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CFP: Representations of History in Video Games
by Gerald Voorhees 19 Dec '11

19 Dec '11

Dear list, I'm posting on behalf of some colleagues working on a fascinating interdisciplinary project. Please contact Matthew and Andrew directly with inquiries at simulatehistory(a)gmail.com. Apologies for cross-posting. ------------------------------- We are seeking chapters for a new interdisciplinary collection addressing the representation and depiction of history in video games. In a 2005 article discussing the simulation of history through video games, William Uricchio observes that the opportunities for mediation through play pose new and difficult questions about narrative authority and representation. “What happens”, he asks, “if we push the notion of mediation beyond language, to the domain of game, enactment, or simulation? Does this allow us to slip out of the well-critiqued trap of representation? And if so, where does it land us?” As of 2011, his questions remain unanswered. Amid a world of SIMs, first-person warfare games, strategy, MMO and MMORPs in which players can influence the outcome of battles, campaigns, and even entire civilisations, such questions about the means by which history is delivered to new generations gain increasing importance. When history can be simulated, recreated, subverted and rewritten on a variety of levels, new questions arise about the relationship between video games and the history they purport to represent, questions which traditional historical approaches cannot properly address. The proposed edited collection thus seeks to examine representations of history through video and computer games from a multidisciplinary perspective. Our aim is to avoid criticisms of inaccuracy and betrayal or descriptions of games which purportedly ‘get things wrong’, but to look instead at the ways in which contemporary players actually can and do engage with the past, and what effect this has on the period depicted. Suggested topics may include (but are not limited to): • The representation of historical battles, wars and campaigns (e.g. Medal of Honor, Call of Duty, Command & Conquer, Battlefield) • The role of play in the recreation, retelling and representation of key events in history (e.g. Anno 1404, Anno 1701, Sid Meier’s Colonization) • The representation of historical personages (Caesar, Napoleon, Victoria, Sun Tzu) • The ways in which non-western histories are depicted (e.g. Seven States, Pharaoh, Age of Empires: Asian Dynasties, East India Company, Total War: Shogun, Assassin’s Creed) • The role of the player and designer in subverting the “master narratives of history” (Sim City, Sim Earth, Populous, Age of Empires, Deus Ex) • Games which rewrite histories across eras (e.g. Civilization, Empire Earth, Europa Universalis, Pride of Nations ) • Instances of alternative history or future history (e.g. Alpha Centauri,Masters of Orion, World of Warcraft, Galactic Civilizations, Homeworld) While we welcome proposals which adopt unusual approaches to representations of the past, we hope to focus on games with a wide fan base in order to appeal to a wide readership of both non-gamer historians and non-historian gamers alike. Likewise, we would encourage essays which address a single topic or theory (such as World War I or the Great Man theory of history) across a number of games. Proposals are sought from both experienced researchers and doctoral students alike, and co-authored submissions which seek to cross traditional disciplinary boundaries are especially welcome. Abstracts of 300 words, along with a brief CV or publication list, should be sent to the editors at simulatehistory(a)gmail.com by January 16th 2012. At this stage we are expecting to receive draft essays of 5-6,000 words by late May 2012. For informal enquiries, please contact either Matthew Kapell or Andrew Elliott at simulatehistory(a)gmail.com.

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Beyond ICT4D: New Media Research in Uganda (INC TOD #10)
by Geert Lovink 19 Dec '11

19 Dec '11

http://networkcultures.org/wpmu/theoryondemand/titles/no-10-beyond-ict4d-ne… Beyond ICT4D: New Media Research in Uganda is a collection of ethnographic reports from diverse perspectives of those living at the other end of the African ICT pyramid. Crucially, these texts refocus on the so-called “ICT4D” debate away from the standard western lens, which depicts users in the developing world as passive receivers of Western technological development, towards Ugandans whose use and production of technologies entail innovations from the ground up. It is this ‘other’ everyday point of view that is too often missing in the ICT4D debate: valuable voices that put technologies, projects and organizations into their proper context. Conducted in 2009 by a group of five Masters in New Media (humanities) students from the University of Amsterdam under the supervision of Geert Lovink the research examines both the role and implementation of ICTs in Uganda, covering a wide range of subcultures and projects, including internet cafe usage, print media, NGOs and communities, software subcultures and civic new media. The book argues that now is the time to look beyond the technology layer and instead focus on the social implications and local consequences of digital media’s widespread use. By recognizing the impact that ICTs have on society and identifying what functions currently and what needs to be improved, we can more effectively understand and develop these technologies in the future. Initiated and introduced by Dutch-Australian media theorist and internet critic Geert Lovink this Theory of Demand publication was produced at the Institute of Network Cultures (HvA). Authors: Ali Balunywa, Guido van Diepen, Wouter Dijkstra, Kai Henriquez and Ben White. Colophon: Authors: Ali Balunywa, Guido van Diepen, Wouter Dijkstra, Kai Henriquez and Ben White. Editor: Geert Lovink Copy editing: Cindy Jeffers, Lily Antflick and Morgan Currie. Design: Katja van Stiphout. DTP: Margreet Riphagen. Printer: ‘Print on Demand’. Publisher: Institute of Network Cultures, Amsterdam 2011. ISBN: 978-90-816021-9-8. This publication is also available through various print on demand services. Download the free pdf here: http://www.networkcultures.org/_uploads/tod/TOD%2310_ICT4D.pdf

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[E-Voting.CC] EVOTE2012: Challenges for Electronic Voting - Transparency, Trust and Voter Education - Submit your papers!
by Manuel Kripp 19 Dec '11

19 Dec '11

Dear all, My apologies for multiple emails. >From 11-14 July 2012, the EVOTE2012 will take place in Castle Hofen in Bregenz, Austria. The submission system for the EVOTE2012 conference is open! We are using easychair for the submission and the review of submitted papers. Submit your papers directly at https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=evote2012. You may have to register first for Easychair to be able to submit a paper. The theme of the EVOTE2012 is "Challenges for Electronic Voting - Transparency, Trust and Voter Education" Please note the important deadlines: - Submission deadline of papers: 3 February 2012 - Review deadline: 2 March 2012 - Notification of acceptance 26 March 2012 - Final paper submission 20 April 2012 Key facts for submitting: - Double-spaced - 3500-4500 words excl. abstract, figures, references - Word or PDF format only Further information in the author's guidelines available for download http://www.e-voting.cc/files/EVOTE2012_authors_guidelines. We kindly ask you to use only the provided template for submissions which is aligned with the Gesellschaft for Informatik. You can download the template here http://www.e-voting.cc/files/EVOTE_word_template_LNI-english. Every full paper submissions will be subject to a double-blind review. Please submit only anonymous submissions (with no reference to the authors). Submissions that do not comply with the guidelines or requirements will not be accepted. Following the tradition of the last conferences, the proceedings will be published in the LNI Series. We would like to thank the Gesellschaft for Informatik and Prof. H. C. Mayr for the great support in publishing the articles. We are looking forward to your contributions and if you have any question, please do not hesitate to contact us at office(at)e-voting.cc Yours sincerely, Manuel Kripp On behalf of the E-Voting.CC Team Important downloads: Author's guidelines: http://www.e-voting.cc/files/EVOTE2012_authors_guidelines Template for submissions: http://www.e-voting.cc/files/EVOTE_word_template_LNI-english Call for Papers: http://www.e-voting.cc/files/EVOTE2012-CfP-2 -- Manuel J. Kripp Managing Director E-Voting.CC GmbH Competence Center for Electronic Voting and Participation Pyrkergasse 33/1/2 A-1190 Wien Phone: +43 1 3193950 Fax: +43 1 3193955 Mobile: +43 676 9697 962 Skype: manuelkripp E-Mail: m.kripp(a)e-voting.cc Web: http://www.e-voting.cc -- P Please don't print this e-mail unless you really need to! This e-mail is confidential and for the addressee only. This e-mail is confidential and may also contain privileged information. If you are not the intended recipient you are not authorised to read, print, save, process or disclose this message. If you have received this message by mistake, please inform the sender immediately and delete this e-mail, its attachments and any copies. Any use, distribution, reproduction or disclosure by any person other than the intended recipient is strictly prohibited and the person responsible may incur penalties. Thank you!

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Call for Papers for IJDET Special Issue on Emotional Intelligence for Online Learning
by Maiga Chang 18 Dec '11

18 Dec '11

**Wish all of you and your family have a merry Christmas and happy New Year** [Only two months left, February 28, 2012: Submission deadline] [One-page abstract by January 31, 2012 to indicate your intention in sending complete manuscript by February 28, 2012 is strongly recommended]. [Apologies if you receive multiple times, please circulate this to your colleagues who might be interested, thank you so much.] ------- SI on Emotional Intelligence for Online Learning Call for Papers ----------- Special Issue on Emotional Intelligence for Online Learning (http://maiga.athabascau.ca/editors/JDET-Special_Issue-2011-Emotional_Intell…) in International Journal of Distance Education Technologies (EI Journal) (http://www.igi-global.com/Bookstore/TitleDetails.aspx?TitleId=1078&DetailsT…) Many intelligent tutoring systems have been developed and used to support students' learning. Good online learning systems require emotional communications happened in-between the tutors and the learners. Emotions play an important role when users engage in career or drama training, or language learning situations via role-play. Interpreting player experience and affect from open-ended verbal communication and diverse body language has been challenging research tasks. It further promotes the importance of such studies when employing diverse game-play modalities (e.g. mobile interfaces and augmented reality platforms) and when recognizing affect and mood from metaphorical affective expressions, dialogue context, emotionally ambiguous or non-prototypical spoken utterances, facial expressions and gestures. Such research is significantly beneficial to the development of intelligent virtual agents which are capable of interpreting social relationships, context, general mood and emotion, sensing or reasonably predicating others' inter-conversion, identifying its role and participating intelligently in open-ended interaction. How to develop a system which can identify user's emotion and/or present its feelings to the user according to user's words, behaviors, and performance in online learning is definitely an important, a very helpful as well an interesting research topic. The purpose of this special issue is to explore how models, theories, and solutions of emotion intelligence can be used in online learning and what benefits users can receive from such emotion intelligence-embedded systems and agents. Guest Editors (in alphabet order): Dr. Maiga Chang, Dr. Rita Kuo and Dr. Li Zhang Suggested topics: We cordially invite authors to submit high quality manuscripts for any application domain as long as the core of the manuscript belongs to: - Affect sensing from text, speech, facial expression and gestures - Affect inspired interactive intelligent games (e.g., mobile interfaces, augmented reality platforms, natural user interfaces - non touch based user interfaces) - Emotion modelling and generation - Human computer interaction issues and challenges that affective computing/emotional intelligence solutions for online learning may have - Emotional tutoring agents/learning companions/interactive robots - Affective computing tools, systems and applications for online learning - Emotional intelligent agents for assisting teaching or learning - Multi-agent based affective computing systems and applications - Practical experiences in using & deploying emotional intelligence for online learning - Successful cases of applying emotional intelligence to online learning - Not-so-successful cases and the lessons learnt - Evaluation models for emotional intelligent agents/systems Important dates and manuscript guidelines: All submissions have to follow IGI Global journal manuscript guidelines and should be sent to the guest editors directly via email (maiga.chang(a)gmail.com, rita.mcsl(a)gmail.com and L.Zhang(a)cs.bham.ac.uk) by February 28, 2012. It is encouraged to authors who are interested in submitting your works to submit an one-page abstract with manuscript title by January 31, 2012 to indicate your intention in sending complete manuscript by February 28. All submissions are going to be reviewed by at least three reviewers, the final camera-ready manuscripts have to be revised by the author(s) according to reviewer comments before sending to the guest editors by June 1, 2012. The other important dates are: - February 28, 2012: Submission deadline - May 1, 2012: Review result notification - June 1, 2012: Revised manuscript submission deadline - June 15, 2012: Acceptance notification - June 30, 2012: Final camera-ready manuscript submission deadline IGI Global manuscript guidelines at: http://www.igi-global.com/Files/AuthorEditor/journaltemplate.doc For queries, please contact Dr. Maiga Chang (maiga.chang(a)gmail.com)

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Call for Papers for IRRODL Special Issue on Technology Enhanced Information Retrieval and Processing for Online Learning
by Maiga Chang 18 Dec '11

18 Dec '11

[Apologies if you receive multiple times, please circulate this to your colleagues who might be interested, thank you so much.] ------- Call for Papers for IRRODL Special Issue ----------- Special Issue on Technology Enhanced Information Retrieval and Processing for Online Learning (http://maiga.athabascau.ca/editors/IRRODL-Special_Issue-2012-IR.html) in The International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning (SSCI Journal) (http://www.irrodl.org/n) Online learning has been developed for over decades and has become an important tool for education. Many tutors design web-based teaching materials and share them in the learning management systems. Learners develop knowledge from those materials, tutor supports, and the collaborations with other learners in distance in the online learning environment and platforms. While information technology changes rapidly and the variety of online learning activities increase, especially with the aid of social network and Web 2.0 tools that are available to instruction designers, we may need to consider how to provide learners personalized pedagogical service which can help them learn more efficiently. In order to have such personalized service, both course contents and learner's characteristics need to be well analyzed. How to retrieve useful information from learning materials, data stored in the learning management systems, and discussions and interactions among learners and how to design and use information retrieval technologies to improve learner's online learning performance become interesting and important topics. The purpose of this special issue is to explore how models, theories, and solutions of information retrieval and content analysis can be used in online learning and what benefits users can receive from such systems and agents. Guest Editors (in alphabet order): Dr. Maiga Chang, Dr. Rita Kuo, Dr. Gene Loeb, Dr. Bolanle Olaniran Suggested topics: We cordially invite authors to submit high quality manuscripts for any application domain as long as the core of the manuscript belongs one or more of the following: - Affect sensing from text - Credibility and reliability of data - Culture in information retrieving - Data archiving and retrieval - Data/Text mining in a learning content - Evaluation models for NLP/IR/IE/Ontology-based research and systems - Human computer interaction issues and challenges that NLP/IR/IE/ Ontology-based solutions for online distance learning - Individual knowledge acquisition from user behavior analysis - Information retrieval and extraction algorithms - Information retrieving and processing computing tools, systems and applications for online learning - Intelligent tutoring agents/systems based on NLP, Information Retrieval (IR), Information Extraction (IE), and Ontology - Knowledge navigation in learning content - Knowledge construction - Learning content analysis by semantic web technology - Leaning content organization and knowledge management - Learning style and learning preferences in data retrieval - Mobile dissemination and retrieval - Multi-agent based information processing systems and applications - Not-so-successful cases and the lessons learnt - Ontology learning - Practical experiences in using & deploying NLP/IR/IE/Ontology-based research for online learning - Questioning and Answering applications and systems - Social Network Analysis based of content and of activities occurring in Web 2.0 applications - Social networks and interactions in learning communities - Successful cases of applying NLP/IR/IE/Ontology-based research to online learning - Web 2.0, 3.0, X.0 Important dates and manuscript guidelines: All submissions have to follow International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning (IRRODL) research article guidelines (and should be submitted online by April 30, 2012. All submissions will be reviewed by at least three peer reviewers, the final camera-ready manuscripts have to be revised by the author(s) according to reviewer comments before resubmitting by June 1, 2012. The important dates are: - Submission deadline: April 30, 2012 - Review result notification: July 15, 2012 - Revised manuscript submission deadline: August 31, 2012 - Acceptance notification: September 30, 2012 - Final camera-ready manuscript submission deadline: October 31, 2012 IRRODL research article guidelines at: http://www.irrodl.org/miscfiles/documents/IRRODL_Research_Article_Guideline… Please submit your article to the IRRODL site at http://www.irrodl,org, after registering as an author and hopefully also offering to be a reviewer by clicking the reviewer category in the enrollment form and noting your area of research expertise. For queries, please contact Dr. Maiga Chang (maiga.chang(a)gmail.com)

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CeDEM CFP Conference for E-Democracy and Open Government FINAL CALL
by Johann Hoechtl 17 Dec '11

17 Dec '11

Sorry for cross-posting! CONFERENCE for E-DEMOCRACY and OPEN GOVERNMENT 2012 Due to authors request, the Conference for E-Democracy CeDEM12 is extending the submission deadline until 16 January 2012 Due to requests from authors, we extended the deadline for submissions of papers until <16 January 2012>. For further information and call for papers visit: http://www.donau-uni.ac.at/cedem Topics * EParticipation * Government 2.0 * Social Media and Public Administration * EPolitics and ECampaigning * European Citizen Initiative * Participatory Budgeting * BottomUp Movements * Open Data and Open Access. If you have any questions, do not hesitate to contact me. I wish you all the best for 2012. Kind regards, Peter Parycek (Conference Chair) Centre for E-Governance Danube University Krems Austria -- -- Mag. Johann Höchtl Zentrum für E-Governance Donau-Universität Krems Dr.-Karl-Dorrek-Straße 30 A-3500 Krems Tel.: ++43 2732 893 2304 Mail: Johann.hoechtl(a)donau-uni.ac.at

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Digital Divide and Social Media: Connectivity Doesn’t End the Digital Divide, Skills Do #SciAm_blogs
by Danica Radovanovic 17 Dec '11

17 Dec '11

An article which may be of interest from The Scientific American this week. I wrote a blog post about digital inequalities and social media, discussing "new digital divides" http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/2011/12/14/digital-divide-an… Also, an interesting response to my text: http://blogs.computerworlduk.com/simon-says/2011/12/the-new-digital-divides… I have received enormous amounts of feedback to my article and wrote few thoughts about it on my blog (www.danicar.org) I hope in the future publications and conferences there will be more discussion on the issues I've addressed in the text. Wishing everyone the very best for the holidays! Danica -- Danica Radovanovic Doctoral candidate in Communication studies University of Belgrade PhD Chevening Scholar, Oxford Internet Institute Keble college, University of Oxford web: serendipities <http://www.danicar.org/> | twitter @danicar<http://twitter.com/#!/danicar> | skype zmajche

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Has NYTimes jumped the e-shark
by Barry Wellman 16 Dec '11

16 Dec '11

Monica Murero just pointed out to us the evidence-free NYT article on doctors supposedly "distracted" by e-devices. That's the second evidence free article from the NYT I've seen in 2 days. They did a piece on Thursday about people allegedly leaving Facebook. Once again, just with a few random anecdotes that were not quite on point. I'm not talking about spinning evidence, but total lack of. So I wonder if the NYT, which for all its faults used to fact check (I remember the Qs well when they interviewed me) has gone over to the dark side. Cdns may be amused/outraged that CTV Toronto news read the Times article and only then contacted me about the subject. The reporter was sure it was right because her editor (not she) had read it in the NYT. Is this lack of evidence related to recent editorial changes at the NYT? Barry Wellman _______________________________________________________________________ S.D. Clark Professor of Sociology, FRSC NetLab Director Department of Sociology 725 Spadina Avenue, Room 388 University of Toronto Toronto Canada M5S 2J4 twitter:barrywellman http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman fax:+1-416-978-3963 Updating history: http://chass.utoronto.ca/oldnew/cybertimes.php _______________________________________________________________________

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Apps4D challenge 1 month left
by Jakob Svensson 16 Dec '11

16 Dec '11

Apologies for cross-postings (and please spread in your networks) Share your idea for a Future application for Development and win a trip to the 3rd International Conference on Mobile Communication on Development in New Delhi 28-29 February 2012! see http://www.ideasproject.com/community/en/apps4d Timeline: Begins: December 1, 2011 at 09.00am EET (GMT+2) Ends: January 19, 2012 at 5pm EET (GMT+2) Jakob Svensson, Ph. D. Director HumanIT (www.kau.se/en/humanit [http://www.kau.se/en/humanit])Ass. Prof. in Media and Communication Studies Karlstad University 65188 Karlstad - Sweden + 46 (0) 54 700 1893 jakob.svensson(a)kau.se

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Internet Research 13.0: Technologies
by Attwood, Feona 16 Dec '11

16 Dec '11

Internet Research 13.0: Technologies The 13th Annual International and Interdisciplinary Conference of the Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR) October 18-21, 2012 MediaCity:UK - University of Salford Salford - Greater Manchester - UK http://ir13.aoir.org Internet Research 13.0 will focus on the theme of technologies, understood in the broadest sense as crafts, techniques, and systems. The conference will examine the place of the Internet in the contemporary world and in relation to a range of existing and emerging technologies, considering its impact in a context where life is entangled with technologies of all kinds as never before. The conference will bring together scholars, researchers, students and practitioners from many disciplines to map and situate the development of the Internet as part of the history of human technology. To this end, we call for papers, panel and pre-conference workshop proposals from any discipline, methodology, community or a combination of them that address the conference themes, including, but not limited to, papers that intersect and/or interconnect with the following: * the speed and acceleration of technological change * the past, present and future of technology * emerging and converging technologies * educational technology * cultures of crafting * connectivity and access * space, location and mobile technologies * technology, networks and attachments * technology and the body * technologies of the self * technology, regulation and ethics Sessions at the conference will be established that specifically address the conference themes, and we welcome innovative, exciting, and unexpected takes on those themes. We also welcome submissions on topics that address social, cultural, political, legal, aesthetic, economic, and/or philosophical aspects of the internet beyond the conference themes. In all cases, we welcome disciplinary and interdisciplinary submissions as well as international collaborations from both AoIR and non-AoIR members. SUBMISSIONS We seek proposals for several different kinds of contributions. As in the past, we welcome proposals for traditional academic conference PAPERS, organized PANEL PROPOSALS that present a coherent group of papers on a single theme, as well as PRE-CONFERENCE WORKSHOPS which focus on a particular topic. We also invite proposals that will focus on discussion and interaction among conference delegates. A common form of this type is the ROUNDTABLE SESSION, but we would also like to encourage other formats, such as OPEN FISHBOWL SESSIONS. (See the Wikipedia entry under “Fishbowl (conversation)” for a description of this format. Fishbowl sessions should cover broad topics of interest to a wide segment of the AoIR community.) Finally, we invite short 5-minute talks on topics of interest to the community as part of our Ignite-IR panels. Please see below for more information on this format. DEADLINES Submissions Due: 1 March 2012 (Papers, Panels and Pre-Workshops. Details below.) NOTE: The submission deadline is a HARD DEADLINE; there will be NO extensions to this date. Notification: 1 May 2012 Full Papers Submissions Due for inclusion in Selected Papers of IR: 1 July 2012 Ignite-IR Final Proposal Deadline: 1 August 2012 Ignite-IR Slides Due: 15 September 2012 SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS All papers and presentations will be evaluated in a standard blind peer review. PAPERS (individual or multi-author) – submit abstract of 600-800 words PANEL PROPOSALS – submit a description of 600-800 words on the panel theme, plus a 250-500 word abstract for each paper or presentation. The panel organizer must assemble these materials for submission ROUNDTABLE and FISHBOWL PROPOSALS – submit a statement indicating the nature of the discussion and form of interaction, and listing initial participants. (In the case of a fishbowl proposal, this will include the name of the moderator, and the names of the first four speakers for the fishbowl.) PRE-CONFERENCE WORKSHOPS – please submit all workshop proposals via email to attwood(a)aoir.org<mailto:attwood@aoir.org>. Workshop proposals should include names of presenters and a 1,000-word description. IGNITE-IR – please submit a one-paragraph abstract and other information. Details at http://ir13.aoir.org/ignite-ir Papers, presentations and panels will be selected from the submitted proposals on the basis of multiple blind peer review, coordinated and overseen by the Program Chair. Each individual may present only one paper during the conference, though they may be listed as a co-author on multiple papers. In addition to this one presentation, they may also appear on a panel, roundtable, or performance. The exception is the Ignite-IR lightening talk, which may be in addition to any other presentations. PUBLICATION OF PAPERS Full papers submitted by the 1 July 2012 deadline will undergo review to be published in an open-access, online collection, Selected Papers of Internet Research (ISSN 2162-3317). A template and guidelines for preparing your final paper are available on the conference website (http://ir13.aoir.org/papers) Selected papers from the conference will alternatively be published in a special issue of the journal Information, Communication & Society. Authors selected for submission for this issue will be contacted prior to the conference. PRE-CONFERENCE WORKSHOPS On 18 October 2012, there will be a limited number of pre-conference workshops and symposia that will provide participants with in-depth, hands-on and/or creative opportunities. We invite proposals for these pre-conference workshops. Local presenters are encouraged to propose workshops that will invite visiting researchers into their labs or studios or locales. Proposals should be no more than 1,000 words, and should clearly outline the purpose, methodology, structure, costs, equipment and minimal attendance required, as well as explaining its relevance to the conference as a whole. Proposals will be accepted if they demonstrate that the workshop will add significantly to the overall program in terms of thematic depth, hands on experience, or local opportunities for scholarly or artistic connections. These proposals and all inquiries regarding pre-conference proposals should be submitted as soon as possible to the program chair (attwood(a)aoir.org<mailto:attwood@aoir.org>) and no later than 1 March 2012. IGNITE-IR For the second year, the Internet Research conference will offer the opportunity to present short, five minute talks in rapid succession. Presenters provide a deck of twenty slides, which will auto-advance each fifteen seconds. Details on the session maybe found at the conference website. Because talks are intended to be of the moment, the submission deadline is much later than for papers: 1 August 2012. CONTACT INFORMATION Program Chair: Feona Attwood, Communication, Sheffield Hallam University, UK, email attwood(a)aoir.org<mailto:attwood@aoir.org> Local Conference Chair: Ben Light, School of Media, Music, and Performance, University of Salford, email: light(a)aoir.org<mailto:light@aoir.org>

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