From arorissa at albany.edu Mon Nov 2 11:22:21 2015 From: arorissa at albany.edu (Rorissa, Abebe) Date: Mon, 2 Nov 2015 16:22:21 +0000 Subject: [Sigiii-l] ASIS&T Bulletin - questionnaire Message-ID: Dear SIG III member, As part of its efforts to increase the international reach and readership of the Bulletin of the Association for Information Science and Technology, ASIS&T, (http://www.asis.org/Bulletin/) the ASIS&T Bulletin Board tasked SIG III with looking into the viability of translating the Bulletin's table of contents and making them available in multiple languages. We believe that making the ASIS&T Bulletin available in as many languages as possible is in line with one of the goals of ASIS&T articulated in its draft strategic plan (See Goal 2.3 in: https://www.asist.org/files/governance/ASIST_Strategic_Plan_Draft_Sept_2015_v7.pdf). In order to recruit ASIS&T members who are willing to translate tables of contents of the ASIS&T Bulletin (and receive credit - your name will appear on the Bulletin page together with your translation), we have designed a short questionnaire. If you would like to volunteer, please visit the questionnaire site: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/NXJFV67. It will take approximately 5 minutes to complete. Information collected through the questionnaire will be kept confidential and will not be shared with any third parties. An aggregate summary of responses will be shared only with members of the Bulletin Board and we will use your email address to contact you in the future. If you have any questions, you can reach me at arorissa at albany.edu. Thank you. Sincerely, Abebe Rorissa ____________________________________________ Abebe Rorissa, Ph.D. Associate Professor Department of Information Studies College of Engineering and Applied Sciences University at Albany, State University of New York Draper Hall, Room 113 135 Western Avenue Albany, NY 12222 E-mail: arorissa at albany.edu Tel.: (518) 442-5123 Fax: (518) 442-5367 ________________________________________________ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dpotnis at utk.edu Sat Nov 14 10:49:44 2015 From: dpotnis at utk.edu (Potnis, Devendra Dilip) Date: Sat, 14 Nov 2015 15:49:44 +0000 Subject: [Sigiii-l] CFP: "Managing ICT4D Field Research in the Developing World" Minitrack - AMCIS 2016 Message-ID: CALL FOR PAPERS - 22nd Americas Conference on Information Systems "Managing ICT4D Field Research in the Developing World: Challenges, Opportunities, & Innovative Solutions" Minitrack - ICTs in Global Development (SIGGlobDev) Track NOTE: Authors of best papers in the ICTs in Global Development track will be invited to submit revised versions for fast-track review and possible publication in the journal Information Technology for Development (ITD) - http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/titd20/current. DESCRIPTION A large number of ICT for development (ICT4D) projects cannot meet their objectives. One cause of the failures of ICT4D projects is related to the shortcomings in field research, an integral part of ICT4D projects. Field research primarily involves data collection, and often attempts to understand someone else's experience. The high failure rates of ICT4D projects call for fundamentally new ways to tackle the challenges experienced by researchers and practitioners when planning and conducting ICT4D field research. This mini-track invites researchers and practitioners to share and analyze their success stories, failures, mistakes, and advice, which would gather momentum for a global discussion on better managing ICT4D field research, furthering the larger goal of socioeconomic and human development of marginalized communities across the developing world. SUGGESTED TOPICS Topics include but are not limited to: * Factors influencing the planning, implementation, and reporting of ICT4D field research * Data collection challenges in the developing world: A multi-stakeholder perspective * Innovative process-based and technology-driven solutions to capture, store, and process different types of textual, numeric, audiovisual, and tactile data * Open data, big data, and real-time data for conducting ICT4D field research * Issues related to data security, privacy, ethics, copyrights, and intellectual property * What can ICT4D field research in the developing and developed world learn from each other? * Applications of established theoretical frameworks and perspectives from multiple disciplines like anthropology, HCI, computer science, information science, MIS, etc. for managing ICT4D field research * Managing the scope, time, cost, quality, HR, communication, and risks related to ICT4D field research * Ways to develop the skills and knowledge needed to conduct ICT4D field research * Dynamic inter-relationship between contextual factors (e.g., policy frameworks, environmental conditions, culture, etc.), research methods, and local assistants in ICT4D field research * Applications of emerging technologies like NFC, M&E tools, SMAC, etc. to manage ICT4D field research IMPORTANT DATE March 2, 2016 (10:00 AM Pacific Standard Time): Deadline for paper submissions INSTRUCTIONS FOR AUTHORS The entire paper should be no more than 5,000 words, including all materials and sections such as figures, tables, and references. All conference submissions will be double-blind, peer reviewed, and must be submitted using the online submission system at http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/amcis2016. For complete instructions for authors and information about the conference, visit the AMCIS 2016 website at http://amcis2016.aisnet.org. _____________________________________ Devendra Potnis, M.S., M.P.A., Ph.D. Assistant Professor School of Information Sciences University of Tennessee 1345 Circle Park Dr., Suite 451 Knoxville, TN 37996 +1-865-974-2148; Twitter: DPotnis https://www.sis.utk.edu/users/devendra-potnis From michel.menou at orange.fr Tue Nov 17 08:08:02 2015 From: michel.menou at orange.fr (Michel Menou) Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2015 14:08:02 +0100 Subject: [Sigiii-l] =?utf-8?q?Fwd=3A_Distance_Learning_MSc_on_Info_Systems?= =?utf-8?q?_in_developing_countries_=E2=80=93_Manchester_University_?= =?utf-8?q?=E2=80=93_January_start?= In-Reply-To: <36C03B807545554C841A9805D02EBDBE4467B148@MBXP10.ds.man.ac.uk> References: <36C03B807545554C841A9805D02EBDBE4467B148@MBXP10.ds.man.ac.uk> Message-ID: <564B26B2.5010606@orange.fr> -------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: Distance Learning MSc on Info Systems in developing countries ? Manchester University ? January start Date: Mon, 16 Nov 2015 16:54:26 +0000 From: Richard Heeks To: Richard Heeks * Could you please forward to those who might be interested? * Starting each year in late January, the MSc in Management & Information Systems aims to develop the "hybrid" mix of management and information systems skills that we know from experience is essential to the successful and strategic application of ICTs in socio-economic development. Applications are now being accepted, with a deadline of 15 Jan 2016, and links to this and other details of MSc M&IS DL can be found at: _http://bit.ly/ManMISDL_ We may be able to offer a fee reduction to groups of participants from the same organisation. If you have any questions about the programme or fee concessions, please email the Programme Director, Prof. Richard Heeks: _richard.heeks at manchester.ac.uk_ With thanks! Richard -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From michel.menou at orange.fr Tue Nov 17 09:30:21 2015 From: michel.menou at orange.fr (Michel Menou) Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2015 15:30:21 +0100 Subject: [Sigiii-l] Fwd: [IILMS] Launching BSS in Information Studies at EWU (Bangladesh) In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <564B39FD.80305@orange.fr> -------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: [IILMS] Launching BSS in Information Studies at EWU Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2015 14:43:17 +0600 From: Dr Dilara Begum Reply-To: iils at googlegroups.com To: iils at googlegroups.com Dear all I am pleased to let you know that EastWestUniversitylaunches BSS in Information Studies from the upcoming Spring-2016 semester. This program has been approved by UGC. BSS in Information Studies consists of total 120 credit hours distributed across 12 semesters. The admission process is going on. Students having A level or HSCcertificate or its equivalent in any group having at least a 2^nd division/class or GPA of not less than 2.5 in all public examinations are eligible to apply. Foreign students are also encouraged to apply. Launching this program with world class curricula in one of the leading private university in Bangladeshis another milestone in development of our profession in Bangladesh. I seek your cooperation to achieve our vision. I would be grateful if you could disseminate this information among the students and your contacts. Please find the attachment for advertisement. For more information you may visit at www.ewubd.edu Best regards Dr. Dilara Begum East West University Dhaka, Bangladesh -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "INTERNATIONAL MEDIA AND INFORMATION LITERACY SURVEY (IMILS)" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to iils+unsubscribe at googlegroups.com . 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Workshops: 5 October 2016 Main Conference: 6-8 October 2016 Humboldt-Universit?t zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany AoIR 2016 is the 17th annual conference of the Association of Internet Researchers, a transdisciplinary gathering of scholars interested in the place of networked technologies in social processes. AoIR 2016 will emphasize the relevance of the Internet in today?s culture and politics. The conference theme addresses the significance of the codes and rules that frame the Internet, as well as their playful circumvention, from technical protocols and popular platforms to the emerging, established, and contested conventions of online communities. Who are the actors both in practices of rule-making and rule-breaking, what are their motivations and resources, and how can their power relations and communicative figurations be described? How does the Internet influence the proliferation of the values that its platforms, services and infrastructures embody, and what spaces of creative resistance persist? How do various forms of technical, social, and cultural hacking subvert these orders? The committee calls for proposals for papers, panels, workshops, roundtables, and other events that engage with the conference theme or the field more generally. Topics could include (but are not limited to): - coordination and rule-making online - media, culture and identity - (h)activism and social justice - critical approaches to algorithms, platform studies - codes and practices of internet culture - connected devices and the internet of things - big data and predictive analytics - techno-social interfaces - digital labor, crowdsourcing and co-creation - internet governance and regulation - (global) social media - communication, participation and polarization online - philosophy of information and knowledge We particularly invite submissions that engage with or challenge the conference theme in new and exciting ways, are innovative, or present a novel approach to the topic. We encourage ?experimental sessions? that extend research in unusual directions (via method, topic or presentation structure). We also welcome submissions on topics that address social, cultural, political, legal, aesthetic, economic, and/or philosophical aspects of the internet beyond the conference theme. The committee extends a special invitation to students, researchers, and practitioners who have previously not participated in an Internet Research event to submit proposals. *PROPOSALS* We seek proposals for several different kinds of contributions to encompass the breadth of relevant research. We welcome proposals for traditional academic conference PAPERS, organized PANELS, ROUNDTABLES, FISHBOWLS, EXPERIMENTAL SESSIONS, and PRE-CONFERENCE WORKSHOPS. We invite proposals that will focus on discussion and interaction among conference delegates. Finally, doctoral students are invited to participate in the DOCTORAL COLLOQUIUM preceding the main conference. *IMPORTANT DATES* 15 January 2016 Submission site opens for AoIR 2016 in Berlin 1 March 2016 Submissions due for PAPERS, PANELS, ROUNDTABLES and FISHBOWLS, EXPERIMENTAL SESSIONS, and PRE-CONFERENCE WORKSHOPS 15 March 2016 Nominations for Nancy Baym Book award and Best Dissertation Award due 5 May 2016 Notification of acceptances for presenters 7 June 2016 Applications due for conference travel SCHOLARSHIPS and for DOCTORAL COLLOQUIUM 1 August 2016 Early Bird Registration Deadline for all presenters For further information and updates, please visit the conference website at aoir.org/aoir2016. *SUBMISSION TYPES* Traditional papers: Paper submissions should articulate the issue or research question to be discussed, the methodological or critical framework used, and indicate the findings or conclusions to be presented and/or the relevance to wider conference themes. Papers can present any kind of research or analysis, but should be written so that the importance of the work can be understood by reviewers working in different disciplines or using different approaches. Cross- or trans-disciplinary work is especially encouraged. Paper submissions should be approximately 1200 words long, including references. Please note that paper submissions need not adhere to a pre-formatted template, but should give an indication as to the consistency, rigor and relevance of the work. Presentations at the IR conference are generally intended to be dynamic, and provide a broad overview of the scholarship being engaged, with the hope of generating useful conversation. Preconstituted panels: Panels should present a coherent group of papers on a single theme. Panel proposals should include 1200-word abstracts as above for each of the constituent papers, as well as a brief statement articulating the papers? relationship to each other. It is recommended that panels include four papers, although submissions of three to five papers will also be considered. The organizer is responsible for compiling the proposal into a single document for submission. Preconference workshops: Workshops may be either half or full-day events that occur on the first day of the conference and focus on a particular topic. They may be a workshop of some kind (e.g., a publishing workshop), a methodological ?bootcamp? (e.g., on ethnography or statistical analysis), an exploration of a theoretical tradition or topical area (e.g., symbolic interaction, political economy, or GIS) or anything else that may be of interest to conference delegates. Proposals for workshops should explain for a general scholarly audience the goals of the workshop, the way it will operate, and an indication of potential audience or attendees who may be interested in attending (such as ?early career scholars? or ?researchers using statistical analysis?). Proposals for workshops should be approximately 600-800 words in length, and should name the workshop facilitators. Roundtable Sessions: Roundtables encourage discussion and interaction among delegates. They may involve brief introductory presentations by organizers. Proposals should include details on the theme or topic of discussion and its relevance, along with names of the organizers/initial participants. Roundtables can include no more than 5 initial participants. Roundtable submissions should be between 250-300 words long (to be included as the ?abstract? in the submissions process?no separate document need be uploaded). Open Fishbowls: Fishbowl sessions should cover broad topics of interest to a wide segment of the AoIR community, and create a space for dialogue across different types of research. Submitted proposals should include a brief statement as to the core idea or theme for the fishbowl, emphasizing its relation to conference themes or relevance to the IR community. Fishbowls can include no more than 5 initial participants (named fish). Experimental Sessions: Experimental sessions are those that, while of interest to members or engaging with conference themes, meaningfully ?push the envelope? beyond more traditional forms of conference engagement and participation and as such do not fit into any of the other proposal formats. Examples may include Ignite or pecha-kucha presentations, demonstrations, performances, installations, short-form workshops, unsessions, maker or code-based projects, or interactive experiences. Proposals for experimental sessions should describe for a general scholarly audience the goal or idea of the session and how it will operate, and discuss why the proposed format will be of interest to AoIR delegates. Organizers of experimental sessions will be responsible for supplying any necessary equipment beyond that usually provided for conference presentations, and should be prepared to coordinate closely with the conference committee as necessary to enable a successful presentation of the alternative format. To encourage this kind of submission, we are again offering the ?Halavais Prize for Weirdness? this year for the most interesting and successful submission in a non-traditional format. Doctoral Colloquium: The Association of Internet Researchers believes that its emerging researchers are the best in its disparate constituent fields. In keeping with its commitment to students? scholarship, we continue the tradition of bringing emerging and established scholars together through the AoIR 2016 Doctoral Colloquium. The colloquium offers PhD students working in internet research or a related field a special, day-long forum, to be convened on 5 October 2016. For many years, this pre-conference event has provided students with the opportunity to a concentrated amount of time with senior scholars to share research projects, address methodological and theoretical challenges, and exchange informal advice on juggling the multiple pressures associated with job searching, publishing, and finishing the dissertation Interested students should prepare a) a two-page summary of your research. This should provide a context for the research, describe the methods being used, the progress to date, and primary concerns and issues; and b) A brief statement indicating why you want to participate in this doctoral colloquium and what you hope to get out of it. These are due on or before 15 June 2016. *CONFERENCE SCHOLARSHIPS* In order to increase the diversity of participation in the AoIR conferences, the Association of Internet Researchers makes available conference fee waivers and partial travel stipends ($500) per year. The number of fee waivers and travel stipends will depend first of all upon the ability of the conference budget to sustain such waivers (a judgment to be made by the AoIR Executive Committee upon the advice of the AoIR Treasurer and the local organizing committee) as well as upon the quality of the applications for fee waivers. Conference scholarships are made available only to participants who have had papers accepted via the peer review process, and applications are due on 1 June 2016, after acceptances have been announced. More information will be made available regarding the scholarship application process at the conference website: aoir.org/aoir2016. *CONTACT INFORMATION* Please address any questions to the conference chair, Cornelius Puschmann, Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society, aoir2016 [at] aoir [dot] org. ================================ -- Dr. Cornelius Puschmann Postdoctoral Researcher (DFG) Berlin School of Library and Information Science (BSLIS) Humboldt-Universit?t zu Berlin Dorotheenstra?e 26 10117 Berlin, Germany www.ibi.hu-berlin.de Research Associate Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society (HIIG) Oberwallstra?e 9 10117 Berlin, Germany www.hiig.de Faculty Associate Berkman Center for Internet and Society, Harvard University 23 Everett Street, Second Floor Cambridge, MA 02138, USA cyber.law.harvard.edu p: +49 7541 6009-1321 e: cornelius.puschmann at hiig.de e: cpuschmann at cyber.law.harvard.edu w: cbpuschmann.net From michel.menou at orange.fr Mon Nov 30 08:56:12 2015 From: michel.menou at orange.fr (Michel Menou) Date: Mon, 30 Nov 2015 14:56:12 +0100 Subject: [Sigiii-l] Fwd: [tripleC] New Issue Published In-Reply-To: <20151129223042.351C663405D0@dd29412.kasserver.com> References: <20151129223042.351C663405D0@dd29412.kasserver.com> Message-ID: <565C557C.9080709@orange.fr> -------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: [tripleC] New Issue Published Date: Sun, 29 Nov 2015 22:36:07 +0100 From: Christian Fuchs To: Michel J. Menou Dear Readers, The current year is coming to a close and tripleC has just finished this year's volume, which is the 13th year of publication. You below find the table of contents of volume 13's issue 2. Thanks for the continuing interest in tripleC. We hope in your continued support in 2016. With kind regards, Christian Fuchs -- Prof. Christian Fuchs Co-Editor of tripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique University of Westminster, Director of the Communication and Media Research Institute christian.fuchs at triple-c.at tripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique. Open Access Journal for a Global Sustainable Information Society Vol 13, No 2 (2015) Table of Contents http://www.triple-c.at/index.php/tripleC/issue/view/32 Special issue: Interrogating Internships -------- DOWNLOAD THE ENTIRE SPECIAL ISSUE HERE Interrogating Internships: Unpaid Work, Creative Industries, and Higher Education, Edited By: Greig de Peuter, Nicole S. Cohen, and Enda Brophy Introduction (329-335) Greig de Peuter, Nicole S. Cohen, Enda Brophy Interrogating Internships: Conceptualizing Internships -------- Media and Cultural Industries Internships: A Thematic Review and Digital Labor Parallels (336-350) Thomas Corrigan >From Apprenticeship to Internship: The Social and Legal Antecedents of the Intern Economy (351-360) Alexandre Frenette Interning and Investing: Rethinking Unpaid Work, Social Capital, and the ?Human Capital Regime? (361-374) Sophie Hope, Joanna Figiel What Killed Moritz Erhardt? Internships and the Cultural Dangers of ?Positive? Ideas (375-389) Bogdan Costea, Peter Watt, Kostas Amiridis Interrogating Internships: Internships and Creative Industries -------- Under the Cloak of Whiteness: A Circuit of Culture Analysis of Opportunity Hoarding and Colour-blind Racism Inside US Advertising Internship Programs (390-403) Christopher Boulton Reality TV?s Embrace of the Intern (404-422) Tanner Mirrlees Expo Milano 2015: The Institutionalization of Working for Free in Italy (423-427) Roberto Ciccarelli A History of Internships at CBC Television News (428-437) Marlene Murphy (De)valuing Intern Labour: Journalism Internship Pay Rates and Collective Representation in Canada (438-458) Errol Salamon Internships, Workfare, and the Cultural Industries: A British Perspective (459-470) David Lee Interrogating Internships: Internships and Higher Education -------- Nothing for Money and Your Work for Free: Internships and the Marketing of Higher Education (471-485) Mara Einstein ?You Kind of Have to Bite the Bullet and do Bitch Work?: How Internships Teach Students to Unthink Exploitation in Public Relations (486-500) Michelle Rodino-Colocino, Stephanie N. Berberick Negotiating Educated Subjectivity: Intern Labour and Higher Education in Hong Kong (501-508) Iam-chong Ip Interrogating Course-Related Public Interest Internships in Communications (509-525) Sandra Smeltzer Educating the Precariat: Intern Labour and a Renewed Approach to Media Literacy Education (526-532) Doug Tewksbury Unwaged Posts in UK Universities: Controversies and Campaigns (533-553) Kirsten Forkert, Ana Lopes Interrogating Internships: Intern Labour Activism -------- Art Struggles: Confronting Internships and Unpaid Labour in Contemporary Art (554-566) Panos Kompatsiaris Report on Intern Rights Advocacy in 2013-2014 (567-578) Intern Labor Rights Ontario Interns Fight Back: Modes of Resistance Against Unpaid Internships (579-586) William Webb Challenging Intern Nation: A Roundtable with Intern Labour Activists in Canada (587-598) Nicole Cohen, Greig de Peuter Exploited for a Good Cause? Campaigning Against Unpaid Internships in the UK Charity Sector (599-602) Vera Weghmann Articles -------- The Digital Spatial Fix (223?247) Daniel Marcus Greene, Daniel Joseph Austerity discourses in "Der Spiegel" magazine, 2009-2014 (248?269) Yiannis Mylonas Anti-Neoliberal Neoliberalism: Post-Socialism and Bulgaria?s ?Ataka? Party (274?297) Martin Marinos Base, Superstructure and the Irish Property Crash?Towards a Crisis Theory of Communications (298?320) Henry Silke The Commodity Form of Safety Information (610?623) Rodrigo Finkelstein Reflections (Non Peer-Reviewed) -------- On Dallas Smythe?s ?Audience Commodity?: An Interview with Lee McGuigan and Vincent Manzerolle (270?273) Henry Adam Svec Media and Information Technology in Ten Years? Time: A Society of Control Both from Above and Below, and From Outside and Inside (321?328) J?rg Becker Reflections on Bola?o?s Culture Industry (603?606) Thomas Klikauer Reflections on Phelan?s Neoliberalism, Media, and the Political (607?609) Thomas Klikauer The Political Economy of Crisis and the Crisis of Political Economy: The Challenge of Sustainability Graham Murdock _______________ tripleC : Communication, Capitalism & Critique | Open Access Journal for a Global Sustainable Information Society |http://www.triple-c.at -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: