Call for participation - International Research Workshop - Media Studies, Aarhus University
Dear colleagues, With apologies for duplications and cross-postings: please distribute to interested colleagues and relevant lists. On behalf of our keynote speakers and organizers, we are pleased to invite participation in an international research workshop on Mobile Communication: Mobile Internet, Locative Media, Mobility and Place. We invite researchers who work with mobile communication as a cultural, spatial and social phenomenon to join us for this two-day round-table workshop hosted by the Media Studies Department at Aarhus University. We will emphasize the spatial aspects of mobile communication and mobile internet. The workshop aims to reflect and discuss general theoretical perspectives, empirical case studies and methodological implications of studying mobile internet and locative media in relation to mobility and place. We have invited an international panel of speakers in order to encourage and facilitate the development of an international research network on mobile communication. Topics to be analyzed and discussed: - Theoretical, analytical and methodological aspects of mobile communication, mobile internet and locative media - Travelling, mobility and mobile technologies - Locative media and the production of place - Mobile internet, mobile media devises and new media practices Guest speakers: Rich Ling (DK) "Digital Gemeinschaft" Naomi Baron (US)"Reading on the Run: What We Read on Mobile Devices and Why" Leopoldina Fortunati (Italy) "Mobilities and Mobile Phones" Jonas Larsen (DK) "Mobile Communication, Place and Mobile Methods" Additional contributors: Iben Have, DK & Birgitte Stougaard, DK "Audiobooks and Mobile Listening: New Medium, New Users, New Literary Experiences?" Anja Bechmann, DK "Communication to-go: Studying Mobile and Seamless Communication Practices" Jakob Linaa Jensen, DK "Online Social Networks; Augmentation of Social Space" Martin Brynskov, DK "Mobile Media and Smart Cities" Stine Lomborg, DK "The internet in my pocket" Charles Ess, DK "Mobile Communication, Culture, Convergence" Anne Marit Waade, DK "Locative Mobile Media, Place and Performativity" Logistics - The roundtable workshop starts Thursday 29 March at 10.00am and ends Friday 30 March at 5.00pm - The workshop takes place at Aarhus University, IT-campus, ADA Building, meeting room 333, Helsingforsgade 15, 8200 Aarhus N - Workshop fee: participation in the workshop itself is free, but participants will be asked to cover meal expenses (400 DKr for lunch and coffee for two days, and optional - 400 DKr. for dinner Thursday night). Accommodation and travel expenses are covered by each participant. Submitting abstract for presentation: There will be a limited number of participants in the workshop. Deadline for submitting an abstract for presentation is 15. January 2012. The abstract should be no longer than 250 words. All participants will receive a response by 1 February. Please send your abstract to Sarah Shorr: imvsgs@hum.au.dk Guidelines for the presentation Prepare a presentation of ca. 10 minutes inclusive relevant questions to be posed for the workshop discussion. It might be based on a paper, an article or just a note or questions. Please send your contribution by 1 March to Sarah Shorr: imvsgs@hum.au.dk. Contributions will be distributed to participants prior to the workshop: participants will be asked to read each other¹s papers in advance of the workshop. Organizers Charles Ess, Media Studies, Aarhus University Anne Marit Waade, Media Studies, Aarhus University Sarah Schorr, Ph.D. Fellow, Media Studies, Aarhus University Related Ph.D-course In connection to the workshop, we are organizing the Ph.D. course, Researching Mobile and Locative Media - Methods and Ethics. It takes place Wednesday, March 28, 2012. 11 am 6 pm. In this course, we will emphasize the methodological approaches, as well as the ethical questions that surround the empirical study of mobile and locative media. For more information about the course, please contact Sarah Schorr, e-mail: imvsgs@hum.au.dk. Many thanks in advance, Charles Ess Professor MSO Institut for Informations- og Medievidenskab Helsingforsgade 14 8200 Århus N. Denmark mail: <imvce@hum.au.dk> tel: (+45) 8942 9250 Professor, Philosophy and Religion Drury University, Springfield, Missouri 65802 USA Exemplary persons seek harmony, not sameness. -- Analects 13.23
Hello All: I was wondering if there is research about hostility/ (verbal) violence against women in online communities? I am particularly interested in this question "is Farsi (Persian) speaking online communities, such as blog sphere and Persian social media are hostile towards women/ female bloggers and online participants?" I would greatly appreciate any feedback. You can email me directly. Thank you, Elham Gheytanchi Sociology, Santa Monica College
This is the Village Voice Article about a Rape in Cyperspace, I have used this in class before. I am sorry I don't have anything newer on the subject. http://www.juliandibbell.com/texts/bungle_vv.html There is also a Wikipedia entry about this event. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Rape_in_Cyberspace On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 9:08 AM, elham gheytanchi <elhamucla@hotmail.com>wrote:
Hello All:
I was wondering if there is research about hostility/ (verbal) violence against women in online communities?
I am particularly interested in this question "is Farsi (Persian) speaking online communities, such as blog sphere and Persian social media are hostile towards women/ female bloggers and online participants?"
I would greatly appreciate any feedback. You can email me directly.
Thank you,
Elham Gheytanchi Sociology, Santa Monica College
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While this is more about gaming and less about blogs, Tracy Kennedy has done some work on player communities on XBox Live and how women are treated in that space. You may want to look at the proceedings for the past few AoIR conferences and see what she's submitted. On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 10:08 AM, elham gheytanchi <elhamucla@hotmail.com>wrote:
Hello All:
I was wondering if there is research about hostility/ (verbal) violence against women in online communities?
I am particularly interested in this question "is Farsi (Persian) speaking online communities, such as blog sphere and Persian social media are hostile towards women/ female bloggers and online participants?"
I would greatly appreciate any feedback. You can email me directly.
Thank you,
Elham Gheytanchi Sociology, Santa Monica College
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-- Todd Harper Postdoctoral Researcher, Singapore-MIT GAMBIT Game Lab -- http://gambit.mit.edu laevantine@gmail.com
Thks Todd! Here are a couple of items from over the years: Kennedy, T. (2000). "An Exploratory Study of Feminist Experiences in Cyberspace" in Cyber Psychology and Behaviour, Vol 3 (5), pp 707-719. Kennedy, T. (2007). "The Personal is Political: Feminist Blogging and Virtual Consciousness-Raising" in The Scholar & Feminist Online Journal, (eds) Gwendolyn Beetham & Jessica Valenti, Vol 5 (2). Conferences - Association of Internet Researchers Conference, Seattle, Washington, October 2011. "Peeking into the Boy's Clubhouse: Masculine Discourses in Call of Duty". Association of Internet Researchers, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, October 2009: "'The voices in my head are idiots' Rethinking Barriers for Female Gamers & the Importance of Online Communities" American Sociology Association - Communication, Information & Technologies Mini-Conference, New York/Second Life, August 2007: "Women's Online Gaming Communities: Don't Hate the Game, Hate the Players". Association of Internet Researchers, Chicago, Illinois, October 2005: "Does Gender Matter? Examining Conversations in the Blogosphere". Tracy -----Original Message----- From: air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org [mailto:air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org] On Behalf Of Todd Harper Sent: November 22, 2011 10:22 AM To: elham gheytanchi Cc: air-l@listserv.aoir.org Subject: Re: [Air-L] question re research on hostility towards women in online communities While this is more about gaming and less about blogs, Tracy Kennedy has done some work on player communities on XBox Live and how women are treated in that space. You may want to look at the proceedings for the past few AoIR conferences and see what she's submitted. On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 10:08 AM, elham gheytanchi <elhamucla@hotmail.com>wrote:
Hello All:
I was wondering if there is research about hostility/ (verbal) violence against women in online communities?
I am particularly interested in this question "is Farsi (Persian) speaking online communities, such as blog sphere and Persian social media are hostile towards women/ female bloggers and online participants?"
I would greatly appreciate any feedback. You can email me directly.
Thank you,
Elham Gheytanchi Sociology, Santa Monica College
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-- Todd Harper Postdoctoral Researcher, Singapore-MIT GAMBIT Game Lab -- http://gambit.mit.edu laevantine@gmail.com _______________________________________________ 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 Join the Association of Internet Researchers: http://www.aoir.org/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Tracy L. M. Kennedy, PhD Course Instructor Dept of Communication, Popular Culture & Film Brock University 500 Glenridge Ave, St. Catharines, ON Post Doctoral Researcher Annenberg Center for Communication & Journalism University of Southern California Los Angeles, CA ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Hello, I'm not sure about Farsi-speaking online communities, but a good global source of information about violence against women online is the annual campaign "Take Back the Tech!" (http://takebackthetech.net/ - and on Twitter: https://twitter.com/#!/takebackthetech). The campaign is about to begin this year - it takes place from November 25th to December 10th every year. There is certainly a lot of violence against women online - particularly sexualized violence, which is different from online violence aimed at men. I would predict that would hold true for Persian women as well as women everywhere. Please let us know the results of your findings (or at least me, privately)? Thank you. Katherine Macnaughton-Osler ________________________________ From: elham gheytanchi <elhamucla@hotmail.com> To: air-l@listserv.aoir.org Sent: Tuesday, November 22, 2011 10:08:09 AM Subject: [Air-L] question re research on hostility towards women in online communities Hello All: I was wondering if there is research about hostility/ (verbal) violence against women in online communities? I am particularly interested in this question "is Farsi (Persian) speaking online communities, such as blog sphere and Persian social media are hostile towards women/ female bloggers and online participants?" I would greatly appreciate any feedback. You can email me directly. Thank you, Elham Gheytanchi Sociology, Santa Monica College _______________________________________________ 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 Join the Association of Internet Researchers: http://www.aoir.org/
Hope this helps, its a general list about women and agression/discrimimation in virtual worlds, all available as free pdf on the internet: My Second Life as a Cyber Border Crosser Carleen D. Sanchez - University of Nebraska-Lincoln, United States Avatar & maintenance of the self: An exploratory study on avatar customization & gratifications - Keunmin Bae - The Pennsylvania State University The price of ‘man’ and ‘woman’: a hedonic pricing model of avatar attributes in a synthetic world - Edward Castronova - CESIFO Working Paper NO. 957 - Category 4: Labour market - June 2003 Knee-High Boots and Six-Pack Abs: Autoethnographic Reflections on Gender and Technology in Second Life - By Delia Dumitrica and Georgia Gaden, University of Calgary, Canada - Vol. 1. No. 3 - ISSN: 1941-8477 - “Cultures of Virtual Worlds” - February 2009. Best, Alejandro Tortolini Scitech journalist - Teacher Buenos Aires - Argentina
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Todd Harper