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Conference: DIGITAL FORMALISM / DZIGA VERTOV. "Method Has Left Home."
by Jana Herwig 20 Nov '09

20 Nov '09

Fellow AoIRers, I'd like to invite you to the final conference of the "Digital Formalism" project our dept. is co-hosting in January in Vienna, Austria - no conference fees apply. Would be a pleasure to meet some of you here:) Best wishes Jana Herwig (PhD Candidate, Dept. of Theater, Film and Media Studies, University of Vienna) - SAVE THE DATE - DIGITAL FORMALISM / DZIGA VERTOV. "Method Has Left Home." Conference and Filmscreenings Jan 14 - 16, 2010, Vienna at Austrian Filmmuseum (Thursday) and Vienna University (Friday and Saturday, Aula, Campus AAKH) Speakers: John MacKay (Yale University), Annette Michelson (New York University), Alexander Deriabin (Moscow), Barbara Wurm (Basel/Berlin/Vienna), Julia Kursell (Berlin), Vera Kropf (Vienna University), Michael Loebenstein (Vienna), Adelheid Heftberger (Vienna), Georg Wasner (Vienna), Stavros Alifragkis (Cambridge University), Ute Holl (University of Basel), Matthias Zeppelzauer (TU Vienna), Dalibor Mitrovic (TU Vienna), Maia Zaharieva (TU Vienna), Wolfgang Beilenhoff (Weimar/Bochum), Thomas Tode (Hamburg) Film screenings: A Sixth Part of the World (Dziga Vertov, 1926), Mirror Films. Reflections on Vertov (a programme of films and digital works by Manuel Knapp, Peter Kubelka, Almut Rink and others) Opening of conference: Jan 14, 2010, 3 pm End of conference: Jan 16, 2010, 2 pm Conference language: English No admission fee! A detailed programme will be available at the website http://digitalformalism.org from Dec 10th 2009. Details of the conference's concept are available here: https://typo3.univie.ac.at/uploads/tx_cal/media/DigitalFormalismSaveDate.pdf Conference organisation board: Andrea B. Braidt, Klemens Gruber, Vera Kropf, Barbara Wurm Project partners: TFM Department of Theatre, Film and Media Studies (Vienna University); Austrian Film Museum; Institute of Software Engineering and Interactive Systems (Vienna University of Technology) The conference and project are funded by WWTF Vienna Science and Technology Fund. If you have any questions, please send an email to andrea.braidt(a)univie.ac.at.

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Re: [Air-L] Textbook on the social web?
by RBerkman＠aol.com 20 Nov '09

20 Nov '09

As it looks like we are starting to get a small sub group of persons interested in helping pull this together--and I/we hope we can get a few more people to join in, I suggest we set up a separate discussion group somewhere (Ning, Yahoo Groups, an AIR-l sublist if avail??) so we can discuss and pull this together as a group. Bob Berkman

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CFP: Who am I Online?
by Charles Ess 20 Nov '09

20 Nov '09

Dear AoIR-ists, the following may be of interest to some - with the usual apologies for cross-posting and duplication, please do send on to potentially interested colleagues. Many thanks, - charles ess Institut for Informations- og Medievidenskab Helsingforsgade 14 8200 Århus N. Denmark mail: <imvce(a)hum.au.dk> tel: (+45) 8942 9250 Distinguished Research Professor, Interdisciplinary Studies Drury University, Springfield, Missouri 65802 USA Exemplary persons seek harmony, not sameness. -- Analects 13.23 === Workshop: Who Am I Online? University of Aarhus, Kalovig Centre, Denmark 10-11 May 2010 Organisers: Charles Ess (Drury/Aarhus) Luciano Floridi (Hertfordshire/Oxford) 1st Call For Papers (Deadline: 31 March 2010) As time and technology progress, how we interact with the world and each other becomes increasingly complex and articulated. The quantity and diversity of information in our environment, and the ease with which we can access that information and integrate it into our daily lives, have increased exponentially over the past decade. For many of us, the environment with which we interact has changed to make possible entirely new ways of working with information and being with others. Interest in these topics has recently been amplified by the advent of the so-called ³Web 2.0², a (continuing) expansion of interactive venues such as social networking, blogging and microblogging such as Twitter, and ³pro/sumer² activities in which consumers of media content such as music and videos are simultaneously its producers. Psychologists, sociologists and anthropologists - including those whose research is gathered under the general domain of computer-mediated communication (CMC) - have for some time been interested in the ways in which such changes in our informational environment might affect us and our self-conceptions. The relevance of new technologies to our lives has attracted academic attention in large part because it appears to raise questions about how new kinds of interactions with others and our environment might alter, shape or otherwise affect our self-conceptions, our thoughts and other aspects of our cognitive, emotional and moral lives. And the project of ascertaining which properties of ourselves and our activities make essential contributions to our moral and mental lives and personhood is one in which philosophers are traditionally engaged. Yet these topics have, thus far, been relatively neglected by philosophers. This is especially strange when considered alongside the emphasis in recent philosophy of mind on the essential contributions that the embedding environment and our modes of interaction with it can make to our mental lives. If it¹s possible that our informational environment and our capacities for interaction with it can constitutively shape our mentality and our moral conduct, we should consider whether radical changes in that environment and its interactive affordances may have implications for the character of our mental and moral lives, and perhaps for the sorts of persons we are. There is already significant evidence that such changes are upon us in both what we used to call the Western and Eastern worlds - most obviously, as apparent changes in self-conception are affiliated with dramatically changing understandings and expectations of privacy,¹ especially informational or online privacy. So, what implications do new informational environments and affordances have for philosophical and ethical views of personal identity? And what light, if any, can existing philosophical work on personal identity shine on the conceptual issues that arise when talking and thinking about agents, environments and interactions that span or blur the real/virtual and online/offline divides? The workshop will address these issues. We welcome proposals for papers dealing with the construction of personal identities online. Please submit extended abstracts (between 1000 and 1500 words all included, preferably in MS Word format) for papers suitable for 40-minute presentations to Dave Ward (D.Ward2(a)herts.ac.uk) by 31 March 2010. Bursaries: a number of bursaries for graduate students presenting papers will be available, on a competitive basis, to contribute to travel and accommodation expenses. Publication: successful submissions will be selected for publication. Series: the workshop is part of a series of meetings organized as part of the AHRC-funded project ³The Construction of Personal Identities Online². More information about the project is available here: http://www.philosophyofinformation.net/grants/pio/index.html

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information about burma/myanmar social networks
by Nikki Usher 19 Nov '09

19 Nov '09

Hi: I'm beginning to do some research on social networks (particularly online) in Burma/Myanmar. If anyone has information about expat networks, activist groups, or more importantly, knowledge about social networks inside burma, that'd be great - I'd appreciate any leads. Many thanks. -- Nikki Usher Doctoral Student Knight Digital Media Center Research Assistant Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism University of Southern California mobile: 213-220-7824

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[announce] Articles of the special issue "Identity and the social web" of IDIS Journal are now available online (Open Access) Sorry, it did go on!
by andrea baker 19 Nov '09

19 Nov '09

T, the announcement went on the list, thanks, after I saw it at first! -- --a

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CFP: The Etiology and Ecology of Post-Soviet Communication
by Eugene Gorny 19 Nov '09

19 Nov '09

http://nmc.wikischolars.columbia.edu/Conference CALL FOR PAPERS: POST-SOVIET INTERNET With this we want to make you aware of a conference, The Etiology and Ecology of Post-Soviet Communication, which we have planned for the weekend of May 7-8(-9) 2010 at the Harriman Institute of Columbia, in New York City. The focus of the conference will be the development of the internet in the post-Soviet space, first and foremost Russia, though comparative work that goes beyond this geographical focus is also of interest. We anticipate panels on such questions as: emergence and evolution of social networks; patterns of interlinking; the phenomenon of social contagion in online communications; political clustering in the blogosphere and beyond; public versus private identities; doublethink, cynicism, coded language; the emergence of opinion leaders in the blogosphere; freedom of the press on the internet; forms and degrees of censorship, online activism/social movements on the internet; dissenters and political activism; democracy to autocracy in the Russian internet. We would welcome one-page abstracts sent to nmc.conference(a)gmail.com by February 1, 2010. Yours truly, Catharine Nepomnyashchy, Alan Timberlake and Guobin Yang (Project Leaders) Eugene Gorny and Florian Toepfl (Project Coordinators)

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CfP IAMCR Communication Policy & Technology section Braga 2010
by Jo Pierson 19 Nov '09

19 Nov '09

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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A wonderful Udine experience
by Barry Wellman 19 Nov '09

19 Nov '09

I want to publicly thank Leopoldina Fortunati for inviting me to lecture to her fascinating media group at the dynamic University of Udine, in northeastern Italy -- near the Slovenian and Austrian borders. Lots of smart people and good discussion, and Polda is the ultimate host. Udine itself is fascinating: both old and new. Got a cashmere sweater there for one-third the Milan price. In this year's fashionable lavender-purple colour. Barry Wellman _______________________________________________________________________ S.D. Clark Professor of Sociology, FRSC NetLab Director Department of Sociology 725 Spadina Avenue, Room 388 University of Toronto Toronto Canada M5S 2J4 twitter:barrywellman http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman fax:+1-416-978-3963 Updating history: http://chass.utoronto.ca/oldnew/cybertimes.php _______________________________________________________________________

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Re: [Air-L] Textbook on the social web?
by RBerkman＠aol.com 19 Nov '09

19 Nov '09

This is a great list Linda...as soon as I finish a major research project this week, I will start up a group, perhaps on Ning, FB, or a Yahoo Group (any recommendations?) where all who have expressed interest in pulling this together in a more formal manner can talk about it together, and then perhaps we can post it on the AIR-L Wiki and find other uses for Internet research related professors and disciplines. Bob Berkman Associate Professor Media Studies The New School

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IRGO unConference 1.0: NZ Digital Futures <= almost here!
by Andrew Long 18 Nov '09

18 Nov '09

Hi AoIR - Erika Pearson and I are very excited (and busy) getting ready for the IRGO (Internet Research Group of Otago) unConference starting on Monday. The event itself is designed to be highly interactive, participatory and hopefully engaging. We are trying to bring the discussion back by encouraging the free flowing exchange of ideas, views, thoughts, positions in relation to a collection of loosely defined topics (submitted by delegates). The programme is here for the curious: http://irgo.otago.ac.nz/programme.html We plan to document happenings any which way we can using a crack team of volunteers with devices, ears, eyes, and Twitter. Any tools, approaches, feeds, etc. that we use will be documented on this page: http://irgo.otago.ac.nz/centre.html If you are not attending in person and are keen to either particpate or track discussions, we would love to hear how you would like us to facilitate your lurking and/or contributions. Kind regards Andrew _________________________________________________________________ http://andrew-long.name | Department of Information Science | School of Business University of Otago | NZ | +64 3 479 8319 | mailto:andrew.long@otago.ac.nz

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