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CFP: Interactivos? Birmingham: Responsive and immersive future technologies
by Medialab-Prado Comunicación 09 Apr '14

09 Apr '14

Interactivos? Birmingham: Responsive and immersive future technologies <http://medialab-prado.es/article/interactivosbirmingham> Open Call for Projects <http://medialab-prado.es/article/interactivosbirmingham> Birmingham City University (UK), Medialab-Prado (Madrid), Sampad (UK), mac birmingham (UK), and BBC Birmingham (UK) and are issuing an Open Call for projects to be collaboratively developed and presented during *Interactivos? Birmingham* (*June 16 -- 28, 2014*), with the participation of advisors and technical assistants. *Venue: mac birmingham <http://www.macarts.co.uk/>* Deadline: April 30, 2014 Interactivos? Birmingham is a UK based, two week international seminar and open innovation prototyping workshop. The Interactivos? model, conceived by Medialab-Prado as a hybrid between an innovation production workshop, seminar and exhibition showcase. It is a space for reflection, research, collaboration and creation, in which proposals selected by an international open call are developed, completed and displayed. The process will be open to the public from beginning to end. Interactivos? is widely regarded as a model of best practice, and in bringing the project to Birmingham, this will be the first time the Interactivos? project will have been hosted in the UK. In doing so, regional and national based individuals will connect to an international network of creative and digital professionals for collaboration and technological production. http://medialab-prado.es/article/interactivosbirmingham -- 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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Re: [Air-L] Fwd: FREE OHRP Webinar on Internet Research - May 8, 2014
by Scott MacLeod 08 Apr '14

08 Apr '14

Hi Mary and AIR-L, The talk you announced yesterday looks fascinating - "Conducting Internet Research: Challenges and Strategies for IRBs, Presenter: Laura Odwazny, JD" http://videocast.nih.gov/summary.asp?live=13932&bhcp=1 - but not accessible - http://videocast.nih.gov/ . Any suggestions, besides waiting for it be archived? I'll add it to the main, beginning, 'Research,' wiki, subject page - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Research - at C.C., accrediting, MIT OCW-centric World University and School, planned for all 7, 105 languages and 242 countries. Thanks, Scott - Scott MacLeod - Founder & President - http://scottmacleod.com/worlduniversityandschool.htm - World University and School - like Wikipedia with MIT OpenCourseWare (not endorsed by MIT OCW) - incorporated as a nonprofit effective April 2010. On Mon 07/04/14 3:19 PM , "Mary L. Gray" qcentral(a)indiana.edu sent: > cool. > ?! > > Mary L. Gray > Associate Professor Communication and Culture > Adjunct Faculty, American Studies; Anthropology; Gender Studies > Indiana University, Bloomington > > Senior Researcher Microsoft Research > > > > Begin forwarded message: > > > From: Irene Stith-Coleman <I > rene.Stith-Coleman(a)HHS.GOV>> Subject: FREE OHRP Webinar on Internet Research > - May 8, 2014> Date: April 7, 2014 at 7:00:59 AM EDT > > To: <OHRP-L@LI > ST.NIH.GOV>> Reply-To: Irene Stith-Coleman <I > rene.Stith-Coleman(a)HHS.GOV>> > > OHRP is pleased to invite you to the next > presentation in our free continuing Webinar Lecture Series designed to > address critical issues of importance to everyone involved in the > protection of human research subjects:> > > Conducting Internet Research: Challenges and > Strategies for IRBs> > > Presenter: Laura Odwazny, JD, Legal Counsel to > OHRP, Office of the General Counsel, Department of Health and Human > Services (HHS)> > > Date: May 8th, 2014 > > > > Time: 2-3 pm EDT. > > > > Cost: Free > > > > WEBINAR DESCRIPTION: > > > > The current HHS regulations for the protection > of human subjects in research were promulgated well before the widespread > use of the Internet in the conduct of human subject research, and assessing > how the regulatory requirements apply to this type of research can be > challenging for both investigators and IRBs. > > > This session will address how specific > requirements of the HHS regulations apply to research using the Internet > and discuss strategies for managing the relevant ethical issues and > regulatory considerations, including:> > > • assessing the privacy and identifiability > of subject information obtained via the Internet;> • the use of the Internet for subject > recruitment and retention; > • informed consent procedures; > > • and maintaining confidentiality in an > online environment. > > > In light of the July, 2011 Advance Notice of > Proposed Rulemaking (ANPRM) published by the U.S. Department of Health and > Human Services seeking comment on possible changes to the Common Rule, this > session will also discuss the related ANPRM proposals that are being > contemplated on the Federal level. > > > SPEAKER BIOGRAPHY: > > > > Laura M. Odwazny is a Senior Attorney with the > Office of the General Counsel, U.S. Department of Health and Human > Services. Ms. Odwazny’s primary client is the Office for Human > Research Protections, which interprets and enforces the HHS regulations > that provide protections for human research subjects. > > > Throughout her 14 years with the Office of the > General Counsel, Ms. Odwazny has provided legal advice to various other > agencies within HHS, including the Office of the Assistant Secretary for > Health, the Program Support Center Division of FOIA Services, the Health > Resources and Services Administration, the Substance Abuse and Mental > Health Administration, and the Office of Research Integrity. > > > Ms. Odwazny is a graduate of the University of > Chicago and the University of Pittsburgh School of Law, and received a M.A. > in Bioethics through the History and Philosophy of Science Department at > the University of Pittsburgh.> > > > > HOW TO LOG IN TO THE WEBINAR: > > > > The event will be accessible live and archived. > There is no charge to access the webinar.> > > To log in, go to: http://videocast.nih.gov > > > We will also have a link to the archived > recording at the OHRP website, www.hhs.gov/ohrp, a > few weeks after the session. > > > If you require technical support during the > Webinar, please call 301-496-4357 (local), 866-319-4357 (toll-free), or > 301-496-8294.> > > Please contact Michelle Feige, Acting Director > for the Division of Education and Development (DED) at Michel > le.Feige(a)hhs.gov if you have general questions about the > webinar. > _______________________________________________ > The Air-L > @listserv.aoir.org mailing listis provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.orgSubscribe, 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/ > >

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ISMI'14 - registration is now open
by Charles Ess 08 Apr '14

08 Apr '14

Dear AoIRists, The 3rd International Symposium on Media Innovations (ISMI) will take place this coming April 24-25 in the Smalltalk Auditorium, Ole-Johan Dahls hus, Gaustadalléen 23B, Oslo. The Symposium will feature three keynote addresses: Thor Gjermund Eriksen, Director General of NRK (the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation): "Conditions for Innovations in Public Broadcasting² Bjørn Taale Sandberg, Senior Vice President, Telenor Research: ³Who will fund the media highway of the future?" -The (possible) need for new business models to avoid a tragedy of the commons, And our very own Steve Jones, Distinguished Professor, University of Illinois at Chicago: ³Living the Good Life: IT Innovations and Human Augmentics² (For more details on the Symposium, including the Program, please see: <http://www.hf.uio.no/imk/english/research/center/media-innovations/symposi um/index.html> Registration is free but required as space is limited. The registration link can be found on the Symposium website, or you can go directly to: <https://nettskjema.uio.no/answer/48233.html> Please pass on to potentially interested colleagues and research / practice communities. With all best wishes, - charles 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/> University of Oslo P.O. Box 1093 Blindern NO-0317 Oslo Norway email: charles.ess(a)media.uio.no

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CFP: HICSS Citizen Journalism and Social Media Archiving
by Bahareh Heravi 08 Apr '14

08 Apr '14

Call for Papers: HICSS Citizen Journalism and Social Media Archiving http://www.hicss.hawaii.edu/HICSS_48/Tracks/DSM/DSMCitizen.pdf Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS) 48 January 5-8, 2015, Grand Hyatt, Kauai, Hawaii PAPERS DUE: June 15, 2014 via the HICSS conference system http://www.hicss.hawaii.edu/hicss_48/apahome48.htm Twitter hashtag: #hicss_sja The exponential growth of social media as a central communication practice, and its agility in announcing breaking news events more rapidly than traditional media, has changed the journalistic landscape: social media has been adopted as a significant source by professional journalists, and conversely, citizens are able to use social media as a form of direct reportage. Social media content now forms a significant part of the digital content generated every day, and provides a platform for voices that would not reach the broader public through traditional journalistic media alone. In this emerging environment, citizen microblogs and other user- generated content constitute an important part of history and popular memory, in particular when attempting to capture significant events and the varied perspectives that accompany these events. The flow of citizen generated reporting through social media is ephemeral and disordered; it quickly becomes inaccessible if not captured and stored in some way. This is in contrast to traditional journalism, which has well-developed archival practices, enabling the news production life cycle to reuse and rediscover content. This new landscape calls for technologies and methodologies to 1) rapidly and efficiently capture, filter and verify content in a way that generates immediate value for journalistic purposes; and 2) properly annotate and archive this information for longer-term preservation, access and reuse in the news life-cycle (e.g. for contextualization, investigative reporting or comprehensive storytelling). If not preserved, or if preserved without careful attention to subsequent access and discoverability, there is a risk of losing the diversity this rich social narrative contributes to traditional news media. This multidisciplinary minitrack is part of Digital and Social Media track and is focused on the areas of citizen/social journalism and social media archiving, which pose distinct, yet complementary, research challenges. By pairing these topics in one multidisciplinary minitrack we hope to stimulate an exchange of ideas between multiple domains of research and industry, including news media, digital archiving and preservation, social network analysis, semantic web and linked data, communication studies and cultural studies. To this end we welcome papers in either of these two areas or papers that address their intersection. In this minitrack we are interested in addressing a variety of research questions from both theoretical and pragmatic perspectives. For example, how we can best utilize social media for news production? What technologies can we use for breaking news detection, filtering, aggregation and contextualization? How can we assess the veracity of social media content and sources? What moral, legal, and ethical issues arise when professional journalists use social media as a source? How can we organize, interpret, and retain a record of social media around news events? What does this record contribute to our larger understanding of news, and the writing of news? How can rigorous archiving and preservation of social media help researchers and journalists in their work on social movements, citizen engagement, political events, and network formation? Keeping the application domains of the minitrack in mind, topics of interest include, but are not limited to: • The role of user generated content in the news production life-cycle  • Veracity, trust and provenance of social media sources and content • Approaches to archiving social media content • Event and topic detection and clustering  • Information and entity extraction  • Social network and community analysis • Semantic Web and Linked Data technologies for archival, discovery and enrichment of social media content • Opinion mining and sentiment analysis  • Story curation, contextualisation and recommendation  • Ethical challenges in archiving and broadcasting social media content For more information please visit minitrack web page on http://www.hicss.hawaii.edu/HICSS_48/Tracks/DSM/DSMCitizen.pdf. You can also follow minitrack updates on http://hujo.deri.ie/hicss-sja/. Co-chairs Bahareh Heravi, Insight Centre for Data Analytics at NUI Galway (formerly known as DERI), Bahareh.Heravi(a)deri.org, @Bahareh360 (Primary Contact) Natalie Harrower, Digital Repository of Ireland, n.harrower(a)ria.ie, @natalieharrower Stefan Decker, Insight Centre for Data Analytics at NUI Galway (formerly known as DERI), Stefan.Decker(a)deri.org, @Stefanjdecker ABOUT HICSS CONFERENCES http://www.hicss.hawaii.edu/hicss_48/apahome48.htm HICSS conferences are devoted to the most relevant advances in the information, computer, and system sciences, and encompass developments in both theory and practice. Accepted papers may be theoretical, conceptual, tutorial or descriptive in nature. Those selected for presentation are included in the Conference Proceedings published by the IEEE Computer Society and maintained in the IEEE Digital Library. HICSS is the #1 IS conference in terms of citations as recorded by Google Scholar. Recent research that shows HICSS ranked second in citation ranking among 18 Information Systems (IS) conferences, ranked third in value to the MIS field among 13 Management Information Systems (MIS) conferences, and ranked second in conference rating among 11 IS conferences. The Australian Government's Excellence in Research project (ERA) has given HICSS an "A" rating. How to Submit a Paper: Follow Author Instructions on the conference web site: http://www.hicss.hawaii.edu/hicss_48/apahome48.htm HICSS papers must contain original material. They may not have been previously published, nor currently submitted elsewhere. All submissions undergo a double-blind peer review process. Abstracts are optional, but recommended. You may contact the Minitrack Chair(s) for guidance or verification of content. Submit a paper to only one Minitrack. If a paper is submitted to more than one minitrack, then either paper may be rejected by either minitrack without consultation with author or other chairs. If you are not sure of the appropriate Minitrack, submit an abstract to the Track Chair(s) for determination, and/or seek informal opinion(s) of Minitrack Chair(s) before submitting. Do not author or co-author more than 5 papers. This means that an individual may be listed as author or co-author on no more than 5 submitted papers. Track Chairs must approve any names added after submission or acceptance on August 15. IMPORTANT DATES June 15, 2014 - SUBMIT FULL MANUSCRIPTS FOR REVIEW as instructed. The review is double-blind; therefore, this initial submission must be without author names. Aug 15, 2014 - Review System emails Acceptance Notices to authors. It is very important that at least one author of each accepted paper attend the conference. Therefore, all travel guarantees – including visa or your organization’s fiscal funding procedures – should begin immediately. Make sure your server accepts the review system address https://precisionconference.com/~hicss. Sep 15, 2014 - SUBMIT FINAL PAPER. Add author names to your paper, and submit your Final Paper for Publication to the site provided in your Acceptance Notice. (This URL is not public knowledge.) Oct 1, 2014 - EARLY REGISTRATION FEE DEADLINE. At least one author of each paper should register by this date in order secure publication in the Proceedings. Fees will increase on Oct 2 and Dec 2. Oct 15, 2014 - Papers without at least one paid-in-full registered author may be deleted from the Proceedings and not scheduled for presentation; authors will be so notified by the Conference Office. ------------------------------------------------------------ Dr. Bahareh R. Heravi Group Leader, Digital Humanities and Journalism (http://hujo.deri.ie/) INSIGHT @NUIG (DERI) Tel: +353 91 495339 Web: http://bahareh.net/ @Bahareh360 ------------------------------------------------------------

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CFP: Fan Studies Network 2014 conference
by Bertha Chin 08 Apr '14

08 Apr '14

Dear all, Please find below, the CFP for the Fan Studies Network conference. Call for papers: *THE FAN STUDIES NETWORK 2014 CONFERENCE* 27-28th September 2014 Regent's University London, UK Keynote Speakers: Dr Paul Booth (DePaul University) Dr Rhiannon Bury (Athabasca University) Mr Orlando Jones (star of *Sleepy Hollow, *appearing for a virtual Q&A) For two years the Fan Studies Network has provided a fruitful and enthusiastic space for academics interested in fans and fandom to connect, share resources, and develop their research ideas. Following the success of our first symposium in November 2013, we are delighted to announce the FSN2014 Conference, taking place over two days at Regent's University London from 27-28th September 2014. FSN2014 will feature three fantastic keynote speakers. The first will be Dr Paul Booth, author of *Digital Fandom: New Media Studies *(Peter Lang, 2010), *Time on TV: Temporal Displacement and Mashup Television* (Peter Lang, 2012) and editor of *Fan Phenomena: Doctor Who* (Intellect, 2013). His newest book, *Media Play: Pastiche, Parody, Fandom*, is forthcoming from University of Iowa Press. The second keynote will be Dr Rhiannon Bury, author of *Cyberspaces of Their Own: Female Fandoms Online *(Peter Lang, 2005) and currently writing her second book for publication with Peter Lang, entitled *Television 2.0: New Perspectives on Digital Convergence, Audiences, and Fans*. We are also incredibly delighted that Mr Orlando Jones, an American film and television writer, producer, and actor who currently plays Captain Frank Irving in *Sleepy Hollow* (Fox, 2013-) and vocal proponent of fan culture, will be joining us via Skype to participate in a virtual Q&A session. We invite abstracts of no more than 300 words for individual 20 minute papers that address any aspect of fandom or fan studies. We also welcome collated submissions for pre-constituted panels. We encourage new members, in all stages of study, to the network and welcome proposals for presentations on, but not limited to, the following possible topics: - Activism and fandom - Producer-audience interactions - Non-Western fan cultures - Ethics in fan studies - Defining fandom - Anti-Fandom and Non-Fandom - Fan use of social media platforms - Fandom (and) controversies - The future of fan studies We also invite expressions of interest (100- 200 words) from anyone wishing to host a short session of 'speed geeking.' This would involve each speaker chairing a short discussion on a relevant topic of their choosing, and then receiving extensive feedback, making it ideal for presenting in-progress or undeveloped ideas. If you have any questions about this format of presentation, please contact Richard McCulloch at mccullochr(a)regents.ac.uk. Please send any enquires/abstracts to: fsnconference(a)gmail.com by *SUNDAY 1st JUNE*. Notifications of decisions will be sent out w/c 16th June. You can find out more information on http://fanstudies.wordpress.com/ or talk about the event on Twitter using #FSN2014. Conference Organisers: Lucy Bennett and Tom Phillips (FSN chairs) Bertha Chin, Bethan Jones, Richard McCulloch, Rebecca Williams (FSN board) -- Dr. Bertha Chin Independent Scholar <http://cardiff.academia.edu/BerthaChin> @bertha_c Board Member, Fan Studies Network (http://fanstudies.wordpress.com/)

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Fwd: FREE OHRP Webinar on Internet Research - May 8, 2014
by Mary L. Gray 07 Apr '14

07 Apr '14

cool. ?! Mary L. Gray Associate Professor Communication and Culture Adjunct Faculty, American Studies; Anthropology; Gender Studies Indiana University, Bloomington Senior Researcher Microsoft Research Begin forwarded message: > From: Irene Stith-Coleman <Irene.Stith-Coleman(a)HHS.GOV> > Subject: FREE OHRP Webinar on Internet Research - May 8, 2014 > Date: April 7, 2014 at 7:00:59 AM EDT > To: <OHRP-L(a)LIST.NIH.GOV> > Reply-To: Irene Stith-Coleman <Irene.Stith-Coleman(a)HHS.GOV> > > OHRP is pleased to invite you to the next presentation in our free continuing Webinar Lecture Series designed to address critical issues of importance to everyone involved in the protection of human research subjects: > > Conducting Internet Research: Challenges and Strategies for IRBs > > Presenter: Laura Odwazny, JD, Legal Counsel to OHRP, Office of the General Counsel, Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) > > Date: May 8th, 2014 > > Time: 2-3 pm EDT. > > Cost: Free > > WEBINAR DESCRIPTION: > > The current HHS regulations for the protection of human subjects in research were promulgated well before the widespread use of the Internet in the conduct of human subject research, and assessing how the regulatory requirements apply to this type of research can be challenging for both investigators and IRBs. > > This session will address how specific requirements of the HHS regulations apply to research using the Internet and discuss strategies for managing the relevant ethical issues and regulatory considerations, including: > > • assessing the privacy and identifiability of subject information obtained via the Internet; > • the use of the Internet for subject recruitment and retention; > • informed consent procedures; > • and maintaining confidentiality in an online environment. > > In light of the July, 2011 Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (ANPRM) published by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services seeking comment on possible changes to the Common Rule, this session will also discuss the related ANPRM proposals that are being contemplated on the Federal level. > > SPEAKER BIOGRAPHY: > > Laura M. Odwazny is a Senior Attorney with the Office of the General Counsel, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Ms. Odwazny’s primary client is the Office for Human Research Protections, which interprets and enforces the HHS regulations that provide protections for human research subjects. > > Throughout her 14 years with the Office of the General Counsel, Ms. Odwazny has provided legal advice to various other agencies within HHS, including the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health, the Program Support Center Division of FOIA Services, the Health Resources and Services Administration, the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Administration, and the Office of Research Integrity. > > Ms. Odwazny is a graduate of the University of Chicago and the University of Pittsburgh School of Law, and received a M.A. in Bioethics through the History and Philosophy of Science Department at the University of Pittsburgh. > > > HOW TO LOG IN TO THE WEBINAR: > > The event will be accessible live and archived. There is no charge to access the webinar. > > To log in, go to: http://videocast.nih.gov > > We will also have a link to the archived recording at the OHRP website, www.hhs.gov/ohrp, a few weeks after the session. > > If you require technical support during the Webinar, please call 301-496-4357 (local), 866-319-4357 (toll-free), or 301-496-8294. > > Please contact Michelle Feige, Acting Director for the Division of Education and Development (DED) at Michelle.Feige(a)hhs.gov if you have general questions about the webinar.

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New book: "Pirate Politics" by Patrick Burkart
by Michael Zimmer 07 Apr '14

07 Apr '14

Colleagues: I’m very pleased to announce that the sixth book in the MIT Press collection “Information Society Series” I am co-editing with Laura DeNardis has been released: Pirate Politics: The New Information Policy Contests by Patrick Burkart http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/pirate-politics The Swedish Pirate Party emerged as a political force in 2006 when a group of software programmers and file-sharing geeks protested the police takedown of The Pirate Bay, a Swedish file-sharing search engine. The Swedish Pirate Party, and later the German Pirate Party, came to be identified with a “free culture” message that came into conflict with the European Union’s legal system. In this book, Patrick Burkart examines the emergence of Pirate politics as an umbrella cyberlibertarian movement that views file sharing as a form of free expression and advocates for the preservation of the Internet as a commons. He links the Pirate movement to the Green movement, arguing that they share a moral consciousness and an explicit ecological agenda based on the notion of a commons, or public domain. The Pirate parties, like the Green Party, must weigh ideological purity against pragmatism as they move into practical national and regional politics. Burkart uses second-generation critical theory and new social movement theory as theoretical perspectives for his analysis of the democratic potential of Pirate politics. After setting the Pirate parties in conceptual and political contexts, Burkart examines European antipiracy initiatives, the influence of the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative, and the pressure exerted on European governance by American software and digital exporters. He argues that pirate politics can be seen as “cultural environmentalism,” a defense of Internet culture against both corporate and state colonization. About the Author Patrick Burkart is Associate Professor in the Department of Communication at Texas A&M University and the author of Music and Cyberliberties and Digital Music Wars: Ownership and Control of the Celestial Jukebox (with Tom McCourt). About the Series Information Society Series: An Interdisciplinary Series on Technology, Law, and Society Series Editors, Laura DeNardis and Michael Zimmer MIT Press http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/series/information-society-series The Information Society Series addresses the social, legal, and policy implications of the Internet and new information technologies and will especially feature works from the growing global ranks of interdisciplinary scholars in information schools; communications departments; science, technology, and society programs; and programs in law, technology, and culture. We are accepting book proposals for the series. Preference will be given to monographs rather than edited volumes and books that are interdisciplinary, normative, and global in scope. Book proposals should include: • a prospectus (brief description, outstanding features and uniqueness of work, audience and market considerations, status of book, and recommended reviewers); • a detailed table of contents; • sample chapters; and • the authors curriculum vitae. Please submit completed proposals to denardis(a)american.edu and zimmerm(a)uwm.edu -- Michael Zimmer, PhD Assistant Professor, School of Information Studies Director, Center for Information Policy Research University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee e: zimmerm(a)uwm.edu w: www.michaelzimmer.org

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Call for Contributions: The MoneyLab Reader, Edited by Geert Lovink and Nathaniel Tkacz
by nathaniel tkacz 07 Apr '14

07 Apr '14

Call for Contributions: The MoneyLab Reader INC Reader #10 Edited by Geert Lovink and Nathaniel Tkacz MONEYLAB The MoneyLab project launched late 2013 by the Institute of Network Cultures and the University of Warwick considers sprouting alternative digital-economic forms, radical experiments with crypto-currencies, payment systems and revenue models against the backdrop of the ongoing global economic decline. The first MoneyLab conference took place in Amsterdam on March 21-22 2014. Blog reports and videos of the talks and discussions can be found through http://networkcultures.org/moneylab. MONEYLAB READER Part of the project wil l include the publication of the MoneyLab Reader in the INC Reader series. A volume of critical essays by theorists, programmers, activists, and artists; edited by Geert Lovink and Nathaniel Tkacz and to be published early 2015. WE INVITE Internet, visual culture and media scholars, critical finance scholars, anthropologists, Bitcoin researchers, artists, curators, free software and open-content advocates, P2P gurus, financial activists, conference participants and others to submit proposals for The MoneyLab Reader. POSSIBLE TOPICS Mobile Money // Networks & Money // Activism & Finance // Monetization of Social Capital // Crowdfunding Research // Crypto Money // Histories of Internet Banking // Money & Art // Recommendation Systems // E-wallets // Payment Systems // Like, +One, and Favorite Economies. FORMATS We welcome interviews, dialogues, essays and articles, images (b/w), email exchanges, manifestos, or other, with a maximum of 8,000 words, but preferably shorter at around 5,000 words. For scope and style, take a look at the previous INC Readers and the style guide (pdf). WANT TO JOIN? Send in your proposal (500 words max.) before June 1st, 2014. You may expect a response before July 1st, 2014. DEADLINE FOR CONTRIBUTIONS September 1st, 2014. EMAIL TO Miriam Rasch (Publications Coordinator @ Institute of Network Cultures) at miriam[at]networkcultures[dot]org BACKGROUND While the economic downturn endures and budget cuts prevail, we have witnessed the emergence and rise of alternative payment systems and revenue models in digital media. Online bartering sites, a plethora of crowdfunding platforms, new forms of valuation, e-wallets and crypto-currencies like Bitcoin, are but a few examples. These coincide with the huge growth of mobile money transfer services across Asia and Africa and the general convergence of digital and financial industries. MoneyLab: Coining Alternatives is a network that aims to critically explore, map and probe the politics, inner-workings and governance of these alternative digital-economic forms. It is not enough to merely promote and further develop (technical) alternatives, we also need time to ask ourselves critical questions and re-examine the very underpinnings of our endeavours. Of central importance to this project is the formation of a collaborative network of researchers, artists, developers, engineers, and others interested in sharing, coining, critiquing, and ushering in alternative network economies., focused on the monetization debate and looked into three specific fields of inquiry: Bitcoins and other crypto-currencies, crowd funding research and mobile money in the global South.

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hermes on the hudson: notes on media theory after snowdown
by Geert Lovink 06 Apr '14

06 Apr '14

http://www.e-flux.com/journal/hermes-on-the-hudson-notes-on-media-theory-af…

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Call for Papers - Special Issue on Hidden Organizations
by Craig Scott 06 Apr '14

06 Apr '14

AoIR Colleagues, For those of you who study certain hacktivist collectives, anonymous support groups, online hate groups, Internet piracy, dark web organizations, online front organizations, largely invisible virtual businesses, or other somewhat hidden organizations online For those of you whose work examines various technologies of concealment, digital anonymity, online secrecy, privacy, invisibility, or other processes related to the hiding of organizations and/or their members Im pleased to announce the call for papers for a special issue of Management Communication Quarterly (MCQ) on Hidden Organizations. The hidden details are pasted below. The deadline for submitted papers is October 1, 2014. For those not familiar with MCQ, it publishes work from across the organizational and management communication fields and has strong appeal across all disciplines concerned with organizational studies and the management sciences. It is a top 20 journal in communication and is ranked in the top half of all management journals based on impact. You can learn more about this journal and view this call for papers at http://mcq.sagepub.com/. Please let me know if you have any questions and please consider submitting any relevant work you have for this special issue. ----- Call for Special Issue of Management Communication Quarterly: Hidden Organizations Guest Editor: Craig R. Scott, Rutgers University Background Hidden organizations are ones where the identity of the organization and/or its members is heavily concealed, for a variety of reasons, from various audiences. They are collectives organizing in shaded, shadowed, and dark regions of the organizational landscape (see Scott, 2013). These hidden organizations include, but certainly are not limited to, undercover organizations, shadow governments, clandestine groups, terrorist cells, crime cartels, many gangs, and other dark networks. To that we can add many online and offline support groups, certain hate groups, new religious movements, some hacker/hacktivist organizations, secret societies, and potentially even political action committees. Also hidden from view are various stigmatized companies, front/shell organizations, aspects of the informal economy, and even certain highly specialized small businesses that remain largely invisible to the public. These hidden collectives represent an important and likely growing segment of our world. Yet, in many ways, we as citizens, consumers, and scholars of organizations have failed to seriously and adequately consider these various forms of hidden organizationscreating both missed opportunities and potential dangers. There are several explanations for this. First, our scholarly focus on the familiar organizational foreground of predominantly large for-profit businesses, easily recognized governmental agencies, and a few high profile nonprofits and NGOs contributes to a lack of awareness of what may be an even larger arena of other less visible collectives. We instruct our students about the value of branding and identity creation, various professional associations conduct training workshops to improve skills in reputation and image management, and we draw primarily on these recognizable organizations in our teaching and consultingall of which draws attention away from more hidden collectives. Second, we live in a world where too often the name of the game is the name game (Glynn & Abzug, 2002; Schultz, Hatch, & Larsen, 2000), where organizations dedicate substantial efforts to provide a highly recognizable name and visual identities that enhance their reputation (Fombrun & Shanley, 1990). There is a general bias in much of society for openness and transparency and a lack of serious attention to that which is hidden or kept secret. A third reason for the lack of attention to hidden organizations is that existing methods privilege more visible forms of organizing. Certainly, their somewhat hidden nature often makes accessing information about them challengingleading researchers to pursue more convenient samples and cases. A final potential reason for the inattention to these hidden organizations is seen in broader critiques about our continued reliance on outdated organizational theory even amid recognition of widespread changes. Davis (2009) offers an informative critique in arguing that large corporations have lost their central place in American social structure as we move from an industrial to post industrial economy, where the applicability of several of our existing theories is called into question (p. 41). Thus, a contemporary view of organizations and organizing must extend our focus to consider other important forms and the distinctive organizing processes in these collectives. Recent work examining both alternative organizations (see Parker, Cheney, Fournier, & Land, 2014) and the dark side of organizations (see Linstead, Maréchal, & Griffin, 2014) represents valuable extensions to our scholarshipthough that work rarely addresses hidden organizations themselves. These various hidden collectives matter because there are real consequences associated with the successful and unsuccessful efforts of these organizations and their members to conceal and reveal their identity to key audiences (Scott, 2013, p. xi). As Alvesson (2004) observed, We live in a complex world, characterized by interaction with a lot of different people, organizations (of whom most are barely known), and production processes (p. 168, emphasis added). Thus, we need more research and theorizing about these hidden collectives in our scholarship. This special issue seeks to unmask some of these hidden organizations and to initiate a scholarly conversation about these collectives as a way to stimulate prescient theorizing (Corley & Gioia, 2011) on this important part of our society. The selected submissions will shed some much needed light on these hidden organizations and their largely concealed practices by highlighting collectives of a different breed and, often, purpose. It will seriously question assumptions about the importance of promoting an organizations identity and building widespread name recognition in an effort to establish a strong reputation. It will also hopefully offer ideas for theorizing about and researching a much wider range of organizational forms than those that currently dominate our literature. Possible Topics This special issue seeks both empirical and conceptual/theoretical pieces related to hidden organizations. Special consideration will be given to submissions reporting original datautilizing any appropriate methodthat examine communicative and/or managerial aspects of a wide range of hidden organizations including, but not limited to, the following entities and their members: covert special missions units, secret or secretive government agencies, clandestine operations, spy rings, eco-terrorist groups, other terrorist cells, the Mafia or other organized crime syndicates, Yakuza or other street gangs, Silk road and others operating on the dark web, pirate organizations, illegal animal fighting rings, KKK, various hate groups, twelve-step support groups, various other online and offline support groups using anonymity, domestic violence shelters, the Underground Railroad or other similar assistance networks, Scientology, cults and other new religious movements, Anonymous and certain other hacker/hacktivist organizations, various secret societies and select fraternal organizations, Skull and Bones, political action committees, sweatshops, front or shell organizations, various aspects of the informal economy, bathhouses and certain others elements of the sex industry, and highly specialized small businesses that remain largely invisible to most. We are also interested in empirical research and more conceptual/theoretical essays addressing motivations for and/or ways in which organizations and/or their members conceal identity, promote invisibility, maintain secrets, obscure image, encourage anonymity, fake transparency, and/or engage in other organizing practices that serve to hide organizations and their members. Submissions detailing unique methodological approaches appropriate for the study of hidden organizations will also be considered. We encourage submissions that examine organizations operating in multiple countries or that have special international significance. In general, we are not looking for studies that merely examine the deceptive practices or hidden work within otherwise visible organizations unless those practices are truly core to the collectives identity. We are not interested in failed efforts of organizations that were unable to effectively promote themselves to a specific audience. Furthermore, we are generally seeking more than historical or purely descriptive essays about one or more hidden organizations. Key Dates All submissions will undergo double-blind peer review by qualified scholars. Key dates for submitters are as follows: October 1, 2014: Deadline to submit full papers for consideration in MCQ Special issue January 1, 2015: Determine submissions to be accepted or revised for possible acceptance March 1, 2015: Revisions due; Final issue submissions selected June 1, 2015: Articles delivered to MCQ for special issue to appear in late 2015 Contact/Submission Information For this special issue, manuscripts should not exceed 10,000 words (including references, tables, figures, etc.). For other questions about the issue and the appropriateness of a potential submission, please feel free to contact issue editor Craig Scott at <mailto:crscott@rutgers.edu> crscott(a)rutgers.edu or 848-932-7125. To submit your work by the deadline, please follow guidelines on the MCQ journal website: <http://mcq.sagepub.com/> http://mcq.sagepub.com/. This full call is available online at <http://mcq.sagepub.com/site/includefiles/MCQCallforPapers.pdf> http://mcq.sagepub.com/site/includefiles/MCQCallforPapers.pdf References Alvesson, M. (2004). Organization: From substance to image? In M. J. Hatch & M. Schultz (Eds.), Organizational identity: A reader (pp. 161-182). Oxford, England: Oxford University. Corley, K. G., & Gioia, D. A. (2011). Building theory about theory building: What constitutes a theoretical contribution? Academy of Management Review, 36, 12-32. Davis, G. F. (2009). The rise and fall of finance and the end of the society of organizations. Academy of Management Perspectives, 23(3), 27-44. Fombrun, C., & Shanley, M. (1990). What's in a name? Reputation building and corporate strategy. Academy of Management Journal, 33, 233-258. Glynn, M.A., & Abzug, R. (2002). Institutionalizing identity: Symbolic isomorphism and organizational names. Academy of Management Journal, 45, 267-280. Linstead, S., Maréchal, G., & Griffin, R. W. (2014). Theorizing and researching the dark side of organization. Organization Studies, 35(2), 165-188. Parker, M., Cheney, G., Fournier, V., & Land, C. (Eds.). (2014). The Routledge companion to alternative organization. New York: Routledge. Schultz, M., Hatch, M. J., & Larsen, M. H. (Eds.). (2000). The expressive organization: Linking identity, reputation, and the corporate brand. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Scott, C. R. (2013). Anonymous agencies, backstreet businesses, and covert collectives: Rethinking organizations in the 21st century. Palo Alto, CA: Stanford University Press. Craig Craig R. Scott, Ph.D. Professor, Department of Communication Vice Chair, ICA Organizational Communication Division School of Communication & Information Rutgers University 4 Huntington Street, New Brunswick, NJ 08901 Voice: 848-932-7125; Fax: 732-932-6916; Office in 201 DeWitt (185 College Avenue) Web: http://comminfo.rutgers.edu/directory/crscott/index.html Linked in: <http://www.linkedin.com/pub/11/b83/241> http://www.linkedin.com/pub/11/b83/241 Author of <http://www.amazon.com/Agencies-Backstreet-Businesses-Covert-Collectives/dp/ 0804781389/ref=la_B00BFX9962_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1362894609&sr=1-1> Anonymous Agencies, Backstreet Businesses, and <http://www.amazon.com/Agencies-Backstreet-Businesses-Covert-Collectives/dp/ 0804781389/ref=la_B00BFX9962_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1362894609&sr=1-1> Covert Collectives: Rethinking Organizations in the 21st Century

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