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Re: [Air-L] Air-L Digest, Vol 92, Issue 19
by Janet Salmons, Ph.D. 19 Mar '12

19 Mar '12

Hello everyone, *Get your avatar on and come on down!* *“Studying the (Virtual) World of (Virtual) Work” *will be the topic of discussion at the Applied Research in Virtual Environments for Learning SIG of AERA with Jonathon Richter (Wainbrave Bernal) and Janet Salmons (Soleil Lemondrop) on Wed, March 21, 1pm SLT. Jonathan Richter will discuss his case study, “Learning to Work In-World: Conducting Qualitative Research in Virtual Worlds Using In-Depth Interviews,” and Janet Salmons will explain how she critiqued this case using the E-Interview Research Framework<http://blog.vision2lead.com/e-interviews-2/coming-soon-cases-in-online-inte…>. They will answer questions about designing, conducting and reviewing research that uses interview data collected in virtual worlds. The discussion will draw from the new book: *Cases in Online Interview Researc*h <http://www.sagepub.com/books/Book235442>. Also, see the related article on e-interviews in virtual worlds in the recent ARVEL newsletter<http://blog.vision2lead.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/ARVEL-SuperNews-Fall…> (http://bit.ly/Gzo5na) See you there! http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/CAVE/34/197/35 *Janet Salmons Ph.D.* *Capella University School of Business and Technology and Vision2Lead, Inc. *Site- http://www.vision2lead.com Follow Twitter at #einterview Now available from Sage: Cases in Online Interview Research<http://www.sagepub.com/books/Book235442> PO Box 943 Boulder, CO 80306-0943 jsalmons(a)vision2lead.com

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Re: [Air-L] Literature on Internet memes/Images
by Theodore Plothe 19 Mar '12

19 Mar '12

Evgeniya, While not yet published, may I suggest research that was accepted for AoIR 12.0? Unfortunately, finances prevented me from presenting the research in Seattle, but after reading your question, I thought my study may be helpful, though it's less specifically about macros and viral images and more about a specific kind of meme, the nuclear meme. My research is accessible here: http://theoplothe.com/meme/index.html Theo Plothe MA COMS - New Media & Technology/Social Networking Northern Illinois University

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FW: Two Post-doc Researcher Positions
by Kendall, Lori 19 Mar '12

19 Mar '12

I'm forwarding this announcement for David Šmahel. See below for full description of the positions. For further information, please email him (smahel(a)fss.muni.cz) Lori Kendall -----Original Message----- Dear colleagues, I would like to inform you that our Research Institute is looking for two post-docs who will work in our team focusing on the Internet and Cyberspace. I would very appreciate your help, if you could send my e-mail to possible post-docs or students just before dissertation (latest July 1st, 2012). Thank you. All best, David Smahel --- Assoc. prof. David Smahel, M.Sc. et Ph.D. editor of: Cyberpsychology: Journal of Psychosocial Research on Cyberspace www.cyberpsychology.eu Institute of Children, Youth and Family Research Faculty of Social Studies Masaryk University (www.fss.muni.cz) Jostova 10, 602 00 Brno Czech Republic New book: Digital Youth: The Role of Media in Development (Springer, 2011) Two Post-doc Researcher Positions focusing on Internet and Cyberspace ---- Masaryk University, Brno, the Czech Republic is accepting applications for a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow position for three years, beginning September 1, 2012 (date negotiable). The successful candidate will work in international interdisciplinary team which is part of Institute for Research on Children, Youth, and Family, Faculty of Social Studies, Masaryk University, http://www.cyberpsychology.eu/team The successful candidate will lead independent research in the team and will also cooperate in our ongoing projects. The candidate should teach one course per semester, but his/her main focus will be on carrying out research, writing publications, and also applying for new grants. The ideal research background should be in psychology, media studies, communication or sociology, but we are also open to other candidates with strong research knowledge. The Post-Doctoral Research Fellow is offered a salary of 22'000-27'000 EURO/year which covers very reasonable housing and any other expenses one might have. Possible areas of interest: - online risks for children and adolescents, - online communication, - online relationships and sexuality in the virtual environment, - cyberbullying and online harassment, - online addictive behavior, excessive internet use, - online gaming, - online communities - virtual worlds The position is open to applicants from all countries meeting the following criteria: 1. The applicant must have Ph.D. not more than three years old (received between March 28th, 2008 and July 1st, 2012) 2. The applicant must be fluent in English 3. The applicant must be able to engage in collaborative research activities, have strong record of research publications, and record of projects which s/he leaded or was participated in. Candidates should send us following information: 1. Detailed CV with a list of publications (sorted by: journals with impact factor, other peer reviewed journal, book chapters, books, presentations) 2. Two letters of recommendation 3. Research proposal (2 pages long) Please, submit the documents in electronic form to David Smahel (smahel(a)fss.muni.cz) before April 15, 2012

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Future of Social Media Analysis Conference in Central London
by Lawrence Ampofo 19 Mar '12

19 Mar '12

Dear Colleagues, It is my pleasure to announce the launch of a special conference and networking event on social media analysis entitled Insight 2.0: The Future of Social Media Analysis on Friday 27 April 2012 in central London. It is designed for everyone interested in the potential of social media data to stimulate data-driven discovery and decision-making in this hyper-connected digital era. For a limited time, until Monday 13 April, a special admission price for AOIR members of GBP 37 will be available. Please email lampofo(a)zero1events.com for the discount code. More information about the event can be found by visiting www.zero1events.com The event will feature short, energetic talks from experts from the fields of psychology, political and security intelligence, gamification, big data and brand insight amongst others. Distinguished speakers include: Kevin Anderson – The Guardian, Al-Jazeera Pippa Norris – Ministry of Defence Professor Martin Everett – University of Manchester David Stillwell – University of Cambridge Nathalie Nihai – The Web Psychologist Alfred Rolington – Former CEO Jane’s Information Group, Oxford Analytica For more information, please visit www.zero1events.com and Twitter @zero1events We hope you will be able to join us to think differently about social media analysis. Best wishes, Dr. Lawrence Ampofo Director Zero1 Events 2nd Floor 5 Wormwood Street London EC2M UK T: 0044 20 7193 6104 M: 0044 7540 102 959 C/Paris 162, 5 2 08036 Barcelona Spain M: +34 645 569 150 W: www.zero1events.com T: @zero1events

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Registration open: Arab Women, Media, and Sexuality conference
by Ebtihal Mahadeen 16 Mar '12

16 Mar '12

Registration is now open for the Arab Women, Media, and Sexuality conference, to take place in York on May 26th, 2012. This international conference is hosted and organised by the Centre for Women’s Studies at the University of York/UK. It investigates the interdisciplinary study of sexuality, media, and gender from an Arab perspective and the intersection between all three. The AWMS conference aims to provide grounds for discussion and analysis of these three disciplines and to encourage debate, research and networking in these fields. Due to the unanticipated volume of interest, the conference will run concurrent panels according to the following provisional programme: Time Activity 9:00 – 9:30 Registration, refreshments 9:30 – 9:45 Welcome and announcements 9:45 – 11:30 Panel 1: Cultural Products: TV and Talk Shows ( Treehouse) Panel 2: On Veiling and Unveiling (Bowland Lecture Theatre) 11:30 – 11:55 Break: refreshments 12:00 – 1:15 Panel 3: Cultural Products: Music, Novels, and Poetry (Treehouse) Panel 4: Cultural Products: Advertisements and Drama (Bowland Lecture Theatre) 1:20 – 2:15 Lunch in the Treehouse 2:20– 3:45 Panel 5: East – West (Treehouse) Panel 6: Resistance (Bowland Lecture Theatre) 3:45 – 4:00 Break: refreshments 4:00 – 5:00 Panel 7: New Media (Bowland Lecture Theatre) 5:00 – 5:15 End remarks and thanks 5:15 – 6:30 Wine/juice reception in the Treehouse The panels will feature papers by delegates traveling to York from all over the world. A few delegates will be offering papers through long-distance conferencing. The event itself will be hosted in the Berrick Saul Building in the University of York campus, in the UK. More information can be found on the conference’s official blog: awmsconference.wordpress.com. Up-to-date information can also be found on the conference’s facebook page: http://tinyurl.com/7kb4lgt. The registration fee for Arab Women, Media, and Sexuality is £25, to include documentation, refreshments, lunch, and the wine/juice reception at the end of the day. Registration is now open on the following link: http://tinyurl.com/7c7neen* . **The deadline for registration is April 1st*.Queries should be directed to Ebtihal Mahadeen im544(a)york.ac.uk or Rachel Thwaites ret508(a)york.ac.uk. We look forward to seeing you in York in May.

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Literature on Internet memes/Images
by Evgeniya Boklage 16 Mar '12

16 Mar '12

Dear Air-L members, Does any of you know about any papers published on the subject of image macro memes or more broadly about the viral images as opposed to videos? Thanks a lot, Evgeniya

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Information and Computer Ethics Symposium - AISB/IACAP 2012 World Congress
by Mariariosaria Taddeo 16 Mar '12

16 Mar '12

Dear Colleagues, The symposium on Information and Computer Ethics in the Age of the Information Revolution accepts now submissions. The symposium is part of the AISB/IACAP 2012 World Congress, Birmingham 2-6 July 2012. http://events.cs.bham.ac.uk/turing12/ In the last a half-century, ICTs have become fundamental to our daily lives, to the point of becoming indispensable for several of our activities. Ubiquitous technologies have changed our way of working, shopping, learning and even waging war. Such changes are so deeply engrained into society that speaking of an Information Revolution is justified. Considering the Information Revolution from an ethical perspective brings to the fore two types of questions: applied and theoretical. The former revolve around the ethical problems engendered by the deployment, management and design of ICT-based artefacts. They address applied ethical issues, like, for example, the right to privacy and anonymity of Internet users, Internet neutrality and transparency, the distinction between ownership and use of online resources or the waging of informational warfare. The theoretical questions concern meta-ethical issues such as the very set of criteria on which moral judgments rest. The problem is whether the changes determined by the dissemination of ICTs have affected so deeply both our lives and our interactions with the environment in which we live that it has become necessary to revise the categories for moral judgment. In this context, issues concerning, for example, the attribution of a moral stance to digital entities, the criteria by which we define moral good and moral evil and the attribution of a moral status to artificial agents become of paramount relevance. The symposium invites contributions related to these two areas of philosophical investigation. Submission deadline: 08.04.2012 Please contact Mariarosaria Taddeo (mariarosariataddeo(a)gmail.com) or visit the symposium website http://www.informationethics.net/ICESymposium/index.html -- Dr. Mariarosaria Taddeo Marie Curie Fellow - University of Hertfordshire Senior Research Associate - Information Ethics Group (IEG), University of Oxford http://taddeo.philosophyofinformation.net/index.html

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[Deadline Extended] Food for Thought: Designing for Critical Reflection on Food Practices
by Jaz Choi 16 Mar '12

16 Mar '12

Apologies for cross-posting. // Please note that the submission deadline has been extended to March 23, 2012 // CFP. DIS 2012 WORKSHOP. Food for Thought: Designing for Critical Reflection on Food Practices Newcastle, UK June 11, 2012 http://www.urbaninformatics.net/workshop/ffthought This workshop is a continuation and extension to the successful past workshops including 2011 Communities and Technologies Food(ing): Between Human-Computer and Human-Food-Experience; 2009 [4]; OZCHI workshop, Hungry 24/7? HCI Design for Sustainable Food Culture and Sustainable Interaction with Food, Technology, and the City [3], and Food and Interaction Design: Designing for Food in Everyday Life [5]. The workshop addresses the opportunities and challenges for the design of digital interactive systems that engage individuals in critical reflection on their everyday food practices – including designing for engagement in more environmentally aware, socially inclusive, and healthier behaviour. These three themes represent the focus of much recent HCI work related to food. The proposed workshop aims to further the conversation on these themes through understanding specifically how the process of critical reflection can be encouraged by interactive technology. While the focus will be on food as an application area, the intention is to also explore, more generally, how the process of critical reflection can be facilitated through interactive technology. The workshop will include a design session, where participants will be asked to respond to the challenging local issue of alcohol and fast food consumption, to create innovative design solutions that facilitate people’s engagement in critical reflection on their food consumption, ultimately leading to broader socio-cultural transformation of Newcastle-upon-Tyne’s foodscape. The workshop will provide a unique forum to discuss existing theoretical and pragmatic approaches, and to envision novel ways to design technology that encourages sustained critical reflection. Interested participants should submit position papers to Jaz Hee-jeong Choi (h.choi [at] qut.edu.au<http://qut.edu.au/>, outlining their work, brief biographies, and what they would like to gain from the workshop. Submissions should be no longer than 2 pages, in PDF Format, and styled using the DIS paper format (http://dis2012.org/dis2012format.doc) Participants will be selected based on their expertise and to ensure overall disciplinary and geo-cultural diversity. Deadline for submissions: March 23, 2012 Notification of acceptance: April 16, 2012 Workshop: June 11, 2012 We look forward to hearing from you! Jaz, Rob, Conor, and John Workshop Organisers ---- dr. jaz hee-jeong choi urban informatics lab institute for creative industries and innovation // e: h.choi(a)qut.edu.au<applewebdata://59C14C6D-7E95-41A5-AE1A-09F34D318230/h.choi@qut.edu.au> // w: www.nicemustard.com<http://www.nicemustard.com/> // p: +617 3138 8190 // m: +61 433 167 151

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***Extended deadline: March 26*** COMETS 2012 - 3rd International Track on Collaborative Modeling and Simulation - Call for Papers
by Daniele Gianni 15 Mar '12

15 Mar '12

************* Deadline Extended to March 26, 2012 *************** (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 26, 2012 **** Extended Deadline **** # 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 26, 2012 **** Extended deadline **** * 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 * Justyna Zander, Harvard University, USA, and Fraunhofer Institute FOKUS, Germany * Heming Zhang, Tsinghua University, China *** Contact Information *** Daniele Gianni (track co-chair) Email: danielegmail-comets(a)yahoo.it COMETS 2012 - 3rd IEEE Track on Collaborative Modeling and Simulation - Call for Papers ************* Deadline Extended to March 26, 2012 *************** (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 26, 2012 **** Extended Deadline **** # 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 26, 2012 **** Extended deadline **** * 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 * Justyna Zander, Harvard University, USA, and Fraunhofer Institute FOKUS, Germany * Heming Zhang, Tsinghua University, China *** Contact Information *** Daniele Gianni (track co-chair) Email: danielegmail-comets(a)yahoo.it

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Re: [Air-L] Air-L Digest, Vol 92, Issue 16
by Chelsey Hauge 15 Mar '12

15 Mar '12

Sent from my iPhone On 2012-03-15, at 3:00 PM, air-l-request(a)listserv.aoir.org wrote: > Send Air-L mailing list submissions to > air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > air-l-request(a)listserv.aoir.org > > You can reach the person managing the list at > air-l-owner(a)listserv.aoir.org > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of Air-L digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Re: Reports on Media Policy and Media Industry in Indonesia > (Yanuar Nugroho) > 2. CFP for Communication Design Quarterly Review (Liza Potts) > 3. NEW BOOK: Net Work: Ethics and Values in Web Design by Helen > Kennedy (Helen Kennedy) > 4. CFP: broadband book and conference (Catherine Middleton) > 5. Reminder: CFP- Policy and Internet Special issue on 'Online > Collective Action and Policy Change' (Calderaro, Andrea) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2012 22:53:10 +0000 > From: Yanuar Nugroho <yanuar-n(a)unisosdem.org> > To: iskandar zulkarnain <iskandar.zulkarnain.78(a)gmail.com> > Cc: air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org > Subject: Re: [Air-L] Reports on Media Policy and Media Industry in > Indonesia > Message-ID: <4F612156.20501(a)unisosdem.org> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" > > i just received message from the website manager that it has been now > rectified. > thanks for notifying. > all best, > y > iskandar zulkarnain wrote: > > I kept getting this message "You must be logged in to download this > file" when I tried to download the second link (Media Policy in > Indonesia). > > On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 4:05 PM, Yanuar Nugroho > <[1]yanuar-n(a)unisosdem.org> wrote: > > Dear colleagues > Two reports on (1) Media policy and (2) Media Industry in > contemporary Indonesia have been released. The research was a > collaboration between HIVOS the Netherlands Regional Office > Southeast Asia and the Centre for Innovation Policy and Governance > (CIPG) Jakarta, funded by Ford Foundation. > 1. Media Industry in Contemporary Indonesia > <[2]http://mediarights.or.id/wp-content/plugins/download-monitor/dow > nload.php?id=1> > /*The Profile of Media Industry in Indonesia*/ aims to profile the > Indonesian media industry through publicly available information and > data (including news in the media, statistical analysis of the > figure collected through the survey by the National Survey Agency > (SUSENAS)), and grey literatures alike. The profile will provide a > big picture of the media industry and business landscape in > Indonesia, with clear hints to the access to media which is > available to public. > 2. Media Policy in Indonesia > <[3]http://mediarights.or.id/wp-content/plugins/download-monitor/dow > nload.php?id=2> > /*Media Policies in Indonesia: A trajectory and historical account*/ > - maps the media policies in Indonesia, both existing and laws in > drafts. It will also collate the data on the impacts of the policies > to the citizens' rights to media. The purpose is to have a > systematic historical trajectory (longitudinal qualitative accounts) > of media policies and its implications in Indonesia. > Link to download: [4]http://mediarights.or.id/recent-works/reports/ > Hope this is of some use. > All best, > y > --------------- > Dr. Yanuar Nugroho > Hallsworth Research Fellow > Manchester Institute of Innovation Research MIoIR/PREST > The University of Manchester, United Kingdom > _______________________________________________ > The [5]Air-L(a)listserv.aoir.org mailing list > is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers > [6]http://aoir.org > Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: > [7]http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org > Join the Association of Internet Researchers: > [8]http://www.aoir.org/ > > -- > Iskandar Zulkarnain > HASTAC Scholars 2011-2012 > Website: [9]http://www.hastac.org/hastac-scholars > Rochester Intermedia Studies Group > Ph.D. Student > Visual and Cultural Studies > 424 Morey Hall > University of Rochester > Rochester, NY 14627 > "Ilmu itu untuk dibagi, bukan untuk dimiliki!" > > -- > _________________ > Yanuar Nugroho > Secretary General > Uni Sosial Demokrat Jakarta - Indonesia > [10]yanuar-n(a)unisosdem.org > [11]www.unisosdem.org > > References > > 1. mailto:yanuar-n@unisosdem.org > 2. http://mediarights.or.id/wp-content/plugins/download-monitor/download.php?i… > 3. http://mediarights.or.id/wp-content/plugins/download-monitor/download.php?i… > 4. http://mediarights.or.id/recent-works/reports/ > 5. mailto:Air-L@listserv.aoir.org > 6. http://aoir.org/ > 7. http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org > 8. http://www.aoir.org/ > 9. http://www.hastac.org/scholars > 10. mailto:yanuar-n@unisosdem.org > 11. http://www.unisosdem.org/ > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2012 21:13:13 -0400 > From: Liza Potts <lpotts(a)MSU.EDU> > To: air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org > Subject: [Air-L] CFP for Communication Design Quarterly Review > Message-ID: <B16ED551-C395-430F-BA04-B4430B0AF238(a)MSU.EDU> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 > > Hi folks, > > I wanted to let you know about a new publication I'm working on with Michael Albers. Notice the special section for graduate student work. And if you haven't checked it out already, I'd like to encourage you to join us at SIGDOC 2012 (http://www.sigdoc.org/2012/) - submission deadline for paper and posers is June 1. Feel free to email me for more details. > > __________________________________ > > > ACM SIGDOC (Special Interest Group Design of Communication) will begin publishing Communication Design Quarterly Review (CDQR) in mid-2012 with four issues per year. It seeks to be the premier informational source for industry, management, and academia in the multidisciplinary field of the design and communication of information. Edited by Michael Albers and Liza Potts, it will contain a mix of peer-reviewed articles, columns, experience reports, and brief summaries of interesting research results. > > Communication Design Quarterly Review will be archived in the ACM Digital Library. A printed version will be sent to SIGDOC members and to libraries with an ACM institutional subscription. > > We invite you to contribute in any of the following areas: > > Peer-reviewed articles. Articles that cross discipline boundaries as they focus on the effective and efficient methods of designing and communicating information; disciplines will include technical communication, information design, information architecture, interaction design, and human-computer interaction. > > Experience reports. Experience reports present project- or workplace-focused summaries of important technologies, techniques, or product processes. > > Interesting research results. Short reports on interesting research or usability results that lack the rigor for a full article. For example, pilot studies, graduate student projects, or corporate usability studies where full details can?t be released. > > We are also interested in proposals for guest editing special issues. As a guest editor, you would be responsible for providing two peer reviewed articles on a specific topic and, potentially, coordinating with the column editors so their columns can complement the issue?s theme. > > For more information or submissions, contact Michael Albers (albersm(a)ecu.edu) or Liza Potts (lpotts(a)msu.edu) > > __________________________________ > > Let me know if you have any questions! > > Take care, > Liza > Treasurer/Secretary of ACM's SIGDOC > _________________________________________ > Liza Potts, Ph.D. > Assistant Professor > Department of Writing, Rhetoric, & American Cultures > Michigan State University > East Lansing, MI 48824 > Email: lpotts(a)msu.edu | AIM: LizaPotts | Skype: LKPotts | Office: Bessey 291 > > > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 3 > Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2012 12:37:45 +0000 > From: Helen Kennedy <H.Kennedy(a)leeds.ac.uk> > To: "air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org" <air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org> > Subject: [Air-L] NEW BOOK: Net Work: Ethics and Values in Web Design > by Helen Kennedy > Message-ID: > <66F01BC4D7AAFB4EA82FEAFAB093922802A971AE8763(a)HERMES7.ds.leeds.ac.uk> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" > > Net Work: Ethics and Values in Web Design by Helen Kennedy > > ?With rigor and heart, Helen Kennedy demonstrates that ethical decisions are interwoven into the labour of web design, making the work meaningful for designers and the internet more accessible for users. She successfully balances a critical yet hopeful tone in theorizing cultural labour in the new economy.? Vicki Mayer, Tulane University, USA. > > 'Beautifully written and carefully researched, this is an important book that makes a major contribution to thinking about labour, ethics and new media.' Rosalind Gill, King's College, London, UK. > > 'Helen Kennedy has painted a detailed moral and emotional landscape of the web and offers an alternative way of reading the hope and utopianism associated with the Internet in the 1990s. For web professionals, her book inspires some reflective thinking about why we were drawn to our industry and the ways we work in it. For students and teachers of digital media, it provides a much needed philosophical framework for web industry practice.' Linda Leung, University of Technology Sydney, Australia > > Despite growing interest in the cultural industries and the iconic status of the web designer, surprisingly little academic attention has been paid to the work of people who make websites. This book fills that gap, offering a detailed analysis of the work practices and working conditions of web designers. Helen Kennedy draws on over a decade of work and research within the web design industry to argue that web design is suffused with ethical inflections, which originate both in Tim Berners-Lee's ideal vision of the web as an open, accessible and universal medium, and in the ethics and values which individual web designers bring to their work. Rich in empirical detail, Net Work is a must read for people interested in digital media and the cultural industries, and for those who want to work in these fields. > > CONTENTS: > PART I: FRAMING WEB DESIGN > Chapter 1: A Book About Web Design > Chapter 2: A Framework for Thinking About Web Design > Chapter 3: A Brief History of Web Design > PART II: ETHICS AND VALUES IN WEB DESIGN > Chapter 4: Web Standards and the Self-Regulation of Web Designers > Chapter 5: The Fragile Ethics of Web Accessibility > Chapter 6: Going the Extra Mile: Web Accessibility for People with Intellectual Disabilities > Chapter 7: Free Labour: Web Designers' Ethical Responses to User Activity > Chapter 8: Narrow Fame: Micro-Celebrities Making Good of Conditions Not of Their Own Making > Chapter 9: Hope and the Ethical Future of Web Design > > HELEN KENNEDY is Senior Lecturer in New Media in the Institute of Communication Studies at the University of Leeds, UK. She has contributed articles to journals such as Media, Culture and Society, Ephemera, The Information Society, Information Communication and Society and New Media and Society, and is co-editor of Cyborg Lives? Women's Technobiographies (2001). She also teaches web design and occasionally designs websites. > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 4 > Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2012 09:08:52 -0400 > From: Catherine Middleton <lists(a)catherinemiddleton.ca> > To: air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org > Subject: [Air-L] CFP: broadband book and conference > Message-ID: > <136914C9-C64D-4518-962C-315FBF0FFF24(a)catherinemiddleton.ca> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 > > Connecting the Future: Rural Broadband Technology, Policy and Impact, Toronto, September 19-20, 2012. Abstracts due by April 15th, 2012. http://business.queensu.ca/centres/monieson/economic_revitalization/Broadba… > > Call for Chapters: Management of Broadband Technology Innovation. Full chapters due by April 15, 2012. http://www.broadbandresearch.ca/ourresearch/CFP_broadband_book.pdf > > Broadband network connectivity is becoming an essential service. Individuals use broadband to connect to friends and family, to access services (e.g., healthcare, education), make purchases, and look up information and for entertainment. Governments are increasingly turning to broadband networks as a means of providing services to their constituents, while businesses rely on broadband to connect with suppliers and customers. It is widely understood that the deployment and effective use of broadband networks can result in social and economic benefits, and for this reason, governments are encouraging the development of ?next generation? (very high speed) broadband networks. > > Despite the apparent consensus that investment in broadband networks, coupled with network adoption, does result in positive outcomes there is a paucity of research that explores the ways that benefits are actually realised. This book will discuss barriers to broadband adoption and consider the nature of demand for next generation broadband connectivity among various user groups. It will critically explore claims of the benefits of broadband deployment, providing examples of successful and unsuccessful applications and services. The book will then examine the policy environments in which broadband networks are developed, and discuss strategies for network deployment. > > This book is a cutting edge research book written for researchers, students, academics and policy makers. The authors will draw from their expertise in Information Systems, Management, Strategy, and Communications Policy to provide insights into the value of broadband connectivity. In the midst of a transition to next generation broadband, this book aims to provide valuable insights on the deployment, adoption and usage of broadband services, regardless of the specific technologies used to provide services to users. > > For more information on this book, please contact Jyoti Choudrie (jyotichoudrie(a)gmail.com) or Catherine Middleton (catherine.middleton(a)ryerson.ca) > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 5 > Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2012 06:26:06 -0700 > From: "Calderaro, Andrea" <Andrea.Calderaro(a)EUI.eu> > To: AoIR <air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org> > Subject: [Air-L] Reminder: CFP- Policy and Internet Special issue on > 'Online Collective Action and Policy Change' > Message-ID: <F17179C7-8C0B-499C-9482-1BDBC68717FA(a)EUI.eu> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > > ** Apologies for cross-posting** > > DEADLINE APPROACHING > > Call for Papers > 'Policy and Internet' Special Issue on "Online Collective Action and Policy Change" > > Guest Editors > > Andrea Calderaro (PhD, European University Institute) > Anastasia Kavada (PhD, University of Westminster) > > Policy and Internet, the first major peer-reviewed multi-disciplinary journal investigating the impact of the internet on public policy, is inviting submissions for a special issue on 'Online Collective Action and Policy Change', to be published in January 2013 (paper deadline: 31 March 2012). The journal is edited by the Oxford Internet Institute (University of Oxford) for the Policy Studies Organization (PSO). Please find more information at: http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/news/?id=595 > > The Internet has created a new interface between collective action and policy making: it opens new channels for social coordination and mobilisation, and it offers multiple platforms from where to influence public opinion and policy makers. The recent wave of protests that has swept authoritarian regimes like Tunisia, Egypt, and Libya, but also western liberal democracies like Greece, Spain, and the UK, offers new empirical evidence of the impact that online interactions and information exchange can have on policy making. > > In addition to these recent instances of contentious politics, advocacy and grassroots groups are increasingly using online technologies to empower local communities and direct change in the policies that most affect them. And issues at the heart of online governance, like Internet regulation, are motivating many collective efforts directed to shaping file-sharing policies, free software, or digital communication rights. > > This special issue calls for academic papers reporting novel empirical research on how online collective action drives policy change, in any of its ramifications. This includes topics such as: > > - The coordination of protests and mobilisations using online technologies, and their impact on public opinion and policy making. > - The mechanisms through which online collective action grows and diffuses, and how or when they trigger a policy reaction. > - The impact of online activity on issue salience, and the responsiveness of policy makers. > - The interplay between online collective action and the offline policy cycle, or how policy makers deal with new sources of instability and disruption. > > This list of topics is not exhaustive, and other questions related to online collective action and its impact on policy making will be considered. Please contact the guest editors Andrea Calderaro (andrea.calderaro(a)eui.eu) and Anastasia Kavada (a.kavada(a)westminster.ac.uk) if you have any queries about how your paper might fit in the issue. > > Paper Submissions > > The online submission deadline for papers is 31 March 2012. Please indicate in the cover letter that the paper is intended for the special issue 'Online Collective Action and Policy Change'. Authors are advised to consult the journal's Guide for Authors before submitting their paper. > > _________________________________ > Andrea Calderaro, PhD | European University Institute > > Academic Assistant | Center for Media Pluralism and Freedom Information | European University Institute > Project Coordinator "New Media in Transition Democracy" | Department of Media and Communication - University of Oslo > Guest Editor "Policy and Internet" special issue: "Online Collective Action and Policy Change" - CfP at: http://t.co/YWe2a7ya > ----------------------------------------------- > Personal Page: www.eui.eu/Personal/Researchers/calderaro/ > Twitter: @andreacalderaro > > > > The information transmitted is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. Any review, retransmission, dissemination, distribution, forwarding, or other use of, or taking of any action in reliance upon, this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited without the express permission of the sender. If you received this communication in error, please contact the sender and delete the material from any computer. > > > ------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > The Air-L(a)listserv.aoir.org mailing list > is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org > Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org > > Join the Association of Internet Researchers: > http://www.aoir.org/ > > End of Air-L Digest, Vol 92, Issue 16 > *************************************

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