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FW: [JoCI] Special Issue: Community Informatics and Open Government Data
by michael gurstein 12 Apr '12

12 Apr '12

Readers: The Journal of Community Informatics has just published its latest issue at http://ci-journal.net/index.php/ciej. We invite you to review the Table of Contents here and then visit our web site to review articles and items of interest. This special issue edited by Tim Davies and Zainab Bawa is being offered as a constructive contribution to the developing debates and practices of Open Government Data - as global infrastructures, technical architectures, and grassroots movements co-evolve. It is published as a rolling issue, with an initial set of papers made available in April 2012, and a further set of papers (currently going through the review process), and field notes (responding to emerging themes) to be published later in the year. Our hope is that this provides a way to combine the editorial and review processes of putting together a journal issue, with a rapidly emerging and evolving field, where developments far outpace the speed of conventional scholarly publishing. Thanks for the continuing interest in our work, Michael Gurstein, Ph.D. Editor in Chief: Journal of Community Informatics, Vancouver CANADA Phone 604-602-0624 gurstein(a)gmail.com The Journal of Community Informatics Special Issue: Community Informatics and Open Government Data Table of Contents http://ci-journal.net/index.php/ciej/issue/view/41 Editorial -------- The Promises and Perils of Open Government Data (OGD) Tim G. Davies, Zainab Ashraf Bawa Two Worlds of Open Government Data: Getting the Lowdown on Public Toilets in Chennai and Other Matters Michael Gurstein Articles -------- "This is what modern deregulation looks like" : co-optation and contestation in the shaping of the UK's Open Government Data Initiative Jo Bates Design Issues for Building Deliberative Digital Habitats Fiorella De Cindio The Rhetoric of Transparency and its Reality: Transparent Territories, Opaque Power and Empowerment Bhuvaneswari Raman Data Template For District Economic Planning Sharadini Rath Notes from the field -------- Open Data - what the citizens really want Wolfgang Both Some Observations on the Practice of "Open Data" As Opposed to Its Promise Roland J. Cole Apps For Amsterdam Tom Demeyer Collecting data in Chennai City and the limits of openness Nithya V Raman Notes and cases from the field (practitioners) -------- Mapping the Tso Kar basin in Ladakh Shashank Srinivasan ________________________________________________________________________ The Journal of Community Informatics http://www.ci-journal.net

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Programme of the Conference "Critique, Democracy and Philosophy in 21st Century Information Society"
by Christian Fuchs 11 Apr '12

11 Apr '12

Critique, Democracy and Philosophy in 21st Century Information Society. Towards Critical Theories of Social Media. The 4th ICTs and Society Conference. Uppsala University. May 2-4, 2012 The programme of this conference is now available online: http://www.icts-and-society.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/timeplan.pdf 172 people registered for the conference, we will have 92 presentations in parallel sessions and 13 keynote talks. The presentations cover a broad range of topics from the perspective of Critical, Marxist and Normative Media and Communication Studies and promise an exciting conference. A collection of abstracts will be available for download on the website one week before start of the conference. Best, Christian Fuchs -- Prof. Christian Fuchs Chair in Media and Communication Studies Department of Informatics and Media Uppsala University Kyrkogårdsgatan 10 Box 513 751 20 Uppsala Sweden christian.fuchs(a)im.uu.se Tel +46 (0) 18 471 1019 http://fuchs.uti.at http://www.im.uu.se NetPolitics Blog: http://fuchs.uti.at/blog Editor of tripleC: http://www.triple-c.se Chair of ESA RN18-Sociology of Communications and Media Research ICTs and Society Network: http://www.icts-and-society.net

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Position Available at Cornell
by Lee Humphreys 10 Apr '12

10 Apr '12

Dear Colleagues, Cornell's Department of Communication is currently searching for a colleague to teach in the area of Communication and Information Technology, with an emphasis in one or more of the following: 1) Human-Computer Interaction, 2) Computer-Mediated Communication, 3) Social Media, and 4) Technology and Society. This 1-year appointment is for Fall 2012 and Spring 2012, with a possibility for summer research and a one-year renewal. To apply send a letter of application addressing position qualifications and goals, vita, writing sample, names and contact information of three references to communication(a)cornell.edu<mailto:tocommunication@cornell.edu>. For more information or if there are questions about the position, please contact Geri Gay, gkg1(a)cornell.edu<mailto:gkg1@cornell.edu>. Sincerely, Lee Lee Humphreys, PhD Assistant Professor Dept. of Communication Cornell University

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Insight 2.0: The Future of Social Media Analysis. Student Discount Extended!
by Lawrence Ampofo 10 Apr '12

10 Apr '12

Dear Colleagues, This is an announcement that the student and university discount of GBP 37 has been extended until Friday 20 April! Tickets can be purchased by visiting the website www.zero1events.com. Please email lampofo(a)zero1events.com for the discount code. Insight 2.0: The Future of Social Media Analysis on Friday 27 April 2012 in central London 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 Friday 20th April, a special admission price for university affiliates of GBP 37 will be available in addition to the GBP 59 early bird admission price. 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

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New Book: Cyberscience 2.0
by Nentwich, Michael 10 Apr '12

10 Apr '12

Dear colleagues! My co-autor, Rene Koenig, and myself proudly announce the publication of our new book: Cyberscience 2.0 - Research in the Age of Digital Social Networks Campus, April 2012 At the start of the twenty-first century, the Internet was already perceived to have fundamentally changed the landscape for research. With its opportunities for digital networking, novel publication schemes, and new communication formats, the web was a game-changer for how research was done as well as what came after-the dissemination and discussion of results. Addressing the seismic shifts of the past ten years, Cyberscience 2.0 examines the consequences of the arrival of social media and the increasing dominance of big Internet players, such as Google, for science and research, particularly in the realms of organization and communication. Order at Campus: http://www.campus.de/wissenschaft/kulturwissenschaften/Kommunikation+u nd+Medien.40449.html/Cyberscience+2.0.98243.html Order at Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Cyberscience-2-0-Interaktiva-Schriftenreihe-Inte raktivit%C3%A4t/dp/3593395185/ref=sr_1_1?s=books-intl-de&ie=UTF8&qid=1 334058871&sr=1-1 Best regards, Michael *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* PD Dr. Michael NENTWICH Director Institute of Technology Assessment of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, A-1030 Vienna, Strohgasse 45/5 Tel. +43 1 51581 6583 Fax. +43 1 7109883 mailto:mnent@oeaw.ac.at Personal homepage: http://eiop.or.at/mn/ Institute: http://www.oeaw.ac.at/ita/ +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail, thank you! ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

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2012 FCVW Annual Conference "Inspire the Future" is coming May 16 - 18!
by Tzafnat Shpak 10 Apr '12

10 Apr '12

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Conference schedule is on the FCVW website ( http://www.ndu.edu/icollege/fcvw<http://www.ndu.edu/icollege/fcvw?utm_source=Journal+of+Virtual+Worlds+Resea…>) since Friday, April 5. *WORKSHOPS—May 16*: You will have the choice between 17 workshops offered throughout the day. - Three-hour workshops include: iHub (Stylianos Mystakidis), DoD Virtual Worlds Framework (Carl Rosengrant), and Developing Content in Unity 3D (Eric Hackathorn). - 75-minute workshops include: Authentic Avatar (Brock-Richmond), Designing 3D VW Education & Training Courses (Reyer), Cognitive Ethnography (Dubbels), Immersive Intelligence and 3D Data Virtualization (Richard Hackathorn), Growing Your Organizations vTraining Presence (Perkins), PTSD (Kevin Holloway), Microsoft and VW, VWs for Analysis and Experimentations (Aguilar), Lessons from goXOgo (Kearney), NTER (Cohen), Personal Transformation in a VW (Deveneaux), Advanced Telemedicine (Dillion), MOSES Open Simulator (Maxwell), and Using Serious Games in OpenSim to Model Taxpayer Behavior (Creekmore). Schedule will be available this week. More detailed information on each workshop will be available on our website by April 30. *SPEAKERS*: We have incredible speakers this year. Randy Hinrichs, CEO 2b3d and editor of “Transforming Virtual World Learning” and “Engaging the Avatar” will be the opening keynote! James Blascovich, Director and co-founder of the Research Center for Virtual Environments at UC Santa Barbara and co-author of “Infinite Reality: The Hidden Blueprint of our Virtual Lives will discuss the reality of the avatar. Michelle Fox, Chief Strategist for Education and Worksforce Development at the Department of Energy will show us the NTER project and its virtual world capabilities. 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The final panel will address the important topic of Cyber Security in Virtual Worlds. The Panel will be led by Barbara Endicott-Popovsky, the Director for the Center for Information Assurance and Cybersecuity and the Academic Director, Master of Infrastructure Planning and Management at the University of Washington. *More details with panel membership will be posted on the website no later than April 30.* *GOVERNMENT POSTER SESSIONS:* We still have room for a few more government project poster sessions. Awards will be given for the best poster sessions voted by conference participants. If you have a virtual world or 3D collaborative game project with the government, please send your name and contact information in an email to FederalConsortiumVW(a)ndu.edu. Complete list of government poster sessions will be posted by April 30, 2012 on the website. *VENDOR FAIR*: We still have some vendor spaces available for the conference vendor fair. 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CALL FOR BOOK CHAPTERS - Ethical Data Mining Applications for Socio-Economic Development
by Hakikur Rahman 10 Apr '12

10 Apr '12

To Colleagues and Friends: CALL FOR BOOK CHAPTERS Proposal Submission Deadline: May 30, 2012 Full Chapter Submission Deadline: July 30, 2012 Ethical Data Mining Applications for Socio-Economic Development A book edited by Dr. Hakikur Rahman and Dr. Isabel Ramos, University of Minho, Portugal To be published by IGI Global: http://www.igi-global.com (Call for the chapter: http://www.igi-global.com/authorseditors/authoreditorresources/callforbookc…) Introduction Data mining is the process of discovering significant, valuable and interesting structures and relationships in large and complex volumes of data, especially in data-enriched areas like finance, insurance, marketing, technology, science, engineering, research, environmental and biomedical sciences, and in many other socio-economic domains. In the socio-economic aspect of a society, data mining applications essentially act as effective instruments for providing support to health care facilities, electronics-based commerce, supermarket purchases, stock trades, insurance claims conducted on-line, or measuring socio-economic pattern of a society. This way, a wealth of information can be amassed about not only on clients´ habits and their preferences, but also about the behavior pattern, purchase pattern, sales pattern, stock pattern and even profit forecast. However, practitioners often seek personal information not directly from the participants themselves, but from other collected sources, and this may lead to unreliability about the source with privacy protection, and raises ethical concern. Social and ethical matters are nowadays concerns to the society, of which people are the only elements. Furthermore, in the days of technology innovations, computers are being manipulated with programs to act more like people, and eventually several social and ethical matters come into focus related to computer programming, or artificial intelligence. Hence, learning about ethical issues on data mining applications is an important area of research interest. Overall Objective of the Book The ethical conduct of research is becoming an important element of modern scientific research. In these days, computer science and its technological remnants touch nearly every aspect of human life, and computer scientists must conduct and report their research in an ethical manner. The book will provide an overview on ethical issues in research for development of ICTs, and socio-economic development aspects. This book will also collate scientific developments with ethical issues, develop theories in relation to researches with ethical impediments, examine potential ethical dilemmas in this discipline, synthesize experimental cases to develop models as success cases and discuss how ethical concerns may be addressed to tackle these situations. Finally, the book looks to make an in-depth study on other areas of ethical concern and future development of a common acceptable code for ethical computer science research. Target Audience As an emerging subject, the target audiences are expected to be from the scientists, researchers, and practitioners working in the field of data mining, data warehousing, database management and information systems technologies. Furthermore, the audience will include among various stakeholders, like academics, research institutes, and individuals those are interested in this field, and most of all among the huge audience in the public sector comprising government agencies, ministries, education institutions, health service providers, financial service providers, social service providers and other types of government, commercial and not-for-profit agencies. Recommended topics for chapters include, but are not limited to, the following: primary data, methods and procedures to create compilations of accurate reporting with ethical issues; primary data that are based on human observation to be treated for prompt recording and accurate presentation; preservation of record for future use and intelligent decision making; recording sufficient detail of data to preserve the record of factors that might turn out to be significant; develop methods that minimizes doubt about the time of the occurrence or the time at which it was recorded; data record that should be kept reasonably free from risk of damage or ethical concerns; necessary research materials that should be made available to others who attempt to replicate similar research works; creation, maintenance and preservation of large amount of data, content and record; preserving the confidentiality of sensitive information about human subjects, if any, in the data record; and preservation of research data for a reasonable number of years after the appearance of final reports or publications resulting from the research. More broadly, topics may follow these issues: - web-based publication and dissemination of data, - development of natural language database search aids for the humanities, - development of social science geographical information systems, - data mining and social science data exploration and description, - creation of an open source digital library system for quantitative data for easier dissemination, - establishment of a federation of geographically distributed interoperable anthropology databases, - establishment of a large international consortia of data sets supporting storage and dissemination of social science data, or - establishment of localized databases as per local demand in local languages. Submission Procedure Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit on or before May 30, 2012, a 2-3 page proposal clearly explaining the mission and concerns of his or her proposed chapter. Authors of accepted proposals will be notified by June 15, 2012 about the status of their proposals and sent case guidelines. Full cases are expected to be submitted by July 30, 2012. All submitted cases will be reviewed on a double-blind review basis. Contributors may also be requested to serve as reviewers for this project. Publisher This book is scheduled to be published by IGI Global (formerly Idea Group Inc.), publisher of the Information Science Reference (formerly Idea Group Reference), Medical Information Science Reference, and IGI Publishing imprints. For additional information regarding the publisher, please visit www.igi-global.com. This publication is anticipated to be released in 2013. Important Dates: May 30, 2012: Proposal Submission Deadline June 15, 2012: Notification of Acceptance July 30, 2012: Full Chapter Submission August 30, 2012: Review Result Returned September 30, 2012: Final Chapter Submission Editorial Advisory Board Members: Ali Serhan Koyuncugil, University of Baskent, Turkey Ángela-Jo Medina, Financial Literacy Coalition of Central Texas, USA Derya Altunbas, Canakkale Onsekiz Mart University, Turkey Kam Hou Vat, University of Macau, Macau Georgios Lappas, Technological Educational Institute, Greece. Inquiries and Submissions can be forwarded electronically (Word document) to: Prof. Hakikur Rahman University of Minho DSI, Azurem 4800-058 Guimaraes, Portugal. Tel.: +351 253 510 319 FAX: +351 253 510 300 GSM: +351 960193872 E-mail: email(a)hakik.org

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Problems for pseudonym in online identity study
by Emily Liu 10 Apr '12

10 Apr '12

Hello All, I am a Masters student in the Department of Foreign Languages and Literature working on my thesis. However, I have encountered a problem on the use of pseudonyms. The site of my study is on a online forum-based interactive gaming site, and I am focusing on how the forum-based (text) role players negotiate various identities through their language use. Therefore, my participants have multiple layers of identities and names -- real name, screen name, and names of the characters they created. To ensure the confidentiality of the participants, of course I will use pseudonyms when presenting their real names and screen names in my thesis. But I am not sure if I should use pseudonyms to replace the names of the characters that my participants create, as those names sometimes have more profound meanings to them than just a name, and may signal their change in identity. Yet I am worried if I don't replace the names with pseudonyms, it may somewhat influence my participants' rights to full confidentiality. Please give me some advice as to how I can handle this issue. Thank you. -- Min-Ju Liu (Emily) M.A. Student in Applied Linguistics Department of Foreign Languages and Literature National Sun Yat-sen University

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Re: [Air-L] Problems for pseudonym in online identity study
by Elizabeth Buchanan 08 Apr '12

08 Apr '12

While it's been a few years since she wrote this, Danielle Lawson's (2004) work on consent would be appropriate for you to consider. She offers a range of options for consent: 1. consent to having their nickname and communicative text used for data analysis only (no publication of name or text); 2. consent to having either their nickname or text published in an academic work, but never together (i.e., no identifiers); 3. consent to having either their nickname or text published in an academic work, but never together (i.e., no identifiers) and providing they get to see the ‘write up’ prior to publication; 4. consent to having both their nickname and text published in academic work, thereby being credited as the authors of their own words; or 5. consent to having both their nickname and text published in academic work, thereby being credited as the authors of their own words, providing they get to see the ‘write up’ prior to publication (p. 93). Best, Elizabeth Buchanan

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Couch Award Deadline Extended
by Mark D. Johns 07 Apr '12

07 Apr '12

CALL FOR AWARD APPLICATIONS Carl J. Couch Internet Research Award 2012 Sponsored by the Carl Couch Center for Social and Internet Research http://www.cccsir.com/ *Application deadline is EXTENDED to May 20, 2012* The Carl Couch Center issues an international call for student-authored papers to be considered for Carl J. Couch Internet Research Award. The Couch Center welcomes both theoretical and empirical papers that (1) apply symbolic interactionist approaches to internet studies, (2) demonstrate interactive relationships between social interaction and communication technologies, and/or (3) develop symbolic interactionist concepts in new directions. Papers will be evaluated based on the quality of (1) mastery of symbolic interactionist approaches and concepts, (2) originality, (3) organization, (4) presentation, and (5) advancement of knowledge. Those contemplating entering should note that an interactionist approach demands thoughtful analysis, and not mere description, of human interactions. Evaluation will be administered by a Review Committee of four: Mark D. Johns, Luther College, Decorah, Iowa Lori Kendall, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Annette Markham, University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee Lois Ann Scheidt, Indiana University, Bloomington Competition is open to graduate or undergraduate students of all disciplines. Works that are published or accepted for publication are not eligible for award consideration. Entries should be in English and not exceed 30 pages (approximately 7500 words) in length, including references and appendices. Limit of one entry per student per year. The top paper will receive Couch Award to be presented at the 2012 meeting of the Association of Internet Researchers (aoir.org) at the University of Salford, (near Manchester) UK. The top paper will be awarded a certificate and a cash prize of $300 US and the author will be invited to present their work at a session of the AoIR conference, October 18-21, 2012 in Salford. Candidates should send a copy of their paper, with a 100-word abstract, electronically to Mark D. Johns at mjohns(a)luther.edu Application deadline is EXTENDED to May 20, 2012. Notification of award will be sent by June 15. Those with questions or comments about Couch Award application, please contact: Mark D. Johns Luther College Study Centre Nottingham, UK UK phone: (44) 115-929-2721 US phone: 563-387-1347 E-mail: mjohns(a)luther.edu

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