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Call for Foreign Members of the National Scientific Qualification Committee
by Fabio Giglietto 20 Jul '12

20 Jul '12

Dear friends and fellow internet researchers, a recent legislation has substantially modified the recruitment system for academic staff in Italy. The new procedure is based on a national competition for the National Scientific Qualification (abilitazione), which from now on is required to enter Italian universities as associate or full professor. The qualification, comparable to the French “qualification”, is granted by National Committees, one for each group of disciplines (a total of around 200 distinct groups). All committees are made up of five members, four affiliated to Italian universities and one affiliated to a foreign university (OECD countries). Members from foreign universities must hold a position equivalent to that of a full professor. I believe it's crucial to try injecting some internet research background and culture in this commissions. The post shall be entitled with an honorarium of Euro 16,000 for the whole period, plus expenses. More information and the registration form (https://abilitazione.cineca.it/ocse/ocseRegistration.php) to propose your candidacy are available at https://abilitazione.cineca.it/ocse/index.php?lang=EN. Feel free to forward this message to your colleagues or to contact me for more information. Best regards, Fabio Giglietto, Post doc Research Fellow Department of Communication Studies - University of Urbino Carlo Bo

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Re: [Air-L] Air-L Digest, Vol 96, Issue 22
by ishmatova＠gmail.com 20 Jul '12

20 Jul '12

Вот конференция в азии в продолжение темы по демократии и социальным сетям ----- Reply message ----- From: air-l-request(a)listserv.aoir.org To: <air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org> Subject: Air-L Digest, Vol 96, Issue 22 Date: Fri, Jul 20, 2012 2:00 am Send Air-L mailing list submissions to air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to air-l-request(a)listserv.aoir.org You can reach the person managing the list at air-l-owner(a)listserv.aoir.org When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of Air-L digest..." Today's Topics: 1. Extended Call for Papers Cedem Asia (10 Aug) (Judith Schossboeck) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2012 09:45:11 +0200 From: "Judith Schossboeck" <Judith.Schossboeck(a)donau-uni.ac.at> To: <air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org> Subject: [Air-L] Extended Call for Papers Cedem Asia (10 Aug) Message-ID: <5007D7270200004200049573(a)gwgwia.donau-uni.ac.at> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Dear Reader, The extended Call for Papers for the international "Conference for E-Democracy and Open Government: Asia 2012" is available online. Submission deadline is 10 August. Conference location is Singapore, Asia, in November 2012. ********************************************************** EXTENDED CALL FOR PAPERS: CeDEM-ASIA-2012 International Conference for E-Democracy and Open Government: >> Social & Mobile Media for Governance. CFP: http://tinyurl.com/CFP-CeDEM-Asia-2012 Extended Submission Deadline: 10 August 2012 Conference Chairs * Nojin Kwak (University of Michigan, USA) * Peter Parycek (Danube University Krems, Austria) * Marko M. Skoric (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore) Website: http://www.donau-uni.ac.at/cedem Conference Date: 14-15 November 2012 ********************************************************** FURTHER INFORMATION & CONTACT Conference CeDEM: http://www.donau-uni.ac.at/cedem CeDEM @ FB: http://www.facebook.com/pages/CeDEM/120470071343471 eJournal JeDEM: http://www.jedem.org/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/#!/e_society Blog: http://digitalgovernment.wordpress.com/ Blog(EN): http://digitalgovernment.wordpress.com/category/1-englisch/ ********************************************************** Kind Regards, Centre for E Governance Danube University Krems A 3500 Krems www.donau-uni.ac.at ********************************************************** ------------------------------------------------------- Blog: Digital Government and Society ( http://digitalgovernment.wordpress.com/ ) ------------------------------------------------------- CeDEM11- Conference for eDemocracy 2012 ( http://www.donau-uni.ac.at/cedem ) ( about:www.donau-uni.ac.at/edem ) ------------------------------------------------------- Mag. Judith Scho?b?ck Zentrum f?r E-Governance Donau-Universit?t Krems Dr.-Karl-Dorrek-Stra?e 30 A-3500 Krems +43 2732 893 2309 judith.schossboeck(a)donau-uni.ac.at ------------------------------------------------------- JeDEM - Journal for eDemocracy and Open Government ( http://www.jedem.org/ ) ------------------------------------------------------- Twitter: e_society ( http://twitter.com/e_society ) ------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ _______________________________________________ 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/ End of Air-L Digest, Vol 96, Issue 22 *************************************

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New report: Social Media and Political Processes in Indonesia
by Yanuar Nugroho 20 Jul '12

20 Jul '12

Dear colleagues A new report from a FES-funded project that might be of your interest. Beyond click-activism? New media and political processes in contemporary INDONESIA / by Yanuar Nugroho and Sofie Shinta Syarief. - Jakarta [u.a.] : Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, fesmedia Asia series, 2012. ISBN 978-971-95479-0-7. http://www.fes.de/cgi-bin/gbv.cgi?id=09240&ty=pdf With best wishes, Yanuar _________________ Dr. Yanuar Nugroho Hallsworth Research Fellow Manchester Institute of Innovation Research MIoIR/PREST The University of Manchester United Kingdom

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Digital Media position at Lehigh U
by Jack Lule 19 Jul '12

19 Jul '12

Greetings, Friends, We are now advertising a very interesting job opportunity in Digital Media in the journalism department at Lehigh University. We are looking for a tenure-track assistant professor -- newly-minted Ph.D. or a few years in rank -- who is dedicated to research and teaching on how digital and mobile media are transforming community and social life. An ability to teach visual aspects of journalism, such as videography, photography, and/or design, would be great. The teaching load is just two courses per semester, research support is ample, and salary and benefits are highly competitive. The department has offered a small undergraduate program of superior quality since 1927. The university ranks 38 among national universities in the 2012 U.S. News & World Report ratings and is located on a scenic, 1,600-acre campus in historic Bethlehem, eastern Pennsylvania, just 90 minutes from New York and Philadelphia. Please feel free to contact me with questions. Information on the department is at http://www.lehigh.edu/journalism Candidates can apply at Academic Jobs Online: https://academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/1608 I will also be at the August AEJMC convention in Chicago if people would like to chat. Thanks for the consideration and best wishes to all. Jack Jack Lule Professor and Chair, Journalism and Communication Director, Global Studies The Weinstock Center for Journalism 33 Coppee Drive, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA 18015 Phone: (610)758-4177; Fax: (610)758-6198 www.lehigh.edu/globalization www.lehigh.edu/journalism

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E-research at AOM?
by Janet Salmons, Ph.D. 18 Jul '12

18 Jul '12

Hello AIR folks! Is anyone attending the Academy of Management meeting in Boston? If so, it would be fun to get a group together for a drink or dinner and compare notes. Also, if you will be there I want to let you know that I am offering a Professional Development Workshop (PDW): Guiding the Qualitative E-Researcher Towards Ethical Scholarship. The workshop is aimed for researchers and research methods instructors interested in conducting online interviews. I'm also co-facilitating a session on ethics and publishing. See: http://bit.ly/NLVRrD for details. Hope to see you in bean town! Janet Janet Salmons Ph.D. Capella University School of Business and Technology and Vision2Lead, Inc. Site- http://www.vision2lead.com Follow Twitter at #einterview Now available: Cases in Online Interview Research PO Box 943 Boulder, CO 80306-0943 jsalmons[at]vision2lead.com

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Podcast: Sonia Livingstone on Children and the Internet
by S.Livingstone＠lse.ac.uk 18 Jul '12

18 Jul '12

Hello all, Apologies for self-promotion, but you might be interested in this interview with Sonia Livingstone on the latest Social Science Bites podcast. http://www.socialsciencespace.com/2012/07/sonia-livingstone-on-children-and… How are children using the Internet? How is it affecting them? Sonia Livingstone, who has overseen a major study of children’s behaviour online discusses these issues with Nigel Warburton. And you can read the opening chapter of Sonia’s recent book, Media Regulation, written with Peter Lunt, here <http://www.uk.sagepub.com/books/Book235674#tabview=samples> . Please access the attached hyperlink for an important electronic communications disclaimer: http://lse.ac.uk/emailDisclaimer

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Re: [Air-L] Using screen captures in Thesis paper
by Maria Eronen 18 Jul '12

18 Jul '12

Hi everybody, This is a question that also I've been pondering at the moment. I'm analyzing the content of some celebrity gossip sites and showing a print screen of the site's layout to my readers would be significant. But the problem is that those sites are typically overloaded with celebrity images, which makes the copyright issue a tough question (By no means, I'm going to ask separately the permission of every single photographer or media corporation behind those pictures). On the one hand, I would say that if you can justify using print screen pictures as a part of your analysis, the use falls into the category of fair use (although most of websites deny any use of content for any other reasons than merely personal and informational ones). The another problem I have faced is that academic journals have commercial interests as well (nowadays more and more), so it's not so simple. I would say that the use of print screen pictures would fall into "fair use" easier when it concerns thesis papers, not articles meant for academic journals. And if my thesis paper would not be published online, I would not hesitate using a print screen picture if I am able to justify the use. Anyway, I think it's a shame that some copyright issues try to hinder effective academic critique, or at least, make it very complicated. Maria

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#Influence12 – Symposium & Workshop on Measuring Influence on Social Media [FREE REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN]
by Anatoliy Gruzd 18 Jul '12

18 Jul '12

Apologies for cross-posting ******************************** FREE REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN! What: #Influence12: Symposium & Workshop on Measuring Influence on Social Media Where: Dalhousie Social Media Lab, School of Information Management, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada When: September 28-29, 2012 Website: http://SocialMediaLab.ca/influence12 Twitter Hashtag: #Influence12 Keynote Speaker: Gilad Lotan, VP of Research & Development, Socialflow.com ABOUT THE EVENT: The objective of this 2-day event is to bring together experts in social media and online social networks from both the academic and business worlds to share ideas on the best practices around how to study the impact of social media on our society, and specifically how to measure influence on social media. The workshop will provide researchers in this area an opportunity to present and debate their ideas, and provide graduate students with the opportunity to build academic and professional contacts, present their research, and learn about the latest research in this area from a multidisciplinary perspective. SCHEDULE: During the first day (Symposium), the participants will present and conduct discussions based on their work in this area. On the second day (Workshop), the participants will be tasked to brainstorm and develop new metrics for studying and measuring influence and engagement on social media. REGISTRATION FEE: None The registration for the event is now open and the registration form is accessible from the event page above. Please feel free to circulate it and invite your colleagues and students to attend the event.

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Deadline Extended: Is it Working? Assessing Broadband Policy
by Richard Taylor 18 Jul '12

18 Jul '12

Call for Paper Proposals (extended to July 25, 2012) With apologies for cross postings. Is it working? Evaluating and assessing broadband policy A by-invitation experts' workshop New America Foundation September 19-21, 2012 With broadband becoming the central means for providing information services in the 21st century, policymakers struggle with choosing the best model to ensure universal access, adoption and usage. Broadband policy choices range from massive government investment to total deregulation and everything in between including various combinations of regulatory regimes, limited government investment and public-private partnerships. Debates regarding the right path to follow often tend to reflect ideological convictions or stakeholder interests. It is thus requisite to provide analytic scholarly input into the debate, delivered through the evaluation and assessment of broadband deployment policies that have been adopted in recent years. The Institute for Information Policy at Penn State University and the New America Foundation are pleased to announce this call for paper proposals discussing the assessment and evaluation of broadband policies and their implementation. Proposals based on new research data and analysis are especially welcome. Authors of the selected papers will be invited to present and discuss them during a three day by-invitation-only experts workshop designed to bring together up to a dozen American and international experts to be held at the New America Foundation in Washington, DC between September 19 - 21, 2012. This workshop is part of a series of events focused on "Making Policy Research Accessible," organized by the IIP, with the support of the Ford Foundation and the Media Democracy Fund. For programs of previous workshops see: https://blogs.comm.psu.edu/iip/?page_id=24) Presenters at the workshop will be invited to submit their completed papers for review by the Journal of Information Policy(www.jip-online.org <http://www.jip-online.org/> ). Topics of papers may include, but are not limited to issues such as: . Methodologies for the assessment of broadband projects . Case studies of assessment of broadband policy implementations . Assessment and evaluation of specific BTOP projects and of the BTOP process . Assessment and evaluation of state-level broadband policy implementations . Case studies of other public and private broadband initiatives . Theory of policy evaluation and its application to broadband . The opportunity costs of delayed reforms and regulations . Impacts of the rate of progress of broadband policy . Comparative studies of broadband policies and their implementation . Proposals for a meaningful set of metrics for broadband evaluation . Identification of a uniform set of indicators for successful broadband policies . Evaluation of broadband training and capacity-building programs and activities . Evaluation of broadband programs for historically unserved or underserved communities . Assessment of broadband initiatives directed at community and civil society institutions Abstracts of up to 500 words and a short bio of the author(s) should be submitted to pennstateiip(a)psu.edu by July 25, 2012. Please write IIPNAFIIWWS: YOUR NAME in the subject line. Accepted presenters will be notified by July 31, 2012. Prof. Richard Taylor Penn State University

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Journal of Peer Production - Announcement
by Maurizio 18 Jul '12

18 Jul '12

[Apologies for multiple posts] “Productive Negation”: the inaugural issue of the Journal of Peer Production is now published http://peerproduction.net/issues/issue-1/ The Journal of Peer Production scrutinises the contradictions of peer (collaborative) production. It is thus situated in between grassroots initiatives and discussions driven by practitioners and activists and the debates taking place in academia. The inaugural issue's theme, “Productive negation”, aims to interrogate the role of peer production as a “work of the negative”, that is to say as a critical force. As the traditional left is struggling to come up with an adequate response to the mounting crisis of the capitalist system, contributors propose a range of interpretations about the relationship between the profit-oriented capitalist mode of production and the commons-based and oriented mode of peer production. The Journal of Peer Production also strives to make a small contribution to the reforming of scientific publishing. Taking a cue from Wikipedia, the journal publishes original article submissions, reviewers' reports, and signals indicating how reviewers perceive the revised article. Our ambition is to make the process of peer reviewing papers more transparent and more effective. The inaugural issue is coordinated by Mathieu O'Neil. It includes three research papers, four invited comments and three debate papers: George Dafermos, Authority in Peer Production: The Emergence of Governance in the FreeBSD Project Stefano De Paoli, Vincenzo D’Andrea and Maurizio Teli, Why Free Software Is Not the Antonym of Commercial Software: Two Case Studies from Corporate and Volunteer Based Projects Francesca Musiani, Caring About the Plumbing: On the Importance of Architectures in Social Studies of (Peer-to-Peer) Technology Michel Bauwens, From the Theory of Peer Production to the Production of Peer Production Theory Jakob Rigi, Peer to Peer Production as the Alternative to Capitalism: A New Communist Horizon Christian Siefkes, Beyond Digital Plenty: Building Blocks for Physical Peer Production Jean Zin, Changing the System of Production Stefan Meretz, Peer Production and Societal Transformation: Ten Patterns Developed by the Oekonux Project Maurizio Teli, Peer Production and Societal Transformation: A Practice-Based Perspective Toni Prug, A Note on Evaluation Processes for Social Phenomena with Ambitious Claims

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