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Society for Philosophy and Technology conference - deadline extended
by Charles Ess 03 Jan '11

03 Jan '11

Dear AoIRists, >From May 26-29, 2011, the University of North Texas will host the 17th international conference of the Society for Philosophy and Technology: <https://spt2011.unt.edu/>. The conference theme is "Technology and Security," but papers reflecting on any aspect of technology are welcomed. We also welcome interdisciplinary submissions from those studying technology in fields other than philosophy. Abstracts can be submitted to: spt2011(a)unt.edu. The deadline is January 10, 2010. The keynote speaker is P.W. Singer, Senior Fellow and Director of the 21st Century Defense Initiative at the Brookings Institution and author of Wired for War: The Robotics Revolution and 21st Century Combat. In particular, I and colleague Ed Spence (School of Communication and Creative Industries, Charles Sturt University) are co-chairing a track on "Media and the information society". I would encourage submissions from AoIR-engaged philosophers and the philosophically-inclined - and/or your colleagues and graduate students who may also be engaged in work along these lines. >From the website: Papers will be accepted on the basis of a submitted abstract, which will be refereed. An abstract must be between 500 and 750 words in length (references excluded) and submitted via email (spt2011(a)unt.edu) as embedded plain text or an attachment in RTF, WORD, or PDF format. Panel proposals are also possible. If any questions, etc., please don't hesitate to contact me offlist. All best wishes for the new year (at least in this part of the world) - charles ess Institut for Informations- og Medievidenskab Helsingforsgade 14 8200 Århus N. Denmark mail: <imvce(a)hum.au.dk> tel: (+45) 8942 9250 Professor, Philosophy and Religion Drury University, Springfield, Missouri 65802 USA Exemplary persons seek harmony, not sameness. -- Analects 13.23

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Conference Announcement: CEPE 2011
by Elizabeth Buchanan 02 Jan '11

02 Jan '11

Computer Ethics Philosophical Enquiry 2011 Crossing Boundaries: Ethics in Interdisciplinary and Intercultural Relations will provide an opportunity for researchers and students to discuss current ethical and philosophical issues related to information technology from an international and interdisciplinary perspective. The CEPE conference series is recognized as one of the premier international events on computer and information ethics attended by delegates from all over the world. CEPE/2011 is hosted by the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and will take place in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA, from May 31 to June 3. Papers will focus on such topics as Possible topics for papers/presentations: • Internet Governance • E-waste • Intercultural Ethics • Professional Ethics • International Ethics, Law and Policy Issues • Cybercrime, Cyberwarfare, Cyberterrorism and Security • Internet Research Ethics • Intellectual Property • Privacy and Surveillance • Agency, Autonomy and Trust in Computing Systems • Accessibility, Inclusion and Digital Divide • Bioinformatics • Library Ethics and Intellectual Freedom • Artificial Intelligence, Agents, Embedded Systems and Artificial Life • Ethics, Grids and Clouds • Ethics in Information Architecture and Design Extended abstracts of 2000 words are due by 15 January 2011 and should be sent to jjmauger(a)uwm.edu For full details, please see: http://inseit.net/cepe2011/ Elizabeth Buchanan, Ph.D. Director Center for Information Policy Research School of Information Studies University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee 414.229.3973 Principal Investigator, Internet Research Ethics Commons internetresearchethics.org (NSF Project # 0924604) elizabeth(a)internetresearchethics.org

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an internet year is a dog year
by Barry Wellman 30 Dec '10

30 Dec '10

(i.e. 1 internet year = 7 human years) We all knew that in the late 1990s. In fact, I had a $200,000 grant to study that. Now, with the Mobile Revolution joining the Internet Revolution, I am seeking $1M to see if an internet/mobile year is twice as fast = 14 human years. Yours in continuous connectivity, Barry Wellman _______________________________________________________________________ S.D. Clark Professor of Sociology, FRSC NetLab Director Department of Sociology 725 Spadina Avenue, Room 388 University of Toronto Toronto Canada M5S 2J4 twitter:barrywellman http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman fax:+1-416-978-3963 Updating history: http://chass.utoronto.ca/oldnew/cybertimes.php _______________________________________________________________________

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Re: [Air-L] How many Internet years in a human year?
by Deborah Elizabeth Finn 29 Dec '10

29 Dec '10

Dear Anna, I don't know how to calculate internet years, but I have my own special theory about blog years. If you're interested in my not-very-serious reflections, you're welcome to read my article: <http://blog.deborah.elizabeth.finn.com/blog/_archives/2007/3/17/2813287.html>. Best regards from Deborah Deborah Elizabeth Finn Strategist and Consultant Technology for the Nonprofit and Philanthropic Sector Boston, Massachusetts, USA Email: deborah_elizabeth_finn(a)post.harvard.edu Blog: www.deborahelizabethfinn.com Skype: Deborah909 Twitter: Deborah909 LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/deborah909 Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/Deborah.Elizabeth.Finn I bring resources and needs together for nonprofits and philanthropies, mostly through strategic use of information and communication technologies. On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 2:38 AM, Anna Haverinen <aehaverinen(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Dear all, > > I remember someone inquiring a some time ago about the notion of years in > "internet time"? I also remember hearing that three months of internet time > is one human year, but I need a citation for my article. Any ideas where > could I look for? > > Thanks in advance! > > Best, Anna Haverinen > > PhD Student, Digital culture > University Consortium of Pori/University of Turku > Finland

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Cambridge refuses to censor thesis
by Richard Forno 29 Dec '10

29 Dec '10

Not sure if y'all saw this or not, but kudos to Ross Anderson and Cambridge for standing up both for principle and rationality. Ross's letter in response to the banking association was brilliant, imho. Happy/Merry/Festive to all..... -- rick Cambridge's Ross Anderson's blog post on the matter: http://www.lightbluetouchpaper.org/2010/12/25/a-merry-christmas-to-all-bank… Student's thesis: @http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~osc22/docs/mphil_acs_osc22.pdf

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Re: [Air-L] Subject: How many Internet years in a human year?
by Anna Haverinen 29 Dec '10

29 Dec '10

Dear all, I remember someone inquiring a some time ago about the notion of years in "internet time"? I also remember hearing that three months of internet time is one human year, but I need a citation for my article. Any ideas where could I look for? Thanks in advance! Best, Anna Haverinen PhD Student, Digital culture University Consortium of Pori/University of Turku Finland

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Subject: Internet, knowledge and arts
by Ligia Capobianco 28 Dec '10

28 Dec '10

I am hoping the readers of air-l can inform some recent publications from these fields of studies. I also would like to get in touch with people who are interested or dealing with issues concerning to the frontiers of them. Thanks in advance and Happy holiday, Ligia http://lattes.cnpq.br/9130614188583335 http://www.mendeley.com/profiles/ligia-capobianco/

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Call for articles
by MARIA AMPARO LASEN DIAZ 28 Dec '10

28 Dec '10

TRANS 16 (2012) Transcultural Music Review ISSN: 1697-0101 CALL FOR ARTICLES Special Issue: New uses of music in media TRANS- Transcultural Music Review 16 (2012) will publish a special dossier on the new forms of music in audiovisual media. The dossier will be prepared in collaboration with the research group “Música y medios audiovisuales” from the Society for Ethnomusicology-SIBE/IASPM-Spain and will be edited by Teresa Fraile, Eduardo Viñuela, and María Edurne Zuazu. For this dossier, we are particularly interested in the role of music in the emergence of new genres (such as mash-ups, lip-dubs, etc.) and in the transformation of the discursive strategies of the traditional media (film, TV programs, music videos, video games, etc.). The contemporary audiovisual panorama is constantly changing. On the one hand, there is a fruitful interchange between different genres and formats, such as the dialogue between music video, advertising and film; an interchange in which the music is deeply involved. This enables music to take different functions in the discourses of these media, thus transforming them, and at the same time, opens a new palette of expressive resources. On the other hand, the spread and democratization of new technologies has brought about these new musical genres that also imply new forms of consumption and point toward a different aesthetic framework. Music is now at the core of a boiling, creative audiovisual production where its relationships with image and the other sound elements are not what they used to be, obliging us to rethink our approaches and understanding of the role of music in media. We welcome contributions that approach these new phenomena and processes, especially those with an interdisciplinary perspective. Some topics include but are not limited to the following: Topics: · Music and the blurring of media genres and formats. · Sound art and image (sound installations, etc.). · Music in film trailers. · Audiovisual formats in live performance. · New forms of consumption and technology. · Rockumentaries or “making of” the album, band, etc. · Production of music for and with mobile technology (cell phones, MP3 players, etc.). · New theoretical models for media analysis. We open the call for submission of articles on this topic. Articles may be written in English, Spanish, French, Italian or Portuguese. Deadline for submitting originals: October 15, 2011. For information on the editorial norms: http://www.sibetrans.com/trans/contributors.htm Dr. Amparo Lasén Dpto Sociología I Facultad de Ciencias Políticas y Sociología UCM Campus de Somosaguas Pozuelo de Alarcón 28223 0034913942899 alasen(a)cps.ucm.es

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Blogs & Twitter Research in the Nigerian Context
by Presley Ifukor 27 Dec '10

27 Dec '10

I am new to the list and was wondering if there's anyone working on Nigerian Internet discourse / communication. My paper on "Blogging and Twittering the Nigerian 2007 General Elections" has just been published in the December 2010 issue of Bulletin of Science, Technology & Society: http://bst.sagepub.com/content/30/6/398 This article examines the linguistic construction of textual messages in the use of blogs and Twitter in the Nigerian 2007 electoral cycle comprising the April 2007 general elections and rerun elections in April, May, and August 2009. A qualitative approach of discourse analysis is used to present a variety of discursive acts that blogging and microblogging afford social media users during the electoral cycle. The data are culled from 245 blog posts and 923 tweets. The thesis of the study is that citizens’ access to social media electronically empowers the electorates to be actively involved in democratic governance. Electronic empowerment is a direct result of access to social media (and mobile telephony) by more citizens who constitute the electorates. This encourages more public discussions about politics and makes the democratic process more dynamic than in the pre-social media era. An analysis of the data shows that there is a dialectical relationship between social media discourse and the process of political empowerment. The paper is part of my PhD at the University of Osnabrueck, Germany. The project's synopsis and related publications are here: http://www.ifaa.uni-osnabrueck.de/Sprachwissenschaft/PhdProjects-Ifukor Thank you and best of the season, Presley Ifukor Osnabrueck, Germany

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software to video record interaction through Skype video conference
by Gabriela Bulla 25 Dec '10

25 Dec '10

Dear AIR list members, My name is Gabriela da Silva Bulla, I am a PhD student in Applied Linguistics at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS, Porto Alegre, Brazil), and my PhD research proposal focuses on the joint construction of collaborative learning communities in online additional language courses. Therefore, one of the interactional data I am going to deal with is going to be generated while participants are engaged in pedagogical activities through Skype video conferences. Thus, I would like to know if any of you could give me a little help by *suggesting any software that would make it possible for me to video record the computer screen and the participants’ voices at the same time while interacting through Skype video conferences*. Thanks in advance! Sincerely, Gabriela. -- Gabriela da Silva Bulla Doutoranda em Linguística Aplicada (PPG-Letras) Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Porto Alegre/RS, Brasil gsbulla(a)gmail.com

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