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Book announcement - Virtual Worlds for Online Learning: Cases and Applications (Corrected links)
by Lee, Mark 04 Jun '15

04 Jun '15

(Re-posting with the correct links!) Announcing the publication of the following title (now available for pre-order): ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ VIRTUAL WORLDS FOR ONLINE LEARNING: CASES AND APPLICATIONS ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Edited by: Sue Gregory, University of New England, Australia Mark J. W. Lee, Charles Sturt University, Australia Barney Dalgarno, Charles Sturt University, Australia Belinda Tynan, The Open University, UK Published by Nova Science Publishers http://bit.ly/1FtzlxK (Hardcover - ISBN: 978-1-63482-149-0) http://bit.ly/1G4Ny8a (Ebook - ISBN: 978-1-63482-194-0) * Description * This book showcases contemporary examples of three-dimensional virtual world use for Internet and web-mediated tertiary education from across the globe that cut across a range of disciplinary contexts and settings. By doing so, it seeks to promote scholarly dialogue as well as to assist the development and dissemination of good practice and best practices in the field. While there have been a number of other volumes published on virtual worlds and learning, many were written prior to the existence of mature applications and thus consist largely of early proof-of-concept reports; a number of practical or “how-to” guides for teachers considering using virtual worlds in their teaching have also been produced that have to do with either the technology or learning design. In general, much of what is available in the area is “show and tell” and does not engage deeply with theory or with key researchable questions and issues. This book is unique in the way it combines analysis and discussion of recent theoretical and empirical research with descriptive accounts and evaluations of exemplary and innovative discipline-based applications, all of which are focused on factors influencing the successful uptake and use of virtual worlds in online learning at universities and colleges. The book is a useful resource for educators with an interest in virtual worlds, irrespective of their level of experience and/or proficiency. The collection of exemplars presented will not only expose newcomers to the potential and possibilities of the technology but will also alert them to the problems and pitfalls of whose existence they need to be mindful of as they make their foray into the educational virtual worlds arena. Potential solutions and mitigating strategies for many of the common problems are suggested as well. For those who are more seasoned virtual world users, they will benefit from the evidence-based perspectives offered and from opportunities to situate their practice within the scholarly knowledge base, comparing their own experiences with those of others and learning from the stories, vignettes, insights, and reflections being shared. Novices and veterans alike will find the book valuable in helping them manufacture a sustainable business case to put forth to their managers and in their quests to champion investment in virtual worlds at their institutions. **************************************** "While ... more work is clearly needed to make learning-led design in virtual worlds even more effective, this important volume brings together the most up-to-date research and shows incremental advances in our knowledge base ... Learning is no longer a case of regurgitating facts and figures; today, we can be more creative and ambitious in what our students can experience, and we can make things come alive. This volume helps us to evaluate how important education is to us and the many ways in which we can craft learning experiences to support an individual’s development." - Professor Sara de Freitas FRSA, Pro Vice-Chancellor Learning and Teaching, Murdoch University, Australia **************************************** * Topics Covered * - Virtual worlds in pre-service teacher education - Virtual worlds in foreign language learning - Virtual worlds in library and information science - Virtual worlds in ethics training - Virtual worlds in emergency management training - Virtual worlds in technical communication education - Virtual worlds in academic staff/faculty development - Virtual worlds in music education - Virtual worlds in psychology education - Virtual worlds in architectural design education For more information about Virtual Worlds for Online Learning: Cases and Applications, and to view the Table of Contents, go to https://www.novapublishers.com/catalog/product_info.php?products_idS765 (Hardcover version) or https://www.novapublishers.com/catalog/product_info.php?products_idS820 (Ebook version). * About the Editors * Sue Gregory is an Associate Professor and Chair of Research in the School of Education at the University of New England, Australia, where she lectures in ICT education. She is responsible for leading and driving research within the School and training education students on how to incorporate technology into their teaching. She is a long-term adult educator and her research is focused on adult learning, authenticity, engagement, immersion, impact, and the efficacy of virtual worlds for education. Mark J. W. Lee is an Adjunct Senior Lecturer with the School of Education at Charles Sturt University, Australia and an Honorary Senior Research Fellow with the School of Engineering and Information Technology at Federation University Australia. He has published widely in the areas of educational technology, online learning and teaching, and innovative pedagogy in higher education, with 70 refereed publications to his name. From 2012 to 2014 he served as the editor-in-chief of MERLOT's Journal of Online Learning and Teaching. Barney Dalgarno is a Professor and Co-Director of uImagine, a Digital Learning Innovation Laboratory at Charles Sturt University, Australia. His research interests are captured by the overarching question, “How can learning be improved through the use of technology?”. As well as being awarded a number of research and teaching grants, he has received national recognition through awards for innovative teaching and learning design using leading-edge technologies. He is a co-editor of the Australasian Journal of Educational Technology. Belinda Tynan is Pro Vice-Chancellor (Learning and Teaching) at The Open University in the United Kingdom. She has held numerous managerial positions at universities and colleges in Australia, New Zealand, the U.K., and Singapore, and she has attracted considerable grant funding and been responsible for multiple innovation projects. She has authored and co-authored numerous publications and is on the Editorial Board of Open Learning: the Journal of Open Distance and e-Learning. * Contributors * Thierry Chanier, Université Blaise Pascal, Clermont-Ferrand, France Andrew Cram, Australian College of Physical Education, Australia Robert Crow, Western Carolina University, USA Barney Dalgarno, Charles Sturt University, Australia Geoff Dick, Georgia Southern University, USA John David N. Dionisio, Loyola Marymount University, USA Allan Ellis, Southern Cross University, Australia Anne-Laure Foucher, Université Blaise Pascal, Clermont-Ferrand, France Patricia C. Franks, San Jose State University, USA Brande Hall Gex, San Jose State University, USA Richard L. Gilbert, Loyola Marymount University, USA Angela Giovanangeli, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia Maree Gosper, Macquarie University, Australia Sue Gregory, University of New England, Australia John G. Hedberg, Macquarie University, Australia Lisa Jacka, Southern Cross University, Australia Dan Keast, University of Texas of the Permian Basin, USA Vicki Knox, University of New England, Australia Yvonne Masters, University of New England, Australia Rochell R. McWhorter, University of Texas at Tyler, USA Charlene A. Merritt, Western Carolina University, USA Nora A. Murphy, Loyola Marymount University, USA Caroline Newton, University College London, UK Meg O’Reilly, Southern Cross University, Australia Burak Pak, KU Leuven, Belgium Cindy M. Raisor, Texas A&M University, USA Torsten Reiners, Curtin University, Australia Christine Rodrigues, Université Blaise Pascal, Clermont-Ferrand, France Ciara Rachel Wigham, Université Lumière Lyon 2, France **************************************** Please consider recommending Virtual Worlds for Online Learning: Cases and Applications to your librarian. ****************************************

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Special Issue: E-Diasporas – Living Digitally
by Yasmin Ibrahim 03 Jun '15

03 Jun '15

CALL FOR PAPERS Special Issue: E-Diasporas – Living Digitally SUBMISSION DUE DATE: 1 September 2015 PUBLICATION: International Journal of E-Politics OBJECTIVE OF THE THEMED ISSUE: With the growth of international (im)migration and work through digital space across time zones and in the last decade, the Internet and related wireless and mobile technologies have become crucial for members of various diasporic communities seeking to connect with both their countries of origin and their host nations. Connections are established not only through social media and email, but also through money transfers, philanthropy and business, gaming and related virtual environments. For instance Internet use facilitates information gathering efforts of (im)migrants searching for potential host countries, assist (im)migrants’ acculturation practices after migration, and advance the socio-economic development of diasporic subjects and those they may have left behind. In addition, we also have new forms of digital diaspora that occur through offshore labor forces that have their bodies in their “home” nations but work in time zones and relational socio-financial and organizational spaces that exist “in diaspora.” The co-editors of this special issue aims to understand the rhizomatic nature of migrant communities in a twenty-first century climate where the increasing use of online spaces influences the creation of diaspora politics, identity formation (or reclamation in the new nation), and the conception of new meanings of the terms ‘home’ and ‘homeland.’ Thus, this issue endeavors to expand ongoing conversations about dispersed global communities and the ways they relate with communications and information technologies. The International Journal of E-Politics is interdisciplinary so we welcome any disciplinary, theoretical or methodological approach. Potential topics include, but are not limited to: ? Emerging or new definitions of ‘e-diasporas’ ? Mobile money, financial investments, debt and e-diasporas ? The meaning of ‘home’ for dispersed populations ? The differences between ‘digital diasporas’ and ‘e-diasporas’ ? Post-colonial and subaltern ‘e-diasporas’ (Dalit, Roma, etc.) ? Online communities for leisure or play (film viewing and discussions in online spaces, gaming, creating hobby guilds, etc.) ? Political participation in ‘e-diasporas’ ? The use of online spaces to create (social and political) communities in the host nation ? Identity construction and the Internet ? Usage of social media to ‘click and connect’ with ‘home’ SUBMISSION PROCEDURE: Researchers from any field of enquiry that deals with the online politics of food broadly defined are invited to submit papers for this themed issue. All submissions are due by September 1, 2015. All queries to Radhika Gajjala, radhik(a)bgsu.edu Tori Arthur, tarthur(a)bgsu.edu Full papers to be submitted electronically, http://www.igi-global.com/submission/manuscripts/ Editors-in-Chief: Celia Romm Livermore, School of Business Administration, Wayne State University, Detroit, USA Yasmin Ibrahim, School of Business and Management, Queen Mary, University of London. Published: Quarterly (both in Print and Electronic form) PUBLISHER: The International Journal of E-Politics is published by IGI Global (formerly Idea Group Inc.), publisher of the “Information Science Reference” (formerly Idea Group Reference) and “Medical Information Science Reference” imprints. For additional information regarding the publisher, please visit <http://www.igi-global.com> www.igi-global.com<http://www.igi-global.com>.

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New Book: The Future of Internet Policy
by Victor Pickard 03 Jun '15

03 Jun '15

Dear Colleagues: People on this list might be interested in an edited collection of essays that Peter Decherney and I have coming out with Routledge this summer. It's based on a special issue of Critical Studies in Media Communication, with some additional articles included. The Future of Internet Policy http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9781138855618/ The book's price is steep, but it might be worth having your library look into it. It includes great contributions from Guobin Yang, Inger Stole, Robert McChesney, Sascha Meinrath, Sean Vitka, Greg Lastowka, Kevin Werbach, Sharon Strover, Josh Shepperd, Amit Schejter, Chris Marsden, and Becky Lentz. Best wishes, Victor <http://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/politics-international-relati…> AMERICA'S BATTLE FOR MEDIA DEMOCRACY<http://victorpickard.com/book/>,<http://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/politics-international-relati…> Cambridge University Press<http://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/politics-international-relati…> Victor Pickard, Assistant Professor Annenberg School for Communication University of Pennsylvania 3620 Walnut Street Philadelphia PA 19104 Academia: https://upenn.academia.edu/VictorPickard Website: http://victorpickard.com/ Twitter: @VWPickard <http://twitter.com/VWPickard>

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Participations: Journal of Audience and Reception Studies - new issue!
by Rosenbaum-Andre, Judith E. 03 Jun '15

03 Jun '15

Participations, The Journal for Audience and Reception Studies has published its latest issue online at http://www.participations.org The latest issue offers a particularly wide variety of articles, including three themed sections. The first theme section focuses on theatre audiences, and is guest edited by Matthew Reason and Kirsty Sedgman. The second theme section, guest-edited by Marie Gillespie and Ben O'Loughlin presents several interesting discussions of the power of social media, specifically as it relates to the Tweeting of the 2012 Olympics. The final themed section (guest editor: Lesley-Ann Dickson) presents a selection of papers from the 2014 Edinburgh International Film Festival. The journal is open to all users, so please check out this latest endeavor. Participations is also always on the lookout for new contributions in the field of mass/popular culture. Please see http://www.participations.org/submission_guidelines.htm for details on submitting an essay ------------------------------------------------ Judith E. Rosenbaum, PhD Associate Professor, Mass Communication Research Facilitator, Health Disparities Research Community Albany State University 504 College Drive Albany, GA 31705 Phone: 229.430.3684 Office: BCB 261/Wiley 304

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Reminder: Register for the DataONE Users Group Meeting, July 12th-13th 2015
by Robert Sandusky 02 Jun '15

02 Jun '15

Registration is now open for the DataONE Users Group Meeting, July 12th-13th 2015. https://www.dataone.org/dataone-users-group The 2015 DataONE Users Group (DUG) Meeting is collocated with the Summer ESIP Federation Meeting at the Asilomar Conference Grounds, Pacific Grove, CA. The DUG will be a 2 day event featuring plenary presentations, topical breakout sessions and community led round tables. Join us to learn more about DataONE; network with informatics, data management and domain science colleagues; and provide feedback on the prioritization and development of DataONE tools and services. We look forward to seeing you -- Robert J. Sandusky, Ph.D. Associate University Librarian for Information Technology Associate Professor and Associate Dean UIC University Library

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CfP: Examining the Essence of the Crowds: Motivations, Roles and Identities, ECSCW
by Tanja Aitamurto 02 Jun '15

02 Jun '15

Dear AIRers, Please consider submitting a workshop paper, and spreading the word about the following workshop at ECSCW: *Examining the Essence of the Crowds: Motivations, Roles and Identities* *A workshop at **ECSCW 2015* <http://www.ecscw2015.no/>*, September 19, in Oslo, Norway.* In this one-day workshop we will examine the crowd’s motivation factors, roles and identities both in voluntary and paid crowdsourcing. We encourage diverse and creative methods and theoretical frameworks in this one-day workshop. We invite both empirical and theoretical work, position papers and works in progress. We will apply interactive methods in exploring the topics like small group discussions and flash presentations. The workshop will result into a research agenda, in which we, as a part of the ECSCW community, present a roadmap for addressing these questions. This deliverable which will be posted online and shared widely. The workshop builds on three earlier successful workshops: *Back to the Future of Organizational Work: Crowdsourcing Digital Work Marketplaces* and *Structures for Knowledge Co-creation between Organizations and the Public *hosted at ACM CSCW 2014, and *The Morphing Organization — Rethinking Groupwork Systems in the Era of Crowdwork* hosted at ACM GROUP 2014. *Submissions* In this ECSCW workshop we seek to address questions surrounding motivation factors, roles and identities of participants in both voluntary and paid crowdsourcing. We invite work on coordination and collaboration mechanisms that help development and organization of crowdsourcing systems. These mechanisms could include use of external information sources, freeware and software materials, communication tools beyond those provided by the platform, etc. We invite both empirical and theoretical work, position papers and works in progress. We encourage diverse and creative methods and theoretical frameworks in examining these aspects. The questions and topics the workshop will explore include the following ones, but are not limited to: - Motivation factors of the crowd in paid and voluntary crowdsourcing, and in short-term and long-term crowdsourcing initiatives - Collaboration and coordination mechanisms in crowdwork - The roles participants take in crowdsourcing projects in different contexts, and the processes in which they take their roles - The boundaries between newcomers and experts, highly active participants and more passive ones, moderators and mentors, the stages in which the participants grow into these roles and switch back and forth. - The crowd’s demographic profile in a variety contexts - The artefacts that the crowd uses for conducting their tasks and monitoring their work individually and as a community The maximum length of a paper is 2,000 words. The papers should follow the ECSCW formatting guidelines. More information here. <http://ecscw2015.blogs.dsv.su.se/> *Deadline for submissions is July 1st.* Submissions and inquiries shall be sent to the following email address: crowdessence(a)gmail.com *Organizers* ▪ Tanja Aitamurto, Stanford, United States. ▪ Obinna Anya, IBM Research, United States. ▪ Laura Carletti, University of Nottingham, United Kingdom. ▪ Neha Gupta, University of Nottingham, United Kingdom. ▪ Karin Hansson, Stockholm University, Sweden. ▪ Juho Lindman, Swedish School of Economics, Finland. ▪ Brandie Nonnecke, UC Berkeley, United States. best, Tanja Aitamurto, Ph.D. Deputy Director Brown Fellow, postdoctoral The Brown Institute for Media Innovation <http://brown.stanford.edu/> School of Engineering Stanford www.tanjaaitamurto.com <http://brokenfence.flavors.me/> ~ examining collective intelligence in journalism, governance and design ~

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SIGIR'15 SPS workshop, extended deadline (June 7)
by Denis Parra 02 Jun '15

02 Jun '15

** Please forward to anyone who might be interested ** -------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS International Workshop on Social Personalization & Search (SPS 2015) to be held in Santiago, Chile co-located with ACM SIGIR 2015 (http://sigir2015.org/) Website: http://socialcomputing.ing.puc.cl/sps2015/ -------------------------------------------------------------------- Important Dates: ================ ** Submission Deadline: Sunday June 7 (extended), 2015 (23:59 Chile Time) ** Notification of Acceptance: June 15, 2015 ** Final Papers Due: June 22, 2015 ** Conference date: August 9-12, 2015 Confirmed Keynote Speaker: ========================== Ricardo Baeza-Yates, VP of Research for Europe and Latin America, Yahoo! Research. Workshop Organizers: ==================== Christoph Trattner (NTNU, Norway & Know-Center, Austria) Denis Parra (Pontificia Universidad Católica, Chile) Peter Brusilovsky (University of Pittsburgh, USA) Leandro Balby Marinho (Federal University of Campina Grande, Brazil) Objectives & Topics: ==================== For the Social Personalization & Search workshop, we invite to participate researchers working in the fields of Information Retrieval, Personalization, User Modeling, and Recommender Systems where the social dimension plays a fundamental role. The workshop is examining several approaches that leverage the social side of the search process on two main contexts: (a) using social data for improving search and recommendations, and (b) search as a social process, collaborative IR. On the first context, we expect to attract contributions that use the social dimension in different methods for personalization and search, such as data from online social networks, social tagging systems, online forums and community-based Q&A. This topic is important because it involves leveraging new sources of information that are specific to social systems such as shared items and tags, user public profiles, online and offline social connections, and logs of user social activities in order to improve people's information access in a wide variety of tasks and devices. On the second context, the social dimension is emphasized as collaboration, so we aim to discuss works that consider information seeking as a collaborative activity. Here, researches can potentially use explicit social communication information (such as online, offline chat) to boost the personalized search experience for each user, or in a community-wise sense, support the common goal of users working on the same search tasks, such as people planning a group trip. We invite submissions that may include the following topics, but are not limited to: * search and recommendations based on social links * search and recommendations in collaborative tagging systems * group-level search personalization * search and recommendations in blogs and microblogs * approaches for social personalization in recommender systems * approaches on personalized social collaboration * approaches on social linking * methods for social search and navigation * methods for social predictive models * social methods for information visualization and display * applications of the aforementioned topics to diverse domains * any other methods that exploit new forms of social data for search and personalization * applications of any of the above methods and technologies Goal: ===== The goal of this workshop is to share and discuss research that goes hopefully beyond classic personalization techniques, trying to capitalize potentially useful information available in social data for paving the way to more efficient personalized information access technologies. In addition to personalization, we also consider social search and navigation as topics that involve the importance of the social dimension on filtering and information access. Submissions: ============ We solicit regular research papers (up to 6 pages) & short papers (up to 2 pages), both in the ACM conference paper style. Papers should be submitted in EasyChair to https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sps2015 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; All papers will be peer-reviewed, must not be under review in any other conference, workshop or journal (at the time of submission), and must contain novel contributions. Accepted papers will be published according to the ACM SIGIR 2015 WS publication rules. Location: ========= SPS 2015 will take place at: Campus “Casa Central” of Pontifical Catholic University of Chile (PUC Chile) and will be held in conjunction with the 38th Annual ACM SIGIR Conference. This campus is located in Av. Alameda 340, in Santiago Downtown, Chile. Contact: ======== Christoph Trattner - trattner.christoph(a)gmail.com Denis Parra - denisparra(a)gmail.com Peter Brusilovsky - peterb(a)pitt.edu Leandro Balby Marinho - lbalby(a)gmail.com Follow us on: ============= Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1395906184019635/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/sp_workshop -- Denis Parra Escuela de Ingenieria PUC CHile

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Dissertation | Online teaching practices: Sociomaterial matters in higher education settings
by Karin Bolldén 02 Jun '15

02 Jun '15

Dear members of the AoIR list I want to thank all of you who have contributed with so many insights, comments and reading suggestions during the years - it is invaluable for a PhD student when trying to enter the field. Since many of you on this list have asked me to announce when my study is finished, I hereby send some links to the dissertation/kappa in full text and to a couple of papers that are now published. Again - thank you so much for guiding novice researchers into the area of internet research. Best regards Karin *Dissertation in full text* Bolldén, K. (2015). *Online teaching practices: Sociomaterial matters in higher education settings* (Doctoral thesis, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden). doi:10.3384/diss.diva-117275 http://liu.diva-portal.org/smash/record.jsf?pid=diva2%3A806805&dswid=new_win http://liu.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:806805/FULLTEXT01.pdf *Paper III* Bolldén, K. (2015). The emergence of online teaching practices: A socio-material analysis. *Learning, Media and Technology*. Advance online publication. doi:10.1080/17439884.2015.1044536 Some e-prints still available here: http://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/NBvWr4fF75EfNGmckkqr/full *Paper I* Bolldén, K. (2014). Teachers’ embodied presence in online teaching practices. *Studies in Continuing Education*. Advance online publication. doi:10.1080/0158037X.2014.988701 twitter: @karinbollden web: www.karinbollden.se

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Final call for abstracts - Social Networking in Cyberspace conference (SNIC 2015), Wolverhampton, UK (3 - 4 Sept, 2015).
by Fullwood, Chris 02 Jun '15

02 Jun '15

Dear colleagues, The 3rd international Social Networking in Cyberspace conference (SNIC 2015) will be held at the University of Wolverhampton, UK, 3 - 4 September, 2015. The conference is organised by the CRUW research group (Cyberpsychology Research at the University of Wolverhampton) who are based in the Institute of Psychology. === Final call for abstracts === We invite potential presenters (from academia and industry) to submit an abstract (no longer than 300 words) for peer-review. We welcome submissions from scholars (including postgraduates) in the social and behavioural sciences and media, technology and information disciplines, regardless of theoretical orientation. The deadline for submission of the abstract is Friday 3rd of July, 2015. A decision on this abstract will be made after the submission deadline and authors will be notified via e-mail soon after. Poster presentations are also welcome. Abstracts should be submitted to SNIC2015(a)wlv.ac.uk<mailto:SNIC2015@wlv.ac.uk> === Conference themes === Although the conference theme encourages submissions relating to the social and communicative aspects of cyberspace, we welcome abstracts on a diverse range of topics relating to human interaction with the Internet and emerging technology. The following themes are of particular interest: Social media research; cyberbullying; online relationships/dating; individual differences in online behaviour; inequality issues in Internet use; cybertherapy and online health; gaming; cybercrime, protection and security; all aspects of cyberpsychology. === Keynote speakers === We are delighted to confirm Professor Tom Buchanan (University of Westminster), Professor Adam Joinson (University of the West of England) and Dr Grainne Kirwan (Institute of Art, Design and Technology, Dún Laoghaire) as keynote speakers at the conference. === Further information === Further information about the conference (including conference fees and how to register) can be found at www.wlv.ac.uk/snic2015<http://www.wlv.ac.uk/snic2015> We look forward to seeing you there Kind regards Chris Fullwood On behalf of the organising committee

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World Bank Report on online outsourcing
by Alexandra Florea 01 Jun '15

01 Jun '15

May be of interest for people who do research on digital/virtual work, online labor markets, crowdsourcing: http://www.behind-the-enemy-lines.com/2015/05/the-world-bank-report-on-onli…

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