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Pictures of IR-12
by Karine Nahon 15 Oct '11

15 Oct '11

Hi Everyone, Pictures of IR-12 can be found here https://picasaweb.google.com/104919753386254291046 . I would like to thank the volunteers-photographers: Peyina Lin, Behzod Sirjani and Bill Anderson, for the great job they did. Best Karine ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Karine Nahon - http://eKarine.org<http://ekarine.org/> Associate Professor The Information School, The retroV (Virality of Information) Group - http://retroV.org<http://retrov.org/> University of Washington Twitter - http://twitter.com/karineb Office tel. - (206) 685-6668

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Thank you
by Tom Boellstorff 15 Oct '11

15 Oct '11

I'd like to say a quick "thank you" to all of the organizers and participants at AoIR. It was my first time attending and I had a wonderful time. I'm sending this from Princeton where I'm still at the workshop that necessitated me missing the last day of the conference; I'll look forward to hearing about everything that happened my day. I had so much fun doing my keynote and learned a lot from the great feedback I received. Thank you all - such an amazing group! All the best, Tom Boellstorff

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How to record online video interviews (audio and video)?
by Janet Salmons, Ph.D. 14 Oct '11

14 Oct '11

Karin, Thanks for the shout out for Online Interviews in Real Time ;-) You mentioned Adobe Connect as one of your options. Connect has recording capability built in. It allows you to view the recording in Connect or to save the recording in other formats. >From my view, the fewer kinds of software etc.you use, the fewer opportunities for something to go wrong-- so using Connect presents less risk than Skype with another service for recording. You'll have less to worry about when you want to focus on the interview itself. If you have a conference call service you can enter it into your "audio profile" in Connect and use the phone for audio, or you can use VOIP. Connect also allows you (or the research participants) to share other documents, images or digital artifacts. If you are not using those tools you can just use the camera pods in the size you like. All of that said, you can find a number of free Skype recording tools, such as Vodburner. I'd be happy to communicate with you off-list if you have more questions: jsalmons<at>vision2lead.com. Best regards, Janet > From: Karin Bolld?n <karin(a)bollden.se> > > > Dear all > > I've been a lurker on this list for a while now, but now it's time to come > forth :) My name is Karin Bolld?n and I am a doctoral student in > Educational > Research at the Department of Studies in Adult, Popular and Higher > Education, Link?ping university, Sweden. My research interests concerns ICT > and learning in general, and specifically teaching and learning in online > environments. > > I am going to do synchronous online inteviews, probably through Skype or > Adobe Connect and am looking for ways of recording both my and > my interviewee's voices and outputs from webcams. I guess Camtasia could be > a solution, but there seem to be some issues in capturing both my and my > interviewee's audio sources. I've been browsing Janet Salmons book entitled > 'Online inteviews in real time' (2010) but am still lacking hands on > advice. > > > Does anyone here have hands on experience on this issue and/or reading > suggestions concerning the method? > > I will appreciate anything you have in mind on this! > > Best wishes > > Karin > > --- > *Karin Bolld?n* > PhD Student in Adult Learning > Department of Behavioural Sciences and Learning > Link?ping University > S-581 83 Link?ping, Sweden > > E-mail: karin.bollden(a)liu.se > Phone: +46 (0)13 282108 > > www.karinbollden.se > > > *Janet Salmons Ph.D.* *Capella University School of Business and Technology and Vision2Lead, Inc. *Site- http://www.vision2lead.com Follow Twitter at /einterview Coming soon: Cases in Online Interview Research<http://tinyurl.com/e-interview2> PO Box 943 Boulder, CO 80306-0943 jsalmons(a)vision2lead.com 303-443-3075 720-838-9615 mobile

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Readings on Communication and Community
by Gerald Voorhees 14 Oct '11

14 Oct '11

I'm working with a grad student who is interested in studying communication practices/norms as barriers to inclusion in virtual communities. While this topic abutts my own interests, it is not my area of expertise. I've already turned him toward Nancy Baym's _Tune In, Log On_ and Lynn Cherny's _Conversation and Community_, as well as some more foundational work in socio-linguistics, speech communities and ethnography of speaking (e.g. Hymes, Gumperz, Philipsen). I'd appreciate any suggestions of relevant work that might inform his research. Scholarship from a critical/rhetorical perspective is particularly desirable. Thanks and best regards, Gerald Gerald Voorhees, PhD Assistant Professor of Media and Cultural Studies Speech Communication/New Media Communication Oregon State University

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IPSA - paper proposal Technology and Higher Education: The Role of the Internet
by Monica Zuccarini 14 Oct '11

14 Oct '11

Dear colleagues, we invite you to submit your paper proposals to our panel for the International Political Science Association (IPSA) World Congress. *LAST DEADLINE for paper proposals: 17 October 2011* ** *"Technology and Higher Education: The Role of the Internet" * RC11: Science and Politics http://www.ipsa.org/my-ipsa/events/madrid2012/panel/technology-and-higher-e… *Chair*: Mauro Calise (University of Naples Federico II, IPSA Portal Editor) *Co-Chair*: Derrick Cogburn (American University, COTELCO) *Discussants*: Michael Brintnall (APSA Executive Director) *The modern information and communication technologies promise to improve the quality, flexibility and effectiveness of higher education. Students are more and more computer and IT literate and, for their part, universities are realizing that the new technologies are one of the most important springboards for innovation. The introduction of new technologies into teaching is progressing along similar lines to those seen in other fields some years before. One example is that of libraries and the way they organize the output of the knowledge industry. The progressive integration of new multi-media technologies with teaching methodologies is creating an environment of virtual knowledge-sharing through the interconnection of learning and teaching spaces. Following these considerations, this panel looks into the new methodologies and new tools used to study and research online, it investigates how computers and the Web can be used to improve student learning and skills development, how the Internet can enhance traditional teaching and learning methods, how scientists design and implement the innovations, looks at experiences and innovative projects in the universities, and more generally at the cutting-edge approaches and techniques that can be applied in social sciences. Case studies, applications of new methodologies and tools are welcome.* *LAST DEADLINE for paper proposals: 17 October 2011* Please use the IPSA internet in order to submit your paper proposals: http://www.ipsa.org/events/congress/madrid2012/submit-abstractpaper-proposal Anyone can submit an abstract. You do not need to be a member of IPSA in order to submit your abstract. In case you have problems, you could contact directly the Convenor (Monica Zuccarini: zuccarini(a)gmail.com) *Apologies for cross-posting*

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post-IR12 thank you
by Steve Jones 14 Oct '11

14 Oct '11

I would like to thank all those who made IR12 a terrific conference and experience. In particular I want to thank Karine Nahon, her colleagues, staff and students in the University of Washington Communication Department, particularly Beth Patin and Lassana Magassa, and the UW volunteers generally. I would also like to thank Lori Kendall, reviewers and presenters for putting together an excellent program, and for continuing the tradition of trying to do things differently at AoIR events. In that light I particularly want to thank Ignite talk participants and all those who use AoIR as a chance to try to do something different, something you can't do at traditional disciplinary conferences. Such things take time and effort, of course (and in many cases bravery) and they may not “count” in ways that traditional disciplinary activities, such as giving a paper, do, but they are part of what makes AoIR truly valuable, because they inspire creativity, innovation and new ideas. AoIR conferences continue to be intellectually stimulating and also supportive, warm, anti-elitist and fun, so allow me to also thank everyone who has been a conference attendee, everyone who has been a member, everyone who has served AoIR in some capacity, or who has otherwise supported the glorious mix of people and ideas that makes AoIR so special. This is the only conference I leave with such a sense of sadness that it’s over, and such a sense of anticipation for the next one. With gratitude, Steve

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Reminder! CFP Local and Mobile conference 2012
by Irina Shklovski 14 Oct '11

14 Oct '11

***This is a reminder that the call for paper for the Local and Mobile conference ends on October 30th, 2011. Please submit your abstract before the deadline 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: 30 October 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 <mailto:adriana@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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Reminder! CFP Local and Mobile conference 2012
by Adriana de Souza e Silva 14 Oct '11

14 Oct '11

***This is a reminder that the call for paper for the Local and Mobile conference ends on October 30th, 2011. Please submit your abstract before the deadline 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: 30 October 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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Re: [Air-L] How to record online video interviews (audio and video)?
by Karen Smith 13 Oct '11

13 Oct '11

Hi Karin, I've used ScreenFlow software to record interviews conducted over skype (http://www.telestream.net/screen-flow/) from my mac. Using an external microphone is essential for decent sound quality. The software generally performs flawlessly but I have had an error message or two that required a reboot. This is obviously not ideal if it happens mid interview. Best of luck with your project, Karen Karen Smith karen.louise.smith(a)utoronto.ca PhD Candidate Faculty of Information and Knowledge Media Design University of Toronto www.karenlouisesmith.net

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NYU Assistant Professor, Digital Media Position
by danah boyd 13 Oct '11

13 Oct '11

Perhaps of interest (position 2): Begin forwarded message: > From: Marita Sturken <marita.sturken(a)nyu.edu> > > PLEASE CIRCULATE! > Department of Media, Culture, and Communication > > Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development > > New York University > > > > Assistant Professor, Tenure-Track > > Digital Media > > > The Department of Media, Culture, and Communication in the Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development at New York University invites applications for a tenure-track position at the rank of Assistant Professor to begin September 1, 2012. > > > We are seeking to fill a position in the area of digital media, open to candidates from a wide range of sub-areas and methodological perspectives, such as digitally mediated communities, digital humanities, software or platform studies, the ethics or epistemology of IT, and information policy. We prefer applicants with a demonstrated appreciation of multi- and interdisciplinary research and scholarship. > > > The Department of Media, Culture, and Communication is home to 28 full-time faculty and serves approximately 750 undergraduate majors, 120 MA students, and 35 PhD students. NYU’s dynamic Global Network University includes NYU Abu Dhabi and international programs and academic centers around the world. The department is active in the NYU Global Network University, with a particular emphasis on sites in Paris, Prague, Buenos Aires, and Shanghai. NYU Steinhardt faculty may be afforded the opportunity to work at these global study and research sites. For more information see: http://steinhardt.nyu.edu/mcc/ > > > Qualifications: Qualified candidates should have a Ph.D. and an active agenda of research, publication, and teaching. > > > Responsibilities: Responsibilities will include maintaining an active agenda of research and publication; undergraduate and graduate teaching and advising; and department and university service. > > > NYU is committed to building a culturally diverse educational environment and strongly encourages applications from historically underrepresented groups. > > > Applications: Please apply online with a cover letter, CV, names and contact information for three references, and a brief sample of work to: > > > www.nyuopsearch.com/applicants/Central?quickFind=50986 > > > Further information about the position can be obtained from Helen Nissenbaum, Search Chair: Helen.nissenbaum(a)nyu.edu. > > > > Correspondence should be addressed to: > > Helen Nissenbaum, Search Committee Chair > > Digital Media Search > > Department of Media, Culture, and Communication > > Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development > > New York University > > 239 Greene Street, 7th floor > > New York, NY 10003 > > > Review of applications will begin on November 14, 2011. > > New York University is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. ------ "taken out of context, i must seem so strange" -- ani http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/ http://www.danah.org/ @zephoria

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