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Creative Media Activism - A Free, Open Class
by Gary Hall 05 Apr '12

05 Apr '12

Creative Media Activism - A Free, Open Class #creativact Between January and March 2012 we (i.e. the Media Department at Coventry School of Art and Design: http://wwwm.coventry.ac.uk/csad/mediaandcommunication/Pages/Media_home.aspx) launched a Free and Open Undergraduate class focused on Creative Activism. We also made the class freely available online on an open basis to enable anyone worldwide to participate in the class, join in the discussions or even rip and remix our content. The class explored the potential of creative media activism by encouraging the participants to experiment with creating ‘live’ interventions as well as become involved in a number of crucial cultural, political and social debates. Over the ten week course we looked at how media activists, creatives and campaigners have used their media knowledge, connections and skills to ask difficult questions, provoke debate and raise awareness of important issues and problems in their local, national and international communities. We have now put most of the materials from the class on our website: http://www.creativeactivism.net You can also download the content and participate in the ongoing class discussion through iTunes U and the Peer 2 Peer University (P2PU). Please feel free to share. If you would like to find out more about the class, and our plans for developing the project, please contact Pete Woodbridge <p.woodbridge(a)coventry.ac.uk>. To date, the class has been supported by a range of collaborators and guest speakers, whom we would like to thank. They include: Emily James: Director of ‘Just Do It’- A Feature Documentary about Climate Change Activism John Jackson, Activist and Co-author of ‘Small Acts of Resistance: How Courage, Tenacity and Ingenuity Can Change the World Joey Skaggs, A Prolific New York Based Artist, Culture Jammer and Prankster who uses the Media as his Canvas James Cook, A Stand-up Comedian who explores what we can learn from Comedy and Satire as a means of Political and Cultural Activism Sam Gregory, Programme Director and Human Rights Advocate at WITNESS, whose work addresses the importance of video and change Tessa Houghton, Assistant Professor in Media and Communications, University of Nottingham Malaysia who analyses Hacktivism and the Public Domain Matt Mason, Author of bestseller ‘The Pirate’s Dilemma’ and Executive Director of Marketing at Bittorent Chris Jury, Activist, Broadcaster and Lecturer at Bath Spa University who presents a radio show called ‘Agitpop’- exploring the role of music and protest Charles Tsai, Campaigner at the Creative Visions Foundation and Social Creatives- Organisations that encourage creative thinking to affect positive change Ken Fero, Award Winning Radical Documentary Filmmaker – Whose work explores Power, Inequality and Injustice. -- Gary Hall Research Professor of Media and Performing Arts 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 Latest: 'There Are No Digital Humanities', in Debates in the Digital Humanities, edited by Matthew K. Gold

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Re: [Air-L] Sampling for online qualitative studies (Lukasz Szulc)
by Szulc Lukasz 05 Apr '12

05 Apr '12

Dear Rebecca, I recommend you to check CMDA approach (Computer-mediated discourse analysis). It's more sociolinguistic approach but could be helpful in other fields as well. Especially, I recommend you the following article, which present more qualitative but still rigorous approach to online sampling: Herring, S. C. (2004). Computer-Mediated Discourse Analysis: An Approach to Researching Online Behavior Designing for Virtual Communities in the Service of Learning. S. A. Barab, R. Kling and J. H. Gray. New York, Cambridge University Press: 338-376. The article is available here: http://ella.slis.indiana.edu/~herring/cmda.pdf Best, Lukasz Lukasz Szulc PhD Candidate University of Antwerp Department of Communication Studies Media, Culture & Policy research group www.ua.ac.be/lukasz.szulc<http://www.ua.ac.be/lukasz.szulc>

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Deadline Extended: Arab Women, Media, and Sexuality conference
by Ebtihal Mahadeen 04 Apr '12

04 Apr '12

**Apologies for cross-posting** Deadline Extension: April 14th Arab Women, Media, and Sexuality Conference The deadline to register for the Arab Women, Media, and Sexuality conference, to take place in York on May 26th, 2012 has been extended to April 14th. This international conference is hosted and organised by the Centre for Women’s Studies at the University of York/UK. It investigates the interdisciplinary study of sexuality, media, and gender from an Arab perspective and the intersection between all three. The conference will run concurrent panels according to the following provisional programme: Time Activity 9:00 – 9:30 Registration, refreshments 9:30 – 9:45 Welcome and announcements 9:45 – 11:30 Panel 1:Cultural Products: TV and Talk Shows ( Treehouse) Panel 2: On Veiling and Unveiling (Bowland Lecture Theatre) 11:30 – 11:55 Break: refreshments 12:00 – 1:15 Panel 3: Cultural Products: Music, Novels, and Poetry (Treehouse) Panel 4: Cultural Products: Advertisements and Drama (Bowland Lecture Theatre) 1:20 – 2:15 Lunch in the Treehouse 2:20– 3:45 Panel 5: East – West (Treehouse) Panel 6: Resistance (Bowland Lecture Theatre) 3:45 – 4:00 Break: refreshments 4:00 – 5:00 Panel 7: New Media (Bowland Lecture Theatre) 5:00 – 5:15 End remarks and thanks 5:15 – 6:30 Wine/juice reception in the Treehouse The registration fee for Arab Women, Media, and Sexuality is £25, to include documentation, refreshments, lunch, and the wine/juice reception at the end of the day. Registration is extended until April 14th and is now open on the following link: http://tinyurl.com/7c7neen . Queries should be directed to Ebtihal Mahadeen im544(a)york.ac.uk or Rachel Thwaites ret508(a)york.ac.uk. We look forward to seeing you in York in May.

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CfP: IADIS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE e-COMMERCE 2012
by Johann Hoechtl 04 Apr '12

04 Apr '12

Apologies for cross-postings. Please send to interested colleagues and students -- CALL FOR PAPERS - Deadline for submissions (2nd call): 30 April 2012-- IADIS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE e-COMMERCE 2012 Lisbon, Portugal, 21 - 23 July 2012 (http://www.ecommerce-conf.org/) part of the IADIS Multi Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems (MCCSIS 2012) Lisbon, Portugal, 17 - 23 July 2012 (http://www.mccsis.org) * Keynote Speaker (confirmed): Dr. Robert Willison, Principal Lecturer, Newcastle Business School, Northumbria University, UK * Conference background and goals The IADIS e-Commerce 2012 conference is a major international and interdisciplinary event for Researchers, academics, industry specialists, practitioners & students interested in the advances in, and applications of, e-Commerce. Participants will have an opportunity to present and observe the latest theories, models and results in these areas. This conference aims to cover both technological as well as non-technological issues related to this new business paradigm. The Conference invites proposals from the introductory through advanced level on all topics related to e-Commerce. Proposals which address the theory, research and applications as well as describe innovative projects are encouraged. * Format of the Conference The conference will comprise of invited talks and oral presentations. The proceedings of the conference will be published in the form of a book and CD-ROM with ISBN, and will be available also in the IADIS Digital Library (accessible on-line). The conference proceedings will be submitted for indexing to INSPEC, EI Compendex, Thomson ISI, ISTP and other indexing services. * Best Papers Selected authors of best papers will be invited to submit extended versions of their papers to selected journals (i.e. IADIS International Journal on Computer Science and Information Systems (IJCSIS - ISSN: 1646-3692) including journals from INDERSCIENCE Publishers. * Types of submissions Full papers, Short Papers, Reflection Papers, Posters/Demonstrations, Tutorials, Panels and Doctoral Consortium. All submissions are subject to a blind refereeing process. * Topics related to e-Commerce are of interest. These include, but are not limited to the following areas: - e-Commerce Technology (Main area) - e-Business Applications and Software - Barriers to e-Business Adoption - Cryptography for enabling e-Commerce - Online Management (Main area) - Knowledge Management - Managing Innovation - Marketing on the Web - e-Commerce Strategy & Implementation - Economics of e-Commerce - Internet payment systems - Regulatory/Policy Issues (Main area) - Social Issues in e-Commerce - The Regulatory Environment of e-Commerce - Trust & Security Issues in e-Commerce - Global e-Commerce (Main area) - e-Commerce in developing countries - Global e-Commerce - Infrastructure for e-Commerce - Online Business Models (Main area) - e-Logistics - e-Government - e-Procurement - e-Services - Business-oriented e-Commerce - Consumer-oriented e-Commerce - Web advertising and Web Publishing - Retailing in e-Commerce (e-Tailing) - Mobile Commerce - Supply Chain Management & e-Fulfilment - e-Communities - Multimedia and Webcasting on the Web - Other e-Commerce Models and Applications * Important Dates: - Submission Deadline (2nd call): 30 April 2012 - Notification to Authors (2nd call): 28 May 2012 - Final Camera-Ready Submission and Early Registration (2nd call): Until 15 June 2012 - Late Registration (2nd call): After 15 June 2012 - Conference: Lisbon, Portugal, 21 - 23 July 2012 * Conference Location The conference will be held in Lisbon, Portugal. * Secretariat IADIS Secretariat - IADIS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE E-COMMERCE 2012 Rua Sao Sebastiao da Pedreira, 100, 3 1050-209 Lisbon, Portugal E-mail: secree-Commerce 2012 Conference Program Chair Angela Lin, University of Sheffield, United Kingdom MCCSIS 2012 General Conference Co-Chairs: Piet Kommers, University of Twente, The Netherlands Pedro Isaías, Universidade Aberta (Portuguese Open University), Portugal Committee Members: * * for committee list please refer to http://www.ecommerce-conf.org/committees.asp * Registered participants in the e-Commerce conference may attend the other conferences part of MCCSIS 2012 free of charge.

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Re: [Air-L] Sampling for online qualitative studies
by stu＠texifter.com 04 Apr '12

04 Apr '12

I would suggest using the principle of saturation rather than searching for a predetermined number. There are many variables that will ultimately determine the actual number (topic scope & nature, homophily, etc), but running out of finding new or interesting discoveries before stopping the data collection might make sense in your case. ~Stu -- Dr. Stuart W. Shulman [1]http://people.umass.edu/stu Editor Emeritus, JITP [2]www.jitp.net Director, QDAP-UMass [3]http://www.umass.edu/qdap Founder and CEO, Texifter [4]http://www.texifter.com LinkedIn: [5]http://www.linkedin.com/pub/stuart-shulman/10/351/899 Twitter: [6]http://twitter.com/#!/StuartWShulman -------- Original Message -------- Subject: [Air-L] Sampling for online qualitative studies From: "Rebecca Thomas" <[7]ret00009(a)students.stir.ac.uk> Date: Wed, April 04, 2012 2:01 am To: [8]air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org I am looking for information on establishing a sample size for qualitative research using asynchronous discussion boards to collect data. I have found only a limited amount of information on this up to now so would appreciate being pointed towards any useful sources of information. Regards Becky Thomas -- The Sunday Times Scottish University of the Year 2009/2010 The University of Stirling is a charity registered in Scotland, number SC 011159. _______________________________________________ The [9]Air-L(a)listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers [10]http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: [11]http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org Join the Association of Internet Researchers: [12]http://www.aoir.org/ References 1. http://people.umass.edu/stu 2. http://www.jitp.net/ 3. http://www.umass.edu/qdap 4. http://www.texifter.com/ 5. http://www.linkedin.com/pub/stuart-shulman/10/351/899 6. http://twitter.com/#!/StuartWShulman 7. mailto:ret00009@students.stir.ac.uk 8. mailto:air-l@listserv.aoir.org 9. mailto:Air-L@listserv.aoir.org 10. http://aoir.org/ 11. http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org 12. http://www.aoir.org/

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Sampling for online qualitative studies
by Rebecca Thomas 04 Apr '12

04 Apr '12

I am looking for information on establishing a sample size for qualitative research using asynchronous discussion boards to collect data. I have found only a limited amount of information on this up to now so would appreciate being pointed towards any useful sources of information. Regards Becky Thomas -- The Sunday Times Scottish University of the Year 2009/2010 The University of Stirling is a charity registered in Scotland, number SC 011159.

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Noise Channels: Glitch and Error in Digital Culture
by Peter Krapp 03 Apr '12

03 Apr '12

Published last December and already in its second printing: http://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/noise-channels Noise Channels Glitch and Error in Digital Culture 2011 * Author: Peter Krapp ToC: Introduction 1. Hypertext and Its Anachronisms 2. Terror and Play, or What Was Hacktivism? 3. Noise Floor: Between Tinnitus and Raw Data 4. Gaming the Glitch: Room for Error 5. Machinima and the Suspensions of Animation To err is human; to err in digital culture is design. In the glitches, inefficiencies, and errors that ergonomics and usability engineering strive to surmount, Peter Krapp identifies creative reservoirs of computer-mediated interaction. Throughout new media cultures, he traces a resistance to the heritage of motion studies, ergonomics, and efficiency; in doing so, he shows how creativity is stirred within the networks of digital culture. Noise Channels offers a fresh look at hypertext and tactical media, tunes into laptop music, and situates the emergent forms of computer gaming and machinima in media history. Krapp analyzes text, image, sound, virtual spaces, and gestures in noisy channels of computer-mediated communication that seek to embrace-rather than overcome-the limitations and misfires of computing. Equally at home with online literature, the visual tactics of hacktivism, the recuperation of glitches in sound art, electronica, and videogames, or machinima as an emerging media practice, he explores distinctions between noise and information, and how games pivot on errors at the human-computer interface. Grounding the digital humanities in the conditions of possibility of computing culture, Krapp puts forth his insight on the critical role of information in the creative process. With a jam-packed intellectual bandwidth, Noise Channels reconfigures how we think about digital culture. Distortion reveals system characteristics: Peter Krapp uses this classic insight to illuminate the vibrant aesthetic and practical offspring of the computer. Marx knew it, Freud knew it, and so do Krapp's fractious gang of characters. Rarely have the secret affinities among continental high theorists, engineering visionaries, and avant-garde artists been revealed so freshly. - John Durham Peters, University of Iowa Noise Channels offers an intriguing and insightful analysis of 'creative writing' under the conditions of networked computing. Ranging from hypertext to machinima, it argues that cultural creativity operates by embracing, rather than overcoming or eliminating, limitations (noise). Noise Channels is, beyond doubt, an important contribution to the field of new media studies. - Wendy Hui Kyong Chun, Brown University With Noise Channels, Krapp brings a welcome volume to an increasingly clamorous field of study. - Roy Christopher -- Peter Krapp Professor, Film & Media/Visual Studies, English, Informatics 2321 Humanities Gateway, ZOT 2435 University of California, Irvine, CA 92697-2435 http://www.faculty.uci.edu/profile.cfm?faculty_id=5102 new book: http://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/noise-channels

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New Book: Cross-Cultural Technology Design
by Huatong Sun 03 Apr '12

03 Apr '12

(Apologies for cross-posting) Dear colleagues, I’m pleased to announce my new book from Oxford University Press, and I hope you find it interesting: Cross-Cultural Technology Design: Creating Culture-Sensitive Technology for Local Users http://www.oup.com/us/catalog/general/subject/Psychology/CognitivePsycholog… Companion website: http://www.oup.com/us/companion.websites/9780199744763/ Please see below for detailed book information. Best wishes, Huatong Huatong Sun, Ph.D Assistant Professor, Digital Media Studies Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences University of Washington Tacoma http://faculty.washington.edu/htsun/ ABSTRACT The demand and opportunity for cross-cultural technology design is rapidly rising due to globalization. However, all too often resulting technologies are technically usable, yet cannot be immediately put to meaningful use by users in their local, concrete contexts. Support for concrete user activities is frequently missing in design, as support for decontextualized actions is typically the focus of design. Sun examines this disconnect between action and meaning in cross-cultural technology design and presents an innovative framework, Culturally Localized User Experience (CLUE), to tackle this problem. Incorporating key concepts and methods from activity theory, British cultural studies, and rhetorical genre theory, the CLUE approach integrates action and meaning through a dialogical, cyclical design process to design technology that engages local users within culturally meaningful social practices. Illustrated with five in-depth case studies of mobile text messaging use by college students and young professionals in American and Chinese contexts spanning years, Sun calls for a change in cross-cultural design practices from simply applying cultural conventions in design to engaging with social affordances based on a rich understanding of meaningful contextualized activity. This book will be of interest to researchers, students, practitioners, and anyone who wants to create culture-sensitive technology in this increasingly globalized world that requires advanced strategies and techniques for culturally localized, participatory design. CONTENTS Part I Grounding Chapter 1 Approaching Culture in Cross-Cultural Technology Design Chapter 2 User Experience in Global Context Chapter 3 Integrating Action and Meaning in Cross-Cultural Design Chapter 4 CLUE as a Framework for Cross-Cultural User Experience Research Part II Experiences Chapter 5 Sophie's Story: New Chocolate at Work Chapter 6 Lili's Story: Pure Water in Social Network Chapter 7 Brian's Story: Conversations Carried through My Fingers Chapter 8 Mei's Story: "Idioms Solitaire" Between Sports Fans Chapter 9 Emma's Story: More than a Nice Gesture in a Technology-Mediated Life Part III Implications Chapter 10 Culturally Localized User Experience as Situated and Constructed Chapter 11 Future Directions “This insightful text offers a grounded approach to rethinking technology design, and gives a framework for creating innovative design, development, and deployment practices. Sun’s work illustrates clearly the ways in which traditional HCI and interaction design methods tend to miss the fact that technology and culture are intricately intertwined.” Elizabeth Churchill, Principal Research Scientist, Yahoo! Research and VP of ACM SigCHI “Huatong Sun offers an enlightening, but also useful set of theoretical principles, case histories, and scholarly implications that should assist researchers and analysts to bring products and services into being that are more evolved, sophisticated, humanistic, and successful.” Aaron Marcus, President, Aaron Marcus and Associates, Inc., Berkeley, California, USA “Dr. Sun’s book takes culture more seriously than most scholars working in this area, and she also provides us with some of the richest portraits of user knowledge that I have read.” Jeff Grabill, Professor of Rhetoric and Professional Writing, Michigan State University **** Feb 2012; 352 pp Hardback; 9780199744763 20% Off Promo Code: 30641

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Opinion on survey question
by Pam Brewer 03 Apr '12

03 Apr '12

Colleagues-- I am working on a survey of engineering professionals and would like your input (from an international perspective) on my demographic question about level of education. One of the primary goals of the survey is to collect international data, so I do not want to preference U.S. degrees, but I cannot list all possible degrees. I would appreciate your opinion on the following with that in mind. What is your highest degree completed? Associate's degree Bachelor's degree Master's degree Multiple master's degrees Ph.D. Multiple Ph.D.s Other ________ In which country did you earn this/these degree(s)? Thank you for your feedback. Pam -- Pam Estes Brewer, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Director of Undergraduate Studies Department of English Appalachian State University Manager, STC Academic Special Interest Group phone 828-262-2351 fax 828-262-2133 email brewerpe(a)appstate.edu

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Information Society Virtual library: 33.000 texts
by Bernardo Sorj 03 Apr '12

03 Apr '12

Dear Colleague, We are happy to inform you that our virtual library with academic texts on the Information Society, in English, Spanish, French, German, Italian and Catalan, has reached the mark of 33.000 articles: http://www.bvce.org/SociedadeInformacao.asp Best, Bernardo Sorj Director - Edelstein Center for Social Research <http://www.centroedesltein.org> www.centroedesltein.org Dr. Bernardo Sorj www.bernardosorj.org <http://www.bernardosorj.com> www.centroedelstein.org.br

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