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Internet studies in India
by Mathieu ONeil 24 Feb '12

24 Feb '12

Hi all I was wondering if anyone on the list could point me towards scholars and/or research centres in India which specialize in Internet studies and online social movements? Any tips much appreciated!, cheers Mathieu

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software for online ethnography
by Ashley Hinck 24 Feb '12

24 Feb '12

Hi all, Does anyone have a recommendation for software to use for online ethnography? I'm looking for something to organize artifacts from a variety of sources, including websites, tumblrs, forums, tweets, interviews, etc. I don't necessarily need the software to help me analyze data, but need something to help manage artifacts from a variety of sources. I've been following the discussion of how best to archive websites, but I was wondering if there might be software that can integrate data from multiple platforms. I'm trying to construct an archive of the online communication of a particular community that uses multiple platforms. Any help would be much appreciated. =) -Ashley -- Ashley Hinck Teaching Assistant and PhD Student in Rhetoric Communication Arts Department The University of Wisconsin-Madison

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Respondent needed for NCA panel
by Kris M. Markman 24 Feb '12

24 Feb '12

Colleagues, A graduate student in my department is organizing a panel proposal on online communities to be submitted to the African American Culture & Communication Division of NCA for the 2012 conference in Orlando. She is looking for a respondent for the panel. The panel title is “Online COMMunties: D.I.Y. from Beauty to Justice." From the rationale: "Online communities have become, for some people, a way of life or a way to supplement the lives they live. The members of this panel will share four very different ways online communities function to help individuals receive and mete out justice, talk about breast cancer, deal with their grief, and garner support for wearing natural hair. It is not simply the existence of these communities that interests communication scholars, but also how the members of these communities interact and how communication transformed blogs and sites to actual communities." If you are interested in serving as a respondent, or know someone else who might be, please contact Cicely Wilson at ctwilsn1(a)memphis.edu. Thanks for your help! -Kris ---------- ---------- ---------- Kris M. Markman, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Dept. of Communication University of Memphis www.krismarkman.com

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Sematic Ambient Media (SAME 2012) @ Pervasive 2012 (Deadline 2nd March - Position Papers) - 5th International Workshop on Semantic Ambient Media Experience
by artur.lugmayr＠tut.fi 24 Feb '12

24 Feb '12

------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ CALL FOR POSITION PAPERS SAME 2012 @ Pervasive 2012 ? 5th International Workshop on Semantic Ambient Media Experience (SAME 2012) The Seventh Sense! Feel, Touch, Listen, Smell ? Unobtrusive Semantic Ambient No-Screen Media 18th June 2012 - in conjunction with Pervasive 2012 Newcastle, UK ******* UPCOMING DEADLINE: 2nd March 2012 - position paper min. pages (!) ******* http://www.ambientmediaassociation.org/same2012 Special Theme 2012: Unobtrusive Semantic Ambient Media Beyond the Screen and Pixels Creating the business value, vision, media theories and technology for ambient media ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ SAME 2012 The medium is the message! In the age of ubiquitous and pervasive computation, where the information through a distributed interlinked network of devices, the question, ?what is content in the age of ambient media?? becomes more and more of importance. Ambient media are embedded throughout the natural environment of the consumer ? in his home, in his car, in restaurants, and on his mobile device. Predominant example services are smart wallpapers in homes, location based services, RFID based entertainment services for children, or intelligent homes. Today the screen ? touchscreen, mobile phone displays, or LCD displays seem to be the main modality for consuming and interacting with media. However, the main challenge for ambient media is to ?render? the digital world in the natural environment, augment the world around us, and to bring the digital world into the real physical world. The plethora of interactivity becomes a modality for connecting the physical world to the digital overlay and an interaction with physical objects triggering actions in the digital domain. Today, the main device for interaction is the screen and the display ? what about no-screen, no-keyboard, no-mouse media? Current developments as e.g. fluid interfaces, displays beyond mobile phone and PC screens, gadgets for gaming, and outside media products show us that no-screen, no-keyboard, and no-mouse media are possible. The distribution of the medium throughout the natural environment implies a paradigm change of how to think about content. Until recently, content was identified as single entities to information ? a video stream, audio stream, TV broadcast and a screen as display device. However, in the age of ambient media, the notion of content extends from the single entity thinking towards a plethora of sensor networks, smart devices, personalized services, and media embedded in the natural environment of the user. New technologies render traditional screen, keyboard, and mouse concepts obsolete. The user actively participates and co-designs media experience with his location based input. Initiatives as the smart Web considering location-based tagging for web-pages underline this development. Within the scope of this workshop we solely focus on no-screen, no-keyboard, no-mouse based semantic media applications; semantic media applications that can be touched, listened to, felt, smelt. WORKSHOP CHALLENGES The workshop aims at answering the following questions for applications, methods, techniques, and installations that follow the no-screen, no-keyboard, and no-mouse device idea: - How to select, compose, and generate ambient content including a no-screen concept? - How to present ambient content with no-screens? - How to re-use ambient content and learning experiences without utilizing screens or traditional I/O devices?- - What are the characteristics of ambient media, its content, and technology when traditional I/O devices are not utilized? - How can sensor data be interpreted and intelligently mined? - How can collaborative or audience participatory content be supported? - How can existing media such as TV, home entertainment, cinema extended by ambient media? - What are ambient media in terms of story-telling and art that do not use screens? - How do ambient media create business and value and how can ambient media be integrated into business processes and strategies? - Which methods for experience design, prototyping, and business models exist? - What is interactivity between the single consumers and consumer groups in the ambient context? TOPICS OF INTEREST The following (and related) topics are within the scope of this workshop and shall act as examples: - No-screen, no-keyboard, no-mouse gadgets, devices, and hardware - No-screen applications, services, artistic installations, and cases - No-screen application areas: eCommerce, gaming, social media, traditional media, eLearning, etc. - Interactive storytelling, narrations, and interactive advertising - Interaction models, consumer experience, and usability - Unobtrusive semantic ambient media - Algorithms, methods, and techniques supporting no-screen ambient media - Business processes, value-creation, and opportunities of no-screen ambient media - Semantics, and intelligence of ambient content in daily objects not utilizing screen, keyboard, and mouse - Mobile and stationary sensor data collection and interpretation algorithms and techniques - Context awareness and collection and context aware composition/selection - Creation and maintenance of meta-information including metadata and data management - Ambient and mobile social networks, user generated content, and co-creation of content and products - Characteristics of no-screen ambient media, its content, and technological platforms - No-screen ambient content creation techniques, asset management, and programming ambient media - Algorithms and techniques for semantic sensor data interpretation supporting no-screen media - Applications and services, including ambient games, art and leisure content in specific contexts - Personalization, user models, multimodal interaction, smart user interfaces, and universal access - Experience design, usability, audience research, ethnography, user studies, and interface design - Business models, marketing studies, media economics, and ?x?-commerce of no-screen media - Ambient no-screen, no-keyboard, no-mouse interfaces (touch, gesture, haptics, biometrics) - Management of information, knowledge and sapience in the context of semantic no-screen ambient media - Methods for context awareness, sensor networks, and sensor data mining - Semantic data mining and text mining for no-screen media - Semantic models, semantic interpretation for no-screen ambient media presentation - Personalization and methods for locative no-screen media in the wild We are also aiming at multidisciplinary, highly future oriented submissions that help to develop the ambient media form for entertainment services, such as: - Case-studies (successful, and especially unsuccessful ones) - Oral presentation of fresh and innovative ideas - Artistic installations and running system prototypes - User-experience studies and evaluations - Technological novelties, evaluations, and solutions TARGET AUDIENCE The target audience is researchers and practitioners in the field of ubiquitous and pervasive computation and its related areas. These include pervasive computation, emotional computation, content creation, ubiquitous computation, human-computer-interaction and usability experts, mobile industry, service creators, etc. Workshop participants shall have previous experience in this or related fields to be able to contribute on a high scientific level. The workshop participants will actively contribute to the development of semantic ambient media, due to a different method of workshop organization. Participants shall ?participate? rather than passively contribute. The participants shall discuss and actively elaborate the topic and we plan to kick-off an international web-based informal forum for ambient media, which shall increase the effect of this workshop tremendously. We strongly welcome multidisciplinary contributions coming from the media technology, artistic, business, and human experience side. Case studies (successful and especially unsuccessful), artistic installations, technologies, media studies, and user-experience evaluations are highly welcome, which are affecting the development of ambient media as new form of media. Especially visionary contributions shaping the future of ambient media are strongly welcome. IMPORTANT PAPER SUBMISSION ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Submissions are expected to be 2-10 pages papers according the paper format of Pervasive available at http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0 (however final papers require to be 5-10 pages long) Please submit your paper at our paper submission system: http://webhotel2.tut.fi/emmi/Conferences/2012same/openconf.php Several workshop contributions will be published with ISBN number with the Tampere Univ. Press and online within the ACM DL. Best contributions will be compiled to a special issue following up the workshop - we aim at Springer MTAP after reviewing the quality of contributions Check also the Ambient Media Association (AMEA): www.ambientmediaassociation.org IMPORTANT DATES ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Submission deadlines (deadlines for this workshop are strictly observed!): Mar 2, 2012 : Deadline for Workshop Paper April 2, 2012 : Notification of Accepted Workshop Papers April 20, 2012 : Camera Ready Accepted Workshop Papers Due 18th June 2012: Workshop day WORKSHOP SERIES CONTEXT ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Pervious Workshops on Semantic Ambient Media Experience: - 1st International Workshop on Semantic Ambient Media Experiences held in conjunction with ACM Multimedia 2008, (Vancouver, Canada), http://portal.acm.org/toc.cfm?id=1461912&type=proceeding&coll=ACM&dl=ACM&CF… - 2nd International Workshop on Semantic Ambient Media Experiences held in conjunction with AmI-09, (Salzburg, Austria), http://webhotel2.tut.fi/emmi/forum/node/55 - 3rd International Workshop on Semantic Ambient Media Experiences held in conjunction with AmI-10, (Malaga, Spain), http://www.ambientmediaassociation.org/node/56 - 4rd International Workshop on Semantic Ambient Media Experiences held in conjunction with 5th International Conference on Communities and Technologies, Brisbane, Australia, http://www.ambientmediaassociation.org/node/60 Previous Special Issues For each held workshop, a special issue has been created with Springer-Verlag Multimedia Tools & Applications. The workshop shall gather people from industry and academia to develop the vision of ambient media as new form of smart media. WORKSHOP CHAIRS ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ - Artur Lugmayr, Tampere University of Technology (TUT) & lugYmedia Inc., FINLAND - Thomas Risse, L3S Research Center, GERMANY - Bjoern Stockleben, Univ. of Applied Sciences Magdeburg, GERMANY - Juha Kaario, Varaani Works Oy, FINLAND - Bogdan Pogorelc, Jozef Stefan Institute & Spica International d.o.o., SLOVENIA - Estefan?a Serral Asensio, Universidad Polit?cnica de Valencia, SPAIN PROGRAM COMMITTEE (not complete) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Vivek K Singh, UC, Irvine, Irvine, UNITED STATES Radu-Daniel Vatavu, University Stefan cel Mare of Suceava, Suceava, ROMANIA Seongbok Baik , KT Central R&D Laboratory, Daejeon, REPUBLIC OF KOREA M. Anwar Hossain, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, CANADA Moyen Mohammad Mustaquim, Uppsala University Uppsala, SWEDEN Abdulmotaleb El Saddik, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, CANADA Andreas Holzinger, Medical University Graz, Graz, AUSTRIA Philippe Codognet, CNRS / University of Tokyo, Tokyo, JAPAN

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Call for Proposals for Projects to be Funded
by Richard Taylor 24 Feb '12

24 Feb '12

PTC Project Request for Proposals The Pacific Telecommunications Council (PTC) (www.ptc.org/) invites proposals for the funding of applied research projects that promote the use of telecommunications and information and communication technologies to enhance the lives of the people of the Asia/Pacific Hemisphere. This PTC Project Request for Proposals is open to all PTC Members. Non-Members can also be eligible to submit proposals, either by becoming a Member of PTC or by submitting a proposal in partnership with one or more PTC Members. A list of PTC members can be found at: http://www.ptc.org/index.php/council/membership/ptc-members/. A broad range of projects will be considered for support. Final selections will be based on the scope and scale of the proposals submitted. All proposed Projects must be limited in duration and in general be designed to take no longer than one year to complete. Projects proposing a longer duration will require additional review, and if approved, will be subject to a progressive review as necessary before an extension is authorized to continue past the first 12 months. While no specific budget amount is being identified for any individual projects, funding is limited. Therefore, Projects requiring US$40,000 or less are preferred. Projects requiring more than US$40,000 will receive additional scrutiny and may require additional details beyond those specified in the full Project RFP. Proposals received by the date specified in the "Deadline" section below will receive priority consideration. Late proposals may be accepted or rejected at the sole discretion of PTC. When a Project is approved, a specific Project contract will be drafted and the Project may begin once the contract has been signed by the appropriate parties. Proposal Submission This invitation is a summary of the project RFP. The complete RFP is available at http://ptc.org/?page_id=1785/. Proposals must be submitted through the online form available at: http://www.xcdsystem.com/ptc/. PTC also welcomes new members. Here is a link to the PTC membership application <https://registration.ptc.org/members/> form. Deadline The deadline for receipt of proposals is 14 March 2012, unless extended by PTC. Any proposals received after the deadline, or any extended deadline, will be considered at the sole discretion of PTC. February 23, 2012 Submitted by: Prof. Richard Taylor, Penn State University, rdt4(a)psu.edu

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Re: [Air-L] software for online ethnography (Ashley Hinck) (Monica Barratt) (Jason Zalinger)
by LaBonte Karen 23 Feb '12

23 Feb '12

Jason, Have you mentioned Ethnochat on Twitter? The #phdchat gang comprises a range of research areas, including many folks interested in digital/web-based research methods. If you're interested, you might find the #phdchat wiki an interesting place to start. Congrats on your chapter, and to you, Monica on your article. I look forward to reading! Karen Karen LaBonte Doctoral Student, English Education Teachers College, Columbia University 525 W. 120th Street, Box 183 NY, NY 10027

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Deadline Extension! WWW2012 Workshop: Declarative 3D for the Web Architecture (Dec3D2012)
by Jankowski, Jacek 23 Feb '12

23 Feb '12

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Papers 1st International Workshop on Declarative 3D for the Web Architecture (Dec3D2012) http://events.declarative3d.org/Dec3D2012 in conjunction with WWW2012, 21st International World Wide Web Conference (WWW2012) 16-20 April 2012, Lyon, France http://www2012.org -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dear Colleagues, you are invited to submit your papers to the 1st International Workshop on Declarative 3D for the Web Architecture, co-located with the WWW2012 conference. The workshop aims to encourage researchers and practitioners from both the Web and 3D graphics communities to meet and talk about an integration of interactive 3D graphics capabilities into the Web technology stack in a declarative way. === Topics === Topics of interest for the workshop include, but are not limited to, the following: * Declarative 3D Use-Cases and Requirements: Discussion of the use cases, where embedding 3D data in HTML using declarative approach provides significant benefit; deduction of the requirements for the D3D specification. * Declarative 3D and DOM: Discussion of integration of 3D with existing and future W3C standards, specifically: integration of high-level scene concepts; integration with client and server side rendering services, 3D REST; integration with existing security aspects for content delivery and visualization; content portability and platform independence. * Declarative 3D in current web browsers: Exploring how the incorporation of declarative 3D graphics can be done in currently popular web browsers (e.g., by using WebGL in WebKit or Gecko); what are the possible difficulties? * Semantics of 3D objects in DOM: Discussion of how descriptive 3D can be combined with semantics. This includes topics such as querying and manipulation of graphical objects, mash-up from several sources, integration of RDF technology, creation of useful APIs based on web services etc * Declarative 3D User Interface Issues: Novel interfaces and interaction methods for online 3D + HTML content; mobile 3D Web interfaces, interaction techniques; accessibility and usability of 3D Web content. === Submissions === We seek three kinds of submissions: * Full technical papers - should not exceed eight pages in length in ACM format; * Short technical papers and position papers - up to four pages in ACM format; * Demo descriptions - two-page description of the application in ACM format, ideally accompanied with a link to a demo; Submissions must be formatted using the ACM SIG Proceedings Templates. Please note that the author list does not need to be anonymized, as we do not follow a double-blind review process. Submissions will be peer reviewed by at least three independent reviewers. Accepted papers will be presented at the workshop and included in the workshop proceedings (published online at CEUR-WS). Please submit papers via EasyChair at http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dec3d2012 === Important Dates === * Submission deadline (Extended!): 29th February, 2012, 23:59 CET * Notification of acceptance: 6th March, 2012 * Camera-ready versions of accepted papers: 22nd March, 2012 * Workshop date: 17th April, 2012 === Organising Committee === * Johannes Behr, Fraunhofer Gesellschaft * Don Brutzman, Naval Postgraduate School/Web3D Consortium * Ivan Herman, W3C * Jacek Jankowski, DERI Galway * Kristian Sons, DFKI === Programme Committee === * Rémi Arnaud, Screampoint * Johannes Behr, Fraunhofer Gesellschaft * Don Brutzman, Naval Postgraduate School/Web3D Consortium * Anita Havele, GlobalEdge/Web3D Consortium * Ivan Herman, W3C * Jacek Jankowski, DERI Galway * Yvonne Jung, Fraunhofer Gesellschaft * Fabio Pittarello, Ca'Foscari University * Nicholas Polys, Virginia Tech/Web3D Consortium * Sandy Ressler, NIST * Philipp Slusallek, DFKI * Kristian Sons, DFKI * Neil Trevett, Khronos/NVidia * Krzysztof Walczak, Poznań University of Economics For any further informations, please contact organizers via dec3d2012(a)easychair.org

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Re: [Air-L] Internet studies in India
by Oliver Leistert 23 Feb '12

23 Feb '12

On 02/23/2012 11:26 AM, Mathieu ONeil wrote: > Hi all > > I was wondering if anyone on the list could point me towards scholars > and/or research centres in India which specialize in Internet studies > and online social movements? Any tips much appreciated!, > > Hi Matthew, try CIS India: http://cis-india.org/ Best, Oliver

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using social media short course
by Holly Kruse 23 Feb '12

23 Feb '12

I'm teaching a two-week long intersession short course called "Using Social Media" during spring intersession, and I'd love some ideas for assignments and topics to cover. It's not an online course. I've taught much more theoretical, historical, etc. semester-long courses on digital media/CMC, but this class is meant to be quite applied. I'm having the students read Nancy Baym's Personal Connections in the Internet Age and Clay Shirky's Here Comes Everybody, and the students will write a paper, but I need to fill three hours a day for two weeks, so any suggestions are most welcome! Thanks, Holly ---- Holly Kruse. Department of Communications Rogers State University 1701 W. Will Rogers Blvd. Claremore, OK 74017 918-343-7879 hkruse(a)rsu.edu or DrKruseRSU(a)gmail.com http://hollykruse.com or http://www.rsu.edu/academics/comm/kruse.asp

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Re: [Air-L] software for online ethnography (Ashley Hinck)
by Jason Zalinger 22 Feb '12

22 Feb '12

Hi Ashley, I have struggled with this question a lot, and I don't think there is one solution. I would include Zotero <http://www.zotero.org/> to the list of programs already mentioned. I use it for more than just bibliographic management. You can save snapshots of sites to it, make notes, save pdfs etc. I'm also going to use this opportunity to shamelessly plug a chapter I recently published about an instant messenger program designed for ethnographers. "The Story of Ethnochat: Designing an Instant Messaging Program to Conduct Semi-Structured or Unstructured Interviews" http://www.igi-global.com/chapter/online-research-methods-urban-planning/62… :) -Jay

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