From michel.menou at orange.fr Tue Apr 4 11:37:13 2017 From: michel.menou at orange.fr (Michel Menou) Date: Tue, 4 Apr 2017 17:37:13 +0200 Subject: [Sighfis-l] Fwd: [ICTs-and-Society] The Point is to Change It! TripleC special section with interviews published In-Reply-To: <2a7b5386-eedd-123f-5988-be5b4e79228d@uti.at> References: <2a7b5386-eedd-123f-5988-be5b4e79228d@uti.at> Message-ID: -------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: [ICTs-and-Society] The Point is to Change It! TripleC special section with interviews published Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2017 23:58:28 +0100 From: Christian Fuchs Reply-To: christian.fuchs at uti.at To: discussion-icts-and-society-net at icts-and-society.net From: From: "Amon Prodnik, Jernej" Dear All, A Special section of journal TripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique, which we entitled "The Point is to Change It! Critical Political Interventions in Media and Communication Studies" (No 1, Vol 15, pp.: 214-336), has just been published. The section includes six interviews with some of the main representatives in critical media and communication scholarship, amongst them Bogdan Osolnik, member of the MacBride Commission. Interviews cover several intertwined topics and issues, which are connected together in the introduction, where we reflect on the role of critical communication studies and the antagonisms it faced in the past and faces today. The texts are available via the following links: - The Point Is to Change It! Introduction to Critical Political Interventions in Media and Communication Studies. Available via: http://triple-c.at/index.php/tripleC/article/view/858/968 - "The intention was to democratise the sphere of communication." An Interview with Bogdan Osolnik. Available via: http://triple-c.at/index.php/tripleC/article/view/859/970 - "What happened was foremost an assault by interests of the big capital." An interview with Breda Pavli?. Available via: http://triple-c.at/index.php/tripleC/article/view/860/971 - "Well friends, let's play jazz." An Interview with Cees J. Hamelink. Available via: http://triple-c.at/index.php/tripleC/article/view/861/972 - "Is enlightenment just a European idea?" An interview with Daya Thussu. Available via:http://triple-c.at/index.php/tripleC/article/view/862/973 - "The concentration of power, represented by current prevailing media conditions, is and ought to be open to challenge." An interview with Peter Golding. Available via: http://triple-c.at/index.php/tripleC/article/view/863/974 - "I can't imagine a radically reformed political economy that isn't built on a radically reformed public sphere." An interview with Dan Hind. Available via: http://triple-c.at/index.php/tripleC/article/view/864/975 You can also download the complete section on this link: http://www.triple-c.at/index.php/tripleC/article/view/866/989 Feel free to share the information about this publication with your colleagues and apologies for cross-posting. Best regards, Jernej Amon Prodnik, Sa?o Sla?ek Brlek _______________________________________________ The Air-L at listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org Join the Association of Internet Researchers: http://www.aoir.org/ ----- Aucun virus trouv? dans ce message. Analyse effectu?e par AVG - www.avg.com Version: 2016.0.8007 / Base de donn?es virale: 4769/14196 - Date: 28/03/2017 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From kherold at adelphi.edu Wed Apr 12 08:12:54 2017 From: kherold at adelphi.edu (Ken Herold) Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2017 08:12:54 -0400 Subject: [Sighfis-l] 80th AM Special Session - Please distribute Message-ID: Dear HFIS Colleague, As you know, 2017 marks the 80th Anniversary of the Association for Information Science & Technology (ASIS&T). For this anniversary, we are looking forward to the next 80 years, as well as reflecting on the accomplishments and milestones of the past 80 years. We are organizing a special panel session (see link below) for the Annual Meeting in Crystal City, Virginia, October 27-November 1st, 2017, as well as other activities. As members of the 80th Anniversary Celebration Taskforce, we are working with the SIGs and Chapters to encourage their active participation in activities to celebrate these past accomplishments and plan for our future. Among the activities being considered (some of which have already been initiated): panels and programs for the 80th Annual Meeting, programs for Chapter meetings (including between local and student Chapters), webinars and other video presentations, and publications. We encourage collaboration among SIGS and Chapters. We members of SIG HFIS, along with SIG III have offered our help in forming panels and other programs at the 80th Annual Meeting, as well as with the production of papers and posters, webinars, and other videos. We ask that you promote our message and refer your colleagues to these valuable resources. Historical Documents: https://www.asis.org/asist2012/ASIST2012_Chapters_SIGs_Histories.pdf https://www.asis.org/asist2012/historyofASIST.html Special panel submissions page: https://www.softconf.com/asist2/80th/cgi-bin/scmd.cgi?scmd=basicSubmit In addition, with the untimely passing of Dr. Bob Williams, we urge all members to donate in his memory to the ASIST Bob Williams History Fund, which was just renamed in his honor. The link for contributions: https://www.asist.org/asist-charitable-donation-form/ With thanks in advance for your participation, *Toni Carbo, Ph.D.* Professor *Emerita* and former Dean, School of Information Sciences, University of Pittsburgh; Member, Brown University Library Advisory Council; ASIS&T Representative to the AAAS Science and Human Rights Coalition and member, 80th Anniversary Celebration Taskforce. *Ken Herold, Chair SIG HFIS* --on behalf of the Advisory Group -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Please note that only members in their first 3 years of membership are eligible to apply. More details about the application process and requirements can be found at the New Leaders Award webpage. If you have any questions, please contact Laura Creekmore (co-Chair, ASIS&T Leadership Committee), laura at creekcontent.com or Emily Agunod (member, ASIS&T Leadership Committee and New Leader 2015-2016), e.agunod at gmail.com. Best regards, Lynnsey SIG HFIS Incoming Chair, 2017-2018 Lynnsey Weissenberger, Ph.D. School of Information Florida State University Twitter: @lkweissenberger Email: lynnsey.weissenberger at cci.fsu.edu Website: lynnseyweissenberger.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From buckland at ischool.berkeley.edu Tue Apr 25 13:52:22 2017 From: buckland at ischool.berkeley.edu (Michael Buckland) Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2017 10:52:22 -0700 Subject: [Sighfis-l] The New Atlantis special issue on "Information, Matter, and Life" Message-ID: <19966027-8cac-e20f-91f7-15dfc1c473b2@ischool.berkeley.edu> The latest issue of /The New Atlantis: A Journal of Technology and Society /(No 51, Winter 2017) is a special issue on "Information" and composed of seven essays critiquing excesses on theorizing information. An Editor's note explains: > A motif running through these essays is that, especially in > contemporary science, information has become something of an ideology. > At its extreme, this ideology holds that, as James Gleick puts it in > his book /The Information/ > , > the whole universe is ?a computer ? a cosmic information-processing > machine.? There are more modest versions of the ideology, as when > computer metaphors are used to describe human beings, saying, for > example, that our brains are ?wired? a certain way or that we are > ?programmed? by our genes. Whether extreme or modest, however, the > ideology of information has implications for our understanding of the > universe. These big questions about fundamental reality are > inextricably bound up with our self-understanding, including our > beliefs about free will and the nature of consciousness. And these > beliefs are in turn bound up with much more practical questions of how > we can live well together. > > Information and ?info-talk? are so pervasive that they increasingly > are taken for granted. In offering this special issue, we hope to hint > at an alternative to the ideology of information ? an alternative > understanding of information and information theory that is grateful > for many of the powerful tools they make possible, but that is aware > of their limitations and wary of their intrusions into inappropriate > domains. > This issue is available for only $7 + $3 pp and also openly accessible online at http://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/number-51-winter-2017 Michael Buckland -- Michael Buckland Emeritus Professor, School of Information, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720-4600 http://people.ischool.berkeley.edu/~buckland/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: