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(with apologies) online access to my work
by Julie Cohen 24 Jun '13

24 Jun '13

Dear Colleagues, Apologies for the advertisement, but if you have linked to any of my online papers via my Georgetown web page, I want to let you know that Georgetown is discontinuing support for faculty personal web pages as of June 30 and those links likely will break. Everything can now be accessed via www.juliecohen.com<http://www.juliecohen.com> (though some of the links then go back to the "scholarly commons" maintained by our library; don't ask...). Cheers, Julie Julie E. Cohen Professor of Law Georgetown University Law Center jec(a)law.georgetown.edu http://www.juliecohen.com

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cfp: 6th international Surveillance & Society conference, 2014
by Nils Zurawski 24 Jun '13

24 Jun '13

Dear list, this is an announcement for the cfp for the 6th international Surveillance & Society conference hosted by the University of Barcelona and supported by the Surveillance Studies Network. Thursday 24th - Friday 25th April 2014 in Barcelona best nilz ---------------------cfp-------------------------- SSN 2014: Surveillance Ambiguities & Assymetries CALL FOR REGISTRATION OF INTEREST AND ABSTRACTS Contemporary surveillance is characterised by ambiguities and asymmetries. Surveillance results from different desires and rationales: control, governance, security, profit, efficiency but also care, empowerment, resistance, and play. Furthermore it can have both positive and negative outcomes for individuals and these may lead to intended or unintended consequences. Surveillance is never neutral. Surveillance is always about power and that power is increasingly asymmetric. Surveillance practices are also changing and as 'smart' surveillance systems proliferate utilising and generating 'Big Data' new forms of ambiguity and asymmetry arise. In this context the conference wishes to explore the following key themes: KEY THEMES INCLUDE Smart surveillance Democracy and surveillance Resilience and surveillance Cultures and histories of surveillance Representations of Surveillance in Film/Art/Literature/Media Surveillance and empowerment Surveillance and human rights Surveillance in knowledge economies Regulating surveillance Surveillance, privacy and data-protection Participatory surveillance and police surveillance of online social networks Surveillance, games and play Theories of surveillance Ethics of surveillance Gender and surveillance Algorithmic surveillance Politics and governance of surveillance Surveillance and big data STS approaches to surveillance Surveillance and sports Resistance to surveillance Non-technological surveillance Surveillance and mobility IMPORTANT DATES 31 May 2013 First call for papers and intent issued 31 July 2013 Deadline for initial register of interest, name, title, contact details etc by email to ssn2014barcelona(a)surveillance-studies.net 25 September 2013 1st deadline submission of abstracts 30 September 2013 Electronic booking form available - formal registration and payment 22 November 2013 Notification to participants about decisions on abstracts 25 March 2014 Submission full papers 25 March 2014 Final Deadline for registration and payment for all conference attendees without late booking surcharge 7 April 2014 Papers published on Web available to all registered conference attendees 24-25 April 2014 Conference REGISTRATION INSTRUCTIONS If you wish to present a paper or just attend without presenting, please register with the conference by sending an email to ssn2014barcelona(a)surveillance-studies.net as soon as possible before the 31st of July. Please title the Email "SSN Barcelona 2014" and include the following information: o Name o Country of residence o Institutional affiliation o Institutional address o Telephone number o Email address For paper givers a 300 word abstract will be required by 25 September 2013 and can be submitted on the following website: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ssn2014barcelona You can find thefull call in English and Spanish here: http://www.surveillance-studies.net/documents/cfp_SSN2014_Barcelona_final.p… <http://www.surveillance-studies.net/documents/cfp_SSN2014_Barcelona_final.d…>http://www.surveillance-studies.net/documents/cfp_SSN2014_Barcelona_final.d… -- Dr. habil. Nils Zurawski Universität Hamburg Inst. für kriminologische Sozialforschung Allende-Platz 1 20146 Hamburg Germany tel. +49 (0) 40 42838 2199 / 7421 (AB) fax. +49 (0) 40 42838 2328 http://www.surveillance-studies.org/blog

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Have you taught a MOOC?
by alicetiara 24 Jun '13

24 Jun '13

Hi, I'm looking to talk to anyone who has taught a MOOC (is currently, will be teaching this fall, etc.). Please email me offlist at amarwick(a)gmail.com Thanks! -- Alice E. Marwick, PhD Assistant Professor Department of Communication and Media Studies Fordham University (718) 817-4861 amarwick(a)gmail.com <amarwick(a)fordham.edu> http://www.tiara.org <mediarelations(a)wellesley.edu>

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Contents of Vol. 11, No. 2 of International Journal of Distance Education Technologies (IJDET, an EI journal)
by Maiga Chang 23 Jun '13

23 Jun '13

[Apologies if you receive multiple times, please circulate this to your colleagues who might be interested, thank you so much.] [This email includes the table of contents of Vol. 11, No. 2 of International Journal of Distance Education Technologies (IJDET, an EI journal) and the general call for papers of IJDET] ------- Annoucement of the publication of Vol. 11, No. 2 of IJDET (an EI journal)----------- http://www.igi-global.com/journal/international-journal-distance-education-… We are glad to announce the publication of Vol. 11, No. 2 of International Journal of Distance Education Technologies (IJDET, an EI journal). In this issue, SIX papers are included: Recognizing Student Emotions using Brainwaves and Mouse Behavior Data(pages 1-15) Judith Azcarraga, and Merlin Teodosia Suarez Brainwaves (EEG signals) and mouse behavior information are shown to be useful in predicting academic emotions, such as confidence, excitement, frustration and interest. Twenty five college students were asked to use the Aplusix math learning software while their brainwaves signals and mouse behavior (number of clicks, duration of each click, distance traveled by the mouse) were automatically being captured. It is shown that by combining the extracted features from EEG signals with data representing mouse click behavior, the accuracy in predicting academic emotions substantially increases compared to using only features extracted from EEG signals or just mouse behavior alone. Furthermore, experiments were conducted to assess the prediction accuracy of the system at points during the learning session where several of the extracted features significantly deviate in value from their mean. The experiments confirm that the prediction performance increases as the number of feature values that deviate significantly from the mean increases. http://www.igi-global.com/article/recognizing-student-emotions-using-brainw… Towards Computational Fronesis: Verifying Contextual Appropriateness of Emotions (pages 16-47) Michal Ptaszynski, Pawel Dybala, Michal Mazur, Rafal Rzepka, Kenji Araki, and Yoshio Momouchi This paper presents research in Contextual Affect Analysis (CAA) for the need of future application in intelligent agents, such as conversational agents or artificial tutors. The authors propose a new term, Computational Fronesis (CF), to embrace the tasks included in CAA applied to development of conversational agents such as artificial tutors. In tutor-student discourse it is crucial that the artificial tutor was able not only to detect user/student emotions, but also to verify toward whom they were directed and whether they were appropriate for the context of the conversation. Therefore, as the first task in CF the authors focus on verification of contextual appropriateness of emotions. They performed some of the first experiments in this task for the Japanese language and discuss future directions in development and implications of Computational Fronesis. http://www.igi-global.com/article/towards-computational-fronesis/77839 Towards a Semantic-Based Approach for Affect and Metaphor Detection (pages 48-65) Li Zhang, and John Barnden Affect detection from open-ended virtual improvisational contexts is a challenging task. To achieve this research goal, the authors developed an intelligent agent which was able to engage in virtual improvisation and perform sentence-level affect detection from user inputs. This affect detection development was efficient for the improvisational inputs with strong emotional indicators. However, it can also be fooled by the diversity of emotional expressions such as expressions with weak or no affect indicators or metaphorical affective inputs. Moreover, since the improvisation often involves multi-party conversations with several threads of discussions happening simultaneously, the previous development was unable to identify the different discussion contexts and the most intended audiences to inform affect detection. Therefore, in this paper, the authors employ latent semantic analysis to find the underlying semantic structures of the emotional expressions and identify topic themes and target audiences especially for those inputs without strong affect indicators to improve affect detection performance. They also discuss how such semantic interpretation of dialog contexts is used to identify metaphorical phenomena. Initial exploration on affect detection from gestures is also discussed to interpret users’ experience of using the system and provide an extra channel to detect affect embedded in the virtual improvisation. Their work contributes to the journal themes on affect sensing from text, semantic-based dialogue processing and emotional gesture recognition. http://www.igi-global.com/article/towards-semantic-based-approach-affect/77… Using Emotional Intelligence in Training Crisis Managers: The Pandora Approach(pages 66-95) Lachlan Mackinnon, Liz Bacon, Gabriella Cortellessa, and Amedeo Cesta Multi-agency crisis management represents one of the most complex of real-world situations, requiring rapid negotiation and decision-making under extreme pressure. However, the training offered to strategic planners, called Gold Commanders, does not place them under any such pressure. It takes the form of paper-based, table-top exercises, or expensive, real-world, limited-scope simulations. The Pandora project has developed a rich multimedia training environment for Gold Commanders, based on a crisis scenario, timeline-based, event network, with which the trainees and their trainer interact dynamically. Pandora uses the emotional intelligence of the trainees, through a behavioural modelling component, to support group dynamic and decision-making. It applies systemic emotional intelligence, based on inferred user state and rule-based affective inputs, to impact the stress levels of the trainees. Pandora can impose variable stress on trainees, to impact their decision-making, and model their behaviour and performance under stress, potentially resulting in more effective and realisable strategies. http://www.igi-global.com/article/using-emotional-intelligence-training-cri… Affective Realism of Animated Films in the Development of Simulation-Based Tutoring Systems (pages 96-109) Hiran B. Ekanayake, Uno Fors, Robert Ramberg, Tom Ziemke, Per Backlund, and Kamalanath P. Hewagamage This paper presents a study focused on comparing real actors based scenarios and animated characters based scenarios with respect to their similarity in evoking psychophysiological activity for certain events by measuring galvanic skin response (GSR). In the experiment, one group (n=11) watched the real actors’ film whereas another group (n=7) watched the animated film, which had the same story and dialogue as the real actors’ film. The results have shown that there is no significant difference in the skin conductance response (SCR) scores between the two groups; however, responses significantly differ when SCR amplitudes are taken into account. Moreover, Pearson’s correlation reported as high as over 80% correlation between the two groups’ SCRs for certain time intervals. The authors believe that this finding is of general importance for the domain of simulation-based tutoring systems in development of and decisions regarding use of animated characters based scenarios. http://www.igi-global.com/article/affective-realism-animated-films-developm… Words that Fascinate the Listener: Predicting Affective Ratings of On-Line Lectures(pages 110-123) Felix Weninger, Pascal Staudt, and Bjorn Schuller In a large scale study on 843 transcripts of Technology, Entertainment and Design (TED) talks, the authors address the relation between word usage and categorical affective ratings of lectures by a large group of internet users. Users rated the lectures by assigning one or more predefined tags which relate to the affective state evoked in the audience (e. g., ‘fascinating’, ‘funny’, ‘courageous’, ‘unconvincing’ or ‘long-winded’). By automatic classification experiments, they demonstrate the usefulness of linguistic features for predicting these subjective ratings. Extensive test runs are conducted to assess the influence of the classifier and feature selection, and individual linguistic features are evaluated with respect to their discriminative power. In the result, classification whether the frequency of a given tag is higher than on average can be performed most robustly for tags associated with positive valence, reaching up to 80.7% accuracy on unseen test data. http://www.igi-global.com/article/words-fascinate-listener/77843 ------- General Call for Papers for IJDET (an EI journal)----------- The electronic version of this cfp can be seen at http://maiga.athabascau.ca/editors/IJDET-Call_for_Papers-General.pdf International Journal of Distance Education Technologies (IJDET) (http://www.igi-global.com/journal/international-journal-distance-education-…) The International Journal of Distance Education Technologies (IJDET) is a forum for researchers and practitioners to disseminate practical solutions to the automation of open and distance learning. Targeted to academic researchers and engineers who work with distance learning programs and software systems, as well as general users of distance education technologies and methods, IJDET discusses computational methods, algorithms, implemented prototype systems, and applications of open and distance learning. All manuscripts submitted to the journal are peer-reviewed according to the procedure consisting of initial review, peer review, and recommendation Editor in Chief: Dr. Fuhua Lin (fuhua.o.lin(a)gmail.com) Executive Editor: Dr. Maiga Chang (maiga.chang(a)gmail.com) Indices: Compendex (Elsevier EI), DBLP, EBSCOhost, ERIC, Google Scholar, INSPEC, PsycINFOR, SCOPUS, and many others Suggested topics: IJDET is an EI journal and the scope of the journal includes, but is not limited to: - Assessment - Distance Learning for Culture and Arts - Intelligent and Adaptive Learning - Intelligent Agents and Multi-Agent Systems - Mobile Learning - Nurse Medical Healthcare - Pedagogical Issues - Social Learning - Serious Games for Distance Education - Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) Education - Technology Enhanced Learning - Ubiquitous Learning - Virtual Worlds for Distance Education Manuscript guidelines: All submissions have to follow IJDET manuscript guidelines at http://www.igi-global.com/publish/resources/journal-organization-and-format… http://www.igi-global.com/journals/guidelines-for-submission.aspx should be submitted online at http://www.ijdet.com/ after registering an account. Special Issue proposals: We also encourage potential research in any fields related to the journal to form a high quality guest editorial team to submit special issue proposal online, for any emerging, important, and hot topics. Please submit your special issue proposal online as a manuscript and choose "[Special Issue Proposal]" as its Section The special issue proposal sample can be downloaded at http://vip.is-very-good.org/editing/IJDET-Special_Issue_Proposal_Sample.doc For queries, please contact Dr. Maiga Chang (maiga.chang(a)gmail.com) ------------------------------------ Sincerely, Maiga Chang maiga.chang(a)gmail.com http://maiga.athabascau.ca 06, 23 '13 PM 01:37 in Edmonton --------------------------------- Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Technology for Education and Learning Executive Editor, International Journal of Distance Education Technologies (EI) Associate Editor, International Journal of Online Pedagogy and Course Design Learning Culture and Language through ICTs: Methods for Enhanced Instruction http://www.igi-global.com/reference/details.asp?ID=33419 ----------- Co-Chair of ICCE sub-conference on Digital Game and Digital Toy Enhanced Learning and Society (GTEL&S) http://icce2013bali.org/ Co-Chair of GCCCE sub-conference on Joyful Learning and Society http://www.gse.pku.edu.cn/gccce2013/gccceen.asp ----------- Guest Editor, Research and Practice in Technology Enhanced Learning Special Issue on Practical Applications of Mobile and Internet Educational Games http://www.apsce.net/Download/RPTEL-2012-SI5_PracticalEducationalGames_CFP.… Guest Editor, International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning (SSCI) Special Issue on Technology Enhanced Information Retrieval and Processing for Online Learning (Vol. 13, No. 5) http://www.irrodl.org/index.php/irrodl/issue/view/54 Guest Associate Editor, IEEE Technology and Engineering Education Special Issue on Cloud Computing Technology and Applications (Vol. 7, No. 2) http://www.ewh.ieee.org/soc/e/sac/itee/index.php/meem/article/viewFile/252/… http://www.ewh.ieee.org/soc/e/sac/itee/index.php/meem/issue/view/30 --------- School of Computing and Information Systems (http://scis.athabascau.ca/) Athabasca University 1200, 10011-109 Street Edmonton, T5J-3S8 AB, Canada --------------- Phone: +1-866-916-8646 Website: http://maiga.dnsalias.org and http://maiga.athabascau.ca CV: http://scis.athabascau.ca/scis/staff/faculty.jsp?id=maigac Leave me an Audio/Video message with JoinNet (required to install in Microsoft Windows OS first) http://meeting.athabascau.ca/gotomeeting.php?u=5&c=visit JoinNet software: http://www.homemeeting.com/en_US/download_joinnet.html

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Arts - a new issue by the Journal of Virtual Worlds
by Tzafnat Shpak 23 Jun '13

23 Jun '13

** [image: Journal of Virtual Worlds Research]<http://jvwresearch.us2.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=de4fa2a435382cb1fa67c…> We are happy to announce the new publication of The Journal of Virtual Worlds Research: *Volume 6, Number 2: Arts* The editorial team: - *Celeste Lovette Guichard, *Savannah College of Art and Design - *Laura Salciuviene, *Lancaster University Management School, UK - *Gary Hardee, *University of Texas at Dallas, TX, USA This issue on Arts and Virtual Worlds features six exciting papers from artists and scholars on a variety of topics, each investigating at least one art medium (though often more) and its relevance to and within virtual worlds. You will find papers about music, television, storytelling along side avatar designs, real world assemblages and more artistic processes. JVWR continues to encourage this diverse approach as we explore and expand our field. Managing Editor Corner - Achieving Arete: Being the Best You Can Be<http://jvwresearch.us2.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=de4fa2a435382cb1fa67c…> Yesha Y. Sivan Issue Editors' Corner - Introduction: Arts in Virtual Worlds<http://jvwresearch.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=de4fa2a435382cb1fa67cb…> Celeste Lovette Guichard Peer Reviewed Research Papers - Art Medium Too: Avatar, Art, and Assemblages<http://jvwresearch.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=de4fa2a435382cb1fa67cb…> Christine Liao - Kromosomer – an Experience in Shared Creative Work and Expression<http://jvwresearch.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=de4fa2a435382cb1fa67cb…> Heidi Dahlsveen, Catarina Carneiro de Sousa - Museum Discovery Institute: Girls Designing in Cyberspace<http://jvwresearch.us2.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=de4fa2a435382cb1fa67c…> Suzanne Kolodziej, Margaret Corbit, Jennifer Wofford - Ten Possible States in the Age of 3D3C Art: The Contil Case<http://jvwresearch.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=de4fa2a435382cb1fa67cb…> Yesha Y. Sivan, Ilana Salama-Ortar, Gary M. Hardee, Omer Kaspi - Virtual World Television Products and Practices: Comparing Television Production in Second Life to Traditional Television Production<http://jvwresearch.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=de4fa2a435382cb1fa67cb…> CarrieLynn D. Reinhard, Pooky Amsterdam - Content Management for the Live Music Industry in Virtual Worlds: Challenges and Opportunities<http://jvwresearch.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=de4fa2a435382cb1fa67cb…> Marco Lüthy, Jean-Julien Aucouturier We are also happy to let you know of the following: - We have canceled the proposed issue "Enterprises Welcome Virtual Worlds" due to lack of quality papers. Papers submitted for this issue will be moved to the Assembled line. - *A call for reviewers*<http://jvwresearch.us2.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=de4fa2a435382cb1fa67c…>: we welcome competent academicians & researchers to join us as members of the JVWR review team. Being a reviewer is a matter of prestige and achievement. The JVWR believes in the value and importance of the reviewers throughout the publication process. It is not only about bringing the individual paper to its best, but also about shaping the credibility and reputation of the journal as a leader in the evolving field of Virtual Worlds. If you are interested in becoming a peer-reviewer for the JVWR please contact us at info(a)jvwresearch.org<info(a)jvwresearch.org?subject=RE%3A%20Call%20for%20reviewers>. Please send your CV or a short resume and let us know what areas of interest you would be able to review. We are looking forward to hearing from you! - Check the summary of our ICIS 2012 Orlando workshop on Augmented Reality<http://jvwresearch.us2.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=de4fa2a435382cb1fa67c…> . - Our web site<http://jvwresearch.us2.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=de4fa2a435382cb1fa67c…>includes a special *page on <http://jvwresearch.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=de4fa2a435382cb1fa67cb…> *events<http://jvwresearch.us2.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=de4fa2a435382cb1fa67c…> * in our field<http://jvwresearch.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=de4fa2a435382cb1fa67cb…> *. - We have a special page that includes a cover view<http://jvwresearch.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=de4fa2a435382cb1fa67cb…>of all our past issues. - You are also welcome to join our Facebook<http://jvwresearch.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=de4fa2a435382cb1fa67cb…>page (TheJVWR) and/or subscribe to our mailing list (on the top left of http://www.jvwresearch.org) - You can follow our *twitter <http://jvwresearch.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=de4fa2a435382cb1fa67cb…> *@TheJVWR ). - Feel free to share this email with friends (but delete the lower part of the email or people may change your settings) You are all invited to participate (or present) at our meeting<http://jvwresearch.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=de4fa2a435382cb1fa67cb…> at *ICIS 2013 in Milan*. If you are interested in publishing a literature review on a particular area of Virtual Worlds, see our special Lantern issue, due to be published beginning of 2014. <http://jvwresearch.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=de4fa2a435382cb1fa67cb…> Enjoy your read. Thankfully, *Tzafnat Shpak* Coordinating Editor *Prof. Yesha Y. Sivan* Managing Editor TheJVWR - The Journal of Virtual Worlds Research http://jvwresearch.org<http://jvwresearch.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=de4fa2a435382cb1fa67cb…> [image: Arts issue cover Vol.6 No.2, 2013]<http://jvwresearch.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=de4fa2a435382cb1fa67cb…> © 2013 Journal of Virtual Worlds Research All rights reserved.

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CFP: Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication
by Lina Khatib 23 Jun '13

23 Jun '13

Call for Papers Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication Editors: Lina Khatib, Stanford University Tarik Sabry, University of Westminster Dina Matar, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London Gholam Khiabany, University of Sussex Reviews Editor: Sune Haugbolle, University of Roskilde The Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication, now in its sixth year, is a platform for interdisciplinary scholarly work that explores transformations in culture, communication, and politics in the Middle East and North Africa. The Journal aims to challenge the traditional paradigms used to understand media and the Middle East, seeing “communication” as extending beyond the study of media in the traditional sense. MEJCC welcomes contributions from international scholars engaged with the Middle East within various academic disciplines and using diverse approaches, whether as articles or reviews of films, books (including novels), and exhibitions. MEJCC is seeking papers critically addressing (though not exclusive to) the following: - the old and new media in all their forms (the broadcast media, the print media, electronic media, and film), whether in or about the Middle East - processes of communication in geographical space in the Middle East (including street art, posters and architecture) - popular culture in the Middle East - the relationship between the media and communication practices and political and social processes in the region - the cultural practices through which power is expressed and politics is performed. MEJCC is published by Brill three times a year (http://www.brill.com/middle-east-journal-culture-and-communication) We publish open issues and themed issues. Our latest themed issue this year was on youth cultures in North Africa. The forthcoming one (in the fall) will be about the performance of space in Palestine. Contributions are accepted on a rolling basis and should be original work which has neither been simultaneously submitted for publication elsewhere nor published previously (unless it’s a translation of work published in another language). Manuscripts should be submitted through Editorial Manager, which can be accessed via: http://www.editorialmanager.com/mjcc/ Informal queries can be addressed to the current managing editor Lina Khatib: lkhatib(a)stanford.edu

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Webology: Volume 10, Number 1, 2013
by Alireza Noruzi 23 Jun '13

23 Jun '13

Dear All, apologies for cross-posting. We are pleased to inform you that Vol. 10, No. 1 of Webology, an OPEN ACCESS bi-annual journal, is published and available ONLINE now. ------------------ Webology: Volume 10, Number 1, 2013 TOC: http://www.webology.org/2013/v10n1/toc.html This issue contains: ------------------------- Articles ------------------------- - Adult Friendships in the Facebook Era -- Kirsty Young -- Keywords: Online social networking; Facebook; Friendship; Online/offline relationships -- http://www.webology.org/2013/v10n1/a103.html - Freedom of information and abuse of media in the process of globalization -- Milan Palevic, and Srdjan Djordjevic -- Keywords: Freedom of expression; Freedom of speech; Media; Globalization -- http://www.webology.org/2013/v10n1/a104.html - Linked-OWL: A new approach for dynamic linked data service workflow composition -- Hussien Ahmad, and Salah Dowaji -- Keywords: Linked data; Linked Data Services; Dynamic Workflow; OWL-S; RDF; SPARQL -- http://www.webology.org/2013/v10n1/a105.html - Citation relations of theories of human information behaviour -- Hamid R. Jamali -- Keywords: Information behaviour; Information seeking behaviour; Theories; Citation analysis; Bibliographic coupling -- http://www.webology.org/2013/v10n1/a106.html - University networks in the context of their academic excellence and openness: A comparative study of leading Czech and German universities --Vladimir M. Moskovkin, Jason K. Fraser, and Maria V. Moskovkina -- Keywords: Multi-dimensional vector analysis; University networks; Czech universities; German universities; University ranking; Open access; Institutional repository -- http://www.webology.org/2013/v10n1/a107.html - Application of social network analysis in interlibrary loan services -- Ammar Jalalimanesh, and Seyyed Majid Yaghoubi -- Keywords: Interlibrary loan; Information services; Document delivery; Document supply; Interlending; Social network analysis; Iran -- http://www.webology.org/2013/v10n1/a108.html ------------------------- Book Review ------------------------- - Virtual Communities, Social Networks and Collaboration / Edited by Athina A. Lazakidou -- Elaheh Hosseini, & Mohammadamin Erfanmanesh -- Keywords: Virtual communities; Social media; Social networking; Social collaboration; Social awareness; Online communities; Knowledge sharing -- http://www.webology.org/2013/v10n1/bookreview23.html ------------------------- Call for Papers ------------------------- -- http://www.webology.org/callforpapers.html ================================== Best regards, Alireza -------------------- Editor-in-Chief of Webology: Alireza Noruzi, Ph.D. Publisher of Webology: Regional Information Center for Science and Technology (RICeST): http://www.srlst.com Website: http://www.webology.org ~ The great aim of Open Access journals is knowledge sharing. ~ ~ Scientific knowledge is the result of the knowledge sharing and exchange of experiences. ~

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AoIR 2013 Dissertation Award
by Kendall, Lori 22 Jun '13

22 Jun '13

In my earlier announcement of the AoIR 2013 Dissertation Award, I unfortunately misstated Yukari Seko's affiliation. Dr. Seko is a postdoc researcher at Social Aetiology of Mental Illness (SAMI) at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH), not at the University of Toronto, as previously stated. Lori

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Thanks to volunteers
by Caroline Haythornthwaite 20 Jun '13

20 Jun '13

As usual, the AoIR list comes through in force. Thanks to all who have volunteered for HICSS reviewing of the Social Networking and Communities minitrack. I think we're good for now on reviewers (an amazing 32 volunteers!). /Caroline, Karine & Anatoliy Caroline Haythornthwaite SLAIS, The iSchool at UBC c.haythorn(a)ubc.ca http://haythorn.wordpress.com/

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Webseminar of Nicole Dewandre
by Geert Lovink 20 Jun '13

20 Jun '13

From: Nicole.Dewandre(a)ec.europa.eu Dear all, The OnLife Manifesto webinar series continues this week tomorrow (Friday 21 June) 13:00 CET with a webinar with …me;-). https://ec.europa.eu/digital-agenda/en/onlife-manifesto During this 1 hour long webinar I will present, in a 20-30 min keynote speech, the rationale underlying the Onlife Initiative, the Manifesto and my personal proposal for a new approach to distinguish agents, artefacts and nature. https://ec.europa.eu/digital-agenda/futurium/en/content/onlife-webinar-nico… In this webinar, I will present the rationale underlying the Onlife Initiative and the Manifesto. I shall also present my own proposal for reclaiming the distinction between humans, artefacts and nature, or, more precisely between agents, artefacts and nature. This proposal is inspired by Hannah Arendt' work. I shall argue that the best criterion to distinguish agents, artefacts and nature lies in the "nature" of the interactions at stake much more than in the "nature" of the entities concerned. Thinking about humans as if they were machines undermines de facto any robust way to distinguish meaningfully humans from artefacts. So, paying more attention to what it means to consider an entity as an agent, or as an artefcat, or as part of nature is critical. This offers also a grounding for recognizing another distinction: that between control and orientation, and thereby take distance with the omniscient/omnipotent utopia and articulate freedom with responsibility, in an enlightened and confident perspective. There will also be an opportunity for webinar participants to chat and ask questions during the talk, all this from the comfort of your own computer: webinars take place entirely in an "online virtual room", that will be made accessible on the event page. The virtual room will be accessible on Friday June 21st, from 12:45 onwards, by clicking at https://asib-emea.adobeconnect.com/_a836107716/cnect-futurium (you are invited to register as guest). Looking forward to meeting you tomorrow in the virtual room. NICOLE DEWANDRE Advisor to the Director-General Societal Issues of the DAE European Commission Directorate General for Communications Networks, Content and Technology Postal address: BU25 4/121 B-1049 Brussels/Belgium Tel +32(0) 2 29 94925 Fax +32(0) 2 29 51464 nicole.dewandre(a)ec.europa.eu You can find here the videos of the previous webinars: Luciano Floridi Sarah Oates Jean-Gabriel Ganascia

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