Internet Research 10.0Internet Research 10.0
Internet: Critical
The 10th Annual International and Interdisciplinary Conference of the Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR)
Call for Papers
October 7-11, 2009
Hilton Milwaukee City Center
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
As the Internet has become an increasingly ubiquitous and mundane medium, the analytical shortcomings of the division between the online and the offline have become evident. Shifting the focus to the fundamental intermeshing of online and offline spaces, networks, economies, politics, locations, agencies, and ethics, Internet: Critical invites scholars to consider material frameworks, infrastructures, and exchanges as enabling constraints in...
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The use of virtual worlds for teaching has become of great interest lately, partially due to the popularity of online massively multiplayer games and environments such as ActiveWorlds, Second Life, Google’s Lively and others.
Discussion groups and lists such as the Second Life Research List slrl@list.academ-x.com, Second Life Educators List educators@lists.secondlife.com, and several in-world educators groups have started to talk about educational research and how best to use virtual worlds to supplement or deliver education and training, either to augment face-to-face, or to support the delivery of online...
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International Conference on Media, Culture and Ideology
29-31 January, 2009
This conference proposes to deliberate on how media—print and electronic— mediates cultural configurations and influences ideological formations. We invite papers, from across disciplines, that examine in contemporary or historical context the uses made of visual, verbal & written language in sections of the mass media (television & print, primarily) with a particular focus on the relationship between these cultural forms, conventional understandings of the world & social power.
In the last century, from colonial through anti-colonial and post...
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April 3-5, 2009
Love, Loss and Empire
University of Iowa
CRAFT CRITIQUE CULTURE is an interdisciplinary conference focusing on the intersections among critical and creative approaches to writing both within and beyond the academy. This year's conference will examine the imbrication of affect and empire and will explore the ways in which affect blurs the lines between presence, absence, past, present, future, coloniality, postcoloniality and other liminal or ephemeral textual and identity positions within the increasingly globalized experience of our present moment.
How can emotional states foster critical theory, whether it be...
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tank.tv is inviting submissions from artists who wish to be considered for two week solo exhibitions on http://www.tank.tv/.*
In 2009 tank.tv will be hosting an ambitious series of solo shows from established and emerging artists working with the moving image. We would like to allocate 3 of these shows to artists who respond to a series of three open calls for entries. You must have a body of work consisting of at least 10 moving image pieces that are ready for exhibition and which run no longer than ten minutes (although we are happy to consider excerpts from longer pieces). We will consider all forms of...
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A conference hosted by the Digital Labour Group (DLG), Faculty of Information and Media Studies, University of Western Ontario, October16-18, 2009, London, Ontario, Canada.
'Digital Labour: Workers, Authors, Citizens' addresses the implications of digital labour as they are emerging in practice, politics, policy, and theoretical enquiry. As workers, as authors, and as citizens, individuals are increasingly summoned and disciplined by new digital technologies that define the workplace and produce ever more complex regimes of surveillance and control. At the same time, new possibilities for agency and new spaces for collectivity...
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The Ends of Television - Logics/Perspectives/Entanglements
Monday June 29 – Wednesday July 1 2009 in Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Keynote speakers:
Joke Hermes (InHolland, Universiteit van Amsterdam)
Toby Miller (University of California Riverside)
Anna McCarthy (NYU)
Conference theme:
Is TV as we know it dead? Does TV Studies have any relevance in a world of media convergence? Are we at risk of becoming gravediggers of an obsolete medium rather than innovators in a cross-medial regime? The conference will address some of the...
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Forum - CFP
Issue 8 – Technologies
The concept of technology is manifold and encompasses many definitions. Technology may be defined broadly, as by Melvin Kranzberg in 1959, as “how things are commonly done or made” and “what things are done and made.” Ron Westrum in Technologies and Society: The Shaping of People and Things (1991) provides a more precise and also threefold definition, stating that technology consists of “those material objects, techniques, and knowledge that allow human beings to transform and control the inanimate world.”
We...
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The Atlas of Cyberspace, by Martin Dodge and Rob Kitchin, is the first comprehensive book to explore the spatial and visual nature of cyberspace and its infrastructure.
It uses a user-friendly, approachable style to examine why cyberspace is being mapped and what new cartographic and visualisation techniques have been employed.
Richly illustrated with over 300 full colour images, it comprehensively catalogues 30 years worth of maps that reveal the rich and varied landscapes of cyberspace.
The book includes chapters detailing:
- mapping Internet infrastructure and traffic flows
- mapping the Web
- mapping online conversation and community
- imagining...
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April 30-May 2, 2009
The Race & Ethnic Studies Institute at Texas A&M University (http://resi.tamu.edu/) convenes a symposium every other year, and the proposed theme for the 2008-2009 year is Shifting Terrains: Inequalities in the 21st Century, and the symposium itself is to focus on Race, Ethnicity, and (New) Media.
The explosion of work on New Media (including the Internet, mobile devices, Web 2.0) and the juxtaposition and overlap between 'old' media (radio, television, film, and mass-print media) and New Media is a rich field of cultural production and scholarly research in which scholars of race and ethnicity have not been...
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As lawmakers around the world become more engaged on Internet policy, ensuring a robust and intelligent public debate around these issues becomes increasingly important. That’s why we're announcing our second summer for the Google Policy Fellowship Program—to support students and organizations working on policy issues fundamental to the future of the Internet and its users.
The Google Policy Fellowship program was inspired by Google's Summer of Code with a public policy twist. The Google Policy Fellowship program offers undergraduate, graduate, and law students interested in Internet and technology policy the opportunity to spend the summer...
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CALL FOR CHAPTER PROPOSALS
Proposal Submission Deadline: January 31, 2009
A book edited by Dr. Young Kyun Baek
Korea National University of Education, Republic of Korea
http://www.igi-global.com/requests/details.asp?ID=522
Introduction
The new generation is particularly accustomed to playing games anywhere, anytime. Small mobile devices such as cellular phones and PDAs are in their hands at all times; they are ready to play! Thus, digital game-based learning, in which students are playing a game while they are learning is highly motivational as a game motivates students to engage in learning.
Digital games...
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Saturday, November 15, 2008
To be held on Minerva, the teaching and research space in Second Life maintained by The Department of Women's Studies, Ohio State University.
http://people.cohums.ohio-state.edu/collingwood7/minerva/conference.html
As teachers, librarians, artists, health care workers, and as volunteers in the many charitable and activist organizations of Second Life, women are a very visible element of our virtual community. The number of women's groups and community centers is increasing, supported by an informal network of committed individuals. Those who come here out of curiosity often find themselves...
[ This is a content summary only. Visit http://internetmarketingandmessages.blogspot.com for full links, other content, and more! ]  Futures of Learning BlogHeather Horst (and the Futures of Learning Team have launched a new blog:
http://www.futuresoflearning.org/.
Hosted at the University of California Humanities Research Institute at University of California, Irvine, Futures of Learning is a collective blog dedicated to the topic of new media and learning.
The blog is part of the Digital Media and Learning Studio, a research network hub in development at UCHRI and funded by the MacArthur Foundation. The members of the blog are part of a project conducting an international survey of research in the field in two areas:
One is an international review of research on how people are adopting digital and networked media (mobile phones, gaming,...
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Librarians at the British Library have given their opinions on electronic readers designed to replace paper books.
BBC News Video:
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Francesco Dorazio designed Myrl, a site to store avatars, or characters, for forums like Second Life.
BBC News Video:
What is Myrl?
Myrl is a cross-world entertainment platform, bringing virtual worlds and their users together on the web. Myrl are building a layer on top of each virtual world, linking them up to create an integrated playground with endless possibilities and applications.
The first release of Myrl is focused on social virtual worlds and connects users from 19 worlds like Second Life, Lively, Entropia and There. Check out the complete map of the worlds supported here: http://www.myrl.com/worlds.
What does myrl stand for?
Myrl stands...
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Session invitation on the topic of: Usability and Sociability in Computer Games and Virtual Worlds
We are inviting potential presenters to join us in the session, "Usability and Sociability in Computer Games and Virtual Worlds" in HCI International Conference 2009 which will take place in San Diego, USA, 19-21 July 2009.
(http://www.hcii2009.org/)
Social oriented games such as MMORPG (Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Games) and 3D virtual worlds (e.g. Second Life) provide a flexible social space for the users to interact as well as an open space that invites the user's imagination and creativity to engage in various types of play and learning...
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A book edited by Dr. Jonathan Foster
University of Sheffield, UK
http://www.igi-global.com/requests/details.asp?ID=514
FIRST CALL FOR CHAPTER PROPOSALS
Proposal Submission Deadline: November 15, 2008
Introduction
Collaborative information behavior can be broadly defined as the study of the behaviors, practices, and systems that enable people to collaborate during the seeking, searching, retrieval and use of information. In recent years, it has become commonplace for users and organizations alike to engage in such collaborative information behavior. Collaboration may be quite direct when users seek, retrieve,...
[ This is a content summary only. Visit http://internetmarketingandmessages.blogspot.com for full links, other content, and more! ]  The Future is Prologue: New Media, New Histories?New media encompass both new opportunities and new dilemmas for scholars.
This ICA pre-conference invites participants to reflect on ways to analyze, preserve, and understand new media in a manner that is both sensitive to the past and to future needs of historical research.
The history of new media is a burgeoning new subfield, but one aspect that often goes overlooked is how new media involve new ways of doing history.
The purpose of this pre-conference is to focus attention on the shifting needs of historical scholarship about new media.
It will include a demonstration of new technologies for collaboration and visualization under development at the Electronic Visualization...
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Panel discussion at AoIR IR 9.0, Copenhagen
Wednesday, October 15th, 2008, 3:15pm - 5:00pm
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=28753618322
Traditional venues for scholarly publishing are rapidly changing: established journals are moving online, online-only open access journals are proliferating, alternatives to ISI Impact Factor metrics are emerging, titles are experimenting with multimedia components, pre-print archives are being developed, and data repositories are achieving the status of publications. These and other issues are much in flux, but the rate and degree of change varies considerably...
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(German Social Science Infrastructure Services)
24 - 26 June 2008
Maternushaus, Cologne
CALL FOR PAPERS
The aim of the annual international conference on e-Social Science is to bring together leading representatives of the social science, e-Infrastructure, cyberinfrastructure and e-Research communities in order to improve mutual awareness and promote coordinated activities to accelerate research, development and deployment of powerful, new methods and tools for the
social sciences and beyond.
We invite contributions from members of the social science, e-Infrastructure, cyberinfrastructure and e-Research...
[ This is a content summary only. Visit http://internetmarketingandmessages.blogspot.com for full links, other content, and more! ]  Taking it to the Web: Political Participation in the Internet AgeVirginia Tech’s award-winning “Choices and Challenges” project has launched a new interactive website, in conjunction with its 2008 forum, “Taking it to the Web: Political Participation in the Internet Age.” The website includes a wealth of resources for learning about the topic of information technologies and politics, and offers a range of opportunities for online visitors to engage in discussion.
The site also features a series of podcast interviews with experts, practitioners, and activists involved in innovative uses of information technologies for political action. Visitors can listen to the interviews individually at the site, or can subscribe to them through iTunes or other...
[ This is a content summary only. Visit http://internetmarketingandmessages.blogspot.com for full links, other content, and more! ]  Doing Media History: Archives, Ages, and the Accretion of the PastThe HASTAC Scholars Program invites you to participate in our next HASTAC Scholars Discussion Forum, titled "Doing Media History: Archives, Ages, and the Accretion of the Past."
The discussion forum will be led by Whitney Trettien, a graduate student in Comparative
Media Studies at MIT, and will open at http://www.hastac.org/ on Monday, October 6. Please come share your thoughts at http://www.hastac.org/!
Doing Media History: Archives, Ages, and the Accretion of the Past
New media, in the ordered ways by which they gather together historical artifacts and thus endow them with historical weight, are perpetually producing the past in various forms of coherence. -- Will Straw, "Embedded...
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http://www.westminster.ac.uk/mad/page-2034
Table of contents, Volume 5 Number 3 - September 2008
Media and Foreign Policy
Janne Halttu
CAMRI, University of Westminster
Editorial
Cristina Archetti
European Studies Research Institute (ESRI), University of Salford
Unamerican Views: why US-developed models of press-state relations do not apply to the rest of the world
Ilija Tomanic' Trivund
Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ljubljana
What third world? Changing...
[ This is a content summary only. Visit http://internetmarketingandmessages.blogspot.com for full links, other content, and more! ]  game video collection at the Internet Archive - games for art's sakeA new game video collection at the Internet Archive - games for art's sake.
We are pleased to announce a new game video collection hosted by the Internet Archive, called "games for art's sake" - http://www.archive.org/details/game-art.
This is devoted to providing online documentation of both individual works and exhibitions of game art, art games and related work made "for art's sake".
Games constitute a large and important field of contemporary art. How this art will withstand the passage of time remains an open question. This collection is intended to provide a stable and enduring site for the hosting of documentation about games made for art's sake.
Artists, curators and others with...
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