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CFP: Learning Analytics & Knowledge 2012, Vancouver BC
by Caroline Haythornthwaite 08 Sep '11

08 Sep '11

LAK12: 2nd International Conference on Learning Analytics & Knowledge Vancouver, 29 April – 2 May 2012 http://lak12.sites.olt.ubc.ca KEYNOTE SPEAKERS KATY BÖRNER is the Victor H. Yngve Professor of Information Science at the School of Library and Information Science GEORGE SIEMENS researcher and strategist with the Technology Enhanced Knowledge Research Institute at Athabasca University in Alberta, Canada BARRY WELLMAN S.D. Clark Professor at the Department of Sociology, University of Toronto, Director of NetLab. Challenges & Opportunities We are experiencing an unprecedented explosion in the quantity and quality of information available not only to us, but about us. We must adapt individually, institutionally and culturally to the transition in technologies and social norms that makes this possible, and question their impacts. What are the implications of such data availability for learning and knowledge building — not only in established contexts, but also in the emerging landscape of free, open, social learning online? Within the learning technologies research and development community, this question has catalyzed the International Learning Analytics & Knowledge Conference, now in its second year. Learning Analytics is concerned with the collection, analysis and reporting of data about learning in a range of contexts, including informal learning, academic institutions, and the workplace. It informs and provides input for action to support and enhance learning experiences, and the success of learners. Learning and Knowledge Analytics 2012 supports the emerging academic field by connecting the community of researchers and developers, creating and disseminating new developments and practices, studying transformations, and providing ongoing evaluation and critique of the conceptual, technical, and practice outcomes. Educational institutions are under intense pressure to make improvements and savings, while still delivering on their mission to support learners using all possible means. The effective use of information about learners can be part of the solution to this dilemma. Analytics seeks to provide rapid, real time answers to questions such as: • Who is at risk of failing? • What kinds of interventions make most difference to learners? • How am I doing compared to my peers? • How effective is this course? • Who are the key people in this community? • Are there quality learning conversations in this forum? • What is or can be different about learning and learning experiences when combined with learning analytics? Social media, open data, web analytics, semantic web, data mining and recommendation engines may hold the answers, but they also combine to create a powerful but complex data deluge, which surpasses the ability of organizations to make sense of it. What is needed to tame this technical complexity for learners, educators and administrators? While ‘business intelligence’ infrastructure is well established for certain kinds of performance indicator, is there an equivalent for tracking the rather more complex processes of authentic learning and knowledge sharing? Is there the risk that learning analytics will damage learning and knowledge flows by monitoring and measuring them inappropriately? These technical, pedagogical, policy and social domains must be brought into dialogue with each other to ensure that interventions and organizational systems serve the needs of all stakeholders. Topics We invite submissions on topics including but not limited to: Conceptual & Empirical • Connections between learning analytics and the learning sciences (e.g., self-regulated learning, critical thinking, sense making and learning analytics) • New models of learning enabled by analytics • Educational research methods and learning analytics • Learning analytics in relationship to other fields (e.g., institutional analytics; educational data mining) • Communicating analytics (e.g., data selection, display, visualization, user groups) • Ethical considerations (e.g., privacy and ownership) • Learner modeling • The influence of analytics on designing for learning • The influence of analytics on delivery and support of learning • The study of emotion, flow, and affective data in learning analytics • Validating analytics empirically • The limits of web analytics Technical • Social network analysis • Cross-platform and cloud learning analytics • Learning environments that capture different kinds of data • Software development and use in analytics • The role of knowledge representation and ontologies in learning analytics • The semantic web and linked data: meaning in connections • Data mining in learning analytics • Artificial intelligence in learning analytics • Internet of things (sensors) and learning applications • “Big Data” applications and opportunities in learning and education • Latent semantic analysis/natural language processing • Attention metadata • Architecture of learning environments and implications to learning analytics Application • Visualization: data, learner networks, conceptual knowledge • Predictive applications of data • Interventions based on analytics • Social and technical systems to manage information abundance • Personalization and adaptivity in the learning process • Corporate and higher education case studies of learning analytics • Learning analytics for intelligent tutoring systems • Open data: data access for learners • Harmonizing individual learning with organizational learning • Organizational learning and knowledge sharing models • Importing insights for existing analytics • Use of learning analytics in centralized (learning management systems) and decentralized (personal learning environments) settings • Planning, deploying, and evaluating enterprise-wide learning analytics Submissions The following types of submission are invited: • Full Papers: Use a full paper to share substantive conceptual, technical and empirical contributions. 10 pages max. • Short Papers: Use a short paper to share preliminary conceptual, technical and empirical contributions. 4 pages max. • Design Briefing: Do you spend more time building learning analytics tools than writing about them? Specifically with people like interface designers, system architects and programmers in mind, use a briefing to share a design concept, tool or challenge. 4 pages max. • Demonstrations: A carefully planned, live demonstration of a tool is the most engaging and informative way to show interactive software, ranging from early prototype to robust product. 1-2 page abstract, clarifying the maturity of the tool, including at least one link to a current demo movie. • Panels: Panels provide the chance for delegates to hear a range of speakers air a topical issue, e.g. diverse approaches to a problem, or a debate on a hot topic. 2 pages max, including the names of confirmed panellists. The final paper from the Panel’s chair may be up to 4 pages, including panellists’ position statements. • Workshops: Workshops (April 29, 2012) provide the opportunity to explore learning theory, analytics, methods and tools in depth. Workshops should be designed to be interactive and may reflect for example, compilations of short and/or enlightening presentations, demonstrations, and instructional workshops. The length of the Workshop sessions can be a half or full day allowing for sets of interactive activities for experience sharing and brainstorming. Please use the workshop/tutorial template, outlining the significance of the topic, the workshop format, and your track record. • Tutorials: Tutorials (also April 29, 2012) provide the chance to take participants deep into a specific tool or technique in which you are experienced, or an introduction to a topic/class of tools. This could be as short as 1 hour, to a half day. Please use the workshop/tutorial template for submissions. Full and Short Papers, Design Briefings, and the abstracts for Demonstrations and Panels will be published in the main proceedings. Submission and Publication LAK2011 proceedings will be published in the ACM Digital Library International Conference Proceedings Series, and we expect 2012 to follow. Author guidelines on the website. -------------------------------------- Caroline Haythornthwaite haythorn(a)interchange.ubc.ca

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Call for Proposals for Dupont Summit 2011
by Michael Horka 08 Sep '11

08 Sep '11

Call for Proposals The Policy Studies Organization, publisher of 11 academic journals including Policy and Internet, invites you to participate with a program proposal for the Dupont Summit 2011 on Science, Technology and Environmental Policy Issues. The Dupont Summit 2011 will be held at the Carnegie Institution for Science in Washington, DC on Friday, December 2nd, 2011. We would be glad to welcome members of your organization to the discussions and extend courtesy registrations. The purpose of the conference is to promote dialogue about current policy concerns. We are looking for proposals from all views and persuasions from across the political and social spectrum. We intend the summit to serve as a venue for pressing issues. The Policy Studies Organization promotes discussion of policy concerns and further research and dissemination of policy scholarship. For more information, visit our website, www.ipsonet.org. Please do not hesitate to contact me with any questions. Regards, Michael Horka Policy Studies Organization Outreach Director 1527 New Hampshire Ave NW Washington DC, 20036 www.ipsonet.org

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Call for Proposals for an International Roundtable
by Klaus Rummler 07 Sep '11

07 Sep '11

- Sorry for cross-posting - *Call for Proposals for an International Roundtable* The STELLAR (The European Network of Excellence in TEL) Theme Team on “Social Mobile Networking for Informal Learning” (SoMobNet, http://www.somobnet.eu) invites proposals for an International Roundtable which will take place at the Institute of Education in London on 21st November 2011. Participation at the event is by invitation only and free of charge. Places are limited (max 35). The round table will feature two keynotes, a series of paper presentations as well as two discussion sessions moderated by a facilitator and reported by a network member. The discussion sessions will provide the opportunity for participants to respond to inputs from the perspectives of their own research and professional practice. The roundtable will provide opportunity to network with colleagues to learn about each other’s work, formulate collaborative ideas and scope challenges to advance theory and practice in the field of mobile learning and social network. Confirmed speakers include Aleks Krotoski (Guardian), Gunther Kress (IoE), Sonia Livingstone (LSE), Ben Bachmair (Kassel/IoE), Beat Doebeli (Goldau), Klaus Bredl (Augsburg) and Christoph Pimmer (Basel). Selected potential contributors will be invited to present a draft of their paper at the roundtable and subsequently to submit a paper for a special issue of a journal or an edited book on the topic. Please, see the full *call* and the *program* of the roundtable on the *SoMobNet website: http://www.somobnet.eu/roundtable*. * The application deadline for the submission of abstracts (300-500 words) is Friday 30th September.* All abstracts should be submitted via email to: maria.ranieri(a)unifi.it n.pachler(a)ioe.uk.ac

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tenure line digital and social media hire (apps due 10 October)
by qCentral 06 Sep '11

06 Sep '11

hey all, please forward (and forgive me in advance for the cross-postings/repeats). please email me offlist if you have any specific questions about the position or my dept? best, mg -------------------- The Department of Communication and Culture at Indiana University invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor position in Digital and Social Media to begin Fall 2012. We seek a humanities-based media studies scholar to join an innovative and interdisciplinary department that includes Film and Media Studies, Ethnography and Performance Studies, and Rhetoric and Public Culture. We invite candidates with a broad range of concentrations that consider instantiations and circulations of digital and social media, especially from the sites of television, video games, the Internet, and/or mobile social media. We are particularly interested in those who adopt a theoretical/critical, ethnographic, and/or historical approach to the implications of digital technologies in relation to one or more of the following areas: television, transmediation and convergence; national and global media production; and audience practices. Our new colleague will be responsible for developing an introductory lecture course about digital and social media and advanced undergraduate courses in digitaltelevisual studies, as well as for actively shaping and teaching graduate offerings in this field of study. Candidates are expected to have a strong research agenda and a commitment to excellence in teaching. Preference will be given to those who have their Ph.D. in hand by the date the appointment begins and who can demonstrate a research program devoted to digital and social media, as well as teaching experience in this area. Applicants should send hard copies of the following: a letter of application, curriculum vitae, writing sample, and three letters of recommendation to: Robert Terrill, Chair, Digital/Social Media Search, Department of Communication and Culture, 800 E. 3rd Street, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 47405. Review of applications will begin October 10, 2011 and continue until this position is filled. For more information about IU's Department of Communication and Culture, go to: www.indiana.edu/~cmcl Indiana University is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. The university actively encourages applications and nominations of women, minorities, applicants with disabilities, and members of other underrepresented groups. _______________________ On sabbatical until January 9, 2012 Mary L. Gray, Ph.D. Associate Professor Communication and Culture Affiliate Faculty, Gender Studies Adjunct Faculty, American Studies Adjunct Faculty, Anthropology Indiana University 800 E. 3rd Street Bloomington, IN 47405 Email: mLg(a)indiana.edu URL: www.indiana.edu/~qcentral Phone: 812-855-4379 Fax: 812-855-6014 BLOG for "Out in the Country, Youth, Media, and Queer Visibility in Rural America" (NYU Press 2009) @ http://queercountry.fromthesquare.org/

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Open position in Latin American and/or Latino studies and new media, etc.
by Steve Jones 06 Sep '11

06 Sep '11

> The Latin American and Latino Studies Program at the University of > Illinois at Chicago invites applications for a tenure-track position in > media and film studies at the rank of Assistant Professor beginning August > 16, 2012, pending budgetary approval. We seek a scholar of Latin American > and/or Latino studies with expertise and a transnational/global > perspective in any of the following areas: cultural study of media and > multimedia forms; film and moving images; photography and other forms of > visual expressions; and/or new media. Applicants must have PhD or have > completed all requirements for doctoral degree in film studies, media > studies, ethnic studies or related field by the time of appointment. > Candidates must complete an on-line application at https://jobs.uic.edu . > and attach an application letter, a curriculum vitae, and one writing > sample. Please provide the names and emails of 3 references. Deadline for > submission of application is *November 15, 2011*. The University of > Illinois at Chicago is an AA/EOE. Women and minority candidates are > encouraged to apply. For questions please contact Javier Villa-Flores > (Javier(a)uic.edu) Chair of Search Committee, Latin American and Latino > Studies (MC 219), University of Illinois at Chicago, 1511 University Hall, > 601 South Morgan Street, Chicago, Illinois 60607-7115.

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Social Media Collective research blog announcement
by Alice Marwick 06 Sep '11

06 Sep '11

Hi all, I am proud to announce that the Social Media Collective at Microsoft Research has launched our research blog! http://www.socialmediacollective.org For those of you who aren't familiar with our team, we are a group of academics at Microsoft Research who use qualitative methods like ethnography and content analysis to study a broad range of online phenomena like social network sites, video games, blogs, participatory culture, mobile devices, news and activism, and more. Microsoft Research is an industry-sponsored organization dedicated to conducting both basic and applied research in computer science and software engineering. Our group represents one part of MSR's effort to expand its research agenda in social science and the humanities. We're lucky enough to have had many AOIR-affiliated scholars visit and work with us over the last two years. On the blog, we talk about our research, comment on social media trends and events, post lectures and news stories, and hope to engage widely with academics and technologists alike. A few recent posts: Shouting Fire in a Crowded Hashtag<http://socialmediacollective.org/2011/08/31/shouting-fire-in-a-crowded-hash…> Andrés Monroy-Hernández examines citizen-driven news on Twitter around drug-related violence and the impact of rumors "Real Names" policies are an abuse of power<http://socialmediacollective.org/2011/08/04/real-names-policies-are-an-abus…> danah boyd explores how banning pseudonyms affects marginalized populations & reflects privilege "If you don't like it, don't use it. It's that simple." ORLY?<http://socialmediacollective.org/2011/08/11/if-you-dont-like-it-dont-use-it…> Alice Marwick on the costs of opting-out and why tech refusal isn't the answer Riots, social media, and the value of 'first responders'<http://socialmediacollective.org/2011/08/12/riots-social-media-and-the-valu…> Kate Crawford looks at the use of social media in the London riots and subsequent suggestions to shut down social networks Thanks much! Alice _______________ Alice E. Marwick, Ph.D. Postdoctoral Researcher Microsoft Research New England Desk: 857.453.6330 Cell: 206.650.9109 amarwick(a)microsoft.com

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CFP: Children's Periodicals panel
by Patrick Cox 06 Sep '11

06 Sep '11

CFP Reminder Panel: “Fun With a Purpose”: Periodical Pedagogy and Early Edutainment Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA) 43nd Annual Convention, March 15-18, 2012 Rochester, New York – Hyatt Rochester Host Institution: St. John Fisher College Panel Description: Children’s periodicals published in the US over the last 300 years provide a wealth of textual and visual insight into US culture, pedagogy, and conceptions of childhood. The movement of traditional paper magazines to websites, from print on paper to digital content, both enriches and complicates this genre. This panel will engage with this under-examined body of texts in their most salient mode: as pedagogy. Children’s magazines have been used as instructional tools with lessons spanning literacy, manners, morality, crafts, citizenship, “mental hygiene,” and beyond, transmitting enduring lessons in an ephemeral format. By packaging their lessons in an entertaining and disposable blend of fiction, non-fiction, images, activities, games, jokes, and riddles, these magazines can be considered a print medium variety of (or precursor to?) “edutainment.” They are, as the motto of *Highlights for Children* puts it, “Fun with a purpose.” This panel is open to explorations of particular mechanisms, contents, and contexts of periodical pedagogy past and present, including examinations of child-readers’ participation in, subversion against, or re-creation of, that pedagogy. Possible topics from all disciplines may include: - histories or analysis of particular children’s periodicals - pedagogies in periodicals (ideological, curricular, religious, etc.) - convergences of traditional magazines and digital media - pedagogy, periodicals, and power - magazines produced by children - fiction and poetry in magazines - use of periodicals in classrooms - transnational periodicals - accidental pedagogy - production, distribution, and circulation of pedagogy - cross-cultural comparisons of periodical pedagogy - marginalia and ephemera - pedagogy in the home (or doctor’s office waiting room) - periodical pedagogy as pop culture - children’s responses to and uses of magazines - periodicals and/or their auxiliary products in the marketplace Please send 500-word abstracts to Patrick Cox at ptcox(a)camden.rutgers.edu by Sept 30. Thanks. NeMLA Conference link: http://www.nemla.org/convention/2012/<http://www.nemla.org/convention/2012/cfp.html> -- Patrick Cox PhD Student http://facultyexperts.blogs.rutgers.edu/ Department of Childhood Studies, Rutgers University http://childhood.camden.rutgers.edu/ https://email.rutgers.edu/mailman/listinfo/exploring_childhood_studies http://camden-rutgers.academia.edu/PatrickCox "In the depths of winter I finally learned there was in me an invincible summer." --Albert Camus "Don't let your studies interfere with your education." --Colonel Henry Rutgers "the jUdges of nOrmalitY are present everywhere." --Foucault, of course

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New Media? – publication announcement
by UG-Feldman, Zinaida 06 Sep '11

06 Sep '11

NEW MEDIA? RE-IMAGINING TECHNOLOGY, CULTURE AND THE SOCIAL explores the enduring fascination with the idea of novelty through a new media lens. The brand names in the discourse are familiar: Twitter, Facebook, Google, Digg, Tumblr, MySpace, to name a few. But these buzzwords reveal more than their commercial application. Critical analyses of these tools reveal ongoing dialogue and tensions between technology, culture and society. As these vectors – with ever-shifting contours, contested meanings and competing claims – overlap, they raise important questions about what can be claimed by ‘new media’ and why and how this term maintains currency and power within the social realm. Articles in this issue include: • Introduction: New media? Re-imagining technology, culture and the social (Zeena Feldman, City University London) • Novel noise? A systems-theoretical approach to Twitter (Richard Wigley, City University London) • Navigating digital publishing law without a ‘night lawyer’: an exploration of informal legal support networks (Judith Townend, City University London) • Power struggles in Korean cyberspace and Korean cyber asylum seekers (Dong-Hyun Song, Goldsmiths, University of London) • Designing scripts and performing Kurdishness in diaspora: the online-offline nexus (Jowan Mahmod, Goldsmiths, University of London) • Are new media democratic? (Jenny Kidd, City University London) • Reading the stranger in the age of social media (Zeena Feldman, City University London) This is a special issue of the Cultural Policy, Criticism and Management Research journal. All articles are available for free download on the journal's website, http://culturalpolicyjournal.org. .... Zeena Feldman PhD Candidate, Centre for Cultural Policy and Management School of Arts, City University London Northampton Square London EC1V 0HB United Kingdom +44 (0)075 1283 2058 (mobile) zinaida.feldman.1(a)city.ac.uk

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Netizen News:
by Jay Hauben 05 Sep '11

05 Sep '11

Hi, The current issue of the Amateur Computerist Vol 20 No 2 about the Era of the Netizens has just been published. Many of the articles are about the contribution to their society made by netizens in China. Also there is an article each about netizen activity in Egypt and in South Korea. Other articles are about the internet as a model for national development and as a source of principles for scientific economic theory. You can see the issue at: http://www.ais.org/~jrh/acn/ACn20-2.pdf Take care. Jay

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Internet conference september 8, 9, Chicago area, www.dom.edu/echicago
by gene loeb 05 Sep '11

05 Sep '11

An internet accessibid.lty and ressearch conference will be held September 8 and 9 at Dominican University, River Grove, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago. A keynote speaker is *Joel Mambretti *Director of the International Center for Advanced Internet Research at Northwestern University which focuses on developing digital communications for the 21st century. *“Information, Innovation & Inclusion: Building Community Cohesion,” *September 8 & 9, 2011, Dominican University Organized and Sponsored by the Graduate School of Library & Information Science, Dominican University. Information is at www.dom.edu/echicago. from Gene Loeb, Ph.D. -- With Sincerest Best Wishes , Gene Gene Loeb, Ph.D.

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