdeloie Site internet: http://www.helenebourdeloie.org Fiches chercheur: http://www.univ-paris13.fr/labsic/chercheurfiche/helene-bourdeloie http://www.utc.fr/costech/v2/pages/infos-chercheur.php?id=102

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Social Data & Tools: Prizes for Academics
by Shulman, Stu 16 Jul '14

16 Jul '14

*Social Data & Tools: Prizes for Academics* We felt inspired by the recent #DataGrants experiment sponsored by Twitter that generated more than 1,300 proposals from 60 countries and resulted in six extremely interesting awards. One thing is clear: many more grants of social data licenses are needed to fuel academic research. Texifter is sponsoring social data and tools prizes for academics as a simple contest with 12 winners a month this summer. In addition to social data access, we understand that many academic researchers also need “point & click” web-based tools to simplify the data access and management tasks involving social media APIs and jSON. To learn how to enter: http://bit.ly/1pGuUJo The first dozen winners were selected from June entries. You can read about the winners' projects here: http://bit.ly/1m9v1xU We will select another dozen prize winners at the end of July. It takes five minutes to enter by creating a free Historical Twitter estimate and submitting a CV. -- 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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Hotel Information for IR15
by Kendall, Lori 16 Jul '14

16 Jul '14

Hey folks! We are looking forward to a great conference in Daegu, Korea in October! Just a quick reminder that Registration for the conference is now open and available here: http://ir15.aoir.org/?page_id=142. You can also find a general outline of the program here: http://ir15.aoir.org/?page_id=95. I know many of you are making your travel plans now. We do have some travel information available here: http://ir15.aoir.org/?page_id=229. For more detailed information, be sure to download the PDFs available on that page. We will have more information about hotels soon, along with assistance in registering for the hotels. Please note that the venue for the conference, the Saint Western Beomeo, is a brand new hotel that just opened earlier this year. There are other Saint Western hotels in Daegu, but our venue does not have reviews up in TripAdvisor yet (or anywhere else so far as we know). Erika Pearson (Program Chair) and I will be visiting Daegu next week. Stay tuned for more information about the venue, travel, and Daegu when we return! Lori Kendall President, AoIR

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CFP: Citizen innovation projects in Ibero-America
by Medialab-Prado Comunicación 15 Jul '14

15 Jul '14

Open call for citizen innovation projects in Ibero-America *International collaborative workshop in Veracruz (Mexico)* Deadline: August 17, 2014 The Secretaría General Iberoamericana (SEGIB), through the initiative Ciudadanía 2.0 and the Coordinación de Estrategia Digital Nacional of the Oficina de la Presidencia de la República (México) opens this call for projects related to citizen innovation for their development and prototyping in the Laboratorio Iberoamericano de Innovación Ciudadana which takes place from November 24 to December 5, 2014 in the city of Veracruz, México, within the frame of the XXIV Ibero-American Summits of Heads of State and Governments. For this reason, an open call has gone out for all thyose interested in presenting a proposal for citizen innovation projects that apply to the Ibero-America, of which 10 will be selected for their development in a collaborative workshop in Veracruz. Selected projects announced: September 8, 2014 Open call for collaborators: September 8 – October 5, 2014 More information: http://medialab-prado.es/article/labicproyectos -- Nerea García Garmendia Comunicación y contenidos Web en Medialab-Prado Plaza de las Letras Calle Alameda, 15. 28014 Madrid T. 912 191 157 nerea(a)medialab-prado.es http://www.facebook.com/MedialabPradoMadrid Twitter: @medialabprado <https://twitter.com/medialabprado> // /Este correo y sus documentos adjuntos pueden contener información confidencial y/o privilegiada que sólo podrá ser utilizada por su destinatario para el fin del cual es objeto el presente correo. Si usted no es el destinatario o lo ha recibido por error rogamos nos lo comunique y proceda a su eliminación advirtiéndole que toda copia, revelación, distribución y/o cualquier otro uso queda terminantemente prohibido pudiendo incurrir en responsabilidades legales. En cumplimiento de lo dispuesto en el artículo 5 de la Ley Orgánica 15/1999, de 13 de diciembre, de protección de datos de carácter personal, MADRID DESTINO CULTURA TURISMO Y NEGOCIO, S.A. (en adelante, MADRID DESTINO) le informa que sus datos personales o de contacto profesional facilitados serán incorporados en nuestros ficheros de datos personales con la finalidad de gestionar el envío de comunicaciones informativas, así como la relación promocional, comercial y/o negocial (incluyendo, como tal finalidad, la formalización y gestión de contratos y la gestión contable, fiscal, laboral y administrativa) que MADRID DESTINO pudiera mantener con usted. Si lo desea, puede ejercer sus derechos de acceso, rectificación, cancelación y oposición dirigiéndose a MADRID DESTINO CULTURA TURISMO Y NEGOCIO, S.A. sita en Madrid, c/ Montalbán 1, 7ª planta, 28014. *El medioambiente es cosa de todos: antes de imprimir este e-mail, piense bien si es necesario hacerlo. * This email and the attached documents may contain confidential and/or privileged information for the exclusive use of the person named above for whom this message is intended. If you are not the designated recipient or have received it by mistake, please notify us and delete this message. You are also hereby notified that copying, revealing, distributing and/or using the contents of this email in any other way is strictly prohibited and may have legal consequences. In accordance with the stipulations of Spanish Data Protection Law, MADRID DESTINO CULTURA TURISMO Y NEGOCIO, S.A. (hereinafter, MADRID DESTINO) hereby informs you that the personal or professional contact details you provide will be recorded in our personal detail files for the purposes of sending announcements and notices and for managing the promotional, commercial and/or business relationship (including, for such purposes, the formalisation and management of contracts as well as accounting, fiscal, labour and administrative management) that MADRID DESTINO may have with you. If you wish, you may exercise your rights of access, rectification, cancellation or objection by writing to MADRID DESTINO CULTURA TURISMO Y NEGOCIO, S.A. situated at c/ Montalbán 1, 7ª planta, 28014 Madrid. *We are all responsible for the environment: please think before you print this email.”*/**

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Critical digital literacy resources?
by Barton, David 15 Jul '14

15 Jul '14

Hi Chris, if you are interested in getting students to think more critically about their everyday uses of digital media, we have found it helpful for them to reflect on their 'technobiographies' as discussed in the book Language Online http://bit.ly/1nsqWjX . And the research methods book Researching Language and Social Media, published this week by Routledge, has a chapter on using techniobios in class http://bit.ly/1kZGsUh . Hope this helps. David Barton, Lancaster University.

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Research Participation Request
by Sarah J Huibregtse 15 Jul '14

15 Jul '14

Re: Instructional Explanations: Strategies for Message Writing Dear Potential Participant, My name is Sarah J. Huibregtse, and I am a doctoral learner in Education at Capella University specializing in Instructional Design for Online Learning. I am writing to invite you to participate in my research study about Instructional Explanations: Strategies for Message Writing. This study will collect data regarding writing strategies currently utilized by subject matter experts during development of instruction, and identify strategies used to help learners activate prior knowledge and foster active processing of messages. Participants of this study must have first hand experience with developing and writing instructional messages (i.e. materials, content, explanations), or experience assisting course writers/subject matter experts as they write and develop messages. I am seeking participants who meet one of the following criteria: § Instructional Design Expert § Instructional Design Practitioner § Instructional Design Academic § Subject Matter Expert with 5 or more years experience Requirements of participants: § Time commitment: approximately 40+ minutes § Signed informed consent form § Completion of online survey Participation is voluntary and you will be able to leave the study at any time. If you meet the above criteria, and would like to participate, please access the survey and online Informed Consent Form at https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/HX623HY <https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/HX623HY> . If you have received this invitation from multiple sources, please complete the survey once only. Please forward this message to other message writers you think may be appropriate for this study. I look forward to your reply at your earliest convenience. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me at: Email: shuibregtse(a)capellauniversity.edu <mailto:shuibregtse@capellauniversity.edu> Phone: (971) 209-2012 (Pacific Time) Skype: shubrex Thank you for your time and consideration. Sincerely, Sarah J. Huibregtse, M. Ed. Doctoral Learner

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Tenured associate professor (Maître de Conférences) -- Telecom ParisTech
by Antonio A. Casilli 15 Jul '14

15 Jul '14

Dear all, Please find below the position opening for a tenured associate professor in “social data science” at the Social and Economic Sciences (SES) department of Telecom ParisTech (Paris, France). The application deadline is September 14, 2014. http://www.telecom-paristech.fr/index.php?id=3418 Please feel free to forward this ad to potential candidates, and to contact me for additional information. Antonio Casilli Associate Professor Telecom ParisTech Researcher Edgar Morin Center, EHESS casilli(a)telecom-paristech.fr ----------------------------------------------------------------- Open position Tenured associate professor –"Social data scientist" Social and Economic Science (SES) Department Telecom ParisTech ABOUT US Telecom ParisTech (also known as ENST, École nationale supérieure des télécommunications) is one of the most selective engineering “grandes écoles” (Elite Universities) in France. Located in Paris, it was founded in 1878, and prides itself to have invented the word "telecommunication". Telecom Paristech invites applications for a tenured associate professor in the field of “social data science”, to join its department of Social and Economic Sciences (SES), to begin as early as 2015. Partner of the IDEX Paris-Saclay, member of the Conférence des Grandes Ecoles (CGE), Telecom ParisTech is strongly positioned on innovation and information and communication technologies. Its mission is to train engineers understanding the challenges of innovation both from a technological and a socio-economic point of view. To achieve this, it employs faculty members, whose teaching activity extends into advanced research on topics falling in the fields of economics, social sciences and management. The candidate will reinforce the SES department’s focus on Web use and digital cultures, at the crossroads of major social and economic dynamics (formation of the publics, online demographics, political consequences of ICTs). The position requires research experience in the field of statistical analysis and online data. Proficiency in French is required. ABOUT THE CANDIDATE The candidate holds a PhD in the fields of Sociology, Demography, Geography, Media and Communication Sciences, Management or Economics. The candidate has developed skills in analysis of use of digital technologies, as well as some of the following competencies: social network analysis, audience quantification, web mining, data visualization, machine learning. TEACHING The successful candidate will join the SES Department teaching team and participate to the following courses: • Project Tutoring: o Controversy mapping (related to technological innovation); o Student projects (technology, innovation and design); o Continuing Education (monitoring projects and startup creation, especially within the ESSEC Master) • Teaching Social Science at Master level (Master Big Data, Master STS, continuing education). RESEARCH The candidate is expected set up and contribute to research activities in direct collaboration with members of the SES department and research chairs, in order to co-author with other Telecom ParisTech faculty members a steady stream of publications in reference conferences and journals. The candidate will contribute to ongoing research projects conducted within the SES department by bringing a consistent empirical approach, relying on innovative methods of data collection, storage, processing, automation, and data visualization. Finally, the candidate will help design and manage interdisciplinary and cross-team research projects within the Interdisciplinary Institute for Innovation i3 of the Mines-Telecom Institute (particularly, in the area of research "use, participation, democratization of innovation"). APPLICATIONS SHOULD INCLUDE • A cover letter • A curriculum vitae featuring candidate’s teaching and research activities • A list of publications • Two selected publications • The names and contact information of two referees • A short teaching and research project at Telecom ParisTech (maximum 2 pages) WHERE TO SEND APPLICATIONS Via email: recrutements(a)telecom-paristech.fr DEADLINES • Application deadline: September 14, 2014 • Oral presentations for recruitment committee: November 3-5, 2014 • Beginning: early 2015 CONTACT Antonio Casilli (SES department) casilli(a)telecom-paristech.fr WEB LINKS • SES Department: http://www.telecom-paristech.fr/recherche/departements/sciences-economiques… • Telecom ParisTech: http://www.telecom-paristech.fr/eng/training-innovating-in-a-digital-world.… • Interdisciplinary Institute for Innovation: http://www.i-3.fr/?lang=en

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FW: More "Mind Control": Hacking Online Polls and Other Ways British Spies Seek to Control the Internet
by michael gurstein 15 Jul '14

15 Jul '14

How much there has been a "fusing" of cognition with the flow of digital information particularly for "digital natives" is a matter of considerable discussion. This below would appear to be a description of tools to facilitate the direct intervention and manipulation of that digital information flow-evidently paralleling Facebook in its <http://gurstein.wordpress.com/2014/07/01/facebook-does-mind-control/> "mind control" initiatives. https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2014/07/14/manipulating-online-polls-ways -british-spies-seek-control-internet/

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New book - Mediated Youth Cultures
by Brady Robards 15 Jul '14

15 Jul '14

Hi folks, I'm delighted to announce a new book, that may be of interest to you - *Mediated Youth Cultures: The internet, belonging, and new cultural configurations* - just published by Palgrave. http://www.palgrave.com/page/detail/?K=9781137287014 It's an edited collection of thirteen essays from around the world covering topics such as growing up stories on Facebook, the phenomenon of dance imitations on YouTube, the circulation of zines online, the resurgence of roller derby on the social web, mediated drinking cultures, Israeli design blogs, the circulation of Korean pop music, and more. In some ways, this book follows on from a special issue of the journal *Continuum* published in 2012 on the same topic ( http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/ccon20/26/3) TOC for the book is below. Cheers, Brady (co-editor, with Andy Bennett) PART I: IDENTITIES 1. Youth Identities in a Digital Age: The Anchoring Role of Friends in Young People's Approaches to Online Identity Expression; Katie Davis 2. Mediating Experiences of 'Growing Up' on Facebook's Timeline: Privacy, Ephemerality and the Reflexive Project of Self; Brady Robards 3. Young People and Mediated Private Space; Siân Lincoln 4. Ending Up Online: Interrogating Mediated Youth Drinking Cultures; Ian Goodwin, Antonia Lyons, Christine Griffin and Tim McCreanor PART II: ENGAGEMENT AND CREATIVITY 5. Rethinking 'Virtual' Youth: Young People and Life Writing; Kate Douglas and Anna Poletti 6. 'The Designs Industry': Girls Play with Production and Power on Israeli Blogs; Carmel Vaisman 7. Youth, Social Media and Transnational Cultural Distribution: The Case of Online K-Pop Circulation; Sun Jung 8. Young People's Musical Engagement, and Technologies of Taste; Melissa Avdeeff 9. Understanding Everyday Uses of Music Technologies in the Digital Age; Raphaël Nowak PART III: BODIES, SPACE AND PLACE 10. Women, Sport and New Media Technologies: Derby Grrrls Online; Adele Pavlidis and Simone Fullagar 11. Getting Bodied with Beyoncé on YouTube; Ann Werner 12. Activating Young People in the Production of Virtual Worlds; Liam Berriman 13. Flash Mobs and Zombie Shuffles: Play in the Augmented City; Susan Bird -- Dr Brady Robards School of Social Sciences, University of Tasmania t: @bradyjay <https://twitter.com/bradyjay> w: bradyrobards.com <http://www.bradyrobards.com/>

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Workshop cfp
by Unsworth,Kristene 14 Jul '14

14 Jul '14

Hi all, Some of you may be aware of ASIS&T (the Association for Information Science and Technology). In any case, we are holding a preconference workshop that may interest some of you! Please feel free to contact me with any questions. Thanks! Kris It is with great pleasure that I put out this call for participation in our SIG-IFP / SIG-III joint sponsored pre-conference workshop: "Trust in the Age of Data (big or small)" Date: October 31, 2014 (Friday) Time: 8:30 to 4:00 pm Location: Sheraton Seattle Hotel, Seattle, WA, USA ABOUT THE WORKSHOP: We plan this workshop as an interactive event focused around the scholarship of trust. This is an opportunity for scholars to fine-tune position papers and works-in-progress as they are informed via the workshop discussions and activities, and brainstorm about methodological approaches to studying trust in the context of government and corporate use of big data, emerging technologies, and globalized infrastructures. Participants who do not present a work-in-progress or position paper, but are in attendance as a general workshop participant, will have the opportunity to further develop ideas and interests that are related to information policy, ethics, and trust. This workshop will enable participants to engage, challenge, support, and encourage each other on questions such as: the importance of trust; theorizing the concept of trust; conceptualizing trust around a set of relationships; understanding trust in the relationship between citizens and the state; reconciling trust with NSA (and other agency) surveillance; trust in international or intra-national state to state relationships; and trust in other communities, including between and among dominant and underrepresented groups in society. We will address questions such as: * How are researchers conceptualizing trust in the age of data? * How can scholars investigate infrastructures of trust? * Are understandings of trust shifting? If so, with what consequences, in which contexts? * When is trust justified? When is it not justified? Should decision-makers focus on and build trustworthiness rather than (mere) trust? * What are the economic, political and legal implications of trust in the age of data (big and small)? * How does policy design build/undermine trust? * What are the ethics of trust in the age of data? This workshop aims to bring together scholars from across the information science fields (LIS, Archives, Museums, HCI, Law, Policy) to lend their respective lens's to a critical exploration of trust. CALL FOR PARTICIPATION All interested researchers, graduate students, and information professionals are invited to submit a proposal for: 1) works-in-progress research papers, 2) short position statements and/or short information policy/trust scenarios (e.g., critical reflection on policies already in place or developing new policy), 3) abstracts describing possible existing or novel methodological approaches to researching the relationships between data and trust in a range of contexts. Please send your submission by email to Kris Unsworth and Bryce Newell at unsworth(a)drexel.edu<mailto:unsworth@drexel.edu> and bcnewell(a)uw.edu<mailto:bcnewell@uw.edu> IMPORTANT DATES: September 1, 2014: Submission due date for extended abstracts or position papers September 20, 2014: Notification of acceptance October 15, 2014: Submit presentations (drafts, outlines, slides, etc.) REGISTRATION FEES: tba - we will send an update. You will also be able to find this information on the main conference website! Scholarship opportunities will also be announced shortly. The registration fee will cover workshop costs, wireless Internet access, lunch and coffee breaks. WORKSHOP PLANNING COMMITTEE MEMBERS: Kristene Unsworth, Drexel University; Lisa P. Nathan, University of British Columbia; Alan Rubel, University of Wisconsin; Bryce Clayton Newell, University of Washington; Nadia Caidi, University of Toronto; Elizabeth Shaffer, University of British Columbia; Adam D. Moore, University of Washington; Heather MacNeil, University of Toronto Please forward any questions that you have to Kris Unsworth (unsworth(a)drexel.edu<mailto:unsworth@drexel.edu>) or Bryce Newell (bcnewell(a)uw.edu<mailto:bcnewell@uw.edu>). Kristene Unsworth 2014 SIG-IFP chair Kristene Unsworth, Ph.D. Assistant Professor ASIS&T SIG-IFP Chair The College of Computing and Informatics Drexel University 3141 Chestnut Street Philadelphia, PA 19104 Tel: 215.895.6016 | Fax: 215.895.2494 Drexel.edu/cci<cci.drexel.edu> Kristene Unsworth, Ph.D. Assistant Professor ASIS&T SIG-IFP Chair The College of Computing and Informatics Drexel University 3141 Chestnut Street Philadelphia, PA 19104 Tel: 215.895.6016 | Fax: 215.895.2494 Drexel.edu/cci<cci.drexel.edu>

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