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altmetrics11: deadline extended
by Jason Priem 23 Mar '11

23 Mar '11

altmetrics11: Tracking scholarly impact on the social Web Koblenz (Germany), 14-15 June 2011 An ACM Web Science Conference 2011 Workshop [1] Keynote speaker: Mike Thelwall, University of Wolverhampton: "Evaluating online evidence of research impact" Call for papers: The increasing quantity and velocity of scientific output is presenting scholars with a deluge of data. There is growing concern that scholarly output may be swamping traditional mechanisms for both pre-publication filtering (e.g peer review) and post-publication impact filtering (e.g. the Journal Impact Factor). Increasing scholarly use of Web2.0 tools like CiteULike, Mendeley, Twitter, and blog-style article commenting presents an opportunity to create new filters. Metrics based on a diverse set of social sources could yield broader, richer, and more timely assessments of current and potential scholarly impact. Realizing this, many authors have begun to call for investigation of these “altmetrics” [2]. Despite the growing speculation and early exploratory investigation into the value of altmetrics, however, there remains little concrete research into the properties of these metrics: their validity, their potential value and flaws, and their relationship to established measures. Nor has there been any large umbrella to bring these multiple perspectives together. The altmetrics 11 workshop aims to encourage both these. Submissions are invited from a variety of areas: * New metrics based on social media * Tracking science communication on the Web * Relation between traditional metrics and altmetrics * Peer-review and altmetrics * Tools for gathering, analyzing, disseminating altmetrics Important Dates: 2-page abstracts due * April 8 *, 2011 Acceptance and abstract publication April 14, 2011 Open pre-workshop discussion April 14, 2011 – June 14, 2011 Workshop at WebSci 11 June 14 – June 15, 2011 Discussion closed June 30, 2011 Invitations for post-workshop proceedings TBA Submissions: Prospective authors should email 2-page extended abstracts (max. 1000 words, not including references) to altmetrics11(a)altmetrics.org. If necessary, the workshop organizers will select the most relevant, original, and significant abstracts for presentation. Experimental results will be given preference, followed by technical reports on working altmetrics tools and position papers. All selected submissions will be published online for open peer review and discussion. Authors are encouraged to participate in the discussions of their work. Based on the presentations and online discussion, selected authors may be asked to submit full papers for peer-reviewed proceedings. Location: The workshop is hosted by the ACM Web Science Conference 2011 (Koblenz, Germany). This interdisciplinary conference focuses on advances in studying the full range of social-technical relationships on the Web. Please visit the Web Science site for more information. Website: http://altmetrics.org/workshop2011/ Organizers: * Paul Groth – VU University Amsterdam, NL * Jason Priem – University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA * Dario Taraborelli – Wikimedia Foundation, USA The organizers have an interdisciplinary background covering Sociology, Information and Library Science and Computer Science. [1] http://www.websci11.org [2] http://altmetrics.org/manifesto (includes bibliography) -- Jason Priem UNC Royster Fellow School of Information and Library Science University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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Re: [Air-L] CFP Popular Culture Australia-New Zealand
by Denise N. Rall 23 Mar '11

23 Mar '11

The deadline for the submission of abstracts for the PopCAANZ 2011 Conference has been extended - while the official CFP is closed, researchers can email their abstracts for consideration to the Area Chairs (see below). This conference is very exciting for new researchers interested in all areas of popular culture with a special focus on our regional areas Australia-Asia-New Zealand (see below). http://popcaanz.com/archives/40 The Conference will take place in Auckland 29 June - 1 July 2011. If you have an interesting topic in any of the areas (see below), post-doctoral students and researchers can still email their abstracts for inclusion to the following chairs: Anime and Manga: Craig Norris: anime(a)popcaanz.com Biography and Life Writing: Giselle Bastin: biography(a)popcaanz.com Business and Popular Culture: Sarah Kelly: business(a)popcaanz.com Design: Derham Groves and Prudence Black: design(a)popcaanz.com Disabilities and Popular Culture: Donna McDonald:disabilities@popcaanz.com Fashion: Vicki Karaminas: fashion(a)popcaanz.com Fiction: Nathanael O’Reilly: fiction(a)popcaanz.com Film and TV: Rebecca Beirne: filmandtv(a)popcaanz.com Food Studies: Toni Risson: food(a)popcaanz.com Gender and Queer: Anita Brady: gender(a)popcaanz.com Graphic Novels and Comics: Paul Mountfort: comics(a)popcaanz.com History: Hsu-Ming Teo: history(a)popcaanz.com Music: Ed Montano: music(a)popcaanz.com Religion: Sean Durbin: religion(a)popcaanz.com Science: Bill Lott: science(a)popcaanz.com Sports: Carol Wical: sports(a)popcaanz.com Toys and Games: Jason Bainbridge and Juliette Peers: toys(a)popcaanz.com Visual Arts: Adam Geczy: visualarts(a)popcaanz.com It's a great conference, and the conference price includes the first year (3 issues) of the Australasian Journal of Popular Culture. Cheers, Denise Denise N. Rall, PhD. Exhibiting with the Lismore Embroiders' Guild Northern Rivers Community Gallery, Ballina, NSW, 12 March-04 April 2011 Lismore NSW AUSTRALIA Mobile +(61)(0)438 233344 Fax +(61)(0)2 6624 5380 http://www.scu.edu.au/schools/esm/staff/pages/drall/ > >

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request for assistance with article citations
by Nikki Usher 23 Mar '11

23 Mar '11

Hi: I'm looking to discuss the relationship between social media organizations as hegemonic institutions and as arbiters of "free speech" - or something to that effect. Essentially, I'd like to place some criticism on the place of big social media orgs and their place in the discourse about freedom of information. I'm fine on privacy articles. For those of you interested in the social media course I've been shaping, it's almost done, with many thanks to your help. Thanks, Nikki Usher -- Nikki Usher PhD Candidate Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism University of Southern California mobile: 213-220-7824 home: 213-493-4204 www.nikkiusher.com

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Call for papers - Comparing Media Systems in the Iberian Peninsula
by Patrícia Dias da Silva 23 Mar '11

23 Mar '11

Special issue of the International Journal of Iberian Studies (Intellect). In the last years, comparative studies have quickly developed in the field of communication studies. Specifically, the publication of Hallin and Manciniís Comparing Media Systems has been a turning point of cross-national research into the structure, politics and performing of media systems. In this work, Spain and Portugal appear, alongside other countries, under the umbrella of the Polarized Pluralist or Mediterranean model. However, not all the literature agrees on these similarities between Spain and Portugal. Equally, areas like those of journalism, policies, texts and audiences, just to name a few, remain largely unexplored from this comparative perspective. The aim of this special issue is to stimulate the debate on cross-national media research between Spain and Portugal. The Iberian perspective on media studies is hardly developed. However, in the context of increasing comparative research, it seems a logical step forward. Among others, relevant questions include: - Is there space for an Iberian dimension in Portuguese and Spanish media systems? - What are the difficulties faced by researchers when comparing the Spanish and Portuguese media systems? - Whatís the research agenda for an Iberian perspective on media systems and its relation to political, economic or cultural systems? - What is the theoretical and empirical justification for Iberian research? - How do researchers interpret similarities and differences found when studying both countries and media production, distribution and consumption? - Do media texts reflect the Iberian perspective? How do they reflect it? - How the different languages spoken in the Iberian Peninsula affect this Iberian dimension? - Whatís the role of nations and regions within these systems and among them? - Whatís the relationship and position of the Iberian media and communication space with other systems in the context of globalization? To that end, possible topics include (but are not limited to): journalism practices and cultures, structure of national broadcasting systems, transborder texts, experiences and practices, audience analysis, international communication, political communication, communication and cultural policies, and media theory and sociology. Cross-national studies will be privileged. Only articles written in English will be sent out for review. Articles should be between 6,000 and 8,000 words including notes and references. The submission guidelines can be downloaded from http://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/MediaManager/File/IJIS%20Notes%20for%20Cont…. The deadline for submissions is 20 September 2011. This special issue will be published in 2012. For further information and submissions, please contact the guest editors at: David Fernandez-Quijada Departament de Comunicacio Audiovisual i Publicitat I, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona david.fernandez(a)uab.es Jose Luis Garcia Instituto de Ciencias Sociais, Universidade de Lisboa jlgarcia(a)ics.ul.pt

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Request for Resources
by Pam Brewer 23 Mar '11

23 Mar '11

Dear Colleagues-- One of the students in our professional writing program is writing an article on social networking and its uses in professional/technical communication. She has found many resources for its use in marketing but none in professional/technical communication. She would like to know if any of you have conducted research with regard to social networking and technical communication or if you have knowledge of such research. Thank you, Pam -- Pamela Estes Brewer, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Director, Writing and Editing Internships Department of English Appalachian State University Manager, STC Academic Special Interest Group phone 828-262-2351 fax 828-262-2133 email brewerpe(a)appstate.edu

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Couch Award CORRECTION
by Mark D. Johns 23 Mar '11

23 Mar '11

*CORRECTED* CALL FOR AWARD APPLICATIONS Carl J. Couch Internet Research Award 2011 Sponsored by the Carl Couch Center for Social and Internet Research http://www.cccsir.com/ The Carl Couch Center issues an annual call for student-authored papers to be considered for the Carl J. Couch Internet Research Award. The Couch Center welcomes both theoretical and empirical papers that (1) apply symbolic interactionist approaches to Internet studies, (2) demonstrate interactive relationships between social interaction and communication technologies, and/or (3) develop symbolic interactionist concepts in new directions. Papers will be evaluated based on the quality of (1) mastery of symbolic interactionist approaches and concepts, (2) originality, (3) organization, (4) presentation, and (5) advancement of knowledge. Evaluation will be administered by a Review Committee of four: Mark D. Johns, Luther College, Decorah, Iowa Annette Markham, University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee Lois Ann Scheidt, Indiana University, Bloomington Dennis Waskul, Minnesota State University, Mankato Competition is open to graduate or undergraduate students of all disciplines. Works that are published or accepted for publication are not eligible for award consideration. Entries should not exceed 30 pages (approximately 7500 words) in length, including references and appendices. Limit of one entry per student per year. The top three papers will receive Couch Awards to be presented at the 2011 meeting of the Association of Internet Researchers (aoir.org) at the University of Washington, Seattle. The top paper will be awarded a certificate and a cash prize of $300 US, runner up will receive a certificate and a cash prize of $200 US, and a third paper will receive a certificate and a cash prize of $100 US. All three authors will be invited to present their work at a session of the AoIR conference, October 20-22, 2011 in Seattle. Those interested should send a copy of their paper, with a 100-word abstract, electronically to Mark D. Johns at mjohns(a)luther.edu Application deadline is April 30, 2011. Notification of award will be sent by June 15. Those with questions or comments about Couch Award application, please contact: Mark D. Johns Dept. of Communication Studies Luther College, Decorah, IA 52101 USA Tel: (563) 387-1347 E-mail: mjohns(a)luther.edu

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New Book: Foundations of Critical Media and Information Studies
by Christian Fuchs 23 Mar '11

23 Mar '11

New book: Fuchs, Christian. 2011. Foundations of Critical Media and Information Studies. New York: Routledge. ISBN 978-0-415-58881-2. 384 pages. Rouledge Advances in Sociology No. 52. More information: http://fuchs.uti.at/books/foundations-of-critical-media-and-information-stu… Available from the same author: "Internet and Society: Social Theory in the Information Age" (Paperback 2011) http://fuchs.uti.at/books/internet-society/ Foundations of Critical Media and Information Studies lays down foundations for the analysis of media, information, and information technology in 21st century information society, as well as introducing the theoretical and empirical tools necessary for the critical study of media and the information society. Reasons for reading this book * To find out more about critical theory today: The book updates critical theory for 21st century information society. * To acquire tools for critical analyses: The book introduces methodological and theoretical tools for studying media, information technology, and the information society in a critical way. * To read more about a critical theory of media and the information society: The book explains the foundations of a critical theory of media, information, information technology, and the information society. * To find out more about how power structures frame the media and the Internet: The book provides a power structure analysis of the media and the Internet. * To engage with alternative media and the alternative Internet: The book identifies alternative potentials of the media, culture, and the Internet. Contents 1 Introduction PART I: Theory 2 Critical theory today 3 Critical media and information studies 4 Marx and critical media and information studies PART II: Case studies 5 The media and information economy and the new imperialism 6 The new crisis of capitalism and the role of the media and information economy 7 Participatory web 2.0 as ideology PART III Alternatives 8 Alternative media as critical media 9 Conclusion -- Prof. Christian Fuchs Chair in Media and Communication Studies Department of Informatics and Media Uppsala University Kyrkogårdsgatan 10 Box 513 751 20 Uppsala Sweden christian.fuchs(a)im.uu.se Tel +46 (0) 18 471 1019 http://fuchs.uti.at http://www.im.uu.se NetPolitics Blog: http://fuchs.uti.at/blog Editor of tripleC: http://www.triple-c.at Book "Foundations of Critical Media and Information Studies" (Routledge 2011) Book "Internet and Society" (Paperback, Routledge 2010)

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Re: [Air-L] Twitter no longer allowing use for scholarship - Update
by Amanda Lenhart 23 Mar '11

23 Mar '11

Hi Andrea & AoIR List Sure, in the name of transparency, here's the text of the email I sent to the person I know at Twitter, with all the personal pleasantries edited out. I also included an attachment with more detailed needs from the people who emailed me, but as those were off-list messages, I don't feel like I have permission to repost them here. However, if anyone who emailed me wants to repost their message to the list to get a broader discussion going, that's fine with me. And of course, let me know if I missed anything or misrepresented anyone's needs. * * * "I'm going to try to summarize the main feedback. Basically, the type and breadth of research even among the 12 or so projects that I heard about from my outreach are so varied that at least one researcher out there is using every element of a tweet, profiles, and the interface to measure or look at something. For example there's a guy looking at regional variations in linguistic forms on twitter - so he's using geolocation, tagging and the words in individual tweets for analysis. There is a big project looking at crisis response by looking at twitter hashtags, and other projects where people are using twitter data to do network mapping - so they need @reply data, and individual user ids -- names or something else, at a minimum, that give them access to the body of tweets from individuals. One Australian researcher, Jean Burgess, put it well: "There are two main research needs: one is the need for public, (semi)open and reusable archives of tweets, particularly for keywords and hashtags, [but also location data (Amanda add)]; and the other is the more specific needs of particular research groups to track *users* and their social networks, for whatever reason." For academic researchers and serious scholarly work, researchers can't just use a cool website that pulls up pie charts of stats about users - they need to be able to access the data as directly as possible. Here's a list of the types of data people are using for their research work: -geotagging -location -institutional tweets -@replies -hashtags and post keywords -collocating a single user's tweets -RT counts and tracking -words within tweets -follower/following data -number of tweets -links -images/avatars -lists Sometimes researchers need subsamples of the twitter stream based around: 1. A date and time (e.g. all tweets two days before, during and two days after the Superbowl) 2. Hashtags or keywords 3. Individuals (e.g. top ten most active people in a particular community of practice) 4. Random subsample of the public twitter stream I'm sure I've missed some items that creative researchers will want to use. I think the big takeaway is that researchers are doing a ton of creative things with Twitter data and would be hugely grateful for the most robust access you can offer them. Also, that as you continue to update Twitter's capabilities, researchers will want to take advantage of the new functionality. Scholars (myself included) find Twitter fascinating and truly want to do research that examines the ways in which Twitter is being used, which I think helps scholars, helps Twitter, and helps your users. I hope this is useful. Let me know if there's anything else I can do that would help make the case that Twitter can and should release its data to academic and non-profit researchers." -Amanda Amanda Lenhart Pew Research Center alenhart(a)pewinternet.org -----Original Message----- From: Andrea Kavanaugh [mailto:kavan@cs.vt.edu] Sent: Friday, March 11, 2011 5:09 PM To: Amanda Lenhart Subject: Re: [Air-L] Twitter no longer allowing use for scholarship - Update hi Amanda, can you send us what you sent to Twitter as our collective research needs? Andrea On Mar 11, 2011, at 12:26 PM, Amanda Lenhart wrote: > Thanks to everyone who wrote with feedback and details about their > twitter-oriented research needs. I've pulled together everyone's > requests and I've forwarded them to my friend at Twitter. I'll > update the list when I hear anything. > > Thanks, > > Amanda > > Amanda Lenhart > Pew Research Center > alenhart(a)pewinternet.org<mailto:alenhart@pewinternet.org> > > _ _ _ _ _ _ _ > > On Friday, I had a conversation at conference with someone I know > who works at Twitter. We talked about this exact issue. And while > Twitter can't change back the API because of other problems the > change was fixing, she would very much like to give academics and > non-profit researchers access to Twitter data. However, she has to > push through a proposal internally to make this happen. She said it > would help her make the case if I could tell her what parts of the > data set researchers wanted to access. > > I offered to ping the AoIR list to get a sense of what people want > and need from Twitter to be able to do/continue their research. > > Also, one thing my friend did mention -- because Twitter data can > never be fully anonymized, there might be some limitations on what > kind of analysis you could do - mostly along the lines of limits on > analysis that would reveal information about the individual that > they had not made explicit and which might be harmful (e.g. Using > network analysis to speculate on users' sexual orientation). > > So, please email me off-list and I'll compile the types of data > requests and send them along to my Twitter friend. > > Thanks, > > Amanda > > > Amanda Lenhart > Pew Research Center > alenhart(a)pewinternet.org<mailto:alenhart@pewinternet.org> > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > The Air-L(a)listserv.aoir.org mailing list > is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org > Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org > > Join the Association of Internet Researchers: > http://www.aoir.org/

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Call for Papers - ICCE 2011 sub-conference on Game and Toy Enhanced Learning and Society (GTEL&S)
by Maiga Chang 23 Mar '11

23 Mar '11

[Apologies if you receive multiple times, please circulate this to your colleagues and graduate students who might be interested in this, thank you so much.] ------- Call for Papers for ICCE 2011-C5 Subconference ----------- ICCE Conference on Game and Toy Enhanced Learning and Society (GTEL&S) November 28, 2011 (Monday) to December 2, 2011 (Friday) Chiang Mai, Thailand http://www.nectec.or.th/icce2011/callForPapers/cfp_c5.html Organized by Asia Pacific Society for Computers in Education http://apsce.net Hosted by National Electronics and Computer Technology Center, Thailand http://www.nectec.or.th In response to the emerging research diversity, ICCE2010 will be a meta-conference, a conference of collocated theme-based conferences. This is the Call for Papers for the theme-based conference, C5: ICCE Conference on GTEL&S, standing for 'Game and Toy Enhanced Learning and Soceity'. The spurring interest in deriving pedagogical principles and design from video games and digital toys offers a new angle of designing 'how to learn' in the future. More specifically, GTEL&S puts 'why to learn' (motivation and engagement) as a prominent element in our design. How to relate that element with other elements: 'how well to learn' (learning performance), 'what to learn' (domain knowledge), 'what to learn with' (computer programs or digital toys, virtual characters or robots), 'where to learn' (physical settings or online), and 'who to learn with' (individuals or teams) are the fundamental issues of investigation. Such endeavor will lead to significant extension of the horizon of technology enhanced learning research. Program Co-chairs Ming-Puu CHEN, National Taiwan Normal University, Taiwan (Executive PC-Chair) Maiga CHANG, Athabasca University, Canada Muhammet DEMIRBILEK, Suleyman Demirel University, Turkey The scope of the GTEL&S will cover but not be limited to: •Foundation and Theory for Design •Evaluation •Case Studies and Exemplars •Artificial Intelligence •Virtual Characters •Virtual Storytelling and Game Narrative •Multiplayer and Social Game Design •Simulation and Animation •Entertainment Robots and Digital Toys for Education •Augmented/Mixed Reality •Interface •Training •Sport •Non-Visual Senses (Smelling, Touching, Hearing) •Mobile Games and its Linking to Online Games •Location-Based Games and Ubiquitous Technology •Identity, Roles, and Role-Playing •Optimal Experience and Flow •Engagement and Emotion •Collaboration, Competition and Communities •Social and Cultural Aspect •Wii-Like Learning Technology Submission Categories Full Papers: 8 pages Short Papers: 5 pages Posters: 3 pages Note: an abstract is not sufficient to adequately evaluate a Full Paper, Short Paper or Poster Author Guidelines: http://www.nectec.or.th/icce2011/callForPapers/authorGuidelines.html Important dates Submission Deadline: May 13, 2011 Notification: July 29, 2011 For queries, you may contact Dr. Maiga Chang (maiga.chang(a)gmail.com)

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FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS: Social Innovation and Social Media (SISoM 2011)
by Karolin Kappler 22 Mar '11

22 Mar '11

APOLOGIES FOR CROSS POSTINGS * * * FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS - First international workshop on Social Innovation and Social Media (SISoM 2011) www.sites.google.com/site/sisom2011 *** Submission deadline extended to March 28th *** In conjunction with the International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM 2011) July 21, 2011 -- Barcelona; Catalunya (Spain) TOPICS Objectives: The workshop seeks to integrate views at the intersection of several fields: computer and computational social science, policy design, social innovation, and technology development. The formal objective of the workshop is the collaborative drafting of a Manifesto on Social Media for Social Innovation, summarizing the challenges and proposals discussed at the workshop. The workshop will explore two dimensions along which research might help social innovation to take place at a larger scale: * The conceptual and computational development of new frameworks for public policy modeling and implementation to help public authorities to harness the full potential of Social Media and social innovation; * The design of new Social Media tools offering better support to social innovators and policy designers. Overview: Social innovation refers to new strategies, concepts, ideas and organizations that meet social needs of all kinds - from working conditions and education to community development and health - and that extend and strengthen civil society. [Wikipedia] There is an obvious interest in using Social Media to achieve greater proximity between administrations and citizens. Social innovations, encompassing new forms of private-public partnership, are increasingly seen as necessary to better address a number of pressing social problems. The idea behind it is that new forms of engagement of citizens and private organizations can bring about substantial improvements of productivity in the “social sector” (public services plus charity). Empirical research has allowed to identify some basic design principles and rules behind successful and sustained bottom-up collaborative arrangements, of which communication is one key ingredient. Therefore, it could be expected that properly applying existing and new Social Media tools to those communication procedures will be a means of achieving the improvements on speed and scale required to extend the reach of social innovation. At the same time, research in the design and modeling of policies taking full account of this potential will also be required. Research Topics: Topics of interest include, but are not restricted to the following: * Design of innovative tools for social participation and collaboration; * Qualitative and quantitative evaluation of social participation; * Challenges and opportunities regarding the use of Social Media to address public policy problems; * Case studies of successful applications of Social Media to achieve social innovation (in particular, combined with large-scale Social Media data analysis); * Policy areas best suited to apply Social Media as an instrument for social innovation (e.g. for inclusive audience: older people or developing countries). Important Dates: March 28, 2011 (EXTENDED): Paper Submission April 8, 2011: Acceptance Notification July 21, 2011: Workshop Submission: We invite original anonymized position papers up to 4 pages long. Papers should focus more on highlighting agenda issues than on research results. Submissions must be in English, must be formatted according to the AAAI template: http://www.aaai.org/Publications/Author/author.php; and must be made in PDF through EasyChair: www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sisom2011<http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sisom2011>. At least one of the authors of a submitted paper would be required to review other submissions, and at least one of the authors of an accepted paper would be required to attend the workshop. For further details on the submission process and the writing of theManifesto, please check the Workshop’s homepage. www.sites.google.com/site/sisom2011<http://www.sites.google.com/site/sisom2011> Karolin Eva Kappler "Información, Tecnología y Sociedad" Tel. 685851090 Barcelona Media – Centre d’Innovació Diagonal 177 Barcelona 08018 Tel: +34 93 238 1400

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