Dear David, Thanks for generating this great discussion on critical ethnography! I think a lot of list members have benefitted from it. I wrote a piece in Sociology which argues that forms of digital ethnography can be considered 'critical' in various ways (especially through making respondents stakeholders and new ways of engagement). It may be helpful to you. http://soc.sagepub.com/content/42/5/837.full.pdf Regards, Dhiraj ******************************************* My latest book, Twitter, can be ordered in the US at: http://amzn.to/VNrgNn and in the UK/Europe at: http://bitly.com/S3emIq On Feb 8, 2013, at 2:52 PM, "air-l-request@listserv.aoir.org" <air-l-request@listserv.aoir.org> wrote:
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Thank you all for the additional sources.
Annette, thanks for your list of references. Bringing up "critical ethnography" here on the list made me realize that this term is not as widespread or known as I naively thought. It reminded me of our last talk about how sometimes we take terms for granted as if they were known by everyone. This calls out for a literature review on the topic... with an attempt to map out the different terms (feminist, indigenous, critical, postcolonial methods / ethnography), what methods are used... convergence and divergences in the literature. I will try to come up with something and share the literature that I ended up with.
On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 12:50 AM, Annette Markham <amarkham@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi David,
Adding to the list of resources others have provided, here are a few off the top of my head. Some are reports of critical ethnographic studies, some are method/conceptual pieces done by scholars who have done ethnographies, and some are more related to critical approaches to interpretive/qualitative methods, not ethnography specifically. I have always found them very useful.
If you notice it looks a bit heavy on the 'organization studies' side, that's not just because it's my PhD background. A lot of the advancement of critical ethnographic approaches has occurred in organization studies/science/communication arenas, so its an area rich with cases and exemplars.
Sorry for the sloppy citations; just grabbing from here and there and....you get the picture....
...Cheers, and by the way, I'd love to see the final bibliography you end up with (especially as I'm teaching a course in Critical Ethnography this semester and my students would find it very useful),
annette
Alvesson and Skoldberg's book: Reflexive methodologies. This book is generally excellent, but related to your question, they offer a great breakdown of what constitutes critical approaches, and critical ethnography) (Sage, 2009).
Alvesson and Wilmott (2003). Studying Management Critically (Excellent edited volume (by Sage) with several great pieces....I tend to revisit those by Deetz, Forester, Martin, and Parker.)
Ashcraft, K. (2001). Organized dissonance: Feminist bureaucracy as hybrid form. Academy of Management Journal 44(6), 1301-
Conquergood, D. (1991). Rethinking ethnography: Towards a critical cultural politics. Communication Monographs, 58, 179?194.
Dei, Mazzuca, & McIsaac (1997). Reconstructing 'Dropout': A Critical Ethnography of the Dynamics of Black Students' Disengagement from School. University of Toronto Press.
Deetz, Stanley. (1992) Democracy in an age of corporate colonization: Developments in communication and the politics of everyday life Albany: State University of New York. (book)
Deetz, S. (1998). Discursive formations, strategized subordination, and self-surveillance: An empirical case. In A. McKinlay & K. Starkey (eds.), Foucault, management and organizational theory, (pp. 151-172). London: Sage.
Fine, M. (1991). Framing Dropouts: Notes on the Politics of an Urban Public High School. Suny Press.
Forester, J. (1992). Critical ethnography: on fieldwork in a Habermasian way. In Alvesson and Wilmott's edited collection Critical Management Studies by Sage Press)
Hochschild, A. R. (1979). Emotion work, feeling rules, and social structure. American journal of sociology, 85, 551-575.
Hochschild, A. R. (1983). The managed heart: Commercialization of human feeling. Berkeley: University of California Press.
Marcus, G. & Fischer, M. (1982?). Anthropology as cultural critique. University of Chicago Press.
Madison, Soyini (2012). Critical Ethnography: Method, ethics, and performance. (sage, textbook)
Markham, A. (1996). Designing Discourse: A Critical Analysis Of Strategic Ambiguity and Workplace Control Management Communication Quarterly May 1, 1996 9: 389-
Mumby, D. K., & Stohl, C. (1991). Power and Discourse in Organization Studies: Absence and the Dialectic of Control. Discourse and Society, 2, 313-332.Mumby, D.K. (1987) `The Political Function of Narrative in Organizations', Communication Monographs 54: 113-127.
Mumby, D.K. (1988) Communication and Power in Organizations: Discourse, Ideology and Domination. Norwood, NJ: Ablex.
Mumby, D. K., & Putnam, L. (1992). The Politics of Emotion: A Feminist Reading of "Bounded Rationality." Academy of Management Review, 17, 465-486.
Putnam, L., Bantz, C., Deetz, S., Mumby, D., & Van Maanen, J. (1993). Ethnography versus critical theory. Journal of Management Inquiry. 2, 221-235.
Rosen, M. (1985) `Breakfast at Spiro's: Dramaturgy and Dominance', Journal of Management 11(2): 31-48.
Rosen, M. (1986?). You asked for it: Christmas at the boss' expense. Journal of Management Studies, 25, 463-
Shome, R. (2003). Space Matters: The power and practice of space. Communication Theory, 13(1) 39-
Willis, Paul. (1981). Learning to Labor: How working class kids get working class jobs (book)
Thomas, Jim (1992). Critical ethnography (Sage book).
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On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 9:44 PM, Peaslee, Robert <robert.peaslee@ttu.edu> wrote:
Hi David, list...
I might recommend Mitch Duneier's Sidewalk. A breezy read that belies
it's
intellectual and emancipatory heft.
Cheers, Rob
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On 2/6/13 7:09 PM, "David Nemer" <dnemer@indiana.edu> wrote:
Thanks Peter.
Alex, thanks for your references but what I meant by critical ethnography was the use of ethnography that attempts to break open power, oppression, taken-for-granted 'realities?, and ideologies. In this way, critical ethnography goes beyond much qualitative description of culture by also ?action-ing? for change; by challenging false-consciousness and ideologies exposed through investigative examination. It has a "active & action" sense in it. It is usually seen in postcolonial science and technology studies. But I was hoping to get references that talks specifically about this methodology.
I apologize if I didn't specified it enough.
Thanks
On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 8:01 PM, Alex Leavitt <alexleavitt@gmail.com> wrote:
I'd like to hope that all ethnography is critical, but here's some intro references:
? Karen O'Reilly, "Ethnographic Methods" is a basic intro text. ? Emerson, Fretz, Shaw. Writing Ethnographic Fieldnotes, Ch. 5 "Pursuing Members' Meanings." ? Sanjek, "Fieldnotes: The Making of Anthropology." ? Ragin, C.'s "What is a Case?" Ch. 1. ? Michael Burawoy. Ethnography Unbound, Ch. 1, 2, Appendix. ? "Basics of Qualitative Research: Techniques and Procedures for Developing Grounded Theory." Anselm Strauss, Juliet M. Corbin. ? Appendix of Paul Lichterman's "Elusive Togetherness."
Alex
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On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 4:55 PM, Peter Gloviczki <glovi002@umn.edu> wrote:
Hi David,
Murphy & Kraidy have a book called Global Media Studies: An Ethnographic Perspective (Routledge, 2003), which may be useful to you.
Hope this helps, Peter
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Hi David
Something else that gave me a sense of the debates in reflexive ethnography is a special 1999 (turn-of-the-century!) issue of the Journal of Contemporary Ethnography: volume 28, Issue 5. Some of the better reflexive ethnographic writers are there, including Norman Denzin and Ruth Behar.
Also, for a very readable reflexive book that I really liked: Cerwonka, A. & Malkki, L. H. Improvising Theory: Process and temporality in ethnographic fieldwork. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
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On 8/02/13 10:18 AM, "David Nemer" <dnemer@indiana.edu> wrote:
Thank you all for the additional sources.
Annette, thanks for your list of references. Bringing up "critical ethnography" here on the list made me realize that this term is not as widespread or known as I naively thought. It reminded me of our last talk about how sometimes we take terms for granted as if they were known by everyone. This calls out for a literature review on the topic... with an attempt to map out the different terms (feminist, indigenous, critical, postcolonial methods / ethnography), what methods are used... convergence and divergences in the literature. I will try to come up with something and share the literature that I ended up with.
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Message: 3 Date: Fri, 8 Feb 2013 07:29:40 +0000 From: Kate O'Riordan <K.ORiordan@sussex.ac.uk> To: "air-l@listserv.aoir.org" <air-l@listserv.aoir.org> Subject: [Air-L] fembot: Ada CFP, Issue 3, Feminist Science Fiction Message-ID: <6305E6BA10BDAD44A9CE7A944A4E5F4E1AAF29CD@EX-SHA-MBX1.ad.susx.ac.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252"
Some possible cross over.
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Ada: A Journal of Gender, New Media, and Technology | adanewmedia.org Issue 3: Feminist Science Fiction
In the 1985 essay that defined the terms for feminist thinking about science and technology in the decades since, Donna Haraway observed that "the boundary between science fiction and social reality is an optical illusion." She drew together the cybernetic organisms of fact and fiction, the beings of shiny technology and messy biological stuff, and her terms and her ideas came as much from the creative thinkers of feminist science fiction (Octavia Butler, Joanna Russ) as they did from technologists, political thinkers, and philosophers.
It's 2013, and the cyborg manifesto is old enough to vote. Where are feminist science fictions now, and what can they tell us about feminism and technology? New media make our experiences of social reality resonant with classics of speculative fiction, particularly works that accounted for the uneven distribution of futuristic technologies and their participation in hierarchies of race, gender, capital, and ability. Literary scholars continue to explore the intricacies of works by Octavia Butler, James Tiptree Jr., Joanna Russ, et al., while the aesthetic and political techniques of critical and creative speculative thinking that these writers pioneered are taken up in multiple forms. Fiction writers like Nalo Hopkinson, Andrea Hairston, L. Timmel Duchamp, and many more bring questions of language, culture, race, and violence into the fray, as social media platforms like blogs, twitter, and Facebook deepen conversations between writers and fans. Small presses continue to supp
ort the older technology of the printed page and to articulate why written visions matter for a possible feminist future.
Feminist science fiction has never only existed between the bindings of books, however. Fictional speculation is part of how we understand ourselves in relationship to technology; from the way our smartphones seem to extend our embodied being, to the difference it makes when we shift our perspective and think instead of the being of the gendered bodies who made them, to the imaginative constructions we produce of the wireless waves and fiber optic cables that link us to collaborators, interlocutors, and friends. Ada is published by the Fembot Collective?s academic network, which is itself a feminist science fiction. An imagined array of co-conspirators made real, its name indexes the power in reworking the venerable sci-fi trope of the gendered automaton. Technological speculation is our social reality, and feminist science fiction has the tools to code it to the specifications of our politics.
Feminist science fiction describes a diverse landscape of multimodal, multiplatform, multifaceted cultural production. It is a means for thinking marked bodies into technological contexts, from Ada Lovelace herself to Janelle Monae's racialized android Cindi Merriweather. It is also the visual and conversational online cultures that endlessly repeat, reblog, argue, and fight back about what real and imagined futures of gender, race, technology, and representation ought to be like. It may even be the new philosophical modalities of materialist speculation, when they acknowledge that the hierarchized markings on bodies we name as race and gender are not limited to some narrowly defined conception of the human. And it is the unpredictable future of what cybernetics and organisms could be and could become, in the flesh and in plastic, silicon, steel.
The third issue of Ada: A Journal of Gender, New Media and Technology seeks essays on any of these and more. We welcome unpublished work from scholars of any discipline and background, including collaborative, nontraditional, or multimodal approaches that can especially benefit from the journal?s open access online status.
Topics and approaches might include, but are not limited to:
? Key works of feminist science fiction and their relevance for new media and technology studies ? Gender, race, sexuality, and/or disability in science fiction literature, film, and television ? Feminist speculation in new media production ? Feminist science fiction?s online fan cultures ? Speculative or science-fictional tropes in new media and technology theory and practice
General Submission Requirements Authors should submit essays of 4000-9000 words directly to the editor in Rich Text Format (.rtf) or MS Word format (.doc) by 1 May 2013. We encourage you to discuss potential contributions in advance of the submission deadline, particularly for those contributors interested in multimodal contributions. Contributions in formats other than the traditional essay are encouraged; please contact the editor to discuss specifications.
All submissions should be accompanied by the following information in the email message with your submission attachment:
? Name(s), affiliation(s), email address(es) of the person(s) submitting. ? Title of the text and the issue for which it is submitted. ? An abstract of no more than 100 words. ? A short paragraph (40-60 words) about the contributor(s).
Further guidelines for submission format can be found here: http://adanewmedia.org/submissions/ Please include text descriptions for images and transcripts or subtitles for audio or video files.
Send submissions and correspondence to Alexis Lothian: ada@queergeektheory.org
About Ada Ada is an online, open access, open source, peer-reviewed journal run on a nonprofit basis by feminist media scholars from Canada, the UK, and the US. The journal?s first issue was published online in November 2012 and has so far received more than 75,000 page views. Ada operates a review process that combines the feminist mentorship of fan communities with the rigor of peer review. Read more at http://adanewmedia.org/beta-reader-and-review-policy/. We do not -- and will never -- charge fees for publishing your materials, and we will share those materials using a Creative Commons License.
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Message: 4 Date: Fri, 8 Feb 2013 10:59:30 +0100 From: AMPARO LASEN DIAZ <alasen@cps.ucm.es> To: air-l@listserv.aoir.org Subject: [Air-L] CFP Encuentro Sociolog?a Ordinaria Message-ID: <CA+xFsz4T7iVbBvvWPqJvw3SEMdmmT+kKwZS_GHkeR9FZabUzgg@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252
Hello,
This could be of interest for the Spanish Speakers of the list
CALL FOR PAPERS Encuentro Sociolog?a ordinaria 8-9 de mayo de 2013. Media-Lab Prado, Madrid
Entendiendo la sociolog?a como una particular disposici?n de la mirada (Simmel), este encuentro apuesta por ubicar lo extra?o en lo familiar (Garfinkel) o lo familiar en lo extra?o (Goffman). Se trata de una invitaci?n a aprender de lo banal, lo fr?volo y lo superficial, as? como a repensar el imperialismo de lo serio, lo profundo, lo trascendente en la indagaci?n social, tanto en lo relativo a la selecci?n de sus objetos y sujetos como a la validaci?n de las formas de conocimiento. El encuentro pretende retomar lo ordinario en dos sentidos claves: lo cotidiano y lo ordenado, lo rutinario y lo que construye ordenamientos sociales. El objetivo es explorar conjuntamente la noci?n de lo ordinario, de una sociolog?a ordinaria y un conocimiento ordinario, referidos a lo cotidiano, superficial y banal, al conocimiento pr?ctico. Se trata tambi?n de explorar y desarrollar la diversidad de tonos en la investigaci?n y an?lisis, particularmente aquellos considerados ordinarios por una visi?n acad?mica e intelectual tradicional. Nuestra propuesta busca tambi?n dar cuenta de la complejidad, ambivalencias y perversidad de lo ordinario, frente a las observaciones positivistas recurrentes que identifican lo ordinario y sus modos de conocimiento y existencia con lo simple e ingenuo. As? mismo, otra dimensi?n de lo ordinario es la referida al orden, esto es, a la reconstituci?n pr?ctica de jerarqu?as, relaciones de poder, desigualdad, etc? Se trata por tanto de abrir l?neas de debate e intercambio en torno a objetos, sujetos, pr?cticas y formas de conocimiento habitualmente desconsiderados por no responder a los mon?tonos e insidiosos c?nones de lo trascendente, lo profundo y lo cabal. ?Tiene sentido interrogarse por Lady Gaga y sus Little Monsters, los juegos y videojuegos, los hilos de forocoches o las conversaciones de mercado y escalera? ?Pueden ser los ?reality?, desde los tr?spidos a las chonis con glamour, una forma privilegiada de analizar lo contempor?neo? ?Cabe cuestionar las demarcaciones disciplinares entre conocimiento lego y experto en sinton?a con la emergencia de la figura del prosumidor? ?Qu? metodolog?as, controversias y tonos pueden ayudar a romper inercias (Becker)? ?Y si frente la distancia de la supuesta neutralidad objetivista nos comportamos como vecinas de la corrala (Addams)? A t?tulo orientativo, las propuestas de comunicaciones pueden tratar temas como: ? Troleos, tuiteos, cotilleos y marujeos? ? Tuneos, choppeos ? Parkineos y karaokes? ? Realities, fanfiction, c?mics, v?deos, videojuegos? ? Bieber y otras ?fevers?... ? Pornos y auto-pornificaci?n ? Metodolog?as de andar por casa ? Pol?ticas ordinarias, frivolidades t?cticas, flashmobs, escrache? ? otros temas ordinarios, superficiales, banales y fr?volos?
Sociolog?a ordinaria contempla dos tipos de formatos: por un lado, las t?picas presentaciones de comunicaciones agrupadas en mesas tem?ticas y, por otro, mesas redondas, talleres o paneles propuestos como tales en las que se presenten trabajos en marcha o se planteen controversias que permitan un intercambio m?s abierto con y entre el p?blico. Ser?n bienvenidas todo tipo de intervenciones (sociol?gicas, antropol?gicas, filol?gicas, textuales, hist?ricas, pol?ticas, activistas, art?sticas, etc.) y formatos (textual, visual) siempre que las cuestiones pr?cticas de intendencia lo permitan. Por su parte, las propuestas de mesas redondas, paneles o talleres habr?n de incluir entre 3 y 5 participantes. La idea es que tras, una breve intervenci?n/provocaci?n por parte del grupo promotor, conversen entre s? y con el p?blico en torno a cuestiones como, por ejemplo, ?qu? potencialidades se encuentran en lo ordinario como objeto, sujeto o forma de conocimiento?, ?qu? miop?as conllevan las constantes apelaciones a lo serio, lo trascendente y lo grave?, ?qu? y qui?n es catalogado como ordinario o insustancial?, ?qu? presupuestos operan bajo la aparente ?alergia?, cuando no intolerancia, a lo superficial y lo fr?volo?, ?qu? tiene que ver todo ello con la desigualdad y el poder?, ?y con la ciudadan?a y la democracia?? En ambos casos las propuestas habr?n de incluir, junto a la informaci?n de contacto y afiliaci?n institucional de los/as firmantes, un t?tulo, entre 2 y 4 palabras clave y un resumen de no m?s de 500 palabras. Podr?n remitirse hasta el *15 de marzo por correo electr?nico a sociolog? aordinaria@gmail.com* en formato .doc, .docx o .rtf. Calendario Hasta el 15 de marzo: recepci?n de propuestas. 2 de abril: Comunicaci?n por correo electr?nico de aceptaci?n de las propuestas recibidas y apertura del plazo de inscripci?n. Hasta el 11 de abril: confirmaci?n de asistencia de las propuestas seleccionadas. 22 de abril: Publicaci?n del calendario definitivo de sesiones. Comit? ordinario Amparo Las?n, Elena Casado y Antonio A. Garc?a Grupo de Investigaci?n Complutense Simetr?a Generalizada
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Message: 5 Date: Fri, 8 Feb 2013 14:43:40 +0000 From: Sanjay Sharma <sanjay.sharma11@gmail.com> To: air-l@listserv.aoir.org Subject: [Air-L] Digital Race Workshop - darkmatter Message-ID: <CALcVjHsU100b+aY2f08TdTuNQ4BtPugpYXwr94wiA6Hhn+exTg@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
Dear All
darkmatter Journal has organised a Digital Race Workshop, exploring research practices for interrogating how race/racism are being transformed by online networks. The workshop takes place on Thur 21 Feb 2013, central London. A free event but registration is essential - further details: http://bit.ly/UDzD3v
If you can not attend but are interested in joining the digital race network, send a message to: editor@darkmatter101.org
best regards darkmatter editors http://www.darkmatter101.org/
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Message: 6 Date: Fri, 8 Feb 2013 14:57:39 +0000 From: juliano spyer <jspyer@gmail.com> To: air-l@listserv.aoir.org Subject: [Air-L] Examples of student scientific publications Message-ID: <CADXFCb46kWojuQEW5-QbLb6Dgy0OTd3SShyCqu+shAcnPa7apQ@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
dear air-l - i am talking to colleagues here at UCL to create a student scientific magazine/annual published online.
the idea is to invite master students that successfully finish their programmes to choose one chapter from their dissertations to make it available publicly.
the spirit of the project is to make public a content that has been "peer reviewed" (considering the marking of dissertations a kind of assessment of the quality of the research), but to do so in a more reasonable size for possible readers - not everyone is interested in reading 50-80 pages to see if there is something particularly interesting there.
so my question is: do anyone know of similar publications or publishing solutions? And also: what is necessary for a publication to be quoted?
I am scheduling a meeting with a librarian from UCL to inquire about that, but i thought I could share this with you in parallel.
many thanks www.julianospyer.com.br >> Thinking to gather
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Message: 7 Date: Fri, 8 Feb 2013 10:44:52 -0500 From: "Baker, Andrea" <bakera@ohio.edu> To: "air-l@listserv.aoir.org" <air-l@listserv.aoir.org> Subject: [Air-L] articles, references on moving across the digital/physical realms? Message-ID: <9F5DD307-9720-4DE5-8677-50E553434B07@ohio.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
Hi, everyone, For a piece I'm preparing on interaction back and forth between online and offline or from digital to physical worlds and back, I'm looking for references about how that works for people, especially those who are members of online communities.
More than particular data to show this communication in process, although that is good too, I want to conceptualize the movement, the "flow" from one realm to another, to describe what is happening. Also, how does the online communication, including that through mobile phones, affect the offline interaction, and how do the offline encounters affect what goes on inside the online communities and in other social media containing some of the same people interacting offline. This project is part of my music fan research on fan communities, identities, and relationships.
I'm already aware of the articles in the first issue of Mobile Media and Communication (January, 2013), and of Lauren Sessions-Goulet's excellent paper of a few years back on offline meetings and online communities, and have a few other helpful sources. I've done a body of work on romantic online relationships so I understand many of the dynamics there.
Please feel free to write off list or on. Thanks so much in advance! cheers, andee (andrea baker)
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Message: 8 Date: Fri, 8 Feb 2013 11:20:00 -0500 From: David Nemer <dnemer@indiana.edu> To: juliano spyer <juliano@naozero.com.br> Cc: aoir <air-l@listserv.aoir.org> Subject: Re: [Air-L] Examples of student scientific publications Message-ID: <CA+Zj46qa8sCKrjZy2twSc8F=4LPYRoFCwAX-5Ny7ZAS5EW33wQ@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
Hi Juliano,
I haven't heard of a scientific journal that is specifically oriented towards master students work. In fact, when I finished my masters in computer science, I was looking for a journal with this purpose, but I ended up with that traditional journals. I see this as a great idea and a way to get master students familiar with the publishing culture.
Keep us posted on your progress, and if you need any sort of help organizing this, I'd be really interested.
Um grande abra?o,
On Fri, Feb 8, 2013 at 9:57 AM, juliano spyer <jspyer@gmail.com> wrote:
dear air-l - i am talking to colleagues here at UCL to create a student scientific magazine/annual published online.
the idea is to invite master students that successfully finish their programmes to choose one chapter from their dissertations to make it available publicly.
the spirit of the project is to make public a content that has been "peer reviewed" (considering the marking of dissertations a kind of assessment of the quality of the research), but to do so in a more reasonable size for possible readers - not everyone is interested in reading 50-80 pages to see if there is something particularly interesting there.
so my question is: do anyone know of similar publications or publishing solutions? And also: what is necessary for a publication to be quoted?
I am scheduling a meeting with a librarian from UCL to inquire about that, but i thought I could share this with you in parallel.
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Message: 9 Date: Fri, 8 Feb 2013 17:43:34 +0100 From: Emiliano Trer? <emiliano.trere@uniud.it> To: "Baker, Andrea" <bakera@ohio.edu> Cc: "air-l@listserv.aoir.org" <air-l@listserv.aoir.org> Subject: Re: [Air-L] articles, references on moving across the digital/physical realms? Message-ID: <CANmFd7U++WEpWuA_m9sLamFCNkmuU9eEFMjzQJhS9_U-Et7Niw@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
Hi Andrea,
maybe you'll find useful an article I wrote few years ago with a colleague, it focuses on how a social movement's communication practices move across online/offline spaces in different ways: http://ci-journal.net/index.php/ciej/article/view/761/639
All the best, Emiliano
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On Fri, Feb 8, 2013 at 4:44 PM, Baker, Andrea <bakera@ohio.edu> wrote:
Hi, everyone, For a piece I'm preparing on interaction back and forth between online and offline or from digital to physical worlds and back, I'm looking for references about how that works for people, especially those who are members of online communities.
More than particular data to show this communication in process, although that is good too, I want to conceptualize the movement, the "flow" from one realm to another, to describe what is happening. Also, how does the online communication, including that through mobile phones, affect the offline interaction, and how do the offline encounters affect what goes on inside the online communities and in other social media containing some of the same people interacting offline. This project is part of my music fan research on fan communities, identities, and relationships.
I'm already aware of the articles in the first issue of Mobile Media and Communication (January, 2013), and of Lauren Sessions-Goulet's excellent paper of a few years back on offline meetings and online communities, and have a few other helpful sources. I've done a body of work on romantic online relationships so I understand many of the dynamics there.
Please feel free to write off list or on. Thanks so much in advance! cheers, andee (andrea baker) _______________________________________________ The Air-L@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
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Message: 10 Date: Fri, 08 Feb 2013 10:41:29 -0700 From: "Robert W. Gehl" <robert.gehl@utah.edu> To: air-l@listserv.aoir.org Subject: [Air-L] CFP: Frontiers of New Media, Sept. 20-21 2013, U of Utah Message-ID: <511538C9.2000401@utah.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
This conference should be of interest to AOIR members:
The Beginning and End(s) of the Internet: Surveillance, Censorship, and the Future of Cyber-Utopia
The Departments of Communication and History at the University of Utah are seeking submissions for the fourth Frontiers of New Media Symposium to be held on the campus of the University of Utah, September, 20-21, 2013. The Frontiers symposium, which has been held every other year since 2009, brings together a diverse group of scholars to discuss the past, present, and future of media and communication technologies.
This year's theme, "The Beginning and End(s) of the Internet: Surveillance, Censorship, and the Future of Cyber-Utopia," asks scholars, activists, and journalists to consider the past, present, and possible futures of the Internet as a force for good in the world.
In 1969, the University of Utah was the fourth of four nodes of the ARPANet. For many academic and popular commentators, the birth of the ARPANet, and later the Internet, marked the beginning of a new frontier: cyberspace. These same commentators believed that cyberspace heralded the emergence of a new and hopeful period of communication, political economy, and culture. In 1996, John Parry Barlow's "Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace" famously proclaimed that cyberspace "is a world that is both everywhere and nowhere, but it is not where bodies live. We are creating a world that all may enter without privilege or prejudice accorded by race, economic power, military force, or station of birth. We are creating a world where anyone, anywhere may express his or her beliefs, no matter how singular, without fear of being coerced into silence or conformity." Here is the CyberUtopia: a new, cybernetic nonplace. And yet, this nonplace has a strong connection to a particular geographic place: the American West and the research institutions situated there.
It is in the American West that a new nonplace is being built, also of global reach and significance, but of a decidedly different purpose. By September of this year -- perhaps during this symposium -- the National Security Agency's "Community Comprehensive National Cybersecurity Initiative Data Center" will be completed in Bluffdale, Utah. As several investigative reports and academic studies have shown, this data center will be a key archive of the electronic communications of individuals all over the world, American citizens included. The NSA data center has quickly become an icon for those who point to the growth of government and corporate surveillance and censorship of the Internet worldwide, including among Western democracies. For some, this data center raises the specter of an emergent dystopia, all too real, and all too opposed to the heady dreams of cyber-utopia.
This year's Frontiers of New Media Symposium invites scholars, activists, and journalists to address a number of questions:
* How do we read cyber-utopian discourse today? With governments worldwide seeking ever-greater control of the Internet, what hope, if any, remains for for achieving the dreams of cyber-utopia? In what ways can the Internet still be a force for good? * How does this history connect to other histories of communication and technology? * What other methods of locating, mapping, and shaping communications networks have occurred in the past, and what can we learn from them? * How are specific sites like the NSA data center connected to the seemingly ubiquitous and placeless network? * Has the "frontier" of the Internet closed? Is this the end of the Internet as envisioned by cyber-utopians?
Submit abstracts of no more than 600 words to submissions@frontiersofnewmedia.org by April 1, 2013, care of Sean Lawson and Robert W. Gehl. Selection decisions will be made by April 30, 2013.
Travel expenses and a modest honorarium will be provided for all selected participants, including international participants.
The Frontiers of New Media Symposium is made possible by the generous support of Simmons Media and is produced jointly by the departments of History and Communication at the University of Utah.
-- Robert W. Gehl Assistant Professor, Department of Communication The University of Utah www.robertwgehl.org | @robertwgehl Sent from our OS on our Internet
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Message: 11 Date: Fri, 8 Feb 2013 13:01:49 -0600 From: Germaine R Halegoua <grhalegoua@gmail.com> To: air-l <air-l@listserv.aoir.org> Subject: [Air-L] CFP: When the City Meets the Citizens Workshop (ICWSM) Message-ID: <CAGPcXyPrFQnimb+GN1ogA1QctpC_fyi1cNMLpHLvfCHO_Qj+zw@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252
Please distribute to anyone who may be interested. Thank you!
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The 2nd When the City Meets the Citizens Workshop:
Big Data and the Study of the Urban Habitat
Boston, July 11th 2013 (WCMCW)
In conjunction with the International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM)
http://researcher.watson.ibm.com/researcher/view_project.php?id=4394
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Social media analysis can play a key role in providing insights into people's activities, opinions and day-to-day lives. When they are geolocated, these user-generated information streams become a unique opportunity to understand the rhythms and tenors of a city and its citizens. By applying computational, social science, and humanities methods to social media data such as photos, tweets and check-ins, researchers are now beginning to conceive of new methodological and theoretical frameworks not only to extract local insights but, more importantly, to better understand cities and their residents.
Following the success of last year's first WCMCW held in Dublin, this workshop aims to understand the various ways social media data can be used to produce knowledge about cities that supports citizen engagement.
The WCMC workshop will involve discussions on topics such as (but not limited to):
* Improving understandings of the city through mining social media
* Use of social media to engage citizens (for example, through game mechanics)
* Visualizations and interfaces to enable exploration of city data
* Mobilizing communities through social media
* Pervasive applications for user interaction and data collection
* Disaster recovery and coordination using social media
* Enabling citizen and NGO initiatives through social media
* Methodology for quality evaluation and validation of user generated content
* Privacy and ethical concerns in citizen engagement
Objectives
Our aim is to facilitate a session that encourages computer scientists, industry professionals, academic researchers, architects, urban planners, government officials, hackers, artists, and other interested participants to work together to explore timely questions relating to social media, big data, citizen engagement and the creation of smarter cities. We will encourage interdisciplinary collaboration so that participants can work together to create a common understanding of how social media data might address contemporary urban issues.
Participants will have the opportunity to showcase projects; discuss theoretical, methodological, ethical, and political questions in regard to the study of urban life through the prism of social media data; and participate in a brainstorming ?data hacking? session where participants will collaboratively tackle a specific social media dataset.
SUBMISSIONS
All contributions must be submitted as PDF files. The workshop accepts novel research or work-in-progress papers (no longer than 4 pages) or position papers (no longer than 2 pages). All papers must be submitted by the deadlines provided below and formatted in AAAI two-column, camera-ready style (see the author instructions page). All submitted papers will be reviewed and judged on originality, technical correctness, relevance, and quality of presentation by the Program Committee. All accepted submissions must be presented during the workshop. Please submit papers to EasyChair WCMCW2013 (http://www.easychair.org conferences/?conf=wcmcw2013).
IMPORTANT DATES
Paper submission deadline: March 18, 2013
Paper acceptance notifications: March 26, 2013
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
Elizabeth M. Daly, IBM Research, Ireland / Co-Chair
Raz Schwartz, Rutgers University, USA / Co-Chair
David Millen, IBM Research, USA
Ingrid Erickson, Rutgers University, USA
Brian Keegan, Northeastern University, USA
Germaine Halegoua, University of Kansas, USA
-- Germaine R. Halegoua Assistant Professor Dept. of Film and Media Studies University of Kansas 225 Oldfather Studios 1621 W. Ninth St. Lawrence, KS 66044 grhalegoua@ku.edu
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Message: 12 Date: Fri, 8 Feb 2013 13:48:02 -0600 From: Stacy Blasiola <sblasi2@uic.edu> To: "Baker, Andrea" <bakera@ohio.edu> Cc: air-l@listserv.aoir.org Subject: Re: [Air-L] articles, references on moving across the digital/physical realms? Message-ID: <CAACXr+_o0XTgtZUhPYCLdJnC07L7P9qVVo=iFicQJq95JnB2JA@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
I think this speaks to what you're looking for:
Baym, N.K., & Ledbetter, A. (2009). Tunes that Bind? Information, Communication & Society, 12(3), 408-427.
Cheers, Stacy
On Fri, Feb 8, 2013 at 9:44 AM, Baker, Andrea <bakera@ohio.edu> wrote:
Hi, everyone, For a piece I'm preparing on interaction back and forth between online and offline or from digital to physical worlds and back, I'm looking for references about how that works for people, especially those who are members of online communities.
More than particular data to show this communication in process, although that is good too, I want to conceptualize the movement, the "flow" from one realm to another, to describe what is happening. Also, how does the online communication, including that through mobile phones, affect the offline interaction, and how do the offline encounters affect what goes on inside the online communities and in other social media containing some of the same people interacting offline. This project is part of my music fan research on fan communities, identities, and relationships.
I'm already aware of the articles in the first issue of Mobile Media and Communication (January, 2013), and of Lauren Sessions-Goulet's excellent paper of a few years back on offline meetings and online communities, and have a few other helpful sources. I've done a body of work on romantic online relationships so I understand many of the dynamics there.
Please feel free to write off list or on. Thanks so much in advance! cheers, andee (andrea baker) _______________________________________________ The Air-L@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
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Message: 13 Date: Fri, 8 Feb 2013 19:52:40 +0000 From: "Peaslee, Robert" <robert.peaslee@ttu.edu> To: Stacy Blasiola <sblasi2@uic.edu>, "Baker, Andrea" <bakera@ohio.edu> Cc: "air-l@listserv.aoir.org" <air-l@listserv.aoir.org> Subject: Re: [Air-L] articles, references on moving across the digital/physical realms? Message-ID: <550EF550779DF44092A72E36C0AAD32207E3C2@centaur05.ttu.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
Hi Andee,
You might check out Jenny Cool's working paper (and the responses, etc to it), available through the Media Anthropology list. I believe it was published there in 2010. It discusses the online/onground activity around a group called SuperOrganic in the San Francisco bay area...
Cheers, Rob ________________________________________
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On 2/8/13 1:48 PM, "Stacy Blasiola" <sblasi2@uic.edu> wrote:
I think this speaks to what you're looking for:
Baym, N.K., & Ledbetter, A. (2009). Tunes that Bind? Information, Communication & Society, 12(3), 408-427.
Cheers, Stacy
On Fri, Feb 8, 2013 at 9:44 AM, Baker, Andrea <bakera@ohio.edu> wrote:
Hi, everyone, For a piece I'm preparing on interaction back and forth between online and offline or from digital to physical worlds and back, I'm looking for references about how that works for people, especially those who are members of online communities.
More than particular data to show this communication in process, although that is good too, I want to conceptualize the movement, the "flow" from one realm to another, to describe what is happening. Also, how does the online communication, including that through mobile phones, affect the offline interaction, and how do the offline encounters affect what goes on inside the online communities and in other social media containing some of the same people interacting offline. This project is part of my music fan research on fan communities, identities, and relationships.
I'm already aware of the articles in the first issue of Mobile Media and Communication (January, 2013), and of Lauren Sessions-Goulet's excellent paper of a few years back on offline meetings and online communities, and have a few other helpful sources. I've done a body of work on romantic online relationships so I understand many of the dynamics there.
Please feel free to write off list or on. Thanks so much in advance! cheers, andee (andrea baker) _______________________________________________ The Air-L@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
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