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CFP Deadline: Jan 2nd - Emerging Learning Design 2012 Conference
by AJ Kelton 30 Dec '11

30 Dec '11

Please forgive crossposting. Feel free to share with your colleagues. ********** Greetings, I hope you are enjoying the holidays. Please forgive this intrusion to your break but I wanted to send out one last reminder that the Emerging Learning Design 2012 Conference Call for Submissions closes On January 2nd. The Conference will be held this year on Friday, June 1st at Montclair State University. The call requirements are a title, a 50 word description, and a 250 word abstract. There are three possible presentation types. You can find the presentation types described at http://eld.montclair.edu/2011/12/16/session-differences/ The only submission for is at http://eld.montclair.edu/call_for_presentations/ The Conference home page is at http://eld.montclair.edu/ We look forward to receiving your submissions and hope to see you in June. Best of everything in the new year. AJ Kelton Conference Chair -- ----- AJ Kelton Director of Emerging Instructional Technology College of Humanities and Social Sciences Montclair State University ---------- http://eld.montclair.edu Twitter: @ELDConf Hashtag: #eld12 ---------- http://sorryafk.wordpress.com/ Twitter: aj_kelton

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New book: Connecting Democracy: Online Consultation and the Flow of Political Communication
by Stephen Coleman 30 Dec '11

30 Dec '11

Subscribers to this list may be interested to learn that MIT Press has just published, “Connecting Democracy: Online Consultation and the Flow of Political Communication,” edited by myself and Peter Shane. The book is a collaborative project of 19 researchers investigating the experience and potential of online consultation in the United States and Europe. The following paragraph from the introductory chapter gives a flavor of our framework: “A useful understanding of the online consultation phenomenon has to go beyond how particular consultations might or might not affect the outcomes of individual policy- making episodes. We need to consider what such consultations provide, or could provide, to the larger flow of political communication within a society. This also means regarding online consultations as something more than simple two-way dialogues between citizen-participants and public decision makers. Instead, they represent a kind of networked communication involving citizens (both participants and auditors), public decision makers (of both the legislative and administrative sort), bureaucrats, technicians, civil society organizations, and the media generally. Exploring the meaning of online consultations to these diverse actors requires evidence -gathering through multiple methods, comparative study, and analysis across a variety of key disciplines. We have to appreciate how the experience is constructed by social, political, and legal forces, including, but not limited to the design of the online consultation experience itself. This sort of approach yields an understanding that the online consultation can best contribute phenomenon’s greatest contribution to democratic practice depends by inspiring and supporting a reimagining on it becoming both an impetus to, and a form of support for, a re-imagination of democratic citizenship—a robust form of citizenship that is enhanced by arguably rendered more practical (but hardly inevitable) because of new forms of information and communication technology.” Here's the Table of Contents: 1 Online Consultation and Political Communication in the Age of Obama: An Introduction Peter M. Shane I Online Consultation and the Flow of Political Communication 2 Democracy, Distance, and Reach: The New Media Landscape Stephen Coleman and Vincent Price 3 Web 2.0: New Challenges for the Study of E-Democracy in an Era of Informational Exuberance Andrew Chadwick 4 Online Consultations in Local Government: What Works, When, and Why? Joachim Åström and Åke Grönlund 5 Neighborhood Information Systems as Intermediaries in Democratic Communities Steven J. Balla and Sungsoo Hwang II What Online Consultations Mean to Their Participants 6 Playing Politics: The Experience of E-Participation Vincent Price 7 The Participatory Journey in Online Consultations Scott Wright 8 Democratic Consultation and the E-Citizen Stephen Coleman, Rachel Gibson, and Agnes I. Schneeberger 9 The Technological Dimension of Deliberation: A Comparison between Online- and Off-Line Participation Laurence Monnoyer-Smith 10 The Third Sector as E-Democratic Intermediaries Scott Wright and Stephen Coleman 11 A Survey of Federal Agency Rulemakers’ Attitudes about E-Rulemaking Jeffrey S. Lubbers 12 The Internet and the Madisonian Cycle: Possibilities and Prospects for Consultative Representation David Lazer, Michael Neblo, and Kevin Esterling III The Legal Architecture of Online Consultation 13 Legal Frameworks and Institutional Contexts for Public Consultation Regarding Administrative Actionfor Executive-Branch Actions: The United States Peter L. Strauss 14 Legal Frameworks and Institutional Contexts for Public Consultation Regarding Administrative Action for Executive-Branch Actions: The European Union Polona Pičman Štefančič 15 The Legal Environment for Electronic Democracy Peter M. Shane and Polona Pičman Štefančič 16 E-Democracy, Transnational Organizations, and the Challenge of New Techno-Iintermediation Oren Perez IV Conclusion 17 Making the E-Citizen: A Socio-Technical Approach to Democracy Stephen Coleman Regards, Stephen Coleman Professor of Political Communication Institute of Communications Studies University of Leeds Latest book: http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&tid=12680 <http://www.cambridge.org/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=9780521817523>

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Reminder: CFP: Special issue on “International Professional Communication: yesterday ‹ today › tomorrow”
by rosario durao 29 Dec '11

29 Dec '11

Please apologize for cross-postings. ______________________________ Dear Colleague, Just a friendly reminder that the *deadline* for submitting manuscripts for the inaugural issue of connexions journal is quickly approaching: January 15, 2012. I encourage you to participate in this issue, as your contribution is * decisive* for the development of international professional communication. You may read the original Call for Papers at* ** http://connexionsjournal.org/call-for-papers/*<http://connexionsjournal.org/call-for-papers/>. I will be happy to answer your questions. I wish you a Happy New Year! Best, Rosário Durão Editor editor(a)connexionsjournal.org ******************************* Rosário Durão URL: http://www.rosariodurao.net ******************************* "The public is the only critic whose opinion is worth anything at all." (Mark Twain) ********************************

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DHS requests feedback on “Ethical Principles Guiding ICT Research”
by Richard Forno 28 Dec '11

28 Dec '11

(The short report can be found at the URL below. That said, a quick skim-thru didn't turn up many academic citations regarding existing work on ethics and ICT research ... frankly I would expect to see several AOIR'ers cited in the report's discussion. Maybe in version 2.0? --- rick) Summary: DHS invites the public to comment on the Menlo Report in support of PREDICT, DHS S&T sponsored work on ethics in Information and Communication Technology Research (ICTR). This notice is to elicit feedback from the public. http://www.federalregister.gov/articles/2011/12/28/2011-33231/the-menlo-rep… Happy / Merry / Festive to all! -- rick --- Just because i'm near the punchbowl doesn't mean I'm also drinking from it.

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please ignore my post
by Linda Vigdor 27 Dec '11

27 Dec '11

Obviously it was way too late for me to be sending emails this was so not intended for AIR-L!

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Re: [Air-L] Air-L Digest, Vol 89, Issue 24
by Linda Vigdor 26 Dec '11

26 Dec '11

Well, it's 10 pm and I've had chips, guacamole, and hummus for dinner, followed by a cup of hot chocolate (which I would normally never drink at night). But I've so far only made it through page 3 of my editing, revising, and trimming. Still 22 pages to get down to 15. Yawn. On 12/26/11 5:00 PM, "air-l-request(a)listserv.aoir.org" <air-l-request(a)listserv.aoir.org> wrote: >Send Air-L mailing list submissions to > air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org > >To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org >or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > air-l-request(a)listserv.aoir.org > >You can reach the person managing the list at > air-l-owner(a)listserv.aoir.org > >When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific >than "Re: Contents of Air-L digest..." >Today's Topics: > > 1. Re: the "confidentiality" stuff came from an Aussie > university (Jonathan Marshall) >_______________________________________________ >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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the "confidentiality" stuff came from an Aussie university
by Barry Wellman 25 Dec '11

25 Dec '11

not a corporation. And to contradict a poster, I personally know of people who have gotten into trouble re the emails they've sent. You'd have to go to real trouble to prove it was forged. Maybe in a court of law, but organizations have laxer rules. Signing off for Festivus, 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 _______________________________________________________________________

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tripleC: Table of Contents Vol. 9 (2011)
by Christian Fuchs 25 Dec '11

25 Dec '11

tripleC: Open Access Journal for a Global Sustainable Information Society Edited by Christian Fuchs tripleC is a peer-review open access journal that focuses on information society studies and studies of media, digital media, information and communication in society with a special interest in critical studies in these thematic areas. It is indexed in Scopus, Communication and Mass Media Complete, Sociological Abstracts. The 2012 volume will feature besides regular contributions the three special issues “Marx is Back – The Importance of Marxist Theory and Research for Critical Communication Studies Today” (edited by Christian Fuchs and Vincent Mosco), "Political Economy and Critical Theory of the Internet @ Nordmedia 2011" (edited by Christian Fuchs and Göran Bolin), “The Difference that Makes a Difference 2011” (edited by David Chapman and Magnus Ramage”). http://www.triple-c.at Table of Contents Vol. 9 (2011) Vol 9, No 2 (2011) Articles: * Privacy as Invisibility: Pervasive Surveillance and the Privatization of Peer-to-Peer Systems Francesca Musiani, 126-140 * Selling You and Your Clicks: Examining the Audience Commodification of Google Hyunjin Kang, Matthew P. McAllister, 141-153 * Can Online Forums Be Designed to Empower Local Communities? Kerill Dunne, 154-174 * Consumer Protection in Cyberspace Oscar H. Gandy, Jr., 175-189 * Neoliberalism in the Information Age, or Vice Versa? Global Citizenship, Technology, and Hegemonic Ideology Robert Neubauer, 195-230 * Communicative Informatics: An Active and Creative Audience Framework of Social Media Linda M. Gallant, Gloria M. Boone, 231-246 * Can Environmental Governance Benefit From an ICT-Social Capital Nexus in Civil Society? Subas P. Dhakal, 551-565 * Critical Surveillance Studies in the Information Society Thomas Allmer, 566-592 * Avatar: A Marxist Saga on the Far Distant Planet Yong Tang, 657-557 * From Seven Years to 360 Degrees: Primitive Accumulation, the Social Common, and the Contractual Lockdown of Recording Artists at the Threshold of Digitalization Matt Stahl, 668-688 * Social Networking and Transnational Capitalism David Kreps, 689-701 Reflections: * Two New Critical Internet Studies-Books: Marcus Breen’s “Uprising” and Eran Fisher’s “Media and New Capitalism in the Digital Age” Christian Fuchs, 190-194 * Critical Media and Communication Studies Today. A Conversation Christian Fuchs, Dwayne Winseck, 247-271 Special Issue: ICTs and Society - A New Transdiscipline? Edited by Joseph E. Brenner and Celina Raffl, 593-656 (introduction + 5 contributions) Special Issue: Towards a New Science of Information Edited by Wolfgang Hofkirchner, 272-550 (introduction + 31 contributions) Vol 9, No 1 (2011) Articles * Doing Research, Doing Politics: ICT Research as a Form of Activism Juliet Webster, 1-10 * Embracing Technology and the Challenges of Complexity Alice Robbin, 11-27 * Social Media for Digital and Social Inclusion: Challenges for Information Society 2.0 Research & Policies Pieter Verdegem, 28-38 * From Financialization to Low and Non-Profit: Emerging Media Models for Freedom Nuria Almiron-Roig, 39-61 * Deconstructing Bentham’s Panopticon: The New Metaphors of Surveillance in the Web 2.0 Environment Manuela Farinosi, 62-76 * Information – is it Subjective or Objective? Andrzej Stanislaw Zaliwski, 77-92 * The Need for an Informational Systems Approach to Security José María Díaz Nafría, 93-122 Reflections * Book Review: Signs of Science - Linguistics meets Biology Robert Prinz, 123-125

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Plenary Talk Abstracts of the Conference "Critique, Democracy, and Philosophy in 21st Century Information Society" (Uppsala, 2-4 May 2012)
by Christian Fuchs 25 Dec '11

25 Dec '11

Critique, Democracy, and Philosophy in 21st Century Information Society Towards Critical Theories of Social Media The Fourth ICTs and Society-Conference Uppsala University, May 2nd-4th, 2012. The collected abstracts of the plenary talks are now available: http://www.icts-and-society.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/abstracts.pdf Opening Plenary Vincent Mosco (Queen’s University, Canada): Marx is Back, but Will Knowledge Workers of the World Unite? On the Critical Study of Labour, Media, and Communication Today Graham Murdock (Loughborough University, UK): The Digital Lives of Commodities: Consumption, Ideology and Exploitation Today Featuring plenary talks by Andrew Feenberg, Catherine McKercher, Charles Ess, Christian Christensen, Christian Fuchs, Gunilla Bradley, Mark Andrejevic, Nick Dyer-Witheford, Peter Dahlgren, Tobias Olsson, Trebor Scholz, Ursula Huws, Wolfgang Hofkirchner. Abstract submission: open until February, 2012 29 (deadline) ATTENTION: We recommend EARLY submission of abstracts way before the deadline because the presentation slots are limited and abstracts will be reviewed continuously starting in early January 2012. Once all presentation slots are filled, the submission process will be closed. Submission information: http://www.icts-and-society.net/events/uppsala2012/ http://www.icts-and-society.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/CallforAbstracts…

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OK, I won't tell anyone, Jake
by Barry Wellman 25 Dec '11

25 Dec '11

"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." What bureaucratism! 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 _______________________________________________________________________

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