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Ongoing analysis Egypt and Internet Revolution 2.0
by Fouad Bajwa 11 Feb '11

11 Feb '11

Egypt and Internet Revolution 2.0 - Did Wael Ghonim trigger an Internet Revolution 2.0? What are the implications for Internet Governance? http://internetsgovernance.blogspot.com/2011/02/egypt-crisis-and-internet-r… * Feel free to share your valuable thoughts on this evolving phenomenon post Tunisian Jasmine Revolution and presently unfolding Egyptian crisis. -- Regards. -------------------------- Fouad Bajwa Internet Governance Advisor ICT4D Social Practitioner & Researcher Member Multistakeholder Advisory Group (IGF) Member Civil Society Internet Governance Caucus (IGC) My Blog: Internet's Governance: http://internetsgovernance.blogspot.com/ Follow my Tweets: http://twitter.com/fouadbajwa MAG Interview: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATVDW1tDZzA

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CFP: The Global South and the Global Cyberspace (4S, Nov. 2-5, 2011, Cleveland)
by Yuri Takhteyev 10 Feb '11

10 Feb '11

I am organizing a 4S session that would be of interest to many AOIR members. This year 4S (the Society for Social Studies of Science) is meeting in Cleveland on November 2-5, 2011. (See http://www.4sonline.org/meeting for details.) This session is organized in collaboration with the Latin American Network of 4S but submissions involving other regions in the south are also very much welcome. If you are interested in participating, please send an abstract of a paper (minimum 250 words, maximum of 400 words) to yuri.takhteyev(a)utoronto.ca by March 7, 2011. If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to ask. Session Title: The Global South and the Global Cyberspace Fifteen years ago an American poet living in California proclaimed the Declaration of Independence of Cyberspace, a world “both everywhere and nowhere,” foretelling the coming obsolescence of the “Governments of the Industrial World” from China to the United States, thanks to the rise of the new digital information and communication technologies. In the following years, those technologies have played a key role in the visions of the coming globalized world. At the same time, the Cyberspace has for the most part been a “northern” domain. This panel will explore the place of the Global South in the Global Cyberspace, as well as more broadly the relationship between ICTs and globalization in southern contexts. We welcome papers looking at how ICTs are used by different actors as tools in their own globalization projects, as well as papers looking at the increasing globalization of the development of ICTs. The latter could include the more recent outsourcing of what used to be considered “northern” high-tech work to the south, the increased role of the distributed communities of software developers (including those working on free / open source software), as the well as the more mundane importation of “northern” ICTs into the southern contexts. The papers should focus on the Global South, including in particular Latin America, considering either the south-north ties or the lateral ties between southern regions. Historical perspectives on the relationship between ICT and globalization would be highly welcome, including those looking back to the days before the 1990s. Yuri Takhteyev --- http://takhteyev.org/

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Announcing: ELC2
by Mark Marino 10 Feb '11

10 Feb '11

Hi, AOIR, Given this group's interest in emerging media forms, I wanted to let you know: The Electronic Literature Organization has just released: The Electronic Literature Collection, Volume 2: http://collection.eliterature.org/2/ Containing over 60 works from artists around the world, this second anthology of e-lit published by the Electronic Literature Organization offers a wide array of digital texts from traditional e-lit forms, such as literary hypertext, to newer genres using social media tools and new literary environments. These works can offer a glimpse of emerging writing forms employed in literary pursuits. The new collection presents both veteran authors and newcomers with an increased presence of non-English works and contributions from beyond the US. Read more about the collection here: http://www.eliterature.org/elo/electronic-literature-collection-volume-2-la… Best, Mark Marino Dir. of Communication ELO

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Tenure Track Position in Critical Internet Studies-Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada
by Andrew Herman 10 Feb '11

10 Feb '11

WILFRID LAURIER UNIVERSITY: The Department of Communication Studies invites applications for a tenure-track appointment at the rank of Assistant Professor, to begin July 1, 2011, and subject to budgetary approval. We are seeking a communication studies scholar whose research is in critical internet studies. The preferred candidates will have a strong research record and a demonstrated record of excellence in teaching, especially at the undergraduate level. More specifically, their scholarship will address critical social, cultural, and media theory and will be located in at least one of the following three areas: * The Internet, politics and the constitution of publics. Specific topics of research may include hacktivism; social movements; net activism; social media and political communication; * Critical studies of Internet policy. Specific topics of research may include governmentalities of the Internet and World Wide Web; broadband and media convergence; net neutralities, privacies, and intellectual properties; network protocols and device standards; * Critical analysis of the “new information economy” and Internet/Web centric corporations. Candidates will be expected to teach CS101 Mass Communication in Canada, and two or more of the following: CS260 Communication, Culture, Policy; CS322 Gender, Communication and Culture; CS333 Alternative Media; and will be expected to contribute to our curriculum in the area of research methodologies (feminist, internet, participatory action research). Candidates will also be expected to contribute to our existing undergraduate and graduate programs in terms of teaching and supervision. Applicants must have a completed PhD in Communication Studies or a cognate discipline by the time of the appointment. Applicants must submit a cover letter, curriculum vitae, sample syllabi, official teaching evaluations, two samples of publications, and the names, addresses, telephone numbers and email addresses of three academic references to Dr. Andrew Herman, Chair, Department of Communication Studies, Wilfrid Laurier University, 75 University Avenue West, Waterloo, Ontario, N2L 3C5. Applications must be received in the Communication Studies Office by MARCH 22, 2011 Wilfrid Laurier University is committed to employment equity and values diversity. We welcome applications from qualified women and men, including persons of all genders and sexual orientations, persons with disabilities, Aboriginal persons, and persons of a visible minority. All qualified candidates are encouraged to apply; however, Canadians and permanent residents will be given priority. 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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Materialities and Imaginaries of the Mobile Internet Workshop, February 2011
by Andrew Herman 10 Feb '11

10 Feb '11

www.materialities.ca 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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Transforming Audiences CFP is out
by Nancy Baym 10 Feb '11

10 Feb '11

-- INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE: Call for papers -- TRANSFORMING AUDIENCES 3 Online & Mobile Media, Everyday Creativity and DIY Culture 1-2 September 2011, University of Westminster, London, UK http://www.transformingaudiences.org.uk Presented in association with ICA, IAMCR, ECREA, & the COST project Transforming Audiences, Transforming Societies The previous Transforming Audiences conferences, in 2007 and 2009, have seen this event become Europe's major recurring international conference for audience/user studies, bringing together researchers from all over the world. Now we are pleased to announce that Transforming Audiences 3 will take place in central London in September 2011, welcoming researchers interested in all kinds of studies of people using media, including mobile, online, social and DIY media. Keynote speakers include: - Nancy Baym, author of 'Personal Connections in the Digital Age'; - Adriana de Souza e Silva, co-author of 'Mobile Interfaces in Public Spaces' and 'Net Locality'; - Patricia G. Lange, the YouTube anthropologist; - Jean Burgess, co-author of 'YouTube: Online Video and Participatory Culture'; - David Gauntlett, author of 'Making is Connecting'. CALL FOR PAPERS For all information and details see www.transformingaudiences.org.uk Deadline for abstracts: 21 April 2011 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

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Italicizing Wikipedia? CMS15 v. CMS16
by Joseph Reagle 10 Feb '11

10 Feb '11

This is more arcane than even the citation discussion, but I wonder if anyone else has been noted how CMS16 might affect your work? [[ http://reagle.org/joseph/blog/method/italicizing-wikipedia 2011 Feb 10 | Italicizing Wikipedia? CMS15 v. CMS16 In my writing up to now, I italicize Britannica because it is a book. I never italicize Wikipedia or blog names because as The Chicago Manual of Style 15th edition notes: "websites, if titled, should be set in Roman, headline style, without quotation marks" (8.199). However, the new 16th edition says much more: General titles of websites mentioned or cited in text or notes are normally set in roman, headline-style, without quotation marks. An initial the in such titles should be lowercased in midsentence. Titled sections, pages, or special features on a website should be placed in quotation marks. Titles of the types of works discussed elsewhere in this chapter (i.e., books, journals, etc.) should usually be treated the same whether they are published in print or online. Some websites share the name of a printed counterpart, and others (such as Wikipedia) are analogous to one of the types of works discussed elsewhere in this chapter; these titles should be styled accordingly. (8.186) I presume Wikipedia should be italicized since it is done in Chicago's prose above. Looking for a justification, we see that in the documentation section for blogs: Titles of websites are generally set in roman without quotation marks and capitalized headline-style, but titles that are analogous to books or other types of publications may be styled accordingly. Titled sections or pages within a website should be placed in quotation marks. Specific titles of blogs—which are analogous to periodicals—should be set in italics; titles of blog entries (analogous to articles in a periodical) should be in quotation marks. (14.244) And for "Dictionaries and encyclopedias online" we see: Online versions of encyclopedias should be cited like their printed corollaries. In addition, in the absence of a posted publication or revision date for the cited entry, supply an access date. If the article includes a recommended form for the URL, include it; otherwise, include a short form of the URL (as in the second example) from which interested readers may enter the search term. If a DOI for the article is available, use that instead. (14.248) Now, I always feel hesitant to infer a prose guideline from the bibliographic guidelines, but since the change is apparent in the bibliographic guideline, and they give an example in the prose guideline, I suppose this means we should italicize online reference works and blogs? However, I don't feel quite prepared to leave the trusted 15th (published in 2003) and it will take a while for software (such as David Fussner's biblatex-chicago-notes-df) to follow. ]]

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Small Media Symposium 2011: Call for Abstracts
by Klara Chlupata 10 Feb '11

10 Feb '11

SMALL MEDIA SYMPOSIUM 2011 | CALL FOR ABSTRACTS The Small Media Initiative invites submission of abstracts for its 2011 Small Media Symposium to be held at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London on 8 – 9 April 2011. In August 2010, Wired published an article entitled From Samizdat to Twitter: How Technology is Making Censorship Irrelevant. Is it? Indeed, for many, samizdat is a relic from the distant analog past. A quick glance at the news seems to suggest that we are living in the digital age of Twitter revolutions. The role played by social media platforms such as Twitter, Facebook and YouTube in contentious politics continues to be passionately debated by academics, activists, politicians and pundits. While there are plenty of examples of creative new politics, the recent protests in Burma, China, Iran, and Egypt remind us that governments can simply shut communication down. The question then becomes where do we go after moving from samizdat to Twitter? What alternative channels and technologies of communication can facilitate the flow of information when authoritarian regimes flick the kill switch and what alternative political practices can we invent to circumscribe state repression? The February events in Egypt suggest that alternatives can be as low-tech as the paper leaflets with practical and tactical advice for demonstrators that have been circulating in Cairo or as high-tech as the speak-to-tweet application that lets individuals dial a phone number and leave (or listen to) a message translated to text on a Twitter page. These alternatives we call small media, while others call them alternative media, participatory media, and social movement media. This wide range of communicative and political practices will be the focus of the Small Media Symposium that will take place at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London on 8-9 April 2011. Areas of Interest The symposium, to include a conference open to the public on 8 April 2011 and closed-door workshops on 9 April 2011, aims to bring together theorists and practitioners across all disciplines and sectors, including academics, activists and developers, to foster discussions about small media theory, practice and innovation. We invite contributions by academics and practitioners on a wide range of topics and a wide range of approaches related to small media. Research, practical experience insights, product demonstrations, case studies, work-in-progress/posters, conceptual papers and proposals for workshop themes are all welcome. Possible areas of focus include but are not limited to: - small media theory: concepts and framing - state/media dynamics - un/successful use of small media - promotion of small media - distribution of small media - sustainability of small media - the changing nature of politics, political practice - the role of human networks - imagination and emotion in small media: beyond the counter-information paradigm - organizing small media democratically: problems and challenges Deadline and submission details The deadline for submission of an abstract (400 – 600 words) is 10 March 2011. Abstracts can be submitted to contact(a)smallmediainitiative.com Travel and accommodation We have a limited budget to assist with travel and accommodation costs. For further information, please contact us at contact(a)smallmediainitiative.com More information http://www.smallmediainitiative.com Partners Internews Centre for Media & Film Studies, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London Index on Censorship

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Petition to Stop the Internet kill Switch
by Dr. Rasha Abdulla 09 Feb '11

09 Feb '11

Dear colleagues, Hello again from Cairo! This is a petition to pressure governments to stop the "Internet kill switch" so that what happened in Egypt would not happen elsewhere. We can all debate how possible/impossible this actually is, but I don't think it hurts to sign the petition, at least to support the principle. https://www.accessnow.org/page/s/stop-the-switch Best regards. Rasha -- Rasha A. Abdulla, Ph.D. Associate Professor and Chair Journalism and Mass Communication The American University in Cairo www.rashaabdulla.com

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Video Vortex # 6 Conference (Amsterdam, March 2011)
by Patrícia Dias da Silva 09 Feb '11

09 Feb '11

** *Video Vortex Conference in Amsterdam | 11-12 March 2011* On *March 11th and 12th, 2011*, the Institute of Network Cultures<http://networkcultures.org/> presents Video Vortex#6, a conference about online video, hosted in TrouwAmsterdam. Conference themes: Online Video Aesthetics; It’s not a Dead Collection, it’s a Dynamic Database; The World of Online Video - Country Reports; Platforms, Standards and the Trouble with Translation; Online Video as a Political Tool; and Online Video Art. Speakers include: Natalie Bookchin, Vito Campanelli, Andrew Clay, Dagan Cohen (Upload Cinema), Florian Cramer, Patrícia Dias da Silva, Arjon Dunnewind (Impakt Festival), Sandra Fauconnier (NIMk), Sam Gregory (WITNESS), Mél Hogan, Nuraini Juliastuti and Ferdiansyah Thajib (KUNCI), Ashiq Jahan Khondker and Eugene Kotlyarenko, Koen Leurs, And Lowenthal (EngageMedia), Ben Moskowitz, Joanne Richardson, Evan Roth, Florian Schneider, Teague Schneiter (IsumaTV), Catrien Schreuder (Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen), Michael Strangelove, Matthew Williamson, Holmes Wilson (Participatory Culture Foundation/Universal Subtitles), and Roel Wouters. On *Thursday March 10th*, the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision, in collaboration with INC and the Netherlands Media Art Institute (NIMk), organize two workshops<http://networkcultures.org/wpmu/videovortex/6amsterdam/workshops> at NIMk. Workshops offer participants the opportunity to gather hands-on experience with moving images on the internet, playing with a range of online video tools and technologies. Facilitated by artists, the topics are: Remixing and Re-Use of Open Video Collections and an Animated Gif Mashup Studio. On the evening of *Saturday March 12th*, the INC hosts a closing party, offering a lively evening of artist performances, projections and music. More information and full conference program: http://networkcultures.org/wpmu/videovortex/6amsterdam Tickets for Conference: http://networkcultures.org/wpmu/videovortex/6amsterdam/info/tickets This conference takes place within the SIA-RAAK Publiek program Culture Vortex. Culture Vortex is an innovation program to encourage public participation in online cultural collections. Consortium Partners: University of Amsterdam, MediaLAB Amsterdam, Institute for Sound and Vision, Netherlands Media Art Institute, Virtual Platform, VPRO, Amsterdam City Archive, Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, IDFA, and the International Urban Screens Association.

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