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Fwd: [IAMCR] media policy position at Central European University
by Jeremy Hunsinger 07 Feb '07

07 Feb '07

Begin forwarded message: > From: "Marc Raboy, Dr." <marc.raboy(a)mcgill.ca> > Date: February 7, 2007 10:21:41 AM EST > To: IAMCR <announcements(a)iamcr.org> > Subject: [IAMCR] media policy position at Central European University > > Central European University > > Department of Public Policy > > Department of Legal Studies > > > Position: Full-time Assistant Professor in Media and > Telecommunications Policy and Law > > > Starting date: August 2007 (or earlier) > > > The Department of Public Policy and the Department of Legal Studies > at the Central European University (www.ceu.hu) open a full-time > position at level of Assistant Professor in the field of media and > telecommunications policy and law. > > > CEU is a graduate research-intensive university specializing > primarily in the social sciences, located in Budapest, Hungary and > accredited in the United States and Hungary. CEU's primary mission > is to promote academic excellence, state of the art research and > civic commitment, so as to contribute to the development of open > societies in Central and Eastern Europe, the former Soviet Union, > and other emerging democracies. CEU offers both master's and > doctoral programs, and it enrolls about 1000 students from more > than 60 countries. The teaching staff consists of around 100 > faculty members from more than 30 countries. The language of > instruction is English. > > > The candidate is expected to contribute courses in the context of > the media and telecommuncations stream of the MA in Public Policy > program at the Department of Public Policy, as well as courses in > this subject area in the context of the relevant degree programs at > the Department of Legal Studies. It is expected that the candidate > has a clear interest in policy oriented research in this field and > develops an international publication record. The candidate will > work closely with the Head of the Department of Public Policy on > further developing the academic profile of the media and > telecommunications stream and will join the CEU Center for Media > and Communications Studies. > > > The Department of Public Policy (www.ceu.hu/dpp) is a fast-growing > and dynamic academic unit which concentrates CEU’s efforts to > become one of the leading suppliers of post-graduate degree > programs in the field of policy studies in the region. The > Department of Legal Studies (www.ceu.hu/legal) has a track record > as the host of ones of the finest degree programs in Europe both in > the field of international business law and comparative > constitutional law. The Center for Media and Communication Studies > (www.cmcs.ceu.hu) is a joint project by CEU, the Annenberg School > for Communications at the University of Pennsylvania, the Budapest > Technological University, and Stanhope Center, London fostering > advanced research in the field. > > > CEU hosts a number of international events of interests to scholars > working in the field of media and communication studies each year > with visitors from across Europe and North America. > > > Qualifications of the candidate: > > > - a completed post-graduate degree in law (PhD, J.D., LLM) > > - the ability to deliver graduate courses in the field of media and > telecommunication policy and law; an emphasis on regulatory issues > with a European focus is essential > > - ability to link regulatory issues in media and telecommunications > policy with other policy sectors in teaching is an advantage > > - ability to work at the interface of academia and policy practice, > and to network > > - a promising publication record and strategy > > - ability to work in an international and inter-cultural > environment with students from different world regions including > North America, Europe and the FSU region > > - readiness to take responsibility for projects and administrative > tasks > > > The starting date for this position is not later than August 2007. > We offer a competitive salary, as well as a dynamic and > international academic environment. Informal enquiries may be > addressed to the Head of the Department of Public Policy, Uwe > Puetter (puetteru(a)ceu.hu) +3613273000, ext 2335. > > > Applicants need to submit a full résumé, a statement of purpose, > publication samples, as well as the names of two referees who would > write in their support. > > > Please send applications to Eva Tornyos, Human Resources Office, > Central European University, H-1051 Budapest, Nador utca 9., > Hungary (Fax: + 36 (1) 235-6135, e-mail: job(a)ceu.hu) > > > The deadline for applying is March 14, 2007. Interviews will take > place in mid-April 2007. > > > > http://www.ceu.hu/dpp/job.htm > > > > > _______________________________________________ > International Association for Media and Communication Research > Announcements mailing list > Announcements(a)iamcr.org > http://iamcr.org/mailman/listinfo/announcements_iamcr.org > http://www.iamcr.org jeremy hunsinger wiki.tmttlt.com www.tmttlt.com () ascii ribbon campaign - against html mail /\ - against microsoft attachments http://www.stswiki.org/ sts wiki http://cfp.learning-inquiry.info/ Learning Inquiry-the journal http://transdisciplinarystudies.tmttlt.com/ Transdisciplinary Studies:the book series

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Request for key studies on disadvantaged young people and ICT use
by Brake,DR 07 Feb '07

07 Feb '07

I am a researcher on a UK government (Becta) report on the potential of ICTs to raise the attainment and aspirations of disadvantaged young people. We are particularly interested in the research you consider to be the most important that has been conducted in the last five years, including any research you or colleagues may be undertaking at the moment but which is not yet published that you would be willing to share with us in draft form. We would also welcome your nominations of key earlier research that in your view remains relevant - particularly literature reviews. While this research has been commissioned by the British Educational Communications and Technology Agency, the remit and potential audience for this literature review is broad, covering any benefits for underprivileged youth (principally but not exclusively 14 to 19 year-olds) that can be derived either from their use of ICTs directly or from greater availability and use of ICTs by those serving their needs - whether or not this takes place in an educational context. In particular we would be interested in evidence for the role of education in alleviating disadvantage and the role of ICTs in alleviating disadvantage - both current and potential. The primary aim of the research is to help young people based in the UK but to that end we are interested in any international studies whose results are likely to be transferable. Relevant ICTs include (but are not limited to) computers and software of all kinds including games, mobile phones, in-class teaching aids and of course Internet access and particular sites. The report has been commissioned with a short deadline so we would appreciate it if you could respond with your suggestions by Feb 14th. We would welcome any comments you wished to provide on the value and relevance of the studies you suggest but a list would be sufficient. While the resulting combined references will probably be too long to share on this email list, I will be happy to provide it to anyone who requests it. P.S. While of course you can respond to this request on this list, if you could also email your own choices directly to me in a form already formatted for bibliographic software (eg Endnote, RIS or BibTeX) that would be most helpful. -- David Brake, Doctoral Student in Media and Communications, London School of Economics & Political Science Also see http://davidbrake.org/ (home page) callto://DavidBrake (Skype.com's Instant Messenger and net phone)

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CFP Fibreculture - after convergence
by O'Riordan, Kate 07 Feb '07

07 Feb '07

Fibreculture Journal http://journal.fibreculture.org Call for papers After convergence, what connects? :: fibreculture :: has established itself as Australasia's leading forum for discussion of internet theory, culture, and research. The Fibreculture Journal is a peer-reviewed journal that explores the issues and ideas of concern and interest to both the Fibreculture network and wider social formations. Papers are invited for the 'After convergence' issue of the Fibreculture Journal, to be published early in 2008. Guest editors are Caroline Bassett (Sussex, UK), Maren Hartmann (Bremen, Germany) and Kate O'Riordan (Lancaster/Sussex, UK). There are guidelines for the format and submission of contributions at http://journal.fibreculture.org These guidelines need to be followed in all cases. Contributions should be sent electronically, as word attachments, to: Guest editors: Caroline Bassett (c.bassett(a)sussex.ac.uk) Maren Hartmann (maren.hartmann(a)uni-bremen.de) Kate O'Riordan (k.oriordan(a)lancaster.ac.uk) Everything that arises does not converge. A more variegated landscape emerges as processes of digitalization, crystallizations of an intrinsically technological-social, continue re-shaping cultures and re-working societies, not in their image, but into something new. It is increasingly obvious that there is no digital behemoth, no single form, no single function, no New World Order. Rather a series of reconfigurations, reformulations, new functions, new contents, new spaces, new grounds, new uses, have emerged and are emerging within global media networks. In response to the (not unexpected) non-arrival of the unifying beast, which is to say in response to the perceived exhaustion of convergence (or the re-definition of its limits), new disciplinary islands are being declared with 'keep out' and 'invented here' signs all over their beaches. In other words there has been a balkanization of techno-cultural investigation. Thus gaming scholars define themselves against internet scholars, or film scholars, locatives stand distinct from screeners. Particular groups of sub-specialists claim particular modes of inquiry: ethnographers for everyday life, speculative theory for digital art, for instance. Indeed, entire vocabularies, originally invoked in a spirit of general experimentation, are now corralled, restricted and defended by particular groups. If these vocabularies often seize up in the process, refusing to say more than they were meant to say, and in particular refusing the unorthodox connections between the empirical and the speculative, the possible and the desirable, that gave them their energy in the first place, nobody seems to notice. So, there is no behemoth. At the same time we insist that connections are produced and so a question we consider worth addressing is not what unites digital forms as one, but what connects them together as many. Further we want to explore how these connections are made. We are less interested in doing that through mainstreaming a particular critical approach (which is to say drawing different areas back under one critical umbrella, making that the connection), than we are in trying to think about exploring/defining/critiquing some of the shared characteristics of different digital media formations. We believe that despite the exhaustion of convergence metaphors, and the rise of disciplinary sub-divisions, these connections remain crucial. Papers addressing but not limited to the following topics are welcome: * Media/Medium Theory * Difference between and specificity of New Media forms * Issues, Limits, Problems of Convergence. * Re-thinking the vocabulary of Affect/Emotion/Perception * Histories of New Media Theory * 'Technology and Cultural Form' revisited? * Methodologies Deadlines: * 250 word abstracts: due February 28th 2007 * Completed Paper: due September 30th 2007 * Expected Publication: February 28th 2008.

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Postgraduate Conference at Leeds: Deadline for abstracts extended
by Francisco Seoane 06 Feb '07

06 Feb '07

Dear colleagues, After receiving a series of requests over the past week to extend the deadline for this conference we decided to follow this demand. We have agreed to extend the deadline for abstracts to Friday 9th February 2007, 18.00pm CET. Please note that this is the final deadline and will not be extended any further. Best, Francisco Seoane Perez ------- Call for Papers ICS Postgraduate Conference Communication Technologies of Empowerment Leeds, United Kingdom - Friday, May 18, 2007 The Institute of Communications Studies (ICS) at the University of Leeds will be hosting a postgraduate conference for the presentation and discussion of research in communications performed by PhD students. Under the title Communication Technologies of Empowerment, this meeting seeks to bring together new scholars who are studying how the latest developments in communication are affecting our democracies by enabling new forms of political participation and citizen engagement. Whether you live in an established democratic system, a country in transition to democracy, or under an authoritarian government, new communication technologies are likely to have changed your political environment. The recent popular upheavals in Ukraine and Lebanon were in great part conducted through mobile phone messages. In Western Europe, the riots in the Parisian suburbs and the protests in Spain against the Aznar government regarding the authorship of the Madrid terrorist attacks would have been very different if the Internet and mobile phones had not become an integral part of our everyday lives. Meanwhile, traditional politics is trying to catch up with the digital age. Political parties are seeking to domesticate these new forms of horizontal communication, and so are governments, with potentially threatening consequences. Paradoxically, new technologies of communication can serve both to empower citizens and to survey and control them. A recent report by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace has shown that networked technologies can be effectively used by authoritarian governments to strengthen their repressive regimes. New forms of communication have become a key tool for global social movements. Whether their struggles are focused on questions of global justice, class, gender, race or the environment, activists have found in the decentralized and inexpensive nature of the Internet and mobile telephony the media they needed to organise themselves and make their actions public. Interestingly, these technologies are also being mastered by those actors who want to challenge the national and international orders through violent means. This reminds us that terrorism is in great part a communicative phenomenon, today more than ever before. If your research deals with questions such as the ones outlined above, or with issues related with the interplay of media, new technologies, citizenship, democracy and politics, we hope to hear from you. Please submit an abstract with a general description of your future research paper, indicating your topic, theoretical framework, research questions or hypotheses, method and expected results. The abstract should not exceed 500 words. If your proposal is accepted, we will ask you to provide a full paper. After your presentation, the paper will be published on the ICS website. Please, remember to include your full contact information: Name, e-mail and postal address, telephone number and academic affiliation for each author. Your paper presentation will be discussed and commented on by members of the academic staff from the Institute of Communications Studies who have expertise in your topic, method, or theoretical framework. This can be a golden opportunity for you to refine your thoughts, openly share your concerns, and receive constructive criticism from professors and fellow postgraduate students working in your area. It is also a great chance to start building or expanding your professional and academic network. Deadlines: - Deadline for proposals EXTENDED: February 9, 2007 - Deadline for full papers: April 30, 2007. Contact and electronic submission: - Qian (Sarah) Gong q.gong(a)leeds.ac.uk - Anna Zoellner csaz(a)leeds.ac.uk Conference website: http://www.personal.leeds.ac.uk/~icsfsp/index.htm ------- Francisco Seoane Perez Provisional PhD student Institute of Communications Studies University of Leeds E-mai: icsfsp(a)leeds.ac.uk Webpage: http://ics.leeds.ac.uk/staff/f.perez ______________________________________________ LLama Gratis a cualquier PC del Mundo. Llamadas a fijos y móviles desde 1 céntimo por minuto. http://es.voice.yahoo.com

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RKCSI Colloquium Series Webcasts
by Paul DiPerna 06 Feb '07

06 Feb '07

Dear AOIRers, I received the note below from the Rob Kling Center for Social Informatics (RKCSI). They archive webcasts of their colloquium series. I thought the links inside the message would be of interest to some folks here. Are there other schools/departments that have online video archives? This might be a good place to start a list for future reference. -- Paul ____________________________________ [Please pardon for duplicate postings.] The Rob Kling Center for Social Informatics (RKCSI) sponsors a seasonal colloquium series on the Indiana University-Bloomington campus. http://rkcsi.indiana.edu/index.php/colloquium-series The link below takes you to the Fall 2006 lecture series and video of most lectures, including Howard Rheingold's lecture "Smart Mobs and Beyond." -- http://rkcsi.indiana.edu/index.php/2006-fall Video recordings of the Spring 2007 lecture series will be posted at the following URL as soon as they are available -- http://rkcsi.indiana.edu/index.php/2007-spring _______________________________________________ The Center for Social Informatics is jointly sponsored by the IU Schools of Library and Information Science and Informatics. Visit the home page @ http://rkcsi.indiana.edu/ -------------- Paul DiPerna Blau Exchange http://www.blauexchange.org email: pdiperna(a)blauexchange.org Online ID: http://claimid.com/pdiperna

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International Graduate Degree Info
by Ted M Coopman 06 Feb '07

06 Feb '07

All, After beating my head against the digital wall for a while, I decided to access our collective intelligence. I am looking for statistics on the percentage of national adult populations who have earned a graduate degree. I have this information for the US (for the curious out there, as of 2005, 6.8% hold Masters and 1.5% Ph.D.), but have been unable to track down similar stats for any place else. Undergrad information is easy, the grad stuff is proving more challenging. I suppose it is a matter of knowing where to look. Broader information on regions, say Asia, Latin America, or Europe as a whole would also be helpful. Any help in pointing me in the right direction would be greatly appreciated. -TED Ted M. Coopman Department of Communication University of Washington

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Re: [Air-l] International Graduate Degree Info
by Andrew Ó Baoill 06 Feb '07

06 Feb '07

The Irish census form gathers information on degrees split by associates/degree/MA/PhD etc., though the published reports only provide information on "degree or higher." The Irish Central Statistics Office has always been incredibly responsive to my questions, so if you contact them at census(a)cso.ie I would expect they might be able to provide information - at least for the 2002 census, if not the 2006 (only the preliminary report has been released so far). If using data from Ireland, bear in mind of course the high level of emigration through the years, and immigration in recent years, which may well skew the figures in some manner. I'd expect that other countries may similarly gather more detailed information than is provided in the standard reports, and running through the member agencies of Eurostat or similar may prove fruitful. Andrew On 5 Feabh 2007, at 15:20, air-l-request(a)listserv.aoir.org wrote: > All, > > After beating my head against the digital wall for a while, I > decided to access our collective intelligence. > > I am looking for statistics on the percentage of national adult > populations who have earned a graduate degree. I have this > information for the US (for the curious out there, as of 2005, 6.8% > hold Masters and 1.5% Ph.D.), but have been unable to track down > similar stats for any place else. Undergrad information is easy, > the grad stuff is proving more challenging. I suppose it is a > matter of knowing where to look. > > Broader information on regions, say Asia, Latin America, or Europe > as a whole would also be helpful. > > Any help in pointing me in the right direction would be greatly > appreciated. > > -TED > > Ted M. Coopman > Department of Communication > University of Washington -- Andrew Ó Baoill - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Inst. of Communications Research, U. of Illinois Communications / Participatory media / Political action - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - andrew(a)funferal.org / baoillo(a)uiuc.edu aim: funferal(a)mac.com +353-87-241-7003 / +1-(217) 384-3142 http://funferal.org / Galway, Ireland / Urbana, IL, USA

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Journal CFP: Beyond Broadcasting - TV For The 21st Century
by Graham Meikle 06 Feb '07

06 Feb '07

Dear AOIR, thought this might mesh with some members' current research. NB: no relation to the splendid-looking event publicised in David Silver's post today. [apologies for any cross-posting] Call For Papers: 'Media International Australia' Issue no. 126, Feb 2008 'Beyond Broadcasting: TV for the Twenty-First Century' Theme Editors: Graham Meikle and Sherman Young The broadcast era is over. The twentieth-century broadcast model of centralised, one-way transmission of pre-packaged content to large, simultaneous audiences is increasingly challenged and complemented by newer approaches. Content, distribution channels, geographical constraints, production values, business models, regulatory approaches and cultural habits are changing as the new media technologies empower users in unexpected ways and increasingly recast TV as something that audiences create as well as watch. Cheap hardware and software allow anyone to produce original or mashed-up¹ videos. The ubiquity of camera-phones and CCTV redefines reality television. Higher-quality resources bring near-broadcast quality to video blogs and citizen journalism. Affordable editing resources allow creative re-mixes of low-brow soap-operas. And sites such as You Tube demonstrate the online demand for such non-traditional video productions. Such media forms are unlikely to replace television as we know it. But they will displace it. This issue of 'Media International Australia' invites contributions that are able to push forward our thinking about television. The following gives some indication of the range of possible topics, but is not intended to rule out other questions. * What is television in the twenty-first century? Should our definition of television change? If television is considered a cultural habit, what new habits are emerging? * Does television require an industry? How are audiences reinventing themselves as producers? * What are the relationships between free to air, pay TV, public broadcasting and emerging new formats? * What are the impacts of new distribution models, both legal and illegal? * What impacts do the new technologies and habits have on traditional institutions, policies and regulatory frameworks? Papers should be approximately 4-5000 words and comply with the MIA style guide, available at <http://www.emsah.uq.edu.au/mia/index.html>. Further information is available from Dr Graham Meikle <graham.meikle(a)mq.edu.au> or Dr Sherman Young <sherman.young(a)mq.edu.au>. Abstracts should be sent to the theme editors by 1 May 2007. Following proposal assessments, papers for refereeing will be required by 1 August 2007, with any revisions to be completed by 15 November 2007 for publication in February 2008. About the journal: Media International Australia (MIA) publishes new scholarly and applied research on the media, telecommunications, and the cultural industries, and the policy regimes within which they operate (http://www.emsah.uq.edu.au/mia/index.html) MIA was founded by Professor Henry Mayer in 1976. It was published by the Australian Film, Television and Radio School until 1997, when it moved to the Centre for Cultural and Media Policy at Griffith University. At that time, it was merged with the Centre's journal, Culture and Policy. From 2004, it became a publication of the School of EMSAH and the Centre for Critical and Cultural Studies, at The University of Queensland. In 2005 the Henry Mayer Lecture was established in memory of the journal's founder. Broadly inclusive and inter-disciplinary, the journal welcomes the writing of history, theory and analysis, commentary and debate. While its primary focus is Australia, the journal also aims to provide an international perspective. Dr Graham Meikle ------------------------- Senior Lecturer, Department of Media, Division of Society, Culture, Media and Philosophy, Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW, 2109, Australia. tel: (61 2) 9850-6899 fax: (61 2) 9850-6776 email: <graham.meikle(a)mq.edu.au>

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Beyond Broadcast 2007
by David M Silver 05 Feb '07

05 Feb '07

this sure looks interesting ... david *** For 50 years broadcast media have played a powerful role in shaping political culture and mediating citizen engagement in the democratic process. Now a participatory culture is putting the tools of media creation and critique in the hands of citizens themselves. We invite you to explore the means and meaning of this transformation: Beyond Broadcast 2007 From Participatory Culture to Participatory Democracy http://www.beyondbroadcast.net/ Saturday, February 24th, 2007 Kirsch Auditorium, Stata Center Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, Massachusetts info(a)beyondbroadcast.net Keynote: Henry Jenkins, Director of the Comparative Media Studies program at MIT and author of "Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide" Followed by panels, open-meeting discussions, demos, and birds-of-a- feather dinners. ================================================ On February 24th, MIT Comparative Media Studies will host a conference in collaboration with Harvard?s Berkman Center for Internet and Society and the Information Society Project at Yale Law School. The one-day event will be held at MIT, and is entitled ?Beyond Broadcast: From Participatory Culture to Participatory Democracy.? It will bring together industry experts, academic leaders, public media professionals, and political activists for panel discussions and focused working groups. Beyond Broadcast 2007 builds on the overwhelming success of last year?s sold-out event, ?Beyond Broadcast 2006: Reinventing Public Media in a Participatory Culture? held at Harvard Law School. Over 350 people took part in-person and online through the virtual world Second Life. Attendees used several unique online tools, including a web-based ?question tool? to probe panelists, a collaborative wiki, live blogging, flickr photo sharing, del.icio.us tagging, and YouTube video production. These tools enabled the conference to practice what it preached, turning the event into a two-way participatory interaction in contrast with many conferences. The tools have been expanded upon this year, already spurring an active conversation on the conference web site, weeks before the event. Henry Jenkins will give the Keynote Address, followed by panel discussions from media makers and policy commentators. Details of these panels are being updated on the conference web site http:// www.beyondbroadcast.net In the second-half of the day, the conference turns its focus to working groups that attendees will help organize. Building on themes coming from the plenary sessions, participants will target specific issues or questions and join efforts with the diverse crowd of others. In the past, these groups have been facilitated by thought leaders in technology, policy, and academia. Many attendees last year expressed their appreciation for this hybrid conference approach in which they had a chance to ?do something before heading home.? There will also be an evening reception, called ?Demos and Drinks,? showcasing groups that are doing exciting work related to conference themes. Registration is only $50 (before February 9), and includes lunch and the evening reception. There is also a special 50% discount for students. The conference follows the 2007 Public Media Conference taking place in Boston February 20-23 (http://integratedmedia.org) It is suggested that you register early to avoid losing a spot if Beyond Broadcast sells out again this year. http://www.beyondbroadcast.net/ info(a)beyondbroadcast.net

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MySpace and other public writing spaces
by Elena Adkins 05 Feb '07

05 Feb '07

I am working on a research project with a focus on how people use MySpace (or other similar sites) for personal "diary"-type writing. I am wondering why individuals feel compelled to post very personal details about their lives, the purpose it serves for them, and the importance of the interactive nature of these sites. I want to know what it is about these sites that make it seemingly easier to share personal information, both on the site and in general. If anyone knows of any texts that could help me out with my research, I would greatly appreciate it. --Elena Adkins

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