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Fwd: AAUP Member NL: Survey on Contingent Faculty
by jeremy hunsinger 05 Oct '10

05 Oct '10

forward as appropriate -jh apologies the urls below were fail:( so i googled and found: http://www.academicworkforce.org/ and the survey is at: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/VNNNRVS > > > We all know that more and more faculty members are hired off the tenure track, in contingent appointments of various kinds. But no good data exist on these appointments. That’s why the American Association of University Professors and other organizations in the Coalition on the Academic Workforce are conducting a survey.(http://lyris.eresources.com:81/t/5289222/4913970/1967/0/ You can help by filling out the survey if you are eligible or by forwarding this e-mail as widely as possible to faculty on your campus and beyond. > > The Coalition on the Academic Workforce invites all members of the contingent academic workforce in U.S. colleges and universities to participate in this survey.(http://lyris.eresources.com:81/t/5289222/4913970/1967/0/ It inquires about course assignments, salaries, benefits, and general working conditions as members of the contingent academic workforce experience them at the institutional level. We invite participation from all instructional and research staff members employed off the tenure track, including faculty members employed either full- or part-time, graduate students remunerated as teaching assistants or employed in other roles, and researchers and post-doctoral fellows. > > Most of the data on the working conditions of the contingent academic workforce—particularly data about salaries, benefits, and course assignments—exist in large data sets that have been aggregated and averaged at the national level. Consequently, the similarities and differences that contingent academic workers experience across different institutions and institutional sectors, geographic regions, and disciplines become obscured. This survey aims to examine salaries, benefits, course assignments, and general working conditions as contingent academic workers experience them at the institutional level. The survey will collect institution- and course-specific information to create a more textured and realistic picture of contingent academic workers’ working lives and working conditions. > > We hope that sufficient numbers of respondents will complete this survey to permit developing a rich dataset that will help CAW and its member organizations advocate on behalf of professional compensation and working conditions for the contingent academic workforce. To that end, we deeply appreciate the time and effort given by all who fill out this survey. > > Individuals who wish to be entered in a drawing for one of several $50 book gift cards may include contact information at the end of the questionnaire, but this information will not be used to connect survey data with specific persons. > > We hope you will fill out the questionnaire (http://lyris.eresources.com:81/t/5289222/4913970/1967/0/ today, but if you cannot, please do so by November 30, 2010. Winners of the gift cards will be notified the following week. Thank you. > > John Curtis, AAUP Director of Research and Public Policy > > About the Coalition on the Academic Workforce > Organized in 1997, CAW is a group of the 21 higher education associations, disciplinary associations, and faculty organizations listed below who are committed to addressing issues associated with deteriorating working conditions and their effect on college and university students in the United States. For more information about CAW, please visit www.academicworkforce.org. > > American Academy of Religion > American Anthropological Association > American Association of University Professors > American Federation of Teachers > American Historical Association > American Philological Association > American Philosophical Association > American Political Science Association > American Sociological Association > American Studies Association > Association of American Colleges and Universities > College Art Association > Community College Humanities Association > Conference on College Composition and Communication > Linguistic Society of America > Modern Language Association > National Council of Teachers of English > Organization of American Historians > Society of Biblical Literature > Society for Cinema and Media Studies > Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages, Inc. > 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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Re: [Air-L] danah's response - Graduate programs for Internet studies
by André Brock 04 Oct '10

04 Oct '10

http://www.blogcdn.com/www.urlesque.com/media/2010/05/1272938115936.jpg For those viewing this in image/bandwidth restricted email clients: "Haters Gonna Hate" I'm pretty sure that I don't need to elaborate. André -- Andre Brock Assistant Professor - Library and Information Science/POROI University of Iowa Iowa City, IA 52242

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In Media Res - Animals in the Media
by Holly Kruse 04 Oct '10

04 Oct '10

Forwarded, in an act of shameless self promotion. Holly ---- Holly Kruse Department of Communications Rogers State University 1701 W. Will Rogers Blvd. Claremore, OK 74017 918-343-7879 hkruse(a)rsu.edu or holly.kruse(a)gmail.com http://hollykruse.com or http://www.rsu.edu/academics/comm/kruse.asp Begin forwarded message: > cultstud-l(a)lists.comm.umn.edu> > > This week's In Media Res special theme is Animals in the Media. > > Here's the line-up: > http://mediacommons.futureofthebook.org/imr/ > > Monday October 4, 2010 – Holly Kruse (Rogers State University) presents: Race Horse as Rock Star: Fandom and Zenyatta > > Tuesday October 5, 2010 – Brett Mills (University of East Anglia) presents: When Foxes Attack > > Wednesday October 6, 2010 – Candice Haddad (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor) presents:Talking Through Feminist Critiques of PETA: A Call for Animal Rights to be a Project of Media and Culture Studies Scholars > > Thursday October 7, 2010 – Susan Nance (University of Guelph) presents: Dumbo: Then and Now > > Friday October 8, 2010 – Lisa Uddin (Corcoran College of Art and Design) presents: Birds in Oil and WatercolorTheme Week Organized by Nedda Ahmed (Georgia State University) > > Theme week coordinated by Jeremey Groskopf (Georgia State University) > > To receive links for each day’s posts and see our latest calls for curators, please join our Facebook group: > http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=46530613457 > > You can also follow us on Twitter at @MC_IMR. > > For more information, please contact In Media Res at inmediares.gsu(a)gmail.com or email the Coordinating Editor, Alisa Perren, at aperren(a)gsu.edu. > > Best, > The In Media Res Team > > _______________________________________________ > CULTSTUD-L mailing list: CULTSTUD-L(a)lists.comm.umn.edu > http://lists.comm.umn.edu/mailman/listinfo/cultstud-l

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Conference: "The Online Videogame: New Space of Socialization"
by Maude Bonenfant 04 Oct '10

04 Oct '10

*English will follow* Le groupe de recherche *Homo Ludens* (Université du Québec à Montréal), en collaboration avec le *TAG* (Université Concordia), a le plaisir de vous inviter au colloque : * * *le jeu vidéo en LIGNE : nouvel espace de socialisation* * * Colloque international et bilingue 28, 29 et 30 octobre 2010 * * Amphithéâtre du Coeur des Sciences, UQAM 200, Sherbrooke Ouest Montréal, Québec, Canada ** www.homoludens.uqam.ca / recherchehomoludens(a)gmail.com *Description de l’événement* Vous pouvez obtenir une description détaillée de l’événement en consultant notre site Web www.homoludens.uqam.ca sous l’onglet « Colloques/Conferences ». * * *Inscription* Vous pouvez vous inscrire au colloque à cette adresse (le tarif préférentiel est en vigueur jusqu'au *10 octobre) *: https://securemp.sav.uqam.ca/homoludens/Inscription.asp *Merci de faire circuler l’invitation dans vos réseaux*. The *Homo Ludens* research group (Université du Québec à Montréal), in collaboration with TAG (Concordia University), would like to invite you to the conference : *THE ONLINE VIDEOGAME: NEW SPACE OF SOCIALIZATION* International and bilingual conference October 28, 29 and 30, 2010 * * Amphithéâtre du Coeur des Sciences, UQAM 200, Sherbrooke West Montreal, Quebec, Canada** * * www.homoludens.uqam.ca / recherchehomoludens(a)gmail.com *Description of the event* You can get a detailed description of the event by consulting our website www.homoludens.uqam.ca under the tab “Colloques/Conferences”. * * *Registration* You can register for the conference at this address (a discount is available until *October 10th*) : https://securemp.sav.uqam.ca/homoludens/Inscription.asp *Please pass this invitation along*.

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please fwd as needed: teaching position
by Nora Madison 04 Oct '10

04 Oct '10

Hi everyone- below are the details for a full-time teaching position at Drexel University in communication, culture, and media. Please circulate! Assistant Teaching Professor, Communication The Department of Culture & Communication at Drexel University anticipates hiring a full-time non tenure-track Assistant Teaching Professor of Communication beginning Winter of 2010. Area(s) of expertise must include computer mediated communication, new media or social media. In addition, we seek a strong communications generalist; the ability to teach a wide variety of courses in the Communication curriculum is also required. Drexel University is a private, urban university with over 11,000 full-time undergraduates. Drexel is well-known for its cooperative education program. The Department of Culture and Communication is within the College of Arts and Sciences and comprises faculty in Communication and Linguistics, Sociology, Anthropology, and Modern Languages. The department of Culture & Communication houses several dynamic programs including B.S. and B.A. programs in Communication, including degree tracks in Public Communication, Technical Communication, and Global Journalism. We offer M.S. degrees in Public, Technical and Science Communication, as well as Publication Management. And we offer an interdisciplinary Ph.D. degree in Culture & Communication. Other programs within the department include sociology, anthropology, environmental studies and criminal justice. The incoming teaching professor’s main responsibilities will be to teach four courses per term for three ten-week terms at all levels, from first year students to graduate. Besides teaching core courses within the program, teaching professors are encouraged to develop special topics courses at the undergraduate and graduate levels. Additional summer teaching often available. Initial appointment will be for one year. Contract renewals can be made for periods of up to three years. Teaching faculty are also eligible for promotion to higher non-tenured ranks. Generous benefits package included. Anticipated starting date is for January 1, 2010. Teaching experience and a Ph.D. in Communication or a related-field is preferred. Review of applications will begin October 29, 2010 and will continue until the position is filled. Please apply throughwww.DrexelJobs.com<http://www.drexeljobs.com/> with letter of application, vita, and contact information for three references. Inquiries about the position should be addressed to Dr. Ernie Hakanen, Search Committee Chair, at eah22(a)drexel.edu. Drexel University is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer and encourages applications from qualified women, members of minority groups, disabled individuals, and veterans. www.drexel.edu -- Out beyond ideas of wrong-doing and right-doing, there is a field. I will meet you there. ~Rumi

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mailman exploration tool project (and an air-l network visualization)
by Bernhard Rieder 03 Oct '10

03 Oct '10

Hello, I'm currently preparing classes for the new semester and one of the things I'll do with my students (multimedia) is working on digital methods and the visualization of large amounts of data. One of the things we're going to work on is a tool for exploring mailman archives (they're pretty much standard and easy to parse) and I would like to know whether anybody has an ongoing research project on (a) mailinglist(s) and some data we could play with. I've written some quick code and here (http://software.rieder.fr/stuff/airl_undirected.png) you'll find a visualization of the air-l archives (22K mails, 3K posters) that shows a social graph where replying to a mail constitutes a relation (min 2 interactions, link strength taken into account). Only posters with 10+ mails taken into account. Node size is no of posts, node color is degree. A working toolkit should provide basic statistical/topological analysis, statistical exploration of word frequencies, topic clustering, data export, anonymization, and a way to visualize network structures over time. This stuff needs some serious domain knowledge to be even remotely interesting (beyond the "look it's a map") and I'd love to work with somebody who has an actual research project and wouldn't mind giving occasional feedback. best, B. -- Bernhard Rieder Laboratoire Paragraphe Université de Paris VIII bernhard.rieder(a)univ-paris8.fr http://bernhard.rieder.fr http://thepoliticsofsystems.net

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Fwd: AAUP Member NL: Survey on Contingent Faculty
by jeremy hunsinger 02 Oct '10

02 Oct '10

forward as appropriate -jh > > > We all know that more and more faculty members are hired off the tenure track, in contingent appointments of various kinds. But no good data exist on these appointments. That’s why the American Association of University Professors and other organizations in the Coalition on the Academic Workforce are conducting a survey.(http://lyris.eresources.com:81/t/5289222/4913970/1967/0/ You can help by filling out the survey if you are eligible or by forwarding this e-mail as widely as possible to faculty on your campus and beyond. > > The Coalition on the Academic Workforce invites all members of the contingent academic workforce in U.S. colleges and universities to participate in this survey.(http://lyris.eresources.com:81/t/5289222/4913970/1967/0/ It inquires about course assignments, salaries, benefits, and general working conditions as members of the contingent academic workforce experience them at the institutional level. We invite participation from all instructional and research staff members employed off the tenure track, including faculty members employed either full- or part-time, graduate students remunerated as teaching assistants or employed in other roles, and researchers and post-doctoral fellows. > > Most of the data on the working conditions of the contingent academic workforce—particularly data about salaries, benefits, and course assignments—exist in large data sets that have been aggregated and averaged at the national level. Consequently, the similarities and differences that contingent academic workers experience across different institutions and institutional sectors, geographic regions, and disciplines become obscured. This survey aims to examine salaries, benefits, course assignments, and general working conditions as contingent academic workers experience them at the institutional level. The survey will collect institution- and course-specific information to create a more textured and realistic picture of contingent academic workers’ working lives and working conditions. > > We hope that sufficient numbers of respondents will complete this survey to permit developing a rich dataset that will help CAW and its member organizations advocate on behalf of professional compensation and working conditions for the contingent academic workforce. To that end, we deeply appreciate the time and effort given by all who fill out this survey. > > Individuals who wish to be entered in a drawing for one of several $50 book gift cards may include contact information at the end of the questionnaire, but this information will not be used to connect survey data with specific persons. > > We hope you will fill out the questionnaire (http://lyris.eresources.com:81/t/5289222/4913970/1967/0/ today, but if you cannot, please do so by November 30, 2010. Winners of the gift cards will be notified the following week. Thank you. > > John Curtis, AAUP Director of Research and Public Policy > > About the Coalition on the Academic Workforce > Organized in 1997, CAW is a group of the 21 higher education associations, disciplinary associations, and faculty organizations listed below who are committed to addressing issues associated with deteriorating working conditions and their effect on college and university students in the United States. For more information about CAW, please visit www.academicworkforce.org. > > American Academy of Religion > American Anthropological Association > American Association of University Professors > American Federation of Teachers > American Historical Association > American Philological Association > American Philosophical Association > American Political Science Association > American Sociological Association > American Studies Association > Association of American Colleges and Universities > College Art Association > Community College Humanities Association > Conference on College Composition and Communication > Linguistic Society of America > Modern Language Association > National Council of Teachers of English > Organization of American Historians > Society of Biblical Literature > Society for Cinema and Media Studies > Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages, Inc. > 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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CFP: The Digital Humanities: Beyond Computing (deadline extension)
by Gary Hall 02 Oct '10

02 Oct '10

*** DUE TO A NUMBER OF REQUESTS, SUBMISSION DEADLINE EXTENDED TO 18 OCTOBER 2010 *** CALL FOR PAPERS THE DIGITAL HUMANITIES: BEYOND COMPUTING Special issue of Culture Machine, vol. 12; http://www.culturemachine.net edited by Federica Frabetti (Oxford Brookes University) The emerging field of the Digital Humanities can broadly be understood as embracing all those scholarly activities in the humanities that involve writing about digital media and technology as well as being engaged in processes of digital media production (e.g. developing new media theory, creating interactive electronic literature, building online databases and wikis). Perhaps most notably, in what some are describing as a ‘computational turn’, it has seen techniques and methodologies drawn from Computer Science – image processing, data visualisation, network analysis – being used increasingly to produce new ways of understanding and approaching humanities texts. Yet just as interesting as what Computer Science has to offer the humanities, surely, is the question of what the humanities have to offer Computer Science; and, beyond that, what the humanities themselves can bring to the understanding of the digital. Do the humanities really need to draw so heavily on Computer Science to develop their sense of what the Digital Humanities might be? Already in 1990 Mark Poster was arguing that ‘the relation to the computer remains one of misrecognition’ in the field of Computer Science, with the computer occupying ‘the position of the imaginary’ and being ‘inscribed with transcendent status’. If so, this has significant implications for any so-called ‘computational turn’ in the humanities. For on this basis Computer Science does not seem all that well-equipped to understand even itself and its own founding object, concepts and concerns, let alone help with those of the humanities. In this special issue of Culture Machine we are therefore interested in investigating something that may initially appear to be a paradox: to what extent is it possible to envisage Digital Humanities that go beyond the disciplinary objects, affiliations, assumptions and methodological practices of computing and Computer Science? At the same time the humanities are not without blindspots and elements of misrecognition of their own. Take the idea of the human. For all the radical interrogation of this concept over the last 100 years or so, not least in relation to technology, doesn’t the mode of research production in the humanities remain very much tied to that of the individualized, human author? (Isn’t this evident in different ways even in the work of such technology-conscious anti-humanist thinkers as Deleuze, Guattari, Kittler, Latour, Negri, Ranciere and Stiegler?) So what are the implications and possibilities of ‘the digital beyond computing’ for the humanities and for some of the humanities’ own central or founding concepts, too? The human, and with it the human-ities; but also the subject, the author, the scholar, writing, the text, the book, the discipline, the university... What would THAT kind of (reconfigured) Digital Humanities look like? We welcome papers that address the above questions and that suggest a new, somewhat different take on the relationship between the humanities and the digital. Deadline for submissions: 18 October 2010 Please submit your contributions by email to Federica Frabetti: <kikka66it(a)yahoo.it> All contributions will be peer-reviewed. **************************************************** Established in 1999, CULTURE MACHINE http://www.culturemachine.net is a fully refereed, open-access journal of cultural studies and cultural theory. It has published work by established figures such as Mark Amerika, Alain Badiou, Simon Critchley, Jacques Derrida, Henry Giroux, Mark Hansen, N. Katherine Hayles, Ernesto Laclau, J. Hillis Miller, Bernard Stiegler, Cathryn Vasseleu and Samuel Weber, but it is also open to publications by up-and-coming writers, from a variety of geopolitical locations. **************************************************** -- Gary Hall Research Professor of Media and Performing Arts School of Art and Design, Coventry University Co-editor of Culture Machine http://www.culturemachine.net Co-founder of the Open Humanities Press http://www.openhumanitiespress.org My website http://www.garyhall.info Latest: 'Affirmative media theory and the post-9/11 world’ http://www.garyhall.info

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deep thoughts at nite on grad school stuff
by Barry Wellman 02 Oct '10

02 Oct '10

I don't have hard data, but in my mere 43 years of experience, stars or tenured non-stars don't move around 4-5 as a rule; perhaps once or two. Point is good to go where there is depth; not just one person. Jeremy's point is great is to look at completion rates and where people are placed. Not necessarily the same thing. Some top schools in Sociology cocoon their students but they eventually wind up with good jobs. Look too at drop out rates. I decided between Harvard & Columbia (in 1963) because Columbia's incoming grad cohort in Soc was 40 and 2nd year cohort was 20. Harvard's incoming cohort was 20 and 2nd year cohort in 19. I avoid the columbia hypercompetitive experience. Talk to the students who worked with the profs at the place. And visit. Nothing like face time to pick up vibes. NetLab welcomes all visitors. 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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Graduate programs for "internet studies"?
by Devin Gaffney 01 Oct '10

01 Oct '10

Hey all, I just finished an exhilarating undergraduate program that gave me enough flexibility in order to study the impact/efficacy of Twitter during the Iran Election(http://www.devingaffney.com/-iranelection-quantifying-online-activ… ), but in order to pull it off, I had to really bend some of the institutions rules, and just barely got the necessary advisorship in order to study it in a reasonable way. I am looking to jump right back into school for the following academic year, and am trying to figure out which schools have which programs - it seems that the information/ websites for all the programs that do exist are well ensconced within their respective institutions websites, which tend towards labyrinthine. Does anyone have a good list of institutions (US/ elsewhere) where a Masters/PhD in fields either directly or otherwise closely related to "internet studies" (or "web science," or whatever term you use, as this even seems to be up in the air, as far as I can tell)? Obviously, there are places like Citizenlab, Berkman, and OII, which all seem to at least offer classes in some capacity, but are there any others i just haven't found? Thanks much, Devin Gaffney http://www.devingaffney.com

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