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Re: [Air-L] Agile/Extreme/Lean methods for academic researc
by Anders Sundnes Løvlie 20 Feb '14

20 Feb '14

I sketched a model for "Agile Media Design Research" in my PhD dissertation: http://folk.uio.no/anderssl/published/lovlie_phd.pdf This is in the context of humanities-based media research, so it is focused on design as a hermeneutic process that can inform research, not so much on project management. -- Anders Sundnes Løvlie Associate professor, Gjøvik University College english.hig.no On 20.02.14 00:00, air-l-request(a)listserv.aoir.org wrote: > Message: 1 > Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2014 11:32:34 +0100 > From: Antoine Mazieres <antoine.mazieres(a)gmail.com> > To: "air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org" <air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org> > Subject: [Air-L] Agile/Extreme/Lean methods for academic research > Message-ID: > <CAH+6s9fdEg+PxB0FUrZVZpmPG6VCU+nq-2g75zVE=ikg88cjuQ(a)mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > Dear all, > > Startups I've been enjoying quite a lot of literature on how to handle > project, ideas, development, thinking, etc, with theories such as Extreme, > Agile, Lean, etc. All dating of less than 10 years. > > I was looking around for similar literature on academic research and > project, and couldn't find anything modern, socially-aware (eg. connected) > and relevant, making links between doing, thinking, envisioning, writing > and more. > > I am thinking of the project management, hardware/software/experimentation > development needed in the research processes, refactoring of collaborative > writings, project design, time management, etc. > > Does someone have seen some initiative, publication, blog about this topic ? > > Thanks ! > > Antoine Mazi?res > > http://mazier.es/ >

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Critical theory of gamification / Archaeology of gamification
by Jarosław Kopeć 20 Feb '14

20 Feb '14

Dear All, I am preparing a seminar on critical theory of gamification. Right now I am mostly interested in archaeology of gamification, that is in looking for gamification’s prefigurations in tabletop and video games. I would very much appreciate some tips on readings from you. -- Jarosław Kopeć Faculty of Liberal Arts University of Warsaw Poland

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CFP: Second International Workshop on Linked Media (LiME 2014)
by Johan Oomen 19 Feb '14

19 Feb '14

=================================================================== CFP: Second International Workshop on Linked Media (LiME 2014) http://www.linkedtv.eu/event/LiME2014/ =================================================================== The workshop is co-located with the ESWC 2014 conference held in Heraklion, Greece on 25-29 May 2014. *Deadlines*: - Submission deadline: March 6, 2014, 23:59PM Hawaii Time - Notifications: April 1, 2014, 23:59PM Hawaii Time - Camera ready version: April 15, 2014, 23:59PM Hawaii Time Goals of the workshop: If the future Web will be able to fully use the scale and quality of online media, a Web scale layer of structured and semantic media annotation is needed, which we call *Linked Media*. Drawing on the success of the Linked Data movement, we believe annotation of media using Linked Data concepts can be the basis for Web-wide media interlinking based on concept matching and relationships. This 2nd international workshop on Linked Media (LiME'2014), building on last year's successful event held at WWW 2013, aims at promoting the principles of Linked Media on the Web by gathering semantic multimedia and Linked Data researchers to exchange current research and development work on creating conceptual descriptions of media items, multimedia metadata publication on the Web, and its semantic processing, particular based on Linked Data approaches to concept matching and relationships. Specifically, we aim to build a research community to promote a future Web where automated multimedia analysis results can be used as a basis to integrate Linked Data-based conceptual annotations into structured media descriptions, which can be published and shared online. When media descriptions are more easily findable and processable, new applications and services can be created in which online media is more easily shared, retrieved, re-used and re-purposed. This will offer a wide range of possibilities for various stakeholders in the creative industries. Workshop topics and themes: To push further the evolution of the Rich Media Web, and to facilitate its convergence with the Semantic Web, it is essential to establish consensus on online media annotation standards, the use of semantics in describing what media represents, and demonstrate approaches to leverage such structured and semantic media descriptions in Web applications. While non-textual content is often now the first destination of online agents rather than HTML/textual resources, and thus access to structured annotation of the online media is increasingly important for new Web applications capable of media search, retrieval, adaptation and presentation, the online media annotation space is still limited, fragmented and lacking in consensus for building Web tools and interfaces to support it. LiME'2014 focuses on identifying the key building blocks required to foster the development of new Web tools and interfaces that will support the growth and re-use of Linked Media, which is inspired by the Linked Data movement for making structured descriptions of resources more easily available online. The workshop topics include, but are not limited to: * Approaches to online media descriptions - Tools and approaches aligning the fragmented approaches to online media description, its processing and publication, e.g. based around Linked Data, W3C Media Ontology and Media Fragments URI. - Tools and approaches to search and retrieval of online media based on its structured description, scaling to the Web - Tools and approaches addressing issues of trust, quality and rights of online media * Extracting and linking - Tools and approaches to lower the cost of creating structured descriptions of online media resources - New methods of automatic, real time, metadata extraction of any online media content (including live streams) - Ideas how to incorporate Linked Data into media description (and benefit from the additional metadata of the Linked Data cloud) - New methods for automatically assessing the suitability of (non-trusted) content for interweaving (e.g. violence detection, nudity detection), and publishing such assessments * Showcases, business models and assessment - New Web applications making use of Linked Media (across different platforms) including evaluation with end-users and/or suitable business models - Approaches to tracking user interaction with media (and exploiting this knowledge to enrich annotations) The workshop is sponsored by the EU projects LinkedTV (http://www.linkedtv.eu) and MICO (http://www.mico-project.eu/) as well as the large open source community around Apache Stanbol (http://stanbol.apache.org/) & Apache Marmotta (http://marmotta.apache.org/) Submission: Submissions should not exceed 12 pages and are to be formatted according to Springer LNCS guidelines (http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-7-72376-0) and submitted to https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lime2014. Papers should be submitted in PDF format. We encourage various types of submission: - full papers (max 12 pages) for mature work which has been subject to evaluation - demo submissions (max 5 pages) for demos, software and platforms which may be able to support a part of the Linked Media ecosystem The workshop proceedings will be published online through CEUR-WS. A selection of the best papers from the workshop will also appear in an LNCS companion volume of ESWC 2014. Programme Committee: - Lora Aroyo, VU University, NL - Olivier Aubert, University of Nantes, FR - Marco Bertini, University di Firenze, IT - Werner Bailer, Joanneum, AT - Dan Brickley, Google Inc., UK - Tobias Bürger, Payback GmbH, AT - Pierre-Antoine Champin, University Lyon 1, FR - Paolo Ciccarese, Massachusetts General Hospital Biomedical Informatics Core, USA - Davy Van Deursen, EVS, BE - Jean-Claude Dufourd, Telecom ParisTech, FR - Nikolaos Gkalelis, CERTH, GR - Lynda Hardman, CWI, NL - Michiel Hildebrand, CWI, NL - George Ioannidis, IN2, UK - Antoine Isaac, Europeana, NL - Ioannis Kompatsiaris, CERTH, GR - Tom Kurz, Salsbourg Research, AT - Yunjia Li, University of Southampton, UK - Vasileios Mezaris, CERTH, GR - Frank Nack, University of Amsterdam, NL - Silvia Pfeiffer, Vquence, AU - Yves Raimond, BBC, UK - Giuseppe Rizzo, University di Torino, IT - Harald Sack, University of Postdam, DE - Thomas Steiner, Google Inc., DE Organizers: - Lyndon Nixon, Modul University, AT - Raphaël Troncy, EURECOM, FR - Erik Mannens, iMinds / University of Ghent, BE - Johan Oomen, Sound & Vision, NL - Florian Stegmaier, University of Passau, DE

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Studies on blogs in US, UK, Germany and Switzerland on how much bloggers make from their blogs
by Kristin Dagmar Eckert 19 Feb '14

19 Feb '14

Hi everyone I am searching for studies, articles and information on how many bloggers get how much income from their blogs in the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany and Switzerland each. I looked around and found some indications in news media articles but not studies. I was wondering if studies on the issue in any of the four countries exist (ideally also with gendered data). I have indications in my dissertation project on a large quantity of commercial blogs in the U.S. and the U.K. and would like to put that into context of previous research. In Germany and Switzerland my interview participants indicated commercial blogs and income from blogs is rare, equally I would like to back that up with studies/articles/information on the matter. I am grateful for any links and hints. Thank you very much. Best, Stine Stine Eckert Ph.D. Candidate Philip Merrill College of Journalism University of Maryland 2100N Knight Hall www.stineeckert.com @stineeckert

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Call for Abstracts for Chapters Vol.2 International Handbook of Internet Research
by Jeremy hunsinger 19 Feb '14

19 Feb '14

Call for Abstracts for Chapters Volume 2 of the International Handbook of Internet Research (editors Jeremy Hunsinger, Lisbeth Klastrup, and Matthew Allen) Abstracts due June 1 2014; full chapters due Sept. 1 2015 After the remarkable success of the first International Handbook of Internet Research (2010), Springer has contracted with its editors to produce a second volume. This new volume will be arranged in three sections, that address one of three different aspects of internet research: foundations, futures, and critiques. Each of these meta-themes will have its own section of the new handbook. Foundations will approach a method, a theory, a perspective, a topic or field that has been and is still a location of significant internet research. These chapters will engage with the current and historical scholarly literature through extended reviews and also as a way of developing insights into the internet and internet research. Futures will engage with the directions the field of internet research might take over the next five years. These chapters will engage current methods, topics, perspectives, or fields that will expand and re-invent the field of internet research, particularly in light of emerging social and technological trends. The material for these chapters will define the topic they describe within the framework of internet research so that it can be understand as a place of future inquiry. Critique chapters will define and develop critical positions in the field of internet research. They can engage a theoretical perspective, a methodological perspective, a historical trend or topic in internet research and provide a critical perspective. These chapters might also define one type of critical perspective, tradition, or field in the field of internet research. We value the way in which this call for papers will itself shape the contents, themes, and coverage of the Handbook. We encourage potential authors to present abstracts that will consolidate current internet research, critically analyse its directions past and future, and re-invent the field for the decade to come. Contributions about the internet and internet research are sought from scholars in any discipline, and from many points of view. We therefore invite internet researchers working within the fields of communication, culture, politics, sociology, law and privacy, aesthetics, games and play, surveillance and mobility, amongst others, to consider contributing to the volume. Initially, we ask scholars and researchers to submit an 500 word abstract detailing their own chapter for one of the three sections outlined above. The abstract must follow the format presented below. After the initial round of submissions, there may be a further call for papers and/or approaches to individuals to complete the volume. The final chapters will be chosen from the submitted abstracts by the editors or invited by the editors. The chapter writers will be notified of acceptance by January 1st, 2015. The chapters will be due September 2015, should be between 6,000 and 10,000 words (inclusive of references, biographical statement and all other text). Each abstract needs to be presented in the following form: · Section (Either Foundations, Futures, or Critiques) · Title of chapter · Author name/s, institutional details · Corresponding author's email address · Keywords (no more than 5) · Abstract (no more than 500 words) · References Please e-mail your abstract/s to: internet.research.handbook(a)gmail.com We look forward to your submissions and working with you to produce another definitive collection of thought-provoking internet research. Please feel free to distribute this CfP widely. Thank you Jeremy, Lisbeth, and Matt

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CFP - Handbook of Media and Culture in the Middle East
by Helga Tawil Souri 19 Feb '14

19 Feb '14

*Call for Papers* *Handbook of Media and Culture in the Middle East* Editors : Gholam Khiabany, Tarik Sabry, *Helga Tawil*-Souri The aim of the *Handbook of Media and Culture in the Middle East* is to direct attention to the multivalent and multi-local characteristics of knowledge production, media, and culture in the region. It highlights the necessity, once again, of the need and the possibilities of going beyond the false binaries, and of speaking with a 'third voice'. It addresses key questions such as: - Is Middle Eastern Media Studies a periphery or should it be regarded as part of a wider project of (social) science of society? - Does it have a particular hermeneutics? - How do we address the particularities of the region while also considering broader socio-cultural and media shifts? While challenging the provincialism of perceived 'universal' theory of media and society, this handbook also highlights the perceived 'alternative', i.e. militant particularism, which is just the flipside of the vacuous universalism it deplores, rather than a genuine alternative to it. The handbook will articulate the questions of media and culture in the Middle East beyond the limitations of presentism by focusing on the symbiotic relationship that exists between both old and new media. It also promises to highlight the role (and meaning) of culture as a dynamic site of struggle and contestation. The handbook is also an attempt to test some prevailing approaches regarding the role of empire, among other exogenous and endogenous factors, and its consequences for culture and politics. The handbook takes an interdisciplinary approach to media and culture in the Middle East and brings together internationally recognised scholars from around the world. The more recent revolutionary fervour in the Arab World has further brought the region into the attention of the world like never before. However, while this collection will certainly be an attempt at 'catching history on the wing', to quote Benjamin, we are seeking contributions, from various disciplines, that advance our understandings of the past and present and the struggle for the future of media and cultural resources, forms of organisations and expressions, as well as production, distribution, and consumption. This volume will be published by Blackwell as part of the prestigious series The Global Handbooks in Media and Communication Research, designed to define an intellectual terrain: its historic emergence; its key theoretical paradigms; its transnational evolution, its key empirical research and possible future directions. For more information and examples of the series see: http://eu.wiley.com/WileyCDA/Section/id-410903.html Submissions will be assessed for their scholarly merit and the extent to which they contribute to our greater understanding of the mediated cultures in the Middle East. Contributors should limit their articles to between 6000 and 8000 words (including references). *Abstracts (250 words) are due by 28 March 2014.* *Upon acceptance, full articles will be due by 20 October 2014.* For further information about the handbook, or to submit your abstract, please contact the editors: Gholam Khiabany, Goldsmiths, University of London (g.khiabany(a)gold.ac.uk) Tarik Sabry, University of Westminster (Sabryt(a)westminster.ac.uk) Helga Tawil-Souri, New York University (helga(a)nyu.edu) --

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Feedback on the AoIR Website Desired!
by Jennifer Stromer-Galley 18 Feb '14

18 Feb '14

Hi everyone A sub-committee of the AoIR Executive Board is working to revamp the Association's website (www.aoir.org<http://www.aoir.org>). We would love to get your thoughts on the website, whether you've visited it or not. So, take a few minutes to take the survey. Follow this link: https://syracuseuniversity.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_1UhJqsqjSB9Jm5f. It shouldn't take more than 10 minutes of your time, and it will really help us get a sense of how to improve the website. Any questions or concerns, give a shout! Your PR/Website Committee: Anthony Hoffman, Annette Markham, and Jenny Stromer-Galley Associate Professor | School of Information Studies Vice President | Association of Internet Researchers Syracuse University 220 Hinds Hall Syracuse, New York 13244 t 315.443.1823 f 315.443.5673 e jstromer(a)syr.edu w www.stromer-galley.com w www.aoir.org ischool.syr.edu

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to add participants to your SNSs or not?
by Roser Beneito Montagut 17 Feb '14

17 Feb '14

Hello everybody, We have just started an ethnography (online and offline) to study the extent to which the social web can mitigate isolation and loneliness feelings among the elderly by promoting their interpersonal relationships online. I appreciate if you can point me to articles discussing whether the researcher has added the participants to his/her social network site (e.g. Facebook) or has created an specific profile for the research. We have decided to add the participants to our SNSs, creating a group for them, but I would like to know what other researchers have done and the challenges of this methodological decision they have faced. Apologies beforehand if this topic has already been discussed in the list. Thanks, Roser Roser Beneito-Montagut Senior Lecturer School of Computing, Multimedia and Telecommunication Open University of Catalonia Barcelona

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Call for Papers and Conference Presentations
by Michael Filimowicz 17 Feb '14

17 Feb '14

Call for Papers & Conference Presentations: CINESONIKA 4 – The Fourth International Conference & Festival of the Soundtrack Venue: Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, British Columbia Dates: July 8-10th, 2014 Keynote Speaker: Amy Herzog (Queens College, CUNY) author of 'Dreams of Difference, Songs of the Same: The Musical Moment in Film' and co-editor of 'The Oxford Handbook of Sound and Image in Digital Media' We are seeking multi-disciplinary contributions on sound in relation to the moving image. Media thinkers, film scholars, art historians, performance theorists, composers, filmmakers, sound practitioners, multimedia semioticians, philosophers of perception – we invite these and others to submit proposals for 20 minute panel presentations. All accepted presentations will be considered for inclusion in The Soundtrack academic journal if expanded into papers and submitted for peer review (1000-3000 words for short articles, 5000-6000 words for long papers). Submitting to the Conference: Please write "Cinesonika 4 Abstract" in the subject heading. Deadline for Abstracts (under 500 words): June 1 2014 Please submit your abstract and short bio both as an attachment (.doc or .pdf) and also pasted into the body of your email submission, to submit(a)cinesonika.com LINK: http://www.cinesonika.com

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Polite plea for abbreviation and initialism expansion
by krguidry＠mistakengoal.com 17 Feb '14

17 Feb '14

Colleagues, Maybe I'm the only one who gets confused or lost but it would be very helpful if you could please spell out abbreviations and initialisms in your messages. This appears to be a very interdisciplinary group so I am guessing that others might also appreciate this effort to be welcoming and inclusive of everyone. Thanks so much! Kevin

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