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Announcing latest issue of EJC/REC: Volume 18 (1), 2008
by Teresa M Harrison 24 Jul '08

24 Jul '08

With articles on News Framing in a New Media Age, and other topics. See http://www.cios.org/www/ejc/v18n1.htm Table of Contents: News Framing in a New Media Age Le cadrage des informations dans l'ère du nouveau média Editor / Éditeur: Paul D'Angelo College of New Jersey Framed By Blogs: Toward a Theory of Frame Sponsorship and Reinforcement Through the Blogosphere / L'encadrement par les blogs : vers une théorie de sponsorisation du cadrage et de renforcement à travers le monde des blogs Sonora Jha Seattle University Successful Joint Venture or out of Control? Framing Europe on French and Dutch Websites / Une entreprise commune réussi ou non? Cadrer l'Europe sur les sites web français et hollandais Renée Van Os Baldwin Van Gorp Fred Wester Radboud University Nijmegen The Netherlands Framing Immigration Online: Online Position Statements of 2006 Candidates for Congress / Cadrer l'immigration en ligne : les annonces des positions en ligne des candidats pour le Congrès en 2006 Maria A. Kopacz West Chester University Additional Research Articles A Woman's (and Man's?) Right to Choose: Journalists' Language Choices in News about Abortion / Le droit de choisir d'une femme (et d'un homme ?) : les choix du langage des journalistes dans les nouvelles sur l'avortement Cindy J. Elmore East Carolina University Modeling Managers' Intentions to Adopt Telecommuting in a Developing Country: A Case from Egypt / Modeler les intentions des directeurs a adopté le télétravail dans les pays en voie de développement : un cas égyptien Ahmed Gad Abdel-Wahab Faculty of Commerce, University of Mansoura, Mansoura, Egypt Editorial: Access to Research / Accès àÂ la recherche Joseph A. DeVito Hunter College of the City University of New York

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DEADLINE EXTENDED: 1st workshop on Social Data on the Web (SDoW2008)
by Uldis Bojars 24 Jul '08

24 Jul '08

*** SUBMISSION DEADLINE EXTENDED: August 04, 2008 *** ----------------------------------------------------------- 1st Social Data on the Web workshop (SDoW2008) http://sdow2008.semanticweb.org/ co-located with 7th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC2008) http://iswc2008.semanticweb.org/ October 26th/27th, 2008, Karlsruhe (Germany) ----------------------------------------------------------- The 1st Social Data on the Web workshop (SDoW2008) co-located with the 7th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC2008) aims to bring together researchers, developers and practitioners involved in semantically-enhancing social media websites, as well as academics researching more formal aspect of these interactions between the Semantic Web and Social Media. Important dates --------------- * Submission deadline: Aug 04, 2008 * Notification of acceptance: Sep 05, 2008 * Camera-ready paper submission: Sep 26, 2008 * Camera-ready proceedings: Oct 03, 2008 Description ---------------- Since its first steps in 2001, many research issues have been tackled by the Semantic Web community such as data formalism for knowledge representation, data querying and scalability, or reasoning and inferencing. More recently, Web 2.0 offered new perspectives regarding information sharing, annotation, and social networking on the Web. It opens new research areas for the Semantic Web which has an important role to play to lead to the emergence of a Social Semantic Web that should provide novel services to end-users, combining the best of both Semantic Web and Web 2.0 worlds. To achieve this goal, various tasks and features are needed from data modeling and lightweight ontologies, to knowledge and social networks portability as well as ways to interlink data between Social Media websites, leveraging proprietary data silos to a Giant Global Graph. This workshop is intended to bring together people and organisations interested in applying Semantic Web technologies to social media sites. Topics of interest ------------------ Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Creating RDF-based knowledge using social media services * Data Portability and Social Network Portability * Emerging semantic platforms for the Social Web * Enriching Social Web with semantic data: RDFa, microformats and other approaches * Linked Data on the Social Web: providing linked data from social media sites * Ontologies for the Social Web: developing, using and extending lightweight ontologies for social media sites * Querying and mining social semantic data * Policies, authentication, security, and trust within collaborative scenarios * Producing Semantic Web data from social software applications * Reasoning for Social Web applications * Semantic blogging, wikis and social networks * Semantically-Interlinked Online Communities (SIOC) * Social and semantic bookmarking, tagging and annotation * Social Semantic Web: combining Web 2.0 and Semantic Web strategies and technologies Submissions ----------- The following types of contributions are welcomed: * Full technical papers, up to 12 pages. * Short technical papers and position papers, up to 6 pages. * Posters and Demos, 2-3 pages with a description of the application, ideally accompanied with a link to an online demo. Workshop Chairs --------------- * John Breslin, DERI, NUI Galway, Ireland * Uldis Bojārs, DERI, NUI Galway, Ireland * Alexandre Passant, LaLIC, Université Paris-Sorbonne, France * Sergio Fernández, Fundación CTIC, Spain Program Committee ----------------- * Benjamin Nowack, Appmosphere/Semsol, Germany * Chris Bizer, Free University Berlin, Germany * Christoph Görn, #B4mad.Net Network, Germany * Dan Brickley, FOAF Project, World * Denny Vrandecic, DFKI, University of Karlsruhe, Germany * Diego Berrueta, Fundación CTIC, Spain * Eyal Oren, VU Amsterdam, Netherlands * Eric Prud'hommeaux, MIT/W3C, USA * Fabien Gandon, INRIA, France * Frederick Giasson, Zitgist, Canada * Harry Halpin, University of Edinburgh, UK * Ivan Herman, CWI/W3C, Netherlands * Jie Bao, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA * Jose E. Labra, University of Oviedo, Spain * Li Ding, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA * Martin Dzbor, KMi, Open University, UK * Michael Hausenblas, Joanneum Research, Austria * Paul Miller, Talis, UK * Richard Cyganiak, DERI, NUI Galway, Ireland * Sebastian Dietzold, University of Leipzig, Germany * Sofia Angeletou, KMi, Open University, UK * Sören Auer, University of Leipzig, Germany * Steve Harris, Garlik, UK * Susie M. Stephens, Eli Lilly and Company, USA * Stefan Decker, DERI, NUI Galway, Ireland * Tom Heath, Talis, UK Further information ------------------- Updated information about the workshop can be found on the workshop website: http://sdow2008.semanticweb.org/ For further information, please send an email to sdow2008(a)easychair.org

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"Student As Scholar / Scholar As Student" Global Facebook Group Formed
by Gerry Mckiernan 23 Jul '08

23 Jul '08

Colleagues/ I Have Created A New Global Facebook Group Named "Student As Scholar / Scholar As Student" SAS/SAS Invites Any/All Anecdotes/Postings/Discussions/Etc. About Institutional/Personal Experiences And/Or Initiatives That Support The View That "Undergraduate education should adopt the Student as Scholar Model throughout the curriculum, where scholar is conceived in terms of an attitude, an intellectual posture, and a frame of mind derived from the best traditions of an engaged liberal arts education. With this framework, not only each research project, but also each course, is viewed as an integrated, and integrating, part of the student experience." David Hodge, Kira Pasquesi, Marissa Hirsh / Miami University ; Paul LePore / University of Washington For The Full View, Please See The Blog Post _The Student as Scholar: Undergraduate Research and Creative Practice_ [ http://scholarship20.blogspot.com/2008/07/student-as-scholar-undergraduate.…] OR [http://tinyurl.com/669xvm] The "Student As Scholar / Scholar As Student" Global Open-To-AnyOne Facebook Group Is Located At [http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=27141416631] !!! PLEASE JOIN AND CONTRIBUTE !!! /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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PhD Position Available at NeuroChip Lab, Padova, Italy.
by Mufti Mahmud 23 Jul '08

23 Jul '08

Hi All, There is an opening for a PhD position at the NeuroChip Laboratory of University of Padova, Itlay<http://www.anatomiafisiologia.unipd.it/neurochip/Index.html>. The details can be found at the following link: http://www.cyberrat.eu/. Interested candidates can send their *detailed CV*, *research expertise and experience (maximum one page)*, and *motivation letter (maximum one page)*to neurochiplab(a)cyberrat.eu *within 15 September 2008*. -- Mufti Mahmud NeuroChip Laboratory University of Padova 35131 - Padova, Italy. Office: +39 049 827 5308 Mobile: +39 389 1165099 Res.: +39 049 65 6593 Extn. 8314. http://www.anatomiafisiologia.unipd.it/neurochip/People/Mahmud.html

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Registration open - ASIST 2008 Annual Meeting
by Richard Hill 23 Jul '08

23 Jul '08

** Apologies for Duplication ** People Transforming Information - Information Transforming People October 24-29, 2008, Hyatt Regency, Columbus, Ohio http://www.asis.org/Conferences/AM08/ The Sunday, October 26 plenary will be an interactive session featuring - Geneveive Bell, director, User Experience Group Intel Digital Home Group - Howard Rheingold, author, editor and lecturer at UC Berkeley and Stanford University - Andrew Keen, host of AfterTV and Silicon Valley entrepreneur. Plenary on Wednesday, October 29 will be Dr. Connie Yowell, Director of Education grantmaking at MacArthur, and runs MacArthur's $50 million digital media and learning initiative. Meeting will feature 36 panels, 60 contributed papers, and over 90 posters or short papers covering the full gamut of what is current in information science practice and research. NEW POLICIES: We are now including a year�s membership with every full conference, non-member registration. And we are extending a $100 discount to all attendees who are not from the US or Canada. Pre Conference Sessions include - The Annual Meeting of the International Conference on Knowledge Management - User Studies with MORAE - The Sense-Making Methodology Approach to Interviewing for Qualitative and Quantitative Analysis - The social analysis of computing - Information Architecture 3.0 - Classification and the Arts: enduring practice, alternative strategies, and contrasts with other domains. - Personal Information Management as a Study and a Practice - Getting Started with User-Centered Taxonomy Design - Putting Your Taxonomy to Work - Information Behavior in design & the making of relevant research - Human Computer Interaction in Interactive Information Environments with a focus on Groups Dick Richard Hill Executive Director American Society for Information Science and Technology 1320 Fenwick Lane, Suite 510 Silver Spring, MD 20910 FAX: (301) 495-0810 (301) 495-0900

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_The Student as Scholar: Undergraduate Research and Creative Practice_
by Gerry Mckiernan 22 Jul '08

22 Jul '08

Colleagues/ In my review of literature relevant to my proposed "Disruptive Scholarship" model that I presented at the recent International Plagiarism Conference in Newcastle, UK ("Disruptive Scholarship: An Idea Whose Time Has Come: (Re)Use / (Re)Mix / (Re)New" [ http://tinyurl.com/47gwc9 ], I learned of A Most Important Conference "The Student as Scholar: Undergraduate Research and Creative Practice" sponsored by the American Association of Colleges and Universities (AACU) in April 2007: "300 faculty and administrators gathered in Long Beach, California on April 19-21, 2007 for a conference focused on integrating research and scholarship into the undergraduate experience with the goal of expanding and deepening learning for all students. Conference sessions explored developmental models, research and assessment of student learning, and examples of campus practice." Of particular note is A-Great-KeyNote by David Hodge, President of Miami University (Ohio) titled "From Convocation to Capstone: Developing the Student as Scholar" In order to integrate undergraduate research most effectively into the learning experience, undergraduate education should focus on the *student as scholar* from the first to final year. President Hodge will offer a vision of the student as scholar, where *scholar* is defined in terms of an attitude, an intellectual posture, and a frame of mind derived from the best traditions of an engaged liberal education. Fulfilling this vision of the student as scholar will require a fundamental shift in how we imagine and structure the curriculum. In this new paradigm, the curriculum is learning-centered, providing intentional pathways that culminate in capstone experiences, peer-reviewed research papers, and creative presentations. "... [T]he undergraduate research experience is often viewed too narrowly as an isolated component of the student*s education, or as suitable for only some of the most advanced students. In this paper we argue that undergraduate research should, in fact, be at the center of the undergraduate experience, that undergraduate education should adopt the *Student as Scholar* Model throughout the curriculum, where scholar is conceived in terms of an attitude, an intellectual posture, and a frame of mind derived from the best traditions of an engaged liberal arts education. With this framework, not only each research project, but also each course, is viewed as an integrated, and integrating, part of the student experience." {MORE} [MUCH MORE] I have outlined most of the content of the conference with (appropriate links) in a Scholarship 2.0 blog entry at [ http://scholarship20.blogspot.com/2008/07/student-as-scholar-undergraduate.… ] OR [ http://tinyurl.com/669xvm ] I am greatly interested in Any/All Reactions to The "Student As Scholar" concept that is well articulated in by David Hodge in his keynote and by many other participants. In addition, I am interested in Any/All relevant cites/sites as well as accounts of personal/institutional 'Student As Scholar' initiatives. Among the workshop, poster, case studies, plenaries, roundtable discussions topics from the AACU conference were Providing Undergraduates with a Research Training Roadmap Experiences in Research: A Structured, Faculty-Mentored Program for First-Year Students Collaborative Undergraduate Research Seminars: Providing a *Research I* Experience Institutionalizing Student Research Opportunities: Creating Visibility and Promoting Collaboration for Engaged Learning Implementing an Integrative Research Sequence: The *Scientific Core* Interdisciplinary Research: Building a Bridge to Scientific Inquiry in the 21st Century Supporting Undergraduate Research: Centralized and Decentralized Institutional Models and the Role of Statewide Programs Co-Creating Pathways to Student Scholarship: A Developmental Trajectory of Experience, Reflection, Research, and Scholarship A Comprehensive Approach to Student Scholarship A Developmental Approach to Undergraduate Research in the Sciences Building a Learner-Centered Environment through Undergraduate Research and Creative Activity Developing Student Scholars from Convocation through Commencement: An Institution-Wide Model What Does the Research Tell Us about Undergraduate Research? The Role of Undergraduate Research in Student Retention and Academic Success Multiple Models for Incorporating Undergraduate Research into the Curriculum Collaborative Research and Creative Inquiry Thinking Like a Scientist: Building Skills on the Way to a Culminating Research Experience Educating Undergraduate Research Mentors The Sociology of Everyday Life: Student Scholars in the Introductory Classroom Designing and Implementing an Undergraduate Research Program EUREKA! Building an Integrated University-Wide Model for Engaging Students in Undergraduate Research The Importance of Institutional, Disciplinary, and Interdisciplinary Definitions of Scholarship Integrating Undergraduate Research and Engagement Programs across Departmental, Disciplinary, and Developmental Boundaries Equal Partners: Participatory Research Involving Faculty, Students, and Community Members Improving the Quality of Student Research through Information Fluence Creating and Publishing Undergraduate Research Journals Enhancing Academic Excellence through Inquiry, Research, and Creative Practice Toward a Collaborative, Learning-Centered Culture: Phases of Institutional Development Key Elements to Building a Sustainable Undergraduate Research Program **Please Post Your Reaction(s) As Comment(s) Associated With This Entry*** Thanks! Regards, /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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Capture & Code Blogs Posts - A New Tutorial
by Stuart Shulman 22 Jul '08

22 Jul '08

The Blog Analysis Toolkit (BAT) now has over 60 users. If you are studying blogs, please try out our beta version: https://surveyweb2.ucsur.pitt.edu/qblog/page_login.php There is a quick-start tutorial: http://www.qdap.pitt.edu/bat-tutorial.htm BAT is free and easy to use. It creates archives of blog posts in a format that is ready to code in CAT: http://www.qdap.pitt.edu/cat.htm As a part of my move, there is a new QDAP called QDAP-UMass: http://people.umass.edu/stu/QDAP-UMass/ The old QDAP will go on at Pitt and operate in a loose alliance or federation with QDAP-UMass. We are going to keep on building tools for capturing and coding text. Right now we are working on one to make it easier to prepare large Lexis-Nexis searches for sorting and coding in CAT. I hope to have this on the web soon. thanks, ~Stu -- Dr. Stuart W. Shulman Assistant Professor Department of Political Science University of Massachusetts Amherst http://people.umass.edu/stu/ stu(a)polsci.umass.edu

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Virtual Policy '08, 22-23 July 2008, BERR, London
by Ren Reynolds 22 Jul '08

22 Jul '08

All, As many of you know I've founded a think tank called the Virtual Policy Network (www.virtualpolicy.net) the aim of the think tank is to look a public policy aspects of virtual worlds on a local and global level by bringing together industry, academics and policy makers. We have our first major policy event on 22nd and 23rd July 2008 at the Department of Business Enterprise and Regulatory Reform's conference center in central London. I"ve posted the event information below, for more information on the think tank and the research programs we are undertaking please e me direct. Event tickets can be booked here: virtualpolicy08.eventbrite.com/ Virtual Policy '08: A conference on innovation and governance in virtual worlds. ======= Virtual Policy 08 is set to be a land mark event focusing on global virtual worlds sited in a European legal and regulatory context. The key policy themes for this year's event are: • Intellectual property rights • Financial transaction • Child online & education • Governance frameworks & Innovation The event is targeted at industry repetitives, legal scholars, policy makers and regulators from around Europe and the rest of the world and is a unique opportunity to interact directly with key stakeholders. Virtual Policy is organised by the Virtual Policy Network (tVPN: www.virtualpolicy.net ) in conjunction with The Department of Business Enterprise and Regulatory Reform (BERR) and The UK Intellectual Property Office (UK IPO) with New York Law School providing program support. Speakers include: • Professor Richard Bartle - University of Essex • Jessica Mulligan – Virtual world industry veteran • Aleks Krotoski - University of Surrey / Guardian (UK) newspaper • David Naylor – Partner, Field Fisher Waterhouse • Chris Francis – Government Programs, IBM • Dr Jim Purbrick – Linden Lab • Kerry Fraser-Robinson – President / MD, Red Bedlam • David Taylor – Imperial College London • Dr. Andreas Lober - Schulte Riesenkampff (Germany) • Professor Bryan Camp - Texas Tech School of Law http://virtualpolicy08.eventbrite.com/

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CFP MEDIA, COMMUNICATIONS AND PUBLIC SPEECH
by Esther Milne 22 Jul '08

22 Jul '08

CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT and CALL FOR PAPERS MEDIA, COMMUNICATIONS AND PUBLIC SPEECH 2008 Conference of the CMCL-Centre for Media and Communications Law, University of Melbourne Law School 20-21 NOVEMBER 2008 ABSTRACTS DUE 1 AUGUST 2008 PLENARY SPEAKERS - Prof KATHY BOWREY, Law, University of NSW - Asst Prof CHERIAN GEORGE, Communication and Information, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore - JONATHAN GRIFFITHS, Law, Queen Mary, University of London - Prof PETER JASZI, Law, American University, Washington DC - Dr DARIO MILO <http://www.law.unimelb.edu.au/cmcl/seminars/milo%20bio.html> , University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa and Partner, Webber Wentzel - Dr KATHARINE SARIKAKIS, Communications Studies, University of Leeds Proposals for papers or panels are now invited from researchers in law, media studies and related fields for this international conference. THEMES Content creation, use and re-use Copyright law, technology and control Defamation and public debate Digital worlds and publics Free speech and media access Futures of television Journalism and popular media Media representations of law Privacy and publicity Public interest in law and practice Public media and public knowledge Reporting courts Trademarks and speech User-generated content For DETAILS of submission process and future publication possibilities, see http://www.law.unimelb.edu.au/cmcl/seminars/CMCL%20conf%20homepage.html Dr Esther Milne Lecturer in Media and Communications Convenor, Media Honours Program Faculty of Life and Social Sciences Swinburne University of Technology John Street, Hawthorn VIC 3122 AUSTRALIA office: AS 425 t: +613 92148195 f: +613 98196443 e: emilne(a)swin.edu.au www.fibreculture.org *********************** ----- Swinburne University of Technology CRICOS Provider Code: 00111D NOTICE This e-mail and any attachments are confidential and intended only for the use of the addressee. They may contain information that is privileged or protected by copyright. If you are not the intended recipient, any dissemination, distribution, printing, copying or use is strictly prohibited. The University does not warrant that this e-mail and any attachments are secure and there is also a risk that it may be corrupted in transmission. It is your responsibility to check any attachments for viruses or defects before opening them. If you have received this transmission in error, please contact us on +61 3 9214 8000 and delete it immediately from your system. We do not accept liability in connection with computer virus, data corruption, delay, interruption, unauthorised access or unauthorised amendment. Please consider the environment before printing this email.

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Re: [Air-L] Research on Iranians and Iranian-American presence in youtube
by gus andrews 22 Jul '08

22 Jul '08

Elham, you might try getting in touch with Habiba Noor. She did a very interesting project with Muslim youth in New York City, having them edit news footage into videos in order to express their own feelings about the 9/11 disaster and its aftermath. I am not certain if the youth she worked with were Iranian-American or not, but she might be aware of other papers related to Iranians, video production, and YouTube. Good luck! Gus Andrews

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