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2013 Couch Award Call
by Mark D. Johns 09 Feb '13

09 Feb '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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Tunisia. Help with Social Network Analysis?
by intl2 09 Feb '13

09 Feb '13

Hello. As you may have seen, Tunisia has challenges to its survival. Politically, economically, socially, and in most other ways. But, I love the friendliness of the people and the many kindnesses they show towards me and towards others. They are really amazing friends to have! I've been here for two years doing traditional pen-and-paper surveys of young men about migration aspirations and intentions. This was recently supplemented by online surveys with Facebook and Twitter and other online activities to better understand the social systems wrapped around the migration-employment context. Do you know anyone looking at Tunisia from a social network perspective, especially looking at textual and narrative analysis of social media? I would love to collaborate with someone to explore some of the social networks that stabilize or destabilize in Tunisia. My previous work in ethnic relations and migration seems to have given me some ability to think about the issues here, but Tunisia would benefit a lot from work by someone deeper into social network analysis. I guess most of the work could be done remotely since mining & analyzing facebook and twitter streams would be the main focus. If you can suggest someone for me to contact, I will appreciate it very much. Thank you for your kind attention, Jon Gresham, PhD Centre d'Etudes maghrebines a Tunis Impasse Menabrea, 19 bis, rue d'Angleterre Tunis-Hached TN 1049 Tunisia Tel: 00216-55718481 https://www.facebook.com/pages/Centre-dEtudes-Maghrebines-a-Tunis

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articles, references on moving across the digital/physical realms?
by Baker, Andrea 08 Feb '13

08 Feb '13

Hi, everyone, For a piece I'm preparing on interaction back and forth between online and offline or from digital to physical worlds and back, I'm looking for references about how that works for people, especially those who are members of online communities. More than particular data to show this communication in process, although that is good too, I want to conceptualize the movement, the "flow" from one realm to another, to describe what is happening. Also, how does the online communication, including that through mobile phones, affect the offline interaction, and how do the offline encounters affect what goes on inside the online communities and in other social media containing some of the same people interacting offline. This project is part of my music fan research on fan communities, identities, and relationships. I'm already aware of the articles in the first issue of Mobile Media and Communication (January, 2013), and of Lauren Sessions-Goulet's excellent paper of a few years back on offline meetings and online communities, and have a few other helpful sources. I've done a body of work on romantic online relationships so I understand many of the dynamics there. Please feel free to write off list or on. Thanks so much in advance! cheers, andee (andrea baker)

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NEW BOOK: Crossmedia Innovations: Texts, Markets, Institutions
by Indrek Ibrus 08 Feb '13

08 Feb '13

NEW BOOK: Crossmedia Innovations: Texts, Markets, Institutions Editors: Indrek Ibrus, Carlos A. Scolari Website: http://www.peterlang.com/index.cfm?event=cmp.ccc.seitenstruktur.detailseite… Published by Peter Lang Blurb: Crossmedia and transmedia are keywords of increasing importance for media professionals and scholars alike. Although these phenomena are older than sometimes argued, the affordances of digital networked media have radically enriched the nature of "crossmedia strategies" of media industries. As such crossmedia is an emergent practice that arises as one of the core sources of complexity and innovation for late modern cultures. This edited volume includes chapters by authors from three continents who approach the phenomenon from different disciplinary angles: semiotics, cultural studies, media economics, political economy, innovation studies. The common interest lies in the dynamics that lead to experiments with crossmedia and in how our cultures are innovated through such practices. Contents: Indrek Ibrus/Carlos A. Scolari: Introduction: Crossmedia innovation? Maarja Saldre/Peeter Torop: Transmedia space Carlos A. Scolari: The Triplets and the incredible shrinking narrative: Playing in the borderland between transmedia storytelling and adaptation Colin B Harvey: Crossmedia cross-stitch: Spinoff stories as transmedial and intramedial suture Sarah Atkinson: The view from the fourth wall window: Crossmedia fictions Andreu Belsunces Gonçalves: Fringe: Playful transmedia Richard Berger/Ashley Woodfall: The digital utterance: A crossmedia approach to media education Joan Ramon Rodríguez-Amat/Katharine Sarikakis: The fandom menace or the phantom author? On sharecropping, crossmedia and copyright Göran Bolin: Audience activity as a co-production of crossmedia content Cinzia Colapinto/Eleonora Benecchi: Movie industry goes viral in the XXIst century: If what counts is the buzz... Annika Wiklund-Engblom/Seppo Leminen/Mika Westerlund/Simon Staffans/Michaela Esch/Risto Rajala: Towards transmedia innovation: An empirical analysis of a multiplatform format Steinar Ellingsen: Web series, independent media and emerging online markets: Then and now Indrek Ibrus: The AV industry's microcompanies encounter multiplatform production Aurite Kouts: 'You make the movies': Audiences as new filmmakers in the age of user-generated content Jose A. García-Avilés: Innovation management in crossmedia production: Leading change in the newsroom Rosa Franquet i Calvet/María Isabel Villa Montoya: Exploring the crossmedia content of public broadcasters in Catalonia and Denmark Ivar John Erdal: What media logic? Organization of crossmedia production in two medium-sized Norwegian newsrooms. Print: ISBN 978-3-631-62228-5 pb. eBook: ISBN 978-3-653-02575-0

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CFP: When the City Meets the Citizens Workshop (ICWSM)
by Germaine R Halegoua 08 Feb '13

08 Feb '13

Please distribute to anyone who may be interested. Thank you! ============================================================= The 2nd When the City Meets the Citizens Workshop: Big Data and the Study of the Urban Habitat Boston, July 11th 2013 (WCMCW) In conjunction with the International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM) http://researcher.watson.ibm.com/researcher/view_project.php?id=4394 ============================================================= Social media analysis can play a key role in providing insights into people's activities, opinions and day-to-day lives. When they are geolocated, these user-generated information streams become a unique opportunity to understand the rhythms and tenors of a city and its citizens. By applying computational, social science, and humanities methods to social media data such as photos, tweets and check-ins, researchers are now beginning to conceive of new methodological and theoretical frameworks not only to extract local insights but, more importantly, to better understand cities and their residents. Following the success of last year's first WCMCW held in Dublin, this workshop aims to understand the various ways social media data can be used to produce knowledge about cities that supports citizen engagement. The WCMC workshop will involve discussions on topics such as (but not limited to): * Improving understandings of the city through mining social media * Use of social media to engage citizens (for example, through game mechanics) * Visualizations and interfaces to enable exploration of city data * Mobilizing communities through social media * Pervasive applications for user interaction and data collection * Disaster recovery and coordination using social media * Enabling citizen and NGO initiatives through social media * Methodology for quality evaluation and validation of user generated content * Privacy and ethical concerns in citizen engagement Objectives Our aim is to facilitate a session that encourages computer scientists, industry professionals, academic researchers, architects, urban planners, government officials, hackers, artists, and other interested participants to work together to explore timely questions relating to social media, big data, citizen engagement and the creation of smarter cities. We will encourage interdisciplinary collaboration so that participants can work together to create a common understanding of how social media data might address contemporary urban issues. Participants will have the opportunity to showcase projects; discuss theoretical, methodological, ethical, and political questions in regard to the study of urban life through the prism of social media data; and participate in a brainstorming “data hacking” session where participants will collaboratively tackle a specific social media dataset. SUBMISSIONS All contributions must be submitted as PDF files. The workshop accepts novel research or work-in-progress papers (no longer than 4 pages) or position papers (no longer than 2 pages). All papers must be submitted by the deadlines provided below and formatted in AAAI two-column, camera-ready style (see the author instructions page). All submitted papers will be reviewed and judged on originality, technical correctness, relevance, and quality of presentation by the Program Committee. All accepted submissions must be presented during the workshop. Please submit papers to EasyChair WCMCW2013 (http://www.easychair.org conferences/?conf=wcmcw2013). IMPORTANT DATES Paper submission deadline: March 18, 2013 Paper acceptance notifications: March 26, 2013 ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Elizabeth M. Daly, IBM Research, Ireland / Co-Chair Raz Schwartz, Rutgers University, USA / Co-Chair David Millen, IBM Research, USA Ingrid Erickson, Rutgers University, USA Brian Keegan, Northeastern University, USA Germaine Halegoua, University of Kansas, USA -- Germaine R. Halegoua Assistant Professor Dept. of Film and Media Studies University of Kansas 225 Oldfather Studios 1621 W. Ninth St. Lawrence, KS 66044 grhalegoua(a)ku.edu

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Examples of student scientific publications
by juliano spyer 08 Feb '13

08 Feb '13

dear air-l - i am talking to colleagues here at UCL to create a student scientific magazine/annual published online. the idea is to invite master students that successfully finish their programmes to choose one chapter from their dissertations to make it available publicly. the spirit of the project is to make public a content that has been "peer reviewed" (considering the marking of dissertations a kind of assessment of the quality of the research), but to do so in a more reasonable size for possible readers - not everyone is interested in reading 50-80 pages to see if there is something particularly interesting there. so my question is: do anyone know of similar publications or publishing solutions? And also: what is necessary for a publication to be quoted? I am scheduling a meeting with a librarian from UCL to inquire about that, but i thought I could share this with you in parallel. many thanks www.julianospyer.com.br >> Thinking to gather

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Digital Race Workshop - darkmatter
by Sanjay Sharma 08 Feb '13

08 Feb '13

Dear All darkmatter Journal has organised a Digital Race Workshop, exploring research practices for interrogating how race/racism are being transformed by online networks. The workshop takes place on Thur 21 Feb 2013, central London. A free event but registration is essential - further details: http://bit.ly/UDzD3v If you can not attend but are interested in joining the digital race network, send a message to: editor(a)darkmatter101.org best regards darkmatter editors http://www.darkmatter101.org/

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CFP Encuentro Sociología Ordinaria
by AMPARO LASEN DIAZ 08 Feb '13

08 Feb '13

Hello, This could be of interest for the Spanish Speakers of the list CALL FOR PAPERS Encuentro Sociología ordinaria 8-9 de mayo de 2013. Media-Lab Prado, Madrid Entendiendo la sociología como una particular disposición de la mirada (Simmel), este encuentro apuesta por ubicar lo extraño en lo familiar (Garfinkel) o lo familiar en lo extraño (Goffman). Se trata de una invitación a aprender de lo banal, lo frívolo y lo superficial, así como a repensar el imperialismo de lo serio, lo profundo, lo trascendente en la indagación social, tanto en lo relativo a la selección de sus objetos y sujetos como a la validación de las formas de conocimiento. El encuentro pretende retomar lo ordinario en dos sentidos claves: lo cotidiano y lo ordenado, lo rutinario y lo que construye ordenamientos sociales. El objetivo es explorar conjuntamente la noción de lo ordinario, de una sociología ordinaria y un conocimiento ordinario, referidos a lo cotidiano, superficial y banal, al conocimiento práctico. Se trata también de explorar y desarrollar la diversidad de tonos en la investigación y análisis, particularmente aquellos considerados ordinarios por una visión académica e intelectual tradicional. Nuestra propuesta busca también dar cuenta de la complejidad, ambivalencias y perversidad de lo ordinario, frente a las observaciones positivistas recurrentes que identifican lo ordinario y sus modos de conocimiento y existencia con lo simple e ingenuo. Así mismo, otra dimensión de lo ordinario es la referida al orden, esto es, a la reconstitución práctica de jerarquías, relaciones de poder, desigualdad, etc… Se trata por tanto de abrir líneas de debate e intercambio en torno a objetos, sujetos, prácticas y formas de conocimiento habitualmente desconsiderados por no responder a los monótonos e insidiosos cánones de lo trascendente, lo profundo y lo cabal. ¿Tiene sentido interrogarse por Lady Gaga y sus Little Monsters, los juegos y videojuegos, los hilos de forocoches o las conversaciones de mercado y escalera? ¿Pueden ser los “reality”, desde los tróspidos a las chonis con glamour, una forma privilegiada de analizar lo contemporáneo? ¿Cabe cuestionar las demarcaciones disciplinares entre conocimiento lego y experto en sintonía con la emergencia de la figura del prosumidor? ¿Qué metodologías, controversias y tonos pueden ayudar a romper inercias (Becker)? ¿Y si frente la distancia de la supuesta neutralidad objetivista nos comportamos como vecinas de la corrala (Addams)? A título orientativo, las propuestas de comunicaciones pueden tratar temas como: • Troleos, tuiteos, cotilleos y marujeos… • Tuneos, choppeos • Parkineos y karaokes… • Realities, fanfiction, cómics, vídeos, videojuegos… • Bieber y otras “fevers”... • Pornos y auto-pornificación • Metodologías de andar por casa • Políticas ordinarias, frivolidades tácticas, flashmobs, escrache… • otros temas ordinarios, superficiales, banales y frívolos… Sociología ordinaria contempla dos tipos de formatos: por un lado, las típicas presentaciones de comunicaciones agrupadas en mesas temáticas y, por otro, mesas redondas, talleres o paneles propuestos como tales en las que se presenten trabajos en marcha o se planteen controversias que permitan un intercambio más abierto con y entre el público. Serán bienvenidas todo tipo de intervenciones (sociológicas, antropológicas, filológicas, textuales, históricas, políticas, activistas, artísticas, etc.) y formatos (textual, visual) siempre que las cuestiones prácticas de intendencia lo permitan. Por su parte, las propuestas de mesas redondas, paneles o talleres habrán de incluir entre 3 y 5 participantes. La idea es que tras, una breve intervención/provocación por parte del grupo promotor, conversen entre sí y con el público en torno a cuestiones como, por ejemplo, ¿qué potencialidades se encuentran en lo ordinario como objeto, sujeto o forma de conocimiento?, ¿qué miopías conllevan las constantes apelaciones a lo serio, lo trascendente y lo grave?, ¿qué y quién es catalogado como ordinario o insustancial?, ¿qué presupuestos operan bajo la aparente “alergia”, cuando no intolerancia, a lo superficial y lo frívolo?, ¿qué tiene que ver todo ello con la desigualdad y el poder?, ¿y con la ciudadanía y la democracia?… En ambos casos las propuestas habrán de incluir, junto a la información de contacto y afiliación institucional de los/as firmantes, un título, entre 2 y 4 palabras clave y un resumen de no más de 500 palabras. Podrán remitirse hasta el *15 de marzo por correo electrónico a sociologí aordinaria(a)gmail.com* en formato .doc, .docx o .rtf. Calendario Hasta el 15 de marzo: recepción de propuestas. 2 de abril: Comunicación por correo electrónico de aceptación de las propuestas recibidas y apertura del plazo de inscripción. Hasta el 11 de abril: confirmación de asistencia de las propuestas seleccionadas. 22 de abril: Publicación del calendario definitivo de sesiones. Comité ordinario Amparo Lasén, Elena Casado y Antonio A. García Grupo de Investigación Complutense Simetría Generalizada -- Dr. Amparo Lasén Dpt. Sociología I Facultad de Ciencias Políticas y Sociología Universidad Complutense de Madrid Campus de Somosaguas s/n Pozuelo de Alarcón 28223 Madrid Tel.0034913942899 Fax: 0034913962676

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fembot: Ada CFP, Issue 3, Feminist Science Fiction
by Kate O'Riordan 07 Feb '13

07 Feb '13

Some possible cross over. all the best Kate ------------------------------------- Ada: A Journal of Gender, New Media, and Technology | adanewmedia.org Issue 3: Feminist Science Fiction In the 1985 essay that defined the terms for feminist thinking about science and technology in the decades since, Donna Haraway observed that "the boundary between science fiction and social reality is an optical illusion." She drew together the cybernetic organisms of fact and fiction, the beings of shiny technology and messy biological stuff, and her terms and her ideas came as much from the creative thinkers of feminist science fiction (Octavia Butler, Joanna Russ) as they did from technologists, political thinkers, and philosophers. It's 2013, and the cyborg manifesto is old enough to vote. Where are feminist science fictions now, and what can they tell us about feminism and technology? New media make our experiences of social reality resonant with classics of speculative fiction, particularly works that accounted for the uneven distribution of futuristic technologies and their participation in hierarchies of race, gender, capital, and ability. Literary scholars continue to explore the intricacies of works by Octavia Butler, James Tiptree Jr., Joanna Russ, et al., while the aesthetic and political techniques of critical and creative speculative thinking that these writers pioneered are taken up in multiple forms. Fiction writers like Nalo Hopkinson, Andrea Hairston, L. Timmel Duchamp, and many more bring questions of language, culture, race, and violence into the fray, as social media platforms like blogs, twitter, and Facebook deepen conversations between writers and fans. Small presses continue to support the older technology of the printed page and to articulate why written visions matter for a possible feminist future. Feminist science fiction has never only existed between the bindings of books, however. Fictional speculation is part of how we understand ourselves in relationship to technology; from the way our smartphones seem to extend our embodied being, to the difference it makes when we shift our perspective and think instead of the being of the gendered bodies who made them, to the imaginative constructions we produce of the wireless waves and fiber optic cables that link us to collaborators, interlocutors, and friends. Ada is published by the Fembot Collective’s academic network, which is itself a feminist science fiction. An imagined array of co-conspirators made real, its name indexes the power in reworking the venerable sci-fi trope of the gendered automaton. Technological speculation is our social reality, and feminist science fiction has the tools to code it to the specifications of our politics. Feminist science fiction describes a diverse landscape of multimodal, multiplatform, multifaceted cultural production. It is a means for thinking marked bodies into technological contexts, from Ada Lovelace herself to Janelle Monae's racialized android Cindi Merriweather. It is also the visual and conversational online cultures that endlessly repeat, reblog, argue, and fight back about what real and imagined futures of gender, race, technology, and representation ought to be like. It may even be the new philosophical modalities of materialist speculation, when they acknowledge that the hierarchized markings on bodies we name as race and gender are not limited to some narrowly defined conception of the human. And it is the unpredictable future of what cybernetics and organisms could be and could become, in the flesh and in plastic, silicon, steel. The third issue of Ada: A Journal of Gender, New Media and Technology seeks essays on any of these and more. We welcome unpublished work from scholars of any discipline and background, including collaborative, nontraditional, or multimodal approaches that can especially benefit from the journal’s open access online status. Topics and approaches might include, but are not limited to: • Key works of feminist science fiction and their relevance for new media and technology studies • Gender, race, sexuality, and/or disability in science fiction literature, film, and television • Feminist speculation in new media production • Feminist science fiction’s online fan cultures • Speculative or science-fictional tropes in new media and technology theory and practice General Submission Requirements Authors should submit essays of 4000-9000 words directly to the editor in Rich Text Format (.rtf) or MS Word format (.doc) by 1 May 2013. We encourage you to discuss potential contributions in advance of the submission deadline, particularly for those contributors interested in multimodal contributions. Contributions in formats other than the traditional essay are encouraged; please contact the editor to discuss specifications. All submissions should be accompanied by the following information in the email message with your submission attachment: • Name(s), affiliation(s), email address(es) of the person(s) submitting. • Title of the text and the issue for which it is submitted. • An abstract of no more than 100 words. • A short paragraph (40-60 words) about the contributor(s). Further guidelines for submission format can be found here: http://adanewmedia.org/submissions/ Please include text descriptions for images and transcripts or subtitles for audio or video files. Send submissions and correspondence to Alexis Lothian: ada(a)queergeektheory.org About Ada Ada is an online, open access, open source, peer-reviewed journal run on a nonprofit basis by feminist media scholars from Canada, the UK, and the US. The journal’s first issue was published online in November 2012 and has so far received more than 75,000 page views. Ada operates a review process that combines the feminist mentorship of fan communities with the rigor of peer review. Read more at http://adanewmedia.org/beta-reader-and-review-policy/. We do not -- and will never -- charge fees for publishing your materials, and we will share those materials using a Creative Commons License.

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Critical Ethnography
by David Nemer 07 Feb '13

07 Feb '13

Dear AoIR-ers, Do you have any recommendations for books on critical ethnography? Thanks -- *David Nemer* PhD Candidate in Social Informatics School of Informatics and Computing, Indiana University Editor of the Social Informatics Blog - http://socialinformaticsblog.com http://www.dnemer.com dnemer(a)indiana.edu

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