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

Pre-conference workshop: Legal aspects of cyberbullying, May 26th, Antwerp (Belgium)
by Van Cleemput Katrien 26 Jan '10

26 Jan '10

Pre-conference workshop: Legal aspects of cyberbullying, May 26th, Antwerp (Belgium) COST action IS0801 is pleased to announce an international workshop on legal issues regarding cyberbullying amongst youngsters (peer-to-peer and student-versusauthority). This workshop will be held on Wednesday May 26th 2010, in Antwerp (Belgium). It will be followed by the "E-youth: Opportunities and risks"-conference (http://www.ua.ac.be/eyouth) on May 27th-28th 2010, organized by UCSIA and the University of Antwerp. We welcome a broad audience including researchers, educators, students, parents, ISPs and mobile phone companies, law enforcers, policy makers and media representatives, to 1) describe the general legislative framework for cyberbullying, 2) share their concrete experiences and 3) discuss the desirability of legal actions in the context of cyberbullying (in educational settings). Call for posters The pre-conference workshop steering group welcomes researchers, legal experts, police and courts representatives, ISPs and mobile phone companies to share their knowledge and experiences with regard to the legal aspects of cyberbullying in school settings, during a poster session. Proposals for posters (in the form of an abstract of max. 350 words) can be submitted using the electronic submission form on the pre-conference website (http://www.ua.ac.be/main.aspx?c=.EYOUTH&n=80218) The deadline for submissions is: February 1st, 2010. All abstracts will be peer-reviewed. Authors will be notified if their abstract has been selected or not for poster presentation, along with a schedule and guidelines for presentation by March 1st 2010. If you do not receive any notification of your abstract's status, please contact: COST(a)ua.ac.be All accepted abstracts will be published on the website of COST action IS0801.

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Political Economy of the Internet in the Middle East
by John Paul Laprise 26 Jan '10

26 Jan '10

I am seeking scholars on behalf of a colleague who is looking for current research on the political economy of the Internet in the Middle East. Please email me directly with any suggestions or interest. Best regards, John Laprise, Ph.D. Visiting Assistant Professor in the Communication Program Northwestern University in Qatar

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Looking for AoIR Collaborators for Green IS Initiatives
by Catherine Dwyer 25 Jan '10

25 Jan '10

The Association of Information Systems (AIS) has just created a special interest group (SIG) with the theme of Green IS http://greensig.atspace.org/ The goal of Green IS research is to find ways to leverage information technology in support of sustainability initiatives for organizations, communities, and individuals. The development of technology to encourage "green" behavior relates to socio-technical systems research, and thus connects to the interests of many members of AoIR. If you are interested in working on Green IS projects, or working to create an interdisciplinary academic organization to support Green IS initiatives, please contact me via email at cdwyer(a)pace.edu. Thank you, Cathy Dwyer, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Information Systems Seidenberg School of Computer Science and Information Systems Pace University http://csis.pace.edu/~dwyer Office location: CS/IS Faculty Offices 163 William Street #225 New York, NY 10038 212-346-1728

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Startl Design boost for Mobile Learning
by jeremy hunsinger 25 Jan '10

25 Jan '10

Distribute as appropriate http://startl.org/programs-2/design-boost/ Might be of interest to some. Design Boost is a five day bootcamp for prototyping digital learning products. We’re looking for promising young innovators, to bring learning into the 21st century, to create digital products that excite and engage kids in meaningful learning. In partnership with IDEO, Startl is offering a multi-day immersion for designers and creators, hackers and coders, builders and entrepreneurs. Boost isn’t about sitting around dreaming up pie-in-the-sky ideas. Its an intense whirlwind of activity, with lots of hands-on, real-world involvement in the design and product development process. You’ll be taking the seed of an idea and seeing whether you can grow it into an effective and marketable learning product. Along the way, you’ll be steeped in how to create user-centered, learning-rich and market-smart designs and learn the tricks that seasoned entrepreneurs use to generate new products quickly and cheaply. But you won’t be doing this on your own. You’ll be surrounded by inspiring peers and collaborating with them to amp up your creativity and rigor http://startl.org/apply/design-boost-apply/ Jeremy Hunsinger Center for Digital Discourse and Culture Virginia Tech Information Ethics Fellow, Center for Information Policy Research, School of Information Studies, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee http://wiki.tmttlt.com http://www.tmttlt.com Whoever ceases to be a student has never been a student. -George Iles

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WWW2010 Developers Track CfP
by paul jones 25 Jan '10

25 Jan '10

Please distribute widely as appropriate (Thanks, Paul) WWW2010 - April 26 - 30 in Raleigh, NC WWW2010 Developers Track - Call For Proposals http://www2010.org Submission Details Submission deadline: February 26, 2010 (9pm Eastern (US) Time) Notification date: March 14th, 2010 The Developers Track focuses on the general WWW development community. Participants are invited to present new trends and interesting ideas, code and APIs of applications, platforms and emerging standards. Demonstrations of technical "nitty-gritty" are strongly encouraged. Focus areas include, but are not limited to, Browsers and Plugins, Web Metrics, Health, Science and Education, Web Social Impact, Information Integration and Mash-ups, Web Software and Tools, Information Mining and Reporting, Mobile Web, Monetization, Multimedia, Scalable System and Cloud Computing, Search, Security, Semantic Web, Social Network, Standards and Protocols, User Interface, Open Source (FLOSS) Development for the Web. This track is an ideal venue for short reports of both industry and academic technical works. This year, the proceedings of the Developers Track will be published online; the authors of the accepted works will have the option to publish a 3-page report. Please submit abstracts and papers via the WWW2010 Conference Management site: https://cmt.research.microsoft.com/WWW2010/Default.aspx

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Fwd: Women in Games 2010 update
by jeremy hunsinger 25 Jan '10

25 Jan '10

Begin forwarded message: > From: Marian Carr <M.Carr(a)bradfordcollege.ac.uk> > Date: January 25, 2010 5:41:08 AM EST > To: Marian Carr <M.Carr(a)bradfordcollege.ac.uk> > Subject: Women in Games 2010 update > > > > Just a quick email to update you on Women in Games 2010: > > The Call for Papers and Speakers deadline has been extended to 12th February 2010 due to the recent adverse weather in the UK. These can be emailed to submissions(a)womeningames.com. All information on themes and types of submission are on the WiG website- www.womeningames.com > > The Keynote speakers are confirmed as Lorna Evans (Tiga) and Professor Valerie Walkerdine (Cardiff University). > > If you have any questions please email: bradford(a)womeningames.com > > Thank you for your time. > > > > > > > > > > > If you wish to unsubscribe please email: bradford(a)womeningames.com

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La Quadrature du Net - ACTA
by Mathieu ONeil 25 Jan '10

25 Jan '10

Thought some people might be interested in this. cheers m ==== La Quadrature du Net - For immediate release Permanent link: http://www.laquadrature.net/en/acta-attacks-internet-lets-attack-acta ACTA Attacks Internet! Let's Attack ACTA! *** Paris, Jan 25th 2009 - Negotiations on the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) [1] will take place from January 26th to January 29th in Mexico. ACTA aims at controlling the Internet, while conveniently circumventing democratic processes. Unelected negotiators - carrying out the orders of the entertainment industries - are attacking the very essence of the Internet. Let's attack ACTA! Let's expose its negotiators so they face their responsibilities! *** - From Jan 26th to Jan 29th, representatives of a handful of countries (including the EU represented by the Commission) will meet in Mexico to decide the future of the Internet and other issues such as access to medicine. With no supervision from international organizations and no democratic oversight, conditions are ideal for entertainment lobbies to dictate their dream: enforcing a fundamentally unadapted copyright regime in order to control the Internet and access to knowledge. More than 80 NGOs from all over the world (including Consumers International, Reporters without Borders, the Free Software Foundation and the Electronic Frontier Foundation) already signed an open letter strongly opposing ACTA [2]. The last leaked analysis of the European Commission [3] unmasks the global intent of the text: imposing extra-judicial "voluntary" agreements between Internet service providers and rights holders to combat copyright infringements through "three strikes" schemes or automated content filtering or removal. To force Internet operators into accepting such access restrictions, ACTA will make them liable for the copyright infringements done by their users. "By creating legal uncertainty for the Internet operators, ACTA will force them to bend under the pressure of entertainment industries. ACTA will compell Internet service providers to filter and remove content and services, turning them into private police and justice auxiliaries. We cannot tolerate that restrictions to fundamental rights and freedoms be imposed by private actors. Such a modification of criminal law by governments themselves, in total opacity, shows how much the people behind ACTA hate democracy." analyzes J?r?mie Zimmermann, spokesperson for the citizen advocacy group La Quadrature du Net. La Quadrature du Net calls on every citizen to participate in raising awareness on the dangers of ACTA (see policy brief [4]) and to expose its negotiators in order to make them accountable. A dedicated participative campaign page [5] is provided for this purpose: http://www.laquadrature.net/wiki/Attack_ACTA "Obeying to the music and movie industries, unelected negotiators are deciding the future of the Internet. We must make them accountable and make sure they face the consequences of their decisions." concludes Zimmermann. * Reerences * 1. See our web-dossier about ACTA: http://lqdn.fr/ACTA 2. ACTA: A Global Threat to Freedoms - open letter: http://www.laquadrature.net/en/acta-a-global-threat-to-freedoms-open-letter 3. http://sharemydoc.org/files/philip/ec_analysis_of_acta_internet_chapter.pdf 4. http://www.laquadrature.net/files/LaQuadratureduNet-20100124_Policy_Brief-S… 5. Campaign page "Attack ACTA" on La Quadrature's wiki: http://www.laquadrature.net/wiki/Attack_ACTA ** About la Quadrature du Net ** La Quadrature du Net is an advocacy group that promotes the rights and freedoms of citizens on the Internet. More specifically, it advocates for the adaptation of French and European legislations to respect the founding principles of the Internet, most notably the free circulation of knowledge. As such, La Quadrature du Net engages in public-policy debates concerning, for instance, freedom of speech, copyright, regulation of telecommunications and online privacy. In addition to its advocacy work, the group also aims to foster a better understanding of legislative processes among citizens. Through specific and pertinent information and tools, La Quadrature du Net hopes to encourage citizens' participation in the public debate on rights and freedoms in the digital age. La Quadrature du Net is supported by French, European and international NGOs including the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the Open Society Institute and Privacy International. List of supporting organisations : http://www.laquadrature.net/en/they-support-squaring-net-la-quadrature-du-n… ** Press contact and press room ** Jeremie Zimmermann, jz(a)laquadrature.net, +33 (0)615 940 675 http://www.laquadrature.net/en/press-room ****

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Digital Culture & Education Call for Papers for Special Themed Issue: Beyond ‘new’ literacies
by Tom Apperley 25 Jan '10

25 Jan '10

Digital Culture & Education Call for Papers for Special Themed Issue: Beyond ‘new’ literacies Guest Editor: Dana J. Wilber Much of the work in literacy and digital technologies falls into the area of ‘new literacies’ (Lankshear and Knobel, 2006), a theoretical frame that defines literacies as new through tools and practices that previously did not exist. This special issue of Digital Culture & Education (DCE) seeks to reinvigorate and challenge approaches to the ‘new’ by drawing on existing and innovative models and approaches from outside of ‘new literacies’ to enrich this framework by focusing on the diverse roles digital literacy practices play in on and offline spaces (social networking, games, virtual worlds, etc.) as part of day-to-day public and private life. Specifically, the special issue seeks to expand the new literacies’ theoretical paradigm by asking: - How might we expand the idea of new literacies through fine-grained examinations of specific literacy practices with particular tools or technologies, like social networking, digital games, and multimodal design through different frames? - How can new perspectives, practices and/or theories (i.e. discourse analysis, feminism, Queer, gaming, literary theory, or post-structuralist) provide additional insights around the congruencies and/or tensions between literacies and digital technologies across institutional and non-institutional contexts? The concern of Beyond new literacies is to highlight research that develops a theoretical dialogue between literacies and technologies, as more than ‘new’, through either applied research or theoretical intervention by: - Making use of a wide variety of theoretical lenses to analyze and understand how literacies and literacy practices operate within virtual worlds or through specific digital tools. - Analyzing the digital literacy and technology practices of users through a variety of methodological avenues (including discourse analysis, case study, oral history, experimental, mixed design, rhizoanalysis, etc.) - Examining situated practices in everyday use, integrating issues of on and offline definitions and spatial distinctions We encourage submissions from scholars, researchers, and practitioners from around the globe, working in areas such as literacy and education, gaming, new media, sociocultural studies of technologies, literary theory and technology, fan studies, adolescents and digital media, and media and identity. Submissions from research groups working in projects like video games research, digital storytelling, and mobile learning are encouraged. Interested authors should send their manuscripts to *Dana J. Wilber* at wilberd(a)mail.montclair.edu or the editor of Digital Culture & Education at editor(a)digitalcultureandeducation.com by *March 1, 2010.* *Beyond ‘new’ literacies will be published in May 2010.* ---------------------- Please circulate widely. Best wishes, Tom Apperley Thomas Hugh Apperley BA (Hons), LLB (Otago), PhD (Melb) Lecturer in Media Studies School of Arts Faculty of Arts and Sciences University of New England Armidale NSW 2351 Australia Phone 61 2 6773 2577 Facsimile 61 2 6773 2623 Mobile 61 4 5065 7027 Email thomas.apperley(a)une.edu.au www.une.edu.au CRICOS Provider Code 00003G --- @ WiseStamp Signature<http://my.wisestamp.com/link?u=29gk23kgg36cv4jt&site=www.wisestamp.com/emai…>. Get it now<http://my.wisestamp.com/link?u=29gk23kgg36cv4jt&site=www.wisestamp.com/emai…>

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Reviewers Needed for JITP 2010: The Politics of Open Source
by Stuart Shulman 24 Jan '10

24 Jan '10

We have a nice batch of papers for JITP 2010: The Politics of Open Source: http://www.umass.edu/jitp/ Now, we *semi-desperately* need an expanded pool of reviewers who can turn around a few conference manuscripts over the next few weeks. To let me know you can take some on and to indicate preferences for certain manuscripts, please visit: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/MFHG3BV In general, the work of reviewing papers for JITP is distributed unevenly. We have our indispensible stalwharts, our periodic reviewers, and then all the rest. If you are already a JITP reviewer, I need you to login to the MARS database, update your keywords, and ensure we have the best email address: https://surveyweb2.ucsur.pitt.edu/jitp/db/member.php If you are not currently a member of the MARS database, please join the reviewer list, which numbers more than 600 currently: https://surveyweb2.ucsur.pitt.edu/jitp/db/member.php?c=8 The valid email address and extensive and accurate keywords are essential. I thank-you in advance for continuing to contribute to the viability of JITP. All members of the ITP section of teh APSA should be getting electronic access to JITP. Non-members can download the top 5 downloaded articles for 2009 at: http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/WITPdown.pdf Please remeber to cite JITP articles in your next paper. It is the key to establishing the journal to a wider audience. JITP is currently accessible in more than 1,300 libraries through electronic databases. This is good news. If you cannot access JITP at your university, please visit: http://jitp.net/files/jitp_library_rec.pdf thanks, ~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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INC2010: Extended deadline for Paper submissions (until 15th Feb 2010)
by Steffen Schilke 24 Jan '10

24 Jan '10

*Call for papers deadline EXTENDED (including workshop papers) - 15th February 2010. *Eighth International Network Conference 2010 (INC2010) in Heidelberg, Germany, 6-8 July 2010 The Eighth International Network Conference (INC2010) will take place in Heidelberg, Germany in 2010. This event will bring together leading researchers, academics and interested parties from industry. The conference will run from the 6-8 July 2010. Information can be found at the conference web site http://www.inc2010.org. Paper submissions will be accepted until 15th February 2010. In addition to the German “Gesellschaft f. Informatik” (GI, FG Biosig), the German Chapter of the ACM and ISSA (Information Systems Security Association) are co-supporting the conference. Prof. Dr. Dueck (IBM) will be one of the top-class keynote speakers. As with previous events, the conference will cover topics including: • Internet technologies and applications • Network architectures and management • Security • Applications and impacts • Mobile and wireless networking This year’s event will also feature three special interest workshops: • Security vs. Usability? • The Pedagogy of eLearning: Emerging Issues • Next Generation Networks (NGN) - Next Revenues? Additional information can be found at the conference web site http://www.inc2010.org * *

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