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New Issue of Information, Communication and Society: CITASA 2012
by Laura Robinson 12 Apr '12

12 Apr '12

Hello All, I am very pleased to announce that the special issue of *Information, Communication & Society* featuring articles presented at the 2011 ASA Meeting is now available online through Taylor & Francis’ iFirst service. Please see below for the table of contents or link to the articles at: http://www.tandfonline.com/action/showAxaArticles?journalCode=rics20 As with previous issues, this annual issue is sponsored by CITASA. <http://www.tandfonline.com/action/showAxaArticles?journalCode=rics20>On behalf of myself and Gina Neff, the co-editor on the issue, I would like to thank everyone for participating. Thanks to the authors for their contributions and for their help in showcasing some of the excellent work that is happening across the CITASA section. *INFORMATION, COMMUNICATION & SOCIETY* Volume 15, Number 4, May 2012 *Special Issue: **Communication and Information Technologies Section (ASA) Special Issue* *CONTENTS* *Editorial Comment: * *The Social Matrix of the Emergent Web: Governance, Exchange, Participation, & Engagement. Introduction to the ASA Communication and Information Technologies Section 2012 Special Issue* * **Gina Neff and Laura Robinson* * * *ARTICLES* * * *SECTION 1: Structures of Governance and Exchange* * * *Digital formations of the powerful and the powerless: the case of informal political knowledge* *Saskia Sassen* * * *Caring capital websites* *Ronald E. Anderson* * * *Hacking the global: constructing markets and commons through free software* *Sara Schoonmaker* * * *The exchange of material culture among rock fans in online communities* *Andrea J. Baker* * * ** *SECTION 2: Participation, Movements & Engagement* * * *The participatory web: a user perspective on Web 2.0* *Grant Blank & Bianca C. Reisdorf * * * *The trend of class, race and ethnicity in social media inequality: who still can’t afford to blog? * *Jen Schradie* * * *Communicating injustice? Framing and online protest against Chinese government land expropriation* *Qiongyou Pu & Stephen J. Scanlan* * * *Private protest? Public and private engagement online* *Jennifer Earl* Laura Robinson www.laurarobinson.org laura(a)laurarobinson.org Assistant Professor Department of Sociology Santa Clara University <laura(a)laurarobinson.org> <laura(a)laurarobinson.org> Visiting Assistant Professor Department of Sociology Cornell University <laura(a)laurarobinson.org>

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CfP ECREA pre-conference 'Imposing Freedoms'
by Jo Pierson 12 Apr '12

12 Apr '12

ECREA 2012 PRE-CONFERENCE / CALL FOR PAPERS Istanbul, 23 October 2012 Imposing Freedoms: The role of copyright, privacy and censorship governance in the re/definition of rights in digital media This event is co-organised by the Media Governance and Industries Research Group (http://mediagovernance.univie.ac.at) of the Department of Communication Studies at the University of Vienna with the: ECREA Communication Law and Policy Section IAMCR Communication Policy and Technology (CP&T) and Law Sections ICA Communication Law and Policy Division It is hosted by the Plato College of Higher Education. In the era of digital, global, around-the-clock communications, changes in the practices and principles in the production, distribution and consumption of the media raise pressing questions for media governance. Established values in communication regulation -- from individual liberties to the public interest, and from state security to the free market -- continue to coexist, but often stand in conflict with each other, undergoing new interpretations, often in the company of emerging principles. Tactics of control are used by governments, corporations, communities, and citizens. These deal with different subjects and have varying aims and degrees of success, but all influence the ways in which the governance of communicative action develops. To a great extent, media governance values derive from the Enlightenment project, regulating (or regularising) actions by citizens, states, communities, and/or corporations. Liberty and freedom of expression, self-governance and legitimacy, the rule of law, equality, and universality of rights are understood to provide the underpinnings of national regulatory and legal frameworks. Experience with the effects of legal efforts to operationalise such concepts in the digital environment, however, changed the way in which these values are understood. Individual freedom appears fragile in the context of contemporary control and surveillance methods used by both public and private sector entities. Existing freedoms as provided by, for example, the right to access information appear to be viewed as imposing inconveniences that must be dealt with through new tactics of control. In many contexts, freedom is increasingly being treated as a 'transitive' condition that is 'imposed' on societies without reference to actual needs or concomitant attention to justice as understood by those upon whom control practices are being imposed and with selective attention to international standards. Digital media governance models are called to deal with the contemporary conflict between powerful intentions and fragile conditions, individual freedoms and transnational influences, the political enmeshment of the public and the private, and the effects of networks on the structures of power. Drawing upon contemporary theories, governance is understood as the formal and informal practices of institutions and private and public sector actors. In the realm of digital media, this kind of governance explicitly and/or implicitly frames social relations and vice versa. This means that emerging forms of governance have implications for our understanding of agency, democracy and citizenship. This symposium invites theoretical, methodological and empirical papers with a specific focus on actual or possible new values, doctrinal principles, and/or implementation practices of media governance as they redefine, reinterpret, operationalise, or abandon freedom as traditionally understood, from the perspective of governments, corporations, communities, and also citizens. Some suggested directions for enquiry include: -What kinds of new or revived values are informing media governance? Which models of governance are being promoted, and which are being sidelined? -What experiences with alleged freedom, or alternative modes of conceptualising freedom, test the validity, appropriateness, and efficacy of current media governance practices worldwide? -To what extent are governments applying new tactics and reconfiguring regulatory values to maintain control over digital and physical spaces? -How is globalization of the law affecting media governance at the national level? -Will the anti-terrorism and crisis 'state of exception' used by most governments to justify significant changes in the treatment of free speech and access to information endure? If so, what are the implications of this development for media governance in the future? -In which ways are global corporations involved in the shaping of media governance and what are the implications of these developments in policymaking for the reconceptualisation of certain freedoms and rights (e.g., in the areas of privacy, expression, and copyright)? - To what extent and in which ways are the practices by citizens and communities following, opposing and/or negotiating media (technology) governance, and what are the consequences for agency, empowerment and freedom of media users (e.g. in design/domestication of media, tactics/strategies by public, democratic rationalisation)? -Which models of media governance may be particularly fruitful for those seeking guarantees of the legal, material and symbolic aspects of individual and communal freedoms and identities? What new tactics of control and resistance are enabled by such models? -In what ways can media regulation be responsible for the encroachment of certain individual freedoms and rights despite appearing to try to preserve those same freedoms and rights? We are interested in dynamic panel debates and dialogue, and the development of research agendas as an outcome of the event. For this reason there will be a limited number of participants. Confirmed speakers Jonas Andersson, Sodertorn University, Sweden Alison Beale, Simon Fraser University, Canada Sandra Braman University of Wisconsin, US Mary Griffiths, University of Adelaide, Australia Jo Pierson, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium Evangelia Psychogiopoulou, ELIAMEP Greece Katharine Sarikakis, University of Vienna, Austria Laura Stein, University of Texas, US Asli Tunc, Istanbul Bilgi University, Turkey Abstract Submission Please submit your 400 words abstract along with your contact details and a 3 lines bio to mediagovernance.pkw(a)univie.ac.at. The deadline for the submission of abstracts is May 7, 2012. We encourage early submissions. Notification of abstract review May 20, 2012.

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CfP Scientific Knowledge and the Transgression of Boundaries - International Graduate Summer School
by Judith Simon 12 Apr '12

12 Apr '12

******Apologies for cross posting***** Call for Papers Scientific Knowledge and the Transgression of Boundaries- International Graduate Summer School August 27 -- 31, 2012, San Sebastian, Spain Lecturers: Steve Fuller, Markus F. Peschl, Hans-Jörg Rheinberger and Hans-Peter Schütt Discussants:Fabrice Pataut, Hannot Rodriguez, Judith Simon Important Dates Abstract Submission (participation with an individual presentation): May 18^th 2012 Abstract Submission (participation only): May 25^th 2012 Notification of acceptance: June 15^th 2012 Full Papers (participation with an individual presentation): August 1^st 2012 Please see our Homepage at www.itas.kit.edu/summerschool2012 <http://www.itas.kit.edu/summerschool2012>for further information and the preliminary programme. From 27 to 31 August 2012, the /Institute for Technology Assessment and Systems Analysis (KIT/ITAS) /will be organising an International Summer School for PhD students in partnership with the /Logic and Philosophy of Science Department at the Universidad del Pais Vasco (UPV)/ in San Sebastian, Spain. The Summer School is part of the XXXI summer courses and XXIV European courses of Donostia-San Sebastian.Under the scientific supervision of Bettina-Johanna Krings (KIT/ITAS) and Professor Andoni Ibarra (UPV), the subject of the Summer School will be: "Scientific Knowledge and the Transgression of Boundaries" Subject New scientific findings challenge not only societies but also the sciences themselves to come to terms with the new knowledge. While the previous boundaries of scientific knowledge are overcome (e.g. decoding the human genome), each expansion of our knowledge brings with it new limits that lead to delineations of boundaries both within and outside the particular discipline concerned. These recurrent redefinitions of boundaries have marked the entire historical process of scientific development, for example in the form of scientific and technical /achievements/. However, these achievements are not only celebrated as milestones of acquired progress, but in many cases they also lead to fierce dispute in society due to their ambivalent and complex effects on social processes. Whether in the fields of the life sciences, emerging technologies or brain research, in recent times scientific discoveries have given rise to social doubts and uncertainties, questioning the boundaries in the relations between man and nature and redefining and re-examining the problems of the changing role of science and technology in the dynamics of social progress. This social effect is expressed in the increased demand for the application of a code of ethics in these fields. At the same time, an effect of transgression and removal of existing social boundaries is under way, as can be seen, for example, in the debate on the use of service robots in the care of senior citizens. The aim of the International Summer School is to study the changes in the social role of science and technology in modern societies and to analyse these changes from a variety of specialised perspectives and disciplines by using the two metaphors of "definition and transgression of boundaries". In this context, papers from a sociological, philosophical or historical perspective are welcome as much as concrete examples from the various disciplines in the natural or engineering sciences addressing the following *questions*: ·What basic epistemological conditions can be established for the transgression/definition of boundaries in science? ·Where can we see manifestations of (new) definitions of the boundaries at the interfaces of science, technology and other social fields? What are the social effects of these shifts in boundaries? ·What methodological approaches can be applied to identify and measure a change in the role of scientific knowledge? ·What stances and behavioural patterns are adopted by the scientific institutions and actors in the social and disciplinary boundary fields? ·What social problems point beyond specialised disciplinary boundaries today? ·Which empirical objects of research cannot be addressed in a disciplinary procedure? Papers are requested from students investigating these questions in their PhD projects. / / /Concept and Venue/ The Summer School provides PhD students with the opportunity to develop their projects in an intensive working atmosphere and in an international context. Three formats will be used: "Lecture", "Individual Presentation" and "Workshop". At the same time, San Sebastian provides participants with the opportunity for a week of relaxed interchange, discussion and networking with experienced scientists and other PhD students. ·"Lecture": Established scientists will present their basic positions in lectures. For a list of professors who have agreed to give lectures, and the lecture subjects, please visit our website ·"Individual Presentation": This format consists of a 30 minute paper, in which PhD students present their project to the plenum. A senior scientist will provide comments on the presentation, on the basis of a previously submitted paper, and the presentation will then be discussed in the plenum. PhD projects presented in this framework should already be in an advanced stage. ·"Workshop": In the workshop, problems of relevance to the work of the PhD students will be addressed and discussed in small groups. Each group will be chaired by a scientist with practical experience in the relevant field. In this intensive format, the students will be able to submit and discuss their own concrete problems. The language of the Summer School is English. On successful completion of the Summer School, the graduate will receive a certificate of attendance. /Registration/ The Summer School is open to PhD students at various stages of progress on their dissertation project, and offers two forms of participation: graduates may take part either in combination with a proposed individual presentation or without their own presentation. ·To apply for _participation with individual presentation_, please send us, at the latest by May 18^th 2012, an abstract of max. 3000 characters outlining your PhD project and in particular the background to the problem discussed, research questions as well as the methods and theoretical approaches to be adopted, together with a CV. Participants are expected to submit a full paper by August 1^st 2012. ·To apply as _participant without individual presentation_, please send us, at the latest by May 25^th 2012, an abstract of max. 1500 characters briefly outlining your PhD project, together with a CV. Please send your suggestions to anna.schleisiek(a)kit.edu <mailto:anna.schleisiek@kit.edu>. Applicants will receive notification of acceptance by June 15^th 2012. Participation in the course is free of charge.Unfortunately, the organisers cannot cover any travel or accommodation costs. We would like to draw your attention to national sponsorship institutions like the DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) in the case of Germany, who offer training course scholarships for students. Please contact your university's international office for further information on scholarships available in your country. Please circulate this CFP among your colleagues and phd-students. -- Judith Simon ITAS - Karlsruhe Institute of Technology <http://www.itas.kit.edu/english/index.php> (Senior Researcher) Department of Philosophy <http://philosophie.univie.ac.at/> - University of Vienna (PI: Epistemic Trust in Socio-Technical Epistemic Systems <http://www.fwf.ac.at/en/abstracts/abstract.asp?L=E&PROJ=P23770>) Institut Jean Nicod <http://www.institutnicod.org/notices.php?user=Simon> - Ecole normale supérieure - Paris (Associate Post-doctoral fellow) <http://www.kit.edu/>

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FW: [JoCI] Special Issue: Community Informatics and Open Government Data
by michael gurstein 12 Apr '12

12 Apr '12

Readers: The Journal of Community Informatics has just published its latest issue at http://ci-journal.net/index.php/ciej. We invite you to review the Table of Contents here and then visit our web site to review articles and items of interest. This special issue edited by Tim Davies and Zainab Bawa is being offered as a constructive contribution to the developing debates and practices of Open Government Data - as global infrastructures, technical architectures, and grassroots movements co-evolve. It is published as a rolling issue, with an initial set of papers made available in April 2012, and a further set of papers (currently going through the review process), and field notes (responding to emerging themes) to be published later in the year. Our hope is that this provides a way to combine the editorial and review processes of putting together a journal issue, with a rapidly emerging and evolving field, where developments far outpace the speed of conventional scholarly publishing. Thanks for the continuing interest in our work, Michael Gurstein, Ph.D. Editor in Chief: Journal of Community Informatics, Vancouver CANADA Phone 604-602-0624 gurstein(a)gmail.com The Journal of Community Informatics Special Issue: Community Informatics and Open Government Data Table of Contents http://ci-journal.net/index.php/ciej/issue/view/41 Editorial -------- The Promises and Perils of Open Government Data (OGD) Tim G. Davies, Zainab Ashraf Bawa Two Worlds of Open Government Data: Getting the Lowdown on Public Toilets in Chennai and Other Matters Michael Gurstein Articles -------- "This is what modern deregulation looks like" : co-optation and contestation in the shaping of the UK's Open Government Data Initiative Jo Bates Design Issues for Building Deliberative Digital Habitats Fiorella De Cindio The Rhetoric of Transparency and its Reality: Transparent Territories, Opaque Power and Empowerment Bhuvaneswari Raman Data Template For District Economic Planning Sharadini Rath Notes from the field -------- Open Data - what the citizens really want Wolfgang Both Some Observations on the Practice of "Open Data" As Opposed to Its Promise Roland J. Cole Apps For Amsterdam Tom Demeyer Collecting data in Chennai City and the limits of openness Nithya V Raman Notes and cases from the field (practitioners) -------- Mapping the Tso Kar basin in Ladakh Shashank Srinivasan ________________________________________________________________________ The Journal of Community Informatics http://www.ci-journal.net

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Programme of the Conference "Critique, Democracy and Philosophy in 21st Century Information Society"
by Christian Fuchs 11 Apr '12

11 Apr '12

Critique, Democracy and Philosophy in 21st Century Information Society. Towards Critical Theories of Social Media. The 4th ICTs and Society Conference. Uppsala University. May 2-4, 2012 The programme of this conference is now available online: http://www.icts-and-society.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/timeplan.pdf 172 people registered for the conference, we will have 92 presentations in parallel sessions and 13 keynote talks. The presentations cover a broad range of topics from the perspective of Critical, Marxist and Normative Media and Communication Studies and promise an exciting conference. A collection of abstracts will be available for download on the website one week before start of the conference. Best, Christian Fuchs -- Prof. Christian Fuchs Chair in Media and Communication Studies Department of Informatics and Media Uppsala University Kyrkogårdsgatan 10 Box 513 751 20 Uppsala Sweden christian.fuchs(a)im.uu.se Tel +46 (0) 18 471 1019 http://fuchs.uti.at http://www.im.uu.se NetPolitics Blog: http://fuchs.uti.at/blog Editor of tripleC: http://www.triple-c.se Chair of ESA RN18-Sociology of Communications and Media Research ICTs and Society Network: http://www.icts-and-society.net

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Position Available at Cornell
by Lee Humphreys 10 Apr '12

10 Apr '12

Dear Colleagues, Cornell's Department of Communication is currently searching for a colleague to teach in the area of Communication and Information Technology, with an emphasis in one or more of the following: 1) Human-Computer Interaction, 2) Computer-Mediated Communication, 3) Social Media, and 4) Technology and Society. This 1-year appointment is for Fall 2012 and Spring 2012, with a possibility for summer research and a one-year renewal. To apply send a letter of application addressing position qualifications and goals, vita, writing sample, names and contact information of three references to communication(a)cornell.edu<mailto:tocommunication@cornell.edu>. For more information or if there are questions about the position, please contact Geri Gay, gkg1(a)cornell.edu<mailto:gkg1@cornell.edu>. Sincerely, Lee Lee Humphreys, PhD Assistant Professor Dept. of Communication Cornell University

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Insight 2.0: The Future of Social Media Analysis. Student Discount Extended!
by Lawrence Ampofo 10 Apr '12

10 Apr '12

Dear Colleagues, This is an announcement that the student and university discount of GBP 37 has been extended until Friday 20 April! Tickets can be purchased by visiting the website www.zero1events.com. Please email lampofo(a)zero1events.com for the discount code. Insight 2.0: The Future of Social Media Analysis on Friday 27 April 2012 in central London is designed for everyone interested in the potential of social media data to stimulate data-driven discovery and decision-making in this hyper-connected digital era. For a limited time, until Friday 20th April, a special admission price for university affiliates of GBP 37 will be available in addition to the GBP 59 early bird admission price. Please email lampofo(a)zero1events.com for the discount code. More information about the event can be found by visiting www.zero1events.com The event will feature short, energetic talks from experts from the fields of psychology, political and security intelligence, gamification, big data and brand insight amongst others. Distinguished speakers include: Kevin Anderson – The Guardian, Al-Jazeera Pippa Norris – Ministry of Defence Professor Martin Everett – University of Manchester David Stillwell – University of Cambridge Nathalie Nihai – The Web Psychologist Alfred Rolington – Former CEO Jane’s Information Group, Oxford Analytica For more information, please visit www.zero1events.com and Twitter @zero1events We hope you will be able to join us to think differently about social media analysis. Best wishes, Dr. Lawrence Ampofo

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New Book: Cyberscience 2.0
by Nentwich, Michael 10 Apr '12

10 Apr '12

Dear colleagues! My co-autor, Rene Koenig, and myself proudly announce the publication of our new book: Cyberscience 2.0 - Research in the Age of Digital Social Networks Campus, April 2012 At the start of the twenty-first century, the Internet was already perceived to have fundamentally changed the landscape for research. With its opportunities for digital networking, novel publication schemes, and new communication formats, the web was a game-changer for how research was done as well as what came after-the dissemination and discussion of results. Addressing the seismic shifts of the past ten years, Cyberscience 2.0 examines the consequences of the arrival of social media and the increasing dominance of big Internet players, such as Google, for science and research, particularly in the realms of organization and communication. Order at Campus: http://www.campus.de/wissenschaft/kulturwissenschaften/Kommunikation+u nd+Medien.40449.html/Cyberscience+2.0.98243.html Order at Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Cyberscience-2-0-Interaktiva-Schriftenreihe-Inte raktivit%C3%A4t/dp/3593395185/ref=sr_1_1?s=books-intl-de&ie=UTF8&qid=1 334058871&sr=1-1 Best regards, Michael *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* PD Dr. Michael NENTWICH Director Institute of Technology Assessment of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, A-1030 Vienna, Strohgasse 45/5 Tel. +43 1 51581 6583 Fax. +43 1 7109883 mailto:mnent@oeaw.ac.at Personal homepage: http://eiop.or.at/mn/ Institute: http://www.oeaw.ac.at/ita/ +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail, thank you! ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

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2012 FCVW Annual Conference "Inspire the Future" is coming May 16 - 18!
by Tzafnat Shpak 10 Apr '12

10 Apr '12

** Trouble viewing this email? Click here<http://us2.campaign-archive2.com/?u=de4fa2a435382cb1fa67cb708&id=5ceee3bde6…>to view it online. [image: Journal of Virtual Worlds Research]<http://jvwresearch.org?utm_source=Journal+of+Virtual+Worlds+Research+Announ…> [image: Federal Consortium for Virtual Worlds May 2012]<http://www.ndu.edu/icollege/fcvw/index.htm?utm_source=Journal+of+Virtual+Wo…> Dear members, The Journal of Virtual Worlds Research (JVWR) is happy to support calls for the *5th Annual Federal Consortium for Virtual Worlds Conference "Inspire the Future" May 16, 17 & 18, National Defense University, Washington DC.* Don’t forget to register for the best FCVW Conference Program we have ever had! Conference schedule is on the FCVW website ( http://www.ndu.edu/icollege/fcvw<http://www.ndu.edu/icollege/fcvw?utm_source=Journal+of+Virtual+Worlds+Resea…>) since Friday, April 5. *WORKSHOPS—May 16*: You will have the choice between 17 workshops offered throughout the day. - Three-hour workshops include: iHub (Stylianos Mystakidis), DoD Virtual Worlds Framework (Carl Rosengrant), and Developing Content in Unity 3D (Eric Hackathorn). - 75-minute workshops include: Authentic Avatar (Brock-Richmond), Designing 3D VW Education & Training Courses (Reyer), Cognitive Ethnography (Dubbels), Immersive Intelligence and 3D Data Virtualization (Richard Hackathorn), Growing Your Organizations vTraining Presence (Perkins), PTSD (Kevin Holloway), Microsoft and VW, VWs for Analysis and Experimentations (Aguilar), Lessons from goXOgo (Kearney), NTER (Cohen), Personal Transformation in a VW (Deveneaux), Advanced Telemedicine (Dillion), MOSES Open Simulator (Maxwell), and Using Serious Games in OpenSim to Model Taxpayer Behavior (Creekmore). Schedule will be available this week. More detailed information on each workshop will be available on our website by April 30. *SPEAKERS*: We have incredible speakers this year. Randy Hinrichs, CEO 2b3d and editor of “Transforming Virtual World Learning” and “Engaging the Avatar” will be the opening keynote! James Blascovich, Director and co-founder of the Research Center for Virtual Environments at UC Santa Barbara and co-author of “Infinite Reality: The Hidden Blueprint of our Virtual Lives will discuss the reality of the avatar. Michelle Fox, Chief Strategist for Education and Worksforce Development at the Department of Energy will show us the NTER project and its virtual world capabilities. Jesse Schell, game designer at Carnegie Mellon’s Entertainment Technology Center will challenge us to think outside of the box with games and 3D environments. *Check out the schedule and bios of the speakers on the website. * *PANELS*: Charles Wankel, author and editor of more than 30 books, including a co-Author of Transforming Virtual World Learning (Cutting-Edge Technologies in Higher Education) (2011) and Higher Education in Virtual Worlds: Teaching and Learning in Second Life (International Perspectives on Education and Society) (2009) is putting together a great education panel. Other panels include: a telemedicine panel led by Kevin Holloway, Army psychologist from T2 and award winner for his PTSD island; DoD panel that will address the use of OpenSim MOSES Project a virtual world space for groups in DoD and led by Douglas Maxwell, Science and Technology Manager Virtual World Strategic Applications created by Army Research Labs. The final panel will address the important topic of Cyber Security in Virtual Worlds. The Panel will be led by Barbara Endicott-Popovsky, the Director for the Center for Information Assurance and Cybersecuity and the Academic Director, Master of Infrastructure Planning and Management at the University of Washington. *More details with panel membership will be posted on the website no later than April 30.* *GOVERNMENT POSTER SESSIONS:* We still have room for a few more government project poster sessions. Awards will be given for the best poster sessions voted by conference participants. If you have a virtual world or 3D collaborative game project with the government, please send your name and contact information in an email to FederalConsortiumVW(a)ndu.edu. Complete list of government poster sessions will be posted by April 30, 2012 on the website. *VENDOR FAIR*: We still have some vendor spaces available for the conference vendor fair. Please send your inquiries ASAP to FederalConsortiumVW(a)ndu.edu<FederalConsortiumVW(a)ndu.edu?subject=%5BFCVW2012%5D>and we will send you the information you will need to be part of this conference. *RECEPTION (May 17) 3:30-7:30*—Come and network with a great group of people, see government projects, and interact with vendors. 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CALL FOR BOOK CHAPTERS - Ethical Data Mining Applications for Socio-Economic Development
by Hakikur Rahman 10 Apr '12

10 Apr '12

To Colleagues and Friends: CALL FOR BOOK CHAPTERS Proposal Submission Deadline: May 30, 2012 Full Chapter Submission Deadline: July 30, 2012 Ethical Data Mining Applications for Socio-Economic Development A book edited by Dr. Hakikur Rahman and Dr. Isabel Ramos, University of Minho, Portugal To be published by IGI Global: http://www.igi-global.com (Call for the chapter: http://www.igi-global.com/authorseditors/authoreditorresources/callforbookc…) Introduction Data mining is the process of discovering significant, valuable and interesting structures and relationships in large and complex volumes of data, especially in data-enriched areas like finance, insurance, marketing, technology, science, engineering, research, environmental and biomedical sciences, and in many other socio-economic domains. In the socio-economic aspect of a society, data mining applications essentially act as effective instruments for providing support to health care facilities, electronics-based commerce, supermarket purchases, stock trades, insurance claims conducted on-line, or measuring socio-economic pattern of a society. This way, a wealth of information can be amassed about not only on clients´ habits and their preferences, but also about the behavior pattern, purchase pattern, sales pattern, stock pattern and even profit forecast. However, practitioners often seek personal information not directly from the participants themselves, but from other collected sources, and this may lead to unreliability about the source with privacy protection, and raises ethical concern. Social and ethical matters are nowadays concerns to the society, of which people are the only elements. Furthermore, in the days of technology innovations, computers are being manipulated with programs to act more like people, and eventually several social and ethical matters come into focus related to computer programming, or artificial intelligence. Hence, learning about ethical issues on data mining applications is an important area of research interest. Overall Objective of the Book The ethical conduct of research is becoming an important element of modern scientific research. In these days, computer science and its technological remnants touch nearly every aspect of human life, and computer scientists must conduct and report their research in an ethical manner. The book will provide an overview on ethical issues in research for development of ICTs, and socio-economic development aspects. This book will also collate scientific developments with ethical issues, develop theories in relation to researches with ethical impediments, examine potential ethical dilemmas in this discipline, synthesize experimental cases to develop models as success cases and discuss how ethical concerns may be addressed to tackle these situations. Finally, the book looks to make an in-depth study on other areas of ethical concern and future development of a common acceptable code for ethical computer science research. Target Audience As an emerging subject, the target audiences are expected to be from the scientists, researchers, and practitioners working in the field of data mining, data warehousing, database management and information systems technologies. Furthermore, the audience will include among various stakeholders, like academics, research institutes, and individuals those are interested in this field, and most of all among the huge audience in the public sector comprising government agencies, ministries, education institutions, health service providers, financial service providers, social service providers and other types of government, commercial and not-for-profit agencies. Recommended topics for chapters include, but are not limited to, the following: primary data, methods and procedures to create compilations of accurate reporting with ethical issues; primary data that are based on human observation to be treated for prompt recording and accurate presentation; preservation of record for future use and intelligent decision making; recording sufficient detail of data to preserve the record of factors that might turn out to be significant; develop methods that minimizes doubt about the time of the occurrence or the time at which it was recorded; data record that should be kept reasonably free from risk of damage or ethical concerns; necessary research materials that should be made available to others who attempt to replicate similar research works; creation, maintenance and preservation of large amount of data, content and record; preserving the confidentiality of sensitive information about human subjects, if any, in the data record; and preservation of research data for a reasonable number of years after the appearance of final reports or publications resulting from the research. More broadly, topics may follow these issues: - web-based publication and dissemination of data, - development of natural language database search aids for the humanities, - development of social science geographical information systems, - data mining and social science data exploration and description, - creation of an open source digital library system for quantitative data for easier dissemination, - establishment of a federation of geographically distributed interoperable anthropology databases, - establishment of a large international consortia of data sets supporting storage and dissemination of social science data, or - establishment of localized databases as per local demand in local languages. Submission Procedure Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit on or before May 30, 2012, a 2-3 page proposal clearly explaining the mission and concerns of his or her proposed chapter. Authors of accepted proposals will be notified by June 15, 2012 about the status of their proposals and sent case guidelines. Full cases are expected to be submitted by July 30, 2012. All submitted cases will be reviewed on a double-blind review basis. Contributors may also be requested to serve as reviewers for this project. Publisher This book is scheduled to be published by IGI Global (formerly Idea Group Inc.), publisher of the Information Science Reference (formerly Idea Group Reference), Medical Information Science Reference, and IGI Publishing imprints. For additional information regarding the publisher, please visit www.igi-global.com. This publication is anticipated to be released in 2013. Important Dates: May 30, 2012: Proposal Submission Deadline June 15, 2012: Notification of Acceptance July 30, 2012: Full Chapter Submission August 30, 2012: Review Result Returned September 30, 2012: Final Chapter Submission Editorial Advisory Board Members: Ali Serhan Koyuncugil, University of Baskent, Turkey Ángela-Jo Medina, Financial Literacy Coalition of Central Texas, USA Derya Altunbas, Canakkale Onsekiz Mart University, Turkey Kam Hou Vat, University of Macau, Macau Georgios Lappas, Technological Educational Institute, Greece. Inquiries and Submissions can be forwarded electronically (Word document) to: Prof. Hakikur Rahman University of Minho DSI, Azurem 4800-058 Guimaraes, Portugal. Tel.: +351 253 510 319 FAX: +351 253 510 300 GSM: +351 960193872 E-mail: email(a)hakik.org

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