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Live streaming of the doctoral defense (disputants) June 1st "Ways of Virtual World-making"
by Sisse Siggaard Jensen 31 May '12

31 May '12

Tomorrow, June 1, is the date for my doctoral defense (disputats), which will take place at Roskilde University at 1pm (GMT+1), when I defend the dissertation "Ways of Virtual World-making". The defense is streamed on the Virtual Worlds research blog: http://worlds.ruc.dk/ and on the university website: http://www.ruc.dk/. The dissertation is published by Roskilde University Press (e-book), and it can be bought here: http://ruforlag.dk/Visning-af-titel.244.0.html?&cHash=72e2a9f1ddcb6c13f9b43… I hope you will help me circulate this email, Sisse ;-) ----- Sisse Siggaard Jensen, Ph.D., Professor of Digital Communication, forskning.ruc.dk/site/person/sisse<http://forskning.ruc.dk/site/person/sisse> Dept. for Communication, Business and Information Technologies, Roskilde University, sisse(a)ruc.dk<mailto:sisse@ruc.dk>, +45 4674 3771, +45 2092 6094, worlds.ruc.dk<http://worlds.ruc.dk>

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Call for Study Participants
by Eric P. S. Baumer 31 May '12

31 May '12

Please forward and distribute widely (apologies for cross-posting). Twitter-friendly link: http://bit.ly/Kv0zLq --- Are you a political junkie? Addicted to the news? Is your browser's homepage the New York Times or Wall Street Journal? Or maybe it's the National Review Online or the Huffington Post? Ever wanted a deeper look at what's being said between the lines? Or does the news bother you? Does politics turn you off? Do you find yourself ignoring any kind of discussion of political issues or news coverage? Do you feel like there's a level of depth that is lacking in most political discussions? If you fit either of these descriptions, this study is for you. We've developed an online tool that helps you understand political news and discussions by visualizing patterns of language in them. We're currently looking for people who want to try out the tool and wouldn't mind talking with us about it. Plus, you'll be entered in a drawing for a $200 Amazon gift card. If you're interested, please contact Eric Baumer: ericpsb(a)cornell.edu

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A short questionnaire for a research on serious games developers, publishers and users
by Alex Gekker 31 May '12

31 May '12

***cross-posting warning and apologies*** Dear AIR-L members, Are you creating or publishing serious (applied, persuasive, therapeutic, etc.) games? Do you utilize them for research or education? Do you know someone else who does that? If so, please take ten minutes of your time to answer our questionnaire, which is a part of a unique research aiming to understand the applied game ecosystem better. Results will be published in open access by the Taskforce Innovation Utrecht Region<http://www.taskforceinnovatie.nl/english-summary>. Please forward to any individual or organization who might be interested. Contact me (alex(a)gamesforhealtheurope.org) for any questions or remarks. Questionnaire link: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dE15WFFzbjNvNkFIeDJIak… Best regards, Alex.

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Find typos in our Networked book?
by Barry Wellman 30 May '12

30 May '12

Dear Colleagues, It looks like Rainie-Wellman's Networked book is going into a second printing sooner than we'd expected. This would be the optimal time to find and fix typos and other small errors. Just to be clear, this is a second PRINTING of the original edition, and not a second EDITION. So we can only do minor cleaning. But do let me know. A suitable reward will be forthcoming. 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://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&tid=12791 http://www.amazon.com/Networked-New-Social-Operating-System/dp/0262017199/r… http://www.amazon.ca/Networked-New-Social-Operating-System/dp/0262017199/re… _______________________________________________________________________

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Job opportunity: RPI (fwd)
by Barry Wellman 30 May '12

30 May '12

fyi 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://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&tid=12791 http://www.amazon.com/Networked-New-Social-Operating-System/dp/0262017199/r… http://www.amazon.ca/Networked-New-Social-Operating-System/dp/0262017199/re… _______________________________________________________________________ ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Tue, 29 May 2012 20:20:31 -0700 From: Monica Casper <monica.casper(a)ASU.EDU> To: SKAT-ANNOUNCE(a)LISTSERV.ASANET.ORG Subject: Job opportunity: RPI *PLEASE POST WIDELY* * * *Job Announcement: Department Head and Professor, Science and Technology Studies, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute* * * The Department of Science and Technology Studies at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, NY invites applications, expressions of interest, and nominations for the position of Department Head. The Department Head will hold a full-time, tenured faculty appointment at the rank of Professor. The position may commence as early as September 1, 2012, but shall remain open until filled.**** ** ** See attachment for more details.**** **************************************************** MONICA J. CASPER, Ph.D. Professor of American Studies; Women and Gender Studies Division of Humanities, Arts and Cultural Studies (HArCS) FAB, N230-G New College of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences Arizona State University PO Box 37100 Phoenix, AZ 85069-7100 602-543-6024 www.monicajcasper.com http://hegemonica.tumblr.com/ www.thefeministwire.com http://nyupress.org/books/book-details.aspx?bookId=1073 http://us.macmillan.com/corpus/MonicaCasper

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[E-Voting.CC] EVOTE2012 Call for Participation. Early bird fee expires soon.
by Manuel J. Kripp 30 May '12

30 May '12

Dear all, please apologize multiple cross-posting The EVOTE2012 takes place from 11 to 14 July 2012 in Castle Hofen in Lochau/Bregenz, Austria. Join us at the 5th International Conference on Electronic Voting bringing together experts from academia, administration, government as well as business to discuss latest trends and developments at Castle Hofen. The conference is known for its interdisciplinary and open dialogue between all stakeholders of e-voting. The conference theme is Challenges for Electronic Voting – Transparency, Trust and Voter Education! The program consists of interesting and diverse papers, divided into nine sessions. You can download the preliminary program here: http://www.e-voting.cc/wp-content/uploads/downloads/2012/05/EVOTE2012_Preli… We want to remind you that the deadline for the early bird fee expires on 1 June. After this deadline, the conference fee will increase to €440, instead of €360. Thus, please make sure to register as soon as possible. For registration, please follow the link: http://www.vorarlberg.nethotels.com/cpv/english/evote2012 For more information about the conference, visit our website www.e-voting.cc/2012 We look forward to welcoming you at EVOTE2012. See you in Castle Hofen, Manuel Kripp -- Manuel J. Kripp Managing Director E-Voting.CC GmbH Competence Center for Electronic Voting and Participation Pyrkergasse 33/1/2 A-1190 Wien Phone: +43 1 3193950 Fax: +43 1 3193955 Mobile: +43 676 9697 962 Skype: manuelkripp E-Mail: m.kripp(a)e-voting.cc Web: http://www.e-voting.cc -- All information is available at http://www.e-voting.cc/2012/ Please don't print this e-mail unless you really need to! This e-mail is confidential and may also contain privileged information. If you are not the intended recipient you are not authorised to read, print, save, process or disclose this message. If you have received this message by mistake, please inform the sender immediately and delete this e-mail, its attachments and any copies. Any use, distribution, reproduction or disclosure by any person other than the intended recipient is strictly prohibited and the person responsible may incur penalties. Thank you!

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survey of researchers interested in education & the internet
by Neil Selwyn 30 May '12

30 May '12

*Apologies for cross-posting * In conjunction with colleagues at Monash University, I have just started a study which aims to map the scope of academic research in the broad area of education and digital technology. If your research focuses on education (in any form) and the internet/digital media then we would be very grateful if you could take 10 minutes to complete the survey here: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/DTVB3PG Once we’ve gathered data from as many researchers as we can, then will produce (and publicise) an open access report in the autumn of 2012 summarizing the key findings. Many thanks Neil Selwyn Institute of Education – University of London @LNM_Monash

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Study into fans' changing usage patterns of the sports media landscape
by Hugh Macdonald 29 May '12

29 May '12

Hi all, I'm a PhD candidate at RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia. I'm doing a comparative study of the use by sports fans of different types of sports media. For my methodology I'm using a survey. The first round of the survey was done in 2008, and over the past year I've been doing the second round. The reason I mention it here is that I need a few more responses for the second round and so I'm wondering if anyone is interested in sport, whether you'd like to take a few minutes to complete the survey for me. If so you can find it at http://newmediamogul.net/survey2/ Also, I'd love to hear from anyone who is doing similar research, or if you're interested in finding out more about the results of the comparative study, let me know. Cheers, and thanks a lot, Hugh. ---Hugh Macdonald Sessional Academic School of Media and Communication RMIT University Building 9.2.2, City Campus GPO Box 2476, Melbourne VIC, 3001 Tel:+61 4 0394 9574 Email: hugh.macdonald(a)rmit.edu.au (mailto:hugh.macdonald@rmit.edu.au) Web: www.rmit.edu.au/mediacommunication (http://www.rmit.edu.au/mediacommunication) CRICOS provider code: 00122A This message contains privileged and confidential information intended for the use only of the addressee named above. If you are not the intended recipient of this message you are hereby notified that you must not disseminate, copy or take any action in relation to it. If you have received this message in error, please immediately notify the sender at the above address.

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Call For Papers: Media, Fans, and The Sacred: Neoreligiosity Seeks Institution
by kelly boudreau 29 May '12

29 May '12

This might be of interest to some members on the list. -Kelly Call for paper proposals *The deadline for submissions for this issue is August 1st, 2012* Kinephanos’ fourth issue aims to explore the relationship between the sacred, the mythological motifs in modern popular fictions, and fandom. Our goal is to understand how the sacred, a pure human emotion, is disembodied from the ‘official’ religious institutions – at least in the Western countries – in order to be reinvested in secular cultural activities like ‘going to see a movie’ or ‘playing a video game’. Eliade wrote: “Movies, a ‘factory of dreams’, are highly inspired by countless mythological motifs, such as the struggle between the Hero and the Monster, battles and initiation ordeals, figures and exemplary patterns” (freely translated from *Le sacré et le profane*, 174). These mythological stories, highly symbolics, exist since ancient times. However, we would like to address the following issue: how the immersive experience in a work of fiction, now facilitated with various technological media forms (movies, videogames, television shows, etc.), changes our own relationship with the emotion of the sacred sparked in people’s life. We propose to identify this emotion with the term “neoreligiosity”. An English scholar of fan culture, Matt Hills, says in this regard: “Neoreligiosity implies that the proliferation of discourses of ‘cult’ within media fandom cannot be read as the ‘return’ of religion in a supposedly secularised culture” (*Fan Culture*, 2002, 119). Indeed, putting side by side the experience of the fan with the religious experience might seem appropriate. Due to a lack of words, needed by fans to describe their own affective experience with their favorite movies, the use of religious terminology seems logical, without calling upon religious institutions structure. Hills quotes Cavicchi: “(…) fans are aware of the parallels between religious devotion and their own devotion. At the very least, the discourse of religious conversion may provide fans with a model for describing the experience of becoming a fan” (2002, 118). This issue of Kinephanos proposes to explore how the sacred, the religiosity, and the neoreligiosity play out in modern popular fictions, and with those who experience it : the fans. Possible topics include, but are not limited to; - *Sacred and reappropriation (fans creations : fanfics, fanfilms, etc.); * - *Social network, sharing interests through Internet;* - *Reception, modern and contemporary myths (Star Wars, Matrix, Lord of the Rings, etc.);* - *Cinema and religion, displacement of the sacred;* - *Videogames, replayability as a tool of self-exploration (Mass Effect, Heavy Rain, morality system, etc.);* - *Revelation, epiphany, and the fan’s experience;* - *Cinema and videogames, mythological motifs between the lines; vestiges of the sacred;* - *Repetition viewing as a ritual, ‘cult fandoms’ and television shows (Star Trek, Doctor. Who, etc.);* - *Archetypal figures in the modern mythologies (Order and Chaos, Lovecrafts’s Great Old Ones, the hero’s journey (monomyth) in Hollywood movies, etc.).* While Kinephanos privileges publication of thematic issues, *we strongly encourage writers to submit articles exceeding the theme* which will be published in each issue. How to submit? Abstracts of 1000 words including the title, the topic and the object(s) that will be studied. Please include bibliographical references, your name, email address and your primary field of study. Send submissions (in French or English) by August 1st, 2012 to: marc.joly(a)umontreal.ca and vincent.mauger(a)arv.ulaval.ca Following our approbation sent to you by email (2-3 weeks later after deadline), please send us your completed article by December 1st, 2012. Editorial rules Kinephanos is a peer-reviewed Web journal. Each article is evaluated by double-blind peer review. Kinephanos does not retain exclusive rights of published texts. However, material submitted must not have been previously published elsewhere. Future versions of the texts published in other periodicals must reference Kinephanos as its original source. Production demands All texts must be written in MLA style. 6,000 words maximum (excluding references but including endnotes) with 1.5 spacing, Times New Roman fonts 12pt, footnotes must be inserted manually in the text as follow : … (1), references must be within the text as follow (Jenkins 2000, 134), a bibliography with all your references, and 5 keywords at the end of the text. For the editorial guidelines, refer to the section Editorial Guidelines<http://www.kinephanos.ca/politique-editoriale/> . *Kinephanos accepts articles in French and in English ** * *****This issue edited by Marc Joly-Corcoran and Vincent Mauger* Kinephanos is a bilingual web-based journal. Focusing on questions involving cinema and popular media, Kinephanos encourages interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary research. The journal’s primary interests are movies and popular TV series, video games, emerging technologies and fan cultures. The preferred approaches include cinema studies, communication theories, religion sciences, philosophy, cultural studies and media studies. * * -- Doctoral Candidate in Film Studies (ABD) Université de Montréal Montreal, QC BA / MA Sociology Concordia University Montreal, QC http://digitalconversations.wordpress.com

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book announcement - The MoveOn Effect
by Dave Karpf 29 May '12

29 May '12

Dear AoIR members, I'm excited to announce the publication of my first book, *The MoveOn Effect: The Unexpected Transformation of American Political Advocacy*, by Oxford University Press. The book details internet-driven changes at the organizational layer of American politics. It is a far-more-extensive version of the talk I gave at IR 12.0 in Seattle last October. Regards, Dave Karpf ---- Book Description The Internet is facilitating a generational transition within America's advocacy group system. New "netroots" political associations have arisen in the past decade and play an increasingly prominent role in citizen political mobilization. At the same time, the organizations that mediate citizen political engagement and sustained collective action are changing. They rely upon modified staff structures and work routines. They employ novel strategies and tactical repertoires. Rather than "organizing without organizations," the new media environment has given rise to "organizing through different organizations." The MoveOn Effect provides a richly detailed analysis of this disruptive transformation. It highlights changes in membership and fundraising regimes - established industrial patterns of supporter interaction and revenue streams - that were pioneered by MoveOn.org and have spread broadly within the advocacy system. Through interviews, content analysis, and direct observation of the leading netroots organizations, the book offers fresh insights into 21st century political organizing. The book highlights important variations among the new organizations - including internet-mediated issue generalists like MoveOn, community blogs like DailyKos.com, and neo-federated groups like DemocracyforAmerica.com. It also explores a wider set of netroots infrastructure organizations that provide supporting services to membership-based advocacy associations. The rise of the political netroots has had a distinctly partisan character: conservatives have repeatedly tried and failed to build equivalents to the organizations and infrastructure of the progressive netroots. The MoveOn Effect investigates these efforts, as well as the late-forming Tea Party movement, and introduces the theory of Outparty Innovation Incentives as an explanation for the partisan adoption of political technology. Written by a political scientist who is also a longtime political organizer, The MoveOn Effect offers a widely-accessible account of the Internet's impact on American politics. Operating at the intersection of practitioner and academic knowledge-traditions, Karpf provides a reassessment of many longstanding claims about new media and citizen political engagement. Jacket Reviews "Amidst all the attention to social media, the transformation of political organization is still poorly understood. Drawing on his activist and academic experience, David Karpf not only claims - but demonstrates - that the real impact of the new media environment comes not through politics without organizations but from new forms of organization. This engagingly written book will tell both activists and academics how it is being done."--Sidney Tarrow, Cornell University, author of Power in Movement "David Karpf's deep understanding of his subject matter is evident on every page of this book: I ran MoveOn, and there are things in here even I didn't know about us. For anyone who wants to understand how new organizational models are changing the advocacy world and politics more generally, The MoveOn Effect is indispensable."--Eli Pariser, Board President, MoveOn "This book provides a thorough and insightful look at the organizational layer of political advocacy in the digital media age. Karpf dives deftly into the depths of online politics in a way that is informed theoretically as well as rich in the details of real political advocacy. He advances a number of new concepts and models for understanding contemporary politics."--Bruce Bimber, Professor of Political Science and Communication, University of California-Santa Barbara Click here for more detail on the book:http://bit.ly/JKHjbe Click here for more detail on the book series and forthcoming titles:http://bit.ly/eVTQPa Available on Amazon: http://amzn.to/JcsPTY -- Dave Karpf, PhD Assistant Professor Journalism and Media Studies Department School of Communication and Information Rutgers University, New Brunswick www.davidkarpf.com davekarpf(a)gmail.com Preorder my book, *The MoveOn Effect: The Unexpected Transformation of American Political Advocacy<http://www.amazon.com/The-MoveOn-Effect-Unexpected-Transformation/dp/019989…> *(May 30, 2012: Oxford University Press) -- Dave Karpf, PhD Assistant Professor Journalism and Media Studies Department School of Communication and Information Rutgers University, New Brunswick www.davidkarpf.com davekarpf(a)gmail.com Preorder my book, *The MoveOn Effect: The Unexpected Transformation of American Political Advocacy<http://www.amazon.com/The-MoveOn-Effect-Unexpected-Transformation/dp/019989…> *(May 30, 2012: Oxford University Press)

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