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CFC Extended - Collaborative Learning using Concept Mapping
by Rita Marriott 20 Aug '07

20 Aug '07

CALL FOR CHAPTERS Handbook of Research on Collaborative Learning using Concept Mapping 2-3 page proposal submission deadline extended: 9/30/2007 Full Articles Due: 1/30/2008 Recommended topics and chapter organization include, but are not limited to, the following: 1. Theoretical Foundation - The Fundamentals of Collaborative Learning - The Fundamentals of Concept Maps - From planning to assessment in the context of collaborative learning using concept maps 2. Practical Foundation - Successful experiences of collaborative learning using concept maps. - Interfaces for the construction of collaborative concept maps For more information, please visit: http://www.idea-group.com/requests/details.asp?ID=178 or send an e-mail to Rita Marriott at rita.marriott(a)yahoo.com. We look forward to hearing from you Rita Marriott & Patricia Torres University of Birmingham / UK & Universidade Catolica do Parana / Brazil --------------------------------- Park yourself in front of a world of choices in alternative vehicles. Visit the Yahoo! Auto Green Center.

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CALL FOR PAPERS: Politics: Web 2.0: An International Conference, New Political Communication Unit, RHUL
by Chadwick Andrew 20 Aug '07

20 Aug '07

*Please distribute widely. Apologies for cross-posting* CALL FOR PAPERS: Politics: Web 2.0: An International Conference Hosted by the New Political Communication Unit, Department of Politics and International Relations, Royal Holloway, University of London. http://newpolcom.rhul.ac.uk/politics-web-2-0-conference/ April 17-18, 2008. Has there been a shift in political use of the Internet and digital new media - a new Web 2.0 politics based on participatory values? How do broader social, cultural, and economic shifts towards Web 2.0 impact, if at all, on the contexts, the organizational structures, and the communication of politics and policy? Does Web 2.0 hinder or help democratic citizenship? This conference provides an opportunity for researchers to share and debate perspectives. Potential themes could include (in no particular order): - Theorizing Web 2.0. - Changes in political journalism, news production, and consumption. - Social networking (MySpace, Facebook) and election campaigning. - Citizen activism from the local to the transnational. - Blogs, wikis, and user-generated content. - Changing social, cultural, and political identities. - Social software and social media: design, technologies, tools, and techniques. - Social network analysis. - Surveillance, privacy, and security. - Security, foreign policy and international communication. - Hacktivism. - Radical transparency. - The impact of online video. - E-government, web 2.0, and new models of public service delivery. - New models of social and political organization. - 'Little brother' phenomena. - Political life in virtual worlds. - Netroots versus the war room model of election campaigning. - New challenges for media regulation. - Collaborative production of political knowledge networks. - Changing party, interest group, and social movement strategies. - Web 2.0 and political marketing. - Collective intelligence, smart mobs, crowdsourcing. - Fragmenting audiences, the long tail, and the political economy of web 2.0 media. - Civil society, civic engagement, and mobilization. - Web 2.0, ICT4D and the changing digital divide. - The politics of intellectual property. - Hyperlocalism. - The political aesthetics of Web 2.0. Journal of Information Technology and Politics special issue Conference presenters will be invited to submit their papers to a peer review process for publication in a special issue of the new Journal of Information Technology and Politics. http://www.jitp.net. Submitting a paper or panel proposal Paper proposals should be submitted via the secure online form at: http://newpolcom.rhul.ac.uk/web-2-0-conference-form/ Please include: 1. Name and title. 2. Institutional affiliation and mailing address. 3. Email address. 4. Title of proposed paper and abstract of up to 300 words. 5. Please state if you are a graduate research student. Full panel proposals are also welcome. If you would like to propose a panel of three papers on a common theme, with or without a discussant, please email the proposal to the Conference Convenor: Dr. Andrew Chadwick (Andrew.Chadwick(a)rhul.ac.uk) **Deadline for all proposals: November 2, 2007** Further information, including details of keynote speakers and plenary sessions will be released in early autumn. Details of accommodation packages will be released early in 2008. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ About the New Political Communication Unit ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Led by the Department of Politics and International Relations at Royal Holloway, University of London, the New Political Communication Unit was created in the Spring of 2007. Our research agenda consists of three strands: Comparative and international political communication: the Internet's impact on political mobilization, campaigning and identity; the relationship between media, war, new security challenges and conflict; audience reception studies in the context of the proliferation of media; the dynamic between citizens' changing uses of media and a transforming news environment; citizen journalism; technology and mobilities. Communication and comparative governance: e-government, e-democracy and the changing interface between representative institutions, public bureaucracies and citizens; changing organizational practices shaped by new patterns of communication. Comparative and international communication policy: Internet and new media governance and regulation; privacy, surveillance and security, the political economy of new media; cultural diversity policy; digital divide and development issues. We offer a taught Masters stream in New Political Communication and PhD supervision in our areas of expertise. The Unit's network inside Royal Holloway incorporates academic staff from the Department of Politics and International Relations, the Department of Media Arts, the School of Management, the UNESCO Centre for ICT4D in the Department of Geography, the Department of Psychology and the Department of Computer Science. Our external networks include scholars and practitioners in a wide variety of organisations and countries. For more information, please visit http://newpolcom.rhul.ac.uk ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ About Royal Holloway ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Royal Holloway is one of the major Colleges of the federal University of London and is among the elite group of ten university institutions whose departments all hold the top three ratings for research, with scores of 4, 5 and 5*. Our beautiful parkland campus is about 15 minutes by taxi from London Heathrow airport, and about 35 minutes from central London by train. For further information visit: http://www.rhul.ac.uk/

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Reminder: CFP Special Issue of the Information Society on Open Source and Public Sector
by Anna Maria Szczepanska 20 Aug '07

20 Aug '07

Reminder: CALL FOR PAPERS Special Issue of The Information Society on Open Source and Public Sector: Discourse, Politics and Practice Guest Editors: Jan Ljungberg, Magnus Bergquist and Anna Maria Szczepanska In the last ten years the Open Source (OS) and Free Software (FS) movement has come to challenge the norms and ideals, products and procedures of the dominant proprietary software industry. OS/FS represents a radically different logic within the field of software development. This logic is based on ideas that celebrate the rights of the user and informational freedoms and resist strong intellectual property laws and regulations. In addition to gaining ground in the commercial software market, the OS/FS-movement is also establishing itself as an interesting alternative for the public sector. Currently, discussions regarding OS/FS procurement and policy-making are taking place within governments and public sector organizations all over the world. The OS/FS-technologies advocates have promoted them on the basis of their potential cost-benefits, their value as "a public good", their egalitarian and digital divide-bridging qualities and so forth. But the public sector initiatives still seem somewhat hesitant. The OS/FS in public sector discussions and policy-making processes represent a discourse still very much in the making. This special issue will provide an opportunity for researchers to present valuable insights at an early stage about a relevant topic that crosscuts the information technology and policy processes and OS/FS movement’s institutionalization processes. We hope to bring together insights from multiple areas, such as political science, sociology, economics, IS-research, media studies, policy studies and cultural studies. Discourse analysis and case studies would both be welcome analytical strategies to provide breadth to the special issue. Contributions could include the following: - Papers identifying and discussing how underlying norms, values and practices inscribed in OS/FS and proprietary software are understood and dealt with in public sector discourse. - Case studies on evolving policies and laws related to Open Source / Free Software in the public sector. - Papers analyzing the rhetoric on the pros and cons of OS/FS in the public sector. - Papers identifying and analyzing the way actors (e.g. the media, business groups, academia, consumers, NGO’s, SMO’s, transnational advocacy networks) are organizing in order to influence, support or criticize policy processes and other activities relating to the dispersal of OS/FS products and ideas in public sector. The guest editors invite abstracts by September 1, 2007, which should be sent to anmar(a)ituniv.se. Authors with the most to offer to the dialogue will be invited to contribute full papers, which will go through the normal review process of the journal. For more information on TIS guidelines, please refer to: http://www.indiana.edu/~tisj/

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CFP: IFIP WG 9.5 International Working Conference on Virtuality and Society: Massive Virtual Communities
by catherine middleton 20 Aug '07

20 Aug '07

Posted on behalf of the conference organizers, this conference may be of interest to members of the AoIR community: IFIP WG 9.5 International Working Conference on Virtuality and Society: Massive Virtual Communities Organizers: Niki Panteli, Martin Warnke Date: July 1st and 2nd, 2008 Place: Leuphana University of Lueneburg, Germany Scope & Theme Prominently within the gaming community, but also within other communities on the internet, very huge virtual communities begin to evolve. In games, an average number of people that is comparable to a smaller city is online at the same time, thus forming a proper society. People share their pictures and videos, they meet and date in virtual communities. In Second Life, even big companies start virtual branches to enhance customer relations. It is likely that this phenomenon will become even more significant in the near future for gaming, for business and private purposes, maybe even for administrative and political functions. It is already obvious that those massive virtual communities will have a substantial impact on society, economics, art, and -last but not least -technology. The workshop will bring together experts of that field to collect insights on a emerging major subject. Program committee Wolfgang Coy (Humboldt University Berlin, D) Velvet Landingham (Kent State University Geauga, USA) Niki Panteli (University of Bath, UK) Claus Pias (University of Vienna, A) Bryan K. Temple (Glasgow Caledonian University, UK) Martin Warnke (Leuphana University Lueneburg, D) The papers are published online as preprints. A book publication is intended. Important dates Deadline for full papers (previously unpublished material, not exceeding 12 pages single spaced, pdf format: January 15th, 2008, to be sent by e-mail to warnke(a)uni-lueneburg.de Notification of acceptance: March 15th, 2008 Conference fee: 100 Euro including an evening program at the first day of the conference and coffee breaks Venue Lueneburg is a smaller city in northern Germany, near Hamburg. It has a lively university and a medieval city centre. The famous Lueneburg heath is not far away. There will be a limited number of hotel rooms at special rates when booked early. Details on http://www.leuphana.de/ifip_mass_virt_comm/accommodation Sponsored by IFIP 9.5 Working Group "Virtuality and Society" http://www.ifip95wg.org/ Co-sponsored by the Gesellschaft fuer Informatik e. V., Section Computers and Society, Working Group "Computers as Media" Immediately afterwards, at July 3rd to 5th 2008, the Working Group "Computers as Media" will have its annual Workshop "HyperKult 17" at the same location.

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FW: [CPE=RN] International Protest Over Berlin Sociologist's Arrest
by Christian Fuchs 19 Aug '07

19 Aug '07

Dear colleagues, Please consider to sign the petition against the criminalization of critical social research in Germany in the case of a sociologist from Berlin who has been accused with charges of membership in a terrorist group due to categories like "gentrification" that he used in his scientific papers (!). With Kind Regards, CF -- _____________________________ Univ.Ass. Dr. Christian Fuchs Assistant Professor for Internet and Society ICT&S Center - Advanced Studies and Research in Information and Communication Technologies & Society http://www.icts.uni-salzburg.at University of Salzburg Sigmund Haffner Gasse 18 5020 Salzburg Austria christian.fuchs(a)sbg.ac.at Phone +43 662 8044 4823 Fax +43 662 6389 4800 Information-Society-Technology: http://fuchs.icts.sbg.ac.at http://www.icts.uni-salzburg.at/fuchs/ Managing Editor of tripleC - peer reviewed open access online journal for the foundations of information science: http://triplec.uti.at Forthcoming BOOK: Fuchs, Christian (2008) Internet and Society: Social Theory in the Information Age. New York: Routledge. **** Dear all, On 31st July 2007 the flats and workplaces of Dr. Andrej Holm and Dr. Matthias B., as well as of two other persons, were searched by the police. Dr. Andrej Holm was arrested, flown by helicopter to the German Federal Court in Karlsruhe and brought before the custodial judge. Since then he has been held in pretrial confinement in a Berlin jail. All four people have been charged with "membership in a terrorist association according to ァ 129a StGB" (German Penal Code, section 7 on 'Crimes against Public Order'). They are alleged to be members of a so-called "militante gruppe" (mg). The text of the search warrant revealed that preliminary proceedings against these four people have been going on since September 2006 and that the four had since been under constant surveillance. All four accused are critical social scientists and they do exactly what sociologists and political scientists should be doing. To read more about this situation, please visit: http://einstellung.so36.net/en/openletter. Newspaper article about those accused: "International Protest Over Berlin Sociologist's Arrest" http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,2144,2742395,00.html You can sign a petition at: http://www.policing-crowds.org/petition.html Best wishes, Manuel Manuel B. Aalbers Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation Columbia University New York m.b.aalbers(a)gmail.com <mailto:m.b.aalbers@gmail.com> ***** This email came through the mailinglist of the Critical Political Economy Research Network of the European Sociological Association http://criticalpoliticaleconomy.blogspot.com/

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Call For Papers
by Radhika Gajjala 18 Aug '07

18 Aug '07

Call for Papers: Edited Collection on Digital Embodiment, Performativity and Globalization Title: Everyday 3D Lives: Digital Embodiment, Performativity and Globalization Editor : Radhika Gajjala [ http://personal.bgsu.edu/~radhik ] In the recent past, there has been much talk of “web 2.0 “ and “web 3D” as new media. Educators and researchers all over the world are debating the pros and cons of such environments. MMORPGs (Massive(ly) multiplayer online role-playing games) such as World of Warcraft (WoW) and online 3D environments for social and economic activity. Immersive environments such as secondlife are being examined from multiple disciplinary lenses. This edited will include articles based in examinations of embodiment, performativity, gender, race, class, ethnicity, sexuality and globalization critically, and will be open to multiple disciplinary intersections. for more info on this call - see http://cyberdiva.org/blog/2007/08/18/ call-for-papers-edited-collection-on-digital-embodiment- performativity-and-globalization/

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Help with a Facebook survey?
by Adam Joinson 17 Aug '07

17 Aug '07

Dear colleagues, I've recently launched a brief study of what motivates people to use Facebook. The survey is available at: https://www.survey.bath.ac.uk/facebook/ If you're a Facebook user, please do consider completing the survey - it should take less than five minutes, and would be a great, great help... Thanks Adam Joinson. p.s. any feedback or comments welcome off list too

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Fwd: [DIGIRHET] Women of color in computer science/new media question
by Ed Lamoureux 17 Aug '07

17 Aug '07

forwarded from H-DIGIRHET reply to breeze harper, please Begin forwarded message: > From: doug eyman <eymand(a)gmail.com> > Date: August 17, 2007 12:06:20 PM CDT > To: H-DIGIRHET(a)H-NET.MSU.EDU > Subject: [DIGIRHET] Women of color in computer science/new media > question > Reply-To: H-Net Network on Digital Rhetoric <H-DIGIRHET(a)H-NET.MSU.EDU> > > Subject: Women of color in computer science/new media question > From: A. Breeze Harper <breezeharper(a)gmail.com> > Date: Aug 15, 2007 8:00 PM > > Would you know of any sources that provide me with info about computer > science/new media and young women of color. For example, how many > of us > women of color have careers in this field or how the digital divide > will > effect young girls of color. Any ideas? > > Thanks, > > Breeze Edward Lee Lamoureux, Ph. D. Associate Professor, Multimedia Program and Department of Communication Co-Director, New Media Center 1501 W. Bradley Bradley University Peoria IL 61625 309-677-2378 <http://slane.bradley.edu/com/faculty/lamoureux/website2/index.html> <http://gcc.bradley.edu/mm/> AIM/IM & skype: dredleelam Second Life: Professor Beliveau

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[AOIR 8.0] Vancouver Conference Update #5 (August 16, 2007)
by Richard Smith 17 Aug '07

17 Aug '07

Hello, all you AIRtimers! Time for another AIR Conference update. Thought I'd forgotten about it, eh? Not a chance. We love stuffing your email box with bits from the far north - check your ports for frost - and will continue right up to the opening of the conference. Today's update includes news on the program, a contest that could win you fame and glory, visa information, PIE, and the usual entreaties to register early. PROGRAM The full program, as you already are aware, I am sure, is now available online. If you haven't seen it already, check out the link as posted by Mia (http://oak.cats.ohiou.edu/~consalvo/aoir_conference_schedule.xls) or go here: http://wiki.aoir.org/index.php?title=IR8_Program CONTEST As Matthew told me in my briefing when taking on this job, the Australians really "set the bar" in terms of the program. I aim to clear that bar and set a new record. But, I know that my own design skills aren't going to do it. So, I have concocted this idea to have a "program design" contest. If you design the new program I will pay for your registration to AoIR (or the cash equivalent). Is that something you'd like to do? If so, check out the details on the contest here: http://wiki.aoir.org/index.php?title=IR8_Contest VISA You might need a visa to come to Canada. Please check our web site for information about countries whose citizens require visas, and details on how to get a letter of invitation, if necessary: http://wiki.aoir.org/index.php?title=IR8_VISA_info PIE Yes, pie. We're going to have pie at this conference. Thank Holly and Mia for that. And if you want more info on the pie, we'll you should be on the AoIR facebook group, then, shouldn't you? http://sfu.facebook.com/group.php?gid=5212889713 REGISTER If you haven't registered for the conference yet, what are you waiting for? Get on it! Here is the link: http://www.aoir.org/?q=conf HOTELS Are you booked into a hotel? If not, you might be sleeping rough. There is a lot of great information on hotels here: http://wiki.aoir.org/index.php?title=IR8_Location_and_Hotels That's all for now, folks. ...r -- Richard Smith, Professor, School of Communication Simon Fraser University, 515 West Hastings Street, Vancouver, CANADA V6B 5K3 Phone: 778 782 5116 Web: http://www.sfu.ca/~smith/ New book!: http://arago.cprost.sfu.ca/smith/mawc

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skype crashes
by Ed Lamoureux 17 Aug '07

17 Aug '07

"Skype engineers said the flaw existed in every copy of the Skype software that had been downloaded since the service’s start in 2003." http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/17/business/17ebay.html?th&emc=th Edward Lee Lamoureux, Ph. D. Associate Professor, Multimedia Program and Department of Communication Co-Director, New Media Center 1501 W. Bradley Bradley University Peoria IL 61625 309-677-2378 <http://slane.bradley.edu/com/faculty/lamoureux/website2/index.html> <http://gcc.bradley.edu/mm/> AIM/IM & skype: dredleelam Second Life: Professor Beliveau

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