Re: [Air-L] conducting qualitative research on Facebook

7 Feb 2018

      I found an article by Williams et al (2017) useful when looking at similar issues relating to Twitter data. There might be some overlap with your research.

Here is the full info: Matthew L Williams, Pete Burnap, Luke Sloan. Towards an Ethical Framework for Publishing Twitter Data in Social Research: Taking into Account Users’ Views, Online Context and Algorithmic Estimation.

Best wishes

Diana Tremayne

Carnegie School of Education

Leeds Beckett University, G07 Carnegie Hall, Headingley Campus, Leeds, LS6 3QQ, United Kingdom

Tel: +44 (0)113 812 8652

Email: d.tremayne@leedsbeckett.ac.uk

Twitter: @dianatremayne

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   1. Call for Abstracts -- Special Issue on Apps and
      Infrastructures (Fernando van der Vlist)
   2. ICA Preconference: Crowdsourcing as a Content Analysis Tool
      (Lei Guo)
   3. CFP EASST18 - Open design & manufacturing in the platform
      economy - (Ra?l Tabar?s)
   4. CFP EASST18 - Open design & manufacturing in the platform
      economy - (Ra?l Tabar?s)
   5. Postdoc position for PERVADE: Pervasive Data Ethics for
      Computational Research (Michael T Zimmer)
   6. CFP for a Philip K Dick anthology (hyperborean7)
   7. Lecturer/Senior Lecturer at Monash University Malaysia - Two
      Openings (Julian Hopkins)
   8. Conducting qualitative research on Facebook (Virginia Balfour)
   9. Re: Conducting qualitative research on Facebook
      (Sharon Greenfield)
  10. Re: Conducting qualitative research on Facebook (Sarah Quinton)

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Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2018 15:43:42 +0100
From: Fernando van der Vlist <fernando.vandervlist@gmail.com>
To: air-l@listserv.aoir.org
Subject: [Air-L] Call for Abstracts -- Special Issue on Apps and
        Infrastructures
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Dear all,

We invite submissions for a special issue of Computational Culture on "Apps
and Infrastructures", edited by Carolin Gerlitz, Anne Helmond, David
Nieborg, and Fernando van der Vlist. Please find the call for abstracts
below.

750 word abstracts are due by April 1, 2018. More information is available
at http://computationalculture.net/cfps-events/. Queries to the editors can
be addressed at apps.infrastructures@gmail.com.

Best regards,

Carolin Gerlitz (University of Siegen)
Anne Helmond (University of Amsterdam)
David Nieborg (University of Toronto)
Fernando van der Vlist (University of Siegen and University of Amsterdam)

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# CALL FOR ABSTRACTS
# APPS AND INFRASTRUCTURES

# A special issue of Computational Culture, a Journal of Software Studies
# Edited by Carolin Gerlitz, Anne Helmond, David Nieborg, Fernando van der
Vlist

## OUTLINE

Apps have become an important new cultural, technical, and economic
software form. Most of today?s apps are designed to run on smartphones and
other mobile devices and provide functions previously possible with other
software forms (Morris and Elkins, 2015). However, they represent new ways
in which software artefacts are developed, tested, packaged, promoted,
distributed, monitored, monetised, downloaded, integrated, updated, stored,
accessed, archived, interpreted, and used. To foreground the relational and
material dimensions of apps, research should not only account for them as
discrete media objects, but needs to approach apps as part of their
multiple infrastructures and environments including app stores, development
platforms, advertising technologies, analytics tools, and cloud services,
among others.

App stores set the conditions for users and developers to distribute,
browse, promote, monetise, rate, and download apps developed for Apple?s
iOS, Google?s Android, or other mobile operating systems. Developers draw
on a variety of both official and third-party developer tools, including
developer pages and reference documentation, application programming
interfaces (APIs), software development kits (SDKs), integrated development
environments (IDEs), and dedicated programming languages. Such resources
are commonly employed in order to build, test, and monitor apps whilst
appropriating the features and constraints of particular platforms and
devices, thereby participating in the re-interpretation and re-evaluation
of platform features and data. Furthermore, apps may also utilise a
device?s built-in sensors for continuous data collection of movements,
practices, and environments whilst being wirelessly connected to the cloud
or other infrastructures, without the user necessarily knowing exactly
when, how, or where (Mackenzie, 2010).

Approaching apps from an infrastructural perspective allows attending to
the various socio-technical actors, layers, and inscriptions that inform
app development, distribution, and usage in situated, distributed, and
often dissimilar ways. Within such stacked intermediary infrastructures,
platform logics of negotiation among heterogeneous stakeholders are
multiplied and nested. This raises questions about the material and
technological boundaries of apps and the subsequent need for methodologies
to study apps? socio-technical assemblages on multiple scales, attending to
inbound and outbound data flows, governance and power, valuation, their
political economy, and material semiotics. Previous research on apps --
initially emerging at the intersection of mobile studies and media studies
-- considered mobile apps as a form of mobile or location-based media
transforming and generating new forms of communication and sociality,
places, and publics through the affordances and practices associated with
mobile artefacts (Goggin and Hjorth, 2014). While these studies raised
general questions about the boundaries of apps, attention was primarily
directed to apps as compartmentalised software applications and their
relations with affect, bodies, and locales (Farman 2012; Matviyenko et al.,
2015; Morris and Elkins, 2015). A second strand of app research has moved
beyond such a single app focus and directed primary attention to the
materialities and infrastructures of apps by engaging with their data
cultures, material connections, political economic underpinnings, and
ecologies (Albury et al., 2017; Farman, 2015; Goldsmith in Goggin and
Hjorth, 2014; Horst, 2013; Nieborg, 2017; Wilken, 2015).

This special issue of Computational Culture welcomes proposals and projects
from scholars and practitioners from across different disciplines
interested in the advancement of app studies at the intersection of apps
and infrastructures. Studies of mobile apps, platform native apps, and web
browser apps or extensions are particularly encouraged. We specifically
seek articles that bring together conceptual work with a technically and
empirically grounded perspective, addressing the methodological challenges
associated with the critical study of apps and their intricate relations to
other software, platforms, and infrastructures. Contributors are encouraged
to move beyond studies of single apps and their users in favor of
approaches that explore apps as material artefacts alongside the
infrastructures, political economy, and environments in which they are
embedded and situationally enacted. We thus encourage interdisciplinary
contributions that traverse boundaries between the fields of software
studies, platform studies, cultural and media studies, science and
technology studies, as well as political economy and data critique.

## TOPICS AND PROJECTS MIGHT INCLUDE

 * The relations between apps and their wider material and infrastructural
environments, including app stores, development platforms and toolkits,
analytics tools, advertising technologies, and cloud services.
 * The methodological and empirical challenges associated with the critical
study of apps, including concerns about accessibility to mobile app
backends and the limits of data retrieval through APIs or scraping methods
as used in web research.
 * Studies of apps as articulations of technicity (e.g., how they are
designed, built, maintained, and updated) and the data cultures they
produce (e.g., what data do they collect or require).
 * Detailed empirical and critical studies exploring apps? data cultures,
usage tracking, technical dependencies and app permissions, sensor
technologies, and wireless access points.
 * Inventive methods to conceptualise how apps are located or situated,
given they are utilising a mobile device?s built-in sensors as well as
accessing other resources from remote cloud infrastructures.
 * Studies of the political economy of apps (e.g., how apps are valued and
monetized), the role of industry partnerships and third parties (e.g., how
apps are re-interpreted or extended), and the politics of operability
(e.g., how apps negotiate among stakeholders or interests).
 * Explorations of the techno-economic relations between the web and app
ecosystems, including the dependencies of apps on web platforms and cloud
services, as well as the regulations and limits of app development by
device manufacturers and mobile operating systems like Android and iOS.
 * Explorations of the ways and mechanisms through which multiple apps are
interconnected, forming collections, ecologies, and chains of apps in
specific practices (e.g., task and content automation).
 * Media archaeologies exploring historical constellations of apps and
their wider material and infrastructural environments and other historical
approaches to app research.
 * Explorations of app stores as the primary environment or infrastructure
for mobile apps, including contributions focusing on non-Western apps and
app stores, apps? update cultures, and their development cycles.
 * The ways in which different material and infrastructural environments,
such as app stores, cater to distinct mobile operating systems, devices,
and geographic regions.
 * Critical artistic interventions and research software tools that
repurpose the affordances of apps, app stores and other native
environments, and explore their data cultures.

## SCHEDULE

750 word abstracts should be emailed to apps.infrastructures@gmail.com by
April 1, 2018.

Any queries can be addressed to the editors at
apps.infrastructures@gmail.com.

Abstracts will be reviewed by the Computational Culture Editorial Board and
the special issue editors.

Authors of selected abstracts will be notified by May 1, 2018 and invited
to submit full manuscripts by September 15, 2018.

These manuscripts are subject to full blind peer review according to
Computational Culture?s policies. The issue will be published in March 2019.

Computational Culture is an online open-access peer-reviewed journal of
interdisciplinary enquiry into the nature of cultural computational
objects, practices, processes and structures.

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http://computationalculture.net/cfps-events/

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Message: 2
Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2018 09:49:09 -0500
From: Lei Guo <guolei1985@gmail.com>
To: Air-L@listserv.aoir.org
Subject: [Air-L] ICA Preconference: Crowdsourcing as a Content
        Analysis Tool
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ICA Preconference: Crowdsourcing as a Content Analysis Tool

May 24, 13:00 - 17:00

Hilton Prague

Crowdsourcing is a popular method in computer science for categorizing and
classifying text and objects. This preconference introduces crowdsourcing
for communication researchers as an emerging content analysis method.
Rather than rely on a few human coders to carry out a content analysis, the
crowdsourcing approach outsources coding tasks to numerous people online
(e.g., multiple people code the same item), and applies an aggregation
policy to make a decision on a given item.

Through a hands-on workshop and research presentations, this preconference
explores:

1) Different crowdsourcing platforms to carry out a project. A
demonstration will be given to show how to use two different crowdsourcing
platforms: Amazon?s Mechanical Turk (MTurk), a well-established service,
and Crowdflower, an emerging service. In the hands-on workshop, attendees
will set up their own project on one of the platforms, and be guided in the
steps, from set-up to extracting and analyzing the crowdworkers? results.

2) Crowdsourcing as a method that is both cheaper and more efficient than
manual content analysis. Can it also be as valid and reliable? Research
presentations on both ?crowdcoding? and traditional manual coding will be
given, as well as a discussion about cost structure and features to ensure
quality results. The Speakers/Panelists include:

Hajo Boomgaarden, Professor of empirical social science method, University
of Vienna

Brendan Watson, Assistant professor of journalism, Michigan State University

Lei Guo, Assistant professor of emerging media studies, Boston University

Margrit Betke, Professor of computer science, Boston University

Kate Mays, Ph.D. student in emerging media studies, Boston University

This is a half-day preconference. For questions, contact Dr. Lei Guo (
guolei@bu.edu).
To register, follow this link
<http://www.icahdq.org/event/PC24_Crowdsourcing>.

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Message: 3
Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2018 16:31:54 +0100
From: Ra?l Tabar?s <faraondemetal@gmail.com>
To: openmanufacturing@googlegroups.com, air-l@listserv.aoir.org,
        EASST membership <membership@easst.net>
Subject: [Air-L] CFP EASST18 - Open design & manufacturing in the
        platform economy -
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Dear all,

-Just a friendly reminder few days before the deadline-

Please consider to submit paper proposals to our panel "Open design &
manufacturing in the platform economy" at next EASST18 conference that will
be held in Lancaster. The event will be held from 25-28 of July and will
bring together a lot of STS and SSH scholars. The call will be open till
the 14th of February of 2018.

A description of the panel is included below. Feel free to contact us in
case of any doubt. Papers can be submitted here->https://nomadit.co.uk/
easst/easst2018/conferencesuite.php/panels/6189

- Open design & manufacturing in the platform economy -

Short abstract

Open design and manufacturing paradigms have been recently embraced for
promoting technological appropriation as well as enablers for transforming
traditional fabrication. In this panel we explore the role that these
concepts can have in a post-industrial society.
Long abstract

With the popularization of the Web 2.0 paradigm, digital platforms have
become cultural intermediaries in a growing technology mediation
environment that has been framed by various scholars as "platform economy".
This recent phenomenon has favored the establishment of different "black
box" systems that impede us from discovering the inner workings of these
new socio-technological brokers.

Different self-organized communities and grassroots initiatives have
simultaneously appeared thanks to the Internet and the emergence of new
makerspaces that have a subset of digital fabrication tools. These groups
promote citizen empowerment through technological appropriation and rely on
digital commons such as open designs, software and knowledge. In this
sense, especially relevant has been the emergence of new discourses aligned
with these non-proprietary technologies like open design and manufacturing,
which are conceived to promote a radical change in the fabrication towards
a more sustainable relationship between production processes and goods.

How can digital platforms be designed in order to facilitate encounters
between people, things and environments within open design & manufacturing?
How can we understand the impact of such digital platforms on society? In
this panel we would like to invite authors to analyze the emergence of
these phenomena and critically examine the opportunities, contradictions,
challenges and tensions that this combination of new tools and mindsets
bring for technological appropriation in a post-industrial society. We
welcome submissions that can explore alternative paths for R&D systems and
innovation policies but also for reconfiguring design and production
processes.

--
------------------------------
All the best,
Ra?l

@faraondemetal
http://es.linkedin.com/in/rtabares
<http://blogs.tecnalia.com/inspiring-blog/author/raultabares/>

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Message: 4
Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2018 16:36:05 +0100
From: Ra?l Tabar?s <faraondemetal@gmail.com>
To: air-l@listserv.aoir.org, eurograd@lists.easst.net
Subject: [Air-L] CFP EASST18 - Open design & manufacturing in the
        platform economy -
Message-ID:
        <CAHy3EpjQ9fdoCWcmfU-isym6hqbCpqdFVrJVRkcGkcOwNfE20A@mail.gmail.com>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8"

Dear all,

Please consider to submit paper proposals to our panel "Open design &
manufacturing in the platform economy" at next EASST18 conference that will
be held in Lancaster. The event will be held from 25-28 of July and will
bring together a lot of STS and SSH scholars. The call will be open till
the 14th of February of 2018.

A description of the panel is included below. Feel free to contact us in
case of any doubt. Papers can be submitted here->https://nomadit.co.uk/
easst/easst2018/conferencesuite.php/panels/6189

- Open design & manufacturing in the platform economy -

Short abstract

Open design and manufacturing paradigms have been recently embraced for
promoting technological appropriation as well as enablers for transforming
traditional fabrication. In this panel we explore the role that these
concepts can have in a post-industrial society.
Long abstract

With the popularization of the Web 2.0 paradigm, digital platforms have
become cultural intermediaries in a growing technology mediation
environment that has been framed by various scholars as "platform economy".
This recent phenomenon has favored the establishment of different "black
box" systems that impede us from discovering the inner workings of these
new socio-technological brokers.

Different self-organized communities and grassroots initiatives have
simultaneously appeared thanks to the Internet and the emergence of new
makerspaces that have a subset of digital fabrication tools. These groups
promote citizen empowerment through technological appropriation and rely on
digital commons such as open designs, software and knowledge. In this
sense, especially relevant has been the emergence of new discourses aligned
with these non-proprietary technologies like open design and manufacturing,
which are conceived to promote a radical change in the fabrication towards
a more sustainable relationship between production processes and goods.

How can digital platforms be designed in order to facilitate encounters
between people, things and environments within open design & manufacturing?
How can we understand the impact of such digital platforms on society? In
this panel we would like to invite authors to analyze the emergence of
these phenomena and critically examine the opportunities, contradictions,
challenges and tensions that this combination of new tools and mindsets
bring for technological appropriation in a post-industrial society. We
welcome submissions that can explore alternative paths for R&D systems and
innovation policies but also for reconfiguring design and production
processes.

--
------------------------------
All the best,
Ra?l

@faraondemetal
http://es.linkedin.com/in/rtabares
<http://blogs.tecnalia.com/inspiring-blog/author/raultabares/>

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Message: 5
Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2018 17:17:40 +0000
From: Michael T Zimmer <zimmerm@uwm.edu>
To: List Aoir <air-l@listserv.aoir.org>
Subject: [Air-L] Postdoc position for PERVADE: Pervasive Data Ethics
        for Computational Research
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Dear colleagues:
I am hiring a Postdoctoral Research Assistant to work on the PERVADE: Pervasive Data Ethics for Computational Research project! This is a 12-month position, with possible renewal for a 2nd year. Details below. Please circulate and apply!

-Michael Zimmer

Position: Postdoctoral Research Assistant
Project: PERVADE: Pervasive Data Ethics for Computational Research
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Michael Zimmer

The School of Information Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee is accepting applications for a Postdoctoral Research Associate to work with Dr. Michael Zimmer on the NSF-funded PERVADE: Pervasive Data Ethics for Computational Research project (https://pervade.umd.edu/).

The position will be under the supervision of Dr. Michael Zimmer, Associate Professor and Director of the Center for Information Policy Research. Along with continuing their own research agenda, the Postdoctoral Research Associate will work alongside Dr. Zimmer and other PERVADE team members to pursue various aspects of the larger project, including empirical investigations of computational researchers working with pervasive data sets, user communities impacted by pervasive data, and regulators responding to ethical issues with big data research.

The postdoctoral position is designed for recent PhDs who are engaged in research on data ethics, internet research ethics, or other areas aligned with the objectives of the PERVADE project. Recent PhDs in information ethics & policy, critical information studies, internet studies, social media, and digital privacy are also encouraged to apply. Experience with empirical methods is required; experience with either qualitative or quantitative methods of inquiry is welcome. Ideal candidates will have a strong publication record and demonstrated success working on teams.

The postdoc is a full-time, 12-month position starting August 20, 2018, with possible renewal for a 2ndyear. The Postdoctoral Research Associate will receive a salary of USD $48,900 per year plus benefits, access to travel funds, and office space in the Center for Information Policy Research. The stipend and benefits eligibility are subject to UW System policies.

Applicants who do not yet hold a PhD but expect to have it by August 2018 will be asked to provide a letter from their home institution corroborating the degree award schedule. Verification of completion of degree will be required before the start date.

Applications should include a letter of interest, CV, a writing sample, and the name and contact information of three references. All materials should be sent in a single PDF file to Dr. Michael Zimmer (zimmerm@uwm.edu<mailto:zimmerm@uwm.edu>) by April 1, 2018.

For more information, please contact Dr. Michael Zimmer (zimmerm@uwm.edu).

UWM is an AA/EEO Employer

--
Michael Zimmer, PhD
Associate Professor, School of Information Studies
Director, Center for Information Policy Research
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

e: zimmerm@uwm.edu
t: @michaelzimmer
w: www.michaelzimmer.org

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Message: 6
Date: Tue, 06 Feb 2018 20:39:41 -0500
From: hyperborean7 <hyperborean7@gmail.com>
To: Air-L@listserv.aoir.org
Subject: [Air-L] CFP for a Philip K Dick anthology
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A Philip K Dick Anthology ? ?Entering the Uncanny Worlds of PK Dick? (call for contributors)

Philip K Dick?(PKD) is arguably the most critiqued, celebrated, imitated, commodified science fiction writer of all time. He is certainly one of the most enigmatic literary figures of the 20th Century.? No matter how one positions the writer, his stories continue
 to inspire new interpretations and elaborations across a broad range of genres and media. In hundreds of stories, long and short, he wove philosophy, psychoanalysis, religion and spirituality, communication theory and medium theory, genetic and social engineering,
 and post-humanism, among other things.? PKD certainly had a philosophical bent, but he was also a consummate prankster ? a kind of post-modern speculative absurdist. Like any good writer he played with words, ideas, metaphors and images. However,
 the worlds he envisioned ? his alternate, counter-factual histories and hyper-technological futures seem to quickly settle into the psyche as these vaguely familiar, almost mundane places splitting at the seams with all manner of techno-human monstrosity. What often appear at first pass to be the most outlandish and impossible futures soon become strangely (and often uncomfortably) familiar to the contemporary reader.

?

A lesser-known aspect of PKD's prolific output concerns his habit of playing with the ontological possibilities bound up in human interactions with sophisticated technology, drugs, and communication media of various kinds that seem always on the
 cusp of reality. Sometimes both figure and ground, these technological objects and artifacts constitute
PKD's mise en scene and push his plot lines. Hiding in plain sight they form his ambient surround ? often primary causal mechanisms, the underpinning and backgrounding of?the dystopian worlds he envisioned. Aside from a handful of works,
PKD's oeuvre draws out the contours of a recurring and darkly playful theme that considers what it means to be human, including the fate of the individual (and the fate of human civilization) in a world of ubiquitous surveillance, paranoia, and
 hyper-commodification.? Indeed, more than ever, our contemporary world is replete with ?Dickian? characters, tropes and themes.

?

With 12 to 14 chapters planned, some of the general topics, themes driving this call include: memory, identity, totalitarianism, authoritarianism, simulations and simulacra, autonomy, panopticism, surveillance and control, augmented brains, minds and bodies,
 urban, institutional and environmental destruction and decay, alternate realities, alternate worlds, counterfactuals and alternative facts.? For more specific ideas and prompts, the remainder of this call includes a list of working titles, section headings
 and other signposts that may become part of the anthology.? Settled or in-flux, part or whole, all are open to negotiation, elaboration, etc.:

???

IM/MATERIAL ONTOLOGIES, ENVIRONMENTS, SYSTEMS AND CULTURES

Flat ontologies. OOO, inverted, reversed, and otherwise twisted and turned ontologies and epistemologies.? Environments and/as Anti-environments.

?

Maps and Mappings: map=/= territory, etc. Universes, alternate Universes.? Multiverses.

?

Fixity and Fluidity across territories, borders, boundaries and interfaces.

?

Tendrils and tensions between materiality and virtuality.

?

ON REPLICANTS, REPLICANS, PRE-PERSONS, PRE-COGS

Proto-humans, trans-humans, post-humans.? Im/migrants, ?illegals,? undocumented, blacklisted, banned, ?invalids,' etc.

?

Linear and non-linear lives/narratives, Fluid lives, Liminal lives, and After-lives.

?

Inscribed, ascribed, achieved identities. Descriptions and Prescriptions. Feminism/Anti-feminism.

?

Demi-Gods and Goddesses, Spirituality, Simulacra and the Sublime.

?

Existential Vertigo, Existential Dread, Existential Crises, etc..

?

Fakes, Fakers, ersatz people, spaces and places, simulacra (police/men, women, animals, leaders, organizations, environments etc).

?

I thou / I it: humanization, dehumanization, rehumanization ('more human than human,' etc)

??

MEDIATED MEMORY/MEMORY AS MEDIATION, MEDICATED MEMORY: NOSTALGIA, HALLUCINATION, COUNTERFACTUALS AND FUTURE HISTORIES

Mind readers, Dream readers, Life Readers (reality genres, blogging, vlogging, life-logging, consumption, monetization and commodification of human experience, ubiquitous consumption, hyper-commerce, etc).

?

Enabling and debilitating Drugs and Media (c.f. the daily dose, ?Chew-Z,? Penfield Mood Organs and other such things)

?

Big Data, meta-data, analytics, Voight-Kampff Empathy Tests, ?.

?

Spirituality in/as Materiality. Totems, tokens and taboos. Ghost in the Machine. Affective machines.

?

IDIOS KOSMOS - KOINOS KOSMOS?

Consciousness, dual and multi-consciousness, false-consciousness and meta-consciousness.

?

Propagating, expanding, shrinking subjectivities and epistemologies (c.f. ?Now Wait for Last Year? and other such stories).? Objectified subjectivity.

?

In/tolerance of Mystery.? Closure and dis-closure.? Suspension of belief and dis-belief.

?

Notations and Denotations.? Signifiers, floating signifiers, etc.

?

Post-fact (counter-fact, alternative fact, etc).

??

AUTONOMY AND CONTROL:

Puppets, Puppet Masters, Masters and Slaves

?

Parts, pieces and wholes.

?

Privacy, freewill (technological, ontological, epistemological affordances and constraints).

?

Planned-Spontaneity and de-control (c.f. 'controlled decontrol of the emotions').

?AI AVERSION AND ATTRACTION

Resistances, Rebellions, Acquiescence, Acceptance, ?the Urge to Merge,? (or, how to stop worrying and learn to love the algorithm).

??
CHAPTER PROPOSALS

For full consideration send working titles and 200-250 word chapter abstracts, including author/s name/s and affiliation/s to

robert_macdougall@curry.edu before March 1st 2018.

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Robert MacDougall
Professor, Communication/Media Studies
Coordinator, Video Game Studies Concentration
Curry College, Hirsh Communication Center/Hafer 101
1071 Blue Hill Avenue, Milton, MA? 02186-2395

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Message: 7
Date: Wed, 7 Feb 2018 11:55:35 +0800
From: Julian Hopkins <julian.hopkins@monash.edu>
To: air-l@listserv.aoir.org
Subject: [Air-L] Lecturer/Senior Lecturer at Monash University
        Malaysia - Two Openings
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Dear All,

Monash University Malaysia is a campus of Monash University, and our staff
and students are part of a global academy with an international reputation
for excellence in teaching and research (THES 2017 ranking was 80).

Our school has opened a position for a  Senior Lecturer / Lecturer in
Communication:
http://careersmanager.pageuppeople.com/513/cw/en/job/574384/cd946-senior-lec...

Candidates with a demonstrable interest in digital media and culture are
encouraged.

There is also a position for Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in Screen Studies
open:
http://careersmanager.pageuppeople.com/513/cw/en/job/572307/cd883-senior-lec...

The position is based on a five-year renewable contract with ex-pat
benefits such as support for child tuition and relocation where relevant.

Thanks,

Julian
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*DR JULIAN HOPKINS*
Lecturer in Communication
Undergraduate Coordinator

School of Arts & Social Sciences
Building 2, Level 6, Room 16 (2-6-16)
Monash University Malaysia
Jalan Lagoon Selatan
47500 Bandar Sunway
Selangor Darul Ehsan
Malaysia

T: +60 3 5514 4920
E: julian.hopkins@monash.edu
W: sass.monash.edu.my <http://www.sass.monash.edu.my/>

*Your reaction is more important than who is right.*

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Date: Wed, 7 Feb 2018 05:38:31 +0000
From: Virginia Balfour <virginiabalfour@hotmail.com>
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Subject: [Air-L] Conducting qualitative research on Facebook
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Hello

I would value advice on the ethics of collecting data from an Open Facebook page and the best ways to mitigate them.

My research is looking at an open Facebook page and it is likely that I will want to use data from conversations between commenters and statements made by commenters as part of my research.  While most observations will be generalised and made anonymous, there may be some conversations where it is pertinent to identify the commenters and/or identifiable comments.

In particular I am interested in whether people think it is  necessary or advisable to contact individual commenters to ask if their comments can be used in the research?

Are their any risk mitigation strategies that anyone has used in the past that they could recommend?

regards

Virginia Balfour

QUT researcher.

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Date: Wed, 7 Feb 2018 16:59:01 +1100
From: Sharon Greenfield <s3417013@student.rmit.edu.au>
To: Virginia Balfour <virginiabalfour@hotmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [Air-L] Conducting qualitative research on Facebook
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Hello Virginia,

I would suggest reading up on Mary L Gray's many pieces on ethics in online
research.
In addition, what does the QUT Ethics Committee recommend?

Cheers,
Sharon

On 7 February 2018 at 16:38, Virginia Balfour <virginiabalfour@hotmail.com>
wrote:
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Hello
I would value advice on the ethics of collecting data from an Open
Facebook page and the best ways to mitigate them.
My research is looking at an open Facebook page and it is likely that I
will want to use data from conversations between commenters and statements
made by commenters as part of my research. While most observations will be
generalised and made anonymous, there may be some conversations where it is
pertinent to identify the commenters and/or identifiable comments.
In particular I am interested in whether people think it is necessary or
advisable to contact individual commenters to ask if their comments can be
used in the research?
Are their any risk mitigation strategies that anyone has used in the past
that they could recommend?
regards
Virginia Balfour
QUT researcher.
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Date: Wed, 7 Feb 2018 08:52:56 +0000
From: Sarah Quinton <sequinton@brookes.ac.uk>
To: Sharon Greenfield <s3417013@student.rmit.edu.au>
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Hello Virginia

You should check the QUT Ethics  committee's policies as sensibly suggested
by Sharon.

You also might want to consider both the context of your research, i.e. the
sensitivity of the phenomenon you are researching ( is it discussions about
gardening or is it content about being a carer for someone with long term
illness)  and also the vulnerability of the Facebook participants  you wish
to include in the research ( obviously there are limits to what you can
determine about these people's vulnerability but it is worth thinking
about,  is the group in any way self identifying as vulnerable or
identified by others/researchers  as vulnerable?).

You may also wish to consider anonymising the content without fundamentally
altering the meaning ( again depending on what you need from the data and
how you will be analysing it) if you are thinking about reproducing it
anywhere in your research, so that it is more difficult to trace back to
the poster/originator  through search engines. This is another approach to
'protecting' the Facebook participants.

I am sure other members of AoIR will have valuable comments too.

Sarah

On 7 February 2018 at 05:59, Sharon Greenfield <s3417013@student.rmit.edu.au
...
wrote:
...
Hello Virginia,
I would suggest reading up on Mary L Gray's many pieces on ethics in online
research.
In addition, what does the QUT Ethics Committee recommend?
Cheers,
Sharon
On 7 February 2018 at 16:38, Virginia Balfour <virginiabalfour@hotmail.com
...
wrote:
...
Hello
I would value advice on the ethics of collecting data from an Open
Facebook page and the best ways to mitigate them.
My research is looking at an open Facebook page and it is likely that I
will want to use data from conversations between commenters and
statements
made by commenters as part of my research. While most observations will
be
generalised and made anonymous, there may be some conversations where it
is
pertinent to identify the commenters and/or identifiable comments.
In particular I am interested in whether people think it is necessary or
advisable to contact individual commenters to ask if their comments can
be
used in the research?
Are their any risk mitigation strategies that anyone has used in the past
that they could recommend?
regards
Virginia Balfour
QUT researcher.
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Business School, Room CLC G.14
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Oxford. OX3 0BP
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*Please note that  from October  2017 Dr Karen Handley is now the Business
Faculty Ethics Officer and  she can be emailed at khandley@brookes.ac.uk
<khandley@brookes.ac.uk> concerning  PhD student or staff research ethics
issues.*

Recent publications:
*Out Now*: Quinton, S., and Reynolds, R. (2018*),The Ethics of Online
Research. *Ed Kandy Woodfield, The changing roles of researchers and
participants in digital and social media research, chap 3, 53-78.

Quinton, S., Canhoto, A., Molinillo, S., Pera,  R. & Budhathoki, T.
(2017). Conceptualising
a digital orientation: antecedents of supporting SME performance in the
digital economy, *Journal of Strategic Marketing*,  1-13.
Quinton, S. and Simkin, L. (2016). The Digital Journey: reflected learning
and emerging challenges, *International Journal of Management Reviews, *
(forthcoming) DOI:10.1111/ijmr.1204

*Current research project* - Sharing photographs online and on social media
by older people: a mitigator of social isolation and loneliness. Funded by
the Sir Halley Stewart Trust, in partnership with The Open University.

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