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Fwd: f.y.i. HP Request for Research Proposals
by Jeremy Hunsinger 04 Jun '08

04 Jun '08

Begin forwarded message: > From: DCISOC <info(a)dcisoc.org> > Date: May 16, 2008 5:02:15 PM GMT-04:00 > To: (Recipient list suppressed) > Subject: f.y.i. HP Request for Research Proposals > >> The following Request For Proposals has landed on my radar and I >> wanted to share it with you all. You or your Chapter membership in >> academia may be interested in this funding opportunity with HP: http://www.hpl.hp.com/open_innovation/irp/ >> >> Unless I receive strong opposition, I will try to forward similar RFP >> information to you all in the future, when I become aware of it. >> >> Best wishes, >> >> Connie J Kendig >> Sponsored Programs & Grants Manager >> >> Internet Society > > > "The HP Labs Innovation Research Program is designed to create > opportunities -- at colleges, universities and research institutes > around the world -- for breakthrough collaborative research with > HP. Through this open and competitive Call for Proposals, we are > soliciting your best ideas on a range of topics with the goal of > establishing new research collaborations."

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CAT Developments
by Stuart Shulman 03 Jun '08

03 Jun '08

There have been some significant developments with the Coding Analysis Toolkit (CAT). The system is becoming steadily more robust and we have over 300 beta testers with user accounts. The system is currently free and will, in the next year, be released as Open Source under a General Public License. Anyone can set up a web-based account and load raw or ATLAS.ti-coded data to take advantage of the reliability and validity tools, as well as the coding module for raw data. http://www.qdap.pitt.edu/cat.htm Although I am moving to UMass Amherst to join the political science department in the fall, the lab I created (QDAP) will continue here and I will retain some sort of active affiliation. We are one of the only fee-for-service coding labs in North America (if you know of others, please let me know). Our coders logged over 5,900 coding hours this fiscal year and our transcriptionists completed 2,500 hours of transcription. QDAP is housed in a University-wide research center and services a wide range of NIH-, NIMH-, NSF-, and DARPA-funded PIs. The QDAP model is not for everyone, but I can say we have a growing list of happy customers, especially those working in the mixed methods tradition. http://www.qdap.pitt.edu/testimonials.htm ~Stu ________________________________________________________ Dr. Stuart W. Shulman Associate Professor Director, Sara Fine Institute http://www.sis.pitt.edu/~fineinst/ School of Information Sciences Director, Qualitative Data Analysis Program University Center for Social and Urban Research http://www.qdap.pitt.edu/ University of Pittsburgh 121 University Place, Suite 600 Pittsburgh, PA 15260 412.624.3776 (v) 412.624.4810 (f) http://shulman.ucsur.pitt.edu Editor, Journal of Information Technology and Politics http://www.jitp.net ________________________________________________________ -- Neighborhood Team Leader Squirrel Hill - Point Breeze, PA Obama for America

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The Wild, Wild Wiki / Wiki Writing: Collaborative Learning in the College Classroom
by Gerry Mckiernan 03 Jun '08

03 Jun '08

Friends/ I've Made A Major (Re)Discovery Today That I Believe/Hope Will Be Of Wide Interest. /Gerry The Wild, Wild Wiki / Wiki Writing: Collaborative Learning in the College Classroom THE WIKI The Wild, Wild Wiki Table of Contents Volume Preface Robert E. Cummings, Columbus State University, and Matt Barton, St. Cloud State University Volume Introduction *WhatWas a Wiki, and Why Do I Care? A Short and Usable History of Wikis*/ Robert E. Cummings, Columbus State University / 18 pages Wikis and the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Chapter 1: *Wikis in the Classroom: A Taxonomy* / Mark Phillipson, Columbia University / 42 pages Chapter 2: *Wiki Justice, Social Ergonomics, and Ethical Collaborations* / Jonah Bossewitch, Columbia University ; John Frankfurt, Columbia University ; Alexander Sherman, Civic Consulting Alliance ; Robin D.G. Kelley, Columbia University / 38 pages Chapter 4: *Building Learning Communities with Wikis* / Dan Gilbert, Stanford University ; Helen L. Chen, Stanford University ; Jeremy Sabol, Stanford University / 28 pages Chapter 5: *Content and Commentary: Parallel Structures of Organization and Interaction on Wikis* / Will Lakeman, Independent Scholar / 21 pages Wikis in Composition and Communication Chapter 3: *Disrupting Intellectual Property: Collaboration and Resistance in Wikis* / Stephanie Vie, Fort Lewis College ; Jennifer deWinter, University of Arizona / 19 pages Chapter 9: *Wiki Lore and Politics in the Classroom* / Cathlena Martin, University of Florida Lisa Dusenberry, University of Florida / 16 pages Chapter 10: *An (Old) First-Timer's Learning Curve: Curiosity, Trial, Resistance, and Accommodation* / Bob Whipple, Creighton University / 15 pages Chapter 12: *Above and Below the Double Line: Refactoring and that Old- Time Revision* / Michael C Morgan, Bemidji State University / 17 pages Chapter 13: *Success Through Simplicity: On Developmental Writing and Community of Inquiry.* / John W. Maxwell, Simon Fraser University ; Michael Felczak, Simon Fraser University / 20 pages Chapter 14: *Wiki as Textshop: Constructing Knowledge in the Electronic Classroom* / Thomas J. Nelson, University of Texas, Austin / 10 pages Wikis and the Higher Education Classroom Chapter 6: *Is there a Wiki in this Class? Wikibooks and the Future of Higher Education* / Matt Barton, St. Cloud State University / 23 pages Chapter 7: *Agency and Accountability: The Paradoxes of Wiki Discourse* / Daniel Caeton, University of California, Davis / 17 pages Chapter 8: *One Wiki, Two Classrooms* / David Elfving, University of Illinois, Chicago ; Ericka Menchen-Trevino, Northwestern University / 10 pages Chapter 15: *Glossa Technologia: Anatomy of a Wiki-Based Annotated Bibliography* / Ben McCorkle, Ohio State University, Marion / 9 pages THE PRINTED BOOK Wiki Writing: Collaborative Learning in the College Classroom / Robert Cummings and Matt Barton, Editors / An indispensable and engaging guide to using wikis in the classroom About the Book "Wiki Writing will quickly become the standard resource for using wikis in the classroom." / Jim Kalmbach, Illinois State University When most people think of wikis, the first---and often the only---thing that comes to mind is Wikipedia. Robert E. Cummings and Matt Barton, the editors of Wiki Writing: Collaborative Learning in the College Classroom, have assembled a collection of essays which challenges this common misconception, providing an engaging and helpful array of perspectives on the many pressing theoretical and practical issues that wikis raise. Written in an accessible manner that will appeal to specialists and novices alike, Wiki Writing draws on a wealth of practical experiences to offer a series of detailed suggestions about how educators can realize the potential of these new writing environments. Robert E. Cummings is Assistant Professor of English and Director of First- year Composition at Columbus State University. He also serves as the Writing Specialist for CSU's Quality Enhancement Plan, assisting teachers across campus in their efforts to maximize student writing in their curriculum. Matt Barton is Assistant Professor at St. Cloud State University, Department of English. He is an Assistant Editor of Kairos [http://english.ttu.edu/Kairos/] and an Associate Editor of Kairosnews [http://kairosnews.org/] / 6 x 9 / 312 pgs. / 30 figures / 6 tables / ISBN 978-0-472-11671-3 / $24.95 / Forthcoming / Related Scholarship 2.0 Postings ***Disruptive Scholarship ***MediaCommons: A Digital Scholarly Network ***Using Wikipedia to Reenvision the Term Paper ***Wikipedia Writing I am remain continuously/continually Greatly Interested in Wiki Writing and would appreciate Any and All cites/sites to the Use of Wikis for Composition/Writing/Instruction. Please Post Recommendations as A Comment on the Blog Posting The Posting With All Links and A Cool Graphic is available [ http://scholarship20.blogspot.com/2008/06/wild-wild-wiki-wiki-wiki- writing.html ] OR [ http://tinyurl.com/5x5ruy ] Thanks Bob and Matt and All Authors For A Most Excellent Compendium!!! Enjoy!!! /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://alternativeenergyblogs.blogspot.com/ ]

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new reviews in cyberculture studies (june 2008)
by David M Silver 03 Jun '08

03 Jun '08

hello hello! each month, the resource center for cyberculture studies (RCCS) publishes a set of book reviews and author responses ( http://rccs.usfca.edu/booklist.asp ). books of the month for june 2008 include: Disability and Contemporary Performance: Bodies on Edge Author: Petra Kuppers Publisher: Routledge, 2003 Review 1: Adi Kuntsman Author Response: Petra Kuppers My Mother Was a Computer: Digital Subjects and Literary Texts Author: N. Katherine Hayles Publisher: University of Chicago Press, 2005 Review 1: Michael Filas Author Response: N. Katherine Hayles Technically Together: Rethinking Community within Techno-Society Author: Michele A. Willson Publisher: Peter Lang Publishing, 2006 Review 1: Lisa Justine Hernández Review 2: Barbara Iverson Author Response: Michele Willson enjoy. there's more where that came from. plus, coming soon (like in late june): a very large list of new and exciting books waiting to be reviewed, perhaps by you. david silver http://silverinsf.blogspot.com

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Job posting: Research fellow in privacy and mobile computing
by Adam Joinson 03 Jun '08

03 Jun '08

Apols for any cross postings. Post-doc position at the Open University in the UK (open to all nationalities). Although this position is in a computing dept, the role will require either a social science / internet studies / HCI background. Feel free to contact me (joinson(a)gmail.com) with any questions Rgds Adam. -------------------------------------------- Adam Joinson, PhD Senior Lecturer, Information Systems School of Management University of Bath Bath BA2 7AY E-mail: A.Joinson(a)bath.ac.uk http://people.bath.ac.uk/aj266 -------------------------------------------- Research Fellow: Privacy and Mobile Computing Department of Computing (Centre for Research in Computing) The Open University (Ref: 4758) £27,466 - £32,796 (subject to inflation increase from October 2008) 3 year contract available from 1 September 2008 Applications will be considered from 13 June 2008, until the position is filled. Privacy Rights Management in Mobile Applications (PRIMMA) is a major new three year research project funded by the EPSRC that will investigate privacy in mobile computing. The research fellow, based at the Open University, will work as part of a team comprising researchers at the Open University, University of Bath, Imperial College London and IBM. The research fellow will conduct research that both investigates users' current requirements in terms of mobile privacy, and that also asks fundamental questions about the nature of privacy, trust, social interaction and human relations in the context of mobile social networking. We are looking for candidates who display the talent, creativity, and enthusiasm necessary to perform outstanding research into privacy that will make a difference - to ask original, concrete questions and to adopt incisive methodologies for exploring them, in order to help positively shape the development of pervasive, location-aware mobile systems, and those whose lives are affected by it. Applicants should have (or expect to receive by September 2008) a Masters level degree (ideally a PhD) in a relevant subject (e.g. human-computer interaction, software engineering, computer science, information systems, psychology, communication studies), and an interest in privacy, security, social networks or pervasive and mobile computing. For further details about the position, contact the project principal investigator, Professor Bashar Nuseibeh: B.Nuseibeh(a)open.ac.uk. Informal enquiries are encouraged. A 'Further Particulars' document elaborating on the project and the post is available (see link below) Applications should include a completed application form, a CV, and a cover letter/research statement explaining the candidate's suitability for the position. Applications should be sent electronically to Professor Bashar Nuseibeh and copied to mct-recruitment(a)open.ac.uk . Disabled applicants who meet the essential job requirements will be interviewed. Further particulars are available in large print, disk or audiotape (minicom 01908 654901). We promote diversity in employment and welcome applications from all sections of the community. Related websites: PRiMMA project: http://crc.open.ac.uk/primma Project summary: http://mcs.open.ac.uk/akb235/research/PRiMMA-Summary.pdf Department of Computing: http://www.computing.open.ac.uk/ The Open University: http://www.open.ac.uk/ Application form (Word): http://www3.open.ac.uk/employment/appform.doc Application form (PDF) http://www3.open.ac.uk/employment/appform.pdf Further Particulars: http://www3.open.ac.uk/events/jobs/2008130_33303_o3.doc (Note: Research Fellow 1 in above document)

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Academic Writing and Publishing Workshop, AoIR IR 9.0
by Marcus Foth 03 Jun '08

03 Jun '08

Call for Participation Academic Writing and Publishing Workshop Wednesday October 15th 2008 in conjunction with AoIR IR 9.0 http://conferences.aoir.org/ Organisers: Marcus Foth, Mia Consalvo, Greg Hearn In response to feedback from AoIR members as well as the publications working group and the executive committee of AoIR, we invite you to this workshop on academic writing and publishing. It provides an opportunity for early and mid career internet researchers to discuss and improve academic writing skills in a peer support environment and identify suitable publication outlets. The workshop will be a forum to share experiences and tips and tricks on how to interact with editors and deal with review reports. You will have a chance to discuss your own draft papers with other participants and the organisers, and you will hear inside stories from Nick Jankowski, editor of New Media & Society, and Mark Lorenzen, editor of Industry and Innovation. No workshop papers are required to attend, but we encourage you to bring drafts on the day for us to work with. If you would like to participate in this workshop, please register for IR 9.0 and send an email to Marcus Foth at m.foth(a)qut.edu.au so we can keep a tally on numbers for the workshop. Tentative Programme 09.00 – 09.15: Welcome and outline of the structure of the workshop 09.15 – 10.15: Keynote by Nick Jankowski, Editor of New Media & Society, SAGE 10.15 – 10.45: Coffee break 10.45 – 11.30: Roundtable: Selecting the right publication outlet and publication lifecycles 11.30 – 12.15: Hands-on session collecting information online about publication outlets and share with others 12.15 – 13.15: Lunch 13.15 – 14.00: Roundtable: Tips and tricks for academic writing and responding to reviewer's feedback 14.00 – 14.45: Hands-on session: mini peer review of participants' works and discussion with editors 14.45 – 15.15: Coffee break 15.15 – 16.00: Feedback and Q&A session with editors and publishers 16.00 – 17.00: Panel discussion: Towards a set of regular AoIR special issues -- Dr Marcus Foth Australian Postdoctoral Fellow Institute for Creative Industries and Innovation Queensland University of Technology (CRICOS No. 00213J) Creative Industries Precinct, Brisbane QLD 4059, Australia Phone +61 7 313 x88772 - Fax x88195 - Office Z6-511 m.foth(a)qut.edu.au - http://www.vrolik.de/publications/

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Re: [Air-L] Air-L Digest, Vol 47, Issue 1
by Robin Reid 02 Jun '08

02 Jun '08

Hello--first post on list, but I've been reading and lurking a while now! I first became aware of AOIR when I started doing internet research in fan studies, but didn't realize the listserv existed. My program (at a small university in rural Texas) is moving to incorporate a great deal of new media, transmedia, and multi media work on both graduate and the composition courses (so the movement is tied together, with graduate students learning and teaching). Since I joined the list, I've been saving stuff to read later (life's been a bit hectic with new program initiatives), but I taught an online graduate course titled "new media literacies" last fall which overlaps with the convergence idea in Sabryna's class. Here's my course description and reading list: COURSE DESCRIPTION This course is designed to teach students how to apply critical theories to a range of contemporary media in today's convergence culture. The media covered include (but are not limited to): games, fan creations, wikis, blogs, graphic novels, and other media not traditionally covered in traditional "literary" or "film studies." The course will be informed by interdisciplinary multicultural and gender theories and practices. Scholarship done in literary, media and communication, sociology, and linguistics will be assigned. I do not assume students are experts in all new media (or any new media); I do not assume they are familiar with all the theories referenced in assigned readings. We will focus on literacy practices, and so part of students' work will be tracking their acquisition of new literacy practices during the course of the term. Trouble and Her Friends Melissa Scott Split-Level Dykes to Watch Out For Alison Bechdel Control and Freedom: Power and Paranoia in the Age of Fiber Optics Wendy Hui Kyong Chun Everyday eBay: Culture, Collecting, and Desire Ken Hillis, Michael Petit, Nathan Scott Epley The Lord of the Rings: Popular Culture in Global Context Ernest Mathijs Unit Operation: An Approach to Videogame Operation Ian Bogost The main theory text was Chun's (we spent weeks reading it, one chapter at a time, because of the density and the importance). Too often for my taste, work on new media and media convergence (including Henry Jenkin's which is incredibly important and informed my class in major ways) ignores issues of race and gender. Chun's work is incredible. Robin *** air-l-request(a)listserv.aoir.org wrote: From: "Sabryna Cornish" Subject: [Air-L] convergence To: Message-ID: <48411AE7020000EE0000627F(a)wpo.cso.niu.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Hi all--I am teaching a graduate course on media convergence. I have a good idea for readings for the course, but wanted some suggestions from list serv members about what they might require graduate students to read. I am purposely not including a description of the course to see what list serv members think about when they consider the term media convergence. I will say this is a theoretically based course. Thanks in advance for any help! Sabryna Sabryna Cornish Assistant professor of journalism Department of communication Northern Illinois University

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CFR for Flow Conference, October 2008
by Tuszynski, Stephanie 02 Jun '08

02 Jun '08

Greetings everyone- I saw a number of you at the first Flow conference in Austin back in 2006. The CFR for this year's conference is finally up. The deadline is June 15th, which is very short notice, I know. But this conference isn't a traditional paper-format one. The entire conference is roundtable discussions on topics, intended to encourage more discussion and interaction than you get from a more formal atmosphere. I found the first conference very engaging and interesting myself. The conference home page is here: http://flowtv.org/?page_id=1332 I'm not C&Ping the entire call because there are several pages of descriptions of the areas. You can find them at the page: http://flowtv.org/?page_id=1335 The call begins with this: Conference Date: October 9-11, 2008 at the University of Texas at Austin Deadline to submit a response: June 15, 2008 Flow Conference 2008 will resemble traditional academic meetings in name only: There will be no panels, no papers, and no plenary sessions. Instead, the event will feature a series of roundtables, each organized around a compelling question. Respondents are asked to submit a brief abstract addressing one of the roundtable questions listed below. We especially encourage responses that address issues of race, class, gender, sexuality, age, and ability, as well as international perspectives. To submit a response send a 150-word abstract to flowconference2008(a)gmail.com by June 15, 2008. In the subject line of the email please put the title of the roundtable to which you are responding. Be sure to also include your full name, e-mail address, and affiliation in the body of the email. Please submit a response to only one roundtable topic. However, we imagine that some individuals will have interest in several roundtable discussions and thus difficulty choosing between them. We want to accommodate as many people and their preferences as possible. Therefore, it would be helpful for us to know about those individuals who are willing to participate in another roundtable if too many responses are submitted for their original question. If this applies to you, please submit one response to one roundtable question AND let us know two other roundtable questions in which youre interested. If the original question to which you respond produces too many responses, we will invite you to submit a response to one of the other questions. We will inform participants of acceptance via e-mail by July 15, 2008. Upon acceptance, respondents will be asked to expand their abstract to a 600-800 word position paper, due by September 15, 2008. The complete CFR is here: http://flowtv.org/?page_id=1335 Cheers. Stephanie Tuszynski Visiting Assistant Professor Department of Theatre and Film University of Toledo

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Convergence
by John Monberg 02 Jun '08

02 Jun '08

I agree that the Carey chapters are extremely useful in raising enduring questions about convergence, especially value-laden claims made about every new generation of communication technology that are framed as non-political. Alan Liu's "Laws of Cool" does a great job of historicizing the evolution of communication technology, in particular the politics of design and the mission of the humanities in a digital era, in a theoretically sophisticated manner. Shaun Moore's "Media/Theory: Thinking about Media and Communications" raises many fundamental questions about interaction without falling into a deterministic framework. The "Digital Bohemia" chapter in Richard Lloyd's "Neo-Bohemia: Art and Commerce in the Postindustrial City" grounds convergence in a specific social context, adding ethnographic detail along the theoretical lines of Castells and Saskia Sassen that students near Chicago might especially appreciate. John Monberg

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CFP: HICSS 42 -- Social Networks and Virtual Worlds for Work, Learning, and Play
by Caroline Haythornthwaite 02 Jun '08

02 Jun '08

Hawaii in January -- what could be better! Papers due June 15, 2008. Minitrack organizers include a few familiar AoIR names. Do consider sending your papers our way. /Track organizers Caroline Haythornthwaite (haythorn(a)uiuc.edu) Karine Barzilai-Nahon (karineb(a)u.washington.edu) Paul Benjamin Lowry (Paul.Lowry.PhD(a)gmail.com) Ian MacInnes (IMacInne(a)syr.edu) ----------- Call for Papers **Social Networks and Virtual Worlds for Work, Learning, and Play** Minitrack in the **Internet and the Digital Economy Track** HICSS 42 DUE DATE: June 15, 2008 Forty-Second Hawaii International Conference on Systems Sciences (HICSS-42) January 5-8, 2009 Hilton Waikoloa Village, Waikoloa, Big Island, Hawaii http://www.hicss.hawaii.edu/hicss_42/apahome42.htm Our online ways and means of connecting with others and maintaining ties for everyday life, community, work, learning and play are changing dramatically with the increasing adoption and use of social networking applications such as Facebook, MySpace, etc., immersive worlds such as Second Life, and more comprehensive online support environments such as collaboratories, virtual communities, and online communities of practice. These new settings provide the infrastructure for new patterns of connectivity, new ways of working, learning and playing with known and unknown others, locally and globally distributed, with common and diverse cultural experiences. This minitrack for HICSS 42 calls for papers that address the design, analysis, theory, review, experiments and/or observation of social networks, virtual communities, and virtual worlds in the contexts of work, school, home, community, and play. Papers from all methodological approaches are welcome, including design and user studies, quantitative and qualitative research, and theoretical work. Interdisciplinary work is particularly encouraged. All papers should be well grounded in the literature, present original work, and make a substantial addition to the literature in this area. Examples of topics for this minitrack include, but are not limited to the following: • Online communities: organizational, group and individual behavior • Design for online networks and communities • E-learning: structures, implementation, and practices • Interaction between the off-line and online community • Online gaming: design, economics, behavior • Collaborative work, learning or gaming online • Peer-to-peer or mobile services for virtual communities • Case studies and topologies of online communities • Theoretical models of virtual worlds • Business and organizational models of virtual worlds • Economic behaviors in virtual worlds, and game economies • Synergies and conflicts between real and virtual worlds • Identity in virtual worlds • Interface design for social networking, virtual worlds, virtual communities • Social networking agents • Anti-social behavior, online addiction, predatory behavior online • Legal and ethical issues of virtual worlds • Privacy and security issues in online networks IMPORTANT DATES: Abstracts (optional): April 15, 2008 Full Paper Submission: June 15, 2008 All papers must conform to HICSS formatting standards: http://www.hicss.hawaii.edu/hicss_42/authorinstruction.htm Please contact any of the organizers with questions about submissions to this minitrack. Abstracts may be sent to any of the organizers. Caroline Haythornthwaite (haythorn(a)uiuc.edu) Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Karine Barzilai-Nahon (karineb(a)u.washington.edu) The Information School, University of Washington Paul Benjamin Lowry (Paul.Lowry.PhD(a)gmail.com) Information Systems Department, Kevin Rollins Center for e-Business, Marriott School, Brigham Young Ian MacInnes (IMacInne(a)syr.edu) School of Information Studies, Syracuse University -------------------------------------- Caroline Haythornthwaite Professor, Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 501 East Daniel St., Champaign IL 61820

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