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The Post-Digital: Critical Responses, June 11th Creativity Zone, University of Sussex
by Kate O'Riordan 02 Jun '14

02 Jun '14

The Post-Digital: Critical Responses, June 11th Creativity Zone, University of Sussex Programme 12.30-1.00-Register 1-2.15 - Florian Cramer + discussant Sharif Mowlabocus 2.30-3.15-Panel 1–Feminism and technology after the digital (FemTechNet), Caroline Bassett, Sarah Kember, Kate O’Riordan 3.15-3.45-Break 3.45-4.30- Panel 2-Weird Commodities-art and theory for a post digital economy. David Garcia in conversation with Sally Jane Norman and Florian Cramer 4.35-5.50- Panel 3-Creative and critical responses to the post-digital: Cécile Chevalier with Mick Feltham, Nanette Hoogslag, Micheál O’Connell / Mocksim, Fernando Sobron, 5.50pm-7pm Reception and SusNet launch, Michael Bull and Aristea Fotopoulou All welcome - but please let me know in advance if you are attending. Kate O'Riordan

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inquiry on appendices from international handbook of internet research
by Jeremy hunsinger 02 Jun '14

02 Jun '14

As many of you know, Matt, Lisbeth and I are working on a second volume of the international handbook of internet research. In volume 1, we included 2 appendices that I thought might be of interest to the community. One was a self-reported standardized listing of degree programs that teach internet research/internet studies and the other was a self-reported standardized list of research centers, significant figures at the centers, and major research projects/trajectories of the centers. The thought when we created these appendices helped define the field of internet research and documented, in part, the field at the time. What i don't know is that anyone found those appendices useful and to what end people may have used them? I bring this up because it is possible to update and extend those listings, or even create new appendices with new information. So if you found them useful in some manner, please drop me a note letting me know your thoughts. thanks! -j -- jeremy hunsinger Center for Digital Discourse and Culture Virginia Tech www.tmttlt.com () ascii ribbon campaign - against html mail /\ - against microsoft attachments http://www.stswiki.org/ sts wiki http://transdisciplinarystudies.tmttlt.com/ Transdisciplinary Studies:the book series I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it. -Pablo Picasso

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A New Issue from JVWR: Assembled 2014 is here
by Tzafnat Shpak 02 Jun '14

02 Jun '14

[image: Journal of Virtual Worlds Research] <http://jvwresearch.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=de4fa2a435382cb1fa67cb…> We are happy to announce the publication of *a **NEW ISSUE* from the Journal of Virtual Worlds Research (JVWR): *Volume 7, Number 2: * *Assembled 2014* The editorial team: - *Samuel Cruz-Lara* - LORIA (UMR 7503) CNRS – INRIA, Université de Lorraine, France - *Sue Gregory* - University of New England, Australia - *Suely Fragoso* - Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil - *Urs-Vito Albrecht* - Braunschweig University & Hannover Medical School, Germany - *Christopher Lueg* - University of Tasmania, Australia The Assembled 2014 issue includes six papers demonstrating the diversity and depth of topics we strive to cover: - The future of massive collaborative events - The future of anonymity (and antisocial behavior) - The future of 3D collaboration - The future of friendships - The future of health care via “Motivational Interviewing - The future of looking at the other These six papers demonstrate some of JVWR goals. They are pushing our thinking about both the virtual and the real, they are presenting “new” academic science that go beyond the trivial, and they are taking a stand about the world. We encourage authors to follow the diverse models presented here. Editor In-Chief Corner Impacting the Real Future via the Virtual Present <http://jvwresearch.us2.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=de4fa2a435382cb1fa67c…> Yesha Y. Sivan Peer Reviewed Research Papers Distributed Immersive Participation as Crowd-Sensing in Culture Events <http://jvwresearch.us2.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=de4fa2a435382cb1fa67c…> Theo Kanter, Rahim Rahmani, Jamie Walters, Willmar Sauter A Multi-faceted Approach to Anonymity Online: Examining the Relations between Anonymity and Antisocial Behavio <http://jvwresearch.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=de4fa2a435382cb1fa67cb…> Rebecca Chui Virtual Collaboration Spaces: Bringing Presence to Distributed Collaboration <http://jvwresearch.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=de4fa2a435382cb1fa67cb…> Austin Tate, Jeffrey T. Hansberger, Stephen Potter, Gerhard Wickler Virtually Friends: An Exploration of Friendship Claims and Expectations in Immersive Virtual Worlds <http://jvwresearch.us2.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=de4fa2a435382cb1fa67c…> Brooke Foucault Welles, Tommy Rousse, Nick Merrill, Noshir Contractor Using 3D Virtual Standardized Patients to Teach Motivational Interviewing <http://jvwresearch.us2.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=de4fa2a435382cb1fa67c…> Margaret Czart White Man’s Virtual World: A Systematic Content Analysis of Gender and Race in Massively Multiplayer Online Games <http://jvwresearch.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=de4fa2a435382cb1fa67cb…> T. Franklin Waddell, James D. Ivory, Rommelyn Conde, Courtney Long, Rachel McDonnell Enjoy your ride to the real world's future as reflected in the current research of the virtual. ------------------------------ More from the JVWR - *A call for reviewers* <http://jvwresearch.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=de4fa2a435382cb1fa67cb…>: the JVWR submission system is always open to competent academicians & researchers to join us as members of the JVWR review team. Being a reviewer is a matter of prestige and achievement. The JVWR believes in the value and importance of the reviewers throughout the publication process. It is not only about bringing the individual paper to its best, but also about shaping the credibility and reputation of the journal as a leader in the evolving field of Virtual Worlds. If you are interested - join us a *peer-reviewer* of the JVWR. Please contact us by email to info(a)jvwresearch.org <info(a)jvwresearch.org?subject=RE%3A%20Call%20for%20reviewers>, send CV or a short resume and let us know what *areas of interest* you are able to review. - Check our website http://www.jvwresearch.org <http://jvwresearch.us2.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=de4fa2a435382cb1fa67c…> for our planned schedule of issues and activities. If you have an idea for a thematic issue, we will be happy to know about it. - You are invited to browse JVWR's *previous issues* <http://jvwresearch.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=de4fa2a435382cb1fa67cb…> . - *Subscribe* <http://jvwresearch.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=de4fa2a435382cb1fa67cb…> to our mailing list (on the top left of http://www.jvwresearch.org <http://jvwresearch.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=de4fa2a435382cb1fa67cb…>) to receive JVWR news and updates (no spam guaranteed). - Join our Facebook <http://jvwresearch.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=de4fa2a435382cb1fa67cb…> page (TheJVWR) - follow us on *twitter <http://jvwresearch.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=de4fa2a435382cb1fa67cb…>* @TheJVWR. Looking forward to hearing your comments, Thankfully, *Prof. Yesha Y. Sivan* Editor In-Chief TheJVWR - The Journal of Virtual Worlds Research http://jvwresearch.org <http://jvwresearch.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=de4fa2a435382cb1fa67cb…> [image: Assembled 2014 Cover] <http://jvwresearch.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=de4fa2a435382cb1fa67cb…> © 2014 Journal of Virtual Worlds Research All rights reserved.

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reminder--HICSS deadline June 15
by Robert Mason 01 Jun '14

01 Jun '14

Looking for papers [and reviewers] from our AoIR colleagues: http://bit.ly/1my805g Bob Mason Dianne Ford

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Social Data & Tools: Prizes for Academics
by Shulman, Stu 31 May '14

31 May '14

Social Data & Tools: Prizes for Academics (http://bit.ly/1pGuUJo) 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. The Prizes We will award twelve social data prizes with text analytics software licenses every month this summer. These premium social data prizes include access to our powerful online DiscoverText tools to search, filter, cluster, code, and machine classify the data, as well as interactive visual reporting tools include several specialized views for metadata eDiscovery, time series, deduplication, near-duplicate clustering, and other project attributes. No software programming skills required. The twelve monthly prizes are: + One grand prize per month of 10 Historical Twitter Days and credit for 1,000,000 Tweets plus one year of Enterprise access to DiscoverText. Up to one hour of free consulting on research design and social data cleaning. + Two nearly grand prizes per month of 5 Historical Twitter Days and credit for 500,000 Tweets plus six months of Enterprise access to DiscoverText. Up to one hour of free consulting on research design and social data cleaning. + Three prizes of six months of Enterprise access to DiscoverText plus 100,000 credits to capture day-forward Twitter data via the Gnip PowerTrack. + Three prizes of six months of Enterprise access to DiscoverText plus 50,000 credits to capture day-forward Tumblr data via the Gnip PowerTrack. + Three prizes of six months of Enterprise access to DiscoverText plus 25,000 credits to capture day-forward Disqus or WordPress data via the Gnip PowerTrack. Rules to Enter This prize drawing is designed to promote experimentation with the free historical Twitter estimation tool we have in beta known as Sifter. The application provides search and retrieve access to every undeleted Tweet in the history of Twitter. 1. Create a free account on Sifter: http://sifter.texifter.com/Home/Registration. 2. Indicate you are an academic and show your affiliation using a URL during or after the registration process. 3.Send us a copy of your CV via email (info(a)texifter.com) You only need to do this once even if you enter every month. 4. Use Sifter to generate at least one Gnip historical PowerTrack for Twitter estimate spanning no more than 10 historical Twitter days and returning no more than 1,000,000 tweets. Estimates are free and we encourage experimentation with sampling and PowerTrack operators. Create as many estimates as you like. 5. Every user with a valid estimate =<10 Twitter days and =<1,000,000 tweets during a calendar month this summer will be entered into the drawing for a social data research grant prize. 6. Every month, for at least the next three starting with June 2014, we will hold a new drawing. 7. A single user can only win one prize per month, but can enter the drawing every month. We will do a drawing at the end of each month limited to just the first 100 eligible entries to increase the chances of winning a prize to better than 1 in 10. Remember to visit Sifter early in the month before all 100 entries are taken. 8. After the drawing each month we will publish a list of the 12 winners and their academic affiliations on the Texifter blog. 9. Social Data and Software Terms of Service All contest-related social data will be stored in DiscoverText. Use of the data is governed both by the publisher and Texifter Terms of Service. "The Future Need for Tools and Data is Great" This small contest cannot satisfy the pent up demand students and faculty have for tools and data. We do think that these prizes can equip a researcher with sufficient data and advanced analytic tools to run a successful pilot study, or to complete a graduate thesis proposal. It is our hope to grow the social data research grant program over time. If it helps to drives new awareness of the research ecosystem, Texifter would be happy to be a part of the innovative energy pouring into academic research studies of the impact and uses of social data. http://www.discovertext.com/Home/Publications Project Outputs We will invite all of the contest winners to write about their project on the Texifter blog. This is optional, but we have had some great guest research posts lately about school bullying, elections, and reusable learning objects. We hope these software and social data research grants will lead to more reports of innovative teaching and research efforts.

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Urgent Announcement Re: IR15 Conference
by Kendall, Lori 30 May '14

30 May '14

Given the extraordinarily difficult and uncertain situation in Thailand, especially in Bangkok, the Executive Committee of AoIR has decided to move the Internet Research 15 conference out of Bangkok. The conference will still take place in October of this year. We are in the process of negotiating a new location, and expect to be able to announce that soon. We are disappointed to have to take this step, and deeply regret the disruption and the inconvenience this change of plans might cause. It was an extremely difficult decision to make. Our Local Host, Soraj Hongladoram, has done a fantastic job of making local arrangements and raising sponsorship for the conference. On account of the change of venue, we will refund all current registration fees paid. We have currently closed registration and will reopen it once we have confirmed the new plans for the conference. If you have already registered for the conference, we will ask you to reregister at that time. We appreciate your patience and understanding during this transition, and will keep you informed as we know more. Lori Kendall President, Association of Internet Researchers prez(a)aoir.org

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Please help: survey on collaborative research tools
by Mihály Héder 30 May '14

30 May '14

Dear All, I would like to ask you a little help with a research project. I'm working on a study on how to connect scientists/students/researchers to each other with federative technologies (like SAML, OpenId and others) properly. This involves using collaborative platforms, accessing journal articles, accessing cloud and grid resources, using ORCID as an identifier, etc. Please help me by filling the following survey (it takes 10 minutes max): http://survey.hexaa.eu *and* by forwarding this mail to everyone you can think of. The more (and not only tech-savvy) people we reach, the better. So please, do not leave out anyone who has the slightest chance to use the internet (friends, family, students, mailing lists, neighbors, classmates, co-workers, etc.) The survey itself aims to find out what the current state of research collaboration is, collaborate today, what kind of personal data are they willing to share, etc. The survey is anonymous, but if you complete it you will be able to sign up on a separate page for a copy of the white paper with the results. Thank you very much Mihály Héder Computer and Automation Research Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences

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Book Announcement
by Tony Cline 29 May '14

29 May '14

With apologies for self-promotion, Information Communication Technology and Social Transformation: A Social and Historical Perspective, Hugh F. Cline, Routledge, 2014. This book argues that information communication technologies are not creating new forms of social structure, but rather altering long-standing institutions and amplifying existing trends of social change that have their origins in ancient times. Using a comparative historical perspective, it analyzes the applications of information communication technologies in relation to changes in norms and values, education institutions, the socialization of children, new forms of deviant and criminal behaviors, enhanced participation in religious activities, patterns of knowledge creation and use, the expansion of consumerism, and changing experiences of distance and time. Hugh F (Tony) Cline Adjunct Professor of Sociology and Education Teachers College, Columbia University hc401(a)columbia.edu Telephone 609 921-6979 Fax 609 921-0169

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Oxford: Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Ethics of Big Data with JRF at St Cross College
by Luciano Floridi 29 May '14

29 May '14

Philosophers and Ethicists are very welcome and strongly encouraged to apply. ———————————————————--———————————————— Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Ethics of Big Data, Oxford Internet Institute associated with a non-stipendiary Junior Research Fellowship at St Cross College University of Oxford Grade 7: £29,837 - £36,661 p.a. We are a leading world centre for the multidisciplinary study of the Internet and society, looking for a full-time Researcher to work on a funded project, “The Ethics of Biomedical Big Data”, led by Professor Luciano Floridi. The analysis of large datasets (Big Data) has become a major driver of innovation and success in biomedical research. However, the use of Biomedical Big Data raises serious ethical problems, which may threaten the huge opportunities it offers. This pilot project will formulate a blueprint of the ethical aspects, requirements and desiderata underpinning a European framework for the ethical use of Big Data in biomedical research. Applicants should hold a PhD in a relevant discipline, have a strong interest in information/computer ethics and proven experience in ethical and policy analysis and writing papers based on qualitative and/or quantitative research. The successful candidate will work with Prof. Floridi and a multidisciplinary team of researchers, and will be able to take a lead in project management, conceptual analysis, and the dissemination of results. Based at our OII North office at 34 St Giles, Oxford, this position is available from 1 October 2014 for 1 year, with a possibility of extension beyond that date, depending on funding. The post is associated with a non-stipendiary Junior Research Fellowship at St Cross College for its duration. Details of the College and its facilities are available on the College website at: www.stx.ox.ac.uk. Applications for this vacancy are to be made online. To apply for this role and for further details, including a job description and selection criteria, please click on the link below: https://www.recruit.ox.ac.uk/pls/hrisliverecruit/erq_jobspec_version_4.jobs… The application deadline is 12.00 midday on Thursday 26 June 2014. Interviews for those shortlisted are currently planned to take place in the week commencing 21 July 2014. Best wishes, Luciano _______________________________________________________ www.oii.ox.ac.uk/people/floridi/ | www.philosophyofinformation.net Professor of Philosophy and Ethics of Information Director of Research Oxford Internet Institute University of Oxford PA Mrs. Julia Farquet, julia.farquet(a)oii.ox.ac.uk Twitter: @Floridi Tel: +44 (0) 1865 287202 1 St Giles, Oxford, OX1 3JS, UK

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Thomas Piketty, Karl Marx and the Internet
by Christian Fuchs 29 May '14

29 May '14

Fuchs, Christian. 2014. Thomas Piketty’s Book “Capital in the Twenty-First Century”, Karl Marx and the Political Economy of the Internet. tripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique 12 (1): 413-430. http://www.triple-c.at/index.php/tripleC/article/view/575 Abstract Thomas Piketty’s book Capital in the Twenty-First Century has resulted in a sustained political and academic debate about capitalism in the 21st century. This article discusses the relevance of the book in the context of Karl Marx’s works and the political economy of the Internet. It identifies 3 common reactions to Piketty’s book: 1) dignification; 2) denigration of the work’s integrity; 3) the denial of any parallel to Marx. I argue that all three reactions do not help the task of creating a New Left that is urgently needed in the situation of sustained capitalist crisis. Marxists will certainly view Piketty’s analysis of capitalism and political suggestions critically. I argue that they should however not dismiss them, but like Marx and Engels aim to radicalise reform suggestions. In relation to the Internet, this paper discusses especially how insights from Piketty’s book can inform the discussion of tax avoidance by transnational Internet companies such as Google, Facebook and Amazon. For establishing an alternative, non-commercial, non-capitalist Internet one can draw insights about institutional reforms and progressive capital taxation from Piketty that can be radicalised in order to ground radical-reformist Internet politics. “The daily struggle for reforms, for the amelioration of the condition of the workers within the framework of the existing social order, and for democratic institutions, offers to the social democracy the only means of engaging in the proletarian class war and working in the direction of the final goal-the conquest of political power and the suppression of wage labor. Between social reforms and revolution there exists for the social democracy an indissoluble tie. The struggle for reforms is its means; the social revolution, its aim” (Rosa Luxemburg 1899, 41).

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