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Final Call for Participation: Mobile Life 2008
by I. Kushchu 02 Sep '08

02 Sep '08

-- Apologies for Cross Postings -- Call For Participation to Mobile Life 2008 - EURO mGOV 2008 and mSOCIETY 2008 ---------------------- The mLife Events organization team invites you to join this year's exciting forums, talks and discussions for exploring, creating, exchanging and disseminating knowledge of impact of mobile technologies on individuals, societies, governments and economies. 15-19, September, 2008, Hotel Sheraton Voyager, Antalya, Turkey http://www.mgovernment.org/events/ mlife(a)mgovernment.org Multiple Conferences, Exhibitions and Demos -------------------------------------------------------------- 15-16, September, - The Third European Conference on Mobile Government 17 September, - Mobile Crossover Day - an interactive day of exhibitions, demos, showcases of devices, applications and services 18-19, September, - The First International Conference on Mobile Society CONFERENCE PROGRAM: http://www.mgovernment.org/events/ Several Special Sessions including: ------------------------------------------------ - Mobile Government Summit - Public sector experts from different countries discussing common experiences, lessons learned and challenges on mGovernment - Mobile Development - how mobile technologies impact -positive and negative - economic and social development? Plenary talks/sessions including ---------------------------------------------------------- --- Practice talks by top level representations from the public and telecom sector -- Research and visionary talks by reputable researchers -- Panels and discussions on key issues Who should attend? -------------------------- -- Organizations in the mobile value chain including carriers, device manufacturers, content, applications and service producers -- Public sector organizations, project managers, policy and decision makers, -- Researchers interested in the issues dealing with positive or negative impacts of mobile technologies Sponsors, Organizers and supporters ------------------------------------------------- --- TURKCELL (Diamond Sponsor), TurkSat (Gold Sponsor),MobilOGREN (Silver Sponsor) --- CISCO, Mobile Government Consortium International, UK, Center for Information and Society, University of Washington, USA,TUBITAK Preliminary Program and Registrations ------------------------------------- -- please visit http://www.mgovernment.org/events/ or send an email to mlife(a)mgovernment.org -- Registrations are here: http://www.mgovernment.org/events/ registration.php ------- IBRAHIM KUSHCHU, MBA, MSC., PHD Associate Professor and Director, Mobile Government Consortium International, UK http://www.mgovernment.org ik(a)mgovernment.org +44 1273 777853 == please visit mLife events www.mgovernment.org/events/ ------- IBRAHIM KUSHCHU, MBA, MSC., PHD Associate Professor and Director, Mobile Government Consortium International, UK http://www.mgovernment.org ik(a)mgovernment.org +44 1273 777853 == please visit mLife events www.mgovernment.org/events/

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Fwd: 22.186 Academia.edu: 'tree' of academics launches
by jeremy hunsinger 01 Sep '08

01 Sep '08

sorry for the xposting, think it is interesting Begin forwarded message: > From: Humanist Discussion Group <willard.mccarty(a)MCCARTY.ORG.UK> > Date: August 31, 2008 6:55:58 PM EDT > To: humanist(a)Princeton.EDU > Subject: 22.186 Academia.edu: 'tree' of academics launches > Reply-To: Humanist Discussion Group <willard.mccarty(a)MCCARTY.ORG.UK> > > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 186. > Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London > www.princeton.edu/humanist/ > Submit to: humanist(a)princeton.edu > > > > Date: Sun, 31 Aug 2008 01:42:38 +0100 > From: Willard McCarty <willard.mccarty(a)mccarty.org.uk> > Subject: Academia.edu: 'tree' of academics launches > > From: Richard Price > Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2008 19:21:46 -0700 > > Hi all, > > Im a prize fellow in philosophy at All Souls College Oxford, where I > recently finished my D.Phil on the philosophy of perception. > > Ive just launched a website, www.academia.edu, which does two things: > > > - It displays academics around the world in a tree format, > according to what university/department they are affiliated with. > > - It enables an academic to have an easy-to-maintain academic > webpage. My webpage on Academia.edu is here: > http://oxford.academia.edu/RichardPrice > > > My hope for the site is that it will list every academic Faculty > members, Post-Docs, and Graduate Students - in the world, and display > where they are working. I also hope people will use the site to keep > track of what people in their field are working on. > > Im trying to spread the word about www.academia.edu, so, if you > have a > minute, please visit the site, and add yourself to your department. > (Or > add your department/university to the tree if it is not there already; > it is easy to add a university or department by clicking on the > arrows). > > And do spread the word to your friends and colleagues if you can. > > > Many thanks, > > Richard > > > Dr. Richard Price, > Prize Fellow, > All Souls College, > Oxford, > OX1 4AL > http://oxford.academia.edu/RichardPrice jeremy hunsinger Center for Digital Discourse and Culture Virginia Tech Information Ethics Fellow, Center for Information Policy Research, School of Information Studies, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (www.cipr.uwm.edu ) wiki.tmttlt.com www.tmttlt.com () ascii ribbon campaign - against html mail /\ - against microsoft attachments http://www.stswiki.org/ sts wiki http://cfp.learning-inquiry.info/ Learning Inquiry-the journal http://transdisciplinarystudies.tmttlt.com/ Transdisciplinary Studies:the book series

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new reviews in cyberculture studies (september 2008)
by David M Silver 01 Sep '08

01 Sep '08

hello! each month, the resource center for cyberculture studies publishes book reviews and author responses ( http://rccs.usfca.edu/booklist.asp ). books of the month for september 2008 are: At a Distance: Precursors to Art and Activism on the Internet Editors: Annmarie Chandler and Norie Neumark Publisher: MIT Press, 2005 Review 1: Jennifer Way Author Response: Annmarie Chandler Author Response: Norie Neumark Code: Collaborative Ownership and the Digital Economy Editor: Rishab Aiyer Ghosh Publisher: MIT Press, 2005 Review 1: Michel Bauwens Follow for Now: Interviews with Friends and Heroes Editor: Roy Christopher Publisher: Well-Red Bear, 2007 Review 1: Ellis Godard Author Response: Roy Christopher stay tuned for more. david silver http://silverinsf.blogspot.com

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E-Learning CFP on globally networked learning in higher education
by Doreen Starke-Meyerring, Dr. 01 Sep '08

01 Sep '08

Dear colleagues, Please consider and distribute the following call for papers for a special issue of the journal E-Learning on globally networked learning in higher education: CALL FOR PAPERS: ****************************************************************************************** Special Issue of E-Learning on globally networked learning in higher education ****************************************************************************************** E-Learning, a peer-reviewed international journal directed towards the study of e-learning in its diverse aspects, invites submissions for a special issue on “Globalizing Higher Education Across the Disciplines: Innovative Partnerships, Policies, and Pedagogies for Globally Networked Learning Environments,” guest edited by Doreen Starke-Meyerring. Early national and global policy discourses around the role of the internet in higher education advanced utopian and dystopian understandings of the internet as a new global market for existing industrial-model, locally produced higher education courses and programs to be repackaged for global delivery and global trade online. As a result, hundreds of millions of public and private dollars have been spent on global internet-based higher education marketing consortia, many of which have since failed. As initial responses to digital technologies, these initiatives had largely tried to reproduce established institutionally bounded practices in digital environments, disregarding the networked nature and peer production potential of digital technologies, and therefore lacking pedagogical innovation to re-envision learning in a globally networked world. At the same time, however, many faculty across the disciplines in higher education have begun to develop alternative pedagogies and learning environments that take advantage of the globally networked nature of digital technologies. These globally networked learning environments (GNLEs) connect students with peers, instructors, professionals, experts, and communities from diverse contexts to help students develop new ways of knowledge making and learn how to build shared learning and knowledge cultures across traditional boundaries, especially with peers and communities that have been the most marginalized and disadvantaged in the emerging global social and economic order. However, such GNLEs are difficult to develop because they require robust partnerships, must negotiate a multitude of divergent national and institutional local policies, and as innovations, face challenges of institutional support infrastructures and policies designed around traditional local classrooms. The purpose of this special issue is to understand the current state of globally networked learning environments across disciplines in higher education and to advance insights into their development and sustainability. The special issue therefore invites both conceptual contributions that address larger questions surrounding GNLEs as well as research studies of GNLE development across disciplines, addressing questions such as these (among others): - What is the current state of globally networked learning in higher education? - How have GNLEs addressed issues of global and local social justice? - What kind of disciplinary and interdisciplinary knowledge making do GNLEs enable that would be difficult to achieve in traditional institutionally bounded classrooms? How? - What challenges do educators face in designing, implementing, and sustaining such partnered learning environments? How do they overcome them? - How do national and global policies regulating higher education as well as those regulating digital technologies (e.g. privacy, intellectual property, and censorship policies) enable or constrain the development of GNLEs? - How do local institutional policies, including policies regulating digital technologies, enable or constrain the development of GNLEs? - What institutional initiatives (e.g., task forces, innovator networks, centres for research and faculty support, integrated support networks) have emerged to support the work of faculty innovators? - What research is needed to advance globally networked learning environments in higher education? Schedule:  Proposals indicating the purpose, rationale, and possible approach of contributions (250-500 words): November 1, 2008  Submissions (full manuscripts): January 15, 2009  Accepted manuscripts revised for publication: May 15, 2009  Scheduled publication of issue: Fall 2009 Please direct inquiries and proposals to the guest editor: Doreen Starke-Meyerring doreen.starke-meyerring(a)mcgill.ca Please also contact the editor if you are interested in serving as a reviewer for this special issue. ****************************************************** Doreen Starke-Meyerring, Ph.D. Associate Director, Centre for the Study and Teaching of Writing Assistant Professor, Rhetoric and Writing Studies Department of Integrated Studies in Education McGill University 3700, rue McTavish Montréal, QC H3A 1Y2, Canada T: 514.398.1308 F: 514.398.4529 E: doreen.starke-meyerring @ mcgill.ca W: http://webpages.mcgill.ca/staff/group1/dstark1/web/starke-meyerring/ President, Canadian Association for the Study of Discourse and Writing/ Association candienne de rédactologie http://casdw-acr.mcgill.ca ******************************************************

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A Radical Scientific Wiki: The Time Is Here !!!
by McKiernan, Gerard [LIB] 31 Aug '08

31 Aug '08

Colleagues/ As some may be aware, I have long proposed The Wiki as The Next Scholarly Communication/Publishing Environment Gerry McKiernan. "Disruptive Scholarship: An Idea Whose Time Has Come | Re(Use) / Re(Mix) / Re(New)." Invited keynote presentation delivered at Transforming Practice for An Authentic Future, 3rd International Conference on Plagiarism, June 23-25, 2008, Northumbria University, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England. Director' Cut version self-archived at: http://www.public.iastate.edu/~gerrymck/IPC2008-DC.ppt <http://www.public.iastate.edu/~gerrymck/IPC2008-DC.ppt> (30 August 2008) "Wikis: Disruptive Technologies for Dynamic Possibilities," Invited presentastion delivered at Digital Libraries à la Carte: Choices for the Future. Module 2: Technological Developments: Threats and Opportunities for Libraries, Tilburg Innovation Centre for Electronic Resources BV (TICER), Tilburg University, Tilburg, The Netherlands, August 23, 2005. Self-archived at: http://www.public.iastate.edu/~gerrymck/TICER2005.ppt <http://www.public.iastate.edu/~gerrymck/TICER2005.ppt> (30 August 2008) Thanks To Bernie Sloan, Sora Associates, Bloomington, Indiana has have learned about a wiki called Mememoir and its associated implementation in the WikiGenes project that I believe is a A Major Realization of The Disruptive Scholarship Vision "Reporting in [the September 2008 issue] Nature Genetics, scientist Robert Hoffmann develops the first Wiki where authorship really matters. Based on a powerful authorship tracking technology, this next generation wiki links every word to its corresponding author. This way readers can always know their sources and authors receive due credit. [snip] Clear authorship attribution in this next generation wiki makes it also possible that users can rate each other based on their contributions. For the first time, collaborative publishing can therefore be enhanced with the advantages of a reputation system. Hoffmann describes how a self-regulating reputation system can help to settle editing conflicts, which were an important problem in first generation wikis and used to depend on slow and refutable top-down decisions. The scientific wiki project, introduced in the September issue of Nature Genetics and released online today, is the first of its kind and a milestone in the Mememoir project. "This release is an important proof of principle, but our ambitious aim with the Mememoir project is to revolutionize publishing in all of science," says Dr. Hoffmann, "with a knowledge base that is open access, interdisciplinary and combines the altruistic possibilities of wikis with explicit authorship." Robert Hoffman / A Wiki for the Life Sciences Where Authorship Matters / Nature Genetics / volume 40 / number 9 / 1047 - 1051 /September 2008 / Published online 27 August 2008 / doi:10.1038/ng.f.217 Access to sample text from the paper as well as links to the full text of the article (for subscribers (?)) in HMTL and PDF format as well as links to the WikiGenes site and associated components (e.g., Introduction & Tutorial, Sample 'Author' Contribution Page, Sample 'Author' Contribution, etc.) are available at [ http://tinyurl.com/582jq2 ] Please share your thoughts/reactions/etc as a Comment on the entry for this posting on the Scholarship 2.0 blog BTW: Recommendations Of Any And All Other Radical Scholarly Wikis Like/UnLike Mememoir / WikiGenes Are Most Welcome. Regards, /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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Online clearinghouse for alerts and information regarding Hurricane Gustav
by Deborah Elizabeth Finn 31 Aug '08

31 Aug '08

Dear Colleagues, If you're interested in online tools for emergency preparedness and disaster recovery, please check this out: Gustav Information Center <http://gustav08.ning.com/> Best regards from Deborah Deborah Elizabeth Finn Cyber-Yenta Boston, Massachusetts, USA deborah_elizabeth_finn(a)post.harvard.edu www.cyber-yenta.org Skype: Deborah909 Twitter: Deborah909 LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/deborah909 "...this is the Great Theatre of Life. Admission is free but the taxation is mortal. You come when you can, and leave when you must. The show is continuous." -Robertson Davies (1913 - 1995)

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EU internet law made easy
by jeremy hunsinger 31 Aug '08

31 Aug '08

This is primarily for the business community, but it is useful for other purposes. http://www.lexelerator.eu/ jeremy hunsinger Center for Digital Discourse and Culture Virginia Tech Information Ethics Fellow, Center for Information Policy Research, School of Information Studies, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (www.cipr.uwm.edu ) wiki.tmttlt.com www.tmttlt.com () ascii ribbon campaign - against html mail /\ - against microsoft attachments http://www.stswiki.org/ sts wiki http://cfp.learning-inquiry.info/ Learning Inquiry-the journal http://transdisciplinarystudies.tmttlt.com/ Transdisciplinary Studies:the book series

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What's your fave citation tool?
by Kimberly Silk 31 Aug '08

31 Aug '08

Hi all, I'm working with some sociology researchers, and I'm looking for recommendations for citation tools. So far I'm considering Zotero and EndNote, plus UToronto uses a tool called RefWorks. What are your recommendations, and are there any others I'm missing? thanks, Kim -- Kimberly Silk, MLS President, BrightSail Strategic Marketing 416-721-8955 kim(a)brightsail.com www.brightsail.com

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Social Networking and Youth
by Jung-Whan De Jong 30 Aug '08

30 Aug '08

Could anyone recommend must-read studies that look at young people's use of social networking sites in America and globally? Marc de Jong PhD Candidate Sociology

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future of the internet
by jeremy hunsinger 29 Aug '08

29 Aug '08

http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/activities/foi/index_en.htm some of you may find this useful. Jeremy Hunsinger Center for Digital Discourse and Culture Virginia Tech Information Ethics Fellow Center for Information Policy Research Computers are useless. They can only give you answers. --Pablo Picasso

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