From jhuns at vt.edu Mon Jan 6 18:59:17 2014 From: jhuns at vt.edu (jeremy hunsinger) Date: Mon, 6 Jan 2014 12:59:17 -0500 Subject: ::fibreculture:: cfp: the Democratization of Hacking & Making Message-ID: <2FBEF5F4-2982-4C82-9BF3-877CB8CEA26E@vt.edu> Please distribute as appropriate, sorry for the cross-posts -jh Call For Papers: Special Issue of New Media & Society on the Democratization of Hacking & Making Research on hacker culture has historically focused on a relatively narrow set of activities and practices related to open-source software, political protest, and criminality. Scholarship on making has generally been defined as hands-on work with a connection to craft. By contrast, ?hacking? and ?making? in the current day are increasingly inroads to a more diverse range of activities, industries, and groups. They may show a strong cultural allegiance or map new interpretations and trajectories. These developments prompt us to revisit central questions: does the use of hacking/making terminologies carry with them particular valences? Are they deeply rooted in technologies, ideologies or cultures? Are they best examined through certain intellectual traditions? Can they be empowering to participants, or are they merely buzzwords that have been diluted and co-opted by governmental and business entities? What barriers to entry and participation exist? The current issue explores and questions the growing diversity of uses stemming from this turn of hacking towards more popular uses and democratic contexts. Submissions that employ novel methodological and theoretical perspectives to understand this turn in hacking are encouraged. They should explore new opportunities for conversations and consider hacking as rooted in a specific phenomena, culture, environment, practice or movement. Criteria for admission in this special issue include rigor of analysis, caliber of interpretation, and relevance of conclusions. Topics may include: ? Disparities of access and representation, such as gender, race and ethnicity ? Open-access environments for learning and production, such as hacker and maker spaces ? ?Civic hacking? and open data movements on city, state and national levels ? Integration of hacking and making within industries ? Historical analyses of making/hacking such as phreaking and amateur computing ? Popularization of terms like ?hacker? in newspapers, magazines and other publications ? Open-source hardware and software movements ? Appropriation of technology ? Hacking in non-western contexts, such as the global south and China ? Political implications of a popular shift in hacker/maker culture Please email 400 word abstract proposals, along with a short author biography, by May 1, 2014 toaschrock at usc.edu and jhunsinger at wlu.ca. Final selected articles will be due during September 2014 and will undergo peer review. Jeremy Hunsinger Communication Studies Wilfrid Laurier University Center for Digital Discourse and Culture Virginia Tech Words are things; and a small drop of ink, falling like dew upon a thought, produces that which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think. --Byron From ned at nedrossiter.org Wed Jan 22 01:19:57 2014 From: ned at nedrossiter.org (Ned Rossiter) Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2014 11:19:57 +1100 Subject: ::fibreculture:: Exposing the Invisible event 10th Feb - Sydney Message-ID: <52DF0EAD.4020804@nedrossiter.org> EXPOSING THE INVISIBLE 10 February, 2014 5.30pm-8.00pm The internet, mobile phones and the digitisation of data have enabled collaborations between activists, hackers, researchers and journalists on an unprecedented scale. These collaborations have led to exposures and revelations that were once unimaginable.This event will explore how technology is being used to expose the invisible. Tactical Technology Collective support rights advocates from around the world to collect, analyse and visualise evidence in a safe and secure way. Tactical Tech?s founders and directors, Stephanie Hankey and Marek Tuszynski, have been working at the forefront of new information and technology collaborations and developments for more than a decade. They will join us from Berlin to share their latest productions: a documentary film, Exposing the Invisible and a book, Visualising Information for Advocacy. The screening will be followed with a panel and audience discussion about the challenges and opportunities for exposing the invisible. This event will be of interest to NGOs, activists, hackers, technologists, journalists, designers, researchers, academics and anyone else interested in using digital technologies to investigate and expose injustice and rights abuses. We invite you to come and share your own experiences and ideas. 5.30pm: Australian Premiere Screening of Exposing the Invisible 6.45pm: Refreshments 7.00pm: Short presentations by and discussions with: Elaine Pearson, Human Rights Watch (Using video documentation and satellite imagery to expose abuses in Asia) Wendy Bacon, Professorial Fellow and Investigative Journalist, Australian Centre for Independent Journalism (Investigating 'invisibility' in Australian media - a case study of coal and climate change) ActionAid Australia (Mapping for Advocacy in Kenya) Jeremy Donovan, Generation One (Making visible Indigenous and non-Indigenous disparities) Stephanie Hankey and Marek Tuszynski, Tactical Tech (Land grabs and the Land Matrix Project) Event organised by: The Sydney Democracy Network Supported by: The University of Sydney and The University of Western Sydney Location: S249, Philosophy Room, The Quadrangle, University of Sydney Campus Map and Parking Map More info and please RSVP here as there are limited seats. http://sydney.edu.au/arts/sdn/news_events/events.shtml?id=2429 Contact: Tanya Notley Email: T.Notley at uws.edu.au -------- Dr. Tanya Notley Lecturer School of Humanities and Communication Arts University of Western Sydney Room EQ.G.26 Parramatta South Campus Postal: Locked Bag 1797 Penrith NSW 2751 Staff Profile: http://www.uws.edu.au/staff_profiles/uws_profiles/doctor_tanya_notley m: +61 (0)426018024 | e: t.notley at uws.edu.au | Twitter: @tattinot From ned at nedrossiter.org Fri Jan 24 06:46:32 2014 From: ned at nedrossiter.org (Ned Rossiter) Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2014 16:46:32 +1100 Subject: ::fibreculture:: 3 positions in Communication/Convergent Media, University of Western Sydney Message-ID: <52E1FE38.6040409@nedrossiter.org> The following three academic positions in the Communication/Convergent Media program have recently been advertised on the UWS Jobs website - http://careers.uws.edu.au/Current-Vacancies Ref 053/14 Associate Lecturer in Digital and Social Media Ref 058/14 Lecturer in Advertising Creative Ref 061/14 Lecturer in Convergent Media The closing date for applications is Monday 10 February. Please refer to the website for full details and the position descriptions. Enquiries should be directed to Associate Professor Kaye Shumack or Professor Lynette Sheridan Burns. Kaye Shumack Lynette Sheridan Burns