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CFP: HICSS Social Networking And Community
by Caroline Haythornthwaite 16 Apr '13

16 Apr '13

CFP: HICSS, Social Networking And Community TRACK: *new* Digital and Social Media Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS) 47 January 6-9, 2014, Hilton Waikoloa, Big Island, Hawaii PAPERS DUE: June 15, 2013 via the HICSS conference system http://www.hicss.hawaii.edu/hicss_47/apahome47.htm ORGANIZERS Caroline Haythornthwaite, University of British Columbia (Primary Contact): c.haythorn(a)ubc.ca Karine Nahon, University of Washington, karineb(a)uw.edu Anatoliy Gruzd, Dalhousie University, anatoliy Gruzd <gruzd(a)dal.ca> Twitter: #hicss_snc This HICSS minitrack has been ongoing since 2003 under various titles. Papers address the interrelationship between social media and communities in all aspects of our (online and offline) lives. We call for papers that address research, theory, practice, and/or policy around our new interlinkages via social media in support of communities of practice, inquiry, and interest for business, political, social, learning, and gaming initiatives and outcomes. Until this year, this minitrack has been in the Internet and Digital Economy Track. Due to its overwhelming success, the minitrack has become a founding part of the new Track: Digital and Social Media. In previous years, the minitrack has been among the largest at the conference, and ‘best papers’ from the minitrack have often received the ‘Best Paper in Track’ awards. We call for papers that address issues of online communities of practice, inquiry and interest created in the interest of political, educational, business, social and/or gaming pursuits, and with attention to how online community building and management contribute to success in these endeavors. Papers are welcomed that address wholly online communities, as well as those that address the interplay between online and offline means of interaction; the use of single media, as well as those that address the way different media support community practice; and community, as well as crowd-based collectives online. Examples of possible interdisciplinary topics of interest in these contexts include, but are not limited to the following: Social, political and/or economic impact of social media Crowds and Communities as sociological phenomenon in the digital economy Community development and community informatics Design, development, and user studies of social media Design of online crowds and/or communities of practice, inquiry or interest Online learning communities: structures, implementations, and practices Serious leisure online Organizational behavior of communities Behavior in online gaming communities Social network studies and analyses of online crowds and communities Mobile applications, services and use for and by online communities Case studies and topologies of online communities Case studies and analyses of the rise and fall of social network sites and online communities Theoretical models of online crowds and communities, social media use, etc. Models and cases of synergies and/or conflicts between offline and online worlds Critical perspectives on social media and local and/or virtual community Research methods for the study of social networking and community ABOUT HICSS CONFERENCES http://www.hicss.hawaii.edu/hicss_47/apahome47.htm HICSS conferences are devoted to the most relevant advances in the information, computer, and system sciences, and encompass developments in both theory and practice. Accepted papers may be theoretical, conceptual, tutorial or descriptive in nature. Those selected for presentation are included in the Conference Proceedings published by the IEEE Computer Society and maintained in the IEEE Digital Library. How to Submit a Paper: Follow Author Instructions posted on the conference web site: http://www.hicss.hawaii.edu/hicss_47/apahome47.htm HICSS papers must contain original material. They may not have been previously published, nor currently submitted elsewhere. All submissions undergo a double-blind peer review process. Abstracts are optional, but recommended. You may contact the Minitrack Chair(s) for guidance or verification of content. Submit a paper to only one Minitrack. If a paper is submitted to more than one minitrack, then either paper may be rejected by either minitrack without consultation with author or other chairs. If you are not sure of the appropriate Minitrack, submit an abstract to the Track Chair(s) for determination, and/or seek informal opinion(s) of Minitrack Chair(s) before submitting. Do not author or co-author more than 5 papers. This means that an individual may be listed as author or co-author on no more than 5 submitted papers. Track Chairs must approve any names added after submission or acceptance on August 15. IMPORTANT DEADLINES FOR AUTHORS FOR HICSS 47 June 15, 2013 -- SUBMIT FULL MANUSCRIPTS FOR REVIEW as instructed. The review is double-blind; therefore, this initial submission must be without author names. Aug 15, 2013 -- Review System emails Acceptance Notices to authors. It is very important that at least one author of each accepted paper attend the conference. Therefore, all travel guarantees – including visa or your organization’s fiscal funding procedures – should begin immediately. Make sure your server accepts the review system address https://precisionconference.com/~hicss. Sept 15, 2013 -- SUBMIT FINAL PAPER. Add author names to your paper, and submit your Final Paper for Publication to the site provided in your Acceptance Notice. (This URL is not public knowledge.) Oct 1, 20123 -- EARLY REGISTRATION FEE DEADLINE. At least one author of each paper should register by this date in order secure publication in the Proceedings. Fees will increase on Oct 2 and Dec 2. Oct 15, 2013 -- Papers without at least one paid-in-full registered author may be deleted from the Proceedings and not scheduled for presentation; authors will be so notified by the Conference Office.

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Follow up email: Extended abstract deadline: Social Networking in Cyberspace (SNIC 2013) conference, Wolverhampton, UK.
by Fullwood, Chris 16 Apr '13

16 Apr '13

Dear colleagues, My apologies, but the link I sent you for the SNIC 2013 web page in my previous email does not appear to work - the address can be found by clicking here<http://www.wlv.ac.uk/snic2013> Kind regards Chris -- Scanned by iCritical.

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Extended abstract deadline: Social Networking in Cyberspace (SNIC 2013) conference, Wolverhampton, UK.
by Fullwood, Chris 16 Apr '13

16 Apr '13

Dear colleagues, Due to popular demand, we have extended the abstract submission deadline for SNIC 2013 by two weeks. The new abstract submission deadline is Monday the 29th of April, 2013. Abstracts (300 words max) should be submitted to snic2013(a)wlv.ac.uk<mailto:snic2013@wlv.ac.uk> and we welcome contributions from scholars (including postgraduates) in the social and behavioural sciences and media and information disciplines, regardless of theoretical orientation. All abstracts will be subjected to peer-review and we hope to inform you of our decision within one week of the submission deadline. Information on conference themes and fees can be found on our SNIC 2013 webpage @ www.wlv.ac.uk/snic2013<http://www.wlv.ac.uk/snic2013>. Alternatively, receive conference updates by following us on Twitter<https://twitter.com/SNIC2013> The conference takes place between Monday 15th and Tuesday 16th of July, 2013 and the confirmed keynote speakers are as follows: Professor Mark Griffiths<http://www.ntu.ac.uk/apps/Profiles/51652-1-4/Professor_Mark_Griffiths.aspx> (Division of Psychology, Nottingham Trent University) Dr Karen Douglas<http://www.kent.ac.uk/psychology/people/douglask/> (School of Psychology, University of Kent) Professor Simeon Yates<http://www.shu.ac.uk/research/c3ri/people/simeon-yates> (Director of the Cultural, Communication and Computing Research Institute (C3RI) at Sheffield Hallam University) We plan to inform anyone who submitted an abstract by the original deadline of our decision by Friday 19th of April. Registration will also open on Friday 19th of April. Please do get in touch if you have any questions or would like to discuss the suitability of your research for the conference Hope to see you in July Kind regards Dr Chris Fullwood Event coordinator -- Scanned by iCritical.

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Digital/Social Media and Memory: A Symposium
by Andrew Hoskins 16 Apr '13

16 Apr '13

Follow tweets from this event Wednesday: #memorystudieslive University of Glasgow, Wednesday 17th April 2013, 9am-5.50pm BST Does promiscuous media make for promiscuous memory? Even the sciences-of-the-mind increasingly search for cognition – the mental process of awareness, perception, remembering – outside of the head, extended and distributed across digital/social worlds. Memory is breaking out of the archive, the organization, the institution, increasingly diffused across brains, bodies, and personal and public lives. Has the digital leached away scarcity, trust, obligation, and much of memory’s former faithful companions? ‘Memory’ today seems different, strange, but which has also acquired (paradoxically) new force and new uncertainties. Is connectivity irresistible? Is memory lost to the machine? Is the archive broken? Six leading experts in the fields of media archaeology, media studies and memory studies assess the emergent forces of remembering and forgetting in the new media ecology: Wolfgang Ernst, Humboldt University, Berlin. Jussi Parikka, Winchester School of Art Wulf Kansteiner, SUNY, Binghamton José van Dijck, University of Amsterdam Anna Reading, King's College London William Merrin, Swansea University Glasgow Memory Group: http://bit.ly/YEaXTB Speaker abstracts here: http://bit.ly/149ojLa __________________________________________________ Professor Andrew Hoskins Interdisciplinary Research Professor http://www.gla.ac.uk/colleges/socialsciences/ourstaff/andrewhoskins/ Founding Editor-in-Chief, Memory Studies (http://mss.sagepub.com) Director, Adam Smith Research Foundation College of Social Sciences University of Glasgow 66 Oakfield Avenue Glasgow G12 8LS T: +44 (0)141 330 7656 F: +44 (0)141 330 7491 W: www.glasgow.ac.uk<http://www.glasgow.ac.uk/> The University of Glasgow, charity number SC004401

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Using internet for scholarly social research
by Muhammad Babur 16 Apr '13

16 Apr '13

Dear All I am planning to design an intensive course (internet for social research) that can help graduate students in their research work. What I really wanted to address is :: . Identifying gurus in the field ( with some kind of profiling ) Identification of key 'knowledge tribes' Identification of most influential readings Some tools to visually map agreements/ debates/ methodological preferences/ ( examples?) Parallel streams of research I found this forum/place as a very helpful resource . Thanks all ! Kind Regards, Muhammad Babur

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Facebook Search
by Shriram Venkatraman 15 Apr '13

15 Apr '13

NCapture from NVivo might be a helpful tool for this. http://www.qsrinternational.com/support_faqs_detail.aspx?view=1213 Thanks, Shriram Venkatraman www.gsmis.org http://www.ucl.ac.uk/social-networking @UCLSocNet

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Facebook search?
by Casey Tesfaye 15 Apr '13

15 Apr '13

Hi there, Does anyone have a way to search for a particular post on Facebook? I've tried a few ways, with no success... Thanks! Casey

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:: SAME 2013 at C&T 2013/Munich: Information Management and Systems Supporting Sustainable Communities with Smart Media and Automated Systems ::
by artur.lugmayr＠tut.fi 15 Apr '13

15 Apr '13

========================================================================================================= CALL FOR POSITION PAPERS SAME 2013 6th International Workshop on Semantic Ambient Media Experience (SAME 2013) Defining the Research Agenda for Information Management and Systems Supporting Sustainable Communities with Smart Media and Automated Systems 29 June - 02 July 2013 in conjunction with C&T 2013 http://www.tut.fi/emmi/WWW/SAME2013 http://www.ct2013.cnss.de/ ------ EXTENDED SUBMISSION DEADLINE: 6th MAY 2013 (!!!) SAME 2013 ========================================================================================================= Sustainability and sustainable urban environments are one of the goals of various research agendas and initiatives as e.g. the Regions of Climate Actions (R20). SAME 2013 devotes to the challenge, how information management and systems can support sustainable communities in their regional settings. This workshop focuses on the development of a research agenda around the wider topic of how smart media and automated systems can support the larger context of sustainability for communities with the help of information systems, social web technologies, smart media, and automated systems. The workshop defines a research agenda within this particular context, and especially devotes to the investigation of opened research issues how ubiquitous and pervasive computation can be utilized to create sustainable communities. Energy conservation and saving are one of the key-words SAME 2013 will devote its focus: sustainable cities ? sustainable community ? sustainable energy ? sustainable culture supported by smart information systems, smart media, and fully automated systems. Smart electronics and infrastructure will be one major component in creating a green city environment. Within the scope of this workshop, the goal is to investigate smart technologies, policies, and projects that are devoting to the issue of sustainable communities to create a better living experience. WORKSHOP CHALLENGES ========================================================================================================= The workshop aims at answering the following questions for applications, methods, techniques, and installations that follow the no-screen, no-keyboard, and no-mouse device idea: ? Community requirements to create sustainability ? Regional requirements (e.g. development world) for sustainability ? Information systems and management supporting sustainability ? Solutions and applications supporting sustainable developments ? Community and social aspects creating sustainable values ? Smart energy, smart grid, and smart consumer solutions ? Smart technologies and information systems supporting sustainable cities ? Sustainable presentation of information and learning experience ? Projects, policies, and regulations exist to support sustainability with smart media ? Which algorithms and methods exist to gain knowledge about energy and sustainability ? Collaborative or audience participatory content support sustainability ? Training communities to support sustainable smart media ? Storytelling and art that supporting sustainability ? Community projects creating sustainable smart environments ? Strategies for business value for smart sustainable environments ? Experience design, prototyping, and business models in the context of sustainable communities ? AND SEVERAL TOPICS WHAT THE SAME SERIES IS KNOWN FOR (!!!!) TOPICS OF INTEREST ========================================================================================================= The following (and related) topics are within the scope of this workshop and shall act as examples: ? Creation of sustainable communities ? Ubiquitous computation for sustainable environments ? Methods and tools to develop smart sustainable environments ? Intelligent environments creating community value ? Business models, value-creation, and opportunities ? Social web approaches supporting sustainability ? Semantics, and intelligence of ambient media creating sustainability ? Energy saving through smart electronics ? Innovations in finance, technologies, and policies ? Lower cost clean energy through smart technologies ? Sustainable community projects ? Smart media for sustainability We are also aiming at multidisciplinary, highly future oriented submissions that help to develop the ambient media form for entertainment services, such as: ========================================================================================================= ? Case-studies (successful, and especially unsuccessful ones) ? Oral presentation of fresh and innovative ideas ? Artistic installations and running system prototypes ? User-experience studies and evaluations ? Technological novelties, evaluations, and solutions PAPER SOLICITATION, SUBMISSION AND SELECTION PROCESS ========================================================================================================= * 300 word Position papers should be submitted as word document at: http://www.tut.fi/emmi/Submissions/2013SAME/ * In addition, each submission should contain: title, list of authors, abstract, list of 3 potential own research contributions and a brief description, list of 5 research questions including a brief description, and a brief literature review of the 5 most significant publications contributing to the thematic, and a free form body text describing the own view in 300 words * Final submissions are expected to be 5-10 pages papers according the paper format of C&T available at http://www.ct2013.cnss.de/cfp/ * Please submit your paper at our paper submission system: http://www.tut.fi/emmi/Submissions/2013SAME/chair/ * Each contribution will be double blind reviewed and the top 10 paper will be selected depending on the review results * Best contributions will be compiled to a special issue following up the workshop - we aim at Springer MTAP after reviewing the quality of contributions * The workshop will be held according the method ?Design Thinking?, which has been traditionally applied in the SAME series context IMPORTANT DATES ========================================================================================================= Submission deadlines (deadlines for this workshop are strictly observed!): * 6th May 2013: Deadline for Position Paper Submissions * 25th May 2013: Notification of Accepted Workshop Position Papers * 15th June 2013: Camera Ready Accepted Workshop Papers Due * 29th June 2013: Workshop day WORKSHOP SERIES CONTEXT ========================================================================================================= Pervious Workshops on Semantic Ambient Media Experience: ? 1st International Workshop on Semantic Ambient Media Experiences held in conjunction with ACM Multimedia 2008, (Vancouver, Canada), http://portal.acm.org/toc.cfm?id=1461912&type=proceeding&coll=ACM&dl=ACM&CF… 3168&CFTOKEN=49706448 ? 2nd International Workshop on Semantic Ambient Media Experiences held in conjunction with AmI-09, (Salzburg, Austria), http://webhotel2.tut.fi/emmi/forum/node/55 ? 3rd International Workshop on Semantic Ambient Media Experiences held in conjunction with AmI-10, (Malaga, Spain), http://www.ambientmediaassociation.org/node/56 ? 4rd International Workshop on Semantic Ambient Media Experiences held in conjunction with 5th International Conference on Communities and Technologies, Brisbane, Australia, http://www.ambientmediaassociation.org/node/60 ? 5th International Workshop on Semantic Ambient Media Experience held in conjunction with Pervasive 2012 PREVIOUS SPECIAL ISSUES ========================================================================================================= For each held workshop, a special issue has been created with Springer-Verlag Multimedia Tools & Applications. The workshop shall gather people from industry and academia to develop the vision of ambient media as new form of smart media. WORKSHOP CHAIRS ========================================================================================================= ? Artur Lugmayr, Tampere University of Technology (TUT) & lugYmedia Inc., FINLAND ? Estefan?a Serral Asensio, Technical University Wien (TUW), AUSTRIA ? Bjoern Stockleben, Univ. of Applied Sciences Magdeburg, GERMANY ? Thomas Risse, L3S Research Center, GERMANY ? Bogdan Pogorelc, Jozef Stefan Institute & Spica International d.o.o., SLOVENIA

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Updated Link for 2 TT Positions in Emerging Media and Communication at UT Dallas
by Knight, Kimberly 15 Apr '13

15 Apr '13

Dear All, I apologize. When I sent my initial email about these openings last week, I did not realize that our Chronicle ad was so close to expiring. The positions remain open and applications are still being accepted. Here is a link to the posting for both jobs on the UT Dallas website: http://provost.utdallas.edu/facultyjobs/ My apologies for any confusion. Best, _____ Kim Knight Assistant Professor Emerging Media and Communication UT Dallas - Arts and Humanities kim.knight(a)utdallas.edu

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CfParticipation: social computational systems community meeting--June, Seattle
by Robert Mason 15 Apr '13

15 Apr '13

>From a colleague, David McDonald: Call for Participation 2013 Social Computational Systems (SoCS) Community Meeting June 28-29, 2013 Seattle, Washington The Social Computational Systems (SoCS) program, funded and managed by the National Science Foundation, was called out as a model Social Computing program in the January 2013 PCAST Report "Designing a Digital Future: Federally Funded Research and Development in Networking and Information Technology". Given this recent attention, it is important to identify key attributes that serve to make research programs successful and valuable. Further, the attention provides the opportunity to consider future research trajectories in Social Computing to begin informing the trajectory of any potential follow-on programs. The SoCS Community Meeting will be part of the 2013 SoCS PI Meeting to be held June 28-29 in Seattle, Washington. The goal of the Community Meeting is to spur conversations about what has made SoCS successful and what might serve to make future programs intellectually challenging and interesting to the growing research community. Individuals who would like to participate in the 2013 SoCS Community Meeting should submit a 4 page position paper on one of the two following topics: 1. The Best of Social Computing Research - Position papers in this topic should consider 1-3 outstanding research contributions that should be promoted as exemplary research contributions to Social Computing (broadly construed). The position paper should describe which technologes, methods, features, attributes, insights, or measures contribute to each papers status as a "best" in Social Computing. 2. Future Challenges for Social Computing Research - Position papers addressing this topic will focus on describing 1-3 research challenges that cannot be solved today, but which, if studied and solved, would drive the area of Social Computing to make critical advances to Computing and at least one other research discipline (e.g., psychology, sociology, political science, behavioral economics, social networks, cultural studies, communications, organization science, etc.). For each challenge the position paper should outline what would likely need to be provided as infrastructure, what types of research collaborations would be necessary, and how the broader impacts of the challenge could be realized. Position papers should be submitted in email as PDF attachments to <socs.meeting.2013(a)gmail.com<mailto:socs.meeting.2013@gmail.com>> by MONDAY MAY 6, 2013. Participation will be competitive based on review of the position papers. We anticipate extending between 12 and 20 invitations to attend. Invited attendees will be provided travel support that should cover the majority of their expenses to attend the meeting.

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