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CFP: Researching Media Innovations - Approaches to Users, Producers and Texts
by Niamh Ní Bhroin 29 May '12

29 May '12

We look forward to meeting you in Oslo this coming November! CFP: Researching Media Innovations - Approaches to Users, Producers and Texts Time and Place: 7 November 2012 (9.30am-5pm), University of Oslo, Oslo Innovation Center Instructors: Annette Markham – Independent Researcher focusing on qualitative research methods and ethics of Internet-mediated contexts; Guest Professor, Department of Informatics, Umea University Sweden, (http://www.markham.internetinquiry.org7) Tanja Storsul – Professor, Department of Media and Communication, University of Oslo Organisers: Terje Colbjørnsen – PhD Candidate, University of Oslo Niamh Ní Bhroin – PhD Candidate, University of Oslo This seminar is organised under the umbrella of the Centre for Research on Media Innovations and in Cooperation with the PhD Programme (Media and Journalism) at the Department of Media and Communication, University of Oslo. Description: In what ways do innovations in media require new research approaches? This one-day workshop welcomes all PhD- and post-doctoral researchers dealing with new approaches to researching users, producers and texts arising from Media Innovations. Media Studies is an interdisciplinary field, traditionally combining approaches primarily from the humanities and the social sciences, and related quantitative and qualitative methods such as audience research, ethnographic studies, case studies, discourse, content and textual analysis. However, innovations in media technologies and changing modes of usage and engagement bring about transformation of the media sector. These in turn result in the integration of additional approaches to the interdisciplinary palette, such as Information and Communication Technology and Innovation Studies; or, in the broadening of perspectives related to particular methods, such as ethnography. These developments highlight the importance of insight into new business models, algorithmic manipulation and the availability of Big Data, and additional ethical challenges in new media environments. These approaches both enrich the study of media and give rise to additional questions relating to how best to deal with empirical and theoretical approaches to research. This workshop will address methodological and ethical questions of relevance to the study of media innovations, and welcomes the submission of papers dealing with these questions as they relate to the following topics: • Innovation and Media Innovation as Concepts; • Audiences and Users of Media Innovations; • Questions of privacy, intervention and critical approaches in the context of Media Innovations; • Power and Control in Media Innovations; • Control and manipulation of personal data in the context of Media Innovations: • Media Institutions, Industries and Producers as they relate to Media Innovations; • Approaches to researching New Business Models arising from Media Innovations; • Approaches to researching innovations in Media Texts; • Approaches to researching innovations in Media Technology; • Approaches to understanding the technological composition and format of Media Objects; and • Questions relating to the impact of Media Innovations for the Public Sphere. The course encourages PhD- and Post-Doctoral researchers to reflect on these questions and their implications in the context of their PhD and research projects. Programme: 9.30: Introduction to Media Innovations (Tanja Storsul) 9.45: Researching Media Innovations – Annette Markham 11.00: Break 11.15: PhD Presentations and Feedback 12.30: Discussion 13:00: Lunch 13:45: PhD Presentations and Feedback 15.00: Break 15.15: PhD Presentations and Feedback 16.30: Summary Discussion 17.00: End Reading: Essential Readings: Clarke, A. (2003). Situational Analyses: Grounded Theory Mapping After the Postmodern Turn. Symbolic Interaction, 26(4), 553- 576. Kincheloe, J. (2001). Describing the Bricolage: Conceptualizing a New Rigor in Qualitative Research. Qualitative Inquiry, 7(6), 679-692 Markham, A. N. (2012). Fabrication as ethical practice: Qualitative inquiry in ambiguous internet contexts. Information, Communication and Society. Markham, A. & Baym, N. (2009). Internet Inquiry: Conversations about method. Thousand Oaks, CA : Sage. Additional Recommended Readings: Coriat, B. and Weinstein, O. (2002) Organizations, firms and institutions in the generation of innovation. Research Policy. 273-290 Doyle, G. (2010) Why culture attracts and resists economic analysis. Journal of Cultural Economics 34:245-259 Flyvbjerg, B. (2006) Five Misunderstandings About Case-Study Research. Qualitative Inquiry 12(2) pp 219-245 Kincheloe, J. (2005). On to the Next Level: Continuing the Conceptualization of the Bricolage. Qualitative Inquiry, 11(3), 323-350 Latour, B., et al (2012).The Whole is Always Smaller Than Its Parts’ A Digital Test of Gabriel Tarde’s Monads To be published by the British Journal of Sociology. Markham , A. (2005). The politics, ethics, and methods of representation in online ethnography. In Denzin, N. & Lincoln, Y. (Eds.). Handbook of Qualitative Research, 3rd Edition (pp. 793-820). Thousand Oaks CA: Sage. Paul Rabinow website: http://www.bios-technika.net/index.php Storsul, T. and Krumsvik A. (eds.) (2012, forthcoming). Media Innovations, an anthology from the First International Symposium on Media Innovations April 19-20th 2012. Gothenburg: Nordicom Deadlines: Abstract Submission (300 Words): 27 July 2012 Notification of Acceptance: 31 August 2012 Paper Submission (7-10 Pages): 5 October 2012 Presentation (10 minutes): 7 November 2012 Please submit all abstracts and papers to: workshop(a)mediainnovations.no Additional Information: The seminar is free of charge for participants. Lunch will be included on the day. Travel costs are to be paid by the participants themselves. Please contact us if you have any queries in this regard. Meeting Room: To be decided Credits: 2 ECTS will be awarded depending on the submission of a full paper in advance of 5 October 2012 and on a presentation and full participation during the seminar. Additional Information: For more information about the workshop, please contact us at: workshop(a)mediainnovations.no -- NIAMH NÍ BHROIN Stipendiat, PhD Kandidat Institutt for Medier og Kommunikasjon n.n.bhroin(a)media.uio.no

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iCS Special Issue
by Brian Loader 29 May '12

29 May '12

As a part of the 10 year anniversary celebrations of the OII I'm very pleased to announce that T&F have agreed to provide free access until the end of the year to the special issue of the journal which includes a selection of some the excellent papers which were presented last Autumn. They include articles by Leah Lievrouw, David Karpf, danah boyd and Katie Crawford, Eszter Hargittai and Eden Litt, Megan Lindsay and Judy Krysik, Laura DeNardis, Lance Bennett and Alex Segerberg, and Astrid Mager. To take a look and access the articles go to http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rics20/current -- Brian D. Loader, Associate Director SATSU, Editor, Information, Communication & Society Programme Director, SPS Department of Sociology, Wentworth College, University of York, YORK YO10 5DD UK. Tel: +44(0)1904 432639 Fax:+44(0)1904 433043 www.york.ac.uk/satsu www.informaworld.com/ics www.york.ac.uk/sps

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Re: [Air-L] congress @ k/w meetup
by Andrew Herman 28 May '12

28 May '12

Great idea, Jeremy! Andrew Herman, Ph. D. Associate Professor and Chairperson Department of Communication Studies Graduate Program in Cultural Analysis and Social Theory Wilfrid Laurier University Waterloo, Ontario N2L 3C5 CANADA 519 884-1970 x3693 >>> jeremy hunsinger <jhuns(a)vt.edu> 05/28/12 1:27 PM >>> > sorry for x-posts, duplicates, distribute as appropriate-jh > Hi Everyone, > > I've scheduled the meetup for 8-10pm on wednesday 5/30 at the RumRunner pub in downtown kitchener http://www.rumrunnerpub.com/index.html. There is enough space for everyone. I've scheduled it for the second half of the GRAND reception. You should invite colleagues. It will be an informal meetup and we will probably be in the hallways to the right as you face the bar from the entrance. The rumrunner is easy to get to, as it is on King street, which is the major bus route between towns. If you have any questions, drop me a note. This meetup is comprised of three groups STS people, Internet Research people, and Values in Design people. > > -j > > > > Jeremy Hunsinger > Communication Studies > Wilfrid Laurier University > Center for Digital Discourse and Culture > Virginia Tech > > http://www.tmttlt.com > > Whoever ceases to be a student has never been a student. > -George Iles > > > > > Jeremy Hunsinger Communication Studies Wilfrid Laurier University Center for Digital Discourse and Culture Virginia Tech Computers are useless. They can only give you answers. --Pablo Picasso _______________________________________________ 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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congress @ k/w meetup
by jeremy hunsinger 28 May '12

28 May '12

> sorry for x-posts, duplicates, distribute as appropriate-jh > Hi Everyone, > > I've scheduled the meetup for 8-10pm on wednesday 5/30 at the RumRunner pub in downtown kitchener http://www.rumrunnerpub.com/index.html. There is enough space for everyone. I've scheduled it for the second half of the GRAND reception. You should invite colleagues. It will be an informal meetup and we will probably be in the hallways to the right as you face the bar from the entrance. The rumrunner is easy to get to, as it is on King street, which is the major bus route between towns. If you have any questions, drop me a note. This meetup is comprised of three groups STS people, Internet Research people, and Values in Design people. > > -j > > > > Jeremy Hunsinger > Communication Studies > Wilfrid Laurier University > Center for Digital Discourse and Culture > Virginia Tech > > http://www.tmttlt.com > > Whoever ceases to be a student has never been a student. > -George Iles > > > > > Jeremy Hunsinger Communication Studies Wilfrid Laurier University Center for Digital Discourse and Culture Virginia Tech Computers are useless. They can only give you answers. --Pablo Picasso

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casual lecturer position in Online Research Methods (Australian National University)
by Robert Ackland 28 May '12

28 May '12

Dear List, I am looking to hire a casual lecturer who can co-teach a course in online research methods in the Master of Social Research (MSR) at the Australian National University in Canberra (DEMO8087 - Online Research Methods - http://studyat.anu.edu.au/courses/DEMO8087;details.html) The course is compulsory in the successful Social Science of the Internet specialisation of the MSR (http://adsri.anu.edu.au/graduate-study/ssi) and it also attracts students from other MSR specialisations and ANU programs. I expect we will have 15-20 students. The course is running in Second semester this year, which commences 23 July and runs for 13 weeks (with two weeks teaching break in middle). I am specifically looking for someone who can teach the following topics: - online interviews - online focus groups - online field research (e.g. virtual ethnography) If the person can also teach about online surveys, that would be great (but not essential). I envisage the teaching would be for a minimum of 4 weeks, but up to 6-7 weeks i.e. half of the course. The timing of the block of teaching is flexible i.e. could be first or second half of semester. I will continue to be course coordinator (and deal with student administration etc.), and I'll be teaching the other half of the course, which will be on social media network analysis. But otherwise, the casual lecturer will have quite a bit of flexibility regarding mode of teaching, assessment etc. The expected qualifications for the casual lecturer are PhD in related area and experience using qualitative online research methods. My preference is for someone who can teach in-person in Canberra, but for an exceptional candidate I'd be willing to investigate the possibility of teaching from off-site (e.g. via skype). -- Dr Robert Ackland Associate Professor, Australian Demographic and Social Research Institute, The Australian National University Coordinator, Master of Social Research e-mail: robert.ackland(a)anu.edu.au homepage: https://researchers.anu.edu.au/researchers/ackland-rj project: http://voson.anu.edu.au ph./fax: +61 2 6125 0312/+61 2 6125 2992 Information about the Master of Social Research (Social Science of the Internet specialisation): http://adsri.anu.edu.au/graduate-study/msr CRICOS No: 061772F --

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Program, travel information for CATaC'12 - June 18-20, Aarhus, Denmark
by Charles Ess 28 May '12

28 May '12

Dear AoIRists, On behalf of the Organizing Committee - we are very pleased to announce that the detailed program for CATaC'12 (Cultural Attitudes towards Technology and Communication) is now available on the conference website: <http://www.catacconference.org/> The program is made up of presentations from colleagues from over 20 countries, and is accompanied by a great deal of detailed information regarding travel to and from Aarhus, Denmark; excursion possibilities, restaurant recommendations, etc. Registration for CATaC'12 is still open - but please note that accommodations will be extremely tight during this period in Aarhus. If you are considering attending, we strongly suggest that you ensure you have reserved accommodations before registering for the conference. Our congratulations to the authors whose papers and panels were accepted and thereby constitute a very strong conference program indeed. We very much look forward to welcoming presenters and participants to Aarhus in June. All the best from "the city of smiles" - charles ess (Media Studies, Aarhus University) Fay Sudweeks (Professor Emerita, Murdoch University, Australia), honorary chair Herbert Hrachovec (University of Vienna, Austria) Leah Macfadyen (University of British Columbia, Canada) Jose Abdelnour Nocera (University of West London, UK) Kenneth Reeder (University of British Columbia, Canada) Ylva Hård af Segerstad (Gothenburg University, Gothenburg, Sweden) Michele M. Strano (Bridgewater College, Virginia, USA) Andra Siibak (University of Tartu, Estonia) Maja van der Velden (University of Oslo)

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Re: Fuchs & Mosco (Eds): "Marx is Back � The Importance of Marxist Theory and Research for Critical Communication Studies Today"
by Andrew Herman 26 May '12

26 May '12

Woo-hoo! Andrew Herman, Ph. D. Associate Professor and Chairperson Department of Communication Studies Graduate Program in Cultural Analysis and Social Theory Wilfrid Laurier University Waterloo, Ontario N2L 3C5 CANADA 519 884-1970 x3693 >>> Christian Fuchs <christian.fuchs(a)uti.at> 05/25/12 6:08 PM >>> Fuchs, Christian and Vincent Mosco, eds. 2012. Marx is Back – The Importance of Marxist Theory and Research for Critical Communication Studies Today. tripleC–Open Access Journal for a Global Sustainable Information Society (http://www.triple.c.at) 10 (2): 127-632. Dear colleagues, We are happy to announce publication of tripleC's special issue "Marx is Back – The Importance of Marxist Theory and Research for Critical Communication Studies Today" that contains 29 contributions on more than 500 pages. http://www.triple-c.at/index.php/tripleC/issue/current The entire issue as one single file is available here: http://www.triple-c.at/index.php/tripleC/article/view/427 The contributions shows that Marx and Marxism are truly back! With kind regards, Christian Fuchs and Vincent Mosco --- Table of Contents 127-140 Christian Fuchs and Vincent Mosco Introduction: Marx is Back – The Importance of Marxist Theory and Research for Critical Communication Studies Today. Marx, the Media, Commodities, and Capital Accumulation 141-155 Nicole S. Cohen Cultural Work as a Site of Struggle: Freelancers and Exploitation 156-170 Mattias Ekman Understanding Accumulation: The Relevance of Marx’s Theory of Primitive Accumulation in Media and Communication Studies 171-183 Eran Fisher How Less Alienation Creates More Exploitation? Audience Labour on Social Network Sites 184-202 Richard Hall and Bernd Stahl Against Commodification: The University, Cognitive Capitalism and Emergent Technologies 203-213 William Henning James Hebblewhite “Means of Communication as Means of Production” Revisited 214-229 Vincent Manzerolle and Atle Mikkola Kjøsen The Communication of Capital: Digital Media and the Logic of Acceleration 230-252 George Pleios Communication and Symbolic Capitalism. Rethinking Marxist Communication Theory in the Light of the Information Society 253-273 Robert Prey The Network’s Blindspot: Exclusion, Exploitation and Marx’s Process-Relational Ontology 274-301 Jernej Prodnik A Note on the Ongoing Process of Commodification: From the Audience Commodity to the Social Factory 302-312 Jens Schröter The Internet and “Frictionless Capitalism” 313-333 Andreas Wittel Digital Marx: Toward a Political Economy of Distributed Media Marx and Ideology Critique 334-348 Pablo Castagno Critical Transitions: Marxist Theory and Media Democratization in Post-Neoliberal Argentina 349-391 İrfan Erdogan Missing Marx: The Place of Marx in Current Communication Research and the Place of Communication in Marx’s Work 392-412 Christian Fuchs Towards Marxian Internet Studies 413-424 Christian Garland and Stephen Harper Did Somebody Say Neoliberalism?: On the Uses and Limitations of a Critical Concept in Media and Communication Studies 425-438 Jim McGuigan The Coolness of Capitalism Today 439-456 Brice Nixon Dialectical Method and the Critical Political Economy of Culture 457-473 Michelle Rodino-Colocino “Feminism” as Ideology: Sarah Palin’s Anti-feminist Feminism and Ideology Critique 474-487 Gerald Sussman Systemic Propaganda as Ideology and Productive Exchange Marx and Media Use 488-508 Brian A. Brown and Anabel Quan-Haase “A Workers’ Inquiry 2.0”: An Ethnographic Method for the Study of Produsage in Social Media Contexts 509-517 Katarina Giritli Nygren and Katarina L Gidlund The Pastoral Power of Technology. Rethinking Alienation in Digital Culture Marx, Alternative/Socialist Media and Social Struggles 518-536 Miriyam Aouragh Social Media, Mediation and the Arab Revolutions 537-554 Lee Artz 21st Century Socialism: Making a State for Revolution 555-569 Peter Ludes Updating Marx’s Concept of Alternatives 570-576 Vincent Mosco Marx is Back, But Which One? On Knowledge Labour and Media Practice 577-599 Wilhelm Peekhaus The Enclosure and Alienation of Academic Publishing: Lessons for the Professoriate 600-617 Sebastian Sevignani The Problem of Privacy in Capitalism and the Alternative Social Networking Site Diaspora* 618-632 Padmaja Shaw Marx as Journalist: Revisiting the Free Speech Debate _______________________________________________ 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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special issue eHealth
by Crutzen Rik (GVO) 26 May '12

26 May '12

Dear AoIR-members, Together with Gordon Gao, I served as Guest Editor of a special issue of Policy & Internet on eHealth. This open access issue is available at http://www.psocommons.org/policyandinternet/vol4/iss2/ Please feel free to forward this to others who might be interested. Thank you in advance. Kind regards, Rik Crutzen Maastricht University/CAPHRI www.crutzen.net<http://www.crutzen.net>

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Fuchs & Mosco (Eds): "Marx is Back – The Importance of Marxist Theory and Research for Critical Communication Studies Today"
by Christian Fuchs 25 May '12

25 May '12

Fuchs, Christian and Vincent Mosco, eds. 2012. Marx is Back – The Importance of Marxist Theory and Research for Critical Communication Studies Today. tripleC–Open Access Journal for a Global Sustainable Information Society (http://www.triple.c.at) 10 (2): 127-632. Dear colleagues, We are happy to announce publication of tripleC's special issue "Marx is Back – The Importance of Marxist Theory and Research for Critical Communication Studies Today" that contains 29 contributions on more than 500 pages. http://www.triple-c.at/index.php/tripleC/issue/current The entire issue as one single file is available here: http://www.triple-c.at/index.php/tripleC/article/view/427 The contributions shows that Marx and Marxism are truly back! With kind regards, Christian Fuchs and Vincent Mosco --- Table of Contents 127-140 Christian Fuchs and Vincent Mosco Introduction: Marx is Back – The Importance of Marxist Theory and Research for Critical Communication Studies Today. Marx, the Media, Commodities, and Capital Accumulation 141-155 Nicole S. Cohen Cultural Work as a Site of Struggle: Freelancers and Exploitation 156-170 Mattias Ekman Understanding Accumulation: The Relevance of Marx’s Theory of Primitive Accumulation in Media and Communication Studies 171-183 Eran Fisher How Less Alienation Creates More Exploitation? Audience Labour on Social Network Sites 184-202 Richard Hall and Bernd Stahl Against Commodification: The University, Cognitive Capitalism and Emergent Technologies 203-213 William Henning James Hebblewhite “Means of Communication as Means of Production” Revisited 214-229 Vincent Manzerolle and Atle Mikkola Kjøsen The Communication of Capital: Digital Media and the Logic of Acceleration 230-252 George Pleios Communication and Symbolic Capitalism. Rethinking Marxist Communication Theory in the Light of the Information Society 253-273 Robert Prey The Network’s Blindspot: Exclusion, Exploitation and Marx’s Process-Relational Ontology 274-301 Jernej Prodnik A Note on the Ongoing Process of Commodification: From the Audience Commodity to the Social Factory 302-312 Jens Schröter The Internet and “Frictionless Capitalism” 313-333 Andreas Wittel Digital Marx: Toward a Political Economy of Distributed Media Marx and Ideology Critique 334-348 Pablo Castagno Critical Transitions: Marxist Theory and Media Democratization in Post-Neoliberal Argentina 349-391 İrfan Erdogan Missing Marx: The Place of Marx in Current Communication Research and the Place of Communication in Marx’s Work 392-412 Christian Fuchs Towards Marxian Internet Studies 413-424 Christian Garland and Stephen Harper Did Somebody Say Neoliberalism?: On the Uses and Limitations of a Critical Concept in Media and Communication Studies 425-438 Jim McGuigan The Coolness of Capitalism Today 439-456 Brice Nixon Dialectical Method and the Critical Political Economy of Culture 457-473 Michelle Rodino-Colocino “Feminism” as Ideology: Sarah Palin’s Anti-feminist Feminism and Ideology Critique 474-487 Gerald Sussman Systemic Propaganda as Ideology and Productive Exchange Marx and Media Use 488-508 Brian A. Brown and Anabel Quan-Haase “A Workers’ Inquiry 2.0”: An Ethnographic Method for the Study of Produsage in Social Media Contexts 509-517 Katarina Giritli Nygren and Katarina L Gidlund The Pastoral Power of Technology. Rethinking Alienation in Digital Culture Marx, Alternative/Socialist Media and Social Struggles 518-536 Miriyam Aouragh Social Media, Mediation and the Arab Revolutions 537-554 Lee Artz 21st Century Socialism: Making a State for Revolution 555-569 Peter Ludes Updating Marx’s Concept of Alternatives 570-576 Vincent Mosco Marx is Back, But Which One? On Knowledge Labour and Media Practice 577-599 Wilhelm Peekhaus The Enclosure and Alienation of Academic Publishing: Lessons for the Professoriate 600-617 Sebastian Sevignani The Problem of Privacy in Capitalism and the Alternative Social Networking Site Diaspora* 618-632 Padmaja Shaw Marx as Journalist: Revisiting the Free Speech Debate

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HICSS CFP: Learning Analytics & Networked Learning
by Caroline Haythornthwaite 25 May '12

25 May '12

Deadline is approaching for submissions to HICSS for January 2013. Here's the call for Learning Analytics & Networked Learning See also CFP for Minitrack: Social Networking and Community sent previously. CFP: Learning Analytics & Networked Learning Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS) 46, January 7-10, 2013, Maui, HI PAPERS DUE: June 15, 2012 via the HICSS conference system http://www.hicss.hawaii.edu/hicss_46/apahome46.htm http://haythorn.wordpress.com/hicss-minitracks-cfp/ This minitrack calls for papers that address leading edge use of technology or system design to analyze, support, and/or create learning and learning environments. The scope is wide and includes papers that use technology to examine how social learning happens, use data from learning environments to support learning processes, and examine new practices of formal and informal learning on and through the Internet. Papers that fit this minitrack fall under new and ongoing areas of learning research that may be referred to as learning analytics, networked learning, technology enhanced learning, computer-supported collaborative learning, ubiquitous learning, and mobile learning. Of particular interest are papers that capture, analyze and show novel use of data produced from online learning environments, develop and/or test methodologies for analyzing online learning, address automated data collection and analysis in support of learning, professional development and knowledge creation, and discuss issues and opportunities relating to information literacy, literacy and new media, ubiquitous learning, entrepreneurial learning and/or mobile learning. We encourage research that covers system and learning theories, social learning and networking tools and their development, research methods, and/or measurable outcomes as they relate to the area of technology and its support of improving networked learning. We also encourage papers that address learning and learning communities that are created in any setting, including educational institutions, workplaces, public knowledge, personal knowledge, and/or ‘serious leisure’. Appropriate usage environments range from same-time, same-place to anytime, anywhere that increase interactions among the learners in formal and informal learning settings and mixtures thereof, and may include collectives from learning crowds to communities. We envision papers that · address the use of automated data capture to follow and analyze learning processes · develop methodologies for analyzing online learning · develop metrics for characterizing and following learning trends online · test the validity of automated data for capturing a true representation of learning and knowledge creation · analyze and/or support the role of social networks in learning · report on the development and maintenance of innovative online environments for learning · discuss trends in learning on and through the Internet, including issues and opportunities relating to information literacy, literacy and new media, ubiquitous learning and entrepreneurial learning · examine economic models, trends and markets for online learning, including open source and open access models · examine the foundations for learning in online networks, crowds and communities · examine the design and facilitation of learning in online networks, crowds and communities · examine the validity of information and learning processes online, and trust in online information sources for learning · address the role of particular devices – laptops, mobiles, OLPC – in learning · examine trends in how we learn with and through technology – in secondary and higher education, workplaces, society, developed and underdeveloped nations · discuss ethical issues relating to learning online, including issues relating to data capture, analysis and display, and learning about controversial subjects or anti-social activities. This minitrack -- LEARNING ANALYTICS AND NETWORKED LEARNING -- is part of the INTERNET AND DIGITAL ECONOMY track at HICSS. Minitrack Organizers Caroline Haythornthwaite, University of British Columbia c.haythorn(a)ubc.ca Maarten de Laat, Open University of the Netherlands maarten.delaat(a)ou.nl Shane Dawson, University of British Columbia shane.dawson(a)ubc.ca Dan Suthers University of Hawaii suthers(a)hawaii.edu ABOUT HICSS CONFERENCES http://www.hicss.hawaii.edu/hicss_46/apahome46.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 will be 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_46/apahome46.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 strongly 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 2012 DEADLINES FOR AUTHORS · June 15 -- SUBMIT FULL MANUSCRIPTS FOR REVIEW as instructed. The review is double-blind; therefore, this initial submission must be without author names. · Aug 15 -- 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 -- 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 -- 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 -- 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. Cancellation and Refund Policy All conference cancellation requests must be in writing. A fee will be charged for cancellation of registration after Oct 15, at which time the paper is subject to withdrawal from the Proceedings. There is no registration refund after December 1. Cancellations for accommodations must be handled directly with the hotel.

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