February 2012
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The Journal of Digital Humanities had articles...
Unfortunately, you just missed the Feb 29 deadline. Anyway, this is what the editors wrote: “We encourage you to read, view, and listen to these posts and provide your comments and critiques for the authors. The authors have been invited to engage with reader feedback in the comments or by modifying their piece before publication. Please consider your review comments as part of an ongoing...
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New study: Media Technologies in Daily Urban Life...
How can we best design urban areas where citizens feel at home, feel empowered to engage with shared issues and interests, and feel a sense of ‘ownership’ in these issues? A report from Dutch Virtuel Platform Research.
Download the full report: http://virtueelplatform.nl/g/content/download/virtueel-platform-ownership-in-the-hybrid-city-2012.pdf
Read more: http://virtueelplatform.nl/english/
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New Book: Google and the Law - Empirical...
Are current legal systems adapted to business models such as that of Google or are they conceived for an industrial economy? What lessons can other knowledge-based businesses learn from all the disputes in which Google has been or is involved?
Excerpts can be found on SpringerLink.
Author: Dr. Aurelio Lopez-Tarruella, Senior Lecturer in Private International Law at the University of Alicante,...
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New Book: Inventing the Medium - Principles of...
In this book, Janet Murray explains that innovative interaction designers should think of all objects made with bits - whether games or Web pages, robots or the latest killer apps - as belonging to a single new medium: the digital medium.
Author: Janet H. Murray, Professor of Digital Media and Director of the Experimental Television Lab at Georgia Institute of Technology.
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Conference: Announcing Transmedia Hollywood 3 -...
This year’s Transmedia Hollywood examines the ways that transmedia approaches are forcing the media industry to reconsider old production logics and practices, paving the way for new kinds of creative output.
April 6, 2012. Hosted by UCLA School of Theater, Film, and Television, and USC School of Cinematic Arts & USC Annenberg School of Communications and Journalism.
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Dissertation: Beyond the Blog - examining the blog...
This dissertation examines weblog community as a materially afforded and socially constructed space. In a set of three case studies, this dissertation examines three separate weblog communities between 2004 and 2008.
By: Stephanie Hendrick, Faculty of Humanities, Institution for Language Studies, Umeå University, Sweden.
Access full-text version of this disseration here.
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Book: History of Participatory Media - Politics...
This book argues for a historical perspective on issues relating to the notion of participatory media. Working from a broad concept of media – including essays on the 19th century press, early sound media, photography, exhibitions, television and the internet – the book offers a broad empirical approach to different modes of audience participation from the mid 19th century to the present.
Anders...
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CFP: Inclusive Design - Special Issue of The...
The Design Journal invites papers papers from a broad range of approaches in the areas of inclusive design theory, methodology and practice. Examples might include the role of inclusive design in social innovation and how inclusive design supports more appropriate design outcomes.
Abstracts due March 7, 2012. The Design Journal Inclusive Design: Call for Papers for Special Issue. The twin...
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CFP: Symposium on Design Theory & Design Research...
This design research symposium aims to investigate and share design processes applied to the immaterial economy. How do new ideas, identities and systems, emerge by applying art and design processes to larger economic issues?
Short papers due March 22, 2012. Symposium on Design Theory & Design Research, Paris, June 1, 2012. “Scaling up the Design Process: transformation,...
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CFP: The 2nd International Conference on Design...
The 2nd International Conference on Design Creativity provides a forum to discuss the nature and potential of design creativity from theoretical, methodological and practical viewpoints. It will include panel discussions on the ‘directions for design creativity research’, and is an official conference promoted by the Design Creativity Special Interest Group (SIG) of the Design...
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Aca-article: Reflections on academic video - The...
This article analyses the online publication Audiovisual Thinking, a forum for academic video.
By Thommy Eriksson, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden; Inge Ejby Sørensen, Copenhagen University.
Read the full article here. Published in seminar.net - International Journal of Media, Technology and Lifelong Learning.
Abstract As academics we study, research and teach audiovisual media, yet...
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Aca-article: A Life Lived in (and not with) Media
This article proposes we begin our thinking with a view of life not lived with media, but in media. The media life perspective starts from the realization that the whole of the world and our lived experience in it are framed by, mitigated through, and made immediate by media.
Published in Digital Humanities Quarterly, Winter 2012, Volume 6 Number 1.
Authors: Mark Deuze, Department of...
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New Book: Networks without a Cause - A Critique of...
With the vast majority of Facebook users caught in a frenzy of ‘friending’, ‘liking’ and ‘commenting’, at what point do we pause to grasp the consequences of our info-saturated lives? What compels us to engage so diligently with social networking systems? Networks Without a Cause examines our collective obsession with identity and self-management coupled with...
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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...