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CFP: Digital Footprints: Capturing, Mining and Contextualizing big data
by Anja Bechmann 13 Aug '13

13 Aug '13

Dear all, please consider submitting an abstract to: Digital Footprints: Capturing, Mining and Contextualizing Big Data Call for papers Where: IT-City, Aarhus University, Denmark When: Thursday October 3, 2013 Who: Organized by Digital Footprints Research Group, Aarhus University (sponsored by Netlab, DK) Data retrieval and mining methods have become essential research tools to understand user behavior in online services. Despite the obvious need for such methods in order to analyze (online) communication and socialization these algorithm/software supported methods call for further interdisciplinary development to study for instance the communication across different isolated tracking devices, services and networks, to more precisely recognize behavioral and communication patterns and create external validation, to lower the barriers for the use of algorithmic approaches for different research fields, and to develop interdisciplinary grounded ethical research guidelines and practices. The aim of this seminar is two-fold: First, we encourage researchers from a variety of fields to present research designs, ongoing work, methodological development and findings related to online communication and socialization and the use of software-supported/algorithmic-based methods. Secondly, we want to support and encourage networking across disciplines for example sociology, ethnography, philosophy, computer science, software engineering and the humanities. Suggestions for topics: - · Data tracking methods and challenges - · Challenges and methods for crossing data points - · Contextualizing big data - · Contextualized digital data analysis - · Content analysis methods and challenges - · Network statistics, clustering methods, or other analytical methods - · Bridging communication and computational methods - · Understanding big data from a communication point of view - · Mapping ubiquitous internet usage patterns - · Ethical and legal issues and practices in thick data and/or big data studies Call for papers: Abstracts (400 words): August 30, 2013 Panels and roundtable (400 words): August, 30, 2013 Demos (200 words description): August 30, 2013 Abstracts: This is a platform for presentation and discussion regarding ongoing work and researchers should not hand in full papers before the conference. Each presenter will have 15 minutes to present the work and 15 minutes for questions and discussion. Panels and roundtables: We welcome proposals for panels whereby a group of researchers discusses a predefined topic.. The panels take place as individual presentations of 10 minutes each, followed by a 20-minute general discussion on the topic. The roundtable format includes 5 minutes individual presentations and a 30-minute general discussion among the presenters and participants. Demos: We encourage developers to present their tools related to the study of communication and socialization online involving different (mobile) user devices and other online user tracking tools. Each research group will have 20 minutes to present the tool and 10 minutes for discussion. Please focus on how the tool can improve the study of online/mobile communication and the methodological shortcomings as well. The participation is free of charge and includes seminar participation, lunch, and afternoon reception. Maximum of participants: 40 researchers. Notification of acceptance: September 5, 2013 If you have any questions in relation to the seminar, possible topics or formats please do not hesitate to send an email to: anjabechmann(a)gmail.com. *The seminar will be held at the IT-City and Incuba Science Park at Aarhus University. Incuba is an acronym for Innovation Network Centre for University and Business of Aarhus and research fields such as Mathematical and Applied Computer Science, IT Engineering, Information, Media and Communication studies, and Digital Design Studies are located in the IT-City along with companies such as Google.* *Aarhus University (Danish: Aarhus Universitet, abbreviated** **AU) is a public university** **located in Aarhus, the second largest city in Denmark (3 hours from Copenhagen). Founded in 1928, it is Denmark's second oldest university and the largest, with a total of 43,600 enrolled students as of 1 January 2012,** **after a merger with Aarhus School of Engineering. A young university with high aspirations, it belongs to the international elite. In most prestigious ranking lists of the world´s best universities, Aarhus University is placed in the top 100. * -- /Anja Anja Bechmann, PhD Associate Professor, Aarhus University Head of Digital Footprints Research Group Denmark The university profile: http://person.au.dk/en/abp@hum.au.dk Digital Footprints Research Group: digitalfootprints.dk The Centre for Internet Research: http://cfi.au.dk/ The Council for Digital Security: digitalsikkerhed.dk<http://www.digitalsikkerhed.dk> Linkedin: http://dk.linkedin.com/in/anjabechmann Wordpress: http://medianetworks.wordpress.com

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CFP - Shared Machine Shops: Beyond Local Prototyping and Manufacturing
by Mathieu ONeil 13 Aug '13

13 Aug '13

[apologies for multiple posts] Call for Papers - Special issue of the Journal of Peer Production Shared Machine Shops: Beyond Local Prototyping and Manufacturing Editors: Maxigas (Universitat Oberta de Catalunya), Peter Troxler (International Fab Lab Association, Rotterdam University of Applied Sciences) In the last years we have witnessed an incredible proliferation of shared machine shops in a confusing number of genres: hackerspaces, makerspaces, Fab Labs and their more commercial counterparts such as TechShops, co-working spaces, accelerators and incubators. These are currently "fringe phenomena" because they play a minor role in the production of wealth, knowledge, political consensus and the social organisation of life. Interestingly, however, they also experience the same core transformations as contemporary capitalism. That is, for the individual: the convergence of work, labour and other aspects of life. On a systemic level: the rapid development of algorithmically driven technical systems and their intensifying role in social organisation. Finally, as a corollary: the practical and legitimation crisis of modern institutions, echoed by renewed attempts at self-organisation. Arguably, hackers occupied such an ambiguous position since the beginning of hackerdom, but shared machine shops represent a new configuration. They appear as embodied communities organised in research and production units of physical and logical goods; they even appear to escape the subcultural ghetto as educational institutions, museums, and libraries start to integrate them into their ambit. They are eminent laboratories in both their practices and products: as experimental forms of social institutions, and as the developers of technological prototypes projecting new visions of the future. Industry actors, state authorities and policy makers have recognised such milieus as prolific grounds for recruitment and new organisational models, which in itself warrants critical attention. Inspired by all these developments, we dedicate the next special issue of the Journal of Peer Production to Fab Labs and similar places. Some of the questions we are interested in exploring: * What are the historical conditions and concrete genealogies which enabled the emergence of shared machine shops? (Can we talk about the renewed relevance of craftsmanship?) * Are rapid prototyping practices changing the relationships to technology, research and development, and innovation? (Are shared machine shops democratising knowledge and production or rather building a new maker elite?) * How do technologies cultivated in shared machine shops such as personal fabrication intervene in urban and rural geographies? (Is the time ripe for "global villages" or we have to adapt to "smart cities"?) * What new and old anthropologies and ethics are articulated in shared machine shops? (Who is the “New Man” of Peer Production?) * Finally, how do shared machine shops interface with the political economy of contemporary capitalism and the military-industrial complex? (If the means of production are in the hands of the workers, is that free labour, a new form of outsourcing, or the germ for a next revolution?) Beyond local prototyping and manufacturing capability, what is the contribution of shared machine shops to critical practices of technology appropriation, to products, services and consumption patterns, to urban and rural geographies, and to practical political economy and ethics? Contributions are welcome from scholars and practitioners alike. Collaborative efforts are encouraged. We are mainly expecting academic papers on the one hand, and commented project documentations or narrative vignettes on the other hand, but anything that can be presented on a website could work. However, submitters are advised to keep in mind that the content should address questions of consequence to practitioners, based on realities on the ground, while at the same time they should be reflexive and consider their wider intellectual context. Submission proposals of up to 500 words due by September 30th, 2013, and should be sent to fablabissue(a)peerproduction.net. Submissions will be notified by October 15th, 2013, and full papers and materials (research papers around 8,000 words, testimonies and documents around 3,000 words) are due by January 31st, 2014, for review. Final submission deadline is June 1st, 2014. The special issue is due to appear in early July 2014. Research papers are peer reviewed according to JoPP review policies.

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CFP, The Information Society Special Issue - Connecting Fields: Information, Learning Sciences and Education
by June Ahn 12 Aug '13

12 Aug '13

Call for Papers The Information Society Connecting Fields: Information, Learning Sciences and Education http://www.indiana.edu/~tisj/connecting_fields.pdf <http://www.indiana.edu/%7Etisj/connecting_fields.pdf> - Deadline for extended abstracts: *December 15, 2013* - Selection notification: *January 15, 2013* - Full paper submissions: *May 1, 2014* The ways in which people interact with information is evolving rapidly. For example, modern questions about life, love, and where to eat for dinner are negotiated over platforms such as Yelp or Instagram, and well established information environments such as Wikipedia, Twitter, and Reddit are being reconsidered as sites for situated learning. We are fast moving away from clearly demarcated technologies and arenas for information sharing or learning, and instead, evolving toward blended realms of public, peer-oriented interaction made possible by new social norms and technological affordances. This blurring of boundaries affords an opportune moment to consider the connections between information and education, or the information sciences and learning sciences. We need to build bridges between fields, institutions, communities and practices. This blending and merging represents an analytical opportunity to decipher trends, institutionalized assumptions and norms, and conspicuous omissions. We are soliciting abstracts that exemplify this bi-directional perspective, and bring together scholars from multiple fields interested in aspects of information, learning, and education. We welcome both empirical or conceptual works that: (1) critically integrate a lens from information science if the research is grounded in the learning sciences or education, or (2) rigorously incorporate a learning or educational lens if grounded in information science or related fields. We hope that this special issue will be a foundational touchstone through which scholars across information science, learning sciences, and other cognate fields can build a new discourse. We encourage contributions that come from a wide range of perspectives, including (but not limited to): - The role of *information behavior* in learning processes with digital and participatory media - The role of *information or education institutions, organizations, and networks* in facilitating new forms of learning and credentialing - Applications of *information science, computation, and learning analytics *to**create new models for continuous feedback, information driven instructional practice, and personalized learning - Applications of *human-centered design *to support and develop new modalities for learning such as games for learning, simulations, mobile and embodied/tangible computing - Crowds and online communities (e.g., citizen science, Twittersphere) as *Communities of Practice* - The role of *hacker/maker spaces and libraries* within the evolving learning ecosystem - The role of technology in enabling new *institutional logics *within education (i.e., massively open online courses (MOOCs), Institute of Play's Quest Schools in New York and Chicago, and Peer2Peer University) - The relationship between *information and education policy* - Any other topics that can be a touchstone for scholars at the intersection of information, learning, and education Guest Editors: June Ahn, PhD Assistant Professor College of Information Studies College of Education University of Maryland, College Park juneahn(a)umd.edu <mailto:juneahn@umd.edu> Ingrid Erickson, PhD Assistant Professor Department of Library and Information Science School of Communication & Information Rutgers University ingrid.erickson(a)rutgers.edu <mailto:ingrid.erickson@rutgers.edu> Submission Details: Interested authors should submit a 300-400 word abstract with 3-6 keywords by December 15, 2013. Abstracts must address how the paper will highlight the bi-directional nature of the special issue theme. All submissions will be reviewed by the guest editors, and authors will be notified of their selection by January 15, 2014. Selected authors will be invited to submit a full paper for the special issue and will receive feedback to help craft final submissions, which will be due May 1, 2014. Thereafter, all papers will undergo TIS' standard peer review process. Journal publication, expected in late 2014, will be determined in concert with TIS editors. Please send all submissions, questions, and correspondence to Dr. June Ahn at juneahn(a)umd.edu <mailto:juneahn@umd.edu>. Include "TIS Special Issue" in the subject title of your email. -- June Ahn, Ph.D Assistant Professor University of Maryland, College Park College of Information Studies & College of Education juneahn(a)umd.edu 301-405-2037

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MINA [Mobile Innovation Network Aotearoa] Call for Papers and the MINA Call for Pocket Films
by Max Schleser 11 Aug '13

11 Aug '13

Dear Colleagues, the MINA Call for Papers and the MINA Call for Pocket Films is closing this Friday, the 16th August. Please see [1]www.mina.pro for submission details and feel free to forward the call to anyone who might be interested. Helen [2]Keegan (University of Salford, UK) and Larissa [3]Hjorth (RMIT University, Australia) will present key notes at the MINA Mobile Creativity and Innovation Symposium in Auckland on the 21st and 22nd November 2013. As in the last years we are also accepting paper and project presentations via online video conference call. We are looking forward to hear from you. With best wishes from Aotearoa/New Zealand, Max -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- CALL FOR PAPERS MINA invites proposals for papers and presentations relating, but not limited to mobile communities, mobile social media and social change, mobile art, mobile locative media, citizen journalism, mobile visual literacy, mobile video production, mobile-mentaries (mobile documentaries), mobile network, mobile media in education and mobile technologies and civic media. This year the circulation of smartphones outnumbered the volume of mobile phones. Most mobile devices (including tablets and pocket size digital cameras) have a HD video capacity and provide Internet connectivity. Since the proliferation of apps five years ago, new opportunities for creative mobile media production emerged. Mobile filmmaking is now an established format ranging from music video to TV commercial production. A number of contemporary apps feature location-based services that can create new experiences and representations of places. Mobile filmmaking also provides prospects for citizen journalist to expand the domain of videography. Contemporary forms of collaborative filmmaking projects connect 21st century citizens and filmmakers across the globe creating new forms of digital, networked and transmedia storytelling. As an egalitarian filmmaking tool and technology, mobile filmmaking provides access to a new generation of filmmakers. In alignment with the ubiquity of social media, mobile communication is shifting towards an increasingly visual realm. Live streaming and micro formats of mobile filmmaking can be compared to early cinema and actuality film, while mobile short films resonate approaches and practices known from the field of experimental documentary and avant-garde moving-image practices. The 3nd International Mobile Creativity and Mobile Innovation Symposium will explore the following mobile developments and dynamics in a transdisciplinary context. � MOBILE & PEDAGOGY � MOBILE & MEDIA PRODUCTION � MOBILE & AESTHETIC � MOBILE & SOUND � MOBILE & HYBRID ART � MOBILE & INTERACTIVITY � MOBILE & SPACE MINA welcomes presentations in a variety of formats including academic papers, workshops, poster presentations, performances, project showcases and screenings. The 3nd International Mobile Creativity and Mobile Innovation Symposium will also provide the opportunity to present papers via live video and live web-broadcasts. For each submission, please send: - a proposal / abstract of approximately 400 words, including the title - a brief biographical (100 words maximum) Abstracts for papers and proposals of up to 500 words should be submitted by the 16th of August 2013. Please include a title and brief biographical note and send to [4]laurent(a)mina.pro All proposals will be double peer reviewed and presenters will be notified of acceptances by 16th of September 2013. All selected papers will be published in the Creative Technologies Journal - Special Mobile Edition. If you have any questions related to conference proposals please contact Laurent Antonczak -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- CALL FOR MOBILE FILMS The Mobile Innovation Network Aotearoa [ MINA ] aims to explore the possibilities of interaction between people, content and the creative industries. This year MINA is pleased to announce that the School of Art & Design (AUT University) and CoLab (Creative Technologies Research Institute for the Faculty of Design and Creative Technologies at AUT University) will co-host the 3rd International Mobile Innovation Screening to be held at AUT University's Auckland City campus, in collaboration with the College of Creative Arts, Massey University (Wellington). Working in collaboration with Ohrenblick Mal (Germany), iPhone Popup Film Festival (UK) International Mobil Film Festival and iPhone Film Festival (USA), MINA showcases mobile filmmaking projects from around the world at the 3rd International Mobile Innovation Screening in Wellington (November 2013) Film Archive, Auckland (21st and 22nd November 2013), AUT University, Auckland City campus new Precint building and Melbourne (9th December 2013), RMIT University. Selected mobile films will be featured in the MINA showreel. The MINA program is curated by Dr. Max Schleser (Massey University, Wellington, NZ) and Laurent Antonczak (AUT University, Auckland, NZ). For each submission, please send: - a proposal of approximately 250 words, including the mobile film title - two still images - the link to the online preview (if available) - a brief biographical (100 words maximum) to Dr. Max Schleser [ [5]max(a)mina.pro ]. For further assistance regarding submission enquiries, please contact Dr. Max Schleser -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- Max Schleser [MINA] Mobile Innovation Network Aotearoa e: [6]max(a)mina.pro m: [7]+ 64 22 692 0872 w: [8]www.mina.pro t: @MINAmobile -- Dr. Max R.C. Schleser Major Coordinator VCD / Digital Media Nga Pae Mahutonga School of Design College of Creative Arts Toi Rauwharangi Massey University Tu Kinenga Ki Purehuroa email: [9]M.Schleser(a)massey.ac.nz phone: 04 801 5799 X 62384 twitter: @MaxMobile Mobile filmmaking projects: [10]https://vimeo.com/user4764445 Co-Founder of the Mobile Innovation Network Aotearoa [MINA] [11]www.mina.pro References 1. http://www.mina.pro/ 2. http://www.acoustics.salford.ac.uk/profiles/keegan/ 3. http://rmit.biz/browse;ID=b1h1wbpmbhdcz 4. http://mina.pro/3rd-mobile-creativity-and-innovation-symposium/laurent@mina… 5. mailto:max@mina.pro 6. mailto:max@mina.pro 7. tel:%2B%2064%2022%20692%200872 8. http://www.mina.pro/ 9. mailto:M.Schleser@massey.ac.nz 10. https://vimeo.com/user4764445 11. http://www.mina.pro/

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FW: [MCJ] CFP: M/C Journal 'augment' Issue
by Axel Bruns 11 Aug '13

11 Aug '13

G'day ! This may be of interest to some of you: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - 12 Aug. 2013 M/C - Media and Culture http://www.media-culture.org.au/ is calling for contributors to the 'augment' issue of M/C Journal http://journal.media-culture.org.au/ M/C Journal is inviting new contributors. Founded in 1998, M/C is a crossover journal between the popular and the academic, and a blind- and peer-reviewed journal. Our Website at http://journal.media-culture.org.au/provides open access to all past issues. To find out how and in what format to contribute your work, visit http://journal.media-culture.org.au/index.php/mcjournal/about/submissions. Call for Papers: 'augment' Edited by Rebecca Caines and Michelle Stewart Contemporary lives are increasingly saturated with the promise of technological enhancement - augmentation. Whether medically-enhanced "cyborg" bodies, AR glasses, new surveillance and crowdsourcing tools, locative media on mobile phones and gaming consoles, wearable technologies, or immersive third spaces, augmentation is often entangled in discourses of supplement and improvement. Yet augmentation is also contradictory, the logic of technological perfection co-existing with the perception of weakness or a lack. And so from within this messy space of technologies, bodies and spaces, failure is both generative and productive. Always desiring, we create, enhance, and augment: never satiated, we experiment, refine and repeat. Somatic and spatial practices collide on the promise of something more. In this edition of M/C Journal we seek to bring together theorists, practitioners and artists to consider the ways in which augmentation presents itself in the world and in their work. We welcome critical engagement with the philosophical, ethical and cultural implications of the augmented, cyborg and prosthetic body; interrogations of the layered information space of AR, critical reviews of augmented spatial practices; and explorations of the ways in which augmented media intersect with contemporary anxieties around power and statecraft. What is at stake when one engages in augmentation? Who/what pays the price when it falters, miscarries, or backfires? Which actors are engaged - or enrolled - in the practice? Which subjects are left vulnerable? We are particularly interested in cross-disciplinary investigations, mapping the points of connection and disruption in the application, reception and analysis of augmentation. We call upon our colleagues to discuss their forays into landscapes of prosthetics and cameras, Arduinos and QR codes, immersive zones and simulations, all the while collaborating with humans, cyborgs and nonhumans along the way. Prospective contributors should email an abstract of 100-250 words and a brief biography to the issue editors. Abstracts should include the article title and should describe your research question, approach, and argument. Biographies should be about three sentences (maximum 75 words) and should include your institutional affiliation and research interests. Articles should be 3000 words (plus bibliography). All articles will be refereed and must adhere to MLA style (6th edition). Article deadline: 11 Oct. 2013 Issue release date: 11 Dec. 2013 M/C Journal was founded (as "M/C - A Journal of Media and Culture") in 1998 as a place of public intellectualism analysing and critiquing the meeting of media and culture. Contributors are directed to past issues of M/C Journal for examples of style and content, and to the submissions page for comprehensive article submission guidelines. M/C Journal articles are blind peer-reviewed. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Further M/C Journal issues scheduled for 2013: 'remix': article deadline 21 June 2013, release date 21 Aug. 2013 'resilient': article deadline 16 Aug. 2013, release date 16 Oct. 2013 'augment': article deadline 11 Oct. 2013, release date 11 Dec. 2013 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- M/C - Media and Culture is located at <http://www.media-culture.org.au/>. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- M/C Journal is online at <http://journal.media-culture.org.au/>. All past issues of M/C Journal on various topics are available there. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- end Dr Axel Bruns -- General Editor editor(a)media-culture.org.au M/C - Media and Culture http://www.media-culture.org.au/

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Final CFP: Inaugural Issue, Journal of Media Innovations (Open Access)
by Charles Ess 10 Aug '13

10 Aug '13

Dear AoIRists, Please distribute as appropriate: The Journal of Media Innovations <https://www.journals.uio.no/index.php/TJMI/> Inaugural Issue - Spring 2014Researching Media Innovations: Defining the Fields; Tracing Research Trajectories¹ The Journal of Media Innovations explores changes in the media and communication industries through innovation theories. It focuses on innovation in the following areas: § New media services § New players in the media landscape § New roles of users § New practices by existing media organizations Users of digital media are becoming increasingly more active as producers (and re-distributors) of content, contributing to new services, new social constellations and new business models. Over the last decade a number of studies have focused on how Internet and mobile communication impact media services, business models and strategies, and user patterns. The Journal of Media Innovations builds on this large body of research, and takes it one step further by explicitly integrating perspectives on the roles of media technology and innovation with perspectives on the roles users have in generating innovation and transformation in the media sector. Our inaugural issue aims to bring together articles that explore how interrelations between media technology and users contribute to driving innovation. In doing so, we wish to collate and demarcate overviews of relevant fields, perspectives and trajectories for studying innovations in media. The articles will also facilitate critical reflection of the social, economic and political implications of media innovations. Theoretical perspectives may be linked to any field within the humanities or social sciences. These include, but are not limited to: user perspectives; economic perspectives; product perspectives; regulatory perspectives; and, strategic and organisational perspectives. The Journal of Media Innovations is an Open Access journal published by Fritt (Frie tidskrifter fra UiO), using the Open Journal Systems. Under this system, authors retain copyright of their work. Issue Coordinators Editor: Charles Ess Editorial Assistant: Karoline Andrea Ihlebæk Book Review Editor: Arne H. Krumsvik Publication Information: Deadline for Submission: 30th of September 2013; Publication Date: February 2014 Articles should be between 6,000 and 8,000 words in length. All articles will be reviewed in a double-blind system. For more information on Journal style and submission requirements, please see: <https://www.journals.uio.no/index.php/TJMI/about/submissions#onlineSubmissi ons> Additional inquiries should be addressed to: Karoline A. Ihlebæk: k.a.ihlebak(a)media.uio.no With many thanks in advance, - charles Professor in Media Studies Department of Media and Communication Director, Centre for Research on Media Innovations <http://www.hf.uio.no/imk/english/research/center/media-innovations/> University of Oslo P.O. Box 1093 Blindern NO-0317 Oslo Norway email: c.m.ess(a)media.uio.no

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Call for Papers - Eastern Communication Association (CMC Division)
by Nicholas Bowman 09 Aug '13

09 Aug '13

Call for Papers 2014 Communication and Technology Interest Group 105th Annual Eastern Communication Association Convention “Communities of Dissent: A “Lively Experiment” in Dialogue, Diversity, and Discourse” Providence, Rhode Island Omni Providence Hotel April 23-27, 2014 Submission Deadline: Monday, October 15, 2013 The Communication and Technology Interest Group of the Eastern Communication Association invites the submission of competitive papers, thematic program/panel proposals, and innovative programming alternatives (e.g., roundtables, symposia, debates, open forums, and community programs) for the 105th annual convention of the ECA. The 2014 convention’s theme, “Communities of Dissent”, explores the expression and suppression of dissent across communication contexts—relational, organizational, mediated, social, and political—and the attendant implications for such concerns as relational quality, community identification, civic engagement, public dialogue, accountability, and justice. Founded as a haven for religious dissenters, Providence is a city intimately shaped by discourses of disagreement. This year’s conference theme, “Communities of Dissent,” is inspired by the tradition of dissent that has marked the city’s long and notable history. Dissent can be transformational, a lively experiment in tolerance and freedom of conscience. When accepted and encouraged, dissent can be an important monitoring force, providing correctives for unethical behavior, unfavorable decision-making, and insensitivity to others’ needs. Dissent can also be dangerous, undermining sound and orderly government, and fueling conflict and aggression. The convention, as always, features panels, round tables, short courses, and programming on the convention theme. In addition, the Fourth Annual James C. McCroskey and Virginia P. Richmond Undergraduate Scholars Conference (USC) will run concurrently with the ECA convention on Friday and Saturday (April 25-26). USC papers will be accepted through December 20, 2013, to enable scholarly student papers from the fall semester to be submitted. Submissions to the Communication and Technology Interest Group should adhere to the following guidelines: COMPETITIVE PAPERS Mission Statement for the Communication and Technology Interest Group: To encourage the exploration and dissemination of information/communication technologies that influence our perceptions of human communication endeavors. Authors are invited to submit competitive papers on any aspect of communication and technology from any theoretical, methodological, or critical perspective. Excluding title page, notes, and references, papers should be no longer than 25 pages. Papers longer than 25 pages may not be reviewed. Authors who have not presented a paper at a regional, national, or international convention should include the word "DEBUT" in the upper right-hand corner of the title page. Papers authored by current undergraduate or graduate students should include the word "STUDENT" in the upper right-hand corner of the title page. (All of the paper's authors must meet the "debut" or "student" criterion for the paper to be so designated.) Competitive papers should be submitted via e-mail as TWO Separate MS Word files. File #1 must include: 1. A title page with the title of the paper and the following information: names of all authors (in cases of multiple authorship, please indicate who will be presenting at the convention), institutional affiliations, mailing addresses, telephone numbers, and email addresses. 2. An abstract page including a 100-150 word abstract of the paper. The title of the paper should appear on the same page as this abstract. 3. A statement of professional responsibility, as follows: "In submitting the attached paper, I/We recognize that this submission is considered a professional responsibility. I/We agree to present this paper if it is accepted. I/We further recognize that all who attend and present at ECA's annual meeting must register and pay required fees." Papers that do not include this statement will not be programmed. 4. The full paper and reference pages, appendixes, etc. File #2 must include: 1. A title page with no author/s names (the second paper which will be sent out for review should include no information that identifies the author/s anywhere in this submission). 2. An abstract page (see above). 3. A statement of professional responsibility (see above). 4. The full paper and reference pages, appendixes, etc. PANELS AND OTHER PROGRAMS Panels should focus on a unifying theme relevant to research, theory, or criticism in the area of communication and technology. Panels themes should attempt not to repeat session topics from past conferences. Panels are encouraged to include presenters from more than one institution. Panels must consist of a chair, paper presenters, and a respondent. Panels and other programs that could be co-sponsored with other interest groups are strongly encouraged - please send your panel to both interest groups at the same time so that those planners may manage the submission together. Please note in your email your intention to have the panel co-sponsored if that is your plan. Panel and other program proposals should include the following: 1. A thematic title for the program 2. Names of the chair and respondents, if any. Please do not have chairs act as respondents. 3. Names, mailing addresses, telephone numbers, email addresses, and institutional affiliations of all participants. 4. Titles and abstracts for each paper or presentation 5. A program copy (of NO MORE than 75 words description of the panel) as it should appear in the final program 6. A detailed rationale for the program/panel 7. A statement of professional responsibility “In submitting the attached paper, I/We recognize that this submission is considered a professional responsibility. I/We agree to present this paper if it is accepted. I/We further recognize that all who attend and present at ECA's annual meeting must register and pay required fees.” Requests for the use of technology at the conference must be made at the time of submission and we will attempt to make arrangements as resources allow. Any requests made after that time cannot be honored. Conference Absenteeism: Attendees who do not present scheduled papers should not list presentations on academic vitas. Presenters unable to attend the conference after being notified of their acceptance and presenters with last minute emergency issues preventing attendance should notify the planner as soon as possible and consider alternative presentation arrangements. Electronic Filing Formats: Proposals must be submitted only in MS WORD. Only electronic submissions will be reviewed. Submissions should be attached and e-mailed to David Westerman., the Communication and Technology Interest Group program planner, at dkwNF2008(a)gmail.com. PLEASE, write “2014 ECA Communication and Technology Interest Group Submission” in the subject line of your email. Submissions must be received no later than Monday, October 15, 2013. Questions can be addressed to David Westerman at dkwNF2008(a)gmail.com

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cfp: "Gender, Bodies & Technology: Performing the Human, " May 1-3, 2014
by jeremy hunsinger 09 Aug '13

09 Aug '13

Call for Proposals http://www.cpe.vt.edu/gbt/proposals.html Proposals are invited for the third biannual interdisciplinary conference: "Gender, Bodies & Technology: Performing the Human," May 1-3, 2014 The Inn at Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia Sponsored by the Women's and Gender Studies Program at Virginia Tech http://www.cpe.vt.edu/gbt/proposals.html Proposal Deadline: October 1, 2013 Gender, Bodies, & Technology is an initiative within Women’s and Gender Studies at Virginia Tech that aims to creatively and intellectually explore the multiple, proliferating, and gendered dimensions of technologized bodies and embodied technologies. Through our initiative and biannual conference, we seek to demonstrate, theorize, and perform the discursive and material nodes around which gender, bodies, and technology both cohere and fracture: how, for example, do the specter and reality of transvaginal ultrasounds index a historically specific female body? What is the relationship between expanded combat roles for female soldiers and the U.S. military’s escalating use of “unmanned” drone warcraft? How should we interpret airport body scanners and restroom architecture that threaten and displace transgender persons? We invite proposals from scholars in the humanities, social and natural sciences, feminist science studies, visual and performing arts, life sciences, and STEM fields for papers, panels, workshops, new media, art, and performance pieces that explore the intersections of gender, bodies & technology in contexts ranging from classrooms to the military, and from health care to the media. Our confirmed keynote speakers include: • Dr. Jennifer Robertson, Professor of Anthropology at the University of Michigan • Micha Cardenas, performance artist and media theorist based at the University of Southern California • Dr. Shaowen Bardzell, Assistant Professor of Informatics at Indiana University We invite papers, workshops, and panel proposals that address the Gender/Bodies/Technology interface. Though not limited to the following, topics and themes might include: • Gender and the technologies of institutions; the reconfiguration of public and private spheres • Disability and technologies of expression/representation; enabling and constricting roles of technology • The intersectional dimensions of online and digital space; visibility and invisibility issues • Feminist appropriations of technology; technology as liberating vs. reifying social force • GLBT and queer media • Technology and evolution – post- and trans-humanism; bio-cultural change and the gendered dimensions of human plasticity • Gender, bodies, and artificial intelligence • Gendered technologies of the self; bodies and gender as objects of technological intervention • Technological aspects of reproduction and personhood; maternal capacity; neo-eugenics • Social and other new media and their relationship to gendered bodies; social media and sexual violence • Genetic and other biological imaginaries made available by biotechnology; gender and nanotechnology • The GBT configuration in popular media • Avatars, augmented and virtual realities, and the promise of genderless bodies • Gender as code; gender, bodies, and computation • New feminist materialisms; the technological materiality of gender • Technological failures; technophobia and gender • The (bio)technology of transgender, intersex, and other forms of gender variance • Race, ability, class and the politics of visibility in virtual bodies • Gender and digital literacy; the gendered natures of technicity, technophilia, and expertise • Neuroscience, genomics, and the production of sexual difference • Performance, new media and other creative expressions: engaging/enacting/destabilizing conventions of embodiment and technology • Gendered innovations in technological design: gendered objects and design • Technological production and control of classed, racialized, aged, disabled and gendered bodies • New media, digital representation and virtual gendered environments • How technology links (embodied) individuals and enacts (gendered) worlds • Technologically-mediated warfare, gender, and combat • Gender and the “non-human”; robots, animals and environmental expressions of gendered worlds • Technologies of development and sustainability; eco- and environmental feminism • Activism, participatory decision-making and issues of technological citizenship Our conference theme, “Performing the Human,” is an invitation for embodied creative and intellectual effort. We are committed to complementing traditional paper presentations from the social sciences, STEM, and humanities fields with scholarship and performance from the creative arts. We encourage innovative uses of technology and creative session formats and we welcome early contact by email if space and/or technology requirements might present logistical challenges. Proposals will be reviewed and notification of the outcome will be made byNovember 15, 2013. For more information or questions please contact: Christine Labuski/GBT Coordinator and Conference Co-Director Women's and Gender Studies Program Department of Sociology Virginia Tech McBryde Hall (0137) Blacksburg, VA, 24061 USA chrislab(a)vt.edu Jeremy Hunsinger Communication Studies Wilfrid Laurier University Center for Digital Discourse and Culture Virginia Tech http://www.tmttlt.com Whoever ceases to be a student has never been a student. -George Iles

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Re: [Air-L] AoIR Wiki Was: A suggestion for reading lists and syllabi
by John Carter McKnight 08 Aug '13

08 Aug '13

<john.mcknight(a)asu.edu> I've been tasked with updating the wiki. Assuming it would be similar to updating a WordPress installation on a website, something I do regularly, I volunteered. I've discovered I can't make heads or tails of the MediaWIki update instructions, spread across multiple locations. I've just spent two hours with a friend who ran a corporate database design firm, and they couldn't figure it out either, and have gone back to do further research. At this point, I'd like to see it through, to make best use of my friends' volunteer time, and to develop a single, clear, comprehensive set of directions for AoIR volunteers updating the site. Kudos to those who have worked on this project before for their effort on this challenging project, and I do endorse calls for move to a system that can be maintained easily by amateur volunteer labor. John Carter McKnight, JD, PhD > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Wed, 7 Aug 2013 22:21:47 -0500 > From: Michael Zimmer <zimmerm(a)uwm.edu> > To: AoIR-L <air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org> > Subject: Re: [Air-L] AoIR Wiki Was: A suggestion for reading lists and > syllabi > Message-ID: <52D26A04-5E66-4133-BACE-B0EC2A6B2E9B(a)uwm.edu> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 > > I want to express my strong preference for the organization to have its > wiki on aoir.org domain, controlled by us, and not monetized (and > web-bugged) by third parties. > > Currently on http://aoir.wikia.com/ I'm confronted by a Skylanders > advertisement, Mazda banner, and a "Naked and Afraid" video commercial. And > that's just on the top of the page.... > > There are also 8 tracking bugs/cookies being added to by browser. > > I don't understand why we can't host MediaWiki and lock down editing so it > doesn't get overun by spambots. I've had MW on my own site for years, and > by requiring a user account to edit (and I control who gets user accounts), > there's zero spam. > > $0.02, > Michael > > > -- > Michael Zimmer, PhD > Assistant Professor, School of Information Studies > Director, Center for Information Policy Research > University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee > e: zimmerm(a)uwm.edu > w: www.michaelzimmer.org > > > On Aug 6, 2013, at 1:14 PM, Alexander Halavais <halavais(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > > Alex et al, > > > > I think you list my main pluses for a hosted solution. And I > > acknowledge the main advantages to self-hosting with MediaWiki. As I > > noted, many have volunteered to maintain the wiki, and many have > > failed to follow through. I'm not naming names, because there is no > > blame to be taken up here--but it's work that generally gets pushed to > > the back of the queue, particularly when people have to be going up > > for tenure ("I owe my tenure to my awesome wiki gardening" said no one > > ever), or looking for a job, or breathing. In other words, we are not > > more reliable than outsourcing the work, and so we've looked for > > managed solutions in a number of areas. > > > > If there is a very strong feeling among a community of contributors > > that we should be using MediaWiki over something like Wikia, we could > > look a managed solution like Cloudways. But I think it makes more > > sense to go with a platform that is more user friendly to those > > without experience editing a MediaWiki (e.g., Wikipedia). If the ads > > are an issue, we could buy our way out of them. But for me, they > > aren't *enough* of a problem for that. > > > > Frankly, I don't want to be a pessimist, and I am excited by the > > enthusiasm around building the wiki. I also am weighing the present > > enthusiasm against many years of people saying they wanted to work on > > the Wiki (content-wise) but few actually contributing. My suggestion > > would be that we build it on Wikia. If there are people regularly > > contributing, and there is consensus that it makes sense to bring it > > back under local control, and someone on the Executive is willing to > > agree to take on the burden of managing it, then I'll be happy to > > migrating the content. But until there is the commitment to the > > content, I think Wikia is a good interim measure that allows us to > > test the waters. > > > > Best, > > > > Other Alex > > > > > > > > > > On Tue, Aug 6, 2013 at 9:24 AM, Alex Leavitt <alexleavitt(a)gmail.com> > wrote: > >> Just to throw in a bit of discussion: Alex, I would definitely like to > know > >> your thoughts on Wikia vs. our own install. Obviously spam is one issue. > >> Easy of use (ie., markup language) is probably another. On the > our-install > >> side, I can think of three arguments: 1) not relying on a 3rd party > (issues > >> of access, especially if Wikia goes defunct somehow) 2), supporting > >> open-source software, and 3) no ads. > >> > >> Personally, I'm still for the wiki.aoir.org install, but by creating a > Wikia > >> page without some kind of 'official' support of the org, I'm concerned > >> efforts will be divided across both wikis (well, that is, if we can get > new > >> accounts on our own wiki...). > >> > >> I'm happy to volunteer, btw, to be the point person for helping create > new > >> accounts for people that need them. > >> > >> --- > >> > >> Alexander Leavitt > >> PhD Student > >> USC Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism > >> http://alexleavitt.com > >> Twitter: @alexleavitt > >> > >> > >> > >> On Tue, Aug 6, 2013 at 6:41 AM, Jeremy hunsinger <jhuns(a)vt.edu> wrote: > >>> > >>> > >>> > http://web.archive.org/web/20080421002111/http://wiki.aoir.org/index.php?ti… > >>> is a pretty good version of the prior wiki. > >>> > >>> > >>> On Tue, Aug 6, 2013 at 8:45 AM, jeremy hunsinger <jhuns(a)vt.edu> wrote: > >>> > >>>> Great Job Alex, > >>>> > >>>> I guess the http://wiki.aoir.org 's heyday was probably back in > >>>> 2003-2005. It was and is a good idea to have a wiki, spamming aside, > >>>> and > >>>> yes i do still help maintain it sometimes on the old url. It would be > >>>> good > >>>> to find a way to migrate some of the content from the old site to the > >>>> new > >>>> site though. I paid for some of of the content to be added to the wiki > >>>> by > >>>> one of my center assistants back in the day, the lists of researchers > >>>> and a > >>>> few other things. Those sorts of things were handy and drew some > >>>> traffic > >>>> at the time. However, they slowly became dated i guess. > >>>> _______________________________________________ > >>>> 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/ > >>>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> -- > >>> jeremy hunsinger > >>> Center for Digital Discourse and Culture > >>> Virginia Tech > >>> > >>> www.tmttlt.com > >>> > >>> () ascii ribbon campaign - against html mail > >>> /\ - against microsoft attachments > >>> http://www.stswiki.org/ sts wiki > >>> http://transdisciplinarystudies.tmttlt.com/ Transdisciplinary > Studies:the > >>> book series > >>> > >>> I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn > how > >>> to > >>> do it. > >>> -Pablo Picasso > >>> _______________________________________________ > >>> 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/ > >> > >> > > > > > > > > -- > > -- > > // > > // This email is > > // [ ] assumed public and may be blogged / forwarded. > > // [x] assumed to be private, please ask before redistributing. > > // > > // Alexander C. Halavais, ciberfl?neur > > // http://alex.halavais.net > > // > > // Please attribute any stupid errors above to autocorrect on my phone. > > // (But I probably was typing on a keyboard.) > > _______________________________________________ > > 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/ > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Wed, 7 Aug 2013 20:39:42 -0700 > From: Alex Leavitt <alexleavitt(a)gmail.com> > To: Michael Zimmer <zimmerm(a)uwm.edu> > Cc: AoIR-L <air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org> > Subject: Re: [Air-L] AoIR Wiki Was: A suggestion for reading lists and > syllabi > Message-ID: > <CACBxmg5oJy29x_6yNkF3R_T_p= > JYuCFCtj_5mMw1ZwTjVvMCfQ(a)mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > There really is no reason we can't. Alex's main criticism was loss of > people over time willing to maintain it. > > If someone's willing to give me access to the wiki backend > tonight/tomorrow, I'll be more than happy to update it (given Ben's > optimism that the updated infrastructure will be spam-proof) and start > setting people up with accounts. > > --- > > Alexander Leavitt > PhD Student > USC Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism > http://alexleavitt.com > Twitter: @alexleavitt > >

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Whom and what can you trust in online / mediated environments? Interdisciplinary faculty and PhD workshops - University of Oslo
by Judith Simon 08 Aug '13

08 Aug '13

Dear colleagues, Please cross-post and distribute as appropriate - with the note that the deadline for applications for participation in either the faculty and/or the PhD workshops is coming up: August 15, 2013. (Please see the website for further details.) Faculty workshop PhD workshop Public Debate Whom and what can you trust in online / mediated environments? Interdisciplinary Perspectives in Philosophy, Computer Science, Media Studies. September 26-27, 2013: Department of Media and Communication, University of Oslo. Lecturers / mentors: Dag Elgesem, University of Bergen James Moor, Dartmouth College Judith Simon, University of Vienna &, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Elisabeth Staksrud, University of Oslo Mariarosaria Taddeo, University of Warwick Herman Tavani, Rivier University, New Hampshire John Weckert, Charles Sturt University, Wagga Wagga, Australia Background / description: James Moor¹s seminal paper, ³What is Computer Ethics?² (1985), inaugurated a new generation of interdisciplinary reflection on how computing technologies evoked distinctive new ethical challenges. These challenges are often quite novel and their roots in specific technologies thus require equally novel and collaborative reflection across the otherwise diverse disciplines of philosophy, applied ethics, computer science, social science, and so on. Especially over the past decade, increasing attention has been given to questions of trust and privacy in online and mediated environments. These questions are complicated by important differences between face-to-face and online/mediated experiences of trust and privacy - and further complicated by the increasingly important roles of Artificial Agents (AAs) and Multi-Agent Systems (MASs) such as those at work in ³recommendations for you² on commercial websites, web-page ranking algorithms used in popular search engines, and so on. At the same time, AAs and MASs are becoming increasingly autonomous capable of making decisions independently of human control. Such autonomy raises centrally philosophical questions: Are such AAs and MASs further capable of making autonomous ethical judgments including the specific sort of judgment denoted by phronesis or ³practical wisdom²? And: how would we know if we can or should trust these agents precisely as they become increasingly indispensible to our lives? Our lecturers / mentors have each undertaken leading work in these domains, both within philosophically-grounded and -oriented reflection (J. Moor, J. Simon, M. Taddeo, H. Tavani) and within the contexts of online and mediated communication environments (D. Elgesem, E. Staksrud, C.Ess). Our faculty and PhD workshops are designed to further important dialogue and debate, and foster current doctoral research in these domains. The public debate will offer highlights of current insights and findings, along with critical discussion of our defining themes and questions. For more details, including registration procedures, please see the workshops / lecture website. <http://www.hf.uio.no/forskning/doktorgrad-karriere/forskerutdanning/gjennom foring/linjer/medie/arr_medie/2013/whom-to-trust.html> Looking forward to welcoming many of you to Oslo! Best in the meantime, Charles Ess Professor in Media Studies Department of Media and Communication Director, Centre for Research on Media Innovations <http://www.hf.uio.no/imk/english/research/center/media-innovations/> University of Oslo P.O. Box 1093 Blindern NO-0317 Oslo Norway email:charles.ess@media.uio.no Messages to the list are archived athttp://listserv.liv.ac.uk/archives/philos-l.html. Current posts are also available via Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/PhilosL Discussions should be moved to chora: enrol via http://listserv.liv.ac.uk/archives/chora.html.

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