From xh.gslis at gmail.com Tue Aug 1 06:30:14 2017 From: xh.gslis at gmail.com (Xiao Hu) Date: Tue, 1 Aug 2017 18:30:14 +0800 Subject: [Sigiii-l] PhD Position in the University of Hong Kong Message-ID: Dear All, Apologies for cross-posting! *THE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG* Postgraduate Research Students Dr Samuel Chu is inviting applications for the candidature of a PhD postgraduate research student in the University of Hong Kong. Potential candidates should have an excellent track record in their undergraduate and postgraduate degrees from a reputable university. Potential candidates should have the one or more interest/s in the following areas of Dr Chu?s expertise: Game-based Learning, Gamification in Education, 21st Century Skills, Social Media in Education, Plagiarism-free Collaborative Inquiry Project-based Learning, Knowledge Management and Intellectual Capital, School and Academic Librarianship. The selected candidate will participate in a research project entitled ?Implementing sexuality education in secondary schools with a bilingual interactive game playable on Web, Facebook, tablets, and smartphones? for a project period of 24 months. The project adopts principles from gamification and game-based learning to develop and evaluate the effects of sexuality education on sexual attitudes and behaviors among secondary school students through an interactive social game. A bilingual (English/Chinese) interactive online game playable on the Web, Facebook, iPads, and Android tablets will educate students on the proper knowledge and attitudes in the subject of sexuality education. The candidate is expected to have excellent oral and written communication skills in English; the potential to apply for grants or publish research papers in high quality journals. Those with any research publication experience will be given preference. An IELTS score of 7.0 or above across all bands is preferred for potential candidates from universities, where English is not a first language. For further information, please refer to Dr Samuel Chu?s website ( http://web.edu.hku.hk/staff/academic/samchu). All enquiries should be sent to him (e-mail: samchu at hku.hk). Potential candidates should prepare a draft proposal, according to the format provided by the the School of Graduate Studies ( http://www.gradsch.hku.hk/). Please include an up-to-date C.V. and list of three references together with the draft proposal tosamchu at hku.hk. The application deadline is by 31 August 2017. The selected candidate must be able to start the program by September 2018. Cheers, Xiao Hu, PhD Faculty of Education The University of Hong Kong Room 329, Hui Oi-Chow Science Building Tel: 22194722 Email: xiaoxhu at hku.hk -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From michel.menou at orange.fr Sat Aug 26 09:32:14 2017 From: michel.menou at orange.fr (Michel Menou) Date: Sat, 26 Aug 2017 15:32:14 +0200 Subject: [Sigiii-l] Fwd: [Catac] Digital Objects, Digital Subjects: An Interdisciplinary Symposium on Activism, Research & Critique in the Age of Big Data Capitalism In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: -------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: Catac Digest, Vol 117, Issue 1 Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2017 12:00:05 +0200 From: catac-request at philo.at Reply-To: catac at philo.at To: catac at philo.at Message: 1 Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2017 18:28:30 +0100 From: Christian Fuchs To: catac at philo.at Subject: [Catac] Digital Objects, Digital Subjects: An Interdisciplinary Symposium on Activism, Research & Critique in the Age of Big Data Capitalism - Conference programme published Message-ID: <49b68335-2f97-0a0f-91d3-5e1648007ca0 at uti.at> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Digital Objects, Digital Subjects: An Interdisciplinary Symposium on Activism, Research & Critique in the Age of Big Data Capitalism The 6th ICTs and Society Conference May 20-21 University of Westminster, London Hosted by the Westminster Institute for Advanced Studies Speakers: Toni Negri, Jodi Dean, David Chandler, Christian Fuchs, Paolo Gerbaudo, Orit Halpern, Kylie Jarrett, Jack Linchuan Qiu, Antoinette Rouvroy, Etienne Turpin Conference programme: http://icts-and-society.net/events/digital-objects-digital-subjects-a-symposium-on-activism-research-critique-in-the-age-of-big-data-capitalism-the-6th-icts-society-conference/ Presenters at the symposium will engage with questions of the digital in respect to activism, research and critique. The conference will engage with the possibilities, potentials, pitfalls, limits, and ideologies of digital activism. It will reflect on whether computational social science, the digital humanities and ubiquitous datafication enable new research approaches or result in a digital positivism that threatens the independence of critical research and brings about the death of the social sciences and humanities. The conference will explore the futures, places and possibilities of critique in the age of digital subjects and digital objects. The event is free, but advance registration is required (some places are left, but get occupied quickly). To register, please complete the registration form http://icts-and-society.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/Registration-form-Digital-Objects-Digital-Subjects.docx and send it to ictsandsociety2017 at gmail.com Talks: - Toni Negri: The Incorporation of the Digital Machine: A Metaphor? - Jodi Dean: Critique or Collectivity? - David Chandler: Governmentalities of the Digital: Mapping, Sensing and Hacking - Christian Fuchs: Karl Marx in the Age of Big Data Capitalism - Paolo Gerbaudo: The Platform Party: The Transformation of Political Organisation in the Digital Era - Orit Halpern: The Smart Mandate: Ubiquitous Computing, Environment, and ?Resilient Hope? - Kylie Jarrett: The Digital Housewife: Labour at the Intersection of Culture and Economy - Jack Linchuan Qiu: Goodbye iSlave: Rethinking Smartphone, Activism, and Chinese Labour - Antoinette Rouvroy: Revitalizing Critique Against the Critical Sirens of Algorithmic Governmentality - Etienne Turpin: The Same River Twice: Torrential Formations of the Anthropocene -- For further infos, sign up to the WIAS newsletter https://www.westminster.ac.uk/newsletter -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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