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2nd CFP: 2013 International Annual Conference on Social Media and Society
by Anatoliy Gruzd 05 Apr '13

05 Apr '13

Apologies for cross-posting ******************************** CALL FOR PAPER ABSTRACTS, PANEL PROPOSALS AND POSTERS What: 2013 International Conference on Social Media and Society Where: Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada When: September 14-15, 2013 Website: http://SocialMediaAndSociety.com/ Twitter hashtag: #SMSociety13 CONFERENCE CHAIRS: Anatoliy Gruzd, Dalhousie University, gruzd(a)dal.ca (Primary Contact) Caroline Haythornthwaite, University of British Columbia Karine Nahon, University of Washington Stan Matwin, Dalhousie University IMPORTANT DATES: Paper & Panel Abstracts Due: May 1, 2013 Paper & Panel Notification: May 20, 2013 Poster Abstracts Due: May 30, 2013 Poster Notification: June 15, 2013 Conference dates: September 14-15, 2013 ABOUT THE EVENT: It is no secret that social media has become mainstream in recent years, and its adoption has skyrocketed. As a result of its growing popularity, users’ online contributions and membership in online social networks have exploded. The objective of this 2-day conference is to bring together experts in social media and online social networks from both the academic and business worlds, to share ideas on the best practices around how to study the impact of social media on our society. The conference will provide researchers in this area an opportunity to present and debate their ideas, and provide attendees with the opportunity to build academic and professional contacts, present their research, and learn about latest research in this area from a multidisciplinary perspective. TOPICS OF INTEREST INCLUDE (BUT NOT LIMITED TO): * BIG Data/Social Media Data Scalability Issues and Social Media Data Social Media Analytics Social Media Data Mining Social Media Mobile Applications Visualization of Social Media Data * Online Communities/Social Networks Online and Offline Communities Formed on Social Media Influential User Detection Online Community Detection Online Identity Trust and Credibility in Social Media * Social Media Impact on Society Social Media & Public Administration Political Mobilization & Engagement on Social Media Social Media and Academia Social Media and Business Social Media and Journalism Virality of Information in Social Media * Theories and Methods Qualitative and Quantitative Approaches Opinion Mining and Sentiment Analysis Social Network Analysis Theoretical Models for Studying Social Media TYPES OF SUBMISSIONS: (1) Paper abstracts Paper abstracts provide authors the opportunity to present their original work related to the broad theme of social media and society. (2) Panel presentations Panel presentations provide authors the option of organizing three related papers/talks together in a thematic session. (3) Research poster presentations The research poster session provides an interactive forum for authors to discuss their research. HOW TO SUBMIT: See more information at http://SocialMediaAndSociety.com/ For further inquiries, please contact Dr. Anatoliy Gruzd at gruzd(a)dal.ca

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Deadline extended: CFP Social Media, the fourth Transforming Audiences conference, London Sep 2013
by Graham Meikle 05 Apr '13

05 Apr '13

Hi all By popular demand, the deadline for submitting abstracts has now been extended to 26 April 2013. Please see full CFP below. Cheers, gm CALL FOR PAPERS Social Media The fourth international transforming audiences conference making connections | creative cultures | open everything Date: 2 – 3 September 2013 Venue: University of Westminster, 35 Marylebone Road, London, NW1 5LS The previous Transforming Audiences conferences, in 2007, 2009 and 2011, have seen this event become Europe’s major international conference series for audience/user studies, bringing together researchers from all over the world. Now we are delighted to invite you to Social Media, the fourth in the Transforming Audiences series, in central London in September 2013. The Social Media conference is organised by the Centre for Social Media Research at the University of Westminster’s Communication and Media Research Institute. The event will present a rich set of analyses of the current situation and raise important questions about the future. We strongly encourage papers from new scholars as well as more established researchers. Keynote speakers include Stuart Allan (author Citizen Witnessing), Megan Boler (co-editor DIY Citizenship and Critical Making), Larissa Hjorth (co-author Understanding Social Media) and D.E. Wittkower (editor Facebook and Philosophy). We particularly invite papers that connect with the themes making connections, creative cultures and open everything. Making connections — friends | followers | connections | networks | communities | tags | favourites | playlists | channels | emotions | affect | information | knowledge | circulation | movement | share Creative cultures — critical making | memes | do-it-yourself | do-it-with-others | collaboration | participation | read-write | edit | hacking | modding | coding | creativity Open everything — Big Data | data journalism | visualisation | mapping | activism | commons | business models | access | education | MOOCs | private | public | surveillance | visibility SUBMISSION GUIDELINES You can submit proposals for individual papers or for themed panels. Individual papers will each have 15 minutes plus discussion time. Panels should consist of three presentations of 15 minutes each, to be followed by fifteen minutes of discussion for a total session of one hour. For individual papers, please send a 300-word abstract and brief biographical note of up to 70 words. Abstracts should highlight the original theoretical or empirical contribution. They should also include the presenter’s name, institutional affiliation, title of paper, email and work address. Proposals for panels or alternative formats should include a 300-word overview as well as individual abstracts following the guidelines above. All proposals should be sent by 26 April 2013 to TA4(a)westminster.ac.uk<mailto:TA4@westminster.ac.uk> Electronic submissions only. Successful applicants will be notified by mid-May. REGISTRATION The registration fee for the two days will be £285, for one day will be £180. ICA, AoIR, IAMCR and ECREA members will be given a preferential rate of £245 for the two day event. The special rate for students will be £130 for the two days, or £75 for one day. This covers all conference documentation, refreshments, lunches, wine reception and administration costs. Registration will open mid-May. http://www.transformingaudiences.org.uk http://www.westminster.ac.uk/research/a-z/camri/events/camri-events-calenda… ----------------------- Professor Graham Meikle Communication and Media Research Institute, School of Media, Arts and Design, University of Westminster, HA1 3TP, UK Twitter: @graham_meikle Phone: +44 (0)20 7911 5000 ext 4755 http://www.westminster.ac.uk/about-us/our-people/directory/meikle-graham The University of Westminster is a charity and a company limited by guarantee. Registration number: 977818 England. Registered Office: 309 Regent Street, London W1B 2UW.

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CALL FOR BOOK CHAPTERS (Second Call)
by Hakikur Rahman 05 Apr '13

05 Apr '13

CALL FOR BOOK CHAPTERS (Second Call) Proposal Submission Deadline: April 30, 2013 Full Chapter Submission Deadline: July 30, 2013 Information Systems and technology for Organizational Agility, Intelligence and Resilience A book edited by Dr. Hakikur Rahman and Dr. Rui Dinis de Sousa, Centro Algoritmi, University of Minho, Portugal To be published by IGI Global: http://www.igi-global.com (Call for the chapter: http://www.igi-global.com/publish/call-for-papers/call-details/931) Introduction The contemporary global economy requires innovative organizations and employees with novel skills, attitudes, and intellectual agility. Organizations and individuals must be able to take advantage of scientific and technological developments to become more innovative and competitive by pursuing flexibility in communication and decision making, as well as knowledge sharing and collaboration, in a trustworthy and secure organizational and technological environment. In these aspects, information systems and information technology (IS/IT) play a central role as promoters of new initiatives to communicate, work, do business, relate, act, manage, and lead. Similarly, manifestations like e-/m-commerce, e-/m-markets, e-/m-business, e-/m-tourism, e-/m-governance, e-/m-learning, e-democracy, e-/m-collaboration, crowdsourcing, intermediation, and others have emerged in recent years, conveying IS/IT that influence the way individuals and organizations see themselves, others, and the possibilities for vibrant interaction. At the same time, Web technologies and IT applications such as decision support systems, workflow management systems, enterprise systems, value-chain management systems, and document and content management systems have allowed these systems to increase organizational productivity, bring the organization closer to its stakeholders, and create new forms of competition and inter-organizational collaboration. Foremost, a variety of theories, methods, best practices, and tools have been developed in different scientific areas to support the design and implementation of initiatives aimed in promoting organizational learning, organizational memory, and the transformation of organizational identity to improve organizational agility, intelligence, and resilience. Overall Objective of the Book The main contributor of this book is comprised of a group that carries out research on IS/IT through interdisciplinary research and development projects (such as transfer of knowledge, dissemination of knowledge, and various other research approaches including basic, transactional, and clinical research), as well as advanced training projects aiming to develop systematic and comprehensive strategies that promote overall organizational well-being. The main aim is to advise and support organizational agents who want ensure success in terms of financial, social, and environmental aspects as well as in the aspect of human development in a more sustainable way. The broad objective of this book will be to incorporate methods and technologies for the development of a sustained organization among the contemporary issues, such as increased globalization, economic crisis, short product life cycle, augmented competition, and amplified innovation. However, in specific, the scope of the book would like to include conceptual research, methodological aspects, empirical cases (using conventional instruments like survey, interview, literature review, case studies, and others), and especially success cases illustrating practices of the above mentioned instruments. Target Audience The target audience may incorporate academics, researchers, intermediaries, policy initiators, associations, subsidiaries, and individuals who would like to initiate a start-up, rejuvenate the existing enterprise, or collaborate with other partners for better competencies and value addition, not only in terms of finance, but also in respect to knowledge gain that, in the long run, assists in financial gain. In these aspects, this book will be a valuable asset to the small and medium entrepreneurs; associations dealing with small organizations; corporate business sectors; intermediaries; knowledge managers including academics, researchers, government, and non-government staffs; and policy initiators. Recommended topics for chapters include, but are not limited to, the following: Information Systems and Technologies in Organizations with a Broad Vision of the Field, like Issues of Research and Development in IST: e-/m-commerce e-/m-market e-/m-business e-/m-tourism e-/m-governance e-/m-learning e-democracy e-/m-collaboration e-research Innovation Crowdsourcing Intermediation The Future of IST in Organizations Emerging Issues in IST in Organizations of Various Industrial Sectors: Organizational Intelligence (OI) Frameworks and diagnostic tools Collective intelligence and IST that promote OI Distributed Cognition Open business models and technologies Open innovation Knowledge networks Social networks On-line communities Collaboration and future prediction Organizational Agility Frameworks and diagnostic tools Innovation strategies and technologies Organizational processes and structures Politics, culture, and IST IST role in building trust and reputation IST role in building identity and image Organizational Resilience Frameworks and diagnostic tools Adopting IST to become more resilient IST to monitor environment and predict changes Technologies to support individuals and organizations to connect, collaborate, and act collectively during the response and recovery phase of disasters Citizen engagement in the design, implementation, and evaluation of policies that increase resilience The IST Focus and Cases in Organizational Well Being: Knowledge & Innovation Management Business Process Management (BPM) IS Security Management IS Development Case Studies from Various Business Sectors and Organizations: Entrepreneurships Not-for-profit or non-profit entities (sustained cases) Government organizations Research organizations Submission Procedure Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit on or before April 30, 2013, a 2-3 page proposal clearly explaining the mission and concerns of his or her proposed chapter. Authors of accepted proposals will be notified by May 15, 2013 about the status of their proposals and sent case guidelines. Full chapters are expected to be submitted by July 30, 2013. All submitted chapters will be reviewed on a double-blind review basis. Contributors may also be requested to serve as reviewers for this project. Publisher This book is scheduled to be published by IGI Global (formerly Idea Group Inc.), publisher of the Information Science Reference (formerly Idea Group Reference), Medical Information Science Reference, and IGI Publishing imprints. For additional information regarding the publisher, please visit www.igi-global.com. This publication is anticipated to be released in 2014. Important Dates: April 30, 2013: Proposal Submission Deadline May 15, 2013: Notification of Acceptance July 30, 2013: Full Chapter Submission September 30, 2013: Review Result Returned October 30, 2013: Final Chapter Submission Editorial Advisory Board Members: João Alvaro Carvalho, University of Minho, Portugal Kevin DeSouza, Arizona State University, USA Anabela Mesquita, Instituto Superior de Contabilidade e Administração do Porto, Portugal Gilberto Perez, Universidade Mackenzie de São Paulo, Brazil Amiram Porath, College for Academic Studies, Israel Paresh Rathod, Lauria University, Finland Inquiries and Submissions can be forwarded electronically (Word document) to: Prof. Hakikur Rahman University of Minho DSI, Azurem 4800-058 Guimaraes, Portugal Tel.: +351 253 510 319 FAX: +351 253 510 300 GSM: +351 960193872 e-mail: hakik(a)dsi.uminho.pt

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CFP: CSCW 2014, Papers due May 31st
by Irina Shklovski 05 Apr '13

05 Apr '13

**Apologies for cross-posting CALL FOR PAPERS, COMPUTER-SUPPORTED COOPERATIVE WORK AND SOCIAL COMPUTING 2014 (CSCW 2014) Baltimore, MD, Feb 15-19, 2014 http://cscw.acm.org CSCW is an international and interdisciplinary conference focused on how technology intersects with social practices. To support diverse and high-quality contributions, CSCW employs a two-phase review process and does not impose an arbitrary length limit on submissions. IMPORTANT DATES * May 31, 5:00pm PDT, 2013: Submission due * July 6: First-round notification (Revise & Resubmit or Reject) * July 26, 5:00pm PDT: Revised papers due * August 23: Final notifications We invite submissions that detail existing practices or inform the design or deployment of systems or introduce novel systems, interaction techniques, or algorithms. The scope of CSCW includes, but is not limited to, social computing and social media, technologically-enabled or enhanced communication, education technologies, crowdsourcing, multi-user input technologies, collaboration, information sharing, and coordination. It includes socio-technical activities at work, in the home, in education, in healthcare, in the arts, for socializing and for entertainment. New results or new ways of thinking about, studying or supporting shared activities can be in these and related areas: - Social and crowd computing. Studies, theories, designs, mechanisms, systems, and/or infrastructures addressing social media, social networking, user-generated content, wikis, blogs, online gaming, crowdsourcing, collective intelligence, virtual worlds, collaborative information seeking, etc. - 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. - Theories and models. Critical analysis or organizing theory with clear relevance to the design or study of social and collaborative systems. - Empirical investigations. Findings, guidelines, and/or ethnographic studies relating to technologies, practices, or use of communication, collaboration, and social technologies. - Methodologies and tools. Novel methods or combinations of approaches and tools used in building systems or studying their use. - Domain-specific social and collaborative applications. Including for healthcare, transportation, gaming (for enjoyment or productivity), ICT4D, sustainability, education, accessibility, collective intelligence, global collaboration, or other domains. - Collaboration systems based on emerging technologies. Mobile and ubiquitous computing, game engines, virtual worlds, multi-touch technologies, novel display technologies, vision and gesture recognition systems, big data infrastructures, MOOCs, crowd labor markets, SNSes, sensor-based environments, etc. - 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. Papers should detail original research contributions. Papers must report new research results that represent a contribution to the field. They must provide sufficient details and support for their results and conclusions. They must cite relevant published research or experience, highlight novel aspects of the submission, and identify the most significant contributions. Evaluation is on the basis of originality, significance, quality of research, quality of writing, and contribution to conference program diversity. SUBMISSIONS Paper submissions must be made via the Precision Conference System. A link to the submission site will be made available by early May. Papers will be presented at the CSCW conference and will be included in the conference proceedings archived in the ACM Digital Library. CSCW does not accept submissions that were published previously in formally reviewed publications or that are currently submitted elsewhere. Send queries about Paper submissions to papers2014(a)cscw.acm.org<mailto:papers2014@cscw.acm.org>. ============================================== Irina Shklovski Associate Professor Interaction Design Research Group (ID) Digital Media & Communication Research Group (DMC) IT University of Copenhagen Rued Langgaards Vej, 7 2300, København S. Danmark http://www.itu.dk/people/irsh/ ==============================================

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Mixed methods Internet research follow-up
by Christine Hine 05 Apr '13

05 Apr '13

Thanks so much to everyone who sent me suggestions of mixed methods Internet research in response to my recent query. I'm still working my way through the responses in detail. It's been really enlightening to see the sheer amount of methodological mixing going on in Internet studies and clearly there's something about the multiple affordances of digital data that stimulate people to draw on multiple methodological traditions. I'm finding it very interesting to think through these examples of mixing in research according to the notion of "facet methodology" that I've just come across - see Mason (2011). I know several other people were interested to know about the outcomes of my query, so I've prepared a brief summary of the various projects and resources I heard about. It's a bit long to send out whole to this list, so I've put it here: http://christinehine.wordpress.com/ Best wishes, Christine Mason, J. (2011) Facet methodology: the case for an inventive research orientation. Methodological Innovations Online 6(3): 75-92 http://www.pbs.plym.ac.uk/mi/pdf/8-02-12/MIO63Paper31.pdf Christine Hine christine.hine(a)btinternet.com

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[10 DAYS left] Call for Papers for RPTEL Special Issue on Practical Applications of Mobile and Internet Educational Games
by Maiga Chang 04 Apr '13

04 Apr '13

[Apologies if you receive multiple times, please circulate this to your colleagues who might be interested, thank you so much.] ------- Call for Papers for RPTEL Special Issue ----------- Special Issue on Practical Applications of Mobile and Internet Educational Games in Research and Practice in Technology Enhanced Learning (http://www.apsce.net/RPTEL_CfP.aspx) ----------- The electronic version of this cfp can be seen at http://www.apsce.net/Download/RPTEL-2012-SI5_PracticalEducationalGames_CFP.… Commercial games, especially Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Games (MMORPGs) such as World of Warcraft and EverQuest are very popular nowadays. These types of games not only have fantasy interfaces and rich storylines, but they also give the players a lot of power to control what they want to do in the game world. This freedom of choice allows players to do what they want when they want, aligning well with the constructivist paradigm of learning. This opens up a host of possibilities for using these game approaches in education to potentially improve learner’s learning experience and performance. This special issue focuses on sharing experiences and innovations in theoretical and conceptual issues related to the development of practical mobile and internet-based educational games. The aim is to provide readers with evidences and experiments that account for learners' experiences and perceptions related to knowledge and concepts acquisition through game approaches in various disciplines and domains. Guest Editors: Dr. Maiga Chang (maiga.chang(a)gmail.com) Athabasca University, Canada Dr. Ming-Puu Chen (mpchen(a)ntnu.edu.tw) National Taiwan Normal University, Taiwan Suggested topics: We cordially invite authors to submit high quality manuscripts for any application domain as long as the core of the manuscript falls into the scope of the special issue: - Artificial intelligence in educational games - Educational role-playing games - Internet-based educational game development - Mobile and Internet educational game genres - Mobile augmented reality games - Mobile educational game development - Mobile role-playing learning in museums - Experiences of using mobile educational games - Experiences of using Internet-based educational games - Practical applications of mobile or Internet-based educational games - Successful cases of using educational games in informal or formal education context and settings - Not-so-successful cases and the lessons learnt Manuscript guidelines: All submissions have to follow RPTEL journal manuscript guidelines and should be submitted to guest editors via emails (maiga.chang(a)gmail.com) by April 15, 2013. All submissions should be ready for double-blind review process and be reviewed by at least three reviewers. RPTEL manuscript guidelines: http://www.apsce.net/Download/RPTEL_CfP_authorguidelines.pdf For queries, please contact Dr. Maiga Chang (maiga.chang(a)gmail.com) ------------------------------------ Sincerely, Maiga Chang maiga.chang(a)gmail.com http://maiga.athabascau.ca 04, 04 '13 PM 07:40 in Edmonton --------------------------------- Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Technology for Education and Learning Executive Editor, International Journal of Distance Education Technologies (EI) Associate Editor, International Journal of Online Pedagogy and Course Design Learning Culture and Language through ICTs: Methods for Enhanced Instruction http://www.igi-global.com/reference/details.asp?ID=33419 ----------- Co-Chair of ICCE sub-conference on Digital Game and Digital Toy Enhanced Learning and Society (GTEL&S) http://icce2013bali.org/ Co-Chair of GCCCE sub-conference on Joyful Learning and Society http://www.gse.pku.edu.cn/gccce2013/gccceen.asp ----------- Guest Editor, Research and Practice in Technology Enhanced Learning Special Issue on Practical Applications of Mobile and Internet Educational Games http://www.apsce.net/Download/RPTEL-2012-SI5_PracticalEducationalGames_CFP.… Guest Editor, International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning (SSCI) Special Issue on Technology Enhanced Information Retrieval and Processing for Online Learning (Vol. 13, No. 5) http://www.irrodl.org/index.php/irrodl/issue/view/54 Guest Associate Editor, IEEE Technology and Engineering Education Special Issue on Cloud Computing Technology and Applications (Vol. 7, No. 2) http://www.ewh.ieee.org/soc/e/sac/itee/index.php/meem/article/viewFile/252/… http://www.ewh.ieee.org/soc/e/sac/itee/index.php/meem/issue/view/30 --------- School of Computing and Information Systems (http://scis.athabascau.ca/) Athabasca University 1200, 10011-109 Street Edmonton, T5J-3S8 AB, Canada --------------- Phone: +1-866-916-8646 Website: http://maiga.dnsalias.org and http://maiga.athabascau.ca CV: http://scis.athabascau.ca/scis/staff/faculty.jsp?id=maigac Leave me an Audio/Video message with JoinNet (required to install in Microsoft Windows OS first) http://meeting.athabascau.ca/gotomeeting.php?u=5&c=visit JoinNet software: http://www.homemeeting.com/en_US/download_joinnet.html

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Networks Seminar - Brunel University
by Sanjay Sharma 04 Apr '13

04 Apr '13

Hello All Please find attached details of a free event: Will Networks solve the world’s problems? Answers from the social sciences and beyond. Workshop 1: New Media and the Internet - Digital Democracy or Complex Chaos? Date: 24 May 2013 Location: Brunel University, UK kind regards sanjay sharma

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Second Call: Digital Methods Summer School 2013: On the Challenges of Studying Social Media Data
by Anne Helmond 04 Apr '13

04 Apr '13

Second Call: Digital Methods Summer School 2013: On the Challenges of Studying Social Media Data New Media & Digital Culture, University of Amsterdam, 24 June - 5 July 2013 University of Amsterdam Turfdraagsterpad 9 1012 XT Amsterdam Directions and Map<https://maps.google.com/maps?saddr=Station+Amsterdam-Centraal,+Stationsplei…> Dear All, The Digital Methods Initiative (DMI) will host its 7th annual Summer School from 24 June to 5 July 2013 in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. This year's theme is dedicated to the challenges of studying social media data. The summer school program is open to PhD candidates, advanced master's degree students, recent graduates and motivated scholars. The DMI Summer School is a full-time training program, an intensive and rewarding workshop environment, following which the participants receive a certificate of completion. The DMI summer school also features special guests as resource people presenting their research and projects during morning lectures. There is a final presentation afternoon where the Summer School projects are showcased to participants and invitees. As of this year, the DMI Summer School is officially a part of the University of Amsterdam Summer School<http://www.uva.nl/en/education/other-programmes/summer-winter>programme and there are opportunities for scholarships if your home university belongs to LERU or/and U21 networks. Below please find the call for participation. The application deadline is 25 April 2013 and the candidates will be notified on 26 April. Feel free to forward the call to interested individuals. Looking forward to your application and to welcoming you in Amsterdam during the Summertime! Simeona & Natalia DMI'13 Summer School organisers Call for Participation - Digital Methods Summer School 2013 https://wiki.digitalmethods.net/Dmi/SummerSchool2013 Digital Methods Summer School 2013: On the challenges of studying social media data New Media & Digital Culture, University of Amsterdam, 24 June - 5 July 2013 University of Amsterdam Turfdraagsterpad 9 1012 XT Amsterdam Directions and Map<https://maps.google.com/maps?saddr=Station+Amsterdam-Centraal,+Stationsplei…> You are not the API I used to know: On the challenges of studying social media data A set of #hashtagged tweets and @follow networks visualised to study crisis response to a natural disaster. Facebook likes, shares, comments, and liked comments tabulated over time for an activist page to study relationships between content formats and engagement. LinkedIn profile completeness percentages measured for a group of civil servants to study online grooming. Social media data are employed increasingly for work in the arts and social sciences, and are even becoming an expected research strategy alongside the fieldwork, surveys and interviews when studying contemporary states of affairs. The 2013 Digital Methods Summer School would like to examine critically the status of the findings, while at the same time reviewing and actively employing the techniques. Is there increasingly a unified approach to the study of social media data? Are there recipes and preferred tools (or utensils)? Are we still allowed to hack the graph? The question of how to study online data is increasingly a piece with how big data companies provide them. More specifically, has polling APIs supplanted scraping as the appropriate means of data collection? What are the effects of the research ethics debate on social media research practice? There are also the information graphics and data visualisations to consider. The preferred outputs mark the return of the graph visualisation, if it ever went away. What does the graph visualisation mean for the interpretation and presentation of research findings? There is also the question of what is actually being measured, apart from activity in social media. How to ground the findings? In even more online data? About "Digital Methods" as Concept Digital methods is a term <https://wiki.digitalmethods.net/Dmi/MoreIntro> employed as a counter-point to virtual methods, which typically digitize existing methods and port them onto the Web. Digital methods, contrariwise, seek to learn from the methods built into the dominant devices online, and repurpose them for social and cultural research. That is, the challenge is to study both the info-web as well as the social web with the tools that organize them. There is a general protocol to digital methods. At the outset stock is taken of the natively digital objects that are available (links, tags, threads, etc.) and how devices such as search engines make use of them. Can the device techniques be repurposed, for example by remixing the digital objects they take as inputs? Once findings are made with online data, where to ground them? With more online data? About the Summer School The Digital Methods Summer School, founded in 2007 together with the Digital Methods Initiative, is directed by Professor Richard Rogers, Chair in New Media & Digital Culture at the University of Amsterdam. The Summer School is one training opportunity provided by the Digital Methods Initiative (DMI). DMI also has a Winter School<https://wiki.digitalmethods.net/Dmi/WinterSchool>, which includes a mini-conference, where papers are presented and responded to. Winter School papers are often the result of Summer School projects. The Summer School is coordinated by two PhD candidates in New Media at the University of Amsterdam, or affiliates. This year the coordinators are Michael Stevenson and Simeona Petkova both of the University of Amsterdam. The Summer School has a technical staff as well as a design staff. The Summer School also relies on a technical infrastructure of some nine servers hosting tools and storing data. Participants bring their laptops, learn method, undertake research projects, make reports, tools and graphics and write them up on the Digital Methods wiki. The Summer School concludes with final presentations. Often there are guests from non-governmental or other organizations who present their issues. For instance, Women on Waves<http://www.womenonwaves.org/> came along during the 2010 and Fair Phone <http://www.fairphone.com/> to the 2012 Summer School. Digital Methods people are currently interning at Greenpeace International and the Global Reporting Initiative<https://www.globalreporting.org/Pages/default.aspx> . Previous Digital Methods Summer Schools, 2007-2012, https://wiki.digitalmethods.net/Dmi/DmiSummerSchool. What's it like? Digital Methods Summer School flickr stream 2012<http://www.flickr.com/photos/silvertje/sets/72157630494878374/with/75352335…> The Digital Methods Initiative was founded with a grant from the Mondriaan Foundation, and the Summer School is supported by the Center for Creation, Content and Technology (CCCT), University of Amsterdam, organized by the Faculty of Science with sponsorship from Platform Beta. Applications and fees To apply for the Digital Methods Summer School 2013, please send a one-page letter explaining how digital methods training would benefit your current work, and also enclose a CV. Mark your application "DMI Training Certificate Program," and send to info [at] digitalmethods.net. The regular deadline for applications for the Summer School is 25 April. Notices will be sent on 26 April. Please address your application email to the Summer School coordinators, info [at] digitalmethods.net. Informal queries may be sent to Simeona, simeona [at] digitalmethods.net or Natalia, natalia [at] digitalmethods.net The Summer School costs EUR 295 per person. Accepted applicants will be informed of the bank transfer details upon notice of acceptance to the Summer School. The fee must be paid by 24 May 2013. Housing and Accommodations The Summer School is self-catered, and there are abundant cafes and a university mensa nearby. The Digital Methods Summer School is located in the heart of Amsterdam. There are limited accommodations available to participants at reasonable rates. Please contact the local organizers for details. For those who prefer non-University accommodations, we suggest airbnb or similar. For shortest stay, there is Hotel Le Coin<http://www.lecoin.nl/indexEN.html>, where we have a university discount. Summer School Training Certificate The Digital Methods Summer School issues completion certificates to participants who follow the Summer School program, and complete a significant contribution to a Summer School project. For previous Summer School projects, see for example https://wiki.digitalmethods.net/Dmi/WikipediaAsASpaceOfControversy. Schedule The Summer School meets every day. Please bring your laptop. We will provide abundant connectivity. We start generally at 9:30 in the morning, and end around 5:30. There are morning talks two-three days per week. On the last Friday we have a boat trip on the canals of Amsterdam. Preparations: Online Tutorials and Lectures Digital Methods researchers have given tutorials and talks which are useful and sometimes even entertaining! Audio and Video Tutorials <https://wiki.digitalmethods.net/Dmi/DmiTutorials> Social Media & User-Generated Content Twitter hashtag #dmi13 We shall have a list of summer school participants on Twitter How to do Digital Methods? Presentation materials from the 2012 Summer School There are many highlights, including a digital methods tool medley! Summerschool 2012 Presentations<https://wiki.digitalmethods.net/Dmi/Summerschool2012Presentations> Together with an overview of all Summer School projects from last year: Projects 2012 <https://wiki.digitalmethods.net/Dmi/Dmi2012Projects> Suggestions for Evening Hangouts Amsterdam suggestions for the evenings<https://wiki.digitalmethods.net/Dmi/Summerschool2012Eveninghangouts> . Digital Methods Winter School 2012 and 2013 Revisited Apart from the Summer Schools, the other opportunity for training and organized workshops (as well as presenting a paper from a project that you worked on during the Summer School) is the Winter School. The Digital Methods Winter School 2012 was dedicated to "Interfaces for the Cloud<https://wiki.digitalmethods.net/Dmi/WinterSchool2012>" and API critique, where Metahaven, the critical Dutch design group, presented their work that actually renders the politics of the cloud. See Daniel van der Veldens articles<http://www.e-flux.com/journal/captives-of-the-cloud-part-i/>. The Winter School 2013 was dedicated to short-form method<https://wiki.digitalmethods.net/Dmi/WinterSchool2013> and the book sprint. We will share Adam Hyde's talk online. We look forward to welcoming you to Amsterdam in the Summertime!

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CFP Conference in Chile on Collaborative Innovation Networks - please share with others
by Marisa von Bülow 03 Apr '13

03 Apr '13

This Conference is of interest to many on this list. ------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------ *COINS13: Call for Submissions When: August 11-13, 2013 Where: Santiago de Chile, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (http://www.uc.cl/) (www.coinschile.com) <https://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=Santiago+de+Ch…> Papers: Paper submission deadline May 15, 2013 Workshops: Proposal submission deadline May 15, 2013 Artifacts: Proposal submission deadline June 1, 2013 The Collaborative Innovation Networks Conference (COINs) invites you to submit your papers, workshop proposals, and artifacts to the 4th annual international conference to be held in Santiago de Chile, hosted by Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile from August 11 to August 13, 2013. COINS13 brings together practitioners, researchers and students of the emerging science of collaboration to share their work, learn from each other, and get inspired through creative new ideas. Conference activities will take place throughout the historic cities of Santiago and Valparaiso. Attendees will be encouraged to engage with the community, meet local entrepreneurs, artists, and designers, take a guided tour of the city, and participate in hands-on workshops and interactive sessions. Last year’s conference in Basel, Switzerland followed the success of the previous two COINS Conferences hosted by the Savannah College of Art and Design, in collaboration with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Center for Collective Intelligence and Wayne State University. Where science, design, business and art meet, COINS13 looks at the emerging forces behind the phenomena of open-source, creative, entrepreneurial and social movements. Through interactive workshops, professional presentations, and fascinating keynotes, COINS13 combines a wide range of interdisciplinary fields such as social network analysis, group dynamics, design and visualization, information systems, collective action and the psychology and sociality of collaboration. The best papers will be selected for a special issue of the International Journal of Organisational Design and Engineering (IJODE; http://www.inderscience.com/jhome.php?jcode=IJODE) Program Chairs: Marisa Von Bülow (PUC) & Cristobal Garcia (PUC) Proceedings Chair: Peter Gloor (MIT) Learning from the Swarm The COINS13 conference committee seeks original paper submissions, creative workshop ideas and concepts, unique artifacts or installations, and engaging rapid-fire presentations celebrating the theme “Learning from the Swarm”. This year we are asking what is relevant with regard to the innovative powers of creative and civic swarms, what are the observable qualities of virtual collaboration and mobilization, and how does the quest for global cooperation affect local networks. We invite both theoretical and practice-based dialogues, case studies, scientific papers, technological solutions, research studies, and interactive artifacts that thoroughly reflect this year’s conference theme. We invite researchers and designers to submit their latest scientific results and experimental design solutions as full research papers, workshop proposals, and artifact demonstrations in the following conference themes: - Networks & Collaboration in a Global Context: Optimization through Collaboration | Teamwork through virtually enhanced Collaboration | Measuring the performance of COINs | Patterns of swarm creativity - Group Dynamics, Social Movements & Net Activism: Collaborative Learning | Collaborative Leadership | Design & visualization of interdisciplinary collaboration | Virtual Teaming - Individual & Social Learning: The psychology and sociality of collaboration and collective action | Social Behavior Modeling | Social Intelligence and Social Cognition - Tools and Methods: Social System Design and Architectures | Dynamic Social Network Analysis | Semantic Social Network Analysis | Actor Network Theory The increase of online social network communication opens up unprecedented opportunities to read the collective mind, revealing trends while they are still being hatched by small groups of creative individuals. The Web has become a mirror of the real world, allowing researchers, in fields of social & behavioral science as well as design, to study and better understand why some new ideas change our lives, while others never make it from the drawing board of the innovator. Collaborative Innovation Networks, or COINs, are cyberteams of self-motivated people with a collective vision, enabled by technology to collaborate, challenge the status-quo and innovate by sharing ideas, information, resources and work. COINs are powered by swarm creativity, wherein people work together in a structure that enables a fluid creation and exchange of ideas. ‘Coolhunting’ – the discovering, analyzing, and measuring of trends and trendsetters as well as movers and shakers – puts COINs to productive use. Below are the details and deadlines for the submission of Papers, Workshops, Artifacts, and Pecha Kucha sessions. For up to date information and additional details please visit our website: www.coinschile.com To engage with the broader COINs community, follow us on twitter @coinschileand join our Facebook page (Collaborative Innovation Networks: COINs Conference). Papers: Submission Deadline May 15, 2013 COINS13 seeks original, high-quality papers that reflect the full breadth and scope of collaboration science and design including: bold research ideas, conceptual developments, research investigations, methodological & theoretical advances, design ideas, development experiences and more. Submissions should report original research, reflections on theoretical concerns, methodological advances, or other insights that contribute to our understanding of all aspects of collaboration and help advance the state of knowledge for the community. We encourage perspectives from diverse disciplinary backgrounds. Papers should be submitted in .doc or .pdf format. Authors are required to attend the conference to present their work. Submit papers by May 15, 2013 on EasyChair: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=coins13 Important Dates: May 15, 2013 | Deadline for Paper Submissions June 15, 2013 | Author(s) will be notified of provisional acceptance of the paper July 30, 2013 | Final copy for conference to publications chair August 11-13 | Paper presentations at COINS13, Santiago, Chile Workshops: Proposals Submission Deadline May 15, 2013 Workshops will take place during the conference and will form part of the main program. This year we are accepting proposals for both two-hour and four-hour sessions. Workshops are intended to provide a forum for exchanging ideas, sharing experiences, fostering conversation and research communities, learning from each other, exploring controversies, engaging in debate, envisioning future directions and elaborating new methods and perspectives. Workshop activities can range from open forum discussion, to demonstrations or presentations with discussion, to collaborative activities such as structured brainstorming, illustrative games or role-plays. Whatever the focus or format, organizers will be required to schedule time for conversation, reflection, discussion, and debate. Although we envision most workshop activities to take place in one setting, let us know if your workshop will venture out into other sites in Santiago. Workshop proposals should include: - a summary of 500 words describing the theme(s) of the workshop - a longer detailed description of the workshop structure, activities and goals - the names, contact information and background of the organizer(s) - the maximum number of participants you'd like to attend the workshop - anticipated A/V requirements. Please be as specific as possible as it helps us in selection, and in helping you plan the workshop. Workshop participants will be registered on a first come first served basis by the conference committee, so the workshop organizers will not be able to select their participants. Accepted workshops will be publicized via the COINS13 website within a month after organizers are notified. Workshop organizers will also be encouraged to promote COINS13 and their workshops to potential attendees. Submit proposals by May 15, 2013 to: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=coins13. Additionally, please include your email address and other contact details. Important Dates: May 15, 2013 | Deadline for workshop Submissions June 15, 2013 | Author(s) will be notified of provisional acceptance of the paper August 11-13 | Workshop at COINS13, Santiago, Chile Artifacts: Proposals Submission Deadline June 1, 2013 The artifacts category seeks to provide participants with an opportunity to present work in a forum that facilitates open discussion and enables direct interaction with conference attendees. A dedicated session will be held during the conference to present the artifacts. Artifacts can be anything from design sketchbooks, to reformed organizational processes, to ads you’ve produced, to products you’ve made, to short films, to conceptual objects, etc. We encourage submissions that are thought provoking and visually engaging, and which cover exploratory/speculative work, smaller projects, unusual representations of ethnographic work, and so on. The form of the presented materials is open. In keeping with the category title artifacts though, we encourage submissions based on some material instantiation that can be exhibited at the conference. Our hope is that it will be the ‘thinginess’ of the artifacts that will, in part, prompt interaction with and between conference attendees. Submissions should include a single page describing or illustrating the proposed submission (the one page inclusive of any and all figures and references, where appropriate). This page should convey to reviewers what the artifact being submitted is and how it is hoped to provoke discussion. The page will also be included in the published conference proceedings. Also included in the submissions should be a paragraph and image (no more that 150 words) that can be displayed on the conference website. Please submit these submission materials by June 1, 2013 to: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=coins13 Additionally, please include your email address and other contact details. Important Dates: June 1, 2013 | Deadline for artifacts Submissions June 15, 2013 | Author(s) will be notified of provisional acceptance of the artifact. Accepted submissions will have their 150 word descriptions posted on the COINS13 website. Descriptions (including images) of accepted artifacts will be published in the COINS13 Proceedings. July 30, 2013 | Final papers due August 11-13 | artifacts presentations at COINS13, Santiago, Chile. The artifact itself should be transported to Santiago for the conference. Steering Committee: Cristobal Garcia, PUC Peter Gloor, MIT Julia Gluesing, Wayne State University Casper Lassenius, Aalto University Christine Miller, SCAD Maria Paasivaara, Aalto University Ken Riopelle, Wayne State University Academic Committee: Takashi Iba, Keio Univesity Kai Fischbach, Bamberg University* *Sebastián Valenzuela, PUC Detlef Schoder, Cologne University Alvaro Pina-Stranger, Ecole des Mines Carlos Rodriguez-Sickert, Universidad del Desarrollo Daiane Scarboto, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile Marisa Von Bullow, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile Erica Salvaj, Universidad del Desarrollo Meghan Pierce, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile Jorge Fabrega, Universidad Adolfo Ibañez Emmanuel Lazega, Paris Dauphine Jose Allard, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile Yang Song, University of Amsterdam Ionna Likorenzu, INRIA* *Eduardo Barros, PUC Johannes Putzke, University of Cologne Karin Frick, GDI Ruth Stock-Homburg, Technical University of Darmstadt Sebastián Gatica - Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile Sergio Yates, PUC de Rio* *Ulisses Araujo, USP* *Tina Seelig, Stanford* *(to be continued)* -- Building Transnational Networks, Marisa von Bülow For more information see www.cambridge.org/9780521191562 Marisa von Bülow Professora/Professor Instituto de Ciencia Política/Political Science Institute Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile Professor on leave IPOL - UnB/University of Brasilia 56-2-3547826 -- Building Transnational Networks, Marisa von Bülow For more information see www.cambridge.org/9780521191562 Marisa von Bülow Professora/Professor Instituto de Ciencia Política/Political Science Institute Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile Professor on leave IPOL - UnB/University of Brasilia 56-2-3547826

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Couch Award 2013
by Mark D. Johns 03 Apr '13

03 Apr '13

CALL FOR AWARD APPLICATIONS Carl J. Couch Internet Research Award 2013 Sponsored by the Carl Couch Center for Social and Internet Research http://www.cccsir.com/ The Carl Couch Center issues an international call for student-authored papers to be considered for Carl J. Couch Internet Research Award. The Couch Center welcomes both theoretical and empirical papers that apply symbolic interactionist approaches to internet studies. According to basic symbolic interactionist premises, what we understand as self, identity, relationship, and cultural formations are constructed dialogically and interactively. While the works of George H. Mead, Georg Simmel, Erving Goffman and other leading symbolic interactionists have been integral to the study of social interaction, Carl Couch was among the first from this tradition to suggest the importance of engaging in the study of mediated interaction. It is critical that symbolic interactionists move boldly forward, beyond Couch's initial suggestion, to study what has become for many a dominant form of communication in their everyday life. Whether we research identities, emotion, memory, family, work, career, presentations of self, deception, love, loss or other areas, the impact of mediated communication is felt by those interacting within it. As internet-related media continue to influence our everyday interactions--not only with other people but also with technologies, devices, algorithms, platform parameters, and so forth--it becomes crucial for symbolic interactionists to attend to the role of these mediating factors in the interaction process. We encourage any paper that uses a symbolic interactionist approach in internet studies. We also encourage papers that explore the interface between deliberate social interaction and structured (or automated) interactions sponsored or enacted by various technological features, exploring not only how identities, relations, and social formations are negotiated through social interactions, but also how these interactions are mediated further through the use or capacities of various technologies. Papers will be evaluated based on the quality of (1) mastery of symbolic interactionist approaches and concepts, (2) originality, (3) organization, (4) presentation, and (5) advancement of knowledge. Those contemplating entering should note that an interactionist approach demands thoughtful analysis, and not mere description, of social interactions. Evaluation will be administered by a Review Committee of four: Mark D. Johns, Luther College, Decorah, Iowa Jennifer Dunn, Texas Tech University, Lubbock Annette Markham, University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee Lois Ann Scheidt, Indiana University, Bloomington Competition is open to graduate or undergraduate students of all disciplines. Works that are published or accepted for publication are not eligible for award consideration. Entries should be in English and not exceed 30 pages (approximately 7500 words) in length, including references and appendices. Limit of one entry per student per year. The top paper will receive Couch Award to be presented at the 2013 meeting of the Association of Internet Researchers (aoir.org) at the University of Denver. The top paper will be awarded a certificate and a cash prize of $300 US and the author will be invited to present their work at a session of the AoIR conference, October 24-27, 2013 in Denver, Colorado, USA. Candidates should send a copy of their paper, with a 100-word abstract, electronically to Mark Johns at mjohns(a)luther.edu Application deadline is May 15, 2013. Notification of award will be sent by June 15. Those with questions or comments about Couch Award application, please contact: Mark D. Johns Communication Studies Luther College, Decorah, Iowa Phone: 563-387-1347 E-mail: mjohns(a)luther.edu

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