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Call for Papers Games for Health Europe 2013 Amsterdam, The Netherlands, deadline May 24th
by Alex Gekker 24 Jan '13

24 Jan '13

Begin forwarded message. ________________________________________ From: Schouten, B.A.M. [bschouten(a)tue.nl] -Apologies if you receive multiple times, please circulate this to your colleagues who might be interested, thank you so much- Call for Papers for the peer-reviewed track of the third European Conference on Games for Health Europe, 28-29 October 2013 Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Deadline: May 24th, 2013. Founded in 2004, the Games for Health Project supports community, knowledge and business development efforts to use cutting-edge games and game technologies to improve health and health care. The Games for Health Conference brings together researchers, medical professionals and game developers to share information about the impact of games, playful interaction and game technologies on health, health care and health policy. Over three days, more than 400 attendees will participate in over 60 sessions provided by an international array of 80+ speakers, cutting across a wide range of activities in health and health care. Topics include exergaming, physical therapy, disease management, health behavior change, biofeedback, scientific validation, rehab, epidemiology, training, cognitive health, nutrition and education. The aim of the conference is to bring together academics and practitioners working within the field of Game & Play Design, Design Research, Game Development and the Medical Community to explore and innovate within the area of Health. The conference provides an excellent opportunity to showcase practice and to mainstream research ideas and outcomes. It will introduce a wider audience to key findings and products from research and will illustrate how practice feeds back into and informs research. The conference will create a forum for two-way communication between the academic and practitioner communities and particularly welcomes user led presentations and workshops. The programme will include presentations of papers, workshops, a doctoral consortium and an exhibition space for demonstrations and posters. Themes and topics: The conference encourages papers from multi disciplines, especially from game & play as well as from health practitioners and researchers. This call for papers is intended to solicit contributions from an international audience on recent developments and experiments that: • Present innovative and state-of-the-art design and applications that use playful concepts in health care settings, • Describe game-based and playful solutions to behavior change and pervasive healthcare problems, • Share experiences, insights, best-practices and lessons-learned, • Report the results of technical and social evaluations with regards to playful interaction and serious game design related to health care, • Report scientific insights on development and efficacy of gameplay in professional an patient education, • Report results of longitudinal studies, • Discuss and highlight the key challenges and future developments within the domain. Selected (peer reviewed) papers will be published by Springer Publishers. Submission Deadline: May 24th, 2013 Notification of Acceptance: June 21th, 2013 Final Submission: July 15th, 2013 Please find more information and submission forms on http://www.gamesforhealtheurope.org/academic-track or mail: Alex Gekker ( a.gekker(a)uu.nl) The editors: Prof. Dr. B.A.M. Schouten BA (Eindhoven University of Technology) Dr. Marlies Schijven, MD MHSc (Academic Medical Center of Amsterdam) Dr. Ir. M.M. Bekker (Eindhoven University of Technology) Prof. Dr. Ben A.M. Schouten BA Playful Interactions Department of Industrial Design Eindhoven University of Technology P.O Box 513, 5600 MB Eindhoven, The Netherlands Main Building 3.38 phn: 31(0)40-2472481 fax: 31(0)40-2475376 cel: 31 (0)653758997

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Free Software Workshop in Porto Alegre
by Yuri Takhteyev 24 Jan '13

24 Jan '13

Perhaps some AoIR members would be interested in this workshop on free / open source software in Porto Alegre next summer. The deadline is February 20. - yuri ----------------------------------------- International Free Software Workshop 2013 ----------------------------------------- http://softwarelivre.org/wsl >From the pioneer software sharing communities created around UNIX to the community of Emacs hackers and beyond, Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) development has been growing exponentially, following the popularization and widespread usage of personal computers and the Internet. Not only have FOSS communities expanded globally, but also its body of literature, becoming relevant for computer scientists and engineers, as well as for researchers in the humanities and social sciences. In the past decade, FOSS research was consolidated around questions such as individual motivation, collaborative practices, issues of scale, governance, and coordination of development efforts, as well as problems of political economy, involving the study of economic models, and forms of political mobilization around Free Software. Our main goal in this workshop is to evaluate the state-of-the-art in interdisciplinary research, exploring technical, legal, socioeconomic, and cultural aspects of FOSS. We will focus on the aforementioned research topics by discussing new contributions to the literature. We invite paper submissions from any academic discipline on the following and related topics: - FOSS licensing and related legal aspects, copyright disputes, software patents, GPL compliance, collective and individual ownership of code; - FOSS engineering, development methodologies, source code metrics, and software quality assessment; - Social, cultural, and economic studies of FOSS, involving qualitative and quantitative studies of development and activist communities; - FOSS case studies: in-depth analysis of cases of implementation, migration, success, or failure of FOSS projects worldwide; - FOSS expansion and ongoing transformation: beyond software development and towards Free Culture, Open Hardware, Open Access, online independent journalism, and collaborative Internet-based projects. About FISL and WSL ------------------ The International Free Software Workshop (WSL) is a scientific event which takes place within the International Free Software Forum (FISL). Since 2000, FISL is organized by Free Software activists in Porto Alegre, Brazil, and represents one of the biggest and most important FOSS conferences in the world. WSL welcomes papers from different disciplinary traditions, offering the opportunity for professors, researchers, students, and other professionals to present and discuss original research developed at research centers, companies, or universities which develop, use, disseminate, and/or reflect critically upon FOSS in its technical, legal, socioeconomic, and cultural aspects. This call for papers can be found translated in other languages at: http://softwarelivre.org/wsl Information for Authors ----------------------- - Papers should be written in English, Portuguese, or Spanish - Papers should have a maximum length of 20 printed pages, including abstract, figures and references - Submissions must be in PDF (following the SBC template at http://tux.gseis.ucla.edu/template_SBC/) - Papers should be sent my email to luisfelipe/*/at/*/ucla.edu Papers will be evaluated by academic reviewers with experience in FOSS research, considering technical content and relevance for the workshop. All accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings and will be available in the open repository of the WSL community page (http://softwarelivre.org/wsl) under a Creative Commons license: Attribution 3.0 unported (CC-BY-3.0). In addition to the conference proceedings, the organizers are planning to publish a book -- probably in digital format -- with the best articles submitted to WSL. For co-authored papers, the authors must define one presenter for WSL2013. The presenter will receive a promotional code to register free of charge for FISL. Accommodation and transportation expenses are not funded by FISL or by the WSL. Important Dates --------------- - Deadline for the submission of proposals: February 20th, 2013 - Publication of accepted proposals: Mid-April, 2013 - Deadline for final papers (camera-ready): April 30th, 2013 - International Free Software Forum (FISL), Porto Alegre, Brazil July 3rd - 6th, 2013 - Workshop Free Software (WSL), Porto Alegre, Brazil July 4th - 5th, 2013 Organizing Committee -------------------- General Chair ------------- Carlos D. Santos (Universidade de Brasilia, Brazil) Program Committee Chair ----------------------- Luis Felipe R. Murillo (University of California, Los Angeles, USA) Local Arrangements and Publication Chair ---------------------------------------- Paulo Meirelles (Universidade de Sao Paulo, Brazil) Publicity Co-Chairs ------------------- Imed Hammouda (Tampere University of Technology, Finland) Gregorio Robles (Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Spain) Rafael Evangelista (Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Brazil) Veronica Xhardez (Flacso/CONICET - SoLAr, Argentina) Yuri Takhteyev (University of Toronto, Canada) Program Committee ----------------- Ana Cristina Matte (Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil) Andre Leme Fleury (Universidade de Sao Paulo) Anthony Wasserman (Carnegie Mellon University, USA) Antonio Terceiro (Universidade Federal da Bahia, Brazil) Carolina Rossini (Electronic Frontier Foundation, USA) Célia Ralha (Universidade de Brasilia, Brazil) Christiana Freitas (Universidade de Brasilia, Brazil) Christopher Kelty (University of California, Los Angeles, USA) Daniel Batista (Universidade de Sao Paulo, Brazil) Fabio Kon (Universidade de Sao Paulo, Brazil) Gabriella Coleman (McGill University, Canada) Islene Garcia (Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Brazil) Jelena Karanovic (New York University, USA) Lilly Nguyen (University of California, Los Angeles, USA) Masayuki Hatta (Surugadai University, Japan) Tim Davies (University of Southampton, UK) Stefan Koch (Bogazici University, Turkey) -- Coding Places: Software Practice in a South American City The MIT Press 2012 http://codingplaces.net/

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Professor in Digital Humanities, Media, and Culture
by Randy Kluver 24 Jan '13

24 Jan '13

Texas A&M University seeks to hire a dynamic researcher with an established record in digital humanities research and/or humanities, artistic, or information visualization to participate in establishing an interdisciplinary Institute for Digital Humanities, Media, and Culture (IDHMC). Currently an "initiative," the IDHMC<http://idhmc.tamu.edu> (http://idhmc.tamu.edu) will become an Institute upon approval by the Texas A&M University System Board of Regents. Possible research areas for this position include but are not limited to Visualization (including artistic, information, and scientific visualization), Computer Science, Architecture, data-mining, software development, graphic design, pattern recognition, etc. (please see more at our Center for the Study of Digital Libraries). The IDHMC supports interdisciplinary scholarly and creative work that broadly explores the relationship between computing technologies and culture. We are interested in researchers who combine critical thinking with design, creativity, or production in their research and who are willing to shape the emerging direction of this center by galvanizing faculty, graduate students, programmers, and/or digital librarians across a span of colleges in Texas A&M University. A Ph.D., MFA, MLS, or equivalent in achievement is required. Further information is available at http://idhmc.tamu.edu/blog/2013/01/21/wanted-professor-for-the-initiative-f… -- Randy Kluver, Ph.D. Executive Director, Global Program Support Global Partnerships and Projects Associate Professor, Department of Communication Texas A&M University Bizzell Hall West 253 | 3371 TAMU College Station, TX 77843-3371| USA Tel. +1 979.845.3099

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ACM Web Science 2013 in Paris
by Claudia Roda 24 Jan '13

24 Jan '13

Dear Colleagues, Please consider submitting a workshop proposal at ACM Web Science 2013 that will take place in Paris on May 1-5 2013. We look forward to proposals covering the wide variety of disciplines concerned with the use and development of the Web. Both French and English language workshops are welcome. The deadline for workshop proposals submission is February 4th and the call can be found at http://www.websci13.org/call-for-workshops/. Please also see other calls at http://www.websci13.org/ Best regards, Claudia Roda Workshop Chair ACM Web Science 2013

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MA in Communication Studies at Laurier
by Jeremy hunsinger 24 Jan '13

24 Jan '13

The Communication Studies Department at Wilfrid Laurier University invites applications to its Master of Arts program. Our vibrant and interdisciplinary MA program allows students to engage with a wide array of different subject areas and topics. The two central fields of the program, 1. Visual Communication and Culture, and 2. Media, Technology and Culture, ensure students receive a rigorous foundation in the critical analysis of a wide variety of communication media. The Department's highly interdisciplinary faculty seek to provide a lively intellectual community open to new ideas and approaches, providing students with a broad perspective on the political, social, cultural, historical and aesthetic dimensions of communication studies. Many of us teach or have research connections with other departments in the university, allowing students the opportunity to branch out into areas beyond communication studies. Applications to the program should be received by February 8, 2013. For further information click on the following link: http://wwwwlu.ca/page.php?grp_id=286&p=7594

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Any tool to analyse tweets in a trend
by Muhammad Babur 23 Jan '13

23 Jan '13

Dear All Can you please identify some tool that can be used to analyse tweets in a particular trends ? Kind Regards, Muhammad Babur Founder and Executive Board Member (ELLTA : www.ellta.org)

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|| ACADEMIC MINDTREK || LAST CALL: 3rd June || Last CfP || * HCI * Social Media * Digital Games * Open Source * Media Management * Ambient Media *
by artur.lugmayr＠tut.fi 23 Jan '13

23 Jan '13

============================================================================================ Academic MindTrek Conference 2012: Last Call for Papers, Extended Abstracts, Posters, Demonstrations, Workshops, Tutorials 3rd-5th October, 2012 Tampere, Finland http://www.academicmindtrek.org, http://www.mindtrek.org * SOCIAL MEDIA * AMBIENT MEDIA * MEDIA MANAGEMENT * HCI * OPEN SOURCE * DIGITAL GAMES * Long and short papers, posters, demonstrations, and extended abstracts due on: 3rd JUNE 2012 (LAST CALL) Tutorials and Workshops due on: 1st JUNE 2012 in cooperation with ACM, ACM SIGMM, and ACM SIGCHI contributions will be published in the ACM digital library and a selected set of high-level work will be published as book chapters or in journals ============================================================================================ CALL FOR PAPERS, EXTENDED ABSTRACTS, POSTERS, DEMONSTRATIONS, WORKSHOPS & TUTORIALS We are pleased to invite you to the Academic MindTrek conference, 3rd ? 5th October 2012, which brings together a cross-disciplinary crowd of people to investigate current and emerging topics of media in the ubiquitous arena. The conference explores academically the emerging and frontier-breaking applications of new media in everyday contexts of leisure, business and organizational life. October 3rd is the main Academic MindTrek day. Due increasing popularity of the conference, we are extending the scope of Academic MindTrek 2012! The academic conference features six major themes: * Social Media * Ambient & Ubiquitous Media * Business & Media * Human-Computer Interaction (new track!) * Open Source * Digital Games SOCIAL MEDIA ?Get social!? Social media and Web 2.0 technologies are applied in ever diverse practices both in private and public communities. Totally new business models are emerging, traditional communication and expression modalities are challenged, and new practices are constructed in the collaborative, interactive media space. AMBIENT AND UBIQUITOUS MEDIA ?The medium is the message!? ? This conference track focuses on the definition of ambient and ubiquitous media with a cross-disciplinary viewpoint: ambient media between technology, art, and content. The focus of this track is on applications, location based services, ubiquitous computation, augmented reality, theory, art-works, mixed reality concepts, the Web 3.0, and user experiences that make ubiquitous and ambient media tick. MEDIA BUSINESS, MEDIA PRODUCTION AND MEDIA MANAGEMENT Media business and media management face the challenges of the emergence of new forms of digital media. This theme focuses on business studies, policies, practices, and organizational structure of media firms. It discusses competition, patterns of media usage, advertising models, and how traditional media can cope with the challenges coming from digital media focusing on media business and media management issues. HUMAN-COMPUTER INTERACTION (HCI) The wide field of HCI is to discuss issues around human computer interaction modalities, consumer experience, design of computer systems, human aspects, universal media access, ergonomics, communication, novel interaction modalities, privacy, trusted systems, interaction theories, and sociological and psychological factors. This theme of devotes to several of these aspects, and is targeted to the scientific community dealing with several applied and theoretical aspects of HCI and user experience. OPEN SOURCE The last decade has seen a significant increase in open source initiatives such as open source software, open standards, open content, open media, or even open source hardware. On the one hand, the open movement has created new kinds of opportunities such as new business models and development approaches. On the other hand, it has introduced new kinds of technical and non-technical challenges. DIGITAL GAMES The culture and business of digital games is becoming increasingly varied. The current trends range from novel interface innovations and digital distribution channels to social game dynamics and player-generated content. The games track is open for theoretical works, empirical case studies and constructive projects. DEMONSTRATIONS The aim is to gather demonstrations from researchers and professionals from the communities related to the topics of MindTrek. The objective for the demonstrations is to provide a forum for exchanging experiences, practical projects, or media demonstrators. The target audience includes members of the academic community, industry, or laboratories who can demonstrate the results of their research projects with a practical implementation. ACADEMIC MINDTREK AS A CONFERENCE In addition, special academic sessions (e.g. tutorials, demonstrations, workshops, and multidisciplinary sessions) will be held parallel to the MindTrek business conference. Academic speakers and authors are warmly welcome to register for the business conference tracks as part of the academic conference with our special registration rate. The Academic MindTrek registration includes full service such as coffees, lunches, and social gatherings. The MindTrek Association hosts MindTrek as a yearly conference, where the Academic MindTrek conference has been a part of this unique set of events comprising competitions, world famous keynote speakers, plenary sessions, media festivals, and workshops since 1997. It is a meeting place where experts and thinkers present results from their latest work regarding the development of Internet, interactive media, and the information society. MindTrek brings together researchers and practitioners from diverse disciplines that are involved in the development of media in various fields, ranging from sociology and the economy, to technology. The organizing committee invites you to submit original high quality full papers, long or short, addressing the special theme and the topics, for presentation at the conference and inclusion in the proceedings. CONFERENCE PUBLICATIONS The scientific part of the conference is organized in cooperation with ACM SIGMM, and ACM SIGCHI. Conference proceedings will be published in the ACM Digital Library, which includes short and long papers, workshop proposals, demonstration proposals, and tutorial proposals. Extended abstracts will be published in the adjunct conference proceedings; however, they will not be published within the ACM Digital Library. Selected high quality papers will be published in international journals, as book chapters, edited books, or via open access journals. There will also be a reward for the overall best paper from the academic conference. Several papers should follow the style guidelines of the conference. SHORT AND LONG PAPER PROPOSALS All submissions will be peer-reviewed double blinded, therefore please remove any information that could give an indication of the authorship. Short papers should be between 2-4 pages long and the paper presentation will be 15 minutes plus 5 minutes discussion within a session; long papers should be 6-8 pages and will be presented in 20 minutes slots, plus 5 minutes discussion. WORKSHOP PROPOSALS Feel free to suggest workshops which are co-organized with the Academic MindTrek. Workshop proposals should include the organizing committee, a 2 page description of the theme of the workshop, a short CV of organizers, duration, the proceedings publisher, and the schedule. Workshop organizers also have the possibility to add publications to the main conference proceedings. Depending on the attracted number of papers for each workshop, we provide space for either half-day or full-day workshops. DEMONSTRATIONS PROPOSALS Demonstration proposals shall be 2-3 pages and include: a) a description and motivation of the demonstration; b) general architecture of the demonstration; c) description of the main features; d) a brief comparison with other existing related demonstrations; e) audio-visual materials to illustrate the demonstration (if applicable); f) the type of license, and g) the Internet address of the demonstration (if applicable). It is strongly recommended that the authors make the demonstration (or a suitable version or movie) on the Internet during the evaluation. TUTORIAL PROPOSALS Tutorial proposals should include a 2-page description of the tutorial, intended audience, a short CV, timetable, required equipment, references, and a track record of previous tutorials. The target length of tutorials is 2-4 hours. EXTENDED ABSTRACTS Extended abstracts should be between 1-2 pages long and contain 500-800 words. They should describe the research problem, background, research questions, and the contribution to the conference. Extended abstracts will not be published within the ACM digital library. POSTER PRESENTATIONS Posters should be between 2-3 pages long and a poster should be presented during the conference. Attendees have the possibility to exhibit their posters on a A0 poster wall during the conference. SUBMISSION DEADLINES - 3rd June 2012 (LAST CALL): deadline for long papers (6-8 pages), short papers (3-4 pages), extended abstracts (1-2 pages), posters (1-2 pages) and demonstrations (2-3 pages) - 1st June 2012: deadline for tutorial proposals and workshop proposals - 5th August 2012: camera ready papers and copyright forms KEY-DATES - 15th July 2012: notification of acceptance/rejection for papers, extended abstracts, posters, and demos, tutorials - 5th August 2012: submission of camera ready papers - 3rd-5th October 2012: Academic MindTrek and MindTrek Business Conference Suggested key-dates for workshop organizers - 15th August 2012: deadline for workshop papers - 10th September 2012: deadline for camera-ready papers CONFERENCE THEMES 1. Social Media - business models, service models, and policies - social media in innovation and business - intra- and interorganizational use of social media - questions related to identity, motivation and values - blogs, wikis, collaboration and social platform designs in practice - knowledge management and learning with social media - experience management with social media - crowdsourcing, user-created content and social networks - enterprise 2.0 and social computing in work organizations - evaluation and research methods of social media - social media and community design - benefits and limitations of social media applications 2. Ambient and Ubiquitous Media - between Technology, Services, and Users - applications and services utilizing ubiquitous and pervasive technology - ubicom in eLearning, leisure, storytelling, art works, advertising, and mixed reality contexts - next generation user interfaces, ergonomics, multimodality, and human-computer interaction - art works for smart public or indoor spaces, mobile phones, museums, or cultural applications - context awareness, sensor perception, context sensitive Internet, and smart daily objects - personalization, multimodal interaction, smart user interfaces, and ergonomics - ambient human computer interaction, experience design, usability, and audience research - software, hardware, middleware, and technologies for pervasive and ubiquitous - theoretical methods and algorithms in ubiquitous and ambient systems - business models, service models, media economics, regulations, x-commerce, and policies - user positioning, location awareness - augmented reality in ubiquitous applications - device interoperability, remote user interfaces, inter-device connections 3. Media Business, Media Studies, and Media Management - media policy, politics, practices, conception, and media regulation - organizational structures, practices, and strategies - production technology, processes, and optimization - business models, service models, public funding, and media economics - patterns of media use, engagement, and consumer experiences - advertising, media consumption, new audience models, and media user models - competition analysis, media governing, assessment, performance indicators - business and media management: gaming, social media, Internet, digital cinema, iTV - traditional media business and management: broadcasting, publishing, journalism, and movie industry - innovative service designs, strategies, and ideas - teaching & training of media management and media business 4. Human-Computer Interaction - user experience and experience design - interaction design techniques and methods - user interaction and HCI design - creativity, practices and innovation in HCI - analysis, theories, and procedures in interaction design - methods, systems, and toolkits supporting HCI - human centered computing and understanding interaction - interactivity methods - designing for experience and interactivity - design, evaluation, and implementation of interactive systems - phenomena surrounding interactivity 5. Open Source - forms of openness: open source software, open standards, open content, open media, open source hardware, and open access - establishment of an open source community - practices on developing open source systems - practices for maintaining a successful project - open source processes and techniques - differences on open source and closed source systems - using open source in commercial context - challenges of open source development - teaching open source in academia and industry 6. Digital Games - theoretical and analytical approaches on games and play - analysis of player experience - game design research - economy and business models in the game industry - innovation in and around games - digital distribution of games - online gaming - social and casual gaming - player-created content - pervasive and ubiquitous gaming - mobile and cross-media gaming - gamification, funware and playful designs PAPER SUBMISSION - Please follow the style guidelines on http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates for formatting your paper - Note that since the papers will be published by the ACM digital library all authors need to sign an ACM copyright form. (For further guidelines see: http://www.acm.org/pubs/copyright_form.html) - Submit papers here http://webhotel2.tut.fi/emmi/Conferences/2012mindtrek/ ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Artur Lugmayr, Tampere Univ. of Technology (TUT), FIN Helj? Franssila, Tampere Univ. (UTA), FIN Karsten Wolf, Univ. Bremen, GER Hannu K?rkk?inen, Tampere Univ. of Technology (TUT), FIN Janne Paavilainen, University of Tampere (UTA), FIN Theresa Champel, Univ. of Lisbon, PT Yuan Fu, Tampere Univ. of Technology (TUT), FIN Moyen Mustaquim, Uppsala University, SE Dominik Strohmeier, Berlin Institute of Technology (TU Berlin), GER CONTACT Questions concerning academic content, papers, tutorials, workshops, scientific contributions: Email:academic-mindtrek-chairs@listmail.tut.fi General questions concerning payments, administration, copyright forms, local arrangements, and the venue: Email: academic-mindtrek-info(a)listmail.tut.fi PAPER SUBMISSIONS http://webhotel2.tut.fi/emmi/Conferences/2012mindtrek/ FURTHER INFORMATION http://www.academicmindtrek.org SUPPORTED BY MindTrek Association, City of Tampere, Tampere University of Technology (TUT), Tampere University (UTA), Tampere University of Applied Sciences (TAMK), Ambient Media Association (AMEA).

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Reminder: YAWCRC/ RMIT University Scholarships: deadline 31st January
by Larissa Hjorth 22 Jan '13

22 Jan '13

Dear AiR-L, *Two 3-year PhD Scholarships available at RMIT University:* *A. 3-year PhD Scholarship: **Mobile game development for young people’s emotional wellbeing (Games of Being Social)*** School of Media and Communication, RMIT University Australia This three-year scholarship is for a PhD candidate who will contribute to the fieldwork for a participatory design/ethnographic study of mobile gaming and design with young people. The candidate will also conduct literature reviews around mobile media, gaming and young people for the Young And Well Cooperative Research Centre (YAWCRC). S/he will spend at least 12 months over the three years of candidature documenting, archiving and analysing mobile gaming practices contributing to a study of mobile game development for young people’s emotional wellbeing. As a discrete case study, the PhD candidate will participate in and contribute to a recently funded Young and Well CRC Project “Technologies for Supportive Communities”. Eligible candidates will have a BA, BA with Honours or MA/MSC in Games Studies/Game Design, Communication, Science and Technology Studies, Media Studies, Cultural Studies or other related discipline. Applicants must meet the eligibility requirements for an Australian Postgraduate Award (APA). The Scholarship, which covers tuition, fees, a small top-up stipend, and other research expenses, will begin in March 2013. Initial expressions of interest should be sent to Associate Professor Larissa Hjorth at larissa.hjorth(a)rmit.edu.au Please note that all applicants will need to apply for, and be accepted to, the PhD program in Media and Communication at RMIT University. Please note revised application deadline is 31 January 2013: http://www.rmit.edu.au/browse;ID=bw6o1u84scql1 *B. 3-year PhD Scholarship: Supportive Online Connections for Young People* School of Media and Communication, RMIT University Australia Over a three-year period, the PhD candidate will contribute to the fieldwork for a study of online communities and social networking used by young people. The candidate will also conduct literature reviews around social media, online communities, and young people’s mental health and wellbeing for the Young And Well Cooperative Research Centre (YAWCRC). S/he will spend at least 12 months over the three years of candidature documenting and analysing social media practices that lead to good mental health and wellbeing. Through this research, the PhD candidate will participate in, and contribute to, a Young and Well Cooperative Research Centre funded project called “Technologies for Supportive Communities”. Eligible candidates will have a BA, BA with Honours or MA/MSC in Communication, Psychology, Anthropology, Sociology, Science and Technology Studies, Informatics, Media Studies or other related discipline. Applications utilising ethnographic/participatory design or social science methodologies are encouraged. Applicants must meet the eligibility requirements for an Australian Postgraduate Award (APA). The Scholarship, which covers tuition, fees, a small top-up stipend, and other research expenses, will begin by March 2013. Initial expressions of interest should be sent to Dr Jenny Robinson at jenny.robinson(a)rmit.edu.au Please note that all applicants will need to apply for and be accepted to the PhD program in Media and Communication at RMIT University. Please note revised application deadline is 31 January 2013 *About the School of Media and Communication at RMIT University:* RMIT University has a long and distinguished history of applied and theoretical media research, with our doctoral graduates positioned throughout the sector. Formed in 2009, the School of Media and Communication supports research across a number of sub-fields in media and communications, which allows for both discrete disciplinary excellence and interdisciplinary interventions. Our researchers were ranked above world standard in our fields in the recent ERA round (achieving a 4 ranking in 2001 FoR code). The new School has a total staff of over 200, an academic staff of 128, and 107 HDR candidates (80 PhDs & 27 Masters). In addition, the School has two APDs, a QEII, three Vice Chancellor’s Senior Research Fellows, a VC Fellow, and an Early Career fellow. The School also supports a top academic journal, *Communication, Politics and Culture* (previously ranked A through ERA) and a series of Centres, Groups and Labs (including the Digital Ethnography Research Centre and the Communication, Politics and Culture Centre), the Games and Experimental Entertainment Lab (GeeLab), the Exertion Games Lab, the Creative Writing Group and others. -- Dr Larissa Hjorth Associate Professor, Games Programs School of Media and Communication RMIT University Melbourne 3000 Victoria AUSTRALIA E: larissa.hjorth(a)rmit.edu.au

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Postdoc Media@McGill
by Gabriella Coleman 22 Jan '13

22 Jan '13

http://www.media.mcgill.ca/en/content/mediamcgill-postdoctoral-fellowship ---> all links and details here. Please circulate. Description: Media@McGill is a hub of interdisciplinary research, scholarship and public outreach on issues in media, technology and culture, located in the Department of Art History and Communication Studies at McGill University in Montreal, Canada. Media@McGill offers Postdoctoral Fellowships to promising scholars engaging in media-related research, as defined in Media@McGill’s mission statement. Fellows are provided with a workspace, and are expected to take an active role in the research activities and academic life of Media@McGill (participation in conferences, seminars, etc.). They may also have the possibility of teaching a course within the Department of Art History and Communication Studies at McGill. Eligibility: The Media@McGill Postdoctoral Fellowship is open to both national and international scholars who completed their doctoral degrees in a university other than McGill no earlier than June 1, 2009. Fluency in English is essential; working knowledge of French is an asset. Value and Duration: The stipend for the Media@McGill Postdoctoral Fellowship is $42,000 CAD for 12 months, beginning in the first week of September. Application Process: For 2013-14, Media@McGill will be offering one Postdoctoral Fellowship. In a cover letter, applicants must stipulate how their research is related to Media@McGill’s mission statement and to Media@McGill’s 2013-14 theme: Participatory Media. Applicants should also identify a potential faculty supervisor who is a member of Media@McGill and whose research is closely tied to that of the applicant. The following should be included in all applications: a cover letter; a research proposal (750 words); a Curriculum Vitae (maximum 5 pages); official copies of transcripts during graduate studies; 3 letters of recommendation (including one by the Media@McGill faculty supervisor); a writing sample (maximum 20 pages). Deadline: Complete applications should be sent to tamar.tembeck(a)mcgill.ca by March 28, 2013 at 5 p.m. E.S.T. Letters of recommendation can be sent separately by the referees, but must be postmarked by March 28, 2013 if sent by mail. Applications will be reviewed by Media@McGill’s Steering Committee, and candidates will be notified of results in early May 2013. For more information, visit media.mcgill.ca. -- Gabriella Coleman Wolfe Chair in Scientific and Technological Literacy Department of Art History & Communication Studies McGill University 853 Sherbrooke Street West Montreal, PQ H3A 0G5 http://gabriellacoleman.org/ 514-398-8572

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Comment scraping
by Jasmine E McNealy 22 Jan '13

22 Jan '13

Hello All, I'm looking for ideas on the best software to use for comment scraping. I plan on doing quantitative content and qualitative textual analysis on the comments connected to an article on an online pubulication. The publication uses Disqus for comments, and ideally I'd like a program that would maintain the integrity of the comment relationships. Any and all ideas are appreciated. Thanks, JM Jasmine McNealy Assistant Professor S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communication Syracuse University 215 University Place Syracuse, NY 13210 315-443-1151 http://ssrn.com/author=1357319

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