[csaa-forum] EOIs - Geert Lovink Masterclass, 10 & 11 Dec, 2015 - USYD

[Gerard Goggin]

Geert Lovink Masterclass: Issues in Critical Internet Studies
10 & 11 Dec, 2015, USYD

Due 13 Nov: Expressions of interest are invited for PhD students and early
career researchers to participate in Geert Lovink¹s 2015 Australian
Masterclass on Issues in Critical Internet Studies.

The MasterClass will be held at University of Sydney, Thursday 10 and
Friday 11 December (10AM-5PM), supported by the Everyday Social Media research
collaboration.

About the MasterClass:

Geert Lovink will facilitate a two-day Critical Internet Cultures
Masterclass.

Divided into six sessions, the masterclass will engage a myriad of topics
including: the state of arts net criticism; critical social media
research; cultures of searching; Wikileaks-Anonymous-Snowdon and other net
activist strategies; revenue models for the arts (from crowdfunding to
bitcoin); book 2.0 and digital publishing strategies;
Wikipedia research and; the politics and aesthetics of online video.

The masterclass includes a 20 minute, one-on-one conversation in which
individual research proposals can be discussed. Participant places are
limited to max. 20 participants.

Please send expressions of interest (500 word description of current
research, plus select CV) by Friday 13 November to Masterclass convenors:
Gerard Goggin (gerard.goggin at sydney.edu.au) and Kyle Moore Kyle (kylejohnmoore at gmail.com)

About the presenter:

Geert Lovink is a media theorist, internet critic and author of Zero
Comments (2007), Networks Without a Cause (2012) and Social Media Abyss
(2016). In 2002 he received his PhD from the University of Melbourne and
in 2003 worked as a post-doc at the University of Queensland. Since 2004
he is researcher in the School for Communication and Media Design at the
Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences (HvA) where he founded
the Institute of Network Cultures. His centre recently
organized conferences, publications and research networks such as Video
Vortex (the politics and aesthetics of online video), Unlike Us
(alternatives in social media), Critical Point of View (Wikipedia),
Society of the Query (the culture of search), MoneyLab (bitcoins,
crowdfunding & internet revenue models) and digital publishing strategies.
He is also Professor at the European Graduate School (Saas-Fee) where he
supervises PhD students and an Advisory Board member of the Digital
Ethnography Research Centre (RMIT, Melbourne). From 2004-2013 he was also
associate prof. at Mediastudies (new media), University of Amsterdam.

About the Everyday Social Media (ESM) Collaboration:

The ESM collaboration draws together researchers on social media across
various disciplines at the University of Sydney (supported by the Faculty
of Arts and Social Sciences research collaboration scheme). The convenors
are: Gerard Goggin, Ariadne Vromen, and Fiona Martin. The ESM organizer is
Kyle Moore.

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Professor of Media and Communications
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University of Sydney

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