April 2013
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CFP: Symposium Mediating Cityscapes (The Hague,...
“If urban space has historically been defined by the relation between static structures and mobile subjects, this dichotomy is fast giving way to hybrid spatialities characterized by dynamic flows which not only dissolve the fixity of traditional modes of spatial enclosure, but problematize the unified presence of the subject traversing their contours.”
(Scott McGuire, The Media City...
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CFP: Perspectives on participatory HCI research...
Participation is a research area of sustained interest to the HCI community. Traditionally, the term has been used to suggest a democratized approach to the design of technology that calls for end-user involvement in the design process.
Papers due Aug 31, 2013. International Journal of Human-Computer Studies.
TOPICS
Empirical studies collaborating with organizations and communities in the...
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CFP: Reflecting Connectedness – PDC 2014 (due Jan...
The theme of the 13th Participatory Design Conference is Reflecting Connectedness.
Full papers due Jan 15, 2014.
PDC 2014, Reflecting connectedness, Oct 6-10, 2014, Windhoek, Namibia.
ABOUT – The conference theme of the PDC 2014 is “Reflecting connectedness”. We are currently experiencing a technologically pushed trend in ‘being always connected’. This is manifested in a number of designed...
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Aca-articles: Unlike Us – Understanding Social...
This issue of online open-access journal First Monday is dedicated to setting out a research platform that overcomes both the dominant quantitative analyses and the privacy paradigm in current social media research.
INTRO – The ubiquitous presence of social media in everyday life has not been met by equally pervasive research efforts for their critical understanding, due mostly to the increasing...
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Aca-article: Getting into the Game – Doing...
This article focuses on interdisciplinary dialogue and multi-methodology research as an inherent characteristic of game studies. It was originally published in Bernard Perron and Mark J.P. Wolf (eds.) The Video Game Theory Reader 2, New York: Routledge.
Author: Frans Mäyrä
INTRO – This essay will focus on interdisciplinary dialogue and multi-methodology research as an inherent characteristic of...
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Paper: Doing Research on Value of Visual Practice
In this paper, Heidi Forbes Öste define the visual practice as real-time graphics generation used to help people communicate, collaborate and make decisions”.
Forbes Öste continues:
To visualize or “see what you mean” through imagery and metaphors is the base approach. We can see from prehistoric cave paintings that this is not a new form of communication for humans. The formal...
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CFP: Digital Culture – Promises and Discomforts...
The ongoing mediatisation process is subject to social transformations as well as technical innovation processes and creative practices. We endorse digital technologies with the promises of a better way of life, solving our problems of managing the world’s complexity, allowing better participatory policies and helping us in our daily life.
In this workshop we want to critically discuss the...
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Book: Mediation and Protest Movements
Over the past year, international and national media have been full of stories about protest movements and tumultuous social upheaval from Tunisia to California. But scholars have not yet fully addressed the connection between these movements and the media and communication channels through which their messages spread.
Correcting that imbalance, Mediation and Protest Movements explores the nature...
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Conference: Governing Algorithms – computation,...
Algorithms are increasingly invoked as powerful entities that control, govern, sort, regulate, and shape everything from financial trades to news media. Nevertheless, the nature and implications of such orderings are far from clear. What exactly is it that algorithms “govern”? What is the role attributed to “algorithms” in these arguments? Can we turn the “problem of algorithms” into an object of...
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Book: Producing the Internet – Critical...
Should contemporary media culture be understood as a culture that offers unprecedented freedom for producing participators – so-called “produsers”, or should it rather be understood as a culture in which various forms of user participation in fact are conditioned, or even manufactured, by organized, professional producers?
The contributions to this book add to our critical understanding of these...
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CFP: Perspectives on participatory HCI research...
Participation is a research area of sustained interest to the HCI community. As HCI is an interdisciplinary field, there are multiple understandings of what participation in research might mean, from subjects and disciplines such as social science, participatory and performance arts, international development, and action research.
Full papers due July 31, 2013.
Call for Papers: Special Issue of...
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Book: Spreadable Media – Creating Value and...
Spreadable Media, by Henry Jenkins, Sam Ford and Joshua Green, maps fundamental changes taking place in our contemporary media environment, a space where corporations no longer tightly control media distribution and many of us are directly involved in the circulation of content.
The authors introduce the concept of “spreadability” to describe the ways content travels through social...
March 2013
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Book: Beyond WikiLeaks – Implications for the...
Beyond WikiLeaks opens a space to reflect on the broader implications across political and media fields, and on the transformations that result from new forms of leak journalism and transparency activism.
A select group of renowned scholars, international experts, and WikiLeaks ‘insiders’ discuss the consequences of the WikiLeaks saga for traditional media, international journalism,...
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Book: Media interventions (essay collection)
This collection of essays, the first book-length treatment of its kind, explicates the concept of “media interventions” herein defined as activities and projects that secure, exercise, challenge or acquire media power for tactical and strategic action.
Edited by Kevin Howley w. afterword by Nick Couldry.
Published by Peter Lang, 2013.
MORE – Drawing on insights from media, communication and...
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CFP: Participatory Cultural Citizenship – When is...
In recent years studies of aesthetic, urban and digital culture have focused on the political potential of user-driven production often referred to by means of concepts such as DIY urbanism and participatory culture, co-creation, produsage, etc. How do we understand and support collective creation, and what new challenges does this change bring forth?
Abstracts due June 20, 2013.
RETHINK...
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Book: Digital Disconnect – How Capitalism is...
“In Digital Disconnect, Robert McChesney offers a groundbreaking critique of the Internet, urging us to reclaim the democratizing potential of the digital revolution while we still can.”
Author: Robert McChesney, professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and previous host of Media Matters.
Publisher: The New Press, 2013.
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Book: De-convergence of Global Media Industries
Convergence has become a buzzword, referring on the one hand to the integration between computers, television, and mobile devices or between print, broadcast, and online media and on the other hand, the ownership of multiple content or distribution channels in media and communications.
Yet while convergence among communications companies has been the major trend in the neoliberal era, the...
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CFP: More for less – design in an age of austerity...
Today’s global recession forces design practice, research and education to address questions such as how design can stimulate sustainable economic growth. The Cumulus conference is intended to act as platform for sharing ideas and concepts about contemporary design research in this age of austerity.
Abstracts due May 31, 2013.
November 7-9, 2013, National College of Art and Design, Dublin,...
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Aca-articles: designing with companies, DIY...
Design Research Society recently published a massive collection of open-access papers that were presented at the DRS 2012 Bangkok conference. It stretches over more than 2000 pages…
… but here are a few articles that cought my attention (with direct links to the paper on Scribd):
Co-creating with Companies: A design led process of learning, by Alessandro Deserti and Francesca Rizzo,...
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Book: To Save Everything, Click Here – The Folly...
The Guardian recently published an interview with author and “anti-solutionist” Evgeny Morozov whose second book To Save Everything, Click Here just hit the bookstores.
Author: Evgeny Morozov
Publisher: Public Affairs, 2013.
BOOK BLURB: In the very near future, “smart” technologies and “big data” will allow us to make large-scale and sophisticated interventions in politics,...
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Book: Aaron Swartz – The Programmable Web...
The Programmable Web is a draft written by Aaron Swartz, meant to be published as a book.
The publisher writes:
As a tribute to Aaron, we have posted his work on our site as a free PDF download. It is licensed under a Creative Commons (CC-BY-SA-NC) license. The work stands as originally written, with only a few typographical errors corrected to improve readability.
From the introduction:
we...
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Book: The Mediatization of Culture and Society
Mediatization has emerged as a key concept to reconsider old, yet fundamental questions about the role and influence of media in culture and society. This book presents a major contribution to the theoretical understanding of the mediatization of culture and society.
Author: Stig Hjarvard, PhD, Professor and Vice-Chair at the Department of Media, Cognition and Communication at the University of...
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Book: Heritage in the Digital Era – Cinematic...
What happens to traditional conceptions of heritage in the era of fluid media spaces? This book examines a range of popular cinematic interventions that are reshaping national and global heritage, across Europe, Asia, the Americas and Australasia.
Author: Rodanthi Tzanelli, lecturer in Sociology, University of Leeds.
Publisher: Routledge, Feb 2013.
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Book: Media and Social Inequality – Innovations in...
“This book is among the first to systematically explore the impact of community inequality on reporting political and social change. Although most journalism scholars are still fascinated by the impact of media on society, Media and Social Inequality explores the reverse perspective: the impact of society on media.”
Edited by John C. Pollock, Professor in the Communication Studies...
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CFP: Designing Pleasurable Products and Interfaces...
This year’s DPPI conference theme is Poetics and Praxis. We wish to reflect on the great changes that have occurred in design research, human-computer interaction and interaction design.
We wish to celebrate the diversification and growth of research studying and exploring the role of fun, enjoyment, pleasure, intimacy and emotion as a central feature of the everyday experience of products,...
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Data Visualization Academy in Denmark in May,...
Learn how to “work with big data, visualize the data and create meaningful solutions that are driven by analytics and design”.
The Danish Design Centre and Copenhagen Institute of Interaction Design are collaborating to create a world class Data Visualization Academy. We are offering courses where participants will learn how to work with big data, visualize the data and create...
February 2013
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Book: Crossmedia Innovations – Texts, Markets,...
Crossmedia and transmedia are keywords of increasing importance for media professionals and scholars alike. This edited volume includes chapters by authors from three continents who approach the phenomenon from different disciplinary angles: semiotics, cultural studies, media economics, political economy, innovation studies.
Editors: Indrek Ibrus, Research Fellow at the Estonian Institute of...
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CFP: Design in and for public sector and public...
This issue of open access Design Research Journal is open to research articles on the theme of design in and for public sector and public spaces.
Submissions due April 1, 2013.
They especially welcome contributions that develop our understanding of and theories for:
Embedding design capacity in public organisations
Public and community spaces
Reconfiguration of structures that promote...
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CFP: Making Sense of Converging Media (Finland,...
The MindTrek conference explores the emerging and frontier-breaking applications of new media in everyday contexts of leisure, business and organizational life, with tracks on Social Media, Ambient & Ubiquitous Media, Business & Media, Human-Computer Interaction, Open Source, and Digital Games.
Due April 28, and May 10, 2013. Extended deadline June 2, 2013 Read more.
October 1-4,...
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CFP: Workshop on Designing and Developing...
The family environment provides a fruitful and at the same time challenging context to design with/for children and their families. The goal of this one-day workshop is to share experiences, best practices and lessons learned to explore the future potentials on how to guide the involvement and participation of children and their families in the (co-) design and development process of interactive...
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CFP: Big Social Data Mining (Brazil, due Feb 28)
Submissions are invited for a workshop on sentiment analysis and big social data mining: the workshop aims to explore the new frontiers of big data computing for opinion mining through Semantic Web ontologies, rules, and services, Linked Data technologies, Web Science applications, knowledge-based systems, adaptive and transfer learning, in order to more efficiently retrieve and extract social...
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Report: Making urban farming possible (and...
This guide, a master’s paper from the Department of Horticulture at Cornell University, addresses the changing face of the agricultural industry, and supports farmers producing food in urban centers and on the urban fringe. It is a collection of topical factsheets including resources and information to answer the common questions of urban farmers.
Author: Hannah Koski
Topics include...
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Aca-article: How Music Takes Place – Excerpts From...
This essay in online journal E-flux is an edited selection from Rasmus Fleischer’s book “Det postdigitala manifestet”, published in Swedish in 2009:
How to decide what music to listen to? Presented with boundless access, this is the perpetual question today. The standard response is to propose the use of automated systems of recommendation. Instead of spending all that time choosing music...
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Encyclopedia: A Visual History of Mobile Computing
The open-access encyclopedia over at interaction-design.org has added a new chapter on the history of Mobile Computing.
Author Jesper Kjeldskov writes:
The uptake of mobile technology in our work and private spheres has had a huge impact on the way we perceive and use these technologies. They are no longer just computers on batteries. They have become functional design objects, the look, feel...
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Survey: Game Classification - help needed!
In this “Game Classification” survey, you can help PhD student Stephanie Heintz in her PhD research work by answering questions about a computer or video game of your choice (a few of the games can be seen in the pic embedded below). Your answers will contribute to a better understanding of differences between games and to a more precise specification of game types.
Take the survey!
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New book: Media, Society, World – Social Theory...
In the recently launched podcast series New Books in Communications, Nick Couldry’s book Media, Society, World: Social Theory and Digital Media Practice is discussed.
BOOK SUMMARY – In Media, Society, World, Couldry provides a sweeping synthesis of his important media theory over the last decade. Couldry reassesses his work on media rituals, media power, and the “hidden injuries” of...
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Critique: Morozov on Cyber-utopianism and...
In The New Republic, Evgeny Morozov critically reviews Steven Johnson’s book Future Perfect: The Case for Progress in a Networked Age. Morozov says that are two ways to be wrong about the Internet: one is to embrace cyber-utopianism, the other to succumb to Internet-centrism. Morozov claims that with Johnson’s Future Perfect, Internet-centrists “finally have a briskly written...
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CFP: Technology, power and the political economy...
The aim of this special issue is to promote critical discussion about the intersections between technology, power and political economy, based on systematic theoretical and empirical analyses.
Submissions due March 10, 2013. For open access journal Mediekultur: Journal of media and communication research.
Topics of interest include:
new vocabularies of power
old mass media in new media...
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CFP: Digital Culture – Promises and Discomforts...
The ongoing mediatisation process is subject to social transformations as well as technical innovation processes and creative practices. In this workshop we want to critically discuss the promises and discomforts of digital culture taking into account the tensions raised by different material practices, understandings and social orders around the role of digital media in performing social change.
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Book: Intermediality and Media Change – beyond...
This book is about intermediality as an approach to analysing and understanding media change. Intermediality and Media Change is critical of technological determinism that characterises ‘new media discourse’ about the ongoing digitalization, framed as a revolution and creating sharp contrasts between old and new media. Intermediality instead emphasises paying attention to continuities...
January 2013
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New book: Designing the Search Experience - the...
Search is not just a box and ten blue links. Search is a journey: an exploration where what we encounter along the way changes what we seek. But in order to guide people along this journey, we must understand both the art and science of search. This book weaves together the theories of information seeking with the practice of user interface design.
Editors: Tony Russell-Rose and Tyler Tate
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CFP: Inter-disciplinary Approaches to Causality in...
The goal of this symposium is to inspire an interdisciplinary spectrum of academics, practitioners and funders interested in deeper engagement (and related terms) toward novel collaborative solutions and projects. By mixing practitioners and researchers from arts, media and science, the conference will offer a platform for adaptation of discoveries made in other disciplines.
Due Feb 22, 2013.
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CFP: Design Future – Creativity, Innovation and...
Design in developing countries or new emerging economies especially in Africa is not recognized as a driving force for developing alternative socio-economic opportunities. There are few universities and institutions of high learning that offer design related courses in Africa. What could be some of the contributing factors to this scenario if design has the potential to change the society’s...
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CFP: Designing Mobility – Mobilising design (due...
The majority of work in mobilities has focused on walking, cycling, flying and driving. We are particularly interested in papers which extend analyses to explore the design of assistive mobility such as wheelchairs, mobility scooters, e-bikes and motorcycles which are largely absent from existing taxonomies of mobility, or alternatively professionalised forms of mobility such as HGVs, trains and...
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CFP: Consilience and Innovation in Design (Tokyo,...
Through this congress, we would like to promote mutual understanding of design researchers in the world, and furthermore, to contribute to creating new types of research, practice and education system of design, while at the same time, respecting the identity of each country.
Abstracts due Jan 31, 2013.
26-30 August 2013: 5th IASDR 2013. Shibaura Institute of Technology in Tokyo, Japan.
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New book: Digital Memory and the Archive, by...
Digital Memory and the Archive, the first English-language collection of the German media theorist’s work, brings together essays that present Wolfgang Ernst’s controversial materialist approach to media theory and history. His insights are central to the emerging field of media archaeology, which uncovers the role of specific technologies and mechanisms, rather than content, in shaping...
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Aca-articles: Design, change and politics – Design...
Latest issue of open access publication Design Philosophy Papers have just been published.
CONTENTS
Editorial: Design, Change and Politics
Mahmoud Keshavarz & Ramia Maze: ‘Design and Dissensus: framing & staging participation in design research’
Matthew Kiem: ‘If political design changed anything they’d make it illegal’ (review of Carl DiSalvo’s Adversarial Design)
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Aca-articles: Exploring affect in interaction...
The aim of this special issue of the Fibreculture Journal is to address some of the contemporary challenges involved in working with affect across disciplines and practices that centre on the use of interactive- or digital technologies.
Access here: http://twentyone.fibreculturejournal.org/
MORE – The issue has a special focus on interaction design, interaction-based art and digital art. The...
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Aca-article: Formatting Culture – The Mpeg group...
The Italian open access journal Tecnoscienza recently published an article that
“reconstructs the process of technoscientific innovation of digital formats pursued in the ‘80s by the MPEG group led by Leonardo Chiariglione. Through a historical and cultural frame provided by Paolo Magaudda and the very words of the main character of this technoscientific story, Leonardo Chiariglione, the...
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CFP: Transmedia storytelling, ICA Pre-conference...
Transmedia storytelling is one of the exciting experiences emerging from the contemporary media ecology. It is a complex research object that can be approached from different perspectives: economical (business models, branding, etc.), narratological (narrative structures, expansion strategies, etc.), legal (copyright, remix culture, etc.), sociological (user-generated contents, fan cultures,...
