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Pentagon looks into social network tracking and analysis
by Kyle Kontour 03 Aug '11

03 Aug '11

For anyone who missed this: http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/08/02/pentagon-seeks-social-networking-e… I'm having a hard time picturing ways this can be used for anything other than shoring up U.S. state authority. Interesting, at any rate.

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Text Analytics and Social Media
by Linda Lou Lichtenstein 03 Aug '11

03 Aug '11

We are exploring the application of text analytics to the analysis of social media - specifically semantic orientation, sentiment analysis, and ontology analysis - and are looking for sources of reputable research, particularly in ontology analysis. Is anyone aware of articles that compare models of ontology management in text analytics for social media? And, can deficits in the current research be identified? Thank you, Linda Lichtenstein Research Assistant to Dr. Philip A. Klobucar Humanities Department New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, New Jersey lll3(a)njit.edu

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AOIR Conference schedule?
by Janet Salmons, Ph.D. 03 Aug '11

03 Aug '11

Trying to do some advance planning-- can you tell me when the conference starts? Trying to decide whether I can fly in that day.... Thanks in advance, Janet *Janet Salmons Ph.D.* *Capella University School of Business and Technology and Vision2Lead, Inc. *Site- http://www.vision2lead.com Follow Twitter at /einterview Coming soon: Cases in Online Interview Research<http://tinyurl.com/e-interview2> PO Box 943 Boulder, CO 80306-0943

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Nicholas C. Mullins Award: Call for Submissions
by Jim McQuaid 02 Aug '11

02 Aug '11

Nicholas C. Mullins Award The Nicholas C. Mullins prize is awarded each year by the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S) for an outstanding piece of scholarship by a graduate student in the field of Science and Technology Studies. The winner receives a check for $US 1,000 and a plaque. The submission deadline is September 1, 2011. To submit a paper, send a PDF or Word file of the paper (or a functioning URL where it can be accessed). For further details on submission guidelines, please see the Mullins Prize page on the 4S website: http://www.4sonline.org/prizes/mullins. Members of the 2011 Mullins Award Committee are: Laurel Smith-Doerr, Committee Chair Boston University Ldoerr(a)LdoerrbuLdoerr.LdoerreduLdoerr Paul Mbatia University of Nairobi Stephen Zehr University of Southern Indiana

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Now Accepting Submissions: iConference 2012
by Jean-François Blanchette 02 Aug '11

02 Aug '11

Now Accepting Submissions: iConference 2012 Toronto, Canada February 7-10, 2012 http://www.ischools.org/iConference12/2012index Greetings to everyone! We are now accepting submissions for iConference 2012, our seventh annual gathering of scholars, researchers, and professionals who share an interest in the critical information issues of contemporary society. The iConference will include peer-reviewed papers, posters, alternative events, and workshops—all intended to push the boundaries of information studies, explore core concepts and ideas, and create new technological and conceptual configurations. Our four-day event takes place in downtown Toronto, February 7-10, 2012. The conference theme is: Culture * Design * Society. Authors and organizers can now submit papers, poster abstracts, alternative events proposals, and workshop proposals using our secure submissions website: http://bit.ly/iconf12sub <http://bit.ly/iconf12sub> . All submitting authors must provide basic information and agree to copyright parameters as a condition of acceptance and publication. Papers and poster abstracts will be published in the ACM Digital Library. In addition, a Doctoral Student Colloquium is being organized, with funding from the National Science Foundation. Applications for the colloquium are now being accepted. Learn more at http://www.ischools.org/iConference12/doctoral/ <http://www.ischools.org/iConference12/doctoral/> . A Junior Faculty & Postdoc Colloquium is also in the works. The iConference series is sponsored by the iSchools, a growing association of more than 30 Schools, Faculties and Colleges in North America, Europe and Asia—however, affiliation with the iSchools is not a prerequisite, and we encourage everyone to participate. Presenting sponsors of iConference 2012 include NSF and Microsoft Research. * Conference home: http://www.ischools.org/iConference12/2012index * Submissions site: http://bit.ly/iconf12sub * Last Year’s Proceedings: http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1940761 Submission types: * Papers: We’re looking for original research, six to eight pages; papers will be refereed in a blind process, and accepted papers will be published in the ACM Digital Library. Submission deadline: Monday September 12, 2011 Notification: Early November Final version due: Monday December 5, 2011 * Posters: We’re interested in posters presenting new work, preliminary results and designs, or educational projects. Poster abstracts will undergo a blind review, and accepted posters will have their abstracts published in the ACM Digital Library. Submission deadline: Monday September 26, 2011 Notification: Mid November Final version due: Monday December 5, 2011 * Workshops: These can be half- or full-day and can focus on any area within information. Submission deadline: Monday September 19, 2011 Notification: Early October Final version due: Monday October 31, 2011 * Alternative Events: These can include panels, fishbowls, performances, storytelling, roundtable discussions, wildcard sessions, demos/exhibitions, and more. All should be highly participatory, informal, engaging and pluralistic. Submission deadline: Monday September 19, 2011 Notification: Mid November Final version due: Monday December 5, 2011 * Doctoral Colloquium: This year’s colloquium will be organized around the theme of “inquiry.” Applicants will submit a 1,000 word abstract addressing the question, “What is the nature of inquiry in the information field, what makes it similar to or different from other areas of research, and what challenges have you met in your own research in this regard?” Visit our website for details: http://www.ischools.org/iConference12/doctoral Application deadline: Friday September 30, 2011 Notification: Late November ORGANIZERS Conference Chair * Jens-Erik Mai, University of Toronto Papers Chair * Jonathan Furner, University of California, Los Angeles Posters Chair * Paul Marty, Florida State University Alternative Events Chair * Philippa Levy, University of Sheffield Workshops Chair * Kelly Lyons, University of Toronto Doctoral Colloquium Co-Chairs * Hamid Ekbia, Indiana University * Howard Rosenbaum, Indiana University Keynote Speakers Chair * Brian Cantwell Smith, University of Toronto Publication Chair * Yuri Takhteyev, University of Toronto Social Media Chair * Rhonda McEwen, University of Toronto Program Committee * Mark Ackerman, University of Michigan * Alessandro Acquisti, Carnegie Mellon University * Jack Andersen, Royal School of Library and Information Science * Nick Belkin, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey * Jean-François Blanchette, University of California, Los Angeles * Johan Bollen, Indiana University * Geoff Bowker, University of Pittsburgh * Amy Bruckman, Georgia Institute of Technology * Donald Case, University of Kentucky * Chen Chuanfu, Wuhan University * Paul Clough, University of Sheffield * Kevin Crowston, Syracuse University * Ron Day, Indiana University * Melanie Feinberg, University of Texas, Austin * Robert Glushko, University of California Berkeley * Sean Goggins, Drexel University * Sara Grimes, University of Toronto * David Hendry, University of Washington * Steven Jackson, Cornell University * Jim Jansen, The Pennsylvania State University * Michelle Kazmer, Florida State University * Anita Komlodi, UMBC * Christopher (Cal) Lee, University of North Carolina * Bonnie Mak, University of Illinois * William Moen, University of North Texas * Bonnie Nardi, University of California, Irvine * Heather L. O'Brien, University of British Columbia * Ee-Peng Lim, Singapore Management University * Vivien Petras, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin * Kalpana Shankar, University College Dublin * Elizabeth Shepherd, University College London * Bo Xie, University of Maryland Learn more at http://www.ischools.org/iConference12/2012index

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by tom abeles 02 Aug '11

02 Aug '11

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Invitation to Participate in a Study on Doctoral Rites of Passage
by Jeffrey Keefer 01 Aug '11

01 Aug '11

I am studying the experience of liminality (rites of passage) through learning leaps or aha! moments people encounter during the doctoral learning experience. I am hoping to speak with those who finished a doctorate (at any time) or who are working on their PhD (EdD, DNP, DM, etc.), especially if this involves distance or online study (or even a heavy technology component). Please consider my Invitation to Participate in a Research Study on my website — http://silenceandvoice.com/archives/2011/07/28/invitation-to-participate-in… — and please forward this to anybody you think may be a potential participant. Thank you in advance for any assistance as I am beginning data collection for my own doctoral thesis research at Lancaster University. ----- Jeffrey Keefer j.keefer(a)lancaster.ac.uk Blog: http://silenceandvoice.com Twitter: http://twitter.com/JeffreyKeefer Website: http://www.jeffreykeefer.com Lancaster University: http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/gradschool/pgrprofiles/603

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FW: MERJ 02:02 - Call for Papers
by Rivki Ribak 01 Aug '11

01 Aug '11

Hello. Please circulate this to any potential authors... Call for papers for MERJ 02:02 on the theme of 'Media Studies 2.0 - A Retrospective'. Further details on the theme, deadline and submission guidelines are all here - http://www.merj.info/ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Dr. Julian McDougall: Reader in Media & Education⎜Head of Creative Arts ⎜Newman University College Editor: Media Education Research Journal http://www.merj.info/ Visiting Fellow: Centre of Excellence for Media Practice: http://www.cemp.ac.uk/ http://twitter.com/JulianMcDougall ________________________________________ From: Julian McDougall Sent: Tuesday, July 05, 2011 4:33 PM To: Richard Berger; John Atkinson; Jonathan Wardle; j.a.marsh(a)sheffield.ac.uk; nypotamitis(a)gmail.com; D.Buckingham(a)ioe.ac.uk; readinam(a)lsbu.ac.uk; d.laughey(a)leedsmet.ac.uk; d.ashton(a)bathspa.ac.uk; cathyp(a)billsaunders.plus.com; alex.kendall(a)bcu.ac.uk; cnoonan(a)glam.ac.uk; mark(a)cemp.ac.uk; Dave Trotman; N.Washbourne(a)leedsmet.ac.uk; rribak(a)research.haifa.ac.il; j.potter(a)ioe.ac.uk Subject: RE: MERJ 02:01 Sorry, I missed our newest editorial board member (John Potter) off the list..... Dear Editorial Board We are pleased to inform you that MERJ 02:01 is now published. Thanks for your efforts in reviewing articles and, in some cases, contributing material. As always, the publisher will shortly send you all a PDF of the edition but if you haven't already placed a subscription, it would be great if you did so. On Friday, we will be 'launching' our new MERJ website which will feature abstracts, editorial articles and reviews and news / information. The URL for the site is www.merj.info and this will be live from 8th July. Our call for papers for MERJ 02:02 is out now as well and this will be a themed edition - 'Media Studies 2.0 - A Retrospective'. As we have extended the editorial board quite substantially, we don't expect to burden you with more than one or two articles each to review, but nevertheless you can expect to receive some content for reviewing in the Autumn. Thanks again for your contributions to our journal Julian and Richard. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Dr. Julian McDougall Reader in Media & Education⎜Head of Creative Arts ⎜Newman University College Editor: Media Education Research Journal http://tinyurl.com/yzbbygn Visiting Fellow: Centre of Excellence for Media Practice: http://www.cemp.ac.uk/ Author: After the Media (Routledge): http://tinyurl.com/6ertz79 Manifesto for Media Education: http://tinyurl.com/6xp4pzw http://twitter.com/JulianMcDougall ________________________________________ Newman University College, Genners Lane, Bartley Green, Birmingham B32 3NT ( Registered Office ) Tel +44 (0)121 476 1181 Fax +44 (0)121 476 1196 Newman University College is a charitable company limited by guarantee, Registered in England and Wales with Company number : 5493384 Charity number : 1110346 VAT number : 559 1908 08

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CFP: Sexual Cultures Conference
by Attwood, Feona 01 Aug '11

01 Aug '11

SEXUAL CULTURES: THEORY, PRACTICE, RESEARCH This conference, co-hosted by the Onscenity Research Network and the Schools of Arts and Social Sciences at Brunel University, will take place on April 20-22 2012 at Brunel University, London, UK. http://www.onscenity.org/conf1/ Our keynote speakers are: Martin Barker, Professor of Film and Television Studies, Aberystwyth University, UK Violet Blue, blogger, columnist, sex educator, and author, US Judith Halberstam, Professor of English, American Studies and Ethnicity and Gender Studies, University of Southern California, US Katrien Jacobs, Associate Professor at Chinese University of Hong Kong Fiona Patten, Australian Sex Party The key themes of the conference are: Sex and technology Technologies of all kinds have been central to the ways in which sex is understood and experienced in contemporary societies. We are interested in papers that explore evolving technologies in the presentation of sex through print, photography, film and video to todays online and mobile media; the ways that technologies are increasingly integrated into everyday sex lives; the expansion of sex technologies in toy, doll, machine and robot manufacture, the marketing of drugs such as Viagra and cosmetic technologies such as body modification and genital surgery for enhancing sex; the expansion of sex work and recreation online; sex 2.0 practices, regimes and environments such as porn tubes, sex chat rooms and worlds like Second Life; and the shifting relations between bodies and machines in the present and in predictions of futuresex. The regulation of sex Papers in this strand of the conference will examine how sexuality and the ways in which it is represented are the focus of government policy and subject to various forms of regulation. In democratic societies, sexuality is generally thought to be the domain of the private and personal, outside the ambit of the law whose function in this sphere is simply to maintain public decency. Yet vast amounts of institutional effort and resources are invested in what has come to be called moral regulation, in which self-governance and moral discourse are generally preferred to coercive forms of regulation. At the same time, governments continue to make certain forms of sexual practice and representation illegal. What are the limits of the legally possible today, both in terms of sexual behaviour and representation, and what are the various means employed to encourage us to behave properly in the sexual domain? Working sex In recent years sex work has become a potent site for the discussion of labour, commerce and sexual ethics, attracting increased academic attention and public concern. Papers in this strand of the conference will seek to develop our understanding of commercial sex, focus on conceptualizing emerging types of sexual labour, and explore the place of sex work of all kinds in contemporary society. They will ask how an investigation of contemporary forms of sex work and sex as work may shed new light on the study of cultural production, industry, commerce, and notions of commodification and labour. We are also seeking papers which are interested in exploring the connections between work and leisure, work and pleasure, sex work as forms of body and affective labour, and the ethics and politics of sexual labour. Researching everyday sex Research into sexuality can often be caught in a politics of anxiety where it is constructed as something that needs to be managed, protected and even guarded against. Sexuality is also understood as absolutely intrinsic to our sense of identity, an important indicator of mental and emotional health and a form of intimate communication and individual fulfillment, as well as an important site of pleasure and play. Papers in this strand of the conference will take as their focus the diverse sexual identities, practices, representations, values and experiences that make up the mundane and spectacular elements of everyday sexual life. We seek papers that examine the politics and/or ethics of researching everyday sexualities, as well as the lived realities of sex in the quotidian. We invite proposals for the following: Panels and roundtable discussions of up to four speakers Papers (20 minutes) Short Ignite papers (5 minutes/20 slides) Posters Deadline for the submission of proposals is October 31 2011. For all individual papers please submit a 150 word abstract and 150 word biographical note. Please indicate which key theme of the conference your paper belongs to. For panels and roundtable sessions please submit a 600-800 overview and set of abstracts with 150 word biographical notes. Please indicate which key theme of the conference your paper belongs to. Please submit your proposals to conference(a)onscenity.org<mailto:conference@onscenity.org> Onscenity is funded by the UK Arts & Humanities Research Council and draws together international experts in order to respond to the new visibility or onscenity of sex in commerce, culture and everyday life. The network is committed to working towards developing new approaches to the relationships between sex, commerce, media and technology. Drawing on the work of leading scholars from around the world, it aims to map a transformed landscape of sexual practices and co-ordinate a new wave of research.

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3 additional CITASA-ish sessions (fwd)
by Barry Wellman 30 Jul '11

30 Jul '11

This is about the forthcoming American Sociological Association annual meeting at Caesar's Palace, Las Vegas, August 19-23. Thought it would be of interest to some AOIR members, as well. "CITASA" = Communication and Information Technology section of the ASA. For info about CITASA's own sessions, go to asanet.org and menu to Event Calendar 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 _______________________________________________________________________ ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Sat, 30 Jul 2011 16:08:33 -0400 From: Barry Wellman <wellman(a)chass.utoronto.ca> To: communication and information technology section asa <citasa(a)list.citasa.org> Subject: 3 additional CITASA-ish sessions I was able to get 3 sessions for the Las Vegas ASA. They're "regular" sessions, in addition to the CITASA sessions. So I'm going to list them below. These are dynamite papers and speakers. And a great discussant. Alas, neither we nor CITASA do scheduling so there may be some clashes. --------------------------- Social Participant On and Off the Internet. Session Organizer: Barry Wellman (University of Toronto) Sunday 1030-12 The Active Few and the Sporadic Many: Making Sense of Opinion Dynamics in Online Review Systems *Fedor Dokshin (Cornell University) The Internet, Young Adults and Political Engagement around the 2008 Presidential Elections *Aaron Shaw (University of California-Berkeley), Eszter Hargittai (Northwestern University) Social movements' use of information and communication technologies: diffusion, usefulness and empowerment *Piotr Konieczny (University of Pittsburgh) *=presenter And no, we don't know what room. You gotta go and register for that. ----------------------------------- Regular Session. Networked Individuals On and Off the Internet Scheduled Time: Sun, Aug 21 - 2:30pm - 4:10pm Session Participants: Session Organizer: Barry Wellman (University of Toronto) Presider: Barry Wellman (University of Toronto) "If you're not texting me, you must be old:" Age Cohort Attachment to Mobile Phones *Amanda M. Warr (University of Alabama at Birmingham), Shelia R. Cotten (University of Alabama at Birmingham), William A. Anderson (University of Alabama at Birmingham) The Intersection of Gender and Place in Online Health Activities *Melinda Goldner (Union College), Timothy M. Hale (University of Alabama at Birmingham), Shelia R. Cotten (University of Alabama at Birmingham), Michael J. Stern (College of Charleston), Patricia Drentea (University of Alabama-Birmingham) Core Discussion Networks Over Time: How the Internet Reduces Social Isolation and Increases Network Diversity *Keith N. Hampton (University of Pennsylvania), Lauren Sessions Goulet (University of Pennsylvania) Social Network Sites, Social Ties, and Social Capital *Randy Lynn (George Mason University), *James C. Witte (George Mason University) Discussant: Barry Wellman (University of Toronto) ---------------------------------------------------------- Regular Session. Digital Divides in the Internet Age Scheduled Time: Mon, Aug 22 - 4:30pm - 6:10pm Session Organizer: Barry Wellman (University of Toronto) Presider: Barry Wellman (University of Toronto) Cyberasociality and the Online Sociality Divide: Third Level Digital Divide? *Zeynep Tufekci (University of Maryland-Baltimore County) (Tech) Culture in Action: Using a cultural framework to describe and explain differences in technological competency *Cassidy Puckett (Northwestern University) Does the "Do-it-yourself approach" reduce digital inequality? Lack of digital skills and infrequent Internet use *Uwe Matzat (Eindhoven University of Technology), Bert M. Sadowski (Eindhoven University of Technology) Stalled Digital Divide: Gender Differences in the Use of ICT in Taiwan *Yu-Hua Chen (National Taiwan University), Wen-Yin Chien (United Daily News) Discussant: Barry Wellman (University of Toronto) 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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