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Announcement: Social Computing, Behavioral-Cultural Modeling, and Prediction Conference (SBP10)
by Sun-Ki Chai 01 Nov '10

01 Nov '10

I apologize for the very short notice, but the 2010 Conference on Social Computing, Behavioral-Cultural Modeling, & Prediction (SBP10) <http://www.umiacs.umd.edu/conferences/sbp2011/>, the largest interdisciplinary conference devoted to computational modeling of social phenomena (478 registered attendees last year), will be held March 28-31 on the campus of the University of Maryland, near Washington D.C. Short (maximum 8 pages) paper and poster submissions should be submitted by November 6. Accepted papers will be published in an edited proceedings volume <http://www.springer.com/computer/general+issues/book/978-3-642-12078-7> by Springer/Verlag. A travel fund will be available to help those whose papers are accepted but do not have other resources to attend. As in past years, highlights will include technical tutorials, presentations by program managers from a wide range of funding agencies, and social science/computer science "matchmaking" roundtables. Please see attached announcement for more detailed info. Thanks, Sun-Ki -- *Sun-Ki Chai*, Associate Professor ??? (???) *Email:* sunki(a)hawaii.edu <mailto:sunki@hawaii.edu> *Web:* www2.hawaii.edu/~sunki/ <http://www2.hawaii.edu/%7Esunki/> Office +1 808 956-7234 Message +1 808 956-7693 Fax +1 808 956-3707 Cell +1 808 741-4843 Department of Sociology 2424 Maile Way, Saunders Hall 237 University of Hawai`i Honolulu HI 96822 USA

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CFP: Console-ing Passions - International Conference on Television, Video, Audio, New Media and Feminism
by Jodie George 01 Nov '10

01 Nov '10

To Whom It May Concern, Please find below a Call for Papers for Console-ing Passions, an International Conference on Television, Video, Audio, New Media and Feminism which I'm hoping can be distributed to the Association of Internet Researchers network. Please disregard this email if you've already distributed the CFP, I'd sent it but wasn't sure whether the email was received due to systems problems at my end. Please feel free to contact me if you have any questions. Kind regards, Jodie Dr Jodie George | Lecturer/Tutor School of Communication, International Studies and Languages Division of EASS | University of South Australia email: jodie.george(a)unisa.edu.au Console-ing Passions: International Conference on Television, Video, Audio, New Media and Feminism 21-23 July 2011, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia Console-ing Passions 2011 is co-hosted by the Flinders University, the University of Adelaide, and the University of South Australia. CALL FOR PAPERS Console-ing Passions, the leading international scholarly network for feminist research in screen cultures, will hold its 2011 conference in Adelaide, South Australia, 21-23 July. Organisers are now seeking proposals for individual papers and pre-constituted panels. Proposals are due November 30, 2010 and may be submitted to http://www.flinders.edu.au/console-ing-passions. Paper proposals must include the paper title, the author's contact details and a 300-word abstract. Panel proposals must include the panel title, names and contact details of all participants and chair and a summary statement of no more than 1500 words to include the abstract for each paper and a panel concept statement. Panels may have a maximum of three papers each. Please find a list of possible streams for the conference below; these are suggestions, not limits. We strongly encourage contributions from across the Asia Pacific with an emphasis on regional issues, activities and trends. Possible streams: * National Screen Cultures and Feminism(s) * Women in Media Production * Children's Media and Gender * Women, User Generated Content and New Media Economies * Digital Games * Archival Research * Women, Sport, Broadcasting * Media Education * Indigenous Women and Media * Media, Mobility and Scale We also welcome a Curator for Screenings and Videotech. For more information about the conference and keynote speakers, please visit: http://www.flinders.edu.au/console-ing-passions. Kind regards, Jodie 　 Dr Jodie George | Lecturer/Tutor School of Communication, International Studies and Languages Division of EASS | University of South Australia email: jodie.george(a)unisa.edu.au

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CFP Special Issue with Ethics and Information Technology on "Friendship Online"
by Lois Scheidt 01 Nov '10

01 Nov '10

From: News service for APPE members (appe(a)indiana.edu) [mailto: APPE_NEWS(a)LISTSERV.INDIANA.EDU] On Behalf Of Assoc for Practical & Prof Ethics Sent: Wednesday, October 27, 2010 04:30 PM To: APPE_NEWS(a)LISTSERV.INDIANA.EDU Subject: Call for Papers (distributed by APPE News) Call for Papers for a Special Issue with Ethics and Information Technology on "Friendship Online" The online world increasingly provides the setting within which many of us pursue our work lives, our hobbies and interests, and even our more intimate lives, such as our friendships and loves. Opportunities to express oneself and form relationships with others have been enormously increased by the online world. But what sorts of identities and relationships are really possible? And as we live more online how might this come to affect how we understand ourselves and our relations with others? Communication online has provided worlds of self-expression and interaction that seem distinctive in a number of ways. We are, for example, often anonymous online. But even if not anonymous we nevertheless can typically express ourselves and relate to others with little or nil social transaction costs. We can enter and exit communities or relationships without much of the effort or costs usually attached in our traditional worlds and we have unprecedented global opportunities to do so. We are also able to present ourselves and interact with others with unusually high levels of choice and control compared to our self-presentations and interactions in non-virtual worlds. Moreover, focusing on how we can present ourselves to others has itself been taken to new levels online - many, for example, labour over how they present themselves on their personal websites and some of these approximate works of art. In this special edition we focus on the case of friendship and its apparent flourishing online. People are forming friendships solely online, many claim to have several hundred friends online and increasingly existing friendships are being sustained online. How, if at all, might some features of online communication and its use affect the sort of friendships we can form and maintain? What, if anything, might we learn about the nature and value of close friendship by analysing how they are currently enabled online? We are interested in papers on the general topic area of friendship in an increasingly online world. The scope of the topic is quite broad, implicating fundamental questions about identity and how we may come to understand ourselves in relation to others online, and about the nature and value of friendship and communication online. Accordingly, our call for papers is quite open within these areas. 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 of Ethics and Information Technology. Closing date for submissions: January 7, 2011 To submit your paper, please use the online submission system, to be found at www.editorialmanager.com/etin Please contact the special guest editor for more information, Dean Cocking, d.cocking(a)adfa.edu.au Or the managing editor, Noëmi Manders-Huits N.L.J.L.Manders-Huits(a)tudelft.nl Ethics and Information Technology (ETIN) is the major journal in the field of moral and political reflection on Information Technology. Its aim is to advance the dialogue between moral philosophy and the field of information technology in a broad sense, and to foster and promote reflection and analysis concerning the ethical, social and political questions associated with the adoption, use, and development of IT. -- Lois Ann Scheidt Doctoral Candidate - School of Library and Information Science, Indiana University, Bloomington IN USA Webpage: http://www.loisscheidt.com CV: http://www.loisscheidt.com/cv.html Blog: http://www.professional-lurker.com

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open access repository software
by Christine Prefontaine 01 Nov '10

01 Nov '10

I've been also looking at open access repository software. Found some comparisons. Delicious tags: http://www.delicious.com/cprefontaine/repository Early (now outdated!) thinking: http://facilitatingchange.org/2010/10/create-an-open-access-repository/ I will be testing out Dspace. Please let me know what you find! Christine

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REMINDER: DML2011 CFP DEADLINE: NOVEMBER 5, 2010
by danah boyd 01 Nov '10

01 Nov '10

(The deadline for the DML conference has been extended to November 5. If you're interested in digital media & learning, please join us at DML!) CALL FOR PROPOSALS ** PLEASE CIRCULATE ** Digital Media and Learning Conference 2011: http://dmlcentral.net/conference2011 DML Conference Submission System: http://fastapps.hri.uci.edu/ Deadline for Conference Submissions: November 5, 2010, 6pm PST Conference dates: March 3 -5, 2011 Location: Hilton Long Beach, Long Beach, California DESIGNING LEARNING FUTURES In the twenty-first century a profound shift is underway. Digital media are central in almost every aspect of daily life, most notably in how we learn, communicate, reflect, (co-) produce, consume, create identities, share knowledge, and understand political issues. Corresponding with this increasing accessibility of digital and networked tools, we see new forms of public and private collectives which serve as seedbeds for user-driven innovation, the prevalence of many-to-many distribution models and the large-scale online aggregation of information and culture. This increased access to information, knowledge, and platforms has prompted new learning ecologies that possess the potential to support the kinds of situated, learner-driven, socially inflected, participatory learning opportunities we know are possible today. Alongside transforming how we create, access, and use knowledge, these changes raise a series of socio-technical concerns regarding the tools, technologies, and policies that underpin digital media practices and their related learning opportunities. These issues operate on both macro and micro levels. They range from processes and protocols shaping the flow and tracking of data in social network sites like Facebook or MySpace to reward and reputation systems in multiplayer online games, collaborative DIY communities like Instructable.com or deviantART, as well as to emergent problematic practices like sexting and cyberbullying. These are, in short, concerns that give shape to both formal and informal learning ecologies and learning experiences. Developing an understanding of the impact of digital media experiences on learning, civic engagement, and professional and ethical development requires that we consider the implications of the design frameworks, institutional configurations, social practices, and research methodologies at play in our connected world. As Bruno Latour notes, “New innovation will be absolutely necessary if we are to adequately represent the conflicting natures of all the things that are to be designed.” Understanding the role of innovation in light of past and present digital media practices is thus central to imagining and designing learning futures. To this end, the conference will focus upon themes of understanding the types of processes, methods, collaborations, and institutional models required for innovation. We are also concerned with gaining insight into the roles contradicting stakeholders (disciplines, institutions, economies, etc.) may play. This includes designers of social network sites, games, or mobile applications and learning environments such as afterschool programs, schools and other sites of learning. It also includes social scientists studying youth engagement in interest or friendship-driven communities, those involved in developing profiles of participants in intergenerational learning environments, practitioners looking to help integrate technology into learning environments, researchers studying the intersection of learning and socio-technical practices, and policy makers seeking to shape the future of connected learning, to name but a few possible participant profiles. From these diverse perspectives, we seek to address the following questions: What are the central concerns shaping learning within peer-based, participatory, open ecologies? What are the new collectives (including hybrid public institutional models) that are emerging in today's open learning ecologies? How is learning happening in user-innovation communities? How does remix, mentorship, sharing, and exchange occur? How do issues such as cyberbullying, problematic content, and privacy shape participation in these ecologies? How is diversity shaping learning constituencies? What forms of identities become possible? What are the relationships between different stakeholders, such as learner-centered partnerships and collaborations between teachers, administrators, students, institutions, policy makers, researchers, and designers? What are the design-driven pedagogies and learning models we should explore? What is the role of embedded assessment in understanding learning? How do we understand flow and engagement? What is the knowledge base required of designers, researchers, and practitioners working on peer-based, participatory, open learning ecologies today? What is missing? What new forms of knowledge need to be developed? What existing frameworks need to be rethought? What core socio-technical practices are shaping (or have the potential to shape) the future of learning? What practices may be impeding innovation or getting in the way of learning? How can and should knowledge about practices shape policy, design, and implementation of innovations? We seek to support collective inquiry into the infrastructures and practices key to digital media and learning, whether research practices, learning protocols, assessment schemes, game design, or the creation of participatory undertakings. This conversation welcomes those engaged in developing a critical understanding of the design and broader socio-technical concerns shaping learning futures, as well as in other well articulated issues key to comprehending the impact and possibilities of digital media for learning. All participants are encouraged to reflect on the implications of their work for social practice—to consider the impact of their own practice or research findings on how things are currently done or could be done differently. ABOUT THE WORKSHOP AND PANEL PROPOSALS We welcome workshops and panels along four themes: Youth, Digital Media and Empowerment; Emerging Platforms and Policies; New Collectives and Digital Media and Participatory Learning. The themes have been conceptualized by key members of the conference committee. All proposed panels and workshops will be collectively evaluated by the conference committee. Youth, Digital Media, and Empowerment This strand focuses specifically on young people’s participation in the digital media world. Youth participatory practices are influenced by a variety of social and contextual factors including distinct youth-driven interests and learning ecologies, adult mentoring, institutional infrastructures, creative partnerships, and cultural diversity. We are especially interested in panels, papers, and workshops that explore how new media technologies are leveraged to promote youth health and well-being, youth media production, and dynamic expressions of civic engagement. Moreover, what kinds of institutional infrastructures lead to programs and interventions that empower young voices, fortify social and knowledge networks, and develop the digital media skills and competencies that invigorate young critical citizens? Also, how are creative partnerships, programmatic initiatives, and the widespread diffusion of social and mobile media platforms challenging the “participation gap?” How are socially stigmatized and marginal youth populations embracing social media to build networks for personal enrichment, communal empowerment, and social change? Finally, workshops and panels that discuss the art and science of interdisciplinary collaboration, design innovation, and programming offer the opportunity for vibrant discussion, planning and intervention. Emerging Platforms and Policies The rise of Web2.0 has introduced numerous platforms into everyday life, from social network sites like MySpace and Facebook to media-sharing services like YouTube and uStream to blogging and microblogging tools like Tumblr and Twitter. These platforms have been leveraged by people of all ages to build community, share ideas, collaborate, and hang out. While many of these platforms were designed to enable “user-generated content,” there are often conflicts between what designers intend and what participants actually do on each site. In short, these platforms were not designed for the kinds of learning that often transpires on these sites. The goal of this track is to explore the tensions between the design of emerging platforms and the practices that unfold on them, with specific attention given to the policy challenges that emerge. How does the technology respond practice and how do users repurpose technology? Who gets to set the community norms and how are these norms negotiated? How are values— like privacy, safety, and transparency—embedded in the technology and how does this shape socio-technical practices? What happens when conflicts emerge between the users and the creators? How does the tension between technical design and personal practices configure these spaces? New Collectives The last 10 years have seen the rise of organizations and institutions that mash-up mission, market and mass participation. Organizations like Wikipedia, Mozilla and Creative Commons have shown that this hybrid model can shift whole industries—increasing how knowledge is shared and spread, promoting the wide adoption of web standards, making legally-backed knowledge sharing easy and widespread. Many have proclaimed that these new collectives can also transform education and learning for the better. The track will explore the ways that innovators in the learning world might tap into the power of these hybrid organizational models. We’ll ask questions like: What makes new collectives tick? Where are they getting traction in the world of learning? Where are they getting stuck? Can they challenge traditional approaches to accreditation, assessment and content creation in education? Or even shift the terrain of learning and education as a whole? Digital Media and Learning We welcome submissions that address ongoing or innovative directions in research and practice relating to digital media and learning. WORKSHOP PROPOSALS AND FORMATS This year we will be accepting proposals in three formats: panels, workshops and short talks. Panels bring together in discussion four participants representing a range of ideas and projects. Panels are scheduled for 90 minutes and should include a mix of individuals working in areas of research, theory, and practice. Workshops provide an opportunity for hands-on exploration and/or problem solving. They can be organized around a core challenge that participants come together to work on or around a tool, platform, or concept. Workshops are scheduled for 120 minutes and should be highly participatory. Finally, we welcome short, 5 minute talks where presenters speak for five minutes on their work, research or a subject relevant to the conference theme and/or subthemes. We will not be soliciting full papers. To organize a panel or workshop, please feel free to use our DML2011 Discussion Forum on wikidot. The DML2011 Conference proposal system will open on October 18, 2010 and full proposals will be due on November 1, 2010. To propose a panel, participants will be required to register with Fastapps http://fastapps.hri.uci.edu/, our submission system at the Digital Media and Learning Research Hub. We encourage participants to submit proposals when their application materials are complete. Panel and Workshop proposal abstracts should cover the theme, format (e.g. discussion, interactive, presentations), how the session addresses the theme of the conference and/or subtheme in up to 400 words. Short talk abstracts should cover the theme, format (e.g. discussion, interactive, presentations), how the talk addresses the theme of the conference and/or subtheme in up to 250 words. List of participants, affiliations, emails and titles of talks/presentations (if applicable) should also be included. Each individual will be limited to participation on no more than two panels at the conference. Participants will be expected to fund their own travel and accommodation. Student Volunteers Wanted: The DML Conference Committee is looking for student volunteers to assist with the 2011 Annual Conference in Long Beach, CA from March 3-5, 2010. Duties include assisting with registration, providing information to conference participants and troubleshooting technical problems along with other administrative tasks. Student volunteers will work scheduled shifts lasting 4 to 5 hours each day during the conference. The Committee will waive registration fees and provide accommodations for student volunteers. Applicants are to submit a letter of interest no longer than 500 words that also addresses their qualifications for the position. Experience with computing platforms and audio/visual equipment is not required but valued. Email letters of interest to Kimberly Austin kaustin <at> uchicago <dot> edu no later than November 6, 2010. We will notify selected volunteers by Dec. 12.

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OII/iCS symposium cfp
by Brian Loader 01 Nov '10

01 Nov '10

We hope many of you will be interested in the Call for Papers for the 2011 iCS symposium which will be hosted by Oxford Internet Institute 21-24 September 2011. Entitled 'A Decade of Internet Time' full details can be found at http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/events/?id=398 Keynote Speakers include Manuel Castells Vint Cerf (provisional acceptance) Andrew Graham Laura DeNardis Eszter Hargittai Lisa Nakamura Barry Wellman Key Dates: Submission of Abstracts 8 December 2010 Notification of Acceptance 21 December 2010 Brian D. Loader Editor Information, Communication & Society, Deparment of Sociology, Wentworth College, University of York, Heslington, York YO10 5DD Email brian.loader(a)york.ac.uk Tel: +44(0) 1904 432639 Fax: +44(0) 1904 433043 www.informaworld.com/ics ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------ This email and its attachments may be confidential and are intended solely for the use of the intended recipient. If you are not the intended recipient of this email and its attachments, you must take no action based upon them, nor must you copy them into anyone. Please contact the sender if you believe you have received this email in error. Any views or opinions expressed are solely for those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of the University of York. February 2010

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Archive, Search, Sort and Analyze Facebook News Feeds - DiscoverText beta is live
by Stuart Shulman 01 Nov '10

01 Nov '10

*Archive, Search, Sort and Analyze Facebook News Feeds - DiscoverText beta is live* Starting today, you can login to http://discovertext.com using your Facebook credentials. Once you are in, you can create a project and start archiving available Facebook News Feeds. Archives can be searched, search results can go into buckets, and buckets can be converted to data sets to be coded. We also handle general RSS feeds. Later this week we'll be launching other API features for capturing twitter feeds. Interesting in collecting and studying everything with a certain hashtag, or, say, a constellation of similar hastags? DiscoverText will make this easy to do. In a nutshell: visit http://discovertext.com, register using the Facebook Open Graph, and away you go! To see the steps involved, visit the help wiki at: http://help.discovertext.com/Using%20Facebook%20to%20login.ashx ~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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