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Web 2.0 | Web Qubed | The Quantum Web
by McKiernan, Gerard [LIB] 19 Mar '09

19 Mar '09

Web 2.0 | Web Qubed | The Quantum Web Colleagues/ I am pleased to announce the availability of a Revised and Corrected Version of My Presentation given earlier this month at the Web 2.0 and Libraries / Seminar / Rome, Italy / March 6 2008 >> The Participatory Web: Web 2.0 and The Future of The Library << As characterized by Wikipedia, "'Web 2.0' describes the changing trends in the use of World Wide Web technology and web design that aim to enhance creativity, communications, secure information sharing, collaboration and functionality of the web" [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_2.0] Such 'participatory' technologies include not only blogging (e.g. Blogger), photo-sharing (e.g. Flickr), social bookmarking (e.g. Delicious), but folksonomies (e.g., tagging), online social networks (e.g., Facebook), video-sharing (e.g., YouTube), and wikis (e.g., Wikipedia). In this presentation we provide an overview of several significant Web 2.0 technologies and profile numerous examples of libraries worldwide that have implemented these interactive technologies in their efforts to enhance collaboration and communication with their respective communities. We conclude with a profile of discussion of WebQubed - The Mixed and Mashed Web / MixedUp Web AND introduce the >> Quantum Web << , our vision of the future of the Web after WebQubed. [Given The Recent Article/Report About The Map Of Knowledge [ http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/16/science/16visuals.html] I Don't Think That _The Quantum Web_ Is That FarOut ... [:-)] !!! I Wish To Thank : The Seminar Sponsors - CASPUR /CIBER AIB Lazio, AIDA, CILEA, FAO and University of Rome Three Library System for their support AND The Seminar Organizers - Paola Gargiulo (CASPUR), Andrea Marchitelli (CILEA) and Imma Subirats (FAO of the United Nations) for The Opportunity To Present !!! The PPT For The Presentation Is Available From [ http://tinyurl.com/dzpa99 ] I Would Most Appreciate Any And All Comments/Reactions/Contributions / Etc. About The Presentation As Well About WebQubed or The Quantum Web BTW: Happy St. Patrick's Day / I'm 100% Irish (American); At Least 10% Italian ; And At Least 10% Spanish .. [:-)] Enjoy /Gerry Gerry McKiernan Associate Professor Science and Technology Librarian Iowa State University Library Ames IA 50011 gerrymck(a)iastate.edu There is Nothing More Powerful Than An Idea Whose Time Has Come / Victor Hugo [ http://www.blogger.com/profile/09093368136660604490 ] Iowa: Where the Tall Corn Flows and the (North)West Wind Blows [ http://alternativeenergyblogs.blogspot.com/ ]

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Fwd: Call for Applications Fall ‘09 Admissions UvA New Media MA
by mpstevenson＠gmail.com 19 Mar '09

19 Mar '09

Begin forwarded message: > > > The New Media International MA program at UvA has issued a call for > applications for students who would like to begin study in Fall 2009. > We already have an impressive pool of applicants and encourage > additional applications in order to recruit the best incoming class. > Please feel free to share with colleagues and friends who may be > interested and who would make a valuable contribution to the program. > > Direct link to the .pdf of the call for applications: > http://mastersofmedia.hum.uva.nl/fall09cfa/ > > Overview > The International M.A. in New Media & Digital Culture (NMMA) at the > University of Amsterdam (UvA) is accepting applications for the > 2009-2010 academic year. The NMMA is a one-year residence program > undertaken in English at UvA in the heart of Amsterdam. Students > become actively engaged in critical Internet culture, with an emphasis > on new media theory and aesthetics, including theoretical materialist > traditions and practical information visualization trends. Our > permanent faculty are recognized experts in their fields, and > committed to their students. The program admits up to forty students > per year, classes are no larger than 20 and typically smaller, and the > faculty-to-student ratio is 1:8. > > Curriculum > The curriculum has two complementary tracks that all students follow: > the theoretical track (New Media Theories and Digital Aesthetics) and > the practical-empirical track (Academic Blogging, Digital Research > Methods and Information Visualization). The final thesis, a > contribution to digital media studies, rounds out the program. > > 1st Semester: students follow a practical course in academic blogging, > led by Internet theorist and tactical media practitioner Geert Lovink. > Their entries generate the internationally noted Masters of Media > site, which currently has the high authority ranking of 43 on > Technorati (http://mastersofmedia.hum.uva.nl/) The concurrent new > media theories course focuses on classic texts by innovators from Alan > Turing to Tim Berners-Lee. The final first semester class, Digital > Research Methods, trains students in new techniques for studying the > Internet (http://www.digitalmethods.net/) > > 2nd Semester: the student chooses between courses on digital > aesthetics or information visualization, the former more theoretically > inclined in the traditions of art history and visual culture, and the > latter a joint practical-empirical collaboration between designers, > programmers and analysts, where the product is an online tool or > digital visualization. The course of study concludes with the M.A. > thesis, an original analysis that makes a contribution to the field, > undertaken with the close mentorship of a faculty supervisor. The > graduation ceremony includes an international symposium with renowned > speakers. Graduates of the NMMA have gained an analytical and > practical skill-set that enables diverse careers in research and > practice-related areas that make use of the Internet, including > business, government, NGOs, and creative industries that are evolving > with emerging new media. Our graduates include Bauke Freiburg, > Founder of Fab Channel and Eva Kol, whose MA thesis, Hyves, was > published by Kosmos in 2008 and sold over 5000 copies its first year > in print. > > Student Life > The quality-of-living in Amsterdam ranks among the highest of > international capitals. UvA’s competitive tuition (see below) and the > ubiquity of spoken English both on and off-campus make the program > especially accommodating for foreign students. The city’s many venues, > festivals, and other events provide remarkably rich cultural offerings > and displays of technological innovation. The program has ties to > organizations including PICNIC, the Waag Society, Mediamatic, Virtueel > Platform, Netherlands Institute for Media Art, and other cultural > institutions. Students attend and blog, twitter or otherwise capture > local events, while commenting as well on larger international issues > and trends pertaining to new media. The quality of student life is > equally to be found in the university’s lively and varied intellectual > climate. NMMA students come from North and South America, Africa, and > across Europe and from academic and professional backgrounds including > journalism, art and design, engineering, marketing, the humanities and > social sciences. > > Faculty > Richard Rogers, Professor and Chair. Web Epistemology. Publications > include Information Politics on the Web (MIT, 2004/2005), awarded > American Society for Information Science and Technology’s 2005 Best > Information Science Book of the Year Award. Founding director of > govcom.org. http://www.govcom.org/publications.html > > Geert Lovink, Associate Professor. Critical Internet theory, Tactical > Media. Publications include Zero Comments: Blogging and Critical > Internet Culture (Routledge, 2007). Co-founder nettime list (1995 – > present); founder, Institute of Network Cultures, 2004. > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geert_Lovink > > Jan Simons, Associate Professor. Mobile Culture, Gaming, Film Theory. > Publications include Playing The Waves: Lars von Trier's Game Cinema > (U Amsterdam P, 2007). Project Director, Mobile Learning Game Kit, > Senior Member, Digital Games research group. > http://home.medewerker.uva.nl/j.a.a.simons/ > > Yuri Engelhardt, Assistant Professor. Computer modeling and > information visualization. Publications include The Language of > Graphics (2002); founder and moderator of InfoDesign (1995-9); > co-developer of Future Planet Studies at UvA. http://www.yuriweb.com/ > > Edward Shanken, Assistant Professor. Digital aesthetics, visual > culture. Publications include Art and Electronic Media (Phaidon, > 2009) and Telematic Embrace: Visionary Theories of Art, Technology and > Consciousness (U Cal P, 2003). http://artexetra.com > > Application and Deadline > 1 April for Fall 2009. Applicants will be notified around 15 June. > Applications received after 1 April may be considered if places are > available. See > http://www.studeren.uva.nl/application_and_accreditation for details. > > More Info & Questions > > • International M.A. in New Media & Digital Culture - University > of Amsterdam: > http://www.studeren.uva.nl/ma_new_media/ > • Graduate School for Humanities General Information: > http://www.hum.uva.nl/gs/ > > • Tuition and Fees: http://www.studeren.uva.nl/finance > > • Further general questions? Please write to UvA’s Graduate > School of > the Humanities, graduateschoolhumanities-fgw “at” uva.nl. > > • Specific questions about the curriculum? Please write to > Richard > Rogers, Chair in New Media & Digital Culture, University of Amsterdam, > rogers “at” uva.nl. > > > -- > Edward Shanken > Universitair Docent, New Media > Department of Media Studies > University of Amsterdam > Turfdraagsterpad 9 > 1012XT Amsterdam NL > email: e.a.shanken(a)uva.nl > http://mastersofmedia.hum.uva.nl/ > > personal webpage: http://artexetra.com > > _______________________________________________ > mastersofmedia mailing list > mastersofmedia(a)listcultures.org > http://listcultures.org/mailman/listinfo/mastersofmedia_listcultures.org

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Ethics of e-research workshop
by Anne Beaulieu 19 Mar '09

19 Mar '09

Ethics of (e)research: a one-day course for PhD students, post-doctoral and other researchers, organized by the Virtual Knowledge Studio in collaboration with the KNAW. Date and location: Monday 15 June 2009, at the KNAW, Trippenhuis, Amsterdam. In this one-day event, participants will have the opportunity to examine their own research practices from an ethical perspective and to learn about current approaches to research ethics. The workshop will enable researchers to identify and analyze ethical issues that arise in the course of their own research, whether relating to empirical material and sources, to analysis or to publication and dissemination. They will also become familiar with a range of mechanisms that support ethical research practices (codes of conduct, consent forms, ethical audits, etc.). The workshop will contribute to the development of skills to deal with ethical dilemmas and increase researchers’ confidence in undertaking research in novel settings or using new tools. Such a workshop is especially timely because the ethical dimensions of research are receiving more attention from national and transnational funding agencies and professional association.. More details about the content and background of this event can be found aon the vks website and here: http://vksethno.wordpress.com/2009/03/13/ethics-of-eresearch/. Registration: Please contact Anja de Haas (anja.dehaas(a)vks.knaw.nl <mailto:anja.dehaas@vks.knaw.nl> ) to register. Deadline for registration is 8 May 2009. Cost: €50, includes participation, course materials, lunch and breaks; or €75, also including dinner Number of participants: maximum 16, to ensure a discussion-oriented format Contact : Prof. S. Wyatt (sally.wyatt(a)vks.knaw.nl <mailto:sally.wyatt@vks.knaw.nl> ) or Dr. A. Beaulieu (anne.beaulieu(a)vks.knaw.nl <mailto:anne.beaulieu@vks.knaw.nl> ) Dr Anne Beaulieu Senior Research Fellow and Deputy Programme Leader Virtual Knowledge Studio, KNAW Amsterdam, The Netherlands www.virtualknowledgestudio.nl +31 20 850-0277 Blog: vksethno.wordpress.com

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2nd International Workshop on University Web Rankings 2009
by Isidro F. Aguillo 18 Mar '09

18 Mar '09

The Cybermetrics Lab of Spanish Research Council (CSIC) invites you to the 2nd edition of the Workshop on University Web Rankings. For this event, the editors of the Ranking Web of World Universities (www.webometrics.info) are hosting other publishers of World Ranking of Universities (Scimago, Leiden, QS-THES) for a morning panel. The afternoon is reserved to the practical session about good practices on web presence of academic organizations. Attendance to the Workshop is open and free, but registration is required in advance (laptop for practical session is needed). Please use the Registry Form: http://www.webometrics.info/Webometrics%20library/Webometrics%20conference%… * * *2nd International Workshop on University Web Rankings 2009 * April 20th, 2009 Centro de Ciencias Humanas y Sociales (CCHS), Madrid Albasanz 26-28 28037 Madrid. Spain *Agenda * *9:00-9:30 Reception and registration* *9:30-13:00 Rankings of universities: Worldwide experiences* *The Scimago World Ranking *Felix de Moya (Scimago Group-CSIC). *The Leiden Ranking *Martijn Visser (Leiden University).** *The Ranking Web *Isidro F. Aguillo (CybermetricsLab-CSIC).** *The QS-THE Ranking *Ben Sowter (QS) *Discussion* *13:30-15:30 Lunch (not provided)* *15:30-18:00 Web indicators: A methodological approach* *Practical session *Isidro F. Aguillo (CybermetricsLab-CSIC). -- ************************************* Isidro F. Aguillo Cybermetrics Lab CCHS - CSIC Albasanz, 26-28, 3C1. 28037 Madrid. Spain Ph. 91-602 2890. Fax: 91-602 2971 isidro.aguillo @ cchs.csic.es www. webometrics.info *************************************

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myBlogS 2009 - Malaysian Blog Survey
by Julian Hopkins 17 Mar '09

17 Mar '09

Hello All, Apologies for any cross posting; this is just to inform you of an online survey that forms part of my PhD research for Monash University. The focus of the research is the monetisation of the Malaysian blogosphere. It is for anyone who reads Malaysian blogs - I assume that does not include most of the people on this list, but I would be grateful if you forward this information on to anyone you think may fit that category :) You can access it here - www.budurl.com/myblogs2009, and get more information here - http://julianhopkins.net. It will take about 5-10 minutes for a blog reader, or 10-15 minutes for a blogger, and will remain online until the 10th April. Any feedback or comments are also most welcome. Thanks and regards, Julian ++++++++++ Blog: www.julianhopkins.net Skype: julhop IM: jfprhopkins(a)hotmail.com

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Scientific report 'Young People and Emerging Digital Services'
by Alexandra.HACHE＠ec.europa.eu 17 Mar '09

17 Mar '09

Dear all [and apologies for cross posting] I have the pleasure to announce that our Scientific report 'Young People and Emerging Digital Services' has been published. It is found at http://ipts.jrc.ec.europa.eu/publications/pub.cfm?id=2119 <http://ipts.jrc.ec.europa.eu/publications/pub.cfm?id=2119> This study, conducted by the Institute for Prospective Technological Studies (IPTS), presents the results of a four-country survey of young Europeans’ attitudes to digital identity (eID) and future eID-enabled services. The study aims to remedy the lack of EU evidence on eID services perceptions. It is innovative in many respects: - It focuses on young people [15-25], rather than children or adults; - It targets multiple EU countries [France, Germany, Spain, UK]; - It works with four large national samples [total number of respondents = 5,265]; - It examines eID service scenarios [4 scenarios]; - It retrieves data relevant to policy making. Based on the opinions of more than five thousand young Europeans, the study demonstrates what aspects of eID and eID services can be measured via a large-scale survey – among them take up, trust, privacy, responsibility, and data control. The full reference is: Lusoli, W., & Miltgen, C. (2009). Young People and Emerging Digital Services. An Exploratory Survey on Motivations, Perceptions and Acceptance of Risks (JRC Scientific and Technical Reports EUR 23765 EN). W. Lusoli, R. Compañó & I. Maghiros (Eds.) Sevilla: EC JRC IPTS. Available from <http://ftp.jrc.es/EURdoc/JRC50089.pdf <http://ftp.jrc.es/EURdoc/JRC50089.pdf> >. Of course, your comments and thoughts are most appreciated. Kind regards Wainer [on behalf of the eID team] Dr Wainer Lusoli Information Society Unit European Commission - Joint Research Centre (JRC) Institute for Prospective Technological Studies (IPTS) Sevilla - Spain E wainer.lusoli(a)ec.europa.eu T 0034 954 488 271 W http://ipts.jrc.ec.europa.eu <http://ipts.jrc.ec.europa.eu/> <http://ipts.jrc.ec.europa.eu/ <http://ipts.jrc.ec.europa.eu/> > W2 http://www.lusoli.info <http://www.lusoli.info/> <http://www.lusoli.info/ <http://www.lusoli.info/> > W3 http://del.icio.us/lusoli <http://del.icio.us/lusoli> European Commission - DG JRC - Institute for Prospective Technological Studies Edificio EXPO - C/ Inca Garcilaso, s/n - E-41092 Sevilla tel: +34 95 448 83 45 fax: +34 95 4488 208 www: http://www.jrc.es <http://www.jrc.es/> <blocked::http://www.jrc.es/> http://is.jrc.ec.europa.eu/pages/EAP/eInclusion.html

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CfP: Digital Cities 6: Concepts, Methods and Systems of Urban Informatics
by Marcus Foth 16 Mar '09

16 Mar '09

Second Call for Papers (please note the workshop has moved to the 24th June) Digital Cities 6: Concepts, Methods and Systems of Urban Informatics Workshop at the 4th International Conference on Communities and Technologies Penn State, USA, 24th June 2009 April 16th, 2009 Workshop position papers due May 18th, 2009 Author notifications sent June 24th, 2009 Workshop http://cct2009.ist.psu.edu/workshops.cfm Keynote speaker We are happy to announce that Professor Carlo Ratti, Director of the SENSEable City Lab at MIT (senseable.mit.edu) will deliver the keynote presentation at Digital Cities 6. The real-time city is now real! The increasing deployment of sensors and hand-held electronics in recent years is allowing a new approach to the study of the built environment. The way we describe and understand cities is being radically transformed - alongside the tools we use to design them and impact on their physical structure. Studying these changes from a critical point of view and anticipating them is the goal of the SENSEable City Laboratory, a new research initiative at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 1 Theme Transport grids, building complexes, information and communication technology, social networks and people form the bones, organs, muscles, nerves and cell tissue of a city. Studying the organisation and structure of these systems may seem straightforward at first, since there are visible artifacts and tangible objects that we can observe and examine. We can count the number of cars on the road, the number of apartments in a building, the number of emails on our computer screens and the number of profiles on social networking sites. We could also qualify these observations by recording the make and model of cars, the size and price of apartments, the sender and recipient of emails and the content and popularity of online profiles. This approach would potentially produce a large amount of data and render a detailed map of various levels of a city’s infrastructure, but a large quantity of detail does not necessarily result in a great quality (and clarity) of meaning. How do we analyse this data to better understand the ‘city’ as an organism? How do the cells of the city cluster to form tissue and organs, and how do various systems communicate and interact with each other? And, recognising that we ourselves are cells living in cities as active agents, how do we evaluate the effectiveness and efficiency of the processes we observe in order to plan, design and develop more livable cities? A macroscopic perspective of urban anatomy does not easily reveal those meticulous details which are necessary to help us understand and appreciate what Anthony Townsend calls the urban metabolism (Townsend, 2000), that is, the nutrients, capacities, processes and pace which nurture the city to keep it alive. Some of the fascination with human anatomy stems from the fact that a living body is more than the sum of its parts. Similarly, the city is more than the sum of its physical elements. Trying to get to the bottom of a city’s existence, urban anatomists have to become dissectors of urban infrastructure by trying to microscopically uncover the connections and interrelationships of city elements. Yet, this is anything but trivial for at least three reasons. First, time is a crucial factor. Many events that trigger urban processes involving multiple systems result in a timely interrelated response. A dissection by isolating one system from another, would cut the communication link between them and jeopardise the study of the wider process. The city comprises many of these real- time systems and requires approaches and tools to conduct real-time examinations. Second, the physical city is increasingly complemented with a virtual layer that digitally augments and enhances urban infrastructures by means of information and communication technology including mobile and wireless networks. This world, which Mitchell (1995) called the ‘city of bits,’ is invisible to the human eye, and we require instruments for live surgery to render the invisible visible. Third and most importantly, the ‘cells’ of the urban body, the lifeblood of cities, are the city dwellers who have a life of their own and who introduce human fuzziness and socio-cultural variables to the study of the city. The toolbox of what could be termed anthropological urban anatomy thus calls for research approaches that can differentiate (and break apart) a universally applicable model of ‘The City’ by being sensitive to individual circumstances, local characteristics and socio-cultural contexts. Exploring these three challenges, this workshop looks at concepts, research methods and instruments that become the microscope of urban anatomy. We want to discuss urban informatics systems that provide real-time tools for examining the real-time city, to picture the invisible and to zoom into a fine-grained resolution of urban environments that reveal the depth and contextual nuances of urban metabolism processes at work. 2 Topics Relevant workshop topics include but are not limited to the following: • Civic and community engagement strategies to support urban planning • Public sphere, participation and online deliberation systems • Urban e-government, e-governance, e-participation, e-democracy approaches • u-City: Ubiquitous computing, pervasive technology, wireless internet and mobile applications • Locative media, navigation and space • Urban informatics design and development methods and epistemologies • Multi-format user-generated content (narratives, photos, videos, multimedia) • Neogeography and 3D virtual environments for urban design and planning • Simulations to reproduce and analyse complex social phenomena and city systems • Social networking, collective intelligence and crowd sourcing in the urban context • Environmental, economic and social sustainability • Citizen science • Access, trust, privacy, safety and surveillance • Implications for residential architecture and the design of cities and public spaces • Ethical considerations scrutinizing the assumptions behind urban informatics 3 Organisation and Submission Details This is a full day workshop. We will start off with a keynote address by an eminent speaker. Rather than formal conference-style paper presentations, we will follow the successful peer interview format and ask each participant to interview another contributing author. Pairs will be assigned in advance to prepare questions and engage with the paper. After lunch, there will be a range of group activities and a closing plenary discussion at the end. The workshop can accommodate a maximum number of between 25 to 30 participants including presenters in order to provide an environment that is conducive to debate and interaction. We are interested in three types of contributions: Concepts: Essay style papers discussing theoretical and conceptual ideas and innovation within a cross-disciplinary framework. Methods: Papers reporting on novel approaches in the area of urban informatics, e.g. network action research, shared visual ethnography, urban probes, cross-disciplinary methods, etc. Systems: Reports of systems and case studies that ground findings in practice and experience. Prospective participants are asked to submit a position paper (2-4 pages total, in English, ACM SIGCHI 2-column format, same as for the C&T full papers) related to one of the workshop topics. Each submission should also include a short biography stating the author’s background and motivation for attending the workshop. Workshop position papers are due on April 16th, 2009 and will be reviewed and selected by the organisers with the support from an international program committee. Accepted authors will be notified by May 18th, 2009 – to leave enough time to qualify for the early bird conference registration. The acceptance of a workshop position paper implies that at least one of the authors will register for both the workshop and the Communities & Technologies 2009 conference. The workshop takes place on June 24th, 2009. After the workshop, selected contributors are invited to submit a full paper by October 1st, 2009. Full papers will undergo double blind peer review before being published. Arrangements for an edited book or a special issue of a relevant international journal are currently underway. Template: http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates 4 Bibliography Each Digital Cities workshop has produced an edited volume containing selected workshop papers and other invited contributions as follows: Digital Cities 5 -- Foth, M. (Ed.) (2009). Handbook of Research on Urban Informatics: The Practice and Promise of the Real-Time City. Hershey, PA: Information Science Reference, IGI Global. Digital Cities 4 -- Aurigi, A., & De Cindio, F. (Eds.). (2008). Augmented Urban Spaces: Articulating the Physical and Electronic City. Aldershot, UK: Ashgate. Digital Cities 3 -- van den Besselaar, P., & Koizumi, S. (Eds.). (2005). Digital Cities 3: Information Technologies for Social Capital (Lecture Notes in Computer Science No. 3081). Heidelberg, Germany: Springer. Digital Cities 2 -- Tanabe, M., van den Besselaar, P., & Ishida, T. (Eds.). (2002). Digital Cities 2: Computational and Sociological Approaches (Lecture Notes in Computer Science No. 2362). Heidelberg, Germany: Springer. Digital Cities 1 -- Ishida, T., & Isbister, K. (Eds.). (2000). Digital Cities: Technologies, Experiences, and Future Perspectives (Lecture Notes in Computer Science No. 1765). Heidelberg, Germany: Springer. 5 Organisers Marcus Foth Senior Research Fellow, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia m.foth(a)qut.edu.au Laura Forlano Kauffman Fellow in Law, Yale Law School, New Haven, USA laura.forlano(a)yale.edu Hiromitsu Hattori Assistant Professor, Department of Social Informatics, Kyoto University, Japan hatto(a)i.kyoto-u.ac.jp -- Dr Marcus Foth Senior Research Fellow Institute for Creative Industries and Innovation Queensland University of Technology (CRICOS No. 00213J) Creative Industries Precinct, Brisbane QLD 4059, Australia Phone +61 7 313 x88772 - Fax x88195 - Office Z6-511 m.foth(a)qut.edu.au - http://www.vrolik.de/publications/

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Mindtrek Conference 2009 - Call for Papers
by Olli Sotamaa 16 Mar '09

16 Mar '09

Feel free to redistribute. ===================================================================================== ACM Academic MindTrek 2009: Everyday Life in the Ubiquitous Era Call for Papers, Tutorials and Workshops September 30th – 2nd October, 2009 Tampere, Finland http://www.mindtrek.org, http://www.mindtrek.org/academic In cooperation with ACM, ACM SIGMM and ACM SIGCHI publications will be published in the ACM digital library and a selected set of high-level contributions will published as book chapters or in journals ===================================================================================== Academic MindTrek 2009 Call for Papers, Tutorials and Workshops We are pleased to invite you to the Academic MindTrek conference from September 30th – 2nd October, which brings together a cross-disciplinary crowd of people to investigate current and emerging topics of media in the ubiquitous arena. Media to be discussed range from business, social and technical to content-related topics. September 30th is the main Academic day, featuring the following three tracks: * Social Media Social media and Web 2.0 technologies are applied in ever diverse practices both in private and public communities. Traditional communication and expression modalities are challenged and totally new practices are constructed in the collaborative, interactive media space; * Ambient and Ubiquitous Media “The medium is the message!” – This conference track focuses on the definition of ambient and ubiquitous media with a cross-disciplinary viewpoint: ambient media between technology, art, and content. The focus of this track is on applications, theory, art-works, mixed reality concepts, the Web 3.0, and user experiences that make ubiquitous and ambient media tick; * Digital Games Digital play and games are currently undergoing many transformations: gaming devices are becoming truly connected, players are finding more possibilities for collaboration, and simultaneously games are being applied into novel uses and mobile use contexts. In addition, special academic sessions (e.g. tutorials, workshops, and multidisciplinary sessions) will be held on Oct 1st & 2nd, parallel to the MindTrek business conference. Academic speakers and authors are warmly welcome to attend the business conference tracks as part of the academic conference fee during these days as well. The MindTrek Association hosts MindTrek as a yearly conference, where the Academic MindTrek conference has been a part of this unique set of events comprising competitions, world famous keynote speakers, plenary sessions, media festivals, and workshops since 1997. It is a meeting place where experts and thinkers present results from their latest work regarding the development of Internet, interactive media, and the information society. MindTrek brings together researchers and practitioners from diverse disciplines that are involved in the development of media in various fields, ranging from sociology and the economy, to technology. The organizing committee invites you to submit original high quality full papers, long or short, addressing the special theme and the topics, for presentation at the conference and inclusion in the proceedings. We are interested in contributions in the topic areas social media, ambient/ubiquitous media, and games 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 - scientific, business, or media oriented contributions - proposals for own workshops. Paper Proposals All submissions will be peer-reviewed double blinded, therefore please remove any information that could give an indication of the authorship. The scientific part of the conference is organized in cooperation with ACM SIGMM, and ‘ACM SIGCHI. Conference proceedings will be published in the ACM Digital Library. Selected high quality papers will be published in international journals, as book chapters, edited books, or via open access journals. There will also be a reward for the overall best paper from the academic conference. Workshop Proposals Feel free to suggest workshops which are co-organized with MindTrek 2009. Workshop proposals should include the organizing committee, a 1 page description of the theme of the workshop, a short CV of organizers, duration, the proceedings publisher, and the schedule. Workshop organizers also have the possibility to add publications to the main conference proceedings. Tutorial Proposals Tutorial proposals should include a 2-page description of the tutorial, intended audience, a short CV, timetable, required equipment, references, and a track record of previous tutorials. The target length of tutorials is 2 hours. Submission Deadlines - 15th May 2009: submission of tutorial and workshop proposals - 31st May 2009: submissions of long papers (6-8 pages) - 15th June 2009: submission of short papers (3-4 pages) - 30th June 2009: submission of poster presentations (1 page) - 15th July 2009: submission of workshop papers for accepted workshops Key-Dates - 25th May 2009: notification of acceptance/rejection of workshop and tutorial proposals - 15th July 2009: notification of acceptance/rejection for long and short papers - 10th August 2009: camera ready papers, copyright forms, and conference registration - 30th September – 2nd October 2009 MindTrek academic conference Conference Themes 1. Social Media - business models, service models, and policies - questions related to identity, motivation and values - blogs, wikis, collaboration and social platform designs in practice - user-created content and social networks - mashups - enterprise 2.0 and social computing in work organizations - evaluation and research methods of social media - ‘old’ and ‘new’ social media - social media and community design 2. Ambient and Ubiquitous Media - between Technology, Services, and Art - applications and services utilizing ubiquitous and pervasive technology - ubicom in eLearning, leisure, storytelling, art works, advertising, and mixed reality contexts - next generation user interfaces, ergonomics, multimodality, and human-computer interaction - art works for smart public or indoor spaces, mobile phones, museums, or cultural applications - context awareness, sensor perception, context sensitive internet, and smart daily objects - personalization, multimodal interaction, smart user interfaces, and ergonomics - ambient human computer interaction, experience design, usability, and audience research - software, hardware, middleware, and technologies for pervasive and ubiquitous - theoretical methods and algorithms in ubiquitous and ambient systems - business models, service models, media economics, regulations, x-commerce, and policies 3. Digital Games - theoretical and analytical studies of games and play - game design research - playful experiences in and around games: social play and funware - non-entertainment uses for games: serious games, persuasive games - games as services: new business models, service models - games and user-created content - pervasive and ubiquitous gaming - online, mobile, casual and cross-media gaming Paper Submission - Please follow the style guidelines on http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates for formatting your position paper and final paper. - Note that since the papers will be published by ACM, all authors need to sign an ACM copyright form. (For further guidelines see: http://www.acm.org/pubs/copyright_form.html) Submit papers here www.mindtrek.org/cfp Organizing Committee Artur Lugmayr (General Chair) Heljä Franssila, Olli Sotamaa, Jukka Vanhala (Conference Co-chairs) Pertti Näränen (Workshop and Tutorial Chair) Karen Thorburn (Local Arrangements Chair) Programme Committee Pradeep K.Atrey, The University of Winnipeg, CANADA Staffan Björk, Chalmers University of Technology, SWEDEN Peter A Bruck, CEO and Chief Researcher of Research Studios Austria, AUSTRIA Irek Defee, Tampere University of Technology (TUT), FINLAND Nicole Ellison, Michigan State University, USA Jussi Holopainen, Nokia, FINLAND Abdelmagid Salem Hammuda, Qatar University, QATAR Sal Humphreys, Queensland University of Technology, (QUT), AUSTRALIA Aki Järvinen, IT University of Copenhagen, DENMARK Juha Kaario, NOKIA, FINLAND Jan Kallenbach, Helsinki University of Technology (HUT), FINLAND Jonas Kronlund, ELISA, FINLAND Kai Kuikkaniemi, HIIT - Helsinki Institute for Information Technology, FINLAND Cai Melakoski, TAMK University of Applied Sciences, FINLAND Frans Mäyrä, University of Tampere (UTA), FINLAND Marko Nieminen, Helsinki University of Technology (HUT), FINLAND Marianna Obrist, ICT & S Centre, University of Salzburg, AUSTRIA Hannu Paunonen, Metso Automation, FINLAND Matthias Rauterberg, Eindhoven University of Technology, NETHERLANDS Calin Rusu, Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, ROMANIA Antti Salovaara, Helsinki Institute for Information Technology (HIIT), FINLAND Kirsi Silius, Tampere University of Technology (TUT), FINLAND Manfred Tscheligi, ICT & S Centre, University of Salzburg, AUSTRIA Kaisa Väänänen-Vainio-Mattila, Tampere University of Technology (TUT), Finland Annika Waern, Swedish Institute of Computer Science, SWEDEN Karsten D.Wolf, University of Bremen, GERMANY Zhiwen Yu, Kyoto University, JAPAN Contact Questions concerning academic content, papers, tutorials, workshops, scientific contributions: Email: academic.chairs (at) mindtrek.org General questions concerning payments, administration, copyright forms, local arrangements, and the venue: Email: academic.info (at) mindtrek.org Submit papers here www.mindtrek.org/cfp Further Information http://www.mindtrek.org Supported by: City of Tampere, Nokia Oyj, Ubiquitous Computing Cluster, Tampere University of Technology, Tampere University, TAMK University of Applied Sciences, Technology Centre Hermia, Neogames, Digibusiness cluster, Sombiz and COSS The Finnish Centre for Open Source Solutions.

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FW: Prato 2009: Call to Papers: Community Informatics Practice
by Raffl, Celina 16 Mar '09

16 Mar '09

Apologize for cross-posting: CALL FOR PAPERS: CIRN 2009: Empowering communities: learning from community informatics practice. 4-6 November 2009 Monash University Prato Centre, Italy. For more information, or to submit an abstract for a referred or non-refereed paper, the PhD colloquium, a workshop or a poster session, please go to www.ccnr.prato2009/ CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT & CALL FOR PAPERS We are seeking abstracts and proposals from academics, practitioners and PhD students for this exciting conference and workshop event at the Monash University Centre, Prato Italy (near Florence). The Centre for Community Networking Research, Monash (www.ccnr.net) in conjunction with the Community Informatics Research Network (www.ciresearch.net) and sponsors has held highly successful annual events since 2003, as well as associated workshops over the years, in the UK, France, and Portugal. The conference has an increasing representation of delegates from Francophone and Spanish-speaking countries, and we welcome your attendance. While the official conference language is English, if there are sufficient papers for either language, language-specific sessions will be arranged. This conference is also being run in conjunction with the IDIA2009 Conference 28-30 October 2009 Kruger National Park, South Africa, Digitally Empowering Communities: Learning from Development Informatics Practice, KEY DATES * 1 April 2009: abstracts due for consideration - the earlier the better. * 1 May 2009 : acceptance/rejection of abstracts. Refereed papers are blind peer reviewed. * 1 July 2009 : papers due * 1 September 2009: final version of papers after blind peer review (for academic papers) for publication in the official conference proceedings. MAIN THEME The idea of 'empowerment' has a number of special connotations in the Community Informatics space. Community Informatics is an approach to empowering communities with information and communication technologies. There is a widespread expectation that Community Informatics will enhance democracy, develop social capital, build communities, develop economies and empower individuals and groups, and result in many different forms of social change. Community Informatics, in bringing together communities and technologies, works across at least three dimensions, though there may be others which are relevant. * The Context and Values held by different stakeholders in Community Informatics * The Processes and Methodologies which are brought to bear in Community Informatics * The Systems (both technical and human) which are brought to bear in Community Informatics We use cases or examples of projects and programs to consider the intersection between these three dimensions. The different interpretations that can be given to the concept of 'empowerment' gives rise to a number key questions about the relationships between the different dimensions of community informatics and how we describe and analyze the communities and cases we work with. Keynotes will be delivered by Aldo de Moor (Community Sense, Netherlands) and Leopoldina Fortunati (Univ. of Udine, Italy). COST: Registration will be approximately 310eu, with substantial reductions for PhD students and delegates from developing countries. Costs include first class Italian catering. SPONSORS:Monash University; CIS University of Washington; Turabo University; SLIS, University of Illinois-Champaign; SLIS, Marseilles. Other inquiries-- prato2009 AT fastmail.fm Larry Stillman--for the Conference ------ Ende der weitergeleiteten Nachricht

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Mobile Communications Research in Latin America/South Africa
by Eduardo Villanueva 15 Mar '09

15 Mar '09

Andrew, The people at Dirsi (www.dirsi.net) have conducted very interesting research on mobile phones, mostly, but also some on mobile internet, in Latin America. You should check out their work. Eduardo Villanueva Mansilla Associate Professor, Department of Communications Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú www.eduardovillanueva.com

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