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Re: [Air-L] Internet access and accessibility for people with disabilities
by Meryl Alper 04 Sep '13

04 Sep '13

Hi Phillippa (and all who have responded thus far), Some more references to add here: 1. Bakardjieva, M., & Smith, R. (2001). The Internet in everyday life. New Media & Society, 3, 67-83. [Discusses disability in the context of the social shaping of the internet] 2. Kirkpatrick, B. (2012). ‘A blessed boon’: Radio, disability, governmentality, and the discourse of the ‘shut-in,’ 1920-1930. Critical Studies in Media Communication, 29(3), 165-184. [Provides a pre-internet perspective on connectivity and accessibility] 3. Mankoff, J., Hayes, G. R., & Kasnitz, D. (2010). Disability studies as a source of critical inquiry for the field of assistive technology. In Proceedings of the 12th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility, October 25-27, 2010, Orlando, FL. [Good overview on the complexity of "assistive technology" in relation to disability] I'd also encourage you to focus on particular populations with disabilities. For example, people who are Deaf may strongly identify with Deaf culture, making it hard to make generalizations about "people with disabilities." It may also be more difficult to thread apart the ways in which income, race, ethnicity, gender, and sexuality shape specific aspects of disability. In regards to Andrew Clark's comment to Gerard Goggin re: impairment/disablement and design, another FANTASTIC book on that is: Pullin, C. (2011). Design meets disability. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. Cheers, Meryl Alper Ph.D. Student in Communication Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism University of Southern California merylalper.com

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faculty openings at Minnesota in strategic communication/public relations and history/media institutions
by Seth Lewis 04 Sep '13

04 Sep '13

Of possible interest to folks on this list: The University of Minnesota–Twin Cities has two tenure-track openings in the School of Journalism & Mass Communication. See http://sjmc.umn.edu/about/employment.html and below: *Assistant Professor: Strategic Communication/Public Relations* The School of Journalism and Mass Communication in the College of Liberal Arts at the University of Minnesota invites nominations and applications for a full-time, tenure-track faculty position in strategic communication (public relations) to begin fall semester 2014 (08/25/2014). Appointment will be 100% time over the nine-month academic year (late-August to late-May). Appointment will be made at the rank of tenure-track assistant professor, consistent with collegiate and University policy. Salary is competitive. Successful candidates for this position will demonstrate a commitment to sustaining a vigorous program of original research and publication with potential for external funding; show promise of excellence in graduate-level teaching (both M.A. and Ph.D.); demonstrate a capacity to teach introductory and advanced undergraduate academic courses and professionally-oriented courses such as strategic communication campaigns, case studies, management, digital media design, and professional writing and messaging for strategic communication. Meaningful professional experience in public relations is required. Applicants must hold a Ph.D. in Mass Communication or a closely related field by the date of appointment. Candidates will be evaluated according to a) overall quality of their academic preparation and scholarly work, b) relevance of their scholarly research to the department's academic priorities and fields of inquiry, c) evidence of commitment to teaching and skills as a teacher, and d) strength of recommendations. For more information and to apply online, search the University of Minnesota employment site<https://employment.umn.edu/applicants/jsp/shared/position/JobDetails_css.js…> for requisition number 186069. *Assistant Professor: History/Media Institutions* The School of Journalism and Mass Communication in the College of Liberal Arts at the University of Minnesota invites nominations and applications for a full-time, tenure-track faculty position in History/Media Institutions to begin fall semester 2014 (08/25/2014). Appointment will be 100% time over the nine-month academic year (late-August to late-May). Appointment will be made at the rank of tenure-track assistant professor, consistent with collegiate and University policy. Salary is competitive. Successful candidates for this position will show outstanding promise of sustaining a vigorous program of original research and publication with potential for external funding; show promise of excellence in graduate-level teaching and advising (both M.A. and Ph.D.); demonstrate the capacity and commitment to teach undergraduate academic topics courses and professionally-oriented journalism skills courses such as, the development, roles and influences of the press and media institutions in relation to legal, social, political, economic, and technological processes, events and trends; the meaning of journalism in American life; global or comparative studies of press performance. Meaningful professional journalism experience and the capacity to contribute to the ongoing development and delivery of a rapidly evolving new-media focused professional journalism curriculum are preferred qualifications. Applicants must hold a Ph.D. in Journalism, Mass Communication or relevant discipline by the date of appointment. Candidates will be evaluated according to a) overall quality of their academic preparation and scholarly work, b) relevance of their scholarly research to the department's academic priorities and fields of inquiry, c) evidence of commitment to teaching and skills as a teacher, and d) strength of recommendations. For more information and to apply online, search the University of Minnesota employment site<https://employment.umn.edu/applicants/jsp/shared/position/JobDetails_css.js…> for requisition number 186070. -- ** *Seth C. Lewis*, Ph.D. | Assistant Professor School of Journalism & Mass Communication | University of Minnesota Web: sethlewis.org | Twitter: @sethclewis <https://twitter.com/SethCLewis> | Latest research: Open Source and Journalism <http://mcs.sagepub.com/content/35/5/602.abstract>

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FW: Internet access and accessibility for people with disabilities
by Peter Timusk 04 Sep '13

04 Sep '13

Some thoughts from me a disabled person. From: ptimusk(a)sympatico.ca To: philippa.smith(a)aut.ac.nz Subject: RE: [Air-L] Internet access and accessibility for people with disabilities Date: Tue, 3 Sep 2013 22:18:01 -0400 I would say for mental health issues you might look at poverty as a factor. Also hundreds of thousands of persons with disabilities in Ontario my home province in Canada and I know many, many more in the USA live with government income support. Which means not enough money to live on properly. You can't look at disability in the west without looking at poverty. What really is accessibility on the web given this massive poverty factor. Also I remember a homeless person telling me at a protest that homeless people have e-mail address when discussing how to campaign. > From: philippa.smith(a)aut.ac.nz > To: air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org > Date: Wed, 4 Sep 2013 02:09:52 +0000 > Subject: [Air-L] Internet access and accessibility for people with disabilities > > Dear AOIR members, > > I am currently searching the academic literature to help me in my preparation of a research proposal about internet access and accessibility for people with disabilities here in New Zealand. This will consider not only difficulties in being 'connected' but also what the needs are of people in using computers/the Internet whether they have impairments relating to vision or hearing, or who suffer from physical conditions as a result of diseases such as Parkinson's Disease or arthritis. Really anything in the health area that is relevant to this topic and it should extend to include anything about the benefits of the Internet for people with disabilities such as empowerment. > > I am aware that the Pew Report does cover this to some extent, and have also found Dobransky and Harigattai's 2006 paper titled 'The disability divide in Internet access and use' in Information Communication and Society to be useful. But if anyone can offer or direct me to further material I would be very grateful. > > Kind regards > > Philippa > > Philippa K Smith, PhD > Research Manager > Institute of Culture, Discourse & Communication > AUT University > Auckland > NEW ZEALAND > _______________________________________________ > 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/

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Web impact excluding link farms and other black SEO practices
by Isidro F. Aguillo 04 Sep '13

04 Sep '13

The second 2013 edition of the *Ranking Web (Webometrics) of Universities*, including more than 21000 higher education Institutions has been published: *http://www.webometrics.info/* The rank is based on a composite indicator that combines webometric and bibliometric variables, the first ones collected from the Web during the last July while the second one is the updated Excellence indicator (the 10% most cited papers in 21 disciplines) for the years 2007-2011 (SIR). Major innovation is a new method for calculating web visibility or impact, the most important variable (50%) for the composite indicator used for building the Ranking. The former method consists of combining the number of domains originating the inlinks to the university webdomain (backdomains) and the square root of the total number of those inlinks: sqr(backlinks). In this way it was possible to grant proper recognition not only to most popular web contents or most prestigious institutions but also to the diversity and strength of the impact sources. Unfortunately a few webmasters choose the easy way to obtain additional link visibility contracting external services of link farms or creating their own ones by forcing scholars and students to overlink to the university webdomain from external blogs or similar social tools. In the current edition the top 10, an arbitrary number that is open to future modifications, sources (domains) of links and all the involved links are excluded from the impact indicator. For most of the universities this action exclude student blogs, sports teams pages, non-academic forums, alternative domains and mostly local sources of links, so true global impact is left as main component. Obviously bad practices are strongly penalized with the new system. In a few cases hacked websites due to poor management of the webmasters are being overlinked for more than ten domains, including nasty sources like pornographic, fake-products selling or hate pages. We are identifying these individual cases for exclusion. On the positive side, we expect this change will promote internationalization of the contents. Webometrics is not only ranking websites but the overall performance of the universities. In that sense, it has a clear advantage on other similar rankings where results are obtained only after long-term efforts. A strong and well directed web policy involving not only ICT departments but everybody else in the university is going to have a huge impact in the Ranking. Current leaders by region are: *North America*: Harvard, MIT, Stanford, Berkeley *Latin America*: Sao Paulo, UNAM, Campinas, Buenos Aires *Europe:* Oxford, Cambridge, UCL, ETH Zurich *Eastern & Central Europe:* Lomonosov Moscow State University *Asia:* National Singapore, Tsinghua, Tokyo, National Taiwan *Africa: *Kwazulu Natal, Cape Town, Stellenbosch *Oceania:* Australian National University, Monash, Melbourne, UNSW *Middle East:* Tel Aviv *Arab World:* King Saud *South Asia:* IIT Bombay -- ****************************** Isidro F. Aguillo, HonDr. The Cybermetrics Lab, IPP-CSIC Grupo Scimago Madrid. SPAIN isidro.aguillo(a)csic.es ORCID: 0000-0001-8927-4873 ResearcherID: A-7280-2008 Scholar Citations: SaCSbeoAAAAJ Twitter: @isidroaguillo Rankings Web: webometrics.info ******************************

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Reminder: Call For Papers: iCS/CITASA Special Issue of Papers from 2013 ASA Meeting‎
by Earl, Jennifer Suzanne - (jenniferearl) 04 Sep '13

04 Sep '13

Dear Colleagues, ‎ For the seventh year, the journal Information, Communication & Society (iCS, published by Routledge) ‎will publish a special issue in cooperation with the ASA section on Communication ‎and Information Technologies (CITASA). The special issue will be comprised of papers ‎presented at the 2013 Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association in New York, New York that focus on issues of social media, technology, communication, information, or other related topics. Jennifer Earl (University of Arizona) and Katrina Kimport (University of California, San Francisco) will be the ‎editors. ‎ We invite you to submit a paper that was presented at the ASA 2013 meetings for consideration in this special ‎issue. Please submit manuscripts for consideration through ScholarOne, available at: http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/rics. If you do not have an account, you will need to create one. Also, be sure to check the box for “Special Issue” and indicate “CITASA” in it, so that it will be routed appropriately. ‎Submitted manuscripts should be a maximum of 6,000 words and should conform to the ‎journal's submission guidelines; see http://www.tandfonline.com/action/authorSubmission?journalCode=rics20&page=…. Deadlines: Full papers due: September 30, 2013 Refereeing completed: November 29, 2013 Final version of accepted papers due: January 10, 2014 Special issue publication (anticipated): June 2014 ‎ Please contact us with any questions. We hope to hear from you. Sincerely, Jennifer Earl jenniferearl(a)email.arizona.edu School of Sociology University of Arizona Chair, Communication and Information Technology Section<http://citasa.org/>, American Sociological Association and Katrina Kimport kimportk(a)obgyn.ucsf.edu Advancing New Standards in Reproductive Health (ANSIRH) University of California, San Francisco Secretary/Treasurer, Communication and Information Technology Section<http://citasa.org/>, American Sociological Association *********************************** Jennifer Earl Professor of Sociology Social Sciences 421 University of Arizona Tucson, AZ 85721-0027 Phone: (520) 621-3296 ***********************************

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Announcement Hot Seats & Networked Learning Conference
by Jeffrey Keefer 04 Sep '13

04 Sep '13

Announcement: Hot Seats & Networked Learning Conference We are pleased to announce our third Hot Seat series where researchers and practitioners meet online to share about timely issues under the guidance of leading experts in the area of Networked Learning. Each Hot Seat will be open for the duration of one week. We have scheduled 7 interesting topics during the period between September – March. Full details may be found below: http://networkedlearningconference.ning.com/ This season’s Hot Seat series will begin September 29 with Nancy White and John Smith addressing “Blind spots, black holes and the heaven and hell of tightly bounded communities.” Please feel free join this open dialogue; it is free and all are welcome. The Hot Seats are an initiative in collaboration with the Networked Learning Conference, which this year will be held in Edinburgh, Scotland, in April 2014. Submission deadline for papers is October 4th. The site is now open for submissions. Check the conference website for further details: http://www.networkedlearningconference.org.uk/ We hope to welcome you online in the Hot Seats and join the lively conversation, Jeffrey Keefer & Maarten de Laat ----- Jeffrey Keefer, Ph.D. jk904(a)nyu.edu Twitter: https://twitter.com/JeffreyKeefer LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/jeffreykeefer Website: www.jeffreykeefer.com Blog: www.silenceandvoice.com

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Feedback opportunity - draft online civic engagement survey
by Steven Clift 03 Sep '13

03 Sep '13

Would you like to help shape a major participant survey for our BeNeighbors.org effort? If yes, drop me a note and I will invite you into our private group review via a Google Doc experiment. It should be both fun and important. **Please Reply to: clift(a)e-democracy.org In subject write: Survey Review More info: http://blog.e-democracy.org/posts/2130 Thanks, Steven Clift Steven Clift - http://stevenclift.com Executive Director - http://E-Democracy.org <http://e-democracy.org/> Twitter: http://twitter.com/democracy Tel/Text: +1.612.234.7072

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CFP, Itineration, Special Edition
by Estee N Beck 03 Sep '13

03 Sep '13

Call for Projects: Itineration: Cross-Disciplinary Studies in Rhetoric, Media, and Culture Special Edition: Privacy and Dataveillance Due February 1, 2014 You may view the video and full version of the text-based CFP at this link: http://itineration.org/node/45 The special edition, *Privacy and Datveillance* Itineration: Cross-Disciplinary Studies in Rhetoric, Media, and Culture invites projects that engage questions of data collection and dataveillance. Some possible areas of inquiry may include, but are not limited to: * Foucault’s metaphor of the panopticon and its relationship to questions concerning dataveillance * The rhetorical means companies use to promote dataveillance tracking * The concept of anonymity within social networks, social applications, or other data gathering endeavours (such as medical and financial fields) * Means, implications, and consequences of subverting and resisting data-mining online * Emergent needs of identity protection online from tracking technologies * Public rhetorics concerning security and privacy * The political and social implications of increased observational structures (online or not) and the resulting decrease in privacy * Issues of legal and educational advocacy for greater privacy protection * Technical communication regarding how terms of service and end user agreements discuss tracking technologies along with privacy and anonymity * How data mining and advertising customization leads to assumptions about the attitudes and beliefs in geographical areas * The roles of embodiment and disembodiment connected with gender and identity/privacy and anonymity * The relationship between decreased privacy and anonymity online and boutique and big data practices Interested parties are invited to submit multimedia projects of varying style, form, and content. We are especially interested in projects that push the boundaries in their composition and presentation. In short, please experiment. Play. Learn a new trick. To that end, please note that Itineration no longer publishes text-based articles (“traditional” essay format). Please send any questions concerning project design, format, technical specifications, etc. to Senior Editor and Technical Specialist, Gerald Jackson, at geraldsjackson at gmail dot com. Submissions should be emailed directly to Special Edition editor, Estee Beck, at esteenbeck at gmail dot com. Deadline for submissions is February 1st, 2014. Submission accepted for publication will be published on a rolling basis upon completing the editorial process.

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Publication of the second issue of connexions • international professional communication journal
by connexions journal 03 Sep '13

03 Sep '13

I am delighted to announce that issue 1(2) of connexions journal on "International engineering communication" and guest edited by Julie Ford and Marie Paretti is available athttp://connexionsjournal.org/ journal-issues/1-2/ We hope you enjoy the issue! Rosário Rosário Durão Editor *www.connexionsjournal.org **connexions •** international professi****onal communication journal *(ISSN 2325-6044) *Department of Communication, Liberal Arts, Social Sciences<http://infohost.nmt.edu/~class/> * *New Mexico Tech <http://www.nmt.edu>** ***

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Immersive Education K12 Summit Call for Submissions Extended #iEDk12
by L Eaton 02 Sep '13

02 Sep '13

Submission deadlines for the Immersive Education (iED) K12 Summit have been extended. Details are available on the official iED K12 Summit website at http://summit.ImmersiveEducation.org/K12 Building on the success of the previous 7 years of Immersive Education conferences, the world's leading experts in immersion convene in Boulder Colorado this October 24-26 for the 1st Annual K12 Summit. The 3 day event is organized specifically for K12 educators and researchers, and businesses specializing in K12 education. The iED K12 Summit will provide attendees with: an in-depth overview of immersive teaching and learning technologies; an exploration of the range of student learning activities using virtual worlds, learning games, augmented reality and other immersive technologies; teacher professional development (PD) and learning; hands-on collaboration and co-creation using immersive platforms; an understanding of the potential for Immersive Education to transform educational opportunities and learning outcomes. The iED K12 Summit is open to the global academic and business communities and experts in immersion, simulation, learning games, virtual reality, and augmented/mixed reality. See http://summit.ImmersiveEducation.org/K12 for details. Call for Submissions are due September 15 (Call for Outlier submissions are due October 1). Check out the call, here: http://summit.immersiveeducation.org/K12/submitters.html#body For those just interested in attending the event, registration is now open: http://summit.immersiveeducation.org/K12/registration.html#body For additional information about the conference, the Immersive Education Initiative, our publications and projects,s check out: iED K12 Summit 2013, October 24-26: http://summit.immersiveeducation.org/K12/index.html -- Good tidings, Lance Lance Eaton @leaton http://byanyothernerd.blogspot.com/ _______________________________ I wish I had all the answers; better yet, I wish I knew all the questions to ask.

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