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Re: [Air-L] Facebook abstinence and refusniks
by Kristin Eckert 07 Oct '12

07 Oct '12

Hi Nicholas I listened to an interesting study at the Theorizing the Web 2012 conference at the U of Maryland this spring. They had a panel on the topic you are looking for, I remember especially one study by Laura Portwood Stacer: Theorizing Social Media Refusal: Conspicuous Non-Consumption and Conscientious Objection. She is a visiting professor at NYU, her Twitter account is @lportwoodstacer, see details on the website: http://www.cyborgology.org/theorizingtheweb/2012/simple_program.html I hope this helps. Stine Stine Eckert PhD Student Merrill Representative Graduate Student Government Philip Merrill College of Journalism | University of Maryland | Knight Hall 2100N College Park, MD 20742 | USA keckert(a)jmail.umd.edu Stine Eckert PhD Student Merrill Representative Graduate Student Government Philip Merrill College of Journalism | University of Maryland | Knight Hall 2100N College Park, MD 20742 | USA keckert(a)jmail.umd.edu

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Call for Papers & Conference Presentations: CINESONIKA 3 – The Third International Conference & Festival of Sound Design
by V. T. 05 Oct '12

05 Oct '12

Venue: University of Ulster at Derry/Londonderry, Northern IrelandConference Dates: Feb. 15th – 17th, 2013Keynote Speaker: Philip BrophyWe are seeking multi-disciplinary contributions on sound in relation to the moving image. Media thinkers, film scholars, art historians, performance theorists, composers, filmmakers, sound practitioners, multimedia semioticians, philosophers of perception - we invite these and others to submit proposals for 20 minute panel presentations. All accepted presentations will be considered for inclusion in the CINESONIKA issue of The Soundtrack academic journal if expanded into papers and submitted for peer review (1000-3000 words for short articles, 5000-6000 words for long papers).Submitting to the Conference:Please write "Cinesonika 3- Conference Submission" in the subject heading.Deadline for Abstracts (under 500 words): Dec. 2nd 2012Please submit your abstract and short bio both as an attachment (.doc or .pdf) and also pasted into the body of your email submission to info@cinesonika.comLink:http://www.cinesonika.com

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Call for Participation: ISPR 2012 conference at Temple University
by Jan Fernback 05 Oct '12

05 Oct '12

Apologies for x-posts ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Matthew Lombard <lombard(a)temple.edu> Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2012 10:36:02 -0400 ISPR 2012 "Presence Live!" Conference International Society for Presence Research Annual Conference Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA October 25 - 26, 2012 http://presencelive.info [Immediate Contact: Tim Downs, Interwork Media, Inc.; 1+949-235-8985] The concept of telepresence, often shortened to `presence,´ is commonly referred to as a sense of `being there´ in a virtual environment and can be more broadly defined as an illusion of non-mediation in which users of any technology overlook or misconstrue the technology´s role in their virtual experience. A telepresence conferencing system makes us feel as if we´re face-to-face; an online virtual world seems real; a 3D IMAX film makes us reach out to touch objects on the screen; we get `lost´ in the worlds of novels, TV shows, movies, videogames and theme park rides; doctors, engineers, explorers and many others operate machinery thousands of miles away as if they were at the remote site; students learn about the world and workers learn how to do their jobs using compelling simulations; we think of and interact with computers, agents, avatars, robots and androids as if they were living social entities even though we know they´re not; we´re delighted by perceptual illusions in everything from ancient Trompe-l´oeil paintings to modern digital art. As we expand technology´s capabilities and applications, we´re having ever more, and ever more compelling, presence experiences. Join us for ISPR Presence Live 2012, the 14th international conference on presence. This year´s event will showcase researchers and research studies from a diverse academic community in communication, computer science, psychology, philosophy, the arts, business, education and other fields. Presentations and papers by researchers and professionals in commercial, government, educational and other industry sectors are to be featured. Other events include visits to presence-related sites in Philadelphia and conference reception and dinner. PRESENTATION TOPICS Presentations include: Panel: Considerations for Social Presence Theory, Research, and Application in the 21st Century Paul Skalski, David Westerman, Brian Blake, Kimberly Neuendorf and Stephanie Kelly Shared Space and Collaboration: Getting Into the Meeting-Feeling: An Explorative Analysis of Presence in Videoconferencing Shirley Elprama, Katriina Kilpi, Aljosha Demeulemeester, An Jacobs and Rik Van de Walle Shared Mediated Workspaces Charlie Gullstrom, Tjerk de Greef, Leif Handberg, Harold Nefs and Peter Parnes Effects of Facial and Voice Similarity on Presence in a Public Speaking Virtual Environment Laura Aymerich-Franch, Cody Karutz and Jeremy N. Bailenson What we Know (to include extended discussion): How Immersive Is Enough?: A Foundation for a Meta-Analysis of the Effect of Immersive Technology on Measured Presence James Cummings, Jeremy Bailenson and Mailyn Fidler Factors that Cause Presence: Effects of Media Form Factor on Smart TV; Frame Thickness Affecting Presence Hwayeon Kong and Frank Biocca Is Text Always Superior to Video? Investigating the Impact of Moving Images, Standard Video, and Text on Presence Sean Bambrick, Robert Whitbred, Paul Skalski and Cheryl Bracken The Effect of Motion on Presence during Virtual Sailing for Advanced Training Fabian A. Mulder, Jouke C. Verlinden and Radoslaw R. Dukalski Need for Presence and Other Motivations for Video Game Play across Genres Paul Skalski, Francis Dalisay, Matthew Kushin and Yung-I Liu Gender: Is Virtual Reality Made for Men Only? Exploring Gender Differences in the Sense of Presence Anna Felnhofer, Oswald D. Kothgassner, Leon Beutl, Helmut Hlavacs and Ilse Kryspin-Exner. Tracking Gesture to Detect Gender Andrea Stevenson Won, Le Yu, Joris Janssen and Jeremy Bailenson Beyond Embodiment and Social Presence: Preferences for Virtual Assistant Gender and Clothing Style Jeunese Payne, Andrea Szymkowiak, Graham I. Johnson, Paul Robertson and Rosemary Henderson Presence and Us: Avatar Self-Identification as a Cognitive Metric of Self-Presence Andrea Stevenson Won and Jeremy Bailenson Presence in Our Lives: Intimate Telepresence: Perpetual Contact and the Channels of Presence in Mobile Communication Julia Czaja Virtual Presence Technology in Separation and Divorce Richard Wolman and Richard Pomerance Exploring Facebook´s Success through Presence Angela M. Cirucci Positive Feedback Messages and the Role of Presence during Exercise Video Game Play Jihyun Kim and C. Erik Timmerman Models and Theories: Extending the Computers as Theatre Metaphor: From Presence in the Theatre to Telepresence Maeva Veerapen Comparing the Effects of Transportation and Central Processing on Current and Future Beneficial Organizational Behaviors Matt Makowski, Robert Whitbred, Cheryl Campanella Bracken and Paul Skalski CONFERENCE FORMAT ISPR 2012 will have an interactive format in which all participants (attendees, presenters, invited speakers) attend each of the sessions as well as social events, allowing participants to exchange ideas and build knowledge together as the conference progresses. FOR MORE INFORMATION AND REGISTRATION Information and registration is available on the web at: www.presencelive.info, or at www.ISPR.info ABOUT ISPR The International Society for Presence Research (ISPR) is a non-profit membership organization founded in 2002 to support academic research related to the concept of (tele)presence. It publishes ISPR Presence News, which features news stories about presence; calls for participation in various presence-related conferences, publications and projects; job opportunities; and more, and is available in various formats (RSS feed; individual item and daily or weekly digest email; Twitter; Facebbok). The ISPR web site - http://ispr.info - serves as a resource for those who conduct research, develop theory, design, market, write about, or simply are interested in, the concept and phenomena of presence. Contact: ISPR 2020 N. 13th Street, Rm. 205 Philadelphia, PA 19122 USA Email: ispr(a)ispr.info ABOUT INTERWORK MEDIA INC. Interwork media is an information services, b2b media and consulting firm focused on emerging technology communities and offering innovative technologies to existing media practices. For our partners - publishing companies, analyst firms, trade groups - we collaborate to produce high-quality information rich media properties that deliver personalized, information-rich and interactive programs for senior management in multiple industry segments. We have a 10-year history focusing on emerging technology communities. Education and information exchange was, and is, the foundation of all of our media initiatives, be they on the web or in a live event. Contact: Interwork Media Inc. 30211 Banderas, Suite 200 Rancho Santa Margarita, CA 92688 Office: 949-766-6785 Fax: 949-766-6784 Email: Tdowns(a)Interworkmedia.com -- Matthew Lombard, Ph.D. Temple University Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA lombard(a)temple.edu http://matthewlombard.com

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Final reminder - The politics of trolling and the Negative Space of The Internet - Fibreculture CFP
by Jason Wilson 05 Oct '12

05 Oct '12

Hi all, Apologies for cross posting. One last reminder on this CFP for the Fibreculture Journal. The politics of trolling and the Negative Space of The Internet http://fibreculturejournal.org/cfp-special-issue-for-the-fibreculture-journ… A great deal of thinking about the Internet and politics is still structured by a desire for deliberative democracy. From 1993 - when Howard Rheingold enunciated one of the Internet’s key founding myths - the virtual community - scholars have sought and found communities characterised by a mutuality of interests, a common purpose, a collaborative striving to renovate the democratic ideal, a tendency towards the “regulative idea” of the ideal speaking position, and an acknowledgement of the obligations of citizenship within the political association. For so long the Internet has continued to function, in Barbrook’s formulation, as a “redemptive technology”. Social media is just the latest in a long line of technologies which may, on a certain vision, rescue liberal democracy, with its decaying civic life and corrupt media, from itself. There is, proportionally, too little attention to the everyday conflicts that haunt all such communities. Some conflict is temporary, and can be accounted for in terms of long-standing democratic theory. But some conflict is persistent, intractable. Some of it is gratuitous, and deliberately disruptive. Online, those who bring it about are often subject to normative disapprobation. Sometimes people call them trolls. ”Troll”, as a term of moral opprobrium, indicates an online actor who is not interested in deliberation, but in derailing it. Trolling is not apt to be captured by network maps or visualisations of online publics, because these teachniques cannot discern which nodes in a conversational network are created in bad faith, or in a spirit of disruptive play. Trolls are not interested in redeeming democracy through deliberation, and they mock attempts to do so. Trolls respect no procedural rules, though they may be generative of them. Trolls are the constitutive outside of online communities of political discussion, they are the intolerable of the most tolerant communities. Trolls are usually someone else, defined from our own position and interests. When they are not, and we inhabit trolling, we discover that trolling requires know-how, close reading, experience, sometimes sympathy with those we would disrupt. What are the consequences to seeing trolling and other forms of affective behaviour as the norm, rather than the aberrant? The discourse of digital art has long since told this story, but the intellectual desire for open and constitutive democracy has overridden the 'actually existing democracy' of bullying, trolling, threats, inane memes and low signal-to-noise ratios. What would happen if we started to think of trolling as the central practice in online discourse? What if trolling is the Internet’s signature mode of discursive politics? What if we started to think about trolling as a practice which is generative rather than destructive? This special issue of fibreculture seeks a range of perspectives on trolling, online conflict and incivility. Twenty years on, it looks to interrogate the founding myth of virtual community with accounts of generative conflict, strategic incivility, and productive trolling. We seek papers on a range of topics not limited to - Trolling, activism and politics - The persistence and ubiquity of online conflict - Trolling as a business model: the mainstream media and clickbait - Gendered aspects of trolling and incivility - 4chan and trolling; activism and meme factories - Trolling and cyberbullying - Complaints about trolling and the “hatred of democracy” – are complaints about trolling really an attempt to re-gentrify political debate? - Cultures and rituals of trolling – troll culture and the celebration of lulz - Trolling and “cyber-bullying” - The Internet and agonistic politics - Trolling and counterpublics - The grammar of trolling - Trolling as the glitch in social network analysis and “big data” - Popular culture, trolls and the democratization of politics - Tabloid media, professionalization of trolling and the economics of opinion - Trolling as cyber-bullying, internet as masochistic survivalist playground - The pleasures of trolling - Trolling the trolls - The art and ‘new aesthetics’ of trolling - The gamification of trolling —– Please note that for this issue, initial submissions should be abstracts only abstract deadline: October 15, 2012 (via email, to Jason Wilson, email address below) article deadline: January 15, 2012 publication aimed for: April/May, 2013 all contributors and editors must read the guidelines at; http://fibreculturejournal.org/policy-and-style/ before working with the Fibreculture Journal email correspondence for this issue: Jason.Wilson(a)canberra.edu.au<mailto:Jason.Wilson@canberra.edu.au> Christian.mccrea(a)rmit.edu.au<mailto:Christian.mccrea@rmit.edu.au> Glen.fuller(a)canberra.edu.au<mailto:Glen.fuller@canberra.edu.au> —– The Fibreculture Journal (http://fibreculturejournal.org/) is a peer reviewed international journal, associated with Open Humanities Press (http://openhumanitiespress.org/) that explores critical and speculative interventions in the debate and discussions concerning information and communication technologies and their policy frameworks, network cultures and their informational logic, new media forms and their deployment, and the possibilities of socio-technical invention and sustainability.

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CFP: Shape of Diversity to Come: Global Community, Global Archipelago, or a New Civility?
by Payal Arora 05 Oct '12

05 Oct '12

[Sorry for cross-posting] Hi everyone, I'm co-organizing a conference (see below) that perhaps some of you may be interested in attending and speaking at. The Call for Papers is open (Deadline Oct 21). If I can help with any questions please let me know. Hope to see some of you at the conference early next year! cheers Payal Payal Arora http://www.payalarora.com Department of Media and Communication Faculty of History, Culture and Communication Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands The Shape of Diversity to Come: Global Community, Global Archipelago, or a New Civility? Date: 24 and 25 January 2013 Location: Erasmus University Rotterdam, Forumzaal (M-building, M3-15). Click here for the route. Admission fee: €100,= (conferencematerial, lunch included) Register: Click here (or scroll down) to use the form on this webpage. This conference is organised by Wouter de Been, Mireille Hildebrandt and Payal Arora. In case you have any questions, please send an email to Dr. Wouter de Been. Deadline extended to October 21st 2012. FOR A FULL DESPCRIPTION OF THE CONFERENCE THEME AND SUBTHEMES CONSULT THE CALL FOR PAPERS HERE. Keynote speakers * Julie Cohen is a Professor of Law at the Georgetown University Law Center. She recently published Configuring the Networked Self: Law, Code and the Play of Everyday Practice (Yale University Press, 2012). * Chandran Kukathas is author of The Liberal Archipelago: A Theory of Diversity and Freedom (Oxford University Press 2003). Kukathas is currently chair of Political Theory at the London School of Economics. * Emmanuel Melissaris is Senior Lecturer in Law at the LSE Department of Law. He is the author of a recent work on legal pluralism and legal theory Ubiquitous Law: Legal Theory and the Space for Legal Pluralism (Ashgate, 2009). * Jos de Mul is professor in Philosophical Anthropology and its History and head of the section Philosophy of Man and Culture and Scientific Director of the research institute 'Philosophy of Information and Communication Technology' (FICT). Among his books areRomantic Desire in (Post)Modern Art and Philosophy (State University of New York Press, 1999), The Tragedy of Finitude (Yale University Press, 2004), and Cyberspace Odyssey (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2010). * Saskia Sassen is Professor of Sociology at Columbia University. Recent books are Territory, Authority, Rights: >From Medieval to Global Assemblages ( Princeton University Press 2008), A Sociology of Globalization (W.W.Norton 2007), and the 4th fully updated edition ofCities in a World Economy (Sage 2011). Her books are translated into over twenty languages. She is currently working on When Territory Exits Existing Frameworks. About the conference The nation state, imagined as a formation encompassing a culturally unified people, is now straining under the challenges of globalization and the revolution in communication technology. This conference will consider the dynamic changes that are currently taking place with respect to cultural and religious diversity as a result of the explosion in communication technologies, address the conflicts they give rise to, and discuss the ramifications for both law and politics. Two views on the impact of communication and information technology dominate the scholarship: one in which communication leads to the emergence of a global community and an interconnected global culture; and a second in which it leads to an archipelago of communities that do not necessarily converge with the boundaries nation states, i.e. to a cultural Balkanization of the world across national borders. This conference will also address a third alternative. Instead of presenting the implications of the networked information and communication infrastructure in the opposing metaphors of a global community or a global archipelago, one can also argue for a normative understanding of what is at stake. Instead of endorsing either utopian notions of global community or dystopian fears of an Internet with walled gardens, one can vouch for an internet that allows for interconnectivity without accepting the increased personalization that leads to unprecedented surveillance and social sorting in both the private and the public sphere. We hope this conference will be a stimulating gathering of scholars from different disciplines and increase our understanding of the legal and political implications of globalization and communication technology for national and cultural identity.

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Positions in Copenhagen
by Stine Gotved 04 Oct '12

04 Oct '12

The IT University of Copenhagen invites applications for one or more positions as Assistant or Associate Professor in digital aesthetics, culture, media, communication, and interaction design starting spring 2013 or soon thereafter. Furthermore, the IT-University is in the process of strengthening research and teaching in the diverse area of innovation and information technology, and therefore invites applications for positions (as Assistant and Associate Professors) within this area starting spring 2013 or soon thereafter. Find the full descriptions at http://itu.dk/en/Om-IT-Universitetet/Stillinger

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Re: [Air-L] 35.000 free access texts on the Information Society
by Daiane Scaraboto 04 Oct '12

04 Oct '12

That is one amazing resource, thank you for sharing Bernardo. Best regards, Daiane Scaraboto Assistant Professor of Marketing Escuela de Administración Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile T:+56(2) 354 4340 Today's Topics: > > > 8. 35.000 free access texts on the Information Society > (Bernardo Sorj) > > > > -------- > > Message: 8 > Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2012 11:40:32 -0300 > From: "Bernardo Sorj" <besorj(a)attglobal.net> > To: "'aoir'" <air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org> > Subject: [Air-L] 35.000 free access texts on the Information Society > Message-ID: <00bb01cda175$0bc33340$234999c0$@net> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" > > Dear colleague, > > We are happy to inform you that we have reached the mark of 35.000 academic > texts in our free access virtual library on the Information Society > http://www.bvce.org/SociedadeInformacao.asp > The texts are in the following languages: English, Spanish, Portuguese, > French, German, Italian and Catalan. > > Best regards, > > Bernardo Sorj > Director - Edelstein Center for Social Research > www.centroedelstein.org.br/English > > Dr. Bernardo Sorj > www.bernardosorj.org > www.centroedelstein.org.br > > > >

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position announcement - Temple University
by Jan Fernback 04 Oct '12

04 Oct '12

Position Announcement Department of Media Studies and Production Temple University Tenure Track position in *Media Institutions and Analysis* The Department of Media Studies and Production (MSP) at Temple University invites applications for a tenure track position at the Assistant level to begin in fall 2013. The department seeks a scholar whose work focuses onthe structures, practices and roles of media institutions, and who would be qualified to teach undergraduate and graduate courses in media institutions, research methods, media audiences and/or media campaigns . Candidates should hold a PhD, demonstrate evidence of excellence in teaching and have a promising record of scholarship. The department has approximately 800 majors who study media production; management of media institutions; and social and psychological functions, processes and effects of media. It offers a master's degree and contributes to an inter-departmental doctoral program in Mass Media and Communication. MSP is one of four departments in a large, diverse and dynamic School of Media & Communication. Temple University is located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the fourth largest media and telecommunications market in the nation. The University community at large includes more than 35,000 students in the region and at several international campuses; the School of Media & Communication includes 3000 undergraduate and graduate students. For more information about the department, school, and Temple University, please visit http://smc.temple.edu/msp To apply, please mail a letter of application, curriculum vitae, and three letters of reference by December 6, 2012 to: Matthew Lombard, PhD Chair, Search Committee Dept. of Media Studies & Production Temple University 205 Annenberg Hall 2020 North 13th Street Philadelphia, PA 19122 Temple University is an affirmative action, equal opportunity employer and educator where diversity is an essential source of vitality and strength. The University is committed to nondiscrimination based on race, color, national origin, sex, marital status, sexual orientation, religion, age and disability. -- Jan Fernback, PhD Associate Professor and Director, Graduate Program Dept of Media Studies & Production Temple University 2020 N. 13th Street Philadelphia, PA 19122 215.204.3041 fernback(a)temple.edu

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Re: [Air-L] Tools for Analysing Tumblr?
by Stephanie Betz 04 Oct '12

04 Oct '12

Thanks everyone for your responses - it looks like I'm going to need to learn Python to pull together what I want. Luckily that was something already on my to-do list. I am interested in notes as well as the content of the posts + tags - but I'll need to have a deeper think about how I could work this in. Cheers all, Steph. From: nicksmedulla(a)gmail.com [mailto:nicksmedulla@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Nick Johnson Sent: Wednesday, 3 October 2012 4:36 AM To: stephanie.betz(a)gmail.com Cc: air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org Subject: Re: [Air-L] Tools for Analysing Tumblr? Steph, I've been doing some work with Tumblr data analysis/visualization. I've also written some scripts in Python to pull data from the API, as well as doing some graph generation. I'd be happy to provide some advice in that regard if you need help creating tools. Scraping note data is a bit trickier, and there are some API license issues to watch out for. Depending on what kind of content you want to look at, this might not be an issue. Nick Johnson Graduate Program - Information Sciences & Technology University Park - Penn State www.nicksmedulla.com

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Literature Request: "Reposting Content on Social Media Sites"
by Alex Leavitt 04 Oct '12

04 Oct '12

Hi all! I'm beginning a project on social reposting in social media sites, but I'm having a (surprisingly) difficult time digging up relevant pieces of literature on the subject. If anyone has any leads, please do email me off-list, and I can compile the results afterward! Note: I'm not interested in social sharing (eg., 'I posted something I think other people should see on Facebook') but social re-sharing (eg., 'I clicked [Share] on a friend's Facebook post so others can see it too'). The best (only?) paper I could find is danah's older piece on Twitter retweet practices: http://www.danah.org/papers/TweetTweetRetweet.pdf Thanks for the help! Alex --- Alexander Leavitt PhD Student USC Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism http://alexleavitt.com Twitter: @alexleavitt

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