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New master study: WebDataMetrics
by Lozar-Manfreda, Katja 28 May '14

28 May '14

A new master study on web-based data collection and analysis that might be of interest to some of you or your students .... MASTER IN WEBDATAMETRICS. Web-based data collection and analysis. Join the future, be one of the first to be educated in Webdatametrics, the science of collecting and using digital data in the behavioural and social sciences! The Master in Webdatametrics – web based data collection and analysis offers a front of the line top quality programme in the area of Internet-based data collection methods and Big Data analysis. The programme was created by the Webdatametrics Academic Board elected from members of the COST network Webdatanet. It joins together academics and researchers from the best Universities and departments in Europe. The Webdatametrics concept emerges from the existing diverse variety of disciplines related to web data collection methods and analyses. Putting this knowledge together, Webdatametrics students will generate new knowledge and take advantage of information and communication technologies (ICT) to collect data for scientific and business purposes. The Master in Webdatametrics is a 120 ECTS (two year) post-graduate course that follows a blended system with face to face classes, online 3.0. teaching and a face to face training period. This blended methodology gives the student flexibility in their location and the opportunity to work with the best teachers and researchers in the field, on a world-wide scale in a top quality academic programme of excellence. In addition, the Webdatanet network and Master opens the possibility for our students to be placed through internships in a strict selection process in top Research Institutes, the best University departments, and some of the most reputable International Institutions and Enterprises worldwide. The first edition of The Master in Webdatametrics, web based data collection and analysis begins in September 2014. Registration process starts on the 5th of May till the 30th of June 2014. We invite you to submit your application and join the future which this programme offers for you today. www.webdatametrics.org ****************************************** Katja Lozar Manfreda, Phd Assistant professor University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Social Sciences Kardeljeva pl. 5, 1000 Ljubljana Slovenia Tel: +386 1 5805 313 Email: katja.lozar(a)fdv.uni-lj.si

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2015 ISA Conference Panel: Seeking Abstracts
by Rex Troumbley 27 May '14

27 May '14

Aloha AoIR-ers, We have organized a panel for the 2015 ISA conference, but one of our paper presenters had to withdraw last minute and so there’s an opening for anyone interested. The ISA conference is the annual meeting of the International Studies Association<http://www.isanet.org/Conferences/NewOrleans2015/Call.aspx> and will be held this year in New Orleans from February 18th-21st, 2015. Our panel is titled “Digital Politics and the Networked Eye” and the abstract is below. The panel will be chaired by Mark Salter<https://socialsciences.uottawa.ca/pol/professor-profile?id=127>from the University of Ottowa and our discussant will be Jose Marichal <http://www.callutheran.edu/faculty/profile.php?id=marichal> from California Lutheran University. The call for papers deadline is soon, so if you are interested in joining our panel please send a 200 word abstract to Rex Troumbley at rextroumbley(a)gmail.com as soon as possible. The lasted we can accept abstracts is Thursday, May 29, 2014. We will let you if your abstract fits our panel by May 30th. Thank you all. Rex Troumbley, PhD Candidate Department of Political Science University of Hawaii at Manoa Panel Title: Digital Politics and the Networked Eye Abstract: The contemporary proliferation of networked devices and social medias, interfaces and monitors, ubiquitous data collection, and remote killing technologies has created a tension between transparency and opacity to fundamentally deform politics today. The universalization of surveillance and optics via infrastructural technologies merits critical attention. However, most work surveying the implications of the networked eye misrepresented it as analogous to the theory of social control described by Foucault as the Panopticon. The papers on this panel go beyond the Panoptic trope to consider the tension between transparency and opacity in the age of networked optics. Instead they consider how transparency and opacity can be used as tool of resistance, the kinds of publics which are created or deformed by what they see online, how opacity can be useful or limiting to the work of visual culture, and consequently how networked devices themselves see.

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5th-year PhD student seeking postdocs or visiting fellowships in e-participation-related research in New York
by Karin Hansson 27 May '14

27 May '14

Dear all, I am a PhD student in Computer and System Sciences at Stockholm University in collaboration with the Royal Institute of Art. I have a background in the visual arts as an artist and curator, with a focus on the aesthetics and social aspects of communication technology. In my thesis, I have looked at how belonging and community is materialized and performed online, and I have developed e-tools for collaboration. I am also interested in how big data can be used to highlight representation in online public spheres and the difference-making processes within and between these spheres. Is anyone currently seeking a postdoc in these areas in New York city, or know of related research centers? I am currently engaged in a Swedish research project on e-participation and urban planning, and might be able to partly finance a post doc if I can do a comparative study in New York. (I prefer to stay in NY of family reasons) Thanks in advance, Karin Hansson http://people.dsv.su.se/~khansson/

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CFP reminder: The Fan Studies Network Conference
by Bertha Chin 27 May '14

27 May '14

We just wanted to offer a little reminder that abstracts for the Fan Studies Network Conference 2014 are due at the end of this week (by Sunday 1st June)! Please see below for the CFP, and you can also read it on our blog here: http://fanstudies.wordpress.com/2014/04/08/call-for-papers-fan-studies-netw… THE FAN STUDIES NETWORK 2014 CONFERENCE 27-28th September 2014 Regent’s University, London, UK Keynote Speakers: Dr Paul Booth (DePaul University) Dr Rhiannon Bury (Athabasca University) Mr Orlando Jones (star of Sleepy Hollow, appearing for a virtual Q&A) For two years the Fan Studies Network has provided a fruitful and enthusiastic space for academics interested in fans and fandom to connect, share resources, and develop their research ideas. Following the success of our first symposium in November 2013, we are delighted to announce the FSN2014 Conference, taking place over two days at Regent’s University London from 27-28th September 2014. FSN2014 will feature three fantastic keynote speakers. The first will be Dr Paul Booth, author of Digital Fandom: New Media Studies (Peter Lang, 2010), Time on TV: Temporal Displacement and Mashup Television (Peter Lang, 2012) and editor of Fan Phenomena: Doctor Who (Intellect, 2013). His newest book, Media Play: Pastiche, Parody, Fandom, is forthcoming from University of Iowa Press. The second keynote will be Dr Rhiannon Bury, author of Cyberspaces of Their Own: Female Fandoms Online (Peter Lang, 2005) and currently writing her second book for publication with Peter Lang, entitled Television 2.0: New Perspectives on Digital Convergence, Audiences, and Fans. We are also incredibly delighted that Mr Orlando Jones, an American film and television writer, producer, and actor who currently plays Captain Frank Irving in Sleepy Hollow (Fox, 2013-) and vocal proponent of fan culture, will be joining us via Skype to participate in a virtual Q&A session. We invite abstracts of no more than 300 words for individual 20 minute papers that address any aspect of fandom or fan studies. We also welcome collated submissions for pre-constituted panels. We encourage new members, in all stages of study, to the network and welcome proposals for presentations on, but not limited to, the following possible topics: - Activism and fandom - Producer-audience interactions - Non-Western fan cultures - Ethics in fan studies - Defining fandom - Anti-Fandom and Non-Fandom - Fan use of social media platforms - Fandom (and) controversies - The future of fan studies We also invite expressions of interest (100- 200 words) from anyone wishing to host a short session of ‘speed geeking.’ This would involve each speaker chairing a short discussion on a relevant topic of their choosing, and then receiving extensive feedback, making it ideal for presenting in-progress or undeveloped ideas. If you have any questions about this format of presentation, please contact Richard McCulloch at mccullochr(a)regents.ac.uk. Please send any enquires/abstracts to: fsnconference(a)gmail.com by SUNDAY 1st JUNE. Notifications of decisions will be sent out w/c 16th June. You can find out more information on http://fanstudies.wordpress.com/ or talk about the event on Twitter using #FSN2014. Conference Organisers: Lucy Bennett and Tom Phillips (FSN chairs) Bertha Chin, Bethan Jones, Richard McCulloch, Rebecca Williams (FSN board) We hope to see you there! -- Dr. Bertha Chin Independent Scholar <http://cardiff.academia.edu/BerthaChin> @bertha_c Board Member, Fan Studies Network (http://fanstudies.wordpress.com/)

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Mapping Social Science and Humanities - EuroScience Open Forum 2014, 23 June 2014
by Katja Mayer 27 May '14

27 May '14

Mapping social sciences and humanities June 23 2014 (15:00 - 16:15) Carlsberg Museum/The Dance Halls, Copenhagen, DK Speakers: Andrea Scharnhorst, Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS, NL) Jürgen Pfeffer, Carnegie Mellon School of Computer Science, USA Gunnar Sivertsen, Nordisk Institutt for Studier av Innovasjon, Forskning og Utdanning (NIFU) Discussant: Katja Mayer, University of Vienna Moderator: Frederik Stjernfelt, University of Copenhagen Session description https://esof2014.pathable.com/#meetings/174621 Session organisers: David Budtz Pedersen, University of Copenhagen; Katja Mayer, University of Vienna Mapping scientific fields and research areas is of growing interest to scientists, policymakers, funding agencies and industry. Computation of bibliometric data such as co-authorships, co-citation analysis, cross-disciplinary collaborations, and inter-institutional networks supply coherent visual maps of the research landscape. Research in the social sciences and humanities is often difficult to map and survey, since these fields are embedded in diverse and often diverging epistemic cultures. Some are specifically bound to local contexts, languages and terminologies, and the domain lacks global referencing bodies and dictionaries. Mapping scientific activity and understanding interdisciplinary exchanges requires researchers to go beyond traditional statistical methods, such as co-citation analysis, and develop new semantic technologies such as topic models, natural language processing, as well as survey-based studies. We will explore how combinations and variations of science mapping approaches can provide a productive basis for studies of research characteristics in the humanities and social sciences. Euroscience Open Forum (ESOF) is Europe’s largest interdisciplinary science conference. It takes place every second year in a major European city. ESOF2014 consists of a global forum for discussions on topical issues in science and humanities complemented by an ambitious outreach programme with a large number of events. The conference takes place at the Carlsberg City District, Copenhagen June 23-26, 2014 (http://esof2014.org) About 4,500 participants from more than 70 countries are present at the conference. The Science in the City festival is expected to attract more than 30.000 citizens to the free activities. Early bird registration is possible until 31 May. You might also be interested in the session: The role of social science and humanities in addressing global challenges https://esof2014.pathable.com/#meetings/174650 See you at ESOF 2014!

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Publishers withdraw more than 120 gibberish papers
by Joly MacFie 26 May '14

26 May '14

>From February, but.. http://www.nature.com/news/publishers-withdraw-more-than-120-gibberish-pape… as one wag said.. "And to think, I considered majoring in Gibberish." " -- --------------------------------------------------------------- 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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Workshop: Marx’s Labour Theory of Value in the Digital Age
by Christian Fuchs 26 May '14

26 May '14

Workshop: Marx’s Labour Theory of Value in the Digital Age COST Action IS1202 “Dynamics of Virtual Work”, http://dynamicsofvirtualwork.com/ The Open University of Israel. June 15-17, 2014. Recent developments in digital technology, from “social media”/”web 2.0” such as Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, Weibo, LinkedIn, Pinterest, Foursquare, etc to mobile devices, have spurred new forms of production. A variety of terms has been used to describe new production practices and new products enabled by the Internet: participatory culture, co-creation, mass collaboration, social production, commons-based peer production, mass customization, prosumption, produsage, crowdsourcing, open source, social production, user-generated content, user participation, folksonomics, wikinomics, collaborative innovation, open innovation, user innovation. These terms and debates are often over-optimistic, celebratory and lack a critical understanding of “social media” – they do not engage with the social problem-dimension of the “social”. The multiplicity of neologisms is also a symptom of a “technologistic” outlook, which assumes that each technical innovation brings about a paradigmatic change in culture and in society and more democracy and a better society. While such multiplicity of terms attests to a phenomenology of technological innovation and diversity, it is also an analytical and theoretical liability. Concurrent with this dominant approach, there have been attempts for a systematic critical analysis of new forms of online production, digital labour and commodification on social media through the prism of the labour theory of value. Such theoretical approaches attempt to apply a unified conceptual framework in order to gain better understanding of the socio-economic foundations of digital media and the social relations, power relations and class relations that they facilitate. They also help to connect these new productive practices with a longstanding theoretical tradition emerging from Marxian political economy. The role of Marx’s labour theory of value for understanding the political economy of digital and social media has been a topic of intense work and debates in recent years, particularly concerning the appropriateness of using Marxian concepts, such as: value, surplus-value, exploitation, class, abstract and concrete labour, alienation, commodities, the dialectic, work and labour, use- and exchange-value, General Intellect, labour time, labour power, the law of value, necessary and surplus labour time, absolute and relative surplus value production, primitive accumulation, rent, reproductive labour, formal and real subsumption of labour under capital, species-being, collective worker, etc. The critical conceptualization of digital labour has been approached from a variety of critical approaches, such as Marx’s theory, Dallas Smythe’s theory of audience commodification, Critical Theory, Autonomous Marxism, feminist political economy, labour process theory, etc. In this workshop we explore current interventions to the digital labour theory of value. Such interventions propose theoretical and empirical work that contributes to our understanding of the Marx’s labour theory of value, how the nexus of labour and value are transformed under virtual conditions, or they employ the theory in order to shed light on specific practices. The Israeli location will provide an opportunity to explore some issues pertinent to digital technology in the local context, including a lecture on the Palestinian Internet and a tour exploring techniques of separation and control along the separation wall in Jerusalem. Keynote talks: Noam Yoran: The Labour Theory of Television, or, Why is Television Still Around Christian Fuchs: The Digital Labour Theory of Value and Karl Marx in the Age of Facebook, YouTube, Twitter and Weibo Anat Ben David: The Palestinian Internet The programme features the following talks: * Andrea Fumagalli: The concept of life subsumption in cognitive bio-capitalism: valorization and governance * Bingqing Xia: Marx's in Chinese online space: some thoughts on the labour problem in Chinese Internet industries * Brice Nixon: The Exploitation of Audience Labour: A Missing Perspective on Communication and Capital in the Digital Era * Bruce Robinson: Marx's categories of labour, value production and digital work * Eran Fisher: Audience labour: empirical inquiry into the missing link of subjectivity * Frederick Harry Pitts: Form-giving fire: creative industries as Marx’s ‘work of combustion’” * Jakob Rigi: The Crisis of the Law of Value? The Marxian Concept of Rent and a Critique of Antonio Negri`s and his Associates` Approach Towards the Marxian Law of Value * Jernej Prodnik: Media products and (digital) labour in global capitalist accumulation: A preliminary study * Kylie Jarrett: The Uses of Use-Value: A Marxist-Feminist contribution to understanding digital media * Marisol Sandoval: The Dark Side of the Information Age - Arguments for an Extended Definition of Digital Labour * Olivier Frayssé: Cyberspace ground rent, surplus value extraction, realization, and general surplus value apportionment * Sebastian Sevignani: Productive prosumption, primitive accumulation, or rent? Problematising exploitation 2.0 * Thomas Allmer: Digital and Social Media Between Emancipation and Commodification: Dialectical and Critical Perspectives * Yuqi Na: Capital accumulation of targeted advertising-based capitalist social media. What do people in the UK and China think about it and why? A Marxist perspective If you wish to attend the workshop, please contact RSVP Eran Fisher: eranfisher(a)gamil.com

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Text suggestion(s): Computer Mediated Communication
by Steven Epstein 25 May '14

25 May '14

I'll be teaching a section of a course, Computer Mediated Communication, in the Fall and would like recommendations for textbooks, readers, and other material. The person who has been teaching the course at my school has used Online Communication by Wood & Smith. But, since this was last revised in 2005, it is a bit dated. Also, I'd really like to use a text that has a robust companion web site, test item file and/or PPTs. As the class is housed in the Department of Communications, I will be exploring the social effects of different computer-supported communication technologies. However, I will, via text or other material, want to expose the students to the "workings" of some CMC. That might be participating in self help groups on Face Book or Yahoo Groups, developing a Blog with Word Press, editing articles on Wikipedia or even doing some simple HTML coding. So, in addition to textbook ideas, I'd love additional ideas for projects and exercises. Feel free to post ideas to the list or send directly to me. Thanks Steve Steven L. Epstein, Ph. D. Associate Professor of Communications Grant Campus Suffolk County Community College Crooked Hill Road Brentwood, NY 11711 631.851.6318 epsteis(a)sunysuffolk.edu<mailto:epsteis@sunysuffolk.edu> www2.sunysuffolk.edu/epsteis<https://owa.sunysuffolk.edu/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://www2.sunysuffo…>

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CFP: 1st International WS on Social Personalization co-located with HT - 5 days left
by Denis Parra 25 May '14

25 May '14

Apologies for cross-posting ================================================================= CALL FOR PAPERS -------------------------------------------------------------- International Workshop on Social Personalization (SP'2014) http://columbus.exp.sis.pitt.edu/sp2014/ to be held on September 1st, 2014, Santiago, Chile co-located with ACM HT 2014 -------------------------------------------------------------- Important Dates: ** Submission Deadline: May 30th 2014 (23:59 Chile Time) ** Notification of Acceptance: Jun 6, 2014 ** Final Papers Due: Jul 6, 2014 ** Workshop date: September 1, 2014 Workshop Organizers: Peter Brusilovsky (University of Pittsburgh, USA) Leandro Balby Marinho (Federal University of Campina Grande, Brasil) Denis Parra (Pontificia Universidad Catolica, Chile) Eliana Scheihing (Universidad Austral, Chile) Christoph Trattner (Know-Center, Austria) For the Social Personalization workshop, we aim to attract researchers from all over the world working in the fields of User Modeling, Personalization and Recommendations where the social context plays a fundamental role. This topic is important because it involves leveraging new sources of information that are specific for social systems such as shared items and tags, user public profiles, social connections, and logs of user social activities in order to improve people's information access in a wide variety of tasks and across different devices. These social information sources offer social personalization systems a chance to compensate for the lack of information and structure that is used by traditional personalization technologies ranging from recommender systems to E-learning. Thus, we invite submissions which may include the following topics, but are not limited to: * novel approaches for social personalization in recommender systems * novel approaches on personalized social collaboration * novel approaches on social linking * novel methods for social search and navigation * novel methods for social predictive models * novel social methods for information visualization and display * applications of the aforementioned topics to diverse domains (education, smart cities, music, etc.) * any other methods that exploit new forms of social data for personalization The goal of this workshop is to share and discuss research that goes hopefully beyond classic personalization techniques, trying to capitalise potentially useful information available in social data for paving the way to more efficient personalized information access technologies. Submissions: We solicit posters (1-2 pages) and research papers (4-6 pages), both in the ACM conference paper style. Papers should be submitted in EasyChair to https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sp2014 Program Committee: Nazareno Andrade, University of Campina Grande, Brazil Jussara Almeida, University of Minas Gerais, Brazil Martin Atzmueller, University of Kassel, Germany Alejandro Bellogin, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain Shlomo Berkovsky, NICTA, AU Anmol Bhasin, LinkedIn, USA Danny Bickson, GraphLab, USA Steven Bourke, UCD, Ireland Robin Burke, de Paul, USA Ed Chi, Google, USA Alvin Chin, Nokia, China Vania Dimitrova, University of Leeds, UK Lucas Drumond, University Hildesheim, Germany Alexander Felfernig, TU-Graz, Austria Zeno Gantner, Nokia, Germany Ruth Garcia, Yahoo! Research Barcelona, Spain Ido Guy, IBM Research, Israel Eelco Herder, L3S, Germany Andreas Hotho, University of Würzburg, Germany Geert-Jan Houben, TU-Delft, Netherlands Sharon Hsiao, Columbia University, USA Bart Knijnenburg, University of California Irvine, USA Milos Kravcik, RWTH Aachen, Germany Mounia Lalmas, Yahoo! Research Barcelona, Spain Neal Lathia, Cambridge University, UK Tobias Ley, Tallinn University, Estonia Alan Said, TU-Delft, NL Shaghayegh Sahebi, University of Pittsburgh, USA Eduardo Veas, Know-Center, Austria Katrien Verbert, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium Tao Ye, Pandora, USA Arkaitz Zubiaga, New York City University, USA Submission category: innovative research ideas, preliminary results, system prototypes or industry showcases. Link or demo in attachment are preferred. Submission guidelines: All submitted papers must * be written in English; * contain author names, affiliations, and email addresses; * be formatted according to the ACM SIG Proceedings template ( http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates) with a font size no smaller than 9pt; * be in PDF (make sure that the PDF can be viewed on any platform), and formatted for US Letter size; Proceedings: All accepted papers will be included in the workshop proceedings and will be published in the Extended Proceedings of ACM Hypertext 2014. It is the authors' responsibility to ensure that their submissions adhere strictly to the required format. Submissions that do not comply with the above guidelines may be rejected without review. All submissions must be entered into the reviewing system: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sp2014 Contact: socialpersonalization.ws(a)gmail.com Follow us on: Facebook https://www.facebook.com/groups/1395906184019635/ Twitter https://twitter.com/sp_workshop ================================================================= Denis Parra Assistant Professor, CS department School of Engineering, PUC CHile http://denisparra.github.io

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CYBERSPACE 2014: CALL FOR PAPERS
by Daniela Vajbarová 25 May '14

25 May '14

Dear members of Association of Internet Researchers, We kindly invite you to submit a paper to Cyberspace 2014. The upcoming 12th international conference will be held in Brno, Czech Republic, 28-29 November 2014. === CYBERSPACE 2014: CALL FOR PAPERS === 12th international conference organized by the Institute of Law and Technology, Faculty of Law in cooperation with the Faculty of Social Studies, Masaryk University and the European Academy of ICT Law Brno, Czech Republic 28-29 November 2014 Papers are solicited to the following streams: Cybersecurity, Cybercrime eCommerce, eFinance Government 2.0 Intellectual Property On-Line International Internet Law Legal Informatics, Jurimetrics Privacy, Personal Data, Surveillance New Media and Politics New Media and Society Psychology of Cyberspace Religion in Cyberspace Video Games and Society Ideas for Cyberspace *Deadline for abstract submission is 31 July 2014 *For more information see www.cyberspace.muni.cz CYBERSECURITY, CYBERCRIME, chairs: Václav Stupka, Jakub Harašta, illustrative topics: cyberattacks, cyberterrorism, response teams, botnets, digital forensics, child pornography, identity theft, hacking/cracking, phishing, malicious code, stalking, ius as bellum/ius in bello, rules of engagement eCOMMERCE, eFINANCE, chairs: Zsolt Balogh, Libor Kyncl, illustrative topics: information society services, EDI and EFT regulation, model laws on eCommerce, on-line gambling, taxation of e-commerce, e-banking, e- insurance, e -pensions, online investments, eFX markets, electronic payments, electronic money, virtual money, payment portals, payment systems, informal value transfer systems, online AML measures, e-taxation, taxation in virtual worlds, virtual property GOVERNMENT 2.0, chair: Ludwig Gramlich, illustrative topics: open government, open data, on-line dispute settlement, re-use of public sector information, on-line public procurement, on-line legal counselling, e-identity, mobile government, e-participation vs. e-democracy?, social media strategies in the public sector INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY ON-LINE, chairs: Andreas Wiebe, Matěj Myška, illustrative topics: copyright, digital rights management, open source, open access, fair use, fair dealing, protection of software, licensing, P2P networks, trademarks on-line, collective management of copyright, trademarks in auction and search servers, enforceability of free licences, free/open software. INTERNATIONAL INTERNET LAW, chair: Dan Svantesson, illustrative topics: Brussels I, Rome I, Rome II and the internet, cross-border on-line defamation, place of damage, electronic choice of law and choice of forum, international on -line arbitration, cross-border consumer arbitration, cross-border eCommerce, cross -border consumer protection, cross-border online intellectual property issues, public international law and the Internet, private international law and the Internet, extraterritoriality online LEGAL INFORMATICS, JURIMETRICS, chair: Zsolt Zödi, illustrative topics: legal information systems, electronic publication of laws, case-law on-line, public registries, automated processing of legal language, neural networks, electronic agents, human-computer interfaces PRIVACY, PERSONAL DATA, SURVEILLANCE, chair: Aleš Završnik, illustrative topics: Privacy on-line, Internet surveillance, smart surveillance, anonymizers, social networking surveillance, ISPs and law enforcement snooping, marketing surveillance, data retention, PET technologies, right to be forgotten NEW MEDIA AND POLITICS, chairs: Monika Metyková, Lenka Waschková Císařová, illustrative topics: online political communication, new media and election, campaigns, the role of social media in democracy and democratization, social networks and transformation of journalism, new media and political mobilization, internet and transparency of government, the impact of WikiLeaks NEW MEDIA AND SOCIETY, chair: Kristian Daneback, illustrative topics: digital media and civic participation, online public spheres, new media in everyday lives, web 2.0, internet governance, digital divide, communities in cyberspace, hacktivism, free culture movement, anthropology of cyberspace, gender and internet, gaming, society and cyberspace, new media and social services PSYCHOLOGY OF CYBERSPACE, chair: David Šmahel, illustrative topics: influence of the Internet use on individuals and family, children and adolescents in virtual worlds, Internet addiction, identity in virtual environment, counseling on the Internet, on -line therapy, Internet and sexuality, human personality on-line, virtual social groups, virtual communities, blogs, games on- line, MMORPG and virtual worlds, online communication, e-learning, opportunities of Internet use, cyberbullying, online victimisation, intimacy and Internet, technology and health RELIGION IN CYBERSPACE, chair: Vít Šisler, illustrative topics: religious normative frameworks in cyberspace, networking diasporas, religious collaborative environments, on-line counseling, on-line fatwas and cyber muftis, new religious movements, religious discourses in cyberspace VIDEO GAMES AND SOCIETY, chair: Cyril Brom, illustrative topics: social aspects of video games, digital game-based learning, serious games, on-line gaming, videogames as a research tool IDEAS FOR CYBERSPACE, chairs: Herbert Hrachovec, Radim Polčák, illustrative topics: any thoughts for the present or future of cyberspace === PUBLICATION OF PAPERS === Accepted papers will be, depending on their topic, published upon peer review in one of the following scientific journals: MUJLT Masaryk University Journal of Law and Technology (mujlt.law.mujni.cz), on-line and printed, listed in SCOPUS, EBSCO, Hein Online, De Gruyter, Czech Database of Scientific Journals, Slovenian Database of Scientific Journals Cyberpsychology (cyberpsychology.eu), on-line, listed in SCOPUS, EBSCO, Directory of Open Access Journals === IMPORTANT DATES === Abstract submission deadline: 31 July 2014 Notice on acceptance deadline: 31 August 2014 Conference dates: 28 – 29 November 2014 Papers for publication deadline: 11 January 2015 === ABSTRACT FORMAL REQUIREMENTS === Range: max. 1.500 characters incl. spaces Submission: on-line at www.cyberspace.muni.cz === PAPER FORMAL REQUIREMENTS AND SUBMISSION === Papers published in MUJLT: http://mujlt.law.muni.cz/instructions.php Papers published in Cyberpsychology: http://www.cyberpsychology.eu/submission.php === CONFERENCE FEES === full pass - speakers: 1290 CZK (approx. 48 EUR) full pass - delegates (not presenting a paper): 1590 CZK (approx. 59 EUR) full pass - VIPs (upon an appointment): FREE student pass - students of MU and of partner universities: FREE last minute (on-site) registration: 1990 CZK (approx. 73 EUR) dinner fee: Saturday conference dinner with free complimentary drinks - 550 CZK (approx. 21 EUR), last minute (on -site): 650 CZK (approx. 25 EUR) The registration will be carried out on-line through the conference web at www.cyberspace.muni.cz. The registration opens 1 June 2014 and closes 12 November 2014 (after that, it will be possible to register on - site). === CONFERENCE ADDRESSES === Conference website: http://cyberspace.muni.cz Central conference e-mail address: cyberspace(a)law.muni.cz Mailing address: Masaryk University, Faculty of Law Institute of Law and Technology Veveří 70 611 80 Brno Czech Republic === CONFERENCE OFFICIALS === General Chair: Radim Polčák Deputy Chairs: Danuše Spáčilová, David Šmahel Scientific Committee: Zsolt Balogh, Cyril Brom, Kristian Daneback, Ludwig Gramlich, Herbert Hrachovec, Libor Kyncl, Monika Metyková, Matěj Myška, Radim Polčák, Dan Svantesson, Jaromír Šavelka, Václav Stupka, Vít Šisler, David Šmahel, Lenka Waschková Císařová, Andreas Wiebe, Aleš Završnik, Zsolt Zödi Financial Officer: Jakub Harašta Hospitality Officer: Matěj Myška Publicity Officers: Lenka Waschková Císařová, Daniela Vajbarová Programme Officer: Klára Vrbková Kind regards, Daniela Vajbarová On behalf of the Organizing Committee

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