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Academic Writing and Publishing Workshop, AoIR IR 9.0
by Marcus Foth 02 Jun '08

02 Jun '08

Call for Participation Academic Writing and Publishing Workshop Wednesday October 15th 2008 in conjunction with AoIR IR 9.0 http://conferences.aoir.org/ Organisers: Marcus Foth, Mia Consalvo, Greg Hearn In response to feedback from AoIR members as well as the publications working group and the executive committee of AoIR, we invite you to this workshop on academic writing and publishing. It provides an opportunity for early and mid career internet researchers to discuss and improve academic writing skills in a peer support environment and identify suitable publication outlets. The workshop will be a forum to share experiences and tips and tricks on how to interact with editors and deal with review reports. You will have a chance to discuss your own draft papers with other participants and the organisers, and you will hear inside stories from Nick Jankowski, editor of New Media & Society, and Mark Lorenzen, editor of Industry and Innovation. No workshop papers are required to attend, but we encourage you to bring drafts on the day for us to work with. If you would like to participate in this workshop, please register for IR 9.0 and send an email to Marcus Foth at m.foth(a)qut.edu.au so we can keep a tally on numbers for the workshop. Tentative Programme 09.00 – 09.15: Welcome and outline of the structure of the workshop 09.15 – 10.15: Keynote by Nick Jankowski, Editor of New Media & Society, SAGE 10.15 – 10.45: Coffee break 10.45 – 11.30: Roundtable: Selecting the right publication outlet and publication lifecycles 11.30 – 12.15: Hands-on session collecting information online about publication outlets and share with others 12.15 – 13.15: Lunch 13.15 – 14.00: Roundtable: Tips and tricks for academic writing and responding to reviewer's feedback 14.00 – 14.45: Hands-on session: mini peer review of participants' works and discussion with editors 14.45 – 15.15: Coffee break 15.15 – 16.00: Feedback and Q&A session with editors and publishers 16.00 – 17.00: Panel discussion: Towards a set of regular AoIR special issues -- Dr Marcus Foth Australian Postdoctoral Fellow Institute for Creative Industries and Innovation Queensland University of Technology (CRICOS No. 00213J) Creative Industries Precinct, Brisbane QLD 4059, Australia Phone +61 7 313 x88772 - Fax x88195 - Office Z6-511 m.foth(a)qut.edu.au - http://www.vrolik.de/publications/

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Re: [Air-L] Air-L Digest, Vol 47, Issue 1
by Robin Reid 02 Jun '08

02 Jun '08

Hello--first post on list, but I've been reading and lurking a while now! I first became aware of AOIR when I started doing internet research in fan studies, but didn't realize the listserv existed. My program (at a small university in rural Texas) is moving to incorporate a great deal of new media, transmedia, and multi media work on both graduate and the composition courses (so the movement is tied together, with graduate students learning and teaching). Since I joined the list, I've been saving stuff to read later (life's been a bit hectic with new program initiatives), but I taught an online graduate course titled "new media literacies" last fall which overlaps with the convergence idea in Sabryna's class. Here's my course description and reading list: COURSE DESCRIPTION This course is designed to teach students how to apply critical theories to a range of contemporary media in today's convergence culture. The media covered include (but are not limited to): games, fan creations, wikis, blogs, graphic novels, and other media not traditionally covered in traditional "literary" or "film studies." The course will be informed by interdisciplinary multicultural and gender theories and practices. Scholarship done in literary, media and communication, sociology, and linguistics will be assigned. I do not assume students are experts in all new media (or any new media); I do not assume they are familiar with all the theories referenced in assigned readings. We will focus on literacy practices, and so part of students' work will be tracking their acquisition of new literacy practices during the course of the term. Trouble and Her Friends Melissa Scott Split-Level Dykes to Watch Out For Alison Bechdel Control and Freedom: Power and Paranoia in the Age of Fiber Optics Wendy Hui Kyong Chun Everyday eBay: Culture, Collecting, and Desire Ken Hillis, Michael Petit, Nathan Scott Epley The Lord of the Rings: Popular Culture in Global Context Ernest Mathijs Unit Operation: An Approach to Videogame Operation Ian Bogost The main theory text was Chun's (we spent weeks reading it, one chapter at a time, because of the density and the importance). Too often for my taste, work on new media and media convergence (including Henry Jenkin's which is incredibly important and informed my class in major ways) ignores issues of race and gender. Chun's work is incredible. Robin *** air-l-request(a)listserv.aoir.org wrote: From: "Sabryna Cornish" Subject: [Air-L] convergence To: Message-ID: <48411AE7020000EE0000627F(a)wpo.cso.niu.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Hi all--I am teaching a graduate course on media convergence. I have a good idea for readings for the course, but wanted some suggestions from list serv members about what they might require graduate students to read. I am purposely not including a description of the course to see what list serv members think about when they consider the term media convergence. I will say this is a theoretically based course. Thanks in advance for any help! Sabryna Sabryna Cornish Assistant professor of journalism Department of communication Northern Illinois University

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CFR for Flow Conference, October 2008
by Tuszynski, Stephanie 02 Jun '08

02 Jun '08

Greetings everyone- I saw a number of you at the first Flow conference in Austin back in 2006. The CFR for this year's conference is finally up. The deadline is June 15th, which is very short notice, I know. But this conference isn't a traditional paper-format one. The entire conference is roundtable discussions on topics, intended to encourage more discussion and interaction than you get from a more formal atmosphere. I found the first conference very engaging and interesting myself. The conference home page is here: http://flowtv.org/?page_id=1332 I'm not C&Ping the entire call because there are several pages of descriptions of the areas. You can find them at the page: http://flowtv.org/?page_id=1335 The call begins with this: Conference Date: October 9-11, 2008 at the University of Texas at Austin Deadline to submit a response: June 15, 2008 Flow Conference 2008 will resemble traditional academic meetings in name only: There will be no panels, no papers, and no plenary sessions. Instead, the event will feature a series of roundtables, each organized around a compelling question. Respondents are asked to submit a brief abstract addressing one of the roundtable questions listed below. We especially encourage responses that address issues of race, class, gender, sexuality, age, and ability, as well as international perspectives. To submit a response send a 150-word abstract to flowconference2008(a)gmail.com by June 15, 2008. In the subject line of the email please put the title of the roundtable to which you are responding. Be sure to also include your full name, e-mail address, and affiliation in the body of the email. Please submit a response to only one roundtable topic. However, we imagine that some individuals will have interest in several roundtable discussions and thus difficulty choosing between them. We want to accommodate as many people and their preferences as possible. Therefore, it would be helpful for us to know about those individuals who are willing to participate in another roundtable if too many responses are submitted for their original question. If this applies to you, please submit one response to one roundtable question AND let us know two other roundtable questions in which youre interested. If the original question to which you respond produces too many responses, we will invite you to submit a response to one of the other questions. We will inform participants of acceptance via e-mail by July 15, 2008. Upon acceptance, respondents will be asked to expand their abstract to a 600-800 word position paper, due by September 15, 2008. The complete CFR is here: http://flowtv.org/?page_id=1335 Cheers. Stephanie Tuszynski Visiting Assistant Professor Department of Theatre and Film University of Toledo

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Convergence
by John Monberg 02 Jun '08

02 Jun '08

I agree that the Carey chapters are extremely useful in raising enduring questions about convergence, especially value-laden claims made about every new generation of communication technology that are framed as non-political. Alan Liu's "Laws of Cool" does a great job of historicizing the evolution of communication technology, in particular the politics of design and the mission of the humanities in a digital era, in a theoretically sophisticated manner. Shaun Moore's "Media/Theory: Thinking about Media and Communications" raises many fundamental questions about interaction without falling into a deterministic framework. The "Digital Bohemia" chapter in Richard Lloyd's "Neo-Bohemia: Art and Commerce in the Postindustrial City" grounds convergence in a specific social context, adding ethnographic detail along the theoretical lines of Castells and Saskia Sassen that students near Chicago might especially appreciate. John Monberg

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CFP: HICSS 42 -- Social Networks and Virtual Worlds for Work, Learning, and Play
by Caroline Haythornthwaite 02 Jun '08

02 Jun '08

Hawaii in January -- what could be better! Papers due June 15, 2008. Minitrack organizers include a few familiar AoIR names. Do consider sending your papers our way. /Track organizers Caroline Haythornthwaite (haythorn(a)uiuc.edu) Karine Barzilai-Nahon (karineb(a)u.washington.edu) Paul Benjamin Lowry (Paul.Lowry.PhD(a)gmail.com) Ian MacInnes (IMacInne(a)syr.edu) ----------- Call for Papers **Social Networks and Virtual Worlds for Work, Learning, and Play** Minitrack in the **Internet and the Digital Economy Track** HICSS 42 DUE DATE: June 15, 2008 Forty-Second Hawaii International Conference on Systems Sciences (HICSS-42) January 5-8, 2009 Hilton Waikoloa Village, Waikoloa, Big Island, Hawaii http://www.hicss.hawaii.edu/hicss_42/apahome42.htm Our online ways and means of connecting with others and maintaining ties for everyday life, community, work, learning and play are changing dramatically with the increasing adoption and use of social networking applications such as Facebook, MySpace, etc., immersive worlds such as Second Life, and more comprehensive online support environments such as collaboratories, virtual communities, and online communities of practice. These new settings provide the infrastructure for new patterns of connectivity, new ways of working, learning and playing with known and unknown others, locally and globally distributed, with common and diverse cultural experiences. This minitrack for HICSS 42 calls for papers that address the design, analysis, theory, review, experiments and/or observation of social networks, virtual communities, and virtual worlds in the contexts of work, school, home, community, and play. Papers from all methodological approaches are welcome, including design and user studies, quantitative and qualitative research, and theoretical work. Interdisciplinary work is particularly encouraged. All papers should be well grounded in the literature, present original work, and make a substantial addition to the literature in this area. Examples of topics for this minitrack include, but are not limited to the following: • Online communities: organizational, group and individual behavior • Design for online networks and communities • E-learning: structures, implementation, and practices • Interaction between the off-line and online community • Online gaming: design, economics, behavior • Collaborative work, learning or gaming online • Peer-to-peer or mobile services for virtual communities • Case studies and topologies of online communities • Theoretical models of virtual worlds • Business and organizational models of virtual worlds • Economic behaviors in virtual worlds, and game economies • Synergies and conflicts between real and virtual worlds • Identity in virtual worlds • Interface design for social networking, virtual worlds, virtual communities • Social networking agents • Anti-social behavior, online addiction, predatory behavior online • Legal and ethical issues of virtual worlds • Privacy and security issues in online networks IMPORTANT DATES: Abstracts (optional): April 15, 2008 Full Paper Submission: June 15, 2008 All papers must conform to HICSS formatting standards: http://www.hicss.hawaii.edu/hicss_42/authorinstruction.htm Please contact any of the organizers with questions about submissions to this minitrack. Abstracts may be sent to any of the organizers. Caroline Haythornthwaite (haythorn(a)uiuc.edu) Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Karine Barzilai-Nahon (karineb(a)u.washington.edu) The Information School, University of Washington Paul Benjamin Lowry (Paul.Lowry.PhD(a)gmail.com) Information Systems Department, Kevin Rollins Center for e-Business, Marriott School, Brigham Young Ian MacInnes (IMacInne(a)syr.edu) School of Information Studies, Syracuse University -------------------------------------- Caroline Haythornthwaite Professor, Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 501 East Daniel St., Champaign IL 61820

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REMINDER: HICSS 42 Minitrack on Open Movements
by Felipe Ortega 02 Jun '08

02 Jun '08

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Apologies for cross-posting. ============================================ *REMINDER: Call for Papers HICSS 42 Minitrack on Open Movements* *Full papers deadline: 15 June*. Less than 2 weeks left. Conference will be held from 5-8 January, 2009. *We are still open to accept reviewers for submitted papers*. Please contact Minitrack Co-Chairs if you want to be included in the reviewers pool. We will help best papers authors to publish their contributions on top-rated, international research publications. If you have doubts or you need some guidance about the contents on your paper, please don't hesitate and contact Minitrack Co-chairs: Co-chairs: Felipe Ortega (Primary Contact) Universidad Rey Juan Carlos GSyC/LibreSoft Tulipán s/n28933 Mostoles, Madrid, Spain Phone: +34-91-488-8523 Email: jfelipe(a)gsyc.es URL: http://libresoft.urjc.es/ Kevin Crowston School of Information Studies Syracuse University 348 Hinds HallSyracuse, NY 13244-4100 USA Phone: +1-315-443-1676 Email: crowston(a)syr.edu URL: http://crowston.syr.edu/ ======================================== The Minitrack focuses on research about Open Movements phenomena, including FLOSS, Open Contents and Open Communities from many different perspectives. We accept papers on social networks, and coordination and distributed collaboration in OC and OComm, community development and its evolution, knowledge management and learning, content development in these environments, as well as analysis and assesment of these processes. Topics and research areas include, but are not limited to: * Issues in distributed software development for FLOSS * Issues in content development in OC and OComm * Distributed collaboration in and coordination of FLOSS and OC development teams * Distributed group development for FLOSS * Community development and its evolution in OC * FLOSS teams as communities of practice * Leadership, management and policies in FLOSS, OC groups and Open Communities * Creators roles in OC, and OComm and how they evolve over time * Implementation of FLOSS systems * Distributed project management and distributed team management * Knowledge management and learning in OComm, OC and FLOSS development * Member satisfaction and effectiveness in OComm, OC and FLOSS development * Analysis and assessment of software development processes for FLOSS * Motivations and ideologies in OC, OComm and FLOSS * User involvement and user support in FLOSS development * FLOSS systems supporting OC projects * Web 20, Enterprise 20, mashups and their relationships with OC and OComm * Forecasting the evolution of FLOSS and OC projects, as well as OComm * Application, implementation and cases of use of OC and FLOSS projects in education, health care, public administrations and mass media * Social networks in FLOSS, OC projects and OComm Regards. Felipe Ortega. - -- José Felipe Ortega Soto | Ph.D. Candidate / Researcher Tel: (+34)-914 888 105 | Fax: (+34)-916 647 494 | GSyC/Libresoft - U. Rey Juan Carlos jfelipe _at_ gsyc.escet.urjc.es | Edif. Departamental II - Office 116 http://libresoft.urjc.es/ | c/Tulipán s/n 28933 Móstoles (Madrid) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFIQ/dwe8GFfoqY1ucRAk8dAJ0VLD3iS+9tNfGgu+uQK3NV7eL5YgCdH+/e V8ljL8q32I22r7gXSuzvjPg= =Gbxd -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Internet Studies Festival: registration now open!
by Adi Kuntsman 02 Jun '08

02 Jun '08

Internet Studies Festival Are you a researcher or postgraduate student studying the Internet? Are you a recent graduate, interested in doing an MA in Internet and Communication studies? Then this event is for you! Liverpool John Moores University invites you to the *Internet Studies Festival*: an exciting one-day event that brings together young and experienced scholars working in the area. Join us on *the 18th of July 2008 from 10am all day* to learn about Facebook and blogging; on-line communities and chatrooms; Internet in many languages and ethics of Internet research. Come and get a chance to meet colleagues from around the UK, John Moores staff and current MA students who are at the forefront of this new and exciting field The Festival will include presentations, discussions and an exciting book fair. Tea, coffee and lunch will be provided to all registered participants. To register (free of charge!) please visit our website: http://www.ljmu.ac.uk/MCA/91522.htm Please circulate this invitation widely Dr. Adi Kuntsman Lecturer in Internet and Communication School of Media, Critical and Creative Arts Liverpool John Moores University Dean Walters, 1 St. James Road Liverpool, L1 7BR http://www.ljmu.ac.uk/MCA/91728.htm

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Re: [Air-L] Air-L Digest, Vol 46, Issue 29
by Mariana Goya 01 Jun '08

01 Jun '08

Hi Sabrina, In relation to digital convergence, I would recommend Lev Manovich's Language of new media. Regarding cultural changes, I would suggest the introduction and some chapters of Henry Jenkin's Media Convergence. Mariana air-l-request(a)listserv.aoir.org wrote: From: "Sabryna Cornish" Subject: [Air-L] convergence To: Message-ID: <48411AE7020000EE0000627F(a)wpo.cso.niu.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Hi all--I am teaching a graduate course on media convergence. I have a good idea for readings for the course, but wanted some suggestions from list serv members about what they might require graduate students to read. I am purposely not including a description of the course to see what list serv members think about when they consider the term media convergence. I will say this is a theoretically based course. Thanks in advance for any help! Sabryna Sabryna Cornish Assistant professor of journalism Department of communication Northern Illinois University -------- Mariana Goya M. Doctoral student at the Institute of Communications Research University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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Invitation to GigaNet paris Workshop
by Nanette Levinson 01 Jun '08

01 Jun '08

Global Internet Governance: An Interdisciplinary Research Field in Construction A GigaNet workshop, organized in cooperation with GDR TICS and DEL Networks Paris, France - 23 June 2008 - 08:30-13:30 University Paris III Sorbonne Nouvelle – Institut du Monde Anglophone Invitation to participate The Global Internet Governance Academic Network (GigaNet) will hold its first workshop on "Global Internet Governance: An Interdisciplinary Field in Construction", in Paris, France, on Monday 23 June 2003, 08:30-13:30. French co-organizers and sponsors are: GDR- CNRS TICS, DEL-CNRS network, Sciences Po, U. Paris 3 Sorbonne Nouvelle, U. Pierre et Marie Curie, and LIP6 Laboratory. The purpose of the workshop, the first of its sort, is to allow scholars involved in Internet Governance-related research to describe their ongoing research projects to other scholars in the field, in order to share ideas, forge possible collaborations, and identify emerging research themes in the field. Scholars from various academic disciplines and all regions of the world are expected to contribute to this reflexive exercise, with the long-term objective of collectively building this interdisciplinary research field. Rather than featuring academic paper presentations, the workshop aims at providing a survey of current academic activities in the field of global Internet governance. The workshop is mainly organized around 3 roundtables, fostering lively and fruitful discussions. Panelists selected among the authors of submitted contributions will discuss global Internet governance research activities dealing with: models, players and democratic principles; regulation policies and regulatory issues; and regional perspectives and sociocultural issues. Attendance at the workshop is free and open to all interested parties, but registration is required. Workshop agenda and detailed program, registration form, contribution abstracts, as well as other practical information, are available at the workshop website: http://tinyurl.com/2nww9t. Contact: Meryem Marzouki, Workshop Chair LIP6-UPMC-CNRS, France (Meryem.Marzouki(a)lip6.fr) Workshop website: http://tinyurl.com/2nww9t -- Meryem Marzouki LIP6/PolyTIC - CNRS 104 avenue du Président Kennedy - 75016 Paris http://www-polytic.lip6.fr b_________________________________________ Nanette S. Levinson Chair, GigaNet and Director Designate International Communication Program School of International Service American University Washington, DC 20016-8071 202-885-1480 www.american.edu/levinson

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Convergence syllabus
by RGL 01 Jun '08

01 Jun '08

I'd also recommend considering the following, keeping in mind that policy issues related to convergence also matter a lot, hence the Benkler reference. B. Lentz, McGill University Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide (Hardcover) by Henry Jenkins The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom by Yochai Benkler New Media: A Critical Introduction (Paperback) by Martin Lister (Author), Kieran Kelly (Author), Jon Dovey (Author), Seth Giddings (Author), Iain Grant (Author) RG Lentz NYC

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