From sam at media.com.au Tue Jan 4 10:23:12 2011 From: sam at media.com.au (sam de silva) Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2011 20:23:12 +1100 Subject: ::fibreculture:: new media art input Message-ID: <7E321AC6-4C69-4181-95F4-0517A266C9D3@media.com.au> Hi there, Happy new year! I am doing some work with IFACCA - a global network of arts agencies. They want to figure out how best to assist 'new media' artists who dabble with digital/tech/media/biomass/etc and galleries/instiutitons that provide space and exposure for the works produced by those artists. Right now, we are sourcing input from various groups. IFACCA plans to develop a policy for its network members which will flow on to artists through programs and initiatives that hopefully results in funding and livelihood sustainability, as well as enabling artists to create the works they envisage. I'd appreciate if you could complete the survey at http://www.surveygizmo.com/s3/438795/nma-input - it should take around 5 to 7 minutes to complete. 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POLITICS, PRACTICES AND POWER http://www.ipa-2011.cardiff.ac.uk/ I soliciting papers for the panel: Panel 20: Globalizing Technology and Innovation Policies: Interpretative and Critical Approaches Chair: Jeremy Hunsinger, Center for Digital Discourse and Culture, Virginia Tech, send proposals to: jhuns at vt.edu This panel addresses technology and innovation policies as politico-ethico-juridico- technical systems comprised of arrangements of things and peoples. Through it, we are particularly interested in the transitions these systems undergo as they migrate from local and national applications to transnational and global systems. These systems undergo significant translations, modifications, and reorganizations as they come to match the sensemaking practices of global and transnational interests and their policymaking regimes. Examples of such transitions and translations ongoing now are: questions of information technology, intellectual property, genetically modified organisms, internet governance, STEM education funding, Mode 2 centered research funding and many, many others. Given the plurality of possibilities for this panel, it is important to maintain two themes in your submissions: 1. center on technology, innovation, or research policy, 2. the trend from local to global in the application of these policies. As fitting with the core concepts of the conference, this panel will consider critical and interpretive approaches with those two themes Submissions due 5 February, 2011 Jeremy Hunsinger Center for Digital Discourse and Culture Virginia Tech http://www.tmttlt.com Whoever ceases to be a student has never been a student. -George Iles From stephen at melbpc.org.au Sat Jan 22 04:27:56 2011 From: stephen at melbpc.org.au (stephen at melbpc.org.au) Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2011 03:27:56 GMT Subject: ::fibreculture:: The HTML5 Language Message-ID: <20110122032756.BDFE3989@eagle.melbpc.org.au> Hi all, The W3C group have just released two significant docs regarding HTML5 .. -- HTML5: Edition for Web Authors A vocabulary and associated APIs for HTML and XHTML Editor's Draft 22 January 2011 This specification defines the 5th major revision of the core language of the World Wide Web: the Hypertext Markup Language (HTML). In this version, new features are introduced to help Web application authors, new elements are introduced based on research into prevailing authoring practices, and special attention has been given to defining clear conformance criteria for user agents in an effort to improve interoperability. -- and .. -- HTML5 differences from HTML4 W3C Working Draft 13 January 2011 HTML5 defines the fifth major revision of the core language of the World Wide Web, HTML. "HTML5 differences from HTML4" describes the differences between HTML4 and HTML5 and provides some of the rationale for the changes. -- And, here's a primer on HTML4-HTML5 differences .. -- Web Developer Basics: Differences Between HTML4 And HTML5 By David Fiedler Now that we've seen how to use some of the newer whiz-bang features of the draft HTML5 standard, it's time to take a few steps back and take a look at some of the other differences between HTML4 and HTML5. This article is intended to be a useful overview, not an exhaustive reference, but remember that things are still and always changing. The complete, up to date list of all the technical differences may always be found on the W3C's site. The first thing you should know is that, perhaps for the first time, the development of a language standard is acknowledging the real world. In order to keep file compatibility with the current standard - which is technically HTML 4.01 - the brave decision was made to separate the way the web browser renders files from the way we, as developers, must write them. So the browser, or "user agent", must still process HTML4 constructs like the center element, because there will still be millions of files on the Internet that happen to use it. But we won't be writing any more HTML with center; it's simply being dropped from the language (use CSS instead). This compatibility goes both ways: older browsers can (and will) simply ignore HTML5 code without screwing things up. No More Frames This is great news to those of us who slogged through the 1990s. To be exact, the elements frame, frameset, and noframes are being removed from the language, as well as acronym, applet, basefont, big , blink, center , dir, font, isindex, strike , tt and u. All of these can be handled using CSS. (Stephen: here's one CSS primer/demo: ) You'll also have to learn to get along without using tables for layout; while tables themselves are still part of HTML5, they're not intended for placing pixels any more. Here's what the spec says: "Tables must not be used as layout aids. Historically, some Web authors have misused tables in HTML as a way to control their page layout. This usage is non-conforming, because tools attempting to extract tabular data from such documents would obtain very confusing results." So all the attributes that let people create those perfectly laid-out, tinted tables are gone, like align, bgcolor, border, cellpadding, cellspacing, height, nowrap, rules, valign, and the big one: width. The mantra: use CSS instead. I've been trying my best to break it to you slowly, but frankly, all presentational elements are coming out of HTML5. My advice: learn lots more CSS, until you can quote chapter and verse in your sleep. Good News The good news is that even though this is a big change, it's a change for the better. Browsers of the future (just another month or two!) will become more powerful because of the move towards the cloud, so that they'll be able to handle more on their own. We've already seen that with things like Ajax, and now with video/audio embedding and such, it will be far easier for us to code in a straightforward manner and let the browser figure out the details. For instance, new structure elements include article, aside, figcaption, figure, footer, header, hgroup, nav, section, and summary, all of which refer to the structure of the document itself and leave rendering to the browser. There are still some new elements that deal with text on a detailed level, however: you'll code wbr when you think it's possible to do a line break, but the browser will decide for you. Another hint element is bdi, used to mark an area where bidirectional text formatting can be done (primarily for mixing left-right and right- left languages in a single document). Its complement, bdo, lets you explicitly override and force a particular directionality. For even more slick internationalization, the elements ruby, rp, and rt are included for ruby annotations, which are meant for pronunciation aids rather than for Ruby On Rails programmers. The more high-level new elements include things like canvas, meant for specifying an area for drawing a bitmapped graphic on the fly, such as a data graph or game graphic; meter is a placeholder for a numeric measurement of an expected size (and is eerily similar to format in ancient FORTRAN), while progress is its graphical counterpart, to be used where you want a progress bar. Last, but not least, there are the multimedia elements such as audio, video, source and embed. -- Cheers, Stephen From jhuns at vt.edu Fri Jan 28 21:05:24 2011 From: jhuns at vt.edu (jeremy hunsinger) Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2011 15:05:24 -0500 Subject: ::fibreculture:: =?iso-8859-1?q?Information_Science_and_Social_Me?= =?iso-8859-1?q?dia_conference=2C_24=2E-26=2E_August_2011_in_=C5bo___/_Tur?= =?iso-8859-1?q?ku=2C_Finland?= Message-ID: <7F3B1E53-47A8-4D0B-B37A-F3283E3CF2B5@vt.edu> Distributing around the world, please distribute as appropriate -jh Dear Colleagues, The aim of the first ISSOME conference is to address new modes of information behaviour in different contexts focusing the effects of social media and technologies in the interactive web. The change process is not always straight forward and we need to underline what is really changing and what is only a trend. The conference will discuss skills needed to manage the new information platform and how to develop needed competencies in the information society. The conference is open to researchers, academics and practitioners in the fields of library and information science and social media, as well as businesses and organizations developing social media strategies. The conference will host invited and contributed papers sessions. In conjunction with the conference will also be organized a Doctoral Forum. This offers a possibility for doctoral students to share their ongoing research projects with their peers and well-established senior researchers. The conference is organized by the Department of Information Studies at ?bo Akademi University. It is well established and internationally recognized for excellence in research and education. The department conducts a wide array of research including research about social media, Library 2.0, knowledge management, health information behavior, and scientometrics. The department is part of the School of Business and Economics and it has strong connections and collaborative multidisciplinary projects with other departments in the school. Please visit http://issome2011.library2pointoh.fi/ for more information. Call for Papers Call for Papers for the international conference in Information Science and Social Media ? ISSOME in 24.-26.8.2011 is open. We invite researchers worldwide to submit original research within the topics of the conference that are listed below. Submissions should be extended abstracts of no longer than 1500 words. All submissions will be peer-reviewed double blinded. Submission guidelines are available at http://issome2011.library2pointoh.fi/. Conference themes Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Social media in information science - Information aspects of social media - Library 2.0 and Librarian 2.0 - Social networking sites - Information Management - Knowledge Management - Knowledge Organization - Reputation Management - Information Behaviour and Information Use - Information dissemination in social media Structure of the extended abstract - Title - Abstract text - References Abstract text should clearly describe the aims, novelty/originality and principal findings/contribution of the presentation. In the case of empirical studies, also the method and material should be described briefly. Observe that no information about the authors should be included in the abstract document. Deadline Deadline for submissions is February 28, 2011. With kindest regards, -- Kim Holmberg Researcher, lecturer (e) kim.holmberg at abo.fi (t) +358 (0)2 215 4862 (m) +358 (0)45 675 4444 (w3) http://kimholmberg.fi Department of Information Studies School of Business and Economics ?bo Akademi University F?nriksgatan 3 B 20500 ?BO, Finland ---------------------------------------------- "Oh what a tangled web we weave?? - Sir Walter Scott, 1771-1832 ---------------------------------------------- From scubitt at unimelb.edu.au Fri Jan 28 23:59:28 2011 From: scubitt at unimelb.edu.au (Sean Cubitt (Melbourne)) Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2011 09:59:28 +1100 Subject: ::fibreculture:: CFP Rewire Conference, Liverpool Sept 2011 References: <40DAA026-004A-4B1E-A97B-331AF524FE58@fact.co.uk> Message-ID: <4E297380-CCB1-4BFB-8B3C-180F18928EC6@unimelb.edu.au> After the success of rewind, the next iteration of the media art histories conferences is in Liverpool, and as you'll see below, they are feeling expecially northatlanticist: antipodeans will be present, but more is always good, esp as the conference follows neatly on the heels of ISEA in istanbul sean > From: "Mike Stubbs" > Date: 27 January 2011 11:28:18 PM AEDT > Subject: Rewire Conference, Co-Chair's Meeting & NJP Conference > > All, > > We are delighted to announce that we have over 60 submissions thus far to the Rewire conference, and we imagine that we will be receiving plenty more before the the deadline. > > It would be much appreciated if you could continue to encourage your friends/colleagues/contacts/artists/academics to submit, so as to allow the most diverse pool of papers. Thus far, the majority of papers look like they are leaning toward a rather European and American axis, so perhaps we could push beyond this. Information about submissions can be found on: www.rewireconference2011.org. > > I -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From jhuns at vt.edu Sun Jan 30 22:53:37 2011 From: jhuns at vt.edu (jeremy hunsinger) Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2011 16:53:37 -0500 Subject: ::fibreculture:: CFP: Globalizing Technology and Innovation Policies: Interpretative and Critical Approaches Message-ID: Call for papers or proposals: 6TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE IN INTERPRETIVE POLICY ANALYSIS: DISCURSIVE SPACES. POLITICS, PRACTICES AND POWER http://www.ipa-2011.cardiff.ac.uk/ I soliciting papers for the panel: Panel 20: Globalizing Technology and Innovation Policies: Interpretative and Critical Approaches Chair: Jeremy Hunsinger, Center for Digital Discourse and Culture, Virginia Tech, send proposals to: jhuns at vt.edu This panel addresses technology and innovation policies as politico-ethico-juridico- technical systems comprised of arrangements of things and peoples. Through it, we are particularly interested in the transitions these systems undergo as they migrate from local and national applications to transnational and global systems. These systems undergo significant translations, modifications, and reorganizations as they come to match the sensemaking practices of global and transnational interests and their policymaking regimes. Examples of such transitions and translations ongoing now are: questions of information technology, intellectual property, genetically modified organisms, internet governance, STEM education funding, Mode 2 centered research funding and many, many others. Given the plurality of possibilities for this panel, it is important to maintain two themes in your submissions: 1. center on technology, innovation, or research policy, 2. the trend from local to global in the application of these policies. As fitting with the core concepts of the conference, this panel will consider critical and interpretive approaches with those two themes Submissions due 5 February, 2011 Jeremy Hunsinger Center for Digital Discourse and Culture Virginia Tech http://www.tmttlt.com Whoever ceases to be a student has never been a student. -George Iles