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CFP: Crossroads in Cultural Studies 2012 -- Paris
by Gilbert B. Rodman 24 Apr '11

24 Apr '11

The Association for Cultural Studies is very pleased to release the Call for Papers for the next Crossroads in Cultural Studies conference, to be held 2-6 July 2012 in Paris, France. Conference details are below. Submission forms for both papers and sessions can be found on the conference website: http://www.crossroads2012.org We look forward to seeing many of you in Paris next year! Cheers, Gil Rodman Acting Chair, ACS ===== We are pleased to announce that the 9th International Conference Crossroads in Cultural Studies will be held in Paris, France, from July 2nd to 6th, 2012, hosted by Sorbonne Nouvelle University and UNESCO. The city of Paris has a long and complex history as a crossroad between cultures and peoples. Paris has played an important role in the development and circulation of the works of authors and thinkers that have shaped the postcolonial imagination in a significant way. Drawing on their tradition of comprehensive and critical thought, the organizers seek contributions in the form of papers and panels that will continue to examine the intersection between culture, power and knowledge from within the framework of Cultural Studies. The conference will also be hosted by UNESCO, the international organization that has always championed cultural diversity and difference. Given the long association between Cultural Studies research and UNESCO, this conference should be an occasion for Cultural Studies to look back on its own evolution as well as explore new scholarly insights. * 12 World-class Keynote Speakers from all over the world will address the conference at keynote and plenary sessions. Among them, Sarah Ahmed, Marie-Hélène Bourcier, Jeremy Gilbert, Achille Mbembe, Walter Mignolo, Bobby Noble, Phaedra Pezzullo, Françoise Vergès. With the participation of Stuart Hall and Jacques Rancière (to be confirmed). * State of the art conference topics. All topics relevant to Cultural Studies, especially new and innovative areas of research are welcome. * Submit your proposal now! The call for papers and organized panel proposals is now open. Check the submission guidelines and submit before September 30, 2011. * ACS Assistance Scheme for Crossroads 2012. The Association for Cultural Studies will offer a small number of grants to assist participants from ACS under-represented regions with travel accommodation or registration expenses. * Attractive and convenient accommodation in the heart of the city of Paris and close to the conference venues. Cheaper campus accommodation will also be available close at hand at the International Paris University Campus. * Spread the news. Please forward this message to your colleagues and friends! We look forward to seeing you in Paris in 2012! Prof Éric Maigret (Conference Director) on behalf of the National and Local Committees Sorbonne Nouvelle University, Paris Website: http://www.crossroads2012.org Contact: crossroads2012(a)univ-paris3.fr

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RSMCC submission deadline approaching: May 16, 2011
by Jennifer S. Earl 23 Apr '11

23 Apr '11

Please consider submitting. The deadline for this volume is May 16, 2011. Call for Papers----Research in Social Movements, Conflicts and Change (Please forward and distribute widely) Research in Social Movements, Conflicts and Change, a peer-reviewed volume published by Emerald Group Publishing/JAI Press, encourages submissions for Volume 33 of the series. This volume will have both thematic and open-submission sections and will be guest edited by Jennifer Earl (University of California, Santa Barbara) and Deana Rohlinger (Florida State University). For the open-submission/non-thematic section, submissions appropriate to any of the three broad foci reflected in the series title will be considered. The special section of Volume 33 will focus on new and old media in social movements, conflicts, and change. We encourage submissions on the relationship between older media (e.g., newspapers, books, music, radio and network and cable television) and social movements, conflicts, or change, or between new media (e.g., the Web) and social movements, conflicts, or change. Research in Social Movements, Conflicts and Change (RSMCC) is a fully peer-reviewed series of original research that has been published annually for over 30 years. We continue to publish the work of many of the leading scholars in social movements, social change, and peace and conflict studies. Although RSMCC enjoys a wide library subscription base for the book versions, all volumes are now published both in book form and are also available online to subscribing libraries through Emerald Insight. This ensures wider distribution and easier online access to your scholarship while maintaining the esteemed book series at the same time. RSMCC boasts quick turn-around times, generally communicating peer reviewed-informed decisions within 10-12 weeks of receipt of submissions. To be considered for inclusion in Volume 33, papers should arrive by May 16, 2011. Send submissions as a WORD document attached to an email to BOTH Jennifer Earl and Deana Rohlinger, guest RSMCC editors for Volume 33, at jearl(a)soc.ucsb.edu and drohling(a)fsu.edu. Remove all self-references (in text and in bibliography) save for on the title page, which should include full contact information for all authors. Include the papers title and the abstract on the first page of the text itself. For initial submissions, any standard social science in-text citation and bibliographic system is acceptable. RSMCC Website: http://info.emeraldinsight.com/products/books/series.htm?PHPSESSID=ao67n2qd… Jennifer Earl Associate Professor of Sociology SS&MS 3129 University of California, Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA 93106-9430 P: (805) 893-7471 F: (805) 893-3324 http://www.soc.ucsb.edu/faculty/earl/ ********************************* Jennifer Earl Associate Professor of Sociology SS&MS 3129 University of California, Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA 93106-9430 P: (805) 893-7471 F: (805) 893-3324 http://www.soc.ucsb.edu/faculty/earl/ *********************************

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Deadline Extended for JITP Editorship Proposals - Now May 15, 2011
by Stuart Shulman 22 Apr '11

22 Apr '11

The deadline for submitting proposals to become the next Editor-in-Chief of JITP has been extended to May 15, 2011. http://www.umass.edu/jitp/CfE-JITP.pdf We are giving potential candidates more time to develop their proposals. If you are thinking about it, please speak to your institution about the nature of their support for your candidacy. Also, feel free to set up a time to talk with me about the current status of the journal. I would be more than happy to talk to interested potential editors about the job. JITP has more members (800+) and more papers in various stages of review (based on ~100 submissions per year) than at anytime in its history. The growth in readership and interest in the journal has been steady. Increasingly, I hear that JITP is a high impact journal in Europe and we are starting to get more interest from Asia. So, this is a very nice opportunity. I hope qualified candidates will seriously explore it. ~Stu

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Three days left to register for JITP 2011 - "The Future of Computational Social Science"
by Stuart Shulman 22 Apr '11

22 Apr '11

"The Future of Computational Social Science" There are three days left to register at the regular fee for the annual meeting of the Journal of Information Technology & Politics. This year, JITP 2011 is taking place May 16 & 17, 2011 at the University of Washington. Space is very limited and the fee for late registration increases starting April 26. http://www.umass.edu/jitp/2011.htm In addition to a great keynote, a distinguished invited panel, a poster and demo session, and a vendor panel, we are very pleased with the collection of new papers working their way toward inclusion in a special edition of the journal. Also, we are devoting time to an extended discussion of the future of the journal itself, including policies for review, standards for publication, and editorial board rotation in addition to more general discussions of how to grow the 800+ JITP member base. JITP 2011 is hosted and sponsored by The Center for American Politics & Public Policy and the Department Political Science at the University of Washington. Other sponsors include the Center for Communication & Civic Engagement, Microsoft, Google, IdeaScale, Survey Analytics, The UMass Amherst Departments of Political Science and Computer Science, Taylor & Francis, The Qualitative Data Analysis Program, Context Miner & Texifter. See you in Seattle! ~Stu

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Re: [Air-L] essay "internet & culture"?
by Denise N. Rall 21 Apr '11

21 Apr '11

Charles - This is just to follow up on Maria Bakardjieva and her work. I remember a presentation that she gave on blogs (2007) which referred to the micro, meso and macro level of analysis for the blog authors. As I remember, she used it to develop a schema for engagement between blog author and intended or unintended audiences. If anyone can point me to the paper which cites this schema, or the source of this framework, I would be most grateful, off-list is fine. Cheers, Denise Denise N. Rall, PhD. Textile Artist & Exhibitor, Presenter, POPCAANZ, Popular Culture Assoc Australia-New Zealand 30 June-1 July Auckland, NZ Lismore NSW AUSTRALIA Mobile +(61)(0)438 233344 Fax +(61)(0)2 6624 5380 http://www.scu.edu.au/schools/esm/staff/pages/drall/ --- On Fri, 15/4/11, Charles Ess <charles.ess(a)gmail.com> wrote:

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the return of surveyfail
by Katie Morrissey 21 Apr '11

21 Apr '11

Thought some folks on the list might find this update interesting. Remember "surveyfail" back in 2009? When those two former Boston University students attempted to do a survey of various LiveJournal fanfiction/fandom groups using highly dubious methods and managed to anger whole legions of the internet in the process? They had a book deal at the time (which the research was for) and apparently it's now available for pre-ordering: A Billion Wicked Thoughts: What the World's Largest Experiment Reveals about Human Desire by: Ogi Ogas and Sai Gaddam http://www.amazon.com/Billion-Wicked-Thoughts-Largest-Experiment/dp/0525952… Given the tags the book is being given on Amazon, I'm assuming word of this must be circulating somewhere online. Has anyone here seen any discussion of it? I've been working on a project that discuses surveyfail and I'd like to follow the conversation if I can. Thanks! Katie Morrissey University of Wisconsin Milwaukee morriss9(a)uwm.edu

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seeking social voting references
by Libby Hemphill 21 Apr '11

21 Apr '11

Hi all, I'm looking for any and all papers that report on empirical studies of social voting mechanisms and behaviors (e.g., thumbs up on YouTube, Like on Facebook, Digg). I'm happy to compile the list and share it with anyone who's interested. Please reply off-list. Thanks! -- Libby Hemphill, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Technical Communication Lewis Department of Humanities Siegel Hall 218 - 3301 S. Dearborn Illinois Institute of Technology Chicago, IL 60616 USA Email: libby.hemphill(a)iit.edu Voice: 312.567.3465 Fax: 312.567.5187

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List of free tools for data visualization and analysis
by Alejandro Tortolini 21 Apr '11

21 Apr '11

May be useful... 22 Free Tools for Data Visualization and Analysis http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/225762/22_free_tools_for_data… Best, Alejandro Tortolini.

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CFP PTC Conference "Harnessing Disruption" Due July 5
by Richard Taylor 21 Apr '11

21 Apr '11

Colleagues (with apologies for cross-postings), I am pleased to announce that proposals are now being accepted for scholarly papers and panels for PTC'12, the 33rd annual conference of the Pacific Telecommunications Council (www.ptc.org/) The proposal deadline is July 5, 2011. Scholarly papers on topics consistent with the theme of the program are strongly encouraged. All academic papers are peer-reviewed for acceptance. Last year the acceptance rate was about 40%. Detailed information about PTC, the conference and the CFP can be found at: http://www.ptc.org/ptc/sites/default/files/PTC12_CFP.pdf The PTC membership has a strong academic component which is active in a range of activities with the organization. The Conference will be held January 15-18 in Honolulu, HI. The theme for the program is: "Harnessing Disruption: Global, Mobile, Social, Local." Any proposal consistent with that theme will be considered. Some examples of recommended topics include: * Mobile Money * The power of social networks * The social and economic impacts of communications in the Pacific * Disruption in the Telecom sector * The national broadband network trend: policy and practice * Geo-location There are cash awards for the best overall paper ($1,000 plus certificate) and the best student paper ($500 and up to $1,000 in travel support). There is a special academic registration rate. A selection of the best papers will be considered for inclusion in a special issue of the journal Telecommunications Policy. Accepted papers will be notified by August 8. To be considered for the best paper award, final papers must be submitted by September 26. All papers are due no later than December 5. Completed papers for the student paper competition must be submitted by September 6. While it is not necessary for paper submission and presentation, you are also encouraged to consider becoming a member of PTC. Individual faculty memberships are $150 per year (https://registration.ptc.org/members/) For more information, see http://www.ptc.org/ptc/index.php?q=membership-benefits/. Thank you. Prof. Richard Taylor Penn State University Vice-Chair Board of Governors Pacific Telecommunications Council

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LAST CALL - Out of the Box: Building and Using Web Archiving Collections - Registration closes May 2, 2011.
by Grotke, Abigail 21 Apr '11

21 Apr '11

Hello all, I'm a recent AOIR list member so not sure if you've received this announcement before, but in case you haven't - some of you might be interested in this upcoming event. -Abbie --------------------------------------- The International Internet Preservation Consortium (IIPC) is holding a day-long public event May 9, 2011 at the KB, the National Library of the Netherlands, in The Hague. "Out of the Box: Building and Using Web Archive Collections" will feature library and museum curators highlighting their web archives and researchers showcasing projects that utilize web archives. Program Highlights Collection Treasures: * Online Revolutions in the Arabic World: Event Harvesting in Perspective from the Library of Congress, National Library of France, Internet Archive and the Bibliotheca Alexandrina. Web Archiving short stories * Why is the Web Archive Switzerland like a Swiss Cheese? * Grow your own diamonds: increasing value of the KB web archive Using Web Archives: * Mapping the Dutch Blogosphere with the Internet Archive * Researchers at the British Library and the UK Web Archive Attendance of this one-day event is open to all and free to attend. Who should attend? Curators, researchers, administrators, and others who are interested in the collection, preservation and access of web archives for academic, cultural heritage or research purposes. Registration (http://www.netpreserve.org/events/hague_reg.php) is required for entry. Registration closes May 2, 2011. The full program and logistic information is available: http://www.netpreserve.org/events/2011GAoutofthebox.php If you have any questions please contact Abbey Potter, IIPC Communications Officer abpo(a)loc.gov<mailto:abpo@loc.gov> or Frederique Vijftigschild at the KB frederique.vijftigschild(a)kb.nl<mailto:frederique.vijftigschild@kb.nl>. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Abbie Grotke Web Archiving Team Lead Office of Strategic Initiatives National Digital Information and Infrastructure Preservation Program Library of Congress http://www.loc.gov/webarchiving/ http://www.digitalpreservation.gov<http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/> 202-707-2833 abgr(a)loc.gov<mailto:abgr@loc.gov>

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