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Comm. Technology Div. (AEJMC) Needs Help Reviewing
by Carmen Stavrositu 28 Mar '12

28 Mar '12

Dear Colleagues, With the AEJMC submission deadline of April 1 just around the corner, I would like to make one final call for reviewers on behalf of the Communication Technology division. In the last two years, CTEC has received record numbers of submissions. As it is almost certain this will be another record year for CTEC, I kindly ask that you volunteer to review for the division. As a general rule, I will do my very best to assign no more than three papers per volunteer reviewer. Please help me achieve this! The more reviewers we have, the lower each individual reviewer's load. If you would like to serve as a reviewer, please take a minute to email me at ctec.research(a)gmail.com with the following information: 1. Your name and current email; 2. Your current affiliation; 3. Your area of specialization and preferred methodologies; 4. Your willingness to be a moderator and/or discussant for a CTEC panel. As a general rule, CTEC does not employ student reviewers. Thank you for your consideration. Your service to the division as paper reviewer and session moderator/discussant is deeply appreciated. All the best, Carmen Stavrositu Research Chair, CTEC/AEJMC -- Carmen Stavrositu, Ph.D. Assistant Professor University of Colorado Colorado Springs Communication Department 1420 Austin Bluffs Parkway Colorado Springs, CO 80918 719.255.4024 cstavros(a)uccs.edu

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Call for Proposals: 2012 Dupont Summit on Science, Technology and Environmental Policy
by Michael Horka 28 Mar '12

28 Mar '12

Call for Proposals: Dupont Summit on Science, Technology and Environmental Policy The Policy Studies Organization (PSO) invites you to submit a proposal for the 2012 Dupont Summit focused on science, technology and environmental policy issues. The Summit will be held at the Carnegie Institution for Science in Washington, DC on Friday, December 7, 2012. The purpose of the conference is to promote dialogue about current policy concerns and to provide a civil space for discussion across the political spectrum. The format will include panel discussions along with some individual presentations. You are welcomed to submit a topic proposal or a proposal that includes others beside yourself for a panel. We encourage proposals to be sent in before our early deadline of May 1, 2012 for priority consideration to PSO executive director Daniel Gutierrez-Sandoval at dgutierrezs(a)ipsonet.org. Proposals will continue to be accepted after May 1st until September 30, 2012, the final deadline. For more information, visit our website. The Policy Studies Organization publishes 11 academic journals and 3 book series. We promote discussion of policy concerns and further research and dissemination of policy scholarship. Please contact me with any questions. Regards, Michael Horka Policy Studies Organization Outreach Director 1527 New Hampshire Ave NW Washington, DC 20036 Phone: 202-349-9283 Fax: 202-483-2657 www.ipsonet.org

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CFP, Special Issue of Feminist Media Studies, From Veiling to Blogging: Women and Media in the Middle East
by McLaughlin, Lisa M. Dr. 27 Mar '12

27 Mar '12

Special Issue of Feminist Media Studies: >From Veiling to Blogging: Women and Media in the Middle East Edited by Nahed Eltantawy Vol. 13, No.5, December 2013 Middle Eastern women have traditionally been viewed as weak and submissive, passively accepting male authority and leadership rather than seeking to be a leader in their own right. From Edward Said¹s Orientalism to Lila Abu-Lughod¹s ³Do Muslim Women Really Need Saving?² women of the Middle East have been portrayed as helpless creatures who are often hidden behind the veil, quietly waiting to be liberated. Recent democratic movements in the Middle East, popularly grouped together under the banner of the ³Arab Spring,² signal the rise of a new kind of political activism across the region, made possible, in large part, by the now widespread use of social media. The world has witnessed millions across Tunisia, Egypt, Bahrain, Libya, Yemen and Syria as they have marched to the squares and told their stories of life under repressive political regimes. How have women been involved in these events? What are their experiences and stories? In addition to the more widely known stories of political demonstrations in the region, there have also been more localized events, such as the women-led driving protests in Saudi Arabia, that suggest that there are many stories still to be told to unveil the realities of women¹s experiences in the Middle East. In what ways have women utilized media, including social media such as Twitter, Facebook and blogging for both personal and political expression and have these platforms contributed to the democratization of women¹s lives? This special issue seeks manuscripts that focus on Middle East women and their relationship with the media old and new how are women portrayed, how and why do women utilize media and technology, and women¹s media production. Topics of interest in relation to Middle East women and the media include but are not limited to: · Media portrayals of women · Women¹s use of social media · Women¹s utilization of media to promote the ³Arab Spring² revolutions · Women and cyberactivism · women¹s use of media (old & new) for self expression and identification · Women¹s utilization of media for empowerment · Women¹s media production Please submit a 350-word abstract to Dr Nahed Eltantawy at: neltanta(a)highpoint.edu by no later than April 1, 2012. AIMS and SCOPE OF FEMINIST MEDIA STUDIES Feminist Media Studies provides a transdisciplinary, transnational forum for researchers pursuing feminist approaches to the field of media and communication studies, with attention to the historical, philosophical, cultural, social, political, and economic dimensions and analysis of sites including print and electronic media, film and the arts, and new media technologies. The journal invites contributions from feminist researchers working across a range of disciplines and conceptual perspectives. Feminist Media Studies offers a unique intellectual space bringing together scholars, professionals and activists from around the world to engage with feminist issues and debates in media and communication. Its editorial board and contributors reflect a commitment to the facilitation of international dialogue among researchers, through attention to local, national and global contexts for critical and empirical feminist media inquiry. For more information about Feminist Media Studies please visit: www.tandf.co.uk/journals/rfms

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Study Digital Rhetoric at MSU this summer
by Liza Potts 27 Mar '12

27 Mar '12

Hi AOIR folks, The Rhetoric & Writing program and the Department of Writing, Rhetoric & American Cultures will once again offer three summer courses in the popular “sprint” hybrid format. These courses are designed to work well for students and researchers from a variety of disciplines. Credit and non-credit options are offered. AL 891 Tracing Digital Culture with Liza Potts AL 860 Visual Rhetoric with Danielle Devoss AL 881 Teaching with Technology with Bill Hart-Davidson More about each course is below and see our video descriptions here http://youtu.be/8ymaOdFyia4 How does the Sprint Format work? Modeled after NEH Summer Seminars, the courses meet online for 3-4 weeks, then come together for a week in residence consisting of four and a half days on the MSU campus. Participants then work on projects and review one another’s work for another 3-4 weeks before a final hybrid symposium where work is presented and discussed. Affordable accommodations are made available on campus for those coming to East Lansing from out of town. Room rates start at $35/day with meal options for $14/day. Families can stay too! Enrollment Options Courses can be taken for graduate credit by MSU students. They are also available for MSU lifelong education credit for students who may wish to transfer credit to another institution. Non-credit options are available as well, which allow faculty and students who do not wish to receive course credit to enroll. Fees for the courses vary according to the enrollment options. For more info about any of these options contact Administrative Assistant for the Graduate Program Melissa Arthurton at 517.355.2400. AL 891 Tracing Digital Culture Instructor: Liza Potts (lpotts(a)msu.edu) Online Meetings May 14-June 1 On Campus June June 4-8 (Friday is a half day) Symposium: July 6 In AL 891, we will develop your understanding of digital culture practices by tracing major and minor events as they move across different genres online. From Twitter, YouTube, Wikipedia, Facebook, Tumblr, etc. as well as mainstream media sites such as the BBC News and CNN, we will examine how people communicate online and exchange information. We will discuss relevant theories, methods, and practices such as actor network theory, activity theory, and articulation theory. By examining these events, we will offer you opportunities for learning to trace events through people and technologies as they travel across the Internet. As we trace the movements of data as it becomes information and transforms into knowledge, we will gain a greater understanding of how participants use these systems to communicate and how we as communicators and designers can improve these systems. AL 860 Visual Rhetoric Instructor: devossda(a)msu.edu Online Meetings May 29-June 15 On Campus June 18-22 (Friday is a half day) Symposium: Friday July 20 Today’s technologies challenge writers and teachers of writing to address how, when, and where images and words collide. In AL 860, we will explore how visuals work–alone and with text. We will analyze what it means to see, look at, and read visual elements, and we will examine the effects visual elements have on different readers/viewers/users. Visual compositions range from a book to the interface of a software application to an advertisement from a print magazine to the splash page of a web site. Visual elements we will work with include, but are not limited to, typography (font faces and sizes), graphics (clipart, photographs, diagrams), color, margins, paper and screen textures, and alignment. We will approach visual rhetoric from a variety of perspectives (e.g., from the perspectives of the fields of graphic art and technical communication; e.g., as writers, teachers, and designers). We will analyze different print and digital compositions and create and analyze our own compositions using different tools (e.g., software applications like Microsoft Word, Adobe Photoshop; using online image databases and materials we gather during the semester). Activities will allow us space to develop familiarity with different technologies for producing visuals. AL 881 Teaching with Technology Instructor: Bill Hart-Davidson (hartdav2(a)msu.edu) Online Meetings May 21 – June 8 On Campus June 11-15 (Friday is half day) Symposium: July 20 In AL 881 we will examine theoretical and practical frameworks for designing and/or evolving curriculum and pedagogy for digital delivery. Participants spend time designing or redesigning a course, which will include evaluating interaction needs for supporting learning goals, assessing affordances of specific technologies and designing course materials. You’ll get feedback from a scholar who both teaches with technology and who researches, theorizes and builds new technologies (that’s me, @billhd…and there will be some guests too!). Together we’ll work to create a space for reflection about the intellectual, ethical, and political consequences of teaching in digital spaces. Want to see what AL881 folks can do? Check out the 2011 Course Blog! _________________________________________ Liza Potts, Ph.D. Director of User Experience Design at WIDE @ MATRIX Assistant Professor of Digital Humanities Department of Writing, Rhetoric, & American Cultures Michigan State University East Lansing, MI 48824 Email: lpotts(a)msu.edu | AIM: LizaPotts | Skype: LKPotts | Office: Bessey 291

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IEEE Life Members Prize
by Eden Medina 27 Mar '12

27 Mar '12

Hello everyone, I want to announce the SHOT IEEE Life Member's Prize in Electrical History. The IEEE Life Members' Prize in Electrical History, supported by the IEEE Life Members' Fund and administered by the Society for the History of Technology, is awarded annually to the best paper in the history of electrotechnology—power, electronics, telecommunications, and computer science—published during the preceding year. Any article published in a learned periodical is eligible if it treats the art or engineering aspects of electrotechnology and its practitioners. The article must be written in English, although the journal or periodical in which it appears may be a foreign language publication. The prize consists of a cash award of $500 and a certificate. To nominate an article, please send a copy of the paper to each member of the prize committee. Deadline is 15 April. For more information, please contact the committee chair or Bernie Carlson, SHOT Secretary, 434.987.6230, shot(a)virginia.edu. 2012 IEEE Life Members' Prize Committee Ross Bassett, Chair (2011-2013) History Dept. North Carolina State University 350 Withers Hall Campus Box 8108 Raleigh, NC 27695-8108 USA history485(a)gmail.com Maja Fjaestad (2012-14) Division of History of Science and Technology Royal Institute of Technology SE-100 44 Stockholm, Sweden maja.fjaestad(a)abe.kth.se Eden Medina (2010-2012) School of Informatics and Computing Indiana University 901 E. 10th Street, Room 305 Bloomington, Indiana 47408 USA eden.medina(a)gmail.com More details are given in the link below. http://www.historyoftechnology.org/awards/ieee.html Best, Eden Medina

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AISB/IACAP 2012 World Congress
by Mariariosaria Taddeo 27 Mar '12

27 Mar '12

Apologies for cross-posting. Dear Colleagues This year the Society for the Study of Artificial Intelligence and Simulation of Behaviour (AISB) http://www.aisb.org.uk/ and the International Association for Computing and Philosophy (IACAP) http://www.ia-cap.org/ joined their annual congresses in honour of Alan Turing. The AISB/IACAP 2012 World Congress will be held at the University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK from July 2nd to 6th. The Congress has been inspired by a desire to honour Alan Turing and by the broad and deep significance of Turing's work to AI, to the philosophical and ethical ramifications of computing, and to philosophy and computing more generally. The Congress is one of the events forming the Alan Turing Year. The intent of the Congress is to stimulate a particularly rich interchange between AI and Philosophy on any areas of mutual interest, whether directly addressing Turing's own research output or not. Visit the congress website for more details http://events.cs.bham.ac.uk/turing12/index.php or contact the symposia organisers for information about the submission process. The congress will host symposia (tracks) on the following topics: 1. Mathematical Practice and Cognition II 2. Hypercomputation and Artificial Intelligence 3. Computing, Philosophy and the Question of Bio-Machine Hybrids: 4th AISB Symposium on Computing and Philosophy 4. Computational Philosophy 5. Turing Arts Symposium 6. AI & Games (THIS SYMPOSIUM HAS BEEN CANCELLED) 7. Revisiting Turing and his Test: Comprehensiveness, Qualia, and the Real World 8. Linguistic and Cognitive Approaches To Dialog Agents (LaCATODA 2012) 9. History and Philosophy of Programming 10. Philosophy of Computer Science: PoC Meets AI and Law (Roundtable Discussion) 11. Social Computing - Social Cognition - Social Networks and Multiagent Systems 12. Understanding and Modelling Collective Phenomena (UMoCoP) 13. Framework for Responsible Research and Innovation in AI 14. The Machine Question: AI, Ethics, and Moral Responsibility 15. Moral Cognition & Theory of Mind 16. Natural and Unconventional Computing 17. Information and Computer Ethics in The Age of Information Revolution 18. Nature-Inspired Computing and Applications: 1st Symposium (NICA) -- Dr. Mariarosaria Taddeo Marie Curie Fellow - University of Hertfordshire Senior Research Associate - Information Ethics Group (IEG), University of Oxford http://taddeo.philosophyofinformation.net/index.html

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Participation Registration for the Conference "Critique, Democracy and Philosophy in 21st Century Information Society"
by Christian Fuchs 27 Mar '12

27 Mar '12

Critique, Democracy, and Philosophy in 21st Century Information Society. Towards Critical Theories of Social Media. The Fourth ICTs and Society-Conference. Uppsala University. May 2nd-4th, 2012. Registration Deadline: March 31st, 2012 , 17:00, CET Details of how to register can be found under: http://www.icts-and-society.net/events/uppsala2012/ in the section "Attendance, Registration and Conference Fee" A unique event for networking, presentation of critical ideas, critical engagement, and featuring leading critical scholars in the area of Critical Internet Studies and Critical Studies of Media & Society.

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Registration for CATaC'12 now open
by Charles Ess 27 Mar '12

27 Mar '12

Dear AoIRists, Registration for CATaC'12 - to take place at Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark, this coming June 18-20 - is now open on the conference website: <http://www.catacconference.org/> On the right side of the page is an Index, underneath which you'll find the link to registration. As a reminder: because of several large conferences taking place during this time in Aarhus, accommodation space is quite limited. We encourage anyone who is considering attending to go ahead and book accommodations now (following the guidance on the "Accommodation Options" page (also linked from the Index); they can be cancelled later on without penalty if you change your plans (though the specifics regarding cancellation deadlines will vary, of course - please look carefully at the relevant site). We look forward to welcoming you to Aarhus, "the city of smiles," this coming June. (And remember: you heard it here first! - smile) On behalf of the organizing committee, charles ess (Media Studies, Aarhus University, Denmark), Chair Fay Sudweeks (Professor Emerita, Murdoch University, Australia), honorary chair Herbert Hrachovec (University of Vienna, Austria) Leah Macfadyen (University of British Columbia, Canada) Jose Abdelnour Nocera (University of West London, UK) Kenneth Reeder (University of British Columbia, Canada) Ylva Hård af Segerstad (Gothenburg University, Gothenburg, Sweden) Michele M. Strano (Bridgewater College, Virginia, USA) Andra Siibak (University of Tartu, Estonia) Maja van der Velden (University of Oslo)

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Final Call -- James W. Carey Media Research Award 2012
by Mark D. Johns 27 Mar '12

27 Mar '12

CALL FOR AWARD APPLICATIONS James W. Carey Media Research Award 2012 Sponsored by the Carl Couch Center for Social and Internet Research http://www.cccsir.com/ The Carl Couch Center invites nominations or self-nominations for works to be considered for its annual James W. Carey Media Research Award. Welcome are works on topics that were central to Carey's scholarship. Submissions might focus on technology, time, space and communication, the nature of public life, the relation between journalism and popular culture -- among others -- taking these themes in new or different directions. Applications will be evaluated based on engagement with Carey's approaches and concepts, originality, and advancement of knowledge. Evaluation will be administered by a Review Committee of: Prof. Stuart Adam, Carleton University Prof. Theodore L. Glasser, Stanford University Prof. John Pauly, Marquette University Prof. Jeff Pooley, Muhlenberg College Prof. Linda Steiner, University of Maryland Prof. Lance Strate, Fordham University Both single and multiple authored works will be accepted. All submissions must be works that have been published or have been accepted for publication in a book or journal. To be considered for the 2012 award, works should have been published or accepted in 2011. Submitted works should be sent to Mark D. Johns, executive director of CCCSIR at the address below, according to the following directions: If the work submitted is a paper, submit electronically in plain text, Microsoft Word, Corel WordPerfect, or Adobe Acrobat format. If a book is submitted, please send a copy of the table of contents and front matter electronically. Then ask your publisher to furnish seven (7) review copies for consideration by the committee. The application deadline is April 1, 2012. Notification of award application will be sent out by June 15. The Award winner will receive the Carey Award plaque to be presented at the winner's choice of the 2012 annual convention of the International Communication Association (ICA), Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC), or National Communication Association (NCA). Questions and comments about the Carey Award, please contact: Mark D. Johns Luther College Study Centre Nottingham, UK UK phone: (44) 115-929-2721 US phone: 563-387-1347 E-mail: mjohns(a)luther.edu

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Academic MindTrek Conference 2012 in Tampere, Finland: Call for Papers
by Heljä Franssila 26 Mar '12

26 Mar '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 Long and short papers, posters, demonstrations, and extended abstracts due on: 30th April 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 - 30th April 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 Heljä Franssila, Tampere Univ. (UTA), FIN Karsten Wolf, Univ. Bremen, GER Hannu Kärkkäinen, 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 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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