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An answer to Steve's question to AoIR VP Candidates:
by Alex Halavais 20 May '11

20 May '11

STEVE JONES asked the following question to the candidates for AoIR VP: """ What do you consider the optimal size for AoIR? Do you believe AoIR should develop divisions or interest groups? Do you believe AoIR should raise membership dues? What do you consider the benefits of AoIR membership to be, both tangible and intangible, and are there other benefits that you would try to bring to members? Please elaborate as much as you wish in your answers. Thank you. """ Since not everyone will make it over to the site, I'm sharing the candidates' responses here: ***** TED COOPMAN ***** """ What do you consider the optimal size for AoIR? Ideally, I would like to see us around 1000 +/- but would rather have quality over quantity. Ultimately, I would like us to grow as our reputation spreads and people want to be apart of what we are doing. I think 1000 is a critical mass for a healthy participant pool and to be seen as a strong and viable organization. Do you believe AoIR should develop divisions or interest groups? No. What makes AoIR special is the mix we get in our panels between disciplines, epistemologies, and methods. In my experience, divisions and interest groups lead to turf and resource wars and keeps people in their boxes. As time progresses these categories become less relevant. What the internet and internet research has (IMO) shown us is that looking at phenomenon through a narrow lens is no longer compelling. Do you believe AoIR should raise membership dues? No. Rather than raise membership dues we need to expand paying membership. We do not have the types of stranded costs such as physical offices, staff, printing and mailing that cost a lot of money. Generally, we do well with the conferences and could do better if we could spend more time and effort getting sponsorships. So while we could do more with more income (grants, special projects, publications, an Executive Director etc.), better to expand membership and sponsorships. $45 is a great deal. What do you consider the benefits of AoIR membership to be, both tangible and intangible, and are there other benefits that you would try to bring to members? I have always seen AoIR as a community of intellectuals and scholars that collaborate to create an infrastructure that facilitates our collective and individual work. This type of interdisciplinary organization is an opportunity to create a new framework for academic and private sector research and scholarship and to assist in a much needed evolution of the institution of higher education. To me, AoIR is more a collective and community than a traditional academic organization. It is place where it is safe to step out and try new things and learn from others we might not normally interact with as well as know that we will be supported and encouraged for our efforts. As far as tangible benefits, with databases and institutional access to journals the value of these traditional perks has faded. Aside from the listserv and a discount for registration there is really nothing physical we could add to induce membership. I do not think “things” are the future. People participate because they get something out of it in terms of identity, a sense of belonging, and utility for his/her own professional development. The organization has been incredibly helpful for both my teaching and research. Who we are collectively is what is most attractive about AoIR. I have been involved with half a dozen or so small and large academic organizations but nothing approaches AoIR in the sense of community, mutual respect, and collegiality. In the future, I would like to see AoIRs online presence and profile increase and become more of a hub for new media research. This would require a more serious investment, such as hiring someone to work remotely on the site. Perhaps we should consider a magazine style publication, such as Communication Currents at NCA (only cooler because it’s us!)? This would allow us to showcase our work in a more timely fashion and to a broader audience with interfering in more traditional scholarly publications. Video of roundtables and keynotes would be nice as well. """ ***** LORI KENDALL ***** What do you consider the optimal size for AoIR? By size, I assume you mean the number with paid memberships. But one could also look at the size of the group that subscribes to Air-L and/or at the size of conference attendees. In any case, I think we can stand to grow a bit more before we risk losing some of the benefits of being a smallish organization. But I’m not sure size is the key question. I think participation is the aspect of membership to focus on. I’d like to find a way to make it worth people’s while to be a bit more active in AoIR, whether that means participating more on Air-L, contributing to the wiki, helping expand our connections to other interested parties and organizations, or making other kinds contributions. Do you believe AoIR should develop divisions or interest groups? To a certain extent, I think we already have, although not formally, and some subgroups of AoIR are more distinct than others. There are positive and negative aspects to this. On the one hand, it’s exciting to connect with people who are doing work similar to yours. On the other hand, I think we’re a stronger, more interesting, and more vibrant organization because of the connections we make with people doing work that is different from ours in terms of discipline, topic, approach, theoretical orientation, etc. I’d like to find creative ways to encourage people to mix it up a bit more, so I would not be in favor of creating official subgroups. Do you believe AoIR should raise membership dues? The short answer is “I don’t know”; I think I’d need more information about our finances to answer this. My sense over the years is that we’re always a little underfunded and it would be beneficial to have more money to do things with. In particular, it would take more funding to do things that seek to overcome some of the global economic imbalances among scholars and encourage participation in AoIR from a wider geographic and economic range. Some organizations have different levels of membership, in some cases based explicitly on income. That might be one way to raise membership fees for some without precluding participation from people for whom increased fees would constitute a hardship. What do you consider the benefits of AoIR membership to be, both tangible and intangible, and are there other benefits that you would try to bring to members? For me personally, the biggest benefit of AoIR membership has been the people I’ve met and the professional opportunities that have arisen out of relationships formed through this organization. I think some of that has come about because of our interdisciplinarity and our relative lack of hierarchy. Right from that first conference, AoIR has been an organization that encourages interaction amongst scholars at all career stages and with various types of institutional affiliations. I haven’t as often taken advantage of some of the more tangible benefits such as discounts on journal submissions. I’d be interested to find out more about what other members value most about AoIR. [...] I need to add, and feel remiss in not mentioning this above, that another important benefit of AoIR is the work of the Ethics Committee. This is one of contributions that AoIR makes that goes well beyond the boundaries of our membership. """ ***** MONICA MURERO ***** """ Aoir is ready to become the n.1 Association in the field of Internet Research. Without Aoir the scientific community would be a poorer place. Excellence is the key of Aoir’s future, not size or divisions. International award winner for scientific excellence, Prof. Murero consults worldwide organizations like the World Health Organizations ( http://www.who.org ). Monica is the only candidate who received the Honorific Aoir Lifetime membership for outstanding contribution to the Aoir community. Her international contacts and well-known reputation will help Aoir grow in many interesting new directions. These include New Aoir Research Grants, New Aoir Awards for Research Excellence, and New Aoir Pubblications. Aoir values must be protected and developed under safe and experienced hands. As indicated, Prof. Murero’s 10 years experience includes Aoir administrative, financial, executive, publishing, budget and conference related matters. – For example, Financial “bee” of the association, Monica has quadruplicated Aoir financial assets in only four years ( Aoir Treasurer 2005-2009) reaching unprecedented results. Financial stability helped finance new projects for the first time in Aoir history. For example, Initiator of the Aoir conference Fee Waiver policy, Prof. Murero will develop further innovative grants and new travel funds opportunities based on merit and excellence for both students and researchers. Prof. Murero has largely helped build the warm and welcomig feeling everyone receives in air-l and the Aoir annual conference. Mantain the sense of community people find at Aoir conference and air-list is a must. An informal, welcoming and high-quality attitude in discussing crucial topics will keep Aoir the fantastic open place for interdisciplinary discussion and collaborations we have created over the years. """ If you would like to follow up with any or all of these candidates, I encourage you to do so here, or over at http://aoir.org. Best, Alex -- // // This email is // [x] assumed public and may be blogged / forwarded. // [ ] assumed to be private, please ask before redistributing. // // Alexander C. Halavais, ciberflâneur // http://alex.halavais.net //

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AoIR Membership Drive
by Mia Consalvo 19 May '11

19 May '11

Hello to all fellow AoIR community members! In an effort to build our community and stabilize our membership rolls the Executive Committee is initiating our first official Membership Drive. Our goal is to bring the number of dues paying members more in line with our Air-L list participants. Most Air-L list members consider themselves members of the AoIR community as well as the Association of Internet Researchers organization, proudly listing their affiliation on vitas and resumes. Unfortunately, in any given year, actual dues paying membership wildly fluctuates because people generally renew their memberships when they attend the conference. So, while “conceptual” membership persists, many people only take out “actual” membership when they attend the conference. Sustaining dues paying membership in AoIR is critical in maintaining a vibrant association by demonstrating to the broader academic and private sector communities that AoIR is, as we as members realize, an important forum for cutting edge Internet and new media research. Membership in AoIR provides support for the Association including the Air-L list and programming our yearly conferences as well as giving you a voice in the Association's affairs and its future. We strongly encourage all AIR-L list subscribers to support our AoIR community by becoming a member if you are not already. In addition to a warm-fuzzy feeling, instant hipness, and a well-deserved sense of satisfaction, AoIR members get a special registration rate for our annual AoIR conference, may run for positions on the Executive, and vote in elections. Membership in AoIR is extremely* *inexpensive compared to most professional and scholarly associations and helps support Internet scholarship and research. We would welcome you joining the association and helping us to grow and promote studies of the Internet. The annual membership dues are as follows: (all figures in US$) Standard individual membership $45 Students (including Ph.D. students) $30 Individuals in non-OECD countries $10 Lifetime individual membership $1000 Educational institution (academic department, library, etc.) $250 Non-profit organization $100 Non-profit institutions in non-OECD countries $25 Corporate sponsor (for-profit institution) $2000 Affiliate membership is available for persons and non-profit institutions in non-OECD countries – free to a maximum of two years, includes only basic AoIR.org web access We know you appreciate AoIR and being part of our community. Now is the time to step up and make that membership official. It is inexpensive and easy. Please visit http://aoir.org/membership/ to sign-up and support AoIR. Not sure of your member status? Email AoIR’s Secretary, Katherine Middleton: secretary(a)aoir.org. For any questions about membership costs, please contact AoIR’s Treasurer, Michael Zimmer: treasurer(a)aoir.org Finally, thank you for your support and participation on the list and in other AoIR-related activities. AoIR has always been a volunteer-run organization, and has continued to be the association that I feel is my strongest academic 'home' as well as one where I see the best research and theory about the Internet occurring. All the best, Mia, AoIR President -- Mia Consalvo, Ph.D. Visiting Associate Professor Comparative Media Studies Massachusetts Institute of Technology 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Building 14N-226 Cambridge, MA 02139-4307 USA consalvo(a)mit.edu 617.324.1868

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Media@UEA Symposium
by Wright Scott Dr (PSI) 19 May '11

19 May '11

Hi everyone, I am copying in details of an upcoming Symposium at the University of East Anglia (Norwich, UK). As you can see in the further information section, there is a significant amount of content that is of interest to new media scholars. If you have any questions feel free to contact me . Cheers, Scott Making a Difference? The Social, Economic and Political Impact of Media Research University of East Anglia, Norwich 24 June 2011 media@uea is an initiative which brings together the schools of Economics, Film & Television Studies (FTV), International Development, Political, Social & International Studies (PSI), the UEA Law School and others from across the University of East Anglia. We are pleased to invite you to the first media@uea symposium, taking place in Norwich on 24 June 2011. We hope to bring together experts from across UEA schools who are engaged in media-related research with scholars from other institutions and a range of external “stakeholders”, including speakers from the media industries, activist and pressure groups and political parties. Places on this symposium are limited; please contact Julie Ellwood (Faculty Manager) by Tuesday 31 May in order to express your interest, at j.ellwood(a)uea.ac.uk, including your name, position, affiliation. Where applicable, please also include any dietary or accessibility requirements. Confirmation of your place will be sent in due course. There is no charge to attend the symposium; lunch and tea/coffee will be provided, and the symposium will close with a reception. Plenary speakers include Prof. Liesbet van Zoonen (Loughborough) on identity and security, Shaun Day (chief economist, BBC) on the BBC's impact on the UK economy, Des Freedman (Goldsmith's) on media research, Hugh Tomlinson (barrister) on the future of media law, and Sally-Ann Wilson (secretary general, Commonwealth Broadcasting Association). Panels (made up of scholars from UEA and elsewhere along with journalists, producers and campaigners) will consider topics including media coverage of environmental issues, democracy and new media, and the relationship between academic interests and media priorities. See http://www.uea.ac.uk/ssf/media/symposium2011 for a draft programme and further information.

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Suggestions for SPSS training
by katie vizenor 19 May '11

19 May '11

Hi. I am entering the research/analyst job market and realize that I need to improve my SPSS skills. I took a graduate level stats class with an SPSS component, but it was not very thorough or practical. Since most of my work is qualitative, I have not had a great need for this software. Could anyone provide suggestions for SPSS training, either online or in-person classroom training in the DC metropolitan area (I live in Northern Virginia). Really, I just need practical software training. Or, if anyone knows how best to go about gaining this skill. I have found that many jobs want proficiency in SPSS, but the only real way to become super proficient in the software is through a job. A catch-22. Also, there seems to be a range of meanings in terms of what "proficiency" means. Any guidance will be greatly appreciated. All my best, Katie Vizenor, MLS, MA Doctoral Candidate, Anthropology, University at Buffalo

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Call for Papers in New Media & Society: Search! Navigating the World’s Information
by Mark Graham 19 May '11

19 May '11

Call for Papers: Search! Navigating the World’s Information * * *Special issue edited by:* Mark Graham (Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford) Ralph Schroeder (Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford) Greg Taylor (Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford) We invite submission of original, unpublished articles for a proposed special themed issue of New Media & Society on the topic of Internet search. Abstracts of 500 words length are invited in the first instance. Selected authors will then be included in a full proposal to be submitted to the editors of New Media & Society. Final papers should be around 8000 words (inclusive of abstract and references) and will be subject to the full New Media & Society review process. *About the Special Issue’s Theme:* Never before have so many people engaged in practices of information search. Hundreds of millions of searches are performed every day through the Internet. Searches connect us to information that helps us find the best route through a city, allows us to learn about a debilitating illness, and links us to videos of cats playing pianos. We can now search for words, numbers, images, videos, pictures, sounds, places, maps, directions, people, stories and products. Search is a process of separating the visible from the invisible, the relevant from the irrelevant, and the knowable from the unknowable. Search also entails power: the power to access and shape information. Digital searches mediate our interactions with both an enormous, networked store of knowledge, and with the material places that we inhabit. Practices, algorithms, and rules of search govern the content, ideas, places, and opportunities to which users are exposed. In order to begin a more inter-disciplinary discussion on the role of Internet search in contemporary society, this special issue aims to bring together a range of contributors that analyze how search works from various social science perspectives, including law, geography, political science, sociology of science, and economics. It will bring these to bear on understanding the most significant social, economic, political, geographic and ethical transformations that have been brought about by widespread practices of search. This special issue seeks qualitative and quantitative studies as well as discourse and policy analyses of information and Internet search in the broadest sense. Examples of topical issues in this area include, but are not limited to: · How is indexing, optimizing, sorting, coding and ranking altering the ways in which we access information? · How do people, places and groups benefit from a world in which search is a central means of information access, and who is left out of those benefits? · How does search influence offline interactions? · Are widespread practices of search facilitating shifts in political, economic and social power? · How does search shape consumer and producer product market outcomes? · How does the nature of search shape the competitive landscape of the Internet search industry? · What are the social implications of the organisation of sponsored search markets? · Are search engines a force for democratisation? · What are the subversive potentials and possibilities of search? · What are the politics of search engine censorship? · What are the distinct cultural practices and geographic biases of search? Deadline for abstracts: Jul 20, 2011 Deadline for submission of full papers: Jan 15, 2012 For more information, or to submit an abstract, please contact: Mark Graham – mark.graham(a)oii.ox.ac.uk Ralph Schroeder – ralph.schroeder(a)oii.ox.ac.uk Greg Taylor – greg.taylor(a)oii.ox.ac.uk ------------------------------------------ Mark Graham, Ph.D. Research Fellow Oxford Internet Institute University of Oxford 1 St Giles Oxford OX1 3JS United Kingdom Telephone +44 (0) 1865 287 203 Fax +44 (0) 1865 287 211 http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/people/graham www.geospace.co.uk www.wikichains.com twitter.com/geoplace

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Academic Publishers Ask The Impossible In GSU Copyright Suit
by Richard Forno 19 May '11

19 May '11

Here we go again ...... --- rick Academic Publishers Ask The Impossible In GSU Copyright Suit http://news.slashdot.org/story/11/05/19/0248238/Academic-Publishers-Ask-The… A Duke University blog covers the possible ramifications of a motion in the copyright case against Georgia State University. Cambrigde, Oxford, and Sage have proposed an injunction that would first enjoin GSU to include all faculty, employees, students. All copying would have to be monitored and limited to 10% of a work or 1000 words, whichever is less. No two classes would be allowed to use the same copied work unless they paid for it, essentially taking fair use out of the classroom. Along with this, courses would be allowed to be made up of only 10% copied material, the other 90% must be either purchased works or copies that have been paid for by permission fees. And, if this isn't enough, the publishers also want access to all computer systems on the campus network, to monitor compliance and copying. 'This proposed order, in short, represents a nightmare, a true dystopia, for higher education....Yet you can be sure that if [these] things happen, all of our campuses would be pressured to adopt the "Georgia State model" in order to avoid litigation.' Disclosure: I am currently a graduate student at Georgia State University." More@ http://blogs.library.duke.edu/scholcomm/2011/05/13/a-nightmare-scenario-for…

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Fwd: Forthcoming event: How to set up and run a data service: the challenges of social science data
by Anderson, Ben 19 May '11

19 May '11

thought this might be of interest given recent discussions about archiving data. Begin forwarded message: > From: "Etheridge, Anne" <aether(a)ESSEX.AC.UK> > Date: 11 May 2011 08:15:53 GMT+01:00 > To: <ESDS-NEWS(a)JISCMAIL.AC.UK> > Subject: Forthcoming event: How to set up and run a data service: the challenges of social science data > Reply-To: "Etheridge, Anne" <aether(a)ESSEX.AC.UK> > > How to set up and run a data service: the challenges of social science data > > A once-a-year opportunity for data archivists to go behind the scenes and learn first hand from specialists at the UK Data Archive is happening on 13 and 14 October 2011. > > Over two days participants will learn about the strategies and practices used in the Archive's daily work, with a focus on storing and sharing social science data, including microdata, aggregate, qualitative and historical data. > > The Archive has over 40 years experience in selecting, ingesting, curating and providing access to data. We are a designated Place of Deposit for The National Archives and are internationally acknowledged experts in this field. > > The Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) will be supporting three fully funded scholarships to attend this workshop. > > Further details including programme and booking: http://www.data-archive.ac.uk/news-events/events.aspx?id=2864 > > > > ANNE > ETHERIDGE > > SENIOR OUTREACH AND PROMOTION OFFICER > > UK DATA ARCHIVE > UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX > WIVENHOE PARK > COLCHESTER > ESSEX, CO4 3SQ > > T +44(0)1206 873159 > E aether(a)essex.ac.uk > W www.data-archive.ac.uk > ______________________________________________________________________________________ > ENSURING CONTINUOUS ACCESS TO HIGH QUALITY DATA IN THE SOCIAL SCIENCES AND HUMANITIES > > .......................................................................................................................................................................... > Legal Disclaimer: Any views expressed by the sender of this message are not necessarily those of the UK Data Archive or the ESRC. > This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual(s) or entity to whom they are addressed. > .......................................................................................................................................................................... > > -- Ben Anderson Sociology @ Essex http://www.essex.ac.uk/sociology/staff/profile.aspx?ID=118 Centre for Research in Economic Sociology and Innovation http://cresi.essex.ac.uk/getperson?personID=1

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Call for Papers: Media Transatlantic IV – Traffic
by Theo Röhle 19 May '11

19 May '11

Call for papers Media Transatlantic IV – Traffic March 29 – 31, 2012 University of Paderborn, Germany Harold Innis taught us to look at the media as a form of traffic. Media products/signs travel just like things and people; constantly flowing, they overcome space and time, partly on communal and partly on dedicated networks. Traffic is the sum of its parts, made up of an infinite number of acts of transport and transfer. It is, however, more than that, because traffic has its own logic and forms its own structures and rules. Traffic is frequently compared with water: it finds a way, forms trickles, raging currents and dissipative structures. In certain places it collects, accumulates, stands still; or seeps away. Traffic and sign traffic cannot be stopped: they overcome any obstacle, penetrate everything and wear away anything fixed: one can plan, steer and direct them, but probably not control them. Sign traffic poses a particular problem when it comes to observation. There is no “royal over-looking position” from which there would be a view of the entire proceedings; it is difficult to describe in qualitative terms, while empirical approaches must rely on counting. This conference is intended to take up the image proposed by Innis and view the media as a form of traffic. To this end, the following questions, for example, are of relevance: • Which media phenomena can be described in traffic terms more accurately than in another perspective? Is it just a metaphor, or more? • Which conceptions of traffic are represented in which fields of knowledge? Which of them are viable in an analysis of the media? • Is a comprehensive traffic science, encompassing the traffic of commodities, people and signs alike, conceivable? • Would this be identical to a kind of media ‘logistics’? Or to a theory about society on the whole, if Marx speaks of ‘forms of intercourse’ and Luhmann of ‘communication’? • Which associations do the different connotations of the term entail? In English drug traffic, illicit transactions und air traffic control, in German communication in general, and sexual intercourse… • What is the relationship between traffic and infrastructure? Is traffic only possible on the basis of established infrastructures, or does infrastructure come as a consequence of traffic’s requirements? What is the relationship between traffic and technology? • Are there specific economic rules that steer the flow of traffic? • Does traffic –as an adaptive system– allow for a bridging of media theory, fluid dynamics and the analysis of complex systems? • What do network theories contribute to the understanding of sign traffic? • What role does storage –Innis refers to staple production– play in relation to flow and traffic? • Are there also traffic accidents, tail-backs or blocks in the media sphere? The scheduled conference continues a series of events, which started in 2007 and aim to bring together media scholars from the USA, Canada and Germany: - Re-Reading McLuhan: An International Conference on Media and Culture in the 21st Century, Feb. 14-18, 2007, Schloss Thurnau, University of Bayreuth, Germany Hosts: Klaus Benesch, Kerstin Schmidt, Martina Leeker, Derrick de Kerckhove Publ.: de Kerckhove, Derrick; Leeker, Martina; Schmidt, Kerstin (ed.): McLuhan neu lesen. Kritische Analysen zu Medien und Kultur im 21. Jahrhundert. Bielefeld: Transcript 2008 - Media Theory on the Move. Transatlantic Perspectives on Media and Mediation May 21-23, 2009, University of Potsdam, Germany Host: Dieter Mersch - Media Transatlantic Media Theory in North America and German-Speaking Europe April 8-10, 2010, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada Hosts: Norm Friesen, Richard Cavell The Media Transatlantic IV – Traffic conference is organised by the Graduiertenkolleg “Automatisms” (Research Training Group) at the University of Paderborn, Germany http://www.upb.de/rtg-automatisms The Research TG will cover part of your travel expenses. Please send your title and an abstract of about 500 characters to: Prof. Dr. Hartmut Winkler [winkler(a)uni-paderborn.de] Deadline for submissions is July 31, 2011. PDF-Download: http://www.uni-paderborn.de/fileadmin/gk-automatismen/CfP_Media_Transatlant… ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– Theo Röhle Post-doctoral researcher University of Paderborn Research Training Group "Automatisms" Warburger Str. 100 D-33098 Paderborn Tel: +49-5251 / 60 - 3230 www.upb.de/rtg-automatisms

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Congressional Bills Via the Sunlight Foundation API
by Stuart Shulman 18 May '11

18 May '11

I am pleased to announce our latest API available in DiscoverText for tracking congressional bills via the Sunlight Foundation API. If you are a Congress watcher, check out Mark Hoy's post on the Texifter blog for details on this great new data gathering option. http://blog.texifter.com/ There are no IRB or TOS issues with this one ;-) Just lots of good, easily accessible data. ~Stu -- Stuart Shulman President & CEO Texifter, LLC <http://www.texifter.com/> Have you tried DiscoverText? http://discovertext.com *Featuring the Facebook Graph & Twitter APIs*

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Deadline Extended: ACM SIGDOC 2011
by Liza Potts 18 May '11

18 May '11

Sorry for the cross-post, but please pass on: ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: ACM SIGDOC 2011 <acmsigdoc2011(a)easychair.org> Date: Wed, May 18, 2011 at 5:31 AM Subject: ACM SIGDOC 2011 The submission deadline has been extended to June 10, 2011. Please feel free to forward this email to your colleagues. The 29th International ACM SIGDOC 2011 Conference will be held in Pisa, Italy, at the Hotel Continental in Tirrenia http://www.sigdoc.org/2011 October 3-5, 2011, Tirrenia, Pisa, Italy The scope of the conference includes, but is not limited to, the following major topics: Multidisciplinary approaches to Information Design and Information Architecture Technical Documentation and User Support Systems Open Source, Collaborative Writing Processes, and Information Design Design Principles, Usability/User Studies, User Interface Design Methodologies for Information Systems and System Design Human-Computer Interaction (HCI/CHI), Computer-Mediated Communication Design of Distance Learning Systems, Distributed Learning Environments, Multimedia Learning, Digital Learning Environments, Online Education and Training International and Intercultural Communication, Legal and Ethical Dimensions of Communication Serious Games and Virtual Worlds Important Days Submission Date: June 10 2011 Submission Date for Posters: June 20 2011 Authors Notified: June 30 2011 Poster Authors notified: July 5 2011 Camera Ready: July 15 2011 Kind regards, Aristidis Protopsaltis

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