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Google+ Hangouts
by Laura Rosenbaun 16 Jun '13

16 Jun '13

Dear All, I'm doing my PhD research on Video-mediated Communication, and I'd like to know if there are any data on Google+ Hangouts usage. I know there are some figures on the number of G+ users, and the average time users spend on G+. However, I'm interested in the actual usage of video streaming. Any pointers would be greatly appreciated! Thanks, Laura

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Call for Participation: IR14 Preconf on Microcredentials
by Alexander Halavais 16 Jun '13

16 Jun '13

Representing personal history, ability, and reputation online: Microcredentials, badges, endorsements, and other mechanisms With the momentous changes in social media use in professional contexts, and the rapid evolution of learning ecologies and experimentation with different kinds of learning online, the need to present experience and expertise to new communities is now more pressing than ever. The ways in which individuals formally construct their identities for multiple publics is also changing. While the traditional resume or biography remains important, we are finding new ways of explicitly summarizing our traces online and communicating these experiences to various publics. During this half-day pre-conference, attendees will present recently completed work and work in progress that addresses badges, microcredentials, reputation economies, markers of expertise, and related work. Our emphasis will be on empirical work that draws on a range of approaches to understand how reputation, experience, and expertise are made visible, regulated, and shared within online contexts and across contexts. The time will be split between a small number of presentations of more completed work, and thematic discussions around broader questions and research agendas for the area. Thanks to support through the Digital Media and Learning Competition, the pre-conference and lunch is free of charge to participants but there will a limited number of seats. If you are interested in participating, please submit a one-page (max) brief of your research and interests with a brief bio, to Alexander.Halavais(a)asu.edu by June 15, 2013. -- -- // // This email is // [x] assumed public and may be blogged / forwarded. // [ ] assumed to be private, please ask before redistributing. // // Alexander C. Halavais, ciberflâneur // http://alex.halavais.net // // Please attribute any stupid errors above to autocorrect on my phone. // (But I probably was typing on a keyboard.)

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Reminder: Call for Proposals for 2013 CPTSC Annual Meeting/Conference
by connexions journal 15 Jun '13

15 Jun '13

Dear All, The 2013 CPTSC Annual Meeting/Conference will take place in Cincinnati, OH, on OCt. 10-12, 2013. The deadline for regular submissions is Monday, 8 July (in approximately 3 weeks). Please consider submitting a proposal. The CFP is available at http://cptsc.org/cptscCFP2013.pdf. Thank you, 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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by Heidi Campbell 14 Jun '13

14 Jun '13

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ECSCW Workshop on Backchannels & audience participation
by Matti Nelimarkka 14 Jun '13

14 Jun '13

[Apologies for Cross Posting] Call for Participation: Workshop on Backchannels and Live participation tools, including: * Examples and demos of prototypes, experiments and system descriptions of and for backchanneling and other forms of audience participation * Research methods for analysis * Case studies and empirical findings * Exploration of new ideas Part of ECSCW 2013 (Sep 21st - Sep 25th @ Paphos, Cyprus) Workshop date: Sep 21st Submission deadline: June 28th (two weeks to submit!) Teaser: Backhannels and live participation tools are used e.g. in education, conferences and TV shows to increase the interactivity and participation of learners, participants and viewers. Research-wise the domain is scattered across different fields, such as HCI, CSCW and education. This workshop aims to draw together researchers, developers and practitioners in this area to consider (1) how to conduct high quality research and (2) how to make research with impact on the larger society. More details: http://lead.aalto.fi/activities/ecscw-2013-workshop/

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CFP - Compromised Data? New paradigms for social media theory and methods
by ganaele langlois 14 Jun '13

14 Jun '13

*Call for papers – research colloquium* *Compromised Data?* *New paradigms in social media theory and methods* * * *October 28, 29, 2013 - Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada* *Organizers: Greg Elmer (Ryerson University), Ganaele Langlois (U. of Ontario **Institute of Technology), & Joanna Redden (Ryerson University)* *Proposals for papers (750-1000 words) are due August 1**st**, 2013. Decisions **will be communicated by August 15. Partial funding for travel and hotel **expenses will be available for this event. Please direct questions and proposals **to Greg Elmer, Bell Globemedia Research Chair and Director, Infoscape Centre **for the Study of Social Media, Ryerson University <**gelmer(a)ryerson.ca**>.* *Confirmed speakers*: Jean Burgess (Queensland University of Technology), Axel Bruns (Queensland University of Technology), Daniel Paré (U. of Ottawa), Mary Francoli (Carleton U.), Anatoliy Gruzd (Dalhousie U.) There has been a data rush in the past decade – one brought about by the ubiquity of online communication, social media in particular (Facebook, Twitter, Youtube, etc.), and by the adoption within the Social Science and Humanities of analytical software-based tools. Such practices, tools, and data sets seemingly promise a new digital enlightenment, where social roles, patterns of communication, political and economic debates and controversies are thrown open to the public, researchers, and users. Yet, scholarly and public research into social media is notoriously difficult because of the proprietary nature of most social media platforms and the consequent difficulty of extracting data from these platforms. Furthermore, data mining and analysis raise crucial issues concerning about the ethics of social media research. Finally, the digital research paradigm itself is not without limitations: can all aspects of life, including emotions and affective ties be translated into data without losing something essential about the fluidity of social life and the complexity of communication? This colloquium focuses on the critical juncture between the birth of new research paradigms, methods and tools, and the increasingly complex politics of social media as contested global platforms, data repositories, and sources of rich revenue streams. Key to this juncture is the question of data, from the nature of data itself to its privatization and monetization; from the accessibility of data to understanding how it can both represent and betray social phenomena. This colloquium seeks position papers that interrogate the theoretical and methodological challenges presented by the availability, formatting, and ownership of socially mediated data-objects, meta-data, and so-called “big” data. The aim of the colloquium is to develop new paradigms for critical social media research that seek to understand how social media data impact our understanding of the broader social, political and economic implications of social media platforms and their users/communities. The colloquium will focus on four areas of research: the politics of social media interfaces, tracking media objects, big data pitfalls, and transformative practices within social media. Examples of possible topics follow below. 1. *The politics of the interface between social media and users* - social media accounts - data-mining, data-collecting, user labour and work - governance and regulation of users and data: legal, political and aesthetics - history of social media interfaces and functions - APIs and programmable data 2. *Tracking and mapping media objects, stories, debates, and controversies* - Tracking stories through data-objects - cross-platform analysis and methods - new paradigms of social network analysis 3. *Rethinking Big Data in social media research* -administrative and critical perspectives - the limits of sentiment and other automated analyses -human/machine produced (meta)data - live or real-time research with big data - small, thick, or streamed data 4. *Transformative platforms, collaborative agendas, and new data-publics* - the promise and sustainability of activist platforms - governance, transparency and accountability - the potential of open-data projects - radical publicities, hacks and events - Academic and public social media research vs. research for surveillance or commercial purposes * * *Funding for this event is made available by the Social Science and Humanities **Research Council of Canada (SSHRC).* -- Ganaele Langlois Assistant Professor Communication Program Faculty of Social Science and Humanities UOIT Associate Director Infoscape Centre for the Study of Social Media www.infoscapelab.ca

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Ethnografilm Festival
by Wesley M Shrum 14 Jun '13

14 Jun '13

Dear Colleagues, As a list member for some time, I'm excited to announce a new film festival next April in Paris, sponsored by the International Social Science Council and the Society for Social Studies of Science. The first annual Ethnografilm Festival (April 2014) will be held at Ciné 13 Théâtre in the Montmartre district. I'm writing to beg your assistance in distributing this information, but most especially in soliciting your films in either Academic or Documentary categories. Please let me know if you have any thoughts, questions, or comments! I'd truly appreciate it. Wes Shrum shrum(a)lsu.edu Ethnografilm 2014 http://ethnografilm.com<http://ethnografilm.com/> We are delighted to announce and humbly invite your submissions to the first annual Ethnografilm Festival<http://ethnografilm.com>, 18-20 April 2014, in Paris, France, at Ciné 13 Théâtre, an historic site for film premieres in the 18th arrondissement. Four years in the making, Ethnografilm will highlight the academic and documentary films that best contribute to the systematic understanding of our social world through film. Sponsored by the International Social Science Council and the Society for Social Studies of Science, this global initiative meets the growing need for non-fiction filmmakers to present peer-reviewed audiovisual work in an international forum. Ethnografilm solicits submissions in four categories: academic, academic short, documentary, & documentary short (shorts defined as under 10 minutes). Academic films are generally those in which a scholar has a principal role such as editor, director, or producer. Please contact the festival manager<mailto:info@ethnografilm.com> if there are questions. Ethnografilm make no distinction by career stage, and particularly solicits films by students and youth. We are honored to view all contributions. Ethnografilm…Profoundly Entertaining

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by Heidi Campbell 14 Jun '13

14 Jun '13

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Ada Lovelace Conference Registration
by rhammerm 14 Jun '13

14 Jun '13

Dear Colleagues: Registration for the upcoming Ada Lovelace interdisciplinary conference at Stevens Institute of Technology (17-18 October 2013) is now open. Please access the conference webpage here for your convenience: http://www.stevens.edu/calconference. Do feel free to share with your friends and colleagues. Thank you for your kind consideration. Sincerely, Robin Hammerman Conference Organizer -- Dr. Robin S. Hammerman Teaching Assistant Professor College of Arts and Letters Stevens Institute of Technology Hoboken, New Jersey 07030

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Re: [Air-L] Yeshua-Katz Winner of Couch Award
by Taylor-Smith, Ella 14 Jun '13

14 Jun '13

hi congratulations Daphna. Is the paper available for download? -Ella Ella Taylor-Smith Institute for Informatics and Digital Innovation Edinburgh Napier University 10 Colinton Road Edinburgh, EH10 5DT Email: e.taylor-smith(a)napier.ac.uk http://www.iidi.napier.ac.uk/e.taylor-smith http://about.me/EllaTaylorSmith @EllaTasm Edinburgh Napier University is one of Scotland's top universities for graduate employability. 93.6% of graduates are in work or further study within six months of leaving. The Telegraph newspaper named us as one of the "top ten UK universities for getting a job" in 2012. This university is also proud winner of the Queen's Anniversary Prize for Higher and Further Education 2009, awarded for innovative housing construction for environmental benefit and quality of life. This message is intended for the addressee(s) only and should not be read, copied or disclosed to anyone else outwith the University without the permission of the sender. It is your responsibility to ensure that this message and any attachments are scanned for viruses or other defects. Edinburgh Napier University does not accept liability for any loss or damage which may result from this email or any attachment, or for errors or omissions arising after it was sent. Email is not a secure medium. Email entering the University's system is subject to routine monitoring and filtering by the University. Edinburgh Napier University is a registered Scottish charity. Registration number SC018373

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