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sbraman | 1 Oct 2008 08:23
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Re: Libel Disclaimers

there was a successful libel case involving fiction in the 1970s that launched this.  most textbooks on
communication law will mention it.  sandra braman

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Does anyone know the historical origins and legal basis of the common
disclaimers denying that books are based on real people?  They commonly
read something like "This book is a work of fiction.  Names, characters,
places, and incidents either are products of the author's imagination or
are used fictitiously.  Any resemblance to actual events or locales or
persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental."  This language
appears in the 2000 reissue of Thomas Wolfe's Look Homeward, Angel, a
patently autobiographical novel that was widely acknowledged to be based
on the real events of his life. It does not appear, however, on the
original 1929 version.

Loren Glass
Associate Professor of English
University of Iowa

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Julia Zay | 1 Oct 2008 10:06
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Job Announcement: Faculty Position in Experimental Media at The Evergreen State College


**Please post and forward widely**


Full position description posted here: http://www.evergreen.edu/facultyhiring/jobs/expermedia.htm

Learn more about Media Arts at Evergreen: http://studies.evergreen.edu/mediaarts/

JOB ANNOUNCEMENT:

Faculty position in Experimental Media, begins September 2009. Review  
of complete applications begins January 6, 2009.

We seek a media artist with demonstrated experience teaching  
experimental moving image practices, and cultural and critical  
theories of media.  The successful candidate will have a strong  
commitment to teaching and will be able to contribute to an intensive  
media program that emphasizes the theory and practice of experimental,  
non-fiction and/or documentary production.  Because Evergreen  
organizes its curriculum through interdisciplinary coordinated studies  
(rather than through departments and courses) the ideal candidate will  
demonstrate engagement with one or more disciplines outside of the  
media arts through creative work, teaching or research.

We seek candidates with critical expertise and production skills in at  
least three of the following areas: experimental video, installation  
or performance, multi-media production, animation, sound design, and  
new technologies (such as circuit bending, Max/MSP/Jitter, or Arduino  
interfacing).  We require experience teaching visual analysis, media  
literacy, media history and theory and/or art history and theory, and
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Pols, A.J.K. | 1 Oct 2008 15:34
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JOBS: PhD position at Eindhoven University

(Apologies for cross-postings.)

The Section of Philosophy and Ethics of Technology, Eindhoven University
of Technology

seeks a candidate for the following position:

A PhD (1.0 fte) in Philosophy and Technology (V39.464)

for the project: Evolutionary Design: Innovative Engineering and/or
Imitation of Life?

http://w3.tm.tue.nl/en/subdepartments/aw/research/philosophyethics_of_te
chnology/vacancies/v39464

Application

Please send a written (printed) application letter with a recent,
detailed Curriculum Vitae, names and contact details of (at least) two
referees, a sample of written work to:

Eindhoven University of Technology

Department of Technology Management

Personnel Department, Pav R.1.23.

PO Box 513

5600 MB Eindhoven
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Pols, A.J.K. | 1 Oct 2008 15:33
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JOBS: Associate Professorship at Eindhoven University

(Apologies for cross-postings.)

The Section of Philosophy and Ethics of Technology, Eindhoven University
of Technology

seeks a candidate for the following position:

An Associate Professor (1.0 fte) in Ethics and Technology (V39.442)

http://w3.tm.tue.nl/en/subdepartments/aw/research/philosophyethics_of_te
chnology/vacancies/v39442/


Application

Please send a written (printed) application letter with a recent,
detailed Curriculum Vitae, names and contact details of (at least) two
referees, a sample of recently published academic work, and any
available course evaluations to:

Eindhoven University of Technology

Department of Technology Management

Personnel Department, Pav R.1.23

PO Box 513

5600 MB Eindhoven
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David M Silver | 1 Oct 2008 18:40
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new reviews in cyberculture studies (october 2008)

each month, the resource center for cyberculture studies publishes book
reviews and author responses ( http://rccs.usfca.edu/booklist.asp ). the
book of the month for october 2008 is:

Gamer Theory
Author: McKenzie Wark
Publisher: Harvard University Press, 2007
Review 1: Denisa Kera
Review 2: Shawn Miklaucic

stay tuned for more and a big, big list of new books looking for reviewers.

david silver
http://silverinsf.blogspot.com

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Paul Smith | 1 Oct 2008 20:20
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CFP--CHASA 2009


CALL FOR PAPERS AND PANELS

Chesapeake American Studies Association

CHASA 2009

AMERICA AFTER BUSH

April 2, 2009

George Mason University

Fairfax, Virginia

The 2009 meeting of the Chesapeake area chapter of the American  
Studies Association (CHASA) will be hosted by the Cultural Studies  
doctoral program and the African-American Studies program at George  
Mason University, Fairfax VA, April 2nd 2009.

Keynote speakers:  ERIC LOTT (University of Virginia) and SULEIMAN  
OUSMAN (George Washington University)

Theme: AMERICA AFTER BUSH

Whatever the outcome of this year’s elections, the end of George W.  
Bush’s presidency will mark an important watershed in American life.  
We are now inviting proposals for papers and panels from any  
disciplinary perspective that will address some of the cultural,  
social, political and economic legacies of the Bush years and the
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Norm Denzin | 1 Oct 2008 21:51

QI2009 Call for Submissions

The Fifth International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry (QI2009) is now
taking submissions online. The theme of the 2009 Congress is "Advancing
Human Rights Through Qualitative Research."

The 2009 Congress will offer scholars the opportunity to form coalitions and
engage in debate and dialogue on on how qualitative research can be used to
bridge gaps in cultural and linguistic understandings. Delegates will
address such topics as academic freedom, researcher safety, indigenous human
rights, human rights violations, ethical codes, torture, political violence,
social justice, racial, ethnic and gender and environmental disparities in
education, welfare and healthcare, truth and reconciliation commissions,
justice as healing. Delegates will consider the meaning of ethics, evidence,
advocacy and social justice under a humane human rights agenda.

Sessions will take up such topics as: the politics of evidence; alternatives
to evidence-based models; mixed-methods; public policy discourse; social
justice; human subject research; indigenous research ethics; decolonizing
inquiry; standpoint epistemologies. Contributors are invited to experiment
with new methodologies, and new presentational formats (drama, performance,
poetry, autoethnography, fiction). Such work will offer guidelines and
exemplars showing how qualitative research can be used in the human rights
and policy-making arenas.

To submit a paper or poster abstract or a panel, please visit the website
below:

www.icqi.org

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Lina Khatib | 1 Oct 2008 22:45
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Invitation: Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication Launch


NEW JOURNAL LAUNCH

You are cordially invited to the launch of

the Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication

On Friday October 24th, 2008

5 PM

At the Khalili Lecture Theatre, SOAS

University of London, Russell Square

London WC1H 0XG

Keynote Speaker

Professor Hamid Dabashi, Columbia University, New York:

“Narration and Aberration: Once upon a Time, Palestine…”

Followed by a drinks reception

MEJCC provides an exciting new platform for scholarly work that investigates transformations in
culture, communication and politics in the Middle East. The Journal critically examines these changes
within an international comparative and inter-disciplinary framework.

Editors: Lina Khatib, Tarik Sabry, Dina Matar, John L. Esposito
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Mark Olson | 1 Oct 2008 23:22
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"Doing Media History"

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WIDELY********************************************

The HASTAC Scholars Program invites you to participate in our next  
HASTAC Scholars Discussion Forum, titled "Doing Media History:  
Archives, Ages, and the Accretion of the Past."  The discussion forum  
will be led by Whitney Trettien, a graduate student in Comparative  
Media Studies at MIT, and will open at www.hastac.org  on Monday,  
October 6.  Please come share your thoughts at www.hastac.org!

Doing Media History: Archives, Ages, and the Accretion of the Past

New media, in the ordered ways by which they gather together  
historical artifacts and thus endow them with historical weight, are  
perpetually producing the past in various forms of coherence. -- Will  
Straw, "Embedded Memories," Residual Media, pg. 14

Whenever Samuel Pepys posts a blog entry or Rick Astley rolls a new  
young fan, the past asserts its (sometimes unwelcome) presence through  
media. These cultural residues invite us to re-examine our  
relationship to history, particularly within a field obsessed with  
"newness." This forum explores how we do media history, and is open to  
discussions on (among other topics): media archaeology; media in  
transition; residual media and the role of nostalgia; theorizing the  
archive; the "four information ages"; periodicity; and our  
relationship to other historical studies of the book, film and culture.

The HASTAC Scholars Program recognizes graduate and undergraduate  
students who are engaged in innovative work across the areas of  
technology, the arts, the humanities, and the social sciences. This
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Patricia Morton | 2 Oct 2008 00:22
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JOBS: Assistant Professor in History of Photography

The Department of the History of Art at the University of California, 
Riverside announces a tenure-track position at Assistant Professor 
Rank in the History of Photography. 

We seek a scholar who works on the history of photography from the 
nineteenth century onwards and engages with the history of the medium 
(including both its early and recent forms) as part of the wider 
field of visual representation.  As well as being aware of subject's 
theoretical and interdisciplinary aspects, the successful candidate 
will be expected to take full advantage of the resources of the 
California Museum of Photography and other collections in Southern 
California.  Duties also include participation in developing a 
proposal for a Ph.D. program, teaching courses ranging from lower 
division surveys to graduate seminars, advising and service.

Ph.D. required.  Teaching experience, a clear commitment to teaching 
excellence, and a record of research and publication in the history 
of photography are required. 

Send letter of application, curriculum vitae, writing sample (30 
pages maximum) and three letters of recommendation to:

Patricia Morton, Chair, History of Photography Search Committee
History of Art Department
University of California, Riverside
900 University Avenue
Riverside, CA 92521-0319

All these submitted materials will be evaluated.  Review of 
applications will begin December 1, 2008 and continue until the
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