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2014 APSA ITP Best Software Award – nominations due 5/16
by Deen Freelon 30 Apr '14

30 Apr '14

[please redistribute as appropriate] The Information Technology & Politics (ITP) section of the American Political Science Association (APSA) invites nominations for the "Best software award for research and teaching in the area of Information Technology and Politics." The eligibility rules are as follows: • The first major release of the software must have been in 2013. • The software must hold some relevance to research and/or teaching in the area of information technology and politics. Beyond that, I would like to invite anyone who has developed potentially ITP-relevant software to submit it for consideration. You don’t have to be a member of the ITP section or even of APSA as long as your software meets the two above conditions. You may also nominate software packages developed by others that you have found useful in your ITP-related scholarly research or teaching. Please email all nominations to Deen Freelon <dfreelon(a)gmail.com>, chair of the ITP Software Award Committee. Include a link from which the software may be downloaded and any other information you feel might help the committee reach a decision (e.g. data on frequency of use, example use cases, etc.). We will accept submissions until Friday, May 16, 2014. Feel free to contact me with any questions you may have. Best, Deen Freelon Chair, ITP Software Award Committee 2014 -- Deen Freelon, Ph.D. Assistant Professor American University School of Communication Office: McKinley 325 dfreelon(a)gmail.com http://dfreelon.org

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CFP: 1st international Workshop on Social Personalization, deadline May 23rd
by Denis Parra 30 Apr '14

30 Apr '14

================================================================= CALL FOR PAPERS -------------------------------------------------------------- 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: May 23rd 2014 (23:59 Chile Time) ** Notification of Acceptance: Jun 6, 2014 ** Final Papers Due: Jul 6, 2014 ** 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(a)gmail.com Follow us on: Facebook https://www.facebook.com/groups/1395906184019635/ Twitter https://twitter.com/sp_workshop ================================================================= Denis Parra Assistant Professor, CS department School of Engineering, PUC CHile http://denisparra.github.io

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FW: Conferences and workshops of the International Internet Preservation Consortium (Paris, 19-23 May) : one week left to register
by Grotke, Abigail 30 Apr '14

30 Apr '14

Forwarding .... This may be of interest to AIR folks. ----- Dear colleagues, The International Internet Preservation Consortium will hold its 2014 General Assembly in Paris, 19-23th May. It is jointly organized by the Bibliothèque nationale de France, the Institut national de l'audiovisuel and the Internet Memory Foundation. It will take place at the Bibliothèque nationale de France, in the "François-Mitterrand" building. During one week, it will propose sessions open to the public - researchers, heritage professionals or website producers interested by the long term access to internet content - and sessions for IIPC members only. It will start on Monday the 19th with an open conference on the topic: Building Modern Research Corpora: the Evolution of Web Archiving and Analytics. The detailed program is available here: http://netpreserve.org/general-assembly/2014/Overview Technical and professional workshops, open to the public, will take place on Thursday 22th and Friday 23th. We invite you to register at: http://netpreserve.org/general-assembly/2014/registration Please note that for logistical reasons, registration will end on April 30th. We look forward to seeing you in Paris! For the IIPC GA organizers, Clément Oury Head of digital legal deposit, Bibliothèque nationale de France IIPC Treasurer ________________________________ Exposition Été 1914. Les derniers jours de l'ancien monde <http://www.bnf.fr/fr/evenements_et_culture/anx_expositions/f.ete_1914.html> - du 25 mars au 3 août 2014 - BnF - François-Mitterrand Avant d'imprimer, pensez à l'environnement.

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CFP conference on social media
by Кольцова Елена Юрьевна 30 Apr '14

30 Apr '14

Dear colleagues, The Laboratory for Internet Studies, Higher school of Economics, Russia is pleased to announce the 2nd call for papers for its second conference on the Internet and social media to be held in St. Petersburg, Russia, on September 18-19, 2014. We welcome works from a variety of disciplines on a wide range of Internet-related topics, while the special focus of the conference this year is “Social media and social movements”. Keynote speakers Robert Ackland, Doctor at Australian National University, Lead the Virtual Observatory for the Study of Online Networks project, which is known internationally for the VOSON software for hyperlink network analysis. (confirmed) Maria Petrova, Professor at Barcelona Graduate School of Economics, Research Director at the Center for New Media and Society (confirmed) Keynote of practice: (to be announced) International program committee: Sandra Gonzales-Bailon, Annenberg School of Communication, University of Pennsylvania Jennifer Earl, Center for Information Technology and Society, University of Arizona Sam Greene, King's Russia Institute, King's College London Peng Hwa Ang, Singapore Internet Research Center Ivan Klimov, Center for New Media and Society, New Economic School, Moscow Benjamin Lind, Department of sociology, Higher School of Economics, Moscow Nikita Basov, Centre for German and European Studies, St. Petersburg State University Peter Meylakhs, Laboratory for Internet Studies, Higher School of Economics, St. Petersburg Olessia Koltsova, Laboratory for Internet Studies, Higher School of Economics, St. Petersburg Svetlana Bodrunova, Saint-Petersburg State University Sergey Nikolenko, Laboratory for Internet Studies, Higher School of Economics, St. Petersburg Sergey Koltsov, Laboratory for Internet Studies, Higher School of Economics, St. Petersburg Organizing committee: Peter Meylakhs Olessia Koltsova Nora Kirkizh Galina Selivanova Daria Yudenkova Requirements for submission could be found at the Registration page. There is no registration fee. Deadline for submissions is May 20, 2014. Notifications of acceptance: June 16, 2014 Extended abstracts of three pages (to be published on the conference website) should be submitted by August 16, 2014 The conference website: http://linisevents.hse.ru/ Home page of Laboratory for Internet Studies: http://linis.hse.ru/ Yours sincerely, Olessia Koltsova Director, Laboratory for Internet Studies National Research University Higher School of Economics room 322, 46 Rimskogo-Korsakova St. 190008, St.Petersburg, Russia Phone: +7 (812) 677-9452 www.linis.hse.ru E-mail: ekoltsova(a)hse.ru http://www.hse.ru/en/org/persons/202747

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Re: [Air-L] Article/literature on "algorithms" and "geodata"?
by Taylor-Smith, Ella 30 Apr '14

30 Apr '14

Hi Daniel For a social look at algorithms, have a look at Gillespie, T. (2012). The Relevance of Algorithms, in Gillespie, T., Boczkowski, P.J. and Foot, K.A. (eds.) (2014). Media Technologies Essays on Communication, Materiality, and Society, Cambridge and London: MIT Press. http://www.tarletongillespie.org/essays/Gillespie%20-%20The%20Relevance%20o… -Ella Ella Taylor-Smith Institute for Informatics and Digital Innovation Edinburgh Napier University 10 Colinton Road Edinburgh, EH10 5DT Email: e.taylor-smith(a)napier.ac.uk http://www.iidi.napier.ac.uk/e.taylor-smith http://about.me/EllaTaylorSmith @EllaTasm Edinburgh Napier University offers industry informed courses and 92.3% of our graduates are in work or further study within six months of leaving. With over 17,000 students from over 110 countries, we are an international university and are also proud to be the largest UK provider of higher education in Hong Kong. In 2014, we are celebrating 50 years since we opened our doors as Napier Technical College. This message and its attachment(s) are intended for the addressee(s) only and should not be read, copied, disclosed, forwarded or relied upon by any person other than the intended addressee(s) without the permission of the sender. If you are not the intended addressee you must not take any action based on this message and its attachment(s) nor must you copy or show them to anyone. Please respond to the sender and ensure that this message and its attachment(s) are deleted. It is your responsibility to ensure that this message and its attachment(s) are scanned for viruses or other defects. Edinburgh Napier University does not accept liability for any loss or damage which may result from this message or its attachment(s), or for errors or omissions arising after it was sent. Email is not a secure medium. Emails entering Edinburgh Napier University's system are subject to routine monitoring and filtering by Edinburgh Napier University. Edinburgh Napier University is a registered Scottish charity. Registration number SC018373

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Vol. 10, No. 1 of JOLT (including special section on MOOCs) is available online
by Lee, Mark 30 Apr '14

30 Apr '14

Dear colleagues, Vol. 10, No. 1 of the MERLOT Journal of Online Learning and Teaching (JOLT at http://jolt.merlot.org/) is now available online. The contents of the issue are listed below. In this issue you will find 12 peer-reviewed scholarly articles, five of which comprise a Special Section on Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) that also includes an opening piece by open education pioneer, luminary, and JOLT Editorial Board member Sir John Daniel. The release of this special section follows the success of JOLT’s full Special Issue on MOOCs, guest edited by George Siemens, Valerie Irvine, and Jillianne Code, which was published last year as JOLT Vol. 9, No. 2. I hope you will find several articles in the current issue to be of interest, and that you will take the time to forward this notice to colleagues who might also be interested in JOLT. (If they, too, would like to register to receive notification of newly published JOLT issues, they may do so here: http://grapevine.merlot.org/joltnews/joltlistserv.php?action=add .) Kind regards, Mark J. W. Lee Editor-in-Chief, MERLOT Journal of Online Learning and Teaching *** CONTENTS – Vol. 10, No. 1 *** ** SPECIAL SECTION ON MASSIVE OPEN ONLINE COURSES ** Foreword to the Special Section: MOOCs – Evolution or Revolution? Sir John Daniel i-iv * Research Papers * Challenges to Research in MOOCs Helene Fournier, Rita Kop, and Guillaume Durand 1-15 Participants' Perceptions of Learning and Networking in Connectivist MOOCs Mohsen Saadatmand and Kristiina Kumpulainen 16-30 * Case Study * MOOCs: Striking the Right Balance between Facilitation and Self-Determination Tita Beaven, Mirjam Hauck, Anna Comas-Quinn, Tim Lewis, and Beatriz de los Arcos 31-43 * Position Papers * MOOC Pedagogy: Gleaning Good Practice from Existing MOOCs Maha Bali 44-56 Teacher Experiences and Academic Identity: The Missing Components of MOOC Pedagogy Jen Ross, Christine Sinclair, Jeremy Knox, Siân Bayne, and Hamish Macleod 57-69 ** REGULAR PAPERS ** * Research Papers * Online and Face-to-Face Teaching: How Do Student Ratings Differ? Suzanne Young and Heather E. Duncan 70-79 Questions that Get Answered: The Construction of Instructional Conversations on Online Asynchronous Discussion Boards Dorothy J. Della Noce, Debora L. Scheffel, and May Lowry 80-96 Task Value, Self-Regulated Learning, and Performance in a Web-Intensive Undergraduate Engineering Course: How Are They Related? Oenardi Lawanto, Harry B. Santoso, Wade Goodridge, and Kevin N. Lawanto 97-111 Testing the Effect of Hybrid Lecture Delivery on Learning Outcomes Oskar R. Harmon, William T. Alpert, and James Lambrinos 112-121 Audio Feedback versus Written Feedback: Instructors' and Students' Perspectives Andrew J. Cavanaugh and Liyan Song 122-138 Facilitating Group Discussions in Second Life Charles Xiaoxue Wang, Scott Anstadt, Jamie Goldman, and Mary L. M. Lefaiver 139-152 * Position Paper * Strategies for Creating a Community of Inquiry through Online Asynchronous Discussions Aimee deNoyelles, Janet Zydney, and Baiyun Chen 153-165

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qualitative Google search results methdologies
by Amy 29 Apr '14

29 Apr '14

Hello All, I am wondering if anyone has come across good models of methodology for qualitative research that uses search terms and google results. What I'm thinking here is something like looking at page one search results as the sites a user interested in a particular topic is most likely to come across if they are using particular search terms, and Google Trends can also give some indication of the search terms' relative popularity. Thank you, ah -- Amy Hasinoff Assistant Professor Department of Communication University of Colorado Denver www.amyhasinoff.com

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Article/literature on "algorithms" and "geodata"?
by Daniel Kunzelmann 29 Apr '14

29 Apr '14

And if you could help me out on another issue? I'm also looking for an article/literature that deals with the relationship of "algorithms" and "geodata". Most of the work about algorithms that I could find seem very "technical", thus missing the social aspect of it. My main concern: What are and do algorithms: technically but as well as from a social anthropological perspective? How is geodata used within these algorithms causing what? How can one theorize and conceptualize the relationsship of geodata, algorithms and ethnography? Again, together with a colleague I will be holding a workshop to discuss ways in which numeric (geo-)data and ethnography can be joined in anthropological theory and methodology. We both think that algorithms and their relationship with geodata play an important part to understand these issues. Any ideas or suggestions of an article? Thanks you so much! Kind regards, Daniel Kunzelmann ---------------------------------------------------------------- Daniel Kunzelmann, Ph.D.c Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich Institute of Cultural Studies/European Ethnology Email. daniel.kunzelmann(a)gmx.de Web. http://unibas.academia.edu/DanielKunzelmann Blog. http://www.transformations-blog.com/ Twitter. @der_kunzelmann ----------------------------------------------------------------

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Article/literature combining "geodata", "crowdmapping" and "participatory (politics)"?
by Daniel Kunzelmann 29 Apr '14

29 Apr '14

Dear community! I've been appreciatively reading this ml over the last couple of month. Now I really hope that you can help me out on the following issue. I'm looking for a specific social anthropological article (or literature in general) that covers three topics at once "geodata", "crowdmapping" and "participatory (politics)". My main concern: How does (big) geodata and the (crowd) mapping of it -- e.g. by combining geodata with other kinds of (big) data -- change civic engagement? Things like this http://www.theguardian.com/news/blog/2011/apr/07/ushahidi-crowdmap-kenya-vi…... The focus of the article: Together with a colleague I will be holding a workshop to discuss ways in which numeric (geo-)data and ethnography can be joined within anthropological theory and methodology. Thus the focus of the article should be empirical (giving examples), but it should also try to theorize and conceptualize the relationsship of geodata and ethnography. I would really appreciate your shared expertise on this one. Any ideas or suggestions? Thanks you so much! All the best, Daniel Kunzelmann P.S.: I do have another questions but I will split up the post... ---------------------------------------------------------------- Daniel Kunzelmann, Ph.D.c Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich Institute of Cultural Studies/European Ethnology Email. daniel.kunzelmann(a)gmx.de Web. http://unibas.academia.edu/DanielKunzelmann Blog. http://www.transformations-blog.com/ Twitter. @der_kunzelmann ----------------------------------------------------------------

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CFP HICSS minitrack Collective Intelligence and Crowds: Structure, Roles, and Identit
by Fichman, Pnina 29 Apr '14

29 Apr '14

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

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