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CfP: CT 2011 - SAME 2011 - Semantic Ambient Media Experience - Brisbane, Austrial - 29/06-02/07
by artur.lugmayr＠tut.fi 10 Jan '11

10 Jan '11

---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Position Papers SAME 2011 ? 4th International Workshop on Semantic Ambient Media Experience 29th June-2nd July 2011 in conjunction with the 5th International Conference on Communities and Technologies, Brisbane, Australia http://www.ambientmediaassociation.org/node/60, http://ct2011.urbaninformatics.net/ Creating the business value-creation, vision, media theories and technology for ambient media ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Papers The medium is the message! And the message was transmitted via a single distinguishable media such as television, the Web, the radio, or books. In the age of ubiquitous and pervasive computation, where the information goes through a distributed interlinked network of devices, the question ?what is content in the age of ambient media?? becomes more and more of importance. Ambient media are embedded throughout the natural environment of the consumer ? in his home, in his car, in restaurants, and on his mobile device. Predominant example services are smart wallpapers in homes, location based services, RFID based entertainment services for children, or intelligent homes. The distribution of the medium throughout the natural environment implies a paradigm change of how to think about content. Until recently, content was identified as single entities to information ? a video stream, audio stream, TV broadcast. However, in the age of ambient media, the notion of content extends from the single entity thinking towards a plethora of sensor networks, smart devices, personalized services, media embedded in the natural environment of the user and even the World Wide Web. The user actively participates and co-designs media experience with his location and context based input. Initiatives as the smart Web considering location based tagging for web-pages underline this development. This multidisciplinary workshop aims at a series, and at the creation of a think-tank of creative thinkers coming from technology, art, human-computer interaction, and social sciences, that are interested in glimpsing the future of semantic ambient intelligent empowered media technology. Thus, the workshop aims to answer to the challenges how to select, compose, and generate ambient content; how to interpret content for the ambient presentation; how to re-use ambient content and learning experiences; what are the characteristics of ambient media, its content, and technology; and what are ambient media in terms of story-telling and art. And finally, how do ambient media create business and value? How can ambient media be integrated into business processes and strategies? In addition, Semantics plays a crucial role in the generation of ambient media content. It can be seen as the glue between the raw data and the ambient media. Therefore we are interested to see innovative ideas how data can be (semi-)automatically be interpreted and translated into media presentations. Workshop Challenges ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ? What is ?content? and how can it be presented in the age of ?ubiquitous? and ?pervasive?? ? How to select, compose and generate ambient content? ? How to interpret content for an ambient presentation? ? How to manage and re-use ambient content in specific application scenarios (e.g. e-learning)? ? What is interactivity between the single consumers and consumer groups in the ambient context? ? How can collaborative or audience participatory content be supported? ? How can sensor data be interpreted and intelligently mined? ? How can existing media such as TV, home entertainment, cinema extended by ambient media? ? How can ambient media be applied in business processes? ? How do ambient media create value and business? ? Business opportunities and strategic issues of ambient media? ? Which methods for experience design, prototyping, and business models exist? More information on the previous International Workshops on Semantic Ambient Media Experience: * 1st International Workshop on Semantic Ambient Media Experiences held in conjunction with ACM Multimedia 2008, http://portal.acm.org/toc.cfm?id=1461912&type=proceeding&coll=ACM&dl=ACM&CF… 753168&CFTOKEN=49706448 * 2nd International Workshop on Semantic Ambient Media Experiences held in conjunction with AmI-09, http://webhotel2.tut.fi/emmi/forum/node/55 * 3rd International Workshop on Semantic Ambient Media Experiences held in conjunction with AmI-10, http://www.ambientmediaassociation.org/node/56 Topics of Interest ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The following (and related) topics are within the scope of this workshop and shall act as examples: * Supply chain management with ubiquitous computation * eCommerce & ubiquitous commerce * Business processes, value-creation, and opportunities of ambient media * Understanding of the semantics of ambient content and methods for adding intelligence to daily objects * The World Wide Web in the context of ambient media * Mobile and stationary sensor data collection and interpretation algorithms and techniques * Context awareness and collection and context aware composition/selection of ambient content * Creation and maintenance of meta-information including metadata and data management * Ambient and mobile social networks, user generated content, and co-creation of content and products * Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) * Characteristics of ambient media, its content, and technological platforms * Ambient content creation techniques, asset management, and programming ambient media * Algorithms and techniques for sensor data interpretation and semantic interpretation * Applications and services, including ambient games, art and leisure content in specific contexts * Ambient interactive storytelling, narrations, and interactive advertising * Personalization, user models, multimodal interaction, smart user interfaces, and universal access * Experience design, usability, audience research, ethnography, user studies, and interface design * Business models, marketing studies, media economics, and ?x?-commerce of semantic ambient media * Ambient interfaces (touch, gesture, haptics, biometrics) * Management of information, knowledge and sapience in the context of semantic ambient media * Methods for context awareness, sensor networks, and sensor data mining * Semantic data mining and text mining for pervasive media * Semantic models, semantic interpretation for ambient media presentation; * Personalization and methods for locative media The workshop aims at a series, and at the creation of a think-tank of creative thinkers coming from technology, art, human-computer interaction, and social sciences, that are interested in glimpsing the future of semantic ambient intelligent empowered media technology. We are aiming at multidisciplinary, highly future oriented submissions that help to develop the "ambient media form" for entertainment services, such as: * case-studies (successful, and especially unsuccessful ones) * oral presentation of fresh and innovative ideas * artistic installations and running system prototypes * user-experience studies and evaluations * technological novelties, evaluations, and solutions Target Audience ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The target audience are researchers and practitioners in the field of ubiquitous and pervasive computation and its related areas. These include pervasive computation, emotional computation, content creation, ubiquitous computation, human-computer-interaction and usability experts, mobile industry, service creators, etc. Workshop participants shall have previous experience in this or related fields to be able to contribute on a high scientific level. The workshop participants will actively contribute to the development of semantic ambient media, due to a different method of workshop organization. Participants shall participate rather than passively contribute. The participants shall discuss and actively elaborate the topic and we plan to kick-off an international web-based informal forum for ambient media, which shall increase the effect of this workshop tremendously. We strongly welcome multidisciplinary contributions coming from the media technology, business, artistic, and human experience side. Case studies (successful and especially unsuccessful), artistic installations, technologies, media studies, and user-experience evaluations are highly welcome, which are affecting the development of ambient media as new form of media. Especially visionary contributions shaping the future of ambient media are strongly welcome. Paper Submission ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- * Submissions are expected to be 2-4 pages position papers according the paper format of C&T available at http://www.sigchi.org/chipubform * Please submit your paper at our paper submission system: http://webhotel2.tut.fi/emmi/Conferences/2011same/openconf.php * Best contributions will be compiled to a special issue following up the workshop - we aim at Springer MTAP after reviewing the quality of contributions * Check also the Ambient Media Association (AMEA): www.ambientmediaassociation.org Important Dates ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- * paper submission: 15th March 2011 * notification of acceptance: 1st April 2011 * final papers due: 15th April 2011 * workshop day: 29th June 2011 * special issue articles due: 30th August 2011 Workshop Chairs ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- * Artur Lugmayr, Tampere University of Technology (TUT) & lugYmedia Inc., FINLAND * Thomas Risse, L3S Research Center, GERMANY * Bjorn Stockleben, Univ. of Applied Sciences Magdeburg, GERMANY * Juha Kaario, Varaani Works Oy, FINLAND * Bogdan Pogorelc, Jozef Stefan Institute & Spica International d.o.o., SLOVENIA * Estefania Serral Asensio, Universidad Polit?cnica de Valencia, SPAIN Program Committee ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- * Heiko Schuldt, Uni Basel, SWITZERLAND * Pablo Caesar, Centrum voor Wiskunde en Informatica, THE NETHERLANDS * Zhiwen Yu, Northwestern Polytechnical University, CHINA * Richard Chbeir, Bourgogne University, FRANCE * Sofia Tsekeridou, Athens Information Technology, GREECE * Shu-Ching Chen, Florida International University, USA * Mark Billinghurst, Canterbury University, NEW ZEALAND * Carsten Magerkurth, SAP, GERMANY * Andreas Holzinger, Medical University Graz, AUSTRIA

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CFP: Papers due this Saturday, January 15 for JITP 2011 "The Future of Computational Social Science"
by Stuart Shulman 10 Jan '11

10 Jan '11

JITP 2011: The Future of Computational Social Science CALL FOR PAPERS May 16 & 17, 2011 at the University of Washington, Seattle, WA http://www.umass.edu/jitp/ The 3rd annual, two-day Journal of Information Technology & Politics (JITP) thematic conference will be in Seattle, Washington, coordinated by the Department of Political Science and the Center for American Politics and Public Policy (CAPPP) at the University of Washington. APPROACH Computational social science is an emergent field and source of new theoretical and methodological innovation for social science more broadly. Multidisciplinary teams of social and computer scientists are increasingly common in the lab and at workshops where cross-fertilization occurs in the areas of theory, data, methods, and tools. Peer-reviewed interdisciplinary work is becoming more common as the computational tools and techniques of computer science are being used by social scientists. Previously, large-scale computational processing was the purview of expensive, university-centric computing labs. Now, with the democratization of technology, universities and for-profit firms increasingly provide large amounts of inexpensive computing power to researchers and citizens alike. It is the potential of these new computational technologies and related Web-based platforms for research, politics, and governance that led to the creation of the Journal of Information Technology & Politics. Previous special issues on "Text Annotation for Political Science" 5(1), "Politics: Web 2.0" 6(3/4), "YouTube and the 2008 Election Cycle in the United States" 7(2/3), and "The Politics of Open Source" (in production) have focused the attention of researchers on the expansive new landscape of digital democracy as well as the architecture and tools that underpin it. In their 2009 Science article, David Lazer and colleagues highlighted some of the future challenges for scholars working in this area. "Computational social science could become the exclusive domain of private companies and government agencies. Alternatively, there might emerge a privileged set of academic researchers presiding over private data from which they produce papers that cannot be critiqued or replicated. Neither scenario will serve the long-term public interest of accumulating, verifying, and disseminating knowledge." Luckily, the phenomenon of computational social science is distributed so widely and found in such variety that these scenarios are unlikely. The trends towards openness and data and tool sharing are notable breakthroughs in a sphere where proprietary approaches dominate. Data, method, and tool transparency are increasingly watchwords for governments and researchers. With this background in mind, we invite a wide range of paper submissions on the future of computational social science. Submissions may include, but are not limited to: * Applications of information theory to social science research * Methodologies and tools for studying users and information on social media services * Projects featuring novel uses of computer assisted qualitative data analysis software * Large-scale empirical analysis and modeling * Web technologies and data mining * Interdisciplinary methodologies in collaborative research * Pedagogical issues in computational social science * Computer simulations in political science education and training * Concepts from social sciences enhanced by computation, such as social network analysis * Innovation in socio-technical network and infrastructure analysis PAPER SUBMISSIONS Authors are invited to prepare and submit to JITP a research paper, policy viewpoint, workbench note, or teaching innovation manuscript by January 15, 2011. Proposals for full panel presentations will also be accepted. Please contact the conference manager to discuss panels. Papers accepted for publication will be invited to revise and resubmit their articles for publication in a special issue, or double issue, of JITP. Authors should "establish membership" at the JITP website, http://www.jitp.net, to submit a paper. Follow the instructions for regular article submissions, being sure to indicate that the paper is for JITP2011 in the comments section. Papers 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. A small number of papers will be accepted for presentation at the conference. Other paper authors will be invited to present a poster during an evening reception. KEYNOTE SPEAKER JITP 2011 is pleased to welcome Jaime Teevan as the 2011 Keynote Speaker. Jaime is a researcher in the Context, Learning, and User Experience for Search (CLUES) Group at Microsoft Research. Her work explores how our digital past can help shape our future information interactions. Jaime was named a Technology Review (TR35) 2009 Young Innovator for her research on personalized search. She co-authored the first book on collaborative Web search, and is co-chair of the Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM) 2012 conference. BEST PAPER AND POSTER CASH PRIZES The author (or authors) of the best research paper will receive a cash prize. The creator (or creators) of the best poster/research presentation will also receive a cash prize. PROGRAM COMMITTEE Gil ad Ariely, Lauder School of Government Diplomacy and Strategy, Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya Paul M. Baker, Georgia Institute of Technology David M. Berry, Swansea University, UK. Chris Bronk, Rice University Jana Diesner, Carnegie Mellon University Muzammil M. Hussain, University of Washington Daniel Katz, Fellow, University of Michigan, Center for the Study of Complex Systems Jacob Groshek, Iowa State University Baden Hughes, University of Melbourne Andrea Kavanaugh, Virginia Tech Georgios Lappas, Technological Educational Institution of Western Macedonia, Greece Azi Lev-On, Ariel University Center Ignacio J. Martinez-Moyano, Argonne National Laboratory and the University of Chicago Bruce Neubauer, Albany State University Andre Oboler, Monash University, Australia Justin Reedy, University of Washington Joseph W. Roberts, Roger Williams University Scott Robertson, University of Hawaii Derek Ruths, McGill University Chirag Shah, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey Mack Shelley, Iowa State University Stuart Shulman, University of Massachusetts Amherst, co-chair Anas Tawileh, Cardiff University, UK John Wilkerson, University of Washington, co-chair -- 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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CfP: Methodologies for Virtual Environments and Social Networks
by dddumitr＠ucalgary.ca 10 Jan '11

10 Jan '11

Call for Papers and Book Reviews: Methodological approaches to the study of virtual environments and online social networks The Graduate Journal of Social Science (GJSS) announces a Call for Papers and Book Reviews for a special issue dealing with methodological approaches to the study of virtual environments and online social networks. The journal encourages the submission of work by MSc/ MA/MS, MPhil, PhD students and junior academics from all geographic regions. All papers are submitted to a blind peer review process. The special issue is scheduled for December 2011. Papers: The proliferation of virtual worlds such as The Sims, Second Life, World of Warcraft and of online social networks such as blogs or social networking applications (Facebook, LinkedIn, Hi5) has been met with an enthusiastic interest from researchers across disciplines. Scholars in anthropology, communication and cultural studies, economics, education, psychology and sociology have become increasingly involved in the study of such environments, bringing along not only discipline-specific questions and theories, but also various methodological approaches. This special issue aims at mapping some of the methodological approaches to the study of virtual environments, and welcomes both theoretical and empirical analyses that address them. The interest here is in what methods graduate researchers choose to use, the problems they face in trying to use them and the ways in which these methods are being adapted in relation to these virtual sites of study. Graduate students doing empirical work on virtual worlds and online social networks from all disciplines are strongly encouraged to submit papers dealing with the processes of choosing, applying and critically evaluating their methods. While we expect contributions to vary according to the particular focus of investigation, questions such as the following may be relevant: What are the advantages and disadvantages of these methods? Are such methods developed specifically for the study of virtual worlds and/or online social networks, or are they adaptations of traditional research methods in social sciences? Are there specific disciplines, theories, or academic frameworks that offer more suitable insights regarding such methods- or can using them suggest limiting the scope of this new research environment? Authors are encouraged to submit papers addressing questions such as: - How to choose a suitable method for the study of virtual worlds and/ or online social networks? - Methods for exploring the social and cultural aspects of virtual worlds and/ or online social networks. - Methods for exploring the technical aspects of virtual worlds and/ or online social networks. - Criteria for evaluating research on virtual worlds and/ or online social networks. - Simulations as research methods: problems, recommendations, evaluation. - Methods for collaborative research in virtual environments and/ or online social networks. - Ethical issues. - Immersion: do we need to be users of virtual worlds/ online social networks to study them? All papers must be submitted electronically by March 15, 2011 to <dddumitr(a)ucalgary.ca>. Articles should be between 5,000 - 8,000 words in length (including footnotes but excluding references). Short essays (2,000 - 3,000 words) and book reviews on this topic are also welcome. All submissions must be anonymized and accompanied by the GJSS article submission form (which can be downloaded from the GJSS website). Please include an abstract, a short author bio and 3-5 keywords. For more information on the stylistic guidelines, please check the GJSS website at http://gjss.org. For any further inquiries and to submit an article, please contact Delia Dumitrica, special issue editor at <dddumitr(a)ucalgary.ca>. Book Reviews: We are also looking for reviews of books published between 2008-2010 dealing with methodological approaches to virtual worlds and online social networks. Ideally, reviewers have their own copy of the book. Book reviews should be between 1,000 - 1,5000 words and should not only describe the book, but also critically engage with the points raised. If you would like to propose a book review for this special issue, please contact Delia Dumitrica, special issue editor at <dddumitr(a)ucalgary.ca>.

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Call for papers- mlearn 2011, Beijing, China
by Yinjuan Shao 10 Jan '11

10 Jan '11

The 10th World Conference on Mobile and Contextual Learning Beijing, China 18 –21 October 2011 Full paper submissions – *5 May 2011* *N*otification of acceptance – 10 June 2011 Last date for early-bird registration – 26 July 2011 Full paper and/or slide show for Technology Showcases – 1 September 2011 Submission of full papers to special issues of JCAL and IJMBL – 30 November 2011 mLearn was the first conference on Mobile Learning and is widely recognised as the premiere international conference on learning with mobile technologies and learning across contexts. Each year, it attracts a great number of participants from more than 60 countries representing all continents, and acts as a forum for knowledge sharing and transfer across cultures.  The past mLearn conferences were held in the UK, Italy, Australia, South Africa, Canada, the USA, and Malta ( http://www.iamlearn.org/resources/) It is the first time that mLearn comes to East Asia. This tenth annual conference will be hosted by Beijing Normal University (http://www.bnu.edu.cn/eng/) in collaboration with IAMLearn – the International Association for Mobile Learning (http://www.iamlearn.org/) *CONFERENCE THEME: Mobile and Contextual Learning: Culture and Change** *** The conference aims to stimulate critical debate on and research into theories, approaches, and applications of mobile and contextual learning; to bring together researchers and practitioners from all over the world to share their knowledge, experience and research in the field of mobile learning; and to create dialogue and networking for knowledge sharing and transfer across the globe. The conference is now open for submission, and we welcome contributions from academic researchers, developers, professionals, practitioners, and educators from school education, higher education, industry, government, international organisations, etc. *Submissions are invited for:** ** * - Long papers (8 pages) - Short papers (3 pages) - Workshops (2 pages) - Posters (300 words) - Panels (500 words) - Industry showcase &presentation (1-2 page) - Doctoral Consortium (4 pages) The proceedings will also be published via the web for Full Open Access. Authors of accepted papers will have the opportunity to have their submissions considered for special issues of the SSCI-indexed Journal of Computer Assisted Learning (*JCAL*) and the International Journal of Mobile and Blended Learning (*IJMBL*). More details are available at the conference websites http://www.mlearn .org/mlearn2011 or http://mlearn.bnu.edu.cn/ -- Dr. Yinjuan Shao NIE Nanyang Technological University Singapore

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CFP: Internet, Law & Politics Conference 2011
by Ismael Peña-López 10 Jan '11

10 Jan '11

Dear list, I here forward information on the Internet, Law & Politics Conference 2011 to be held in Barcelona (Spain) in July 2011 and whose Call for Papers is now open. More information: http://edcp.uoc.edu/symposia/idp2011/ >From the official website: We herby invite scholars, practitioners and policy makers to participate in the *7th Internacional Conference on Internet Law & Politics (IDP 2011): Net Neutrality and other challenges for the future of the Internet* by submitting papers, from either legal or political science perspectives, focusing on the following topics: - Net Neutrality issues, considering its effects on innovation, freedom of speech, creative content, security, universal access to ICTs, competition, telecommunication markets, digital divide and development. - Legal topics relevant to the current and future state of the Internet such as online privacy, data protection, intellectual property rights, intermediaries’ liability, freedom of expression, online advertising, e-commerce or cybercrime among others. - Questions related to e-government and e-democracy such as open data, public sector information, online political participation, e-procurement or Internet governance. Interested participants should submit an abstract (a 300-word outline) of their paper in the first place, by 18 February, 2011. The abstract will be peer-reviewed and authors will be notified of the outcome by 4 March, 2011. Authors of accepted abstracts will be required to send the full paper by 23 May, 2011. Full papers should not exceed 8,000 words in length including notes and references. They should use the conference template that will be available to download from the web. All papers will be peer-reviewed. All papers accepted will be included in the proceedings of the Conference, which will hold either an ISBN or an ISSN number. Accepted papers may also be selected for oral presentation at the Conference. Important dates - Abstract submission: please submit a 300-word outline by 18 February, 2011 - Notification of acceptance of abstracts: 4 March, 2011 - Full paper submission: please submit the full paper by 23 May, 2011 Please send all submissions by electronic mail in a .DOC or .ODT document to: pdret(a)uoc.edu All the best, i. -- Ismael Peña-López Department of Law and Political Science Open University of Catalonia http://ictlogy.net Av. Tibidabo 39-43 08035 Barcelona

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Open Source Software Africa Summit 2011 (OSSAS '11)
by Fouad Bajwa 10 Jan '11

10 Jan '11

For your information: Open Source Software Africa Summit 2011, to be held in Johannesburg from 27 - 28 of January 2011 >From Donald Mpofu, Programme Committee Chair : -------------------- The Programme Committee Chair for the Open Source Software Africa Summit 2011, to be held in Johannesburg from 27 - 28 of January 2011 invites you to join the Summit. OSSAS'11 is the 1st premier international summit of note in the Information and communication technology sector within the continent, hence please accept this important invite to attend this most timely event. We know that your time is valuable. By collecting feedback and input from your peers and experts we have been able to formulate your most pressing issues and challenges into a compelling agenda. The summit will attract the interest of major players continentally. This summit presents a platform for organisations to establish Africa's unwavering technology advancement strategies on the international scene. In addition, your participation at the Open Source Software Africa Summit 2011 will greatly influence the quality of planning, sustainability and development of Africa as a whole. We believe this Summit brings extensive networking and exchange information with the primary aim of harmonising African business opportunities. You will also have the opportunity to meet the key people involved in the ongoing implementation of the Strategy and some of those governing the strategic direction of the most sustainable businesses & organisations. Join us in Johannesburg to discuss the strategies to accelerate the migration and adoption of open source software in Africa. Presentations and panel discussions will explore how both private and public sector businesses are achieving benefits from platform flexibility and better performance to cost savings. You are invited to the above event and participate in the exhibitions. Please note that due to the interactive nature of this event, seats are limited and early booking is essential. To register, simply visit http://www.ossas.co.za to register online or download the the brochure & offline registration form. Finally, I would like to take this opportunity to request that you pass this invitation on to other colleagues and peers that you believe will benefit from attending the seminar and can add further value to the ongoing development and Innovation. Please also join the Open Source Software Africa group on linkedin. Your urgent consideration and response will be much welcome and appreciated. Should you require any further information, please do not hesitate to contact me on the co-ordinates below. Best Regards Donald Mpofu Cell: +27 (0) 78 888 7310 Work: +27 (0) 81 305 9238 E-Mail: donald.mpofu(a)iipm.co.za Strategic Executive Chairman Centre of Intelligence, Innovation & Performance Management Tel: +27 (0) 11 648 2556 Fax: +27 (0) 86 604 8756 http://www.iipm.co.za -- Regards. -------------------------- Fouad Bajwa Internet Governance Advisor ICT4D Social Practitioner & Researcher Member Multistakeholder Advisory Group (IGF) Member Civil Society Internet Governance Caucus (IGC) My Blog: Internet's Governance: http://internetsgovernance.blogspot.com/ Follow my Tweets: http://twitter.com/fouadbajwa MAG Interview: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATVDW1tDZzA

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Fwd: [IAMCR] CFP Internet of Things
by jeremy hunsinger 09 Jan '11

09 Jan '11

Begin forwarded message: > From: "Kleinwächter, Wolfgang" <wolfgang.kleinwaechter(a)medienkomm.uni-halle.de> > Date: January 9, 2011 5:29:31 AM EST > To: governance(a)lists.cpsr.org, euro-discuss(a)atlarge-lists.icann.org, euro-nf(a)listes.enst.fr > Cc: GIGANET-MEMBERS(a)LISTSERV.SYR.EDU, announcements(a)iamcr.org > Subject: [IAMCR] CFP Internet of Things > > Please distribute as widely as possible. Best regards Wolfgang Kleinwächter <http://euronf.enst.fr/en_accueil.html> > > > > Call for Papers (CFP) > > The Governance Dimension of the Internet of Things > > > > EURO-NF & GOVPIMINT Workshop (Leipzig II) > > in Cooperation with the Annual Meeting of the > > IGF Dynamic Coalition of the Internet of Things (IGF-DyCIT) > > > > Leipzig, Germany, March 24 - 25, 2011 > > > > The EURO-NF Network of Excellence Project under EU-FP 7 has sponsored a Joint Special Research Project (JSRP) on "Governance and Privacy Implications of the Internet of Things" (GOVPIMINT). The project invites now papers for a high level expert workshop on the "Governance Dimension of the Internet of Things", Leipzig, March 24 - 25, 2011. > > We call for Papers for the following six issues: > > * The role of the Domain Name System (DNS) in building networks which link objects together > * The mechanisms and procedures for the allocation of critical Internet resources, in particular IP addresses, to objects > * The design for an informal or formal governance mechanisms for the ONS and networks which link objects to the Internet, if needed > * The options for privacy protection, in particular at the "Rendezvous Point" where on object meets a subject (the concept of "the right to silence the chip") > * The challenges for security and stability of the Internet > * The role of the various stakeholders (Private Sector, Technical Community, Government, Users/Civil Society) > > Please send a one page abstract until February 15, 2011 to info(a)hoferichter.eu <mailto:info@hoferichter.eu> . > > > > Background: > > While there is still a discussion, what the concept of the" Internet of Things" means in practice, the real process of connecting objects equipped with RFID chips to the Internet via an IPv6 address continues to move forward. The market is growing and so growths the debate about the governance implications of the "Internet of Things". The European Commission has established a "Task Force on the Internet of Things", the European parliament has published a report about the issue and the 5th UN sponsored Internet Governance Forum (IGF) has reactivated the Dynamic Coalition on the Internet of Things (IGF-DyCIT) in Vilnjus, September 2010. > Among the key issues under consideration is whether an "Internet of Things" needs a governance mechanisms and, if yes, how such a mechanism should be designed. Other key issues are privacy, security and the idea to introduce a "right to silence the chip". > > The EURO-NF research project, which operates under 6th FP of the European Commission, has sponsored in 2009 a workshop on the Internet of Things in Leipzig (Leipzig I). Furthermore it has supported a special joint research project (SJRP) under the title "Governance and Privacy Implications of the Internet of Things" (GOVPIMINT) in 2010 which produced an agenda for further research and potential political action (Aarhus Roadmap). The Leipzig II workshop will be used to disseminate the results of the SJPR. It is organized in collaboration with the reactivated IGF Dynamic Coalition on the Internet of Things (IGF-DyCIT). The plan is that the IGF-DyCIT will use the Leipzig II workshop to draft a plan for further action with regard to the forthcoming 6th UN Internet Governance Forum (IGF), scheduled for September 2011 in Nairobi. > > > More information under: http://www.medienstadt-leipzig.org/euronf/ <http://www.medienstadt-leipzig.org/euronf/> > > > > > _______________________________________________ > International Association for Media and Communication Research - http://iamcr.org > Announcements mailing list > > Join IAMCR | http://iamcr.org/about-iamcr/membership/join-iamcr-mainmenu-237 > > Follow IAMCR's updates on Twitter | http://twitter.com/IAMCRtweets > Visit IAMCR's Facebook Page | http://www.facebook.com/iamcr.org Jeremy Hunsinger Center for Digital Discourse and Culture Virginia Tech http://www.stswiki.org/ sts wiki http://transdisciplinarystudies.tmttlt.com/ Transdisciplinary Studies:the book series I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it. -Pablo Picasso

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Deaf/HOH Community in VWs
by katie vizenor 09 Jan '11

09 Jan '11

Hi! I am a PhD Student in Anthropology at University at Buffalo and will soon put together my advanced exams and topical defense. My plan is to study Deaf and Hard of Hearing Community in VWs. My primary site will be Second Life, but I may look at World of Warcraft as a comparison site at some point. My Question and Request: Could anyone recommend articles or other materials related to this topic? My particular areas of interest/concern are: Community formation and maintenance (particularly through the creation and design of space and objects) Relationship to other disability/impairment groups and broader "Disability" groups "Passing" in game play Discrimination Activism, Protest and Resistance Thank you so much for any and all help. I always find the conversation and advice here immensely helpful! All my best, Katie Vizenor, MA, MLS PhD Student, Anthropology University at Buffalo

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REMINDER: CFP Philosophy of Computer Games Conference- Athens 6/9 April 2011
by helen roinioti 09 Jan '11

09 Jan '11

Apologies for cross-posting. Call for Papers We hereby invite scholars in any field of studies who take a professional interest in the phenomenon of computer games to submit papers to the international conference "The Philosophy of Computer Games 2011", to be held in Athens, Greece, on April 6th-9th 2011. Accepted papers will have a clear focus on philosophy and philosophical issues in relation to computer games. They will also attempt to use specific examples rather than merely invoke "computer games" in general terms. The over-arching theme of the conference is Player Identity. Papers are encouraged to explore one of the following topics and invited speakers will focus on this area. On the other hand, this is not the sole domain the conference will cover and submissions dealing with other relevant aspects of game philosophy are also welcome. Player-Avatar Identity In describing gameplay there seems to be a presumed identity-relation between the player and her avatar. What an avatar does can be taken to be what the player does, and what happens to the avatar can be taken to happen to the player. This presumption even makes it possible for a player to point to her avatar and claim “that is me”. What is the nature of the reported identity-relation between player and avatar either as a cognitive relation (such as the construction of one’s self-image and projected intentionality), as a form of embodiment or as a metaphysical relation capable of directly extending personal identity to the avatar? Identity and Conceptions of the Self Modern philosophy offers various models and critiques of the self (and the 'other') through the work of Descartes, Husserl, Wittgenstein etc. Computer games - explicitly as well as implicitly - adopt these models and offer interactive representations of self-models that can be acted out and thereby evaluated. What are the affinities between such philosophical models of the self and the structural elements of computer games? Do the models express or contradict the structures? Identity and Immersion Issues of identity in virtual environments, and consequently in digital games, have been discussed primarily from the perspective of the opportunities for formation, experimentation and expression of social identity. These discussions importantly highlight the role that games play in re-writing identity through digital gameplay. The focus here is on the presentation of self to others in a virtual environment. This addresses one aspect of immersion, namely the increased sense of inhabiting the environment by virtue of others being aware of the player within the environment. We invite papers on a second, equally important aspect of immersion-as-habitation: the effect that this sense of habitation of virtual environments has on the self. What is the influence on player identity of absorbing into consciousness a game-world and its inhabitants? Identity, Artifacts and Memory Recent philosophical (and technological) studies of ontologies for digital documentation and archiving practices connected with the coding and verification of personal, collective, artefactual and other cultural identities make it of pressing interest to examine the role of gameplay activities and digital artefacts that represent new forms of cultural capital. These can be viewed as traces of an ongoing narrative construction of individual and collective memories and identities deposited in game worlds. How is the construction, during gameplay, of individual and collective gameplay identities, memories and forms of gaming capital, related to eventual digital artefacts that derive from such activities? Your abstract should not exceed 1000 words including bibliography. If your submission falls under one of the four headings, please indicate which one. Deadline for submissions is 17.00 GMT, February 1st, 2011. Send your abstract to submissions(a)gamephilosophy.org. All submitted abstracts will be subject to double blind peer review, and the program committee will make a final selection of papers for the conference on the basis of this. A full paper draft must then be submitted by March 31st and will be made available on the conference website. There will be an opportunity to revise the paper after the conference. Notification of accepted submissions will be sent out by March 1st, 2011. Gordon Calleja John Richard Sageng Patrick Coppock Seth Giddings Stephan Günzel Ian Bogost Anita Leirfall http.//2011.gamephilosophy.org

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PostDoc job: Research Associate in Information Science/Scientometrics
by thelwall mike 09 Jan '11

09 Jan '11

To develop Web-based methods of evaluating the impact of researchers More info: http://www2.wlv.ac.uk/pers/jobs.htm

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