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Campaign to raise funds for my privacy-related dissertation project: www.igg.me/at/privacyforsale
by Robinson,Cory 20 Dec '13

20 Dec '13

I’m preparing to conduct privacy-related research as my dissertation topic. I’m attempting to deploy an online survey and investigate cultural differences in how individuals disclose personal information during e-commerce transactions. In order to fund my research, I need to raise roughly $3K (recruit, deploy, and translate survey). If you’re interested in my research, whether supporting monetarily or through “spreading the word”, I’d be quite grateful for any help you can provide. An overview of the research can be found at my dissertation funding website on IndieGoGo.com at www.igg.me/at/privacyforsale<applewebdata://3B806436-BF05-4754-9BF7-FCB809DEA4EC/www.igg.me/at/privacyforsale>. Many thanks for your consideration in helping. Hope your holiday break is long and filled with non-school related things! - Cory Robinson -- Stephen Cory Robinson cory.robinson(a)colostate.edu<mailto:cory.robinson@colostate.edu> Office: Clark C258A http://colostate.academia.edu/StephenCoryRobinson

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Faculty Search: Assistant Professor, iSchool at The University of British Columbia
by Caroline Haythornthwaite 20 Dec '13

20 Dec '13

FYI. Deadline for applications is January 10, 2014. Notice of the position is also available at: http://www.slais.ubc.ca/news/current-news.htm#tenure /Caroline Haythornthwaite Caroline Haythornthwaite Director and Professor SLAIS, The iSchool at UBC ------------------------------------------------------ THE UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA Faculty position (tenure-stream) Library and Information Studies The School of Library, Archival and Information Studies (SLAIS), the iSchool at The University of British Columbia invites applications for a full-time position to begin July 1, 2014, subject to final budgetary approval. The position is expected to be filled at the rank of tenure-track Assistant Professor. Salary will be commensurate with qualifications and experience. Candidates should demonstrate achievement of, or potential for, excellence in teaching, research, and service in an interdisciplinary environment. The successful candidate will be expected to teach and conduct research in the area of library and information studies, broadly interpreted. Applications are encouraged from candidates with research and teaching interests relating to digital collections, including specialization in areas such as: digital libraries; data and information management; data/text mining and analytics; information retrieval; systems design, programming, evaluation and implementation; health informatics; digital humanities; digital media, social media; or semantic web technologies. We are seeking applicants who complement the strengths of the faculty at the School, demonstrate a strong research record appropriate to their experience, and have the ability to forge interdisciplinary research and/or teaching relationships within the School and beyond. As the School builds and strengthens its identity as an iSchool, the successful candidate will have the opportunity to join a dynamic community of scholars shaping the future of the School and to work with outstanding Masters and doctoral students. Applicants must have a Ph.D. (or solid indication of imminent completion) in a field related to the teaching and research areas of the position. Applicants must demonstrate excellence in research and scholarly activity; have a publication record commensurate with their experience; and provide evidence of teaching effectiveness. The University of British Columbia holds an international reputation for excellence in advanced research and learning. It is located in Vancouver, Canada, one of the world’s most beautiful and culturally diverse cities. The iSchool offers an ALA-accredited Master of Library and Information Studies (MLIS), a Master of Archival Studies (MAS) (both with an optional First Nations Concentration), a Dual MAS/MLIS, a multidisciplinary Master of Arts in Children’s Literature (MACL), and a doctorate in library, archival and information studies leading to the awarding of a Ph.D. Further information about the School can be found at www.slais.ubc.ca. The deadline date for receipt of applications is January 10, 2014. Application materials should include: a cover letter stating the candidate’s qualifications for the position, projected research agenda, and teaching philosophy; current curriculum vitae; the names and contact information of a minimum of three referees; and evidence of teaching effectiveness. Applications should be addressed to Professor Caroline Haythornthwaite, Chair, Faculty Search Committee and documents should be sent as separate files (in .pdf of Word format) via email to: slais.recruit(a)ubc.ca. Enquiries may be addressed to: Caroline Haythornthwaite, Director and Professor Chair, Faculty Search Committee School of Library, Archival and Information Studies (SLAIS) The iSchool at The University of British Columbia The Irving K. Barber Learning Centre Suite 470, 1961 East Mall, Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 1Z1 CANADA Email: c.haythorn(a)ubc.ca The University of British Columbia hires on the basis of merit and is committed to employment equity and diversity within its community. We especially welcome applications from members of visible minority groups, women, Aboriginal persons, persons with disabilities, persons of minority sexual orientations and gender identities, and others with the skills and knowledge to engage productively with diverse communities. We encourage all qualified persons to apply; Canadian citizens and permanent residents of Canada will, however, be given priority.

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

20 Dec '13

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

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

20 Dec '13

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

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

20 Dec '13

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

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

19 Dec '13

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

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

18 Dec '13

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

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

18 Dec '13

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

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

18 Dec '13

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

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

17 Dec '13

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

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