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CITASA Student Paper Award (Deadline March 15)
by danah boyd 15 Feb '11

15 Feb '11

CITASA's Student Paper Award recognizes a published or unpublished paper/book chapter, or the design or use of a communication or information technology that provides an exceptional contribution to the sociology of communications or the sociology of information technology.The award is open to students in other disciplines than sociology. Students do not need to be members of ASA or CITASA. Authorship: Books, chapters, articles, papers and computing applications may have multiple authors. In the case of student-faculty collaborations, the student must be the lead or senior author. Authors need not have a degree in sociology or be in a sociology department to be considered for an award. Submissions must be in English and written within the two calendar years prior to the award deadline for nominations. There are no limitations on length. All materials for this award are due March 15, 2011. Please send a copy of your paper, relevant information about the paper or technology, and a brief bio that includes university affiliation and expected graduation date to: Chair: danah boyd, dmb(a)microsoft.com Committee members: Anabel Quan-Haase, aquan(a)uwo.ca and Ellis Godard, ellis.godard(a)csun.edu Past Student Paper Award Winners: - 2010 - Lauren F. Sessions, University of Pennsylvania - 2009 - Daniel A. Menchik and Xiaoli Tian, University of Chicago - 2008 - Steven G. Hoffman, Northwestern University - 2008 - Alison Powell, Concordia University - 2007 - Lee Humphries, University of Pennsylvania - 2006 - Sara Nephew, Princeton University - 2005 - Laura Robinson, UCLA - 2005 - Sean Zehnder, Northwestern University (software) - 2004 - Jeffrey Boase, University of Toronto - 2003 - Tracy Kennedy and Kristine Klement, University of Toronto - 2002 - Julian Dierkes, University of British Columbia Thanks! danah

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2nd Researh Data Access and Preservation Summit
by Richard Hill 15 Feb '11

15 Feb '11

[Apologies for multiple postings] The 2nd Research Data Access and Preservation (RDAP) Summit Denver, CO | Hyatt Regency | March 31-April 1, 2011 http://www.asis.org/Conferences/RDAP11/ Early Registration deadline is on or before 2/18/2011 In cooperation with the Coalition for Networked Information The second Research Data Access and Preservation (RDAP) summit will take place on March 31-April 1, 2011 in Denver at the Hyatt Regency Denver. The RDAP summit will focus the state of institutional repositories in the academy and government agencies and efforts toward interoperability across these emerging systems. Clifford Lynch will keynote the meeting and the summit will include panels that focus on different approaches to building and operating IRs, efforts to support national (e.g., NSF�s data stewardship requirements) and scholarly (e.g., open and commercial publishers) linkages to IRs, and open discussions about the future of IRs and digital libraries. Submit Posters by Feb. 28: http://www.softconf.com/asis/RDAP-2011/ Tentative Program Keynote Clifford Lynch, CNI: Institutional Repositories Today and Tomorrow Panel 1 Institutional Repository Case Studies: Erin O'Meara, UNC: Organizer/Moderator Panel 2 NSF Data Management Plan Case Studies: Michael Giarlo, Penn State: Organizer/Moderator Panel 3 Data Publication Repositories: From Small to Large Data Joe Hourcle, NASA: Organizer/Moderator Panel 4. Data Archives in Federal Agencies: Bill Anderson, UT Austin, Oranizer/Moderator Panel 5. Policy-based Data Management Reagan Moore, UNC-RENCI: Organizer/Moderator Panel 6 Future of Digital Libraries: Gary Marchionini, UNC Organizer/Moderator Group activity and discussion: Main challenge in your institution; main challenge to field Posters Submit Posters to ASIST by February 28: http://www.softconf.com/asis/RDAP-2011/ Invited participants Monica Omodei, Australian National Data Service Steve Hughes, Planetary Data System Ruth Duerr, National Snow and Ice Data Center Phil Bourne, Protein Database MacKenzie Smith, MIT Rob Pennington, NSF Kevin Ashley, director of Digital Curation Centre at University of Edinburgh Sayeed Choudhary, Data Conservancy Dick Hill _____ Executive Director American Society for Information Science and Technology 1320 Fenwick Lane, Suite 510 Silver Spring, MD 20910 FAX: (301) 495-0810 (301) 495-0900

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Call For Papers: Videoconferencing in Practice: 21st Century Challenges (Electronic Journal of Communication)
by Dr. Sean Rintel 15 Feb '11

15 Feb '11

CALL FOR PAPERS Electronic Journal of Communication / La Revue Electronique de Communication Special Issue: Videoconferencing in Practice: 21st Century Challenges Editor: Sean Rintel (s.rintel@uq edu.au) Deadline: June 27, 2011. The issue is scheduled for publication in the first half of 2012. While not yet ubiquitous, videoconferencing can certainly be said to have come of age at the end of the first decade of the 21st century. The capabilities of videoconferencing systems have improved while barriers have been significantly lowered to the point where videoconferencing is no longer extraordinary, albeit still quite novel. This special issue of the Electronic Journal of Communication invites contributions exploring how videoconferencing has become a practical method of interaction in personal, professional, pedagogical, and institutional contexts. Contributors should have a central concern with whether and how users attend to the affordances and constraints of videoconferencing as relevant to the business at hand. The issue will seek to cover a broad range of subjects to provide a snapshot of 21st century videoconferencing research from a Communication perspective. As such, all authors are asked to include in their literature review and conclusions some sense of how their study deals with questions of Communication research in general, and Communication-focused videoconferencing research in particular. Manuscripts are invited that cover one of the following areas, or authors may propose their own area that demonstrably adds to the goal of the special issue: * Case studies of practical videoconferencing in context. * Survey studies of practical videoconferencing in context. * Experimental studies that show practical behaviours that may be specific to contexts or cut across contexts. * Literature reviews that focus on changes or critiques of videoconferencing findings and/or theories. * Representations of videoconferencing in the mass media or other venues of the public imagination. * Methodological studies about research practices or methods for capturing/analysing videoconferencing in context. * Trouble using videoconferencing in context (e.g. constraints of the medium, communication trouble, operational problems such as network trouble, work-arounds). * Adoption/take-up studies of practical videoconferencing in context. Authors are welcome to contact the editor to discuss ideas for manuscripts. Given the topic and the electronic nature of the journal, authors are also encouraged to supply video and/or audio clip examples or supplemental materials. Submission detail are as follows: * Deadline for completed manuscripts is June 27, 2011. The issue is scheduled for publication in the first half of 2012. * Maximum 7500 words (limit includes references but excludes transcribed examples, figures, and tables). * Manuscript and citation format: APA 6th Edition style. * Submission: Email manuscript files to Sean Rintel at s.rintel(a)uq.edu.au. * File format: Word 97 (.doc), Word 2008 (.docx), or PDF. Authors using carefully formatted transcripts (e.g. those of Conversation Analysis) should also provide screenshot images of all excerpts labeled with the appropriate example number. Video and audio clips should be provided in Quicktime .mov format with appropriate indication in the manuscript as to where the clip should appear. Do not embed video or audio in Word or PDF files. This call is also viewable at: http://www.cios.org/www/ejc/calls/vidprac.htm -- Dr. Sean Rintel Associate Lecturer in Communication School of English, Media Studies, and Art History Room 509, Michie Building (9) The University of Queensland Brisbane, QLD, Australia, 4072 Telephone: +61-7-3365-2147 Facsimile: +61-7-3365-2799 CIROS Provider Number 00025B

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PhD Scholarships in ICS at Leeds University, UK
by Helen Kennedy 14 Feb '11

14 Feb '11

The Institute of Communications Studies at the University of Leeds is offering a number of PhD Scholarships for study commencing in September/October 2011. The scholarships cover full maintenance and fees equivalent to the Home/EU rate, for a period of three years. They are intended to support full-time study leading to a PhD in any area of the Institute’s research activities, and are open to both home/EU and international applicants. Deadline for receipt of applications is 1 May 2011. More details at: http://ics.leeds.ac.uk/sub1.cfm?pbcrumb=PhD%20Scholarships Further information about studying for a PhD in the Institute can be found at:http://ics.leeds.ac.uk/sub1.cfm?pbcrumb=PhD%20Research Other enquiries can be made to ics-phd-admin(a)leeds.ac.uk. Dr Helen Kennedy Senior Lecturer in New Media, Institute of Communications Studies, University of Leeds (http://ics.leeds.ac.uk/) More about me: http://ics.leeds.ac.uk/staff/h.kennedy Email: h.kennedy(a)leeds.ac.uk Tel: 0113 3438748 *** new office / address ***: 1.02 Clothworkers' North Building, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT

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firm age typology
by Melike Findikoglu 14 Feb '11

14 Feb '11

Hi all, For my research I would like to use a firm age typology or a similar categorization which defines firms in certain age brackets as startup, young, etc.. So far, I could not find. I'd appreciate you opinions and suggestions, thanks! -- Melike N Findikoglu PhD Candidate University of Illinois at Chicago College of Business Administration Information and Decision Sciences (312) 532 2817 mfindi2(a)uic.edu http://www.linkedin.com/in/melikefindikoglu

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Melbourne PhD Scholarship
by Adrian Miles 13 Feb '11

13 Feb '11

feel free to distribute: THE PROJECT: The Circus Oz Living Archive: developing a model of online digital engagement for the performing arts. The successful applicant will have demonstrated capacity in one or more of the following areas of computer science: information retrieval, image/video processing, web programming and database development. In addition, you will be excited by the prospect of contributing to a multidisciplinary team on a research project with a ‘real-world’ context. The candidate will work closely with a PhD student in interaction design to cook up some innovative social media/computational outcomes for the project. Plenty more at: http://www.circusarchive.net/blog/2011/02/computer-science-phd-scholarship/ an appropriate closing Adrian Miles School of Media and Communication Program Director B.Comm Honours vogmae.net.au/research/contact-me/

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Global statistics on teenager and young adult online media production
by Dan Perkel 13 Feb '11

13 Feb '11

[Apologies for cross-posting for those that are subscribed to multiple related lists.] Hi all, Over the past five years there have been a few studies by the Pew Center and others (Ezster Hargittai/colleagues) that have given us some nice descriptive statistics of the percentage of American teenagers and young adults circulating various kinds of media content online: writing, photographs, art work, music, and others. I was wondering if anyone on this list knows of any similar statistics from other countries or global regions, either at a country level, a regional level, or even of a group that is argued to be representative of larger regions (e.g. Hargittai's studies of college freshmen). Some studies of American populations: Hargittai and Walejko 2008. The Participation Divide: Content Creation and Sharing in the Digital Age. http://webuse.org/p/a23/ Lenhart et al. 2007. Teen Content Creators. http://pewresearch.org/pubs/670/teen-content-creators Lenhart et al. 2010. Social Media and Young Adults. http://www.pewinternet.org/Reports/2010/Social-Media-and-Young-Adults.aspx (If there are studies of American populations that might enhance some of these numbers, or even challenge them, that would be nice to know as well.) I couldn't find anything in the EU Kids Go Online project specifically on "content creation" or "creative production" but I easily may have missed something there. The Creative Commons' study on "Defining Non-commercial production" is helpful. (https://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/17127) Any study with broad descriptive statistics of these kinds of activities would be helpful, even if it's only with adults, however that legal category may defined in various countries. Thanks in advance for any assistance, Dan ------------------------------------ Dan Perkel PhD Candidate School of Information, Berkeley Center for New Media UC Berkeley http://people.ischool.berkeley.edu/~dperkel

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Soliciting Reviewers for IR 12
by loriken＠illinois.edu 13 Feb '11

13 Feb '11

I am soliciting people willing to review abstracts for IR 12. If you are willing to review, please log into the submission system at https://www.conftool.net/aoir-ir12/, click on "Select Priority Topics," and indicate the topics for which you feel you can serve as a reviewer. (If you have not already done so, you will need to create an account on the system.) You can serve as a reviewer even if you plan to submit a proposal or have already done so. You can expect to receive reviewing instructions and review assignments sometime in March, and reviews will be due approximately 3 weeks following assignment. Thanks in advance, and I hope to see you in Seattle! Lori Kendall Program Chair

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Papers on elderly and technology
by gene loeb 13 Feb '11

13 Feb '11

Hi. I am requesting submissions of papers and articles on ELDERLY USING TECHNOLOGY in relation to communities for the JOURNAL OF COMMUNITY INFORMATICS. It is a peer-reviewed online journal (www.ci-journal.org) iI am editing an issue on elderly and technology. I extended the deadline to get submissions from other parts of the world and some from Air-L members. New Deadline is MARCH 15TH. Let me know right away if interested. -- With Sincerest Best Wishes , Gene Gene Loeb, Ph.D.

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IR 12 Resistance and Technology Roundtable
by Ted Coopman 13 Feb '11

13 Feb '11

All, I am putting together a Roundtable to submit to IR 12 (see below). Besides myself, Amoshuan Toft ( U of WA Bothell) and John Anderson (U of IL) have signed on. Of particular interest are those whose research/experience crosses collective action/social movements, media and new media, and personal experiences with resistance movements. Diverse and interesting perspectives are welcome including but not limited to legal, regulatory, political, social, cultural, rhetorical, technical..., well, you get the idea. Please contact me directly at ted.coopman(a)sjsu.edu by Feb. 21 if you are interested. Resistance and Technology Roundtable (Brief DRAFT version) Recent successful and unsuccessful resistance actions such as the revolts in Iran, Tunisian, and Egypt, hackivism by Anonymous on corporate and organizational websites as well as the ongoing Wikileaks release of State Department documents highlight the role of digital technology in resistance to power. The limits and legitimacy of this activity is currently the subject of much debate. Issues include the definition of journalism and journalist, the limits and responsibilities of information and service providers, and the scope of legitimate action in digital environments and the relevance of physical space analogies to such actions. Even the role of the efficacy and centrality of digital communication in protest actions or movements has been hotly contested. While the use of technology in protests from the barricade to radio to Twitter play a role in resistance, the question is to what degree do these technologies enable or shape resistance and influence outcomes in comparison to other social, political, and cultural factors? -TED -- Ted M. Coopman Ph.D. Lecturer Department of Communication Studies San Jose State University http://www.sjsu.edu/people/ted.coopman/

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