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SCENARIOS FOR THE EUROPEAN CITY OF THE 3rd MILLENNIUM - Call for Position Papers
by Maurizio 28 Feb '11

28 Feb '11

Dear All, I remind you the My Ideal City conference, there are still two week for the submission of abstracts. Best M. --- My Ideal City, an European Project SCENARIOS FOR THE EUROPEAN CITY OF THE 3rd MILLENNIUM Venice, May 12th and 13th Call for Position Papers The My Ideal City project has been funded by the European Union to deal with the representation in an immersive, virtual, environment of the results of participatory processes involving the citizens of four cities (Copenhagen, Jerusalem, Lisbon, and Trento). Therefore, the project involved since the beginning a mixture of reflections on three dimensional representation, participation, and urban planning, in a period of time characterized by the contested and controversial meaning of the city as the central space for innovating the ways human beings live. The My Ideal City Conference looks for contributions that will foster the debate on how it is possible to give shape to the new, ideal, city, in order to represent it in innovative ways, stimulating new concepts of the city itself, and to enlarge the participation of citizens in the construction of the city. Topics for the conference 1. The Ideal City and the participatory process In the 21st century, the debate on how the construction of the city should take place highlights a number of opposing pairs: private vs. public, individual vs. collective, ideal vs. real, city vs. country. The conflict inherent in this dichotomies is presented on the contemporary scene as a matter of concern not to be mitigated, but as data on which to build new combinations, new forms of living and providing for projection towards a future that is often forgotten or erased from the bodies of today. The acronym M.I.C. (My Ideal City) symbolizes that clearly: it points to emerging questions to which many academic disciplines, like anthropology, architecture, engineering, geography, sociology, urban planning, and more, are responding through theoretical and empirical tools for understanding, for designing, and for constructing the new city. In particular, the acronym redirect to three main topics of reflection, and their combination: [My] The individual, freed from the standardization of the modern movement, draws daily new realities, asserting his/her own micro-politics of desire. The self-affirmation of the individual on the ground takes place on one side on the basis of a daily transformation denouncing a lack of long-distance gaze on things, with the crushing of the collective that seems to have erased the projective capacity of the desired; on the other side, the ecological, territorial, economic, and symbolic crisis of the city as a system calls for a new awareness and a shared planning that goes beyond simply individualism. Therefore, [My] represents the tension between the individual actions and practices, and the possibility to work out new possibilities for collective actions and practices. [Ideal] Ideal and real can be conceived as split, dichotomous terms, that act on different levels: the first seems to assume a negative meaning, based on its proximity to the concept of utopia, while the second holds a position so strong to become objective and preventing a critical look, design, and practices. Nevertheless, it is exactly the presence of an ideal understanding of contemporary cities, their representation through a discursive regime done of possibilities and opportunities, that makes possible to act on, change, and reassemble, the perspectives of urban development. [City] The city as a place of living and sharing, back to the centre of attention, calls for a review of methods and tools that manage its transformation. Decision makers, political movements, and common citizens, newly talk about participation to reduce the distance between the individual and the collective and between the ideal and the real, criticizing and dismissing forms of design aimed at accommodating superimposed, hetero-normative, meanings of living together in a contemporary city. Therefore, we welcome contributions that deal with the following, and not exhaustive, list of topics: - Individual desires and collective actions in the urban landscape - New forms of collective practices in the city - The role of idealized discourses in projecting the future of cities - Participation as a mean to collective action and utopian transformations 2. The construction of a new urban imagery: models, techniques, stereotypes The experience of building the MIC?s worlds allowed to deal with two major areas of widespread intrusive visual stereotypes, the image of the future city and the virtual environments browsable online. In both cases, the consolidation of visual clich?s seem not only the result of a normal consumption of imagery but the consequence of an action practiced by the colonizers of the physical and virtual spaces: the spread of clich?s is a preliminary step to the acquisition of consensus and ownership. The need for authenticity - of actuality in virtuality - has resulted in two basic choices, first in reference to a paradoxical and systematic 'stage' metaphor rather than a 'realistic' one, so that eventually we get an actual experience of a fiction rather a fictive experience of actuality, the other in the production of fiction obtained as a light footprint, scan, direct ?quotation? of the urban landscape. In our scenes was taken off the 'skin' of daily lighting, the usual colours and light hiding instead of showing the true appearance of the city. These issues may be briefly summarized in the figure that holds the two ends of the vision, namely the shape of the eyes and the substance of the picture. The thesis that elaborates these themes is that only an eccentric sight can reveal the depth, the thickness of inexhaustible visual material. Abnormal viewpoints, slowed and accelerated movements, unusual conditions allow to penetrate an invisible crust of visual stereotypes. Referring to this thesis we suggest a range of issues: - Figures and metaphors in the formation of urban imagery in architecture, cinema, visual arts, theater, TV production and videogames - Genesis and spread of urban stereotypes - ?Naive? maps of urban landscape: a comparison between popular and cultured formae urbis - Descriptive models and narrative models of urban form - Avatar?s promenade. Identity and identification in virtual bodies 3. Toward an energy efficient city A sustainable city is a city designed with care of its environmental dimension. It is peopled by citizens that have the objective to minimize their needs in terms of energy, materials, water and food and to minimize the emissions resulting from their lives. Among the many aspects that describe the concept of sustainability, the topic of energy has a particular importance for the important environmental, economic and political consequences on the future development of our world. Therefore, the ideal city explored by the MIC research has a particular awareness of the importance of energy conservation. The call aims at the collection of different contributions, that describe the multitude of combinations between the city and its energy requirements. This is not limited to the various technologies that can be adopted to create a self-sufficient city, but it involves the whole process of urban spaces and the lifestyle of its inhabitants, its narrative, its design, and its construction. The call seeks therefore to obtain contributions on the different topics, ranging from the energy efficiency applied to the planning sectors (transport, urban morphology), buildings, management of the city, new technologies, sustainable life-styles, social aspects of energy consumption, etc. On the other hand it has to be acknowledged that the energy efficiency of the built environment takes also into account the energy required for the production of the building materials and for the construction of all the final products, including the buildings and the city infrastructures. Therefore, an energy efficient city should take into account the energy effectiveness of its parts through their entire lifecycle and not just during their phase of use. Topics addressed: - Lifecycle Energy efficiency of buildings - Sustainable transport - Lifecycle Energy efficiency of the city services (public transportation, administration, etc.) - Resource management and disposal - Future solutions toward more sustainable cities PROGRAMME May 12th presentation of the results of European research MIC and lectio magistralis No.1 May 13th sessions of debate, deriving from the IUAV researches and the call for abstracts, in the form of three plenary sessions: The Ideal City and the participatory process; The construction of a new urban imagery: models, techniques, stereotypes; Towards an energy efficient city and lectio magistralis No.2. PARTICIPATION IN THE CONFERENCE Contributions should contain the following elements: name(s) of author(s), title of abstract, affiliation, e-mail contact information, thematic session of reference, key words (in number of three), abstract (a maximum number of 1.500 characters including spaces, approximately 400 words). The abstract should be written in English. Abstracts must be received by March 15th 2011 for prior approval to the following address: conference(a)myidealcity.eu. The scientific committee of the MIC will inform interested parties of accepting the proposals by March 31th 2011. The scientific committee split the selection into two categories: one dealing with speakers who will participate in sessions of debate and whose contribution in the form of paper will be published in the proceedings of the conference, the second on the papers that will be only published in conference proceedings. The authors of the accepted abstracts will be asked to submit a position paper (2.000 words, 8.000 characters including spaces, with a maximum of five images) to be included in the proceedings to be published in the IUAV Digital Library. The position papers should be sent by May 1th to conference(a)myidealcity.eu and formatted according to the format that will be sent to selected authors. A complete programme will be showed at www.myidealcity.eu/conference. No registration fee are requested thanks to European funds of Seventh Framework Programme.

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Masters Digital Culture and Society, King's College London: Scholarship 2011-2012
by Jordan, Tim 28 Feb '11

28 Feb '11

In case anyone knows a talented student! Feel free to pass it round. Tim Arts & Humanities Innovation Scholarship 2011-12 Digital Culture and Society The School of Arts and Humanities is committed to supporting innovation and rewarding excellence. To celebrate the creation of a series of unique interdisciplinary programmes which combine cutting-edge expertise with fresh intellectual perspectives, the School has created a scholarship for each of its new programmes launched for 2011-12. As a result, we are pleased to offer 1 scholarship to the value of £6,000 to a student studying on the MA Digital Culture & Society (formerly Digital Culture & Technology) in 2011-12. The award is tenable for one year only and cannot be deferred. The award is open to students of any nationality. All admissions applications supported by 2 academic references and undergraduate transcript via https://myapplication.kcl.ac.uk/ submitted before 17:00GMT on 15 June 2011 will automatically be considered for this scholarship. Am I eligible? You are eligible for the award if: * you have submitted an admissions application supported by 2 academic references and undergraduate transcript via https://myapplication.kcl.ac.uk/ before 17:00GMT on 15 June 2011 to MA Digital Culture & Society (formerly Digital Culture & Technology). * you are planning to commence the postgraduate taught masters degree in Digital Culture & Society (formerly Digital Culture & Technology) at King’s College London for the 2011/12 academic session; * you are expected to meet the College’s usual requirements regarding language proficiency and the quality of the first degree (namely a minimum of a 2:1 – upper second class – degree) * you will not be in receipt of an AHRC scholarship concurrently How do I apply? Submit an admissions application supported by 2 academic references and undergraduate transcript via https://myapplication.kcl.ac.uk/ before 17:00GMT on 15 June 2011 to MA Digital Culture & Society (formerly Digital Culture & Technology). Enquiries Admissions Tutors: Frederik.lesage(a)kcl.ac.uk and Timothy.Jordan(a)kcl.ac.uk Education Projects Officer: Sarah Hayward (sarah.hayward(a)kcl.ac.uk) -- Dr Tim Jordan Culture, Media and Creative Industries Centre for Computing in the Humanities Creative Arts Administrative Centre Room 5D, D Floor, Chesham Building King's College London Strand London WC2R 2LS UK Phone: +44 (0)20 7848 1100

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CFP: Special issue of Feminist Media Studies on Women and Mobile Intimacy
by Sun Sun LIM 28 Feb '11

28 Feb '11

* Apologies for cross posting * Call for Papers Women and mobile intimacy in an age of social media and affective technology Special issue of Feminist Media Studies (Dec 2012) Edited by Larissa Hjorth & Sun Sun Lim In the burgeoning of emotional, affective labour by the rise of ICTs (Information and Communication Technologies) and the rise of public and private intimacies by and through social media, what does it mean to speak of "mobile intimacy" today? In a world aflux with mobile, ubiquitous technologies how are various forms of mobility (and immobility) across temporal, spatial, geographic, economic, socio-cultural and technological differences transforming how we experience and define intimacy? One thing remains certain - these practices are informed by gender and cultural context. Extant research suggests that women's relationships with mobile technology are fraught with contradictions. As women domesticate mobile technologies and employ their routine-altering affordances, they seek to strike balances between aid-liability, autonomy-dependency, contactability-intrusiveness and intimacy-distance. The very affordances that give women the freedom to sustain intimate, boundary-transcending relationships are the same ones that impel women to create distances between themselves and their significant others. Even as mobile technologies enable women to traverse temporal, spatial and geographic barriers, women are not always prepared to have these barriers dismantled, particularly as they may be averse to there being too much intimacy. With the advent of mobile technologies, the social roles ascribed to women - of daughter, sister, mother, friend and teacher - have to be performed through these always accessible and potentially disruptive platforms, thus intensifying the burden of these responsibilities. How then do women strategically deploy technology so that they can maintain a sense of self, while ceding some parts of their lives to the obligations and joys of "mobile intimacy?" This proposed special issue seeks to unpack "mobile intimacy" - a notion that encompasses many issues around emotions, co-presence, diaspora, personal technologies and emerging forms of affective, social, and emotional labour. Acknowledging that mobility can take various permutations (technological, geographic, socio-economic to name but a few), the papers should aim to focus upon particular aspects of women and mobile intimacy in order to flesh out some of the defining features of what encompasses mobile intimacy and the associated gender performativity today. Topics of interest in relation to women and mobile intimacy include but are not limited to: * Presentation of self * Identify formation and assertion * Technology domestication * Issues of marginalisation * Issues of empowerment * Familial, social and professional relationships * Transnational and diasporic relationships The special issue editors are Larissa Hjorth (Senior lecturer, School of Media and Communication, RMIT University) and Sun Sun Lim (Associate Professor, Communications and New Media Department, National University of Singapore). Please submit a 350-word abstract and abridged CV to both larissa.hjorth(a)rmit.edu.au<mailto:larissa.hjorth@rmit.edu.au> and sunlim(a)nus.edu.sg<mailto:sunlim@nus.edu.sg> no later than May 1, 2011. IMPORTANT DATES Deadline for abstracts 1 May 2011 Decisions to authors 15 May 2011 First drafts 1 December 2011 Decisions 15 February 2012 Second/final drafts 1 June 2012 Final proofs 1 August 2012 Issue publication 1 December 2012 AIMS and SCOPE Feminist Media Studies provides a transdisciplinary, transnational forum for researchers pursuing feminist approaches to the field of media and communication studies, with attention to the historical, philosophical, cultural, social, political, and economic dimensions and analysis of sites including print and electronic media, film and the arts, and new media technologies. The journal invites contributions from feminist researchers working across a range of disciplines and conceptual perspectives. Feminist Media Studies offers a unique intellectual space bringing together scholars, professionals and activists from around the world to engage with feminist issues and debates in media and communication. Its editorial board and contributors reflect a commitment to the facilitation of international dialogue among researchers, through attention to local, national and global contexts for critical and empirical feminist media inquiry. For guidelines on how to submit a paper to Feminist Media Studies please visit: www.tandf.co.uk/journals/rfms<http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/rfms>

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Re: [Air-L] seek textbook recommendation on CMC
by Guillaume Latzko-Toth 27 Feb '11

27 Feb '11

This one might be interesting for you to consider, too: Thurlow, C., Lengel, L., & Tomic, A. (2004). Computer Mediated Communication: Social Interaction and the Internet. London; Thousand Oaks, Calif.: Sage Publications. It comes with a companion website: http://www.com.washington.edu/cmc/ Guillaume >I'm teaching an undergraduate course on computer-mediated >communication in the fall. Can anybody recommend some recent >textbooks or supplementary readings? You can send me an email at >mwu(a)lsua.edu or just reply to the post. Thanks a lot. Min Wu >_______________________________________________ >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/ ------------ Guillaume Latzko-Toth, Ph.D. Postdoctoral fellow Department of Communication University of Illinois at Chicago

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textbooks on race, gender, ethnicity, class, and media
by henry mainsah 27 Feb '11

27 Feb '11

I am doing research for a book on digital media and difference. Can anybody recommend some junior (secondary/high school) or senior level (Bachelor level) textbooks on media, race, gender, and class?

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seek textbook recommendation on CMC
by Murray Turoff 27 Feb '11

27 Feb '11

<air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org>For some wonderful reference, historical, and foundation material for lectures you should look at The Network Nation: Human Communication via Computers (revised 1993, MIT press) which can still be ordered at a very reasonable price compared to most text books. It provides a lot of material on work done before CMC in many fields that was relevant as well as some ways of thinking about the technology you will not find in most places as well as all the very early work that most students never hear about. The authors were Hiltz and turoff and the original edition was 1978. The 1993 as a new chapter summarizing the next 15 years. the cost benefit analysis done in the book seems to have been forgotten and serves as a very good lecture. So does the early related work in psychology and sociology. The interesting aspect were the predictions in the issue of the Boswash times that began every chapter some of which came true and some which have not yet come true. It sets a nice tone for the students to try making predictions about what might be the next prediction beyond current systems. -- Distinguished Professor Emeritus Information Systems, NJIT homepage: http://is.njit.edu/turoff Visiting Scholar Carlos III University, Madrid Spain Nov. 2010 - May 2011

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Call for Papers - IEEE 1st Workshop on Multimedia in Edutainment 2011 (MME 2011) [deadline extended]
by Maiga Chang 27 Feb '11

27 Feb '11

[deadline has been extended to March 7 (http://www.lsou.org/ieee/hfm_ID.html) [Apologies if you receive multiple times, please circulate this to your colleagues and graduate students who might be interested, thank you so much.] ---------------- MME 2011 Call for Papergs ----------------- 1st IEEE Workshop on Multimedia in Edutainment (MME 2011) (http://www.lsou.org/ieee/index.html) Barcelona, Spain July 11 to 15, 2011 Sponsored by the IEEE Communications Society Co-Located with IEEE ICME 2011 (http://www.icme2011.org) Suggested topics: u Practical cases u Author tools and Multimedia contents u Impact and Stories. Effectiveness of learning. Failures and what we can learn from them u Integration of Multimedia contents within LMS u Assessment in Multimedia tools u Edutainment in particular u Serious Games in general u Affective computing u AR, VR and Mixed Reality in Education u Interactive Arts in Education u Audio and Video in Learning u Haptics based learning and training u Machine learning in games and educational measurement u Active Interaction in Games u Animation Techniques u Digital Museum and Digital Heritage Education u Educational Robots and Toys u Game-based Learning u Training Interactions in Games u Location-based games and ubiquitous technology u Non-Visual Senses (smelling, touching, hearing) Simulation and animation u Synergies between Digital TV and Edutainment Applications Important dates: We encourage researchers from industry and academia to submit original works (reported results should not be under consideration in any other journal or conference). Submissions should not exceed six (6) single-spaced, two-column pages using at least 11 point size fonts on 8.5 x 11 inch pages. Submission format and instruction, as well as other important information, can be found on the author guide web page of the main conference (http://www.icme2011.org/authorguide.php) The important dates are: Paper Submission: extended to March 7 (http://www.lsou.org/ieee/hfm_ID.html) Notification of Paper Acceptance: April 10, 2011 Camera-Ready Paper Due: April 20, 2011 Electronic Paper Submission: https://cmt.research.microsoft.com/ICMEW2011

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seek textbook recommendation on CMC
by Min Wu 26 Feb '11

26 Feb '11

I'm teaching an undergraduate course on computer-mediated communication in the fall. Can anybody recommend some recent textbooks or supplementary readings? You can send me an email at mwu(a)lsua.edu or just reply to the post. Thanks a lot. Min Wu

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Jomaguerra Universidad Sevilla-Master quiere mantener el contacto en LinkedIn
by Jomaguerra Universidad Sevilla-Master via LinkedIn 26 Feb '11

26 Feb '11

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Facebook Page Engagement Metrics
by Steven Clift 26 Feb '11

26 Feb '11

What should they be? Is anyone comparing the generative nature of fb pages with other online discussion/exchange formats? Yesterday I gave a webinar presentation to dozens of school communicators http://e-democracy.org/schools and it was notable that all of the questions were about fb pages. >From my experience with community issues forums http://e-democracy.org/if a fb page member is worth about 1/10th the value of a full member of our hybrid elist/forum site. However, I could be quite wrong. I've noted the decent engagement on this popular community stillwater, mn 11,000 member fb page http://www.facebook.com/WeLoveStillwater - but my 675 member neighborhood issues forum (reaching 15% of households) Http://e-democracy.org/se seems to generate far more traffic ( views? Unknown). So as almost all the institutional momentum for hosting any form of public engagement online shifts to Facebook (versus setting up a blog, forums, promoting broader community-wide interactive spaces, etc.) what does this really require to work well? Numbers, facilitation, content seeding frequency/style, etc. What are the best examples of community, school, local gov, fb pages that demonstrate effective practices? I'd really like to see a list of pages with the highest participation to members ratio and explore why they work. Perhaps someone out there has done that? I should note that we feed our issues forums into dedicated fb pages that we set up to make our content available in that format ... But they are more or less one-way. Steven Clift E-Democracy.org P.S. Please cc: clift(a)e-democracy.org

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