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FINAL CALL: Carl J. Couch Internet Research Award 2014
by Mark D. Johns 12 May '14

12 May '14

CALL FOR AWARD APPLICATIONS Carl J. Couch Internet Research Award 2014 Sponsored by the Carl Couch Center for Social and Internet Research http://www.cccsir.com/ The Carl Couch Center issues an international call for student-authored papers to be considered for Carl J. Couch Internet Research Award. The Couch Center welcomes both theoretical and empirical papers that apply symbolic interactionist approaches to internet studies. According to basic symbolic interactionist premises, what we understand as self, identity, relationship, and cultural formations are constructed dialogically and interactively. While the works of George H. Mead, Georg Simmel, Erving Goffman and other leading symbolic interactionists have been integral to the study of social interaction, Carl Couch was among the first from this tradition to suggest the importance of engaging in the study of mediated interaction. It is critical that symbolic interactionists move boldly forward, beyond Couch's initial suggestion, to study what has become for many a dominant form of communication in their everyday life. Whether we research identities, emotion, memory, family, work, career, presentations of self, deception, love, loss or other areas, the impact of mediated communication is felt by those interacting within it. As internet-related media continue to influence our everyday interactions--not only with other people but also with technologies, devices, algorithms, platform parameters, and so forth--it becomes crucial for symbolic interactionists to attend to the role of these mediating factors in the interaction process. We encourage any paper that uses a symbolic interactionist approach in internet studies. We also encourage papers that explore the interface between deliberate social interaction and structured (or automated) interactions sponsored or enacted by various technological features, exploring not only how identities, relations, and social formations are negotiated through social interactions, but also how these interactions are mediated further through the use or capacities of various technologies. Papers will be evaluated based on the quality of (1) mastery of symbolic interactionist approaches and concepts, (2) originality, (3) organization, (4) presentation, and (5) advancement of knowledge. Those contemplating entering should note that an interactionist approach demands thoughtful analysis, and not mere description, of social interactions. Evaluation will be administered by a Review Committee of four: Mark D. Johns, Luther College, Decorah, Iowa Jennifer Dunn, Texas Tech University, Lubbock Annette Markham, University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee Camille Johnson-Yale, Lake Forest College, Illinois Competition is open to graduate or undergraduate students of all disciplines. Works that are published or accepted for publication are not eligible for award consideration. Entries should be in English and not exceed 30 pages (approximately 7500 words) in length, including references and appendices. Limit of one entry per student per year. The top paper will receive Couch Award to be presented at the 2014 meeting of the Association of Internet Researchers (aoir.org) in Bangkok, Thailand. The top paper will be awarded a certificate and a cash prize of $300 US and the author will be invited to present their work at a session of the AoIR conference, October 22-25, 2014 in Bangkok. Candidates should send a copy of their paper, with a 100-word abstract, electronically to Mark Johns at mjohns(a)luther.edu Application deadline is May 15, 2014. Notification of award will be sent by June 15. Those with questions or comments about Couch Award application, please contact: Mark D. Johns Communication Studies Luther College, Decorah, Iowa Phone: 563-387-1347 E-mail: mjohns(a)luther.edu

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Call for Papers: [2 weeks left] ICCE 2014 - C5. Digital Game and Digital Toy Enhanced Learning and Society (GTEL&S) [extended deadline approaching]
by Maiga Chang 12 May '14

12 May '14

*apologies for cross-posting TWO weeks left to the extended submission deadline 26th May, 2014 (Monday). CALL FOR PAPERS [extended deadline approaching] ------------------------ Subconference of Digital Game and Digital Toy Enhanced Learning and Society (GTEL&S) in the 22nd International Conference on Computers in Education (ICCE 2014) November 30 (Sunday) and December 4 (Thursday), 2014 Nara, Japan http://icce2014.jaist.ac.jp/ C5. Digital Game and Digital Toy Enhanced Learning and Society (GTEL&S) http://icce2014.jaist.ac.jp/icce2014/?page_id=323 Chair Maiga Chang, Athabasca University (maiga.chang(a)gmail.com) Co-chairs: Hsin-Yih SHYU, Tamkang University Li ZHANG, University of Northumbria Rita KUO, Knowledge Square, Ltd. This track welcomes submissions in topics including, but not limited to: a.. Augmented Reality and Mobile AR b.. Case studies and exemplars c.. Collaboration and community-based learning d.. Empirical and formal evaluations e.. Engagement, emotion, and affect f.. Entertainment robots and digital toys for education g.. Game and toy use in classrooms h.. Game attitude and perception i.. Game narrative j.. Identity and role-play k.. Interaction techniques for learning with games and toys l.. Interface design m.. Learning foundations and design theory n.. Location-based games and ubiquitous technologies o.. Mobile, casual, and online games p.. Multiplayer and social games q.. Multi-sensory interfaces r.. Natural User Interface s.. Naturalistic studies t.. Pedagogy u.. Play and enactment v.. Physical interactions and embodiment through games and toys w.. Simulation and animation x.. Social and cultural dimensions of learning y.. STEM education z.. Support for Informal and Formal Learning aa.. Use of social media ab.. Virtual characters and avatar representations ac.. Virtual labs ad.. Virtual storytelling ae.. Virtual worlds af.. Wii-like somatic forms of learning, including in sports and training contexts Important Dates May 26, 2014 (extended): Submissions of papers (Full paper, Short paper, Poster) August 4, 2014: Authors' Notification on the review process results Paper Submission System (PSS): http://icce2014.jaist.ac.jp/icce2014/?page_id=164 Paper categories (Note the revised page limits): a.. Full paper (8-10 pages) b.. Short paper (5-6 pages) c.. Poster paper (2-3 pages) Paper Template: http://icce2014.jaist.ac.jp/icce2014/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/Paper-Templ…

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ACM HT 2014, 1 week extension for LBR, DC papers and workshop papers
by Denis Parra 12 May '14

12 May '14

We are announcing a 1 week extension to submit late breaking results, doctoral consortium papers and workshop papers, new deadline is May 30th. Please, check more details at the official conference Web Page http://ht.acm.org/ht2014/ ====================================================== Hypertext 2014 - 25th ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media 1-4 Sept. 2014, Santiago, Chile http://ht.acm.org/ht2014/ ====================================================== Denis Parra Local and Publicity chair Assistant Professor, CS Department School of Engineering, PUC Chile http://denisparra.github.io

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Call for Papers: ISA 2015
by Madeline Carr 11 May '14

11 May '14

Hello AoIR fellows, Those of you who work at the intersection of Internet technology and International Relations may be aware that in March, we had a new section approved at the International Studies Association (ISA) conference in Toronto. Science, Technology, Art and International Relations (STAIR) will allow us to share our work in a more focused way and also to begin incorporating work from other disciplines that have relevance for understanding the implications of technology for global politics. It should have special resonance with many of you who work on political aspects of Internet technology. Next year in New Orleans, we will present our inaugural program and I wanted to extend an invitation to any of you who may be interested to submit a paper or a panel/roundtable proposal. The CfP is below but don't hesitate to contact me or the program chairs (listed at the end) if you have any questions. Hope to see some of you in New Orleans! Madeline Call for Papers: International Studies Association 2015 Annual Convention Science, Technology, Art and International Relations (STAIR) Section Deadline: 1 June 2014 http://www.isanet.org/Conferences/NewOrleans2015/Call.aspx The newly chartered ISA section on Science, Technology, Art and International Relations (STAIR) recognizes that science, technology, and art are critical to global politics. They shape much of the everyday reality of international security, statecraft, development, design of critical global infrastructures, approaches to social justice, and the practices of global governance. Science, technology and art (i.e., in the form of creativity, the arts, architecture and design) permeate international affairs in the form of material elements and networks, technical instruments, systems of knowledge and scientific practices. They challenge existing conceptual approaches and prompt us to step beyond IR canons to seek inter-disciplinary collaborations. Through this new section we seek to generate the space for International Relations as a discipline to engage these matters through productive intellectual conversations with existing subsections as well as with other disciplines. STAIR will facilitate theoretical understandings of how we go about creating, assessing, and deliberating scientific, technological and artistic design and their impact on the shifts of contemporary world order. At the next ISA in New Orleans, (February 18th-21st) STAIR seeks to engage particularly with the impact of science, technology and art on ‘global IR’ and how scientific and artistic practices, technological infrastructures and artistic performances open up global understandings of international and global affairs. STAIR encourages submissions of individual papers, (innovative) panels and roundtables that explore the following themes: - the role of STS methods and sensibilities in International Relations - the different ‘regional’ impacts of science, technology and art on International Relations and, especially, the role of technologies and infrastructures in post-colonial contexts - the role of science, technology and art in the rise of non-Western countries and in global power shifts - the ways in which perspectives of science and technology studies (STS) on contemporary developments in science, technology and art challenge traditional modes and practices of International Relations - debates on understanding and misunderstanding the global politics of emerging technologies (such as nano-tech, surveillance instruments and systems, hacking software etc) - indigenous and non-Western technologies and their impact on contemporary global politics - exploring and critiquing the diversity of techno-fetishisms in international affairs - the role STS debates and concepts can play to reframe core notions of IR (including sovereignty, power, anarchy and governance) and to challenge normative assumptions in International Relations - innovative panels and roundtables that explore the possibility of a jointly ‘global’ and ‘interdisciplinary’ International Relations Theory. *Section Programme Chairs:* Michele Acuto, University College London – m.acuto(a)ucl.ac.uk Maximilian Mayer, University of Bonn – maximilian.mayer(a)uni-bonn.de For more info on STAIR & ISA visit: http://www.isanet.org/ISA/Sections/STAIR You can find out more about special elements (including career courses, workshops, innovative panels etc) of ISA’s program under "Special Convention Programs<http://www.isanet.org/Conferences/SpecialConventionPrograms.aspx>" area. Dr. Madeline Carr Lecturer in International Politics and the Cyber Dimension Department of International Politics Aberystwyth University Penglais, Aberystwyth SY23 3FE Wales desk: +44 01970 621955 mobile: +44 (0)752 867 2088 email: madeline.carr(a)aber.ac.uk twitter: @MadelineCarr 2013 Teaching Through Technology Award 2014 Blackboard Exemplary Course Award

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Requesting recommendations on interesting digital ethnographies
by Carmel Vaisman 10 May '14

10 May '14

Dear colleagues, I'm teaching a graduate seminar next year on digital ethnographies and I'm covered when it comes to methodology papers or "the usual suspects" doing ethnogrpahies at AoIR. However, i am looking for interesting ethnographies i might not be aware of, ones that might be transgressive in nature, presenting new challenges or dealing with marginalized or unique populations. Less known and interesting works, possibly those of graduate students will be very much appreciated. Thank you, Carmel Vaisman, PhD. The Multidisciplinary Program in the Humanities Tel Aviv University @carmelva http://oh-man-oh-machine.com/

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Final CfPs: 7th ASE International Conference on Social Computing (SocialCom 2014)
by Christoph Trattner 10 May '14

10 May '14

=============================================================================== CALL FOR PAPERS The 7th ASE International Conference on Social Computing (SocialCom 2014 Beijing) Tsinghua University, Beijing, China August 4-7, 2014 http://socialcom2014beijing.scienceengineering.org/ =============================================================================== The 7th ASE Conference series on Social Computing (SocialCom 2014 Beijing) is the premier international forum for research on information, communication and interactive technologies that consider social context in social computing and social media. The program contains two tracks for paper submission. IMPORTANT DATES =============================================================================== Paper Submission: May 15, 2014 (extended) Workshop Papers Submission: May 15, 2014 Workshop Papers Notification: June 1, 2014 Poster/Demo Submission: May 25, 2014 Acceptance Notification: June 15, 2014 Poster/Demo Acceptance: June 15, 2014 Workshop Papers Camera-ready: June 15, 2014 Industry Speech: June 23, 2014 Final Paper Due: June 25, 2014 Poster/Demo Camera-ready: June 30, 2014 SCOPE AND INTERESTS ============================================================================== Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: Track 1: Social Media, Networks, Systems and Services Track - Mobile and Wearable Social Networks and Systems - Social Media Analytics and Media Intelligence - Connecting Offline and Online Networks - Performance Evaluation of Social Media Services/Systems - Novel Recommendation and Inference Techniques - Cyber-physical and Smart Interactive System for Social Networks - Trend and Virality of Social Media - Mobile Social Gaming and Analysis - Applications and Case Studies of the above Track 2: Social Signal Processing Track - Social Intelligence - Social Behavior Modeling and Analysis - Emotional Intelligence - Cultural Dynamics, Opinion Representation, and Influence Processes - Reality Mining - SSP in Human-Computer Interaction and Interface Design - Novel Data Mining and Machine Learning in Social Contexts KEYNOTE SPEAKERS ============================================================================== Zhen Liu, Microsoft, China Chunming Hu, Beihang University, China and more to come ELECTRONIC SUBMISSION ============================================================================== Prepare your manuscripts according to ACM paper guidelines ( http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates) between 6 and 8 pages, and not exceeding 8 pages in PDF format. Submit your paper(s) at the SocialCom 2014 Beijing submission site ( http://www.scienceengineering.org/ase/conference/2014/socialcom/beijing/web…) Each submission should be regarded as an undertaking that, should the paper be accepted, at least one of the authors must attend the conference to present the work in order for the paper to be included in the Digital Library. PAPER PUBLICATIONS ============================================================================== Top 2% accepted papers will be published in the ASE Human Journal. Rest of the accepted papers will be included in the ACM Digital Library. Extended versions of selected papers will be considered for publication in several SCI-indexed international journals (see website). WORKSHOPS ============================================================================== International Workshop on Context Discovery and Data Mining (ContextDD 2014) International Workshop on Big Data Analytics, Management and Storage (BDAMS 2014) International Workshop on Extreme Scale Data Cloud Computing Architectures (SHPC 2014) International Workshop on Engineering and Experiences with Open Source Cloud Platforms (EEOSCP 2014) RWVW-2014: International Workshop on Predicting Real World Behaviors From Virtual World Data SoNaEDU-2014: International Workshop on Social Networks and its Applications on Education More info: http://www.scienceengineering.org/ase/conference/2014/socialcom/beijing/web… POSTERS ============================================================================== The BigDataScience and SocialCom 2014 poster sessions provide an interaction opportunity for researchers and practitioners to present and demonstrate their new and innovative works-in-progress, and to obtain valuable feedback on ongoing research from a knowledgeable crowd at the conference. More info: http://www.scienceengineering.org/ase/conference/2014/socialcom/beijing/web… DEMOS ============================================================================== The BigDataScience and SocialCom 2014 demo sessions provide an exciting and highly interactive way for researchers to demonstrate their latest research to conference attendees. We are looking for demos in the areas of big data, data visualization, data mining, social media, social signal processing and social computing for presentation at the conference. More info: http://www.scienceengineering.org/ase/conference/2014/socialcom/beijing/web… CONTACT INFORMATION ============================================================================== Email address: socialcom2014bj(a)googlegroups.com (attn. to SocialCom Chairs) Mailing address: Dept. of Electronic & Computer Engineering, HKUST Clear Water Bay, Kowloon, Hong Kong (attn. to Prof. James She) ORGANIZING COMMITTEE ============================================================================== Honorary Chair Fei-Yue Wang, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China General Chairs Su Yang, Fudan University, China Kristina Lerman, University of Southern California, USA Executive Chairs Alvin Chin, Microsoft, China Justin Zhan, North Carolina A&T State University, USA Program Chairs James She, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong Martin Atzmueller, Universit‰t Kassel, Germany Program Vice-Chairs Baoliu Ye, Nanjing University, China Arkaitz Zubiaga, AIRC, Dublin, Ireland Peng Cui, Tsinghua University, China Jill Freyne, CSIRO ICT, Australia Panel Chair Zhang Lin, Beijing Univ. of Posts and Telecommunications, China Demo Chairs Zhiang Wu, Nanjing University of Finance and Economics, China Anatoliy Gruzd, Dalhousie University, Canada Poster Chairs Harold Liu, Beijing Institute of Technology, China Zhiyong Yu, Fuzhou University, China Hua Yuan, University of Electronic Science & Technology of China, China Workshop Chairs Mike Liang, Microsoft Research, China Mauro Conti, University of Padua, Italy Steering Committee Merce Crosas, Harvard University, USA Howard Lander, RENCI/UNC-Chapel Hill, USA Arcot Rajasekar, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, USA Advisory Chair Feng Xia, Dalian University of Technology, China Sponsorship Chair Dou Shen, Baidu, China Local Chair Minlie Huang, Tsinghua University, China Publicity Chairs Ruijin He, Taylor & Francis, China Christoph Trattner, Know-Center, Austria Marc Smith, ConnectedAction, USA Program Committee http://www.scienceengineering.org/ase/conference/2014/socialcom/beijing/web… -- ------------------------------------------------------- Dipl.-Ing. Dr.techn. Christoph Trattner BSc Head of the Social Computing Research Group @Know-Center Graz University of Technology Inffeldgasse 13, 8010 Graz, Austria E-mail: ctrattner(a)know-center.at Tel: +43 316 873 30840 Homepage: http://christophtrattner.info Have an interesting EU-Project on User Modeling & Personalization? Present your Project at UMAP2014: http://umap2014.cs.aau.dk/ -------------------------------------------------------

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Online ethnographic research software
by Deborah Lupton 10 May '14

10 May '14

Hello all I am looking for software that facilitates qualitative research projects asking participants to log in regularly and write responses to questions/probes, even upload images or journal entries. Much of the software I can find when searching online is linked to market research companies. I'm looking for packages that I can use independently of a market research company. Any suggestions? Many thanks Deborah

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One Day Event inc: meals starting at only $135
by AJ Kelton 09 May '14

09 May '14

Less than 3 weeks until the 2014 Emerging Learning Design Conference and there are still registrations open starting at only $135 including breakfast and lunch. Don’t miss this year’s event! Register today at http://bit.ly/14sm0509 Please share this with your colleagues, networks, and social media. thx aj #ELD14 -- ----- AJ Kelton Director of Emerging & Instructional Technology College of Humanities and Social Sciences - Montclair State University Doctoral Candidate Educational Communication and Technology - New York University ---------- Emerging Learning Design 2014 http://eld.montclair.edu Twitter: @ELDConf <http://twitter.com/ELDConf> ---------- http://www.ajkelton.net Twitter: @aj_kelton <http://twitter.com/aj_kelton>

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"Canadian Digital Media Pioneer"
by Barry Wellman 09 May '14

09 May '14

@GRAND_NCE has just announced that I have received a Canadian Digital Media Pioneer Award for 2014 http://grand-nce.ca/newsandmedia/news-container/2014/grand-announces-recipi… Really a NetLab team effort But if you click on the right link you get a lot about my childhood. Barry Wellman _______________________________________________________________________ NetLab FRSC INSNA Founder Faculty of Information (iSchool) 611 Bissell Building 140 St. George St. University of Toronto Toronto Canada M5S 3G6 http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman twitter: @barrywellman NSA/CSEC: Canadian and American citizen NETWORKED:The New Social Operating System. Lee Rainie & Barry Wellman MIT Press http://amzn.to/zXZg39 Print $14 Kindle $16 Old/NewCyberTimes http://bit.ly/c8N9V8 ________________________________________________________________________

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Digital Labour and Karl Marx (Christian Fuchs): New paperback
by Christian Fuchs 09 May '14

09 May '14

Digital Labour and Karl Marx (Christian Fuchs): New paperback Fuchs, Christian. 2014. Digital Labour and Karl Marx. New York: Routledge. ISBN 978-0-415-71615-4. More information about the book: http://fuchs.uti.at/books/digital-labour-and-karl-marx/ Participate in the journal tripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique (http://www.triple-c.at)’s Karl Marx-lottery and win one of 6 copies of the book (see the instructions at the end of this e-mail) How is labour changing in the age of computers, the Internet, and “social media” such as Facebook, Google, YouTube and Twitter? In Digital Labour and Karl Marx, Christian Fuchs attempts to answer that question, crafting a systematic critical theorisation of labour as performed in the capitalist ICT industry. The book ''Digital Labour and Karl Marx'' shows that labour, class and exploitation are not concepts of the past, but are at the heart of computing and the Internet in capitalist society. It argues that we therefore need an engagement with Karl Marx’s theory to understand digital and social media today. The work argues that our use of digital media is grounded in old and new forms of exploited labour. Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Weibo and other social media platforms are the largest advertising agencies in the world. They do not sell communication, but advertising space. And for doing so, they exploit users, who work without payment for social media companies and produce data that is used for targeting advertisements. The book presents case studies that show that users’ activities on corporate social media is just one form of digital labour. Their usage is enabled by the labour of slaves and other highly exploited workers extracting minerals in developing countries, hardware assemblers in China, California and other parts of the world who face extremely hard working conditions that remind us of the industrial labour that Karl Marx described in 19th century Britain, low paid software engineers and information service workers in developing countries who provide labour for transnatio nal ICT companies in the West, highly paid and highly stressed software engineers at Google and other Western ICT companies, or e-waste workers who disassemble computers under toxic conditions. The case studies in Fuchs’ book show that the profitability of ICT companies is built on the lives and deaths of a global class of exploited workers whose labour is anonymously connected an international division of digital labour. Christian Fuchs, ''Production and use of digital media are embedded into multiple forms of exploitation. The information society is first and foremost a capitalist class society. The only solution is that we become conscious as a new working class and find ways to overcome the realities of exploitation''. CONTENTS PART I Theoretical Foundations of Studying Digital Labour 1. Introduction 2. An Introduction to Karl Marx’s Theory 3. Contemporary Cultural Studies and Karl Marx 4. Dallas Smythe and Audience Labour Today 5. Capitalism or Information Society? PART II Analysing Digital Labour: Case Studies 6. Digital Slavery: Slave Work in ICT-Related Mineral Extraction 7. Exploitation at Foxconn: Primitive Accumulation and the Formal Subsumption of Labour 8. The New Imperialism’s Division of Labour: Work in the Indian Software Industry 9. The Silicon Valley of Dreams and Nightmares of Exploitation: The Google Labour Aristocracy and Its Context 10. Tayloristic, Housewifized Service Labour: The Example of Call Centre Work 11. Theorizing Digital Labour on Social Media PART III Conclusion 12. Digital Labour and Struggles for Digital Work:The Occupy Movement as a New Working-Class Movement? Social Media as Working-Class Social Media? 13. Digital Labour Keywords Participate in the journal tripleC’s (http://www.triple-c.at) Karl Marx-lottery and potentially win one of 6 copies of “Digital Labour and Karl Marx”: send the 2 answer of the following 2 questions, your name and postal address to office(a)triple-c.at How often can the term “means of communication” be found in a) Marx’s “Capital, Volume 1” (excluding the index, the editor’s and translator’s introductions, as well as excluding the “Results of the Immediate Process of Production” included in some editions; including footnotes) and b) Marx’s “Grundrisse” (including the table of contents and footnotes; excluding the index, editor’s or translator’s introductions, including footnotes) Closing date: Thursday, May 15. 18:00 BST The winners will be drawn among the correct answers. If less than 6 sent-in answers are correct, then those answers whose guess is closest will be considered.

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