Pls contact the posters -- not me. Barry Wellman _______________________________________________________________________ S.D. Clark Professor of Sociology, FRSC NetLab Director Department of Sociology University of Toronto 725 Spadina Avenue, Room 388 Toronto Canada M5S 2J4 http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman fax:+1-416-978-3963 Updating history: http://chass.utoronto.ca/oldnew/cybertimes.php _______________________________________________________________________ From: "Mark D. Johns" <mjohns@luther.edu> Subject: [Air-L] Call For Submissions -- special issue of SI journal To: air-l@listserv.aoir.org Message-ID: <49871D85.4090108@luther.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Symbolic Interaction, a peer-reviewed journal published quarterly by the University of California Press, invites submissions for a special issue dedicated to the application of symbolic interactionism to internet research. Erving Goffman's concept of "the presentation of self" has become foundational to much scholarly understanding of online identity in chat, email, game environments, blogs, and social networks. Yet other aspects of the rich tradition of symbolic interaction -- including other concepts developed by Goffman -- have been largely ignored by internet researchers. For this special issue, we welcome a broad range of approaches to studying computer-mediated interactions between individuals and within communities online, that utilize other lines of thought by Goffman, or the works of George H. Mead, Charles Cooley, Herbert Blumer, James Carey, Carl Couch, Norman Denzin or other theorists in the interactionist tradition. Definitions of the social situation, negotiation of meanings, social processes, framing, and other interactionist principles are possible theoretical foundations. Qualitative studies will be privileged in the evaluation of submissions, as well as those reflecting recent theoretical developments in symbolic interaction theory. Topics may include online communities, virtual environments, games, social networking sites and any other forms of computer-mediated communication. Papers that are supplemented by online materials are encouraged, and space will be made available on the journal?s website (http://is.gd/gQ4Z) for authors to place links, examples, illustrations, or further discussion of the published texts. Please send submissions electronically to mjohns@luther.edu Deadline for submissions is August 1, 2009. ---------------------------- Message: 9 Date: Mon, 02 Feb 2009 18:38:40 +0200 From: Oren Golan <msogolan@mscc.huji.ac.il> Subject: [Air-L] CFP Panel on Language, Play and Performance at AoIR 10.0 - In Memory of Professor Brenda Danet CFP Panel on Language, Play and Performance at AoIR 10.0 - In Memory of Professor Brenda Danet This is a call for participation in a panel organized in honor of the Late Professor Brenda Danet. Professor Danet was a leading scholar and pioneer in the field of CMC and a key member of AoIR. In her honor we propose to organize a panel focusing on LANGUAGE, PLAY AND PERFORMANCE. Through this panel, we would like to deepen our understanding of Play and Performance over the Internet by exploring various expressions. Nowadays, people play with typography and orthography, with their identities (nicknames, role-playing), with language, and with cultural content, from real-world experience to fantasy, folklore, the comics, and films. Aspects of "performance" traditionally associated with genres of face-to-face communication such as storytelling, joke-telling, verbal dueling, etc., are flourishing on the Net in its vast social spaces such as on social network services (e.g. Facebook, Myspace), video postings (e.g. You Tube), forums, chat rooms, communications between multi-user gamers and others. If you are interested in participating in such a panel at the upcoming AoIR in October 2009, please contact Dr. Oren Golan. Email: msogolan@mscc.huji.ac.il