From michel.menou at orange.fr Thu Dec 14 10:13:11 2017 From: michel.menou at orange.fr (Michel Menou) Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2017 16:13:11 +0100 Subject: [Sigtis-l] Fwd: [icts] Open access book: The Spectacle 2.0: Reading Debord in the Context of Digital Capitalism In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <8e13f60d-9f08-d22d-e643-e60a37795bb1@orange.fr> -------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: [icts] Open access book: The Spectacle 2.0: Reading Debord in the Context of Digital Capitalism Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2017 21:51:48 +0000 From: Christian Fuchs Reply-To: christian.fuchs at uti.at To: icts at lists.riseup.net New open access book The Spectacle 2.0: Reading Debord in the Context of Digital Capitalism, edited by Marco Briziarelli and Emiliana Armano, University of Westminster Press "Critical Digital & Social Media Studies" book series (ed. C. Fuchs), Volume 5 Spectacle 2.0 recasts Debord's theory of spectacle within the frame of 21st century digital capitalism. It offers a reassessment of Debord?s original notion of Spectacle from the late 1960s, of its posterior revisitation in the 1990s, and it presents a reinterpretation of the concept within the scenario of contemporary informational capitalism and more specifically of digital and media labour. It is argued that the Spectacle 2.0 form operates as the interactive network that links through one singular (but contradictory) language and various imaginaries, uniting diverse productive contexts such as logistics, finance, new media and urbanism. Spectacle 2.0 thus colonizes most spheres of social life by processes of commodification, exploitation and reification. Diverse contributors consider the topic within the book?s two main sections: Part I conceptualizes and historicizes the Spectacle in the context of informational capitalism; contributions in Part II offer empirical cases that historicise the Spectacle in relation to the present (and recent past) showing how a Spectacle 2.0 approach can illuminate and deconstruct specific aspects of contemporary social reality. All contributions included in this book rework the category of the Spectacle to present a stimulating compendium of theoretical critical literature in the fields of media and labour studies. In the era of the gig-economy, highly mediated content and President Trump, Debord?s concept is arguably more relevant than ever. https://www.uwestminsterpress.co.uk/site/books/10.16997/book11/ https://www.uwestminsterpress.co.uk/site/books/series/critical-digital-and-social-media-studies/ --- Cet email a fait l'objet d'une analyse antivirus par AVG. http://www.avg.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From kalpana.shankar at ucd.ie Wed Dec 20 22:08:38 2017 From: kalpana.shankar at ucd.ie (Kalpana Shankar) Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2017 03:08:38 -0000 Subject: [Sigtis-l] CFP: Conference on peer review, 7-9 March 2018, Rome Message-ID: PEERE Conference on peer review 2018 - Call for Papers --------------------------- The First International Conference on Peer Review, organized by the TD1306 COST Action PEERE: New Frontiers of Peer Review. March 7-9 2018, Rome, Italy. http://www.peere.org/conference/conference-submission/. Important dates --------------- January 15, 2018 (AOE): abstract and papers deadline February 1, 2018: notifications March 7-9, 2018: conference in Rome Scope ----- The TD1306 COST Action PEERE organises an interdisciplinary conference on peer review. The conference aims to provide a forum for scholars, practitioners and science stakeholders to share evidence on peer review in different fields, e.g., medicine, computer science, social sciences and humanities. It aims to stimulate the use of evidence-based research in the design and implementation of peer review in a variety of fields and encourage more systematic research. The conference welcomes any contribution (e.g., original research, position papers, literature reviews) that uses any method (e.g., quantitative, experimental or qualitative) to investigate peer review in a variety of scientific domains (e.g., scholarly journals, funding agencies, research assessment). Interdisciplinary research is especially welcome. Main topics of interest ----------------------- The topics of interest to the conference include, but are not limited to: - Quantitative and qualitative analysis of peer review in scholarly journals and funding agencies - Estimating editorial and reviewer bias - The impact of different peer review models (single vs. double blind, confidential vs. open etc.) on reviewer attitudes and editorial decisions - Incentives, motivation and recognition in peer review - Social network analysis of peer review and editorial policy - Models and theories of peer review: principles, functions and management - Applications of bibliometrics, altmetrics and scientometrics to peer review - Perspectives from policy makers, grant funding agencies, libraries, and publishers - Computer simulation studies of peer review dynamics and outcomes Submission and publication -------------------------- All papers must be original, unpublished, and not submitted for publication elsewhere. We encourage two types of submissions: full papers, 10 to 12 pages, single column, max 8000 words or extended abstracts, 3 to 4 pages max, single column. Submissions should include title, author(s), including affiliations and corresponding author address, abstracts (in case of full papers), keywords, text (including tables and figures) and references. Submissions will be judged on their originality, significance, clarity, relevance, and technical correctness. Each submission will be peer -reviewed by at least two programme committee members. External reviewers will be used in case of lack of expertise of the programme committee members. The peer review process will follow a single-blind procedure. To manage submissions, we use Easychair. To submit, please click on this link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=peerewic2018. Grants for early career researchers ------------------------ The conference organisers will financially support the participation of several early career researchers who have their paper accepted to the conference. Contact: info at peere.org. More info: http://www.peere.org/conference/conference-conference-grants/. Invited speakers ------------------------ Isabelle Boutron (University of Paris Descartes, France) Edward Hackett (Brandeis University, USA) Others will follow Program committee chairs ------------------------ Flaminio Squazzoni (University of Brescia, Italy) Francisco Grimaldo (University of Valencia, Spain) Ana Marusic (University of Split School of Medicine, Croatia) Mario Paolucci (CNR, Rome, Italy) Program committee ----------------- Petra Ahrweiler (European Academy, Ahrweiler, Germany) Judit Bar-Ilan (Bar-Ilan University, Israel) Vladimir Batagelj (University of Ljubljana, Slovenia) Elise Brezis (Bar-Ilan University, Israel) Federico Bianchi (University of Brescia, Italy) Aliaksandr Birukou (Springer-Verlag GmbH, Heidelberg, Germany) Giangiacomo Bravo (Linnaeus University, V?xj?, Sweden) Niccol? Casnici (University of Brescia, Italy) Stephen Cowley (University of Southern Denmark, Denmark) Virginia Dignum (Delft University of Technology, Netherlands) Pierpaolo Dondio (Dublin Institute of Technology, Ireland) Bruce Edmonds (Manchester Metropolitan University, UK) Anuska Ferligoj (University of Ljubljana, Slovenia) Aileen Fyfe (St. Andrews University, Scotland) Nigel Gilbert (University of Surrey, UK) Carole J. Lee (University of Washington at Seattle, USA) Benedetto Lepori (USI Lugano, Switzerland) Mario Mali?ki (University of Amsterdam, Netherlands) Bahar Mehmani (Elsevier, Amsterdam, Netherlands) Elizabeth Moylan (BioMed Central, London, UK) Olgica Nedic (University of Belgrade, Serbia) Simone Righi (University of Bologna, Italy) Frank Schweitzer (ETH Zurich, Switzerland) Marco Seeber (Ghent University, Belgium) Kalpana Shankar (University College Dublin, Ireland) Jeroen Smits (Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands) Jadranka Stojanovski (University of Zadar, Croatia) K?roly Takacs (Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Hungary) Didier Torny (CNRS, Paris, France) Ludovic Trinquart (Boston University School of Public Health, USA) Elizabeth Wager (Sideview, UK) Lucija Wejmelka (University of Zagreb, Croatia) Michael Willis (John Wiley & Sons, Oxford, UK) Paul Wouters (Leiden University, Netherlands) -- Kalpana Shankar Professor of Information and Communication Studies Head of School 2015-2018 School of Information and Communication Studies University College Dublin Belfield 4 Dublin +353(1) 716-8359 kalpana.shankar at ucd.ie -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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