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CfP: 2017 International Conference on Social Media & Society (#SMSociety) - Toronto, Canada - July 28-30, 2017
by Anatoliy 06 Oct '16

06 Oct '16

Apologies for cross-postings ******************************** 2017 International Conference on Social Media & Society (#SMSociety) WHEN: July 28-30, 2017 WHERE: Toronto, Canada (Ted Rogers School of Management, Ryerson University) SUBMISSION DEADLINES: Dec 5, 2016: Workshops, Tutorials, & Panels Jan 16, 2017: Full & WIP Papers Mar 6, 2017: Poster Abstracts Conference website: <http://SocialMediaAndSociety.org> http://SocialMediaAndSociety.org CALL FOR PROPOSALS 2017 #SMSociety Theme: Social Media for Social Good or Evil Our online behaviour is far from virtual--it extends our offline lives. Much social media research has identified the positive opportunities of using social media; for example, how people use social media to form support groups online, participate in political uprising, raise money for charities, extend teaching and learning outside the classroom, etc. However, mirroring offline experiences, we have also seen social media being used to spread propaganda and misinformation, recruit terrorists, live stream criminal activities, reinforce echo chambers by politicians, and perpetuate hate and oppression (such as racist, sexist, homophobic, and anti-Semitic behaviour). Furthermore, behind the posts are algorithms, power structures, commercial interests and other factors that surreptitiously influence our experiences on social media. So, we ask: * What does it actually mean to use social media for social good? * How can social media be further leveraged for social justice? What are the threats to meaningful participation and how can we overcome these threats? * What do we know about the 4 W's of who, what, why, where (and how) do people engage in anti-social behaviour online? * What theoretical and methodological tools can we use to study anti-social behaviour? Can we detect such behaviour automatically? * What are the ethics of algorithms (inclusion, accessibility, data discrimination, bots)? * What are the legal, policy, privacy, and ethical implications of using social big data? * Considering the proliferation of bots online, can we still trust social media data? * And more broadly, what are the major effects of using social media on political, economic, individual, and social aspects of our society? The 2017 International Conference on Social Media & Society (#SMSociety) invites scholarly and original submissions that relate to the broad theme of Social Media & Society. We welcome both quantitative and qualitative work which crosses interdisciplinary boundaries and expands our understanding of the current and future trends in social media research, especially those that explore some of the questions and issues raised above. ABOUT THE CONFERENCE: The International Conference on Social Media & Society (#SMSociety) is an annual gathering of leading social media researchers from around the world. Now, in its 8th year, the 2017 conference will be held in Toronto, Canada at Ted Rogers School of Management, Ryerson University on July 28-30. >From its inception, the Conference has focused on the best practices for studying the impact and implications of social media on society. Our invited industry and academic keynotes have highlighted the shifting questions and concerns for the social media research community. From introducing media multiplexity and networked individualism with Caroline Haythornthwaite and Barry Wellman in 2010 and 2011, to measuring influence with Gilad Lotan and Sharad Goel in 2012 and 2013, to defining social media research as a field with Keith Hampton in 2014, to identifying our commitments as social media researchers in policy making with Bill Dutton in 2015, to exploring the future of social media technologies with John Weigelt in 2015, to highlighting the challenges of social media data mining in the context of big data with Susan Halford and Helen Kennedy in 2016. Organized by the <http://socialmedialab.ca/> Social Media Lab at <http://www.ryerson.ca/tedrogersschool/> Ted Rogers School of Management at Ryerson University, the conference provides participants with opportunities to exchange ideas, present original research, learn about recent and ongoing studies, and network with peers. The conference's intensive three-day program features workshops, full papers, work-in-progress papers, panels, and posters. The wide-ranging topics in social media showcase research from scholars working in many fields including Communication, Computer Science, Education, Journalism, Information Science, Management, Political Science, Sociology, Social Work, etc. SUBMISSION DETAILS: See online at https://socialmediaandsociety.org/submit/ PUBLISHING OPPORTUNITIES: Full and WIP (short) papers presented at the Conference will be published in the conference proceedings by <http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2930971&CFID=847001369&CFTOKEN=15617273&p reflayout=flat#prox> ACM International Conference Proceeding Series (ICPS) and will be available in the ACM Digital Library. All conference presenters will be invited to submit their work as a full paper to the special issue of the <http://sms.sagepub.com/> Social Media + Society journal (published by SAGE). TOPICS OF INTEREST: Social Media Impact on Society . Political Mobilization & Engagement . Extremism & Terrorism . Politics of Hate and Oppression . The Sharing/Attention Economy . Social Media & Health . Virality & Memes . Social Media & Social Justice . Social Media & Business (Marketing, PR, HR, Risk Management, etc.) . Social Media & Academia (Alternative Metrics, Learning Analytics, etc.) . Social Media & Public Administration . Social Media & the News Online/Offline Communities . Trust & Credibility in Social Media . Online Community Detection . Influential User Detection . Identity Social Media & Small Data . Case Studies of Online Communities Formed on Social Media . Case Studies of Offline Communities that Rely on Social Media . Sampling Issues . Value of Small Data Social Media & Big Data . Visualization of Social Media Data . Social Media Data Mining . Scalability Issues & Social Media Data . Social Media Analytics . Ethics of Big Data/Algorithms Theories & Methods . Qualitative & Quantitative Approaches . Opinion Mining & Sentiment Analysis . Social Network Analysis . Theoretical Models for Studying, Analysing and Understanding Social Media Social Media & Mobile . App-ification of Society . Privacy & Security Issues in the Mobile World . Apps for the Social Good . Networking Apps ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: Anatoliy Gruzd, Ryerson University, Canada - Conference Chair Jenna Jacobson, University of Toronto, Canada - Conference Chair Philip Mai, Ryerson University, Canada - Conference Chair K. Hazel Kwon, Arizona State University, USA - Poster Chair ADVISORY BOARD: William H. Dutton, Michigan State University, USA Zizi Papacharissi, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA Barry Wellman, INSNA Founder, The Netlab Network

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Event: Harun Farocki and the Question of Cognitive Labour
by Westminster Institute for Advanced Studies 06 Oct '16

06 Oct '16

Harun Farocki and the Question of Cognitive Labour https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/harun-farocki-and-the-question-of-cognitive-… https://www.westminster.ac.uk/events/harun-farocki-and-the-question-of-cogn… Fri 18 November 2016 18:30 – 21:00 University of Westminster 309 Regent Street 1st Floor Boardroom London W1B 2HW Marking the 120-year anniversary of the first screening of Lumière Brothers' *Workers Leaving the Factory* at the University of Westminster’s Regent Street campus, the Westminster Institute for Advanced Studies hosts an evening featuring short films by Harun Farocki and comments by two distinguished experts. In 1896, the Royal Polytechnic Institution – today the University of Westminster – hosted the first ever screening of moving images to a British audience: A set of ten short films by the Lumière Brothers. One of these was *Workers Leaving the Factory*. In 1995, German filmmaker Harun Farocki produced a film of the same title, exploring the relation between the cinema and the factory. Farocki asked: W hy have the factory and industrial labour been systematically hidden and disregarded in the history of cinema? Through the montage of similar scenes from the history of film, Farocki depicts the factory gate as a site of social struggle. The gate functions as a metaphor for the gradual eviction of the industrial worker from the factory and the emergence of new forms of cognitive labour. In other words, *Workers Leaving the Factory* marks the exit of the mass worker from industrial capitalism and into what is called the social factory in Italian autonomous theory. Farocki’s films prompt us to ask pressing questions in relation to what today is called cognitive/informational/cultural labour. The event aims to show how contemporary theories of labour allow us to read and interpret the work of one of the key figures in contemporary German cinema and how cinema can inform critical social theory. On this evening, Dr Claudio Celis Bueno (Westminster Institute for Advanced Studies) and Dr Michael Cowan (University of S. Andrews) will be exploring the internal relation between the audio-visual work of Farocki and new theoretical reflections on labour in contemporary society. Drawing lines backwards into film history, the event takes place in the historical building where the Lumière Brothers’ film was first shown to a British public. We will be just next door to the Regent Street Cinema, which was re-opened by University of Westminster in 2015.

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Event: Harun Farocki and the Question of Cognitive Labour
by Westminster Institute for Advanced Studies 06 Oct '16

06 Oct '16

Harun Farocki and the Question of Cognitive Labour https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/harun-farocki-and-the-question-of-cognitive-… https://www.westminster.ac.uk/events/harun-farocki-and-the-question-of-cogn… Fri 18 November 2016 18:30 – 21:00 University of Westminster 309 Regent Street 1st Floor Boardroom London W1B 2HW On this evening, Dr Claudio Celis Bueno (Westminster Institute for Advanced Studies) and Dr Michael Cowan (University of S. Andrews) will be exploring the internal relation between the audio-visual work of Farocki and new theoretical reflections on labour in contemporary society.

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PhD scholarship in media studies with special focus on visual images of conflicts (University of Copenhagen)
by Mette Mortensen 06 Oct '16

06 Oct '16

PhD Scholarship in media studies with special focus on visual images of conflicts. The Department of Media, Cognition, and Communication, Faculty of Humanities, University of Copenhagen, Denmark, invites applications for a 3-year PhD scholarship. The successful candidate will be situated within the "Images of Conflict, Conflicting Images" (ICCI) core group project supported by the Velux Foundation. The scholarship is expected to begin February 1, 2017, or as soon as possible thereafter. Deadline for applications November 16 2016. Please see this link for details about the position and the application requirements: http://employment.ku.dk/phd/?show=859841 Mette Mortensen, PhD Associate professor Section of Film, Media and Communication Department of Media, Cognition and Communication University of Copenhagen Karen Blixensvej 4 (+45)3532 9181 metmort(a)hum.ku.dk<mailto:metmort@hum.ku.dk> http://mcc.ku.dk/staff/?pure=en/persons/182931 Recent books: - Journalism and Eyewitness Images: Digital Media, Participation, and Conflict. Routledge (2015). http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415828499/ - News Across Media. Production, Distribution and Consumption. Routledge: 2016. Co-edited with Jakob Linaa Jensen & Jacob Ørmen. https://www.routledge.com/News-Across-Media-Production-Distribution-and-Con sumption/Jensen-Mortensen-rmen/p/book/9781138911734 - The Dynamics of Mediatized Conflicts. Peter Lang: 2015. Co-edited with Mikkel Fugl Eskjær & Stig Hjarvard. https://www.peterlang.com/view/product/31130

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Internet Policy Review special issue: Doing internet governance
by Frédéric Dubois 06 Oct '16

06 Oct '16

[image: Doing Internet Governance] <http://policyreview.info/articles/analysis/doing-internet-governance-practi…> S P E C I A L I S S U E What are the invisible politics at work in the governance of the internet? Do companies frame the work of app developers and webmasters? What are the power structures behind Bitcoin? Was the Free Basics controversy in India a clear case of the clash of ideologies? These, and many more questions are tackled within the most recent publication Doing Internet Governance: The Practices, Controversies, Infrastructures, and Institutions <http://policyreview.info/articles/analysis/doing-internet-governance-practi…> of the* Internet Policy Review*. This special issue makes an argument for, and illustrates, the applicability of a science and technology studies (STS) informed approach to internet governance research. An editorial and ten articles by a broad range of scholars aim to add to the mainstream internet governance scholarship by unpacking macro questions of politics and power. They do so through the analysis of the mundane and taken-for-granted practices and discourses that constitute the design, regulation, maintenance, and use of both technical and institutional arrangements of internet governance. Together, this body of work calls to rethink how we conceptualise both internet and governance. Take a look <http://policyreview.info/articles/analysis/doing-internet-governance-practi…> The editors of this special issue are Dmitry Epstein, Department of Communication, University of Illinois at Chicago (dmitry(a)uic.edu <dmitry@uic.edu?subject=IPR+Special+Edition:+Doing+Internet+Governance>), Christian Katzenbach, Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society ( katzenbach(a)hiig.de <katzenbach@hiig.de?subject=IPR+Special+Edition:+Doing+Internet+Governance>) and Francesca Musiani, Institute for Communication Sciences, CNRS/Paris-Sorbonne/UPMC (francesca.musiani(a)cnrs.fr <francesca.musiani@cnrs.fr?subject=IPR+Special+Edition:+Doing+InternetGovernance> ). [image: Doing Internet Governance] You exceptionally received this mail because you are subscribed to the AoIR list. Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society Französische Straße 9 | 10117 Berlin | info(a)hiig.de <info(a)hiig.de>

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PhD Opportunities at the University of Melbourne
by Scott Wright 05 Oct '16

05 Oct '16

Hi everyone, The Media and Communications (M&C) program at The University of Melbourne is now calling for expressions of interest from prospective Australian postgraduate research students as part of the University’s annual Scholarship Round. The M&C program is a leading Australian university research environment, offering a vibrant space for research students exploring numerous areas of enquiry in media, communications, and related areas. We are actively connected with the Asian region, and engaged with numerous public institutions and industry organisations. The university is one of the top-ranked institutions in the world, and the top-ranked institution in Australia (THE 2016). We are seeking enthusiastic applicants with excellent academic track records (equal to an Australian Bachelor Degree with First Class Honours) for competitive PhD scholarships to undertake study in our program. In particular we are keen to support applicants that align with our key areas of research: - Children, youth and digital media - Humanitarian communication and crisis reporting - Journalism studies and digital journalism - Marketing communication - Media and mobility - Political communication - Public cultures - Publishing studies - Media theory and digital culture - Urban communication Closing date for applications is October 31st; though we encourage potential applicants to make contact with relevant supervisors in the M&C or publishing and communications programs: http://arts.unimelb.edu.au/culture-communication/welcome/staff Further information on our program can be found here: http://arts.unimelb.edu.au/culture-communication/study/media-and-communicat… Information about application process can be found here: http://graduate.arts.unimelb.edu.au/degrees/25-doctor-of-philosophy-arts/ap… Apologies for cross-posting! Cheers, Scott www.scott-wright.net Dr Scott Wright Senior Lecturer in Political Communication University of Melbourne Melbourne VIC, 3000 Australia http://culture-communication.unimelb.edu.au/about/staff/dr-scott-wright

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USC Annenberg assistant professor job
by christina dunbar-hester 05 Oct '16

05 Oct '16

(with apologies for x-posting) The School of Communication at USC’s Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism is searching for a tenure-track Assistant Professor. This search aims to help create a diverse faculty body and especially seeks applicants who contribute to equal opportunity here at USC. We particularly welcome candidates who place race and ethnicity, diasporic communication, communication and media issues in underserved populations, or social inequalities at the center of their research and teaching interests, as well as faculty who might bring to their research diverse perspectives that stem in part from their non-traditional educational backgrounds or from their personal experiences as members of groups historically underrepresented in higher education. Candidates may work in any area in the Communications field: Media Studies, Cultural Studies, Rhetoric, Information and Communication Technologies, Health Communication, among others. Applicants should have earned a Ph.D. in Communication or in a related discipline. Scholars representing all methodological traditions are encouraged to apply. ABD’s who will have degree in hand by August 2017 and recent Ph.D.s are especially encouraged to apply. This position would potentially be supported in part by the USC Provost’s Assistant Professor Fellowship program, which supports new faculty to pursue scholarship and tenure. The Provost’s Assistant Professor Fellowship program provides a first year without teaching obligations followed by the standard six-year probationary appointment. We seek a colleague whose work will grow into making high-impact interventions into the Communications field and contribute to the current and future work of the School, and to that of the USC campus broadly. *Applicants* In order to be considered for this position, all candidates must apply via the USC Employee Recruitment Services website at the following link http://jobs.usc.edu/postings/76139. Submission materials should include a cover letter, curriculum vitae, samples of recent referred publications and the names and contact information for three recommenders. The cover letter should be addressed to School of Communication Faculty Search Committee, attention Billie Shotlow, Annenberg School of Communication, University of Southern California, 3502 Watt Way, Suite 305, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0281. Applicants may direct questions to Billie Shotlow: shotlow(a)usc.edu or (213-821-2718). Materials submitted by regular mail will not be accepted. Review of applications will commence on October 15, 2016, and continue until the position is filled or the search closed. USC is an equal-opportunity educator and employer, proudly pluralistic and firmly committed to providing equal opportunity for outstanding persons of every race, gender, creed and background. The University particularly encourages members of underrepresented groups, veterans and individuals with disabilities to apply. ** Christina Dunbar-Hester, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism, University of Southern California Author of *Low Power to the People* <http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/low-power-people>, MIT Press

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3 tenure track positions at IU East
by Rybas, Natalia 05 Oct '16

05 Oct '16

Dear all - IU East has three tenure-track openings to start in August 2017. Please share this information with anybody who is interested. Click on the links below for the specific details for each position and application instructions. 1. Assistant Professor in Communication Studies - Intercultural Communication, Cultural Studies, or Relational Communication:https://indiana.peopleadmin.com/postings/2734 2. Assistant Professor in Communication Studies - Mass Media, Telecommunication, or Broadcast Journalism: https://indiana.peopleadmin.com/postings/2735 3. Assistant Professor in Communication Studies - Advertising: https://indiana.peopleadmin.com/postings/2723 Feel free to send me inquiries. Natalia Rybas, PhD Associate Dean, School of Humanities and Social Sciences Associate Professor and Chair, Department of Communication Studies Indiana University East Tom Raper Hall 250 2325 Chester Blvd, Richmond, IN 47374 natrybas(a)iue.edu<mailto:natrybas@iue.edu> 765-973-8376<file://localhost/tel/765-973-8376>

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21st European Conference on Advances in Databases and Information Systems (ADBIS 2017): First Call for Papers
by Announce Announcements 05 Oct '16

05 Oct '16

*** First Call for Papers *** 21st European Conference on Advances in Databases and Information Systems Hilton Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus 24 - 27 September, 2017 http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=YWlyLUwJCQlhaXItTEBsaXN0c2Vydi… The main objective of the ADBIS series of conferences is to provide a forum for the dissemination of research accomplishments and to promote interaction and collaboration between the database and information system research communities from European countries and the rest of the world. The ADBIS conferences provide an international platform for the presentation of research on database theory, development of advanced DBMS technologies, and their advanced applications. The conference will consist of regular sessions with technical contributions (regular papers, short papers) reviewed and selected by an international program committee, as well as of invited talks and tutorials presented by leading scientists. The official language of the conference will be English. A Doctoral Consortium and different Workshops will be held in line with the main conference. TOPICS We invite original papers describing results that broadly belong to both theory and practice of databases and information systems. The list of specific topics of interest follows, with a note that it is not exhaustive and we welcome novel results addressing topics not included in the list. · Data intensive sciences and databases · Theoretical foundations of databases · Management of large scale data systems · Data models and query languages · Database monitoring and (self-)tuning · Data curation, annotation, and provenance · Data warehousing, OLAP, and ETL tools · Indexing, query processing and optimization · Data mining and knowledge discovery · Big data storage, replication, and consistency · Modeling, mining and querying user generated content · Data quality and data cleansing · Web, XML and semi-structured databases · Sensor databases and mobile data management · Text databases and information retrieval · Probabilistic databases, uncertainty and approximate querying · Temporal and spatial databases · Graph databases · Databases on emerging hardware architectures · Distributed data platforms, including Cloud data systems, key-value stores, and Big Data systems · Information extraction and integration · Streaming data analysis · Scalable data analysis and analytics · Data and information visualization; and user interfaces · Information quality and usability · Information system architectures and networking · Business process modeling and optimization · Data and information flow engineering and management · Context-aware and adaptive information systems · Data and information intensive services · Requirements engineering for databases and information systems · Artificial intelligence in databases and information systems · Data, information, and information systems security · Innovative platforms for data and information handling · Innovative approaches for database and information systems engineering · Novel database and information systems applications PAPER PUBLISHING ADBIS accepted research papers will be published in a Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science volume. Papers must not exceed 14 pages in the LNCS format. For camera-ready papers use Latex or Word style (find here http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=YWlyLUwJCQlhaXItTEBsaXN0c2Vydi… 0-164-2-793332-0&changeHeader). The program committee may decide to accept a submission as a short paper if it reports interesting results but does not justify publication of a full paper. ADBIS short research papers must not exceed 8 pages. The best paper authored solely by students will receive an award. Best papers of the main conference will be invited for submission in special issues of the ISI-indexed journals Information Systems (http://www.journals.elsevier.com/information-systems/) and Informatica (http://www.informatica.si/) SUBMISSION GUIDELINES · Papers must be written in English. · Papers must contain previously unpublished work and not be submitted concurrently to another conference. · Papers are submitted using an electronic submissions system, as detailed below. · An Author of an accepted paper must register to ADBIS 2017 in order to have the paper published. · Accepted papers must be presented at the conference by one of the authors. · ADBIS papers must be submitted via the EasyChair system: http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=YWlyLUwJCQlhaXItTEBsaXN0c2Vydi…. · Papers must be submitted as a single PDF document · Authors of accepted papers must submit along with the camera-ready version of their paper a copyright form filled (http://www.cyprusconferences.org/adbis2017/files/springerform.pdf) and signed. Please note that only authors employed by the EU (as an institution) tick the relevant box. Authors who simply reside or work in an EU country should not tick this box. IMPORTANT DATES · Full and Short Papers: March 30, 2017 · Notification of Acceptance: May 25, 2017 · Camera-ready Submission: June 15, 2017 COMMITTEES Steering Committee Chair · Leonid Kalinichenko, Russian Academy of Science, Russia General Chair · George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Program Chairs · Marite Kirikova, Riga Technical University, Latvia · Kjetil Nørvåg, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway Proceedings Chair · Christos Mettouris, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Workshops Chairs · Johann Gamper, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy · Robert Wrembel, Poznan University of Technology, Poland Doctoral Consortium Chairs · Jerome Darmont, Universite Lyon 2, France · Stefano Rizzi, University of Bologna, Italy

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Networked Individualism -- East Asian Style
by Barry Wellman 05 Oct '16

05 Oct '16

is out now in the Online-only Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Communication http://communication.oxfordre.com/view/10.1093/acrefore/9780190228613.001.0… Vincent Chua and I wrote the review article with a lot of help from our networks. Here's the info: Networked individualism represents the phenomenon that people are managers of their own personal networks. Networked individualism in an East (and Southeast) Asian context draws attention to the significant role of Asian social institutions and culture in the patterning of personal communities. When compared to Western situationsparticularly AmericanEast Asian personal communities are just as vibrant and supportive. They have woven seamlessly with digital media, extend both near and far, and are rich in social support. There are several differences that make East Asian societies unique, such as their strong focus on kinship, the salience of hierarchical social capital, the culture of mutual monitoring occurring through strong ties (e.g., guanxi), and the accelerated rise of digital media in everyday life. Keywords: networked individualism, digital media, personal communities, social support, kinship, hierarchical social capital, mutual monitoring, guanxi, East Asia, Southeast Asia DOI: 10.1093/acrefore/9780190228613.013.119 Barry Wellman A vision is just a vision if it's only in your head Step by step, link by link, putting it together Streisand/Sondheim _______________________________________________________________________ NetLab Network FRSC INSNA Founder http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman twitter: @barrywellman NETWORKED: The New Social Operating System Lee Rainie & Barry Wellman http://amzn.to/zXZg39 _______________________________________________________________________

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