News and Event Announcements
- Presentation: "Reforming the Federal Communications Commission," 1/5/2009, National Press Club - Reforming The Federal
Communications Commission
A joint presentation of Public Knowledge and Silicon Flatirons, a Center for Law, Technology, and Entrepreneurship at the University of Colorado
The world once known as “telecommunications” is changing dramatically. New technologies, new business models and new policy challenges lie ahead. The critical question for governmental policy in this sector is easy to state, but harder to answer: With a new administration, is the Federal Communications Commission truly equipped to deal with immediate challenges that it will face?
- CFP: 3rd International Conference on Knowledge Generation, Communication and Management: KGCM 2009- Call for Papers/Abstracts and Invited Sessions Proposals for The 3rd International Conference on Knowledge Generation, Communication and Management: KGCM 2009 (http://www.2009iiisconferences.org/kgcm). It will take place in Orlando, Florida, USA, on July 10th - 13th, 2009.
- "SOCIAL COMPUTING IN 2020" BLUESKY INNOVATION COMPETITION- The University of California Transliteracies Project and UC Santa Barbara
Social Computing Group announce the "Social Computing in 2020" Bluesky
Innovation Competition." What will social computing technologies and
practices be like in the year 2020?
- Finally Copyright Confusion Comes to an End- Did you ever feel guilty about using an image you found on Google images, or a snippet of video, or part of a song because someone told you that it was
stealing other people’s copyrighted work? We’ve been hearing more and more about owners’ rights to copyright--- but many people are not aware that users have rights, too. The Code of Best Practices for Fair Use in Media Literacy Education clarifies how the doctrine of fair use applies to the work of students and teachers
- Nominations now being accepted for Tech Savvy Award, $45,000 to be provided to winning programs-
Nominate your technology literacy program!
- Volunteer opportunities- Teach ESL to rural children in the Ometepe Island, Lake Nicaragua, Central America.
- (NY Times) The Future of Reading: Using Video Games as Bait to Hook Readers-
Do we read to gain information? or to escape to a different world? And can/do video games support either motives?
Quotes:
- UCLA Mellon Seminar 2008-09: "What is(n't) Digital Humanities?" to be broadcast in Second Life- In this year-long, public seminar, participants are invited to examine, historicize, and critique the emergent field of "digital humanities" with experts and practitioners from various fields. Bringing together insights from media, game, literary and cultural studies, we will attempt to take stock of humanistic inquiry at the start of the 21st century. For a schedule of speakers, please visit http://www.digitalhumanities.ucla.edu/ and click on "Mellon Seminar."
- Digital Media and Learning Competition winners in the news- Read on for a repost from the blog of Sheryl Grant, our Director of Social Networking for the HASTAC/MacArthur Foundation Competition in Digital Media and Learning, on two winners of the DML Competition in the media spotlight.
- Boston: Purple Blurb @ MIT, with talks by Steve Meretzky, Jesper Juul, Jason Scott- The Purple Blurb series of readings of, talks on, and discussion about digital writing is continuing at MIT this Fall 2008. This semester is a gamey one, and features three speakers who bring a variety of perspectives to how writing and digital media intersect.
- Puget SoundOff, the website for engaging and engaged Seattle-area youth, has launched!-
A note from the Center for Communication and Civic Engagement at the University of Washington:
- Global Kids Will Launch Cutting Edge Second Life Curriculum in Tampa and Los Angeles- NEW YORK, Sep 3, 2008 (GlobeNewswire via COMTEX) -- Today, Global Kids' Online Leadership Director Barry Joseph will speak to leaders in digital media and education at the Virtual Worlds Conference and Expo held at the Los Angeles Convention Center, to be followed on Saturday, September 5th, with Joseph providing the educational keynote at the annual Second Life Community Convention in Tampa, Florida.
- Support Services for Children Who Are Deaf-Blind- New OSERS Funding Opportunity to Improve Services and Results for Children Who Are Deaf-Blind
- Knowledge Media Lab: Teaching & Learning Commons WebEvent 2-
Knowledge Media Lab: Teaching & Learning Commons WebEvent 2
- SC Education: Summer Workshops- SC Education: Summer Workshops
- SC08 News- Issue 3- SC08 News- Issue 3
- Launch of LSU in Second LIfe- The Center for Computation & Technology at Louisiana State University
will launch it's LSU in Second Life sim today (Thursday, May 8) at 11
AM CDT (9 AM PDT). The sim was constructed as part of a larger
research effort in virtual worlds, and will be used both for teaching
and research.
Although the launch and presentation of the effort will be on the LSU
campus (338 Johnston Hall if you're nearby), we will be simulcasting
the presentation to our in-world amphitheater by video link. Please - Magazines & War 1936-1939 Spanish Civil War Print Culture- Magazines & War
1936-1939
Spanish Civil War Print Culture
http://www.magazinesandwar.com
- NEH Awards First JISC/NEH Transatlantic Digitization Collaboration Grants- NEH Awards First JISC/NEH Transatlantic Digitization Collaboration Grants
Funding supports five U.S. institutions working on shared projects with scholars in the U.K.
- SC Education: Summer Programs-
Just received this via email and thought I'd pass along for any K-16 faculty interested in SC Education. Mechelle : )
- NEH Awards $11.9 Million for 149 Humanities Projects-
WASHINGTON (March 10, 2008)—The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) today announced that 149 successful applicants will receive $11.9 million in awards and offers. This funding will support projects that provide high-quality public programming at museums and historic sites, improve humanities education and support educators' professional development, preserve and provide greater access to important cultural resources, and advance research in the humanities.
- Announcing New Blog for COMMON-PLACE- Common-place is pleased to announce "Publick Occurrences 2.0," a new blog of historical and political punditry by the inimitable Common-place columnist and political historian ("broadly defined," he says) Jeffrey L. Pasley. "Publick Occurrences 2.0" can be found through a link on our home page (www.common-place.org) or directly at http://www.common-place.dreamhost.com/pasley/.
- MediaSnackers Digest Febuary 2008-
View this issue on the web at http://mediasnackers.com/intro/digest/current/
MediaSnackers Digest Febuary 2008 - Blog this Book!- An invitation to review Noah Wardrop-Fruin's new manuscript, "Expressive Processing: Digital Fictions, Computer Games, and Software Studies," posted at the rae of one chapter a month on the popular Grand Text Auto blog, using sofware developed by our friends at the Institute for the Future of the Book. The book will be published by MIT Press.
- NCTI Announcement-
I just received this via email and thought I'd share. Cheers, Mechelle : )
- New publications- New Online Literary Magazine by Women Over 60
- RWJF Call for Proposals - Health Games Research (1/29 deadline)- Up to $2 million available to support research projects in this round of funding
- Cyberinfrastructure & the Liberal Arts - Academic Commons special issue released today- The Academic Commons special issue on Cyberinfrastructure and the Liberal Arts has now been published.
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Academic Commons today released its December 2007 special issue devoted to CYBERINFRASTRUCTURE & THE LIBERAL ARTS (www.academiccommons.org/). - Pathbreaking Series on Digital Media & Learning Released-
The MIT Press today announced the publication of a new series on digital media and learning supported by the MacArthur Foundation. The new six-volume series examines the effect of digital media on how young people learn, play, socialize and participate in civic life.
- Online Music Classes for Infants, Babies and Toddlers-
The Come Children Sing Institute announces the debut of Come Children, Sing! Online Music Classes for infants, babies and toddlers. Parents can now engage with their little ones in music classes online, in their own homes and on their own schedules, whatever their musical background. MP3 files, music activities, and parent tips are all provided online, with tailored blogs and podcasts to inform parents about their child’s music development. Distance learning has now reached the youngest of children, with all the benefits of online education.
- Google $10M Android Developer Challenge- Google $10 M Android Developer Challenge
- Live Chat this Wednesday: NCLB and Tech. Literacy- Live Chat this Wednesday: NCLB and Tech. Literacy
- Stuart Hall in Online Debate- READ STUART HALL ON CULTURE AND POLITICS IN OUR ONLINE DEBATE:
http://www.lwbooks.co.uk/journals/soundings/cultures_capitalism/cultures_capitalism.html
THIS IS PART OF THE SOUNDINGS CULTURES OF CAPITALISM ONLINE DEBATE. PLEASE JOIN THE DISCUSSION
The 23 November seminar is sold out. To go on a waiting list for tickets, please email Sally.
- Important First Step - News from Digital Promise-
From Digital Promise
We are happy to report that H.R. 3631, which creates a pilot program to establish the National Center for Learning Technology as a 501(c)(3) within the Dept. of Education, was included in the Higher Ed bill during mark up in the House Education and Labor Committee late Wednesday night. The amendment, sponsored by Rep. John Yarmuth (D-KY) incorporates the purposes proposed in the original Digital Promise legislation and was passed by voice vote. The final bill, H.R.
- Rice' HRC & Fondren Library and MITH receive IMLS Grant- Rice's Fondren Library and Humanities Research Center, in partnership with the Maryland Institute for the Humanities (MITH) at University of Maryland Awarded 2007 National Leadership Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services for $979,578.
- Invitation for Faculty Only – Add Rich Media to Your Courses for Free!-
The same system used by universities such as Yale, Rochester, Cal State Fullerton and others is now available for direct use by faculty like you!
- New issue of Vectors on Difference now online!- Vectors: Journal of Culture and Technology in a Dynamic Vernacular is pleased to announce the launch of its new issue devoted to the theme of Difference: http://www.vectorsjournal.org
- Supercomputing- Supercomputing
- New Bill introduced for Digital Promise - Urgent-
New Bill introduced for Digital Promise - Urgent
- New from the Institute for the Future of the Book- New from the Institute for the Future of the Book:
The Googlization of Everything: a book in progress by Siva Vaidhyanathan.
- Cdigix is excited to introduce C-Labs: Faculty Edition-
Cdigix is excited to introduce C-Labs: Faculty Edition
While you may not be familiar with Cdigix or C-Labs, we hope you will take just a minute to explore this exciting new educational digital media platform. C-Labs has been developed at the request of leading institutions so that faculty can leverage more audio and video within their curriculum.
- People on the Move: A Fedora-based Open Access Repository To Provide a World of Information on Forced Migration-
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
- Shaping Youth Reports On Machinima-
- MACARTHUR ANNOUNCES $2 MILLION NEW DIGITAL MEDIA AND LEARNING COMPETITION-
MACARTHUR ANNOUNCES $2 MILLION NEW DIGITAL MEDIA AND LEARNING COMPETITION
- Ninety-Nine Podcasts: A Retrospective-
Ninety-Nine Podcasts: A Retrospective
A whole lot of talking!
It took fourteen months to reach the modest ninety-nine MediaSnackers podcasts milestone. Phew...
Along the way we got the opportunity to speak to amazing organisations, fantastic individuals and explored a little deeper some great youth media projects. What a resource for anyone to tap who has an interest in young people, new media and technology: - MediaSnackers Digest September 2007-
Visit the monthly MediaSnackers digest-focussing on how young people consume and create media across the globe.
http://mediasnackers.com/intro/digest/current/
MediaSnackers took a break in August, although we kept up with our podcasting. We'll now be taking a break from this for a while but please read the retrospective post-thanks again for everyone who participated in creating this valuable and exclusive youth-media resource.
- 18th Annual EGSA Mardi Gras Conference-Call for papers-
The 18th Annual EGSA Mardi Gras Conference
January 30- February 1, 2008
Keynote Speaker: Professor Cathy Davidson
We are pleased to announce the 18th Annual EGSA Mardi Gras Conference, titled “Placing Poesis: The Work of Art and the Future of Literary Studies,” to be held at Louisiana State University January 30 – February 1.
- New issue of CTW Quarterly relevant to the Humanities and Social Sciences- It gives us great pleasure to present the August 2007 issue of Cyberinfrastructure Technology Watch Quarterly (Vol. 3, No. 3). It focuses well deserved attention on the quiet but remarkable sea change that is taking place in the "nervous system" of the research community worldwide because of the rapid proliferation of cyberinfrastructure technology.
- Fedora Commons awarded $4.9 million by Moore Foundation-
FEDORA COMMONS AWARDED $4.9M GRANT TO DEVELOP OPEN-SOURCE SOFTWARE FOR BUILDING COLLABORATIVE INFORMATION COMMUNITIES
- $2-Million in Grants Will Foster Work on Digital Technologies in Student Life-
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Higher-education news from around the Web
- Digital Town Meetings: Call for Entries- The idea is for participating communities to organize debate around issues of pressing concern to them, and record these debates for archiving and podcast* on the HASTAC website. In the tradition of early American democracy the key is to stimulate popular participation, to stress debate over consensus, irresolution over finesse, at a moment when the digital humanities are new and it is unclear what questions surrounding them are pressing for whom.
- World's fastest supercomputer to be built at NCSA in Urbana-Champaign, IL-
Illinois to Get Fastest Supercomputer
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. (AP) - By 2011, the University of Illinois should be the home of the world's fastest supercomputer. The National Science Board on Wednesday gave the National Science Foundation the OK to spend $208 million to build the computer at the university's National Center for Supercomputing Applications in Urbana. The board oversees the foundation and made its decision at a meeting in Washington. - Analogous Spaces Conference Extension of deadline- Analogous Spaces Conference Extension of deadline
- HASTAC Video Archives Available- HASTAC is pleased to announce the availability of video archives from its InFormation Year!
Please visit http://www.hastac.org/video/archives and make a selection from the "Video Archives" block on the left-hand column. This will load a set of available videos into the Video Archives Browser. Clicking on a video title will pull up information on that video, as well as a "Play Now" graphic. All videos are Quicktime-compatible and will play embedded in your browser.
- Special Issue of CT Watch Quarterly now available online-
CT Watch Quarterly - Special Issue May 2007, Volume 3, Number 2
- ALT-X Press Launches Illogic of Sense: The Gregory L. Ulmer Remix- BOULDER, Colorado, May 10, 2007 --The Alt-X Online Network, a space "where the digerati meet the literati" and on the Internet since 1993, announces the release of a new Alt-X Press ebook entitled "Illogic of Sense: The Gregory Ulmer Remix" edited by Darren Tofts and Lisa Gye, and designed by artist Joel Swanson of hippocrit.com.
Illogic of Sense: The Gregory L. Ulmer Remix
Edited by Darren Tofts and Lisa Gye
Design by Joel Swanson
http://www.altx.com/ebooks/ulmer.html - Call for Papers: iPod and Philosophy- Abstracts on topics in philosophy related to the iPod are requested for an edited volume.
- LOGICS OF THE LIVING Call for Papers, Cornell University- Keynote Speaker: Daniel Heller-Roazen
Department of Comparative Literature
Cornell University
October 12-14, 2007
While a linguistic paradigm dominated theoretical inquiry in the humanities in the last decades of the 20th-century, crucial questions of literature, philosophy and politics are increasingly formulated in terms
of "life" rather than language. Extending across disciplines, whether medical, environmental, juridical, philosophical, anthropological, or biological, an open-ended concept of "life" has also come to inform - Digital Resources in the Humanities and Art 07: Extension of deadline-
- Call for Papers: 15-17 May 2008 Ghent University, "Analogous Spaces"- 15-17 May 2008 Ghent University
International Conference
ANALOGOUS SPACES
Architecture and the space of information, intellect and action - National Humanities Center Launches New Website for ASC Project- National Humanities Center Launches New Website for ASC Project
As part of its ongoing “Autonomy, Singularity, Creativity: The Human & The Humanities” project (ASC) the Center has launched a new website which significantly expands the potential pool of humanists and scientists engaged in the exploration and examination of topics surrounding the question of human being. - Digital Humanities Quarterly: inaugural issue- The Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations announces a new open-access, peer-reviewed scholarly journal covering all aspects of digital media in the humanities.
- Call for Papers: Special Issue of The Communication Review: Surveillance and Communications- Special Issue of The Communication Review: Surveillance and Communications
Guest Editors: Kelly Gates and Shoshana Magnet
We invite submissions for a special issue of The Communication Review on the contribution of communications research to the study of surveillance. - Registration open for PKP Scholarly Publishing Conference- Registration is now open for the First International PKP Scholarly Publishing Conference, July 11 - 13, 2007.
Please Note: Registration is limited to 200 people and is filling up fast! If you are interested in attending the conference, please registerand submit your payment as soon as possible to secure a place. - Live Performance Art Biennale--Vancouver, Oct 2007, Call for Performances-
LIVE Performance Art Biennale
October 2007 / Vancouver Canada
CALL FOR AVATAR / SECOND LIFE PERFORMANCE ARTISTS LIVE 2007 (in partnership with Ars Virtua Gallery and New Media Center) is presenting an exciting new performance art initiative in the virtual world of Second Life. LIVE 2007 invites international Avatar performance artists to participate. The event will be simulcast as part of the festival program. - Explores what happens when new media become old news.- Explores what happens when new media become old news.
RESIDUAL MEDIA
Charles R. Acland
University of Minnesota Press | 432 pages | 2007
ISBN 978-0-8166-4471-1 | hardcover | $75.00
ISBN 978-0-8166-4472-8 | paperback | $25.00 - History E-Book to Become ACLS Humanities E-Book- EXTRA! The Latest News from ACLS
www.acls.org
History E-Book to Become ACLS Humanities E-Book
On January 1, 2007, the ACLS History E-Book Project began its transition to ACLS Humanities
E-Book; see www.humanitiesebook.org/hebnews.html.
- Registration is now open for Digital Humanities 2007- DH2007, in Champaign-Urbana, June 4-7, 2007: Register Now!
- New Issue of WI is ready- New issue of the Canadian Mobile Digital Commons Network is ready now
- Available Now: ACLS Final Report on Cyberinfrastructure and the Humanities and Social Sciences- The ACLS is pleased to announce that "Our Cultural Commonwealth: The final report of the American Council of Learned Societies Commission on Cyberinfrastructure for the Humanities & Social Sciences" was released December 13, 2006. In 2004, ACLS appointed the Commission and charged it to recommend how the humanities and social sciences could develop online research environments that would empower scholars and students. The Commission, chaired by John Unsworth, Dean of the Graduate School of Library and Information Science and Professor of English at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, has worked over two years to present a guide to achieving that goal.
- Music and Disability Study Group Listserv- To: ams-announce@list.bowdoin.edu Subject: [AMS-announce] ANNOUNCEMENT: Music and Disability Study Group Listserv A new Interest Group has been formed on Music and Disability. This group seeks both to foster scholarship on disability and to advocate for practical solutions to problems that confront scholars and students with disabilities. Please join us by subscribing to our listserv--simply send a message to: DISMUS-L-request at GC.LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU We are undertaking projects that deal with accessibility of our conferences and society publications, accommodation of students with disabilities in the classroom, and musical scholarship that engages issues of disability. If would would like to assist with any of these projects, or if you would like more information, please contact Joe
- REGISTER NOW for the Open Repositories Conference 2007 (OR07), January 23-26, 2007/San Antonio, Texas- -Please excuse cross postings--
REGISTER NOW for the Open Repositories Conference 2007 (OR07), January 23-26, 2007/San Antonio, Texas
Advance registration for Open Repositories 2007 will be available until December 22, 2006. Registration information and an at-a-glance conference schedule is available at:
- HASTAC Featured in International Science Grid This Week (ISGTW)-
Feature: Bringing Arts and Humanities into the Grid
- Vienna International Summer University Institute- Vienna International Summer University, two-week session, July 16–27, 2007 on "Consensus in Science." An international team of scholars, including Naomi Oreskes (University of California, San Diego, USA), Miriam Solomon (Temple University, Philadelphia, USA) and Andrzej Wróblewski (Warsaw University, Poland), with Keith Lehrer (University of Arizona, Tucson, USA) as a guest lecturer, will be conducting a program of lectures, seminars, and tutorials directed to graduate students, and focusing on a series issues described in detail below and at: http://www.univie.ac.at/ivc/VISU/ English is VISU's official language.
- Preview of the Open Repositories Conference 2007, January 23-26, 2007/San Antonio, Texas- FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Preview of the Open Repositories Conference 2007, January 23-26, 2007/San Antonio, Texas
- M/C Journal Looking for New Contributors- M/C - Media and Culture http://www.media-culture.org.au/ is calling for contributors to the 'mobile' issue of M/C Journal - http://journal.media-culture.org.au/ M/C Journal is looking for new contributors. M/C is a crossover journal between the popular and the academic, and a blind- and peer-reviewed journal. In 2007, M/C Journal celebrates its tenth year in publication. To see what M/C Journal is all about, check out our Website, which contains all the issues released so far, at http://journal.media-culture.org.au/.
- Digital Promise Campaign: Here's How You Can Be a Part of It!- With the midterm elections over and Congress heading into a "lame duck" session, policy makers in Washington are re-grouping and setting priorities for legislation action in January.
- Call for "Papers" to Launch MediaCommons- Call for "Papers" Wanted: works of digital scholarship to launch MediaCommons, a media studies network dedicated to the development and publication of dynamic, electronic, writing within an open community of scholars. We are seeking proposals for innovative "papers" that engagingly explore some aspect of media history, theory, or culture through an adventurous use of the broad palette of technologies provided by the digital network. "Papers" need not conform to any specific length, format or subject. Applicants are in fact strongly encouraged to blur traditional boundaries between scholarly and non-scholarly genres, and to explore peer-to-peer networks as a tool for collaboration and exchange, and even as a new structural paradigm for critical writing.
- *The Future of Digital Education* MacArthur Forum in Second Life, Nov 13- *The Future of Digital Education* How will higher education evolve to accommodate digital technologies in the classroom, changing sensibilities among students and new forms of knowledge, learning and expression? This panel discussion will address some emerging challenges posed by the use of digital media, social networks and games within educational contexts. Panelists will speak from a wide range of recent experiences with teaching in virtual or hybrid learning environments and suggest strategies for the future. Panelists include Rebecca Nesson of Harvard Law School, Douglas Thomas of USC's Annenberg School for Communication, Michael Eisenberg of the University of Washington Information School and Henry Lowood of Stanford University. The panel will be moderated by Steve Anderson of the USC School of Cinematic Arts.
- 2007 Digital Humanities Summer Institute @ University of Victoria, June 18-22- Announcing the 2007 Digital Humanities Summer Institute University of Victoria, June 18-22, 2007 http://web.uvic.ca/hrd/institute/ * Mandate The Digital Humanities Summer Institute provides an environment ideal to discuss, to learn about, and to advance skills in new computing technologies influencing the work of those in the Arts, Humanities and Library communities. The institute takes place across a week of intensive coursework, seminar participation, and lectures. It brings together faculty, staff, and graduate student theorists, experimentalists, technologists, and administrators from different areas of the Arts, Humanities, Library and Archives communities and beyond to
