April 2013 - Air-L - lists.aoir.org

CfP "Digital Methods" Conference in Vienna (German language)
by Axel Maireder 25 Apr '13

25 Apr '13

For those who understand German and are working with 'Digital Methods': We'll have the (first?) German language Digital Methods conference in Vienna, 7-9 Nov 2013, organized by the CMC-section of DGPUK (German Society for Communication Research). It is titled "Innovative Methods for the study of Public Communication", and the Deadline for the CfP is 10 June. The Call is in German only, but English submission and presentations are highly welcome and appreciated. However, most of the presentations will be in German (Thus, you might be bored at the conference if you don't understand German ;) http://www.univie.ac.at/digitalmethods/ --- Axel Maireder University of Vienna, Department of Communication http://homepage.univie.ac.at/axel.maireder/

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Re: [Air-L] (advice sought) Public safety and configuration of list
by Michael Allan 25 Apr '13

25 Apr '13

Yosem, May I briefly speak in reply? I will not be joining the admin list, as it's only by accident that I became involved in this. Anyway, I'm sorry to have given you the wrong impression, but you make some errors in describing my actions and motivations, and I wish to correct them. > Michael asked that the Program on Liberation Technology at Stanford > University overrule the list vote over safety issues because he said > the position created a potential legal liability for the university. I did not ask the university to overrule the vote, but only to act in the interests of public safety. If public safety is best served by upholding the vote, then that is O.K. by me. Nor was I concerned with the university's legal position. It was the university's own staff who invited me to off-list discussions, and the university's own staff who expressed a concern about legal implications, and then referred the matter to counsel. The only issue I consider worth discussing in this connection is the issue of public safety, especially the safety of innocent people who are not party to these discussions, not connected with the university, and not connected with the mailing list. The argument (which I seconded, but did not originate) is that the configuration of the list places these people in some danger. I felt that *their* concerns ought to have a voice before a decision was made. So this is what I attempted to do; though maybe I didn't do a good job of it. > Michael, however, insists that there are safety issues. ... Well, I have never *insisted* on that. My crime was to ask whether or not the safety concerns that were raised are valid, and I directed this question to experts in particular. But apparently the university has already made a decision on the matter, so there's nothing further anyone can contribute. We can only hope that it's the right decision, and that we acted rightly in it ourselves. -- Michael Allan Toronto, +1 416-699-9528 http://zelea.com/ Yosem Companys said: > Dear All, > > Michael asked that the Program on Liberation Technology at Stanford > University overrule the list vote over safety issues because he said the > position created a potential legal liability for the university. > > We informed Michael that we saw none and that the list subscribers had > taken the perceived safety issue into consideration when voting; in fact, > we included the links to the pros and cons that addressed the perceived > safety concerns. > > Michael, however, insists that there are safety issues. We remained > unconvinced. He asked that we discuss the issue internally at Stanford > University. > > Our final decision is consistent with the view that Jeremy outlined below, > which is common practice for mailing lists: Email users are responsible > for their use of email, on a list or off, so they are responsible for > knowing the settings and adapting their behaviors to them. The locus of > action of the list is the user, the administrator just sets the terms. > > Moreover, we inform users of the risks associated with subscribing to > public lists both when they sign up and in our list guidelines. We also > clearly state that the list is configured to reply to all. > > As a result, the current option will remain as currently configured and > voted upon by list subscribers -- that is, reply to all. > > As we have received numerous complaints over having administrative issues > crowd out substantive discussion on the list, we are creating a separate > "liberationtech-admin" list. As soon as that list is operational, we will > let you know. In the meantime, out of respect to your fellow subscribers, > we ask that you please refrain from further discussion about the issue here > but encourage you to continue the discussion there, if interested. > > Best, > > Yosem > One of your list moderators

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Re: [Air-L] (advice sought) Public safety and configuration of list
by Michael Allan 25 Apr '13

25 Apr '13

Joseph Lorenzo Hall said: > ... if you don't accept the decision of the list members ... Maybe there's a misunderstanding here. The list subscribers are not responsible for the safe administration of the list. The university alone is responsible. It could never pass that responsibility on to the subscribers, even if it wanted to. > ... to appeal to higher authorities that have much better things on > which to spend their time ... Well, it was university staff who appealed to counsel some weeks ago, following an off-list discussion. As I mention, the university is evaluating the matter and has yet to make a decision. My purpose in posting is to ask advice from experts, and to remind the counsel's office (a busy place, as you say) of the need for a decision. Again, pending that decision, I recommend that the configuration be returned to its default setting. The default is known to be safe. Mike Joseph Lorenzo Hall said: > I would suggest if you don't accept the decision of the list members to > keep reply-to-list, you should not subscribe. It seems silly to raise it > again and attempt to appeal to higher authorities that have much better > things on which to spend their time than mediate disputes about mailing > list policy. (I initiated the recent policy discussion of the mailing > list configuration and accept the results, despite not agreeing with the > decision (not on safety grounds).) > > best, Joe > > -- > Joseph Lorenzo Hall > Senior Staff Technologist > Center for Democracy & Technology > 1634 I ST NW STE 1100 > Washington DC 20006-4011 > (p) 202-407-8825 > (f) 202-637-0968 > joe(a)cdt.org > PGP: https://josephhall.org/gpg-key

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Re: [Air-L] (advice sought) Public safety and configuration of list
by Michael Allan 25 Apr '13

25 Apr '13

Brian and Elijah, Brian said: > If Stanford University, who currently hosts the libtech mailng list > decides to change the setup in contravention of democratic process > of the list MEMBERS, then I would hope list members will move to one > of many other options for hosting. ... Is it not worth considering > that the constant rehashing of this discussion is in itself, > something reminiscent of the behavior of bad actors attempting to > derail effective organizing and discussion? Safety was hardly discussed in public; mostly only off list. Here's a short history of the public exchange between the subscribers and the university, thus far: Subs. When replying to messages sent via the list, I sometimes forget to hit "Reply to List". Instead I hit "Reply to Sender". When I realize my mistake, I must re-send my reply to the list. What a nuisance! How can we remedy this? Uni. It's possible to alter the sender's Reply-To headers, making it *appear* as though the sender had requested replies to be sent to the list. Then it no longer matters which button you press; your reply is directed to the list regardless. Subs. Yes, let's do that! Uni. But in our particular list, this may present a safety hazard to the public. Also it requires inserting false information into the mail that technically verges on fraud. Subs. (silence) Uni. Did you hear what I said? Subs. How dare you question our democratically reached decision! Did *you* not hear what *we* said? This is perhaps a little unfair. If a proper discussion had been held beforehand, then nobody could have *reasonably* agreed to alter the Reply-To headers without *first* refuting the public safety concerns. But this was not done; instead there was a vote. One subscriber even called for the vote as a means to end the discussion. And now, when the university is required to decide the matter, *again* public discussion is to be curtailed? That is fine, but remember that reasonable arguments of public safety and wilful mis-information are still standing. They have hardly been addressed yet, let alone refuted. (Again, pending that decision, I recommend that the configuration be returned to its default setting. The default is strongly recommended by the providers and its safety is unquestioned.) Elijah Wright said: > Please don't reply-all on private mail (what this appears to be - > interim mails did not go to Air-L), and then include lists in the CC > line. ... it's unethical ... Apologies for cross-posting, but the mail I quoted was not private: https://mailman.stanford.edu/pipermail/liberationtech/2013-April/008257.html Mike Brian Conley said: > +1 to both of Joe's comments. > > Michael, I'm not sure what world you live in, but in the world I live in, > anyone who has information worth considering and is to be respected as a > security adviser would NEVER follow the actions you've suggested. > > This is a strawman. The world is a dangerous place, and people get hurt. At > least give them the agency to decide how best to protect themselves. Quite > frankly I think there is a lot of hand-wringing going on, and it really > wastes a lot of people's time. > > If Stanford University, who currently hosts the libtech mailng list decides > to change the setup in contravention of democratic process of the list > MEMBERS, then I would hope list members will move to one of many other > options for hosting. > > I fully understand that Stanford University may now feel they have some > sort of legal obligation, due, no doubt, in part to less than transparent > actions by a few individuals, robbing the members of the list of agency. > Its the University's legal decision, no doubt, but perhaps someone from the > EFF can kindly call them and let them know this is a straw man. > > Is it not worth considering that the constant rehashing of this discussion > is in itself, something reminiscent of the behavior of bad actors > attempting to derail effective organizing and discussion? > > regards all. > > > On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 5:43 PM, Joseph Lorenzo Hall <joe(a)cdt.org> wrote: > > > (reply-to-list-only) > > > > On Apr 23, 2013, at 16:39, Michael Allan <mike(a)zelea.com> wrote: > > > Maybe there's a misunderstanding here. The list subscribers are not > > > responsible for the safe administration of the list. The university > > > alone is responsible. It could never pass that responsibility on to > > > the subscribers, even if it wanted to. > > > > There's definitely a misunderstanding. I see mailing lists as > > fundamentally normative negotiations with a foundation of acceptable use, > > whether administered by Stanford or some other entity. Changing the entity > > that hosts a mailman list is one of the most frictionless changes which a > > community can agree to online. So, ultimately it's the list that requires > > persuasion (in my opinion). > > > > --Joe > > -- > > Brian Conley > > Director, Small World News > > http://smallworldnews.tv > > m: 646.285.2046 > > Skype: brianjoelconley Elijah Wright said: > On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 3:39 PM, Michael Allan <mike(a)zelea.com> wrote: > > Joseph Lorenzo Hall said: > > > > > > Please don't reply-all on private mail (what this appears to be - interim > mails did not go to Air-L), and then include lists in the CC line. > > It's unethical and just makes other list members very, very cranky. As > does any thread that suggests changing the reply-to bit on any list. > > That aside - this ought to be a dead issue. Don't use mailing lists with > archives for private or might-need-to-be-private correspondence that might > endanger lives or well-being of others. The information *will* leak. In > fact - I would suggest not using mail for this sort of issue at all, > regardless of whether it's a list or has archives or not. The trail of > cleartext bits and routing information is too easily exploited. > > best, > > --e

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[Comtech] Urban Informatics Symposium - Registration Open (fwd)
by Barry Wellman 25 Apr '13

25 Apr '13

Barry Wellman _______________________________________________________________________ S.D. Clark Professor of Sociology, FRSC NetLab Director Department of Sociology 725 Spadina Avenue, Room 388 University of Toronto Toronto Canada M5S 2J4 twitter:@barrywellman http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman fax:+1-416-978-3963 NETWORKED:The New Social Operating System. Lee Rainie & Barry Wellman MIT Press http://amzn.to/zXZg39 Print $20 Kindle $16 Old/newCybertimes http://bit.ly/c8N9V8 It's still rock & roll to me ________________________________________________________________________ ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2013 20:11:47 -0400 From: Andrea Forte <andrea.forte.drexel(a)gmail.com> Reply-To: aforte(a)drexel.edu To: comtech(a)fit.fraunhofer.de Subject: [Comtech] Urban Informatics Symposium - Registration Open Symposium on Urban Informatics: Exploring Smarter Cities Philadelphia PA | June 11, 2013 ExCITe Center | 3401 Market Street http://ischool.drexel.edu/urbaninformatics Registration is open and the program has been posted. The symposium on Urban Informatics will bring together designers, city planners and managers, technologists, scholars and entrepreneurs in Philadelphia, at the heart of the U.S. northeast urban corridor, to explore the frontiers of the urban environment. The event will be hosted at the Expressive and Creative Interaction Technologies (ExCITe) research center on the Drexel University campus. The opening plenary will be delivered by Dr. Keith Hampton and several panel discussions are planned that will bring together diverse perspectives on urban technologies. Participants will be encouraged to take time to form ad-hoc discussion groups throughout the day. PLENARY BIO | After receiving his doctorate from University of Toronto in Sociology, Keith Hampton joined the Massachusetts Institute of Technology faculty as the first professor of "technology and the city" in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning and later joined the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania. He served as chair of the American Sociological Association's section on Communication and Information Technologies from 2007-2009, and past-chair from 2009-2010. Hampton is currently an associate professor of communication at Rutgers University's School of Communication. Registration will close on May 15th. Please contact Kris Unsworth at ku26(a)drexel.edu with questions. Hope to see you there! -- :: Andrea Forte :: Assistant Professor :: The iSchool | College of Information Science and Technology :: Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA :: http://andreaforte.net | aforte(a)drexel.edu | 215.895.0543 _______________________________________________ Comtech mailing list Comtech(a)fit.fraunhofer.de https://lists.fit.fraunhofer.de/mailman/listinfo/comtech

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always knew I lacked couth
by Barry Wellman 24 Apr '13

24 Apr '13

I have -- and will continue to -- post to 2 or 3 lists simultaneously, when there is something of interest to them. Usually it is AoIR and CITASA. And no need to apologize for cross-posting. These are multiple not toally overlapping readerships. Barry Wellman _______________________________________________________________________ S.D. Clark Professor of Sociology, FRSC NetLab Director Department of Sociology 725 Spadina Avenue, Room 388 University of Toronto Toronto Canada M5S 2J4 twitter:@barrywellman http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman fax:+1-416-978-3963 NETWORKED:The New Social Operating System. Lee Rainie & Barry Wellman MIT Press http://amzn.to/zXZg39 Print $20 Kindle $16 Old/newCybertimes http://bit.ly/c8N9V8 It's still rock & roll to me ________________________________________________________________________

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AoIR Executive Committee Elections
by Kendall, Lori 24 Apr '13

24 Apr '13

Dear all, I am pleased to announce that AoIR has now commenced the process of electing a new Executive Committee to take office in October of this year and serve until October 2015. We are seeking nominations for the new executive. I also note that voting for your executive committee is one of the privileges of membership in AoIR. This is one of the ways you can shape the organization. So if you have let your membership lapse or have not yet signed up, now would be a great time to join AoIR! Here is an overview of the election timeline, procedures and positions for nomination, as determined by the Association's by-laws. This year we will be handling voting through an election management site, and voting instructions will be provided later. Below in this email, you will find: A. Time frame of the election. B. Description of the AoIR governance system and of the elected positions. C. Nominations and Elections Processes. And D. Questions for Candidates. A. Time Frame of the Election: 1. Call for Nominations: opens April 25, 2013. 2. Nominations close for all positions (4 officer positions and 3 open seats) May 8, 2013. 3. Candidate information will be made available to AoIR members on aoir.org and will be sent to air-l. 4. Voting begins May 22, 2013 at the balloting site. (Details for accessing this site will be sent in a later email.) 5. Voting ends May 31, 2013. The new committee is formally announced and assumes its duties at the end of the Annual General Meeting during the AoIR conference, 23-26 October 2013. B. AoIR Governance and Description of Elected Positions: The organizational structure of AoIR is simple. There are 5 officers (President, Vice President, Secretary, Treasurer, and Graduate Student representative). The 9-member Executive Committee consists of these officers, plus the Past President and 3 open seat representatives. Elected officials hold their positions for two years. After two years, the Vice President becomes President. In this election, nominations are invited for Vice President, Secretary, Treasurer, Graduate Student representative, and 3 open seats. You may nominate yourself or someone else you think would do a good job. Details on the nomination procedure follow below. Here are brief descriptions of positions: President: Acts as "CEO" and supervises the organization. The President’s duties include serving as part of the Conference Committee. This position is not directly elected, as the Vice President becomes President after two years. Vice President: "Back up" for President, performing various duties as they arise; becomes President after 2 years. The Vice President also serves on the Conference Committee. Secretary: Handles records and membership matters. Treasurer: Liaises with Secretary to maintain membership records; takes care of financial and related administrative duties (e.g., annual report to membership and U.S. tax authorities), including close attention to the annual Internet Research (IR) conference budget. The Treasurer serves on the Conference Committee. Graduate Student Representative: Responsible for running graduate student activities. The Graduate Student Representative must be actively enrolled in a degree program at the time of nomination and election. All members can vote for the grad student representative. Open Committee Seats: Three open Seats on the Executive Committee represent membership of AoIR, and contribute to decision-making. Immediate Past President: Serves on the Executive Committee. More information can be found in the AoIR Bylaws: http://aoir.org/about/bylaws-statements-and-policies/bylaws/ Candidates should familiarize themselves with the duties laid out in the Bylaws. I also encourage persons interested in running for a specific position to contact the current office-holder(s) with any specific questions, etc. C. Nominations and Elections Processes. Only a member of AoIR can run for a position, nominated by anyone. If nominated for more than one position a nominee must choose to run for one (and only one) position in this election. You may nominate yourself or another person (or people). Self Nominations: Email AoIR Secretary Catherine Middleton <catherine.middleton at ryerson.ca> and indicate the position for which you are nominating yourself. Please provide, in your nomination email a short candidate statement addressing the questions below. Nominating Others: Email AoIR Secretary Catherine Middleton <catherine.middleton at ryerson.ca> with the name of the person you want to nominate, the position for which you are nominating this person, contact information for that person, and an indication of whether you know if this person would accept this nomination. (If you don't know, we'll contact them and ask). All candidates for election will be required to provide answers to the questions listed at the end of this email, have the answers posted to the AoIR election forum website, and participate in an online candidate forum. In addition the Graduate Student candidates must confirm in their response that they comply with the by-laws: The Graduate Student Representative must be actively enrolled in a degree program at the time of nomination and election. The voting system used by AoIR is one vote per member for each of the eight positions for election listed above. Votes will be tallied using a balloting software site. In the case of the four directly elected officers, the candidate with the highest number of votes shall be declared the winner; in the case of the open seats, the three candidates with the highest, second-highest and third highest votes shall be declared the winners of the open seats. In the case of tied results for the officer positions, the winner shall be determined by the ballot counters, by drawing of lots, using a method that ensures each of the tying candidates has an equal chance of success and witnessed by at least 1 person independent of the association. In the case of tied results for the open seat positions, the drawing of lots shall be used only when there are more tied candidates than seats available. D. Questions for Candidates: 1. What are your qualifications for this position (including prior experience and participation in AoIR)? 2. Please describe two or three short-term goals you would like to achieve through membership on the executive (including a rationale for each and how you would contribute to their achievement). 3. What is your long-term vision for AoIR? 4. What else should voters consider when deciding whether or not to vote for you? In answering the questions, please be concise and give information specific to the position for which you are nominating and which will permit voters to assess your case for election to that position. In closing - please consider contributing your time and energy to making AoIR even better in the upcoming years! Many thanks in advance to all who will consider running and serving AoIR in this way. Lori Kendall Vice President, AoIR ______________________

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Reminder: Associate professor in web technologies, Gjøvik University College, Norway
by Anders Sundnes Løvlie 24 Apr '13

24 Apr '13

A position is available for associate professor/assitant professor in the field of web development at Gjøvik University College. The application deadline is 30 April. See below for details. Best regards, Anders Sundnes Løvlie Gjøvik University College http://hig.easycruit.com/vacancy/958977/42360?iso=gb ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR IN WEB TECHNOLOGIES The Media Technology Lab is looking for a new member with teaching and research ambitions in the areas of Media Studies, Computer Science, Interaction Design or related disciplines. The successful candidate should have broad experience with development of web solutions and mobile solutions and will teach web design, programming for the web and web development for mobile media. Competence in the areas of media history and media studies, research methods and design methods is also desired. Applicants should express themselves well in English, both in writing and in speaking. While the successful candidate should have formal pedagogical competence, arrangements can be made for achieving this after having taken up the position. We invite applications for a full-time position at the rank of Associate Professor. However, exceptional applications will be considered for all ranks. We are an equal opportunity employer and encourage women to apply. Applications should be submitted with all attachments electronically by April 30, 2013. at:english.hig.no/about/vacancies. Candidates should submit a letter of application, curriculum vitae including a full list of publications, at least two references, and statements of research interests and teaching objectives. Documents submitted with the application are not returned. Salary is competitive and negotiated when a job offer is given. The rank, remuneration and professional development plan for the position are dependent on the formal and personal qualifications of the successful candidate. For the rank of Associate Professor, the position is placed in occupation code 1011, for Professor, 1013. Questions are directed to the head of the Media Technology Lab, Terje Stafseng, terje.stafseng(a)hig.no, or to the study program administrator, Anders S. Løvlie anders.lovlie(a)hig.no. About GUC: Gjøvik University College has approx. 3,000 students and 320 employees from more than 25 different countries. Student numbers have increased by 43% since 2006. The University College is organised according to subject areas; the Faculty of Health, Care and Nursing, the Faculty of Computer Science and Media Technology and the Faculty of Technology, Economics and Management. The College offers a wide range of Bachelor and Masters degrees, as well as doctorate programmes in Information Security and Computer Science, and a wide range of continuing education courses. The University College values and emphasises being connected and dynamic, close to the students and working life, and dynamic in its education nationally and internationally. Gjøvik is a lovely town in picturesque surroundings alongside the western bank of Lake Mjøsa. Gjøvik and the immediate region, with a population of approx.70,000, is well-known for its enterprise in industry and its rich cultural life. The University College is located in central Gjøvik. The University College has been awarded for being a good employer. Gjøvik is approx. 2 hours drive from Oslo, 1.5 hours drive from Gardermoen International Airport and 40 minutes from the inland towns of Lillehammer and Hamar. _______________________________________________ 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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Fwd: [Asis-l] Doing research on Social Media and/or Online Communities?
by Haythornthwaite, Caroline 24 Apr '13

24 Apr '13

Begin forwarded message: From: Anatoliy Gruzd <agruzd(a)gmail.com<mailto:agruzd@gmail.com>> Date: April 23, 2013 3:38:08 PM PDT To: <asis-l(a)asis.org<mailto:asis-l@asis.org>> Subject: [Asis-l] Doing research on Social Media and/or Online Communities? Calling all Social Media and Online Communities Researchers! Please consider submitting your paper to one or more of the CFPs below. Deadlines are fast approaching. Please contact Anatoliy Gruzd <gruzd(a)dal.ca<mailto:gruzd@dal.ca>> if you have any questions about these calls. ******************************************* (1) American Behavioral Scientist – Special Issue on Measuring Influence in Social Media Editors: Anatoliy Gruzd (Dalhousie University), Barry Wellman (University of Toronto) Papers Due: April 30, 2013 More info: http://socialmedialab.ca/?page_id=7645 (2) International Conference on Social Media and Society (#SMSociety13) Location: Halifax, NS, Canada When: September 14-15, 2013 Paper Abstracts/Panel Proposals Due: May 1, 2013 Poster Abstracts Due: May 30, 2013 More info: http://SocialMediaAndSociety.com/ (3) Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS) Minitracks (2): Social Networking & Community | Social Media & Learning, Location: Big Island, Hawaii, USA When: January 6-9, 2014 Papers Due: June 15, 2013 More info: http://haythorn.wordpress.com/hicss-minitracks-cfp/ ******************************************* ________________________________________ Asis-l mailing list Asis-l(a)asis.org<mailto:Asis-l@asis.org> http://mail.asis.org/mailman/listinfo/asis-l

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ECSCW 2013 Workshops and Master Classes Program, Paphos, Cyprus, September 21-22, 2013
by Matthias Korn 24 Apr '13

24 Apr '13

::: ECSCW 2013 ::: Call for Workshop submissions and Master Class applications The 13th European Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work (ECSCW 2013) Paphos, Cyprus, September 21-25, 2013. https://ecscw2013.cs.ucy.ac.cy/index.php?p=Workshops Workshops and Master Classes will be held on Saturday 21 - Sunday 22 September. Workshops submission deadline: June 28, 2013 It is our pleasure to announce the ECSCW 2013 pre-conference program. ECSCW 2013 will feature 9 workshops and 1 master class covering a wide range of topics and formats. A list of the accepted workshops is appended to this email. The full details of the program are available on the ECSCW 2013 web site: https://ecscw2013.cs.ucy.ac.cy/index.php?p=Workshops We are looking forward to seeing you at ECSCW and to participating in the exciting program that we were able to put together for ECSCW 2013. Matthias Korn Pär-Ola Zander ECSCW 2013 Workshops and Master Classes Co-Chairs MC1: Half-Day Master Class: Co-producing assisted living technologies and services Rob Procter, Joe Wherton, Trish Greenhalgh, Paul Sugarhood, Mark Rouncefield, Guy Dewsbury In this master class, we develop and expand on themes concerning the challenges of understanding the assisted living needs of older people in domestic settings, and methods for involving them and their carers in the co-production of assisted living technologies and services. It has the overall objective of developing an understanding and appreciation of the benefits and the various practical issues involved in facilitating a ‘bricolage’ approach to the dependable co-production of assisted living technologies. Website: http://www.atheneproject.org WS1: Participatory Publics: Civic technology and local communities Olav W. Bertelsen, Susanne Bødker, Martin Brynskov, Christopher A. Le Dantec, Anne Marie Kanstrup, Volkmar Pipek New forms of community technologies are focused on supporting local, geographically connected communities directly through neighborhoods and civic activity. The workshop will address the following questions: What constitutes participation in community settings and how is it supported/augmented through IT? How do we understand the relationships between participation, community and technology in these (emerging) settings? It will be based on examples of technology supported participatory publics brought to the workshop by participants. Website: http://pit.au.dk/ws1_ecscw2013 WS2: CSCW at the Boundary of Work and Life Luigina Ciolfi, Gabriela Avram, Erik Grönvall, Chiara Rossitto, Louise Barkhuus This workshop will explore how CSCW themes, concepts and sensibilities can be extended and applied to practices blurring the boundary between work and life. Technology has moved from workplaces to become part of nearly every aspect of everyday life. Similarly, CSCW research spans not only work settings and practices, but also other life domains, from family life, to gaming, tourism and other leisure activities. However, the neat distinction between which activities are work-related and which are not is becoming less and less meaningful as often the spheres of work and life blur into each other. Similarly, the use of technology is not limited to specific work vs. non-work situations. This workshop will discuss how to look at this blurring of practices, spheres of life and expectations: is it a problematic issue that should be addressed, or a new way of working and living that people are increasingly embracing? How do people coordinate and interact when work tasks, personal tasks and leisure tasks blur into each other, and how to support/facilitate/mediate this through design? Website: http://cscwworkandlife.wordpress.com/ WS3: MoRoCo – Models and their Role in Collaboration Alexander Nolte, Michael Prilla, Peter Rittgen, Stefan Oppl Using visual representations (models) of work or business processes can be considered a common practice in modern organizations. They are used to document current practices, to inform people about processes and to plan change or software development. As they include and affect multiple stakeholders, it has been found reasonable to develop and use them collaboratively to negotiate or coordinate work practice. In practice, however, models are seldom used or developed collaboratively, resulting in low impact of models and stakeholders in them on organizational development and change. Given the potential of collaborative work on models, we need a better understanding on how they can be developed and used collaboratively in order to leverage their role as artifacts of collaborative work in practice. The MoRoCo 2013 workshop focuses thus on collaborative work with and development of models. It aims at build a big picture of research on the role that models play in collaborative work in order to set up a common research agenda among participating researchers and practitioners alike. The workshop is a follow up to the workshop on "Collaborative usage and development of models and visualization" held at ECSCW 2011 (proceedings are available online at http://ftp.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/Publications/CEUR-WS/Vol-777/) which resulted in a special issue of the International Journal for eCollaboration (2013, in press). For this workshop the organizers are planning a similar course of events. Website: http://moroco2013.wordpress.com WS4: Francophone Ergonomics and CSCW – a comparative analysis Françoise Darses, Pascal Salembier, Kjeld Schmidt, Ina Wagner The Francophone tradition of work analysis, with its rich repertoire of field studies, various forms of analysis, and conceptual frameworks, provides a very interesting perspective on forms of work activity. Although this perspective has been present for many years in ECSCW conferences and in the CSCW Journal, it has remained relatively isolated from the mainstream discussion within CSCW. The objective of the proposed workshop is to start an in-depth discussion of Francophone ergonomics and its conceptual and methodological contributions to CSCW research. Website: https://sites.google.com/site/workshopcscwfrancoergo/home WS5: Designing Mobile Face-to-Face Group Interactions Joel Fischer, Stuart Reeves, Steve Benford, Chris Greenhalgh This workshop is concerned with understanding the nature of face-to-face group interactions in mobile, but collocated settings. It seeks to examine group-sensitive design examples, concepts and techniques, research methods and approaches to study group activities, and to learn how these social activities might be respected and supported by design. We aim to bring together researchers interested in the social organisation of face-to-face interaction, and designers of collaborative groupware and mobile, interactive experiences to explore opportunities and challenges for the design and study of experiences, apps and systems that support, augment or enable collocated activities. Website: http://groupinteractions.wordpress.com/ WS6: Web2Touch (W2T’13): Coping with the evolution and security of shared Web information Rodrigo Bonacin, Mariagrazia Fugini, Olga Nabuco, Cédric Pruski Collaboration using the Web introduces special challenges when content needs to be consistent and reliable over time and under rapid evolution of contents resulting from collaboration activities. The development of collaborative Web-based environments is an open issue particularly on the topics of organization and management of shared information in a reliable and secure manner. Semantic Web techniques have been extensively used to address problems of knowledge management and sharing over the Web during the highly dynamic life of cooperative applications. The focus till now has been mainly on static knowledge organization; however the next generation of semantic techniques will have to face evolving knowledge organization and will need to cope with security, trust, reliability of what is exchanged in the Web. The goal of the W2T workshop is to provide a venue for researchers and practitioners within the field of secure and knowledge-intensive Web collaboration using semantic techniques to share experiences, discuss challenges and opportunities to cope with frequent evolution of knowledge during cooperative processes based on the Web as a collaborative platform. W2T focuses also on security of highly evolutive knowledge during collaborative processes. W2T brings together applications, conceptual models and methods to provide a multidisciplinary view of the application of Knowledge Organization Systems (KOS) and of security techniques in the CSCW field. Website: http://www.cti.gov.br/web2touch2013 WS7: EC-TEL meets ECSCW - Workshop on Collaborative Technologies for Working and Learning Monica Divitini, Tobias Ley, Stefanie Lindstaedt, Viktoria Pammer, Michael Prilla This workshop explores the potential of collaborative technologies that are embedded in workplaces and practices, and which contribute to and help to scale learning on the individual, group or organisational levels. This includes particularly learning in informal, dynamic and naturalistic settings where learning often is a by-product of work. With this workshop, we intend to bring together the European communities of technology-enhanced learning, which meets at EC-TEL 2013 – The European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning, and of computer-supported cooperative work, which meets at ECSCW 2013 – The European Conference on Computer-supported Cooperative Work. Website: http://know-center.tugraz.at/ectel-meets-ecscw-2013/ WS8: Designing with Users for Domestic Environments: Methods - Challenges - Lessons Learned Corinna Ogonowski, Benedikt Ley, David Randall, Mu Mu, Nicholas Race, Mark Rouncefield When developing new ICT systems and applications for domestic environments rich qualitative approaches improve the understanding of the users integral usage of technology in their daily routines and provide methods for long-term user involvement to inform the design process. However, this kind of research has to deal with methodological, technical and organisational challenges for the study design and its underlying cooperation processes. The workshop wishes to identify practical challenges of long-term user involvement, discuss best practice and develop a roadmap for sustainable relationships for design with users. Website: https://socialmedia-community.de/ecscw13_ws/ WS9: Backchannels and live participation tools: Current state and next steps forward Matti Nelimarkka, Anders Mørch, Kai Kuikkaniemi, Marcus Specht, Teemu Leinonen, Participation tools, such as audience response systems, Twitter-walls or custom- tailored software systems, are used to enhance lectures, meetings and conferences. The principal idea behind these tools is to give voice and engage the audience e.g. in information sharing, summarization, and multiple points of views. Previous studies in this domain include case descriptions and studies, where the use of participation tools have been described and analyzed, using various methods and theoretical positions. The aim of this workshop is to gather this diverse research domain, from scholars specialized in learning sciences to human-computer interaction researchers, for one day to examine this multidisciplinary phenomenon. Website: (tba) -- Matthias Korn, PhD (cand.), Postdoc Center for Participatory IT and Department of Computer Science, Aarhus University Phone: +45 871 56157 Mobile: +45 6172 6248 Office: Ada-126 Mail: mkorn(a)cs.au.dk Twitter: @matsch_o0 Web: http://cs.au.dk/~mkorn/

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