Networked Affect

9780262028646Edited by Ken HillisSusanna Paasonen and Michael Petit, The Mit Press, 2015.
 Our encounters with websites, avatars, videos, mobile apps, discussion forums, GIFs, and nonhuman intelligent agents allow us to experience sensations of connectivity, interest, desire, and attachment—as well as detachment, boredom, fear, and shame. Some affective online encounters may arouse complex, contradictory feelings that resist dualistic distinctions. In this book, leading scholars examine the fluctuating and altering dynamics of affect that give shape to online connections and disconnections. Doing so, they tie issues of circulation and connectivity to theorizations of networked affect. Their diverse investigations—considering subjects that range from online sexual dynamics to the liveliness of computer code—demonstrate the value of affect theories for Internet studies.

Mass Effect: Art and the Internet in the Twenty-First Century

9780262029261Edited by Lauren Cornell and Ed Halter

Since the turn of the millennium, the Internet has evolved from what was merely a new medium to a true mass medium—with a deeper and wider cultural reach, greater opportunities for distribution and collaboration, and more complex corporate and political realities. Mapping a loosely chronological series of formative arguments, developments, and happenings, Mass Effect provides an essential guide to understanding the dynamic and ongoing relationship between art and new technologies.

Mass Effect brings together nearly forty contributions, including newly commissioned essays and reprints, image portfolios, and transcribed discussion panels and lectures that offer insights and reflections from a wide range of artists, curators, art historians, and bloggers. Among the topics examined are the use of commercial platforms for art practice, what art means in an age of increasing surveillance, and questions surrounding such recent concepts as “postinternet.” Other contributions analyze and document particular works by the artists of And/Or Gallery, Cory Arcangel, DIS, Cao Fei, the Radical Software Group, and others.

Mass Effect relaunches a publication series initiated by the MIT Press and the New Museum in 1984, which produced six defining volumes for the field of contemporary art. These new volumes will build on this historic partnership and reinvigorate the conversation around contemporary culture once again.

Copublished with the New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York

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CfP Social media: between freedom and utopia (Essachess)

Guest editor: Philippe Viallon, Full Professor, Unesco Chair “Journalistic and media practices”, University of Strasbourg, France

The CfP

Important Deadlines

February 1, 2016: submission of the proposal in the form of an abstract of maximum 2 pages. The proposal must include a list of recent references;
Mars 1, 2016: acceptance of the proposal;
July 30, 2016: full paper submission;
October 1st, 2016: full paper acceptance.

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The Internet Archive Turns 20: A Behind The Scenes Look At Archiving The Web

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Cet article de Kalev Leetaru dans Forbes permet de pénétrer notamment la fabrique des archives du Web d’Internet Archive mais aborde également les questions relatives aux robots.txt ou le projet No More 404 soutenu par GDELT Project, Wikipedia and WordPress.

Médias numériques et communication électronique

Après 2010 (La communication électronique en situations mono et plurilingues – Formes, Frontières, Futurs), 2012 (La communication électronique dans la société de « l’information ») et 2014 (Communication électronique, Cultures et Identités), en 2016 se tiendra le quatrième colloque international sur la communication électronique au Havre. Cette manifestation scientifique se déroulera au cœur de la ville, dans les locaux de l’IUT (Quai Frissard, Le Havre, France) comme lors des précédentes éditions.

Voir les axes thématiques et conditions de soumission jusqu’au 31 janvier 2016

Pôle MIT (Modélisation des Interactions Temporelles) de l’ISCC

rubon355-d7ca9Le pôle MIT (Modélisation des Interactions Temporelles) de l’ISCC vous invite à une matinée de réflexion interdisciplinaire le 17 février matin autour de deux exposés

 

Dynamique des réseaux et des collectifs sociaux
                        Michel Grossetti, DR CNRS

Dans cette présentation les collectifs sont définis comme des ensembles d’acteurs sociaux partageant des ressources et les réseaux comme des agrégations de collectifs dyadiques. Sur la base de ces définitions, on s’efforcera d’inventorier quelques uns des processus par lesquels les relations dyadiques émergent de collectifs plus vastes ou par lesquels les collectifs émergent des réseaux.

Dynamique des discussions dans les forums
                       Alberto Lumbreras, doctorant

Pour analyser la dynamique des forums de discussion on peut les représenter comme des arbres ou chaque noeud correspond à un post. Dans cette présentation on s’intéressera aux dynamiques de ces arbres de deux points de vues. D’un côté, du point de vue de leur population de triades et, d’autre côte, du point de vue de leur modélisation stochastique dans le cadre des modèle génératifs de graphes.

Le pôle MIT de l’ISCC

Lieu : ISCC, 20 rue Berbier-du-Mets, 75013 Paris
Horaires : 9h30 – 12h30

Entrée libre dans la limite des places disponibles. Pas d’inscription
nécessaire. Les organisateurs, Matthieu Latapy et Francesca Musiani.

CFP: SHOT Special Interest Group for Computers, Information & Society Workshop 2016

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The Special Interest Group for Computers, Information and Society (SIGCIS) welcomes submissions for its 2016 annual workshop, to be held on June 26 and 27, 2016 in Singapore. This is immediately after the end of the regular annual meeting of its parent organization, the Society for the History of Technology.

Workshop Theme: Convergence and Divergence
The terms “convergence” and “divergence” are opposite to one another, but they can both be used, sometimes simultaneously, to study information and computing technologies in their social, cultural, and political contexts. For instance, an individual computer may serve as a site of convergence for raw materials sourced around the world. At the same time, the journey of each of those materials from their extraction sites to the manufacturers’ factories may itself be a story of divergence—that is, of how resources and ideas scatter away from their point of origin.
Convergence and divergence also occur beyond the material cultures of computing and information. The technical standards, social conventions, and legal frameworks that shape how people can engage with information technologies can vary wildly across the globe, or even from one local context to the next. People working in different national or local contexts may develop similar frameworks by following entirely different paths and, conversely, ways of conceptualizing, using, and regulating computing and information in a local setting may gain global appeal.
The theme for this year’s SIGCIS meeting is “Convergence and Divergence,” broadly conceived. Possible lines of inquiry include:
– Comparative or international studies of governance and regulation
– Local and regional cultures of computing
– Changes in computing technologies and market structures (such as digital convergence)
– Global systems of resource extraction and equipment manufacturing
– The movement of information technology within and across national borders
– The convergence and/or divergence of disciplinary perspectives in the history of computing and information.
As always, we welcome submissions even if they do not align with the workshop theme. Our membership is international and interdisciplinary, and our members examine the history of information technologies and their place within society from a variety of scholarly perspectives including the history of technology, business history, labor history, social history, the history of science, science studies, communications, gender and sexuality studies, computing, and museum studies.

Submission Procedure: All submissions should be made online via the SIGCIS website (http://www.sigcis.org/workshop16). The deadline for submissions is February 12, 2016.

Webprogram-Festival International Francophone 2016

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