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Fifth International Conference on Internet Technologies & Applications - Call for Papers
by Steffen Schilke 01 Aug '12

01 Aug '12

Dear all, Fifth International Conference on Internet Technologies & Applications - Call for Papers Tuesday 10 - Friday 13 September 2013 Wrexham, North Wales, UK http://www.ita13.org/ The scope of the ITA conference series is wide and covers all aspects of present and future Internet activity ranging from technical hardware and software solutions to creative applications and the wider social issues arising from them. Papers are invited on any of the topics below or related fields and should be submitted, via the submission page of the conference website. Final, camera-ready papers must conform to the author guidelines and must not exceed eight pages in length (full papers). Alternatively, research work-in-progress may be submitted as posters of a maximum of two pages in thesame format. Posters will also be published in the conference proceedings but will be presented at the conference in display form only and not through oral presentation. A PDF Call for Papers is also available download download<http://www.ita13.org/assets/assets/ITA13-cfp.pdf> Submission deadline: Friday 1st February 2013 Topics of Interest Accessibility/Assisted Living AI/Expert systems Art with Science Creative entrepreneurs Creative expressions Creative technologies Cultural ecologies Cultural environments Cultural sustainability Data-mining Digital art Digital modelling Distributed systems e-Business/e-Commerce e-Learning/e-Society Environmental applications Ethical, social, legal issues Filtering HCI Health Informatics Health Technologies High-performance computing Integration Internet applications Internet languages Internet technologies Music and audio Network algorithms Network architectures Network management Network optimisation Network performance Protocols and standards Routing Security Semantics Services Storage Systems failure Traffic Ubiquitous computing Visualisation Web hardware/software Wireless networks Advice These topics, however, are only intended as an illustrative guide. Please contact the conference chair or programme chair for additional guidance. All accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings.

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International Journal of Internet Science 7(1)
by Ulf-Dietrich Reips 01 Aug '12

01 Aug '12

Dear colleague: We are happy to announce the newest issue (Vol. 7, Issue 1) of the International Journal of Internet Science at http://ijis.net. It includes, apart from an editorial, four research articles and a supplement. The editorial contains a discussion of research with "Big Data", developments with the journal, a summary of the issue, and a citation analysis that arrives at a 2011 minimum journal impact estimate of 2.625 (ISI) and 3.625 (Google Scholar). We are confident the new issue will meet a lot of interest and have substantial impact on the field. Watch the citation rate grow at http://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=OCYy1o4AAAAJ You can help: Please spread the word, link the site, write to the press, mention in presentations and interviews, share and "like" the journal in social networks, blog and tweet about it! The current issue: Chris Snijders, Uwe Matzat, Ulf-Dietrich Reips: 'Big Data': Big Gaps of Knowledge in the Field of Internet Science (Editorial) Nic Newman, William H. Dutton, Grant Blank: Social Media in the Changing Ecology of News: The Fourth and Fifth Estates in Britain Linda Kaye, Jo Bryce: Putting the "Fun Factor" into Gaming: The Influence of Social Contexts on Experiences of Playing Videogames Christopher R. Wolfe, Christopher R. Fisher, Valerie F. Reyna, Xiangen Hu: Improving Internal Consistency in Conditional Probability Estimation with an Intelligent Tutoring System and Web-Based Tutorials Alison Attrill: Sharing Only Parts of Me: Selective Categorical Self-Disclosure Across Internet Arenas Webdatanet: A Network on Web-based Data Collection, Methodological Challenges, Solutions and Implementation (Supplement) Please find the issue at http://www.ijis.net/ijis7_1/ijis7_1_index.html Kind regards, Ulf-Dietrich Reips / Uwe Matzat Editors, International Journal of Internet Science http://ijis.net Scope The International Journal of Internet Science is an interdisciplinary, peer reviewed journal for the publication of research articles about empirical findings, methodology, and theory in the field of Internet Science. It provides an outlet for articles on the Internet as a medium of research and its implications for individuals, social groups, organizations, and society. Typical articles report empirical results gathered to test and advance theories in the social and behavioral sciences. Submission of manuscripts Manuscripts that are to be published in the International Journal of Internet Science (IJIS) need to be original research contributions. They have to be formatted according to the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (APA Style Guide, 6th edition, 2nd print). Please visit http://ijis.net and click on "Submit Article" for the online submission of manuscripts. Editors Ulf-Dietrich Reips (University of Deusto and IKERBASKQUE, Basque Foundation for Science, Spain), Uwe Matzat (Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands) Editorial Board Michael Birnbaum (California State University at Fullerton, USA), Tom Buchanan (Westminster University, UK), Don Dillman (Washington State University, USA), Anja Göritz (University of Freiburg, Germany), Adam Joinson (University of Bristol, UK), John Krantz (Hanover College, USA), Han Woo Park (Yeungnam University, South Korea), Chris Snijders (Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands), Barry Wellman (University of Toronto, Canada).

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CFP- Special Issue for the Fibreculture Journal: The Politics of Trolling and the Negative Space of the Internet
by Jason Wilson 01 Aug '12

01 Aug '12

Hi AoIR, Somewhat related to recent discussions on the list, please find below a call for papers for a special issue of the Fibreculture Journal, which has been in development for a while, but which we're now accepting submissions for. Apologies for any cross-posting. CFP- Special Issue for the Fibreculture Journal: The Politics of Trolling and the Negative Space of the Internet Edited By Jason Wilson, Christian McCrea and Glen Fuller A great deal of thinking about the Internet and politics is still structured by a desire for deliberative democracy. From 1993 – when Howard Rheingold enunciated one of the Internet’s key founding myths – the virtual community – scholars have sought and found communities characterised by a mutuality of interests, a common purpose, a collaborative striving to renovate the democratic ideal, a tendency towards the “regulative idea” of the ideal speaking position, and an acknowledgement of the obligations of citizenship within the political association. For so long the Internet has continued to function, in Barbrook’s formulation, as a “redemptive technology”. Social media is just the latest in a long line of technologies which may, on a certain vision, rescue liberal democracy, with its decaying civic life and corrupt media, from itself. There is, proportionally, too little attention to the everyday conflicts that haunt all such communities. Some conflict is temporary, and can be accounted for in terms of long-standing democratic theory. But some conflict is persistent, intractable. Some of it is gratuitous, and deliberately disruptive. Online, those who bring it about are often subject to normative disapprobation. Sometimes people call them trolls. “Troll”, as a term of moral opprobrium, indicates an online actor who is not interested in deliberation, but in derailing it. Trolling is not apt to be captured by network maps or visualisations of online publics, because these teachniques cannot discern which nodes in a conversational network are created in bad faith, or in a spirit of disruptive play. Trolls are not interested in redeeming democracy through deliberation, and they mock attempts to do so. Trolls respect no procedural rules, though they may be generative of them. Trolls are the constitutive outside of online communities of political discussion, they are the intolerable of the most tolerant communities. Trolls are usually someone else, defined from our own position and interests. When they are not, and we inhabit trolling, we discover that trolling requires know-how, close reading, experience, sometimes sympathy with those we would disrupt. What are the consequences to seeing trolling and other forms of affective behaviour as the norm, rather than the aberrant? The discourse of digital art has long since told this story, but the intellectual desire for open and constitutive democracy has overridden the ‘actually existing democracy’ of bullying, trolling, threats, inane memes and low signal-to-noise ratios. What would happen if we started to think of trolling as the central practice in online discourse? What if trolling is the Internet’s signature mode of discursive politics? What if we started to think about trolling as a practice which is generative rather than destructive? This special issue of fibreculture seeks a range of perspectives on trolling, online conflict and incivility. Twenty years on, it looks to interrogate the founding myth of virtual community with accounts of generative conflict, strategic incivility, and productive trolling. We seek papers on a range of topics not limited to: Trolling, activism and politics The persistence and ubiquity of online conflict Trolling as a business model: the mainstream media and clickbait Gendered aspects of trolling and incivility 4chan and trolling; activism and meme factories Trolling and cyberbullying Complaints about trolling and the “hatred of democracy” – are complaints about trolling really an attempt to re-gentrify political debate? Cultures and rituals of trolling – troll culture and the celebration of lulz Trolling and “cyber-bullying” The Internet and agonistic politics Trolling and counterpublics The grammar of trolling Trolling as the glitch in social network analysis and “big data” Popular culture, trolls and the democratization of politics Tabloid media, professionalization of trolling and the economics of opinion Trolling as cyber-bullying, internet as masochistic survivalist playground The pleasures of trolling Trolling the trolls The art and ‘new aesthetics’ of trolling The gamification of trolling —– Please note that for this issue, initial submissions should be abstracts only abstract deadline: October 15, 2012 (via email, to Jason Wilson, email address below) article deadline: January 15, 2012 publication aimed for: April/May, 2013 all contributors and editors must read the guidelines at; http://fibreculturejournal.org/policy-and-style/ before working with the Fibreculture Journal email correspondence for this issue: Jason.Wilson(a)canberra.edu.au Christian.mccrea(a)rmit.edu.au Glen.fuller(a)canberra.edu.au —– The Fibreculture Journal (http://fibreculturejournal.org/) is a peer reviewed international journal, associated with Open Humanities Press (http://openhumanitiespress.org/) that explores critical and speculative interventions in the debate and discussions concerning information and communication technologies and their policy frameworks, network cultures and their informational logic, new media forms and their deployment, and the possibilities of socio-technical invention and sustainability.

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