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Re: [Air-L] RMIT DERC PhD Scholarships
by Larissa Hjorth 11 Sep '14

11 Sep '14

Dear Colleagues, I thought this call for PhD applicants might be of interest to the list.... RMIT University is currently inviting applications for PhD scholarships. http://www.rmit.edu.au/browse;ID=uwpmk8bd4bkbz We are encouraging applicants with first class Honours or equivalent qualifications, who are interested in undertaking ethnographic research on issues around media, communication, mobile media. Topics of particular interest: · - The socio-cultural dimensions of mobile media · - New media · - Games and play in the everyday · - Locative media and families You would become a member of the Digital Ethnography Research Centre (DERC) at RMIT University, home to leading media and digital ethnographers (Heather Horst, Sarah Pink, John Postill, Jo Tacchi, Larissa Hjorth, Tania Lewis), and a growing group of postgraduate students and postdoctoral researchers. http://www.rmit.edu.au/research/derc Applications close 31 October 2014. Application details: http://www.rmit.edu.au/research/applying-for-postgraduate-research Many thanks Larissa -- Professor Larissa Hjorth Deputy Dean R&I School of Media and Communication RMIT University GPO Box 2476 Melbourne VIC 3001 Australia

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Seminar Series: Communication in the era of attention scarcity, Paris, 15 sept.-02 dec. 2014
by Claudia Roda 10 Sep '14

10 Sep '14

Dear Colleagues, Please see below the program for the seminar series on "Communication in the era of attention scarcity" organised by the American University of Paris during the fall semester 2014. For more information and for registering in any of the sessions, please see http://ac.aup.edu/croda/attentionscarcityseminar/index.htm * Monday 15.9 Waddick Doyle (AUP) - Inaugural lecture Semiotics and the Attention Economy * Monday 22.9 Jayson Harsin (Baruch College) - via videoconference Bringing together interdisciplinary strands in critical attention and cultural studies: affect, attention, power and circulation * Monday 29.9 Georgi Stojanov (AUP) Relation between Creativity and Attention * Monday 6.10 Georg Frank (Vienna university of technology) - The Economy of Attention in the Age of Neoliberalism Respondent: Ahmed Bounfour (Université Paris-Sud) * Monday 13.10 Julie Thomas (AUP Emerita) Attention and colour * Monday 20.10 Dominique Boullier (Sciences Po Paris, médialab) Designing envelopes for attention policies Respondent: Charles Talcot (AUP) * Monday 27.10 Yves Citton (Université de Grenoble) Attention Ecologies and Attentional Agency Respondent: Oliver Feltham (AUP) * Monday 3.11 Rachel Huber (AUP alumna) Digital movement and branded attention enclosures: Vogue Fashion Night Out Paris and the Nike FuelStation * Monday 17.11 Robert Payne (AUP) Divided attention and networked promiscuity Respondent: Geoff Gilbert (AUP) * Tuesday 2.12 Jean-Philippe Lachaux (INSERM, Lyon) The attentive brain Respondent: Maria Medved (AUP) Best regards, Claudia Roda -- Claudia Roda Professor of Computer Science American University of Paris 147, rue de Grenelle, 75007 Paris +33(0)1.40.62.07.01 croda(a)aup.fr http://ac.aup.fr/roda

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ASIST '14> SIG-SI Research Symposium Final Schedule
by Rosenbaum, Howard S. 10 Sep '14

10 Sep '14

The 10th Annual Social Informatics Research Symposium (SIG SI) @ the 2014 Annual Meeting of the Association for Information Science and Technology Connecting (Epistemic) Cultures and (Intellectual) Communities Please join us in Seattle and celebrate with us as we mark the 10th year of the SIG-SI Research Symposium! Saturday, November 1, 2014, 8:30 AM - 12:30 PM Sheraton Seattle Hotel, Seattle Washington, USA Organizers: Pnina Fichman, Indiana University (fichman(a)indiana.edu) Howard Rosenbaum, Indiana University (hrosenba(a)indiana.edu) Sponsored by SIG-SI and the Rob Kling Center for Social Informatics Note: Early registration deadline for the conference is Friday, 9/18/2014 Schedule 8:30-8:40 Introduction – Social Informatics and Epistemic Cultures 8:40-9:40 Papers 8:40-9:00 EunJeong Cheon and Mohammad Hossein Jarrahi, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill The interplay between different forms of knowledge and use of ICTs in knowledge practices of consultants 9:00-9:20 Wayne Buente, Luz Quiroga, Tamara Heck and Joe Greene, University of Hawaii at Manoa Between Two Publics: Examining the Social Context of ICT use among Homeless Individuals in Hawaii 9:20-9:40 Asen O. Ivanov, University of Toronto Genres of Workplace Practices: Towards a New Socio-Technical Idiom for Organizational Informatics 9:40-10:00 Mohhamad Jarrahi, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Social informatics and directions for future research on implications of ICTs in organizations 10:00-10:20 Break and Poster Session 10:20-11:20: Panel discussion: Social Informatics and Epistemic Cultures Invited scholars will be asked to reflect and consider the following questions: • How do you see your work as bridging epistemic cultures and intellectual communities? • What are the social and technological forces that enable and constrain connections between SI and cognate intellectual communities? • What are some of the ways in which we can begin to establish and maintain connections among SI and cognate epistemic cultures and intellectual communities? • What can a social informatics approach tell us about the nature of the boundaries among SI and cognate epistemic communities? • What are the challenges and opportunities of engaging in this type of SI work? 11:20-11:40 Networking break 11:40-12:30 Best paper awards and presentations 2013 Social Informatics Paper ($1,000) Budhathoki, N.R, and Haythornthwaite, C. (2013). Motivation for open collaboration: Crowd and community models and the case of OpenStreeMap. American Behavioral Scientist 57: 548-575. 2012 Best Social Informatics Student Paper ($500): Gal Oestreicher-SInger and Lior Zalmanson Oestricher-Singer, G. and Zalmanson, L. (2013). Content or Community? A digital business strategy for content providers in the social age. MISQ, 37 No. 2, pp. 591-616. Poster Min Sook Park and Hyejin Park, Florida State University Health Information Referencing in Online Communities: Case Study of Breast Cancer Information for Korean Immigrants Fees: Early-bird: SIG/SI Members $90, Members $100, Non-members $120 Regular: SIG/SI Members $105, Members $115, Non-members $135 For more about the workshop: http://www.asist.org/asist2014/seminars_workshops_SIG_SI.html To register for the workshop (and the conference): http://www.asist.org/asist2014/register.html For more about Rob Kling Center for Social Informatics: http://rkcsi.indiana.edu

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ASIST SIG-SI> Winners of the 2013 Social Informatics Best Paper Awards
by Rosenbaum, Howard S. 10 Sep '14

10 Sep '14

The Association for Information Science and Technology Special Interest Group for Social Informatics (ASIS&T SIG SI) and the Rob Kling Center for Social Informatics (RKCSI) are pleased to announce the winning papers of the 2013 Social Informatics Best Paper Awards: 2013 Best Social Informatics Paper ($1,000): Budhathoki, N.R, and Haythornthwaite, C. (2013). Motivation for open collaboration: Crowd and community models and the case of OpenStreeMap. American Behavioral Scientist 2013 57: 548-575. 2013 Best Social Informatics Student Paper ($500): Oestricher-Singer, G. and Zalmanson, L. (2013). Content or Community? A digital business strategy for content providers in the social age. MISQ, 37 No. 2, pp. 591-616. The authors will present their papers and receive their awards at the 10th Annual Social Informatics Research Symposium: “Connecting (Epistemic) Cultures and (Intellectual) Communities” co-sponsored by ASIS&T SIG-SI and RKCSI, on Saturday, November 1, 2014 at the 2014 Annual Meeting of the Association for Information Science and Technology in Seattle, WA. Information about the workshop The 10th Annual Social Informatics Research Symposium: Connecting (Epistemic) Cultures and (Intellectual) Communities At the 2014 Annual Meeting of the Association for Information Science and Technology Sponsored by: ASIS&T SIG Social Informatics and Rob Kling Center for Social Informatics, Indiana University Saturday, November 1, 2014, 8:30-12:30 PM Sheraton Seattle Hotel, Seattle WA Organizers: Howard Rosenbaum and Pnina Fichman, School of Informatics and Computing, Indiana University Fees: Members $90 - early registration ($110 after early registration ends) Non-members $110 - early registration ($130 after early registration ends) For more about the workshop, see http://www.asist.org/asist2013/seminars_workshops_SIG_SI.html. To register for the workshop (and the conference), see http://www.asist.org/asist2013/register.html For more about RKCSI, see http://rkcsi.indiana.edu

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Call for Papers/Abstracts: ASIST Workshop on Understanding Web search engine users
by Dirk Lewandowski 09 Sep '14

09 Sep '14

Apologies for cross-posting. Please distribute widely! Call for Papers Understanding Web search engine users Workshop at the 77th Annual Meeting of the Association of Information Science & Technology (ASIS&T) October 31, 2014, Sheraton Seattle Hotel, Seattle, WA http://www.asis.org/asist2014/ Organized by Shari Thurow, Founder and SEO Director, Omni Marketing Interactive, USA Dirk Lewandowski, Professor, Hamburg University of Applied Sciences, Germany Matt Wallaert, Behavioral Scientist, Microsoft, USA INTRODUCTION Many researchers are interested in internet search behaviour, both as a primary action and as a secondary source of data that reflects the what, how, and why of information seeking. But despite that interest, we still lack a systematic research agenda on search engine use and searcher behaviours, perhaps because the potential for the data is so broad and the fields of study being applied so vast that it is difficult to coordinate and discuss across disciplines. Consequently, researchers usually focus on the methods popular in their fields, but are unaware of other methodological approaches and/or software tools that could help them achieve their research goals. Thus, by collaborating across disciplines, there is substantial opportunity to introduce new methods and research questions to investigators who are working along similar lines but without awareness of each other. GOALS, OBJECTIVES AND OUTCOME The goal of the workshop is to bring together researchers from academia and industry, who are interested in understanding search engine use, both as a primary and secondary source to reflect on user behaviour. We are interested in discussing methods and results in various areas, aiming for establishing a research agenda for information science researchers interested in Web searching. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Theories of Web search engine user behaviours * Evaluating search engine user interfaces * Information retrieval evaluation methods applied to Web search engines * Query log analysis * Eye-tracking research * User guidance in the search process * Incorporating user behaviours into search engine optimization techniques * Usability and user experience in Web searching * Using and sharing information found through search engines * Understanding user behaviours through triangulation of methods (e.g., transaction-log analysis, lab-based studies, online questionnaires, diary studies) TYPES OF SUBMISSIONS The workshop invites short research papers and position papers, as well. We also welcome overviews of relevant research done within a research group over the last few years. Accepted submissions will be presented in a 20-minute presentation. At least one presenter must be present at the event and register for the workshop. Extended abstracts and presentations will be made available on the workshop website. There will be no formal workshop proceedings. Submissions should be in the form of extended abstracts (approx. 1,500 words) including references. HOW TO SUBMIT Please send your extended abstracts to the workshop organizers: sthurow(a)search-usability.com dirk.lewandowski(a)haw-hamburg.de matt.wallaert(a)microsoft.com IMPORTANT DATES Paper deadline: 15 September 2014 Notification of acceptance: 22 September 2014 Workshop: 31 October 2014 -- Prof. Dr. Dirk Lewandowski Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften Hamburg (Hamburg University of Applied Sciences) Fakultät Design Medien Information Department Information Finkenau 35 D - 22081 Hamburg Germany Tel.: +49 (0) 40-42875 3621 Fax: + 49 (0) 3222-1445 301 Skype: dirk.lewandowski Twitter: @Dirk_Lew http://www.searchstudies.org/dirk ********* Editor, Aslib Journal of Information Management (previously: ASLIB Proceedings) http://www.emeraldinsight.com/products/journals/journals.htm?id=ajim *********

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Conference for E-Democracy and Open Government
by Haythornthwaite, Caroline 09 Sep '14

09 Sep '14

FYI. Begin forwarded message: From: Noella Edelmann <Noella.Edelmann(a)donau-uni.ac.at<mailto:Noella.Edelmann@donau-uni.ac.at>> CeDEM15 Conference for E-Democracy and Open Government 20-22 May 2015 Danube University Krems, Austria www.donau-uni.ac.at/cedem<http://www.donau-uni.ac.at/cedem> ********************************************************************* The international Conference for e-Democracy and Open Government brings together e-democracy, e-participation and open government specialists working in academia, politics, government and business to critically analyse the innovations, issues, ideas and challenges in the networked societies of the digital age. Tracks: E-Democracy and E-Participation E-Voting Bottom-Up Movements Social and Mobile Media for Public Administration Open Collaborative Government Democracy, Globalization and Migration Connected Smart City Open Data, Transparency and Open Innovation Technology and Architecture Self-governance in Complex Networks Rethinking Information Visualization for the People Freedom and Ethics in Digital Societies Design and Co-creation for E-democracy Citizen's Participation in Democratic Governance Processes through ICT in Africa Open Access as well as...... PhD Colloquium Workshop Proposals Reflections Open Space Important Dates: *Deadline for the submission of all papers, workshop proposals,reflections: 8 December 2014 *Notification of acceptance: 9 February 2015 *Camera-ready paper submission: 2 March 2015 *Conference: 20-22 May 2015 CeDEM15 www.donau-uni.ac.at/cedem<http://www.donau-uni.ac.at/cedem> Noella Edelmann BA, MSc, MAS Researcher CeDEM15 Conference for E-Democracy and Open Government www.donau-uni.ac.at/cedem<http://www.donau-uni.ac.at/cedem> JeDEM eJournal of eDemocracy and Open Government www.jedem.org<http://www.jedem.org> Digital Government Blog http://digitalgovernment.wordpress.com/ Centre for E-Government Danube University Krems Dr.-Karl-Dorrek-Strasse 30 3500 Krems Austria www.donau-uni.ac.at/egov<http://www.donau-uni.ac.at/egov>

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Faculty Position in Information and Library Science, Indiana University Bloomington, School of Informatics and Computing
by Fichman, Pnina 09 Sep '14

09 Sep '14

Indiana University School of Informatics and Computing Bloomington Faculty Position in Information and Library Science The School of Informatics and Computing at Indiana University, Bloomington, invites applications for a position beginning in Fall 2015 in the Department of Information and Library Science (all subareas). This position is open at all levels (assistant, associate, or full professor). Applications from senior leaders are especially encouraged. The Department of Information and Library Science (ILS), formerly the School of Library and Information Science, has a long, successful history, having graduated over 8,000 students since it opened its doors in 1946. In 2013, U.S. News & World Report ranked the Bloomington Information and Library Science program eighth nationally<http://grad-schools.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-graduate-schools/top…>. The School of Informatics and Computing is the first of its kind and among the largest in the country, with unsurpassed breadth. Its mission is to excel and lead in education, research, and outreach spanning and integrating computing and information technologies. In addition to ILS, the School includes the Department of Computer Science and Informatics and has a total of over 85 faculty, 900 graduate students, and 1,100 undergraduate majors on the Bloomington campus. Faculty research areas include bibliometrics; big data; computer-mediated communication; data science; digital libraries; information organization, retrieval, and visualization; science studies; semantic web, social informatics; text mining; web science; and more. Graduate degrees offered in the School include Master’s degrees in Bioinformatics, Computer Science, Human Computer Interaction Design, Information Science, Library Science, and Security Informatics, and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science, Informatics, and Information Science. The School is also known for its strong undergraduate programs. Indiana University Bloomington is a major public research university with over 2,000 faculty and over 45,000 students. The beautiful campus hosts 110 research centers and institutes, as well as a wide array of distinguished academic departments and schools. IU is renowned for its high-performance computing and networking facilities, top-ranked music school, and performing and fine arts. Located in the wooded rolling hills of southern Indiana, Bloomington is a culturally thriving college town with a moderate cost of living and the amenities for an active lifestyle. Basic qualifications: Applicants should have a Ph.D. in a relevant area (or for junior level, expected before August 2015) and an established record (senior level) or demonstrable potential for excellence in research and teaching (junior level). Applicants should submit a curriculum vitae, statements of research and teaching, and names of three references (junior level), or six references (senior level) using the University’s online system below (preferred): http://indiana.peopleadmin.com/postings/971 or to Faculty Search, SoIC, 919 E 10th Street, Bloomington, IN 47408. For full consideration, completed applications must be received by December 1st, 2014. Informal and confidential inquiries may be sent to the ILS Chair, Pnina Fichman, (fichman(a)indiana.edu<mailto:fichman@indiana.edu>), or to any of the members of the search committee: Katy Börner (katy(a)indiana.edu<mailto:katy@indiana.edu>), Susan Herring (herring(a)indiana.edu<mailto:herring@indiana.edu>), Howard Rosenbaum (hrosenbau(a)indiana.edu<mailto:hrosenbau@indiana.edu>). Indiana University is an equal employment and affirmative action employer and a provider of ADA services. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ethnicity, color, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation or identity, national origin, disability status or protected veteran status. ------------------------ Pnina Fichman Chair, Department of Information and Library Science Director, Rob Kling Center for Social Informatics Director, Master of Library Science School of Informatics and Computing, Indiana University, Bloomington http://ella.slis.indiana.edu/~fichman/

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IR15 - draft program released
by Erika Pearson 09 Sep '14

09 Sep '14

As IR15: Boundaries and Intersections draws near, we are pleased to release the DRAFT program of events and sessions for the conference. You can access the program via ConfTools at: https://www.conftool.com/aoir-ir15/sessions.php The program shows both Preconference events on the 21st of October, as well as events scheduled for the main conference dates (22nd-24th October). All events are held across three floors at the brand new Beomeo Saint Western Hotel (http://ir15.aoir.org/?page_id=247 ). We’d appreciate it if all presenters could take a moment to check their presentation or event. If there are any errors, please contact the program chair, Erika Pearson, at erika.pearson(a)otago.ac.nz<mailto:erika.pearson@otago.ac.nz> by the 22nd so we can make corrections. You can search the program using the search field at the top right of screen, or explore by clicking on any of the session titles to see paper information. We are also putting out the call for session chairs – if you are attending the conference and would like to volunteer to chair a session, could you please email association co-ordinator Anna Hoffman at ac(a)aoir.org<mailto:ac@aoir.org> by the 22nd. We are very excited by the breadth and diversity of research on offer in this program, and we look forward to seeing you all in Daegu. Best wishes Erika Pearson IR15 Program Chair

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[CfP] 5th International Workshop on Model-driven Approaches for Simulation Engineering (Mod4Sim)
by Daniele Gianni 08 Sep '14

08 Sep '14

################################################################# 5th International Workshop on Model-driven Approaches for Simulation Engineering part of the Symposium on Theory of Modeling and Simulation (SCS SpringSim 2015) CALL FOR PAPERS ################################################################# April 12-15, 2015, Alexandria, VA (USA) http://www.sel.uniroma2.it/Mod4Sim15 ################################################################# # Papers Due: *** November 10, 2014 *** Accepted papers will be # published in the conference proceedings and archived in the ACM # Digital Library. ################################################################# The workshop aims to bring together experts in model-based, model-driven and software engineering with experts in simulation methods and simulation practitioners, with the objective to advance the state of the art in model-driven simulation engineering. Model-driven engineering approaches provide considerable advantages to software systems engineering activities through the provision of consistent and coherent models at different abstraction levels. As these models are in a machine readable form, model-driven engineering approaches can also support the exploitation of computing capabilities for model reuse, programming code generation, and model checking, for example. The definition of a simulation model, its software implementation and its execution platform form what is known as simulation engineering. As simulation systems are mainly based on software, these systems can similarly benefit from model-driven approaches to support automatic software generation, enhance software quality, and reduce costs, development effort and time-to-market. Similarly to systems and software engineering, simulation engineering can exploit the capabilities of model-driven approaches by increasing the abstraction level in simulation model specifications and by automating the derivation of simulator code. Further advantages can be gained by using modeling languages, such as UML and SysML, but not exclusively those. For example, modeling languages can be used for descriptive modeling (to describe the system to be simulated), for analytical modeling (to specify analytically the simulation of the same system) and for implementation modeling (to define the respective simulator). A partial list of topics of interest includes: * model-driven simulation engineering processes * requirements modeling for simulation * domain specific languages for modeling and simulation * model transformations for simulation model building * model transformations for simulation model implementation * model-driven engineering of distributed simulation systems * relationship between metamodeling standards (e.g., MOF, Ecore) and distributed simulation standards (e.g., HLA, DIS) * metamodels for simulation reuse and interoperability * model-driven technologies for different simulation paradigms (discrete event simulation, multi-agent simulation, sketch-based simulation, etc.) * model-driven methods and tools for performance engineering of simulation systems * simulation tools for model-driven software performance engineering * model-driven technologies for simulation verification and validation * model-driven technologies for data collection and analysis * model-driven technologies for simulation visualization * executable UML * executable architectures * SysML/Modelica integration * simulation model portability and reuse * model-based systems verification and validation * simulation for model-based systems engineering To stimulate creativity, however, the workshop maintains a wider scope and welcomes contributions offering original perspectives on model-driven engineering of simulation systems. +++++++++++++++ Important Dates +++++++++++++++ * Abstract Submission Deadline (optional): September 12, 2014 * Paper Submission Deadline: November 10, 2014 * Decision to paper authors: January 9, 2015 * Camera ready due: February 10, 2015 * Conference dates: April 12-15, 2015 ++++++++++++++++++++ Organizing Committee ++++++++++++++++++++ * Andrea DÕAmbrogio - University of Rome "Tor Vergata", Italy * Paolo Bocciarelli - University of Rome "Tor Vergata", Italy

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Research inquiry
by Noha Nagi 08 Sep '14

08 Sep '14

Dear Professors and colleagues, I am starting a research using facebook data. I am newbie in this area and looking for a software or a way to automatically extract historical facebook data from (Arabic) facebook pages. Data needed include: - posts; - comments; - date &time of posts and comments; and - some information about people that post and comment (for example: name, gender, age, location,...etc as much as we can get). I tried NodeXL. It helped me collect much of these requirements but not the *date/time *of posts and comments and this is crucial for my study. I aim to study a social phenomenon and its evolution through time. *Can anyone advice or suggest another software?* I appreciate your advice/comments, Thank you all, Yours, *Noha A.Nagi* Lab assistant,Faculty of Economics & Political Science,Cairo University

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