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looking for Sensor (human or tech.) dataset repository
by Babiga Birregah 01 Oct '12

01 Oct '12

Hi everyone, I am working on spatio-temporal graphs approaches. Can someone give some advice about where to find some good sensors (human or technological) dataset on which I can check my models? These datasets must have time and location footprints. Please contact me. thanks -- BIRREGAH Babiga, Phd Enseignant-Chercheur/ Assistant professor ICD UMR-CNRS 6279 STMR Sciences et Technologies pour la Maîtrise des Risques Joint Research Unit in Sciences and Technologies for Risk Management Department of Operational Research, Applied Statistics and Simulation UTT - ROSAS - CREIDD, H107 12 Rue Marie Curie CS 42060 10004 TROYES CEDEX Tél. 0325715869 QR: http://goo.gl/Et0A4

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Re: [Air-L] additional suggestions for Twitter aggregating & analytic tools
by Sean Goggins 01 Oct '12

01 Oct '12

My team at Drexel operates a twitter data collection system, Called Twitter Zombie, which is published at the 2012 ACM Group Conference ( http://www.groupinformatics.org/sites/default/files/TwitterZombieGroup.pdf ). If you have Twitter search phrases, accounts or hashtags you would like to collect without setting up infrastructure on your own, we can do that for you. We ask you to attribute your data collection to our system, but do not enforce this. The data is yours. Our current work is focusing on collaboration among social media researchers at the data collection stage, so you would also be helping us to identify these opportunities. Our work is being presented at upcoming conferences, including AOIR. Kris Unsworth and Ann-Sofie Axellson will be presenting one of our studies on "Social Media and Technologies of Control" at the upcoming AoIR conference. We also have a systematic set of analysis methodological approaches for Twitter and other social media data that we are planning to share at workshops at upcoming conferences. Thanks! Sean P. Goggins, PhD Assistant Professor Drexel University http://www.groupinformatics.org On 10/1/12 9:06 AM, "Maurice Vergeer" <m.vergeer(a)maw.ru.nl> wrote: >correct. There was Twapperkeeper which has become Hootsuite. This is >YourTwapperkeeper, the open source version (see >http://mappingonlinepublics.net/2011/06/21/switching-from-twapperkeeper-to >-y >ourtwapperkeeper/ >) > >best regards >Maurice > >On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 2:45 PM, Siapera, Eugenia (Dr.) < >es107(a)leicester.ac.uk> wrote: > >> Great thread and very useful for some of us - however, I am slightly >> confused re Twapperkeeper - I was under the impression that it got sold >>to >> Hootsuite and is no longer available to download-use? >> >> ________________________________________ >> From: air-l-bounces(a)listserv.aoir.org [air-l-bounces(a)listserv.aoir.org] >> On Behalf Of Maurice Vergeer [m.vergeer(a)maw.ru.nl] >> Sent: 30 September 2012 21:59 >> To: air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org >> Cc: eciszek(a)uoregon.edu; a.bruns(a)qut.edu.au >> Subject: Re: [Air-L] additional suggestions for Twitter aggregating & >> analytic tools >> >> Axel Bruns beat me to it. Yes, I would advise YourTwapperkeeper for data >> collection as well. I've been using it for a while and am very pleased >>with >> it. Things are indeed very well described in the First Monday >>manuscript: >> >> >http://firstmonday.org/htbin/cgiwrap/bin/ojs/index.php/fm/article/viewArti >cle/39 >37/3193 >> >> As for handling the data, I prefer to use SPSS. Yes, a statistical tool. >> But I use it primarily to handle the data. Also I use SPSS to match >> external data to the Twitter data. The data Twitter provides are of >>course >> somewhat limited. However if one taps into external data sets one is >>able >> to enrich Twitter data for more advanced analyses. >> >> Also, SPSS has recently incorporated many text handling features to >>create >> new variables based on text strings. It thus also allows for creating >>your >> own metrics because - as Axel Bruns states - Twitter's metrices are >>biased. >> See my blogpost: >> >>http://blog.mauricevergeer.nl/2011/04/18/bias-in-twitter-api-measurements >>/ >> >> As for Big Data analysis: without going for the Big Data, the number of >> observations already increases rapidly anyhow. See my presentation held >>at >> WAPOR Amsterdam: >> >> >>http://www.slideshare.net/maver/candidates-communication-patterns-on-twit >>ter >> . >> SPSS can easily handle large amounts of data. >> As for large networks, I would recommend Pajek: >> http://mrvar.fdv.uni-lj.si/pajek/. They even released another version >> Pajek >> XXL for very very large networks. >> >> Finally I know R the statstical / programming software also has a >>Twitter >> package (http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/twitteR/index.html) >>Have >> tried it once, but because I am noy (yet) an R-expert haven't used it >>since >> then. The advantage of using it in R would be that one cold stay within >>a >> single software environment. R also has text ( >> http://gking.harvard.edu/readme) and several network analytical >>packages. >> >> HTH >> Maurice >> >> >> . >> >> >> >> >> ___________________________________________________________________ >> Maurice Vergeer >> To contact me, see http://mauricevergeer.nl/node/5 >> To see my publications, see http://mauricevergeer.nl/node/1 >> ___________________________________________________________________ >> _______________________________________________ >> The Air-L(a)listserv.aoir.org mailing list >> is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org >> Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: >> http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org >> >> Join the Association of Internet Researchers: >> http://www.aoir.org/ > > > > >-- >___________________________________________________________________ >Maurice Vergeer >To contact me, see http://mauricevergeer.nl/node/5 >To see my publications, see http://mauricevergeer.nl/node/1 >___________________________________________________________________ >_______________________________________________ >The Air-L(a)listserv.aoir.org mailing list >is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org >Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: >http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org > >Join the Association of Internet Researchers: >http://www.aoir.org/ >

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Re: [Air-L] additional suggestions for Twitter aggregating & analytic tools
by Maurice Vergeer 01 Oct '12

01 Oct '12

correct. There was Twapperkeeper which has become Hootsuite. This is YourTwapperkeeper, the open source version (see http://mappingonlinepublics.net/2011/06/21/switching-from-twapperkeeper-to-… ) best regards Maurice On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 2:45 PM, Siapera, Eugenia (Dr.) < es107(a)leicester.ac.uk> wrote: > Great thread and very useful for some of us - however, I am slightly > confused re Twapperkeeper - I was under the impression that it got sold to > Hootsuite and is no longer available to download-use? > > ________________________________________ > From: air-l-bounces(a)listserv.aoir.org [air-l-bounces(a)listserv.aoir.org] > On Behalf Of Maurice Vergeer [m.vergeer(a)maw.ru.nl] > Sent: 30 September 2012 21:59 > To: air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org > Cc: eciszek(a)uoregon.edu; a.bruns(a)qut.edu.au > Subject: Re: [Air-L] additional suggestions for Twitter aggregating & > analytic tools > > Axel Bruns beat me to it. Yes, I would advise YourTwapperkeeper for data > collection as well. I've been using it for a while and am very pleased with > it. Things are indeed very well described in the First Monday manuscript: > > http://firstmonday.org/htbin/cgiwrap/bin/ojs/index.php/fm/article/viewArtic… > > As for handling the data, I prefer to use SPSS. Yes, a statistical tool. > But I use it primarily to handle the data. Also I use SPSS to match > external data to the Twitter data. The data Twitter provides are of course > somewhat limited. However if one taps into external data sets one is able > to enrich Twitter data for more advanced analyses. > > Also, SPSS has recently incorporated many text handling features to create > new variables based on text strings. It thus also allows for creating your > own metrics because - as Axel Bruns states - Twitter's metrices are biased. > See my blogpost: > http://blog.mauricevergeer.nl/2011/04/18/bias-in-twitter-api-measurements/ > > As for Big Data analysis: without going for the Big Data, the number of > observations already increases rapidly anyhow. See my presentation held at > WAPOR Amsterdam: > > http://www.slideshare.net/maver/candidates-communication-patterns-on-twitter > . > SPSS can easily handle large amounts of data. > As for large networks, I would recommend Pajek: > http://mrvar.fdv.uni-lj.si/pajek/. They even released another version > Pajek > XXL for very very large networks. > > Finally I know R the statstical / programming software also has a Twitter > package (http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/twitteR/index.html) Have > tried it once, but because I am noy (yet) an R-expert haven't used it since > then. The advantage of using it in R would be that one cold stay within a > single software environment. R also has text ( > http://gking.harvard.edu/readme) and several network analytical packages. > > HTH > Maurice > > > . > > > > > ___________________________________________________________________ > Maurice Vergeer > To contact me, see http://mauricevergeer.nl/node/5 > To see my publications, see http://mauricevergeer.nl/node/1 > ___________________________________________________________________ > _______________________________________________ > The Air-L(a)listserv.aoir.org mailing list > is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org > Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: > http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org > > Join the Association of Internet Researchers: > http://www.aoir.org/ -- ___________________________________________________________________ Maurice Vergeer To contact me, see http://mauricevergeer.nl/node/5 To see my publications, see http://mauricevergeer.nl/node/1 ___________________________________________________________________

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New Issue of CyberOrient: The Net Worth of the Arab Spring
by Vit Sisler 01 Oct '12

01 Oct '12

Dear colleagues, a new issue of the CyberOrient journal (http://www.cyberorient.net/) is now available online. It aims for critical and evidence-based evaluation of the use of social media in the Arab Spring, the coverage of the Arab Spring in cyberspace and beyond, and the remediation and appropriation between social media and traditional media outlets, including satellite TVs and the press. Vol. 6, Iss. 1, 2011 Editorial The Net Worth of the Arab Spring Ines Braune http://www.cyberorient.net/article.do?articleId=7760 When I was asked to be the guest editor of the current issue of CyberOrient, I realized this is a welcome opportunity to arrange and re-sort some aspects, points, and arguments about the role of the media during the Arab Spring. In the course of the events late in 2010 and early in 2011, I felt enthusiastic and overwhelmed - not primarily as a scholar with a background in Middle Eastern and media studies, but as someone who was part of the peaceful German revolution in 1989 as a young teenager. Upon reflection, I took up the role of a media researcher considering how the use of media shaped these events. Though much has already been said and written about the media and Arab Spring, it would be worthwhile after a bit more than a year to reflect and reevaluate the relationship between the media and revolutions. Due to my involvement in this edition, and after numerous discussions with colleagues, and students in my media seminar in the summer term, I frequently came across the following three points: the significance of mediatization processes, the online-offline dichotomy, and various kinds of amnesia. Articles Political Activism 2.0: Comparing the Role of Social Media in Egypt’s “Facebook Revolution” and Iran’s “Twitter Uprising” Mohammed El-Nawawy and Sahar Khamis http://www.cyberorient.net/article.do?articleId=7439 Social media, particularly blogging, Facebook and Twitter, have played a key role in instigating, accelerating and even organizing some of the uprisings and revolutions that have been taking place all over the Middle East. This role has been effective in galvanizing the youth and empowering them in their fights against repressive regimes and their plight for more freedom and independence. This study looks into the social media role in the so-called “Facebook revolution”, which took place in Egypt in January 2011 and the so-called “Twitter uprising”, which took place in Iran in June 2009. The Egyptian revolution did succeed in toppling the regime, while the Iranian uprising failed. Why did the calls for political change that started in the virtual world lead to actual change in the real world in Egypt but not in Iran? This study addresses this question by providing a critical analysis of the available literature and interviews with online activists in Egypt and Iran. The authors used the SPIN model (Segmentation, polycentrism, integration and networking) as a theoretical framework and concluded that the model helped social media succeed in Egypt, but not in Iran. Al Jazeera’s Framing of Social Media During the Arab Spring Heidi A. Campbell and Diana Hawk http://www.cyberorient.net/article.do?articleId=7758 This study investigates how Al Jazeera framed social media in relation to the revolutions and protests of the “Arab Spring” within its broadcast media coverage. A content analysis of Arabic language broadcasts appearing from January 25th through February 18th 2011, covering the protests in Tahrir Square, was conducted using the Broadcast Monitoring System (BMS) and Arab Spring Archive. Through this analysis we see a number of common narratives being used by Al Jazeera to frame social media and make claims about the influence they had on the protests and related social movements. By noting the frequency of social communications technologies referenced, ways in which these technologies were characterized and interpreting supporting themes with which they were identified helps illuminate the assumptions promoted by Al Jazeera regarding the role and impact of social communications technology on these events. Remixing the Spring!: Connective leadership and read-write practices in the 2011 Arab uprisings Donatella Della Ratta and Augusto Valeriani http://www.cyberorient.net/article.do?articleId=7763 This article discusses the connections between the unfolding of the 2011 Arab uprisings and the “culture of the net”. Being far from overestimating the role that Internet has played in the uprisings, we propose to look at it not as an ensemble of tools, applications and technologies; but as a specific set of values, behaviors, skills and strategies that define the cultural dimension of the web. The article shows how linking, sharing and remixing have been among the core cultural practices behind the social movements that were successful in confronting Egypt and Tunisia`s regimes. We also discuss how, despite the fact that the Syrian uprising has not achieved its political goal, yet it shares a similar cultural framework based on participation, peer-production, remix practices. Beyond the Soapbox: Facebook and the Public Sphere in Egypt Anton Root http://www.cyberorient.net/article.do?articleId=7751 The question of the internet as a forum for political debate is continuously contested. My research grows out of such scholarship but focuses specifically on Facebook as a virtual public sphere in Egypt. Based on an analysis of a note posted by Wael Ghonim during the January 25 uprising on the Facebook group ‘We are all Khaled Said,’ I discuss the structural and technological benefits of the platform, as well as user behavior and interaction with one another. Using Jürgen Habermas’ The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere and Yochai Benkler’s The Wealth of Networks as the theoretical groundwork for my study, I make observations about the internet’s ability to allow considered opinion, not just to record popular sentiment. I argue that while Facebook’s structure has both drawbacks and advantages for promoting discussion, the new medium's biggest limitation in helping to produce a virtual public sphere is user inexperience with the platform. Comments Egyptian uprising: Redefining Egyptian political community and reclaiming the public space Mervat Youssef and Anup Kumar http://www.cyberorient.net/article.do?articleId=7766 The purpose of this paper is to understand and explain the emergence of a public sphere and the articulation of a new Egyptian identity. We argue that the Egyptian revolution, catalyzed by the social media, was possible because the young men and women succeeded in reclaiming the public space from the apparatuses of the post-colonial state. There was a contest between the protesters and the regime over the meaning of Egyptian identity and what it means to be an Egyptian. The protesters were able to redefine the Egyptian public sphere and redraw its contour. Through a semiotic and discourse analysis of the repertoires of protest, the symbols, the slogans and the images at Tahrir Square and on social media sites, we hope to show how the youth-led massive social mobilization redefined and reconstructed the civil society and the Egyptian national political community (identity). Reviews The Digital Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy: Information Technology and Political Islam Jon W. Anderson http://www.cyberorient.net/article.do?articleId=7753 Howard's book The Digital Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy focuses on the relation between ITCs and civil society and democracy in the Muslim world. It assembled a database of indicators (for Internet availability, access, policy, ownership, structures and uses) cross-referenced to common standard measures of democratization and development for 75 countries with substantial Muslim populations. The Arab Revolution: The Lessons from the Democratic Uprising Marek Cejka http://www.cyberorient.net/article.do?articleId=7747 Filiu's book The Arab Revolution: The Lessons from the Democratic Uprising provides an overview of the context of the indirect circumstances of the Arab Spring and also takes into account the related sociological and psychological factors, which makes the book more interdisciplinary. It focuses on events in Tunisia, Egypt and Libya but also covers other parts of the MENA region. The CyberOrient journal is published by the Middle East Section of the American Anthropological Association in collaboration with the Faculty of Arts of Charles University in Prague. Follow us on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/CyberOrient Twitter: https://twitter.com/CyberOrient Feel free to forward or post this email online. All the best, -- Vit Sisler, Ph.D. Charles University in Prague Faculty of Arts & Philosophy Institute of Information Science and Librarianship New Media Studies http://uisk.jinonice.cuni.cz/sisler/

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call for partners
by Niels Ole Finnemann 01 Oct '12

01 Oct '12

Call for partners! Apologies for cross posting. We are looking for colleagues who are interested in joining an initiative for building a transnational research infrastructure for the study of web materials archived in national and similar general web archives. We are interested in three different types of response: First, we are looking for scholars/researchers who are prepared to join us in responding to a EU consultation on themes for future research infrastructures to be announced within the Horizon 2020. See Integrating Initiatives at <http://ec.europa.eu/research/infrastructures/index_en.cfm?pg=home> http://ec.europa.eu/research/infrastructures/index_en.cfm?pg=home. Scholars and institutions outside the EU are not excluded. The proposal will be submitted via DARIAH-EU (http://dariah.eu/) Second, you can allow us to mention you or your institution as possible partner without being co-responsible for the suggestion at the present stage. (There is only limited time to form a preliminary community as the suggestion shall be handed in to EU no later than Oct 22). Even if we are interested to have comments we are not going into more detailed discussions about the content of the proposal at the present stage. We will however respond everybody afterwards. Third, we are interested in establishing a community of researchers who are also prepared to enter into collaborations with relevant web archiving institutions a community which we are prepared to initiate via a seminar in 2013. Please respond if you are interested in any of these options no later than 10 October 2012. The proposal is developed in collaboration with DARIAH (dariah.eu) and NetLab (netlab.dk), which is a part of the Danish research infrastructure <http://dighumlab.dk/> DIGHUMLAB (dighumlab.dk). The collaborations between the Danish internet archive netarkivet.dk (a joint venture between The Royal Library, Copenhagen and The State Library, Aarhus) and the research community at The Centre for Internet Research, Aarhus University, Denmark have developed gradually since 2000 initiated by a Pilot Project on archiving the municipal elections in Denmark in 2001. The collaboration today continues within the Danish DIGHUMLAB project which includes the establishing of the NetLab research infrastructure. We are looking for possible partners based on close collaboration between archival institutions and scholarly communities. The Call and the proposal can be found at netlab.dk/ Mail to: Head of The Centre for Internet Research Niels Brügger at nb(a)imv.au.dk or Professor, dr.phil. Niels Ole Finnemann at finnemann(a)imv.au.dk Niels Ole Finnemann Professor, dr. phil. Department of Aestethics and Communication Center for Internet Research/NetLab Helsingforsgade 14 Aarhus University Denmark

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Faculty position, Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication University of Georgia
by Steve Jones 01 Oct '12

01 Oct '12

Faculty Position in Mass Media Arts  Department of Telecommunications Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication   The Department of Telecommunications of the Grady College at the University of Georgia invites applications for a tenure-track position in Mass Media Arts to begin August 2013. Academic Rank/Salary - Assistant Professor. Appointment will be commensurate with qualifications and experience. Salary competitive. Responsibilities - The Telecommunications Department seeks someone with outstanding theoretical and applied expertise in fictional and nonfictional storytelling across multiple digital platforms. The successful candidate will have demonstrable potential to produce scholarly research and/or creative work of the highest standard. The position requires the ability to teach undergraduate and graduate courses in writing for digital multiplatform media, including screenwriting; digital media production and mediated narrative theory; and a thorough grounding in media theory and practice. Also desirable, but not required, is some industry experience in digital media. Research programs or creative programs that have the potential to attract external funding are particularly desirable. The Department is home to scholars working in a variety of epistemological and methodological traditions. Qualifications - A Ph.D. or MFA in communication or related field is required. Candidates should have a demonstrated record of programmatic scholarly research or creative work and the potential for excellence in teaching. Ability to mentor and direct doctoral and masters students also is required. All successful candidates must be able to serve on graduate student committees and have the ability to direct theses and dissertations. Screening of applications will begin October 15, 2012 and continue until filled. To Apply - To apply for the position, submit a cover letter, curriculum vitae, contact information for three references, transcripts from your terminal degree program, and teaching evaluations to: Prof. Andy Kavoori, Mass Media Arts Search Committee Chair, Department of Telecommunications, Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602-3018; Email: akavoori(a)uga.edu (706)-542-4971. Learn more about the Department of Telecommunications and the Grady College at www.grady.uga.edu. Georgia is well known for its quality of life both outdoors and urban activities (www.georgia.gov) The University of Georgia (www.uga.edu) is a land grant/sea institution located 90 miles northeast of Atlanta (www.visitathensga.com) The University of Georgia is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Institution.

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Re: [Air-L] additional suggestions for Twitter aggregating & analytic tools
by Maurice Vergeer 30 Sep '12

30 Sep '12

Axel Bruns beat me to it. Yes, I would advise YourTwapperkeeper for data collection as well. I've been using it for a while and am very pleased with it. Things are indeed very well described in the First Monday manuscript: http://firstmonday.org/htbin/cgiwrap/bin/ojs/index.php/fm/article/viewArtic… As for handling the data, I prefer to use SPSS. Yes, a statistical tool. But I use it primarily to handle the data. Also I use SPSS to match external data to the Twitter data. The data Twitter provides are of course somewhat limited. However if one taps into external data sets one is able to enrich Twitter data for more advanced analyses. Also, SPSS has recently incorporated many text handling features to create new variables based on text strings. It thus also allows for creating your own metrics because - as Axel Bruns states - Twitter's metrices are biased. See my blogpost: http://blog.mauricevergeer.nl/2011/04/18/bias-in-twitter-api-measurements/ As for Big Data analysis: without going for the Big Data, the number of observations already increases rapidly anyhow. See my presentation held at WAPOR Amsterdam: http://www.slideshare.net/maver/candidates-communication-patterns-on-twitter. SPSS can easily handle large amounts of data. As for large networks, I would recommend Pajek: http://mrvar.fdv.uni-lj.si/pajek/. They even released another version Pajek XXL for very very large networks. Finally I know R the statstical / programming software also has a Twitter package (http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/twitteR/index.html) Have tried it once, but because I am noy (yet) an R-expert haven't used it since then. The advantage of using it in R would be that one cold stay within a single software environment. R also has text ( http://gking.harvard.edu/readme) and several network analytical packages. HTH Maurice . ___________________________________________________________________ Maurice Vergeer To contact me, see http://mauricevergeer.nl/node/5 To see my publications, see http://mauricevergeer.nl/node/1 ___________________________________________________________________

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#MINA2012
by Max Schleser 30 Sep '12

30 Sep '12

2nd Mobile Creativity and Mobile Innovation Symposium http://mina2012.eventbrite.co.nz [Early bird tickets available till 15th OCT] The Mobile Innovation Network Aotearoa [MINA] creates interactions between people, content and the creative industries. In its second edition the Mobile Creativity and Mobile Innovation Symposium provides a platform for filmmakers, artists, designers, researchers, ‘pro-d-users’ and industry professionals to debate the prospect of wireless, mobile and ubiquitous technologies in a changing art and design environment and the creative industries. The symposium will explore these developments and dynamics in a transdisciplinary context. As part of the program MINA also presents the International Mobile Innovation Screening 2012 at the New Zealand Film Archive in Wellington on Friday 23rd November at 6.30pm (http://mina2012screening.eventbrite.co.nz/) The Mobile Creativity and Innovation Symposium will take place on Saturday 24th and Sunday 25th November 2012 including a keynote by Prof. Gerhard Goggin (University of Sydney). Please see www.mina.pro for further details and symposium program. On Sunday the 25th November the MINA events conclude with an unconference session (featuring the Mobile Art Lab and eBook Production using iBooks Author workshop by Apple). Symposium registration: http://mina2012.eventbrite.co.nz w: http://mina.pro e: max(a)mina.pro t: @MINAmobile

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NYU Digital Media position
by Solon Barocas 30 Sep '12

30 Sep '12

> From: Marita L Sturken <marita.sturken(a)nyu.edu> > Subject: [MCC Talk] NYU Digital Media position -- Please Circulate > Date: September 28, 2012 3:53:16 PM EDT > To: MCC Talk <mcctalk-group(a)nyu.edu> > Reply-To: mcctalk-group(a)nyu.edu > > Department of Media, Culture, and Communication > > Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development > > New York University > > Assistant Professor, Digital Media, Tenure-Track > > > The Department of Media, Culture, and Communication in the Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development at New York University invites applications for a tenure-track position at the rank of Assistant Professor to begin September 1, 2013. > > > We are seeking to fill a position in the area of digital media, open to candidates from a wide range of sub-areas and methodological perspectives, including software/code studies, network theory, social media, game studies, digital cultures, activist/tactical media, digital design studies, mobile media culture, digital communities, and information policy. > > > The Department of Media, Culture, and Communication is home to 28 full-time faculty and serves approximately 750 undergraduate majors, 120 MA students, and 35 PhD students. NYU’s dynamic Global Network University includes NYU Abu Dhabi, NYU Shanghai, and international programs and academic centers around the world. The department is active in the NYU Global Network University, with a particular emphasis on sites in Paris, Prague, Buenos Aires, and Shanghai. NYU Steinhardt faculty may be afforded the opportunity to work at these global study and research sites. For more information see: http://steinhardt.nyu.edu/mcc/ > > > NYU is committed to building a culturally diverse educational environment and strongly encourages applications from historically underrepresented groups. > > > Qualifications: Qualified candidates should have a Ph.D. and an active agenda of externally funded research, publication, and teaching. > > > Responsibilities: Teach and advise undergraduate and graduate students, conduct research, and engage in program, department, school-level, and university service. > > > Applications: Please apply via e-mail with a cover letter, CV, names and contact information for three references, and a sample of work to: mccnyusearch(a)gmail.com > > > Applications should be addressed to: > > Professor Charlton McIlwain > > Chair, Digital Media Search Committee > > Department of Media, Culture, and Communication > > Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development > > New York University > > 239 Greene St, 3rd floor > > New York NY 10003 > > > > Further information about the position can be obtained from Marita Sturken, Department Chair: marita.sturken(a)nyu.edu. > > > Review of applications will begin on November 5, 2012 and continue until the position is filled. > > > New York University is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer.

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Book Announcement: Social Media as Surveillance
by Dan Trottier 29 Sep '12

29 Sep '12

Social Media as Surveillance: Rethinking Visibility in a Converging World, Ashgate Daniel Trottier, Department of Informatics and Media Uppsala University, Sweden This book develops a surveillance studies approach to social media by presenting first hand ethnographic research with a variety of personal and professional social media users. Using Facebook as a case-study, it describes growing monitoring practices that involve social media. What makes this study unique is that it not only considers social media surveillance as multi-purpose, but also shows how these different purposes augment one another, leading to a rapid spread of surveillance and visibility. ‘Internet platforms such as Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, Google have become very popular in recent years. They process, store, analyse, and commodify a lot of personal data, usage behaviour data, communication data, and social network data. Daniel Trottier’s book is a crucial and critical resource and must-read for all who want to understand the implications social media has for surveillance at the interpersonal and institutional level and for surveillance conducted by companies and the police.’ – Christian Fuchs, Uppsala University, Sweden ‘Social media are not just sites that we visit, but increasingly places where we reside. Such spaces are manufactured to augment surveillance, fostering types of visibility that are central to new forms of sociality and power relations. Professor Trottier’s book is an invaluable analysis of how a complex assortment of groups are making a home in this new domain of interactive monitoring.’ – Kevin D. Haggerty, University of Alberta, Canada ‘Looking for a wide-ranging, well-informed, up-to-date critical sociology of social media surveillance, focused on the Facebook phenomenon? This is it.’ – David Lyon, Queen’s University, Canada More info and sample pages available at: http://www.ashgate.com/isbn/9781409438892 To order, please visit: www.ashgate.com All online orders receive a discount

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