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CFP for AAG 2013: Digital Divides, Digital Domination and Digital Divisions of Labour
by Alan McConchie 03 Sep '12

03 Sep '12

Please circulate this CFP among relevant lists and to those who would be interested. More details are available at: http://www.zerogeography.net/2012/08/aag-2013-cfp-digital-divides-digital.h…. Please let us know if you have any questions, thanks, -Monica, Mark, and Alan ------- Call for papers: Digital Divides, Digital Domination, and Digital Divisions of Labour Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting 9-13 April 2013 Los Angeles, CA Organizers: Monica Stephens, Department of Geography, Humboldt State University Mark Graham, Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford Alan McConchie, Department of Geography, University of British Columbia The Web is massively uneven in terms of participation and representation. A small number of people are both powerful gatekeepers and produce the bulk of content, while the voices of the majority are largely left out. These phenomena are not unique to the geoweb; geographies of information and knowledge have always been uneven and have always been produced by (and have been producers of) power and privilege. Although many speculated that the Internet would offer the potential for reconfigurations of these patterns, we increasingly see that digital divides often just reproduce, replicate, and reinforce earlier offline geographies. This unevenness increasingly matters as online information augments and is woven into everyday life. However, the particular asymmetries in the representation and production of spatial information on the geoweb remain opaque and often hidden. This session will focus on the geographies, networks, and power relations of the digital inequalities of the geoweb. We hope to attract research at a range of scales (from the household to the national level) and contexts. Possible topics could include: - Gatekeepers of digital information - Demographic or geospatial inequalities - Invisible exploitation of virtual labor - Quantitative studies of geoweb representation - Qualitative studies and virtual ethnographies - Studies of normative assumptions built into geoweb tools and platforms - Studies of racialized, gendered, or otherwise exclusionary geoweb spaces - Differences in internet accessibility (i.e. mappings of broadband or wireless penetration) Please email abstracts of 250 words to Monica (Monica.Stephens(a)humboldt.edu) Mark (mark.graham(a)oii.ox.ac.uk) and Alan (alan.mcconchie(a)geog.ubc.ca) before October 10th, 2012. This session will be part of #GEO/CODE 2013: Geoweb, Big Data and Society organized by the New Mappings Collaboratory.

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MCQ test marking
by Karen Mc Cullagh (LAW) 03 Sep '12

03 Sep '12

Hi Everyone, I've just inherited a module which has a MCQ test component. I am obliged to administer the MCQ test under traditional exam conditions, i.e. paper based answer sheets, rather than ask students to complete the test online. I'd appreciate information on the best software etc to use e.g. Which OCR readers/other software do you recommend for marking purposes? Thanks, Karen Dr Karen Mc Cullagh Lecturer UEA Law School University of East Anglia Norwich Research Park Norwich NR4 7TJ

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PhD-seminar_Digital Humanities and the Study of the Web and Web Archives
by Brügger Niels 03 Sep '12

03 Sep '12

***apologies for cross-postings*** Digital Humanities and the Study of the Web and Web Archives PhD-seminar organised by the Digital Humanities Lab/NetLab (Niels Ole Finnemann and Niels Brügger), Vejle, Denmark, 3-5 December 2012 Today the Internet is the medium which holds the most multifaceted set of materials documenting contemporary social, cultural, and political life. It has become the fulcrum for the general development of media, including mass media and a growing variety of digital devices. If the communicative infrastructure of society in the late 20th century was centered on television, it is today centered on the Internet. As a variety of digital media penetrates all spheres in society, they also play a still more dominant role for the social sciences, humanities and arts. They do so in three respects: as archives for contemporary life, as a toolbox for the study of all sorts of digital collections, including digitized collections of non-digital materials (often labeled cultural heritage), and as a means for enforced communication within all spheres of society. In this course we will concentrate on the first of these aspects, the role of the Internet and particularly on online and archived web materials for scholars studying contemporary political, social, and cultural phenomena. Read more about the course format, the venue, and how to enrol: http://netlab.dk or http://dighumlab.dk ------------------------------------------------------------ LATEST PUBLICATIONS AND PAPERS May 2012 Australian internet histories: Past, present and future: An afterword, Media International Australia, 143 (theme issue: Internet Histories), Brisbane 2012, 159-165 Read more on the publishers website: http://www.uq.edu.au/mia/2012-issues#143 May 2012 L'historiographie de sites Web: quelques enjeux fondamentaux, Le Temps des Médias, 18 (theme issue: Histoire de l'Internet/l'Internet dans l'histoire), Paris 2012, 159-169 Read more on the publishers website: http://www.nouveau-monde.net/livre/?GCOI=84736100583200& January 2012 Histories of Public Service Broadcasters on the Web (ed. with Maureen Burns), Peter Lang Publishing, New York 2012 Read more on the publishers website: http://www.peterlang.com/index.cfm?event=cmp.ccc.seitenstruktur.detailseite… NIELS BRÜGGER, Associate Professor, PhD Director, the Centre for Internet Research Department of Information and Media Studies Aarhus University Helsingforsgade 14 8200 Aarhus N Denmark Phone (switchboard) +45 8715 0000 Phone (direct) +45 8716 1971 Phone (mobile) +45 2945 3231 Telefax + 45 8942 5950 E-mail nb(a)imv.au.dk Webpage http://imv.au.dk/~nb Profile at LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/1/50a/555 Profile at Kommunikationsforum [in Danish]: www.kommunikationsforum.dk/Niels-Brugger The Centre for Internet Research http://cfi.au.dk The history of dr.dk, 1996-2006 http://drdk.dk LARM (Radio Culture and Auditory Resources Research Infrastructure) http://www.larm-archive.org

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PUBLIC SYMPOSIUM: Converging on an NBN Future: Content, Connectivity, and Control
by Sora Park 03 Sep '12

03 Sep '12

Here's an event that might interest AOIR members, especially those in Australia. Thanks! --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- *PUBLIC SYMPOSIUM: **Converging on an NBN Future - **C**ontent, **C**onnectivity, and **C**ontrol *** *Date: **Tue **9th Oct, 2012, **09**00-1630* *Venue: Clive Price Suite,** BLDG1 Level C,** University of Canberra* The National Broadband Network (NBN) is the most significant Australian national infrastructure project in decades. It promises to revolutionise the underlying telecommunications infrastructure of the nation while reshaping Australia’s policy environment for telecommunications. Broadband is not just about higher speeds and ubiquitous connectivity but a complex social system that can affect the various aspects of social productivity, enhanced community engagement, improved education and health systems. The NBN is notable for the level of criticism it has attracted, principally within the fractured political domain, but also from those who see alternative visions of network connectivity based on mobile communications. Its ongoing deployment may be affected by changes to governments; however its fundamental rationale and design is already remaking our use of the Internet, through changes to regulation, consumer expectations, service delivery and more. The Symposium will offer an exciting and challenging look at the critical questions and issues we face as the NBN commences widespread operations in Australia. We bring together scholars, industry analysts and participants, and government regulators and policy makers to address the important issues that arise. We invite industry professionals, academics, policymakers and the public to engage in this public discourse about how we can better adopt new technologies and how we can enhance social connectedness. * * *SPEAKERS *Matthew Allen (Curtin University) Keith Besgrove (Department of Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy) Sean Casey (NBN Co. Limited) Tony Eyers (Tektel) Robin Eckermann (Robin Eckermann & Associates) Gerard Goggin (University of Sydney) Geoffrey Heydon(CSIRO Australian Centre for Broadband Innovation) Gwang Jae Kim (Hanyang Cyber University) Catherine Middleton (Ryerson University) Lesley Osborne (Australian Communications and Media Authority) Franco Papandrea (University of Canberra) Sora Park(University of Canberra) Rosemary Sinclair (UNSW Australian School of Business) *REGISTRATION AND OTHER INFORMATION *http://broadbandandsociety.eventbrite.com.au/ *ABOUT THE RESEARCH TEAM *This symposium is part of an ongoing investigation of the “Broadband and Society” research team launched in Oct 2011, in order to systematically review the users, industries and the government in adopting new technologies. We held our first public symposium in Dec 2011 in Perth. Dr. Matthew Allen (Professor, Curtin University) Dr. Catherine Middleton(Professor, Ryerson University) Dr. Sora Park(Associate Professor, University of Canberra) Dr. Chun Liu(Assistant Professor, Southwest Jiaotong University) * * *SPONSORED BY *The University of Canberra, Faculty of Arts and Design

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CFP: Computer Culture (SW/TX PCA/ACA Conference, February 13-16, 2013)
by Andrew Shi-hwa Chen 01 Sep '12

01 Sep '12

Southwest/Texas Popular Culture and American Culture Association February 13-16, 2013 Albuquerque, New Mexico http://www.swtxpca.org Proposal submission deadline: November 16, 2012 Conference hotel: Hyatt Regency Hotel & Conference Center 330 Tijeras Ave NW Albuquerque, NM 87102 Phone: +1 505 842 1234 Computer Culture: Call for Papers We are accepting papers and forming panels for the area of Computer Culture, as one of the many areas within the 34th annual conference of the Southwest/Texas Popular Culture Association / American Culture Association (SW/TX PCA/ACA). Computer is broadly defined as any computational device, whether smartphone or abacus, and any form of information technology, including the origins of concepts of interactive text which may predate computational devices as traditionally conceived. Culture is rooted in the concept of cultural meaning. We ask not just operational questions such as, "How do people communicate using computers?" but questions of meaning such as, "What does it mean when people communicate using computers instead of using pre-computer approaches to communication?" "Computer Culture" can be understood in a variety of ways: - the culture of the computer, that is, as computers interact with each other, what culture do they have of their own? - the culture around the computer, that is, (sub)cultures associated with the production, maintenance, use, and destruction of computers - the culture through the computer, that is, explicit treatment of how computer mediation influences cultural phenomena that exist or has existed in forms that did not involve computer mediation, and what these influences mean - the culture by the computer, that is, the ways in which new (sub)cultures or (sub)cultural phenomena have arisen because of computers and understandings of these given awareness of the nature and/or workings of computers Example questions associated with Computer Culture would include, but not be limited to: * What implications are there because of the powerfulness of (computer/information) technology ___ and are these implications beneficial, detrimental, inevitable, or avoidable? * What are the cultural origins of computers, computer/information technologies, and practices (such as ____ ) associated with them? What is the descriptive and prescriptive outlook for the conditions of those cultural forces associated with those cultural origins? * How do cultural forces (such as changes from one generation to the next, trends in education or society, or other cultural phenomena) impact (and are impacted by) computer/information technologies/market-forces, and what do these impacts (in either direction or both) mean? Paper topics might include (but are not limited to) those that address: - issues of (re)presentation through computers (Web site analysis and design), - methods of discourse involving computers (blogging, Twitter, social networks, viral video, live feeds), - theories focused on the relationship between computers and culture, - uses of computers in particular contexts and the impacts thereof (computers and pedagogy, online literary journals), - the relationship between computers and cultural forces (such as news, politics, and terrorism), - security/privacy/fraud and computers (online security issues, spam, scams, and hoaxes), - and others. While we will consider any relevant paper, we have a preference for those that involve transferable methodological approaches. This is an interdisciplinary conference, and other conference attendees would benefit from being able to adapt your research methods to their future research. Scholars, teachers, professionals, artists, and others interested in computer culture are encouraged to participate. Graduate students are also particularly welcome with award opportunities for best graduate papers. More information about awards can be found at http://www.swtxpca.org/documents/48.html Specifically, we would like to highlight the following award opportunities: The "Computer Culture and Game Studies Award" : http://www.swtxpca.org/documents/112.html#ComputerCultureAward_Bookmark The "Heldrich-Dvorak Travel Fellowship" : http://www.swtxpca.org/documents/113.html Given how papers may often fall into multiple categories, there may be other award opportunities listed at http://www.swtxpca.org/documents/112.html which would be appropriate for your paper. (However, each presenter may only apply for one.) If you wish to form your own panel, we would be glad to facilitate your needs. Please pass along this call to friends and colleagues. For early consideration, submit 100-200 word abstracts and proposals for panels by 16 November 2012 to the conference electronic submission system which can be found at: http://conference2013.swtxpca.org/ If you have any questions, contact the Computer Culture area co-chairs, Andrew Chen (andrewsw(a)gmail.com) and Joseph Chaney (jchaney(a)iusb.edu)

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DRAFT Program(me) for IR13.0
by Alexander Halavais 01 Sep '12

01 Sep '12

Hello, A number of folks have inquired about the program for IR13.0, mostly asking where it is. Although it was mentioned in an email to authors, a draft version of the program can be found here: http://bit.ly/ir13program I will reiterate that this is a *draft*. As the authors' registration deadline approaches (today in most of the world!), we will remove presentations of those who have not registered. Already, you may find your presentation has moved, as we have attempted to reduce the number of parallel panels. In general, we will try to keep your presentations close to where they have already been scheduled, but I urge you to keep in mind that this is a draft program, and subject to change. I recognize some of you are hoping to dash out for Sunday travel, and while I understand the reasoning, please be aware that we are programmed through to the beginning of Sunday evening. And at that point, there will be food and wine at the banquet. And with it, you might expect spontaneous dancing, unintended revelations, over-familiarity with newfound friends, and general carousing. Seriously, who would choose a coach seat on a transatlantic redeye over that? Best, Alex -- -- // // This email is // [x] assumed public and may be blogged / forwarded. // [ ] assumed to be private, please ask before redistributing. // // Alexander C. Halavais, ciberflâneur // http://alex.halavais.net // // Please attribute any stupid errors above to autocorrect on my phone. // (But I probably was typing on a keyboard.)

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Fwd: [dmlhub-l] 2nd Annual Symposium on Digital Ethics
by Alexander Halavais 01 Sep '12

01 Sep '12

Looks to be a day that would of interest to many AIR folks. - A ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Donald Heider <dheider(a)luc.edu> Date: Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 11:42 AM Subject: [dmlhub-l] 2nd Annual Symposium on Digital Ethics To: dmlhub-l(a)uci.edu Please join us October 29th in Chicago for the 2nd Annual Symposium on Digital Ethics. You can register for the symposium here: http://digitalethics.org/events/international-symposium-digital-ethics/ The schedule for the symposium is below: 2nd Annual Symposium on Digital Ethics Tentative Schedule 8 – 8:30 registration and breakfast 8:45 Welcome 9:00 – 10:15 Research concerns and digital ethics; featured panel discussion. Moderator: Annette Markham, Guest Professor, Umeå University, Sweden, Affiliate Professor, School of Communication, Loyola University, Chicago. Contextual Integrity Confronts New Models of Education and Healthcare - Helen Nissenbaum, Professor of Media, Culture and Communication, and Computer Science, at New York University Big Real Problems: Emerging Ethics Issues in Human Experimentation in Virtual Worlds - Joshua Fairfield, Associate Professor of Law, Washington and Lee University Identity, Authority and Unease: Examining the articulation of ethical positions in accounts of new media use/research - Natasha Whiteman, Lecturer, Department of Media and Communications, University of Leicester The Ethics of Twitter Research: A Topology of Disciplines, Methods and Ethics Review Boards - Michael Zimmer & Nicholas Proferes, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee 10: 30 – 11:45 Panel: Trust, ethics and moral agency. Moderator: Bastiaan Vanacker, Loyola Chicago Degrees of Trust and Levels of Moral Agency in the Context of Autonomous Machines, Herman Tavani, Professor Emeritus of Philosophy, Rivier University Virtue Ethics and Digital ‘Flourishing’: An Application of Philippa Foot to Life Online - Patrick Lee Plaisance, Colorado State University Online security and individuals rights, an ethical balance - Mariaroarosaria Taddeo, University of Hertfordshire The Junk File Case: Identity collisions and the ethics of connectivity - Guillaume Latzko-Toth, Université Laval Panel: Social media, law & ethics. Moderator: Don Heider Control, Communication, and Conflict on Facebook Memorial Pages - Nicole B. Ellison, Associate Professor in the Telecommunication, Information Studies, and Media Department at Michigan State University and Alice Marwick, Microsoft Research Click here to comment: Combining ethical and legal perspectives on Section 230 - Susan Keith, Rutgers University Should virtual cybercrime be brought under the scope of the criminal law? - Litska Strikwerda, , University of Twente Journalists and Social Media: Professional Restrictions and Their Ethical Implications - Erica Bailey, Virginia Tech 11:45 Lunch 12:15 Keynote – Sherry Turkle, Abby Rockefeller Mauzé Professor of the Social Studies of Science and Technology in the Program in Science, Technology, and Society at MIT and the founder and current director of the MIT Initiative on Technology and Self ( http://web.mit.edu/sturkle/techself ) 1:30 – 2:45 Panel: Digital ethics and the fourth estate. Moderator: Don Wycliff, Loyola Chicago Re-Inventing Media Ethics Amid a Digital Revolution - Stephen J. A. Ward, Burgess Professor of Journalism Ethics, University of Wisconsin The Emerging Uses of Ethical Principles in Journalist’s Privilege Law – Jason M. Shepard, California State University, Fullerton The Ethics of Unpublication - Jasmine McNealy, Syracuse University & Laurence Alexander, University of Florida. The Ethical Implications of an Elite Press - Jane B. Singer, University of Iowa Panel: Global perspectives in digital ethics. Moderator: Lauren Labrecque, Loyola Chicago The Internet and Authoritarian States: Ethical Issues in Transnational Digital Activism - Cameran Ashraf, University of California, Los Angeles “Yes, Vinton, there is a Human Right to the Internet” - Kay Mathiesen, University of Arizona A Case Study of Censor Circumvention in Chinese Micro-blogging Site - Yiran Wang, University of California, Irvine Secrets and Lies: Digital Media Ethics and Integrity in Global Perspective - Twyla Gibson, Harvard University 3:00 – 4:15 Panel: Surveillance and privacy Moderator: Steven Jones, Loyola Chicago YouTube Shakespeares: Ethical Issues in Humanities and Literary Research Contexts - Valerie Fazel, Arizona State University Digital ethics and the Pascua Yaqui Tribe: When moral rights about culture trump legal rights about digital image gathering –Kevin R. Kemper, University of Arizona >From Battlefield to Newsroom: Ethical and Legal Implications of Drone Technology in Journalism - Kathleen Bartzen Culver, University of Wisconsin-Madison In Context: Ethical Implications of Digital Surveillance – Jan Fernback, Temple University Panel: Balancing interests in digital technology. Monderator: Meghan Dougherty, Loyola Chicago The Curator’s Code: Toward an Ethics of Curation? - Shawn McIntosh, Columbia University The Ethics of Online Coursework: Instructor Responsibilities, Student Participation, and Managing Public-Private Learning- Vanessa P. Dennen, Florida State University Reading Privacy: The Role Interface Aesthetics Play in eReader Privacy Disclosure Decisions - J. Richard Stevens, University of Colorado at Boulder Plug away: disclosure of material connections in social media channels - David Kamerer, Loyola University Chicago 4:15 – 5:30 The ethics of games and virtual worlds; featured panel discussion. Moderator: J. Talmadge Wright ,Loyola Chicago Playing with ethics: Digital games and moral dilemmas" Mia Consalvo, Canada Research Chair in Game Studies & Design, Concordia University The Virtual Other: Thinking about virtuality and the future of ethics - Lucas D. Introna, Professor & Associate Dean for Research, Centre ( http://www.lums.lancs.ac.uk/research/centres/csto/ ) for the Study of Technology & Organisation, Lancaster University Beyond good and evil? Analyzing moral decision-making in mainstream video games - Thorsten Busch, University of St. Gallen Biases on Truthfulness: Using a Game to Prompt Self-Reflection - Ralph Vacca, New York University 5:30 – 6:30 Cocktails Don Heider Dean, School of Communication Loyola University Chicago 820 N, Michigan Ave. Chicago, IL 60611 312-915-6558 _______________________________________________ dmlhub-l mailing list dmlhub-l(a)uci.edu https://maillists.uci.edu/mailman/listinfo/dmlhub-l -- -- // // This email is // [x] assumed public and may be blogged / forwarded. // [ ] assumed to be private, please ask before redistributing. // // Alexander C. Halavais, ciberflâneur // http://alex.halavais.net //

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Re: [Air-L] IR 13.0 Registration
by Andrew Herman 31 Aug '12

31 Aug '12

Help! I am trying to register but the website will not accept my password or let me reset it! ANrdew Andrew Herman, Ph. D. Associate Professor Department of Communication Studies Director, Graduate Program in Cultural Analysis and Social Theory Wilfrid Laurier University Waterloo, Ontario N2L 3C5 CANADA 519 884-1970 x3693 >>> Alex Halavais <alex(a)halavais.net> 07/02/12 5:09 PM >>> Hello, members of the AoIR community, Registration is now open for Internet Research 13.0, to be held in Salford October 18-20. With many thanks to our local chair, Ben Light, and our treasurer, Michael Zimmer, we have maintained the registration costs from last year's conference. Registration costs for the conference are: Non-member professional: $350 ($425 after September 1) Member professional: $285 ($360 after September 1) Non-member student: $220 ($295 after September 1) Member student: $170 ($245 after September 1) In addition, our banquet this year ($55) will be held at the Peoples History Museum (http://www.phm.org.uk/) and despite the warning that "Strong Drink is Not Nourishment" on their home page, I expect it to be a great event as always. To enable member pricing, you will need to join or renew your membership first, as you must be a member through the end of the conference to receive members' pricing. Note that member pricing remains less expensive even with the inclusion of annual dues. If you would like to renew your membership before registering for the conference, you should sign-in at http://aoir.org. (If you do not know your password, please click "forgot password.") To join AoIR and support our scholarly community, go to: http://aoir.org/membership-options/ To register for the conference without becoming a member, go to: http://aoir.org/confreg Information regarding any pre-conferences will be coming shortly, as will information for applying for the fee-waiver program. In the meantime, if you have any questions, please contact me or help(a)aoir.org. I look forward to seeing you in Salford! Best, Alex Halavais AoIR President _______________________________________________ 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/

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[JVWR] Augmented Reality ala 3D3C (google+ Hangout remote meeting)
by Tzafnat Shpak 31 Aug '12

31 Aug '12

** [image: Journal of Virtual Worlds Research] <http://jvwresearch,org> [image: Googl+ Hangout Augmented Reality ala 3D3C” 04-Sep-2012]<https://plus.google.com/u/0/events/cb6lptpbpv2ed3sjt880ijh8opo/104328553869…> Dear members, Augmented Reality ala 3D3C (google+ Hangout remote meeting) There's more to it than google glass Tue, Sep 4, 7:00 PM - 8:00 PM GMT+03:00 Google+ Hangout (remote meeting) *Join us<https://plus.google.com/u/0/events/cb6lptpbpv2ed3sjt880ijh8opo/104328553869…>on Google+Hangout * In future, the real world is set to combine with the virtual. +Google Glass<https://plus.google.com/114577722282151998747/posts?utm_source=Journal+of+V…>got a lot of hype recently . Did you know that BMW has their own glasses too? Have you heard of the i-Cocoon<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=26xFmaajc7Q&utm_source=Journal+of+Virtual+Wo…>? A device that allows you to be part of an intuitive and holistic experience where your interface is YOU. Prof. +Yesha Sivan<https://plus.google.com/115734652606909222420/posts?utm_source=Journal+of+V…>is the Managing editor of the Journal of Virtual Worlds research and Head of the Management Information System Program at the Tel Aviv Academic College. He is also the man behind the 3D3C theory that talks about the 3 critical component s to the 3D reality: community, creativity and commerce. Join +Yesha Sivan<https://plus.google.com/115734652606909222420/posts?utm_source=Journal+of+V…>and +Yifat Cohen<https://plus.google.com/u/0/104328553869453938019?utm_source=Journal+of+Vir…>and discover the latest devices and ideas in augmented reality today, and more importantly - let’s discuss how we can make money out of them. We'll Cover - The critical components of Augmented Reality today. - The broad settings of 3D3C (Community, Creation and Commence) - The future business models. - Business opportunities in this field. *Join us<https://plus.google.com/u/0/events/cb6lptpbpv2ed3sjt880ijh8opo/104328553869…>on Google+Hangout * More Information about Prof. Sivan Prof. Yesha Sivan is the head of the Management Information Systems (MIS) Program (http://is.mta.ac.il<http://is.mta.ac.il?utm_source=Journal+of+Virtual+Worlds+Research+Announcem…>) at the School of Management and Economy at the Tel-Aviv-Yaffo academic college (http://www.mta.ac.il<http://www.mta.ac.il?utm_source=Journal+of+Virtual+Worlds+Research+Announce…>). He is also the founder of Metaverse Labs (MVL) - a leading think tank focusing on connecting virtual and real worlds. Sivan's professional experience includes developing and deploying innovative solutions for corporate, hi-tech, government, and defense environments (see for example: the Harvard 9-Keys for Knowledge Infrastructure). He published numerous papers in the areas of Strategy and IT, knowledge, 3D3C virtual worlds, and standards. Sivan received his doctorate from Harvard University. His avatar is Dera Kit, and his blog is http://www.dryesha.com<http://www.dryesha.com?utm_source=Journal+of+Virtual+Worlds+Research+Announ…>. He has taught EMBA, MBA, engineering and design in the areas of strategic value of IT, the emergence of virtual worlds, and software development in virtual worlds. *Official website: *http://www.gplusgotogal.com/live-hangout-on-air<http://www.gplusgotogal.com/live-hangout-on-air?utm_source=Journal+of+Virtu…> We connect with relevant virtual worlds' events to advance the agenda of high-level research. If you would like to cooperate with JVWR regarding an event, please contact info(a)jvwresearch.org. *We invite you to join us<http://araticis2012.eventbrite.com/?utm_source=Journal+of+Virtual+Worlds+Re…>also at our ARatICIS2012<http://jvwresearch.org/index.php/2011-06-12-18-46-09/11-events/42?utm_sourc…>event (December 16, 2012) * Thankfully, Prof. Yesha Sivan Head of the Management Information System Program Tel Aviv Academic College Managing Editor, The Journal of Virtual Worlds Research [image: BMW Augmented Reality Service]<http://www.bmw.com/com/en/owners/service/augmented_reality_introduction_1.h…> http://jvwresearch.org © 2012 Journal of Virtual Worlds Research All rights reserved. -- =========== *Tzafnat Shpak* Coordinating Editor *The Journal of Virtual World Research* tzafnat.shpak(a)jvwresearch.org http://jvwresearch.org

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Ranking Web (Webometrics) of Universities
by Isidro F. Aguillo 31 Aug '12

31 Aug '12

It just have been published the fourteenth edition of Web Ranking Universities. The July 2012 edition includes nearly 21,000 higher education institutions worldwide, classified according to their academic and research performance, prestige and international visibility and their commitment to open access policies. Access to the Rankings portal: http://www.webometrics.info/ In this edition, some indicators have been modified to increase the Ranking utility and reflect more accurately the recent, especially the pursuit of excellence. The Ranking, published by a nonprofit research group belonging to a public academic institution, can be distinguished from other similar classifications because it is not based on prestige obtained from decades old prizes, nor it is mission or discipline biased (biomedical research at the expenses of other activities) or succumb to commercial or political interests as shown by suspicious over-representation of certain countries. The report provides the results for four indicators: Presence, which measures the volume of information published on the web; Impact, built from the links received from third parties; Openness, counting the number of documents that are freely available from scientific repositories and Excellence, which only includes the quality papers that are among the 10% most cited of each discipline. As in previous editions Harvard, MIT, Stanford and Berkeley lead the world ranking. The first non-US University is Sao Paulo (15), which thanks to its commitment to the open publication overcame Cambridge (20) that should improve its current repository. Asia is performing well, with Tokyo, National of Taiwan, Kyoto, National of Singapore and Tsinghua among the Top 100, followed closely by Shanghai Jiao Tong and Hong Kong. Besides of Cambridge, the European universities are represented in the top 50 by Oxford (25), ETH Zurich (29) and the University College of London (43). The Imperial College is still out due to its confusing web naming practices. Charles University is the only Central & Eastern European University with a rank among the top 100. The performance of Canadian (22 in the Top 500) and Australian (15 in the top 500) universities is outstanding. Only two African universities (Cape Town and Stellenbosch) appears in the top 500 Besides the Ranking of Universities the portal provides access to rankings of Research centers (8000), Hospitals (16000) Business Schools (1500) and Repositories (1600). Among the research centers, the U.S. National Institute of Health (NIH) and the NASA in that top the list Ranking of Research Centers: http://research.webometrics.info/ -- **************************** Isidro F. Aguillo, HonDr. The Cybermetrics Lab, CSIC Madrid. SPAIN isidro.aguillo(a)cchs.csic.es ****************************

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