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Re: [Air-L] ISOC Statement on Egypt?s Internet shutdown
by Seda Guerses 01 Feb '11

01 Feb '11

i believe that part of the problem is how the sm's relationship to the uprising in egypt is framed within the greater discourse of what is currently happening in north africa . Here is an excerpt from another blogger: A Guide: How Not To Say Stupid Stuff About Egypt " “The Twitter Revolution”. No, this is the Revolution of the Egyptian people. Egyptians resisted for decades. They were tortured, jailed and repressed by the Mubarak and Sadat regimes. Twitter and Facebook are tools. They did not stand in front of the water canons, or go to jail for all these years to get the credit. There were demonstrations all summer long and for a several years through out Egypt but they are rarely covered, because we are worried about what Sarah Palin said, or some moronic Imam saying something stupid. Does it sound a bit arrogant to take credit for a people’s struggle?" in the context of the rest of the points mentioned (http://sarthanapalos.wordpress.com/2011/01/31/a-guide-how-not-to-say-stupid…) , i hope that some of the main elements of the dominant discourse on egypt and how it is insulting to many involved becomes apparent. i by the way love the coincidence that this thread is parallel to the one on "subaltern counter publics". :) s.

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Reminder: Games and Innovation Seminar, May 5-6, Tampere, Finland
by Olli Sotamaa 01 Feb '11

01 Feb '11

Hi all, the deadline for submissions (February 7th) is approaching for the Games and Innovation Seminar. We are also proud to announce our two invited commentators for the working papers: Ted F. Tschang and Mirva Peltoniemi. See their info at seminar webpage: http://gamesandinnovationseminar.wordpress.com/ Best, Olli -- Olli Sotamaa // Postdoctoral Researcher School of Information Sciences // University of Tampere olli.sotamaa(a)uta.fi // Skype: olli.sotamaa // +358 50 420 1472 *** Call for Papers: Games and Innovation Research Seminar May 5th-6th, 2011, University of Tampere, FINLAND The games industry carries the image of innovation and creativity, but still we know relatively little about the innovation processes that take place within the industry. To date, games and innovation have been studied in several disparate fields, including cultural studies, design research and industrial economics and management. Perhaps due to such a fragmented nature of academic work on the subject, the bulk of the influential work on games and innovation is found in practically oriented guidebooks authored by experienced games industry experts. The present seminar aims at bringing together scholars of games and innovation from diverse fields and stimulating dialogue between them. Moreover, the goal of the seminar is to encourage the further development of rigorous academic research on the topic while keeping the work accessible to game professionals. The seminar is welcoming submissions on the praxis of game development, the characteristics of innovation in game context, supply and demand for innovation in games, creativity and games, and the relationship of game innovation and legal practices. It has been argued that the growing level of concentration of the games industry has rendered innovation virtually non-existent in game development. The submissions are encouraged to comment on this claim. What is innovation in games? How does it manifest? Can you measure it? How has it changed since digital games were first introduced? Is creativity in games domain-specific? What is the status of innovation praxis within games industry? Possible topics include, but are not limited to: * Game production processes, design processes and design tools * Game industry dynamics and game development * Roles of different individuals and different types of firms in game innovation * Classifications of innovation in games * Historical and local perspectives on games and innovation * Emerging trends in game innovation * Game ideation and creativity * Vision communication * Prototyping and testing practices * Player driven and data driven game innovation * Open innovation, co-innovation, participatory design * Indie development * Game competitions, game jams * The role of legislation in innovation, intellectual property and patents * Interaction of hardware and software innovation We also encourage researchers of non-digital games to submit on related topics. The seminar is the seventh in the annual series of game studies working paper seminars organised by Game Research Lab at University of Tampere. Due to the work-in-progress emphasis, we strongly encourage submitting late breaking results, working papers and/or submissions from graduate students. Early considerations from projects currently in progress are most welcome, as the purpose of the seminar is to have peer-to-peer discussions and thereby provide support in refining and improving research work in this area. Tentative plans have been made on a book publication of selected papers. The papers to be presented will be chosen based on extended abstract review. Full papers are distributed prior the event to all participants, in order to facilitate discussion. The two-day event consists of themed sessions that aim to introduce current research projects and discuss ongoing work in studies of games industry, innovation and design processes. The seminar will be chaired by Professor Frans Mäyrä (Department of Information Studies and Interactive Media, University of Tampere). Invited paper commentators include Dr. Mirva Peltoniemi from Aalto University School of Science and Technology and Associate Professor Ted F. Tschang from Singapore Management University, Lee Kong Chian School of Business. The seminar will be held in Tampere, Finland and will be free of charge; the number of participants will be restricted. Important Dates * Abstract Deadline: February 7, 2011 * Notification of Acceptance: February 21, 2011 * Full Paper deadline: April 7, 2011 * Seminar dates: May 5-6, 2011 Submission Guidelines The extended abstract submissions should be between 500-1000 words (excluding references). Abstracts should be sent to <gamesandinnovationseminar {at} gmail.com> as plain text only (no attachments). Guidelines for submitting a full seminar paper will be provided with the notification of acceptance. Our aim is that everyone participating has been able to read materials submitted to the seminar. Therefore, the maximum length for a full paper is set to 6000 words (excluding references). Note also that the presentations held at the seminar should encourage discussion, instead of only repeating the information presented in the papers. Tentatively, every paper will be presented for 10 minutes and discussed for 20 minutes. Seminar web site: http://gamesandinnovationseminar.wordpress.com/ Organised by: http://gamelab.uta.fi University of Tampere / INFIM / Game Research Lab

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Video Vortex Conference in Amsterdam | 11-12 March 2011
by Geert Lovink 01 Feb '11

01 Feb '11

Video Vortex Conference in Amsterdam | 11-12 March 2011 On the 11th and 12th of March 2011 a next conference about Video Vortex will be organized in TrouwAmsterdam. Conference themes are: Online Video Aesthetics; It’s not a Dead Collection, it’s a Dynamic Database; Country Reports; Platforms, Standards and the Trouble with Translation; Online Video as a Political Tool; and Online Video Art. On Thursday the 10th of March, the Institute for Sound and Vision (in collaboration with INC and NIMk) organizes two workshops at NIMk. These workshops offer participants the opportunity to gather hands-on experience with online video. Participants can work in different creative workshops and play with a range of online video tools and technologies. Facilitated by experts, the topics are: remixe and re- use of open video collections and participatory video production. On Saturday evening the 12th of March, performances and video projections will take place during an evening program. During the conference the second Video Vortex reader will be launched. There will also be a book presentation of Vito Campanelli's Web Aesthetics (NAi, 2010). More information: http://networkcultures.org/wpmu/videovortex/6amsterdam Tickets for the conference: http://networkcultures.org/wpmu/videovortex/6amsterdam/info/tickets This conference is taken 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. ADDRESS: Institute of Network Cultures HvA Interactive Media, room 05A07 Rhijnspoorplein 1 NL-1091 GC Amsterdam POSTAL ADDRESS Institute of Network Cultures HvA Interactive Media, room 05A07 PO BOX 1025 NL-1000 BA Amsterdam http://www.networkcultures.org t: +31 20 5951866

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Re: [Air-L] Subaltern counter publics online?
by Weiyu Zhang (Ivy) 01 Feb '11

01 Feb '11

I have used the subaltern public sphere theory in a paper published in 2006. Zhang, W. (2006). Constructing and disseminating subaltern public discourses in China <http://www.javnost-thepublic.org/media/datoteke/13-2-zhang.pdf>. *Javnost-The Public, 13*(2), 41-64. Click the link and you can download the paper. I am also revising a book chapter titled "virtual community as subaltern public spheres". Let me know if you are interested in getting a copy. A book called "counterpublic and the state" includes several studies on online counterpublics. Best, Weiyu -- Weiyu Zhang (PhD, UPenn) Assistant Professor Communications and New Media National University of Singapore -------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2011 23:31:23 +0100 > From: Mathieu ONeil <mathieu.oneil(a)anu.edu.au> > To: air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org > Subject: Re: [Air-L] Subaltern counter publics online? > Message-ID: <fbe0bdc38853.4d47464b(a)anu.edu.au> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 > > For a good theoretical overview of issues around online counter-publics you > might be interested in this collection: > > Lincoln Dahlberg and Eugenia Siapera (eds)?Radical Democracy and the > Internet: Interrogating Theory and Practice?(2007) Palgrave. > cheers, > Mathieu > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Mukherjee, Ishani" <imukhe2(a)uic.edu> > Date: Monday, January 31, 2011 11:02 pm > Subject: Re: [Air-L] Subaltern counter publics online? > To: "Leurs, K.H.A. (Koen)" <K.H.A.Leurs(a)uu.nl> > Cc: air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org > > > Hi Koen, > > > > For my dissertation, I am currently looking at how ethno-cultural > > narratives are created in online communities (spec. blogs that discuss > > domestic violence within the South Asian dispora in the US), > > from the > > perspectives of ethnic-community empowerment and identity > > negotiation.? I > > haven't looked at Nancy Fraser's work yet, but I have come > > across research > > that reworks the public/private debate, esp. in the context of > > creatingminority counter-publics online, often working from > > within the dominant > > discursive spaces. > > > > You can perhaps refer to Rohit Chopra's work, "Global primordialities: > > virtual identity politics in online Hindutva and online Dalit > > discourse,"which looks at the intersection of technology and > > culture in? online > > representations (community websites) of the elite/dominant Hindu > > nationalist community and the subaltern Dalit community (New > > Media & > > Society, 2006, vol. 8/2, pp. 187-206). > > > > You can also try: Mallapragada, M. (2006). Home, Homeland, Homepage: > > Belonging and the Indian-American web. New Media and Society, > > 8(2), pp. > > 207-227. > > She talks about how online interactions/communities of ethnic > > minoritiesoften ruptures the public/private, gender-race > > divide/politics, and > > creates not only geo-political, but also rhetorical > > transgressions and > > ambivalence. > > > > I hope these help and prove interesting for your purposes. > > > > Best, > > > >? > > > > ------------------------------ > > >

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CFP for Digital Diversity/Public Interest Workshop Extended Ten Days
by Richard Taylor 01 Feb '11

01 Feb '11

Colleagues, With apologies for cross-postings. The date for submitting Abstracts in response to the CFP (below) for the Workshop, "Digital Diversity: Serving the Public Interest in the Age of Broadband," has been extended ten days, until February 10, 2011. The by-invitation Workshop, co-sponsored by the Institute for Information Policy at Penn State University and the Donald McGannon Communication Research Center at Fordham University, will be held May 3-5, at the Lincoln Center campus of Fordham University in New York City. The Workshop is sponsored by The Ford Foundation We encourage you to forward this message to any appropriate persons or lists to which you may have access. We would also encourage you and/or any of your students to submit. Thank you. Call for Paper Proposals Digital Diversity: Serving the Public Interest in the Age of Broadband A by-invitation experts' workshop to be held at Fordham University, Lincoln Center Campus May 3-5, 2011 As the delivery of mediated content experiences an historic transformation with the transition to delivery over broadband networks, some policy goals of media regulation remain the same. Central among them is the public interest goal of ensuring diversity. Promoting diversity in broadcasting has been a pillar of media regulation, but online there is no "spectrum scarcity," the foundation of broadcast regulation, no licensing and arguably no "mass media" at all. As a result, the customary tools for promotion of diversity must be reinvented. Broadband is a radically different environment in which the provision of unregulated content may have far more impact than traditionally-regulated television and radio. New theoretical constructs and mechanisms are needed to address issues such as "voice," economic equity, and serving un-served and underserved communities. Minorities are creatively exploring new online tools for community building, communications, and business opportunities. How can the public interest standard be applied to support them in this new context? The Institute for Information Policy at Penn State University and the Donald McGannon Communication Research Center at Fordham University are pleased to announce this call for paper proposals in which diversity enhancement in broadband networks serves as the main theme. Authors of the selected papers will be invited to present and discuss them during a three day by-invitation-only experts workshop de-signed to bring together up to a dozen American and international experts and to be held at the Lincoln Center Campus of Fordham University in New York City. This workshop is part of a series of events focused on "Making Policy Research Accessible," organized by the IIP, with the support of the Ford Foundation. Invited topics include, but are not limited to: * Changing concepts of diversity in the 21st century * Comparative notions of diversity and changing demographics * Defining and measuring the scope and desired outcomes of broadband diversity policy * Diversity, new media, social media, and opportunities on the Internet * Diversity and Internet entrepreneurship * Diversity and network neutrality * Diversity and community websites and media (e.g., community online newspapers) * Minorities embedded in major media enterprises in content creation and as performers * Cultural/linguistic/racial/gender/religious diversity - are they all being served? * The marketplace of ideas and diversity Abstracts of up to 500 words and a short bio of the author(s) should be submitted to pennstateiip(a)psu.edu by January 31, 2011. Please write IIPDMCWS: YOUR NAME in the subject line. Accepted presenters will be notified by March 1, 2011. Richard Taylor Palmer Chair of Telecommunication Studies and Law Institute for Information Policy The Pennsylvania State University

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Re: [Air-L] ISOC Statement on Egypt's Internet shutdown
by Julian Hopkins 31 Jan '11

31 Jan '11

I don't know the extent of the censorship of the mainstream media in Egypt, but I think it is quite extensive. From my experience living in Malaysia, I can say that the role of online media in spreading alternative voices and reporting events that would otherwise be suppressed is significant. It is easy, for well educated people living in a country with a free press, to forget how difficult it would otherwise be to learn about matters that inconvenience those in power. For example, in a recent by-election here, it was reported that "Many, especially in the more rural areas" did not even know of the existence of the opposition coalition - the Pakatan Rakyat (http://www.malaysiakini.com/news/155001) Another example is how parts of a speech by an opposition member in the state assembly of Sarawak were omitted from the official report of the proceedings (Hansard) - the speech was about a suspicious land deal connected to the state Chief Minister's family (http://www.malaysiakini.com/news/155022) Malaysia has a vibrant online alternative media (though the government seems to be looking at extending repressive laws that govern printed media to online non-print media, the loophole that has allowed online news organisations to continue to exist). Twitter, Facebook, and blogs are used by all sides in the political debate. Without these, news and opinions would still spread (through SMS, email, word of mouth), but it is faster online and there are verifiable sources - or at least a fixed place somewhere where the information is located and associated with a person or organisation. With regards to Egypt, it's also relevant to note that the first major demonstration was launched through a Facebook group. The usefulness of Facebook and Twitter in the logistics of organising large groups is, in my opinion, probably its most significant contribution in an immediate sense. Notwithstanding what I have said above about the importance of information diffusion. Al Jazeera, which is first and foremost an Arabic news channel, is no doubt very important too. Therefore, while I agree that CNN et al overplay the importance of social media in 'causing' these popular unrests (not to mention Wikileaks), it's important not to understate the significance of social media either. Cheers, Julian ++++++++++ Blog: www.julianhopkins.net Twitter: @julianhopkins Skype: julhop

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Re: [Air-L] ISOC Statement on Egypt?s Internet shutdown
by Seda Guerses 31 Jan '11

31 Jan '11

aziz wrote: >> Why haven't been any mass uprisings in the region before this decade? i just luckily received a post that provides a (specific) historical perspective to mass protests in egypt: "Besides these three state-commemorated events, Egyptians have revolted against the corruption, greed and cruelty of their rulers many more times in the last 60 years. On January 26, 1952, Egyptians emerged onto the streets to protest an array of issues—including the corruption of the monarchy, the decadence, power and privilege of foreign business elites, and the open-ended British occupation. The revolt was quickly suppressed, though the damage to property was massive, and it set in motion an exodus of foreign elites—and the military coup months later. In 1968, Egyptian students launched huge and daring protests against the repressive policies of Nasser’s police state. In the early 1970s, Egyptian students engaged in sustained mass protests against the radical political reorientations of the new Sadat regime—and eventually forced the state to re-engage in military confrontation with Israel. On January 18-19, 1977, Egyptians rose up en masse to protest against IMF austerity measures imposed on the country by the corrupt, inept and ruthless regime of Anwar Sadat. The Egyptian President was already on his jet ride into exile before the Central Security Forces and Army finally gained the upper hand. In Egypt it is the Central Security Forces rather than the military who deals with civil unrest and popular protest. Yet, even this “solution” to the problem of recurring popular revolt has proven at times uncertain. As in the military, the CSF has been the site of mutinies, one of which, in late February 1986, involved 20,000 low-paid conscripts who were put down only when the army entered the fray. During the early 1990s, Islamist protests against the authoritarian rule of Mubarak escalated into armed conflict, both in the slums of the cities and in Upper Egypt. Hundreds of militants, soldiers and innocent civilians were killed before the revolt was finally suppressed. This list leave out other significant moments of mass civil protest and contestation—like the massive protests against the First Gulf War, the US invasion of Iraq and Israel's attacks on Lebanon and Gaza—but even so, the tally is impressive: no less than 10 major revolts and revolutions in 130 years. In other words, despite what commentators might say, modern Egyptians have never passively accepted the failed colonial or postcolonial states that fate has dealt them." i am still the opinion that one of the main contributions of social media has been an increasing awareness of the one sided non-pluralistic broadcast that most of us in western oriented countries have been subject to. and, it is true, had it not been for facebook, i would not have had this post, and would have not been able to provide any commentary on the past lineage of protests in egypt, as well as the role different media, in this case poetry, in "moving the masses". i highly recommend the rest of the article: http://www.jadaliyya.com/pages/index/506/the-poetry-of-revolt and, here some of it in action: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwIY6ivf70A best, s. Disclaimer: http://www.kuleuven.be/cwis/email_disclaimer.htm

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Re: [Air-L] CfP Community Informatics for Health special issue of Journal of Community Informatics
by Michael Gurstein 31 Jan '11

31 Jan '11

================================================== Call for Papers: Special issue - Community Informatics for Health Journal of Community Informatics (http://ci-journal.net) Abstract submissions due 14 March 2011 A special issue of the international Journal of Community Informatics (http://ci-journal.net) is going to be devoted to Health. Community Informatics (CI) is the study and the practice of enabling communities with Information and Communications Technologies (ICTs). This special issue will focus on how the social application of ICTs can empower and enable communities towards improving health. The issue is expected to be published in late 2011. The Journal of Community Informatics is a focal point for the communication of research of interest to a global network of academics, community informatics practitioners and national and multi-lateral policy makers. Call for papers The field of community informatics seeks to explore the potential of information and communication technologies and their applications for social and economic development efforts at the community level. It particularly seeks to ensure that marginalized individuals and communities can benefit from the opportunities that ICTs can provide. In the area of health, this is all the more important since those with poorer health status and poorer health outcomes are usually those with less (or no) access to ICTs, or are those who have fewer skills to make use of and benefit from ICTs. For this special issue of the Journal on Health, we are inviting submission of original, unpublished articles. We welcome research articles, along with case studies and notes from the field. All research articles will be double blind peer-reviewed. Insights and analytical perspectives from practitioners and policy makers in the form of notes from the field or case studies are also encouraged - these will not be peer-reviewed. Please read the full Call for Papers and more specific information on the intended 'flavour' of the issue at: http://www.flinders.edu.au/medicine/sites/southgate/research/projects/digita l-tech-health/ Guest editors: . Lareen Newman PhD, Southgate Institute for Health Society & Equity, Flinders University - Australia . Ali Al Sanousi MD, King Faisal Specialist Hospital & Research Centre, Riyadh - Saudi Arabia Contact for queries and abstract submissions: lareen.newman(a)flinders.edu.au IMPORTANT DATES Deadline for abstracts: 14 March 2011 Notification of successful abstracts: 9 May 2011 Deadline for submission of full papers/articles: 31 August 2011 Estimated publication date: November 2011

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SCENARIOS FOR THE EUROPEAN CITY OF THE 3rd MILLENNIUM - Call for Position Papers
by Maurizio 31 Jan '11

31 Jan '11

Dear All, I forward you this interesting Call for Position Papers. 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 clichés 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 clichés 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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CFP: Globalizing Technology and Innovation Policies: Interpretative and Critical Approaches
by jeremy hunsinger 30 Jan '11

30 Jan '11

Call for papers or proposals: 6TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE IN INTERPRETIVE POLICY ANALYSIS: DISCURSIVE SPACES. POLITICS, PRACTICES AND POWER http://www.ipa-2011.cardiff.ac.uk/ I soliciting papers for the panel: Panel 20: Globalizing Technology and Innovation Policies: Interpretative and Critical Approaches Chair: Jeremy Hunsinger, Center for Digital Discourse and Culture, Virginia Tech, send proposals to: jhuns(a)vt.edu This panel addresses technology and innovation policies as politico-ethico-juridico- technical systems comprised of arrangements of things and peoples. Through it, we are particularly interested in the transitions these systems undergo as they migrate from local and national applications to transnational and global systems. These systems undergo significant translations, modifications, and reorganizations as they come to match the sensemaking practices of global and transnational interests and their policymaking regimes. Examples of such transitions and translations ongoing now are: questions of information technology, intellectual property, genetically modified organisms, internet governance, STEM education funding, Mode 2 centered research funding and many, many others. Given the plurality of possibilities for this panel, it is important to maintain two themes in your submissions: 1. center on technology, innovation, or research policy, 2. the trend from local to global in the application of these policies. As fitting with the core concepts of the conference, this panel will consider critical and interpretive approaches with those two themes Submissions due 5 February, 2011 Jeremy Hunsinger Center for Digital Discourse and Culture Virginia Tech http://www.tmttlt.com Whoever ceases to be a student has never been a student. -George Iles

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