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REMINDRE: Affective fabrics of digital cultures: feelings, technologies, politics
by Adi Kuntsman 18 Jan '10

18 Jan '10

Reminder: deadline for submission of abstracts is 1st of February 2010. Further details below Affective fabrics of digital cultures: feelings,technologies, politics 3-4 June 2010, The University of Manchester http://www.socialsciences.manchester.ac.uk/ricc/events/digital_affect/index… Plenary speakers: Una Chung (Sarah Lawrence College) Patricia Clough (Queens College, CUNY) Anne-Marie Fortier (Lancaster University) Melissa Gregg (The University of Sydney) Athina Karatzogianni (The University of Hull) Luciana Parisi (Goldsmith, University of London) Organiser: Adi Kuntsman (RICC, The University of Manchester) This two-day international conference brings into creative tension two fields that are receiving growing scholarly attention: cultural studies of affect, public feelings and the politics of emotion, on the one hand, and scholarship on digital culture, new media and information-communication technologies, on the other. The conference aims to create a space for intellectual dialogue between the two fields by examining the relations between technologies, and in particular, new digital technologies – the Internet, digital cinema and photography, mobile communication, CCTVs, computer games – and affective politics. Bringing together contributions from the fields of sociology, media and cultural studies, arts, politics and science and technology studies, the conference will engage with the following questions: How does affect work in on-line networks and digital assemblages? What are the affective regimes of on-line sociality? What kind of perceptions, sensations, affective movements and public feelings emerge in our highly mediated and digitalised environments? What is the cybertouch of war, violence, terror? What are the structures of feeling that operate in the digitalised everyday and computerised ordinary? How can we theorise psycho-political formations of nation, race, empire, population and generation in the age of digital reproduction, mediated visions and globalised communication technologies? How do digital cultures shape our political horizons of fear, anxiety, mourning, hate, hope? We invite submission of abstracts for individual papers or round tables. Alternative presentation formats are welcome; please contact us to discuss further options. Please send your abstract (300 words for individual papers, 500 words for round tables) by 1st of February 2010 to Adi.kuntsman(a)manchester.ac.uk. Candidates will be notified by 15th of March 2010. Selected papers will be considered for post-conference publication. -- Dr. Adi Kuntsman Leverhulme Early Career Fellow Research Institute for Cosmopolitan Cultures The University of Manchester Second Floor, Arthur Lewis Building, room 2.007 Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL, UK http://www.socialsciences.manchester.ac.uk/ricc/index.html http://adi.kuntsman.googlepages.com/

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Deadline approaching: CfP IAMCR CP&T section Braga 2010
by Jo Pierson 18 Jan '10

18 Jan '10

CALL FOR PAPERS COMMUNICATION POLICY AND TECHNOLOGY (CP&T) Section International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR) 28th Annual Conference, July 18-22, 2010, Braga (Portugal) Communication and Citizenship: Rethinking Crisis and Change http://www.iamcr2010portugal.com The Communication Policy and Technology (CP&T) Section of the IAMCR invites the submission of abstracts bearing on the Conference theme as well as on the Section sub-theme: ‘Citizen Participation through Technology, Access and Policy’. The media and technology landscape as well as relevant communication policies are changing fundamentally, with a shift from mass media and personal media to media for mass self-communication. The technological facilities for mediated communication are proliferating and becoming increasingly fragmented as a result of convergence and the emergence and rapid spread of new media and internet technologies like interactive digital broadcasting, mobile technologies, social computing, internet-of-things and - more recently - cloud computing. Within this transitional digital media ecosystem researchers increasingly aim to understand how participation by people and communities can (still) take a central position and to what end. How can citizens and/or consumers be empowered in participation through ICT design, usages and policy? Or what are the threats and constraints for people to become disempowered in a convergence culture? Three main areas of user (dis)empowerment are being identified as themes of special interest for CP&T section: (1) market and state ‘feudalisation’, (2) privacy and surveillance, and (3) inclusion and media literacies. The first area of concern relates to the ever increasing ‘feudalisation’ of ICT applications and services by market forces and interests. Besides this, some states are also very active in controlling, monitoring and censoring the internet. This all has serious consequences for the opportunities and potentialities of ICT enabled participation and empowerment. In this regard the debate on net neutrality and its consequences for freedom of speech, access to information, etc. is highly relevant, but also issues of copyright in relation to ownership of user generated content or the posting of copyright protected material on blogs and web 2.0 sites, the share culture, etc. The second focus area of privacy and surveillance is of course to some extent linked to the previous one. This refers to enhanced profiling and data mining practices by private and public organisations (e.g. behavioural advertising, digital footprint, deep-packet inspection technology, etc.), combined with the blurring of boundaries between public and private sphere in the co-creation and ‘produsage’ practices by different types of users (e.g. lead users, citizen journalists,...). A third area of focus deals with inclusion and multiple media literacies. This perspective links in with notions of digital participation that go beyond access. In the changing media environment, new affordances of communication tools require a reconfiguration of digital exclusion-inclusion. We need to look at different levels of capabilities, but also how inclusion is (not) built into specific media and technologies from a human-centred design perspective. At the same time this also means increasing the reach, breadth and depth of digital media and technologies across all domains of society through multiliteracies. The question remains however to what extent inclusion is always empowering, or can inclusion also lead to disempowerment. Empirical, theoretical and analytical work on these three and other related issues will form the central thrust of presentations in the CP&T section at the 2010 Braga conference. SUBMISSION INFORMATION The CP&T section welcomes abstracts (300 - 500 words) from scholars of any academic discipline bearing on aforementioned and related issues. Abstracts should state the title as well as the methods or approaches used and introduce the empirical and theoretical material on which the paper is based. Besides the abstract title and text, each submission includes author name(s), affiliation, institutional address and email address of (all) author(s). The abstracts can only be submitted via the official conference abstracts and registration site: http://www.lasics.uminho.pt/ocs/index.php/iamcr/2010portugal/schedConf/cfp The deadline for the submission of abstracts is January 31, 2010. The papers will be assessed and provisionally accepted on the basis of the abstracts. You will be informed whether or not your abstract is accepted by March 15, 2010. The full papers (max. 7500 words) are due April 30, 2010, in order to ensure that the authors’ names and papers’ titles are included in the final conference program. Key submission guidelines: - Deadline abstracts: January 31, 2010 - Announcement of acceptances: March 15, 2010 - Deadline full papers: April 30, 2010 - IAMCR accepts presentations in English, French and Spanish. However, it is requested that abstracts, if at all possible, be submitted in English - Individual abstracts may only be submitted to a single section/ working group. Please do not submit the same abstract to two or more different IAMCR sections/working groups. Additional questions (e.g. on panels) may be addressed to Maria Michalis (m.michalis[AT]westminster.ac.uk) or Jo Pierson (jo.pierson[AT]vub.ac.be). Chairs: Jo Pierson and Hopeton S. Dunn (on leave, serving as acting Secretary General, IAMCR) Vice-chairs: Maria Michalis and Bart Cammaerts

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Extension deadlines: EuroITV 2010 CfP
by Jo Pierson 18 Jan '10

18 Jan '10

8th European Conference on Interactive TV and Video EuroITV2010 "web.sharing.tv.content " June 9th-11th, Tampere, Finland, http://www.euroitv2010.org/ 3rd Call for Papers, Demos, Tutorials, and Industrial Exhibitions News - Full Paper deadline extended till 24th January 2010 - Tutorial deadline extended till 15th January 2010 - Short Paper deadline approaching 7th February 2010 (!) WE ESPECIALLY ENCOURAGE CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE 'INTERACTIVE CONTENT & ART' TRACK (!) New in EuroITV: - 4 tracks: interactive content & arts, HCI, technology, and media studies - video and TV in the age of Web 3.0. - EuroITV competition grand challenge - targeted and themed workshops - email list: on https://listmail.tut.fi/mailman/listinfo/euroitv2010 - proceedings published within the ACM Digital Library and special issues Thanks to our Sponsors: Nokia ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- EuroITV is the leading international conference for media related to video and television. EuroITV is attended by academia and professionals from all over the world to discuss latest advances and research of media technology, HCI, media studies, and the content creation community. In addition to previous years' topics of the conference, EuroITV 2010 offers new opportunities this year: * INTERACTIVE CONTENT & ARTS TRACK EuroITV 2010 extends its tracks with a new track to explicitly attract the creative media production community dealing with interactive video, 3D cinema, TV program formats, film production, and consumers as content creators and contributors. * VIDEO IN THE AGE OF WEB3.0. EuroITV 2010 faces the challenges of TV as changing environment and explicitly invites contributions dealing with user-generated content, video in social networking, mashup networks, IPTV, cross-media, broadcasting everywhere, 3D cinema/3D IPTV/3D content, and video.b * EuroITV COMPETITION GRAND CHALLENGE EuroITV 2010 also offers a competition opened for artistic content creators, application developers, and service designers to get awarded by EuroITV. IMPORTANT DATES ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- January 15th, 2010: Tutorial Proposals (extended) January 24th, 2010: Full Paper Submissions (extended) February 07th, 2010: Short Papers, Posters, Doctoral Consortium, Demos March 21st, 2010: Industry Exhibitions April 1st, 2010: EuroITV Competition Grand Challenge More information about other sessions, e.g. for business oriented work, will follow soon. More details can be found on: http://www.euroitv2010.org/ CONFERENCE TRACKS ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This year's conference consists of four tracks, each with their own program committee and a separate track chair, coordinated by an overall Program Chair. Full papers, short papers and posters have to be submitted in one of these tracks, to optimize the review process. If not sure, choose the track which is closest to the main topic of your submission, and of which you feel that community is most appropriate to review your work. Track 1: Interactive Content & Arts Track 2: Human-Computer Interaction Track 3: Media, Social and Economic Studies Track 4: Systems and Enabling Technologies Track 1: Interactive Content & Arts Track . Studies of interactive, collaborative content & video . Storytelling . Digital gaming . Role playing . Virtual worlds, mixed reality, and bringing video into the world . Distributed and networked experience design . Immersion . Social media in storytelling . Ambient media, locative media, cross media formats, and social media . Artistic and aesthetic uses of interactivity . Viewer, player, user, and collaborative co-creator . Towards a new form language for video & television . Social media utilizing online video as an art form . Video and TV genres on interactive platforms and in virtual worlds . Video and TV as alternate reality games Track 2: Human-Computer Interaction . User-centered design . Development and evaluation of iTV systems and services . Interaction technologies for interactive TV and cross-media technologies . Studies on iTV and media usage . Design and evaluation methods for the area of interactive TV . Case studies of successful/unsuccessful iTV systems and deployments of usability and user experience . Accessibility of iTV services . Cross-over media concepts and implementations . Investigations on iTV acceptance and related concepts (trust, privacy, security). Track 3: Media, Social and Economic Studies . Television practices and experiences related to privacy, trust and security . Direct marketing and profiling techniques for interactive TV: personalization and user modelling . Measurability, interactivity and addressability of ITV use and prosumption . Business models, media management, media economics, t-commerce, t- learning . Interactive Digital Television and internet-of-things applications . Audience research, television studies, ethnography, user studies . New advertising and revenue models for television . User creativity on/via television: Web2.0, social media, community television, user-generated content . Ethical, regulatory and policy issues . Everyday life practices by family, elderly, youngsters and children . Digital divide and e-inclusion issues . Methods for digital television research and design . From mass media to mass self-communication . Transitions in broadcasting industry and policy related to digital convergence and experience economy Track 4: Systems and Enabling Technologies . Mobile TV . Ambient intelligence . Social TV . Digital content production . HDTV and digital cinema . Entertainment computing . Interactive services (games, betting, game shows) . Broadband, IPTV, 3DTV and VR systems . Accessibility, universal access, multimodal interaction . Web 2.0 . Internet TV (P2P TV, Web-based Interactive TV) . Enhanced TV (news, weather, sports) . Multimedia communication services . Video technology (video conferencing, broadcast, video search) . Standards (TV-Anytime, MPEG-4, MPEG-7, SMIL) CONTACT ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- For up to date information and further details please visit: http://www.euroitv2010.org/ Send any inquiry about the conference to: info(a)euroitv2010.org To receive updates about the EuroITV2010 Conference, subscribe to the Conference mailing list by subscribing on https://listmail.tut.fi/mailman/listinfo/euroitv2010 or sending an email with "subscribe" in the subject to: euroitv2010-request(a)listmail.tut.fi. Host: EMMi Lab., Department of Business Information Management and Logistics / TUT Tampere (http://www.tut.fi/emmi)

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Manière de voir: Internet, révolution culturelle
by Mathieu ONeil 18 Jan '10

18 Jan '10

[Apologies for cross-postings] Manière de voir: Internet, révolution culturelle No. 109 / Février - Mars 2010 A compendium of articles by Castells, Klinenberg, Lévy, Schiller, etc dealing with Net politics, economics and culture from a progressive perspective. In French! Full table of contents available at: http://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/mav/109/ **** Dr Mathieu O'Neil Adjunct Research Fellow Australian Demographic and Social Research Institute College of Arts and Social Science The Australian National University email: mathieu.oneil(a)anu.edu.au web: http://adsri.anu.edu.au/people/visitors/mathieu.php

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CFP Workshop Digital Technology Design in Cross-cultural Contexts: Practice & Methods
by Nalini Kotamraju 18 Jan '10

18 Jan '10

Call for Participation Digital Technology Design in Cross-cultural Contexts: Practice & Methods Workshop Thursday, April 22 - Friday, April 23, 2010 University of Twente, Enschede, Netherlands GOAL & SCOPE Analyzing and designing digital technologies across cultural, religious, ethnic, national or other boundaries is a challenge. Incorporating our rich understanding of how differences between people may generate different technological needs and expectations into how we analyze and design technologies is a crucial, yet often frustrating, murky, and unevenly executed process. This two-day workshop provides an opportunity for scholars and design practitioners working in these areas to present and discuss their work (or work-in-progress), with a particular emphasis on methodological challenges and solutions. We encourage submissions from academics, practitioners, and technologists in all fields and in all domains. The workshop will be particularly relevant to people concerned with (but not limited to) the following areas: culturally comparative research about technologies, cross-cultural use of technology, multilingual technology design, accessibility, translation and localization, globalization of technologies. We have a small amount of funds to support travel and accommodation. The University of Twente is located near an international train station, as well as near several international airports (70 km from Munster, Germany; 150 km from Dusseldorf, Germany, 165 km from Amsterdam/Schiphol, Netherlands). PARTICIPATION To apply for this workshop, please email the following by February 15, 2010 to n.p.kotamraju(a)utwente.nl. 1. A 250-word statement indicating what you hope to gain and contribute from participating in this workshop, and, if you are requesting travel or accommodation funds, the minimum amount you would need in order to attend. 2. A 300-350-word abstract of your presentation (completed or in progress) 3. Curriculum vita (CV) Please note that space at the workshop is limited to approximately 15 participants. IMPORTANT DATES Submissions Due: February 15, 2010 Notification of Acceptance: February 19, 2010 Workshop: April 22-23, 2010 ORGANIZERS - Dr. Nalini P. Kotamraju, University of Twente, Department of Technical & Professional Communication - Dr. Somaya Ben Allouch, University of Twente, Department of Media, Communication & Organization ----------- Nalini P. Kotamraju, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Department of Technical & Professional Communication University of Twente, Netherlands n.p.kotamraju(a)utwente.nl | +31 53 489 4970 http://www.gw.utwente.nl/tpc/mw/Kotamraju/

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Vacancies at Roskilde University, Denmark
by Robin Cheesman 17 Jan '10

17 Jan '10

At the Department of Culture and Identity, Roskilde University, a position as assistant professor in Cultural Encounters is to be filled from 1 August 2010 or as soon as possible thereafter. Applicants should have done research on new media in a global perspective and hold qualifications in research fields that are prioritized by the research group, Intercultural Studies. Also a full professorship in Cultural Encounters is to be filled by 1 January 2011. More at: http://orecomm.net/2010/vacancies-at-roskilde-university/ CLOSING DATE FOR APPLICATIONS TO BOTH POSITIONS IS: MONDAY 1 FEBRUARY AT 12:00 NOON.

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Re: [Air-L] Air-L Digest, Vol 66, Issue 17
by Mridula 17 Jan '10

17 Jan '10

I post my pictures on Flickr and if my images would be pulled (which would not be the case given your research topic) I would like that permission was asked beforehand. Otherwise to me it is like opening a Pandora's box. To give you a simple case many of us post under all rights reserved and only today I saw this http://www.flickr.com/photos/petezab/4276745361/ Looks like the Independent pulled some images and some people of course did not like it. In your case at least there is no commercial use but still there is no harm in asking beforehand if that is feasible for you. I don't think photographic quoting makes sense because you would probably not quote a small part of the picture as under fair use. But then this is just my opinion. Regards, Mridula On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 4:30 AM, <air-l-request(a)listserv.aoir.org> wrote: > Send Air-L mailing list submissions to > air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > air-l-request(a)listserv.aoir.org > > You can reach the person managing the list at > air-l-owner(a)listserv.aoir.org > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of Air-L digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. A question of Open Source ethics (paul caplan) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Sat, 16 Jan 2010 11:35:25 +0000 > From: paul caplan <praxis(a)theinternationale.com> > To: air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org > Subject: [Air-L] A question of Open Source ethics > Message-ID: <4B51A47D.5080605(a)theinternationale.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed > > Hi. I'm after a bit of advice from wiser souls! > > I am developing an AHRC-funded, practice-based PhD > (http://olympicarcades.theinternationale.com) at Birkbeck, University of > London. > > In short I am exploring Flickr as a space for imag(in)ing the London > 2012 Olympics through the development of a mobile phone App(aratus) > using a model based on Benjamin's Arcades Project. > > The question I have is about collecting the Flickr rags 'n refuse. > > I will be pulling images from Flickr into the App allowing users to see > the distributed imagery. So far so simple, no real issue over browsing > Flickr. > > However I also want to use the App(aratus) to screengrab those images > and add them back onto Flickr where they will become part of the > distributed imag(in)ings. Furthermore, following Benjamin, I want to > screengrab/'quote' and annotate those images with textual commentary. > Both of these sets of images would be on my Flickr page. > > The App(aratus) would also allow the user to screengrab the flow of > images and upload to their Flickr pages (which would then be pulled back > into the flow). > > All these quoted and annotated images would include links back to the > 'originals'. > > In short, what are the ethical issues here about 'photographic quoting'. > I know there is a long tradition of postmodern imagers like Levine > rephotographing and then displaying images but this is slightly > different. Obviously if I was only 'using' Creative Commons images, > there would be no problem, but part of the issue I am looking at is the > broader issue of network imag(in)ing and ideally I don't want to rule > out any distributed 2012 images. > > Do people think there are any research ethics issues here? > > Any thoughts welcome. > > -- > paul caplan > content to be different > the Internationale > olympicarcades.theinternationale.com > > > ------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > The Air-L(a)listserv.aoir.org mailing list > is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org > Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: > http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org > > Join the Association of Internet Researchers: > http://www.aoir.org/ > > End of Air-L Digest, Vol 66, Issue 17 > ************************************* > -- http://www.gonomad.com/traveltalesfromindia/

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A question of Open Source ethics
by paul caplan 16 Jan '10

16 Jan '10

Hi. I'm after a bit of advice from wiser souls! I am developing an AHRC-funded, practice-based PhD (http://olympicarcades.theinternationale.com) at Birkbeck, University of London. In short I am exploring Flickr as a space for imag(in)ing the London 2012 Olympics through the development of a mobile phone App(aratus) using a model based on Benjamin's Arcades Project. The question I have is about collecting the Flickr rags 'n refuse. I will be pulling images from Flickr into the App allowing users to see the distributed imagery. So far so simple, no real issue over browsing Flickr. However I also want to use the App(aratus) to screengrab those images and add them back onto Flickr where they will become part of the distributed imag(in)ings. Furthermore, following Benjamin, I want to screengrab/'quote' and annotate those images with textual commentary. Both of these sets of images would be on my Flickr page. The App(aratus) would also allow the user to screengrab the flow of images and upload to their Flickr pages (which would then be pulled back into the flow). All these quoted and annotated images would include links back to the 'originals'. In short, what are the ethical issues here about 'photographic quoting'. I know there is a long tradition of postmodern imagers like Levine rephotographing and then displaying images but this is slightly different. Obviously if I was only 'using' Creative Commons images, there would be no problem, but part of the issue I am looking at is the broader issue of network imag(in)ing and ideally I don't want to rule out any distributed 2012 images. Do people think there are any research ethics issues here? Any thoughts welcome. -- paul caplan content to be different the Internationale olympicarcades.theinternationale.com

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Multiple Social Platform Uses + Web 2.0 and Handicraft + Racialization on the Web
by Ostap Bender 15 Jan '10

15 Jan '10

Hi everyone, I am a new member of the list. I am a research assistant at the research group on ICT uses in Migrations (in Paris, http://ticmigrations.fr/) I would like to ask you some "bibliographical" questions as regards some of our projects : 1) The first one (not directly linked to migrations) is a project on social network dataportability in the framework of which we do a survey on "multiple social platform uses", the aim being to better know : how users manage their presence and friendships on many platforms (SNS, blogs, etc.) ? how do they "divide" their identity ? How do they migrate from one plateform to another ? Is dataportability necessary for users (desired ? considered dangerous ?). We are now looking for papers dealing with these issues (directly or indirectly). Do you have some suggestions because our researches are, for the moment, very disappointing ? 2) We are also working on a paper dedicated to the "blogosphere of migrant embroideresses" in which we deal with the notion of *patchwork* as "defining" web 2.0 : considering web 2.0 as a form of patchwork/handicraft (also contributing to the revitalization of "tradition") and rethinking the idea of "cultural patchwork". Do you know some papers about handicraft (or patchwork, knit, etc...) and the web ? (I know some american works, for example published in "The Journal of Modern Craft" ? But what about researches in sociology, information & communication sciences ? Finally, as regards the discussion on this list on race in social media, I wanted to let you know that we wrote an article on the *ethnicisation *of love/matrimonial web to be published in the French journal (in French) * Reseaux* (in an issue on "Connected Migrants : Mobility, Migrations, ICT"). We are also doing now some experiments on "race identifications" on the french blog plateform Skyrock (used in majority by adolescents and young adults). Best Regards. Matthieu.

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learning infrastructures in the social sciences
by jeremy hunsinger 14 Jan '10

14 Jan '10

http://www.springerlink.com/content/j71744175u47/?p=3f5a0f5dfb6f4525bd4edc9… The final issue of the journal learning inquiry has been published. The topic was Learning Infrastructures in the Social Sciences. The contributions are: Article Introducing learning infrastructures: invisibility, context, and governance Jeremy Hunsinger Article Virtual office hours as cyberinfrastructure: the case study of instant messaging Jeren Balayeva and Anabel Quan-Haase Article Transforming learning infrastructures in the social sciences through flexible and interactive technology-enhanced learning Philipp Budka and Claudia Schallert Article The Brisbane Media Map: participatory design and authentic learning to link students and industry Christy Collis, Marcus Foth and Ronald Schroeter Article Learning to succeed in a flat world: information and communication technologies for a new generation of business students Alex Ramirez, Michael J. Hine, Shaobo Ji, Frank Ulbrich and Rob Riordan And one article not in the special issue, but included in the final issue: Article The educational (im)possibility for dietetics: a poststructural discourse analysis Jacqui Gingras Jason Nolan and I wish to thank you for your interest and submissions over the last few years. Jeremy Hunsinger Political Science Center for Digital Discourse and Culture Virginia Tech Information Ethics Fellow Center for Information Policy Research () ascii ribbon campaign - against html mail /\ - against microsoft attachments http://wiki.tmttlt.com http://www.tmttlt.com You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus. --Mark Twain

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