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CC-licensed version of book
by Julie Cohen 12 Mar '12

12 Mar '12

With a shout-out to Yale Press for their commitment to open access, I'm delighted to announce that the Creative Commons licensed version of my book is now available at www.juliecohen.com. All best, Julie Julie E. Cohen Professor of Law Georgetown University Law Center jec(a)law.georgetown.edu http://www.law.georgetown.edu/faculty/jec/

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connexions: Call for Special Issue Guest Editors
by rosario durao 11 Mar '12

11 Mar '12

Please accept my apologies for cross-postings ____________________________________ Dear Colleagues, *connexions *journal places great emphasis on Special Issues as a unique means of promoting research of the highest quality in thematic areas related to international professional communication. I invite and encourage you to propose a theme and guest edit a Special Issue of the journal: - Special Issue 1(2): December 2012 - Special Issue 2(1): June 2013 - Special Issue 2(2): December 2013 - Special Issue 3(2): December 2014 Issue 3(1): June 2014 will be composed of regular submissions. Please send your proposals for a Special Issue to Rosário Durão at editor(a)connexionsjournal.org**. I will be glad to answer your questions. To read the requirements for Special Issue proposals, please go to connexionsjournal.org/special-issues/. Thank you for considering organizing a Special Issue for *connexions • international professional communication journal | revista de comunicação profissional internacional*. Rosário Durão Editor editor(a)connexionsjournal.org www.connexionsjournal.org <http://connexionsjournal.org/>

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Fwd: [ciresearchers] New Zealand and Australian policy comparision
by gene loeb 11 Mar '12

11 Mar '12

Hi all, I thought some from this list might also be of assistance. Gene ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: gene loeb <geneloeb(a)gmail.com> Date: Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 5:08 PM Subject: Re: [ciresearchers] New Zealand and Australian policy comparision To: ciresearchers(a)vancouvercommunity.net, Jennifer Mitok <mitok(a)ualberta.ca> Jen, I am also interested in the connectivity issues on a worldwide bases and would be interested in your results. You are doing important work in an increasingly significant area. Pual budde and don cameron from Australia know a lot from Australia and should be a good source of information.. Let me know about your results or further information. I am also forwarding this to the Association for Internet researchers who may also be of help. gene Gene Loeb, Ph.D. On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 4:46 PM, Jennifer Mitok <mitok(a)ualberta.ca> wrote: > Hello, I am a student in Dr. Gurstein's University of Alberta course on > Community Informatics. I am doing a research paper analyzing the policy > differences between the New Zealand Digital strategy (2005) and Australia's > NBN initiative. I'm looking for any research that has been done on the > 'community' impact of these strategies, if anyone on the list has any > recommendations, I would greatly appreciate it. > > Many thanks, > > Jen Mitok >

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Journal of Virtual Worlds Research - Combined Call 2012-2013
by Tzafnat Shpak 11 Mar '12

11 Mar '12

Dear members, This is a combined call for *all of the Journal of Virtual Worlds Research<http://jvwresearch.org/> **2012-2013 current CFPs (Call For Papers)*, including general call for papers, special topics calls (Asian, Managerial and Commercial Applications, and Law), as well as fast track relating to AIS conferences in AIS e-Commerce Wuhan, China; AMCIS Seatle, USA; MCIS Guimarães, Portugal and ICIS 2012, Orlando Florida, USA. (Also including a general call for reviewers and editors). Volume 5, Number 2 (2012): Asian Perspectives CFP: Asian Perspective<http://jvwresearch.org/index.php/component/content/article/8-about-jvwr/23> Guest Editors: * Kenneth Y T Lim, National Institute of Education, Singapore * Young Hoan Cho, National Institute of Education, Singapore * Michael Vallance, Future University, Hakodate, Japan Links: http://jvwresearch.org/index.php/component/content/article/8-about-jvwr/23 Publication: 2012 Q3 Status: Call done. *Please Submit*. A Special Seminar on Virtuallity as a Frontier for MIS Research<http://www.whiceb.com/> as part of The Eleventh Wuhan International Conference on E-Business Volume 5, Number 3 (2012): Managerial and Commercial Applications CFP: Managerial and Commercial Applications<http://jvwresearch.org/index.php/component/content/article/10-cfps/27> Guest Editors: * Shu Schiller, Wright State University * Brian Mennecke, Iowa State University * Fiona Fui-Hoon Nah, University of Nebraska-Lincoln Links: http://jvwresearch.org/index.php/component/content/article/10-cfps/27 Publication: 2012 Q4 Status: Call done. *Please Submit*. Connection with Americas' Conference on Information Systems *(AMCIS)*<http://amcis2012.aisnet.org/index.php/program/tracks-and-minitracks/68> MCIS 2012 Special Call: Real Virtual Worlds and Serious Games September 2012, Guimarães, Portugal CFP: Real Virtual Worlds and Serious Games<http://jvwresearch.org/index.php/component/content/article/10-cfps/28> Links: http://jvwresearch.org/index.php/component/content/article/10-cfps/28 ICIS 2012: JVWR Reception (December 16-19, 2012) Stay tuned for details about our event as part of the 2012 International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS 2012), to be held in Orlando Florida, USA from December 16-19, 2012. Volume 6, Number 1 (2013): Assembled (2013) Call: TBD Guest Editors: * TBD Publication: 2013 Q1 Status: Working on Call *[looking for editors for this assembled issue.]* Volume 6, Number 2 (2013): Law and Virtual Worlds CFP: Law and Virtual Worlds<http://jvwresearch.org/index.php/component/content/article/10-cfps/30> Guest Editors: * Melissa de Zwart, University of Adelaide, Australia * Greg Lastowka, Rutgers University, US * Dan Hunter, New York Law School, US Links: http://jvwresearch.org/index.php/component/content/article/10-cfps/30 Publication: 2013 Q2 Status: Call done. *Please Submit.* * * Volume 6, Number 3 (2013): Impact (on People, Places, and Organizations) We are *looking for editors to define this issue.* The core idea is to conduct deep analysis on the potential impact of virtual worlds, identify key issues that are missing, or key factors that can lead virtual worlds to fulfill their potential. Call: TBD Guest Editors: * TBD Publication: 2013 Q4 Status: enlisting editors Enlisting Reviewers Please check this page<http://jvwresearch.org/index.php/2011-07-30-02-51-41/for-reviewers> Links: http://jvwresearch.org/index.php/2011-07-30-02-51-41/for-reviewers Enlisting Issue Editors Please check this page<http://jvwresearch.org/index.php/2011-07-30-02-51-41/for-issue-editors> Links: http://jvwresearch.org/index.php/2011-07-30-02-51-41/for-issue-editors For all other inquiries Do not hesitate: contact us <http://jvwresearch.org/index.php/contact-us> Or send email to tzafnat.shpak(a)jvwresearch.org Links: http://jvwresearch.org/index.php/contact-us Visit our Facebook page Please check this page<https://www.facebook.com/pages/Journal-of-Virtual-Worlds-Research/219823784…> Links: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Journal-of-Virtual-Worlds-Research/219823784… Dr. Yesha Y. Sivan Managing Editor The Journal of Virtual Worlds Research http://www.jvwresearch.org =========== Tzafnat Shpak Coordinating Editor *The Journal of Virtual World Research* tzafnat.shpak(a)jvwresearch.org http://jvwresearch.org

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Looking for 2006 data on the proportion of households with the Internet access at home in 8 countries
by Tomasz Drabowicz 11 Mar '12

11 Mar '12

Dear all, I wonder if anyone on the list can point me to the freely available online data dealing with the following problem. I need to know for my research the proportion of households with the Internet access at home in 2006 in: Chile Colombia Jordan Qatar The Russian Federation Serbia Thailand Uruguay I will be very much obliged if you can point me to any statisticts on the proportion of households with the Internet access at home for this year and for these countries in the private communication. Thank you very much for your consideration. Best regards, tomasz Tomasz Drabowicz 5th Year Research Student Department of Political and Social Sciences European University Institute Via dei Roccettini 9 50014 San Domenico di Fiesole Italy e-mail: tomasz.drabowicz(a)gmail.com

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Fwd: [ciresearchers] FW: [MobileActive Discuss] Looking for a Media and Crowdsourcing Project Manager in Niger
by gene loeb 10 Mar '12

10 Mar '12

Hi all, thought someone would be ingerested in this. Gene ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: michael gurstein <gurstein(a)gmail.com> Date: Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 12:13 PM Subject: [ciresearchers] FW: [MobileActive Discuss] Looking for a Media and Crowdsourcing Project Manager in Niger To: ciresearchers(a)vancouvercommunity.net Cc: anahiayala(a)gmail.com ** -----Original Message----- *From:* mobileactive-discuss(a)googlegroups.com [mailto: mobileactive-discuss(a)googlegroups.com] *On Behalf Of *Anahi *Sent:* Friday, March 09, 2012 9:51 AM *To:* mobileactive-discuss(a)googlegroups.com *Subject:* [MobileActive Discuss] Looking for a Media and Crowdsourcing Project Manager in Niger Hey all, Internews is seeking a Media and Crowdsourcing Project Manager to implement an exciting new journalism and crowd sourcing program in Niger. This small but ambitious program focuses on the extractive industries sector in Niger. It seeks to improve the capacity of selected civil society and media organizations to promote citizen participation in the drafting, approval and oversight of the implementation of laws and regulations governing natural resources management. Internews is seeking a multi-talented professional – someone with both traditional and social media journalism skills. The perfect candidate will be a trainer, an innovator, a subject specialist, and a passionate believer in the power of information to improve lives. The trainer is someone who can engage with journalists to provide specialist trainings focusing on issues of transparency, in the wider context of investigative and economic journalism. The trainer will also work with journalists to use mobile phones, cameras, and video, and to gather information from social media, blogs, community meetings and focus groups to monitor the natural resources industry. The selected trainer will work with local media (radio, print, social media) to mentor them to produce reports on natural resources management, laws and regulations; information spots will educate the public on specific issues (such as policy implementations, management of revenues, unions, child labor, community relations with mining companies and human rights); and investigative reports will provide detailed insight on issues such as mining code reform, the natural resource economy, and international supply chain transparency initiatives in the private sector. The innovator and social media skill set will be used to invite citizens to participate in monitoring the effects and the outcomes of the mining activities in their communities by using their mobile phones for citizen crowdsourcing. The incoming SMS (and possibly IVR for voice messages) will be then mapped to provide a spatial and temporal dimension to the information collected that will allow an understanding of which are the most affected communities and the variation of the phenomenon over time. The system will directly link the crowd to the local media that will be managing the incoming information received by the local population to follow up on stories on the ground and provide an overall picture of the actual outcomes of those activities on the local communities. An outreach strategy will advertise the system to local communities, while local media will manage it. See full job posting and how to apply here: https://sj.tbe.taleo.net/SJ11/ats/careers/requisition.jsp?org=INTERNEWS&cws… Please, fill free to get in contact with me if you have any question. Cheers, Anahi Anahi Ayala Iacucci Media Innovation Advisor, Africa Region Internews I&M Building, 12th Floor, Kenyatta Avenue, PO Box 7219, City Square 00200, Nairobi, Kenya Mobile (US): + 1 202 550 5214 Mobile (Italy): +39 345 80 53 067 Mobile (Kenya): +254 706 623 650 SkypeID: anahiii | Twitter: anahi_ayala | aayala(a)internews.org | -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MobileActive-discuss" group. To post to this group, send email to mobileactive-discuss(a)googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to mobileactive-discuss+unsubscribe(a)googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/mobileactive-discuss?hl=en MobileActive.org: A resource for activists using mobile technology worldwide

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AAA 2012 CfP: Beyond Work
by Sareeta Amrute 10 Mar '12

10 Mar '12

I am currently organizing a panel on life beyond/after/adjacent to work for the AAA Meeting that will be in San Francisco this year. Please see the call for papers below. Interested parties should submit an abstract to me no later than April 1, 2012 Thanks, Sareeta Amrute Assistant Professor of Anthropology University of Washington sareeta.amrute(a)gmail.com Beyond Work The concern with work and its expansiveness has in recent years come to occupy critical thought as work seems increasingly to have colonized free time, to look like entertainment, and blur the boundary between productive activity and rest. This panel asks, is it now time to re-imagine work, un-work, and areas of life beyond work? What kinds of new problematizations emerge at the intersection of working lives and lives beyond work? What are the dimensions through which work is understood, critiqued, and reappropriated? How does the value of work change when viewed from the perspective of the family, the marginalized, or the openly resistant? This panel will explore the emergence of alternatives to the expansion of work at the same time that it considers the consequences of valuing work as a measure of life. We will explore the after-life of work in its multiple dimensions, such as work and the biological rhythms of sleep, the relationship between working life and lively flour! ishing, the spaces, dreams, and times that exist outside of work economies, and the relationship between entertainment technologies and the social imaginaries of un-working. We will investigate how the spaces around, after, and before work are being reconceptualized in light of the failures of economic models of hard work. We will explore unorthodox forms of life after work, and ask how the organization of work is linked and de-coupled from the organization of life.

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ensuring privacy in online research--thanks everyone!
by Jenni Whitmer 09 Mar '12

09 Mar '12

I just wanted to thank everyone who wrote in response to my questions about ensuring privacy in online research. I've decided to limit interviews to Skype messenger, using a Skype account only used for interviews on a password protected computer to which only I have access. I will delete my conversation history following every interview. Thanks again! Jenni -- Jennifer Whitmer, MA Dept. of Sociology University of Nevada, Las Vegas Las Vegas, NV 89154-5033 phone: 440-429-5957

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Call for papers: Losing Momentum? Current Challenges in Learning and Technology - Oxford University - 14/06/12
by James Robson 08 Mar '12

08 Mar '12

Hello all, I've been lurking on this list for a while now and have learned so much - thank you! Some people here involved in education and the Internet/ technology may be interested in this one day student conference at Oxford University Department of Education on the 14th June 2012. The conference will critically discuss the transformative potential of new technologies (like Web 2.0, mobile learning etc.) for learning and will explore whether the potential and promises of these new technologies have led us where we expected it to. See full details below and register/ submit papers online - www.losingmomentum.org<http://www.losingmomentum.org> Thanks James James Robson Doctoral Researcher Oxford University Department of Education 15 Norham Gardens Oxford OX2 6PY CALL FOR PAPERS Losing momentum? Current challenges in learning and technology Thursday 14th June 2012 Department of Education, University of Oxford www.losingmomentum.org<http://www.losingmomentum.org> The Learning and New Technologies Research Group at the University of Oxford Department of Education is holding a one-day conference for doctoral students. The conference is an opportunity to network, present research and receive feedback from other doctoral students working in a similar area. Conference theme The developed world has passed through a period of intense excitement and expectation about the transformative potential for learning of new technologies, such as Web 2.0 and mobile learning, but have these promises led where expected? During this day we will explore more nuanced realities about new technologies and learning current in various settings and contexts. Keynote speakers include Neil Selwyn (Department of Culture, Communications and Media at the Institute of Education, London), Martin Oliver (Knowledge Lab, Institute of Education, London) and Avril Loveless (Education Research Centre, University of Brighton). Topics of Interest Topics of particular interest include: • inequalities • personalisation • trajectories • contexts and boundaries • identity • expertise We encourage abstract submissions from all students in any year of their doctoral studies. Presentations will be 15 minutes long with 5 minutes for questions and discussion. Key dates • Deadline for submission of 500 word abstract: 30th March 2012 • Successful presenters informed: 27th April 2012 • Deadline for registration: 1st June 2012 Visit www.losingmomentum.org<http://www.losingmomentum.org> to find out more, to submit your abstract or to register.

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Bookings now open: DGI-Conference 2012 "Social Media & Web Science". European Afternoon on March 22nd, Düsseldorf Germany.
by Isabella Peters 08 Mar '12

08 Mar '12

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION ---------------------------------------------------------------- DGI-CONFERENCE 2012 - EUROPEAN AFTERNOON 22 March 2012 SOCIAL MEDIA AND WEB SCIENCE The Web as a Living Space Co-located with the 2nd DGI-Conference and 64. Annual Meeting March 22 and 23, 2012 and with DIATA12 - Düsseldorf Workshop on Interdisciplinary Approaches to Twitter Analysis, March 21, 2012 (http://www.nfgwin.uni-duesseldorf.de/diata12) Düsseldorf/Germany --------------------------------------------------------------------- View the complete conference programme at: http://dgi-info.informationsassistent.de/index.php?option=com_content <http://dgi-info.informationsassistent.de/index.php?option=com_content&view= article&id=288&Itemid=122> &view=article&id=288&Itemid=122 Register here: http://dgi-info.informationsassistent.de/index.php?option=com_content <http://dgi-info.informationsassistent.de/index.php?option=com_content&view= article&id=302&Itemid=129> &view=article&id=302&Itemid=129 Twitter hashtag: #dgi2012 We are happy to announce following keynotes: * Dame Wendy Hall (University of Southampton & Web Science Trust): The Development of Web Science: Research, Education and Diversity * Imogen Levy (Westminster Abbey): How Westminster Abbey created world-wide audience engagement around the royal wedding with online and social media. Topical foci of the European Afternoon are: * Social Media Platforms & Models * E-Learning & Knowledge Distribution * Politics 2.0 The upcoming DGI-Conference, hosted by the German Society of Information Science and Information Practice, will take place on March 22nd and 23rd in Düsseldorf, Germany. DGI-Conference continues the long tradition of annual meetings by the DGI, being held regularly since its foundation in 1948. This time, the conference topic is Social Media & Web Science. While the presentations of the main conference will be held in German, there is also a special research track in English language. This European Afternoon will take place on March 22nd. We would like to welcome researchers and practitioners interested in the social dimensions of Web developments and information technologies, e.g. from the fields of information science, library and documentation science, computer science, digital humanities, linguistics, psychology, political science, law and economics. Previous to the main conference, the #DIATA12 workshop (Düsseldorf Workshop on Interdisciplinary Approaches to Twitter Analysis) will be held on March 21st, 2012. There a no registration fees for #DIATA12, but a registration via email is required. Details can be found at http://nfgwin.uni-duesseldorf.de/en/diata12. PROGRAMME CHAIRS Katrin Weller & Isabella Peters (Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf) ORGANISER Deutsche Gesellschaft für Informationswissenschaft und Informationspraxis e.V. (DGI) / German Society of Information Science and Information Practice Windmühlstraße 3 60329 Frankfurt am Main, Germany Fon +49 (0)69 430313 Fax +49 (0)69 4909096 e-mail: mail(a)dgi-info.de www.dgi-info.de CONTACT Nadja Strein

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