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Now accepting proposals: Project:Connect -- Summer Youth Programming Competition
by Sheryl Grant 09 May '13

09 May '13

~~~~~~~~~~PLEASE CIRCULATE WIDELY. Apologies for cross-posting.~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ *HASTAC/MacArthur Foundation Digital Media and Learning Competition 5 * *Project:Connect -- Summer Youth Programming Competition* The fifth Digital Media and Learning Competition, the Project:Connect -- Summer Youth Programming Competition, *is now accepting applications*. The Project:Connect -- Summer Youth Programming Competition calls for summer event and programming proposals to excite and enable youth to engage the web in civil, collaborative, productive, safe, and confidence-building ways. The Competition supports single or multi-day participatory and hands-on learning experiences (labs, hackathons, pop-up events) that support youth working with peers, mentors, and educators on learning and creating experiences toward a better web for all. Based on the principles of Connected Learning<http://connectedlearning.tv/what-is-connected-learning>—learning that is equitable, social, and participatory — Project:Connect Summer Youth Programs will give young people hands-on experience creating, testing, and investigating ways to make using the web a better place to learn, connect, make, contribute, and share. The Project:Connect -- Summer Youth Program Competition is administered by HASTAC <http://hastac.org> and supported by the MacArthur Foundation<http://www.macarthurfoundation.org/>, in collaboration with the Born This Way Foundation<http://bornthiswayfoundation.org/>and Mozilla <http://mozilla.org>. A related Open International Competition focused on Project:Connect will be announced on May 28th. For the latest news, connect with us in one of the ways listed below. *For full information: *dmlcompetition.net <http://dmlcompetition.net/summer-youth-programming/summer-youth-programming…> *Awards*: Up to $10,000 per institution (winners to be announced in early July) *Deadline*: Online applications are due June 10, 2013, at 5pm PST. How to apply<http://dmlcompetition.net/summer-youth-programming/how-to-apply-to-the-summ…> . *Timeline*: Project:Connect -- Youth Summer Programs will be held July-September, 2013. Full timeline<http://dmlcompetition.net/summer-youth-programming/summer-youth-programming…> . Who is eligible to apply: U.S.-based non-profit learning development and civic engagement institutions and organizations (including learning development organizations such as museums, libraries, after school and summer programs). Additional eligibility requirements<http://dmlcompetition.net/summer-youth-programming/frequently-asked-questio…> . Winning proposals will create: - Social Tools for Social Good – Enabling people to create a culture of kindness, respect, and safety that enhances civic participation for youth. - Social Tools that Enable Control of Information – Helping youth understand how to control their information, and manage privacy and security. - Social Tools that Enable Literacy – Helping youth build, access, and understand the web in ways that support interest-driven learning, and empower learners to connect in safe ways with resources, mentors, and peers. Program participants may design or create: - Social apps – Create apps, including mobile apps, that promote and enable civic engagement with peers, community building, and kindness to others. - Badging programs – Create apps, including mobile apps, that leverage badging and other recognition and feedback methods to inspire youth to develop civic engagement with peers and community building in connected, cooperative, collaborative, safe, and respectful ways. - Learning content – Create learning content, curricula, media promotions, and other approaches about how to foster a more engaged, egalitarian, safe, and sharing internet. Project:Connect -- Summer Youth Programs may include: - Hackathons, that involve youth in connection with mentoring developers and educators in designing, prototyping, and/or coding software; or developing learning programs that promote a better web for learning through connecting and connecting through learning. - Digital learning labs, that provide hands-on experience using digital tools for connecting safely, collaborating purposefully, and communicating effectively via the web. - Testing labs, that involve young people in evaluating software and online learning programs that promote good web citizenship, or a better web for learning and sharing. - Mentoring or leadership workshops, that identify potential peer instructors and mentors, and provide them with opportunities to learn how to support and mentor others effectively and respectfully in web-based connected learning programs and applications. - Journalism and communications labs, where young people – acting as reporters, bloggers, and podcasters – participate in the creation of public media that engages questions of equity, good citizenship, privacy, collaboration, and sharing on the web. - Badge development workshops, that provide youth with the tools to develop badges for recognizing and rewarding effective digital citizenship, promoting privacy, effective web participation, and connected learning opportunities. Connect with the Digital Media and Learning Competition: Web: www.dmlcompetition.net Twitter: www.twitter.com/dmlComp Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DMLcomp G+: https://plus.google.com/u/0/103047964663117398536/ LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/groups/Digital-Media-Learning-Competition-3935137 List-serv: Send an email to dmlcompnews-request [at] duke.edu with "subscribe" in the subject line <http://staging.dmlcompetition.net/summer-youth-programming/how-to-apply-to-…>

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NSA's 2007 "Internet Research" guide
by Richard Forno 09 May '13

09 May '13

This little nugget is showing up in my various newsfeeds today. It's the unclassified "Internet Research" guide put together by the US National Security Agency in 2007 entitled "Untangling The Web". (The fact that it was (to use my term) 'faux-classified' and took a FOIA request by someone to obtain it pathetically amuses me, but that's a different discussion for a different venue.) It's not a scholarly text, but it's interesting to see the various examples/resources listed within its 650 pages. At the very least, it might be a useful historical item for fellow AOIR'ers. 12MB PDF download: http://www.nsa.gov/public_info/_files/Untangling_the_Web.pdf --rick --- Just because i'm near the punchbowl doesn't mean I'm also drinking from it.

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Digital Business Discourse CFP
by Erika Darics 09 May '13

09 May '13

--Apologies for cross-posting-- Dear Colleagues, I invite chapter proposals for a volume entitled Digital Business Discourse, to be published by Palgrave in the series *Palgrave Studies in Professional and Organizational Discourse*. *Digital Business Discourse* Proposal submission deadline* 26 May 2013* Recent scholarship on business discourse either only scarcely registers computer-mediated discourse, or struggles to meaningfully combine the findings of the scholarship of organizational studies and linguistic/ computer-mediated discourse studies. The proposed volume of *Digital Business Discourse* is aimed to fill this gap by bringing together research addressing the interactional practices enabled by the various mediated communication modes currently used in the professional workplace or virtual work teams. The main aim of the volume is to bring together research on computer-mediated or digital business discourse, specifically studies that include language or discourse-focussed analysis of naturally occurring digital business interactions. The manuscripts sought are about 9,000 words long, containing original, previously unpublished research. For further details please visit: http://erika.darics.co/currentprojects.php or contact me at dbd(a)darics.co.uk Warmest wishes, *** Dr Erika Darics University of Portsmouth tel: +44 (0) 23 9284 6155 e-mail: erika.darics(a)port.ac.uk

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Fwd: Deadline EXTENDED - May 29: Research Delegations, The Participatory Condition Colloquium (Media@McGill, Nov. 14-16)
by Gabriella Coleman 09 May '13

09 May '13

*** In preparation for The Participatory Condition<http://www.media.mcgill.ca/en/content/international-colloquium-participator…>, an international colloquium we will be hosting on campus and at the Musée d'Art Contemporain next November, Media@McGill welcomes expressions of interest to participate in Colloquium Research Delegations from graduate students and postdoctoral scholars in the Dept. of Art History and Communications Studies. You are invited to participate in one of two ways: 1) as a research relegate, heading a team of colleagues assigned to a particular colloquium section 2) as a team member of the research delegation Research delegates and team members will be assigned to one of the following sections: Publics and Participation; Surveillance and Legislation; The Participatory Condition; Gaming; Art and Design As part of their responsibilities, research delegates will: - Put together a team of graduate and postdoctoral researchers who will participate in the delegate's activities for the assigned section. The team can be composed of both AHCS and non-AHCS researchers, primarily at the PhD or postdoctoral level. - Contribute informed postings to the colloquium website, blog and social media sites before, during, and after the colloquium (from c. Oct. 15 to Dec. 10, 2013). - Attend the colloquium in its entirety, and take detailed notes of the assigned sessions. - Pose the first formal question(s) to the panelists during the Q&A session with the public. - Present a critical account of the assigned section in a post-colloquium seminar to be held with fellow team members, research delegates and members of the colloquium committee (early December 2013). - Following the colloquium, research delegates are also invited to submit a text (c. 5000 words), potentially co-authored with their team members, for a peer-reviewed publication on Media@McGill's website. Expressions of interest to become a colloquium research delegate or team member should be sent to tamar.tembeck(a)mcgill.ca<mailto:tamar.tembeck@mcgill.ca> by May 29th, 2013. Please give a first and second choice for the colloquium section to which you would like to be assigned, and specify if you would like to be a research delegate or a delegation team member. If you would like to get involved as research delegate, please include the following in your email: - A short biography (100 words), the title of your research project, and the name of your supervisor(s) - A brief description of how the colloquium relates to your research - A list of potential team members (optional) Up to 5 research delegates will be nominated for the colloquium, and each delegate will be awarded a $250 honorarium. -- Tamar Tembeck, Ph.D. Academic Associate Media@McGill media.mcgill.ca tamar.tembeck(a)mcgill.ca<mailto:tamar.tembeck@mcgill.ca> McGill University Ferrier Building, room 231 840 Dr. Penfield Montreal, QC H3A 0G2 Canada Tel: (514) 398-5003 Fax: (514) 398-8763 Want to be removed from this listserver? Please email Maureen Coote at maureen.coote(a)mcgill.ca and SPECIFY WHICH LIST YOU WANT TO BE REMOVED FROM.

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Scales for social media participation akin to "experience"?
by Alex Leavitt 09 May '13

09 May '13

Hi AoIR-ers! Does anyone know of any scales that measure the "experience" of a user that participates in social media platforms (this could also cover things like older online communities and online MMOs). By experience, I'm talking about familiarity with a platform/community's technical features, social norms, folk history, etc. This might cover things like relative skill on the site, but I'm not interested in use in a general or beginner sense (but perhaps use of advanced features as a marker of being experience). If you email me off-list, I can compile everyone's references. Thanks for the help! Alex --- Alexander Leavitt PhD Student USC Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism http://alexleavitt.com Twitter: @alexleavitt

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Final Call: Carl J. Couch Internet Research Award 2013
by Mark D. Johns 09 May '13

09 May '13

CALL FOR AWARD APPLICATIONS Carl J. Couch Internet Research Award 2013 Sponsored by the Carl Couch Center for Social and Internet Research http://www.cccsir.com/ The Carl Couch Center issues an international call for student-authored papers to be considered for Carl J. Couch Internet Research Award. The Couch Center welcomes both theoretical and empirical papers that apply symbolic interactionist approaches to internet studies. According to basic symbolic interactionist premises, what we understand as self, identity, relationship, and cultural formations are constructed dialogically and interactively. While the works of George H. Mead, Georg Simmel, Erving Goffman and other leading symbolic interactionists have been integral to the study of social interaction, Carl Couch was among the first from this tradition to suggest the importance of engaging in the study of mediated interaction. It is critical that symbolic interactionists move boldly forward, beyond Couch's initial suggestion, to study what has become for many a dominant form of communication in their everyday life. Whether we research identities, emotion, memory, family, work, career, presentations of self, deception, love, loss or other areas, the impact of mediated communication is felt by those interacting within it. As internet-related media continue to influence our everyday interactions--not only with other people but also with technologies, devices, algorithms, platform parameters, and so forth--it becomes crucial for symbolic interactionists to attend to the role of these mediating factors in the interaction process. We encourage any paper that uses a symbolic interactionist approach in internet studies. We also encourage papers that explore the interface between deliberate social interaction and structured (or automated) interactions sponsored or enacted by various technological features, exploring not only how identities, relations, and social formations are negotiated through social interactions, but also how these interactions are mediated further through the use or capacities of various technologies. Papers will be evaluated based on the quality of (1) mastery of symbolic interactionist approaches and concepts, (2) originality, (3) organization, (4) presentation, and (5) advancement of knowledge. Those contemplating entering should note that an interactionist approach demands thoughtful analysis, and not mere description, of social interactions. Evaluation will be administered by a Review Committee of four: Mark D. Johns, Luther College, Decorah, Iowa Jennifer Dunn, Texas Tech University, Lubbock Annette Markham, University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee Lois Ann Scheidt, Indiana University, Bloomington Competition is open to graduate or undergraduate students of all disciplines. Works that are published or accepted for publication are not eligible for award consideration. Entries should be in English and not exceed 30 pages (approximately 7500 words) in length, including references and appendices. Limit of one entry per student per year. The top paper will receive Couch Award to be presented at the 2013 meeting of the Association of Internet Researchers (aoir.org) at the University of Denver. The top paper will be awarded a certificate and a cash prize of $300 US and the author will be invited to present their work at a session of the AoIR conference, October 24-27, 2013 in Denver, Colorado, USA. Candidates should send a copy of their paper, with a 100-word abstract, electronically to Mark Johns at mjohns(a)luther.edu Application deadline is May 15, 2013. Notification of award will be sent by June 15. Those with questions or comments about Couch Award application, please contact: Mark D. Johns Communication Studies Luther College, Decorah, Iowa Phone: 563-387-1347 E-mail: mjohns(a)luther.edu

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SIGDOC Deadline Extension
by Liza Potts 09 May '13

09 May '13

Greetings Fellow AoIR members! We are extending the deadline for SIGDOC 2013 conference submissions (SIGDOC is a special interest group within the Association for Computing Machinery focused on the design of communication). Here are the new dates: June 1: Manuscripts are due. June 30: Acceptance notices go out. If your submission is accepted as-is, you can upload it for publication in the proceedings. Work begins on your conference presentation. July 20: If your submission was accepted pending revisions, the revisions are due. Aug 7: Your final date to upload your manuscript to Sheridan Printing for inclusion in the proceedings. In addition to our usual papers, reports, and poster briefs, this year, we've launched a new kind of submission type: Panels! There are three different panel types, including ones that have full papers and ones that do not. We are trying out this new format to encourage newcomers and those of you who have new research you are ready to talk about, but maybe you haven't baked it into a full paper yet. See more details here: http://sigdoc.acm.org/2013/?page_id=34 Please encourage your colleagues, students, and industry partners to join us at SIGDOC this year. We are planning an awesome conference for you down at East Carolina University. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact the conference chairs directly: Michael Albers (albersm(a)ecu.edu) and Nina Wishbow (nina.wishbow(a)gmail.com) Best, Liza Vice Chair of SIGDOC _________________________________________ Liza Potts, Ph.D. Michigan State University Director of User Experience Projects, WIDE @ MATRIX Assistant Professor Department of Writing, Rhetoric, & American Cultures 434 Farm Lane (Bessey Hall) Room 291, East Lansing, MI 48824 Gtalk: LKPotts | Skype: LKPotts

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ethics and listservs
by Rhiannon Bury 08 May '13

08 May '13

Hi everyone There has been a development on an internal Faculty Association listserv at my university that I thought those of you interested in research ethics may wish to advise or comment on. First a little background. The provincial government hasdpromised to increase funding by 2% to postsecondary educaton sector last year. They reneged on that promise and slashed the budget by 7%. Our university Administration responded almost instantly by using a "financial stringency" clause in our collective agreement, giving lay off notices to about 25 academic and professional staff, included tenured faculty. We are a small university and so we have a faculty association listserv set up specifically for discussion of university issues. Tensions as you can imagine are running high and the listserv is very active. Like at most universities, there is tension between the Faculty of Business and the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences. Yesterday one member sent around an spreadsheet with what he described as "research" on how representative the discussion list was of the total membership. It included a list of the names of those who had contributed and ranked them in terms of the number of posts. He never stated his reasons for conducting such "research", although he did say that it is was an "internal document" for membership. Reaction was swift and explosive. Some people were outraged, claiming he had misused the list and their information. The list shows that majority of frequent posters were from one Faculty, leading some to state that this member, from the other faculty, was really trying to demonstrate that their opinions, almost all critical of the university administration, were overrepresented. Others expressed fear that this information could be forwarded on to the Administration (the member is apparently tight with the Acting VPA) and then used to shape the next round of lay offs (ie get rid of the "trouble makers.") Still others thought there was nothing wrong with sharing such "data", some suggesting that it could be useful information to encourage more diverse opinion. My feeling that it is completely unethical though because it is not formal research, it probably falls outside the purview of the Research Ethics Board. Still it does name names--had he just presented aggregated data grouped by Faculty, I don't think anyone would have said much of anything. It would be like me collecting data on everyone's posts here and then presenting my findings with your names here out of the blue Interested in your thoughts. Rhiannon Rhiannon Bury Associate Professor Women's and Gender Studies Athabasca University rbury(a)athabascau.ca @television2pt0

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Seminar_BG journal - special issue # 2 Cultural Shortcuts: Popular, Digital, Wonderful, National
by Slavka Karakusheva 08 May '13

08 May '13

Dear all, Seminar_BG is an online journal for cultural studies, situated at the borderlines of disciplines such as cultural anthropology, aesthetics, sociology, and media analysis and publishished within the Deprtment of History and Theory of Culture, Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski". The new *special issue with selected papers # 2: <http://www.seminar-bg.eu/spisanie-seminar-bg/special-issue2.html> **Cultural Shortcuts: Popular, Digital, Wonderful, National<http://www.seminar-bg.eu/spisanie-seminar-bg/special-issue2.html> *(in English) is available online. Weber’s ‘steel-hard cage of modernity’ (*stahlhartes Gehäuse*) seems out of sight today. The very metaphor of steel, so dear to the times of industrialization, seems hopelessly out of date in the age of optic fibre, silicone and flexibility. It is as if the call to *change the world* has mutated into the program to *change communications*, and respectively, at the centre of this second modernity we no longer find the dirty, noisy, majestic steel-plant, but something dreamlike the kindergarten-style offices of Google. To turn away from the real world and concentrate on its representation, on networks, ratings, data bases, avatars, and the like - this tends to bring us back the wonderful. Rigorous taxonomy is replaced by clouds of tags that change their shape whenever you look at them from a different angle; the simplicity of plan and progress - by the infinite task of reflexive self-monitoring; ideological purity – by emotional complexity. The old coordinates no longer seem operational in this new, gaseous stage of culture. There is no ‘high’ vs. ‘popular’, as there is no legitimate distinction between expertise and amateurism; creation and consumption tend to become indistinguishable, and the separation line between public and private interests is constantly challenged and redefined. That all has become culture seems to be the logical result of moving the centre of interest from the outer world towards culture itself. The present texts have been selected from the three last issues of * Seminar_BG* in an attempt to reflect on the cultural situation through the media lens. Over-production of information, brought about by the expansion of commercial agents, was boosted in the last years even further by the ascent of the interactive Web 2.0. There are no institutions ready to harness the unprecedented flow of cultural content. We do not know who is an author, what is original, and to what extent interaction develops or destroys the work of art. Even traditional figures as doctors or religious leaders find themselves challenged; modern constructs like the nation and political representation – re-enchanted. The varied research perspectives towards the wonderful world of media-cultures might leave the reader with the question: what if we were in some new, *wired cage* of the second modernity? Ivaylo Ditchev, editor *Content:* - Dessislava Lilova - Literature Online: The Subversive Practices of Fan Fiction<http://www.seminar-bg.eu/spisanie-seminar-bg/special-issue2/item/375-litera…> - Orlin Spassov - A Change in the Canon: Television and Its Audience as Co-authors<http://www.seminar-bg.eu/spisanie-seminar-bg/special-issue2/item/376-a-chan…> - Krassimir Terziev - Maneuvers of the Good Old Aura: The Artwork in the Culture of Convergence<http://www.seminar-bg.eu/spisanie-seminar-bg/special-issue2/item/377-maneuv…> - Ivaylo Ditchev - The Culture of Flows: Authors, Users, Pirates<http://www.seminar-bg.eu/spisanie-seminar-bg/special-issue2/item/378-the-cu…> - Todor Hristov - Publishing on the Internet and the Abduction of Copyright<http://www.seminar-bg.eu/spisanie-seminar-bg/special-issue2/item/379-publis…> - Julia Rone - *Fegelein's Views on Folklore<http://www.seminar-bg.eu/spisanie-seminar-bg/special-issue2/item/380-fegele…> * - Mila Mineva - The Importance of Being Enslaved<http://www.seminar-bg.eu/spisanie-seminar-bg/special-issue2/item/381-the-im…> - Galina Goncharova - Providers–Users of Medical Knowledge on the Bulgarian Net<http://www.seminar-bg.eu/spisanie-seminar-bg/special-issue2/item/382-provid…> - Nikela Daskalova - The Monopoly over Magical Thinking<http://www.seminar-bg.eu/spisanie-seminar-bg/special-issue2/item/383-the-mo…> Enjoy the reading! The Seminar_BG Team www: http://www.seminar-bg.eu/ @: seminar_bg(a)yahoo.com fb: Семинар_BG<https://www.facebook.com/pages/%D0%A1%D0%B5%D0%BC%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%B0%D1%80_B…>

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News websites that allow both anonymous and FB/TW identified comments
by Carmel Vaisman 08 May '13

08 May '13

Dear IRs, I'm working with a colleague on a project of hate vs. support rhetoric in news commentary and we would like to look at both anonymous and identified users. Israeli news websites allow both the old system of anonymous commentary and Facebook identified one and it makes for an interesting comparison, however, it is a challenge finding similar sites in English. We would appreciate any recommendation you have for news websites that allow both sorts of commentary. Thank you, Carmel Vaisman, PhD. The Interdisciplinary Program in the Humanities Tel Aviv University carmell(a)post.tau.ac.il @carmelva

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