Friday, April 29, 2011
Faculty Promotions
The IU Board of Trustees has approved the tenure and promotion of Ilana Gershon and the promotion to full professor of Carolyn Calloway-Thomas.
CITL Writing-Teaching Grant Winners Announced - CMCL's Stephanie Deboer On List
Stephanie DeBoer, Communication and Culture
DeBoer will use her grant to revise the structure of CMCL C202 Media in the Global Context. She hopes to change the course to better meet the department’s goals and to encourage students to become active participants in the classroom.
DeBoer will design new assignments that allow students to engage with media studies as critical users and cultural workers, as well as investigate the relationship between local and global cultural production. Since she also supervises other instructors of C202, DeBoer’s work over the summer will have an impact on multiple iterations of the course.
http://citl.indiana.edu/files/pdf/grant_awards_2011.pdf
DeBoer will use her grant to revise the structure of CMCL C202 Media in the Global Context. She hopes to change the course to better meet the department’s goals and to encourage students to become active participants in the classroom.
DeBoer will design new assignments that allow students to engage with media studies as critical users and cultural workers, as well as investigate the relationship between local and global cultural production. Since she also supervises other instructors of C202, DeBoer’s work over the summer will have an impact on multiple iterations of the course.
http://citl.indiana.edu/files/pdf/grant_awards_2011.pdf
Wednesday, April 27, 2011
Friday book publishing colloquium reminder
Jane Behnken, the editor for the film and media studies list at IU Press, has agreed to do a publication workshop as the final colloquium of the year. She'll be talking about revising your dissertation for publication, trends in book publishing, constraints, permissions etc. She wants to organize it as a Q&A, so the session will
be better if the questions are well informed.
Date Friday April 29
Time 4-5 in room 100
immediately following the faculty meeting
be better if the questions are well informed.
Date Friday April 29
Time 4-5 in room 100
immediately following the faculty meeting
Thursday, April 21, 2011
Course Ad - SLIS-S640: Seminar on Intellectual Freedom
Summer 2011
Instructor: Kalpana Shankar
Contact: shankark@indiana.edu
Class hours: 9:30A-12:15P MW
Office hours: Monday, 12:15-1:15; other times by appointment
Overview of Course
Intellectual freedom, the right to freedom and expression of thought, is often defined as a basic human right. Most often, intellectual freedom is depicted as a wholly positive social good, defended as such by the American Library Association, the ACLU, and a few others.
We will examine the above suppositions and, hopefully, find areas of dispute, negotiation, and compromise. We will look at competing claims: national security vs. open government and media; privacy vs. security; morality vs. diversity, through the lens of intellectual freedom.
Since this is a seminar class, participation of all members is crucial to the success of the class. Very little of the class will be in lecture format; most of the class will consist of discussing and analyzing the readings.
Course Objectives
By the end of this course, students should be able to:
• Understand and explain the historical background and development of intellectual freedom
• Articulate and defend an intellectual policy.
• Know the freedoms and limitations defined by the Constitution and laws and some of the major legal cases related to intellectual freedom.
• Identify and explain arguments in favor of, and opposed to, censorship.
• Identify contemporary, emerging issues in which intellectual freedom / freedom of speech concepts are applicable, such as scientific research and the academy
Assignments:
Two short (1200 word) papers – each worth 25%
In-class presentation – 30%
Class participation – 20%
Instructor: Kalpana Shankar
Contact: shankark@indiana.edu
Class hours: 9:30A-12:15P MW
Office hours: Monday, 12:15-1:15; other times by appointment
Overview of Course
Intellectual freedom, the right to freedom and expression of thought, is often defined as a basic human right. Most often, intellectual freedom is depicted as a wholly positive social good, defended as such by the American Library Association, the ACLU, and a few others.
We will examine the above suppositions and, hopefully, find areas of dispute, negotiation, and compromise. We will look at competing claims: national security vs. open government and media; privacy vs. security; morality vs. diversity, through the lens of intellectual freedom.
Since this is a seminar class, participation of all members is crucial to the success of the class. Very little of the class will be in lecture format; most of the class will consist of discussing and analyzing the readings.
Course Objectives
By the end of this course, students should be able to:
• Understand and explain the historical background and development of intellectual freedom
• Articulate and defend an intellectual policy.
• Know the freedoms and limitations defined by the Constitution and laws and some of the major legal cases related to intellectual freedom.
• Identify and explain arguments in favor of, and opposed to, censorship.
• Identify contemporary, emerging issues in which intellectual freedom / freedom of speech concepts are applicable, such as scientific research and the academy
Assignments:
Two short (1200 word) papers – each worth 25%
In-class presentation – 30%
Class participation – 20%
CMCL Colloquium Series: - Satellite, Interkom, Internet: Thing-Politics in Indonesia
Friday, April 22nd
4 pm
Room 100, CMCL Building (800 East Third St.)
Joshua Barker, University of Toronto
In the wake of Egypt's 'Facebook-driven' revolution, the Internet has once again been linked to a politics of freedom and anti-authoritarianism. In this paper I argue that despite apparent universality of such a media ideology, it is nonetheless important to recognize that such ideas have very diverse local histories that might not always be apparent at first glance. To illustrate this point I focus on the early history of the Internet in Indonesia and compare it
briefly to the histories of two earlier Indonesian communications technologies: the domestic satellite and a neighborhood-based chatting device called interkom. How did the Internet become associated with a politics of freedom in this context while the satellite and interkom did not, or did so only to a lesser degree? What were the roots of this media ideology, how did it take hold, and how did it spread?
Through a consideration of these questions I aim to show the odd confluence of forces that shape what Internet freedom means and also to highlight the importance of 'thing-politik' (Latour) as a force of change in its own right.
4 pm
Room 100, CMCL Building (800 East Third St.)
Joshua Barker, University of Toronto
In the wake of Egypt's 'Facebook-driven' revolution, the Internet has once again been linked to a politics of freedom and anti-authoritarianism. In this paper I argue that despite apparent universality of such a media ideology, it is nonetheless important to recognize that such ideas have very diverse local histories that might not always be apparent at first glance. To illustrate this point I focus on the early history of the Internet in Indonesia and compare it
briefly to the histories of two earlier Indonesian communications technologies: the domestic satellite and a neighborhood-based chatting device called interkom. How did the Internet become associated with a politics of freedom in this context while the satellite and interkom did not, or did so only to a lesser degree? What were the roots of this media ideology, how did it take hold, and how did it spread?
Through a consideration of these questions I aim to show the odd confluence of forces that shape what Internet freedom means and also to highlight the importance of 'thing-politik' (Latour) as a force of change in its own right.
Wednesday, April 20, 2011
CMCL Independent Study Course Numbers
Beginning this fall, we are making a change in course numbers for Independent Studies. Independent Studies will now be registered as CMCL-C710. CMCL-C700 will be reserved for MA students reading in preparation for the MA Comprehensive Exam.
Please note that C700 is not appropriate for PhD exam preparation. PhD students who are finished with coursework may enroll in CMCL-C810 while reading for their exams.
Please note that C700 is not appropriate for PhD exam preparation. PhD students who are finished with coursework may enroll in CMCL-C810 while reading for their exams.
Thursday Colloquium at the IU Cinema/ found footage and new media
Thursday, April 21
3 p.m.
IU Cinema
Heidi Rae Cooley is presenting The Augustas at the IU Cinema
on Thursday. This is an archival print-- an editing together of about 36 instances of "Augusta" found by traveling salesman and amateur filmmaker Scott Nixon.
Professor Cooley will introduce the film-- and then will gloss it tying it to new media practices and theory in a particularly smart way. Please come if you can and please recommend it to other grad students and interested undergrads.
http://www.indiana.edu/~iucinema/events2011.112.shtml
3 p.m.
IU Cinema
Heidi Rae Cooley is presenting The Augustas at the IU Cinema
on Thursday. This is an archival print-- an editing together of about 36 instances of "Augusta" found by traveling salesman and amateur filmmaker Scott Nixon.
Professor Cooley will introduce the film-- and then will gloss it tying it to new media practices and theory in a particularly smart way. Please come if you can and please recommend it to other grad students and interested undergrads.
http://www.indiana.edu/~iucinema/events2011.112.shtml
Teaching Evals
Be sure that the Form B is included in the packet of teaching evals you (your students, really) turn in to Deb Munson. She has reported that this form has been missing from many of the returned packets.
It is very important that this bubble form be included, as it is sole the identifier for your course. Please be sure to fill in your course number, section number and name.
It is very important that this bubble form be included, as it is sole the identifier for your course. Please be sure to fill in your course number, section number and name.
The 2011 Annual David Skomp Distinguished Lecture in Anthropology
Dr. Penelope Eckert (Stanford University)
April 21, 2011
Swain West, Rm 007
5:30 pm
Doing Adolescence: Linguistic Variation, Stylistic Practice, and the Construction of Social Meaning
Sociolinguistic variation is best known for its correlations with broad demographic categories - class, gender, age, ethnicity. But the demographic patterns are in a sense epiphenomenal, reflecting indexical activity on a local level that connects indirectly, but systematically, to these categories. As a key element in stylistic practice, variation calls up social types and concerns that are constitutive of local, and ultimately global, social categories.
This construction of social meaning is particularly active among adolescents, whose intense symbolic activity makes them the movers and shakers in linguistic change. This symbolic activity is an integral part of the emergence of a peer-based social order as the age cohort jointly appropriates social control from adults. Based on long-term ethnography in elementary and high schools, this talk will trace the emergence of a peer-based social order, showing how the formation of this social order is foundational to the organization of stylistic practice, and the emergence of an integrated system of social differentiation in language use.
Penelope Eckert received her PhD in Linguistics from Columbia University in 1978. She is now a Professor of Linguistics at Stanford University, where she is also associated with the Department of Cultural and Social Anthropology. She is widely known for her ethnographic approach to the study of variation in language, and is the author of numerous books and articles which have explored the ways in which variable features of language are reflected in individual identities and are used in turn to build and shape those identities. Among her best known works are Jocks and Burnouts: Social Identity in the High School (1989), Linguistic Variation as Social Practice (2000), and Language and Gender (with Sally McConnell-Ginet, 2003).
* Reception to follow at 3407 Mulberry Dr. – Home of Kevin and Marion Hunt
April 21, 2011
Swain West, Rm 007
5:30 pm
Doing Adolescence: Linguistic Variation, Stylistic Practice, and the Construction of Social Meaning
Sociolinguistic variation is best known for its correlations with broad demographic categories - class, gender, age, ethnicity. But the demographic patterns are in a sense epiphenomenal, reflecting indexical activity on a local level that connects indirectly, but systematically, to these categories. As a key element in stylistic practice, variation calls up social types and concerns that are constitutive of local, and ultimately global, social categories.
This construction of social meaning is particularly active among adolescents, whose intense symbolic activity makes them the movers and shakers in linguistic change. This symbolic activity is an integral part of the emergence of a peer-based social order as the age cohort jointly appropriates social control from adults. Based on long-term ethnography in elementary and high schools, this talk will trace the emergence of a peer-based social order, showing how the formation of this social order is foundational to the organization of stylistic practice, and the emergence of an integrated system of social differentiation in language use.
Penelope Eckert received her PhD in Linguistics from Columbia University in 1978. She is now a Professor of Linguistics at Stanford University, where she is also associated with the Department of Cultural and Social Anthropology. She is widely known for her ethnographic approach to the study of variation in language, and is the author of numerous books and articles which have explored the ways in which variable features of language are reflected in individual identities and are used in turn to build and shape those identities. Among her best known works are Jocks and Burnouts: Social Identity in the High School (1989), Linguistic Variation as Social Practice (2000), and Language and Gender (with Sally McConnell-Ginet, 2003).
* Reception to follow at 3407 Mulberry Dr. – Home of Kevin and Marion Hunt
IU Bloomington Sawyer Seminar, "Rupture and Flow: The Circulation of Technoscientific Facts and Objects"
Workshop Announcement:
"Reversing the Flow: Producing Science Outside the Academy"
Please join us for our fourth workshop, FRIDAY APRIL 22 and SATURDAY APRIL 23 in Student Building 05.
The workshop is *open to all.* Feel free to come for the entire workshop or just for the talk(s) that interest you. Lunch will be served Saturday, so *please RSVP* by emailing Eric Harvey
(eharvey@indiana.edu) if you are planning to attend.
Schedule (speaker bios and paper abstracts at the bottom of this email):
All events will take place in Student Building 05
April 22
3:00
Phil Mirowski (Notre Dame University)
The Modern Commercialization of Science is a Passel of Ponzi Schemes
April 23
9:30
Ramesh Srinivasan (University of California, Los Angeles) Multiple Ways of Thinking and Knowing: New Media as Mutable
10:45
Eric Deibel (Indiana University)
Common Genomes: DNA in informatic formats and open source in biology
11:45
Gwen Ottinger (University of Washington-Bothell) Oxbows and Eddies: Understanding How Community-Based Air Monitoring Has Affected Environmental Policy and Practice
Break for lunch
1:45
Rebecca Lave (Indiana University)
Free Range Science: Constructing environmental science outside the academy
2:45
Sam Randalls (University College London) An optimal climate: meteorology, commercialization and efficiency
4:00
Discussion by Phil Mirowski (University of Notre Dame)
This workshop is the the fourth in a series of four organized by the
2010-2011 Sawyer Seminar, "Rupture and Flow: The Circulation of Technoscientific Facts and Objects." For more information please visit our website:
http://sawyer.indiana.edu/index.html
--------------------------
Speaker bios and paper abstracts:
Phil Mirowski (University of Notre Dame), Discussant
http://www.nd.edu/~pmirowsk/
--------------------------
Ramesh Srinivasan (University of California, Los Angeles) http://rameshsrinivasan.org/
Multiple Ways of Thinking and Knowing: New Media as Mutable
What does it mean to think about culture before one thinks about technology?
And how could that paradigm shift allow scholars and professionals to re-imagine solutions that think past net delusions around grassroots political movements, empower community decision-making in the developing world, indigenous knowledge around climate change or cultural heritage, and communication between states and citizens? This talk makes the argument for privileging mutability and multiplicity around new media technologies - presenting several examples worldwide.
--------------------------
Eric Deibel, Indiana University
http://www.sawyer.indiana.edu/postdoctoral_fellowship.html
Common Genomes: DNA in informatic formats and open source in biology.
In this talk, I am interested in reconsidering the relationship between property and the representation of nature as scientific knowledge.
Specifically I will attempt to address the question “who owns nature?”
by combining STS theorising of the historical relationship of science and society with political theories on nature as a common property.
From this point of view I am interested in reconsidering the translation of DNA into informatic formats and its implication for the ways wherein ‘life’ and ‘common property' intersect in the life sciences and are being mobilised in correspondence with a range of social objectives as well as to artifacts being used. My work on the introduction of open source in the life sciences suggests that the centrality of DNA in informatic formats in the life sciences corresponds to an exploration of alternatives to patenting that privilege those representations of nature that do not challenge the commercialization of science or the restrictions on the usage of DNA in other formats, like seeds, biodiversity or any other form of living materials.
-------------------------
Gwen Ottinger, University of Washington-Bothell
http://www.uwb.edu/ias/about/faculty-staff/gwenottinger
Oxbows and Eddies: Understanding How Community-Based Air Monitoring Has Affected Environmental Policy and Practice
Over the past three decades, sociologists of science have chronicled a number of dramatic disruptions in flows of knowledge between credentialed scientific experts and non-scientist citizens. The ability of anti-toxics activists and AIDS treatment activists, among others, to master highly specialized fields of knowledge and influence scientific practices and policy has, furthermore, led many researchers to speak of "lay experts" and "citizen scientists." These categories, which suggest a flattening of hierarchies of expertise and a democratization of policy influence, appear also to describe environmental justice activists' use of "bucket" air samplers to produce knowledge about air quality in communities neighboring petrochemical facilities. Yet bucket users' mixed success in changing accepted practices for monitoring and controlling industrial emissions demand a more nuanced account of to what extent, and in what ways, "lay" engagements with science are, in fact, redistributing expertise, reversing flows of knowledge, and broadening participation in policy decisions. Drawing on preliminary, qualitative research into the practices and effects of community-based air monitoring, this paper suggests--in contrast to standard narratives of "lay expertise"--that bucket use has created new pockets of expertise rather than redistributing knowledge widely; that bucket-based activism has not displaced regulatory scientists and petrochemical industry experts as arbiters of what counts as valid and relevant data about air quality; and that community activists have gained influence in environmental policy only through their participation in the development of voluntary, industry-led air monitoring programs. Based on these insights, the paper suggests questions for further research that can more adequately characterize the disruptions and transformations of knowledge flows produced by citizen engagement with science.
-----------------------
Rebecca Lave, Indiana University
http://www.indiana.edu/~geog/people/lave.shtml
Free Range Science: Constructing environmental science outside the academy
Claims to scientific expertise have been a catalyst of conflict and a source of power for centuries as scientists draw and redraw the boundaries of science to bolster their authority. The increasing distrust of science characteristic of the last half century, however, has led to new forms of contestation of scientific authority. Lay people, traditionally seen as the consumers of scientific applications, have become increasingly credible producers of scientific knowledge, both basic and applied. In the U.S., this reversal of the typical flow of scientific data, methods, and knowledge claims takes multiple forms, ranging from the relatively constrained practices of “citizen science” (where volunteers humbly collect long-term ecological data for scientists to analyze), to the active contestation of scientific authority among “citizen scientists,” who use the data they collect to make their own knowledge claims. This paper brings theoretical work on scientific expertise (from STS authors including Brown, Collins & Evans, Irwin, Jasanoff, and Wynne) to bear on empirical material on the practice of citizen scientists in the U.S.
collected by Geographers. I argue that the increasing impact of citizen scientists may presage a fundamental shift in the construction of scientific expertise, and of the political economy of environmental expertise more broadly.
-----------------------
Sam Randalls, University College London
http://www.geog.ucl.ac.uk/about-the-department/people/academics/samuel-randalls
An optimal climate: meteorology, commercialization and efficiency
The paper connects a history of commercialization in meteorology with a history of attempts to directly manage the atmosphere as resource or hazard. Evaluating the development of commercial meteorology alongside the ways in which economists have considered atmospheric sciences (and the atmosphere) provides an informative case study for exploring the effects of neoliberal policies on the practice of science. Relevance and efficiency become key tropes for market entrepreneurs who suggest that the public sector needs to be restrained for fear that public meteorologists might abuse their state funding to bolster their commercial position. At the same time, the public sector meteorological providers are to be set free to operate as if they were private corporations. While the UK and US governments have adopted different responses to these claims, both stem from similar debates about how to fund science. This is not just a contest over funding policy, however, as it has consequences for data networks as well as the provision of weather forecasts and other services. A neoliberal funding regime has effects on science and, in the long run, for society and the atmosphere too. Economists have increasingly made bold claims about the most efficient management of the atmosphere too. From early cost-benefit analyses of the atmosphere through to contemporary climate change assessments, the atmosphere is conceived of as a resource to be exploited to just below a critical level. The optimal climate is thus not just hypothesized in its economic value, but realized in practice too. A commercial science and a managed atmosphere become twin goals for attempts to manage weather and climate risks.
------------------------
"Reversing the Flow: Producing Science Outside the Academy"
Please join us for our fourth workshop, FRIDAY APRIL 22 and SATURDAY APRIL 23 in Student Building 05.
The workshop is *open to all.* Feel free to come for the entire workshop or just for the talk(s) that interest you. Lunch will be served Saturday, so *please RSVP* by emailing Eric Harvey
(eharvey@indiana.edu) if you are planning to attend.
Schedule (speaker bios and paper abstracts at the bottom of this email):
All events will take place in Student Building 05
April 22
3:00
Phil Mirowski (Notre Dame University)
The Modern Commercialization of Science is a Passel of Ponzi Schemes
April 23
9:30
Ramesh Srinivasan (University of California, Los Angeles) Multiple Ways of Thinking and Knowing: New Media as Mutable
10:45
Eric Deibel (Indiana University)
Common Genomes: DNA in informatic formats and open source in biology
11:45
Gwen Ottinger (University of Washington-Bothell) Oxbows and Eddies: Understanding How Community-Based Air Monitoring Has Affected Environmental Policy and Practice
Break for lunch
1:45
Rebecca Lave (Indiana University)
Free Range Science: Constructing environmental science outside the academy
2:45
Sam Randalls (University College London) An optimal climate: meteorology, commercialization and efficiency
4:00
Discussion by Phil Mirowski (University of Notre Dame)
This workshop is the the fourth in a series of four organized by the
2010-2011 Sawyer Seminar, "Rupture and Flow: The Circulation of Technoscientific Facts and Objects." For more information please visit our website:
http://sawyer.indiana.edu/index.html
--------------------------
Speaker bios and paper abstracts:
Phil Mirowski (University of Notre Dame), Discussant
http://www.nd.edu/~pmirowsk/
--------------------------
Ramesh Srinivasan (University of California, Los Angeles) http://rameshsrinivasan.org/
Multiple Ways of Thinking and Knowing: New Media as Mutable
What does it mean to think about culture before one thinks about technology?
And how could that paradigm shift allow scholars and professionals to re-imagine solutions that think past net delusions around grassroots political movements, empower community decision-making in the developing world, indigenous knowledge around climate change or cultural heritage, and communication between states and citizens? This talk makes the argument for privileging mutability and multiplicity around new media technologies - presenting several examples worldwide.
--------------------------
Eric Deibel, Indiana University
http://www.sawyer.indiana.edu/postdoctoral_fellowship.html
Common Genomes: DNA in informatic formats and open source in biology.
In this talk, I am interested in reconsidering the relationship between property and the representation of nature as scientific knowledge.
Specifically I will attempt to address the question “who owns nature?”
by combining STS theorising of the historical relationship of science and society with political theories on nature as a common property.
From this point of view I am interested in reconsidering the translation of DNA into informatic formats and its implication for the ways wherein ‘life’ and ‘common property' intersect in the life sciences and are being mobilised in correspondence with a range of social objectives as well as to artifacts being used. My work on the introduction of open source in the life sciences suggests that the centrality of DNA in informatic formats in the life sciences corresponds to an exploration of alternatives to patenting that privilege those representations of nature that do not challenge the commercialization of science or the restrictions on the usage of DNA in other formats, like seeds, biodiversity or any other form of living materials.
-------------------------
Gwen Ottinger, University of Washington-Bothell
http://www.uwb.edu/ias/about/faculty-staff/gwenottinger
Oxbows and Eddies: Understanding How Community-Based Air Monitoring Has Affected Environmental Policy and Practice
Over the past three decades, sociologists of science have chronicled a number of dramatic disruptions in flows of knowledge between credentialed scientific experts and non-scientist citizens. The ability of anti-toxics activists and AIDS treatment activists, among others, to master highly specialized fields of knowledge and influence scientific practices and policy has, furthermore, led many researchers to speak of "lay experts" and "citizen scientists." These categories, which suggest a flattening of hierarchies of expertise and a democratization of policy influence, appear also to describe environmental justice activists' use of "bucket" air samplers to produce knowledge about air quality in communities neighboring petrochemical facilities. Yet bucket users' mixed success in changing accepted practices for monitoring and controlling industrial emissions demand a more nuanced account of to what extent, and in what ways, "lay" engagements with science are, in fact, redistributing expertise, reversing flows of knowledge, and broadening participation in policy decisions. Drawing on preliminary, qualitative research into the practices and effects of community-based air monitoring, this paper suggests--in contrast to standard narratives of "lay expertise"--that bucket use has created new pockets of expertise rather than redistributing knowledge widely; that bucket-based activism has not displaced regulatory scientists and petrochemical industry experts as arbiters of what counts as valid and relevant data about air quality; and that community activists have gained influence in environmental policy only through their participation in the development of voluntary, industry-led air monitoring programs. Based on these insights, the paper suggests questions for further research that can more adequately characterize the disruptions and transformations of knowledge flows produced by citizen engagement with science.
-----------------------
Rebecca Lave, Indiana University
http://www.indiana.edu/~geog/people/lave.shtml
Free Range Science: Constructing environmental science outside the academy
Claims to scientific expertise have been a catalyst of conflict and a source of power for centuries as scientists draw and redraw the boundaries of science to bolster their authority. The increasing distrust of science characteristic of the last half century, however, has led to new forms of contestation of scientific authority. Lay people, traditionally seen as the consumers of scientific applications, have become increasingly credible producers of scientific knowledge, both basic and applied. In the U.S., this reversal of the typical flow of scientific data, methods, and knowledge claims takes multiple forms, ranging from the relatively constrained practices of “citizen science” (where volunteers humbly collect long-term ecological data for scientists to analyze), to the active contestation of scientific authority among “citizen scientists,” who use the data they collect to make their own knowledge claims. This paper brings theoretical work on scientific expertise (from STS authors including Brown, Collins & Evans, Irwin, Jasanoff, and Wynne) to bear on empirical material on the practice of citizen scientists in the U.S.
collected by Geographers. I argue that the increasing impact of citizen scientists may presage a fundamental shift in the construction of scientific expertise, and of the political economy of environmental expertise more broadly.
-----------------------
Sam Randalls, University College London
http://www.geog.ucl.ac.uk/about-the-department/people/academics/samuel-randalls
An optimal climate: meteorology, commercialization and efficiency
The paper connects a history of commercialization in meteorology with a history of attempts to directly manage the atmosphere as resource or hazard. Evaluating the development of commercial meteorology alongside the ways in which economists have considered atmospheric sciences (and the atmosphere) provides an informative case study for exploring the effects of neoliberal policies on the practice of science. Relevance and efficiency become key tropes for market entrepreneurs who suggest that the public sector needs to be restrained for fear that public meteorologists might abuse their state funding to bolster their commercial position. At the same time, the public sector meteorological providers are to be set free to operate as if they were private corporations. While the UK and US governments have adopted different responses to these claims, both stem from similar debates about how to fund science. This is not just a contest over funding policy, however, as it has consequences for data networks as well as the provision of weather forecasts and other services. A neoliberal funding regime has effects on science and, in the long run, for society and the atmosphere too. Economists have increasingly made bold claims about the most efficient management of the atmosphere too. From early cost-benefit analyses of the atmosphere through to contemporary climate change assessments, the atmosphere is conceived of as a resource to be exploited to just below a critical level. The optimal climate is thus not just hypothesized in its economic value, but realized in practice too. A commercial science and a managed atmosphere become twin goals for attempts to manage weather and climate risks.
------------------------
School of Journalism Research Colloquium - "The Media Agenda: Who (or What) Sets It?"
Dr. David H. Weaver, School of Journalism Roy W. Howard Professor
Wednesday, April 20
4pm
Room 214 Ernie Pyle Hall
Agenda-setting research has expanded from a concern with the influence of media agendas on public agendas to studies of the influences on media agendas and policy agendas. This presentation will review findings from studies of various kinds of influences on media agendas, such as news sources, other news media, journalistic norms and traditions, the interests of media audiences and the role of unexpected events. Some of these studies question the active agenda-setting role of journalists assumed in many older agenda-setting studies.
Wednesday, April 20
4pm
Room 214 Ernie Pyle Hall
Agenda-setting research has expanded from a concern with the influence of media agendas on public agendas to studies of the influences on media agendas and policy agendas. This presentation will review findings from studies of various kinds of influences on media agendas, such as news sources, other news media, journalistic norms and traditions, the interests of media audiences and the role of unexpected events. Some of these studies question the active agenda-setting role of journalists assumed in many older agenda-setting studies.
Tuesday, April 19, 2011
Congratulations to Josh Carney
Josh Carney has won the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research Dissertation Research Fellowship which will fund his fieldwork in Turkey next year.
Friday, April 15, 2011
New Cohort for 2011
Please welcome our incoming graduate students!
Lisa Braverman - PhD
Lindsey Campbell-Badger - PhD
Chris Gilbert - PhD
Sara Gray - MA
Noelle Griffis - PhD
Meredith Heil - PhD
Martin Law - MA
Abigail Mack - MA
David Maxson - MA
Hannah McSwiggen - MA
Mark Nagle - PhD
Phillip Perdue - MA
Jessica Damman Plassman - PhD
Jason Qualls - PhD
Isaac Rooks - MA
Jacquelyn Shannon - MA
Russell Sheaffer - PhD
Congratulations to you all and we look forward to the fall!
Lisa Braverman - PhD
Lindsey Campbell-Badger - PhD
Chris Gilbert - PhD
Sara Gray - MA
Noelle Griffis - PhD
Meredith Heil - PhD
Martin Law - MA
Abigail Mack - MA
David Maxson - MA
Hannah McSwiggen - MA
Mark Nagle - PhD
Phillip Perdue - MA
Jessica Damman Plassman - PhD
Jason Qualls - PhD
Isaac Rooks - MA
Jacquelyn Shannon - MA
Russell Sheaffer - PhD
Congratulations to you all and we look forward to the fall!
Reminder: CMCL Colloquium Today
April 15, 2011
4-5 pm
Classroom-Office Building, room 100
Panelists: Jon Simons, Joan Hawkins, Susan Seizer, Valerie Wieskamp, and Laura Ivins-Hulley
Join us for a discussion of how each exam is created and what faculty members are looking for in your exam answers. On what grounds might your fail or be asked to rewrite an answer or answers? The wording in the CMCL Graduate Handbook discusses process, but this brownbag will clarify the "unwritten laws" of the Quals.
4-5 pm
Classroom-Office Building, room 100
Panelists: Jon Simons, Joan Hawkins, Susan Seizer, Valerie Wieskamp, and Laura Ivins-Hulley
Join us for a discussion of how each exam is created and what faculty members are looking for in your exam answers. On what grounds might your fail or be asked to rewrite an answer or answers? The wording in the CMCL Graduate Handbook discusses process, but this brownbag will clarify the "unwritten laws" of the Quals.
Satellite, Interkom, Internet: Thing-Politics in Indonesia
Joshua Barker, University of Toronto
speaking at 4 pm in room 100, CMCL Building
Friday, April 22nd
Satellite, Interkom, Internet: Thing-Politics in Indonesia
In the wake of Egypt’s ‘Facebook-driven’ revolution, the Internet has once again been linked to a politics of freedom and anti-authoritarianism. In this paper I argue that despite apparent universality of such a media ideology, it is nonetheless important to recognize that such ideas have very diverse local histories that might not always be apparent at first glance. To illustrate this point I focus on the early history of the Internet in Indonesia and compare it
briefly to the histories of two earlier Indonesian communications technologies: the domestic satellite and a neighborhood-based chatting device called interkom. How did the Internet become associated with a politics of freedom in this context while the satellite and interkom did not, or did so only to a lesser degree? What were the roots of this media ideology, how did it take hold, and how did it spread?
Through a consideration of these questions I aim to show the odd confluence of forces that shape what Internet freedom means and also to highlight the importance of ‘thing-politik’ (Latour) as a force of change in its own right.
speaking at 4 pm in room 100, CMCL Building
Friday, April 22nd
Satellite, Interkom, Internet: Thing-Politics in Indonesia
In the wake of Egypt’s ‘Facebook-driven’ revolution, the Internet has once again been linked to a politics of freedom and anti-authoritarianism. In this paper I argue that despite apparent universality of such a media ideology, it is nonetheless important to recognize that such ideas have very diverse local histories that might not always be apparent at first glance. To illustrate this point I focus on the early history of the Internet in Indonesia and compare it
briefly to the histories of two earlier Indonesian communications technologies: the domestic satellite and a neighborhood-based chatting device called interkom. How did the Internet become associated with a politics of freedom in this context while the satellite and interkom did not, or did so only to a lesser degree? What were the roots of this media ideology, how did it take hold, and how did it spread?
Through a consideration of these questions I aim to show the odd confluence of forces that shape what Internet freedom means and also to highlight the importance of ‘thing-politik’ (Latour) as a force of change in its own right.
Wednesday, April 13, 2011
From Inside Higher Ed: What Professors Should Tell Their Grad Students
Interesting article about the job market for PhDs.
http://www.insidehighered.com/advice/2011/04/13/essay_on_what_professors_should_tell_their_grad_students
http://www.insidehighered.com/advice/2011/04/13/essay_on_what_professors_should_tell_their_grad_students
Tuesday, April 12, 2011
American Graduate School in Paris (AGS)
AGS is an independent, private, non-profit American institution of higher education based in Paris, France. The School of International Relations at AGS offers a two-year M.A. program in international relations and diplomacy.
The academic standard at AGS is high. The curriculum is both theoretical and practical, and students are required to research and write a thesis of 80-100 pages. French is not required for admission, but it is a graduation requirement and students study French with our partner institution, the Alliance Française, and some earn a recognised diploma in French language studies.
As well as earning an M.A. at AGS many students enroll in double degree programs with partner universities:
• M.A. in Peace and Conflict Resolution at Arcadia University
• M.A. in Diplomacy and Strategic Negotiations at the Université de Paris XI
• LLM at the Université de Cergy-Pontoise
AGS draws students from around the world and the multicultural atmosphere in the classroom is a learning experience in itself. Of course, Paris is an ideal setting for the study of international relations as it is host to so many international organizations, NGOs and embassies, as well as being in proximity to other European capitals. AGS students take full advantage of this wealth of opportunity: guest speakers address them in class, visits are organized and internships are encouraged.
AGS students leave with a deeper understanding of world affairs, as they can now view them from a more international perspective and with a better comprehension of why others do things differently.
For more information about the American Graduate School in Paris visit(www.ags.edu).
The academic standard at AGS is high. The curriculum is both theoretical and practical, and students are required to research and write a thesis of 80-100 pages. French is not required for admission, but it is a graduation requirement and students study French with our partner institution, the Alliance Française, and some earn a recognised diploma in French language studies.
As well as earning an M.A. at AGS many students enroll in double degree programs with partner universities:
• M.A. in Peace and Conflict Resolution at Arcadia University
• M.A. in Diplomacy and Strategic Negotiations at the Université de Paris XI
• LLM at the Université de Cergy-Pontoise
AGS draws students from around the world and the multicultural atmosphere in the classroom is a learning experience in itself. Of course, Paris is an ideal setting for the study of international relations as it is host to so many international organizations, NGOs and embassies, as well as being in proximity to other European capitals. AGS students take full advantage of this wealth of opportunity: guest speakers address them in class, visits are organized and internships are encouraged.
AGS students leave with a deeper understanding of world affairs, as they can now view them from a more international perspective and with a better comprehension of why others do things differently.
For more information about the American Graduate School in Paris visit(www.ags.edu).
Thursday, April 7, 2011
Czech Film Series 2010 – 2011
You are invited to the last showing of the Czech Film Series for 2011.
"Pleasant Moments," directed by Vera Chytilova, will be shown on Wednesday April 20 at 7:00 in Woodburn Hall 101.
Woodburn Hall is located at 1100 E. 7th St., near the Indiana Memorial Union and the IU Auditorium.
The film will be introduced by Prof. Bronislava Volkova.
Please forward this information to anyone who might be interested and feel free to contact Matthew Slaboch (mslaboch@indiana.edu) with any questions.
"Pleasant Moments," directed by Vera Chytilova, will be shown on Wednesday April 20 at 7:00 in Woodburn Hall 101.
Woodburn Hall is located at 1100 E. 7th St., near the Indiana Memorial Union and the IU Auditorium.
The film will be introduced by Prof. Bronislava Volkova.
Please forward this information to anyone who might be interested and feel free to contact Matthew Slaboch (mslaboch@indiana.edu) with any questions.
PhD Exam Apps Due Tomorrow
Just a reminder that applications for the May PhD and MA exams are due tomorrow.
Wednesday, April 6, 2011
Bloomington Pan-Asian Townhall Meeting
When: Saturday, 4.9.2011
Time: 11am-12:30pm
Where: Monroe County Public Library Meeting Room 1C
303 E. Kirkwood Avenue
Bloomington, IN 47408
Share your stores and make them part of the Bloomington history! Please come for an informal town hall meeting and get to know your neighbors. It is our hope to begin discussions for a network to support a Pan-Asian committee initiative in Bloomington. Lunch will be served to participants. If you would like to attend the meeting, please RSVP by contacting acc@indiana.edu or Anna Jiang at jiangn@indiana.edu
Mark A. Price
Assistant Director. Dhar India Studies Program
825 E 8th St.
Bloomington, IN
812 855 5798 (P) 812 855 2024 (F)
follow us on twitter at IndiaStudiesIUB or on Facebook at Dhar India Studies Program IU
Time: 11am-12:30pm
Where: Monroe County Public Library Meeting Room 1C
303 E. Kirkwood Avenue
Bloomington, IN 47408
Share your stores and make them part of the Bloomington history! Please come for an informal town hall meeting and get to know your neighbors. It is our hope to begin discussions for a network to support a Pan-Asian committee initiative in Bloomington. Lunch will be served to participants. If you would like to attend the meeting, please RSVP by contacting acc@indiana.edu or Anna Jiang at jiangn@indiana.edu
Mark A. Price
Assistant Director. Dhar India Studies Program
825 E 8th St.
Bloomington, IN
812 855 5798 (P) 812 855 2024 (F)
follow us on twitter at IndiaStudiesIUB or on Facebook at Dhar India Studies Program IU
From the CMCL Chair, Alex Doty
Enough already! I have just learned that Stephanie DeBoer as also received an Overseas Research Grant from OVPIA. She is headed East--as in Asia, not in Coast--to do all sorts of glamorous work related to international film fests, film marketing, and co-productions. Remember those postcards, Stephanie!
From the CMCL Chair, Alex Doty
I have just been informed that BOTH Karen Bowdre and Greg Waller have received eagerly-sought-after Overseas Research Grants from OVPIA, and will be conducting some high level research--and some high level sightseeing--in, from what I recall, England and Australia, respectively. As per my request to other CMCLers who are heading for distant shores, Karen and Greg, please drop us a department postcard for the bulletin board so we who are left behind can globe-trot vicariously.
'Media and HIV/AIDS Epidemic in Tanzania: An Investigation of Relations Between Journalists, Sources, and Content.'
Ammina Kothari, School of Journalism Doctoral Candidate
School of Journalism Research Colloquium
Wednesday, April 6
4pm
Ernie Pyle Lounge (2nd Floor) Ernie Pyle Hall
This talk focuses on the relationship between journalists and non-governmental organizations and its effect on the coverage of HIV/AIDS in Tanzania. Drawing from interviews with Tanzanian journalists and NGO officials working on HIV/AIDS, I will discuss how lack of resources has increased journalists' dependency on NGOs for information about HIV/AIDS; opening up opportunities for publication of NGO generated content as journalistic reporting.
School of Journalism Research Colloquium
Wednesday, April 6
4pm
Ernie Pyle Lounge (2nd Floor) Ernie Pyle Hall
This talk focuses on the relationship between journalists and non-governmental organizations and its effect on the coverage of HIV/AIDS in Tanzania. Drawing from interviews with Tanzanian journalists and NGO officials working on HIV/AIDS, I will discuss how lack of resources has increased journalists' dependency on NGOs for information about HIV/AIDS; opening up opportunities for publication of NGO generated content as journalistic reporting.
Tuesday, April 5, 2011
CMCL Grad Brown Bag - PhD Qualifying Exam Expectations
April 15, 2011
4-5 pm
Classroom-Office Building, room 100
Panelists: Jon Simons, Joan Hawkins, Susan Seizer, Valerie Wieskamp, and Laura Ivins-Hulley
Join us for a discussion of how each exam is created and what faculty members are looking for in your exam answers. On what grounds might your fail or be asked to rewrite an answer or answers? The wording in the CMCL Graduate Handbook discusses process, but this brownbag will clarify the "unwritten laws" of the Quals.
4-5 pm
Classroom-Office Building, room 100
Panelists: Jon Simons, Joan Hawkins, Susan Seizer, Valerie Wieskamp, and Laura Ivins-Hulley
Join us for a discussion of how each exam is created and what faculty members are looking for in your exam answers. On what grounds might your fail or be asked to rewrite an answer or answers? The wording in the CMCL Graduate Handbook discusses process, but this brownbag will clarify the "unwritten laws" of the Quals.
Health Communication Doctoral Fellows Seminar
July 13-16, 2011, Denver, Colorado
Students completing their first or second years of doctoral coursework in departments or schools of communication, public health, or related fields are invited to apply to become a short-term Cancer Communication Doctoral Fellow. Students interested in organizational and team communication, patient-physician interaction and shared decision making, intercultural communication, leader-member exchange, message tailoring, dissemination and diffusion and implementation of effective practices, systems science, and social ecological models of behavior change are especially encouraged to apply.
Over a three-day immersion in Denver, fellows will learn about plausible topics that a fellow could later pursue for study in cancer communication research as it relates to healthcare organizations. The objective of this program is for fellows to consider cancer communication topics as they plan their dissertation research. This doctoral seminar is made possible with funding from the U.S. National Cancer Institute in an award to the Cancer Communication Research Center (http://www.crn-ccrc.org), an NCI-designated Center of Excellence in Cancer Communication Research.
Fellows will be paired with and learn from seminar faculty about professional, regulatory, organizational, team, and individual factors that affect communication in healthcare organizations. Seminar faculty will be healthcare providers, prevention specialists, information technology experts, operations leaders, and researchers in Kaiser Permanente, the largest nonprofit non-governmental healthcare system in the U.S. Fellows and faculty will interact one on one in half-day shadowing as faculty go about their work, in seminar, and during social times. The fellowship will pay travel-related costs of fellows including round trip flight to Denver, 3 nights hotel, and meals. Fellows will receive a $1000 honorarium for a brief paper describing a research opportunity from their paradigmatic perspective based on what they have learned.
Wednesday July 13th fellows and seminar staff convene for dinner, orientation to the seminar, and assignment of fellows to faculty. Thursday July 14th fellows are taken to their faculty colleague’s place of work, fellows accompany faculty to meetings, labs or clinics, offices, and any site visits that faculty have on their schedule for that morning, fellows ask questions throughout shadowing and have lunch with their faculty colleague, then fellows convene and with seminar staff leave as a group for field trip. A group dinner for fellows, staff, and faculty finishes the day. Friday July 15th fellows report-out and discuss in full-day seminar what they have learned about communication in healthcare systems and how that may apply to cancer communication research. Saturday July 16th fellows convene in morning seminar to discuss the fit of research paradigms to the realities of healthcare organizations, and depart for the airport.
Apply by sending (1) a cover letter of application with full contact information, (2) a letter of reference, (3) a one page statement of interest that identifies the applicant’s research interests and what they would hope to learn, and (4) a vita. Materials must be received by May 1, 2011. Applicants will be notified by May 15. Submit application materials to: sarah.madrid@kp.org.
Students completing their first or second years of doctoral coursework in departments or schools of communication, public health, or related fields are invited to apply to become a short-term Cancer Communication Doctoral Fellow. Students interested in organizational and team communication, patient-physician interaction and shared decision making, intercultural communication, leader-member exchange, message tailoring, dissemination and diffusion and implementation of effective practices, systems science, and social ecological models of behavior change are especially encouraged to apply.
Over a three-day immersion in Denver, fellows will learn about plausible topics that a fellow could later pursue for study in cancer communication research as it relates to healthcare organizations. The objective of this program is for fellows to consider cancer communication topics as they plan their dissertation research. This doctoral seminar is made possible with funding from the U.S. National Cancer Institute in an award to the Cancer Communication Research Center (http://www.crn-ccrc.org), an NCI-designated Center of Excellence in Cancer Communication Research.
Fellows will be paired with and learn from seminar faculty about professional, regulatory, organizational, team, and individual factors that affect communication in healthcare organizations. Seminar faculty will be healthcare providers, prevention specialists, information technology experts, operations leaders, and researchers in Kaiser Permanente, the largest nonprofit non-governmental healthcare system in the U.S. Fellows and faculty will interact one on one in half-day shadowing as faculty go about their work, in seminar, and during social times. The fellowship will pay travel-related costs of fellows including round trip flight to Denver, 3 nights hotel, and meals. Fellows will receive a $1000 honorarium for a brief paper describing a research opportunity from their paradigmatic perspective based on what they have learned.
Wednesday July 13th fellows and seminar staff convene for dinner, orientation to the seminar, and assignment of fellows to faculty. Thursday July 14th fellows are taken to their faculty colleague’s place of work, fellows accompany faculty to meetings, labs or clinics, offices, and any site visits that faculty have on their schedule for that morning, fellows ask questions throughout shadowing and have lunch with their faculty colleague, then fellows convene and with seminar staff leave as a group for field trip. A group dinner for fellows, staff, and faculty finishes the day. Friday July 15th fellows report-out and discuss in full-day seminar what they have learned about communication in healthcare systems and how that may apply to cancer communication research. Saturday July 16th fellows convene in morning seminar to discuss the fit of research paradigms to the realities of healthcare organizations, and depart for the airport.
Apply by sending (1) a cover letter of application with full contact information, (2) a letter of reference, (3) a one page statement of interest that identifies the applicant’s research interests and what they would hope to learn, and (4) a vita. Materials must be received by May 1, 2011. Applicants will be notified by May 15. Submit application materials to: sarah.madrid@kp.org.
Course Permissions
HI All,
It's the time of year when summer and fall registration are going strong, so I wanted to remind you that there are a few courses for which you will need me to set your permissions before you may enroll.
Please just send me an email requesting permission if you want to enroll in any of the following:
CMCL-C810
CMCL-C545
CMCL-C700-(MA only, for reading in prep for exams)
CMCL-C710-(Independent Study - replaces C700, which will be reserved for MA reading)
CMCL-C622
CMCL-C646
CMCL-G901-(not available in the summer)
If you have any quesitons about this, please ask. :)
It's the time of year when summer and fall registration are going strong, so I wanted to remind you that there are a few courses for which you will need me to set your permissions before you may enroll.
Please just send me an email requesting permission if you want to enroll in any of the following:
CMCL-C810
CMCL-C545
CMCL-C700-(MA only, for reading in prep for exams)
CMCL-C710-(Independent Study - replaces C700, which will be reserved for MA reading)
CMCL-C622
CMCL-C646
CMCL-G901-(not available in the summer)
If you have any quesitons about this, please ask. :)
Monday, April 4, 2011
The IU Dhar India Studies Program presents: Has Pakistan’s Democracy Progressed?
Akbar Zaidi
Visiting Professor of International and Public Affairs
and of Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies
Columbia University
Friday, April 15 at 5:30 pm
Dhar India Studies House
825 East 8th Street
(Corner of 8th & Woodlawn)
ABSTRACT
Unlike many other developing countries which have moved away from military rule in favor of strengthening democratic processes and institutions, Pakistan still struggles with weak democratic structures following its most recent period of military rule. This lecture will investigate why the country’s democracy is in such a state. Are Pakistan’s political actors and civil society able to strengthen democracy in Pakistan, or will the chronic dynamics of a security state continue to determine Pakistan’s political future? Has the United States played a role in strengthening democracy in Pakistan? Has the War on Terror along with Pakistan’s military compromised democracy? Do Pakistan’s political and civilian actors have the ability to establish democracy at all?
This event is free and open to the public
812-855-5798 india@indiana.edu http://www.indiana.edu/~isp/
Follow us on twitter at IndiaStudiesIUB or on Facebook at IU Dhar India Studies Program
Visiting Professor of International and Public Affairs
and of Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies
Columbia University
Friday, April 15 at 5:30 pm
Dhar India Studies House
825 East 8th Street
(Corner of 8th & Woodlawn)
ABSTRACT
Unlike many other developing countries which have moved away from military rule in favor of strengthening democratic processes and institutions, Pakistan still struggles with weak democratic structures following its most recent period of military rule. This lecture will investigate why the country’s democracy is in such a state. Are Pakistan’s political actors and civil society able to strengthen democracy in Pakistan, or will the chronic dynamics of a security state continue to determine Pakistan’s political future? Has the United States played a role in strengthening democracy in Pakistan? Has the War on Terror along with Pakistan’s military compromised democracy? Do Pakistan’s political and civilian actors have the ability to establish democracy at all?
This event is free and open to the public
812-855-5798 india@indiana.edu http://www.indiana.edu/~isp/
Follow us on twitter at IndiaStudiesIUB or on Facebook at IU Dhar India Studies Program
Sexual Assault Awareness Month Programming:
For April’s Sexual Assault Awareness Month this year, Middle Way House—a local domestic violence shelter and rape crisis center—is presenting a four-part series of community education events on sexual assault in Bloomington. These programs will be held on every Tuesday in April and will feature community speakers and interactive activities on a variety of topics related to sexual assault awareness. All events are FREE and open to the public.
The schedule of events is as follows:
April 5th
7 PM
Monroe County Public Library
"Ending Sexual Assault in Bloomington: A Reflection on the Movement So Far"
April 12th
7 PM
Bloomington High School South LGI Room
"What Parents Should Know about Teenagers and Sexual Assault"
April 19th
7 PM
Monroe County Public Library
"Saying Yes!: Consent-Centered Sex"
April 26th
6 PM
Rachael's Cafe
"Cathartic Art: Trauma, Healing, and Creative Expression"
Please consider attending any or all of the events above. You are an important member of the community and we would love to have you contribute to this conversation!
The schedule of events is as follows:
April 5th
7 PM
Monroe County Public Library
"Ending Sexual Assault in Bloomington: A Reflection on the Movement So Far"
April 12th
7 PM
Bloomington High School South LGI Room
"What Parents Should Know about Teenagers and Sexual Assault"
April 19th
7 PM
Monroe County Public Library
"Saying Yes!: Consent-Centered Sex"
April 26th
6 PM
Rachael's Cafe
"Cathartic Art: Trauma, Healing, and Creative Expression"
Please consider attending any or all of the events above. You are an important member of the community and we would love to have you contribute to this conversation!
Call for Manuscripts - 2012 Special Issue: New Directions in Critical Television Studies
Michaela D.E. Meyer, Guest Editor
Submission Deadline: July 1, 2011
Over the past decade, scholars have coined the term “post-television,” signifying a decline in traditional broadcast models through a rise in content choices across niche markets and the expanding influence of digital technologies. Despite claims that we are experiencing a “death of television” (Penenburg, 2005) or that “television is not ‘television’ anymore” (McRae, 2006), communication scholars still turn to television as a means of understanding how popular culture influences society and identity. If television is not “dead,” how does it still function as a central part of our communicative landscape? Broadly speaking, television scholarship in our discipline interrogates issues of ownership and control (political economy), content (textual analysis), and reception (audience studies). This scholarship, however, is characterized by “contests over meanings and approaches” (Miller, 2008, p. xi) because scholars often “speak different languages, use different methods” and pursue “different questions” (Hartley, 1999, p. 18). As a result, television scholarship has become as fragmented as television itself.
This special issue of Communication Studies will highlight critical approaches to the study of television with an eye toward defining and theorizing new directions in television studies. Authors are invited to submit manuscripts exploring television from a critical perspective, regardless of topic. Topics that are of particular interest to this issue include critical examinations of:
• Television industries (economics and politics around conglomerate ownership, production/marketing, or ”post-television” organizational practices)
• Television history (as it relates to the ephemeral nature of television broadcasts or informs present directions in television practice)
• Television genre or form (episodic, serial, complex)
• Specific television texts that significantly impact popular culture (particularly interested in texts that hit the coveted emerging adult demographic)
• Television audiences and their understanding of television content (both in real time and in retrospect, of specific interest are pieces that deal with memory or nostalgia as part of television consumption)
• Interpretive practices of audiences (moving from consumer to producer)
Regardless of topic/methodology, all manuscripts must connect to the theme of understanding contemporary television from a critical perspective and offer new directions for the critical study of television in the 21st century.
Submissions must be prepared according to the 6th edition of the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association and should contain no more than 9000 total words (including tables, references, endnotes, and appendices). An electronic file of the manuscript, prepared for blind review, should be submitted at mc.manuscriptcentral.com/rcst (identify manuscript type as Critical Television Studies) no later than July 1, 2011. Queries regarding the special issue may be directed to guest editor Michaela D.E. Meyer (mmeyer@cnu.edu) or journal editor Kim Powell (commstudies@luther.edu).
References
Hartley, J. (1999). Uses of television. London: Routledge.
McRae, P. (2006). The death of television and the birth of digital convergence: (Re)shaping media in the 21st century. SIMILE: Studies In Media & Information Literacy Education, 6(2), 1-12.
Miller, T. (2008). It’s television. It’s HBO. In M. Leverette, B. L. Ott & C. L. Buckley (Eds.), It’s not TV: Watching HBO in the post-television era (pp. ix-xii). New York: Routledge.
Penenberg, A. L. (2005, October 17). The death of television: Will the internet replace the boob tube? Slate Magazine. Retrieved from
http://www.slate.com/id/2128201/
Submission Deadline: July 1, 2011
Over the past decade, scholars have coined the term “post-television,” signifying a decline in traditional broadcast models through a rise in content choices across niche markets and the expanding influence of digital technologies. Despite claims that we are experiencing a “death of television” (Penenburg, 2005) or that “television is not ‘television’ anymore” (McRae, 2006), communication scholars still turn to television as a means of understanding how popular culture influences society and identity. If television is not “dead,” how does it still function as a central part of our communicative landscape? Broadly speaking, television scholarship in our discipline interrogates issues of ownership and control (political economy), content (textual analysis), and reception (audience studies). This scholarship, however, is characterized by “contests over meanings and approaches” (Miller, 2008, p. xi) because scholars often “speak different languages, use different methods” and pursue “different questions” (Hartley, 1999, p. 18). As a result, television scholarship has become as fragmented as television itself.
This special issue of Communication Studies will highlight critical approaches to the study of television with an eye toward defining and theorizing new directions in television studies. Authors are invited to submit manuscripts exploring television from a critical perspective, regardless of topic. Topics that are of particular interest to this issue include critical examinations of:
• Television industries (economics and politics around conglomerate ownership, production/marketing, or ”post-television” organizational practices)
• Television history (as it relates to the ephemeral nature of television broadcasts or informs present directions in television practice)
• Television genre or form (episodic, serial, complex)
• Specific television texts that significantly impact popular culture (particularly interested in texts that hit the coveted emerging adult demographic)
• Television audiences and their understanding of television content (both in real time and in retrospect, of specific interest are pieces that deal with memory or nostalgia as part of television consumption)
• Interpretive practices of audiences (moving from consumer to producer)
Regardless of topic/methodology, all manuscripts must connect to the theme of understanding contemporary television from a critical perspective and offer new directions for the critical study of television in the 21st century.
Submissions must be prepared according to the 6th edition of the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association and should contain no more than 9000 total words (including tables, references, endnotes, and appendices). An electronic file of the manuscript, prepared for blind review, should be submitted at mc.manuscriptcentral.com/rcst (identify manuscript type as Critical Television Studies) no later than July 1, 2011. Queries regarding the special issue may be directed to guest editor Michaela D.E. Meyer (mmeyer@cnu.edu) or journal editor Kim Powell (commstudies@luther.edu).
References
Hartley, J. (1999). Uses of television. London: Routledge.
McRae, P. (2006). The death of television and the birth of digital convergence: (Re)shaping media in the 21st century. SIMILE: Studies In Media & Information Literacy Education, 6(2), 1-12.
Miller, T. (2008). It’s television. It’s HBO. In M. Leverette, B. L. Ott & C. L. Buckley (Eds.), It’s not TV: Watching HBO in the post-television era (pp. ix-xii). New York: Routledge.
Penenberg, A. L. (2005, October 17). The death of television: Will the internet replace the boob tube? Slate Magazine. Retrieved from
http://www.slate.com/id/2128201/
Professor Heidi Rae Cooley will be visiting CMCL April 20-22
Heidi Rae Cooley is Assistant Professor of Media Arts at the University of South Carolina and author of “It’s All about the Fit” in the Journal of Visual Culture (2004). She is completing a book, “Finding Augusta: Persons, Technologies, and Governance,” that considers how mobile technologies instantiate norms for the governance of populations and constitute persons as expressive and socially connected subjects. A multi-media commentary, “Placing ‘Augusta’: Index, Tags & Findability,” for In Media Res (2009) offers an early look at the project. More recently, Dr. Cooley served as Co-PI and facilitator for an NEH-funded Humanities Gaming Institute (2010).
She will be giving a presentation on digital scholarship (that is, scholarship that doesn't use the print format) in my C506 class Weds April 20 4-6:30. Usually we hold class in Room 272, but if you have students who would like to attend this discussion/workshop please let me know and I'll look for a bigger space.
On Thursday April 21, she will be giving a lecture at the IU Cinema at 3 p.m. We will be screening the archival Augustas print as part of this presentation. Free and open to the public.
For more information, please contact Joan Hawkins jchawkin@indiana.edu
Joan Hawkins
She will be giving a presentation on digital scholarship (that is, scholarship that doesn't use the print format) in my C506 class Weds April 20 4-6:30. Usually we hold class in Room 272, but if you have students who would like to attend this discussion/workshop please let me know and I'll look for a bigger space.
On Thursday April 21, she will be giving a lecture at the IU Cinema at 3 p.m. We will be screening the archival Augustas print as part of this presentation. Free and open to the public.
For more information, please contact Joan Hawkins jchawkin@indiana.edu
Joan Hawkins
Course Ad - C204: Music and New Media
We’re consistently told that digital recording, peer-to-peer networks, mp3s, iPods, and YouTube have revolutionized music production and consumption over the last decade. So what? How does the current moment compare to the early 20th century, when sheet music, the phonograph and the player piano helped create the basic idea of recorded music? Or 50 years later when those disparate new media called television, LPs and 45s helped make popular music a new kind of mass passion? Not to mention the digital steroids of the 1980s and 1990s, when the compact disc, and electronic production expanded recorded music’s reach and influence to unimagined places?
These are just a few examples in which the introduction of new media has affected our relationships to music. Which raises the question: How does music get to our ears, and why should we care? What can wax cylinders and Nickelodeons teach us about mp3s and the iPod? In this class, we’ll focus on how our musical experiences are shaped by media, and how these media themselves emerge from specific social and cultural contexts. We’ll focus on the moments when these media are “new,” so we can hone in on the social negotiations that emerge around them that solidify how they’re used. We’ll consider the following issues (and
others!):
• What happens when music is recorded
• What counts as a music medium
• What it means for a music medium to be “new”
• How new music media emerge from specific social and cultural contexts
• The relationships between music, television, film, and the internet
• How new media impact musical performance and production
• How copyright law responds to new music media
Work will involve (among other things) maintaining a presence on the class blog, applying course readings to current issues during class discussions, and a final project and presentation that addresses an issue relating to music and mediation. Any questions? Email Eric at eharvey@indiana.edu.
These are just a few examples in which the introduction of new media has affected our relationships to music. Which raises the question: How does music get to our ears, and why should we care? What can wax cylinders and Nickelodeons teach us about mp3s and the iPod? In this class, we’ll focus on how our musical experiences are shaped by media, and how these media themselves emerge from specific social and cultural contexts. We’ll focus on the moments when these media are “new,” so we can hone in on the social negotiations that emerge around them that solidify how they’re used. We’ll consider the following issues (and
others!):
• What happens when music is recorded
• What counts as a music medium
• What it means for a music medium to be “new”
• How new music media emerge from specific social and cultural contexts
• The relationships between music, television, film, and the internet
• How new media impact musical performance and production
• How copyright law responds to new music media
Work will involve (among other things) maintaining a presence on the class blog, applying course readings to current issues during class discussions, and a final project and presentation that addresses an issue relating to music and mediation. Any questions? Email Eric at eharvey@indiana.edu.
HOOSIERS 25TH ANNIVERSARY EVENT
The IU Cinema will be commemorating what has been called the greatest sports film of all time, HOOSIERS. The April 7th event will begin at 6:30pm with a screening of the film in the IU Cinema, followed immediately by a reception with the filmmakers in the IU Auditorium. Director David Anspaugh and writer/producer Angelo Pizzo will be on-hand to share stories and meet guests. The reception will have an open bar, desserts and other refreshments. The event is being presented by the IU Cinema and the Jorgensen Guest Filmmaker Lecture Series. All proceeds will be used to further enhance the IU Cinema guest filmmaker series.
Tickets are $40 per person and can be purchased through the IU Auditorium Box Office, by calling 812-855-1103 or by visiting tickets@indiana.edu. Any questions can be directed to mkerchne@indiana.edu.
http://www.indiana.edu/~iucinema/events2011.111.shtml
Tickets are $40 per person and can be purchased through the IU Auditorium Box Office, by calling 812-855-1103 or by visiting tickets@indiana.edu. Any questions can be directed to mkerchne@indiana.edu.
http://www.indiana.edu/~iucinema/events2011.111.shtml
International Communication Association Meetings
Microsoft Research New England’s Social Media Research Collective, led by danah boyd, cordially invites digital media scholars in Boston, MA for the International Communication Association Meetings to join us for an informal evening of conversation and collaboration, Thursday May 26 at Microsoft Research in Kendall Square (One Memorial Drive, Cambridge MA 02142). Space will be limited so, please, RSVP by Monday April 18 (see details below).
We will have 2 separate events the evening of May 26, so please see the 2 separate calls below:
Event #1:
May 26, from 7PM-8:30PM:
Soc.Digital Grad Student Meetup, Sponsored by Microsoft Research New England
http://research.microsoft.com/soc.digital2011/
The Soc.Digital Grad Student Meetup aims to help graduate students examining social practices surrounding communication and information technologies connect with one another. Graduate students will have the opportunity to get to know each other and learn about each other’s work in a casual but fun environment. Space will be limited to 75 participants. Snacks and refreshments will be provided.
Students who would like to attend should submit the following with their RSVP:
- Your full name, affiliation, email, website/Twitter (if applicable)
- A high resolution photo of yourself
- A paragraph about you and your work (max: 200 words)
- If applicable, the title, time, location of any panels/papers you’re on at ICA
Should we receive more than 75 requests for participation by April 18, preference will be given to students working on social media and those using ethnographic, historical, or other critical qualitative approaches.
For more information about this event, please contact Mary L. Gray, MSRNE Visiting Researcher at:
t-maryg@microsoft.com
RSVP, no later than April 18, to: digimeet@microsoft.com
Event #2:
May 26, from 8:30PM-10PM: Soc.Digital Mixer!, Sponsored by Microsoft Research New England
http://research.microsoft.com/digimixer2011/
The Soc.Digital Mixer aims to connect scholars researching digital media communication and information technologies, particularly those studying social media. In particular, we would like to create a space for professors and researchers to connect with graduate students just entering the field. Toward that end, a small cohort of graduate students will be invited to come earlier in the evening to get to know one another and will be encouraged to stay for the Mixer.
If you would like to attend, please include in your name, affiliation, areas of research interest, any website presence or links you would like shared with fellow invitees, and one fun fact about yourself that we can share with the group.
For more information about this event or to learn more about the graduate student Meetup that will take place before our open mixer, please contact Mary L. Gray, MSRNE Visiting Researcher at: t-maryg@microsoft.com
Appetizers and drinks will be provided. Space will be limited to 125 participants so, please, RSVP no later than April 18, to: digimix@microsoft.com
We will have 2 separate events the evening of May 26, so please see the 2 separate calls below:
Event #1:
May 26, from 7PM-8:30PM:
Soc.Digital Grad Student Meetup, Sponsored by Microsoft Research New England
http://research.microsoft.com/soc.digital2011/
The Soc.Digital Grad Student Meetup aims to help graduate students examining social practices surrounding communication and information technologies connect with one another. Graduate students will have the opportunity to get to know each other and learn about each other’s work in a casual but fun environment. Space will be limited to 75 participants. Snacks and refreshments will be provided.
Students who would like to attend should submit the following with their RSVP:
- Your full name, affiliation, email, website/Twitter (if applicable)
- A high resolution photo of yourself
- A paragraph about you and your work (max: 200 words)
- If applicable, the title, time, location of any panels/papers you’re on at ICA
Should we receive more than 75 requests for participation by April 18, preference will be given to students working on social media and those using ethnographic, historical, or other critical qualitative approaches.
For more information about this event, please contact Mary L. Gray, MSRNE Visiting Researcher at:
t-maryg@microsoft.com
RSVP, no later than April 18, to: digimeet@microsoft.com
Event #2:
May 26, from 8:30PM-10PM: Soc.Digital Mixer!, Sponsored by Microsoft Research New England
http://research.microsoft.com/digimixer2011/
The Soc.Digital Mixer aims to connect scholars researching digital media communication and information technologies, particularly those studying social media. In particular, we would like to create a space for professors and researchers to connect with graduate students just entering the field. Toward that end, a small cohort of graduate students will be invited to come earlier in the evening to get to know one another and will be encouraged to stay for the Mixer.
If you would like to attend, please include in your name, affiliation, areas of research interest, any website presence or links you would like shared with fellow invitees, and one fun fact about yourself that we can share with the group.
For more information about this event or to learn more about the graduate student Meetup that will take place before our open mixer, please contact Mary L. Gray, MSRNE Visiting Researcher at: t-maryg@microsoft.com
Appetizers and drinks will be provided. Space will be limited to 125 participants so, please, RSVP no later than April 18, to: digimix@microsoft.com
People, Affect, Space
Wednesday, April 6
7:00 pm
Fine Arts 102
Patrick Lichty, PhD, Columbia College Chicago
Patrick Lichty will discuss his interest in the relationship of people to place (physical and virtual) through exploration of affect and feeling.
Patrick Lichty (b.1962) is a technologically-based conceptual artist, writer, independent curator, animator for the activist group, The Yes Men, and Executive Editor of Intelligent Agent Magazine. He began showing technological media art in 1989, and deals with works and writing that explore the affective relations between people, media and space. Venues in which Lichty has been involved with solo and collaborative works include the TED Conference, Whitney & Turin Biennials, Maribor Triennial, Performa Performance Biennial, Ars Electronica, and the International Symposium on the Electronic Arts (ISEA). He also works extensively with virtual worlds, including Second Life, and his work, both solo and with his performance art group, Second Front, has been featured in Flash Art, Eikon Milan, and ArtNews.
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