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Final Reminder - Call for Chapter Proposals: Human Rights and Information Communication Technologies
by John.Lannon 22 Sep '10

22 Sep '10

Final reminder: CALL FOR CHAPTER PROPOSALS Human Rights and Information Communication Technologies: Trends and Consequences of Use A book edited by John Lannon (University of Limerick, Ireland), Edward F. Halpin (Leeds Metropolitan University, UK) and Steven Hick (Carleton University, Canada) To be published by IGI Global Website: http://tinyurl.com/33hy2zw Chapter Proposal deadline: September 24th 2010 OBJECTIVE OF THE BOOK Human Rights and Information Communication Technologies: Trends and Consequences of Use will provide a comprehensive examination of the use and application of information and communication technologies in the world of human rights. This will contribute significantly to understandings of the impact of ICTss on the promotion and protection of human rights in societies around the world. TARGET AUDIENCE This book will provide a valuable tool and insight for academics from a range of fields, including information management, information systems, communications, information technology, international relations, human rights, politics, law, and sociology. It will also be useful to international non-governmental organisations, non-governmental organisations, and governments, for policy and practice. RECOMMENDED TOPICS include, but are not limited to, the following: - the impact of ICT policies on human rights; - the role of information in the promotion and protection of human rights; - the opportunities and pitfalls of ICTs for human rights campaigning; - ICTs and human rights education; - Human rights activism in the information age; - communication rights, privacy and free speech; - human rights and the Internet; - ICTs and gender-based rights - Information systems deployment in human rights - Mobile technologies and their application to human rights - Human rights organizations and the application/deployment of ICT - Information security - Information poverty, exclusion, and social, economic and cultural implications SUBMISSION PROCEDURE Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit on or before August 27th, 2010, a 2-3 page chapter proposal clearly explaining the mission and concerns of his or her proposed chapter. Authors of accepted proposals will be notified by October 8th 2010 about the status of their proposals and sent chapter guidelines. Full chapters are expected to be submitted by December 17th, 2010. All submitted chapters will be reviewed on a double-blind review basis. Contributors may also be requested to serve as reviewers for this project. PUBLISHER This book is scheduled to be published by IGI Global (formerly Idea Group Inc.), publisher of the "Information Science Reference" (formerly Idea Group Reference), "Medical Information Science Reference," "Business Science Reference," and "Engineering Science Reference" imprints. For additional information regarding the publisher, please visit www.igi-global.com <http://www.igi-global.com/> . This publication is anticipated to be released in 2011. IMPORTANT DATES September 24th, 2010: Proposal Submission Deadline October 8, 2010: Notification of Acceptance December 17, 2010: Full Chapter Submission February 18, 2011: Review Results Returned May 20, 2011: Final Chapter Submission September 30, 2011: inal Deadline Inquiries and submissions can be forwarded electronically (Word document) or by mail to: John Lannon Centre for Information and Knowledge Management S1-20, Kemmy Business School, University of Limerick, IRELAND Tel.: +353 87 8225087 E-mail: john.lannon(a)ul.ie

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9 days left... CfP - AmI2010 - Semantic Ambient Media Experience (SAME) Workshop - deadline 1st Oct.
by artur.lugmayr＠tut.fi 22 Sep '10

22 Sep '10

Call for Workshop Position Papers SAME 2010 - 3rd International Workshop on Semantic Ambient Media Experience (NAMU Series) November, 10th-12th November 2010, in conjunction with AmI-10, in Malaga, Spain http://www.ambientmediaassociation.org/node/56, http://ami2010.lcc.uma.es/ creating the business value-creation, vision, media theories and technology for ambient media News - Position paper submission date: 1st October, 2010 - Submission system: http://webhotel2.tut.fi/emmi/Conferences/2010same/openconf.php - We are aiming at an Springer MTAP special issue as result of the workshop (to be negotiated) Call for Papers Submissions are expected to be 2-4 pages position papers according the paper format of AmI-10: http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-7-72376-0 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 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, and media embedded in the natural environment of the user. The user actively participates and co-designs media experience with his location based input. Initiatives as the smart Web considering location based tagging for web-pages underline this development. This multidisciplinary workshop aims to answer to the challenges how to select, compose, and generate ambient content; how to present ambient content?; how to re-use ambient content and learning experiences?; what is 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? 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. 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. Workshop Challenges ? 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? ? 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 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? ? Which methods for experience design, prototyping, and business models exist? ? How can sensor data be interpreted and intelligently mined? ? How can existing media such as TV, home entertainment, cinema extended by ambient media? More information on the 1st International Workshop on Semantic Ambient Media Experience held in conjunction with ACM Multimedia 2008 http://portal.acm.org/toc.cfm?id=1461912&type=proceeding&coll=ACM&dl=ACM&CF… , and more information on the 2nd International Workshop on Semantic Ambient Media Experiences held in conjunction with AmI-09 can be found http://webhotel2.tut.fi/emmi/forum/node/55 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 Description of the Workshop Topics 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 * 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 * 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 Important Dates * paper submission: 1st October, 2010 * notification of acceptance: 22nd October, 2010 * final papers due: 27th October, 2010 * workshop day: between 10th and 12th November 2010 in Malaga, Spain * special issue articles due: December 14th , 2010 (to be fixed) 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. 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

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Yours top 10 : cyber ethnography books
by nobre natalia 21 Sep '10

21 Sep '10

@font-face { font-family: "Cambria"; }p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal { margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; }div.Section1 { page: Section1; } Hi everyone, Am a PhD student at Telecom Paristech / CNRS and my work areas are related to Media/cultural studies, CMC, Social network analysis, Interactions & technologies. My research is done in the field of socio anthropology. At the moment am preparing a course on cyber studies for an academic sociologist public and I need your insight on that. Could you recommend me which are your: top 10 basic references/books on cyber ethnography. Well any further information you may think appropriate, are more than welcome. Feel free to email me at natalia.nobre(a)telecom-paristech.fr if you're interested in a longer discussion Thanks for your help in advance Natalia NOBRE Télécom ParisTech (ENST) LTCI-CNRS Dép. Sciences Economiques et Sociales 2229, Route des Crêtes 06560 Sophia Antipolis

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transcription service
by Seth Lewis 21 Sep '10

21 Sep '10

In response to some postings a few days ago about recording and transcribing interviews, I can recommend the following service for transcriptions: http://transcribenow.net I used TranscribeNow for my dissertation interviews a few months ago, and the service, quality, and cost were all quite good. For what it's worth... Best, Seth -- Seth C. Lewis, Ph.D. Assistant Professor School of Journalism & Mass Communication University of Minnesota (Twin Cities) Office: 612-626-8516 http://www.sjmc.umn.edu/ http://sethlewis.org/

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fellowships in 'Public knowledge: Institutions, Networks, Collectives'
by Christina Dunbar-Hester 21 Sep '10

21 Sep '10

Rutgers University The Center for Cultural Analysis announces External Fellowships for 2011-12 on Public Knowledge: Institutions, Networks, Collectives What, today, is public knowledge? What forms have shared, openly accessible bodies of knowledge taken historically, and what are the prospects for collective inquiry in the 21st century? For its 25th Anniversary year, the Center for Cultural Analysis invites projects that investigate the creation and transmission of knowledge by and for a variety of publics, semi-publics, and counter-publics. We are particularly interested in institutions such as universities, museums, and libraries that are explicitly dedicated to the transmission of knowledge across generations. But we will also take up other social practices and cultural forms that serve the public good or the public interest, such as journalism, government reports, learned societies, watchdog agencies, non-governmental organizations, and free and open source software projects. Are there problems that can only be addressed through a collaborative, collective mode of inquiry? How does knowledge become institutionalized, an d how do institutions account for themselves? What are the historical precedents for the informal knowledge networks made possible by new media? Possible areas of inquiry include but are not limited to the history and prospects of the university and other learned societies; public knowledge and social media; the institutional landscape of the public sphere, including corporations and laboratories; the public domain; intellectual property and the privatization of public goods; limits to or restrictions on public knowledge. Proposals are invited from the many disciplines concerned with this topic. In 2011-12, CCA will sponsor two external fellowships with awards of $45,000. CCA also awards non-funded associate fellowships. All fellows will have access to the Center's resources during the tenure of the fellowship and will be expected to participate in and to present their work to the Center seminars, which meet regularly throughout the academic year. Applications must be postmarked by January 7, 2011. Applications can be downloaded at http://cca.rutgers.edu Center for Cultural Analysis - Rutgers University 8 Bishop Place, New Brunswick, NJ 08901 Phone: 732-932-8426 Email: info(a)cca.rutgers.edu Web: http://cca.rutgers.edu -- Christina Dunbar-Hester, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Journalism & Media Studies School of Communication & Information Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey 4 Huntington Street New Brunswick, NJ 08901 http://comminfo.rutgers.edu email: christdh(a)rutgers.edu office: DeWitt 101 (185 College Ave.) phone: 732-932-7500 ext. 8180 fax: 732-932-6916

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use caution with twitter this morning
by jeremy hunsinger 21 Sep '10

21 Sep '10

there are a series of javascript injection attacks going on, use at your own risk until it is straightened out. Jeremy Hunsinger Center for Digital Discourse and Culture Political Science Virginia Tech Everything you can imagine is real. --Pablo Picasso

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A survey regarding computer/video game play
by Jinghui (Jove) Hou 20 Sep '10

20 Sep '10

Hi Scholars and Friends, I'm working with a research team on a survey about video games - which include games on a cell phone, computer, console (such as Wii or XBox), portable gaming device (such as gameboy or PSP), or online. If you ever play such games, would you please consider taking this survey? It will take about 20 minutes. Here's the link: https://uscannenberg.qualtrics.com/SE?SID=SV_24u3iX6c4U4ebnS Thanks so much! *At the end of the survey: "*Please write the name of the person who referred you to this survey":* Jove* Thank you so much! -- Jinghui (Jove) Hou Ph.D. Student & Annenberg Fellow Annenberg School for Communication University of Southern California 3502 Watt Way Los Angeles, CA 90089-0281, USA E-mail: jinghuih(a)usc.edu joavinhou(a)gmail.com Mobile: 608-358-2852 (New Cell #!)

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New Book: Good Faith Collaboration: The Culture of Wikipedia
by Joseph Reagle 20 Sep '10

20 Sep '10

Hello fellow Internet researchers, my book *Good Faith Collaboration: The Culture of Wikipedia* (2010, The MIT Press) is now available. While I have long anticipated its publication, it's hard to believe the day is finally here! In any case, I've included a brief description below and a link to the blog announcement. There, you can leave a comment, follow the links to the book's webpage which includes the foreword, preface, introduction, notes and bibliography; I'll also link to reviews and interviews. Stay tuned to the blog for information about the upcoming book talk. http://reagle.org/joseph/blog/social/wikipedia/annc-good-faith-collaboration Feel free to forward this announcement and forgive me if I've sent a duplicate or sent it too far afield. ___________________________________________ Good Faith Collaboration The Culture of Wikipedia Joseph Michael Reagle Jr. Foreword by Lawrence Lessig The MIT Press, Cambridge, MA. Wikipedia's style of collaborative production has been lauded, lambasted, and satirized. Despite unease over its implications for the character (and quality) of knowledge, Wikipedia has brought us closer than ever to a realization of the century-old pursuit of a universal encyclopedia. Good Faith Collaboration: The Culture of Wikipedia is a rich ethnographic portrayal of Wikipedia's historical roots, collaborative culture, and much debated legacy.

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After: "Internet, Politics, Policy 2010: An Impact Assessment" Conference
by Andrea Calderaro 20 Sep '10

20 Sep '10

Hi all, This might interest most of you: http://microsites.oii.ox.ac.uk/ipp2010/ Great event at the Oxford Internet Institute, and interesting papers downloadable from the "papers' section". Best, Andrea _________________________________ Andrea Calderaro Department of Social and Political Sciences European University Institute Italy Lecturer "New Media and International Relations" Department of Communication University "La Sapienza" of Rome ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- PERSONAL PAGE: http://www.eui.eu/Personal/Researchers/calderaro CV: http://www.eui.eu/Personal/Researchers/calderaro/CalderaroCV.pdf Please don't print this e-mail unless you really need to.

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Re: [Air-L] Virtual worlds as not just a new medium (CarrieLynn D. Reinhard)
by Matthew Bernius 19 Sep '10

19 Sep '10

Carrielynn, If I understand what you are asking for -- papers positing Virtual Worlds as extensions of existing mediums and embodied experiences -and critiquing arguments that attempt to section them off as something "new" - take a look at Being in the World (of Warcraft): Raiding, Realism, and Knowledge Production in a MMORPG by Alex Golub: http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/anthropological_quarterly/summary/v083/83.1.go… You might also be interested in the work of Thomas Malaby and his ethnography of Linden Labs: *Making Virtual Worlds: Linden Lab and Second Life*. May 2009, Cornell University Press. On a slightly parallel track there's also the work of Jennifer Riskin which traces the historical roots of simulation, which Malaby for example ties heavily into his analysis of LL/2ndLife: Riskin, J. (2003). The Defecating Duck, or, the Ambiguous Origins of Artificial Life. *Critical Inquiry*, *29*(4), 599-633. doi: 10.1086/377722. Hope these help, - Matt <http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/anthropological_quarterly/summary/v083/83.1.go…> ----------------------------- Matthew Bernius PhD Student | Cultural Anthropology | Cornell University | http://www.arts.cornell.edu/anthro/ Researcher At Large | Open Publishing Lab @ the Rochester Institute of Technology | http://opl.cias.rit.edu | @ritopl mBernius(a)gMail.com | http://www.waking-dream.com | @mattBernius On Sun, Sep 19, 2010 at 6:00 PM, <air-l-request(a)listserv.aoir.org> wrote: > "CarrieLynn D. Reinhard" <carrie(a)ruc.dk> >

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