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Last Call: #Influence12: Symposium & Workshop on Measuring Influence on Social Media
by Anatoliy Gruzd 06 Jun '12

06 Jun '12

Apologies for cross-posting ******************************** CALL FOR POSITION PAPERS AND RESEARCH-IN-PROGRESS POSTERS What: #Influence12: Symposium & Workshop on Measuring Influence on Social Media Where: School of Information Management, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada When: September 28-29, 2012 Website: http://SocialMediaLab.ca/influence12 Twitter hashtag: #Influence12 Industry Keynote Speaker: Gilad Lotan, VP of Research & Development, Socialflow.com ABOUT THE EVENT: This is a two-day symposium and workshop organized and hosted by the Social Media Lab (http://SocialMediaLab.ca) at Dalhousie University and supported by MITACS, SSHRC, NCE GRAND, Dalhousie’s Faculty of Computer Science and Faculty of Management. It is no secret that social media has become mainstream in recent years, and its adoption has skyrocketed. As a result of its growing popularity, users’ online contributions and membership in online social networks have exploded. With a multitude of voices all talking at once on social media, finding interesting and influential voices among the masses can be difficult. The objective of this 2-day workshop is to bring together experts in social media and online social networks from both the academic and business worlds, to share ideas on the best practices around how to study the impact of social media on our society, and specifically how to measure influence on social media. The workshop will provide researchers in this area an opportunity to present and debate their ideas, and provide graduate students with the opportunity to build academic and professional contacts, present their research, and learn about latest research in this area from a multidisciplinary perspective. SCHEDULE: During the first day, the participants will present and conduct discussions based on their work in this area. Over the second day, the participants will be tasked to brainstorm and develop new metrics for studying and measuring influence and engagement on social media. REGISTRATION FEE: None STUDENT TRAVEL SUBSIDIES: A limited number of competitive travel subsidies ($500 + 3-night shared accommodation with another student in a local hotel) will be available to PhD and Postdoctoral students from Canadian academic institutions. Please indicate on your submission whether you would like to be considered for a travel subsidy. TYPES OF SUBMISSIONS: 1) Position Papers: Proposals should be in the form of a position paper (up to 1,000 words excluding references) and formatted using the ACM Proceedings Format (a template is available at http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates) The position paper must be on a completed or well-developed project relating to the main theme of the workshop. If selected, the author(s) will be invited to give a 15-minute oral presentation followed by a 5 min Q&A period. 2) “Work-in-progress” Posters: Posters will display visual presentations of early-stage projects. Proposals should be in the form of a short abstract (up to 500 words excluding references). If selected, author(s) will have an opportunity to present their poster as part of a dedicated poster session during the workshop. *All submissions are due June 15, 2012, 23:59 (Hawaii-Aleutian Standard Time)* and must be submitted via the EasyChair website at https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=influence12 TOPICS OF INTEREST INCLUDE: • Influential User Detection • Information Visualization in Social Media • Mobile Applications • Online and Offline Social Networks • Online Community Detection • Online Identity • Opinion Mining and Sentiment Analysis • Political Mobilization & Engagement on Social Media • Scalability Issues and Social Media Data • Social Media and Academia (Alternative Metrics. Learning Analytics, etc.) • Social Media Mining • Social Network Analysis All submissions will be peer-reviewed by the Program Committee and evaluated based on their relevance and potential contribution to the main theme of the workshop: How do we define and measure influence on social media? The goal is to select and invite up to 50 researchers to participate in the workshop. Accepted and finalized papers and posters will be published on the Social Media Lab website after the event and promoted through various media channels. The workshop presentations will also be streamed online. IMPORTANT DATES: • Submission Deadline: June 15, 2012, 23:59 (Hawaii-Aleutian Standard Time) • Notification Date: July 15, 2012 • Camera-Ready Deadline: August 30, 2012 • Workshop Dates: September 28-29, 2012 PROGRAM COMMITTEE: * danah boyd, Microsoft Research, USA * Jean Burgess, Queensland University of Technology, Australia * Amy Bruckman, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA * Alvin Chin, Nokia Research Center, Beijing * Greg Elmer, Ryerson University, Canada * Andrea Forte, Drexel University, USA * Keith N. Hampton, Rutgers University, USA * Carolyn Hank, McGill University, Canada * Caroline Haythornthwaite, University of British Columbia, Canada * Susan Herring, Indiana University, USA * Bernie Hogan, University of Oxford, UK * Karrie Karahalios, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA * Rhonda McEwen, University of Toronto, Canada * Catherine Middleton, Ryerson University, Canada * Anabel Quan-Haase, University of Western Ontario, Canada * Diane Rasmussen Neal, University of Western Ontario, Canada * Anthony Rotolo, Syracuse University, USA * Marc Smith, Social Media Research Foundation, USA * Louise Spiteri, Dalhousie University, Canada * Monica Whitty, University of Leicester, UK For further inquiries, please contact Dr. Anatoliy Gruzd at gruzd(a)dal.ca

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FW: [ciresearchers] JoCI Special Issue on the First Mile of Broadband - call for submissions from outside North America
by michael gurstein 06 Jun '12

06 Jun '12

-----Original Message----- From: ciresearchers-owner(a)vancouvercommunity.net [mailto:ciresearchers-owner@vancouvercommunity.net] On Behalf Of Susan O'Donnell Sent: Monday, June 04, 2012 3:34 PM To: ciresearchers(a)vancouvercommunity.net Subject: [ciresearchers] JoCI Special Issue on the First Mile of Broadband - call for submissions from outside North America Hi CI colleagues, Thank-you to everyone who responded to our call for papers by the deadline, much appreciated. We have some interesting proposals to review and are excited about the upcoming special issue... However we received few proposals from outside North America and so are extending the deadline for abstracts for contributions about communities in South America, Asia, Africa and Europe. Attached is the original CfP. Please note the contributions can be in either English or French and in addition to research articles we are also looking for short case studies or community stories and position papers. If you think your research might fit this call but are unsure please contact me and we can discuss... Call for papers - Journal of Community Informatics (JoCI) Special Issue: The First Mile of Broadband Connectivity in Communities http://firstmile.ca Please distribute this call for papers to your colleagues. Articles will be published in English and French. The Journal of Community Informatics (http://ci-journal.net) is concerned with research on the uses and appropriations of information and communication technologies (ICT) that enable communities to "improve their processes, achieve their objectives and overcome the 'digital divides' that exist both within and between communities." Since its first issues, in 2004, the journal has built an excellent reputation among academics, professionals and policy-makers involved in ICT initiatives aiming at the empowerment of citizens and communities. The Journal of Community Informatics is preparing a special issue on the "First Mile" of broadband connectivity in communities, scheduled for publication in 2013. We invite contributions from community members, researchers, graduate students, government policy makers, policy analysts, activists, practitioners, community developers, project and program leaders and staff, technology developers and technicians. Traditionally, the "last mile" of broadband refers to the final leg of connectivity from the telecommunications provider to the home. The First Mile concept turns that around - it refers to policies and practices that support communities to invest in, own and build their local broadband infrastructure and to shape and use it to meet community needs. The First Mile is an alternative to the traditional corporate, institutional, and urban-centered telecommunications approaches. In Canada, the First Mile project is documenting cases of First Nations communities connected to broadband in ways that support sustainable, locally-driven services and activities (http://firstmile.ca) We would like to share Canadian First Mile-related research and stories with the international community and learn from First Mile, parallel and associated experiences internationally. This JoCI Special Issue will accept contributions in either English or French and will publish articles in either or both languages. The deadline for abstracts is May 31, 2012. What we are looking for: Contributions exploring the First Mile of broadband connectivity and parallel or associated experiences in Canada and internationally. Contributions based on accepted abstracts can be: .Original research (maximum 4,000 words) .Vision statements, theoretical position papers (maximum 4,000 words) .Case studies / community stories (500 to 1,500 words) Contributions can focus on these and related topics: .Case studies of First Mile initiatives or parallel / associated experiences in communities .Theories about First Mile initiatives and related experiences in communities .Community alternatives to corporate telecommunications services .Policy frameworks and public funding programs structured to support community-owned construction and operation of broadband infrastructure .How communities are applying principles of OCAP (ownership, control, access and possession) to the data flowing on their local networks .Experiences of strategic partnerships that sustain these community initiatives .Community ownership and delivery of community services using broadband .Community economic development using broadband networks .The economic business case to sustain the operation and maintenance of the community network and the applications .The supports, partners, infrastructure and local capacity necessary to sustain First Mile operations .Public / government procurement policies and programs for services that support the First Mile telecom network .Challenges and opportunities for community-owned local broadband networks .Community-based approaches for researching First Mile initiatives Timelines: .Anytime: Email any of the guest editors with questions .May 31, 2012: Deadline for abstracts - abstracts must include author(s) and affiliation(s) and an outline of the contribution (maximum 200 words). Email abstracts to Susan O'Donnell (susanodo(a)unb.ca) .June 30: Decisions to authors .September 30: Deadline for authors to submit completed contributions .October-November 2012: Peer-review .November: Decisions, requests for revisions sent to authors .January 2013: Authors submit final versions for publication .January-February 2013: Translation of articles into French / English .April 2013: JoCI Special Issue published online Guest co-editors: .Susan O'Donnell (susanodo(a)unb.ca) - University of New Brunswick (www.unb.ca) .Brian Beaton (brian.beaton(a)knet.ca) & Brian Walmark (brian.walmark(a)knet.ca) - Keewaytinook Okimakanak (www.knet.ca) .Tim Whiteduck (TWhiteduck(a)cepn-fnec.com) - First Nations Education Council (www.cepn-fnec.com) .Kevin Burton - (admin(a)firstnationhelp.com) - Atlantic Canada's First Nation Help Desk (www.firstnationhelp.com) .Rob McMahon (rma29(a)sfu.ca) & Richard Smith (smith(a)sfu.ca) - Simon Fraser University (www.sfu.ca) .Michael Gurstein (gurstein(a)gmail.com) - Centre for Community Informatics Research, Development and Training (www.communityinformatics.net) .William McIver, Jr. (Bill.McIver(a)nrc.gc.ca) - National Research Council (www.nrc.ca) & University of New Brunswick (www.unb.ca Deadline for abstracts: May 31, 2012 Email abstracts to: Susan O'Donnell susanodo(a)unb.ca The new deadline for submissions from outside North America is Saturday, June 30. Thanks for considering this special call and best wishes to all, Susan -- Dr. Susan O'Donnell, Researcher and Adjunct Professor Department of Sociology, University of New Brunswick PO Box 1122, Fredericton, NB, Canada E3B 5C2 susanodo(a)unb.ca Office: 506-444-0374 Cell: 506-238-7572 http://videocom.firstnation.ca http://firstmile.ca

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Re: [Air-L] 'MEN Invented the Internet'?
by Taylor-Smith, Ella 06 Jun '12

06 Jun '12

hi Tara was asking about "further reading on Internet history (including computing) that includes discussions about gender, 'race', and so forth" For at least the first half of this: http://www.sigcis.org/ For the second half, I would ask on the list: http://www.sigcis.org/user/register -Ella Ella Taylor-Smith Institute for Informatics and Digital Innovation Edinburgh Napier University 10 Colinton Road Edinburgh, EH10 5DT Email: e.taylor-smith(a)napier.ac.uk http://www.iidi.napier.ac.uk/e.taylor-smith http://about.me/EllaTaylorSmith @EllaTasm @OnlineAmbition Edinburgh Napier University is one of Scotland's top universities for graduate employability. 93.2% of graduates are in work or further study within six months of leaving. The university is also proud winner of the Queen's Anniversary Prize for Higher and Further Education 2009, awarded for innovative housing construction for environmental benefit and quality of life. This message is intended for the addressee(s) only and should not be read, copied or disclosed to anyone else outwith the University without the permission of the sender. It is your responsibility to ensure that this message and any attachments are scanned for viruses or other defects. Edinburgh Napier University does not accept liability for any loss or damage which may result from this email or any attachment, or for errors or omissions arising after it was sent. Email is not a secure medium. Email entering the University's system is subject to routine monitoring and filtering by the University. Edinburgh Napier University is a registered Scottish charity. Registration number SC018373

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Re: [Air-L] Air-L Digest, Vol 94, Issue 29
by S. M. Ali Abbas 06 Jun '12

06 Jun '12

Hi Natalie and others, Thanks for your reply. I appreciate it. Natalie, the link you gave me isn't working, but I guess, you were trying to share this paper: Lewis, K., Kaufman, J., Gonzalez, M., Wimmer, A., & Christakis, N. (2008). Tastes, ties, and time: A new social network dataset using Facebook.com. /Social Networks/, /30/(4), 330-342. doi:10.1016/j.socnet.2008.07.002 I already know about it, but thanks anyway. What I was looking for, for instance, how people have developed their links in Facebook feature by self-reporting (how X met with Y in real life). Some of this data of students has been mentioned in: Mayer, A., & Puller, S. L. (2008). The old boy (and girl) network: social network formation on university campuses. /Journal of Public Economics/, /92/, 329-347. If there are similar studies please share. Currently I am exploring the Facebook project (thefacebookproject.com) to find relevant material. Thanks! Best Regards. -- Ali Abbas Doctoral Student at Centre for Policy Modelling Manchester Metropolitan Business School All Saints Campus Oxford Road Manchester M15 6BH http:www.cfpm.org/~ali On 31/05/2012 23:01, air-l-request(a)listserv.aoir.org wrote: > Send Air-L mailing list submissions to > air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > air-l-request(a)listserv.aoir.org > > You can reach the person managing the list at > air-l-owner(a)listserv.aoir.org > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of Air-L digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. A short questionnaire for a research on serious games > developers, publishers and users (Alex Gekker) > 2. Online Friendship Development Process (S. M. Ali Abbas) > 3. Call for Study Participants (Eric P. S. Baumer) > 4. Live streaming of the doctoral defense (disputants) June 1st > "Ways of Virtual World-making" (Sisse Siggaard Jensen) > 5. Re: Online Friendship Development Process (Natalie Sappleton) > 6. June 1 deadline: Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Social > Studies of Information - UW-Milwaukee (Michael Zimmer) > 7. June 1 deadline: Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Social > Studies of Information - UW-Milwaukee (Michael Zimmer) > 8. CFP: Special issue on Privacy Methodologies in HCI > (Asimina Vasalou) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Thu, 31 May 2012 14:15:50 +0200 > From: Alex Gekker<gekker.alex(a)gmail.com> > To: Air-L(a)listserv.aoir.org > Subject: [Air-L] A short questionnaire for a research on serious games > developers, publishers and users > Message-ID: > <CACEdWM84QVNUnRXA7PdrVOCw1UR-LemzzyXNRmyyLREB=fmmLw(a)mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > ***cross-posting warning and apologies*** > > > Dear AIR-L members, > > > Are you creating or publishing serious (applied, persuasive, therapeutic, > etc.) games? Do you utilize them for research or education? Do you know > someone else who does that? If so, please take ten minutes of your time to > answer our questionnaire, which is a part of a unique research aiming to > understand the applied game ecosystem better. Results will be published in > open access by the Taskforce Innovation Utrecht > Region<http://www.taskforceinnovatie.nl/english-summary>. > > > > Please forward to any individual or organization who might be interested. > > > Contact me (alex(a)gamesforhealtheurope.org) for any questions or remarks. > > Questionnaire link: > https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dE15WFFzbjNvNkFIeDJIak… > > > Best regards, > > Alex. > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Thu, 31 May 2012 16:04:40 +0100 > From: "S. M. Ali Abbas"<m.ali.abbas(a)gmail.com> > To: air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org > Subject: [Air-L] Online Friendship Development Process > Message-ID:<4FC78888.7040502(a)gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed > > Dear All, > This is Ali. I am a doctoral student at Centre for Policy Modelling, > here in Manchester UK. I am interested in Social Networking Systems such > as Facebook. In particular how people develop their links online. What > processes does one go through in order to develop, and then maintain, > her social network? > In this regard, I am looking for some empirical evidence such as > surveys, questionnaires and SNS logged information. Does anyone know of > any such information then please share? It will be quite useful to me. > > Thanks! > > Best Regards. >

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Internet, invention and gender
by Irish, Sharon Lee 06 Jun '12

06 Jun '12

In response to Tara Conley's request for further readings on histories of gender and computing, in addition to what others have recommended: Janet Abbate has a site about her research on women in computing that also includes links to the Ada Project and other sites with further information: http://www.womenincomputing.net/ Sharon Irish Graduate School of Library and Information Science University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign 501 E. Daniel St. MC-493 Champaign, IL 61820 (o) 217.333.7094 slirish(a)illinois.edu

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CfP: Special Issue on: "Risk Assessment in Mobile Social Media: Trends, Threats, Vulnerabilities and Countermeasures"
by Babiga Birregah 05 Jun '12

05 Jun '12

dear all, Deadline is approaching for this call of paper: 20 June 2012. Special Issue on: "Risk Assessment in Mobile Social Media: Trends, Threats, Vulnerabilities and Countermeasures" Please would you consider to publish your work or follow up this anounce to your phd or post-doc. Links: *http://special-issue-ramsm2012.birregah.org/* http://www.inderscience.com/browse/callpaper.php?callID=1822 Best regards -- BIRREGAH Babiga, Phd Assistant professor ICD UMR-CNRS 6279 STMR Joint Research Unit in Sciences and Technologies for Risk Management Department of Operational Research, Applied Statistics and Simulation University of Technology of Troyes, France

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Re: [Air-L] 'MEN Invented the Internet'?
by Charlie Breindahl 05 Jun '12

05 Jun '12

The "invention" of the internet is - as Jeremy says - a fabrication. We also have a Washington Post article pronouncing V. A. Shiva Ayyadurai the "inventor" of email: http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/on-innovations/va-shivaayyadurai-inv… One of the most annoying errors that gets kicked about is the "fact" that the internet was constructed to withstand the impact of atomic war. Supposedly this led to the use of a packet switching protocol. Paul Baran of the RAND Corporation did in fact sort of "invent" the concept, but so did Donald Davies in the UK. Both published extensively on the subject. Larry Roberts has more detaills here: http://www.packet.cc/files/ev-packet-sw.html However, Len Kleinrock's work as a graduate student at MIT preceded both and he did not have atomic war in mind. The development of the internet was based on Kleinrock's work with packet switching: http://www.packet.cc/internet.html Just sayin' > Thanks to all for an interesting and thoughtful thread to read today... > > Steve Ditto here. Best, Charlie -- Charlie Breindahl External Lecturer University of Copenhagen + Copenhagen Business School Co-editor, Artifact, http://www.informaworld.com/artifact Communication Manager, Danish Centre for Design Research, http://www.dcdr.dk/ "For the modern Don Quixote, the windmills have been preprogrammed to turn into knights" - Janet H. Murray

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Meaningful Play 2012 First Three Keynotes Announced
by Casey O'Donnell 05 Jun '12

05 Jun '12

* Apologies for Cross Posting * Michigan State University (http://seriousgames.msu.edu) is pleased to announce the first three keynote speakers for Meaningful Play 2012 (http://meaningfulplay.msu.edu) taking place October 18-20, 2012 in East Lansing, MI, including: Phaedra Boinodiris, Serious Games Program Manager, IBM Donald Brinkman, Manager of Digital Humanities, Digital Heritage, and Games for Learning Microsoft Research Kurt Squire, Associate Professor, University of Wisconsin-Madison Serious games, including games for learning, are among the core strands of Meaningful Play 2012, a conference about theory, research, and game design innovations, principles and practices. Meaningful Play brings scholars and industry professionals together to understand and improve upon games to entertain, inform, educate, and persuade in meaningful ways. The conference will include thought-provoking keynotes from leaders in academia and industry, peer-reviewed paper presentations, panel sessions (including academic and industry panels), innovative workshops, roundtable discussions, and exhibitions of games and prototypes. Presentation AND game submissions are due July 16, 2012. Complete details on the conference are available at: http://meaningfulplay.msu.edu/ LIKE us on Facebook track program announcements (http://www.facebook.com/GamesAndMeaningfulPlay) -- Casey O'Donnell, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Department of Telecommunication, Information Studies and Media (TISM) Games for Entertainment and Learning Lab (GEL) Michigan State University http://www.caseyodonnell.org

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CfP on Mediated Urbanism - extended deadline for abstract submission
by Zeller Frauke TU Ilmenau 04 Jun '12

04 Jun '12

CALL FOR PAPERS -- Extended deadline! A special Double Special Issue of the International Communication Gazette to be published by Sage Publishers on 'Mediated Urbanism' With sections on Designing the Urban Stages & Urban Audience Activities Extended deadline for abstracts: June 18th 2012 Designing the Urban Stages section (CfP 1 below) focuses on the planning and design aspects of contemporary digitally embedded and media-saturated cities. Urban Audience Activities section (CfP 2 below) focuses on the diversity of audience activities in the multi-spaced and multiply scaled contemporary cities. Guest Editors: Seija Ridell (University of Tampere, Finland; COST Action ISO906 WG3) Frauke Zeller (Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada; COST Action ISO906 WG3) URL to the full CfP: http://www.uta.fi/cmt/cost/cfp_mediated_urbanism2012.html The multiple and multiply divided nature of urban reality has deepened in novel ways through the development of networked digital technologies. The use of portable media devices in particular has rendered urban space increasingly multi-layered, as people may interact with their physically absent communities and visit online places while being on the move in the city. At the same time, through their smart gadgets, people are integrated with the software-supported urban infrastructure which grows out from an equally invisible but nevertheless material global techno-rhizome. This makes them active though not necessarily self-reflexive contributors to the dynamics of spatial power that today conditions the forms of urban communication and agency. The contemporary urban setting has started in recent years to increasingly fascinate scholars and practitioners as a context for people’s media relations. However, there is, as yet, little research on how the complex processes of city planning and design shape the digitalized and media saturated city and how these processes articulate and are entangled with power relations. Nor is there much research on the ways people shift between various media and technology related modes of action while dwelling in and moving about the city. In this double special issue Mediated urbanism of the International Communication Gazette, which follows up on the 2008 ICG special issue on Communicative Cities (edited by Gary Gumpert and Susan Drucker), we wish to address the digitally sustained urban environment in terms of public life. Our approach in the issue is to combine the perspectives of city planning and design, on the one hand, with the perspective of people’s activities as urban audiences, on the other. We welcome and strongly encourage for both interrelated sections contributions that foster dialogues across disciplinary boundaries. Important Dates: - Abstracts (600-800 words and to include author’s professional status and institutional affiliation) submission: June 18th 2012 - Notifications of acceptance: June 30th 2012 - Full manuscript submission: September 15th 2012 Submissions (abstracts and full manuscripts), in English, should be sent electronically as Word documents to Seija Ridell (email: seija.ridell(a)uta.fi<mailto:seija.ridell@uta.fi>) and Frauke Zeller (email: fzeller(a)wlu.ca<mailto:fzeller@wlu.ca>). Manuscripts should include an abstract of 100-150 words, with a suggested target of 8000 words (including notes and references) and include 8-10 key words. For specific manuscript submission guidelines, please go to: http://gaz.sagepub.com/ If you have any queries regarding the suitability of your potential contribution or any other inquiries, please contact the guest editors: Seija Ridell, seija.ridell(a)uta.fi<mailto:seija.ridell@uta.fi> Frauke Zeller, fzeller(a)wlu.ca<mailto:fzeller@wlu.ca>

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CALL FOR BOOK CHAPTERS (Second Round)
by Hakikur Rahman 03 Jun '12

03 Jun '12

CALL FOR BOOK CHAPTERS (Second Round) Proposal Submission Deadline: June 30, 2012 Full Chapter Submission Deadline: September 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 June 30, 2012 (second round), 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 July 15, 2012 about the status of their proposals and sent case guidelines. Full chapters are expected to be submitted by September 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: June 30, 2012: Proposal Submission Deadline (Second round) July 15, 2012: Notification of Acceptance September 30, 2012: Full Chapter Submission October 30, 2012: Review Result Returned November 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: Hakikur Rahman Post Doc Researcher University of Minho Dept of Information System, Azurem Campus 4800-058 Guimaraes, Portugal. (Adjunct Prof., BSMRAU, Bangladesh) Tel.: +351 253 510 319 FAX: +351 253 510 300 GSM: +351 960193872 E-mail: email(a)hakik.org

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