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CfP: Workshop on Complex Social Network Analysis (CSNA 2012)
by Luca Rossi 30 Jan '12

30 Jan '12

Workshop on Complex Social Network Analysis (CSNA 2012) Dear Colleagues, It is our pleasure to invite you to submit your recent work to the International Workshop on Complex Social Network Analysis (CSNA 2012) that is held as a part of the International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining (ASONAM 2012), 26-29 August, 2012, Kadir Has University, Istanbul, Turkey. Workshop Web Site: http://www.zsi.pwr.wroc.pl/CSNA2012 Submission Site: https://www.easychair.org/account/signin.cgi?conf=csna2012 Submission Deadline: Mar 15, 2012 One of the reasons behind the tremendous success of Social Network Analysis (SNA) methods in various research disciplines is a very general and simple graph model that enables representation and study of extremely heterogeneous scenarios, ranging from workplace dynamics to the spreading of diseases or hyper-text documents in the World Wide Web. All these examples can be in fact modeled as homogeneous sets of nodes connected pairwise by some kind of edges. Commonly, each two nodes (social entities) are linked by a single edge (connection, link, bind, arc, tie), which, in turn, can be either undirected or directed, weighted or unweighted. While this generality still constitutes a great value, recently, it has become apparent that to model specific contexts and to enable accurate analyses it may be important to enrich the simple network models with more complex modeling constructs. A typical example is a multi-layer (called also multi-layered, multi-modal or multidimensional) network, where nodes are connected to each other through different kinds of links and each such a kind corresponds to a single layer. Each layer can refer either to a different type of relationship (sociological approach: friendship / family ties / collaboration at work) or to a different type of user common activities (computer science approach: email exchange / commenting the same photo / usage of the same tags). Besides, in many domains and environments, we can extract more than one type of nodes - it means that a social network may be heterogeneous (multi-modal) rather than homogeneous. For example, we can have teacher-nodes (one type-mode) mixed with student-nodes (another type-mode) or we can distinguish different user accounts registered in a number of services, e.g. various online games. Both multi-layer(ed) and heterogeneous (multi-modal) networks can be generalized to simple networks extended with labels (types, classes, modes, layers, levels) assigned either to edges or nodes. This concept also covers spatial networks where nodes and edges are annotated (labeled) with their location. Temporal (dynamic) social networks expand this model by introduction of timestamps assigned to nodes or edges; its disparate feature is the fixed order among following snapshots. Looking at current mainstream online social networks, we can easily see the relevance of these models: notable examples are Google+ circles, defining different kinds of social ties, users having multiple accounts in different web 2.0 services like Facebook, YouTube and Flickr, as well as Twitter conversations where messages are exchanged at precise timestamps and sometimes from the known locations. We refer to these enriched networks as complex social networks. The objective of this workshop is to provide a venue to discuss the latest advances on complex social network analysis, mining and applications. Contributions coming from several fields, including computer science and social sciences, are welcome. The scope of the workshop includes (but is not limited to) the following topics: Data models for complex social networks Multi-layer(ed) networks Multi-modal social networks Multidimensional social networks Spatial networks Temporal analysis on social networks Dynamics modeling and measures for social networks Homogeneous social networks Statistical modeling of complex social networks Patterns in complex social networks Complex social network mining Cross-sectional analysis in social networks Measures for complex social networks and algorithms for their calculation Dynamics and evolution patterns of complex social networks Algorithms for large-scale complex social networks Merging social networks User identification / unification in multiple-system social networks Applications of complex social network analysis Community discovery in complex social networks (multi-layered / multi-modal / heterogeneous communities) Visual representation of complex networks and complex online social phenomena Data protection in location-based networks Methodological problems in complex social network studies Data mining in social networking sites Social Networks with Uncertainty Important dates: March 15, 2012 - Full paper submission deadline May 5, 2012 - Notification of acceptance May 20, 2012 - Camera-ready paper due May 20, 2012 - Presenting author registration due August 26-29, 2012 - Conference, the workshop is scheduled on the first day of the ASONAM conference (August 26, 2012) Przemyslaw Kazienko (Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland) Matteo Magnani (Aarhus University, Denmark) Luca Rossi (University of Urbino "Carlo Bo", Italy) -- -- Luca Rossi LaRiCA - Advanced Communication Laboratory Faculty of Sociology - "Carlo Bo" University, Urbino luca.rossi(a)uniurb.it T. +39 0722 305726 F. +39 0722 305727 http://larica.uniurb.it/redline

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cfp: SOCIAL TURN/SNAMAS @ AISB 2012 - DEADLINE EXTENDED (March 2, 2012)
by Judith Simon 30 Jan '12

30 Jan '12

EXTENDED DEADLINE: March 2, 2012 (apologies for multiple postings - please distribute) IMPORTANT DATES: Paper submission deadline: March 2, 2012. Notification of acceptance: April 2, 2012. Camera ready version deadline: May 4, 2012. Symposium: 2nd – 3rd July, 2012. -------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS Symposium on SOCIAL COMPUTING - SOCIAL COGNITION - SOCIAL NETWORKS AND MULTIAGENT SYSTEMS @ AISB/IACAP 2012 July 2nd – 3rd 2012 https://sites.google.com/site/socialturnsnamasaisbiacap2012/ The symposium is part of the AISB/IACAP World Congress 2012 in honour of Alan Turing, held on July 2nd to 6th, 2012. University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK.http://events.cs.bham.ac.uk/turing12/ & http://www.aisb.org.uk/convention/aisb12/ The event is jointly organized by The Society for the Study of Artificial Intelligence and Simulation of Behaviour (AISB) [http://www.aisb.org.uk ] and The International Association for Computing and Philosophy (IACAP) [http://www.ia-cap.org ] ------------------------------- NEWS INVITED SPEAKERS Bernhard Rieder, Department of Media Studies, University of Amsterdam. Marek Sergot, Imperial College, London. GRANTS The European Network for Social Intelligence is offering a limited number of travel grants for PhD students and early stage researchers. Please indicate in your paper submission if you want to apply for the travel grants. Further information will be made available on the symposium website. ------------------------------- SYMPOSIUM CHAIRS Gordana Dodig-Crnkovic, Mälardalen University, Sweden. Antonino Rotolo, CIRSFID, U. di Bologna, Italy. Giovanni Sartor, EUI and CIRSFID, Italy. Judith Simon, University of Vienna, Austria and & Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany. Clara Smith, UNLP and UCALP, Argentina. -------------------------------- This 2012 symposium merges the symposium entitled Social Turn: Social Computing - Social Cognition - Social Intelligence; and the SNAMAS symposium, focused on Social Networks and Multi-Agent Systems, which have precursor symposia in Social Computing at IACAP and the SNAMAS in AISB conferences. ---------------------------------- TOPICS The field of social computing has two different foci: social and computational. There is the focus on socialness of social software or social web applications. Widespread examples of social software are blogs, wikis, social bookmarking services, instant messaging services, and social networking sites. Social computing often uses various types of crowdsourcing techniques for aggregation of input from numerous users (public at large). Tools such as prediction markets, social tagging, reputation and trust systems as well as recommender systems are based on collaborative filtering and thus a result of crowdsourcing. Another focus of social computing is on computational modeling of social behavior, among others through Multi-agent systems (MAS) and Social Networks (SN). MAS have an anchoring going beyond social sciences even when a sociological terminology is often used. There are several usages of MAS: to design distributed and/or hybrid systems; to develop philosophical theory; to understand concrete social facts, or to answer concrete social issues via modelling and simulation. MAS aim at modelling, among other things, cognitive or reactive agents who interact in dynamic environments where they possibly depend on each other to achieve their goals. The emphasis is nowadays on constructing complex computational systems composed by agents which are regulated by various types of norms, and behave like human social systems. Finally, Social networks (SN) are social structures made of nodes (which are, generally, individuals or organizations) that are tied by one or more specific types of interdependency, such as values, visions, idea, financial exchange, friends, kinship, dislike, conflict, trade, web links, disease transmission, among many others. Social networks analysis plays a critical role in determining the way specific problems are solved, organizations are run, and the degree to which individuals succeed in achieving their goals. Social networks analysis has addressed also the dynamics issue, called dynamic networks analysis. This is an emergent scientific field that brings together traditional social network analysis, link analysis and multi-agent systems. The symposium addresses, but is not limited to, the following topics: - Conceptual issues such as Socialness (notions of the social used and/or enforced in social computing and research on social cognition or social intelligence) and Computational Models and mechanisms of social computing (information processing) as well as models and social mechanisms of cognition and intelligence. - Agency & Action in social computing systems: How can agency be understood and/or modeled in systems consisting of human and non-human agents? - Social Coordination & Norms: Emergence of norms (e.g. in Wikipedia) and compliance including their computational modeling in socio-technical systems. - Interaction & Communication in socio-technical systems and their computational models - Knowledge: the epistemological and ethical consequences of distributed knowledge creation in social computing and its computational models - Relations between the individual and the social: Forming of individual existence in relation to social computing (e.g. digital identity), including its computational modeling. - Agreement technologies. - Electronic Institutions. - Empirical and/or theoretical studies on a specific social or legal relationship (power, solidarity, legitimity, dependency...). - Empirical and/or theoretical studies on social relations' regulations. - Formalization of Normed Systems. - Logical frameworks for representing, describing and analysing agent's social or legal relationships. - Relations between the individual and the social: Forming of individual existence in relation to social computing (e.g. digital identity), including its info-computational modeling. - Responsibility, Accountability & Liability. What is epistemically and ethically responsible behavior with respect to social software and how can it be supported? What are the responsibilities of different human agents (e.g. software users, designers, researchers, etc)? - Rules and standards. - Social Networking Sites: philosophical implications of socialness in social networking sites (e.g., privacy, social structures, etc.). - Info-computational models of social networking sites. - The role of agents´ attributes in structuring social and legal relationships. - The role of specific social relationships in structuring groups and organizations. - Trust in social computing. Differences and similarities between notions of trust e.g. in multi-agent systems, social networking sites, recommender systems, etc. Differences and similarities between trust online and offline. How can trust be supported by a computational system itself? ------------------------------ IMPORTANT DATES Paper submission deadline: March 2, 2012. Notification of acceptance: April 2, 2012. Camera ready version deadline: May 4, 2012. Symposium: 2nd – 3rd July, 2012. --------------------------------- PAPER SUBMISSION Guidelines for paper submission are as follows: - The paper should be written in English. - The maximum length of a paper is 6 A4-sized pages in ECAI format (format download: http://www.aisb.org.uk/convention/aisb08/download.html) - The paper should be in PDF format. - Please choose one track between SOCIAL TURN and SNAMAS, and submit via the online paper submission system to the corresponding track at: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=socialturnmasaisbiac ------------------------------------- PROGRAM COMMITTEE Doris Allhutter, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Austria. Frederic Amblard, IRIT, U. Toulouse, France. Giulia Andrighetto, ISTC-CNR, Italy. Carlos Areces, UN Córdoba, Argentina. Guido Boella, University of Torino, Italy. Pompeu Casanovas, UAB Institute of Law and Technology, Spain. Cristiano Castelfranchi, ISTC-CNR, Italy. Mark Coeckelbergh University of Twente, Netherlands Diego Compagna, University Duisburg-Essen, Germany. Rosaria Conte, ISTC-CNR, Italy. Charles Ess, Aarhus University, Danmark. Ricardo Guibourg, UBA, Argentina. Hamid Ekbia, Indiana University, Indiana Lars-Erik Janlert, Umeå University, Sweden Matthias Mailliard, Cemagref, France. Antonio A. Martino, U. Salvador, Argentina. Jeremy Pitt, Imperial College London, UK. Leon Van der Torre, U Louxembourg, Louxembourg. Serena Villata, University of Torino, Italy. Jutta Weber, University Paderborn, Germany. Christian Fuchs, Uppsala University, Sweden. --------------------------------------- POSTERS AND SYSTEM DEMONSTRATIONS There will be one session for system demonstrations, and one day poster exhibition. ---------------------------------------- PROCEEDINGS AND POST PROCEEDINGS There will be a separate proceedings for each symposium, produced before the Congress. Each delegate at the Congress will receive, on arrival, a memory stick containing the proceedings of all symposia. Selected papers of the Symposium, under a second review process, will be considered for a special issue of the AI & Law Journal, Springer http://www.springer.com/computer/ai/journal/10506; and for the open access TripleC journal http://www.triple-c.at/index.php/tripleC . -------------------------------------- ABOUT THE CONGRESS The Congress serves both as the year's AISB Convention and the year's IACAP conference. The Congress has been inspired by a desire to honour Alan Turing, and by the broad and deep significance of Turing's work to AI, to the philosophical ramifications of computing, and to Philosophy and computing more generally. The Congress is one of the events forming the Alan Turing Year (http://www.mathcomp.leeds.ac.uk/turing2012/) The intent of the Congress is to stimulate a particularly rich interchange between AI and Philosophy on any areas of mutual interest, whether directly addressing Turing's own research output or not. The Congress will consist mainly of a number of collocated Symposia on specific research areas, interspersed with Congress-wide refreshment breaks, social events and invited Plenary Talks. All papers other than the invited Plenaries will be given within Symposia. This symposium is closely connected to UmoCoP, Symposium on Understanding and Modelling Collective Phenomena, which will be held on July 3rd-5th 2012. There will be a joint panel from both symposia on July 3rd. ---------------------- CONTACTS For further inquiries please contact any of the chairs: gordana.dodig-crnkovic(a)mdh.se, judith.simon(a)univie.ac.at (SOCIAL COMPUTING - SOCIAL COGNITION - SOCIAL NETWORKS) antonino.rotolo(a)unibo.it, giovanni.sartor(a)libero.it, csmith(a)info.unlp.edu.ar (MULTIAGENT SYSTEMS)

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TPRC 2012 Call for Papers and Abstracts
by chris marsden 30 Jan '12

30 Jan '12

Dear Colleague (forwarded) I thought you might be interested in the TPRC Call for Papers. It is the 40th anniversary of the conference, which will be appropriately celebrated with engaging sessions and keynote speakers. As you know, TPRC is an annual conference on communication, information and internet policy that convenes international and interdisciplinary researchers and policy makers from academia, industry, government, and nonprofit organizations. Its purpose is to present original research relevant to policy making, share information about areas where research is needed, and engage in discussion on current policy issues. The conference program consists of presentations selected from submitted paper abstracts, student papers, and proposals for panels, tutorials, and demonstrations. TPRC is now soliciting abstracts of papers, proposals for panels, tutorials and demonstrations, and student papers for presentation at the 2012conference, to be held September 21-23, 2012 at the George Mason University Law School, in Arlington, Virginia. These presentations should report current theoretical or empirical research relevant to communication and information policy. Contributions may be from any disciplinary perspective – the sole criterion is research quality. Topic areas in previous conferences have included competition, antitrust, and other market issues; broadband deployment and adoption; spectrum and wireless application policy; media, old and new; intellectual property, technology, and Internet law; privacy, security, identity and trust; governance and institutions; innovation and entrepreneurship; and distributional outcomes and social goals. Submission opens on March 1, 2012 at http://www.tprc.org. The deadlines are: March 31, 2012: Main conference abstracts, and proposals for panels, tutorials and demonstrations. Acceptances/rejections will be provided by May 31, 2012. Complete papers for accepted abstracts will be due to TPRC on August 15, 2012. April 30, 2012: Student papers. The student paper competition requires submission of completed papers rather than abstracts. Acceptances/rejections will be provided by June 30, 2012. Details about submission requirements and review criteria can be found on these web pages: Conference Papers Panels and Tutorials Demonstrations Student Paper Competition The journals Telecommunications Policy and Journal of Information Policy will both invite papers for special issues from this year’s conference. Please address inquiries to info(a)tprc.org. With best regards, Johannes M. Bauer Johannes M. Bauer Professor, Telecommunication, Information Studies, and Media Director of Special Programs, Quello Center for Telecommunication Management & Law Michigan State University, 409 Communication Arts and Sciences East Lansing, Michigan 48824-1212, USA Fixed +1.517.432.8003, mobile +1.517.944.4154, Fax +1.517.355.1292 Web http://www.msu.edu/~bauerj and http://quello.msu.edu _______________________________________________ its-l site list its-l(a)lists.sjsu.edu http://lists.sjsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/its-l

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REMINDER: CFP: Cell Phones and Communities: the Use of Mobile Media in Brazil
by Adriana de Souza e Silva 30 Jan '12

30 Jan '12

REMINDER: Convergence: The international journal of research into new media technologies SPECIAL ISSUE CALL FOR PAPERS Cell phones and communities: The use of mobile media in Brazil Edited by: Adriana de Souza e Silva (North Carolina State University) Isabel Froes (IT University of Copenhagen) Important dates: Abstracts: February 15th, 2012 (500 words). Notification of accepted abstracts: March 15th, 2012. Full papers: June 15th, 2012 (8000/9000 words). Notification of accepted papers: September 15th, 2012. By the second decade of the 21st century, mobile phones have reached saturation levels in many countries in the world, surpassing the number of landlines and personal computers. Although initial scholarly interest on the social use of mobile phones focused on Europe, Asia, and the United States, the impact of mobile phone on the developing world (or Global South) is increasingly evident and perhaps much more profound. As Ling and Horst (2011) note, “the mobile phone has quietly provided people at the bottom of the income pyramid access to electronically mediated communication; often for the first time.” For many, the mobile device is the first phone, the first internet connection, the first TV set, and the first global positioning system. Among developing nations, Brazil is a key site for studying the social dimension of mobile technologies. The country is part of the so-called BRIC (Brazil, Russia, India and China), an acronym that refers to fast-growing developing economies. Brazil is the fastest growing economy in Latin America, and has over 217 million mobile phones, which represents an average of 111 working devices per 100 inhabitants . The country has also experienced one of the fastest mobile phone growth rates in the world since 2005 (averaging 16.6% annually); is the largest mobile phone market in Latin America; and is the fifth-largest mobile market in the world in absolute numbers, with roughly 217 million subscriptions as of September 2011. However, numbers alone reveal little if not analyzed within a broader social, cultural, and economic framework. The focus on a homogeneous large-scale market leads to overly sanguine perspectives that often obscure how socioeconomic diversity causes and reflects mobile phone use. As in many developing countries, Brazil has astounding income gaps among different sectors of the population which influence and are influenced by technology development and use. For example, the use of high-end services such as mobile banking, and location-based services like Foursquare and Yelp is an intrinsic part of the daily mobile practices of the high-income population in the country. Conversely, the lower-income population in Rio de Janeiro is familiar with the diretão—a mobile phone that allows users to make clandestine calls to anywhere in the world with the use of an illegal sim card. However, Brazil has also been at the forefront of an experimental and innovative approach towards new technologies, forecasted in cultural events that focus on art, music and film festivals dedicated to new and creative uses of mobile technologies, such as the Mobilefest and Arte.mov. Despite this cultural and socio-economic diversity, and the relevance of its marketing, the social use and development of mobile phones in Brazil is largely under theorized and poorly studied. With the goal of contributing to bridge this gap, this special edition invites essays that critically investigate the inter-relations among mobile technologies, culture, and social development within the Brazilian society. Submitted manuscripts are encouraged (but not limited) to focus on four main areas: (1) History of mobile phones in Brazil. Essays are encouraged to explore the development of mobile phones in Brazil, comparing them to the landline infrastructure and internet growth within the Latin America socio-economic and political framework. Authors may explore the development and use of new mobile services, such as the mobile internet, text messaging, mobile apps, etc. (2) Social uses and appropriation of mobile phones. We welcome essays as empirical or theoretical studies dealing with the use and appropriation of technology by low-income communities. Of special interest are essays that explore how mobile and wireless technologies reconfigure the life of community dwellers and how people find new and unexpected uses for existing technologies. (3) Mobile art and games. We invite essays that investigate mobile phones as artistic and gaming interfaces, including essays that explore uses of hybrid reality, location-aware and pervasive activities in educational contexts, media arts, and gaming. (4) Location-based services. Submitted essays should investigate the uses and development of location-based services in Brazil, such as mobile annotation, location-based social networks, and mobile mapping. Proposed abstracts (500 words) are due by February 15th, 2012. The authors will be notified about accepted abstracts by March 15th. Those accepted will be requested to submit full papers by June 15th, 2012. Full papers will undergo a double blind-review process. Submissions may be in the form of empirical research studies or theory-building papers and should be 8000/9000 words in English. Papers must also include a brief biography of the author(s). Proposals and inquiries should be sent electronically to Isabel Froes (icgf(a)itu.dk) About the editors: Adriana de Souza e Silva is Associate Professor at the Department of Communication at North Carolina State University (NCSU), affiliated faculty at the Digital Games Research Center, and Interim Associate Director of the Communication, Rhetoric and Digital Media (CRDM) program at NCSU.Dr. de Souza e Silva's research focuses on how mobile and locative interfaces shape people's interactions with public spaces and create new forms of sociability. She teaches classes on mobile technologies, location-based games and internet studies. Dr. de Souza e Silva is the co-editor (with Daniel M. Sutko) of Digital Cityscapes—Merging digital and urban playspaces (Peter Lang, 2009), the co-author (with Eric Gordon) of the book Net-Locality: Why location matters in a networked world (Blackwell, 2011), and the co-author (with Jordan Frith) of Mobile interfaces in public spaces: Control, privacy, and urban sociability (Routledge, 2012). Isabel Fróes has received her Masters degree from the Interactive Telecommunications Programme at New York University (NYU) and a Bachelor’s degree in psychology from Pontifícia Universidade Católica, Rio de Janeiro, PUC-RJ in Brazil. She is a lecturer at the IT University of Copenhagen (Denmark), where she works both as a practitioner and scholar in the fields of communication, mobility, art and design. With a focus towards valuable interactions between people and technology, her research analyzes the future implications and current uses of digital media. In her courses she taps into the value of interactive elements in every arena and explores how they could affect the ways new concepts and activities are developed in distinct fields. She has presented some of these thoughts at various events such as the AAM conference (2009), and the IXDA South America (2010). She has taught various courses at Danish institutions such as IT University of Copenhagen, University of Copenhagen and Kolding School of Design as well as Tecnológico de Monterrey, Campus Querétaro in Mexico. Proposals and inquiries should be sent electronically to Isabel Froes (icgf(a)itu.dk) ______________________________ Adriana de Souza e Silva, PhD Associate Professor of Communication NC State University http://www.souzaesilva.com Chair, Local and Mobile conference 2012 http://crdm.chass.ncsu.edu/mobilities/

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Lgbtq internet use and labor migrant tech use
by Szulc Lukasz 29 Jan '12

29 Jan '12

Hi, For the most recent books see: 1) Queer online - http://www.amazon.com/Queer-Online-Digital-Formations-ORiordan/dp/0820486264 2) LGBT identity and Online new media - http://www.amazon.com/LGBT-Identity-Online-New-Media/dp/0415998670 3) Gaydar culture - http://www.amazon.com/Gaydar-Culture-Sharif-Mowlabocus/dp/0754675351/ref=sr… You can also find more information and references in my recent article (co-authored with prof. Alexander Dhoest, University of Antwerp) on Flemish LGB's Internet uses. The article is now sent for reviewing but I can provide you with a draft on your request. Regards, Lukasz Szulc, PhD Candidate University of Antwerp Department of communication Studies www.ua.ac.be/lukasz.szulc<http://www.ua.ac.be/lukasz.szulc>

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by Laura Pasquini 28 Jan '12

28 Jan '12

*Hello,* * * *I am writing with regards to the following announcement for a new open, online student-lead journal being produced from my department at the University of North Texas and I am fortunate to be an editor for this coming year. * CALL FOR PAPERS: LPQ, VOL. 1, ISSUE 1 ** The Center for Knowledge Solutions at the Department of Learning Technologies, University of North Texas is proud to announce the first Call for Papers for the inaugural issue of the Learning and Performance Quarterly (LPQ) journal: http://bit.ly/LPquarterly <http://bit.ly/LPquarterly> The Learning and Performance Quarterly (LPQ) is currently accepting submissions for the inaugural issue. We will be welcoming any article submissions that detail the definition, history and evolution of learning and performance in its broadly conceived terms including instructional design, performance improvement, learning innovations, training and development and educational technology for both public and private sectors: http://bit.ly/LPQv1i1. The deadline for submissions is Wednesday, February 10, 2012. For detailed submission guidelines and instructions on how to make a submission, please visit Author Guidelines<http://www.d2bb.net/ojs/index.php/LPQ/about/submissions#authorGuidelines>( http://www.d2bb.net/ojs/index.php/LPQ/about/submissions#authorGuidelines) Editors Laura Pasquini and Jeff Allen will gladly answer any questions or concerns regarding submissions via e-mail: LPquarterly(a)gmail.com. We look forward to receiving your submissions. Please forward this message to other colleagues and researchers who might be interested in publishing for the Learning and Performance Quarterly journal. Thank you. Kind regards, Laura A. Pasquini, M.S. Ed. Doctoral Student - Department of Learning Technologies, College of Information http://www.unt.edu/ T: 940.369.7637 F: 940.565.4993

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Media systems in South Asia
by nareshchandra 28 Jan '12

28 Jan '12

Hi all, I am a research student at The Robert Gordon University in Scotland. I am currently investigating the practice of citizen journalism in South Asia, mainly the SAARC countries. Does anybody know about upcoming events on citizen journalism from the region this year? Thanks in advance. regards, -naresh -- *Disclaimer(s): * This e-mail or any documents attached with it may be highly private and confidential, and therefore this e-mail should not be handled by the person other than the rightful recipient. If you have received this e-mail in error, please notify the sender at rainareshchandra(a)gmail.com. Thank you for your co-operation.

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Journal of Information Policy
by Richard Taylor 27 Jan '12

27 Jan '12

Colleagues, With apologies for cross-postings. The Journal of Information Policy (www.jip-online.org) is celebrating one year online! The recent posting of Eli Noam article "Let Them Eat Cellphones: Why Mobile Wireless is No Solution for Broadband" (http://jip.vmhost.psu.edu/ojs/index.php/jip/article/view/64/43) marked the completion of the first volume of the Journal of Information Policy, a publication of the Institute for Information Policy at Penn State, supported by a generous grant made by the Ford Foundation. Since its launch on February 17, 2011 the Journal has published 16 peer-reviewed research articles, 5 essays, 2 conference reports, and 6 book reviews, for a total of 485 pages. Authors span the globe, coming from 10 countries, with 39 reviewers from 13 countries. Involvement in the Journal reflects its original goals: among the authors are some of the leading scholars in information policy studies as well as a number of up and coming new voices; it is a diverse slate of scholars; and while the topics covered are timely, all papers were subjected to a rigorous double-blind peer review by at least two reviewers. So far, 32 articles have been submitted for peer review and some are still making their way through the process. In its first year, the Journal's workshops have drawn growing attention and have been conducted with a growing network of collaborators, for which we are grateful: The New America Foundation's Open Technology Initiative, The Donald McGannon Communication Research Center at Fordham University and the Mack Center for Technological Innovation at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. The Journal's online presence has contributed to its near-immediate recognition as a respected outlet for information policy scholarship. By the end of December, its website had 2,855 unique visitors from 75 countries, with 20,861 page views and 2,725 downloads. We have just signed an agreement with Proquest to carry the Journal's papers in its database. This early recognition by a respected database adds to the other indexing services through which interested parties can search for the Journal's articles: CrossRef, DOAJ and LOCKSS. Perhaps most gratifying has been the Journal's recognition as one of two outlets for selected papers coming out of TPRC, a partnership to continue in 2012. Speaking of the future, we are currently heavily involved in the process of putting together a special issue on "New Media, New ICTs and Democracy," and the special TPRC issue. We are looking forward to the workshop and subsequent issue on "The End of the Telephone System," which will be our third issue for 2012, to be published in the fall. We encourage all to submit timely studies on information policy to the Journal through our online submission system (www.jip-online.org) Best wishes, Amit M. Schejter and Richard D. Taylor, Editors Benjamin W. Cramer, Managing Editor

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Extension CFP: 2012 Digital Government Society Conference
by Andrea Kavanaugh 27 Jan '12

27 Jan '12

Dear Colleagues: We have received numerous requests from authors to extend the due date for papers and panels for the 2012 Digital Government Society conference (details and CFP below). We are therefore extending the deadline by one week. Please do submit your papers by the new dates so that we can meet conference deadlines. We look forward to receiving your paper and panel submissions by no later than Friday, February 3, 2012. CFP The 2012 Digital Government Society Conference (dg.o 2012) marks the 13th annual conference, and will take place at the University of Maryland College Park June 4-7, 2012. The conference will bring together e-Government researchers and practitioners to explore cutting edge research and best practices regarding e-Government initiatives. Accepted papers are published in the ACM Proceedings Digital Library, and selected papers will appear in leading journals such as Government Information Quarterly; Transforming Government: People, Process, and Policy; Information Policy; and the International Journal of E-Planning Research. Each year the conference combines: Presentations of effective partnerships and collaborations among government professionals and agencies, university researchers, relevant businesses, and NGOs, as well as grassroots citizen groups, to advance the practice of e-Government. Presentations and discussions on new research on e-Government as an interdisciplinary domain that lies at the intersections of information technology research, social and behavioral science research, and the challenges and missions of government. Practice regarding e-Government projects, implementations, and initiatives that bring together the research and practitioner communities, demonstrate the effectiveness and/or challenges of e-Government, and offer best practices. Governments today face unprecedented opportunities and challenges. New technologies provide governments with the opportunity to redefine the relationship between government and the public that they serve, create innovative public services, provide customer-focused services, encourage transparency, promote participatory democracy, facilitate the co-design of services, form new partnerships in service delivery, streamline operations and reduce costs, and build trust in government. But harnessing and implementing technologies effectively raise a number of policy, technology, and governance challenges. This year, the conference program will focus on the ways governments and the e-Government research community can work collaboratively to leverage information and communication technologies as part of innovative and dynamic approaches to creating and implementing high quality, efficient, and effective e-Government. Research, practice, and collaboration submissions addressing this theme could include but are not limited to: social media and public participation in digital government; effective use of social media by governments; crowd sourcing for government decision making; transformative government; open and transparent government; models of collaboration among government, industry, NGOs, and citizens; data integration, visualizations, and analytics for government decision making; agile and flexible government; financial/economic/social policy making; government productivity and effectiveness; service quality and customer-centric e-Government; social and health infrastructure; global government collaboration models and practices; infrastructure for data sharing among government agencies; computing infrastructure models, cyber-security and project management; IT-enabled government management and operations, and interest in program execution; IT and tools to support government security; and methods to measure and evaluate success in e-Government. In addition, we welcome submissions from the broader domain of e-Government research. We invite completed research papers, papers describing management and practice, policy, and case studies, student research papers, on-going research posters, and live demonstrations that demonstrate the use of technology to promote innovative e-Government services. We particularly encourage submissions on interdisciplinary and crosscutting topics. We also encourage the submission of suggestions for panels, and pre-conference tutorials and workshops. More specific conference details are below. Kind regards, John Carlo Bertot, Conference Chair Luis Luna Reyes and Sehl Mellouli, Program Chairs Jing Zhang and Soon Ae Chun, Workshop and Tutorials Chairs Teresa Harrison, Panel Chair Gabriel Puron Cid, Poster and Demo Chair Sharon Dawes, Björn Niehaves, and Jochen Scholl, Doctoral Colloquium Chairs 13th Annual International Conference on Digital Government Research (dg.o 2012) Bridging Research and Practice University of Maryland, College Park MD Monday– Thursday, June 4-7, 2012 Website: http://dgo2012.dgsna.org General inquiries: dgo2012(a)easychair.org Paper submissions: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dgo2012 Doctoral Colloquium information: http://www.dgo2012.dgsna.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1… Important Dates: February 3, 2012 Papers, workshop, tutorial, and panel proposals due March 1, 2012 Doctoral colloquium papers due March 11, 2012 Paper, doctoral colloquium, workshop, tutorial, and panel acceptance notifications Mar 18, 2012 Poster and demo proposals due Mar 30, 2012 Camera-ready manuscripts due April 1, 2012 Doctoral colloquium acceptance notifications April 6, 2012 Poster and demo acceptance notifications May 4, 2012 Early registration closes Jun 4-7, 2012 dg.o 2012 conference ************************************************************************* John Carlo Bertot, Ph.D. Professor and Co-Director Information Policy & Access Center College of Information Studies University of Maryland 4105 Hornbake Building, South Wing College Park, MD 20742 Email: jbertot(a)umd.edu Web (Bertot): http://terpconnect.umd.edu/~jbertot/ Web (Center): http://ipac.umd.edu Phone: 301.405.3267 Fax: 301.314.9145 Editor, Library Quarterly (http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/lq/current) Editor, Government Information Quarterly (http://www.elsevier.com/locate/govinf/)

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Call for Participation: IIPC web archiving conference
by Taylor, Nicholas A. 27 Jan '12

27 Jan '12

Call for participation: Please respond by February 28, 2012 The Broad Value of Web Archives: Demonstrated Use Libraries, archives, and other organizations have been systematically collecting web archives for over 10 years, namely in the service of cultural heritage. Content archived from the web has a multitude of uses. Commercial web archiving services are emerging to meet legal and business requirements. Data is scraped from the web and analyzed for media or academic research. Any topic can be studied on the internet and content published on the web in any given day is a unique reflection of the world. Experts from around the world will gather in Washington, DC to hold an open conference to explore the broad value of web archives. The conference is sponsored by the International Internet Preservation Consortium, which is holding its General Assembly at the Library of Congress. The IIPC is seeking presentations from a wide variety of organizations from sectors that are saving and using archival content from the web. The goal is to expose the audience to how rich and valuable the web is as a resource and reveal some unexpected uses for web archives. Possible topics include: * web archives used in legal discovery or for legal compliance * web archives in personal collections, i.e. personal archiving * web archives used in data mining * web archives for legal deposit * web archives used in corporate or organizational archives * web archives used for game or community preservation * citizen archivists and crowdsourcing for web archives * projects that use old web content that was not harvested through Heritrix If you are interested in participating in this conference, please send a short paragraph or two describing the project you would like to present to Abigail Potter, IIPC Communications Officer, abpo(a)loc.gov by February 28, 2012. The agenda for the conference will be announced by March 15, 2012. If you have any questions about the event, please contact Abigail at the above email address.

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