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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 16 Mar '09

16 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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Mobile Communications Research in Latin America/South Africa
by Andrew Herman 15 Mar '09

15 Mar '09

I am putting to together a workshop/conference on the Mobile Internet and am interested in inviting some scholars who doing research on mobile communications in Latin America and and sub-Saharan Africa, particularly South Africa. Any helping in guiding towards such scholars would be greatly appreciated. Thanks so much. Andrew Herman Andrew Herman, Ph. D. Associate Professor Department of Communication Studies Wilfrid Laurier University Waterloo, Ontario N2L 3C5 CANADA 519 884-1970 x3693

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Characteristics of online posters
by Matthew W. 14 Mar '09

14 Mar '09

I have a friend who is producing a story on online commentary. He is looking for "statistics or data of some sort that describes people who tend to make comments on line about newspaper articles, blog posts, etc. What I want to know is this: are such people more representative of an extreme position on an issue? In other words, is it mostly the crazy nutters [sic] with not much else to do who do the most commenting?" So has anyone done any quantitative research that I can direct him towards that attempts to tackle the issue of representativeness in online commentary? I recognize there is a lot of qualitative that has been done and most, if not all, of us could provide him with many useful quotes. But what about numbers? Matthew Wysocki Assistant Professor Flagler College

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wanted: contributions symposium @ e-mental health summit 2009 (amsterdam, october 14-16)
by Crutzen Rik (GVO) 14 Mar '09

14 Mar '09

Dear all, I am invited to organize an international symposium regarding dissemination of and exposure to e-health interventions aimed at adolescents. This symposium will take place at the First International E-Mental Health Summit 2009 (Amsterdam, the Netherlands, October 14-16 - more information is attached to this e-mail). If there are people who would like to present findings regarding this topic during this conference, would you like to contact me off list to discuss potential cooperation? Thank you in advance. Kind regards, Rik Crutzen Department of Health Promotion School for Public Health and Primary Care (Caphri) Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences Maastricht University The Netherlands http://www.ehps.net/ehp

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Reminder-deadline for internet Governance Call for Proposals
by Nanette Levinson 14 Mar '09

14 Mar '09

REMINDER - Deadline for submissions: 20 March 2009 =+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+= 2nd International Academic Workshop "Global Internet Governance: An Interdisciplinary Research Field in Construction" GigaNet and ECREA CD, CLP and IIC Sections Brussels, Belgium - 11 May 2009 CFP: http://giganet.igloogroups.org/publiclibr/giganetcos/2009brusse The purpose of this workshop is the presentation and discussion of work-in-progress in Internet Governance-related research with the aim to identify emerging research themes and design a research agenda. Rather than featuring academic paper presentations, the workshop aims at providing a survey of current academic activities in the field of global Internet governance. Submissions may address, but are not limited to, the following topics: - Involved actors and their interactions; - Internet governance institutions and regimes; - Legal, socio-economical, behavioral and technical regulation means; - Internet governance policy issues. Submissions should be sent by 20 March 2009 to Meryem Marzouki (Meryem.Marzouki(a)lip6.fr) They should include the name, affiliation, e-mail address and short bio of author(s), along with no more than 500 words of research work description. The program committee will notify applicants by 15 April 2009. To encourage knowledge dissemination, all relevant submissions will be published on the workshop website. Authors of selected submissions will have the opportunity to present their research activities and to share ideas with other colleagues, in a less formal setting than conferences and symposia, thus leaving much more space for discussions and exchanges. There is no registration fee for this event. A registration form will be circulated with the program. Practical information on accommodation and low cost travel to Brussels are available on the workshop website. =+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ RAPPEL - Date limite de soumission : 20 Mars 2009 =+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ 2e Atelier Académique International « Gouvernance internationale d'Internet - Un champ de recherche pluridisciplinaire en construction » GigaNet et ECREA sections CD, CLP and IIC Bruxelles, Belgique - 11 Mai 2009 AAC: http://giganet.igloogroups.org/publiclibr/giganetcos/2009brusse Nanette S. Levinson

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Call For Papers: HICSS 43 Social Networking and Communities
by Caroline Haythornthwaite 13 Mar '09

13 Mar '09

Call For Papers: Social Networking and Communities Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS 43) http://www.hicss.hawaii.edu/ January 5-8, 2010 Kauai Papers due June 15, 2009 Note: All submissions are made through the HICSS site PRIMARY CONTACT Karine Barzilai-Nahon - University of Washington - [Primary Contact] – email: karineb(a)u.washington.edu MINI-TRACK CO-CHAIRS Caroline Haythornthwaite - University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Paul Benjamin Lowry - Brigham Young Ian MacInnes - Syracuse University Papers presented in previous years may be found at http://ekarine.org/news/hicsscommunities/ CFP: Social Networking and Communities Following the success of similar minitracks from the past seven HICSS conferences, we invite submissions to the 2009 mini-track on social networking and communities. We call for papers that address technology and information in support of communities at work, school, and home, supporting interests of business, learning, play and society. We encourage papers from multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary perspectives. Topics of interest in these contexts include, but are not limited to the following: Social, economic and political impact of internet technologies Communities as sociological phenomenon in the digital economy Community development Design and HCI aspects of social networking and communities Online communities of practice Business models of Second Life E-learning: structures, implementations, and practices Organizational behavior of communities Disruptive strategies of virtual worlds Peer-to-peer or mobile services for Virtual Communities Case studies and topologies of Online Communities Theoretical models of virtual worlds Preventing predatory behavior Online auctions Collaborative gaming Conflicts between real and virtual worlds Diffusion and adoption of social networks Digital personas Economics of collaborative entertainment Gaming communities and immersive gaming Social networking agents Social network studies of online community Methodologies and development techniques Mixed reality and virtual reality Online addiction and anti-social behavior Legal and ethical issues of virtual worlds Privacy and security issues Social blogging Wireless social computing Interaction between the off-line and online community IMPORTANT DEADLINES ABSTRACTS (optional) Authors may contact Minitrack Chairs for guidance and indication of appropriate content at anytime. FULL PAPERS June 15, 2009 * Note: this is a hard deadline * Authors submit Full Papers to the Peer Review System, following the Author Instructions found on the HICSS web site (http://www.hicss.hawaii.edu/) All papers must be submitted in double column publication format and limited to 10 pages including diagrams and references that conform to HICSS standards. Papers undergo blind review. ACCEPTANCE/REJECTION August 15, 2009 Acceptance and Rejection notices are sent to Authors via the Peer Review System. FINAL VERSIONS OF ACCEPTED PAPERS September 15, 2009 Authors submit the Final Version of papers following submission instructions on the Peer Review System web site. At least one author of each paper must register by this date with specific plans to attend the conference to present the paper. INSTRUCTIONS FOR PAPER SUBMISSION HICSS papers must contain original material not previously published, or currently submitted elsewhere Do not submit the manuscript to more than one mini-track. If unsure which mini-track is appropriate, submit the abstract to the Track Chair for guidance. Submit your full paper according to the detailed formatting and submission instructions found on the HICSS website. Note: All papers will be submitted in double column publication format and limited to 10 pages including diagrams and references. HICSS will conduct double-blind reviews of each submitted paper. HICSS conferences are devoted to advances in the information, computer, and system sciences, and encompass developments in both theory and practice. Invited papers may be theoretical, conceptual, tutorial or descriptive in nature. Submissions undergo a blind peer review process and those selected for presentation will be published in the Conference Proceedings. Submissions must not have been previously published. For the latest information visit the HICSS web site at: http://www.hicss.hawaii.edu/ CONFERENCE ADMINISTRATION: Ralph Sprague, Conference Chair Email: sprague(a)hawaii.edu Sandra Laney, Conference Administrator Email: hicss(a)hawaii.edu -------------------------------------- Caroline Haythornthwaite Professor, Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 501 East Daniel St., Champaign IL 61820 Mail will reach me at both haythorn(a)uiuc.edu AND haythorn(a)illinois.edu. NOTE: There is no 'u' before 'illinois' in this address.

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PhD opportunity at Manchester UK: New media and political change
by Yanuar Nugroho 13 Mar '09

13 Mar '09

Fully funded PhD Studentships New Media and Political Change Institute for Social Change The Institute for Social Change has three fully funded PhD studentships commencing in 2009, covering fees and an annual maintenance stipend of £11,800. The Institute for Social Change is an interdisciplinary research centre in the School of Social Sciences that offers an outstanding environment in which to study for a PhD. Sociological research at the University of Manchester was ranked joint first in the 2008 UK Research Assessment Exercise, producing the highest proportion of ‘world leading' research of any UK institution. PhD students will have the opportunity to apply for places on the prestigious Harvard-Manchester graduate summer programme, and may be able to spend time at Harvard in the course of their research project. We welcome proposals from outstanding candidates for empirical research projects into the causes and consequences of change in contemporary societies, particularly in the areas of inequality, immigration, religion, the workplace and civic engagement. We are particularly keen to fund projects in New Media and Political Change - how new forms of digital communication may be changing the nature of citizen participation and political organisations' structure and functions. To discuss your proposal, contact the head of postgraduate research, Professor David Voas (voas(a)manchester.ac.uk) You can apply online at www.manchester.ac.uk/postgraduate/howtoapply For information on how to apply contact Vicky Barnes (vicky.barnes(a)manchester.ac.uk) The deadline for applications is 11th May 2009. Website: http://www.manchester.ac.uk/socialchange/ -- _________________ 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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