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people working on Internet law and regulation in San Francisco area
by Angela Daly 09 Dec '11

09 Dec '11

Dear all, Thanks for the great response to my last message regarding people in Mexico. Now I am looking to connect with other people on this list working on Internet law and regulation in the San Francisco area, please get in touch again directly with me (Angela.Daly(a)eui.eu) Angela

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Online tools for crime prevention? Proposed e-conference
by Steven Clift 08 Dec '11

08 Dec '11

Join here to make this e-conference happen: http://e-democracy.org/crime The simple idea is that once 200 people join us, we will have a two week online exchange on the use social media and open data for community crime prevention. From online tools and open source to community strategies and real-life examples, we will share lessons and effective practices. Like the in-person CityCamps - http://citycamp.com - we are accepting sponsor contributions to cover some costs, but participation will be free. Whether you know someone who is a volunteer block leader interested in using online tools to connect their neighbors to those you know in police departments and neighborhood associations who work as crime prevention professionals, please spread the word. Steven Clift - http://stevenclift.com Executive Director - http://E-Democracy.Org Follow me - http://twitter.com/democracy New Tel: +1.612.234.7072

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can't attend, will be reviewer if you wish
by gene loeb 08 Dec '11

08 Dec '11

Jaan-Hinrik, I am impressed with the conference. I live near Chicago in the Unted States, and cannot attend.I would like to know of the tutorials and programs and if anything will be online. I wouold be happy to be a reviewer also. I am an editor of a Journal, CI Journal, issue on Technology and Elderly, and am working on social media and elderly. Gene Gene.Loeb1 skype id: gene.loeb1

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opportunities you might care about
by danah boyd 08 Dec '11

08 Dec '11

I'm involved in a ridiculous number of calls for things with looming deadlines that might be of interest to this community. Rather than spamming y'all with updates about all of them, I put them into one brief list in the hopes that this might be helpful: Microsoft Research Postdocs. • Who: Newly minted/about-to-be-minted PhD students working on social media topics from a social science perspective • Deadline: December 12, 2011 • More Information: http://socialmediacollective.org/2011/11/15/microsoft-research-social-media… Special issue of JOBEM on Socially-Mediated Publicness. • Who: Scholars who want to publish their work on socially-mediated publicness in a fantastic journal experimenting with open-access • Deadline: December 12, 2011 for brief abstracts; January 6, 2012 for complete articles • More Information: http://socialmediacollective.org/2011/09/13/socially-mediated-publicness-a-… Digital Media & Learning Summer Institute. • Who: Graduate students/young postdocs doing work touching on policy and innovation around digital media & learning • Deadline: January 9, 2012 • Application & More Info: http://dmlcentral.net/call-for-applications-2012-summer-institute-program Microsoft Research PhD Internships. • Who: Current PhD students working on social media topics from a social science perspective • Deadline: January 10, 2012 • More Information: http://socialmediacollective.org/2011/11/28/social-science-phd-internships-… Human Trafficking & Technology Research Grants. • Who: Scholars who can research the role of tech in different facets of human trafficking • Deadline: February 17, 2012 • Request for Proposals: http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/collaboration/focus/education/human-tra…

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2nd call: ICWSM-12
by Jan-Hinrik Schmidt 08 Dec '11

08 Dec '11

[sorry for cross-posting] Dear all, with the deadlines for the 6th international AAI conference on Weblogs and Social Media approaching, please find below the updated information and call. Best, Jan --------- ICWSM-12 THE 6TH INTERNATIONAL AAAI CONFERENCE ON WEBLOGS AND SOCIAL MEDIA 4-8 JUNE 2012: TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN, IRELAND 2nd Call for Papers, Workshops and Tutorials ================================= Upcoming dates ---------------------- WORKSHOPS: December 14, 2011 TUTORIALS: January 9, 2012 PAPERS: January 18, 2012 (Abstracts Due: January 13) Papers ---------- Abstracts Due: January 13, 2012 Full Papers Due: January 18, 2012 (by midnight Pacific Time) The International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM) is a unique forum that brings together researchers from the disciplines of computer science, linguistics, communication, and the social sciences. The broad goal of ICWSM is to increase understanding of social media in all its incarnations. Submissions describing research that blends social science and computational approaches are especially encouraged. Though this conference is just in its sixth year, it has become one of the premier venues for social scientists and technologists to gather and discuss cutting-edge research in social media. This is largely due to a typical acceptance rate of 20% for full-length research papers published in our conference proceedings and support from the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI). For ICWSM-12, in addition to the usual program of contributed technical talks, posters and invited presentations, the main conference will include a selection of keynote talks from prominent social scientists and technologists. Building on the success of the first workshops program in 2011 and our regular tutorials day, ICWSM-12 will also hold a workshops and tutorials day just before the main conference. Full details:http://www.icwsm.org/2012/submitting/call-for-papers/ Workshops ---------------- Workshop proposals due: December 14, 2011 ICWSM-12 invites members of all segments of the social media research community to submit a workshop proposal to the conference. Workshop participants will have the opportunity to meet and discuss issues with a selected focus on providing an informal setting for active exchange among researchers.Â The workshop organizers will have the opportunity to publish the proceedings with AAAI. Proposals for workshops should be no more than three (3) pages in length, and should include a description of the workshop, expected participation, and contact info for the organizers.Â Â Full details:http://www.icwsm.org/2012/submitting/workshops/ Tutorials ------------ Proposals due: January 9, 2012 ICWSM-12 is seeking proposals for full-day and half-day tutorials to be held on June 4, 2012 in Dublin immediately preceding the mainÂ conference. Tutorials are meant to provide expanded coverage of a specific methodology, tool or subject area key to advancing our knowledge of social media. Some tutorials will be technical, but we also invite tutorials on substantive domains from both the technical and social sciences. Tutors will be compensated for their time. Tutorial proposals should be no more than four (4) pages in lengthÂ including: description, expected audience, and organiser biography.Â Full details:http://www.icwsm.org/2012/submitting/tutorials/ MORE INFORMATION ================= Keynotes -------- * Andrew Tomkins (Google+) * Patrick Meier (Ushahidi) * Lada Adamic (UMich) Disciplines ----------- * Computational linguistics/NLP * Text mining/data mining * Psychology * Sociology (including social network analysis) * Communication * Anthropology * Media studies * Visualization * Political science * Computational social science * HCI * Economics * Graph theory, concrete analysis and simulation of graphical Â models Media ----- * Weblogs, including comments * Social networking sites * Microblogs * Wikis (Wikipedia) * Forums, mailing lists, newsgroups * Community media sites (YouTube, Flickr) Topics Include -------------- * Psychological, personality-based and ethnographic studies of Â social media * Analyzing the relationship between social media and mainstream Â media * Qualitative and quantitative studies of social media * Centrality/influence of social media publications and authors * Ranking/relevance of blogs and microblogs; web page ranking Â based on blogs and microblogs * Social network analysis; communities identification; expertise Â and authority discovery; collaborative filtering * Trust; reputation; recommendation systems * Human computer interaction; social media tools; navigation and Â visualization * Subjectivity in textual data; sentiment analysis; Â polarity/opinion identification and extraction * Text categorization; topic recognition; demographic/gender/age Â identification * Trend identification and tracking; time series forecasting; Â measuring predictability of phenomena based on social media * New social media applications; interfaces; interaction Â techniques * Social innovation and effecting change through social media Paper Submission Information ------------------------- Authors must set up an account (or add ICWSM-12 to your list of conferences) at the ICWSM-12 web-based paper submission site. Please make a note of your password, as this will allow you to log onÂ to submit an abstract and paper. In order to avoid a rush at the last minute, authors are encouraged to set up their account as soon as possible, and well in advance of the deadline. Paper submission site:http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icwsm12 Abstract and Paper Submission ----------------------------- Electronic abstract submission through the ICWSM-12 paper submission site is required on or preferably before January 13, 2012 at 11:59 PM PST. Full papers are due via the submission site no later than Monday, January 18, 2012 at midnight PST. We cannot accept submissions by e-mail or fax. Authors will receive confirmation of receipt of their abstracts and papers, including a paper number, shortly after submission. AAAI will contact authors again only if problems are encountered with papers. Content Guidelines ------------------ Submissions to other conferences or journals: ICWSM-12 will not accept any paper that, at the time of submission, is under review for or has already been published or accepted for publication in a journal or conference. This restriction does not apply to submissions for workshops and other venues with a limited audience. If in doubt please contact the PC Chairs. If duplicate submissions are identified during the review process then: * All submissions from that author will be disqualified from the Â current ICWSM conference; * And authors will not be permitted to submit papers to the ICWSM Â conference in the following year. _Format:_ Papers must be in trouble-free, high resolution PDF format, formatted for US Letter (8.5" x 11") paper, using Type 1 or TrueType fonts. Full papers must be no longer than 8 pages, including references, poster papers must be no longer than 4 pages, and demo descriptions must be no longer than 2 pages, and all must be submitted by the deadlines given above, and formatted in AAAI two-column, camera-ready style (see the author instructions page ). Please note that the formatting and submission instructions at the author site are for final, accepted papers; no additional pages can be purchased at the review stage. In addition, the copyright slug may be omitted in the initial submission phase and no copyright form is required until a paper is accepted for publication. _Anonymity:_ ICWSM-12 review is double-blind. Therefore, please anonymize your submission: do not put the author(s) names or affiliation(s) at the start of the paper, and do not include funding or other acknowledgments in papers submitted for review. Citations to authorsâ own prior relevant work should be included, either by not specifying that this is the authorsâ own work, or where this is not possible, by anonymizing the citation itself. It is up to the authors' discretion how much to further modify the body of the paper to preserve anonymity. The requirement for anonymity does not extend outside of the review process, e.g. the authors can decide how widely to distribute their papers over the Internet before the program committee meeting. Even in cases where the authorâs identity is known to a reviewer, the double blind process will serve as a symbolic reminder of the importance of evaluating the submitted work on its own merits without regard to authorsâ reputation. _Language:_ All submissions must be in English. Conference Registration ----------------------- All accepted papers and extended abstracts will be published in the conference proceedings. At least one author must register for the conference by the deadline for camera-ready copy submission. In addition, the registered author must attend the conference to present the paper in person. Publication ----------- All accepted papers and abstracts will be allocated eight (8) pages in the conference proceedings. Authors will be required to transfer copyright of their paper to AAAI. Datasets -------- This year, for the first time, we will be providing a service for hosting datasets pertaining to research presented at the conference. Authors of accepted papers will be encouraged to share the datasets on which their papers are based, while adhering to the terms and conditions of the data provider. Of these datasets, one will be selected for an award which will be based on the quality, scope, and timeliness of each dataset. More information will be available on our website. Conference Website ------------------ http://icwsm.org/ For general information regarding ICWSM-12, please write to icwsm12(a)aaai.org. Committee --------- General Chair: Â John Breslin, NUI Galway Programme Chairs: Â Nicole Ellison, Michigan State University Â James G. Shanahan, Church and Duncan Group Inc. Â Zeynep Tufekci, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Local Chairs: Â Derek Greene, University College Dublin Â Conor Hayes, Digital Enterprise Research Institute Sponsorship Chair: Â Meenakshi Nagarajan, IBM Data Chairs: Â Derek Ruths, McGill University Â Ian Soboroff, NIST Demos Chair: Â Alejandro Jaimes, Yahoo! Social Media / Publicity Chair: Â Max L. Wilson, Swansea University Tutorials Chair: Â Bernie Hogan, Oxford Internet Institute Workshops Chair: Â Sofus Macskassy, USC and Fetch Labs Regional Chairs: Â Americas: Raquel Recuero, Universidade CatÃ³lica de Pelotas Â Asia Pacific: Hideaki Takeda, National Institute for Informatics Â Europe: Jan-Hinrik Schmidt, Hans-Bredow-Institut Â Middle East and Africa: Sihem Amer-Yahia, Qatar Computing Â Â Research Institute Webmaster: Â Ritesh Agrawal, AT&T Labs Research Venue ----- Trinity College Dublin, Ireland Student Awards -------------- We will be providing an increased number of student awards this year to help cover the cost of travel, subsistence, and registration to the ICWSM-12 conference. Details will be posted on the conference website. Important Dates --------------- Papers / Posters / Demos: Â Abstract Submission: January 13, 2012 Â Full Paper, Poster and Demo Submission: January 18, 2012 (by Â Â midnight Pacific Time) Â Notification of Acceptance: February 27, 2012 Â Camera Ready Due: March 12, 2012 Â ICWSM-12, Dublin: June 4-8, 2012 Tutorials: Â Tutorial Proposal Submission: January 9, 2012 Â Tutorial Acceptance: January 23, 2012 Workshops: Â Workshop Proposal Submission: December 14, 2011 Â Workshop Acceptance: January 6, 2012 Â Workshop Paper Submission: March 2, 2012 Â Workshop Paper Acceptance Notification: March 16, 2012 Â Workshop Paper Final Camera-Ready Copy Due: April 2, 2012 Kind regards, John ICWSM-12 General Chair John Breslin, NUI Galway

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Call for Papers of the Emerging Scholars Network Section of the IAMCR, for Durban 2012
by Francesca Musiani 08 Dec '11

08 Dec '11

Dear colleagues, Please find below the* Call for Papers *of the Emerging Scholars Network Section of the IAMCR for the 2012 Durban conference. Apologies for some inevitable cross-posting! Best regards, Francesca Musiani ESN-IAMCR communications coordinator ** ***************** * * * *International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR)* *DURBAN 2012* *EMERGING SCHOLARS NETWORK SECTION CALL FOR PAPERS* The Emerging Scholars Network (ESN) invites you to participate in the 2012 International Congress of the IAMCR to be held on July 15-19, 2012 at the Howard College Campus of the University of KwaZulu Natal (UKZN) in Durban, South Africa. This year’s theme is *South North Conversations*. We call for general academic papers in Communication and Media Studies as well as papers addressing the concrete conference theme. Diverging from traditional world systems implications, this theme reflects the asymmetry of global communication flows, without suggesting the negatives that usually accompany discussions of the 'digital divide' within the context of the “global south.” The term ‘global south’ refers to countries, territories and communities that have been excluded from the mainstream of economic, social and communication development. In much of the discourse around global geo-politics, these countries and communities are still regarded as the recipients of economic and technical largesse from more developed sources. It is the theme of this conference to interrogate this assumption, and to emphasize the *communicative empowerment * and *the positive potential of media and communication in and from the ‘Global South’*. For more information on this year’s conference theme please see the general call for papers. The ESN is a section dedicated to the work and careers of emerging scholars in the field of media and communication. Hence, we especially look for works in progress from graduate students and new university instructors/professors who are interested in substantial feedback and comments intended to advance their projects. The ESN organizes emerging scholar panels and joint panels with other sections. Our emerging scholar panels provide a comfortable environment for the presentation of theses and works in progress, where emerging scholars can receive feedback from colleagues also at the beginning of their careers and from senior scholars who act as respondents to individual papers. The joint panels with other sections allow for the exchange of ideas with senior scholars in the field and networking. Should there be enough submissions we are planning to co-sponsor panels together with the following IAMCR Sections and Working Groups: Law Section; Gender and Communication Section; Political Communication Section; Health, Communication and Change Working Group; and the Task Force on Media Policies. In line with the purpose of our section, the ESN also organizes panels about issues affecting emerging scholars, such as: - Publishing research results; - Mentoring and the Student-mentor relationship; - Academic work and academic jobs; - Neoliberalism in the academy; - Language barriers in academia. Scholars who wish to organize or contribute to an issue-related panel are welcome to contact Sara Bannerman at Sara.Bannerman [at] gmail.com<Sara.Bannerman(a)gmail.com>and Stefania Milan at stefania.milan [at] eui.eu <stefania.milan(a)eui.eu>. *SUBMISSIONS The deadline for submission of abstracts is February 14, 2012. *Please note that this deadline will not be extended. The OCS system at http://iamcr-ocs.org will open on December 1, 2012, and will close on February 14, 2012. *Decisions on acceptance *of abstracts will be communicated to individual applicants by their Section or Working Group Head* no later than March 12, 2012.* On the same day, *March 12, 2012, conference registration will open* for bookings by participants*.* For those whose abstracts are accepted, *full conference papers* are to be submitted via the IAMCR OCS *by June 10, 2012*. - Questions may be addressed to the section co-chairs, Stefania Milan stefania.milan(a)eui.eu and Sara Bannerman at Sara.Bannerman(a)gmail.com. - Submissions must include author name(s), affiliation, address, e-mail address, and paper title. - If you are submitting a work in progress, we welcome your submission! Please state that it is a work in progress in your abstract. - Abstracts should be 250-300 words. Please also take a look at our suggestions on how to write an abstract: http://iamcr.org/component/docman/doc_download/315-2010-esn-how-to-write-an… * * *New ! Special Call ESN in Spanish / ESN Hispanohablante* El grupo de estudios ESN Hispanohablante y Comunicación Latinoamericana abre una convocatoria para presentar trabajos en idioma español en la Conferencia IAMCR 2012. Para el grupo ESN Hispanohablante y Comunicación Latinoamericana es especialmente pertinente el tema de la conferencia en Durban, “Conversaciones Norte-Sur”, que vincula los problemas sociales, las propuestas de desarrollo sostenible, y los contextos interculturales de América Latina con varias perspectivas de comunicación ciudadana, estudios de recepción, comunicación para el desarrollo y metodologías participativas de la comunicación. Invitamos investigadores emergentes a presentar propuestas de ponencia en idioma español y con un enfoque latinoamericano de la comunicación, que pone énfasis en comunicaciones y contextos socioculturales diferentes; reflexiona en lo intercultural e interdisciplinar, adecuando epistemologías, definiciones y metodologías de la comunicación a la realidad social. Los planteamientos de la comunicación en América Latina incluyen la diversidad de sujetos múltiples, negociando identidades y significados ante la modernidad y procesos de urbanización, mestizaje sociocultural, nuevas narrativas, medios, lugares y espacios de la comunicación. Para dudas o preguntas antes de enviar la propuesta, se puede escribir a Franklin Cornejo (fcu_75(a)yahoo.com) coordinador de ESN-Hispanohablante y Comunicación Latinoamericana y a la coordinadora de comunicación de ESN Francesca Musiani (francesca.musiani(a)gmail.com)<francesca.musiani(a)mines-paristech.fr> *MORE INFORMATION AND UPDATES ABOUT THE ESN* - Please take a look at our website ((http://iamcr.org/s-wg/cctmc/esn<http://esn.colostate.edu/> ); - Join the ESN Facebook group ( http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=44068562342) - Or subscribe to the ESN listserv ( http://iamcr.org/mailman/listinfo/esn_iamcr.org) -- Francesca Musiani Ingénieur de recherche ARMINES Doctorante, Centre de Sociologie de l'Innovation (associé au CNRS, UMR7185) MINES ParisTech 60, Boulevard Saint Michel 75272 PARIS Cedex 06 France 33 (0)1 40 51 92 77 33 (0)6 45 31 90 53 francesca.musiani(a)mines-paristech.fr www.csi.mines-paristech.fr/Perso/Musiani/

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CFP: Advances in Visual Methods for Linguistics, 2012 Conference
by Kim Witten 08 Dec '11

08 Dec '11

AVML 2012 – Advances in Visual Methods for Linguistics York, United Kingdom • September 5–7, 2012 http://www.avml2012.wordpress.com Linguistics, like many other scientific disciplines, is centrally reliant upon visual images for the elicitation, analysis and presentation of data. It is difficult to imagine how linguistics could have developed, and how it could be done today, without visual representations such as syntactic trees, psychoperceptual models, vocal tract diagrams, dialect maps, or spectrograms. Complex multidimensional data can be condensed into forms that can be easily and immediately grasped in a way that would be considerably more taxing, even impossible, through textual means. Transforming our numerical results into graphical formats, according to Cleveland (1993: 1), ‘provides a front line of attack, revealing intricate structure in data that cannot be absorbed in any other way. We discover unimagined effects, and we challenge imagined ones.’ Or, as Keith Johnson succinctly puts it, ‘Nothing beats a picture’ (2008: 6). So embedded are the ways we visualize linguistic data and linguistic phenomena in our research and teaching that it is easy to overlook the design and function of these graphical techniques. Yet the availability of powerful freeware and shareware packages which can produce easily customised publication-quality images means that we can create visual enhancements to our research output more quickly and more cheaply than ever before. Crucially, it is very much easier now than at any time in the past to experiment with imaginative and innovative ideas in visual methods. The potential for the inclusion of enriched content (animations, films, colour illustrations, interactive figures, etc.) in the ever-increasing quantities of research literature, resource materials and new textbooks being published, especially online, is enormous. There is clearly a growing appetite among the academic community for the sharing of inventive graphical methods, to judge from the contributions made by researchers to the websites and blogs that have proliferated in recent years (e.g. Infosthetics, Information is Beautiful, Cool Infographics, BBC Dimensions, or Visual Complexity). In spite of the ubiquity and indispensability of graphical methods in linguistics it does not appear that a conference dedicated to sharing techniques and best practices in this domain has taken place before. This is less surprising when one considers that virtually nothing has been published specifically on the subject (an exception is Stewart, 1976). We think it is important that researchers from a broad spectrum of linguistic disciplines spend time discussing how their work can be done more efficiently, and how it can achieve greater impact, using the profusion of flexible and intuitive graphical tools at their disposal. The Department of Language and Linguistic Science at the University of York is hosting ‘Advances in Visual Methods for Linguistics’ on September 6-7, 2012. The conference will be preceded by a half-day workshop on the afternoon of Wednesday September 5. The venue for the conference is the Berrick Saul Building on the Heslington West campus of the University of York. Accommodation on campus will be available. Call for Papers: Abstracts for oral or poster presentations (maximum length 500 words; please state your preference for oral or poster format) should be sent as PDF files to avml(a)events.york.ac.uk by January 9, 2012. Abstracts should be anonymous, but please make the name of the file the last name of the lead presenter (e.g. Bloggs.pdf). In the body of the e-mail to which the file is attached, please state the following information: Title of paper Name(s) of presenter(s) Affiliation(s) of presenter(s), including department/unit Contact e-mail address Submitters are encouraged to include relevant graphics in or accompanying their abstracts. We are also inviting suggestions for workshops to take place on the first day of the conference (Wednesday September 5). Suggestions should be submitted to the address shown above. The deadline for workshop suggestions is December 9, 2011. See http://www.avml2012.wordpress.com for further information. Thank you. Best wishes, Kim Witten --- Conference Organisers: Dom Watt, Carmen Llamas, Kim Witten, Natalie Fecher (University of York) Anne Fabricius (Roskilde University, Denmark) Tyler Kendall (University of Oregon) References: Cleveland, W. (1993). Visualizing Data. Summit, NJ: Hobart Press. Johnson, K. (2008). Quantitative Methods in Linguistics. Oxford: Blackwell. Stewart, A.H. (1976). Graphic Representation of Models in Linguistic Theory. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press.

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wireless sensor networks
by Sareeta Amrute 08 Dec '11

08 Dec '11

Hi All: Does anyone know of any literature that addresses Wireless Sensor Networks from the perspective of what effects Ubiquitous Computing might have on humans and animals? I'm thinking here of both biological and psychological effects. I've been doing some research and have *only* come across extremely positive reviews of this technology. I'd like to read some other perspectives. (This question may link back to the radiation issue that was on the list awhile ago). Also, if anyone has some concise literature on WSNs and cost issues, I'd take that, too (e.g. the economics of who will be able to have such networks etc). Very Best, Sareeta

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iConference 2012 Program available; early registration deadline Dec. 15
by Jean-François Blanchette 07 Dec '11

07 Dec '11

iConference 2012 Culture • Design • Society Feb. 7-10, 2012 Toronto, Canada The program for iConference 2012 has been posted online: http://www.ischools.org/iConference12/2012index/ The iConference is an annual gathering of a broad spectrum of scholars and researchers from around the world who share a common concern about critical information issues in contemporary society. The iConference pushes the boundaries of information studies, explores core concepts and ideas, and creates new technological and conceptual configurations—all situated in interdisciplinary discourses. This year’s program includes: * Keynote addresses by Ron Deibert and Geoffery Nunberg * 53 Papers * 96 Posters * 20 Alternative Events * 9 Workshops * 2 Installations * A Doctoral Colloquium * An Early-Career Colloquium * A gala Awards Banquet * Welcome and farewell receptions Sample topics at iConference 2012 include: - Cyberinfrastructure - Aural culture - Social media and elections - Human Values - Ethics and policy - Digital humanities - Infrastructure studies - Data curation - Interaction design - Material relations - Design research - Crowdsourcing - Categorization and classification - Social network analysis - Digital materialities - Visual culture - Information behaviour - Web metrics - Creative information practice - ICTs in organizations - Sociotechnical research - Network surveillance - Dating research and much, much more... More information about attending the conference, including early registration rates and our special conference hotel room block, can be found here: http://www.ischools.org/iConference12/2012index The iConference series is presented by the iSchools organization (http://www.ischools.org) a worldwide collective of 33 Information Schools dedicated to advancing the information field, and preparing students to meet the information challenges of the 21st Century. iConference 2012 is hosted by the Faculty of Information at the University of Toronto. Presenting Sponsors include the National Science Foundation and Microsoft Research. Additional support provided by Emerald Group Publishing and Morgan & Claypool Publishers. iConference 2012 7-10 February, 2012 Toronto, Ontario, Canada http://www.ischools.org/iConference12/2012index Hashtag: #iconf12 -- Jean-François Blanchette, Assistant Professeur Dept. of Information Studies, UCLA http://polaris.gseis.ucla.edu/blanchette

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iCS symposium 2012
by brian.loader＠york.ac.uk 07 Dec '11

07 Dec '11

Some of you might be interested in next years iCS symposium which will take place in York (UK) 18-20 July 2012 and is co-hosted by SATSU at the University of York. Entitled 'The Co-production of Knowledge: Social Media, STS and...' we are now inviting abstracts for proposed papers. Further details can be obtained at: www.york.ac.uk/satsu/news-events/ics or contact me directly if you want additional information. Brian -- Brian D. Loader, Associate Director, Science and Technology Studies Unit (SATSU), Department of Sociology, Wentworth College, University of York, Heslington, YORK YO1 5DD. United Kingdom. Tel: +44 (0) 1904 432639 Fax: +44 (0) 1904 433043 email: brian.loader(a)york.ac.uk

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