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Research about linkedin, Research with linkedin
by יוחנן ועקנין 26 Feb '13

26 Feb '13

Hello everyone, I am looking for any relevant source and literature recommendations regarding Research about LinkedIn and / or research process managed with LinkedIn tools or data (survey, sample, data extraction, API, etc.). Thank you ! Yohanan -- Yohanan Ouaknine <http://www.ois.co.il/> <http://maps.google.com/maps?q=&hl=en>yohanan.ouaknine(a)ois.co.il *http://il.linkedin.com/in/yohananouaknine* See who we know in common <http://www.linkedin.com/e/wwk/32969976/>

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E-research ethics: What are the issues?
by Janet Salmons, Ph.D. 26 Feb '13

26 Feb '13

How do you make decisions about ethical questions when designing online research? Where are the gray or sticky areas? What resources have helped-- including the AOIR Ethics Guide (http://aoir.org/documents/ethics-guide) or other disciplinary or institutional guidelines? What do you need-- as a researcher, faculty member or dissertation supervisor, student, editor or peer reviewer? The New Social Media, New Social Science project would like your input so we can assess what is working and what new resources would be beneficial. Please share your insights, frustrations, suggestions and questions in this short questionnaire: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/e-ethics. For more on NSMNSS, see: http://nsmnss.blogspot.com/2013/02/thinking-ethically.html. Thanks! Janet Janet Salmons Ph.D. Capella University School of Business and Vision2Lead, Inc. Site- http://www.vision2lead.com Follow Twitter at #einterview Now available as Kindle e-books: Cases in Online Interview Research PO Box 943 Boulder, CO 80306-0943 jsalmons(a)vision2lead.com

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[IMPORTANT NOTICE] DATE CHANGE for the 2013 ICS PhD Conference: "The Non-Financial Crisis: Politics, Media and Culture in the Present Economic Context"
by cristina Miguel 26 Feb '13

26 Feb '13

This is a very important notice to inform you that the date for the 2013 ICS PhD Conference has been changed. This year's conference entitled "The Non-Financial Crisis: Politics, Media and Culture in the Present Economic Context" will now take place on 10th June 2013, a few days later than previously announced. Furthermore, we are pleased to confirm our two keynote speakers for the conference: Professor Colin Sparks and Professor Kate Oakley. [UPDATED] CALL FOR PAPERS Apologies for cross-posting CALL FOR PAPERS The 7th Annual PhD Conference The Institute of Communications Studies, University of Leeds THE NON-FINANCIAL CRISIS: POLITICS, MEDIA AND CULTURE IN THE PRESENT ECONOMIC CONTEXT 10 June 2013, Leeds Keynote speakers: Professor Colin Sparks (Hong Kong Baptist University/University of Westminster) Professor Kate Oakley (University of Leeds) The recent financial crisis that caused the collapse of large financial institutions, the bailout of banks by national governments, and the struggle of national and trans-national governments in tackling the crisis, has signalled the need for fundamental changes in economic and political systems. In this conference we hope to interrogate the various aspects of the crisis. These aspects span beyond economic considerations to broader issues related to socio-political systems, media and cultural production. Almost all fields are affected by the crisis and forced to change. The changes in these fields are interdependent and will have important implications for our future. With this aim in mind we invite submissions which could address any of the following questions or investigate related issues: 1. Politics - How is the crisis changing the way leaders appeal to audiences? - How has the crisis influenced political agendas? - How have governments been dealing with the communication of the crisis? - Has the crisis brought about new forms of political action? - Is the economic crisis encouraging citizen participation? - Is it still possible for the public sphere to influence national government in times of transnational crisis? - Has the crisis in anyway influenced the legitimacy of transnational institutions? 2. Media and Journalism - How has the media represented the crisis? - What are the challenges for communicating the crisis? - Have journalistic practices changed due to the influence of the crisis? - How have the economic crisis and budget cuts influenced media production? - Have new media changed the way news is produced and distributed during crisis? - Will the media play a different role in society after the crisis? - Has new media been shrinking or expanding disparity between the North and the South during the crisis? 3. Culture - Cultural labour and value creation: what impact has the crisis had on the dynamic between creative autonomy and market imperatives? - Are the creative industries more resilient to the impact of the economic crisis than traditional manufacturing industries? - What might the implications be of public subsidy cuts for culture and the cultural labour market? - What roles can the cultural and creative industries play in promoting job creation and economic growth? - Could the cultural industries play a real and significant role in the development and adoption of new socioeconomic models? - Where does the culture industry debate lie today: what have been the effects of the commodification of culture? - What is art’s relationship to social change? Is there legitimate faith in the autonomy of art as bound to the promise of a better world to come? - What might be the outcomes of the economic crisis for European culture? Please email 250-300 word abstract, with any institutional affiliation and brief biography, to the following email address by 1 March, 2013 (earlier submissions welcome): ics-pg-conference(a)leeds.ac. This call for papers is also available online: http://www.ics-phd-conference.leeds.ac.uk/

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New book: Social Media and Minority Languages
by Rhodri Ap Dyfrig [rla] 26 Feb '13

26 Feb '13

This is my first post to the list so hi all! I thought some subscribers to the list would be interested in this new publication edited by Elin Haf Gruffydd Jones (Aberystwyth University, Wales, UK) and Enrique Uribe-Jongbloed (Universidad de La Sabana, Colombia) which investigates uses of social media and other digital media through the lens of minority language speakers. Here's the blurb: "As a field in its own right, Minority Language Media studies is developing fast. The recent technological and social developments that have accelerated media convergence and opened new ways of access and exchange into spaces formerly controlled by media institutions, offer new opportunities, challenges and dangers to minority languages, and especially to their already established media institutions. This book includes debates on what convergence and participation actually mean, a series of case studies of specific social media developments in minority language, as well as comparative studies on how the cultural industries have engaged with the new possibilities brought about by media convergence. Finally, the book also offers a historical review of the development of Minority Language Media worldwide, and evidences the areas in which more extensive research is required." Full details here: http://multilingualmatters.com/display.asp?k=9781847699046 ; and a Google Books preview here: http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=NaVr-sc2BZQC&hl=en Rhodri ap Dyfrig PhD Candidate Prifysgol Aberystwyth University http://apdyfrig.com

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Canadian Internet Governance Forum in Ottawa Thursday February 28th. Also online webcast.
by Peter Timusk 26 Feb '13

26 Feb '13

If you are in Ottawa this Thursday this may be of interest. Its free and I always see and hear some Canadian Internet researchers there. http://www.cira.ca/news/events-page/2013-cif/ 2013 Canadian Internet Forum The Canadian Internet Forum (CIF) is the place for Canadians to share their thoughts on the development, deployment and governance of the Internet in Canada. Consisting of an annual event and an online discussion forum, the CIF brings together leading thinkers and experts to discuss a variety of Internet-related topics. This year the CIF national event will be kicking off the online discussion forum on February 28, 2013 in Ottawa, so that Canadians can further explore the topics discussed during the national event online. This year Digital Literacy, Cyber-security, and Internet governance will be explored: * Policy and Governance: including topics such as broadband speed access, who runs the Internet. * Digital literacy: including topics such as privacy, parental controls, educating people on how to use the Internet, lack of digital literacy, and language barriers. * Cyber-security: including topics such as regulating content, governance of the Internet and net neutrality. The event will also feature a keynote from Privacy Commissioner Jennifer Stoddart <http://www.priv.gc.ca/au-ans/bio_e.asp> about privacy on the Internet landscape in Canada. As well, the event will also feature panel sessions on digital literacy, cyber security and policy and governance featuring: * Tim Denton <http://www.crtc.gc.ca/eng/about/denton.htm> , CRTC * Steve Anderson <http://openmedia.ca/staff> , Openmedia.ca * Karen Mulberry <http://www.internetsociety.org/who-we-are/staff/karen-mulberry> , Internet society * Matthew Johnson <http://mediasmarts.ca/about-us/staff#m_johnson> , MediaSmarts * Shane Schick <http://shaneschick.com/> , Journalist * Kerry Augustine <http://www.mts.net/%7Ekinetix/Index_files/About.htm> , Canadian Cyber Defense Challenge * Bill Woodcock <https://www.pch.net/about/people/woodcock.html> , Packet Clearing House * Byron Holland <http://blog.cira.ca/> , Canadian Internet Registration Authority Participants who are unable to attend in-person will be able to join the event by webcast. Details are available below. There will also be an interactive session, where you will be able share your views and contribute to a discussion on cyber-security! Event: 2013 CIF National Event Time and date: 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. (ET), February 28, 2013 Location: Ottawa Convention Centre, Canada Hall 3, 55 Colonel By Drive, Ottawa Webcast: Join the webcast <http://webcast.cira.ca/CIF> beginning at 9 a.m. ET. Don't forget! Test your system <http://webcast.cira.ca/p12891713/> before joining the webcast. View the day's agenda <http://www.cira.ca/assets/Documents/Resources/2013-CIF-Agenda.pdf> . Register <http://www.regonline.ca/2013cif> for the 2013 CIF event. There is no cost for participation and lunch will be served. This is the third year CIRA has hosted the CIF. In previous years, the discussions at the event and the online forum were used to develop a white paper for presentation <http://www.cira.ca/assets/Documents/Publications/challenges-opportunities-c anada-2012.pdf> to the United Nations co-ordinated Internet Governance Forum (IGF). The white paper from the 2013 CIF will also be presented to the IGF. Read past CIF white papers <http://www.cira.ca/knowledge-centre/white-papers/> . For more information, please contact cif(a)cira.ca <mailto:> . Stay up-to-date, follow @CIRANews <http://twitter.com/ciranews> or join CIRA on Facebook <http://facebook.com/cira.ca> .

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Engineer
by Engineer 26 Feb '13

26 Feb '13

   http://www.mobilecarsolutions.com/hwzbj/q9.7k6q?odvk2d   &nb…   Engineer2/26/2013 11:20:12 AM

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INPUTS / OUTPUTS: Inter-disciplinary Approaches to Causality in Engagement, Immersion, Presence and Related Concepts in Performance and Human Computer Interaction
by Kate O'Riordan 26 Feb '13

26 Feb '13

INPUTS / OUTPUTS: Inter-disciplinary Approaches to Causality in Engagement, Immersion, Presence and Related Concepts in Performance and Human Computer Interaction Conference Call for Papers EXTENDED INPUTS / OUTPUTS: Inter-disciplinary Approaches to Causality in Engagement, Immersion, Presence and Related Concepts in Performance and Human Computer Interaction University of Sussex Brighton, UK 26 June 2013 EXTENDED DEADLINE FOR CONTRIBUTIONS: 15 MARCH 2013 Engagement is much sought after in the public discourse of politics, theatre and education. Immersion, presence, and motivation attract further research to the engagement continuum. The goal of this symposium is to inspire an interdisciplinary spectrum of academics, practitioners and funders interested in deeper engagement (and related terms) toward novel collaborative solutions and projects. By mixing practitioners and researchers from arts, media and science, the conference will offer a platform for adaptation of discoveries made in other disciplines. The title “Inputs/Outputs” concerns the interaction between ‘sender’ and ‘receiver’. Examples of human-centred inputs are computer games, immersive theatre, novels, music, and classroom lessons; examples of outputs are emotions, memories, neural activities, physiological changes, and motivated behaviours. The rationale for the symposium is to improve the models for understanding the relationship between cause (pre-designed or scripted interventions) and effects (emotions, memories, neural activities) engendered in the audience or end-user. In interactive experiences, proposing causal relationships is made more difficult as human responses are sometimes conflated with causes. The symposium will focus its inter-disciplinary discourse on teasing apart scripted factors (inputs to the audience) that elicit or cause states like engagement, and on the human, observable effects that result from states like engagement (outputs from the audience). We welcome submissions on the central questions of the conference: * The relationship between physical, emotional, and intellectual engagement * Results from assessment and quantification of engagement in different fields * Methodologies and modalities for measuring engagement in different fields Other relevant topics include: rapport, immersion, ‘presence’, hypnotic absorption, neuroscience of engagement, interactional synchrony, engagement during interactivity in HCI, social signal processing, games, and the arts. Presentations should take the form of posters or 15-minute papers. We also welcome proposals for workshops or panels. For posters and individual papers, please submit a 250-word abstract as well as a short biographical note of 100 words. For panel and workshop proposals, please provide a brief outline of the session’s aims together with abstracts and biographical notes for each speaker and for the proposed panel chair or discussants. Please bear in mind that the conference is an interdisciplinary platform, and that submissions should be easily understood by an audience from outside of your discipline. All proposals should be emailed as pdf to the organisers at io-conf(a)sussex.ac.uk All proposals will be acknowledged and successful contributions confirm no later than 15 March 2013. For information about speakers and programme, please visit www.inputs-outputs.org Russell Pearce Carina Westling Harry Witchel

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Deadline Extension: LinkedLearning2013 - 3rd Intl Workshop on Learning and Education with the Web of Data
by Melody Siadaty 25 Feb '13

25 Feb '13

[Apologies for cross-posting] ==================================== LinkedLearning2013 - 3rd International Workshop on Learning and Education with the Web of Data (#lile2013) - http://lile2013.linkededucation.org/ - => In conjunction with the World Wide Web Conference 2013 (WWW2013) Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 14 May 2013 => best paper award sponsored by LinkedUp (http://linkedup-project.eu) => proceedings published with ACM Digital Library IMPORTANT DATES ==================================== * *04 March 2013 (extended):* Full & short research paper submission deadline * 04 March 2013: Poster & demo submission deadline * 20 March 2012: Notification of acceptance * 27 March 2012: Camera-ready paper * 14 May 2012: LinkedLearning 2013 workshop day OVERVIEW ======== Building on the previous editions and its growing community, Linked Learning 2013 will provide a forum to discuss approaches making use of Web Data resources and technologies, especially linked data, for teaching, learning and education. Distance teaching and openly available educational resources on the Web are becoming common practices with public higher education institutions as well as private training organisations realising the benefits of online resources. However, while research in educational technologies has been focusing on solving interoperability issues by creating a variety of metadata formats and environments for the exchange of educational resources, this has led to a very fragmented landscape of Web standards and approaches. Consequently, it is not only the case that interoperability between repositories of educational resources remains a challenge, but also that educational Web resources remain underexploited, as their connection, reuse and repurposing are barely supported by such technologies. The very nature of the Linked Data approach offers promising solutions that can address these open challenges. In addition, the Linked Data movement has produced a vast body of knowledge and data which can substantially support and contribute to educational services and content. Building on the overwhelming success of earlier LILE editions, Linked Learning 2013 will bring together researchers and practitioners making innovative use of Linked Data technologies for educational purposes to discuss, exchange and disseminate their work. TOPICS OF INTEREST ================== LILE2013 aims to become a highly interactive research forum for exploring the promises of the Web of Linked Data in the broad area of education by gathering researchers from the areas of the Semantic Web, Social Web, Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL), Open Educational Repositories, and Education. We will welcome high-quality papers about actual trends in (a) how education takes advantage of the Web of Data, especially through Linked Data technologies and (b) how Linked Data principles are being applied in educational contexts. We will seek application-oriented, as well as more theoretical papers and position papers in the following, non-exhaustive list of topics: * Linked data for informal learning and Web-based education * Using the Web of Data for personalisation and context-awareness in E-Learning * Usability and advanced user interfaces in learning environments and linked data * Light-weight educational metadata schemas * Exposing learning objects to the Web of Data * Semantic & syntactic mappings between educational metadata schemas * Controlled vocabularies, ontologies and terminologies for E-Learning * Personal & mobile learning environments on the Web * Learning flows and designs with Semantic Web technologies * Linked data in (visual) learning analytics and educational data mining * Linked data in organizational learning and learning organizations * Linked data for harmonizing individual learning goals and organizational objectives * Competency management with linked data * Collaborative learning on the Web of Data * Linked-data enhanced social learning SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION ========================== We welcome the following types of contributions. * Short (up to 3 pages) and full (up to 6 pages) research papers * Poster abstracts and system demonstrations should not exceed 2 pages. All submissions must be written in English and must be formatted according to the ACM format ( http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates) Please submit your contributions electronically in PDF format at * http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lile2013 Papers will be evaluated according to their significance, originality, technical content, style, clarity, and relevance to the workshop. At least one author of each accepted paper is expected to attend the workshop. The main workshop proceedings will be published through the ACM Digital Library. Furthermore, authors of selected papers will be invited to submit extended versions to a journal special issue. WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS =================== * Stefan Dietze, L3S Research Center (DE) * Mathieu d'Aquin, The Open University (UK) * Dragan Gasevic, Athabasca University & Simon Fraser University (Canada) PROGRAMME COMMITTEE =================== * Sören Auer, University of Leipzig, Germany * Charalampos Bratsas, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece * Ebrahim Bagheri,Ryerson University, Canada * Dan Brickley, W3C & Google, UK * Christopher Brooks, University of Saskatchewan, Canada * Mari Carmen Suárez-Figueroa, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain * Marco Antonio Casanova, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil * Philippe Cudré-Mauroux, University of Fribourg, Switzerland * Anita De Waard, Elsevier, Netherlands * Hendrik Drachsler, Open University of the Netherlands, The Netherlands * Gianluca Demartini, University of Fribourg, Switzerland * Darina Dicheva, Winston-Salem State University, USA * Vania Dimitrova, University of Leeds, UK * Nikolas Dovrolis, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece * Hannes Ebner, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden * Faezeh Ensan, Athabasca University, Canada * Marek Hatala, Simon Fraser University, Canada * Tom Heath, Talis, UK * Eelco Herder, L3S Research Center, Germany * Jelena Jovanovic, University of Belgrade, Serbia * Eleni Kaldoudi, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece * Carsten Keßler, University of Münster, Germany * Ivana Marenzi, L3S Research Center, Germany * Lyndon Nixon, Semantic Technologies Institute, Austria * Xavier Ochoa, Escuela Superior Politécnica del Litoral, Ecuador, Ecuador * Bernardo Pereira Nunes, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil * Abelardo Pardo, University of Sydney, Australia * Melody Siadaty,Simon Fraser University, Canada * Davide Taibi, Institute for Educational Technologies, CNR, Italy * Dhavalkumar Thakker, University of Leeds, UK * Thanassis Tiropanis, University of Southampton, UK * Carlo Torniai, Oregon Health and Science University, USA * Amal Zouaq, Royal Military College of Canada, Canada For further questions please contact the organisers via lile(a)linkededucation.org.

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New & Improved Free Trial for DiscoverText
by Shulman, Stuart 25 Feb '13

25 Feb '13

Social Media & Text Analytcs Opportunity We have created a more powerful free trial option for DiscoverText. Qualified registrants now get 30 days of Enterprise DiscoverText access including the GNIP Power Track for Twitter and 5000 GNIP credits to experiment with. This gets you access to our most powerful features, including custom machine classifiers. To request a free trial, please fill out the required fields at: https://app.discovertext.com/Home/SignupContactTrial As part of our participation in the Strata Big Data conference this week, we are going to hold a drawing for one year of free access to DiscoverText. To be entered, simply sign up for a free trial by 5 PM PST February 28, 2013. If you have any questions, please email me directly at stu.shulman(a)visioncritical.com. thanks, ~Stu Stuart Shulman VP for Text Analytics | Vision Critical www.visioncritical.com New York | London | Vancouver | Paris | Sydney | Chicago | San Francisco | Toronto | Minneapolis | Ottawa

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Here's an Idea… PBSIdeaChannel represents a new form of the academy
by Tilton, Shane 25 Feb '13

25 Feb '13

(For those that haven't seen the videos… http://www.youtube.com/user/pbsideachannel?feature=watch) I've been a huge fan of Mike Rugnetta's work in this space and I was planning writing a piece on how this series opens up theory in a way that is accessible to a larger audience. However, my worry is that the information being presented is too close to the "Freakonomics"/"Tipping Point" field. My question to the AoIR hive mind is does this presentation of information represent a new method of scholarship combining social theory with popular culture?

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