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Call for Informational Submission about Degree Programs and Research Centers related to internet research.
by Jeremy Hunsinger 13 Feb '08

13 Feb '08

Please distribute broadly as appropriate-jh Call for Submissions deadline March 1, 2008. Information on Internet Research Degrees and Research Programs. In the International Handbook of Internet Research (Springer, 2008), we intend to include two appendices. This call includes information for each submission. Internet research is broadly conceived in this call, so if you have material that you think will fit, please submit it. Appendix 1 will be a listing of Research Degree Programs, that is programs that offer either an Master's or Doctoral level degree relating to internet research. We intend to include as many programs as we can collect within editorial discretion and space limitations. To have your degree program/s included in this listing, please send the following information: Name of Program: Departmental home/s of Program: University/Institutional home of Program: Address of Program: Short description of Program (250 words): Listing of contributing faculty working in internet research: and other pertinent information to be included at editor's discretion. Appendix 2 will be a listing of Major Research Centers/Institutes in the field of Internet Research. Inclusion in the list will be at the editors' discretion, but we will strive to be reasonably inclusive given space limitations. To have a Center included in this listing please send the following information: Name of Center/Institute: Institutional home of center/institute: Address of center/institute: Short Description of Program (250 words): Listing of fewer than 10 research topics/keywords: Listing of leading members of the center/institute: Listing of founders of the center/institute: Listing of recent research projects/publications (up to 5 bibliographic citations with up to 50 word descriptions which may be edited because of space limitations): Listing of affiliated research centers as appropriate: Please submit this information to: handbook08(a)gmail.com with the subject 'degree' for degree programs and the subject line 'center' for research centers. The deadline for submission is March 1, if you need more time, please contact us at the address above. Thank you, Handbook Editors Jeremy Hunsinger Matthew Allen Lisbeth Klastrup

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Open Access - NIH and Harvard
by burkx006＠umn.edu 13 Feb '08

13 Feb '08

Given the ongoing discussion, this should be of interest. DLB On Feb 13 2008, Michael Carroll wrote: > [Apologies for cross-posting] > > Dear all, > > I write to draw your attention to two important, copyright-related > developments affecting open access to the scholarly literature. Both > signal that faculty authors are now paying, or will have to pay, greater > attention to how they handle their copyrights. > >1. Harvard. > > Yesterday, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences voted in favor of a policy > under which each faculty member agrees to grant to Harvard a > non-exclusive license to make their scholarly articles freely available > through the institution's digital repository or otherwise so long as it > is not done for profit. This is a pre-commitment strategy that means the > license will have been granted prior to any copyright transfer to a > journal publisher. When an article has been accepted for publication, the > faculty member will have to alert the publisher to the previously-granted > license. In many cases, this will also mean the publisher's copyright > transfer form will have to be amended. Faculty can seek a waiver of the > university's license on an article-by-article basis. This is big news > because it's a bottom-up initiative driven by faculty authors. The > mechanics of the pre-commitment strategy are not as new as they may seem. > Every federally-funded researcher grants the funding agency a > non-exclusive copyright license at the time the copyright vests as part > of the funding agreement. For more information on the Harvard policy, see > my blog www.carrollogos.com. > >2. NIH. > > In December, Congress voted to require that NIH make the author's final > manuscript of any peer reviewed journal article reporting NIH-funded > research publicly accessible over the Internet through PubMed Central not > later than 12 months after the date of publication. Since universities > are the recipients of NIH grants, it is the university that is > contractually bound to make sure that (1) NIH receives the author's final > manuscript (after peer review) when the article is accepted for > publication and (2) a copyright license to make the article publicly > accessible not later than a year after publication. The policy becomes > effective in April, and universities are now scrambling to figure out how > they're going to ensure that their faculty authors don't sign away too > many rights under copyright such that the university is non-compliant > with its grant obligations. (Non-compliance can result in a range of > sanctions including ineligibility for future funding.) Again for details, > see my blog. > > In my view, both of these developments signal better alignment between > copyright practices and the progress of science in the age of the > Internet. > >All the best, >Mike > > > >Michael W. Carroll >Professor of Law >Villanova University School of Law >299 N. Spring Mill Road >Villanova, PA 19085 >Research papers: http://law.bepress.com/michael_carroll >http://ssrn.com/author=330326 >blog: http://www.carrollogos.org/ > >See also www.creativecommons.org > >_______________________________________________ >IPProfs mailing list >IPProfs(a)listserv.piercelaw.edu >http://listserv.piercelaw.edu/mailman/listinfo/ipprofs > -- Dan L. Burk Oppenheimer, Wolff & Donnelly Professor University of Minnesota Law School 229 19th Avenue South Minneapolis, MN 55455 **********************************

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EGOV 2008 - Torino, Italy -Final Call for Papers
by Jochen Scholl 13 Feb '08

13 Feb '08

-- Please apologize for multiple postings! -- Final call for papers EGOV 2008, Turin, Italy, 1-5 September 2008 URL: http://www.uni-koblenz.de/FB4/Institutes/IWVI/AGVInf/Conferences/EGOV08 The international EGOV conference series gives annual state of the art overviews in e-Government and e-Governance research, implementation and application. Thereby, the conferences provide important guidance for research and development in this fast-moving domain of study. The annual EGOV conferences bring together leading researchers and professionals from all over the globe and from many disciplines. Over the years, the interest has increased tremendously. The 2007 conference attracted some 140 participants from more than 30 countries all over the world including developing countries, with 37 contributions in outstanding research, 31 contributions in ongoing research, 5 projects contributions and 6 workshops. Also, 20 PhD papers were accepted and presented at the doctoral colloquium preceding the conference. Hence the EGOV Conferences have proven once again its capacity to serve as a platform for academics and professionals and as an important ground for networking in the community. The EGOV Conference Series hosts four distinct formats of contributions: Scientific papers (distinguished between completed research and ongoing research); project presentations, and workshops. These formats encourage scientific rigor and discussions of state of the art in the study domain, but also welcome innovative research work in progress, and studies of practical e-Government projects and systems implementation. The conference also includes a PhD student colloquium providing doctoral students with an international forum for presenting their work, networking opportunities and cross-disciplinary inspiration. Over the years, organizational and user-related issues long discussed among researchers have finally gained influence on practice. Conversely, e-Government practice has influenced and inspired e-Government research. A wide range of topics has received scholarly attention over the years. In recent years, the assessment of e-Government efforts, the prospects of e-Government as a research discipline, and the role of information and communication technology for development rank among the top topics on the research agenda. The seventh series of EGOV conferences, hence, includes, but is not limited to the following topics around e-Government, e-Governance, e-Participation, and other fields of application in the public sector: * Research directions and foundations * Research methods, method integration and techniques * Transforming Government * Strategies and frameworks, motivators, and contexts * Domain-specific innovation and governance models * ICT4D * Transnational government * Comparative analyses of current practices * Assessment, evaluation and benefit models for ICT investments * Economics and economic impacts * Trust, data privacy and security * Complexity management * Mobile Government research and applications * Innovative concepts and implementations (technical and organizational) * Information preservation * Information quality * Integration and interoperation * Domain-specific social networking cases and solutions * Applications of semantic technologies, and lessons learned * Emergency and disaster response * Exemplars and cases of innovation * Education, training courses, and curricula Submissions may qualify as follows: * Completed research papers * Ongoing research, projects, and general development issues * Workshops and panels on pertinent issues * PhD colloquium submissions We seek for innovative and rigorous contributions. Online submission is open. Deadline for papers is 29th February 2008. For further details see http://www.uni-koblenz.de/FB4/Institutes/IWVI/AGVInf/Conferences/EGOV08

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CFP - Doctoral Colloquium 2008, pre- Internet Research 9.0 conference
by Lisbeth Klastrup 13 Feb '08

13 Feb '08

Dear all, Greetings from the IR9 (conferences.aoir.org) conference chair: I'm very pleased to announce that Professor Klaus Bruhn Jensen will be organising this year's Doctoral Colloquium in relation to the Internet Research 9.0 conference. The colloquium, which is sponsored by Danish National Research School for Media, Communication,and Journalism, will take place on Wednesday October 15th at the IT University of Copenhagen (at which the conference also take place). Further details below! Best Lisbeth Klastrup Please circulate :) **************************************************::: Call for Participation Doctoral Colloquium Association of Internet Researchers (A.o.I.R) Annual Conference 2008 Internet Research 9.0 Copenhagen, Denmark =================== The Internet Research 9.0 Doctoral Colloquium offers Ph.D. students working in internet research or a related field a special forum on Wednesday,October 15, 2008 where they will have a chance to briefly present their dissertations-in-progress and discuss them at length with peers and established senior researchers. Interested students should prepare a two page summary of their research. This should provide a context for the research, describe the methods being used, the progress to date, and expectations and hopes from the colloquium. Faculty mentors include: Axel Bruns, Australia Sue Fragoso, Brazil Alex Halavais, USA Caroline Haythornthwaite, USA We hope to announce additional mentors shortly. SUBMISSION/PARTICIPATION Please submit the two page application by Friday, May 23, 2008 to: Klaus Bruhn Jensen : kbj(a)hum.ku.dk. Applicants will be notified of acceptance by June 15, 2008. Successful applicants will be asked to prepare an eight page paper on their research and the issues they wish to discuss by August 15, 2008. For further details, please visit the doctoral colloquium webpage at http://conferences.aoir.org/dc.html or contact the organizer of the Doctoral Colloquium, Klaus Bruhn Jensen : kbj(a)hum.ku.dk The Internet Research 9.0 Doctoral Colloquium is sponsored by the Danish National Research School for Media, Communication and Journalism.

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Science Studies 2/2007
by Yuwei Lin 13 Feb '08

13 Feb '08

Science Studies Vol.20, no.2 is available now! Special issue on Socio-technical Dynamics in the Free/Libre Open Source Software (FLOSS) Social World <http://www.sciencestudies.fi/v20n2> Contents: Sampsa Hyysalo and Tarja Knuuttila: Editorial http://www.sciencestudies.fi/v20n2Editorial Yu-Wei Lin and Lars Risan: Guest Editorial: Free/Libre Open Source Software (FLOSS) http://www.sciencestudies.fi/v20n2GuestEditorial Articles: Mary L. Darking and Edgar A. Whitley: Towards an Understanding of FLOSS: Infrastructures, Materiality and the Digital Business Ecosystem http://www.sciencestudies.fi/v20n2DarkingWhitley Didier Demazière, François Horn and Marc Zune: The Functioning of a Free Software Community: Entanglement of Three Regulation Modes - Control, Autonomous and Distributed http://www.sciencestudies.fi/v20n2DemaziereHornZune Stephanie Freeman: The Material and Social Dynamics of Motivation: Contributions to Open Source Language Technology Development http://www.sciencestudies.fi/v20n2Freeman Anita Say Chan: Retiring the Network Spokesman: The Poly-Vocality of Free Software Networks in Peru http://www.sciencestudies.fi/v20n2Chan Book reviews: Patrice Flichy: The Internet Imaginaire by Mikkel Flyverbom http://www.sciencestudies.fi/v20n2Flyverbom Adrian Mackenzie: Cutting Code. Software and Sociality by Susanne Bauer http://www.sciencestudies.fi/v20n2Bauer For further information visit the Science Studies web-site www.sciencestudies.fi

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topics in e-activism
by Marius Johannessen 12 Feb '08

12 Feb '08

I'm about to write an assignment on e-activism for my master's degree, and I'm out looking for possible topics. Does anyone know of any interesting articles or web sites covering the subject? regards, Marius Johannessen student, msc information systems university of Agder

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Speaking of Open Access ..
by Gerry Mckiernan 12 Feb '08

12 Feb '08

Colleagues/ The Harvard Librarian Speaks For Open Access (see below) [ http://www.thecrimson.com/article.aspx?ref=521835 ] See Also NYTimes Article: "At Harvard, a Proposal to Publish Free on Web" [http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/12/books/12publ.html ] /Gerry Gerry McKiernan Associate Professor Science and Technology Librarian Iowa State University Library Ames IA 50011 gerrymck(a)iastate.edu There is Nothing More Powerful Than An Idea Whose Time Has Come Victor Hugo [ http://www.blogger.com/profile/09093368136660604490 ] Iowa: Where the Tall Corn Flows and the (North)West Wind Blows ... [ http://www.alternativeenergyblogs.blogspot.com/ ] **************************************************************************** Harvard Crimson Opinion The Case for Open Access Published On 2/12/2008 1:03:46 AM By ROBERT DARNTON The motion before the FAS in support of open access to scholarly articles concerns openness in general. It is meant to promote the free communication of knowledge. By retaining rights for the widest possible dissemination of the faculty*s work, it would make scholarship by members of the FAS freely accessible everywhere in the world, and it would reinforce a new effort by Harvard to share its intellectual wealth. The University Library has taken a leading role in that endeavor. Far from reserving its resources for the privileged few, it is digitizing its special collections, opening them to everyone online, and cooperating with Google in the attempt to make books in the public domain actually available to the public, a worldwide public, which extends everywhere that people have access to the Internet. If the FAS votes in favor of the motion on February 12, Harvard will make the latest work of its scholars accessible, just as it is creating accessibility to the store of knowledge that it has accumulated in its libraries since 1638. The motion also represents an opportunity to reshape the landscape of learning. A shift in the system for communicating knowledge has created a contradiction at the heart of academic life. We academics provide the content for scholarly journals. We evaluate articles as referees, we serve on editorial boards, we work as editors ourselves, yet the journals force us to buy back our work, in published form, at outrageous prices. Many journals now cost more than $20,000 for a year*s subscription. [SNIP] The Harvard University Library will set up an Office for Scholarly Communication to make the open-access repository an instrument for access to research across all disciplines in the spirit of the *one-university* environment that the HOLLIS catalog now provides for holdings in all the libraries, more than 80 of them, throughout the University system. The Office for Scholarly Communication will also promote maximum cooperation by the faculty. Many repositories already exist in other universities, but they have failed to get a large proportion of faculty members to submit their articles. The deposit rate at the University of California is 14 percent, and it is much lower in most other places. By mandating copyright retention and by placing those rights in the hands of the institution running the repository, the motion will create the conditions for a high deposit rate. [MORE] Robert Darnton is Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor and Director of the University Library. [ http://www.thecrimson.com/article.aspx?ref=521835 ]

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Research Fellowships at the Oxford Internet Institute
by Vicki Nash 12 Feb '08

12 Feb '08

The OII is seeking two Research Fellows to join its multidisciplinary team undertaking research into the societal implications of the Internet and related information and communications technologies. Our preference is for candidates with a strong methodological background in one of the following disciplines: computer science, economics, law, political science or sociology; and with an interest in an area of research which will complement one of the Institute's current research areas. Applications from those with a track record of multi-disciplinary research on the societal implications of the Internet and/or related policy issues who have doctorates in other relevant disciplines will also be welcomed. For further information and to download an application pack, please see our website at: http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/people/newpositions.cfm Dr Victoria Nash Director of Graduate Studies Oxford Internet Institute 01865 287231 www.oii.ox.ac.uk

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What journals for me?
by Peter Timusk 12 Feb '08

12 Feb '08

Sorry if you do not have time for this just delete it. This is not directly about net research. Seems logical for me to ask at this point in this list's history for suggestions on what to read in terms of journals to prepare for a thesis but more so for a place to write. I find myself a member of AOIR and the Canadian Mathematics Society. My thesis is not officially started but my boss Leroy Stone a 30 year veteran of sociology wants me to look at the baby boom retiring and taking their operation knowledge out the door at our workplace. Right now I am doing a text search of some documents. My program is systems science, my back ground is in critical legal studies, statistics, geography and I have been reading since 1997 out from a core of QA76.9 social impact of computing studies through sociology of science and tech stopping in on hacking laws and reading about gender and computing. I have read many of the senior scholars on this list so would respect your advice. I am probably going to simulate my workplace either as workers moving around in and out or as knowledges in this case statistical knowledges moving in and out. any advice taken Peter Timusk B.Math(2002) BA (2006) Tel: 001-613-729-8328 Community Informatics Practitioner Email: ptimusk(a)sympatico.ca Yahoo ID: crystal_computing Skype ID: peter.timusk ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Nothing I write is intended to be representative of my employer, or our clients. Nor do I alone speak for my unions. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Feel free to learn more about me at www.crystalcomputing.net Computer ethics studies at www.webpagex.org blogs http://logbook.crystalcomputing.net <- computers http://notebook.webpagex.org <- school work

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de-conflating
by Barry Wellman 11 Feb '08

11 Feb '08

I'm sorry that I've contributed to the confusion. What happened is that I responded to the "Evil Senior Professors" postings of two unhappy persons, and, as several people have pointed out to me privately and publicly, that got wrongly conflated with the quite serious debate on Open Access. Evel Wellman _______________________________________________________________________ S.D. Clark Professor of Sociology, FRSC NetLab Director Centre for Urban & Community Studies University of Toronto 455 Spadina Avenue Room 418 Toronto Canada M5S 2G8 http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman fax:+1-416-978-7162 Updating history: http://chass.utoronto.ca/oldnew/cybertimes.php Elvis wouldn't be singing "Return to Sender" these days _______________________________________________________________________

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