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John Palfrey lecture at ICA
by Steve Jones 23 May '11

23 May '11

I'd like to invite everyone coming to the International Communication Association (ICA) conference to John Palfrey's lecture, “Internet Research and a Future for Libraries,” on Sunday, May 29, 2011, 4:30 – 5:45 pm EDT, in the Westin Waterfront Hotel, Harbor Ballroom I. His lecture is the latest in the Steve Jones Internet Research Lecture series. Along those lines, please note the announcement of a beta sprint related to the Digital Public Library of America, http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/dpla/. Palfrey is on the DPLA steering committee. The lecture s sponsored by the Carl Couch Center for Social and Internet Research (http://www.cccsir.com) and supported by the International Communication Association (ICA, http://www.icahdq.org) My thanks to Shing-Ling Sarina Chen for her work organizing it and to the Carl Couch Center and ICA for their support. I'll hope to see many AoIR-ers there! Steve

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Call for Chapter Proposals, Book Project on Video Games
by Matthew Wy. 23 May '11

23 May '11

Call for Chapter Proposals, Book Project on Video Games “Issues of Control: Reading and Playing Video Games” (tentative title) The word control has many implications when it is used in connection with video games. Obviously on a basic level, unlike other media, if a player does not control the game, there is no experience. You must participate to keep the story moving forward. Enjoyment of the experience can also connect to control. For many players, pleasure comes from the equilibrium between the player’s control over the game and the game’s control over the player. This book seeks to explore the nature of control in the area of video games. The chapters presented in it are intended to explore a range of ideas. Possible chapters/ideas to explore include: - What does it mean to truly control a game? - Freedom of choice for gamers - How different genres might impact control - How control is central to questions of design - How might games’ narratives or game play ‘control’ the player - Does controlling a game in the virtual world influence our concepts of control in the non-virtual world? - How might we re-conceptualize playing games thanks to new forms of video game controllers like the Wii or Xbox’s Kinect? If you would like to propose a chapter for this project, please send a short author(s) bio as well as a 750 word abstract along with title to Matthew Wysocki (mwysocki(a)flagler.edu) The deadline for receipt of all proposals is June 30, 2011. I will attempt to notify all correspondents by July 31 regarding the status of their submission. Completed draft manuscripts will be due by November 30. Matthew Wysocki Assistant Professor Department of Communication Flagler College

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RES: Paper on "Internet in Brazilian Public Schools"
by Bernardo Sorj 23 May '11

23 May '11

Dear all, the full version of the paper "Internet in Brazilian Public Schools" is freely available at: http://www.centroedelstein.org.br/PDF/WP_6_English.pdf Comments are welcome. Bernardo Sorj Dr. Bernardo Sorj <http://www.bernardosorj.com> www.bernardosorj.com <http://www.centroedelstein.org.br> www.centroedelstein.org.br

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How to run successful webinars? Presentation on Tue 16 Nov 2010
by Fred Dervin 23 May '11

23 May '11

The 2010 Global Education Conference is being held November 15 - 19, 2010, online and free. Sessions will take place in multiple time zones and multiple languages over the five days. http://www.globaleducationconference.com/ TITLE: How to run successful webinars? Lessons learnt and challenges for learning and collaboration at a global level. PRESENTER: Fred Dervin,, University of Turku, Finland (Finland) CO-PRESENTER: Katerina Zourou, University of Luxembourg TIME: GMT Tue 16 Nov 2010 01:00PM click for international time conversions: http://timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?month=11&day=16&year=2010&… SESSION ROOM: https://sas.elluminate.com/d.jnlp?sid=gec2010&password=D.616E7D3800C4CE47B7… to enter the Elluminate session room, open one hour before session. FORMAT: Presentation LANGUAGE: English SHORT DESCRIPTION: Although the number of webinars (i.e. events streamed live over the Internet) is rapidly growing, the orchestration of such events in terms of communication, modes of delivery, opportunities for interaction and follow-up is in its infancy. Moreover, gathering a worldwide audience challenges our understanding of how to address a large number of multicultural participants. The presentation is based on findings from two public webinars, hosted by the University of Turku (Finland) and the University of Luxembourg in 2010. An examination of the events will allow us to identify 5 success factors and a set of quality indicators. Shortcomings in running webinars will also be discussed based on our experience. The presentation ends with some reflections on the nature of interaction in live online events, namely the chat function as a means of learning and group cohesion among online participants, and as a catalyst for interaction between the group and the panelists.

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Invitation for those going to ICA in Boston this week
by Mia Consalvo 23 May '11

23 May '11

[with apologies for cross-posting] Game Studies/ICA folks: You're invited to this Friday's Games at GAMBIT (at MIT), from 4-6 PM on May 27, 2011 in our game lab. Each week we play games, talk about them, and just generally socialize. It's always open to the public, but this week we'd like to extend a special invitation to anyone attending ICA and who has an interest in games. RSVP is not required, but if you definitely know you'll be attending please let me know so we can order enough food (i.e. light snacks :). The Singapore-MIT GAMBIT Game Lab is located in Kendall Square, right on the MBTA Red Line at 5 Cambridge Center on the third floor. A map for reaching us can be found here: http://gambit.mit.edu/contact/index.php Some weeks we have a special theme, but this week is open. If you have a special game you'd like to play, let us know in advance and we'll do our best to have it there. Finally, please email me separately if I can answer any questions about the event or GAMBIT for you. Thanks all! Mia p.s. I'm also organizing an informal dinner following the event, so we can keep the conversation going. Let me know if you'd like to be a part of that as well. -- Mia Consalvo, Ph.D. Visiting Associate Professor Comparative Media Studies Massachusetts Institute of Technology 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Building 14N-226 Cambridge, MA 02139-4307 USA consalvo(a)mit.edu 617.324.1868

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Moral Economies of Creative Labour: registration now open
by Helen Kennedy 23 May '11

23 May '11

Registration is now open for Moral Economies of Creative Labour, a two day conference taking place at the Institute of Communications Studies, University of Leeds, on 7th & 8th July 2011. To register, visit this webpage: http://www.moraleconomies.leeds.ac.uk/contact/ A preliminary conference programme is available as a PDF link from the bottom of this page: http://www.moraleconomies.leeds.ac.uk/programme/. More information about the conference is available on the conference website. Helen Dr Helen Kennedy Senior Lecturer in New Media, Institute of Communications Studies, University of Leeds (http://ics.leeds.ac.uk/) More about me: http://ics.leeds.ac.uk/staff/h.kennedy Email: h.kennedy(a)leeds.ac.uk Tel: 0113 3438748 *** new office / address ***: 1.02 Clothworkers' North Building, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT

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membership - election reminder
by Catherine Middleton 22 May '11

22 May '11

Hello everyone, This is a reminder that only current AoIR members may vote in the election for the next AoIR executive. Your membership must be valid as of May 23, 2011 in order to vote. You can join/renew online at http://aoir.org/membership/. Catherine Middleton AoIR Secretary

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interdisciplinary privacy course (june 27. - 28., 2011, leuven)
by Seda Guerses 22 May '11

22 May '11

it is once again time for our yearly interdisciplinary course on privacy. we look forward to seeing you there, greetings, s. ========================== Interdisciplinary Privacy Course ========================== We would kindly invite you to this course that takes place on Monday, June 27 and Tuesday, June 28, 2011. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ABOUT THE EVENT: Date and time: Monday June 27, 09:30 - 17:30 Tuesday June 28, 09:00 - 18:00 Location: Faculty of Law, Leuven (room to be announced) Organisation: This interdisciplinary course is part of the thematic training of the Leuven Arenberg Doctoral School Training Programme and supported by IAP BCRYPT and LICT. Target audience: The course is mainly aimed at Ph.D. students from all disciplines (either from the K.U.Leuven or from other universities,) but also open to undergraduate students, post-docs, people working in industry, or anyone else interested on the topic. Abstract: The course will provide an overview of various aspects of privacy from the technical, legal, economics, and social science perspectives. While the broad focus of the course is on privacy in electronic services, this year’s edition of the course will have a special focus on location privacy. Speakers: - Prof. Bettina Berendt, Computer Science (K.U.Leuven) - Prof. Claudia Diaz, Electrical Engineering (K.U.Leuven) - Dr. David Geerts, Faculty of Social Sciences (K.U.Leuven) - Dr. Seda Gürses, Electrical Engineering (K.U.Leuven) - Prof. Mireille Hildebrandt (Radboud University Nijmegen, NL) - Dr. Markulf Kohlweiss (Microsoft Research, Cambridge, UK) - Dr. Eleni Kosta, Faculty of Law (K.U.Leuven) More information and program: see course website Registration: Participation to the course is free of charge, but the attendees are required to register by sending an email to claudia.diaz(a)esat.kuleuven.be , by Wednesday June 15, 2011. Contact: Prof. Claudia Diaz, K.U.Leuven, ESAT-COSIC (claudia.diaz(a)esat.kuleuven.be)

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How's My Feedback? - One-day Conference at Oxford, 28 June 2011
by Malte Ziewitz 22 May '11

22 May '11

*How's My Feedback? - The Technology and Politics of Evaluation* A one-day international conference at Saïd Business School, supported by an ESRC Knowledge Exchange Small Grant and the Institute for Science, Innovation and Society. Tuesday, 28 June 2011, 9.00 - 17.30 Saïd Business School, University of Oxford http://www.sbs.ox.ac.uk/centres/insis/events/Pages/howsmyfeedback.aspx *About the conference:* There is hardly anything these days that is not being evaluated on the web. Books, dishwashers, lawyers, teachers, health services, ex-boyfriends, haircuts, prostitutes and websites are just some examples targeted by novel review, rating and ranking schemes. Used in an increasing number of areas, these schemes facilitate public assessment by soliciting and aggregating feedback and distributing it as comments, ranks, scales and stories. While some have greeted this development as an innovative way of fostering transparency, accountability and public engagement, others have criticized the forced exposure and alleged lack of accuracy and legitimacy, pointing to the potentially devastating consequences of negative evaluations. Now research is under way to tackle these issues head-on and evaluate the various types of review, rating and ranking schemes in a collaborative design experiment. Under the title ‘How’s my feedback?’, a group of experts, including designers, managers, reviewers, policy-makers, consumer spokespeople, academics and users have explored the idea of a website that allows users to publicly assess their experience with review and rating schemes – a feedback website for feedback websites. The goal of the conference is to reflect on this process and the emerging prototype. How are we to judge the effectiveness of these schemes? What modes of governance are implicated in their operation? What counts as a 'good' scheme, what as a 'bad' one? What strategies and methodologies are employed in their development, maintenance and use? How successful is this project as a design intervention? What is it to evaluate the evaluators – and will this business ever end? *Speakers include:* Malcolm Ashmore, Loughborough University Andrew Balmer, University of Sheffield Stefan Schwarzkopf, Copenhagen Business School Ian Stronach, Liverpool John Moores University Alex Wilkie, Goldsmiths, University of London Steve Woolgar, University of Oxford *Organisers:* Malte Ziewitz and Steve Woolgar, University of Oxford, in cooperation with James Munro, Patient Opinion *Registration:* The event is free of charge, but registration is required. Places are limited, so please sign up early: http://legacy.sbs.ox.ac.uk/html/sbs_event_register.asp?eventID=182 Project website: www.howsmyfeedback.org Twitter: twitter.com/howsmyfeedback How to find us: goo.gl/maps/hLW8 For more information, please visit http://www.sbs.ox.ac.uk/centres/insis/events/Pages/howsmyfeedback.aspx or contact malte.ziewitz(a)sbs.ox.ac.uk.

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International Young Scholar's Conference
by Meng Yoe Tan 22 May '11

22 May '11

Hi guys, If you're doing your PhD, or recently completed your PhD. You might find this interesting, especially if your research has something to do with South East Asia. Visit the website at http://www.sass.monash.edu.my/conference/ysc.html. Deadline is early June! International Young Scholar's Conference, Monash University Sunway Campus *Call for Papers* The School of Arts and Social Sciences, Monash University, Malaysia invites submissions for its inaugural International Young Scholars’ Conference which will be held at the Monash University Sunway Campus. We welcome submissions from both PhD students at any stage of their research and scholars who have completed their doctoral studies in the last three years, who are engaged in original research related to Southeast Asia and on one of the following thematic areas: - Politics, government, law and international relations - Culture, religion, gender and sexuality - Media, literature and the arts See more at http://www.sass.monash.edu.my/conference/ysc.html Cheers, Tan Meng Yoe Monash University Sunway Campus

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