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QUT Urban Informatics iPhone app DispoMaps v2 now available
by Marcus Foth 22 Apr '10

22 Apr '10

Fellow AoIR-lers if you have an iPhone, please consider downloading and testing the new version of our iPhone app DispoMaps. It is part of a PhD research and development project by Jan Seeburger: http://www.urbaninformatics.net/projects/jan/ Please send feedback off-list to: feedback(a)urbaninformatics.net thank you cheers, marcus -- Assoc. Prof. Marcus Foth Principal Research Fellow Urban Informatics Research Group Institute for Creative Industries and Innovation Queensland University of Technology (CRICOS No. 00213J) 130 Victoria Park Road, Brisbane QLD 4059, Australia Phone +61 7 313 x88772 - Fax x88238 - Office K506, KG m.foth(a)qut.edu.au - http://www.urbaninformatics.net/ QUT Urban Informatics iPhone app DispoMaps version 2 by Jan Seeburger now available http://bit.ly/cR2YN3 DispoMaps enables you to share your current location on an online map with anyone. The map is constantly updated as you go, using your iPhone’s GPS. DispoMaps is easy to use. Launch the app, switch Location Sharing to “ON,” and decide how you want to share your location: via SMS, email, twitter, or facebook. Your recipients will be sent a link to a unique web page displaying a map of your real-time location. Once you have arrived at your destination, you can easily dispose of your map by switching Location Sharing to “OFF.” DispoMaps does not require user accounts. And the recipients of your DispoMaps do not even have to have the app installed. Your privacy is protected: The web page does not contain any information that reveals your personal identity. DispoMaps allows you to stop sharing and dispose of your map whenever you want. For enhanced security, DispoMaps automatically expire after a set period of idle time. What’s new in version 2.0 - Major bug fixes - Major user interface improvements - Twitter integration - Facebook Connect integration Download via iTunes: http://bit.ly/cR2YN3 http://www.urbaninformatics.net/

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University of Denver Media Studies Postdoc
by jeremy hunsinger 22 Apr '10

22 Apr '10

> > The > Department of Media, Film, and Journalism Studies in the Divisions of > Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences at the University of Denver > invites applications for a lecturer-postdoctoral fellow beginning Fall > 2010 with a three-year contract, renewable annually. This position is > designed for individuals who have recently completed their Ph.D. with > the opportunity to participate in career development workshops and our > division-wide faculty mentoring program. Eligible candidates will have > received a Ph.D. no earlier than May 2007. > > Preferred qualifications > include demonstrated expertise in international, global, and/or > multicultural communication and/or media and the ability to teach > research methods. > > The department has foci in film, new media, > journalism, strategic communication, politics, law and ethics, and > health communication. The successful candidate will contribute to one or > more of these existing areas. The successful candidate will teach six > courses over three quarters each year, including one First-Year Seminar > each fall quarter. The candidate will also have responsibility for > courses in the common university-wide curriculum, which can > be undergraduate seminars, related to their research interests that are > framed to meet university and departmental learning outcomes. > > We will > begin considering applications after May 15, 2010. For information > about the Department of Media, Film, and Journalism Studies, please see http://www.du.edu/ahss/schools/mfjs/. > Please complete the online application at https://www.dujobs.org/, and attach a > c.v., the contact information for three references, and a letter of > application that suggests courses to be taught or introduced. > Additional materials can be sent to: Lecturer-Postdoctoral Search > Committee, Department of Media, Film, and Journalism > Studies, University of Denver, 2490 S. Gaylord > St., Denver, CO 80208. The University of Denver is committed to > enhancing the diversity of its faculty and staff and encourages > applications from women, minorities, people with disabilities and > veterans. > > > > > _______________________________________________ > CULTSTUD-L mailing list: CULTSTUD-L(a)lists.comm.umn.edu > http://lists.comm.umn.edu/mailman/listinfo/cultstud-l jeremy hunsinger Center for Digital Discourse and Culture Virginia Tech Information Ethics Fellow, Center for Information Policy Research, School of Information Studies, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (www.cipr.uwm.edu) www.tmttlt.com () ascii ribbon campaign - against html mail /\ - against microsoft attachments http://www.stswiki.org/ sts wiki http://transdisciplinarystudies.tmttlt.com/ Transdisciplinary Studies:the book series

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Submissions to mLIfe 2010 - EURO mGOV, mSOCIETY and mDEVELOPMENT 2010
by Prof. I. Kushchu 22 Apr '10

22 Apr '10

---- Apologies for X postings ---- === MOBILE LIFE CONFERENCES 2010 === Brighton, UK, 26-28 July 2010 - http://www.m4life.org conf(a)m4life.org -- The 5th European Conference on Mobile Government (The EURO mGOV 2010) -- The 3rd International Conference on Mobile Society (mSOCIETY 2010) -- The 2nd Int. Conference on Mobile Development (mDevelopement 2010) === Research Paper Submission Deadline : 30th of April 2010 === The mLife 2010 key plenary speakers: -- Serge Ferre, NOKIA, Vice President Corporate and Head of EU Representation -- Jane Fountain, Professor of Political Science and Public Policy and Director, National Center for Digital Government (ncdg.org) Director, Science, Technology and Society Initiative (umass.edu/sts) -- Dorothy Gordon, Director-General, Ghana-India Kofi Annan Centre of Excellence in ICT -- William H. Dutton, Professor and Director of the Oxford Internet Institute, Professor of Internet Studies, University of Oxford, and Fellow of Balliol College -- ibrahim Kushchu, Associate Prof. and Founding Director, mGCI, UK -- Rain Rannu, Founder at Fortumo Ltd, Estonia -- Roland Traunmüller, Professor Emeritus, the Institute for Informatics in Business and Government at Linz University, Austria. === Important dates are: • Practice talk proposals : Ongoing until 31st of May 2010 • Research Paper Submission Deadline : 30th of April 2010 • Conference Dates : 26-28 July 2010 === Conference web site (http://www.m4life.org) for updates, detailed information on submissions and participation on Also, looking forward to your contributions of proposals for panels, workshops, and demos ------- IBRAHIM KUSHCHU, MBA, MSC., PHD Associate Professor and Founding Director, Mobile Government Consortium International, UK http://www.mgovernment.org ik(a)mgovernment.org +44 1273 327876 - Visit mLife Conferences http://www.m4life.org

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CFP for Academic Mindtrek Conference 2010, Oct 6-8, Tampere, Finland
by Olli Sotamaa 22 Apr '10

22 Apr '10

Dear all, below you will find the basic info for this year's Academic Mindtrek Conference. The conference has altogether 5 tracks featuring the following themes: 1) Social Media, 2) Ambient and Ubiquitous Media, 3) Digital Games, 4) Open Source, 5) Media Business, Media Production and Media Management. All the accepted papers will be published in the ACM digital library. There are also plans to publish a selected set of papers as a book. The detailed Call for papers can be found at http://www.mindtrek.org/2010/academic Looking forward to seeing you in Tampere! Olli Olli Sotamaa // Senior Research Fellow Department of Information Studies and Interactive Media // University of Tampere olli.sotamaa(a)uta.fi // +358 50 420 1472 // www.uta.fi/~olli.sotamaa/ ============================================================= Academic MindTrek 2010: Call for Papers, Tutorials and Workshops 6th - 8th October, 2010, Tampere, Finland http://www.mindtrek.org/2010/academic ============================================================= The MindTrek Association hosts MindTrek as a yearly conference, and the Academic MindTrek conference has been a part of this unique set of events, comprising competitions, world famous keynote speakers, plenary sessions, media festivals, and workshops since 1997. It is a meeting place where experts and thinkers present results from their latest work regarding the development of Internet, interactive media, and the information society. September 6th is the main Academic day, featuring the following themes: 1) Social Media, 2) Ambient and Ubiquitous Media, 3) Digital Games, 4) Open Source, 5) Media Business, Media Production and Media Management. Submission Deadlines - 23rd Apr: Deadline for long papers, workshops and tutorial proposals (6-8 pages) - 21st May: submission of short papers, poster presentations and tool demonstrations (3-4 pages) - 30th July: paper submission deadline for workshops - 1st August: Camera ready papers and copyright forms Key-Dates - 15th May: notification for workshops & tutorials - 28th May: notification of acceptance/rejection for long papers - 24th June: notification of short papers and posters - 6th-8th October 2010: MindTrek academic conference

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Input on the state of Pakistan's ICT
by Fouad Bajwa 21 Apr '10

21 Apr '10

>From Codeweek Pakistan (http://www.codeweek.pk) about the challenges and solutions of IT, ICTs and the Internet: HARD TALK with FOUAD BAJWA – What IT, what ICT? Part II http://www.codeweek.pk/2010/04/hard-talk-with-fouad-bajwa-%E2%80%93-what-it… HARD TALK with FOUAD BAJWA – What IT, what ICT? Part I http://www.codeweek.pk/2010/04/hard-talk-with-fouad-bajwa-what-it-what-ict/ -- Regards. -------------------------- Fouad Bajwa Internet Governance Advisor ICT4D Social Practitioner & Researcher Member Multistakeholder Advisory Group (IGF) Member Civil Society Internet Governance Caucus (IGC) My Blog: Internet's Governance: http://internetsgovernance.blogspot.com/ Follow my Tweets: http://twitter.com/fouadbajwa MAG Interview: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATVDW1tDZzA

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Do you research "locals online"?
by Steven Clift 21 Apr '10

21 Apr '10

If you do, you might enjoy sharing your insights and lessons ... This is the call for those who host local online groups to connect. There are ten of thousands of these "micro" hosts out there and most are doing this work in complete isolation. Steven Clift ... please join us and sign the draft invite letter. http://e-democracy.org/locals The draft letter: This is an invitation to join us on Locals Online. Do you host a ... * neighborhood e-mail list? ... * highly interactive placeblog? ... * local social network on Ning? ... * a private Facebook group for nearest neighbors? ... * a neighborhood parents network online? ... * a local online community of any kind? Then join community builders like you on this new peer-to-peer online group for local online hosts from: http://e-democracy.org/locals Signed, List of charter members for Locals Online * Steven Clift, Minneapolis Standish Ericsson Neighbors Forum * Add your name here: http://pages.e-democracy.org/index.php?title=Locals_Online&action=edit&sect… (Please do NOT add your name unless you actually help host something locally-oriented in this space.)

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IR 11.0 REVIEWERS - DEADLINE today
by Torill Mortensen 21 Apr '10

21 Apr '10

Please log in at http://conftool.net/aoir-ir11/ and finish your assignments! The only way to keep the number of reviews at a reasonable level, is for all to do their part. Luckily we have a large, wonderful base of volunteers this year, so once you get started you'll see it's quickly done. Thank you all for helping out! Torill Mortensen

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PhD scholarships in Information Systems, University of Agder
by Marius Johannessen 21 Apr '10

21 Apr '10

This is perhaps outside of most internet researchers' area of interest, but there are ways to twist the research areas towards more media and information-related topics, so I am posting this here since I would really like to have a colleague with a less IT-heavy background. We also have some other PhD students doing media and information related theses in social media and virtual worlds. More information and application form is found online: http://uia.easycruit.com/vacancy/404071/35073?iso=gb The University of Agder invites applications for a full-time fixed-term appointment as PhD Research Fellow in information systems for a period of three years, alternatively four years with 25% of the time assigned to tasks at the faculty’s discretion. The position is affiliated with the Department of Information Systems, Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences. The position is located in Kristiansand, Norway. The position is remunerated within the State salary scale, salary plan 17.515, code 1017, salary grade 45 (NOK 355.600). A 2 % compulsory pension contribution to the Norwegian Public Service Pension Fund is deducted from the pay according to current statutory provisions. The topic of the dissertation project should fall within one of the following three areas: 1) IT-support for global projects 2) Process modelling and business development 3) Systems development practice regards, Marius Johannessen Research Fellow Institute of Information Systems University of Agder

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Tumblr Networks
by Alex Leavitt 20 Apr '10

20 Apr '10

Has there been research on networked users across the Tumblr blogging platform? Resources appreciated! Thanks, Alex --- Alexander Leavitt Research Specialist, Convergence Culture Consortium Comparative Media Studies, MIT http://doalchemy.org Twitter: @alexleavitt

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[CFP] Radical Teacher Special Issue: Teaching With Technology
by Sarah Roberts 20 Apr '10

20 Apr '10

Radical Teacher Special Issue: Teaching With Technology Teaching today, from K-12 through graduate school, is ubiquitously tied to digital technology. From K-12 through graduate school, today's classroom is increasingly digital, and the call to make it more so grows. Institutional resources are increasingly directed toward classroom digital initiatives, libraries are merged with academic computing departments, and the instructional technologist has begun to occupy a central role on many campuses. New degree programs are popping up, and digital humanities is a newly, yet nebulously, defined discipline. As economic crisis continues to hold the country in its grip for a second year (at least), teachers and students are subjected to additional pressure to make themselves "competitive" as workers in a narrowly defined marketplace that demands technological skills as an end rather than a means to education. Much has already been published about the use of technology in the classroom, including a 2002 cluster of articles in Radical Teacher. It is unlikely that we will see any real decoupling of technology from teaching and learning in our future or lifetime, any more so than it is likely that we see it in any other aspect of our society. or culture at large. Given the fact that ignoring or rejecting technology wholesale is not a viable or palatable option for most of us, we must therefore continue to actively think about use the its use, of it, insist on approaching it with a critical eye, and ask questions at every turn about whose interests are being served, who benefits from our implementation of technology, and why when we choose to engage with technology in teaching and learning. Radical Teacher, the independent magazine for educational workers at all levels and in every kind of institution focusing on critical teaching practice, the political economy of education, and institutional struggles, solicits articles for an upcoming special issue devoted to teaching and technology. We welcome articles that focus centrally on critiques of teaching and technology, problematizations of technology, both in the classroom and at a macro, institutional level, and articles that contribute to an increasing understanding of how to use technology for radical political change and resistance in a range of settings. We are especially interested in discussions of ways such work, when addressed in educational contexts, deepens students' understanding of the social realities that affect their lives and shapes their willed ability to intervene in these realities. Focused on teaching and anchored in concrete examples, articles may concern an entire course, a unit within a course, or a project that takes place outside the traditional classroom. We especially invite submissions from contingent faculty, graduate students, librarians, and academic technologists who are often particularly marshaled in support of digital teaching initiatives. Possible topics might include: • Classroom deployments of digital tools such as blogs and microblogs (e.g., Twitter), wikis, video, and other digital and new media technologies to enhance or encourage radical teaching. • The implications of changing forms of digital labor in the academic environment, including demands to build technology skills, learn software packages, contribute intellectual material to university-owned and/or commercial databases, creating and populating online learning environments, etc. • How to harness technologies for their empowering potential, including supporting and training students to be active users of technology. • Commodification of intellectual material, including the modularization and "just in time" delivery of teaching material via commercial courseware on university-owned servers. • The surveillance and control of teachers and students when learning takes place in digital environments. • The ethical implications of the underlying political and ethical logics we teach when we use technology in our instruction and research. • Limitations on material and other types of access; or when "One Laptop Per Child" is simply not enough. • Demands on instructors to provide vocational training for careers to students; training them to use commercial software packages and delivering a labor force that skilled in technology, as opposed to having support, space and resources for the teaching of academic material. • The lopsided funding of technology projects over all else in academic institutions over the past decade and a half, and the collusion of academic institutions with high-tech business on joint ventures and for-profit activities. • The relationship between contingent labor and on-line teaching. • The relationship between technology and assessment. • Classroom and institutional use of open source and noncommercial softwares (e.g., Drupal) as alternatives to privatized and for-profit technologies. Inquiries, proposals, and drafts should be sent to Emily Drabinski, J. Elizabeth Clark and Sarah Roberts, editors, at emily.drabinski(a)liu.edu. Completed submissions are due September 15, 2010. Essays for Radical Teacher should be approximately 4,000 to 5,000 words and written in accessible prose. For more information, see "Submission Guidelines," http://www.radicalteacher.org/submit.asp. Radical Teacher is published by the University of Illinois Press. CFP available here: http://www.radicalteacher.org/calls.asp Please circulate widely. --- S a r a h T. R o b e r t s Doctoral Student and Fellow, Information in Society Graduate School of Library and Information Science (GSLIS) University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign http://www.lis.illinois.edu/programs/phd/infosociety/

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