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#ELD14 Call for Proposals Closing
by AJ Kelton 17 Feb '14

17 Feb '14

The #ELD14 Program Committee has now caught up with the many wonderful submissions we received and the call for proposals for #ELD14 will officially close for NEW submissions on Friday, February 14th. http://eld.montclair.edu/eld14-call-for-proposals/ If you have previously submitted something and are in the process of revising it, please continue that process. The C4P will close on Wednesday ONLY to NEW proposals. But if you are revising something, please do not wait very long as revised submissions will only be accepted until the program is full. If you have any questions, please email them to eld(a)mail.montclair.edu. p.s. - as a reminder, registration is currently open with rates starting at only $95, but there are only a limited number of registrations left at that price. http://eld.montclair.edu/registration/ -- ----- 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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Open Call for Capsules. 1st Design and Digital Culture Conference
by Medialab-Prado Comunicación 17 Feb '14

17 Feb '14

*MEDIALAB-PRADO* *Plaza**de las Letras** **Calle Ala**meda, 15** **28014 Madrid T. 912 191 157** ****www.medialab-prado.es** ****Entrada gratuita* ** #edcd. Open Call for Capsules. 1st Design and Digital Culture Conference Open call for the submission of "capsules" or short talk on projects or experiences on design and digital culture within the context of the *#ecdc. 1st Design and Digital Culture Conference* <http://medialab-prado.es/article/edcd> event that takes place on April 8 and 9, 2014. The experience or project submited as a Capsule should contain creative elements related to technology and digital culture, such as its use, the development of technological languages, or the influence of digital culture in its creation. Deadline for submissions: March 7, 2014 More information and submissions: http://medialab-prado.es/article/capsulasedcd * http://medialab-prado.es*

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Join us This Year in Bangkok! Submit Your Proposals for IR15
by Kendall, Lori 17 Feb '14

17 Feb '14

Just a quick reminder that submissions are due March 1 for IR 15: Boundaries and Intersections, the 2014 conference of the Association of Internet Researchers.* This deadline includes proposals for ignites, pre-conference workshops, and our new experimental category. Come join us in Bangkok in October! You can find the Call for Proposals here: http://ir15.aoir.org/?page_id=19, and the submission site here: https://www.conftool.com/aoir-ir15/index.php?page=login. Some quick notes about submitting through the ConfTool system: Your proposal of any type must include a short abstract (exact word count depends on submission type) which will appear in the program. Thereafter, for paper and panel proposals, you need to upload your 1000-1200 page proposal. In order to upload your proposals for these submission types, once the first page is complete, please scroll down to the bottom of the page and click the Proceed button. This will bring you to a second page to upload your full proposal. These proposals are also due March 1. Only after you do both steps is your submission complete. If you have any other questions feel free to contact the program chair Erika Pearson at ir15programchair(a)aoir.org<mailto:ir15programchair@aoir.org> or the association coordinator at ac(a)aoir.org<mailto:ac@aoir.org> We look forward to seeing you all in Bangkok! Lori Kendall President, AoIR *Note: The deadline appears as March 2 in ConfTool in order to allow people from various different time zones to make their submissions in a timely fashion. Please make a note of the relationship of the ConfTool deadline to your local time and make your submissions as early as possible.

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Reminder: PhD-course on Mediatization in Oslo
by Knut Lundby 17 Feb '14

17 Feb '14

Reminder: INVITATION TO PhD-COURSE OM "MEDIATIZATION" AT THE UNIVERSITY OF OSLO ‘Mediatization’ has become a key term in contemporary media and communication studies. PhD-students are invited to a two days PdD-seminar on "Mediatization" 20-21 March 2014 at the Department of Media and Communication, University of Oslo. The course is free of charge but participants need to cover their own travel and stay in Oslo. Please see: http://www.hf.uio.no/imk/forskning/aktuelt/arrangementer/phd/2014/seminar-m… The course is directed by Professor Knut Lundby, supported by Dr. Sigrid Kannengiesser from University of Bremen. Expressions of Interest should be stated no later than 28 February to <dagfinn.hagen(a)media.uio.no>. See details under the above link. Regards, Knut Lundby _________________________________ KNUT LUNDBY. Professor Department of Media and Communication University of Oslo - www.media.uio.no <knut.lundby(a)media.uio.no>

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workshop on ethics of cyber activism at the University of Warwick
by Mariariosaria Taddeo 17 Feb '14

17 Feb '14

Apologies for cross-posting The ethics of cyber-activism Cyber activism or Hacktivism is an emerging phenomenon, which has recently become more prominent thanks to the actions of a group called Anonymous. In brief, cyber-activism is an evolution of hacking activities motivated by political and ethical reasons directed at both public institutions and private citizens and which rests on the perception of the cyberspace as a digital commons that should be freely and equally enjoyed by all individuals. Issues pertaining to cyber activism have been observed and analysed by several scholars over the past decade. However, cyber activism is now becoming a concerning phenomenon mainly thanks to the actions of Anonymous. This is a highly distributed group famously identified by Guy Fawkes mask, which since 2008 has become a symbol of the movement and of the fight against power and authorities that Anonymous' members claim to conduct. Members of this group launched in the past several 'operations' targeting both individuals who had allegedly committed immoral acts and commercial or public websites as in the case of Operation Payback or in the attack launched against Scientology with the so called Project Chanology. The growth of Anonymous and, more in general, the dissemination of the use of the cyber sphere as a new medium to foster activism poses several questions at the crossroad between social and political sciences and ethics. Programme: Time Speaker Topic 10:00 Opening remarks 10:15 – 10:45 Lee Salter (University of Sussex) Media Understandings of Cyberactivism: Ethics and power in public discourse 10:45 – 11:00 Coffee 11:00 – 11:30 Keren Elazari Unmasking Anonymous – the Global hacker movement 11:30 – 12:00 George Lucas (US Naval University) Three ways of being a Cyber Hacktivist 12:00 – 12:30 Stefania Milan (European Institute) Ethics of technology and ethics of organising: the Cyberactivists’ struggle for moral values in cyberspace 12:30 – 13:00 Timothy Jordan (KCL) Generations of Hacktivism 13:00 – 14:30 Lunch 14:30 – 15:00 Llouis Reynolds (DEMOS) Service Generation: a step change in youth social action 15:00 – 15:30 Simon Lindgren (Umea University, Sweden) Global media, Local movements: The role of local context in social media mobilisation 15:30 – 16:00 Pollyanna Ruiz (LSE) Activism, Anonymity, Accountability 16:00 – 16:30 Coffee 16:30 – 17:00 Carolyn Gideon Spill over Effects of Cyber Activism and Policy Implications 17:00 – 17:30 Round table Location: Building 28 (See below) Where is the International Manufacturing Laboratory? Further information: For further information, please see the website:http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/pais/research/ierg/cyberethics or contact Dr. Mariarosaria Taddeo (M.Taddeo(a)warwick.ac.uk) If you would like to attend this workshop, please email Mrs. Shona Parsons s.m.parsons(a)warwick.ac.uk -- Dr. Mariarosaria Taddeo Research Fellow in Cyber Security and Ethics, PAIS, University of Warwick Research Associate - Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, University of Oxford President, International Association for Computing and Philosophy http://rosariataddeo.net

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"Media and Communication in and after the Global Capitalist Crisis": ESA RN18 2014 Conference Call
by Christian Fuchs 17 Feb '14

17 Feb '14

Media and Communication in and after the Global Capitalist Crisis: Renewal, Reform or Revolution? ESA RN18 Mid-Term Conference 2014 University of Bucharest, Romania October 17-18, 2014 Full Call Text and additional information: http://fuchs.uti.at/wp-content/RN18_2014.pdf Call for Participation and Abstracts European Sociological Association, Research Network 18: Sociology of Communications and Media Research http://www.europeansociology.org/research-networks/rn18-sociology-of-commun… Submission deadline for abstracts: July 1st, 2014. Submission per e-mail to christian.fuchs(a)uti.at Abstracts should be written in a word processor, have 250-500 words, and contain title, author name(s), email address(es), institutional affiliations, the suggested presentation’s abstract. The world has experienced a global crisis of capitalism that started in 2008 and is continuing until now. It has been accompanied by a crisis of the state and a general crisis of legitimation of dominant ideologies such as neoliberalism. Responses to the crisis have been variegated and have included austerity measures of the state that have hit the weakest, an increased presence of progressive protests, revolutions and strikes that have made use of digital, social and traditional media in various ways, the rise of far-right movements and parties in many parts of Europe and other parts of the world, the Greek state’s closing down of public service broadcaster ERT and increased commercial pressure on public service broadcasting in general, new debates about how to strengthen public service media, increased socio-economic and class inequality in many parts of the world and at a global level, precarious forms of work in general and in the media and cultural industries in particular, the emergence of new media reform movements, an extension and intensification of the crisis of newspapers and the print media, an increasing shift of advertising budgets to targeted ads on the Internet and along with this development the rise of commercial “social media” platforms, Edward Snowden’s revelations about the existence of a global surveillance-industrial complex that operates a communications surveillance system called “Prism” that involves the NSA and media companies such as Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Yahoo!, AOL, Skype, Apple and Paltalk; discussions about the power and freedom of the press in light of the Levenson inquiry, shifting geographies of the political and media landscape that have to do with the economic rise of countries such as China and India. Given this context, the main questions that ESA RN18’s 2014 conference asks and to which it invites contributions are: How has the crisis affected the media and communication landscape in Europe and globally and what perspectives for the future of media and communications are there? What suggestions for media reforms are there? How feasible are they? What kind of media policies and reforms do we need today? Which ones should be avoided? Are we in this context likely to experience a renewal of neoliberalism or something different? Plenary sessions: 1) Keynote Talk: Prof. Peter Ludes (Jacobs University Bremen, Germany): Wanted: Critical Visual Theories! 2) Special Session: Public Media and Alternative Journalism in Romania With Dr. Raluca Petre (‘Ovidius’ University Constanta, Romania): On the Distinction between State and Public Media: Re-Centering Public Options; Dr. Antonio Momoc (University of Bucharest, Romania): Alternative Media as Public Service Journalism; Costi Rogozanu (journalist and media activist, criticatac.ro) – Is Alternative Media an Alternative? Call for Papers ESA RN18 welcomes submissions of abstracts for contributions. Questions that can for example be addressed include, but are not limited to the following ones: * Media and capitalism: How have capitalism and the media changed in recent years? Are there perspectives beyond capitalism and capitalist media? How can we best use critical/Marxist political economy and other critical approaches for understanding the media and capitalism today? What is the role of media and communication technologies in the financialization, acceleration, and globalization of the capitalist economy? What are the conditions of working in the media, cultural and communication industries in the contemporary times? What is the role of Marx today for understanding crisis, change, capitalism, communication, and critique? * Media reform and media policy in times of crisis: How do the media need to be reformed and changed in order to contribute to the emergence of a good society? Which media reform movements are there and what are their goals? What have been policy ideas of how to overcome the crisis and deal with contemporary changes in relation to European media and communication industries? What can we learn from recent discussions about the media’s power and freedom, such as the Leveson inquiry? What are implications for media reforms? * Media and the public sphere: How should the concept of the public sphere best be conceived today and how does it relate to the media? How has the public sphere changed during the crisis in Europe and globally? What has been the relation between public and commercial broadcasting during and after the crisis? How have public service media changed, which threats and opportunities does it face? How can/should public service be renewed in the light of crisis, the Internet, and commercialisation? Can public service be extended from broadcasting to the online realm, digital and social media? What has been the role of public service media in Europe? How has this role transformed? * Media and activism: How can media scholars best cooperate with activists in order to contribute to a better media system and a better society? What are major trends in media activism today and how do activists use and confront the media and how do commercial, public and alternative media relate to contemporary social movements? What have been important experiences of media activists and media reform organisations in the past couple of years? What are the opportunities, risks, limits and possibilities of media activism today? For answering these questions, we also invite contributions and submissions by media activists, who want to talk about and share their experiences. * Media ownership: Who owns the media and ICTs? What are peculiar characteristics of knowledge and the media as property? What conflicts and contradictions are associated with it and how have they developed in times of crisis? How concentrated are the media and ICTs and how has this concentration changed since the start of the 2008 crisis? How has media and ICT ownership, convergence, de-convergence and concentration developed since the start of the 2008 crisis? What reforms of media and ICT ownership are needed in light of the crisis of capitalism and the crisis of intellectual property rights? * Media and crisis: What have been the main consequences of the crisis for media and communication in various parts of the world and Europe from a comparative perspective? What role have the media played in the construction of the crisis? How have the media conveyed the social and economic crises of recent years to citizens and what are the consequences of this flow of ideas and explanations? What role can they play in overcoming the crisis? What is the relationship of the media and class during and after the crisis? What role have ideologies (such as racism, right-wing extremism, fascism, neoliberalism, anti-Semitism, etc) played in the media during the crisis and what can we learn from it for reforming the media? How have audiences interpreted media contents that focus on austerity, crisis, neoliberalism, protests, revolutions, or media reforms? * The globalisation of the media and society: What are major trends in the globalisation of capitalism, society and the media? Given the globalisation of media and society, what are challenges for media and society today? What can we learn from non-Western media scholars and media cultures outside of Europe? Are concepts such as cultural/media imperialism, transnational cultural domination or the new imperialism feasible today and if so, in which ways? * Digital and social media: What is digital labour and how has class changed in the context of social and digital media? What is the connection of value creation, knowledge labour and digital labour? How do the global dimension and the global division of digital labour look like, especially in respect to China, India, Asia and Africa? How do new forms of exploitation and unremunerated labour (“free labour”, “crowdsourcing”) look like in the media sector (e.g. in the context of Internet platforms such as Facebook or Google)? What is the relationship of the commons and commodification on digital and social media? How do capital accumulation and targeted advertising work on social media and what are their implications for users and citizens? What are alternatives to capitalist digital and social media? How can alternative social and digital media best look like and be organized? What can in this context be the roles of the digital commons, civil society media and public service media? Which ideologies of the Internet and social media are there? How can we best understand the surveillance-industrial Internet complex operated by the NSA together with Internet corporations such as Google and Facebook and what are the implications of Edward Snowden’s revelations? How do power and political economy work in the context of platforms such as Google, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, WikiLeaks, Wikipedia, Weibo, LinkedIn, Blogspot/Blogger, Wordpress, VK, Pinterest, Tumblr, Instagram, etc? * Media and Critical Social Theory: What can we learn and use from critical sociology and the sociology of critique when studying the media? What do critique and critical theory mean in contemporary times? What are critical sociology and the sociology of critique and what are its roles for studying media and communication’s role in society? Which social theories do we need today for adequately understanding media & society in a critical way? What is the role of political economy and Marx’s theory for understanding media & society today? * Communication and (Post-)Crisis: How has the crisis affected the communication landscape in Europe and globally and what perspectives for the future are there? How do the working conditions in communication industries look like after the crisis? What are the challenges for communication industries in the near future in the context of the crisis and post-crisis? What is the role of post-crisis-communication industries in a globalised economy?

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"Media and Communication in and after the Global Capitalist Crisis": ESA RN18 2014 Conference Call
by Christian Fuchs 17 Feb '14

17 Feb '14

Media and Communication in and after the Global Capitalist Crisis: Renewal, Reform or Revolution? ESA RN18 Mid-Term Conference 2014 University of Bucharest, Romania October 17-18, 2014 Full Call Text and additional information: http://fuchs.uti.at/wp-content/RN18_2014.pdf Call for Participation and Abstracts European Sociological Association, Research Network 18: Sociology of Communications and Media Research http://www.europeansociology.org/research-networks/rn18-sociology-of-commun… Submission deadline for abstracts: July 1st, 2014. Submission per e-mail to christian.fuchs(a)uti.at Abstracts should be written in a word processor, have 250-500 words, and contain title, author name(s), email address(es), institutional affiliations, the suggested presentation’s abstract. The world has experienced a global crisis of capitalism that started in 2008 and is continuing until now. It has been accompanied by a crisis of the state and a general crisis of legitimation of dominant ideologies such as neoliberalism. Responses to the crisis have been variegated and have included austerity measures of the state that have hit the weakest, an increased presence of progressive protests, revolutions and strikes that have made use of digital, social and traditional media in various ways, the rise of far-right movements and parties in many parts of Europe and other parts of the world, the Greek state’s closing down of public service broadcaster ERT and increased commercial pressure on public service broadcasting in general, new debates about how to strengthen public service media, increased socio-economic and class inequality in many parts of the world and at a global level, precarious forms of work in general and in the media and cultural industries in particular, the emergence of new media reform movements, an extension and intensification of the crisis of newspapers and the print media, an increasing shift of advertising budgets to targeted ads on the Internet and along with this development the rise of commercial “social media” platforms, Edward Snowden’s revelations about the existence of a global surveillance-industrial complex that operates a communications surveillance system called “Prism” that involves the NSA and media companies such as Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Yahoo!, AOL, Skype, Apple and Paltalk; discussions about the power and freedom of the press in light of the Levenson inquiry, shifting geographies of the political and media landscape that have to do with the economic rise of countries such as China and India. Given this context, the main questions that ESA RN18’s 2014 conference asks and to which it invites contributions are: How has the crisis affected the media and communication landscape in Europe and globally and what perspectives for the future of media and communications are there? What suggestions for media reforms are there? How feasible are they? What kind of media policies and reforms do we need today? Which ones should be avoided? Are we in this context likely to experience a renewal of neoliberalism or something different? Plenary sessions: 1) Keynote Talk: Prof. Peter Ludes (Jacobs University Bremen, Germany): Wanted: Critical Visual Theories! 2) Special Session: Public Media and Alternative Journalism in Romania With Dr. Raluca Petre (‘Ovidius’ University Constanta, Romania): On the Distinction between State and Public Media: Re-Centering Public Options; Dr. Antonio Momoc (University of Bucharest, Romania): Alternative Media as Public Service Journalism; Costi Rogozanu (journalist and media activist, criticatac.ro) – Is Alternative Media an Alternative? Call for Papers ESA RN18 welcomes submissions of abstracts for contributions. Questions that can for example be addressed include, but are not limited to the following ones: * Media and capitalism: How have capitalism and the media changed in recent years? Are there perspectives beyond capitalism and capitalist media? How can we best use critical/Marxist political economy and other critical approaches for understanding the media and capitalism today? What is the role of media and communication technologies in the financialization, acceleration, and globalization of the capitalist economy? What are the conditions of working in the media, cultural and communication industries in the contemporary times? What is the role of Marx today for understanding crisis, change, capitalism, communication, and critique? * Media reform and media policy in times of crisis: How do the media need to be reformed and changed in order to contribute to the emergence of a good society? Which media reform movements are there and what are their goals? What have been policy ideas of how to overcome the crisis and deal with contemporary changes in relation to European media and communication industries? What can we learn from recent discussions about the media’s power and freedom, such as the Leveson inquiry? What are implications for media reforms? * Media and the public sphere: How should the concept of the public sphere best be conceived today and how does it relate to the media? How has the public sphere changed during the crisis in Europe and globally? What has been the relation between public and commercial broadcasting during and after the crisis? How have public service media changed, which threats and opportunities does it face? How can/should public service be renewed in the light of crisis, the Internet, and commercialisation? Can public service be extended from broadcasting to the online realm, digital and social media? What has been the role of public service media in Europe? How has this role transformed? * Media and activism: How can media scholars best cooperate with activists in order to contribute to a better media system and a better society? What are major trends in media activism today and how do activists use and confront the media and how do commercial, public and alternative media relate to contemporary social movements? What have been important experiences of media activists and media reform organisations in the past couple of years? What are the opportunities, risks, limits and possibilities of media activism today? For answering these questions, we also invite contributions and submissions by media activists, who want to talk about and share their experiences. * Media ownership: Who owns the media and ICTs? What are peculiar characteristics of knowledge and the media as property? What conflicts and contradictions are associated with it and how have they developed in times of crisis? How concentrated are the media and ICTs and how has this concentration changed since the start of the 2008 crisis? How has media and ICT ownership, convergence, de-convergence and concentration developed since the start of the 2008 crisis? What reforms of media and ICT ownership are needed in light of the crisis of capitalism and the crisis of intellectual property rights? * Media and crisis: What have been the main consequences of the crisis for media and communication in various parts of the world and Europe from a comparative perspective? What role have the media played in the construction of the crisis? How have the media conveyed the social and economic crises of recent years to citizens and what are the consequences of this flow of ideas and explanations? What role can they play in overcoming the crisis? What is the relationship of the media and class during and after the crisis? What role have ideologies (such as racism, right-wing extremism, fascism, neoliberalism, anti-Semitism, etc) played in the media during the crisis and what can we learn from it for reforming the media? How have audiences interpreted media contents that focus on austerity, crisis, neoliberalism, protests, revolutions, or media reforms? * The globalisation of the media and society: What are major trends in the globalisation of capitalism, society and the media? Given the globalisation of media and society, what are challenges for media and society today? What can we learn from non-Western media scholars and media cultures outside of Europe? Are concepts such as cultural/media imperialism, transnational cultural domination or the new imperialism feasible today and if so, in which ways? * Digital and social media: What is digital labour and how has class changed in the context of social and digital media? What is the connection of value creation, knowledge labour and digital labour? How do the global dimension and the global division of digital labour look like, especially in respect to China, India, Asia and Africa? How do new forms of exploitation and unremunerated labour (“free labour”, “crowdsourcing”) look like in the media sector (e.g. in the context of Internet platforms such as Facebook or Google)? What is the relationship of the commons and commodification on digital and social media? How do capital accumulation and targeted advertising work on social media and what are their implications for users and citizens? What are alternatives to capitalist digital and social media? How can alternative social and digital media best look like and be organized? What can in this context be the roles of the digital commons, civil society media and public service media? Which ideologies of the Internet and social media are there? How can we best understand the surveillance-industrial Internet complex operated by the NSA together with Internet corporations such as Google and Facebook and what are the implications of Edward Snowden’s revelations? How do power and political economy work in the context of platforms such as Google, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, WikiLeaks, Wikipedia, Weibo, LinkedIn, Blogspot/Blogger, Wordpress, VK, Pinterest, Tumblr, Instagram, etc? * Media and Critical Social Theory: What can we learn and use from critical sociology and the sociology of critique when studying the media? What do critique and critical theory mean in contemporary times? What are critical sociology and the sociology of critique and what are its roles for studying media and communication’s role in society? Which social theories do we need today for adequately understanding media & society in a critical way? What is the role of political economy and Marx’s theory for understanding media & society today? * Communication and (Post-)Crisis: How has the crisis affected the communication landscape in Europe and globally and what perspectives for the future are there? How do the working conditions in communication industries look like after the crisis? What are the challenges for communication industries in the near future in the context of the crisis and post-crisis? What is the role of post-crisis-communication industries in a globalised economy?

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CaTaC'14 - deadline extension, registration fees
by Charles Ess 17 Feb '14

17 Feb '14

Dear AoIRists, On behalf of the Program Committee for CaTaC¹14, I¹m happy to announce A) the deadline for submissions has been extended to March 2, 2014, and B) our schedule of registration fees has been established: Full registration: early bird - closing date, April 4 - 250 USD; after April 4: 275 USD Reviewer: early bird - 225 USD: after April 4: 250 USD Author: early bird - 225 USD: after April 4: 250 USD Author and Reviewer: early bird - 200 USD: after April 4: 225 USD Student: early bird - 175 USD: after April 4: 200 USD Those familiar with the conference will recognize that these registration fees are ca. 50% of the norm for previous years. These reduced fees are made possible through various forms of support from the Department of Informatics and the Department of Media and Communication, University of Oslo. We hope these reduced fees will make participation in CaTaC¹14 more feasible and attractive for all interested in participating. For more details on the conference, please see <http://www.catacconference.org/> For information on conference themes and tracks, and for submitting paper proposals, please go to <http://philo.at/ocs2/index.php/oslo14/ctnewd14/schedConf/cfp> Please cross-post and distribute as appropriate. Many thanks, - Charles Ess (Media and Communication, University of Oslo) Maja van der Velden (Informatics, University of Oslo) Herbert Hrachovec (Philosophy, University of Vienna) Michele Strano, Program Chair (Communication Studies, Bridgewater College) Leah Macfadyen (Evaluation and Learning Analytics, University of British Columbia)

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CFP RIAS Special Issue - American-Digital Studies
by Carassai,Mauro 16 Feb '14

16 Feb '14

(apologies for cross-posting and please forward this to whomever you think may be interested) Please review the attached Call for Papers for a special issue for RIAS (Review of International American Studies) focused on the relationship between American and digital studies. More specifically, the special issue explores the cultural logic of the digital from a fluid, heterogeneous, and comparative perspective. You can find detailed information about the project either in the attachment or at: https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/node/55044 Please send your abstract and one-paragraph bio to rias.special.issue(a)gmail.com Contact e-mails: mcarassai(a)ufl.edu leonardo.flores(a)upr.edu Editors: Mauro Carassai and Leonardo Flores Carassai, Mauro English Department University of Florida

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CFP: Creating Cultures, postgraduate conference in Culture, Media, and the Creative Industries, King's College London
by Jeremy 16 Feb '14

16 Feb '14

(apologies for cross-posting and please forward this to whomever you think may be interested) Call for Papers: Creating Cultures, a postgraduate conference in Culture, Media, and the Creative Industries, King's College London http://thecmcisocialfactory.wordpress.com/creating-cultures-postgrad-confer… Keynote speaker: Prof. Lev Manovich, CUNY Held on the 12th and 13th of June 2014, this multi-disciplinary postgraduate conference seeks a broad array of perspectives that explore cultural representations, practices, and industries. The title 'Creating Cultures' prompts inquiries into concepts of culture being created, cultures of creativity, cultures evolving and changing, and also cultures of creative work and play. Culture evokes ideas about its conflicting and disputed foundations, and culture as a medium through which social, political, spatial, and historical meanings are communicated and understood. The theme of this conference invites explorations of power relations, gender, subjectivity, the spatial, technology and contemporary media. Abstract submissions for presentations and pre-formed panels are invited on themes in cultural and/or media studies, such as: Power and cultural politics Identity and representation Media and mediation Digital cultures, new media, and media futures Cultures and change Popular culture Contested and counter cultures Art and artistic practice Cultural labour and industries Territorial and spatial cultures Globalisation and transnational cultures Cultural and media research methodologies Please submit 300 word abstracts, or proposals for creative presentation formats, and a maximum 100-word biography to cmci-conference(a)kcl.ac.uk by the 28th of March. Decisions on submissions will be sent by the 17th of April. For any queries contact: Jeremy Matthew (jeremy.matthew(a)kcl.ac.uk) or Photini Vrikki (photini.vrikki(a)kcl.ac.uk) and please check our website at http://thecmcisocialfactory.wordpress.com/creating-cultures-postgrad-confer…

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