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Fully-Funded PhD in Big Data with Concentration in Consumer Behavior in Virtual Communities
by Honglei Li 14 Mar '14

14 Mar '14

Dear Colleagues: Department of Mathematics and Information Sciences at Northumbria University is currently accepting applications for its fully-funded PhD Program in Information Sciences, which has concentration in Knowledge Discovery in Virtual Communities. For the application details, please check the following link: http://www.findaphd.com/search/ProjectDetails.aspx?PJID=53720&LID=2317 We are seeking a candidate with: · ---General knowledge on the area of marketing / information systems /information management / computer sciences or similar area · ---Data analysis skills, data mining skills are highly desired · ----- High interests in consumer behaviour and future technology trends Eligibility criteria: Applicants should hold a first or upper second class honours degree (in a relevant subject) from a British higher education institution, or equivalent. Students who are not UK/EU residents are eligible to apply, provided they hold the relevant academic qualifications, together with an IELTS score of at least 6.5. To apply, contact Karen Vacher to request the appropriate application form, quoting the advert reference above, via email to ee.pgradministration(a)northumbria.ac.uk<http://www.findaphd.com/search/EmailEnquiry.aspx?fapjid=53720&LID=2317&EA=e…> or by using the application link on this page. Regards, Honglei -- 李红蕾 -- Dr. Honglei Li -------------------------------------------------------- Senior Lecturer in Enterprise Information Systems School of Computing, Engineering, and Information Sciences Northumbria University Newcastle Upon Tyne NE1 8ST Phone: +44 091 243 7830 (O) +44 0787 2653330 (M) E-mail:HongleiLi@gmail.com; Honglei.Li(a)northumbria.ac.uk Homepage: http://www.northumbria.ac.uk/sd/academic/ceis/about/staff/honglei_li

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Reminder: CFP "Weber and the Digital Divide"
by Massimo Ragnedda 14 Mar '14

14 Mar '14

16 days left to submit an abstract for a Special Section on "Weber and the Digital Divide: Class, Status, and Power in the Digital Age" *Call for Proposed Abstracts for a Special Section on* *"Weber and the Digital Divide: Class, Status, and Power in the Digital Age"* *International Journal of Communication -** http://ijoc.org <http://ijoc.org/> * *Special Editors: Massimo Ragnedda, Northumbria Univ. **(UK) & Glenn W. Muschert, Miami Univ. (USA)* Much of the literature on stratification in the digital sphere (i.e., digital divides) has focused on the fundamental material relations of inequality present in the digital divide, often relying on Marxist/conflict schools of thought. To broaden the scope, the current project turns to Max Weber for new perspectives on stratification in the digital sphere. The project will stimulate scholarly exchange about how social stratification in the digital age is reproduced not only based on class dynamics (economic aspects), but also by status/prestige (cultural aspects), and in group affiliations (political aspects). Access to the economic means of production can indeed limit digital participation; however, Weber also posits that the process of stratification expresses itself in two other forms, namely "status" and "party." Potential contributors are invited to explore the importance of status and political influence in a liquid society, such as the importance of prestige in digital participation (or exclusion), or the influence of political affiliation upon digital divides. Papers may be theoretical and/or analytical in nature, and should examine digital divides in relation to dynamics social class (lifestyle and culture), social status (prestige and market influence), and/or power (political impact/legitimacy). Submissions are welcomed from scholars at all stages of their careers, and from various relevant disciplines (sociology, communications, media studies, etc.). Possible topics for articles include, but are not limited to: - Interplay among economic (class), cultural (status), and/or political (party) factors of digital divides. - The role of digital participation/exclusion on individual and/or group life chances. - The relevance of skills (digital literacy), certifications, and and legitimating credentials in digital divides. - The role of status and prestige hierarchies in digital participation/exclusion (or vice versa). - Cultural meanings (including religious and/or secular value systems) and digital divides. - Political life (i.e., power relations) and dynamics of digital inclusion/exclusion. - Bureaucratic/institutional relationships and digital divides. - Forms of rationality in the digital (e.g., *Zweckrationalität *vs. *Wertrationalität */ ends vs. means rationality). - The influence of worldview (*Weltanschauung) *on digital participation/exclusion. Submissions should be in the form of extended abstracts of around 750 words in MS Word, sent as an email attachment to Massimo Ragnedda ( ragnedda(a)gmail.com) and Glenn Muschert (muschegw(a)MiamiOH.edu) *The deadline for submissions is 1 April 2014. * Abstracts will be judged on criteria of relevance and originality of topic. Notification of initially-approved abstracts will be announced in mid-April, after which contributors will be asked to move forward to the peer-review submission phase. Contributions of 7000 words (maximum including abstract, footnotes, tables/figures with captions, references, and appendices, if any) *will be due 1 July 2014*. All submissions must adhere to APA (6th edition) formatting to include: - Any endnotes should be converted to footnotes. - Authors must include their profile, including affiliation and rank, when submitting a manuscript. - All articles should include an abstract of 150 words. - All articles must include a bibliography at the end that conforms to the most current APA style. - All spellings must be rendered in American English. To change British or Commonwealth spellings to their American equivalents, please see the *Merriam-Webster Unabridged Dictionary*. - Only one submission per author will be considered at a time. Contributions will be subject to double-blind peer review, and to encourage coherence in the special section, all contributors will be requested to act as a peer reviewer for at least one other article. After all necessary revisions and editing, the special section is scheduled to publish in 2015. -- Massimo Ragnedda Lecturer in Mass Communication Northumbria University (Newcastle, UK) mragnedda.wordpress.com http://notizie.tiscali.it/opinioni/Ragnedda/184/ skype: massimo.ragnedda http://northumbria.academia.edu/MassimoRagnedda Twitter: @massimoragnedda

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Digital Dilemmas launch w/ Appadurai @ Goldsmiths
by Feldman, Zinaida 14 Mar '14

14 Mar '14

Book Launch for Digital Dilemmas: Power, Resistance and the Internet (M.I. Franklin, Oxford University Press, 2013) M.I. Franklin in conversation with Arjun Appadurai (NYU), Noortje Marres (Goldsmiths) and David Morley (Goldsmiths) Time: 26 March 2014, 18:00 - 20:00 Location: Goldsmiths, New Cross, London - room LG01, New Academic Building Department: Media & Communications Arjun Appadurai (Paulette Goddard Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication, New York University, USA) will be guest speaker at this event to celebrate the UK release of Digital Dilemmas: Power, Resistance and the Internet, by M. I. Franklin (Oxford University Press, 2013). Appadurai will join Marianne Franklin (Goldsmiths, Media & Communications), Noortje Marres (Goldsmiths, Sociology) and David Morley (Goldsmiths, Media & Communications) Full details: http://www.gold.ac.uk/calendar/?id=7442 .... Zeena Feldman Centre for Cultural Policy and Management School of Arts and Social Sciences, City University London Northampton Square London EC1V 0HB United Kingdom +44 (0)75 1283 2058 (mobile) zinaida.feldman.1(a)city.ac.uk

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CfP: Downsacling Culture
by Dorottya Cserző 14 Mar '14

14 Mar '14

Dear colleagues, The Centre for Language and Communication Research at Cardiff University, in collaboration with the Department of Linguistics at the University of Delhi invite abstracts for papers and posters for an interdisciplinary conference with the theme: Downscaling Culture: Revisiting Intercultural Communication The event will take place on 18-19 September 2014 at Cardiff University, Wales, UK. Please find the full Call for Papers on the conference website<http://www.cardiff.ac.uk/encap/newsandevents/events/conferences/downscaling…>. With this programme we wish to update research on intercultural communication by broadening its empirical repository. Correspondingly, researchers who haven't worked with the concept of intercultural communication - or indeed who haven't worked with 'culture' - are invited to take a fresh look at their work. A conference volume of selected papers is planned, further information will follow during and after the conference. Abstracts (300 words) for papers and posters are invited until 30 April 2014. Acceptance will be communicated by 31 May 2014. To submit an abstract or for queries, please contact the organising committee at: downscalingculture(a)cardiff.ac.uk<mailto:downscalingculture@cardiff.ac.uk> Jaspal Singh, Argyro Kantara, Dorottya Cserző Further information will be available in due course on the website<http://www.cardiff.ac.uk/encap/newsandevents/events/conferences/downscaling…>. This conference is made possible through the ESRC Partnering Scheme<http://www.esrc.ac.uk/funding-and-guidance/postgraduates/esrc-students/othe…>.

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Call for Papers for Philosophy and Technology’s special issue on The Ethics of Cyber Conflicts
by Mariariosaria Taddeo 14 Mar '14

14 Mar '14

Dear Colleagues, Apologies for cross posting Call for Papers for Philosophy and Technology’s special issue on The Ethics of Cyber Conflicts GUEST EDITORS Ludovica Glorioso (NATO Cooperative Cyber Defense Centre of Excellence) INTRODUCTION In the age of the so-called information revolution, the ability to control, disrupt or manipulate the enemy’s information infrastructure has become as decisive as weapon superiority with respect to determining the outcome of conflicts. So much so that the Pentagon defines cyberspace as a new domain in which war is waged, alongside land, sea, air and space. Cyber conflicts, as part of a state’s defensive or offensive strategy, are a fast growing phenomenon, which is rapidly changing the dynamics of combat as well as the role that warfare plays in political negotiations and the life of civil societies. Such changes are not the exclusive concern of the military. They also have a significant bearing on ethicists and policymakers, since existing ethical theories of war, together with national and international regulations, struggle to address the novelties of this phenomenon. The issue could not be more pressing and there is a much felt and fast escalating need to share information and coordinate ethical theorising about cyber conflicts. This special issue of Springer’s Philosophy & Technology (http://www.springer.com/13347) follows the organization of the international workshop on Ethics of Cyber Conflict (http://www.ccdcoe.org/428.html) held on November 21-22, 2013 at the Centro Alti Studi per la Difesa (CASD) with the support of the NATO Cooperative Cyber Defense Centre of Excellence. TOPICS We solicit the submission of papers that investigate issues concerning the way ICTs are affecting our ethical views of conflicts and warfare, as well as the analysis of just-war principles in the light of the dissemination of cyber conflicts; humanitarian military interventions based on ICTs; whether preventive acts of cyber war may satisfy jus-ad-bellum criteria; challenges of upholding jus-in-bello standards in cyber warfare, especially in asymmetric conflicts; attribution and proportionality of the response to cyber attacks; moral permissibility of automated responses and ethical deployment of military robotic weapons. TIMETABLE April 1, 2014: Deadline papers submissions May 1, 2014: Deadline reviews papers June 1, 2014: Deadline revised papers 2015: Publication of the special issue SUBMISSION DETAILS To submit a paper for this special issue, authors should go to the journal’s Editorial Manager http://www.editorialmanager.com/phte/ The author (or a corresponding author for each submission in case of co- authored papers) must register into EM. The author must then select the special article type: "Special issue on The Ethics of Cyber Conflicts” from the selection provided in the submission process. This is needed in order to assign the submissions to the Guest Editors. Submissions will then be assessed according to the following procedure: New Submission => Journal Editorial Office => Guest Editor(s) => Reviewers => Reviewers’ Recommendations => Guest Editor(s)’ Recommendation => Editor-in-Chief’s Final Decision => Author Notification of the Decision. The process will be reiterated in case of requests for revisions. For any further information please contact: Ludovica Glorioso, ludovica.glorioso(a)ccdcoe.org -- Dr. Mariarosaria Taddeo Research Fellow in Cyber Security and Ethics, PAIS, University of Warwick Research Associate - Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, University of Oxford President, International Association for Computing and Philosophy http://rosariataddeo.net

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WEBCAST TODAY: "What is your car saying to your shoes? Assessing the Internet of Things"
by Joly MacFie 14 Mar '14

14 Mar '14

If you click though to the program<http://law.fordham.edu/center-on-law-and-information-policy/32535.htm>you'l see that this is a pretty effective stab at exploring the legal and policy implications of the approaching IoT explosion. Very happy that I was, at the last minute, able to arrange a webcast. All day today Friday. Direct to YouTube so easily reviewable later. joly posted: "Today Friday March 14 2014 ISOC-NY is happy to webcast the Eighth Law and Information Society Symposium live from Fordham School of Law. This year's event has the theme "What is your car saying to your shoes? Assessing the Internet of Things." It is prese" [image: Fordham Symposium on the Internet of Things]<http://law.fordham.edu/center-on-law-and-information-policy/32535.htm>Today Friday March 14 2014 ISOC-NY will webcast the Eighth Law and Information Society Symposium<http://law.fordham.edu/center-on-law-and-information-policy/32535.htm>live from Fordham School of Law. This year's event has the theme "*What is your car saying to your shoes? Assessing the Internet of Things.*" It is presented by the Fordham Center on Law and Information Polic<http://law.fordham.edu/center-on-law-and-information-policy/clip.htm>y (CLIP) and co-sponsored by the Princeton Center for Information Technology Policy <https://citp.princeton.edu/> (CITP). The "Internet of Things" is the term used to describe the networking of devices that have not traditionally been used to collect or process data. Internet connectivity and data collection mechanisms are being added to devices as diverse as pacemakers, athletic equipment, light bulbs, and coffee makers. As the networking of these devices becomes more prevalent in everyday life, legal and policy issues are now at the forefront of business and regulators' agendas. For example, the FTC and other government organizations have expressed concern over privacy, security, and even technological and financing considerations. This conference seeks to address these wide-ranging issues and explore the legal framework that can support innovation along with the protection of society. *What*: What is your car saying to your shoes? Assessing the Internet of Things.<http://law.fordham.edu/center-on-law-and-information-policy/32535.htm> *Where*: Fordham School of Law, NYC *When*: Friday March 14 2014 8:50am - 5.00pm EDT | 1250-2100 UTC *Webcast*: http://isoc-ny.org/p2/6380 *Twitter*: #IoT <https://twitter.com/search?q=%23IoT&f=realtime> | @FordhamCLIP <https://twitter.com/search?q=FordhamCLIP&f=realtime> | @PrincetonCITP <https://twitter.com/search?q=%23PrincetonCITP&f=realtime> Comment <http://isoc-ny.org/p2/6380#respond> See all comments<http://isoc-ny.org/p2/6380#comments> *Permalink* http://isoc-ny.org/p2/6380 -- --------------------------------------------------------------- Joly MacFie 218 565 9365 Skype:punkcast WWWhatsup NYC - http://wwwhatsup.com http://pinstand.com - http://punkcast.com VP (Admin) - ISOC-NY - http://isoc-ny.org -------------------------------------------------------------- -

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Registration for ISMI'14 - April 24, 25, University of Oslo - now open
by Charles Ess 14 Mar '14

14 Mar '14

Dear AoIRists, Registration for the 3rd International Symposium on Media Innovations (ISMI) - April 24 and 25 - is now open: <https://nettskjema.uio.no/answer/48233.html> There is no registration fee, but as space will be limited, registration for the event is required. ISMI brings together editors, producers, executives, and academics from around the world to explore innovation in the media industry. The Symposium is a small, but very intense conference that serves as a barometer for the state of media innovations. This year¹s symposium features three keynote speakers: Thor Gjermund Eriksen, Director General of NRK (the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation): "Conditions for Innovations in Public Broadcasting² Bjørn Taale Sandberg, Senior Vice President, Telenor Research: "Who will fund the media highway of the future?" -The (possible) need for new business models to avoid a tragedy of the commons. Steve Jones, Distinguished Professor, University of Illinois at Chicago: ³Living the Good Life: IT Innovations and Human Augmentics² ISMI is sponsored this year by the Centre for Research on Media Innovations, Department of Media and Communication, University of Oslo, and Telenor Group. Best papers from this year¹s Symposium will be featured in a special issue of the Journal of Media Innovations - <https://www.journals.uio.no/index.php/TJMI/> The Symposium will take place in the SmallTalk Auditorium, Ole-Johan Dahls hus, University of Oslo. Additional program and related information can be found on the ISMI website, <http://www.hf.uio.no/imk/english/research/center/media-innovations/events/ symposium2014.html> We look forward to welcoming you to Oslo and ISMI in April! Charles Ess 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/> Editor, The Journal of Media Innovations <https://www.journals.uio.no/index.php/TJMI/> University of Oslo P.O. Box 1093 Blindern NO-0317 Oslo Norway email: charles.ess(a)media.uio.no

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1 week left to submit to ACM Hypertext 2014
by Denis Parra 14 Mar '14

14 Mar '14

Apologies for cross-posting. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Hypertext 2014 - 25th ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media 1-4 Sept. 2014, Santiago, Chile http://ht.acm.org/ht2014/ Submissions via EasyChair: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ht14 Regular and short papers, posters: 21 March 2014 Workshop papers, doctoral consortium papers and late-breaking results: 23 May 2014 ---------------------------------------------------------------- The ACM Hypertext conference is a premium venue for high quality peer-reviewed research on hypertext theory, systems and applications. It is concerned with all aspects of modern hypertext research including social media, semantic web, dynamic and computed hypertext and hypermedia as well as narrative systems and applications. The ACM Hypertext 2014 conference will focus on the role of hypertext and hyperlink theory on the web and beyond, as a foundation for approaches and practices in the wider community - ranging from the usage of social media to the semantics of the 'Internet of Things'. We also welcome submissions that focus on the linguistic aspects of hypertextand user experience with linked entities, resources and events. Hypertext 2014 tracks ===================== - Links and Connections between People (chairs: Daniele Quercia, Johan Bollen) - Open Data and the Semantics of Things (chairs: Philippe Cudré-Mauroux, Mathieu d'Aquin) - User Experience and Adaptive Linking (chairs: Rosta Farzan, Vincent Wade) IMPORTANT DATES =============== Full paper submission: 21 March 2014. Workshop papers, doctoral consortium papers and late-breaking results: 23 May 2014. Submission instructions: See http://ht.acm.org/ht2014 ---------------------------------------------------------------- ORGANIZATION General chairs: Leo Ferres, Gustavo Rossi Program chairs: Virgilio de Almeida, Eelco Herder Workshop and tutorial chairs: Federica Cena, Christoph Trattner Poster and demo chairs: Carlos Castillo, Jill Freyne Student chairs: Julita Vassileva, Martin Atzmüller Local and publicity chair: Denis Parra Proceedings chair: Altigran Soares da Silva ---------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks, Denis Parra Assistant Profesor, Department of Computer Science School of Engineering Pontifical Catholic University of Chile +56 (2) 2354.4442 dparra(a)ing.puc.cl

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Fwd: symposium
by Lois Scheidt 13 Mar '14

13 Mar '14

For your consideration. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Paulus, Trena M <tpaulus(a)utk.edu> Date: Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 4:50 PM Subject: symposium To: "lscheidt(a)indiana.edu" <lscheidt(a)indiana.edu>, "Herring, Susan Catherine (herring(a)indiana.edu)" <herring(a)indiana.edu> Hi! Could you circulate this around IU and/or other organizations? Hope you are well! *International Symposium: MOOD-Y (Micro-Analysis Of Online Data in York)* *University of York, UK, 14-15 July, 2014.* The analysis of online social behaviours is a vital aspect of contemporary social science, and it is important that large-scale data analysis is complemented by the detailed, qualitative analysis of interaction processes. Through themed presentations of empirical research and methodological processes on the first day, as well as researcher-led collaborative data workshops on the second day, the MOOD-Y symposium will provide a space for developing the theory and methodology of interaction(al) analysis of online social behaviour. The symposium will be appropriate for a range of participants, from specialists in particular analytic perspectives (such as Conversation Analysis, multimodality, Critical Discourse Analysis and cognate areas) to qualitative researchers interested in developing their analytic skills in relation to online data. A substantial aim for the symposium is to further develop an already flourishing interdisciplinary and international network of scholars who share an interest in the analysis of online interactional processes. The symposium has four invited keynote speakers - Wyke Stommel, Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands - Trena Paulus, University of Tennessee, USA - Jessica Lester, Indiana University, USA - David Giles, The University of Winchester, UK *Call for papers and participation* We invite 200-500 word proposals for papers that address the qualitative, micro-analytic examination of online data in all its forms, including audio, video and other textual materials. The proposals may deal with either theoretical or methodological issues relating to this area, and may include the use of perspectives such as conversation analysis, forms of discourse analysis, multimodal analysis. Some indicative paper topics include: · Methods for studying interaction in social media (both synchronous and asynchronous) · Using techniques from conversation analysis, discourse analysis and other forms of interactional analysis to investigate online data · Challenges in applying methodologies developed for speech to the study of interaction through text, images and video · Developing methodologies for specific data formats (e.g. discussion threads; comment fields; music compositions; video contributions) · Use of new technologies for data collection, management, analysis and representation · Reports on the findings of an empirical study of online interaction · Discussion of the ethical issues of domain access and data gathering · The relevance of the online/offline divide for the study of online communities · Situating microanalytic techniques within broader research frameworks Proposals should be emailed in Word or PDF format to both Darren Reed ( darren.reed(a)york.ac.uk <Darren.reed(a)york.ac.uk>) and Will Gibson ( w.gibson(a)ioe.ac.uk) by the end of April 30th 2014. Proposals should include a title, a 200-500 word abstract, as well as the name, institutional affiliation, email address and contact telephone number of the presenter(s). If there is more than one author or presenter named on the abstract please indicate which is the correspondence author. The symposium will be hosted at the University of York and will be organised over two days with keynote presentations on each of the days. -- Lois Ann Scheidt Doctoral Candidate Department of Information & Library Science, School of Informatics & Computing Indiana University, Bloomington IN USA Webpage: http://www.loisscheidt.com CV: http://www.loisscheidt.com/cv.html Blog: http://www.professional-lurker.com

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Call for papers: Microanalysis Of Online Data Symposium, University of York, 14-15 July 2014
by Paulus, Trena M 13 Mar '14

13 Mar '14

International Symposium: MOOD-Y (Micro-Analysis Of Online Data in York) University of York, UK, 14-15 July, 2014. The analysis of online social behaviours is a vital aspect of contemporary social science, and it is important that large-scale data analysis is complemented by the detailed, qualitative analysis of interaction processes. Through themed presentations of empirical research and methodological processes on the first day, as well as researcher-led collaborative data workshops on the second day, the MOOD-Y symposium will provide a space for developing the theory and methodology of interaction(al) analysis of online social behaviour. The symposium will be appropriate for a range of participants, from specialists in particular analytic perspectives (such as Conversation Analysis, multimodality, Critical Discourse Analysis and cognate areas) to qualitative researchers interested in developing their analytic skills in relation to online data. A substantial aim for the symposium is to further develop an already flourishing interdisciplinary and international network of scholars who share an interest in the analysis of online interactional processes. The symposium has four invited keynote speakers - Wyke Stommel, Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands - Trena Paulus, University of Tennessee, USA - Jessica Lester, Indiana University, USA - David Giles, The University of Winchester, UK Call for papers and participation We invite 200-500 word proposals for papers that address the qualitative, micro-analytic examination of online data in all its forms, including audio, video and other textual materials. The proposals may deal with either theoretical or methodological issues relating to this area, and may include the use of perspectives such as conversation analysis, forms of discourse analysis, multimodal analysis. Some indicative paper topics include: * Methods for studying interaction in social media (both synchronous and asynchronous) * Using techniques from conversation analysis, discourse analysis and other forms of interactional analysis to investigate online data * Challenges in applying methodologies developed for speech to the study of interaction through text, images and video * Developing methodologies for specific data formats (e.g. discussion threads; comment fields; music compositions; video contributions) * Use of new technologies for data collection, management, analysis and representation * Reports on the findings of an empirical study of online interaction * Discussion of the ethical issues of domain access and data gathering * The relevance of the online/offline divide for the study of online communities * Situating microanalytic techniques within broader research frameworks Proposals should be emailed in Word or PDF format to both Darren Reed (darren.reed(a)york.ac.uk) and Will Gibson (w.gibson(a)ioe.ac.uk) by the end of April 30th 2014. Proposals should include a title, a 200-500 word abstract, as well as the name, institutional affiliation, email address and contact telephone number of the presenter(s). If there is more than one author or presenter named on the abstract please indicate which is the correspondence author. The symposium will be hosted at the University of York and will be organised over two days with keynote presentations on each of the days.

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