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by Kristi Scott 23 Mar '13

23 Mar '13

http://www.erc-bergkamen.de/gerxi/bdchwrrryuq/bnr.php

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Coburn Amendment
by Katja Mayer 22 Mar '13

22 Mar '13

http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/senate-delivers-a-devastating-blow-… ???

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Last reminder: Call for papers: Changing orders of knowledge? Encyclopaedias in transition
by Jutta Haider 22 Mar '13

22 Mar '13

CALL FOR PAPERS Theme section: Changing orders of knowledge? Encyclopaedias in transition To appear in the peer-reviewed journal Culture Unbound: Journal of Current Cultural Research Guest editors: Jutta Haider & Olof Sundin, Department of Arts and Cultural Sciences, Lund University, Sweden We are witnessing a transition period for encyclopaedias and encyclopaedic knowledge. Since the 1990s alone encyclopaedias have gone through several remediations: from printed volumes to CD-ROM, from CD-ROM to on-line editions on the web and most recently as smartphone applications. Nowadays encyclopaedic knowledge is produced, distributed and used largely within digital networks. Mobile devices make it always available, everywhere. While understandably a lot has been said about Wikipedia and from almost every angle, other contemporary encyclopaedias have not received that much attention in research. Yet they are two sides of the same coin. This theme section wants to contribute to changing the balance somewhat. The modern encyclopaedia, with its roots in the enlightenment, has come to symbolise learning and education. In the West it has since long been a yardstick for what is accepted as public knowledge in a given time and culture. It stands for trustworthiness and stability, at the same time as it has always changed hand in hand with cultural and technical developments. Most recently their production, consumption, use, distribution and significance, all are undergoing profound changes. At the same time as these changes contribute to re-structuring what encyclopaedias and encyclopaedic knowledge are, this type of knowledge is more easily accessible, more in demand and more often referred to than ever before. For this theme section we invite authors to reflect upon the encounter, productive or otherwise, between encyclopaedic knowledge formed by a plethora of traditions and the constantly changing material conditions for production, communication, use and circulation of knowledge. In particular so-called traditional encyclopaedias in their contemporary digital manifestations are in focus. While emphasis on relevant sociotechnical and cultural aspects of the present is encouraged, there will be some room for historical studies that focus on encyclopaedias in transition and for studies on Wikipedia (and other new forms from social and cultural perspectives of encyclopaedias and related phenomena) Topics of interest might be, but are not limited to: · Everyday meaning of encyclopaedias and encyclopaedic knowledge. · Encyclopaedias in the classroom and other educational uses. · Economic aspects and the role of changed business-models. · Critical studies of encyclopaedic knowledge. · Globalisation of knowledge and the role of encyclopaedias. · Production of encyclopaedias and encyclopaedic knowledge. · Encyclopaedias as a yardstick for public knowledge. · Communication of encyclopaedias and encyclopaedic knowledge. · The situatedeness of encyclopaedias in the networked society. We are also looking for relevant book reviews for this issue! Please indicate your interest in contributing by submitting a title and short abstract (approximately 500 words) before 1st April 2013. The deadline for full papers is 1st of October 2013 and publication is planned for the spring of 2014. The articles should between 4,000 and 10,000 words long. Please send enquires, abstracts and finished papers to jutta.haider(a)kultur.lu.se<https://webmail.lu.se/owa/redir.aspx?C=_zff0lKp0EyGKXN15bSLTJdD99x4-s8IcBA1…>or olof.sundin(a)kultur.lu.se<https://webmail.lu.se/owa/redir.aspx?C=_zff0lKp0EyGKXN15bSLTJdD99x4-s8IcBA1…> Culture Unbound: Journal of Current Cultural Research is an academic journal for border-crossing cultural research, including cultural studies as well as other interdisciplinary and transnational currents. It serves as a forum with a wider scope than existing journals for cultural studies or other, more specific, subfields of cultural research and it is globally open to articles from all areas in this large field. http://www.cultureunbound.ep.liu.se/index.html<https://webmail.lu.se/owa/redir.aspx?C=_zff0lKp0EyGKXN15bSLTJdD99x4-s8IcBA1…> For a guide for authors please refer to: http://www.cultureunbound.ep.liu.se/instructions-for-authors.html<https://webmail.lu.se/owa/redir.aspx?C=_zff0lKp0EyGKXN15bSLTJdD99x4-s8IcBA1…> .

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Research on bullying and its relationship with 'cybercrimes'
by Mariel García M 22 Mar '13

22 Mar '13

Hi all, I've been looking into what's being done in Mexico to address the issue of bullying, and am really alarmed to find that the cyberpolice (who are working on human trafficking cases) have undertaken anti-bullying plans as part of their agenda. I am looking for sources that talk about the relationship (or lack thereof) between bullying and the crimes that are in the field of work of the cyberpolice – namely human trafficking and kidnappings. Thank you so much in advance, Mariel García @faeriedevilish

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Fwd: [Wiki-research-l] data sources information page
by phoebe ayers 21 Mar '13

21 Mar '13

FYI ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Maria Miteva <mariya.miteva(a)gmail.com> Date: Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 5:47 AM Subject: [Wiki-research-l] data sources information page To: Research into Wikimedia content and communities < wiki-research-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Hi everyone, As part of my internship with WMF I have created http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Data - a single page introduction to Wikimedia-related data sources. Its intended to inform researchers abou the variety of Wikimedia data available. The page can definitely benefit from some review from the actual users of data. Please take a look and feel free to add or correct information. The "How-to" and "Existing tools" subsections definitly could be expanded. Also, http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Data/FAQ is still quite small and can definitely be improved. My internship is over in a few days. I will still be around some but if you see anything that can be improved please take the initiative and change it. If you don't feel comfortable doing it, write a note on the Talk page. Finally, I would like to encourage you to share any Wikimedia-related datasets you have or you know of, small or big, on http://datahub.io/group/wikimedia. The aim is to eventually have all Wikimedia-related data documented on the Wikimedia group on DataHub. Regards, Mariya _______________________________________________ Wiki-research-l mailing list Wiki-research-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l

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ASIST 2013 CFP - Deadline April 15, 2013
by Richard Hill 21 Mar '13

21 Mar '13

Reminder/ Apologies for duplication. Important Dates: Submissions for Papers, Panels, Workshops & Tutorials: April 15th, 2013 Submissions for Posters, Demos & Videos: July 1st. 2013 76th Annual Meeting of ASIST November 1-6, 2013, Centre Sheraton, Montreal, Quebec, Canada Complete Call for proposals: http://asis.org/asist2013/AM2013CFP.pdf Beyond the Cloud: Rethinking Information Boundaries The ASIST Annual Meeting is the main venue for disseminating research on advances in information science, information technology and related topics. This year�s conference theme offers an opportunity to reflect on all the changes that impact on human information interaction and their implications for information science and technology. Submissions are solicited for, but not limited to, the five tracks below. 1. Human Information Interaction; 2. Information Organization and Representation; 3. Information Use & Analysis; 4. Information Preservation & Access; and 5. Information Environments & Socio-Cultural Aspects. Important Dates: Submissions for Papers, Panels, Workshops & Tutorials: April 15th, 2013 Submissions for Posters, Demos & Videos: July 1st. 2013 Types of Submissions 1) Papers Submission site: http://www.softconf.com/asis/AM_13_Contributed_Papers/ 2) Panels: http://www.softconf.com/asis/AM_13_Panels_and_Technical_Sessions/ 3) Interactive Showcase a) Posters b) Demos c) Videos Submission site: http://www.softconf.com/asis/AM-13-Posters/ 4) Workshops and Tutorials Submission site: http://www.softconf.com/asis/AM_13_Tutorials_and_Workshops/ For more information, please contact: Conference Chairs: France Bouthillier, McGill University (france.bouthillier(a)mcgill.ca) Boryung Ju, Louisiana State University (bju1(a)lsu.edu) 76th Annual Meeting of ASIST November 1-6, 2013, Centre Sheraton, Montreal, Quebec, Canada Complete Call for proposals: http://asis.org/asist2013/AM2013CFP.pdf Beyond the Cloud: Rethinking Information Boundaries The ASIST Annual Meeting is the main venue for disseminating research on advances in information science, information technology and related topics. This year�s conference theme offers an opportunity to reflect on all the changes that impact on human information interaction and their implications for information science and technology. Submissions are solicited for, but not limited to, the five tracks below. 1. Human Information Interaction; 2. Information Organization and Representation; 3. Information Use & Analysis; 4. Information Preservation & Access; and 5. Information Environments & Socio-Cultural Aspects. Important Dates: Submissions for Papers, Panels, Workshops & Tutorials: April 15th, 2013 Submissions for Posters, Demos & Videos: July 1st. 2013 Types of Submissions 1) Papers Submission site: http://www.softconf.com/asis/AM_13_Contributed_Papers/ 2) Panels: http://www.softconf.com/asis/AM_13_Panels_and_Technical_Sessions/ 3) Interactive Showcase a) Posters b) Demos c) Videos Submission site: http://www.softconf.com/asis/AM-13-Posters/ 4) Workshops and Tutorials Submission site: http://www.softconf.com/asis/AM_13_Tutorials_and_Workshops/ For more information, please contact: Conference Chairs: France Bouthillier, McGill University (france.bouthillier(a)mcgill.ca) Boryung Ju, Louisiana State University (bju1(a)lsu.edu) ril 15, 2013 Richard Hill Executive Director Association for Information Science and Technology 1320 Fenwick Lane, Suite 510 Silver Spring, MD 20910 FAX: (301) 495-0810 (301) 495-0900

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Assistant Professor Positions in Communication Studies at Laurier
by Jeremy hunsinger 20 Mar '13

20 Mar '13

Apologies for x-posting, please distribute to interested parties -jh --- The Department of Communication Studies invites applications for: 1. a tenure-track appointment at the Assistant Professor level commencing July 1, 2013, subject to budgetary approval. We are seeking a communication studies scholar in critical media studies whose teaching and research address media and communication in a global context. The preferred candidate will have a strong research record, as evidenced by publication in peer reviewed sources, and a demonstrated record of excellence in teaching, especially at the undergraduate level. The teaching workload norm at the University is four one-term courses. Ability and willingness to teach undergraduate and graduate research methods would be an asset. Interested candidates should forward a letter of application, curriculum vitae, up to two selected publications, and a teaching dossier. The teaching dossier should include copies of course evaluations, selected course outlines and a two page reflection on teaching and the applicant's teaching experience. Candidates should also provide contact information for three referees. 2. a 12-month limited term appointment beginning July 1, 2013, subject to budgetary approval. The successful candidate will be expected to teach two or more of the following courses: CS310 Globalization and Communication; CS341 Critical Advertising Studies; CS350 Political Economy of Communication and Culture; as well as a 400-level (fourth year) course in their area(s) of expertise. The normal teaching workload of a Limited-Term Appointment is five one-term courses. Applicants must submit a cover letter, curriculum vitae, sample syllabi, and the names, addresses, telephone numbers and email addresses of three academic references. All applicants must have a completed PhD in Communication Studies or a cognate discipline by the time of the appointment. All application materials should be sent to: Dr. Penelope Ironstone, Chair, Department of Communication Studies, Wilfrid Laurier University, 75 University Avenue West, Waterloo, Ontario, N2L 3C5. Questions can be directed to pironstone(a)wlu.ca. The deadline for receipt of all materials is April 30, 2013. Hard copies of application materials are required. Wilfrid Laurier University is committed to employment equity and values diversity. We welcome applications from qualified women and men, including persons of all genders and sexual orientations, persons with disabilities, Aboriginal persons, and persons of a visible minority. All qualified candidates are encouraged to apply; however, Canadians and permanent residents will be given priority. Members of the designated groups must self-identify to be considered for employment equity. Candidates may self-identify, in confidence, to the Dean of Arts, Dr. Michael Carroll (mcarroll(a)wlu.ca) Further information on the equity policy can be found at: https://www.wlu.ca/page.php?grp_id=2465&p=10545.

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Co-Creating Knowledge Online ... theory snapshots for culture makers (free PDF)
by Pip Shea 20 Mar '13

20 Mar '13

*Co-Creating Knowledge Online* is the second booklet in a series of Internet field guides I have developed for community artists and culture makers. It is for those who are interested in better utilising the Internet to connect, share, and make new knowledge. It builds on the premise that people have become increasingly networked as individuals rather than in groups, and that these new ways of connecting enable new modes of peer-to-peer co-creation. It is an attempt to translate my PhD research findings for community arts practitioners, and was inspired by the practices of CuriousWorks <http://www.curiousworks.com.au>. The booklet is available as a free PDF<http://www.popomo.com/research/blog/?p=937>in beta, and is CC licensed for re-purposing. I hope it's helpful! - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Pip Shea http://www.popomo.com - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

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Reminder: CFP WORKSHOP ON CREATIVITY AND ATTENTION IN THE AGE OF THE WEB
by Claudia Roda 20 Mar '13

20 Mar '13

CALL FOR PAPERS WORKSHOP ON CREATIVITY AND ATTENTION IN THE AGE OF THE WEB http://ac.aup.fr/croda/tclab/creativity&attentionWorkshop2013.html AT ACM WEB SCIENCE 2013 PARIS, MAY 1 2013 OBJECTIVES Many researchers have highlighted the connection between attention and creativity. The Web environment significantly affects the manner in which we allocate attention to information, tasks, and people. This workshop addresses the question of what impact this has on creative pursuits. We look at creativity at many levels, from personal creativity (e.g. the different ways in which a student may solve a problem) to big-C creativity that generates new high impact findings. We concentrate on the effects that the Web environment has on on human attention and on all these types of creativity. In particular, we will focus on empirical/experimental as well as conceptual research connecting topics such as: new types of creativity enabled by the web; the influence of Web-based environments on human attention; cognitive offload and its consequences; group creativity; creativity outsourcing. INTRODUCTION We are living in the age defined by innovation driven economy. The ubiquity of the web in our lives (work and leisure time) forces us to reconsider our fundamental preconceptions regarding the creative and innovation processes. The complexity and the requirements of this new environment tell us that the age of the lone asocial romanticist genius is gone. Collaboration and collective creation is a must. Does the web facilitates these processes? And, if so,then in what way? What can we do to take advantage of what the web offers? How does it affect individuals? What are the consequences for education? All these questions have prompted an unprecedented academic interest on creativity that is well represented by several academic meeting such as the International ACM Conference on Creativity and Cognition 2013 in Sydney, the AAAI 2013 Spring Symposium on Creativity and Cognitive Development in Stanford, the Mobile Learning and Creativity Workshop in Saarbrücken (September 2012), and the Creative Web Symposium: Computational Creativity as a Web-Service in South Corea (December 2012). Our workshop, while aligning with the meetings above, aims at exploring more specific issues of creativity that are immediately related to the particular environment created by the Web. Every new medium introduces new creative opportunities and shortens the path from the creator to the consumer: from the invention of writing, the printing process, photography, movies, to the radio and TV, the telephone, digital computer to the current era of hyper connectivity, always-on, instant messaging, instant content producing and sharing. Unprecedented amount of all humane knowledge becomes easily available for many and our expectations of others (individuals and institutions) in terms of reactivity, productivity and efficiency is raised. Some researchers believe that the more constraints we have to overcome, the easier it becomes to create. Would then democratization of access to information and cheap communication actually lessen creativity, or reduce it to trivial creations? On the other hand, creative behaviour has been connected with breath of attention (e.g. Kasof 1997, Friedman et al. 2003) and in general, wide attention deployment and defocused attention are considered to lead to greater creativity. Several researchers share the view that creativity requires variations in the field of attention (Gabora 2007, Vartanian 2009) and some experimental results hint that distractions improve creativity (Baird et al. 2012; Gallate et al. 2012). Based on these considerations one could expect that forced changes in attention focus such as those generated by many Web 2.0 applications, may actually improve creativity. However, previous research also tells us of other related factors that may intervene with a possible negative effect. For example it has been observed that stress or arousal, generated for example by time pressure or evaluation apprehension, may reduce breadth of attention and therefore hinder creativity (Karau and Kelly 1992; Smith, Michael, and Hocevar 1990); that interruptions are more likely to hinder, rather than improve, creativity, and that different types of interruptions may have varying degree of impact on different creative activities (Roda et al. 2013). CALL FOR PAPERS AND DEMONSTRATIONS In this half-day workshop we invite researchers and practitioners for an exploration of the influence of the Web environment on human attention and creativity. We welcome short papers reporting empirical/experimental as well as conceptual research connecting topics such as: New types of creativity enabled by the web The influence of Web based environments on human attention Cognitive offload and its consequences Group creativity Creativity outsourcing We invite full papers (8 pages), short / position papers (2-4 pages), and/or demonstrations to be submitted to gstojanov(a)aup.edu<mailto:gstojanov@aup.edu> by March 21 Demonstrations should be available online and be accompanied by a short description (no more than 2 pages). All submissions will be reviewed by three members of the Program Committee. We will pursue the possibility of publishing a selected number of papers in the special issue of a journal. IMPORTANT DATES Papers/Demo due March 21 2013 Review feedback March 29 2013 Workshop May 2 2013 ORGANISATION Organising committee Georgi Stojanov - The American University of Paris (France) Claudia Roda - The American University of Paris (France) Bipin Indurkhya - International Institute of Technology, Hyderabad (India) and AGH University of Science and Technology, Cracow (Poland) Program committee Sandra Bruno, Université de Cergy-Pontoise Jayson P. Harsin, The American University of Paris Thomas Kirste, University of Rostock Mohammad Majid al-Rifaie, Goldsmiths' College, University of London Amitash Ohja International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad Sebastian Pannasch, Technische Universitaet Dresden Goran Trajkovski, Virginia International University Giovanni Vincenti, Towson University Sharon Wood, University of Sussex -- Claudia Roda Professor of Computer Science American University of Paris 147, rue de Grenelle, 75007 Paris +33(0)1.40.62.07.01 croda(a)aup.fr<mailto:croda@aup.fr> http://ac.aup.fr/roda

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SIGDOC 2013 Call for Papers
by Liza Potts 20 Mar '13

20 Mar '13

Hi, I am pleased to announce the CFP for SIGDOC's 2013 Annual Conference! As the vice chair of SIGDOC and an AOIR member, I am especially interested in having greater representation from the AOIR community. Please consider joining us this year! SIGDOC 2013: Simplifying Complexity http://sigdoc.acm.org/2013/ The ACM Special Interest Group on the Design of Communication (ACM SIGDOC) invites you to submit a project report, research paper, or poster session on the design of communication for interactive systems in industry, education, recreation, scientific research, and social exchange. SIGDOC conferences address issues of interest to people in interaction design, content strategy, information architecture, user experience, and technical communication. Ideas for topics • How do you identify complexity in an interactive system and simplify it for the people who use it? • How do you capture complexity in a domain and simplify people’s understanding of it? • How do you simplify complex person-to-person interactions? • How social media and new media (rss feeds, analytics, streaming, user-contributed content, mashups, wikis, and blogs) simplify or increase complexity, and social implications of using these media. • Simplifying the design, development, and delivery of interactive instructional media, including content management, website development and use, e-instruction and e-learning, and technical communication. • Using responsive design methods and tools to simplify multi-platform issues. • User research in all of these areas. Submission types • Research and technical papers. These papers describe completed research projects, and include the questions that prompted the research, the investigative methods, the results, and ideas for future study. Typically, researchers in academia submit research and technical papers. You present your paper during a conference session, and publish the paper in the conference proceedings. • Project reports. These papers describe work completed for a product release, and include the problem that prompted the project, the development methods, the results, and ideas for future work. Typically, people in industry submit project reports. You present your paper during a conference session, and publish the paper in the conference proceedings. • Poster sessions. A poster session is a less formal presentation of work in progess, theories, experimental work, new concepts, late-breaking research results. You present your poster during an informal session. • Workshops. These are half- or full-day tutorials on a practical topic of relevance to conference attendees. Submission schedule • May 15: Manuscripts are due. • June 30: Acceptance notices go out. If your submission is accepted as-is, you can upload it for publication in the proceedings. Work begins on your conference presentation. • July 20: If your submission was accepted pending revisions, the revisions are due. • Aug 7: Your final date to upload your manuscript to Sheridan Printing for inclusion in the proceedings. Questions? Please contact our conference chairs Michael Albers (albersm(a)ecu.edu) and Nina Wishbow (nina.wishbow(a)gmail.com) Take care, Liza Potts Vice Chair of SIGDOC _________________________________________ Liza Potts, Ph.D. Michigan State University Director of User Experience Projects, WIDE @ MATRIX Assistant Professor Department of Writing, Rhetoric, & American Cultures 434 Farm Lane (Bessey Hall)Room 291, East Lansing, MI 48824 Gtalk: LKPotts | AIM: LizaPotts | Skype: LKPotts

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