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CFP - Critical Media Studies and the Future of News Debates
by Anthony Nadler 20 Dec '13

20 Dec '13

Critical Media Studies and the “Future of News” Debates - Special Issue of Communication Review, 2015 Perhaps more than any other major media genre, news media appear to be facing a pivotal historic moment as mounting debts, declining revenues, and new competition and formats challenge the viability of “traditional” news formats. The future of news may not look much like its recent past. This situation raises many questions regarding the survival and mutation of news formats and styles, the structure of news organizations, the business models that will support reporting, and the working relationships between paid and unpaid journalists. This CFP asks for contributors to this special issue to bring perspectives from critical media studies into the future of news debates and to bring insights from those active in the debates to discussions in critical media studies. We are also looking for contributors who can integrate work from the political economy of journalism with cultural approaches. Some of the topics that might be addressed include: Race, gender, class, sexuality, and the future of news. Changing concepts of “the popular” in the emerging news media. Fragmentation and stratification in online news. Rhetorical dimensions of the future of news debates. Critical media studies and normative thinking about news. The future of citizen journalism as popular culture. The role of public intellectuals in the future of news debates. The power of users and limits to that power in shaping online journalism. How the cultural and social history of news can inform current choices. Technophilia and technophobia in thinking about the news. News media as “technologies of citizenship.” Media reform activism and public discourse. What social activists and emerging movements seek in digital news. Please contact Dr. Anthony Nadler anadler(a)ursinus.edu if you have any questions about this special issue. Submissions of abstracts of 500 words (maximum) should be sent to Dr. Mary Vavrus vavru001(a)umn.edu. Submission Dates: Abstracts Due: January 1st, 2014 Notify Contributors: February 10th, 2014 Full Manuscripts Due: July 1st, 2014 Reviews back by September 1st, 2014 (and access to guest contributors’ essay) Revisions due by December 1st, 2014 -- Anthony Nadler Assistant Professor of Media and Communication Studies Ursinus College

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Call for Papers: EJCS special issue on Data Mining / Anaytics
by Helen Kennedy 20 Dec '13

20 Dec '13

Call for Papers The European Journal of Cultural Studies Special issue on Data Mining / Analytics Editors: Mark Andrejevic, University of Queensland, Australia; Alison Hearn, University of Western Ontario, Canada; Helen Kennedy, University of Leeds, UK. The widespread use of social media has given rise to new forms of monitoring, mining and aggregation strategies designed to monetize the huge volumes of data such usage produces. Social media monitoring and analysis industries, experts and consultancies have emerged offering a broad range of social media intelligence and reputation management services. Such services typically involve a range of analytical methods (sentiment analysis, opinion mining, social network analysis, machine learning, natural language processing), often offered in black-boxed proprietary form, in order to gain insights into public opinion, mood, networks and relationships and identify potential word-of-mouth influencers. Ostensibly, these various forms of data mining, analytics and machine learning also are paving the way for the development of a more intelligent or ‘semantic’ Web 3.0, offering a more ‘productive and intuitive’ user experience. As commercial and non-commercial organisations alike seek to monitor, influence, manage and direct social media conversations, and as global usage of social media expands, questions surface that challenge celebratory accounts of the democratizing, participatory possibilities of social media. Remembering that Web 2.0 was always intended as a business manifesto – O’Reilly’s early maxims included, after all, ‘data is the next Intel inside’, ‘users add value’ and ‘collaboration as data collection’ – we need to interrogate social media not only as communication tools, but also as techno-economic constructs with important implications for the management of populations and the formation of subjects. Data mining and analytics are about much more than targeted advertising: they envision new strategies for forecasting, targeting, and decision making in a growing range of social realms (employment, education, health care, policing, urban planning, epidemiology, etc.) with the potential to usher in new, unaccountable, and opaque forms of discrimination, sorting, inclusion and exclusion. As Web 3.0 and the ‘big data’ it generates moves inexorably toward predictive analytics and the overt technocratic management of human sociality, urgent questions arise about how such data are gathered, constructed and sold, to what ends they are deployed, who gets access to them, and how their analysis is regulated (boyd and Crawford 2012). This special issue aims to bring together scholars who interrogate social media intelligence work undertaken in the name of big data, big business and big government. It aims to draw together empirically-grounded and theoretically-informed analyses of the key issues in contemporary forms of data mining and analytics from across disparate fields and methodologies. . Contributions are invited that address a range of related issues. Areas for consideration could include, but are not limited to: • Political economy of social media platforms • Algorithmic culture • User perspectives on data mining • The politics of data visualisation • Big data and the cultural industries • Data journalism • The social life of big data methods • Inequalities and exclusions in data mining • Affective prediction and control • Data mining and new subjectivities • Ethics, regulation and data mining • Conceptualising big/data/mining • Social media intelligence at work • Social media and surveillance • Critical histories of data mining, sorting, and surveillance. Prospective contributors should email an abstract of 500-700 words to the issue editors by 9th December 2013 (to h.kennedy(a)leeds.ac.uk) Full articles should be submitted to Helen Kennedy (h.kennedy(a)leeds.ac.uk) by 12th May 2014. Manuscripts must be no longer than 7,000 words. Articles should meet with The European Journal of Cultural Studies’ aim to promote empirically based, theoretically informed cultural studies; essayist discussion papers are not normally accepted by this journal. All articles will be refereed: invitation to submit a paper to the special issue in no way guarantees that the paper will be published; this is dependent on the review process. Details • Abstract deadline: 9th December 2013 (to h.kennedy(a)leeds.ac.uk) • Decisions on abstracts communicated by 13th January 2014; • Article submission deadline: 12th May 2014 (to h.kennedy(a)leeds.ac.uk) • Final submission/review process complete: 13th October 2014; • For publication in 2015. Dr Helen Kennedy Senior Lecturer in New Media, Institute of Communications Studies, University of Leeds (http://ics.leeds.ac.uk/) More about me: http://ics.leeds.ac.uk/staff/h.kennedy

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Expert invitation from the Internet Project of Pew Research
by Janna Anderson 20 Dec '13

20 Dec '13

To the listserv administrator: Pew Internet is inviting experts who participate in discussions on leading listservs to take part in a special research project. Please delete this opening paragraph and forward the content below to your list if you see it to be of value to your group. Apologies for mistakenly sending this invitation earlier to some admins with a password that had been meant for individual participants. This format will allow all people in your special-interest discussion group to participate. If you happen to know of another list you think should be invited, please email your suggestion to andersj(a)elon.edu<mailto:andersj@elon.edu> - Janna Anderson Expert invitation from the Internet Project of Pew Research Our apologies for cross-posts... Members of this list are invited to participate in a special project to gather input on the challenges and opportunities for the future of humanity and the Internet. The study is being conducted by two non-profits: Pew Research Center's Internet Project and Elon University's Imagining the Internet Center. We are collecting experts' input on the most likely evolution of technology and people's uses of it by the year 2025. Experts such as Semantic Web scientist James Hendler, Internet protocol co-inventor Vint Cerf, futurist David Brin, Esther Dyson, danah boyd and Jeff Jarvis are among those who are participating. If you have not already participated in the survey, please use a laptop, desktop or tablet computer and click on the link below and enter the password provided. https://www.rationalsurvey.com/s/10669 PASSWORD: FUTURE We hope you will take the time to share your insights now, so you do not forget, however, the site will be open until early January and you are allowed start and stop, thinking your answers through and participating over time. Past participants have told us that taking the time to think the questions we present to them through has helped them see a clearer path to future action in their own realm. By default, all of your responses are confidential. However, we provide respondents the opportunity to take credit for their remarks by simply typing their name at the beginning of each response. Taking credit lends credibility to the results and contributes to a more vibrant public conversation. Again, to have your remarks attributed to you, please type your name at the beginning of each open-ended response you provide. If your name does not appear at the beginning of a response, it will remain anonymous. If you know other thought leaders who would contribute meaningful insights on the questions posed in this survey, if you send us their contact details we will invite them to participate. The Pew Internet Project and Elon University will issue a series of reports based on this survey in 2014. Your answers, attributed or anonymous, will also be added to Imagining the Internet http://www.elon.edu/e-web/imagining/default.xhtml. If you have any questions, please contact us. Thank you! Janna Anderson, andersj(a)elon.edu<mailto:andersj@elon.edu> Director, Imagining the Internet Center, Elon University Lee Rainie, lrainie(a)pewInternet.org<mailto:lrainie@pewInternet.org> Director, Pew Research Center's Internet Project

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New Issue of CyberOrient: Orchestrating Hip-hop Culture Online
by Vit Sisler 19 Dec '13

19 Dec '13

Dear colleagues, it is my pleasure to announce that the new issue of the CyberOrient journal is available online! All the best, Vit Sisler Managing Editor CyberOrient, Vol. 7, Iss. 2, 2013 Editorial Orchestrating Hip-hop Culture Online: Within and Beyond the Middle East Anders Ackfeldt http://www.cyberorient.net/article.do?articleId=8640 Articles Muslimhiphop.com: Constructing Muslim Hip Hop Identities on the Internet Inka Rantakallio http://www.cyberorient.net/article.do?articleId=8623 Hanouneh style resistance. Becoming hip-hop authentic by balancing skills and painful lived experiences Andrea Dankic http://www.cyberorient.net/article.do?articleId=8625 “I Am Malcolm X” – Islamic Themes in Hip-hop Video Clips Online Anders Ackfeldt http://www.cyberorient.net/article.do?articleId=8630 Comments Global Story Mark LeVine http://www.cyberorient.net/article.do?articleId=8618 Reviews Review: Religion and Hip Hop Kalle Berggren http://www.cyberorient.net/article.do?articleId=8521 Review: Turkish Metal – Music, Meaning and Morality in a Muslim Society Johan Cato http://www.cyberorient.net/article.do?articleId=8628 About CyberOrient CyberOrient (http://www.cyberorient.net/) is a peer-reviewed journal published by the American Anthropological Association, in collaboration with the Faculty of Arts of Charles University in Prague. The aim of the journal is to provide research and theoretical considerations on the representation of Islam and the Middle East, the very areas that used to be styled as an “Orient”, in cyberspace, as well as the impact of the internet and new media in Muslim and Middle Eastern contexts. -- Vit Sisler, Ph.D. Charles University in Prague Faculty of Arts Institute of Information Science and Librarianship New Media Studies http://uisk.jinonice.cuni.cz/sisler/

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Decentralized alternative for academic social network
by Francesca Musiani 18 Dec '13

18 Dec '13

Dear colleagues, Just a short message to go back to the very interesting conversation held on this list a few days ago about Academia.edu and possible alternatives. Mathieu O'Neil and I, from a personal viewpoint and also as members of the editorial board of the Journal of Peer Production, would like to support Rob's proposal to set up a "p2p online social network" for academics as an alternative to academia.edu, and remain available to discuss this further. We believe that this could be a significant advance for the commons, as well as a possible way to channel towards volunteer projects the funding that is indeed starting to become available for open access. We look forward to further discussions. Kind regards, -- Francesca Musiani Postdoctoral researcher Centre de Sociologie de l'Innovation <http://www.csi.mines-paristech.fr/> MINES ParisTech 60, Boulevard Saint-Michel 75272 Paris Cedex 06, France

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CAMRI Research Seminars: Spring 2014 Programme@U of Westminster
by Christian Fuchs 18 Dec '13

18 Dec '13

CAMRI RESEARCH SEMINARS, SPRING 2014 University of Westminster Harrow Campus (Metropolitan Line: Northwick Park) Full programme as pdf: http://fuchs.uti.at/wp-content/CAMRISem2014.pdf Web overview of the programme: http://www.westminster.ac.uk/camri/research-seminars Everyone is welcome to join our seminars, registration for one or several events is possible per e-mail (christian.fuchs(a)uti.at) January 15, 2014: 14:00-16:00 Johanna Sumiala (University of Helsinki, Finland) Youth Street Politics in the Media/on the Street http://www.westminster.ac.uk/camri/research-seminars/youth-street-politics-… January 22, 2014: 14:00-16:00 Revisiting the Political Economy of Communication: A Conversation with Nicholas Garnham www.westminster.ac.uk/camri/research-seminars/revisiting-the-political-econ… February 19, 2014: 18:00-21:00 Professorial Inauguration Lecture Christian Fuchs (University of Westminster) Social Media and the Public Sphere http://www.westminster.ac.uk/camri/research-seminars/social-media-and-the-p… Registration: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/inaugural-lecture-series-2013-2014-social-me… February 26, 2014: 18:00-21:00 Professorial Inauguration Lecture Graham Meikle (University of Westminster) Sharing and Social Media http://www.westminster.ac.uk/camri/research-seminars/social-media-and-shari… Registration: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/inaugural-lecture-series-2013-2014-sharing-a… March 5, 2014, 14:00-16:00 Stephen Harper (University of Portsmouth) Did Somebody Say Neoliberalism? Marxism and the Discourse of Critical Media Studies http://www.westminster.ac.uk/camri/research-seminars/did-somebody-say-neoli… March 19, 2014, 14:00-16:00 Matthew Powers (University of Washington-Seattle, USA) Can NGOs Do Journalism? Understanding the Information Work of Humanitarian and Human Rights NGOs http://www.westminster.ac.uk/camri/research-seminars/can-ngos-do-journalism… March 26, 2014: 14:00-16:00 Jonathan Hardy (University of East London) Critical Political Economy of Communications – A Mid-Term Report: The First Fifty Years and the Future. http://www.westminster.ac.uk/camri/research-seminars/critical-political-eco…. April 2, 2014: 14:00-16:00 Jörg Becker (University of Marburg, Germany) Journalism and Media/Communication Studies under Hitler: The Example of Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann, her Nazi Ideology and the Spiral of Silence http://www.westminster.ac.uk/camri/research-seminars/journalism-and-mediaco…

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James W. Carey Media Research Award 2014
by Mark D. Johns 18 Dec '13

18 Dec '13

CALL FOR AWARD APPLICATIONS James W. Carey Media Research Award 2014 Sponsored by the Carl Couch Center for Social and Internet Research http://www.cccsir.com/ The Carl Couch Center invites nominations or self-nominations for works to be considered for its annual James W. Carey Media Research Award. Welcome are works on topics that were central to Carey's scholarship. Submissions might focus on technology, time, space and communication, the nature of public life, the relation between journalism and popular culture -- among others -- taking these themes in new or different directions. Applications will be evaluated based on engagement with Carey's approaches and concepts, originality, and advancement of knowledge. Evaluation will be administered by a Review Committee of: Prof. Dr. Paul C. Adams, University of Texas Prof. Stuart Adam, Carleton University Prof. Regina Marchi, Rutgers University Prof. John Pauly, Marquette University Prof. Jeff Pooley, Muhlenberg College Prof. Linda Steiner, University of Maryland Both single and multiple authored works will be accepted. All submissions must be works that have been published or have been accepted for publication in a book or journal. To be considered for the 2014 award, works should have been published or accepted in 2013. Submitted works should be sent to Mark D. Johns, executive director of CCCSIR at the address below, according to the following directions: Works may be submitted electronically in plain text, Microsoft Word, Corel WordPerfect, or Adobe Acrobat format. If a book is submitted, please send a copy of the table of contents and front matter electronically. Then ask your publisher to furnish seven (7) review copies for consideration by the committee. The application deadline is April 1, 2014. Notification of award application will be sent out by June 15. The Award winner will receive the Carey Award plaque to be presented at the winner's choice of the 2014 annual convention of the International Communication Association (ICA), Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC), or National Communication Association (NCA). Questions and comments about the Carey Award, please contact: Mark D. Johns Communication Studies Luther College Decorah, IA 52101 USA E-mail: mjohns(a)luther.edu

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CfP: Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction (SSSI) annual meeting
by Patrick Williams 17 Dec '13

17 Dec '13

Dear AoIRs, I believe there are quite of number of people on this list who may be interested in some of the proposed sessions at next year's SSSI conference. The SSSI is a very welcoming organization and is a great place for scholars to present their work on interaction. Anyone interested in learning more about the SSSI can feel free to contact me off-list (email at the bottom of the CfP). patrick. * * * *Call for papers: Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction (SSSI) annual meeting* *August 15-17, 2014* *San Francisco, CA* Now in its 40th year of activity, the Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction (SSSI) will hold its annual meeting on Friday, Aug. 15th – Sunday, Aug 17th, 2014 in San Francisco at the Hotel Nikko, right across the street from the hotels hosting the American Sociological Association’s concurrent annual meeting. The Society’s membership is wide-ranging, crossing disciplinary and geographic borders as we collectively study a variety of phenomena that constitute social reality and social relations. The Society’s diversity ensures that interactionism remains a vibrant perspective that is exceedingly relevant to everyday life. As we recognize 40 years of SSSI activity, we look toward a future in which the SSSI will continue to serve as a community and forum for a diverse set of scholarly endeavors. With the goal of continual growth and diversification in mind, this year’s theme is *culture, change, and identity*. We invite papers from across the human and social sciences that deal with core and/or emerging issues for interactionist scholarship. Papers are invited that deal with any aspect of symbolic interactionism, though we particularly encourage papers that correspond to any of the following topics. - -The Astructural Bias: Myth or Reality - -Children and Adolescents in Everyday Life - -Constructing Racial/Ethnic Identities - -Culture and Cognition - -Culture and Performance - -Culture and Technology - -Culture, Emotions, and Gender - -Deviance and Disruption - -Digital Interaction - -Ethnography and Community Studies - -Human-Nonhuman interaction - -Interactionism and Intersectionality - -Interactionist Studies in Education - -Meaning in healthcare services and health policies - -Narrative Analysis - -Narratives of Disability and the Body - -Place, Identity, Emotion - -Radical Interactionism - -Risk, Crisis, and Resilience - -Sexualities - -Teaching Symbolic Interactionism - -Technologies of and in the Body - -Undergraduate Studies in Symbolic Interaction - -Visual Interactionist Sociology *Submission guidelines*: Submit a paper title, author information, and an abstract of 200-300 words in a word document via email. Indicate in the subject field of the email which topical area (from the list above) your paper is to be considered for. If you paper does not fit into one of the above topics, list it as “open topic.” *Paper submission deadline*: February 1st, 2014 *Anticipated notification*: March 15th, 2014 *Submission email*: symbolic.interaction.2014(a)gmail.com *SSSI website*: http://www.symbolicinteraction.org *Additional information: *Participants must be members of the SSSI. For SSSI members, registration for the conference has traditionally been free and we hope to keep this tradition alive. For information on SSSI’s affordable membership rates, go here<http://ordering.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/membership.asp?ref=1533-8665&site=1>. For additional queries, email Patrick Williams, SSSI Vice-President, patrick.williams(a)ntu.edu.sg

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Fwd: [AHCSFAC] Call for applications: 2014-2015 Media@McGill Postdoctora l Fellowship / Appel de candidatures - bourse de recherche postdoctorale Média@McGill 2014-2015
by Gabriella Coleman 16 Dec '13

16 Dec '13

------------------------- 2014-2015 Media@McGill Postdoctoral Fellowship Description: Media@McGill is a hub of interdisciplinary research, scholarship and public outreach on issues in media, technology and culture, located in the Department of Art History and Communication Studies at McGill University in Montreal, Canada. To see the list of postdoctoral fellowships, click here. Media@McGill offers Postdoctoral Fellowships to promising scholars engaging in media-related research, as defined in Media@McGill's mission statement. Fellows are provided with a workspace, and are expected to take an active role in the research activities and academic life of Media@McGill (participation in conferences, seminars, etc.). They may also have the possibility of teaching a course within the Department of Art History and Communication Studies at McGill. Eligibility: The Media@McGill Postdoctoral Fellowship is open to both national and international scholars who completed their doctoral degrees in a university other than McGill no earlier than June 1, 2010. Candidates must have received their PhD by May 1, 2014. Fluency in English is essential; working knowledge of French is an asset. Value and Duration: The stipend for the Media@McGill Postdoctoral Fellowship is $45,000 CAD for 12 months (including research and travel stipend) beginning in the first week of September 2014. Application Process Deadlines: Media@McGill will be offering one Postdoctoral Fellowship for 2014-2015. 1. In a cover letter, applicants must stipulate how their research is related to Media@McGill's mission statement<http://media.mcgill.ca/en/mission> and to Media@McGill's 2014-15 theme: Media, Senses and Sensibilities<http://media.mcgill.ca/en/content/2012-2017-program-media-and-democracy#2014>. We are particularly interested in work that extends or challenges recent scholarly innovations in the critical study of media, the senses and sensibilities, from approaches such as sound studies, visual culture, affect theory, new materialisms, sensory history and anthropology, and related fields. Applicants should also identify a potential faculty supervisor who is a member of Media@McGill<http://media.mcgill.ca/en/members> and whose research is closely tied to that of the applicant. Please do not contact a potential supervisor at this stage. The following should be included in all statements of interest and be sent in a single PDF (the application will not be accepted otherwise). The documents order follows the list below: - a cover letter; - a research proposal (750 words); - a Curriculum Vitae (maximum 5 pages). Deadline: Complete statements of interest should be sent to sophie.toupin(a)mcgill.ca by February 7, 2014 at 5 p.m. E.S.T. 2. Statements of interest will be reviewed by the potential Media@McGill supervisor, and candidates will be notified of results by February 28, 2014. If successful, applicants will be asked to provide a full application. The following should be included in all applications and be sent in a single PDF (the application will not be accepted otherwise). The documents order follows the list below: - a cover letter; - a research proposal (750 words); - a Curriculum Vitae (maximum 5 pages); - official copies of transcripts during graduate studies; - 3 letters of recommendation (including one by the Media@McGill faculty supervisor); - a writing sample (maximum 20 pages). Deadline: Complete applications should be sent to sophie.toupin(a)mcgill.ca by March 27, 2014 at 5 p.m. E.D.T. Applications will be reviewed by Media@McGill's Steering Committee, and candidates will be notified of results in early May 2014. For additional information, please contact sophie.toupin(a)mcgill.ca or call (514) 398-8364. ===============================================================

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Reminder: PCA Electronic Reference Award deadline
by Paul Booth 16 Dec '13

16 Dec '13

Please note, today marks the deadline to submit a website for the PCA Electronic Reference Award. Please see the details below. The Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association sponsors this prestigious award each year along with literary and film awards. This award recognizes the growth and importance of new academic formats. Award winners will be announced at the PCA/ACA annual convention in Chicago, IL in 2014 and posted on the PCA/ACA website at http://www.h-net.org/~pcaacca/and on other appropriate websites, and in other media forums. Recipients need not be present at the conference to receive the award. *Submissions and Nominations Procedures: * The policies and procedures for the Electronic Awards are similar to all the other awards with a focus on quality and relevancy. The award in a particular year would look at the submissions of websites created over a three year period. The deadline for receipt of materials to be considered is *December 16, 2013* The subjects of the site should be relevant to Popular and American Culture. The criteria for judgment by the committee would include: Quality of research/scholarship, Use of hypertext/networking of electronic medium, Use of Supplementary/Secondary Materials, Contribution to Popular and American studies scholarship, Breadth of archived material, Ease of searching, Updatability For nominating sites for the PCA/ACA Best Electronic Reference Site award, please contact Paul Booth at pbooth(a)depaul.edu. In your nomination, please include the website address, the subject of the site, and contact information for the nominator/nominate. Self-nominations welcome. -- Paul Booth, PhD Assistant Professor of Media and Cinema Studies/Communication Technology College of Communication DePaul University 14 E. Jackson Chicago, IL 60604

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