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CFP: Special Issue with Ethics and Information
by Denise N. Rall 17 Apr '09

17 Apr '09

Apologies for cross-posting . . . Call for Papers for a Special Issue with Ethics and Information Technology on “Ethics and Social Networking Sites” Social Networking Sites (SNS) have become one of the main means for exchanging and sharing information between people. More so, SNS are increasingly recognized as a rich source for gathering (personal) information. People are encouraged by e.g. peers and (potential) employers to participate in social networking sites and enjoy the benefits, on the other hand the prominence of SNS give rise to ethical questions, concerning the processing and dissemination of personal information, the disclosure of sensitive/intimate information, privacy, identity (theft) and many more. The editors at Ethics and Information Technology are seeking articles for a special issue in this area. Submissions will be double-blind refereed for relevance to the theme as well as academic rigor and originality. High quality articles not deemed to be sufficiently relevant to the special issue may be considered for publication in a subsequent non-themed issue. Closing date for submissions: June 30th, 2009 To submit your paper, please use the online submission system, to be found at www.editorialmanager.com/etin Please contact the managing editor for more information, Noëmi Manders-Huits N.L.J.L.Manders-Huits(a)tudelft.nl Enjoy a better web experience. Upgrade to the new Internet Explorer 8 optimised for Yahoo!7. Get it now.

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Re: [Air-L] Your Opinion
by Denise N. Rall 17 Apr '09

17 Apr '09

Another late thought - some educational technologists I know were impressed with this organisation and their approach to technology and learning: _______________________________________________________________ ED-MEDIA 2009 World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia & Telecommunications June 22-26, 2009 * Honolulu , Hawaii FINAL CALL FOR PRESENTATIONS ** Submissions Due: April 7, 2009 ** Organized by Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE) Denise N. Rall, PhD. Special Projects, Faculty of Arts & Science, Southern Cross University, Lismore NSW 2480 AUSTRALIA Mobile +(61) (0)438 233 344 http://www.scu.edu.au/schools/esm/staff/pages/drall/ Join the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Internet Research 10.0, October 7-11, Milwaukee, WI, USA --- On Fri, 17/4/09, Alex Halavais <alex(a)halavais.net> wrote: The new Internet Explorer 8 optimised for Yahoo!7: Faster, Safer, Easier.

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Scholarship 2.0 Blog || Major Additions || Week Of 04-12-09 ||
by McKiernan, Gerard [LIB] 17 Apr '09

17 Apr '09

Colleagues/ This Past WeekEnd I Profiled/Added Additional Content To My Scholarship 2.0 Blog "Scholarship 2.0 is devoted to describing and documenting the forms, facets, and features of alternative Web-based scholarly publishing philosophies and practices. The variety of old and new metrics available for assessing the impact, significance, and value of Web-based scholarship is of particular interest." BTW: I Am Most Interested In Blogging Similar/Significant Work; Please Send Me/The List(s) Your Suggestion(s) And/Or Comment On Scholarship 2.0 / Thanks! /Gerry [I] Cope, William, AND Kalantzis, Mary. "Signs of epistemic disruption: Transformations in the knowledge system of the academic journal" _First Monday_ [Online], Volume 14 Number 4 (17 March 2009) The article ends with suggestions towards the transformation of the academic journal and the creation of new knowledge systems: sustainable publishing models, frameworks for guardianship of intellectual property, criterion-referenced peer review, greater reflexivity in the review process, incremental knowledge refinement, more widely distributed sites of knowledge production and inclusive knowledge cultures, new types of scholarly text and more reliable use metrics. [ http://tinyurl.com/c6glo6 ] [II] University Publishing In A Digital Age / Ithaka Report / July 26, 2007 Scholars have a vast range of opportunities to distribute their work, from setting up web pages or blogs, to posting articles to working paper websites or institutional repositories, to including them in peer-reviewed journals or books. In American colleges and universities, access to the internet and World Wide Web is ubiquitous; consequently nearly all intellectual effort results in some form of "publishing". Yet universities do not treat this function as an important, mission-centric endeavor. [ http://tinyurl.com/cxrynm ] [III] Talk About Talking About New Models of Scholarly Communication Karla L. Hahn / _JEP: Journal of Electronic Publishing_ / vol. 11, no. 1 / Winter 2008 / Although many new forms of scholarly exchange have reached an advanced state of adoption, scholars and researchers generally remain remarkably naïve and uninformed about many issues involved with change in scholarly publishing and scholarly communication broadly. Research libraries have led in educating stakeholders about new models and are expanding their outreach to campus communities. In considering the effects of recent change, and looking to emerging trends and concerns, six dangers of the current moment are considered along with six topics ripe for campus dialogue. [ http://tinyurl.com/cr5fh9 ] [IV] _Scholarship in the Digital Age: Information, Infrastructure, and the Internet_ In _Scholarship in the Digital Age_, Christine Borgman explores the technical, social, legal, and economic aspects of the kind of infrastructure that we should be building for scholarly research in the twenty-first century. Links To A/V and Slides from recent presentation at Columbia University / Scholarly Communication Program / Research without Borders: The Changing World of Scholarly Communication / March 24 2009 [ http://tinyurl.com/dmrxrs ] 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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Day 2 Live Stream
by Stuart Shulman 17 Apr '09

17 Apr '09

The conference "YouTube and the 2008 Election Cycle in the United States" is streaming live for the duration of the conference at the following URL: http://youtubeandthe2008election.hosted.panopto.com/CourseCast/Student/Defa… User: guest Login: youtube A complete program is available here: http://www.umass.edu/polsci/youtube/final_program.pdf You need to return to the home page, refresh and launch the stream for each speaker. Coming up at ~11:15 Max Harper - Obama Videographer Coming up at ~1:00 Noshir Contractor - Social Network Scholar

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FAQs & community norms
by Sandra Braman 17 Apr '09

17 Apr '09

This is not exactly what you are asking for, but in case it is useful information, the netiquette guidelines were first published as RFC 1855 (requests for comments document no. 1855), and a number of other recommendations regarding online community norms were also first articulated in RFCs. (RFCs can be found online at the IETF website.) The RFCs are the documents in the open-to-anyone discourse by which technical decision-making for the Internet takes place en route. The discourse also includes much additional "softer" material of this type. Sandra Braman On 16-Apr-09, at 12:56 PM, Nancy Baym wrote: > Hi all -- > > Can anyone recommend a good article about FAQs as means of > articulating and enforcing online community norms? > > Thanks > > Nancy

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FAQs?
by Nancy Baym 17 Apr '09

17 Apr '09

Hi all -- Can anyone recommend a good article about FAQs as means of articulating and enforcing online community norms? Thanks Nancy

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CFP Biodigital Lives
by Kathleen O'Riordan 16 Apr '09

16 Apr '09

Call for papers and presentations: Biodigital lives: making, consuming and archiving the lives of technoscience: 14 July 2009, <http://www.sussex.ac.uk/rcmdc/1-2-5.html> Dr Kate O'Riordan c/o Center for Cultural Studies 118 Kerr Hall University of California Santa Cruz, CA 95064 USA TEL (831) 459-5656 FAX (831) 459-1349 http://www.sussex.ac.uk/mediastudies/profile30746.html

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Tutorial at GROUP 2009: From CSCW to new workstations. (deadline extended)
by Loregian Marco 16 Apr '09

16 Apr '09

[Apologies for cross-posting] [DEADLINE EXTENDED: please submit position before April 27th] >From CSCW to new workstations: the itsme project Tutorial at GROUP 2009 May 10, 2009 Sanibel Island, Florida (USA) http://www.group2009conference.org/ Giorgio De Michelis and Marco Loregian DISCo, University of Milano-Bicocca and itsme srl Milan, Italy {gdemich,loregian}(a)disco.unimib.it Tutorial description -------------------- In the last 30 years, the desktop metaphor has become the standard user interface for workstations, with its pros (e.g., ease of learning) and cons (e.g., interaction constraints for skilled users, lack of context awareness). In this tutorial we present itsme, an initiative to create the next-generation workstation â especially designed for users who think that what they do holds value. Much of what we present derives from CSCW research, while Interaction Design research shapes the project, as well as the involvement of a wide and heterogeneous community of contributing people. The early design phases of the project led to the definition of a new metaphor for personal computing, called âstories and venuesâ. The metaphor is being adopted for the development of a radically new front-end for the Linux operating system. The tutorial illustrates (through the itsme case) how CSCW research can drive the design and development of an innovative project, for example: - from a theoretical concept (conversations), to its embodiment in a metaphor (stories), and how to deal with it (venues); - from studies on communities, to how to communicate with them and involve them in appropriate ways (e.g., participatory design). Tutorial outline ---------------- We cover the following topics: - The scenario: the evolution of the PC market - What CSCW research taught us about Personal Computers and workstations - The impact of the Web - A new idea for a new workstation: the metaphor of âstories and venuesâ - The itsme project: design and development of the concept - The creation of a community coupling design and future marketing Important dates --------------- Apr 5th, 2009: Early registration deadline for GROUP 2009 (extended) Apr 27th, 2009: Submission of participants bio (and position statements) May 10th, 2009: Tutorial Submission information ---------------------- In order to know the audience of the tutorial in advance, we kindly request to people interested in the tutorial to send a short bio (and optionally a very short position statement, with respect to the topic of the tutorial) to loregian(a)disco.unimib.it References ---------- - G. De Michelis, M. Loregian and C. Moderini. itsme: Interaction Design Innovating Workstations. Know. Techn. Pol. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12130-009-9069-9 - Itsme website: http://www.itsme.it - http://www.slideshare.net/itsmesrl/itsme-a-new-workstation-to-exploit-the-p… Please pass on this invitation to colleagues who might be interested.

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live stream update - youtube08 conference
by Stuart Shulman 16 Apr '09

16 Apr '09

Apparently, you need to return to the Panopto Home page and refresh the page to get the 'new' view live link after each speaker. Apologies for those viewing, this is our first effort at streaming and we are learning as we go. http://youtubeandthe2008election.hosted.panopto.com/CourseCast/Student/Defa… ~Stu -- Dr. Stuart W. Shulman Assistant Professor Department of Political Science University of Massachusetts Amherst 200 Hicks Way Amherst, MA 01003 http://people.umass.edu/stu/ stu(a)polsci.umass.edu 413-545-5375 Editor, Journal of Information Technology and Politics http://www.jitp.net Director, QDAP-UMass http://www.umass.edu/qdap/ Associate Director, National Center for Digital Government http://www.umass.edu/digitalcenter/

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CfP: Digital Cities 6: Concepts, Methods and Systems of Urban Informatics
by Marcus Foth 16 Apr '09

16 Apr '09

Last Call for Papers Submission deadline extended to 30 April 2009 Digital Cities 6: Concepts, Methods and Systems of Urban Informatics Workshop at the 4th International Conference on Communities and Technologies Penn State, USA, 24th June 2009 April 30th, 2009 Workshop position papers due May 18th, 2009 Author notifications sent June 24th, 2009 Workshop http://cct2009.ist.psu.edu/workshops.cfm Keynote speaker We are happy to announce that Professor Carlo Ratti, Director of the SENSEable City Lab at MIT (senseable.mit.edu) will deliver the keynote presentation at Digital Cities 6. The real-time city is now real! The increasing deployment of sensors and hand-held electronics in recent years is allowing a new approach to the study of the built environment. The way we describe and understand cities is being radically transformed - alongside the tools we use to design them and impact on their physical structure. Studying these changes from a critical point of view and anticipating them is the goal of the SENSEable City Laboratory, a new research initiative at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 1 Theme Transport grids, building complexes, information and communication technology, social networks and people form the bones, organs, muscles, nerves and cell tissue of a city. Studying the organisation and structure of these systems may seem straightforward at first, since there are visible artifacts and tangible objects that we can observe and examine. We can count the number of cars on the road, the number of apartments in a building, the number of emails on our computer screens and the number of profiles on social networking sites. We could also qualify these observations by recording the make and model of cars, the size and price of apartments, the sender and recipient of emails and the content and popularity of online profiles. This approach would potentially produce a large amount of data and render a detailed map of various levels of a city’s infrastructure, but a large quantity of detail does not necessarily result in a great quality (and clarity) of meaning. How do we analyse this data to better understand the ‘city’ as an organism? How do the cells of the city cluster to form tissue and organs, and how do various systems communicate and interact with each other? And, recognising that we ourselves are cells living in cities as active agents, how do we evaluate the effectiveness and efficiency of the processes we observe in order to plan, design and develop more livable cities? A macroscopic perspective of urban anatomy does not easily reveal those meticulous details which are necessary to help us understand and appreciate what Anthony Townsend calls the urban metabolism (Townsend, 2000), that is, the nutrients, capacities, processes and pace which nurture the city to keep it alive. Some of the fascination with human anatomy stems from the fact that a living body is more than the sum of its parts. Similarly, the city is more than the sum of its physical elements. Trying to get to the bottom of a city’s existence, urban anatomists have to become dissectors of urban infrastructure by trying to microscopically uncover the connections and interrelationships of city elements. Yet, this is anything but trivial for at least three reasons. First, time is a crucial factor. Many events that trigger urban processes involving multiple systems result in a timely interrelated response. A dissection by isolating one system from another, would cut the communication link between them and jeopardise the study of the wider process. The city comprises many of these real- time systems and requires approaches and tools to conduct real-time examinations. Second, the physical city is increasingly complemented with a virtual layer that digitally augments and enhances urban infrastructures by means of information and communication technology including mobile and wireless networks. This world, which Mitchell (1995) called the ‘city of bits,’ is invisible to the human eye, and we require instruments for live surgery to render the invisible visible. Third and most importantly, the ‘cells’ of the urban body, the lifeblood of cities, are the city dwellers who have a life of their own and who introduce human fuzziness and socio-cultural variables to the study of the city. The toolbox of what could be termed anthropological urban anatomy thus calls for research approaches that can differentiate (and break apart) a universally applicable model of ‘The City’ by being sensitive to individual circumstances, local characteristics and socio-cultural contexts. Exploring these three challenges, this workshop looks at concepts, research methods and instruments that become the microscope of urban anatomy. We want to discuss urban informatics systems that provide real-time tools for examining the real-time city, to picture the invisible and to zoom into a fine-grained resolution of urban environments that reveal the depth and contextual nuances of urban metabolism processes at work. 2 Topics Relevant workshop topics include but are not limited to the following: • Civic and community engagement strategies to support urban planning • Public sphere, participation and online deliberation systems • Urban e-government, e-governance, e-participation, e-democracy approaches • u-City: Ubiquitous computing, pervasive technology, wireless internet and mobile applications • Locative media, navigation and space • Urban informatics design and development methods and epistemologies • Multi-format user-generated content (narratives, photos, videos, multimedia) • Neogeography and 3D virtual environments for urban design and planning • Simulations to reproduce and analyse complex social phenomena and city systems • Social networking, collective intelligence and crowd sourcing in the urban context • Environmental, economic and social sustainability • Citizen science • Access, trust, privacy, safety and surveillance • Implications for residential architecture and the design of cities and public spaces • Ethical considerations scrutinizing the assumptions behind urban informatics 3 Organisation and Submission Details This is a full day workshop. We will start off with a keynote address by an eminent speaker. Rather than formal conference-style paper presentations, we will follow the successful peer interview format and ask each participant to interview another contributing author. Pairs will be assigned in advance to prepare questions and engage with the paper. After lunch, there will be a range of group activities and a closing plenary discussion at the end. The workshop can accommodate a maximum number of between 25 to 30 participants including presenters in order to provide an environment that is conducive to debate and interaction. We are interested in three types of contributions: Concepts: Essay style papers discussing theoretical and conceptual ideas and innovation within a cross-disciplinary framework. Methods: Papers reporting on novel approaches in the area of urban informatics, e.g. network action research, shared visual ethnography, urban probes, cross-disciplinary methods, etc. Systems: Reports of systems and case studies that ground findings in practice and experience. Prospective participants are asked to submit a position paper (2-4 pages total, in English, ACM SIGCHI 2-column format, same as for the C&T full papers) related to one of the workshop topics. Each submission should also include a short biography stating the author’s background and motivation for attending the workshop. Workshop position papers are due on April 30th, 2009 and will be reviewed and selected by the organisers with the support from an international program committee. Accepted authors will be notified by May 18th, 2009 – to leave enough time to qualify for the early bird conference registration. The acceptance of a workshop position paper implies that at least one of the authors will register for both the workshop and the Communities & Technologies 2009 conference. The workshop takes place on June 24th, 2009. After the workshop, selected contributors are invited to submit a full paper by October 1st, 2009. Full papers will undergo double blind peer review before being published. Arrangements for an edited book or a special issue of a relevant international journal are currently underway. Template: http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates 4 Bibliography Each Digital Cities workshop has produced an edited volume containing selected workshop papers and other invited contributions as follows: Digital Cities 5 -- Foth, M. (Ed.) (2009). Handbook of Research on Urban Informatics: The Practice and Promise of the Real-Time City. Hershey, PA: Information Science Reference, IGI Global. Digital Cities 4 -- Aurigi, A., & De Cindio, F. (Eds.). (2008). Augmented Urban Spaces: Articulating the Physical and Electronic City. Aldershot, UK: Ashgate. Digital Cities 3 -- van den Besselaar, P., & Koizumi, S. (Eds.). (2005). Digital Cities 3: Information Technologies for Social Capital (Lecture Notes in Computer Science No. 3081). Heidelberg, Germany: Springer. Digital Cities 2 -- Tanabe, M., van den Besselaar, P., & Ishida, T. (Eds.). (2002). Digital Cities 2: Computational and Sociological Approaches (Lecture Notes in Computer Science No. 2362). Heidelberg, Germany: Springer. Digital Cities 1 -- Ishida, T., & Isbister, K. (Eds.). (2000). Digital Cities: Technologies, Experiences, and Future Perspectives (Lecture Notes in Computer Science No. 1765). Heidelberg, Germany: Springer. 5 Organisers Marcus Foth Senior Research Fellow, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia m.foth(a)qut.edu.au Laura Forlano Kauffman Fellow in Law, Yale Law School, New Haven, USA laura.forlano(a)yale.edu Hiromitsu Hattori Assistant Professor, Department of Social Informatics, Kyoto University, Japan hatto(a)i.kyoto-u.ac.jp -- Dr Marcus Foth Senior Research Fellow Institute for Creative Industries and Innovation Queensland University of Technology (CRICOS No. 00213J) Victoria Park Rd, Brisbane QLD 4059, Australia Phone +61 7 313 x88772 - Fax x88238 - Office K506, KG m.foth(a)qut.edu.au - http://www.urbaninformatics.net/

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