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Call for Papers: ICCE 2012 workshop on foreign language learning and teaching in virtual worlds
by Lee, Mark 18 Jul '12

18 Jul '12

Dear colleagues, A workshop on foreign language learning and teaching in virtual worlds will be held in conjunction with The 20th International Conference on Computers in Education (ICCE 2012--see http://www.lsl.nie.edu.sg/icce2012/) which will take place in Singapore from November 26 to November 30, 2012. ICCE is a "meta-conference" consisting of seven interrelated sub-conferences, each of which has a specialized theme and is overseen by its own program committee. The Call for Papers for the ICCE 2012 workshop on "Real Education in Virtual Worlds: Foreign Language Learning and Teaching" is available at the following URL: http://bit.ly/LW4VON As per the Call, manuscripts of 4-8 pages in length should be submitted to the Workshop Chair, Dr. Yu-Ju Lan, via email at icce2012.revw.llt(a)gmail.com no later than August 19, 2012, following which they will be subject to double-blind peer review. Authors will be notified as to the outcome of the review process no later than September 2, 2012, and thereafter, those whose manuscripts have been accepted will have until October 2, 2012 to submit final, camera-ready versions for inclusion in the Proceedings. The Proceedings will be indexed by Elsevier for inclusion in a number of its bibliographic databases, including Scopus. Kind regards, Mark ------------------------------------------------------------ Mark J. W. Lee Adjunct Senior Lecturer School of Education Charles Sturt University Locked Bag 588 Wagga Wagga, NSW 2678 AUSTRALIA Editor, MERLOT Journal of Online Learning and Teaching Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Education ------------------------------------------------------------ Charles Sturt University | ALBURY-WODONGA | BATHURST | CANBERRA | DUBBO | GOULBURN | MELBOURNE | ONTARIO | ORANGE | PORT MACQUARIE | SYDNEY | WAGGA WAGGA | LEGAL NOTICE This email (and any attachment) is confidential and is intended for the use of the addressee(s) only. If you are not the intended recipient of this email, you must not copy, distribute, take any action in reliance on it or disclose it to anyone. Any confidentiality is not waived or lost by reason of mistaken delivery. Email should be checked for viruses and defects before opening. Charles Sturt University (CSU) does not accept liability for viruses or any consequence which arise as a result of this email transmission. Email communications with CSU may be subject to automated email filtering, which could result in the delay or deletion of a legitimate email before it is read at CSU. The views expressed in this email are not necessarily those of CSU. Charles Sturt University in Australia http://www.csu.edu.au The Chancellery, Panorama Avenue, Bathurst NSW Australia 2795 ABN: 83 878 708 551; CRICOS Provider Numbers: 00005F (NSW), 01947G (VIC), 02960B (ACT) Charles Sturt University in Ontario http://www.charlessturt.ca 860 Harrington Court, Burlington Ontario Canada L7N 3N4 Registration: www.peqab.ca Consider the environment before printing this email.

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Fwd: [JoCI] FW: [bytesforall_readers] Finch Committee reported accepted by UK Government
by gene loeb 17 Jul '12

17 Jul '12

This is important news. Gene ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: michael gurstein <gurstein(a)gmail.com> Date: Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 10:01 AM Subject: [JoCI] FW: [bytesforall_readers] Finch Committee reported accepted by UK Government To: cracin-canada(a)vancouvercommunity.net, joci-editorial(a)vancouvercommunity.net Cc: Subbiah Arunachalam <subbiah.arunachalam(a)gmail.com> *From:* bytesforall_readers(a)yahoogroups.com [mailto: bytesforall_readers(a)yahoogroups.com] *On Behalf Of *Subbiah Arunachalam *Sent:* Monday, July 16, 2012 5:58 PM *To:* bytesforall_readers(a)yahoogroups.com *Subject:* [bytesforall_readers] Finch Committee reported accepted by UK Government**** ** ** **** >From Infojustice.org**** ** ** ** ** UK to Provide Open Access to Government-Funded Research**** JULY 16, 2012 BY MIKE PALMEDO <http://infojustice.org/archives/author/admin> 1 COMMENT <http://infojustice.org/archives/26604#comments>**** <http://infojustice.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/UK-flag.jpg>The British government has announced that it will make government-funded research freely available beginning next year. The Research Council’s UK announcement states that the new policy “will apply to all qualifying publications being submitted for publication from 1 April 2013″ and it “mandates use of the Creative Commons ‘Attribution’ license (CC-BY), when an Article Processing Charge (APC) is levied. The CC-BY licence allows others to modify, build upon and/or distribute the licensed work (including for commercial purposes) as long as the original author is credited.”**** The new policy is in line with recommendations made in a recent report by Janet Finch, “Accessibility, sustainability, excellence: how to expand access to research publications.”**** In a statement, Science MinisterDavid Willets said that “Removing paywalls that surround taxpayer funded research will have real economic and social benefits. It will allow academics and businesses to develop and commercialise their research more easily and herald a new era of academic discovery. This development will provide exciting new opportunities and keep the UK at the forefront of global research to drive innovation and growth.”**** Sources:**** - Statement by Research Councils UK. “RCUK announces new Open Access policy.” <http://www.rcuk.ac.uk/media/news/2012news/Pages/120716.aspx>*** * - Science Minister David Willet’s letter to Dame Janet Finch on the Government Response to the Finch Group Report: “Accessibility, sustainability, excellence: how to expand access to research publications.”<https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http://www.bis.gov.uk/assets/biscore/sci…> **** - Dame Janet Finch. Accessibility, sustainability, excellence: how to expand access to research publications. (“The Finch Report”).<http://www.researchinfonet.org/publish/finch/> **** - Ian Sample for the Guardian. “Free Access to British Scientific Research Within Two Years.”<http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2012/jul/15/free-access-british-scientifi…> **** - Alan Wexelblat for the Copyfight blog. “UK Upends Research Publication Model.”<http://copyfight.corante.com/archives/2012/07/16/uk_upends_research_publica…> **** ** ** ** ** __._,_.___**** Reply to *sender*<subbiah.arunachalam@gmail.com?subject=Re%3A%20Finch%20Committee%20reported%20accepted%20by%20UK%20Government>| Reply to *group*<bytesforall_readers@yahoogroups.com?subject=Re%3A%20Finch%20Committee%20reported%20accepted%20by%20UK%20Government>| Reply *via web post*<http://groups.yahoo.com/group/bytesforall_readers/post;_ylc=X3oDMTJxNDVubGV…>| *Start a New Topic*<http://groups.yahoo.com/group/bytesforall_readers/post;_ylc=X3oDMTJla2lqNmQ…> **** Messages in this topic<http://groups.yahoo.com/group/bytesforall_readers/message/15148;_ylc=X3oDMT…>( *1*) **** *Recent Activity:* **** Visit Your Group<http://groups.yahoo.com/group/bytesforall_readers;_ylc=X3oDMTJlOWs4bWc4BF9T…> **** [image: Yahoo! Groups]<http://groups.yahoo.com/;_ylc=X3oDMTJkMWZqbGI4BF9TAzk3NDc2NTkwBGdycElkAzM1M…> **** Switch to: Text-Only<bytesforall_readers-traditional@yahoogroups.com?subject=Change%20Delivery%20Format:%20Traditional>, Daily Digest<bytesforall_readers-digest@yahoogroups.com?subject=Email%20Delivery:%20Digest>• Unsubscribe<bytesforall_readers-unsubscribe(a)yahoogroups.com?subject=Unsubscribe>• Terms of Use <http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/>**** .**** **** __,_._,___**** -- With Sincerest Best Wishes , Gene Gene Loeb, Ph.D.

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Call for Collaborators | Interactivos?'12 Ljubljana: Obsolete Technologies of the Future
by Medialab-Prado comunicacion 17 Jul '12

17 Jul '12

*MEDIALAB-PRADO* Temporarily at Matadero Madrid Paseo de la Chopera, 14 · 28045 Madrid +34 915 177 288 www.medialab-prado.es* * Interactivos?'12 Ljubljana: Obsolete Technologies of the Future Call for Collaborators Deadline: August 31, 2012 Workshop: September 5 - 15, 2012 Call for collaborations in the advanced workshop for project development /Interactivos?'12 Ljubljana: Obsolete Technologies of the Future/, that takes place in September 5 - 15, 2012 in Ljubljana (Slovenia). Collaborators will participate in the production of six prototypes in the fields of art and technology using existing or outdated technologies in an entirely unexpected way to encourage novel approaches, promote sustainability, and explore possibilities in the far future. The collaborator is basic in the planning and development of the workshops of Medialab-Prado, thus these are conceived as spaces for collaborative work, knowledge exchange and theoretical and practical training. It is an environment in which there is a horizontal relationship among professors, developers and the collaborators. Workshop advisors: Luka Frelih (director of Ljudmila, artist, programmer), Ida Hiršenfelder (art critic, art consultant), Chris Sugrue (artist, programmer) and Yago Torroja (hardware, electronics). Complete information and guidelines: http://medialab-prado.es/article/interactivos12_ljubljana_call_collaborators **An activity within the framework of Studiolab European project: http://www.studiolabproject.eu/ http://medialab-prado.es http://www.ljudmila.org/

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Re: [Air-L] LIFE IN CODE AND SOFTWARE: Mediated Life in a Complex Computational Ecology Edited by David M. Berry
by Andrew Herman 17 Jul '12

17 Jul '12

Very cool! Andrew Herman, Ph. D. Associate Professor Department of Communication Studies Director, Graduate Program in Cultural Analysis and Social Theory Wilfrid Laurier University Waterloo, Ontario N2L 3C5 CANADA 519 884-1970 x3693 >>> David Berry <D.M.Berry(a)swansea.ac.uk> 07/17/12 9:33 AM >>> LIFE IN CODE AND SOFTWARE: Mediated Life in a Complex Computational Ecology Edited by David M. Berry http://www.livingbooksaboutlife.org/books/Life_in_Code_and_Software Open Humanities Press is pleased to announce the publication of Life in Code and Software, the 23rd book in its open access Living Books About Life series. The essays in this collection, edited by David M. Berry, Senior Lecturer in Digital Media in the Department of Political and Cultural Studies at Swansea University, explore the relationship between living, code and software. For Berry, technologies of code and software increasingly make up an important part of our urban environment - indeed, their reach stretches to even quite remote areas of the world. Life in Code and Software introduces and explores the way in which code and software are becoming the conditions of possibility for human living, crucially forming a computational ecology, made up of disparate software ecologies we inhabit. As such we need to take account of this new computational environment, Berry argues, and think about how today we live in a highly mediated, code-based world - a world where computational concepts and ideas are foundational, and within which, code and software become the paradigmatic forms of knowing and doing. *** LIVING BOOKS ABOUT LIFE http://www.livingbooksaboutlife.org Living Books About Life (http://www.livingbooksaboutlife.org) was launched by Open Humanities Press (OHP) (http://openhumanitiespress.org) in October 2011. Funded by the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC), and edited by Gary Hall, Joanna Zylinska and Clare Birchall, Living Books About Life is a series of curated, open access books about life -- with life understood both philosophically and biologically -- which provide a bridge between the humanities and the sciences. Produced by a globally-distributed network of writers and editors, the books in the series repackage existing open access science research by clustering it around selected topics whose unifying theme is life: e.g., air, agriculture, bioethics, cosmetic surgery, electronic waste, energy, neurology and pharmacology. Peter Suber, Open Access Project Director, Public Knowledge, said: ‘This book series would not be possible without open access. On the author side, it takes splendid advantage of the freedom to reuse and repurpose open-access research articles. On the other side, it passes on that freedom to readers. In between, the editors made intelligent selections and wrote original introductions, enhancing each article by placing it in the new context of an ambitious, integrated understanding of life, drawing equally from the sciences and humanities’. By initially creating twenty one ‘living books about life’ in just seven months, the series represents an exciting new model for publishing, in a sustainable, low-cost, low-tech manner, many more such books in the future. These books can be freely shared with other academic and non-academic institutions and individuals. Nicholas Mirzoeff, Professor of Media, Culture and Communication at New York University, commented: ‘This remarkable series transforms the humble Reader into a living form, while breaking down the conceptual barrier between the humanities and the sciences in a time when scholars and activists of all kinds have taken the understanding of life to be central. Brilliant in its simplicity and concept, this series is a leap towards an exciting new future’. One of the most important aspects of the Living Books About Life series is the impact it has had on the attitudes of the researchers taking part, changing their views on open access and raising awareness of issues around publishers’ licensing and copyright agreements. Many have become open access advocates themselves, keen to disseminate this model among their own scholarly and student communities. As Professor Erica Fudge of the University of Strathclyde and co-editor of the living book on Veterinary Science, put it, ‘I am now evangelical about making work publicly available, and am really encouraging colleagues to put things out there’. These ‘books about life’ are themselves ‘living’, in the sense they are open to ongoing collaborative processes of writing, editing, updating, remixing and commenting by readers. As well as repackaging open access science research -- together with interactive maps and audio-visual material -- into a series of books, Living Books About Life is thus involved in rethinking ‘the book’ itself as a living, collaborative endeavour in the age of open science, open education, open data, and e-book readers such as Kindle and the iPad. Tara McPherson, editor of VECTORS, Journal of Culture and Technology in a Dynamic Vernacular, said: ‘It is no hyperbole to say that this series will help us reimagine everything we think we know about academic publishing. It points to a future that is interdisciplinary, open access, and expansive.’ Funded by JISC, Living Books About Life is a collaboration between Open Humanities Press and three academic institutions, Coventry University, Goldsmiths, University of London, and the University of Kent. Books: * Astrobiology and the Search for Life on Mars, edited by Sarah Kember (Goldsmiths, University of London) * Bioethics™: Life, Politics, Economics, edited by Joanna Zylinska (Goldsmiths, University of London) * Biosemiotics: Nature, Culture, Science, Semiosis, edited by Wendy Wheeler (London Metropolitan University) * Cognition and Decision in Non-Human Biological Organisms, edited by Steven Shaviro (Wayne State University) * Cosmetic Surgery: Medicine, Culture, Beauty, edited by Bernadette Wegenstein (Johns Hopkins University) * Creative Evolution: Natural Selection and the Urge to Remix, edited by Mark Amerika (University of Colorado at Boulder) * Digitize Me, Visualize Me, Search Me: Open Science and its Discontents, edited by Gary Hall (Coventry University) * Energy Connections: Living Forces in Creative Inter/Intra-Action, edited by Manuela Rossini (td-net for Transdisciplinary Research, Switzerland) * Extinction, edited by Claire Colebrook (Penn State University) * Human Genomics: From Hypothetical Genes to Biodigital Materialisations, edited by Kate O’Riordan (Sussex University) * Medianatures: The Materiality of Information Technology and Electronic Waste, edited by Jussi Parikka (Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton) * Nerves of Perception: Motor and Sensory Experience in Neuroscience, edited by Anna Munster (University of New South Wales) * Neurofutures, edited by Timothy Lenoir (Duke University) * Partial Life, edited by Oron Catts and Ionat Zurr (SymbioticA, University of Western Australia) * Pharmacology, edited by Dave Boothroyd (University of Kent) * Symbiosis, edited by Janneke Adema and Pete Woodbridge (Coventry University) * Another Technoscience is Possible: Agricultural Lessons for the Posthumanities, edited by Gabriela Mendez Cota (Goldsmiths, University of London) * The In/visible, edited by Clare Birchall (University of Kent) * The Life of Air: Dwelling, Communicating, Manipulating, edited by Monika Bakke (University of Poznan) * The Mediations of Consciousness, edited by Alberto López Cuenca (Universidad de las Américas, Puebla) * Ubiquitous Surveillance, edited by David Parry (University of Texas at Dallas) * Veterinary Science: Animals, Humans and Health, edited by Erica Fudge (Strathclyde University) and Clare Palmer (Texas A&M University) Contact the Living Books about Life series editors: Gary Hall, Joanna Zylinska and Clare Birchall E: gary.hall(a)coventry.ac.uk E: j.zylinska(a)gold.ac.uk E: c.s.birchall(a)kent.ac.uk W: http://www.livingbooksaboutlife.org Open Humanities Press is a non-profit, international Open Access publishing collective specializing in critical and cultural theory. OHP was formed by academics to overcome the current crisis in scholarly publishing that threatens intellectual freedom and academic rigor worldwide. OHP journals are academically certified by OHP’s independent board of international scholars. All OHP publications are peer-reviewed, published under open access licenses, and freely and immediately available online at http://openhumanitiespress.org. --- Dr. David M. Berry Senior Lecturer in Digital Media (Associate Professor in Media Studies) Department of Political and Cultural Studies Swansea University Singleton Campus Swansea SA2 8PP Tel: 01792 602633 http://www.swan.ac.uk/staff/academic/ArtsHumanities/berryd/ Room: Room JC015, James Callaghan Building _______________________________________________ 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/

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LIFE IN CODE AND SOFTWARE: Mediated Life in a Complex Computational Ecology Edited by David M. Berry
by David Berry 17 Jul '12

17 Jul '12

LIFE IN CODE AND SOFTWARE: Mediated Life in a Complex Computational Ecology Edited by David M. Berry http://www.livingbooksaboutlife.org/books/Life_in_Code_and_Software Open Humanities Press is pleased to announce the publication of Life in Code and Software, the 23rd book in its open access Living Books About Life series. The essays in this collection, edited by David M. Berry, Senior Lecturer in Digital Media in the Department of Political and Cultural Studies at Swansea University, explore the relationship between living, code and software. For Berry, technologies of code and software increasingly make up an important part of our urban environment - indeed, their reach stretches to even quite remote areas of the world. Life in Code and Software introduces and explores the way in which code and software are becoming the conditions of possibility for human living, crucially forming a computational ecology, made up of disparate software ecologies we inhabit. As such we need to take account of this new computational environment, Berry argues, and think about how today we live in a highly mediated, code-based world - a world where computational concepts and ideas are foundational, and within which, code and software become the paradigmatic forms of knowing and doing. *** LIVING BOOKS ABOUT LIFE http://www.livingbooksaboutlife.org Living Books About Life (http://www.livingbooksaboutlife.org) was launched by Open Humanities Press (OHP) (http://openhumanitiespress.org) in October 2011. Funded by the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC), and edited by Gary Hall, Joanna Zylinska and Clare Birchall, Living Books About Life is a series of curated, open access books about life -- with life understood both philosophically and biologically -- which provide a bridge between the humanities and the sciences. Produced by a globally-distributed network of writers and editors, the books in the series repackage existing open access science research by clustering it around selected topics whose unifying theme is life: e.g., air, agriculture, bioethics, cosmetic surgery, electronic waste, energy, neurology and pharmacology. Peter Suber, Open Access Project Director, Public Knowledge, said: ‘This book series would not be possible without open access. On the author side, it takes splendid advantage of the freedom to reuse and repurpose open-access research articles. On the other side, it passes on that freedom to readers. In between, the editors made intelligent selections and wrote original introductions, enhancing each article by placing it in the new context of an ambitious, integrated understanding of life, drawing equally from the sciences and humanities’. By initially creating twenty one ‘living books about life’ in just seven months, the series represents an exciting new model for publishing, in a sustainable, low-cost, low-tech manner, many more such books in the future. These books can be freely shared with other academic and non-academic institutions and individuals. Nicholas Mirzoeff, Professor of Media, Culture and Communication at New York University, commented: ‘This remarkable series transforms the humble Reader into a living form, while breaking down the conceptual barrier between the humanities and the sciences in a time when scholars and activists of all kinds have taken the understanding of life to be central. Brilliant in its simplicity and concept, this series is a leap towards an exciting new future’. One of the most important aspects of the Living Books About Life series is the impact it has had on the attitudes of the researchers taking part, changing their views on open access and raising awareness of issues around publishers’ licensing and copyright agreements. Many have become open access advocates themselves, keen to disseminate this model among their own scholarly and student communities. As Professor Erica Fudge of the University of Strathclyde and co-editor of the living book on Veterinary Science, put it, ‘I am now evangelical about making work publicly available, and am really encouraging colleagues to put things out there’. These ‘books about life’ are themselves ‘living’, in the sense they are open to ongoing collaborative processes of writing, editing, updating, remixing and commenting by readers. As well as repackaging open access science research -- together with interactive maps and audio-visual material -- into a series of books, Living Books About Life is thus involved in rethinking ‘the book’ itself as a living, collaborative endeavour in the age of open science, open education, open data, and e-book readers such as Kindle and the iPad. Tara McPherson, editor of VECTORS, Journal of Culture and Technology in a Dynamic Vernacular, said: ‘It is no hyperbole to say that this series will help us reimagine everything we think we know about academic publishing. It points to a future that is interdisciplinary, open access, and expansive.’ Funded by JISC, Living Books About Life is a collaboration between Open Humanities Press and three academic institutions, Coventry University, Goldsmiths, University of London, and the University of Kent. Books: * Astrobiology and the Search for Life on Mars, edited by Sarah Kember (Goldsmiths, University of London) * Bioethics™: Life, Politics, Economics, edited by Joanna Zylinska (Goldsmiths, University of London) * Biosemiotics: Nature, Culture, Science, Semiosis, edited by Wendy Wheeler (London Metropolitan University) * Cognition and Decision in Non-Human Biological Organisms, edited by Steven Shaviro (Wayne State University) * Cosmetic Surgery: Medicine, Culture, Beauty, edited by Bernadette Wegenstein (Johns Hopkins University) * Creative Evolution: Natural Selection and the Urge to Remix, edited by Mark Amerika (University of Colorado at Boulder) * Digitize Me, Visualize Me, Search Me: Open Science and its Discontents, edited by Gary Hall (Coventry University) * Energy Connections: Living Forces in Creative Inter/Intra-Action, edited by Manuela Rossini (td-net for Transdisciplinary Research, Switzerland) * Extinction, edited by Claire Colebrook (Penn State University) * Human Genomics: From Hypothetical Genes to Biodigital Materialisations, edited by Kate O’Riordan (Sussex University) * Medianatures: The Materiality of Information Technology and Electronic Waste, edited by Jussi Parikka (Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton) * Nerves of Perception: Motor and Sensory Experience in Neuroscience, edited by Anna Munster (University of New South Wales) * Neurofutures, edited by Timothy Lenoir (Duke University) * Partial Life, edited by Oron Catts and Ionat Zurr (SymbioticA, University of Western Australia) * Pharmacology, edited by Dave Boothroyd (University of Kent) * Symbiosis, edited by Janneke Adema and Pete Woodbridge (Coventry University) * Another Technoscience is Possible: Agricultural Lessons for the Posthumanities, edited by Gabriela Mendez Cota (Goldsmiths, University of London) * The In/visible, edited by Clare Birchall (University of Kent) * The Life of Air: Dwelling, Communicating, Manipulating, edited by Monika Bakke (University of Poznan) * The Mediations of Consciousness, edited by Alberto López Cuenca (Universidad de las Américas, Puebla) * Ubiquitous Surveillance, edited by David Parry (University of Texas at Dallas) * Veterinary Science: Animals, Humans and Health, edited by Erica Fudge (Strathclyde University) and Clare Palmer (Texas A&M University) Contact the Living Books about Life series editors: Gary Hall, Joanna Zylinska and Clare Birchall E: gary.hall(a)coventry.ac.uk E: j.zylinska(a)gold.ac.uk E: c.s.birchall(a)kent.ac.uk W: http://www.livingbooksaboutlife.org Open Humanities Press is a non-profit, international Open Access publishing collective specializing in critical and cultural theory. OHP was formed by academics to overcome the current crisis in scholarly publishing that threatens intellectual freedom and academic rigor worldwide. OHP journals are academically certified by OHP’s independent board of international scholars. All OHP publications are peer-reviewed, published under open access licenses, and freely and immediately available online at http://openhumanitiespress.org. --- Dr. David M. Berry Senior Lecturer in Digital Media (Associate Professor in Media Studies) Department of Political and Cultural Studies Swansea University Singleton Campus Swansea SA2 8PP Tel: 01792 602633 http://www.swan.ac.uk/staff/academic/ArtsHumanities/berryd/ Room: Room JC015, James Callaghan Building

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New open access Living Book about Life: Life in Code and Software by David M. Berry
by Gary Hall 17 Jul '12

17 Jul '12

LIFE IN CODE AND SOFTWARE: Mediated Life in a Complex Computational Ecology Edited by David M. Berry http://www.livingbooksaboutlife.org/books/Life_in_Code_and_Software Open Humanities Press is pleased to announce the publication of Life in Code and Software, the 23rd book in its open access Living Books About Life series. The essays in this collection, edited by David M. Berry, Senior Lecturer in Digital Media in the Department of Political and Cultural Studies at Swansea University, explore the relationship between living, code and software. For Berry, technologies of code and software increasingly make up an important part of our urban environment - indeed, their reach stretches to even quite remote areas of the world. Life in Code and Software introduces and explores the way in which code and software are becoming the conditions of possibility for human living, crucially forming a computational ecology, made up of disparate software ecologies we inhabit. As such we need to take account of this new computational environment, Berry argues, and think about how today we live in a highly mediated, code-based world - a world where computational concepts and ideas are foundational, and within which, code and software become the paradigmatic forms of knowing and doing. *** LIVING BOOKS ABOUT LIFE http://www.livingbooksaboutlife.org Living Books About Life (http://www.livingbooksaboutlife.org) was launched by Open Humanities Press (OHP) (http://openhumanitiespress.org) in October 2011. Funded by the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC), and edited by Gary Hall, Joanna Zylinska and Clare Birchall, Living Books About Life is a series of curated, open access books about life -- with life understood both philosophically and biologically -- which provide a bridge between the humanities and the sciences. Produced by a globally-distributed network of writers and editors, the books in the series repackage existing open access science research by clustering it around selected topics whose unifying theme is life: e.g., air, agriculture, bioethics, cosmetic surgery, electronic waste, energy, neurology and pharmacology. Peter Suber, Open Access Project Director, Public Knowledge, said: 'This book series would not be possible without open access. On the author side, it takes splendid advantage of the freedom to reuse and repurpose open-access research articles. On the other side, it passes on that freedom to readers. In between, the editors made intelligent selections and wrote original introductions, enhancing each article by placing it in the new context of an ambitious, integrated understanding of life, drawing equally from the sciences and humanities'. By initially creating twenty one 'living books about life' in just seven months, the series represents an exciting new model for publishing, in a sustainable, low-cost, low-tech manner, many more such books in the future. These books can be freely shared with other academic and non-academic institutions and individuals. Nicholas Mirzoeff, Professor of Media, Culture and Communication at New York University, commented: 'This remarkable series transforms the humble Reader into a living form, while breaking down the conceptual barrier between the humanities and the sciences in a time when scholars and activists of all kinds have taken the understanding of life to be central. Brilliant in its simplicity and concept, this series is a leap towards an exciting new future'. One of the most important aspects of the Living Books About Life series is the impact it has had on the attitudes of the researchers taking part, changing their views on open access and raising awareness of issues around publishers' licensing and copyright agreements. Many have become open access advocates themselves, keen to disseminate this model among their own scholarly and student communities. As Professor Erica Fudge of the University of Strathclyde and co-editor of the living book on Veterinary Science, put it, 'I am now evangelical about making work publicly available, and am really encouraging colleagues to put things out there'. These 'books about life' are themselves 'living', in the sense they are open to ongoing collaborative processes of writing, editing, updating, remixing and commenting by readers. As well as repackaging open access science research -- together with interactive maps and audio-visual material -- into a series of books, Living Books About Life is thus involved in rethinking 'the book' itself as a living, collaborative endeavour in the age of open science, open education, open data, and e-book readers such as Kindle and the iPad. Tara McPherson, editor of VECTORS, Journal of Culture and Technology in a Dynamic Vernacular, said: 'It is no hyperbole to say that this series will help us reimagine everything we think we know about academic publishing. It points to a future that is interdisciplinary, open access, and expansive.' Funded by JISC, Living Books About Life is a collaboration between Open Humanities Press and three academic institutions, Coventry University, Goldsmiths, University of London, and the University of Kent. Books: * Astrobiology and the Search for Life on Mars, edited by Sarah Kember (Goldsmiths, University of London) * Bioethics^(TM): Life, Politics, Economics, edited by Joanna Zylinska (Goldsmiths, University of London) * Biosemiotics: Nature, Culture, Science, Semiosis, edited by Wendy Wheeler (London Metropolitan University) * Cognition and Decision in Non-Human Biological Organisms, edited by Steven Shaviro (Wayne State University) * Cosmetic Surgery: Medicine, Culture, Beauty, edited by Bernadette Wegenstein (Johns Hopkins University) * Creative Evolution: Natural Selection and the Urge to Remix, edited by Mark Amerika (University of Colorado at Boulder) * Digitize Me, Visualize Me, Search Me: Open Science and its Discontents, edited by Gary Hall (Coventry University) * Energy Connections: Living Forces in Creative Inter/Intra-Action, edited by Manuela Rossini (td-net for Transdisciplinary Research, Switzerland) * Extinction, edited by Claire Colebrook (Penn State University) * Human Genomics: From Hypothetical Genes to Biodigital Materialisations, edited by Kate O'Riordan (Sussex University) * Medianatures: The Materiality of Information Technology and Electronic Waste, edited by Jussi Parikka (Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton) * Nerves of Perception: Motor and Sensory Experience in Neuroscience, edited by Anna Munster (University of New South Wales) * Neurofutures, edited by Timothy Lenoir (Duke University) * Partial Life, edited by Oron Catts and Ionat Zurr (SymbioticA, University of Western Australia) * Pharmacology, edited by Dave Boothroyd (University of Kent) * Symbiosis, edited by Janneke Adema and Pete Woodbridge (Coventry University) * Another Technoscience is Possible: Agricultural Lessons for the Posthumanities, edited by Gabriela Mendez Cota (Goldsmiths, University of London) * The In/visible, edited by Clare Birchall (University of Kent) * The Life of Air: Dwelling, Communicating, Manipulating, edited by Monika Bakke (University of Poznan) * The Mediations of Consciousness, edited by Alberto López Cuenca (Universidad de las Américas, Puebla) * Ubiquitous Surveillance, edited by David Parry (University of Texas at Dallas) * Veterinary Science: Animals, Humans and Health, edited by Erica Fudge (Strathclyde University) and Clare Palmer (Texas A&M University) Contact the Living Books about Life series editors: Gary Hall, Joanna Zylinska and Clare Birchall E: gary.hall(a)coventry.ac.uk E: j.zylinska(a)gold.ac.uk E: c.s.birchall(a)kent.ac.uk W: http://www.livingbooksaboutlife.org Open Humanities Press is a non-profit, international Open Access publishing collective specializing in critical and cultural theory. OHP was formed by academics to overcome the current crisis in scholarly publishing that threatens intellectual freedom and academic rigor worldwide. OHP journals are academically certified by OHP's independent board of international scholars. All OHP publications are peer-reviewed, published under open access licenses, and freely and immediately available online at http://openhumanitiespress.org. -- Gary Hall Research Professor of Media and Performing Arts Director of the Centre for Disruptive Media School of Art and Design, Coventry University Co-editor of Culture Machine http://www.culturemachine.net Co-founder of the Open Humanities Press http://www.openhumanitiespress.org Website http://www.garyhall.info

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Re: [Air-L] Using screen captures in Thesis paper
by Patricia Jeter 17 Jul '12

17 Jul '12

Hi Emily, Another resource to consult would be your university librarian. They are used to working with academics who want to use various types of media in their classes and research. If they don't have a definitive answer for you they may have a good sense of the best place for you to check for an answer. I hope this helps. Patricia Moore-Jeter School of Communication and Information Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey http://virtuallifeconcreteworld.wordpress.com/ -----Original Message----- > Message: 4 > Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2012 17:35:50 +0800 > From: Emily Liu <b941020045(a)gmail.com> > To: "Dan L. Burk" <dburk(a)uci.edu> > Cc: air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org > Subject: Re: [Air-L] Using screen captures in Thesis paper > Message-ID: > <CAPrmXdhdKS76UhmOZYQTA910r49LCp+SpCJoC8rW-DA=-_D=og(a)mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > Hi Dan, > > Thank you and everyone else who has replied to this topic. > > I have some questions to clarify though, as everything is so confusing > regarding the copyright problem. > > Based on my understanding you said, the claim to fair use may not be > applicable to my case, since the TOS is a contract for the users of the > site? Is that right? > > If someone who is in a site with a copyright disclaimer (and no TOS), and > like my case, cannot hear back to get permission from the site to use in > their study, can they claim fair use as the case? > > Yet I am not unwilling to get the authorization for using the screen > captures, just that no one replied.. So the things that I can do now is to > keep sending messages to the site's moderators and other emails and hope > that someone replies? > > And if no one replies, I can either as you suggested to use the image and > hope no one notices/cares or not use any images at all? > > This is a very difficult issue... And I have no idea who to ask in > Taiwan... I will try to find someone who is familiar with Taiwanese > copyright laws to ask too. > > > Thanks again for your answers. > Emily > > -- > > Min-Ju Liu (Emily) > > M.A. Student in Applied Linguistics > > Department of Foreign Languages and Literature > National Sun Yat-sen University > _______________________________________________ > 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 19 > *************************************

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job ad
by qCentral 16 Jul '12

16 Jul '12

hey all, please forward this to your networks? thanks! Assistant Professor in Rhetoric and Public Culture Indiana University, Bloomington Indiana University, Department of Communication and Culture, seeks an Assistant Professor in Rhetoric and Public Culture focused on the rhetorical critique of law and/or public policy with an orientation toward civic engagement. This is a tenure-track position, which requires a strong research agenda, a commitment to excellence in teaching, and a PhD completed prior to August 2013. In addition to teaching graduate courses in rhetoric and public culture that reflect core requirements and more specialized areas of expertise in law and/or public policy, the person filling this position is expected to teach undergraduate courses in areas such as freedom of speech, argumentation and advocacy, and legal communication. Ideally, this person would help to mentor undergraduate students aiming for careers in law, government, and non-government organizations as well as enhance linkages with the interdisciplinary Political and Civic Engagement Program (PACE), the School of Public and Environmental Affairs (which maintains a campus debate program), and the Poynter Center for the Study of Ethics and American Institutions. Applicants should send via email a letter of application, curriculum vitae, writing sample, and three letters of recommendation to: Robert Ivie, Chair, RPC Search Committee c/o Amy Cornell, Assistant to the Chair, Department of Communication and Culture at cmcl(a)indiana.edu or to RPC Search Committee, 800 East Third Street, Bloomington, IN 47405. Email applications preferred. Review of applications will begin on September 28th, 2012 and continue until the position is filled. Indiana University is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. The university actively encourages applications of women, minorities, applicants with disabilities, and members of other underrepresented groups.

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a legit conference in Xi'an
by Barry Wellman 16 Jul '12

16 Jul '12

The Social Network folks will hold a really nice (albeit hot) conference in Xi'an China next July. "Wendy" won't have anything to do with it. Prof Yanjie Bian, Dean of Social Sciences at Xi'an Tech Uni is organizing. I will post more details when the conference gets firmed up. 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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Re: [Air-L] tools to extract data from Facebook public pages and open groups
by Jen King 16 Jul '12

16 Jul '12

Tim - it was mentioned to me recently (and I confirmed it today by revisiting old posts that I've cited) that Facebook appears to have removed comments (at least in their original format) from their company blogposts. It looks as if they've been replaced by something called "shares." Uncertain if this is the case on Pages. Further, if you look through Facebook's blog shares you may notice (as I have) that the multitudes of negative comments that used to be in the comments are missing. I've skimmed user comments to the blog posts on a number of occasions as a way to see what issues people are complaining about so their sudden absence is quite noticeable. If anyone knows more about this change I'd love to hear about it, but I mention it in case you are looking at collecting information people say about Facebook - it appears now that some degree of censorship is occurring. (This may not be true when the subject of the comments has nothing to do with Facebook.) Jen King UC Berkeley School of Information > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2012 12:32:21 +0000 > From: "Hale, Timothy M." <TMHALE(a)PARTNERS.ORG> > To: "<air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org>" <air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org> > Subject: [Air-L] tools to extract data from Facebook public pages and > open groups > Message-ID: <6C411200-251A-4571-AF52-277A886A23F8(a)partners.org> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > > Hi everyone, > > I am looking for a tool that will extract content from Facebook public Pages and open Groups. I am not interested in collecting user profile data or conducting any type of network analysis - although tools that can collect additional data that fits my needs might work. Ideally, I am looking for a tool that can collect from specified Pages/Groups the entire set of comments and posts to the Page/Group, and if possible, "Likes" and other forms of user activity. > > I am considering a research project analyzing content of Pages and Groups and would like an alternative to creating PDFs and manually entering data. > > Thanks for your help! > Tim > > > > The information in this e-mail is intended only for the person to whom it is > addressed. If you believe this e-mail was sent to you in error and the e-mail > contains patient information, please contact the Partners Compliance HelpLine at > http://www.partners.org/complianceline . If the e-mail was sent to you in error > but does not contain patient information, please contact the sender and properly > dispose of the e-mail. > >

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