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New Media? – publication announcement
by UG-Feldman, Zinaida 06 Sep '11

06 Sep '11

NEW MEDIA? RE-IMAGINING TECHNOLOGY, CULTURE AND THE SOCIAL explores the enduring fascination with the idea of novelty through a new media lens. The brand names in the discourse are familiar: Twitter, Facebook, Google, Digg, Tumblr, MySpace, to name a few. But these buzzwords reveal more than their commercial application. Critical analyses of these tools reveal ongoing dialogue and tensions between technology, culture and society. As these vectors – with ever-shifting contours, contested meanings and competing claims – overlap, they raise important questions about what can be claimed by ‘new media’ and why and how this term maintains currency and power within the social realm. Articles in this issue include: • Introduction: New media? Re-imagining technology, culture and the social (Zeena Feldman, City University London) • Novel noise? A systems-theoretical approach to Twitter (Richard Wigley, City University London) • Navigating digital publishing law without a ‘night lawyer’: an exploration of informal legal support networks (Judith Townend, City University London) • Power struggles in Korean cyberspace and Korean cyber asylum seekers (Dong-Hyun Song, Goldsmiths, University of London) • Designing scripts and performing Kurdishness in diaspora: the online-offline nexus (Jowan Mahmod, Goldsmiths, University of London) • Are new media democratic? (Jenny Kidd, City University London) • Reading the stranger in the age of social media (Zeena Feldman, City University London) This is a special issue of the Cultural Policy, Criticism and Management Research journal. All articles are available for free download on the journal's website, http://culturalpolicyjournal.org. .... Zeena Feldman PhD Candidate, Centre for Cultural Policy and Management School of Arts, City University London Northampton Square London EC1V 0HB United Kingdom +44 (0)075 1283 2058 (mobile) zinaida.feldman.1(a)city.ac.uk

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Netizen News:
by Jay Hauben 05 Sep '11

05 Sep '11

Hi, The current issue of the Amateur Computerist Vol 20 No 2 about the Era of the Netizens has just been published. Many of the articles are about the contribution to their society made by netizens in China. Also there is an article each about netizen activity in Egypt and in South Korea. Other articles are about the internet as a model for national development and as a source of principles for scientific economic theory. You can see the issue at: http://www.ais.org/~jrh/acn/ACn20-2.pdf Take care. Jay

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Internet conference september 8, 9, Chicago area, www.dom.edu/echicago
by gene loeb 05 Sep '11

05 Sep '11

An internet accessibid.lty and ressearch conference will be held September 8 and 9 at Dominican University, River Grove, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago. A keynote speaker is *Joel Mambretti *Director of the International Center for Advanced Internet Research at Northwestern University which focuses on developing digital communications for the 21st century. *“Information, Innovation & Inclusion: Building Community Cohesion,” *September 8 & 9, 2011, Dominican University Organized and Sponsored by the Graduate School of Library & Information Science, Dominican University. Information is at www.dom.edu/echicago. from Gene Loeb, Ph.D. -- With Sincerest Best Wishes , Gene Gene Loeb, Ph.D.

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Fwd: Critical Perspectives on Addiction (CFP)
by Jessie Daniels 05 Sep '11

05 Sep '11

This call for papers may be of interest to some on the list who may be doing critical work on Internet or video-game "addiction." ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Julie Netherland <julie.netherland(a)gmail.com> Date: Mon, Sep 5, 2011 at 1:53 PM Subject: Critical Perspectives on Addiction To: Jessie Daniels <jessiedanielsnyc(a)gmail.com> Below is a call for papers for an edited volume in the series Advances in Medical Sociology. The volume is seeking contributions that examine the expanding meanings and uses of "addiction" to explain a range of behaviors, including those related to technology and media. Contributions that explore t.v., internet, cell/smart phone, video gaming, and social media "addiction" are especially welcome. *Call for Papers: Critical Perspectives on Addiction* (Volume 14 of Advances in Medical Sociology<http://www.emeraldinsight.com/products/books/series.htm?id=1057-6290> ) Editor: Julie Netherland (City University of New York Graduate Center) Series Editor: Professor Barbara Katz Rothman Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing Our understandings of addiction are rapidly changing. New technologies and biomedical treatments are reconfiguring addiction as a brain disease, and the concept of “addiction” is expanding to cover an ever widening array of substances and behaviours, from food to shopping. As addiction has taken up the discourse of neuroscience, gained some legitimacy within mainstream medicine, and become popularized through reality televisions shows and media attention to celebrity “addicts,” its cultural resonance has increased, but the meaning of “addiction” remains contested and confused. Despite new efforts to medicalize addiction, moral and punitive frameworks for addressing addictions persist, and theories about addiction are also increasingly framed within neoliberal and public health ideologies that emphasize the individual’s responsibility to make him or herself “well.” This edited volume of Advances in Medical Sociology aims to look critically at how addiction has been framed historically, how it being characterized and understood through contemporary cultural representations, how new treatments and technologies are reconfiguring addiction, and how “addiction” is being expanded beyond illicit drugs and alcohol to explain phenomena such as “excessive” eating and gambling and the exponential rise in prescription narcotic use. This volume also seeks to examine how medical, behavioural and punitive frameworks for understanding and treating addiction come together to shape and control “addicts.” Building on a rich sociological literature about drugs and addiction, this volume aims to interrogate the meaning(s) of addiction and critically examine the ways in which addiction is used as a lens for understanding individual behaviour, deviance, illness, politics, and policy. Empirical pieces are especially encouraged. This edited volume aims to be a benchmark text in the sociology of addiction, bringing together a broad array of critical perspectives and issues. Therefore, we are calling for papers addressing a wide variety of topics pertaining to the sociology of addiction, including - but not limited to: · Historical and new efforts to medicalize addiction · Critical interrogations of medical, public health, scientific, behavioural, moral, and punitive frameworks for understanding and/or treating addiction · Changing perceptions of addiction and addictive disorders within different settings and in the broader society · The rise of novel applications of addiction frameworks (e.g., obesity as caused by ‘food addiction’) and novel treatments (e.g., deep brain stimulation, vaccines, and psychopharmaceuticals, like buprenorphine and naltrexone) · Critical analyses of non-substance addictions (e.g., gambling, shopping, sex, internet, etc...) and how these support and/or challenge traditional notions of addiction · Representations of addiction in the media and popular culture · Addiction treatment interventions and how they reflect and/or shape larger sociopolitcal contexts · The relationships between frameworks for understanding addiction, interventions to address it, and subjectivity · The relationship between addiction and larger sociological constructs, such as racism, gender, structure/agency, etc... · The rise in addiction to prescription medications and how this challenges existing conceptual, policy and treatment approaches to drug addiction. This list should be treated as suggestive rather than prescriptive. Papers addressing other relevant topics are welcome as are informal inquiries about proposed topics. Potential contributors should email a 500-750 word abstract by October 3, 2011 to: julie.netherland(a)gmail.com . Informal inquiries to this address are also welcome. Name and institutional affiliation of author(s) should also be supplied, including full contact details of the main author. Proposals will be reviewed by the editor, and authors notified by November 7, 2011. The deadline for full submissions (7500-8500 words) will be February 7, 2012. Publication of the volume is expected in mid- to late 2012.

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Hotel Share at IR 12
by Andrew Herman 05 Sep '11

05 Sep '11

Dear Fellow AOIRistas: I am interested in sharing a room at it IR 12. Please contact me off list at aherman(a)wlu.ca if you are interested. AH Andrew Herman, Ph. D. Associate Professor and Chairperson Department of Communication Studies Graduate Program in Cultural Analysis and Social Theory Wilfrid Laurier University Waterloo, Ontario N2L 3C5 CANADA 519 884-1970 x3693

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CFP: "City Youth and the Pedagogy of Participatory Media"
by Antero Garcia 05 Sep '11

05 Sep '11

Hello, I sent this CFP out at the beginning of the summer but wanted to send out a final reminder as proposals are due in three weeks: Learning Media and Technology <http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/cjem> Call for papers - special issue ( http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/cfp/cjemcfp1.pdf) Issue theme: *City Youth and the Pedagogy of Participatory Media* Learning, Media and Technology is acknowledged as one of the learning academic journals in the fields of educational technology and educational media. Proposals are invited for papers for a special issue of the journal on the theme“City Youth and the Pedagogy of Participatory Media”. The special issue will be edited by Antero Garcia and Ernest Morrell. We are currently soliciting abstracts for proposed papers for the special issue. Abstracts should be no longer than 300 words and be accompanied by up to six keywords. - Deadline for submission of abstract: 30th September 2011 - Successful authors informed: 10th October 2011 - Deadline for submission of full papers: 31st January 2012 Full papers are expected to be between 4,000 and 6,000 words (please refer to the journal website for full ‘instructions for authors’). All papers will be subject to the usual blind reviewing and refereeing processes. Please send abstracts and keywords to the guest editors by 30th September 2011: - anterobot(a)gmail.com - ernestmorrell(a)gmail.com *FURTHER DETAILS OF THE SPECIAL ISSUE* In 1950, approximately 29% of the world’s population was classified as urban. According to the 2007 revision of the United Nations’ World Urbanization Prospects, 70% of the world’s population will be classified as urban by 2050 and most of the people who will inhabit urban centres globally will be economically disadvantaged. We also know that school systems in cities around the world are challenged to provide socially and culturally meaningful education to increasingly diverse populations and, because of their inability to meet these challenges, many city youth do not receive the formal education they need to participate meaningfully in the world of work or civil society in the 21st century. At the same time, we see that city youth have increasing access to technology and many scholars have shown that youth are engaging technology outside of school in increasingly sophisticated ways. Because of this, technology is being called upon as an antidote to education inequity globally. These tools are used not only to engage students in meaningful learning experiences, but also to shape ways people participate and interact with the world. However, while there is burgeoning research around the role that participatory media play in improving learning, educators are identifying challenges toward implementation. Specifically, “research on teaching in urban schools suggests that teachers’ limited skills and limiting beliefs about their students lead to a steady diet of low-level material coupled with unstimulating, roteoriented teaching”. When applied to historically marginalized communities, participatory media acts as a powerful tool for amplification of voice and as a means to personalize content and assessments for the specific needs of marginalized youth. Part of the challenge that educators face is in looking at the ways youth come together and communicate to refine/establish new technologies. As we better understand how culture happens among young people, an understanding of how to develop new technologies emerges. This special issue explores ways that technology-based opportunities present strategies for closing a global literacy gap based on race and class. Specifically, this issue focuses on pedagogy and participatory media: - How are city youth demonstrating the potential of participatory media to intentionally develop a public pedagogy? - How are participatory media reshaping social thought and action? - How do educators leverage media in critical literacy development? What are examples of successful attempts of this form of pedagogy? - Are there ministries and departments of education or government agencies that are getting it right with respect to policies that promote the pedagogy of participatory media? - What are the risks of adopting participatory media tools developed for capitalism and consumerism? How are educators engaging youth in these topics? The guest editors of this issue have extensive experience as teachers, teacher educators, and researchers working with youth in the U.S. This issue requests submissions from a wide range of agents from around the world within the field of education: in addition to researchers, teachers, students, and combinations of collaborators across these audiences are encouraged to share their work. -- Follow my exploits digitally at: www.theamericancrawl.com

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Upcoming Symposium on Digital Religion
by Heidi Campbell 04 Sep '11

04 Sep '11

This is to announce an upcoming symposium and workshop being held on 6 Oct 2011 at Texas A&M University on new media, religion and digital culture. The Digital Religion Symposium will explore how new media is shaping our understanding of religion in a networked society. This event will feature presentations by: Pauline Hope Cheong, Associate Professor of Communication at Arizona State University, presenting her work on authority online especially as they related to Buddhist and Christian engagement with new media Nabil Echchaibi, Assistant Professor of Mass Communication at University of Colorado-Boulder, presenting on Islam and the Internet and related issues of religious identity negotiation online Christopher Helland, Associate Professor of Sociology of Religion at Dalhousie University (Canada), presenting on issues of ritual and authenticity related to Buddhist & Hindu online contexts The symposium will be held 9am-1pm at 410 Rudder Tower on the campus of Texas A&M and will involve presentations by the 3 speakers followed by a panel discussion on what studying religion online has to teach us about social and religious life in an information society. The event will also feature a workshop from 2:30-4pm in the Glasscock center library (Glasscock Building Room 310) on Researching Digital Culture. This will be an opportunity for faculty and graduate students to learn and ask questions about methodological and ethical issues raised by doing online research in various internet and virtual world environments. These events are free and open to the public, but reservations are required for the workshop and lunch. More information can be found at: http://comm.tamu.edu/digitalreligion.html RSVPs and inquiries related to this event can be directed to Heidi Campbell, Associate Professor of Communication-TAMU (heidic(a)tamu.edu) Cheers- Heidi Campbell Associate Professor Department of Communication Texas A&M University College Station TX 77843-4234 (email) heidic(a)tamu.edu (web) http://comm.tamu.edu/people/profiles/campbell

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Gomorrah Streetview
by David Boardman 04 Sep '11

04 Sep '11

Greetings to All, I have been recently working on an article regarding Google Street View as a tool for environment monitoring and reporting. To describe the core idea I leveraged the case study of the so-called Land of Fires in the Campania region (southern Italy). While I am still researching on this idea, I have published the article on my blog: "Gomorrah Streetview. Merging locative media with civic media: opportunities and limitations of Streetview as a tool for monitoring and reporting environmental crimes" http://www.tinktank.it/905/locative/gomorrah-street-view/ For a follow-up article, I am now shifting my focus on neogeographic tools for implementing DIY mapping systems for civic engagement and environment monitoring. I am following with interest some projects like GrassrootsMapping.org. Do you happen to know some more valuable and recent reference on this topic - papers, conferences, journals or projects? Thanks for your attention. David Boardman

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International Conference on Social Informatics (SocInfo2011)
by Stuart Shulman 03 Sep '11

03 Sep '11

International Conference on Social Informatics (SocInfo2011) Singapore, October 6-8, 2011 *** Early Registration by September 10, 2011 *** http://www.sis.smu.edu.sg/SocInfo2011 ------------------------------------- The Third International Conference on Social Informatics (SocInfo2011) will be held in Singapore, a major hub in the Asia Pacific region well known for its multi-racial and multi-cultural society. The mission of SocInfo2011 is to make the conference a premier venue for both social and computer scientists to exchange the latest research ideas that better integrate scholars from the two disciplines. The conference program will reflect this in the keynote talks, tutorials, workshops and paper sessions addressing emerging topics which attract interdisciplinary research attention. SocInfo2011 is hosted by the Singapore Management University and is supported by the National University of Singapore and Nanyang Technological University. The conference also receives support from the International Communication Association (ICA) and Singapore Infocomm Technology Federation (SiTF). The conference sponsors include AFOSR, AOARD and Lee Foundation. SocInfo2011 offers both serious research exchanges in its keynote talks, invited talks and paper presentations. The program also includes a symposium on social dynamics in online gaming, two tutorials, poster presentations and demos. In addition, there will be a social program that covers reception, banquet and a short heritage tour for participants to know one another better and to appreciate the local culture and delicacies. With a good combination of work and fun, SocInfo2011 hopes to foster collaboration among the social informatics researchers as well as to demonstrate the relevance of their research to a wider community. The online registration of SocInfo2011 is now open. The early-bird full and student registration fees are *** S$500 and S$300 *** respectively. Due to limited capacity, we strongly encourage early registrations at: http://www.sis.smu.edu.sg/SocInfo2011/registration.html The early registration deadline is *10 September 2011*. The program highlights include: Keynotes -------- Digital Media and The Relational Revolution in Social Science by Professor Michael Macy, Cornell University Using Web Science to Understand and Enable 21st Century Multidimensional Networks by Professor Noshir Contractor, Northwestern University Data Mining as a Key Enabler of Computational Social Science by Professor Jaideep Srivastava, University of Minnesota Predicting Market Movements: From Breaking News to Emerging Social Media by Professor Hsinchun Chen, University of Arizona Invited Talks ------------- Learning Information Diffusion Models from Observation and Its Application to Behavior Analysis by Professor Hiroshi Motoda, AFOSR/AOARD and Osaka University Analysis of Twitter Unfollow: How Often do People Unfollow in Twitter and Why? by Professor Sue B. Moon, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology Invited Talks for Symposium on Social Dynamics in Online Gaming --------------------------------------------------------------- Understanding Player Behaviors from Real-Time Strategy (RTS) Game Data: A Starcraft II case study by Aek Palakorn Achananuparp, Singapore Management University Defining the World "Social" in Gaming by Dominic Chai, Singapore-MIT Gambit Game Lab Analyzing "Fun" in Social Games by Roberto Dillon, Digipen Institute of Technology-Singapore Tutorials --------- >From Computational to Human Trust: Problems, Methods and Applications of Trust Management by Professor Adam Wierzbicki, Polish-Japanese Institute of Information Technology Text Analytics for Social Research by Professor Stuart W. Shulman, University of Massachusetts, Amherst More information about the program can be found at the conference website. Learn more at http://www.sis.smu.edu.sg/SocInfo2011 -- Stuart Shulman President & CEO Texifter, LLC <http://www.texifter.com/> Have you tried DiscoverText? http://discovertext.com *Featuring the Facebook Graph & Twitter APIs*

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mobile books
by Barry Wellman 02 Sep '11

02 Sep '11

Search Amazon etc for Rich Ling James Katz Search Google scholar for them as well as for Scott Campbell 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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