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Fwd: postdoc and phd openings at CMU
by danah boyd 15 Oct '10

15 Oct '10

Perhaps of interest to someone on this list: Begin forwarded message: > From: "Alessandro Acquisti" <acquisti(a)andrew.cmu.edu> > > Hello all - > > I would like to bring to your attention some openings we have at CMU > starting in 2011. Specifically, we are looking to recruit one post-doc and > one or more phd students to work on (broadly and loosely speaking) online > privacy and behavioral economics/decision research. The full text is below > (also linked at: > http://www.heinz.cmu.edu/~acquisti/CMU-postdoc-openings-HEINZ-web.txt) > Please do pass this on to anyone who may be interested. > > Many thanks! > -alessandro > > > ================================================================= > > *Heinz College, Carnegie Mellon University* > > One Post-Doc Opening for 2011 at the Heinz College > > One PhD Opening for 2011 at the Heinz College > > > ================================================================= > > The Heinz College at Carnegie Mellon University has an opening > for a post-doc in a project focused on the study of privacy > decision making using tools from behavioral economics and > behavioral decision research (if you are interested in the PhD > opening, please scroll down to the end of this message). The > project aims at investigating the role of soft paternalistic > approaches in assisting users who face privacy-sensitive > trade-offs. Such privacy "nudges" will be incorporated into > policy proposals as well as tools and technologies to be > developed by other members of the project. > > This is an interdisciplinary project. It involves interacting > with other faculty and students with diverse (economics, > behavioral, and computer science) backgrounds. Prospective > candidates are expected to have done graduate work in, or at > least have some familiarity with, some or several of the > following areas: > > * Behavioral Economics or Behavioral Decision Research > * Experimental Economics or Experimental Psychology > * Economics > * Human Computer Interaction > * Web Security and Privacy > > Candidates are expected to be capable of working under limited > supervision and should have strong communication skills. They > should be able to interact with a team composed of other social > scientists and computer scientists. They should have previous > experience in designing and conducting experiments with human > subjects. The actual work is expected to involve a mix of > behavioral experiments and tools evaluation (in coordination > with the other members of the project). The successful > candidate is expected to publish papers in top-level journals > and conferences along with other faculty and students. He or > she will report to Prof. Alessandro Acquisti (CMU, project PI). > Other faculty involved in this project include Prof. Lorrie > Cranor (CMU, project co-PI) and Prof. Norman Sadeh (CMU, > project co-PI). > > The initial appointment is for one year with option of renewal > for another one or two years. The start date is negotiable, but > ideally no later than January 2011. Carnegie Mellon offers > competitive salaries and benefits. Interested candidates should > forward their resume along with the names of three references > to Alessandro Acquisti by email at acquisti(a)andrew.cmu.edu. > > We also expect to recruit one or more PhD students interested > in working in privacy decision making and the economics of > privacy, starting Fall 2011. Accepted PhD applicants would > receive a grant covering stipend and tuition for at least the > first two years of their PhD program. Interested candidates > should also forward their resume to Alessandro Acquisti by > email at acquisti(a)andrew.cmu.edu. > > ================================================================= > > Related links: > > http://www.cmu.edu/ > > http://www.heinz.cmu.edu/ > > http://www.heinz.cmu.edu/~acquisti/ >

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Fwd: Post-doc position at NYU
by danah boyd 15 Oct '10

15 Oct '10

Begin forwarded message: > From: Helen Nissenbaum <hfn1(a)nyu.edu> > > Call for applications: RESEARCH FELLOWSHIPS (postdoctoral) starting AY 2011 > > Areas of focus: Privacy and information technologies, social study of cyber-security, values in design of digital information and communications networks, privacy and security of health information systems. > > The NYU Department of Media, Culture, and Communication is pleased to announce Research Fellowship/Scientist openings (one or two) for recent recipients of a Ph.D. or equivalent degree. Funded by government grants, fellows would work with Helen Nissenbaum (Principal Investigator) on grant-related projects. A background in social, political, and ethical aspects of computing, digital media, and information systems, including networks is sought for one of the positions; for a second, special consideration will be given to applicants with expertise in privacy and security, particularly as applied to health/medical information. Consult: http://www.nyu.edu/projects/nissenbaum for more information about projects. > > Fellows will pursue their own research as well as project-defined research and will have opportunities to work with a diverse community of collaborators at other universities. Fellows will also assist with project related administration and events. These one-year positions may be renewable for a second year. Teaching in the department may be an option (one or two courses per year) depending on availability and interest. > > Although open as to discipline, e.g. media studies, information science, STS, computer science and engineering, law, or traditional humanities and social sciences, training in philosophical, policy/political, legal, media, theoretical or technical analysis is ideal for project needs. > > Interested candidates should submit hardcopies of a curriculum vitae; a cover letter with a statement of interest explaining the applicant's fit with the position; a writing sample or representative publication, and the names, relationship, and contact information (email and phone number) of three potential recommenders. Applicants who have not yet earned their degrees must provide a letter from their advisor confirming the expectation that the degree will be in hand by start of the fellowship. > > Review of applications will begin November 30 and continue until positions are filled. > > For more info on ongoing research, see: http://www.nyu.edu/projects/nissenbaum > > Send application materials to: > > Professor Helen Nissenbaum > Department of Media, Culture and Communication > New York University > 239 Greene Street, 7th floor > New York, NY 10003 > Inquiries: Helen.nissenbaum(a)nyu.edu > > ** NYU is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer ** > > > > > > > > Helen Nissenbaum, professor > media, culture & communication, NYU + http://www.nyu.edu/projects/nissenbaum > protect the privacy of your web searches + http://cs.nyu.edu/trackmenot/ > >

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Re: [Air-L] Asian new media resources
by zhanghaizzzcn＠yahoo.co.jp 14 Oct '10

14 Oct '10

Dear iskandar, You could refer to this website. http://www.cnnic.cn/en/index/0O/02/index.htm It is "Statistical Reports on the Internet Development in China (1997-2010)", a regular report published by CNNIC twice every year. BTW, I am interested in development of new media in US and Europen. Could you kindly provide this kind of resource? Thanks a lot ! Message: 1 Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2010 01:18:49 -0400 From: iskandar zulkarnain To: air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org Subject: [Air-L] Asian new media resources (inquiry) Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Dear fellow AOIR, I'm formulating a syllabus for a summer course on Asian New Media. My particular interest is actually New Media in Southeast Asia, but for this class I'm widening the regional scope into East, South, and Southeast Asian New Media. So far I have collected materials from Routledge's edited collection *Asia.com: Asia encounters the Internet*, David Hill and Krishna Sen's *The internet in Indonesia's New Democracy*, Ravi Sundaram's *Pirate Modernity*, Amit S. Rai's *Untimely Bollywood*, and couple articles published by Berkman Center such as Mridul Chowdhury's article on Burma's Saffron Revolution and Mary Joyce's article on citizen journalism in South Korea. I feel that there so many other possible materials out there. So I thought that maybe people on this listserve could give me some suggestion about other texts that I should consider using. I include the course description of my summer course to give a clearer sense about what kind of class it is. Thanks in advance, izul This course explores ?new media? in East, South, and Southeast Asia, where technological development and diffusion have evolved differently than in the ?West.? How do new media influence or reflect notions of citizenship and personal liberty? How do their proliferations restructure and/or challenge social, cultural and political spaces? Case studies of media institutions, contemporary forms of public culture, and popular (e.g. Facebook), alternative (e.g. Videochronic), and artistic (e.g. A/S/L) media practices will illuminate the roles that new media play in transforming nations, cultures, and ethnic, race, class, and gender identities under the rubric of globalization. -- Iskandar Zulkarnain HASTAC Scholars 2010 Website: https://www.hastac.org/users/zhoel13 Co-Editors Invisible Culture An Electronic Journal for Visual Culture University of Rochester Website: http://www.rochester.edu/in_visible_culture/ Ph.D. Student Visual and Cultural Studies 424 Morey Hall University of Rochester Rochester, NY 14627 Best Regards! Yours Sincerely, Hai Zhang Lectuer, School of Media, Northeast Normal University, China PhD, Graduate School of Human science, Osaka University, Japan Mail: zhanghaizzzcn(a)yahoo.co.jp MSN:zhanghaizzz@hotmail.com Blog: http://hi.baidu.com/etring HP: http://eduict.tripod.com/eindex.htm --------------------------------- Learn more about breast cancer - Pink Ribbon Campaign 2010

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Customized Technology for Repressive Regimes
by Eddan Katz 14 Oct '10

14 Oct '10

Does anyone know of research and/or evidence regarding the customized sale of surveillance and/or censorship technology to repressive regimes? I've been working on the corporate responsibility issues regarding the Nokia monitoring centers in Iran (Holding Nokia Responsible for Surveilling Dissidents in Iran: http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2010/10/saharkhiz-v-nokia) and am looking for further examples (such as in http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2010/01/selling-china-surveillance) I'm looking for particular examples of information and communication technologies especially. Any guidance would be much appreciated. Thanks, Eddan Eddan Katz Electronic Frontier Foundation, International Affairs Director 454 Shotwell St. San Francisco, CA 94110-1914 office: +1(415) 436-9333, x.133; mobile: +1(415) 728-5800; skype: eddankatz

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2nd CFP and invitation
by Charles Ess 14 Oct '10

14 Oct '10

Dear AoIR-ists, below is the (second) CFP for a special issue of new media and society that Bill Dutton of the OII and I are co-editing, with a deadline date for submissions of 31. December, 2010. I send it your way as a gentle reminder, in case you and/or colleagues you might know are considering submitting a chapter - and as an invitation: if you (perhaps along with a colleague or two) are considering submitting a chapter for this special issue, and you'll be at AoIR next week in Gothenburg, I'd be happy to meet with you and talk with you further about what we'd like to see come in. If the latter holds true for you, please contact me off-list and we can arrange a time to meet over coffee (or something stronger, even stronger than Swedish coffee ...) to talk. At the same time, of course, if you are planning to submit or considering submitting a chapter but will not be at AoIR - I'll be equally happy to discuss your thoughts and directions by email. In any event, please forward the CFP to interested colleagues and appropriate lists. Many thanks in advance, safe travels to all heading to Gothenburg, and looking forward to seeing many of you there. best regards, - charles ess Institut for Informations- og Medievidenskab Helsingforsgade 14 8200 Århus N. Denmark mail: <imvce(a)hum.au.dk> tel: (+45) 8942 9250 == Second Call for Papers for a Special Issue of New Media & Society: Internet Studies: The State of an Emerging Field¹ Editor: Charles Ess, Guest Professor (Professor med særlige opgaver), Department of Information and Media Studies, Aarhus University, Denmark, and Professor, Philosophy and Religion, Drury University. and William H. Dutton, Professor of Internet Studies, Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford Background In 2005, Nancy Baym edited a special issue of The Information Society (Vol. 21, No. 4) that asked the question, ³Is Internet Research¹ a Virtual Field, a Proto-Discipline, or Something Else?² In 2010, two handbooks of Internet Studies will appear (edited by Hunsinger, Kastrup, & Allen [Springer] and Consalvo & Ess [Wiley-Blackwell]) while a third has been launched (Dutton [Oxford University Press]. These publications document the emergence and development of Internet Studies as a field of research and scholarship in its own right, one affiliated with a characteristic topoi of issues, research questions, methodologies, and its own distinctive ethics. To further explore the broad terrains and structures of this emerging field, the Oxford Internet Institute is organizing a series of workshops and lectures over the next two years, intended to encourage and gather critical analyses and perspectives from a number of internationally-recognized scholars and researchers, along with younger colleagues whose research promises new insights and perspectives. The first of these workshops, held at Aarhus University on 19 March 2010, took stock of the field by critically assessing the two major volumes on Internet Studies (Consalvo and Ess 2010, and Hunsinger et al 2010), with a view towards developing further insights for the field, its current and future directions, and its (potential) significance and impact. Future workshops are being organized, including one that will be held in Barcelona in early 2011. Steve Jones (<http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/events/?id=380>), and Matthew Allen (<http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/events/?id=344>) have held lectures in this series at the Oxford Internet Institute, and Charles Ess (<http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/events/?id=390> will present one of a number of future lectures. A special issue of New Media & Society is intended (a) to encourage and collect the development of scholarly contributions developed initially for these workshops, and lectures, and (b) gather related scholarly research and reflections from the global community of Internet scholars and researchers. These contributions will build on the existing and forthcoming handbooks and related compilations to stimulate and inform global discussion about the emerging field of Internet Studies. Accordingly, we invite contributions from across the range of disciplines applied to study of the Internet that address our thematic questions, beginning with: can ³Internet Studies² be discerned and demarcated as a field (or fields) of academic research and scholarship out of the rapidly growing body of research and scholarship intertwined with the Internet and the array of human interactions it facilitates? And: insofar as Internet Studies can be argued to exist as a field(s) what are its defining characteristics, including, e.g., a distinctive set of objects of study, research questions, methodologies, a body of findings and literature recognized as foundational or definitive, ethical guidelines, professional expectations, and whatever else we may argue to be necessary, if not sufficient, conditions for an academic field(s) of study? Contributions may take one of two forms. One, authors may seek to develop comprehensive and authoritative overviews of how an important topos of research on the Internet (e.g., social interactions, emotion, identity play and development, etc., etc.) has been studied, important findings, and areas in need of further research. Two, authors may take a critical perspective on the field as a whole or any sub-field within this area. Generally, the special issue will not focus on the presentation of specific research, even though it might connect well with and reflect upon a broader synthesis or overview of a larger domain of Internet research. Other special issues and articles are well suited for the publication of original research. This issue will be more focused on generating the most stimulating syntheses of the field defining the vitality and overall state of the field. Selected contributions will appear in the special issue of New Media & Society. Submissions are due to the editors by December 31, 2010. Submissions accepted by the editors will be returned to the author(s) for any needed revision by 31 March 2011; final versions will be due back to the editors by 30 June 2011, followed by an external review process resulting in final acceptance / rejection / or acceptance with revisions. Final versions of accepted papers will be due by 1 December 2011. Authors¹ Guidelines are available on the New Media & Society website at <http://newmediaandsociety.com/index.php>: accessing these will require signing up for a user id and password (also necessary for any eventual submission to the special issue.) Briefly: submissions require an abstract, keywords, and a target length of no more than 8,000 words, including notes and references. Documentation is Harvard style. For further information about our workshops, lectures and this special journal issue, please feel free to contact either of the editors: Charles Ess: charles.ess(a)gmail.com William Dutton: director(a)oii.ox.ac.uk

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Updates to IR11
by Mathias Klang 13 Oct '10

13 Oct '10

Hi, Updates on the web include Just think about it: The environmental ideas behind the conference http://ir11.aoir.org/csr/ Pre-conference event on Wednesday: http://ir11.aoir.org/2010/10/pre-conference-event/ See you soon Mathias -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Mathias Klang, LL.M., Ph.D. University of Göteborg Phone: +46 (0) 31 786 55 63 Mobile: +46 705 43 22 13 http://twitter.com/klang67 http://digital-rights.net http://techrisk.se http://creativecommons.se ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

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ir11 edupad ... etherpad clone
by jeremy hunsinger 13 Oct '10

13 Oct '10

https://vt.edupad.uni-konstanz.de/1 dunno whether or not anyone is interested in using etherpad this year, but I thought I'd create one, since i can, and then send it to you and let you decide to use it or not. also if you need one for another conference, you can ask me or just get your own set up through University of Konstanz, who are providing this service under the title Edupad Jeremy Hunsinger Political Science Center for Digital Discourse and Culture Virginia Tech () ascii ribbon campaign - against html mail /\ - against microsoft attachments http://www.tmttlt.com You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus. --Mark Twain

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Position Announcement
by Pam Brewer 13 Oct '10

13 Oct '10

I am sending along the following position announcement on behalf of Kirk St. Amant for a position at East Carolina. Best, Pam -- Pamela Estes Brewer, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Director, Writing and Editing Internships Department of English Appalachian State University Manager, STC Academic Special Interest Group phone 828-262-2351 fax 828-262-2133 email brewerpe(a)appstate.edu Position Announcement (#935526) Assistant Professor, Tenure-Track, Technical and Professional Communication East Carolina University, Department of English http://www.ecu.edu/english The Department of English at East Carolina University is seeking to fill a tenure-track position at the assistant professor level, specializing in technical and professional communication, to begin August 15, 2011. Candidates should demonstrate knowledge of contemporary scholarship and a well-defined research agenda in professional communication. The successful candidate will be expected to support and contribute to teaching and innovative curriculum development in graduate and undergraduate programs in technical and professional communication (online and face-to-face environments), as well as a doctoral program in technical and professional discourse. Appropriate service to the university, community, and profession is expected. A Ph.D. by August 2011 is required. Will consider other titles based on degree and qualifications. Candidates for this position must complete a candidate profile online (http://ecu.peopleadmin.com) and submit a cover letter, curriculum vitae, one-page statements of teaching philosophy and research agenda, and writing sample online. In addition, arrange for three current reference letters to be sent to: Jeffrey Johnson, Chair, Department of English Mail Stop 555, Bate Building 2201 East Carolina University, Greenville, NC 27858-4353. Screening begins November 15, 2010 and will continue until the position is filled. Official transcript required upon employment. East Carolina University is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action University that accommodates individuals with disabilities. Individuals requesting accommodation under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) should contact the Department for Disability Support Services at (252) 737-1016 (Voice/TTY). Proper documentation of identity and employability is required at the time of employment.

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CfParticipation: Workshop "Bringing MT to the User: Research on Integrating MT in the Translation Industry"
by Венцислав Жечев ( Ventsislav Zhechev) 13 Oct '10

13 Oct '10

---------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PARTICIPATION ---------------------------------------------------------------------- "Bringing MT to the User: Research on Integrating MT in the Translation Industry" Second Joint EM+/CNGL Workshop (JEC 2010) http://web.me.com/emcnglworkshop/JEC2010 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- At the AMTA 2010 conference (http://amta2010.amtaweb.org) the EuroMatrix+ Project (http://www.euromatrixplus.eu) and the Centre for Next Generation Localisation (http://cngl.ie) are organising the Second Joint EM+/CNGL Workshop, titled "Bringing MT to the User: Research on Integrating MT in the Translation Industry". The workshop will take place in Denver, Colorado on 4 November 2010, immediately after the main AMTA 2010 conference. Premise: Recent years have seen a revolution in MT triggered by the emergence of statistical approaches to MT and improvements in translation quality. MT (rule-based, statistical and hybrid) is now available for many languages for free on the Web and is making strong inroads into the corporate localisation and translation industries. Open-source MT solutions are competing with proprietary products. Increasing numbers of translators are post-editing TM/MT output. At the same time, there has been some disconnect between academic research on MT, which (rightly so) focuses on algorithms to increase translation quality, and many of the practical issues that need to be addressed to make MT maximally useful in real translation and localisation scenarios. Objectives: This workshop will bring together MT researchers, developers, industrial users and translators to discuss issues that are most important in real world industrial settings involving MT, but currently not very popular in research circles. Workshop Chairs: Ventsislav Zhechev Philipp Koehn Josef van Genabith Invited Speakers: Daniel Marcu, Ph.D. (CTO and COO of SDL Language Weaver) Will Burgett, PMP® (Product Manager, Intel Corporation) For more information, go to http://web.me.com/emcnglworkshop/JEC2010/Invited_Speakers.html Research Papers Accepted for Presentation: • Shared Resources, Shared Values? Ethical Implications of Sharing Translation Resources (Jo Drugan and Bogdan Babych) • Integrating Machine Translation with Translation Memory: A Practical Approach (Panagiotis Kanavos and Dimitrios Kartsaklis) • Convergence of Translation Memory and Statistical Machine Translation (Philipp Koehn and Jean Senellart) • Estimating Machine Translation Post-Editing Effort with HTER (Lucia Specia and Atefeh Farzindar) • Source Text Characteristics and Technical and Temporal Post-Editing Effort: What is Their Relationship? (Midori Tatsumi and Johann Roturier) • Machine Translation of TV Subtitles for Large Scale Production (Martin Volk, Rico Sennrich, Christian Hardmeier and Frida Tidström) Program Committee: The submitted papers were reviewed by a mixed industry–academia committee. Industry members: Manuel Tomás Carrasco Benítez (DGT of the EC), Marc Dymetman (XRCE), Daniel Grasmick (Lucy Software), Fred Hollowood (Symantec), Johann Roturier (Symantec), Dag Schmidtke (Microsoft), Jean Senellart (Systran), Nicolas Stroppa (Google) Academic members: Julien Bourdaillet (University of Montreal), Michael Carl (CBS, Denmark), Mikel Forcada (Universitat d’Alacant), Josef van Genabith (CNGL, EM+), Eiichiro Sumita (NICT, Japan), Philipp Koehn (EM+), Harold Somers (CNGL), Ventsislav Zhechev (EM+, CNGL) The workshop program is available at http://web.me.com/emcnglworkshop/JEC2010/Program.html Registration Deadline: 18 October 2010 (http://permatime.com/Pacific/Samoa/2010-10-18/16:59) URL: http://www.regonline.com/amta_2010 Please, direct all enquiries to Dr. Ventsislav Zhechev at emcnglworkshop(a)me.com For up-to-date information, please visit http://web.me.com/emcnglworkshop/JEC2010 For information about the First Joint EM+/CNGL Workshop, please visit http://www.euromatrixplus.eu/cngl2009 Dr. Ventsislav Zhechev EuroMatrix+ Centre for Next Generation Localisation School of Computing Dublin City University http://VentsislavZhechev.eu

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CfP: Riding the Korean Digital Wave - Special Issue of Media Int'l Australia
by Kwang Suk Lee 12 Oct '10

12 Oct '10

Dear all, Apologies for cross posting. Please distribute widely. Thanks, - Kwangsuk Kwang-Suk Lee | ARC Research Fellow School of Social Sciences, Media and Communication, Arts Faculty Building 19:1008 | University of Wollongong NSW 2522 Australia OP: +61 2 4298 1945 | MP: +61 428 828 599 FAX: +61 2 4221 5341 kslee(a)uow.edu.au<mailto:kslee@uow.edu.au> / leeks2k(a)gmail.com<mailto:leeks2k@gmail.com> ************************************************* Call for Papers: Media International Australia no. 141 (November 2011) Riding the Korean Digital Wave Theme Editors: Brian Yecies, Ben Goldsmith and Kwang-Suk Lee South Korea has been a world leader in a range of online, digital and creative fields, including Digital Multimedia Broadband (DMB), web 2.0 and other new media, broadband and IT technologies. Korean institutions have made innovations in cyber activism and citizen journalism (Ohmynews) and in social networking (<http://Cyworld.com<http://Cyworld.com/>>Cyworld.com) And, with the support of the Seoul City government, a Digital Media City (D-City) has been built in Seoul as a base for research and development for companies and institutions working in digital media production, broadcasting, gaming, animation, software development and e-education. Yet, despite these ground-breaking developments and innovations, South Korea is less prominent in scholarly discussion than neighbouring China and Japan. Moreover, since 2008, Ohmynews has lost power as a leader of online opinion, while creators of Cyworld mini-homepages have begun leaving their walled garden for the open pastures of new web 2.0 cultures such as Twitter and iphone. The Seoul D-City project has also begun losing its initial lustre due to a downturn in property values, a domestic construction slump and increased government intervention. We seek contributions from a wide range of disciplinary areas that will offer new critical insights on these fundamental changes. This special issue of MIA (for further info: <http://www.emsah.uq.edu.au/mia/forthcoming.html>http://www.emsah.uq.edu.au/mia/forthcoming.html) aims to provide new perspectives on how South Korea’s digital media consumption and cultural production flows are changing rapidly and contributing to the power dynamics of creative and cultural industries in Asia and across the globe. We invite contributions on the following topics, and welcome additional proposals: * revitalised Hallyu (Korean wave) * Web 2.0 * gaming culture * cyber activism * online/civic journalism * digital media/avant-garde arts * social networking culture * DMB and other micro and mobile media innovations and subcultures * wireless and broadband developments * digital cinema and its impact on the domestic film industry, and international co-productions * government digital policy Join us in critically evaluating the changing moments of Korean digital media culture and policy as we look to the future of the so-called digital wave in the region. Abstracts of no more than 500 words should be sent to Brian Yecies (Brian_Yecies@ <http://uow.edu.au<http://uow.edu.au/>>uow.edu.au) by 15 November 2010; he will then advise whether a full paper is required for the reviewing process. Full contributions of 4,000–5,000 words, in MIA style, will be required by 1 March 2011. For further information regarding this special issue, please contact the joint editors: Brian Yecies (<mailto:Brian_Yecies@uow.edu.au>Brian_Yecies(a)uow.edu.au) Ben Goldsmith (<mailto:goldsmith.ben@gmail.com>goldsmith.ben(a)gmail.com) or Kwang-Suk Lee (<mailto:kslee@uow.edu.au>kslee(a)uow.edu.au)

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