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International symposium: “The Digital Subject: Temporalities” CFP

International symposium: “The Digital Subject: Temporalities”
University of Paris 8 Vincennes Saint Denis – Archives Nationales
November 12-14, 2014

This symposium is part of a long-term project, “The digital subject,” endorsed by the LABEX Arts-H2H. It follows two symposiums (Hypermnesia held in 2012 and Scriptions in 2013). We are exploring the ways in which digital tools, be they real or fictional, from Babbage to Internet, have altered our conception of the subject and its representations, affecting both its status and its attributes. We welcome contributions from the following fields : philosophy, literature, arts, archivistics, neurosciences, and the history of science and technology.

The working languages will be French and English. Contributions may be submitted in either language and should not exceed 3000 characters. Please enclose a brief bio-bibliographical note.

Deadline for submissions: June 30, 2014. See full details here

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International Symposium “Collaborative Translation: From Antiquity to the Internet” (France)

International Symposium “Collaborative Translation: From Antiquity to the Internet” June 5-7, 2014 University Paris 8 Vincennes Saint-Denis

Thursday, June 5, 2014 – 3:00pm – Saturday, June 7, 2014 – 2:00pm

 

 

 

This international conference aims to explore a repressed history of collaborative translation. It will contextualize contemporary translation practices and chart the spectral presence of collaborative translation in the evolution of translation theory, which in Europe has traditionally privileged an individualistic model and occluded the presence of widespread collaborative forms of translation. In the digital age, one must also recognize how new technologies and the internet have expanded the potential for collaborative practices through the use of translation memories, cloud translation, fan sourcing, translation by web communities etc.

We will inquire into the collaborative dimension to all forms of translation, past and present, not only in the Western world but also beyond the limits of Europe. The debate will be organised around three themes:

1. What influences weigh upon the translation when it is performed in the presence of the author?
2. How are translation collectives organised, from the constitution of teams to the use of digital spaces?
3. What sharing of roles, what stakes and what conflicts arise when translating in an institutional context?

This European conference of IATIS will be held from 5-7 June 2014 at the Maison de l’Italie (Cité Internationale), the University of Paris 8 and the Bibliothèque nationale de France (Richelieu site).

More details are available here

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UO GTF Positions: Instructional Technology Specialist (4 positions)

Instructional Technology Specialist (4 positions)

Department: Library
FTE: .40
Terms: Fall, Winter, Spring 
Academic Year: 2014-2015
Duties: 

The Center for Media & Educational Technology of the UO Libraries seeks four (4) graduate students from several different academic areas/schools (see “qualifications” below for preferred areas) with excellent work ethic, customer service skills, teaching experience, and experience working with technology and/or dedication and aptitude to learn how to integrate technology into instruction. Good writing, interpersonal communication skills and training/teaching skills are desirable.

Instructional technology GTFs will work independently and as a team to assist faculty with instructional course design, primarily but not limited to work in the Learning Management System (currently Blackboard).

The UO is currently reviewing Learning Management Systems as part of a formal procurement process. Should the UO decide to move to a new LMS, the instructional technology GTFs will play a key role in migrating the UO’s course web sites from Blackboard to a new system. Training will be provided.

GTFs will provide hands-on support to faculty in their respective schools, assisting faculty and GTFs in integrating technology, designing courses or migrating existing ones. GTFs will also design and deliver instructional technology workshops for faculty and GTFs.

This is a fabulous opportunity to gain real world experience in teaching, technology service delivery and in your chosen discipline.

Applications are due Wednesday, May 28, 2014 – 5:00pm, and detailed instructions are available here

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Assistant Professor, Studio Art & Multimedia, McMaster University (Canada)

The School of the Arts/Department of Communication Studies and Multimedia

Assistant Professor – Contractually Limited Appointment

The School of the Arts and The Department of Communication Studies and Multimedia at McMaster University invite applications for a three-year contractually limited cross-appointment in Studio Art and Multimedia at the rank of Assistant Professor to commence July 1, 2014. In the first year, the successful applicant will teach three one-term courses in the Multimedia program in the Department of Communication Studies and Multimedia and three in the Studio Art program in the School of the Arts. The successful candidate will have an MFA or a PhD and demonstrated excellence in teaching and course development. She or he will be expected to develop at least three one-term courses that would bring together the Studio Art and the Multimedia programs, at a time when both will be developing exciting new physical facilities.

Specific areas of expertise are open but might include any of the following: graphic design,analog and digital photography, painting, drawing, sculpture, installation, performance, art practice as research, research creation, new media and contemporary art theory and criticism, computer-aided fabrication, maker culture, kinetic sculpture,electronic and sensor-based art, video production, editing and post-production, 2D and 3D animation. In years two and three, the successful candidate will teach two one-term courses in Studio Art and two in Multimedia, and the three new cross-listed courses. The current minimum salary for an Assistant Professor is $68,824 per annum. The successful candidate will also be expected to participate in administrative activities.

Applicants should send a letter of application that outlines the candidate’s interest in the position and areas of teaching and research/practice, a curriculum vitae, a statement of teaching philosophy that responds to the profile of the position; a digital portfolio of recent work (on DVD or DVD-ROM, or as a single PDF); an optional writing sample (maximum 25 pages, hardcopy or PDF), to:

Dr. Mary O’Connor, Acting Chair

Department of Communication Studies and Multimedia
Togo Salmon Hall 331
McMaster University
1280 Main Street West
Hamilton, Ontario, L8S 4M2

cmstdir@mcmaster.ca [using subject line title: CLA Multimedia & Studio Art]

Applications received by 31 May 2014 will be assured of full consideration. Applicants should arrange for three letters of reference to reach the Department by the same date. All documentation submitted in support of your application becomes the property of the University and is not returnable unless you provide a stamped, self-addressed envelope.

For further information on the Department of Communication Studies and Multimedia, see http://csmm.mcmaster.ca/ and for The School of the Arts, see http://sota.mcmaster.ca/index.html

See the original job posting here

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The Parsons Journal for Information Mapping (PJIM) CFP

The Parsons Journal for Information Mapping (PJIM) is an academic journal and online forum to promote research, writing, and digital execution of theories in the field of information mapping and its related disciplines. Our mission is to identify and disseminate knowledge about the fields of information mapping, information design, data visualization, information taxonomies/structures, data analytics, informatics, information systems, and user interface design.

PJIM focuses on both the theoretical and practical aspects of information visualization. With each issue, the Journal aims to present novel ideas and approaches that advance the field of Knowledge Visualization through visual, engineering, and cognitive methods.

We have an rolling, open-call for submissions for original essays, academic manuscripts, interactive and non-interactive projects, and project documentation that address representation, processing, and communication of information. We encourage interdisciplinary thinking and approaches and are open to submissions regarding, but not limited to, the following disciplines:

  • Visual analysis and interpretation
  • Social, political, or economic discourse surrounding information, distribution and use
  • Cognition, thinking, and learning
  • Visual and perceptual literacy
  • Historical uses of information in imagery
  • Semiotics

For publication consideration in the Summer issue of PJIM, please submit abstracts byMay 28, 2014.

Please visit our website for complete submission guidelines.
http://pjim.newschool.edu/

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“Technology Is Taking Over English Departments: The false promise of the digital humanities”

By , New Republic

“The humanities are in crisis again, or still. But there is one big exception: digital humanities, which is a growth industry. In 2009, the nascent field was the talk of the Modern Language Association (MLA) convention: ‘among all the contending subfields,’ a reporter wrote about that year’s gathering, ‘the digital humanities seem like the first ‘next big thing’ in a long time.’ Even earlier, the National Endowment for the Humanities created its Office of Digital Humanities to help fund projects. And digital humanities continues to go from strength to strength, thanks in part to the Mellon Foundation, which has seeded programs at a number of universities with large grants—most recently, $1 million to the University of Rochester to create a graduate fellowship.

Despite all this enthusiasm, the question of what the digital humanities is has yet to be given a satisfactory answer. Indeed, no one asks it more often than the digital humanists themselves. The recent proliferation of books on the subject—from sourcebooks and anthologies to critical manifestos—is a sign of a field suffering an identity crisis, trying to determine what, if anything, unites the disparate activities carried on under its banner. ‘Nowadays,’ writes Stephen Ramsay in Defining Digital Humanities, ‘the term can mean anything from media studies to electronic art, from data mining to edutech, from scholarly editing to anarchic blogging, while inviting code junkies, digital artists, standards wonks, transhumanists, game theorists, free culture advocates, archivists, librarians, and edupunks under its capacious canvas.'”

Read the full article here

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“The Age of ‘Infopolitics'” by UO Professor Colin Koopman

We understandably do not want to see ourselves as bits and bytes. But unless we begin conceptualizing ourselves in this way, we leave it to others to do it for us. 

Read all of Colin Koopman’s “The Age of ‘Infopolitics'” in The Stone section of the NY Times here

 

Koopman is an assistant professor of Philosophy at the University of Oregon, where he is also a resident scholar at the Wayne Morse Center for Law and Politics. He is the author of “Genealogy as Critique” and “Pragmatism as Transition,” and is at work on a book about infopolitics.

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“The Dark Side of Data” TED talks

Data can be used for good, harnessed for the betterment of society, but it can also be abused. Find out about some hidden not-so-sunny uses of Big Data and check out TED’s “The Dark Side of Data” playlist of lectures:

 

1. Malte Spitz, Your phone company is watching

2. Mikko Hypponen, How the NSA betrayed the world’s trust — time to act

3. Heather Brooke, My battle to expose government corruption

4. Ben Goldacre, Battling bad science

5. Alessandro Acquisti, Why privacy matters

6. Hasan Elahi, FBI, here I am!

7. Mikko Hypponen, Three types of online attack

8. Kevin Slavin, How algorithms shape our world

9. Avi Rubin, All your devices can be hacked

10. Todd Humphreys, How to fool a GPS

11. Christopher “moot” Poole, The case for anonymity online

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Gender and sexual diversity in games history CFP

Call for Submissions: Gender and sexual diversity in games history
Memory Insufficient – the games history ezine

To accompany the LGBT pride festivals celebrated in many countries during the month of June, the next issue of Memory Insufficient takes up histories of gender and sexual diversity in games.

Submissions that complicate or challenge the issue’s topic titles are very much welcome. Every topic can be read with the words jumbled up. That means you could, for example, write up your history of being gendered in games, or you could write about minority sexualities in a game about history, or submit a history of the gaming of gender expression, or any other permutation imaginable.

Any kind of history will be accepted: social, biographic, documentary, personal, descriptive or polemical. Submissions are unlikely to be rejected for being ‘not history,’ because nobody has the authority to decide what that means. Likewise, nobody has the authority to decide what a game is. Digital and non-digital games are both covered.

See details here

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IJORCS – Vol 4, Issue 4 CFP

International Journal of Research in Computer Science

It is our immense pleasure to invite you to submit your manuscripts for publication in International Journal of Research in Computer Sciences, a double blind peer-reviewed journal dedicated to the propagation and elucidation of scholarly research results.

IJORCS aims to disseminate quality research work and to enhance the ethics and morale of the research community. Besides providing a platform for the reinforcement of science, fast operative publication, IJORCS disseminates the published research work in major indexing databases all over the world which includes, Citeseer, ProQuest, BASE, Q-Sensei, Google Scholar, DOAJ, Cabell’s Directory and many more.

IJORCS is now associated with CrossRef (The Citation Linking Backbone) as a Member. A DOI Prefix: “10.7815” has been assigned byCrossRef and as a result your manuscript, if published in IJORCS would be assigned a DOI (Digital Object Identifier) number which would be unique in the world each article.

Welcoming the research scholars, scientists around the globe in the Open Access Dimension, IJORCS is now accepting manuscripts for its next issue (Volume 4, Issue 4). Authors are encouraged to contribute to the research community by submitting to IJORCS, articles that clarify new research results, projects, surveying works and industrial experiences that describe significant advances in field of computer science.

Deadline: 1st June 2014
Notification: 15th June 2014
Revision: 25th June 2014
Publication: 5th July 2014

See full details regarding topics and submission guidelines here