From mathieu.oneil at anu.edu.au Mon Aug 4 08:12:47 2014 From: mathieu.oneil at anu.edu.au (Mathieu ONeil) Date: Mon, 4 Aug 2014 06:12:47 +0000 Subject: ::fibreculture:: Online communities and networks workshop: registration and programme In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <1407132765999.79671@anu.edu.au> Registration is open for the Concepts and methods workshop: Structural approaches to online communities and networks The workshop is organised by the News & Media Research Centre (N&MRC), Faculty of Arts and Design, University of Canberra Date: Wednesday 27th August 2014 Venue: Seminar Room 1, Ann Harding Conference Centre, Building 24, University of Canberra The workshop is divided in two parts. In the morning sessions, early-career researchers present their work and confirmed researchers provide feedback and suggest key arguments. The morning's discussions inform the afternoon sessions, which consist in a structured democratic dialogue process seeking to answer the following triggering question: "what are the most promising areas for future research into online communities and networks?". Registration is free, but please note that attendance at the afternoon sessions is limited to 20 people. For the full programme and registration information please go here: http://www.canberra.edu.au/faculties/arts-design/research/research-centres/news-and-media-research-centre/events/concepts-and-methods-workshop The workshop will be the inaugural event of the Canberra Networks Public and Organisations research group.? ? -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From mathieu.oneil at anu.edu.au Mon Aug 18 02:42:00 2014 From: mathieu.oneil at anu.edu.au (Mathieu ONeil) Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2014 00:42:00 +0000 Subject: ::fibreculture:: Public Lecture @ National Library, 26 August 2014 In-Reply-To: <1407132765999.79671@anu.edu.au> References: , <1407132765999.79671@anu.edu.au> Message-ID: <1408322519778.44700@anu.edu.au> The News & Media Research Centre (N&MRC), University of Canberra, presents a Public Lecture: WORKING WITH THE CROWD: ENGAGING PARTICIPATION IN ONLINE CROWDS AND COMMUNITIES Ferguson Room, National Library of Australia Tuesday August 26, 5.30PM-7PM The lecture will be delivered by the N&MRC's Visiting International Scholar Professor Caroline Haythornthwaite About the Speaker Caroline Haythornthwaite is the Director and Professor of Library, Archival and Information Studies at The iSchool at The University of British Columbia (UBC), Canada. Her research areas explore the way interaction, via computer media, supports and affects work, learning, and social interaction, primarily from a social-network-analysis perspective. Lecture Abstract The organization of work is changing. The change began with the first move to online communication and has accelerated with each new innovation in social media and social networking. The latest challenge entails harnessing the crowd - crowdsourcing, crowdfunding, crowd creativity, and more - to address work needs. This focus promises the contributory power of many without the obligation to plan for long-term maintenance of the workforce. The turn to the crowd represents a marked change from earlier attention to communities. What have we gained and lost in focusing on the crowd over the community? What do we know about each form of organizing that can help in matching tasks and goals to crowd and community options? How can we harness the power of crowds as well as the commitment of communities? This presentation outlines two models for design and analysis of contributory practice: a lightweight model that draws on a crowd perspective to address tasks and rewards from discrete contributors, and a heavyweight model that draws on a community perspective to address contributions from connected contributors. The future of crowdsourcing entails multiple models of contributory practice, some of which entail full commitment to the goals of the work, trust in the use of contributions, and payoffs - however near or far - for society, the environment, and the next generation. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=? -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From jhuns at vt.edu Tue Aug 19 19:16:19 2014 From: jhuns at vt.edu (jeremy hunsinger) Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2014 13:16:19 -0400 Subject: ::fibreculture:: cfp: Closed Systems / Open Worlds ( extended deadline: Sept. 15, 2014) Message-ID: <071D6A6F-9617-4730-9FD3-BF74BCE2F9FF@vt.edu> Apologies for x-posting-jh Closed Systems / Open Worlds ( extended deadline: Sept. 15, 2014) Contact: ClosedandOpenBook at gmail.com Deadline for pr?cis: 15 September 2014 Edited by: Jeremy Hunsinger (Wilfrid Laurier University), Jason Nolan (Ryerson University) & Melanie McBride (York University) This book will consist of explorations at the boundaries of virtual worlds as enclosed but encouraging spaces for exploration, learning, and enculturation. Game/worlds like Second Life, OpenSim, Minecraft, and Cloud Party are providing spaces for the construction of alternatives and reimaginings, though frequently they end up more as reproductions. We seek to challenge those spaces and their creativities and imaginings. These worlds exist as both code and conduct. Code is a modulating multiple signifier, in that the interpreters of the code vary from human to machine and that our understanding of the signifier changes the worldliness in itself. The conduct of both participants and administrators of these spaces influences how they flourish and then fade. As such the worlds and their anima/animus are socially constructed fictions where authors/creators/users, both above and below the actions are sometimes in concert, yet often in conflict with the space and intentions of the originators. This book seeks critically engaged scholars who want to risk the possibility of change in the face of closed systems. We are looking for critical or speculative essays that must be theoretically, empirically and/or contextually grounded chapters of 5000-6500 words plus apparatus. Doctoral students and non-tenure faculty members will be afforded blind peer review upon request. We are aiming for 12 -14 chapters that define the boundaries and thus likely futures of research on virtual worlds. Dates Sept. 15, 2014 ? 250 word pr?cis with 5-10 key references Sept. 30, 2014 ? accept/reject proposals Feb 1, 2015 ? final draft due July 1, 2015 ? feedback from reviewers September 1, 2015 ? final version December 1, 2015 ? in press Queries and submissions: ClosedandOpenBook at gmail.com Topics may include: ? alternative and minor game/virtual/etc. worlds ? archeologies/genealogies of virtuality ? augmented and mixed-reality worlds ? distributed cognitions ? early explorations in virtual learning environments ? the freedom of limitations ? identity construction and/or identity tourism ? the limits of simulation and emulation ? memories and forgetting in virtual worlds ? multisensory virtual environments ? multisensory exclusions in virtual worlds ? narratival and post-narratival andragogies, ?learning worlds? ? negative spaces as learning spaces (bullying, trolling, flaming, etc.) in virtual worlds ? non-social virtual worlds (dwarf fortress, some forms of minecraft, etc.) ? real world virtual worlds and boundaries (Lego, Hello Kitty, WebKinz, etc.) ? replication of real world environments/problems ? surrealism, unrealism and constructable alterities of/within virtual worlds ? transformative virtual classroom ? vapourware and virtuality ? the virtuality of learning jeremy hunsinger Communication Studies Wilfrid Laurier University Center for Digital Discourse and Culture Virginia Tech () ascii ribbon campaign - against html mail /\ - against microsoft attachments http://www.aoir.org The Association of Internet Researchers http://www.stswiki.org/ stswiki http://transdisciplinarystudies.tmttlt.com/ Transdisciplinary Studies:the book series