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5 New Features to Try In DiscoverText
by Stuart Shulman 11 May '12

11 May '12

5 New Features to Try In DiscoverText - Sign Up for a 30-Day Free Beta with Full Enterprise Access https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?hl=en_US&formkey=dF9NWjZFS1A3d… or http://bit.ly/pArIvj 1) GNIP PowerTrack Sampling For the first time since the GNIP Powertrack was integrated into DiscoverText, users can import random samples of Tweets from the Powertrack. What this means is that broad search terms such as "Obama" or "has:hashtag" (A search for every tweet that contains a hashtag), will no longer ingest millions of tweets per minute, but rather will be limited to the random sample proportion of your choosing. To utilize this new function, just enter "sample:##" after your GNIP search term. (#= the sample percentage from 1-100). 2) Twitter User Bio Searches As of this week, users of the GNIP PowerTrack can now import tweets, according to keyword(s) in Twitter user bios. What this means is that a user of the Powertrack can now search for - by way of example - 50% of all comments about Obama that are said by people who claim to tweet about Fashion. (Obama bio_contains:fashion sample:50) 3) Foreign Language CloudExplorers Also as of this week, DiscoverText tag clouds can process non-English characters such as Arabic and Chinese. In these foreign language tag clouds, users may now alter word colors, exclude stop words & search terms, and quickly search for any word in the tag cloud. 4) Retweet Searching Users may now use a GNIP operator to import only "retweeted" tweets. For example, to import retweeted tweets that contain the word Obama, one would search: Obama is:retweet. Additionally, users can now also filter according to the specific retweets of a particular twitter account. For example, to import those tweets that are retweeted by Justin Bieber, one would search: retweets_of:justinbieber. 5) TopMeta Exporting Announced last week, DiscoverText Enterprise users may now export TopMeta lists, which highlight the most (or least) frequently occurring items in particular metadata field. See our blog for more details: http://blog.texifter.com/index.php/2012/04/26/exporting-topmeta/ If you have any questions about these new features, teh free 30-day beta, or any other DiscoverText functions, please contact Josh@discoverText for support. Josh Sowalsky Director of User Support Texifter, LLC 1-800-936-0534 Ext. 704 Josh(a)discovertext.com http://www.texifter.com/Home/JoshSowalsky

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New book: "Gender and Sexuality in Online Game Cultures: Passionate Play"
by Jenny Sundén 11 May '12

11 May '12

Dear all, we thought we should spread the word. Apologies for cross-posting! Gender and Sexuality in Online Game Cultures: Passionate Play By Jenny Sundén & Malin Sveningsson Routledge, New York, 2012 Series: Routledge Advances in Feminist Studies in Intersectionality How do gender and sexuality come to matter in online game cultures? Why is it important to explore "straight" versus "queer" contexts of play? And what does it mean to play together with others over time, as co-players and researchers? Gender and Sexuality in Online Game Cultures: Passionate Play is a book about female players and their passionate encounters with the online game World of Warcraft and its player cultures. It takes seriously women’s passions in games, and as such draws attention to questions of pleasure in and desire for technology. It is also a book about passionate scholarship, of allowing for one’s passions as a researcher to guide and shape ways of thinking and writing scholarly texts. The authors use a unique approach of what they term a "twin ethnography" that develops two parallel stories. Sveningsson studies "straight" game culture, and makes explicit that which is of the norm by exploring the experiences of female gamers in a male-dominated gaming context. Sundén investigates "queer" game culture through the queer potentials of mainstream World of Warcraft culture, as well as through the case of a guild explicitly defined as LGBT. Academic research on game culture is flourishing, yet feminist accounts of gender and sexuality in games are still in the making. Drawing on feminist notions of performance, performativity and positionality, as well as the recent turn to affect and phenomenology within cultural theory, the authors develop queer, feminist studies of online player cultures in ways that are situated and embodied. Jenny Sundén jenny.sunden(a)sh.se Ph. D., Associate Professor School of Gender, Culture and History Södertörn University SWEDEN

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24/5/2012 Convergence, Engagement and Power: Digital Convergence and the Challenge to Global Hegemony - Postgraduate Conference, University of Leeds, UK
by Stuart Shaw [RPG] 11 May '12

11 May '12

Dear colleagues, University of Leeds 1 day Postgraduate Conference - Convergence, Engagement and Power: Digital Convergence and the Challenge to Global Hegemony We warmly invite you to attend the Institute of Communications Studies 6th Annual PhD Conference, taking place in the ICS Building, Clothworker's North, University of Leeds on May 24th 2012, at 9am until 6pm Full details, including registration information and abstracts, can be found on our website; http://www.ics-phd-conference.leeds.ac.uk/ All enquiries can be directed to ics-pg-conference(a)leeds.ac.uk Keynote Speakers: Prof. Natalie Fenton (Goldsmiths College) and Prof. Stephen Coleman (Institute of Communications Studies, University of Leeds) Synopsis: >From Iran to China, Cairo to Oakland, Chechnya to Tunisia, bold claims are being made about the role that new technologies are playing in the emergence, sustenance, and viability of populist political movements. Empowered by the prosthesis of technical devices, the ’99%’ appear to have bypassed the monopoly of the mass media through the creation and sustenance of alternative media channels, disseminating information, ideas and political expression unhindered. As such, a question must be asked; how is the authority, legitimacy, and hegemony of the ruling elite being threatened by convergent media? Focusing deeper on the role of technology, these events are often mediated by popular social media networks such as Twitter and Facebook. These interactive platforms have permeated every aspect of day-to-day life, but questions remain as to the role they play in building and sustaining a true democratic discourse. The innovation of these technologies originates in a global hegemonic system which retains their ultimate ownership through existing corporate and financial systems. On the world stage, Western governments pour praise on so-called technologically mediated movements like the ‘Arab Spring’, yet domestically the same leaders oppress similar political collectives such as the Occupy movement. In addition to the political and technological dimensions, there is a multifaceted and multi-layered convergence at play which is influencing the ways existing media forms are produced. Consumers simultaneously become producers, and traditional cultural industries now share space with user-created digital domains of production. Has the notion of convergence reinvigorated the cultural industries by making the production process more democratic, or is it undermining their hegemony over the media we consume? Optimistic expectations and pessimistic disdain are polarizing the debate within academia, hence these issues beg for critical questioning; to what extent are publics, through their engagement with new technology and convergent media, influencing or challenging political, corporate, and social power structures within society? Once the issues are laid bare to analysis, is the global hegemonic landscape really changing in the digital age? In light of these technological, cultural, social and political events, we cordially invite you to the 6th annual Institute of Communications Studies PhD Conference, University of Leeds. This student-led initiative aims at fostering debate among future academics by bringing together those researching areas related to media convergence in a formal conference environment, to critically engage with this exciting topic while also gaining the chance to hear from leading keynote speakers in the field of political communication. The Venue: The Institute of Communications Studies is an internationally renowned centre for teaching and research in communications, media and culture. Our research is multidisciplinary and we have particular strengths in the areas of cultural industries, international communication and political communication. The study of communication and media at the University of Leeds has its origins in the Centre for Television Research, established in the late 1950s and led from 1963 to 1989 by Professor Jay Blumler. With the Centre, the University of Leeds was one of the first to embark on the academic study of communication in Europe and one of the very few universities to undertake serious research on contemporary media at that time. ICS is now one of the largest departments of its kind in Europe, currently offering a number of undergraduate degrees, postgraduate taught degrees and a postgraduate research programme. Best wishes, ICS PhD Conference Organising Committee

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Alexander Galloway Workshop at Sussex on 16.05.2012
by Aristea Fotopoulou 11 May '12

11 May '12

Dear All, The Digital and Social Media Research Theme at the University of Sussex is hosting the final event of its successful 'Digital Humanities' series on Wednesday, 16th May 2012. This exciting workshop on 'In the Aftermath of the Cybernetic Hypothesis' is held by guest speaker Alexander R. Galloway (New York University) and will take place from 16:30 until 18:00 in Shawcross A501. An abstract of Alexander's work can be found below: ******************************************************************************************* "In an essay from 2001, the French collective Tiqqun speaks of what they call the cybernetic hypothesis: "[A]t the end of the twentieth century the image of steering, that is to say management, has become the primary metaphor to describe not only politics but all of human activity as well." The cybernetic hypothesis is a vast experiment beginning in the overdeveloped nations after World War II and eventually spreading to swallow the planet in an impervious logic of administration and interconnectivity. What are the origins of the cybernetic hypothesis, and what are its futures? This talk offers a media archeology of cybernetics through an exploration of nineteenth-century chronophotography, the history of the pixel, developments in computer modeling, bit arrays and grid systems, and that most enigmatic cybernetic device, the black box. Instead of contributing to the many heroic histories of cybernetics that already populate the cultural imagination, this talk aims to uncover an alternative history of digital systems via an examination of the aesthetics and politics of control". ******************************************************************************************* For more details on the workshop, please go to http://www.sussex.ac.uk/research/digital/newsandevents/events?id=13601 or refer to the attached poster. Best wishes and I hope to see many of you next Wednesday for this insightful and stimulating workshop, Bettina Bettina Zenz Research Themes Assistant University of Sussex Research and Enterprise Services Falmer House Falmer Brighton BN1 9QF DIVISIONAL RELOCATION NOTICE Please note that Research & Enterprise Services has moved to new offices in Falmer House (in the South-West wing, opposite the Union shop, facing the A27). Our email addresses and telephone numbers remain the same. http://www.sussex.ac.uk/res

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New Appointments, Digital Anthropology, UCL
by Daniel Miller 11 May '12

11 May '12

*We are delighted to announce two new appointments to strengthen our team teaching Digital Anthropology at the Dept. of Anthropology University College London.* * * *Stefana Broadbent is an internationally renowned specialist on social media. She presented at TED in 2009 and is cited by journals such as The Economist. Her recent book L’Intimite au Travail derives from many years working with teams of social scientists in Switzerland and elsewhere using ethnography to examine the way new media transforms the relationship between work and the home. She theorises new media in terms of their relative demand for attention within polymedia. She has also worked on the analysis of complex and highly automated work environments in aviation and process control.* * * *Haidy Geismar will be coming to UCL from the Dept. of Anthropology at NYU, where she was assistant professor in anthropology and in museum studies and taught courses on digital culture. She has worked on issues of the digital with respect to indigenous ownership and control, archiving, cataloguing and property and conducted fieldwork in New Zealand and Vanuatu. Her book Treasured Possessions will be out later this year with Duke University Press. She has papers in many leading journals such as American Ethnologist, Journal of Material Culture Studies, Comparative Studies in History and Society.* * * *Both Haidy and Stefana have chapters in the forthcoming volume Digital Anthropology (Berg October).*

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tweetadder - any experiences or thoughts?
by Monica Barratt 11 May '12

11 May '12

Hi AoIR :) I am part of an international collaboration of researchers studying cannabis cultivation, especially among small-scale growers. I have an extensive plan for recruiting cannabis growers. One of the methods is through in-person and online engagement with user groups - so far I've been working with one user group who, after a fairly suspicious start, has agreed to support the research and is even piloting the questionnaire for us. One of my other methods is through a Twitter account I've just started @Wor1dWideWeed My question for the group is whether any of you have: 1. used twitter successfully to recruit participants to research, especially participants in hidden populations 2. if yes, have you used Twitter marketing and automation programs like tweetadder to assist the process? I've been looking into tweetadder - see http://www.tweetadder.com/ - because it allows fine-grained automation of many of the tasks which take time on Twitter, especially sourcing new people to follow to whom you are relevant and have a fair chance of following you back. I can see that automating everything just makes you into an annoying Twitter bot... but automating some tasks while still spending a little time actually reading your feed and manually interacting and curating your content, could really assist the process, grow your follower base, and likely result in more relevant people being aware of and participating in the study. On another note, I saw on the tweetadder forums that some people were having their accounts suspended for using tweetadder. Can anyone tell me more about why this is as I'm a bit confused as to whether tweetadder is actually even legal according to Twitter tos? Really interested to hear your thoughts. Thanks! Monica Monica Barratt Research Fellow National Drug Research Institute http://db.ndri.curtin.edu.au/staff/staff.asp?persid=650 @monicabarratt

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suggested readings or syllabi
by Seth Lewis 10 May '12

10 May '12

Hi all, I'm preparing to teach two new courses: - an undergraduate course, "Internet and Global Society" (which can be as broad as the title suggests, covering key concepts such as cyberactivism and key cases such as SMS in Africa) - a grad seminar, "Changing Media Environment" (likewise fairly broad, covering key theories and concepts for understanding digital media) Just curious to see if anyone has some recommended readings for either course, or a related syllabus they might be willing to share. All suggestions appreciated. And, of course, I'd be happy to compile and share back what I find, if anyone's interested. You can reach me directly at sclewis(a)umn.edu. Thanks! -Seth -- Seth C. Lewis, Ph.D. // Assistant Professor School of Journalism & Mass Communication University of Minnesota–Twin Cities @sethclewis <http://twitter.com/#!/sethclewis> // Papers<http://umn.academia.edu/SethLewis> // Faculty profile <http://bit.ly/sclewis>

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slow art
by Seda Guerses 09 May '12

09 May '12

dear airs, following up on previous postings on "slow science", this time a call for "slow art" within the "open house" event in brussels. best, s. Open House Brussels: For the first time in Brussels 24 artistic laboratories and alternative management offices have joined together to show their practices and research in an Open House event dedicated to both public and professionals. Focusing rather on artistic research processes than on final products, these structures provide national and international artists with time, space and tools to develop their works. With Open House these multi-disciplinary organisations take the opportunity to strengthen their bonds and show once again that Brussels is more than ever a creative and dynamic artists’ city. Open House will propose three morning debates: one focusing on Slow Art; one on the position of the artist within the contemporary artistic sector and Brussels in particular; and one as a first-aid session for artists. It will be completed with afternoon guided tours and artistic parcours offering the public a chance to get introduced to the structures’ working process and the artists who bind them together. http://www.openhousebrussels.be/

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Self-naming on websites for sexual and gender minorities: literature recommendations?
by Szulc Lukasz 09 May '12

09 May '12

Dear all, I'm writing a paper for IR13 on the importance of self-naming on Polish and Turkish websites for sexual and gender minorities. I'd like to kindly ask you for the recommendation of any literature on this topic. That could be general studies on self-naming on LGBTQ websites, though I mainly look for papers analysing the content generated by webmasters and websites' authors. For the current paper, I'm less interested in self-(re)presentation of websites' users in their personal profiles, comments posted on websites and so on. I'd especially welcome any papers which discuss Polish or Turkish cases. All the best, Lukasz Szulc PhD Candidate University of Antwerp Department of communication Studies www.ua.ac.be/lukasz.szulc<http://www.ua.ac.be/lukasz.szulc>

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|| ACADEMIC MINDTREK || 13th May DEADLINE || CfP || * HCI * Social Media * Digital Games * Open Source * Media Management * Ambient Media *
by artur.lugmayr＠tut.fi 09 May '12

09 May '12

============================================================================================ Academic MindTrek Conference 2012: Call for Papers, Extended Abstracts, Posters, Demonstrations, Workshops, Tutorials 3rd-5th October, 2012 Tampere, Finland http://www.academicmindtrek.org, http://www.mindtrek.org * SOCIAL MEDIA * AMBIENT MEDIA * MEDIA MANAGEMENT * HCI * OPEN SOURCE * DIGITAL GAMES * Long and short papers, posters, demonstrations, and extended abstracts due on: 13th May 2012 Tutorials and Workshops due on: 1st June 2012 in cooperation with ACM, ACM SIGMM, and ACM SIGCHI contributions will be published in the ACM digital library and a selected set of high-level work will be published as book chapters or in journals ============================================================================================ CALL FOR PAPERS, EXTENDED ABSTRACTS, POSTERS, DEMONSTRATIONS, WORKSHOPS & TUTORIALS We are pleased to invite you to the Academic MindTrek conference, 3rd ? 5th October 2012, which brings together a cross-disciplinary crowd of people to investigate current and emerging topics of media in the ubiquitous arena. The conference explores academically the emerging and frontier-breaking applications of new media in everyday contexts of leisure, business and organizational life. October 3rd is the main Academic MindTrek day. Due increasing popularity of the conference, we are extending the scope of Academic MindTrek 2012! The academic conference features six major themes: * Social Media * Ambient & Ubiquitous Media * Business & Media * Human-Computer Interaction (new track!) * Open Source * Digital Games SOCIAL MEDIA ?Get social!? Social media and Web 2.0 technologies are applied in ever diverse practices both in private and public communities. Totally new business models are emerging, traditional communication and expression modalities are challenged, and new practices are constructed in the collaborative, interactive media space. AMBIENT AND UBIQUITOUS MEDIA ?The medium is the message!? ? This conference track focuses on the definition of ambient and ubiquitous media with a cross-disciplinary viewpoint: ambient media between technology, art, and content. The focus of this track is on applications, location based services, ubiquitous computation, augmented reality, theory, art-works, mixed reality concepts, the Web 3.0, and user experiences that make ubiquitous and ambient media tick. MEDIA BUSINESS, MEDIA PRODUCTION AND MEDIA MANAGEMENT Media business and media management face the challenges of the emergence of new forms of digital media. This theme focuses on business studies, policies, practices, and organizational structure of media firms. It discusses competition, patterns of media usage, advertising models, and how traditional media can cope with the challenges coming from digital media focusing on media business and media management issues. HUMAN-COMPUTER INTERACTION (HCI) The wide field of HCI is to discuss issues around human computer interaction modalities, consumer experience, design of computer systems, human aspects, universal media access, ergonomics, communication, novel interaction modalities, privacy, trusted systems, interaction theories, and sociological and psychological factors. This theme of devotes to several of these aspects, and is targeted to the scientific community dealing with several applied and theoretical aspects of HCI and user experience. OPEN SOURCE The last decade has seen a significant increase in open source initiatives such as open source software, open standards, open content, open media, or even open source hardware. On the one hand, the open movement has created new kinds of opportunities such as new business models and development approaches. On the other hand, it has introduced new kinds of technical and non-technical challenges. DIGITAL GAMES The culture and business of digital games is becoming increasingly varied. The current trends range from novel interface innovations and digital distribution channels to social game dynamics and player-generated content. The games track is open for theoretical works, empirical case studies and constructive projects. DEMONSTRATIONS The aim is to gather demonstrations from researchers and professionals from the communities related to the topics of MindTrek. The objective for the demonstrations is to provide a forum for exchanging experiences, practical projects, or media demonstrators. The target audience includes members of the academic community, industry, or laboratories who can demonstrate the results of their research projects with a practical implementation. ACADEMIC MINDTREK AS A CONFERENCE In addition, special academic sessions (e.g. tutorials, demonstrations, workshops, and multidisciplinary sessions) will be held parallel to the MindTrek business conference. Academic speakers and authors are warmly welcome to register for the business conference tracks as part of the academic conference with our special registration rate. The Academic MindTrek registration includes full service such as coffees, lunches, and social gatherings. The MindTrek Association hosts MindTrek as a yearly conference, where the Academic MindTrek conference has been a part of this unique set of events comprising competitions, world famous keynote speakers, plenary sessions, media festivals, and workshops since 1997. It is a meeting place where experts and thinkers present results from their latest work regarding the development of Internet, interactive media, and the information society. MindTrek brings together researchers and practitioners from diverse disciplines that are involved in the development of media in various fields, ranging from sociology and the economy, to technology. The organizing committee invites you to submit original high quality full papers, long or short, addressing the special theme and the topics, for presentation at the conference and inclusion in the proceedings. CONFERENCE PUBLICATIONS The scientific part of the conference is organized in cooperation with ACM SIGMM, and ACM SIGCHI. Conference proceedings will be published in the ACM Digital Library, which includes short and long papers, workshop proposals, demonstration proposals, and tutorial proposals. Extended abstracts will be published in the adjunct conference proceedings; however, they will not be published within the ACM Digital Library. Selected high quality papers will be published in international journals, as book chapters, edited books, or via open access journals. There will also be a reward for the overall best paper from the academic conference. Several papers should follow the style guidelines of the conference. SHORT AND LONG PAPER PROPOSALS All submissions will be peer-reviewed double blinded, therefore please remove any information that could give an indication of the authorship. Short papers should be between 2-4 pages long and the paper presentation will be 15 minutes plus 5 minutes discussion within a session; long papers should be 6-8 pages and will be presented in 20 minutes slots, plus 5 minutes discussion. WORKSHOP PROPOSALS Feel free to suggest workshops which are co-organized with the Academic MindTrek. Workshop proposals should include the organizing committee, a 2 page description of the theme of the workshop, a short CV of organizers, duration, the proceedings publisher, and the schedule. Workshop organizers also have the possibility to add publications to the main conference proceedings. Depending on the attracted number of papers for each workshop, we provide space for either half-day or full-day workshops. DEMONSTRATIONS PROPOSALS Demonstration proposals shall be 2-3 pages and include: a) a description and motivation of the demonstration; b) general architecture of the demonstration; c) description of the main features; d) a brief comparison with other existing related demonstrations; e) audio-visual materials to illustrate the demonstration (if applicable); f) the type of license, and g) the Internet address of the demonstration (if applicable). It is strongly recommended that the authors make the demonstration (or a suitable version or movie) on the Internet during the evaluation. TUTORIAL PROPOSALS Tutorial proposals should include a 2-page description of the tutorial, intended audience, a short CV, timetable, required equipment, references, and a track record of previous tutorials. The target length of tutorials is 2-4 hours. EXTENDED ABSTRACTS Extended abstracts should be between 1-2 pages long and contain 500-800 words. They should describe the research problem, background, research questions, and the contribution to the conference. Extended abstracts will not be published within the ACM digital library. POSTER PRESENTATIONS Posters should be between 2-3 pages long and a poster should be presented during the conference. Attendees have the possibility to exhibit their posters on a A0 poster wall during the conference. SUBMISSION DEADLINES - 13th May 2012: deadline for long papers (6-8 pages), short papers (3-4 pages), extended abstracts (1-2 pages), posters (1-2 pages) and demonstrations (2-3 pages) - 1st June 2012: deadline for tutorial proposals and workshop proposals - 20 July: camera ready papers and copyright forms KEY-DATES - 30th June 2012: notification of acceptance/rejection for papers, extended abstracts, posters, and demos, tutorials - 5th August 2012: submission of camera ready papers - 3rd-5th October 2012: Academic MindTrek and MindTrek Business Conference Suggested key-dates for workshop organizers - 15th August 2012: deadline for workshop papers - 10th September 2012: deadline for camera-ready papers CONFERENCE THEMES 1. Social Media - business models, service models, and policies - social media in innovation and business - intra- and interorganizational use of social media - questions related to identity, motivation and values - blogs, wikis, collaboration and social platform designs in practice - knowledge management and learning with social media - experience management with social media - crowdsourcing, user-created content and social networks - enterprise 2.0 and social computing in work organizations - evaluation and research methods of social media - social media and community design - benefits and limitations of social media applications 2. Ambient and Ubiquitous Media - between Technology, Services, and Users - applications and services utilizing ubiquitous and pervasive technology - ubicom in eLearning, leisure, storytelling, art works, advertising, and mixed reality contexts - next generation user interfaces, ergonomics, multimodality, and human-computer interaction - art works for smart public or indoor spaces, mobile phones, museums, or cultural applications - context awareness, sensor perception, context sensitive Internet, and smart daily objects - personalization, multimodal interaction, smart user interfaces, and ergonomics - ambient human computer interaction, experience design, usability, and audience research - software, hardware, middleware, and technologies for pervasive and ubiquitous - theoretical methods and algorithms in ubiquitous and ambient systems - business models, service models, media economics, regulations, x-commerce, and policies - user positioning, location awareness - augmented reality in ubiquitous applications - device interoperability, remote user interfaces, inter-device connections 3. Media Business, Media Studies, and Media Management - media policy, politics, practices, conception, and media regulation - organizational structures, practices, and strategies - production technology, processes, and optimization - business models, service models, public funding, and media economics - patterns of media use, engagement, and consumer experiences - advertising, media consumption, new audience models, and media user models - competition analysis, media governing, assessment, performance indicators - business and media management: gaming, social media, Internet, digital cinema, iTV - traditional media business and management: broadcasting, publishing, journalism, and movie industry - innovative service designs, strategies, and ideas - teaching & training of media management and media business 4. Human-Computer Interaction - user experience and experience design - interaction design techniques and methods - user interaction and HCI design - creativity, practices and innovation in HCI - analysis, theories, and procedures in interaction design - methods, systems, and toolkits supporting HCI - human centered computing and understanding interaction - interactivity methods - designing for experience and interactivity - design, evaluation, and implementation of interactive systems - phenomena surrounding interactivity 5. Open Source - forms of openness: open source software, open standards, open content, open media, open source hardware, and open access - establishment of an open source community - practices on developing open source systems - practices for maintaining a successful project - open source processes and techniques - differences on open source and closed source systems - using open source in commercial context - challenges of open source development - teaching open source in academia and industry 6. Digital Games - theoretical and analytical approaches on games and play - analysis of player experience - game design research - economy and business models in the game industry - innovation in and around games - digital distribution of games - online gaming - social and casual gaming - player-created content - pervasive and ubiquitous gaming - mobile and cross-media gaming - gamification, funware and playful designs PAPER SUBMISSION - Please follow the style guidelines on http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates for formatting your paper - Note that since the papers will be published by the ACM digital library all authors need to sign an ACM copyright form. (For further guidelines see: http://www.acm.org/pubs/copyright_form.html) - Submit papers here http://webhotel2.tut.fi/emmi/Conferences/2012mindtrek/ ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Artur Lugmayr, Tampere Univ. of Technology (TUT), FIN Helj? Franssila, Tampere Univ. (UTA), FIN Karsten Wolf, Univ. Bremen, GER Hannu K?rkk?inen, Tampere Univ. of Technology (TUT), FIN Janne Paavilainen, University of Tampere (UTA), FIN Theresa Champel, Univ. of Lisbon, PT Yuan Fu, Tampere Univ. of Technology (TUT), FIN Moyen Mustaquim, Uppsala University, SE Dominik Strohmeier, Berlin Institute of Technology (TU Berlin), GER CONTACT Questions concerning academic content, papers, tutorials, workshops, scientific contributions: Email:academic-mindtrek-chairs@listmail.tut.fi General questions concerning payments, administration, copyright forms, local arrangements, and the venue: Email: academic-mindtrek-info(a)listmail.tut.fi PAPER SUBMISSIONS http://webhotel2.tut.fi/emmi/Conferences/2012mindtrek/ FURTHER INFORMATION http://www.academicmindtrek.org SUPPORTED BY MindTrek Association, City of Tampere, Tampere University of Technology (TUT), Tampere University (UTA), Tampere University of Applied Sciences (TAMK), Ambient Media Association (AMEA).

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