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Second Life real-time streaming presentation question
by Jerald Block, MD 27 Feb '08

27 Feb '08

Hi all- I am doing a presentation on Virtual Worlds for the annual American Psychiatric Association. I am debating whether to do it using Second Life, in some fashion. Would be a nice tie-in and would illustrate many of my points. One option might be to stream the live conference presentation into Second Life and then take questions from Real Life participants AND Avatars in VL. Anybody have any experience doing this? Is it difficult? Where does one get the "conference room" in 2nd Life? I would welcome and advice or input. Thanks, Jerald Block, MD

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Call for Papers - Future and Reality of Gaming (F.R.O.G.) Vienna Games Conference 17.-19. October 2008
by Sigrid Jones 27 Feb '08

27 Feb '08

Call for Papers Future and Reality of Gaming (F.R.O.G.) Vienna Games Conference 17.-19. October 2008 Call for Papers: http://www.bupp.at/jart/prj3/bupp/main.jart?rel=de&content- id=1199352849203&reserve-mode=active Paper submission: We encourage participation from a wide range of disciplines including Education, Cognitive Psychology, Computer Science, Cultural Anthropology, Arts (e.g. fine arts), Human-Computer Interaction, Media and Communication Studies, Philosophy and Social Science. Interested authors are requested to submit an extended abstract of approximately 1500 to 2000 words due 28th of March 2008 exclusively as email attachments (doc-files or rtf-files) to eva.frick(a)univie.ac.at Externer Link . Important dates: Important dates: Abstract submission: 28th of March 2008 Notification: 25th of April 2008 Full paper: 03rd of October 2008 Conference: 17th till 19th of October 2008 Registration for the conference: * Early Bird: 25.04. - 26.06.2008 * Registration: 27.06. - 19.10.2008 Conference Fee: * Early Bird: € 150,- participation fee │ € 50,- participation fee for students and staff members of youth organisations * Regular Registration: € 180,- praticipation fee │ € 65,- participation fee for students and staff members of youth organisations Greetings from Vienna Sigrid ________________________ Sigrid Jones, MA, Mag. phil. Research Fellow University of Vienna Faculty of Philosophy and Educational Sciences Garnisongasse 3 1090 Wien T +43-1-4277-467 40 F +43-1-4277-467 39 www.medienABC.at http://wordandimage.wordpress.com

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Re: [Air-L] Other conferences in Europe in October? - Vienna Games Conference 2008
by Sigrid Jones 27 Feb '08

27 Feb '08

Hi Sal and all there is an overlap, but the the Vienna Games Conference 2008 "Future an Reality of Gaming" will be held from the 17th to 19th of October in Vienna. General information: Digital games have become a driving factor of contemporary cultural, social, and economic development. They are enablers of global cultural exchange and serve as entry points for media participation. However, the cultural, social and economic significance of games usually remains underestimated or misunderstood by the general public. In 2007, the City of Vienna decided to host “Game City”, a high profile event bringing together representatives of the games industry, non-profit organizations, academia and the general public for the discussion of the current state of computer games, digital youth cultures and games research. One key element of “Game City” was the Vienna Games Conference, which had the objective of serving as a public information platform as well as an international networking event for game researchers of various disciplines. Due to the overwhelming success of this concept, the “Game City” event and the Vienna Games Conference will be held again in the fall of 2008. http://www.bupp.at/jart/prj3/bupp/main.jart?rel=de&content- id=1199352848537&reserve-mode=active Greetings from Vienna Sigrid ______________________ Sigrid Jones, MA, Mag. phil. Research Fellow University of Vienna Faculty of Philosophy and Educational Sciences Garnisongasse 3 1090 Wien T +43-1-4277-467 40 F +43-1-4277-467 39 www.medienABC.at http://wordandimage.wordpress.com

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Re: [Air-L] Other conferences in Europe in October? - "Future an Reality of Gaming" in Vienna
by Sigrid Jones 27 Feb '08

27 Feb '08

Hi There is a slight overlap, but the Vienna Games Conference 2008 "Future an Reality of Gaming" will be held from 17th till 19th of October in Vienna. General information: Digital games have become a driving factor of contemporary cultural, social, and economic development. They are enablers of global cultural exchange and serve as entry points for media participation. However, the cultural, social and economic significance of games usually remains underestimated or misunderstood by the general public. In 2007, the City of Vienna decided to host “Game City”, a high profile event bringing together representatives of the games industry, non-profit organizations, academia and the general public for the discussion of the current state of computer games, digital youth cultures and games research. One key element of “Game City” was the Vienna Games Conference, which had the objective of serving as a public information platform as well as an international networking event for game researchers of various disciplines. Due to the overwhelming success of this concept, the “Game City” event and the Vienna Games Conference will be held again in the fall of 2008. Greetings from Vienna Sigrid ______________________ Sigrid Jones, MA, Mag. phil. Research Fellow University of Vienna Faculty of Philosophy and Educational Sciences Garnisongasse 3 1090 Wien T +43-1-4277-467 40 F +43-1-4277-467 39 www.medienABC.at http://wordandimage.wordpress.com

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Re: [Air-L] Conferences in May-June
by Bates, Benjamin J 27 Feb '08

27 Feb '08

Matt- While their submission deadlines are well past, these are major conferences that will have fairly large numbers of papers/panels dealing with online issues. AAPOR (American Association for Public Opinion Research) May 15-18 in New Orleans http://aapor.org/2008annualaaporconference ICA (International Communication Association) May 22-26, Montreal, Quebec, Canada http://www.icahdq.org/conferences/2008/2008confinfo.asp

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Fwd: [ACS] 2 DREAM Conference
by Kimberly De Vries 27 Feb '08

27 Feb '08

Another European conference... ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Johan Fornas <fornas(a)acsis.liu.se> Date: Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 8:58 AM Subject: [ACS] 2 DREAM Conference To: ACS(a)uta.fi Digital Content Creation: Creativity, Competence, Critique The second international DREAM conference 18-20 September 2008 University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS In knowledge-based societies, competence formation through education is key, and the formative role played by digital communication is widely acknowledged. However, one of the major challenges today is the mismatch between the digital resources nurtured by users in and outside of formal educational contexts. Not least young people's rapid take-up of social software such as weblogs and wikis, online chat clients and virtual world applications serve to challenge existing forms of communication for learning, since these innovations allow and assume users' own creation, sharing and editing of content. Conference goals This conference will present and discuss the most advanced and exciting research on digital content creation, its socio-cultural contexts and educational consequences. A major aim of the conference is to bring together an international forum of scholars from a range of disciplines including media and ICT studies, education, psychology, anthropology, sociology and cultural studies - and to promote dialogue within and across research traditions. We also aim to develop dialogue between researchers, educators and producers of new learning resources. Conference themes Topics of interest include but are not limited to: * Digital content creation: creative processes and textual reappropriations * Competence formation through digital content creation: personal voice or commercial coercion? * Institutional ramifications of digital content creation for learning * Studying digital content creation: the challenge of new methodologies Papers are encouraged from researchers with interests in any of these specific themes as well as the general issues of the conference. Submissions If you would like to present a paper, please submit a 400 word abstract with an indication of which of the above themes you will address. Abstracts must include the title of your paper along with author name(s), affiliation, and contact details (postal address, telephone, fax and email address). Abstracts (format: pdf, doc, rtf) should be submitted to mail(a)dream.dk After the conference, authors are invited to submit revised versions of their papers from which contributions will be selected for a peer- reviewed volume focusing on the main themes of the conference. Important dates 15 April 2008 deadline for submission of abstracts 1 June 2008 notification of authors 1 July 2008 deadline for early registration 1 August 2008 deadline for submission of final papers Keynote speakers Keynote speakers will include professor David Buckingham (London Knowledge Lab, University of London), professor John Hartley (Creative Industries Faculty, Queensland University of Technology), professor Angela McFarlane (Graduate School af Education, University of Bristol), professor Roger Säljö (Department of Education, University of Gothenburg), and professor Ellen Seiter (School of Cinematic Arts, University of Southern California). Pre-Conference: One-day ph.d. course The research conference is preceded by an intensive ph.d. course 17 September 2008, offering a venue for young scholars within relevant conference areas to meet with some of the main conference speakers and to make project presentations and discussions. Conference language The conference language is English. Stay informed Please visit the conference website for full scientific and social programme, registration form and keynote abstracts: http://www.dreamconference.dk/ Please feel free to circulate this message as appropriate. Apologies for crossposting. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * -- http://else-if-then.blogspot.com

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Final Call for Informational Submission about Degree Programs and Research Centers related to internet research.
by Jeremy Hunsinger 27 Feb '08

27 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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Other conferences in Europe in October?
by Sal Humphreys 27 Feb '08

27 Feb '08

Hi All I am aiming to come to Copenhagen for the conference this year, but Brisbane to Denmark is a long way to go for one conference, so I am wondering whether anyone is running, or knows of, any other conferences in the area of internet/new media/games studies that might be happening in the 2 weeks either side of the AoIRs conference, somewhere in the European general vicinity. cheers Sal Dr Sal Humphreys Post Doctoral Fellow Creative Industries Faculty Z6 501 The Hub Queensland University of Technology Musk Ave Kelvin Grove 4059 Brisbane, Australia s.humphreys(a)qut.edu.au Ph. 61 7 3138 8175 Mob. 0414 456 078 http://www.salhumphreys.org Projects: http://edgex.org.au http://www.cci.edu.au/programs/gamesandlaw

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Webology: Volume 4, Number 4, 2007
by Alireza Noruzi 27 Feb '08

27 Feb '08

Dear All, apologies for cross-posting. We are pleased to inform you that Vol. 4, No. 4 of Webology, an OPEN ACCESS journal, is published and is available ONLINE now. ------------------ Webology: Volume 4, Number 4, December, 2007 TOC: http://www.webology.ir/2007/v4n4/toc.html This issue contains: Editorial - Educational Impact and Open Access Journals -- Alireza Noruzi -- Keywords: Educational Impact; Reading text; Impact Factor; Visibility; Accessibility; OA -- http://www.webology.ir/2007/v4n4/editorial14.html ----------------------------------------- Articles - Lost in Cyberspace: Where to Go? What to Believe? -- Maryam Moayeri -- Keywords: Information seeking behavior; Search engines; Students; Education -- http://www.webology.ir/2007/v4n4/a47.html - Location-Based Search Engines Tasks and Capabilities: A Comparative Study -- Saeid Asadi, Xiaofang Zhou, Hamid R. Jamali & Hossein Vakili Mofrad -- Keywords: Location-based search; Web search; Geographic search engines -- http://www.webology.ir/2007/v4n4/a48.html - E-Commerce Development in Iran -- Alireza Abbasi -- Keywords: E-Commerce; E-Government; Information Communication; Iran -- http://www.webology.ir/2007/v4n4/a49.html ----------------------------------------- Book Reviews - Digital Health Information for the Consumer: Evidence and Policy Implications -- David Nicholas, Paul Huntington, Hamid Jamali & Peter Williams -- Shahram Sedghi -- http://www.webology.ir/2007/v4n4/bookreview8.html - The Indexing Companion -- Glenda Browne & Jon Jermey -- Mozaffarian, Mehrnoush -- http://www.webology.ir/2007/v4n4/bookreview9.html - Institutional Repositories: Content and Culture in an Open Access Environment -- Catherine Jones -- Isabel Galina -- http://www.webology.ir/2007/v4n4/bookreview10.html - Information and Emotion: The Emergent Affective Paradigm in Information Behavior Research and Theory -- Diane Nahl & Dania Bilal (Eds.) -- Hamid R. Jamali -- http://www.webology.ir/2007/v4n4/bookreview11.html ----------------------------------------- Call for Papers: -- http://www.webology.ir/cfp.html ========================================= Best regards, Alireza Noruzi, PhD Editor-in-Chief of Webology ~ The great aim of Open Access journals is knowledge sharing. ~

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Sambad Seminar 2008
by Ganesh Ghimire 27 Feb '08

27 Feb '08

Apologies for cross posting.*** * *Can the importance of literacy be compensated for by technology?*** *Bhashaka Kura (7th March 2008)* *4:30pm-6:00pm* *Yalamaya Kendra, PatanDhoka, Lalitpur, Nepal.* Presenters: Prof. Pat Hall, Ganesh Ghimire, Abhishek Shrestha, Prabin Gautam Madan Puraskar Pustakalaya, Nepal. Summary: Literacy is frequently seen as a prerequisite in helping very poor people enhance their quality of life through improved livelihoods, leading to the achievement of the millennium development goals. Often literacy is taught independently as a life skill, outside of any context of its use, but increasingly the practice is to teach other practical subjects like agriculture or health care and in that context teach sufficient literacy for that particular purpose. An important part of this use of literacy would be to access communal knowledge, but equally important would be the contribution of traditional knowledge to the shared pool of knowledge. But just how critical is literacy to all this? We can view writing as a means of recording speech, and when writing was invented many thousands of years ago, making marks on stone or clay or bark was the only technology available. However today we can directly record speech using electronic devices, and with computers can manipulate and edit that speech. We can also generate speech from written materials, so that previously written materials can be read to the person who cannot read. Writing may no longer be as important as it was previously. In this seminar we will discuss these issues and demonstrate speech based technologies that could enable illiterate people to immediately gain benefits previously denied them due to the barrier of literacy. Interested people are kindly welcome. http://sambad.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=section&id=1&Itemid=2 Further information: Phone: 977 1 5521393 Email: info(a)sambad.org regards, Ganesh

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