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Facebook changes their gender options
by Rena Bivens 15 Feb '14

15 Feb '14

Hi everyone, Perhaps you have already heard about Facebook's recent changes to their gender options. If not check out the link here: http://bigstory.ap.org/article/apnewsbreak-new-gender-options-facebook-users In some ways this is a big step forward but there is more to it than that. I've been working on this issue for a few years and was in the process of finishing a journal article on the topic from a critical theory perspective that is due March 1st (for a special issue) but am now revising over the next couple of weeks as a result of this news. Here is my initial response (directed more towards journalists but nonetheless) - I'd love to hear your feedback! http://renabivens.com/201402/my-reaction-facebook-launches-new-gender-optio… Here it is again via Twitter: https://twitter.com/renabivens/statuses/43439344394764697<https://twitter.com/renabivens/statuses/434393443947646977> 7 Best, Rena Bivens Rena Bivens, Ph.D. (Sociology) Banting Fellow School of Journalism and Communication Studies Carleton University 1125 Colonel By Drive, Ottawa, Ontario Canada K1S 5B6 Tel: 613 520-2600 ext. 2041 renabivens.com

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Re: [Air-L] "Networked" & query
by Barry Wellman 15 Feb '14

15 Feb '14

Thanks for your interest. We're in the midst of projects. If you go to Navel Studies on my website, you'll see some of our first papers on Networked Research. The Networked Individuals project doesnt have any papers out yet. However, the preceding "Connected Lives" project does on my website. And Dr. Bernie Hogan at Oxford Internet Institute was central in that. Barry Wellman _______________________________________________________________________ NetLab FRSC INSNA Founder Faculty of Information (iSchool) 611 Bissell Building 140 St. George St. University of Toronto Toronto Canada M5S 3G6 http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman twitter: @barrywellman NSA/CSEC: Canadian and American citizen NETWORKED:The New Social Operating System. Lee Rainie & Barry Wellman MIT Press http://amzn.to/zXZg39 Print $14 Kindle $16 Old/NewCyberTimes http://bit.ly/c8N9V8 ________________________________________________________________________ On Fri, 14 Feb 2014, Marilou Polymeropoulou wrote: > Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2014 22:24:39 +0000 > From: Marilou Polymeropoulou <marilou.polymeropoulou(a)music.ox.ac.uk> > To: "wellman(a)chass.utoronto.ca" <wellman(a)chass.utoronto.ca> > Subject: "Networked" & query > > Dear Prof. Wellman, > > Your AoIR list e-mail regarding your new publication arrived just in time when I was writing a piece on networked digital music. I've just bought the Kindle version (as a Valentine's present to myself) and I'm looking forward to reading it. > > My research at Oxford is about the chipscene, a transnational collective of musicians who compose chipmusic, a kind of digital music whose characteristic is 8-bit sounds. I've conducted physical, multi-sited and digital ethnographic fieldwork among chipmusicians, and I'm currently finishing my doctoral thesis with an emphasis on creativity. > > The research conducted at NetLab interests me very much. I cannot find any analytical information on current projects, only the titles, so I would really appreciate it if you could share any further information with me. > > Thank you very much in advance. > > With best wishes, > Marilou Polymeropoulou > > DPhil in Music > University of Oxford > St. Peter's College > http://mariloup.wordpress.com > > > > > > >

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Valentine's Day surprise: Paperback edition of Networked is out
by Barry Wellman 14 Feb '14

14 Feb '14

The paperback edition of Networked: The New Social Operating System (Rainie & Wellman) appeared for Valentine's Day. If you order one today, I will sing to you the next time we meet (some may call this a negative inducement.) So I started exploring the pricing http://www.amazon.com/Networked-New-Social-Operating-System/dp/0262526166/r… The Amazon.com pricing is intriguing. Paperback: US$14.19 Hardcover: US$20.04 (up a buck from last week - you'd think they'd want to clear out the Hards) Kindle: US$16.33 Even more intrigue. The Canadian price is even cheaper than the US Hardcover: Cdn $19.75; (aobut US$17.80) Paperback: Cdn $13.68 But Kindle more expensive: $18.02 Given that the Cdn dollar is now about 90cents in US$, it is cheaper for Canadians to order locally, but not for Americans to do so (shipping costs). UK harcover price, as always, is higher: L14.04 (US$23.50) NO paperback yet Kindle is: L12.64 (US$21) -- and of course, e-shipping is the same as in the US and Canada Japanese price is Y2853 for hardback (about US$28),with no pb listed. BTW: There is a hard-hitting article in the current New Yorker about Amazon's dealing with publishers. Barry Wellman _______________________________________________________________________ NetLab FRSC INSNA Founder Faculty of Information (iSchool) 611 Bissell Building 140 St. George St. University of Toronto Toronto Canada M5S 3G6 http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman twitter: @barrywellman NSA/CSEC: Canadian and American citizen NETWORKED:The New Social Operating System. Lee Rainie & Barry Wellman MIT Press http://amzn.to/zXZg39 Print $20 Kindle $16 Old/NewCyberTimes http://bit.ly/c8N9V8 ________________________________________________________________________

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sentiment analysis on Twitter for smoking cessation groups
by Ashley Nicoles Sanders-Jackson 14 Feb '14

14 Feb '14

Greetings, I am beginning a project for which we have 4 private smoking cessation groups (3 months each) to analyze (we are writing a grant to collect more data as well). I have seen some of the work related to sentiment analysis on Twitter but I am interested in developing a system that is better tailored to our data (e.g. being smokefree has specific meaning in this context). We are therefore considering developing a system by content coding a number of tweets (either having researchers code them or by having smokers code them) for positive and negative valence and perhaps some discrete emotions (e.g. sadness or hope). How many coded tweets would we need to train a simple machine learning system on our dataset (for example one of the many possibilities in R) and what are the best out-of-box programs to use? I know a bit about content analysis and about smoking cessation but not so much about machine learning. So bear in mind that you are dealing with a novice. Actually, if anyone would be interested in collaborating on the project who actually does know what they are doing, they would be welcome as well. Ashley

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Call for book chapters: Handbook on 3D3C Virtual Worlds
by Tzafnat Shpak 14 Feb '14

14 Feb '14

[image: Journal of Virtual Worlds Research]<http://jvwresearch.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=de4fa2a435382cb1fa67cb…> Call for Book Chapters: Handbook on 3D3C Virtual Worlds Applications, Technologies and Policies for Three Dimensional Systems for Community, Creation and Commerce *Editor*: Prof. Yesha Sivan, JVWR Managing editor; Metaverse Labs Ltd. *Publisher*: Springer-Verlag, Germany Introduction: The field of virtual worlds / Augmented Reality / 3D / etc. is vast, interconnected and expanding. In that respect, "3D3C Worlds" is defined as a combination of four factors: - 3D stands for the three dimensional representation of worlds as seen in Google Earth, Augmented Reality, 3D printing and the like; - Community as in a collection of people work, play and act together. Consider Facebook and Twitter as one example, and enhance it by the dynamics of World of Warcraft guilds; - Creation is the ability to create new artifacts, as seen for example in Second Life or in Open Source movement; - Commerce is the ability to harness these previous factors to gain monetary real value (consider Bitcoin, exchanges, etc.) Objective of the Book: - Become the official "handbook" on 3D3C Virtual Worlds - Highlight and enhance some earlier work conducted for the Journal - Further advance and augment the field with "topical reviews" A "topical review" means a review of a corpus of knowledge of one aspect of the field. It can be a classic literature review, a more formal statistical meta-analysis or other forms suggested by authors. Topics we already have chapters on: - Collaboration >> Virtual Worlds as Innovative Collaboration Media for Distributed Work - Taxation >> Taxation of Virtual World Economies: An Empirical Review - Medical >> Overview: Virtual Reality in Medicine - Education >> An Exploratory Research Agenda for 3-D Virtual Worlds as Collaborative Learning Ecosystems: Extracting Evidences from Literature - Art >> 1993-2013: A Survey of Two Decades of Artistic Works using Computational Ecosystems - Geography >> An Aspatial Economics? The Economic Geography of Virtual Worlds - Creativity >> Fostering Team Creativity in Virtual Worlds - Money >> Virtual Currencies, Micropayments and Fiat Money: Where Are We Coming From and Where Does the Industry Stand? - Legal >> Privacy, Law, and Virtual Worlds - Multilinguality >> Multilingual issues in virtual worlds: a general review - Money >> Blazing Trails: A New Way Forward for Virtual Currencies and Money Laundering - Collaboration >> Virtual Collaboration Spaces: Bringing Presence to Distributed Collaboration Topics of interest that we are looking for include, but are not limited to: - Case studies - Augmented Reality - 3D Printing - Commerce / business - History - Security - Design - Military - Users - Standards - Social behaviours - Gender - Cases of projects, constellations, and "islands" -- Could be visual depiction (as the book will be in color) - Cases of firms, and business endeavours - Impact on special audiences for virtual worlds - Technical review of research trends in the field (metrics) - Measurements and evolution of usage in virtual worlds. - Defence Related Virtual worlds - Devices for virtual life - Mobility How to submit: The final chapter length should be 15-25 pages in the Springer format. Initially please email your 2-3 page chapter proposals including: - Chapter title - Author names, current affiliation, and email addresses - Short author/s bio - Chapter intent / purpose / abstract - Chapter structure outline - List some key publication(s) on which your chapter will be based *Editorial Process*: All accepted chapters will undergo a rigorous peer-review process. Email submissions to info(a)jvwresearch.org <+info(a)jvwresearch.org>. Dates: Authors are encouraged to send proposals as early as possible to get a quick response. *March 28, 2014*: Book chapter proposal submission deadline. *April 30, 2014*: Notification of chapter proposal acceptance. *July 30, 2014*: Full chapter submission. *September 15, 2014*: Peer-review results returned. *October 15, 2014*: Camera-ready chapter submission. *December 15, 2014*: Planned publication. Looking forward to hearing from you, Thankfully, *Prof. Yesha Y. Sivan* JVWR Managing Editor Metaverse-Labs Ltd. TheJVWR - The Journal of Virtual Worlds Research http://jvwresearch.org<http://jvwresearch.us2.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=de4fa2a435382cb1fa67c…> (TheJVWR) [image: Like Call for book chapters: Handbook on 3D3C Virtual Worlds on Facebook]<http://us2.campaign-archive2.com/?u=de4fa2a435382cb1fa67cb708&id=14e0db392c…> @TheJVWR. [image: share on Twitter]<http://twitter.com/share?url=http%3A%2F%2Feepurl.com%2FOl18z&text=Call+for+…> (c) 2014 Journal of Virtual Worlds Research All rights reserved.

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Happy Valentine's Day
by FEDERICO MONACO 14 Feb '14

14 Feb '14

Dear Aoir members, you are all invited to our wedding, performance and remix on the web: http://www.cvpido.com thank you for participating to our web event. Federico, Federica and Demetra -- http://www.federicomonaco.com

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CFP: The Transnational Movement of People and Information
by Catherine Vieira 14 Feb '14

14 Feb '14

Call For Papers: Special Issue of Literacy in Composition Studies Title: The Transnational Movement of People and Information Guest Editors: Rebecca Lorimer Leonard, Kate Vieira, Morris Young To be considered, please submit a 250-word abstract that discusses the proposed article to the editors at kevieira(a)wisc.edu. The deadline for proposal submissions is March 14, 2014. The movement of people and information across national borders is rapid and widespread. By some estimates, over 180 million people worldwide are currently living outside the country of their birth, keeping in contact with homelands, forging new migratory networks, and navigating new circumstances through writing. Literacy in composition studies has begun to respond to this context through increased attention to the global, the international, and the transnational. This special issue seeks to forward this emerging area of interest. Often defined as a set of skills and resources, literacy has figured prominently in debates about immigrants’ national integration. Some have called for migrants’ swift assimilation through literacy, others have pointed to the value of migrants’ diverse literacy legacies, and still others have examined how their literacies change in new national contexts. But if we think of literacy more materially, as skills and resources made possible by the technology of writing, it becomes clear that literacy plays a role in more than migrants’ incorporation within nations. It also shapes their movement among them. Writing can facilitate transnational communication and network migration via the postal system and Internet. And writing is a key tool in migration policy, as nation states use immigration documents, such as visas and passports, to allow some migrants in and to keep others out. Writing, in other words, is deeply imbricated both in transnational lived experiences and in the infrastructures that govern transnational mobility. The central question this special issue asks is how. We welcome articles that address these issues empirically, theoretically, and/or rhetorically. Among the questions to be considered are the following: How do migrants’ literacy practices change and persist across time and national borders? How does the transnational inhere in local literacies? How do other semiotic practices interact with writing in transnational contexts? How is literacy taught and learned transnationally? How does writing itself move? What are the implications of changing communication technologies, such as the post and the Internet, for transnational lives and literacies? How does writing motivate, influence, or restrict the travels of people? How have structural forces (such as governments, institutions, race, etc.) facilitated and/or discouraged literacy and immigration? Which methodologies might glean productive inquiries into transnational literacies? Literacy in Composition Studies is a peer-reviewed venue for a broad range of scholarship in literacy and writing studies. http://licsjournal.org. -- Kate Vieira Assistant Professor English Department, Program in Composition and Rhetoric University of Wisconsin, Madison kevieira(a)wisc.edu

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AJDE Special Issue: Interactions in Distance Education
by João Mattar 14 Feb '14

14 Feb '14

Hello! I will submit a proposal for a special issue on *Interactions in Distance Education* for the American Journal of Distance Education (AJDE<http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/hajd20/current#.Uv35XrRAeOc>). The articles should be based on empirical research. If you would like to submit an article for the proposal, please e-mail me a one paragraph abstract. I will get back as soon as I have a feedback on the proposal Thanks -- [ ]s João Mattar Professor TIDD<http://www.google.com.br/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&ved=0CCsQ…>PUC-SP (Brasil)<http://facebook.com/joaomattar>

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Call for Participation: Digital Methods Summer School 2014
by Anne Helmond 14 Feb '14

14 Feb '14

Call for Participation: Digital Methods Summer School 2014 23 June - 4 July 2014 Digital Methods Initiative New Media & Digital Culture University of Amsterdam Turfdraagsterpad 9 1012 XT Amsterdam the Netherlands On Geolocation: Remote Event Analysis (Mapping Conflicts, Disasters, Elections and other Events with Online and Social Media Data) This year's Digital Methods Summer School is devoted to the remote analysis of events. When Twitter changed its byline in 2009 from "What are you doing?" to "What's happening?" it acknowledged a transition in its use and value from an ego-tweeting and ambient friend-following medium to a news and event-following one. Indeed there is a growing literature (in the Summer School's reader) on the relationship between social media and events, often focusing on conflicts, disasters as well as political elections. But what do events look like online, and how does one follow them analytically? What is the value of the event's second screening, as it is sometimes termed? Also, is the event's comment culture worth keeping as records of what has transpired? How to capture as well as re-render, or playback, the event? Claude Levi-Strauss famously wrote, "I hate travelling and explorers," and indeed the great anthropologist spent scant time in the field, preferring remote analysis, a research practice that relied less on sensing instruments than on objects and description. Social media contributes sensing measures in the form of activity metrics and other data. They also raise the question as to what the Internet and social media add to events as well as subtract from them (so to speak). Evgeni Morozov relates the story that after the network was brought down in Iran during the Election crisis of 2009, there were perhaps 6 Twitter users on the ground in Teheran (http://www.evgenymorozov.com/morozov_twitter_dissent.pdf) Indeed the picture provided by Twitter may be demographically skewed. As the Pew Research Center found in 2013, reactions to events on Twitter differ dramatically from public opinion about them ( http://www.pewresearch.org/2013/03/04/twitter-reaction-to-events-often-at-o… ). We are also interested in the events as they unfold in and through mobile devices, and the data supplied with them. 'On geolocation', as opposed to 'on location', refers to the location data sent along with the posts and other content such as the camera data embedded in digital images. At the Summer School we analyse event data as supplied by social media and devices (broadly conceived), and also seek baselines against which to assess and compare its contributions. Example of remote event analysis using Twitter data, Digital Methods Summer School project 2013 (https://wiki.digitalmethods.net/Dmi/NetworkedIssuePublics) About "Digital Methods" as Concept Digital methods is a term coined as a counter-point to virtual methods, which typically digitize existing methods and port them onto the Web. Digital methods, contrariwise, seek to learn from the methods built into the dominant devices online, and repurpose them for social and cultural research. That is, the challenge is to study both the info-web as well as the social web with the tools that organize them. There is a general protocol to digital methods. At the outset stock is taken of the natively digital objects that are available (links, tags, threads, etc.) and how devices such as search engines make use of them. Can the device techniques be repurposed, for example by remixing the digital objects they take as inputs? Once findings are made with online data, where to ground them? Is the baseline still the offline, or are findings to be grounded in more online data? There is also a Digital Methods book (http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/digital-methods) About the Summer School The Digital Methods Summer School, founded in 2007 together with the Digital Methods Initiative, is directed by Professor Richard Rogers, Chair in NewSummer School is one training opportunity provided by the Digital Methods Initiative (DMI). DMI also has a Winter School, which includes a mini-conference, where papers are presented and responded to. Winter School papers are often the result of Summer School projects. The Summer School is coordinated by two Ph.D candidates in New Media at the University of Amsterdam, or affiliates. This year the coordinators are Catherine Somzé and Sabine Niederer, both affiliated with the Digital Methods Initiative, University of Amsterdam. The Summer School has a technical staff as well as a design staff. The Summer School also relies on a technical infrastructure of some nine servers hosting tools and storing data. Participants bring their laptops, learn method, undertake research projects, make reports, tools and graphics and write them up on the Digital Methods wiki. The Summer School concludes with final presentations. Often there are guests from non-governmental or other organizations who present their issues. For instance, Women on Waves came along during the 2010, Fair Phone to the 2012 Summer School and Greenpeace and their Gezi Park project in 2013. Digital Methods people are currently interning at major NGOs and international organizations (the UN). The Digital Methods Initiative was founded with a grant from the Mondriaan Foundation, and the Summer School has been supported by the Center for Creation, Content and Technology (CCCT), University of Amsterdam, organized by the Faculty of Science with sponsorship from Platform Beta. Previous Digital Methods Summer Schools, 2007-2013 (https://wiki.digitalmethods.net/Dmi/DmiSummerSchool) Applications and fees To apply for the Digital Methods Summer School 2014, please send a one-page letter explaining how digital methods training would benefit your current work, and also enclose a CV. Mark your application "DMI Training Certificate Program," and send to info [at] digitalmethods.net. The deadline for applications for the Summer School is 23 April. Notices will be sent on 25 April. Please address your application email to the Summer School coordinators, Catherine Somzé and Sabine Niederer, info [at] digitalmethods.net. Informal queries may be sent to Catherine [at] digitalmethods.net. The Summer School costs EUR 345 per person. Accepted applicants will be informed of the bank transfer details upon notice of acceptance to the Summer School. The fee must be paid by 24 May 2013. Scholarships The Digital Methods Summer School is part of the University of Amsterdam Summer School program me (http://www.uva.nl/en/education/other-programmes/summer-winter) This means that students attending the partnering universities in the LERU (http://www.leru.org/index.php/public/home/) and U21 networks (http://www.universitas21.com/) are eligible for a scholarship to help cover the cost for tuition and housing for the DMI Summer School. Please consult their sites to see whether you are eligible for a scholarship and for the application procedure. Housing and Accommodations The Summer School is self-catered, and there are abundant cafes and a university mensa nearby. The Digital Methods Summer School is located in the heart of Amsterdam. There are limited accommodations available to participants at The Student Hotel at reasonable rates (http://www.thestudenthotel.com/) In your application please indicate whether you are interested in making use of this service. Reservations will be made by us on the basis of your request included in your application. In your acceptance notification, you will be given further information about booking and payment. Please contact the local organizers if you need information about prices. For those who prefer non-University accommodations, we suggest airbnb or similar. For shorter stay, there is Hotel Le Coin (http://www.lecoin.nl/) where we have a university discount. Summer School Training Certificate The Digital Methods Summer School issues completion certificates to particisignificant contribution to a Summer School project. For previous Summer School projects, see for example (https://wiki.digitalmethods.net/Dmi/WikipediaAsASpaceOfControversy) Schedule The Summer School meets every day. Please bring your laptop. We will provide abundant connectivity. We start generally at 9:30 in the morning, and end around 5:30. There are morning talks two-three days per week. On the last Friday we have a boat trip on the canals of Amsterdam. Social Media & User-Generated Content Twitter hashtag #dmi14 We shall have a list of summer school participants and make an old-fashioned Facebook. We look forward to welcoming you to Amsterdam in the Summertime!

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[CFP] DIGITAL LABOR: SWEATSHOPS, PICKET LINES, AND BARRICADES, The New School, Nov 14-16, 2014
by Sarah Roberts 13 Feb '14

13 Feb '14

Call for Proposals DIGITAL LABOR: SWEATSHOPS, PICKET LINES, AND BARRICADES To be held at The New School, a university in New York City NOVEMBER 14-16, 2014 #dl14 The third in The New School's Politics of Digital Culture Conference Series Sponsored by The New School and The Institute for Distributed Creativity DIGITAL LABOR: SWEATSHOPS, PICKET LINES, AND BARRICADES brings together designers, labor organizers, theorists, social entrepreneurs, historians, legal scholars, independent researchers, cultural producers -- and perspectives from workers themselves -- to discuss emerging forms of mutual aid and solidarity. Over the past decade, advancements in software development, digitization, an increase in computer processing power, faster and cheaper bandwidth and storage, and the introduction of a wide range of inexpensive, wireless-enabled computing devices and mobile phones, set the global stage for emerging forms of labor that help corporations to drive down labor costs and ward off the falling rate of profits. Companies like CrowdFlower, oDesk, or Amazon.com’s Mechanical Turk serve as much more than payment processors or interface providers; they shape the nature of the tasks that are performed. Work is organized against the worker. Recent books included The Internet as Playground and Factory (Scholz, 2013), Living Labor (Hoegsberg and Fisher) based on the exhibition Arbeitstid that took place in Oslo in 2013 and Cognitive Capitalism, Education, and Digital Labour (Peters, Bulut, et al, eds., Peter Lang, 2011). In 2012, the exhibition The Workers was curated by MASS MOCA in the United States. Christian Fuchs’ book Digital Labor and Karl Marx is forthcoming with Routledge. Several events have been organized in the last few years to focus on these developments: Digital Labor: the Internet as Playground and Factory conference (The New School, New York City, 2009 http://digitallabor.org) Digital Labor: Workers, Authors, Citizens (Western University, London, Ontario, Canada, 2009), Invisible Labor Colloquium (Washington University Law School, 2013), Towards Critical Theories of Social Media (Uppsala University, Sweden, 2012), Re:publica (Berlin, 2013), and the Chronicles of Work lecture series at Schloß Solitude (Stuttgart, Germany, 2012/2013). We would like to continue and elaborate on these discussions by raising the following questions: Broad issues: Who and where are the workers and how do they understand their situation? How and where do they act in political terms? How can we analyze digital labor as a global phenomenon, pertaining to issues like underdevelopment and supply chains? Which theories and concepts can help us to frame our thinking about the gridlock of digital work? How do waste, repair, and disposal play into the debate about labor? Are there artistic works that respond to contemporary labor? Gender, Race, Class, Ability: How do gender, race, ability, and class play out in the diverse fields of digital labor? How are laboring capacities, also in the digital realm, sustained and maintained by maternal labor, or the labor of care workers, domestic workers? Alternatively, how do we conceptualize digital work that is underwaged and often coded as feminized? What are the postcolonial tensions arising between digital workers in different locales? Organizing: How relevant are unions to the millions of crowdsourced workers? How can we resist the all-too-common “the labor movement is dead” narrative? Which concrete projects might offer us a critical foundation upon which to build broader strategies for “digital solidarity”? What can be learned from the history of organized labor when it comes to crowdsourcing and lawsuits like Otey vs. CrowdFlower? What are possibilities and tensions that arise with projects aiming for solidarity among people in global labor systems? Policy: What are the reasons for withholding legislation that would allow for an enforcement of the Fair Labor Standards Act in the crowdsourcing industry? Are there new forms of contracts or widened definitions of employment that would better address today’s work realities? What policy proposals might be developed and put on the table now? FORMATS: In addition to traditional conference structures, Digital Labor: Sweatshops, Picket Lines, and Barricades also aims to experiment with creative presentation formats and novel venues. We welcome applications for the following formats: - experimental lectures (e.g., “theory tapas,” pecha kuchas, collaborative presentations, or formats not using spoken language) - lectures or panels - keynote dialogues - design fiction workshops for those interested in design storytelling and envisioning alternative futures (3 hours) - performance lectures in the places where some of this work is taking place: the living rooms of participants (20 minutes each) SUBMIT a 300-word abstract or a link to short video, and a one-page CV to: digitallabor2014(a)gmail.com by March 21, 2014. Please state clearly which format you are applying for and do emphasize how your proposal speaks to the questions above. Confirmation of participation: March 31, 2014. If you have any logistical questions, please contact Alexis Rider digitallabor2014(a)gmail.com We are planning an open access digital work notebook that documents and expands the discussion leading up to, during, and after this event. Contributions will emerge from the iDC mailing list. https://mailman.thing.net/mailman/listinfo/idc Conference editor: Trebor Scholz with (Advisory Board): Lilly Irani, Frank Pasquale, Sarah T. Roberts, Karen Gregory, Ken Wark, and Winifred Poster. Producer: Alexis Rider. Join the discussion: https://mailman.thing.net/mailman/listinfo/idc @idctweets @trebors --- S a r a h T. R o b e r t s Faculty of Information and Media Studies (FIMS) Western University http://fims.uwo.ca/index.htm Blogging periodically at http://illusionofvolition.com

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