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pre-order announcement: Symbolic Interaction and New Social Media
by Mark D. Johns 13 Jun '14

13 Jun '14

Dear Colleagues, As an act of shameless self-promotion (in the tradition of this list) we are pleased to announce that the following a new edited volume is available for pre-order on Amazon: SYMBOLIC INTERACTION AND NEW SOCIAL MEDIA, edited by Mark D. Johns, Laura Terlip and Shing-Ling Sarina Chen, will be released on August 1, 2014 by Emerald Group Publishing Ltd. Please visit, http://www.amazon.com/Symbolic-Interaction-Social-Media-Studies/dp/17835093… The table of contents is below. Thank you for considering our new book. *********************** WHEN McLUHAN MET SIMMEL: FORM IS THE CONTENT, MEDIUM IS THE MESSAGE Shing-Ling S. Chen, Mark D. Johns and Laura A. Terlip FROM OBJECT TO FLOW: NETWORK SENSIBILITY, SYMBOLIC INTERACTIONISM, AND SOCIAL MEDIA Annette Markham and Simon Lindgren SOCIAL NETWORK ANALYSIS FOR FACEBOOK: LOCATING CLIQUES AND VISUALIZING SOCIABILITY Jeffrey Coons and Shing-Ling S. Chen NEW IOWA SCHOOL REDUX: SECOND LIFE AS LABORATORY Michael A. Katovich and Shing-Ling S. Chen MUTABLE SELVES AND DIGITAL REFLEXIVITIES: SOCIAL MEDIA FOR SOCIAL CHANGE IN THE MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA Victoria Ann Newsom and Lara Lengel STRUCTURAL ROLES IN MASSIVELY MULTIPLAYER ONLINE GAMES: A CASE STUDY OF GUILD AND RAID LEADERS IN WORLD OF WARCRAFT J. Patrick Williams, David Kirschner and Zahirah Suhaimi-Broder (RE)EMBODIMENT OF THE DIGITAL SELF AND FIRST LIFE BODY IN A NEW SOCIAL MEDIA ENVIRONMENT: PAID SEX WORK IN SECOND LIFE Justin A. Martin SURFING TO AN ALTERNATIVE SELF: INTERNET TECHNOLOGY AND SEXUALITY AMONG “MARRIED STRAIGHT HOMOSEXUAL MEN” Avi Shoshana

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Maddalena & Packer win of 2014 James Carey Award
by Mark D. Johns 13 Jun '14

13 Jun '14

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE -- June 13, 2014 Contact: Dr. Mark D. Johns, Executive Director Carl Couch Center for Social and Internet Research c/o Department of Communication Studies, Luther College Decorah, Iowa 52101 USA Tel: (563) 387-1347 email: mjohns(a)luther.edu Maddalena & Packer win of 2014 James Carey Award IOWA CITY, Iowa -- Kate Maddalena, a Ph.D. student at North Carolina State University, and Dr. Jeremy Packer, associate professor of communication at NCSU, are the winners of the 2014 James W. Carey Media Research Award competition sponsored by the Carl Couch Center for Social and Internet Research (www.cccsir.com) Maddalena and Packer are co-authors of a paper, The Digital Body: Telegraphy as Discourse Network, to be published later this year in the journal, Theory, Culture & Society. The Carey Award, established in 2004, is presented annually from among nominated or submitted books or journal articles published in the previous year. The award honors the late Dr. James W. Carey (1934-2006). Dr. Carey was recognized as one of the North American pioneers in applying cultural approaches to the study of mass media. To be worthy of the award, the work must be of highest quality and employ Carey's theories to focus on communication and public life, journalism, or popular culture. The winning entry this year was chosen from an exceptionally strong field of works submitted by a long list of outstanding scholars. "This article considers the use of flag telegraphy by the U.S. Signal Corps during the U.S. Civil War as it functioned as a proto-technical medium that preceded wire telegraphy as a military communications technology. Not only was flag telegraphy a historical step towards contemporary technical media, it was also an early iteration of the digitization of communication." A member of the review committee commented, "I thought Maddalena and Packer's article was the most interesting from a theoretical standpoint. They succeeded in applying new methods and theories to an old medium." The Carl Couch Center for Social and Internet Research is a non-profit organization established to promote the scholarship of the late Carl J. Couch and his academic associates. Couch is recognized as the founder of The New Iowa School in sociological and communication inquiry, and was a pioneer in the qualitative research of information technologies. The Center provides networking opportunities for students and scholars who conduct social and Internet research, inspired by Couch's work. - 30 -

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DeWolf Winner of Couch Award
by Mark D. Johns 13 Jun '14

13 Jun '14

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE -- June 13, 2014 Contact: Dr. Mark D. Johns, Executive Director Carl Couch Center for Social and Internet Research c/o Department of Communication Studies Luther College, Decorah, Iowa USA 52101 Tel: (563) 387-1347 email: mjohns(a)luther.edu DeWolf Winner of Couch Award DECORAH, Iowa -- Ralf De Wolf, a Ph.D. student in the Department of Media and Communication Studies at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, is the winner of the 2014 Carl J. Couch Internet Research Award. The Couch Award is presented annually by the Carl Couch Center for Social and Internet Research (www.cccsir.com) and recognizes excellent student-authored papers. De Wolf's paper, "Intergroup Boundary Coordination and Privacy Rules: Using a Remix Approach for Studying Offline and Online Privacy in Youth Organizations" uses the concept of the "remix" to analyze how youth organizations negotiate their offline and online privacy. His work reveals how spatial, temporal, and social boundaries are lengthened and translated online to maintain privacy. However, explicit privacy rules adopted by youth organizations for offline environments create tension between individual and group privacy concerns. The Couch Award was established in 2002 as the centerpiece of an extensive awards program. Competition is open to graduate or undergraduate students of all disciplines, and winners are selected by a committee of university professors. The winner will receives a cash award as well as the opportunity to present the paper at the international conference of the Association of Internet Researchers in October. The Carl Couch Center for Social and Internet Research is a non-profit organization established to promote the scholarship of the late Carl J. Couch and his academic associates. The Center provides networking opportunities for students and scholars who conduct social and Internet research inspired by Couch's work. - 30 -

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Open PhD Position(s) in the area SOCIAL COMPUTING
by Christoph Trattner 12 Jun '14

12 Jun '14

PHD STUDENTS IN THE AREA SOCIAL COMPUTING RESPONSIBILITIES For a number of research and industry project, we need motivated PhD students in the Area Social Computing, who will have an opportunity to complete a PhD degree in Computer Science at Graz Technical University. QUALIFICATIONS • Completed University Diploma/Master's Degree in Computer Science, Software Development and Economy, Telematics or Technical Mathematics (mandatory) • Prior knowledge in Social Media Analysis, Web Science, Recommender Systems, Social Semantic Web, Social Network Analysis, Science 2.0, Machine Learning, Information Retrieval (highly desirable) • Experience in object oriented programming in Java, with databases (preferably MySQL, and/or PostgreSQL) (mandatory) • Experience with frontend technologies (XHTML, JavaScript, CSS, HTML5) (highly desirable) • Experience with Matlab/Octave, R, Python, PHP, Weka, Apache Solr (highly desirable) • Team work and self-reliance (mandatory) • Fluent English (mandatory) INTEREST IN • Social Semantic Systems, Analysis of Social Media and Interactions in the Social Web, Social Network Analysis, Recommender Systems, Science 2.0, Web Science, Data Mining, Machine Learning WE OFFER • an opportunity to obtain a PhD degree in Computer Science at Graz University of Technology • young, dynamic, creative team • informal and stimulating working environment • on the job training, professional and personal development • excellent career prospects, both scientific and technical career paths are possible • compensation of 2,065 per month and up, depending on your education and work experience We are looking forward to your application. Please email it to us together with relevant attachments at career(a)know-center.at -- ------------------------------------------------------- Dipl.-Ing. Dr.techn. Christoph Trattner BSc Head of the Social Computing Research Group @Know-Center Graz University of Technology Inffeldgasse 13, 8010 Graz, Austria E-mail: ctrattner(a)know-center.at Tel: +43 316 873 30840 Homepage: http://christophtrattner.info Have an interesting EU-Project on User Modeling & Personalization? Present your Project at UMAP2014: http://umap2014.cs.aau.dk/ -------------------------------------------------------

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Can you help with out research in HCI Education?
by Jose Abdelnour-Nocera 12 Jun '14

12 Jun '14

Dear Colleagues, As part of our research focused on the international HCI curriculum, one of our PhD students, Ann Austin, is investigating the cognitive style of HCI students. In order to provide her with a benchmark against which to compare them, she is asking HCI professionals, both practitioners and educators, to complete the following survey. The survey can be found at https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dDFuWHRla0dWSDdjUEpLR0… <https://www.linkedin.com/redirect?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdocs%2Egoogle%2Ecom%2Fs…> and should take around 20 minutes to complete. If you have other colleagues that would also be prepared to participate in this survey, please do pass on the URL of the link. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact her: Ann.Austin(a)uwl.ac.uk<mailto:Ann.Austin@uwl.ac.uk> Many Thanks! José Abdelnour Nocera, PhD Associate Professor in Sociotechnical Design Institute for Practice and Interdisciplinary Research (INSPIRE) Head of Sociotechnical Centre for Innovation and User Experience University of West London St Mary’s Road, Ealing – London W5 5RF https://soc.uwl.ac.uk/~jabdelno -- Scanned by iCritical.

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Deadline Extended: 1st International Workshop on Social Personalization (SP'2014) co-located with ACM HT'2014
by Christoph Trattner 11 Jun '14

11 Jun '14

CALL FOR PAPERS - deadline extended -------------------------------------------------------------- International Workshop on Social Personalization (SP'2014) http://columbus.exp.sis.pitt.edu/sp2014/ to be held on September 1st, 2014, Santiago, Chile co-located with ACM HT 2014 -------------------------------------------------------------- Important Dates: ** Submission Deadline: June 27, 2014 (23:59 Chile Time) - deadline extended ** Notification of Acceptance: July 11, 2014 - deadline extended ** Final Papers Due: July 23, 2014 - deadline extended ** Workshop date: September 1, 2014 Workshop Organizers: Peter Brusilovsky (University of Pittsburgh, USA) Leandro Balby Marinho (Federal University of Campina Grande, Brasil) Denis Parra (Pontificia Universidad Catolica, Chile) Eliana Scheihing (Universidad Austral, Chile) Christoph Trattner (Know-Center, Austria) For the Social Personalization workshop, we aim to attract researchers from all over the world working in the fields of User Modeling, Personalization and Recommendations where the social context plays a fundamental role. This topic is important because it involves leveraging new sources of information that are specific for social systems such as shared items and tags, user public profiles, social connections, and logs of user social activities in order to improve people's information access in a wide variety of tasks and across different devices. These social information sources offer social personalization systems a chance to compensate for the lack of information and structure that is used by traditional personalization technologies ranging from recommender systems to E-learning. Thus, we invite submissions which may include the following topics, but are not limited to: * novel approaches for social personalization in recommender systems * novel approaches on personalized social collaboration * novel approaches on social linking * novel methods for social search and navigation * novel methods for social predictive models * novel social methods for information visualization and display * applications of the aforementioned topics to diverse domains (education, smart cities, music, etc.) * any other methods that exploit new forms of social data for personalization The goal of this workshop is to share and discuss research that goes hopefully beyond classic personalization techniques, trying to capitalise potentially useful information available in social data for paving the way to more efficient personalized information access technologies. Submissions: We solicit posters (1-2 pages) and research papers (4-6 pages), both in the ACM conference paper style. Papers should be submitted in EasyChair to https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sp2014 Program Committee: Nazareno Andrade, University of Campina Grande, Brazil Jussara Almeida, University of Minas Gerais, Brazil Martin Atzmueller, University of Kassel, Germany Alejandro Bellogin, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain Shlomo Berkovsky, NICTA, AU Anmol Bhasin, LinkedIn, USA Danny Bickson, GraphLab, USA Steven Bourke, UCD, Ireland Robin Burke, de Paul, USA Ed Chi, Google, USA Alvin Chin, Nokia, China Vania Dimitrova, University of Leeds, UK Lucas Drumond, University Hildesheim, Germany Alexander Felfernig, TU-Graz, Austria Zeno Gantner, Nokia, Germany Ruth Garcia, Yahoo! Research Barcelona, Spain Ido Guy, IBM Research, Israel Eelco Herder, L3S, Germany Andreas Hotho, University of Würzburg, Germany Geert-Jan Houben, TU-Delft, Netherlands Sharon Hsiao, Columbia University, USA Bart Knijnenburg, University of California Irvine, USA Milos Kravcik, RWTH Aachen, Germany Mounia Lalmas, Yahoo! Research Barcelona, Spain Neal Lathia, Cambridge University, UK Tobias Ley, Tallinn University, Estonia Alan Said, TU-Delft, NL Shaghayegh Sahebi, University of Pittsburgh, USA Eduardo Veas, Know-Center, Austria Katrien Verbert, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium Tao Ye, Pandora, USA Arkaitz Zubiaga, New York City University, USA Submission category: innovative research ideas, preliminary results, system prototypes or industry showcases. Link or demo in attachment are preferred. Submission guidelines: All submitted papers must * be written in English; * contain author names, affiliations, and email addresses; * be formatted according to the ACM SIG Proceedings template (http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates) with a font size no smaller than 9pt; * be in PDF (make sure that the PDF can be viewed on any platform), and formatted for US Letter size; Proceedings: All accepted papers will be included in the workshop proceedings and will be published in the Extended Proceedings of ACM Hypertext 2014. It is the authors' responsibility to ensure that their submissions adhere strictly to the required format. Submissions that do not comply with the above guidelines may be rejected without review. All submissions must be entered into the reviewing system:https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sp2014 Contact:socialpersonalization.ws@gmail.com Follow us on: Facebook https://www.facebook.com/groups/1395906184019635/ Twitter https://twitter.com/sp_workshop -- ------------------------------------------------------- Dipl.-Ing. Dr.techn. Christoph Trattner BSc Head of the Social Computing Research Group @Know-Center Graz University of Technology Inffeldgasse 13, 8010 Graz, Austria E-mail: ctrattner(a)know-center.at Tel: +43 316 873 30840 Homepage: http://christophtrattner.info Have an interesting EU-Project on User Modeling & Personalization? Present your Project at UMAP2014: http://umap2014.cs.aau.dk/ -------------------------------------------------------

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[Extended submission deadline]: The 2014 International Conference on Adaptive & Intelligent Systems - ICAIS'14 September 08th - 10th, 2014 Bournemouth, UK
by icais 11 Jun '14

11 Jun '14

[Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP] * * * SUBMISSION DEADLINE EXTENDED * * * Full paper submission: June 22, 2014 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- * * * CALL FOR PAPERS * * * The 2014 International Conference on Adaptive & Intelligent Systems - ICAIS'14 September 08th - 10th, 2014 Bournemouth, UK http://computing.bournemouth.ac.uk/ICAIS/ icais(a)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 (extended submission deadline!)* * * - Workshop & Special Session proposal: April 13, 2014 - Full paper submission: June 22, 2014 - Acceptance notification: July 06, 2014 - Final camera ready: July 16, 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: 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 2: 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 3: 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 4: 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 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://computing.bournemouth.ac.uk/ICAIS/ ). 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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Webinar and Report - Engagement Tech for All - Hosted by PlaceMatters - Thu June 26
by Steven Clift 11 Jun '14

11 Jun '14

Check out: http://bit.ly/engagetechwebinar Report: http://bit.ly/engagetechreport Join PlaceMatters for a webinar on Engagement Tech for All. Date: June 26, 2014 Time: 3:30 pm - 5 pm EASTERN Webinar details: “Civic Technologies” are gaining increasing interest as a way to engage hard-to-reach populations in community planning and decision-making. Low income people, as well as people of color, immigrants, people with limited English proficiency, and youth are often un- or underrepresented in these processes. Reasons for this lack of engagement include limited city budgets and staff capacity, absence of awareness of opportunities to engage, limited language skills and reading comprehension, and previous negative experiences resulting in mistrust or hostility towards government. While not a panacea, civic technologies can enhance the toolkit available to planners and decision-makers who want to broaden public engagement. PlaceMatters recently released a report - http://bit.ly/engagetechreport -, funded by the Ford Foundation, on best practices in the use of civic technologies to reach underrepresented populations. The webinar will feature findings from the report, as well as case studies from communities that have effectively leveraged the widespread use of mobile phones, social media, and other technologies to engage a broad audience. Join this webinar to learn more about the latest innovations in the field of civic technology, and the potential for these technologies to advance transformational change in communities, particularly around the lives of low-income people. Speakers: * Jill Locantore, Program Director, PlaceMatters * Frank Hebbert, Director, OpenPlans * Tamir Novotny, Senior Associate, Public Sector Innovation, Living Cities * Holly St. Clair, Director of Data Services, Metropolitan Area Planning Council This webinar session is provided through the Sustainable Communities Learning Network. The primary audience is members of the network, but anyone who is interested may participate. E-Democracy Note: We have significant resources in this space available that bolster this report. The time for open gov and civic tech to raise _new voices_ is here! 1. New Voices Workshop On-Demand - http://bit.ly/newvoicesvideo 2. Proposed New Voices Working Group - http://e-democracy.org/newvoices 3. Digital Inclusion Network online group - http://e-democracy.org/di 4. More lessons and reports - http://e-democracy.org/learn 5. And the report of our previous Ford funded work in this space which is cited by the Engagement Tech report: http://e-democracy.org/evaluation 6. June 20 live workshop in St. Paul: http://bit.ly/june20workshop 7. White House blog post: http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2013/08/14/open-communities-and-new-voices-l… 8. Civic Tech Inclusion "Numbers" Analysis - http://bit.ly/pewcivic 9. Inclusive Community Engagement Update: http://bit.ly/edemknight 10. New Open Government and Civic Tech Facebook Group: http://facebook.com/groups/opengovgroup Steven Clift - http://stevenclift.com Executive Director - http://E-Democracy.org Twitter: http://twitter.com/democracy Tel/Text: +1.612.234.7072

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the 2013 Survey of Digital Technology and Internet Use
by Peter Timusk 11 Jun '14

11 Jun '14

> The Investment, Science and Technology Division is pleased to announce the release of data from the 2013 Survey of Digital Technology and Internet Use. The official release is available through The Daily. > > > http://www.statcan.gc.ca/daily-quotidien/140611/dq140611a-eng.htm?HPA Peter Timusk peterotimusk(a)gmail.com

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CFP: Disability and Social Media (Edited collection, abstracts due 15 July 2014)
by Mike Kent 11 Jun '14

11 Jun '14

Apologies for cross posting Call for Papers CFP: Disability and Social Media (Edited collection, abstracts due 15 July 2014) Disability and Social Media edited by Dr Katie Ellis & Dr Mike Kent Internet Studies, Curtin University Social media is popularly seen as an important media for people with disability in terms of communication, exchange and activism. These sites potentially increase both employment and leisure opportunities for one of the most traditionally isolated groups in society. However, the offline inaccessible environment has, to a certain degree, been replicated online and particularly social networking sites. For example, despite recognized benefits of social inclusion for people with disabilities, Scott Hollier notes the continuation of inaccessibility in social media in his report Sociability: Social Media for People with a Disability: .all of the popular social media tools remain inaccessible to some degree. Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, YouTube, blogging websites and the emerging Google+ all feature limited accessibly, denying many consumers with disabilities the opportunity to participate in social media. Fortunately, users have often found ways around the accessibility barriers such as alternative website portals, mobile apps, additional keyboard navigation shortcuts and online support groups. This is a rich source of expertise, and social media users with disability continue to find creative ways to access the most popular platforms. (Hollier 2012) Although Hollier paints a dreary picture regarding accessibility in social media, his report holds much scope for optimism, as do we. Social media is becoming an increasingly important part of our lives yet the impact on people with disabilities has gone largely unscrutinised. This collection will explore the opportunities and challenges social media represents for the social inclusion of people with disabilities. The book will be published as part of Ashgate's Interdisciplinary Disability Studies series Some suggested topics (which are by no means exhaustive): . Activism . Communication . Community creation . Leisure/Entertainment/ Socialising . Creating new types of representation . Web/media literacy . Mashups . Education . Social Network specific case studies We are particularly interested in chapter proposals that explore social networks popular outside the Anglosphere Submission procedure: Potential authors are invited to submit chapter abstract of no more than 500 words, including a title, 4 to 6 keywords, and a brief bio, by email to both Dr Mike Kent <m.kent(a)curtin.edu.au> and Dr Katie Ellis <katie.ellis(a)curtin.edu.au> by 15 July 2014. (Please indicate in your proposal if you wish to use any visual material, and how you have or will gain copyright clearance for visual material.) Authors will receive a response by 15 August 2014, with those provisionally accepted due as chapters of no more than 6000 words (including references) by 15 November 2015. About the editors: The editors are from the Department of Internet Studies at Curtin University. Dr Katie Ellis is Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Internet Studies at Curtin University. Her research focuses on disability and the media extending across both representation and active possibilities for social inclusion. Her books include Disability and New Media (2011 with Mike Kent), Disabling Diversity (2008), Disability, Ageing and Obesity: Popular Media Identifications (2014; with Debbie Rodan & Pia Lebeck), Disability and the Media (2015; with Gerard Goggin), and Disability and Popular Culture (2015). Dr Mike Kent's research focus is on people with disabilities and their use of, and access to, information technology and the Internet. His other area of research interest is in higher education and particularly online education, as well as online social networking platforms. His edited collection An Education in Facebook? Higher Education and the World's Largest Social Network was released in May 2014 through Routledge.

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