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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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Problems for pseudonym in online identity study
by Emily Liu 10 Apr '12

10 Apr '12

Hello All, I am a Masters student in the Department of Foreign Languages and Literature working on my thesis. However, I have encountered a problem on the use of pseudonyms. The site of my study is on a online forum-based interactive gaming site, and I am focusing on how the forum-based (text) role players negotiate various identities through their language use. Therefore, my participants have multiple layers of identities and names -- real name, screen name, and names of the characters they created. To ensure the confidentiality of the participants, of course I will use pseudonyms when presenting their real names and screen names in my thesis. But I am not sure if I should use pseudonyms to replace the names of the characters that my participants create, as those names sometimes have more profound meanings to them than just a name, and may signal their change in identity. Yet I am worried if I don't replace the names with pseudonyms, it may somewhat influence my participants' rights to full confidentiality. Please give me some advice as to how I can handle this issue. Thank you. -- Min-Ju Liu (Emily) M.A. Student in Applied Linguistics Department of Foreign Languages and Literature National Sun Yat-sen University

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Re: [Air-L] Problems for pseudonym in online identity study
by Elizabeth Buchanan 08 Apr '12

08 Apr '12

While it's been a few years since she wrote this, Danielle Lawson's (2004) work on consent would be appropriate for you to consider. She offers a range of options for consent: 1. consent to having their nickname and communicative text used for data analysis only (no publication of name or text); 2. consent to having either their nickname or text published in an academic work, but never together (i.e., no identifiers); 3. consent to having either their nickname or text published in an academic work, but never together (i.e., no identifiers) and providing they get to see the ‘write up’ prior to publication; 4. consent to having both their nickname and text published in academic work, thereby being credited as the authors of their own words; or 5. consent to having both their nickname and text published in academic work, thereby being credited as the authors of their own words, providing they get to see the ‘write up’ prior to publication (p. 93). Best, Elizabeth Buchanan

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Couch Award Deadline Extended
by Mark D. Johns 07 Apr '12

07 Apr '12

CALL FOR AWARD APPLICATIONS Carl J. Couch Internet Research Award 2012 Sponsored by the Carl Couch Center for Social and Internet Research http://www.cccsir.com/ *Application deadline is EXTENDED to May 20, 2012* The Carl Couch Center issues an international call for student-authored papers to be considered for Carl J. Couch Internet Research Award. The Couch Center welcomes both theoretical and empirical papers that (1) apply symbolic interactionist approaches to internet studies, (2) demonstrate interactive relationships between social interaction and communication technologies, and/or (3) develop symbolic interactionist concepts in new directions. Papers will be evaluated based on the quality of (1) mastery of symbolic interactionist approaches and concepts, (2) originality, (3) organization, (4) presentation, and (5) advancement of knowledge. Those contemplating entering should note that an interactionist approach demands thoughtful analysis, and not mere description, of human interactions. Evaluation will be administered by a Review Committee of four: Mark D. Johns, Luther College, Decorah, Iowa Lori Kendall, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Annette Markham, University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee Lois Ann Scheidt, Indiana University, Bloomington Competition is open to graduate or undergraduate students of all disciplines. Works that are published or accepted for publication are not eligible for award consideration. Entries should be in English and not exceed 30 pages (approximately 7500 words) in length, including references and appendices. Limit of one entry per student per year. The top paper will receive Couch Award to be presented at the 2012 meeting of the Association of Internet Researchers (aoir.org) at the University of Salford, (near Manchester) UK. The top paper will be awarded a certificate and a cash prize of $300 US and the author will be invited to present their work at a session of the AoIR conference, October 18-21, 2012 in Salford. Candidates should send a copy of their paper, with a 100-word abstract, electronically to Mark D. Johns at mjohns(a)luther.edu Application deadline is EXTENDED to May 20, 2012. Notification of award will be sent by June 15. Those with questions or comments about Couch Award application, 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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Theorizing the Web, April 14th
by nathan jurgenson 06 Apr '12

06 Apr '12

Hello, Just a friendly final reminder that the Theorizing the Web conference is happening this Saturday, April 14th in College Park, MD (inside the DC beltway). http://www.cyborgology.org/theorizingtheweb/ PJ Rey and myself, two graduate students, created the conference last year to provide space for more critical and theoretical approaches when researching the Web. The response has been overwhelming. We’ve built on the success of last year’s conference to create a program we are very excited about. 10 panels, a gallery filled with art installations, a film screening, and an invited discussion on social media after revolution. We’ll close the conference with a conversation between Andy Carvin of NPR News and Zeynep Tufekci (UNC) on social media, protest and journalism. Andy Carvin (@acarvin) is quite important for his innovative use of Twitter within NPR News. Curating thousands of tweets often from areas where Western journalists are not allowed, Carvin hints at a new mode of journalism positioned somewhere between the noisy torrent of social media content on the ground and the traditional news-gatekeepers we’ve grown accustomed to. Tufekci (@techsoc), who has emerged as one of the strongest academic voices on social movements and social media, will help us make sense of this important new development. The research panels take on a range of topics, including technology and protest; self-concept, self-documentation and identity; logging off and disconnection; art, code and design; augmented reality; mobile phones; knowledge and power. A variety of perspectives often neglected at technology conferences are woven throughout the program, including critical, feminist, queer, art-centered and inter/non-disciplinary perspectives on new technologies. Full schedule: http://www.cyborgology.org/theorizingtheweb/2012/simple_program.html The central goal is simply to create the event we’d want to attend; that is, it should be smart and fun. The ideas are important and we want them to be engaging to larger publics. We encourage presenting ideas so that they are publicly accessible and using the #TtW12 backchannel. And we will live-stream and archive audio and video of the whole event on our website. Registration is pay-what-you-want. We are just graduate students and run this on a very tight budget but want to provide things like food and print programs at the event. http://www.cyborgology.org/theorizingtheweb/2012/registration.html Last, please share this however you’d like. Forward this email, post about the conference on Twitter (#TtW12), spread the flier [pdf], anything helps! http://www.cyborgology.org/theorizingtheweb/2012/Documents/ttw12_promo_flye… Thanks, Nathan Jurgenson, Co-Chair & the #TtW12 Committee @TtW_conf

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Re: [Air-L] 140kit back online
by stu＠texifter.com 06 Apr '12

06 Apr '12

Deen, Pulling data off is possible via DiscoverText with paid Professional or Enterprise accounts. Now we also have an API that you can use for pulling off everything (except Twitter data) including raw data, meta data, as well as human coding and machine classification scores. Under the Twitter ToS, you are permitted to "save as" .csv or XML to use teh raw data in other applications. Using the DiscoverText API, you can also get just the Twitter ID for individual tweets. [1]http://blog.texifter.com/index.php/2012/04/04/introducing-the-discov ertext-api/ ~Stu -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: [Air-L] 140kit back online From: Deen Freelon <[2]dfreelon(a)gmail.com> Date: Thu, April 05, 2012 5:04 pm To: Devin Gaffney <[3]itsme(a)devingaffney.com>, [4]air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org Great job with this Devin; good to see 140kit back in action. But it's so frustrating that I can't pull the data out and play with it myself! On the other hand I suppose we can't blame Twitter for trying to monetize their APIs; they're not a charity after all... ~DEEN On 4/5/2012 6:41 PM, Devin Gaffney wrote: > Hey folks, > > My name's Devin Gaffney, and I'm currently over at Oxford Internet Institute doing my MSc. A while back, I was providing a service called [5]140kit.com, which was a site where a researcher could throw in a term, and tweets including that term would be automatically collected. At that point, you would be able to download the raw data or run our on-site analytics. > > Well, that ended because of two things - one, we lost a bunch of steam when Twitter disallowed raw data outputs for third parties - analytics were still fine, however. Second, our previous hosting situation, which was provided to us for free, finally fell through, and we don't have money (its just me and another programmer) to pour into this thing. > > Either way, we have spent the last year (wow) doing on-and-off re-workings on the system, and its feeling pretty solid, so we're opening it up. If you have any questions, feel free to let me know off list. > > [6]http://140kit.com > > Thanks! > _______________________________________________ > The [7]Air-L(a)listserv.aoir.org mailing list > is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers [8]http://aoir.org > Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: [9]http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org > > Join the Association of Internet Researchers: > [10]http://www.aoir.org/ -- Deen Freelon, Ph.D. Assistant Professor American University School of Communication Office: Asbury 228A [11]dfreelon(a)gmail.com [12]http://dfreelon.org _______________________________________________ The [13]Air-L(a)listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers [14]http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: [15]http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org Join the Association of Internet Researchers: [16]http://www.aoir.org/ References 1. http://blog.texifter.com/index.php/2012/04/04/introducing-the-discovertext-… 2. mailto:dfreelon@gmail.com 3. mailto:itsme@devingaffney.com 4. mailto:air-l@listserv.aoir.org 5. http://140kit.com/ 6. http://140kit.com/ 7. mailto:Air-L@listserv.aoir.org 8. http://aoir.org/ 9. http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org 10. http://www.aoir.org/ 11. mailto:dfreelon@gmail.com 12. http://dfreelon.org/ 13. mailto:Air-L@listserv.aoir.org 14. http://aoir.org/ 15. http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org 16. http://www.aoir.org/

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Tenure-Track Positions at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
by limor shifman 06 Apr '12

06 Apr '12

THE HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM Department of Communication and Journalism Tenure-Track Research and Teaching Positions The Noah Mozes Department of Communication and Journalism at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem invites outstanding candidates to apply for tenure- track positions starting Fall, 2013. Preference will be given to candidates with post-doctoral experience. The positions are in the following areas: * Political Communications * New Media * Cinema and Visual Culture * Media Institutions The successful applicant will join a dynamic research-oriented faculty offering innovative undergraduate, graduate and doctoral programs. For more information about our faculty and research please visit: http://sites.google.com/site/smarthuji/home. The language of instruction is Hebrew, although English is acceptable for an initial period. Applications should include: Curriculum vitae An academic biography (2 pages) outlining research interests and plans Letters of recommendation from at least two persons qualified to assess the candidates achievements and potential Copies of two selected recent publications Brief description of potential courses Teaching evaluations (if such exist) Applicants will compete with candidates of other departments in the Faculty of Social Sciences for academic positions. Application materials and/or inquiries should be directed to: Prof. Menahem Blondheim, Chair (mblond(a)huji.ac.il) Department of Communication and Journalism The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Mount Scopus, Jerusalem 91905, Israel. Letters of recommendation should be sent directly to the above address, or to mblond(a)huji.ac.il. Deadline for applications: May 8th 2012. -------------------- Limor Shifman (PhD) Department of Communication and Journalism Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel Tel: +972-2-5639695 http://pluto.huji.ac.il/~mslimors/index.html

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FW: [CivicAccess-discuss] Open Government Partnership - Virtual Participation Opportunities
by michael gurstein 06 Apr '12

06 Apr '12

> For background on the Open Government Partnership (OGP) and Open > Government Data (OGD) see > > http://www.guardian.co.uk/public-leaders-network/2012/apr/03/brasilia-2012 > -open-government-partnership?newsfeed=true > > > For a somewhat more skeptical/critical/community informatics based > perspective on OGD see below (and other of my blogposts on OGD > > http://gurstein.wordpress.com/2010/09/02/open-data-empowering-the-empowere > d-or-effective-data-use-for-everyone/ > > http://gurstein.wordpress.com/2011/07/03/are-the-open-data-warriors-fighti > ng-for-robin-hood-or-the-sheriff-some-reflections-on-okcon-2011-and-the-em > erging-data-divide/ > > http://gurstein.wordpress.com/2011/07/11/a-data-divide-data-%E2%80%9Chaves > %E2%80%9D-and-%E2%80%9Chave-nots%E2%80%9D-and-open-government-data/ > > The Journal of Community Informatics http://ci-journal.net will be > publishing a special issue on Community Informatics and Open Government > Data next week in anticipation of the OGP meeting in Brasilia... > M Michael Gurstein, Ph.D. Editor in Chief: Journal of Community Informatics web: http://ci-journal.net email: gurstein(a)gmail.com > -----Original Message----- > From: civicaccess-discuss-bounces(a)civicaccess.ca > [mailto:civicaccess-discuss-bounces@civicaccess.ca] On Behalf Of Harvey > Low > Sent: Thursday, April 05, 2012 10:59 PM > To: CivicAccess-discuss(a)civicaccess.ca > Subject: [CivicAccess-discuss] Open Government Partnership - Virtual > Participation Opportunities > > Hello everyone: > > The first annual meeting of the Open Government Partnership > www.opengovpartnership.org/ is taking place in Brasilia on April 17-18, > 2012! Many people working on open government may not be able to attend in > person, so the OGP has worked with a number of external partners to come > up with numerous ways for you to participate virtually from wherever you > may be. Here are some of the online activities that OGP will be hosting > during the annual meeting in Brasilia. Please join us online on April > 17-18! > > Online Content. The program and materials provided to those in Brasilia > will be available on the OGP website in advance of the meeting. Photos > from the event will be posted each day of the event. OGP will also > publish blog posts summarizing each day's events and outcomes. Want to > view the OGP meeting materials? > > Visit the meeting page! > > Webcast & Interviews. From the speeches given by world leaders to the > breakout panel discussions with open government practitioners, all of the > activities in Brasilia will be broadcast live on the web. During breaks > in the program, the webcast will feature live interviews with presenters, > government representatives, and open government leaders in attendance. > Online viewers will be able to pose questions to those being interviewed. > > Live Chat. Alongside the webcast, OGP will host a live chat where visitors > can post comments directly. > > Tweets and > > Facebook updates discussing the OGP meeting will also be viewable in the > chat (be sure to use hashtag #OGPBrasilia2012 and #OGP2012 on Twitter). We > will poll viewers in real-time to see who is watching, where they are, > what their interests are, and what are their thoughts on the program. We > will also provide analysis of the conversation happening via social media. > Want to participate in the webcast and live chat? > > Please register!Guardian Digital Hub. > > Guardian Public Leaders Network, the digital media partner for the annual > meeting in Brasilia, developed an > > OGP digital hub supporting the online coverage of the upcoming OGP > Brasilia 2012 Annual Meeting. The hub features articles from co-chairs > Maria Otero and Jorge Hage, interviews and interactive content. During the > event Guardian will be blogging live from Brasilia, posting exclusive > videos and providing expert analysis on the key issues arising at the > meeting. For more information please visit the > > Guardian OGP Digital Hub. > > Meetup Everywhere. We are also encouraging open government practitioners > around the world to get together in person to watch the event and discuss > ways to move open government forward at the local level. > > These Meetups can help move the discussion in Brasilia, online and at > home. If you live in Washington, DC (US), Capetown (South Africa), London > (UK), or Nairobi (Kenya), you can join the local Meetups that have already > been set up and you can find information on them here: > > www.meetup.com/Open-Gov-Partnership. > > Transparency Hack Day. Daniela Silva from Transparency Hacker, Brazil will > be providing notes on the event throughout the two days of transparency > hacking during the OGP Annual Meeting. The "Hack Day" will be covered via > Webcast, Live Twitting and Blogging. For more information on the Hack > Day, please see > > a description here. > > Innovation Village. Felipe Heusser, Director of > > Ciudadano Inteligente will be covering the Innovation Village session with > live interviews that will be broadcasted via our webcast, and Alex Howard, > from > > O'Reilly Media will be conducting interviews with the speakers and > panelists. For more information on the innovation village, please see our > > call for village participants. > > Recognizing our Partners. None of this would be possible without the > support of several key organizations that are contributing their time and > energy to the OGP meeting at little or substantially reduced cost. The > Open Government Partnership would like to express our gratitude to the > following groups for their help with all of the interactive features > described above: > > * Global Voices/AmericaSpeaks - Live Blogging/Tweeting* One Counts - Web > Cast* Global Integrity - Meet Ups* World Bank Institute - Twitter Cloud* > Ciudadano Inteligente - Blogging* Transparency Hacker - Multimedia Wall, > Blogging* Guardian Media - Digital Hub* O'Reilly Media - Live Online > Coverage > > Harvey Low on behalf of Paulina Ibarra of OGP

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140kit back online
by Devin Gaffney 06 Apr '12

06 Apr '12

Hey folks, My name's Devin Gaffney, and I'm currently over at Oxford Internet Institute doing my MSc. A while back, I was providing a service called 140kit.com, which was a site where a researcher could throw in a term, and tweets including that term would be automatically collected. At that point, you would be able to download the raw data or run our on-site analytics. Well, that ended because of two things - one, we lost a bunch of steam when Twitter disallowed raw data outputs for third parties - analytics were still fine, however. Second, our previous hosting situation, which was provided to us for free, finally fell through, and we don't have money (its just me and another programmer) to pour into this thing. Either way, we have spent the last year (wow) doing on-and-off re-workings on the system, and its feeling pretty solid, so we're opening it up. If you have any questions, feel free to let me know off list. http://140kit.com Thanks!

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