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MINA Mobile Creativity and Innovation Symposium
by Max Schleser 02 Nov '11

02 Nov '11

The Mobile Innovation Network Aotearoa [MINA] is a network project, which aims to create a dialogue between the creative industry, artists, designer and filmmakers working with mobile devices. MINA explores the possibilities of interaction between people, content and the emerging mobile industry. MINA Mobile Creativity and Innovation Symposium 26th November 2011 Massey University, Wellington, NZ Executive Seminar Suite (5B 14) Registration and program for MINA Symposium 2011 [$ 30 including lunch] http://mina2011.eventbrite.com/ The MINA symposium will provide a platform to debate the prospect of wireless, mobile and ubiquitous technologies in a changing art and design environment and the transforming creative industries. >From the 23rd to the 26th November 2011, MINA presents the International Mobile Innovation Screening 2011 at the Film Archive in Wellington, which will showcase more than 55 international short films and four feature films produced on mobile devices. The program will also feature selected mobile short films from the Mobilefest (Brazil), Mobile Screenfest International (Australia), Heartbeat Festival (Russia) and Ohrenblick (Germany). The program is curated by the Mobile Innovation Network Aotearoa [MINA] and presents these works for the first time in New Zealand. Tickets for the screenings can be purchased at the Film Archive, Wellington. For a detailed screening program see www.mina.pro MINA is supported by the College of Creative Arts, Massey University. For further information contact: Max(a)mina.pro -- Empfehlen Sie GMX DSL Ihren Freunden und Bekannten und wir belohnen Sie mit bis zu 50,- Euro! https://freundschaftswerbung.gmx.de

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Re: [Air-L] copyediting question: capitalize www?
by Scott MacLeod 02 Nov '11

02 Nov '11

BODY { font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px; }Dear AoIR, Here's Wikipedia's wiki entry "Internet capitalization conventions," that lays out a history of the question about Internet capitalization - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_capitalization_conventions All the best, Scott Scott MacLeod Founder & President World University and School http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/World_University 415 480 4577 http://scottmacleod.com/worlduniversityandschool.htm scott(a)scottmacleod.com On Tue 01/11/11 8:53 AM , Alex Halavais alex(a)halavais.net sent: Hey, we're a global body associated with the internet :). I don't think that AP chose to capitalize Internet to distinguish itfrom other forms of internetworking. They set the standard for thesake of standards setting, and at the time they set the standard theword was more commonly capitalized. Likewise, any standards-promulgating group is going to be bound bytheir former usage, and we should expect the ietf to be slower thanother discourse communities to change. Luckily, those who buildtechnologies name them only at their own peril. Anyone made use of a"electrical speech machine" lately? - A On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 11:08 AM, Janna Anderson wrote: > The Internet Society, the Internet Engineering Task Force and global bodies > associated with the Internet use the capital "I" to distinguish the global > network from smaller internets. It is an important distinction and those who > do not make it are in error. > > Associated Press style - the official journalistic style adopted by most > news organizations - is to use Internet in reference to the global network > of networks. In AP Style Web and World Wide Web are used in upper-case to > distinguish from other webs. > > While some people and organizations like to say that Internet should be > spelled lower-case as with radio, television and other communications tools, > they are not recognizing the distinction as they should. > > Janna > > On 11/1/11 10:59 AM, "Nathaniel Poor" wrote: > >> It's English, we have no absolute authority which dictates the language >> (despite what some people may think about Chicago or APA). Some countries, >> such as Spain and France, have some sort of institution (which I forget the >> name of) that is like the arbiter of language. Not that everyone follows >> those, but I remember a Spanish-speaking friend of mine was surprised to find >> out we didn't have one for English. >> >> Internet (which there is at the start of a sentence, so who knows what my >> preference is) is a word in transition. Commonly it used to be Internet, now >> more people are using internet. Given that we are still in the transition, use >> whichever you like. As long as we can understand you, and your editors and >> reviewers are happy, then I'll be quite happy with my cup of coffee at the end >> of a good day. >> >> -Nat. >> >> >> On Nov 1, 2011, at 9:55 AM, Sue Thomas wrote: >> >>> I agree with you Jonathan, and try my hardest not to capitalise, only to be >>> regularly told off by editors! But here's an interesting question: if >>> Internet and WWW, then why not Cyberspace? >>> >>> All very inconsistent. I empathise with the small t television (and >>> telephone) >>> >>> Sue >>> >>> >>> _________ >>> Sue Thomas >>> Research Professor of New Media >>> IOCT/Faculty of Art, Design and Humanities >>> Clephan 1.01d, De Montfort University, The Gateway, Leicester LE1 9BH, UK >>> +44 (0)116 207 8266 >>> w: http://www.thewildsurmise.com Nature and Cyberspace: stories, memes and >>> metaphors >>> e: sue.thomas(a)dmu.ac.uk [3] >>> t: @suethomas >>> g: +suethomas >>> >>> >>> >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: air-l-bounces(a)listserv.aoir.org [4] >>> [air-l-bounces(a)listserv.aoir.org [5]] On Behalf Of Jonathan Sterne, Dr. >>> Sent: 01 November 2011 09:51 >>> To: >>> Subject: Re: [Air-L] copyediting question: capitalize www? >>> >>> Hi Everyone, >>> >>> I'm starting to get lots of replies, which I appreciate, and I'm happy to >>> hear more people weigh in, but I'll take the opportunity to explain my >>> thinking on "internet." Early in their histories, most media are capitalized >>> by journalists (eg., "Telegraph" or "Phonograph") but this usage generally >>> falls away after some time. I am one of those people who believe that the >>> internet is best thought of as one more of a series of communication >>> technologies that are important in our lives (indeed one of the arguments of >>> the book I'm copyediting effectively de-exceptionalizes the internet). >>> >>> Since I don't capitalize "phonograph" or "television" or "satellite", it >>> seems strange to capitalize "internet" which is not really a new medium >>> anymore. >>> >>> OTOH, if there is another Really Good Reason to capitalize "internet," I >>> would love to hear it. >>> >>> Best, >>> --Jonathan >>> >>> >>> On 2011-11-01, at 5:46 AM, Sue Malta wrote: >>> >>> As part of the team that publishes the "International Journal of Emerging >>> Techologies and Society" (iJETS), I would ALWAYS opt for a capital for >>> Internet and the World Wide Web.... >>> >>> Cheers >>> >>> Sue Malta >>> >>> >>> >>> P >>> ............................................... >>> Sue Malta >>> Editor / Managing Editor >>> International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Society (iJETS) Swinburne >>> University of Technology John Street, Hawthorn, VIC 3122 >>> Email: ijets(a)swin.edu.au >>> Or: smalta(a)groupwise.swin.edu.au >>> www.swin.edu.au/ijets; >>> >>>>>> "Jonathan Sterne, Dr." >>>>>> >>>> 01/11/11 8:32 PM >>> >>> Hi Everyone, >>> >>> Please excuse any repetition if this has been answered recently. I know that >>> people are coming around to not capitalizing the word "internet" (this is my >>> preference too). But what about "world wide web"? >>> >>> Best, >>> --J >>> _______________________________________________ >>> 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/ >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> The Air-L(a)listserv.aoir.org [10] 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/ >>> _______________________________________________ >>> The Air-L(a)listserv.aoir.org [11] 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/ >> >> ------------------------------- >> Nathaniel Poor, Ph.D. >> http://natpoor.blogspot.com/ >> https://sites.google.com/site/natpoor/ >> >> _______________________________________________ >> The Air-L(a)listserv.aoir.org [12] 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/ > > -- > Janna Quitney Anderson > Director of Imagining the Internet > www.imaginingtheinternet.org > > Associate Professor of Communications > Director of Internet Projects > School of Communications > Elon University > andersj(a)elon.edu [14] > (336) 278-5733 (o) > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > The Air-L(a)listserv.aoir.org [15] 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/ > -- // // This email is // [x] assumed public and may be blogged / forwarded. // [ ] assumed to be private, please ask before redistributing. // // Alexander C. 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Moderation of Online Platforms/Communities
by Alex Leavitt 02 Nov '11

02 Nov '11

Can everyone please point me to studies of the tasks and roles of moderators and moderation more generally in/of online platforms and communities? Thanks! Alex --- Alexander Leavitt PhD Student USC Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism http://alexleavitt.com Twitter: @alexleavitt

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Re: [Air-L] capitalize www
by Jonathan Sterne, Dr. 02 Nov '11

02 Nov '11

Hi Everyone, Thanks for all the replies. The range of debate leaves me very comfortable with not capitalizing either internet or www, and making those choices for polemical and historicist reasons that others have outlined quite well. I hope this discussion has been helpful to others as well. Best, --Jonathan

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Re: [Air-L] copyediting question: capitalize www?
by Sue Malta 01 Nov '11

01 Nov '11

As part of the team that publishes the "International Journal of Emerging Techologies and Society" (iJETS), I would ALWAYS opt for a capital for Internet and the World Wide Web.... Cheers Sue Malta P ............................................... Sue Malta Editor / Managing Editor International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Society (iJETS) Swinburne University of Technology John Street, Hawthorn, VIC 3122 Email: ijets(a)swin.edu.au Or: smalta(a)groupwise.swin.edu.au www.swin.edu.au/ijets >>> "Jonathan Sterne, Dr." 01/11/11 8:32 PM >>> Hi Everyone, Please excuse any repetition if this has been answered recently. I know that people are coming around to not capitalizing the word "internet" (this is my preference too). But what about "world wide web"? Best, --J _______________________________________________ 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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Why Parents Help Children Violate Facebook’s 13+ Rule
by danah boyd 01 Nov '11

01 Nov '11

I don't normally publicize my work here, but a new study that I've been working on has serious policy implications that affect every aspect of internet studies. For those who don't know anything about COPPA, it's the U.S. legislation that prompts most major U.S. companies to make their websites 13+. The regulation is currently being reviewed by the Federal Trade Commission (and they're seeking public comments by Nov 28 so if any of you are interested, please let me know!). Anyhow, I'm really excited about this study and I hope you will be too! Title: "Why Parents Help Their Children Lie to Facebook About Age: Unintended Consequences of the 'Children's Online Privacy Protection Act'" Authors: danah boyd (Microsoft Research/NYU), Eszter Hargittai (Northwestern), Jason Schultz (UC-Berkeley), and John Palfrey (Harvard) Full article: http://bit.ly/ParentSurveyCOPPA danah's blog post: http://bit.ly/tgKZrE Huffington Post op-ed: http://huff.to/rVocz5 CNet Coverage: http://cnet.co/tnNPw1 Topline: A major new nationwide study released today shows that many parents know that their underage children are on Facebook in violation of the site's restrictions. Parents are often complicit in helping their children join the site. These new data suggest that, by creating a context in which companies choose to restrict access to children, the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), which is currently under review, inadvertently undermines parents' ability to make choices and protect their children's data. This study has significant implications for policy makers, particularly in light of the discussion in Congress and at the Federal Trade Commission about COPPA and other age-based privacy laws. Based on a national sample of 1,007 U.S. parents who have children living with them between the ages of 10-14, this survey conducted July 5-14, 2011 found: • Although Facebook's minimum age is 13, parents of 13- and 14-year-olds report that, on average, their child joined Facebook at age 12. • Half (55%) of parents of 12-year-olds report their child has a Facebook account, and most (82%) of these parents knew when their child signed up. Most (76%) also assisted their 12-year old in creating the account. • A third (36%) of all parents surveyed reported that their child joined Facebook before the age of 13, and two-thirds of them (68%) helped their child create the account. • Half (53%) of parents surveyed think Facebook has a minimum age and a third (35%) of these parents think that this is a recommendation and not a requirement. • Most (78%) parents think it is acceptable for their child to violate minimum age restrictions on online services. The authors argue that these data call into question the efficacy of COPPA. Their findings have important implications for COPPA reform and other age-based legislation, such as the "Do Not Track Kids Act" currently being discussed in Congress: • COPPA is well intended but has major unintended consequences in terms of encouraging general-purpose websites like Facebook, Skype, and Gmail to limit kids under 13 from accessing educational and social opportunities. • Age-based restrictions imposed in response to COPPA undermine parental authority and limit parents' freedoms to make choices about what their children do and what information is collected about them. • As a result of COPPA, lying about one's age has become normal and parents often help children lie. This creates safety and privacy issues. • Online safety and privacy are of great concern to parents, but most parents do not want solutions that result in age-based restrictions for their children. • Parents are open to recommended age ratings and other approaches that offer guidance without limiting their children's access. The implications of this study go beyond issues of governance. The age restrictions engendered by COPPA have serious implications for parenting, education, and issues surrounding children's rights. To learn more, view the complete article at http://bit.ly/ParentSurveyCOPPA

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copyediting question: capitalize www?
by Jonathan Sterne, Dr. 01 Nov '11

01 Nov '11

Hi Everyone, Please excuse any repetition if this has been answered recently. I know that people are coming around to not capitalizing the word "internet" (this is my preference too). But what about "world wide web"? Best, --J

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Fwd: [IJoC] New Special Section on Academic Labor Published
by Jonathan Sterne, Dr. 31 Oct '11

31 Oct '11

Dear Colleagues, Since I sent along the CFP, here's the result. Apologies for cross posting (and accidentally sending a version with attachments before). Best, --Jonathan Begin forwarded message: From: Arlene Luck <aluck(a)law.usc.edu<mailto:aluck@law.usc.edu>> Date: October 31, 2011 1:27:41 PM EDT To: <aluck(a)law.usc.edu<mailto:aluck@law.usc.edu>> Subject: [IJoC] New Special Section on Academic Labor Published Dear IJoC Readers, The International Journal of Communication (IJoC) has published a new special section on "The Politics of Academic Labor in Communication Studies." Edited by Jonathan Sterne, this special section features 21 authors who raise difficult questions about academic labor in our field. We may have learned to speak of our work as a calling, but it is also a job. Our jobs are changing, and there are fewer of them. What is to be done? English, history and anthropology have rich discussions of the politics of academic labor; it’s time for people in communication studies to join them in reflections on the future of universities and colleges and our place in them. These articles are meant to spur further conversation in organizing our departments, universities, and associations, as well as in coalition with others who hope to defend and advance higher education. Authors consider a host of issues big and small, from defunding of universities to the real dilemmas facing administrators: from the changing politics of careers to the ways that gender and class play out for faculty and students; from the types of work that get published and promoted to the tyranny of PowerPoint; from the politics of fundraising, to the devolution of administration, to the role of unions in universities. The authors provide plenty of proposals and programs for change, from small but meaningful gestures to activist programs for pedagogy and research, to massive proposals for organizing ourselves and transforming the ways our departments and fields do business. In the process, they raise even more questions. Contributors include Sarah Banet-Weiser, Fernando Delgado, Thomas Discenna, Michael Griffin, Jayson Harsin, Mark Hayward, Alex Juhasz, Kembrew McLeod, Kathleen F. McConnell, Toby Miller, Michael Z. Newman, Amy Pason, Victor Pickard, Michelle Rodino-Colocino, Joel Saxe, Carol Stabile, Ted Striphas, Ira Wagman and two chairs who elected to remain anonymous so they could tell their stories candidly. Visit IJoC at http://ijoc.org to read these essays and more. Manuel Castells Larry Gross Editors Jonathan Sterne Guest Editor Arlene Luck Managing Editor ___________________________________________________ International Journal of Communication (IJoC) USC Annenberg Press University of Southern California http://ijoc.org/

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Deadline extended! CFP Local and Mobile conference 2012
by Adriana de Souza e Silva 31 Oct '11

31 Oct '11

***Deadline for paper submission for the Local and Mobile conference 2012 extended until 06 November 2011 - 11:59 p.m. EST. This is the last opportunity to submit an abstract! Please submit your abstract via our website below.*** Local and mobile: Linking mobilities, mobile communication and locative media a joint international conference of the Pan-American Mobilities Network and the Cosmobilities Network, and the 3rd annual research symposium of the Communication, Rhetoric and Digital Media (CRDM) program at NCSU. Conference website and abstract submission: http://crdm.chass.ncsu.edu/mobilities/ Invited keynote speakers: · Paul Dourish (University of California, Irvine) · Rich Ling (IT University of Copenhagen) · Teri Rueb (University of Buffalo, SUNNY) Mobilities has become an important framework to understand and analyze contemporary social, spatial, economic and political practices. Being interdisciplinary in its nature, Mobilities focuses on the systematic movement of people, goods and information that “travel” around the world in rates much higher (or much slower) than before. As such, mobility studies challenge traditional scholarship that often ignores the social dimensions of mobility, overlooking how travel, movement, and communication and transportation networks help to constitute modern societies and communities. Mobility has always been critical for the creation of social networks and to the development of connections to places. In addition, Mobilities contributes to study of the technological, social and cultural developments in transportation, border control, mobile communication, “intelligent” infrastructure, surveillance. While mobility is an important framework to understand contemporary society, the pervasiveness of location-aware technology has made it possible to locate ourselves and be networked within patterns of mobility. As user generated maps and location-aware mobile devices become commonplace, we experience a shift in the way we connect to the internet and move through space. Networked interactions permeate our world. We no longer enter the internet--we carry it with us. We experience it while moving through physical spaces. Mobile phones, GPS receivers, and RFID tags are only a few examples of location-aware mobile technologies that mediate our interaction with networked spaces and influence how we move in these spaces. Increasingly, our physical location determines the types of information with which we interact, the way we move through physical spaces, and the people and things we find around us. These new kinds of networked interactions manifest in everyday social practices that are supported by the use of mobile and location-aware technologies, such as participation in location-based mobile games and social networks, use of location-based services, development of mobile annotation projects, and social mapping, just to name a few. The engagement with these practices has important implications for identity construction, our sense of privacy, our notions of place and space, civic and political participation, policy making, as well as cultural production and consumption in everyday life. We invite papers that address themes at the intersection of mobility and location, or related topics, such as: · Mobile communication and location awareness in everyday life practices; · New urban spatialities developed with mobile gaming and locative social media; · Privacy and surveillance issues as they relate to mobile and location-based social networks; · Identity and spatial construction through locative media art / embodied performance; · Civic engagement and political participation through mobile social media, new mapping practices and location-aware technologies; · Borders, surveillance, and securitization with ubiquitous and mobile technologies; · Aeromobilities, air travel, and aerial vision; · Alternative mobilities and slow movements; · Planning, policy and design for future mobilities and location-based services; · Tourism, imaginary travel, and virtual travel; · Transitions toward sustainable mobilities; · New methodologies for mobilities research. Disciplines represented at the conference may include (but are not exclusive to): Anthropology, Architecture and Design, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Communication, Criminology, Cultural Studies, Geography, Media and Visual Arts, Politics and International Relations, Public Policy, Sociology, Theater and Performance Studies, Tourism Research, Transport Research, and Urban Studies. Conference location: North Carolina State University, Raleigh (NC), USA Conference hotel: Brownstone Hotel (http://www.brownstonehotel.com/) Discounted rates will be available to registered participants. Important dates: Deadline for abstracts: 06 November 2011 (800 words, including references) Notification of acceptance: 15 December 2011 Registration deadline: 30 January 2012 Conference Dates: 16-18 March 2012 Please submit your abstracts through the conference website: http://crdm.chass.ncsu.edu/mobilities/ Organizing Committee: Adriana de Souza e Silva (NC State University, USA) Heather Horst (Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Australia) Lee Humphreys (Cornell University, USA) Ole B. Jensen (Aalborg University, Denmark) Mimi Sheller (Drexel University, USA) Irina Shklovski (IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark) Phillip Vannini (Royal Roads University, Canada) For further information, contact: Adriana de Souza e Silva, Ph.D Associate Professor of Communication Interim Associate Director, Communication, Rhetoric, & Digital Media Ph.D program North Carolina State University http://www.souzaesilva.com adriana(a)souzaesilva.com ________________________ Adriana de Souza e Silva, Ph.D Associate Professor of Communication Interim Associate Director, Communication, Rhetoric, & Digital Media Ph.D program North Carolina State University http://www.souzaesilva.com

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CFP -The Politics of Green IT
by Abbe Forman 31 Oct '11

31 Oct '11

Hi All, I am guest editing a special issue of the International Journal of E-Politics, "The Politics of Green IT". If you'd be interested in submitting a paper, here is a link to the CFP: http://www.igi-global.com/calls-for-papers-special/international-journal-po… thanks! Abbe Forman Abbe E. Forman, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Temple University abbe.forman(a)temple.edu

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