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Reminder: [CFP]: The Changing Dynamics of Scientific Collaborations at HICSS (due October 1)
by James Howison 19 Sep '10

19 Sep '10

[under 2 weeks to go] CFP: Workshop on The Changing Dynamics of Scientific Collaborations at HICSS (January 4th 2011) http://www.hicss.hawaii.edu/hicss_44/ Following on from successful workshops at CHI and CSCW we call for 3- to 4-page position papers on the following topics, especially those with a focus on understanding or supporting changing practices in these areas: - Collaborative scientific applications concerning data gathering, analysis, sharing, and visualization - Case studies concerning data gathering, analysis, sharing and visualization - Socio-technical research on scientific collaborations - Research on the scientific software ecosystem - Social networks of scientists - Repurposing social software for science - Participatory design and/or rapid prototyping for scientific software - Distributed data gathering and analysis - Time-critical scientific applications - Studies of generational differences in how science is done - Cross-functional applications and comparisons of a scientific to a non-scientific field - Science and Innovation policy questions on these issues at science funding bodies and beyond. The workshop will bring together - researchers who study scientific practices and collaboration - designers and software developers deploying new types of collaborative systems The goal of the workshop is to produce a white paper to report on the state of the field and to delineate themes and current challenges. Please email workshop papers to James Howison <jhowison(a)cs.cmu.edu> by October 1st. Best regards, James Howison Cecilia Aragon Charlotte Lee Claudio Silva

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Virtual worlds as not just a new medium
by CarrieLynn D. Reinhard 19 Sep '10

19 Sep '10

Hello everyone, I am hoping you could give me some ideas about where to find citations to finish a book chapter. A reviewer said of my book chapter, in which I am arguing for how study users' reception of virtual worlds, the following: "as you well know many scholars oppose this view of VWs as just another medium. our chapter might benefit from looking at those scholars that defend VWs are more than just a new medium." Apparently I do not well know this because I do not know exactly who to cite. Who are the scholars who are opposing this view that VWs is just another medium? Specifically, I was arguing that we cannot treat virtual worlds as wholly unique experiences of reception because it is a "new medium". Are there others out there saying the same thing, only I have horrendously overlooked them? CarrieLynn D. Reinhard, PhD Virtual Worlds Research Group http://worlds.ruc.dk/ Roskilde University Department of Communication, Business, and Information Technologies Building 43.3 Kommunikationsvej 1 DK-4000 Roskilde mbl: + 2280 5128 "If we understand that everyone is connected to everyone else in some way or another, it makes it hard to hurt any single one person, for who knows if we might unwittingly hurt someone we love." - CDR 9/20/02

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University of Kentucky - GIScience Asst/Assoc Prof. Position
by Matthew Zook 17 Sep '10

17 Sep '10

[Aplogies for Cross Posting] KENTUCKY, LEXINGTON 40506-0027. The University of Kentucky, Department of Geography seeks applicants for a tenure track position with research and teaching expertise in Geographic Information Science. Appointment will be at the Assistant or Associate Professor level, commencing Fall 2011. The successful candidate will blend an active interest and strong technical expertise in GIS with research that directly and critically engages with information, visualization and geospatial technologies in ways that complement existing faculty strengths in human or environmental geography. A commitment to developing GIS capacity and interdisciplinary collaboration within the College and University across the social sciences, humanities and earth sciences is desirable. The U.K. College of Arts and Sciences is committed to developing a robust Center for Geographical Information Systems. Applicants should submit (1) a current curriculum vitae; (2) a research and teaching statement; and (3) up to three research related reprints as per the instructions below. Applicants should also arrange for three letters of reference (in hard copy) to be submitted by the start of the review process. The formal review process will begin on October 15, 2010, and will continue until the position is filled. A Ph.D. is required at time of appointment. Faculty contact: Dr. Matthew Zook, Chair, Search Committee, Department of Geography, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40506-0027, email: zook(a)uky.edu. Email applications are required and should be sent directly to Donald Mason (donald.mason(a)uky.edu) Please make the subject field "GIS JOB APPLICATION" and attach relevant documents in pdf format with clear descriptive filenames, e.g., Lastname_Firstname_cv.pdf, Lastname_Firstname_teaching_statement.pdf, etc. The University of Kentucky is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity University that values diversity and is located in an increasingly diverse geographical region. It is committed to becoming one of the top public institutions in the country. Women, persons with disabilities, and members of other underrepresented groups are encouraged to apply. The University also supports family-friendly policies. Dr. Matthew Zook, Ph.D. Associate Professor Department of Geography University of Kentucky 1457 Patterson Office Tower Lexington, KY 40506-0027 859.257.8334 (phone) 859.323.1969 (fax) zook(a)uky.edu http://www.zook.info/

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New Media and Public Relations Position
by Stephen Macek 17 Sep '10

17 Sep '10

Job Ad: Tenure Track Assistant Professor, New Media and Public Relations, North Central College North Central College invites applications for a tenure-track position as assistant professor of speech communication beginning September 2011. Higher rank may be considered for suitably qualified applicants. A Ph.D. is required by September 1, 2011. Applicants should demonstrate potential for excellence in teaching and commitment to scholarly activities. We seek a broadly trained teacher/scholar who specializes in public relations and has expertise in new media. The ideal candidate will be able to develop new public relations courses that will serve the broadcast and organizational communication tracks within the department as well as teach a variety of courses which may include, but are not limited to, introduction to new media, public speaking, business and professional communication, broadcast copywriting/news, and/or group process. Candidates with professional public relations and/or media experience are highly desired. North Central College, founded in 1861, is a selective, comprehensive liberal arts college of 2900 students located 30 miles west of Chicago in Naperville in the heart of the Illinois Research and Development corridor. See http://www.noctrl.edu for more information about the college and the department. Send letter of application, resume, transcripts, teaching philosophy, teaching evaluations and three letters of recommendation to Dr. Mara Berkland, c/o Cheryl Horton, Office of Academic Affairs, North Central College, 30 N. Brainard St., Naperville, IL 60540. Review of applications will begin November 1, 2010, and continue until the position is filled. Preliminary interviews will be held at NCA. Applicants who would enrich the diversity of the campus community are strongly encouraged to apply. EOE.

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Inaugural issue of www.audiovisualthinking.org now launched!
by oranit klein 17 Sep '10

17 Sep '10

Inaugural issue of www.audiovisualthinking.org now launched! We are happy to announce the inaugural issue of Audiovisual Thinking, the world’s first journal of academic videos about audiovisuality, communication, media and design. Audiovisual Thinking is a pioneering forum where academics and educators can articulate, conceptualize and disseminate their research about audiovisuality and audiovisual culture through the medium of video. The first issue features a varied and interesting selection of academic videos on the topic of What is Academic Video? Please visit the journal on <http://www.audiovisualthining.org/> www.audiovisulathinking.org <http://www.audiovisualthinking.org/> or contact the editors: inges(a)hum.ku.dk The second Call for Videos about Rights and Wrongs in the Digital Age is now also open.

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TT Assistant Professor of Health Communication
by Kris M. Markman 17 Sep '10

17 Sep '10

The Department of Communication at the University of Memphis seeks applications for a tenure-track assistant professor in health communication beginning Fall 2011. We are especially interested in applicants who have experience conducting qualitative or mixed methods research in areas such as patient/provider interaction, public health communication, chronic illness, end-of-life care, women's health, children's health, or health communication and technology. A PhD in communication or a related field is required before the appointment begins. Memphis boasts the largest healthcare network in the region, including two of the largest private hospitals in the country, a pediatric and adult trauma center, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, and the University of Tennessee Health Sciences Center. The Department of Communication has a vibrant relationship with several of these hospitals and UTHSC, with ample opportunities for communication research. The Department of Communication offers BA, MA, and PhD degrees, with specializations in rhetoric and applied communication, including health communication, at the doctoral level. Please see the Department's website at www.memphis.edu/communication for more information. Applicants should submit a cover letter, CV, writing sample, evidence of teaching effectiveness, and contact information for three references online at workforum.memphis.edu. Review of applications will begin November 8 and continue until the position is filled. The University of Memphis is an Equal Opportunity/ Affirmative ---------- ---------- ---------- Kris M. Markman, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Dept. of Communication University of Memphis www.krismarkman.com

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New book announcement - News Online: Transformations and Continuities
by Graham Meikle 16 Sep '10

16 Sep '10

Hi all Some of you may be interested in this book, 'News Online: Transformations and Continuities', published today by Palgrave Macmillan http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=349976 Introduction: Transformation and Continuity - Graham Meikle and Guy Redden 1) Journalism, Public Service and BBC News Online - Stuart Allan and Einar Thorsen 2) Managing the online news revolution: the UK experience - Brian McNair 3) The crisis of journalism and the Internet - Robert W. McChesney 4) When magical realism confronted virtual reality: online news and journalism in Latin America - Jairo Lugo-Ocando and Andrés Cañizález 5) Newsgames: an introduction - Ian Bogost, Simon Ferrari and Bobby Schweizer 6) The intimate turn of mobile news - Gerard Goggin 7) News to me: Twitter and the personal networking of news - Kate Crawford 8) News produsage in a pro-am mediasphere: why citizen journalism matters - Axel Bruns 9) OComment is free, facts are sacred¹: journalistic ethics in a changing mediascape - Natalie Fenton and Tamara Witschge 10) Journalism without journalists: on the power shift from journalists to employers and audiences - Mark Deuze and Leopoldina Fortunati 11) Web 2.0, citizen journalism and social justice in China - Xin Xin 12 Marrying the professional to the amateur: strategies and implications of the OhmyNews model - An Nguyen Conclusion - Guy Redden and Graham Meikle Best regards, gm Dr Graham Meikle ---------------------- Senior Lecturer, Department of Film, Media & Journalism, University of Stirling, FK9 4LA, Scotland. T: +44 (0) 1786 466222 F: +44 (0) 1786 466855 E: <graham.meikle(a)stir.ac.uk> W: <http://www.fmj.stir.ac.uk/staff/graham-meikle/graham-meikle.php> -- The Sunday Times Scottish University of the Year 2009/2010 The University of Stirling is a charity registered in Scotland, number SC 011159.

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CFP: International Conference on Latin American Cybercultural Studies
by Tori Holmes 16 Sep '10

16 Sep '10

Dear all, please see below for a call for papers for a conference on Latin American Cybercultural Studies to be held at the University of Liverpool in the UK in May 2011. I think this list does not accept attachments, so I've avoided trying to send the postgraduate conference grant form mentioned in the call. If you need it, please write to the conference organiser, Dr Claire Taylor - see below for her email address. Best wishes, Tori // FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS International Conference on Latin American Cybercultural Studies: Exploring New Paradigms and Analytical Approaches THURSDAY 19& FRIDAY 20 MAY 2011 UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL, UK The School of Cultures, Languages and Area Studies at the University of Liverpool is pleased to announce a forthcoming conference on Latin American Cybercultural Studies. This conference, the first of its kind in the UK, will focus on the growing field of Latin American cyberculture, including literary blogs, digital storytelling, digital poetry, hypertext novels, hypermedia fiction, net.art, and online performance art, amongst others, and aims to explore analytical and theoretical approaches to these new media works. Combining presentations by practitioners and scholars alike, the conference aims to provide an important counterpart to the Anglophone-dominated arena of cybercultural studies, and will include workshops on hypermedia narrative and digital poetry, as well as the opportunity to reflect on research-led teaching in digital media. Confirmed Speakers Include: Diego Bonilla (California State University) Andrew Brown (Washington University in St Louis) Debra Castillo (Cornell University) Margaret Clarke (University of Portsmouth) Luis Correa-Díaz (University of Georgia at Athens) Héctor Perea (UNAM) Thea Pitman (University of Leeds) Scott Weintraub (University of Georgia at Athens) Papers are especially invited on, but are not restricted to, the following areas: • Locality and Embeddedness in Hispanic Cyberliteratures • Latin American Digital Poetry and Hypermedia Narratives • Remixing and Mash-Ups in Latin American net.art • Latin American Literature in the Age of Re-mediation and Inter-mediation • Countering the Importation of Cybercultural Paradigms • Research-Led Teaching in the Digital World The organizers welcome proposals both for panels and for individual 20-minute papers, which may be given in English, Spanish or Portuguese. Alternative formats – round tables, discussion papers, work-in-progress, multimedia presentations – are positively encouraged, as are postgraduate submissions. Abstracts for individual papers should be between 300-350 words; proposals for panels should include panel title, names of panel members and abstracts. Postgraduates are eligible to apply for the Postgraduate Conference Grant, and should apply using the attached form. Abstracts and panel proposals should be sent by 1 December 2010 to the conference organizer, Dr Claire Taylor (c.l.taylor(a)liv.ac.uk) The conference organizers would like to thank the Modern Humanities Research Organization, and the University of Liverpool International Collaboration Fund for their contributions to the conference. -- Tori Holmes PhD student in Latin American cyberculture School of Cultures, Languages and Area Studies University of Liverpool personal university page: http://bit.ly/6ZDAN Latin American cyberculture and cyberliterature research project: http://www.liv.ac.uk/soclas/research/lacyberculture/index.htm

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Cell phone is EU
by Ted Coopman 16 Sep '10

16 Sep '10

All, I was hoping to get some advice for the best way (cheapest) to maintain mobile phone access while in Europe for AoIR. I have an old Razr (waiting for Verizon to get the iPhone since my ATT reception sucks at my house). I seem to recall you can get a different sim card or upgrade your service for while, but was thinking of picking up a disposable mobile or maybe buying minutes with an access card. At any rate, any advice on staying connected would be appreciated. Feel free to contact me off list. Thanks, -TED -- Ted M. Coopman Ph.D. Lecturer Department of Communication Studies Department of Television, Radio, Film, & Theatre San Jose State University

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CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS: Video Vortex Amsterdam - March 11-12, 2011
by Geert Lovink 16 Sep '10

16 Sep '10

CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS: Video Vortex Amsterdam - March 11-12, 2011 Video Vortex is coming back to Amsterdam! Having contributed to the dialogue about the ever increasing potential or online video through five international events since 2007, the publication of the Video Vortex Reader and the current production of a second one, the Institute of Network Cultures will host Video Vortex #6 on March 11-12, 2011. Video Vortex #6 will include a conference, artist presentations (talks/ performances/exhibition) and hands-on workshops. WE INVITE Internet, visual culture and media scholars, researchers, artists, curators, producers, lawyers, engineers, open-source and open-content advocates, activists, and others to submit abstracts, preferably within the themes listed below. SUBMIT PROPOSAL + BIO Please send an abstract of a maximum 500 words outlining your proposed talk, and a short biography of a maximum 200 words. SEND TO: rachel(at)networkcultures(dot)org DEADLINE: Monday, October 11, 2010. MORE INFORMATION Video Vortex: http://www.networkcultures.org/videovortex/ Institute of Network Cultures: http://www.networkcultures.org Sign up for Video Vortex Discussion list here: http://networkcultures.org/wpmu/videovortex/discussion-list Or email: rachel(at)networkcultures(dot)org __________________________ VIDEO VORTEX #6 THEMES - Open Everything and the Challenge of Cash What is the ultimate open video? What are the new ways to produce and distribute online video as open? And what are the limits of openness online? Why would you share your content or code, what’s in it for you? What are the key economic questions for video start-ups? How can they combine a culture of openness and sharing, while attending to the need to generate income in order to keep producing and pay the rent? What are some of the examples of best practice: what are they, who are they, where are they? Does government policy have a role, or should it be left up to the uneven geography of informational peers to generate new protocols for content distribution? - From Dead Collection to Dynamic Database Now that museums, distributors and TV channels have put their collections online, what is the next phase for these digitalized public archives? How can ‘the audience’ be involved, in order to avoid a dead online collection with zero comments? Moreover, what forms of social dynamism can be critically forged in the default rush towards greater participation? Who controls the database, and is there a role for designers in developing database aesthetics? How to jump through the hoops of copyright legislation, format compatibility and the spatial culture of consumption and production? Once collaboration comes into play, what impact do conflicting skill sets, different modes of knowledge production and varying social desires have? - Attack Amateur Aesthetics! This theme seeks to tackle the tenuous relationship between amateur and professional video production, particularly with respect to the question of ‘quality’. Have amateur and professional video grown closer or are they still in competition? Given Andrew Keen’s and Jaron Lanier’s critiques of amateur content, is it possible for the quality of video to be improved? How can cultural value or worth be understood in this expansive realm of video? What aesthetics, techniques, genres, structures, and so on, exist in the professional realm of online video, compared to the amateur? Now that professional advertising campaigns seek that ‘raw’ amateur look, and the amateur experimentation tries to produce high quality produced work, what should professional education in this field be aimed at? - Art and Activism What are the political and artistic strategies of online video? Are there powerful platforms available for videos in the realm of art and activism? How do artists and activists deal with and reflect on the nature of online video, with its guerrilla, amateur, viral, remix and lo-fi characteristics? How is online video being used as a (grassroots) political tool, and conversely the ways in which authoritative powers understand and use video against activist actions? What are the new ways of launching political content effectively when everything aims to be viral? And where is the radical and artistic answer to TED Talks? - Big Players and the Politics of Appropriation Who are the big players in the world of online video? How are corporations and governments using online video? What kind of guerrilla marketing strategies are companies adopting, appropriating amateur aesthetics and making use of the possibilities of online video for its easily viral nature? How are cinema and television companies dealing with the large-scale use of online and mobile video? And how to respond to the rise of 'national webs' and the new enclosures of the cable/telecom packages and TV set-top boxes? - Platforms, Standards and the Trouble with Translation This theme seeks to draw forth experts who will offer strong interventions regarding various platforms and channels proliferating on the internet that contribute to the ecology and culture of online video. These include, but are not limited to: Skype, streaming video technologies, Foursquare, Seesmic, Qik video, Netflix, immediate news channels online etc. The theme focuses on the problem of the translations across platforms that arise to due to conflicts in standards. The geo-cultural, and often the national, limits to open sharing of online content are also significant. How do users and producers get around the limits of these borders? How do they work under the radar or tunnel through the firewall in the face of censorship and content control? Or do people simply submit to the powers that be? ______________________________ Video Vortex 6 is organized as part of Culture Vortex, a research and innovation program on public participation in online cultural collections, organized by the INC and partners MediaLAB Amsterdam, Nederlands Instituut voor Beeld en Geluid, Netherlands Media Art Institute, Virtual Platform, and VPRO, and five participating cultural organizations. Culture Vortex is funded by RAAK-Public program and the Innovation Alliance Foundation. More info: http://www.networkcultures.org/culturevortex/

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