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Call for Conference Locations
by Kendall, Lori 03 Jun '13

03 Jun '13

Please share widely... Call for Proposals to Host the Internet Research (IR) conferences in 2015 and 2016. The Executive Committee of the Association of Internet Researchers is seeking statements of interest for hosting the annual meeting of the Association in October of 2015 and 2016. The Internet Research conference draws an international group of researchers and practitioners to present and discuss work at the cutting edge in understanding the social and cultural aspects of the internet. Organizations or consortia who may be interested in hosting the conference should contact Lori Kendall at vp (at) aoir.org. We will provide a guide to a full proposal for those invited to apply. At this stage, we seek an indication of interest and intent. We are most likely to entertain applications for North American locations for 2015 and elsewhere for 2016, but all strong proposals are welcome. Hosting AoIR provides visibility to your institution and city from researchers from around the world, drawing a group of well-known scholars to your city during the period of the conference and providing lasting connections. Geography still matters in an internet age, and hosting Internet Research represents one way of locating important centers of innovation in social computing. The most recent conference was held in Salford, UK and the upcoming conferences will be held in Denver, USA and Bangkok, Thailand. (See the full list of locations at http://aoir.org/conferences/past/.) We generally seek hosting cities that are reasonably accessible by international visitors, and provide a range of lodging, dining, entertainment and cultural attractions within reasonable proximity of the venue. The venue should provide a central hall and breakout meeting rooms for a minimum of 400 attendees, as well as the necessary infrastructure for presentations and high-speed wireless internet access. There are generally 7-8 concurrent presentation rooms over a period of 3 days, plus a day of 3-6 preconferences. The conference generally provides some form of onsite refreshments during the day (snacks, coffee, and in many cases lunch), as well as a banquet and receptions. The Association generally handles registration, and will (with the aid of a program chair) provide assistance with the infrastructure for the peer review and the publication of selected papers. Officers of AoIR serve on the organizing committee and are involved closely with the planning and execution of the conference. The local hosts are responsible for coordinating all on-site arrangements, contracts, transportation, arrangements with local hotels or other lodging, technology, supporting staff for the event. The hosts should be willing and able to mobilize local support for the conference, including volunteers, fund-raising, and cost-sharing. At this time, we are seeking brief letters of interest. For those sites the Executive Committee feels are suitable for the upcoming conference, we will provide organizers with instructions for a full proposal, and are happy to work with them to provide a strong proposal. At this time, please provide some indication of what you could offer in terms of hosting. In particular: 1. Who makes up your group, who the proposed local chair would be, and your connection to internet research and AoIR. 2. Information about the venue, including recent conferences held there. We have, in the past, held AoIR in hotels and conference centers, as well as university and research campuses. Please give some indication of the layout of the facility and its proximity to lodging and dining (including less expensive options), as well as to its suitability for a conference like Internet Research. 3. Proposed dates. IR is generally held in early October, and usually over a Thursday-Saturday, with pre-conferences on a Wednesday, though there is some flexibility. It is helpful if we are able to avoid conflicts with other major conferences of interest to attendees. 4. What makes your city and venue particularly attractive to the Internet Research community? The committee will review letters of interest as they are submitted, through the end of July 2013. Best, Lori Kendall (AoIR Vice President)

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HICSS 47 deadline June 15
by Haythornthwaite, Caroline 03 Jun '13

03 Jun '13

Rapidly approaching -- 2 minitracks for your papers -- as well as the sun, surf and intellectual entertainment of Hawaii in January! Social Networking and Communities http://www.hicss.hawaii.edu/hicss_47/track/dsm/DSM-Communities.pdf Social Media and Learning http://www.hicss.hawaii.edu/hicss_47/track/dsm/DSM-Learning.pdf Looking forward to receiving your papers -- NB. all submissions go to the HICSS system, and the deadline is firm. http://www.hicss.hawaii.edu/hicss_47/dsm.html /Caroline Caroline Haythornthwaite SLAIS, The iSchool@UBC c.haythorn(a)ubc.ca

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Final Programme Available: Where Do Neoliberals Go After The Market? Calculation, Computation, Crisis
by nathaniel tkacz 03 Jun '13

03 Jun '13

Speakers include: Prof Philip Mirowski (Closing keynote), University of Notre Dame - ‘How Neoliberalism Triumphs in the Face of Crises: global warming and economic crisis as examples’ Prof Shirin Rai, University of Warwick - 'Unpaid work and depletion in neoliberal times' Dr Richard Barbrook, University of Westminster - 'The Californian Ideology Revisited' Dr Orit Halpern, New School for Social Research - 'The Infrastructure of Neo-liberalism? Cybernetics, Design, and Urbanism circa 1970' Dr David Berry, Swansea University - 'Coding Neoliberalism: Algorithms, Markets and Computational Imaginaries' Dr Johan Soderberg, Université Paris-Est/Écoles des Ponts - 'Automating Amateurs: the cunning of instrumental reason' Dr Will Davies, University of Warwick - 'The Revenge of the Social: Neoliberalism between "socialist calculation" and "social analytics"' Dr Nathaniel Tkacz, University of Warwick - 'The Data Signal' The final programme is available here: http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fac/cim/news/afterthemarketprogramme.pdf Note: The event is free but please register for catering purposes. Nathaniel Tkacz Assistant Professor Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies The University of Warwick Twitter: http://twitter.com/__nate__

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New paper
by Sally Quinn 03 Jun '13

03 Jun '13

Hi all, I just wanted to share my latest publication on the mobile use of social networking sites and feelings of connectedness among early adolescents: http://mmc.sagepub.com/content/1/2/237.full.pdf+html Many thanks Sally Quinn PhD Researcher Department of Psychology University of York York YO10 5DD UK

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Coders Needed
by Stuart Shulman 02 Jun '13

02 Jun '13

I am looking to add 8-10 new coders (a.k.a. annotators, labelers, taggers) to join the pool who work on DiscoverText training custom machine classifiers. I have a particular need for coders who can work today. To join the team you must sign a non-disclosure agreement and complete a W9 or W8. In return, you get gratis access to DiscoverText for every month that you complete at least one coding assignment and Texifter will pay you $13/hour at the end of every month for accumulated hours. With you free DiscoverText access, you can collect, filter, search, code, and machine classify large quantities of social data (Facebook, Twitter, and more) for your own research purposes. Grad students: there is a free software/free data/free beer thing going on here, just without the beer. Please send me a CV that includes your postal address (for payments) and phone number (for the bank bill pay). ~Stu -- Dr. Stuart W. Shulman people.umass.edu/stu Editor Emeritus, JITP jitp.net <http://www.jitp.net> Director, QDAP-UMass umass.edu/qdap <http://www.umass.edu/qdap> Founder and CEO, Texifter texifter.com <http://www.texifter.com> LinkedIn: linkedin.com/pub/stuart-shulman/10/351/899<http://www.linkedin.com/pub/stuart-shulman/10/351/899> Twitter: twitter.com/#!/StuartWShulman<http://twitter.com/#%21/StuartWShulman>

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Re: [Air-L] Interest in AoIR-sponsored webinars
by William Bain 02 Jun '13

02 Jun '13

Very possibly people are already acquainted with the Barcelona (Spain) based organization Cibersociedad. While I haven't seen any recent cfp's from them, they have done a series of online conferences or webinars. The link I have is : http://www.cibersociedad.net/ Best wishes, wb

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DiGRA 2013 Registration Now Open
by Celia Pearce (Georgia Tech) 02 Jun '13

02 Jun '13

Registration has opened for DiGRA 2013, to be held August 26-29 in Atlanta, Georgia, and hosted by the Georgia Institute of Technology. For more, visit: http://dm.lmc.gatech.edu/digra2013/prices/

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CFP> HICSS 2014 Minitrack: Crowdsourcing content production and online knowledge repositories
by Noriko Hara 01 Jun '13

01 Jun '13

Apologies for cross-posting HICSS 2014 Minitrack: Crowdsourcing content production and online knowledge repositories January 6-9, 2014 Big Island, Hawaii, USA Track: Digital and social media We are pleased to invite you to submit a paper to the Crowdsourcing mini-track for HICSS 2014 taking place at the Hilton Waikoloa on the Big Island of Hawaii from Jan. 6-9th, 2014. In line with the track emphasis on promoting digital and social-media-related research, this minitrack aims to expand the scope of research in HICSS and bring to the conference researchers interested in cutting edge topics involving socio-technical issues of mass knowledge production and crowdsourcing online knowledge repositories. As various forms of collaboration are enabled (and constrained) by the affordances available in social media, researchers are investigating a range of issues including: 1) the diverse ways in which people collaborate to create, manage, curate and manipulate online content and how these activities affect digital repositories; 2) how those who manage these repositories are responding to the dynamics of online co-creation of content; 3) the dynamics of crowdsourced online collaborations and online communities of practice; and 4) the ways in which we can best describe the socio-technical interaction networks that facilitate and inhibit mass knowledge production. In this mini track we are interested in empirical and theoretical work that addresses these and related socio-technical issues. Papers of interest will examine communities of online knowledge repositories such as YouTube, Yahoo!Answers, Wikipedia, and others and may address in this context topics such as: . The socio-technical dynamics of crowdsourcing and mass knowledge production sites . Vandalism and trolling in online mass knowledge production sites . Conflict and cooperation in content production sites . Issues of gender in collaborative content production sites . Global, cross-cultural and international aspects of content production and online intercultural collaborations in online content creation communities . Managing ethics in online mass knowledge production communities . Building, maintaining and ending social relationships on online repositories sites . Social question answering and collaborative information seeking behaviors . Challenges and opportunities of digital curation . Standards and quality of digital content online Detailed information about the conference can be found here http://www.hicss.hawaii.edu/hicss_47/apahome47.htm Information for potential authors can be found here http://www.hicss.hawaii.edu/hicss_47/47cfp.pdf Due date for submission of full papers is: June 15, 2013 Minitrack organizers Pnina Fichman Informatics West #301 901 East 10th Street SLIS, Indiana University Bloomington Indiana 47408 812 856 1587 Noriko Hara 1320 East 10th Street SLIS, Indiana University Bloomington Indiana 47405 812 855 1490 Howard Rosenbaum 1320 East 10th Street SLIS, Indiana University Bloomington Indiana 47405 812 855 3250 -- _________________________________________ Noriko Hara, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Information Science SLIS Indiana University, Bloomington Tel: 812-855-1490 Fax: 812-855-6166 http://norikohara.org

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Interest in AoIR-sponsored webinars?
by Michael Zimmer 01 Jun '13

01 Jun '13

Hello, all. Reading through the recent threads, there seems to be recurring interest in expanding the reach of the conferences through technology, and also providing more means for interaction beyond email and the annual conference. (Note, we've generally opted against live-streaming the conferences due to the additional technical challenges and related costs. We could, perhaps, stream only 1 room for the entire event [I think ICA does this], but then someone needs to decide which presentations get such a privilege) Is there interest in having AoIR-sponsored topical webinars? The association could invest in a GoToMeeting or WebEx platform (or get an institution to sponsor), select 4 topics per year (focusing on discipline, method, theory, IRBs, tools, etc), and then invite members with expertise to provide mini presentations, opening up for discussion, etc. Such a format, while not perfect, at least might allow some clustering of the diverse membership around areas of common interest. I've done these for the American Library Association, and I'm sure many of you have done these for other groups. Thoughts? Michael Zimmer Treasurer, AoIR -- Michael Zimmer, PhD Assistant Professor, School of Information Studies Director, Center for Information Policy Research University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee e: zimmerm(a)uwm.edu w: www.michaelzimmer.org

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Re: [Air-L] Air-L Digest, Vol 106, Issue 26
by Pablo Porten-Cheé 01 Jun '13

01 Jun '13

Abwesenheit: Ich bin bis einschließlich 2. Juni im Urlaub und kann Ihre Mail erst danach beantworten. Freundliche Gruesse, Pablo Porten-Chee Out of office: I am on vacation until June 2nd but will try to get back to you as soon as possible. Best regards, Pablo Porten-Chee

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