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CFParticipation: American Library Assoc. and Library & Info Tech Assoc. Seek Submissions for Cutting-edge Technology Practices Awards

The American Library Association’s (ALA) Office for Information Technology Policy (OITP) and the Library & Information Technology Association (LITA) are now soliciting submissions for the best library practices using cutting-edge technology. Nominations must be submitted by November 6, 2012, and winners will be announced at the upcoming January 2013 ALA Midwinter Meeting.

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CFParticipation: Humanities Hack in London

Humanities Hack is the first Digital Humanities hack organised jointly by the Department of Digital Humanities, DARIAH, the Digitised Manuscripts to Europeana (DM2E) project and the Open Humanities Working Group at the Open Knowledge Foundation.

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CFPapers: Itineration: Cross-Disciplinary Studies in Rhetoric, Media, and Culture

Itineration: Cross-Disciplinary Studies in Rhetoric, Media, and Culture seeks works generally considered “nontraditional” in that their nontraditionality is established by the eschewing of conceptual boundaries that separate the humanities, and specifically rhetoric, from the rest of the academic world. We encourage submissions that take risks, to such an extent that “risk” is recognized as the […]

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CFProposals: Coalition for Networked Information Fall Meeting

Proposals are now being accepted for project briefings to be presented at CNI’s Fall 2012 Membership Meeting in Washington, DC on Dec. 10-11. Project briefings are 45-minute or one-hour sessions that focus on a discussion of a hot topic, or on a specific institutional/organizational project related to digital information. A limited number of project briefings […]

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CFP: Alpha Testers for MLA Commons

The MLA will launch its new scholarly communication platform, MLA Commons, at the 2013 convention in Boston. Designed to facilitate active member-to-member communication, MLA Commons will support the work of divisions and discussion groups, offer a platform for the publication of scholarship in new formats, and much more. The Committee on Information Technology and others […]

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CFP: The Politics of Trolling and the Negative Space of the Internet

CFP- Special Issue for the Fibreculture Journal: The Politics of Trolling and the Negative Space of the Internet | The Fibreculture Journal Edited By Jason Wilson, Christian McCrea and Glen Fuller A great deal of thinking about the Internet and politics is still structured by a desire for deliberative democracy. From 1993 – when Howard Rheingold […]