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PhD seminar 'Web Archiving and Archived Web — a new Research Method, a new Object of Study?’
by Niels Brügger 25 Mar '14

25 Mar '14

***DEADLINE EXTENDED TO 31 March*** Submission deadline for the PhD seminar 'Web Archiving and Archived Web — a new Research Method, a new Object of Study?’ (Aarhus University, Denmark, 11-12 June 2014) has been extended to Monday 31 March 2014. The seminar application consists of a one-page abstract which can be either a project description or an expression of interest in the field. Please visit the submission website http://webarc.netlab.dk/index.php/netlab/2014/index, create an account and submit your abstract. The lectures and the lecturers: • “Virtual Digs: Excavating, Preserving, and Archiving the Web”, Meghan Dougherty, Assistant Professor, Digital Communication, Loyola University Chicago • “A Data Driven Approach to Web Archive Research”, Anat Ben-David, post-doctoral researcher with the WebART project, University of Amsterdam • “Archiving web material for future research?”, Ditte Laursen, senior researcher and curator at the State Media Archive, State Library in Denmark • “Probing a nation’s web sphere”, Niels Brügger, Associate Professor, Aarhus University, Head of the Centre for Internet Studies Read the full call, including more about the course format, the venue, and how to enrol:http://www.netlab.dk/courses/ Very best, Niels Brügger ------------------------------------------------------------ PhD seminar — Web Archiving and Archived Web — a new Research Method, a new Object of Study? — Aarhus University, Denmark, 11-12 June 2014 Read the full call, including more about the course format, the venue, and how to enrol: http://www.netlab.dk/courses/ LATEST PUBLICATIONS AND PAPERS August 2013 Web historiography and Internet Studies: Challenges and perspectives, New Media & Society, 15(5), 752-764 Read more: http://nms.sagepub.com/content/15/5/752.abstract June 2013 Historical Network Analysis of the Web, Social Science Computer Review, 31(3), 306-321 Read more: http://ssc.sagepub.com/content/31/3/306.abstract March 2013 The Web and Digital Humanities: Theoretical and Methodological Concerns (w. N.O. Finnemann), Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media 57(1), 66-80 Read more: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/08838151.2012.761699 NIELS BRÜGGER, Associate Professor, PhD Director, the Centre for Internet Studies Department of Aesthetics and Communication Aarhus University Helsingforsgade 14, room 236 8200 Aarhus N Denmark Phone (switchboard) +45 8715 0000 Phone (direct) +45 8716 1971 Phone (mobile) +45 2945 3231 E-mail nb(a)imv.au.dk Webpage http://imv.au.dk/~nb Profile at LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/1/50a/555 Skype name: niels_bruegger The Centre for Internet Research, http://cfi.au.dk NetLab, http://netlab.dk Big UK Domain Data for the Arts and Humanities (BUDDAH), http://buddah.projects.history.ac.uk

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CFP: Concepts and Methods Workshop: Structural Approaches to Online Communities and Networks
by Mathieu.O'Neil 25 Mar '14

25 Mar '14

*apologies for multiple posts* Concepts and Methods Workshop: Structural Approaches to Online Communities and Networks News & Media Research Centre, University of Canberra Wednesday 27 August 2014 In this research practice-oriented workshop graduate students and early-career researchers will have the opportunity to present their work (including work-in-progress) and obtain feedback from a panel of specialists. A particular focus of the workshop will be to assess to what extent the methodological and conceptual tools used to analyse online communities can be applied to the personal networking behaviour of social media users. Specialist panel: Professor Caroline Haythornthwaite, School of Library, Archival and Information Studies, The iSchool at The University of British Columbia Associate Professor Robert Ackland, Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University Associate Professor Mathieu O'Neil, Faculty of Arts and Design, University of Canberra Panel members will discuss some of the latest conceptual and methodological developments in web social science, social network analysis, and online field theory. In addition, the workshop will represent an opportunity to explore connections and confrontations with: -content analysis -critical and feminist approaches -diffusion and information cascades -frame analysis -issue ballistics -mixed methods -organizational behaviour -sentiment analysis -social influence Applicants are encouraged to focus on key characteristics of online communities and networks, including but not limited to: -activist, diasporic and health communities -codes of conduct, rules and norms -emergence and disappearance -influentials and followers -mobilization and engagement -participant capabilities and skills -personal and collective identity -topologies of online communities Submission process: Proposals should be emailed to Mathieu O'Neil <mathieu[dot]oneil[at]canberra[dot]edu[dot]au> by 31 May 2014. As the research may not be complete, we do not expect abstracts to include all findings and conclusions. However abstracts should outline what kind of findings and conclusions the authors expect to present. Specifically the abstract should include: -the name, institutional affiliation, email address and contact telephone number of the presenter(s) -a title -a description of the paper's core topic, case, and/or argument -the methodological approach and theoretical background -the paper's relevance to related academic literature -expected findings or conclusions Proposal length should not exceed 400 words. More information can be found at the Workshop webpage: http://www.canberra.edu.au/faculties/arts-design/research/research-centres/…

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CSCW 2015 Call for Participation
by Barry Wellman 25 Mar '14

25 Mar '14

fyi Barry Wellman _______________________________________________________________________ NetLab FRSC INSNA Founder Faculty of Information (iSchool) 611 Bissell Building 140 St. George St. University of Toronto Toronto Canada M5S 3G6 http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman twitter: @barrywellman NSA/CSEC: Canadian and American citizen NETWORKED:The New Social Operating System. Lee Rainie & Barry Wellman MIT Press http://amzn.to/zXZg39 Print $14 Kindle $16 Old/NewCyberTimes http://bit.ly/c8N9V8 ________________________________________________________________________ ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2014 22:54:55 +0000 From: Moira Burke <mburke(a)fb.com> To: "wellman(a)chass.utoronto.ca" <wellman(a)chass.utoronto.ca> Subject: CSCW 2015 Call for Participation Hi, Barry. Would you mind posting this to the listservs for CITASA and SOCNET? Moira __________________________________________ CSCW 2015 | Call for Participation March 14-18, 2015 | Vancouver, BC, Canada http://cscw.acm.org<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v1/url?u=http://cscw.acm.org&k=ZVNjlDMF0F…> The ACM conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing is the premier venue for research in the design and use of technologies that affect groups, organizations, communities, and networks. Bringing together top researchers and practitioners from academia and industry who are interested in the area of social computing, CSCW addresses both the technical and social challenges encountered when supporting collaboration. The development and application of new technologies continues to enable new ways of working together and coordinating activities. The conference offers several types of submissions with the following deadlines. Papers: June 4, 2014 Workshops proposals: August 8, 2014 Interactive Posters: November 10, 2014 Panels: November 10, 2014 Doctoral Colloquium: November 10, 2014 Demonstrations: December 12, 2014 See the individual calls at http://cscw.acm.org/2015/submit/<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v1/url?u=http://cscw.acm.org/2015/submit/…> for more details. The scope of CSCW spans socio-technical domains including work, home, education, healthcare, the arts, leisure, and entertainment. The conference seeks novel research results or new ways of thinking about, studying, or supporting shared activities in these and related areas: âª Social and crowd computing. Studies, theories, designs, mechanisms, systems, and/or infrastructures addressing social media, social networking, wikis, blogs, online gaming, crowdsourcing, collective intelligence, virtual worlds or collaborative information behaviors. âª System Design. Hardware, architectures, infrastructures, interaction design, technical foundations, algorithms, and/or toolkits that enable the building of new social and collaborative systems and experiences. âª Theories. Critical analysis or theory with clear relevance to the design or study of social and collaborative systems. âª Empirical investigations. Findings, guidelines, and/or studies related to communication, collaboration, and social technologies, practices, or use. CSCW welcomes diverse methods and approaches. âª Mining and Modeling. Studies, analyses and infrastructures for making use of large- and small-scale data. âª Methodologies and tools. Novel methods or combinations of approaches and tools used in building systems or studying their use. âª Domain-specific social and collaborative applications. Including applications to healthcare, transportation, gaming, ICT4D, sustainability, education, accessibility, global collaboration, or other domains. âª Collaboration systems based on emerging technologies. Mobile and ubiquitous computing, game engines, virtual worlds, multi-touch, novel display technologies, vision and gesture recognition, big data, MOOCs, crowd labor markets, SNSs, or sensing systems. âª Crossing boundaries. Studies, prototypes, or other investigations that explore interactions across disciplines, distance, languages, generations, and cultures, to help better understand how to transcend social, temporal, and/or spatial boundaries. General Co-Chairs Andrea Forte, Drexel University Dan Cosley, Cornell University chairs2015(a)cscw.acm.org<mailto:chairs2015@cscw.acm.org> Program Co-Chairs Luigina Ciolfi, Sheffield Hallam University David McDonald, University of Washington papers2015(a)cscw.acm.org<mailto:papers2015@cscw.acm.org> Posters Co-Chairs Karyn Moffatt, McGill University Aleksandra Sarcevic, Drexel University posters2015(a)cscw.acm.org<mailto:posters2015@cscw.acm.org> Panels Co-Chairs Louise Barkhuus, Stockholm University Anatoliy Gruzd, Dalhousie University panels2015(a)cscw.acm.org<mailto:panels2015@cscw.acm.org> Workshops Co-Chairs Laura Dabbish, Carnegie Mellon University Jenn Thom, Amazon workshops2015(a)cscw.acm.org<mailto:workshops2015@cscw.acm.org> Demos Co-Chairs Tomoo Inoue, University of Tsukuba Tony Tang, University of Calgary demos2015(a)cscw.acm.org<mailto:demos2015@cscw.acm.org> Doctoral Consortium Co-Chairs Carl Gutwin, University of Saskatchewan Abigail Sellen, Microsoft Research Cambridge dc2015(a)cscw.acm.org<mailto:dc2015@cscw.acm.org>

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Announcing Locations for IR 16 and IR 17
by Kendall, Lori 24 Mar '14

24 Mar '14

The Association of Internet Researchers is pleased to announce that Internet Research 16 will be held from 22-24 October 2015 (with pre-conference workshops on the 21st) in sunny Phoenix, Arizona. The venue is the Embassy Suites Phoenix Biltmore Hotel. A call for papers and more information about the conference will be announced this summer. We are also pleased to announce that Internet Research 17 will take place in Berlin in Fall of 2016. Further details on dates and venue for that conference will be announced later. Lori Kendall President, AoIR prez(a)aoir.org

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Registration now open - 1984: Freedom and Censorship in the Media
by Mark Mckenna 24 Mar '14

24 Mar '14

Apologies for cross posting Dear All, We are pleased to inform you that registration is now open and conference passes are now available from the University of Sunderland's online shop. Booking is available until the 31th of March and can be accessed by following this link: http://www.where-are-we-now.co.uk/?page_id=350 Should you require any further information about the event please visit our site http://www.where-are-we-now.co.uk

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Study Participation: Making Medical Decisions in Uncertainty
by Roundtree, Aimee 24 Mar '14

24 Mar '14

I am conducting a study about how patients, caregivers, and healthcare providers handle uncertainty when they make medical decisions (UHD CPHS #26-14). Please consider volunteering to participate in a brief, online questionnaire where you share your experiences pertaining to uncertainty in medical decision making. Please also consider forwarding this invitation to others in your community who might be willing to participate. CONSUMERS, PATIENTS, FAMILIES: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/2GVMGDW HEALTHCARE PROVIDERS: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/2GC5NJ7 Your participation will help improve models for making more effective healthcare decision products. If you have any questions, feel free to contact me at roundtreea(a)uhd.edu or 713-222-5315. Aimee Kendall Roundtree, Ph.D. Associate Professor and Director Master of Science in Technical Communication University of Houston-Downtown One Main Street, 1045-South Houston, TX 77002 713-222-5315 roundtreea(a)uhd.edu

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Western Political Science Association Roundtable
by jose marichal 24 Mar '14

24 Mar '14

Colleagues, Anyone in Political Science who happens to be going to the Western Political Science Association in Seattle next month and would like to be part of a methods roundtable on "collecting on-line data," please notify me off list at: marichal(a)callutheran.edu Thanks, Jose On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 5:40 AM, Liz Sillence <lizsillence(a)yahoo.co.uk>wrote: > Funded PhD studentship at Northumbria University > > > "Understanding the impact of gathering, tracking and > exchanging information via social media on health decision making (advert > reference: HLS/DRFPSSR7/53455)" > > Deadline March 31st 2014 > > The Internet is well established as a major source of > health information, but both the source and the nature of e-health content > is > changing rapidly. Patients are increasingly the first source of > information and > advice for other patients in a new peer-to-peer process in which patients > are > turning to others like themselves for advice and support and where detailed > patient experiences (PEx) are offered online and used to inform health > decisions. In addition patients are increasingly 'life logging' - tracking > and > monitoring information about their own health, for example, objective data > on > weight, blood pressure and treatment response, alongside subjective > reports of > mood and anxiety. Whilst some sites encourage people to share this > information > (see for example Patients Like Me) little is known about the ways in which > people combine all this information and use it to better understand their > own > condition and importantly make decisions about their health and wellbeing. > > Using a mixed method approach and different patient > groups (segmented around, type and stage of disease, level of active > management, age and gender) this programme of research aims to understand > how > the gathering, tracking and exchanging of information and experiences via > mobile applications and social media influences health decision making. The > project will explore the following questions: > * How does increased awareness and monitoring of health > variables affect peoples' attitudes towards their health condition and > sense of > wellbeing? > * How are different sources of information > (self-collected, GP provided and peer-to-peer) integrated over the longer > term? > * What are the pathways by which this type of information > influences decision making? > * Finally, given the choice agenda within the NHS - 'no > decision about me without me', how do people want to be able to share, > view and > monitor their health as a way of enhancing their input to the decision > making > process. > > Enquiries regarding this studentship should be made to Dr > Liz Sillence: elizabeth.sillence(a)northumbria.ac.uk > > Applicants should hold a first or upper second class > honours degree (in a relevant subject) from a UK higher education > institution, > or equivalent. Students who are not UK/EU residents are eligible to apply, > provided they hold the relevant academic qualifications, together with an > IELTS > score of at least 6.5. > > To apply, contact Paul Agnew to request the appropriate > application form, quoting the advert reference above, via email to > hl.pgradmin(a)northumbria.ac.uk > > or by using the application link on the findaphd page > http://www.findaphd.com/search/ProjectDetails.aspx?PJID=53455 > _______________________________________________ > The Air-L(a)listserv.aoir.org mailing list > is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org > Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: > http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org > > Join the Association of Internet Researchers: > http://www.aoir.org/ -- _______________________________________________________________________________________ josé marichal, ph.d. | associate professor | political science <http://about.me/marichal> department | california lutheran university 60 w. olsen road | #3800 | thousand oaks, ca 91360 805-493-3328

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Funded PhD Health decision making and social media
by Liz Sillence 24 Mar '14

24 Mar '14

Funded PhD studentship at Northumbria University "Understanding the impact of gathering, tracking and exchanging information via social media on health decision making (advert reference: HLS/DRFPSSR7/53455)" Deadline March 31st 2014 The Internet is well established as a major source of health information, but both the source and the nature of e-health content is changing rapidly. Patients are increasingly the first source of information and advice for other patients in a new peer-to-peer process in which patients are turning to others like themselves for advice and support and where detailed patient experiences (PEx) are offered online and used to inform health decisions. In addition patients are increasingly ‘life logging’ - tracking and monitoring information about their own health, for example, objective data on weight, blood pressure and treatment response, alongside subjective reports of mood and anxiety. Whilst some sites encourage people to share this information (see for example Patients Like Me) little is known about the ways in which people combine all this information and use it to better understand their own condition and importantly make decisions about their health and wellbeing. Using a mixed method approach and different patient groups (segmented around, type and stage of disease, level of active management, age and gender) this programme of research aims to understand how the gathering, tracking and exchanging of information and experiences via mobile applications and social media influences health decision making. The project will explore the following questions: • How does increased awareness and monitoring of health variables affect peoples’ attitudes towards their health condition and sense of wellbeing? • How are different sources of information (self-collected, GP provided and peer-to-peer) integrated over the longer term? • What are the pathways by which this type of information influences decision making? • Finally, given the choice agenda within the NHS - ‘no decision about me without me’, how do people want to be able to share, view and monitor their health as a way of enhancing their input to the decision making process. Enquiries regarding this studentship should be made to Dr Liz Sillence: elizabeth.sillence(a)northumbria.ac.uk Applicants should hold a first or upper second class honours degree (in a relevant subject) from a UK higher education institution, or equivalent. Students who are not UK/EU residents are eligible to apply, provided they hold the relevant academic qualifications, together with an IELTS score of at least 6.5. To apply, contact Paul Agnew to request the appropriate application form, quoting the advert reference above, via email to hl.pgradmin(a)northumbria.ac.uk or by using the application link on the findaphd page http://www.findaphd.com/search/ProjectDetails.aspx?PJID=53455

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One month to go! OpenSym (WikiSym) Call for Research Papers
by Nicolas Jullien 24 Mar '14

24 Mar '14

Dear colleague, please consider submitting a paper to OpenSym 2014 (formerly WikiSym) in Berlin, Germany, Aug 27-29. In-cooperation with ACM SIGWEB, ACM SIGSOFT, archived in the ACM Digital Library. General call for papers: http://www.opensym.org/os2014/submission/general-call/ Track-specific calls for research papers: 1. Open Data: http://www.opensym.org/os2014/submission/research-track-calls/open-data/ 2. Open Educational Resources: http://www.opensym.org/os2014/submission/research-track-calls/open-educatio… 3. Free/Libre/Open Source Software http://www.opensym.org/os2014/submission/research-track-calls/open-source/ 4. (IT-Driven) Open Innovation: http://www.opensym.org/os2014/submission/research-track-calls/open-innovati… 5. Wikis and Open Collaboration: http://www.opensym.org/os2014/submission/research-track-calls/open-collab-w… 6. Wikipedia http://www.opensym.org/os2014/submission/research-track-calls/wikipedia/ With kind regards, Nicolas Jullien

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Call for Papers, 9th GigaNet Symposium
by Francesca Musiani 24 Mar '14

24 Mar '14

Dear colleagues, Please find below the Call for Papers for the 9th Annual GigaNet Symposium. Please excuse cross-postings. Kind regards, Francesca Global Internet Governance Academic Network (GigaNet) CALL FOR PAPERS 9th Annual Symposium 1 September 2014 Istanbul, Turkey Deadline for abstract submissions: April 15 2014 The Global Internet Governance Academic Network (GigaNet) is seeking research submissions about Internet Governance to be presented at its Ninth Annual Symposium, held on 1 September 2014, one day before the United Nations Internet Governance Forum (IGF) in Istanbul, Turkey. GigaNet is a scholarly community that promotes the development of Internet Governance as a recognized, interdisciplinary field of study and facilitates informed dialogue on policy issues and related matters between scholars and governments, international organizations, the private sector and civil society. http://giga-net.org/ Since 2006, GigaNet has organized an Annual Symposium to showcase research about Internet Governance, bringing together researchers and practitioners from a wide range of disciplines and fields. As in previous years, the symposium will provide room to discuss current and future questions as well as the challenges encountered and results achieved in global Internet governance. The 2014 GigaNet Symposium offers researchers a timely opportunity to present their work on our rapidly changing field. Conference themes GigaNet is interested in receiving abstracts related to Internet Governance themes, especially those containing innovative approaches and/or emerging research areas. The program committee welcomes all proposals on topics related to global Internet governance including such themes as: * The WGEC process and outcomes * The WSIS review process and outcomes * The mainstreaming and proliferation of "Internet Governance" * The institutionalization of internet governance * Analysis of the NETmundial meeting * Global Trade, Intellectual Property and Internet Governance * The ICANN separation roadmap from the NTIA We will continue to provide a venue for emerging scholars in the field by offering select panels. Emerging Scholars are those individuals who have received their Ph.D. within the past three years as well as current doctoral students working on their approved doctoral research. Accepted papers from senior scholars will be presented and discussed in a roundtable format involving business, government and technical community representatives, while emerging scholars will present their work in a more traditional academic panel. In both cases, presenters should expect to have conversations about their work with people from a wide range of stakeholder groups. Submissions Interested scholars should submit abstracts of their research paper at the Easy Chair platform: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=giganet2014 Deadline for abstract submissions: April 15 2014 Paper proposals should be submitted following these requirements: § An abstract of 800-1000 words, in English, that describes the paper's main research goal(s) and methodology employed § A short bio note focused on institutional affiliations, advanced degrees, scholarly publications and work in the field of Internet Governance and related issues (for example ICTs). Please include a link to a more detailed CV. § Authors of accepted abstracts must submit their final papers by *15 July 2014*. Those unable to do so will be removed from the program. Process and publication The Program Committee will evaluate submitted abstracts and inform proposal authors of acceptance decisions by email before *1 June 2014*. Accepted submissions and final papers will be published on the GigaNet website. An online publication with selected papers on the main challenges of Internet Governance is also planned for the Istanbul IGF. Registration The GigaNet Annual Symposium is free of charge. However, registration will be required to gain entry to the event venue. Please continue visiting our website for further information about registration, venue and accommodation. If you have any question related to the submission or the symposium activities, please e-mail the Program Committee Chair: j-laprise(a)northwestern.edu. -- Francesca Musiani Postdoctoral researcher Centre de Sociologie de l'Innovation <http://www.csi.mines-paristech.fr/> MINES ParisTech 60, Boulevard Saint-Michel 75272 Paris Cedex 06, France Co-Chair, ESN-IAMCR <http://iamcr.org/s-wg/cctmc/esn> | Outreach officer, GigaNet <http://giga-net.org> Projet ANR ADAM - Architectures distribuées et applications multimédias<http://adam.hypotheses.org/> Internet Policy Review @ HIIG Berlin <http://policyreview.info/> Personal website <http://www.csi.mines-paristech.fr/People/musiani/> | Twitter <https://twitter.com/franmusiani>

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