A day like all days, filled with those events
      that alter and illuminate our times--Walter Cronkite

I wonder what the evidence is for this unsupported assertion: "Stories of individuals are becoming a rarity in our digital age." Barry Wellman Step by step, link by link, putting it together--Streisand/Sondheim The earth to be spannd, connected by network--Walt Whitman It's Always Something--Roseanne Roseannadanna A day like all days, filled with those events that alter and illuminate our times--Walter Cronkite _______________________________________________________________________ Director, NetLab Network FRSC Distinguished Visiting Scholar Social Media Lab Ryerson University Founder, International Network for Social Network Analysis NETWORKED: The New Social Operating System Lee Rainie & Barry Wellman http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman http://amzn.to/zXZg39 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry_Wellman _______________________________________________________________________ On Fri, 19 Jul 2019, citams-request@list.citams.org wrote: > Date: Fri, 19 Jul 2019 12:00:02 -0400 > From: citams-request@list.citams.org > Reply-To: citams@list.citams.org > To: citams@list.citams.org > Subject: CITAMS Digest, Vol 133, Issue 5 > > Send CITAMS mailing list submissions to > citams@list.citams.org > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://list.citams.org/mailman/listinfo/citams_list.citams.org > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > citams-request@list.citams.org > > You can reach the person managing the list at > citams-owner@list.citams.org > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of CITAMS digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Stories of Digital Radicals: Call for Submissions (Lingel, Jessa) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Fri, 19 Jul 2019 13:41:17 +0000 > From: "Lingel, Jessa" <jessa.lingel@asc.upenn.edu> > To: "citams@list.citams.org" <citams@list.citams.org> > Subject: [CITAMS] Stories of Digital Radicals: Call for Submissions > Message-ID: > <SN6PR10MB30697EA4B00B793CF0265A6ADACB0@SN6PR10MB3069.namprd10.prod.outlook.com> > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > > The newly formed Center on Digital Culture and Society<https://www.asc.upenn.edu/research/research-centers/center-digital-culture-and-society> (CDCS) at the University of Pennsylvania invites submissions of stories of digital radicals from around the world. A digital radical is a person with a radical relationship to digital technologies. This relationship could be reflected in an attitude or belief, a daily practice, a political act or commitment, a way of life, and more. As to what is radical about the relationship, we will leave it for you to decide. It could be about forms of disengagement from social media, or ways of deploying them for social and political causes. We welcome stories about both well-known public figures and ordinary individuals around us. They may be people you know directly, or people you know through the media or your research. The stories may be biographical or autobiographical. The important thing is that you have a story to tell about the individual, and your story illustrates a vision for what you think of as a radical approach to digital technologies. The current conditions of social media and technological developments demand radical new visions and new politics. > > Stories of individuals are becoming a rarity in our digital age. Contemporary society is saturated with data, metrics, and quantification. Our personal traces on the web are harvested and turned into data to serve commercial, political, and other purposes beyond our control. Individual experiences are reduced to numbers. Against this background, we call for sto We welcome submissions at any time. Submissions may be between 2,000 and 8,000 words, prepared in accordance with the Chicago Manual of Style. Essays will be published on a regular basis in an online magazine called The Digital Radical, which will be hosted on a CDCS website currently under design. To be considered for the first issue, please send your submission before October 15, 2019. > > A reading committee will select ones for publication. We will provide the authors of all selected essays with a modest honorarium. Selected authors may also be invited to speak at the inaugural symposium on Digital Culture and Society at the University of Pennsylvania on April 3, 2020. An anthology of "Stories of Digital Radicals" may be published in the future. Please email all submissions in Word format with your contact information to: cdcs@asc.upenn.edu<mailto:cdcs@asc.upenn.edu> > > > Jessa Lingel > {assist. prof. | Annenberg School for Communication<https://www.asc.upenn.edu/people/faculty/jessa-lingel-phd>} > {core faculty | GSWS<https://www.sas.upenn.edu/gsws/program> | University of Pennsylvania} > {tumblr<http://jessalingel.tumblr.com/> | medium<https://medium.com/@jessa.lingel>} > >