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Participate in research about information exchange among friends!
by Hansika Kapoor 08 Jun '14

08 Jun '14

Dear All, Do spend 10 minutes participating in research about information exchange in interpersonal relationships. It's a short and fun study about whether you'll pass on a bit of information to a friend or not :) Do forward to those interested! Best, Lok If you have trouble viewing or submitting this form, you can fill it out online: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1f9ZsWnjob4jOBXMmCjEV9UUADaYyAczXnXnEPDjVG-… Information Exchange in Interpersonal Relationships Please consider the following information before deciding to participate in this research. PURPOSE: To study the role of information exchange in interpersonal relationships. WHO IS CONDUCTING THIS STUDY: This study is being conducted by Sharlene Fernandes, Research Intern at the Department of Psychology, Monk Prayogshala (sf(a)monkprayogshala.in) under the supervision of Hansika Kapoor, Research Author at Monk Prayogshala (hk(a)monkprayogshala.in) HAS THIS STUDY BEEN APPROVED? Yes, this study has received Ethical Approval from the IRB at Monk Prayogshala, in November 2013 (#013-005). For queries regarding the same, you may contact aa(a)monkprayogshala.in WHAT YOU WILL DO: You will first begin by providing some basic information about yourself. Following this, you will be required to read a short scenario and answer questions regarding the same. The task will take about 10 minutes to complete. There are no right or wrong answers to any of the items and this test is in no way a test of your intelligence. Please respond honestly. RISKS: Your participation in this study is completely voluntary and there are NO anticipated risks with participating. You can choose to withdraw at any given point during the study if you begin to feel uncomfortable. To do so, you may exit the study by closing your browser window. BENEFITS: On completion, your email id will be entered into a raffle where you can win a Rs. 500/- Flipkart voucher! :) PLEASE NOTE THE MORE PEOPLE YOU GET TO FILL IN THIS FORM, THE BETTER CHANCE YOU HAVE OF WINNING! Also, your email id will only be used to enter you into the raffle and will not be associated with your identity in any way. [If you are not a resident of India, and if your email id is selected, you will be eligible for an Amazon gift card of the equivalent amount.] CONFIDENTIALITY: Your participation will remain strictly confidential and your responses will not be associated with your identity. The results may be published in a research paper, and you may request to have a copy of the same once it’s published. CONTACT: If you have any questions, comments or feedback regarding this study, you can contact us at sf(a)monkprayogshala.in By clicking on the continue button, you are stating that you are over 16 years of age, and that you understand the provided information and consent to participate in the study being conducted. Powered by [image: Google Forms] This form was created inside of मंक प्रयोगशाला ।. Report Abuse <https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1f9ZsWnjob4jOBXMmCjEV9UUADaYyAczXnXnEPDjVG-…> - Terms of Service <http://www.google.com/accounts/TOS> - Additional Terms <http://www.google.com/google-d-s/terms.html> -- Thanks & Regards, For Monk Prayogshala, Hansika Kapoor Department of Psychology +91 9167226464 This email message has been dispatched using Monk Prayogshala's Daak communication service.The email message and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email message in error please notify Monk Prayogshala immediately. If you are not the intended recipient you are notified that disclosing, copying, distributing or taking any action in reliance on the contents of this information is strictly prohibited. Warning: Computer viruses can be transmitted via email. The recipient should check this email and any attachments for the presence of viruses.Monk Prayogshala does not accept any liability for any damage caused by any virus transmitted along with this email message. All e-mail transmissions cannot be guaranteed to be secure or error-free as information could be intercepted, corrupted, lost, destroyed, arrive late or incomplete, or contain viruses. Monk Prayogshala does not accept liability for any errors or omissions in the contents of this email message, which arise as a result of e-mail transmission.

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CfP: Academic MindTrek Conference 2014 (30th June'14): MEDIA - Social Media/Digital Games/Ambient Media/Media Business/Information Systems in Media Industries/ICT&E-Gonvernment
by artur.lugmayr＠tut.fi 07 Jun '14

07 Jun '14

=========================================================================================== ACADEMIC MINDTREK CONFERENCE 2014 Call for Papers, Extended Abstracts, Posters, Demonstration, Workshops, Tutorials 4th to 7th November 2014 Tampere, Finland http://www.academicmindtrek.org, http://www.mindtrek.org Long and short papers, posters, demonstrations, and extended abstracts due on --- DEADLINE 30th June 2014 Workshops due on --- DEADLINE 30th June 2014 (extended) Tutorials due on --- DEADLINE 30th Sept 2014 THEMES: * Social Media * Ambient/Ubiquitous Media & Open Source * Business & Media * Human-Computer Interaction * Hybrid Media (new track!) * Digital Games * ICT & E-Government * Information Systems & Management in Creativity Industry (new track!) In cooperation with ACM, ACM SIGMM, and ACM SIGCHI Contributions will be published in the ACM digital library and selected set of high-level work will be published as book chapters or in journals =========================================================================================== CALL FOR PAPERS, ABSTRACTS, POSTERS, DEMOS, WORKSHOPS & TUTORIALS We are pleased to invite you to the Academic MindTrek conference, 4th to 7th November 2014, which brings together a cross-disciplinary crowd of people to investigate current and emerging topics of media in many facets. The conference explores academically the emerging and frontier-breaking applications of new media in everyday contexts of leisure, business and organizational life. 4th November 2014 will be the main Academic MindTrek day with other sessions on the preceding and following days. Due to increasing popularity of the conference, we are extending the scope of Academic MindTrek 2014! The academic conference features eight major themes: * Social Media * Ambient/Ubiquitous Media & Open Source * Business & Media * Human-Computer Interaction * Hybrid Media (new track!) * Digital Games * ICT & E-Government * Information Systems & Management in Creativity Industry (new track!) The MindTrek Association hosts a yearly conference, where the Academic MindTrek conference has been a part of this unique set of events comprising competitions, world famous keynote speakers, plenary sessions, media festivals, and workshops since 1997. It is a meeting place where researchers, experts and thinkers present results from their latest work regarding the development of Internet, interactive media, and the information society. It is a real chance for media enthusiasts to think outside the box. Furthermore it brings together researchers and practitioners from diverse disciplines that are involved in the development of media in various fields, ranging from sociology and the economy to technology. The highest ranked papers are also published in academic journals (The highest ranked papers will be published in academic journals (e.g. in 2013 we published a selected set of articles in ACM Computers in Entertainment, Electronic Markets ? The International Journal on Networked Business, and the International Journal of Ambient Computing and Intelligence. The scientific part of the conference is organized in cooperation with ACM SIGMM, and ACM SIGCHI. Conference proceedings will be published in the ACM Digital Library). It also provides a chance to learn from the vast media genre at large and allows participants to exchange views with cross-disciplinary experts. The conference aims to provide insights about the convergence of the various media and the future of media and boasts of several high-level keynote speakers. A few examples from previous years: Steve Wozniak (Co-Founder, Apple Computers), David S. Cohen (Editor, Variety), Robert Neuman (Disney), Vili Lehdonvirta (University of Oxford), Keith Partridge, Tomi T. Ahonen (Consultant), Latif Ladid (IPV6 Forum), Beat Schwegler (Microsoft), Cinzia dal Zotto (Univ. of Neuchatel), Ari Ojansivu (Google), Ramine Darabiha (Rovio), Molly R?nge (Crowdculture), Slava Kozlov (Philips Design), Dave Nielsen (CloudCamp), Janne J?rvinen (F-Secure), Olavi Toivainen (Nokia), Herbert Snorrason (OpenLeaks), Tuija Aalto (YLE), Juha Kaario (Varaani), among many others. Conference Themes =========================================================================================== 1. Social Media - Business models, service models, and policies - Social media in innovation and business - Intra and inter organizational use of social media - Questions related to identity, motivation and values - Blogs, wikis, collaboration and social platform designs in practice - Knowledge management and learning with social media - Experience management with social media - Crowdsourcing, user-created content and social networks - Enterprise 2.0 and social computing in work organizations - Evaluation and research methods of social media - Social media and community design - Benefits and limitations of social media applications 2. Ambient/Ubiquitous Media & Open Source - Applications utilizing ubiquitous technology - Ubicom in eLearning, leisure, storytelling, art works, advertising, and mixed reality contexts - Next generation user interfaces, ergonomics, multimodality, and human-computer interaction - Art works for smart public or indoor spaces, mobile phones, museums, or cultural applications - Context awareness, sensor perception, context sensitive Internet, and smart daily objects - Personalization, multimodal interaction, smart user interfaces, and ergonomics - Ambient human computer interaction, experience design, usability, and audience research - User positioning, location awareness - Augmented reality in ubiquitous applications - Device interoperability, remote user interfaces, inter-device connections - Forms of openness: open source software, open standards, open content, open media, open Source hardware, and open access. - Establishment of an open source community - Practices on developing open source systems - Practices for maintaining a successful project - Open source processes and techniques - Differences on open source and closed source systems - Using open source in commercial context - Challenges of open source development - Teaching open source in academia and industry 3. Media Business, Media Studies, and Media Management - Media politics: policy, practices, conception, and media regulation - Production technology: processes, and optimization - Business models: value chain/value net, revenue models, and product architecture - Strategic and operational Management of TIME Industries: Technology, Information, Media, Entertainment - Key data analytics: balanced scorecard, competition analysis, performance indicators, social media monitoring, google analytics. - Media use: patterns, engagement, and consumer experiences - Customer relationship management: communities & engagement 4. Human-Computer Interaction - User experience and experience design - Interaction design techniques and methods - User interaction and HCI design - Creativity, practices and innovation in HCI - Analysis, theories, and procedures in interaction design - Methods, systems, and toolkits supporting HCI - Human centered computing and understanding interaction - Interactivity methods - Designing for experience and interactivity - Design, evaluation, and implementation of interactive systems - Phenomena surrounding interactivity 5. Hybrid Media - Combining traditional media and new media - Enhancing printed material with digital and vice versa - Bridging digital and physical media - Interactive media with material components - Hybrid Experiences (combining digital & material etc.) - Connected toys and social objects - Role of traditional media within an internet of things - New methods of media personalization - Perceptive media - Interactive/smart packaging - Paper interfaces, sensitive paper and paper as a display - Interactive reading experiences - Touch enabled material 6. Digital Games - Theoretical and analytical approaches on games and play - Analysis of player experience - Game design research - Economy and business models in the game industry - Innovation in and around games - Digital distribution of games - Online, mobile and cross-platform games - Social and casual games - Pervasive and ubiquitous games - augmented and altered reality games - Mobile and cross-media games - Gamification, fun ware and playful design - Player-created content 7. ICT & E-Government - M-government - Web 2.0 and e-government social network - E-government obstacles and challenges - E-government project failure - Future of e-government - Improving the public service efficiency and effectiveness - E-government in developing countries - Citizen?s technological limitations - ICT and democracy (e-Democracy agenda at e-government level) - Citizens' education and accessibility to ICT - exploiting the learning and communicative potential of emerging online tools - new media forms (games, blogs, wiki, G3 mobile communications 8. Information Systems & Management in Creativity Industry - Management, Marketing, Business Aspects and Strategic Importance of IT and IS&M in Creative eMedia Industries - New business models/new media products - Customer intelligence either in real-time / non-real-time - Consumer, Audience, Human-Computer-Interaction, and User Viewpoints: perception of media Content in systems - Understanding audiences, advertisement statistics, audience trends, and audience Preferences - Strategic Importance of IT and IS&M in Media, Big Data, Crowd, Open Data, Linked Data, Cloud Application, New Business Analytics, Information Visualization, Workflow Management. - IS&M as Basis of New Business Models of New Media Products, and Global Digital Production Pipelines Social Media ?Get social!? Social media and Web 2.0 technologies are applied in ever diverse practices both in private and public communities. Totally new business models are emerging, traditional communication and expression modalities are challenged, and new practices are constructed in the collaborative, interactive media space. Ambient/Ubiquitous Media & Open Source ?The medium is the message!? ? This conference track focuses on the definition of ambient and ubiquitous media with a cross-disciplinary viewpoint: ambient media between technology, art, and content. The focus of this track is on applications, location based services, ubiquitous computation, augmented reality, theory, art-works, mixed reality concepts, the Web 3.0, and user experiences that make ubiquitous and ambient media tick. Open source - The last decade has seen a significant increase in open source initiatives such as open source software, open standards, open content, open media, or even open source hardware. On the one hand, the open movement has created new kinds of opportunities such as new business models and development approaches. On the other hand, it has introduced new kinds of technical and non-technical challenges. Media Business, Media Production and Media Management Media business and media management face the challenges of the emergence of new forms of digital media and focuses on leadership practices, business models and value chains. It discusses competition, patterns of media usage, advertising models, and how traditional media can cope with the challenges coming from digital media focusing on media business and media management issues. Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) The wide field of HCI is to discuss issues around human computer interaction modalities, consumer experience, design of computer systems, human aspects, universal media access, ergonomics, communication, novel interaction modalities, privacy, trusted systems, interaction theories, and sociological and psychological factors. This theme of devotes to several of these aspects, and is targeted to the scientific community dealing with several applied and theoretical aspects of HCI and user experience. Digital Games The culture and business of digital games is becoming increasingly varied. The current trends range from novel interface innovations and digital distribution channels to social game dynamics and player-generated content. The games track is open for theoretical works, empirical case studies and constructive projects. ICT & E-Government In recent years, ICT has played a pivotal role in the development of digital economy. This technology facilitates the rapid accumulation and dissemination of information, group interaction, communication, and collaboration. ICT has become one of the core elements of managerial reform around the world. Since the launch of web 2.0 and emergence of ICT infrastructure, processes and policies many governments and public officials use new online tools to communicate among themselves, and with organizations and citizens. Information Systems & Management in Creativity Industry The media and entertainment industry is the third largest industry segment for investments in information systems. This particular industry segment is faced with tremendous challenges in terms of organizational, transformational, leadership, customer behaviour, and technological changes. One particular challenge is the transformation of the analogue media world into its digital counterpart. As of today, the successive research of business information management and systems focusing on media and entertainment industries is rather fragmented and stretches over a wide area of research islands such as social media, eCommerce, or eBusiness. To face this challenge, this theme focuses on information management and systems for media and entertainment industries and highlighting their particular needs in production, distribution, and consumption in the larger context of media and entertainment industries. Hybrid Media Already today, the wall between physical and digital is starting to be less noticeable. For example, digital devices are now combined with traditionally non digital things, some examples being paper, cardboard and clothing. Application-toy hybrids are also common, such as digital games which utilize physical toys in some form. The hybrid media track is for publications where traditional media meets new media and where physical meets digital. Demonstrations The aim is to gather demonstrations from researchers and professionals from the communities related to the topics of MindTrek. The objective for the demonstrations is to provide a forum for exchanging experiences, practical projects, or media demonstrators. The target audience includes members of the academic community, industry, or laboratories who can demonstrate the results of their research projects with a practical implementation. Special academic sessions (e.g. tutorials, demonstrations, workshops, and multidisciplinary sessions) will be held parallel to the MindTrek business conference. Academic speakers and authors are warmly welcome to register for the business conference tracks as part of the academic conference with our special registration rate. The Academic MindTrek registration includes full service such as coffees, lunches, and social gatherings. The organizing committee invites you to submit original high quality full papers, long or short, addressing the special theme and the topics, for presentation at the conference and inclusion in the proceedings. Conference Publications =========================================================================================== The scientific part of the conference is organized in cooperation with ACM SIGMM, and ACM SIGCHI. Conference proceedings will be published in the ACM Digital Library, which includes short and long papers, workshop proposals, demonstration proposals, and tutorial proposals. Extended abstracts will be published in the adjunct conference proceedings; however, they will not be published within the ACM Digital Library. Selected high quality papers will be published in international journals, as book chapters, edited books, or via open access journals. There will also be a reward for the overall best paper from the academic conference. All the papers should follow the style guidelines of the conference. Short and Long Paper Proposals =========================================================================================== All submissions will be peer-reviewed double blinded, therefore please remove any information that could give an indication of the authorship. Short papers should be between 2-4 pages long and the paper presentation will be 15 minutes plus 5 minutes discussion within a session; long papers should be 6-8 pages and will be presented in 20 minutes slots, plus 5 minutes discussion. Workshop Proposals =========================================================================================== Feel free to suggest workshops which are co-organized with the Academic MindTrek. Workshop proposals should include the organizing committee, a 2 page description of the theme of the workshop, a short CV of organizers, duration, the proceedings publisher, and the schedule. Workshop organizers also have the possibility to add publications to the main conference proceedings. Depending on the attracted number of papers for each workshop, we provide space for either half-day or full-day workshops. Previous examples include e.g. a workshop on eLearning. Nevertheless, feel free to suggestion your own. Demonstrations Proposals =========================================================================================== Demonstration proposals shall be 2-3 pages and include: a) a description and motivation of the demonstration; b) general architecture of the demonstration; c) description of the main features; d) a brief comparison with other existing related demonstrations; e) audio-visual materials to illustrate the demonstration (if applicable); f) the type of license, and g) the Internet address of the demonstration (if applicable). It is strongly recommended that the authors make the demonstration (or a suitable version or movie) on the Internet during the evaluation. Tutorial Proposals =========================================================================================== Tutorial proposals should include a 2-page description of the tutorial, intended audience, a short CV, timetable, required equipment, references, and a track record of previous tutorials. The target length of tutorials is 2-4 hours. Previous examples include a tutorial on audio based media. However, feel free to suggest your own. Extended Abstracts =========================================================================================== Extended abstracts should be between 1-2 pages long and contain 500-800 words. They should describe the research problem, background, research questions, and the contribution to the conference. Extended abstracts will not be published within the ACM digital library. Poster Presentations =========================================================================================== Posters should be between 2-3 pages long and a poster should be presented during the conference. Attendees have the possibility to exhibit their posters on a A0 poster wall during the conference. Submission Deadlines =========================================================================================== 30th June 2014 (extended) - Deadline for workshop proposals 30th June 2014 - Deadline for long papers (6-8 pages), short papers (3-4 pages), extended abstracts (1-2 pages), posters (1-2 pages) and demonstrations (2-3 pages) 30th Sept 2014 - Deadline for tutorial proposals 30th August 2014 - Notification of acceptance/rejection for papers, extended abstracts and posters. 20th Sept 2014 - Camera ready papers submissions and copyright forms 10th October 2014 - Conference registration & submission copyright forms 4th to 7th Nov 2014 - Academic MindTrek and MindTrek Business Conference Organizing Committee =========================================================================================== General Chair Artur Lugmayr, Tampere Univ. of Technology (TUT), FIN Program Chairs Helj? Franssila, Tampere Univ. (UTA), FIN Track chair: Social Media Hannu K?rkk?inen, Tampere Univ. of Technology (TUT), FIN Track chair: Ambient Media & Open Source Moyen Mustaquim, Uppsala University, SE Track chair: Media Business, Media Studies, and Media Management Johanna Gr?blbauer, St. P?lten University of Applied Sciences (FH), AT Track chair: Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) Pauliina Tuomi, University of Turku, FIN Track chair: Digital Games Janne Paavilainen, University of Tampere (UTA), FIN Track chair: ICT & E-Government Fatemeh Ahmadi Zeleti, Tampere Univ. of Technology (TUT), FIN Track chair: Hybrid Media Timo Nummenmaa, University of Tampere (UTA), FIN Track chair: Information Systems & Management in Creativity Industry Artur Lugmayr, Tampere Univ. of Technology (TUT), FIN Panel Chair Jari Jussila, Tampere Univ. of Technology (TUT), FIN Demonstrations & Poster Chair Paul Coulton, Lancaster University, UK Workshop & Tutorial Chair Paul Coulton, Lancaster University, UK Conference Manager and Local Arrangements Lester Lasrado, Tampere Univ. of Technology (TUT), FIN Submission Guidelines =========================================================================================== ? Please follow the manuscript formatting guidelines for formatting all submissions. Please download the prescribed format from www.academicmindtrek.org ? Note that since the papers will be published by the ACM digital library all authors need to sign an ACM copyright form. (For further guidelines see: (http://www.acm.org/pubs/copyright_form.html) The copyright form would be sent through an automated system for only accepted papers. ? Please submit your work here: http://www.tut.fi/emmi/Submissions/2014mindtrek/openconf.php Stay Informed Questions: https://listmail.tut.fi/mailman/admin/academic-mindtrek-organizers/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/AcademicMindTrekConference/ Email: academic-mindtrek-chairs(a)listmail.tut.fi Supported by MindTrek Association, City of Tampere, Tampere University of Technology (TUT), Tampere University (UTA), Tampere University of Applied Sciences (TAMK), Ambient Media Association (AMEA)

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Fwd: Parution : Numéro spécial colloque #DEL2013 de l'International Journal of Electronic Governance]
by clément mabi 07 Jun '14

07 Jun '14

Dear all, This special issue presents researches on online political participation over various countries. These were presented during the DEL symposium "Online political participation and its critics" in June 2013 in Paris. Simon Gadras and Fabienne Greffet are the editors of this special issue of the International Journal of Electronic Governance. More about this special issue on the DEL network website : http://www.reseaudel.fr/en/ijeg-del2013/ ***Sommaire/Issue contents*** “Towards a comprehensive approach of online political participation” Simon Gadras and Fabienne Greffet “Online participation: from ‘invited’ to ‘invented’ spaces” Norbert Kersting “Joining the online video conversation? Discourse and practices of European political institutions and politicians on YouTube” Patrícia Dias Da Silva “Political carnivalism and an emerging public space: examination of a new participatory culture on Twitter” Chang Sup Park “The #OCCUPY network on Twitter and the challenges to social movements theory and research” Davide Beraldo and Juan Galan-Paez “National and state-level politics on social media: Twitter, Australian political discussions, and the online commentariat” Tim Highfield “The cultural meanings of Israeli Tokbek (talk-back online commenting) and their relevance to the online democratic public sphere” Gonen Dori-Hacohen and Nimrod Shavit -- Clément MABI Doctorant Sciences de l'information et de la communication Université de Technologie de Compiègne Laboratoire Costech/Equipe EPIN Centre Pierre Guillaumat BP 60319- Rue du Docteur Schweitzer 60203 Compiègne Cedex-France Tel: + 33 (0)6 83 41 36 61

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CFP HICSS minitrack Collective Intelligence and Crowds: Structure, Roles, and Identity
by Fichman, Pnina 07 Jun '14

07 Jun '14

[Apologies for cross-posting] CFP HICSS minitrack Collective Intelligence and Crowds: Structure, Roles, and Identity Track: Digital and Social Media Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS) 48, January 5-8, 2015, Kauai, Hawaii http://www.hicss.hawaii.edu/ Papers Due: June 15, 2014 via the HICSS conference system http://www.hicss.hawaii.edu/hicss_48/apahome48.htm We live surrounded by socially constructed identities. Some examples are organizations, nations, websites, companies, products and even persons. These identities are constituted through a complex interplay of interactions, a kind of distributed cognition. Communication requires not only a representation in an individual’s mind but also the knowledge that there is a similar representation in the minds of others. Platforms built on top of the Internet have changed the way we can create such shared representations. They allow people to aggregate knowledge from socially distant areas. They also allow diverse groups of people – and maybe machines in the form of artificial intelligences – to negotiate identities. We can build collective intelligences that themselves will steer the quest for knowledge. The collectives can be self-catalyzing, deciding individually or collaboratively what to do next, out of which novel and practical ideas emerge. While these open design collectives rely on organic growth and slow embedding of members in the network, alternative structures based on crowds can be assembled more rapidly. Between the two extremes are a host of different organizational structures, in which already committed members of a community are deployed to create or improve ideas. And the traces of these new organizations are also varied, ranging from ephemeral short messages to curated collaborative knowledge repositories. The output often takes the form of digital media. We are interested in papers that observe, analyze, or visualize these organization structures and the innovations they produce, papers that simulate this production through software, papers that analyze the phenomena of crowdsourcing, collective intelligence and collaborative mass knowledge production, and design research that creates and evaluates new tools and processes. We are particularly open to papers that explore unusual ways of modelling emergent organizations: models that demonstrate or reflect the influence of social systems on user behaviours, models that consider the multiple connections between people, technology, and institutions, models of technological and social affordances, models that break personal identity into sub-relations, and models that examine the emergence of roles, identity, and institutions. We are interested in applying the ideas of James March, Mark Granovetter, Harrison White, Charles Tilly and related scholars to information systems. We are looking for papers about the mechanisms (in the sense of Bhaskar) that explain the emergence of collective identity. In sum, the content of the track is open to analysis of collective intelligence, new knowledge creation, and crowdsourcing. Included also is the analysis of social interaction as a way of describing underlying social structure, and in particular the social construction of identity and roles.. Thus the track is open to a wide range of content areas that lend themselves to the analysis of relations between people, collectives, and machines, as well as the products produced as a result of these relations. In this minitrack, we are aiming to attract an audience from five groups: first, those interested in collective intelligence and crowdsourcing and who find a home in information systems departments; second, those in information schools who study these topics; third, computer scientists who are interested in the analysis of network and crowd processes, fourth, those who use social networks to describe social structure and fifth, industry practitioners. Minitrack Organizers: Donald Steiny, The Institute for Social Network Analysis of the Economy; steiny(a)steiny.com<mailto:steiny@steiny.com> Pnina Fichman, School of Informatics and Computing, Indiana University, Bloomington; fichman(a)indiana.edu<mailto:fichman@indiana.edu> Jeffrey V. Nickerson, Wesley J. Howe School of Technology Management at Stevens Institute of Technology; jnickerson(a)stevens.edu<mailto:jnickerson@stevens.edu> About HICSS conferences: http://www.hicss.hawaii.edu/hicss_48/apahome48.htm Now in its 48th year, the Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS) is one of the longest-standing continuously running scientific conferences. This conference brings together researchers in an aloha-friendly atmosphere conducive to free exchange of scientific ideas. Unique characteristics of the conference include: • A matrix structure of tracks and themes that enables research on a rich mixture of computer-based applications and technologies. • Three days of research paper presentations and discussions in a workshop setting that promotes interaction leading to additional research. • A full day of Symposia, Workshops, and Tutorials. See Program Components for additional detail. • A truly international experience with participants usually from over 40 countries, (approximately 50% non-US). • Papers published in the Proceedings by the IEEE Computer Society Press and carried in the IEEE digital library Xplore. Access to HICSS papers is in the top 2% of IEEE Conferences. • Paper presentations and discussions which frequently lead to revised and extended papers that are published in journals, books, and special issues. • A keynote address and distinguished lecture which explore particularly relevant topics and concepts. • Best Paper Awards<http://www.hicss.hawaii.edu/hicss_47/bestpapers2014.htm> in each track which recognize superior research performance. • HICSS is the #1 IS conference in terms of citations as recorded by Google Scholar. Recent research that shows HICSS ranked second in citation ranking among 18 Information Systems (IS) conferences, ranked third in value to the MIS field among 13 Management Information Systems (MIS) conferences, and ranked second in conference rating among 11 IS conferences. The Australian Government's Excellence in Research project (ERA) has given HICSS an "A" rating. Important deadlines for authors: • June 15: Submit full manuscripts for review. Review is double-blind. • Aug 15: Review System emails Acceptance Notices to authors. • Oct 1: Early Registration fee deadline. (Fees will increase on Sept 16 and Dec 1.) Early Registration fee: $625 • Oct 2: General Registration Fee begins: $695 (Registration price remains through December 1, 2014) • Oct 15: Papers without at least one registered author will be deleted from the Proceedings; authors will be so notified. • Dec 2: Late Registration fee beings: $795 (Registration price remains through conference) ------------------------ Pnina Fichman Associate Professor, School of Informatics and Computing Director, Rob Kling Center for Social Informatics Affiliated Associate Professor, School of Global and International Studies 901 East 10th Street, Informatics West #301 Indiana University, Bloomington, 47408 Phone (812) 856-1587 E-Mail fichman(a)indiana.edu<mailto:fichman@indiana.edu> Web http://ella.slis.indiana.edu/~fichman/ ________________________________________ Asis-l mailing list Asis-l(a)asis.org<mailto:Asis-l@asis.org> http://mail.asis.org/mailman/listinfo/asis-l

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CFP HICSS 48 - minitrack Global, International, and Cross-Cultural Issues in IS
by Fichman, Pnina 07 Jun '14

07 Jun '14

[Apologies for cross-posting] CFP HICSS minitrack Global, International, and Cross-Cultural Issues in IS Track: Internet and the Digital Economy Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS) 48, January 5-8, 2015, Kauai, Hawaii http://www.hicss.hawaii.edu/ Papers Due: June 15, 2014 via the HICSS conference system http://www.hicss.hawaii.edu/hicss_48/apahome48.htm This minitrack focuses on the sociotechnical dynamics and the ways in which the Internet affects people, groups, organizations, and societies. We are in particular interested in the impact of global, international, and cross-cultural issues on ICT development, implementation and use across the globe. Globalization has historically been tied to technological innovation, and the present era of a networked information society is no different. Information and communication technologies (ICTs) have provided the infrastructure for multinational businesses, created new cultural connections irrespective of geographic boundaries and distances, and allowed an increasingly mobile global population to be connected to their friends, families, and cultures no matter where they are. The issues surrounding global, international, and cross cultural issues in Information Systems (IS) attracted much scholarly attention and have been explored under myriad contexts. The minitrack welcomes submissions that relate to all aspects of global IS, or IS research situated in a global, international or cross-cultural context. The minitrack is open to all methodological approaches and perspectives. We are interested in empirical and theoretical work that addresses these and related socio-technical issues. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Research that considers the impacts of cultural values (e.g. on adaptive user interfaces) * Research on global Cloud sourcing strategies * Cross-national and cross-cultural comparisons of ICT adoption, use and development (e.g. Internet diffusion and impacts compared between different economies) * Effects of global social computing on organizational work organization and practices (e.g. pricing strategies) * Issues relating to globally distributed teams (e.g. the adoption and use of social media by cross-national virtual teams, worker motivation, and human error diversity) * Issues relating to Internet adoption and the digital society at the national level (e.g. digital infrastructure sophistication across countries) *Issues relating to global knowledge management (e.g. different knowledge-sharing cultures in multi-national corporations) *Issues relating to cross-national legislation and regulation (e.g. implications of different regulations governing Green IT in the EU vs. US or Asian countries) * Issues relating to global ICT governance (e.g. sustainable strategies for standardization and harmonization in evolving business networks) * Single country studies showing implications for other locations or results different from other contexts (e.g. impact of ICT policies on a transition economy) * Multi-country studies of ICT adoption, use, and development (e.g. e-commerce adoption involving multiple countries) * Global impacts of big data on governments, multinational companies, NGOs and other organizations Minitrack Organizers: Pnina Fichman, School of Informatics and Computing, Indiana University, Bloomington; fichman(a)indiana.edu<mailto:fichman@indiana.edu> Edward W.N. Bernroider, Vienna University of Economics and Business (WU), Institute for Information Management and Control, Vienna, Austria; edward.bernroider(a)wu.ac.at<mailto:edward.bernroider@wu.ac.at> Erran Carmel, Kogod School of Business, American University, Washington D.C.; carmel(a)american.edu<mailto:carmel@american.edu> About HICSS conferences: http://www.hicss.hawaii.edu/hicss_48/apahome48.htm Now in its 48th year, the Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS) is one of the longest-standing continuously running scientific conferences. This conference brings together researchers in an aloha-friendly atmosphere conducive to free exchange of scientific ideas. Unique characteristics of the conference include: * A matrix structure of tracks and themes that enables research on a rich mixture of computer-based applications and technologies. * Three days of research paper presentations and discussions in a workshop setting that promotes interaction leading to additional research. * A full day of Symposia, Workshops, and Tutorials. See Program Components for additional detail. * A truly international experience with participants usually from over 40 countries, (approximately 50% non-US). * Papers published in the Proceedings by the IEEE Computer Society Press and carried in the IEEE digital library Xplore. Access to HICSS papers is in the top 2% of IEEE Conferences. * Paper presentations and discussions which frequently lead to revised and extended papers that are published in journals, books, and special issues. * A keynote address and distinguished lecture which explore particularly relevant topics and concepts. * Best Paper Awards<http://www.hicss.hawaii.edu/hicss_47/bestpapers2014.htm> in each track which recognize superior research performance. * HICSS is the #1 IS conference in terms of citations as recorded by Google Scholar. Recent research that shows HICSS ranked second in citation ranking among 18 Information Systems (IS) conferences, ranked third in value to the MIS field among 13 Management Information Systems (MIS) conferences, and ranked second in conference rating among 11 IS conferences. The Australian Government's Excellence in Research project (ERA) has given HICSS an "A" rating. Important deadlines for authors: * June 15: Submit full manuscripts for review. Review is double-blind. * Aug 15: Review System emails Acceptance Notices to authors. * Oct 1: Early Registration fee deadline. (Fees will increase on Sept 16 and Dec 1.) Early Registration fee: $625 * Oct 2: General Registration Fee begins: $695 (Registration price remains through December 1, 2014) * Oct 15: Papers without at least one registered author will be deleted from the Proceedings; authors will be so notified. * Dec 2: Late Registration fee beings: $795 (Registration price remains through conference)

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[Final CFP]: The 2014 International Conference on Adaptive & Intelligent Systems - ICAIS'14 September 08th - 10th, 2014 Bournemouth, UK
by icais 06 Jun '14

06 Jun '14

We would like to remind you that the submission deadline for the "International Conference on Adapative and Intelligent Systems" is approaching. [Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- * * * Final CALL FOR PAPERS * * * The 2014 International Conference on Adaptive & Intelligent Systems - ICAIS'14 September 08th - 10th, 2014 Bournemouth, UK http://icais.prossegger.com/ icais(a)bournemouth.ac.uk<mailto:icais@bournemouth.ac.uk> Sponsored by - IEEE Computational Intelligence Society - The International Neural Network Society ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- * * * PLENARY TALKS * * * Prof. Ludmila I Kuncheva, Bangor University, UK (Talk: Feature Extraction for Change Detection) Prof. João Gama, University of Porto Porto, Portugal (Talk: Distributed Data Stream Mining) Prof. Kurt Geihs, University of Kassel, DE (Talk: Music Lessons and Other Exercises) * * * AIMS OF THE CONFERENCE * * * The ICAIS'14 conference aims at bringing together international researchers, developers and practitioners from different horizons to discuss the latest advances in system learning and adaptation. ICAIS'14 will serve as a space to present the current state of the art but also future research avenues of this thematic. Topics of the conference cover three aspects: Algorithms & theories of adaptation and learning, Adaptation issues in Software & System Engineering, Real- world Applications. ICAIS'14 will feature contributed papers as well as world-renowned guest speakers (see webpage), interactive breakout sessions, and instructional workshops. * * * IMPORTANT DATES * * * - Workshop & Special Session proposal: April 13, 2014 - Full paper submission: June 10, 2014 - Acceptance notification: July 01, 2014 - Final camera ready: July 11, 2014 * * * CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS * * * Proceedings will be published by Springer in Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence Series. * * * SPECIAL ISSUES / BOOK * * * A selected number of accepted and personally presented papers will be considered for possible inclusion in one of the following special issues or book: - Special Issue of Evolving Systems (Springer) on Clustering and Classification in Dynamic Environments. - Special Issue of Neurocomputing (Elsevier) on Neurocompting for Dynamically Changing Systems. - Book in the Series of Studies in Computational Intelligence (Springer). * * * MAIN TOPICS (but not limited to) * * * - Track 1: Self-X Systems o Self-adaptation o Self-organization and behavior emergence o Self-managing o Self-healing o Self-monitoring o Multi-agent systems o Self-X software agents o Self-X robots o Self-organizing sensor networks o Evolving systems - Track 2: Incremental Learning o Online incremental learning o Self-growing neural networks o Adaptive and life-long learning o Plasticity and stability o Forgetting o Unlearning o Novelty detection o Perception and evolution o Drift handling o Adaptation in changing environments - Track 3: Online Processing o Adaptive rule-based systems o Adaptive identification systems o Adaptive decision systems o Adaptive preference learning o Time series prediction o Online and single-pass data mining o Online classification o Online clustering o Online regression o Online feature selection and reduction o Online information routing - Track 4: Dynamic and Evolving Models in Computational Intelligence o (Dynamic) Neural networks architectures o (Dynamic) Evolutionary computation o (Dynamic) Swarm intelligence o (Dynamic) Immune and bacterial systems o Uncertainty and fuzziness modeling for adaptation o Approximate reasoning and adaptation o Chaotic systems - Track 5: Software & System Engineering o Autonomic computing o Organic computing o Evolution o Adaptive software architecture o Software change o Software agents o Engineering of complex systems o Adaptive software engineering processes o Component-based development - Track 6: Applications - Adaptivity and Learning o Smart systems o Ambient / ubiquitous environments o Distributed intelligence o Robotics o Industrial applications o Internet applications o Business applications o Supply chain management o etc. * * * SUBMISSION * * * Papers must be in PDF, not exceeding 10 pages and conforming to Springer-Verlag Lecture Notes guidelines. Author instructions and style files can be downloaded at http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html. Papers must be submitted through the submission system (http://icais.prossegger.com/) Short papers describing novel research visions, work-in-progress or less mature results are also welcome. All submission will be peer-reviewed by at least 3 qualified reviewers. Selection criteria will include: relevance, significance, impact, originality, technical soundness, and quality of presentation. Preference will be given to submissions that take strong or challenging positions on important emergent topics. At least one author have to attend the conference to present the paper. * * * ORGANIZATION COMMITTEE * * * General Chair: - Abdelhamid Bouchachia, Bournemouth University, UK International Advisory Committee: - Nikola Kasabov, Auckland University, New Zealand - Xin Yao, University of Birmingham, UK - Djamel Ziou, University of Sherbrooke, Canada - Plamen Angelov, University of Lancaster, UK - Witold Pedrycz, University of Edmonton, Canada - Janusz Kacprzyk, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland Organization Committee: - Hammadi Nait-Charif, Bournemouth University, UK - Emili Balaguer-Ballester, Bournemouth University, UK - Damien Fay, Bournemouth University, UK - Jane McAlpine, Bournemouth University, UK Publicity Chair: - Markus Prossegger, Carinthia University of Applied Sciences, Austria

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solicit input on a course about social media and public policy
by Christina Wu 06 Jun '14

06 Jun '14

Dear colleagues, I am slated to teach the course for the second time about new media technology and public policy, this time with a heavier emphasis on policy areas related to the social media. As I am revamping the course to reflect recent policy developments, as well as to make it more hands-on (I am being reminded time and time again that students would like to "do" things that are challenging but also fun), I would love to seek your expert opinions about this topic, along with ideas about class activities. No suggestions will be redundant. Please feel free to share sub-topics, assignments, and if it is not too much to ask, even syllabuses. I intend to have a built-in online element to this course, given that it is about the digital media. Students will create and share things here during the semester, some of which could culminate into a final product (textual as well as audio-video). My hope is to use some more popular platforms such as Wordpress and Youtube, so that students can carry their work from this class forward into the "real world". If you have experiences to share in this department, I will be grateful. Thank you all in advance! I would be happy to compile a list of things from the on-list and off-list responses and share with everyone if there is such a demand. Best, JCW -- Jingsi Christina Wu, PhD Assistant Professor Department of Journalism, Media Studies, and Public Relations Hofstra University, Hempstead, New York

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IR15 Update and Doctoral Colloquium News
by Kendall, Lori 06 Jun '14

06 Jun '14

Folks, The AoIR Executive Committee is continuing its discussions with groups offering potential venues for IR15. Rest assured that we still plan to bring you a fantastic conference! We anticipate announcing a new location within the next couple of weeks, but no later than the end of June. In light of that timetable, we are also changing the deadline for submissions to the IR15 Doctoral Colloquium. The new deadline is Friday, July 11. You can find the call for submissions here: http://aoir.org/ir15-doctoral-colloquium-call-for-submissions/. Stay tuned for further updates. We look forward to seeing you in October! Lori Kendall President, Association of Internet Researchers

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Digital Crossings in Europe, special issue on digital media and migration out now
by Leurs, K.H.A. (Koen) 06 Jun '14

06 Jun '14

Dear list-members, [Apologies for x-posting] With this note I would like to kindly inform you all of the publication of a special issue on digital media and migration I guest-edited with Sandra Ponzanesi called “Digital Crossings in Europe” in the Intellect journal Crossings. Journal of Migration and Culture. Access the special issue via this link: http://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/journals/view-Article,id=17785/ ‘On digital crossings in Europe’ explores the entanglements of digital media and migration beyond the national and mono-ethnic focus. We argue how borders, iden¬tity and affectivity have been destabilized and reconfigured through medium-specific technological affordances, opting for a comparative and postcolonial framework that focuses on diversity in conjunction with cosmopolitan aspirations. Internet applica¬tions make it possible to sustain new forms of diaspora and networks, which operate within and beyond Europe, making issues of ethnicity, nationality, race and class not obsolete but transformed. It is therefore important and timely to analyse how these reconfigurations take place and affect everyday life. Using a critical approach to digital tools that avoids utopian notions of connectivity and borderlessness, this article highlights the dyssymmetries and tensions produced by the ubiquitousness of digital connectivity. – Blurb from our introductory essay. Table of contents: On digital crossings in Europe - Sandra Ponzanesi And Koen Leurs Traces of dispersion: Online media and diasporic identities - Dana Diminescu And Benjamin Loveluck No apologies for cross-posting: European trans-media space and the digital circuitries of racism - Gavan Titley The migration industry of connectivity services: A critical discourse approach to the Spanish case in a European perspective - Cecilia Gordano Peile Forced migrants, emotive practice and digital heterotopia - Saskia Witteborn The politics of transnational affective capital: Digital connectivity among young Somalis stranded in Ethiopia - Koen Leurs Young African Norwegian women and diaspora: Negotiating identity and community through digital social networks - Henry Mainsah Privileged Mexican migrants in Europe: Distinctions and cosmopolitanism on social networking sites - Lorena Nessi And Olga Guedes Bailey Ethnicity in digital crossroads. Understanding processes of cultural thickening in a mediatized world - Cigdem Bozdag Modes of self-representation: Visualized identities of former Yugoslav migrant women in the Netherlands - Jasmijn Van Gorp Review Essay: Diasporas and new media: Connections, identities, politics and affect - Eugenia Siapera Book Review Media and the City – Myria Georgiou - Eunike Piwoni Koen Leurs, PhD | Marie Curie Postdoctoral Researcher, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) | | Affiliated researcher Graduate Gender Studies Institute for Cultural Enquiry (ICON) Utrecht University | www.koenleurs.net

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Re: [Air-L] ScraperWiki
by Sanjay Sharma 05 Jun '14

05 Jun '14

Hello Roya For collecting (and analysing) tweets, you could try the free Chorus software: http://www.chorusanalytics.co.uk/ It runs as standalone software in a Windows-based environment - no server required. And it can collect tweets from individual users (as well as search terms including hashtags etc). For an example of how Chorus has been applied to a project exploring racialized hashtags, see: http://www.darkmatter101.org/wiki/notracist_twitter best regards Sanjay Sharma Brunel University, UK http://www.brunel.ac.uk/sss/sociology/staff-profiles/sanjay-sharma twitter: @sanjay_digital ------------------------------------------------------------- > From: Air-L [mailto:air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org] On Behalf Of Roya M. Moussapour > Sent: 03 June 2014 21:18 > To: air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org > Subject: [Air-L] ScraperWiki > > Hi all - > > I'm doing a research project at Bowdoin College and trying to use ScraperWiki to gather tweets. ScraperWiki makes it very easy to gather tweets from all users on Twitter, but I'm looking to limit the data set to specific users. Is there a simple way to do this? If not - is there another program that will collect the data in a more streamlined way? > > Thanks, > > Roya Moussapour > _______________________________________________

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