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New Study: Learning in the Wild of a Virtual World
by Suzanne Aurilio 04 Jan '10

04 Jan '10

Happy 2010 everyone, I wanted to share the findings of my recently completed study, a dissertation in education titled ³Learning in the Wild of a Virtual World.² PDFs of the entire project are here http://tinyurl.com/yjojsu3, the abstract is below. Please forgive cross-posting. Best, Suzanne Aurilio PS. I just realized I pdf-ed unsigned title pages, they have indeed been signed ;). Learning in the Wild of a Virtual World Abstract This study took place in the online 3D virtual world Second Life®, a recreational environment designed for world-building and socializing, and intended for individuals 18 years old and older. It described learning from the perspective of Second Life® Residents and focused on their world-building activities. As a virtual ethnographer, my avatar interacted with seven main participant-avatars in-world. Real life ages ranged from 33 years old to mid 50s; all but one were women. I collected data from 20 other Residents also. The study contributes to a nascent body of educational research exploring new forms of inquiry and practice conceived in virtual worlds, and breaks new ground by positioning itself in terms of a constructionist-learning context in which adults actively engage. The findings reiterate previous research of learning in virtual worlds. It is situated, social, intrinsically engaging and requires a high degree of personal agency. Learning in Second Life®, however, typifies constructionist principles, and qualities of adult learning which, in practice, are relevant to children as learners too. The context-specific activities of world-building invoke in learners a capacity to be self-directed problem-solvers of concrete and personally meaningful tasks. These activities result in novel expressive forms, and performative expressions of self through one¹s avatar. World-building engenders artists¹ and artisans¹ habits of mind in the forms of learning-by-doing and trial and error. Compared with the larger population, Second Life® Residents are trailblazers. I therefore proposed cyborg learners/learning as a formulation for characterizing the expressive forms and ways of learning documented here. * Learners embody avatars in a 3D graphical space. * They are geographically dispersed. * They occupy at least two or more social and technological locations simultaneously. * Learning is technologically and socially platform-specific. * It is socially interdependent. * It depends on intrinsically motivating activities. * It engenders forms of learning-by-doing. These findings contribute to a broad research paradigm addressing games for learning, mobile learning, open learning, personal learning environments (PLEs) and multi-user learning environments (MUVEs). ~~ Suzanne Aurilio, PhD Assistant Director pICT - People, Information and Communication Technologies San Diego State University 5500 Campanile Drive San Diego, CA 92182-1623 619-594-2953 Office AD220C pict.sdsu.edu sdsu-aztlan.wikispaces.com SL Aurili Oh Twitter saurili Delicious saurilio

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Re: [Air-L] Reid Cornwell
by Ulla Bunz 04 Jan '10

04 Jan '10

People might want to read Alex Havalais' page on Reid Cornwell. http://alex.halavais.net/dr-w-reid-cornwell He has lots of well-known FB friends? Hm... if you think that makes him legit, then you should consider the number of replies to this inquiry just this time around that said something like, "Yeah, I'm his FB friend too, though I'm not sure why." Make up your own mind but remember what we're teaching our students - just cause it's online it doesn't mean it's true. And just because it's popular, it doesn't mean it's high quality (the Google search hierarchy argument). Ulla

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Pratt-SILS Announces a Tenure-Track Faculty Position
by Debbie Rabina 04 Jan '10

04 Jan '10

Subject:* Pratt-SILS Announces a Tenure-Track Faculty Position - Interviews at ALISE Boston 2010 *Pratt Institute, School of Information and Library Science invites applications for a fulltime tenure-track position at the rank of assistant professor*. This position begins fall 2010. Applicants should hold a PhD in LIS or a related field. Preference will be given to applicants who have a developed research agenda and scholarly publications and experience in teaching at the college/ university level and establish strong connections between research and teaching. Located in the heart of Manhattan, we seek a faculty member who will thrive in New York's culturally diverse environment and will engage with the Pratt community to pursue creative and innovative approaches to their work and who will help enrich and develop the Pratt-SILS degree and certificate programs. Responding to LIS in the digital world and across a wide spectrum of environments, including libraries, museum, archives and the IT sector, we seek a creative and innovative faculty member with research and teaching in one or more of the following areas as well as highly relevant areas that you may choose to identify: . Web/ Internet and digital media across libraries, archives and museums . Digital design for information systems, networks, platforms - open source and open access . Creating digital environments and resources for literacy, education and outreach including visualization and mapping of information . Digital curation, management and preservation including digital repositories with focus on cultural institutions. . User studies and research addressing issues of information in the digital world over local and global networks Within the context of the School's emphasis on cultural informatics, the position supports a range of curriculum and programs including certificate programs in archives and museum libraries, the WISE program (World Information, Society and Environments) - a program placing law, business, policy and health in digital and global contexts and our new dual degree program (MSLIS and MFA in Digital Arts) focusing on research and the use of digital tools for information learning and content rich Web environments. *Interviews at ALISE Boston 2010: * Members of our search committee will be attending the ALISE Boston conference. to hold interviews for this position. If you would like to apply, please send via email a cover letter, CV and a statement on your teaching and research to: Dr. Debbie Rabina - drabina(a)pratt.edu <mailto:drabina@pratt.edu> (_Please apply by email only and indicate whether you will be attending ALISE.)_ For applicants not attending ALISE, we will be interviewing candidates in New York in February through the first two weeks of March. Pratt Institute is an equal opportunity employer. Salary is competitive and commensurate with education and experience -- Debbie Rabina, Ph.D, Assistant Professor Pratt Institute, School of Information and Library Science 144 West 14th Street, 6th fl. New York, NY, 10011-7301 drabina(a)pratt.edu http://mysite.pratt.edu/~drabina/index.htm On Librarything: http://www.librarything.com/catalog/DLRlibrary Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail

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tenure-stream appt. New Media and Children's Literature, University of Toronto
by Matthew Ratto 04 Jan '10

04 Jan '10

see job ad below: > Title: Assistant / Associate / Full Professor - New Media and > Children's Literature - 0901099 > > Job Field: Tenure Stream > > Faculty / Division: Faculty of Information > > Department: Faculty of Information > > Campus: St. George (downtown Toronto) > > Job Posting: 17/Dec/09 > > Closing Date: 31/Jan/10 Open until filled > > Description: > > The Faculty of Information at the University of Toronto is > extending its reach in terms of research and teaching scope; the > Faculty is expanding both in terms of number of people and in scope. > The Faculty invites applications for one tenure-stream appointment > at the rank of Assistant, Associate, or Full Professor to begin on > July 1, 2010. > > The Faculty seeks a scholar who transcends traditional divisions > and we invite applications from candidates with active research > agendas within one or more of the following areas: (i) new media and > children's literature; (ii) new media and youth and young adult's > resources and information services; (iii) new media and children. > Candidates with expertise in non-traditional classes of literature > and new media (e.g. games, immersive online environments, novel > forms of storytelling) would be welcomed. > > We seek candidates with excellent research and teaching abilities > and a commitment to shaping the future of the Faculty and the field > of information. The candidate’s research agenda should fit with the > Faculty’s focus and mission. The Faculty's 2004-10 Academic Plan > recognizes that society's information practices are being > reconfigured and transformed by material shifts in infrastructures > as well as political and cultural shifts in our attitudes toward > information as a social phenomenon. In this context, as part of a > multi-year process of Faculty renewal, a faculty member is sought to > help rethink and reshape the information profession through > innovative teaching and collaborative research projects. The > University of Toronto offers the opportunity to teach, conduct > research and live in one of the most culturally diverse cities in > the world. The Faculty of Information provides a context in which to > work in an emerging interdisciplinary environment and in a range of > collaborative programs including Addiction Studies; Aging, > Palliative and Supportive Care Across the Life Course; Book History > and Print Culture; Environment; Knowledge Media Design; Sexual > Diversity Studies; Women’s Health; and Women and Gender Studies. > Candidates must have a PhD (or equivalent), a proven record of > scholarship, experience with multidisciplinary research, and strong > teaching experience. Additional qualifications for those applying at > the Associate or Full Professor level include experience leading > research projects and working with graduate students. Experience > developing new curricula is an asset. Rank and salary will be > competitive and commensurate with qualifications and experience. > Evidence of excellence in teaching and research is necessary. > Faculty website: http://www.ischool.utoronto.ca Faculty academic > plan: http://www.ischool.utoronto.ca/images/documents/about/fisacademicplan.pdf > > Applicants should send curriculum vitae, teaching dossier, copies > of three representative papers/publications, a statement outlining > current and future research interests, and a list of three > references to the address below. (Applicants at the Assistant > Professor level should arrange to have three letters of > recommendation sent, under separate cover, to the same address.) > > Application deadline is January 31, 2010 but the search will remain > open until the position is filled. > > We strongly encourage you to submit your application online by > clicking on the following link: https://utoronto.taleo.net/careersection/10050/jobdetail.ftl?lang=en&job=09… > > If you are unable to apply online, please submit your application > and other materials to the following address: > > Submissions: areti.vourinaris(a)utoronto.ca > > Inquiries: h.macneil(a)utoronto.ca

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Reputation and friending (was Reid Cornwell)
by Alexander Halavais 04 Jan '10

04 Jan '10

This may seem at odds with a URL posted earlier, but with the greatest respect (and sympathy) for those who have already entered into this thread, I humbly suggest that discussing any person's character on AIR-L is: 1. Inappropriate. AIR-L is intended to further research and while it frequently becomes a more friendly community, none of us would want our personal character adjudicated in such a public setting. So, to second Peter's comment, I think we should quit it. 2. Ineffective. Really, the question of whether to befriend someone or "friend" someone is more effectively handled by talking to people you trust and, for people who write in public, reading what they have said. Why would you trust 2,000 relative strangers' opinions on another stranger? If we want to talk about something a person has written, an argument they have made, or even a project they have undertaken, that's another kettle of fish, and this would be a great topic. 3. Boring. I don't really care, particularly, about the reputation of a single person. I know some do--that's why TMZ rakes in the bucks. I encourage someone to start a Reid Cornwell fan page on Facebook, or an "anti-fan" page if they prefer. I just don't think it is why people come to AIR-L. So, since the above is very much "do as I say, not as I do," I recommend the following tangents, which actually take those issues on without ever having to talk about any single person: 1. Has the nature of reputation changed? Do we now make friends in a different way? Most of the people I consider friends IRL I met either because I was introduced to them by people I trusted, or because we were forced to work together on something (school, work, sporting team, chain gang, same diff.). But now, I feel Helen's pain: If you are a friend of Henry's shouldn't you also be my friend? 2. Is whuffie a reasonable construct? Do we all, like public officials, now have "approval ratings"? Did we always, and now it is more explicit? 3. How, when anyone online can be a dog, do we determine if someone is a "mensch"? I know that many of you on this list have "alts," and nom de plumes (d'ordinateurs?). If you are like me, you are concerned that they keep their "good name," even if they happen to be fake. How do we determine if a person or an organization is "legitimate"? If it "matters"? When does the social construct of a public persona or organization become "real"? Where is the border between astroturf and grass roots--or is there any? (Obviously, this is a question Wikipedia struggles with.) Discuss. </threadjack> -- -- // // This email is // [x] assumed public and may be blogged / forwarded. // [ ] assumed to be private, please ask before redistributing. // // Alexander C. Halavais, ciberflâneur // http://alex.halavais.net //

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Reid Cornwell
by helen roinioti 04 Jan '10

04 Jan '10

Hi everybody, I got a friend request in facebook from dr Reid Cornwell. He also send me an invitation to register at the Center for Internet Research, something that puzzled me I did a little bit of digging to see whats going on but i am still a little bit confused...i would appreciate if someone enlighten me Thanks a lot E.

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Final Reminder - CfP: Networking Democracy? New Media Innovations in Participatory Politics
by Dan Mercea 04 Jan '10

04 Jan '10

Dear all, This is a gentle reminder that the final deadline for our CfP is fast approaching. If you would like to attend our symposium please send us your abstracts before 11 January. Apologies for cross-postings. Best wishes, Dan -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Papers: “Networking Democracy? New media innovations in participatory politics” A three day Symposium to be held at Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj, Romania 25-27 June 2010 Website: http://www.brisc.info/NetDem/index.php?page=networking-democracy ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Democratic politics worldwide are increasingly being conducted and re-configured through the domain of digital communications networks. The socio-technical developments, such as Web 2.0, facilitating these media-saturated public spheres are in little doubt. What is highly contested however is the interpretation of what these profound changes offer for democratic governance in the twenty-first century. At its heart is the recognition that these new media networks are themselves the crucial site for a historical confrontation between opposing political and/or business interests and discourses intent upon forging new forms of social relations. We will address questions such as: What new forms and relations of power are produced in the digital network society? Who are the key social actors shaping the new public sphere and what are their respective strategies, framing, and repertoires of action? What is the democratic potential of Web 2.0 applications such as social networking, blogging and twittering? What empirical evidence do we have to understand and assess these developments? How is networked democracy influencing new democratic societies? What are its consequences for human rights, social sorting, migration, e-government, community politics, surveillance, protest, participation, culture, identity, mobilization, representation, nationalism, security, citizen journalism, trust, regulation, both exogenous and self-regulation and much more? Speakers include: W. Lance Bennett <http://depts.washington.edu/bennett/about.html>, University of Washington, USA Bruce Bimber <http://www.polsci.ucsb.edu/faculty/bimber/>, University of California at Santa Barbara, USA Donatella Della Porta <http://www.eui.eu/DepartmentsAndCentres/PoliticalAndSocialSciences/People/P…>, European University Institute, Italy William H. Dutton <http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/people/faculty.cfm?id=1>, Oxford Internet Institute, UK Brian Loader <http://www.york.ac.uk/depts/soci/about/s_load.htm>, University of York, UK Rodica Mocan <http://www.plaxo.com/directory/profile/141734557021/4e737db5/Rodica/Mocan>, Babeş-Bolyai University, Romania We invite papers from all disciplines which have addressed these topics. The paper title, an abstract of up to 500 words, a short bio and contact details should be sent to Dan Mercea, Department of Sociology, University of York, Heslington, YO10 5DD, dmm505(a)york.ac.uk <mailto:dmm505@york.ac.uk> before 7 December 2009. Notifications of acceptance will be sent out by 15 January 2010. For more details visit http://www.brisc.info/NetDem/ The event is supported by the Center for Political Analysis <http://www.polito.ubbcluj.ro/cpa/en/index.html>and the European Studies Department <http://www.euro.ubbcluj.ro/en/> (Babeş-Bolyai University), the Science and Technology Studies Unit <http://www.york.ac.uk/res/satsu/> and the Department of Sociology <http://www.york.ac.uk/depts/soci/degrees/resscitech.htm>(University of York) Selected papers from the conference will be published in a special issue of the international journal Information, Communication and Society <http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/rics> IMPORTANT DATES: Submission deadline: 11 January 2009 Notifications of acceptance: before 29 January 2010 Symposium: 25-27 June 2010 -- Dan Mercea PhD Candidate Communication Studies Department of Sociology University of York E: dmm505(a)york.ac.uk T: +44(0)1904 433578

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Web 2.0 'Suicide Machine'
by Richard Forno 03 Jan '10

03 Jan '10

Interesting concept, though I wonder how long it will remain online. -rick MSM article: Wipe The Slate Clean For 2010, Commit Web 2.0 Suicide http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/12/31/web-2-0-suicide/ ...and the site itself... http://suicidemachine.org/ Tired of your Social Network? Liberate your newbie friends with a Web2.0 suicide! This machine lets you delete all your energy sucking social-networking profiles, kill your fake virtual friends, and completely do away with your Web2.0 alterego. The machine is just a metaphor for the website which moddr_ is hosting; the belly of the beast where the web2.0 suicide scripts are maintained. Our service currently runs with Facebook, Myspace, Twitter and LinkedIn! Commit NOW!

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CFP: FDG 2010: The 5th International Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games
by Yusuf Pisan 03 Jan '10

03 Jan '10

[ Apologies for cross-posting. Please forward to colleagues and mailing lists as appropriate ] ========== FDG 2010: CALL FOR PAPERS ========== FDG 2010: The 5th International Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games 19-21 June 2010, at Asilomar Conference Grounds, Monterey, California. http://fdg2010.org/ *** Important Dates *** Workshop Proposals: 18 Sep 2009 (past) Paper and Poster Submission: 5 Feb 2010 (soon soon) Doctoral Consortium Submission: 12 Feb 2010 Author Notification: 29 Mar 2010 Demo Submission: 2 Apr 2010 Registration for Authors: 9 Apr 2010 Camera Ready Papers: 23 Apr 2010 Workshops: 18 Jun 2010 Conference: 19-21 Jun 2010 *** Happy New Year. There is less than a month to get those papers ready for FDG 2010. Time to get cracking *** LATEST NEWS =========== * Invited Speakers: Jane McGonigal, Director of Game Research & Development Institute for the Future http://www.avantgame.com/bio.htm James Gee, Mary Lou Fulton Presidential Professor of Literacy Studies Arizona State University https://webapp4.asu.edu/directory/person/1054842 ... additional invited speakers forthcoming ... * Workshops at FDG 2010 Three workshops will be held in conjunction with FDG 2010 Intelligent Narrative Technologies III Procedural Content Generation in Games Teaching Aesthetics in Game Design Visit http://fdg2010.org/Workshops.html for details. * Update to Doctoral Symposium There is updated instructions for the FDG Doctoral Symposium. The deadline is still 12 Feb 2009. See below for submission details. * FDG is an ACM in-collaboration conference All papers accepted to FDG 2010, as well as all the papers accepted into the FDG workshops, will be published in the ACM Digital Library, indexed, cross-referenced and will available for easy access, downloading and referencing! * Microsoft support for FDG 2010 Microsoft has been a long-term supporter of FDG. In fact, the conference series was originally created by Kent Foster and John Nordlinger at Microsoft, and was known as the Microsoft Academic Days on Game Development in Computer Science Education (GDCSE). In 2009, the conference changed its name and expanded its scope to the Foundations of Digital Games. John Nordinger has recently left Microsoft to pursue a Master's degree in Film Production at the University of Southern California. We wish him all the best! * Panels at FDG 2010 In addition to invited speakers from industry and academy leaders, peer-reviewed papers and tutorials, FDG 2010 will have panels on topics related to games. If you have any burning suggestions for panel topics or people you would like to see on the panel, please email Ian Bogost ian.bogost(a)lcc.gatech.edu OVERVIEW ======== FDG 2010, the International Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games, is a focal point for academic efforts in all areas of research and education involving games, game technologies, gameplay and game design. The goal of the conference is the advancement of the study of digital games, including new game technologies, capabilities, designs, applications, educational uses, and modes of play. FDG 2010 will include presentations of peer-reviewed papers, invited talks by high-profile industry and academic leaders, hands-on tutorials and topical panels on a range of subjects related to games research and education. We invite researchers and educators to share insights and cutting-edge results relating to game technologies and their use. PAPER and POSTER SUBMISSIONS ============================ FDG 2010 will accept both full paper and poster submissions. Authors may choose to submit their papers and posters to the general conference or to a specific theme area. The seven theme areas for FDG 2010 are described below. 1) Artificial Intelligence Track Chair: Magy Seif El-Nasr, Simon Fraser University We solicit papers on artificial intelligence research that provides novel solutions to traditional game AI problems (e.g., path planning, camera control, terrain analysis, user modeling, tactical/strategic and decision making), supports novel game concepts or gameplay elements (e.g. interactive drama, narrative/character development and NPC belief/attitude/emotion modeling), provides automated or semi-automated solutions to game production challenges (e.g., game design, content creation, testing and procedural animation), or describes the integration of AI technologies (e.g., machine learning, logical inference and planning) into game AI architectures. 2) Computer Science and Games Education Track Chair: Andrew Phelps, Rochester Institute of Technology The Computer Science and Games Education Theme Area invites researchers and educators to submit papers illustrating the latest advances and innovation in curricula for games and computer science, in both formal and informal educational contexts. All papers must show rigorous and compelling evaluation. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: game design and development curricula, effective practices and infrastructure for the use of games and game technologies in Computer Science courses and programs, Web-based (adaptive) educational games and interdisciplinary collaboration among computer scientists and others to create games in educational contexts. 3) Game Design Track Chair: Tracy Fullerton, University of Southern California The Game Design theme seeks detailed reports of creative practice and methods, as well as the exploration and development of innovative gameplay forms and mechanics. Design postmortems that rigorously analyze the intent and effect of particular solutions, mechanics, structures or gaming situations are very welcome. Also, research on new models for player involvement, design for learning, participatory design, iterative player-centered process, and investigations into the relationship between hardware and software platforms and design are strongly encouraged. Submissions may discuss theoretical designs or implemented ones, but should provide evaluative evidence and rigorous analysis of outcomes. 4) Game Studies Track Chair: Mia Consalvo, MIT Game Studies as a field is broadly interdisciplinary, welcoming a variety of theoretical, methodological and computational approaches to the study of games and play. This year, we particularly seek submissions that investigate areas such as player experience, game ontology, the social and cultural aspects of gameplay, cross-cultural or global analyses, networked play (including consoles), game aesthetics and criticism, casual and serious gaming and analysis of new and emerging phenomena. All submissions must provide rigorous analysis and present evaluative evidence. 5) Graphics and Interfaces Track Chair: Steven Feiner, Columbia University The Graphics and Interfaces theme seeks papers on all aspects of computer graphics and user interfaces that are specifically related to digital games, including but not limited to: animation, modeling, rendering, 2D and 3D user interfaces, collaborative user interfaces, mobile user interfaces, tangible user interfaces, design of (interfaces for) Web 2.0 game focused web applications, integration of web-based and computer/console based game worlds, augmented reality and virtual reality, and novel interaction devices and displays. 6) Infrastructure (Databases, Networks, Security) Track Chair: Mark Claypool, WPI The Infrastructure track invites submissions that focus on the many aspects of improving systems support for digital games. Suitable papers should describe novel networks, operating systems or database systems that are especially designed for games, or make novel use of existing systems to support games. Topics of interest include: networked game architectures, network protocol design for games, latency compensation and synchronization methods, mobile and/or resource-constrained game platforms, software and middleware support for networked games, content delivery and adaptation, services for supporting networked games, cheat detection and prevention, networking and security for Web-based games and game portals, database engines and database optimization for games, distributed database techniques and consistency models for networked games, and data management for games that cross physical and virtual worlds. 7) Learning in Games Track Chair: Elisabeth Hayes, Arizona State University Learning in Games invites papers that investigate how games contribute to intellectual, creative, social, and embodied forms of learning in and outside the classroom, for learners of all ages. Studies focused on educational games as well as the learning potential of COTS games are welcome. Research on the design of games for learning, the outcomes of game-based learning, and learning that occurs in the social contexts and interactions around games (such as within fan communities) should be submitted to this track. Papers on the professional training of game developers should be submitted to the Computer Science and Games Education track. All paper and poster submissions will be rigorously peer reviewed for their technical merit (where applicable), significance, clarity and relevance to the advancement of the study of games. All full papers must describe a completed unit of work and show rigorous and compelling evaluation of the ideas they present. Poster submissions should describe novel work in progress that is not at the same level of research maturity as a full submission. Full papers must not exceed eight pages, but can be shorter. We will review for quality not length! Poster submissions must not exceed two pages. All submissions must be submiteed via https://easychair.org/login.cgi?conf=fdg2010 and must comply with the official ACM proceedings format using one of the templates provided at http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html All accepted paper and poster submissions will be published in the conference proceedings. For a paper or poster to appear in the proceedings, at least one author must register for the conference by the deadline for camera-ready copy submission. All papers, posters, and doctoral consortium publications from FDG 2010 will be included in the ACM Digital Library. Submissions must not have been published previously. In addition, a submission identical or substantially similar (or even a subset or superset) in content to one submitted to FDG should not be simultaneously under consideration at another conference or journal during the entire FDG review process (i.e., from the submission deadline until the notifications of decisions are emailed to authors). DOCTORAL CONSORTIUM =================== (updated instructions) FDG 2010 - the International Conference on Foundations of Digital Games - is soliciting submissions from doctoral students for the FDG Doctoral Consortium. The FDG 2010 Doctoral Consortium provides a supportive environment in which Ph.D. students can get early feedback on their research directions, both from fellow students and from experienced faculty in the area. The consortium is intended primarily for beginning Ph.D. students who intend to pursue a career in academia. Since the goal of the Doctoral Consortium is to enable greater number of new PhDs in the area, applications from students who are close to completing their PhD will have lower priority (or are discouraged). Approximately 5 students will be invited to participate. Students participating in the consortium will submit a 3 page extended abstract describing their research, which will be reviewed by the conference program committee. Accepted abstracts will appear in the conference proceedings. Students authors of accepted papers will be invited to participate in both the main conference and the doctoral consortium and will receive financial support including conference registration, and an allowance for travel expenses. Accepted authors should contact the consortium chair for specifics. All students accepted into the Doctoral Consortium will be expected to attend both the conference and the Doctoral Consortium session. Interested students should submit a CV and 3 page extended abstract that discusses: * What the goals of your research are * Why those goals are important and who they would be important to * How your approach differs from previous approaches, if any * Your current results, if any * Plans for completing this research The extended abstract should not be a paper describing completed work, but a research proposal describing a promising unexplored research direction. Applicants should upload their 3 page extended abstract (PDF format) and their CV (as an attachment, PDF format ) to http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icfdgdc2010, by February 12, 2010. Applications should also have their advisors email a letter of recommendation by this date directly to Zoran Popovic (zoranp+fdgdc10(a)gmail.com) with the subject line "FDG DC Recommendation". Applicants should make sure that advisors send the support letter by February 12, 2010. Important Dates for Doctoral Consortium Doctoral Consortium proposal submissions: 12 February 2010 Advisor support letter: 12 February 2010 Doctoral Consortium notification of results: 2 April 2010 Registration for Authors: 9 April 2010 Please direct your questions to the Doctoral Consortium Chair Zoran Popovic (zoranp+fdgdc10(a)gmail.com) FDG 2010 ORGANIZING COMMITTEE ============================= Conference Chair Ian Horswill, Northwestern University Program Chair Yusuf Pisan, University of Technology, Sydney Doctoral Consortium Chair Zoran Popovic, University of Washington Workshops Chair Michael Mateas, University of California, Santa Cruz Panels Chair Ian Bogost, Georgia Institute of Technology Tutorials Chair Robin Hunicke, That Game Company Local Arrangements Chair Marilyn Walker, University of California, Santa Cruz Webmaster Karl Cheng-Heng Fua, Northwestern University ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ====================== Please see http://fdg2010.org/ for this year's conference and http://foundationsofdigitalgames.org/ for past years, including: Table of Contents for FDG 2009: http://portal.acm.org/toc.cfm?id=1536513 Table of Contents for GDCSE 2008: http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1463673 Proceedings for GDCSE 2007: http://www.eng.unt.edu/ian/Cruise2007/madgdcse2007.pdf To get the latest news on FDG, subscribe to the FDG-announce mailing list. Send an email to listserv(a)listserv.it.northwestern.edu with no subject line and a body saying: SUBSCRIBE fdg-announce firstname lastname Yusuf -- A/Professor Yusuf Pisan Games Studio Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology University of Technology, Sydney http://staff.it.uts.edu.au/~ypisan/ http://games.it.uts.edu.au/ Skype: ypisan [CFP v3, sent out on 4 Jan 2010]

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FW: [MCJ] CFP: M/C Journal 'ambient' Issue
by Axel Bruns 03 Jan '10

03 Jan '10

G'day ! FYI: > -----Original Message----- > From: Axel Bruns [mailto:editor@media-culture.org.au] > Sent: Monday, 4 January 2010 9:52 > To: Axel Bruns > Subject: [MCJ] CFP: M/C Journal 'ambient' Issue FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - 4 Jan. 2010 M/C - Media and Culture http://www.media-culture.org.au/ is calling for contributors to the 'ambient' issue of M/C Journal http://journal.media-culture.org.au/ M/C Journal is looking for new contributors. Founded in 1998, M/C is a crossover journal between the popular and the academic, and a blind- and peer-reviewed journal. Our Website at http://journal.media-culture.org.au/ provides open access to all past issues. To find out how and in what format to contribute your work, visit http://journal.media-culture.org.au/index.php/mcjournal/about/submissions. Call for Papers: 'ambient' Edited by Luke Jaaniste Ambience is all around us. Wherever we are. Conditioned as we are as being-in-the-world, we are always surrounded. A surrounding that affords meaningful pathways and places of action and thought, that is intelligently geared up with us. The fundamental surroundings might be the earth itself, upon which multiple worlds, spaces, zones, nets, webs, districts, precincts and the like occupy our lives, as we occupy them. Ambience can be contrasted with salience. What is salient is what is of immediate interest and attention. Before us right now, taken up. Hopefully, dear reader, these words you are reading have particular salience for you. Right now. But when something is taken up in our field of attention and action, there is so much that remains, always already there, in the background, in the periphery, in the ether, in the air. So when Brian Eno famously coined the term 'ambient music' in the 1970s - and triggered off a whole raft of terms like ambient video, ambient art, ambient architecture, ambient tv, ambient media, ambient marketing, ambient journalism, ambient computing, ambient screens, ambient poetics and ambient literature - he was doing something a little odd. Making ambience salient. In his music and in his discourse about it. Ambience has been palpably in place, since the dawn of time, but as way of talking about the world is helps gear us towards the all-around and how so much of being human is conditioned and affected by our surrounds, in a age when place and place-making has changed in dramatic ways, locally and globally. In this issue, we ask: what ideas and interaction take place in ambience? Please send a 100-word abstract to the editors at ambient(a)journal.media-culture.org.au. Articles of 3,000 words in length should be submitted online at http://journal.media-culture.org.au/ and should be prepared in accordance with the M/C Journal style guidelines, available at http://journal.media-culture.org.au/index.php/mcjournal/about/submissions. Article deadline: 5 Mar. 2010 Issue release date: 5 May 2010 M/C Journal was founded (as "M/C - A Journal of Media and Culture") in 1998 as a place of public intellectualism analysing and critiquing the meeting of media and culture. Contributors are directed to past issues of M/C Journal for examples of style and content, and to the submissions page for comprehensive article submission guidelines. M/C Journal articles are blind peer-reviewed. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Further M/C Journal issues scheduled for 2010/11: 'ambient': article deadline 5 Mar. 2010, release date 5 May 2010 'deaf': article deadline 30 Apr. 2010, release date 30 June 2010 'waste': article deadline 25 June 2010, release date 25 Aug. 2010 'pig': article deadline 20 Aug. 2010, release date 20 Oct. 2010 'coalition': article deadline 15 Oct. 2010, release date 15 Dec. 2010 'doubt': article deadline 21 Jan. 2011, release date 23 Mar. 2011 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- M/C - Media and Culture is located at <http://www.media-culture.org.au/>. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- M/C Journal is online at <http://journal.media-culture.org.au/>. All past issues of M/C Journal on various topics are available there. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- end Dr Axel Bruns -- General Editor editor(a)media-culture.org.au M/C - Media and Culture http://www.media-culture.org.au/

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