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Faculty Opening - West Virginia University
by Nicholas Bowman 06 Aug '13

06 Aug '13

** High Priority ** Faculty Vacancy – COMMUNICATION STUDIES The Department of Communication Studies at West Virginia University invites applications for a tenure-track position at the rank of Assistant Professor beginning August 2014. Candidates must have a completed doctorate in Communication Studies or a closely related field by August 15, 2014, an active social science research program with promise for regular publication, and the ability to effectively teach large lecture classes. Anticipated areas of teaching include: computer-mediated communication, new media, information technology, social media, social networking, strategic communication, and other areas consistent with departmental need and candidate interest. Preference will be given to individuals with potential for external research funding. Our Department offers degrees at the BA, MA, and PhD level. WVU is a Research-High Activity university, an Affirmative Action, EEO employer and the recipient of an NSF ADVANCE award for gender equity; we offer competitive salaries and potential for summer teaching. Morgantown is located within 1 hour of Pittsburgh and 3 1/2 hours of the Washington/Baltimore area. Morgantown has been recognized as one of the most livable small cities in the U.S. There are extensive recreational opportunities, affordable housing, and a supportive environment to develop a visible and productive career. Screening will begin November 1, 2013, continuing until the position is filled. Submit letter of application, graduate transcripts, vita, and 3 letters of reference to: Matthew M. Martin, Chair, Department of Communication Studies, PO Box 6293, Morgantown, WV 26506-6293. Direct further inquiries to Matthew Martin: MMARTIN(a)WVU.EDU (304) 293-3905.

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#aoircamp!
by Kelly Quinn 06 Aug '13

06 Aug '13

Apologies for cross-posting, but this will be such an awesome event you will want to read about it twice... Announcing #AoIRcamp! #AoIRcamp is an IR14 post-conference designed to help you break down boundaries and overcome blocks in your writing. It is a two day workshop that will offer participants unstructured writing time along with a series of mini writing workshops designed to foster creative writing strategies. Sessions on productive writing, writing as a way of knowing, writing as resistance, experimental writing and performative scholarship will be offered, as well as plenty of free time to hike in the mountains, reflect, and share feedback with one another. In the evenings, we will gather for informal socializing and dinner. This workshop will be limited to 25 participants. Cost: $75/participant to cover transportation and group facilities. Participants will cover their own lodging and meal costs. Hotel: The Estes Park Resort is situated at the gateway to Rocky Mountain National Park, on beautiful Lake Estes. Rooms are either double queen or king (king rooms have a pull-out sofa), and pricing depends on views and room sizes. Sharing rooms should be coordinated among the participants. Transportation: Transportation will be provided Sunday morning from the Westin to Estes Park Resort and again on Tuesday morning to the Denver airport. Tentative schedule: All the sessions are optional. Sunday, October 27: Depart late morning for Estes Park Workshop: Productive Writing Free time for hiking or writing Social hour and dinner Workshop: Goals Monday, October 28: Breakfast on own Workshop: Writing as a Way of Knowing Workshop: Experimental Writing I Workshop: Resistance Lunch on own Workshop: Performative Scholarship Workshop: Experimental Writing II Sharing and feedback session Social hour and dinner Concluding session Tuesday, October 29; morning: Depart for airport For more information on pricing and accommodations, please visit the IR14 registration site <http://members.aoir.org/Default.aspx?pageId=1658176>. We hope you will join us! Organizers: Annette Markham, Terri Senft, David Phillips, Kelly Quinn, Valerie Fazel, Meghan Dougherty

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Another way of sharing syllabi and teaching resources
by Anthony Nadler 06 Aug '13

06 Aug '13

Several years ago, Julie Wilson and I started a Wordpress-based website, www.teachingmedia.org <http://www.teachingmedia.org>to create a space for media studies instructors to share syllabi and teaching resources such as suggested readings, links to useful video material, in-class exercises and assignments. This format isn't as useful as a wiki for compiling large reading lists (so I don't mean to propose this as a replacement for the Air_L wiki), but it has some advantages for sharing teaching material in other ways. It's been relatively easy to maintain and because only registered users can post, we've been able to contain the spam. It also makes it easy to organize teaching topics in ways that are categorized, taggable, and give way to threaded discussions of particular readings, assignments, etc. I encourage any on this list to contribute teaching material l they've found especially stimulating and try out the site as a resource for ideas. It's all based on a peer-to-peer open model of collaborative teaching and it's growing slowly but steadily. -- Anthony Nadler Assistant Professor of Media and Communication Studies Ursinus College

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Chinese (or other non-Western) objections to Internet Freedom...
by Madeline Carr 06 Aug '13

06 Aug '13

Hi all, It seems we're all working to get our syllabi together for next semester and the hunt for quality sources begins. I'm writing a new module on Internet Freedom and I would like to provide the students with a balanced account of objections raised by some states like China. There is plenty available from a Western perspective that critiques Chinese approaches but I want something that challenges the students to consider alternative perspectives. This might include the argument about cultural imperialism, language preservation, social cohesion etc... Could anyone point me to a good article or chapter that looks at non-Western objections to Internet Freedom in a balanced way? Thanks, Madeline Dr. Madeline Carr Lecturer in International Politics and the Cyber Dimension Department of International Politics Aberystwyth University Penglais, Aberystwyth SY23 3FE Wales +44 01970 621955 mob: 0752 867 2088 madelinemcarr(a)gmail.com

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Announcement: "The Critical Power of Free Software" released - special issue of the Journal of Peer Production
by Maurizio 06 Aug '13

06 Aug '13

Dear All, apologies for cross-posting. Best Maurizio --- Announcement: it has been released "The Critical Power of Free Software: From Intellectual Property to Epistemologies?" Journal of Peer Production, Issue 3 The Journal of Peer Production Editorial Board and the issue editors, Maurizio Teli and Vincenzo D'Andrea, are happy to announce the publication of the Special Issue titled "The Critical Power of Free Software: From Intellectual Property to Epistemologies?". The issue explores the contemporary ability of Free Software to constitute a form of epistemological and material critique of contemporary societies. It does so with five research papers and three pieces in a "debate section". The Journal of Peer Production is an Open Access journal. Table of contents: Editorial Notes An Introduction to “The Critical Power of Free Software: from Intellectual Property to Epistemologies?” by Maurizio Teli and Vincenzo D’Andrea <http://peerproduction.net/issues/issue-3-free-software-epistemics/editorial…> <http://peerproduction.net/issues/issue-3-free-software-epistemics/editorial…> peer reviewed papers<http://peerproduction.net/issues/issue-3-free-software-epistemics/peer-revi…> <http://peerproduction.net/issues/issue-3-free-software-epistemics/peer-revi…> P2P Search as an Alternative to Google: Recapturing network value through decentralized search by Tyler Handley <http://peerproduction.net/issues/issue-3-free-software-epistemics/peer-revi…> <http://peerproduction.net/issues/issue-3-free-software-epistemics/peer-revi…> Free software and the law. Out of the frying pan and into the fire: how shaking up intellectual property suits competition just fine by Angela Daly <http://peerproduction.net/issues/issue-3-free-software-epistemics/peer-revi…> <http://peerproduction.net/issues/issue-3-free-software-epistemics/peer-revi…> The Ethic of the Code: An Ethnography of a ‘Humanitarian Hacking’ Community by Douglas Haywood <http://peerproduction.net/issues/issue-3-free-software-epistemics/peer-revi…> <http://peerproduction.net/issues/issue-3-free-software-epistemics/peer-revi…> >From Free Software to Artisan Science by Dan McQuillan <http://peerproduction.net/issues/issue-3-free-software-epistemics/peer-revi…> <http://peerproduction.net/issues/issue-3-free-software-epistemics/peer-revi…> Free Software trajectories: from organized publics to formal social enterprises? by Morgan Currie, Christopher Kelty, and Luis Felipe Rosado Murillo, University of California, Los Angeles <http://peerproduction.net/issues/issue-3-free-software-epistemics/peer-revi…> <http://peerproduction.net/issues/issue-3-free-software-epistemics/peer-revi…> Debate<http://peerproduction.net/issues/issue-3-free-software-epistemics/debate/> <http://peerproduction.net/issues/issue-3-free-software-epistemics/debate/> There is no free software. by Christopher Kelty <http://peerproduction.net/issues/issue-3-free-software-epistemics/debate/th…> <http://peerproduction.net/issues/issue-3-free-software-epistemics/debate/th…> Desired becomings by Katja Mayer and Judith Simon <http://peerproduction.net/issues/issue-3-free-software-epistemics/debate/de…> <http://peerproduction.net/issues/issue-3-free-software-epistemics/debate/de…> An Envisioning of Free Software’s potential as a form of cultural, practical, and material critique: A New perspective on the implications of FS peer production for social change? by David Hakken <http://peerproduction.net/issues/issue-3-free-software-epistemics/debate/an…> <http://peerproduction.net/issues/issue-3-free-software-epistemics/debate/an…>

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CfP Cyberspace 2013 Conference (New Media and Politics)
by Jakub Macek 06 Aug '13

06 Aug '13

Cyberspace 2013 Conference Workshop on New Media and Politics CALL FOR PAPERS The workshop is part of the Cyberspace 2013 conference held at Masaryk University in Brno, Czech Republic on 22 and 23 November 2013. The organizers are seeking papers that relate (but are not necessarily restricted) to the following broad areas of research: - New media and democracy - New media and political communication - Online political participation - Political economy of new media - 'New' journalisms and democracy Abstracts of max. 1,500 characters can be submitted on the conference website: http://www.cyberspace.muni.cz The deadline for abstract submission is 15 August 2013 via the web form or 15 September 2013 via mail to the workshop chair (m.metykova(a)sussex.ac.uk) If you have any questions, please contact dr. Monika Metykova (m.metykova(a)sussex.ac.uk) - Jakub Macek, Ph.D. Assistant Professor / Department of Media Studies and Journalism Senior Researcher / Institute for Research on Children, Youth and Families Faculty of Social Studies Masaryk University http://muni.cz Jostova 10 60200 Brno Czech Republic tel. +420-54949-4740 gsm +420-777-214-286

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China: networked individualism and Internet work-arounds
by Barry Wellman 06 Aug '13

06 Aug '13

I echo Charles Ess in noting the rise of individualism in China. (Or to put it another way, the ending of the short-term Cultural Rev suppression of individualism.) Dare I call it "Networked Individualism" cause people are multiply connected. Our Networked book explicitly looked only at North America, but I'd love to see folks extend the ideas to Asia (N, S, SE) and Europe. On another, related note: peeps shouldnt assume that because authorities block FB & Twitter, that no one can get. My admittedly non-random sample has work-arounds, which I won't disclose. But I will disclose that U Toronto's Citizen Lab headed by Ron Deibert has been getting work-around software to China, Iran, etc. for years. All hail PS: Blocking of FB in China another reason NOT to move this list to FB. Barry Wellman _______________________________________________________________________ NetLab Director FRSC INSNA Founder Faculty of Information (iSchool) 611 Bissell Building 140 St. George St. University of Toronto Toronto Canada M5S 3G6 http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman twitter: @barrywellman NETWORKED:The New Social Operating System. Lee Rainie & Barry Wellman MIT Press http://amzn.to/zXZg39 Print $22 Kindle $16 Old/NewCyberTimes http://bit.ly/c8N9V8 ________________________________________________________________________

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Re: [Air-L] digest it! not FB it!
by Janet Salmons, Ph.D. 06 Aug '13

06 Aug '13

Interesting discussion. I was on another vibrant email list, and read the digest every day. They decided to move it to Facebook and it died. I have a nominal FB presence-- mainly so I can keep up with my nieces-- but am not interested in giving any content or advertising opportunities to Facebook. I like the current email approach. As others have noted, if there is a need for another form of exchange, I'd go for a members-only wiki or something like that. Thanks all, for the reminder of how much I appreciate hearing the little news tidbits from around the network! Janet * * * * *Janet Salmons Ph.D.* *Capella University School of Business and Vision2Lead, Inc. *Site- http://www.vision2lead.com Follow Twitter at #einterview Now available as Kindle e-books: Online Interviews in Real Time & Cases in Online Interview Research PO Box 943 Boulder, CO 80306-0943 jsalmons(a)vision2lead.com

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Journal of Peer Production, Issue 3 - "The Critical Power of Free Software: From Intellectual Property to Epistemologies?"
by Mathieu ONeil 06 Aug '13

06 Aug '13

Announcement: it has been released "The Critical Power of Free Software: From Intellectual Property to Epistemologies?" Journal of Peer Production, Issue 3 The Journal of Peer Production editorial board and the issue editors, Maurizio Teli and Vincenzo D'Andrea, are happy to announce the publication of a new Special Issue entitled "The Critical Power of Free Software: From Intellectual Property to Epistemologies?". The issue explores the ability of Free Software to constitute a form of epistemological and material critique of contemporary societies. It does so with five research papers and three pieces in a "debate section". The Journal of Peer Production is an Open Access journal. Table of contents: Editorial Notes An Introduction to “The Critical Power of Free Software: from Intellectual Property to Epistemologies?” by Maurizio Teli and Vincenzo D’Andrea <http://peerproduction.net/issues/issue-3-free-software-epistemics/editorial…> Peer reviewed papers <http://peerproduction.net/issues/issue-3-free-software-epistemics/peer-revi…> P2P Search as an Alternative to Google: Recapturing Network Value through Decentralized Search by Tyler Handley <http://peerproduction.net/issues/issue-3-free-software-epistemics/peer-revi…> Free Software and the Law. Out of the Frying Pan and into the Fire: How Shaking up Intellectual Property Suits Competition Just Fine by Angela Daly <http://peerproduction.net/issues/issue-3-free-software-epistemics/peer-revi…> The Ethic of the Code: An Ethnography of a ‘Humanitarian Hacking’ Community by Douglas Haywood <http://peerproduction.net/issues/issue-3-free-software-epistemics/peer-revi…> >From Free Software to Artisan Science by Dan McQuillan <http://peerproduction.net/issues/issue-3-free-software-epistemics/peer-revi…> Free Software Trajectories: From Organized Publics to Formal Social Enterprises? by Morgan Currie, Christopher Kelty, and Luis Felipe Rosado Murillo, University of California, Los Angeles <http://peerproduction.net/issues/issue-3-free-software-epistemics/peer-revi…> Debate <http://peerproduction.net/issues/issue-3-free-software-epistemics/debate/> There Is No Free Software. by Christopher Kelty <http://peerproduction.net/issues/issue-3-free-software-epistemics/debate/th…> Desired Becomings by Katja Mayer and Judith Simon <http://peerproduction.net/issues/issue-3-free-software-epistemics/debate/de…> An Envisioning of Free Software’s potential as a form of cultural, practical, and material critique: A New perspective on the implications of FS peer production for social change? by David Hakken <http://peerproduction.net/issues/issue-3-free-software-epistemics/debate/an…>

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Re: [Air-L] digest it! not FB it!
by Karyn Hollis 05 Aug '13

05 Aug '13

Hi All-- I'm glad we are having this discussion too because it gives me the opportunity to ask a probably dumb question about the digest mode--which I prefer over anything to do with Facebook. When I get my digest email from the listserv, I see that the subject headings are usefully numbered, and that way I can see which particular subjects or threads I want to read in the digest. However, it seems strange that after all these years of listserv existence, the numbered subject headings have not become links that we can click on to go directly to that particular email. I know we can use the "find" command, but that seems so clunky and inconvenient. So am I missing something here? Thanks much to everyone on a great listserv that I learn from every day, Karyn Karyn L. Hollis, Ph.D Director, Concentration in Writing and Rhetoric Associate Director, Cultural Studies Program English Department Villanova University

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