January 2010 - Air-L - lists.aoir.org

Open 'Information Technology & Society' class Saturdays on Harvard's Second Life Island
by Scott MacLeod 29 Jan '10

29 Jan '10

BODY { font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px; Open 'Information Technology & Society' class Saturdays through May, starting January 30, 2010 - 11:10a-1p Pacific Time, office hours after from 1:10 - 2p on Harvard's Second Life Island - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/World_University. [1] Come join us. We'll explore how the information technology revolution is developing especially vis-a-vis http://webnographers.org [2] and long-time UC Berkeley, and now USC, Professor Manuel Castells' research on the Network Society. Come learn, too, how teaching a class in the open, free World University & School works. Scott http://scottmacleod.com Links: ------ [1] http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/World_University. [2] http://webnographers.org

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Special issue of IwC: Feminism and HCI
by Elizabeth Churchill 28 Jan '10

28 Jan '10

CALL FOR PAPERS Feminism and HCI: A Special Issue of Interacting with Computers (https://sites.google.com/site/feminismandhci/home) Special Issue Editors: Shaowen Bardzell (Indiana University School of Informatics and Computing) and Elizabeth F. Churchill (Yahoo! Research) Portrayals of feminism, in politics, the media, and even in Human Computer Interaction (HCI) conferences, suggest that this household word is not always well understood. Academically, feminism is a subdomain of critical theory that integrates a collection of theories, analytical and interpretative methodologies, ethical values, and political positions, which have evolved over the past two centuries. In recent years, HCI as a research discipline has expanded beyond preoccupations with how efficiently a system performs or how 'easy' it is to use; HCI researchers and practitioners are increasingly concerned with culture, society, and the experiential qualities of computing. HCI as a discipline stands to benefit from a deeper engagement with feminist perspectives on the design, promotion, adoption and adaptation of interactive, computer-based technologies. Feminist theories and concepts offer reflective considerations of dominant and alternative epistemologies; offer ways to understand the constitution of gender and the self in everyday life; give us perspectives through which to investigate the indirect effects of design; consider emotional landscapes in design, including pleasure, desire, attraction, sentiment, anger, fear and resistance; address issues of power and agency in how technologies are adopted by us or imposed upon us, including engagement with issues such as privacy, surveillance and gaze; study the adoption and adaptation of technologies in leisure activities such as crafts; consider issues in designing for homes, critically addressing the notion of "home" itself; and address broader issues such as embodiment, memory and performance. The “Feminism and HCI: New Perspectives” Special Issue seeks to provide a forum for scholarly contributions and applications of feminism to the discipline of HCI. Though the topic of feminism has many inputs and applications, we confine our focus to the interaction design implications of this problem space. Specifically, we are concerned with the design and evaluation of interactive systems that are imbued with sensitivity to the central commitments of feminism—agency, fulfillment, identity and the self, equity, empowerment, diversity, and social justice. We also seek to improve our understanding of how gender identities and relations shape both the use of interactive technologies and their design. Additionally, feminist HCI entails critical perspectives that could help reveal unspoken values within HCI’s dominant research and design paradigms, and underpin the development of new approaches, methods and design variations. We see the contribution of feminist theories and methods to HCI in the following ways and encourage submissions that address the following types of issues: · Fundamental and theoretical: how feminism critiques core operational concepts, assumptions, and epistemologies of the field, and what opportunities this critique opens up for the future · Methodological considerations: how feminism interacts with user research, iterative design, evaluation methodologies · User considerations: updating the notion of “the user” to reflect gender in a way that noticeably and directly affects design · Artifact considerations: critically examining how designs configure users’ femininity and masculinity—and what implications they bear for future design work · Your experiences: To what extent do you perceive feminist perspectives already informing your work in HCI? Do you sense that feminist perspectives are informing others’ work in the field? What current issues in HCI might benefit from the application of feminist perspectives? All submissions need to be based on original research and will be subject to the full review process of Interacting with Computers. Instructions for Authors Authors are encouraged to submit a short abstract (300-500 words) and a tentative title prior to the full paper submission, by February 28, 2010, to Shaowen Bardzell (selu (at) indiana (dot) edu) and Elizabeth Churchill (churchill (at) acm (dot) org). Please feel free to send an inquiry prior to writing the abstract. Please put "IwC Feminism SI" in your email subject line. The deadline for the final full-paper submission is June 1, 2010. Manuscripts should be 5000-7500 words, prepared according to the IwC’s guide for authors and should be submitted online. Illustrations must be provided in separate .jpg or.gif files, and APA Publication Manual (not ACM or IEEE) style is used. Color is discouraged. The guide for authors and online submission are available at http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/525445/authori… If you are a first-time user of the journal's online submission tool, you will have to register yourself as an author on the system at http://ees.elsevier.com/iwc/ Potential authors should contact Shaowen Bardzell (selu (at) indiana (dot) edu) and Elizabeth Churchill (churchill (at) acm (dot) org) with any questions about the special issue. Please put "IwC Feminism SI" in your email subject line. For information on Interacting with Computers, please see http://ees.elsevier.com/iwc/default.asp Detailed timeline * Abstract submission (300-500 words) deadline: February 28, 2010 * Full paper submission deadline: June 1, 2010 * First-round reviews to authors: late August/early September, 2010 * Revised papers due for final review and comments to authors: November 2010 * Final papers due: Dec 15, 2010 * Special issue publication: March, 2011

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FW: CfP: Workshop on Collaborative Modeling and Simulation (CoMetS)
by Holly Kruse 28 Jan '10

28 Jan '10

Forwarded from air-l-owner.... Holly Kruse List manager, air-l ---------------------------- Original Message ---------------------------- Subject: CfP: Workshop on Collaborative Modeling and Simulation (CoMetS) From: "Daniele Gianni" <daniele.gianni(a)gmail.com> Date: Thu, January 28, 2010 4:06 pm To: air-l-owner(a)listserv.aoir.org -------------------------------------------------------------------------- ################################################################# IEEE WETICE 2010 1st International Workshop on Collaborative Modeling and Simulation CALL FOR PAPERS ################################################################# June 28 - June 30, 2010, Larissa (Greece) http://www.sel.uniroma2.it/CoMetS10 ################################################################# # Papers Due: *** March 2, 2010 *** # Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings # by the IEEE Computer Society Press and indexed by EI. ################################################################# Modeling and Simulation (M&S) is increasingly becoming a central activity in the design of new systems and in the analysis of existing systems because it enables designers and researchers to investigate systems behavior through virtual representations. For this reason, M&S is gaining a primary role in many industrial and research fields, such as space, critical infrastructures, manufacturing, emergency management, biomedical systems and sustainable future. However, as the complexity of the investigated systems increases and the types of investigations widens, the cost of M&S activities increases because of the more complex models and of the communications among a wider number and variety of M&S stakeholders (e.g., sub-domain experts, simulator users, simulator engineers, and final system users). To address the increasing costs of M&S activities, collaborative technologies must be introduced to support these activities by fostering the sharing and reuse of models, by facilitating the communications among M&S stakeholders, and more generally by integrating processes, tools and platforms. Aside from seeking applications of collaborative technologies to M&S activities, the workshop seeks innovative contributions that deal with the application of M&S practices to the design of collaborative environments. These environments are continuously becoming more complex and therefore their design requires systematic approaches to meet the required quality of collaboration. This is important for two reasons: to reduce rework activities on the actual collaborative environment, and to maximize the productivity and the quality of the process the collaborative environment supports. M&S offers the methodologies and tools for such investigations and therefore it can be used to improve the quality of collaborative environments. A non-exhaustive list of hi-level topics includes: * collaborative environments for M&S * agent-based M&S * collaborative distributed simulation * net-centric M&S * web-based M&S * model sharing and reuse * model building and evaluation * modeling and simulation of business processes * modeling for collaboration * simulation-based performance evaluation of collaborative networks * model-driven simulation engineering * domain specific languages for the simulation of collaborative environments * domain specific languages for collaborative M&S To stimulate creativity, however, the workshop maintains a wider scope and invites interested researchers to present contributions that offer original perspectives on collaboration and M&S. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ On-Line Submissions and Publication +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ CoMetS'10 intends to bring together researchers and practitioners to discuss key issues, approaches, open problems, innovative applications and trends in the workshop research area. Papers should contain original contributions not published or submitted elsewhere. Papers up to six pages (including figures, tables and references) can be submitted. Papers should follow the IEEE format, which is single spaced, two columns, 10 pt Times/Roman font. All submissions should be electronic (in PDF) and will be peer-reviewed by at least three program committee members. Full papers accepted for the workshop will be included in the proceedings, published by the IEEE Computer Society Press (IEEE approval pending). Note that at least one author from each accepted paper should register to attend WETICE 2010 to get the paper published in the proceedings. Authors may contact the organizers for expression of interests and content appropriateness at any time. Papers can be submitted in PDF format at the submission site (http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=comets10) which is supported by the EasyChair conference management system. Please contact the workshop chairs (comets10(a)easychair.org) if you experience problems with the EasyChair Web site. +++++++++++++++ Important Dates +++++++++++++++ * Submission Deadline: March 2, 2010 * Decision to paper authors: April 2, 2010 * Final version of accepted papers due to IEEE: April 14, 2010 * Conference dates: June 28 - June 30, 2010 ++++++++++++++++++++ Organizing Committee ++++++++++++++++++++ * Andrea D'Ambrogio, University of Roma TorVergata, Italy * Daniele Gianni, European Space Agency, Netherlands * Joachim Fuchs, European Space Agency, Netherlands * Giuseppe Iazeolla, University of Roma TorVergata, Italy +++++++++++++++++ Program Committee +++++++++++++++++ * Michele Angelaccio, University of Roma TorVergata, Italy * Olivier Dalle, University of Nice Sophia Antipolis, CNRS & INRIA, France * Steve McKeever, University of Oxford, UK * Alessandra Pieroni, University of Roma TorVergata, Italy * Andrew Rice, University of Cambridge, UK * José L. Risco-Martin, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain * Helena Szczerbicka, University of Hannover, Germany * Hans Vangheluwe, McGill University, Canada * Gabriel Wainer, Carleton University, Canada * J.Chris White, ViaSim Solutions, USA * Quirien Wijnands, European Space Agency, Netherlands * Heming Zhang, Tsinghua University, China *** Contact Information *** Andrea D'Ambrogio (workshop co-chair) Email: dambro(a)info.uniroma2.it

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yet another thesis - Reachability
by Paterson, Nancy(Academic) 28 Jan '10

28 Jan '10

I'm posting abt my recently completed thesis - 'Bandwidth is Political: Reachability in the Public Internet'. Unlike research concerned with bandwidth and traffic growth, this research shifts the risk analysis away from capacity issues, to focus on performance standards for interconnection and data reachability. I argue that risks to data reachability represent the next stage in debates about the health of the global public Internet. The paper is avail online at my website: http://www.vacuumwoman.com/About/Main/about.html (located at bottom of page) A related custom software platform that provides dynamic, interactive visualizations of the Internet cloud is being developed by myself and a team from the University of Toronto. This platform, called IXmaps, will allow Internet users to create visualizations (in Google Earth) of the route their data packets take across North America, along with highly detailed information about associated elements such as carrier interconnect ‘hotels’ and NSA eavesdropping points. This project is located at: www.ixmaps.ca Please download the custom traceroute program and help us populate our database: http://www.ixmaps.ca/TrGen/index.html Thanks & comments are welcome! Dr Nancy Paterson Ontario College of Art & Design

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Re: [Air-L] IS Professor post at the University of Salford Greater Manchester
by Marie Griffiths 28 Jan '10

28 Jan '10

Busy times at the University of Salford!!! We are recruiting for an IS Professor at Salford Business School http://www.business.salford.ac.uk <http://www.business.salford.ac.uk/> , we have a strong research ethos so please see our ISOS research Centre site http://www.isos.salford.ac.uk for overview. http://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/AAO014/professor/ closing date is 17th February Dr Marie Griffiths Salford Business School Room 325 Maxwell Building University of Salford Salford M5 4WT 0161 295 4237 http://www.business.salford.ac.uk/staff/mariegriffiths http://www.isos.salford.ac.uk <http://www.seek.salford.ac.uk/viewPersonalProfile.jsp>

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Networks and Enclaves: Free Conference UC Irvine
by Gary Hall 28 Jan '10

28 Jan '10

(Apologies for cross-postings) ‘Networks and Enclaves: Open Access and Work in the 21st Century University’, University of California, Irvine, February 11-12, 2010. 1030 Humanities Gateway Presented by the UCI Humanities Center in Conjunction with HumaniTech, with support from the University of California Humanities Research Institute and Coventry University, UK. This conference focuses on the ways digital media, and the emergence of online networks, communities and Web 2.0, continue to disrupt and reform traditional ideas about community, the public sphere, and professional and institutional standards. It brings together diverse scholars to look at the historical and theoretical grounds upon which access has become one of the most salient issues of our day. The conference includes some of the most important historians, thinkers and theorists of Networks. They will examine the new models for work in the 21st Century University offered by digital media and open access. Free & open to the public No RSVP necessary hctr(a)uci.edu www.humanities.uci.edu/collective Titles, bios, & more at: http://blogs.uci.edu/networksenclaves Schedule Thursday 2/11/10 9:30 | Breakfast 9:45 – 10:00 | Welcoming Remarks 10:00 – 11:30 | Work/Network Marc Bousquet, Santa Clara University Evan Watkins, UC Davis Moderator: Catherine Liu 11:30 – 12:30 | Lunch Break 12:30 – 2:30 | Networks & Enclaves: Intellectual Histories and Critical Theories Francois Cusset, CNRS and l’Institut d’études politiques de Paris Mark Poster, UCI Moderator: Catherine Benamou 2:30 – 2:45 | Coffee Break 2:45 – 4:45 | Politics and Aesthetics: Old and New Media Lucas Hilderbrand, UCI Liz Losh, UCI Tim Murray, Cornell University Moderator: Eyal Amiran 5:00 | Reception Friday 2/12/2010 8:30 | Continental Breakfast 9:00 – 11:00 |Knowledge Networks: Laws of Access Gary Hall, Coventry University, Corynne McSherry, Electronic Frontier Foundation Tony Reese, UCI Law School Lynne Withey, UC Press, Moderator: Barbara Cohen 11:00 – 12:00 Roundtable Discussion -- Gary Hall Professor of Media and Performing Arts School of Art and Design, Coventry University Co-editor of Culture Machine http://www.culturemachine.net Co-founder of the Open Humanities Press http://www.openhumanitiespress.org My website http://www.garyhall.info

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Mapping Cyberscapes: Where Place and Cyberspace meet
by Matthew Zook 28 Jan '10

28 Jan '10

Hello, In the spirit of shameless self-promotion I invite AOIR members to visit our blog <http://www.floatingsheep.org/> dedicated to mapping and analyzing user generated information about places. The results provide one glimpse of what the "internet" knows about particular places. The data/maps are part of a larger academic research project and the blog provides an informal means of distributing some of the findings. Links to some examples of the maps are below Religious <http://www.floatingsheep.org/2009/12/user-created-geographies-of-religion.h tml> practice around the world Availability <http://www.floatingsheep.org/2009/11/visualizing-abortion-debate_8973.html> of Abortion services in the U.S. New <http://www.floatingsheep.org/2010/01/metropolitan-level-maps-of-cyberscapes .html> York's Cyberscape Placemarks <http://www.floatingsheep.org/2009/10/google-mapping-2008-us-presidential.ht ml> and the 2008 <http://www.floatingsheep.org/2009/10/google-mapping-2008-us-presidential.ht ml> U.S. presidential election Bookstores <http://www.floatingsheep.org/2009/11/where-is-intellect.html> and churches Mapping <http://www.floatingsheep.org/2009/11/mapping-wikipedia.html> Wikipedia There will be between 2-3 new posting a week at the FloatingSheep.org blog <http://www.floatingsheep.org/> so please subscribe via email, twitter (@floating_sheep), or Atom feed. We would also greatly appreciate if you could forward this on to anyone you think would be interested. Thanks! All comments and critiques are welcome. Cheers...Matthew Zook p.s. We've posted a quick <http://www.floatingsheep.org/2009/12/factsheet-faq-for-floatingsheeporg_07. html> overview of the project as well as listing academic articles if you are interested in more in depth explanation Matthew Zook Associate Professor Department of Geography University of Kentucky 1457 Patterson Office Tower Lexington, KY 40506-0027 859.257.8334 (phone) 859.323.1969 (fax) zook(a)uky.edu http://www.zook.info/

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Jobs at the University of Salford, UK
by Yuwei Lin 28 Jan '10

28 Jan '10

The School of Media, Music and Performance at the University of Salford (http://www.smmp.salford.ac.uk/) is currently experiencing a period of expansion in anticipation of the move to Media City UK at Salford Quays and the projected new School building on campus. The School is a Skillset Media Academy and has an active partnership with the BBC. To help with this expansion, we are currently seeking to make the following new appointments: Lecturer in Online Journalism, - Ref:1127392 http://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/AAO295/lecturer/ Lecturer in Broadcast Journalism - Ref:1127403 http://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/AAO296/lecturer/ Lecturer in New Media Technologies, - Ref:1127411 http://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/AAO297/lecturer/ Closing date: 22 February 2010

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Jobs at the University of Salford, UK
by Yuwei Lin 27 Jan '10

27 Jan '10

The School of Media, Music and Performance at the University of Salford (http://www.smmp.salford.ac.uk/) is currently experiencing a period of expansion in anticipation of the move to Media City UK at Salford Quays and the projected new School building on campus. The School is a Skillset Media Academy and has an active partnership with the BBC. To help with this expansion, we are currently seeking to make the following new appointments: Lecturer in Online Journalism, - Ref:1127392 http://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/AAO295/lecturer/ Lecturer in Broadcast Journalism - Ref:1127403 http://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/AAO296/lecturer/ Lecturer in New Media Technologies, - Ref:1127411 http://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/AAO297/lecturer/ Professor in Media Policy, - Ref:1127386 http://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/AAO292/professor/ Closing date: 22 February 2010

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texting to incite violence in Nigeria
by nativebuddha 27 Jan '10

27 Jan '10

the dark side of texting: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/8482666.stm -robert

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