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Call for Chapters: Knowledge Management book
by Rosemary Agbonlahor 18 Jan '07

18 Jan '07

Hello all, I think someone might be interested in this. Best wishes for 2007. Rosemary. ======== Call for Chapters +++++++ Knowledge Management +++++++++++++ You are invited to submit via email by Feb. 20 the following: 1. 500-word abstract of a proposed chapter, accompanied by a 2. one-page preliminary outline of the proposed chapter for a book on Knowledge Management. The book will be published by Informing Science Press and be made available online without charge (as well as in print). This will maximize the impact of your contribution to science. Topics covering all aspects of Knowledge Management (KM), theory, practice, innovation, and research, are welcomed. Some suggested topics are, but not limited to the following: * Business Intelligence * Communities of Practice * Innovation * Intellectual Capital * Knowledge Management Systems/Tools * Learning Organization * Organizational Learning * Strategy & Policy * Technology Transfer & Development * Virtual Organization * Any other topics relevant to KM Your abstract must contain an explanation of the topic you will write about and summarize what you propose to write. Please be concise, clear, and persuasive. Follow the abstract with your one-page preliminary outline of the proposed chapter. By February 20, 2007, email your abstract and the one-page preliminary outline in one document as an attachment file to Alex Koohang at ijkloeditor(a)ijklo.org . The purpose of abstracts is to determine the suitability and suggest areas for improvements. Authors for accepted proposals will be given 100 days to complete the first-draft of the chapter. All chapters will be subjected to blind review by three or more reviewers. Alex Koohang & Keith Harman Editors Preliminary Timetable February 20, 2007 Abstracts due March 20, 2007 Authors are notified regarding the acceptance of their abstracts June 28, 2007 Completed chapters are due to Editor July 1-31, 2007 Chapters are blind refereed by three or more reviewers August 30, 2007 Authors will be notified to revise their chapters September 30, 2007 Revised chapters are due Oct to Dec 2007 Editing and production January 2008 Book will be in print

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MySpace readings
by James W Craine 18 Jan '07

18 Jan '07

I am teaching a Geography of Media class this semester and want to include a discussion of MySpace - can anyone recommend any foundational readings that I might use - the readings do not have to be of a geographical nature - I just need something that discusses MySpace as a social and cultural construct - I'm hoping that there might be a few articles that are just basic required reading for any class discussing MySpace - many thanks James Craine Department of Geography California State University, Northridge APCG Yearbook Editor

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CFP: Workshop on Social Aspects of the Web (SAW 2007)
by danah boyd 18 Jan '07

18 Jan '07

Workshop on Social Aspects of the Web (SAW 2007) in conjunction with 10th International Conference on Business Information Systems BIS 2007 in co-operation with ACM SIGMIS ======================================================================== === Poznan, Poland April 25 - 27, 2007 http://bis.kie.ae.poznan.pl/10th_bis/cfp-saw.shtml ======================================================================== === Deadline for submissions: February 18, 2007 ======================================================================== === The emergence of community-based Web sites and the visible shift from the concept of ìa Web of documentsî towards "a Web of peopleî creates a strong need for inter-disciplinary empirical and theoretical research focused on Web-based communities. On one hand, this requires expertise in the IT domain, including some knowledge of systems architectures and information extraction technologies. On the other hand, a multi-aspect analysis of human behaviour on the Web is possible thanks to existing frameworks within social sciences. The goal of this workshop is to bring researchers and practitioners together to explore the issues and challenges related to social aspects of the Web. We want to facilitate discussion on the topics of development and detection of Web-based communities, social interactions within and between them as well as technology for mining of social Web sources. ======================================================================== === TOPICS OF THE WORKSHOP ï social networks analysis in weblogs, forums and comment pages ï static and dynamic analysis of folksonomies ï advances in social networking services ï social bookmarking services paradigms and empirical analysis ï social roles and leadership in Web-based communities ï static and dynamic public opinion / mood analysis based on Web sources ï products / places rating based on user opinions from Web sources ï trust and distrust propagation in on-line communities ï on-line social identity / identities and social capital ï geographical-context-aware Web-based social applications ï social mash-ups for existing non-social web sites / applications ï topical and functional analysis of Web-based discourse ï social norms, social control and deviant behaviour in Web-based communities ï conflicts resolution in Web-based communities ï social, evolving Web sources use in information retrieval tasks ï dynamics and patterns of information propagation in social Web applications ï viral marketing in Web-based communities ï detecting user behaviour patterns and trends from large scale communities ï mining of interaction / discourse patterns in Web-based communities ï Web-based communities cohesion and stability ======================================================================== === SUBMISSION ï Long papers: max. 5000 words ï Work-in-progress rep.: max. 2500 words ï Position papers: max. 2500 words Electronic submission system available at: http://bis.kie.ae.poznan.pl The proceedings will be published as CD-ROM with ISBN number, on-line with ISSN number or both on CD-ROM with ISBN and on-line. Extended version of selected articles will be published as journal special issue (details will be published shortly on the Web site). ======================================================================== === IMPORTANT DATES February 18, 2007 submission deadline for papers March 20, 2007 notification about acceptance/rejection April 4, 2007 submission of final papers April 25-27, 2007 the conference ======================================================================== === Organizer: Poznan University of Economics Department of Information Systems, http://www.kie.ae.poznan.pl/ ======================================================================== === Supporters: ï ACM Special Interest Group on Management Information Systems ï GI - Gesellschaft f¸r Informatik, Austria, Germany, Switzerland ï NTIE - Polish Society for Information Systems ======================================================================== === Workshop organizers: ï Dominik Flejter ï Marek Kowalkiewicz ======================================================================== === Workshop Program Committee: ï John Breslin, DERI, NUI Galway, Ireland ï Dominik Flejter, PoznaÒ University of Economics, Poland ï Marek Kowalkiewicz, SAP Research Brisbane, Australia ï Marcin Paprzycki, Warsaw School of Social Psychology, Poland ï Maarten de Rijke, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands ï Marcin Sydow, Polish-Japanese Institute of Information Technology, Poland ======================================================================== === -- Dominik Flejter (d.flejter [at] kie.ae.poznan.pl) PoznaÒ University of Economics Department of Information Systems (http://www.kie.ae.poznan.pl/) - - - - - - - - - - d a n a h ( d o t ) o r g - - - - - - - - - - "taken out of context i must seem so strange" musings :: http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts

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Yale ISP's Open Standards International Symposium (OSIS)
by Eddan Katz 17 Jan '07

17 Jan '07

OPEN STANDARDS INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM (OSIS) AT YALE LAW SCHOOL The Information Society Project at Yale Law School cordially invites you to attend the Open Standards International Symposium (OSIS), scheduled for February 3, 2007, at Yale Law School in New Haven, CT. Anyone interested in attending is encouraged to register at http://research.yale.edu/isp/eventsosis.html. Information and Communication Technology (ICT) standards are increasingly serving as a locus of political and economic controversy. Technical standards, though not made by legislatures or elected representatives, increasingly mediate between prevailing social tensions such as access to information versus property rights and law enforcement versus individual civil liberties. Economically, the intellectual property arrangements underlying standards determine the competitive openness of certain technology markets and intersect directly with global trade conflicts. Technically, recent interoperability problems in government services like disaster response have prompted renewed political interest in open standards around the globe. Despite the significance of open standards in the global ICT context, even the meaning of openness is a contentious topic. OSIS will be the first academic conference to examine concepts of open standards in the larger context of technology, markets, politics, and law. During this ground-breaking symposium, a distinguished international group of technologists, policymakers, entrepreneurs, executives, lawyers, computer scientists, and activists will map out the terrain of open standards issues in four panels: (1) Technology; (2) Economics; (3) Politics; and (4) Law. For a full conference description and to register for the event, please visit the symposium web site at http://research.yale.edu/isp/eventsosis.html. Confirmed speakers include: An Baisheng, Deputy Division Chief, WTO Department, Ministry of Commerce, People's Republic of China Jack Balkin, Knight Professor of Constitutional Law and the First Amendment, and Director, Information Society Project, Yale Law School Daniel Benoliel, ISP Fellow Alumnus, Information Society Project, Yale Law School Vittorio Bertola, At-Large Advisory Committee, ICANN; President & CTO, Dynamic Fun Sherrie Bolin, President and CEO, The Bolin Group Geoffrey Bowker, Professor & Executive Director, Center for Science, Technology, and Society, Santa Clara University Carl Cargill, Chief Standards Officer, Sun Microsystems, Inc. Laura DeNardis, Visiting Fellow, Information Society Project, Yale Law School Alexander Galloway, Assistant Professor, Culture & Communication, New York University Linda Garcia, Professor & Director, Communication, Culture & Technology, Georgetown University Rishab Ghosh, Senior Researcher, United Nations University, Maastricht Economic and Social Research Training Centre on Innovation & Technology Robin Gross, Executive Director, IP Justice Eddan Katz, Executive Director, Information Society Project, and Lecturer in Law, Yale Law School Ken Krechmer, Fellow, International Center for Standards Research, University of Colorado, Boulder John Morris, Director, Internet Standards, Technology, and Policy Project, Center for Democracy and Technology John Palfrey, Executive Director, Berkman Center for Internet & Society; Clinical Professor of Law, Harvard Law School Huang Rengang, Minister Counsellor of the Permanent Mission to the WTO, People's Republic of China Manon Ress, Director, Information Society Projects, Consumer Project on Technology Robert Shaw, Deputy Head, Strategy and Policy Unit, International Telecommunications Union (ITU) Peter Strickx, General Manager, Architecture & Standards, Fedict, Belgium Bob Sutor, Vice President, Standards and Open Source, IBM Corp. Natalie Sunker, Republic of South Africa, Deputy Director, Intellectual Property, Policy & Legislation, Department of Trade and Industry Andrew Updegrove, Partner, Gesmer Updegrove LLP John Wilson, Lead Economist, Development Economics Research Group, International Trade, The World Bank

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Re: [Air-l] MySpace readings
by Paul DiPerna 17 Jan '07

17 Jan '07

Hi James, Last fall I presented a paper at ASA that gave a brief overview of MySpace, discussing some of its organizational and online history. The study surveyed social search and networking sites, and analyzed their usage over time. I found these popular press articles helpful context on MySpace: Steven Levy and Brad Stone, "The New Wisdom of the Web," Newsweek, April 3, 2006, pp. 47-53. Leslie Walker, "New Trends in Online Traffic," Washington Post, April 4, 2006, p. D1. Anya Kamenetz, �The Network Unbound,� Fast Company, Issue 106, (June 2006), p. 68. Rachel Rosmarin, "The MySpace Bubble," Forbes.com, June 29, 2006. This is the link to the ASA conference paper-- http://pauldiperna.typepad.com/Connector_Website_Model_FullReport.pdf Hope this is helpful. If you have any trouble accessing the pdf, just let me know. Best, Paul -------------- Paul DiPerna Blau Exchange http://www.blauexchange.org email: pdiperna(a)blauexchange.org Online ID: http://claimid.com/pdiperna 2007/1/15, James W Craine <james.w.craine at csun.edu>: > > I am teaching a Geography of Media class this semester and want to include > a discussion of MySpace - can anyone recommend any foundational readings > that I might use - the readings do not have to be of a geographical nature - > I just need something that discusses MySpace as a social and cultural > construct - I'm hoping that there might be a few articles that are just > basic required reading for any class discussing MySpace - many thanks > > > James Craine > Department of Geography > California State University, Northridge > APCG Yearbook Editor > _______________________________________________ > The air-l at listserv.aoir.org mailing list > is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org > Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: > http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org > > Join the Association of Internet Researchers: > http://www.aoir.org/ >

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Reminder ASIS&T AM 07 proposals due this week
by Richard Hill 16 Jan '07

16 Jan '07

Deadlines January 21, 2007 Proposals due for contributed papers, technical sessions and panels, and pre- conference sessions February 25, 2007 Proposals due for contributed posters/short papers March 31, 2007 Authors/proposers notified of acceptance May 27, 2007 Final versions due for conference proceedings --------- Joining Research and Practice: Social Computing and Information Science October 18-25, 2007 Hyatt Regency Milwaukee, Wisconsin URL for the compelte Call for Participation: http://www.asis.org/Conferences/AM07/am07cfp.html All submissions are made electronically via a link from the ASIST Web site (http://www.asis.org) Details on acceptable file formats, citation style, and specific contact information required in the online submission form are on the Web page. Any problems with electronic submissions should be directed to: Richard Hill, Executive Director (rhill(a)asis.org) ASIS&T, 1320 Fenwick Lane, Suite 510, Silver Spring, MD 20910 Fax: 301-495-0810 Phone: 301-495-0900 rhill(a)asis.org Dick Hill ------------ Executive Director American Society for Information Science and Technology 1320 Fenwick Lane, Suite 510 Silver Spring, MD 20910 FAX: (301) 495-0810 (301) 495-0900

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CAQDAS 07 : 2nd Call for Papers
by C.Silver＠surrey.ac.uk 16 Jan '07

16 Jan '07

Apologies for cross-posting. Please forward this to anyone who may be interested. 2nd Call for Papers : CAQDAS 07 : Advances in Qualitative Computing : 18-20 April 2007, Royal Holloway, University of London Deadline for Abstract Submissions: 31st January 2007. The main conference website can be found here : http://caqdas.soc.surrey.ac.uk/conference/conference07.htm Please see the website for more info, or contact me Many thanks and hope to see you in April. Christina Dr Christina Silver, Resource Officer CAQDAS Networking Project Dept of Sociology, University of Surrey GUILDFORD GU2 7XH, UK email: c.silver@ surrey.ac.uk

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[Fwd: [JoCI] FW: Special Issue JoCI on CI and Indian
by Michel J. Menou 16 Jan '07

16 Jan '07

-----Original Message----- From: Subbiah Arunachalam [mailto:subbiah_a@yahoo.com] Sent: January 13, 2007 9:38 PM To: .../.... Subject: [SPAM] Special Issue JoCI on CI and Indian Friends: Here is the final call for papers for publication in a special issue of Journal of Community Informatics. Here is a tentative schedule: four months for papers (from January 15 2007 to May 15 2007), four months for editorial work (not to go beyond September 2007) and publication in October or November 2007. Journal of Community Informatics Special issue on India and Community Informatics Guest editor: Subbiah Arunachalam January 13, 2006. The Journal of Community Informatics <http://ci-journal.net> brings together academics, CI practitioners and national and multi-lateral policy makers from around the world. Each issue of the Journal of Community Informatics contains double blind peer-reviewed research articles as well as commentaries by leading CI practitioners and policy makers. (For a brief introduction to Community Informatics see <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Community_informatics>) A forthcoming special issue of the Journal will focus on India and community informatics. It is intended as a forum for specialists in India and elsewhere to systematize the research currently being undertaken by CI practitioners and academics with respect to CI in the Indian context. This issue will also integrate the national discussion with the academic research in community informatics worldwide. We would like to cover both the work of practitioners in the field and theoretical and methodological proposals directly and indirectly related with community informatics. We invite original, non-published articles. Comparative and analytical exercises, based on original research or secondary sources, are also welcome. The following is a non-exhaustive list of topics. If you feel that there is any subject related to Community Informatics and India worth including, please feel free to submit a paper or to consult with the guest editor. o General outlook of the issues of CI in India o Country Case Studies, including comparative studies with other countries o Discussion of specific issues, among them: o New analytical and methodological approaches to address, research or drafting of public policies regarding imbalances of access and usage of ICTs in India o Multilingual, multiethnic communities o The role of Community Based Telecenters and Cyber Cafes o Infrastructure development and regulation o IP regulation and its consequences for CI in the region o Community oriented ICT hardware developments o Community oriented ICT software developments o ICTs and Education in communities o ICTs and Health in communities o Strategic use of ICTs in communities o Approaches to sustainability of CI related projects o Small and Medium Business support within communities o Community based Business Models o Usability and Communities - Problems and Innovations in Human-Computer-Interaction It is expected that potential authors will submit both full articles for peer-review, as well as short pieces, commenting on specific experiences and / or policy / regulatory issues, to be reviewed by the guest editor. Authors of books and reports are invited to send them for comment in the book review section of the special issue. This issue of the Journal will accept submissions in English only. For information about submission requirements, please visit: <http://ci-journal.net/submissions.php> or to submit an article directly register as an author and upload to the system. A free subscription may be obtained by registering at http://www.ci-journal.net/index.php/ciej/user/register For further information, clarifications, comments or suggestions, and to send papers for consideration, please contact the Guest Editor Subbiah Arunachalam [subbiah.arunachalam(a)gmail.com] or the Editor in Chief: Michael Gurstein [Gurstein(a)gmail.com] -- ===================================================================== Dr. Michel J. Menou Visiting Professor, SLAIS, University College London, U.K. Consultant in ICT policies and Knowledge & Information Management Adviser of Somos@Telecentros board http://www.tele-centros.org Member of the founding steering committee of Telecenters of the Americas Partnership http://www.tele-centers.net/ B.P. 15 F-49350 Les Rosiers sur Loire, France Email: micheljmenou [at] gmail[dot]com Michel[dot]Menou [at]wanadoo[dot]fr Phone: +33 (0)2 41511043 http://www.ucl.ac.uk/ciber/peoplemenou.php =====================================================================

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'Internet Histories' cfp
by Gerard Goggin 16 Jan '07

16 Jan '07

'Internet Histories' a pre-AoIR 8.0 workshop October 16, 2007 Vancouver, Canada Despite the fact that the Internet is entering its fifth decade, the understanding and writing of its histories is very much in its infancy. In this one-day workshop, to be held 16 October 2007 directly before the Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR) 8.0 conference (http://conferences.aoir.org) we aim to explore the questions, assumptions, investments, frameworks, concepts, methods, biases, opportunities, archives, narratives, tropes, and logics that underlie the Internet’s diverse histories. In particular, in the spirit of our 2006 ‘Internationalising Internet Studies’ workshop (http://www.capstrans.edu.au/resources/conferences/2006/conferences-2006-ine…) we start from the notion that the history of Internet uptake has been widely divergent across cultures and regions. In Asia, in particular, the initial PC-based phase of connectivity typical of the US and Europe, has not been replicated. Instead, Internet penetration was achieved via a variety of mobile devices, including Internet-enabled cell phones resulting in very different cultures of use and practice. Accordingly, we call for papers on Internet histories, including, but certainly not limited to the following issues: • what sorts of Internet histories are currently available, or in progress — whether national, country-specific, local, subcultural, community, or transnational and translocal? • what are the histories and trajectories currently missing and why do these particular lacunae exist? What histories of the Internet are being foreclosed, overlooked, or not yet imagined, and what are the implications of this? • who is currently writing, reading, collecting, valorising, or even enshrining Internet histories? • what are the dominant accounts of Internet history, or dominant assumptions regarding these? • what histories do we have of Latin American, African, Oceanic, or Asian Internet, for instance, compared to European or North American Internet? • what challenges does doing Internet history pose? what is specific about Internet history compared to histories of media, communications, or other technologies, or broad social or cultural histories? • how do our understandings of Internet and mobile technologies and cultures vary depending on the kinds of quite specific histories that condition these? • how do a researcher’s own culture and patterns of use determine the kinds of questions s/he may raise concerning the history of ‘the Internet’? This project brings together researchers working on country-specific and regional histories of the Internet as well as those researching Internet use by local and transnational subcultures and communities. This will be the first of what is anticipated to be a series of workshops, leading to an edited collection aimed at understanding the different historical patterns of Internet deployment and cultural and technological development. We welcome abstracts of no more than 500 words by Monday 16 April 2007. Please send your abstract to both organisers: Gerard Goggin (gerard.goggin(a)arts.usyd.edu.au) and Mark McLelland (markmc(a)uow.edu.au) Acceptance will be advised by the end of April 2007. Subsequent to acceptance, presenters will need to register for the workshop and the AoIR conference via the AoIR online conference registration system. Please note that acceptance of your paper at the pre-conference workshop does not preclude you from also submitting a different paper to the main conference. For those selected, papers of 5,000 words will be due by mid-September 2007. Following the workshop, papers will be considered for inclusion in an edited collection on Internet Histories. The project website is: http://www.capstrans.edu.au/resources/events/2007/inet-histories/ About the organisers: Gerard Goggin is an ARC Australian Research Fellow in the Dept of Media and Communications, University of Sydney, Australia. His books include Cell Phone Culture (Routledge, 2006), Virtual Nation: The Internet in Australia (2004), and Digital Disability (Rowman & Littlefield, 2003), and he is currently working on a study of global mobile media. Mark McLelland lectures in Sociology in the School of Social Sciences, Media and Communications at the University of Wollongong. His publications include Japanese Cybercultures (2000) and Queer Japan from the Pacific War to the Internet Age (2005). Gerard and Mark are editors of Internationalizing Internet Studies (Routledge, 2007). -- \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\ Dr Gerard Goggin ARC Australian Research Fellow Editor, 'Media International Australia' Department of Media and Communications The University of Sydney e-mail: gerard.goggin(a)arts.usyd.edu.au p: +61 2 9036 6424 f: 61 2 9351 5444 http://www.arts.usyd.edu.au/departs/media/?page=staff&id=gerard.goggin

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Final CFC - E-Learning Methodologies for Language Acquisition - Deadline 31 Jan 07
by Rita Marriott 15 Jan '07

15 Jan '07

CALL FOR CHAPTERS Proposals Submission Deadline: 1/31/2007 Full Articles Due: 4/30/2007 Handbook of Research on E-Learning Methodologies for Language Acquisition For more information please access the website http://www.idea-group.com/requests/details.asp?ID=146 or send an e-mail to rita.marriott(a)yahoo.com. I look forward to hearing from you Best wishes Rita de Cassia Veiga Marriott Editor Birmingham University / UK --------------------------------- It's here! Your new message! Get new email alerts with the free Yahoo! Toolbar.

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