- Air-L - lists.aoir.org

CFP: Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication
by Lina Khatib 17 Jul '09

17 Jul '09

Call for Papers Middle EastJournal of Culture and Communication Editors: Lina Khatib, Royal Holloway, University of London Tarik Sabry, University of Westminster Dina Matar, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London John, L. Esposito, Georgetown University Coordinating Editor: Gholam Khiabany, London Metropolitan University The Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication, now in its second year, is a new platform for interdisciplinary scholarly work that explores transformations in culture, communication, and politics in the Middle East and North Africa . The Journal aims to challenge the traditional paradigms used to understand media and the Middle East , seeing “communication” as extending beyond the study of media in the traditional sense. MEJCC welcomes contributions from international scholars engaged with the Middle East within various academic disciplines and using diverse approaches, whether as articles or reviews of films, books (including novels), and exhibitions. MEJCC is seeking papers critically addressing (though not exclusive to) the following: - the old and new media in all their forms (the broadcast media, the print media, electronic media, and film), whether in or about the Middle East - processes of communication in geographical space in the Middle East (including street art, posters and architecture) - popular culture in the Middle East - the relationship between the media (including interactive communication technologies) and political and social processes in the region - the cultural practices through which power is expressed and politics is performed. MEJCC is published by Brill. The first issue of the Journal can be accessed free at www.brill.nl/mjcc. MEJCC’s latest issue deals with political communication in the Middle East; the forthcoming issue with media, geopolitics and public diplomacy; and the following one with Palestinian cultural studies. Contributions should be original work which has neither been simultaneously submitted for publication elsewhere nor published previously. Manuscripts should be submitted through Editorial Manager, which can be accessed via: http://www.editorialmanager.com/mjcc/ Informal queries can be addressed to the editors: mjcc(a)brill.nl

1 0

Call for Papers: Canadian Journal of Communication Special Issue: Democratizing Communication Policy in the Americas: Why It Matters
by lshade＠alcor.concordia.ca 17 Jul '09

17 Jul '09

Please excuse any cross-postings.... Call for Papers: Canadian Journal of Communication Special Issue: Democratizing Communication Policy in the Americas: Why It Matters Deadline for full papers December 15, 2009; publication date Fall 2010. Communication policy is an often important but overlooked topic a blind spot - in much social policy research and public discourse. Media and telecommunications systems have become so fundamental, ubiquitous and pervasive that we often take them for granted as enablers, and nothing more, of many other freedoms, rights, and capabilities. Many do not realize the extent to which policies concerning communication resources are quite vulnerable to fluctuating corporate and government interests. This ³knowledge gap² is what this special issue of the CJC seeks to address: how do communication policies affect economic, social justice and human rights, and what are civil society organizations in the Americas doing about this? For example, how do the supposed decline of traditional news media such as newspapers, struggles over copyright, the emergence of new ways of communicating online, questions about who owns or controls the internet, or access to the information we need, relate to social policy concerns such as sustainable development, immigration, environmental degradation, labor rights, gender equity, and other concerns across the Americas? What do any of these struggles have in common related to media, communication, and internet policies? With these ideas in mind, we seek two types of submissions from concerned experts working either in academic or non-academic settings in the Americas: Policy Contexts (i.e., Enabling/Disabling Legal and Regulatory Environments): Short syntheses of the current state of play re communication policy that includes attention to the full spectrum of convergent policy issues such as broadcasting, telecommunications, information (i.e., intellectual property rights and access to information laws), and internet governance policies in each of the following regions: North America (Canada and the U.S.); Mexico and Central America; the Caribbean; Spanish-speaking Latin America; and Brazil. Civil Society Responses: Research illuminating either failed (and why) or successful (and how) civil society engagement related any of the previously listed communication and social policy areas in terms of making policy making actors, processes or institutions more transparent, representative, and accountable to public vs. corporate interests. Simply put, we seek to know why and how communication policies matter to a variety of social policy concerns and how civil society actors are working to effect communication policy change in a variety of contexts. For this special issue, and given our interest in linking media and communications with social policy more generally, we are also interested primarily in research that is informed by critical theory, social justice and/or human rights frameworks and that features praxis-oriented research capturing the various challenges and/or opportunities for public-interest oriented interventions in policy making processes across the Americas. Full-length papers (@7,000-9,000 words) in English or French should be submitted electronically following the guidelines laid out on the CJC submissions website (http://www.cjc-online.ca/submissions.php) Make sure to write in all caps "COMM POLICY" in the Comments to the Editor field, and also to include it on the cover page of your article as well. Please do not include your name on the cover page. Comments and queries can be sent to one or both of the special issue editors: Dr. Leslie Regan Shade, Concordia University, leslieshade(a)gmail.com Dr. Becky Lentz, McGill University, becky.lentz(a)mcgill.ca

1 0

Fwd: Call for Papers - Seventh International Conference on Networked Learning: 3rd & 4th May, 2010 - Aalborg Denmark
by Caroline Haythornthwaite 17 Jul '09

17 Jul '09

---- Original message ---- >Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2009 15:30:44 +0100 >From: "Jesmont, Alice" <a.jesmont(a)lancaster.ac.uk> >Subject: Call for Papers - Seventh International Conference on Networked Learning: 3rd & 4th May, 2010 - Aalborg Denmark >To: "Jesmont, Alice" <a.jesmont(a)lancaster.ac.uk> > >SEVENTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON NETWORKED LEARNING To be held in >Aalborg, Denmark, 3rd & 4th May 2010 >http://www.networkedlearningconference.org.uk/ > >This conference is considered a major event in the international >'technology enhanced learning' conference circuit, and provides a >friendly, collegiate context for meeting researchers and practitioners >in networked learning. > >CALL FOR PROPOSALS AND CONFERENCE INFORMATION > >We invite papers critically reporting on the results of research and >evaluation in Networked Learning on the main themes of: > > > * Understanding, Designing and Facilitating Learning in a Networked >World > * Theories and Methodologies for Research in Networked Learning > * Impact on Learning of Networked Technologies > * Learning in Social Networks and Networked Learning > * Participation and Alienation in Networked Learning > * Embedding Networked Learning in Public and Private Organisations > * Formal and Informal learning in Networked Learning > * Work Based Networked Learning and Knowledge Management > * Problem Based Networked Learning > * Practice Based Research for Professional Development > * Issues of Social Justice and Social Responsibility in Networked >Learning > * Globalisation and Interculturality in Networked Learning > * Networked Learning and International Development > >Last date for submission of full papers for review: Friday 13th >November, 2009 > >All submissions are peer reviewed, and accepted papers published in >conference proceedings > >KEYNOTE SPEAKERS: Etienne Wenger & Yrjo Engestrom > >PRE-CONFERENCE ONLINE COMMUNITY AND ONLINE SEMINARS: please visit the >conference website for further details > >FULL DETAILS ON OUR WEBSITE >http://www.networkedlearningconference.org.uk/ >Which also includes proceedings of past Networked Learning Conferences > >WE LOOK FORWARD TO RECEIVING YOUR PROPOSAL, AND TO SEEING YOU AT THE CONFERENCE. > > > >Alice Jesmont >Postgraduate Office >C 85 - C SALT >County College South >Lancaster University >Lancaster. LA1 4YD >01524 592685 >A.Jesmont(a)Lancaster.ac.uk >Please don't print this e-mail unless you really need to. > > -------------------------------------- Caroline Haythornthwaite Professor, Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 501 East Daniel St., Champaign IL 61820 haythorn(a)illinois.edu OR haythorn(a)uiuc.edu

1 0

Re: [Air-L] Information wants to be ASCII or Unicode? Tibetan-written information cannot be ASCII anyway.
by Nicholas John 17 Jul '09

17 Jul '09

The case of Hebrew and Unicode is an interesting one, as it created surprising alliances and cooperation between Israeli and Arab computer scientists. After all, Hebrew and Arabic share pretty much the same problems when it comes to putting them on a computer screen. I wrote a chapter about this for my PhD, which, if you really want, you can see at http://www.sociothink.com/chap6.html. Nicholas ________________ Dr. Nicholas John nicholasjohn.tel

2 1

2nd NZ Discourse Conference
by Philippa Smith 17 Jul '09

17 Jul '09

Apologies for cross-posting but this discourse is also open to those Internet researchers with an interest in discourse analysis. Philippa Smith Institute of Culture, Discourse & Communication AUT University Auckland NEW ZEALAND 2nd Call for Abstracts NEW ZEALAND DISCOURSE CONFERENCE 18th – 20th November 2009 Tilts and Shifts - Applying a Discourse Lens Institute of Culture, Discourse and Communication AUT University Auckland, NEW ZEALAND Following the successful inaugural New Zealand Discourse Conference in December 2007, submissions of abstracts for presentations for the 2nd New Zealand Discourse Conference are invited from academics and others interested in a discourse analysis approach to understanding the social world. In photography, the lens of a camera can be tilted and shifted to create new perspectives. Using discourse analysis as a lens enables us to gain new perspectives on the social world and generate new insights into influences and changes in a range of social phenomena. Discourse analysis encompasses a diverse range of analytical techniques and draws on a variety of theoretical and epistemological perspectives. Through an examination of talk, text and associated social practices, issues of identity, agency, structure, representation, power and practice can be addressed. Extended Submission Deadline: 10th August 2009 Keynote Speakers Professor Rick Iedema, Centre for Health Communication, University of Technology Sydney Professor Cynthia Hardy, International Centre for Research on Organisational Discourse, Strategy and Change, University of Melbourne Professor David Grant, Professor of Organisational Studies, University of Sydney Themes The conference organisers invite abstracts for presentations that use discourse analysis to address theoretical, methodological or empirical research issues in a variety of themes including, but not limited to: > > Community and health > Gender and diversity > Education and learning Globalisation and > development > Finance and capital Ideology, power and knowledge > Culture and identity Media > Marketing and consumption > Place, space and time > Public policy and the state Practice and > praxis > Professions and institutions Language and communication > Work, management and organisation Science and technology > Submission Guidelines > Please submit abstracts by e-mail before the > 10th of August 2009 to nzdc(a)aut.ac.nz<mailto:nzdc@aut.ac.nz> In > the body of the e-mail, include the title of the paper, the name(s) > and affiliation(s) of the author(s), and a contact author postal > address, phone and fax numbers, and e-mail address. Attach a > separate Word or PDF document with the abstract and title of the > paper (but no identification of authorship) to the e-mail. > Abstracts should be no more than 300 words in length. Abstracts > will be reviewed by the Programme Committee and authors will be > notified of the outcome of their submission by 31st August 2009. > Accepted abstracts will be allotted 20 minutes for presentation > followed by 10 minutes for discussion. > > Important Dates > Submission deadline date: 10th August 2009 > Abstract notification > date: 31st August 2009 > Conference dates: 18th – 20th November 2009 > Registration early bird rates close: 21st September 2009 > Website Registration now open. > www.nzdc.aut.ac.nz<http://www.nzdc.aut.ac.nz/> > > Contact Details > The Conference Co-ordinator can be contacted by phone +64 9 921 > 9999 ext 8473 or email nzdc@aut.ac.nzmailto:nzdc@aut.ac.nz >Conference Committee > Jennie Billot, Bill Doolin, Darryl Hocking, > Sigrid Norris, Philippa Smith, Kristie Elphick > > >

1 0

Free Culture <FAIL > Research Workshop 2009
by Mary Bryson 17 Jul '09

17 Jul '09

Take a look at the lack of inclusion of women (FreeCultureFail) on the Organizing and Academic Program Committees for this event. http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/node/5486 There are 12 people on the former and 28 people on the latter. According to the person from the Free Culture Research Workshop group that I contacted: "Based on my count, there are 4 women in all on both Committees, with <Person X> serving on both the organizing and academic committees. The other 3 women serve in the academic committee..." 4 women out of 40 people. One woman on the Organizing Committee. That's some kind of "free culture". Free Culture Fail, as far as I can tell. Maybe there is a story here. Or not. Mary -- Dr. Mary K. Bryson, Professor and Director, Network of Centers and Institutes in Education (NCIE) & Center for Cross-Faculty Inquiry (CCFI), Faculty of Education, University of British Columbia CCFI: Innovation Works Here http://ccfi.educ.ubc.ca/ -----Original Message----- > Date: Thu Jul 16 12:33:25 PDT 2009 > From: "jeremy hunsinger" <jhuns(a)vt.edu> > Subject: [Air-L] Fwd: [Icommons] Free Culture Research Workshop 2009 > To: air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org > > > > > > The Free Culture Research Workshop 2009 > > <http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/node/5486> is looking for scholars > > working on: > > > > * Studies on the use and growth of open/free licensing models > > * Critical analyses of the role of Creative Commons or similar > > models in promoting a Free Culture > > * Building innovative technical, legal, organizational, or > > business solutions and interfaces between the sharing economy > > and the commercial economy > > * Modeling incentives, innovation and community dynamics in > > open > > collaborative peer production and in related social networks > > * Economic models for the sustainability of commons-based > > production > > * Successes and failures of open licensing > > * Analyses of policies, court rulings or industry moves that > > influence the future of Free Culture > > * Regional studies of Free Culture with global lessons/ > > implications > > * Lessons from implementations of open/free licensing and > > distribution models for specific communities > > * Definitions of openness and freedom for different media > > types, > > users and communities > > * Broader sociopolitical, legal and cultural implications of > > Free Culture initiatives and peer production practices > > * Free Culture, Memory Institutions and the broader Public > > Sector > > * Open Science/ Research/ Education > > * Cooperation theory and practice, dynamics of cooperation and > > competition > > * Methodological approaches for studying the characteristics, > > history, impact or growth of Free Culture > > > > It is tremendously exciting to see the commons attracting this > > research > > interest. The workshop will be held October 23 at Harvard. Submissions > > are due August 9. <http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/node/5486> > > > > Also see the last year¹s post on the First Interdisciplinary Research > > Workshop on Free Culture <http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/ > > 8436>. > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Icommons mailing list > > Icommons(a)lists.ibiblio.org > > http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/icommons > > _______________________________________________ > 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/

1 0

Fwd: [Icommons] Free Culture Research Workshop 2009
by jeremy hunsinger 16 Jul '09

16 Jul '09

> > The Free Culture Research Workshop 2009 > <http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/node/5486> is looking for scholars > working on: > > * Studies on the use and growth of open/free licensing models > * Critical analyses of the role of Creative Commons or similar > models in promoting a Free Culture > * Building innovative technical, legal, organizational, or > business solutions and interfaces between the sharing economy > and the commercial economy > * Modeling incentives, innovation and community dynamics in > open > collaborative peer production and in related social networks > * Economic models for the sustainability of commons-based > production > * Successes and failures of open licensing > * Analyses of policies, court rulings or industry moves that > influence the future of Free Culture > * Regional studies of Free Culture with global lessons/ > implications > * Lessons from implementations of open/free licensing and > distribution models for specific communities > * Definitions of openness and freedom for different media > types, > users and communities > * Broader sociopolitical, legal and cultural implications of > Free Culture initiatives and peer production practices > * Free Culture, Memory Institutions and the broader Public > Sector > * Open Science/ Research/ Education > * Cooperation theory and practice, dynamics of cooperation and > competition > * Methodological approaches for studying the characteristics, > history, impact or growth of Free Culture > > It is tremendously exciting to see the commons attracting this > research > interest. The workshop will be held October 23 at Harvard. Submissions > are due August 9. <http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/node/5486> > > Also see the last year’s post on the First Interdisciplinary Research > Workshop on Free Culture <http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/ > 8436>. > > _______________________________________________ > Icommons mailing list > Icommons(a)lists.ibiblio.org > http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/icommons

1 0

WikiWars: Call for Participation, 12th-13th January, 2010
by Nishant Shah 16 Jul '09

16 Jul '09

*WikiWars Call for Participation; 12th, 13th January, 2010, Bangalore Event One for the Critical Point of View Reader* *CPOV (CRITICAL POINT OF VIEW) CONTEXT: *The Wikipedia has emerged as the de facto global reference of dynamic knowledge. Different stakeholders – Wikipedians, users, academics, researchers, gurus of Web 2.0, publishing houses and governments have entered into fierce debates and discussions about what the rise of Wikipedia and Wiki cultures means and how they influence the information societies we live in. The Wikipedia itself has been at the centre of much controversy, pivoted around questions of accuracy, anonymity, vandalism, expertise and authority. The Centre for Internet and Society (Bangalore, India) and the Institute of Network Cultures (Amsterdam, Netherlands) are working together to produce a critical Reader on Wikipedia and to build a Wikipedia Knowledge Network. Under the rubric CPOV, we propose two events that bring together different perspectives, approaches, experiences and stories that critically explore different questions and concerns around Wikipedia. The proceeds from these two events will result in a Reader that consolidates critical points of view about Wikipedia. *WIKIWARS CONFERENCE:* The first conference to be held in Bangalore, called WikiWars, invites participation from users, scholars, academics, practitioners, artists and other cultural workers, to share their experiences, ideas, experiments, innovations, applications and stories about Wikipedia. The WikiWars conference embodies the spirit that guides an open encyclopaedia like the Wikipedia, by referring to the edit battles that users enter into over topics that have many points of view. WikiWars also refers to the contradictory positions adopted by different stakeholders on the various issues of credibility, authority, verifiability and truth-telling, on the Wikipedia. This conference calls for diverse and varied knowledges to come together in a critical dialogic space that informs and augments our understanding of the Wikipedia. *CONFERENCE THEMES:* The possible themes and areas for presentations (projects, experiences, experiments, stories or documentation) can include but are not limited to: - Wiki Theory: Endorse, question/contest or delineate the theoretical approaches and view points on the Wikipedia - Wikipedia and Critique of Western Knowledge Production: The predominance of textual or linguistic cultures, post-western knowledge production systems, and indigenous knowledge systems - Wiki Art: Art that uses Wikipedia models, structures or data to explore and expand the practice of Wikipedia project; and accounts that document Wikipedia based art practices or debates - Designing Debate: Suggestions, innovations, critiques and ideas that focus on the design and form of the Wikipedia, to explore the claims of neutrality, objectivity, emergent hierarchy, control and authenticity on the Wikipedia - Critique of Free and Open: Areas like Wikipedia governance, economic practices of and around Wikipedia, and the nature of freedom in usage, production and participation on the Wikipedia - Global Politics of Exclusion: Exploring questions of non-western material inclusion, language, connectedness, oral histories, women, non-geeks, and alternative material that cannot be documented on Wikipedia etc. - The Place of Resistance: Space of resistance and dissent in the Wikipedia, structures that allow for alternative voices, experiences and ideas - Wikipedia and Education: Wikipedia usage in classrooms as a teaching resource, and its effect on pedagogy, the role of Wikipedia in the knowledge production sector, and mobilisation of academic communities around the Wikipedia For detailed information on each theme, please go to http://cis-india.org/publications/workshops/conference-blogs/Wikiwars *WHO SHOULD APPLY:* The conference in Bangalore aims to bring together an interesting mix of diverse voices from different cultures, geo-political spaces, and context-based practices from around the world, to start consolidating the approaches, experiences, and impact of the Wikipedia: 1. Students and Wikipedia users who belong to different local chapters or have editorial/contribution experiences on the Wikipedia, 2. Academics and publishers who are exploring the changes caused by Wikipedia, both in classroom pedagogy and in knowledge production systems, 3. Researchers and theoreticians, practitioners and proponents, artists and social activists, who are interested in Wikipedia cultures and their socio-political conditions, should be attending this conference. *HOW TO APPLY: *To apply for the conference, please send the following information by email to infowiki(a)cis-india.org by the 31st of August, 2009. 1. A note of interest (450 - 700 words) detailing your ideas and possible contribution 2. Your updated resume 3. A sample of your work (term papers, published articles, peer-reviewed papers, books, art-projects, social intervention projects etc.) *CONFERENCE TIME-LINE:* *Last Date for submitting Note of Interest and Funding options – 31st August, 2009 Announcement of short-listed proposals – 21st September, 2009. Sharing of Detailed Proposals with all participants – 15th December, 2009 Announcement of Conference Schedule and Logistics – 30th December 2009 Online Registration for non-presenting participants – 3rd January 2010 Conference Dates – 12th, 13th January 2010 * *TRAVEL SUPPORT:* Travel support is available for some of the conference participants (national and international). The selected participants will be provided with the basic travel and accommodation costs for the duration of the conference from their home-countries/cities to travel to Bangalore for the conference. If you are applying for travel support, please indicate clearly in your “Note of Interest” any of these three options: 1. Full travel support required. 2. Partial travel support required with estimate. 3. Travel support not required. Travel support will be provided by the conference organisers on a case-by-case basis. *CONFERENCE ORGANISERS: *Sunil Abraham (Sunil(a)cis-india.org) and Nishant Shah (Nishant(a)cis-india.org ), Centre for Internet and Society, Bangalore. If there are any queries regarding the WikiWars conference please write to us. *RESEARCH AND EDITORIAL TEAM:* Geert Lovink and Sabine Niederer (Amsterdam), Nathaniel Tkacz (Melbourne), Johanna Niesyto (Siegen), Sunil Abraham and Nishant Shah (Bangalore). -- Nishant Shah Doctoral Candidate, CSCS, Bangalore. Director (Research), Centre for Internet and Society,( www.cis-india.org ) Asia Awards Fellow, 2008-09 # 00-86-21-66130376

1 0

online health information
by Dina Ralt 16 Jul '09

16 Jul '09

People are following popular rather than accurate health information. Based on its search engine ranking and page view statistics, the English Wikipedia is a prominent source of online health information compared to the other online health information providers studied. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, 2009, 16(4),471-479 http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL <http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi=B7CPS-4WNB0TY-8&_u ser=10&_coverDate=08%2F31%2F2009&_rdoc=1&_fmt=&_orig=search&_sort=d&_docanch or=&view=c&_acct=C000050221&_version=1&_urlVersion=0&_userid=10&md5=c5bdedef 48e5951ad92c6b29e47c1bd4> &_udi=B7CPS-4WNB0TY-8&_user=10&_coverDate=08%2F31%2F2009&_rdoc=1&_fmt=&_orig =search&_sort=d&_docanchor=&view=c&_acct=C000050221&_version=1&_urlVersion=0 &_userid=10&md5=c5bdedef48e5951ad92c6b29e47c1bd4 This is despite the data of Wikipedia that are less complete, and that has more errors of omission than the comparator database. Ann Pharmacother. 2008, 42(12), 1814-1821 <http://www.theannals.com/cgi/content/abstract/42/12/1814> http://www.theannals.com/cgi/content/abstract/42/12/1814 Dr. Dina Ralt The Gertner Institute, Chaim Sheba Medical Center Phone 972-3-5224750 Cellular 972-52-8000210 http://nettingno.blogspot.com/ Life is too short to be in a hurry...

2 1

call for papers new journal Psicologia Culturale
by Luca Tateo 16 Jul '09

16 Jul '09

Dear friends, here you can download the first call for papers of the new journal Psicologia Culturale. http://www.unisa.it//download/3747_11020_1149787701_call%20for%20papers%20p… this is the journal web page http://www.unisa.it//Dipartimenti/DISCED/Personale/Iannaccone_Antonio/psico… best, -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Luca Tateo, PhD Dept. of Economy, Institutions and Society, University of Sassari (Italy) home address: via Rufoli, 23 Ogliara I-84135 Salerno mobile +39.392.5178418, +39.347.5423594 office +39.089.962106 ltateo(a)unisa.it, network.salerno(a)tiscali.it Skype ID: luca.tateo lucatateo.blog.tiscali.it ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

1 0