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CFP: those persistent boundaries (AoIR Conference 2007)
by Jillana Enteen 15 Jan '07

15 Jan '07

> > CFP: Those persistent boundaries > > Internet Research 8.0 > Vancouver Canada, October 17-20, 2007 > > This panel considers internet uses in transnational contexts. Since > initial considerations of the internet, which premised new media as > abolishing racial, ethnic, national and supernational boundaries, > cyberculture studies have noted that online practices conform to > geographical and cultural understandings of our physical world. > This session will consider the affects of internet use as internet > practices increasingly intersect with and reinscribe local > environments. There will be particular emphasis on non-western or > non-white internet participation. > > Send 200-word abstracts to j-enteen(a)northwestern.edu by 25 January. > > Jillana Enteen > Associate Director > Director of Undergraduate Studies > Gender Studies Program > 2-360 Kresge > 1880 Campus Drive > Evanston, IL 60208 > (847) 491-5872 > j-enteen(a)northwestern.edu > http://jillana.net > > >

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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 --------------------------------- Need a quick answer? Get one in minutes from people who know. Ask your question on Yahoo! Answers.

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AOIR 8.0 Panel Proposal "The Internet Goes to College"
by Marj Kibby 14 Jan '07

14 Jan '07

The Internet Goes to College This panel is inspired by the PEW report of the same name ( http://www.pewinternet.org/PPF/r/71/report_display.asp ) and, it is proposed, will feature research that examines similar issues and practices in Colleges five years on. Topics might include: The Internet’s impact on college students’ daily lives. Students’ experiences with online distance education Online plagiarism and plagiarism detection Web-based communication between professors and students or students and students The use of the internet to deliver authentic learning experiences. The integration of web-based learning into the face-to-face classroom. Online administration / assessment / portfolios / Please email me privately with expressions of interest and ideas for papers. marj.kibby(a)newcastle.edu.au Marj Dr Marjorie Kibby, Senior Lecturer in Communication & Culture Faculty of Education and Arts The University of Newcastle, Callaghan NSW 2308 Australia Marj.Kibby(a)newcastle.edu.au +61 2 49216604

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workshop
by T. Kennedy 12 Jan '07

12 Jan '07

Hello fellow SL researchers and educators! My name is Tracy Kennedy - I'm a Virtual Research Assistant for the Center for Digital Media at Great Northern Way Campus in Vancouver, British Columbia. Some of you may remember me from last November when I posted an invitation to our Virtual Open House at the Virtual Center for Digital Media where we talked about a new Masters of Digital Media (MDM) program at the Great Northern Way Campus starting in September 2007. The open house was a great success and we are moving forward to put together some innovative ideas & educational tools in Second Life for our 'real life' curriculum. One initiative that we are currently working on is transforming traditional style educational spaces (for example lecture halls and seminar rooms) into student designed collaborative learning environments. We would like to move beyond conventional 'real life' pedagogical delivery modes and encourage students to actively engage and participate in their learning milieu by creating virtual learning spaces & places, and have students learn technical design skills (and modding) at the same time. Having said that, I'd like to invite you to a workshop we are having at the Virtual Center for Digital Media (139, 34, 25) on Thursday January 18th - 1pm SLT where we will have a 'brainstorming' session to take the existing seminar room at the Virtual Center for Digital Media, and transform it into a dynamic, creative workspace that is collaboratively designed and built by a group of individuals - the intention is to show that a group of individuals can come together and create their own learning space. The following week (Wed Jan 24th 1pm SLT) we will put theory into practice and actually do the modifications and changes to the room to see what the end result might look like. However if you only want to come to the brainstorming session on the 18th - that's fine too - We're interested in your thoughts, ideas and expertise. If you have questions, please feel free to email me off-list at tracy(a)gnwc.ca. More information about the program here: http://www.gnwc.ca/mdm/ http://www.mastersofdigitalmedia.blogspot.com http://www.flickr.com/photos/gnwc Thanks! Tracy Kennedy ******************************************** Second Life - TracyTrail Blazer Virtual Research Assistant Center for Digital Media Great Northern Way Campus 555 Great Northern Way Vancouver, BC V5T 1E2 tracy(a)gnwc.ca First Life - Tracy L. M. Kennedy PhD Candidate - Department of Sociology Graduate Fellow - Knowledge Media Design Institute www.kmdi.utoronto.ca/collaborative Research Coordinator - NetLab - Center for Urban & Community Studies University of Toronto 725 Spadina Ave. Toronto, ON M5S 2J4 www.netwomen.ca/Blog Research Director - Netwomen Consulting tkennedy(a)netwomen.ca ********************************************

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Fwd: Conference Announcement: Virtual Women
by burkx006＠umn.edu 12 Jan '07

12 Jan '07

Of possible interest. DLB -- Dan L. Burk Oppenheimer, Wolff & Donnelly Professor University of Minnesota Law School 229 19th Avenue South Minneapolis, MN 55455 ********************************** voice: 612-626-8726 fax: 612-625-2011 ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2007 09:54:53 -0800 From: "Julie Cromer" To: <ipprofs(a)listserv.piercelaw.edu> Subject: [Ipprofs] Conference Announcement: Virtual Women Thomas Jefferson School of Law Seventh Annual Women and the Law Conference Virtual Women - Emerging Issues in Gender and Intellectual Property Law Friday, February 9, 2007 Thomas Jefferson School of Law announces its Seventh Annual Women and the Law Conference, Virtual Women - Emerging Issues in Gender and Intellectual Property Law, to be held at Thomas Jefferson School of Law in San Diego, California, on Friday, February 9, 2007. This conference will explore the various ways that the field of intellectual property can create an atmosphere for women that can be 'virtual,' offering rights and regimes that can appear less than genuine. Because of the more prominent role women and women's issues are playing in the field of intellectual property, Virtual Women: Emerging Issues in Gender and Intellectual Property Law explores this disparity and raises questions addressing these distinctions. The conference will address such questions as the role gender plays in motivating creativity, the gender of patent, how feminist theory can reconceptualize intellectual property, and the challenges women face in the practice and execution of intellectual property. Keynote speaker Rochelle Dreyfuss, will deliver the Ruth Bader Ginsburg Lecture, Girls Just Want to Have Fun: What Can Feminist Theory Tell Us About Incentives?, will investigate ways that feminist theory can explain and support incentive structures to make sure the laws are achieving the goals necessary to support the endeavors. Confirmed panelists include Ann Bartow, Dr. Boatema Boateng, Dan L. Burk, Dr. Carys J. Craig, Mallary DeMerlier, Michele Goodwin, K.J. Greene, Christine Haight Farley, Eileen Kane, Mary LaFrance, Doris Estelle Long, Malla Pollack, Adrien Pruetz, and Rebecca Tushnet. Panelists will present academic and professional work that ranges from exploring issues of gender on the Internet to examining the role of women in the field of biotechnology; from considering feminist roles in authorship and creativity to considering the feminine mystique of brands; from questioning issues of sex and fair use in copyright to issues of breast cancer and baby rights in patent; and from hearing women's voices in the arts to hearing feminist concerns in intellectual property. Since 2001, Thomas Jefferson's Women & The Law Project has hosted an annual conference, the first annual event in the West focusing exclusively on gender issues and the law. The conference series aims to advance the legal rights of women, promote gender-related scholarly work, share the expertise of faculty with the wider community, and facilitate interdisciplinary dialogue. To register and for more information, please visit our Web site at www.tjsl.edu/WLC <http://www.tjsl.edu/WLC> or contact Sherril Cohn at (619) 297-9700 x1414 or scohn(a)tjsl.edu.

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Reminder: CFP Communication Technologies of Empowerment, Leeds, May 18, 2007
by Francisco Seoane 12 Jan '07

12 Jan '07

ICS Postgraduate Conference: Communication Technologies for Empowerment May 18, 2007 Leeds, United Kingdom Submission Deadline for Abstracts: January 31, 2007 Call for Papers ICS Postgraduate Conference Communication Technologies of Empowerment Leeds, United Kingdom - Friday, May 18, 2007 The Institute of Communications Studies (ICS) at the University of Leeds will be hosting a postgraduate conference for the presentation and discussion of research in communications performed by PhD students. Under the title Communication Technologies of Empowerment, this meeting seeks to bring together new scholars who are studying how the latest developments in communication are affecting our democracies by enabling new forms of political participation and citizen engagement. Whether you live in an established democratic system, a country in transition to democracy, or under an authoritarian government, new communication technologies are likely to have changed your political environment. The recent popular upheavals in Ukraine and Lebanon were in great part conducted through mobile phone messages. In Western Europe, the riots in the Parisian suburbs and the protests in Spain against the Aznar government regarding the authorship of the Madrid terrorist attacks would have been very different if the Internet and mobile phones had not become an integral part of our everyday lives. Meanwhile, traditional politics is trying to catch up with the digital age. Political parties are seeking to domesticate these new forms of horizontal communication, and so are governments, with potentially threatening consequences. Paradoxically, new technologies of communication can serve both to empower citizens and to survey and control them. A recent report by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace has shown that networked technologies can be effectively used by authoritarian governments to strengthen their repressive regimes. New forms of communication have become a key tool for global social movements. Whether their struggles are focused on questions of global justice, class, gender, race or the environment, activists have found in the decentralized and inexpensive nature of the Internet and mobile telephony the media they needed to organise themselves and make their actions public. Interestingly, these technologies are also being mastered by those actors who want to challenge the national and international orders through violent means. This reminds us that terrorism is in great part a communicative phenomenon, today more than ever before. If your research deals with questions such as the ones outlined above, or with issues related with the interplay of media, new technologies, citizenship, democracy and politics, we hope to hear from you. Please submit an abstract with a general description of your future research paper, indicating your topic, theoretical framework, research questions or hypotheses, method and expected results. The abstract should not exceed 500 words. If your proposal is accepted, we will ask you to provide a full paper. After your presentation, the paper will be published on the ICS website. Please, remember to include your full contact information: Name, e-mail and postal address, telephone number and academic affiliation for each author. Your paper presentation will be discussed and commented on by members of the academic staff from the Institute of Communications Studies who have expertise in your topic, method, or theoretical framework. This can be a golden opportunity for you to refine your thoughts, openly share your concerns, and receive constructive criticism from professors and fellow postgraduate students working in your area. It is also a great chance to start building or expanding your professional and academic network. Deadlines: - Deadline for proposals: January 31, 2007. - Deadline for full papers: April 30, 2007. Contact and electronic submission: - Qian (Sarah) Gong q.gong(a)leeds.ac.uk - Anna Zoellner csaz(a)leeds.ac.uk Conference website: http://www.personal.leeds.ac.uk/~icsfsp/index.htm ------- Francisco Seoane Perez Provisional PhD student Institute of Communications Studies University of Leeds E-mai: icsfsp(a)leeds.ac.uk Webpage: http://ics.leeds.ac.uk/staff/f.perez ______________________________________________ LLama Gratis a cualquier PC del Mundo. Llamadas a fijos y móviles desde 1 céntimo por minuto. http://es.voice.yahoo.com

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CfP iCS Symposium on Changing Politics through Digital Networks
by bl506＠york.ac.uk 12 Jan '07

12 Jan '07

Members may be interested in the following Call for Papers: Changing politics through digital networks: The role of ICTs in the formation of new social and political actors and actions. 5-6 October 2007 Political Science Faculty, University of Florence, Italy Organized by: Department of Political Science and Sociology (DISPO), University of Florence in collaboration with the Social Informatics Research Unit (SIRU) based in the Department of Sociology, University of York Sponsored by: Information, Communication and Society (iCS) Key note speakers include: Lance Bennett (University of Washington, USA) Donatella della Porta (European University Institute, Florence, Italy) Tim Jordan (Open University UK) Michele Micheletti (Karlstad University, Sweden) It will address such questions as: How can ICTs be best used to facilitate the formation of social and political identities? Do the ways ICTs are embedded in new social and political movements contribute to change the sociological content of the relationships between them, their members and their constituency? How can ICTs be best used to influence political processes and outcomes at local, national and transnational levels? Theoretical and empirical works focusing on political and sociological aspects of such analytical dimensions as power structures, organization, technologies, communication, individual and collective behaviors are welcomed. The full cfp and submission details are available on the symposium website at: http://www.york.ac.uk/res/siru/dispo/ -- Brian D. Loader, Co-Director, Social Informatics Research Unit, Department of Sociology, Wentworth College, University of York, Heslington, YORK YO1 5DD. United Kingdom. Tel: +44 (0) 1904 432639 Fax: +44 (0) 1904 433043 email: bl506(a)york.ac.uk

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Digital Ethos
by Sarah Robbins 12 Jan '07

12 Jan '07

Web 2.0 technologies have made digital networking and self-marketing more important than ever. As a researcher, I'm interested in how people represent themselves online both professionally and personally. As a consultant, I'm still learning to carefully manage and shape my online persona to best represent what I do. To begin a broader discussion of digital social networking and self-branding issues, I, and a few others, have begun a new group blog site called Digital-ethos.com. If you're interested in these topics please stop by and leave comments or drop me a line to become a contributor. Posts regarding research, tips, case studies, and social networking news are welcome. http://www.digital-ethos.com Thanks! Sarah/Intellagirl -- Sarah "Intellagirl" Robbins http://www.intellagirl.com http://secondlife.intellagirl.com Yahoo: Intellagirl Skype: Intellagirl SecondLife: Intellagirl Tully

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social class and online community
by Bonnie Nardi 12 Jan '07

12 Jan '07

Does anyone know of studies of social class and online communities? Any and all aspects thereof. Thanks. -- Bonnie Bonnie A. Nardi School of Information and Computer Sciences University of California, Irvine Irvine, CA 92697-3425 (949) 824-6534 www.artifex.org/~bonnie/

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Call for Abstracts - Information: Interactions and Impact (i3)
by Kate Friday 11 Jan '07

11 Jan '07

Dear all, List members may find the following announcement of interest. Kind regards, Kate Friday Research Student Department of Information Management Robert Gordon University Aberdeen, UK ***Apologies for Cross-Posting*** Deadline Reminder Call for Submissions: Information: Interactions and Impact (i3) 25 - 28 June 2007, The Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen, Scotland http://www.i3conference.org.uk<https://webmail.rgu.ac.uk/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://www.i3conference…> i3 is concerned with the quality and effectiveness of the interaction between people and information and how this interaction can bring about change in individuals, organisations, communities and society. The conference will look beyond the issues of use and accessibility of technology to questions about the way people interact with the information and knowledge content of today's systems and services, and how this might ultimately affect the impact of that information on individuals, organisations and communities. We invite the submission of high quality papers that report original research or critically discuss underlying methodological issues associated with the main themes of the conference: the quality and effectiveness of user/information interactions (e.g. information literacy); patterns of information behaviour in different contexts; impact of information or information services on people, organisations, communities and society (e.g. social, learning, cultural and economic outcomes of engagement with information). Submission of abstracts are invited for Full Papers, Short Papers, Posters and Round Table Discussions. Full details of the submission requirements are available at http://www.i3conference.org.uk/call.htm<https://webmail.rgu.ac.uk/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://www.i3conference…>. Contributors should submit abstracts electronically by downloading the online submissions form, located at: http://www.i3conference.org.uk/AbstractSubmissionForm.doc . This should then be emailed (as an attachment) to i3submissions(a)rgu.ac.uk . The conference language will be English. All abstracts should be submitted by 22nd January 2007. Notification of acceptance will be emailed in early March. Authors who are accepted to give Full Papers at i3 are also invited to submit their paper for publication in a special issue for Libri ( http://www.librijournal.org) The final copy of full papers for Libri should be received by 1st August 2007. Acceptance of a paper for the conference does not necessarily mean acceptance of the full paper for publication. Further details about the conference are available from http://www.i3conference.org.uk .

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