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[reposted from AOIR mailing list]

Special Issue of Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking on social
media as a research environment

Guest Editors
Michael Macy, PhD, Cornell University
Scott A. Golder, Cornell University

CFP: http://redlog.net/cyberpsych_cfp.pdf

Deadline for manuscript submission: July 2, 2012

Guest editors Michael W. Macy, PhD and Scott A. Golder are organizing a
special issue of the journal of Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social
Networking on social media as a research environment. All accepted articles
will be published online ahead of print. The print issue is scheduled for
winter 2012.

We are seeking high-quality review articles and original articles on the
following topics:

* The use of social media as a data source in social science research
* Papers that address questions of longstanding social scientific interest
using novel data from social media
* Experimental methods online, including controlled experiments and natural
experiments
* Effects of the structure/design of online environments on users' social
behavior

Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking is the essential,
peer-reviewed journal for understanding the social and psychological impact
of today’s social networking practices. Highly regarded as the go-to source
in the field, the Journal is known for its rapid communication articles and
in-depth studies surrounding the effects of interactive technologies on
behavior and society.

Advantages of submitting your research to Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and
Social Networking: Rapid peer review *** Fast track article publication ***
Open access options *** Abstracting and indexing in all key services ***
Readership in more than 140 countries *** Outstanding editorial board and
reputation of journal *** Dedicated author support team

CFP: http://redlog.net/cyberpsych_cfp.pdf
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Read about the Robots and Avatars Exhibition at FACT, Liverpool (UK) from 16 March to 27 May 2012, exploring the ways that robots impact on the future of work and play: http://www.robotsandavatars.net/
and watch the BBC Click review of the Exhibition Program here: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/click_online/9714944.stm.
Also, check out the Visions of Our Communal Dreams new media project by Michael Takeo Magruder and join the virtual world using OSgrid: http://www.robotsandavatars.net/exhibition/commissions/visionsofourcommunaldreams/

[repost of email from Adriana de Souza e Silva]

Mobile Interfaces in Public Spaces: Locational Privacy, Control, and Urban Sociability
Adriana de Souza e Silva & Jordan Frith

Short Description
Mobile phones are no longer what they used to be. Not only can users connect to the Internet anywhere and anytime, they can also use their devices to map their precise geographic coordinates – and access location-specific information like restaurant reviews, historical information, and locations of other people nearby. The proliferation of location-aware mobile technologies calls for a new understanding of how we define public spaces, how we deal with locational privacy, and how networks of power are developed today.
In Mobile Interfaces in Public Spaces, Adriana de Souza e Silva and Jordan Frith examine these social and spatial changes by framing the development of location-aware technology within the context of other mobile and portable technologies such as the book, the Walkman, the iPod, and the mobile phone. These technologies work as interfaces to public spaces – that is, as symbolic systems that not only filter information but also reshape communication relationships and the environment in which social interaction takes place. Yet rather than detaching people from their surroundings, the authors suggest that location-aware technologies may ultimately strengthen our connections to locations.

TOC:
Section I: Mobile Interfaces in Public Spaces
1. Interfaces to public spaces
2. The public and the private
3. From voice to location
Section II: Location-awareness in the contemporary city
4. Locational privacy
5. Power in location awareness
6. The presentation of location

About the Authors:
Adriana de Souza e Silva is Associate Professor in the Department of Communication at North Carolina State University. Her research focuses on how mobile and locative interfaces shape interactions with public spaces and create new forms of sociability. She is the co-editor of Digital Cityscapes: Merging Digital and Urban Playspaces, and co-author of Net-Locality: Why Location Matters in a Networked World,

Jordan Frith is a doctoral candidate in North Carolina State University's Communication, Rhetoric and Digital Media program. His main research interests are locative media and space, particularly how locative media may influence interactions in urban spaces. He has recently been published in the journals Mobilities and Communication, Culture, and Critique.

http://www.amazon.com/Mobile-Interfaces-Public-Spaces-Sociability/dp/041550600X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1335448013&sr=8-1
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Adriana de Souza e Silva, PhD
Associate Professor of Communication
NC State University
http://www.souzaesilva.com

Lead organizer
ICA Mobile Communication pre-conference 2012
http://sociomobile.org/mobile2012/index.html

The Guardian has published a series over seven days examining what they call the "new battlegrounds for the internet". First episode on the new cold war, second on the militarisation of cyberspace, third on new walled gardens, four on IP wars, five on 'civilising' the web, six on open resistance and lastly, on the end of piracy. Check it out here:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/series/battle-for-the-internet

[reposted from email by Chris Chesher]

Note that the big trade show CEBIT is coming up in Sydney in May. I've discovered that you can register at www.cebit.com.au/reg with promo code cebit153s to get a free ticket.

[reposted from email by Dr Peter John Chen]

Reminder: places are limited, please go to http://fillmeupwith.info/ for bookings. Please forward this to relevant postgraduate lists.

1. Public talk: Independent Media Inquiry and the Regulation of Online News
Monday 16 April, 2pm
University of Sydney
ALL WELCOME
http://fillmeupwith.info/events/independent-media-inquiry-and-the-regulation-of-online-news/

2. Methodology Seminar: New Media Advertising for Social Research
Monday 30 April, 2pm
University of Sydney
INTERACTIVE SESSION
http://fillmeupwith.info/events/social-media-advertising-for-social-research/

About the OMG!
The group organises talks and seminars for academics interested in the political use, implications, and study of new and emerging media. The group presently runs talks on a monthly basis in the Sydney-Canberra area.

[reposted from CSAA mailing list]

REVEALING THE READER: Locating the history, present and future of reading.
A Symposium
28-30 June, 2012
Centre for the Book, Monash University
Melbourne.

Recent developments in the history of the book demonstrate that an
interest in the material history of print culture inevitably leads us
to the question of readers. How well can we understand the past,
present and future of print culture without examining the uses to
which it is put by its audience? This question serves not only to
remind us of the primacy of the economic relationship between readers,
writers and publishers, but draws our attention to the variety of
cultural, social, political, and interpersonal roles that reading has
played and continues to play.

Revealing The Reader aims to bring together scholars with a common
interest in contemporary and historical reading practices with the aim
of showcasing current research in this rapidly expanding field, and
providing a forum for discussion and debate on the state of reading
research.

Paper proposals may address topics such as:

- Case studies of reading practices and reading communities
- The diverse relationships between reading communities, publishers
and authors etc.
- The relationships between reading communities and genre
- Methodologies for researching readers and their practices
- The material trace of reading
- Historical and contemporary evidence of readerships and reading practices
- Locations of reading
- The relationship between individual readers and reading communities
(and vice versa)
- Histories of reading
- Technologies of reading
- The role of existing and emerging technologies in revealing readers

This list is not exhaustive, and the conveners welcome submissions
from researchers whose work investigates reading practices and readers
from the perspective of the sociology of literature, book history,
literary studies, mixed methods research, reader response theory,
history, cultural studies, and the study of material culture.
Submissions from postgraduate and early career researchers are
particularly welcome.

Key note speakers:
• Danielle Fuller (University of Birmingham): a chief investigator in
the Beyond The Book research project into mass reading events.
• Susan Martin (La Trobe University): co-author of 'Sensational
Melbourne: Reading, Sensation Fiction and Lady Audley's Secret in the
Victorian Metropolis'.
• Julie Rak (University of Alberta): author of a forthcoming study on
the memoir boom in North America.

Please email 300-word proposals for 20 minute papers, and 50-word
presenter bio-notes by Friday 27 April 2012 to conference organisers
at: Anna.Poletti@monash.edu and Patrick.Spedding@monash.edu.
Pre-constituted panel proposals welcome. Please include the conference
title in the subject heading of your email.

The symposium will follow a one day masterclass, led by Danielle
Fuller, on Thursday 28 June at the Wheeler Centre Melbourne as part of
the Readers and Reception Masterclass series, presented by the
National Centre for the Australian Studies, School of Journalism,
Australian and Indigenous Studies. Information on the Masterclass
series is available from Jinna.Tay@monash.edu or
Louise.Poland@monash.edu.