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Global Fusion CFP
by Jan Fernback 28 Mar '11

28 Mar '11

Apologies for x-posts ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Nancy Morris nancy.morris(a)temple.edu Call for Papers Global Fusion A Global Media and Communication Conference Hosted by the School of Communications and Theater Temple University Philadelphia, PA October 14-16, 2011 The purpose of the Global Fusion Conference series, which began in 2000, is to promote academic excellence in global media and international communication studies. Call for papers: We invite submission on any aspect of global media and communication. Paper or panel submissions that reflect the conference theme of power, resistance, and the media are particularly welcome. These might involve considerations of institutional, governmental, corporate, popular, citizen, community, or audience power and resistance as either or both of these intersect media. The Global Fusion conference also offers a graduate student paper competition. Submission deadline: May 16, 2011. Detailed instructions at: http://sct.temple.edu/web/globalfusion/

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DEADLINE EXTENSION :: 17th April 2011 - SAME 2011 – 4th International Workshop on Semantic Ambient Media Experience :: in conjunct 5th International Conference on Communities and Technologies :: Brisbane, Australia
by artur.lugmayr＠tut.fi 28 Mar '11

28 Mar '11

---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Position Papers SAME 2011 ? 4th International Workshop on Semantic Ambient Media Experience (NAMU Series) 29th June-2nd July 2011 in conjunction with the 5th International Conference on Communities and Technologies, Brisbane, Australia http://www.ambientmediaassociation.org/node/60, http://ct2011.urbaninformatics.net/ Creating the business value-creation, vision, media theories and technology for ambient media --> extended deadline for position papers: 17th April 2011 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Papers 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 goes 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, media embedded in the natural environment of the user and even the World Wide Web. The user actively participates and co-designs media experience with his location and context based input. Initiatives as the smart Web considering location based tagging for web-pages underline this development. This multidisciplinary 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. Thus, the workshop aims to answer to the challenges how to select, compose, and generate ambient content; how to interpret content for the ambient presentation; how to re-use ambient content and learning experiences; what are 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? In addition, 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. Workshop Challenges ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ? 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 interpret content for an ambient presentation? ? 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? ? How can sensor data be interpreted and intelligently mined? ? How can existing media such as TV, home entertainment, cinema extended by ambient media? ? 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? ? Which methods for experience design, prototyping, and business models exist? ? What means Quality of Experience (QoE) in the context of ambient media? More information on the previous International Workshops on Semantic Ambient Media Experience: * 1st International Workshop on Semantic Ambient Media Experiences held in conjunction with ACM Multimedia 2008, http://portal.acm.org/toc.cfm?id=1461912&type=proceeding&coll=ACM&dl=ACM&CF… 753168&CFTOKEN=49706448 * 2nd International Workshop on Semantic Ambient Media Experiences held in conjunction with AmI-09, http://webhotel2.tut.fi/emmi/forum/node/55 * 3rd International Workshop on Semantic Ambient Media Experiences held in conjunction with AmI-10, http://www.ambientmediaassociation.org/node/56 Topics of Interest ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 * The World Wide Web in the context of ambient media * 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 * Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) * 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 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. Paper Submission ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- * Submissions are expected to be 2-4 pages position papers according the paper format of C&T available at http://www.sigchi.org/chipubform * Please submit your paper at our paper submission system: http://webhotel2.tut.fi/emmi/Conferences/2011same/openconf.php * 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 Important Dates ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- * paper submission: 15th March 2011 - extended deadline: 17th April 2011 * notification of acceptance: 8th May 2011 * final papers due: 29th May 2011 * workshop day: 29th June 2011 * special issue articles due: 30th August 2011 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 * Estefania Serral Asensio, Universidad Polit?cnica de Valencia, SPAIN Program Committee ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- * Heiko Schuldt, Uni Basel, SWITZERLAND * Pablo Caesar, Centrum voor Wiskunde en Informatica, THE NETHERLANDS * Zhiwen Yu, Northwestern Polytechnical University, CHINA * Richard Chbeir, Bourgogne University, FRANCE * Sofia Tsekeridou, Athens Information Technology, GREECE * Shu-Ching Chen, Florida International University, USA * Mark Billinghurst, Canterbury University, NEW ZEALAND * Carsten Magerkurth, SAP, GERMANY * Andreas Holzinger, Medical University Graz, AUSTRIA

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Using Social Media class
by Holly Kruse 28 Mar '11

28 Mar '11

Another curricular question... I'm proposing a 2-hour, winter intersession undergraduate course on Using Social Media. This will in some way be an expanded version of a course I'll be teaching the following semester on digital communication (a revision of a seminar I've taught before), and it will have an applied element. I need to come up with a tentative syllabus by the end of the week. Any suggestions, syllabi, or other resources would be most appreciated! Thanks, Holly ---- Holly Kruse Department of Communications Rogers State University 1701 W. Will Rogers Blvd. Claremore, OK 74017 918-343-7879 hkruse(a)rsu.edu http://hollykruse.com or http://www.rsu.edu/academics/comm/kruse.asp

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Palfrey to Speak in Jones Lecture Series in 2011 ICA Convention
by Sarina Chen 28 Mar '11

28 Mar '11

John Palfrey to Speak in 2011 Steve Jones Internet Research Lecture John Palfrey is the Henry N. Ess III Professor of Law, vice dean for library and information resources, as well as a faculty co-director of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School. He is the co-author of “Born Digital: Understanding the First Generation of Digital Natives” (Basic Books, 2008) and “Access Denied: The Practice and Politics of Internet Filtering” (MIT Press, 2008). Palfrey will speak in the Steve Jones Internet Research Lecture Series during the 2011 annual convention of the International Communication Association (ICA), on Sunday, May 29, 2011, 4:30 – 5:45 pm, in Westin Waterfront Hotel, Boston, Massachusetts. Palfrey’s lecture is entitled, “Internet Research and a Future for Libraries.” Palfrey will address the striking fear of many academics about the future for libraries. In an era of Google and Amazon, Palfrey will make the case for a bright future for libraries and for research in an Internet age. Steve Jones Internet Research Lecture Series is sponsored by the Carl Couch Center for Social and Internet Research (http://www.cccsir.com) and supported by the International Communication Association (ICA, http://www.icahdq.org ). The lecture series is designed to bring leading Internet thinkers to the ICA Convention to promote Internet research to foster collaborations with communication researchers. For questions and comments about this event, please contact Shing-Ling Sarina Chen at sarina.chen(a)uni.edu .

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Facebook and people in their thirties
by Attwood, Fiona 28 Mar '11

28 Mar '11

Can anyone suggest any studies that have been done of the way that people in their thirties engage with Facebook, and specifically how this has impacted on the way they think about and manage their personal relationships? I am particularly interested in the ways in which people’s views of intimacy, community and communication might have shifted since their use of Facebook and how they compare their pre-Facebook and post-Facebook experiences. Thanks, Feona ....... Feona Attwood http://feonaattwood.com/ http://onscenity.org/

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Workshop call: Online Patient Experience, HCI 2011
by Phoenix Mo 28 Mar '11

28 Mar '11

Apologies if cross-posted ==================================================================== We invite submissions for the 1st Workshop on Online Patient Experience (PEx) and its role in e-health. The Internet has an important role in the provision of reliable, relevant and timely health information for the public and patients. Traditionally, authoritative health information has been based on facts and figures, not the experiences of patients. However the rise of patient-generated content on the Internet, in the form of online patient experiences (PEx) has changed the landscape of health decision-making. Online PEx can have both positive and negative influences - PEx can enhance social support, and facilitate adjustment to an illness but can also raise anxiety levels and in an unmoderated format can deliver very powerful but misleading messages. PEx is important for researchers and e-health designers alike and in this workshop we seek to bring the new PEx community together to share new approaches and findings. The workshop is being run as part of the 25th BCS conference on Human-Computer Interaction (HCI 2011) which is being held in July at Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne with the theme "health, wealth and happiness" - see www.hci2011.co.uk Position papers of 2-4 pages should be sent to Dr. Phoenix Mo (phoenix.mo(a)northumbria.ac.uk) by the 1st May 2011. Full workshop details available here: https://sites.google.com/site/opex2011/

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RIP Paul Baran
by jeremy hunsinger 28 Mar '11

28 Mar '11

Paul Baran 1926 to 2011 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Baran Begin forwarded message: > From: Dave Farber <dfarber(a)me.com> > Date: March 27, 2011 6:36:28 PM CDT > To: ip <ip(a)listbox.com> > Subject: [IP] Paul Baran > Reply-To: dave(a)farber.net > > > > Paul passed away last night due to complications from lung cancer. There will be an obituary in the New York Times tomorrow written by Katie Hafner > > Paul was an long time friend and mentor. I will miss him > > Dave > Archives | Modify Your Subscription | Unsubscribe Now Jeremy Hunsinger Center for Digital Discourse and Culture Virginia Tech Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality. -Jules de Gaultier () ascii ribbon campaign - against html mail /\ - against microsoft attachments

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Reminder: CfP "Web Search Engine Research" book - abstracts due 31 March
by Dirk Lewandowski 27 Mar '11

27 Mar '11

Call for Chapters Web Search Engine Research Publisher: Emerald Library and Information Science Book Series http://www.emeraldinsight.com/products/books/series.htm?id=1876-0562 Book Editor: Dirk Lewandowski, Professor in Information Science, Hamburg University of Applied Sciences (Germany) Proposal Submission Deadline: 31 March 2011, accepted Full Chapters Due: 15 June 2011 Introduction Since the advent of Web search engines in the 1990s, research has been conducted on their use and their quality in both computer science and in library and information science. While research in computer science mainly focuses on technical aspects of search engines, the focus of information science research is on users? behaviour when using search engines and how their interactions can be evaluated. Furthermore, information science research takes into account search engines? impact on society. However, it does not solely take the perspective of search engines as ?new media?, but can take a unique perspective integrating technical aspects, user aspects and their impact on their role in knowledge acquisition. The book therefore will follow a wide approach, and the editor is seeking contributions from a variety of research areas. Specific topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following: * Retrieval effectiveness * User satisfaction * Evaluation of search engine interfaces * Search engines? index quality * The impact of search on society * Reliability of search results * Query log analysis * User guidance in the search process * Index and/or results freshness, diversity of results * Influence of search engine optimization (SEO) on results quality. Submission Information Potential contributors are invited to submit a chapter proposal (approx. 500 words) to the Book Editor by 31 March 2011, detailing the background, motivations and structure of the proposed chapter. Authors will be notified in short order as to the status of their proposal and sent organizational guidelines. Full chapters should be at least 8,000-9,000 words in length and are due by 15 June 2011. Inquiries and Submissions Inquiries and submissions can be forwarded electronically to Dirk Lewandowski, dirk.lewandowski(a)haw-hamburg.de PDF version of this text: http://www.bui.haw-hamburg.de/fileadmin/user_upload/lewandowski/doc/Call_fo… -- Prof. Dr. Dirk Lewandowski Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften Hamburg (Hamburg University of Applied Sciences) Fakultät Design Medien Information Department Information Finkenau 35, Raum 268 D - 22081 Hamburg Tel.: 040-42875 3621 Fax: 040-42875 3609 http://www.bui.haw-hamburg.de http://www.bui.haw-hamburg.de/lewandowski.html

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List of Grad Programs and Research Centers
by Sravan Bhamidipati 26 Mar '11

26 Mar '11

Hello everybody. I am Sravan from India, and am new to the group. I am looking for Ph.D. programs in Internet Studies. The existing AoIR Wiki lists for Graduate Programs<http://wiki.aoir.org/index.php?title=Graduate_Programs>and Research Centers <http://wiki.aoir.org/index.php?title=Research_Centers> seem incomplete, given the large variety of people seen in the email archives. It will be very helpful for students if you could reply to this thread with a name and/or URL of your department, if it offers a graduate program and/or conducts research in this field. I will subsequently update the Wiki pages. Thank you all in advance. -- Sravan Bhamidipati Software Performance Engineer Symantec Corporation

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FW: [ciresearchers] Journal of Community Informatics special issue with selected Prato Conference papers is now out.
by Michael Gurstein 26 Mar '11

26 Mar '11

-----Original Message----- From: ciresearchers-owner(a)vancouvercommunity.net [mailto:ciresearchers-owner@vancouvercommunity.net] On Behalf Of Larry Stillman Sent: Wednesday, March 23, 2011 10:35 PM To: ciresearchers(a)vancouvercommunity.net; communityinformatics(a)vancouvercommunity.net Subject: [ciresearchers] Journal of Community Informatics special issue with selected Prato Conference papers is now out. Special Thanks to Mike Gurstein and other editorial volunteers for their help. http://ci-journal.net/index.php/ciej/issue/current (just a simple cut and past below) Special Issue: Prato Community Informatics Conference: 2010 Editorial: Special Issue Prato Conference Ricardo Gomez, Larry Stillman The Ethical Responsibility of Researchers in Community Informatics Michael Gurstein Articles Flying blind, or going with the flow?: Using constructivist evaluation to manage the unexpected in the GraniteNet project Catherine Arden, Kathryn McLachlan, Trevor Cooper Public Access to the Internet and Social Change: An experience in Colombia, between silence and hope Ricardo Gomez, Luis Fernando Baron-Porras Using Collaboration Patterns for Contextualizing Roles in Community Systems Design Aldo de Moor Poetic publics: Agency and rhetorics of netroots activism in post-earthquake LAquila Pamela Pietrucci Open educational resources or closed learning management systems? The Challenge of Designing ICT Support for Learning Communities in Higher Education Patricia Arnold ICTs Meanings and Practices: Contributions from the Social Representation Approach Mauro Sarrica Lighting up the Dark: Telecenter Adoption in a Caribbean Agricultural Community Paola Prado e-Research Infrastructure and Community Research Tom Denison, Graeme Johanson Applying a Community Informatics Approach as Part of Rehabilitation in US Prisons Lassana Magassa Equity, pedagogy and inclusion. Harnessing digital technologies to support higher education access and success Alison Elliott Inside the "People of the Wheelbarrows": participation between online and offline dimension in the post-quake social movement Manuela Farinosi, Emiliano Treré Reviews Participation in Broadband Society Vols. 1 & 2 Larry Stillman

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