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material for digital storytelling course
by Gavin Deady 22 Aug '12

22 Aug '12

Dear Stephanie, I would also add the following books to what has already been mentioned. They may be off topic for you though, but are noteworthy. Frank, Arthur (2010) Letting Stories Breathe; a socio-narratology. The University of Chicago Press Orgad, Shani (2005) Storytelling Online; Talking breast cancer on the internet. Peter lang, New York Kind regards, Gavin Deady -- Gavin Deady. ISSP/ Government of Ireland Doctoral Fellow, NIRSA/ Dept. of Sociology, Social Sciences Building, North Campus, National University of Ireland,Maynooth, Maynooth, Co. Kildare Republic of Ireland. gavin.deady(a)gmail.com

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Critical Facebook Research Asks for Crowdfunding
by Oliver Leistert 22 Aug '12

22 Aug '12

Dear AIR-Community, about a year ago we published an anthology called 'Generation Facebook'. It contains ground-breaking theoretical papers and essays by leading international scholars such as Saskia Sassen, Geert Lovink and Mark Andrejevic. It is used widely in university teaching, received critical acclaim by the press and is deemed invaluable by media activists. So what's the catch? Right now, the book is only available in German. We think that this outstanding collection deserves an international audience. We also think that the contributions should be freely available in an Open Access format. Since we don’t have the means to make this happen all by ourselves, we decided to ask you (a.k.a “the crowd”) for support to: a) cover the production costs for an Open Access version that is freely available right from the beginning. b) finance translations of texts that originally were contributed in German. If you think this is a project that is worth your attention (and maybe even your money), please take a look at our funding website: http://www.indiegogo.com/generation-facebook You can find more information about the German version on our German publisher’s website: http://www.transcript-verlag.de/ts1859/ts1859.php Please help us to spread the word and to turn this into a successful experiment; please forward this email to anyone potentially interested and any mailing lists you see fit. All the best, Oliver Leistert & Theo Röhle (editors 'Generation Facebook') -- Oliver Leistert Research Fellow Center for Media and Communication Studies Central European University Budapest Web: https://cmcs.ceu.hu/profiles/research-fellow/oliver_leistert Blog: http://nomedia.noblogs.org

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Critical Facebook Research Asks for Crowdfunding
by Oliver Leistert 22 Aug '12

22 Aug '12

Dear AIR-Community, about a year ago we published an anthology called 'Generation Facebook'. It contains ground-breaking theoretical papers and essays by leading international scholars such as Saskia Sassen, Geert Lovink and Mark Andrejevic. It is used widely in university teaching, received critical acclaim by the press and is deemed invaluable by media activists. So what's the catch? Right now, the book is only available in German. We think that this outstanding collection deserves an international audience. We also think that the contributions should be freely available in an Open Access format. Since we don’t have the means to make this happen all by ourselves, we decided to ask you (a.k.a “the crowd”) for support to: a) cover the production costs for an Open Access version that is freely available right from the beginning. b) finance translations of texts that originally were contributed in German. If you think this is a project that is worth your attention (and maybe even your money), please take a look at our funding website: http://www.indiegogo.com/generation-facebook You can find more information about the German version on our German publisher’s website: http://www.transcript-verlag.de/ts1859/ts1859.php Please help us to spread the word and to turn this into a successful experiment; please forward this email to anyone potentially interested and any mailing lists you see fit. All the best, Oliver Leistert & Theo Röhle (editors 'Generation Facebook') -- Oliver Leistert Research Fellow Center for Media and Communication Studies Central European University Budapest Web: https://cmcs.ceu.hu/profiles/research-fellow/oliver_leistert Blog: http://nomedia.noblogs.org

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Re: [Air-L] material for Digital Storytelling course
by Magdalena Olszanowski 22 Aug '12

22 Aug '12

Hi Stefania, There are two profs at Ryerson in Toronto doing work on DST (Lila Pine through New Media and Jacqui Gingras through Nutrition). I second Knut Lundby's book Digital Storytelling, Mediatized Stories. It is the most engaging and rigorous book I have found on the topic. I am not sure this is exactly aligned but here are a few sources for DST: Couldry, Nick. "Mediatization or Mediation? Alternative Understandings of the Emergent Space of Digital Storytelling." New Media and Society. 10.3 (2008): 373- 391. Ohler, Jason. Digital Storytelling in the Classroom: New Media Pathways to Literacy, Learning, and Creativity. Thousand Oaks, CA: Corwin Press, 2008. LaFontaine, Jennifer. “From the Story Circle to Cyberspace: How Technology Transforms the Stories We Tell and How Women Transform the Stories We Hear.” Women and Environments International Magazine. 72/73 (2006): 77-81. Hull, Glynda A. and Mark Evan Nelson. “Locating the Semiotic Power of Multimodality.” Written Communication. 22, (2005): 224-261. “Hearing Ordinary Voices: Cultural Studies Verncaular Creativity and Digital Storytelling” Jean Burgess (2006) Woo, Yen Yen Jocelyn. “Getting Past Our Inner Censor: Collective Storytelling as Pedagogy in a Polarized Media Environment.” The National Association for Media Literacy Education’s Journal of Media Literacy Education. 1, 2 (2010): 132 -136. ________________________________ PhD Student Communication Studies Concordia University Montréal, QC Mailing Address: 7141 Sherbrooke Street West CJ 3.230, 3rd FL Montreal, QC H4B 1R6 Canada ________________________________________ -----Original Message----- From: air-l-bounces(a)listserv.aoir.org [mailto:air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org] On Behalf Of Stefania Milan Sent: Monday, August 20, 2012 12:18 PM To: air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org Subject: [Air-L] material for Digital Storytelling course Hello everyone I am looking for inspiration for a course on Digital Storytelling offered in the framework of a Master in Data Journalism. Any idea re: textbooks, sources, good websites, or anyone teaching something similar who wants to get in touch to exchange ideas? Many thanks, Stefania ---------------------- Stefania Milan, PhD Citizen Lab || Munk School of Global Affairs, University of Toronto || http://citizenlab.org || http://stefaniamilan.net/

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For teachers: Steal this Paper Writing Guide and Workbook :)
by Terri Senft 21 Aug '12

21 Aug '12

Hi All, Fall semester is upon us, and I love when people trade resources, so here is one from me. If you are looking around for a "how to" guide for writing cultural studies and/or digital media studies type research papers, I wrote a 20 page guide and student workbook I'm happy to share. The guide uses this thing I sort of made up called the "Object, Question, Lens & Method" approach. It's pretty idiosyncratic, and you'll probably want to change it to reflect your teaching interests and styles, but it does have lots of examples and charts for students who are struggling to come up with paper ideas, and teachers who can't quite remember the difference between a focus group and user testing, or ethnography and anthropology, etc. The guide and the workbook are both downloadable as PDFs, here: http://www.terrisenft.net/wordpress/for-students/ Feel free to take, change, distribute, whatever. If you would like a copy in Word to alter for your class purposes, give a shout and I'll hook you up. Excelsior! http://www.terrisenft.net/wordpress/for-students/twitter: @terrisenft

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Workshop on Computational and Online Social Science
by danah boyd 21 Aug '12

21 Aug '12

This may be of interest to some of you: Begin forwarded message: > From: Sharad Goel <sharadg(a)microsoft.com> > > We invite participants to the inaugural workshop on Computational and Online Social Science (CAOSS), to be held Friday, October 12, 2012 at Columbia University. Details at: > > http://caossnyc.org > > With an explosion of data on every aspect of our everyday existence -- from what we buy, to where we travel, to who we know -- we are able to observe human behavior with granularity largely thought impossible just a decade ago. The growth of such online activity has further facilitated the design of web-based experiments, enhancing both the scale and efficiency of traditional methods. Together these advances have created an unprecedented opportunity to address longstanding questions in the social sciences, ranging from sociology to political science to economics and beyond. The inaugural 2012 workshop on Computational and Online Social Science (CAOSS) aims to bring together diverse research communities that work at the intersection of computer science and social sciences to build a lasting foundation for this emerging discipline. > > The program features invited speakers Sinan Aral (NYU), David Jensen (UMass), Jure Leskovec (Stanford), David Reiley (Google), and Duncan Watts (Microsoft). > > Call for Participation. As space is limited, we ask that you please complete the free registration form at http://caossnyc.org/registration if you plan to attend. > Additionally, if you would like to present your work as a short talk or poster, please submit an abstract when registering. Submissions will be accepted through September 14th and funding is available for student presenters. > > We encourage you to pass this information on to others who may be interested. Please contact us at admin(a)caossnyc.org if you have any additional questions. > > CAOSS is made possible by the genererous support of Microsoft Research, eBay Research, Facebook, Google, the Applied Statistics Center at Columbia University, ACM SIGecom, and Johnson Research Lab. > > We hope to see you at the workshop! > David, Jake, Sergei, and Sharad > ------ "you don't have to like me for who i am / but we'll see what you're made of / by what you make of me" -- ani http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/ http://www.danah.org/ @zephoria

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material for Digital Storytelling course
by Stefania Milan 21 Aug '12

21 Aug '12

Hello everyone I am looking for inspiration for a course on Digital Storytelling offered in the framework of a Master in Data Journalism. Any idea re: textbooks, sources, good websites, or anyone teaching something similar who wants to get in touch to exchange ideas? Many thanks, Stefania ---------------------- Stefania Milan, PhD Citizen Lab || Munk School of Global Affairs, University of Toronto || http://citizenlab.org || http://stefaniamilan.net/

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Inclusion of short links in academic publications?
by yana breindl 21 Aug '12

21 Aug '12

Thank you all for your comments! The reason I asked is not because of a word limit but because one of my committee members suggested I'd use short links to ease access for readers of the print dissertation. I do have quite a lot of electronic sources as footnotes in some of the chapters and he mentioned he'd have typed a shortened url but not a long one. An alternative would be to include short urls in the footnotes and add an appendix with corresponding long links. I'm not sure it's worth the hassle though. On 22 July 2011 16:39, Sharon Haleva Amir <sharon(a)trebcon.com> wrote: > > Yana, the only advantage I can think of regarding the usage of shortened > URL > is if you're writing an article and there is a words' limitation (as long > as > the limitation refers to the bibliography/footnotes as well as the article > itself), as sometimes the URLs can be quite long. > > I think that the need to shorten texts (for twitting etc.) was the basic > rational for establishing such services. > > > Best Wishes, > Sharon Haleva Amir, HCLT Fellow > (PhD Candidate) Faculty of Law, > University of Haifa, ISRAEL. > -------------------------------------------------- > http://www.coolcite.com/user/1694 > http://weblaw.haifa.ac.il/en/research/resstudents/pages/sharonha.aspx > > -----Original Message----- > From: air-l-bounces(a)listserv.aoir.org > [mailto:air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org] On Behalf Of yana breindl > Sent: Friday, July 22, 2011 11:27 AM > To: Air-L(a)listserv.aoir.org > Subject: [Air-L] Inclusion of short links in academic publications? > > Hello all, > > I was wondering what your thoughts were concerning the use of shortened > URLs > (e.g. tinyURL, bit.ly etc.) to reference electronic sources in a > dissertation or other academic publication (along with the title, date, > etc. > possibly an annexe with the long URL). Has this been done already? Is it > acceptable? Are there important differences between various shortening > sites? > > Thank you, > > Yana > > > --------------------- > Yana BREINDL > > Ph.D Candidate > Dépt des sciences de l'information et de la communication (SIC) > Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB) > > Tél.: + 32 (0)2 650 44 46 > E-mail: ybreindl(a)ulb.ac.be > _______________________________________________ > 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/ > > -- Yana BREINDL Doctorante Dépt des sciences de l'information et de la communication (SIC) Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB) Tél.: + 32 (0)2 650 44 46 E-mail: ybreindl(a)ulb.ac.be -- Yana BREINDL Doctorante Dépt des sciences de l'information et de la communication (SIC) Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB) Tél.: + 32 (0)2 650 44 46 E-mail: ybreindl(a)ulb.ac.be

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"information behavior" and "swarm behavior"
by Cristian Berrio Zapata 21 Aug '12

21 Aug '12

Dear Colleagues: I am studying the topic of "information behavior" and looking for authors with an ecology perspective about information. It can be from ethology or ecology, what interests me is a systems vision that integrates seeking behavior, testing, processing and storage functions with adaptive skills of the human species. Until now, I have only sources from social science, that very timidly suggested some evolutionary approach. I also interested in what has been called "swarm behavior" regarding information behavior. Thanks and regards -- *Cristian Berrío Zapata*

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IR 13: Announcing a further three plenary speakers...
by Attwood, Feona 20 Aug '12

20 Aug '12

Mary L. Gray is Senior Researcher at Microsoft Research New England and Associate Professor of Communication and Culture at Indiana University. Her work focuses on how people use digital and social media in everyday ways to shape their social identities and create spaces for themselves. Her book, Out in the Country: Youth, Media, and Queer Visibility in Rural America (2009) examined how youth in rural parts of the United States fashioned ‘queer’ senses of gender and sexual identity and the role that media—particularly internet access—played in their lives and political work. Her current research includes work on ethnographically-informed social media research, compliance cyberinfrastructures in universities and their impact on emerging media research, online labour, and the importance of location and place in the context of mobile technologies. Larissa Hjorth is an artist, digital ethnographer and Senior Lecturer at RMIT University, Australia. Her research interests are in the gendered customising of mobile communication, gaming and virtual communities in the Asia–Pacific and she is the author of Mobile Media in the Asia-Pacific (2008). She is the editor (with Gerard Goggin) of Mobile technologies: from Telecommunication to Media (2008) and (with Dean Chan) of Gaming Cultures and Place in the Asia–Pacific region (2009). She is the author of a textbook, Games & Gaming (2010). Susanna Paasonen is Professor of Media Studies at the University of Turku. Her research interests are in Internet research, studies of pornography and theories of affect. Her publications include (with Mia Consalvo) Women and Everyday Uses of the Internet: Agency and Identity (2002), Figures of Fantasy; Internet, Women and Discourse (2005), (with Kaarina Nikunen and Laura Saarenmaa) Pornification: Sex and Sexuality in Media Culture (2007), (with Marianne Liljeström) Working with Affect in Feminist Readings: Disturbing Differences (2010), and Carnal Resonance: Affect and Online Pornography (2011). Susanna is currently launching a new research project on memory work/oral history, archives and pornography.

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