[Marxism] PhD Student Position in Marxist Communication Studies
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Uppsala University hereby declares the following position to be open for application: PhD position in Media and Communication Studies at the Department of Informatics and Media as of January 1st, 2011. The candidate is supposed to participate in the department’s ongoing research in the field of web 2.0/social media/social networking sites & economic online surveillance/Internet prosumer labour. Therefore applicants with a solid background in the combination of the following areas are solicited to apply: critical media and communication studies, Critical Theory, critical political economy, critical political economy of media, ICTs and communication; Internet studies, surveillance and privacy studies, critical advertising and consumer culture studies. Qualifications: master’s degree (candidates with any suited disciplinary and interdisciplinary background are welcome to apply), excellent command of written and spoken English. The application should include a) an application form including a copy of a degree certificate that proves the applicant’s eligibility for studies at the research level in Media and Communication Studies; b) a CV; c) a copy of the master's thesis (additional works related to the advertised position’s topic may also be included); d) an outline of experience in and motivation for conducting research in the advertised research field (minimum: 1000 words) Education at the research level has a duration of five years, of which the first year is financed with a scholarship (utbildningsbidrag) and the four following years with employment as PhD candidate. PhD candidates are expected to conduct their education at the research level by working full time and by participating actively in the activities of the department. Obligatory administrative and teaching duties at the department may not exceed 20 % of full-time. The application form and instructions in English are available from: http://www.uppdok.uadm.uu.se/blanketter/BLfoant.pdf http://www.uppdok.uadm.uu.se/blanketter/BLfo-enginstr.pdf More information about PhD studies at Uppsala University and at the Faculty of Social Sciences are available at: http://www.uu.se/en/node76 http://www.doktorandhandboken.nu (click on the link “English”) http://info.uu.se/uadm/dokument.nsf http://regler.uu.se/ Uppsala University cannot cover travel and accommodation costs for short-listed candidates, who are invited for a job interview. Uppsala University is striving to promote equality and gender balance. The majority of employees are men, therefore women are encouraged to apply for positions. Information about the employment, Professor for Media and Communication Studies: Christian Fuchs (christian.fu...@im.uu.se): +46 18 471 1019; Head of the Department and Professor Mats Edenius: +46 18 471 11 76. Representatives from the Union are: Anders Grundström, Saco-rådet, tel. +46 18-471 53 80, Carin Söderhäll, TCO/ST tel. +46 18-471 19 96 och Stefan Djurström, Seko, tel. +46 18-471 33 15. The application should be sent, not later than December 3, 2010, preferably by e-mail to registra...@uu.se, or by fax +46-184712000, or by mail to Registrar’s Office, Uppsala University, Box 256, SE-751 05 UPPSALA, Sweden. In any correspondence, please use the reference number UFV-PA 2010/2775. -- Prof. Christian Fuchs Chair in Media and Communication Studies Institutionen för informatik och media / Department of Informatics and Media Studies Uppsala University Kyrkogårdsgatan 10 Box 513 751 20 Uppsala Sweden christian.fu...@im.uu.se Tel +46 (0) 18 471 1019 http://fuchs.uti.at http://www.im.uu.se NetPolitics Blog: http://fuchs.uti.at/blog Editor of: tripleC - Cognition, Communication, Co-Operation | Open Access Journal for a Global Sustainable Information Society: http://www.triple-c.at Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Special issue tripleC: Capitalist Crisis, Communication & Culture
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == tripleC (cognition, communication, co-operation): Open Access Journal for a Global Sustainable Information Society. Vol. 8. No. 2: Special Issue on Capitalist Crisis, Communication & Culture Edited by Christian Fuchs, Matthias Schafranek, David Hakken, Marcus Breen http://www.triple-c.at/index.php/tripleC/issue/current Suggested citation: Fuchs, Christian, Matthias Schafranek, David Hakken and Marcus Breen. Eds. 2010. Special issue on “Capitalist crisis, communication & culture“. tripleC (cognition, communication, co-operation): Open Access Journal for a Global Sustainable Information Society 8 (2): 193-309. “Capitalism […] is approaching an apocalyptic zero-point” (Slavoj Žižek). What is the role of communication in the general situation of capitalist crisis? The global economic downturn is an indicator of a new worldwide capitalist crisis. The main focus of most public debates as well as of economic and policy analyses is the role of finance capital and the housing market in creating the crisis, less attention is given to the role of communication technologies, the media, and culture in the world economic crisis. The task of this special issue of tripleC is to present analyses of the role of ICTs, the media, and culture in the current crisis of capitalism. The seven papers focus on the causes, development, and effects of the crisis. Each paper relates one or more of these dimensions to ICTs, the media, or culture. Capitalist Crisis, Communication, & Culture – Introduction to the Special Issue of tripleC Christian Fuchs, Matthias Schafranek, David Hakken and Marcus Breen (Special Issue Editors) pp 193-204 http://www.triple-c.at/index.php/tripleC/article/view/228/189 Computing and the Current Crisis: The Significant Role of New Information Technologies in Our Socio-Economic Meltdown David Hakken pp 205-220 http://www.triple-c.at/index.php/tripleC/article/view/161/193 The Virtual Debt Factory: Towards an Analysis of Debt and Abstraction in the American Credit Crisis Vincent R. Manzerolle pp 221-236 http://www.triple-c.at/index.php/tripleC/article/view/149/192 Calculating the Unknown. Rationalities of Operational Risk in Financial Institutions Matthias Werner and Hajo Greif pp 237-250 http://www.triple-c.at/index.php/tripleC/article/view/184/194 Crisis, What Crisis? The Media: Business and Journalism in Times of Crisis Rosario de Mateo, Laura Bergés, Anna Garnatxe* pp 251-274 http://www.triple-c.at/index.php/tripleC/article/view/212/195 Anglo-American Credit Scoring and Consumer Debt in the Subprime Mortgage Crisis of 2007 as Models for Other Countries? Thomas Ruddy pp 275-284 http://www.triple-c.at/index.php/tripleC/article/view/176/198 Crise, Genre et TIC : Recette pour une Dés-Union Pronon- cée. L’Exemple de l’Afrique du Sud (in French) Joelle Palmieri pp 285-309 http://www.triple-c.at/index.php/tripleC/article/view/141/197 -- - - - Priv.-Doz. Dr. Christian Fuchs Unified Theory of Information Research Group christian.fu...@uti.at Personal Website: http://fuchs.uti.at NetPolitics Blog: http://fuchs.uti.at/blog Research Group: http;//www.uti.at Editor of tripleC - Cognition, Communication, Co-Operation | Open Access Journal for a Global Sustainable Information Society http://www.triple-c.at Fuchs, Christian. 2008. Internet and Society: Social Theory in the Information Age. New York: Routledge. http://fuchs.uti.at/?page_id=40 Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] CfP: Information and Communication Technologies and the Current Crisis
Please direct questions about potential contributions directly to the issue editors Marcus Breen m.br...@neu.edu and David Hakken dhak...@indiana.edu. Christian Fuchs Editor of tripleC * * * * * * * * Call For Papers - Special Issue of tripleC (http://www.triple-c.at): Information and Communication Technologies and the Current Crisis: How Are They Connected? The Crisis that began in 2007 continues to convulse the world. Labelled by some as merely a recession, yet it is associated with dramatic changes in national and global power. Others frame the Crisis as merely a consequence of over-promoting a narrow range of financial transactions associated with subprime mortgage instruments. These were indeed overly aggressively oversold by deregulated bankers, but this was likely only an important trigger of the Crisis, not the primary cause. In this special issue, we will explore the notion that much of the basis of the Crisis should be assigned to financial transactions not just made possible but also strongly afforded by use of computer technologies. Thus, those operating at the highest levels of algorithmic capacity bear substantial responsibility for the Crisis. For students of technological innovation and diffusion, many questions emerge about the connection between the Crisis in general and computerization. Some of the questions involve the tight relationship between cultures of technological empowerment and financial elites. Others questions, while appearing initially to be purely economic, turn out on examination to articulate strongly with the public interest, civil society, policymaking, and public discourse more generally. These in turn lead to further, perhaps quite new critical questions about the emerging relationships between capitalism, democracy and the data-information-knowledge-technology nexus. Thus, equally important for responsibility is specification of what is known within computer science about the technological dimensions of the Crisis of this crisis. Ultimately, a rethinking of the very notion of "crisis" itself may be needed. Some specific questions authors may choose to address include: * What kind of crisis is this, how is it different from previous ones, how are these differences related to automated ICTs and the changed practices they have afforded? * What role do computer professionals have in the crisis? * Does this crisis suggest a dystopian post-human future? * What media theories best explain the crisis, or has the time arrived for newly radical approaches in this area? * How does public policy fit in the private world of computerization? * What historical guides are available as tools to foster better analyses of technological crisis? * Will the BRIC nations (Brazil, Russia, India, China) be the "winners" of this crisis? * Are there artistic innovations that help refine political and policy responses to this crisis? * What new knowledge innovations are needed to understand the forces at work in this crisis and its implications for democracy? * What new questions need to be addressed to orientate research about the crisis? * How are the computing-, information-, and media-industries affected by this crisis? How will they develop in the future? This special issue of tripleC is intended to feature research from both theoretical and practical perspectives. We seek contributions from any theoretical, professional, or disciplinary perspective that offers innovative analysis that promotes debate about technology and the Crisis. Submission deadline: Full papers should be submitted until February 1st, 2010. All papers will be peer reviewed. The special issue will be published in 2010. tripleC -- Cognition, Communication, Co-operation: Open Access Journal for a Global Sustainable Information Society (http://www.triple-c.at) promotes contributions within an emerging science of the information age with a special interest in critical studies following the highest standards of peer review. Submissions must be formatted according to tripleC's guidelines (http://triplec.at/index.php/tripleC/about/submissions#authorGuidelines), make use of APA style, and use the style template (http://triplec.at/files/journals/1/template-0.dot). Papers should be submitted online by making use of the electronic submission system (http://triplec.at/index.php/tripleC/user/register, http://triplec.at/index.php/tripleC/login). When submitting to the electronic system, please select "Special issue on crisis & communication" as the journal's section. ISSUE CO-EDITORS: David Hakken (dhak...@indiana.edu) and Marcus Breen (m.br...@neu.edu) David Hakken is professor of informatics at Indiana University. Marcus Breen is associate professor of communication studies at Northeastern University. YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to
[Marxism] CfP: Call for Chapter Abstracts for the Book "The Internet & Surveillance"
CfP: Call for Chapter Abstracts for the Book "The Internet & Surveillance" PDF version of CfP: http://fuchs.uti.at/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/CfP_Internet_Surveillance.pdf Editors: Christian Fuchs, Kees Boersma, Anders Albrechtslund, Marisol Sandoval Supported by COST: European Cooperation in Science and Technology, COST Action Living in Surveillance Societies (LiSS, IS0807), Working Group 2: Surveillance Technologies in Practice Abstract submissions until October 15, 2009 (deadline) to christian.fu...@sbg.ac.at The overall aim of this collected volume is to bring together contributions that show how surveillance works on the Internet and which risks are connected to Internet surveillance in general and surveillance connected to "web 2.0" and "social software" in particular. The publication and publishing process is part of the COST Action "Living in Surveillance Societies" (LiSS) that is funded by the European Science Foundation (2009-2012, see http://w3.cost.esf.org/index.php?id=233&action_number=IS0807 for further information and details) and is a project by the LiSS working group "Surveillance Technologies in Practice". The editors are members of this working group. Routledge has expressed interest in publishing this volume. The collection of data for organizing bureaucratic and economic life is inherent in modern society. At the same time that privacy has been postulated as important value of modern society, privacy-threatening surveillance mechanisms have been structurally implemented and institutionalized in modern society. This collected volume explores perspectives on privacy, surveillance, and the privacy-surveillance-paradox in relation to the Internet. Background Many observers claim that the Internet has been transformed in the past years from a system that is primarily oriented on information provision into a system that is more oriented on communication and community building. The notions of "web 2.0", "social Software", and "social network(ing) sites" have emerged in this context. Web platforms such as Wikipedia, MySpace, Facebook, YouTube, Google, Blogger, Rapidshare, Wordpress, Hi5, Flickr, Photobucket, Orkut, Skyrock, Twitter, YouPorn, PornHub, Youku, Orkut, Redtube, Friendster, Adultfriendfinder, Megavideo, Tagged, Tube8, Mediafire, Megaupload, Mixi, Livejournal, LinkedIn, Netlog, ThePirateBay, Orkut, XVideos, Metacafe, Digg, StudiVZ, etc are said to be typical for this transformation of the Internet. No matter if we agree that important transformations of the Internet have taken place or not, it is clear that a principle that underlies such platforms is the massive provision and storage of personal data that are systematically evaluated, marketed, and used for targeting users with advertising. In a world of global economic competition, economic crisis, and fear of terrorism after 9/11, especially two kinds of actors are interested in accessing such personal data: corporations on the one hand and state institutions on the other hand. Will the Internet under the current societal conditions advance the intensification and extension of surveillance so that a coercive and totalitarian surveillance society that George Orwell would have only thought about in his worst dreams will emerge or not? Are there counter-tendencies? The contributions in this book deal with these topics by elaborating theoretical concepts and presenting the results of empirical case studies. We are especially interested in papers that do not primarily discuss single examples, but attempt to discuss Internet surveillance from a broad perspective that takes into account societal contexts or that embed examples or case studies into the discussion of societal contexts. Research Questions Chapters could for example relate to one or more of the following questions: * What is electronic surveillance? What are specific qualities of electronic surveillance on the Internet? How does Internet surveillance differ from other forms of surveillance? * Which theories do we need for thinking about Internet & surveillance? How important (or how outdated) are the thoughts by Michel Foucault and George Orwell for studying surveillance on the Internet? How suitable are the theories of thinkers like Max Weber, Karl Marx, Anthony Giddens, and others for the analysis and conceptualization of Internet surveillance? * What is the relationship of privacy and surveillance in respect to the Internet? * What is privacy, how should it be defined, and how does it change in the age of the Internet? * Is Internet surveillance a form of "new surveillance" (Gary Marx)? What are the differences and commonalities between Internet surveillance and concepts such as computer surveillance, dataveillance (Roger Clarke), the electronic panopticon (Mark Poster), electronic surveillance (Da
