Dear colleagues, In the context of the 9th International Conference on (Im)Politeness, which will be held at the University of Huddersfield (9 – 11 July 2014), we are organizing an invited panel on the language aggression and conflict. Language studies have for years tended to concentrate on the analysis of harmonious interactions. However, more recently, the study of acrimonious interaction has started gathering momentum. We would like to invite contributions that explore the language of aggression and conflict from various perspectives, such as pragmatic, discursive, sociolinguistic, cultural and cognitive, and focus on but are not restricted to the following areas: - Language aggression and conflict among family members - Language aggression and conflict in work/academic settings - Language aggression and conflict in political discourse - Language aggression and conflict in the (digital) media. - Language aggression and conflict in inter/cross cultural communication - Language aggression and conflict in service encounters - Language aggression, conflict and identity - Gender differences in language aggression and conflict - Emotional communication and conflict Please send your (300-word) abstracts to the organizers: Pilar Garcés Blitvich (pgblitvi@uncc.edu) and Maria Sifianou (msifian@enl.uoa.gr) by February 15, 2014. You will be notified of the reviewers’ decision by the end of February 2014. Please disseminate this information among any colleagues you think might be interested. With best wishes, Pilar and Maria Co-Editors in Chief – Journal of Language Aggression and Conflict http://benjamins.com/#catalog/journals/jlac -------------------------------------------- On Fri, 1/10/14, air-l-request@listserv.aoir.org <air-l-request@listserv.aoir.org> wrote: Subject: Air-L Digest, Vol 114, Issue 10 To: air-l@listserv.aoir.org Date: Friday, January 10, 2014, 6:00 PM Send Air-L mailing list submissions to     air-l@listserv.aoir.org To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit     http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to     air-l-request@listserv.aoir.org You can reach the person managing the list at     air-l-owner@listserv.aoir.org When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of Air-L digest..." Today's Topics:    1. CFP: SoMNet 2014 Symposium on Collaboration, Social       Computing, New Media and Networks - May 19-23, 2014 in       Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA (Marc Smith)    2. Summer School Crowdfunding (RU?MANN Uta | FHWien der WKW)    3. CFP: Innovation and its Contestants (Montreal, 18 Apr 14)       (Molly Sauter)    4. Remember! There is an AIR Graduate Student List! (Molly Sauter)    5. Sources on advocacy email structure/best practices/as data       for content analysis (Luis Hestres) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Thu, 9 Jan 2014 21:10:13 -0800 From: Marc Smith <marc.smith.email@gmail.com> To: Air list <air-l@listserv.aoir.org> Subject: [Air-L] CFP: SoMNet 2014 Symposium on Collaboration, Social     Computing, New Media and Networks - May 19-23, 2014 in Minneapolis,     Minnesota, USA Message-ID:     <CAEA_8sDQDjMKgN6MhQJf0d-_exy2GXq6Y97Gc_LV+njN9dH2Bw@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 SoMNeT 2014 *Third International Symposium on Collaboration, Social Computing, New Media and Networks* *(SoMNet 2014)* *Call for Papers and Participation* *As part of* *The 2014 International Conference on Collaboration Technologies and Systems* *(CTS 2014)* *May 19-23, 2014* *The Commons Hotel Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA* *Submission Deadline: January 22, 2014* *Submissions could be for full papers, short papers, poster papers, or posters* *SCOPE AND OBJECTIVES* Social media, social computing, new media and networks have become major areas of research, applications, and development in recent years.  The adoption of social media and their applications have expanded in kind and size to unprecedented levels and continue to grow at accelerated rates. The creation and deployment of Social Media is one of the main forces behind the evolution and expansion of the Internet, the Web, and mobile media.  Social media account for the majority of Internet traffic while its content comprises the greater part of the daily published multi media on the Web.  These technologies have a profound impact on society and on private life.  Furthermore, there is a great diversity in the communities of people interested in social computing: researchers in computing, communications, and social sciences; industrial practitioners; wide range of businesses; software and online game vendors; web entrepreneurs; digital government organizations; political analysts; educational institutions, etc. You are cordially invited to participate in, contribute to, and attend the International Symposium on Collaboration, Social  Computing, New Media, and Networks (SoMNet 2014) to be held as part of CTS 2014 ( *http://cts2014.cisedu.info/* <http://cisedu.us/rp/cts14/>) May 19-23, 2014 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA.  The Symposium is to address, explore and exchange information on the state-of-the-art and practice in the broad multi disciplinary field of social computing and new media.  Participation is extended to researchers, designers, educators and interested parties in all disciplines and specialties (computer science, linguistics, psychology, statistics, sociology, multimedia and semantic web technologies, ?). *The SoMNeT Symposium main themes include (but are not limited to) the following:*    - Social (media) Network Data Collection, Analysis and Visualization    - Content/ Text Data Analysis AND Integration with Network Data    - Computational/ Algorithmic Solutions and Datasets Related to Both of    These Themes *PAPER SUBMISSION* You are invited to submit original and unpublished research works on above and other topics related to social computing, social networks and new social media.  Submitted papers must not have been published or simultaneously submitted elsewhere. Submissions could be for full papers, short papers, poster papers, or posters (please specify).  Submission should include a cover page with authors' names, affiliation addresses, fax numbers, phone numbers, and email addresses.  Please, indicate clearly the corresponding author(s) and include up to 6 keywords from the above list of topics and an abstract of no more than 400 words.  The full manuscript should be at most 8 pages using the two-column IEEE format.  Additional pages are allowed but will be charged additional fee.  Short papers (up to 4 pages), poster papers and poster (please refer to http://cts2014.cisedu.info/home/posters<http://cisedu.us/rp/cts14/home/posters> for posters submission details)  will also be accepted.  Please include page numbers on all preliminary submissions to make it easier for reviewers to provide helpful comments. Authors are invited to submit a PDF copy of their manuscript to the Symposium using the following link: http://cisedu.us/cis/cts/14/users/upload.jsp.  In the form you fill out, please make sure to indicate that the submission is for SoMNeT 2014 Symposium in the *Notes* field of the uploading form.   Otherwise, the manuscript will go to the main track.  If the submission is for a *poster paper*or *short paper*, indicate that as well on the manuscript and in the form's *Notes* field. Only PDF files will be accepted, uploaded to the link above.  Each paper will receive a minimum of three reviews.  Papers will be selected based on their originality, relevance, contributions, technical clarity, and presentation.  Submission implies the willingness of at least one of the authors to register and present the paper, if accepted.  Authors of accepted papers must guarantee that their papers will be registered and presented at the Symposium. Accepted papers will be published in the Conference proceedings. Instructions for final manuscript format and requirements will be posted on the CTS 2014 Conference web site.  It is our intent to have the proceedings formally published in hard and soft copies and be available at the time of the conference.  The proceedings is projected to be included in the IEEE Digital Library and indexed in all major indexing services accordingly. If you have any questions about paper submission or the Symposium, please contact the Symposium organizers. *IMPORTANT DATES* *Paper Submission Deadline: -------------------------- January 22, 2014* *Acceptance Notification: ------------------------------ February 10, 2014* *Camera Ready Papers and Registration Due: ------  February 28, 2014 * *Conference Dates:  ------------------------------------  May 19 - 23, 2014* *SYMPOSIUM ORGANIZERS* *Marc A. Smith* Connected Action Consulting Group California, USA Phone: +1 (425) 241-9105 Email:  marc@connectedaction.net<https://mail.google.com/mail/?view=cm&fs=1&tf=1&to=marc@connectedaction.net> *Jana Diesner* The iSchool (Graduate School of Library and Information Science) University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), Illinois, USA Phone:  +1 (217) 244-3576 Email:    jdiesner@illinois.edu ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2014 08:35:54 +0000 From: RU?MANN Uta | FHWien der WKW     <Uta.Russmann@fh-wien.ac.at> To: "air-l@listserv.aoir.org" <air-l@listserv.aoir.org> Subject: [Air-L] Summer School Crowdfunding Message-ID:     <7883002B29A0544D9CCB654B81B94D8A15379A7B@FHWMX1.fh-wien.ac.at> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Help us to reach our goal! We are organizing a summer school on ICT4Democracy next March in New Delhi, India (http://serd.org.in/ss2014/) (https://www.facebook.com/#!/Summerschool2014) (https://twitter.com/summerschool14). We have been able to find funding for keynote lectures, but we still need funding for the participants (MA- & PhD-students).  So we thought to try a new way to raise funds with our crowd funding event! Help us raise 6500 US-Dollar to provide free food and accommodation for our students. Many of them come from developing countries! See our crowd funding event! Every dollar and euro counts!  http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/summer-school-support-young-researchers/x/... And please spread the word! If you have already supported our project we sincerely thank you for your support! Uta Russmann Endowed Professorship for Strategic Communication Management & New Media Department of Communication, Marketing & Sales FHWien University of Applied Sciences of WKW W?hringer G?rtel 97, 1180 Vienna, Austria Phone: +43 (1) 476 77-5848, Fax: +43 (1) 476 77-5704 uta.russmann@fh-wien.ac.at<mailto:uta.russmann@fh-wien.ac.at> www.fh-wien.ac.at/kommas<http://www.fh-wien.ac.at/kommas> **************************NEWS********************************** Der Master-Plan f?r Ihre Karriere: Bewerben<http://www.fh-wien.ac.at/bewerben> Sie sich bis 14. Mai 2014 f?r ein Master-Studium an der FHWien der WKW! Sie finden uns auch unter facebook.com/FHWien<http://www.facebook.com/FHWien>, twitter.com/FHWienAT<http://www.twitter.com/FHWienAT> und auf Google+<https://plus.google.com/u/0/112183961531581231679> ******************FHWien der WKW: Die f?hrende Fachhochschule f?r Management & Kommunikation****************** ------------------------------ Message: 3 Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2014 13:10:02 -0500 From: Molly Sauter <molly.sauter@gmail.com> To: air-l@listserv.aoir.org Subject: [Air-L] CFP: Innovation and its Contestants (Montreal, 18 Apr     14) Message-ID:     <CAFr+==7unxjEOpGkxXzZY4kQT86xXdfRckf5d7PASX87qcwfEA@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Montreal, QC, April 18, 2014 Deadline: Jan 24, 2014 <http://ahcsconference.wordpress.com> Call for Proposals INNOVATION AND ITS CONTESTANTS 5th Annual Emerging Scholars Conference McGill University Department of Art History and Communications Studies Keynote Speaker: Keith Moxey, Barbara Novak Professor of Art History and Department Chair at Barnard College (Columbia University) Deadline for Submissions: 24 January 2014 The concept of innovation buttresses a paradigmatically modern Western belief in the possibility of infinite economic growth and technological progress. It is in fact a buzzword with remarkable contemporary currency, one that is instrumentalized as a constant search for new technologies, means of production, market adaptations, scientific discoveries and social changes. As a fundamental tenet in Western systems of thought, it is also ? and has long been ? inscribed within the West?s very view of itself as more successful and more ?progressive? than other societies. Note, for example, G.W.F. Hegel?s famous juxtaposition of Europe?s ever- changing art against the allegedly stagnant visual culture of India: the first modality accounted for the privileged position of the West as the locus of the emanation of universal Geist; while the latter stipulated an essentially ?un-progressive? timelessness in India. The Western valuation and definition of innovation has thereby been mobilized as a justification for diverse colonial, post-colonial and now neoliberal enterprises. It operates as a smoke screen to preserve dominant power regimes both within the West and globally, concealing simultaneously the biased valuation of cultural production, and the unequal distribution of technological and scientific headway among diverse social strata. This is the case even as the current global financial crisis challenges the West?s ability to regenerate perpetually. In fact, the stakes involved in the Western impetus to innovate seem to intensify even as recent projections of economic acceleration in several non-Western countries rouse fears that the West is losing ground as innovation?s main stimulant. The innovation paradigm is moreover implicit within the bulk of humanistic academic production. As a case in point, the Greenbergian approach to art history, which dominated much of the twentieth century, revolves indisputably around a teleology of formal innovation. Meanwhile, within a number of current academic discussions ? for instance those concerning experimentation and invention in the history of science (Galison); global art history (Elkins); visual culture studies (Moxey); history of ideas (Godin); the philosophy of mondialisation (Nancy); media archaeology (Parikka); technological obsolescence (Kittler); and the aesthetics of failure (Halberstam) ? innovation is tacitly treated with caution, if not skepticism. Given this tangle of collusions and complexities, how are we to approach and define innovation in academic discourse? Is the paradigm purely a means of disarming social pressure for an all-inclusive equalized prosperity; or might it be recuperated to provide a stimulus for sustainable growth? Can we understand innovation in a broader global spectrum without falling into the trap of cultural essentialism; or does this concept perpetuate Western-centric views and mores? Can the concept of innovation be used for the analysis of historical periods; or does it figure too easily in teleological narratives? With these questions in mind, we are opening an enquiry into the concept of innovation. We invite paper proposals addressing a broad range of academic disciplines and historical periods. Papers might address, but are by no means restricted to, the following questions: ? Socio-economic implications of innovation. How do societies and specific agents adapt to new conditions once their old ways of life have been destroyed? ? The politics of innovation. Does innovation bring betterment or deprivation? ? What are the criteria of innovation? ? Challenging the Western canon of art built on the notions of style, progress, and originality ? Technological progress ? Patents ? Is Western-centrism pervasive in the concept of innovation? ? How does innovation affect personal identities (video games, Facebook, etc.)? ? How is innovation different from change? ? The contestations of innovation; the discursive counterpoints to innovation ? Centre vs. periphery; milieus of innovation ? Instances of anachronism masked as innovation in culture from the Middle Ages to the present day. Recurring regimes: the old in the new, the new in the old ? Does materiality matter in innovation? ? Temporality and innovation ? Commodity culture and innovation We welcome proposals for 20-minute presentations. Please send your submission in the form of a 300-word abstract and a brief CV to ahcsconference@gmail.com. All candidates will be contacted by the first week of February. For more information, please refer to the conference website (http://ahcsconference.wordpress.com/) or contact ahcsconference@gmail.com. Reference / Quellennachweis: CFP: Innovation and its Contestants (Montreal, 18 Apr 14). In: H-ArtHist, Jan 9, 2014. <http://arthist.net/archive/6713>. -- oddletters http://oddletters.com/ ------------------------------ Message: 4 Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2014 13:23:42 -0500 From: Molly Sauter <molly.sauter@gmail.com> To: air-l@listserv.aoir.org Subject: [Air-L] Remember! There is an AIR Graduate Student List! Message-ID:     <CAFr+==6tCB0JnRmasphWUkF0uscmtrM1_xbYTncp2JKfqj7kDA@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Hi everyone- Since the spring semester is starting again (or as it's called up here in Canada, the "winter" semester), I am reminding you that there is an AIR graduate list, and it is awesome! If you are a graduate student studying the internet/internet-related-things, you should sign up. Fill out this form here to sign up. https://docs.google.com/forms/d/18h-DvwPtcQDSnRiv8bEDd0tnkJXxrcnR8T-CUrNrHSg... best- -molly sauter PhD student, Communication Studies, McGill University -- oddletters http://oddletters.com/ ------------------------------ Message: 5 Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2014 14:23:36 -0500 From: Luis Hestres <luishestres@gmail.com> To: air-l@listserv.aoir.org Subject: [Air-L] Sources on advocacy email structure/best practices/as     data for content analysis Message-ID: <4654CD44AA694FF7AA039667BBAD44BF@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Hi all, Can anyone recommend any books or chapter(s), article(s), white paper(s), case studies, etc. that talk about the ?proper? way to structure advocacy emails? Looking for sources (academic or not) that talk about things like proper message/paragraph length, structure (as in something similar to the pyramid structure of news articles), etc.  Even sources that discuss advocacy emails in general (e.g. as part of content analyses) would help. Thanks! - - - - - Luis E. Hestres Ph.D. candidate | School of Communication | American University More about me at luishestres.com (http://luishestres.com/) or LinkedIn (http://www.linkedin.com/in/hestres) | Follow me on Twitter (https://twitter.com/#!/luishestres/) | Visit my SSRN Author page (http://ssrn.com/author=1820222) "Theoretical critiques are like sociopaths: Their aggressive drives are rarely balanced by constructive instincts."  -- From "Caught in a Winding, Snarling Vine: The Structural Bias of Political Process Theory" by Jeff Goodwin and James M. Jasper, Sociological Forum 14(1), 1999 ------------------------------ _______________________________________________ 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/ End of Air-L Digest, Vol 114, Issue 10 **************************************