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SocInfo 2013 Call for Papers
by Andrew Flanagin 10 Jun '13

10 Jun '13

SocInfo 2013 Call for Papers The 5th International Conference on Social Informatics (Kyoto University, November 25-27, 2013) is an interdisciplinary venue for original research on the interplay between information technology and social phenomena. If interested, see <http://socinfo2013.org/> for details about the conference and the call for submissions.

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Global Investigative Journalism Conference: Call for Research Papers
by Gabriela Manuli 10 Jun '13

10 Jun '13

Hi all, Just in case some of you are interested in this. Thanks! The eighth Global Investigative Journalism Conference<http://gijn.org/global-conference/>, to be held this October 12-15 in Rio de Janeiro, will feature for the first time an academic research track, highlighting trends, challenges, teaching methodologies, and best practices in investigative journalism. Here is the call for papers that is going out to journalism professors worldwide: ------------------------------ *CALL FOR RESEARCH PAPERS/ABSTRACTS* Investigative and Computer-Assisted Reporting Pedagogical Skills and Techniques To be presented at the Global Investigative Journalism Conference at the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro<http://www.puc-rio.br/english/>, Brazil Oct. 12-15, 2013 This is a call for submission of abstracts by* July 15, 2013 *of no more than 300 words for a short paper and panel presentation at Global Investigative Journalism Conference at the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. *Decisions will be made by July 22, 2013. Final papers will be due Sept. 23, 2013.* The papers will be compiled in a digital publication for the conference, and accepted proposals and presenters will receive invitations to attend to the conference. Topics considered although are not limited to: - Trends in computer-assisted reporting and data journalism - Trends in investigative reporting - Challenges depending on country or culture - Successful teaching methods - Adapting investigative journalism to new technologies *Submission requirements:* Proposals should present original research into any aspect of the aforementioned topics. Papers must follow APA style. If abstract is accepted, page length is no more than 15 pages (excluding references, tables and appendices) Papers should not have been published or presented at a prior conference. *Instructions:* * Paper must be written in English, Portuguese, or Spanish. * Paper must be in the format of Microsoft Word (.doc). No other formats will be accepted. * If abstract is accepted, paper must be formatted to APA style and no longer than 15 pages (excluding references, tables, appendices) * Papers should be sent with the title, but papers sent with author’s identifying information displayed will automatically be disqualified. Please send a separate title page with the authors’ contact information. ** Submit paper to : Brant Houston, University of Illinois, at callforpapers(at)gijn(dot)org <callforpapers(a)gijn.org>* *Guest Editors* Rosental Alves, University of Texas Steve Doig, Arizona State University Anton Harber, University of the Witwatersrand Brant Houston, University of Illinois Amy Schmitz Weiss, San Diego State University Best regards, Gabriela./ http://linkedin.com/in/gabrielamanuli

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Final CFP> HICSS 2014 Minitrack: Crowdsourcing content production and online knowledge repositories
by Fichman, Pnina 10 Jun '13

10 Jun '13

Apologies for cross-posting HICSS 2014 Minitrack: Crowdsourcing content production and online knowledge repositories January 6-9, 2014 Big Island, Hawaii, USA Track: Digital and social media We are pleased to invite you to submit a paper to the Crowdsourcing mini-track for HICSS 2014 taking place at the Hilton Waikoloa on the Big Island of Hawaii from Jan. 6-9th, 2014. In line with the track emphasis on promoting digital and social-media-related research, this minitrack aims to expand the scope of research in HICSS and bring to the conference researchers interested in cutting edge topics involving socio-technical issues of mass knowledge production and crowdsourcing online knowledge repositories. As various forms of collaboration are enabled (and constrained) by the affordances available in social media, researchers are investigating a range of issues including: 1) the diverse ways in which people collaborate to create, manage, curate and manipulate online content and how these activities affect digital repositories; 2) how those who manage these repositories are responding to the dynamics of online co-creation of content; 3) the dynamics of crowdsourced online collaborations and online communities of practice; and 4) the ways in which we can best describe the socio-technical interaction networks that facilitate and inhibit mass knowledge production. In this mini track we are interested in empirical and theoretical work that addresses these and related socio-technical issues. Papers of interest will examine communities of online knowledge repositories such as YouTube, Yahoo!Answers, Wikipedia, and others and may address in this context topics such as: . The socio-technical dynamics of crowdsourcing and mass knowledge production sites . Vandalism and trolling in online mass knowledge production sites . Conflict and cooperation in content production sites . Issues of gender in collaborative content production sites . Global, cross-cultural and international aspects of content production and online intercultural collaborations in online content creation communities . Managing ethics in online mass knowledge production communities . Building, maintaining and ending social relationships on online repositories sites . Social question answering and collaborative information seeking behaviors . Challenges and opportunities of digital curation . Standards and quality of digital content online Detailed information about the conference can be found here http://www.hicss.hawaii.edu/hicss_47/apahome47.htm Information for potential authors can be found here http://www.hicss.hawaii.edu/hicss_47/47cfp.pdf Due date for submission of full papers is: June 15, 2013 Minitrack organizers Pnina Fichman fichman(a)indina.edu<mailto:fichman@indina.edu> Noriko Hara nhara(a)indiana.edu Howard Rosenbaum hrosenba(a)indiana.edu ------------------------ Pnina Fichman, Ph.D. Director, Rob Kling Center for Social Informatics Associate Professor, School of Informatics and Computing Affiliated Associate Professor, School of Global and International Studies 901 E. 10th St. Informatics West #301 Indiana University, Bloomington IN 47408 Office: (812) 856-1587 Cell: (812) 322-0219 Web: http://ella.slis.indiana.edu/~fichman/

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Reminder: Call for contributions: Society of the Query Reader on search, search engines and alternatives
by René König 10 Jun '13

10 Jun '13

Dear colleagues, Please don´t forget to send your abstracts for the Society of the Query reader by the end of this week. See below for details. We´re looking forward to your contributions! Best, René René König, Dipl.-Soz. Karlsruhe Institute of Technology Institute for Technology Assessment and Systems Analysis (ITAS) P.O. Box 3640 76021 Karlsruhe Germany Tel.: +49 (0) 721 / 608-22209 Web/Skype: renekoenig.eu Twitter: r_koenig CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS Society of the Query Reader See also: http://networkcultures.org/wpmu/query/2013/05/07/call-for-contributions-soc… The INC Reader Series, edited by Geert Lovink, give an overview of the present day research, critique, and artistic practices in a thematic research field at once broad and limited. The set up is multidisciplinary, with academic (humanities, social sciences, software studies etc.), artistic, and activist contributors. Following the success of the previous INC readers we would like to put together an anthology with key texts considering online search and search engines. In parallel with the second Society of the Query conference which will take place in Amsterdam on November 7-8 2013, the Institute of Network Cultures is devoted to produce a reader that brings together actual theory about the foundation and history of search, the economics of search engines, search and education, alternatives, and much more. This publication is edited by René König and Miriam Rasch, and produced by the Institute of Network Cultures in Amsterdam, to be launched early 2014. It will be open access and available in print and various digital formats (see below for information on the INC reader series). POSSIBLE TOPICS Theory and Foundations of Search // Googlization: Mapping Google’s Dominance // Search Engines and Education // Searching Elsewhere: Non-Western Perspectives // Personalization: Testing the Filter Bubble // Regulation in a Globalizing World // Localization as the New Paradigm // Software Matters: Sociotechnical and Algorithmic Cultures // Showcasing Alternative Search Engines WE INVITE: Internet, visual culture and media scholars, researchers, artists, curators, producers, lawyers, engineers, open-source and open-content advocates, activists, conference participants, and others to submit materials and proposals. FORMATS : We welcome interviews, dialogues, essays and articles, images (b/w), email exchanges, manifestos, with a maximum of 8,000 words, but preferably shorter at around 5,000 words. For scope and style, take a look at the previous INC Readers and the style guide <http://networkcultures.org/_uploads/SotQ_Reader_styleguide.pdf> (pdf). WANT TO JOIN? Send in your proposal (500 words max.) before June 15th, 2013. You may expect a response before July 15th, 2013. DEADLINE FOR CONTRIBUTIONS: September 15th, 2013. EMAIL TO: Miriam Rasch (publications Institute of Network Cultures) at miriam[at]networkcultures[dot]org <mailto:miriam@networkcultures.org> MORE INFORMATION Society of the Query: http://networkcultures.org/query INC readers: http://networkcultures.org/publications ABOUT THE READER SERIES The INC reader series are derived from conference contributions and produced by the Institute of Network Cultures in Amsterdam. They are available (for free) in print and pdf; check http://networkcultures.org/publications. INC Reader #8: Geert Lovink and Miriam Rasch (eds), Unlike Us Reader: Social Media Monopolies and Their Alternatives, Amsterdam: Institute of Network Cultures, 2013. INC Reader #7: Geert Lovink and Nathaniel Tkacz (eds), Critical Point of View: A Wikipedia Reader, Amsterdam: Institute of Network Cultures, 2011. INC Reader #6: Geert Lovink and Rachel Somers Miles (eds), Video Vortex Reader II: moving images beyond YouTube, Amsterdam: Institute of Network Cultures, 2011. INC Reader #5: Scott McQuire, Meredith Martin, and Sabine Niederer (eds.), Urban Screens Reader, Amsterdam: Institute of Network Cultures, 2009. INC Reader #4: Geert Lovink and Sabine Niederer (eds.), Video Vortex Reader: Responses to YouTube, Amsterdam: Institute of Network Cultures, 2008.  INC Reader #3: Geert Lovink and Ned Rossiter (eds.), MyCreativity Reader: A Critique of Creative Industries, Amsterdam: Institute of Network Cultures, 2007. INC Reader #2: Katrien Jacobs, Marije Janssen and Matteo Pasquinelli (eds.), C’Lick Me: A Netporn Studies Reader, Amsterdam: Institute of Network Cultures, 2007.  INC Reader #1: Geert Lovink and Soenke Zehle (eds.), Incommunicado Reader, Amsterdam: Institute of Network Cultures, 2005.  CONTACT Miriam Rasch René König Publications Institute of Network Cultures ITAS, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology miriam[at]networkcultures[dot]org <mailto:miriam@networkcultures.org> <mailto:kontakt@renekoenig.eu> kontakt[at]renekoenig[dot]eu t: +31 (0)20 595 1865 t: +49 (0)721 608 22209 --- Miriam Rasch, MA Institute of Network Cultures Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences | HvA room 04A07 Rhijnspoorplein 1 NL-1091 GC Amsterdam t: +31 20 5951865 miriam(a)networkcultures.org www.networkcultures.org <http://www.networkcultures.org/> @INCAmsterdam

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NSA and privacy?
by nativebuddha 10 Jun '13

10 Jun '13

Surprised that there's no discussion here on NSA and metadata collection. Seems like prime aoir material. Maybe some privacy scholars and cryptography experts can give some expert comments? -Robert

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Re: [Air-L] NSA and privacy?
by Matt Crain 10 Jun '13

10 Jun '13

Hello all, I'll just chime in briefly in response to Rick's comments. My expertise is more on the commercial side of internet surveillance, but clearly this is deeply intertwined with gov activities. While the Patriot Act and post-911 ramp up of NSA surveillance is definitely a watershed moment of sorts, there were public policy battles in the late 1990s that really set the foundation for a regime of governance over data collection and use, fairly broadly conceived. Rotenberg should remember, he was on the front lines of a policy battle that on its face was about "opt-in" vs "opt-out" surveillance practices, but was really about whether federal regulation would mandate that individuals be given some control over the data produced by their internet use or whether a regime of industry/gov “self-regulation” (i.e. free for all) would be extended online. I realize that much of the specifics regarding the NSA leak are technically telecommunications, but from a normative view (and increasingly in practice), the internet/telecom distinction is not substantive. Just some historical perspective. BTW, I'm a longtime lurker and new member, who will be attending the Denver conference. Let's chat! Matt -- Matthew Crain, Ph.D. Institute of Communications Research University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign matthewcrain.info On Sun, Jun 9, 2013 at 5:00 PM, <air-l-request(a)listserv.aoir.org> wrote: > Send Air-L mailing list submissions to > air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > air-l-request(a)listserv.aoir.org > > You can reach the person managing the list at > air-l-owner(a)listserv.aoir.org > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of Air-L digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Conditions of Mediation preconference: Limited spaces still > available! (Scott Rodgers) > 2. Public Urban Media Tour of West End London during ICA > (Scott Rodgers) > 3. CFP: Religion in Cyberspace 2013 (Vit Sisler) > 4. NSA and privacy? (nativebuddha) > 5. Re: NSA and privacy? (Charles Ess) > 6. Re: NSA and privacy? (Richard Forno) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Sun, 9 Jun 2013 16:18:27 +0000 > From: Scott Rodgers <rodgers_scott(a)hotmail.com> > To: "air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org" <air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org> > Subject: [Air-L] Conditions of Mediation preconference: Limited spaces > still available! > Message-ID: <BAY163-W18C1B26779A93B85BAC747959B0(a)phx.gbl> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" > > > > LIMITED > SPACES STILL AVAILABLE (INCLUDING AT 50% REDUCED STUDENT RATE) > > > > Conditions of Mediation: > Phenomenological Approaches to Media, Technology and Communication > > > > 2013 > International Communication Association (ICA) Preconference > > ICA > Theory, Philosophy and Critique Division > > 17 June > 2013, Birkbeck, University of London > > > > Conference website (includes full conference programme and > registration details): > > http://conditionsofmediation.wordpress.com > > > > Registration > deadline: 11 June 2012 (end of day) > > > > Confirmed > keynote speakers: > > ? > Dr David Berry, Swansea University > > ? > Professor Nick Couldry, Goldsmiths, > University of London > > ? > Professor Graham Harman, American > University of Cairo > > ? > Professor Shaun Moores, University of > Sunderland > > ? > Professor Lisa Parks, University of > California Santa Barbara > > ? > Professor Paddy Scannell, University of > Michigan > > > > Conference > Outline: > > Media > theory seems to have reached a moment in which it is effectively orthodox > to > presume we must pay attention first and foremost to the intricacies of > everyday > experience. Ethnographic audience studies, for example, have attacked > assumptions that there is a discrete relationship between media content and > audiences, arguing that media forms, content and technologies have > indeterminate and multifaceted significance within the daily rhythms and > spaces > of their everyday lives. Studies of digital and networked media, meanwhile, > have put into question the very notion of ?audiences? as the starting > point for > understanding mediated experience. > > > > For > some, accounting for the intricacies of everyday mediated experience has > implied asking people what they actually do with media. But for others > this is > not enough: instead, the question is what constitutes the conditions of > media > experience in the first place. How do political configurations of > discourses > and inherited dispositions prefigure mediated action? How do material > arrangements themselves constitute environments for mediated experience? > How > might we account for nonhuman agency, for example the ways in which > software > objects interact not only with human perceptions but also each other? Such > questions point to a renewed confidence in explaining not just how but > also why > media, technology and communication are experienced as they are ? all the > while > resisting a reversion to functionalism. > > > > These > interests in the very conditions of mediation suggest, if sometimes only > implicitly, an emerging interest in a phenomenology of media. Indeed, > phenomenology ? broadly the structuring of perception ? has seemingly > obvious > relevance for recent academic interests in media experience. Yet its use or > invocation in media studies has been scattered. While this might simply > reflect > the considerable diversity of phenomenological philosophies and their > applications, there have also been concerted efforts recently to rethink > phenomenology across the social sciences and humanities. Paired with recent > interests in mediated experience, the time seems apt to reassess what it > might > mean to theorize media phenomenologically. > > > > Conditions > of Mediation seeks to bring together scholars from a very wide > range of perspectives ? such as media history, media archaeology, audience > studies, political theory, metaphysics, software studies, science and > technology studies, digital aesthetics, cultural geography and urban > studies > ?to reflect explicitly on the phenomenological groundings of their work on > media. The phenomenological thinking to which participants might connect > will > be broad-based, ranging from core thinkers such as Husserl, Heidegger, > Merleau-Ponty > and Sartre to those with looser affiliations to phenomenology per se, for > example Arendt, Bergson, Bourdieu, Deleuze, Garfinkel, Ingold, Latour, > Whitehead and Harman. > > > > In > short, the overall aim is that this conference goes beyond a mere > congregation > of media phenomenologists. Instead, it will encourage critical reflection > on > what various readings of phenomenology might offer media and technology > studies > that other approaches cannot. Conversely, it will also welcome reflections > on > the limits of phenomenological approaches in philosophical, theoretical, > political and empirical terms. > > > > If you > have any inquiries, please email both: > > Scott > Rodgers (s.rodgers(a)bbk.ac.uk) and > Tim Markham (t.markham(a)bbk.ac.uk) > > > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Sun, 9 Jun 2013 19:33:43 +0000 > From: Scott Rodgers <rodgers_scott(a)hotmail.com> > To: "air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org" <air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org> > Subject: [Air-L] Public Urban Media Tour of West End London during ICA > Message-ID: <BAY163-W604BB21E35D0474B5ADB1E959B0(a)phx.gbl> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" > > > > A tour scheduled to coincide with the International Communication > Association conference in London (but open to the public) > > > > The Mediated City > > A Tour of Media and Mediation in West End London > > > > Led by Joel McKim and Scott Rodgers > > > > This tour uses West > End London as a lens into ?the mediated city?. > It explores how the city not only > hosts, but is in many ways constituted through, media. City living compels > us > to use, need and even desire media content and devices in quite particular > ways. Meanwhile, media forms, technologies and industries exist in and are > even > ?built-into? urban spaces: for example the street, the tube, the suburb, > the > bar, the public square. The aim of this tour is twofold: first, to > highlight > how the city provides a unique lens to critically study, understand and > define > media; and second, to use media and mediation as a lens to understand the > city. > Though a range of buildings and neighbourhoods associated with major media > industries will be visited, the tour also focuses on observing some more > unconventional forms of urban media and communication. > > > > Date, place and > registration: > > Wedsnesday > 19 June, 2013, 12.30-3.30pm > > Numbers are limited, so booking is > essential ? visit > > http://ica2013mediatour.eventbrite.co.uk > > Attendees will meet at the southwest > corner of Fitzroy Square at 12.30pm (directions at Eventbrite link). The > tour lasts > 3 hours, ending at Leicester Square. > > > > For further information: > > Contact Joel McKim (j.mckim(a)bbk.ac.uk) or Scott Rodgers ( > s.rodgers(a)bbk.ac.uk) > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 3 > Date: Sun, 9 Jun 2013 21:50:17 +0200 > From: Vit Sisler <vsisler(a)gmail.com> > To: air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org > Subject: [Air-L] CFP: Religion in Cyberspace 2013 > Message-ID: > <CABxiZetY_r0XcV+AdvtYW5ifp= > nMK1GErC9RwddrpZwOzxh9FQ(a)mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > RELIGION IN CYBERSPACE 2013 > Call for Papers > > We cordially invite you to participate in the workshop 'Religion in > Cyberspace 2012' which will take place at the 11th international > conference Cyberspace 2012 held in Brno, Czech Republic, 22-23 > November 2013. > > Illustrative topics > > religious normative frameworks in cyberspace, networking diasporas, > religious collaborative environments, on-line counseling, on-line > fatwas and cyber muftis, new religious movements, religious discourses > in cyberspace, methodology of online-religion research, rituals in > cyberspace etc. > > Note: Authors of accepted papers will be invited to submit their > papers for peer review to Masaryk University Journal of Law and > Technology (MUJLT - mujlt.law.muni.cz) or Cyberpsychology > (http://www.cyberpsychology.eu) > > Important dates > > Abstract submission deadline: 31 July 2013 > Notice on acceptance deadline: 31 August 2013 > Conference dates: 22-23 November 2013 > Papers for publication deadline: 11 January 2014 > > Abstract formal requirements > > Range: max. 1.500 characters incl. spaces > Submission: on-line at www.cyberspace.muni.cz > > Paper formal requirements and submission > > Papers published in MUJLT: http://mujlt.law.muni.cz/instructions.php > Papers published in Cyberpsychology: > http://www.cyberpsychology.eu/submission.php > > Full CFP > > Full version of CFP can be found here: > http://www.cyberspace.muni.cz/storage/Cyberspace_2013_CFP.pdf > > Let me also to kindly ask you to forward this message to your > colleagues whom you expect to be interested in participating. > > Best regards, > > Vit Sisler, > Workshop Chair > > -- > Vit Sisler, Ph.D. > > Charles University in Prague > Faculty of Arts & Philosophy > Institute of Information Science and Librarianship > New Media Studies > > http://uisk.jinonice.cuni.cz/sisler/ > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 4 > Date: Sun, 9 Jun 2013 16:04:49 -0400 > From: nativebuddha <nativebuddha(a)gmail.com> > To: "air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org" <air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org> > Subject: [Air-L] NSA and privacy? > Message-ID: <CFB2A49A-0D1D-4C82-A4CE-9C9A861B137D(a)gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > > Surprised that there's no discussion here on NSA and metadata collection. > Seems like prime aoir material. Maybe some privacy scholars and > cryptography experts can give some expert comments? > > -Robert > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 5 > Date: Sun, 09 Jun 2013 23:10:02 +0200 > From: Charles Ess <charles.ess(a)gmail.com> > To: nativebuddha <nativebuddha(a)gmail.com>, Air list > <air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org> > Subject: Re: [Air-L] NSA and privacy? > Message-ID: <CDDABBCA.617B4%charles.ess(a)gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" > > Yes - but I'm too preoccupied with being appalled, dismayed, and left in > sorrowful wonder for the future of free speech and democratic process as > some of the darkest worries and fears some of us have voiced over the past > decade or so appear to have been realized indeed. And then some. > > Perhaps others with recover their scholarly wits more quickly. > > Glumly, > - charles ess > > > On 09.06.13 22:04, "nativebuddha" <nativebuddha(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > > Surprised that there's no discussion here on NSA and metadata collection. > > Seems like prime aoir material. Maybe some privacy scholars and > cryptography > > experts can give some expert comments? > > > > -Robert > > > > _______________________________________________ > > 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: 6 > Date: Sun, 9 Jun 2013 17:45:51 -0400 > From: Richard Forno <rforno(a)infowarrior.org> > To: nativebuddha <nativebuddha(a)gmail.com> > Cc: "air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org" <air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org> > Subject: Re: [Air-L] NSA and privacy? > Message-ID: <2F5D06EE-0B08-48CD-A558-09CDF5220933(a)infowarrior.org> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > > > I have not been this annoyed and disgusted with my country's actions since > 2003 and the run-up to the Iraq War. I'm truly saddened at what's been > sacrificed over the years. > > Here are some initial thoughts. (Pls pardon the semi-rambling nature, > I've been going nonstop for the past few days.) > > The 9/11 Report talked about a failure to "connect the dots" before the > attacks, so now the US intelligence community is trying to "COLLECT all the > dots" so that it can try to "CONNECT them" and potentially prevent future > attacks. By the same token, if politicians try to reign in such efforts on > civil liberties concerns they run the risk of not only looking 'soft' on > terrorism but being held responsible for the next attack and likely lose > their jobs in the next election. (Which to me is a great reason for term > limits.) Ask any competent security expert -- there never can be "100% > security" but no government person wants to be seen as doing less than > trying to acheive that unachievable goal. In many ways, this whole thing > re-opens the question of how far the US has gone in terms of "protecting > the homeland" -- ie the frequently-cited security-v-civil liberties balance. > > None of these revelations (to me) are surprising in the slightest ... > since the late '90s I (and presumably many here) have said the Internet and > the pervasive usages of various ICTs would make mass surveillance quite > possible, powerful, and just as pervasive as the users' embrace of them in > their daily lives. Since the 'Patriot' Act was passed in 2001, that pretty > much made it a certaintyt. The past few days' revelations have confirmed > that officially and publicly for all to see. > > What I find pathetic and disturbing is summed up by Greenwald's tweet this > morning about the USG folks complaining about the leaking of classified > information: "DNI: Prior to this week, The Terrorists didn't realize that > the US Govt tries to monitor their communications." Even the normally > reserved Jim Fallows from the Atlantic asked "why is this classified?" on > Friday. This has been an 'open secret' for years, but because it's > technically still classified, the government must respond accordingly even > if it makes them look foolish by doing so. As I said in a Friday > interview, the only terrorists still using mobile phones and GMail are > stupid terrorists and other "low hanging fruit." > > Interestingly, everyone (government and tech firms) are saying their > actions are in full compliance with the law. But if a broadly-worded court > order is lawful under an equally broadly-worded provision of law, then > indeed these companies could just fork over whatever they wanted to and > still be done "in accordance with the law" ... which explains why all those > tech company statements looked pretty much the same in content and language > --- ie they all made specific reference to not providing "direct access" to > their systems. How about indirect or other types of access? Their > statements might be TECHNICALLY and LEGALLY true, but there's plenty of > wiggle room. > > Legal semantics will be a key thing, too. The US government says it > doesn't "target" citizens but never really says it doesn't "monitor" their > communications and transactions. How is "targetting" different from > "monitoring" in the operational and legal contexts here? The lawyers are > going to have an absolute field day parsing the semantics and > interpretations of "the law" here....it may be akin to the Clinton lawyers > trying to define what "is" meant back in the '90s. :\ > > The big takeaways as I see it right now? First, American citizens > *finally* know about the secret interpretations of Section 215 of the > 'Patriot' Act that were ominously hinted at by a few very concerned > Senators over the years. Secret laws generally aren't condusive to trust > or accountability open societies, right? Maybe they will realise exactly > how far the government is going to 'protect' them. Will they be okay with > that? > > Second, these disclosures, and the 2010 WikiLeaks one (Manning), again > help speak truth to power by demonstrating one of this country's most > debilitating problems: the government's infatuation with secrecy and > overclassification. Yes, there is a need for secrecy in select situations, > but for DECADES the USG has gone waaaay overboard in this regard. > > Anyway, here's some extra reading on the subject. I sggest those > interested have a stiff drink or two first, just to get a bit numb before > reading: > > Initial thoughts on the NSA-Verizon surveillance order (by me) > > http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/blog/2013/06/initial-thoughts-nsa-verizon-surv… > > The DNI's Non-Denial of Mass Surveillance of Americans (Jennifer Granick) > > http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/blog/2013/06/dnis-non-denial-mass-surveillance… > > EFF: Why Metadata Matters > https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/06/why-metadata-matters > > What We Don't Know About Spying on Citizens: Scarier Than What We Know > (Schneier) > > http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2013/06/what-we-dont-know-about… > > Will this latest series of disclosures lead to a meaningful public debate > and/or changes to the surveillance regime? I'm hopeful, but have my > doubts. I've been in DC for too long and pretty much know how these > things play out. Plus, I wonder if the American people really care about > this in the so-called 'Age of Facebook' and the share-it-all society. > > Le sigh. :( > > --rick > > > On Jun 9, 2013, at 4:04 PM, nativebuddha <nativebuddha(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > > Surprised that there's no discussion here on NSA and metadata > collection. Seems like prime aoir material. Maybe some privacy scholars and > cryptography experts can give some expert comments? > > > > -Robert > > > > _______________________________________________ > > 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/ > > > > > --- > Just because i'm near the punchbowl doesn't mean I'm also drinking from it. > > > > ------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > The Air-L(a)listserv.aoir.org mailing list > is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org > Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: > http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org > > Join the Association of Internet Researchers: > http://www.aoir.org/ > > End of Air-L Digest, Vol 107, Issue 14 > ************************************** >

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NSA and Privacy
by John Paul Laprise 09 Jun '13

09 Jun '13

I'll be presenting a (prescient if I do say so myself) conference paper at the ICA/IAMCR History of Communication pre-conference in London in a week and am currently working on an FAQ. Best regards, John Laprise, Ph.D. Visiting Fellow Oxford Internet Institute Oxford University Assistant Professor of Communication in Residence Northwestern University in Qatar Northwestern University

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CFP: Religion in Cyberspace 2013
by Vit Sisler 09 Jun '13

09 Jun '13

RELIGION IN CYBERSPACE 2013 Call for Papers We cordially invite you to participate in the workshop 'Religion in Cyberspace 2012' which will take place at the 11th international conference Cyberspace 2012 held in Brno, Czech Republic, 22-23 November 2013. Illustrative topics religious normative frameworks in cyberspace, networking diasporas, religious collaborative environments, on-line counseling, on-line fatwas and cyber muftis, new religious movements, religious discourses in cyberspace, methodology of online-religion research, rituals in cyberspace etc. Note: Authors of accepted papers will be invited to submit their papers for peer review to Masaryk University Journal of Law and Technology (MUJLT - mujlt.law.muni.cz) or Cyberpsychology (http://www.cyberpsychology.eu) Important dates Abstract submission deadline: 31 July 2013 Notice on acceptance deadline: 31 August 2013 Conference dates: 22-23 November 2013 Papers for publication deadline: 11 January 2014 Abstract formal requirements Range: max. 1.500 characters incl. spaces Submission: on-line at www.cyberspace.muni.cz Paper formal requirements and submission Papers published in MUJLT: http://mujlt.law.muni.cz/instructions.php Papers published in Cyberpsychology: http://www.cyberpsychology.eu/submission.php Full CFP Full version of CFP can be found here: http://www.cyberspace.muni.cz/storage/Cyberspace_2013_CFP.pdf Let me also to kindly ask you to forward this message to your colleagues whom you expect to be interested in participating. Best regards, Vit Sisler, Workshop Chair -- Vit Sisler, Ph.D. Charles University in Prague Faculty of Arts & Philosophy Institute of Information Science and Librarianship New Media Studies http://uisk.jinonice.cuni.cz/sisler/

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Public Urban Media Tour of West End London during ICA
by Scott Rodgers 09 Jun '13

09 Jun '13

A tour scheduled to coincide with the International Communication Association conference in London (but open to the public) The Mediated City A Tour of Media and Mediation in West End London Led by Joel McKim and Scott Rodgers This tour uses West End London as a lens into ‘the mediated city’. It explores how the city not only hosts, but is in many ways constituted through, media. City living compels us to use, need and even desire media content and devices in quite particular ways. Meanwhile, media forms, technologies and industries exist in and are even ‘built-into’ urban spaces: for example the street, the tube, the suburb, the bar, the public square. The aim of this tour is twofold: first, to highlight how the city provides a unique lens to critically study, understand and define media; and second, to use media and mediation as a lens to understand the city. Though a range of buildings and neighbourhoods associated with major media industries will be visited, the tour also focuses on observing some more unconventional forms of urban media and communication. Date, place and registration: Wedsnesday 19 June, 2013, 12.30-3.30pm Numbers are limited, so booking is essential – visit http://ica2013mediatour.eventbrite.co.uk Attendees will meet at the southwest corner of Fitzroy Square at 12.30pm (directions at Eventbrite link). The tour lasts 3 hours, ending at Leicester Square. For further information: Contact Joel McKim (j.mckim(a)bbk.ac.uk) or Scott Rodgers (s.rodgers(a)bbk.ac.uk)

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Conditions of Mediation preconference: Limited spaces still available!
by Scott Rodgers 09 Jun '13

09 Jun '13

LIMITED SPACES STILL AVAILABLE (INCLUDING AT 50% REDUCED STUDENT RATE) Conditions of Mediation: Phenomenological Approaches to Media, Technology and Communication 2013 International Communication Association (ICA) Preconference ICA Theory, Philosophy and Critique Division 17 June 2013, Birkbeck, University of London Conference website (includes full conference programme and registration details): http://conditionsofmediation.wordpress.com Registration deadline: 11 June 2012 (end of day) Confirmed keynote speakers: · Dr David Berry, Swansea University · Professor Nick Couldry, Goldsmiths, University of London · Professor Graham Harman, American University of Cairo · Professor Shaun Moores, University of Sunderland · Professor Lisa Parks, University of California Santa Barbara · Professor Paddy Scannell, University of Michigan Conference Outline: Media theory seems to have reached a moment in which it is effectively orthodox to presume we must pay attention first and foremost to the intricacies of everyday experience. Ethnographic audience studies, for example, have attacked assumptions that there is a discrete relationship between media content and audiences, arguing that media forms, content and technologies have indeterminate and multifaceted significance within the daily rhythms and spaces of their everyday lives. Studies of digital and networked media, meanwhile, have put into question the very notion of ‘audiences’ as the starting point for understanding mediated experience. For some, accounting for the intricacies of everyday mediated experience has implied asking people what they actually do with media. But for others this is not enough: instead, the question is what constitutes the conditions of media experience in the first place. How do political configurations of discourses and inherited dispositions prefigure mediated action? How do material arrangements themselves constitute environments for mediated experience? How might we account for nonhuman agency, for example the ways in which software objects interact not only with human perceptions but also each other? Such questions point to a renewed confidence in explaining not just how but also why media, technology and communication are experienced as they are – all the while resisting a reversion to functionalism. These interests in the very conditions of mediation suggest, if sometimes only implicitly, an emerging interest in a phenomenology of media. Indeed, phenomenology – broadly the structuring of perception – has seemingly obvious relevance for recent academic interests in media experience. Yet its use or invocation in media studies has been scattered. While this might simply reflect the considerable diversity of phenomenological philosophies and their applications, there have also been concerted efforts recently to rethink phenomenology across the social sciences and humanities. Paired with recent interests in mediated experience, the time seems apt to reassess what it might mean to theorize media phenomenologically. Conditions of Mediation seeks to bring together scholars from a very wide range of perspectives – such as media history, media archaeology, audience studies, political theory, metaphysics, software studies, science and technology studies, digital aesthetics, cultural geography and urban studies –to reflect explicitly on the phenomenological groundings of their work on media. The phenomenological thinking to which participants might connect will be broad-based, ranging from core thinkers such as Husserl, Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty and Sartre to those with looser affiliations to phenomenology per se, for example Arendt, Bergson, Bourdieu, Deleuze, Garfinkel, Ingold, Latour, Whitehead and Harman. In short, the overall aim is that this conference goes beyond a mere congregation of media phenomenologists. Instead, it will encourage critical reflection on what various readings of phenomenology might offer media and technology studies that other approaches cannot. Conversely, it will also welcome reflections on the limits of phenomenological approaches in philosophical, theoretical, political and empirical terms. If you have any inquiries, please email both: Scott Rodgers (s.rodgers(a)bbk.ac.uk) and Tim Markham (t.markham(a)bbk.ac.uk)

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