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International Symposium "The Secret Life of Objects".
by Andre Lemos 25 Jun '12

25 Jun '12

Dear list members, The International Symposium The Secret Life of Objects will take place in São Paulo, July 30th and 31th, and in Salvador, August 6th, as well. More information: São Paulo - http://vidadosobjetos-pucsp.com.br/2012/ Salvador - http://avidasecretadosobjetos.wordpress.com/ Best André Lemos > > Message: 1 > Date: Sun, 24 Jun 2012 10:09:15 -0300 > From: Ricardo Oliveira <poshumano(a)gmail.com> > To: air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org > Subject: [Air-L] Announcement: International Symposium "The Secret > Life of Objects", Rio de Janeiro, August 2012 > Message-ID: > <CAP3rqmKFH+TCg_7yyqdcrEiBh6Kx6AtfHpe3jJF2u2k8=a+xXQ(a)mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 > > Dear list members, > > the International Symposium ?The Secret Life of Objects: Materialities, > Medialities, Temporalities? will take place in Rio de Janeiro, between > August 1st and 3rd. Promoted by the State University of Rio de Janeiro, > along with several other academic institutions (such as the Vilem Flusser > Archiv and Universit?t Wien), the event is intended to debate the emergence > of new paradigms, epistemologies and intellectual scenarios within the > Humanities (see the abstract bellow). The keynote speaker will be the > French sociologist Bruno Latour and several other participants have already > confirmed their presence (Graham Harman, Siegfried Zielinski, Joachim > Paech, Richard Grusin, Steven Shaviro, Ian Bogost etc.). The event is free > and open to the public. Enrollment is possible trough our website > http://vidadosobjetos/inscricao. The form is in Portuguese, but it?s very > easy to fill out: > > > > Nome (name) > > CPF (don?t bother that, something like a social security number) > > Email > > Profiss?o (Profession) > > Institui??o (Institution) > > Cidade/Estado (City/State) > > Link para Redes Sociais (Link for social networks) > > > > Erick Felinto (President) - UERJ > > Adalberto M?ller ? UFF/Letras > > Andr? Lemos - UFBA > > Fernanda Bruno - UFRJ > > L?cia Santaella - PUCSP > > Maur?cio Lissovsky - UFRJ > > Simone de S? - UFF > > Vinicius Andrade Pereira - UERJ > > > > Abstract: There are strong indications that a significant transformation is > underway in the so-called ?human sciences? (Geisteswissenschaften, sciences > humaines, Humanities). After a period of intense crisis and uncertainty, in > which human sciences have frequently sought to mirror or approach the hard > sciences, the beginning of the twenty-first century seems to witness a > broad renewal of disciplines, approaches and methodologies. From the > questioning of its traditional foundations, humanities are reinventing > themselves by a broad reconfiguration of its borders and even of the notion > of ?humanity? that served as its cornerstone. One of the areas where the > wealth of this new scenario is most clearly displayed is that of media > studies. Spurred by the impact of new digital technologies, media studies > cleverly learned to appropriate the epistemological principles and major > theoretical issues that have come to characterize the contemporary cultural > scene. The objective of the Seminar "The Secret Life of Objects: > Medialities, Materialities, Temporalities" is to sketch a systematization > of this scenario from a transdisciplinary perspective, but with a decisive > focus on communication studies and culture. The three axes that structure > the Seminar represent articulating knots that cut across different > disciplines in the humanities, from sociology to philosophy, but acquire > special meaning in the context of new media studies. The underlying > assumption is that we need to radically rethink the notion of epistemic > agency in a context where the action and the impact of the objects, media > and technological materialities become increasingly important. Thus, it is > not only necessary to investigate the place of human actors in a world > enriched by the life of polymorphic objects, but also to highlight the > issues that the strong tradition of hermeneutics of the humanities have > often obscured: what, without constituting meaning per se, contributes > nonetheless to the production of meaning? What is a medium and how > mediation processes unfold? In what ways does technological materiality > inform cultural worlds and determine forms of cognition? What new models of > historical research of techniques and culture are emerging within the > current epistemological paradigms? In what ways is the material dimension > of experience combined with the intangible dimensions of culture? What does > it mean to purport an ?object-oriented? philosophy? In what sense does the > category of the human reconfigure itself in light of our new relations with > objects and nonhuman entities? How important is the legacy of the genealogy > and archeology of knowledge (Nietzsche, Foucault) to a perspectivization of > the impacts of "new" digital culture? By means of interdisciplinary panels, > in which philosophers, anthropologists and scientists will discuss with > experts in media studies, we intend to address these issues in order to > elaborate a preliminary cartography of an epistemological territory still > in its early stages of exploration. > > > ------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > 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 95, Issue 23 > *************************************

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Announcement: International Symposium "The Secret Life of Objects", Rio de Janeiro, August 2012
by Ricardo Oliveira 24 Jun '12

24 Jun '12

Dear list members, the International Symposium “The Secret Life of Objects: Materialities, Medialities, Temporalities” will take place in Rio de Janeiro, between August 1st and 3rd. Promoted by the State University of Rio de Janeiro, along with several other academic institutions (such as the Vilem Flusser Archiv and Universität Wien), the event is intended to debate the emergence of new paradigms, epistemologies and intellectual scenarios within the Humanities (see the abstract bellow). The keynote speaker will be the French sociologist Bruno Latour and several other participants have already confirmed their presence (Graham Harman, Siegfried Zielinski, Joachim Paech, Richard Grusin, Steven Shaviro, Ian Bogost etc.). The event is free and open to the public. Enrollment is possible trough our website http://vidadosobjetos/inscricao. The form is in Portuguese, but it’s very easy to fill out: Nome (name) CPF (don’t bother that, something like a social security number) Email Profissão (Profession) Instituição (Institution) Cidade/Estado (City/State) Link para Redes Sociais (Link for social networks) Erick Felinto (President) - UERJ Adalberto Müller – UFF/Letras André Lemos - UFBA Fernanda Bruno - UFRJ Lúcia Santaella - PUCSP Maurício Lissovsky - UFRJ Simone de Sá - UFF Vinicius Andrade Pereira - UERJ Abstract: There are strong indications that a significant transformation is underway in the so-called “human sciences” (Geisteswissenschaften, sciences humaines, Humanities). After a period of intense crisis and uncertainty, in which human sciences have frequently sought to mirror or approach the hard sciences, the beginning of the twenty-first century seems to witness a broad renewal of disciplines, approaches and methodologies. From the questioning of its traditional foundations, humanities are reinventing themselves by a broad reconfiguration of its borders and even of the notion of “humanity” that served as its cornerstone. One of the areas where the wealth of this new scenario is most clearly displayed is that of media studies. Spurred by the impact of new digital technologies, media studies cleverly learned to appropriate the epistemological principles and major theoretical issues that have come to characterize the contemporary cultural scene. The objective of the Seminar "The Secret Life of Objects: Medialities, Materialities, Temporalities" is to sketch a systematization of this scenario from a transdisciplinary perspective, but with a decisive focus on communication studies and culture. The three axes that structure the Seminar represent articulating knots that cut across different disciplines in the humanities, from sociology to philosophy, but acquire special meaning in the context of new media studies. The underlying assumption is that we need to radically rethink the notion of epistemic agency in a context where the action and the impact of the objects, media and technological materialities become increasingly important. Thus, it is not only necessary to investigate the place of human actors in a world enriched by the life of polymorphic objects, but also to highlight the issues that the strong tradition of hermeneutics of the humanities have often obscured: what, without constituting meaning per se, contributes nonetheless to the production of meaning? What is a medium and how mediation processes unfold? In what ways does technological materiality inform cultural worlds and determine forms of cognition? What new models of historical research of techniques and culture are emerging within the current epistemological paradigms? In what ways is the material dimension of experience combined with the intangible dimensions of culture? What does it mean to purport an “object-oriented” philosophy? In what sense does the category of the human reconfigure itself in light of our new relations with objects and nonhuman entities? How important is the legacy of the genealogy and archeology of knowledge (Nietzsche, Foucault) to a perspectivization of the impacts of "new" digital culture? By means of interdisciplinary panels, in which philosophers, anthropologists and scientists will discuss with experts in media studies, we intend to address these issues in order to elaborate a preliminary cartography of an epistemological territory still in its early stages of exploration.

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Job Posting: Intern, Internet Governance Forum Secretariat, Geneva
by jeremy hunsinger 22 Jun '12

22 Jun '12

> > > http://unjobs.org/vacancies/1340327346798

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new deadline for CFP RAMSM 2012
by Babiga Birregah 22 Jun '12

22 Jun '12

* * *Dear all;* * * *Special Issue on: "Risk Assessment in Mobile Social Media: Trends, Threats, Vulnerabilities and Countermeasures"* http://www.inderscience.com/info/ingeneral/cfp.php?id=1822 * Sorry for crossed posts. Could you please share this call with researchers in your networks which might be interested? deadline: 20 August, 2012 (extended) Thanks a lot * -- BIRREGAH Babiga, Phd Enseignant-Chercheur/ Assistant professor ICD UMR-CNRS 6279 STMR Sciences et Technologies pour la Maîtrise des Risques Joint Research Unit in Sciences and Technologies for Risk Management Department of Operational Research, Applied Statistics and Simulation UTT - ROSAS - CREIDD, H107 12 rue Marie Curie, BP. 2060 - 10010 Troyes CEDEX Tél. 0325715869

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Call for Papers - Youth Movements / Youth Organizations (for Kinder & Braver World Project)
by danah boyd 21 Jun '12

21 Jun '12

Are you working on topics related to youth movements or youth organizations? Do you know people who are? We need your help. We're looking for folks who can help make research publicly consumable. Please check out the CFP below and pass it on to others you know. Thanks so much!!! danah The Berkman Center for Internet & Society is delighted to announce a Call for Papers for The Kinder & Braver World Project: Research Series (danah boyd and John Palfrey, editors) presented by the Berkman Center and the Born This Way Foundation, and supported by the John D. & Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.  For more information regarding the series, please see: http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/research/youthandmedia/kinderbraverworld This working paper series publishes short papers that synthesize existing peer-reviewed research or equivalent scholarship and provide research-grounded insight to the variety of stakeholders working on issues related to youth empowerment and action towards creating a kinder, braver world. The papers grow out of different types of research (e.g., social science, mental health, medical, legal) and are aimed at different audiences (e.g., youth, parents, teachers, school boards, religious leaders, policy makers). It will be developed in phases, and over time will cover a wide range of topics related to youth empowerment and the development of kindness and bravery. For this call, we are looking for papers that are related to two topics: Youth Movements for Social Change. What is known about youth organizing and youth social movements? How do adults and youth work together for social change? How do youth movements leverage technology? What are psychosocial predictors of youth engagement? How do peer norms affect youth activism? What is the relationship between self-efficacy and youth empowerment? What are key research insights that organizations trying to create a social movement with youth need to know? The Role of Youth Organizations. Youth have long participated in religious and secular organizations, including programs like the Girl Scouts of America, 4-H, and Gay-Straight Alliances. How has participation in these organizations shaped youths’ worldviews, civic engagement, and social wellbeing? What kinds of organizational structures work best to engage youth? Does participation in youth organizations predict healthy civic engagement? How is social media used by youth organizations? What are notable successes and failures in creating youth organizations? What are key lessons from youth organizations that anyone working to support youth should know? For more information, see the call for papers: http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/research/youthandmedia/kinderbraverworld. To view previous papers on Meanness and Cruelty, see: http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/node/7491 Important Dates Submissions are due by July 25, 2012 to kbw-series(a)cyber.law.harvard.edu. For information on content and formatting requirements, as well as our review process and all other deadlines, please review our Guidelines to Authors: http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/node/7747. Learn more about The Kinder & Braver World Research Series here:http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/research/youthandmedia/kinderbraverworld. We look forward to hearing from you; please forward and distribute widely to networks that may be interested.

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Facebook Usage: Limiting and Leaving
by Eric P. S. Baumer 20 Jun '12

20 Jun '12

Please distribute widely. Twitter-friendly link: t.co/OKJLtdpz Do you use Facebook? We want to hear from you. You don’t use Facebook? We want to hear from you. We’re interested in people limiting their Facebook usage in some way, including deactivating their account or leaving. The only requirement to participate in this study is that you are a legal adult (18 years of age or older). Please click on the link below to answer a few questions. Thanks! https://cornell.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_cLO3N59g37z7i7y

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Digital Crossroads. Media, Migration and Diaspora in a Transnational Perspective, Utrecht University 28-30 June, 2012
by Leurs, K.H.A. (Koen) 20 Jun '12

20 Jun '12

Apologies for crossposting! The international conference 'Digital Crossroads. Media, Migration and Diaspora in a Transnational Perspective' will take place in Utrecht next week 28-29-30 June, 2012. The opening is Thursday 28 June at 9.45 in the Aula of the Academic Building. For more information please find the programma overview attached. The full programme with abstracts and bios is available online: http://www.digitalcrossroads.nl For further information please e-mail: info(a)digitalcrossroads.nl<mailto:info@digitalcrossroads.nl> Keynote speakers: Shakuntala Banaji London School of Economics and Political Science, UK Kirsten Drotner University of Southern Denmark, Denmark Radhika Gajjala Bowling Green State University, USA Eva Lam University of Northwestern, USA Lisa Nakamura University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA Liesbet van Zoonen Loughborough University, UK and Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands Because of the disjunctive and unstable interplay of commerce, media, national policies, and consumer fantasies, ethnicity, once a genie contained in the bottle of some sort of locality (however large), has now become a global force, forever slipping in and through the cracks between states and borders – Appadurai 1996, p. 41, Modernity at Large The rapid development of digital technologies has radically transformed ways of keeping in touch with home cultures and diasporic networks. Moreover, the notion of migration has undergone significant shifts, coming to signifyimaginaries on the move which are not necessarily linked to geographical displacement. The aim of this conference is to address the relationship between migration and digital technologies across national contexts and ethnic belonging. Migrancy embeds many of the local and global paradoxes that alsopertain to digital media with their compression of space and time. However, the link between the two fields is still under-theorized and in need of more situated and comparative analysis. Drawing from approaches from the humanities and social sciences (media theory, communication studies, learning sciences, gender studies, cultural studies, postcolonial theory, migration and transnational studies, among others), the primary aim of this conference is to explore how the study of digitalization and migration challenges existing notions of diaspora, identity, nation, family, learning, literacy, social networks, youth, body, gender and ethnicity, asking for new approaches and a rethinking of traditional social and cultural categories. The conference comes at the end of a five-year High Potential project, entitled “Wired Up: Digital media as innovative socialization practices for migrant youth”, carried out by the Faculty of Humanities (project leader Dr. Sandra Ponzanesi) and the Faculty of Social Sciences (project leader Prof. Dr. Mariette de Haan) at Utrecht University in collaboration with Vanderbilt University, USA (Dr. Kevin Leander, Peabody College for Education). The project was funded by the Executive Board of Utrecht University to stimulate interdisciplinary research. See http://www.uu.nl/wiredup. Chair Dr Sandra Ponzanesi Coordinator Dr Fadi Hirzalla Scientific committee Prof Dr Mariette de Haan Dr Kevin Leander Conference commitee Dr Koen Leurs Dr Lisa Schwartz Dr Fleur Prinsen Asli Ünlosoy, MSC Koen Leurs | Phd student Graduate Gender Programme | Utrecht University | Muntstraat 2a, 3512 BL Utrecht | tel. 030-253 7859 | K.H.A.Leurs(a)uu.nl<mailto:K.H.A.Leurs@uu.nl> | www.uu.nl/wiredup<http://www.uu.nl/wiredup> | www.koenleurs.net<http://www.koenleurs.net>

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EU27 survey of privacy, data protection and electronic identity
by IPTS eID team 19 Jun '12

19 Jun '12

Dear all [ apologies for cross posting, please disseminate ] We have the pleasure to announce that our Scientific and Policy Report 'Pan-European survey of practices, attitudes and policy preferences as regards personal identity data' has been published. It is found at http://is.jrc.ec.europa.eu/pages/TFS/eidsurvey.html. This study presents the results of the largest survey ever conducted in Europe and elsewhere about people’s behaviours, attitudes and regulatory preferences concerning data protection, privacy and electronic identity, both on the Internet and otherwise in their daily lives. The study aims to remedy the lack of EU evidence. It is original in many respects: - It covers EU27; - It targets multiple areas: eCommerce, Social Networking, Authentication and Medical information; - It retrieves data directly relevant to policy making. The full reference is: W. Lusoli, M. Bacigalupo, F. Lupiañez, N. Andrade, S. Monteleone, I. Maghiros (2012). Pan-European survey of practices, attitudes and policy preferences as regards personal identity data management (JRC Scientific and Policy Reports EUR 25295 EN). Sevilla: EC JRC IPTS. Available from http://is.jrc.ec.europa.eu/pages/TFS/eidsurvey.html . Of course, comments are most appreciated. Kind regards The JRC IPTS eID team

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New journal Mobile Media & Communication launching 2013
by Swart, Wernard 19 Jun '12

19 Jun '12

Dear All, SAGE will launch an exciting new journal in January 2013 called Mobile Media & Communication<http://www.uk.sagepub.com/journals/Journal202140?siteId=sage-uk&prodTypes=a…>. The journal will be published three times a year and will be edited by Rich Ling (IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark), Veronika Karnowski (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany), Thilo von Pape (University of Hohenheim, Germany) and Steve Jones (University of Illinois at Chicago, USA). Access to the first volume will by free by registering here<https://online.sagepub.com/cgi/register?registration=FTMMC>. If you are interested in submitting a manuscript please visit this<http://www.uk.sagepub.com/journals/Journal202140?siteId=sage-uk&prodTypes=a…> page. About the journal: Mobile Media & Communication is a peer-reviewed forum for international, interdisciplinary academic research on the dynamic field of mobile media and communication. Mobile Media & Communication draws on a wide and continually renewed range of disciplines, engaging broadly in the concept of mobility itself. The journal embraces both quantitative and qualitative approaches to the study of mobility in communication, but above all aims toward state-of-the-art methodology. While the center of gravity lies in social sciences and humanities, the journal is open to research with technical, economic, and design aspects, provided they help to enlighten the social dimensions of mobile communication. Mobile Media & Communication examines the phenomenon of mobility in communication – that is, what is understood as mobile media and communication, but also emerging phenomena such as mobile and ubiquitous computing. Contributions may include, but are certainly not limited to, explorations of the following topics: • Mobile communication as an innovation, including the emergence of new usage forms, the negotiation of norms, and symbolic representation by producers and users • The interrelationship of this nearly ubiquitous technology and the users’ everyday lives • The embeddedness of mobile communication within social networks, and the mutual shaping of technology and social structure • Local cultures and forms of use of mobile communication • Mobile communication in developing countries • Cultural differences in mobile communication • Mobile communication and gender • Specific methodologies that address the mobile character of the phenomenon: ethnography, observation, network analysis, experience sampling, and other still emerging methods • Mobile learning and education. • Persuasion through mobile media in various domains • History of mobile media • Journalism and mobile media • Specific methodologies that address the mobile character of the phenomenon: ethnography, observation, network analysis, experience sampling, and other still emerging methods Please forward this message to any of your colleagues that may be interested. Best wishes, Vern Swart ---------------------------- SAGE, the Independent Publishers Guild Academic and Professional Publisher of the Year 2012 ----------------------------

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Needing advice for teaching
by Sylvain Firer-Blaess 19 Jun '12

19 Jun '12

Dear all, I am going to give an undergrad course in media analysis. In here I am notably going to teach introductions to Marx and Ideology, Psychoanalysis, and gender studies. I am currently looking for good and accessible academic papers that would analyze audio-visual contents through one of these method. Do you have any in mind? That would greatly help me to build my course. Thank you all. Sylvain Firer-Blaess Ph.D. Cand., Uppsala University

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