From n.tkacz at warwick.ac.uk  Mon Jun  3 14:28:58 2013
From: n.tkacz at warwick.ac.uk (nathaniel tkacz)
Date: Mon, 3 Jun 2013 13:28:58 +0100
Subject: ::fibreculture:: Seminar: Noortje Marres and Interface Methods
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The Centre for Interdisciplinary
Methodologies<http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fac/cim/> is
pleased to invite you to a seminar (no registration necessary):

*The Associational Profiler:
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*On co-word analysis as an interface method.*

Dr. Noortje Marres <http://www.gold.ac.uk/sociology/staff/marres/>,
Goldsmiths, University of London

4-5.30pm, Wednesday 19th June

Cowling Room, Social Sciences Building, University of Warwick

This presentation will narrate the development of an online tool for social
research, provisionally called the Associational Profiler. This
experimental tool was produced in collaboration between CSISP (The Centre
for the Study of Invention and Social Process, Goldsmiths) and DMI (The
Digital Methods Initiative, University of Amsterdam). It implements a
particular method of textual analysis, co-word analysis, online and adapts
it for the analysis of ?issue dynamics?. Co-word analysis was developed in
the Social Studies of Science and Technology in the 1980s to locate
'pockets of innovation' in scientific literatures (Callon et al, 1983). It
is today quite widely applied in online research, as the method figures in
various applications for real-time analysis, such as Infomous and the
Twitter Streamgraph. Our aspiration, in developing the Associational
Profiler, was to move beyond the logics and methods materialized in these
former tools, in particular their narrow focus on *live content rather than
on its liveliness. *In my presentation, I will discuss whether and how the
online implementation of co-word analysis enabled critical and creative
engagement with popular online methods. I will do so through an account of
the process of tool development as well as the pilot studies we conducted
to test it, using Twitter data relating to issues of internet governance.

Nathaniel Tkacz

Assistant Professor
Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies
The University of Warwick

Twitter: http://twitter.com/__nate__
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From ned at nedrossiter.org  Tue Jun 18 15:44:32 2013
From: ned at nedrossiter.org (Ned Rossiter)
Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2013 15:44:32 +0200
Subject: ::fibreculture:: Fwd: Conference on Virtual Work - Call for Papers
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> Sponsored by COST (European Co-operation in Science and Technology), Work Organisation Labour and Globalisation, Competition and Change and Triple C 
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> To be held at the University of Hertfordshire, UK, September 3-5, 2014
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> Globalisation and technological change have transformed where people work, when and how. Digitisation of information has altered labour processes out of all recognition whilst telecommunications have enabled jobs to be relocated globally. But ICTs have also enabled the creation of entirely new types of ?digital? or ?virtual? labour, both paid and unpaid,  shifting the borderline between ?play? and ?work? and creating new types of unpaid labour connected with the consumption and co-creation of goods and services.  The implications of this are far-reaching, both for policy and for scholarship. The dynamics of these changes cannot be captured adequately within the framework of any single academic discipline. On the contrary, they can only be understood in the light of a combination of insights from fields including political economy, the sociology of work, organisational theory, economic geography, development studies, industrial relations, comparative social policy, communications studies, technology policy and gender studies 
> COST Action IS1202 brings together an international network of leading experts from 29 European Countries with researchers from other parts of the world to develop a multi-faceted approach to understanding these phenomena. This international conference will open up an interactive dialogue between scholars both inside and outside the network. Papers drawing on theoretical, methodological or empirical research are welcomed on the following topics:
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> The new international division of labour
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> Restructuring of value chains ? theoretical perspectives
> Relocation or Global sourcing? New patterns of spatial mobility
> Does ?place? still matter, and why?
> Interactions between the gender division of labour and the spatial division of labour.
> Changes in skills and occupational identities in the digital economy
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> The creation of new occupational identities and the disintegration of old ones
> Reskilling or deskilling? New forms of Taylorisation or new opportunities for creativity?
> Changing patterns of working time, work-life balance and gender division of labour
> New forms of organisation inside and outside the workplace
> Value creation in the Internet Age
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> The monetisation of the Internet ? theoretical and methodological challenges
> Commodification and value creation in online activities
> ?Prosumption?, ?co-creation? and ?playbour?: conceptualising the shifts between labour, consumption and leisure activities
> Virtual work and immaterial production (including crowdsourcing, goldfarming and other forms of online work)
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> User-generated content ? threat or opportunity for employment?
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> Regulation of work and industrial relations in virtual work environments (the global context)
> Implications of virtual work for work-life balance and equality
>  Effects of virtual work on occupational profiles, skills and HR practices
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From iheap at iheap.fr  Tue Jun 18 19:04:38 2013
From: iheap at iheap.fr (IHEAP)
Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2013 19:04:38 +0200
Subject: ::fibreculture:: Desirable Art Schools
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Desirable Art Schools

In order to shape the outlines of what would be an art school in line 
with the challenges of the 21st century, IHEAP is collecting opinions 
about the following question:

"What Should Be An Art School?"

IHEAP thank you in advance for your answer which may appear in a 
publication entitled Desirable Art Schools.

With our dantesque greetings.

IHEAP

Please send your answer at : eds at iheap.fr







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