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CFP: Textshop Experiments — Open Issue

The editors of Textshop Experiments invite submissions via essays and video essays, reviews, conference reports, and multimodal projects for its forthcoming Open Issue to be published in May 2017.  Textshop Experiments is an open access, peer-reviewed journal that aims to extend the work of Greg Ulmer and to foster experimental works that invent, operate in, or analyze the apparatus of Electracy.  We welcome innovative and hybrid works in new media and original scholarship on reading and writing, rhetoric, and culture.

Works can be submitted on any topic related to the following:

  • Electracy
  • Digital Humanities: the Arts, literature and the digital media
  • Cultural studies
  • Multimodal composition & pedagogy
  • Digital curation
  • Film & new media
  • Visual studies, design, and public art
  • Electronic literature
  • Memory studies
  • Internet studies & digital culture
  • Performance studies
  • Aesthetic studies: critical discussion, case-study, computational analysis
  • Interdisciplinary approaches to the arts
  • Emerging critical theories involving interdisciplinary studies
  • Interdisciplinary approaches to teaching and education

Traditional essay should be between 3000-5000 words. Multimodal projects can be arranged in consult with the Editors and the Advisory Board. Book, blog, or software reviews and conference reports should be between 1000-2000 words for single and/or double book reviews.

Please send essays and writing as a doc or docx files.  Works should be sent in MLA format.  For the formatting of other projects, please consult our Submission Guidelines on our website or query the editors at ulmertextshop@gmail.com

No unsolicited reviews are accepted, however, contributors are encouraged to query the editors before submission.

Deadline for submissions is March 1, 2017

Submissions must be made electronically as MS Word file attachment to: ulmertextshop@gmail.com

 

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Summer Institute on Objects, Places and the Digital Humanities

photoThe Summer Institute on Objects, Places, and the Digital Humanities at the National Humanities Center in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina will focus on the theory and practice of digital work for topics in art, architecture, urban history or material culture. The two-year Institute will provide “hands-on” training with tools for geospatial mapping, 3D modeling, photogrammetry, and data collection and visualization.

Participants will develop a digital component to a research project related to the “lives of things” as interrogations of meaning, circulation, and change over the long life of places and objects. Participants will examine how modeling, database and mapping tools can move research in new directions, reframing evidence towards new questions and expanding scholarship into new arenas of research and public outreach.The workshop is intended for mid-career scholars engaged in research that can be expanded to include a digital dimension. No previous experience in digital scholarship is required.
The Institute will be led by Caroline Bruzelius and Mark Olson, both in the Department of Art, Art History and Visual Studies and co-founders of the Wired! lab at Duke University.
To Apply: submit a CV and a 1-2 page project description, including a statement about how the project might benefit from digital methods. Successful candidates will be notified by March 21, 2017.

Applications accepted until midnight EST on February 21, 2017

Full details and Application

 

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CSV Conference

CSV Conference: csv,conf,v3 (Portland, May 2-3, Proposals due Feb 15)
 

csv,conf,v3 : community conference for data makers everywhere

Submissions due February 15, 2017 ; results by March 1.

Building Community

We want to bring together data makers/doers/hackers from backgrounds like science, journalism, open government and the wider software industry to share knowledge and stories.

For those who love data

csv,conf is a non-profit community conference run by some folks who really love data and sharing knowledge. If you are as passionate about data and the application it has to society as us then you should join us in Portland!

Big and small

This isn’t just a conference about spreadsheets. We are curating content about advancing the art of data collaboration, from putting your data on GitHub to producing meaningful insight by running large scale distributed processing on a cluster.

Previous Speakers

For questions email csv-conf-coord@googlegroups.com

Apply Here.

 

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Digital Humanities Summer Institute Colloquim

Proposals are now being accepted for presentations at the Digital Humanities Summer Institute Colloquium, to be held in June 2017 at the University of Victoria. Open to all, the DHSI Colloquium offers an opportunity to present research and projects within an engaging, collegial atmosphere. Submissions are peer-reviewed, with participants subsequently invited to contribute to a DHSI-themed special issue in an open-access journal.

Proposals of 300-500 words are invited, focusing on any topic relating to the wider Digital Humanities. These may include, but are not limited to:

  • the scholar’s role in personal and institutional research projects
  • tool application and development
  • perspectives on Digital Humanities implications for the individual’s own research and pedagogy
  • reports on activities from the field

In your abstract, please indicate which format you would prefer, but note that, due to scheduling requirements, not all preferences can be accommodated. The Colloquium will run throughout the duration of DHSI, so please indicate which week(s) you will be in attendance.
Paper Presentation (June 5-9 & 12-16): Contributors have 10 minutes to complete the presentation of completed research/projects

Short Paper Presentation (June 5-9 & 12-16): Contributors have 5 minutes to complete high-impact presentations

Poster Session (June 9 only): Contributors display A1 landscape posters at a conference reception

Digital Demonstration (June 9 only): Contributors model digital projects at a conference reception. Of note, digital project presenters are encouraged to bring their own laptop, as this session will take form of a poster session-styled Digital Projects Showcase.

Submission Details:

  • submit proposal using google forms: https://goo.gl/forms/MITjLyZSU7jIy7U62
  • include the title of the submission, the name(s) and affiliation(s) of contributor(s), and the 300-500 word abstract. Be sure to indicate week preference

Deadline: February 20, 2017, at 8:00pm PST

For more information, contact James O’Sullivan (j.c.osullivan@sheffield.ac.uk) and/or Lindsey Seatter (lseatter@uvic.ca)

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2017 Digital Media and Composition (DMAC) Institute

the ohio state university english department and digital media project are proud to announce the 2017 digital media and composition institute may 10-17 columbus ohio #dmac17

The Ohio State University’s Department of English and the Digital Media Project are proud to host a week-long institute on the effective use of digital media in college composition classrooms. Participants will explore a range of contemporary digital literacy practices – alphabetic, visual, audio, and multimodal – and apply what they learn to the design of meaningful assignments, syllabi, curricula, and programs.

Registration is now open will continue until February 15 (or all available seats have been filled).

Among other activities, participants will

  • design, create, and use web texts, online portfolios, video projects, audio essays, and other digital compositions;
  • experiment with different genres of digital representation (e.g. documentary, literacy autobiography, interview) and primary resources (e.g. letters, photographs, maps, sound recordings);
  • discuss the complex issues of access, equity, agency, and literacy using the perspectives of both theory and practice to unpack these important concepts.

The goal of DMAC is to suggest and encourage innovative rhetorically-based approaches to composing that students and faculty can use as they employ digital media in support of their own educational and professional goals, in light of the specific context at their home institutions and within their varied personal experience. Knowledgeable staff members will provide individualized assistance and support as participants explore digital media. Instruction and will take place in newly remodeled computer classrooms nationally recognized as models of excellence.

All faculty and graduate scholars are invited to attend, no previous experience with digital media production and/or scholarship is required. The total fee for the 2017 Institute is $1800. See the DMAC website (http://www.dmacinstitute.com/) for more information on registration procedures, costs, and accommodations.

Those currently enrolled in a graduate program can receive course credit through their home institutions. Please have your advisor contact Scott DeWitt (dewitt.18@osu.edu) so that he can document the work and number of class hours you are completing.

For more information, please visit http://www.dmacinstitute.com/ or contact dmac.osu@gmail.com

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CFP: Blending in the Liberal Arts

Blended Learning in the Liberal Arts logo

The sixth annual Blended Learning in the Liberal Arts conference will be held Wednesday, May 17 – Thursday, May 18, 2017 at Bryn Mawr College.

Blended Learning encompasses any combination of online and face-to-face instruction that supports close faculty-student interactions and high-impact, student-centered pedagogies, promotes life-long learning, or otherwise contributes to the goals and mission of a liberal arts education.

Of particular interest are workshops, presentations or poster proposals concerning the following:

  • Open educational resources
  • Using blended learning to reduce costs/increase access
  • Student e-portfolios and other innovative ways of assessing student learning
  • Methods for building and framing digital skills, particularly in relation to student or curricular goals
  • Blended learning projects in a wider context — i.e., department, program, or college-level initiatives that look at blended learning beyond the boundaries of a single course

Submit a 250-400-word proposal describing your project and its connections to blended learning by February 15, 2017.

*Find full information and submission details Here*

 

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CFP: The Digital Everyday: Exploration Or Alienation?

czizbzrwgaed9r9“From how we buy, walk around, get a cab, love, break up, go to bed, and meet new people to the way we rate services, turn on the fridge, exercise and eat – social media, apps, and Big Data are reshaping some of the most basic activities in our lives.”

This conference will explore these digitally enabled transformations by looking at a
number of domains affected by these shifts: work and leisure, friendship and love, habits and routines. It will also explore a number of overarching dynamics and trends in the digital world that contribute to these transformations, including: processes of digital individualization and aggregation; the elisions of spatial and temporal barriers; trends towards quantification and datafication; and the dialectic between control and alienation.

The conference will will take place on Saturday, 6 May 2017 and will comprise two plenary sessions, 4 breakout panels, and keynote speakers.

Abstracts are due by 31 January 2017.

Key Questions Explored:

  • Is digital transformation affecting everyday life?
  • To what extent is this process one of increasing individualisation of social experience?
  • Might there be something more complex happening?
  • What are the new psychological and social pathologies that result from the digital transformation of everyday life and from processes of datafication and quantification?
  • Is digital technology allowing for new forms of control over our everyday life or is it increasing alienation, making us overly dependent on infrastructures beyond our grasp?
  • Is digital technology contributing to extending our freedom to choose, or is it stifling us with an overabundance of options?
  • Is it guiding us to wards who we ‘really’ are or want to be, or is it plunging us into a hall of mirrors that only reinforces our isolation and narcissism?
  • Is it facilitating exploration, serendipity and curiosity, or is it installing us into a pre-programmed and predictable world, into a filter bubble where choices can be more easily measured and manipulated?

Proposed paper abstracts may address the following topics:

  • transformations of work patterns
  • changes in everyday life routine (sleep, meals, etc.); fitness and sport activity
  • love and sexual interactions
  • friendship and acquaintanceship
  • consumption and entertainment
  • sense of place and time
  • transportation and tourism
  • play and leisure.

Abstracts should be 250 words maximum and include the author(s) name and position, and a short title. They must be submitted via EasyChair – https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=digitaleveryday17

Acceptance notices will be given on 28 February 2017. Extended abstracts of 1,500 words are due on 15 April 2017 to be sent digitalculture@kcl.ac.uk

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Call for Papers: TRACE Innovation Initiative – How We Make

tracelogo1TRACE publishes online peer-reviewed collections in ecology, posthumanism, and media studies. Providing an interdisciplinary forum for scholars, TRACE focuses on the ethical and material impact of technology and welcomes submissions in a variety of media that engage cultures, theories, and environments to “trace” the connections across and within various ecologies.

How We Make, explores how we make “through, with, and alongside” (N. Katherine Hayles) a larger ecology of technology, society, and design. The growing availability of cheap and easily hackable technology has captured commercial and scholarly attention worldwide, instigating a new type of DIY citizenship built from a hybrid economy of material, conceptual, and digital production. Publications like Make Magazine, online tutorials like Instructables, and community makerspace labs like Artisan’s Asylum offer multiple platforms for ‘how to’ projects– anything from building a home to hacking software or 3D-printing a prosthetic limb.

Is it enough to make for making’s sake? How do we attend to the longer history of makers and makerspaces? This issue offers a critical forum to discuss how technology changes the way we make theoretically and practically.

“How We Make” builds off the scholarship of Scholars Matt Ratto, Victor Papanek, and David Gauntlett, on the ‘how,’ ‘why,’ or ‘what’ of making. Following these ideas, TRACE invites submissions that critically reflect on the making process in their communities, makerspaces, and classrooms in order to reveal new insight into the maker movement.

1) Theory – The theoretical section asks scholars to be critical of making, investigating process, history, ecology, and trends. Potential projects may explore how theories of making engage or neglect race/class/gender/accessibility issues, how making is beneficial to society and could empower traditionally oppressed social groups, how the nonhuman participates in making, or how making challenges traditional consumer/producer models or privileges specific skills.

2) Praxis – The practical section calls for maker submissions detailing approaches to making and the results/impacts. Potential projects may discuss issues of accessibility, learning by doing, spaces (virtual or actual) of collaboration, best practice for amateurs learning DIY electronics, funding scholarly making, the use of maker labs, or making as serious scholarship.

3) Pedagogy – The pedagogical section calls for educational submissions detailing making in the classroom. Potential projects may cover connections between ‘making’ and education or invention, low-tech making in the classroom, definitions of making for education, pedagogical implications when asking students to think of writing/composing as making, or reflections on course outcomes including syllabus and course assignments.

Multimedia submissions are accepted and encouraged. Completed articles will be peer-reviewed and should be between 3000-6000 words in length.

If you are interested in contributing, please send your finalized project to trace@english.ufl.edu by February 1, 2017.

*find full Call for Papers here*

Direct questions to the Issue co-editors: Emily Brooks emily081390@ufl.edu and Shannon Butts shannon.butts@ufl.edu

For information about style guides, peer-review, or if you would like to participate in the review process, email trace@english.ufl.edu

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Digital Libraries Conference

ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL) 2017
The field of digital libraries has undergone dramatic changes as digital collections grow in scale and diversity. These changes call for novel analytical tools and methodologies for making sense of large amounts of heterogeneous data, for deriving diverse kinds of knowledge, and for linking across different collections and research disciplines. Thus the theme of the 2017 conference is #TOScale #TOAnalyze #TODiscover. Digital libraries must improve outreach efforts, engage diverse communities, and provide scholars and users with effective and flexible access to materials which will in turn empower them to make new observations and discoveries.

This year, we particularly invite papers, panels, workshops, and tutorials that present new discovery methods for diverse kinds of collections and datasets (e.g., documents, images, sounds, videos), that apply recent technologies in related fields like machine learning and data mining, and that report on innovative digital library applications that engage diverse communities, facilitate user access, and enable discovery and exploration in all domains including science, art, and the humanities.

Full Call for Paper Details

Participation is sought from all parts of the world and from the full range of established and emerging disciplines and professions including computer science, information science, web science, data science, digital humanities, librarianship, data management, archival science and practice, museum studies and practice, information technology, medicine, social sciences, education and the humanities. Representatives from academe, government, industry, and others are invited to participate.

Important dates

January 15, 2017 – Tutorial and Workshop proposal submissions
January 29, 2017 – Full paper and short paper submissions
February 1, 2017 – Notification of acceptance for tutorials and workshops
February 12, 2017 – Panel submissions
February 12, 2017 – Poster and demonstration submissions
March 20, 2017 – Notification of acceptance for full papers, short papers, panels, posters, and demonstrations
April 16, 2017 – Doctoral Consortium abstract submissions

Topics

JCDL welcomes submissions from researchers and practitioners interested in all aspects of digital libraries such as:

collection discovery and development;
hybrid physical/digital collections;
knowledge discovery;
applications of machine learning and AI;
services;
digital preservation;
system design;
scientific data management;
infrastructure and service design;
implementation;
interface design;
human-computer interaction;
performance evaluation;
user research;
crowdsourcing and human computation;
intellectual property;
privacy; electronic publishing;
document genres;
multimedia;
user communities; and
associated theoretical topics.

Submissions that resonate with JCDL 2017 theme are especially welcome, although we will give equal consideration to all topics in digital libraries.

Submissions

Full papers report on mature work, or efforts that have reached an important milestone, and must not exceed 10 pages. Accepted full papers will typically be presented in 20 minutes with 10 minutes for questions and discussion.

Short papers may highlight preliminary results to bring them to the community’s attention. They may also present theories or systems that can be described concisely in the limited space. Short papers must not exceed 4 pages in the conference format. Accepted short papers will typically be presented in 10 minutes with 5 minutes for questions and discussion.

Posters permit presentation of late-breaking results in an informal, interactive manner. Demonstrations showcase innovative digital library technologies and applications, allowing you to share your work directly with your colleagues in a high-visibility setting. Proposals for posters or demonstrations should consist of a title, extended abstract, and contact information for the authors, and should not exceed 2 pages in the conference format. Accepted posters and demonstrations will be displayed at the conference.

All submissions will be subject to a single-blind peer review. Paper submissions including full and short papers, posters, and demos should use the ACM Proceedings template and are to be submitted in electronic format. All accepted papers will be published by the ACM as conference proceedings and electronic versions will be included in both the ACM and IEEE digital libraries.

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24th Annual NMC Summer Conference

The NMC Summer Conference is a one-of-a-kind event, attracting highly skilled education professionals interested in the integration of emerging technologies and innovative approaches into teaching, learning, and creative inquiry.

Proposal Deadline: Sunday, January 29th

*Full information and submission details here*

Proposal Submission. All proposals must be submitted through the online proposal system.  (Sorry, no exceptions.)  The main presenter and each co-presenter must have an account on the NMC website in order to complete the proposal.  Presenters who do not yet have an account should create an account before starting the proposal submission process.Session Description. The proposal description should be one succinct paragraph containing no more than 100 words. The standard NMC format avoids the use of first person pronouns (“I will…” “We talk about…”), referring instead to “the presenters” or “this session.”  Be as specific as you can about what people in the audience will experience, do, or learn. This is the paragraph that will be used in the printed conference program.  You can add additional detail in the session plan and format of the submission form.

Additional suggestions. When writing your proposal, keep these points in mind:

  • The description should be concise, accurate, self-contained and coherent;
  • Use a clear and direct style with an active voice;
  • Include a statement on how you plan to engage the audience;
  • Describe who will benefit from attending this session;
  • Include a clear statement of what attendees will learn; and
  • Write so that conference reviewers and attendees will become instantly engaged in your presentation, knowing it will be valuable, interesting, relevant and unique. (All in 100 words!)
  • Make sure to include attachments and links for your presentation, if any, when you submit the proposal.

Instructions for a Call for Proposals Submission:

  • You MUST have an account to submit a proposal and then be logged in to the NMC website
  • Co-presenters must also have an account to be included in the submission – you may invite a co-presenters to create an NMC.org account if not found through the search form.
  • To create an account
  • Enter your proposal here
  • IMPORTANT:  When you have completed entering your proposal – please click on “View and Submit Proposal” – make sure all fields are completed.  Then hit “Submit”

Timelines

  • The Call for Proposals will open Tuesday, November 1.
  • The Call for Proposals will close on Sunday, January 29.
  • Speakers will be notified in mid-March 2017.

If you have any questions please contact Lisa Holloway at lisa@nmc.org or use our form.