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Please post: EJC call for papers: Social Media in News Discourse
by Harrison, Teresa M 10 Aug '10

10 Aug '10

Special issue of Electronic Journal of Communication: Social Media in News Discourse Guest Edited by Donald Matheson As professional media producers pay more attention to social media, from personal blog entries and tweets to Facebook updates and YouTube videos, journalists are faced with numerous decisions. Among these are how to integrate personal and often-relationship-focused media with the public and fact-centered discourse of the news. This special issue of the Electronic Journal of Communication invites contributions exploring the conventions that are emerging around the use of social media by news organisations, and the implications of those conventions for public communication. Contributions will have as their central concern whether or not the encounter with social media is changing aspects of news journalism. Deadline for completed manuscripts is November 20, 2010. For the complete call for papers, see http://www.cios.org/www/ejc/calls/socmedia_news.htm. For more information about the issue contact Donald Matheson at donald.matheson(a)canterbury.ac.nz<mailto:donald.matheson@canterbury.ac.nz> Teresa M. Harrison Managing Editor, EJC Professor of Communication University at Albany, SUNY Albany, NY 12222 Voice: 518-442-4883 Fax: 518-442-3884 email: harrison(a)albany.edu

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_NatureNews_ > Special > Science Metrics
by Gerry McKiernan 10 Aug '10

10 Aug '10

Colleagues/ A Very Timely Compilation >>> > Assessing Assessment > Transparency, education and communication are key to ensuring that appropriate metrics are used to measure individual scientific achievement / 16 June 2010 > Do Metrics Matter? > Many researchers believe that quantitative metrics determine who gets hired and who gets promoted at their institutions. With an exclusive poll and interviews, Nature probes to what extent metrics are really used that way / 16 June 2010 > A Profusion Of Measures > Scientific performance indicators are proliferating — leading researchers to ask afresh what they are measuring and why. Richard Van Noorden surveys the rapidly evolving ecosystem / 16 June 2010 > Science Economics: What Science Is Really Worth > Spending on science is one of the best ways to generate jobs and economic growth, say research advocates. But as Colin Macilwain reports, the evidence behind such claims is patchy / 9 June 2010 > How To Improve The Use Of Metrics >Since the invention of the science citation index in the 1960s, quantitative measuring of the performance of researchers has become ever more prevalent, controversial and influential. Six commentators tell Nature what changes might ensure that individuals are assessed more fairly / 16 June 2010 > Let's Make Science Metrics More Scientific > To capture the essence of good science, stakeholders must combine forces to create an open, sound and consistent system for measuring all the activities that make up academic productivity, says Julia Lane / 24 March 2010 [more] Source And All Links Available From [ http://bit.ly/9t9gYA ] Bonus Link To Related > UnRelated > Related WP > Why We Get Things So Wrong > Books by Kathryn Schulz and David H. Freedman e-JOY ! /Gerry Gerry McKiernan Associate Professor Science and Technology Librarian Iowa State University Library Ames IA 50011 Follow Me On Twitter > http://twitter.com/GMcKBlogs "It's Not About Publication; It's About Ideas" [ http://bit.ly/bb6uW7 ]

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request for Material and Reading : Knowledge Society and the Network
by Arun Menon 10 Aug '10

10 Aug '10

Dear List Members, I was preparing for a knowledge society course which seemed to have an overbearing focus on Manuel Castells, Elull J., and Jean Francois Lyotard. Although i am not too familiar with these areas I was wondering if any of you have engaged with the knowledge society debate either in your work or in the classroom and what frameworks and approaches were preferable. Has someone engaged with Data (access, storage, retrieval) in some connection (not to knowledge production per se) but to knowledge management (if using such a managerial term in academia is appropriate) as well as the 'network' in the knowledge network. Being new to this i was also wondering if there are some essential readings you would suggest in engaging with these debates. If there is an exhaustive biblio could you kindly forward them and any readings you may have/suggest. I remember reading something similar on the lists at aoir (a while back) but have not been able to find those mails or in the archives online (weirdly). :( perhaps i am searching with the wrong keywords. Thanks Best, Arun Menon

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bloggers and weavers
by Murray Turoff 10 Aug '10

10 Aug '10

peter and johnson Lenz who did a lot of interesting design work on Computer Mediated Communications in the 70's and 80's especially on the EIES system once proposed the concept of the "weavers" on the web as those that brought together discussion threads in new ways to provide both summaries and innovative ideas. I always felt this was a better term for blogging or what blogging should be. They did design one sysetm along this idea for people to be able to weave views of the future for others to travel. The original context was ways to try and reduce information overload. -- Distinguished Professor Emeritus Information Systems, NJIT homepage: http://is.njit.edu/turoff

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ASIST Annual Meeting 2010 Available
by Richard Hill 10 Aug '10

10 Aug '10

* * Apologies for Multiple Postings * * We're excited to announce the schedule and special events at the ASIS&T 2010 Annual Meeting: Navigating Streams in an Information Ecosystem October 22-27 in Pittsburgh, PA. http://www.asis.org/asist2010/ You can now view the full detailed schedule on our event website as well as descriptions of seminars on October 22-23, full and half-day workshops on October 27 and social events planned for the main conference. Visit our website to view lists of the papers, panels and speakers scheduled for the conference. This year's event also has new features such as the Student Design Competition as well as emphasis on dynamic poster presentations, videos and demos. Employers and job seekers can participate now in the Job Placement program by placing position posting and resumes. This free service is open to all attendees. We'll provide space during the conference for those who wish to schedule interviews. ASIS&T 2010 Annual Meeting Event Links Event Website: http://www.asis.org/asist2010/index.html Full schedule: http://www.asis.org/asist2010/schedule-overview.html Registration: http://www.asis.org/asist2010/register.html View the topics and sessions on our detailed program. This year�s event features great coverage in many areas of Information Science, here�s a quick sample of topics: Collaborative Science Digital Collections Health Information Image Seeking, Retrieval & Use Information Behavior Information Sharing Informetrics Interactive Information Retrieval Knowledge Organization Repository Services & Intellectual Property Search Interface Social Computing Social Issues Scholarly Publishing User Perception & Evaluation For more information, please visit the Annual Meeting website. http://www.asis.org/asist2010/ We look forward to seeing you in October! Dick Hill Richard Hill Executive Director American Society for Information Science and Technology 1320 Fenwick Lane, Suite 510 Silver Spring, MD 20910 FAX: (301) 495-0810 (301) 495-0900

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EVEOnline Monthly Payments Now Tradable, Sellable, Destroyable
by Nick Lalone 10 Aug '10

10 Aug '10

Hello all, I thought this would be an interesting note for some of you: PLEX, the in-game item you can buy from other players in EVE Online that lets you extend your subscription to the game by 30 day. CCP recently unlocked the restrictions on PLEX in game. Previously, you could not move PLEX. It had to stay in a station where it was safe. Or at least safer. Now, however, PLEX is an item like most everything else in New Eden. It can be moved, sold, shipped, and destroyed. FROM: http://tagn.wordpress.com/2010/08/09/the-plex-story-weve-all-been-waiting-f… So I have been waiting for the first real big PLEX loss item to show up. And now we have it. Reported over at Massively, a player carrying 74 PLEX, worth nearly $1,300 in real life and over 22 billion ISK in-game, had his ship blow up in Jita. Should have chosen something bigger than a Kestrel. And all the PLEX was destroyed. Poof. Gone. Welcome to EVE Online. -- Nick LaLone Texas State University-San Marcos Systems Support / Master's Student www.beforegamedesign.com

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CFP: Siggraph 2011 Game Papers
by T.L. Taylor 10 Aug '10

10 Aug '10

Siggraph 2011, Vancouver (7-11 August 2011) - Game Papers CFP Submissions due 18 Janurary 2011, 22:00 UTC/GMT Full details about the conference and information about submissions at http://www.siggraph.org/s2011/for_submitters/game-papers Researchers are encouraged to submit Game Papers in which they present original work focusing on the design and experience of computer game play. Creative communities that design and develop commercial and non-commercial video games, as well as academic scholars studying video games, game play, human-computer interaction, and game culture are welcome to submit rigorous innovative work in the field. Game Papers explore key issues in video games, inform and substantively advance our current state of knowledge and understanding, and foster new areas for investigation that will drive the next generation of design and player experience. Suggested topics include: * Analysis and understanding of the player experience * Serious games * Social network games * Ethics and values in game play and design * Experimental game design and game genres * Social and cultural aspects of game play * Transmedia storytelling, world-building, and games * Avatars and character design * Sound design and music in games * Legal, and political aspects * Narrative in games * Aesthetic and critical analysis * Game and game culture preservation and archiving * Cross-cultural analyses * Networked play (including consoles) * Gender, race, and sexuality in games * Co-creative culture (for example., modding, machinima, iterative "live" design in collaboration with a game community) * Independent game development * Economics and business models in the game industry * Game production and labor Submitters are encouraged to submit papers on other relevant topics as well. Researchers should follow SIGGRAPH guidelines on the various ways to participate. All papers will be reviewed by an independent scholarly committee, which will provide written feedback on each paper. Accepted papers are allocated a 20 minute presentation slot at the conference and published in Sandbox 2011: ACM SIGGRAPH Video Game Proceedings. Questions about Game Paper submissions should be directed to T.L. Taylor (tltaylor(a)itu.dk) In addition to formal papers, SIGGRAPH 2011 offers several other presentation opportunities, including Talks, Panels, Posters, and a variety of other formats, all of which welcome game-related submissions. Questions about submissions to those programs can be directed to Drew Davidson (drew(a)waxebb.com) or Mark Elendt (general.submissions2011(a)gmail.com)

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CfP - AmI2010 - Semantic Ambient Media Experience (SAME) Workshop - deadline 1st Oct.
by artur.lugmayr＠tut.fi 09 Aug '10

09 Aug '10

Call for Workshop Position Papers SAME 2010 - 3rd International Workshop on Semantic Ambient Media Experience (NAMU Series) November, 10th-12th November 2010, in conjunction with AmI-10, in Malaga, Spain http://www.ambientmediaassociation.org/node/56, http://ami2010.lcc.uma.es/ creating the business value-creation, vision, media theories and technology for ambient media News - Position paper submission date: 1st October, 2010 - Submission system: http://webhotel2.tut.fi/emmi/Conferences/2010same/openconf.php - We are aiming at an Springer MTAP special issue as result of the workshop (to be negotiated) Call for Papers Submissions are expected to be 2-4 pages position papers according the paper format of AmI-10: http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-7-72376-0 The medium is the message! And the message was transmitted via a single distinguishable media such as television, the Web, the radio, or books. In the age of ubiquitous and pervasive computation, where the information through a distributed interlinked network of devices the question, ?what is content in the age of ambient media?? becomes more and more of importance. Ambient media are embedded throughout the natural environment of the consumer ? in his home, in his car, in restaurants, and on his mobile device. Predominant example services are smart wallpapers in homes, location based services, RFID based entertainment services for children, or intelligent homes. The distribution of the medium throughout the natural environment implies a paradigm change of how to think about content. Until recently, content was identified as single entities to information ? a video stream, audio stream, TV broadcast. However, in the age of ambient media, the notion of content extends from the single entity thinking towards a plethora of sensor networks, smart devices, personalized services, and media embedded in the natural environment of the user. The user actively participates and co-designs media experience with his location based input. Initiatives as the smart Web considering location based tagging for web-pages underline this development. This multidisciplinary workshop aims to answer to the challenges how to select, compose, and generate ambient content; how to present ambient content?; how to re-use ambient content and learning experiences?; what is the characteristics of ambient media, its content, and technology?; and what are ambient media in terms of story-telling and art? And finally, how do ambient media create business and value? How can ambient media be integrated into business processes and strategies? Semantics plays a crucial role in the generation of ambient media content. It can be seen as the glue between the raw data and the ambient media. Therefore we are interested to see innovative ideas how data can be (semi-)automatically be interpreted and translated into media presentations. The workshop aims at a series, and at the creation of a think-tank of creative thinkers coming from technology, art, human-computer interaction, and social sciences, that are interested in glimpsing the future of semantic ambient intelligent empowered media technology. Workshop Challenges ? How can ambient media be applied in business processes? ? How do ambient media create value and business? ? Business opportunities and strategic issues of ambient media? ? What is ?content? and how can it be presented in the age of ?ubiquitous? and ?pervasive?? ? How to select, compose and generate ambient content? ? How to manage and re-use ambient content in specific application scenarios (e.g. e-learning)? ? What is interactivity between the single consumers and consumer groups in the ambient context? ? How can collaborative or audience participatory content be supported? ? Which methods for experience design, prototyping, and business models exist? ? How can sensor data be interpreted and intelligently mined? ? How can existing media such as TV, home entertainment, cinema extended by ambient media? More information on the 1st International Workshop on Semantic Ambient Media Experience held in conjunction with ACM Multimedia 2008 http://portal.acm.org/toc.cfm?id=1461912&type=proceeding&coll=ACM&dl=ACM&CF… , and more information on the 2nd International Workshop on Semantic Ambient Media Experiences held in conjunction with AmI-09 can be found http://webhotel2.tut.fi/emmi/forum/node/55 Best contributions will be compiled to a special issue following up the workshop - we aim at Springer MTAP after reviewing the quality of contributions Check also the Ambient Media Association (AMEA): www.ambientmediaassociation.org Description of the Workshop Topics The following (and related) topics are within the scope of this workshop and shall act as examples: * Supply chain management with ubiquitous computation * eCommerce & ubiquitous commerce * Business processes, value-creation, and opportunities of ambient media * Understanding of the semantics of ambient content and methods for adding intelligence to daily objects * Mobile and stationary sensor data collection and interpretation algorithms and techniques * Context awareness and collection and context aware composition/selection of ambient content * Creation and maintenance of meta-information including metadata and data management * Ambient and mobile social networks, user generated content, and co-creation of content and products * Characteristics of ambient media, its content, and technological platforms * Ambient content creation techniques, asset management, and programming ambient media * Algorithms and techniques for sensor data interpretation and semantic interpretation * Applications and services, including ambient games, art and leisure content in specific contexts * Ambient interactive storytelling, narrations, and interactive advertising * Personalization, user models, multimodal interaction, smart user interfaces, and universal access * Experience design, usability, audience research, ethnography, user studies, and interface design * Business models, marketing studies, media economics, and ?x?-commerce of semantic ambient media * Ambient interfaces (touch, gesture, haptics, biometrics) * Management of information, knowledge and sapience in the context of semantic ambient media * Methods for context awareness, sensor networks, and sensor data mining * Semantic data mining and text mining for pervasive media * Semantic models, semantic interpretation for ambient media presentation; * Personalization and methods for locative media The workshop aims at a series, and at the creation of a think-tank of creative thinkers coming from technology, art, human-computer interaction, and social sciences, that are interested in glimpsing the future of semantic ambient intelligent empowered media technology. We are aiming at multidisciplinary, highly future oriented submissions that help to develop the "ambient media form" for entertainment services, such as: * case-studies (successful, and especially unsuccessful ones) * oral presentation of fresh and innovative ideas * artistic installations and running system prototypes * user-experience studies and evaluations * technological novelties, evaluations, and solutions Important Dates * paper submission: 1st October, 2010 * notification of acceptance: 22nd October, 2010 * final papers due: 27th October, 2010 * workshop day: between 10th and 12th November 2010 in Malaga, Spain * special issue articles due: December 14th , 2010 (to be fixed) Target Audience The target audience are researchers and practitioners in the field of ubiquitous and pervasive computation and its related areas. These include pervasive computation, emotional computation, content creation, ubiquitous computation, human-computer-interaction and usability experts, mobile industry, service creators, etc. Workshop participants shall have previous experience in this or related fields to be able to contribute on a high scientific level. The workshop participants will actively contribute to the development of semantic ambient media, due to a different method of workshop organization. Participants shall participate rather than passively contribute. The participants shall discuss and actively elaborate the topic and we plan to kick-off an international web-based informal forum for ambient media, which shall increase the effect of this workshop tremendously. We strongly welcome multidisciplinary contributions coming from the media technology, business, artistic, and human experience side. Case studies (successful and especially unsuccessful), artistic installations, technologies, media studies, and user-experience evaluations are highly welcome, which are affecting the development of ambient media as new form of media. Especially visionary contributions shaping the future of ambient media are strongly welcome. Workshop Chairs * Artur Lugmayr, Tampere University of Technology (TUT) & lugYmedia Inc., FINLAND * Thomas Risse, L3S Research Center, GERMANY * Bjorn Stockleben, Univ. of Applied Sciences Magdeburg, GERMANY * Juha Kaario, Varaani Works Oy, FINLAND * Bogdan Pogorelc, Jozef Stefan Institute & Spica International d.o.o., SLOVENIA

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10 days left 4th Nokia Ubimedia MindTrek Competition 7.000 Euros Award Sum
by artur.lugmayr＠tut.fi 09 Aug '10

09 Aug '10

Call for Entries 4th Nokia Ubimedia MindTrek Awards Competition 6th ? 8th October 2010 Tampere, Finland http://www.mindtrek.org/ubimedia (!!!) DEADLINE EXTENDED TILL 20th SEPTEMBER 2010 Award Sum: 7 000?. The Ubimedia competition seeks to broaden our understanding of where and how ubiquitous media will influence our future life. We are looking for disruptive artistic visions as well as clever near-to-market solutions off the beaten tracks! This includes any range of innovative ubimedia, pervasive, or ambient products and services. The Ubimedia Award is a highly interdisciplinary competition and we invite Designers, Computer Scientists, Artists, Economists and Engineers to take a stand on the following questions with their entries: * What is the particular aesthetic experience opened up by the rise of ubiquitous and ambient media? * What constitutes the specific intelligence that drives future media environments? * How will location- and context-aware media services change our social life? * How will our future lives look like in the era of ubiquitous computation, and how can society benefit from these advanced technologies? Valid competition entries include e.g.: * Pervasive and ubiquitous games * Ambient installations * Artistic works related to ubiquitous media and computation * Business models and management strategies * Ambient and ubiquitous media technology * Ubiquitous and ambient media services, devices, and environments * Context aware, sensing, and interfaces for ubiquitous computation * Ergonomics, human-computer interaction designs, and product prototypes * Software, hardware and middleware framework demonstrations * Ambient television * etc. To be inspired, please take a look at the entries from previous years: http://www.ambientmediaassociation.org/node/18 All ubiquitous, pervasive, or ambient media products, services or prototypes which have been finalized during the previous year after 1st January 2009 are eligible to take part in the competition. How to participate? Please check out the website http://www.mindtrek.org/2010/ubimedia for entry forms and current information. In case of questions, please contact: ubiaward (AT) mindtrek.org Rules of the Nokia Ubimedia MindTrek Awards Further Information Nokia Ubimedia MindTrek Awards Competition ubiaward (AT) mindtrek.org Or in urgent matters the competition chairs: Artur Lugmayr, artur.lugmayr (AT) tut.fi, Tel.: +358 40 821 0558 Cai Melakoski, cai.melakoski (AT) tamk.fi, Tel.: +358 50 555 6581 Kirsi Lindfors, kirsi.lindfors (AT) hermia.fi, Tel.: +358 40 820 4608 Nokia Ubimedia MindTrek Awards Jury 2009 Competition Chairs: ? Artur Lugmayr, NAMU group, Tampere Univ. of Technology (TUT), FI ? Cai Melakoski, TAMK University of Applied Sciences, FI ? Kirsi Lindfors, Hermia, FI Head Of Jury: ? Bjoern Stockleben, RBB , DE About the MindTrek Conference Conference Venue MindTrek takes place at Hotel Scandic Rosendahl, in Tampere, Finland. The organizer of the conference has booked quota for the conference delegates from this hotel. Please, look for more information on accommodation and registration later from our website. Please note that the accommodation is not included in the participation fee. There is also other accommodation available in Tampere, ranging from modern first-class hotels to smaller traditional hotels and dormitories. If you select one of these options, you should make the reservations by yourself with that specific hotel. MindTrek Conference in General Jukka Matikainen, +358 (0)40 5336 379, jukka.matikainen (AT) mindtrek.org www.mindtrek.org

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Air-L Fw: Re: Missing Data in Qualitative and Quantitative Online Research
by Lois Scheidt 09 Aug '10

09 Aug '10

Andre, So would you say that what is missing in the research projects themselves, or maybe in the overarching research environment, is the "critical" element of the discourse? I wonder if the monoculturalization, you note, is common in emerging research disciplines (using that term loosely as I know there is much debate on internet research as a discipline) as they sort out what foci, tools, etc. to port from other venues? I would like to hear you thoughts, and other as well. Lois On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 12:53 PM, Andre Brock <andre.brock(a)gmail.com> wrote: Following up on Lois' (my shero) excellent response, I'd like to add my own observations. WRT blogging platforms, i find that a lot of work out there ignores the mediating work done by blogging software. Yes, the platforms are content-agnostic (heh), but each platform works differently to construct the discourses published by the blog author and expanded upon in the comments. As Lois pointed out, some blogs hand code, which leads to them possibly not showing up in subject search queries. I would like to add to this that depending on the blogs hosting situation, comment structure and interactivity will change dramatically depending on the moderation and presentation (threading/avatar/anti-spam) possibilities available. as a reviewer, I'm often bemused by the lack of interrogation of cultural ideologies, both online and offline, that are articulated in online media. Specifically, research into "mainstream" (non-POC or "straight" or "masculine") cultures often uncritically accepts the tenets and beliefs expressed by that community as "normal". Meanwhile, any research on underrepresented online cultures MUST work to establish both the differences and similarities of that culture to the mainstream. The dearth of published research on race and online media is a problem as well, as it exposes the lack of diversity in our field. (well, it's actually a good thing for me, but plays hell with my bibliographies) Even more interesting is the lack of research on race AND gender or race AND sexuality; how did we get locked into such monocultural perspectives on Internet and New Media use and design? Just some additional food for thought... André -- 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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