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Re: [Air-L] Air-L Digest, Vol 90, Issue 18
by Anne Helmond 18 Jan '12

18 Jan '12

Dear Monica, In addition to the previous comments made I would like to point this research on Twitter and location: Only 66% Use Twitter Profile Location Field as Intended, Says PARC Research Study: http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/66_percent_use_twitter_profile_locatio… It also describes the implications for researchers. I hope this helps. Anne PhD Candidate at the Digital Methods Initiative, University of Amsterdam.

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Rutgers Opportunities
by Ingrid Erickson 18 Jan '12

18 Jan '12

Please circulate through your networks. Rutgers University School of Communication and Information seeks a new Director of our undergraduate program in Information Technology and Informatics (ITI). Also seeking Teaching Fellows in digital media and social media. Brief PDF overview here: http://comminfo.rutgers.edu/images/stories/employment/itiandteachingfellows… Apply here: https://its.scilsnet.rutgers.edu/FacultySearchNTT/Default.aspx ......................... Ingrid Erickson, PhD ierick(a)gmail.com +1.650.451.8770 @griderick

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Research on Twitter - a couple of questions
by Monica Barratt 18 Jan '12

18 Jan '12

Dear AoIR members Recently there have been more scholarly articles published using Twitter data in the health field. I've found myself as a peer-reviewer of one such article. In case the authors happen to be subscribed, I'll keep the exact topic quiet... but basically what the authors are doing is using Twitter's advanced search function to compile a database of Tweets which they then subject to a simple content analysis. I have done my own research and discussed the issue with local expert Axel Bruns, however I'm still a bit unclear on a couple of points, and wondered if anyone reading could assist me: 1. The authors draw samples of Tweets over a specific time frame from specified US cities. They appear to assume that by using the advanced search option 'Near this place' and entering the city name will bring up all tweets from that city or surrounds (see https://twitter.com/#!/search-advanced ). But wouldn't that only bring up the tweets from people who have nominated their home city or geolocated their tweets? Don't many users do neither of these things and therefore the corpus of data would be incomplete? Can anyone verify this ... and also does anyone know if there is any research on the proportion of Twitter users whose location would be known and therefore would be included in such a dataset? 2. The authors use profile images to ascertain the approximate age and gender of account holders. In my experience, many people use profile images that do not represent themselves - eg. celebrities or past images of themselves or images of themselves with others. Is this an accurate or useful way of dealing with Twitter profile data or is it too flawed as a technique to be useful? While I'm not an expert in Twitter research, it seems to me that Twitter research is on more solid ground when using a hashtag to identify a corpus of Tweets, as this is the method Twitter users employ too. Thanks for your thoughts/help Monica Research Fellow @ National Drug Research Institute, Curtin University

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final cfp IPA Tilburg
by jeremy hunsinger 18 Jan '12

18 Jan '12

7TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE IN INTERPRETIVE POLICY ANALYSIS Dates Thursday July 5 – Saturday July 7, 2012 Location Tilburg University, the Netherlands. Inquiries to info(a)ipa2012.org Paper proposals Deadline January 31, 2012 List of Panels below Please submit through the website (500 words max.) Conference website www.ipa2012.org Theme Understanding the drama of democracy: policy work, power and transformation In the age of mediatisation, network governance, and multi level governance, all public agents, including government officials and academic experts, must now be credible next to being legally legitimated and effective. Therefore, policy work and its evaluation are not only based on formal positions and legal responsibilities but are also negotiated in policy practices by civil organizations, experts, journalists and the general public. The performative dimension of democracy is increasingly important. This challenges actors involved to cross boundaries, to learn, to transform, to deal with constantly alternating power relations, and to be perceived as authentic or trustworthy. It also challenges interpretive research to study how public actors perform in practice and suggests a need to pay attention to action-oriented and language-oriented dimensions of practice. Moreover, it raises questions about the role of interpretive research in the mediation and transformation of different meanings and creating or supporting policy learning. Programme Pre-conference Course on Interpretive Methods Wednesday the 4th of July we will organize a pre-conference course. This day-long course is intended to introduce participants – from doctoral students to more seasoned researchers – to interpretive policy analysis. The morning plenary session will provide an overview of interpretive methodologies and methods. In the afternoon, participants can choose one of three parallel sessions. For more information see the website. Keynote Speakers: John Forester, Aletta Norval, Mieke Verloo Round Tables: 1. The Practice Turn in social theory and policy Research (multiple sessions) 2. Critical Realism and Interpretivism 3. Facilitation in Participatory Governance 4. Building bridges between teaching and research Author meets critics 1. Frank Fischer and Herbert Gotweiss (editors) The Argumentative Turn Revisited 2. Maarten Hajer Authoritative Governance in the Age of Mediatization 3.Carol BacchiAnalysing Policy: what is the problem? 4. Bas Arts, Jelle Behagel, Jessica De Koning and Severine van Bommel (editors) A practice Based Approach to Forest and Nature Governance Methodology Workshop These 90-minute workshop sessions feature specialists in different aspects of interpretive policy analysis. The workshops are a “master-class” in which two experienced researchers will meet a small number of “newer” researchers to discuss issues in using a particular methodological strategy or method. For more information see the website. Panels 1. Policy Work and Professional Practice Colebatch 2. Policy as design Colebatch 3. The state in the interpretation of governing Colebatch 4. Meaning at the front-line. Spaces and practices in street-level public service provision Needham 6. The Emotional Turn in Policy Analysis: Theory and Interpretation Durnova, Orsini 7. The Performance of Public Deliberation Boswell, Hendriks 8. Interpreting Political Leadership: inside the leader’s head Teles 9. Professional Credibility and the Democratisation of Planning Processes in the Western and non-Western Contexts Connelly, Yamamoto 10. How Does a Policy Matter? Interpretive Policy Analysis and the 'New Materialities Turn' Van Veeren 11. Planning as a collaborative act / the plan as a collaborative actor Barry, Inch, Matthews 12. States of Emergency. Crisis Narratives as Challenge to Democracy Feindt, Fischer 13. Shattered images, baroque hersies and Rhizomatc indignation Weiner 14. Prompters and Curtain-Pullers: Policy advisers in Practice Beisel, Lippert, Ninan 15. Discourses of Democracy Farrelly, Mulderrig 16. Critical Discourse Analysis in Interpretive Policy Analysis Farrelly , Mulderrig 17. Globalisation, Discourse and Education Policy Farrelly, Mulderrig 18. Evidence and meaning in policy practice Colebatch 20. The King’s Head: making sense with hierarchy (with a special interest in Health care) Colebatch 21. Engineering, interpretation and the governance of urban infrastructure Sharp 22. Researching Complexity: systems, time, and interpretation Boons, Gerrits, Marks, Spekkink, Verweij 24. Assemblage, Enactment and Agency: Educational Policy Perspectives Riveros, Viczko 25. Logics in action: studying austerity across contexts Dreyer Hansen, Glynos, Speed, West 27. Interpretive Policy Analysis in non-Western Contexts Connelly, Mathur, Narain 28. Technological Dramas in Interpretive Policy Analysis hunsinger 29. Post-Democratic policy making and post-national dimensions of order (3 sub-panels: regimes, actors and technology) Plehwe, Strassheim, Voss 30. The blind man in search of the elephant: making sense of divergent perspectives on self-organisation Aarts, Sherwood, van Bommel 31. Changing times de Haan, Enserink, Naber 32. Community Art and the Creative Economy in Challenged Neighborhoods Dodge, Metze 33. Paradoxes in transformative contexts Avelino, Jhagroe 34. Shocks, Crises, Disasters and Others: The Construction of Extraordinary Circumstances in Legitimating Policy Change Akdogan, Orhan 35. Changing the world? The impact of interpretive policy analysis Connelly, Sharp 36. Inclusion, Participation and Equality in Global Governance– Theoretical Reflections on the Place of the Democratic in the Global Imaginary Freistein, Mert 37. Participation professionals: a research/practice conversation on the policy work of public engagement practitioners Bartels, Escobar 38. Corpus-assisted policy analysis? The uses of corpora and quantification for interpretation Blaette 39. Interpreting the Future Justice 40. Examining the EU’s energy options – internal and external components for securing, diversifying and de-carbonising Cheng, Kirby-Harris, Solorio 41. Interpreting the facilitator (new panel format) Aggar, Metze, van der Arend 42. Learning to facilitate policy deliberation Allain, Fischer 43. Regimes of Citizenship and Public Policy Analysis Cuevas, Speed, Vezovnik 44. Development Policy and Intervention: sustaining livelihoods? Darbas 45. Public Managers in a Mediatized World Klijn, van Twist, Skelcher 46. Ethnographies of Neoliberal Governance Ney 47. Understanding Processes of Policy Contestation Bröer, Verhoeven 48. Performing Welfare State Reform Duyvendak, Jansen Verplanke, Tonkens, Verhoeven 50. Democracy, performance assessment, and interaction research Schaap, van den Dool 99. Open Section Proposals for papers that do not fit into one of the panels can be submitted to this section. The conference is Tilburg Law School, Tilburg School of Politics supported by and Public Administration. Dr. M.J. (Merlijn) van Hulst Assistant Professor/Universitair Docent Tilburg School of Politics and Public Administration Tilburg University tel: 0031 13 4668189 http://www.tilburguniversity.edu/webwijs/show/?uid=m.j.vanhulst Jeremy Hunsinger Communication Studies Wilfrid Laurier University Center for Digital Discourse and Culture Virginia Tech Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality. -Jules de Gaultier () ascii ribbon campaign - against html mail /\ - against microsoft attachments

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iConf 12: Final Call for Standard Registration
by Jean-François Blanchette 17 Jan '12

17 Jan '12

************************************************************* iConference 2012: Standard registration available through Jan. 23, 2012 7-10 February, 2012, Toronto, Canada http://www.ischools.org/iConference12/2012index/ ************************************************************* There’s still time to register for iConference 2012 at the standard rate. Standard registration is available through Jan. 23, 2012. Register today at http://www.ischools.org/iConference12/registration/. The seventh annual iConference will take place February 7-10, 2012, at the Toronto Marriott Downtown Eaton Centre Hotel in Toronto, Canada. The four days will include peer-reviewed papers, posters, workshops and alternative events. Also included is a Doctoral Student Colloquium and an Early Career Colloquium. Keynote addresses will be given by Ron Deibert and Geoffrey Nunberg. View the complete program schedule at http://www.ischools.org/images/bannerimage/Program_v13.pdf The iConference is presented by the iSchools, an association of 33 academic institutions spanning North America, Europe, and Asia; all are dedicated to advancing the information field in the 21st century. The iConference pushes the boundaries of information studies, explores core concepts and ideas, and creates new technological and conceptual configurations — all situated in interdisciplinary discourses. iConference 2012 is hosted by the Faculty of Information at the University of Toronto. Presenting Sponsors include the National Science Foundation and Microsoft Research. Additional support provided by Emerald Group Publishing and Morgan & Claypool Publishers. QUALITY AND BREADTH OF RESEARCH — This year’s CFP was the most selective ever. With papers and posters spanning design, e-learning, health, knowledge organization, open access, social media, and more, you’re sure to experience much that pertains to your area of expertise. Papers: http://www.ischools.org/iConference12/papers/ Posters: http://www.ischools.org/iConference12/posters/ UNPARALLELED NETWORKING OPPORTUNITIES — the iConference draws fellow scholars and professionals who share your passion and research interests. It’s a dynamic experience that fosters interaction, spontaneity, reflection, and potential collaboration. DYNAMIC KEYNOTE SPEAKERS — Professor and author Ron Deibert will address the “The Coming Perfect Storm in Cyberspace,” and examine what it will take to restore cyberspace into an open global commons. Linguistics researcher Geoffrey Nunberg’s presentation will draw from his numerous books and presentations for NPR’s “Fresh Air.” Learn more at http://www.ischools.org/iConference12/keynote/. THOUGHT-PROVOKING WORKSHOPS — Your conference registration fee includes access to the following workshops: * Values|Making|Critique|Design: A Workshop * Championing the Impact of Sociotechnical Research * Data Science and Analytics: What Is in It for iSchools? * Network Surveillance: Access Control, Transparency, Power and Circumvention in the 21st Century * “It’s Okay to Look”: The Interdisciplinary Agenda of Online Dating Research * Practiced Based Teaching: Challenges and Pedagogy Models * Making a Contribution Part II: (A) Process vs. static theories, (B) Concepts, the building blocks of theory * Cultivating Reflective Practices in Computer-Mediated Distributed Teamwork * Hack Your Books: Conservation and Library Science in Hackerspace Complete details at http://www.ischools.org/iConference12/workshops/. EARLY CAREER COLLOQUIUM — Crafted for those in pre-tenure positions, the program will include panels by recently tenured faculty and experienced former deans, plus intimate group discussions to provide dialogue, guidance and insights. Learn more at http://www.ischools.org/iConference12/jr_faculty/. ORGANIZERS Conference Chair * Jens-Erik Mai, University of Toronto Papers Chair * Jonathan Furner, University of California, Los Angeles Posters Chair * Paul Marty, Florida State University Alternative Events Chair * Philippa Levy, University of Sheffield Workshops Chair * Kelly Lyons, University of Toronto Doctoral Colloquium Co-Chairs * Hamid Ekbia, Indiana University * Howard Rosenbaum, Indiana University Keynote Speakers Chair * Brian Cantwell Smith, University of Toronto Publication Chair * Yuri Takhteyev, University of Toronto Early Career Colloquium Co-Chairs * oseph Janes, University of Washington * Anita Komlodi, UMBC Program Committee * Mark Ackerman, University of Michigan * Alessandro Acquisti, Carnegie Mellon University * Jack Andersen, Royal School of Library and Information Science * Nick Belkin, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey * Jean-François Blanchette, University of California, Los Angeles * Johan Bollen, Indiana University * Geoff Bowker, University of Pittsburgh * Amy Bruckman, Georgia Institute of Technology * Donald Case, University of Kentucky * Chen Chuanfu, Wuhan University * Paul Clough, University of Sheffield * Kevin Crowston, Syracuse University * Ron Day, Indiana University * Melanie Feinberg, University of Texas, Austin * Robert Glushko, University of California Berkeley * Sean Goggins, Drexel University * Sara Grimes, University of Toronto * David Hendry, University of Washington * Steven Jackson, Cornell University * Jim Jansen, The Pennsylvania State University * Michelle Kazmer, Florida State University * Anita Komlodi, UMBC * Christopher (Cal) Lee, University of North Carolina * Bonnie Mak, University of Illinois * William Moen, University of North Texas * Bonnie Nardi, University of California, Irvine * Heather L. O'Brien, University of British Columbia * Ee-Peng Lim, Singapore Management University * Vivien Petras, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin * Kalpana Shankar, University College Dublin * Elizabeth Shepherd, University College London * Bo Xie, University of Maryland Learn more at http://www.ischools.org/iConference12/2012index/ -- Jean-François Blanchette, Assistant Professeur Dept. of Information Studies, UCLA http://polaris.gseis.ucla.edu/blanchette

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COMETS 2012 - 3rd IEEE Track on Collaborative Modeling and Simulation - Call for Papers
by Daniele Gianni 17 Jan '12

17 Jan '12

(Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message) ################################################################# IEEE WETICE 2012 3rd IEEE Track on Collaborative Modeling and Simulation (Comets 2012) in cooperation with AFIS (INCOSE France Chapter) MIMOS (Italian Association for M&S) CALL FOR PAPERS ################################################################# June 25-27, 2012, Toulouse (France) http://www.sel.uniroma2.it/comets12 ################################################################# # Papers Due: March 16, 2012 # Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings # by the IEEE Computer Society Press and indexed by EI. ################################################################# Modeling and Simulation (M&S) is increasingly becoming a central activity in the design of new systems and in the analysis of existing systems because it enables designers and researchers to investigate systems behavior through virtual representations. For this reason, M&S is gaining a primary role in many industrial and research fields, such as space, critical infrastructures, manufacturing, emergency management, biomedical systems and sustainable future. However, as the complexity of the investigated systems increases and the types of investigations widens, the cost of M&S activities increases for the more complex models and for the communications among a wider number and variety of M&S stakeholders (e.g., sub-domain experts, simulator users, simulator engineers, and final system users). To address the increasing costs of M&S activities, collaborative technologies must be introduced to support these activities by fostering the sharing and reuse of models, by facilitating the communications among M&S stakeholders, and more generally by integrating processes, tools and platforms. Aside from seeking applications of collaborative technologies to M&S activities, the track seeks innovative contributions that deal with the application of M&S practices to the design of collaborative environments. These environments are continuously becoming more complex, and therefore their design requires systematic approaches to meet the required quality of collaboration. This is important for two reasons: to reduce rework activities on the actual collaborative environment, and to maximize the productivity and the quality of the process the collaborative environment supports. M&S offers the methodologies and tools for such investigations and therefore it can be used to improve the quality of collaborative environments. A non–exhaustive list of topics of interest includes: * collaborative environments for M&S * collaborative Systems of Systems M&S * workflow modelling for collaborative environments and processes * agent-based M&S * collaborative distributed simulation * collaborative component-based M&S * net-centric M&S * web-based M&S * model sharing and reuse * model building and evaluation * modeling and simulation of business processes * modeling for collaboration * simulation-based performance evaluation of collaborative networks * model-driven simulation engineering * domain specific languages for the simulation of collaborative environments * domain specific languages for collaborative M&S * databases and repositories for M&S * distributed virtual environments * virtual research environment for M&S * collaborative DEVS M&S To stimulate creativity, however, the track maintains a wider scope and invites interested researchers to present contributions that offer original perspectives on collaboration and M&S. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ On-Line Submissions and Publication +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ CoMetS'12 intends to bring together researchers and practitioners to discuss key issues, approaches, open problems, innovative applications and trends in the track research area. This year, we will accept submissions in two forms: (1) papers (2) poster and industrial presentations (1) Papers should contain original contributions not published or submitted elsewhere. Papers up to six pages (including figures, tables and references) can be submitted. Papers should follow the IEEE format, which is single spaced, two columns, 10 pt Times/Roman font. All submissions should be electronic (in PDF) and will be peer-reviewed by at least three program committee members. Accepted full papers will be included in the proceedings and published by the IEEE Computer Society Press (IEEE approval pending). Please note that at least one author for each accepted paper should register to attend WETICE 2012 (http://www.wetice.org) to have the paper published in the proceedings. (2) Posters should describe a practical, on-the-field, experience in any domain area using collaborative M&S. The poster submission requires the submission of an abstract for evaluation from the organizers. Accepted abstract must be followed by the submission of a poster which will be displayed at conference time. With the poster submission, a short (15 minutes) slot might be allocated for oral presentation illustrating the industrial case. The presentation may also include a live demo, but it should not include commercial details. Interested authors and participants may contact the organizers for expression of interests and content appropriateness at any time. Papers and posters can be submitted in PDF format at the submission site (https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=comets2012) which is supported by the EasyChair conference management system. Please feel free to contact the track chairs (comets2012(a)easychair.org) if you experience problems with the EasyChair Web site. +++++++++++++++ Important Dates +++++++++++++++ * Submission Deadline: March 16, 2012 * Notification to authors: April 16, 2012 * Camera Ready to IEEE: April 30, 2012 * Conference dates: June 25 - June 27, 2012 ++++++++++++++++++++ Organizing Committee ++++++++++++++++++++ * Andrea D'Ambrogio, University of Roma TorVergata, Italy * Daniele Gianni, European Space Agency, The Netherlands * Joachim Fuchs, European Space Agency, The Netherlands * Giuseppe Iazeolla, University of Roma TorVergata, Italy +++++++++++++++++ Program Committee +++++++++++++++++ * Santiago Balestrini, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA * Massimo Bandecchi, European Space Agency, The Netherlands * Joseph Giampapa, SEI, Carnegie Mellon University, USA * Alain Kerbrat, CollESys - AFIS, France * Axel Lehmann, Universitaet der Bundeswehr Muenchen, Germany * Cristiano Leorato, Rhea, The Netherlands * Steve McKeever, University of Oxford, UK * David Nickerson, Auckland Bioengineering Institute, NZ * Alfred Park, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA * Wolfgang Prinz, Fraunhofer FIT and RWTH Aachen, Germany * José L. Risco-Martin, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain * Jean-Francois Santucci, University of Corsica, France * Gabriel Wainer, Carleton University, Canada * Quirien Wijnand, European Space Agency, The Netherlands * Heming Zhang, Tsinghua University, China *** Contact Information *** Daniele Gianni (track co-chair) Email: danielegmail-comets(a)yahoo.it

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survey on privacy-related firefox extension
by Seda Guerses 17 Jan '12

17 Jan '12

dear airs, my colleague andreas pashalidis is looking for participants in a survey for a firefox plugin. you find the description and related links below. he is also in cc, in case you have any questions or comments. best, s. We recently released FHEO, a privacy-related Firefox extension that converts online messages into images in a way that makes it hard for computers extract messages, while genuine humans can still read it. http://fheo.esat.kuleuven.be In order to evaluate its usability, we set up an online survey; please feel free to participate and to widely disseminate the link. We do need more participants! http://fheo.esat.kuleuven.be/survey Best Regards, Andreas Pashalidis P.S. Completing the survey takes about 10 minutes, and it is important THAT YOU DO NOT GET DISTRACTED WITH OTHER THINGS while completing it. This is because your answers are timed, and we don't want that you appear to be slow...

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CFP: Digital crossroads - Media, Migration and Diaspora in a Transnational Perspective - Abstract deadline extended to January 31st
by Leurs, K.H.A. (Koen) 17 Jan '12

17 Jan '12

Please circulate the following CFP: NB. Abstract Deadline extended Digital Crossroads: Media, Migration and Diaspora in a Transnational Perspective Conference 28-30 June, 2012, Utrecht, the Netherlands A kind reminder for everyone interested, please send your 300-word abstracts for papers or 500-word panel proposals for 3 to 4 presentations by January 31st 2012. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ *Apologies for cross-posting* CALL FOR PAPERS: Digital Crossroads: Media, Migration and Diaspora in a Transnational Perspective Conference website: http://www.digitalcrossroads.nl<http://www.digitalcrossroads.nl/><http://www.digitalcrossroads.nl%3chttp//www.digitalcrossroads.nl/%3E>. Conference 28-30 June, 2012, Utrecht, the Netherlands Deadline for abstract submission and panel proposals: January 10, 2012 Conference chair: Sandra Ponzanesi Conference coordinator: Fadi Hirzalla Because of the disjunctive and unstable interplay of commerce, media, national policies, and consumer fantasies, ethnicity, once a genie contained in the bottle of some sort of locality (however large), has now become a global force, forever slipping in and through the cracks between states and borders - Appadurai 1996, p. 41, Modernity at Large Keynote speakers: Shakuntala Banaji London School of Economics and Political Science, UK Kirsten Drotner University of Southern Denmark, Denmark Radhika Gajjala Bowling Green State University, USA Eva Lam University of Northwestern, USA Lisa Nakamura University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA Liesbet van Zoonen Loughborough University, UK and Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands The rapid development of digital technologies has radically transformed ways of keeping in touch with home cultures and diasporic networks. Moreover, the notion of migration has undergone significant shifts, coming to signify imaginaries on the move which are not necessarily linked to geographical displacement. The aim of this conference is to address the relationship between migration and digital technologies across national contexts and ethnic belonging. Migrancy embeds many of the local and global paradoxes that also pertain to digital media with their compression of space and time. However, the link between the two fields is still under-theorized and in need of more situated and comparative analysis. Drawing from approaches from the humanities and social sciences (media theory, communication studies, learning sciences, gender studies, cultural studies, postcolonial theory, migration and transnational studies, among others), the primary aim of this conference is to explore how the study of digitalization and migration challenges existing notions of diaspora, identity, nation, family, learning, literacy, social networks, youth, body, gender and ethnicity, asking for new approaches and a rethinking of traditional social and cultural categories. The conference will consider the following questions, among others: How has the development of new digital technologies changed the experience of migration? Conversely, how has the reality of migration impacted on the use, development and distribution of new media technologies? How does the use of media differ among different migrant generations? How does media literacy impact on issues of integration and socialization in a hosting country? What are the differences in media access, diffusion and use among different migrant communities across the world? How are race, gender, age, class, ethnicity and other markers of identity recodified online? How are transnational relationships and resources arrayed in networks? How do ideas and practices move across these networks? How is the notion of home or community, which is no longer locatable with a "here" and "there" reconceptualised through digital diasporas? How do these developments impact on the spaces for learning and education, which are no longer limited to place-based classrooms and curricula? How can learning processes and networks be conceptualised when these networks expand larger geographical distances, and multiple communities are crossed? What resources of identity do migrants draw on and how are these resources hybridized in practice, and related to their learning and socialization processes? In short, how are digital crossroads created, distributed and experienced in the context of migration, diaspora and transnationalism? The conference will explore three inter-related strands of the relationships between media and migration: Identity and diaspora (Strand 1) - identity and performativity - gender, race, ethnicity, religion and online communities - digital borders, digital diasporas - imagined communities, transnationalism and mobility - digital divides (generational, access, skills, user-generated content) - cultural industry, participatory culture and social media Migrant networks (Strand 2) - mediated spatialities - relations between online and offline worlds - affinity networks and intimacy - media literacy and migration - comparative perspectives on digital media practices Learning in a globalized world (Strand 3) - informal learning in the digital space - network approaches to learning - immigrant learning - globalization and learning - learning & identity - socialization in transnational families Please send 300-word abstracts for papers or 500-word panel proposals for 3 to 4 presentations by January 31st 2012. Submission should be made online via http://www.digitalcrossroads.nl<http://www.digitalcrossroads.nl%3chttp//www.digitalcrossroads.nl/%3E> See further submission instructions on the website. Notification of acceptance will be given by 20 February, 2012. For more information or questions please send an e-mail to info(a)digitalcrossroads.nl<mailto:info@digitalcrossroads.nl>. The conference comes at the end of a five-year High Potential project, entitled "Wired Up: Digital media as innovative socialization practices for migrant youth", carried out by the Faculty of Humanities (project leader Dr. Sandra Ponzanesi) and the Faculty of Social Sciences (project leader Prof. Dr. Mariette de Haan) at Utrecht University in collaboration with Vanderbilt University, USA (Dr. Kevin Leander, Peabody College for Education). The project was funded by the Executive Board of Utrecht University to stimulate interdisciplinary research. See http://www.uu.nl/wiredup. Organization Dr. Sandra Ponzanesi: conference chair Dr. Fadi Hirzalla: conference coordinator Prof. Dr. Mariette de Haan: scientific committee Dr. Kevin Leander: scientific committee Dr. Fleur Prinsen: conference committee Dr. Lisa Schwartz: conference committe Koen Leurs, MA: conference committee Asli Ünlosoy, MSC: conference committee Koen Leurs | Phd student Graduate Gender Programme | Utrecht University | Muntstraat 2a, 3512 EV Utrecht | tel. 030-253 7859 | K.H.A.Leurs(a)uu.nl<mailto:K.H.A.Leurs@uu.nl> | www.uu.nl/wiredup<http://www.uu.nl/wiredup> | www.koenleurs.net<http://www.koenleurs.net/> | www.digitalcrossroads.nl<http://www.digitalcrossroads.nl/>

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CFP: CyberOrient - “The Net Worth of the Arab Spring”
by Vit Sisler 17 Jan '12

17 Jan '12

**apologies for cross posting** “The Net Worth of the Arab Spring” Call for Papers - Special Issue CyberOrient: Online Journal of the Virtual Middle East Editor-in-Chief: Daniel Martin Varisco Guest Editor: Ines Braune Submission deadline: 31 May 2012 Aim As the first anniversary of the “Arab Spring” nears, several long-standing dictators have been toppled, protests still continue in other countries and new governments are being formed. Arguably, throughout this last year digital media have played an important, if not defining, role through Twitter, Facebook, blogs and the extensive news coverage in cyberspace. This is a call for papers across disciplines aiming for critical and evidence-based evaluation of the use of social media in the Arab Spring, the coverage of the Arab Spring in cyberspace and beyond, and the remediation and appropriation between social media and traditional media outlets, including satellite TVs and the press. First-person and ethnographic accounts are welcomed, but CyberOrient welcomes contributions from any field. About CyberOrient CyberOrient (http://www.cyberorient.net/) is a peer-reviewed journal published by the Middle East Section of the American Anthropological Association in collaboration with the Faculty of Arts of Charles University in Prague. The aim of the journal is to provide research and theoretical considerations on the representation of Islam and the Middle East, the very areas that used to be styled as an “Orient”, in cyberspace, as well as the impact of the internet and new media in Muslim and Middle Eastern contexts. The articles will be published online with free access in early autumn, 2012. Submission Articles should be submitted directly to Ines Braune (ines.braune(a)uni-marburg.de) and Vit Sisler (vsisler(a)gmail.com) -- Vit Sisler, Ph.D. Charles University in Prague Faculty of Arts & Philosophy Institute of Information Science and Librarianship New Media Studies http://uisk.jinonice.cuni.cz/sisler/

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Re: [Air-L] Research on Twitter - a couple of questions
by Stuart Shulman 17 Jan '12

17 Jan '12

We have been doing some experiments with Twitter and geospatial data. I just made a 3-minute video this morning that demonstrates the extremely limited availability of geospatial data, even in Tweets collected using the GNIP-enabled Power Track for Twitter (the full fire hose). http://www.screencast.com/t/eVrP2y2UWf This may change over time. I have recently talked to Michael Macy of Cornell, who has made strides identifying techniques for using a combination of features to peg the country of most Tweets. My sense, however, is there is much work to be done.

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