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Social Networking in Cyberspace (SNIC 2013) conference, Wolverhampton UK, July 15th-16th
by Fullwood, Chris 25 Aug '12

25 Aug '12

Dear colleagues, It is my pleasure to announce the 2nd Social Networking in Cyberspace conference, which will be held in Wolverhampton, UK on July 15th-16th next year. Confirmed keynote speakers at the event include Professor Mark Griffiths (Nottingham Trent University) and Dr Karen Douglas (University of Kent). Further keynotes to be announced. For information on call for papers, topics of interest, fees and the abstract submission deadline, please visit our website: http://www.wlv.ac.uk/snic2013 Please don't hesitate to get in touch if you have any questions. Hope to see you there Best wishes Chris Fullwood Psychology department School of Applied Sciences University of Wolverhampton Research Group CRUW c.fullwood(a)wlv.ac.uk -- Scanned by iCritical.

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<CFP> Youth 2.0 - deadline: 30 Nov 2012 - date: 20-22 March 2013 - venue: Antwerp, Belgium
by Walrave Michel 25 Aug '12

25 Aug '12

Dear colleague, I am pleased to inform you about our upcoming conference Youth 2.0. More information about the topics and our call for papers/panel sessions, can be found hereafter and on http://www.ua.ac.be/youth2.0 Please feel free to contact me, should you need more information. Best regards, Michel University of Antwerp Department of Communication Studies Research group MIOS assoc. prof. dr. Michel Walrave michel.walrave(a)ua.ac.be ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ YOUTH 2.0: CONNECTING, SHARING AND EMPOWERING? Affordances, Uses and Risks of Social Media March 20th – 22nd 2013, Antwerp, Belgium UCSIA & MIOS, University of Antwerp, are pleased to announce the organisation of an international, multidisciplinary workshop on young people’s uses of social media in general and social network sites in particular. Contributions from a wide range of theoretical and methodological perspectives and from diverse scientific fields are welcomed. Next to individual paper submissions, proposals for organized panel sessions will be taken into consideration. This international event will address a number of relevant questions related to the use of social media by children, adolescents and young adults. Keynote presentations and parallel sessions center around four main topics: 1. identity construction (e.g. self-disclosure, impression management, privacy), 2. social relations (e.g. social capital, social engagement, cyberbullying), 3. interests at stake (e.g. social media marketing, advergames, viral marketing), 4. supporting and empowering (e.g. media/digital literacy, online counseling, parental mediation). For a more detailed overview of questions and issues that will be covered, check our website: http://www.ua.ac.be/youth2.0 Confirmed keynote speakers are: Nicole Ellison, PhD, assoc. professor with the Department of Telecommunication, Information Studies and Media at Michigan State University. Ola Erstad, PhD, full professor at the Institute for Educational Research, University of Oslo. Mariann Hardey, PhD, assoc. director of the Centre for Communication Science, Durham Business School. Jochen Peter, PhD, full professor at ASCoR, Center for research on Children, Adolescents and the Media, University of Amsterdam. Sabine Trepte, PhD, professor at the Hamburg Media School, University of Hamburg. Submission: The submission deadline (abstract) is November 30th 2012. Paper abstracts or panel sessions can be submitted at: http://www.ua.ac.be/youth2.0 Selected papers will be presented in panel sessions. A selection of papers will be considered for publication in a peer-reviewed book volume, published by an international renowned publisher. Practical information: Venue: University of Antwerp, City Campus, Hof van Liere, Antwerp, Belgium Participation fee: 100 euro (documentation, meals and conference dinner included). Contact: Barbara Segaert (UCSIA, barbara.segaert(a)ua.ac.be) & Michel Walrave (MIOS, michel.walrave(a)ua.ac.be) Website: http://www.ua.ac.be/youth2.0 Facebook: join our Youth 2.0 page for updates

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Fwd: CALL FOR PAPERS: Media in Transition 8: public media, private media (May 3-5, 2013 at MIT)
by Alexander Halavais 24 Aug '12

24 Aug '12

Sorry if this already went out :). The MiT conferences I've been to (a couple of them) have been great...\ - Alex ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Brad Seawell <seawell(a)mit.edu> Date: Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 7:45 AM Subject: CALL FOR PAPERS: Media in Transition 8: public media, private media (May 3-5, 2013 at MIT) To: seawell(a)mit.edu Sorry if you receive this more than once – Media in Transition 8: public media, private media International Conference Conference dates: May 3-5, 2013 at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA. Conference website: web.mit.edu/comm-forum/mit8 (watch for updates). CALL FOR PAPERS Submissions accepted on a rolling basis until Friday, March 1, 2013 (evaluations begin in November). Please see the end of this call for papers for submission instructions. The distinction between public and private – where the line is drawn and how it is sometimes inverted, the ways that it is embraced or contested – says much about a culture. Media have been used to enable, define and police the shifting line between the two, so it is not surprising that the history of media change to some extent maps the history of these domains. Media in Transition 8 takes up the question of the shifting nature of the public and private at a moment of unparalleled connectivity, enabling new notions of the socially mediated public and unequalled levels of data extraction thanks to the quiet demands of our Kindles, iPhones, televisions and computers. While this forces us to think in new ways about these long established categories, in fact the underlying concerns are rooted in deep historical practice. MiT8 considers the ways in which specific media challenge or reinforce certain notions of the public or the private and especially the ways in which specific “texts” dramatize or imagine the public, the private and the boundary between them. It takes as its foci three broad domains: personal identity, the civic (the public sphere) and intellectual property. Reality television and confessional journalism have done much to invert the relations between private and public. But the borders have long been malleable. Historically, we know that camera-armed Kodakers and telephone party lines threatened the status quo of the private; that the media were complicit in keeping from the public FDR’s disability and the foibles of the ruling elite; and that paparazzi and celebrities are strategically intertwined in the game of publicity. How have the various media played these roles (and represented them), and how is the issue changing at a moment when most of our mediated transactions leave data traces that not only redefine the borders of the private, but that serve as commodities in their own right? The public, too, is a contested space. Edmund Burke’s late 18th century invocation of the fourth estate linked information flow and political order, anticipating aspects of Habermas’s public sphere. >From this perspective, trends such as a siege on public service broadcasting, a press in decline, and media fragmentation on the rise, all ring alarm bells. Yet WikiLeaks and innovative civic uses of media suggest a sharp countertrend. What are the fault lines in this struggle? How have they been represented in media texts, enacted through participants and given form in media policy? And what are we to make of the fate of a public culture in a world whose media representations are increasingly on-demand, personalized and algorithmically-designed to please? Finally, MiT8 is also concerned with the private-public rift that appears most frequently in struggles over intellectual property (IP). Ever-longer terms of IP protection combined with a shift from media artifacts (like paper books) to services (like e-journals) threaten long-standing practices such as book lending (libraries) and raise thorny questions about cultural access. Social media sites, powered by users, often remain the private property of corporations, akin to the public square’s replacement by the mall, and once-public media texts, like certain photographic and film collections, have been re-privatized by an array of institutions. These undulations in the private and public have implications for our texts (remix culture), our access to them, and our activities as audiences; but they also have a rich history of contestation, evidenced in the copybook and scrapbook, compilation film, popular song and the open source and creative commons movement. MiT8 encourages a broad approach to these issues, with specific attention to textual practice, users, policy and cultural implications. As usual, we encourage work from across media forms and across historical periods and cultural regions. Possible topics include: Media traces: cookies, GPS data, TiVo and Kindle tracking The paradoxes of celebrity and the public persona Representing the anxieties of the private in film, television, literature MMORPGs / identities / virtual publics The spatial turn in media: private consumption in public places Historical media panics regarding the private-public divide When cookies shape content, what happens to the public? Creative commons and the new public sphere Big data and privacy Party lines and two-way radio: amplifying the private The fate of public libraries in the era of digital services Methodologies of internet and privacy studies Creative commons, free software, and the new public sphere Public and civic WiFi access to the internet Surveillance, monitoring and their (dis)contents Submit an Abstract and Short Bio Short abstracts for papers should be about 250 words in a PDF or Word format and should be sent as email attachments to mit8(a)mit.edu no later than Friday, March 1, 2013. Please include a short (75 words or fewer) biographical statement. We will be evaluating submissions on a rolling basis beginning in November and will respond to every proposal. Include a Short Bibliography For this year’s conference, we recommend that you include a brief bibliography of no more than one page in length with your abstract and bio. Proposals for Full Panels Proposals for full panels of three or four speakers should include a panel title and separate abstracts and bios for each speaker. Anyone proposing a full panel should recruit a moderator. Submit a Full Paper In order to be considered for inclusion in a conference anthology, you must submit a full version of your paper prior to the beginning of the conference. If you have any questions about the eighth Media in Transition conference, please contact Brad Seawell at seawell(a)mit.edu. ----------------------------------------------------------------- Brad Seawell, Program Coordinator MIT Communications Forum 617.253.3521 -- -- // // This email is // [x] assumed public and may be blogged / forwarded. // [ ] assumed to be private, please ask before redistributing. // // Alexander C. Halavais, ciberflâneur // http://alex.halavais.net //

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CFA: Ender's Game and Philosophy
by Dylan Wittkower 24 Aug '12

24 Aug '12

I know this won't be relevant to many on the list, but given the blogging/Internet-related storyline about Locke and Demosthenes, I thought someone might be interested. I think it would be really valuable to have a chapter about that aspect of the novels in relation to the political possibilities (and reality) of ICT. Best, Dylan Wittkower Call for Abstracts Ender’s Game and Philosophy D.E. Wittkower ed. Open Court Popular Culture and Philosophy Series Orson Scott Card’s *Ender’s Game* is a much-beloved science-fiction classic, winner of Nebula and Hugo Awards, and finally being produced as a film scheduled for release in November of 2013. The book has been controversial as well as popular, with concerns about the morally troubling depiction of militaries and of children, and the book has been used in training programs by the U.S. Marine Corps. We invite abstracts on philosophical aspects of *Ender’s Game* and *Ender’s Shadow*, which Card has indicated was also used for the screenplay of *Ender’s Game*. We welcome submissions from any philosophical tradition, and from interdisciplinary writers working on philosophically relevant topics. The volume is intended for a general audience, and chapters should be accessible to readers with little or no formal background in philosophy. We are primarily interested in writing that explores the philosophical issues already present in and being worked through by these novels, rather than chapters that use elements of the novels merely as an opening to discuss philosophical concerns. While there are a great variety of topics of potential value and interest, some ideas may include: * Space, the phenomenology of perception, and the challenges of the Battle Room * Discipline and surveillance * Networks of power ranging from bullying, to state power, to military force * The military-educational complex of the International Fleet, and its relation to late capitalism’s corporate-educational complex * Leadership, friendship, and Ender’s jeesh * Just war theory and use of overwhelming retaliatory force * Just war theory and xenocide * Dr. Device and the morality and politics of WMD * Sacrifice of lives for humanity; of freedom for security * Personhood of non-humans and what it’s like to be another species * Eugenics, Ender as “third,” and Bean and Anton’s Key. * The Noble Lie * Sport ethics and Ender’s games: when to break rules * Military drones/UAVs and the moral impact of warfare at a distance * Child soldiers and children’s violence * Locke and Demosthenes, blogging, and world-political argumentation * Girls, authority, and authorship in Ender’s Game * Philosophy of psychology in the Mind Fantasy Game * Orson Scott Card’s Mormonism in the Ender saga * Religion and Ender’s gospel as speaker for the dead * Compassion in the Wiggin children * Bureaucracy, knowledge, and moral responsibility Please send a 200-300 word abstract to d.e.wittkower(a)gmail.com prior to September 24th, 2012. Finished chapters, approx. 3000–4000 words, will be required by January 10th, 2013, with rewrites shortly thereafter. Feel free to contact me with any questions. D.E. Wittkower Department of Philosophy Old Dominion University d.e.wittkower(a)gmail.com

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Invitation for the SPION Technical Workshop on September 12
by Seda Guerses 24 Aug '12

24 Aug '12

dear irs, we look forward to seeing you at our upcoming spion workshop. the details you find below. best, s. First Spion Technical Workshop ========================================= It is our pleasure to invite you to the first SPION technical workshop, where we will present and demo some of our results and software prototypes for privacy and security in Online Social Networks. The workshop programme is available at: http://people.cs.kuleuven.be/~frank.piessens/TechnicalWorkshop.html The workshop is organized in collaboration with OWASP and is co-located with an OWASP Belgium Chapter meeting. Attendance to the workshop (including the pizza buffet) is free, but we kindly ask you to register using the link provided in the programme, as we need a good estimate of the number of attendants. Looking forward to seeing many of you at the workshop! On behalf of the SPION team, Prof. Frank Piessens IBBT-DistriNet Dept. of Computer Science, KU Leuven

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Anonymous or Occupy research
by Taylor-Smith, Ella 24 Aug '12

24 Aug '12

Hi Jessica Beyer http://www.beyergyre.com/jlbeyer/ completed her PhD on Anonymous (among other) in 2011 Abstract: http://www.beyergyre.com/jlbeyer/Long%20abstract%20for%20web.pdf Useful article: http://culturedigitally.org/2012/07/anonymous-because-none-of-us-are-as-cru… She may have something else in the pipeline too -Ella Ella Taylor-Smith Institute for Informatics and Digital Innovation Edinburgh Napier University 10 Colinton Road Edinburgh, EH10 5DT Email: e.taylor-smith(a)napier.ac.uk http://www.iidi.napier.ac.uk/e.taylor-smith http://about.me/EllaTaylorSmith @EllaTasm @OnlineAmbition Edinburgh Napier University is one of Scotland's top universities for graduate employability. 93.2% of graduates are in work or further study within six months of leaving. The university is also proud winner of the Queen's Anniversary Prize for Higher and Further Education 2009, awarded for innovative housing construction for environmental benefit and quality of life. This message is intended for the addressee(s) only and should not be read, copied or disclosed to anyone else outwith the University without the permission of the sender. It is your responsibility to ensure that this message and any attachments are scanned for viruses or other defects. Edinburgh Napier University does not accept liability for any loss or damage which may result from this email or any attachment, or for errors or omissions arising after it was sent. Email is not a secure medium. Email entering the University's system is subject to routine monitoring and filtering by the University. Edinburgh Napier University is a registered Scottish charity. Registration number SC018373

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Re: [Air-L] Anonymous or Occupy research
by qCentral 23 Aug '12

23 Aug '12

Hi all, Shawn Walker, a PhD student at University of Washington and MSR PhD Summer Intern extraordinaire, is doing some great research on Occupy, Twitter, and resource mobilization. You can find him on the Social Media Collective blog at: socialmediacollective.org or look him up on the UW website. best, Mary _______________________ Mary L. Gray Senior Researcher, Microsoft Research New England, Cambridge MA http://bit.ly/21hiPf Associate Professor, Communication and Culture Adjunct Faculty, American Studies; Anthropology; Gender Studies Indiana University, Bloomington mLg [at] qcentral [dot] edu www.maryLgray.org @maryLgray On Aug 23, 2012, at 6:00 PM, air-l-request(a)listserv.aoir.org wrote: > Message: 5 > Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2012 10:29:35 -0400 > From: Daiane Scaraboto <dscaraboto(a)gmail.com> > To: air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org > Subject: [Air-L] Anonymous or Occupy research > Message-ID: > <CAEEUpyYPos0+QAh3TtekfKuvfOmOjUxr_hnnQzMqgn0c5PFdUA(a)mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > Hi Sylvain, > > Cristobal Garcia (cgarciah(a)uc.cl) here at Pontificia Universidad Cat?lica > de Chile is working with Peter Gloor (MIT) and graduate students to > understand the organization of the student movement in Chile. They track > the movement organizers' social media activity and information networks. > Here?s an abstract: http://arxiv.org/abs/1204.3939 > > Daiane Scaraboto > Assistant Professor of Marketing > Escuela de Administraci?n > Pontificia Universidad Cat?lica de Chile > http://uc-cl.academia.edu/DaianeScaraboto > >

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re Anonymous or Occupy research
by Gabriella Coleman 23 Aug '12

23 Aug '12

Hi Sylvian, There is some Anonymous material in my hacker syllabus, which you can find here: http://gabriellacoleman.org/?page_id=12 There are some more sources here (in the body and in the comments): http://culturedigitally.org/2012/07/anonymous-because-none-of-us-are-as-cru… There is a very nice new CA forum on Occupy and many of those folks are doing research http://www.culanth.org/?q=node/641 And make sure to check this out http://www.occupyresearch.net/ All best, Biella -- 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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CFP: The Shape of Diversity to Come: Global Community, Global Archipelago, or a New Civility
by Julie Cohen 23 Aug '12

23 Aug '12

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). http://www.esl.eur.nl/arw/sectie_rechtstheorie/diversity/#register Call for Papers The Conference will consist of a two-day Seminar with keynotes that bring together scholars from different domains, hoping to raise new insights across disciplinary borders. We invite scholars from all relevant fields to present a paper at the conference, 'The Shape of Diversity to Come'. Proposals for papers in one of the 4 conference tracks listed below will be taken into consideration. 1. Deadline for the submission of paper proposals in the form of an extended abstract (max. 1500 words): September 30th 2012. Please send to been(a)law.eur.nl. 2. Acceptance or rejection of the proposals by: October 15th 2012. 3. The deadline for the written papers (6000 to 8000 words) is December 30th 2012. We aim to publish the keynotes and a selection of the papers in an edited volume. THE SHAPE OF DIVERSITY TO COME GLOBAL COMMUNITY, GLOBAL ARCHIPELAGO, OR A NEW CIVILITY? For most political and legal theorists who reflect on diversity and multiculturalism the nation-state is the natural environment in which questions of difference have to be resolved. To be a liberal theorist or a multi-culturalist, in most cases, is to be a liberal or multicultural nationalist (Kukathas 2003: p. 9-10). Yet, the nation state, 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, address the conflicts they give rise to, and discuss the ramifications for law and politics. The importance of "communication-technology shifts" is well-documented (Eisenstein 1979, 2011; Anderson 1983; Castells 2009). The shift from "script to print" is closely related to the Reformation and the Enlightenment. The emergence of telecommunications and mass media made possible the "imagined community" of the nation. The current shift from analog to digital, and toward a global communications network, is also producing seismic change. 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. The global community scenario suggests that the increased communication is creating a global community. Communication is bringing us closer together, breeding mutual understanding, and creating a global civil society. It is the narrative that is told about the Arab Spring and the Occupy movement ― i.e. faced with a regional deficit of democracy or a global problem of financial regulation, people across national borders find common cause and unite. A view of the world as becoming more connected through communication need not necessarily be positive and democratic. There is also a more dystopian perspective, in which the global community is molded by big corporations and people are increasingly standardized and commodified. People are not so much reaching out across borders, as passively fitting in with the ready-made formats and standardized templates of the market. The global archipelago scenario, on the other hand, suggests that the increased possibilities of communication technology lead not to greater mutuality, but to diversification and fragmentation. The internet has embraced the concept of "personalization," of tailoring information to the profile of the internet user. As a result, the infosphere is breaking up into different habitats for distinct subcultures. Hence, as both Sunstein and Pariser have pointed out, the general trend is now towards "groupism" and to "fragmentation and local homogeneity". Communication technology is not creating one all-embracing global community, in other words, but an archipelago of separate communities in which those who are similar and likeminded congregate. Though this can be seen as a process of liberation it may lead to polarization, extremism and the development of parallel communities that no longer understand each other (Sunstein 2001, Pariser 2011). Such a process that can be seen at work in the rise of Muslim fundamentalist networks, for instance, or in the intensification of the American culture wars between secular liberals and religious conservatives. Instead of presenting the implications of the networked information and communication infrastructure in the opposing metaphors of a global community or a global archipelago, we can also argue for a normative understanding of what is at stake. Referring to Lessig's observation that mobility and urbanization freed serfs and peasants from the constraints of closed communities in the late Middle Ages, we can investigate how the novel ICT architecture can be designed and sustained in a way that nourishes civility and urbanity. Instead of endorsing either utopian notions of global community or dystopian fears of an internet with walled gardens, we 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. Conference Themes Information Technology and Identity Does the way in which new forms of communication bolster immigrant and minority communities call into question classical liberal and communitarian views of the multicultural society? Information and conversation flows freely in and out of the national space. What does this mean for the habituation of new citizens? Dutch expats in New York, London, or Singapore can remain intimately connected and attached to their country of origin in a range of new ways. Should their hybrid identity be recognized in dual citizenship? Of course, critical questions can also be asked about the real substance of these new forms of association that the communication and information revolution has brought forth. Are the ties of these communities strong enough to substitute the traditional organizations of civil society? Or, is it a mistake to equate the weak internet communities with real-life social, cultural and political organizations (Morozov 2011)? Techno-Determinism and Choice Some of the analysis presents the development of information and communication technology as an unstoppable force that reshapes the way people relate. Yet, there is a great deal of man-made code at the basis of this reconstitution of social life (Lessig 1996, 2006). Should we simply accept the design choices and algorithms that rule our social lives in cyberspace? This raises normative questions about the technical choices in the architectural design of cyberspace. What sort of place do we want cyberspace to be? "We must take responsibility for the politics we are building into this architecture," Lessig claims, "for this architecture is a sovereign governing the community that lives in that space. We must consider the politics of the architecture of the life there" (2006, p. 293). Code maybe law, as Lessig suggests, but it is not generally accepted as a type of law. Media and Public Discourse The nationally organized media organizations once played a pivotal role in creating and informing a mass public, in facilitating a national debate on national issues. It created Benedict Anderson's famous "imagined community" of the nation by making people feel they were all part of a developing story, that they were all experiencing the same events as part of an encompassing nation (1983). The internet has undermined this role. The news is now fragmenting. This shattering of the news media in part tracks existing cultural and religious divisions ― think of the role Al Jazeera and Al Arabiya play for immigrants of North-Africa and the Middle-East, or the Christian networks for evangelicals the world over. What does this fragmentation of the news media mean for public discourse and the need for a national conversation? Is there Method for this Madness? How do we overcome the methodological nationalism of political and legal theory? How do we think about the political community if the groups that define people are becoming both more global and more local in scope than the nation state in which they are citizens? Both Lawrence Lessig's and Eli Pariser's analysis, moreover, raise the question: To what extent must the "code" of cyberspace also be considered a matter for political and legal decision-making? If they are considered legitimate political and legal issues, then it is unclear to which constituency these issues should be addressed. Which sovereign decides on the code of cyberspace? Keynote Speakers JULIE COHEN Julie Cohen is a Professor of Law at the Georgetown University Law Center <http://www.aspenlawschool.com/books/copyrightglobal/aboutTheAuthor.asp> , she teaches and writes about intellectual property law and privacy law, with particular focus on copyright and on the intersection of copyright and privacy rights in the networked information society. She recently published Configuring the Networked Self: Law, Code and the Play of Everyday Practice (Yale University Press, 2012). Chandran Kukathas See www2.lse.ac.uk/government/whosWho/profiles/CKukathas(a)lseacuk/Home.aspx Chandran Kukathas is author of The Liberal Archipelago (Oxford University Press 2003). Kukathas is currently chair of Political Theory at the London School of Economics. He has taught at the Royal Military College, Canberra; Oxford; the Australian National University; the University of New South Wales at the Australian Defence Force Academy; and the University of Utah, where he held the Neal Maxwell Chair in Political Theory in the Department of Political Science. Emmanuel Melissaris see www.lse.ac.uk/collections/law/staff/emmanuel-melissaris.htm 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). In this book Melissaris argues for an understanding of law disassociated from the state. JOS DE MUL see www.demul.nl/nl/ Jos de Mul is professor in Philosophical Anthropology and its History and head of the section Philosophy of Man and Culture. Moreover, he is the Scientific Director of the research institute 'Philosophy of Information and Communication Technology' (FICT). Among his books are Romantic 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 see www.saskiasassen.com <http://www.saskiasassen.com/> Saskia Sassen is the Robert S. Lynd Professor of Sociology and Co-Chair, The Committee on Global Thought, 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 of Cities in a World Economy (Sage 2011). The Global City came out in a new fully updated edition in 2001. Her books are translated into over twenty languages. She is currently working on When Territory Exits Existing Frameworks (Under contract with Harvard University Press). She contributes regularly to www.OpenDemocracy.net and www.HuffingtonPost.com References: Anderson, Benedict, Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism, London: Verso 1983. Castells, Manuel, Communication Power, Oxford: Oxford University Press 2009. Eisenstein, Elizabeth L., Divine Art, Infernal Machine: The Reception of Printing in the West from First Impressions to the Sense of Ending, Philadelphia: University of Philadelphia Press 2011. Eisenstein, Elizabeth L., The Printing Press as an Agent of Change: Communications and Cultural Transformations in Early-Modern Europe, Vol. I & II, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1979. Kukathas, Chandran, The Liberal Archipelago: A Theory of Diversity and Freedom, Oxford: Oxford University Press 2003. Lessig, Lawrence, Code: Version 2.0, New York: Basic Books, 2006. Lessig, Lawrence, Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace, New York: Basic Books, 1999. Morozov, Evgeny, The Net Delusion: The Dark Side of Internet Freedom, Philadelphia: Public Affairs 2011. Pariser, Eli, The Filter Bubble, London: Viking 2011. Sunstein, Cass, Republic.Com, Princeton & Oxford: Princeton University Press 2001.

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Anonymous or Occupy research
by A.Arriagada＠lse.ac.uk 23 Aug '12

23 Aug '12

Hi all, Here is a paper published in the Journal of Communication about youth protest activity in Chile and social media use. Abstract Protest activity has become a central means for political change in Chile. We examine the association between social media use and youth protest, as well as mediating and moderating mechanisms of this relationship, using survey data collected in Chile in 2010. We found that Facebook use was associated significantly with protest activity, even after taking into account political grievances, material and psychological resources, values, and news media use. The link between overall Facebook use and protest activity was explained by using the social network for news and socializing rather than when it was used for self-expression. Postmaterialist values and political ideologies were not found to moderate the association between Facebook use and protest. http://www.antimedios.cl/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/JOC-Paper.pdf Best, A. -- Arturo Arriagada PhD student in Sociology London School Of Economics (UK) Universidad Diego Portales (Chile) Website: www.antimedios.cl Please access the attached hyperlink for an important electronic communications disclaimer: http://lse.ac.uk/emailDisclaimer

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