CFP: Urban Culture Area, MAPACA, 11/3-11/5/2011, Philadelphia, PA (June 15th, 2011, deadline for proposals) As natural and man-made disasters continue to physically eradicate people and places around the world, questions of destruction, perseverance, resistance, and rebirth ring louder than ever. Can the city make it in such challenging times? Can citizens make it in such [...]
Cultural Politics Volume 7, Issue 2 GENERAL ISSUE July 2011 Articles The Hurt Locker: Cinematic Addiction, ‘Critique’, and The War on Terror Bruce Bennett and Bulent Diken interrogate The Hurt Locker, an enthusiastically-received ‘critical’ film, as a symptom of today’s prevailing cultural and political codes. Dwelling on the homologies between [...]
How’s My Feedback? One-day Conference on the Technology and Politics of Evaluation (Oxford)
June 2nd, 2011 | by Joshua*How’s My Feedback? – The Technology and Politics of Evaluation * A one-day international conference at Saïd Business School, supported by an ESRC Knowledge Exchange Small Grant and the Institute for Science, Innovation and Society. Tuesday, 28 June 2011, 9.00 – 17.30 Saïd Business School, University of Oxford http://www.sbs.ox.ac.uk/centres/insis/events/Pages/howsmyfeedback.aspx ABOUT THE CONFERENCE There is hardly [...]
Call for Papers: European Journal of Information Systems (EJIS) http://www.palgrave-journals.com/ejis/index.html PDF version of this CFP: http://www.palgrave-journals.com/ejis/EJIS_CFP_MISM.pdf Special Issue on Mobile Information Systems and Mobility In 2006, an EJIS special issue on mobile user behaviour published seven papers that explored the ways in which “increased mobility of the users violates some of the assumptions traditionally associated [...]
Just after Easter, a special issue of Fibreculture journal went live, edited by Dr Michael Goddard and Dr Jussi Parikka and featuring articles by leading researchers in the emergent field of media ecologies Olga Goriunova, Matteo Pasquinelli, Matthew Fuller, and Phoebe Moore. http://fibreculturejournal.org/ The Unnatural Ecologies issue is a contribution to a cutting edge field [...]
University of California Santa Barbara Media Industries Project Manager Job # CFTM 1105 UC Santa Barbara’s Carsey-Wolf Center seeks a project manager for the Media Industries Project (MIP). Now entering its third year, MIP is a multidisciplinary project that examines major trends reshaping the media industries and their consequences for producers, distributors and consumers. Our [...]