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DEADLINE APPROACHING: Rethinking the Culture of Busyness and IT: NSF-sponsored symposium
by Gilly Leshed 17 Jan '11

17 Jan '11

---------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PARTICIPATION ---------------------------------------------------------------------- “Slow Down, You Move Too Fast”: Rethinking the Culture of Busyness and IT NSF-Sponsored Symposium Seattle, WA May 6-7, 2011 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- We live in a culture of busyness: in developed countries, many of us feel rushed, overloaded and overworked, yet we value the idea of doing more in less time. In this culture, information technologies (IT) are intended to free us from hard labor and save us time: e-mail is sent immediately, e-shopping saves us from trudging through malls, status updates and microblogging give us quick glimpses into friends’ lives, and smartphones make it all instantly accessible on the go. At the same time, our use of IT may affect experiences of time in other ways: facilitating fragmentation and micro-coordination of work, inadvertently or insidiously redistributing labor and responsibility, making accessible an overabundance of information, products and services among which we feel obligated to choose properly, and increasing our availability to anyone, anytime and anywhere. What role does technology actually play in promoting a culture of busyness? Can technology be designed purposely against a cultural mainstream of productivity, encouraging slowing down, reflection, and pause? To what extent could such technology be relevant to task-centric workplaces or busy homes with multiple family members coordinating their activities? The goal of this NSF-funded symposium is to foster an interdisciplinary research community that draws from the social sciences, science & technology studies, organization and management science, and technology design to address the following questions: (1) What are the roles of IT in coping with and/or promoting a culture of busyness? We aim to identify theoretical and empirical gaps in understanding sociotechnical aspects of busyness at the individual, organizational, and societal level. (2) To what extent is it possible to intervene in the culture of busyness by altering the design of IT or its use practices? We will identify both technical and social opportunities and challenges in the design and application of IT interventions for this purpose. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- PARTICIPATION We invite researchers, designers, and practitioners interested in addressing the relationship between technology and the intensification of life in the workplace, at home, and elsewhere. Sample topics include but are not limited to: - Interruption management and the increasing demand on cognitive resources - Information overload in web, internet, and communication technologies, including social media and social networking sites: causes, experiences, coping strategies, and social and cultural responses - Rhetoric and costs of anytime, anywhere access and availability with mobile and awareness technologies - Sociological analysis of uses of technologies for time management, activity and task management, and personal information management - Technology saving whose time, at whose expense and other political questions - Analysis of ties between technologies in domestic environments and the acceleration of home life and leisure - Designing for slowness, reflection, and pause - Analysis of ways technology design redistributes workload either surreptitiously, intentionally, or accidentally, fairly or unfairly, sometimes in the name of “efficiency” - Design and use of technology in cultures embracing other values of time and work - Possibilities for and limitations of interventions based on technology design or changing use practices in any of these topics To participate, please submit a position paper that briefly addresses each of the following questions: 1. What work have you done in this area? How is it related to the theme of this symposium? 2. Identify one or two key issues, challenges, or opportunities you are interested in discussing in this symposium. Why are they important? How do you envision making progress in addressing them? 3. What one piece of research or writing have you found most inspirational for your work in the area? Submissions should be 2-4 pages, using the ACM paper format available at: http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates. Please send your submission or questions about the symposium to gl87(a)cornell.edu. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- KEY DATES February 1, 2011: Deadline for position papers March 1, 2011: Notification of acceptance May 6-7, 2011: Symposium ---------------------------------------------------------------------- LOCATION AND TRAVEL The symposium will take place near the University of Washington campus, Seattle, WA. Travel funding and accommodation at the Waterfront Hotel in Seattle will be offered to one person for each accepted symposium submission. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Gilly Leshed, Department of Communication, Cornell University Phoebe Sengers, Information Science and Science & Technology Studies, Cornell University Helen Nissenbaum, Media, Culture, and Communication & Computer Science, New York University Batya Friedman, The Information School, University of Washington Carman Neustaedter, School of Interactive Arts + Technology, Simon Fraser University ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Sponsored by NSF grant number IIS-1049359: Workshop: Rethinking the Value of Busyness in IT

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Books for Review for the Journal of Information Technology and Politics
by Leslie Tkach-Kawasaki 17 Jan '11

17 Jan '11

Dear Air-l Members, The following books are available for review for the Journal of Information Technology and Politics (JITP). The website is: http://www.jitp.net/ If you are interested in reviewing one of these books, please indicate which one, and send an email message to Leslie Tkach-Kawasaki at tkach(a)japan.email.ne.jp. 1. Philip N. Howard (2010). "The Digital Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy: Information Technology and Political Islam" 2. Mark Poster and David Savat (eds.) (2009). "Deleuze and New Technology" 3. Rita Raley (2009). "Tactical Media" 4. Michael Thelwall (2009). "Introduction to Webometrics" 5. Sean Tunney and Garrett Monaghan (2010). "Web Journalism: A new form of citizenship?" As soon as I receive your expression of interest, I can send your selected book to you. Reviews are due within one month of receipt of the book. If acceptable for our publication, we would like to publish your review in JITP. In addition, if you are not interested in reviewing any books at this time, but would like to be placed on our reviewers list, please send a short email message to me at tkach(a)japan.email.ne.jp with the following information: * Your name and position (graduate students are welcome to submit book reviews) * Your institution * Up to five key words or phrases describing your area of interest/research * Any additional information you would like to share regarding reviewing for JITP. Thank you so much for your time, and we are looking forward to hearing from you. Best regards, Leslie Tkach-Kawasaki -- ************************************************** Leslie M. Tkach-Kawasaki, Associate Professor Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences University of Tsukuba Email: tkach(a)japan.email.ne.jp **************************************************

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Looking for Reviewers: Journal of Information Technology and Politics
by Leslie Tkach-Kawasaki 17 Jan '11

17 Jan '11

Dear Air-l List Members, I hope all is well with everyone. I am the Book Review Editor for the Journal of Information Technology (JITP). The website is: http://www.jitp.net/ I am writing to ask Air-l members if there is anyone on the list who is interested in being added to the list of reviewers for JITP. I am updating the list of reviewers this month, and I would like to ensure that we have an ample pool of reviewers. If you would like to be added to the list, please send a short email message to me at tkach(a)japan.email.ne.jp with the following information: * Your name and position (graduate students are welcome to submit book reviews) * Your institution * Up to five key words or phrases describing your area of interest/research * Any additional information you would like to share regarding reviewing for JITP. Thank you for your time. I have a short list of books that are ready for review. That message is coming out shortly. Best regards, Leslie Tkach-Kawasaki -- ************************************************** Leslie M. Tkach-Kawasaki, Associate Professor Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences University of Tsukuba Email: tkach(a)japan.email.ne.jp **************************************************

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CfP: Digital politics: Collective action born in and from the Internet. Panel at the ECPR 25-27 August 2011 in Reykjavik
by Mayo FM 16 Jan '11

16 Jan '11

CALL FOR PAPERS - Panel: Digital politics: Collective action born in and from the Internet 6th ECPR General Conference, University of Iceland, 25th - 27th August 2011 DEADLINE for submission of paper abstracts: February 1, 2011 PANEL PRESENTATION: So far, political science research has focused on the use of the Internet by collective political actors that had their main operational base in the offline realm. First studies on the Internet and politics mainly concentrated mostly on well-established and traditional actors such public administration and political parties. Then the cope of research widened to include interest groups, NGOs and social movements looking at the impact of the Internet and the type of Internet use carried out by those groups. In particular, given the growing importance of political campaigns and other forms of collective action that are launched and carried out by networks of political actors, that mainly, if not completely operate and mobilize for their issues online, the debate on the Internet and politics could benefit further from considering actors who mainly operation with an online base. Interestingly, the emergence of collective action in online environments apparently follows new forms of "networked" forms of action and collaboration that are said to be different from political actors with a mainly offline base. The panel "Digital politics" aims to iniciate a discussion on the main organizational and democratic logic of the collective action born in and from the Internet addressing questions such as: What are the main characteristics of participation in online base collective action? How are boundaries drawn between the individual and the collective in such forms? How can we deal with the dialectics of individualization on one hand and the effects of de-personalization on the other hand that are inscribed in online spaces? How is the online space governed and how does its architecture structure online interaction? Finally, which methods are best suited to analyze the practices and dynamics of collective action online adequately? As you may note from the ECPR guidelines, panel organizers are advised to select no more than 5 papers (and no less than 4) as well as 2 further tabled papers. For more information on the panel and submission of paper abstracts, please visit: http://www.ecprnet.eu/conferences/general_conference/reykjavik/panel_detail… Co-chairs: Mayo Fuster Morell (European University Institute) and Johanna Niesyto (University of Siegen) Discussant: Sigrid Baringhorst (University of Siegen) Contact e-mail: mayo.fuster(a)eui.eu About the co-chairs: Mayo Fuster Morell recently concluded her PhD thesis (Governance of online creation communities: Provision of infrastructure for the building of digital commons) at the European University Institute in Florence under the supervision of Professor Donatella della Porta. She explores the democratic logic of the Internet in knowledge-making processes and the relationship between governance models, participation and collaboration growth. She combined a large N statistical analysis and case study comparisons (World Social Forum, Flickr, Wikihow and Wikipedia). In 2008, she was visiting researcher at the School of Information – University of California Berkeley (sponsored by Howard Rheingold and Coye Cheshire) and provided teaching assistance at the Communication Department – Stanford University. Mayo co-wrote the books “Rethinking political organisation in an age of movements and networks” (English and Italian version XL Editorial, Rome 2007; Spanish version, Icaria Editorial, Barcelona 2008); "Activist research and social movements" (In Catalan, El Viejo Topo Editorial, Barcelona 2005); and, "Guide of social transformation of Catalonia" (In Catalan, Edicions Col.lectives, Barcelona, 2003). Johanna Niesyto is PhD student in political sciences. She works as research fellow in the project ‘Changing Protest and Media Cultures’ at the Collaborative Research Centre ‘Media Upheavals’ at the University of Siegen (Germany). Her key interests cover globalization, public spaces, democracy, political campaigns, contentious politics, political consumerism, cyber culture and social web. In her thesis she looks at Wikipedia as translingual public space of political knowledge production. Johanna is co-editor and author of "Politik mit dem Einkaufswagen" (Politics with the shopping trolley) and "Political Campaigning on the Web". Also, she has helped organizing several conferences such as CPOV (http://networkcultures.org/wpmu/cpov/) For more information see: http://transnationalspaces.wordpress.com About the discussant: Sigrid Baringhorst (Prof. Dr. phil.) is working as professor at the department of social sciences in the field of comparative political studies and political sociology. She is director of the research project ’Changing Protest and Media Cultures’ at the Collaborative Research Centre ‘Media Upheavals’ at the University of Siegen (Germany). Her key interest cover political communication, social movement studies and politics and policies of migration. She is co-editor and author of numerous publications such as "Politik mit dem Einkaufswagen" (Politics with the shopping trolley), "Political Campaigning on the Web" and "Politik als Kampagne" (Politics as campaign). «·´`·.(*·.¸(`·.¸ ¸.·´)¸.·*).·´`·» «·´¨*·¸¸« Mayo Fuster Morell ».¸.·*¨`·» «·´`·.(¸.·´(¸.·* *·.¸)`·.¸).·´`·» Research Digital Commons Governance: http://www.onlinecreation.info Ph.D European University Institute Postdoctoral Researcher. Institute of Govern and Public Policies. Autonomous University of Barcelona. Visiting scholar. Internet Interdisciplinary Institute. Open University of Catalonia (UOC). Visiting researcher (2008). School of information. University of California, Berkeley. Phone Italy: 0039-3312805010 or 0039-0558409982 Phone Spanish State: 0034-648877748 E-mail: mayo.fuster(a)eui.eu Skype: mayoneti Postal address: EUI - Badia Fiesolana Via dei Roccettini 9, I-50014 San Domenico di Fiesole (FI) - Italy -- Mayo Fuster Morell E-mail: lilaroja(a)gmx.net Skype: mayoneti http://www.onlinecreation.info http://www.openelibrary.info http://www.openesf.net http://www.networked-politics.info http://www.euromovements.info GMX DSL Doppel-Flat ab 19,99 Euro/mtl.! Jetzt mit gratis Handy-Flat! http://portal.gmx.net/de/go/dsl

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CFP Final Reminder: Siggraph 2011 Game Papers
by T.L. Taylor 15 Jan '11

15 Jan '11

Siggraph 2011, Vancouver (7-11 August 2011) - Game Papers CFP Submissions due 18 Janurary 2011, 22:00 UTC/GMT Full details about the conference and information about submissions at http://www.siggraph.org/s2011/for_submitters/game-papers Researchers are encouraged to submit Game Papers in which they present original work focusing on the design and experience of computer game play. Creative communities that design and develop commercial and non-commercial video games, as well as academic scholars studying video games, game play, human-computer interaction, and game culture are welcome to submit rigorous innovative work in the field. Game Papers explore key issues in video games, inform and substantively advance our current state of knowledge and understanding, and foster new areas for investigation that will drive the next generation of design and player experience. Suggested topics include: * Analysis and understanding of the player experience * Serious games * Social network games * Ethics and values in game play and design * Experimental game design and game genres * Social and cultural aspects of game play * Transmedia storytelling, world-building, and games * Avatars and character design * Sound design and music in games * Legal, and political aspects * Narrative in games * Aesthetic and critical analysis * Game and game culture preservation and archiving * Cross-cultural analyses * Networked play (including consoles) * Gender, race, and sexuality in games * Co-creative culture (for example., modding, machinima, iterative "live" design in collaboration with a game community) * Independent game development * Economics and business models in the game industry * Game production and labor Submitters are encouraged to submit papers on other relevant topics as well. Researchers should follow SIGGRAPH guidelines on the various ways to participate. All papers will be reviewed by an independent scholarly committee, which will provide written feedback on each paper. Accepted papers are allocated a 20 minute presentation slot at the conference and published in Sandbox 2011: ACM SIGGRAPH Video Game Proceedings. Questions about Game Paper submissions should be directed to T.L. Taylor (tltaylor(a)itu.dk) In addition to formal papers, SIGGRAPH 2011 offers several other presentation opportunities, including Talks, Panels, Posters, and a variety of other formats, all of which welcome game-related submissions. Questions about submissions to those programs can be directed to Drew Davidson (drew(a)waxebb.com) or Mark Elendt (general.submissions2011(a)gmail.com) -- _____________________________________________ T.L. Taylor, Associate Professor Center for Computer Games Research IT University of Copenhagen Rued Langgaards Vej 7, 2300 Copenhagen, Denmark +45 7218 5035 (tele) / +45 7218 5001 (fax) tltaylor(a)itu.dk / http://www.tltaylor.com

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CFP - 5th Annual GigaNet Workshop - DC
by Derrick L. Cogburn 15 Jan '11

15 Jan '11

Dear Colleagues, The Call for Papers for the 5th Annual Research Workshop of the Global Internet Governance Academic Network (GigaNet) is now available. Please consider submitting relevant work for consideration: http://cotelco.net/giganet-dcworkshop Cheers, Derrick Dr. Derrick L. Cogburn Associate Professor American University Syracuse University Director: COTELCO Center http://cotelco.net Sent from my iPhone

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EXTENDED DEADLINE: CfP: CHI 2011 Workshop "Privacy for a Networked World": Bridging Theory and Design
by Markus Bylund 14 Jan '11

14 Jan '11

IMPORTANT NEWS: EXTENDED SUBMISSION DEADLINE for the CHI 2011 Workshop ”Privacy for a Networked World”: Bridging Theory and Design The new schedule is as follows: * Submission deadline - Jan 26, 2011 * Notification of acceptance - March 1, 2011 * Workshop at CHI2011 - May 7, 2011 *UPDATED* CALL FOR PARTICIPATION CHI 2011 workshop: ”Privacy for a Networked World”: Bridging Theory and Design http://networkedprivacy.wordpress.com/ As our lives are more commonly mediated by information technology, an interactional perspective to how people find and construct privacy in socio-technical interactions has proven effective as a starting point for theoretical and empirical studies of privacy in everyday life in which online interactions have a significant role. Yet, there remain important open questions regarding how to translate results based on this perspective into design practice. Addressing these questions requires a greater sensitivity to when interactional privacy is applicable, a better understanding of suitable research methods, and more effective means for communicating results to the researcher and practitioner communities. The goal of this workshop is to bring privacy theory and design together. We seek participants from various domains for a multidisciplinary workshop to share their knowledge and views of both the theory and design of interactional privacy. Position papers are invited on the following topics: (1) Theoretical and empirical study of interactional privacy. (2) Ways of designing for interactional privacy. Submitted position papers will be peer-reviewed by a workshop committee. The organizers will disseminate the results at the CHI conference and plan to submit a proposal for a special issue in a relevant journal in response to an open Call for Papers. Interested parties should submit a position paper of 2-4 pages, in the CHI Extended Abstracts format, to the EasyChair submission central at http://tinyurl.com/networkedprivacy by Jan 26, 2011. At least one author of each accepted paper must register for the workshop and for one or more days of the CHI 2011 conference. IMPORTANT DATES * Submission deadline - Jan 26, 2011 * Notification of acceptance - March 1, 2011 * Workshop at CHI2011 - May 7, 2011 ORGANIZERS Airi Lampinen, Helsinki Institute for Information Technology HIIT, Finland Fred Stutzman, School of Information and Library Science, UNC-Chapel Hill, USA Markus Bylund, Swedish Institute of Computer Science, Sweden If you have any questions or would like to learn about this workshop, please contact the organizers at networkedprivacy[at]gmail.com. We apologize for possible cross-posting.

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Complete a survey on Social Media and win ***an Apple iPad*** [final call]
by Anatoliy Gruzd 14 Jan '11

14 Jan '11

Dear Fellow AoIR Members, Only 10 days left to complete a short confidential online survey on the use of Online Social Media in academia and get a chance to win an Apple iPad. You can access the survey at the link below: http://iresearch.management.dal.ca/limesurvey/index.php?sid=65646 This survey is being conducted by the Social Media Lab at Dalhousie University and Netlab at the University of Toronto in Canada. This survey is part of a study to get a better understanding of why researchers like yourself are using or NOT using social media. As a way to thank you for your participation in the survey, you will be automatically enrolled to win an ***APPLE iPad*** upon the completion of the online survey. The random drawing will take place on January 25, 2011 and the winner will be notified via email. If you have any questions, please contact Dr. Anatoliy Gruzd at gruzd(a)dal.ca. Thank you in advance for your help, Anatoliy --- Anatoliy Gruzd, PhD Assistant Professor School of Information Management Faculty of Management Faculty of Computer Science Dalhousie University 6100 University Avenue, Suite 4010 Halifax, Nova Scotia B3H 3J5 Canada Phone: 902-494-6119 Fax: 902-494-2451 E-mail: gruzd [at] dal.ca Homepage: http://AnatoliyGruzd.com Twitter: http://twitter.com/dalprof Social Media Lab: http://SocialMediaLab.ca

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Extended JITP 2011 Deadline with New Poster Option - The Future of Computational Social Science
by Stuart Shulman 14 Jan '11

14 Jan '11

The extended JITP 2011 deadline is now January 30, 2011 for full papers and we have added an option for poster submissions requiring only an abstract. http://www.umass.edu/jitp/ *POSTER SUBMISSIONS* Authors who wish to submit poster presentations should email abstracts of no more than 250 words to the conference manager Michelle Sagan-Goncalves < mgoncalves(a)pubpol.umass.edu> by January 30, 2011. Submissions will be put through an expedited, blind peer review process by the Program Committee, and authors will be notified about a decision by March 1, 2011. ~Stu

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Deadline Extension: CHI 2011 Workshop CFP - Transnational HCI
by Irina Shklovski 14 Jan '11

14 Jan '11

CFP: TRANSNATIONAL HCI: Humans, Computers and Interactions in Transnational Context A workshop at CHI 2011 May 8, 2011, Vancouver BC, Canada NEW Deadlines: * Submission deadline -*Feb 1, 2011 * * Notification of acceptance - *Feb 14, 2011 * * Workshop at CHI2011 - May 8, 2011 Recent studies in Human-Computer Interaction have turned to examining computing in non-Western contexts, increasingly recognizing that technologies and activities of their participants are not bounded by single geographies, cultures, or borders. In our interactions with everyday technologies, we are increasingly tied to people and machines in other countries, cultures and networks. Such activities require us to consider technologies not just in national, but also in a transnational context. That is, humans, computers and interactions not limited to single countries or cultures, but forming communities across spaces, managing boundary-crossings, and forming hybrid practices. This workshop will bring together researchers and designers across academia and industry to address the effects, implications, and design opportunities for individuals and communities who engage in transnational technological practices. We seek participants to explore the role of information and communication technologies (ICTs) in transnational settings for our workshop, TRANSNATIONAL HCI, at CHI 2011. We aim to assemble an interdisciplinary group of practitioners to expand current work on ICTs in global processes, to develop a language and toolset for the study of technologies in transnational spaces, and to address the role of ICTs for local-global user interaction, collaboration across boundaries and negotiations of power relations. Examples of possible paper topics include, but are not limited to: * The use of pervasive technologies such as multiplayer gaming across borders * Studies of social networking among Diaspora communities * Use of ICTs in censorship state zones * The role of ICTs in reconfiguring "the local" * Technology in the context of international migration and politics * Cross-cultural collaboration Submissions that develop theoretical approaches, report on empirical work or on technology design are welcome, and need not be limited to "developing world" sites. Full papers may later be solicited for a potential special issue. We welcome applications from researchers, designers, practitioners and scholars across the subdomains of human-computer interaction and beyond, in the fields of anthropology, sociology, science and technology studies, critical theory, communication, media studies and cultural geography. Interested participants should submit a 2-4 page paper in CHI Archival Format <http://chi2011.org/authors/format.html> by January 14, 2011 to transnationaltimes(a)gmail.com describing your current project and its contribution to the workshop topic. At least one author for each accepted paper must register for the workshop and should attend at least one full day of CHI <www.chi2011.org>. Additional information, including the workshop description (Extended Abstract), is available on our website at http://www.princeton.edu/~jvertesi/TransnationalHCI/ ORGANIZERS Janet Vertesi, Princeton University, USA Silvia Lindtner, University of California, Irvine, USA Irina Shklovski, IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark If you have any questions please contact the organizers at transnationaltimes(a)gmail.com. We apologize for possible cross-posting. -- ============================================== Irina Shklovski Assistant Professor Design, Culture, Mobility& Communication (DCMC) IT University of Copenhagen Rued Langgaards Vej, 7 2300, Copenhagen S. Denmark http://www.itu.dk/people/irsh/ ============================================== -- ============================================== Irina Shklovski Assistant Professor Design, Culture, Mobility& Communication (DCMC) IT University of Copenhagen Rued Langgaards Vej, 7 2300, Copenhagen S. Denmark http://www.itu.dk/people/irsh/ ==============================================

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