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Theorizing the Web 2014 Deadline Reminder
by Davis, Jennifer Lauren - davis5jl 13 Jan '14

13 Jan '14

Theorizing the Web 2014, #TtW14 April 25th & 26th 287 Kent Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11211 *Abstract Submission Deadline: January 19th* What does it mean that digital technologies are increasingly a part of everyday life? We begin with such a broad question because, though the relationship between society and digital technologies is profound, we are only just beginning to make sense of their entanglement. Our understanding is limited, in part, because so much thinking about the Web is rooted in empirical analyses too disconnected from theory, from questions of power and social justice, and from public discourse. We need new priorities in our conversations about the Web. We invite you to propose a presentation for the fourth annual Theorizing the Web, which—by popular demand—is now a two-day event. Theorizing the Web is both inter- and non-disciplinary, as we consider insights from academics, non-academics, and non-“tech theorists” alike to be equally valuable in conceptualizing the Web and its relation to the world. In this spirit, we’ve moved the event away from conventional institutional spaces and into a warehouse. We have some plans for how to use this space to help rethink conference norms (and also to have some extra fun with this year’s event). We are looking for contributions that advance clear theoretical arguments; represent a diverse range of perspectives; embrace accessibility by demystifying jargon rather than using it as a crutch; and which, importantly, appeal to concerns of power, social (in)equality, and justice—themes that will also be emphasized in a keynote panel on race and social media. Some specific topics we’ll be looking for include (but are not limited to): Race, racism, ethnicity Sex, sex work, sexuality Gender Embodiment, cyborgism, post-humanism The self, subjectivity, identity, affect Privacy/publicity Surveillance, drones, the NSA Protest, social movements, revolution Capitalism, rationalization, exploitation, Silicon Valley Hate, harassment, trolling, the “anti-social” web Disconnection, unplugging, loneliness, anomie News, journalism, knowledge, algorithms/filters Virality, memes, the sharing/attention economy Photography, video, GIFs, art Music, music production, the music industry Fiction, speculative fiction, scifi, futurism, literature Games, gamification, game culture theory, video/board/role-playing games Intersections of gender, race, class, age, sexual orientation, disability, and other forms of inequality (taken separately or woven into any of the above) Theorizing the Web is a conference for works-in-progress. Full papers are not required in order to submit, and papers need not be in finished form when presenting. However, we plan to curate a proceedings for full papers, essays, and art connected to the conference. Because Theorizing the Web deeply values public engagement, we seek abstracts that clearly convey the logic of the argument being made and that have titles that appeal to a general audience. While we are open to different forms of presenting one’s work, we are giving priority to presentations that can be enjoyed by people outside the presenter’s field of expertise. We expect the same spirit of accessibility in accepted presentations. Submissions will be blindly reviewed by a selections committee, and we expect selection to be competitive; in past years, we have only been able to accept ~25% of submissions. Abstracts should be 300-500 words and focus on the argument being made and its conclusions. Only the first 500 words of the abstract will be reviewed. Submission are due by 11:59 EST on January 19th, 2014. The submission form is located at: theorizingtheweb.org/submit In addition to the open submission sessions, #TtW14 will feature invited sessions. A keynote panel on race and social media will feature Lisa Nakamura (co-editor of Race After the Internet), Latoya Peterson (Owner/Editor of Racialicious), Ayesha Siddiqi (Editor at The New Inquiry), and Jenna Wortham (Staff Reporter for The New York Times). More invited speakers will be announced soon. More information can be found at the conference website: theorizingtheweb.org Registration for Theorizing the Web is whatever you deem fair or can afford, minimum 1$. Registration information can be found here: theorizingtheweb.org/registration The conference hashtag is #TtW14. ________________________________________

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2014 Summer Internship Program, Berkman Center for Internet & Society, Application Deadline Feb. 16
by Rebecca Tabasky 13 Jan '14

13 Jan '14

Hello, The Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University is preparing to welcome another stellar crew of students to join us as summer interns! We are looking to engage a diverse group of students who are interested in studying -- and changing the world through -- the Internet and new communications technologies; who are driven, funny, and kind; and who would like to join our amazing community in Cambridge this summer for 10 weeks of shared research and exchange. Information about the summer program, eligibility, and links to the application procedures can be found below and at http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/getinvolved/internships_summer. * The application deadline for all students for Summer 2014 is Sunday, February 16, 2014 at 11:59 p.m. ET.** * Please share word of the opportunity to great candidates, and help us continue developing our shared network of movers and shakers working to advance scholarship with impact. Best, Becca ----- *Berkman Center for Internet & Society* <http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/getinvolved/internships_summer>* Summer Internship Program 2014* Each summer the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University swings open the doors of our vibrant yellow house to welcome a group of talented and curious students as full-time interns -Berkterns! <http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=berktern>- who are passionate about the promise of the Internet. Finding connected and complementary research inquiries among their diverse backgrounds, students represent all levels of study, are being trained in disciplines across the board, and come from universities all over the world to tackle issues related to the core of Berkman's research agenda, including law, technology, innovation, and knowledge; the relationships between Internet and civic activity; and the intersection of technology, learning, and development. Summer interns jump head first into the swirl of the Berkman universe, where they are deeply and substantively involved in our research projects and efforts. Becoming invaluable contributors to the Center's operation and success, interns conduct collaborative and independent research under the guidance of Berkman staff, fellows, and faculty. Specific roles, tasks, and experiences vary depending on Center needs and interns' skills; a select list of expected opportunities for Summer 2014 is below. Typically, the workload of each intern is primarily based under one project or suite of projects, with encouragement and flexibility to get involved in additional projects across the Center. In addition to joining research teams, summer interns participate in special lectures with Berkman Center faculty and fellows, engage each other through community experiences like weekly interns discussion hours, and attend Center-wide events and gatherings with members of the wider Berkman community. As well, each year interns establish new channels for fun and learning, such as organizing topical debates; establishing reading groups and book clubs; producing podcasts and videos; and hosting potlucks, cook-offs, and BBQs (fortunately for us, people share). The word "awesome" has been thrown around to describe our internships, but don't take our word for it. Interns Royze Adolfo and Hilda Barasa documented the summer 2012 internship experience here <http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/berkmancentersummer2012/>. Former intern Zack McCune had this to say <http://thames2thayer.com/blog/in-the-spirit-of-the-the-olympics-how-i-learn…>: "it has been an enchanting summer working at the berkman center for internet & society. everyday, i get to hang out with some of the most brilliant people on the planet. we talk, we write (emails), we blog, we laugh, we play rock band. and when things need to get done, we stay late hyped on free coffee and leftover food. it is a distinct honor to be considered a peer among such excellent people. and i am not just talking about the fellows, staff, and faculty, though they are all outstanding. no, i mean my peers as in my fellow interns, who are almost definitely the ripening next generation of changemakers." ***Time Commitment:* Summer internships are full time positions (35 hours/week) for 10 weeks. **The Summer 2014 program will run from June 2 through August 8.*** Payment:* Interns are paid $11.50 an hour, with the exception of a number of opportunities for law students who are expected to receive some version of summer public interest funding (more about these specific cases at the link for law students below). Please be forewarned that payment may not be sufficient to cover living expenses in the Boston area. No other benefits are provided, and interns must make their own housing, insurance and transportation arrangements.* Commitment to Diversity:* The work and well-being of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University are strengthened profoundly by the diversity of our network and our differences in background, culture, experience, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, and much more. We actively seek and welcome applications from people of color, women, the LGBTQIA community, and persons with disabilities, as well as applications from researchers and practitioners from across the spectrum of disciplines and methods.* Eligibility:* * Internships are open to students enrolled across the full spectrum of disciplines. * Internships are open to students at different levels of academic study including those in bachelor's, master's, law, and Ph.D programs (some flexibility with high school students is possible). * Summer interns do not need to be U.S. residents or in school in the U.S.; indeed, we encourage international students to apply. * Summer interns do not need an existing affiliation with Harvard University.** *To Apply:* We know what you're thinking. /Yes please. I want that. That sounds magical. Did I mention that I have incredible dance moves <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGQbFqH6D4g>//?/ Here's what you should do...* * *Law students:*please find application instructions and important additional information here <http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/node/7314>. *Students from disciplines other than law:*please find more information and application instructionshere <http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/node/7315>.* * Required application materials for all include: * A cover letter describing your skills and interests. When developing your cover letter, you may wish to consider the following questions: What has led you to pursue research with the Berkman Center and the issues we study? What would you like to gain from working with us this summer, and what will you contribute? How do you think the experience might influence your future efforts? Please feel welcome to address these and/or other topics you would like to share with us. Cover letters should be addressed to Nancy <http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/people/nancy>. * A current resume. * The contact information for two references (professional or academic). *The application deadline for all students for Summer 2014 is Sunday, February 16, 2014 at 11:59 p.m. ET.** * We look forward to hearing from you! Questions? Check out our FAQ <http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/node/8133>, and if you have a question not addressed there, email Rebecca Tabasky at rtabasky(a)cyber.law.harvard.edu <mailto:rtabasky@cyber.law.harvard.edu>. ---- *Select Expected Summer 2014 Opportunities: * /Chilling Effects/ Summer interns working for Chilling Effects will work on a range of assignments, including: writing blog posts, updating news and research resources for on-site publication; helping with managing and curating the database, including coding metadata and working with source partners to facilitate the ingestion and processing of notices; working on domestic and international collaboration initiatives; event planning and management; and working on research and writing projects centered on the database corpus, either internally or in collaboration with external researchers. Applicants with coding skills in Ruby and Postgres will have opportunities to work with the new Chilling Effects site. More information about Chilling Effects is at http://www.chillingeffects.org/. /CopyrightX/ CopyrightX is a networked course---not a true MOOC---that the Berkman Center has helped to produce during each of the past two years. The course, offered under the auspices of Harvard Law School, HarvardX <http://harvardx.harvard.edu>, and Berkman, explores the current law of copyright and the ongoing debates concerning how that law should be reformed. Through a combination of pre-recorded lectures, weekly seminars, live webcasts, and online discussions, participants in the course examine and assess the ways in which law seeks to stimulate and regulate creative expression. Many activities fall under the umbrella of "producing" CopyrightX, including refining the pedagogical model, analyzing course data, vetting and choosing the technology that supports the course (which extends to improving existing tools and creating new ones), and generally ensuring that the course team is up to date on the latest currents in digital learning, blended learning, and online higher education. Law students strongly interested in copyright law and/or pedagogy, who are also excited about delving into the mixed suite of activities mentioned above, are highly encouraged to apply. Several other kinds of talents and interests would be a good fits, too, including education research skills and web development (with an interest in or openness to edu-tech). Find more at http://copyx.org. /Cyberlaw Clinic/ The Cyberlaw Clinic provides high-quality, pro-bono legal services to individuals, start-ups, non-profit organizations, and government entities. Every summer, clinic interns contribute to a wide range of real-world projects related to the Internet and technology. Interns may help the Clinic team provide guidance on open access, digital copyright, and fair use issues; support advocacy efforts to protect online speech and anonymity; develop legal resources for citizen journalists and new media organizations; advise courts on innovative uses of technology to increase citizens' access to justice; or draft reference documents and training materials for educators on children's privacy and online safety. Interns in the Cyberlaw Clinic can expect direct hands-on experience working with clients under the supervision of the Clinic's staff attorneys. More information about the Cyberlaw Clinic can be found athttp://cyberlawclinic.berkman.harvard.edu. /Digital Media and Communications Squad/ The intern with Berkman's digital media and communications squad will have a chance to use a number of video and audio production resources to tell the world about the amazing Internet research and action coming out of Berkman. This intern will be chiefly responsible for helping to create the Radio Berkman audio podcast <https://soundcloud.com/radioberkman>, but will also play a role in producing video (like these <http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL68azUN8PTNhRvFhAVoboM1NY8_AiKUj4>). On any given day you could be interviewing a senior Berkman researcher or guest <https://soundcloud.com/radioberkman/rb211-bruce-schneier-on>, helping to produce a dynamic video explainer on Internet censorship <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hwn4fRpIr8g&list=PL68azUN8PTNhRvFhAVoboM1NY8…>, or digging up astonished cat GIFs to accompany a blog post about the latest NSA-leak revelations. This intern should have: (1) experience with audio editing software (Logic, Soundtrack, Audacity, Soundbooth, or other); (2) excellent writing skills; and (3) enthusiasm and an open mind for creating and executing fun ideas. Useful but not mandatory: experience in video production/editing, Photoshop/Illustrator, animation, social media management, Wordpress/Drupal platforms. /Digital Media Law Project/ Summer interns at the Digital Media Law Project will work on a wide range of legal research and writing projects relating to media law, intellectual property, and the intersection of journalism and the internet. In past years, interns have updated theLegal Guide <http://www.citmedialaw.org/legal-guide>to media law topics, developed entries for thedatabase of threats <http://www.citmedialaw.org/database>against online publishers, commented on current issues in law and media on theblog <http://www.citmedialaw.org/blog>, and provided research and drafting assistance onamicus briefs <http://www.citmedialaw.org/about/cmlp-amicus-efforts>. Interns may also be asked to assist with the operation and expansion of theOnline Media Legal Network <http://www.omln.org/>, an attorney referral service for digital publishers, and with other projects that the DMLP undertakes in conjunction with its partner organizations around the world. More information on can be found on the DMLP website at http://www.dmlp.org/about/summer-internships. /Digital Problem-Solving Initiative/ The Digital Problem-Solving Initiative <http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/research/dpsi>(DPSI) is a University-wide, highly-collaborative project that begun as a pilot in Spring 2013 to offer Harvard students the opportunity to strengthen their digital competencies by learning and working in small interdisciplinary teams of faculty, staff members, and students from across the University on practicable use cases of digital problem solving. The DPSI pilot has prototyped an open and collaborative model in which students work with mentors at the University, engage with real use cases in a range of areas, generate tangible and useful outputs, and inform the development of DPSI overall. Past use cases have concerned diverse topics like innovation spaces, museums/technology-enhanced curatorial practices, big data, institutional uses of social media, and online organizational identity-building. (See an example of innovation spaces here <http://dpsipilot.tumblr.com/day/2014/01/6/>). DPSI interns will support the Berkman team in assessing the 13-14 DPSI pilot and planning for the program's future expansion. Work may include outreach across the University and schools, interaction with faculty, staff, and students, event planning, report writing, and general creative thinking and brainstorming. Compelling candidates could be interested in and/or excited about any of the topics mentioned above, as well as innovation at universities and within education, design, student entrepreneurship, team building and collaboration, interdisciplinarity and technology. Most importantly, candidates should be creative, independent thinkers, strong communicators, and team players. For more information, visit http://dpsipilot.tumblr.com/. /Freedom of Expression/ The Berkman Center's suite of freedom of expression-related projects, including Internet Monitor, Herdict, and others, is seeking a small team of interns to conduct research on Internet filtering, monitoring, and control efforts around the globe; engage in related data gathering efforts using online sources; contribute to report writing; blog regularly about issues concerning online freedom of expression; and manage various projects' Twitter and Facebook accounts. In the past, interns have also supported research on blogospheres and other online communities around the world, contributed to literature reviews, and hand coded online content. Foreign language skills, particularly in Persian, Arabic, Russian, and Chinese, are useful. More information about some of Berkman's work on freedom of expression can be found at the following links: http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/research/internetmonitor; http://www.herdict.org/web/. /Geek Cave/ Interns joining the Geek Cave may extend open source software, build scalable websites, or manage the mixed desktop network that keeps the Center moving. Our team works with ruby, perl, php, bash, jQuery, PostgreSQL, MySQL and a slew of other tools. We have a small group of talented, devoted, fun, full-time developers on staff that can help hone your 1337 coding skillz as well provide fun projects to pair code or geek out on; two project managers to help you keep your work on track; and hardware and software support to help deploy your projects on Berkman infrastructure. More info about the projects that we work on can be found on our github organization page athttp://github.com/berkmancenter. /Internet Governance/ The Berkman Center seeks a team of interns to do research and planning around multistakeholder models for Internet governance and recent related events on the global landscape <http://blog.icann.org/2013/11/icanns-mandate-to-preserve-and-enhance-multis…>. On the heels of the announcement from Brazilian President Dilma Roussef and ICANN <http://www.icann.org/>(Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) of a high-level commission charged with investigating different modes of Internet governance <https://www.icann.org/en/news/announcements/announcement-2-17nov13-en.htm>as well as a large conference to take place in São Paolo, Brazil, in April <http://rt.com/news/brazil-internet-summit-fight-nsa-006/>to explore different findings, Berkman --- in collaboration with its international partners --- plans to contribute to the academic debate with literature reviews, briefing documents, expert opinions, and workshops. Internet governance interns will work closely with Professor Urs Gasser and Research Director Rob Faris and should be adept researchers and communicators interested in international relations and Internet policy. For more information on the unfolding debate around Internet governance, see "The Internet Governance Project," <http://www.internetgovernance.org/>articles in CircleID <http://www.circleid.com/posts/20131220_the_panel_on_the_future_of_global_in…>, and 1net.org <http://1net.org/>, the public-facing website and discussion forum for the panel on the future of Internet governance. /Internet Robustness - Software Development/ The intern for the Internet Robustness project will work to extend open source development for software that makes (you guessed it) the Internet more robust and resilient to attacks and disappearing content. Our Robustness software is written in Lua, with a little bit of php and C, but we're interested in anyone who wants to help code our way to a better Web. The Internet Robustness software development intern will also work closely with theBerkman Center's Geek Cave <about:blank>and have opportunities for paired development on other spiffy projects. Read more about the project at http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/research/internetrobustness. /Harvard Open Access Project (HOAP)/ HOAP fosters open access (OA) to research within Harvard and beyond, undertakes research on OA, and provides OA to timely and accurate information about OA itself. HOAP interns may enlarge the Open Access Directory (OAD), a wiki-based encyclopedia of OA, help with ongoing OA research projects, or contribute to the Open Access Tracking Project (OATP), a social-tagging project organizing knowledge about OA. They might also help document and promote TagTeam, a HOAP-directed open-source tagging platform built at Berkman to support OATP. More information about HOAP can be found at:http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/hoap/Main_Page. /Media Cloud - Research and Technical Development/ Media Cloud <http://mediacloud.org/>, a joint project of the Berkman Center and theMIT Center for Civic Media <http://civic.mit.edu/>, seeks summer interns to contribute to our team's effort to build new tools and methods that allow us to study and better analyze the shape and dynamics of thenetworked public sphere <http://www.benkler.org/Benkler_Wealth_Of_Networks_Chapter_7.pdf>.Research interns with Media Cloud will contribute to the research, data collection, and synthesis of case studies developed as part of the Controversy Mapping tool, which allows researchers to use the Media Cloud platform's data collection and network visualization tools to map the evolution of a particular public affair, debate, or policy conversation (such as controversies related to theSOPA/PIPA <http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/publications/2013/social_mobilization_and_the_…>debate,Trayvon Martin <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NeDDdN8NW_o>, NSA, and more).Technical development interns with Media Cloud will help to extend and improve the project's features. We are looking for developers interested in online media research, big data, and natural language processing. More information about Media Cloud is available at http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/research/mediacloudand you can see the project in action athttp://www.mediacloud.org. /metaLAB/ metaLAB is a research and teaching unit dedicated to exploring and expanding the frontiers of networked culture in the arts and humanities. In summer 2014, an intern will help us to produce a workshop in digital art history involving scholars, developers, and designers from across the country, which takes place at the end of June. In the balance of the summer, the intern's time will be split between Teaching with Things, an initiative to explore the use of multimedia to document, annotate, and remix objects in Harvard's libraries and museums for teaching; and a project documenting urban ecology. These projects will call upon writing, media, and design skills, and will furnish opportunities for learning across such varied domains as ethnography, editing, and software development. Some time will be spent outdoors in summer weather, likely in forested urban settings. More about metaLAB is available at http://metalab.harvard.edu/. /Online Intermediaries/// The Berkman Center, in conjunction with the Network of Interdisciplinary Research Centers for Internet & Society <http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/research/network_of_centers>, is taking the lead on a multi-year research project intended to produce several policy-oriented studies of online intermediaries in a range of international contexts. The overarching focus will be areas of convergence and disagreement regarding the liability and responsibility of online intermediaries, and the ways in which the liability to which they are subject influences their ultimate success or failure. Summer interns working on this effort may be asked to help curate and expand a shared repository of materials for the projects research groups, research and edit country case studies and use cases, create a synthesizing white paper, and coordinate efforts with partners and colleagues. /Privacy Tools for Sharing Research Data/ The Privacy Tools for Sharing Research Data project is a collaboration between three Harvard institutions - the Center for Research on Computation & Society (CRCS) <http://crcs.seas.harvard.edu/>at the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, the Institute for Quantitative Social Science (IQSS) <http://www.iq.harvard.edu/>, and the Berkman Center. The project seeks to develop computational and legal methods, tools, and policies to further the tremendous value that can come from collecting, analyzing, and sharing data while more fully protecting the privacy of individuals whose information resides within large data sets. The Berkman Center's role in this collaboration is to identify shortcomings in legislation and policy, and to create legal instruments that complement the new technical approaches to privacy being developed by our collaborators in the project. The Berkman team is looking for rising second and third-year law students to help with research and analysis on privacy law and policy issues. Summer interns may conduct research and write memoranda on selected topics in law, draft data sharing agreements, aid in the development of new conceptual models for privacy legislation, summarize recent publications in professional journals, and attend lectures and events with the larger project team. Other opportunities to participate in project activities may arise during the summer. More information about the project can be found on the Privacy Tools project website at http://privacytools.seas.harvard.edu/. /Student Privacy Initiative/ The Berkman Center's Student Privacy Initiative explores the opportunities and challenges that may arise as educational institutions consider adopting cloud computing technologies. As we conduct our research, we are engaging multiple stakeholders-- from district officials to policymakers to industry members to teachers, parents, and students--to develop shared good practices that promote positive educational outcomes, harness technological and pedagogical innovations, and protect critical values. Summer interns will be asked to work across three overlapping clusters: Privacy Expectations & Attitudes, School Practices & Policies, and Law & Policy, interfacing internally with the Cyberlaw Clinic as well as the Youth and Media Project. In addition to ongoing research tasks, summer interns might help to draft research briefs, white papers, and website updates, as well as to coordinate with and engage external organizations working in the K-12 edtech innovation space. More information is available at http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/research/studentprivacy. /Youth and Media/ During a summer at Youth and Media <http://youthandmedia.org//>, summer interns will contribute to various research, advocacy, and development initiatives around youth and technology. By understanding young people's interactions with digital media such as the Internet, cell phones, and video games, this highly collaborative project aims to gain detailed insights into youth practices and digital fluencies, harness the associated opportunities, address challenges, and ultimately shape the evolving regulatory and educational framework in a way that advances the public interest. For 2014, we are looking for candidates with strong academic training and experience in qualitative research methods to assist with designing, conducting, and analyzing focus group and one-on-one interviews around topics of privacy, information quality and health information, youth use of the Internet in developing countries, and new ways of learning. We would also consider candidates with expertise in these areas to conduct background research and write literature reviews. Additionally, we are looking for summer interns who can help us create interesting and innovative ways to help conceptualize some of the data we have collected for our current research project aroundyouth and privacy <http://youthandmedia.org/youth-and-online-privacy/>. An example of a previous report (and accompanyinginfographic <http://youthandmedia.org/files/2012/02/YaM-From-Credibility-to-Information-…>) on information quality can be foundhere <http://youthandmedia.org/projects/information-quality/>. Applicant must be professional, proactive, and have strong graphic design skills; please be prepared to submit a sample of your portfolio. More information about Youth and Media can be found at: www.youthandmedia.org <http://www.youthandmedia.org/>. See what past Youth and Media interns said about their time at Berkman here <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bT9RcdbDaCs&list=PL823EFB31F6790E2C&index=6>. /Special Projects - Jonathan Zittrain/ Summer interns will work on a variety of projects undertaken by Professor Jonathan Zittrain, assisting in a variety of research areas (e.g. human computing, linkrot and internet robustness, platforms, and Internet filtering). Summer contributions include research for conferences and presentations; brainstorming article outlines; fact-checking materials; and reviewing original article or paper drafts. This position requires the ability to find, absorb, critically analyze, and debate large amounts of written and other media materials from sources including scholarly articles, news articles and blogs, and interviews with public policymakers. This intern position is ideally suited for students or others who would like to get a deeper understanding of academic research and the broader world of Internet law. More information about JZ's research can be found at http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/people/jzittrainand at http://www.jz.org/.

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Final Deadline - Call for Papers -1984: Freedom and Censorship in the Media - Where Are We Now? [Reopened due to relocation]
by Mark Mckenna 13 Jan '14

13 Jan '14

Dear Colleagues, Apologies for cross posting. Please circulate and distribute widely: *1984: FREEDOM AND CENSORSHIP IN THE MEDIA – WHERE ARE WE NOW?* *University of Sunderland – London Campus (23rd-24th April 2014)* In response to an overwhelming international interest from academics, we have decided to relocate the conference to the University of Sunderland’s *London* Campus. The conference will now take place on the *23rd and 24th of April 2014*. In light the change in venue and dates, we are reopening the call for papers. The new deadline for the submission of abstracts is January 17th 2014. The conference aims to examine censorship both nationally and internationally and in all forms of media. Selected papers will be published with a leading UK publisher in a forthcoming edited collection based on the event. *Confirmed keynote speakers* Professor Martin Barker, University of East Anglia Jerry Barnett, SexAndCensorship.org Professor Julian Petley, Brunel University Professor Clarissa Smith, University of Sunderland In 2013 has raised concerns about new censorship measures. Jerry Barnett has referred to it as ‘Internet Censorship 1.0’, It seems that 2014 is not so far away from 1984 in terms of the social and political struggles for the control of the media landscape. Censorship is still the currency of the contemporary political discourse. Worries over effects of media content and technologies are never far from the headlines. When anxieties centre on protecting children and the fortification of the social fabric, regulation often seems like the first resort. The year 2014 will see the thirtieth anniversary of the 1984 Video Recordings Act (VRA): this event offers the opportunity to reflect on how and why concerns about individual media technologies and particular media genres become so important that campaigners and politicians can claim that ‘the very soul of the nation’ is at stake. Using the VRA as a starting point, this conference aims to critically examine the key issues in politics and campaigning which shape calls for censorship. If new technologies always spark old anxieties around ‘effects’ and propensities to cause ‘harm’, what might we learn from extant legislation and their implementation? As we settle into the internet age and media on demand, policing national media borders seems ever more futile, yet the clamour for legislation to protect children and society shows no signs of abating. We invite submissions that explore issues relating to censorship which may be specific to the history, implementation and legacies of the Video Recordings Act but we also welcome papers which examine media regulation/censorship in contemporaneous issues and their historical antecedents. Their broader cultural contexts, which are national and international in focus and which draw connections between Suggested topics: Censorship Evolving practices and technologies of media classification and/or censorship ‘Problematic’ media cultures Regulation of representations of sex, gender and sexualities Digital and online censorship Oppositional voices Protecting and questioning national borders Campaigns and campaigners Activism/activists and the political arena International narratives of censorship British regulation in a global context National and international regulation/censorship Documentary and avant-garde Controversies around computer games History of contemporary film censorship/classification Audiences and the social experiences of censorship Censorship and the creation of communities of dissent Regulations and government policy Proposals for individual papers or pre-constituted panels are welcomed. The submission deadline is 17th January 2014 and notifications of acceptance will be made by the 31st January 2014. Proposals should include title, abstract (350 words), 3-5 key bibliographical references, along with the name of the presenter, institutional affiliation and biographical information (100 words), and email. Panel organizers are asked to submit panel proposals including a panel title, a short description of the panel and information on all the papers following the guidelines listed above. Panels may consist of three speakers with a maximum of 20 minutes speaking time each. All submissions, expressions of interest and enquiries should be sent to: admin(a)where-are-we-now.co.uk Please see the conference website for more details: www.where-are-we-now.co.uk

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An Internet for the Common Good: Engagement, Empowerment and Justice for All: A Community Informatics Declaration
by michael gurstein 13 Jan '14

13 Jan '14

An Internet for the Common Good: <http://ci-journal.net/index.php/ciej/article/view/1099/1065> Engagement, Empowerment and Justice for All A Community Informatics Declaration Effective use of the Internet will benefit everyone. Currently the benefits of the Internet are distributed unequally: some people gain power, wealth and influence from using the Internet while others struggle for basic access. In our vision, people in their communities and everywhere - including the poor and marginalized in developing and developed countries, women and youth, indigenous peoples, older persons, those with disabilities -- will use the Internet to develop and exercise their civic intelligence and work together to address collective challenges. More than a technology or a marketplace, the Internet is a social environment, a community space for people to interact with the expectation that principles of equity, fairness and justice will prevail. Internet governance must ensure that this online social space functions effectively for the well-being of all. A community informatics approach to Internet governance supports equal distribution of Internet benefits and addresses longstanding social, economic, cultural and political injustices in this environment. Questions of social justice and equity through the Internet are central to how the Internet and society will evolve. People in different communities must be empowered to develop and adapt the Internet infrastructure to reflect their core values and ways of knowing. We support development of an Internet in which communities are the "first mile" and not the "last mile." We believe the primary purpose of the Internet is not to mine data and make knowledge a commodity for purchase and sale but rather to advance community goals equally and fairly within these distributed infrastructures. We aspire to an Internet effectively owned and controlled by the communities that use it and to Internet ownership that evolves through communities federated regionally, nationally and globally. The Internet's role as a community asset, a public good and a local community utility is more important than its role as a site for profit-making or as a global artifact. The access layer and the higher layers of applications and content should be community owned and controlled in a way that supports a rich ecology of commercial enterprises subject to and serving community and public interests. As citizens and community members in an Internet-enabled world we have a collective interest in how the Internet is governed. Our collective interests need to be expressed and affirmed in all fora discussing the future of the Internet. As a collective, and as members of civil society, we have developed a declaration for Internet governance based on principles of community informatics. We appreciate your interest and welcome your support. A just and equitable Internet provides: 1. Fair and equitable means to access and use the Internet: affordable by all and designed and deployed so that all may realize the benefits of effective use. The poor and marginalized, women, youth, indigenous peoples, older persons, those with disabilities, Internet users and non-users alike; no one, from any community globally, should be without Internet access. 2. Equitable access within communities to the benefits of the Internet, including information, opportunities to communicate, increased effectiveness of communications and information management, and opportunities to participate in system development and content creation. Everyone, within all communities, should have the right, the means and the opportunity to use the Internet to share the full intellectual heritage of humankind without undue cost or hindrance. 3. Respect for privacy -- people must be able to conveniently use the Internet in a way that is credibly protected against large-scale surveillance or interference by government authorities or corporate interests. 4. Infrastructure that ensures the maximum level of personal security and reliability. 5. Opportunities for all within all communities to build, manage, and own Internet infrastructure as and when it is needed. 6. Internet governance by democratic principles and processes - including privileging input from communities affected by decisions and ensuring inclusion of the widest possible perspectives supporting the development of our digital environments. 7. A peer-to-peer architecture with equal power and privilege for each node or end point and complete neutrality of the architecture and medium for all users and all applications. 8. Recognition that the local is a fundamental building block of all information and communications and the "global" is a "federation of locals." 9. Equal opportunity for all to connect and communicate in a language and culture of their choice. 10. Recognition and equal privileging of many types of knowledge and ways of knowing, building from the capacities of each individual, community and knowledge society. 11. The means for information freely provided on and through the Internet to be freely available for the use and benefit of all. 12. Support for collaboration, engagement, education, solidarity, and problem-solving as the stepping stones to civic intelligence and the capacity of communities, civil society, and all people to equitably and effectively engage in informed self-governance. You are invited to endorse this Declaration as an Individual and/or as an Organization This document was prepared by a group of Community Informatics activists and endorsed by consensus of the Community Informatics community 21.12.13 (a version edited for style and grammar and not content was re-endorsed 28.12.13.) [We are very much looking for sign-on's on the Declaration (see below) as we want to take this statement to the Global Multistakeholder Meeting on the Future of Internet Governance <http://www.cgi.br/brmeeting/announcement.html> that the President of Brazil is convening in April on principles for Internet governance post-Snowden. We think that there will be very strong pressure to maintain the status quo with some minor technical changes and we are hoping to generate some significant momentum for a broader initiative towards an Internet for the Common Good.]

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Conference "Freedom of Information Under Pressure": Feb 28/March 1
by Christian Fuchs 12 Jan '14

12 Jan '14

International Conference Freedom of Information Under Pressure Control – Crisis - Culture 28th of February and 1st of March 2014, Vienna, Austria The University of Vienna, the transform!at Association and the Critical Librarians Association (KRIBIBI) are pleased to invite you to the International Conference on "Freedom of Information under Pressure. Control - Crisis - Culture", which will take place in Vienna on the 28th of February and 1st of March 2014 at the Kuppelsaal of the Vienna Univesity of Technology, which is situated at the centre of Vienna at Karlsplatz 13, 1040. This conference will gather more than 30 international speakers (academics, media practitioners, librarians, experts of open culture and public space, activists and policy makers) from Austria, Bulgaria, Germany, Greece, Spain, Sweden and United Kingdom and will call for an open discussion on the challenges of freedom of information in the light of the recent surveillance revelations and the increase in censorship and prosecutions of media, journalists and whistle-blowers in Europe and beyond. The event has been endorsed and supported by the Mayor and Governor of the city of Vienna, as well as by a number of organisations and institutions, such as the Association of European Journalists, the Centre for Freedom of the Media of the University of Sheffield, the International Press Institute and the University of Westminster. Keynote and plenary speakers include: Gill Phillips (Director of Editorial Legal Service, The Guardian, United Kingdom)Augoustine Zenakos (Investigative Journalist, UNFOLLOW magazine, Greece) Mariniki Alevizopoulou (Investigative Journalist, UNFOLLOW magazine, Greece) Christian Fuchs (Professor of Social Media, University of Westminster, United Kingdom) Joachim Losehand (Scholar, VIBE!at, Austria) George Katrougalos (Professor, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece) Wolfgang Hofkirchner (Professor, Vienna University of Technology, Austria) Erich Möchel (Journalist, ORF, Austria The event is public, open to everyone and free, but registration is essential. If you would like to attend, you can register here: http://freedom-of-information.info/en/28-registration/18-registration-form Light lunch, coffee and refreshments will be provided. The official language of the conference will be English with simultaneous interpretation to German. The conference will be also streamed online by The Press Project. Main sponsors: transform European Network, Karl Renner Institute, The Press Project, City of Vienna, Grüne Bildungswerkstatt, ORF (Austrian PSB), Centre for Freedom of the Media (CFOM) Supporters and collaborators: University of Westminster, Vienna University of Technology, University of Sheffield, Association of European Journalists, International Press Institute, International Society for Information Studies, ICTs-and-Society Network, Netzwerk Soziale Verantwortung, Vereinigung Österreichischer Bibliothekarinnen und Bibliothekare, Evangelische Akademie Wien, Katholische Sozialakademie Österreichs, Österreichische Liga für Menschenrechte and Technisches Museum Wien For more information, please visit the conference website: http://freedom-of-information.info/

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CfP: 4th IEEE Track on Collaborative Modeling and Simulation (Comets 2014) - WETICE 2014
by Daniele Gianni 12 Jan '14

12 Jan '14

(Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message) ################################################################# IEEE WETICE 2014 4th IEEE Track on Collaborative Modeling and Simulation (Comets 2014) in cooperation with INCOSE Italia (to be confirmed) MIMOS (Italian Association for M&S) CALL FOR PAPERS ################################################################# June 23-25, 2014, Parma (Italy) http://www.sel.uniroma2.it/comets14 ################################################################# # Papers Due: March 7, 2014 # Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings # by the IEEE Computer Society Press and indexed by EI. ################################################################# Modeling and Simulation (M&S) is increasingly becoming a central activity in the design of new systems and in the analysis of existing systems because it enables designers and researchers to investigate systems behavior through virtual representations. For this reason, M&S is gaining a primary role in many industrial and research fields, such as space, critical infrastructures, manufacturing, emergency management, biomedical systems and sustainable future. However, as the complexity of the investigated systems increases and the types of investigations widens, the cost of M&S activities increases for the more complex models and for the communications among a wider number and variety of M&S stakeholders (e.g., sub-domain experts, simulator users, simulator engineers, and final system users). To address the increasing costs of M&S activities, collaborative technologies must be introduced to support these activities by fostering the sharing and reuse of models, by facilitating the communications among M&S stakeholders, and more generally by integrating processes, tools and platforms. Aside from seeking applications of collaborative technologies to M&S activities, the track seeks innovative contributions that deal with the application of M&S practices in the field of collaborative engineering platforms. These platforms are continuously becoming more complex, and therefore their design requires systematic approaches to meet the required quality of collaboration. This is important for two reasons: to reduce rework activities on the actual collaborative environment, and to maximize the productivity and the quality of the process the collaborative environment supports. M&S offers the methodologies and tools for such investigations and therefore it can be used to improve the quality of collaborative environments. A non-exhaustive list of topics of interest includes: * collaborative requirements modeling * collaborative environments for M&S * collaborative Systems of Systems M&S * business proces modeling for collaborative environments * agent-based M&S * collaborative distributed simulation * collaborative component-based M&S * net-centric M&S * web-based M&S * model sharing and reuse * model building and evaluation * modeling and simulation of business processes * modeling for collaboration * simulation-based performance analysis of collaborative engineering platforms * model-driven approaches for collaborative engineering * domain specific languages for collaborative M&S * databases and repositories for M&S * distributed virtual environments * virtual research environment for M&S * collaborative DEVS M&S * multi-method M&S To stimulate creativity, however, the track maintains a wider scope and invites interested researchers to present contributions that offer original perspectives on collaboration and M&S. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ On-Line Submissions and Publication +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ CoMetS'14 intends to bring together researchers and practitioners to discuss key issues, approaches, open problems, innovative applications and trends in the track research area. This year, we will accept submissions in two forms: (1) papers (2) poster and industrial presentations (1) Papers should contain original contributions not published or submitted elsewhere. Papers up to six pages (including figures, tables and references) can be submitted. Papers should follow the IEEE format, which is single spaced, two columns, 10 pt Times/Roman font. All submissions should be electronic (in PDF) and will be peer-reviewed by at least three program committee members. Accepted full papers will be included in the proceedings and published by the IEEE Computer Society Press (IEEE approval pending). Please note that at least one author for each accepted paper should register to attend WETICE 2014 (http://www.wetice.org) to have the paper published in the proceedings. (2) Posters should describe a practical, on-the-field, experience in any domain area using collaborative M&S. The poster submission requires the submission of an abstract for evaluation from the organizers. Accepted abstract must be followed by the submission of a poster which will be displayed at conference time. With the poster submission, a short (15 minutes) slot might be allocated for oral presentation illustrating the industrial case. The presentation may also include a live demo, but it should not include commercial details. Interested authors and participants may contact the organizers for expression of interests and content appropriateness at any time. Papers and posters can be submitted in PDF format at the conference submission site (https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wetice2014) by selecting the CoMetS track. Please feel free to contact the track chairs (dambro(a)uniroma2.it, danielegmail-comets(a)yahoo.it) if you experience problems with the EasyChair Web site. +++++++++++++++ Important Dates +++++++++++++++ * Submission Deadline: March 7, 2014 * Notification to authors: March 28, 2014 * Camera Ready to IEEE: April 11, 2014 * Conference date: June 23 - June 24, 2014 +++++++++++++++++ Program co-chairs +++++++++++++++++ Andrea D'Ambrogio, University of Roma TorVergata, Italy Daniele Gianni, Guglielmo Marconi University, Italy Joachim Fuchs, European Space Agency, The Netherlands Giuseppe Iazeolla, Guglielmo Marconi University, Italy +++++++++++++++++ Program Committee +++++++++++++++++ Paolo Bocciarelli, University of Roma TorVergata, Italy Alain Kerbrat, CollESys - AFIS, France Cristiano Leorato, Rhea, The Netherlands Steve McKeever, Uppsala University, Sweden David Nickerson, Auckland Bioengineering Institute, NZ Wolfgang Prinz, Fraunhofer FIT and RWTH Aachen, Germany José L. Risco-Martin, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain Volker Schaus, DLR, Germany Sara Tucci, CEA/List, France Gabriel Wainer, Carleton University, Canada Quirien Wijnand, European Space Agency, The Netherlands Justyna Zander, Harvard University, USA, and Fraunhofer Institute FOKUS, Germany Gregory Zacharewicz, University of Bordeaux, France Heming Zhang, Tsinghua University, China *** Contact Information *** Andrea D'Ambrogio (track co-chair) Email: dambro(a)uniroma2.it

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CfP: 4th IEEE Track on Collaborative Modeling and Simulation (Comets 2014) - WETICE 2014
by Daniele Gianni 12 Jan '14

12 Jan '14

(Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message) ################################################################# IEEE WETICE 2014 4th IEEE Track on Collaborative Modeling and Simulation (Comets 2014) in cooperation with INCOSE Italia (to be confirmed) MIMOS (Italian Association for M&S) CALL FOR PAPERS ################################################################# June 23-25, 2014, Parma (Italy) http://www.sel.uniroma2.it/comets14 ################################################################# # Papers Due: March 7, 2014 # Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings # by the IEEE Computer Society Press and indexed by EI. ################################################################# Modeling and Simulation (M&S) is increasingly becoming a central activity in the design of new systems and in the analysis of existing systems because it enables designers and researchers to investigate systems behavior through virtual representations. For this reason, M&S is gaining a primary role in many industrial and research fields, such as space, critical infrastructures, manufacturing, emergency management, biomedical systems and sustainable future. However, as the complexity of the investigated systems increases and the types of investigations widens, the cost of M&S activities increases for the more complex models and for the communications among a wider number and variety of M&S stakeholders (e.g., sub-domain experts, simulator users, simulator engineers, and final system users). To address the increasing costs of M&S activities, collaborative technologies must be introduced to support these activities by fostering the sharing and reuse of models, by facilitating the communications among M&S stakeholders, and more generally by integrating processes, tools and platforms. Aside from seeking applications of collaborative technologies to M&S activities, the track seeks innovative contributions that deal with the application of M&S practices in the field of collaborative engineering platforms. These platforms are continuously becoming more complex, and therefore their design requires systematic approaches to meet the required quality of collaboration. This is important for two reasons: to reduce rework activities on the actual collaborative environment, and to maximize the productivity and the quality of the process the collaborative environment supports. M&S offers the methodologies and tools for such investigations and therefore it can be used to improve the quality of collaborative environments. A non-exhaustive list of topics of interest includes: * collaborative requirements modeling * collaborative environments for M&S * collaborative Systems of Systems M&S * business proces modeling for collaborative environments * agent-based M&S * collaborative distributed simulation * collaborative component-based M&S * net-centric M&S * web-based M&S * model sharing and reuse * model building and evaluation * modeling and simulation of business processes * modeling for collaboration * simulation-based performance analysis of collaborative engineering platforms * model-driven approaches for collaborative engineering * domain specific languages for collaborative M&S * databases and repositories for M&S * distributed virtual environments * virtual research environment for M&S * collaborative DEVS M&S * multi-method M&S To stimulate creativity, however, the track maintains a wider scope and invites interested researchers to present contributions that offer original perspectives on collaboration and M&S. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ On-Line Submissions and Publication +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ CoMetS'14 intends to bring together researchers and practitioners to discuss key issues, approaches, open problems, innovative applications and trends in the track research area. This year, we will accept submissions in two forms: (1) papers (2) poster and industrial presentations (1) Papers should contain original contributions not published or submitted elsewhere. Papers up to six pages (including figures, tables and references) can be submitted. Papers should follow the IEEE format, which is single spaced, two columns, 10 pt Times/Roman font. All submissions should be electronic (in PDF) and will be peer-reviewed by at least three program committee members. Accepted full papers will be included in the proceedings and published by the IEEE Computer Society Press (IEEE approval pending). Please note that at least one author for each accepted paper should register to attend WETICE 2014 (http://www.wetice.org) to have the paper published in the proceedings. (2) Posters should describe a practical, on-the-field, experience in any domain area using collaborative M&S. The poster submission requires the submission of an abstract for evaluation from the organizers. Accepted abstract must be followed by the submission of a poster which will be displayed at conference time. With the poster submission, a short (15 minutes) slot might be allocated for oral presentation illustrating the industrial case. The presentation may also include a live demo, but it should not include commercial details. Interested authors and participants may contact the organizers for expression of interests and content appropriateness at any time. Papers and posters can be submitted in PDF format at the conference submission site (https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wetice2014) by selecting the CoMetS track. Please feel free to contact the track chairs (dambro(a)uniroma2.it, danielegmail-comets(a)yahoo.it) if you experience problems with the EasyChair Web site. +++++++++++++++ Important Dates +++++++++++++++ * Submission Deadline: March 7, 2014 * Notification to authors: March 28, 2014 * Camera Ready to IEEE: April 11, 2014 * Conference date: June 23 - June 24, 2014 +++++++++++++++++ Program co-chairs +++++++++++++++++ Andrea D'Ambrogio, University of Roma TorVergata, Italy Daniele Gianni, Guglielmo Marconi University, Italy Joachim Fuchs, European Space Agency, The Netherlands Giuseppe Iazeolla, Guglielmo Marconi University, Italy +++++++++++++++++ Program Committee +++++++++++++++++ Paolo Bocciarelli, University of Roma TorVergata, Italy Alain Kerbrat, CollESys - AFIS, France Cristiano Leorato, Rhea, The Netherlands Steve McKeever, Uppsala University, Sweden David Nickerson, Auckland Bioengineering Institute, NZ Wolfgang Prinz, Fraunhofer FIT and RWTH Aachen, Germany José L. Risco-Martin, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain Volker Schaus, DLR, Germany Sara Tucci, CEA/List, France Gabriel Wainer, Carleton University, Canada Quirien Wijnand, European Space Agency, The Netherlands Justyna Zander, Harvard University, USA, and Fraunhofer Institute FOKUS, Germany Gregory Zacharewicz, University of Bordeaux, France Heming Zhang, Tsinghua University, China *** Contact Information *** Andrea D'Ambrogio (track co-chair) Email: dambro(a)uniroma2.it

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Call for proposals - Panel on language aggression and conflict
by Pilar Garces 11 Jan '14

11 Jan '14

Dear colleagues, In the context of the 9th International Conference on (Im)Politeness, which will be held at the University of Huddersfield (9 – 11 July 2014), we are organizing an invited panel on the language aggression and conflict. Language studies have for years tended to concentrate on the analysis of harmonious interactions. However, more recently, the study of acrimonious interaction has started gathering momentum. We would like to invite contributions that explore the language of aggression and conflict from various perspectives, such as pragmatic, discursive, sociolinguistic, cultural and cognitive, and focus on but are not restricted to the following areas: - Language aggression and conflict among family members - Language aggression and conflict in work/academic settings - Language aggression and conflict in political discourse - Language aggression and conflict in the (digital) media. - Language aggression and conflict in inter/cross cultural communication - Language aggression and conflict in service encounters - Language aggression, conflict and identity - Gender differences in language aggression and conflict - Emotional communication and conflict Please send your (300-word) abstracts to the organizers: Pilar Garcés Blitvich (pgblitvi(a)uncc.edu) and Maria Sifianou (msifian(a)enl.uoa.gr) by February 15, 2014. You will be notified of the reviewers’ decision by the end of February 2014. Please disseminate this information among any colleagues you think might be interested. With best wishes, Pilar and Maria Co-Editors in Chief – Journal of Language Aggression and Conflict http://benjamins.com/#catalog/journals/jlac -------------------------------------------- On Fri, 1/10/14, air-l-request(a)listserv.aoir.org <air-l-request(a)listserv.aoir.org> wrote: Subject: Air-L Digest, Vol 114, Issue 10 To: air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org Date: Friday, January 10, 2014, 6:00 PM Send Air-L mailing list submissions to air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to air-l-request(a)listserv.aoir.org You can reach the person managing the list at air-l-owner(a)listserv.aoir.org When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of Air-L digest..." Today's Topics: 1. CFP: SoMNet 2014 Symposium on Collaboration, Social Computing, New Media and Networks - May 19-23, 2014 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA (Marc Smith) 2. Summer School Crowdfunding (RU?MANN Uta | FHWien der WKW) 3. CFP: Innovation and its Contestants (Montreal, 18 Apr 14) (Molly Sauter) 4. Remember! There is an AIR Graduate Student List! (Molly Sauter) 5. Sources on advocacy email structure/best practices/as data for content analysis (Luis Hestres) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Thu, 9 Jan 2014 21:10:13 -0800 From: Marc Smith <marc.smith.email(a)gmail.com> To: Air list <air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org> Subject: [Air-L] CFP: SoMNet 2014 Symposium on Collaboration, Social Computing, New Media and Networks - May 19-23, 2014 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA Message-ID: <CAEA_8sDQDjMKgN6MhQJf0d-_exy2GXq6Y97Gc_LV+njN9dH2Bw(a)mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 SoMNeT 2014 *Third International Symposium on Collaboration, Social Computing, New Media and Networks* *(SoMNet 2014)* *Call for Papers and Participation* *As part of* *The 2014 International Conference on Collaboration Technologies and Systems* *(CTS 2014)* *May 19-23, 2014* *The Commons Hotel Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA* *Submission Deadline: January 22, 2014* *Submissions could be for full papers, short papers, poster papers, or posters* *SCOPE AND OBJECTIVES* Social media, social computing, new media and networks have become major areas of research, applications, and development in recent years. The adoption of social media and their applications have expanded in kind and size to unprecedented levels and continue to grow at accelerated rates. The creation and deployment of Social Media is one of the main forces behind the evolution and expansion of the Internet, the Web, and mobile media. Social media account for the majority of Internet traffic while its content comprises the greater part of the daily published multi media on the Web. These technologies have a profound impact on society and on private life. Furthermore, there is a great diversity in the communities of people interested in social computing: researchers in computing, communications, and social sciences; industrial practitioners; wide range of businesses; software and online game vendors; web entrepreneurs; digital government organizations; political analysts; educational institutions, etc. You are cordially invited to participate in, contribute to, and attend the International Symposium on Collaboration, Social Computing, New Media, and Networks (SoMNet 2014) to be held as part of CTS 2014 ( *http://cts2014.cisedu.info/* <http://cisedu.us/rp/cts14/>) May 19-23, 2014 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA. The Symposium is to address, explore and exchange information on the state-of-the-art and practice in the broad multi disciplinary field of social computing and new media. Participation is extended to researchers, designers, educators and interested parties in all disciplines and specialties (computer science, linguistics, psychology, statistics, sociology, multimedia and semantic web technologies, ?). *The SoMNeT Symposium main themes include (but are not limited to) the following:* - Social (media) Network Data Collection, Analysis and Visualization - Content/ Text Data Analysis AND Integration with Network Data - Computational/ Algorithmic Solutions and Datasets Related to Both of These Themes *PAPER SUBMISSION* You are invited to submit original and unpublished research works on above and other topics related to social computing, social networks and new social media. Submitted papers must not have been published or simultaneously submitted elsewhere. Submissions could be for full papers, short papers, poster papers, or posters (please specify). Submission should include a cover page with authors' names, affiliation addresses, fax numbers, phone numbers, and email addresses. Please, indicate clearly the corresponding author(s) and include up to 6 keywords from the above list of topics and an abstract of no more than 400 words. The full manuscript should be at most 8 pages using the two-column IEEE format. Additional pages are allowed but will be charged additional fee. Short papers (up to 4 pages), poster papers and poster (please refer to http://cts2014.cisedu.info/home/posters<http://cisedu.us/rp/cts14/home/posters> for posters submission details) will also be accepted. Please include page numbers on all preliminary submissions to make it easier for reviewers to provide helpful comments. Authors are invited to submit a PDF copy of their manuscript to the Symposium using the following link: http://cisedu.us/cis/cts/14/users/upload.jsp. In the form you fill out, please make sure to indicate that the submission is for SoMNeT 2014 Symposium in the *Notes* field of the uploading form. Otherwise, the manuscript will go to the main track. If the submission is for a *poster paper*or *short paper*, indicate that as well on the manuscript and in the form's *Notes* field. Only PDF files will be accepted, uploaded to the link above. Each paper will receive a minimum of three reviews. Papers will be selected based on their originality, relevance, contributions, technical clarity, and presentation. Submission implies the willingness of at least one of the authors to register and present the paper, if accepted. Authors of accepted papers must guarantee that their papers will be registered and presented at the Symposium. Accepted papers will be published in the Conference proceedings. Instructions for final manuscript format and requirements will be posted on the CTS 2014 Conference web site. It is our intent to have the proceedings formally published in hard and soft copies and be available at the time of the conference. The proceedings is projected to be included in the IEEE Digital Library and indexed in all major indexing services accordingly. If you have any questions about paper submission or the Symposium, please contact the Symposium organizers. *IMPORTANT DATES* *Paper Submission Deadline: -------------------------- January 22, 2014* *Acceptance Notification: ------------------------------ February 10, 2014* *Camera Ready Papers and Registration Due: ------ February 28, 2014 * *Conference Dates: ------------------------------------ May 19 - 23, 2014* *SYMPOSIUM ORGANIZERS* *Marc A. Smith* Connected Action Consulting Group California, USA Phone: +1 (425) 241-9105 Email: marc(a)connectedaction.net<https://mail.google.com/mail/?view=cm&fs=1&tf=1&to=marc@connectedaction.net> *Jana Diesner* The iSchool (Graduate School of Library and Information Science) University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), Illinois, USA Phone: +1 (217) 244-3576 Email: jdiesner(a)illinois.edu ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2014 08:35:54 +0000 From: RU?MANN Uta | FHWien der WKW <Uta.Russmann(a)fh-wien.ac.at> To: "air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org" <air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org> Subject: [Air-L] Summer School Crowdfunding Message-ID: <7883002B29A0544D9CCB654B81B94D8A15379A7B(a)FHWMX1.fh-wien.ac.at> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Help us to reach our goal! We are organizing a summer school on ICT4Democracy next March in New Delhi, India (http://serd.org.in/ss2014/) (https://www.facebook.com/#!/Summerschool2014) (https://twitter.com/summerschool14) We have been able to find funding for keynote lectures, but we still need funding for the participants (MA- & PhD-students). So we thought to try a new way to raise funds with our crowd funding event! Help us raise 6500 US-Dollar to provide free food and accommodation for our students. Many of them come from developing countries! See our crowd funding event! Every dollar and euro counts! http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/summer-school-support-young-researchers/x… And please spread the word! If you have already supported our project we sincerely thank you for your support! Uta Russmann Endowed Professorship for Strategic Communication Management & New Media Department of Communication, Marketing & Sales FHWien University of Applied Sciences of WKW W?hringer G?rtel 97, 1180 Vienna, Austria Phone: +43 (1) 476 77-5848, Fax: +43 (1) 476 77-5704 uta.russmann(a)fh-wien.ac.at<mailto:uta.russmann@fh-wien.ac.at> www.fh-wien.ac.at/kommas<http://www.fh-wien.ac.at/kommas> **************************NEWS********************************** Der Master-Plan f?r Ihre Karriere: Bewerben<http://www.fh-wien.ac.at/bewerben> Sie sich bis 14. Mai 2014 f?r ein Master-Studium an der FHWien der WKW! Sie finden uns auch unter facebook.com/FHWien<http://www.facebook.com/FHWien>, twitter.com/FHWienAT<http://www.twitter.com/FHWienAT> und auf Google+<https://plus.google.com/u/0/112183961531581231679> ******************FHWien der WKW: Die f?hrende Fachhochschule f?r Management & Kommunikation****************** ------------------------------ Message: 3 Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2014 13:10:02 -0500 From: Molly Sauter <molly.sauter(a)gmail.com> To: air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org Subject: [Air-L] CFP: Innovation and its Contestants (Montreal, 18 Apr 14) Message-ID: <CAFr+==7unxjEOpGkxXzZY4kQT86xXdfRckf5d7PASX87qcwfEA(a)mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Montreal, QC, April 18, 2014 Deadline: Jan 24, 2014 <http://ahcsconference.wordpress.com> Call for Proposals INNOVATION AND ITS CONTESTANTS 5th Annual Emerging Scholars Conference McGill University Department of Art History and Communications Studies Keynote Speaker: Keith Moxey, Barbara Novak Professor of Art History and Department Chair at Barnard College (Columbia University) Deadline for Submissions: 24 January 2014 The concept of innovation buttresses a paradigmatically modern Western belief in the possibility of infinite economic growth and technological progress. It is in fact a buzzword with remarkable contemporary currency, one that is instrumentalized as a constant search for new technologies, means of production, market adaptations, scientific discoveries and social changes. As a fundamental tenet in Western systems of thought, it is also ? and has long been ? inscribed within the West?s very view of itself as more successful and more ?progressive? than other societies. Note, for example, G.W.F. Hegel?s famous juxtaposition of Europe?s ever- changing art against the allegedly stagnant visual culture of India: the first modality accounted for the privileged position of the West as the locus of the emanation of universal Geist; while the latter stipulated an essentially ?un-progressive? timelessness in India. The Western valuation and definition of innovation has thereby been mobilized as a justification for diverse colonial, post-colonial and now neoliberal enterprises. It operates as a smoke screen to preserve dominant power regimes both within the West and globally, concealing simultaneously the biased valuation of cultural production, and the unequal distribution of technological and scientific headway among diverse social strata. This is the case even as the current global financial crisis challenges the West?s ability to regenerate perpetually. In fact, the stakes involved in the Western impetus to innovate seem to intensify even as recent projections of economic acceleration in several non-Western countries rouse fears that the West is losing ground as innovation?s main stimulant. The innovation paradigm is moreover implicit within the bulk of humanistic academic production. As a case in point, the Greenbergian approach to art history, which dominated much of the twentieth century, revolves indisputably around a teleology of formal innovation. Meanwhile, within a number of current academic discussions ? for instance those concerning experimentation and invention in the history of science (Galison); global art history (Elkins); visual culture studies (Moxey); history of ideas (Godin); the philosophy of mondialisation (Nancy); media archaeology (Parikka); technological obsolescence (Kittler); and the aesthetics of failure (Halberstam) ? innovation is tacitly treated with caution, if not skepticism. Given this tangle of collusions and complexities, how are we to approach and define innovation in academic discourse? Is the paradigm purely a means of disarming social pressure for an all-inclusive equalized prosperity; or might it be recuperated to provide a stimulus for sustainable growth? Can we understand innovation in a broader global spectrum without falling into the trap of cultural essentialism; or does this concept perpetuate Western-centric views and mores? Can the concept of innovation be used for the analysis of historical periods; or does it figure too easily in teleological narratives? With these questions in mind, we are opening an enquiry into the concept of innovation. We invite paper proposals addressing a broad range of academic disciplines and historical periods. Papers might address, but are by no means restricted to, the following questions: ? Socio-economic implications of innovation. How do societies and specific agents adapt to new conditions once their old ways of life have been destroyed? ? The politics of innovation. Does innovation bring betterment or deprivation? ? What are the criteria of innovation? ? Challenging the Western canon of art built on the notions of style, progress, and originality ? Technological progress ? Patents ? Is Western-centrism pervasive in the concept of innovation? ? How does innovation affect personal identities (video games, Facebook, etc.)? ? How is innovation different from change? ? The contestations of innovation; the discursive counterpoints to innovation ? Centre vs. periphery; milieus of innovation ? Instances of anachronism masked as innovation in culture from the Middle Ages to the present day. Recurring regimes: the old in the new, the new in the old ? Does materiality matter in innovation? ? Temporality and innovation ? Commodity culture and innovation We welcome proposals for 20-minute presentations. Please send your submission in the form of a 300-word abstract and a brief CV to ahcsconference(a)gmail.com. All candidates will be contacted by the first week of February. For more information, please refer to the conference website (http://ahcsconference.wordpress.com/) or contact ahcsconference(a)gmail.com. Reference / Quellennachweis: CFP: Innovation and its Contestants (Montreal, 18 Apr 14). In: H-ArtHist, Jan 9, 2014. <http://arthist.net/archive/6713>. -- oddletters http://oddletters.com/ ------------------------------ Message: 4 Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2014 13:23:42 -0500 From: Molly Sauter <molly.sauter(a)gmail.com> To: air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org Subject: [Air-L] Remember! There is an AIR Graduate Student List! Message-ID: <CAFr+==6tCB0JnRmasphWUkF0uscmtrM1_xbYTncp2JKfqj7kDA(a)mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Hi everyone- Since the spring semester is starting again (or as it's called up here in Canada, the "winter" semester), I am reminding you that there is an AIR graduate list, and it is awesome! If you are a graduate student studying the internet/internet-related-things, you should sign up. Fill out this form here to sign up. https://docs.google.com/forms/d/18h-DvwPtcQDSnRiv8bEDd0tnkJXxrcnR8T-CUrNrHS… best- -molly sauter PhD student, Communication Studies, McGill University -- oddletters http://oddletters.com/ ------------------------------ Message: 5 Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2014 14:23:36 -0500 From: Luis Hestres <luishestres(a)gmail.com> To: air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org Subject: [Air-L] Sources on advocacy email structure/best practices/as data for content analysis Message-ID: <4654CD44AA694FF7AA039667BBAD44BF(a)gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Hi all, Can anyone recommend any books or chapter(s), article(s), white paper(s), case studies, etc. that talk about the ?proper? way to structure advocacy emails? Looking for sources (academic or not) that talk about things like proper message/paragraph length, structure (as in something similar to the pyramid structure of news articles), etc. Even sources that discuss advocacy emails in general (e.g. as part of content analyses) would help. Thanks! - - - - - Luis E. Hestres Ph.D. candidate | School of Communication | American University More about me at luishestres.com (http://luishestres.com/) or LinkedIn (http://www.linkedin.com/in/hestres) | Follow me on Twitter (https://twitter.com/#!/luishestres/) | Visit my SSRN Author page (http://ssrn.com/author=1820222) "Theoretical critiques are like sociopaths: Their aggressive drives are rarely balanced by constructive instincts." -- From "Caught in a Winding, Snarling Vine: The Structural Bias of Political Process Theory" by Jeff Goodwin and James M. Jasper, Sociological Forum 14(1), 1999 ------------------------------ _______________________________________________ The Air-L(a)listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org Join the Association of Internet Researchers: http://www.aoir.org/ End of Air-L Digest, Vol 114, Issue 10 **************************************

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Call for proposals - Panel on language aggression and conflict
by Pilar Garces 11 Jan '14

11 Jan '14

Dear colleagues, In the context of the 9th International Conference on (Im)Politeness, which will be held at the University of Huddersfield (9 – 11 July 2014), we are organizing an invited panel on the language aggression and conflict. Language studies have for years tended to concentrate on the analysis of harmonious interactions. However, more recently, the study of acrimonious interaction has started gathering momentum. We would like to invite contributions that explore the language of aggression and conflict from various perspectives, such as pragmatic, discursive, sociolinguistic, cultural and cognitive, and focus on but are not restricted to the following areas: - Language aggression and conflict among family members - Language aggression and conflict in work/academic settings - Language aggression and conflict in political discourse - Language aggression and conflict in the (digital) media. - Language aggression and conflict in inter/cross cultural communication - Language aggression and conflict in service encounters - Language aggression, conflict and identity - Gender differences in language aggression and conflict - Emotional communication and conflict Please send your (300-word) abstracts to the organizers: Pilar Garcés Blitvich (pgblitvi(a)uncc.edu) and Maria Sifianou (msifian(a)enl.uoa.gr) by February 15, 2014. You will be notified of the reviewers’ decision by the end of February 2014. Please disseminate this information among any colleagues you think might be interested. With best wishes, Pilar and Maria Co-Editors in Chief – Journal of Language Aggression and Conflict http://benjamins.com/#catalog/journals/jlac -------------------------------------------- On Fri, 1/10/14, air-l-request(a)listserv.aoir.org <air-l-request(a)listserv.aoir.org> wrote: Subject: Air-L Digest, Vol 114, Issue 10 To: air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org Date: Friday, January 10, 2014, 6:00 PM Send Air-L mailing list submissions to air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to air-l-request(a)listserv.aoir.org You can reach the person managing the list at air-l-owner(a)listserv.aoir.org When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of Air-L digest..." Today's Topics: 1. CFP: SoMNet 2014 Symposium on Collaboration, Social Computing, New Media and Networks - May 19-23, 2014 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA (Marc Smith) 2. Summer School Crowdfunding (RU?MANN Uta | FHWien der WKW) 3. CFP: Innovation and its Contestants (Montreal, 18 Apr 14) (Molly Sauter) 4. Remember! There is an AIR Graduate Student List! (Molly Sauter) 5. Sources on advocacy email structure/best practices/as data for content analysis (Luis Hestres) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Thu, 9 Jan 2014 21:10:13 -0800 From: Marc Smith <marc.smith.email(a)gmail.com> To: Air list <air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org> Subject: [Air-L] CFP: SoMNet 2014 Symposium on Collaboration, Social Computing, New Media and Networks - May 19-23, 2014 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA Message-ID: <CAEA_8sDQDjMKgN6MhQJf0d-_exy2GXq6Y97Gc_LV+njN9dH2Bw(a)mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 SoMNeT 2014 *Third International Symposium on Collaboration, Social Computing, New Media and Networks* *(SoMNet 2014)* *Call for Papers and Participation* *As part of* *The 2014 International Conference on Collaboration Technologies and Systems* *(CTS 2014)* *May 19-23, 2014* *The Commons Hotel Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA* *Submission Deadline: January 22, 2014* *Submissions could be for full papers, short papers, poster papers, or posters* *SCOPE AND OBJECTIVES* Social media, social computing, new media and networks have become major areas of research, applications, and development in recent years. The adoption of social media and their applications have expanded in kind and size to unprecedented levels and continue to grow at accelerated rates. The creation and deployment of Social Media is one of the main forces behind the evolution and expansion of the Internet, the Web, and mobile media. Social media account for the majority of Internet traffic while its content comprises the greater part of the daily published multi media on the Web. These technologies have a profound impact on society and on private life. Furthermore, there is a great diversity in the communities of people interested in social computing: researchers in computing, communications, and social sciences; industrial practitioners; wide range of businesses; software and online game vendors; web entrepreneurs; digital government organizations; political analysts; educational institutions, etc. You are cordially invited to participate in, contribute to, and attend the International Symposium on Collaboration, Social Computing, New Media, and Networks (SoMNet 2014) to be held as part of CTS 2014 ( *http://cts2014.cisedu.info/* <http://cisedu.us/rp/cts14/>) May 19-23, 2014 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA. The Symposium is to address, explore and exchange information on the state-of-the-art and practice in the broad multi disciplinary field of social computing and new media. Participation is extended to researchers, designers, educators and interested parties in all disciplines and specialties (computer science, linguistics, psychology, statistics, sociology, multimedia and semantic web technologies, ?). *The SoMNeT Symposium main themes include (but are not limited to) the following:* - Social (media) Network Data Collection, Analysis and Visualization - Content/ Text Data Analysis AND Integration with Network Data - Computational/ Algorithmic Solutions and Datasets Related to Both of These Themes *PAPER SUBMISSION* You are invited to submit original and unpublished research works on above and other topics related to social computing, social networks and new social media. Submitted papers must not have been published or simultaneously submitted elsewhere. Submissions could be for full papers, short papers, poster papers, or posters (please specify). Submission should include a cover page with authors' names, affiliation addresses, fax numbers, phone numbers, and email addresses. Please, indicate clearly the corresponding author(s) and include up to 6 keywords from the above list of topics and an abstract of no more than 400 words. The full manuscript should be at most 8 pages using the two-column IEEE format. Additional pages are allowed but will be charged additional fee. Short papers (up to 4 pages), poster papers and poster (please refer to http://cts2014.cisedu.info/home/posters<http://cisedu.us/rp/cts14/home/posters> for posters submission details) will also be accepted. Please include page numbers on all preliminary submissions to make it easier for reviewers to provide helpful comments. Authors are invited to submit a PDF copy of their manuscript to the Symposium using the following link: http://cisedu.us/cis/cts/14/users/upload.jsp. In the form you fill out, please make sure to indicate that the submission is for SoMNeT 2014 Symposium in the *Notes* field of the uploading form. Otherwise, the manuscript will go to the main track. If the submission is for a *poster paper*or *short paper*, indicate that as well on the manuscript and in the form's *Notes* field. Only PDF files will be accepted, uploaded to the link above. Each paper will receive a minimum of three reviews. Papers will be selected based on their originality, relevance, contributions, technical clarity, and presentation. Submission implies the willingness of at least one of the authors to register and present the paper, if accepted. Authors of accepted papers must guarantee that their papers will be registered and presented at the Symposium. Accepted papers will be published in the Conference proceedings. Instructions for final manuscript format and requirements will be posted on the CTS 2014 Conference web site. It is our intent to have the proceedings formally published in hard and soft copies and be available at the time of the conference. The proceedings is projected to be included in the IEEE Digital Library and indexed in all major indexing services accordingly. If you have any questions about paper submission or the Symposium, please contact the Symposium organizers. *IMPORTANT DATES* *Paper Submission Deadline: -------------------------- January 22, 2014* *Acceptance Notification: ------------------------------ February 10, 2014* *Camera Ready Papers and Registration Due: ------ February 28, 2014 * *Conference Dates: ------------------------------------ May 19 - 23, 2014* *SYMPOSIUM ORGANIZERS* *Marc A. Smith* Connected Action Consulting Group California, USA Phone: +1 (425) 241-9105 Email: marc(a)connectedaction.net<https://mail.google.com/mail/?view=cm&fs=1&tf=1&to=marc@connectedaction.net> *Jana Diesner* The iSchool (Graduate School of Library and Information Science) University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), Illinois, USA Phone: +1 (217) 244-3576 Email: jdiesner(a)illinois.edu ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2014 08:35:54 +0000 From: RU?MANN Uta | FHWien der WKW <Uta.Russmann(a)fh-wien.ac.at> To: "air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org" <air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org> Subject: [Air-L] Summer School Crowdfunding Message-ID: <7883002B29A0544D9CCB654B81B94D8A15379A7B(a)FHWMX1.fh-wien.ac.at> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Help us to reach our goal! We are organizing a summer school on ICT4Democracy next March in New Delhi, India (http://serd.org.in/ss2014/) (https://www.facebook.com/#!/Summerschool2014) (https://twitter.com/summerschool14) We have been able to find funding for keynote lectures, but we still need funding for the participants (MA- & PhD-students). So we thought to try a new way to raise funds with our crowd funding event! Help us raise 6500 US-Dollar to provide free food and accommodation for our students. Many of them come from developing countries! See our crowd funding event! Every dollar and euro counts! http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/summer-school-support-young-researchers/x… And please spread the word! If you have already supported our project we sincerely thank you for your support! Uta Russmann Endowed Professorship for Strategic Communication Management & New Media Department of Communication, Marketing & Sales FHWien University of Applied Sciences of WKW W?hringer G?rtel 97, 1180 Vienna, Austria Phone: +43 (1) 476 77-5848, Fax: +43 (1) 476 77-5704 uta.russmann(a)fh-wien.ac.at<mailto:uta.russmann@fh-wien.ac.at> www.fh-wien.ac.at/kommas<http://www.fh-wien.ac.at/kommas> **************************NEWS********************************** Der Master-Plan f?r Ihre Karriere: Bewerben<http://www.fh-wien.ac.at/bewerben> Sie sich bis 14. Mai 2014 f?r ein Master-Studium an der FHWien der WKW! Sie finden uns auch unter facebook.com/FHWien<http://www.facebook.com/FHWien>, twitter.com/FHWienAT<http://www.twitter.com/FHWienAT> und auf Google+<https://plus.google.com/u/0/112183961531581231679> ******************FHWien der WKW: Die f?hrende Fachhochschule f?r Management & Kommunikation****************** ------------------------------ Message: 3 Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2014 13:10:02 -0500 From: Molly Sauter <molly.sauter(a)gmail.com> To: air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org Subject: [Air-L] CFP: Innovation and its Contestants (Montreal, 18 Apr 14) Message-ID: <CAFr+==7unxjEOpGkxXzZY4kQT86xXdfRckf5d7PASX87qcwfEA(a)mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Montreal, QC, April 18, 2014 Deadline: Jan 24, 2014 <http://ahcsconference.wordpress.com> Call for Proposals INNOVATION AND ITS CONTESTANTS 5th Annual Emerging Scholars Conference McGill University Department of Art History and Communications Studies Keynote Speaker: Keith Moxey, Barbara Novak Professor of Art History and Department Chair at Barnard College (Columbia University) Deadline for Submissions: 24 January 2014 The concept of innovation buttresses a paradigmatically modern Western belief in the possibility of infinite economic growth and technological progress. It is in fact a buzzword with remarkable contemporary currency, one that is instrumentalized as a constant search for new technologies, means of production, market adaptations, scientific discoveries and social changes. As a fundamental tenet in Western systems of thought, it is also ? and has long been ? inscribed within the West?s very view of itself as more successful and more ?progressive? than other societies. Note, for example, G.W.F. Hegel?s famous juxtaposition of Europe?s ever- changing art against the allegedly stagnant visual culture of India: the first modality accounted for the privileged position of the West as the locus of the emanation of universal Geist; while the latter stipulated an essentially ?un-progressive? timelessness in India. The Western valuation and definition of innovation has thereby been mobilized as a justification for diverse colonial, post-colonial and now neoliberal enterprises. It operates as a smoke screen to preserve dominant power regimes both within the West and globally, concealing simultaneously the biased valuation of cultural production, and the unequal distribution of technological and scientific headway among diverse social strata. This is the case even as the current global financial crisis challenges the West?s ability to regenerate perpetually. In fact, the stakes involved in the Western impetus to innovate seem to intensify even as recent projections of economic acceleration in several non-Western countries rouse fears that the West is losing ground as innovation?s main stimulant. The innovation paradigm is moreover implicit within the bulk of humanistic academic production. As a case in point, the Greenbergian approach to art history, which dominated much of the twentieth century, revolves indisputably around a teleology of formal innovation. Meanwhile, within a number of current academic discussions ? for instance those concerning experimentation and invention in the history of science (Galison); global art history (Elkins); visual culture studies (Moxey); history of ideas (Godin); the philosophy of mondialisation (Nancy); media archaeology (Parikka); technological obsolescence (Kittler); and the aesthetics of failure (Halberstam) ? innovation is tacitly treated with caution, if not skepticism. Given this tangle of collusions and complexities, how are we to approach and define innovation in academic discourse? Is the paradigm purely a means of disarming social pressure for an all-inclusive equalized prosperity; or might it be recuperated to provide a stimulus for sustainable growth? Can we understand innovation in a broader global spectrum without falling into the trap of cultural essentialism; or does this concept perpetuate Western-centric views and mores? Can the concept of innovation be used for the analysis of historical periods; or does it figure too easily in teleological narratives? With these questions in mind, we are opening an enquiry into the concept of innovation. We invite paper proposals addressing a broad range of academic disciplines and historical periods. Papers might address, but are by no means restricted to, the following questions: ? Socio-economic implications of innovation. How do societies and specific agents adapt to new conditions once their old ways of life have been destroyed? ? The politics of innovation. Does innovation bring betterment or deprivation? ? What are the criteria of innovation? ? Challenging the Western canon of art built on the notions of style, progress, and originality ? Technological progress ? Patents ? Is Western-centrism pervasive in the concept of innovation? ? How does innovation affect personal identities (video games, Facebook, etc.)? ? How is innovation different from change? ? The contestations of innovation; the discursive counterpoints to innovation ? Centre vs. periphery; milieus of innovation ? Instances of anachronism masked as innovation in culture from the Middle Ages to the present day. Recurring regimes: the old in the new, the new in the old ? Does materiality matter in innovation? ? Temporality and innovation ? Commodity culture and innovation We welcome proposals for 20-minute presentations. Please send your submission in the form of a 300-word abstract and a brief CV to ahcsconference(a)gmail.com. All candidates will be contacted by the first week of February. For more information, please refer to the conference website (http://ahcsconference.wordpress.com/) or contact ahcsconference(a)gmail.com. Reference / Quellennachweis: CFP: Innovation and its Contestants (Montreal, 18 Apr 14). In: H-ArtHist, Jan 9, 2014. <http://arthist.net/archive/6713>. -- oddletters http://oddletters.com/ ------------------------------ Message: 4 Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2014 13:23:42 -0500 From: Molly Sauter <molly.sauter(a)gmail.com> To: air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org Subject: [Air-L] Remember! There is an AIR Graduate Student List! Message-ID: <CAFr+==6tCB0JnRmasphWUkF0uscmtrM1_xbYTncp2JKfqj7kDA(a)mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Hi everyone- Since the spring semester is starting again (or as it's called up here in Canada, the "winter" semester), I am reminding you that there is an AIR graduate list, and it is awesome! If you are a graduate student studying the internet/internet-related-things, you should sign up. Fill out this form here to sign up. https://docs.google.com/forms/d/18h-DvwPtcQDSnRiv8bEDd0tnkJXxrcnR8T-CUrNrHS… best- -molly sauter PhD student, Communication Studies, McGill University -- oddletters http://oddletters.com/ ------------------------------ Message: 5 Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2014 14:23:36 -0500 From: Luis Hestres <luishestres(a)gmail.com> To: air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org Subject: [Air-L] Sources on advocacy email structure/best practices/as data for content analysis Message-ID: <4654CD44AA694FF7AA039667BBAD44BF(a)gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Hi all, Can anyone recommend any books or chapter(s), article(s), white paper(s), case studies, etc. that talk about the ?proper? way to structure advocacy emails? Looking for sources (academic or not) that talk about things like proper message/paragraph length, structure (as in something similar to the pyramid structure of news articles), etc. Even sources that discuss advocacy emails in general (e.g. as part of content analyses) would help. Thanks! - - - - - Luis E. Hestres Ph.D. candidate | School of Communication | American University More about me at luishestres.com (http://luishestres.com/) or LinkedIn (http://www.linkedin.com/in/hestres) | Follow me on Twitter (https://twitter.com/#!/luishestres/) | Visit my SSRN Author page (http://ssrn.com/author=1820222) "Theoretical critiques are like sociopaths: Their aggressive drives are rarely balanced by constructive instincts." -- From "Caught in a Winding, Snarling Vine: The Structural Bias of Political Process Theory" by Jeff Goodwin and James M. Jasper, Sociological Forum 14(1), 1999 ------------------------------ _______________________________________________ The Air-L(a)listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org Join the Association of Internet Researchers: http://www.aoir.org/ End of Air-L Digest, Vol 114, Issue 10 **************************************

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Final Reminder -- CFP for Special Issue on Training/Education for Virtual Teams
by Pam Brewer 11 Jan '14

11 Jan '14

Hello all— I am sending final reminder that proposals for the special issue of Connexions entitled Education and Training for Globally Distributed Virtual Teams are due January 15. These proposals are short, and I have copied the text of the call (with the production schedule) below for your convenience. The issue will be published in Dec. 2014. Please consider submitting. Contact me or Kirk if you would like to discuss an idea. Best wishes, Pam Pam Estes Brewer, Ph.D. Associate Professor Department of Technical Communication Mercer University brewer_pe(a)mercer.edu<mailto:brewer_pe@mercer.edu> 478.301.4146 Associate Fellow, STC Academic SIG Manager, STC Call for Proposals EDUCATION AND TRAINING FOR GLOBALLY DISTRIBUTED VIRTUAL TEAMS Preparing the workforce of the future Special Issue Guest editors Pam Estes Brewer Mercer University (email: brewer_pe(a)mercer.edu) Kirk St.Amant East Carolina University (email: stamantk(a)ecu.edu) Today, information and communication technologies (ICTs) allow individuals located in different nations to collaborate almost as easily as if they were located in the same physical office. As a result, globally distributed virtual teams now support the work of organizations across the spectrum of products and services. Such teams are used by a range of for-profit and non-profit organizations including businesses, government organizations, military, and educational institutions. These organizations are increasingly employing individuals located in different nations to engage in various types of collaborative work via ICTs. As a result of such factors, much of the modern workforce is now migrating toward a virtual model of work, and forces associated with globalization are changing the nature of competitiveness in the new economy. Individuals, in turn, must often adapt rapidly to virtual environments and do so with little or no formal preparation in the types of professional communication practices essential to success in such contexts. As a result, individuals working in internationally distributed teams must generally learn from their mistakes, an effective but often costly approach. Moreover, individuals must also often adapt to working in an environment in which they are regularly paired with new colleagues and clients from different nations, cultures, and language groups. Thus, the modern distributed workplace requires employees to account for and address three central factors—technology, culture, and language—in order to succeed in most work-related tasks. An all-important question arising from this situation is, “How can we better prepare these individuals for this international, online context?” A 2012 IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication special issue on global training reveals, however, that very little information on training—particularly global virtual communication training—has been published in the major professional communication journals in the last ten years. Such a gap needs to be closed if educators and trainers alike wish to prepare adult learners to be successful participants in current (and future) business practices and processes. This special issue on education and training for globally distributed virtual teams seeks to address this topic through articles on how best to prepare individuals to succeed in this new workplace. In particular, the editors are interested in articles that answer questions such as: • What types of education and training are most desired by managers and participants of global virtual teams? • How can organizations best prepare virtual team members for working across boundaries of language? What issues affect translation and terminology? What do team members most need to know about World Englishes, English as a Second Language, or English for Specific Purposes? • How can organizations better prepare employees to collaborate and cooperate online and across cultural boundaries? • How can social media be used to prepare individuals for working in intercultural online contexts? • What legal issues can affect or should be included in global virtual team training? What should participants in global virtual teams know about proprietary information and privacy? In addition, the editors of this special issue welcome articles such as: • Industry commentaries (refer to “types of articles” below). • Critical analyses of the many published task/technology models that support global virtual teams. • Critical analyses of virtual team studies in areas such as technical training, adult education, human resources development, educational technology, human performance technology, technical communication, and user experience design. The guest editors are also interested in discussing other prospective topics with potential contributors. Types of articles connexions publishes four types of articles: • Original research articles of 5,000 to 7,000 words in length • Review articles of 3,000 to 5,000 words in length • Focused commentary and industry perspectives articles of 500 to 3,000 words in length • Teaching cases of 3,000 to 5,000 words in length Submission Guidelines Interested individuals should send a 150-200 word proposal to connexionsspecialissue(a)gmail.com Proposals should be sent as a .docx, .doc, or .rtf file attached to an email message with the subject line: “Proposal for Special Issue on Globally Distributed Virtual Teams.” All proposals should include the submitter’s name, affiliation, and email address as well as a working title for the proposed article. Production Schedule The schedule for the special issue is as follows: • 15 Jan. 2014 –Proposals due • 15 Feb. 2014 – Decisions on proposals sent to proposal submitters • 15 June 2014 – Manuscripts due • 15 Aug. 2014 – Reviewer comments to authors • 15 Oct. 2014 – Final manuscripts due to editors • Dec. 2014 – Publication of special issue Contact Information Completed proposals or questions about either proposal topics or this special issue should be sent to Pam Estes Brewer and Kirk St.Amant at connexionsspecialissue(a)gmail.com<mailto:connexionsspecialissue@gmail.com> connexions • international professional communication journal (ISSN 2325-6044)

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