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Reminder: CFP- Policy and Internet Special issue on 'Online Collective Action and Policy Change'
by Calderaro, Andrea 15 Mar '12

15 Mar '12

** 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.

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CFP: broadband book and conference
by Catherine Middleton 15 Mar '12

15 Mar '12

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)

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NEW BOOK: Net Work: Ethics and Values in Web Design by Helen Kennedy
by Helen Kennedy 15 Mar '12

15 Mar '12

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.

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CFP for Communication Design Quarterly Review
by Liza Potts 15 Mar '12

15 Mar '12

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

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DEADLINE EXTENDED: IIPC Doctoral Support Award Feb 29
by Potter, Abigail 14 Mar '12

14 Mar '12

The new deadline for applications is Feb 29, 2012. University of North Texas Interdisciplinary Information Science PhD Program * Award Announcement: April 1, 2012 * Ph.D. Program Start Date: Fall 2012 * Duration of Funding: 3 years (assuming successful progress) * Annual Financial Support: Approximately $40,000 (USD) http://infosciencephd.unt.edu/iipc-web-archiving-doctoral-support-award Abigail Potter Communications Officer, IIPC Program Officer, NDIIPP Library of Congress abpo(a)loc.gov ph. +202-707-7371 101 Independence Ave. S.E. Washington, DC 20540-1310

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CFP: Learning Analytics & Networked Learning, HICSS 2013
by Caroline Haythornthwaite 14 Mar '12

14 Mar '12

CFP: Learning Analytics & Networked Learning, Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS) 46, January 7-10, 2013, Maui, HI PAPERS DUE: June 15, 2012 via the HICSS conference system http://www.hicss.hawaii.edu/hicss_46/apahome46.htm http://haythorn.wordpress.com/hicss-minitracks-cfp/ This minitrack calls for papers that address leading edge use of technology or system design to analyze, support, and/or create learning and learning environments. The scope is wide and includes papers that use technology to examine how social learning happens, use data from learning environments to support learning processes, and examine new practices of formal and informal learning on and through the Internet. Papers that fit this minitrack fall under new and ongoing areas of learning research that may be referred to as learning analytics, networked learning, technology enhanced learning, computer-supported collaborative learning, ubiquitous learning, and mobile learning. Of particular interest are papers that capture, analyze and show novel use of data produced from online learning environments, develop and/or test methodologies for analyzing online learning, address automated data collection and analysis in support of learning, professional development and knowledge creation, and discuss issues and opportunities relating to information literacy, literacy and new media, ubiquitous learning, entrepreneurial learning and/or mobile learning. We encourage research that covers system and learning theories, social learning and networking tools and their development, research methods, and/or measurable outcomes as they relate to the area of technology and its support of improving networked learning. We also encourage papers that address learning and learning communities that are created in any setting, including educational institutions, workplaces, public knowledge, personal knowledge, and/or ‘serious leisure’. Appropriate usage environments range from same-time, same-place to anytime, anywhere that increase interactions among the learners in formal and informal learning settings and mixtures thereof, and may include collectives from learning crowds to communities. We envision papers that · address the use of automated data capture to follow and analyze learning processes · develop methodologies for analyzing online learning · develop metrics for characterizing and following learning trends online · test the validity of automated data for capturing a true representation of learning and knowledge creation · analyze and/or support the role of social networks in learning · report on the development and maintenance of innovative online environments for learning · discuss trends in learning on and through the Internet, including issues and opportunities relating to information literacy, literacy and new media, ubiquitous learning and entrepreneurial learning · examine economic models, trends and markets for online learning, including open source and open access models · examine the foundations for learning in online networks, crowds and communities · examine the design and facilitation of learning in online networks, crowds and communities · examine the validity of information and learning processes online, and trust in online information sources for learning · address the role of particular devices – laptops, mobiles, OLPC – in learning · examine trends in how we learn with and through technology – in secondary and higher education, workplaces, society, developed and underdeveloped nations · discuss ethical issues relating to learning online, including issues relating to data capture, analysis and display, and learning about controversial subjects or anti-social activities. This minitrack -- LEARNING ANALYTICS AND NETWORKED LEARNING -- is part of the INTERNET AND DIGITAL ECONOMY track at HICSS. Minitrack Organizers Caroline Haythornthwaite, University of British Columbia c.haythorn(a)ubc.ca Maarten de Laat, Open University of the Netherlands maarten.delaat(a)ou.nl Shane Dawson, University of British Columbia shane.dawson(a)ubc.ca Dan Suthers University of Hawaii suthers(a)hawaii.edu ABOUT HICSS CONFERENCES http://www.hicss.hawaii.edu/hicss_46/apahome46.htm HICSS conferences are devoted to the most relevant advances in the information, computer, and system sciences, and encompass developments in both theory and practice. Accepted papers may be theoretical, conceptual, tutorial or descriptive in nature. Those selected for presentation will be included in the Conference Proceedings published by the IEEE Computer Society and maintained in the IEEE Digital Library. How to Submit a Paper: Follow Author Instructions posted on the conference web site: http://www.hicss.hawaii.edu/hicss_46/apahome46.htm · HICSS papers must contain original material. They may not have been previously published, nor currently submitted elsewhere. All submissions undergo a double-blind peer review process. · Abstracts are optional, but strongly recommended. You may contact the Minitrack Chair(s) for guidance or verification of content. · Submit a paper to only one Minitrack. If a paper is submitted to more than one minitrack, then either paper may be rejected by either minitrack without consultation with author or other chairs. If you are not sure of the appropriate Minitrack, submit an abstract to the Track Chair(s) for determination, and/or seek informal opinion(s) of Minitrack Chair(s) before submitting. · Do not author or co-author more than 5 papers. This means that an individual may be listed as author or co-author on no more than 5 submitted papers. Track Chairs must approve any names added after submission or acceptance on August 15. IMPORTANT 2012 DEADLINES FOR AUTHORS · June 15 -- SUBMIT FULL MANUSCRIPTS FOR REVIEW as instructed. The review is double-blind; therefore, this initial submission must be without author names. · Aug 15 -- Review System emails Acceptance Notices to authors. It is very important that at least one author of each accepted paper attend the conference. Therefore, all travel guarantees – including visa or your organization’s fiscal funding procedures – should begin immediately. Make sure your server accepts the review system address https://precisionconference.com/~hicss. · Sept 15 -- SUBMIT FINAL PAPER. Add author names to your paper, and submit your Final Paper for Publication to the site provided in your Acceptance Notice. (This URL is not public knowledge.) · Oct 1 -- Early Registration fee deadline. At least one author of each paper should register by this date in order secure publication in the Proceedings. Fees will increase on Oct 2 and Dec 2. · Oct 15 -- Papers without at least one paid-in-full registered author may be deleted from the Proceedings and not scheduled for presentation; authors will be so notified by the Conference Office. Cancellation and Refund Policy All conference cancellation requests must be in writing. A fee will be charged for cancellation of registration after Oct 15, at which time the paper is subject to withdrawal from the Proceedings. There is no registration refund after December 1. Cancellations for accommodations must be handled directly with the hotel.

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(Reminder) Call for Conference Papers: "IPP2012: Big Data, Big Challenges?"
by David Sutcliffe 14 Mar '12

14 Mar '12

Just a reminder that the paper call for the Oxford Conference on Big Data (Sept 2012) closes this week (posters still have another month)... Best wishes, David ** Call for papers ** ** Internet, Politics, Policy 2012: Big Data, Big Challenges? ** ** 20-21 September 2012, University of Oxford ** ** http://microsites.oii.ox.ac.uk/ipp2012 ** ** Rationale ** Recent years have seen an increasing buzz around how 'Big Data' can uncover patterns of human behaviour and help predict social trends. Most social activities today leave digital imprints that can be collected and stored in the form of large datasets of transactional data. These data are already being used to prevent epidemics or combat fraud and crime, but the research potential of these data is still underexploited. The impact of Big Data goes beyond academic research: the behavioural insights gained from transactional information can also be used to drive evidence-based policy making and 'nudge' political behaviour. However, the technical skills necessary to analyse large datasets often prevent social scientists from exploiting its potential. Much detail is also lost in the analysis of Big Data, which emphasises aggregated patterns over mechanisms operating at the individual level and lacks the demographic information of survey data, for example. This conference calls for papers that explore the new research frontiers opened up by Big Data as well as its limitations. We are looking for research that uses large datasets to inform old debates in political science, and papers that develop innovative methodological tools (from experiments, to crowd-sourcing, to online ethnography) to overcome the omissions of big datasets. The Internet, Politics, Policy 2012 conference aims to serve as a forum to encourage discussion across disciplinary boundaries on how to exploit Big Data to inform policy debates and advance social science research. ** Programme ** The conference aims to attract papers from a range of disciplines analysing Big Data or developing approaches that dig into the mechanisms that large datasets do not consider. Panels will be organised in twin tracks: - Papers in the Politics track will explore the insights that large datasets and complementary methodological tools offer in the analysis of political behaviour, including - but not limited to - mobilisations, collective action, or public opinion formation; - Papers in the Policy track will look at how behavioural insights gained from Big Data analysis, and from experiments in online settings, can inform policy debates and shape policy making, including e-health, on-line education, cybercrime, security and privacy. These two areas are intertwined, and will be merged in plenary sessions, investigating the intersection of policy and politics in the Big Data era. ** Keynotes ** - Duncan Watts, Principal Research Scientist, Yahoo! Research - Second keynote pending confirmation ** Submissions ** We welcome papers reporting on innovative research exploiting large datasets or applying novel methodological tools aimed to overcome the limitations of Big Data. We particularly welcome papers that report empirical results and employ analytical approaches that would not have been possible without access to digital information. Perspectives from any academic discipline are welcomed, particularly: political science, economics, law, sociology, information science, communications, philosophy, computer science, psychology, management, geography and medicine. Paper proposals: Proposals should include a title and a 1000 word abstract specifying the research question, describing the methods and data used, and summarising the main findings. Abstracts will be peer reviewed, and the authors of accepted proposals are expected to submit full papers prior to the conference. Paper submissions will be considered for a Best Paper Award of 300 GBP (sponsored by the journal Policy and Internet). The prize will be awarded at the closing session of the conference. As the paper is intended to be published in a future issue of the journal, authors should indicate whether they would like their paper to be considered for the prize. Poster proposals: Posters should summarise in a visually engaging manner the purpose, methods and results of an original piece of research. All accepted submissions will be considered for a Best Poster Award of 300 GBP (sponsored by Google). The prize will be awarded at the closing session of the conference. Paper and poster proposals should be submitted using the online form at http://microsites.oii.ox.ac.uk/ipp2012/submissions Travel Bursaries: We will support a limited number of competitive bursaries to contribute to the cost of attendance for doctoral students and recent postdocs (doctorate finished 2011). Preference will be given to paper or poster presenters. Please indicate in your submission if you would like to be considered for such a bursary. ** Deadlines ** Abstract deadline: 15 March 2012 Decision on abstracts: 15 April 2012 Poster deadline: 15 April 2012 Decision on posters: 15 May 2012 Full paper submission: 15 August 2012 Conference correspondence can be sent to: ipp2012(a)oii.ox.ac.uk Best wishes, Internet, Politics, Policy 2010 http://microsites.oii.ox.ac.uk/ipp2012 Contact: ipp2012(a)oii.ox.ac.uk Twitter: #ipp2012 Professor Helen Margetts (Oxford Internet Institute) Dr Sandra Gonzalez-Bailon (Oxford Internet Institute) David Sutcliffe (Oxford Internet Institute)

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Conference CFP: Moving from Me to We: Breaking Boundaries and Building Bridges with Globally Networked Learning Partnerships
by COIL Conference 13 Mar '12

13 Mar '12

Dear Colleagues, We hope you will find this Call for Presentations to be of interest. Please see our website for more details: www.suny.edu/global/coil <http://cts.vresp.com/c/?SUNYCOILCenter/a8eb5c5d9c/78e62f6351/e9814c8e7c > Best Regards, The COIL 2012 Conference Team COILConference(a)suny.edu <mailto:COILConference@suny.edu> The SUNY Center for Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL) is pleased to announce that its fourth annual conference, Moving from Me to We: Breaking Boundaries and Building Bridges with Globally Networked Learning Partnerships, will be held June 7-8, at the SUNY Global Center in New York City. We invite proposals for presentations that broadly support this year's conference themes; including individual presentations, panels, mini-workshops, or alternative innovative formats (including those utilizing videoconferencing and other technologies). Joint proposals from cross-department and/or inter-institutional teams, those which include substantial audience participation, or which bring in student perspectives are particularly encouraged. This year's conference is being held June 7-8, at the SUNY Global Center in New York City. COIL's annual conference gathers faculty, international educators, instructional technologists, and administrators from around the world to share experiences and best practices for developing globally networked learning initiatives. The SUNY COIL Center is a leader in the emerging field of Globally Networked Learning (GNL); a teaching and learning methodology which provides innovative cost-effective internationalization strategies. GNL programs foster faculty and student exchange with peers abroad through co-taught multicultural online and blended learning environments that emphasize experiential collaboration. 2012 COIL Conference Themes: - Globally Networked Classrooms as Portals to Increased Study Abroad Participation - Role of GNL in Integrating Intercultural or Global Dimensions into the Curriculum - Growing and Sustaining Globally Networked Learning Initiatives - Supporting the Faculty and Institutional Partnering Process - Application of Educational Technology to Internationalization - Fostering and Evaluating Student Cross-cultural Competence - Initial outcomes of the COIL Institute for Globally Networked Learning in the Humanities Proposals should be sent via email to COILConference(a)suny.edu <mailto:COILConference@suny.edu> by March 26, 2012 and include the following information: - Type of session (e.g. panel or individual presentation) - Proposed duration of session (20 - 60 minutes, please see conference website for details) - Preferred room size - Title (up to 15 words) - 200-400 word abstract which identifies what will be presented in the session, the target audience, and the delivery format - 3 key points audience members learn from the session - Name, institutional/departmental affiliation(s), position, and contact information for each presenter - Technology and audio/visual requirements Please visit our website for more details: www.suny.edu/global/coil <http://cts.vresp.com/c/?SUNYCOILCenter/a8eb5c5d9c/78e62f6351/e9814c8e7c > . Any questions about the CFP process or the conference venue should be directed to COILConference(a)suny.edu <mailto:COILConference@suny.edu> . Applicants will be notified of the status of their proposal application by early April.

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cfp: SOCIAL TURN/SNAMAS @ AISB/IACAP 2012 - DEADLINE EXTENDED (April 8, 2012)
by Judith Simon 13 Mar '12

13 Mar '12

**Apologies for any duplication** ------------------------------------------------------- EXTENDED DEADLINE: Symposium on SOCIAL COMPUTING SOCIAL COGNITION SOCIAL NETWORKS AND MULTIAGENT SYSTEMS @ AISB/IACAP 2012 July 2^nd 3^rd , 2012. https://sites.google.com/site/socialturnsnamasaisbiacap2012/ CALL FOR PAPERS Extended deadline: April 8, 2012. The symposium is part of the AISB/IACAP World Congress 2012 in honour of Alan Turing, held on July 2nd to 6th, 2012. University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK.http://events.cs.bham.ac.uk/turing12/& http://www.aisb.org.uk/convention/aisb12/ The event is jointly organized by The Society for the Study of Artificial Intelligence and Simulation of Behaviour (AISB) [http://www.aisb.org.uk <http://www.aisb.org.uk/>] and The International Association for Computing and Philosophy (IACAP) [http://www.ia-cap.org <http://www.ia-cap.org/>] ------------------------------- INVITED SPEAKERS Bernhard Rieder, New Media, University of Amsterdam. Marek Sergot, Imperial College, London.GRANTS: ------------------------------- GRANTS The European Network for Social Intelligence is offering a limited number of travel grants for PhD students and early stage researchers. Please indicate in your paper submission if you want to apply for the travel grants. Further information will be made available on the symposium website. ------------------------------- SYMPOSIUM CHAIRS Gordana Dodig-Crnkovic, Mälardalen University, Sweden. Antonino Rotolo, CIRSFID, U. di Bologna, Italy. Giovanni Sartor, EUI and CIRSFID, Italy. Judith Simon, University of Vienna, Austria and & Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany. Clara Smith, UNLP and UCALP, Argentina. --------------------------------- This 2012 symposium merges the symposium entitled Social Turn: Social Computing - Social Cognition - Social Intelligence; and the SNAMAS symposium, focused on Social Networks and Multi-Agent Systems, which have precursor symposia in Social Computing at IACAP and the SNAMAS in AISB conferences. ---------------------------------- TOPICS The field of social computing has two different foci: social and computational. There is the focus on socialness of social software or social web applications. Widespread examples of social software are blogs, wikis, social bookmarking services, instant messaging services, and social networking sites. Social computing often uses various types of crowdsourcing techniques for aggregation of input from numerous users (public at large). Tools such as prediction markets, social tagging, reputation and trust systems as well as recommender systems are based on collaborative filtering and thus a result of crowdsourcing. Another focus of social computing is on computational modeling of social behavior, among others through Multi-agent systems (MAS) and Social Networks (SN). MAS have an anchoring going beyond social sciences even when a sociological terminology is often used. There are several usages of MAS: to design distributed and/or hybrid systems; to develop philosophical theory; to understand concrete social facts, or to answer concrete social issues via modelling and simulation. MAS aim at modelling, among other things, cognitive or reactive agents who interact in dynamic environments where they possibly depend on each other to achieve their goals. The emphasis is nowadays on constructing complex computational systems composed by agents which are regulated by various types of norms, and behave like human social systems. Finally, Social networks (SN) are social structures made of nodes (which are, generally, individuals or organizations) that are tied by one or more specific types of interdependency, such as values, visions, idea, financial exchange, friends, kinship, dislike, conflict, trade, web links, disease transmission, among many others. Social networks analysis plays a critical role in determining the way specific problems are solved, organizations are run, and the degree to which individuals succeed in achieving their goals. Social networks analysis has addressed also the dynamics issue, called dynamic networks analysis. This is an emergent scientific field that brings together traditional social network analysis, link analysis and multi-agent systems. The symposium addresses, but is not limited to, the following topics: - Conceptual issues such as Socialness (notions of the social used and/or enforced in social computing and research on social cognition or social intelligence) and Computational Models and mechanisms of social computing (information processing) as well as models and social mechanisms of cognition and intelligence. - Agency & Action in social computing systems: How can agency be understood and/or modeled in systems consisting of human and non-human agents? - Social Coordination & Norms: Emergence of norms (e.g. in Wikipedia) and compliance including their computational modeling in socio-technical systems. - Interaction & Communication in socio-technical systems and their computational models - Knowledge: the epistemological and ethical consequences of distributed knowledge creation in social computing and its computational models - Relations between the individual and the social: Forming of individual existence in relation to social computing (e.g. digital identity), including its computational modeling. - Agreement technologies. - Electronic Institutions. - Empirical and/or theoretical studies on a specific social or legal relationship (power, solidarity, legitimity, dependency...). - Empirical and/or theoretical studies on social relations' regulations. - Formalization of Normed Systems. - Logical frameworks for representing, describing and analysing agent's social or legal relationships. - Relations between the individual and the social: Forming of individual existence in relation to social computing (e.g. digital identity), including its info-computational modeling. - Responsibility, Accountability & Liability. What is epistemically and ethically responsible behavior with respect to social software and how can it be supported? What are the responsibilities of different human agents (e.g. software users, designers, researchers, etc)? - Rules and standards. - Social Networking Sites: philosophical implications of socialness in social networking sites (e.g., privacy, social structures, etc.). - Info-computational models of social networking sites. - The role of agents? attributes in structuring social and legal relationships. - The role of specific social relationships in structuring groups and organizations. - Trust in social computing. Differences and similarities between notions of trust e.g. in multi-agent systems, social networking sites, recommender systems, etc. Differences and similarities between trust online and offline. How can trust be supported by a computational system itself? ------------------------------ IMPORTANT DATES Paper submission deadline: April 8, 2012. Notification of acceptance: April 30, 2012. Camera ready version deadline: June 1, 2012. Symposium: 2nd -- 3rd July, 2012. --------------------------------- PAPER SUBMISSION Guidelines for paper submission are as follows: - The paper should be written in English. - The maximum length of a paper is 6 A4-sized pages in ECAI format (format download: http://www.aisb.org.uk/convention/aisb08/download.html) - The paper should be in PDF format. - Please choose one track between SOCIAL TURN and SNAMAS, and submit via the online paper submission system to the corresponding track at: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=socialturnmasaisbiac ------------------------------------- PROGRAM COMMITTEE Doris Allhutter, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Austria. Frederic Amblard, IRIT, U. Toulouse, France. Giulia Andrighetto, ISTC-CNR, Italy. Carlos Areces, UN Córdoba, Argentina. Guido Boella, University of Torino, Italy. Pompeu Casanovas, UAB Institute of Law and Technology, Spain. Cristiano Castelfranchi, ISTC-CNR, Italy. Mark Coeckelbergh University of Twente, Netherlands Diego Compagna, University Duisburg-Essen, Germany. Rosaria Conte, ISTC-CNR, Italy. Charles Ess, Aarhus University, Danmark. Ricardo Guibourg, UBA, Argentina. Hamid Ekbia, Indiana University, Indiana Lars-Erik Janlert, Umeå University, Sweden Matthias Mailliard, Cemagref, France. Antonio A. Martino, U. Salvador, Argentina. Jeremy Pitt, Imperial College London, UK. Melina Porto, UNLP, Argentina. Leon Van der Torre, U Louxembourg, Louxembourg. Serena Villata, University of Torino, Italy. Jutta Weber, University Paderborn, Germany. Christian Fuchs, Uppsala University, Sweden. --------------------------------------- POSTERS AND SYSTEM DEMONSTRATIONS There will be one session for system demonstrations, and one day poster exhibition. ---------------------------------------- PROCEEDINGS AND POST PROCEEDINGS There will be a separate proceedings for each symposium, produced before the Congress. Each delegate at the Congress will receive, on arrival, a memory stick containing the proceedings of all symposia. Selected papers of the Symposium, under a second review process, will be considered for a special issue of the AI & Law Journal, Springer http://www.springer.com/computer/ai/journal/10506; and for the open access TripleC journalhttp://www.triple-c.at/index.php/tripleC. -------------------------------------- ABOUT THE CONGRESS The Congress serves both as the year's AISB Convention and the year's IACAP conference. The Congress has been inspired by a desire to honour Alan Turing, and by the broad and deep significance of Turing's work to AI, to the philosophical ramifications of computing, and to Philosophy and computing more generally. The Congress is one of the events forming the Alan Turing Year (http://www.mathcomp.leeds.ac.uk/turing2012/) The intent of the Congress is to stimulate a particularly rich interchange between AI and Philosophy on any areas of mutual interest, whether directly addressing Turing's own research output or not. The Congress will consist mainly of a number of collocated Symposia on specific research areas, interspersed with Congress-wide refreshment breaks, social events and invited Plenary Talks. All papers other than the invited Plenaries will be given within Symposia. This symposium is closely connected to UmoCoP, Symposium on Understanding and Modelling Collective Phenomena, which will be held on July 3rd-5th 2012. There will be a joint panel from both symposia on July 3rd. ---------------------- CONTACTS For further inquiries please contact any of the chairs: gordana.dodig-crnkovic(a)mdh.se <https://mail.google.com/mail/h/1qosmuj0mmwqg/?&v=b&cs=wh&to=gordana.dodig-c…>,judith.simon(a)univie.ac.at <https://mail.google.com/mail/h/1qosmuj0mmwqg/?&v=b&cs=wh&to=judith.simon@un…>(SOCIAL COMPUTING - SOCIAL COGNITION - SOCIAL NETWORKS) antonino.rotolo(a)unibo.it <https://mail.google.com/mail/h/1qosmuj0mmwqg/?&v=b&cs=wh&to=antonino.rotolo…>,giovanni.sartor(a)libero.it <https://mail.google.com/mail/h/1qosmuj0mmwqg/?&v=b&cs=wh&to=giovanni.sartor…>, csmith(a)info.unlp.edu.ar <https://mail.google.com/mail/h/1qosmuj0mmwqg/?&v=b&cs=wh&to=csmith@info.unl…>(MULTIAGENT SYSTEMS) -- Judith Simon Department of Philosophy <http://philosophie.univie.ac.at/> - University of Vienna (PI: Epistemic Trust in Socio-Technical Epistemic Systems <http://www.fwf.ac.at/en/abstracts/abstract.asp?L=E&PROJ=P23770>) ITAS - Karlsruhe Institute of Technology <http://www.itas.kit.edu/english/index.php> (Senior Researcher) Institut Jean Nicod <http://www.institutnicod.org/notices.php?user=Simon> - Ecole normale supérieure - Paris (Associate Post-doctoral fellow)

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Deadline extended AISB/IACAP 2012: Symposium on SOCIAL COMPUTING SOCIAL COGNITION SOCIAL NETWORKS AND, MULTIAGENT SYSTEMS
by Judith Simon 13 Mar '12

13 Mar '12

**Apologies for any duplication** ------------------------------------------------------- EXTENDED DEADLINE: Symposium on SOCIAL COMPUTING SOCIAL COGNITION SOCIAL NETWORKS AND MULTIAGENT SYSTEMS @ AISB/IACAP 2012 July 2^nd 3^rd , 2012. https://sites.google.com/site/socialturnsnamasaisbiacap2012/ CALL FOR PAPERS Extended deadline: April 8, 2012. The symposium is part of the AISB/IACAP World Congress 2012 in honour of Alan Turing, held on July 2nd to 6th, 2012. University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK.http://events.cs.bham.ac.uk/turing12/& http://www.aisb.org.uk/convention/aisb12/ The event is jointly organized by The Society for the Study of Artificial Intelligence and Simulation of Behaviour (AISB) [http://www.aisb.org.uk <http://www.aisb.org.uk/>] and The International Association for Computing and Philosophy (IACAP) [http://www.ia-cap.org <http://www.ia-cap.org/>] ------------------------------- INVITED SPEAKERS Bernhard Rieder, New Media, University of Amsterdam. Marek Sergot, Imperial College, London.GRANTS: ------------------------------- GRANTS The European Network for Social Intelligence is offering a limited number of travel grants for PhD students and early stage researchers. Please indicate in your paper submission if you want to apply for the travel grants. Further information will be made available on the symposium website. ------------------------------- SYMPOSIUM CHAIRS Gordana Dodig-Crnkovic, Mälardalen University, Sweden. Antonino Rotolo, CIRSFID, U. di Bologna, Italy. Giovanni Sartor, EUI and CIRSFID, Italy. Judith Simon, University of Vienna, Austria and & Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany. Clara Smith, UNLP and UCALP, Argentina. --------------------------------- This 2012 symposium merges the symposium entitled Social Turn: Social Computing - Social Cognition - Social Intelligence; and the SNAMAS symposium, focused on Social Networks and Multi-Agent Systems, which have precursor symposia in Social Computing at IACAP and the SNAMAS in AISB conferences. ---------------------------------- TOPICS The field of social computing has two different foci: social and computational. There is the focus on socialness of social software or social web applications. Widespread examples of social software are blogs, wikis, social bookmarking services, instant messaging services, and social networking sites. Social computing often uses various types of crowdsourcing techniques for aggregation of input from numerous users (public at large). Tools such as prediction markets, social tagging, reputation and trust systems as well as recommender systems are based on collaborative filtering and thus a result of crowdsourcing. Another focus of social computing is on computational modeling of social behavior, among others through Multi-agent systems (MAS) and Social Networks (SN). MAS have an anchoring going beyond social sciences even when a sociological terminology is often used. There are several usages of MAS: to design distributed and/or hybrid systems; to develop philosophical theory; to understand concrete social facts, or to answer concrete social issues via modelling and simulation. MAS aim at modelling, among other things, cognitive or reactive agents who interact in dynamic environments where they possibly depend on each other to achieve their goals. The emphasis is nowadays on constructing complex computational systems composed by agents which are regulated by various types of norms, and behave like human social systems. Finally, Social networks (SN) are social structures made of nodes (which are, generally, individuals or organizations) that are tied by one or more specific types of interdependency, such as values, visions, idea, financial exchange, friends, kinship, dislike, conflict, trade, web links, disease transmission, among many others. Social networks analysis plays a critical role in determining the way specific problems are solved, organizations are run, and the degree to which individuals succeed in achieving their goals. Social networks analysis has addressed also the dynamics issue, called dynamic networks analysis. This is an emergent scientific field that brings together traditional social network analysis, link analysis and multi-agent systems. The symposium addresses, but is not limited to, the following topics: - Conceptual issues such as Socialness (notions of the social used and/or enforced in social computing and research on social cognition or social intelligence) and Computational Models and mechanisms of social computing (information processing) as well as models and social mechanisms of cognition and intelligence. - Agency & Action in social computing systems: How can agency be understood and/or modeled in systems consisting of human and non-human agents? - Social Coordination & Norms: Emergence of norms (e.g. in Wikipedia) and compliance including their computational modeling in socio-technical systems. - Interaction & Communication in socio-technical systems and their computational models - Knowledge: the epistemological and ethical consequences of distributed knowledge creation in social computing and its computational models - Relations between the individual and the social: Forming of individual existence in relation to social computing (e.g. digital identity), including its computational modeling. - Agreement technologies. - Electronic Institutions. - Empirical and/or theoretical studies on a specific social or legal relationship (power, solidarity, legitimity, dependency...). - Empirical and/or theoretical studies on social relations' regulations. - Formalization of Normed Systems. - Logical frameworks for representing, describing and analysing agent's social or legal relationships. - Relations between the individual and the social: Forming of individual existence in relation to social computing (e.g. digital identity), including its info-computational modeling. - Responsibility, Accountability & Liability. What is epistemically and ethically responsible behavior with respect to social software and how can it be supported? What are the responsibilities of different human agents (e.g. software users, designers, researchers, etc)? - Rules and standards. - Social Networking Sites: philosophical implications of socialness in social networking sites (e.g., privacy, social structures, etc.). - Info-computational models of social networking sites. - The role of agents? attributes in structuring social and legal relationships. - The role of specific social relationships in structuring groups and organizations. - Trust in social computing. Differences and similarities between notions of trust e.g. in multi-agent systems, social networking sites, recommender systems, etc. Differences and similarities between trust online and offline. How can trust be supported by a computational system itself? ------------------------------ IMPORTANT DATES Paper submission deadline: April 8, 2012. Notification of acceptance: April 30, 2012. Camera ready version deadline: June 1, 2012. Symposium: 2nd -- 3rd July, 2012. --------------------------------- PAPER SUBMISSION Guidelines for paper submission are as follows: - The paper should be written in English. - The maximum length of a paper is 6 A4-sized pages in ECAI format (format download: http://www.aisb.org.uk/convention/aisb08/download.html) - The paper should be in PDF format. - Please choose one track between SOCIAL TURN and SNAMAS, and submit via the online paper submission system to the corresponding track at: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=socialturnmasaisbiac ------------------------------------- PROGRAM COMMITTEE Doris Allhutter, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Austria. Frederic Amblard, IRIT, U. Toulouse, France. Giulia Andrighetto, ISTC-CNR, Italy. Carlos Areces, UN Córdoba, Argentina. Guido Boella, University of Torino, Italy. Pompeu Casanovas, UAB Institute of Law and Technology, Spain. Cristiano Castelfranchi, ISTC-CNR, Italy. Mark Coeckelbergh University of Twente, Netherlands Diego Compagna, University Duisburg-Essen, Germany. Rosaria Conte, ISTC-CNR, Italy. Charles Ess, Aarhus University, Danmark. Ricardo Guibourg, UBA, Argentina. Hamid Ekbia, Indiana University, Indiana Lars-Erik Janlert, Umeå University, Sweden Matthias Mailliard, Cemagref, France. Antonio A. Martino, U. Salvador, Argentina. Jeremy Pitt, Imperial College London, UK. Melina Porto, UNLP, Argentina. Leon Van der Torre, U Louxembourg, Louxembourg. Serena Villata, University of Torino, Italy. Jutta Weber, University Paderborn, Germany. Christian Fuchs, Uppsala University, Sweden. --------------------------------------- POSTERS AND SYSTEM DEMONSTRATIONS There will be one session for system demonstrations, and one day poster exhibition. ---------------------------------------- PROCEEDINGS AND POST PROCEEDINGS There will be a separate proceedings for each symposium, produced before the Congress. Each delegate at the Congress will receive, on arrival, a memory stick containing the proceedings of all symposia. Selected papers of the Symposium, under a second review process, will be considered for a special issue of the AI & Law Journal, Springer http://www.springer.com/computer/ai/journal/10506; and for the open access TripleC journalhttp://www.triple-c.at/index.php/tripleC. -------------------------------------- ABOUT THE CONGRESS The Congress serves both as the year's AISB Convention and the year's IACAP conference. The Congress has been inspired by a desire to honour Alan Turing, and by the broad and deep significance of Turing's work to AI, to the philosophical ramifications of computing, and to Philosophy and computing more generally. The Congress is one of the events forming the Alan Turing Year (http://www.mathcomp.leeds.ac.uk/turing2012/) The intent of the Congress is to stimulate a particularly rich interchange between AI and Philosophy on any areas of mutual interest, whether directly addressing Turing's own research output or not. The Congress will consist mainly of a number of collocated Symposia on specific research areas, interspersed with Congress-wide refreshment breaks, social events and invited Plenary Talks. All papers other than the invited Plenaries will be given within Symposia. This symposium is closely connected to UmoCoP, Symposium on Understanding and Modelling Collective Phenomena, which will be held on July 3rd-5th 2012. There will be a joint panel from both symposia on July 3rd. ---------------------- CONTACTS For further inquiries please contact any of the chairs: gordana.dodig-crnkovic(a)mdh.se <https://mail.google.com/mail/h/1qosmuj0mmwqg/?&v=b&cs=wh&to=gordana.dodig-c…>,judith.simon(a)univie.ac.at <https://mail.google.com/mail/h/1qosmuj0mmwqg/?&v=b&cs=wh&to=judith.simon@un…>(SOCIAL COMPUTING - SOCIAL COGNITION - SOCIAL NETWORKS) antonino.rotolo(a)unibo.it <https://mail.google.com/mail/h/1qosmuj0mmwqg/?&v=b&cs=wh&to=antonino.rotolo…>,giovanni.sartor(a)libero.it <https://mail.google.com/mail/h/1qosmuj0mmwqg/?&v=b&cs=wh&to=giovanni.sartor…>, csmith(a)info.unlp.edu.ar <https://mail.google.com/mail/h/1qosmuj0mmwqg/?&v=b&cs=wh&to=csmith@info.unl…>(MULTIAGENT SYSTEMS) -- Judith Simon Department of Philosophy <http://philosophie.univie.ac.at/> - University of Vienna (PI: Epistemic Trust in Socio-Technical Epistemic Systems <http://www.fwf.ac.at/en/abstracts/abstract.asp?L=E&PROJ=P23770>) ITAS - Karlsruhe Institute of Technology <http://www.itas.kit.edu/english/index.php> (Senior Researcher) Institut Jean Nicod <http://www.institutnicod.org/notices.php?user=Simon> - Ecole normale supérieure - Paris (Associate Post-doctoral fellow)

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