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Couch Award DEADLINE EXTENDED
by Mark D. Johns 01 Apr '09

01 Apr '09

Carl J. Couch Internet Research Award 2009 DEADLINE EXTENDED TO MAY 15 Sponsored by the Carl Couch Center for Social and Internet Research http://www.cccsir.org/ The Carl Couch Center has extended the deadline on its annual call for student-authored papers to be considered for Carl J. Couch Internet Research Award. The Couch Center welcomes both theoretical and empirical papers that (1) apply symbolic interactionist approaches to Internet studies, (2) demonstrate interactive relationships between social interaction and communication technologies as advocated by Couch, and/or (3) develop symbolic interactionist concepts in new directions. Papers will be evaluated based on the quality of (1) mastery of Symbolic Interactionist approaches and concepts and Couch’s theses, (2) originality, (3) organization, (4) presentation, and (5) advancement of knowledge. Evaluation will be administered by a Review Committee of four: Dr. Mark D. Johns, Luther College, Decorah, Iowa Dr. Lori Kendall, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Dr. Annette Markham, University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee Dr. Dennis Waskul, Minnesota State University, Mankato Competition is open to graduate or undergraduate students of all disciplines. Works that are published or accepted for publication are not eligible for award consideration. Entries should not exceed 30 pages (approximately 7500 words) in length, including references and appendices. Limit of one entry per student per year. The top three papers will receive Couch Awards to be presented at the 2009 meeting of the Association of Internet Researchers (aoir.org) at the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee. The top paper will be awarded a certificate and a cash prize of $500 US, runner up will receive a certificate and a cash prize of $300 US, and a third paper will receive a certificate and a cash prize of $100 US. All three authors will be invited to present their work at a session of the AoIR conference, October 7-11, 2009 in Milwaukee. Those interested should send a copy of their paper, with a 100-word abstract, electronically to Mark D. Johns at mjohns(a)luther.edu Application deadline is *May 15, 2009*. Notification of award will be sent by June 15. Those with questions or comments about Couch Award application, please contact: Mark D. Johns Dept. of Communication Studies Luther College, Decorah, IA 52101 USA Tel: (563) 387-1347 E-mail: mjohns (at) luther.edu

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new reviews in cyberculture studies (april 2009)
by David M Silver 31 Mar '09

31 Mar '09

Dear air-l, each month, RCCS Reviews < http://rccs.usfca.edu/booklist.asp > pumps out free, full-length reviews of books about contemporary media and culture. sometimes we publish multiple reviews of a single book, and sometimes we publish author responses alongside the reviews. books of the month for april 2009 are: Dorsality: Thinking Back through Technology and Politics Author: David Wills Publisher: University of Minnesota Press, 2008 Review 1: David Gruber Review 2: Matthew Holtmeier Review 3: Travis Vogan Author Response: David Wills Generation Digital: Politics, Commerce, and Childhood in the Age of the Internet Author: Kathryn C. Montgomery Publisher: MIT Press, 2007 Review 1: Tyler Bickford Review 2: Lisa Dusenberry Author Response: Kathryn C. Montgomery enjoy. there will be more next month. david silver http://silverinsf.blogspot.com

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ICITST-2009: Call for Papers and Workshop Proposals.
by g.akmayeva＠icitst.org 31 Mar '09

31 Mar '09

Kindly email this Call for Papers and Workshops to your colleagues, faculty members and postgraduate students. CALL FOR PAPERS AND WORKSHOP PROPOSALS The 4th International Conference for Internet Technology and Secured Transactions (ICITST-2009), Technical Co-Sponsored by IEEE UK/RI Section, November 9–12, 2009, London, UK (www.icitst.org) The 4th International Conference for Internet Technology and Secured Transactions (ICITST-2009) is co-sponsored by IEEE UK/RI Section. The ICITST is an international refereed conference dedicated to the advancement of the theory and practical implementation of secured Internet transactions and to fostering discussions on information technology evolution. The ICITST aims to provide a highly professional and comparative academic research forum that promotes collaborative excellence between academia and industry. The objectives of the ICITST are to bridge the knowledge gap between academia and industry, promote research esteem in secured Internet transactions and the importance of information technology evolution to secured transactions. The ICITST-2009 invites research papers that encompass conceptual analysis, design implementation and performance evaluation. All the accepted papers will appear in the proceedings published by IEEE and fully indexed by IEEE Xplore. All the ICITST papers are indexed by DBLP. The topics in ICITST-2009 include but are not confined to the following areas: * Application of agents * Application security * Blended Internet security methods * Biometrics * Boundary issues of Internet security * Broadband access technologies * Challenges of content authoring * Data mining security * E-society * Globalisation of information society * Government, and corporate Internet security policy * Internet architecture * Infonomics * IPSec quality of services * Patentability * Regulation, self-regulation, and co-regulation Web services * Secured database systems * Synchronising e-security * Software Architectures * Technology-enabled information * Trust, privacy, and data security * Wireless transactions * Context-Awareness and its Data mining for Ubi-com service * Human-Computer Interface and Interaction for Ubi-com * Smart Homes and its business model for Ubi-com service * Intelligent Multimedia Service and its Data management for Ubi-com * USN / RF-ID for Ubi-com service * Network security issues, protocols, data security in Ubi-com * Database protection for Ubi-com * Privacy Protection and Forensic in Ubi-com * Multimedia Security in Ubi-com * Quality of Service Issues * Authentication and Access control for data protection in Ubi-com * Information visualization * Web services * Service, Security and its Data management for U-commerce * New novel mechanism and Applications for Ubi-com * Information Management * Multimedia Information Systems * Information Retrieval * Natural Language Processing * Digital Libraries * Data and Information Quality Management * Data Grids, Data and Information Quality * Database Management * Web Databases * Temporal and Spatial Databases * Data Mining * Web Mining including Web Intelligence and Web 3.0 * E-Learning, eCommerce, e-Business and e-Government * Web Metrics and its applications * XML and other extensible languages * Semantic Web and Ontology * Human-Computer Interaction * Artificial Intelligence and Expert Systems * Knowledge Management * Ubiquitous Systems * Peer to Peer Data Management * Interoperability * Mobile Data Management * Data Models for Production Systems and Services * Data Exchange issues and Supply Chain * Data Life Cycle in Products and Processes * Case Studies on Data Management, Monitoring and Analysis * Security and Access Control * Information Content Security * Mobile, Ad Hoc and Sensor Network Security * Distributed information systems IMPORTANT DATES Extended Abstract Submission Date April 30, 2009 Paper Submission Date May 31, 2009 Proposal for Workshops and Tutorials April 30, 2009 Notification of Workshop Acceptance May 15, 2009 Proposal for Industrial Presentation April 30, 2009 Notification of Extended Abstract Acceptance/Rejection May 15, 2009 Notification of Industrial Presentation Acceptance May 15, 2009 Notification of Paper Acceptance/Rejection June 30, 2009 Camera Ready Paper Due September 1, 2009 Author Registration September 15, 2009 Early Bird Attendee registration October 01, 2009 Conference Dates November 9-12, 2009 The ICITST also encourages organisations to submit their Job Fair Booth Reservations and/or Exhibit Proposals. If your organisation is interested, kindly submit a brief Proposal (not more than 1 side of A4 page) to jobfair(a)icitst.org PROGRAM COMMITTEES Honorary Chair Kevin Warwick, University of Reading, UK General Chairs Godfried Williams, University of East London, UK Ion Tutanescu, University of Pitesti, Romania General Vice-Chairs Kevin J. Lü, Brunel University, UK Shi-Cho Cha, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taiwan, ROC Technical Program Chair Emmanuel Hooper, Harvard University, Harvard MIT Yale Scholar, USA Bernd Markscheffel, Technische Universität Ilmenau, Germany International Chairs Nicu Bizon, University of Pitesti, Romania Titus Olaniyi, London South Bank University, UK Hiroshi Ishikawa, Shizuoka University, Japan Poster and Demo Chair Fred Mtenzi, Dublin Institute of Technology, Ireland Local Arrangements Chairs Alex Logvynovskiy, University of East London, UK Cyril Azenabor, University of East London, UK Post-Conference Tour Chair Babatunde Ali-Alao, University of Greenwich, UK Research Student Forum Chairs Taiwo Ayodele, University of Portsmouth, UK Terry Walcott, University of East London, UK Publication Chairs Charles A. Shoniregun, Sheridan Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning, Canada Maaruf Ali, Oxford Brookes University, UK Publicity and Workshop Chair Galyna Akmayeva, Wessex Institute of Technology/University of Wales, UK Industrial Chair Jen-Yao Chung, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, New York, USA Steering Committee Chair Charles A. Shoniregun, Sheridan Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning, Canada Steering Committees Paul Hofmann, Vice President Research, SAP Labs, USA Brendan O’Shea, Dublin Institute of Technology, Ireland Liang-Jie (LJ) Zhang, IBM T. J. Watson Research Centre, New York, USA Maaruf Ali, Oxford Brookes University, UK Dragana Martinovic, University of Windsor, Canada Victor Ralevich, Sheridan Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning, Canada Ali Al-Dahoud, Al-Zaytoonah University of Jordan, Jordan Charles Winer, Purdue University Calumet, USA TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEES Technical Program Committee members names and their affiliations are available at www.icitst.org

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announcing blog on 'hot topics' in innovation studies
by Yanuar Nugroho 31 Mar '09

31 Mar '09

Dear all at AIR-List Just to let you know, and to invite you to visit, a blog part of an EU initiative on innovation studies. Please see below. All best, yanuar -------------------- Get Involved- join us on our Innovation policy blog! INNO-GRIPS, part of the PRO-INNO Europe initiative, aims to provide an accessible pool of knowledge on and for innovation policy-making, business innovation and academic discussions, by providing a platform for open discussion to foster intellectual debate and provide workshop settings for future developments. In order to communicate ongoing GRIPS projects, relevant news and to initiate discussion within and beyond the innovation policy field, we have created a blog portal at http://inno-grips.portals.mbs.ac.uk where we update our research progress and post news and discussion topics of interest. We invite you to comment, discuss, criticise, or give input. Your interaction is welcomed! Read, comment, and link to our blog at http://inno-grips.portals.mbs.ac.uk Thanks in advance! INNO-GRIPS blog moderators Yanuar Nugroho yanuar.nugroho(a)manchester.ac.uk Jennifer Hayden jennifer.hayden(a)mbs.ac.uk _________________ Dr. Yanuar Nugroho Research Associate Manchester Institute of Innovation Research - MIoIR/PREST The University of Manchester Suite 8.07 MBS Harold Hankins Building Precinct Centre, Oxford Road Manchester M13 9PL United Kingdom T. +44-161-275-5904 F. +44-161-275-0923 E. yanuar_DOT_nugroho_AT_manchester_DOT_ac_DOT_uk U. www.mbs.ac.uk/research/academicdirectory/viewProfile.aspx?sid=5518111 U. audentis.wordpress.com

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Tracking GhostNet: Investigating a Cyber Espionage Network re Tibet
by Barry Wellman 30 Mar '09

30 Mar '09

fyi. Ron Deibert is a highly regarded colleague and friend. Runs CitizensLab at the University of Toronto. Barry Wellman _______________________________________________________________________ S.D. Clark Professor of Sociology, FRSC NetLab Director Department of Sociology University of Toronto 725 Spadina Avenue, Room 388 Toronto Canada M5S 2J4 http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman fax:+1-416-978-3963 twitter: barrywellman secondlife: wikiwarrior swords Updating history: http://chass.utoronto.ca/oldnew/cybertimes.php _______________________________________________________________________ ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Sat, 28 Mar 2009 16:49:15 -0400 From: Ronald Deibert <r.deibert(a)utoronto.ca> To: Ronald Deibert <r.deibert(a)utoronto.ca> Subject: Tracking GhostNet: Investigating a Cyber Espionage Network. Tracking GhostNet: Investigating a Cyber Espionage Network. The report has now been covered in an exclusive story by the New York Times' John Markoff. Download the New York Times story here http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/29/technology/29spy.html Researchers at the Information Warfare Monitor uncovered a suspected cyber espionage network of over 1,295 infected hosts in 103 countries. This finding comes at the close of a 10-month investigation of alleged Chinese cyber spying against Tibetan institutions that consisted of fieldwork, technical scouting, and laboratory analysis. Close to 30% of the infected hosts are considered high-value and include computers located at ministries of foreign affairs, embassies, international organizations, news media, and NGOs. The investigation was able to conclude that Tibetan computer systems were compromised by multiple infections that gave attackers unprecedented access to potentially sensitive information, including documents from the private office of the Dalai Lama. Who is ultimately in control of the GhostNet system? While our analysis reveals that numerous politically sensitive and high value computer systems were compromised in ways that circumstantially point to China as the culprit, we do not know the exact motivation or the identity of the attacker(s), or how to accurately characterize this network of infections as a whole. One of the characteristics of cyber- attacks of the sort we document here is the ease by which attribution can be obscured. Regardless of who or what is ultimately in control of GhostNet, it is the capabilities of exploitation, and the strategic intelligence that can be harvested from it, which matters most. Indeed, although the Achilles heel of the GhostNet system allowed us to monitor and document its far-reaching network of infiltration, we can safely hypothesize that it is neither the first nor the only one of its kind. As Information Warfare Monitor principal investigators Ron Deibert and Rafal Rohozinski say in the foreword to the report, This report serves as a wake-up call. At the very least, a large percentage of high-value targets compromised by this network demonstrate the relative ease with which a technically unsophisticated approach can quickly be harnessed to create a very effective spynetThese are major disruptive capabilities that the professional information security community, as well as policymakers, need to come to terms with rapidly. Download the full report on 29 March 2009 at http://www.infowar-monitor.net/ghostnet/ Ronald J. Deibert Director, The Citizen Lab Munk Centre for International Studies University of Toronto r.deibert(a)utoronto.ca http://deibert.citizenlab.org/

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Rethinking Promotion and Tenure Criteria in the Digital Age
by Stuart Shulman 30 Mar '09

30 Mar '09

A task force is preparing a document for the Faculty Senate at UMass Amherst on scholarship in the digital age. We talk about lots of vexing issues with respect to old and new or emerging reward structures, the economics of publishing, etc. Most of the members are library-centric scholars, or actual librarians. I find myself tasked with drafting the section on promotion and review considerations. In particular, I have been asked to show some examples where universities, schools, colleges or specific departments have found new types of scholarly artifacts worthy of recognition. If you know of an example where the traditional consideration of books and articles in top tier journals is being augmented with other types of uniquely digital contributions, please let me know directly. I will share the results of this survey with the list when it is complete. Many thanks, ~Stu -- Dr. Stuart W. Shulman Assistant Professor Department of Political Science University of Massachusetts Amherst 200 Hicks Way Amherst, MA 01003 http://people.umass.edu/stu/ stu(a)polsci.umass.edu 413-545-5375 Editor, Journal of Information Technology and Politics http://www.jitp.net Director, QDAP-UMass http://www.umass.edu/qdap/ Associate Director, National Center for Digital Government http://www.umass.edu/digitalcenter/

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CfP: “Changing cultures: cultures of change” - Barcelona, 10-12 December 2009
by Richard Rogers 30 Mar '09

30 Mar '09

“Changing cultures: cultures of change” December 10-12, 2009, Barcelona CALL FOR PAPERS Across disciplines, topological or intensive approaches to the study of culture treat change as normal and immanent rather than exceptional and externally determined. In these approaches, cultures are defined by the possibilities they offer for change rather than by their size, location or essence. These approaches thus provide a set of tools and concepts to think about different levels and kinds of change – learning, transmission, innovation, adaptation, self-organisation and evolution. This conference asks: what is the potential of topological and other intensive approaches to culture and space for thinking about change? It explores the value of thinking about culture as a privileged site or mechanism for change, but it also asks how and why the question of change is being posed in relation to culture today. This question is especially important at a time when calculation and complex technical systems have become ubiquitous elements of human life, in specialised sites of scientific enquiry and in everyday life. In contemporary society, numbers do not just describe but they construct and – in topological thinking - take on virtual properties, building abstract spaces of calculation and opening up the possibility of new perspectives on the questions of cultural predictability and innovation. What are the tools, techniques and artifacts of thinking topologically about cultural change? What spaces do they make? How can the current development of a material culture of topological thinking be taken into account, reflexively, as a research topic? What are the cultural implications of the growth of technical systems, quantitative calculation and ideas and procedures concerned with number, counting, and logic, the increase in lists and registers, and the rise of logistics, of innovations in thinking about linkages and technologies of address, and the combination and organization of these operations into systems in everyday life? What kinds of engagement are adequate to the task of thinking and acting in response? Finally, the conference will also address issues of method, and in particular examine the current interest in the use of quantitative methods to investigate and understand qualitative change. Can anything – or everything – be measured in numbers? What role do modeling, simulation and experimentation have in the study of culture? How can we understand cultures of quantification? What are the implications of studying culture for the uses and meanings of numbers? Speakers will be drawn from across the humanities and the social and natural sciences, from architecture, design, mathematics, physics, biology, medicine and AI, with plenary presentations from Rosi Braidotti, Manuel DeLanda, J. Doyne Farmer, Matthew Fuller, Alex Galloway, Penny Harvey, Scott Lash, Richard Rogers, Luc Steels, Eyal Weizmann. Participants are invited to explore these questions in relation to four broad areas of cultural change, though other domains are not excluded: Media – networks, digital methods, interface, algorithm, ubiquity, emergency, trash and spam, identification, communication and interaction Markets – models, probability, crisis, performance, devices, cultures of quantification, noise, financialization. Migration – movement, state spaces and spaces of passibility, lines and borders, flows, blocks and stoppages Mind – consciousness, language, the human, imitation and evolution. There will be special events for industry and policymakers, with a focus on social and cultural trends, different ways to think about predictability and the management of cultural change, in relation to processes of innovation. There will also be special events from graduate students, with an opportunity to participate in a training workshop. Further information about these events will be announced on ATACD website http://www.atacd.net. The deadline for paper submissions to the conference is Thursday 28 May 2009. Abstracts with a max length of 300 words will need to be submitted online in text only format (no diagrams, tables or graphs are permitted). Full instructions for online submission can be found on the Conference home page at: http://www.atacd.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=27&Itemid=40 .

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CFP: Technical Communication Special Issue on “Legal Issues in Global Contexts”
by martine courant rife 30 Mar '09

30 Mar '09

Call for Proposals: Special Issue on “Legal Issues in Global Contexts” _Technical Communication_, the journal of the Society for Technical Communication (STC), is soliciting article proposals for an upcoming special issue that will examine how factors of law and of culture affect how technical communicators work in international and cross-cultural contexts. This special issue will be published in November 2010, and the guest editors are Kirk St.Amant of East Carolina University and Martine Courant Rife of Lansing Community College. SPECIAL ISSUE DESCRIPTION Legal issues are increasingly affecting the work we do as industry practitioners, academic researchers, university and college educators, and independent entrepreneurs in technical communication. In some cases, these legal issues involve notions of ownership, copyright, and trade secrets. In other instances, legal concerns related to privacy, disclosure, and free speech affect how technical communicators perform different activities. These legal issues are further complicated by different cultural perspectives related to working in global environments and to addressing the informational needs of different cultural groups within our own nations. Very few individuals in technical communication, however, are lawyers or have formal training in issues of law and its intersection with different cultural communication expectations and assumptions. This special issue of _Technical Communication_ will examine the legal issues affecting technical communication practices related to designing materials for or to working with individuals from other nations and cultures. POSSIBLE TOPICS FOR THIS SPECIAL ISSUE The guest editors invite proposals for papers on applied research or theory, case histories/studies, tutorials, and/or annotated bibliographies that address the following issues: • Why should technical communicators attend to global/international legal issues? Why not? • What kind of training should technical communicators have to address issues of law and culture effectively in international and domestic contexts? • How are legal issues or requirements related to language and translation affecting technical communication practices? • How should technical communicators working in international organizations approach legal issues? Should these issues be turned over to the “legal department”? Should technical communicators have input on organization policies with respect to implementing law? Should they be seen as experts in this area? Why or why not? • What developments in international law, treaties, or global-context legal conversations may impact the work of technical communicators (e.g., the EU Data Protection Directive, TRIPS [Agreement on Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights], conversations on appropriation of traditional knowledge)? What recommendations might be developed to work within or challenge these new developments? • How do legal issues affect communication practices in globally distributed virtual teams? • What kinds of legal issues do international practices such as off shoring raise for technical communicators? How do these issues affect technical communication practices or provide new opportunities for technical communicators to contribute value to their organizations? • How have legal issues in global contexts become more immediate with regard to the continual growth of and use of online media in international contexts? • In what ways can our history of examining issues of intercultural communication contribute to how we approach legal issues in global contexts? • How do cultural differences related to intellectual property and copyright affect technical communication practices – particularly practices involving globally distributed teams? • How do issues of government surveillance and data mining affect the ways in which technical communicators interact in globally distributed workplaces or use online media to present information and exchange ideas across cultures? • How can aligning global legal issues and local legal issues help – or complicate how we work and conduct research as technical communicators? • What kinds of theories or research methods from the field of technical communication might inform our ability to understand legal issues in global contexts? • In what ways can/should technical communicators enter into public discussions about global-legal issues? SUBMISSION GUIDELINES Proposals should be no more than 400 words in length. All proposals should include submitter name, affiliation, and email address as well as a working title for the proposed article. PRODUCTION SCHEDULE The schedule for the special issue is as follows: 1 June 2009 -- 400-word proposals due 15 June 2009 – Guest editors return proposal decisions to submitters 1 October 2009 – Draft manuscripts of accepted proposals due 15 February 2010 -- Final manuscripts due November 2010 -- Publication date of special issue CONTACT INFORMATION Completed proposals or questions about either proposal topics or this special issue should be sent to Kirk St.Amant and Martine Courant Rife at tc.special.issue(a)gmail.com -- Martine Courant Rife, JD, PhD Professor, Writing Program Lansing Community College Communication Department Arts & Sciences Building, 211G, 517/4839906 martinerife(a)gmail.com //AIM martine785

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Paper: De-anonymizing Social Networks
by Richard Forno 30 Mar '09

30 Mar '09

De-anonymizing Social Networks Abstract: Operators of online social networks are increasingly sharing potentially sensitive information about users and their relationships with advertisers, application developers, and data-mining researchers. Privacy is typically protected by anonymization, i.e., removing names, addresses, etc. We present a framework for analyzing privacy and anonymity in social networks and develop a new re-identification algorithm targeting anonymized social-network graphs. To demonstrate its effectiveness on real-world networks, we show that a third of the users who can be verified to have accounts on both Twitter, a popular microblogging service, and Flickr, an online photo-sharing site, can be re- identified in the anonymous Twitter graph with only a 12% error rate. Our de-anonymization algorithm is based purely on the network topology, does not require creation of a large number of dummy “sybil” nodes, is robust to noise and all existing defenses, and works even when the overlap between the target network and the adversary’s auxiliary information is small. < - > http://33bits.org/2009/03/19/de-anonymizing-social-networks/

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Book announcement: 'Innovating for and by users'
by Jo Pierson 29 Mar '09

29 Mar '09

Book: 'Innovating for and by users' Edited by Jo Pierson, Enid Mante-Meijer, Eugène Loos and Bartolomeo Sapio EU Publications Office - COST298 - ISBN 978-92-898-0047-1 The book looks at socio-technological transitions and shifting roles of users in the design and innovation of broadband technologies and digital media. The different chapters aim to shed more light on the ‘black box’ of design and use of ICTs. In this way we hope to contribute to the empowerment of people in their relationship(s) with new media and - through this - to increase the quality of social life. The title ‘Innovating for and by users’ refers to insights on how to innovate by involving users more intensely in the design of technological innovations, which can lead to innovations that create more benefits for these users. The different authors deliver a timely reality check on the current information society in Europe from a users’ perspective, in a general (theoretical) sense as well as in specific domains (digital television, e-publishing, care sector...). This is done in an interdisciplinary way by integrating social science views and engineering approaches. The findings are based on academic and industry-driven digital media research in various European countries. For more information on this book, please visit: http://smit.vub.ac.be/ifbu Jo Pierson, Ph.D. IBBT - SMIT, Studies on Media, Information & Telecommunication Vrije Universiteit Brussel Offices: Pleinlaan 9, 2nd floor B - 1050 Brussels Belgium Tel: +32 2 629 16 27 Fax: +32 2 629 17 00 E-mail: jo.pierson(a)vub.ac.be http://smit.vub.ac.be

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