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Call for Proposals - Dupont Summit 2012
by Michael Horka 22 Aug '12

22 Aug '12

Call for Proposals: Dupont Summit on Science, Technology and Environmental Policy The Policy Studies Organization (PSO) invites you to submit a proposal for the Dupont Summit 2012, to be held at the Carnegie Institution for Science in Washington, DC on Friday, December 7, 2012. The purpose of the conference is to promote dialogue about current science, technology and environmental policy concerns, and to provide a civil forum for discussion across the political spectrum. We welcome proposals for panel discussions, round tables, individual talks, poster sessions, along with other types of presentations. Proposals should be sent to PSO executive director Daniel Gutierrez-Sandoval at dgutierrezs(a)ipsonet.org. A one-page summary/abstract of your topic and speaker/panelists (if applicable) is requested. Proposals will be accepted until September 30, 2012, the final deadline. Click here for more information, along with videos and programs from past conferences. The PSO disseminates policy scholarship through its 11 academic journals and 3 book series, conferences, and programs. Please contact me with any questions. Regards, Michael Horka Policy Studies Organization Director of Programs and Communications 1527 New Hampshire Ave NW Washington, DC 20036 Phone: 202-349-9281 Find us online at ipsonet.org, Twitter, Facebook, YouTube

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The Networked (Virtual) Book Tour
by Barry Wellman 22 Aug '12

22 Aug '12

Anyone who has done a book tour know how grueling and time consuming it is. On the one hand, the joys of meeting new people, seeing new places, communicating your ideas, and the stimulation of getting new ideas back. On the other hand, the time-sink of travel and the 2nd circles of airport and airline hell. Plus Motel 6 purgatory. So Lee Rainie & I are launching a virtual book tour for our beloved Networked book. Lee's email is: lrainie(a)pewinternet.org> I'm wellman(a)chass.utoronto.ca Here's the deal: If you order 20+ copies for your class, you get a virtual lecture from either Lee or me. 60 minutes or so, including Q&A. Plus a set of our slides. We'll work out the details on email. We'll forgo some of the joys of the book tour to avoid the hellish side. But we Know from our research that we will meet you in person. There ain't no Digital Dualism -- almost all online acquaintances transform into in-person relationships. We won't make much money on this: just a few bucks for lattes. But we believe strongly in Networked and wnat it to be read and discussed. After a while, we'll report back how this works out. Have Skype, will vTravel. Barry Wellman _______________________________________________________________________ S.D. Clark Professor of Sociology, FRSC NetLab Director Department of Sociology 725 Spadina Avenue, Room 388 University of Toronto Toronto Canada M5S 2J4 twitter:barrywellman http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman fax:+1-416-978-3963 Updating history: http://chass.utoronto.ca/oldnew/cybertimes.php Just published: NETWORKED: The New Social Operating System. Lee Rainie and Barry Wellman. MIT Press. http://www.amazon.com/Networked-New-Social-Operating-System/dp/0262017199/r… Hardbound $19; Kindle $16 http://www.amazon.ca/Networked-New-Social-Operating-System/dp/0262017199/re… _______________________________________________________________________

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

22 Aug '12

(i apologize if this arrives 2 times, our mail server had technical problems today) 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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scholars on Occupy or Anonymous
by Sylvain Firer-Blaess 22 Aug '12

22 Aug '12

Dear all, As a Ph.d. candidate I will soon go into exchange. Part of my research will focus on the organisation of the Anonymous hacker movement and the Occupy Wall street movement. Does anyone know any scholar currently working on the subject, in any part of the world? Thank you all. Sylvain Firer-Blaess

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Anonymous or Occupy research
by Sylvain Firer-Blaess 22 Aug '12

22 Aug '12

Dear all, As a Ph.d. candidate I will soon go into exchange. Part of my research will focus on the organisation of the Anonymous hacker movement and the Occupy Wall street movement. Does anyone know any scholar currently working on the subject, in any part of the world? Thank you all. Sylvain Firer-Blaess

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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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