April 2012
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Call for Contributions: Art and Hacktivism - Art...
To what extent can independent artists and artists’ groups retain their critical practice and values in a globalized, cultural and economic crisis? Researcher Marc Garrett is doing a series of articles/interviews for Furtherfield relating to Art & Hacktivism and also a series called Art & Freedom. If you are interested in contributing, you can send a short bio & info about your work or...
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New Book: The Visual Worlds of Social Network...
The central form of communication on social network sites is the communication with and through images. This book studies images and image-based communication on social network sites such as Facebook.
Table of contents and introduction
ABOUT - First, the authors analyze the two central image categories in depth – profile images and photo albums. What follows is the portrayal of dramaturgical and...
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CFP: The Art of Research - Making, Reflecting, and...
This conference aims to explore the relations between MAKING and CRITICAL REFLECTION, and how these enable artistic and designerly practices to be characterized as art and design, or artistic or designerly research.
Abstracts due June 10, 2012.
November 28-29, 2012. Aalto University School of Arts, Design and Architecture; Helsinki, Finland. http://designresearch.aalto.fi/events/aor2012/
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Aca-article: Between play and storytelling, an...
This paper presents an attempt to combine gaming and reading. We want to achieve an expansion of a story-world by transmitting the sensual, emotional and cognitive expression of the book into a tablet game.
Authors: Jos Van Es, Lisbeth Bomberg and Christian Olin, Master students at IT-University of Copenhagen, Denmark
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Report: Assembling Understandings - Findings from...
This is a contribution to understanding the history, the current context, and the future of the social economy in Canada. It also provides examples of participatory action research and community university partnerships–solidifying the social economy as an area of important academic study, building research capacity amongst practitioners themselves, and moving this work out into the community where...
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Report: Being Open About Data - Analysis of the UK...
This paper argues that without engaging data users in open-data policies effectively, little positive development is likely to be achieved in terms of applicability of data. Open data only has value in its use, and at the moment it seems that the most efficient way of facilitating that use is to: a) Provide more education on the data society, b) Further engage those that are already empowered, c)...
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Report: Rethinking Transport in the Øresund Region...
In this publication, long distance goods transport and strategies for green corridors through the Øresund and Europe are studied, multi-criteria models for analysis in transport and infrastructural planning are tested, City Logistics and the challenges within urban areas are scrutinised, challenges for fossil free transport systems are analysed, and mobility management in municipalities and use...
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Aca-article: Does Co-production of Public Services...
This paper deals with the assumed relationship between social trust and co-production, and gives a brief overview of the literature and provides a definition which emphasises co-production of clients at the stage of service delivery.
Author: Joost Fledderus, MSc (PhD student) Institute for Management Research Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands.
Paper presented at XVI IRSPM Conference,...
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Call for Proposals: Open Knowledge in Action at...
This festival will be looking at the value that can be generated by opening up knowledge, the ecosystems of organisations that can benefit from such sharing, and the impacts that transparency can have in our societies.
Proposals due April 20 (1st round) and June 1 (2nd round). Open Knowledge Festival, Sep 17-22, 2012, Helsinki, Finland.
Submit proposals here:...
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Report: Employment and the Social Economy - EU...
The paper examines the role of EU cohesion policy in the field of human resources development and improving conditions for employment. The main objective of the analysis is to present a comprehensive picture about funding opportunities in connection with financing the activities of organisations of the social economy.
Author: Ákos Kengyel, Associate Professor, Corvinus University of Budapest,...
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Report: Frugal Innovation - Learning from Social...
“Frugal innovation” is the idiom applied to a sweeping revolution in public service design and delivery. The term is used in India and other developing economies to describe innovatino that minimises costs by creating frugal solutions to deliver improved or previously non-existent public service.
Authors: Shalabh Kumar Singh, Ashish Gambhir, Alexis Sotiropoulos and Stephen...
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Aca-articles: What’s trending in Media & Cultural...
The publisher Routledge is opening access to 30 of their most popular articles on media and cultural studies from journals such as Cultural Trends, Journal of Children and Media and Cultural Studies.
The articles will be available until the end of June 2012 (eh, why lock them once they have been opened up?).
A full table of contents is found in this beautiful pdf:...
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New Book: Collaborative Research in the Digital...
This book addresses several issues of research collaboration from the multiple perspectives of institutions, projects and individual researchers.
Edited by Marilyn Deegan and Willard McCarty. Purchase the book here: http://www.ashgate.com/isbn/9781409410683
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Collaboration within digital humanities is both a pertinent and a pressing topic as the traditional mode of the humanist, working...
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New Book: Mobile Technology and Place (Routledge,...
Balancing philosophical reflection with empirical analysis, this book examines the specific contexts in which place and mobile technologies come into focus, intersect, and interact.
Find the book here: http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415889551/
Edited by Rowan Wilken (Swinburne University of Technology) and Gerard Goggin (University of Sydney).
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An international roster of...
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Call for Papers: Archiving and Memory - Journal In...
The academic journal In Circulation seeks submissions that question the use of and materiality of the archive and the ways in which the act of archiving has the potential to change the meaning of works of art, information, or objects.
What role does the archivist play? What questions should be asked of the curator? Can we locate the historical moment where this shift toward the past or archiving...
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CfP: Automating Conduct: Autonomy in Control -...
What are the critical responses to automated agents that ubiquitously categorise and increasingly contribute to the construction of our social-world and its boundaries? How do they create terror and police the social, while effectively engaging themselves in ‘boundary work’? This issue of Platform: Journal of Media and Communication will explore these questions.
Abstracts due April 26, 2012 (Full...
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CFP: Social Media, Journalism and Communication...
Scholars debate on how journalism as a profession is changing and about the impacts of new technologies such as social media. This international symposium explores this issue. Abstracts due May 15, 2012.
7th September 2012, North Holmes Campus, Canterbury Christ Church University, UK. About the call Social media, and the Internet in general, are having dramatic impacts on journalism (Deuze,...
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CFP: Mediated Urbanism - Int'l Communication...
In this special issue we wish to address the digitally sustained urban environment in terms of public life. Our approach in the issue is to combine the perspectives of city planning and design, on the one hand, with the perspective of people’s activities as urban audiences, on the other.
Abstracts due May 31, 2012.
Double Special Issue of the International Communication Gazette to be...
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Call for participants: Digital Methods Summer...
This summer school in Amsterdam on “digital methods” will explore the methods built into the dominant devices online, and repurpose them for social and cultural research. Targeted towards graduate students and early stage PhD candidates who would like to get familiar with digital methods.
Application deadline May 4, 2012.
Digital Methods Summer School, 25 June - 6 July 2012....
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Aca-article: Driving the Internet - Mobile...
This paper looks at the tandem technologies of cars and the Internet, and the new ways that they are assembling the social with the mobile Internet.
Author: Gerard Goggin, Department of Media and Communications, The University of Sydney, Australia
Article published in Future Internet 2012, 4, 306-321. Open access: http://www.mdpi.com/1999-5903/4/1/306
Abstract: This paper looks at the tandem...
