February 2012
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New Book: Understanding Digital Humanities
This book discusses the implications and applications of ‘digital humanities’ and the questions raised when using algorithmic techniques. Key researchers in the field provide a comprehensive introduction to important debates surrounding issues such as the contrast between narrative versus database, pattern-matching versus hermeneutics, and the statistical paradigm versus the data mining...
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Call for Papers: New interaction orders, New...
We invite researchers, designers, technology developers, architects, urban planners, artists and urban communities to submit contributions that explore aspects of new and old ‘behaviour in public spaces’. Abstracts due Feb 24, 2012. Workshop 13-14 April 2012 at Lancaster University, UK. Introduction Equipped with mobile technologies, people connect in ways that were unthinkable when Goffman...
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CFP: Internet and New Productive Paradigms - the...
The diffusion of the Internet shows the emergence of new and socio-technical arrangements that seem to call into question our traditional separation between production and consumption. Instead of taking the emergence of the new production paradigm as a matter of fact, the goal of this track is to describe and understand the practices and dynamics that characterize the socio-technical ...
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CFP: Tangible Media and Tangibility (due March 31,...
What are the implications of the new tangibility for media-making? How does the tangible relate to conceptions of (media) materiality? What are the historical and archeological dimensions of the (new) tangibility of media?
Abstracts due March 31, 2012. NECSUS - European Journal of Media Studies.
The politics of tangibility surrounding media studies are constantly changing. Is film no longer a...
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CFP: Ecological Humanities, Ecocinema and Ecomedia...
This issue of M/C Journal calls for interdisciplinary and accessible discussions on the topic of ‘ecology’ from a natural sciences or humanities frame. Papers could engage with the emerging inter-disciplines of the ‘ecological humanities’, ‘ecocinema’ or ‘ecomedia’.
Article deadline: April 27, 2012
THEME ‘ECOLOGY’ for M/C Journal of...
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AAA Panel: Towards an Anthropology of Social Media...
Anthropologists are uniquely positioned to study the particularities of emerging media platforms and practices in global and transnational contexts. Yet an anthropology of social media must contend with the challenges of studying rapidly transforming global communication networks and social practices.
Jordan Kraemer <jkraemer(at)uci.edu> and Charles Pearson...
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Community Media: A Good Practice Handbook (free...
“The value of this publication lies in the fact that it highlights problems while at the same time offering possible solutions. It presents a useful empirical basis for replicating time-tested decisions about how community media can become an even more effective element of a free, independent and pluralistic media system of any democratic society. This book will be a useful reference to...
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CFP: Research Symposium on Creative practice,...
This symposium is an opportunity for us to share our findings but is also an opportunity to engage with other academics and practitioners doing research on the creative economy or on creative practice and using complexity methods.
Abstracts due April 1, 2012.
Research Symposium on Creative practice, complexity and the creative economy. 31 May 2012. Birmingham University. This research...
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CFP: Conference on Electronic Literature and New...
This conference welcomes abstracts on Electronic Literature in the U.S., Latin America and Europe, teaching Electronic Literature and Gender and Identity in Cyberspace.
Proposals due May 30, 2012.
Instituto Franklin - UAH, Alcalá de Henares, Spain, October 4th-6th, 2012. Instituto Franklin–UAH organizes the First International Conference devoted to Electronic Literature and New Media Art. It...
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CFP: New media - changing media landscapes in...
We are pleased to announce an open call for papers for the international conference “New media: changing media landscapes” to be held at St.-Petersburg campus of Higher School of Economics, Russia, on September 27-28, 2012. The conference is aimed at bringing together academics and professionals in the sphere of new and convergent media.
Full papers due April 1, 2012.
It focuses on, but is not...
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CFP: Mediated Practice - Insights from STS,...
The aim of this EASST panel is to explore how ideas approaches and perspectives might travel more effectively across science and technological studies, media studies and cultural studies.
Abstracts due March 11, 2012.
Joint meeting of the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S) and the European Association for the Study of Science and Technology (EASST) 2012: October 17-20, 2012,...
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Journal: Born Magazine - exploring literary arts...
Born Magazine is an experimental venue marrying literary arts and interactive media. Original projects are brought to life through creative collaboration between writers and artists.
http://www.bornmagazine.org/
Born is an all-volunteer project that brings together writers, artists, and others from diverse fields to create storytelling artworks. Our name reflects the creative process nurtured by...
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Aca-articles: Digital Memoirs - Studies in...
Online journal Digital Icons aims to construct a collaborative historical narrative that would define use of digital media, including digital gadgets, digital forms of communication and digital practices, in a post-communist, post-totalitarian space. New issue is out now.
Digital Icons: Studies in Russian, Eurasian and Central European New Media Issue 6. http://www.digitalicons.org/ Issue 6 of...
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CFP: DIS'12 Workshops - DIY Biology, Designing...
A couple of workshops for the upcoming DIS conference in Newcastle have been announced. Submissions have opened.
Workshop submissions due March 2012. See individual call for exact dates. ACM Conference Designing Interactive Systems (DIS) June 2012, Newcastle UK.
Slow Technology: Critical Reflection and Future Directions - We invite participants to submit a short written position paper as well as...
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New Books from Sage on Media, Cultural Studies and...
A selection of recent books from Sage.
Media Regulation - Peter Lunt & Sonia Livingstone Explores the way that regulation affects the relations between government, the media and communications market, civil society, citizens and consumers. The Creative Industries - Terry Flew International in coverage, this book weaves together the varying strands of the creative industries with a focus on...
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CFP: Emerging Methods for Digital Media Research...
With the rise of ‘big data’, locative media, and smartphones, existing media and communication studies methods are being recombined, reconfigured and replaced alongside their objects of study. This special issue of JOBEM seeks to expose new research methods for understanding the changing nature of the content industries, the impact of digital media on the practices of creative workers,...
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New Book: Inequity in the Technopolis - Race,...
Over the past few decades, Austin, Texas, has made a concerted effort to develop into a “technopolis”. Nevertheless, this expansion and boom left poorer residents behind, many of them African American or Latino, despite local and federal efforts to increase lower-income and minority access to technology.
Inequity in the Technopolis: Race, Class, Gender, and the Digital Divide in Austin Edited by...
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CFP: Computational Culture, a journal of software...
In order to understand digital objects, a detailed analysis of software cannot be avoided. A developing form of literacy is required that matches an understanding of computational processes with those traditionally bound within the arts, humanities, and social sciences but also in more informal or practical modes of knowledge such as hacking and art.
Deadline: 1 April 2012. Call For Papers....
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Call for Chapters: Virtual Bands, Virtual Music...
To what extent is contemporary popular music driven by the digital media, music technology, and creative artistic technology? Contributions for an edited collection on Virtual Bands, Virtual Music.
Shara Rambarran and Sheila Whiteley are seeking contributions from the wide spectrum of musicology and social sciences for an edited text on Virtual Bands, Virtual Music that will reflect upon its...
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Aca-articles: New issue of journal PUBLIC on...
PUBLIC is a journal founded as an intellectual and creative forum that focuses on how theoretical, and critical issues intersect with art and visual culture. The lastest issue is now available. Experimental Media, Edited by Peggy Gale.
A preview of this issue: http://issuu.com/publicjournal/docs/public44/33
Journal website: http://www.publicjournal.ca/44-experimental-media/
PUBLIC is a...
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CFP: Narrative ecosystems - flows,...
The Media Mutations conference will focus on processes taking place within media ecosystems. The aim is to provide explanatory patterns for change by taking into account how ecosystems work in terms of narrative, culture and economies.
Abstracts due February 15, 2012. Narrative ecosystems: flows, transformations, social uses, Bologna, Italy, May 22nd and 23rd 2012. Submission of paper abstract...
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CFP: IAMCR South-North Conversations -...
The IAMCR conference wishes to emphasise the communicative empowerment and the positive potential of media and communication technologies in and from the Global South.
Abstracts and panel proposals due February 14, 2012. International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR) Conference, July 15-19, 2012, Durban (South-Africa) ‘South-North Conversations’
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CFP: NordiCHI 2012 – Making sense through design
HCI has moved from evaluation of interfaces through design of systems and into general sense-making of our world. NordiCHI 2012 embraces this explorative yet down-to-earth challenge of designing interactive systems for human practices that are still in the making.
Full papers and short papers due April 30, 2012. For workshops, tutorials, posters and doctoral consortium, see...
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Tiree Tech Wave: A hands-on making and meeting...
Activities at past Tiree Tech Waves have ranged from mechanical digital chips to digitally augmented fish and chips, from theatrical improvisation in design to improvised assistive technology. Come to take time to explore ideas that keep being put on the backburner, to be stimulated by others, or simply to be intellectually refreshed.
22-26 March. 2012, Isle of Tiree, Scotland, UK (early bird...
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CFP: Smart Applications for Smart Cities - New...
The Journal of Theoretical and Applied Electronic Commerce is looking for papers related to user centered approaches for innovation focusing on smart applications, aiming for a transformation towards smarter cities. Papers may cover smart applications for smart cities, addressing the participative design, implementation and validation aspects. We also solicit methodologically oriented papers...
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New Dissertation: The city as interface. Digital...
The main concern of this study is the future of the urban public sphere. It investigates various scenarios that describe how the rise of digital and mobile media technologies, such as the mobile phone, GPS-navigation, and the usage of social networks through smartphones, change the way the urban public sphere functions.
On 23 January 2012, Martijn de Waal defended his Ph.D. thesis ‘The city as...
January 2012
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Call for Papers: Making Together - Open,...
The theme of the conference Crafting the Future is designer’s practice knowledge. How can the specific knowledge of designers be brought forward, articulated, made visible and be understood and used in contexts like innovation, business development and social change?
Dates: April 17-19 2013 Location: Gothenburg, Sweden Website: http://www.craftingthefuture.se Deadline for submission of...
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Aca-article: StoryCrate - Tabletop Storyboarding...
Creating film content for broadcast is a high pressure and complex activity involving multiple experts and highly specialized equipment. We describe a prototype tangible, tabletop interface to be deployed on a film shoot, which uses a storyboard as a shared data representation to drive team creativity.
Authors: Tom Bartindale, Nick Taylor, Peter Wright, Patrick Olivier, Culture Lab, School of...
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Aca-article: What is New Media? - Ten Years after...
A frank assessment to begin: There are very few books on new media worth reading. Just when the naysayers decry the end of the written word, bookstore shelves still overflow with fluff on digital this and digital that. And even as a countervailing chorus emerged that was more skeptical of the widespread adoption of new media - in France, Jacques Chirac once spoke disparagingly about “that...
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Aca-article: Blind and Fake - Exploring the...
It seems like we are now rapidly leaving the galaxy of printed matter. As screen-based media is making its entry into our everyday lives, it is pushing aside an object – the book - that has structured our forms of being together for almost six hundred years. This paper approaches the idea of the book as an expanded and inter-medial “boundary object”.
Authors: Maria Hellström Reimer, Malmö...
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Aca-article: Tangible Patterns - The aesthetic of...
Digital media and interactive technologies provide the opportunity to augment and alter the characteristic qualities of sensual and aesthetic perception. In this paper we are investigating the influence of an interactive “skin”- prototype on the human touch perception in the architectonical context.
Author: Ingrid Maria Pohl, University of Technology Graz, Austria
Abstract: Digital media and...
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Aca-article: A Study on a Tangible Interaction...
Technological advances in computational, networking and sensing abilities are leading towards a future in which our daily lives are immersed with interactive devices that are networked and interoperable. It is imperative that users are able to understand such complex intelligent and interactive environments. Design has an important role in facilitating users in making sense of the many...
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Aca-article: Ecology of Embodied Narratives in the...
The present account of storytelling in the age of locative media would radically reject the traditional assumption that new technology challenges old narrative forms per se. Still, the very probable rise of personal devices based on the Global Positioning System (GPS), Geographic Information System (GIS) or similar geocoding standards and platforms will likely provide storytellers with a very...
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New Design Journal: Zoon Technica - focusing on...
A variety of designers and researchers address issues of concern to contemporary design thinking in this first issue of Zoontechnica. All grapple with questions about how design can, in more substantial ways, contribute to sustaining those things that need to be sustained, like social justice, equity, diversity and critical thinking.
http://zoontechnica.com/
ZoonTechnica - The Journal of...
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Conference: Unlike Us 2 - Understanding Social...
Unlike Us 2 is the second event of artists, designers, scholars, activists and programmers who work on “alternatives in social media”. This international research network analyzes the economic and cultural aspects of dominant social media platforms such as Facebook and Twitter. Through workshops, conferences, online dialogues and publications the Unlike Us network promotes the...
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New Book: Communication Matters - Materialist...
Communication has often been understood as a realm of immaterial, insubstantial phenomena - images, messages, thoughts, languages, cultures, and ideologies - mediating our embodied experience of the concrete world. Communication Matters challenges this view, assembling leading scholars in the fields of Communication, Rhetoric, and English to focus on the materiality of communication.
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Aca-articles: new issue of tripleC is out!
A new issue of open access journal tripleC is out; a transdisciplinary journal that is open to contributions from all disciplines and approaches that analyze the role of cognition, communication, cooperation, information, media, digital media and communication in the information society.
Selected articles
Selling You and Your Clicks: Examining the Audience Commodification of Google (link)
From...
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CFP: Media anthropology today: Seeing, hearing,...
Media anthropology examines how people relate to media, how media produce and reproduce reality and how they are embedded within economic and political contexts. This issue of the academic journal Tsantsa is themed “Media anthropology today: Seeing, hearing, understanding?”. Abstracts due: February 1, 2012. Media anthropology examines how people relate to media, how media produce and...
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CFP: Communicating the Future / Future of...
Fincom2012: Finnish Conference of Communication Research. Theme Communicating the Future / Future of Communication.
Deadline for extended abstracts is February 28, 2012. The Finnish Conference of Communication Research will be organized in Jyväskylä on August 30-31, 2012.
Conference topics (Groups in English)
1. Organizational survival in the new media environment The dynamics of the new media...
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Aca-articles: Interaction Designs for Ubicomp...
This issue of Fibreculture Journal presents a series of incisive analyses of current and future events/practices in ubiquitous computing. Leading thinkers in the area presented articles on actuated architectures, questions of interaction design, rethinking of computer/human relations, environmental critiques, the scripting of urban space, performative aesthetics, affective experience, pervasive...
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CFP: The Digital Nation: Copyright, Technology and...
The open access Journal of the International Association for the Study of Popular Music, IASPM Journal, is seeking papers that address the various current technological, legal and cultural issues related to music copyright. We particularly welcome papers that frame these issues in specific national or regional contexts, to provide a distinctive overview of how nations are attempting to...
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CFP: GLIDE virtual design conference on food,...
The design conference GLIDE aims to disseminate research and critical thinking on international issues surrounding food, nutrition, and health.
Abstracts due February 15, 2012.
Today, food is no longer viewed simply for nourishment, pleasure or an overly mass-produced product. Now, due to global industrialization, the way humans interact with food systems and production has reached a critical...
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CFP: Innovation by Collaboration and...
Our community, consisting of academics, industrialists, managers, entrepreneurs and politicians, offers a big platform for knowledge transfer, scientific and applied discussions and active networking. Scientific results and practical contributions will be discussed in paper or workshop sessions. Key note speeches offer insights to relevant topics from science to policy to industry. Networking...
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Call for Papers: Sustainable HCI through Everyday...
To date, sustainable HCI research has focused on changing individuals’ behavior in order to help address large-scale societal concerns such as climate change. In this special issue of ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction, we explore new research opportunities derived from redirecting emphasis from individual behavior to everyday social and cultural practices. This special issue will...
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CFP: Knowledge Management & Knowledge Technologies...
i-KNOW is the premier conference series on Knowledge Management & Knowledge Technologies in Europe. Founded in 2001, it annually attracts over 500 international attendees. i-KNOW acts as an incubator for innovation by bringing together relevant disciplines and communities.
Submission Deadline: 2 April 2012
Conference Topics From both research and innovative practice perspectives the...
December 2011
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Aca-articles: Special issue of the journal...
Open access articles from journal Professions, published by the Modern Language Association. These articles are a little tricky to find on the website - that’s why I post the direct access links to the articles here.
Introduction, by Susan Schreibman, Laura Mandell, and Stephen Olsen Engaging Digital Scholarship: Thoughts on Evaluating Multimedia Scholarship, by Steve Anderson and Tara...
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CFP: Internet Research - Technologies as Crafts,...
Internet Research 13.0 will focus on the theme of technologies, understood in the broadest sense as crafts, techniques, and systems. The conference will examine the place of the Internet in the contemporary world and in relation to a range of existing and emerging technologies, considering its impact in a context where life is entangled with technologies of all kinds as never before. The...
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Dissertation: Location-based Games - From Screen...
The dissertation contributes to the field of location-based game research by offering an enhanced understanding of location-based games, and location-based game player experiences, as well as providing an expanded vocabulary describing location-based game elements. In addition, the dissertation provides design knowledge concerning creating location-based games that uses certain emergent...
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CFP: Media Ethnography - The challenges of...
Scholars from a wide range of academic disciplines have embraced ethnography as a way to understand media as artefacts, experiences and practices. What are the constraints and opportunities created by media ethnography’s inherent hybridity?
Abstracts due February 3, 2012.
Westminster Papers in Communication and Culture (WPCC), Vol 9, Issue 3
Media ethnography: The challenges of breaking...
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CFP: Convergence, Engagement and Power - Digital...
The innovation of technologies like Facebook, Twitter and blogs originates in a global hegemonic system which retains their ultimate ownership in and through existing mass media and telecommunications conglomerates. How do people, through their engagement with this technological and cultural convergence, really influence or alter political, corporate, and social power structures?
Abstracts...