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Re: [Air-L] For everyone and their grad students: Fake, pay-to-publish journals & conferences
by michael gurstein 08 Apr '13

08 Apr '13

True, but software now handles a lot of the organizational issues related to (particularly OA) publishing (we use OJS <http://pkp.sfu.ca/ojs> ) and varous forms of communication and information management tools handle quite a lot of the "expertise" issues... (by for example, dramatically increasing the range of human and other resources to which one has easy and low cost access including for editing, reviewing, consulting with colleagues, software support etc. It doesn't reduce the need for the expertise but it does make accessing and using that expertise a lot more time/cost efficient (in publishing as in almost every other area of human endeavour...But of course, the expertise requirement that remains. M Michael Gurstein, Ph.D. Editor in Chief: Journal of Community Informatics web: http://ci-journal.net email: gurstein(a)gmail.com -----Original Message----- From: Brian Butler [mailto:bsbutler@umd.edu] Sent: Monday, April 08, 2013 10:49 AM To: michael gurstein Cc: <air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org> Subject: Re: [Air-L] For everyone and their grad students: Fake, pay-to-publish journals & conferences mmm. It is worthwhile to distinguish "publishing" from "distribution". Distribution has gotten much cheaper. Publishing remains a highly labor intensive activity that requires significant expertise and organization to do well. .. On Apr 8, 2013, at 1:42 PM, michael gurstein wrote: > Publishing may be dirt cheap but any systematic/formal e.g. academic > publishing isn't free... So the problem is that while there is a > necessary and valuable shift from commercial publishing (and > outrageous profiteering) to open access online publishing there really > aren't any good business models yet to cover the (much less but not > totally trivial) costs of the new forms of academic publishing. > > If for whatever reason (and there are lots including the issues > pointed to > here) one doesn't want to go to a pay for play model that leaves > advertising(???) or donations (???) or... > > M > > -----Original Message----- > From: air-l-bounces(a)listserv.aoir.org > [mailto:air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org] On Behalf Of Elijah Wright > Sent: Monday, April 08, 2013 8:38 AM > To: Nathaniel Poor > Cc: air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org list > Subject: Re: [Air-L] For everyone and their grad students: Fake, > pay-to-publish journals & conferences > > How long till someone marries up the PGP Web-of-Trust and LinkedIn and > ISI impact factors / JCR and some other social media data to vet > conferences as reputable or not? > > Imagine cryptographically signing that you were at a conference and > found it viable as a real academic interaction - or not. And being > able to mark as trusted/invalidating other people's evaluations of events. > > And imagine how little time it would take for people to start trying > to game such a system. ;-) > > best, > > --e > > > > > On Mon, Apr 8, 2013 at 9:51 AM, Nathaniel Poor <natpoor(a)gmail.com> wrote: > >> >> http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/08/health/for-scientists-an-exploding- >> w >> orld-of-pseudo-academia.html >> >> "The scientists who were recruited to appear at a conference called >> Entomology-2013 thought they had been selected to make a presentation >> to the leading professional association of scientists who study >> insects. But they found out the hard way that they were wrong...." >> >> This has been a problem for a while, but now it's big enough to be a >> newspaper story. >> >> ------------------------------- >> Nathaniel Poor, Ph.D. >> http://natpoor.blogspot.com/ >> https://sites.google.com/site/natpoor/ >> >> _______________________________________________ >> The Air-L(a)listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the >> Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change >> options or unsubscribe at: >> http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org >> >> Join the Association of Internet Researchers: >> http://www.aoir.org/ >> > _______________________________________________ > The Air-L(a)listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the > Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change > options or unsubscribe at: > http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org > > Join the Association of Internet Researchers: > http://www.aoir.org/ > > _______________________________________________ > The Air-L(a)listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the > Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change > options or unsubscribe at: > http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org > > Join the Association of Internet Researchers: > http://www.aoir.org/

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ANN: Big Data
by Edd Dumbill 08 Apr '13

08 Apr '13

Dear colleagues, After lurking on this list a while, it seems to me that members may be interested in the journal Big Data, recently launched, of which I am editor-in-chief. The entirety of the first issue has been made freely available online at http://online.liebertpub.com/toc/big/1/1 Peer reviewed papers will be published open access, under CC BY license, with no author fees. (Many thanks danah boyd for her assistance and advocacy in ensuring this). The journal aims to be integrative over the contributing fields to big data, including data science, software, visualization, policy—and accessible to both practitioners and researchers in the field, from industry, academia and government. As such it aims for a modern feel, and is pursuing an innovative business model in order to facilitate the OA publishing. I welcome feedback and contribution from members of this list. Submission details are available here: http://www.liebertpub.com/manuscript/big-data/611/ Editorial board: http://www.liebertpub.com/editorialboard/big-data/611/ regards -- Edd Dumbill -- Editor in Chief, Big Data +1 (415) 692 1767 • http://about.me/edd

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For everyone and their grad students: Fake, pay-to-publish journals & conferences
by Nathaniel Poor 08 Apr '13

08 Apr '13

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/08/health/for-scientists-an-exploding-world-… "The scientists who were recruited to appear at a conference called Entomology-2013 thought they had been selected to make a presentation to the leading professional association of scientists who study insects. But they found out the hard way that they were wrong...." This has been a problem for a while, but now it's big enough to be a newspaper story. ------------------------------- Nathaniel Poor, Ph.D. http://natpoor.blogspot.com/ https://sites.google.com/site/natpoor/

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IROCS Journals : Call For Papers
by IROCS 08 Apr '13

08 Apr '13

Dear Sir/Madam, Kindly forward this information to your faculties/departments/centers. Call For Papers International Research Organization of Computer Science (IROCS Journals) is an open access publisher with a mission to serve society through excellence in education, research, service and to generate new knowledge and technology for the benefit of everyone ranging from the academic and professional research communities to industry practitioners. IROCS Journals invites researchers and industrial practitioners to submit their research work in its International peer review journals covering computer sciences and engineering topics in general and computer security, image processing, signal processing, Electronics, GIS, applied sciences, business and management research and many other scientific topics. All journals under IROCS seeks to publish a balanced mix of high quality theoretical or empirical research articles, case studies, book reviews, tutorials, editorials as well as pedagogical and curricular issues surrounding computer science and engineering fields. List of Journals Click on the appropriate journal name to view the complete detail of the journal. <http://www.irocsjournals.org/irocs/journals/IJBM/description.php?JCode=IJBM > International Journal of Business and Management (IJBM) <http://www.irocsjournals.org/irocs/journals/IJEEE/description.php?JCode=IJE EE> International Journal of Electrical and Electronics Engineering (IJEEE) <http://www.irocsjournals.org/irocs/journals/IJIPG/description.php?JCode=IJI PG> International journal of image processing and graphics (IJIPG) <http://www.irocsjournals.org/irocs/journals/IJCSIS/description.php?JCode=IJ CSIS> International journals of computer science and Information security (IJCSIS) Important Dates Paper Submission: April 30, 2013 Author Notification: May 31, 2013 Journal Publication: June 2013 Call For Editorial IROCS Journals invites the interested professionals to contribute into IROCS research network by joining us as a part of editorial board members for its scientific peer-reviewed journals. All journals uses an online, electronic submission process. The Editor is responsible for the timely and substantive output of the journal, including the solicitation of manuscripts, supervision of the peer review process and the final selection of articles for publication. Duties also include implementing the Journal's editorial policies, maintaining high professional standards for published content, ensuring the integrity of the Journal, guiding manuscripts through the review process, overseeing revisions, and planning special issues along with the editorial team. The new editors will begin to receive manuscripts starting from April 2013. Interested applicants may contact IROCSJournals Editorial Office (coordinator(a)irocsjournals.org) for additional information regarding the responsibilities and benefits. Applicants must submit a detailed CV along with a brief statement of contribution for the journal. Please remember that it is through the effort of volunteers such as yourself that IROCS Journals continues to grow and flourish. Your help with reviewing the issues would be very much appreciated. Contact Details IROCS Journals Team International Research Organization of Computer Science press(a)irocsjournals.org Url: http://www.irocsjournals.org/irocs/home.php

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Re: [Air-L] Mixed methods Internet research follow-up
by Ulf-Dietrich Reips 08 Apr '13

08 Apr '13

Hi Christine: in case no one has yet suggested it to you: an excellent related handbook is the following. Eid, M., Diener, E. (Eds.) (2006). Handbook of multimethod measurement in psychology. Washington, DC. Kind regards Ulf At 10:21 Uhr +0100 5.4.2013, Christine Hine wrote: >Thanks so much to everyone who sent me suggestions of mixed methods Internet >research in response to my recent query. I'm still working my way through >the responses in detail. It's been really enlightening to see the sheer >amount of methodological mixing going on in Internet studies and clearly >there's something about the multiple affordances of digital data that >stimulate people to draw on multiple methodological traditions. I'm finding >it very interesting to think through these examples of mixing in research >according to the notion of "facet methodology" that I've just come across - >see Mason (2011). I know several other people were interested to know about >the outcomes of my query, so I've prepared a brief summary of the various >projects and resources I heard about. It's a bit long to send out whole to >this list, so I've put it here: http://christinehine.wordpress.com/ > >Best wishes, > >Christine > >Mason, J. (2011) Facet methodology: the case for an inventive research >orientation. Methodological Innovations Online 6(3): 75-92 >http://www.pbs.plym.ac.uk/mi/pdf/8-02-12/MIO63Paper31.pdf > > > > > >Christine Hine > >christine.hine(a)btinternet.com > > > >_______________________________________________ >The Air-L(a)listserv.aoir.org mailing list >is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org >Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: >http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org > >Join the Association of Internet Researchers: >http://www.aoir.org/

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Sources for theory / theories: media re-reporting and national identity
by Charles Ess 08 Apr '13

08 Apr '13

Dear colleagues, One of my Masters students is examining how Norwegian newspapers re-report Norwegian-related news in the U.S. and the U.K. - specifically, the recent fun poked by U.S. news sources regarding "the firewood program," accounts of Bogdøy prison island, and the nomination of the Kon-Tiki movie for an academy award. Our broad inquiry circles around (a) why are these sorts of re-reports - including on occasion a positive spin on what was originally a negative report - important components of news reporting - specifically with a view towards (b) their function as part of a fostering and reinforcing a sense of national identity? We are looking broadly at Anderson's notion of national identity as an imagined community - but we're hoping to find more recent analyses and theoretical sources that would be helpful as well. A specific wrinkle here is that while we can find plenty of good work on how contemporary media serve to foster specific aspects of _individual_ identity (e.g., using Goffman, Simmel, and/or others in conjunction with social media) - we're trying to focus on a sense of collective or shared national identity and how such media (re)reporting seems to be important in contributing to and fostering such an identity. There are further specific wrinkles affecting a sense of national identity, including relatively recent independence (1905) that may also play relevant roles in accounting for this form of reporting - and thereby suggest specific sorts of similar research in other countries as well? In all events, I hope this query is specific enough to spark specific responses; if you have suggestions for us, please share these offlist - though I will be more than happy to collect these and repost. Many thanks in advance, - charles Associate Professor in Media Studies Department of Media and Communication Director, Centre for Research on Media Innovations <http://www.hf.uio.no/imk/english/research/center/media-innovations/> University of Oslo P.O. Box 1093 Blindern NO-0317 Oslo Norway email: charles.ess(a)media.uio.no

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Final call for abstracts for Social Networking in Cyberspace conference (Wolverhampton, UK, 15th-16th July)
by Fullwood, Chris 08 Apr '13

08 Apr '13

SNIC 2013/ Social Networking in Cyberspace conference 2013<http://www.wlv.ac.uk/default.aspx?page=31194>The CRUW<http://www.wlv.ac.uk/default.aspx?page=17672> research group (Cyberpsychology Research at the University of Wolverhampton) based in the Psychology department will be hosting the 2nd Social Networking in Cyberspace conference in July, 2013. The conference will be a two-day event and will take place between Monday 15th and Tuesday 16th of July, 2013. The conference will be held on the main city campus of the University of Wolverhampton. For conference updates follow us on Twitter<https://twitter.com/SNIC2013> Call for Abstracts We invite potential presenters (from academia and industry) to submit an abstract (no longer than 300 words) for peer-review. We welcome submissions from scholars (including postgraduates) in the social and behavioural sciences and media and information disciplines, regardless of theoretical orientation. The deadline for submission of the abstract is Monday 15th of April, 2013. A decision on this abstract will be made after the submission deadline and authors will be notified via email soon after. Poster presentations are also welcome. Conference themes Although the conference theme encourages submissions relating to the social and communicative aspects of cyberspace, we welcome abstracts on a diverse range of topics relating to human interaction with the internet and emerging technology. The following themes are of particular interest: * Social networking * Blogging * Individual differences in online behaviour * Inequality issues in Internet use * Cybertherapy and online health * Gaming * Security and privacy * All aspects of cyberpsychologySubmissions by April 15th Abstracts should be submitted to snic2013(a)wlv.ac.uk<mailto:snic2013@wlv.ac.uk> Please include the names of all authors as well as your affiliations/institutions and a contact email address for the corresponding author with the abstract. -- Scanned by iCritical.

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CfP Political participation in a mediated age
by Jeffrey Wimmer 08 Apr '13

08 Apr '13

Call for papers ECREA conference (Mis)understanding political participation Munich (Germany), 11-12 October 2013. Organised by the ECREA’s Communication & Democracy, Gender & Communication sections. Supported by the Media and Communication sections of the German Communication (DGPuK) and Sociology Association (DGS) and YECREA. It is commonly accepted that political participation and civic engagement are cornerstones of a healthy democracy. Going beyond established academic discourses about the decline of citizens’ political participation in institutional politics, and the rise of alternative forms of political participation, this conference aims to explore the issues, the platforms, the actions, the locations, and the motivations of politically active citizens today. Political participation is nowadays characterised by ambiguities: Despite the evidence of growing disenchantment with institutional politics, electoral turnouts in some countries are increasing; despite increased possibilities for participation through online media, these are often dismissed as ‘clicktivism’; despite celebratory discourses on the uses of social media in the Arab spring, the Occupy movement, in the Pussy Riot case, the same-sex marriage debates in France and the UK and in recent LGBT+ protests, they were grounded and performed in particular physical spaces; despite their possibilities for challenging the mainstream, online media technologies are mostly profit-driven. We need to discuss the opportunities and challenges that these conditions entail for the ways in which digitally-mediated social interactions, practices and environments shape everyday participation, engagement or protest, and to analyse their implications for politics, culture and society. This includes asking whether “clicktivism” is eroding the physical or embodied participation constituting traditional offline activism, and if new ‘digital divides’ and political, social and cultural inequalities will result from mediated participation and engagement. Crucially, it also warrants critically re-assessing the relations and interplays between institutional and non-institutional politics, and traditional definitions of what is considered ‘political’. We invite paper and panel proposals from a wide range of disciplines (media and communication studies, cultural studies, gender studies, sociology, political sciences etc.) related to the central theme of the conference, including (but not limited to) the following topics: · Mediatisation of political participation and civic engagement · Media practices and mediation of political participation, engagement and protest · Relationships between national media systems and participation · NGOs, mainstream media and social media · Media representations of engagement, protest and new masculinities · Feminist protest and new media · Intersectionality and media · Gay and lesbian rights, the queer movement and the media · Issues of surveillance and data privacy · Digital divides, hierarchy and marginalisation in civic engagement · Historical accounts of mediatisation of participation and engagement We specially invite empirical case studies (comparative and/or single-case studies). Panel and paper proposals from PhD students and early career scholars are also very welcome. We also encourage authors to submit policy papers, applied case studies or artistic reflections for a special poster session. Extended abstracts should be no longer than 700 words, written in English and contain a clear outline of the argument, the theoretical framework, methodology and results. Panel proposals should consist of a rationale for the panel (max 400 words), abstracts for individual panel presenters (max 200 words each), name of panel chair/organiser, name and affiliations of participants. All proposals should be submitted by May 15th, 2013 to https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ecreapepms2013. Notifications of acceptance will be sent out after June 15th, 2013. Confirmed Keynote Speakers (more to come) Bart Cammaerts (LSE) Local Conference Organisers: Cornelia Wallner, Jeffrey Wimmer Conference venue: The conference will take place at the Department of Communication Science and Media Research at Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Germany. Conference date: October 11-12th, 2013. Go to http://www.ecrea-symposium.ifkw.uni-muenchen.de for more information on the conference venue and registration. Scientific Committee: Marian Adorf, Tina Askanius, Carla Cerqueira, Iñaki Garcia-Blanco, Frederik Dhaenens, Tanja Thomas, Iolanda Tortajada, Julie Uldam, Cornelia Wallner, Jeffrey Wimmer, Rainer Winter The conference is supported by the Chair for excellence in communication Rovira i Virgili University (URV)-REPSOL All the best, Jeffrey Wimmer ------------ Prof. Dr. Jeffrey Wimmer Assistant Professor Institute of Media and Communication Science Ernst Abbe Zentrum (EAZ) Ilmenau University of Technology Ehrenbergstr. 29 D-98693 Ilmenau, Germany Tel: +49-(0)3677 69 4642 Email: jeffrey.wimmer(a)tu-ilmenau.de http://www.tu-ilmenau.de/en/vwdg/team/jeffrey-wimmer/

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2nd CFP: 2013 International Annual Conference on Social Media and Society
by Anatoliy Gruzd 06 Apr '13

06 Apr '13

Apologies for cross-posting ******************************** CALL FOR PAPER ABSTRACTS, PANEL PROPOSALS AND POSTERS What: 2013 International Conference on Social Media and Society Where: Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada When: September 14-15, 2013 Website: http://SocialMediaAndSociety.com/ Twitter hashtag: #SMSociety13 CONFERENCE CHAIRS: Anatoliy Gruzd, Dalhousie University, gruzd(a)dal.ca (Primary Contact) Caroline Haythornthwaite, University of British Columbia Karine Nahon, University of Washington Stan Matwin, Dalhousie University IMPORTANT DATES: Paper & Panel Abstracts Due: May 1, 2013 Paper & Panel Notification: May 20, 2013 Poster Abstracts Due: May 30, 2013 Poster Notification: June 15, 2013 Conference dates: September 14-15, 2013 ABOUT THE EVENT: 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. The objective of this 2-day conference 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. The conference will provide researchers in this area an opportunity to present and debate their ideas, and provide attendees with the opportunity to build academic and professional contacts, present their research, and learn about latest research in this area from a multidisciplinary perspective. TOPICS OF INTEREST INCLUDE (BUT NOT LIMITED TO): * BIG Data/Social Media Data Scalability Issues and Social Media Data Social Media Analytics Social Media Data Mining Social Media Mobile Applications Visualization of Social Media Data * Online Communities/Social Networks Online and Offline Communities Formed on Social Media Influential User Detection Online Community Detection Online Identity Trust and Credibility in Social Media * Social Media Impact on Society Social Media & Public Administration Political Mobilization & Engagement on Social Media Social Media and Academia Social Media and Business Social Media and Journalism Virality of Information in Social Media * Theories and Methods Qualitative and Quantitative Approaches Opinion Mining and Sentiment Analysis Social Network Analysis Theoretical Models for Studying Social Media TYPES OF SUBMISSIONS: (1) Paper abstracts Paper abstracts provide authors the opportunity to present their original work related to the broad theme of social media and society. (2) Panel presentations Panel presentations provide authors the option of organizing three related papers/talks together in a thematic session. (3) Research poster presentations The research poster session provides an interactive forum for authors to discuss their research. HOW TO SUBMIT: See more information at http://SocialMediaAndSociety.com/ For further inquiries, please contact Dr. Anatoliy Gruzd at gruzd(a)dal.ca

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Deadline extended: CFP Social Media, the fourth Transforming Audiences conference, London Sep 2013
by Graham Meikle 05 Apr '13

05 Apr '13

Hi all By popular demand, the deadline for submitting abstracts has now been extended to 26 April 2013. Please see full CFP below. Cheers, gm CALL FOR PAPERS Social Media The fourth international transforming audiences conference making connections | creative cultures | open everything Date: 2 – 3 September 2013 Venue: University of Westminster, 35 Marylebone Road, London, NW1 5LS The previous Transforming Audiences conferences, in 2007, 2009 and 2011, have seen this event become Europe’s major international conference series for audience/user studies, bringing together researchers from all over the world. Now we are delighted to invite you to Social Media, the fourth in the Transforming Audiences series, in central London in September 2013. The Social Media conference is organised by the Centre for Social Media Research at the University of Westminster’s Communication and Media Research Institute. The event will present a rich set of analyses of the current situation and raise important questions about the future. We strongly encourage papers from new scholars as well as more established researchers. Keynote speakers include Stuart Allan (author Citizen Witnessing), Megan Boler (co-editor DIY Citizenship and Critical Making), Larissa Hjorth (co-author Understanding Social Media) and D.E. Wittkower (editor Facebook and Philosophy). We particularly invite papers that connect with the themes making connections, creative cultures and open everything. Making connections — friends | followers | connections | networks | communities | tags | favourites | playlists | channels | emotions | affect | information | knowledge | circulation | movement | share Creative cultures — critical making | memes | do-it-yourself | do-it-with-others | collaboration | participation | read-write | edit | hacking | modding | coding | creativity Open everything — Big Data | data journalism | visualisation | mapping | activism | commons | business models | access | education | MOOCs | private | public | surveillance | visibility SUBMISSION GUIDELINES You can submit proposals for individual papers or for themed panels. Individual papers will each have 15 minutes plus discussion time. Panels should consist of three presentations of 15 minutes each, to be followed by fifteen minutes of discussion for a total session of one hour. For individual papers, please send a 300-word abstract and brief biographical note of up to 70 words. Abstracts should highlight the original theoretical or empirical contribution. They should also include the presenter’s name, institutional affiliation, title of paper, email and work address. Proposals for panels or alternative formats should include a 300-word overview as well as individual abstracts following the guidelines above. All proposals should be sent by 26 April 2013 to TA4(a)westminster.ac.uk<mailto:TA4@westminster.ac.uk> Electronic submissions only. Successful applicants will be notified by mid-May. REGISTRATION The registration fee for the two days will be £285, for one day will be £180. ICA, AoIR, IAMCR and ECREA members will be given a preferential rate of £245 for the two day event. The special rate for students will be £130 for the two days, or £75 for one day. This covers all conference documentation, refreshments, lunches, wine reception and administration costs. Registration will open mid-May. http://www.transformingaudiences.org.uk http://www.westminster.ac.uk/research/a-z/camri/events/camri-events-calenda… ----------------------- Professor Graham Meikle Communication and Media Research Institute, School of Media, Arts and Design, University of Westminster, HA1 3TP, UK Twitter: @graham_meikle Phone: +44 (0)20 7911 5000 ext 4755 http://www.westminster.ac.uk/about-us/our-people/directory/meikle-graham The University of Westminster is a charity and a company limited by guarantee. Registration number: 977818 England. Registered Office: 309 Regent Street, London W1B 2UW.

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