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Call for papers - Radical Negativity
by Ella Fegitz 03 Feb '14

03 Feb '14

We are pleased to announce the call for papers for the graduate conference on Radical Negativity. *Radical Negativity: Interrogating productive possibilities for negative states of being* Friday 13 June 2014 Goldsmiths, University of London Conference Keynote: Lisa Blackman, Professor in Media and Communications, Goldsmiths Supported by the Centre for Feminist Research, Department of Media and Communications, and the Centre for Cultural Studies at Goldsmiths. Website: http://radicalnegativity.com *Proposals are due by Friday 14 February 2014* More recent feminist and queer scholarship has begun to productively address the dark aspects of human subjectivity perceived to have a detrimental impact on the self-constituting practices of the positive self, such as shame, trauma, unhappiness, loss, pain, and melancholia, and reconceptualise them not only as integral to the process of subject formation, but critical and productive affective states in which to engage political action. This interdisciplinary conference addresses the ways in which feminist and queer research may be informed by embracing philosophical oppositions, the ‘negative double’ of the positive value. The conference will interrogate what can be learned from interventions focused on the interconnections between the negative and human agency, and how such a frame can inform ideas of feminist and queer practice. Borrowing from Eve Sedgwick, this conference proposes that forms of the negative are “not distinctly ‘toxic’ parts of a group or individual identity that can be excised; they are instead integral to and residual in the processes by which identity itself is formed. They are available for the work of metamorphosis, reframing, refiguration, transfiguration, affective and symbolic loading and deformation (Sedgwick and Frank, 2003, p.63).” If, like Sedgwick, we take up this challenge to valorise negative states of being as key conditions both for the production of meaning and being and as organising principles of identity, then we hope explorations into such states may provide the potential to open up new possibilities for politics and connection. We invite papers and panel proposals that explore how negative states and conditions of being such as unhappiness, irresponsibility, passivity, vulnerability, failure, shame, hesitancy, pain, dispossession, rage, madness and depression may provide loci from which action and political engagement can arise. *Submission Guidelines* Please submit paper abstracts of 300-500 words along with a short biography of 100 words. Panel proposals should include a 300-word description along with accompanying paper abstracts for the panel of 300-500 words. Please provide a short 100-word biography for each presenter. Email submissions to: radicalnegativity(a)gmail.com by*Friday 14 February 2014*.

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PhD grants at iSchool, Télécom Bretagne, France
by Nicolas Jullien 03 Feb '14

03 Feb '14

Hello all, we, at iSchool, Telecom Bretagne, are looking for PhD Candidates (starting September, 2014, 3 years grant) on the following topics: - management, labor economics: virtual teaming, employees' participation in online communities - economics evaluation: multi-criteria evaluation of IT platforms - analytic tools and theories: data mining, social graph analysis. The work can be done in English, PhD candidate can follow French courses If you know people interested in discussing those topics, aks them to send me an email with their resume and their topic of interest. Nicolas Jullien -- Maître de Conférences (HDR) / Associate Professor. LUSSI - iSchool, M@rsouin. Institut TELECOM Bretagne & UEB In charge of the Master "Information Systems Project Management and Consulting" http://www.telecom-bretagne.eu/studies/msc/information-systems-management/ Co-animator of the Institut Mines-Telecom's research network "TIC and Society" http://nicolas-jullien.lussi-ischool.eu/ Skype: Nicolas.Jullien1 Tel +33 (0) 229 001 245 TELECOM Bretagne, Technopôle Brest Iroise CS 83818 29238 BREST CEDEX 3

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Final Reminder: BILETA Conference
by Karen Mc Cullagh (LAW) 03 Feb '14

03 Feb '14

Final reminder: The Call for Papers for the 29th BILETA Annual Conference (14-16 April 2014, University of East Anglia) has been extended to facilitate requests for extensions. If you missed the original deadline, you now have until 7th February 2014 to submit an abstract. To view the call for papers and information about the conference see the attachment and click on the link: http://www.uea.ac.uk/law/news-and-events/bileta-conference Queries should be sent to the organiser, Dr Karen Mc Cullagh, via bileta2014(a)uea.ac.uk ----------------------------------------------- Dr Karen Mc Cullagh Lecturer UEA Law School University of East Anglia Norwich Research Park Norwich NR4 7TJ w: http://karenmccullagh.co.uk/ T: 01603 59 7617

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M4D Doctoral Workshop, Dakar - deadline extended til Feb 14th
by Jakob Svensson 02 Feb '14

02 Feb '14

M4D Doctoral Workshop, Dakar - deadline extended til Feb 14th April 7, 2014 We invite applications to the M4D Doctoral Workshop in Dakar Senegal. The workshop will provide a forum for PhD students in the area of mobile communication technology in and for development to present their work and receive constructive feedback from experts in the field as well as from peers. PhD students at any stage of their doctoral studies are invited to submit papers. The workshop will host about 15 attendees besides the experts in the field. We expect submissions to be from current PhD students who have selected a clear research topic within M4D in the broadest sense. Participation for selected PhD students are free for M4D2014 conference delegates who have registered and paid the conference fee. The doctoral workshop is sponsored by the International Network of Postgraduate Students in the area of ICT4D (IPID). Goal of workshop The goal of the workshop is to provide professional development in M4D with critical, but constructive, feedback and advice to PhD students on their ongoing research from senior researchers. The workshop will also offer the opportunity to meet and exchange ideas and suggestions with peers in the M4D field. Submission Submissions should address the student's PhD research area, specifically: a well-defined formulation of the problem statement, objectives and aims of the research, explain the research context and why the research is important, give details of research design and data collection techniques, present preliminary results and research findings, do clarify the state of the research work, a brief sketch of the intended theoretical/disciplinary approach and audience(s) for the work, as well as the related theoretical and practical contributions to the multidisciplinary area of 'M4D'. Your name, affiliation, email address, PhD supervisor's name and affiliation and year when you started PhD should be included. The submission should be max. 5000 words in length. Please note that the workshop is not a venue for publication; there will be no published proceedings. However, we encourage workshop participants to also submit to the M4D2014 main conference (poster, full or short paper see www.m4d2014.net) Doctoral workshop participants are asked to submit their papers to m4d AT kau.se with the subject line [M4D2014 doctoral workshop]. Workshop Format Participants will be divided into two groups depending on their research topic. Group A will be led by Anne Shongwe and Jonathan Donner and Group B by Laura Stark and Richard Ling. Participants will be asked to read the group member’s papers prior the workshop so that focus can be on discussing each paper in depth rather than listening to presentations. We will reserve around 15-20 minutes for comments and 10-15 minutes for general discussion. Important Dates Submission by: 23:59 (GMT), 14 February 2014 Notification of acceptance: 15 March 2014 (by this date the M4D conference fee should be paid) Workshop date: 7 April 2014 Jakob Svensson, Ph. D. Ass. Prof. Media and Communication Studies Director, BA Programme in Media & Communication Studies Director, MA Programme in Global Media Karlstad University SE-65188 Karlstad, Sweden Telephone +46 54 700 1893 Mobile + 46 73 443 48 04 www.kau.se/media www.kau.se/en/humanit twitter.com/Centre4HumanIT facebook.com/karlstadsuniversitet KAU.SE

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Call for Papers and Creative Works: InVisible Culture, Issue 22: "Opacity"
by Joel Neville Anderson 01 Feb '14

01 Feb '14

Dear Air-L subscribers, Please circulate the latest CFP for my graduate program's journal, InVisible Culture: An Electronic Journal for Visual Culture (pasted below). Please don't hesitate to contact me with any questions. Best regards, Joel Neville Anderson Managing Editor InVisible Culture 503A Morey Hall University of Rochester Rochester, NY 14627 http://ivc.lib.rochester.edu - “Opacity” - Issue 22 For its twenty-second issue, InVisible Culture: An Electronic Journal for Visual Culture invites scholarly articles and creative works that address the multiple meanings of opacity. In the spring of 2013, former US intelligence contractor Edward Snowden began releasing documents pertaining to the wide-ranging data collection methods of the National Security Agency. Alternately hailed as hero and traitor, Snowden’s actions have fueled intense public debate regarding issues of privacy and transparency. For Issue 22, we would like contributors to consider the tension between transparency and opacity and reflect on the cultural and political contexts that gave rise to their connotations of openness and secrecy. What does it mean to claim either as a right? The late writer, poet, and critic Édouard Glissant (1928-2011) developed a model of opacity as a means of creating ethical relationships, writing in Poetics of Relation, “Transparency no longer seems like the bottom of the mirror in which Western humanity reflected the world in its own image. There is opacity now at the bottom of the mirror, a whole alluvium deposited by populations.” How could opacity be used as a tool of resistance? What stakes are involved in the revelation or obscuring of artworks’ racial, cultural, or gendered origins? How might we imagine opacity to be useful or limiting to the work of visual culture? We also seek to address optical properties of opacity more broadly as a conceptual tool for approaching medium specificity, innovations in color theory, and other subjects. Does our understanding of opacity shift in regard to digital technologies as it may between cultural spheres and political territories? How might visual culture be invested in the theoretical and physical properties of opacity and transparency? We welcome papers and artworks that further the various understandings of opacity. Possible topics of exploration include, but are not limited to: Aesthetic and political dimensions of transparency and opacity Identity politics, “the right to opacity” Privacy and visibility, surveillance The “transparent society” and digital panopticism Scientific and medical visualization, the body, big data Opacity of architectural traditions Liminal spaces, borders, zones of conflict Transparency and globalization, geopolitics Emerging, established, and decaying democracies Politics of clothing, fabric, screens, interstitial space and material Camera obscura/lucida, properties of darkness and light, color, pigmentation Transparency and opacity in the plastic arts (painting, film, sculpture) Penetration and resistance Please send completed papers (with references following the guidelines from the Chicago Manual of Style) of between 4,000 and 10,000 words to ivc[dot]rochester[at]gmail[dot]com by May 1, 2014. Inquiries should be sent to the same address. Creative/Artistic Works In addition to written materials, InVisible Culture is accepting work in other media (video, photography, drawing, code) that reflect upon the theme as it is outlined above. For questions or more details concerning acceptable formats, go to http://ivc.lib.rochester.edu/contribute or contact ivc[dot]rochester[at]gmail[dot]com. Reviews InVisible Culture is also currently seeking submissions for book, exhibition, and film reviews (600-1,000 words). To submit a review proposal, go to http://ivc.lib.rochester.edu/contribute or contact ivc[dot]rochester[at]gmail[dot]com. Blog The journal also invites submissions to its blog feature, which will accommodate more immediate responses to the topic of the current issue. For further details, please contact us at ivc[dot]rochester[at]gmail[dot]com with the subject heading “blog submission.” * InVisible Culture: An Electronic Journal for Visual Culture (IVC) is a student run interdisciplinary journal published online twice a year in an open access format. Through peer reviewed articles, creative works, and reviews of books, films, and exhibitions, our issues explore changing themes in visual culture. Fostering a global and current dialog across fields, IVC investigates the power and limits of vision.

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Nominations for the Brian Michael Goldberg Memorial Award
by Mariariosaria Taddeo 01 Feb '14

01 Feb '14

The International Association for Computing and Philosophy is proud to present the “Brian Michael Goldberg Memorial Award” to graduate students in recognisance of outstanding achievements in the areas of Computing and Philosophy. This award is sponsored by the Department of Philosophy at Carnegie Mellon and carries a $500 USD stipend, which will be presented each year at one of the IACAP conferences. Nominees and applicants are welcome from around the world. This Award was made possible by a generous gift from Dr. Gerald and Nancy Goldberg in memory of their son, Brian Michael Goldberg. In their words: Brian was a twenty-two year old student who was admitted to Carnegie Mellon University in 1991 to the doctoral program in philosophy. He died unexpectedly before he could realize his dream of attending Carnegie Mellon. Brian was an independent thinker who loved competition and a good challenge. Throughout his life, he found it exciting to enter and win contests. He loved challenging his mind, especially by studying philosophy, mathematics and logic. He loved challenging his creativity through photography, painting and theatre arts. He loved challenging his body by learning such diverse sports as wrestling, fencing and scuba diving. He loved debating and challenging others to think in new ways and had seriously considered becoming a university professor. To honor who he was and what he loved, this Goldberg Memorial Award is offered to challenge and motivate other graduate students in Brian’s chosen field of study. To nominate, please send names and website URLs (or CVs) to: berkich(a)gmail.com by February the 28th 2014. For more information, please see http://www.iacap.org/awards/ -- 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://taddeo.philosophyofinformation.net/index.html

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Ten Years of Facebook Conference
by ropolyi＠ludens.elte.hu 01 Feb '14

01 Feb '14

*Ten Years of Facebook: The Third Argumentor Conference* 4-6 September 2014, Oradea / Nagyvárad, Romania This year marks the tenth anniversary of the launch of Facebook, the most ubiquitous social media and communication platform in the world. It also gives us the opportunity to take a step back and examine increasingly important questions about how Facebook and the new social web have impacted the world of communication, from debate, discourse and rhetoric to philosophy, politics, social context, and other forms of new media. Has Facebook been constructive or disruptive in these different areas - or perhaps both? How does the ease and ubiquity of online communication affect longstanding national, generational, ideological, gender and class divides? We welcome papers seeking to explore such questions, including approaches that aim to challenge the importance, relevance or timeliness of such questions. ORGANIZED BY: Partium Christian University / Romania Sapientia Hungarian University of Transylvania / Romania University of Debrecen / Hungary Conference website: https://sites.google.com/site/argumentor2014/ Abstract submission deadline: 3 February 2014 Laszlo Ropolyi

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a postdoc at Internet studies lab
by Кольцова Елена Юрьевна 01 Feb '14

01 Feb '14

Dear all, A postdoc position at our Internet Studies Lab (that will actually make you feel very rich in Russia :)! ) is now open. Job description: http://linis.hse.ru/announcements/110788699.html It may the be extended for a tenure-track position at the dept of media and communication that we are launching in 2015, or at sociology, political science, economics etc. Olessia Koltsova Director, Laboratory for Internet Studies National Research University Higher School of Economics (St.Petersburg branch) room 322, 46 Rimskogo-Korsakova St. 190008, St.Petersburg, Russia Phone: +7 (812) 677-9452 www.linis.hse.ru E-mail: ekoltsova(a)hse.ru http://www.hse.ru/en/org/persons/202747

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PhD course - Methodologies: Mobile Media & Mobility - Aarhus University
by Charles Ess 01 Feb '14

01 Feb '14

Dear AoIR-ists, With the usual regrets for duplications and cross-postings - please pass along to potential candidates and appropriate lists. Please note that the course offers a sliding scale of requirements and correlative ECTs. There are no course fees, though participants will be required to pay ca. 1000.00 DKK to cover their catering costs (lunches, coffee and tea breaks, etc.) over the course of the workshop. Methodologies: Mobile Media & Mobility International PhD course, Aarhus University 1-3 April 2014 http://phdcourses.dk/Course/24583#.UuIXh_Y1j-Y Lecturers: Adriana de Souza e Silva, NC State University Rich Ling, IT-University of Copenhagen Gunnar Liestøl, Oslo University Kristian Hegner Reinau, Aalborg University Jonas Larsen, Roskilde University Anne Marit Waade, Aarhus University Thomas Bjørner, Aalborg University Charles Ess, Oslo University Organisers: Charles Ess (Professor, UiO); Thomas Bjørner (Associate Professor, AAU); and Anne Marit Waade (Associate Professor, AU). Graduate School of Arts, Aarhus University, PhD degree program: ICT Media, Communication and Journalism. ECTS 4 ECTS inclusive of submitting a paper 3 ECTS without submitting a paper (1 ECT extra for participating in the research workshop April 4) Time: April 1-3,2014 Room and Place: Aarhus University Cost/ Policy No course fee. Travel, accommodation and meals are not covered by the course. The course will give different perspectives on methodologies within studies in mobile media and mobility. This multidisciplinary course covers fields of research such as media science, communication, ethnography, anthropology, social science, geography, architecture, urban design and planning, research ethics, etc. The Ph.D.-course will be based on lectures, workshops and students own project presentations in a mixed setting aiming at creating an open and creative research dialogue. For a more detailed course description, registration information, etc., please see the course website: <http://phdcourses.dk/Course/24583#.UuIXh_Y1j-Y> On behalf of the organisers, Charles Ess 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/> University of Oslo P.O. Box 1093 Blindern NO-0317 Oslo Norway email: charles.ess(a)media.uio.no

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2013 DIGITAL HUMANITIES AWARDS
by Natalia Grincheva 31 Jan '14

31 Jan '14

Dear friends and colleagues! I am happy to share with you that my publication "'Psychopower <http://uscpublicdiplomacy.org/publications/perspectives/CPDPerspectivesPape r3_2013_Psychopower.pdf> ' of Cultural Diplomacy in the Information Age" was nominated for the 2013 DIGITAL HUMANITIES (DH) AWARDS <http://dhawards.org/dhawards2013/voting/> in the category 'Best 2013 DH blog post, article, or short publication.' Please, VOTE for my work here http://bit.ly/1fhYuPw It takes only a couple of minutes, you will need to indicate your name, your e-mail and choose MY work in the list under the category Best 2013 DH blog post, article, or short publication! Your support will be very much appreciated! THANK YOU!!! Natalia Natalia Grincheva 2014 PhD Candidate Cultural Diplomacy Connect @: twitter.com/grincheva linkedin.com/in/grincheva Tel: +1 438 989 2645

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