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Tenure-Track Positions Pace University
by Cathy Dwyer 22 Feb '13

22 Feb '13

*Tenure-Track Assistant/Associate Professor, Computer Science or Information System Areas in New York or White Plains or Pleasantville, New York <http://maps.google.com/maps?ie=UTF8&ll=41.031329,-73.779151&z=13>* *Salary:* Open *Level:* Entry Level**** Pace University’s Seidenberg School of Computer Science and Information Systems invites applications for two anticipated full-time tenure-track faculty positions, one at the rank of Assistant Professor and one at the rank of Associate Professor, in Computer Science or Information System areas. The selected faculty members will conduct research, supervise graduate and undergraduate students, and teach computer science, information system or information technology courses, at undergraduate and graduate levels, at one or more of our three campuses in NYC and Westchester.**** Candidates must possess an earned doctorate in computer science, information systems or a related field. They should have proven teaching and research potential, preferably in rapidly evolving areas such as telehealth, cybersecurity, data analytics, and integration of distributed and heterogeneous systems/services involving semi-structured data.**** The anticipated positions will start in fall 2013. Review of applications will begin March 15th. Applications will be accepted until the positions are filled. Please submit a letter of application, curriculum vitae, sample publications, and three letters of recommendation (sent directly from references) to Faculty Search Committee chair Dr. Lixin Tao at * Seidenberg-Search(a)pace.edu*. Only electronic submissions will be considered. **** Established in 1983, the Seidenberg School of Computer Science and Information Systems was one of the first comprehensive schools of computing in the country and remains in the forefront of the field. Operating on both its NYC and Westchester campuses, the School offers ABET-accredited bachelor degrees along with Masters and doctoral degrees. A Ph.D. in computer science is expected to begin in fall 2013. The Seidenberg School continues to be a leader in online education as evidenced in the 2013 U.S News and World Report which ranked Pace University as #1 for Best Online Bachelor’s Programs out of a field of 237 colleges/universities, and Seidenberg School’s MS in Internet Technology #13 for Best Online Graduate Computer Information Technology Program.**** Pace University is an Equal Employment and Affirmative Action Employer, M/F/H/V, committed to ensuring a diverse learning and working environment. Woman and minorities are encouraged to apply.**** http://www.pace.edu/seidenberg/**** *Requirements:***** Candidates must possess an earned doctorate in computer science, information systems or a related field. They should have proven teaching and research potential, preferably in rapidly evolving areas such as telehealth, cybersecurity, data analytics, and integration of distributed and heterogeneous systems/services involving semi-structured data.**** -- Catherine Dwyer, Ph.D. Associate Professor http://twitter.com/ProfCDwyer Pace University, Seidenberg School of Computer Science & Information Systems 163 William Street #225 New York, NY 10038 212-346-1728 Chair of SIGGreen http://siggreen.wikispaces.com -- Catherine Dwyer, Ph.D. Associate Professor http://twitter.com/ProfCDwyer Pace University, Seidenberg School of Computer Science & Information Systems 163 William Street #225 New York, NY 10038 212-346-1728 Chair of SIGGreen http://siggreen.wikispaces.com

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CFP: Social Networking And Community, HICSS
by Caroline Haythornthwaite 22 Feb '13

22 Feb '13

Colleagues, please join us again in Hawaii for the new iteration of the Social Networking and Community minitrack. This minitrack has been so successful that is now a cornerstone of the *new* Digital and Social Media track at HICSS. /Caroline ---------------------------- Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS) 47 January 6-9, 2014, Hilton Waikoloa, Big Island, Hawaii CFP: Social Networking And Community TRACK: *new* Digital and Social Media 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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Re: [Air-L] Air-L Digest, Vol 103, Issue 23
by Caroline Haythornthwaite 22 Feb '13

22 Feb '13

Hi Marius. May I recommend these two books of mine. The more recent book gives an overview of the area of e-learning, with attention to socio-technical issues (e.g., readiness to adopt new technology, changes in teaching practice, etc.). The attention is both to e-learning as online learning, but also e-learning as a new way of learning in general (e.g., self-motivated online searching). The Handbook is a collection of papers by top researchers in the learning and e-learning area. The focus is on research approaches. Haythornthwaite, C. & Andrews, R. (2011). E-learning Theory and Practice. London: Sage. Andrews, R. & Haythornthwaite, C. (Eds.) (2007). Handbook of E-Learning Research. London: Sage. /Caroline Caroline Haythornthwaite Director and Professor The iSchool at UBC http://haythorn.wordpress.com/ > > On 16/02/13 3:02 AM, "Marius Rohde Johannessen" <marius80(a)gmail.com> wrote: > >> I am trying to get a quick overview of research on e-learning in higher >> education, focusing on how universities apply digital tools in teaching >> and >> project work, as well as how technology is used to provide additional >> material for students. Does anyone have tips of relevant literature and/or >> literature reviews? >> >> Marius Rohde Johannessen >> PhD student University of Agder >> marius80[at]gmail.com >> _______________________________________________ >> The Air-L(a)listserv.aoir.org mailing list >> is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org >> Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: >> http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org >> >> Join the Association of Internet Researchers: >> http://www.aoir.org/ > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2013 08:14:45 +0000 > From: Claudia Roda <croda(a)aup.edu> > To: "air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org" <air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org> > Subject: [Air-L] CFP: Workshop Creativity and Attention in the age of > the Web > Message-ID: > <FC94F4976E5E344DAB34C30664CF95FC61E2B965(a)SRV-EXCHANGE.aup.local> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > CALL FOR PAPERS > WORKSHOP ON CREATIVITY AND ATTENTION IN THE AGE OF THE WEB > http://ac.aup.fr/croda/tclab/creativity&attentionWorkshop2013.html > AT ACM WEB SCIENCE 2013 > PARIS, MAY 1 2013 > > OBJECTIVES > > Many researchers have highlighted the connection between attention and creativity. The Web environment significantly affects the manner in which we allocate attention to information, tasks, and people. > This workshop addresses the question of what impact this has on creative pursuits. We look at creativity at many levels, from personal creativity (e.g. the different ways in which a student may solve a problem) to big-C creativity that generates new high impact findings. We concentrate on the effects that the Web environment has on on human attention and on all these types of creativity. In particular, we will focus on empirical/experimental as well as conceptual research connecting topics such as: new types of creativity enabled by the web; the influence of Web-based environments on human attention; cognitive offload and its consequences; group creativity; creativity outsourcing. > > INTRODUCTION > > We are living in the age defined by innovation driven economy. The ubiquity of the web in our lives (work and leisure time) forces us to reconsider our fundamental preconceptions regarding the creative and innovation processes. The complexity and the requirements of this new environment tell us that the age of the lone asocial romanticist genius is gone. Collaboration and collective creation is a must. Does the web facilitates these processes? And, if so,then in what way? What can we do to take advantage of what the web offers? How does it affect individuals? What are the consequences for education? > > All these questions have prompted an unprecedented academic interest on creativity that is well represented by several academic meeting such as the International ACM Conference on Creativity and Cognition 2013 in Sydney, the AAAI 2013 Spring Symposium on Creativity and Cognitive Development in Stanford, the Mobile Learning and Creativity Workshop in Saarbr?cken (September 2012), and the Creative Web Symposium: Computational Creativity as a Web-Service in South Corea (December 2012). Our workshop, while aligning with the meetings above, aims at exploring more specific issues of creativity that are immediately related to the particular environment created by the Web. > > Every new medium introduces new creative opportunities and shortens the path from the creator to the consumer: from the invention of writing, the printing process, photography, movies, to the radio and TV, the telephone, digital computer to the current era of hyper connectivity, always-on, instant messaging, instant content producing and sharing. Unprecedented amount of all humane knowledge becomes easily available for many and our expectations of others (individuals and institutions) in terms of reactivity, productivity and efficiency is raised. Some researchers believe that the more constraints we have to overcome, the easier it becomes to create. Would then democratization of access to information and cheap communication actually lessen creativity, or reduce it to trivial creations? > On the other hand, creative behaviour has been connected with breath of attention (e.g. Kasof 1997, Friedman et al. 2003) and in general, wide attention deployment and defocused attention are considered to lead to greater creativity. Several researchers share the view that creativity requires variations in the field of attention (Gabora 2007, Vartanian 2009) and some experimental results hint that distractions improve creativity (Baird et al. 2012; Gallate et al. 2012). Based on these considerations one could expect that forced changes in attention focus such as those generated by many Web 2.0 applications, may actually improve creativity. However, previous research also tells us of other related factors that may intervene with a possible negative effect. For example it has been observed that stress or arousal, generated for example by time pressure or evaluation apprehension, may reduce breadth of attention and therefore hinder creativity (Karau and Kelly 1992; Smith, Michae > l, and Hocevar 1990); that interruptions are more likely to hinder, rather than improve, creativity, and that different types of interruptions may have varying degree of impact on different creative activities (Roda et al. 2013). > > CALL FOR PAPERS AND DEMONSTRATIONS > > In this half-day workshop we invite researchers and practitioners for an exploration of the influence of the Web environment on human attention and creativity. We welcome short papers reporting empirical/experimental as well as conceptual research connecting topics such as: > > New types of creativity enabled by the web > The influence of Web based environments on human attention > Cognitive offload and its consequences > Group creativity > Creativity outsourcing > > We invite full papers (8 pages), short / position papers (2-4 pages), and/or demonstrations to be submitted to gstojanov(a)aup.edu<mailto:gstojanov@aup.edu> by March 21 > > Demonstrations should be available online and be accompanied by a short description (no more than 2 pages). > > All submissions will be reviewed by three members of the Program Committee. > > We will pursue the possibility of publishing a selected number of papers in the special issue of a journal. > > IMPORTANT DATES > Papers/Demo due March 21 2013 > Review feedback March 29 2013 > Workshop May 2 2013 > > ORGANISATION > > Organising committee > > Georgi Stojanov - The American University of Paris (France) > Claudia Roda - The American University of Paris (France) > Bipin Indurkhya - International Institute of Technology, Hyderabad (India) and AGH University of Science and Technology, Cracow (Poland) > > Program committee > > Sandra Bruno, Universit? de Cergy-Pontoise > Jayson P. Harsin, The American University of Paris > Thomas Kirste, University of Rostock > Mohammad Majid al-Rifaie, Goldsmiths' College, University of London > Amitash Ohja International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad > Sebastian Pannasch, Technische Universitaet Dresden > Goran Trajkovski, Virginia International University > Giovanni Vincenti, Towson University > Sharon Wood, University of Sussex > > -- > Claudia Roda > Professor of Computer Science > American University of Paris > 147, rue de Grenelle, 75007 Paris > +33(0)1.40.62.07.01 > croda(a)aup.fr<mailto:croda@aup.fr> http://ac.aup.fr/roda > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 3 > Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2013 13:14:45 +0100 > From: Geert Lovink <geert(a)desk.nl> > To: air <air-l-aoir.org(a)listserv.aoir.org> > Subject: [Air-L] INC Unlike Us Social Media Research Reader Out Now > Message-ID: <F44918AB-E5DF-421A-BFE2-4D22C9E2B513(a)desk.nl> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=WINDOWS-1252; format=flowed; > delsp=yes > > Geert Lovink and Miriam Rasch (eds), Unlike Us Reader: Social Media > Monopolies and Their Alternatives, Amsterdam: Institute of Network > Cultures, 2013. ISBN: 978-90-818575-2-9, paperback, 384 pages. > > Freely downloadable as pdf on: > http://networkcultures.org/wpmu/portal/publication/unlike-us-reader-social-… > > To order a free print copies of the reader, visit http://networkcultures.org/publications > > Check the book trailer here: https://vimeo.com/59997671 > > The Unlike Us Reader offers a critical examination of social media, > bringing together theoretical essays, personal discussions, and > artistic manifestos. How can we understand the social media we use > everyday, or consciously choose not to use? We know very well that > monopolies control social media, but what are the alternatives? While > Facebook continues to increase its user population and combines loose > privacy restrictions with control over data, many researchers, > programmers, and activists turn towards designing a decentralized > future. Through understanding the big networks from within, be it by > philosophy or art, new perspectives emerge. > > Unlike Us is a research network of artists, designers, scholars, > activists, and programmers, with the aim to combine a critique of the > dominant social media platforms with work on ?alternatives in social > media?, through workshops, conferences, online dialogues, and > publications. Everyone is invited to be a part of the public > discussion on how we want to shape the network architectures and the > future of social networks we are using so intensely. > > Contributors: Solon Barocas, Caroline Bassett, Tatiana Bazzichelli, > David Beer, David M. Berry, Mercedes Bunz, Florencio Cabello, Paolo > Cirio, Joan Donovan, Louis Doulas, Leighton Evans, Marta G. Franco, > Robert W. Gehl, Seda G?rses, Alexandra Hach?, Harry Halpin, Mariann > Hardey, Pavlos Hatzopoulos, Yuk Hui, Ippolita, Nathan Jurgenson, Nelli > Kambouri, Jenny Kennedy, Ganaele Langlois, Simona Lodi, Alessandro > Ludovico, Tiziana Mancinelli, Andrew McNicol, Andrea Miconi, Arvind > Narayanan, Wyatt Niehaus, Korinna Patelis, PJ Rey, Sebastian > Sevignani, Bernard Stiegler, Marc Stumpel, Tiziana Terranova, Vincent > Toubiana, Brad Troemel, Lonneke van der Velden, Martin Warnke and D.E. > Wittkower. > > Next conference: Unlike Us 3, Amsterdam NL, March 22-23 2013. > > URL: http://networkcultures.org/wpmu/unlikeus/3-amsterdam/program/ > > ------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > The Air-L(a)listserv.aoir.org mailing list > is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org > Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org > > Join the Association of Internet Researchers: > http://www.aoir.org/ > > End of Air-L Digest, Vol 103, Issue 23 > **************************************

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Computer love 1950 picture resolution
by Daniel Jung 22 Feb '13

22 Feb '13

Hi I would need this graphic http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4002/4286050786_d47275ce10.jpg It is on a blog, see http://tinyurl.com/b2mk9l6, but it doesn't state the origin. So I don't know where it is taken from. Does any of you have access to the original, or a version with a better resolution? Thanks, - Daniel

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Membership discounts?
by Ryan S Eanes 21 Feb '13

21 Feb '13

Hi all… perhaps I missed it on the membership site, but where do we obtain the discount codes for the various journal subscriptions? Is there a contact person who can issue those? Thanks! Ryan -- Ryan S Eanes Media Studies PhD Student & Graduate Teaching Fellow University of Oregon School of Journalism & Communication rse(a)uoregon.edu (mailto:rse@uoregon.edu) • blogs.uoregon.edu/eanes • www.ryanean.es (http://www.ryanean.es) 1275 University of Oregon Allen Hall, Room 210 Eugene, Oregon 97403-1275

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INC Unlike Us Social Media Research Reader Out Now
by Geert Lovink 21 Feb '13

21 Feb '13

Geert Lovink and Miriam Rasch (eds), Unlike Us Reader: Social Media Monopolies and Their Alternatives, Amsterdam: Institute of Network Cultures, 2013. ISBN: 978-90-818575-2-9, paperback, 384 pages. Freely downloadable as pdf on: http://networkcultures.org/wpmu/portal/publication/unlike-us-reader-social-… To order a free print copies of the reader, visit http://networkcultures.org/publications Check the book trailer here: https://vimeo.com/59997671 The Unlike Us Reader offers a critical examination of social media, bringing together theoretical essays, personal discussions, and artistic manifestos. How can we understand the social media we use everyday, or consciously choose not to use? We know very well that monopolies control social media, but what are the alternatives? While Facebook continues to increase its user population and combines loose privacy restrictions with control over data, many researchers, programmers, and activists turn towards designing a decentralized future. Through understanding the big networks from within, be it by philosophy or art, new perspectives emerge. Unlike Us is a research network of artists, designers, scholars, activists, and programmers, with the aim to combine a critique of the dominant social media platforms with work on ‘alternatives in social media’, through workshops, conferences, online dialogues, and publications. Everyone is invited to be a part of the public discussion on how we want to shape the network architectures and the future of social networks we are using so intensely. Contributors: Solon Barocas, Caroline Bassett, Tatiana Bazzichelli, David Beer, David M. Berry, Mercedes Bunz, Florencio Cabello, Paolo Cirio, Joan Donovan, Louis Doulas, Leighton Evans, Marta G. Franco, Robert W. Gehl, Seda Gürses, Alexandra Haché, Harry Halpin, Mariann Hardey, Pavlos Hatzopoulos, Yuk Hui, Ippolita, Nathan Jurgenson, Nelli Kambouri, Jenny Kennedy, Ganaele Langlois, Simona Lodi, Alessandro Ludovico, Tiziana Mancinelli, Andrew McNicol, Andrea Miconi, Arvind Narayanan, Wyatt Niehaus, Korinna Patelis, PJ Rey, Sebastian Sevignani, Bernard Stiegler, Marc Stumpel, Tiziana Terranova, Vincent Toubiana, Brad Troemel, Lonneke van der Velden, Martin Warnke and D.E. Wittkower. Next conference: Unlike Us 3, Amsterdam NL, March 22-23 2013. URL: http://networkcultures.org/wpmu/unlikeus/3-amsterdam/program/

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CFP: Workshop Creativity and Attention in the age of the Web
by Claudia Roda 21 Feb '13

21 Feb '13

CALL FOR PAPERS WORKSHOP ON CREATIVITY AND ATTENTION IN THE AGE OF THE WEB http://ac.aup.fr/croda/tclab/creativity&attentionWorkshop2013.html AT ACM WEB SCIENCE 2013 PARIS, MAY 1 2013 OBJECTIVES Many researchers have highlighted the connection between attention and creativity. The Web environment significantly affects the manner in which we allocate attention to information, tasks, and people. This workshop addresses the question of what impact this has on creative pursuits. We look at creativity at many levels, from personal creativity (e.g. the different ways in which a student may solve a problem) to big-C creativity that generates new high impact findings. We concentrate on the effects that the Web environment has on on human attention and on all these types of creativity. In particular, we will focus on empirical/experimental as well as conceptual research connecting topics such as: new types of creativity enabled by the web; the influence of Web-based environments on human attention; cognitive offload and its consequences; group creativity; creativity outsourcing. INTRODUCTION We are living in the age defined by innovation driven economy. The ubiquity of the web in our lives (work and leisure time) forces us to reconsider our fundamental preconceptions regarding the creative and innovation processes. The complexity and the requirements of this new environment tell us that the age of the lone asocial romanticist genius is gone. Collaboration and collective creation is a must. Does the web facilitates these processes? And, if so,then in what way? What can we do to take advantage of what the web offers? How does it affect individuals? What are the consequences for education? All these questions have prompted an unprecedented academic interest on creativity that is well represented by several academic meeting such as the International ACM Conference on Creativity and Cognition 2013 in Sydney, the AAAI 2013 Spring Symposium on Creativity and Cognitive Development in Stanford, the Mobile Learning and Creativity Workshop in Saarbrücken (September 2012), and the Creative Web Symposium: Computational Creativity as a Web-Service in South Corea (December 2012). Our workshop, while aligning with the meetings above, aims at exploring more specific issues of creativity that are immediately related to the particular environment created by the Web. Every new medium introduces new creative opportunities and shortens the path from the creator to the consumer: from the invention of writing, the printing process, photography, movies, to the radio and TV, the telephone, digital computer to the current era of hyper connectivity, always-on, instant messaging, instant content producing and sharing. Unprecedented amount of all humane knowledge becomes easily available for many and our expectations of others (individuals and institutions) in terms of reactivity, productivity and efficiency is raised. Some researchers believe that the more constraints we have to overcome, the easier it becomes to create. Would then democratization of access to information and cheap communication actually lessen creativity, or reduce it to trivial creations? On the other hand, creative behaviour has been connected with breath of attention (e.g. Kasof 1997, Friedman et al. 2003) and in general, wide attention deployment and defocused attention are considered to lead to greater creativity. Several researchers share the view that creativity requires variations in the field of attention (Gabora 2007, Vartanian 2009) and some experimental results hint that distractions improve creativity (Baird et al. 2012; Gallate et al. 2012). Based on these considerations one could expect that forced changes in attention focus such as those generated by many Web 2.0 applications, may actually improve creativity. However, previous research also tells us of other related factors that may intervene with a possible negative effect. For example it has been observed that stress or arousal, generated for example by time pressure or evaluation apprehension, may reduce breadth of attention and therefore hinder creativity (Karau and Kelly 1992; Smith, Michael, and Hocevar 1990); that interruptions are more likely to hinder, rather than improve, creativity, and that different types of interruptions may have varying degree of impact on different creative activities (Roda et al. 2013). CALL FOR PAPERS AND DEMONSTRATIONS In this half-day workshop we invite researchers and practitioners for an exploration of the influence of the Web environment on human attention and creativity. We welcome short papers reporting empirical/experimental as well as conceptual research connecting topics such as: New types of creativity enabled by the web The influence of Web based environments on human attention Cognitive offload and its consequences Group creativity Creativity outsourcing We invite full papers (8 pages), short / position papers (2-4 pages), and/or demonstrations to be submitted to gstojanov(a)aup.edu<mailto:gstojanov@aup.edu> by March 21 Demonstrations should be available online and be accompanied by a short description (no more than 2 pages). All submissions will be reviewed by three members of the Program Committee. We will pursue the possibility of publishing a selected number of papers in the special issue of a journal. IMPORTANT DATES Papers/Demo due March 21 2013 Review feedback March 29 2013 Workshop May 2 2013 ORGANISATION Organising committee Georgi Stojanov - The American University of Paris (France) Claudia Roda - The American University of Paris (France) Bipin Indurkhya - International Institute of Technology, Hyderabad (India) and AGH University of Science and Technology, Cracow (Poland) Program committee Sandra Bruno, Université de Cergy-Pontoise Jayson P. Harsin, The American University of Paris Thomas Kirste, University of Rostock Mohammad Majid al-Rifaie, Goldsmiths' College, University of London Amitash Ohja International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad Sebastian Pannasch, Technische Universitaet Dresden Goran Trajkovski, Virginia International University Giovanni Vincenti, Towson University Sharon Wood, University of Sussex -- Claudia Roda Professor of Computer Science American University of Paris 147, rue de Grenelle, 75007 Paris +33(0)1.40.62.07.01 croda(a)aup.fr<mailto:croda@aup.fr> http://ac.aup.fr/roda

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literature on e-learning in higher education?
by Marius Rohde Johannessen 20 Feb '13

20 Feb '13

I am trying to get a quick overview of research on e-learning in higher education, focusing on how universities apply digital tools in teaching and project work, as well as how technology is used to provide additional material for students. Does anyone have tips of relevant literature and/or literature reviews? Marius Rohde Johannessen PhD student University of Agder marius80[at]gmail.com

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Paperback Announcement--Wordplay and the Discourse of Video Games
by Paul, Christopher 20 Feb '13

20 Feb '13

Routledge just released my book, Wordplay and the Discourse of Video Games, in paperback and ebook. I'm excited that the book can now be procured at a more reasonable price point. The publisher blurb for the book is: In this timely new book, Christopher Paul analyzes how the words we use to talk about video games and the structures that are produced within games shape a particular way of gaming by focusing on how games create meaning, lead to identification and division, persuade, and circulate ideas. Paul examines the broader social discourse about gaming, including: the way players are socialized into games; the impact of the lingering association of video games as kid's toys; the dynamics within specific games (including Grand Theft Auto and EA Sports Games); and the ways in which players participate in shaping the discourse of games, demonstrated through examples like the reward system of World of Warcraft and the development of theorycraft. Overall, this book illustrates how video games are shaped by words, design and play; all of which are negotiated, ongoing practices among the designers, players, and society that construct the discourse of video game And the Table of Contents: Introduction: The New Rhetoric of Video Games I. The Context 1. Socializing Gamers 2. Video Games as 'Kid's' Toys 3. Talking Game Design 4. Consoles Read Rhetorically II. The Texts 5.GTA, Humor, and Protagonists 6. EA Sports and Planned Obsolescence 7. Rearticulating Rewards in WoW 8. Theorycraft and Optimization 9. Balance and Meritocracies III. Using Wordplay 10. Words, Design, and Play The book is on the Routledge web site at: http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415834995/

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Tenure track assistant professorship at HUMlab, Umeå University
by Patrik Svensson 20 Feb '13

20 Feb '13

Dear all, This is a remainder of an open position at HUMlab, Umeå University with focus on screen studies/digital humanities. It is an important recruitment, and I hope we will get many applications! The position is permanent and mainly includes research time during the first 4 years. Deadline: March 7 (slightly extended). HUMlab is an exciting platform for humanities, culture and the digital, and this position has a strong connection to our new lab, HUMlab-X, on the Umeå Arts Campus (http://www.kc.umu.se/en) as well as to our other lab on the main campus (it is a fifteen-minute walk between the two campuses). More information here: http://blog.humlab.umu.se/?p=4724. Patrik Svensson Patrik Svensson HUMlab Umeå University Sweden http://www.humlab.umu.se/en

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