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CFP: 5th International Symposium on Visualization, Art & Design (VAD)
by Marchese, Prof. Francis T. 28 Dec '13

28 Dec '13

You are cordially invited to submit a paper and participate the 5th International Symposium on Visualization, Art & Design (VAD), as part of the the 18th International Conference on Information Visualization 2014 (iV2014) (http://www.graphicslink.co.uk/IV2014/) to be held in Paris, France July 15 to 18, 2014 (http://www.univ-paris5.fr) Submissions to this symposium are invited from the breadth of the digital arts, science, and technology, including artists, scientists, technologists, designers, architects, psychologists, historians, critical theorists, practitioners, and others. Theories, applications, analyses, case studies, reviews, and manifestos that address all manner of process or product are welcome. Topics include, but are not limited to: • Artistic and design practices supporting the visualization process • Artist, designer, scientist, technologist collaborations • Art by visualizers • Visualizations by artists and designers • Artistic creations and practice based on scientific/technological models and simulations • Virtual and physical information artifacts related to, or created through, artistic and design processes • Artistic mapping of information, including cartographic art, virtual and built architectural environments, interactive systems, and animations. • Infographic design and its associated process • The role of the viewer in visualization design • Visualization design aesthetics • The role of aesthetics in the design of information visualization tools Conference Proceedings Papers will appear in the Conference Proceedings after oral presentation, following a peer-review process. The Conference Proceedings will be published by IEEE Computer Society with an ISBN number and will be indexed by IEEE Xplore and other major bibliographical databases. Please visit the Conference website for more information on proceedings (http://www.graphicslink.co.uk/IV2014/IVPublications.htm) Submission procedures: http://www.graphicslink.co.uk/IV2014/PAPERS.htm Further information: http://www.graphicslink.co.uk/IV2014/ Deadlines March 1, 2014 Submission of papers April 25, 2014 Notification of Reviewing Result 10 May 10, 2014 Submission of camera-ready At least one of the co-authors is required to register for the Conference by May 20, 2014 and present the paper at the Conference. Individuals may appear as co-authors in more than one paper or poster. Please do not hesitate to contact one of the co-chairs (listed below) or the Program Administration (IV14(a)graphicslink.co.uk<mailto:IV14@graphicslink.co.uk>) should you need any assistance during this process. We look forward to your submission and participation. Kindest regards, VAD 2014 Symposium Co-Chairs Francis T. Marchese, Pace University, NY, USA (fmarchese(a)pace.edu<mailto:fmarchese@pace.edu>) Sarah Kenderdine, University of New South Wales, Australia Theodor G Wyeld, Flinders University, Australia

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Call for Abstracts: Death, mourning and the internet (Thanatos vol. 3 1/2014)
by Anna E. Haverinen 28 Dec '13

28 Dec '13

Sorry for cross posting, please share! Best, Anna Haverinen Digital Culture, University of Turku, Finland _____________ CALL FOR ABSTRACTS: Thanatos vol. 3 1/2014 Theme issue: Death, mourning and the internet Computer and mobile technologies have now provided a new space and medium to connect and share at the time of loss and bereavement. People seek out for places of ritualised actions, such as lighting candles, writing eulogies, visit memorials during anniversaries and feeling the sense of community at the time of loss. Internet provides a new space for rituals, feeling of co-presence and communality, where memorials are being erected in various online environments. This new way of expressing mourning and honoring are rising interesting questions about value, family, identity, friendship and love. Who is allowed to create a virtual memorial? Who has access and ownership to the material we leave online? Is it only the young people, the Web 2.0 generation,and the digital natives, who are appropriating internet technology to cope with loss and bereavement? What are the problems of using the internet in hospice care? How virtuality, death and/or the after world are being conceptualised through the Web? Thanatos (www.thanatos-journal.com) is a peer-reviewed, multi-disciplinary and a scientific webjournal published by the Finnish Death Studies Association (www.kuolemantutkimus.com) We publish twice a year a journal that consists of articles, short and long research reports, book reviews, columns and seminar reports. The primary publication language is Finnish, but we do accept manuscripts in English and Swedish as well, however, the costs of proofreading are the responsibility of the author. We now invite abstracts in English, Swedish or Finnish (max 400 words) for articles (max 8000 words) and research reports (max 5000 words) from the following example themes: • Digital afterlife • Internet and hospice care • Space and spatiality in virtual memorials • Identity and virtual memorials • Online memorials and heritage • Memorials and online gaming • Death and Facebook • Memorial videos in Youtube (Vimeo etc.) • Online funerals The above mentioned topics are only examples and we encourage you to send your own ideas as well. Abstracts are to be sent to anna.haverinen(a)utu.fiby 3rd of January 2014. Schedule: • 3.1.2014: Abstract deadlines (max 400 words) • 28.2.2014: Full manuscript deadlines (articles max 8000 words, research reports max 5000 words) • 15.4.2014: Writers receive referee and editorial comments on their first drafts • 31.5.2014: Deadline for second drafts • June/July: Journal publication The head editor of the first issue in 2014 will be doctoral student of digital culture, Anna Haverinen (M. Phil.), who has studied virtual memorials and online death rituals extensively since 2007 in her thesis "Virtual Memorials - death and mourning rituals in online environments" (Forthcoming, 2014).

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Papers on attitudes towards SNS non-users?
by David Brake 28 Dec '13

28 Dec '13

Dear all, I'm writing about some of the factors that keep people posting to social networks for my upcoming book "Sharing Our Lives Online- Risks and Exposure in Social Media". One of the ones I'm considering is the potential stigmatisation of those who “stick out" in their peer groups for either not participating at all on social networks or keeping a very low profile. I've seen a few studies about why people choose not to join eg: Eric P.S. Baumer, Phil Adams, Vera D. Khovanskaya, Tony C. Liao, Madeline E. Smith, Victoria Schwanda Sosik, and Kaiton Williams. 2013. Limiting, leaving, and (re)lapsing: an exploration of facebook non-use practices and experiences. In Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '13). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 3257-3266. DOI=10.1145/2470654.2466446 http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/2470654.2466446 Pavica Sheldon, Profiling the non-users: Examination of life-position indicators, sensation seeking, shyness, and loneliness among users and non-users of social network sites, Computers in Human Behavior, Volume 28, Issue 5, September 2012, Pages 1960-1965, ISSN 0747-5632, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2012.05.016. Tufekci, Z. (2008). Grooming, Gossip, Facebook and MySpace: What Can We Learn About These Sites From Those Who Won’t Assimilate? . Information, Communication & Society, 11(4), 544 - 564. but they don't talk much about how people are perceived if they don't participate (though Baumer et al mention pressure to join on p. 4) Marwick, A. (2013). Status Update: Celebrity, Publicity, and Branding in the Social Media Age. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press. has some on this but the SF tech community is perhaps an outlier case? Anyway I hope you can suggest some alternatives! ...And Happy holidays to one and all! -- Dr David Brake, FHEA (@drbrake http://davidbrake.org/) Senior Lecturer, Journalism & Communications, University of Bedfordshire

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AMCIS 2014> CFP: Global and Cross Cultural Impacts of Big Data Minitrack
by Howard Rosenbaum 28 Dec '13

28 Dec '13

CALL FOR PAPERS: AMCIS Minitrack - Global and Cross Cultural Impacts of Big Data 20th Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS): Smart Sustainability, the Information Systems Opportunity, Savannah, GA, August 7-10, 2014 Conference Website: http://amcis2013.aisnet.org/ DESCRIPTION Manyika et al. (2011; 4) note “big data has now reached every sector of the global economy. Like other essential factors of production … much of modern economic activity simply couldn’t take place without it.” An emerging grand challenge involves gathering, organizing, curating, managing, analyzing, visualizing and disseminating these heterogeneous data over the lifecycle of the data for such purposes such as scientific discovery, medical advances, entrepreneurial activity and public policy formulation. People in the public and private sectors are taking note of this development as are academics, who are exploring ways of dealing with big data, defined by the National Science Foundation (2012) as: …large, diverse, complex, longitudinal, and/or distributed data sets generated from instruments, sensors, Internet transactions, email, video, click streams, and/or all other digital sources available today and in the future. This minitrack solicits high quality conceptual and empirical work that focuses on the global impacts of big data on governments, multinational companies, NGOs and other organizations. Big data datasets and the technologies for analyzing them are developing faster than our understanding of the ways in which this phenomenon is impacting and will impact the ways work is done in a wide range of settings. As scholars and researchers begin to investigate the impacts of Big Data, this minitrack provides a venue for them to share their work. Appropriate topics for this minitrack include (but are not limited to) the following: • Big data use in organizational, national and international settings • How the introduction of big data affects organizational and group work flow • Ways that big data is affecting organizational and group decision making • Security and privacy impacts of big data use • The intended and unintended consequences of big data • The dark side of big data: surveillance, illicit activities, discriminatory analytics, and the end of privacy • Big data as a social, political, economic, and/or cultural phenomenon Minitrack chairs: Pnina Fichman, School of Informatics and Computing, Indiana University fichman(a)indiana.edu Howard Rosenbaum, School of Informatics and Computing, Indiana University hrosenba(a)indiana.edu SUBMISSION PROCESS: Full paper submissions must be made electronically through the AMCIS on-line submission system no later than March 1, 2014. Manuscript Central will start accepting paper submissions on January 5, 2014 at: http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/amcis2014 Additional instructions for authors: http://amcis2014.aisnet.org/index.php/call-for-papers Important Dates: March 1, 2014: (11:59 PM EST): Deadline for paper submissions April 4 2014: Authors will be notified of acceptances on or about this date April 18, 2014: Authors revisions due April 25, 2014: (11:59 PM EST): For accepted papers, camera ready copy due

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Book announcement: "Favela Digital - The other side of technology".
by David Nemer 28 Dec '13

28 Dec '13

Dear AoIRist and CI-ers, * I apologize in advance for the self-promoting email* My first book "Favela Digital - The other side of technology" was published in October in Brazil, and now is available on Amazon. The idea for this book came up during the fieldwork I did in Vitória, Brazil for my doctoral dissertation. My research aims to understand the experience of marginalized people in community technology centers and how this experience informs the ways we think about what constitutes "empowerment" and "disempowerment" vis-à-vis technology. The book "Digital Favela - The other side of technology" is an opportunity to show, in photos, the reality I lived in during six months visiting the marginalized communities of São Benedito, Bairro da Penha, Itararé, Gurigica, Jaburu e Consolação. Along with the team from Varal Communications Agency, I captured the everyday life in the favelas and how the residents use digital technology. My goal with this book is to make people aware that alternative use of such technologies, in these areas of social abandonment, is legitimate and deserves our attention. The photos are followed by testimonials given by residents, my own observations, or parts of academic papers. The texts critically engage the reader with social issues of technology use in favelas and in society in general. The book is also a way to highlight themes addressed by Social Informatics in order to trigger discussions involving the general public. It amplifies critical issues of the life in the favelas for everyone, including academics. http://favela-digital.com Sales of the book Favela Digital will be donated to the NGO Varal Communication Agency. Varal rescues homeless teens from the favelas and provides them with communication training. Available on Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Favela-Digital-other-side-technology/dp/8581730590/ Thanks, -- *David Nemer* PhD Candidate in Social Informatics School of Informatics and Computing, Indiana University Editor of the Social Informatics Blog - http://socialinformaticsblog.com http://www.dnemer.com dnemer(a)indiana.edu

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Re: [Air-L] Papers on attitudes towards SNS non-users?
by Scott Kushner 24 Dec '13

24 Dec '13

Hi David, Laura Portwood-Stacer has done some fabulous work on people who abstain from social media. She pays some attention to how this abstention is perceived, though I seem to remember her focus being more squarely on motivations of non-participants, and particularly on links to non- and anti-consumerist ideologies. She's got one piece in NMS and another in J Consumer Culture. Possibly others by now? There's also Kate Crawford's work on lurking, an essay in Continuum and a chapter in a book called Cultures of Participation, though this is in some ways further afield. I've got a project on lurking moving now, also further afield, but only a couple of conference papers so far (at academia.edu) Both Crawford and I have interest in the ways non-participation gets framed, though I'm not sure how it matches with what you're doing. Scott > On Dec 23, 2013, at 6:00 PM, air-l-request(a)listserv.aoir.org wrote: > > Date: Mon, 23 Dec 2013 16:49:02 +0000 > From: David Brake <davidbrake(a)gmail.com> > To: AoIR mailing list <air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org> > Subject: [Air-L] Papers on attitudes towards SNS non-users? > Message-ID: <57EE8B10-847A-43BA-ADA8-937C551D8513(a)gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 > > Dear all, > > I'm writing about some of the factors that keep people posting to social networks for my upcoming book "Sharing Our Lives Online- Risks and Exposure in Social Media". One of the ones I'm considering is the potential stigmatisation of those who ?stick out" in their peer groups for either not participating at all on social networks or keeping a very low profile. I've seen a few studies about why people choose not to join eg: > > Eric P.S. Baumer, Phil Adams, Vera D. Khovanskaya, Tony C. Liao, Madeline E. Smith, Victoria Schwanda Sosik, and Kaiton Williams. 2013. Limiting, leaving, and (re)lapsing: an exploration of facebook non-use practices and experiences. In Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '13). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 3257-3266. DOI=10.1145/2470654.2466446 http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/2470654.2466446 > > Pavica Sheldon, Profiling the non-users: Examination of life-position indicators, sensation seeking, shyness, and loneliness among users and non-users of social network sites, Computers in Human Behavior, Volume 28, Issue 5, September 2012, Pages 1960-1965, ISSN 0747-5632, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2012.05.016. > > Tufekci, Z. (2008). Grooming, Gossip, Facebook and MySpace: What Can We Learn About These Sites From Those Who Won?t Assimilate? . Information, Communication & Society, 11(4), 544 - 564. > > but they don't talk much about how people are perceived if they don't participate (though Baumer et al mention pressure to join on p. 4) > > Marwick, A. (2013). Status Update: Celebrity, Publicity, and Branding in the Social Media Age. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press. > > has some on this but the SF tech community is perhaps an outlier case? > > Anyway I hope you can suggest some alternatives! > > ...And Happy holidays to one and all! > > > -- > Dr David Brake, FHEA (@drbrake http://davidbrake.org/) Senior Lecturer, Journalism & Communications, University of Bedfordshire

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non-participating
by Barry Wellman 23 Dec '13

23 Dec '13

As you might expect, Pewinternet.org has also studied non-participation. 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 $20 Kindle $16 Old/NewCyberTimes http://bit.ly/c8N9V8 ________________________________________________________________________

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CFP>Social Theory in Information Systems Research (STIR '14) AMCIS 2014
by Fichman, Pnina 23 Dec '13

23 Dec '13

[Apologies for cross-posting] Call For Papers: AMCIS Mini-track: Social Theory in Information Systems Research (STIR '14) 20th Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS): Smart Sustainability, the Information Systems opportunity, Savannah, GA, August 7-10, 2014 Conference Website: http://amcis2013.aisnet.org/ DESCRIPTION: This Mini Track solicits papers that make use of social theory in information systems research drawing upon such approaches as sociotechnical theory, critical theory, social informatics, organizational theory, cultural anthropology, sociology and others. We are interested in understanding and supporting the evolution of social theory, socio-technical theory, and social informatics in information systems research. We want to highlight research that uses these approaches to critically examine the constitution of information and communications technologies, and their roles in organizations and society; these are among the most important questions about IS, organizations, and society. We particularly invite IS research that applies, builds on, compares, or critiques these social theories. We are interested in high quality empirical and conceptual work that uses social theory to study and theorize about application domains including large-scale social and organizational phenomena. We seek to attract research papers and research-in-progress papers from all IS researchers who are using the work of social theorists, organizational theorists, sociotechnical theorists, and cultural anthropologists, symbolic interactionists, and many others. We are particularly interested in research that makes use of social theory 1) to address issues of designing a smart and sustainable digital future, 2) to answer questions about how we are interacting with ICTs in our work and social lives in ways that help and hinder the move towards sustainability, and 3) to critically examine the constitution of ICTs, and their roles in the design, maintenance and dissolution of sustainable organizations and social groups. This will be the 14th consecutive year for the Mini Track at AMCIS, and we hope to continue a tradition of high quality paper submissions, thought-provoking presentations and lively discussion for all IS researchers using, or considering the use of, social theory in their work. SUGGESTED TOPICS In addition to research aligned with the conference theme we are also interested in high quality empirical and conceptual work that uses social theory to study and understand: * The implications of social networks for organizations and social groups * Conceptual and empirical work focusing on the ways ICT can promote or hinder social inclusion * The significance of cyberinfrastructure for commerce, governing and research and development * The relationships between ICTs and people as they participate in online communities and virtual teams * Online communities of practice, their processes and outcomes * The dynamics of crowdsourcing online * Hacktivism and the use of technology to mobilize resources and advance ideology * Unintended consequences of technology implementation and use in organizations and in social life * Scientific collaboration and scholarly communication as enabled and constrained by ICTs * The impacts of social computing on our social and work lives Minitrack chairs: Howard Rosenbaum, School of Informatics and Computing, Indiana University hrosenba(a)indiana.edu<mailto:hrosenba@indiana.edu> Pnina Fichman, School of Informatics and Computing, Indiana University fichman(a)indiana.edu<mailto:fichman@indiana.edu> Submission Process: Instructions for authors and more information is available at: http://amcis2014.aisnet.org/index.php/call-for-papers Full paper submissions must be made electronically through the AMCIS on-line submission system. Papers can be submitted beginning on January 5, 2014. The link will be available at: http://aisel.aisnet.org/amcis2014_papers/<http://aisel.aisnet.org/amcis2013_minitracks/> Submissions will close on March 1, 2014. ------------------------ 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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CFP ASIS&T 2014
by Richard Hill 23 Dec '13

23 Dec '13

Connecting Collections, Cultures, and Communities 77th ASIST Annual Meeting October 31 - November 4, 2014 Sheraton Seattle Hotel, Seattle, WA http://www.asis.org/asist2014/ The Annual Meeting of the Association for Information Science and Technology is the premier international conference dedicated to the study of information, people, and technology in contemporary society. The ASIST AM gathers leading scholars and practitioners from around the globe to share innovations, ideas, research, and insights into the state and future of information and communication in play, work, governance, and society. ASIST AM has an established record for pushing the boundaries of information studies, exploring core concepts and ideas, and creating new technological and conceptual configurations -- all situated in interdisciplinary discourses. The conference welcomes contributions from all areas of information science and technology. The conference celebrates plurality in methods, theories and conceptual frameworks and has historically presented research and development from a broad spectrum of domains, as encapsulated in ASIST�s many special interest groups: Arts & Humanities; Bioinformatics; Blogs, Wikis, Podcasts; Classification Research; Critical Issues; Digital Libraries; Education for Information Science; Health Informatics; History & Foundations of Information Science; Human Computer Interaction; Information Architecture; Information Needs, Seeking and Use; Information Policy; International Information Issues; Knowledge Management; Library Technologies; Management; Metrics; Scientific & Technical Information; Social Informatics; and Visualization, Images & Sound. Important Dates Papers, Panels, and Workshops: Submissions: April 30th Notifications: June 11th Final copies: July 15th Posters: Submissions: July 1th Notifications: July 30th Final copies: August 20th (All deadlines: midnight, Hawaii Standard Time) . Richard Hill Executive Director Association for Information Science and Technology 1320 Fenwick Lane, Suite 510 Silver Spring, MD 20910 FAX: (301) 495-0810 (301) 495-0900

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Call for contributors: May 2015 special issue of Kairos on social media
by Stephanie Vie 22 Dec '13

22 Dec '13

Hi all, Please consider submitting an abstract for a special issue of *Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy* that my colleague, Douglas Walls, and I are editing. The special issue will be published in May 2015 and will focus on social media and writing. We're asking for initial abstracts by January 1, 2014, with notification of acceptance in the special issue by January 8, 2014. If you'd like to chat briefly about preliminary ideas, I'd be happy to email or Skype with you as well. The full call for webtexts can be found at https://ucf.academia.edu/StephanieVie/Call-for-Webtexts and also I have copied and pasted it below. Thanks, Stephanie ----- Dr. Stephanie Vie Associate Professor of Writing and Rhetoric Department of Writing and Rhetoric University of Central Florida Reviews Co-Editor, *Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy* *Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy *May 2015 special issue *Because Facebook: Digital Rhetoric/Social Media* Guest Editors: Stephanie Vie and Douglas Walls (both of University of Central Florida) *Special Issue Theme* This special issue focuses on the production and circulation of texts within social media technologies such as Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, etc. While the title, “Because Facebook: Digital Rhetoric/Social Media,” is a play on the recent spread of “because” as a preposition in the English language, we welcome webtexts, interviews, and book reviews that focus on any aspect of digital rhetoric, writing, and social media. Beyond Facebook and other current social networking spaces, we would also encourage examinations of other social media like Twitter, Pinterest, LinkedIn, etc., along with theoretical approaches to literate practice such as the use of hashtags as an organizational schema, the role of tagging in Facebook as a means of communal affiliation, the curation of Pinterest categories as a repository of research materials, and so on. Writing in social media is both timely and exciting, and this special issue as a call for additional scholarly attention to the intersections of writing studies and social media tools. Indeed, in an age of nearly ubiquitous social media use, it is important for us to pay academic attention to these technologies with a specific eye toward the copious amounts of writing that are composed, circulated, and read in social media. Thus, this special issue will gather webtexts that attend to writing in social media: its production, circulation, presentation, and pedagogical applications. The special issue will be a curated series of webtexts that examine how writing is both facilitated by social media and influenced by the affordances and constraints of social media technologies. *Call for Webtexts (CFW)* We invite born-digital webtexts that explore the intersections of social media and writing in higher education. The guest editors imagine social media broadly and encourage pieces that examine specific social media technologies such as Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Pinterest, etc., within theoretical frameworks as well as pieces that look at writing within larger social media categories, such as micro-blogging, social networking, etc. We invite authors to organize their webtexts as appropriate for one of the following four sections: *Topoi*: *Kairos*’ Topoi section includes extended scholarly analyses of large-scale issues relating to rhetoric, technology, and pedagogy. We encourage webtexts for the Topoi section of this special issue to examine social media writing within specific theoretical frameworks. We see this section as likely addressing specific large-scale implications (such as gender, sexual identity, race and ethnicity, group affiliation, identity politics, privacy and surveillance, and data mining) that emerge when writing happens in these spheres. *Praxis*: *Kairos*’ Praxis section publishes scholarly investigations into the intersections of rhetoric, technology, and pedagogy with an emphasis on what happens in the writing/rhetoric classroom and why. Webtexts should showcase how writing is informed by emerging technologies foregrounding practical aspects (i.e., how would one use the technique being described? Who might benefit from following the author's approach and why?) while providing a theoretical grounding. The editors see this section as focusing overtly on social media and pedagogy: How are social media shaping and being shaped by educational issues related to writing studies? We encourage webtexts that concentrate on specific social media technologies (Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, LinkedIn, etc.) along with theoretical approaches to literate practice such as the use of hashtags as an organizational schema, the role of tagging in Facebook as a means of communal affiliation, the curation of Pinterest categories as a repository of research materials, and so on. *Interviews*: We encourage interviews with authors who regularly write about social media technologies, use social media in their classrooms, and/or develop and maintain social media technologies. We also encourage interviews that move beyond the borders of writing and rhetoric to seek out interdisciplinary interviews with scholars from other fields who do exciting work with social media. Finally, we see the Interviews section as a place for more experimental approaches to “the interview,” such as an interview with scholars on the creation of their personal profiles in Facebook, the maintenance of their identities across multiple social media, or an examination of their network of friends, for example. Informal queries before a formal proposal are welcome. *Book Reviews*: The guest editors seek reviews of the following books and welcome queries for reviews of other recent books that focus on social media and writing in higher education. Webtexts that engage with multiple books as a review essay are welcomed. *Facebook and Philosophy: What’s on Your Mind?* (Chicago, 2010) *Intimacy and Friendship on Facebook* (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013) *Social Communication in the Twitter Age* (Polity, 2013) *Social Media: Usage and Impact *(Lexington, 2012) *The Culture of Connectivity: A Critical History of Social Media *(Oxford, 2012) *Twitter: Social Communication in the Digital Age *(Polity Press, 2013) *Understanding Social Media* (Sage, 2013) *Understanding Social Networks: Theories, Concepts, and Findings *(Oxford, 2012) Contributors are encouraged to consider the following possible topics (this list is not exhaustive): - Digital divide and technological access issues for faculty, students, and/or community stakeholders who use social media - End-User Licensing Agreements, Terms of Service, copyright law, and other legal frameworks affecting writing in social media - Faculty professionalization and program-building efforts using social media - Gender issues and group dynamics in pedagogical uses of social media - Issues of identity, anonymity, and pseudonymity when writing in social media - Literacy practices and communal norms about writing in social media spaces - Online monitoring and data-based metrics of students and instruction in social media spaces - Pedagogical possibilities for social media in the writing classroom - Pedagogical resistance to social media in the writing classroom - Privacy and surveillance within social media spaces - Professional writing and social media - Resistance and opting out of social media - Service-learning and community-based research efforts in the community facilitated by social media - Social media, writing, and the public sphere - Student writing produced outside of class in social media contexts - The challenges of citing and archiving social media in research projects - The rhetoric of listening and following in social media - The role of social media in changing citation practices - Writing About Writing (WAW) curricula and the impact of writing about socially mediated writing - Writing pedagogy in participatory social media spaces Please send abstracts of 350-500 words to Stephanie Vie ( Stephanie.Vie(a)ucf.edu) and Douglas Walls (Douglas.Walls(a)ucf.edu) by January 1, 2014. Submissions should include all authors’ contact information and a brief design statement (50-100 words) or design prototype for all proposed authors. Your brief design statement should describe any previous experience composing web-ready or born-digital pieces as well as initial ideas for your webtext—its look and feel, technologies to be used in composing, etc. Initial queries are welcome. Authors will be invited to submit full webtext drafts by February 15, 2014. *Timeline*: - Deadline for abstracts: January 1, 2014 - Notification of acceptance to authors: January 8, 2014 - Deadline for first draft of accepted webtexts: February 15, 2014 - Editors’ feedback on first drafts: March 15, 2014 - Deadline for second draft of accepted webtexts: May 1, 2014 - Editors’ feedback on second drafts: July 15, 2014 - Deadline for final revised webtexts: December 1, 2014 - Special issue is released: May 2015

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