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HICSS Deadline June 15 2010
by Caroline Haythornthwaite 09 Jun '10

09 Jun '10

A final reminder re the deadline for papers for the minitrack ** Social Networking and Communities ** for the 44th HAWAII INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SYSTEM SCIENCES (http://www.hicss.hawaii.edu/) January 4-7, 2011 Papers due JUNE 15, 2010 All submissions are made through the HICSS site. MINITRACK ORGANIZERS Caroline Haythornthwaite [Primary Contact], University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign – haythorn(a)illinois.edu Karine Barzilai-Nahon, University of Washington – karineb(a)u.washington.edu For more details see: http://haythorn.wordpress.com/hicss-44-minitrack-social-networking-and-comm… /Caroline -------------------------------------- Caroline Haythornthwaite Leverhulme Visiting Professor, Institute of Education, University of London (2009-10) Professor, Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 501 East Daniel St., Champaign IL 61820 (haythorn(a)illinois.edu)

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Tenure-track position, Department of Communication and Journalism, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
by Paul Frosh 09 Jun '10

09 Jun '10

Apologies for cross-posting: THE HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM Department of Communication and Journalism Tenure-Track Research and Teaching Position The Noah Mozes Department of Communication and Journalism at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem invites outstanding candidates to apply for a tenure-track position starting Fall, 2011. Applicants should hold a Ph.D., or expect to be awarded a doctoral degree by September 2011. Post-doctoral experience is desirable. The successful applicant will join a dynamic research-oriented faculty offering innovative undergraduate, graduate and doctoral programs. We particularly encourage applicants with strong research records in the fields of journalism, new media, and film studies. The language of instruction is Hebrew, although English is acceptable for an initial period. Applications should include: Curriculum vitae and list of publications An academic biography (2 pages) outlining research interests and plans Names, affiliations, and contact details of at least two persons who have been asked to send letters of recommendation Copies of selected recent publications (e.g. journal articles, full conference papers) Brief description of courses the candidate is able to teach Teaching evaluations (if such exist) Applicants will compete with candidates of other departments in the Faculty of Social Sciences for academic positions. Application materials should be sent to: Prof. Menahem Blondheim, Chair (mblond(a)huji.ac.il) Department of Communication and Journalism The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Mount Scopus, Jerusalem 91905, Israel. Letters of recommendation should be sent directly to the above address, or to mblond(a)huji.ac.il. For further information about the position and the department please contact: mblond(a)huji.ac.il Deadline for applications: September 30th 2010.

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233 Million Chinese Use Mobile Phones To Access The Internet
by gerrymck 09 Jun '10

09 Jun '10

I. Endeavors to Spur the Development and Application of the Internet [snip] The construction and improvement of the Internet infrastructure has beefed up the spread and application of the Internet. By the end of 2009 the number of Chinese netizens had reached 384 million, 618 times that of 1997 and an annual increase of 31.95 million users. In addition, the Internet had reached 28.9% of the total population, higher than the world average. At the same time, there were 3.23 million websites running in China, which was 2,152 times that of 1997. The number of IPv4 addresses approached 230 million, making China the second-largest owner in the world. Of all the netizens, 346 million used broadband and 233 million used mobile phones to access the Internet. They had moved on from dialing the access numbers to broadband and mobile phones. These statistics make China among the top of the developing countries in developing and popularizing the Internet. [snip] !!! Thanks To Michiel de Lange For The Tweet !!! BTW: As I've Highlighted In More Than One Posting /vPresentation >>> "In December 2008, the Pew Internet & American Life Project released The Future of the Internet III, the third in a series of surveys of Internet leaders, activists and analysts that elicited their views on emerging Net and Web developments. In this most recent review, an overwhelming majority of experts predicted that by 2020 the mobile device will become the primary connection tool to the Internet for most individuals worldwide.", You Luddites !!1 [:-( For My Colleagues Still Living In The 20th Century >>> Get A Clue >>> / I'm Mad As Hell And I'm Not Goin' To Take This Any More >> Full Text And Associated Links Available At [ http://tinyurl.com/26ez7e7 ] EnJOY ! /Gerry Gerry McKiernan Associate Professor Science and Technology Librarian Iowa State University Library Ames IA 50011 Follow Me On Twitter > http://twitter.com/GMcKBlogs >>> "The Future Is Mobile" >>>

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Fwd: CFP New Media | Alternative Politics: Communication technologies and political change in the Middle East and Africa
by Steve Jones 08 Jun '10

08 Jun '10

> CFP New Media | Alternative Politics: Communication technologies and political change in the Middle East and Africa > > Call for Papers Deadline: July 31, 2010 > > The spread of digital technologies in the Middle East and Africa has generated the view that 'new media' open up political spaces for dissent, activism and emancipation. This conference offers an opportunity to critically reassess these assumptions. "New media, alternative politics" will bring together researchers, academics, activists, journalists and policy makers to discuss whether and how new media empower an alternative politics and mobilise political change. > > We welcome proposals for papers or presentations from researchers, activists, practitioners, policymakers and academics from all disciplines. We are happy to consider proposals for presentations in a variety of formats in addition to the traditional format of academic conference papers. These could include presentations via Skype, podcasts, slideshows, short films or posters. > > Full details here: http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/1323/ > > Presentations should not exceed 30 minutes and will be followed by 15 minutes of discussion. To apply please send abstracts of not more than 300 words to Anne Alexander (raa43(a)cam.ac.uk) by 31 July 2010. > > Thursday, 14 October 2010 to Saturday, 16 October 2010 > Location: CRASSH, 17 Mill Lane, Cambridge, UK > > > Anne Alexander > Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities > University of Cambridge > 17 Mill Lane > Cambridge, UK > Email: raa43(a)cam.ac.uk > Visit the website at http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/1323/

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Blue Mosque, Istanbul, Plaque W/ QR Code
by gerrymck 08 Jun '10

08 Jun '10

Colleagues/ Early Last Month I Had An Opportunity To Visit The Blue Mosque After My Presentation At Koç University To Deliver An Invited Seminar On "> AnyTime / AnyWhere > LEARNING > Education In The > iPhone Age >" [ http://tinyurl.com/36c23ex ] I Have Learned That The QR Code On The Plaque At The Entrnace Is Part of 'History Calls' Implementation >>> It Is A Most Imprressive Effort And IMHO > A Model for other museums / sites / organizations / libraries/ etc. Please Note Any/All Library / Other > Other Impementions On This Blog Entry [ http://tinyurl.com/33ew8sc ] !!! Thanks A Million !!! EnJoy /Gerry Gerry McKiernan Associate Professor Science and Technology Librarian Iowa State University Library Ames IA 50011 Follow Me On Twitter > http://twitter.com/GMcKBlogs >>> "The Future Is Mobile" >>>

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3rd CopySouth Workshop, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, June 2010
by Nanci Oddone 07 Jun '10

07 Jun '10

Sorry for cross-posting. *Third CopySouth Workshop* *International Conference on Copyright Issues* http://copysouth.org/portal/rio ● copysouth.rio2010(a)gmail.com The CopySouth Research Group (CSRG) invites you to attend and join in the debates at its three day international conference on copyright to be held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil at the end of June. It is an important moment to discuss these issues. Around the world, the antiquated assumptions of copyright law and ideology are again being questioned and new conflicts are breaking out. In Brazil, for example, more than 500 musicians, writers, academics and others signed an open letter in late May calling on their government to reform its copyright laws so that users can have more access to music and books. Meanwhile, the well-financed campaign against so-called copyright “piracy” has become even more vocal and threatens us all, except large corporations. Although three of the most important countries in the global South – China, India and Brazil – were not even invited to the talks, a new anti-piracy treaty called ACTA is about to be signed by rich nations in North America and Europe, as well as Japan and a few smaller countries. As we meet, a list of long-standing and complex questions is demanding new answers. Do most musicians benefit from the copyright system and the current way that the music industry is organised? How can we promote far more access to educational materials in the countries of South America, Africa and Asia than already exists? And, speaking of access and sharing, why do so many ideas and so many cultural products flow from the North to the South and so few flows the other way? Can we justify the current economic logic of the global copyright system? And what are viable alternatives to the current system? To address these questions and many more that you may want to raise, the CSRG has assembled a group of leading critical researchers, musicians and activists from around the world to come to Rio and to speak on seven panels. The speakers are from Brazil (7), Chile (1), Bolivia (1), Cuba (2), the United States (3), South Africa (2), Ghana (1), the Philippines (2), Switzerland (1), and the United Kingdom (2). We expect some strong opinions to be voiced and some good open debates to occur. So we extend an open invitation to all people interested in these issues, such as students, librarians, teachers, researchers, musicians and information activists, to attend. There will be simultaneous interpretation in Portuguese, Spanish and English. Hope to see you in Rio on 28 June. *The CopySouth Research Group, May 2010* *http://copysouth.org/portal/rio ● copysouth.rio2010(a)gmail.com*

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ChemSpider Mobile Goes Live
by gerrymck 06 Jun '10

06 Jun '10

ChemSpider is a free access service providing a structure centric community for chemists. Providing access to millions of chemical structures and integration to a multitude of other online services, ChemSpider is the richest single source of structure-based chemistry information. If you are an iPhone user ..., have an iPad hanging around to check email 20/7 ..., or use a phone with a browser, I suggest you point it to the new ChemSpider Mobile ... . There you’ll see a simple interface ... that allows you to search across our database of almost 25 million chemical entities based on chemical name (systematic, trivial or trade, registry number etc) and retrieve a list of intrinsic properties, a list of predicted properties, a list of associated identifiers, with links to Wikipedia if available, and a Google based search for the chemical based, for now, on the associated InChIKey. [snip] We are also working on providing access to ChemSpider SyntheticPages in the same way ... . Links To Source, Mobile site, And Screen Shots Available From [ http://tinyurl.com/38slkkx ] BTW: If You Are Aware Of Other Significant/Important Sci/Tech/Engineering/Med Mobile Sites/Apps, Please Note As A Comment On This Blog Entry. Thanks A Million ! BTW-2: Thanks To Antony Williams / Vice President of Strategic Development, ChemSpider at Royal Society of Chemistry ; President at ChemConnector Disclaimer: I Am A Mmember Of The ChemSpider Advisory Group. EnJOY ! /Gerry Gerry McKiernan Associate Professor Science and Technology Librarian Iowa State University Library Ames IA 50011 Follow Me On Twitter > http://twitter.com/GMcKBlogs >>> "The Future Is Mobile" >>>

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PBS Frontline: 'Growing Up Online'
by Richard Forno 06 Jun '10

06 Jun '10

FYI...... -rick COMING TUESDAY: GROWING UP ONLINE Airs June 8th, 9PM ET (check local listings) http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/kidsonline/ "If 21st-century parenthood isn't scary enough," wrote The New York Times about this week's FRONTLINE rebroadcast, "Growing Up Online uses real-life stories to ask an increasingly important question: What does it mean to be part of the first generation coming of age steeped in a virtual world seemingly outside parental control" In Growing Up Online, producer Rachel Dretzintakes viewers inside the very public private worlds that kids are creating online, raising important questions about how the Internet is transforming childhood, family, and school. "We almost have to be entertainers," a New Jersey social studies teacher tells FRONTLINE. "They consume so much media. We have to cut through that cloud of information around them, cut through that media, and capture their attention." In this hour report Dretzin also offers a corrective to widespread fears about online predators, finding strong evidence to question its prevalence. And she examines the dangerous new threat of "cyberbullying," which helped precipitate the suicide of a young boy in upstate New York. "You've got a generation faced with a society with fundamentally different properties, thanks to the Internet," says Danah Boyd, a fellow at Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet & Society. "It's a question of how we teach ourselves and our children to live in a society where these properties are fundamentally a way of life. This is public life today." We hope you'll join us Tuesday night, and visit the web sites of Growing Up Online and Digital Nation-- this year's follow-up report from Dretzin and correspondent Douglas Rushkoff -- for more on how the Internet has transformed virtually every aspect of modern culture. Ken Dornstein Senior Editor

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3rd ICTs-and-Society Network Meeting, June 30 - July 2, Barcelona
by alexander banfield-mumb 05 Jun '10

05 Jun '10

========================================================== 3rd International Meeting of the ICTs-and-Society Network ========================================================== Internet Interdisciplinary Institute (IN3), Castelldefels, Barcelona, Spain 29 June – 2 July 2010 Website conference: http://www.icts-and-society.net/meeting/ We are delighted to announce that the programme for the Third International Meeting of the ICTs-and-Society Network 2010 is now available. See full programme enclosed. SUMMARY: In 2008 the University of Salzburg, Austria, invited to a network launch meeting in the field of “ICTs and Society” which comprises different approaches of different disciplines with different tasks that originate from Information Society Studies, Internet Research, Social Informatics, New Media Studies, Human Computer Interaction, to name but a few. In 2009 a follow-up meeting was held at the University of Trento, Italy. The third annual meeting of the ICTs-and-Society Network 2010 is hosted by the Internet Interdisciplinary Institute (IN3) at the Open University of Catalonia (UOC) in Barcelona, Spain and supported by the University of Salzburg, Austria. This meeting is as open to everyone engaged in ICTs-and-Society research, Internet research, Information Society research and related fields – whether you are a senior researcher or a PhD candidate – as the network is open itself. KEYNOTE SPEAKERS: William Dutton (Oxford Internet Institute) Juliet Webster (Work and Equality Research, London, UK) ACADEMIC PROGRAMME: The time schedule and full academic programme can be found at: http://www.icts-and-society.net/meeting/schedule/ PhD CONSORTIUM: The first day of the ICTs-and-Society Network meeting – June 30, 2010 – will be shaped by PhD candidates’ presentations only. Altogether 15 papers have been accepted and each of them will receive 10 minutes of presentation time, focused feedback on their particular project from senior lecturers and appointed students see details: http://www.icts-and-society.net/meeting/phd-consortium/ REGISTRATION: No registration fee, but please register online at: http://www.icts-and-society.net/meeting/registration/ If you have any inquires about the network meeting, please contact Alexander Banfield-Mumb at Alexander.Banfield-Mumb(a)uti.at. Please have a look at the website at http://www.icts-and-society.net/meeting/ which will be updated on a regular basis. See you in Barcelona, the preparation team of the ICTs-and-Society Network meeting

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Teaching in Second Life? Writing teachers in SL?
by M. Deanya Lattimore 05 Jun '10

05 Jun '10

Are any of you using Second Life to teach? My dissertation advisor would like me to find writing teachers particularly in SL, but I'm curious about exactly who from this list is there. If you're thinking about it, I'd love to hear from you. If you suspect that one of your colleagues is, I'd appreciate a push towards that person as well. I am Deanya Zenfold in-world; I'll be glad to take any questions or comments. Lots of contact info is in the sig line. Thank you all! Deanya Lattimore -- Deanya Lattimore ABD PhD. Syracuse University Adjunct, Gardner-Webb University 704/466/3689 home; 704/406/3209 office http://www.deanya.com Diigo: http://www.diigo.com/profile/deanya Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/deanya.lattimore Google Chat: deanyalattimore(a)gmail.com Second Life: Deanya Zenfold Skype: deanya.lattimore Twitter: http://twitter.com/deanya

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