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Mobile Interfaces in Public Spaces
by Adriana de Souza e Silva 26 Apr '12

26 Apr '12

Apologies for the self-promotion, but I just would like to bring to your attention my newest book (co-authored with Jordan Frith), which has just been published by Routledge. Mobile Interfaces in Public Spaces: Locational Privacy, Control, and Urban Sociability Adriana de Souza e Silva & Jordan Frith Short Description Mobile phones are no longer what they used to be. Not only can users connect to the Internet anywhere and anytime, they can also use their devices to map their precise geographic coordinates – and access location-specific information like restaurant reviews, historical information, and locations of other people nearby. The proliferation of location-aware mobile technologies calls for a new understanding of how we define public spaces, how we deal with locational privacy, and how networks of power are developed today. In Mobile Interfaces in Public Spaces, Adriana de Souza e Silva and Jordan Frith examine these social and spatial changes by framing the development of location-aware technology within the context of other mobile and portable technologies such as the book, the Walkman, the iPod, and the mobile phone. These technologies work as interfaces to public spaces – that is, as symbolic systems that not only filter information but also reshape communication relationships and the environment in which social interaction takes place. Yet rather than detaching people from their surroundings, the authors suggest that location-aware technologies may ultimately strengthen our connections to locations. TOC: Section I: Mobile Interfaces in Public Spaces 1. Interfaces to public spaces 2. The public and the private 3. From voice to location Section II: Location-awareness in the contemporary city 4. Locational privacy 5. Power in location awareness 6. The presentation of location About the Authors: Adriana de Souza e Silva is Associate Professor in the Department of Communication at North Carolina State University. Her research focuses on how mobile and locative interfaces shape interactions with public spaces and create new forms of sociability. She is the co-editor of Digital Cityscapes: Merging Digital and Urban Playspaces, and co-author of Net-Locality: Why Location Matters in a Networked World, Jordan Frith is a doctoral candidate in North Carolina State University's Communication, Rhetoric and Digital Media program. His main research interests are locative media and space, particularly how locative media may influence interactions in urban spaces. He has recently been published in the journals Mobilities and Communication, Culture, and Critique.　 http://www.amazon.com/Mobile-Interfaces-Public-Spaces-Sociability/dp/041550… ______________________________ Adriana de Souza e Silva, PhD Associate Professor of Communication NC State University http://www.souzaesilva.com Lead organizer ICA Mobile Communication pre-conference 2012 http://sociomobile.org/mobile2012/index.html

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AJET special issue on virtual worlds published
by Lee, Mark 25 Apr '12

25 Apr '12

Dear colleagues, We are pleased to announce that the much-awaited Australasian Journal of Educational Technology (AJET) special issue on Virtual Worlds in Tertiary Education, guest edited by Mark J. W. Lee (Charles Sturt University and University of New England), Barney Dalgarno (Charles Sturt University) and Helen Farley (University of Southern Queensland) has now been published. The guest editorial and all eight articles that constitute the special issue are freely available from the AJET website at http://www.ascilite.org.au/ajet . Please feel free to spread the word about the special issue to colleagues at your institution and elsewhere who might be interested, and through the various networks and associations of which you are part. Kind regards, Mark J.W. Lee, Barney Dalgarno and Helen Farley Guest Editors, AJET special issue - Virtual worlds in tertiary education: An Australasian perspective Email: ajet.virtualworlds(a)gmail.com Charles Sturt University | ALBURY-WODONGA | BATHURST | CANBERRA | DUBBO | GOULBURN | MELBOURNE | ONTARIO | ORANGE | PORT MACQUARIE | SYDNEY | WAGGA WAGGA | LEGAL NOTICE This email (and any attachment) is confidential and is intended for the use of the addressee(s) only. If you are not the intended recipient of this email, you must not copy, distribute, take any action in reliance on it or disclose it to anyone. Any confidentiality is not waived or lost by reason of mistaken delivery. Email should be checked for viruses and defects before opening. Charles Sturt University (CSU) does not accept liability for viruses or any consequence which arise as a result of this email transmission. Email communications with CSU may be subject to automated email filtering, which could result in the delay or deletion of a legitimate email before it is read at CSU. The views expressed in this email are not necessarily those of CSU. Charles Sturt University in Australia http://www.csu.edu.au The Chancellery, Panorama Avenue, Bathurst NSW Australia 2795 ABN: 83 878 708 551; CRICOS Provider Numbers: 00005F (NSW), 01947G (VIC), 02960B (ACT) Charles Sturt University in Ontario http://www.charlessturt.ca 860 Harrington Court, Burlington Ontario Canada L7N 3N4 Registration: www.peqab.ca Consider the environment before printing this email.

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Call for Conference Proposals: Higher Education Teaching and Learning: Exploring Spaces for Learning, Orlando, January 2013
by Patrick Blessinger 25 Apr '12

25 Apr '12

Our website is now open to submit your proposal to the Higher Education Teaching and Learning Association <http://hetl.org/> International Conference, which will be held here in Orlando next January in cooperation with the Karen L. Smith Faculty Center for Teaching and Learning<http://www.fctl.ucf.edu/> * *at the University of Central Florida <http://www.ucf.edu/>. The theme of this interdisciplinary conference, *Exploring Spaces for Learning*, will accommodate a wide range of faculty development concerns, including* *engagement with students in informal learning sites, virtual learning spaces, global classrooms, and sites for experiential learning. A proceedings of book abstracts will be produced. The best papers will be published in the *HETL Review <http://hetl.org/>* online journal.**** ** ** The conference will feature three content tracks: **** Track 1: Engaging and retaining students using *cutting-edge technologies*;* *** Track 2: Engaging and retaining students using *innovative pedagogies*;**** Track 3: Engaging and retaining students using *international collaborations *.**** ** ** *Proposals are due before May 18.* Please go to this URL to find more info about the event and to submit a proposal: http://www.fctl.ucf.edu/hetl2013/ . We hope to see you in Orlando. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact me. Please forward this announcement to your colleagues. **** * * Best regards,**** ** ** * Charles Wankel*, St. John's University, New York, Program Co-Chair**** *Melody Bowdon*, University of Central Florida, Program Co-Chair**** *Patrick Blessinger*, HETL, Chair of the Cutting-Edge Technologies Track**** * Olga Kovbasyuk*, Far East Russia Global Learning Center, Chair, Innovative Pedagogies Track**** * Agata Stachowicz-Stanusch*, Silesian U. of Technology, Chair, International Collaborations Track

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Re: [Air-L] Air-L Digest, Vol 93, Issue 22
by Janne Nielsen 25 Apr '12

25 Apr '12

This is an automatic reply. I will be out of the office until May 10th. Best regards, Janne Nielsen

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2nd call: Digital Methods Summer School 2012
by Anne Helmond 25 Apr '12

25 Apr '12

Dear all, The Digital Methods Initiative (DMI) will host its 6th annual Summer School from 25 June to 6 July 2012 in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. This year's theme is “Reality mining, and the limits of digital methods.” It is organized for new media researchers (broadly conceived), and is open to (early stage) PhD candidates, advanced master's degree students, recent graduates and motivated scholars. It is a working Summer School, in that all participants work on projects, collectively conceived, that explore this year's theme, trace mining. The Summer School is a training program, where participants receive a certificate of completion. It is also an intensive (and rewarding) workshop environment, where participants work in teams, tracing and mapping data, objects and issues. DMI also invites special guests as resource people to present their research and projects in morning lectures. There is a final presentation where the Summer School accomplishments are presented to participants and invitees. Below please find the call for participation. Please note that the application deadline is Friday 4 May 2012. Candidates will be notified on Tuesday 8 May 2012. Feel free to forward the call to interested individuals. Looking forward to your application and to the Summer School, the Digital Methods team Call for participants Digital Methods Summer School 2012 New Media and Digital Culture Dept. of Media Studies, University of Amsterdam 25 June - 6 July 2012 https://wiki.digitalmethods.net/Dmi/DmiSummer2012 Reality mining, and the limits of digital methods When it becomes simple to trace your friend’s network, your movements online and even the provenance of the can of Coke next to your computer screen, reality becomes subject to prediction and to speculation -- in both the financial and the philosophical sense. This transparency discourse is limited by access to data. Indeed, our actions often generate effect far in excess of our own awareness -- how “open” is the open graph really? The concept of “ethical traceability” has been developed for instance as a regulatory discourse to ensure the security of supply chains, yet in spite of the proliferation of digital traces, consumers have only very limited access to these logistical data. How then do we use digital methods to become more “aware”? Can we adapt our methods to work in recommended or relatively closed environments? How do we use devices to test their claims, but also to reveal and circumvent their blind alleys? After developing a semiotics and structuralism of the link and the network, we explore how digital methods deal with notions of absence. Building on past work in post-demographics and networked content, these workshops will unpack the paradox of online awareness, from social recommendation devices to product and service review sites. Building tools and working with leaked data, our approach this time will be to go beyond merely tracing things in order to make mute objects speak. About "Digital Methods" as Concept Digital methods is a term coined as a counter-point to virtual methods, which typically digitize existing methods and port them onto the Web. Digital methods, contrariwise, seek to learn from the methods built into the dominant devices online, and repurpose them for social and cultural research. That is, the challenge is to study both the info-web as well as the social web with the tools that organize them. There is a general protocol to digital methods. At the outset stock is taken of the natively digital objects that are available (links, tags, threads, etc.) and how devices such as search engines make use of them. Can the device techniques be repurposed, for example by remixing the digital objects they take as inputs? Once findings are made with online data, where to ground them? With more online data? About the Summer School The Digital Methods Summer School, founded in 2007 together with the Digital Methods Initiative, is directed by Professor Richard Rogers, Chair in New Media & Digital Culture at the University of Amsterdam. The Summer School is one training opportunity provided by the Digital Methods Initiative (DMI). DMI also has a Winter School, which includes a mini-conference, where papers are presented and responded to. Winter School papers are often the result of Summer School projects. The Summer School is coordinated by two PhD candidates in New Media at the University of Amsterdam, or DMI affiliates. This year the coordinators are Lonneke van der Velden and Marc Tuters both of the University of Amsterdam. The Summer School has a technical staff as well as a design staff. The Summer School also relies on a technical infrastructure of some five servers hosting tools and storing data. Participants bring their laptops, learn method, undertake research projects, make reports, tools and graphics and write them up on the Digital Methods wiki. We combine practical work with reading sessions in which we reflect on the possibilities and limits of our methods and develop new ideas. Next to a reader, online video tutorials will be provided beforehand. The Summer School concludes with final presentations. Often there are guests from non-governmental or other organizations who present their issues. For instance, Women on Waves came along during the 2010 Summer School. Digital Methods people are currently interning at Greenpeace International and the Global Reporting Initiative. This year, we invited Metahaven, a research and design studio that reflects on political and social issues in provocative design objects. Previous Digital Methods Summer Schools, 2007-2011: https://wiki.digitalmethods.net/Dmi/DmiSummerSchool 2011 Summer School flickr stream: http://bit.ly/q9fepW The Digital Methods Initiative was founded with a grant from the Mondriaan Foundation, and the Summer School is supported by the Center for Creation, Content and Technology (CCCT), University of Amsterdam, hosted by the Faculty of Science with support from Platform Beta. Summer School Training Certificate The Digital Methods Summer School issues completion certificates to participants who follow the Summer School program, and complete a significant contribution to a Summer School project. For previous Summer School projects, see for example https://wiki.digitalmethods.net/Dmi/WikipediaAsASpaceOfControversy. Applications & Fees To apply for the Digital Methods Summer School, 25 June - 6 July 2012, please send a one-page letter explaining how digital methods training would benefit your current work, and also enclose a CV. Mark your application subject header, "DMI Training Certificate Program 2012." The deadline for applications for the Summer School is Friday 4 May 2012. Notices will be sent on Tuesday 8 May 2012. Please address your application email to the Summer School coordinators, Lonneke van der Velden and Marc Tuters, and send to info [at] digitalmethods.net. Informal queries may be sent to Lonneke or Marc, lonneke[at] digitalmethods.net or marc[at] digitalmethods.net. The Summer School costs EUR 295 per person. Accepted applicants will be informed of the bank transfer details upon notice of acceptance to the Summer School. The fee must be paid by 11 June 2012. Logistics: Travel & Accommodation Generally, participants must arrange their own travel and accommodation. The Digital Methods Summer School offers a limited number of Amsterdam apartments for reasonable rates, checking in on Saturday, 23 June and checking out on Saturday, 7 July. These are single apartments with cooking facilities. Doubles also may be available. For housing requests, please write to the Summer School organizers, who will inform you about availability. Once an apartment is reserved, the rent (and cleaning fee) should be paid together with the Summer School fee by 11 June. Summer School Schedule The Summer School meets every day. Plenary sessions are usually scheduled in the mornings. A schedule will be posted on https://wiki.digitalmethods.net/Dmi/DmiSummer2012. Please bring your laptop. We will provide abundant connectivity. We start generally at 9:30 in the morning, and end around 5:30. On the last Friday we have a boat trip through the canals of Amsterdam. Summer School Location New Media & Digital Culture, Media Studies, University of Amsterdam, Turfdraagsterpad 9, 1012 XT Amsterdam, the Netherlands, Rooms 0.13 & 0.04. Morning lectures Digital Methods Winter School 2012 Revisited We have a bonus session that draws upon the Digital Methods Winter School 2012, "Interfaces for the Cloud" and API critique. Metahaven will present their work that actually renders the politics of the cloud. We look forward to welcoming you to Amsterdam in the Summertime!

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New book: Web Search Engine Research
by Dirk Lewandowski 25 Apr '12

25 Apr '12

"Web Search Engine Research", edited by Dirk Lewandowski, has now been published by Emerald Group Publishing. Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Search-Research-Library-Information-Science/dp/178052… Publisher: http://books.emeraldinsight.com/display.asp?K=9781780526362 TOC see below. Web Search Engine Research ISBN: 978-1-78052-636-2 Chapters List of Contributors Page Numbers: xi - xii Year: 2012 Chapter 1 New Perspectives on Web Search Engine Research Authors: Dirk Lewandowski Page Numbers: 1 - 16 Year: 2012 Chapter 2 The Many Ways of Searching the Web Together: A Comparison of Social Search Engines Authors: Manuel Burghardt, Markus Heckner, Christian Wolff Page Numbers: 19 - 46 Year: 2012 Chapter 3 Local Web Search Examined Authors: Dirk Ahlers Page Numbers: 47 - 78 Year: 2012 Chapter 4 The Computational Analysis of Web Search Statistics in the Intelligent Framework Supporting Decision Making Authors: Wieslaw Pietruszkiewicz Page Numbers: 79 - 102 Year: 2012 Chapter 5 Evaluating Web Retrieval Effectiveness Authors: Ben Carterette, Evangelos Kanoulas, Emine Yilmaz Page Numbers: 105 - 137 Year: 2012 Chapter 6 Diversity-Aware Search: New Possibilities and Challenges for Web Search Authors: Kerstin Denecke Page Numbers: 139 - 162 Year: 2012 Chapter 7 Personalised Search Engine Evaluation: Methodologies and Metrics Authors: Kin Fun Li, Yali Wang, Wei Yu Page Numbers: 163 - 202 Year: 2012 Chapter 8 Search Engines and Rank Correlation Authors: Massimo Melucci Page Numbers: 203 - 224 Year: 2012 Chapter 9 Beyond Search: A Technology Probe Investigation Authors: Erin M. Bryant, Richard Harper, Philip Gosset Page Numbers: 227 - 250 Year: 2012 Chapter 10 How Search Engine Users Evaluate and Select Web Search Results: The Impact of the Search Engine Interface on Credibility Assessments Authors: Yvonne Kammerer, Peter Gerjets Page Numbers: 251 - 279 Year: 2012 Chapter 11 What Would Kant Think? Testing Truth Claims in Research Traditions, and Proposing Deeper Meanings for the Concept of “Search” Authors: Denise N. Rall Page Numbers: 281 - 307 Year: 2012 About the Authors Page Numbers: 309 - 314 Year: 2012 -- Prof. Dr. Dirk Lewandowski Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften Hamburg (Hamburg University of Applied Sciences) Fakultät Design Medien Information Department of Information Finkenau 35 D - 22081 Hamburg Germany Tel.: +49 (0) 40-42875 3621 Fax: +49 (0) 3222-1445 301 Skype: dirk.lewandowski Twitter: https://twitter.com/#!/Dirk_Lew http://www.bui.haw-hamburg.de http://www.bui.haw-hamburg.de/lewandowski.html ********* Associate Editor (Europe), Online Information Review http://www.emeraldinsight.com/journals.htm?issn=1468-4527 ********* Aktuelles Buch: Handbuch Internet-Suchmaschinen, Band 2: Neue Entwicklungen in der Web-Suche http://www.amazon.de/Handbuch-Internet-Suchmaschinen-Neue-Entwicklungen-Web… ********* New book: Web Search Engine Research http://www.amazon.com/Search-Research-Library-Information-Science/dp/178052…

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CFP: SLACTIONS 2012 - 4th Research Conference on Virtual Worlds Life, imagination, and work using metaverse platforms
by Tzafnat Shpak 25 Apr '12

25 Apr '12

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[image: Journal of Virtual Worlds Research]<http://jvwresearch.org?utm_source=Journal+of+Virtual+Worlds+Research+Announ…> [image: SLACTIONS 2012 Research Conference in the Second Life World]<http://www.slactions.org/2012/?page_id=2&utm_source=Journal+of+Virtual+Worl…> Dear members, The Journal of Virtual Worlds Research (JVWR) is happy to support this call for SLACTIONS 2012 4th Research Conference on Virtual Worlds Life, imagination, and work using metaverse platforms November 15-17, 2012 http://www.slactions.org/<http://www.slactions.org/?utm_source=Journal+of+Virtual+Worlds+Research+Ann…> The metaverse is emerging, through the increasing use of virtual world technologies that act as platforms for end-users to create, develop, and interact, expanding the realm of human cooperation, interaction, and creativity. *The conference focus is scientific research* on applications and developments of these metaverse platforms: Habbo Hotel, IMVU, Second Life, OpenSimulator, Open Croquet, Activeworlds, Open Wonderland, Minecraft, and others, including MMORPGs such as World of Warcraft, and virtual worlds based on social networks, such as *-ville and others, providing a forum for the research community to present and discuss innovative approaches, techniques, processes, and research results. SLACTIONS 2012 is the fourth edition of SLACTIONS, which was the first international conference held simultaneously in several countries on the topic of metaverse platforms. *SLACTIONS aims at covering most areas currently enabled by metaverse platforms, from educational research to content production, from gender studies to media distribution, and from metaverse-based branding, advertising, and fundraising to emerging mash-ups and technology applications.* SLACTIONS is unique in its format too, as a *one-of-a kind event conducted both in a metaverse platform (Second Life) and on-site in multiple countries throughout the world.* SLACTIONS will thus contribute to the current redefinition of the way we think about hybrid online and on-site scholarly collaborations. Whereas metaverse platforms are no longer a novel topic, they still pose challenges for the adaption of conventional instructional and business practices, research methodologies, and communication practices. We are looking forward to presenting a program of research results, case studies, panel discussions, and demonstrations that scholars, educators, and businesses can port to their own environments and apply in their research, teaching, and business strategy. *We will accept papers from the full spectrum of intellectual disciplines and technological endeavors in which metaverse platforms are currently being used: from Education to Business, Sociology to Social Sciences, Media Production to Technology Development, Architecture and Urban Planning to the Arts.* 1. Topics covered may include but are not limited to: - Accessibility in metaverse platforms - Advanced scientific visualization in metaverse platforms - Automatic content generation - Behavioral studies in the metaverse - Combination of metaverse platforms with external systems (e-learning, e-business, etc.) - Communicational paradigms in the metaverse - Content management and production - Creativity, design, and arts on the metaverse - E-business and e-commerce applications - Educational research, applications, and case studies - Embodiment in metaverses and Gender Studies - GIS/metaverse mash-ups - Integration between metaverse platforms - Nonprofit activities and fundraising - Adapting and developing research methodologies for metaverses - Social Sciences studies in or through metaverse platforms - Space representation, use, and management in metaverses - Using metaverse platforms for cooperation 2. Format SLACTIONS has the format of a hybrid online and physical conference. All paper presentations and plenary sessions by guest speakers will be held on-line in the Second Life virtual world, and projected locally at local chapters, for participants attending physically. Physical participants can interact with the online participants via a "physical chapter avatar" and microphone. Participants will also be able to follow the proceedings broadcast on the Web and interact via a text chat applet. Workshops and other events are conducted locally – or in mixed format across several participating chapters – and local chapters may held local topical round tables. 3. Publication venues All accepted papers and posters will be published on-line and in ISBN-registered digital proceedings. Video posters and live presentations can submit an abstract for inclusion in the digital proceedings. The authors of the best papers will be invited to provide revised and expanded versions for publications in special editions of journals or as single contributions to theme-specific journals. - Journal of Virtual Worlds Research: Selected papers will be fast-tracked for publication in early 2013 issues of JVWR. (ISSN 1941-8477) - Computer & Graphics - International Journal of Systems & Applications in Computer Graphics: Authors of the Best Paper in computer graphics themes will be invited to submit an extended version to be considered for journal publication. (ISSN: 0097-8493 / Imprint: ELSEVIER / impact factor 2010: 0.720) - VIRtual - Electronic Journal of Visualization, Interactive Systems and Pattern Recognition: Authors of selected papers on visualization and graphics will be invited to submit extended versions to a special Issue of the journal. (ISSN 0873-1837 - Journal of Theoretical and Applied Electronic Commerce Research: Authors of selected papers on e-business/e-commerce/m-commerce/e-learning/e-government will be invited to submit extended versions the journal. (ISSN 0718-1876) Check out http://www.slactions.org<http://www.slactions.org?utm_source=Journal+of+Virtual+Worlds+Research+Anno…>regularly for more information and developments on the proceedings publisher and journal venues for best papers. 4. Official language of the conference The official language for the on-line space and all submissions is English only. However, at the physical site of local chapters you can also use the native language of that location. 5. Submissions Authors are invited to submit: - A full paper of eight to ten pages for oral presentation - A "work in progress" paper of 4 pages for oral presentation - A Flickr image or YouTube video, indexed with the tag “slactions2012” for poster presentations ‘in-world’ - A live presentation in Second Life. All submissions are subject to a double blind review process and should be professionally proofread before submission. All manuscripts should be formatted according to the ASIS&T proceedings template. (Disclaimer: SLACTIONS is not associated with ASIS&T.) 6. Important dates - Submissions deadline: *June 30th, 2012* - *July 15th, 2012* - Submission results provided to authors - *September 15th, 2012* - Deadline for early registration - *October 15th, 2012* - Deadline for print-ready versions of accepted papers - *November 15-17th, 2012* - Conference (tentative dates) 7. Local chapters In preparation. Check out http://www.slactions.org<http://www.slactions.org?utm_source=Journal+of+Virtual+Worlds+Research+Anno…>for updated lists and contacts. *Note:* If you believe your institution can hold a physical chapter in an as-yet unsupported region, please contact the organization at info AT slactions.org. 8. Steering Committee Leonel Morgado - University of Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, Portugal Nelson Zagalo - University of Minho, Portugal Ana Boa-Ventura, University of Texas-Austin, USA 9. Programme Committee Ahmer Iqbal – University of Jyvaskyla, Finland Ana Amélia Carvalho – University of Coimbra, Portugal Ana Boa-Ventura – University of Texas, Austin, USA Ângela Pereira – Leiria Polytechnic Institute, Portugal António Lopes – Lusófona University, Portugal Benjamim Fonseca – University of Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, Portugal Clare Atkins – Nelson Marlborough Institute of Technology, New Zealand Daiana Trein – University of Vale do Rio dos Sinos, Brazil Daniel Gonçalves – Higher Technical Institute, Portugal David Deeds – Changchun American International School, China David Herold – Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong Donizetti Louro – Catholic University of Sao Paulo, Brazil Emanuel Peres – University of Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, Portugal Filipe Santos – Leiria Polytechnic Institute, Portugal Greg Lastowka - Rutgers School of Law /Camden, USA Hugo Paredes – University of Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, Portugal Isabel Valverde - Lisbon Technical University, Portugal James Corbett - CEO at MissionV Education/ Business Development Manager at Daynuv Owner at GlobalGreyhounds Ltd., Ireland João Varajão – University of Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, Portugal José Luís Ramos - Évora University, Portugal Leonel Morgado – University of Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, Portugal Lina Morgado - Open University, Portugal Luís Magalhães – University of Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, Portugal Luís Pedro – University of Aveiro, Portugal Marco António Chávez-Aguayo – University of Barcelona, Spain Margarita Pérez-García - Catholic University College Limburg & Provincial University College Limburg, Belgium Micaela Esteves – Leiria Polytechnic Institute, Portugal Narciso Cerpa – University of Talca, Chile Nelson Zagalo – University of Minho, Portugal Nuno Silva – Higher Institute of Engineering of Porto, Portugal Paulo Frias – University of Porto, Portugal Paulo Martins – University of Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, Portugal Pilar Lacasa – University of Alcalá, Spain Ramiro Gonçalves – University of Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, Portugal Steven Warburton – King’s College London, United Kingdom Teresa Bettencourt – University of Aveiro, Portugal Vincent Ng – Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong Yesha Sivan – The Academic College of Tel Aviv-Yaffo, and Metaverse Labs Ltd., Israel / Managing Editor of the Journal of Virtual Worlds Research 10. Organization Ana Margarida Maia – University of Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, Portugal Daniela Pedrosa – University of Coimbra / University of Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, Portugal Gonçalo Cruz Matos – University of Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, Portugal Maria da Glória Fraga - University of Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, Portugal Leonel Morgado – University of Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, Portugal Ricardo Rodrigues Nunes – University of Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, Portugal Vinicius Loureiro – University of Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, Portugal Yesha Sivan – The Academic College of Tel Aviv-Yaffo, Israel, and Metaverse Labs Ltd., Israel/Managing Editor of the Journal of Virtual Worlds Research For any other info, please contact or follow us. 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WikiSym 2012 Doctoral Symposium
by Brian Keegan 24 Apr '12

24 Apr '12

Calling all PhD students who study wikis and open collaboration! The deadline for theWikiSym 2012 <http://www.wikisym.org/ws2012/bin/view/Main/> doctoral symposium is Friday, April 27. As a prior participant, this is a great venue to get feedback on your research design, theories, and methods from some outstanding scholars while networking with other Wiki and open collaboration researchers.Bernie Hogan<http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/people/?id=140> (Oxford Internet Institute) will be leading the doctoral symposium this year. Details on applying are below or are available at: http://www.wikisym.org/ws2012/bin/view/Main/ ======= The WikiSym 2012 Doctoral Symposium is a forum in which Ph.D. students can meet and discuss their work with each other and a panel of experienced researchers and practitioners. The symposium will be held on August 26 in Linz, Austria to coincide with Ars Electronica. *Important dates:* Apr 23, 2012 Application materials dueMay 21, 2012Notification of acceptanceJuly 23, 2012Final versions of abstracts and research overviews dueAugust 23, 2012Doctoral Symposium We encourage participation from all doctoral students doing work related to open collaboration, regardless of their academic discipline. Relevant disciplines include (but are not limited to) computer science, sociology, psychology, anthropology, information science, cognitive science, rhetoric, communications, and economics. Applicants should be PhD students with a clear focus or programme of research. This workshop will help to strengthen and sharpen the research focus and implementation, rather than generate specific ideas for research. Preference will be given to students who already have begun their dissertations and are within two years of graduation. The Symposium committee will select 8-10 participants. Participants will present their work at the Symposium; each student presentation will be followed by feedback from a faculty mentor and extensive group discussion. *How to Apply:* Applicants should submit the following items through the (EasyChair Conference System<https://www.easychair.org/account/signin.cgi?conf=wikisym12> ) A two-page overview of your doctoral research that describes your research question, any work in progress, and expected contributions of the dissertation as well as expectations for this doctoral symposium. This overview should begin with an abstract of no more than 100 words. Please submit in the CHI Extended Abstract Format (Word Template<http://www.sigchi.org/chi2010/authors/chi2010extendedabstracts.doc>from CHI 2010, please remove copyright notice) - A half page biographical sketch, and a short paragraph about your current supervisor including contact information. *An up-to-date curriculum vita. *Optionally, one publication as an indicator of your progress in your research. All submissions must be submitted by April 23, 2012. Use the same application system as the original submissions, which will be open after April 13th for Doctoral Symposium submissions, and include all relevant material in a single contiguous document. *Doctoral Symposium Chair*: Bernie Hogan, Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford (bernie.hogan(a)oii.ox.ac.uk) *Additional Faculty Mentors will be announced within two months of the event, and students will be notified who is their Symposium mentor. * Feel free to email the Chair with any questions. -- Brian C. Keegan Ph.D. Student - Media, Technology, & Society School of Communication, Northwestern University Science of Networks in Communities, Laboratory for Collaborative Technology

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Re: [Air-L] Air-L Digest, Vol 93, Issue 21
by Janne Nielsen 24 Apr '12

24 Apr '12

This is an automatic reply. I will be out of the office until May 10th. Best regards, Janne Nielsen

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CFP: altmetrics12: tracking scholarly impact on the social Web.
by Jason Priem 24 Apr '12

24 Apr '12

Call for Proposals: altmetrics12: tracking scholarly impact on the social Web. An ACM Web Science Conference 2012 Workshop Evanston, IL • 21 June 2011 Increasing scholarly use of Web2.0 tools like CiteULike, Mendeley, Twitter, and blog-style article commenting presents an opportunity to track scholarly impact in novel ways. Metrics based on this diverse set of Web sources could yield broader, richer, and more timely assessments of current and potential scholarly impact. Realizing this, many authors have begun to investigate these altmetrics. altmetrics12 encourages continued investigation into the the properties of these metrics: their validity, their potential value and flaws, and their relationship to established measures. Submissions are invited from a variety of areas: * New metrics based on social media * Tracking science communication on the Web * Relation between traditional metrics and altmetrics * Peer-review and altmetrics * Tools for gathering, analyzing, disseminating altmetrics This workshop is a follow-up to the successful altmetrics11 workshop hosted by WebSci’11. Important Dates 2-page abstracts due: May 18, 2012 Acceptance and abstract publication: May 22, 2012 Open pre-workshop discussion: May 22 – June 18, 2012 Workshop at WebSci 12 June 21, 2012 Discussion closed June 30, 2012 Invitations for post-workshop proceedings TBA Submissions Prospective authors should submit 2-page extended abstracts (max. 1000 words, not including references) via EasyChair. If necessary, the workshop organizers will select the most relevant, original, and significant abstracts for presentation. Experimental results will be given preference, followed by technical reports on working altmetrics tools and position papers. All selected submissions will be published online for open peer review and discussion. Authors are encouraged to participate in the discussions of their work. Based on the presentations and online discussion, selected authors may be asked to submit full papers for peer-reviewed proceedings. Location The workshop is hosted by the ACM Web Science Conference 2012 (Evanston, Illinois). This interdisciplinary conference focuses on advances in studying the full range of social-technical relationships on the Web. Please visit the workshop website (http://altmetrics.org/altmetrics12) for more information. Organizers Paul Groth – VU University Amsterdam, NL Jason Priem – University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA Dario Taraborelli – Wikimedia Foundation, USA -- Jason Priem UNC Royster Scholar School of Information and Library Science University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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