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...
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New Book: Noise Channels - Glitch and Error in...
New book by Peter Krapp that brings to light the critical role of noise and error in the creative potential of digital culture.
To err is human; to err in digital culture is design. In the glitches, inefficiencies, and errors that ergonomics and usability engineering strive to surmount, Peter Krapp identifies creative reservoirs of computer-mediated interaction. Throughout new media cultures,...
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New Book: Art Platforms and Cultural Production on...
In order to understand the processes that produce culture, in this book, Goriunova introduces the concept of the art platform, a specific configuration of creative passions, codes, events, individuals and works that are propelled by cultural currents and maintained through digitally native means.
Art Platforms and Cultural Production on the Internet Olga Goriunova Routledge, 2011 ISBN...
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Aca-articles: Interrogating audiences -...
This special issue of Communication Management Quarterly aims to contribute to the development of participatory theory within the framework of communication and media studies.
Special CM Journal Issue ‘Interrogating audiences: Theoretical horizons of participation’, edited by Nico Carpentier & Peter Dahlgren.
Access the full special issue here:...
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Aca-articles: New issue of First Monday - on...
There’s a new issue out (Volume 16, Number 12) of online open-access journal First Monday, with articles ranging from understanding collaboration in Wikipedia to a critical understanding of intellectual property rights and piracy.
These are the articles and corresponding abstracts:
Understanding collaboration in Wikipedia, by Royce M. Kimmons
Previous attempts at studying collaboration...
paulamargarida asked: Hello! I saw your last post Dissertation: Swing That Thing - moving to move. The poetics of embodied engagement seems to me very interesting =) Thank your for sharing, I will read it as soon as I can. Best Regards,Paula
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Dissertation: Swing That Thing - moving to move....
This dissertation represents a systematic investigation of the poetic valence of body-worn technological extension. Gestural, mechanical and sensorial extension are explored and evaluated.
Author: Danielle Wilde, Monash University, Melbourne Australia.
Access the full dissertation here.
Abstract: Swing That Thing: moving to move represents a systematic investigation of the poetic valence of...
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Call for Papers: Book Live! The book as a...
The “Book Live!” conference will bring together theorists, researchers and practitioners to stimulate a dialogue across disciplines on the ability of the book to keep up with digital culture and the emergence of new modes of writing, of photographing, of reading, or archiving and of disseminating ‘on the page’ work. The purpose of the conference is to examine the...
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Call for Papers: Information Systems for Symbolic...
This special issue of MIS Quarterly aims to foster Information Systems (IS) research in understanding, illustrating, and explaining how IS forms an inherent aspect of human activity and a means of symbolic action. We invite submissions that advance IS theory and research on the intersection of information systems and symbolic action through theoretical review, analysis, and development,...
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CFP: Sources and Flows of News/Recent Types of...
A new international scientific journal, entitled About journalism, will be launched in 2012. About journalism is a peer-reviewed open-access journal, published in electronic and print editions. The first issue will focus on qualitative research interviews with journalists. See below for two calls for papers.
Contributors should express an interest before 15th January 2012. See below for details.
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CFP: Critical Themes in Media Studies Conference...
Media Studies remains a constantly evolving field ripe with dynamic possibilities for exploration. You are invited to submit project proposals that include but are not limited to: papers, interactive installations, maps, walking tours, performances, and so on.
Proposals due January 15, 2012.
Critical Themes in Media Studies Conference, April 13-14, 2012 in New York City. For more information...
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Symposium: Popular Media Cultures - Writing in the...
This symposium will focus on the cultural work done by media audiences, how they engage with new technologies and how convergence culture impacts on the strategies and activities of popular media fans. It will bring together leading academics in the fields of film, television, fan and cultural studies to open up and take further the debates surrounding popular media, its producers, its...
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CFP: Conference on Book Cultures and Book Events...
A significant development in the environment of literature and the book at the turn of the 20th and 21st centuries has been the growth of literary festivals and book towns. Suggested topics for this conference are: literature as live event, the role of live events in the digital age, book events and other media/cultural forms and more.
Abstracts due January 6, 2012. Book Cultures, Book Events...
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CFP: Media, technology and the migrant family -...
The blurring of boundaries between the public and private spheres and the shifts in societal and familiar spaces of communication and identity require an interdisciplinary agenda and research practice. We would like this special issue to contribute to an interdisciplinary approach that cross-fertilises research from across social sciences and the humanities and draws particular attention to...
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CFP: Contemporary Screen Narratives -...
This one-day conference looks to trace connections between the narratives of contemporary screen media and their contexts of production, distribution and consumption. Keynote speakers are Henry Jenkins and Jason Mittell.
The deadline for proposal submission is Monday 13 February 2012. NEW DEADLINE is Sunday 4 March 2012! Contemporary Screen Narratives - Storytelling’s Digital and...
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New Book: Exporting the Public Value Test. The...
Public service broadcasters across Europe are venturing into the digital world, launching niche TV channels, building extensive websites, developing commercial services, entering into partnerships with external actors, and exploring new ways to reach users, whether its through smart phone apps or screens in public spaces. This collection of short essays from academics, regulators, public ...
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Aca-article: Connecting People through Content –...
In this paper we present a research agenda for interacting places, i.e., public spaces that connect communities through public displays. We then report on our initial work in this space, in particular on using public displays for creating what we call identity cognition – increasing the sense of being connected between community members occupying the same space.
Title: Connecting People...
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Aca-article: Linking the “Internet of Things” to...
The “Internet of Things” is the new paradigm where “things” are becoming more widely connected to the Internet. This paper describes a project where the Vaal Dam in South Africa is given a social media presence on Twitter, Facebook, and MXit.
Title: Linking the “Internet of Things” to social media: a look at the Vaal Dam
Authors: LL Butgereit and B van Rooyen, Meraka Institute, CSIR, Pretoria,...
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Call for Papers: Conference on Communication,...
The Communication, Media and Civic Culture Conference will explore the manner in which mass-media contributes to the development of responsive and informed citizens and of civism and to the factors that nurture, or, on the contrary, destroy the ability of mass-media to perform.
700-1000 word abstracts due January 25, 2012.
Where and when: Bucharest, 18th - 19th May 2012
Traditionally, mass...
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New Book: The Mobile Audience - Media Art and...
The convergence of mobile technologies and ubiquitous computing is creating a world where information-rich environments may be mapped directly onto urban topologies. This book tracks the history and genesis of locative and wearable media and the ground-breaking work of pioneer artists in the field.
Editor: Martin Rieser
View this book on Amazon.
The Mobile Audience: Media Art and Mobile...
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Call for Proposals: Cultures of Copyright
Humanities scholars have a significant role to play in analyzing, charting, and interrogating practices of intellectual property. We invite you to submit proposals for the edited collection Cultures of Copyright.
Deadline for 500–750 word proposals: December 15, 2011 (notification by January 15, 2012)
Humanities scholars have a significant role to play in analyzing, charting, and interrogating...
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New Journal: Journal for Artistic Research
A new online, peer-reviewed journal for the publication and discussion of artistic research. http://www.jar-online.net Artistic research is a newly emergent and rapidly evolving field, whose status is still hotly debated. The Journal for Artistic Research (JAR) has been launched to provide an influential voice in this debate, conceived as a platform for the re-negotiation of the relationship...
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New Book: Globalization & Media - Global Village...
This lively and accessible book argues for the central role of media in understanding globalization. Indeed, Jack Lule convincingly shows that globalization could not have occurred without media.
By: Jack Lule, professor and director of global studies and professor and chair of journalism and communication at Lehigh University.
This lively and accessible book argues for the central role of media...
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New Book: The Language of Gaming
This book examines videogames and gaming from the point of view of discourse analysis. In particular, it studies two major aspects of videogame-related communication: the ways in which videogames and their makers convey meanings to their audiences, and the ways in which gamers, industry professionals, journalists and other stakeholders talk about games. In doing so, the book offers systematic...
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New Journal: Journal of Professional Communication
JPC is an international journal launched to explore the intersections between public relations practice, communication and new media theory, communications management, as well as digital arts and design. JPC publishes case studies, interviews, peer-reviewed academic articles, works of digital media art and design, and commentary on current trends in the field.
Journal website:...
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Aca-article: “We are all hackers now” - critical...
Hacking is a contested term and this paper explores the many and sometimes contradictory ways in which the activity is construed and represented, but as a first approximation I suggest that we view it as an activity which encompasses computer programming, circumventing security systems designed to protect computer networks and digital data stores, designing and executing solutions to solve...
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Aca-article: Rethinking Design Thinking - Part I
The term “design thinking” has gained considerable attention over the past decade in a wide range of organizations and contexts. This paper proposes that attending to the situated, embodied routines of designers and others offers a useful way to rethink design thinking.
By: Lucy Kimbell, researcher working at the intersections of design/management/social sciences. Associate fellow,...
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Call for Papers: E-reading - an Interdisciplinary...
This symposium invites papers that consider the practice of e-reading, both as an activity and an idea. E-reading tends to provoke either dismay or enthusiasm from its critics, but this symposium aims for clear-eyed assessments that address both the potential gains and losses of a practice that is rapidly growing in popularity around the world.
Submissions due 20 December, 2011
E-reading: an...
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Call for Papers: Workshop on Privacy and Security...
The main goals of this workshop in Lyon, France (April 16-20, 2012) are: (1) To create a platform to discuss latest issues, trends, and cutting-edge research approaches in security and privacy in online social media; (2) to bring researchers who are working on issues related to security and privacy on the Internet, and those studying online social media, to discuss the problems that overlap ...